2 Californians Among U. S. Rhodes Scholar Winners

Two Californians were among 32 American students named Sunday as Rhodes scholars.

The winners of the two-year scholarships to Oxford University in England were selected from 1,059 applicants at 333 colleges and universities, said David Alexander, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, based at Pomona College in Claremont.

The estate of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and colonialist, established the scholarships after his death in 1902. Rhodes had hoped the scholarships would contribute to world understanding and peace.

To qualify, applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 24. Scholarship winners have college fees paid and receive a stipend to cover living expenses.

The winners include ballerina Rebecca Thomas, a graduate of the University of Utah, who is studying for a dance degree at Brigham Young University. She has danced with the ballet companies of both Utah universities and plans a career teaching English.

Derek Y. Kunimoto, of Hawaii, is a black belt in karate who has taught the art of self-defense and founded karate clubs at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he is a biology major. Kunimoto plays jazz saxophone and plans to study biochemistry at Oxford.

Lisette Nieves, a Brooklyn College student of Puerto Rican descent, has led adult literacy programs for Latino adults in Brooklyn, N. Y.

The new Rhodes scholars, their hometowns and schools:

Douglas A. Beck, Piedmont, Calif., Yale University.

Robert A. Sternfels, Lodi, Calif., Stanford University.

Gregory M. Gunn, Stamford, Conn., University of Chicago.

Catherine M. Sharkey, Baltimore, Yale University.

Noah Feldman, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University.

P. Dmitri Tymoczko, Northampton, Mass., Harvard University.

Jonah Edelman, Washington, Yale University.

Eric Gregory, Wheaton, Md., Harvard University

Cory A. Booker, Harrington Park, N. J., Stanford University.

Lisette Nieves, Brooklyn, N. Y., Brooklyn College.

Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Boca Raton, Fla., Georgetown University.

Marc Lipsitch, Atlanta, Yale University.

William David Ball, Atlanta, University of North Carolina.

Benjamin L. Ebert, Nashville, Tenn., Williams College.

Jessica Heineman-Pieper, Chicago, Radcliffe College of Harvard University.

Richard A. Primus, South Bend, Ind., Harvard University.

Akshay Desai, Lexington, Ky., Princeton University.

Brian Reed, Lexington, Ky., Harvard University.

Laura Ellen McGrane, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, College of St. Benedict.

Jody E. Seim, St. Louis Park, Minn., Georgetown University.

Peter Benjamin Hessler, Columbia, Mo., Princeton University.

Craig B. Hanson, Blair, Neb., Georgetown University.

Carl Stanley McGee, Selma, Ala., University of Alabama.

Drayton Nabers III, Birmingham, Ala., Princeton University.

Piyush Robert Jindal, Baton Rouge, La., Brown University.

Jennifer A. Bradley, Austin, Tex., University of Texas at Austin.

Derek Y. Kunimoto, Honolulu, Harvard University and Wesleyan University.

Rebecca Thomas, Orem, Utah, University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Stephanie Reents, Boise, Ida., Amherst College.

Peter A. Ruprecht, Twin Falls, Ida., Lawrence University.

Molly Ann Kramer, Missoula, Mont., Southern Illinois University and University of Montana.

Todd Millay, LaGrande, Ore., Dartmouth College.