HUNTINGTON BEACH : Students Receive Honors Scholarships

Golden West College’s honor society has awarded more than $1,000 in scholarships to 12 students for their accomplishments during the fall semester.

The college’s Sigma Pi chapter of Alpha Gamma Sigma, a statewide community college honor society, hands out the awards each semester to its top students in recognition of their academic achievements and community service work.

The honors club has been involved in organizing a book sale to benefit the college’s child care center, sending holiday cards to U.S. troops deployed in the Persian Gulf, helping run a rodeo sponsored by the Huntington Beach Rotary Club and coordinating a Halloween presentation at the Westminster Mall.

The group’s president, Sharyl Backues of Huntington Beach, won the top honor, the $200 President’s Scholarship Award.

Shelley Heller and Stephanie Romesburg each won $150 scholarship citations. Heller, of Huntington Beach, earned the Highest Honors Award, and Romesburg, of Seal Beach, won the Highest Honors and Service Award.

Julie Ha and Kim-Ngan Pham, both Westminster residents, and Ted Becker of Midway City each received $50 honors and service scholarship awards.

Other $50 scholarships were presented to Members’ Outstanding Service Award winners Leslie Martinez, Lindy Monge and Shannon Parker, all Huntington Beach residents, and Outstanding Officer Award recipients Henry Funderburk of Westminster and Stephanie Larson of Huntington Beach.

Larson and Westminster resident Janice Valerio won 1990 Fall Adviser’s Awards, garnering additional $50 scholarships.