FRANKLIN GAZETTE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL / VOLUME 32 (FINAL NEWSLETTER ’14-’15)/ WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2015

Recognition

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Franklin High School now has an official Adobe Certified Associate in Visual Communications! Congratulations to Senior, Eloisa

Rangel, for passing the Adobe Certified Associate Exam. It was not an easy task, but with all her hard work she did it. - Mr. Robles

It is with great pleasure to announce the success with our 1st year of Adobe

Certification in Visual

Communications. This semester we had 5 students here at Franklin High School pass the Adobe Photoshop Exam. It was a long but successful process. We are excited to see how many more Panthers we can certify this next 2015-2016 School Year. - Mr. Robles

From Left to Right: Eloisa Rangal 12th, Santiago Urquiza 12th, Arturo Zenteno 12th, Inosente Rojas 12th, and Anthony Perez 11th.

Mr. Cruz gets selected as one of LAUSD’s Teacher Rookie of the Year! Over 1900 teachers were nominated and only 20 were selected! Nominees possessed qualities such as: instructional effectiveness; a positive classroom climate and effective classroom management that include strong routines and procedures in place; is dynamic and engages students; and demonstrates professionalism. Congratulations, Mr. Cruz!

Congratulations, Mr. Robles!

Congratulations Ms. Mikaelyan! Her Sixth Period student, Senior, Steve Flores, won 1st

place in a classroom competition for the best business plan, which led him to a regional competition. All students who qualified for the regionals were eligible to apply for a USC scholarship to a take a business course this summer. Steve applied and went through an elaborate process consisting of essays and interviews and ended up being awarded the

scholarship worth $8,000! Steve will spend a whole month at USC this summer staying in the dorms, taking a business class, and visiting big corporations every Friday!

Big thanks to Ms. Williams

and Ms. Johnson for arranging such a fantastic Retirement Dinner. Congratulations and best of luck again to Mr. Duane

Baker, Mr. Richard

McCarthy, Mr. Joseph

Nguyen, and Ms. Carolyn

Sweat!

In case you missed it, here was the Class of 2015 prank on Wednesday!

Thank you to our outstanding counselors, Ms. Donlucas, Mr.

Caizapanta, Ms. Soldevilla, Ms.

Garson, Mr. Mirchandani, and

Ms. Herrera for all of your hard work at the end of the year!

Best of luck to Mr. DiPasquale and those not returning to Franklin next year. Thank you for all of your services!

Carlos Flores and B & G crew, you are all amazing! Thank you for putting up and tearing down the stage, chairs, speakers, and decorations for graduation! Your hard work is very much appreciated!

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Thank you Ms. Williams, Ms.

Rech, Ms. Diane Gonzalez, Mr.

Arroyo and Google for contributing pictures to this newsletter!

June 15th - July 17th

To all who served on the graduation committee, Ms. Rech, Ms. Ortiz, Ms.

Esber, Mr. Jaimes, Mr. Valdez, and

Carlos Flores, thank you for putting together such a wonderful ceremony to honor our Seniors!