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Foundation to hold convocation

The Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation will hold its

annual Honors Convocation honoring the Class of 2004 at 7 p.m. June 2

at the high school’s Artists Theater, 625 Park Ave. For information,

call (949) 497-7750, ext. 212. Teacher Chris Krach will be honored or

her years of excellence at a special dinner reception prior to the

convocation.

School board meeting highlights

The May 25 Laguna Beach Unified School District meeting was

highlighted with the board approval of the $84,490 state-of-the-art

computer purchases for Thurston Middle School’s Tech Lab. It was

unanimously approved to budget the purchase of Power Mac G5 computers

for the new Technology lab.

The next school board meeting will be June 8 at 7 p.m.

The district office is at 550 Blumont St. For information, call

the district office at (949) 497-7000.

El Morro students learn leadership

The Student Council at El Morro Elementary School is proving to be

an asset to students and the community.

“Having a student government at the elementary school level is an

excellent method for kids to learn early that their comments and

concerns are important,” Principal Joanne Culverhouse said.

Each grade level from kindergarten through fifth grade is assigned

a fourth- or fifth-grade level Student Council Representative. This

class representative receives regular input from the council and

their assigned class.

The council also completes four service projects a semester;

locally, regionally and globally.

Student Council also sponsors fun days at school for everyone to

enjoy. Crazy Hair Day and Pajama Day are two recently planned

whimsical events.

Student Council faculty advisors are Mary Blanton and Gretchen

Sjule.

Meet the Masters held at St. Catherine’s

Wednesday St. Catherine’s held their first Meet the Masters

program in conjunction with their extensive music program. All the

students are taught to read music, including rhythms, pitches and

harmonies. Their education spans many genres from classics to mass

and from other cultures.

Students of the month honored

Laguna Beach High School seniors Marissa Reisman and her friend

Becky Johnson are being honored by the Laguna Beach Rotary Club as

outstanding students from the drama department.

Reisman has been accepted to attend Yale in the fall and this

summer she will intern for Congressman Chris Cox in Washington D.C.

She is co-president of the drama department and part of the community

chorus, Laguna Tunes, president of the California Scholarship

Federation, volunteers at South Coast Medical Center and runs and

organizes a tutoring program for fifth grade students at Top of the

World Elementary School.

Johnson recently won $10,000 in scholarship money and the

prestigious Student Leadership Award by the Irvine Company. She

serves as co-president of the drama department with Reisman, is the

president of the National Honors Society and the editor of the school

newspaper and has written a column in the Coastline Pilot. Johnson

will be attending USC in the fall.