{"id":9393,"date":"2020-05-06T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:17:41","slug":"umm-names-class-of-2020-valedictorian-and-salutatorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/06\/umm-names-class-of-2020-valedictorian-and-salutatorian\/","title":{"rendered":"UMM names Class of 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dawn Johnson of Orleans, Massachusetts is the 2020 University of Maine at Machias valedictorian and Kirsten Lisee of Milbridge is this year\u2019s salutatorian. Both students majored in psychology and community studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A member of the Clippers soccer team and recipient of the 2018 USCAA Student-Athlete of the Year award, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnson draws on her counseling training to help her foster youth development through athletics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love coaching soccer and inspiring young people to play the sport that I fell in love with at a young age,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnson served as vice president of Student Senate for the 2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20 academic year and is a mentor for UMM\u2019s Crossing Borders program, a humanities course taught in a collaborative virtual classroom with students in five countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She will continue mentoring students in that course after graduation and plans to pursue a master\u2019s degree in counseling next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisee received the Norman W. Duzen award for community-engaged scholars in 2018. She had a minor in counseling and plans to pursue a master\u2019s degree after graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisee hopes to become an elementary school counselor specializing in play therapy. She also says a course at UMM taught her the value of animal-assisted therapy, something she wants to use in her counseling practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel that dogs provide children with a sense of calmness as they\u2019re processing emotions and thought,\u201d says Lisee, who enjoys hiking with her family and dogs in her spare time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valedictorian and salutatorian are the highest honors awarded by the University of Maine at Machias, requiring a minimum 3.8 GPA and a history of academic excellence, strong character and service to the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The honorees will be formally named in a virtual Recognition Ceremony set to air online at 1 p.m. May 30, and will be invited to deliver speeches at a traditional Commencement Ceremony, tentatively scheduled for September.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Johnson of Orleans, Massachusetts is the 2020 University of Maine at Machias valedictorian and Kirsten Lisee of Milbridge is this year\u2019s salutatorian. 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