Esperanza High1830 N. Kellogg DriveAnaheim 92807-1298(714) 779-7870*...

Esperanza High

1830 N. Kellogg Drive

Anaheim 92807-1298

(714) 779-7870

* Enrollment: 2,983

* Established: 1974

* Team name: Aztecs

* Principal: Dave Flynn

* Student president: Roxana Rezai

* Valedictorians: David Kim and Jeannie Seu

* Winning moments: “Breaking Down the Walls” diversity training week; Senior citizen prom; eight National Merit scholars; dance team national champions; Southern Section discus champion Travis Pendleton; boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; Southern Section boys’ soccer champions; girls’ soccer playoffs; boys’ and girls’ water polo playoffs; boys’ and girls’ cross-country championships; football playoffs; girls’ golf, tennis and volleyball playoffs

* Graduation: 6 p.m. June 14 at Valencia High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Bridget Jurgens of Yorba Linda

* Achievements: Earned a 4.31 weighted grade-point average; Music and Art Commendation for Youth award for outstanding achievement in a difficult or challenging role; California Assn. of Jazz Adjudicators special citation; named Top 25; National Honor Society; California Scholarship Federation; Collegiate scholar program; Renaissance program gold member; California All-State honor choir; Southern California Vocal Assn. honor choir; school vocal music president and student director; vocal music student choreographer; alto section leader; soprano II section leader; Vivace Show choir dance captain; “Breaking Down the Walls” tolerance program leader; Associated Student Body class advisory council member; Disneyland Creativity Challenge vocal finalist; UC Irvine and Rotary International singer of the year semi-finalist; Miss Placentia; placed third in the Fullerton College Jazz Festival vocal solo competition; performed in San Francisco Ballet’s “Nutcracker”

* Connections: Member of the International Thespian Society Troupe; Drama club; Pacific Chorale Youth Advisory; Yorba Linda Arts Alliance; Regional Dance of America; Century Club community service; volunteered 650 hours with the Yorba Linda Civic Light Opera; 80 hours as a student teacher for Summer School of the Arts; holiday concerts at Leisure World in Seal Beach

* Ambitions: Attend USC, major in journalism and vocal performance; pursue musical theater in New York; “If I do not make it on Broadway, I will become a performing arts critic”

* Family: Mother is Winnie; father, Uwe, was murdered in a carjacking/robbery in 1996; “I sang ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ at his memorial service. It was the most difficult thing I ever accomplished until August 1999 when I appeared at the murder trial and spoke to my father’s killer face to face”

* Dream: “I will begin a nonprofit organization called ‘Save the Theatre’ and raise $800,000 to maintain the Forum Theatre on Fairmont Boulevard”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 669