6 Students Win Awards in Anaheim Teen Contest

Kathryn K. Yang of Esperanza High School was named first-place winner in the Canyon Junior Women’s Club of Anaheim Teen Citizens Contest. Winners were selected based on community service and academic performance at school.

Margaret K. Kang of Esperanza High won second place and Jennifer O’Leary of Canyon High was third. Yang received $1,000 and Kang and O’Leary each received $500.

In the club’s art contest, Matt Woods won the Best of Show Award while Sean Linden won second place and Soo Choi was third. All are Esperanza High students.

Timothy R. Westlake of Fountain Valley received his Boy Scout Eagle rank at a court of honor at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fountain Valley. He repaired the roofs and painted six cabanas in Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley as his community service project.

Stephen E. Tsoneff, an honors student at Huntington Beach High School, has been awarded a $2,000 independent summer study grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Stephen will be investigating Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on Herman Melville’s maritime stories, Jules Verne’s science fiction, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories.

To receive the scholarship, Stephen was required to develop subjects of personal interest to him and worthy of in-depth research in a nine-week study plan.

He will be supervised by Huntington Beach High School English teacher Harry Gordon.

Laguna Niguel resident Jennifer Lee Howard, a junior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has been inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for collegiate schools of business.

Ruth Kuroda, a physical therapist at California Children Services Medical Therapy Unit at R.H. Dana Exceptional Needs Facility in Dana Point, has been named the recipient of the Kathy McCarthy Therapist of the Year award.

The award, sponsored by the services group, acknowledges a therapist who keeps up with the latest developments, shares knowledge with peers and is active in local and professional organizations.

Pam Gentzsch, nursing director of oncology/medical-surgical telemetry services at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, has been elected as an affiliate of the American Academy of Medical Administrators. The honor is given to those with outstanding credentials in health care administration.

Archana Pathak, a senior at Cal State Fullerton who plans to coach forensics while attending graduate school, has been selected as one of two recipients of the Bovero Award, the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Assn.’s highest honor.

Pathak received the award at the association’s recent spring championship where she also won first place in prose interpretation, second place in poetry interpretation and sixth place in a communication analysis.

USC students Laura Johnson, Nick Laurence, Tan Lim and Joyce Maria Santiago, all of Huntington Beach, received Student Achievement and Recognition awards at the university’s recent academic honors convocation.