Eight Students Honored By

‘National Dean’s List’

Eight students from the area are among the approximately 140,000 students included in the 23rd Annual Edition of The National Dean’s List, 1999-2000. The National Dean’s List, published by Educational Communications, Inc., is the largest recognition program and publication in the nation honoring high achieving college students.

The following students from Newtown were featured: Elizabeth Glaser, University of Rochester; Melissa R. Gustafson, The Masters College and Seminary; Jedidiah Kiernan, University of Connecticut; Scott Kirmil, Northeastern University; Bernhard T. Klaus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jennifer Staple, Yale University; Michael J. Brokaw, Maine Maritime Academy; and Cory E. Krueger, University of Connecticut.

Students are selected for this honor by their college deans, registrars, or honor society advisors and must be in the upper 10 percent of their class, on their school’s Dean’s List, or have earned a comparable honor. Listed students are eligible to compete for $50,000 in scholarship awards funded by the publisher, and may also use a referral service for future employment opportunities. More than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide use the publication to recognize their academically qualified students.