Students Competing For Sterling Scholar Honors Sixteen seniors from three Garfield County high schools are among 120 Sterling Scholars competing com-peting for final honors Thursday in St. George. They are being judged from achievements and awards compiled in their portfolios and interviews with special judges held throughout the day. Results of the judging will be announced tonight. At 5 p.m., a banquet will be held to honor all finalists and their parents. Master of Ceremonies for the event will be Karl Hutchings, director of high school relations at Dixie College where the judging is being held. Margaret Smoot, director direc-tor of creative services at KSL-TV . will be guest speaker at the banquet ban-quet The final program where winners win-ners will be announced is set for 7 p.m. at the M.K. Cox Performing Arts Center at the college where Bruce Lindsay, anchor, KSL-TV News, will serve as master of ceremonies. cer-emonies. Finalists involved in the final competition are from Beaver, Bryce Valley, Cedar City, Dixie, Enterprise, Enter-prise, Escalante, Hurricane, Kanab, Milford, Panguitch, Parowan, Pine View and Valley high schools. They will compete in one of 12 categories of competition: English, performing arts, mathematics, social so-cial sciences, science, foreign language, lan-guage, vocational education, industrial indus-trial arts, homemaking, business education, music, visual arts, and general scholarship. The judges will decide the win--" ners based upon scholarship (up to 50 percent), leadership (up to 25 percent) and citizenship (up to 25 percent). There are three judges in each category who come from local communities, Dixie College, and Southern Utah State College. A winner and two runners-up in each of the 12 categories will be selected, and each will be awarded a Sterling Scholar silver pin. Finalists Final-ists from each high school will receive re-ceive an embossed Sterling Scholar certificate. Each winner will receive a $200 cash award and each runner-up runner-up a $100 cash award to be used to further their education at a college or university of their choice. Colleges and universities in Utah are offering full tuition scholarships to winners and many are offering part tuition scholarships scholar-ships to runners-up. Sterling Scholars competing from Escalante High School are Stephanie Griffin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Griffin (English); Trisha Coughlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Coughlin (business education); and John Catmull, son of Mr. and Mrs. Randy Catmull (music). Those competing from Bryce Valley High School are Michael Eric Fletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Fletcher (science); Leah Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith (visual arts); and Cari Baugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. See 3-A Column 1 i Continued From Page 1-A i - ! Sterling Scholars Compete ; Herbert Baugh. Competing from Panguitch High School are Annette Hatch, v daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom ' . Hatch (English); Cheryl Lowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lowe (mathematics); Mala Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reynolds (science); Vicky i Knighton, daughter of Mr. and i Mrs. John Pfnister and Jerold Knighton (foreign language); Shane Houston, son of Alan Weideman and Geneil Houston Weideman (vocation education); Monica Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Miller (homemaking); Sharlene Crosby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art Crosby (business education); Suzette Simkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Simkins (general scholarship); Terrie Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Baldwin (visual arts); and Lisa Henrie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell V. Henrie, Jr. (visual arts).