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Show High School Student flamed Semiiinalist In National Contest Principal Pratt Bethers of the Cedar High School announced ryesterday that Key Heywood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Heywood,' has been named a semifinalist In the 1960-61 National Merit. Scholarship competition. " These semifinalists are among the 10,000 high scoring students of the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, a test of educational edu-cational development given In moi than 15,000 high schools last spring. The semifinalists .Sroup is composed of the high-4 .est scoring students In each .state and in United States territories. terri-tories. I It is the second successive year (Continued on Pago Two) ' I SCHOLARSHIP SEHEFINALIST (Continued from Front Tag) that a Cedar High School student has' won recognition through the, national . organization. In 1959 Ricky Lawre:ice of Cedar City, finished high in the program, according ac-cording to Principal Bethers. Each semlfinallst now moves a step closer to winning a four-year four-year Merit Scholarship to the college col-lege of hl3 choice. John M. Stalnaker, president of the National Merit Scholar-' ship Corporation which conducts the annual program, stated that "Merit semiflnallsts represent the mct promising grains in the nation. na-tion. From this group of able, attractive students will coma the scholars and Intellectual leaders of tomorrow." The semifinalbts will take another regorous examination, the three-hour Scholstlc Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Ex amination Board, to be given in testing centers throughout the nation na-tion on December 3. t Students whose 'scores' on the second tests substantiate their performance on the qualifying test and who are endorsed by their high schools v.111 become finalists in the competition. As finalists, the students will be eligible for scholarship awards sponsored by 115 business busin-ess and industrial organizations, 'professional societies, foundations, founda-tions, individuals, and the National Na-tional Merit Scholarship Corporation Corpor-ation Itself. |
