Three San Jose students named to Bolles President’s list

Posted on March 31, 2020 By Editor Junior Residents

Bolles Head of School Tyler Hodges with Haley Bowmaster, Adarsh Aratikatla, Jason Du and Zekum Wang

Three San Jose students were named when President and Head of School Tyler Hodges announced the President’s List winners during the Third Quarter Honors Convocation on the Bolles Upper School San Jose Campus March 3.

On the list were Haley Bowmaster, a senior and juniors Jason Du and Zekum Wang, who joined Adarsh Aratikatla as the only students to receive the prestigious honor.All four are students who have gone “above and beyond” in their demonstration of The Bolles Way – Pursuing excellence through courage, integrity and compassion, Hodges said.

Bowmaster 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.

Du and Wang 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. They also enthusiastically participated in the Chinese New Year Celebration with the fifth graders at the Bartram campus, leading 24 fifth graders in learning a variety of Chinese language and cultural activities for the entire day.

Aratikatla, also a 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 looked forward to and benefited from this student’s guidance and support.