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The three top graduating seniors at Wakefield have been determined although their final placement will not be known until exams have been graded. Two of them will be the first students to receive the Wakefield Advanced Honors Diploma (Classical-Scientific), the highest level Wakefield diploma. A student must earn 35 credits to be awarded the diploma.
Josephine Rood, the daughter of Jon and Hazel Rooid of Sperryville, will receive the highest diploma. Her course of study has included advanced placement English, calculus, chemistry, physics, AP biology, French VI, two years of Latin and two years of Greek, logic, ancient, medieval and modem history, U.S. history, philosophy of history, civics and computer science.
She is a National Merit Scholar and a Virginia Scholar (one of 45 in the state to win a $12,000 scholarship). Rood was assistant editor of the yearbook, she contributed articles to the newspaper and she was the editor of the Wakefield literary magazine, Talisman.
She was accepted at Cornell University, Stanford University, UVA and Duke University. Rood will attend Grinell on a National Merit Scholarship.
The other student who will receive the highest diploma is Lauren Wemmer. She has taken advanced placement English courses, calculus, chemistry, physics, AP biology, French VI, two years each of Latin and Greek, logic, ancient, medieval and modem history, U.S. history, philosophy of history, civics and computer science.
Wemmer is a National Merit finalist. She was the editor of the yearbook and assistant editor of the Talisman.
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