BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT
Curtis Scheetz
PRESIDENT ELECT
Dr. Barbara Dunsheath
VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Damon de la Cruz
TREASURER
Phil Wendel
SECRETARY
Carmen Koo
PAST PRESIDENT
Ken Vecchiarelli
PRESIDENT, CYPRESS COLLEGE
Dr. Scott W. Thayer
Brian Bentson
MEMBERS
Stephen T. Blount
Tony Cardenas
Rick Darnell
Liz Dunster
John Kelly
Chief Mark Lauderback
Les Lewis
Dr. Margie Lewis
Sandra K. McCarthy Shivon Ozinga
Nitesh Patel
Beth Piburn
David Shawver
Delight Sittman
Kevin Tsao
Lynette Young
Howard Kummerman
Executive Director
TER OF CEREMONIES
Howard Kummerman
Executive Director
Cypress College Foundation
PENING REMARKS
Dr. Scott W. Thayer
President
Cypress College
ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR 2025-2026
Aaron France Alumni 1994
PRESENTATION OF ARSHIP AWARDS
ou to Conroy's Flowers of Cypress
beautiful arrangements
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
A2MEND Scholarship
Lavel Atkins
Virgil Adams Jr Memorial Scholarship
Sindi Lloana Gonzales
Americana Community Leader Scholarship
Ashley Hartwig
American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship
Jesse Aguilar
Bri Gomez
Moses Perez
Kenderick Hopson
A.E. "Pat" Arnold Memorial Scholarship
Kyle Hsu
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Thomas W. Atkinson Endowment Scholarship
Lanz Anthony Alcantara
Wendy Arias
Angela Cain
Joshua Casillas
Tony Castro
Emely De Haro
Austin Houghton
Joanna Jimenez Sanchez
Guadalupe Juarez
Judy Kassadou
Go-Eun Kim
Aneth Kirk
Justin Malone
Juliana Montenegro
Divanny Peralta
Dev Raja
Aiden Ramos
Renee Reynolds
Ed Beamer Memorial Scholarship
Lanz Anthony Alcantara
The 2 Bills Flight Scholarship
Eliyah Delos Reyes
Kaleigh Longmeyer
Dean E. Bilyeu Scholarship
Christina Nguyen
Cindy Blume Memorial Scholarship
Kelly Musquiz
Dr. Brinda Scholarship for Outstanding Engineering and Physics Students
Aiden Lee
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Bruce Family Fund Health Science Scholarship
Malissa Lugrain
Bruce Family Fund Scholarship for Science, Engineering, Mathematics
Sofia Ramirez
Bruce Family Fund Scholarship for Rising Scholars
James Macdougall
The Judith Brugger Scholarship for Outstanding STEM Transfer Student
Alysah Anderson
Tuan Quang Lien
Jessica Martinez
Lance Paquette
Katie Wong
The Judith Brugger Scholarship for Outstanding Continuing STEM Student
Yuki Bengs
Hongjun Choi
Zachary Colinco
Sundehi Hassan
Alyssa Lozano
Yessenia Oseguera
BSU Scholarship
Chinyere Ikpoh
Deann Burch Majors2Careers Scholarship
Daniela Reyes Colin
Communication Studies Department Outstanding Scholar Award
Go-Eun Kim
Community Leader Scholarship
Simy Sims Assoon
Culinary Arts Scholarship
Yossarian Gray
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Ilma Cunningham Memorial Scholarship
Fernando Lizarraga
Cypress College Foundation Americana Division Scholarship
Salem Plambeck
The Dr. Damon de la Cruz Scholarship
Maycoll Arata
Edouard De Merlier Photography Scholarship
Karla Pineda Carreon
Nina and Bernie DeMarkey Scholarship for Social Science
Felipe Sanchez
Edwin D. Dixon, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Jesse Aguilar
The "Dream Big" Scholarship
Moises Sandoval
DSP&S Scholarship
Bao Pham
Thomas & Dorothy Dunsheath Memorial Scholarship
Glenna Rose Lustina
ENO Brands Scholarship
Christian Calley
John Henton
Andrew Phan
Thang Tran
Nathan Truong
Buen Cypress ESL Scholarship
Helena Jang
Nhi Y Nguyen Tran
Jewel Keusder ESL Scholarship
Ereen Abdel Malak
Tu Doan
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Excellence in Mortuary Science Alumni Scholarship
Taryn Dallas
Destiny Moran
Fairhaven Mortuary Science Scholarship
Diana Cortez
Follett Bookstore Scholarship
Carolina Aceves
Ayesha Arif
Anna Garcia
Huey Hoang
Alyss Jeon
Garrett Kawasaki
Antonnette Light
Yuxi Liu
Kelly Lu
Jorge Mendoza
Kelly Musquiz
Ken Nguyen
Thi Nguyen
Angel Oliva
Deven Palomo
Ashley Rego
Ethann Senteno
Connor Somers
Cesar Soriano
Lina Zhao
Foreign Language Scholarship
Kaitlynn Carpenter
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Foundation Scholars Award
Joshua Bevins
Kaitlynn Carpenter
Ma Luisa Jhorine Faller
Anna Garcia
Briana Ruiz
Jason Servin
Nanea Kyle
Mickayla Galaviz
Tina Payne
Kalysa Ng
Brody Makua
Freya Pineda
London Lopez
Changsoo Lee
The Aaron France Alumnus of the Year Scholarship
Gabi Garcia
Dr. Donna Friess Communications Scholarship
Clarisse Magdaleno
Dr. Donna Friess Survivor Scholarship
Ashley Ramos
The Debra Lynn Ganson Scholarship
Miguel Soto Troccoly
Tracy Gentry Memorial Scholarship
Franklin Olayemi
Gober Cancer Survivor Scholarship
Macy Cardona
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Kathy Godshalk Memorial Scholarship for Engineering
Mindy Nguyen
Kathy Godshalk Memorial Scholarship for Mathematics
Praise Eom
Kathy Godshalk Memorial Scholarship for Science
Jack Pham
Golden State Water STEM Scholarship
Hyunmin Kim
Glenna Rose Lustina
Louise Marie Maganto
Anne Merie Nguyen
Stella Park
Dao Phan
Guardian Scholars Scholarship
Joshua Bevins
David Smith Haas Memorial Scholarship
Madison Cardena
Ray Haas Women’s Soccer Scholarship
Maggie Salmons
Elizabeth Hamman Scholarship
Connor Somers
Hannah Family Scholarship
Ashley Ramos
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
The Paul & Ruth Hatcher Memorial Scholarship
Yossarian Gray
Wyatt Higgins
The Gene Hayes Memorial Scholarship
Leslie Aguilar
Carrie Schriver
The William & Grace Henry Memorial Scholarship for Athletics
Higgy Katoa
Maryam Mouffer
Dempsey Wood
Bhkata Krupa
Robert E. Hernandez Scholarship
John Henton
Joshua Sizemore
Hilgenfeld Family Foundation Scholarship
Cara Delgado
Bri Gomez
Miriam Robles
Rin Lakandula
Ashley Dioses-Opperman
The Richard Hock Scholarship
Andrew Santos
Holocaust Education Scholarship
Natalie Dien
Honors Program Scholarship
Joshua Casillas
Hannah Kampitan
Annie Do
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Sheron Huston Memorial Scholarship
Leslie Aguilar
Ayesha Arif
Jason Bowman
Victor Browne
Madison Cardena
Cat Duong
Jordy Galan
Rafael Garnica
Suzy Huang
Keisha Lapsley
Ryan Mcshane
Evonne Nguyen
Thi Nguyen
Savannah M. Parga Parga
Sonyaann Sandoval-Carreon
Simy Sims Assoon
Ryan Tomooka
Jonathan Vasquez
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Becky Ishii Memorial Scholarship
Moises Sandoval
Clark Johnson Memorial Scholarship
Rafael Ulloa
Dale Kahale Corney Memorial Scholarship
Nathaly Mejia
Kasler Family Scholarship
Kassy Nguyen
The Kiwanis Club of Cypress Scholarship
Logan Miller
Koo Family Scholarship
Antonnette Light
Malissa Lugrain
Jalina Reynolds
Maria Lazo Alumni Scholarship for Health Sciences
Ramses Velasquez
Nilane Lee Memorial Scholarship for Mathematics
Praise Eom
Harry Lester Scholarship
Van Huynh
Stella Park
CYPRESS COLLEGE
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Legacy Transfer Leader of the Year
Katie Wong
Legacy Scholar of the Year
Eric Mungai
Daisy Nwosu
Legacy Community Leader
Elnora Reddick
Deborah Lopez Music Scholarship
Darian Serratos
Tom Lubin Memorial Scholarship for Men's Basketball
Danny Patton
Tom and Bernice Mack Memorial Scholarship
Samantha Sweiss
MaNaMi Scholarship
Aseel Akile
Lupe Mosqueda Memorial Scholarship
Jerry Aguayo
Kevin Angulo
Marielle Bermejo
Vicente Cortez
Zayden Gillon
Ariana Verastegui
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Crystal Neer Radiology Scholarship
Jolleen Smythe
James & Shirley Nielsen Scholarship
Carrie Schriver
Nursing Department Scholarship
Kelsey Kemp
Violet and William O'Brien Writing Scholarship
Ethan Senteno
Diana Olson Memorial Nursing Scholarship
Abigail Interrante
George and Sharon Orff Scholarship for Excellence
Mikeal Harper
Kadin Jimenez
Michael Pappas
Ruby Peters
Robert Salcido
Gabriel Rodriguez
Jessica Brown
Lianne Gabriel
Adali Ensastegui Carachure
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Bernard Osher Memorial Scholarship
Cristian Anaya
Lavel Atkins
Mauricio Crisanto
Destiny Jimenez
Maribel Medina-Diaz
Yara Mejia Morazan
Kim Lauren Mendez
Edgar Montano
Frank Moreno
Kimberly Parnell
Sofia Pena
Miriam Robles
Jose Alfredo Rodriguez
Kristy Romero
Fernanda Romero Mora
Sania Saeed
Marysol Sandoval
Bashir Ahmad Shakeeb
Jiaxing Sun
Danielle Talk
Brian Tran
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Robert Parelli Memorial Scholarship
Thao Hua
Dr. Jim Phillips Economics Scholarship
Samuel Wu
Beth Piburn Expendable Scholarship
Joshua Vasquez
Beth Piburn Nursing Transfer Student Scholarship
Jennifer Bolton Political Science Scholarship
Kier Keith
Nancy and Charles Pound Memorial Scholarship for Social Science
Jeremiah Wilkerson
Walter Pray Memorial Scholarship
James Macdougall
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Presidential Scholars of Distinction Scholarship
Esmeralda Alba
Chase Curnow
Christina Guadarrama
Fernando Lizarraga
Natalia Mindru
Xuan Thanh Pham
Dominique Waddell
Candyce Young
Benjamin Alarcon
Rayfield Auto Entrepreneur Scholarship
Na’J Smith
LaTeceshia Rhymes CTE Scholarship
Deven Palomo
Robert Thomas Gober Memorial Scholarship
Thu Do
Rotary Club of Cypress Scholarship
Samantha Schroeder
S.I. Leadership Scholarship
Dominique Waddell
Skeeter Sabin Scholarship
Makayla Motis
CYPRESS COLLEGE
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
The Scheetz Project Scholarship Fund
Regina Alcala
Bianca Alcantara
Ola Alqudah
Andrew Austria
Marwa Azizi
Arren-Ross Balila
Mccluskey Barringer
Jacob Blair
Valerie Brayton
Joshua Casillas
Julia Chavez
Alex Cruz
Milton Deherrera
Jose Diaz
Harvey Flores
Alec Gibson
Anthony Gomez
Yossarian Gray
Brandon Griffin
May Thet Han
Angel Hernandez
Jasmine Hernandez
Wyatt Higgins
Huey Hoang
Kenderick Hopson
Kyle Hsu
Grace Huang
Daniel Jo
Kirti Kalathiya
Jacqueline Zurita
Hannah Kampitan
Kelsey Kemp
Ashley Killen
Daisie Llinas
Christian Lopez
Clarisse Magdaleno
Dominick Martinez
Emi Martinez
Juan Mechato
Logan Miller
Archer Morales
Frank Moreno
Mong Thu Ngo
Jonathan Nguyen
Kassy Nguyen
Angel Oliva
Valerie Ortiz
Danny Patton
Jaxon Pearson
Ty Pham
Sydney Phethean
Itzel Ramirez
Dominique Ramos
Ashley Rego
Daniela Reyes Colin
Lashawn Robinson
Gabriel Rodriguez
Peter Rosell
Felipe Sanchez
Kassidy Schoedl
Nicholas Starks
Samantha Sweiss
Grant Tingley
Tiffany Tracy
Nathan Truong
Nguyen Truong
Joshua Vasquez
Ariana Verastegui
Cari Waldie
Jasmine Webb
Jacqueline Zurita
CYPRESS COLLEGE
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
SCI Riverside Care Center Scholarship
Karyna Ajose
Shirley Benavides
Brooke Bessler
Linda Gonzalez
Cinthya Jurado
Antoinette Lopez
Talia Medina
Miriam Robles
Maggie Samaniego
Maren Santana Crispin
SEDC Scholarship
Jose Juarez
Greyson Ramos Shaw Memorial Scholarship
Tamia Broussard
The Ruth Siegel Memorial Scholarship
Samantha Mohammed
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Catherine Sorensen Alumnus Excellence Award
Lanz Anthony Alcantara
Chance Gillette
Suzy Huang
Keisha Lapsley
Megan Luna
Juan Martinez
Robert Mcfadden
Jonathan Morales
Savannah M. Parga Parga
Jack Pham
Daniela Reyes Colin
Dario Reyes Cruz
Jack Rivera
Ken Sexon
Godfrey Stewart
Joo Yeom
Pamela Pedraza Mendoza
Reina Roumie
Andrew Phan
Keekee Harrison Hood
Chelsea Caldera
Journie Hayden
Mariah Henderson
Honesty Interiano
Christaesha Jackson
Nguyen Hoang Dung
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Southern California Edison Innovation Grant Scholarship
Zimal Amir
Hannah Behnia
Matthew Bersalona
Kaley Chung
Yovani Coyazo
Anh Le
Nguyen Le
Aiden Lee
Justin Licudine
Jessica Martinez
Jason Nguyen
Karlie Nguyen
Tram Nguyen
Chloe Nickless
Dev Raja
Reina Roumie
Hong Nha Truong
Nathan Truong
Eric Vo
Cypress College Speech & Debate Scholarship
Brandon Griffin
Maria Stripling Memorial Scholarship
Elnora Reddick
Study Abroad Scholarship
Jalina Reynolds
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
TEM Cool, Cypress Leader Scholarship
Senan Abdallah
Luke Chillemi
Hunter Cox
Geovanne Fregoso
Seth Helms
Jonathan Ibarra
Brian Penesa
Christopher San Nicolas
Travis Taintor
Travis Thai
Zachary Wang
Cesar Soriano
Rafael Ulloa
Xuan Thanh Pham
Maggie Salmons
Brody Makua
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Craig Tomooka's Organic Chemistry Excellence Scholarship
Ma Luisa Jhorine Faller
Lucas Liem
Reina Roumie
Dominique Waddell
Shivon Vanessa Tuoni Legacy Society Endowment Scholarship
Aida Jimenez
Ummi Scholarship
Jessica Brown
Ursula Lowenbach-Foster Holocaust Memorial Scholarship
Freya Pineda
Nam Tran
Bob Vandergrift Scholarship
Lucas Liem
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Waltmar Scholarship
Flor Campos
Ashley Chumpitaz
Vicente Cortez
Emely De Haro
Amy Dinh
Michael Do
Amy Ganatra
Alec Gibson
Ashley Hartwig
Yuxi Liu
Kelly Lu
Kelly Musquiz
Christina Nguyen
Ken Nguyen
Ethann Senteno
Connor Somers
Darlie Wasicek Memorial Scholarship
Darian Serratos
We Take This Journey Together Scholarship
Angel Hernandez
Dawn Wesley Memorial Scholarship
Richard Fardette
Madeleine Wheeler Memorial Scholarship
Christian Calley
CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Richard "Dick" Wilson Memorial Scholarship
Sindi Lloana Gonzales
Woman's Club of Cypress Nursing Scholarship
Macy Cardona
Chloe Reiter
Woman's Club of Cypress Medical Professionals Scholarship
Zimal Amir
Marissa Zaragoza
Dean Young True Grit Scholarship
Laila Idrees
SCHOLARSHIP REVIEW COMMITTEE
Thank you to Conroy's Flowers of Cypress for the beautiful arrangements
