Canyon High

220 S. Imperial Highway

Anaheim 92807

(714) 532-8000

* Enrollment: 1,800

* Established: 1973

* Team name: The Comanches

* Newspaper: Smoke Signals

* Principal: Ralph Jameson

* Student president: Liza Clay

* Valedictorian: Elizabeth Smith

* Famous alumni: Michelle Carew; former major league baseball player Rob Deere; minor league baseball player Eric Valent

* Winning moments: Successful dance production of “Unbelievable”; Brian Goldfarb’s technology article printed in Better Homes & Gardens; three Merit Scholarship finalists; school’s electric car places fifth in high school division of the National Electrathon Competition; boys’ and girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IIAA playoffs; football Southern Section Division I playoffs; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division II playoffs; girls’ water polo Southern Section Division I playoffs

* In the works: Summer Academy for incoming ninth-graders; implementation of Digital High School grant

* Graduation: June 17, 6:30 p.m., at El Modena High’s stadium in Orange

SENIOR STANDOUT

Monique Faye Crine of Anaheim

* Achievements: Completed Advanced Placement art classes; nominated for fine arts and photo laureate; Catalina Art Festival Award winner; Disneyland Creativity Challenge Award finalist; Gogh Van Orange honorable mention awardee; Reflections contest winner; Literacy Society vice president

* Connections: YMCA camp counselor; volunteers 30 hours a week at retirement homes; painted a mural with elementary school students

* Ambitions: Attend San Francisco State, majoring in art and minoring in Italian; obtain a teaching credential in deaf studies; study art in Florence, Italy and live in Scotland

* Family: Father is Richard Crine; mother is Holly Dean; stepmother is Tina Crine; sisters are Jamie, Sarah, Britany and Katlynn

* Claim to fame: Stopped “while trying to get inside NBC studios to see N-Sync.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 444