Noah Pinkney (center) received the $500 Ada High School Alumni Association scholarship this year. He is pictured with Sara and Michael Rush, Association co-presidents at the group’s annual banquet on Saturday evening in the school cafeteria.

Noah, the son of Rachel and Jason Pinkney, has enrolled at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., to study physics and math. He already has earned 22 credit hours of college math while attending ONU during his high school years. He is an AHS valedictorian, played soccer, and was a member of the successful quiz bowl team.

Monty Siekerman photo