FAVORITE SONS & DAUGHTERS

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View welcomes announcements of recent achievements of Favorite Sons & Daughters who have graduated from local high schools. Achievements may run the gamut from earning a college degree to successfully climbing Mount Everest. Please include the name of the area high school and year graduated. Send announcements and photos by mail to: Lynn Benson, View, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070; by fax to 477-3852; or by e-mail, viewcalendars@viewnews.com.

Dylan J. Gallagher, son of Jonathan and Lynne Gallagher of Las Vegas, has made the honor roll at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.

Dylan previously attended Cadwallader Middle School and Las Vegas Academy.

Dylan is interested in a career in screenwriting and is an active member of his school's film society and filmmaking club in addition to being a member of the swimming and crew teams.

Amanda Marks, a sixth-grader at The Meadows School, has been named the 2006 Pacific Coast Section's Women's Foil Fencer of the Year for youth ages 12 and under.

Amanda has been fencing for 3 1/2 years and began traveling to out-of-state tournaments this past year. After winning one bronze, one silver and two gold awards in the section's four-tournament series, Amanda earned the section's top honor, the Golden Sword.

The 11-year-old also plays violin, sings with the University Children's Choral and maintains an A average. She studies fencing several times a week under the direction of Ed Richards and Frank Van Dyke at the Red Rock Fencing Center.

Tara Wellman Paterson, daughter of Ron Paterson and Kitty Wellman, will graduate in May from the University of Southern California.

Tara graduated from Las Vegas Day School as valedictorian in 1998, was a member of the National Honor Society for six years, plays clarinet, achieved the rank of first rokkyu in Shaolin karate, was chosen as a Nevada Scholar, received the President's Education Award, was an Honors Magnet Medallion member and was a dance major.

Her plans are to become a dentist.