Student Grants 2010
The Student Grants brunch is traditionally one of our most edifying
events, and this year's award ceremony was no exception.
Edie Morrow and her diligent scholarship committee presented an
enthusiastic group of students who will receive grants for their
college studies in the coming year. Those students are:
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Clark Magnet High School - Andrea Aghaian
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Crescenta Valley High School - Jannalyn Manabat
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Glendale High School - Wendy Jully Rojas
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Hoover High School - Yesnia Guerra
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Daily High School - Nikki Ober
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Glendale Community College - Ani Tribunyan
Barbara Clark presented Tech Trek awards to local junior high school students with
an interest in science. These young women will attend a science camp
in Whittier this summer:
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Janejila Snider
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Shushanik Stepanyan
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Isabella Camargo
Our speaker Andrea Thomer provided an invigorating message of
seeking life as a slow process, thus her title "An Ant's Path." In
delineating her theme she invoked the last stanza of Robert Frost's
1920 poem "A Road Not Taken":
.... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Ms. Thomer suggested that in real life we have more than two paths;
we are more like ants who carve multiple paths and always know their
way back to where they began. She spoke of being an English major in
college, and then, following a volunteer opportunity, doing
paleontology explorations at the La Brea Tar pits. At age
twenty-six, taking still another turn, Andrea Thomer will pursue a
graduate degree in a different field. Her correlation for our young
students: follow multiple paths and find your joy.
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