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Denville - (above) Morris Knolls students from left to right : Stephanie Tung. Morris Knolls High
School is proud to announce that seniors Stephanie Tung and
have been honored with the National Council of Teachers of English's 2001 National Achievements in Writing Award. Tung is one of only a small number of students who earned the award in New Jersey. (Only 600 of the NCTE awards are granted nationally.) The award carries no cash prize as the NCTE is a not-for-profit organization. However, it does earn and Tung a NCTE Certificate of Commendation and a letter from the NCTE to the directors of admissions of over 3,000 colleges and universities informing them that the NCTE has recognized each of them as "one of the best student writers in the nation."
To earn this most-prestigious award, Tung : first had to be selected by the Morris Knolls High School
English Department as the school's nominee; then they each had to submit a sample of previously written work and an essay, written in a set time and under strict supervision, on a topic selected by the NCTE (The
2001 essay topic was on Teen Pressures/Stress.); and lastly they had to wait nervously from the April submission date until the announcement date in September to hear the results of their entries.
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Tung's earning the award, Teacher of Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition and English Department Consulting Teacher, Lorraine Hrobuchak, said: "Both Stephanie and possess a facility with language that is seen in few students their age; they are both most deserving of this award." Morris Knolls High School Principal, Kurt Weinheimer, added to Hrobuchak's statement by saying: "This is a credit to Stephanie's commitment to excellence in the field of writing and we are most proud of their accomplishments."
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Denvile - Morris Knolls students from left to right : (back row) Alexis McGowan, Lauren Rath, Kelly Loftus, Steve
Butera, and Jamie Beyer. (front row) Michael Kurdyla, and Daniel Smith. Morris Knolls High School is proud to announce that it has had its students honored by the National Merit
Scholarship Program (NMSP).
Morris Knolls Principal Kurt Weinheimer received a letter from the National Merit Scholarship Program
naming seven Morris Knolls students NMSP Commended Students. These senior students are Jamie Beyer, Steven Butera, Michael Kurdyla, Kelly Loftus, Alexis McGowan, Lauren Rath, and Daniel Smith. The letter
indicated that the named students were among the top five percent of the more than one million students who had entered the 2002 Merit Program and that they had earned their ranking by excelling on the 2000
Preliminary SAT, which also serves as the NMSP Qualifying Test.
The letter continued: "The young men and women named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding academic potential by their performance. In a nation that values excellence, it is important to publicly recognize the attainments of scholastically talented young people and the schools that nourish them."
Of the NMSP Commended Students, Principal Weinheimer commented: "All our recognized students are to be
commended for their dedication and pursuit of academic excellence throughout their years of schooling which has led to this honor."
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