2 More Whitefish Bay Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

WHITEFISH BAY, WI — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced about 900 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

These Merit Scholar designees join over 3,200 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Whitefish Bay Honorees:

Clara V. Lemaitre

Probable career field: Electrical Engineering

WHITEFISH BAY H. S., WHITEFISH BAY

NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOLARSHIP

The University of Minnesota, the state land grant university, is the primary education and research center in Minnesota in the Health Sciences, Law, Engineering, Agriculture, and Forestry; it offers graduate level programs in all of these fields. The Twin Cities Campus, its largest, comprises 28 colleges. A comprehensive campus in Duluth, a four-year liberal arts campus at Morris, and two-year Technical Agricultural campuses in Crookston and Waseca are also parts of the university system.

Noah Linton

Probable career field: Actuarial Science

WHITEFISH BAY H. S., WHITEFISH BAY

NATIONAL MERIT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

Brandeis University, located ten miles west of Boston, is a small research university committed to academic excellence in the liberal arts. Undergraduate enrollment is 2,800, graduate enrollment is 700, and the faculty numbers 360. Brandeis combines two important educational traditions: dedication to teaching characteristic of a small, selective college and the facilities and renowned faculty usually associated with a large research university.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

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