EUGENE–Led by the first-place team from LaSalle High School in Milwaukie, Oregon’s top high school mathematics students will receive special recognition from the University of Oregon Department of Mathematics during an April 15 awards luncheon on campus.

The LaSalle High School team achieved the highest state scores in a recent national mathematics contest and will receive a trophy presented by Joe Stone, dean of the UO College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, all five winning teams and top-scoring individual students will take home to their school libraries a variety of books, each bearing a bookplate listing their names.

LaSalle’s Adam Clemens, Bernard Mares and Conor McNassar compiled a combined score of 326 points to top more than 5,000 Oregon students from 92 schools who took the 1999 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.

A team from Oregon Episcopal High School in Portland, represented by Trevor Wilson, Brian Jaffe and Amy Laird, placed second with a combined score of 322.

Westview High School of Beaverton–last year’s state winner–earned third place with a team score of 320 points. Daniel Yoo, Soowhan Lah, Amanda Bristow, Anda Cornea and Lauren Allee represented Westview.

Fourth- and fifth-place awards went to Crescent Valley High School of Corvallis, with a score of 318, and Sunset High School of Beaverton, scoring 316. The Crescent Valley team included Craig Hetherington, Janani Sreenivasan, Julian Rosen and Scott King. Sunset’s team consisted of Philip Cook, David Barclay and Matthew Bentley.

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.

Peter Kozak from Lakeview High School earned 134 points to become the top-scoring individual in Oregon. David Fithian of Rogue River High School, with 127 points, merited second place, and Philip Cook of Sunset High School, Beaverton, came in third with 124.

Libeskind reports that 64 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 115 students who scored from 93 to 99 points. Seventy-nine Oregon students in grades 10 or below are on the Oregon 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 50th national examination.

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