The Region : 7 Win Essay Contest Awards
Seven San Gabriel Valley students are among winners in the Skirball Essay Contest on “the importance of values in American society.”
The contest is sponsored by the Skirball Institute on American Values of the American Jewish Committee. The contest was open to students from the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese.
The grand prize winner for the Archdiocese was Robert M. Bautista of Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, who received $1,000. Among third-prize winners, who received $25 each, were Hyacinth Gamo Dagala, Kristina Renee Germano, Matthew H. Lu, Monica Nguyen Ramirez and Brooke Lynn Wright of Bishop Amat, and Monica M. Torre of San Gabriel Mission High School in San Gabriel.
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