GraduationSUMMER 2022 Alum of the YearAlumni UpdatesName Change
By Alexandra S. Thurstone G’80, ’84
On Friday, May 27, St. Francis School faculty, sta , students, and families gathered at the Bomhard Theater in the Kentucky Center for the Arts to celebrate Graduation with the Class of 2022 – the 44th graduating class of the School and the nal class to graduate under the St. Francis School name.
Notes from the Head of School
Each year, I look forward to this joyous occasion and the opportunity it gives me to pause and re ect on each student’s journey up to this seminal moment. Every class is as unique as the individuals within it, and the Class of 2022 was no exception. Among this remarkable group of young people, we nd beautiful singers, composers, and multi-instrument musicians; fashion designers; noodle javelin champions; ‘shark eyes’ and power lifters; cross country regional champs and mile and half-mile school record holders; three and four-sport athletes; successful streetwear designers; baseball and basketball record holders; inaugural dodgeball tournament champs; memoirists; duck callers and biscuit lovers; bolly-hop dancers; animal lovers; the Commons Room gaming crew; McDonald’s lovers; Quick Recall mavens; Planned Parenthood peer educators; activists and anti-racists; refugees and immigrants; multi-talented mathematicians and photographers; costume lovers and novella authors; Chinese scholars; contrarians; cookbook authors and foodies; movie lovers; multi-linguists; outstanding speakers and premier delegation members at KYA; zombie experts; those who have persevered through great loss; loyal and erce friends; children’s book authors; Morning Meeting announcers; Student Court chief justices; students of business; and 28 totally unique individuals. One of our cherished Wyvern traditions is that any student who feels compelled to speak at Graduation is invited and encouraged to do so, unedited and uncensored, and every year we are touched, humbled, and entertained by their poignant remarks and their poised deliveries. Here are a few quotes from some of the students who spoke: Henry Schneiderman ’22 expresses gratitude to the community: “For my nal thank you, I am happy, no, I am proud to stand here and con dently say thanks to every last one of you. To the St. Francis School community. And although I, and I’m sure many of my peers, possess these same bittersweet feelings of moving on, I am thrilled to nally join a rich community of St. Francis School alumni and I am proud to say that I, Henry Schneiderman, am a Wyvern for life.”
Lisa Patel ’22 spoke about the community’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: “I am so glad to be part of this community that helped me to be the person I am. I grew as a person a lot, but I also formed strong relationships with my teachers. One of the things I like about this School is the appreciation for diversity and equality — everyone is equally served, no matter your race, religion, ethnicity, or physical appearance.”
Ellie Westfall ’22 spoke about the complex nature of building experience: “[Experience is] made of regret, hard lessons, moving forward, of hoping for better. St. Francis School itself was my experience, yet marks the beginning of my experience in the world, and shapes how I chose to cultivate new experiences. I am honored to be the last class of St. Francis School, the last to share the formative, nostalgic experience of St. Francis School that my brother, dad, aunt, and friends know. The School is transforming for the future’s sake, and so must we.”
Lily Gilbert ’22 spoke about all that the School taught her: “St. Francis School has taught me how to be compassionate and how to be respectful. How to speak the truth when it matters most. How to communicate, how to feel deeply. All of this, in the most amazing and intense way, makes me a better songwriter and makes me a better person: someone who is responsible, curious, easily-inspired. For this, I am ever thankful to every single person who has made my experience here the beautiful one that it was.”
Ayda Marshall ’22 spoke on her love of cuisine, its in uence in her life, and the perspective she has gained: “I’ve grown up surrounded by different cuisines, mainly Turkish, and because of this, I’ve come to perceive the world through food. Much like my experiences trying and eating different foods, St. Francis School has encouraged me to branch out and try as many activities, sports, and clubs as I like. I look forward to watching the programs for sports, etc. … grow in the years to come and continue to provide opportunities for students to branch out. I know that I will apply this perspective on life in college and beyond.”
As I gave the students their diplomas, my heart swelled with pride and gratitude for what they have accomplished over these past four years and the people they have become, all while living through a pandemic, navigating social and civil unrest, and simply managing the normal challenges that come with adolescence. While saying goodbye is bittersweet, we look forward to their return in the coming years to share and celebrate the successes that we know lie ahead for each and every one of them. Please join us in congratulating the Class of 2022!
Rayya Metry-Bonyun ’22 spoke about identity and the journey of self-discovery: “But the thing I’m truly grateful for is that for the last four years, St. Francis School has provided me with a space where I could be confused. I could be myself, AND not know who I was. And try to gure it out, and fail to gure it out, and that was just OK. That’s what I love about this school. Not only its acceptance of my abnormality, but the embrace of it. I don’t know who I am, I’m only just starting to gure it out, and that’s ne.”
A Con dent Step Forward Into Our Future Alexandra S. Thurstone G’80, ’84 Head of School
A Name Selection Committee was formed, including the Board Executive Committees from this and next year, as well as members of the School Leadership Team. The group carefully combed through the results of the recent surveys and listening sessions in order to determine its recommendation. One of the most signi cant conclusions was that it is very important to the whole community to honor the history of the School in the new name, and one clear way to do so is to maintain the word “Francis”. As such, the group narrowed down the options to two nal names: The Francis School and Francis Parker School. External research gave us clear feedback on “The Francis School” indicating that the majority of respondents still believed this was a religious school. In making our nal decision, we re ected on our goals for choosing a new name for the School, which included eliminating confusion about any connection to a particular faith; communicating our Mission and connection with the Progressive educational philosophy; helping more Mission-appropriate families nd us; honoring the history of the School; and positioning our school for long-term success and sustainability. Ultimately, the name selection committee was in full agreement that “Francis Parker School” most closely met all of our goals for the following reasons:
• it already means something positive to college admissions of cers and to some potential employees who live • itelsewhere;alignsus with two other powerful Independent schools with whom we might collaborate.
• the phonetics of the name are stronger;
After nearly a year-long process, we are pleased to recap the results of our name change exploration with you. As you may recall, last summer the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to explore the possibility of a name change. A Task Force was created to research all that this possibility would entail, including all potential costs and bene ts. A survey and multiple listening sessions were conducted to ensure we had broad feedback from all involved with the School. The Task Force also conducted research with college admissions of cers, faculty/staff search rms, and other schools and nonpro ts that have changed their names.
Based on that research, in January 2022 the Task Force unanimously recommended to the Board of Trustees that we change the name of the School and the Board voted unanimously that same month to change the name. Next, we embarked on the process of determining a new name for the School. We hired a Louisville/Lexington naming and branding rm, Bullhorn, to guide us in the process. They spoke with numerous constituents from the School, examined all the research from the fall, and got to work. They presented 15 potential names to Board and school leaders, and the list was narrowed down to three nalist names: The Francis School, Francis Parker School, and The Bridges School. Those three names were then tested through surveys with internal and external audiences and further discussed in listening sessions with internal audiences.
• it honors our history by keeping “Francis” in the name;
• even if someone does not know who Francis Parker is nor what Progressive education means, a Google search will quickly reveal who we are;
• it does not sound like a religious school; • it names us for an educational philosophy that we espouse and helps explain who we are;
The Committee then sorted out whether to add a location, what articles to include, and whether to include “School” in the name. We engaged in further discussions with Bullhorn about these questions, asking them to help us sort through the pluses and minuses of each and also take into account how each option sounds and looks. We all agreed that “School” must be included in the name, particularly due to the fact that we are not naming ourselves for a person, but rather for an educational philosophy. Having “School” in the name helps clarify that fact – we are a school that is dedicated to the progressive pedagogy Francis Parker founded. We chose not to add “The” at the beginning in order for the name to be as concise as possible. And nally, because we do feel it is important to distinguish ourselves from the other Francis Parker schools in the country, and not have two Independent schools with exactly the same name, we have chosen to add “of Louisville” to the formal name. Louisville was chosen over Kentucky for several reasons: Louisville is actually the area we serve and where our students are located, because Goshen is also in Metro Louisville and many residents of Goshen still say they live in Louisville; Louisville is more clear to those outside the area as to where we are located; we base all our diversity statistics on Louisville, rather than Kentucky; and currently “Francis Parker Louisville” is stronger for search engine optimization.
After measuring each option against the stated criteria, one name clearly accomplished all of the goals we set out to achieve with a name change for the School. Therefore, the name selection committee made the recommendation for changing the name of St. Francis School to: Francis Parker School of Louisville. Subsequently, the Board voted unanimously to change the name of the School to Francis Parker School of Louisville in a special meeting on May 23, 2022, with the change taking effect on July 1, 2022. We want to thank all our constituents for your participation in this process, for sharing your opinions with us, and for communicating your love of and support for the School throughout. Along with the Board of Trustees, school leadership, faculty/staff, and current students, I look forward with great anticipation to the momentum and excitement this change will bring, and most importantly for the clarity it will bring in communicating our identity to the city and attracting Mission-appropriate families to the school, all of which will serve to ensure the Mission will thrive long into the future. We will start the next school year as the Francis Parker Wyverns! Please join our School community in celebrating this hard work and the bright future it ensures for us.
Event Chairs Lee GerriStacyMiddendorfPlottsWillis Committee Members Lindsey Brodsky Siobhan Brown Casey MichelleComptonBrowning Coughlin Claire Carpenter Cox Kim Hales Terri BrianaKeyondaAmandaStephanieVickiToksDeenaAndiStewartEmilyAllisonChavvahMeganHarrisonIweimrinJohnsonKingKirchdorferLusskyMcLeroyNeimatOmoruyiOwczarzakRennerSchriberTurnerWells Presenting Sponsor Buffalo Construction, Inc. Platinum Sponsor ISCO Industries, Inc. Gold Sponsors Pearl Medical Practices & Diagnostics Laboratory SCM True Air Technologies Stock Yards Bank & Trust Silver Sponsors Algood Food Company Wes & Laura Johnson MPI Printing Wyvern Sponsors Altman Insurance Services Health Choice Enterprises Jones, Nale & Mattingly PLC OB/GYN Associates of Southern Indiana Sterling Thompson Company Ultimate MD Equity Sponsor Republic Bank & Trust Company Event Team & Vendors C&H Audio Visual Services Canvas Rental Company Maddox & Rose Menish VideoYetiSkyCabRentalReadyPizzazleOneCauseProductionsValetDepotBalloons Our Good Earth 2022 An event like Our Good Earth is truly a team effort. Thank you to our chairs, committee, sponsors, and vendors.
Our Good Earth Recap On Saturday, March 19, we gathered on the elds of the Goshen Campus to support the Scholarship Fund at St. Francis School. Event Chairs Lee Middendorf, Stacy Plotts, and Gerri Willis worked with the committee to create an unforgettable Our Good Earth that honored the down-to-earth yet elegant vibe that patrons have come to love, and also made the evening full of twists and surprises! The rst change was the introduction of equitable ticket options — this allowed every guest to choose the ticket price that best suited their nancial needs. In addition, instead of a traditional seated dinner, guests enjoyed a wide selection of farm-to-table food stations centered around a theme of the four seasons, as well as being entertained by live music and games. The evening culminated with a surprise vocal duet by 8th grader Kennedy Julian and High School Counselor Dr. TuNice Cole, followed by a spectacular live auction, and most importantly, Stand for a Student, the opportunity that allows all guests to support the scholarship fund at their chosen level. We are forever grateful for the support of our community — our Presenting Sponsor Buffalo Construction, Inc.; our Equity, Gold, Silver, and Wyvern Sponsors; our Chairs and the entire committee; and everyone who joined together to make the event a success. Through the tremendous support of our community, Our Good Earth raised over $175,000 for the Scholarship Fund and the students of St. Francis School, making it a true celebration of joy!
Preschool PA Co-Chairs preschoolpa@francisparkerlouisville.org Thank You to Our Parent Association Save the Date! On Saturday, October 1, 2022, we will host our Imagine! Art Auction + Scholarship Fundraiser at the Omni Louisville Hotel. We hope to see you there! Imagine! Save the Date
Annual Fund 2021-22
The Parent Association raises funds through annual dues and fundraising activities such as the High School used book sale and fun family events throughout the year to give back to the School in the form of PA grants. For the 2021-22 school year, the School received a PA grant of $10,000 to fund the following items: An additional Wyvern mascot (so we have one for each campus, as well as a new sweater for the current mascot with the School’s new name), additional water bottle llers for the Goshen Campus, and an outdoor block set and new trikes for the Preschool.
Questions about how to support your PA or to volunteer ask: Michelle Browning Coughlin, HS PA Chair downtownpa@francisparkerlouisville.org Bridget Morgan, Goshen PA Chair goshenpa@francisparkerlouisville.org
Thank you for your erce Wyvern loyalty! Year after year, your Annual Fund gifts elevate teaching and learning, enrich the lives of our students, and help provide nancial aid and scholarships. We are grateful for each and every gift and the thought behind it. Thank you for the vote of con dence you express through this generous support.
Each year at Graduation, we have the distinct pleasure of honoring one of our St. Francis School graduates as Alum of the Year. We are fortunate to have such an amazing pool of Wyverns to choose from who continually support the School and our Mission while also demonstrating the qualities of a Wyvern years after they leave our halls. This year, we honored Matt Weinberg from the Goshen Class of 1989 and Downtown Class of 1993 as the 2022 Alum of the Year. Below is the speech that Nicole Woods, Alumni Relations and Events Coordinator, delivered to honor Matt at Graduation. When choosing an alum, we look for graduates who have made a signi cant impact on the School community during the most recent school year – in Matt’s case, he has given back to the School and community in a number of ways. Matt has been an Alumni Committee member for many years, during which time he has helped connect his former classmates with the School, dedicated his time to meetings, and generously gave back with the hopes of providing our current students with the same experiences and memories that he had during his 13 years here. Matt is a Wyvern through and through and has been since kindergarten. His passion for the School is evident in the many ways he supports the Mission. As a loyal contributor to the Annual Fund year after year, Matt has helped advance teaching and learning and enriched the lives of our students. In his service as a devoted member of the Alumni Committee, he has helped lead our ongoing efforts to build a vibrant, active alumni community. As you can imagine, this was no easy task in the midst of a pandemic, but Matt has been the glue that has kept our committee together during these challenging times. He has been dependable, enthusiastic, and always ready to volunteer as an alumni representative for a variety of student and alumni activities. When we couldn’t gather in person, Matt helped with planning virtual reunions and other online gatherings to help us stay connected with our alums. He brought new and thoughtful ideas forward about how to engage our alums and how to connect them with current students, including a Lunch and Learn series and creating mentor opportunities between students and alums. Most recently, Matt, along with other members of the committee, has created an in-depth strategic plan for revamping the committee’s work and purpose to better serve the alumni community and the School, and to build better connections between alums and students. We are forever grateful to Matt for his kind and generous spirit and his unwavering commitment to the continued success of the School.
Alum of the Year: Matt Weinberg G’89, ’93
What are the highlights of your career thus far? One of the thrills of the last few years has been nishing my book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (Random House, 2022), available at Amazon. It’s about a brilliant group of friends (and sometimes rivals) who set the mold for international reporting as a profession. They got exclusive interviews with everyone, including Hitler, Mussolini, Nehru, and Gandhi, and helped to shape what Americans knew about the world. In time, though, they could no longer separate themselves from the crises they were reporting on, so the book’s also about how geopolitics invades people’s private lives. This has been a somewhat uncanny book to be working on these last eight years. I set out to see the world of the 1920s-1940s through these reporters’ eyes, and nd myself increasingly seeing our world through their eyes, too.
How do you de ne success? Work, both teaching and writing, that’s satisfying and – I hope – repays some of what I gained from my teachers. Plenty of time to read and to garden, to travel with my family, and to talk, late into the night, with my friends. What’s next for you? Between COVID, nishing my book, and chairing the History Department at Northwestern, I haven’t done enough reading, gardening, travel, or talking late into the night, so those are all on the near-term agenda. And more volunteer work and advocacy – especially on the issue of climate change.
Credit: Becca Heuer
Brie y describe your path after leaving high school.
I ping-ponged from the East Coast to the West Coast, attending Harvard University for my B.A. and then University of California, Berkeley for my Ph.D. When I was a graduate student, I lived in Britain and Germany for two and a half years, doing my research and writing my dissertation. I am currently the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Northwestern University.
Alum Pro le: Deborah Cohen ’86
How did your time as a Wyvern impact your career path and/or life? Really fundamentally. It taught me how to gure out what I really loved, and (along with my parents) the School gave me a sense that it was worth at least trying to do just that. Also, I have never forgotten Bob Foshee’s advice that you shouldn’t break two laws at once.
What three words come to mind rst to describe your experience at St. Francis School? Idiosyncratic, Studentdriven, Joyful Looking back at your high school years, how would you describe what makes this education unique? Do any speci c memories or examples come to mind that illustrate this? What’s incredible to think about is the freedom we had, both intellectually and physically. Coming into school in the morning and seeing students sprawled out on the oor in their pajamas – and talking about Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, which (astonishingly) we were reading in French! Kids with blue hair (me included), queer kids, kids who really didn’t t all that well in any of the city’s other schools. Going to the downtown library and checking out Lolita, and eating way too much Taco Bell. Heather Love ’87, Andy Wombwell ’85, and I came up with the madcap idea that St. Francis High School needed a school paper. We declared we’d call it The Broad. The g leaf for that particular provocative title was that the School’s front door was on Broadway. I think Tom Pike came up with the money to fund the paper, and so far as I remember, there was practically no supervision – no limits on what we could write about. When some teachers objected to the name of the paper, no one forced us to change it, and (again, astonishingly) I remember us arguing with the even then eminent painter Ann Stewart Anderson, trying to persuade her that it was a tongue-in-cheek re-appropriation of the term. We must have been so annoying! I still think about those punch-drunk, very late-night drives to the printer with the paper all laid out in columns. Do you recall a speci c teacher who in uenced you or had a particular impact on you? Dean Robertson, Ron Mikulak, Kit Llewellyn, Susan Reigler
Alumni Updates
Caitlin Eckman ’06 and Daniel Webb welcomed their daughter Chloe Elizabeth on January 5, 2022. In Memoriam Rajanathan (Rajah) Karalakulasingam, MD, former Chair of the SFS Goshen Board and father of Goshen alumni Jasmine G’90 and Jasper G’97 passed away on November 29, 2021. Rajah graduated from Trinity College, Kandy, in Kandy Sri Lanka and then pursued medicine at the University of Ceylon. After graduation in 1966, he took a long cruise from Sri Lanka to London to advance his medical studies at the Royal College of Physicians, London, United Kingdom, attaining his MRCP, with a subsequent fellowship in Nephrology at St. Mary's Hospital, London. He moved to the United States in 1972 to teach at the University of Louisville, and later moved into private practice. Rajah was very passionate about Internal Medicine and loved practicing Nephrology. He prided himself on opening dialysis clinics in areas of need across Kentucky and neighboring states. In addition to his career in medicine, he also focused on service outside of medicine, with much of that being at St. Francis School.
Scott Davis ’86 has spent his time traveling to the far corners of the earth as a wildlife researcher and photographer. He is a recognized National Geographic Society Grant recipient and a published wildlife biologist, and he was recently featured in ‘The Adventure Issue’ of The Voice Louisville. He is also the co-author with Wiebke Finkler of a new book that features his stunning photography: The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our World’s Wildlife, available at Amazon.
Marriages/Engagements
Kinsey Morrison ’14 is engaged to Dyuce Woodson. Grif n Cote G’08, ’12 is engaged to Catalina Reusche. Stephanie (Honchell) Smith ’02 earned her doctorate in history in 2015 and, in addition to teaching at several universities, she has recently started working with TED-Ed to write and produce educational history videos. Her rst video, “History vs. Tamerlane” has over 300,000 views and she has additional videos on the Mughal Empire and the Taj Mahal, with one on “Rethinking the Middle Ages” in production. Kenny Gray ’14 is a talent acquisition specialist at Stock Yards Bank & Trust and is on the Board of Trustees at the West End School, which is his middle school alma mater.
Wyvern Babies
Olivia Cole ’07 is the author of eight novels for children and young adults, which include The Truth About White Lies and Cloud Parliament, both available at Amazon. Her essays, which often focus on race, whiteness, and womanhood, have been published at Bitch Media, Real Simple, the LA Times, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Gay Mag, and others. Anna Finkelstein G’11, ’15 recently completed her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Villanova University.
Lia Garcia ’07 and Jeremy Garcia welcomed baby Aurora Garcia on April 23, 2022.
Harding Ison-Bowman ’02 and his wife Mattie welcomed their twins Elizabeth Hazel and William David on May 31, 2022.
Save the Date - Alumni Homecoming & Reunion Weekend!
Leda Beale
Friday, September 9 is the Fall Sports Picnic/Homecoming on our home elds on the beautiful Goshen Campus. There will be Middle and High School eld hockey and soccer games, food trucks, sweet treats, and more! We encourage alums of all ages to join us to cheer on the Wyverns and be recognized at half-time during one of the games. This is a family friendly event, and alums will have a designated area to gather and eat as well.
8th RetrospectiveGrade and End-of-Year Awards
The Ed Gupton Memorial Drama Award
We are happy to help!
Alumni Committee Join the Francis Parker Alumni Committee! The overarching goal of the Committee is to support the School’s efforts to foster strong relationships between the School and its community of alumni. The Committee is composed of alums representing every decade who work with the Alumni Relations & Events Coordinator to identify, recruit, and cultivate alumni who will work to nd ways to connect alums to each other and the School in the short and long term. The Committee hopes to help increase alumni engagement in all regards, including but not limited to reunions and other events (including those in other cities), annual giving and other fundraising, and admissions and recruiting, and will ensure that alumni input is solicited and considered for relevant School matters. If you have interest in joining our virtual committee meetings, contact us at alumni@francisparkerlouisville.org.
Attended St. Francis School continuously from Kindergarten through 8th grade: Kennedy Julian, Micah Patrick, Andrew Snyder
Elliot Hall, Lilly Rounsavall, Julia Stock
8th Grade Children of Alumni
The Spirit of St. Francis Award
Saturday, September 10 is reserved for class-speci c reunions. 2023 marks the 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 year reunions for the classes of 2018, 2013, 2007, 2003, and 1998. Any classes wishing to arrange a special gathering with your class on September 10, should contact the alumni of ce at alumni@francisparkerlouisville.org.
The Goshen Campus Head of School Award
Molly Hales, Kennedy Julian The Eagle Award
Lilly Rounsavall, Kymani Turner
Lilly Paradis The Edward Y. Mason, Jr. Athletics Award
Keaton Brill, Evie Faber, Kennedy Julian, Sydney Shoemaker
The Frank Q. Cayce Scholarship Award
Leda Beale, Sam Hillis, Cyra Neimat, Lilly Paradis, Micah Patrick, Charlotte Rahman, Charlie Rutherford, Kymani Turner
Attended St. Francis School continuously from Preschool through 8th grade: Mary Jane Pierce, Charlotte Rahman, Charlie Rutherford, Sydney Shoemaker
The Russell D. Herr Art Award
Lilly Paradis, Lilly Rounsavall, Dylan Saltzman
Goshen Campus St. Francis School Lifers
The Cassie Stevens Memorial Award (5th grader) Macy Oldham
High School 2nd Semester Honor Roll Students who earned all As and Bs High School Awards Day Ceremony 12th Grade Nora Abugabal Evie EllieAlisonSinclaireHenryBlaireRosemaryAliAydaLucyJedAnnaLilyCameronDunnGantGilbertHardwick-JonesIvesJohnsonMarshallMusePetersPrinceSchneidermanSmithSmithWestfall 11th Grade Natalie Campbell Ja'Karri Clay Kenna Cornell Alex EmmaJacksonXavierIkhlasAmilliaSheridanMarkelAlexWestJaneLauraAvaHaydenFairleighEllaAmeliaEllenMilesFaberGabriele-BurkeGorgesGormanJohnsonJonesJonesKurtzLopezMcLeroyMiddendorfMiguelOlabarrietaArreseOllerSamuelsSharif-MohammedShelleySleaddTodd 10th Grade Ibraheem Abugabal Lachlan Apple Nora MaeElAhnaEsmeMarGavinJackEdwardRonnieBenElliottEllaEmiliaAlexJackMireiaBendlCecilChristensenFrazierGaribay-RomeroGordonLoewyMannoOllerRuzickaScantlandSmithStevensonVaughnWattWilleyWilson 9th Grade Amy Ashby Roma Vitor ZeldaIshaiJudeAbdiEmoriWyattZoëSophieNolaFionaHenryBrinnLillieAbbyElizaSarahSloaneKawinAzevedoBistaCoughlinErnstFrazierHairgroveHaleIshmaelJohnsonJonesMelhuishOvechkinPetiprinReynoldsRosenbaumSharif-MohammedSleaddWallWheeler Junior Book Awards Yale University (Excellence in English) Xavier Shelley Smith College (Excellence in World Languages) Amelia HarvardGormanUniversity (Excellence in Math) Alex PrincetonMiguelUniversity (Excellence in Science) Hayden UniversityJonesofVirginia (Excellence in History) Jackson Sleadd Bryn Mawr College (Purposeful Person) Amillia UniversitySamuelsofKentucky (Purposeful Person) Ja’Karri UniversityClayof Louisville (Community Service) Jane McLeroy Senior Departmental Awards History - Lucy Johnson Math - Nora Abugabal Science - Ellie Westfall World Language - Ayda Marshall Senior National Society of Arts and Letters Awards Excellence in Music - Blaire Prince Excellence in Visual Art - Alison Smith Excellence in Photography - Nora Abugabal Excellence in Creative Writing - Blake Millwood Outstanding Student in Creative Arts - Lily Gilbert Athletic Awards Senior Athlete-Scholar Awards Ayda Marshall, Henry Schneiderman Athletes of the Year Awards Stevaun Butler, Rosemary Peters
Henry Schneiderman Thomas H. Pike
Unsung
The Phi Beta Kappa
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Ayda Marshall
Rosemary Peters “The Intricacies of a Common Kroger Plant: Studying the Life Cycles of Succulents and Cacti” Smith “Becoming a Seamstress”
Alison Smith, Ellie
Lucy Johnson Head of
Ayda Marshall “Cookbook On the In uence of Arab Cuisine/Arabic Language on Turkish and Spanish Cuisine/Language”
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Lily Gilbert Class of ’93
Outstanding Senior Award
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Esprit de Corps Award
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St. Francis AP Scholars
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Lily Gilbert, Ayda Marshall Graduating Children of Alumni Eli Chaf n, Rosemary Peters Senior Project Honors
Evie Dunn “Writing a Novella”
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Anna Hardwick-Jones “Cuteness Over Cruelty: The Reality of Puppy Mills”
Jason Harkins “Learning From Loss”
Lucy Johnson “Walking Tour of Rabat”
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Rosemary Peters St. Francis School Lifers Attended St. Francis School continuously from Preschool through 12th grade: Stevaun
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Blake Millwood “Blake Writes a Memoir”
Anna Hardwick-Jones Cia White Dunn Club Hero Westfall Mayor’s
Prize Book Evie
Lily Gilbert “Writing Pop Songs in Opera Form”
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Ellie Westfall “Writing a Text Edition of a Book of the Dead Spell”
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Ayda Marshall, Rosemary Peters, Henry
Katy Roemer - University of Kentucky; Butler University; Indiana University, Bloomington; The Ohio State University; University of Illinois, Chicago; University of Louisville; University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jason Harkins - Bluegrass Community and Technical JedCollegeIves - University TBD in the United Kingdom (summer decision dates) Lucy Johnson - Georgetown University; Bryn Mawr College; DePaul University; Grinnell College; Reed College; Scripps College; Tufts University
Stevaun Butler - University of Louisville
Ayda Marshall - University of Michigan; Sarah Lawrence University; University of California, Davis; University of Louisville
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Rayya Metry-Bonyun - Berea College; Earlham College; Elon College; Warren Wilson College
Eli Chaf n - Gap Year: Fire ghter Training; Transylvania University
Blake Millwood - Bard College; Allegheny College; City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman; CUNY Queens; Dickinson College; Hollins University; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Ithaca College; Knox College; Lawrence University; Manhattan College; Rutgers University, Newark; Saint Joseph’s University; University of Cincinnati; University of Dayton; University of Louisville; University of Oregon; University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
Cameron Gant - D’Youville College
Ellie Westfall - Kenyon College; Centre College; Elon University; Smith College; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; -University of Kentucky
Samuel McGee - Transylvania University
Ali Muse - University of Louisville Lucas Nofsinger - The Ohio State University; Arizona State University; Michigan State University; Purdue University; University of Kentucky; University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nora Abugabal - University of Louisville
Evie Dunn - Sarah Lawrence College; Centre College; University of Iowa; University of Vermont
Wendell Lewis - Jefferson Community and Technical College; Bellarmine University; Full Sail University; Western Kentucky University
Lisa Patel - Middle Tennessee State University; Austin Peay State University; Tennessee State University; University of Cincinnati; University of Louisville
Henry Schneiderman - Dickinson College; Centre College; DePaul University; Emory and Henry College; Gettysburg College; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; McDaniel College; The College of Wooster; Transylvania University; University of Louisville
Alison Smith - Idrætshøjskolen Bosei (Denmark); California College of the Arts; Academy of Art San Francisco; University of Cincinnati; University of Louisville Sinclaire Smith - Jackson State University; Texas Tech University
Lily Gilbert - New York University; Belmont University; Loyola University, New Orleans
Tommy Wright - University of Denver; Cleveland State University; University of Cincinnati; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville; University of Massachusetts, Boston (Bold text denotes enrollment)
Alyx Wood - Bellarmine University
Anna Hardwick-Jones - University of Kentucky; Bellarmine University; Bucknell University; Centre College; Denison University; Hanover College; Indiana University, Bloomington; Purdue University
Rosemary Peters - Occidental College; Denison University; Lewis & Clark College; Macalester College; Scripps College; Soka University of America; Transylvania University; Whitman College; Willamette University; University of North Carolina, Asheville Blaire Prince - Columbia College, Chicago; Manhattan Marymount College; Pace University; Point Park University; The University of Tampa Isaiah Robles - University of Louisville; Ball State University; Wilmington College
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