3 More Wauwatosa Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

WAUWATOSA, 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.

Wauwatosa Honorees:

Max T. Herteen

Probable career field: Academia

WAUWATOSA WEST H. S., WAUWATOSA

NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON SCHOLARSHIP

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public land grant university located in one of the most beautiful physical settings in the Upper Midwest. It is one of the world's outstanding universities, ranked among the nation's top universities in every major poll since 1910. The university is large and complex. It is also friendly and open, ready to reach out with a helping hand. It is a place which invites cultural diversity and recognizes individual achievement. It is a special place.

Richard F. Sear

Probable career field: Engineering

WAUWATOSA WEST H. S., WAUWATOSA

NATIONAL MERIT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

The George Washington University--private, coeducational, and nonsectarian--is located in the heart of Washington, DC, four blocks from the White House. Total on-campus enrollment of 17,000 students from all 50 states and over 100 foreign countries includes 6,100 undergraduates who select from more than 80 academic programs in Arts & Sciences (including Prelaw and Premedicine), Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, and International Affairs.

Noah R. Suchy

Probable career field: Architecture

WAUWATOSA WEST H. S., WAUWATOSA

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.

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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