The Regents Scholarships, worth $250 a year for up to five years are awarded to about 25,000 students a year.

In the 1987 Regents Scholarship competition, according to state figures, 57 percent of the 25,277 winners were male and 43 percent female.

Of the high school graduates last year, 22 percent won New York State Regents Scholarships.

The school had 15 National Merit semi-finalists and a fourth of its seniors won Regents Scholarships.

Deuker next attended the University of California at Berkeley on a Regents Scholarship.

He received a Regents Scholarship to the University of Nebraska, where he studied before being called into the Army Air Force in 1942.

He had also won a Regents Scholarship to New York University that December.

Regents Scholarships in New York are going mostly to young women this year, apparently for the first time in the 77 years of the awards.

In addition, boys won 51 percent of the 25,000 Regents Scholarships, which are worth up to $1,250 over five years.

Regents Scholarships, based on academic achievement and worth $250 a year, were eliminated.