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4 St. Thomas More seniors named National Merit Scholarship finalists
Four seniors at St. Thomas More Catholic High School have been named finalists for the National Merit Scholarship Matthew Gower, Alaina Le, Ty Martin and Catherine Whitehead placing them among the top 1% of students taking the PSAT exam.
These high school seniors were selected based on their academic achievements as well as their performance on the PSAT, which is the qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship Program, and will be eligible for many prestigious scholarships.
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. Approximately 1.5 million high school students enter the program each year, and about 50,000 with the highest PSAT/NMSQT® Selection Index scores qualify for recognition in the program, according to its website.
The Confessions of Nat Turner. According to
The Confessions, Turner was born into slavery on a Southampton plantation on October 2, 1800. He could read and write, which was unusual for an enslaved person of that time and place, and he owned a Bible. He had a family, including a grandmother to whom he was “much attached”; a father who escaped slavery; and a wife and son, who lived on a neighboring farm. He was deeply religious, “devoting [his] time to fasting and prayer,” and experienced private revelations in which “the Spirit that spoke to the prophets in former days” spoke to him. When he was in his twenties, Turner ran away from his overseer. He was gone for a month, returning only, he said, at the spirit’s urging.