There are various reasons as to why I’m deserving of the Etna-Dixmont School Scholarship. The most prevalent reason is my family history and connection with the town of Dixmont. My father and my grandparents moved to from Massachusetts to Dixmont, Maine when he was in second grade. My grandfather bought a house on Route 9 in Dixmont, and some other land in addition to that. The Dixmont Corner Church was built in 1835, and had an active one room school house next to it that was built in 1808. The school house was named after the man who built the house that my grandfather purchased. My father, David Hill, was in the second grade when he started attending Etna-Dixmont school, which was only a year old at the time. The bus he rode to school
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I was a member of the K-5 cheering team from the time I was in kindergarten to the time I was in fourth grade. The peers I had when I attended are still a big part of my life. Even if we’re not the closest of friends, I still feel an unbreakable bond with those kids that I shared tears and laughter with for nine years straight. Graduating the eighth grade was tough for me, I didn’t know how I was supposed to leave behind the place where I had grown up for the majority of my life. That school was comfort to me, it was a safe place where I knew I would be respected. I learned so much from attending Etna-Dixmont School, both morally and logically. When I started my freshman year at Nokomis Regional High, I found that a lot of the things I was being taught were things that I had already learned at Etna-Dixmont School. I feel like I had gotten a jumpstart, especially in maturity. My teachers drilled the importance of respect and responsibility into my brain from the first time I stepped foot into the building. I feel like that has been a huge advantage to me in high school, and I have used that knowledge for the better. Etna-Dixmont didn’t just give me a primary and secondary education, it gave me a group of people who I can count on for support at any time, experiences I will never forget, a strong voice, the ability to differentiate right from wrong, respect for others, responsibility for myself, and the
I was a member of the K-5 cheering team from the time I was in kindergarten to the time I was in fourth grade. The peers I had when I attended are still a big part of my life. Even if we’re not the closest of friends, I still feel an unbreakable bond with those kids that I shared tears and laughter with for nine years straight. Graduating the eighth grade was tough for me, I didn’t know how I was supposed to leave behind the place where I had grown up for the majority of my life. That school was comfort to me, it was a safe place where I knew I would be respected. I learned so much from attending Etna-Dixmont School, both morally and logically. When I started my freshman year at Nokomis Regional High, I found that a lot of the things I was being taught were things that I had already learned at Etna-Dixmont School. I feel like I had gotten a jumpstart, especially in maturity. My teachers drilled the importance of respect and responsibility into my brain from the first time I stepped foot into the building. I feel like that has been a huge advantage to me in high school, and I have used that knowledge for the better. Etna-Dixmont didn’t just give me a primary and secondary education, it gave me a group of people who I can count on for support at any time, experiences I will never forget, a strong voice, the ability to differentiate right from wrong, respect for others, responsibility for myself, and the