Since 1989, the Milken Family Foundation has awarded hundreds of outstanding graduating high school students with a commitment for four years of financial assistance, career-related counseling and internships, opportunities for volunteerism and a graduate fund to assist with preparatory courses for either graduate school or the world of work. Milken Scholars are chosen through a rigorous selection process that includes students from a variety of professions, cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Above in 1996, Mike and his wife, Lori, congratulate MIlken Scholar Eli Naduris Weissman, who attended Stanford University.