Mari Tomanelli, Lauren Budd, Jessie Sweeney, Charlie Hanscom, Ray Hummels, Patrick Davis, Kailey Holmes, and Isa Tomanelli are John Bapst's Mock Trial Team for 2013. The John Bapst Mock Trial team prepared over the course of three months on a fictional criminal case that was written by the Maine Read More
Academics
Academics
National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Scholars Announced
Matthew E. Spear '14 and Ryan K. Ward '14 have been named Semifinalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify, they have each scored in the top 1% of 1.5 million students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Later this year, the National Read More
Convocation Speech by Mr. John Emerson
Each year John Bapst begins the school semester with a Convocation. The entire school gathers as one body to be welcomed and hear wisdom by a member of the school staff. This year Mr. John Emerson, Chair of the Department of English and a member of the John Bapst faculty for 27 years, was introduced Read More
Fourth-quarter Honor Roll
Grade 12, high honors: Donald Brooks, Adrienne Carmack, Kendra Kelly, Jessica Leslie, Alyssa Munroe, Stephanie Parent, Darby Paul, Amelia Pellegrini; honors: Megan Ackley, Joshua Baker, Jordan Brasslett, Kelsey Burke, Cassandra Campbell, Jordan Carr, Nicole Carr, Andrew Catlin, Kathryne Cheff, Read More
John Bapst Class 2013 Graduates and Class Parts
John Bapst Memorial High School is proud to announce the graduates of the Class of 2013 who marched on Sunday, June 2, 2013. Donald Joseph (DJ) Brooks, son of Anne and Timothy Brooks of Clifton, was named valedictorian. He plans to attend Harvard University. A high honor student, Brooks has won Read More
Final Issue of the John Bapst Tribune 2012-13
Editor Ellen Coddington writes to the readers of the John Bapst Tribune as she sends out this end-of-year note: Another year is nearly over and summer is here. We've just finished out last issue of the year for the Tribune. Big thanks for all the journalists, photographers, and editors for this Read More
AP Bio Contributes to Global Knowledgebase
Each year Mr. Packard's AP Biology class works together to better the world's largest, most accessible encyclopedia - Wikipedia - by contributing images to augment articles on science. The collective goal is to contribute excellent biology diagrams to the Wikimedia Commons and to corresponding Read More
Kathrine Higgins First Place Law Day Poster Winner
Freshman Kathrine Higgins of Glenburn was selected as the first-place winner in the art category of the Penobscot County Bar Association’s annual Law Day essay and poster contest. Law Day was celebrated May 1. A $500 scholarship prize was presented Wednesday to Higgins for her poster. The theme Read More
Freshman Katherine Higgins wins Penobscot County Bar Association contest
Freshman Kathrine Higgins of Glenburn was selected as the first-place winner in the art category of the Penobscot County Bar Association’s annual Law Day essay and poster contest. Law Day was celebrated May 1. A $500 scholarship prize was presented Wednesday to Higgins for her poster. The Read More
John Bapst Students to present results of research on mercury and nitrogen in the Northeast
Students from four high schools in central and Downeast Maine have been conducting research on mercury and nitrogen in local watersheds and will be presenting their findings at a poster session at Husson University’s G. Peirce Webber Student Center on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. The students Read More