Local students honored for fall 2007 successes
Several Bishop’s School students from Ocean Beach and Point Loma were recently named to the San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic team for academic and sports successes during 2007.
In all cases. to qualify for recognition, a student must be a junior or senior, play a varsity sport and maintain a cumulative 3.0 grade-point average.
Ocean Beach resident Ausin Rutherford, a senior at the La Jolla-based school, was named to the All-Academic Team for football and the Offense All-League Coastal South.
The Bishop’s School varsity football team remained undefeated in 2007 and won the CIF Division V championship title.
Rutherford is the son of Mrs. Bert Rutherford.
From Point Loma, three students attending Bishop’s School also were named to the All-Academic Team.
Nick Hardisty, a senior, was named to the team for boys cross-country. He is the son of Teresa and John Hardisty.
Katie Martin, a senior, was named to the team for girls varsity tennis. She is the daughter of Lori and Mike Martin.
Madison White, a junior at Bishop’s School, was named to the All-Academic team for girls cross-country. She is the daughter of Ann and Phillip White and Katherine and Jim Umpleby.
The Bishop’s School girls cross-country team has been named a CIF All-Academic team and nominated for the CIF state honor. Team members had the highest unweighted GPAs in the San Diego section.
Warren-Walker students put their hearts into it
Warren-Walker School will play host to both physical fitness and community outreach during an annual American Heart Association fund-raiser set to take place at the school today, Valentine’s Day.
The event, beginning at 10:15 a.m., is part of the school’s Jump Rope for Heart campaign.
“Parents, students and faculty will all be jumping,” said Caroline Fisk, Warren-Walker School’s director of admissions and community relations.
The event will mark the last day of the school’s contest to earn money for the Heart Association. Last year the school’s 250 students raised almost $20,000, ranking Warren-Walker 12th in the country for the fund-raising event.
Students and faculty are hoping to top that number this year by showing the little school’s emphasis on big character.
Ireland’s Beoga slated for
Holy Trinity concert event
The Holy Trinity Parish in Ocean Beach will soon host the Ireland-based band Beoga in its upcoming Holy Trinity concert series to be held at the church.
Beoga, a five-piece traditional band from County Antrim, boasts a unique sound featuring the twin dueling accordions of Sean Og Graham and Damian McKee, along with the four-time All-Ireland bodhran champion Eamon Murray and pianist Liam Bradley and new addition Niamh Dunne.
The band primarily plays traditional music but incorporates other genres’ nuances with bluesy-riffs jazz and a New Orleans jamboree vibe.
The concert takes place Sunday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the parish, 2083 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 at the door.
For more information, call (858) 689-2266, or visit [email protected].
Point Loma senior to
compete in pageant
A Point Loma woman will be among the entrants of the Ms. Senior San Diego Pageant, set to take center stage at the Balboa Park Club, 2150 Pan American Plaza, on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Jean Margaret Jones, a Peninsula resident who won the Ms. Senior West Los Angeles last year, will join this weekend’s competition.
Jones said the pageants help women over 60 keep an active lifestyle.
The pageant is free and will showcase the talent and beauty of women over 60 who have entered the “age of elegance,” said pageant director Marilyn Kohler.
Contestants will be judged in several categories, including personal interview, philosophy of life, formal attire and talent.
“This is really not a beauty contest,” Kohler said. “It’s the inner beauty and the qualities and talents that our seniors have always had and still have.”
The top three winners of the Ms. Senior San Diego pageant advance to represent San Diego in the Ms. Senior California Pageant on Sept. 14 at the Rose Center Theatre in Westminster in Orange County.
Winners of Ms. Senior California go on to represent California in the Ms. Senior America pageant on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Atlantic City.
Kohler said the contestants enjoy the chance to perform on stage during the talent portion of the show.
“They just radiate when they’re up there,” Kohler said. “We’ve created a monster now, and they all want to enter.”