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Members of Student Council, National Honor Society and Key Club at Bangor High School volunteered their time and effort to help improve the Bangor Public Library’s book check-out system. The library is updating to a new on-line system which makes use of bar codes that help to give immediate information on the availability of books. BHS students Andrea Bassi, Tasanee Briggs and George Karris worked together with Librarian Barbara Rice to schedule more than 250 student hours of work. In addition, BHS students also collected donations to present to the library to help get the new system on line by July 6. The Bangor Public Library has proved itself invaluable to students through the years, and students felt this was a great opportunity to give something back to the library that has served them and the community so well.

Anna W. Fricke of Hancock has been named a 1994 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. Three other Maine students were named 1994 Presidential Scholars — Annabel L. Bradford of Greenville High School; Erin A. Pond, Cape Elizabeth High School; and Jonathan K. Twitchell, Oxford Hills High School, South Paris. Each will receive the Presidential Scholars medallion during Presidental Scholars National Recognition Week in Washington, D.C., in late June. They were selected from among the 2,600 high school semifinalists who had been chosen from the 2.5 million graduating seniors in the United States this year.

Greg Markowsky of Orono High School was the top scorer of the 1,960 students in Maine who took the American High School Mathematics Exam. His score of 147 out of 150 ranked him 16th in all of New England. He also was high scorer of the All Maine Conference Team that competed at Penn State University June 4, and placed third as a member of the New England Math Team. In the 1993-94 Eastern Maine Math League season, he placed third among seniors.

Noah Trimble Keteyian of Lamoine will study music for eight weeks this summer at Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Mich. He is a June graduate of Mount Desert Island High School.

The School News column is compiled by Darlene S. Henderson.