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Portland State Professor Frederick Peters was presented a silver medal by West Germany's Goethe Society for his outstanding contributions as a teacher of German literature and language. German Vice-Consul Max Rost made the presentation to Dr. Peters, one of three men in the United States to be so honored . Public attention came to Portland State's Middle East Studies Center and its director, Frederick Cox, when three PSC students were among eight national scholarship winners in the Carnegie Corporation's National Undergraduate Program for the Overseas Study of Arabic. William Ward, Frederick Hunter and Lewis Snider won scholarships to the British Intelligence School in Shimlan, Lebanon, where they will study for one year.