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Students Are Commended by Merit Program

Two seniors at Columbia High School have been named Merit
Program Commended students by the National Merit Scholar
ship Corporation.

Principal David Ellis announced that Beau Braun and John
Jopling have received Letters of Commendation.

They were among 38,000 commended students named on the
basis of their high performance on the 1973 Preliminary Schol-
arship Qualifying Test (PSATI NMSQT). Commended students
are in the upper 2 percent of those who are expected to graduate
from high school in 1975. Although the Commended students
ranked high on the PSAT!NMSQT, their scores were just below
those of the 15,000 Semifinalists who were announced in Sep-
tember by NMSC. Commended students do not continue in the
Merit Scholarship competition.

Edward C. Smith, president of NMSCM said: "The high stand-
ing of Commended students in the Merit Program shows their
great promise and their attainment in this nationwide pro-
gram deserves public recognition. The Commended students
should be encouraged to continue their education. Both these
students and our nation will benefit from their further educa-
tional and personal development."
To increase their scholarship opportunities, NMSC reports the
Commended students' names to the regionally accredited col-
leges they named as their first and second choices when they
took the PSAT!NMSQT in October 1973.

Beau Braun

John Jopling

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