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SYLVIA GORDON ROUSSEAU: A TRULY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA

Sylvia Gordon Rousseau, current superintendent of Local District I in the Los Angeles Unified School District, received the Distinguished Alumna Award on July 12, 2003. She has served as an educational administrator for nearly two decades, and graduated from the Graduate School of Education and Psychology in 1999 with her Doctor of Education degree in Institutional Management. She was also awarded the school's Outstanding Educational Leadership Award at the "Call to Leadership" conference in the fall of 2001. Prior to her current position, Superintendent Rousseau served for seven years as principal of Santa Monica High School. As principal, she worked tirelessly to reduce historical disparity in academic performance among various groups of students. As a result of her student leadership, the school raised the student academic achievement level and modeled nonviolence and community building among all ethnic and socioeconomic groups.