ENCINO NATIVE WINS RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Amherst College Amherst College, at Amherst, Mass.; founded 1821 as a college for men, coeducational since 1975. A liberal arts institution, Amherst maintains a cooperative program with Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Hampshire College, and the Univ. of Massachusetts. senior Jordan A. Krall, a 21-year-old Encino native and avid baseball player, was named one of 32 American students receiving Rhodes scholarships for study at Oxford University in England, it was announced Sunday. Krall, whose other passion is chemistry, has done research on the AIDS virus AIDS virus n. See HIV. and plans to study synthetic chemistry at Oxford. The son of Michael and Shelley Krall of Encino, he played with the Encino Little League, the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Babe Ruth League Babe Ruth League is a youth baseball program. The organization's headquarters are on Lawrence Township, New Jersey, United States. In 1951, a group of men dedicated to the youth of America met in a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey, and formed what became the very first Babe , a state championship Stan Musial Noun 1. Stan Musial - United States baseball player (born in 1920) Musial, Stan the Man, Stanley Frank Musial League team, and was the four-year starting shortstop for the Amherst varsity baseball team. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if it has sunk in yet,'' he said of his reaction to getting the prestigious scholarship. The interviews for the Western District Rhodes scholars were held in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on Saturday. The committee deliberated several hours and announced the selections Saturday night. ``He was rather speechless. It was something that he wanted very much but never expected to get,'' his mother said Sunday. Jordan Krall played shortstop on the baseball team at Harvard-Westlake and was a member of the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Chemistry olympiad is a competition in chemistry, usually among high school students, where the participants solve problems and/or perform and analyze experiments. In many countries, chemistry olympiads are held annually on a national level, forming a team of students representing team while in high school. ``He's always been the scholar athlete,'' said his mother. ``It was always in the back of his mind to be a professional baseball player. But he really is dedicated to his science. He plans to teach and do research at the university level. He has worked the past three summers in the chemistry department at Caltech with professor Peter Dervan Peter B. Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA, a field in which he is an internationally recognized .'' While at Amherst he was a Goldwater scholar for two years, a national honor for science and mathematics students. ``The thing that distinguishes Jordan is that he really is a very humble person,'' said his mother. ``He didn't set out with the goal of being a Rhodes scholar. The academics and the baseball are two passions that he really pursued because it came from his heart.'' The Rhodes scholarship, created from the will of British philanthropist and colonialist Cecil Rhodes, is the oldest international study award available to American scholars. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes. Winners this year were chosen from 950 applicants endorsed by 327 colleges and universities; Yale led with three recipients. So far, 2,918 Americans have won the scholarships. Expectations are high for the scholars, who follow in the footsteps of President Clinton, Supreme Court Justice David Souter, three members of the Senate and four members of Congress, said Elliot Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. ``We look for people to play an influential part in the future of society, wherever their careers might lead them,'' Gerson said. ``As every year, it's an extraordinary group of young people.'' Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. senior Raju Raval, of Fort Wayne, Ind., said he may follow his studies at Oxford by seeking a career as a cancer researcher or a role in public health policy. He said the death of his mother, Chandrika, four years ago, helped focus his interest in medicine. ``I don't look at it as an achievement,'' Raval said of the Rhodes scholarship. ``I look at it as an opportunity.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: KRALL |
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