Mason Fernald '40, of Eliot House and Haverford, Pennsylvania, has been awarded the Ames Scholarship for this year, it was announced last night.

The annual $300 award is given to the Senior (or Seniors) who best exemplifies the qualities of character and leadership of the late Richard G. Ames '34 and his brother Henry R. Ames '38, who were lost at sea in 1935. The Ames Memorial Fund was set up by the Student Council four years ago.

Fernald is a member of the Student Council, chairman of the Eliot House Committee, and is a hurdler on the Varsity track team.

He is the seventh to hold the Ames Scholarship. The others have been Richard B. Johnson '36, C. Colmery Gibson '37, John B. Bowditch '37, Sheldon Ware '38, J. Spence Harvin '39, and Lawrence F. Ebb '39.