Daniel Maya of La Cañada Flintridge and Sidney Hirshberg of La Crescenta have enrolled and are members of the Carleton College class of 2021. The class of 2021 has 526 students that were selected from a pool of 6,502 applicants. The incoming students represent 46 states and 21 countries (11% are international residents).

Fifty-one members of the Class of 2021 are National Merit Scholars and nine are National Hispanic Recognition Scholars.

Ranked among the nation’s top liberal arts institutions, Carleton is a private, co-educational college of 2,000 students located 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

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Wheaton College student Erika Johnson of Glendale was named to the 2017 women’s cross-country team roster. The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) picked Wheaton first in their preseason coaches’ poll, and the team defended its 2016 CCIW championship on Oct. 28.

Wheaton College in Illinois sponsors 21 varsity sports, and Thunder teams compete at the NCAA Division III level. The Thunder Athletics program has won five NCAA Division III Championships since 1984, and Wheaton student-athletes have won 31 Division III individual National Championships all-time. For more information, visit athletics.wheaton.edu.

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The following local residents recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Hanjoo Kim of La Cañada was initiated at Arizona State University and Viktoriya Shumakova of Montrose was initiated at University of Southern California.

These residents are among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10% of seniors and 7.5% of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10% of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines.