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Patricia (Katie) Hutchinson-Miller, a senior at St. Mary’s Academy in downtown Portland, has been named among 3,000 outstanding National Achievement® Scholarship Program participants being referred to U.S. colleges and universities. As an exceptional student, she scored in the top five percent of more than 130,000 Black Americans who requested consideration in the 2007 National Achievement Program when they took the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
 The National Achievement Scholarship Program was initiated in 1964 specifically to honor academically promising Black American high school students and is open to all high school students.
“We’re very proud of Katie and think she’s a good role model for all of the students here at St. Mary’s,” says Principal Pat Barr.
Founded in 1859 by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, St. Mary’s Academy of Portland, is Oregon’s oldest continuously operating secondary school and one of 716 all-female schools in the country. The student body represents a diverse background of young women from over 30 urban, suburban, and rural communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington. St. Mary’s Academy is distinguished by its development of the whole person, and is the only school in the state to receive three U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools awards.
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