Mt. Blue senior receives 2019 Principal’s Award

FARMINGTON – Elysia Roorbach, a senior at Mt. Blue High School, has been selected to receive the 2019 Principal’s Award, Principal Monique Poulin announced last week. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.

Poulin said that Roorbach was deserving of the award due to her dedication to her studies, her leadership and her involvement in extra-curricular offerings and opportunities at Mt. Blue High School and beyond. Roorbach has challenged herself with honors and Advanced Placement courses and is currently in the top ten of her class. She is involved in both band and choral programs, and has been the lead in multiple theater productions throughout her years at MBHS. She is the current president of the local chapter of the National Honor Society and leads its members in volunteer opportunities throughout the year. In addition to her academic, extra-curricular and leadership successes, Roorbach performs with the Maine State Ballet and also teaches a variety of levels of dance to students in the community.

“She is a wonderful representative of MBHS,” Poulin said, “and we are all pleased to recognize her as the well-deserving recipient of the 2019 MPA Principal’s Award.”

Elysia Roorbach, Monique Poulin, and other award winners and their principals will attend an Honors Luncheon at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

The Honors Luncheon recognizes these outstanding students with the presentation of an individual plaque and the awarding of five $1,000 scholarships in the names of Horace O. McGowan and Richard W. Tyler. McGowan and Tyler were former Maine principals and executive directors of the Association. An additional five $1,000 scholarships will be presented through the efforts of the MPA Scholarship Golf Tournament.

The Principal’s Award is presented in more than 100 Maine public and private high schools by member principals of the MPA, the professional association which represents Maine’s school administrators.