A 16-year-old Portland businessman and his Junior Achievement company, have been judged the `` Company of the Year '' in national competition completed this week at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Tim Larson, a junior at Wilson High School and president of Spice-Nice, is the young executive who guided his firm to the top-ranking position over the 4,500 other Junior Achievement companies in the United States and Canada.

The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.

Over 400 Portland firms contributed funds for the maintenance of Junior Achievement headquarters here.

For winning Larson will receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond from the Junior Achievement national organization.

-- A series of high school assemblies to acquaint junior and senior students with the Junior Achievement program begins at St. Thomas Aquinas Monday.

Thomas was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1999.

Two years later, he was inducted into the U. S. Business Hall of Fame sponsored by Junior Achievement, during a black tie ceremony keynoted by President George H. W. Bush.

Turner was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame on April 26, 2007.

He was posthumously inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1990.

* Mr. Perot was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.

Westinghouse was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1980.

Rouse was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1981.

Mr. Ochs was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1982.

Moses, later co-founder of Junior Achievement, was a visionary social engineer as well as an industrialist who developed Woronoco as a model company town with housing of a notably high standard and buildings accommodating a wide variety of community activities.

Sloan was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1975.

Mr. Luce was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1977.

Mr. Woolworth was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1995.

* Sarnoff was inducted into the Junior Achievement US Business Hall of Fame in 1975.

Drucker was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1996.

Mr. Regan was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1981, and renounced the title, claiming in part that " Reagan deserves this, not me.

Mr. Trippe was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1990.

Wilson was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1982.

Gordy was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1998.

Staff offer guided tours and other educational programs, including a Junior Ranger educational program for children between four and fifteen years of age.

In the end of the championship Deep Blue prototype was tied for second place with the computer program Junior while Junior was running on a personal computer.

Radio program written and performed in Phoenix, Arizona by children of Junior Artists Club ( Federal Arts Program, 1935 ).

In January 2003, Garry Kasparov played Junior, another chess computer program, in New York.

The zoo has a Junior Docent program, in which teens 13-18 years old can learn about the plants and animals at the museum.

After these changes, Playhouse Disney became the only program block introduced in 1997 to remain ( however, it was rebranded as Disney Junior in February 2011 ).

The former Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel was rebranded as Disney Junior on February 14, 2011, and the 22 existing cable channels and program blocks bearing the Playhouse Disney name outside the United States have been in the process of rebranding under the Disney Junior name.

The school system strives to serve the whole child by offering students a broad spectrum of programs that includes core studies, electives gifted education, honors, dual enrollment, Advanced Placement, Army Junior ROTC, comprehensive vocational and technical programs, exceptional education programs, Title I reading, alternative education, pre-kindergarten program, and regional Governor's School program participation.

There are over 40 active members on the rolls which includes an active Junior Firefighter program for young people age 14 and over.

Since 1989, the Stillwater Middle School and Taisei Junior High School in Kameoka have participated in a sister school relationship, which features an active teacher-student exchange program.

The other competing program was Junior ; the reigning world computer chess champion Shredder declined an invitation to compete.

A new program, Junior Hi, wherein twelve-and thirteen-year-old girls explore new interests as a group and as individuals was created in 1962.

Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky.

He also starred as " Junior " in the Sid & Marty Krofft children's program Far Out Space Nuts ( 1975 ).

* Junior Reserve Officers ' Training Corps, an American armed forces training program

The Junior Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( JROTC ) is a Federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the United States.

The commercial version of the chess-playing computer program Junior recommends 18.

At about the same time, St. Mary ’ s Hospital in Orange, New Jersey, having decided to expand its facilities and to replace the three-year nursing school with the two-year Associate in Arts program, transferred its nursing program to Immaculate Conception Junior College.

In June 1967, the New Jersey State Department of Education authorized Immaculate Conception Junior College to offer a four-year program in Elementary Teacher Education under its new name, Felician College.