HEBRON – Hebron Academy Head John King has announced that Katherine Cole of New Gloucester has been named a Commended Student in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program.

A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corp., which conducts the program, will be presented to Cole, who is a senior.

About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise.

Although they will not continue in the 2007 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.4 million students who entered the 2007 competition by taking the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Text.