For 56 years, the Optimist Club of Calvert has proudly recognized outstanding high school seniors across the county. Please join us and the Optimist Club of Solomons in celebrating the juniors and seniors selected by as their Outstanding Youth for 2025–2026!
Huntingtown High School Honorees in the front row: Grace Wilharm, Mary Kabore, Peyton Siegler, and Rachel Howell, back row: Guidance Counselor Danielle Phelps, Honorees Sean Cox, Jonathan Parran, and Noah Gross, Principal Beth Morton, and Optimist Club of Calvert President Joe Endy. Unable to attend – Anastasia Bortchevsky, Grace Glavan, and Helena Roche. Calvert High School Honorees Gracee Kimbro, Faith Wooters, Paige Aguilar, and Anushka Patel. Back row: Guidance Counselor Dr. LeTea Perry, Honorees Brooke Kidwell, Gibson Harper, Blaise Jeziorowski, and X’Saviour Butler, Assistant Principal Lloyd Sirman, and Optimist Club of Calvert President Joe Endy. Unable to attend – Elsie Merriman, and Julia DeBrew. Patuxent High School Honorees: Rilynn Ringler, Gemma Slusher, and Lucille Higgs (front row), Honorees Skylar Fink, Derek Sheranko, Caley Joy, and Anton Van der Vossen, pictured with Guidance Counselor Karin Ryon and Optimist Club of Calvert President Joe Endy. Unable to attend – Lillian Beadnell, Bailin Lauchlen, and William Compton.Northern High School Honorees: Caroline Wingate, India Jennings, Ronald (RJ) Schmidt, and Jake Edgington, pictured with Guidance Counselor Emma Layne and Optimist Club of Calvert President Joe Endy. Unable to attend – Jasella Brissett, Nathan Hitchman, Abigail Kendall, Braden Kultti, Daphne Niederhauser, Meredith Stocking.
We recently celebrated the winners of our 2026 Essay and Oratorical Contests at our monthly dinner meeting.
Congratulations to our Essay Winners: 1st Place Hudson Ricks (Calvert High) $150 and 2nd Place Hannah Ricks (Calvert High) $100. Congratulations to our Oratorical Contest Winners: 1st Place Andrew Grover (Northern High) $300, 2nd Place Anne Lawrence (Northern High) $200, and 3rd Place Ryan Zolfaghari (Northern Middle) $100. Pictured in the first photo (l-r) are Optimist Club President Joe Endy with Essay Contest winners Hannah Ricks and Hudson Ricks. Pictured in the second photo (l-r) are Optimist Club President Joe Endy with Oratorical Contest winners Andrew Grover, Anne Lawrence and Ryan Zolfaghari.
2024 Santa Night
Before Santa stopped by your house, he made sure to visit the Harriet E. Brown Community Center this month for our annual Santa Night. Forty kids visited with Santa, made crafts, played games and won prizes.
