WALES — Oak Hill High School Principal Patricia Doyle has announced student Andrew Davis has been selected to receive the 2016 Principal’s Award.

The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.

Throughout Davis’ years at Oak Hill, he has distinguished himself and been involved in many activities. He has been active in Future Business Leaders of America, the Student Leadership Team, the Senior Finance Committee and serves as the Senior Class president. He has been on the soccer team for three years and served as team captain his senior year. Davis was inducted into the National Honor Society as a junior. Outside of school, he has volunteered many hours in the lab at Central Maine Medical Center.

Award winners and their principals will attend an honors luncheon in Bangor on Saturday, April 2. The luncheon will recognize these outstanding students with presentations of individual plaques and the awarding of five $1,000 scholarships in the names of Horace O. McGowan and Richard W. Tyler, former Maine principals and executive directors of the association. An additional five $1,000 scholarships will be presented through the efforts of the MPA Scholarship Golf Tournament. 

The Principal’s Award is presented in more than 100 Maine public and private high schools by member principals of the MPA, the professional association which represents Maine’s school administrators.