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Big Sisters wanted Big Sisters of Kitch, ener-Waterloo and Area are taking appli- cations from prospect- ive Big Sisters for their May orientation ses- sions which begin May Other Putnam team members at uw are Michael O'Brien and Gordon Sinnamon, A number of UW students not registered for the team competition also performed well this year, finishing among the top 100. They are: Ross Brown, Bev Cope. Mark Culp and Herbert Fichtner They are in need of mature female volun- teers 20 years and over who can provide friendship, new experi- ences and support to girls 546 years of age. who are experiencing varying degrees of dif ficully with school peers or at home. One year minimum com- mitment "David Ash's perfor- mance is particularly remarkable because he is a first year student." comments Dr. Ken Da- vidson,, UW mathema. tics professor and one of two coaches of the team. (Dr. Bruno Forte is the other.) David Ash is no stranger to mathema- tics competitions. As a high school student at Fort William. colle- giate, Thunder Bay. he came first in the 1981 Canadian Mathematics Olympiad. a mathema- tics competition for the best high school stu- dents in the country. He also twice finished in second place in the UW-run Descartes mathematics competi» tion. This is an annual competition involving thousands of competi- tors at the grade 13 level: most of the com- petitors are in Ontario. For further informs tion. call 8884090. Highlight of the UW teath's performance was the standing of its leading member, David Ash. He was among the top five stu- dents; for this he has been named a Putnam fellow and will receive a $500 cash award. The UW team fin- ished in eighth place this year; it was in competition with 342 other teams from such distinguished universi ties as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford. Michigan. Illinois, Cal- tech, and so on. The competition is an annual one involving a six-hour exam; it is written by more than 2.000 of the most out- standing math students on the continent. For the seventh time m the past nine years a team of mathematics students at the Univer sity of Waterloo has finished in the top 10 in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mather matical Competition. UW’s a leader in the Putnam ZERO Bl OUR 'RED DOT SPECIALS'! teAiL_fA9pfeAcuitr1ES?NesDAY. APRIL 21,1982 PAGE 1 EATO NS