Cypress High

9801 Valley View St.

Cypress 90630-3994

(714) 220-4144

* Enrollment: 1,896

* Established: 1974

* Team name: Centurions

* Principal: Norman Fried

* Student president: Jonathan Jenks

* Top academic student: Victoria Wostenberg

* Winning moments: Boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; girls’ soccer playoffs; boys’ and girls’ water polo playoffs; girls’ cross-country championships; girls’ volleyball playoffs

* Graduation: 1 p.m. June 15 at Western High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Brenda Marie Wilhelm of Cypress

* Achievements: Earned a 3.93 weighted grade-point average; varsity letter in color guard/pageantry; named to California Scholarship Federation; received Cypress Cultural Arts Commission award; Centurion Scholar award; California Federation of Women’s Clubs art contest award

* Connections: Participated in Red Ribbon Week; Random Acts of Kindness Week; production of “Sex-N-Stuff”; Cross Connection; church youth group; Volunteer Center of Greater Orange County Youth Leadership Council member; Peer Assistance Leadership program; Halloween candy drive; child abuse prevention program; Braille Institute; enjoys drawing; painting; dance; art museums; concerts; music; reading

* Ambitions: Attend Cal State Long Beach and the Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, major in fine art and illustration

* Family: Father is Steve; mother is Pam; sisters are Jeni Haye and Julie; brother-in-law is Matt Haye

* Claims to fame: Performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 1996 and the Super Bowl halftime show in San Diego in 1998

THE SENIOR CLASS: 463