Orange High
Orange High
525 N. Shaffer
Orange 92667
(714) 997-6211
* Enrollment: 2,100
* Established: 1903 on Glassell Street; moved in 1953
* Landmark: Outdoor Theater
* Team name: Panthers
* Newspaper: The Reflector
* Principal: Bob Lewis
* Student president: Martha Mercado
* Valedictorian: Pamela Milan
* Famous alumni: Former County Supervisor Gaddi Vasquez; Olympic runner Mary Decker Slaney
* Winning moments: Choir selected to travel to Washington, D.C. for the 150th-anniversary salute to the Washington Monument; Hal Webb won best of show in Gogh Van Orange art festival; Pei-Chi Huang’s artwork exhibited at the Orange County Department of Education’s Imagination Celebration; Jeff Manning, Julio Garcia and Hanh Ha saw their photographs exhibited at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Junior Exhibition
* Memorable event: Pennies for Patients raised more than $10,000 for Leukemia Society’s pediatric research
* Graduation: June 11, 4:30 p.m., at the Outdoor Theater
SENIOR STANDOUT
Pamela Milan of Orange
* Achievements: Earned a 4.78 grade-point average; National English Merit award; All-American scholar award; Academic Achievement award; Virtuous Panther award; named in the top 100 female mathematics students in Southern California; Who’s Who Among American High School Students; St. Joseph Hospital activities coordinator
* Connections: Youth Leadership Council; California Scholarship Federation; Volunteerism Promotion Council; the Orange County Academic Decathlon; California Assn. of Student Governments; Key Club; National Honor Society; math club; volunteers for the Eggleston Foster Family Agency; tutors students
* Ambitions: Attend college and study medicine, English and the law; promote women’s rights
* Family: Mother is Michelle Milan; one sister
* Future claim to fame: Be the first woman elected president of the U.S. and propose a worldwide health-care policy
THE SENIOR CLASS: 410
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