Area Students Named CLU Presidential Scholars

California Lutheran University welcomed 20 students to the Presidential Scholars program at the start of the 2007-2008 academic year in August.

The program, established by the University in 1997, recognizes incoming freshmen of outstanding academic caliber who embody the University’s educational and social goals. The students receive scholarships ranging from $14,500 to full tuition for four years.

CLU hosted a competition on campus in the spring at which time a selection committee of administrators and faculty carefully interviewed applicants from throughout the United States. The recipients have an average high school grade point average of 4.27 and average scores of 1325 on the critical reading and math sections of the SAT or 29 on the ACT.

The 2007 Presidential Scholars are listed below with their majors and hometowns:

Katherine Bode, psychology, Corvallis, Ore.

Skyler Butenshon, music, Astoria, Ore.

Dorothea Cornell, biology, Ridgecrest, Calif.

James De Haan, economics, Palmdale, Calif.

Jeremy Detgen, business, Moorpark, Calif.

Kailyn Ellison, math, Olympia, Wash.

Cassidy Hallagin, biology, Burlington, Colo.

Melissa Harbison, biology, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Samuel Nelson, undeclared, Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Ray Ostrander, environmental science, Hayward, Wis.

Corey Quin, biology, Camarillo, Calif.

Bobby Sanders, undeclared, Houston, Texas

Kathryn Sizemore, history, Manteca, Calif.

Robert Spangler, accounting, Signal Mountain, Tenn.

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Nicole Sparkman, business, Eden Prairie, Minn.

Megan Springer, business, Rogers, Minn.

Gretchen Steiniger, environmental science, Round Rock, Texas

Peter Weber, religion, Golden, Colo.

Alana Wheaton, communication, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

Janna Wilhelm, music, Fort Mohave, Ariz.

CLU is a selective liberal arts university located in Thousand Oaks, Calif., midway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. With an enrollment of more than 3,200 students, CLU offers 36 undergraduate majors in addition to several graduate programs within the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and School of Education. Doctoral degrees in educational leadership and higher education leadership are also offered. Members of the CLU student body come from across the nation and around the world and represent a diversity of faiths and cultures. For more information, please visit www.callutheran.edu.