Buena Park High

8833 Academy Drive

Buena Park 90621-3799

(714) 992-8600

* Enrollment: 1,728

* Established: 1956

* Team name: Coyotes

* Principal: Michael Conroy

* Student president: Nathan Velasco

* Famous alumnus: Actor Steven Seagal

* Winning moments: Commended by U.S. Rep. Edward R. Royce, state Assemblyman Dick Ackerman and Buena Park Mayor Jack Mauller; campus training session with Buena Park Police Department SWAT team; Silent Sustained Reading program; Miss America, Susan Jeske, spoke on impact of violence on family and community; NIKE Distinguished Service award winner Russ Wilson; Disney’s American Teacher award nominees Christy Kenny and Debbie Sorensen; boys’ basketball playoffs; boys’ soccer playoffs; girls’ water polo playoffs; wrestling postseason tournament

* In the works: Implement Digital High School grant; SAT preparation program

* Graduation: 5:30 p.m. June 15 at the stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Uyen Ly of Buena Park

* Achievements: Earned a 4.77 weighted grade-point average; academic excellence on Golden State exams in U.S. history and literature; named Most Distinguished scholar; Bank of America finalist in science and math; Bausch and Lomb honorary science award; Xerox humanities/social science award; Distinguished scholar; Student of the Month in English, chemistry, biology, physics, world history, U.S. history, U.S. government and trigonometry; California Scholarship Federation vice president and treasurer; senior class secretary; Key Club historian and publicity manager; Renaissance secretary; Filipino club treasurer; French club president and treasurer; competed in the Academic Decathlon; speaks French and “Englimese--an interfusion of English and Vietnamese”

* Connections: Member of the Asian club; Score for College; yearbook; principal’s advisory board; student orientation service; enjoys rugby; short films; writes haikus; draws “potatoes, Nutter Butters and stethoscopes”

* Ambitions: Attend UC Berkeley, major undecided

* Family: Father is Minh D. Ly; mother is Hang Nguyen; sister is Ly Ly; cousin is Virgil Polit

* Philosophy: “I don’t believe in sleeping. Lying idly in bed for hours is seriously a waste of time”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 348