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14 P E R S P E C T I V E | S E P T E M B E R / O C TO B E R 2 0 1 7 news Above: Jeffrey Burr is the son of Electronic Graphics Operator Lynn Burr. Grace Kasemeier is the daughter of Graphic Designer and Assistant Art Director Casey Kasemeier. 2016 ADG/RICHARD STILES SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS by Lisa Frazza, Scholarship Committee Chair This year, the Art Directors Guild will award two $4,000 scholarships for the 2017– 2018 academic year. These scholarships are offered to children, dependents, spouses and domestic partners of members in good standing. Members may also apply for themselves. The applicant must be a senior in high school, or currently attending or planning to attend a college, junior college, university or a post-graduate program. The Scholarship Committee reviews all applications with names, gender and other identifying material removed to ensure impartiality and security of financial history. Grace Kasemeier was a senior at Santa Susana High School, a performing arts magnet, and plans to attend Bard, a liberal arts college in New York's Hudson River Valley, for study in their written arts program to become a screenwriter and novelist. In high school, Grace excelled in English and was active on the Board and writing for Litterateur, the school's literary magazine. In her senior year, she was the publication's editor, and also wrote and directed a children's play called The Good Witch. She was active in the philanthropic group Assisteens of Glendale, for which she served on its Board and as head of the Environmental Committee. While maintaining a 4.09 GPA, she swam with LASplash, the nationally recognized synchronized swimming team, played with Santa Susana's Jam Club for musicians seeking collaboration and performance experience and lettered in choir. With the Jam Club, she professionally recorded a cover of "Heart Out" that is now on YouTube. Jeffrey Burr is going into his sophomore year at UC Berkeley, maintaining a 3.8 GPA while studying applied mathematics, computer science and coding. He is active in the marketing division of a school organization called Superb, that headlines and promotes concerts and entertainment around campus. While still at Mira Costa High School in Torrance, he traveled and competed in Model United Nations conferences across the country, researching and debating world issues and receiving a host of commendations. He created, with his brother Alex, the One Well at a Time Club to raise money and drill for sustainable, safe and accessible drinking water in Uganda; worked as a senior listener for Community Helpline Youth Counseling; volunteered at the Torrance Memorial Medical Center; and called Bingo, including setup and facilitation, at the Alzheimer's wing of Sunset Assisted Living. He kept a 3.93 GPA along with membership in the National Honor Society and the California Scholarship Federation, and swam on the JV swimming team, earning two Scholar-Athlete Awards. With all this, he still found time to tutor fourth- and fifth-graders at Eucalyptus Elementary School in Hawthorne, and volunteer with various local and state political candidates. His brother Alex is also a student at UC Berkeley and won an ADG/ Richard Stiles Scholarship last year.