Fleet Reserves Assn. Honors 6 Students for Their Essays
Six students have been named winners of a countywide essay-writing contest to explain the meaning of Memorial Day.
The youngsters, who were selected from 325 entrants, will receive a $50 savings bond from the Fleet Reserves Assn., a group of retired and active Navy, Marine and Coast Guard enlisted personnel. The contest was open to students in the seventh through 12th grades, Fleet reserves spokesman Ken Miller said.
Miller said the contest is “meant to help students realize what a great country we live in and to make them think about the responsibility we have to make it better.”
The winners included: Courtney Naum, a seventh-grade student at Stacey Intermediate School in Huntington Beach; Sara Rowan, an eighth-grade student at Bell Intermediate School in Garden Grove; Kristin Kauten, a freshman at Garden Grove High School; Anna Rose Brunetti, a sophomore at Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove; Suzie (Song) Park, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, and Joseph Tri Nguyen, a senior at Bolsa Grande High School.
The winners will be honored at an award ceremony tentatively scheduled for March 19, Miller said.
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