April 11, 1997 Contact John R. Crosiar (541) 346-3135 NOTE TO EDITORS: Students from Beaverton, Eugene, Portland and Salem are listed in the following story. For the names of the hundreds of other Oregon students whose individual scores earned them spots on national and Oregon honor and merit rolls, contact local schools. EUGENE--Led by the first-place team from North Salem High School, Oregon's top high school mathematics students will receive special recognition from the University of Oregon Department of Mathematics in an awards luncheon on campus Thursday, April 17. The North Salem High School team achieved the highest state scores in a recent national mathematics contest and will receive a trophy presented by Steadman Upham, UO vice provost for research. In addition, all three winning teams and top-scoring individual students will bring home to their school libraries a variety of books, each bearing a bookplate listing their names. North Salem's Owen Nichols, Trung Vu and Hans Mueller compiled a combined score of 352 points to top more than 5,000 Oregon students from 95 schools who took the 1997 American High School Mathematics Examination in February, according to Professor Shlomo Libeskind of the UO mathematics department, which coordinates administration of the examinations in Oregon. South Eugene High School's team, represented by Daniel Demoss, Laura Riihimaki and Hunt Allcott, placed second with a combined score of 340. Westview High School of Portland, represented by Steve Zhang, Amanda Bliss and Yongjoo Jun, scored 318 points for a third-place finish. The total possible score for an individual is 150 points. The three highest scores of students from each school are combined to produce team totals, Libeskind explained. Andrew Frohmader of Portland's Temple Christian School earned 129 points to become the top-scoring individual in the state. He also is the only Oregon student to win a gold medal for being the highest scoring student in his school for four consecutive years. Stephen Rayhawk of Merlo Station High School in Beaverton, with 124 points, merited second place. Owen Nichols of North Salem High School came in third with an individual score of 123. Libeskind reports that 51 Oregon high school students, with test scores of 100 or greater, are listed on the mathematics contest's National Honor Roll, and the Oregon Honor Roll lists 120 students who scored from 93 to 99 points. Forty-nine Oregon students in grades 10 or below are on the National Merit Roll for achieving scores of 90 or greater. The Mathematical Association of America, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the American Mathematical Society are among groups sponsoring the 48th national examination. -30- #H-2229/Hometowns, Special