LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear students, faculty, and friends,

My name is Stephen Makin, and I write this letter as the editor-in-chief of the newest edition of the Arister, CBA’s unique and distinctive medium for high school artists of all kinds to come together and make something amazing. As many of you know, we as an organization have not been producing issues in recent years. We were crippled by the pandemic gathering submissions proved difficult, with the teenage generation slowing down to a rather dreary lull as we stayed inside alone.

But this year, I am gladdened by the fact that the Arister has received abundant support from the CBA faculty. We’ve been permitted to put up posters, and to send emails to the students almost every single enrichment day. We’ve even found a brand-new faculty advisor in Mr. Nunan, who has been beyond helpful in his efforts to promote our product and guide our staff. Thus, we were able to start business off quite quickly. We recruited writers, painters, photographers, and graphic designers, with one single aim in mind: to create the very first fully-digital iteration of the Arister at CBA.

What you’re paging through now is our final product, our end goal. It has work involving every age and every class, every group of people, every niche and clique at CBA. This is what we’ve worked so hard to bring back for you all. I hope, and remain quite confident, that it might just fit the bill.

Sincerely,

Stephen Makin, ‘23

Credits

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: STEPHEN MAKIN '23

LAYOUT EDITOR: SHANE LANGAN '25

PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR: DANIEL MCNAMARA '23

POETRY EDITOR: THIBAUT FABRICANT '23

PROSE EDITOR: JOHN WOOLF '23

STAFF AND CONTRIBUTORS:

ETHAN ALCASID '24

JACK BAILEY '24

PARKER BEYUN '23

WILL DI RESTA '24

JACK FURLONG '26

AIDEN HOLT '25

DREW KOSCHO '24

MATT LEVY '23

NICHOLAS LICCIARDI '24

ETHAN MAK '26

TIMOTHY MCGUINNESS '23

CONNOR MINTO '26

JACK MOCIK '23

ALEX NOTARO '26

WILLIAM SHERMAN '24

HARRISON STASTNEY '24

EAMON SULLIVAN '23

QUINN WALSH '23

JAKE ZAPPALLA '23