Cape Elizabeth High School senior Bethany Roy has been awarded the Principal’s Award by Principal Jeff Shedd.
This award is sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association and is given annually to a senior in each of the state’s high school. A luncheon to honor the recipients will be held in Bangor on April 2. Winners are chosen based on the student’s academic record, school citizenship, accomplishments in community service and co-curricular activities.
“I am really honored to get the Principal Award from Mr. Shedd,” wrote Roy in a letter to the Current, “although I’m sure there were a lot of other very deserving people.”
Roy is founder and president of the Operation Smile Club at the high school, which raises money for the national, non-profit organization Operation Smile. This organization sends teams of physicians and other health care professionals to lesser-developed countries to do free reconstructive surgeries on disadvantaged children who have facial deformities such as cleft lips, cleft palates, tumors, facial clefts and burns.
At CEHS, OpSmile does a lot of fundraisers and awareness-raisers. Roy has helped organize an annual rose sale for Valentine’s Day and other things such as toothbrush drives, leaf raking and benefit concerts. Roy was selected by Operation Smile to go to Belem, Brazil, on a medical mission in August 2004.
Roy is also president of the Volunteer Club, treasurer of her class, and philanthropy chair of the National Honor Society. She is co-captain of the debate team and a member of the math and tennis teams. Roy rounds out her busy schedule by being a member of student rescue, where she acts as an assistant to EMTs on ambulance calls.
In the fall Roy will attend Yale University, where she will pursue her interests in biotechnology and Latin American studies. She said she loves Maine in the summer, swimming at night and sleeping on her lawn.
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