EUGENE–Twenty-five students will be honored Thursday, Dec. 3, at a ceremony marking their graduation from the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) at the University of Oregon.

The 7 p.m. ceremony, free and open to the public, will be held in the Fir Room of the Erb Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. on the UO campus. A reception will follow in the same location.

More than 3,000 migrant and seasonal farm worker youths have completed the federally funded program and received a Graduate Equivalency Diploma (GED) since the program was established in 1968.

The fall term 1998 HEP graduates are:

CORNELIUS–Rufino Jijón.

COTTAGE GROVE–Blanca A. Bobadilla.

EUGENE–Victor García, Oscar L. López, JoAnne Madden, Armando A. Polleri, Xochitl Rivera, Marco A. Santos, and Gissela A. Villegas.

HILLSBORO–Catalina Blas and Maricruz Torres.

KEIZER–Reyna I. Cruz.

NEWBERG–Rocío Carmona and Maira Gómez.

PORTLAND–Jonathan González.

SALEM–Zachary J. Cobb, Verónica Luna and Gladys Plancarte.

SPRINGFIELD–Azucena Cas and Rosalía Pelayo.

WOODBURN–Carol V. Tapia

SALINAS, CALIF.–Federico Ochoa.

SAN JOSE, CALIF.–Sergio R. Martínez

SOLEDAD, CALIF.–Manuel Calderón.

SEDRO WOOLLEY, WASH.–Cindy Valdivia.

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