University Students Will Be Honored

Four Cal Lutheran University students each have been awarded $1,000 scholarships for their outstanding academic and community service records.

Incoming seniors Brad Bjelke of Santa Clarita and Juan Santos of Bakersfield, as well as incoming freshmen Nina Puente of Newbury Park and Jordana Segal of Simi Valley will receive their awards at a dinner next month staged by the Community Leaders Club, which sponsors the contest.

“The students who are selected for their scholarships have manifested in their young lives a service to their community, church or school that goes beyond what most students and even adults achieve,” said Carol Keochekian, Cal Lutheran’s university relations director.

The students were chosen among 20 applicants by the club’s scholarship selection committee and will be honored at the annual Kick-off Dinner Sept 4.

Bjelke is a student senator, treasurer of the Cal Lutheran alumni association and has worked on the school’s literary magazine.

Santos is treasurer of the African-American Student Union and volunteers for the NAACP, Glenwood Elementary School in Thousand Oaks, the Kern County Special Olympics and Cal Lutheran’s Upward Bound summer school program.

Segal was the U.S. Achievement Academy national award winner in English and was treasurer of the Simi Valley High School vocal club and did volunteer work at Simi Valley Hospital and at the Simi Covenant Church youth group.

Puente served on the Newbury Park High School prom committee and the school’s culture committee and was a teacher’s assistant at St. Julie Billiart Church.

The William E. Hamm Outstanding Service Award, given to the person or couple who has shown exemplary service to the club, will also be announced at the dinner.

Tickets for the dinner are $15 each. For more information, call 493-3151.