EDUCATION STANDOUTS
Caye Duran, a student of Marilyn Barnes at Santa Fe High School, was named Most Promising Singer at Solofest, a North Central New Mexico Music Educators Association event to help prepare high school singers to audition for the all-state honor choir.
Claudia Noedel was recently recognized as the Distinguished Disciple award recipient, presented by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Distinguished Disciples are students who are recognized for their service in reaching out to the less fortunate and volunteering to help with school and community projects.
They are compassionate and caring to all and live out their Catholic faith on a daily basis, says an announcement on the award.
Claudia was also selected as the Catholic School Girl by the Knights of Columbus and awarded a college scholarship.
She recently graduated from St. Michael’s High School, where was a member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society, and was a four-year varsity letterman in softball and a six-year recipient of the Block M award, the highest academic award given by St. Michael’s.
She was one of only five seniors to receive the award six out of six years while attending St. Michael’s.
Claudia has received an academic scholarship to attend Regis University in Denver, where she is pursuing a degree in nursing. Claudia has one sibling, Calvin, who is a senior at the American University of Rome, studying international relations and global politics with a minor in economics. Claudia and Calvin are the children of Ron and Carmen Noedel of Santa Fe.
MANA del Norte has selected five Hispanic women from Northern New Mexico as the organization’s scholarship recipients for the 2018-19 academic year. Each will receive a $1,000 scholarship to help them achieve their higher-education goals. The recipients are:
Sierra Gomez, a native of the Española Valley who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in criminology at the University of New Mexico. She hopes to return to Española to seek employment with the local police department and eventually apply for law school. She expects to graduate in May.
Adriana Martinez Guzman of Santa Fe, who is attending New Mexico Highlands University, where she is working on a bachelor’s degree in social work. Her goal is to continue on, earning a master’s degree and eventually a doctorate in psychology. She expects to graduate from Highlands in May.
Wendolin Garcia Martinez of Santa Fe, a native of Mexico who is attending UNM, where she is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with a career goal of becoming a physician.
Joselinn Rascon of Alcalde, who is attending Northern New Mexico College and working toward a bachelor’s degree in information engineering technology.
Constancia A. Trujillo of Ranchos de Taos, a single mother of two who is working on an associate degree at UNM-Taos and hopes to eventually become a registered nurse.
The following Santa Fe residents were recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines at the University of New Mexico: Katherine Preteska, Nate Murray
and Heather Tanner.