NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury High School has named Colin Matthew Daly and Atlas Lescarbeau as the valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the class of 2025. 

 

Both will speak at graduation ceremonies on Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m. A livestream of the event will run at www.napsk12.org/graduation. 

 

Daly, son of Anthony and Shelley Daly of North Adams, has challenged himself academically, going out of his way to

take advantage of the opportunities offered to him and will graduate with a GPA of 4.6. and having completed eight college courses through the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Early College Program. He has been

inducted into both the Nu Sigma and Pro Merito Honor societies, was awarded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Medal of Distinction during his junior year and has received the Principal's Award for having the one of the top five averages in his class for four years.

 

In addition to his excellence in the classroom, he has been an integral part of the boys soccer and basketball teams, has been an altar server at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish for the past nine years, is an active Student Ambassador and has held down a part-time job throughout high school.

 

Daly will be attending Thomas Aquinas College in Northfield in the fall and plans to major in engineering.

 

Lescarbeau, whose parents are Louis Lescarbeau and Angel Lescarbeau of North Adams, also has taken a rigorous course of studies including the completion of AP courses and several early college courses both at Drury High School and on the campus of MCLA. He has excelled academically with challenging coursework and was inducted to Drury High School's Nu Sigma Honor Society junior year and Pro Merito Honor Society senior year for maintaining a high grade point average. Lescarbeau has performed in the "School of Rock," marching band, and chorus/jazz band and has played the trumpet with Drury's band since seventh grade. He studied art classes as well and assisted backstage for Drury's theater program as a freshman and perform in several productions through senior year.

 

Lescarbeau has also shared his passion and creativity in the community as a member of the Community Intergenerational Action Orchestra since seventh grade and of Kids for Harmony since sixth grade. In senior year, he played trumpet for a theater production in Bennington, Vt., and was a teen activator at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art during junior year.

 

Lescarbeau will be attending St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., to major in theater