HOULTON, Maine — Houlton High School Principal Marty Bouchard announced Friday that senior Kate Newman has been selected to receive the 2017 Maine Principal’s Association Award. The accolade, sponsored by the MPA, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.
“Kate is very deserving of this award,” Bouchard said. “She has made scholarship and citizenship a priority during her time at Houlton High School. Kate has also been able to exhibit high academic achievement, while also being an outstanding school citizen. In addition, she is involved in numerous activities at school and in her community.”
In school, Newman participates in cross country, track and field, Student Council, the Civil Rights Team, and is the president of Houlton’s National Honor Society. She is an honors student and a PVC All-Academic Scholar Athlete who received the 2016 Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award and the Williams College Book Award. Newman is also the coordinator for the Everyone Cares Dinner program and is a life-long member of Aroostook County 4-H.
She is the daughter of James and Andrea Newman of Ludlow.
Newman and other award winners and their principals will attend an Honors Luncheon at the Spectacular Event Center in Bangor on April 1. The event will recognize these outstanding students with the presentation of an individual plaque and the awarding of five $1,000 scholarships being given in the names of Horace O. McGowan and Richard W. Tyler, former Maine principals and executive directors of the Association. An additional five $1,000 scholarships will be presented through the efforts of the MPA Scholarship Golf Tournament.
The Maine Principals’ 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.
