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NOW IS the Thank You, Julie Ewing Robotics Takes Off TIME! Bapst Kids Care THE ROUND TABLE / Contents A Tradition of Excellence 100 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401 207-947-0313 www.johnbapst.org MISSION John Bapst Memorial High School is an academically challenging, independent, college-preparatory school fostering in students a respect for learning, for themselves, and for others. Integrity | Achievement | Respect ADMINISTRATION Mel MacKay Kamille Morgan Head of School Director of Testing and Studies Dave Armistead Associate Head Mike Murphy of School Director of Karen Bender Technology Office Manager Dan O’Connell Airlia Britt Athletic Director Director of Jordan Reeves Development Director of Melissa Burns Residential Life Director of Fine Arts Nick Umphrey Beth Campbell Director of Counseling Director of Admission Shyla Waring ‘99 Yue (Louisa) Deng School Nurse Director of the International Program Liese Wood Dean of Students Angela Kearns ’92 Eric Zelz ’78 14 Assistant to the DENIS DAUPHINEE ‘77 ON WRITING, TREKKING, AND TRUTH Head of School Director of Communications and Bill Meier Alumni Relations Director of Finance and Operations BOARD OF TRUSTEES Hans Peterson, Chair Dan Wellington ‘73, Vice Chair Adrienne Carmack, Secretary James Strout ‘02, Treasurer Mary Ellen Sheehan Darling ’59, Trustee Emerita Earle Hannigan, Trustee Emeritus Karen Boudreau ’77 Kirsten Ismail Kristin Canders ’92 Kevin Kelly 7 18 Rich Crowe ’65 James V. Lacadie ’71 Sande Curtis Susan MacKay JULIE EWING RICH CROWE ‘65 Dung Nghia Duong Kim Meagher ’04 36 YEARS AT JOHN BAPST AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIR Cheryl Fasse Tony Pellegrini, Esq. Pat Gaetani AROUND CAMPUS 7 CLASS NOTES 35 SUMMER GATHERING 27 GIVING 38 FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE Jason O’Reilly STAY CONNECTED. SEND US YOUR NEWS. SENDING SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES BY MAIL: John Bapst Memorial High School, Development Office, 100 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401-5204 John Higgins ’80 Kyle Casburn Linda Graban ONLINE: johnbapst.org/about/contact-us Glenburn Orrington RSU 63 THE ROUND TABLE WINTER 2019/2020 JOHNBAPST.ORG 3 From the Head of School / THE ROUND TABLE John Bapst students take part in the groundbreaking of John Bapst’s new gym and fitness center, October 31, 2019 on Somerset Street. The projected completion date is fall 2020. his past Halloween, a dozen high JOHN BAPST school students and a few of us older folks were poised over our shovels, taking direction from Nickerson & O’Day BREAKS CEO Karl Ward. It was John Bapst’s first groundbreaking ceremony since 1927. T Earlier that morning in the school auditorium as GROUND we welcomed the huge crowd assembled, I asked ON if anyone remembered the last groundbreaking. A “Maybe you’ve seen the NEW cornerstone of the main John Bapst building at the corner of Broadway GYMAND and Somerset,” I said. “On that stone is carved MCMXXVII. Ninety-two FITNESS years ago, Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States, Babe Ruth was playing right field for the New York Yankees, and Charles Lindbergh had CENTER just flown across the Atlantic.” 4 THE ROUND TABLE WINTER 2019/2020 JOHNBAPST.ORG THE ROUND TABLE / From the Head of School The entire student body was on Somerset Street to enjoy the festivities surrounding the historic groundbreaking of John Bapst’s new gym and fitness center on October 31, 2019. Christina Breen and Annie Peterson Above: Benita Deschaine, Earle Hannigan, Karl Ward, Adrienne Carmack, and Rich Crowe. A year from now—thanks to so many of you—we will have our new building, and it will be a building for all of us. Every student who takes PE will have the chance to take the class in a brand-new facility. Every stu- dent will have the chance to get comfortable with exercise equipment in preparation for a healthy adult life. Our new building isn’t just for all of us, it’s made possible by all of us. Students and their families have contributed. Faculty and staff have contributed. Businesses like Nickerson beautiful new facility, we will not be done. Our new building & O’Day and our financing partner Bangor The school’s plans call for three more crucial Savings Bank have contributed significantly. steps forward, all now in the planning stages. isn’t just for all of us, Alumni have contributed. We’ve received Over the coming months, the school and it’s made possible donations from across the state of Maine its architects from the Bangor firm Artifex by all of us. and from all over the U.S. We’ve received will be hosting a series of what designers donations from our families from China, call charrettes—essentially, brainstorming Korea, Vietnam, and other countries. Those sessions. The crystal ball we’re looking into hundreds of donations now allow us to get says that in John Bapst’s future are a new started on a $3.8-million athletic center. technology center; a new community dining But a year from now, when we move into a hall and kitchen; and a corridor connecting THE ROUND TABLE WINTER 2019/2020 JOHNBAPST.ORG 5 From the Head of School / THE ROUND TABLE Co-chairs Rich Crowe and Benita Deschaine Head of School Top left: Students celebrated the groundbreaking of the new gym Mel MacKay and fitness center. music, art, and technology that will make Together, we will design beautiful new facility will serve breakfast, the school completely accessible. lunch, and dinner. Above the new kitchen This second phase will require ideas from vital improvements and connected to the Music Wing and the students, parents, faculty and staff, alumni, to the historic building Art Wing will be a big new Technology and and trustees as we design vital improvements at 100 Broadway Innovation Center, so important to our to the historic building at 100 Broadway. successful, fast-growing programs in Imagine: future students will enter the breakfast. John Bapst community events like technology and engineering. school in the morning and go to the current team dinners will happen in that dining hall Thank you so much for helping launch gym to hang out, have a cup of coffee or have and kitchen, and for boarding students the John Bapst into its second century. What’s Next: Put On Your Thinking Caps! As the new gym and fitness center is being constructed, we now turn our attention to 100 Broadway. The architectural renderings (above) are exciting jumping off points for the new dining hall and community center and the state-of-the-art technology center, but we need your input. We will be announcing a series of brainstorming sessions to define what’s best for our school and our students. It’s all part of the ongoing “Love That School!” campaign. 6 THE ROUND TABLE WINTER 2019/2020 JOHNBAPST.ORG THE ROUND TABLE / Around Campus Thank You, Julie Ewing Excerpts from Julie Ewing’s Retirement Talk Per tradition, I chose the written music of game. Balloons, singing of the school song, to the John Bapst Community, May 20, 2019 the college fight song “On, Wisconsin.” The and lots of laughter filled the streets and cheering coach and I wrote the words to what stadium on homecoming evening. is now “Go, Crusaders.” t is unbelievable to me that it has been Bapst needed a jazz musician directing stage That Ol’ Bapst Magic thirty-six years since I was hired to start the band. There is only so much swing in this In March 1991 we were invited by Bangor band program here at John Bapst. classically trained pianist. Al McIntyre had International Airport to be at the terminal at I I grew up in Ellsworth during the ’50s, just performed for our student body and was 7 a.m. to greet the first troops arriving home starting piano lessons at age seven. By second giving private drum lessons to a few Bapst from the Gulf War. We created musical spirit grade I had trouble with phonics. I became band members. There was no mistake he had for the crowd waiting to greet the troops and tenacious, working so much harder than my that swing. honored them coming down the ramp with friends. It was a challenging time of life for me, Next, I needed to find parents willing to help. the five themes of the military branches. being tracked with the smart crowd and called I formed the JB Band Boosters. The Band I heard the word “Stop.” The entire terminal out for my mistakes in writing, reading, and Boosters’ spirit and energy became so strong had gone silent … except for the sound of speaking. This is probably when my they renamed themselves the Fine Arts Boosters, a tenor sax—borrowed from a Bapst band performance anxiety started. Even the notes on the page of music moved, but I pushed through piano recitals until the end of high school. I was in love with the musical sentences of Chopin and Debussy. Only when studying disabilities at USM did I realize my difficulties in phonics – and all the moving black notes on the piano music – had a name: dyslexia. I started my high school years playing sports. My passion for equality between music and sports developed the day the banter in the locker room was that the kids that loved music would amount to nothing….That very moment I became a fierce defender of the arts. I would not continue my plan to be a phys ed teacher; instead, I would become an exceptional music teacher. From the First Teaching Job to “Go, Crusaders!” member—being played by a young army My first teaching job was for the Orrington with the wish of helping with visual arts, School, teaching K-8 music and building drama, and vocal music as well as the band….