SENIOR FAREWELL COLUMN: I’m proud to be a ‘Class of 2020’ graduate
May 26, 2020
A high school graduation is an event that every student looks forward to. Turning that tassel from right to left signifies the end of a profound era and the beginning of a new one. When I entered high school as a freshman, I was already thinking about my special day. I envisioned myself wearing...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Samuel Kho stays organized while graduating at the top of his class
May 26, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: Johns Hopkins Neuroscience/Physics Research. See if I can get the Woodrow Wilson Grant. Question #2: Which ex...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Jenny Lee’s encouragement from her mother helped her rise to the top of her class
May 26, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? (which school, which major; if not going to college, why not?) Answer: I am planning on attending Williams College as a b...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Peter Park graduates as a valedictorian and gives thanks to all of his high school teachers
May 26, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: UCLA, applied mathematics. Question #2: Which extracurriculars and clubs have you been a part of? A: ...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Andrew Tran graduates as a valedictorian and reminisces about the summer days spent with friends
May 25, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: UCLA as a human physiology major. Question #2: Which extracurriculars and clubs have you been a part of? ...
With live-graduation ceremony postponed until August, Class of 2020 will have YouTube virtual one instead May 28
May 24, 2020
In hopes of providing the Class of 2020 with a proper send off, school officials will host a virtual graduation ceremony for seniors and their family on YouTube May 28. “As with everything we do, our virtual graduation will be the best it can possibly be,” principal Allen Whitten said. A lin...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020: Hasan Mirza heads for pre-med track at UCLA
May 22, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: I’m going to attend UCLA and study molecular biology on the pre-med track. Question #2: Which extracurricul...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Audrey Gass graduates high school with a full International Baccalaureate Diploma and straight A’s
May 21, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: I plan on taking a gap year in order to finish my hours to get my pilot's license, and then I’m off to Germany for...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Sunghee Lee will continue her academic studies as a Bruin at UCLA
May 21, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: I am going to be a cognitive science major at the University of California, Los Angeles. Question #2: Which extra...
Final traditional senior event at Disneyland nixed because of coronavirus concerns; PTSA to issue Grad Nite ticket refunds
Edmund Lee
May 4, 2020
It was the final nail in the coffin for Sunny Hills’ Class of 2020. The PTSA’s Grad Nite committee held out as long as it could in hopes that seniors would at least have one traditional event they can go to at the end of this month. Week after week since the school was shut down to students M...
Principal holds Zoom session April 24 to announce to 12 seniors they are Class of 2020’s valedictorians
April 30, 2020
Since he’s been principal at Sunny Hills, Allen Whitten would summon seniors to his office to confirm their valedictorian status and congratulate them on their accomplishment. But that couldn’t happen this school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the district’s decision to close all of...
Students, parents react with tears, concerns over school closure for rest of spring semester — likely through the summer
April 17, 2020
Senior Sarah Bankhead couldn’t stop refreshing the inbox of her school email on her iPhone 7+ after reading the latest announcement from Fullerton Joint Union High School District superintendent Scott Scambray. Bankhead was hoping to read a subsequent notice from Scambray that would cancel out that f...
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