The Lincoln Log

Fifty-seven seniors received award letters from Abraham Lincoln High School Principal Ronald Pang, on April 19, 2007. These letters told the students they were the select few, the few and the faithful, who had actually stayed awake during STAR or CST testing within the previous three years. And those students had therefore scored above the 370 mark on six or more of the exams taken.

An amazing testament to academic dedication, the ALHS staff, faculty, and peers are proud of the prodigious achievers. Each senior will each receive a special seal on their diplomas at graduation, an honorary luncheon, a principal’s letter of recognition, as well as a gift card to borders, containing a tidy sum.

What is this astonishing award? None other than the Golden State Seal Merit Diploma, a daunting and inspiring goal for all of the lower classmen. In so saying, it is the sincere hope of the administration that all students did their best to blearily suck it up on testing days, and trudge through the monotonous waters of naturalistic analogies and the depressing matter of differentiating mitosis and meiosis. Those who did are simply that much closer to a complimentary lunch of their own.