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Commends Merit
Scholarship Score
Miss Lois Yates, a student at Rappahannock County High School, has received a letter of commendation honoring her for her high performance on the 1970 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Yates of Sperryville. The announcement was made yesterday by the school principal Dennis B. Wingfield.
She is among 35,000 students in the United States who scored in the upper 2 percent of those who are expected to graduate from high school Jn 1971., The Commended students rant just below the 14,750 Semifinalists announced in September by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Edward C. Smith, president of NMSC, said: “Although Commended students advance no further in the Merit Scholarship competition, their standing in this nationwide program deserves public recognition. Their high performance on the NMSQT gives promise of continued success in college. “The Commended students should be encouraged to pursue their education since their intellectual talent represents an important and much needed natural resource. Both these students and our nation will benefit from their continuing educational development.” The Commended students’ names are reported to certain scholarship-granting agencies and to the colleges they named as their first and second choices when they took the NMSQT in February 1970. The reports include home addresses, test scores, and anticipated college major and career intentions of the Commended students. NMSC encourages these students to make every effort to continue their education.
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