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Published on 05/25/1998 All articles from this issue

Noteworthies

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Joseph Mullen III, Christopher M. Garcia and Benjamin R. Mullen of Los Altos Boy Scout Troop 37, were recently awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Each earned the award by exhibiting leadership in the troop and community, earning 21 merit badges and providing leadership for a community service project. Joseph Mullen repaired and landscaped an area in front of Santa Rita Elementary School. Garcia refinished seven lunch tables at the school and Benjamin Mullen constructed a lost and found structure at the school.

Mike Berberian of Boy Scout Troop 75 was recently awarded the rank of Eagle Scout after completing the construction of a 120-foot retaining wall at St. Simon School in Los Altos.

Paul Knittel, son of Russ and Veronica Knittel of Los Altos, was recently accepted to the University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine Resident Program. Knittel is a St. Francis High School graduate.

Jim Fung has been named the recipient of the Los Altos Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution good citizen award for his essay "Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility to Preserve It." Fung received a $200 scholarship from the chapter. A plaque honoring him will be displayed in Monta Vista High School.

Fung belongs to California State Scholarship, Spanish Honor Society, Junior Statesman, and is treasurer of Amensty International at Monta Vista High.

Lara M. Windett was recently named a 1998 member of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society at the university of the Pacific for her outstanding academic ahcievement.

Kim Brosseau of Los Altos was among the 5-member team from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, that recently won Bank Of America's "Northern California 1998 Low-income Housing Challenge Competition" with a design for a 50-unit townhouse for low-income families. The project will be built in Buellton, Ca. this fall. Brosseau is a city and regional planning graduate student.

Jonathan Wu, a senior at Pinewood School in Los Altos Hills, recently won First Place, Intel Fellows Achivevement Award and Third Place Grand Award in Medicine and Health, at the 1998 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his project, which focused on a novel treatment for leukemia. An estimated 2 million students worldwide compete to be one of the 1,000 finalists in the fair, which is the only international science fair representing all life sciences for high school students.