Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport

ROCKPORT – James N. Anastasio, principal of Camden Hills Regional High School, has announced honor parts for the Class of 2001. Graduation exercises will be held at 8 p.m. June 8 at the Camden Hills Regional High School gymnasium.

Kelly Hutchison, daughter of Candy and Norman Hutchison of Rockport, is valedictorian. Salutatorians are Noah Whitaker Ribeck, son of Gail and Fred Ribeck of West Rockport, and Gemma Rachel Laser, daughter of Peggy Smith of Lincolnville and Eric Laser of Dover-Foxcroft.

Hutchison is a 1999 Maine Scholar Achievement Award winner, a 2000 KVAC All Academic in field hockey, attended honors luncheon for three years and achieved high honors for four years. She was vice president of the Jammer Club for three years, an NHS member one year, Earth Vision one year, field hockey four years, varsity field hockey co-captain, cross-country skiing three years, and assembly committee member one year. She has worked in the community soup kitchen one year, been a volunteer at the Make-A-Wish Foundation one year, has volunteered for Cash for Clothes one year, helped in the charity race for Big Brothers, Big Sisters for two years, provided child care for elementary school pupils through NHS and was a Spanish tutor for one year. She worked at the Coastal Workshop and Graves Supermarket one year and at the Market Basket for two years.

Ribeck is a Maine Scholar Achievement Award winner in 2000, has won two gold medals and one silver in three years in the National Latin Exam, and the holds the Williams College Book Award. He was a member of Latin Club four years, math team in 1999-2001, was high scorer on the C-RHS underclassmen team, PALS 1999-2001, was elected class vice president his senior year, was in junior varsity baseball in 1998 and 1999, and varsity baseball in 2000-2001. He also has been a volunteer at the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church soup kitchen, a customer service clerk at Camden Drug Co., a teacher of beginner-level Hebrew at Adas Yoshuran Synagogue, a summer camp counselor in 2000 and volunteer in 1999, attended Leadership I and II training at summer camp, attended the Governor’s Academy of Language and Culture at the University of Maine where he studied intermediate Spanish, took one semester of intermediate Spanish at the Penobscot School, and one week of Outward Bound leadership and group building in 1997.

Laser was at the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Conference one year, was at the HOBY World Leadership Conference one year, was in Who’s Who of High School Students one year, and Maine Scholars for one year, and was a three-year member of the National Honor Society. She was active in Windsong for three years, PALS for two years, and worked on school plays, “It Runs in the Family,” “Reynard the Fox” and other one-act plays by Jon Potter. She was in varsity cross country two years and varsity tennis for two years. She was in the Community Theater four years and volunteered at the Common Ground Fair four years, at lifeguard training one semester in Wales, one semester at a nursing home in Wales, and in the NHS soup kitchen for three years.

Top honor graduates are Allison Marie Ouellet, daughter of Carmel and Dianne Ouellet of West Rockport, Sara N. White, daughter of Susan Gremmels of Camden and Paul White of Brewer, Karinna Russo, daughter of Paul and Carolyn Russo of Camden, Toni-Lynn Robbins, daughter of Aldeverd L. and Doreen Robbins of Appleton, Laura Catherine Cornell, daughter of Amy and Chris Cornell of Camden, Donna Belgar Juntura, daughter of Ninia and Efren Juntura of Waldoboro, Anna Goodale, daughter of Martha Derbyshire of Camden and Nat Goodale of Searsport, Rebecca Stein, daughter of Robert and Sarah Stein of Rockport, Chris Leach, son of David and Sherry Leach of Lincolnville, Avery A. Ash, son of Rick and Suzanne Ash of Rockport, Sabrina Seelig, daughter of Sheryl Gibson and Warren Seelig of Camden, and Laura D. French, daughter of Joe and Mary Lou French of Rockport.