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Pacifica High

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6851 Lampson Ave.

Garden Grove 92845

(714) 663-6515

* Enrollment: 1,654

* Established: 1965

* Team name: Mariners

* Newspaper: The Anchor

* Principal: John P. Johnson

* Student president: Joey Pantel

* Valedictorians: Thao Nguyen and Jeanie Guray

* Famous alumni: Gymnastics silver medalists Michelle Dussere and Pam Bilek; Olympic figure skater Terry Kubicka; Blue Angels pilot Kevin Lauver; NFL kicker Norm Johnson; Offspring’s Bryan “Dexter” Holland, Greg Kriesel and Kevin Wasserman

* Winning moments: Digital High School grants; Miles Patrick Harrigan, Peter Won Hee Chung and Kenji Alejandro Tashhiro named National Merit Scholar finalists; relief effort to aid hurricane victims in Honduras; boys’ and girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IIA playoffs; football Southern Section Division IX playoffs; boys’ and girls’ soccer Southern Section Division III playoffs

* In the works: Implementation of grants awarded to the library and the science department

* Graduation: June 22, 6 p.m., at Bolsa Grande High’s stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Keara Skinner of Garden Grove

* Achievements: Yearbook editor and photographer; academic letter; bar and seal bearer; GATE art; designed and painted school mural; award winner at Laguna Festival of the Arts, Artistic Discovery, Impressions, Color It Orange, O.C. Youth Expo, Huntington Library and John Wayne Airport; Bank of America art award; art club vice president; California Scholarship Federation

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* Connections: American Music Theatre in Lancaster, Pa., summer internship; Girl Scouts trained-awareness aide; volunteers at Wildlife Way Station and Orange County Developmental Agency

* Ambitions: Earn an associate of arts degree at Orange Coast College and bachelor of arts at Cal State Long Beach, with a focus on photography, computer graphics and business, to become a magazine or news photographer

* Family: Father is David Skinner; mother is Leslie.

* Claim to fame: Also known as “that girl with the camera.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 367

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