Searsport District High School

SEARSPORT – Principal Gregg Palmer has announced the honor parts for the 2004 graduating class at Searsport District High School.

Graduation ceremonies will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 13, at the school.

Brendyn Sarnacki, son of Connie and Walter Sarnacki of Searsport, has been named valedictorian.

Sarnacki has been a member of National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society and has maintained high honors all four years of high school. This year, he was awarded the Maine Principals’ Award, won a Maine Scholars Achievement Award his junior year, and received a Holocaust Human Rights Award his sophomore year.

Sarnacki has served on the accreditation committee and worked with Save our Schools. He was part of the Searsport Junior Fire Department and has participated on the golf and baseball teams. He established his own computer business with his brother.

Shanna Murphy, daughter of Karee and Brent Murphy of Stockton Springs, has been named salutatorian.

Murphy has been a member of the National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society. She earned high honors all four years in high school and was listed in Who’s Who Among American High School Students her junior and senior years.

Murphy has been a member of the varsity soccer team for four years and was the manager of the girls basketball team her freshman year, a member of the foreign language club her junior year, the poetry club her sophomore year, the art club her senior year and was class secretary her junior year.

She was a peer helper her freshman and sophomore years and an alternate to Girls State her junior year. She participated in a youth group in her freshman year.

Amber Tripp, daughter of Jean and Robert Tripp of Frankfort, was named first honor part.

Tripp has been a member of the National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society. She has been a student of the quarter and has participated in the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Girls’ Leadership Workshop. She was honored by the Society of Women Engineers for math and science in her junior year and was listed in Who’s Who Among American High School Students also in her junior year. She has participated in Girls State and the concert, marching and pep bands.

She was a library assistant and participated in the poetry club her sophomore year, the art club her senior year, worked for the school paper The Viking Chronicle her junior year and worked on electronic portfolio her sophomore and junior years. She was also a peer helper her freshman and sophomore years.

Megan Rigby, daughter of Deborah Rigby of Searsport, has been named second honor part.

Rigby was a National Junior Honor Society member her freshman year, a Girls State alternate her junior year, and was listed in Who’s Who Among American High School Students her junior year. She maintained high honors her freshman year and was on the honor roll her sophomore, junior and senior years.

She was a guidance aid her junior and senior years, a peer helper her freshman and sophomore years, a member of the Spanish club her junior year and a children’s day volunteer her freshman and sophomore years.