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Los Amigos High

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16566 Newhope St.

Fountain Valley 92708-2499

(714) 663-6288

* Enrollment: 2,052

* Established: 1968

* Team name: Lobos

* Principal: Connie Van Luit

* Student president: Richard Dinh

* Valedictorian: Tran Tu Tang

* Winning moments: Academic Decathlon; Mock Trial finalists; faculty lip sync; Outstanding Key Club award; Knowledge Bowl champions; Artistic Discovery Art Competition winner Sergio Rebia; Daniel Webster program award; boys’ cross-country championships; football playoffs; girls’ tennis playoffs; girls’ volleyball playoffs

* In the works: Implement Digital High School grant

* Graduation: 6 p.m. June 20 at Garden Grove High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Julie Nguyen of Santa Ana

* Achievements: Earned a 4.23 weighted grade-point average; named salutatorian; Mock Trial team captain; Associate Student Body president; sophomore class president; freshman class vice president; Red Cross Club historian; food club president; competed in the Science Olympiad; Knowledge Bowl; selected as inspirational speaker for Garden Grove Unified School District Baccalaureate ceremony; speaks French

* Connections: Member of the Key Club; played piano since age 5; enjoys listening to Westlife with friend Andy Nguyen; volunteered at graffiti and playground clean-ups; clothing, food and blood drives; CHOC Walk; Spirit Run; worked as guest services representative at Del Taco headquarters

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* Ambitions: Attend Stanford; earn a doctorate to become a CEO or investment banker “if I decide to have a career in business; otherwise, I hope to be the next Barbara Walters. I want to change the world and be included in encyclopedias so that children will do reports about my accomplishments”

* Family: Father is Chien; mother is Nhuan; sister is Tina; best friend is Teresa Tovar; “she’s like a sister to me. . . a twin”

* Claim to fame: Received the Outstanding Oral Advocate award out of attorneys from 48 high schools in Orange County Mock Trial

THE SENIOR CLASS: 411

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