Fountain Valley High

17816 Bushard St.

Fountain Valley 92708-4598

(714) 962-3301

* Enrollment: 2,800

* Established: 1966

* Team name: Barons

* Principal: Gary Ernst

* Student president: Brandon Stewart

* Famous alumni: Actress Michelle Pfeiffer; Olympic backstroke silver medalist Shirley Babashoff; former NFL players Duval Love, Emil and Carl Harry, Kenny Margerum and Lance Zeno

* Winning moments: Mock Trial team first in Orange County; 23 new teachers; Newsweek magazine’s Top 100 Schools; ranked 20th by College Board for Advanced Placement testing; district Teacher of the Year Janet Marquez; drum line ranked eighth and color guard 13th in nation; football playoffs; girls’ cross-country championships; boys’ basketball; postseason wrestling tournament; boys’ tennis

* Graduation: 5 p.m. June 14 at Huntington Beach High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Previn Warren of Huntington Beach

* Achievements: Valedictorian; earned a 4.71 weighted grade-point average; National Merit scholarship; Tellwide Assn. scholarship; named Advanced Placement scholar with distinction; Associate Student Body senator; Boys’ State; Hugh O’Brian sophomore leader; philosophy club co-founder and president; literary publication founder and editor; newspaper managing editor; Amnesty International president; Mock Trial closing prosecution attorney; junior varsity tennis team captain and most inspirational player; competed in the Junior Statesmen of America program; passed advanced level music theory and piano performance at Music Teacher’s Assn.’s West Orange County Regional Branch; first place in the association’s solo piano contest; earned the association’s Mary Parker Graduating Senior award; Coronet certificate in foreign language

* Connections: Member of the Gavel club; plays bass guitar in heavy-metal band; taught piano to 6- to 12-year-olds; tutored for Literacy Volunteers of America; served as juror for Orange County Juvenile Peer Court; Orange County Youth Democrat

* Ambitions: Attend Harvard University, major in social studies and economics

* Family: Father is Venkat; mother is Viji; sister is Sheila

* Claim to fame: “Loudest, most aggressive bass player in the county”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 681