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Back to Catching Up With...Index Page Catching Up With....SMRFA 2007 Rose Princesses By Bill Coburn (12/1/06)
Tuesday night, the Sierra Madre Rose Float Association introduced its 2007 Rose Float Princesses, who will ride on the City’s Rose Float during its centennial year, to the community during the City Council meeting. The princess coronation dinner took place Nov. 5th, and since that night, the Princesses main duty has been to assist Santa with the children and the handing out of candy cane’s at Dickens Village on Nov. 18th.
Prior to their big debut on local TV, however, the Princesses had an opportunity to do a warm-up speech to help them get the butterflies out of their stomachs. It has become a tradition in recent years that prior to the City Council introduction, the Princesses are introduced at the Sierra Madre Kiwanis luncheon. I attended the luncheon on Tuesday, and got a chance to learn a little about each of these four young ladies, all of whom appear to be representatives of whom the City can be very proud. Here’s a little of what I learned about each of them (in alphabetical order). This was not an e-mail interview, in fact, it wasn't really an interview, I recorded their speeches and pulled the info from what they had to say to the Kiwanians. Click on the picture to enlarge it.
Kasey Johnson
Anna is also 17, and is a senior at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena. She has lived in Sierra Madre for 12 years. She is taking AP courses in calculus, English, business and Spanish. She’s a member of the National Honor Society, the California Scholarship Federation, and a reporter and advertising manager on the school paper. She hopes to major in biomedical engineering, and after school she works at a biomedical engineering center at USC, tutors junior high students, serves as Eucharistic Minister for her church, and volunteers as a candy-striper at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Some of her favorite memories of Sierra Madre including Halloween parades and costume contests, hunting for Easter eggs at Memorial Park, participating in Huck Finn Day (and secretly hoping she wouldn’t catch anything), training as a lifeguard at the Sierra Madre pool, playing t-ball at Heasley Field, and playing in the Sierra Madre Girls Softball Association, which she did for seven years. She has played varsity softball for her school since her freshman year, and last year was voted best defensive player, and made all-league second team. She plays third base, and this year will be a captain.
Katie has lived in Sierra Madre 12 of her 16 years, and is currently a junior at Pasadena High. She says that some of her fondest memories are of “walking to Sierra Madre Elementary School with neighborhood friends, trick or treating on Alegria, eating triple scoop ice cream at BeanTown, and sitting on Sierra Madre Blvd. every 4th of July blowing bubbles and waving at familiar faces in the parade while trying to avoid being sprayed by water hoses.” She is vice-president of the junior class, treasurer for the California Scholarship Federations, a member of the speech and debate team, and captain of the girls volleyball team. The team went 26-0 this year, and she missed participating as a Dickens Village Santa’s assistant because she and her team were participating in their playoff against Elsinor, which they won to become CIF champions.
Caitlyn has lived in Sierra Madre for 8 years and is a senior at LaSalle High School. These days she is busy filling out college applications, and she hopes to attend either UC Santa Barbara or San Diego State University. She hopes to become either an event planner or a nurse. She’s been to Thailand, where she participated in an elephant conservation program, and to Costa Rica where she taught English to kids. She also volunteers with mentally challenged workers at Ability First. She likes Mexican and Italian food, and admits “I’m a sucker for sweets.” According to Van Luyk “It is such an honor to get a chance to represent my city…This is the chance of a lifetime, and I’m grateful to have been chosen to be a part of it. I don’t think this whole experience will really ever sink in until I get off that Rose Float New Year’s Day.”
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