<p>“Valedictorian Ben Cook: Keene High School names its top 10 graduates-to-be” (New Hampshire)</p>
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<p>Keene High School has announced its top 10 graduating students for 2010. The graduation ceremony will be held Friday, June 11, at 6 p.m. at Alumni Field (or Purbeck Gymnasium in inclement weather).</p>
<p>The class valedictorian is Benjamin A. Cook, son of Kelly and Tom Cook of Keene. He will attend Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., where he plans to major in physics. At Keene High, he is a member of the National Honor Society, the Envirothon team, the Math Team (where he was the N.H. Math Team first place senior), the Drama Club, and founder of the Physics Club. He is a National Merit Commended Scholar, a Brown Book Award recipient, a Bausch and Lomb Science Award recipient, and took Shakespeare for Performance at the St. Pauls School Advanced Studies Program last summer. He is a volunteer coach for the Keene Middle School Mathcounts team and enjoys scuba diving.</p>