GM Scholarship Awarded To Washburn Youth

BRUNSWICK - Michael S. Cary of Washburn has been awarded a General Motors Scholarship at Bowdoin College President James S. Coles has announced.

Cary, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Cary of Washburn, will enter Bowdoin in September as a member of the Class of 1971.

A former resident of 140 Chatworth Ave., Warwick, R.I., he ranked in the top three per cent of his graduating class at Pilgrim High School in Warwick.

A General Motors Scholarship, which is renewable, is awarded annually to one member of the entering class at Bowdoin. The program, which has been in effect at Bowdoin since 1955, now has one GM Scholarship recipient in each of the four classes.

Cary has been active in debating at Pilgrim High School and served as president of the Debating Club. He has a biology and physics seminars at the University of Rhode Island and was a delegate to the Rhode Island State Model Legislature in 1966. He played the clarinet in the school band and won in tennis and swimming.

He has been a member of the Methodist Youth Fellowship and served as president two years.

During the two years he attended Washburn High School he won first place in the freshman-sophamore biology division at the Maine State Science Fair in 1964, was a delegate to the Maine State Science Congress and was a member and president of the Debating club.

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