EDUCATION STANDOUTS
Cassie Frank of Santa Fe recently graduated cum laude from DePaul University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Frank, the daughter of Santa Fe Pens owner Neal Frank and Violet Santikos, is a 2016 graduate of St. Michael’s High School.
During college, Cassie Frank was a member of the Phi Mu sorority, holding an executive leadership position. She is planning to enroll in the Chicago Portfolio School, a one-year, intensive postgraduate program designed for the advertising industry. She plans to pursue a career in copywriting.
Del Norte Credit Union recently announced the Venessa Valerio Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to three nursing students attending Northern New Mexico College in Española. Each recipient will receive $1,040. The scholarship winners are Leah DeAguero of Española, Ella Leschnitzer of Los Alamos and Chicqueeta Whitaker of Washington, D.C.
Five local students were among more than 450 who graduated in a virtual ceremony recently from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.: Evangeline Redsteer, Solomon Sindelar and Christina Stanton of Santa Fe; Kaitlyn Romero of Velarde; and Damon Young of Taos.
Annie Schulz of Santa Fe has earned a place on the 2020 spring semester Dean’s List at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. Schulz is the daughter of Margaret Lambe and Kenneth Schulz.
Two residents of Los Alamos recently graduated from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City: Simon Redman, who majored in computer science, and Sarah Lott, who studied kinesiology.
Angus Guider of Los Alamos, who is in the mechanical engineering program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., was named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester.
Casey Lakatos of Santa Fe, a theater arts major at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., was named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester.