{"id":7782,"date":"2017-06-01T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T21:13:07","slug":"sdhs-veterans-scholarships-awarded-to-ross-urbina-and-nicholas-engert-both-class-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/sdhs-veterans-scholarships-awarded-to-ross-urbina-and-nicholas-engert-both-class-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SDHS Veterans Scholarships awarded to Ross Urbina and Nicholas Engert (both Class of 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, May 25, several alumni gave out scholarships to graduating seniors during the 2017 Academy Awards. <\/p>\n

Ross Urbina (’17) received the James Mitchell (’59) scholarship, presented by Tom Cozens (’66). <\/p>\n

Nicholas Engert received the Victor Lopez (’66) scholarship. Victor’s brother, Isaac Lopez (’62) made the presentation. The Class of 1966 fully funded the Victor Lopez scholarship to honor and remember Victor. <\/p>\n

John and Greg Meyer (’71 and ’66) created a scholarship fund that remembers and honors their parents. They presented the first Vince and Lenor Meyer Scholarship to Rosa Tlatempa (’17). <\/p>\n

Another alumni-funded scholarship is the Alpert Family Scholarship, created by Darin Alpert (’04) and presented by his mother Judith to Cole Clisby (’17).<\/p>\n

See the photos below for more of this year’s scholarship presentations; you may see a former classmate handing out the award!<\/p>\n

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Ken Harrison ’73, introduces Tom Cozens ’66 and Isaac Lopez ’62 to present the SDHS Veterans Scholarships. Photo by George Stimson.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nicholas J Engert ’17 is called to receive the Victor Lopez Scholarship, which was sponsored by the Class of 1966. Photo by George Stimson.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Isaac Lopez is the sole surviving brother of Victor Lopez ’66. He presented the scholarship to Nicholas. The scholarship was completely funded by the Class of 1966.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tom Cozens ’66 presented the Jimmy Mitchell Scholarship to Ross Urbina ’17. This scholarship was sponsored by several alumni who donated via the SDA Foundation and Alumni Association.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Greg Meyer ’66 and John Johnboy Meyer ’71 introduce the Vincent and Lenor Meyer Scholarship.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Greg Meyer ’66 and John Johnboy Meyer ’71 present the Vincent and Lenor Meyer Scholarship to Rosa Tlatempa ’17. Photo by George Stimson.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Resource Conservation District Award went to Ray Mosko ’17, presented by San Dieguito alum Nadine Scott ’69.<\/p><\/div>\n

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’91 alum and teacher Kerry Koda presented the Zake Morgan Scholarship to Megan Levan ’17. Zake was class of 2011 and is greatly missed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Megan Levan (’17)<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Johnboy Meyer ’71 and brother Greg Meyer ’66 after the ceremony. These two are a hoot!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tom Cozens ’66 once received an award in the name of Jimmy Mitchell ’60; tonight he was able to give senior Ross Urbina a scholarship in the name of Jimmy Mitchell.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Left to right: Ken Harrison ’73 (alumni chair), Sue Cooper ’66, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Lopez ’62.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On the left is Judith Alpert, mom of Darin Alpert ’04, who sponsored the Alpert Family Scholarship. This year’s award went to Cole Clisby ’17. Photo by George Stimson.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, May 25, several alumni gave out scholarships to graduating seniors during the 2017 Academy Awards. Ross Urbina (’17) received the James Mitchell (’59) scholarship, presented by Tom Cozens (’66). Nicholas Engert received the Victor Lopez (’66) scholarship. Victor’s brother, Isaac Lopez (’62) made the presentation. The Class of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}