Newport Harbor High

600 Irvine Ave.

Newport Beach 92663-5499

(949) 515-6300

* Enrollment: 2,192

* Established: 1930

* Team name: Sailors

* Principal: Bob Boies

* Student president: Brad Craig

* Valedictorians: Gregory Chinn, Nicole Dore, Kelsey Peterson, Courtney Rotstan, Andrea Schutz, Patrick Sharma, John Swigart, Valerie Terrell, Erin Toole and Cari Valenstein

* Famous alumni: Actress Kelly McGillis; actor Ted McGinley; two-time speedway motorcycle world champion Bruce Penhall; George Yardley, who was the first player in NBA history to score 2,000 points in a season; motion picture producer Frank Marshall

* Winning moments: National high school volleyball player of the year April Ross; Southern Section Division VI football champions; boys’ basketball playoffs; boys’ soccer playoffs; girls’ water polo playoffs

* In the works: Convert shop classrooms to computer and business center; Digital High School grant

* Graduation: 4 p.m. June 21 at the stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Danielle Pizzorni of Costa Mesa

* Achievements: Performed in school drama productions; active in school rallies; participated in the Orange County High School of the Arts’ new Opera Conservatory program; named NATS competition winner; placed first in the Musical Arts club musical theater competition; received Music and Art Commendation for Youth award for outstanding achievement in “Damn Yankees” and “A Little Night Music”; National Charity League spirit award; speaks Italian and French

* Connections: Member of the Thespian Society; Magellan Academy; varsity and junior varsity tennis; attended a summer voice program in Greve, Italy (“found great pleasure in eating food. If music doesn’t work, I’ll have to become a renown chef”); enjoys traveling; volunteered at Second Step Shelter; Friends in Service to Humanity; Project Cuddle; High Hopes; interned at the school district

* Ambitions: Attend Juilliard School in New York for vocal performance, “my dream since I was 11 years old”; transfer to the Paris Opera Young Artist program to become a “world-renown opera singer with the finest education and brilliance that can illuminate the stage within seconds”

* Family: Father is Andrea; mother is Lorna Lockwood Pizzorni; sister is Stephanie; singing teachers are Leona Roberts and Daniel Ferro

* Claim to fame: Singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Arrowhead Pond and as good luck at varsity volleyball matches; “our country’s anthem ‘rocks’ the house”; dreams of singing it at a Laker game

THE SENIOR CLASS: 441