Ferenae premarin ts Sn ene Students honored for excellence SEVEN OF North Vancouver’s top 1985 scholars were honored by the District 44 school board Tuesday night. The students represented the scholastic cream from six of the district’s seven sec- ondary schools. Speaking to a standing- room only school board chamber, Argyle principal Jim Buchanan introduced Jim Mutch, his school’s top graduate and one of B.C.’s top. 20 students, to District 44 trustees. Mutch, the Argyle prin- cipal said, was a true pro- duct of North’ Vancouver’s excellent education system, coming up through Ross Road Elementary. Argyle’s top student, Buchanan add- ed, had been awarded the $20,000 Mount Pleasant Legion Scholarship as one of the top B.C. students enter- ing UBC. TOP HONORS Handsworth Senior Sec- ondary fielded two students in the evening’s celebrations: Peter MeCorquodale, winner of the Governor General's silver medal, the $10,000 Gordon Shrum SFU en- trance scholarship, and a $2,000 scholarship for his second place finish overall in B.C.’s_ scholarship exams; and Reka Vasarhelyi. Handsworth prinicipal Ken Feyer told trustees that Vasarhelyi had arrived in Canada in 19806 from Hungary. She spoke no English. However, within two weeks of her enrolment in grade 8, the young Hungarian was one of the top English students in her grade. a Vasarhelyi won the Gov- ernor General's bronze award and the $10,000 Chancellor’s UBC Entrance scholarship as tribute to her Other top scholars cele- brated Tuesday night were Jan Culling from Carson Graham, Seycove _ Second- ary’s Richard Mester, Tim . Black from Sutherland, and Windsor’s Wayne Koll. ACHIEVEMENT All seven graduates were presented with coin collec- tions by the board and thanked by chairman Marg Jessup for helping keep North Vancouver on the ac- ademic map. Of the 1,100 scholarships available in B.C. in 1985, North Vancouver graduates won 108 for a total of $125,000. Though North Vancouver’s 1,210 graduating students com- prised 3.8 per cent of B.C.’s total, they won 9.8 per cent of the province’s available scholarships. In total, North Vancouver students racked up $326,640 in scholarships and bursaries this year. 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