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The Community Foundation of Frederick County has established a scholarship in memory of Preston Tarleton, a graduate of Brunswick High School and Shenandoah University, who died in a car accident in April, according to a press release.

The scholarship fund will provide scholarships to Brunswick High School graduating seniors, with preference given to seniors participating in baseball and who plan to continue their involvement in the sport at the post-secondary level. Applications will be accepted starting with the 2011-2012 scholarship year.

Tarleton played varsity baseball for four years at Brunswick High School, and continued for four years with the Shenandoah Hornets. He graduated from Brunswick in 2004, and Shenandoah in 2008, with a degree in business administration, according to his obituary.

Those who wish to benefit The Preston Tarleton Memorial Fund may make a secure, online donation at www.cffredco.org and clicking on "Contribute" in the upper right hand corner. Checks made payable to The Community Foundation of Frederick County may be mailed to 312 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701, with the name of the fund on the memo line. All donations are tax deductible.

Area students earn

dean's list recognition

Sarah Hoffman of Middletown made the dean's list at Ohio Wesleyan University. To qualify for dean's list recognition, Ohio Wesleyan students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale in at least three unit courses.

Willie Owens of Middletown made the dean's list at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the semester to make the dean's list.

Sarah Huffer of Middletown has been named to the McDaniel College spring 2010 dean's list with highest honors. Highest honors are earned for a semester grade point average of 3.90 or higher, high honors for a grade point average of 3.70-3.89, and honors for a 3.50-3.69 average.

J. Elmer Harp Medical Center

awards scholarships

The J. Elmer Harp Medical Center awarded three $7,000 scholarships to Middletown area residents who are pursuing studies in the medical field in their secondary education. Two scholarships were awarded in memory of J. Elmer Harp to David Allen Lieb, or Middletown and Rachel Reed, of Myersville.

Lieb plans to study pre-med at the University of Maryland and Reed will study nursing at Salisbury University.

The third scholarship was established in honor of Gloria M. "Stretch" Grossnickle, who helped in the founding of Harp Medical center. This scholarship, also worth $7,000, was awarded to Melissa Ann Schroyer, of Smithburg. She plans to pursue a nursing degree at Towson University.

Students compete

in National History Day

Six Urbana-area students joined Frederick County's representation at the National History Contest held earlier in June.

Ellen Georgi, a social studies teacher at Urbana Middle School, was a judge at the event, and wrote about the efforts of local students in an e-mail to The Gazette.

The Kenneth E. Bering National History Day competition was held from June 13-17 at the University of Maryland College Park.

Georgi wrote that each state and U.S. territory may send its top two winners in each category, and the competition's website lists more than 17,000 entries. "...There are many students to compete against..." Georgi wrote.

This year's theme was "Innovations in History," and each individual or group had to select a topic, thoroughly research it, and present their findings as a performance, a website, a documentary or an exhibit, Georgi wrote. Students from in grades six through 12 are eligible to compete.

When the final awards were presented, Urbana students didn't take home overall awards, but Georgi wrote that they competed well.

Urbana High students Katie Marshall, Rebecca Mitchell and Rachel Petro competed for their second time at the nation level this year, presenting a project titled "Women in Space? Preposterous! The Innovation of W.I.S.P." Georgi wrote that they were third in their division, but did not win an overall award.

Urbana Middle School students Arun Kulkharni, Michael Mitchell, and Amil Sahai, all eighth-graders, presented a project called "A Walk in the Woods with John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt: The Formation of the National Parks System." Georgi wrote that this was their first time reaching the national competition, and they did not win a medal this year.

Other Frederick County students fared better, however.

Emily Brown, of Middletown High, was able to display her project, "Mary Sherman Morgan: The Woman Who Launched the American Space Program," at the Smithsonian American History Museum on June 16, according to Georgi.

Emily Pritt, a home schooled student from Walkersville, won a special state award for her paper "Sign Language Linguistics: William C. Stokoe and the Birth of Deaf Culture," according to Georgi. She also took third place in the senior paper division.

Emily's brother, Noah Pritt, won third place in the junior paper division for " Descartes' Analytic Geometry: Plotting the Future of Mathematics."

The contest draws more than 500,000 students to state competitions each year, and offers them a chance to enhance their critical thinking, research, oral and written communication skills, self esteem and instill "a sense of responsibility for and involvement in the democratic process," according to the website.

For more information, visit www.nationalhistoryday.org.

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