Derryfield seniors earn academic recognition

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MANCHESTER – Local Derryfield School seniors have been inducted into the National Honor Society.

The are Ellie Kaufman and Matthew Porat, of Amherst; Alessandra Geffner-Smith and Samantha Hough, of Merrimack; Nicholas Alberts and Andrea Green, of Nashua, and Philip Melanson, of Windham.

Elise Shattuck, of Amherst and Craig Barstow, of Windham, received a Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation is awarded to those students who score in the top 3.3 percent of all students who took the Preliminary SAT in their junior year.

Adrian McLeod, of Windham, was named a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Semi-finalists score in the top 1 percent of all students who took the Preliminary SAT in their junior year.

In addition, the Simeon Kass Award for Writing and Humanistic Inquiry was awarded to Samantha Hough, of Merrimack. The award is presented to a senior who demonstrates outstanding writing skills, an appreciation of other cultures, a burning inquisitiveness, and the disposition to take a position and challenge received opinions. A panel of faculty reviews applications for this annual scholarship.