Marina High School - Ragnarok Yearbook (Huntington Beach, CA)

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Merit Scholars This year five of Marina's top students placed as National Merit Scholarship Fina- lists and two others placed as Semi-Fina- lists. These scholarships are awarded to students who have exhibited an academic excellence through their PSAT and SAT scores. The finalists this year were Julian Cummings, Kevin Nishimine, Guy Riessen, Roger Lldwin, and Celestine Woo while Kir- sten Challman and Eric Maddy were named semi-finalists. To qualify as NMS Finalists, these stu- dents had to score in the top 593 of those who took the PSAT in their junior year and then do the same on the SAT in their senior year. ln addition to the unusually high number of finalists and semi-finalists, thir- teen other students were named Com- mended Scholars by the NMSQT. Finalist Julian Cummings Finalist: Kevin Nishimine l Finalist: Guy Riessen Semi-Finalist: Kirsten Challman Semi-Finalist: Eric Maddy 54 Merit Scholars E Finalist: Roger Udwin Finalist: Celestine Woo ,,, 5 ' -'vs ' We? 5 . , . ,.- :., A iv. 'A,, ,,, . ,, 11 - 2,5 JM H P,., 4' ,ZJQM 'Wav' Commended Scholars: Thomas Barnes, Jim Buerkle, Barbara Calls' ter, Hanh Cao, David Hollinger, Thomas Ivey, Blythe Kato, Patrick Mannion, Melissa Moore, Greg Raf- fetto, and Chris Walter. Not pic- tured are Dave Flateau and Joyce Wong.

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NCTE Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English sponsors a writing contest in which certain students are se- lected to compete. The purpose of this contest is to encourage students in their writing and then recognize those who have displayed an outstanding talent for writing. Although the NCTE has no funds to award scholarships to winners, they do print a listing of the winners and send it to over 3,000 colleges to improve their chances of receiving a scholarship. The students who were chosen to com- pete in this contest were selected and agreed upon by all members of the English department during their junior year. The nominees then wrote and submitted both a creative work and an impromptu essay. Their essays were then judged by a statewide team of high school and college English teachers. This year, Jay Lechtman was recognized for his outstanding writing performance and was chosen to represent Marina. Finalist NCTE Finalist Jay Lechtman Press f Telegram The PressfTelegram Scholarships are awarded each year to the students who have displayed an excellence in their area of study or participation. The nominees are chosen by the faculty in each area of com- petition. Once chosen, the nominated stu- dents then advance to a district-wide com- petition and compete for a first place schol- arship of 750 dollars and a trophy as a recognition of their academic excellence. Industrial Arts, Conrad Neumann Science Tanya Prather Music, Barbara Calister Journalism, Melissa Moore General Scholarship, Jay Lecht- Bugineggv Barbara Ciqqarelli Athletics, Brian Brotherton Art, Bret Thayer fT'lal'1 . ., NCTE 8 Press Telegram 55