(November 23, 2009)--When Henry Spelman found out had had won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend.

He meant not only to share the good news, but also to see whether she was a winner as well.

The two seniors at the University of North Carolina had their final scholarship interviews in different locations; his was in Philadelphia, hers was in Houston.

Spelman heard the results first.

When he called with his good news, "the stakes just went way up," said his girlfriend, Libby Longino, who had to wait 45 minutes before finding out that she, too, had nabbed one of the world's most prestigious scholarships.

Longino is from Dallas.

Now the pair will head to England, joining the 30 other American students announced over the weekend as Rhodes Scholars.

Steven Mo, of Pearland, who attends MIT, is also among the scholarship winners.,

Their expenses will be fully covered for as much as three years of study at the University of Oxford.

List Of Scholarship Winners
District 1:
William J. Oppenheim III, New Canaan, Conn., Bowdoin College
Zohar Atkins, Montclair, N.J., Brown University

District 2:
Russell A. Perkins, Evanston, Ill., Wesleyan University
Matthew L. Baum, Watertown, Mass., Yale University

District 3:
Mark Dlugash, Larchmont, N.Y., Swarthmore College
Alexandra P. Rosenberg, New York, N.Y., United States Military Academy

District 4:
Caroline J. Huang, Newark, Del., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry L. Spelman, Swarthmore, Pa., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

District 5:
Tyler S. Spencer, Staunton, Va., University of Virginia
Ugwechi W. Amadi, Camden, N.C., MIT

District 6:
Grace Tiao, Marietta, Ga., Harvard University
Kira C. Allman, Williamsburg, Va., College of William and Mary

District 7:
Jordan D. Anderson, Roanoke, Va., Auburn University
Roxanne E. Bras, Celebration, Fla., Harvard

District 8:
Elizabeth B. Longino, Dallas, Texas, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Steven Mo, Pearland, Texas, MIT

District 9:
Darryl W. Finkton, Indianapolis, Ind., Harvard
Monica L. Marks, Rush, Ky., University of Louisville

District 10:
Daniel D. Shih, Aurora, Ill., Stanford University
Jean A. Junior, Troy, Mich., Harvard University

District 11:
Stephanie A. Bell, West Des Moines, Iowa, University of Chicago
Eva Z. Lam, Milwaukee, Wis., Harvard

District 12:
Eleanor M. Ott, Lawrence, Kan., University of Pittsburgh
Andrew J. McCall, St. Louis, Mo., Truman State University

District 13:
William D. Gohl, Colorado Springs, Colo., Regis University
Justine O. Schluntz, Albuquerque, N.M., University of Arizona

District 14:
Raphael J.C. Graybill, Great Falls, Mont., Columbia University
Elizabeth A. Betterbed, Fox Island, Wash., United States Military Academy

District 15:
Henry R. Barmeier, Saratoga, Calif., Princeton University
Geoffrey C. Shaw, Belvedere, Calif., Yale

District 16:
Elizaveta Fouksman, Emerald Hills, Calif., University of California-Los Angeles
Brittany L. Morreale, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., United States Air Force Academy