The latest Wellesley, Mass., student news:

Scholarship updates: Presidential, Merit

Update: Katherine Liu was named as 1 of just 161 U.S. Presidential Scholars, with hers being for the arts.

Congratulations to the following Wellesley High Students named candidates for U.S. Department of Education’s U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, which was established in 1964 by executive order of the President:

Jeremy Kim
Ishan N. Kundu
Katherine Liu
Howard Xu

Liu was subsequently named a semi-finalist in the U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts category. Students will be notified in May if they earn a scholarship.

WHS senior Kundu separately was named a winner of a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship. In this case, Principal Financial Group is the sponsor, and Kundu’s probable career field is listed as finance.

Jazz groups grab gold & silver

Both the Wellesley High Rice Street Singers and 1 O’Clock Jazz Combo won gold awards at this past weekend’s Massachusetts Association for Jazz Education choir and combo festival, while the 2 O’Clock Jazz Combo won a silver.

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