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BERRESFORD WINS PARKER AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENTS

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The Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship for this year has been awarded to R.C. Berresford '28, following a meeting of the Corporation, it was announced yesterday.

This scholarship is given annually to a student of "high character and ability, who shall have demonstrated his qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities" of the University. This scholarship, one of the most noteworthy awards of the University, was founded in 1923 by friends and classmates of R.P. Parker '22, of Salem, who was killed in an airplane accident near Paris the year year before his graduation.

Berresford, who comes from New York City, is a graduate of the Horace Mann School. This year he is manager of the University baseball team, a member of the Athletic Committee, the Glee Club, and the University Instrumental Clubs, and is in the second group of the Rank List.

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