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MILLIKAN
HIGH SCHOOL
2800 Snowden Avenue, Long Beach, California (562)
425-7441
http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/millikan/
June 28, 2005
Hello Millikan Family and
Friends,
I wanted to send you an
update regarding the end of the school year and the beginning of summer
school. Yesterday, we started our
summer session with over 1400 students.
For the next five weeks these students will skip the traditional
pursuits of summer in order to make up credits and prepare for upcoming classes
and tests. I applaud their resolve
to catch up or prep for next year.
In a recent e-mail from
Mr. Jason Wilson, he wrote “I’ve noticed service is becoming popular these
days. I thought that I’d just
write you to inform you that my senior kids have donated 2880 hours of their
time (or the equivalent of) to non-profit organizations throughout Long Beach
and the world. This is just since
September 2004! What this means is
that each student worked for 2 free hours per week.” It is hoped that these young people will continue with their
charitable giving and their efforts need to be applauded.
I want to continue with
this theme of recognizing our graduates for the class of 2005. I have included the text of my speech
from graduation. For those of you
who did not attend the ceremony, it was an extremely smooth operation. The graduates looked great and had a
wonderful time at this pivotal event in their lives. I have included a URL address, http://www.presstelegram.com,
from the Press Telegram that has a photo gallery of Millikan’s graduation.
Accomplishments of the graduating class of 2005:
Good evening, I have the
opportunity to celebrate some of the successes of the class of 2005. I would like to tell you about some of
the accomplishments of this outstanding class.
Millikan’s class of 2005 has 813 graduates.
Seven of these students have
perfect attendance for all four years of high school:
Rachel Alcazar – 4 years of perfect attendance
Jose Carrera – 4 years of perfect attendance
Alex Holtz – 4 years of perfect attendance
Nary Hour – 4 years of perfect attendance
Kery Khiv – 4 years of perfect attendance
Lena Phan – 4 years of perfect attendance
Chan Uppal HouH – 4 years of perfect attendance
Seven of these students have perfect citizenship for all four years of high school with straight E’s:
Melissa Hampton – 4 years with straight E’s
Maricela Salcido – 4 years with straight E’s
Jeffrey Puz – 4 years with straight E’s
Danielle Johnson – 4 years with straight E’s
Marissa Lopez – 4 years with straight E’s
Kevin Jenkins – 4 years with straight E’s
Emily Sperber – 4 years with straight E’s
Medallion Students (please stand) These 419 students earned 250 credits with a 2.0 g.p.a. or
more (by taking additional classes above the 220 required to graduate)
Students wearing Gold
Tassels.
These 150 students are graduating with Honors
and have grade point averages between 3.0 – 3.49. (please stand)
Students wearing a Gold
Tassel and a Gold Stole (please stand)
These 55 students are graduating with High Honors
3.5 – 3.99 grade point average
Four of the students in front of you are dressed in gold
gowns and have earned Highest Honors or a 4.0
grade point average for all four years of high school. Simply stated these four young people
have never earned a grade other than an A while attending Millikan High School.
(please stand)
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Sophear Chin - UC
San Diego
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Rachael Maingot - Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo
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Emily Sperber - UCLA
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Kevin Jenkins - CSULB
This class
received the following awards:
371 scholarships have been offered to this class
$2,475,467.00 million
dollars worth of scholarships and grants have been offered to this class. This is an increase of over $300,000.00
from last year.
336 scholarships have been accepted by this class as of
this time.
At this time $2,209,467.00 million dollars in scholarships have
been accepted by this class
The following prestigious
scholarships have been offered to this class:
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8 National Charity
League Scholarships
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Girls’ Basketball to CSULB
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Girls’ Basketball to Loyola Marymount
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Girls’Volleyball to UC Santa Barbara
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Girls’ Golf to UC Riverside
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Girls’ Softball to University of Tennessee
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Full Ride Scholarship
for Football to Central Ohio State
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Two Full Ride Academic
Scholarships to Mills College in the Bay area.
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A Full Ride Academic
Scholarship to Darthmouth
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Horatio Algier Award for
Integrity and Perseverance
At this time 82% of our
students plan on attending college next year. Our students have been accepted in the following top
colleges: