Photo cutline: Recent Spring Woods
High School graduate Bao Tram Ma and her
high school counselor, Melissa Lynch, were photographed at the Youth Excellence
Recognition Luncheon held Aug. 3 at the Kim Son Bellaire Ballroom.
Spring
Branch ISD graduates are honored at Vietnamese-American luncheon
Four valedictorians
from Spring Branch ISD high schools were honored recently during the Vietnamese-American
Youth Excellence Recognition Luncheon held Aug. 3 at the Kim Son Bellaire
Ballroom in southwest Houston.
The Vietnamese
Culture and Science Association (VCSA) reports that it honored 28 regional high
school valedictorians and salutatorians at the 18-year-old annual event.
SBISD
student honorees included the following Class of 2014 valedictorians:
·
Alyssa Nguyen and
David Pham of Westchester Academy for International Studies (WAIS)
·
Bao Tran Ma of Spring
Woods High School
·
Matthew Nguyen of
Memorial High School.
VSCA is a
Houston-based national organization that encourages multi-generational and cross-cultural
collaborations by encouraging civic participation in the mainstream and in
Vietnamese-American communities.
The
recent luncheon featured an authentic Vietnamese cuisine, scholarship award
presentations, cultural performances and a keynote address by Dr. Harry Dao
Jr., who is an assistant professor in dermatology at the Baylor College of
Medicine.
Numerous
school district and elected civic officials were invited to the luncheon, which
attracted 600 attendees, according to the organization.
