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Local student graduates from Harvard with honors

Tricia Michels, 22, a senior at Harvard University and a 1996 graduate of Fountain Valley High School, has been named the winner of a $5,000 U.S.

News & World Report Graduate Scholarship. She will use the award to

pursue a medical degree at the UC San Francisco in the fall.

Michels will graduate this month from Harvard magna cum laude with

highest honors in sociology. She was recently named the recipient of the

Phorzheimer House Senior Award for Public Service and previously honored

as a 1996 Times Orange County Volunteer of Distinction.

Huntington Beach woman wins Golden West award

Rozanne Capoccia received this year’s R. Dudley Boyce Outstanding Student

Award. Named after the college’s founding president, it is Golden West

College’s most prestigious scholarship.

The Huntington Beach resident was one of hundreds of students who

received a portion of the nearly $250,000 in scholarships granted this

month. Among her contributions to the school is her work in shaping the

transition to the college’s innovative 16-week academic calendar from the

standard 18 weeks. She served on the hiring committees for two of the

three college’s vice presidents. She was also in on the ground floor of

the successful Student Ambassador Program, which puts peer interaction at

the heart of new student recruitment.

President of the Associated Students of Golden West College, Capoccia has

served as senator, activities commissioner and vice president of student

government. She was recently appointed to the state chancellor’s newly

created Financial Aid Access Task Force.

Upon graduation, Capoccia plans to complete her bachelor’s degree at Cal

State Fullerton, followed by a master’s degree in either educational

administration or counseling.

Local students win top honors in expo

The following Huntington Beach students won top honors at the Youth Expo

2000: Alec Bauer, 11; Matt Braun, 9; Erica Christensen, 14; Jessica

Horowitz, 11; Corey Kaiser, 10; Jason Kaiser, 10; the first-grade class

from St. Bonaventure School; Girl Scout Troop 1115 and leader Janet

DiAngelis of Grace Lutheran School.

Sowers school band, choir win awards

Sowers Middle School in Huntington Beach took home the top prizes at the

recent band and choir competition for California and Nevada. The Sowers

Viking Choir took first place and the Sowers Viking Band took second

place. Judges awarded both groups as “superior” and awarded them with the

special honor of Esprit de Corps, which recognizes exemplary behavior of

students both on and off the stage.