Bangor High School

Graduation for the Class of 2007 will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 10, at Bangor Auditorium.

Each year, Bangor High School awards the top four students in the graduating senior class the Charles E. French Medals. This year’s recipients are Mara Shapero, Luke Beland, Jennifer Rowe and Deirdre Wholly.

Mara Shapero, daughter of Paul and Jane Laeger Shapero of Bangor, will attend Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., in the fall.

Shapero is a National Merit Scholar and an AP Scholar with distinction. She has served as the yearbook business editor, a Key Club officer and a member of National Honor Society. She was a delegate to Dirigo Girls State and has been involved in the math team and the Junior Engineering Technical Society. She was a captain of both the cross country team and the state Class A championship swim team. She has volunteered with Big Brothers-Big Sisters and as a middle school swim coach.

Shapero’s honors include the Superintendent’s Award, the Principal’s Leadership Award, the President’s Award for Academic Excellence, and departmental awards in foreign language. She was named an Academic All-American in swimming.

Luke J. Beland, son of Ken Beland and Judy Burk, is planning to attend Yale University in the fall to study political science and international affairs.

Beland was captain of the alpine ski team and the public forum debate team. He competed with his debate partner to the ninth round of the 2006 nationals in Dallas. He has participated in math team, academic decathlon, environmental and human rights groups, and has served as president of the National Honor Society chapter. He has attended a French immersion program in Nova Scotia and a People to People student program in Europe.

Beland volunteers as a tutor and as an usher for Penobscot Theatre. His academic honors include departmental awards in French, math and history, the Rensselaer Medal, the President’s Education Award, and the Bangor High School Senior Superintendent’s Award. He is a National Merit Finalist.

Jennifer Marie Rowe, daughter of Randi and Matthew Rowe, will attend Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. in the fall.

Rowe is a member of the math team, Junior Engineering Technical Society and National Honor Society. She participated in Science Bowl. She wrote for the school newspaper, played on the girls’ soccer team for four years, and participated in softball, indoor and outdoor track.

She has worked as a children’s ski instructor at Sugarloaf/USA. She has participated in Key Club for four years, Students Ending Environmental Destruction, serving as vice president her junior year and president her senior year. She volunteers at the Bangor Humane Society.

Rowe is a National Merit Scholar, placed first in her senior year and second in her junior year in the New England Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, won the Maine Stockholm Junior Water Prize and AXA Achievement Award for Maine. She received the Superintendent’s Award in science, the Williams and Princeton Book Awards, and won an IDEXX Internship her sophomore year.

Deirdre Wholly, daughter of James and Anne Wholly of Bangor, will attend Hobart and William Smith College in the fall.

She competed in the science bowl and on the math team, participating in the national math competition at the Pennsylvania State University her junior year. She ran cross country for three years and indoor track for four years. She is a member of S.E.E.D., the National Honor Society and Key Club, of which she served as president her senior year.

Wholly is a National Merit Scholar and received the Superintendent’s Award and departmental awards in math, English and foreign language.