WALTHAM, Mass. — Alexander Pilitsis, of Brunswick, was named to the Dean’s List and Scott Ross, of Freeport, was named to the President’s List at Bentley University for their achievements in the spring 2013 semester. To be named to the President’s List, a full-time student must have a grade point average of 3.7 or higher with no course grade below 3.0 during the term. To be named to the Dean’s List, a full-time student must have a grade point average of 3.3 or higher with no course grade below 2.0.

Elliot Pressman, a freshman at Mount Ararat High School in Topsham, won Honorable Mention from the Maine Humanities Council for the 2013 national Letters About Literature competition.

Letters About Literature encourages students to write to an author explaining how the author’s book changed their perspective and influenced their life. The competition is sponsored nationally by the Library of Congress and locally by the David Royte Foundation. Other participants in this year’s competition included Sarah Ashey and Mackenzie

Dufresne, also from Mount Ararat High School.

LEWISTON — Catherine Moran, of Lisbon, won a College for ME Androscoggin scholarship worth $1,000 to attend Kaplan University. College for ME Androscoggin offers the awards in partnership with the Maine Community Foundation. Recipients were selected on the basis of their personal statements, letters of recommendation and financial need. Applications will be available in the late fall at www.collegeformeandroscoggin.org.

PORTLAND — Chandler Dundas of Bath is a 2013 graduate of Cheverus High School. Due to a sourcing error, his name was omitted from the special “Mid-coast Maine’s Class of 2013” page on June 17.

BANGOR — Christopher G. Ouellette, of Topsham, was named to the Eastern Maine Community College spring 2013 Dean’s List, signifying a grade point average of 3.25 or higher.

NORTON, Mass. — Rebekah Michelle Bryer of Bowdoinham graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor of arts degree May 18 from Wheaton College, double majoring in history and theatre and dance studies. She also received the Nancy P. Norton prize in history and the Lillian Hellman Prize in Theatre and Dance Studies.

She will join the Portland Stage Company in Portland as a stage management intern. Bryer is a daughter of Susan Bryer.

Benjamin P. York won the 2012-13 Trig-Star Award for Mount Ararat High School. A Trig-Star is a mathematics student who has demonstrated skill in the practical application of trigonometry. Tork is the son of Beth and Bob York, of Harpswell. The contest was sponsored by Owen Haskell Inc. of Falmouth.

NEWTON, Mass. — Chelsea Mitchell-Smith of Brunswick received a B.S. in fashion and retail management May 19 from Lasell College — an independent coeducational college eight miles from Boston.

MILTON, Mass. — Spencer E. Gray III, son of Spencer and Elizabeth Gray of Woolwich, recently graduated from Milton Academy and was recognized at graduation with prizes in Outdoor Program and Theater Tech/Lighting. Gray will attend College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor this fall.