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College Clubs Announce Highest GPA Awards
The College Woman’s Club of Westfield and the College Men’s Club of Westfield jointly announce that the 2024 recipients of the awards honoring the female and male seniors earning the highest grade point average at Westfield High School (WHS) are Catherine Heflin and Devan Petal. The $500 awards for academic excellence were bestowed at the WHS graduation ceremony on June 21, 2024, continuing each club’s legacy of recognizing student achievement.
Catherine Heflin was recruited to play softball at Swarthmore College, where she intends to major in engineering and mathematics. A four-year starting varsity softball player, she holds the WHS record for most doubles in a season and received the Girls Softball League of Westfield Scholarship Award and the Westfield Baseball Buddy Scholarship Award. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the French Honor Society, and received the Peggy & Jeremiah Lott Scholarship from the Westfield Foundation.
Devan Petal will attend Tufts University, where he plans to study mathematics and applied physics. While at WHS, Devan served as Captain of the Robotics Team that won the NJ State Championship and as the Coding Coordinator for Coding for a Cause. His academic honors include the Computer Science Award, the AP Physics Award, and the Noel & Thelma Taylor Memorial Award. He is a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society.
The College Woman’s Club was founded in 1917 to promote higher education for women and serve the general interests of the community. It has awarded over $1 million in scholarships to young women from Westfield based on academics, leadership and financial need. In addition to fundraisers, the club offers social and educational events, including college admissions and financial aid seminars, book clubs, and museum trips. For further information, please visit cwclubwestfield.org.
The College Men’s Club of Westfield was founded in 1922 and over the past century has helped hundreds of young men by providing college tuition assistance and funding for standardized test preparatory courses. Since its founding, the CMC has raised and distributed over $1.4 million to young men from the Westfield community. For more information about the CMC, including membership and scholarship applications, please visit cmcwestfield.org.
