Best & Brightest

Best & brightest

• Sherrie Dubinski of Arlington Heights, a freshman at Lake Forest College, received a Deerpath Academic Scholarship and Carnegie Writing Scholarship. The Deerpath scholarships are awarded to students with strong records of achievement in a challenging program of study.

Dubinski is a graduate of John Hersey High School.

• Jill E. Placek, daughter of John and Jennifer Placek of Arlington Heights, received a bachelor's degree with honors in June 2007 from Northwestern University, Evanston. She majored in communication sciences and disorders with a minor in Spanish. Placek, a 2003 graduate of Rolling Meadows High School, is now attending medical school.

• Anna Lingen of Arlington Heights, a student at Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette, was named a Commended Student in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program. To receive this distinction, students must demonstrate outstanding academic potential and place among the top 50,000 of the more than 1.4 million students entered in the competition.

• Maggie Howell of Chicago, formerly of Arlington Heights, earned a master of education degree in special education learning behavior specialist from the National College of Education of National-Louis University's Wheeling campus.

• Christine D. Stoczanyn daughter of John and Diana Stoczanyn of Arlington Heights, took the first step into the pharmacy profession at the White Coat Ceremony of St. Louis College of Pharmacy in Missouri. Students are admitted directly from high school. The college offers a six-year curriculum leading to the doctor of pharmacy degree. Students receive their white coats at the beginning of their third year in recognition of their new roles as student pharmacists. Stoczanyn is a 2005 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School.

• Kevin Carter of Arlington Heights graduated in 2007 from Lake Forest College with a bachelor of arts degree in business. He is a graduate of Saint Viator High School.

• Meghan Schroll of Arlington Heights graduated in 2007 from Lake Forest College with a bachelor of arts degree in business. Schroll was elected into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the undergraduate honorary society for economics. She is a graduate of Wheeling High School.

• Emily G. Steinbeck of Arlington Heights, has been named to the 2007 fall dean's list at the University of Tennessee at Martin.