Latest Academic All Stars for BFA In This Morning's Free Press:
Academic all-stars
EVE THORSEN
Free Press Correspondent
Name: Austen Carpenter
Age: 18 School: Bellows Free Academy
Parents: John and Melinda Carpenter
Hometown: Fairfax Top 5 accomplishments: Winning the 2013 DII Skate Relay in Nordic skiing, getting into UVM Honors College, traveling to China with GIAC, being a member of BFA’s Scholar’s Bowl Team and serving a two-year term as a school board student representative
In the community:
Serving at the Salvation Army, assisting at a Chinese exchange camp, blood drives, and working part time
Favorite spare time activity: Reading or being outdoors
After graduation: University of Vermont for political science
Career plans: Foreign affairs
Your bedroom in one word: Eclectic Dead person to meet:
Queen Elizabeth I because I would like to talk to her about her choices as a single female leader and talk to her as a person, not a historical icon.
Your biography title:
I’ve Made a Huge Mistake
Three ‘luxuries’ on a desert island: Complete works of Jane Austen, a chocolate milkshake and a hammock
Personal motto: “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” Albus Dumbledore
Name: Dustin Charland Age: 18 School: BFA Fairfax Parents: Larry and Lisa Charland
Hometown: Fairfax Top 5 accomplishments: Accepted into college, Boys State, winning a state championship, teaching myself to ski and honor roll all four years of high school
In the community: Chinese cultural exchange camp, student council, senior mentor, mowed Little League fields, neighborhood watch, dog sitter
Favorite spare time activity: Ultimate Frisbee After graduation: UVM’s engineering program
Career plans: Entrepreneur of a world-renowned company
Your bedroom in one word: Adequate Dead person to meet:
John Harvey Kellogg is the dead person I would like to meet. Mr. Kellogg is the founder of the Kellogg company, which is responsible for the production of Cheez-Its.
Your biography title:
“Common sense for the common man”
Three ‘luxuries’ on a desert island: Chocolate, an inflated bouncy castle and the movie “Anger Management”
Personal motto: “A simple hello may not seem like much, but something always happens because of it.” –Dustin Charland
