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PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIANS/GRADUATION SPEAKERS

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Clipboard researched by Kathie Bozanich, Dallas M. Jackson and Janice L. Jones / Los Angeles Times, Graphics by Doris Shields / Los Angeles Times

ANAHEIM HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Anaheim High 360 Vu Nguyen (4.31) 3 p.m., June 20 Anh Vu (4.20) Ruby Acevedo Greta Barghoudian Cypress High 350 William Shih (4.52) 7 p.m., June 20 Edward Im (4.42) Lori Uyeno (4.32) Valerie Wong (4.20) Katella High 350 Gina Cognetti 5 p.m., June 20 Derek Kelaita (4.00) Eric Whetham (4.22) Sarah Phan (4.18) John F. Kennedy High 425 Shannon Gallegos 3 p.m., June 20 Mark Melo (4.10) Hsaing-I “Ben” Tsen (4.34) Frank Yang (4.29) Loara High 336 Nichole Pinkerton (3.63) 7 p.m., June 20 Robert Klein (4.03) Dorothy Hsieh (4.47) Jennifer Schubert (4.42) Magnolia High 278 Julia Guzek (4.44) 6 p.m., June 20 Pete Shilaimon (3.54) Keri Owens (3.45) Kaycee Sink (4.13) Savanna High 310 Donna Scott (4.16) 4 p.m., June 20 Paulette Sakely John R. Karczynski Jonathan Han Jennifer Hong (4.14) Bryan Booy (4.14) Western High 280 Michael Duskis (3.67) 5:30 p.m., June 20 Jennifer Burton (3.61) Steve Her (4.36) Hinh Thansavath (4.28)

School Time, Date Prospective College Anaheim High USC 3 p.m., June 20 UC Irvine Cal State Fullerton Cal State Fullerton Cypress High UC Berkeley 7 p.m., June 20 Harvard Northwestern UCLA Katella High Northwest Flight 5 p.m., June 20 School UC Berkeley UCLA UC Santa Cruz John F. Kennedy High Cypress College 3 p.m., June 20 UCLA Harvard UC Berkeley Loara High Undecided 7 p.m., June 20 Duke MIT Pt. Loma Nazarene Magnolia High UCLA 6 p.m., June 20 Fullerton College Cypress College UC Davis Savanna High MIT 4 p.m., June 20 Orange Coast College Cypress College Univ. of Michigan UC San Diego Cal State Long Beach Western High UC San Diego 5:30 p.m., June 20 LA Trade & Tech UCLA UCLA

FULLERTON JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Buena Park High 270 Martin Mayhew (4.54) UCLA 5:30 p.m., June 14 Anh Quach (4.36) Cal State Fullerton Fullerton High 280 Tu Le (4.45) UC Riverside 5 p.m., June 14 Priya Kumar (4.32) USC La Habra High 400 Gregory Vrablik (4.35) Cal Poly Pomona 4 p.m., June 14 Jeffrey Freland (4.33) Occidental Clifford McCarthy (4.31) Harvey Mudd Sonora High 290 John Christian (4.52) Stanford 6:30 p.m., June 14 Susanna Lee (4.50) Harvard Arie Istandar (4.48) UC Irvine Anthony Choe (4.46) Harvard Sunny Hills High 380 Ruba Qashu (4.77) UC Berkeley 7:30 p.m., June 14 Elisa Altman (4.70) Yale Albert Liu (4.70) Stanford Atul Saran (4.69) Stanford Thomas McDevitt (4.61) Princeton Troy High 273 Brian Anthony Di Donna Stanford 2:30 p.m., June 14 (4.54) Chung-Chao “Tom” Ho UC San Diego (4.51)

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HUNTINGTON BEACH UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Edison High 514 John Yong (4.57) 5 p.m., June 14 Annie Chu (4.57) Fountain Valley High 633 Michelle Thomas (4.60) 5 p.m., June 13 Huntington Beach High 450 Jane Wey (4.65) 4 p.m., June 14 Marina High 540 Pamela W. Lu (4.51) 5 p.m., June 14 Tracy Laulhere (4.49) Phuong Dao Nguyen (4.49) Oriana Kim (4.48) Brian McCaffery (4.48) Ocean View High 458 Mai Pham (4.64) 6 p.m., June 13 Charles Cavanagh (4.56) Westminster High 410 Kristen Angela Slaney Bowman 7 p.m., June 14 (4.67)

School Time, Date Prospective College Edison High Stanford 5 p.m., June 14 Stanford Fountain Valley High Yale 5 p.m., June 13 Huntington Beach High Harvard 4 p.m., June 14 Marina High UC Berkeley 5 p.m., June 14 Stanford Harvard UC Berkeley Stanford Ocean View High UC Irvine 6 p.m., June 13 Georgetown Westminster High Stanford 7 p.m., June 14

BREA-OLINDA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Brea-Olinda High 301 Vaibhav “Madhukar” UC Berkeley Anvekar (4+) 5 p.m., June 20 Nancy Chabot (4+) Rice Jon P. Lee (4+) UC Berkeley

CAPISTRANO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Capistrano Valley High 540 David Rondinone (4.36) 6 p.m., June 20 Jason Juha (4.32) Todd Russell (4.27) Deepak Chandwani (4.25) Janet Chen (4.23) Rita Lee (4.23) Dana Hills High 450 Jyllian Kemsley (4.20) 5 p.m., June 20 Elaine Tanaka (4.19) Kelly Coop (4.19) Jennifer Sheaffer (4.16) Rasha Hashad (4.15) Amanda Wheeland (4.15) San Clemente High 441 Cassie Kauwling (4.26) 6 p.m., June 20 Karrie Johnson (4.18) Michelle Sippl (4.17) Stephanie Basiliff (4.16) Marie Ferrer (4.16)

School Time, Date Prospective College Capistrano Valley High UC Berkeley 6 p.m., June 20 UC San Diego Stanford UC San Diego Williams College Johns Hopkins Dana Hills High Stanford or Amherst 5 p.m., June 20 UCLA UC Berkeley UC San Diego Missouri State Yale San Clemente High UCLA 6 p.m., June 20 UCLA Amer. Univ. of Paris Duke Georgetown

GARDEN GROVE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Bolsa Grande High 325 Nikki Nguyen (4.43) 5 p.m., June 19 Garden Grove High 325 Carl Sujo (4.43) 4:30 p.m., June 19 Khoi Tran (4.42) Matthew Kerns (4.38) Guy Uesugi (4.35) Linh Kao (4.28) La Quinta High 348 Dien Ai Du (4.0*) 3 p.m., June 18 Thuy-Hanh Truong (4.0*) Los Amigos High 300 Angela K. Knuckles (4.24) 6 p.m., June 18 Pacifica High 270 Crystal Su (4.0*) 6 p.m., June 18 June Lee (4.0*) Rancho Alamitos High 243 Jennifer Learn (4.36) 5 p.m., June 18 Binh Nguyen (4.27) Santiago High 295 Chi Youn Park (4.20) 3 p.m., June 18 Long Hoang (4.12)

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School Time, Date Prospective College Bolsa Grande High Undecided 5 p.m., June 19 Garden Grove High UCLA 4:30 p.m., June 19 Stanford UC Irvine UCLA Stanford La Quinta High UC Irvine 3 p.m., June 18 UCLA Los Amigos High Cal Poly SLO 6 p.m., June 18 Pacifica High UC Berkeley 6 p.m., June 18 UC Berkeley Rancho Alamitos High UC Irvine 5 p.m., June 18 UC Irvine Santiago High Cal Poly Pomona 3 p.m., June 18 UC Irvine

IRVINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Irvine High 500 Sabing Lee (4.28) UCLA 5 p.m., June 20 Victor Chang (4.26) Harvard Cindy Chen (4.26)) UC San Diego University High 500 Mitchell Tsai (4.48) Stanford 5 p.m., June 20 Gadi Barlevy (4.42) UC Berkeley Woodbridge High 330 Scott C. Schmidler (4.26) UC Berkeley 2 p.m., June 20 Brenda “Brandi” Krantz Stanford (4.22) Kristy Mateer (4.03) UCLA Charles Cook (3.58) NY University

LAGUNA BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Laguna Beach High 175 Elizabeth Gehling (4.39) USC 7 p.m., June 21 Sean McDonald (4.39) Yale

LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Los Alamitos High 480 Suzanne Miller (4.0*) Rice 4 p.m., June 20 Kelly Jeong (4.0*) Univ. of Miami

NEWPORT MESA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Corona Del Mar High 312 E. Ray Dorsey (4.29) Yale or Stanford 3 p.m., June 21 Ray Chu (4.24) Stanford Costa Mesa High 220 Justin Yockel (4.10) UC San Diego 6 p.m., June 21 Thuy Nguyen (4.10 UC Irvine Estancia High 300 Albert Huang (4+) Princeton 4 p.m., June 21 Erich Salvacion (4+) UC Berkeley Newport Harbor High 335 Dustin Waide (4.21) Duke 3 p.m., June 21 Hooman Mashhour (4.15) UCLA

ORANGE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Canyon High 403 Sunita Deshmukh (4.80) Stanford 6:30 p.m., June 14 Edwin Gutierrez (4.77) UC Berkeley El Modena High 360 Deborah W. Hong (4.80) UC Berkeley 4 p.m., June 14 Orange High 380 Davey Quan Shih (4.76) MIT 5:30 p.m., June 14 Villa Park High 425 Rikio Alan Ozaki (4.80) USC 1:30 p.m., June 14 Elizabeth “Robin” Loss UCLA (4.76) Wendy-Uyen Nguyen (4.76) UC Irvine

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PLACENTIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College EL Dorado High 344 Jennifer Dawson (4.0*) UC Irvine 8 p.m., June 20 Carmen Wall (4.0*) Seattle Pacific Andy Wang (4.0*) UC Berkeley Shahid Zaidi (4.0*) Stanford Esperanza High 484 Kim Hales (3.98*) Univ. of Houston 8 p.m., June 21 Valencia High 340 Khanh-Van Le (4.36) UC Berkeley 7:30 p.m., June 22 Phil Yanan (3.83) Cal State Fullerton Jennifer Kingham (3.2) Fullerton College Sunil Dalal (4.50) UCLA Van Hoang (4.47) UCLA

SADDLEBACK VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * El Toro High 515 Sara Bone (4.63) 5 p.m., June 21 Andrea Higuera (4.63) Laguna Hills High 335 Jeff McCombs (4.83) 8 p.m., June 22 Dung Vu (4.77) Hae Jene Kim (4.75) Christine Kurlawalla (4.73) Janet Kim (4.72) Mission Viejo High 430 Christina Hong (4.94) 5 p.m., June 22 Jennifer Stewart (4.90) Eunmi Yoo (4.84) Trabuco Hills High 400 Kim Collins (4.66) 8 p.m., June 21

School Time, Date Prospective College El Toro High Dartmouth 5 p.m., June 21 Stanford Laguna Hills High USC 8 p.m., June 22 UC Berkeley UC Berkeley UC Irvine Cornell Mission Viejo High Stanford 5 p.m., June 22 Georgetown UCLA Trabuco Hills High Pepperdine 8 p.m., June 21

SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Saddleback High 487 Bang Phi Dang (4.70) Cal Tech 4 p.m., June 14 Y Khac Nguyen Pham (4.70) UC Irvine Santa Ana High 400 Rudy Torres (4.37) UC Irvine 7 p.m., June 14 Francisco Quinonez (4.28) Georgetown Valley High 325 Kate Huong Nguyen (4.70) MIT 8 p.m., June 14 Loanne Doan (4.63) Yale

TUSTIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

School Class Valedictorian/Speaker Time, Date Size (GPA) * Prospective College Foothill High 329 Stacy Hipsak San Diego State 4 p.m., June 15 Tara Suan (4.30) UC Berkeley Jason Gabelsberg (3.32) Cal State Long Beach James Holley Orange Coast College Robert Kovaced (4.76) Harvard Tustin High 379 Melanie Cary (3.32) San Diego State 7 p.m., June 15 Sun Lee (4.47) UCLA Jenny Mahar (3.39) Univ. of Arizona Alessandra Morales (3.78) Columbia Erika Galvez (3.30) Cal State Long Beach Nancy Ikeda (4.59) UC Irvine Nelly Deurr (4.58) Yale

* Unweighed grade point averages

** Grades for students taking Advanced Placement and/or International Baccalaureate classes are weighed on a 5-point scale. Speakers are not necessarily those ranked first academically in their class.

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Source: Individual schools

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