National Merit Selects 11 Portland Students
Eleven high school juniors from the Portland Public Schools have been selected to enter the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are among the 50,000 highest scoring participants out of 1.5 million students who took the PSAT/NMSQT last fall. They will compete for scholarships and recognition.
Qualifying students at Deering High School are John B. Clarke, Illaria R. Dana, Kevin T. MacDowell and Eric D. Mason. Portland High students who qualified are Nathan Buck, Sidney Dritz, Brian Furey, Nathaniel Jewett, Make Kinner, Eoin McCarron and Victoria McIntyre.
