SCHOOL
Local students to participate in PSA T examination
More than 1.4 million student*
?re expected to take the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitute
Test/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT)
this (all in over It, 000 high
schools across the nation. Among
them will be 40 students
scheduled to take the test
October 23 at Perquimans High
School, according to James S.
Midgette, Counselor of the
school's guidance staff.
The PSAT/NMSQT will be
offered nationally this year on
Saturday. October 20 and
Tuesday. October 23. Since 1959.
nearly 30 million students have
taken the test, which measures
verbal and mathematical
abilities.
"Students take the
PSAT/NMSQT for several
reasons," said the local guidance
official. "The PSAT/NMSQT U
the qualifying exam (or students
wishing to participate in
competitions of the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Students also want to find out
how they rank among their peers
taking the test in other parts of
the country."
The test also provides an
opportunity to become familiar
with types of questions similar to
those on the Scholastic Aptitude
Test, which many college-bound
students tslke. In addition, the
test is the first step in qualifying
for the National Hispanic Scholar
Awards Program, conducted by
the College Board under a $2.1
million grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
Before taking the
PSAT/NMSQT, students receive
Chowan College seeks new scholarships
A drive has been launched to
secure scholarships to enable
students who show particular
promise in science to attend
Chowan College.
The announcement was made
jointly by Dr. Garth Faile,
chairman of the Department of
Science, and Director of
Department Bobby Cross.
They explained the intial goal
is for five endowed scholarships
which will award from between
$1,000-5,000 per year.
Cross noted that a $12,500
endowment would produce the
annual income for a $1,000
Weeks attends
Academy
The 213th academic session at
Salem Academy in Winston
Salem was officially begun
August 31 ft the school's annual
Opening Chapel.
Participants in the ceremony
welcoming new and returning
students, faculty, staff, and
friends included: Robert A.
Newton, Headmaster of the
Academy; Thomas V.
Litzenburg, Jr., President of
Salem Academy and College;
Judy R. Line, Alumnae Director;
Jody Bennett Pearce, President
of the Alumnae Association;
Lekha Menon, Honor Cabinet
President; Jacque Cavanagh,
Student Council President; and
Miss Elsie Nunn, Chairman of
the Council on Academic Affairs.
The Reverend Frank Crouch,
Religion Instructor, opened with
a prayer.
The ceremony included the
school's long-standing tradition
of reading Opening Chapel
messages contained in letters to
students and faculty from
alumnae and former faculty.
Salem Academy is a girl's
college preparatory boarding
school founded in 1772 and
located in Winston-Salem. It is
the 15th oldest educational
institution in the United States.
Total enrollment at the Academy
for the 1984-85 academic year
was 184, with students from 14
states, the Bahamas, Mexico,
and Saudi Arabia.
Edna Harvey Weeks, the
daughter of Mrs. Edna
Wolverton of Hertford is a
student at the Academy.
School
lunch
menus
The following is a list of meals
planned for the Perquimans
County Schools for the week of
September 24 through 28.
Monday ? breakfast,
doughnut, fruit or juice, milk.
Lunch ? steakum or chicken
charms, hash brown, lima beans,
vegetable sticks, onion rings,
fruit, bread, milk.
Tuesday ? breakfast, sausage
biscuit, fruit or juice, milk.
Lunch ? chuckwagon or Bar
B-Q, whipped potatoes, slaw,
green beans, peach crisp, roll,
milk.
Wednesday ? breakfast,
honey bun, fruit or juice, milk.
Lunch ? lasagna or fish
sandwich, shoestring fries, green
beans, pineapple, french bread,
manager's choice vegetable,
milk.
Thursday ? breakfast, steak
biscuit, fruit or juice, milk.
cheeseburger or
hoegie, potato rounds, lettuce
and tomato, mixed vegetables,
fruit, milk.
Friday ? breakfast, pancakes
wtth hooey, fruk or j?iee, milk.
Loach - sausage *sxa or
manager's choice meat,
shoestring frinsv corn,
applesauce, tossed Alad, milk.
scholarship and a $62,500
endowment the income for a
$5,000 scholarhip. Only the
interest from the endowment
funds would be used, thus
enabling the college to provide
the scholarship each year.
Cross said an endowed
scholarship may be made in
honor or memory of a family
member or friend thereby
providing a memorial in
perpetuity.
Faile said the scholarships are
an urgent need to help attract
students with a special strength
in science.
The Department of Science
offers a comprehensive, two
year program in biology,
chemistry and physics.
a Student Bulletin containing a
complete practice test with an
answer key and scoring
instructions. Aftr the test, they
will receive a booklet. About
Your PSA T/NMSQT Scores, that
helps them to interpret their teat
results and plan for college.
? Particularly helpful for
students is the Report of Student
Answers, which includes the
correct answers and their own
responses and scores. They also
receive their own test booklets so
they can review the actual
questions, see the ones they got
wrong, and try to figure out the
correct answer and why they
may have missed it.
The College Board also
provides other services that
enable counselors and other
school personnel to better
understand and interpret the test
results to students and parents.
These services Include school
summaries of students' answers.
profiles of the academic ,
characteristics and career
interests of students taking the
test, and a special publication for
use with students as part of a
general guidance program.
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