High School Seniors Given $100,000 by Times Fund

The Los Angeles Times Fund has again awarded $100,000 in educational grants-in-aid to 200 graduating high school seniors throughout Southern California. The grants will enable the students to continue their education next fall.

The $500 awards were presented this month at ceremonies conducted at public and private schools in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties.

The grants-in-aid program, started by the Times Fund in 1967, provides grants to students whose high school grade-point average is 2.9 or below, but whom teachers or counselors designate as having high potential for academic success. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than 6,000 grants totaling more than $2.3 million.

The grants may be used at trade or technical schools, colleges or universities.

“For years, The Times has quietly supported San Diego’s youth with programs designed to brighten the present and enrich the future,” said Phyllis Pfeiffer, general manager of the San Diego County Edition of The Times. “Encouraging deserving local seniors to pursue their dreams of higher education is a particularly rewarding role.”

“These students have demonstrated a desire to get the schooling necessary to become productive, contributing members of their communities. The Times is proud to help turn that drive for advancement into reality,” said Tom Johnson, publisher and chief executive officer of The Times and president of the Times Fund.

The grants-in-aid program is supported by the proceeds of various Times-sponsored events, such as the Sundance World Class cycling event last month at the velodrome in Balboa Park.

These students, listed with their high schools, are grant recipients in San Diego County this year:

Libby Marie Allen, Mira Mesa.

Delina Breeding, Lincoln.

Carlos Cruz, Garfield.

Gallegos E. Flora, Mission Bay.

Patricia Garibay, La Jolla.

Andrea Lajoie, James Madison.

Mary Louise Lopez, Mark Twain.

Maria Moran, La Jolla.

Diana Payan, Mission Bay.

Elizabeth Antonia Rocha, Point Loma.

Andrea Lynne Sampson, Point Loma.

Shonn D. Williams, Samuel F. B. Morse.