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November 23, 2009

Rhodes Scholars named for 2010

The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:



District 1:



William J. Oppenheim III, New Canaan, Conn., Bowdoin College



Zohar Atkins, Montclair, N.J., Brown University



District 2:



Russell A. Perkins, Evanston, Ill., Wesleyan University



Matthew L. Baum, Watertown, Mass., Yale University



District 3:



Mark Dlugash, Larchmont, N.Y., Swarthmore College



Alexandra P. Rosenberg, New York, N.Y., United States Military Academy



District 4:



Caroline J. Huang, Newark, Del., Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Henry L. Spelman, Swarthmore, Pa., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill



District 5:



Tyler S. Spencer, Staunton, Va., University of Virginia



Ugwechi W. Amadi, Camden, N.C., MIT



District 6:



Grace Tiao, Marietta, Ga., Harvard University



Kira C. Allman, Williamsburg, Va., College of William and Mary



District 7:



Jordan D. Anderson, Roanoke, Va., Auburn University



Roxanne E. Bras, Celebration, Fla., Harvard



District 8:



Elizabeth B. Longino, Dallas, Texas, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill



Steven Mo, Pearland, Texas, MIT



District 9:



Darryl W. Finkton, Indianapolis, Ind., Harvard



Monica L. Marks, Rush, Ky., University of Louisville



District 10:



Daniel D. Shih, Aurora, Ill., Stanford University



Jean A. Junior, Troy, Mich., Harvard University



District 11:



Stephanie A. Bell, West Des Moines, Iowa, University of Chicago



Eva Z. Lam, Milwaukee, Wis., Harvard



District 12:



Eleanor M. Ott, Lawrence, Kan., University of Pittsburgh



Andrew J. McCall, St. Louis, Mo., Truman State University



District 13:



William D. Gohl, Colorado Springs, Colo., Regis University



Justine O. Schluntz, Albuquerque, N.M., University of Arizona



District 14:



Raphael J.C. Graybill, Great Falls, Mont., Columbia University



Elizabeth A. Betterbed, Fox Island, Wash., United States Military Academy



District 15:



Henry R. Barmeier, Saratoga, Calif., Princeton University



Geoffrey C. Shaw, Belvedere, Calif., Yale



District 16:



Elizaveta Fouksman, Emerald Hills, Calif., University of California-Los Angeles



Brittany L. Morreale, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., United States Air Force Academy

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