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Max Petersen, a student at Clark School, won the Massachusetts competition for eighth-graders in the Daughters of the American Revolution annual essay contest for his personal account of traveling on the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Elizabeth Menesale was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Mount Ida College.
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Mary Kathleen Champlain was awarded a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice at the winter 2010 graduation ceremony at Kaplan University.
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Melissa A. Ginsburg was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Marist College.
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The following students were named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Ashley Albano, Jeffrey Attridge, Jennifer Banks, Cara Birner, Liam Richard Blodgett, Cassie Cheney, Danielle Cotter, Raz Davidyan, Matthew Thomas Dube, Paul Michael Fickenwirth, Kaja Boregaard Pedersen Hopps, Andrew Johnson, Amanda Krugman, Mark Linscott, Rebecca Manganaro, Rosalind Murphy, Patrick Orr, Katherine Prince, Samuel Rinaldo, Evan Rung, Andrew Sargent, Alexandra Shailor, Beth Simmons and Megan Skerry.
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Emily Griffin, daughter of Deborah and Brian Griffin, was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Brandeis University.
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Ashlee M. Egan, daughter of Joseph and Grace Egan, was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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Michael Brainard, Philip Colangelo, Meagan Cotton, Brendan DeCourcy, Alexandra Derderian, Samuel Dyas, Kara Gray, David Klemis, Shawna Martin, Stephen Moffett, Brian Ouellette, Sarah Ragab, Amanda Ray, Julie Skerry and Evan Tawa were named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Anubhav Sinha, a senior at Phillips Exeter, has been named a 2009-2010 New Hampshire state winner of the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement.
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Matthew Soursourian, a 2004 graduate of Pingree School in Hamilton and a 2008 graduate of Brown University, has been named an Earth Day Champion by Clean Water Action in Rhode Island. Soursourian was honored for his work on sustainability in the policy office of the mayor of Providence. He is now working at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as a research associate.
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Katie Tibbets, daughter of Debbie and Gary Tibbets, was awarded the Achievement Scholarship and the Citizen Leader award from Defiance College in Ohio for the coming academic year. She is a student at Beverly High and is active in cross country and track.
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Lindsay Margolis, a senior at Pingree School, was inducted into Pingree's Cum Laude Society.
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Emily O'Toole and Marissa Lischinksy were named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Fairfield University.
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Matthew Giallongo was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Gettysburg College.
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Douglas Tibbets was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Thomas College.
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Steven Gardner, Breannah Paul and Amanda Smith were named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Middlesex Community College.
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Melissa Ginsburg was named to the dean's list for the spring 2010 semester at Marist College.
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Jack Minigan was one of 10 volunteers honored by the YMCA of the North Shore at its annual meeting in April.
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Robin Pierce Ferber recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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The following students from Paula Borsetti's Advanced Placement studio art class had their work on display May 1 and 2 in the Idea Studio at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem: David Atherton, Rachael Beard, Irene Carrozza, Tamsin Doherty, Matt Eriksen, Danielle Jauss, Alison Kostka, Flavia Kuchenny, Makayla Malloy, Eddie Negron, Taylor Popek, Noshin Rashid and Erika Walsh.
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Danielle Lapierre was named to the dean's list for the 2009-2010 winter quarter at DePaul University.
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Cadets Nicholas Mazurkiewicz and Joseph St. Pierre received the Master's Award from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
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Cleo Schmitt was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Simmons College in Boston.
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Michael Tarr received the Outstanding Sophomore Award at Quinnipiac University.
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Mary Concannon, Kaitlin Crowley, Alexandra Skerry and Benjamin Whitmore were named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Roger Williams University.