The Town of Webb Union Free School District has announced Samantha Notley and Jordan Levi as its academic leaders for the graduating Class of 2014.
Samantha Notley, daughter of Wanda and Mike Notley of Old Forge, has been named this year’s Valedictorian with a weighted average of 97.414.
Samantha has attended the Town of Webb school since kindergarten, and finishes ranked number one in her class of twenty-four students.
She has served as a student representative of Key Club since her freshmen year, where she averaged twenty community service hours annually.
Among the services she performed was volunteer work at the Old Forge Library and at the Goodsell Museum in Old Forge.
Samantha has participated in the Kiwanis Free Car Wash that is hosted each year in the Enchanted Forest/Water Safari parking lot. She also volunteers at the annual Neighbor Day event at View in Old Forge.
Samantha was named Kiwanis Club of the Central Adirondacks’ Student of the Month for January of 2014. She was later selected as The Kiwanis Club’s Student of the Year for 2014.
She is currently a CAP-21 board member.
Once a month, Samantha gives lectures at St. Bartholomew’s Church, in Old Forge.
Her sophomore year, she became a member of the National Honor Society and has been on the Superintendent’s Honor Roll since her freshman year.
Samantha served as her class president during her freshman and sophomore years. She was vice president her junior year.
As a band member, playing the clarinet since fifth grade, she joined the pit band for this year’s “Annie Get Your Gun” musical.
She has been a member of the Peer Mediation group since her freshman year.
Her junior year, Notley became a member of the Big Sisters Club.
She has been a member of the Varsity Club since her sophomore year.
She was the captain of the Town of Webb’s Girls Basketball team both her junior and senior years. She was also captain of the soccer team her freshman, sophomore, and senior years.
She was awarded League All-Star honors for both sports the years she was captain.
This year, she captained her softball team.
Samantha has been awarded the Kiwanis Student of the Month and Student of the Year Scholarships.
At the 2013 graduation, as a junior, she received the Medalist Scholarship from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
She will be attending RPI in the fall to study Civil Engineering.
Samantha has two older siblings, Mike and Amanda.
She is currently employed at the Enchanted Forest/Water Safari and The Muffin Patch Restaurant in Old Forge.
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Jordan Levi, daughter of John and Therá Levi of Old Forge, has been named Salutatorian for the Class of 2014 with a weighted average of 96.951.
She has attended the Town of Webb since the fifth grade. Previously she had attended the Inlet Common School.
She has been named to the Superintendent’s Honor Roll every semester since her freshman year.
Jordan has been her class Treasurer since her freshman year.
She was a member of Key Club her freshman, sophomore and junior years. In those years, she compiled over three hundred community service hours.
She was named the Kiwanis Club of the Central Adirondacks’ Student of the Month for December of 2013.
Jordan is currently in the Educating Students in Career Opportunities (ESCO) program working at Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company in Old Forge.
She is also doing an internship at Countryside Vet Clinic in Otter Lake.
Her junior year, Jordan became a member of the National Society of High School Scholars.
She has also been a member of the Big Sisters Club since her junior year.
A soccer player since the age of four, Jordan served as team captain her freshman and senior years.
She served as treasurer of Varsity Club her junior and senior years.
She was a member of the volleyball team her freshman and sophomore years, where she was honored as Most Improved Player.
In June of 2013, she joined the ranks of the Adirondack 46ers, having hiked all 46 of the Adirondacks’ high peaks.
In her freshman year, Jordan was selected from among her Peer Mediation group to go through the training process to became a certified Peer Mediator.
Jordan has been a member of the Community Youth Group through Niccoll’s Memorial Presbyterian Church since 2010.
She has been on three Habitat for Humanity trips to help build housing in less fortunate communities. She traveled to South Carolina, Delaware and West Virginia for these trips.
A proud achievement of Jordan’s is having raised a guide dog through the Guiding Eyes for the Blind program.
Jordan and her mother, Therá raised the puppy from eight weeks until she was about a year-and-a-half old.
Though the dog made it through the training, she became diagnosed with hip dysplasia and couldn’t be a certified. “I was proud she was picked to go through the training—we worked hard to get her there,” Jordan said.
Jordan has four older sisters, Amanda, Morgan, Whitney and Alex.
She received the Presidential Scholarship for the University of Maine, its highest award.
She will be attending the school in the fall to study Animal and Vet science and Equine Science.
She has also been awarded a scholarship from the Northern Logger.
She is currently employed at the Tamarack Café and The Ole Barn in Inlet.