5 THINGS

SOCIAL STUDIES

Step aside, Wildcat! Ultimate players gathered around their unofficial mascot, Buffy, who belongs to Math Department Chair Josh Seamon. During this spring’s Why Not Speak Day, we celebrated the wide array of identities on campus—with workshops, speakers, and rainbows!

Students dedicated The Log yearbook to our health care heroes on campus, who administered more than 23,000 COVID tests this year. Visual arts teacher Wendy Staples encourages both in-person and remote-learning students during AP Studio Art.

A Podcast Potluck

Help yourself to a listen as we present a smorgasbord of aural options from Willistonconnected voices 1. Williston’s Head Strength

and Conditioning Coach

Blayne Lapan talked strength training on the podcast “Barbell Shrugged” with weightlifter Anders Varner ’01 (see profile, page 48). 2. On the “Member Voices” podcast of the National Association of Independent Schools, Director of Curriculum Kim Evelti shared how the school faced the pandemic and national events. 3. If you appreciate a granular focus on professional athletics, listen to “The Stat Cast.” Sam Greeman ’17 is one of two “stats and sports nerds” who crunch the numbers after the game. 4. Emma Sherr-Ziarko ’07 and guests discuss wine and popular culture on “Pairing.” A recent episode dissected the iconic Sherlock Holmes. Serve a “deep, dark tannic red” to “set the eerie mood.”