LIMESTONE, Maine — Grier Ostermann of Topsham, a senior at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, has been selected to receive the 2015 Principal’s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.
“It is a real honor for Grier to have been chosen for this award,” Dr. Nancy Richardson, MSSM’s academic dean, said. “I know the entire MSSM community is proud to have such an intelligent and promising young man to represent us this year.”
Ostermann, Richardson and other award winners and their principals will attend an honors luncheon at the Spectacular Event Center in Bangor on Saturday, April 11.
The honors luncheon recognizes these outstanding students with the presentation of an individual plaque and the awarding of five $1,000 scholarships in the names of Horace O. McGowan and Richard W. Tyler. McGowan and Tyler were former Maine principals and executive directors of the Association This year an additional five $1,000 scholarships will be presented through the efforts of the MPA Scholarship Golf Tournament.
“I was not expecting to receive this award. It’s an honor to receive it,” Ostermann said. “I think any of my classmates could have won this award, as most of us possess academic excellence, outstanding school citizenship and leadership, so it’s an honor that I was the one chosen.”
The Principal’s Award is presented in more than 100 Maine public and private high schools by member principals of the MPA, the professional association which represents Maine’s school administrators.
