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Efforts Rewarded

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Special awards were given to
''Ladies and those students who had excelled
I gentlemen, I in athletics aAd academics. Se-

nior Darin Blunck was a recipi-
I would present letics. and vice versa . That was
ent of a scholar athlete award.
like
"People usually assume that just
because you're a good student.
to
you have nothing to do with ath-
I of proud moments as some of alized that," Blunck said .
not necessarily true. and it was
to you . . " Honors Night was Full good that the administration re-
the finest students at Millard
Seniors in the top 1 0% of the
North were given recognition for class were given their honor
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their accomplishments. The men cords, and for the second year
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I and women of the year For each in a row, scholarships were read
grade and the most representa- at honors night instead of at
tive students were named. Men commencement to cut down on
and women of the year were the length of the commence-
chosen by their classmates From ment ceremony. " It was a good
I a group nominated by faculty, idea because only people who
and the most representative stu- wanted to hear that sort of thing
dents were chosen solely by fac- were in the audience-it wasn 't
ulty. as boring For as many people."
Other presentations were 167 graduates received scholar-
made to scholars in specific ar- ships totalling over 1 .3 million
eas such as industrial arts. home dollars combined. This was a
economics. mathematics. social 7 3. LJ% increase over the previ-
studies. and English. The junior ous year.
and senior class boards along The atmosphere of Honors
with the student council were in- Night was truly electric, espe-
troduced and shown apprecia- cially when Senior Sandy Cieko
After acce pting her award. Fre shman Faculty and fell ow students offe r their tion by hearty applause From the was awarded the U.S. West
Becky Speik er returns to her seat She supp0rt as well as parents. many of audience For the work that they Women's scholarship. which
was na med one of three Sp iri t Scholars who find Honors Night one to re mem-
in her cla ss. (L. Dewey) berT (L. Dewey) had done during the school year. was a gift of over $5.000 of
Awards were given For busi- computer equipment.
ness. art. and Foreign language The successes of so many stu-
as well. "It was nice to be recog- dents. recognized at Honors
nized For all of the hard work I'd Night, carried on the tradition of
done," said Senior Liane Mer- excellence and developed new
cer. who was named an out- standards to be met in the Fu-
standing Foreign language stu- ture. <0111111
dent.