Thirty-nine high school seniors from across North Carolina are among 67 students to win 1998 Morehead Awards to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among the largest and most competitive undergraduate scholarships in the United States, the Morehead Award was the first non-athletic merit scholarship in the country and was patterned after the Rhodes Scholarship awarded for graduate work at England's Oxford University .
Criteria are academic achievement, leadership, moral force of character and physical vigor.
Recipients are chosen by merit and achievement, not financial need. The Morehead program was begun in 1951 by the late John Motley Morehead III, an 1891 UNC-CH graduate. More than 2,200 scholars have attended Carolina, and 210 now are studying on campus. A list of North Carolina Morehead Scholarship winners by county follows. An asterisk indicates two listings for that winner.