President and Head of School Tyler Hodges announced the President’s List winners during the March 9 Third Quarter Honors Convocation on the Bolles Upper School San Jose Campus.

The winners are students who have gone “above and beyond” in their demonstration of The Bolles Way – Pursuing excellence through courage, integrity and compassion.

This quarter’s President’s List recipients are:

• Adarsh Aratikatla ’21: This junior devised a way to help other students with academics. He organized and led hour-long, after-school review sessions before each test for students in Biology Honors. The many freshmen students who attended look forward to and benefit from this student’s guidance and support.
• Jason Du ’21 and Zekun Wang ’21: These students have shown great leadership in the Bolles community and beyond. They are the driving force behind the Chinese Club and their hard work was instrumental in making Chinese Week a success. From decorating the campus to running a range of different activities, the students managed the week’s progress.  the week’s events could not have happened without them. They also enthusiastically participated in the Chinese New Year Celebration with the 5^th graders at the Bartram campus, leading 24 5^th graders in learning a variety of Chinese language and cultural activities for the entire day. They have consistently been exemplars of leadership and Bolles spirit.
• Haley Bowmaster ’20: This student has long been a member of the Bolles Buddies organization and is currently the club’s president.  She works in the school’s Extended Care program and learned that the North Florida School of Special Education needed volunteers to assist their students who would be modeling in their annual “Hearts of the Runway Fashion Show,” held last month. She took the lead and solicited volunteers from the Bolles Buddies organization and made sure that each student was cleared by the Deans’ Office.  She coordinated the 16 Bolles student volunteers at the event.