People Making News

Army and Navy Academy announced that Ryan McWhorter of has been named to the honor roll for the third grading period of the 2016-17 school year.
Students with a grade point average of 3.50 or higher are named to the honor roll. The Academy’s college preparatory curriculum is challenging and unique. It includes a required leadership course in addition to the core subjects.
Founded in 1910, the Army and Navy Academy is a private not-for-profit institution that provides an academically robust, character-based education for young men, grades seven through 12. It is the only private boarding school in San Diego County and the only private military academy for high school-age students in California and surrounding states.
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Olga Mastrodemos from La Cañada, a junior at the College of Liberal Arts, has been named to the 2016 fall semester dean’s list at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
To qualify for the dean’s list, a student must complete 12 or more letter-graded credits while attaining a 3.66 grade point average.
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Christopher Bouquet of La Cañada and Kaelin King of La Cañada Flintridge were named to the Lafayette College dean’s list for outstanding academic achievement during the fall 2016 semester. Each student achieved at least a 3.60 semester grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
Lafayette is a top liberal arts college with 2,450 students and 215 full-time faculty that offers a wide variety of undergraduate degree programs including engineering. With close proximity to New York City and Philadelphia, Lafayette has one of the highest endowment-per-student rates in the nation.
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Binghamton University, State University of New York announced the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. Among the honorees was La Crescenta resident Kristin Crowder.
Ranked among the elite public universities in the country, Binghamton challenges students academically, not financially, in its unique, best-of-both-worlds environment. The academic culture rivals a first-rate private university – rigorous, collaborative and boldly innovative – while the campus culture exemplifies the best kind of public university experience: richly diverse students, active social life and deep engagement with the community.