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At the Mountain View High School graduation, student speakers told family and friends that they came into ninth grade without much of a clue, surrounded by juniors and seniors — essentially adults — and no idea what happens on a daily basis.
But it didn’t take long for them to adjust, and go above and beyond as active members in the community, academic scholars and team players.
Principal Dave Grissom took over for Keith Moody last year, but after observing the students he said at the June 6 commencement ceremony that the 421 seniors graduating in the class of 2014 were able to achieve so much in just that one year — on both an individual level and in groups.
On the individual level, he saw 35 graduating seniors maintain a 4.5 weighted GPA, 101 students receive the Seal of Biliteracy and 57 students who participated in the performing arts for their fourth year in a row.
But Grissom said it’s a special thing to watch what the senior class was able to do outside of the classroom. In just the last year, he said he saw the Spartan Robotics team compete on a global level and make it to their division finals. The boys’ volleyball team, predominantly made up of seniors, also beat out St. Francis to become the Division I regional championship winners.
But beyond sports and robots, the Dance Spectrum shows and the award-winning marching band, many of the students were dedicated to social justice issues — both at home in Mountain View and abroad.
According to district Superintendent Barry Groves, the graduating class was heavily involved in altruistic endeavors, whether it was volunteer work for students in need of extra assistance in local elementary schools or helping schools around the world.
Grissom said the volunteer work included an amazing number of students who helped tutor disadvantaged youth and clubs that prepared student supplies for schools, mostly in East Palo Alto.
Grissom told students at the graduation to continue to seek knowledge in all aspects of their lives, and continue to work hard wherever they go. The class of 2014 will be headed to big-name colleges like MIT, Stanford, Yale and Princeton, and a handful plan to leave the United States to learn abroad in places like Belgium, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
Mountain View Class of 2014
Felipe Acevedo
Josue Aguilar Abrego
Sheila Ahi
Erteza Alam
Sukaina Alam
Sarah Alkadri
Katherine Allen
Logan Allen
Paul Amsden
Clark Appelgren
Arya Arasnia
Roberto Argumedo
Kiana Ariyama
Kyle Arrillaga
Davis Atherton
Brittany Austin
Anthony Avery
Jocelyn Baird
Daniel Ballesteros
Karina Barajas
Brooke Basile
Gene Danise Belarmino
Andrew Belove
Alexander Bergman
Jamie Bindon
Jordana Bischoff
Clinton Blakely
Ion Blanari
Max Blumenstein
Andrea Boado
Elizabeth Booker
Claire Bradford
Adrian Brandemuehl
Albert Bravo
Emilio Bravo-Grande
Shannon Brooks
Micaela Brossard
Sarah Brotzel
Sophie Brotzel
Chandler Brown
Gabriela Brown
Bradley Bumgarner
Guillermo Burger
Daniel Burns
Lauren Burns
Meghan Burns
Jacob Butters
Alex Caber
Laura Cabrera
Adam Call
Kimberly Caltagirone
Kate Camacho
Dana Camin
Sophia Campione
Jeffrey Cao
Tram-anh Cao
Jennifer Carmel
Robert Carpenter
Elmer Cartagena
Rey Castillo Emmanuelli
Kira Cattell
Kevin Chan
SiHon Chan
Matthew Chang
Jacqueline Chao
Patrick Chao
Tara Chari
Alivia Charles
Glenda Chavez
Oscar Chavez
Neha Cheemalavagu
Aaron Chen
Brandon Chen
Tytus Chen
Maxym Chesnakov
Kaitlyn Cheung
Sarah Choi
Lai Yin Choy
James Clark
Madelyn Cook
Henry Cooper
Courtney Correia
Margaret Costales
David Courter
Leo-Paul Cremoux
Emma Critser
Jose Cruz Cruz
Tamera Davis
Arielle De Chavez
Diego De La Torre
Elena DeAngelis
Amanda Deem
Abdullah Salam Deen
Christian Delgado
Jennifer Delgado
Jasper Deng
Renee Desimpel
Simran Dhalla
Isabella Dickerson
Luke Dickey
William Dieffenbach
Zachary Domke
Allison Dong
Ryan Donnelly
Alex Eastwood
Isaac Eaves
Stephanie Egger
Aren Eisele
Selina Ellis
Justine Fanget
Alison Fanton
Amanda Fearon
Jessica Fernandez
Madison Fiorentino
Corey Fitz
Jazelle Flores
Alec Flowers
Marco Flowers
Matthew Ford
Naicolas Fricker
Collin Frietzsche
Cameron Fukuyama
Jose Francisco Garcia Alcazar
Alondra Garivay
Jordan Gault
Powell Gaynor
Audrey Gerughty
Yasmin Ghalambor
Briana Gidney
Ethan Giles
Max Gishi
Brian Glusovich
Darius Goh
Seraphine Goh
Lauren Gong
Jolie Goolish
Ariel Grapp Fant
Isabella Graziani
Alexis Greenberg
Suleyma Guerra Martinez
Nicholas Guerrero
Anish Guha
Mia Gvirtsman
Deborah Tae Hahn
Elizabeth Halliday
Adriana Hardwicke
Kelsey Harrigan
Samantha Hartman
Justin Hartney
Laurel Haspert
Kristian Hayward
Casey Heaney
Jorge Hernandez
Timothy Heselton
Juliet Heye
Erica Higa
Kareena Hirani
Madeline Hodgson
Dylan Hoefling
Minh Hong
Abigail Horkins
Sean Hosaka
Taylor Houston
William Hsieh
Brian Hsu
Celeste Ingersoll
Kevin Ives
Annamari Jaaksi
Aruna Jafar
John Jarrell
Bryce Joerger
Rahul Jog
Marie Johansen
Samir Joshi
Ivan Julio
Robert Kalb
Daniel Kammerer
Nikki Kapany
Rachel Karngbaye
Hannah Katz
Aurelien Keller
Randall Kenyon
Katherine Kesner
Leah Kidd
Marissa Klazura
Amber Knickerbocker
Jasmine Knight
Peter Knight
Angela Kobayashi
Andrea Koch
Nathaniel Kong
Natasha Kothari
Kiran Kothuri
Gopal Krishan
Christopher Krupa
James Kuszmaul
Kit Lam
Kevin Lan
Yazmin Lancaster
Adam Lange
Hannah Lau
Gilles Laurent
Isabelle Lazkani
Adam Lee
Anne Chia-An Lee
Brian Chia Lee
KyuSub Lee
Leland Lee
Alina Legay
Esteban Leiva
Ryan Liberatore
Hee Lim
Youngbin Lim
Erik Lindqvist
Xinru Liu
Ryan Lo
Alvin Lu
Jonathan Luxton
Emily Machala
Karla Magana Hernandez
Katelyn Mahnken
Parker Malachowsky
Daniel Malave
Lindsey Marent
Allison Mark
Samuel Marks
Esmeralda Martinez
Fermin Martinez
Andrei Maximov
Nicholas Mayoral
Aaron Mazon
John Mc.Alister
Andrew McCormick
Spencer McKean
Ryan McLaughlin
Andrew McReynolds
Vanessa Mejia
Connor Menden
Rishma Mendhekar
Angel Merced Valencia
Francisco Merlos
Oren Merry
Areli Meza
Liseph Millano
Siobhan Miller
Elizabeth Miotke
Drew Mitchner
Monique Mix
Nathaniel Modderman
Roberto Molina
Margaret Moor
Samuel Moore
Eric Moreland
Hope Moseley
Mirko Mostaghimi
Erica Moy
Max Mozer
Matthew Mulkey
Sarah Munoz
Tyler Myers
Tarun Nair
Nicole Nakahama
Ashley Nasseri
Juan Nava
Edward Nehamkin
Chiara Neyman
Kolisa Nhlapo
Charles Niehaus
Diego Nieva Carrasco
Cori Nishimoto
Kiana Nouri
Caitlin Nuckolls
Gaku Ogawa
Alice Olivera
Ana Karen Olvera
Elena Onoprienko
Elizabeth Ortiz
Alondra Ortiz Atayde
Carlos Pacheco Miranda
Brandon Pak
Andrew Palomo
Guangshuai Pan
Roann Pao
Kyung-Hoon Park
Marissa Parkhurst
Margarita Patio
Alexander Perry
Kelsey Petersen
Bradley Pikus
Francesco Pilling
Ean Pollock
Adam Poltorak
Mark Pong
Tsz Poon
Jamie Porter
Kevin Prabhu
Joseph Pressman
Kevin Radja
Mihajlo Radonjic
Lili Raghian
Anjalee Raman
Asadullah Rashidi
Alesandra Rau
Marie Recine
Dylan B. Recker
Krishin Reddy
Melissa Reed
Amanda Reihaneh
Erin Rempola
Annika Reno
Oliver Reyes Morales
Laura Reynolds
Matthew Rich
Calvin Rivas
Thania Rivas
Alexander Roach
Brandon Roberts
Miles Robertson
Megan Robinson
James Rodriguez
Joselyn Rodriguez-Perez
Lauren Rogers
Louis Rosen
Ryan Rosh
Margaux Roth
Ariadne Rowe
Kiley Rucker
Andrew Russert
Skyler Russert
Laura Rutner
Justin Ruweler
James Rymer
Begimay Samykbaeva
Esteban Sanchez
Austin Michael Sarinas
Haley Sawamura
Lauren Scott
Samantha Sevely
Negin Shahiar
Ankit Sharma
Matthew Shearer
Chase Sheriff
Liam Sidebottom
Nicole Silva
Austin Silver
Brian Silverman
Thomas Simko
Sophie Simpson
Hansmeet Singh
David Smith
Tyler Smith
Anthony Francis Snyder
Jonathan Sorensen
Jessica Stackhouse
Bryan Strebel
Marian Strong
Julia Stuart
Matthew Stubbs
Elizabeth Stuebner
James Stuebner
Yingying Sun
Varsha Suresh Kumar
Brandon Swift
Mary Dennise Tabula
Mami Takeda
Aditya Tammana
Kolotina Tangi
Maxwell Taylor
Paige Taylor
Venedict Tchistopolski
Waran Thapanangkun
Eric Theil
Andrew Thornberry
Keshav S. Thvar
Bethany Tinklenberg
Amanda Tomasetti
Michael Torio
Dean Trammell
David. Tran
Grace Tsang
Brian Twiggs
Rachel Uyeda
Cecilia Valencia Chavez
Odalys Vallejo
Daniel Van Gaasbeck
Cynthia Varela
Jonathan Vasquez
Alejandro Velasquez Carias
Jose Villa
Cory Viscovich
Shailee Vishnubhatt
Tessalee Voiss
Justin Walker
Alysia Wang
Rachel Ward
Dwight Washington
Danna Weintraub
Daniel Welch
Ellen Wieneke
Joey Williams
Daniel Wilson
Ella Wilson
Emma Wilson
Karlwillie Wilson
Anna Winkelman
Cannon Wong
Hei Yiu Hailey Wong
Matthew Wong
Sam Wong
Nicole Worthy
Daniel Wray
Xiaohao Xian
Zhizi Xiao
Justin Xie
Corrina Yanagawa
Vincent Yang
Kaye Yap
Brandon Yeh
Madeleine Young
Stephanie Zlateva
Keenan Zucker
