Mark R. Krouse ’70 Receives Brother Mel Anderson Alumni Award
Seniors Victor Saavedra, Yoltic Sandoval and Kimberly Mejia presented the award of appreciation to Brother De Sales.
taught: English, Modern Language, and Social Studies. The faculties of the English, Social Studies, and Language Arts Departments nominate students from each of their disciplines to be considered for this award. The Bob Alcorn Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship to be applied to the student’s senior year tuition. This year’s recipient, Samantha Hardy ’16, has a long list of accomplishments that are not just limited to the fields of English, Social Studies, and Language Arts. She has earned an “A” in all her classes over the last five semesters with a GPA of 4.10 or better. She is also the Assistant Commissioner of Service, a Student Ambassador and a member of CSF and NHS. To honor the contributions of her late husband Bob Thomas, former La Salle teacher, Jayne Thomas established a Math and Science scholarship.The student, who is chosen by the Math and Science Departments, receives a $1,000 scholarship that is applied to their senior year tuition at La Salle. This year’s recipient of the Bob Thomas Award for Academic Excellence is Grant Way ’16. Grant earns straight A’s in AP Calculus and AP Physics and has never earned a GPA lower than 4.10. He earned a perfect score in Math on the EXPLORE standardized test, a perfect score in Science on the PLAN battery tests, and his selection index on the PSAT was well above the California threshold, which is the second highest in the Nation.
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he 2015 recipient of the Brother T. Mel Anderson, FSC Alumni Award for Excellence in Academics was given to Mark R. Krouse ’70 who has more than 35 years experience in human resource management. For 30 years, Mr. Krouse worked in Human Resource Management with the Fluor Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and a global engineering and construction management firm. It was there that Mr. Krouse was responsible for directing and managing the development and implementation of strategic Human Resource solutions on a global basis impacting a worldwide workforce of more than 50,000 people. He has also worked as the Vice President of Human Resources for Samsung C&T Engineering and Construction, Americas and most recently in 2013 Mr. Krouse joined Kaiser Aluminum Corporation as the Vice President of Human Resources. While a student at La Salle, Mr. Krouse was a member of the Basketball and Baseball teams, Pep Squad, Varsity Club, and Honor Society. Upon graduation from La Salle, Mr. Krouse attended the University of Southern California where he earned his Bachelors of International Relations degree. He would then return to USC to earn his Masters of Science degree in International Administration. Since graduating from USC, Mr. Krouse has frequently returned to his alma mater as a guest lecturer, and for the last three years, he has served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at California State University, Fullerton where he teaches “The Fundamentals of HR Management.” SPRING 2015
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