WESTFIELD – On May 1, Westfield High School celebrated College and Career Reveal Day, where seniors are asked to come in wearing t-shirts or other outward indications of their plans beyond graduation.
Guidance counselor Megan Dougherty said in the college world, May 1 is the day of deposit and decision for prospective students that former first lady Michelle Obama instituted under the Obama presidency as a day to celebrate students’ plans for the future, just as athletes are celebrated for signing to teams.
Students that stopped by during a 15-minute period that morning demonstrated a wide variety of career interests and choices in higher education that spanned the east cost. Many more students waited on line for their turn, as counselors Dougherty, Merylina Asselin and Jenna Stolanik took individual pictures for an end-of-year wall display.
