Honors in the areas of art, history, science, and physical education are a few of the annual awards being given to students at this time.

Art Awards Night was held in the Maine West cafeteria May 19. Around 180 awards were given and an estimated crowd of 300 people attended the presentation.

Criteria for the awards are scholarship in the Art Department, responsibility, attitude, and performance in class. Other areas considered were growth in performance, awareness, creativeness, and service to the class and Art Department.

Students were nominated by their respective art teachers from the courses of Art 1‑4, sketching, Design and Materials 1 and 2, and Photography 1 and 2.

Ninety‑four girls from the Class of '73 were honored by being selected as Junior Leaders for next year. These 94 were selected from about 200 applicants.

Qualifications for being a member included P.E. grades, general school grades, recommendations of P.E. teachers and Senior Leaders, as well as organization leaders. The girls also were required to write an essay. Then the P.E. teachers got together and picked those with the highest scores.

For the first year the history department will give awards to deserving members of all four classes. In all, about 110 awards were given at an awards night on May 19 in L‑101. The awards night was featured with talks by David Carl '71 and Jill Fedder '71 on the subject of "Roles Youths Play in U.S. History."

The top 31 U.S. history students received DAR certificates, and a DAR medal was given to the top U.S. history student. The students were selected on the basis of high scores on a special test they took. From there the top 10 students took essay exams which were judged by the U.S. history teachers, and a winner was chosen.

Freshmen, sophomores, and seniors were selected as outstanding students by being recommended by their respective history teachers. The top students in each class were selected by these teachers.

In science almost 100 awards were given out on May 11 in the auditorium. High honors for the awards went to Jon Baldo who won the Bausch and Lomb Award as well as the American Cyanamid Award.

Students from all four classes won awards for being lab assistants. Eleven students won research awards. Some students won general science awards physical science awards and other awards went for biology, earth science, Chemistry 1, Ace. and regular chemistry. Awards were also given for physics, geology, and aerospace.