Hannah Meade
Mount Madonna School is pleased to announce that senior Hannah
Meade of Watsonville was recently honored by Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area
with the Devcon Community Service Award.
HONORS
Hannah Meade
Mount Madonna School is pleased to announce that senior Hannah Meade of Watsonville was recently honored by Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area with the Devcon Community Service Award. This merit-based recognition is given to athletes who excel in their chosen sport, maintain a high GPA, and give back to their local community.
In choosing Meade to receive the award, Cal-Hi cited Meade’s commitment to academic excellence – earning a 3.97 GPA; a powerful and skilled outside hitter on the MMS Hawks girls varsity volleyball team; and outstanding volunteerism in her community. Over the summer Meade helped organized a blanket drive for the local Salvation Army that collected enough bedding to outfit its new facility, and she continues to help with feeding Watsonville’s homeless.
Cosme Fagundo
Cosme Fagundo of San Martin has been named to the Babson College fall semester Dean’s List, which recognizes outstanding student scholarship. Babson College is in Wellesley, Mass. and is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education.
Rosemarie Booth
Rosemarie Booth, daughter of Joaquin and Alesia Murrietta of Hollister, is stationed at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. Booth is a personnel readiness supervisor with the 36th Mission Support Squadron.
“My job is to determine if a military member is eligible for deployment, notify a military member that they have been selected for deployment and create the paperwork that they will need for their deployment,” said Booth, who graduated in 1999 from San Benito High School.
Andersen AFB was created as a staging area and airstrip in 1944 to allow B-29 bombers to attack mainland Japan during the latter part of World War II. The base has grown tremendously in importance since then, mushrooming to more than 15,000 airmen with constant B-52 missions over North Vietnam during the early ’70s. Since Desert Shield/Desert Storm in the early ’90s, Andersen has become a deployment mecca for B-52, B-1 and B-2 bomber units focusing on a new mission – the global war on terror.
Off duty, Booth and fellow airmen are privy to a literal paradise. On a tropical island 30 miles long and nine miles wide, airmen can find white sandy beaches ringed by pristine coral reefs, crystal-clear water teeming with exotic marine life, a balmy tropical climate and gentle trade winds. Add a slew of restaurants, resorts and shopping areas and it’s easy to see why Guam has become the Air Force’s best kept secret.
BIRTHS
Jonathan Theodore Barnes
Jonathan Theodore Barnes was born Oct. 13, 2007 at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister to parents Mallory and Randall Barnes Sr. of Hollister. He weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
