From Head of School Dave Armistead
Back to Bapst and Back to Normal
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s I reflect on the coming end of the school year, I can’t help but be amazed at what we’ve all been through and accomplished together. The class of ’22 has had four different schedules and four different kinds of school across their years here. They’ve been fully online, partially online, in-person with masks, and in-person with masks optional. We’ve had pooled testing, masking, social distancing, and more cancellations than we care to count over the past two years. The pandemic has thrown many challenges at the school yet our community has always found ways to thrive. I’ve been impressed by how much we have been able to restore. I hope you are too. In this year alone, we have sent students to Greece and the Galapagos Islands (a trip to Spain and Italy is coming up in June!). We’ve had a robotics team go to the world championships. We have had students return to Mount Desert Rock to continue field research on marine life. We have concerts, art shows, and dramatic productions again. Our teams are on the fields and on the courts again. It could go without saying, but I’ll add that we have had the fantastic in-person education going full tilt. If you walk the halls at John Bapst today, you will see and hear happy, smiling students and teachers and know that we are ending this year back at full strength. It feels great to be back! In this issue of The Round Table, you will read stories about what has been happening this past year, plus some great stories and quips from our alums. Like every year, we have made great memories this year, and we are always excited to share them from past years. Enjoy!
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This community has always found ways to thrive...this year has been especially refreshing in how much we have been able to restore.
Students (top, clockwise) in the Galapagos Islands, on the way to Mount Desert Rock, in Greece, and on the PBS program High School Quiz Show: Maine
