3 STUDENTS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS.Byline: Daily News WOODLAND HILLS - Three recent high school graduates received Scudder-Singleton Scholarship Grants for academic excellence and extracurricular achievements. The scholarships were offered to the children of Daily News employees who are financing their children's college or vocational education. Each student was awarded $500, which can be applied to tuition, books, housing or other learning materials. Patrick Emerson, a graduate of the Westmark School in Encino, is the son of Robyn Emerson, assistant credit manager at the Daily News. Emerson is studying fire technology at Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was . He recently completed the Ventura County Fire Cadet program. Emerson is planning to become a firefighter. Alfred Kaye graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills. He is the son of Ron Kaye, managing editor of the Daily News. Kaye is majoring in economics at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . He was a finalist for the National Merit Scholarship. He was a past president of the Speech and Debate Club at Taft High School. Jonathan Lee is a California Scholarship Federation Started in 1921 by Charles F. Seymour, the California Scholarship Federation, or CSF, seeks to recognize students living in the state of California who possess high standards in academic scholarship, community service and citizenship. honor roll graduate from Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. . He is the son of Su-Huei Lee, who works in the accounts payable department at the Daily News. Lee plans to study business, economics and computer science at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . In high school, Lee was a member of the Future Business Leaders of America club. The Scudder-Singleton Scholarship Grant was established to provide assistance to employee parents of the Daily News, a member of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group The Los Angeles Newspaper Group is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area by MediaNews Group. The news coverage of the newspapers are mainly local stories. . The grant was named for the two founding owners of LANG, Richard B. Scudder and William Dean Singleton William Dean Singleton is the chairman of the board of directors of the Associated Press, on which he has sat since 1999. He is also the founder, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group, the fourth-largest newspaper company in the United States in terms of . LANG newspapers are published by MediaNews Group, the nation's seventh-largest newspaper company. MediaNews publishes 51 daily newspapers and 127 nondaily publications in 13 states, with a daily circulation of more than 2 million, and nondaily circulation in excess of 2 million. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Patrick Emerson L.A. Valley College (2) Alfred Kaye UC Berkeley (3) Jonathan Lee UCLA |
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