Scholarship Winners Announced

Jason B. Shanker, a recent graduate of Newport Harbor High School, was recently selected one of 51 National Scholar winners in the 1990-91 Coca-Cola Scholars Program competition.

Shanker will receive a $5,000 annual award, renewable each year for up to four years of undergraduate study at an accredited U.S. college or university.

Shanker served as president of the Students’ Advisory Council Against Drug Abuse for the Orange County Drug Use Is Life Abuse Foundation, president of his high school’s California Scholastic Federation and as a volunteer with the United Way Youth Leadership Program.

The selection of Coca-Cola scholars begins each August with the distribution of application forms to high schools throughout the United States and concludes with the National Selection Events in April in Atlanta.

Efrain Islas, a recent graduate of Santa Ana High School, placed third in the American Automobile Assn.’s National School Traffic Safety Poster Program.

Islas’ entry, based on the theme “Know Your Limits,” competed against more than 62,000 entries from more than 2,750 schools in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. The contest, coordinated locally by the Automobile Club of Southern California, encourages students to learn positive traffic-safety behavior by expressing their ideas through artwork.

Islas, who received a $75 savings bond for his effort, has worked this past year as the cartoonist for the High Life page of The Times Orange County as well as a part-time art instructor at Sierra Intermediate School in Santa Ana.

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.”

--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)