Issue date: May 05, 1999

Students win $50,000 in Rotary Club scholarships Students win $50,000 in Rotary Club scholarships (May 05, 1999)

With picture of winners in print edition.

Twelve high school seniors received scholarships totaling $50,000 at the recent 13th annual scholastic achievement awards banquet, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Menlo Park Foundation.

About 100 more students from Menlo School, Menlo-Atherton, Sacred Heart Prep and Woodside Priory were recognized for exemplary performance in specific fields, ranging from math to community service.

The scholarships and scholastic achievement awards were presented at the Rotary Club's banquet April 24 at Sacred Heart Prep.

The winner of the largest scholarship -- $10,000 -- in honor of the John D. Russell is Ariane Wilson a senior at M-A.

Winners of the $5,000 scholarships are: Lauren Cheung of Menlo School, the Doris and Ormond Rector Scholarship; Alejandra Lemus of M-A, the Business and Professional Community Scholarship; Roark Marsh and Fady Wassef from M-A and Elizabeth Jackson and Jason Marwedel from Sacred Heart Prep, major scholarships.

Honor scholarships of $2,000 each were presented to Ambar Bhattacharyya and Lily Kang of Menlo School; Anamaria Nino-Murcia and Caroline Snyder of M-A; and Carl Spanoghe of Woodside Priory.

Commendations

Students at each of the four schools received commendations and recognition awards for exemplary performance in various subjects. They were nominated by their teachers at the following schools:

**Menlo School: English -- Caroline Gaudiani; Math -- Leah Segall, John Fogelson, Lauren Horowitz, Pernilla Schweitzer, Phil Zeyliger, Tina Butler, and Allen Ibara; Social studies -- Eric Schaefer, Blair Hartzell, and Ambar Bhattacharyya; Service -- Libby Werba; Foreign Language -- Josh Weiner, Slava Derugin, Kevin Kim and Phil Zeyliger; Leadership -- Nisha Gulati and Rebecca Schaprio; Athletics -- John Gersch and Amanda Carson; Science -- Sandra Fung, Ryan Alberti, and Matt Urbanek; Fine arts -- Jennifer Kim, Cyrus St. Amand Poliakoff, Nisha Engineer, Lesley Earl, Nick Casey, Matthew Urbanek, Courtney Chandler and Rachel Livingston; Faculty -- Steve Gill. **Sacred Heart Preparatory: Math -- Amarnath Santhanam, Brooke Gardner, Tim Inouye, Erick Armbrust, and Stephen Englert; Social studies -- Leslie Hunter, Julia Riechert, Christopher Juelsgaard, Elizabeth Jackson, and Sarah Jensen; Fine arts -- Brian Elgin, Darren Young, Megumi Morford, Maria-Nicole Lujan, Julien Guillot and Teresa Concepcion; Language arts -- Mia Iwama and Will Smith; Foreign language -- Sophia Kozak, Cassidy Lange and Mia Iwama; Computer science -- Megan Masters; Science -- Kimberly Keller, Nicholas Smith, and Martin Corpos; Physical education -- Sean Devlin and Ashley Hallisted; Service -- Kristin Schaller, Suzanne Le Beau, Shaun Ghafouri; Leadership -- Stephanie Ramsay. **Menlo-Atherton High School: Math - Adrian Maldonado, Emily Warde, Noah Veltman, Jason Li, Nicole Hildebrand. Social studies - Robert Studley, Paul Bolton, Lynn Van Antwerp, Theresa Dennis, Jaime Marconette. Practical arts - Ashley Brubaker. Fine arts - Terry Powers, Joy Vanides, Robert Lion. Computer science - Kristopher Rasmussen, Jenna Wachtel. Science - Stephanie King, Tracy So, Peter Bosel, Wannasiri Lapcharoensap. Foreign language - Christina Tom, Emma McKeithen, Alexandra Kleinerman, Lisa McIntire. Physical education - Daniel Shelsta. Service - Karen Lu, Ariane Wilson. Teacher - Nancy Barnby. **Woodside Priory: Math - Katherine Newman, Dylan Alegria, Marcello Centofanti, Jeffrey Lin. Science - Laura Nowell, Jeffrey Lin, Kevin Yost. Foreign language - Helene T. V. Nguyen, Lori Kwon, Alejandro Gomez. Language arts - Teresa L. Falaschi, Michael Mastman. Fine arts - Jennifer Moss, Alex Van Dalen, Sara B. Koestner. Social studies - Pierre V. Corval, Danielle Lawrence, Teresa L. Falaschi, Joseph W. Daly, Taylor Eigsti, Brendan Kelly. Service - Julie Kimball, Emily Cohen, Darren Zulberti.