Los Alamitos High

3591 E. Cerritos Ave.

Los Alamitos 90720

(562) 799-4780

* Enrollment: 2,753

* Established: 1968 in Anaheim Unified School District; 1980 in Los Alamitos

* Team name: Griffins

* Newspaper: Crusader

* Principal: Rebecca Shore

* Student president: Mari Payton

* Valedictorians: Dylan Kann and Thomas Zamora

* Famous alumni: Broadway’s “Beauty and the Beast” star Susan Egan; Olympic gymnast and actress Cathy Rigby

* Winning moments: Named California Distinguished School; Academic Decathlon team placed third overall; students from Japan and Germany visited; Peer Support’s Random Acts of Kindness Week; Every 15 Minutes drunk-driving education program; Academic Quiz team won Tri-State Kiwanis Bowl; song team dancers won second in national finals; yearbook won national publishing award for excellence; Science Olympiad team placed second in regional competition; Junior Stella Yoon won $10,000 Remax scholarship; teacher Gordon Duff won Catalina Marathon; boys’ basketball Southern Section Division IAA playoffs; football Southern Section Division I playoffs; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division I playoffs

* Graduation: June 17, 4 p.m., at Cerritos College

SENIOR STANDOUT

Katy Ansite of Seal Beach

* Achievements: Served as an exchange student in Germany; Girls’ State; National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award; Literary Women’s Guild of Orange County Young Writers Award; Princeton Book Award; Valley Forge Youth Leadership Conference delegate; student council entertainment commissioner; Republican Club president; French Club vice president; Student Congress; California Scholarship Federation; National Honor Society; 12 years of piano study

* Connections: Part-time student at the Orange County High School for the Arts; volunteers in political campaigns and Meals on Wheels; “I worked at a bagel shop until the sight of cream cheese was nauseating. Now I tutor a middle-school student.”

* Ambitions: Attend Berkeley to become a federal court judge. “It’s a job that not many women occupy, and it is interesting and different every day.”

* Family: Father is Jim Ansite; mother is Mimi

* Claim to fame: “My ‘vintage’ ‘83 Volvo that has taken repeated beatings but still purrs like a kitten and looks like new (well, as new as an ’83 Volvo can look).”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 680