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Berwick Academy announces 2011 cum laude seniors

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Berwick Academy announces the 12 Cum Laude seniors for the Class of 2011.

Danny Bottino is the son of Marlane and Robert Bottino of Kittery Point, Maine. Danny has attended Berwick Academy since the sixth grade, and was inducted into the Cum Laude Society his junior year. Danny has been on the honor or high honor role every marking period during his high school career and has been on the high honor role ever since the beginning of his sophomore year. During his academic career he has completed five honors courses and six AP courses. Other academic accomplishments include being inducted into the National Spanish Honor Society his sophomore year, receiving the History Departmental Recognition Award his sophomore year, the Bausch and Lomb award his junior year, and the Cogswell Award for having the highest GPA during his junior year.

Danny has been part of the Varsity Cross Country team since his sophomore year and the Varsity Tennis team since his junior year. He won the JV Tennis Coach's Award his freshman year and the MVP Award his sophomore year before being promoted to Varsity. He has also acted in two Upper School dramatic plays, The Man who Came to Dinner and Arms and the Man, as well as being part of the Berwick Academy robotics team since his freshman year. Danny also has had great satisfaction in being part of the Upper School chess club since his freshman year.

For his senior project, Danny will be writing a research paper on the history of artificial lighting in the town of South Berwick in general and the Sarah Orne Jewett house specifically. Next fall, Danny plans to attend Tufts University, where he hopes to major in either Biology or International Relations and minor in Film Studies.

Elizabeth Hopkins , the daughter of Christopher and Madeleine Hopkins of Wells, Maine, was inducted into the Cum Laude Society in the winter of her senior year. She has attended Berwick Academy for the past ten years, during the course of which she has remained on the high honor or honor roll every semester. During her high school career, Elizabeth has received a total of four Recognition Awards in art, history, English, and French, and was awarded the Harvard Book Prize at the end of her junior year. She was inducted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society and the French Honor Society in her sophomore year, and was admitted into the National Art Honor Society as a junior last year.

Darius Rucker Bets on Education with the New Mexico Lottery ...

Since its launch in 1996, the New Mexico Lottery has raised in excess of $477 million to benefit education in the state ($70+ million for public school construction and repairs and $407+ for college tuition). More than 68,000 students have received Legislative Lottery Scholarships.

Impressive, yes, but so is the potential for this program to benefit even more recipients. So to widen their outreach, Lottery administrators looked to the Country Music community. Specifically, they came to Darius Rucker with a proposition. Would he be interested in being the face and name on a new $5 Scratcher, with a second-chance drawing for two grand prizes that include an autographed guitar, air travel, five-day deluxe hotel accommodations, $750 in cash and two four-day tickets to this year’s CMA Music Festival in Nashville, with a Rucker meet-and-greet?

“When my manager brought the idea to me, I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a long way from home,‘” said the South Carolina-based artist, whose sophomore Country album on Capitol Records Nashville is titled Charleston, SC 1966. “But when I learned that education was very important to them, I was like, ‘Yeah, cool,’ because it’s very important to me too.”

“We wanted to reach a different audience,” explained Tom Romero, CEO, New Mexico Lottery. “Here in New Mexico, Country Music is very popular. Once we saw that Darius was at the center of what’s hot in Country entertainment, we felt his star power and his music would be a really good fit for us because it would draw more attention to all our games and help us raise more money for our state college scholarship program.”

Nathan Gregory, head of Strategic Marketing and New Business at McGhee Entertainment, which represents Rucker, brought the parties together, having worked on previous projects with the Lottery. The singer recorded voiceovers for television and radio spots, posed for photos that would appear on the Scratchers and devoted Feb. 10, the day the Scratcher released, to doing interviews for print media throughout New Mexico.

For Rucker-branded Scratchers that didn’t win instant cash or a new ticket, the ticket could be replayed for the CMA Music Festival “second chance drawing.” “We’ve had a tremendous amount of entries,” noted Romero in April. “It’s been in our Top 5 best-selling Scratchers for weeks. And we still have a month to go!” (In May two winners were drawn from 13,600 entries: Deborah Howden of Los Ranchos and Christopher Williams of Las Cruces.

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