Six students at Oak Harbor High School have received either an appointment to a military academy or a Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship and all six will be making different study plans when school starts next fall.

Kaleb McConaghy is going to Oregon State University; Trixie Santos, Seattle University; Abigail Leete, Point Loma Nazarene University; Brandy Allain, Norwich University; and Laura Jean Lauzen, Oregon State University. Judd Ford received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Brandy Allain was a member of Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps for her four years at Oak Harbor High School. Judd Ford has a brother at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and his father flew A-6’s.

Principal Dwight Lundstrom knows many of the students.

“Abigail Leete was very active in track,” he said, “Laura Jean Lauzen was an outstanding student and musician.”

Many of them took so many academic classes they had little time for other pursuits.
Some 50 percent of the students at OHHS are connected to the Navy through their parents.