Students Named Finalists

Sixth Formers Mae Mullen and Taite Puhala have been named Finalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program and are being considered for a National Merit Scholarship and the Merit Scholar title.
 

They are among approximately 15,000 Finalists competing for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarship awards that will be announced beginning in April and concluding in July.
 

Mullen, a day student from East Granby, serves as co-editor-in-chief of The Westminster News; co-editor of The Martlet; co-president of the EcoTeam; a member of Chamber Choir, Choral, Dramat, Westminster Belles and First Girls’ Track; and co-captain of First Girls’ Cross Country. She has been recognized as an AP Scholar with Distinction.
 

Puhala, a day student also from East Granby, is the winner of this year’s Brian Ford Writing Prize and has been selected as a reader for Westminster’s “Friday Nights in Gund” series. She is also president of The Movement writing club, a writer for The Westminster News, co-editor of the Martlet and plays basketball. She has won the Johns Hopkins Creative Minds Poetry Prize, the Smith College High School Poetry Prize and has been recognized as an AP Scholar with Distinction.