{"id":9319,"date":"2011-06-15T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T05:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2011-06-15T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T05:48:21","slug":"vwhs-senior-earns-national-merit-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/15\/vwhs-senior-earns-national-merit-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS senior earns National Merit honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert High School Principal Bill Clifton announced that Benjamin Price has been named a &#8220;Commended Student&#8221; in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9320\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9320 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ben-Price.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"204\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to this scholastically talented senior.<\/p>\n<p>About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise.\u00a0 Although they will not continue in the 2011 competition for National Merit Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecognition of high-achieving students is essential to advancing educational excellence in our nation,\u201d commented a spokesperson for NMSC.\u00a0 \u201cAs demonstrated by their outstanding performance in our highly competitive program, the young men and women named Commended Students represent some of the most academically talented students in our country.\u00a0 We sincerely hope this recognition will enhance their educational opportunities and encourage them in their pursuit of academic success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert High School Principal Bill Clifton announced that Benjamin Price has been named a &#8220;Commended Student&#8221; in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to this scholastically talented senior. About 34,000 Commended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:25:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}