Mount Everett Names Top Students for 2013
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Mount Everett Regional School has named its top students for the class of 2013.
Catherine Twing is valedictorian and Erik Derwitsch is salutatorian. Both will speak at graduation exercises at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, at Tanglewood in Lenox.
Twing is the daughter of Belinda and Robert Twing of New Marlborough. In addition to being president of the National Honor Society, she is vice president of the Mount Everett Future Farmers of America Chapter.
She has been an active member of the school choir, band and tennis team. She has also participated in Shakespeare & Company's Fall Festival of Shakespeare. She will attend Castleton State College in Vermont to pursue a degree in social work and participate in the honors program.
Derwitsch is the son of Joanne and Robert Derwitsch of Ashley Falls.
Derwitsch is a three-sport athlete, playing soccer, hockey and baseball throughout high school. He is also the treasurer of the National Honor Society, a Blue and Gold School Spirit team captain and an active member in the Students Against Destructive Decisions club, and serves on the Youth Advisory Board for the Berkshire County district attorney's office.
He will attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering.
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