Villa Park High

18042 Taft Ave.

Villa Park 92861

(714) 532-8020

* Enrollment: 1,990

* Established: 1964

* Team name: Spartans

* Newspaper: The Oracle

* Principal: Frances Roney

* Student president: Steve Choate

* Valedictorian: Ronald Tongbai

* Famous alumnus: Actor Kevin Costner

* Winning moments: Homecoming; Spirit Week; reception for academic and athletic achievers; boys’ and girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IA playoffs; football Southern Section Division VI playoffs; boys’ and girls’ water polo Southern Section Division I playoffs; wrestling Southern Section playoffs

* Graduation: June 17, 1:30 p.m., at El Modena High’s stadium in Orange

SENIOR STANDOUT

Annie Bates of Orange

* Achievements: Key Club president; drama club vice president; Rotary International Singer of the Year finalist; Opera Pacific High School competition participant; Southern California Vocal Assn. Invitational Choir; school’s madrigals and chamber singers; Advanced Women’s Choir; Orange County Youth Choir Festivals; certificate of merit; Student Evaluation Program audition; sings in German, French, Italian and Spanish

* Connections: Associated Women Students Club; National Anthem soloist at community events; serves as a contract soloist and section leader for the Trinity Episcopal Church Choir in Orange; contract vocal soloist of the Christian Science Church in Garden Grove

* Ambitions: Attend Sonoma State University, majoring in vocal performance and minoring in theater arts “or possibly further education in literature and English.”

* Family: Father is Michael Bates; mother is Christine; brothers are Kevin, Erik and Josh; sister is Amanda. “My brother Erik is my role model. He was on Broadway for five years.”

* Claims to fame: “My friends and family tell me that I am destined to be a character on ‘Saturday Night Live’--I am a loyal fan of ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ It’s my goal to be a participant, win millions of dollars and reap the benefits.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 430