PORTLAND

Cheverus High School honored the following students with undergraduate and college book awards at its Undergraduate Awards Night.

Deidre Lambert of Cumberland Foreside and Pat Jerome of Falmouth received Mat Awards.

The National Merit Program Commended Student is Kenneth Laughton of Portland.

The National Merit Program semifinalist is Emily Machesney of Cumberland.

Certificate of Appreciation from the Society of Women Engineers to Meegan Daigle of Gorham.

John J. Flaherty Prize in Classics to Alexandra Kane of Brunswick.

University of Rochester Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award and Holy Cross Book Prize to Abigail Norbert of Portland.

The University of Rochester George Eastman Young Leaders Award and the St. Joseph's College Book Award was received by Ariana Spang of Scarborough.

University of Rochester Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award and Regis College Book Award to Ian O'Malley of Portland.

Boston College Book Award to Katherine Saunders of Saco.

Dartmouth College Book Award to Mark Dumond of Bowdoinham.

Cornell University Book Award to Erika Roberge of Biddeford.

Williams College Book Award to Kyle Randal of South Portland.

University of Miami Book to Ashley Giddings of Gray.

Harvard Book Prize and Undergraduate of the Year Award to Meegan Daigle of Gorham.

Mount Saint Vincent College Book Award and the Cheverus Special Service Award to Emily Bauer of Kennebunk.

Fairfield University Book Award went to Anna Snook of Auburn.

Springfield College Book Award to Elizabeth Cook of Scarborough.

Natasha Spellman of Old Orchard Beach and Thomas Yates of West Baldwin were given Saint Michael's College Book Award.

The Saint Anselm College Book Award went to Margaret Corrigan of New Gloucester.

Miriam Nielsen of Sidney received the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Maine Academic Achievement Award, the Yale Book Award and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute award.

SANFORD

A few dozen Sanford Junior High School students recently participated in a two-mile, Purple Pinky Walk-a-thon to raise awareness for World Polio Day. Members of the school's EarlyAct and Interact clubs were joined by Sanford-Springvale Rotary Club president Patti Gulnac and Rotarian and youth adviser Elias Thomas. Rotary International has worked for 25 years to eradicate polio, partnering with the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations and some 200 countries.