Altamont students recognized with awards

Two Homewood youth who attend the Altamont School were recently recognized.

2013 graduate Stephen McMahon was selected as one of 20 in the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. The scholars are selected on their promise of being leaders for Dallas, the United States and the world community during the 21st century.

Stephen was involved in numerous activities in high school.

In addition, rising senior Elizabeth Anne Brown was recently chosen as a winner in the National Council of Teachers of English 2013 Achievement Awards in Writing Competition. She is the only winner from Alabama and one of only 11 winners in the Southeast.

A total of 753 juniors from the U.S., Canada, Virgin Islands and American schools abroad were nominated by their schools to participate in this year’s competition, and only 155 students were chosen as outstanding writers. Due to Altamont’s size (fewer than 500 students), the school was only allowed to nominate one writer for entry.

The theme for this year’s competition was “Personal Mount Rushmore” in which students were to imagine they had been asked to choose four figures for their own personal Mount Rushmore; the figures were to represent personal ideals.