The applause and well-wishes filled the air as he was given a symbolic cap and gown to wear during the party. Several members of SCR’s Marketing Department, led by Chief Marketing Officer Martin Moore, lined the hallway where Townsend entered for work that evening.
The following day, a surprise congratulatory graduation party was held at SCR, prior to the start of his shift for that day. After working in the healthcare field as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), among other service-industry jobs for the past 25 years, he said working at the casino has been more than he could have hoped for.Ī few of his colleagues attended his drive-through graduation ceremony at the Hemet Adult School on July 17. “This company put me first – and that’s never happened to me before,” Townsend, 51, said. That did not happen until he started working at Soboba a few months ago. Finishing school was not an immediate priority for him and he figured he would eventually have an opportunity to return and get his diploma. He became a father at the age of 16 and felt an obligation to go to work.
As a teenager, living in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he got off track and ended up dropping out of high school.
When Dayshawn Townsend became employed by Soboba Casino Resort in San Jacinto he did not know that it would lead to his fulfillment of a decades-long goal he had for himself.
