Montrose County School District RE-1J

Communications & Special Projects

126 South 5^th Street, P O Box 10,000

Montrose, Colorado 81402-9701

(970) 252-7901 phone or (970) 249-7173 fax

PRESS RELEASE

DATE: October 18, 2005

Montrose High School Senior Recognized in National Hispanic Recognition Program

Montrose, Colorado. Montrose High School senior, Anthony Rossi, has qualified has been recognized by the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program. Anthony qualified for this academic distinction based on his performance on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Anthony is the son of Alexander and Carla Rossi of Montrose.

More than 150,000 students who took the PSAT test identified themselves as Hispanic. Of that number, only 4,500 of the highest scoring students are recognized as an Hispanic scholar.

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