Saratoga News

Saratogans win in Olympiad

Several Saratoga students captured awards in the 1997 Olympiad of the Arts competition. The awards were presented May 4 at West Valley College.

Fardad Basti, a student at Westmont High School, won a special merit award in the high school visual arts category.

Michelle Bishop, a student at West Valley College took first place in the short-story competition and third place in poetry.

Satsuki Tahara, Saratoga High School, won honorable mention in the high school visual arts category.

Daphne Wang, Monta Vista High School, took third place for her classical piano solo.

Danielle Cohen of Saratoga High School took third place in the vocal competition.

In addition, seven West Valley College students took awards in the visual arts competition: Carolyn Briggs, Willa Brings, Renee Droese, Gene Impey, Rosa Morales, Manuel Viveros, and Greg Woods.

The Olympiad of the Arts is staged annually by the West Valley/Mission Colleges Foundation. The competition dates to 1928, when it was initiated by U.S. Senator James Phelan of Saratoga and Dr. Henry Bland, a professor of English at San Jose College, to promote the arts in Santa Clara Valley.

The Olympiad of the Arts exhibition is showing at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara through May 24.

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