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t. Stanislaus saluta-torian and National Merit Finalist Charles Guy Wood. Jr.. son of Dr.
and Mrs. Charles Guy Wood, Sr., of Pass Christian, MS, has been awarded the $3,OCX) Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship for 2009.
Wood becomes the twenty-fifth recipient of the scholarship awarded annually by a board of directors to a senior from any high school in Hancock County who has excelled in the study of a foreign language and intends to continue this study in college. The award may be used in any college or university the recipient chooses to attend.
Wood has been accepted into Princeton University, where he will major in economics and will continue the Spanish courses he has excelled in during his four years at St. Stanislaus.
"To be the best economist-working in or deeply related to a Spanish-speaking nation that I can be," he wrote in his application for the scholarship, "I must have a deep grasp of the Spanish language itself?a language that is changing like no other, and is becoming more pertinent ever day in American life."
Wood, an Eagle Scout and a tireless volunteer in charitable and environmental work, has received the St. Stanislaus President's Award.
In addition, he has participated as a delegate in Youth Leadership and Youth Legislative conferences in the state and in Washington, D.C. In 2007 he was a Student Ambassador from SSC to Spain, France, and Italy and in 2008 he traveled again to Spain with the National Educational	Travel
Council.
Wood's Spanish teacher, Marie Bartels, Chairwoman of the Foreign Language Department at Our Lady Academy, who teaches the upper-level Spanish courses for both schools, wrote in her recommendation that "on our trip to Spain, Guy quickly emerged as a leader. He has a wonderful grasp of spoken Spanish. ... He invested time and interest in the Spanish people, conversing about their culture, their history, and generally leaving a wonderful impression of an American abroad."
Mary Langenbacker, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mississippi Transitional Recovery	Office,
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Mrs. De Montluzin's before she retired from Bay High's faculty, Langenbacker joined the scholarship board of directors in 2009.
Langenbacker is the daughter of Mrs. Frank Langenbacker, Jr., of Waveland and the late Mr.
Langenbacker.	She
received a Bachelor of Science degree from Ole Miss and her law degree from Mississippi College in 1991. She practiced law from 1991 until she joined FEMA two years ago.
She now resides in Ocean Springs and has a daughter at Loyola. She is married to Charles Cook, an electrical engineer at Grumman.
During the scholarship presentation,
Langenbacker,	told
Wood,of the many extraordinary experiences she had as a student of Ms De Montluzin.
Following the presentation, she said, "I had the honor of both being a student of Mrs. De Montluzin before she retired from Bay High School's faculty and receiving the first scholarship named in her honor."
"As a teacher, Mrs. De Montluzin motivated stu-