By Diane Hines
Houlton Rotarian
HOULTON — The Annual Student Recognition Luncheon presented by the Houlton Rotary Club took place on Monday, May 18, at St. Mary’s Church. East Grand High School, the Greater Houlton Christian Academy, Hodgdon High School, Southern Aroostook High School and Houlton High School were all well represented.
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SPEAKING — Southern Aroostook students Chelsea Lyons, Marissa Boulier, and Houlton Rotary President Amy Hocking, calling the names of the SA honor students at the Annual Student Recognition Rotary Luncheon.
Honors students from East Grand introduced by Principal Dawn Matthews were Liz Hood Andrew Mailman, Hannah Crone, Paige Young, Allison McEwen, Chelsea Winiarski, Kim Stoddard, Kyle Gilman, Jim Schuurman, Matthew Roy, Billy Apgar, Wyatt Oliver, Sarah Stoddard, Amanda Massey, Candice Mailman, Samantha Dube, Samantha Gilman , Sam Plummer, and Brady McEwen.
John Bishop of the Greater Houlton Christian Academy presented honor students Drew Bennett, Zach Ebner, Cody Gould, Rachel Potter and Allana Walker.
Principal Mary Harbison of Hodgdon High School presented seniors Kaitlyn Barton, Alyssa Carmichael, Amanda Clark, Austin Daniels, Ethan Fink, Rachel Harmon, Lillie McGuire, Hannah Sherman, Joseph Silliboy, Jessi Tracy, and Ashley Wallace. Juniors presented were Dana Brown, Margaret McGuire, Anna Neher, Ethan Rediker, Jasity Stoddard, Tanner Wilde, Samantha Williams, and Blake Woods. Sophomores presented were Jace Dewitt, Jessica Drew, Tabetha Ganzel, Jill Gough, Leigha Jurson, Jordyn Merritt, and Elizabeth Neher. And freshmen, Sidney Crane, Hannah Elland, Wyatt Foster, Janelle Goff, Kendra Gresko, Hailey Heath, Macenzie Hipsley, Sydney Howell, Sarah Hutchinson, Alexis McGuire, Jordyn McKissick, Madisyn Merritt, Dylan Oliver, Kathryn Rediker, Nicholas Sherman and Addison Woods.
Presenting for Southern Aroostook were students Cassidy Lyons and Marisa Boulier. Marissa called honor student to stand in the following order: Valedictorian: Cassidy Lyons, Saluatorian: Matthew Tarr, First Honor Essayist: Jessica Nye, Second Honor Essayist: Kylie Dunphy. Nation Honor Society: Shanna Porter, Parker Walker, Cameron Landry. New Nation Honor Sociey Inductees: Casey Stairs, Mariah Lane, Josh Perrin, Katie Small, Ayanna Morales, Lucas Violette, Dakota Dickinson, Lily Leavitt. First quarter honors grades 11 and 12: Robert Brown, Aimee Cottle, Angela Crandall, Shaydin Lillis, Dakota Mullen, Shania Nason, Justin Nelson, Austin White, Everett Bivighouse, Gage LeFay. Grades 9 and 10 Honor Roll: Anthony Watson, Ariana Rigby, Hunter Walker, Megan Russell, Hunter Lawlor, Jackson Mathers, James Kelso, Justin McNally, Katelyn Stevens , Lacey Lindsay, Nolan Altvater, Tyler Batchelder, Rob Lillis, Clay MacArthur,and Outstanding School Spirit Award: Marissa Boulier.
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HONORED — Houlton High School was the recipient of the Rotary Club’s “Volunteer Award” for the year. Receiving their award at the May 18 gala event are, from left, Principal Marty Bouchard, Rotary Vice President Jane Torres, student Danielle Provost, Rotary President Amy Hocking and student Jill Howland.
Marty Bouchard, principal of Houlton High School brought 66 students, grades 9 through 12, all having a 93 or better average for the last 3 quarters. Marty presented in alphabetical order: Amira Abouleish, Lexi Bartlett, Isaiah Belyea, Kolleen Bouchard, Kyle Bouchard, Kristen Brewer, Connor Bulley, Adam Casillas, June Choi, Megan Collett, Christian Crane, Dylan Crockett, Chloe Davis, Nicholas DeLucca,, Emily Dickison, Rebekah Emery, Erika Fitzpatrick, Keegan Fitzpatrick, Zachary Fitzpatrick, Piper Flewelling, Hayley Flewelling- Sweeney, Hannah Foley, Emma Gallop, Chelsea Gentle, Cameron Graham, Kristen Graham, Carolyn Hannigan, Amelia Hanning, Ellen Hatfield, Daniel Hermann, Dustin Hines, Emma Hines , Noah Holmes, Victoria Holmes, Brooke Howland, Jill Howland, Amber Ivey, Hannah Jacobs, Dylan Johnston, Jacob Jones, Hunter Keehn, Sakima Lee, Janelle Levesque, Joshua Lezotte, Autumn London, Abraham Lorom, Carolyn Mooers, Emily Mooers, Rebecca Mooers, Hailey Morley, Morgan Nelson, Kate Newman, Jacqueline Ouellette, Nicholas Perfitt, Emma Peterson, Trynity Plummer, Evelyn Pratt, Danielle Provost, Rachelle Provost, Justin Queen, Sydney Richardson, Haven Rhoda, Sierra Rhoda, Natalie Rush, Aaron Sewell, Caleigh Sullivan, John Thatcher, Rylee Warman, Kyle White, Anessa Wilde, Parker Willard, Tessa Winship, Brady Wolsleben, and Morgan Wotton.
The guest speaker for the program was Keegan Fitzpatrick who spoke about his experience traveling to the Dominican Republic with Houlton Rotary this past February along with his sister Danica and his grandmother Becky Day and Houlton Rotary President Amy Hocking. Keegan was deeply impressed by the concept of appreciating what you have.
The sugar plantation workers have very little but what they do have, they appreciate and are proud to share and show others. Keegan’s speech and slides showed the poverty of the area where the volunteers worked to install water filtration systems. Amy also spoke about her experience and about the hunger facing the workers every day.
Amy appealed to the audience that any small gift is extremely appreciated.
Vice President Jane Torres presented the High School Volunteer Award to the 2015 winner Houlton High School. Last June, in a driving rainstorm the high school students persevered in their volunteer activities in spite of the rain. This year’s date will be Friday May 29, if anyone in the area needs volunteer crews please contact Houlton High School at 532-6551.
And last but not least, a hand of applause went to Madigan Estates for the wonderful homemade spaghetti sauce and to the set up committees and the Rotary kitchen crew managing the garlic bread and spaghetti to feed twelve tables set for twenty people each and no empty chairs!
