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Tinian student graduates with highest honor in WA
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Posted on Jun 29 2011
A student from Tinian emerged as one of the top graduates of the Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, during the institution’s commencement rites on June 21.
Eleina Hofschneider completed high school with flying colors after being named one of 15 graduates who achieved a 4.0 grade point average.
Saipan Tribune learned that Hofschneider graduated with 437 seniors from Skyview High School.
Vancouver School District recognizes the top 1 percent of the graduates in lieu of valedictorian honors. Hofschneider belongs to this elite group.
Lei, as her family calls her, is a member of the National Society of High School Scholars. She is the daughter of John Reyes Santos and Corinne Hofschneider Santos and the granddaughter of the late Gonzalo and Olympia Santos and Richard V. and Andresina U. Hofschneider.
She started her first three years of elementary school at St. Joseph Catholic School on Tinian and then finished the remaining years at Tinian Elementary School. Hofschneider then moved to Tinian Jr. High School and spent a year of high school there and part of it at Grace Christian Academy Saipan.
She then moved to the mainland for the remaining of her high school years. Hofschneider, an avid basketball player, was also a member of her school’s junior varsity team.
In addition to her high school success, she is also a recipient of the Arthur Schultz Scholarship. She will attend the University of Portland this fall and will be majoring in pre-medicine Biology.
