Buena Park High
8833 Academy Drive
Buena Park 90621-3799
(714) 992-8600
* Enrollment: 1,728
* Established: 1956
* Team name: Coyotes
* Principal: Michael Conroy
* Student president: Nathan Velasco
* Famous alumnus: Actor Steven Seagal
* Winning moments: Commended by U.S. Rep. Edward R. Royce, state Assemblyman Dick Ackerman and Buena Park Mayor Jack Mauller; campus training session with Buena Park Police Department SWAT team; Silent Sustained Reading program; Miss America, Susan Jeske, spoke on impact of violence on family and community; NIKE Distinguished Service award winner Russ Wilson; Disney’s American Teacher award nominees Christy Kenny and Debbie Sorensen; boys’ basketball playoffs; boys’ soccer playoffs; girls’ water polo playoffs; wrestling postseason tournament
* In the works: Implement Digital High School grant; SAT preparation program
* Graduation: 5:30 p.m. June 15 at the stadium
SENIOR STANDOUT
Uyen Ly of Buena Park
* Achievements: Earned a 4.77 weighted grade-point average; academic excellence on Golden State exams in U.S. history and literature; named Most Distinguished scholar; Bank of America finalist in science and math; Bausch and Lomb honorary science award; Xerox humanities/social science award; Distinguished scholar; Student of the Month in English, chemistry, biology, physics, world history, U.S. history, U.S. government and trigonometry; California Scholarship Federation vice president and treasurer; senior class secretary; Key Club historian and publicity manager; Renaissance secretary; Filipino club treasurer; French club president and treasurer; competed in the Academic Decathlon; speaks French and “Englimese--an interfusion of English and Vietnamese”
* Connections: Member of the Asian club; Score for College; yearbook; principal’s advisory board; student orientation service; enjoys rugby; short films; writes haikus; draws “potatoes, Nutter Butters and stethoscopes”
* Ambitions: Attend UC Berkeley, major undecided
* Family: Father is Minh D. Ly; mother is Hang Nguyen; sister is Ly Ly; cousin is Virgil Polit
* Philosophy: “I don’t believe in sleeping. Lying idly in bed for hours is seriously a waste of time”
THE SENIOR CLASS: 348
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