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UKIAH – Mendocino College Foundation recently presented nearly $150,000 in scholarships to high school and college students planning to continue their education at Mendocino College. Foundation Board members, College trustees, staff, and faculty honored the recipients during the annual Scholarships Awards Ceremony.
The total amount of awards represented the largest since the Foundation began its yearly awards program, says Channing Cornell, Foundation Vice President and chair of the Scholarship Committee. The Foundation’s scholarships are designed to assist the students with payment of tuition and books for a full school year, explains Cornell.
Students receiving the Mendocino College Foundation Academic Excellence Scholarships in the amount of $1,700 each included Erin Anderson, Ignacio Ayala-Aguilar, Ayari Barajas, Carrie Bishop, Whitney Briggs, Darleen Castanon, Anna Chairez, Vicente Chavez, Kayla Chesser, Seth Chew, Lauran Colvin, Kirsty Cordell, Jared Dobbs, Lezlie Elmer, Melissa Field, Luke Gardner, Linda Gibson, Tomas Gonzales, Alejandro Gonzales, Artoun Gostantian, Zachary Hedges, Emmanuel Jimenez, Meghan Kidwell,
Amber Lofton, Susan Madison, Barbara McKey, Maria Mendoza, Gabriel Ray, Melanie Rose, Jovita Ruiz, Geddy Throne, Renee Tompkins, Kathleen Wagner, and Stacey Weil-Dye.
Recipients of the Foundation’s $1,700 Evelyn R. Foote Scholarships are Alejandro Berumen, Kelly Boss, Karl Caukwell, Gloria Cornett, Justin Floyd, Orion Guerra, Emily Houghton, Sallie Jacobson, Stephanie Jensen, Joanna Johnson, Darlene Klaiber, Treanna Leher-Nelson, Jesus Macias, Claire Mansell, Penny McGahey, Amanda Mueller, Marcela Parra, Apolinar Reyes Murillo, Diana Rico, Jarin Sharma, Oliva Villa, Whitney Vonfeldt, and Hugo Zaragoza.
Additional award winners included Gonzalo Parajon Sequeira, the Thomas M. Evans Scholarship in the amount of $2,500; Wendy Brouwer, the George R. Szanik Scholarship, $2,500; Jane Khoury, the Jim Meyer Scholarship, $2,000; Kelly Stanton, the Carl J. Ehmann Scholarship, $2,000; and Kat Payne, the Mary Oosting Fine Arts Scholarship, $1,000.
For the Nursing Program, recipients included Amy Arrendondo and Megan Hoover, the Karen L. Atkinson Nursing Scholarship, $1,250 each; Anne Holloman and Marlana Navarro, the Heidi Marie Daniel Nursing Scholarship, $500 each; Kathey Goodson, Adriana Murray, and Aaron Stauffer, the Kathleen Kohn Fetzer Family Foundation Nursing Scholarship, $1,250 each.
Recipients of the Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarships, also $1,000 each, are Kymber Denevi, Scott Diebold, Jovita Ruiz, and Diana Sanchez.
Selected to receive the Directors/Trustees Annual Fund Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each, jointly presented by Trustee Wade Koeninger and Mendocino College Foundation President Tom Herman, were students Seanen Bevilacqua, Corinne Chaulk, Karla Jimenez, Amy Moss, Rebecca Richey, and Gabrielle Summers. Prior to announcing the award winners, Koeninger thanked the Foundation Board and College trustees for bringing the combined award to fruition. He said members of the boards and Superintendent/President Kathryn G. Lehner deserved credit for making it happen. Herman added his own thanks, recognizing Koeninger for his contributions. “Wade is an individual we should all admire,” Herman said.
This year’s number of awards and total award amount represents an increase of approximately 5% over last year’s totals. The Mendocino College Foundation allows for an increase in the scholarship dollars in its budget each fiscal year.
For more information about Mendocino College Foundation and ways to contribute, call the Foundation office, 707-467-1018.
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The Cadets are rehearsing for their West Coast tour this summer. They will rehearse and work with interested students during the week.
A free performance open to the public will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 20, at Clear Lake High School Football Field, located at 350 Lange Street in Lakeport.
According to the group's Web site, the cadets travel approximately four weeks during the summer months across the United States and Canada performing in competitive field shows and parades while providing instruction for the novice through the experienced member in the areas of brass, percussion and color guard. Membership is primarily open to those between the ages of 12 and 18.
The Vanguard Cadets have been a DCI Open Class (formerly Division II/III) Finalist every year the Corps has appeared in DCI World Championships (1991, 93, 98, 2000, 02, 04, 06, 07, 08) and won DCI Division II in 2000 and the newly formed DCI Open Class in 2008.
The Corps has also competed in the DCI Division I Quarterfinals in 1993 and the DCI Division I Semifinals in 2000. The Vanguard Cadets are the primary training group for membership in the Vanguard.
The Santa Clara Vanguard was formed in 1967 in Santa Clara, California. SCV has the distinction of being the only organization to maintain its elite membership on the Drum Corps International (DCI) Board of Directors since the inception of DCI in 1972. It's the first organization in DCI history to have two drum and bugle corps as open class member corps in the elite Top 25 of DCI (1993) and the elite Top 17 of DCI (2000).
If you have any questions or comments please contact Clear Lake High School band director Jenni Ingram at 707-262-3010, Extension 7009.
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This exciting program will be offered at Upper Lake High School, Terrace Middle School, Clear Lake High School, Mt. Vista Middle School, Middletown Middle School, Middletown High School and Lower Lake.
The academies will be held during the summer for four weeks, Monday through Friday, for four hours a day, and are limited to 28 students in each academy.
Students will strengthen their academic skills in algebra, science and English through work-based projects that duplicate real-world skills. For example, students will build a small solar car and will then race the car in a competition against neighboring academy students.
Program highlights include at least one field trip to a museums and/or college. A college scholarship will be available to one lucky seventh grade student (courtesy of Mendo Lake Credit Union), and eighth and ninth grade students will be eligible for high school and college credit upon successful completion of the program.
This innovative program is offered in partnership with the University of California San Francisco, ARCHES (Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success, United Way of the Wine Country, Mendo-Lake Credit Union, and Migrant Education and Mendocino College.
Students are enrolled through an application process and priority will be given to students who will be the first in their families to attend college.
For more information, please contact Tammy Serpa, College-Going Initiative Coordinator for the county office, 707-262-4164, or Jamey Gill, UCSF Director of Regional Partnerships, 707-245-8371.
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