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Show Seven U students selected from 12,000 From 12,000 nominees in the United States and Canada, seven students from the University have been elected winners in the Wood-row Wood-row Wilson National Fellowship Foundation competition. This is the greatest number of winners from any single university in the western United States except from Arizona State University, which also claimed seven finalists in he competition of outstanding graduating gradu-ating seniors who were nominated for the honor by more than 800 colleges. The Foundation's selection committee com-mittee chose 1150 "most intellectually intellec-tually promising" 1970 graduates planning careers as college teachers. teach-ers. The seven winners from the University and their majors are: Kent Calder, Political Science; Elaine Carlton, Political Science; Harry Rose, Economics; Donald Sant, Economics; Sam Siciliano, ; English; Mrs. Kathleen Snow, Composition Literature, and Thomas Woolf, Philosophy. Paul Jensen, an International Relations major, received one of 1150 honorable hon-orable mentions. A list of the designates and students stu-dents who received honorable mention will be sent to all grad- ' "ate schools in the United States and Canada with the recommendation recommen-dation that the schools provide a certain amount for the winners. The top 10 percent of the winners win-ners will also receive independent study awards from the Wilson Foundation for approved research, re-search, travel or study during the summer, 'immediately preceding or following their first year of graduate school. The winners of the $1000 awards will be announced an-nounced in the spring. Funds for the Wilson fellowships and study awards have been provided pro-vided by the Ford Foundation, the Charles E. Merrill Trust and the Avalon and Old Dominion Foundations. "Taking scholarly excellence for granted in our nominees, we look further for those human qualities that make good, even great, teachers," said Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, president of the Foundation. The fellowship selection process involved nomination by a faculty members; submitting credentials, including college transcripts, letters let-ters of recommendation and a 1000-word statement of their intellectual intel-lectual interests; committee evaluation eval-uation of dossiers and interviews with the strongest candidates. |