Orange High

525 N. Shaffer St.

Orange 92867

(714) 997-6211

* Enrollment: 2,080

* Established: 1903 on Glassell Street; moved in 1953

* Team name: Panthers

* Newspaper: The Reflector

* Principal: Robert Lewis

* Student president: Krista Pellerin

* Valedictorians: Paul Nissenson and Teresa Phan

* Famous alumni: Former County Supervisor Gaddi Vasquez; Olympic runner Mary Decker Slaney

* Winning moments: Academic Decathlon winners; Pennies for Patients raised more than $23,000 for Leukemia Society’s pediatric research; Faculty Pep Assembly; girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IVA playoffs

* Graduation: June 17, 4:30 p.m., at the school’s outdoor theater

SENIOR STANDOUT

Paul Nissenson of Orange

* Achievements: Earned a 4.83 weighted grade-point average; won three individual medals for the Academic Decathlon in 1998 and seven in 1999, including first in overall; science club president for two years; National Honor Society; California Scholarship Federation

* Connections: Interact Club; UCI cancer research program participant; various community service activities through school clubs

* Ambitions: Attend UC Irvine on a Regents scholarship, majoring in social science. “I’m unsure about what I want to be when I leave college, but I am thinking about the Peace Corps.”

* Family: Father is Len Nissenson; mother is Kathy; brother is Michael; cat is Bitzy

* Claim to fame: “Shattered all bounds of good taste by dressing as an elf to make money for the science club.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 458