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DATE: THURSDAY, November 18, 1993                   TAG: 9311180257
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-9   EDITION: METRO  
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8 STUDENTS TAKE SCHOLASTIC HONORS

THE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM has named several Roanoke Valley students as semifinalists for 1994.

They are Erica Campbell, Jesse Chappell and Margaret Meyer, both at Patrick Henry High School; Christine Boutilier, Jeremy Morris and Erin Sobotta, all of Cave Spring High School; and Brent Sowers from Salem High School.

Carlton Haywood from William Byrd High School was named a semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

These students have an opportunity to continue in the competition for more than 6,500 Merit Scholarships, worth more than $25 million, to be awarded in the spring.

The scholarship program also announced the names of the 1994 Commended Students. They are: Henry Andrea Baird, Thomas Barnhill, Caroline Barritt, Brandon Field, Craig Fifer, Ellen Harris, Jeremy Owen and Lauren Willson, all of from Patrick Henry; David Baril, Cathalene Blake, Catherine Bolton, Huyen Campbell, Charles Curtis, Lindsey Daniels, Maria Fusco, Joseph Janda, Nancy Lin, Kerri Mikkelsen, Erik Rosolowsky, Katrina Schauer, Tomasz Turowski, Brian Wells and Elizabeth Wiles, all from Cave Spring; Kevin Dalal, Heather Duffy, Amber Hodges, and Elizabeth Neathawk, all from Salem; Joseph Donovan, Anthony Yattes, Carlton Haywood, all from William Byrd; Carmen Callahan, Amy Moffitt and Liana Hamm, all from William Fleming High School; Russel Clemmer, Benjamin Drinkwine, Maryann Elacate and Sean Whipkey, from Northside High School; Chad Pack from Glenvar High School; Ellen Brenner from North Cross; Ernest Clark from Roanoke Valley Christian Schools; and Willam Garrett, Ashley Moore, Jacob Myers and John Snell, all from Lord Botetourt High School.

Commended Students are those who show exceptional academic promise by placing in the top 5 percent of more that 1 million entrants in the 1992 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.


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