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4/19/04

CANTON TEAM WINS SLU MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

CANTON – A team from Hugh C. Williams High School in Canton won the 60th 
Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Interscholastic Mathematics Contest, held recently 
at St. Lawrence University and sponsored by the University's mathematics 
department and the local chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics 
honorary.
	Members of the winning team from Canton were Erik French, Carl 
Woodruff, Ben Hammond, Andrew Palmateer and Adam Weeks Marano.
	Seventy-one students from 15 area high schools participated in 
the contest, which consisted of an individual examination and team-challenge 
problems.
	A St. Lawrence University scholarship, named in honor of Emeritus 
Professor of Mathematics Robert Cromie, for up to $5,000, is designated 
for the top-ranking senior, Benjamin Love of Massena, or one of four 
alternates (Jason Charleson, Ogdensburg; John Whalen, Potsdam; Kent 
Goodrow, St. Regis Falls; and Mike Sassone, Norwood-Norfolk), should they 
decide to attend the University. Scholarships are also designated for the 
three top-ranked non-seniors, Marano, Canton; Andrew Brouwer, Potsdam; and 
Eve Privman, Potsdam, should they decide to attend St. Lawrence, in amounts 
of up to $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.
 	The Gold Medal in individual competition went to Marano, of Canton; 
the Silver Medal to Love, of Massena; and the Bronze Medal to Brouwer, of 
Potsdam. 
	In team competition, Potsdam Central School ranked second and Norwood-
Norfolk Central School, third.
	The highest-ranking member for each team was as follows: Brasher Falls, 
Chad Page; Brushton-Moira, Nicholas Colby; Canton, Marano; Chateaugay, Mallory 
Wood; Gouverneur, Madeline Girard; Lisbon, Aimee Fett; Madrid-Waddington, 
Katie Montgomery; Massena, Love; Norwood-Norfolk, Kwang Yeon Lee; Ogdensburg 
Free Academy, Charleson; Parishville-Hopkinton, Molly Williams; Potsdam, 
Brouwer; Salmon River, Tim Delles; St. Regis Falls, Goodrow; and Tupper Lake, 
Adam Towle.
	The top 10 in individual competition were Marano, Canton; Love, 
Massena; Brouwer, Potsdam; Privman, Potsdam; Lee, Norwood-Norfolk; Palmateer, 
Canton; Charleson, Ogdensburg; Whalen, Potsdam; Goodrow, St. Regis Falls; 
and Sassone, Norwood-Norfolk.

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