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Birenbaum named to college Dean's List

Ann S. Birenbaum was named to the Deans' List at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, for the spring semester of the 1996-97 academic year. Birenbaum, a history major, had to earn a grade-point average of 3.0 in order to be named to the list for outstanding academic achievement.

Birenbaum attended Saratoga High School and is the daughter of Lazar and Janelle Birenbaum of Saratoga.

Taglia graduates with honors

Saratogan Kristen Taglia graduated with honors on May 24 from the University of the Pacific in Stockton.

Taglia, also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, received her bachelor's degree in communication.

Saratoga resident named as trustee

The UC-Santa Cruz Foundation recently appointed 11 new trustees, one of them Saratoga resident Robert Holmes.

Robert Holmes is co-founder and former vice president of operations for the Santa Clara-based Edify Corporation, a provider of self-service software. Prior to founding Edify, Holmes worked for IBM in various technical and management positions for 34 years.

Harvard grad goes to Russia

Mark Nagel graduated with honors from Harvard Law School on June 5.

Nagel, a graduate of Hillbrook School and the Bellarmine College Preparatory Class of 1987, is the son of Drs. Michael and Shelley Barlas Nagel and was the primary editor of the Harvard Law Review as well as senior editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

After taking the New York and Massachusetts bar examinations, Nagel will go to work on his dissertation. Nagel, who is also a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard in political science/international relations, will be affiliated with an economics institute in Moscow. He plans to graduate from Harvard with his Ph.D. in June 1998.

Saratoga student returns from program in France

Carolyn Lenske will return to Saratoga in July after a one-year stay in Brittany, France, through the Youth for Understanding International Exchange Program.

Lenske, daughter of Janice and Mort Lenske, lived with a host family in the town of Locmine and attended a French high school in the city of Pontivy.

A past student at Saint Andrew's School, Lenske will return to Castilleja High School in Palo Alto for her senior year.

Saratogan wins honors

Kyle Krpata recently graduated cum laude and received a juris doctor degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Bellarmine student places in Nationals

Saratogan Jack McKenna, a member of the Bellarmine College Preparatory speech and debate team, recently placed among the top 30 in the nation in the National Forensic League competition held in Minneapolis, Minn.

This was McKenna's first competition at the national level. He has been involved in the forensic program at Bellarmine for four years.

McKenna, who graduated this year, is also state speech and debate champion in original advocacy. He will major in biological engineering next year at UC-Berkeley.

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