Morse, Robinson WHS Top Students

Megan Mae Morse, daughter of Shawn Sr. and Carol Morse, is valedictorian of the WHS Class of 2007.

Megan was the president of the National Honor Society and president of her junior class. She received numerous awards, including the Rensselaer Medal and the Kodak Young Leaders Award. She maintained honor roll status for 11 straight quarters and has been granted a spot in the National Honor Roll and named to Who’s Who among high school students.

While maintaining high academic standing, Megan participated for five years in varsity cheerleading and six years of softball, receiving her varsity letter. Her interests outside of the school community include participation in the Youth America Bowling Alliance (YABA) for nine years and bowling competitions. She is also an avid deer hunter.

For the past two summers Megan has taken part in the Math Science Upward Bound program (MSUB) at VTC. She may return in the future to become a dorm advisor for the program. Prior to MSUB, Megan was a part of the VSAC (Vermont Student Assistance Corporation) program. She is also an active member in an organization called Our Voices Exposed (OVXO), a teen-run program within the school to help influence peers to make safe choices regarding activities, peers, and in life.

This fall, Megan will be attending Norwich University to participate in the five-year Master of Architecture Program.

Maya Robinson is salutatorian for the WHS Class of 2007.

Maya began her high school career as a photographic intern at The Herald of Randolph and traveling to Costa Rica to preserve rainforest habitat with The Change The World Kids. In her sophomore year, she represented Whitcomb at the Vermont HOBY (Hugh O’Brian Youth) leadership event and was selected as the female Vermont delegate to the HOBY World Leadership Conference held in Washington, D.C.

During her junior year, Maya was sponsored by the Bethel Rotary Club to be a Rotary International Exhange student in Amravati, India. She spend 10 months staying with the Kedia family and studying yoga and naturopathy in a postsecondary program.

Maya had an active senior year. Her wildlife photographs of the endangered Costa Rican bellbird helped her be selected as one of 10 high school students nationwide to receive a North American Nature Photographers Association scholarship.

Maya’s collection of photo-graphs by youth exchange students, "Seeing Eye to Eye," brought her national recognition for community service from The National Association of Secondary School Principals. She traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive her award "for promoting greater understanding of foreign cultures and the interconnectedness of people around the world."

Maya has been an active member of the Whitcomb community serving this year as president of Student Council and in drama, soccer, basketball, class officer positions and National Honor Society throughout high school.

The daughter of Jim Robinson and Rebecca Carleton of Bethel, she will attend Duke University in North Carolina this fall.

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