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9.   PATRICIA BARNSTABLE IS NATIONAL COLLEGIATE QUEEN

     Patricia Barnstable, cheerleader for the Wildcats and a native
of Louisville, has been given the National Achievement Award as
"National College Queen of the Year," for 1971-72. The designation,
awarded annually by a national panel, recognizes the outstanding
collegiate queen in the nation. Miss Barnstable competed with over
15,000 other college queens for the title. National finalists were
judged on the basis of overall achievement and excellence in all
phases of participation. Criteria included breadth and quality of
achievement, scholarship, leadership, and service to both college
and community. Also used in the evaluations were letters of re-
commendation, personal interviews, and biographies submitted by all
finalists. Miss Barnstable represented Kentucky earlier this year
in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant and was runner-up to Miss U.S.A.   Her
previous titles include Miss Teenage Louisville, Miss America Am-
vet, and Miss Poplar Level. She has been designated National Cheer-
leader by the National Cheerleading Association. A 1969 honor
graduate of Louisville's Seneca High School, Miss Barnstable is a
junior speech and English major, and she has continued her honor
grades. She was tapped by Cwens, national women's honorary scholar-
ship and leadership society, and Angel Flight, Air Force ROTC re-
cognition auxiliary for college women. She is a representative on
the Panhellenic Council and Student Athletic Committee, and is
cheerleader captain. The blue-eyed blond is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dale Barnstable. Her identical twin sister, Pristcilla,
is equally accomplished on campus. Their father is a former Univer-
sity basketball star.



10. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SPENT SUMMER IN CHEM LABS

     Betty Morton, a student at Bryan Station High School, did re-
search this summer in University chemistry laboratories as one of
80 high school students chosen to participate in Catalyst, a pro-
gram sponsored by the American Chemical Society to help motivate
young people from disadvantaged families and to give them an in-
centive to continue their education at the college level. Miss
Morton worked under the direction of Dr. Stanford L. Smith on a re-
search project titled "NMR Studies of Aromatic Heterocycles." Now
in its fourth year, the program brings promising high school stu-
dents, principally juniors, into university chemistry laboratories
where they work for ten weeks on a one-to-one basis with professional
scientists. The work they do is aimed at expanding their general
knowledge of the scientific environment.



11. STUDENTS GET KPA GRANTS

     Five scholarships have been awarded to journalism students at
the University by the Kentucky Press Association Journalism Founda-
tion. Timothy Edward Ballard, Bardstown, freshman, will receive a
$100 scholarshp from KPA plus $100 from the Kentucky Standard, Bards-
town. Other students receiving scholarships were Ronald Mitchell,
Lexington; Susan N. McGree, Mayfield; William Byron West, Owensboro,
and Karen Vogt, Jeffersonville, Ind.   The foundation provides the
scholarships through funds donated by KPA member newspapers.