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Baccalaureate 2009Parting words from our co-head prefectsLindsay SmithExperiences are something that wehear a lot about at Stanstead College.They’ll forever be telling you that yougot “The Stanstead Experience.” And, asoften and possibly overused as thisexpression is, it is true. What we havehad here, be it in the past nine months orthe past six years, has been nothing shortof an experience, and hopefully it will beone that we will hold high in the years tocome.For some of us, it may have even beenlife changing. Coming here isn’t like ordinaryhigh school. In most schools, theaverage student marks their time assomething to get through in order to getto university, where the real experience iswaiting. It’s not like that at Stanstead.You don’t “survive” your high schoolyears, you live them. You become a partof the school and the experience itself.Over my years here, I have had theopportunity to meet a variety of differentpeople. The friendships that I haveexperienced here are beyond compare.When you see people every single day,breakfast, lunch, dinner, on the sportsfield and off, in and out of the dorm, itbecomes something beyond the averagefriendship. You come to know them asyour family. These friends are the worldswithin us all and the people that hopefullyhave had an effect on our futures, ourthoughts and our passions, the peoplethat, despite distance and time, will foreverremain in our hearts. These are thefriendships that we should cherish,because the friendships you make atStanstead College will be unlike anythingin the time to come.Now we are headed off in differentdirections across the globe. Some day wewill have jobs and families of our own.With any hope, Stanstead will have preparedus for what’s to come. We’ve finallymade it, and it is up to us now wherewe go from this point. It is always sad tocome to the end of a chapter in life. Atthe same time, I know that the reason weare sad is because of the life that we sawand lived prior to the end.Hopefully, what we have learned andexperienced in our time here at Stansteadwill be something that we can look backupon to help us along the way. May itforever be in our heart as we move forwardin the world, and held high in ourmemories as just one chapter of manythat are sure to come.Collin De La BruereThe Stanstead experience is all aboutgoing outside of your comfort zone.Every one of this year’s graduates hasdone it at some point at Stanstead, andevery one has grown stronger from it.Whether here for one year or six, we haveall grown so much together, tried newthings. We have all learned so much aboutourselves, and the experiences we’ve hadhere we’ll take with us throughout ourlives. You will never forget the first timeyou beat Mr. Grenier in a dropkick game,or the second, third, or fourth timeseither, but he’ll still take you on again – henever quits, eh? You will always rememberthat passionate kiss between J.F. andOlivier at Lip-Sync. (Believe me, you’llnever forget that…) And you’ll never forgetGrad night, when we looked back onall the times we had together.What we will cherish the most, however,about our time at Stanstead is not themoments we had, but the moments weshared, and more importantly who weshared them with. We have made friendshere that we will remember for the rest ofour lives, even some that we will know forthe rest of our lives. We’ll laugh when welook at our yearbook 10 years from nowand remember some of Jordan’s favouritewords: “Thanks for comin’ out, you trout6scout.” Or Dr. Standage, the smartest manyou’ve ever spoken to. Everyone we metchanged our trajectory a little bit. Theymoved us, and that’s what we’ll take awayfrom Stanstead the most: the people whohelped make us who we are today, andwho we’ll be tomorrow.One journey is coming to an end, butyet another is only beginning. Both arepart of this great plan we call “life.”Pieces to a puzzle, they are. I thinkStanstead is a corner piece; the pictureisn’t complete on its own but it’s the bestplace to start putting it all together. Onceit’s in, you have a good idea where to gofrom there.
Profile of this year’s Grade 12 class• 37 students received university acceptances• 2 applied to CEGEP and were accepted• 3 applied to OntarioColleges and were accepted• 28 were admitted intotheir first-choice university/collegeand program.• 24% of the graduatingclass accepted offers fromOntario• 28% of the graduatingclass accepted offers fromthe USA, including someof the top universities inthe country.Gabrielle Archer (2 offers)Acadia University - Political Science andConnections ProgramChad Bombardier (2 offers)Bishop’s University - ScienceOlivier Charette (4 offers)University of Ottawa - ScienceLing ChiuUniversity of Washington - Business,Law and JusticeJeffrey CowenCarleton University - MechanicalEngineeringMarc-Olivier Deguise (4 offers)University of Ottawa - Health ScienceCollin De La Bruere (3 offers)Harvard University - EconomicsBaccalaureate 2009• 1 student accepted an offer from UBC• 6 students accepted offers from Maritime universities• 5 students acceptedoffers from Quebecuniversities• 1 student accepted anoffer from a universityin Mexico• 2 students acceptedan offer from a universityin the UK• To date, there havebeen a total of 63scholarship offers valuedat over $450,000.Grade 12 students Collin De La Bruere, Kurt Martin, Rume Kakpovbia, Ling Chiu,Necola Guerrina, Lindsay Smith.Students receiving university scholarship offersChloe Duprat (5 offers)Acadia University - ScienceCedar Georgevich (2 offers)University of Vermont - BusinessNecola Guerrina (4 offers)Mount Allison University - ScienceEun Mi KimUniversity of British Columbia - FoodScienceTania Laroche DuhamelCarleton University - ScienceJean François Lefort (3 offers)University of Toronto - InternationalFoundation ProgramKurt MartinAlgonquin College - Outdoor Adventure& RecreationLindsay Smith (2 offers)taking a GAP year at Presbyterian LadiesCollege, Melbourne, AustraliaLogan Vanasse (2 offers)Bishop’s Univerity - ScienceHelen White (3 offers)Bowdoin College - PhysicsFrancis WilliamsUniversity of Waterloo - EngineeringKristina Wilson (3 offers)University of Vermont - NursingOlivia Demerchant (6 offers)St. Francis Xavier University - HumanKineticsGarrett Donnelly (4 offers) Lake ForestCollege - EngineeringRita Louise Montour (4 offers)Dartmouth College - Liberal ArtsChristina Nash (3 offers)University of Vermont - AnthropologyJulien QuincouCarleton University - Public Affairs7Student Yeji Lee receives a prize fromtrustee Harry Walker, Class of 1947
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