AROUND THE QUAD
5,452
Meals funded as part of the Community Service Club food drive. Generous Williston students donated food items as well as cash. The class of 2022 topped the leaderboard, with a total of 968 points (a point being a food item or dollar donated).
23,925 Total COVID-19 tests administered on campus between August 2020 and May 2021, part of Williston’s extensive safety protocols for the campus community.
30
Number of minutes during which students must answer six math problems in the Whitaker-Bement Girls in Mathematics Competition.
CONNECTING & RESPECTING
40
Number of times Equipment Manager J.T. Tirrell ’90 drove to the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., during the 2020–21 school year. Each Wednesday, J.T. delivered the school’s COVID-19 PCR tests to the institute’s lab, so that test results would be available the following day. Thanks, J.T.!
17
Student leaders who, along with 11 faculty members, ran this year’s Why Not Speak Day, which featured workshops and speakers devoted to examining identity. This year’s theme: Reflect, Respect, Connect.
15
New student-centered and teacher-supported affinity spaces for all groups of students to encourage interaction and support.
300
10
Teams competing in the school’s first Broomball Tournament this winter. What’s broomball, you ask? It’s like hockey, but with brooms. The winning team (who ironically did not sweep the tourney) was “Broom Roasted.”
Spools of yarn used for UNITY, an interactive public art project on campus during Why Not Speak Day. Students wove green yarn between posts to reflect their identities (see photo on page 13).
172
Number of gifts made as part of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Challenges this past Founders Day, totalling over $65,000. Thank you! SPRING 2021 BULLETIN 11
