HODGDON, Maine — Stephen J. Fitzpatrick, principal/superintendent for Hodgdon Middle-High School, has announced the honor parts for the Class of 2021.
Erin Peters has been selected as valedictorian, while Mikyla Howland will be salutatorian and Emma Drew is first honor essayist.
Peters, the daughter of James and Julie Peters, has completed several honors, AP and Dual Enrollment classes, finishing high school with a total of 58 college credits. She has served as secretary of the class for all four years and also as secretary during her senior year as a member of the National Honor Society. As a student- athlete, Peters was a four-year member of the varsity soccer and softball teams, as well as of Hodgdon’s Club Volleyball team. She rose to captain of the soccer and softball teams during her senior year. Outside of school, she has been involved in the Houlton School of Dance for 12 years.
During the summers, Peters works at Anderson’s Mill Pond Dairy Bar. She will attend the University of Maine at Orono in the fall where she will major in nursing. Her future plans include eventually becoming a Sports Medicine Nurse Practitioner where she will once again find herself immersed in athletics, this time taking care of sports injuries.
Mikyla Howland has been named salutatorian for Hodgdon Middle-High School’s Class of 2021. (Courtesy of Hodgdon Middle-High School)
Howland, the daughter of Roger and Angela Howland, has been an active member of both high school and her community throughout the last four years. She has served as the class president, a member of the student council, the National Honor Society and the school band. She is an athlete as a member of the varsity soccer team, the Club Volleyball team and her senior year served as manager for the baseball team.
Outside of school she has been engaged with the Houlton School of Dance since the age of three and has worked in a local grocery store on weekends and vacations. Howland has taken multiple college courses throughout high school and is heading to the University of Maine at Orono to achieve a bachelor’s degree in physical education and kinesiology with a concentration in teaching/coaching. Her goal is to teach high school somewhere in the state of Maine and eventually obtain an advanced degree to become a superintendent.
Emma Drew has been named as first honor essayist at Hodgdon Middle-High School for the Class of 2021.
(Courtesy of Hodgdon Middle-High School)
Drew, the daughter of Mark and Melanie Drew, has been very active during high school, serving as vice president of both her class and of the Hodgdon High School National Honor Society. As a student-athlete, she was a four-year member of both the varsity basketball and soccer teams as well as the Volleyball Club.
Outside of school she has been a member of the Houlton School of Dance since the age of three and also works at Anderson’s Dairy Bar during the summer.
Working diligently throughout high school she has procured 60 early college credits putting her on track to graduate from Husson University two years early. At Husson, she will be enrolled in their five-year accelerated program in business administration with a concentration in financial management/MBA program. Drew has hopes of returning to the County some day.
