Emergency housing consortium’s covert earns award
Michele Covert, Director of the Emergency Housing Consortium’s Our House Youth Division, has been awarded the 2002 Leslie David Burgess Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in fighting HIV/AIDS. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors honored Michelle’s efforts at a ceremony on Tuesday.
“Michelle is a role model to all outreach workers,” said Clark Williams HIV Preventation Program Manager for Santa Clara County’s Health and Human Services Department. Williams nominated Michelle Covert for the award. “ I admire her participation dedication to serving vulnerable people.”
Established in 1991, the Leslie David Burgess Lifetime Achievement is presented to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary vision, leadership, dedication, compassion, and relentlessness in providing education and service to those at particular risk of contracting HIV/AIds in Santa Clara County. The award was named after health educator Leslie David Burgess.
Michelle joined the Emergency Housing Consortium in 1992, working with youth at Our House and on the streets of San Jose. Our House is nurturing, safe environment for abandoned youth provides emergency shelter, transitional living, and a service center for homeless and runaway youth. Michele joined the Emergenc houding Consortium in 1992. working with youth at our housed and onthe streetsof San Jose. Our House is df
Academic honor
Jennifer J. Saito of Morgan Hill was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2002 semester at The Johns Hopkins University. To be selected for this honor, a student must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
Jennifer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yukihiro Saito and attended Leland High School in San Jose. Saito, who is majoring in international studies, is expected to graduate in May 2005.
Morgan Hill student Amanda Wright was awarded the Silver Award, Venture Scouts Highest Award on Saturday, April 12. Wright is the first person in the district to receive this prestigious award honor, as well as the first female.
She will graduate third in her class from Live Oak High School this spring with a GPA of 4.26 and has applied to UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Venture Scouts is a division of Boy Scouts of America and is a co-ed club for teenagers. Members participate in outdoor activities such as rock climbing, mountain biking, backpacking and week long canoe trips. Wright has been a member for three years. In that time she has held the elected positions of secretary, treasury and president – twice.
The Venture Scouts meet every Thursday at 8 p.m. in the community clubhouse located on Montoya Circle off East Main Avenue.
Students in free enterprise
Local Morgan Hill resident, Carianne Skinner, a junior marketing major, joins The Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team from the Pickens college of Business at West Texas A&M University that is headed to national competition thanks to a regional championship earned April 1 in Memphis, Tennessee.
In all, 14 students participated at the regional event, where they secured a berth in the SIF USA National Exposition May 11-13 in Kansas City, MO. The national champion in the four-year-school division will compete in the SIFE World Cupt this October in Frankfurt, Germany.
Active on more than 1,400 college and university campuses in 33 countries, SIFE is a student organization which focuses on teaching entrepreneurship and the free market system.
Students honored at ucsb
Undergraduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara schieving excellence in their academic work during the Winter quarter have been selected for the Dean’s Honors List.
This honor, which is noted on their permanent records, is earned by students who have attained the qualifying grade point average of 3.75 (A-minus) on a program of 12 or more graded units in the College of Letters and Science, or 3.50 in the College of Engineering.
With an enrollment of more than 19,000 students, UCSB offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degree programs in most academic disciplines.
Local students on the Dean’s list are listed below, as are their majors: Thomas Flowers, Letters & Science Program (undeclared); Ryan Nabinger, Chemical Engineering; Neal Oza, Computer Engineering; Nick Oza, Computer Engineering; Cynthia Talbot, Pre-Mathematical Science; Mark Welch, Business Economics; and Colin Williamson, Film Studies.
Morgan Hill resident Jon Porras has been listed on the Fall 2002 Dean’s List at Upper Iowa University. To be honored, students must have earned a 3.50 or higher grade point average for the semester having been enrolled as a full-time student.
Carianne Skinner of Morgan Hill received thanks for a national competition to a regional championship earned April 1 in Memphis, Tenn.
New Eagle Scouts
Daniel and Michael Martinez of Boy Scouts of America Troop 717 of Morgan Hill and South San Jose received the rank of Eagle Scout March 9 in a ceremony at the Coyote Grange in Coyote.
The Eagle Rank is the highest rank a boy scout can earn.
Daniel’s eagle project was done at the Joice-Bernal Ranch Museum in South San Jose. He installed a sprinkler system and made six raised garden boxes which are used to raise vegetables which will be given to shelters to feed the homeless.
Michael’s eagle scout project also was done at the Joice-Bernal Ranch Museum. He constructed three demonstration work benches which are used for storage and for hands-on demonstrations for elementary school children.
