India Watkins valedictorian at Maclay

India Moore Watkins, daughter of local attorney Steve Moore Watkins III, graduated May 27 from the Maclay School as valedictorian of the Class of 2011, sharing the honor with her best friend, Jane Darby Menton.

While at Maclay, India served on the Latin team and played tennis. She also won numerous academic awards and honors, including honorary mention as one of Tallahassee’s Best and Brightest for literature, and highest academic average in high schools as a junior and senior. Maclay’s Latin team won the state tournament this year in Orlando and is headed to the nationals this summer in Kentucky.

India will attend Davidson College this fall and plans to major in classics, or a similar major, before going to medical school where she would like to concentrate her studies in neonatology. India had a difficult choice choosing between colleges after being accepted to the University of Virginia, William and Mary, Wofford, Vanderbilt, University of Florida, Wellesley, Rhodes Colleges and Davidson.

India’s mother, Sharon M. Watkins, sister Emerson M. Watkins, grandmother Charlotte Watkins, and aunt and uncle Joy and Ben Watkins, all of Tallahassee; and her great-uncle, J. Ben Watkins, and her father’s significant other, Karen Brown, all longtime and lifetime residents of Franklin County, are all proud of her.