Class of 2013: Up and down 395
Big Pine’s 8th grade Valedictorian Samantha Velazquez
Graduating Lee Vining High School Seniors on their senior trip. From left-to-right: Carlie Rae Willingham – Cerro Coso Community College (CCCC), Mari Mar Salazar – Undecided, Araceli Garcia – CCCC, Cortney Duro – Lassen Community College, Annakate Clemons – UC Santa Cruz, Diana Vargas – CCCC, Janet Curiel – CCCC, Tristan Blommer – UC Santa Cruz, Vanessa Castaneda – CCCC, Noel Romero – UC Santa Cruz (Valedictorian), Jose Calderon – UC Santa Cruz
This year’s three graduates of Owens Valley High School in Independence – Kaitlin Dunnaway, Alex Morgan, and Elizabeth Munez.
Sheet/Roberto’s Cafe scholarship winners Matt Graef and Sydney Knadler. Graef, a Junior, will use his $1,100 scholarship to make campus trips to Denison University in Granville, Ohio and Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The trips include football workouts; Denison has recruited Graef for football. The MHS team captain, Graef did not play in 2012 due to a battle with cancer, but will play this year and hopes to play Division III ball in college. Knadler, a Senior, will attend McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland this fall and plans to study Exercise Science. The Salutarian of her Mammoth High School graduating class, she was recruited for swimming and has a long-term goal of becoming a U.S. Olympian. Knadler’s scholarship was in the amount of $600.Unbeknownst to The Sheet prior to its selections, the two have been dating for more than a year. As Graef joked of his one year older girlfriend, “She’s a cougar.”
