The San Mateo County Office of Education is granting retroactive high school diplomas to veterans and Japanese Americans who were unable to receive their diplomas due to war.
Applicants may include veterans who served in the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War, or Japanese American students affected by wartime incarceration and displacement during World War II.
All recipients must have been enrolled in a high school prior to enlistment in military service or incarceration in a WWII incarceration camp.
Family may also apply for a recognition diploma on behalf of an eligible person who is deceased.
Visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemE-PoJRKoynKOEsMSwrv6xKcY8Y5TuiZLBo4lHrDhpb2J4w/viewform to fill out an application.
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Crocker Middle School in the Hillsborough City Elementary School District; Summit Public School: Shasta, a charter school in the Jefferson Union High School District; Corte Madera in the Portola Valley Elementary School District; Central and Tierra Linda middle schools in the San Carlos School District; and El Camino High School in the South San Francisco Unified School District were named a 2026 California Distinguished School by State Superintendent Tony Thurmond.
The program recognized a total of 408 middle school and high school exemplary instructional programs throughout the state.
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The San Bruno Community Foundation approved long-term funding for fifth graders in the San Bruno Park School District to attend the San Mateo County Office of Education’s outdoor education program. The foundation’s board awarded $160,000 grant to support the program for the current and next school years, and designated $2 million as a “quasi-endowment” specifically for the outdoor education program.
Each year about 200 fifth graders in the district and their teachers participate in the program.
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Brian Miner of Belmont; Albert Liu and Terence Ye of Daly City; Matthew Hwang and Joshua Varghese of Foster City; Jianfa Chen and Zachary de Haaff of Menlo Park; Vanessa Chan and Matthew Rozal of Millbrae; Shanon Gao of Redwood City; Andrew Maier of San Bruno; Evan McKee of San Carlos; Sundeep Nanua, Winston Ou, Kai Feng Pan and Bradley Pender of San Mateo and Viresh Pati of Woodside graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Alister Borabo and Alyssa Chui of South San Francisco, Ayla Seddighnezhad of Atherton and Alyson Lo of Millbrae were elected to membership in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at their respective college universities.
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Nalini Kotecha of San Mateo and Viresh Pati of Woodside were named to the dean’s list at Georgia Tech for earning a GPA of 3.0 or above.
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Almarah Urman of Foster City was a production stage manager for “Fuse 2026,” a dance showcase at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.
Class Notes is a column dedicated to school news. It is compiled by education reporter Ana Mata. You can contact her at ana@smdailyjournal.com.
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