Santa Ana High
520 W. Walnut St.
Santa Ana 92701
(714) 567-4900
* Enrollment: 3,006
* Established: 1889; rebuilt in 1937, four years after the 1933 earthquake
* Team name: Saints
* Newspaper: The Generator
* Principal: Dan Salcedo
* Student president: Miguel Bolanos
* Famous alumni: Actress Diane Keaton; singer Bill Medley; silent-film actor Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; Skylab 3 astronaut Gerald Paul Carr; All-Pro Cincinnati Bengals receiver Isaac Curtis; Olympic diver Greg Louganis attended the school
* Winning moments: Orange County Academic Decathlon team took seventh place; Arts on the Lawn Imagination Celebration; Lauren Chamberlain traveled to Israel with the Anti-Defamation League; Jose Leon named national wrestling champion; wrestling state champions; boys’ cross-country Southern Section Division I and state Division I runners-up; boys’ soccer Southern Section Division I playoffs
* Graduation: June 16, 7 p.m., at the Santa Ana Stadium
SENIOR STANDOUT
Jenny Zavala of Santa Ana
* Achievements: Earned a 4.16 weighted grade-point average; senior class president; Girls’ State representative; Soroptimist Young Girl of the Month; Elks Club student of the month; Human Relations Community Service Award; Xerox award; Outstanding Achievement in math, science and English awards; California Scholarship Federation; MESA Club president
* Connections: Math club; Ballet Folklorico; volunteers for Alzheimer’s Assn., Pennies for Patients, HOSTS Mentor at Henninger Elementary School in Santa Ana, Sacred Heart Kids Club and St. Joseph’s Soup Kitchen
* Ambitions: Attend Pitzer College, majoring in psychology or sociology to become a counselor for teenagers
* Family: Father is Miguel Zavala; mother is Martha; brother is Miguel Jr.; sister is Monica
* Claim to fame: “I feel I have experience being both a role model and a ‘part’ of my class. It has been important to me to be interactive.”
THE SENIOR CLASS: 474
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