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Show PGHS Senior Girls Will Take Betty Crocker Exam High school seniors in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove will be among more than 600,000 in nearly 15,000 schools across the country who will participate in a 50-minute written knowledge and attitude examination Tuesday, Dec. 7. Scores in the test will provide pro-vide the basis for judging which will eventually award a total of $111,000 in college scholarships scholar-ships in the 18th annual Betty Crocker Search for the American Ameri-can Homemaker of Tomorrow. Sponsored by General Mills, the Search is the only national scholarship program exclusively exclusive-ly for high school senior girls. Following grading of the examination, ex-amination, a Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow will be named for the Pleasant Grove High School. She will receive re-ceive a specially designed a-ward a-ward charm, and will remain in the running for state and national na-tional honors. State Homemakers of Tomorrow Tomor-row one from each state and the District of Columbia will be awarded $1,500 scholarships with their schools receiving a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica and a runnerup in each state will be awarded a $500 educational educa-tional grant. New to the Betty Crocker Search this year is a special $1,000 nutrition scholarship. It will be awarded to a young woman wo-man who is planning a college major in nutrition or a related field, scores among the highest in her state on the overall Search examination and achieves achiev-es the highest score among the ones meeting these first two criteria on the examination's nutrition items. |