Class of 2001
South Berwick, Maine
Marshwood High School
Top 10 Graduates
Maine School Yearbooks by County
Marshwood High School recently announced its top 10 students of the Class of 2001. In the photo below, the top five students, in back from left, are Scott McGregor, Jennifer Hamel, Shelley Dougherty, Rebekah Briggs and William Schambach. The seniors who rank sixth through tenth, front from left, are Jenny Goransson, Heather Boyd, Erica Stevens, Shannon Lilly and Kelsie Mohr.
Principal Thomas J. Ward of Marshwood High School announces the top 10 and honor graduates for the Class of 2001. The graduates are listed by class rank.
Valedictorian Scott McGregor, the son of Richard and Ellen McGregor, has lived in South Berwick for the past 10 years. While attending high school, Scott has dedicated most of his time to academics. Scott also participated in the marching and jazz band programs. Scott was named president of the National Honor Society last year and dedicates many hours to community service. During this past year, he joined the tennis team. Scott received the Daughters of the American Revolution citizenship award, the Maine Principals’ Association Principal’s Award and awards for the highest average in math and Spanish over the past three years. Outside of school hours, Scott plays basketball and golf. He will attend the University of Maine and plans to major in computer and electrical engineering.
Salutatorian Jennifer Hamel is the daughter of Robert and Pamela Hamel of South Berwick. Her activities include acting in the school musicals and other plays, yearbook committee, water monitoring, tutoring, prom committee and involvement in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Role Modeling Program. She recently competed with the math team in the Maine State Math Meet and helped secure fifth place. She is also treasurer of the National Honor Society and the Latin club. Her outside interests include singing and playing guitar, community service and working weekends at Bosn’s Landing Restaurant as a prep cook. She is a National Merit semifinalist, an Edmund S. Muskie Scholar and the recipient of two Aimee Schramm Book Awards for placing in the top three of her class during her freshman and sophomore years. She will attend Mount Holyoke College and major in political science and pre-law.
Shelley Dougherty of South Berwick is the daughter of Paula and John Dougherty. Throughout high school she participated in concert band, jazz band and was the drum major of the marching band for two years. She performed in the school musicals for the past three years. Shelley plays varsity softball, is a co-captain of the math team and is the vice president of the National Honor Society. Shelley participated in the All State Music Festival her junior and senior years and the All New England Music Festival her senior year. She has been the recipient of the Pi-Cone Math League’s Coaches’ Award, the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award, the Maine Scholars Achievement Award and the Western Maine Conference Citizenship Award. Shelley will attend Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, to study science and mathematics.
Rebekah Briggs is the daughter of Daniel and Debra Briggs of South Berwick. Becky has tutored students in both the elementary school and the high school for the past four years through her membership in the Gifted and Talented Program and the National Honor Society. She has also participated in the Summer Scholars Program through the Marshwood High School History Department. Becky was on several athletic teams, including three years of soccer. Outside of school, she is an active member of her youth group. Rebekah has received top student awards in both Spanish and CAD, as well as earning highest honors for 12 quarters. She has also received the Maine Scholars Award, the National Honor Society Community Service Award and the Rensselear Medal. She will major in civil engineering as a member of the Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire, where she has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship.
William Eric Schambach is the son of Eric Schambach and Michele Meyer. He previously lived in Vermont before relocating to Eliot in the seventh grade. Will participated on the cross-country and Marshwood track and field teams as a freshman and sophomore. He served as a representative to the student council, was on the yearbook staff and was also elected to the Spanish National Honor Society and the National Honor Society, where he was secretary. He was awarded the Spanish One Award and High Honor Awards. He works at the Old Navy Clothing Co. in Kittery. He will attend McGill University next year in Montreal, Canada, majoring in microbiology and immunology.
Jenny Goransson is the daughter of Paul and Helen Goransson and has lived in Eliot since 1985. She has been involved in a variety of school activities, ranging from drama to Drug Abuse Resistance Education and role-modeling at the Marshwood Middle School for two years. She is a member of the math team, National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society. She has played soccer on Marshwood’s teams since seventh grade, raced for the ski team for three years and ran indoor track for two. She has received several conference, regional and state titles for outdoor track distance events, including being named the 2000 Maine Class B state champion for the mile. This December, she earned All-American status for cross-country by placing 17th in the National USATF Championships in Reno, Nev. She will attend Dartmouth College this fall with an undecided major
Heather Boyd is the daughter of John and Maureen Boyd of Eliot. She has been the vice president of her class for the past four years and is a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society. She has competed in soccer, alpine skiing and lacrosse since her freshman year. She captained both the ski team and the varsity girls’ lacrosse team her senior year. Heather has also been involved with the yearbook committee, water monitoring and the Community Service Committee. She has received the Sophomore English Award and the Western Maine Conference Citizenship Award and has also achieved academic All-American status in lacrosse. Heather will attend Bowdoin College in the fall, where she will study liberal arts.
Erica Nicole Stevens, the daughter of Bradley and Karen Stevens, resides in South Berwick. Erica has been involved as a football cheerleader for three years and a basketball and competition cheerleader for two. Erica was a senior captain on all three teams this past year and helped lead the competition team to its wins at Western Maine Conference, Cheers from the Heart and to capture the Maine State Class "A" championship. She also participated on an all-star team, Seacoast Sparklers Cheer Club, her first two years of high school. Erica is also a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society. Erica has devoted time to helping the Little Hawks cheerleaders and the Marshwood Junior High School cheerleaders. Erica has been honored with awards such as scholar athlete, honor roll and selection as a cheerleader in the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl, a charitable event. This fall Erica plans to attend the University of Maine in Orono, but is undecided on her major.
Shannon Lilly is the daughter of Ken and Jayne Lilly of Eliot. She is a member of the National Honor Society and has participated in both field hockey and track for the past four years. She has played field hockey for Seacoast United on both the indoor and outdoor teams. She skated with the Great Bay Figure Skating Club in Dover, where she also helped to teach skating lessons. This fall she will attend Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where she plans to study biology.
Kelsey Mohr is the daughter of Diane Knight-Mohr and Brent Mohr and a sister of Jackson Mohr from Eliot. She has been a member of the student council for three of her four years, has been a designated natural helper for three years and the student facilitator of that group for two years. She has played field hockey for four years. This past year, she served as one of four co-captains on the varsity team. She has also participated in indoor field hockey during the winter and has traveled to Florida with the traveling team from Seacoast United for the hockey festival held in Palm Beach. She served as a water monitor during her junior year. Kelsey is a member of the National Honor Society and served as the historian-parliamentarian. She has been a member of the Community Service Committee at the high school, and has also participated in service projects outside of the school through the Unitarian Church in Portsmouth. She has taken both conversational Spanish and Italian at the New England Language Center. She has worked at The Clayground, RP Fabrics, Timothy Kingsbury’s medical office and as a camp counselor teaching pottery, wire sculpture and sewing at a summer camp in Raymond, Maine. As a freshman she was awarded the Most Promising Freshman Art Student Award and was selected to attend a student weekend at the Haystack Mountain School of Art in Deer Isle, Maine. She was also awarded the Junior English Award. Kelsey plans to spend a year in an artistic community in Equador. She will then attend George Washington University in the fall of 2002, where she has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship.
Additional honor graduates maintaining a four-year average of 85 or better include:
Leah Collier, Erin Berry, Colin Philbrook, Jane Connolly, Joel Verrill, Jessie Walker-Lewis, Erin Shea, Denise Elwell, Jillian Good, Wendy Wright, Alaina Hartman, Katie Lincoln, Tracey Damon, Chaitra Stadig, Katie Leavitt, Katie Smith, Meghan Good, Andrew Colati, Brian Sullivan, Megan Troxel, Brendan Flavin, Christina Hehre, Tiffany Collins, Sarah Folger, William Higgins, Seth Leavitt, Katrina Scribner, Aja Gair, Ethan Flinkstrom, Melissa Campbell, Craig McGreevy, Kelly Barker, Ginger Robbins, Jaclyn Goodwin, Sarah Pevahouse, Jessica Mauro, Megan Hilton, Lindsey Brown, Katie Burns, Michael Lauter, Jake Johnson, Nicole Keener, Cheyenne Wright, Alicia Grant, Yaicha Cowell, Maria Chavez, Jessica Carey, Sterling Abramczyk, Samuel Warner, Stephanie Cole, Jeremiah Davis, Janicia Townsend, Heather Kimball, Sarah-Ann Lane, Jennifer DeGuisto, Benjamin Gowdy, Lindsay Blanchard, Meghan Breed, Charles Burkhead, Brandy Kelley, Joshua Brooks, Wayne Covington, Randall Kleban, Nicholas LeClair, Cassandra Penrod, Michael Kilkenny, Kelly Waters, Julie Rynn, Julie Picott, Gregory Skafidas, Ian Wilford, April Drysdale, Kevin Colwell, Jesse Wagner, Scott Reiner, Douglas Lunnie, Nicholas Berube, Kelly Robbins, Nicole Fermanis, Sarah Buckley.
