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 student's name, age, area high school attended and graduation year, parents' names and city of residence. 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.

Hilary Billings, 17, a graduating senior at Bonanza High School, has won first-place trophies in the Clark County and Nevada state finals of the National Forensics League speech and debate competitions.

She has a 4.0 grade point average and is ranked in the top 5 percent of her graduating class. She is vice president of her school's National Honor Society, vice president of the forensics team, and in her spare time likes to compete in equestrian competitions.

She is deciding between attending Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., or the University of San Diego, and hopes to attain a law degree.

Billings is the daughter of Michael and Robin Billings of Las Vegas.

Angela Marie Proffitt, 17, a graduating senior at Advanced Technologies Academy High School, has been accepted to the honors program in the engineering department at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she will begin in the fall and plans to major in computer science.

Proffitt is the daughter of Jeffrey and Chicko Proffitt of Las Vegas. She received a computer science program medallion, and is a millennium scholarship recipient.

During her high school career, Proffitt was president of the hiking club and vice president of the snowboarding club, and she belonged to Amnesty International, the Clark County Summer Business Institution and the Key Club.