The Rebecca Emery Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution announced the 2014 winners of the DAR Good Citizen contest at a chapter meeting on Feb. 8, held at Atria Kennebunk Senior Living Facility in Kennebunk.

The students were honored at a tea, and many family, friends and school faculty members attended to show their support. The students were first elected as the Good Citizens of their schools, with qualities of dependability, which includes truthfulness, loyalty and punctuality; service, which includes cooperation, courtesy and consideration of others; leadership, which includes personality, self-control and ability to assume responsibility; and patriotism, which includes unselfish interest in family, school, community and nation.

Each student also entered the scholarship portion of the contest, which was optional and necessitated the writing of an essay. The last step of the contest process was the judging of their credentials and essays by a panel of non-DAR judges. This was to determine which student would be the chapter winner, and whose material would be sent to the Maine State DAR Good Citizen Contest chairman for judging with the entries from the other chapters in the state.

As they received their awards at the tea, each student spoke about their high school experience as well as their goals for college and for the future.

The DAR Good Citizens for their schools this year are as follows: Kennebunk High School student Austin Weigle, Massabesic High School student Janelle Boisvert, Sanford High School student Misa Mai and Thornton Academy student Devin McGrath-Conwell.

McGrath-Conwell was also named the Good Citizen for the chapter. His essay and other paperwork have been submitted to be judged on the state level.