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Braintree Fontbonne Senior Awarded National Merit Scholarship

Fontbonne Academy is a Catholic, college-preparatory high school for young women sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.

The following is from Fontbonne Academy:

Fontbonne Academy senior, Julia Butts of Braintree, has been selected as a winner of a National Merit Scholarship.  Julia was selected as a Semifinalist this fall.  She fulfilled the competition requirements this winter, which included submitting a detailed scholarship application and presenting a record of very high academic performance.   Julia was selected from approximately 1.5 million students who entered the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program, of which only 16,000 students were named Semifinalists.  She is in a select group of the top 8,300 students in the nation to receive the award.

Among the top students in her senior class, Julia is a member of the prestigious National Honor Society, and is engaged in extracurricular activities ranging from Model UN Club (where she is secretary) to Fountain Friends (as co-president), to Admissions Ambassador, to dancing in school performances.  Julia is a skilled dancer;   she has been dancing at the Dance Studio of Braintree for 15 years and loves jazz, tap, ballet and point, and where she is assistant teacher as well.  In addition to her arduous workload at Fontbonne in mostly AP and Honors classes, Julia took on a class through Virtual High School in the fall called “Genes and Diseases,” and rather than coast through her senior year, she took a course in the German language this spring.  Julia has a real strength in the sciences, and was given the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) award from Mass Maritime last year. 

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Julia recently masterminded a new effort at Fontbonne, called “Ducks in Service” which sent the entire junior class out into the local area to perform service and then to reflect on the day and the mission of  Fontbonne.  Over 110 students engaged in the effort and lent their talents and time to places like Cradles to Crayons, Germantown Neighborhood Center, and Eventide Nursing Home to name a few.  Although Julia is undecided in the direction of her studies, she hopes to explore international relations and life sciences.  She will bring enthusiasm, intelligence, and new ideas wherever she goes.  A spectacular student by any measure, Julia is headed to Yale University next year.


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