October 17, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 5 Ridgewood Ridgewood High School has listed five students -Mark Chung, Kyosan Ku, Thomas Lum, Anna Nathanson, and Vidushi Sharma -- as this year’s National Merit Five RHS students are National Merit Semifinalists Semifinalists. The five semifinalists will be eligible to compete for National Merit Scholarships to be offered next spring. Only about 16,000 of the 1.5 million students who took last autumn’s National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test as high school juniors were eligible for the final competition. Ridgewood also listed multiple Commended Students who ranked high enough on the tests to receive special notification, but will not be eligible for National Merit scholarships. The Commended Scholars include Michael Blanco, Zoe Bletcher-Cohen, Andre Burger, Jong Byon, Caroline Chiaramonte, Paul Creedon, Aryan Falahatpisheh, Francesca Felder, Megan Felder, Marc Fishbein, Matthew Giancristofaro, Cooper Holmes, Joo Sung Kim, Soyeon Kim, Yong Gyu Kwon, Julia Lester, Eunice Lim, Louis Lim, William Montgomery, Ji Soo Ok, Jacqueline Park, Mansheej Paul, John Rekucki, Mathew Sehrsweeney, John Sheridan, Margaret Shigeta, Justin Shin, Heesung Son, Gabija Usaite, Laura Wiggington, Leo Yoo, Youngbin Yoon, and Vincent Young. Thomas Lum, Anna Nathanson, Mark Chung, Vidushi Sharma, Kyosan Ku, and Principal Thomas Gorman.