By Town Crier Staff Report
Twenty-five students at Saint Francis High School qualified for the Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are: Erin Atkinson, Katherine Brill, Laura Brill, Christine Capuyan, Kristopher Filak, David Gelineau, James Ivester, Priya Jhingan, Michael Jurka, Jessica Lake, Ingrid Larsson, Adam Lynch, Elizabeth Martin, Jeffrey Mitchell, Heather Monley, Marshall Mort, Erika North, Wendy Pang, Daniel Richter, Eric Roman, Katherine Ryan, Nicholas Swartz, Chris Testa and Chris Watmore. Eight Students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of 3.5 on all AP Exams taken. These students are: Steven Beeby, Lauren Berger, Amy Kerner, Anna Ozdemir, Adam Peterson, Joshua Solera, Tamar Tashjian and Margaret Tierney.
Los Altos resident Eleanor Thompson Wortz was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C.
Sarah Cook, daughter of David and Kelly Cook of Los Altos, has begun her first year at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. She is a graduate of Saint Francis High School.
Stephen Rooke Closs of Los Altos has begun his first year at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md.
Leah J. Bressack of Los Altos and Nima Soltanzad of Los Altos Hills have been chosen as Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars, and Dominique C. Alepin of Los Altos Hills has been chosen as a Sarah and James Bowdoin Book Award Winner, at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Md.
Jon Berghoff of Los Altos Hills, a student at San Jose State University, finished sixth in the Vector Marketing Corporation’s All-American Scholarship competition and has been awarded a $500 scholarship.
Jacalyn Price of Los Altos Hills, a junior majoring in architecture at Syracuse University in New York, participated in the Environmental Design Program held in Florence, Italy.
Menlo School students Lisa Seeman of Los Altos and Tevis Howard of Los Altos Hills have been named merit semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Jon M. Chu of Los Altos Hills, a student at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television,was given the Cary Grant Film Award.
