Ten MCPS high schools won top awards for their student-produced publications in the 15th annual Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

County schools earned four of the six highest awards given in Maryland, an honor presented to only 66 of the 736 school magazines that were entered in the 1998 competition. The four schools and their magazines, along with their staff advisors, are:

Winston Churchill High School, Erehwon

Romi Sussman, English teacher

Richard Montgomery High School, Fine Lines

Anita Anderson, English composition assistant

Linda Ellis, English teacher

Paint Branch High School, Signatures

Nancy Peckerar, English teacher

Springbrook High School, Musings

Omari C. Daniel, English teacher

The following three schools received superior ratings:

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Quill

Carole Tomayko, English teacher

Walter Johnson High School, The Spectator

Sharon Cohen, social studies teacher

Walt Whitman High School, Eidolon

Suzanne W. Coker, English teacher

The following four schools received excellent ratings:

Damascus High School, The Reverie

Nancy Scribner, English composition assistant

Quince Orchard High School, The Cat's Tales of Peripeteia

Catherine H. Elliott, English teacher

Watkins Mill High School, Avant-Garde: Outlets 1998

Joanna Howard, English composition assistant

Thomas S. Wootton High School, Pensations

Kathleen Wolfrey, English composition assistant