7 YOUNG SANTA CLARITANS TO DEBUT AT SILVER ROSE BALL.

Byline: Daily News

Seven young women from the Santa Clarita Valley will be honored Saturday at the 18th annual Silver Rose Debutante Ball, at the Wyndham Bel Age in West Hollywood.

The event is a fund-raiser for the Laboratory Services Department at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, and its president and CEO, Roger Seaver, will attend to honor the women, who have worked as volunteers at the hospital.

This year's debutantes are: Emily Bancroft, Ashley Calendo, Alexandria Evans, Stephanie Hodge, Melinda Kreitzman, Kirsten Olsen and Jillian Shierts.

Bancroft is a senior at Valencia High School. She has been a member of the award-winning school dance team for three years and is a team captain. She plans to attend San Diego State University and study communications.

Calendo is a senior at Hart High School. She is a three-year member of the girls' varsity softball team and has traveled across the country with her travel softball team, SCV Pride. Calendo is also an accomplished dancer and substitute ballet teacher at Dance Studio 84.

Evans is a senior at Hart High, an honor student and three-year member of the competitive cheer squad. She hopes to attend Arizona State University and major in television broadcasting.

Hodge is a senior at Canyon High School, where she is an honor student, senior class treasurer and editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, the Pony Express. She plans to attend a four-year university and study business.

Kreitzman, a Hart High senior, is founder and president of Hart's American Sign Language Club and in her second year of interpreting for deaf students. She plans to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton and become an orthodontist, while continuing her work with the deaf.

Olsen, a Hart High senior, is a member of the Hart Girls and the SCV Athletic Club volleyball teams, and she is a licensed lifeguard. She attended the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles and plans to become a nurse.

Shierts, a senior at Valencia High, is also enrolled at College of the Canyons with plans to attend Pepperdine University.

Tickets to the Silver Rose Debutante Ball are $150 per person. Call the hospital foundation at [phone].

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Seven young Newhall Memorial volunteers will be honored Saturday in the Silver Rose Debutante Ball. From left, front row, Alexandria Evans, Kirsten Olsen and Melinda Kreitzman. Back row, event chairwoman Cristina Jehle, Ashley Calendo, Stephanie Hodge, Jillian Shierts, Emily Bancroft, event chairwoman Carolyne Workman and guild President Cheryl Johnson Stabler.