L.A. Times Awards Grants to 200 Southland Students : Education: Graduating seniors get $500 scholarships at ceremonies in three counties. Funds may be used at colleges or trade schools.
The Los Angeles Times Fund has awarded $100,000 in educational grants-in-aid to 200 graduating seniors throughout Southern California for use in the fall.
The $500 awards were presented to the seniors at ceremonies conducted at public and private schools in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. The grants may be used for attendance at trade and technical schools, colleges or universities.
The grants-in-aid program is supported by the proceeds of various Times-sponsored events, including Taste of Orange, the Los Angeles Marathon and the annual Times/Rams Charity Game in August.
This year’s grant recipients and their schools: * LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Carol Acosta, Blair; DePrice Akers, Dorsey; Roger Alvarado, Taft; Angelica Alvarez, Downtown Business Magnet; Charles Armstrong, Washington; Alazar Asmamaw, Gardena; Leticia Ayala, Jordan; Amy Suzanne Bailey, Duarte; Silvana Balladares, El Rancho; Berenice Barajas, San Fernando; Esiquio Barragan, Francis Polytechnic; Cesar Ernesto Batres, Grant; Iris Beltran, Monroe; Noelia Benitez, Belmont; Gerd Bennett, Baldwin Park; Raquel Bernal, Garfield; Vicky Bolanos, Downey; Precia Bowman, Sylmar; Tony Brown, Verbum Dei; James Caldwell, Paramount; Joshua Callis, Somerset; Jesse Camper, Hamilton; Rito Canales Jr., Palisades; Maria Canedo, South Gate; Ossiola Cantrell, Lincoln; Elaine Carrillo, St. Lucy’s; Sonia Carrillo, Littlerock; Cinque D.J. Carter, Bassett; Tyrone Carter Jr., Westchester; Art Castanedo, Earhart; Angela Marie Castro, Westside Alternative; Tatiana Castro, Granada Hills; Araceli Cervantes, Santa Fe; Lisa Chairez, Bell; Jocelyn Chang, Polytechnic; Daniel Isai Chavarria, Chatsworth; Erendira Chepi, Bravo Medical Magnet; Angela Marie Ciucci, Canoga Park; Damean Cloyd, Washington; Cristal Colwell, Whitcomb; Desiree Corral, El Rancho; Edmundo Correa, Locke; Alma Cortez, El Camino Real; Rosio Corza, Sierra Vista; Erika Covarrubias, University; Tamika Curry, Cerritos; Angelo De Los Reyes, Verdugo Hills; Marisol Del Cid, Centennial; Carlos Diaz, Jefferson; Audrey Dominquez, Azusa; Jose Duenas, Franklin; Nolina Elquezabal, Franklin; Patricia Espinoza, Roosevelt; David Esquivel, Narbonne; Daniel Estrada, Huntington Park; Rondalynne Fields, Bellflower; Nancy Franco, Kennedy; Alejandro Fuentes, Marshall; Marco Garay, Providence; Maria Garcia, Santiago; Erwin Garrido, Fairfax; Moises Gomez, Gahr; Michael Gonzaga, Crespi Carmelite; Armando Gonzalez, Millikan; Gonzalo Gonzalez, Van Nuys; Lucia Gonzalez, Bell Gardens; Miguel Gonzalez, Hollywood; Sonia Gonzalez, Montebello; Austin Goodale, North Hollywood; Annette Gutierrez, Wilson; Daniel Gutierrez, Schurr; Evelyn Hernandez, North Hollywood; Luis Hernandez, Dorsey; Marisela Hernandez, Banning; Monica Hernandez, Sacred Heart; Naisha Huntsman, South Gate; Ly Lan Huong, Lincoln; Daniel Jauregui, Whittier; Emery Johnson, Blair; Nicole Christine Jones, Hoover; Dernel Dupree King, Fremont; Matthew Allen Kinseth, Carson; Maritza Larios, Monroe; Olympia Le Point, Hamilton; Nayeung Nancy Lee, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies; Lani Leia, Long Beach Adult School; Patricia Lemus, Belmont; Joyce Ann Lewis, Fremont; Retha Lewis, Jordan; Yoshika Lewis, Somerset; Alberto Lopez, Antelope Valley; Mara Lopez, Montebello; Ana Maldonado, Venice; Rosalia Maldonado, Our Lady of Loretto; Arthur Manusyants, Hoover; Antonio Martinez, Lakewood; Jennifer Martinez, San Gabriel Mission; Lupe Martinez, Lakewood; Lillie Martin, Crittenton; Curtis McFarland, Monrovia; Leslie McGill, Artesia; Claudia Mendoza, Jefferson; Rodolfo Mendoza, Garfield; Jared Millhouse, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies; Shalita Monroe, Lynwood; Hector Montes, Hollywood; Sherrita Ann Moore, Locke; Florida Morales, Los Angeles; Veronica Morales, Crittenton; Linda Moran, Birmingham; Stephanie Maria Mota, Lincoln; Hong Thi Nguyen, Wilson; Marco Nunez, Bishop Mora; Rosa Nunez, Wilson; Carmen Ochoa, Lakewood; Hernando Ojeda, Quartz Hill; Trinette Oliver, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies; Maria Ortega, Sacred Heart; Jami Overturf, St. Paul’s; Sutorius Paige, St. Michael’s; Sheray Patterson, Reid; Zoila Pelayo, Our Lady of Loretto; Juan Carlos Preciado, Marshall; Cuc Jackie Tu Quach, San Gabriel; Patricia Quezada, Glen; Rogelio Quintana, Newmark; Ana Karina Ramos, Burroughs; Regina Requena, Pomona Catholic; Jessica Robinson, King-Drew Medical Magnet; Brenda Liz Robledo, Roosevelt; Maria Hortencia Rojas, Los Angeles; Dora Romero, Hawthorne; Maria Rosales, Keppel; James Ross, Glendora; Pamela Catherine Ryu, Huntington Park; Edward Kalani Santos, Sherman Oaks Center of Enriched Studies; Dennis Savage, Morningside; Gina Charity Shaw, Manual Arts; Scott Shore, Duarte; Sodelis Sim, Polytechnic; Kerry Smoody, Northview; Cesar Solis, Cleveland; Omar Solorzano, Norwalk; Tammy Marie Spicer, Gladstone; Felicity Stanley, Hillcrest; Adrilisa Steele, Crenshaw; Charles Stewart, Downey; Shane Stump, Bishop Garcia; Grach Suleymanyan, Hoover; LaShon Taylor, Long Beach Adult School; Arturo Torres, San Pedro; Kini Tran, Our Lady Queen of Angeles; Sharice Danette Tucker, Fremont; Martha Alicia Valdivia, Eagle Rock; Mario Valenzuela, Reseda; Jessica Valiente, Our Lady of Loretto; Danny Velarde, Bell; John Velasquez, San Fernando; Monee Shenell Young, Manual Arts; Lily Yu, Paramount; Lenin Zeledon, Jordan.
* SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Francisco Elias, San Diego; Dustin Esquivel, Point Loma; Ebony Franklin, Morse; Luis Hermosillo, San Diego Performing Arts; Tamika Moore, Gompers; Laura Orozco, Serra; Norma Perez, San Diego; Elsy Romero, La Jolla; Janice Sampson, Point Loma; Odessa Smith, Twain; Oscar Torres, Garfield; Hector Vargas, Mira Mesa.
