Stearns High School

MILLINOCKET – Honor parts for the Class of 2004 have been announced by principal Paul MacDonald.

Caitlin Mahoney, Joseph Manzo and Kelly Dinsmore have been named valedictorians for the Class of 2004.

Dinsmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dinsmore, plans to attend the University of Maine in the fall.

She has been a member of the National Honor Society for three years and was chosen as a delegate to Dirigo Girls State. She has been awarded the Maine Principals’ Award for the Class of 2004, the Maine Scholars Achievement Award and the Society for Women Engineers Award.

Dinsmore has been active in performing arts, participating in four musicals at the school. She has participated in show choir and jazz band this year, was chosen for the District V honors chorus in 2003 and 2004 and won a place in the 2003 Maine All-State Chorus. She has taken dance classes at Studio One for many years and has been a dance teacher there for the past three years.

She has been a member of the French club and the math team for four years, served on the student council and prom committee and was selected as one of two Stearns representatives to the Katahdin Area Vision Committee.

Joseph Manzo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Manzo, also has been named valedictorian for the Class of 2004. He will attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., in the fall, where he will study aerospace engineering.

He has been a member of the National Honor Society for three years and was chosen as a delegate to Dirigo Boys State. Last summer he performed microbiology research at the University of Maine as an intern in the MERITS program. He is the president of the local Medical Explorers, Post 200, and is vice president of the senior class. He has been awarded the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award.

Manzo has played football and baseball for four years at Stearns High School. He was awarded the Art Greenlaw Academic Achievement Award in football. He has played lead trombone in the jazz ensemble and school band for four years and played in the Community Christian Band since he was a freshman. In 2002 and 2003, he was selected for the District V Honors Band and has been involved in gymnastics at Studio One for many years.

He has been involved with the Spanish club, math team, peer mentoring program and tutoring. He serves on the senior awareness committee and on the student council. He has been a member of the Maine Youth Tobacco Resistance Network.

Caitlin Mahoney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mahoney, is also one of three valedictorians for the Class of 2004. She plans to attend Northeastern University in the fall to study psychology.

She has been a member of the National Honor Society for three years. She was selected to attend Dirigo Girls State as a delegate and has been an active member of the student council as junior and senior class secretary. She has participated in tennis, cheerleading and dance.

Mahoney has been a member of the Spanish club, math team, chorus, tutoring and yearbook committee. Peer counseling has been a central focus of her years at Stearns and she has volunteered for several recreation department events.

Charles Gregory Cox, son of Dennis and Donna Cox, has been named salutatorian for the Class of 2004. He plans to attend Albany College of Pharmacy in New York in the fall.

He has been a member of the National Honor Society for the past three years, a delegate to Dirigo Boys State and nominated Boys State counselor for the 2004 session. He has been a member of the math team and French club for four years.

Cox is involved with the Medical Explorers Post as the vice president of administration and senior patrol leader of Boy Scout Troop 57. He has worked for the town of Millinocket and at Hannaford in the grocery department.