LEWISTON – Lewiston High School Principal Patrick H. O’Neill has announced that Isla Hansen has been named a Commended Student in the 2006 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to the scholastically talented senior.

About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2006 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than one million students who entered the 2006 competition by taking the 2004 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Hansen is the daughter of Stanley and Elaine Hansen of Lewiston.