3 VALLEY TEENS GET $10,000.Byline: Daily News The Milken Family Foundation Milken Family Foundation is a charity trust established by Lowell Milken and Michael Milken in 1982. External links
The students will each receive a $10,000 scholarship as well as access to career-related counseling, assistance with internships, opportunities to volunteer and support from a network of professionals and Milken Scholar alumni. "These students have demonstrated excellence in academics, leadership and community service," said Jane Foley, senior vice president of the Milken Educator Awards and a director of the Milken Scholars. The students were chosen from among 350 nominees based on criteria including grade-point averages, test scores, leadership and community service. Three of the scholars hail from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. : Steven Chua of Chatsworth High, who will attend 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. ; Jocelyn Perez of Reseda High, who will go to Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was ; and Taft High's Kimberly Solomon, who will attend Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. . The other honorees are Diana Avalos of John Marshall High; Amber Carmi-Smith of Santa Monica High; Melinda Grant of Lawndale High; Jung Hyan Lee of Beverly Hills High; Jennifer Lew of Abraham Lincoln High; Kevin Martinez of Woodrow Wilson High. Alex Melamed of Shalhevet High; Tsung Mou of West Covina High; Diego Renteria of South Gate High; Hong Sio of West Covina High; Huy Tran of Torrance High; Wyles Vance of Santa Monica High and Emmanuel Yekutiel of Harvard-Westlake High. |
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