Dana Hills High
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point 92629-1899
(949) 496-6666
* Enrollment: 2,813
* Established: 1973
* Team name: Dolphins
* Principals: James T. Walshe
* Student president: Marisa Garcia
* Valedictorians: Students with a 4.0 grade-point average or higher
* Winning moments: Dukane media broadcast system; student-built audio/video room; Dana Point Youth Commission; Laguna Niguel Mayor Mimi Walters served as principal for a day; state Boys & Girls Club outstanding volunteer Marcos Sanchez; National Merit scholar finalists Jenny Todd and Niki Wilson; boys’ soccer playoffs; postseason wrestling tournament; boys’ and girls’ cross-country championships; girls’ golf playoffs; girls’ tennis playoffs; girls’ volleyball playoffs
* Graduation: 4 p.m. June 21 at the school
SENIOR STANDOUT
Christina Georgia Hioureas of Dana Point
* Achievements: Earned a 4.24 weighted grade-point average; attended Saddleback Community College since sophomore year; South Orange County School of the Arts advanced drawing and painting; named National Honor Society president; Advanced Placement scholar with honors; California Scholarship Federation; Orange County Youth Leadership Council School delegate; Monarch Beach Rotary Service award; National Organization for Women president and school chapter founder; Dana Point Youth Board vice chairwoman and co-founder; Students Against a Vanishing Environment vice president; Art club secretary; Junior Statesmen of America chief of staff and regional convention delegate; yearbook editor-in-chief; Mock Trial court artist; placed first in literature category of the National PTSA Reflections Contest; second and third place in state Greek dancing competition; received Prudential Spirit of the Community award; speaks Greek and Spanish
* Connections: Tutored in Spanish, English and math; Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts and Imagination Celebration exhibitor; St. John’s Greek Orthodox Church oratorical team member; enjoys painting; playing the guitar; writing music and writing letters to the editor (“I hold the record for the most letters to our school paper”); volunteered as a tutor for people who are mentally disabled; Laura’s House shelter for battered women; Ocean Institute Marine Watch; Senior Citizens Prom; Prevent Child Abuse awareness campaign; Someone Cares Soup Kitchen; Martin Luther King Jr. Gleaning Service project; worked at the Vintage Restaurant
* Ambitions: Attend UC Berkeley, major in international relations with minors in women’s studies and foreign languages to become a government official, ambassador or liaison for human rights
* Family: Father is Peter; mother is Krina; brother is Billy; sisters are Eleni and Vicky
* Claims to fame: “I am known for my Homecoming finalist acceptance speech questioning conformity and supporting activism, my abstract artwork that displays motifs of internal organs, particularly the heart, uterus and lungs, and my political activism”
THE SENIOR CLASS: 585