Fall 2016 Global Exchange Magazine

GLOBAL EXCHANGE Fall 2016

T H E A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E O F AT L A N TA I N T E R N AT I O N A L S C H O O L

Global Exchange SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION:

Cheers to 30 Years 2015-2016 Annual Report

ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2016-2017 CHRISTIAN FISCHER, CHAIR VERNA JENNINGS CLEVELAND, VICE-CHAIR SHELLEY GIBERSON, TREASURER WENDIE HAYLER, SECRETARY

MEMBERS SCOTT BRITTON

BARBARA QUIROGA

SUSIE COGAN

CLAIRE STERK

ROLAND JOHN

FRANK THOMAS

JEAN KHOURY

BENNY VARZI

ARNDREA KING

ADOLFO VILLAGOMEZ

BETH KYTLE CHANDLER ’98

CHIARA VISCONTI-PERVANAS

MIKE MCCARTHY

GINA VITIELLO

SUSAN MORRIS

EMILY WILLINGHAM

SUSANNAH PARKER

LAURA WINCHESTER

SHEFALI PATEL

JOYCE YAMAATO

EX OFFICIO KEVIN GLASS, HEADMASTER GERRY HULL, CHAIR EMERITUS OLGA PLAUT, TRUSTEE EMERITA, FOUNDER ROY PLAUT, CHAIR EMERITUS, FOUNDER MONIQUE SEEFRIED PH.D., CHAIR EMERITA DEB SUDBURY, CHAIR EMERITA

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION 2016-2017 HEADMASTER KEVIN GLASS HEAD OF SECONDARY SCHOOL SANDY MACKENZIE HEAD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CAMILLE DU AIME HEAD OF RESEARCH AND LEARNING DESIGN SHELLEY PAUL HEAD OF ADMISSION, FINANCIAL AID & MARKETING REID MIZELL HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT KENDYL MOSS HEAD OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCE PAUL SAEGER HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION YOLANDA RAMIREZ UPPER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TAMBI TYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL KEVIN ONABIYI UPPER PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ALAIN POIRAUD LOWER PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LYNDA SARELIUS EARLY LEARNING CENTER PRINCIPAL MARIA VOUTOS

The Second Summer of Swoop included adventures in Yellowstone National Park, media coverage at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and a visit with the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. Photos courtesy of Jie Wu, Gary Paterson and Yolanda Ramirez.

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN LAURA STIDHAM MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR CHERISE RANDLE

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT KATHRYN BANKS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER AMY HOGAN ALUMNI & PARENTS OF ALUMNI COORDINATOR SANDY FERKO DEVELOPMENT DATABASE RESEARCH COORDINATOR APRIL CASTRO SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR NICOLE DANCZ

All material, except where specified, copyright Atlanta International School, 2016. All rights reserved.

AIS GLOBAL EXCHANGE | Fall 2016

T H E M A G A Z I N E O F AT L A N TA I N T E R N AT I O N A L S C H O O L

Global Exchange 4

Letter from the Board Chair & Headmaster

30th Anniversary 5

Class of 2030 Plants Future Memories

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Cheers to 30 Years: Looking Back and Thinking Forward

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Fast Forward: The Class of 2030

10 The Evolution of Technology at AIS

AROUND AIS

Around AIS 12 Horizons Brings Summer Learning to AIS 14 The Crucible Gains New Relevance 15 How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.

16 Digital Design for Change 17 Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido: an Opportunity for Meaningful Service 18 Fixing China’s Macroeconomy 18 El Flautista de Hamlin

Horizons Students Page 12

Globetrotter: In Their Words 20 A Cultural Exploration of China 22 Grade 5 Journeys Abroad

Final Word 26 Congratulations, Class of 2016 28 Honors Assembly 2016 29 College and University Matriculation

Staying Connected 30 Alumni Spotlight: Sam Henderson ’95 33 Alumni Q & A: Katie Deedy ’00 35 5-10-15-20 Reunion Weekend 36 Class Notes SPECIAL EDITION:

2015-2016 Annual Report EDITOR

KELLEY CHIAPPETTA

GREG HUCKS

MIA PETERSON ’20

NICOLE DANCZ

WILLIAM JERNIGAN ’19

ANKITA RAJIV ’23

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

KATIE DEEDY ’00

CIERRA LANGER ’23

YOLANDA RAMIREZ

KRISTI HOVINGTON

KELLY DEL CAMPO

DANIEL LUGO ’23

CHERISE RANDLE

CONTRIBUTORS

SOFIA EIDIZADEH ’19

MAANIT MADAN ’20

CHRIS RHUE

SANDY FERKO

NICOLE MAZHAR ’23

LUZ SÁNCHEZ

SAM FREEMAN ’20

PETER MCGOVERN

KATERINA SERVI

ASANSHAY GUPTA ’23

TIMOTHY MCMAHON

BRIANNA SIMON ’23

HENRY HAYS-BAER ’23

KENDYL MOSS

KELSEY STIAKAKIS

SAM HENDERSON ’95

NICOLE O'BRIEN

UNI VALDIVIESO

AMY HOGAN

MEEJAN PATEL

LAURA STIDHAM

GABRIELLE AUBÉ ’23 KATHRYN BANKS ADRIANO BARBET ’19 SIMON BELL CARLOTTA BRENNHOLT ’23 APRIL CASTRO

WOOLDRIDGE ’20 NAVID YAVARI 3

Message from the AIS BOARD CHAIR AND HEADMASTER

Dear AIS Community: This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of AIS. We have come a very long way from the red school house behind Sardis Methodist Church and the 51 students who started in September 1985—that world was very different than the one we live in today.

The first Macintosh personal computer was available in 1985, weighing in at an amazing 16.5lbs. Windows 1.0, the first graphic interface for PCs, also became available for the first time. You can read more about how the digital world, the world of technology devices and gadgets has changed later on in this edition.

CHRISTIAN FISCHER Chair of the Board of Trustees

Although it is hard for their parents to imagine, our 3K students who joined AIS in 2015, will graduate in 2030. We asked them to think about what defined AIS today and to put those representative items into a time capsule, which we buried at the ELC. The time capsule will be opened in May 2030. Find out what they put in the time capsule in this edition.

The school, in its 30 years, has helped shape many lives and transform many families. We celebrated a "Cheers To 30 Years" event with many founding families, students, board members, former board chairs and faculty in May. Dr. David Hawley, the second Headmaster of Atlanta International School was also able to join us for the event. What struck all there was the generational legacy that was apparent. There are now alumni from our early years who have enrolled their own children in AIS. The passion and idealism that has shaped and defined this community was as apparent then as it is now, and clear to all who attended that evening.

KEVIN GLASS Headmaster

AIS is unique among schools in the southeastern United States and the story of our founding, growth and development is extraordinary. Today this story continues to unfold--there are now 1,306 alumni, 1,194 current students, their families, our faculty and staff past and present, all adding their collective voices to the AIS story.

We will change the world for the better thanks to the action of our young people in their lives. To do this to the best of our ability we must look through the eyes of our own students into their future 2030 and beyond. What will their world be like? What must we do now and in the years to come to get them ready to shape that future?

These questions have driven our work as a board, leadership team and community these past few years of visioning and this past year of strategic planning.

We are now embarking on the most ambitious and transformational vision for the school, with the greatest potential impact on our students, since those early days in the mid-eighties.

We are "Thinking Forward" to 2030 and beyond and have crafted the strategic goals and priorities to take us there. We will be sharing much more on this during the 2016-17 school year and invite you all to join us and engage with us on this wonderful journey for our students, school and community.

Thank you for being part of AIS and cheers, once again, to 30 years!

Christian Fischer, Board Chair

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Kevin Glass, Headmaster

THE CLASS OF 2030 PLANTS FUTURE MEMORIES

“Play should continue long after they have left preschool, as their curiosities from play turn into research and discoveries.”

Last April, the 3K students buried a time capsule at the Early Learning Center (ELC) containing an assortment of items to be opened when they graduate in 2030; the contents included items such as letters from their families, artwork created by the students, photographs, a video of the students in class, as well as a video by all ELC teachers sharing their thoughts about 2030.

When the 3K class opens the time capsule in 2030, they will read letters left to them by their parents that include sentiments such as: “We don’t want to raise you to grow up and find the job you want.

We want to raise you so you grow up and live the life you want.”

One letter states, “Our hope for you is that, above anything else, your heart is happy.” Some letters from siblings included in the family packages humorously and specifically predicted their future outcome with statements such as, “Congratulations! You are going to study science in college to be a doctor.You’ll make new friends.

Love, your brother.”

“Our youngest learners come to school each day ready to explore, create, question, challenge and grow,” stated Maria Voutos, Principal of the ELC. “Through play, they are able to make sense of their world. My hope is that our graduates of 2030 will remain passionate about making sense of the world through play. Play should continue long after they have left preschool, as their curiosities from play turn into research and discoveries.”

Kevin Glass, Headmaster at AIS, declared “as we celebrate our 30th anniversary and the class of 2030, we’ve been asking ourselves, what will their future look like? What types of technology will the class of 2030 use in their daily lives that doesn’t yet exist? More importantly, what can we do to help them get ready to make a positive impact on the world when they leave us in 2030? Gaining acceptance to wonderful schools is not enough for us; our mission is to develop extraordinary individuals who add value to their community.”

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30TH ANNIVERSARY

CHEERS TO 30 YEARS

Looking Back & Thinking Forward

by Kendyl Moss, Head of Development

"THE SCHOOL HISTORY IS A HISTORY OF PASSION AND PARTICIPATION." Olga Plaut, Trustee Emerita

The 2015-16 school year marked the 30th birthday of Atlanta International School. The anniversary was celebrated in May with a special evening where founding families, board members, and past headmasters joined together for “Cheers to 30 Years.”

This wonderful evening honored the spirit and passion of AIS with videos highlighting our progress over the years. The event showcased the talents of current students, included reflections from Alumni, and shared plans for the future. It was a powerful reminder of the strength and dedication of the AIS community, and how our community’s vision and commitment to international education has produced the school we have today and are building for tomorrow.

Top Row (left to right): Christian Fischer, Board of Trustees Chair and Kevin Glass, Headmaster; Egbert Perry, Olga Plaut,Trustee Emerita and Roy Plaut, Chair Emeritus;Teaching at AIS since the first year, Stella Salazar and Joyce O'Brien. Bottom Row (left ot right): Roy Plaut, Axel Lebois, Former Chair, Larry Mock, Former Chair, Christian Fischer, Deb Sudbury, Chair Emerita, Kevin Glass, Gerry Hull, Chair Emeritus and David Hawley, Former Headmaster (1996-2006); Pianist Yanni Tan '19.

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30TH ANNIVERSARY

“Among all the independent schools in Atlanta, in Georgia, and in the southeast, AIS carries value that is quite unique” Axel Lebois, Former Chairman

“It’s (AIS) remarkably impressive.

It’s wonderful to be associated with a success. ” André Schnabl, Former Trustee Right Column (left to right): Musicians Anna Fritz '16, JamesWeichert '19, Grant Bishko '19, Evie Mitchell '18, Maria Schroeder '18; Former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell and Sandra Gordy.

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Fast Forward: The Class of 2030

by Laura Stidham, Manager, Digital Communications and Design

The best part of celebrating the past and all that we have accomplished is looking toward the future and imagining what we will achieve. The Class of 2030, affectionately dubbed 30/30s, is at the forefront of our 30th anniversary year. We recently asked the Class of 2030's teachers, parents, and heads of school, as well as members of the Class of 2016, to ponder the following: what will the world look like for our 30/30s as they graduate AIS? CONTRIBUTORS:

Camille Du Aime, Head of Primary School Luz Feroro, 3K Spanish Teacher Richard Marion ’16

Chloe Marshall ’16 Iain Schmitt ’16 Dimitrios Sparis ’16

TECHNOLOGY IS CONSTANTLY EVOLVING; OUR 3K STUDENTS ARE ALREADY CODING WITH PROGRAMS USING B-BOTS. HOW DO YOU IMAGINE THE CLASS OF 2030’S CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE IS GOING TO EVOLVE IN REGARDS TO TECHNOLOGY BY THE TIME THEY GRADUATE?

Du Aime: I imagine they will have something they wear (it might even be installed in their body) that will give them constant access to the internet (it may be thought activated) so there is a seamless flow of information/experience between them and the world wide web.

Tuff: I fully expect conversations such as: "So Mom and Dad, you're telling me you would pull onto an eight-lane highway going 80 mph and you had to DRIVE IT YOURSELF!... you couldn't watch movies while the car drove itself- scary!" Changes in the classroom will be no different. We'll be more connected than ever before which I predict will also put an increased importance on REAL personal (face to face) relationships and communication in the classroom.

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Chris Tuff, Parent ChiaraVisconti-Pervanas ’95, Alum & Parent MariaVoutos, Early Learning Center Principal

Forero: My vision of a future classroom would be everything in holographic form with speakers that will translate any language to the students.

AS GLOBAL BOUNDARIES BECOME MORE AND MORE BLURRED, WHAT DO YOU IMAGINE BEING A GLOBAL CITIZEN WILL MEAN FOR THE CLASS OF 2030 BY THE TIME THEY GRADUATE FROM AIS?

Voutos: At the time of graduation, I foresee our students truly understanding that their actions can positively or negatively contribute to building upon values as a community. A true global citizen understands how their dealings with other humans, treating all humans with the respect they deserve, is what creates a sense of citizenship within a community.

Visconti-Pervanas: Because of technology, boundaries are transcended; we are literally becoming citizens of the world. It is my hope that the children of AIS can take this “passport” and use it to make positive changes. I sincerely hope that they will be empathetic and caring and not just see the differences amongst diverse cultures, but the similarities.

30TH ANNIVERSARY Du Aime: Our class of 2030 will stand out as having the skills to navigate the nuances of culture, code switching as needed in the areas of personal space, hand gestures, eye contact, turn taking, use of humor etc. As global citizens, when asked where they are going to college, they will be thinking of which continent, not which state or school!

AS YOU ARE A RECENT GRADUATE AND ABOUT TO BEGIN THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT DO YOU ENVISION THAT WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN THE CLASS OF 2030 IS IN YOUR SHOES?

Sparis: The graduating class of 2030 might very well be entering a brave new world, a world of both unprecedented opportunities and unprecedented challenges. The majors and careers they pursue might not even exist today, as might the hurdles they will have to overcome.

Schmitt: I'd think that in 2030, our 3K students will step into a pretty complicated world with a lot of problems to solve. We'll have unparalleled technology, but pressing problems with environmental stability. Our international community will be tested by global terrorism and shift in global power from west to east as America becomes more diverse and urban.

HOW DIFFERENT DO YOU THINK THE COLLEGE APPLICATION/SELECTION PROCESS WILL BE FOR THE CLASS OF 2030?

Marshall: The college process is evolving into a more substantial and holistic process, which places greater value on the individual strengths and personalities of students rather than basing a candidate’s fate solely on a score out of 36 or 2400 that they earned on one sleep deprived Saturday morning.

AS THE WORLD AND CLASSROOM MOVE MORE AND MORE TO COLLABORATIVE MODELS HOW DO YOU ENVISION THAT SHAPING FUTURE CAREERS AND THE WORKPLACE FOR THE CLASS OF 2030?

Du Aime: Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in virtual settings will be the norm. This will put a lot of pressure on people to develop internal motivation and time management as they often won't have the external discipline of the work place. Diverse work teams (age, ethnicity, religion, etc.) have been shown to be the most creative, so the Class of 2030's cultural competencies will be useful.

Voutos: We encourage our youngest learners to play, test, create, do, re-imagine and experience. The education they are receiving today is greatly based upon experiences, therefore I would envision their future careers continuing to evolve around these principles.

They are preparing for careers which possibly don't yet exist, careers which push us to think outside the box.

Visconti-Pervanas: Collaboration requires patience, teamwork, open mindedness and tolerance. It requires one to leave the ego behind in order to become part of a greater picture. Future careers may well require people to be flexible and fast thinking, adaptable and self motivated.

Tuff: I think our kids need to not only learn to work in groups together, they need to THRIVE working with one another. They'll also need to learn to work with a diverse set of skills and culture, allowing them to truly prosper in a team environment where they can flex their strengths within groups but also augment their weaknesses.

Sparis: If college prices were to continue increasing at current rates it would cost about 100,000 dollars a year to attend top-tier colleges by 2030. It is my deep hope that significant investments will have been made in the public university system by 2030, so that both in-state and out-of-state public higher-education will be both more affordable and of higher quality for the Class of 2030.

Schmitt: What might change is a more European-style system of using IB exams for college placement, as colleges and universities see the importance and value in the International Baccalaureate.

Marion: I wouldn't be surprised if colleges like Stanford had acceptance rates below 1%, but at the same time there might be fewer people applying to traditional college as something like MOOCs (massively open online courses) might become a new educational paradigm.

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30TH ANNIVERSARY 2004

2005

AIS outsources IT; no in-house staff

AIS rolls out new information system using digital student records

2008 Classrooms get interactive whiteboards

IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) offers design as a course

5% of students have access to computers via AIS computer labs

One teacher works 50% of time on technology integration

2010 IT deploys desktops to classrooms and additional computer labs increasing student access to technology from 5% to 10%

Secondary school introduces Information and Communications Technology (ICT) classes with programming curriculum

AIS hires technology teachers in both the primary and secondary schools to support students with meaningful use of technology for learning

2011 AIS designs first Technology Strategic Plan with a Vision for Learning as focus

Design becomes a core subject in the MYP with offerings at AIS in both Digital and Product Design

AIS community engages in assessment of digital tools to foster Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration (Project 3C)

AIS hires a new IT manager

Learning & Technology Evolution at AIS

by Yolanda Ramirez, Head of Technology & Innovation and Cherise Randle, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

In 2016, we are so connected that it can be easy to think we have always been surrounded by digital technology; after all, every secondary student at AIS has a laptop and every primary student has access to iPads and laptops in the classroom. It may seem surprising that in 2010 only 10% percent of our students had access to computers in school. In six short years, we have evolved from 90% of our students lacking in-school access to a time where computers and technology are an integral part of the learning experience.

How did this technological journey begin and where is AIS today?

Imagine what technology at AIS will look like in 2030!

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Teachers increase mobility, enhance curriculum, and create engaging learning experiences with the use of laptops

2012 AIS rolls out a student one-to-one program as part of Project 3C

File storage moved from campus servers to cloud-based hosting

AIS adopts Google Apps for Education

30TH ANNIVERSARY 2013 Primary School progressively integrates mobile devices to increase student access to technology

Third party IT service ends as AIS establishes an internal IT department to better support learning and administrative processes

2014 The Primary School and PE department introduce tablet devices to the classroom in order to provide greater age and subject appropriate access to digital tools

Primary School launches grade level and class websites to share learning opportunities and classroom events with the wider school community

2015

2016

AIS creates the Educational Tech Team (Head of Tech & Innovation, Head of Educational Tech and Digital Coaches

New computer science curriculum in the IB Diploma Programme (DP) enhances logical thinking, cross-collaboration and problem solving skills

AIS overhauls network infrastructure to provide faster and more reliable service to fully support the evolving needs of our community

Secondary school implements a learning platform for IB schools which enables the development of transdisciplinary planning, assessment, and reporting

Additional mobile devices are introduced to grade 1 to better support student learning

AIS repurposes computer labs as BYO device collaborative learning spaces

Primary School pilots digital portfolios for students to document, curate and share their learning

Maker Space and robotics classes promote playful curiosity, deeper thinking and problem solving

IT department begins classroom AV refresh with introduction of multi-touch, interactive flat panels in Primary School

The Future Students are eco-conscious, use less paper and reduce their impact on the environment

AIS explores the ways in which emerging technologies may be leveraged for education, global sustainability and social change

Virtual reality facilitates active exploration beyond the physical limitations of our classrooms, and allows for a better understanding of complex concepts

Wearable technologies have the potential to change the way we learn, work and live, as they increase access to content and communication

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Around AIS

Horizons Brings Summer Learning to AIS

by Kelley Chiappetta, Director of Auxiliary Programs, Kelsey Stiakakis, Site Director, and Chris Rhue, Site Director Horizons Atlanta believes that every child in Atlanta, regardless of background, should have the same chance at making a positive impact on his or her community. They provide this opportunity by eliminating the critical barriers to success that many of our children face, thus putting them on a path to: read proficiently by the end of third grade, graduate from high school, receive higher education, and become globally competitive professionals.

Serving students that often do not have the same access to enriching activities over the summer, Horizons aims to close the summer gap in learning so these students do not start the next school year academically behind their peers.

In partnership with Garden Hills Elementary School (GHES), the program was offered for the first time this summer on the Atlanta International School (AIS) campus. Thanks to the AIS GLOBAL EXCHANGE | Fall 2016

support of teachers, AIS students, community volunteers, and local businesses, Horizons students spent six weeks developing their literacy skills, engaging in STEAM activities, and enjoying swim instruction.

Betsy Berkholtz from Rotary Club of Buckhead exclaimed, “We are so excited to be a part of this collaborative effort that’s really community-wide here in Buckhead. It is so important during these summer months that these students have the opportunity to learn together and play together. I’m just really excited to be a part of it because I know how valuable it can be to let these children come every day for six weeks and to learn together, play together, and to really have an outstanding educational experience.”

The Horizons students weren’t the only ones to be positively impacted by the program. Upper school student volunteers from AIS learned a lot from interacting with the Horizons students.

A former AIS student, Lucas Albers, visiting from Germany as a volunteer remarked that “Helping the kids gives me another

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perspective, and allows me to think about things differently.”

AIS student Walker Morris said, “I’ve never been a teacher to such a young age group. This has helped me gain perspectives on learning and how I can teach others going forward.”

The six week program came to a close at the end of July with fantastic results. Students entered the program with only 11% reading above grade level and ended the summer with 26% reading above grade level. Over half the students entered the summer two or more grade levels below their peers and saw an impressive reduction to only 15% reading below grade level. In an effort to maintain their progress, Horizons students will be invited to enrichment activities throughout the school year. Horizons aims to have 100% of students to return for the 2017 summer program with expanded activities to include yoga and music.

“It is so important during these summer months that these students have the opportunity to learn together and play together.”

Atlanta International School

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Around AIS

The Crucible Gains New Relevance

by Simon Bell, Director, Upper School Spring Production

I have no idea what it was like to live in 1692. Or what is was like to be Jewish in 1930s Germany, or a black South African during Apartheid, or living in East Germany behind the Iron Curtain, or growing up in the Gaza Strip, or a being Muslim in post 9/11 America.

Arthur Miller has never gone out of fashion, but there is a reason greater than the past year being the centennial of his birth, that major productions of The Crucible have been staged in London’s West End and on Broadway. One wonders if Miller were alive today what he would make of certain reactionaries fostering distrust of the ‘enemy within?’ In 2016 we are once again forced to confront this problem and clearly this is why The Crucible is once again in vogue.

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We as a society relegate fundamentalism to other areas of the world and cultures but the genius of Miller’s play is that it suggests that inside of all of us is the capacity to move towards these polarities. In our society we have the tendency to see everything as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ - “I’m only righteous if you are sinful.” Good is defined by bad. In a moment where you have to define yourself, as John Proctor does in the play, being open and true to yourself in spite of this, is what defines humanity. What would I do if faced with the same question as the protagonist John Proctor—“What is John Proctor?” In this production the audience is shown Salem in the hope that they will see themselves.

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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? PRACTICE.

by Greg Hucks, AIS Director of Choirs

Twenty eight members of the AIS Upper School Mixed Chorale traveled to New York City in April to participate in the National Youth Choir Festival. For three days these singers along with over 225 others from across the country rehearsed and refined the music under the baton of Dr. Edith Copley. Their final performance destination? Carnegie Hall! The invitation to participate in the festival was earned last year when the choir scored high marks at the Heritage Music Festival in Orlando.

The National Youth Choir Festival is not a competition but a celebration of excellence to highlight choirs from across the country and the level of work they have achieved in their individual programs. These choirs form one large mass choir and are lead by a nationally renowned choral conductor. Dr. Edith Copley, a superb maestro, achieved a very musical and nuanced performance from such a large choir. Her repertoire choices allowed the singers to experience a broad range of musical styles and to deliver a memorable performance.

Students reflect on their experience in New York: Travis Harper ’19

Claudia Beroukhim ’19

“The idea itself of being on a stage where millions of musicians dream to be, and where tons of legends have stood exactly where you’re standing was completely surreal. And I’m especially humbled by the fact that I was able to participate in this so young.”

Susannah Atkinson ’17

“Whether in further musical studies, or in anything else I choose to do, I will carry with me a new found confidence and passion for the arts, for beauty and for the human spirit.”

Katherine Ahn ’16

“This definitely marked a fantastic ending to my senior year. And this is all because of Mr. Hucks believing in the ensemble. I am excited for the AIS music department to grow stronger and receive more support and opportunities in the future.”

“The experience that I had in NewYork was one of the most artistically rewarding and enjoyable musical experiences I ever had.”

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Digital Design for Change

by Nicole O’Brien, MYP Digital Design At AIS, our students are invested and interested in issues that affect us on a local level as well as on a global level. Thus, when our students are given projects, it’s no surprise that the projects often require them to engage with an issue that will help make the world - or the local Atlanta community - a better place. It is important for our students to have a vested interest in the creative and dynamic projects they create.

Students were tasked with creating digital campaigns and videos around human rights issues as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

MEEJAN PATEL ’18

KATERINA SERVI ’19

Visit Meejan’s site at aislifebelowwater.weebly.com

Watch Katerina’s video at aischool.org/servi

Today, as much as 40% of the world's oceans are heavily impacted by human activities, leading to pollution, depleted fisheries, and loss of coastal habitats. The way we interact with marine life is rapidly affecting the oceans. Fishing nets have caused hundreds of thousands of marine animals to die each year as they get entangled. In fact, 90% of the ocean’s big fish are gone due to overfishing, and the remaining 10% might be gone in as little as 40 years. Our consumption rate of marine life is rapidly causing fish populations to crash. It’s destroying the marine ecosystems and if we don’t take action now, our planet will suffer drastic consequences. The goal of my campaign is to prevent all of these events from happening by striving to eat more sustainably harvested food, conserve our marine life, and reduce the pollution in our waters.

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I focused on Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, “(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and the material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.” I chose to focus on a subject that falls under Article 27, the ban of any type of dance in Iran, specifically ballet. I made a video about the ban on ballet dance because there are so many people who are able to pursue their passions in the United States and in other countries around the world, but in some countries people are unable to do something as simple as dancing. They are robbed of the basic human right to move freely and artistically to express themselves. I wanted to make an impactful video that opens the eyes to someone who isn’t aware of how something so simple is taken away.

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CAS Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido: an Opportunity for Meaningful Service

by Sofia Eidizadeh ’19 Every Monday and Wednesday a handful of high school students make the short walk to The Cathedral of Saint Philip to help local students from Garden Hills Elementary School with their homework. The high school students are part of Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido, a Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) group founded 14 years ago at AIS. I joined this CAS group in August 2015. Working with the kids from Garden Hills Elementary has been an eye-opening opportunity, not only for me, but also for my fellow volunteers. The elementary school kids have a positive attitude and are eager to study. We are always greeted by a formal handshake and a thank you—something that isn’t generally expected from children these days. What I’ve noticed from working with these second, fourth and fifth graders is that they all sincerely enjoy the program and want to be there.

All of these kids know that when they go home, they won’t have someone to help them with their English homework, so they truly take advantage of the opportunity. They always have smiles painted on their faces and try their hardest, whether it's reading a picture book or solving mathematical equations. By volunteering for this CAS group, I had the opportunity to create new friendships with students, staff and fellow volunteers.

This past year Chloe Marshall ’16 received the Volunteer of the Year award from LaAmistad, a non-profit organization dedicated to the Latino community, for her work with Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido. She was the student leader for Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido and has volunteered over 150 hours; in our CAS group, she is known for her perseverance and eagerness to work for the better

of the Garden Hills community. Currently, Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido is in partnership with LaAmistad. Through this connection, the LaAmistad kids came to AIS last December where we hosted an Inaugural Holiday Gathering, which we hope to make an annual tradition. As Chloe puts it, “the Holiday Gathering is when the students of LaAmistad can come and participate in one of the their favourite activities: reading. Apart from further developing their linguistic abilities, it gives the children a chance to create an easy camaraderie with the volunteers.”

LaAmistad’s mission inspires many students in the AIS community to raise funds for this cause. The proceeds are invested in buying books, school supplies and educational materials as well as covering the operational expenses for the program at the St. Philips site. AIS students who volunteer for CAS Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido often organize fundraisers at school. Our most popular fundraiser is the Winter Sale, where students can buy presents for others and have them delivered by “elves” or enjoy cups of hot chocolate and cookies during the winter season. This year, we were proud to present LaAmistad with a donation in the amount of $4,000; this money was raised throughout the past two years of fundraising at AIS. We hope that the funds make a difference for the kids who attend this program and that our contribution and partnership has a lasting positive impact in their lives. I am certain that by volunteering for CAS Aprendiendo Inglés Sólido my own life has been enriched tremendously in so many ways. I look forward to being the Sophomore Leader of this CAS group this year and following in Chloe’s footsteps to make a lasting impact in our community.

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El Flautista de Hamelin

by Luz Sánchez and Kelly del Campo, Primary Spanish On April 5 and 6, third grade Spanish track students performed El Flautista de Hamelin (The Pied Piper of Hamelin). Students began rehearsing their lines in September in class with Sra. Sánchez and Sra. Del Campo ahead of the spring performance for parents.

Fixing China's Macroeconomy

by Timothy McMahon, DP Economics The buzz was all about China at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta this year. Federal economists, including the Chief of Research, David Altig, served as a panel of judges while teams of our Class of 2016 IB Economics stars dug into China's economic problems. The winning team of Sofi Rice, Nate Leopold, Sebastien Michel, and Fabbio Toresani did a wonderful job of outlining corrective policies for China.

During follow-up questioning, Andrea St. Paul was asked whether the US should devalue its currency to boost exports, just as China has. She deftly commented that we should be careful - a higher dollar also would raise costs for our producers who import so many unfinished goods from China. When Naveed Matinfar was asked whether China's higher savings rate is preferable since it was seen to have accompanied Japan's high growth in the 1980s, he cleverly pointed out that a cause and effect situation was not necessarily the case - Japan's higher GDP may instead have led to excess earnings that were saved and not vice-versa. Dennis Panzer commented that our students were amazing. "Did you see Nate! They all were so comfortable on stage. Hard to believe that they are just 18!"

The IB economics program taught at AIS is unique for its emphasis on real-world application. The two-year program, which tackles current issues in micro, macro, international, and development economics, broadens students' spheres of perception, deepens their understanding of how economic choices affect our world, and prepares them to take a leading role in shaping the future. Having an opportunity to test their skills among experts at the FED was priceless. Thanks to Toni Braun, Lei Fang, and David Altig for hosting our future economists!

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Students broke into two groups of characters, the townspeople as well as the mice and rats of Hamelin. They practiced every day on accurate Spanish pronunciation of their lines as well as focusing on the meaning of their lines to accurately convey the expression behind them. With this play, students improved their oral skills in Spanish: vocabulary, intonation, pronunciation, and comprehension-all areas important to being effective communicators.

Rob Warren, Director of the Arts K-12, visited the students in the spring to teach them how to move beyond just memorizing lines in order to bring tangible life to their characters. He taught the children about three fundamental aspects of character: voice, imagination, and corporal/facial expression to communicate meaning and interpret the characters. He states, “For a primary school student, theatre enables them to make sense of their own identity by exploring meaningful fictional situations that have parallels in the real world. Theatre can be used as an approach to learn actively and interactively. Theatre can inspire empathy, challenge students to take risks, and improve confidence.”

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A CULTURAL EXPLORATION OF CHINA

by MYP Mandarin Language Students with introduction by Peter McGovern, EdOdyssey This past spring eighth and ninth grade Mandarin language students embarked on the annual China Immersion Program. They traveled over 7,000 miles to visit three major Chinese metropolises: Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing. Students explored Chinese culture and history through hands on activities. To name a few: students hiked the Great Wall of China, learned the art of dumpling wrapping with a local family, explored the 2008 Olympic Park, were treated to a traditional Chinese foot massage, and attended a workshop on Beijing Opera.

“I learned so much about the language, culture, religion, customs, and the development of china.�

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MAANIT MADAN ’20 Going to China with my class was a great experience. Not only was it fun, but it improved the way I spoke Chinese. By talking to people at stores and learning about different landmarks, I was able to learn about the culture and the language in a way I would not be able to in Atlanta.

MIA PETERSON ’20 After being in China for a couple of days, I felt more and more immersed in the culture, tradition and community. This trip helped me have more knowledge about Chinese culture and greatly helped my language skills. The China trip was a great experience and I highly recommend it.

ADRIANO BARBET ’19 Having the opportunity to go to China with AIS twice was something that I will never regret. During the first trip, I learned so much about China that I wanted to go again and learn even more things. My favorite part of the trip was going to Gui Lin, Tianjin and Beijing. I have made lots of connections and am still in touch with three people that I met in China.

UNI VALDIVIESO WOOLDRIDGE ’20 “He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man,” said Chairman Mao, and he was right. Just hiking the Great Wall gives you a feeling of power and achievement, as though you are taking part in history, walking on something so ancient and just experiencing a few moments in the life of a troop thousands of years ago.

WILLIAM JERNIGAN ’19 At home everything feels the same, you do the same thing everyday; you take the same road, go to the same stores. In China it feels like everything is more alive. People are great and they will do anything to make you feel comfortable. They want to make visitors feel safe, secure and comfortable but they're not afraid to give real opinions on things. The world just seems brighter when everything is different everyday.

SAM FREEMAN ’20 My favorite experience from China was the trip we took to the Great Wall of China while in Beijing. The view was unbelievable.

You could see mountains all around, trees swaying gently with the breeze, and the ancient bricks built together in precision many dynasties ago. This was the best excursion I’ve ever experienced. I learned so much about the language, culture, religion, customs, and the development of china.

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Fifth-Grade German BERLIN

annual journey abroad

CARLOTTA BRENNHOLT The journey abroad is important for the students to learn about new countries and new cultures. Also students learn to be responsible and respect their classmates and teachers.

Die Journey Abroad ist wichtig für uns Schüler, um über andere Länder und andere Kulturen zu lernen. Wir lernen auch mehr Verantwortung zu übernehmen und die Bedürfnisse unserer Mitschüler und Lehrer zu respektieren.

ANKITA RAJIV The journey abroad helped me to become independent because in Berlin, Costa Rica or France you will have to make your own bed, do your own hair, make sure you are eating right and you pick out the right clothes for the weather. This is how the journey abroad helped me grow!

Die Journey Abroad half mir selbständiger zu werden, denn in Berlin, Costa Rica oder Frankreich muss man sein eigenes Bett machen, sich selbst die Haare richten, gesund essen und die richtigen Kleider für das jeweilige Wetter aussuchen. Dabei hat mir die Reise nach Berlin sehr geholfen!

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NICOLE MAZHAR I think the journey abroad is important in many different ways. One thing that is important is speaking the language with others that live there and learning about the history of the place. It is important to learn to be organized and risk-taking.

You need to learn to communicate with friends, local people and teachers. It is important to experience what it is like without your parents for a long time.

I think the journey abroad was very important.

Ich denke, die Reise nach Berlin ist aus vielen verschiedenen Gründen wichtig.

Ein Grund ist die Sprache zu sprechen und über die Geschichte des Landes zu lernen. Es ist wichtig, gut organisiert zu sein und auch einmal etwas Neues auszuprobieren. Man muss lernen, mit Freunden, Lehrern und einheimischen Leuten zu kommunizieren. Es ist auch wichtig zu erfahren, wie es ist, so eine lange Zeit ohne die Eltern zu verbringen. Ich denke, die Reise nach Berlin war sehr wichtig!

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Fifth-Grade French PROVENCE BRIANNA SIMON I learned to be balanced with my social life and work. I feel that I have become more independent and responsible not only as a student, but also out in public.

J'ai appris à équilibrer ma vie en société et mon travail. Je sens que je suis devenue plus indépendante et responsable, non seulement en tant qu'élève mais aussi dans la vie de tous les jours en public.

GABRIELLE AUBÉ I think journey abroad is important because we need to understand the culture, language and monuments of the country that our family is originally from. This is an experience that not a lot of people get to have.

ASANSHAY GUPTA Journeying abroad allowed me to connect to the world around me, learn my language, and explore new cultures.

I think I have grown very much in not only language but in organization and independence too.

Voyager au-delà de l'Atlantique m'a permis de faire des connexions avec le monde autour de moi, d'apprendre ma langue et d'explorer de nouvelles cultures. Je pense que je me suis beaucoup épanoui non seulement à travers l'apprentissage de la langue mais aussi en gagnant des compétences d'organisation et d'indépendance.

Je pense que ce voyage était important car nous avons pu comprendre la culture, la langue et connaitre les monuments d'où sont originaires les membres de notre famille. C'est une expérience que peu de personnes peuvent vivre.

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Fifth-Grade Spanish COSTA RICA

annual journey abroad

DANIEL LUGO Journeying abroad is important because it is a chance to do new things and find out the lifestyle of people in different places. It helps me be more of a risktaker because in Costa Rica you have to try new things.

Viajar al extranjero me dio la oportunidad de ver, observar y descubrir el estilo de vida en las distintas provincias. Me ayudó a tomar riesgos por las diferentes experiencias vividas en Costa Rica.

HENRY HAYS-BAER I think Journeying abroad is important because we learn more about the culture and practice the language we have been learning.

Creo que viajar al extranjero fue importante porque aprendí más sobre la cultura del país y practiqué el idioma que he estado aprendiendo.

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CIERRA LANGER Journeying abroad is important because it helped me build friendships I never knew I could have. It helped me prepare for the future and for future trips.

It helped me feel more confident in speaking Spanish and learning more about that culture.

Viajar al extranjero fue importante porque me ayudó a descubrir amistades que nunca pensé que podía adquirir.

Me ayudó a prepararme para futuros viajes; a sentirme con más confianza al hablar en español y aprender más sobre la cultura.

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CLASS OF 2016

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CONGRATULATIONS,

CLASS OF 2016 The 84 members of the Class of 2016 had an extremely successful year, matriculating at 55 universities in the United States and abroad and earning an impressive $1,534,822 million per academic year in merit scholarship money, not including HOPE scholarship funds. Of the 84 graduates, 35 will attend 13 colleges in the Southeast, including 28 students who will remain in Georgia to take advantage of HOPE Scholarship programs at Berry College, Emory University, Oxford College of Emory University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Georgia. Of the remaining graduates, 40 enrolled in 32 universities in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and West, and nine enrolled in schools in Canada, England, Scotland, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

The list of schools at which students are matriculating appears in the following pages. In keeping with AIS commencement tradition, this year’s graduates are listed with their countries of affiliation.

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FINAL Word Satoshi Taylor Abe Japan, USA Katherine June Ahn Republic of Korea, USA William Roberts Ballard USA Julia Marie Balte USA Elizabeth Naomi Barnett USA John Thomas Barringer United Kingdom, USA Bruno Bartolek Croatia Nicolas Lawrence Binder Germany, USA Emily Grace Bishko USA Madison Lennox Blake Jamaica, USA Johanna Sophie Boedenauer Austria, USA Olivia Liana Cappelletti England, Italy Anastasia Hanako Choi China, Japan, USA Emma Virginia Coffman USA Nieja Mya Crawford USA Alex Noel Cueto USA Madison Giambrone Cunninghis USA Julia Sophia Dorsch Germany, USA Lindsey Michelle Drummond USA Chancity Cantresse Edwards Japan, USA Jad Gabriel Elchahal Lebanon, USA Rhea Essence Epperson Germany, USA Isabela Espadas Barros Leal Brazil Lewis George Forde United Kingdom Anna Yen Fritz Germany, Switzerland, USA Alankriti Gokul India, USA Diego González Varela Saborío Mexico Rebecca Elise Greenberg USA Slater Elliott Hale USA Haris Ul Haq USA Alesandra Micaela Harper Madagascar, USA

Negasi Mwinyi O. H. Haskins Cameroon, Ethiopia Alexandra Vanessa Herbst Germany, USA Madeleine Rose Howell USA Gabrielle Brun Ivanier Canada, France, USA Jacqueline Nicole Jacobs Canada Sean David Koval USA Shreyas Govindaranga Krishnapura Canada, India, USA Nathan Sawyer Leopold USA Thibault Fabrice Leudet de la Vallée France, Italy, USA Julius Kent Long USA Mhairi Elizabeth Mackenzie Scotland, United Kingdom Richard James Marion USA Chloe Louise Marshall England Arantxa Martinez-Gonzalez Mexico, USA Naveed Matinfar Iran, USA Nanditha Puravankara Menon India, Spain Sébastien Luc Tom Michel France Eduardo Montaña III Brazil, Colombia, USA Elisabeth Katherine Mörking Germany, USA Alexandra Maria Napoli USA Morenike Opeoluwa Okuwobi Nigeria, USA Natalie Kristina Pardy Canada, Scotland, USA Langston Alexander Herbert Peterson USA Helena Ola Pliszka Poland, USA Julia Rose Etheridge Plott USA Sidharth Rajiv India Amanda Blair Reiling USA Lourenço Villa-Lobos Telles Ribeiro Brazil, France Sofia del Pilar Rice Mexico, USA Alexander DeVoe Rogers USA Saumya Saboo India

Iain Schmitt USA Dylan Marques Shayne Spain, USA Sarah Siraj India, USA Madeline Leanne Soultz Czech Republic, Germany, USA Dimitrios Konstantinos Sparis Greece Andrea Townsley St. Paul USA Riley Lynn Starling USA Justin Michael Steinworth Canada, France, USA Tom Lincoln Strong France, USA Mohammed Badie Talebagha USA Fabio Torresani Italy, USA Isabella Marie Wang Vakkur Estonia, Switzerland, USA Sarah Ting Wang China Isabella Stefanie Wasserfuhr Germany, USA Bonnie Cameron Watkins USA James T. Wayt USA Madeleine Hannah Werner Hungary, USA Shona Marie Wilson United Kingdom Uduakobong Angel Wilson Jamaica, Nigeria, USA Manfred Cheuk Wang Wong Canada, Hong Kong Shana Amanda Yavari Iran, USA Tadeo Santiago Yelos Argentina, Colombia, USA 27

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The Faculty of AIS believes that the successful completion of any worthwhile endeavor is reward in itself, that there is intrinsic value in each experience which students should perceive as the reward for a job well done. Therefore, AIS participates in very few outside awards programs but encourages each student to work to accomplish the most that he/she can.

Congratulations to the following students recognized at this year’s Honors Assembly: DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS

The Thespian Award

Group 1: First language

Lewis Forde

Isabela Espadas Barros Leal & Helena Pliszka

Visual Arts Award

Group 2: Second Language

Helena Pliszka

Jack Barringer

STATE & NATIONAL RECOGNITION

Group 3: Social Sciences

Class of 2016 Valedictorian

Elisabeth MĂśrking (History) Jack Barringer (Geography) Dimitrios Sparis (Economics)

Shreyas Krishnapura

Group 4: Science

Will Ballard (Physics) Shreyas Krishnapura (Chemistry) Iain Schmitt (Biology) Group 5: Mathematics

Class of 2016 Salutatorian

Naveed Matinfar National Merit Finalist

Dimitrios Sparis 5th Congressional District Art Contest

Will Ballard

Sofi Rice

Group 6: The Arts

The AJC Journal Cup

Anna Fritz

Negasi Haskins

Group 8: Design

Brandeis University Book Award

Katherine Paton-Smith AIS Legacy Scholarship

Robin Boudard

Edouard Goguillon

Columbia University Book Award

CAS Service Award

Edouard Goguillon

Shreyas Krishnapura National Band Award

Anna Fritz National Choral Award

Maddie Werner National Orchestra Award

ECIS Award for International Understanding

Nanditha Menon (Upper School) Yanaelle Cornez (Faculty) Gates Millennium Scholar

Negasi Haskins

Manfred Wong

Georgia Governor's Honors Program

Scholar Athlete Awards

Emily Bishko Naveed Matinfar

Jayne Cook (Communicative Arts) Lane Nottingham (German) Max White (Theatre Performance)

Scholastic Art and Writing

Harvard Prize Book Award

Anna Fritz Sarah Wang

Helen Audrey Williams

The Technical Theatre Award

Johns Hopkins University Book Award

Sean Koval

Patrick Ufer

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National Foundation of Young Arts

Anna Fritz National German Exam Awards

Susannah Atkinson Rhea Epperson Sean Koval Alyssa Locke Natalie Pardy Iain Schmitt Riley Starling Isabella Vakkur Caroline Widmer The George Washington University Book Award

Deniz Sezer The Phi Beta Kappa Association Award

Niall Gamble The Syracuse University Book Award

Charlotte Jones The Wellesley College Book Award

Hannah Branch United States Air Force Academy

Anastasia Choi United States Coast Guard Academy

Appointment Satoshi Abe University of Virginia Jefferson Book Award

Charlotte Tausche Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Award

Bruno Bartolek (2014-2015)

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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY MATRICULATIONS 2012-2016 Schools at which 2016 graduates enrolled

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Agnes Scott College American University* Arizona State University* Auburn University Babson College* Bard College Barnard College Belmont University Bennington College Berry College* Birmingham-Southern College Boston College Boston University* Bowdoin College* Brown University* Bryn Mawr College Centre College* Clark University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Colorado College* Columbia College Chicago Columbia University Cornell University* Creighton University* Davidson College DePaul University Dickinson College Dominican University of California* Drexel University Duke University Eckerd College École Hôtelière de Lausanne Elon University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Emerson College Emory University* Fashion Institute of Technology* Florida Institute of Technology Furman University* Georgia Institute of Technology* Georgia Perimeter College Georgia Southern University Georgia State University* Gillette College Guilford College Harvard University High Point University* Howard University Indiana University Bloomington* Kennesaw State University Kenyon College* Lewis University Louisiana State University

Macalester College Mercer University New College of Florida New York University North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Occidental College Oxford College - Emory University* Pennsylvania State University* Pomona College* Princeton University Purdue University* Rice University* Rollins College Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Stanford University* Swarthmore College Syracuse University* The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art The George Washington University* The New School* The University of Chicago* The University of Georgia* The University of Tampa The University of Tulsa The University of Vermont Tufts University Tulane University* United States Air Force Academy* United States Coast Guard Academy* United States Naval Academy University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of Colorado Boulder* University of Florida University of Kentucky University of Miami University of Michigan* University of Minnesota Twin Cities* University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania* University of Rochester* University of San Francisco* University of South Carolina* University of Southern California* University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison* Vanderbilt University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University*

Wagner College Wake Forest University* Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis* Wellesley College Wesleyan University* Williams College* Wofford College Xavier University of Louisiana Yale University INTERNATIONAL Australia

The University of Melbourne Austria

Universität Wien Canada

Concordia University McGill University The University of British Columbia University of Toronto France

ESSEC Business School Sciences Po Université Catholique de Lille I, II, III Netherlands

Erasmus University Rotterdam Hotelschool The Hague Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Universiteit Leiden Universiteit Maastricht Universiteit van Amsterdam* Switzerland

Franklin University Switzerland* The United Kingdom

King's College London* Nottingham Trent University Queen Margaret University* Royal Holloway, University of London The University of Edinburgh* The University of Nottingham The University of Warwick* University of Aberdeen University of Exeter* University of Portsmouth University of Surrey University of the Arts London

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT:

SAM HENDERSON ’95 AIS GLOBAL EXCHANGE | Fall 2016

STAYING Connected Editor's Note: Sam Henderson ’95 grew up in Atlanta, attended college in Oregon, lived in Los Angeles, then traveled the world for many years as a television field producer. On hiatus from his dangerous adventures crafting stories in wartorn regions, he has returned to Georgia to begin his next adventure--building a web-agency with his closest friend Matthieu Serralta ’96.

I haven’t slept in my bed in six years. Actually, I haven’t even owned a bed in that time. I live out of a suitcase and move from town to town, my few possessions locked in a storage unit. I have no car, no home, and no set of keys for anything but a motorcycle. I’m not on the run. I’m not chasing anything. Well...maybe I am. In the last decade of my life I have seen fit to shed my possessions, one by one, not for any notion of aestheticism, rather as a function of economy of space. It seems that every year that goes by, my traveling bag shrinks while the list of places I see grows longer. It is a good life, and a lonely one. It is a reflective life and an adventuresome one. I travel by bus, taxi, ferry, small craft, train, rickshaw, jet (economy, first, and private), snow machine, four-wheeler, SUV, on animals and on foot. It seems that I have decided on the fight against inertia as the one constant in my life, and I don’t find it easy to relinquish the freedom and wistful remembrance it affords me every day.

In 2010 I left set work in LA and started the itinerant life of a television field producer on a show in Texas, filming a family of feral hog eradicators as they chased through the brush on ATV and horseback, hunting pestilent swine for their hog removal business.You really can’t make this stuff up. From there it was a quick but extreme transition to Alaska, a temperature swing of 140-170 degrees Fahrenheit from Texas, out of Alaska to the Sturgis motorcycle rally, then to the forests of the Olympic Peninsula. I covered the nation telling the stories of people who work the most intense and dangerous jobs in the country, while trying not to get run over, crushed, shot, or eaten.

Then I was sent overseas. Hired by RT (Russia Today) to produce a docu-series about news correspondents in war zones, I landed in Moscow, en route to Kiev, to film the inchoate civil war. As I got off the plane, I was met by my local contact and told that the conflict in Israel and Gaza was beginning to heat up and that I was to immediately board a plane to Tel Aviv. Though I would enter Russia a dozen times over the next year, through official and non-official border crossings, my first trip there lasted only three hours.

Two weeks and two dozen bomb shelters (on both sides of the border) later, I remember lying in bed in July, 2014 in the Gaza Strip

“I saw that the difference between people was one mostly of language and tradition, but that one of the core values, the basic human need to explore and share our discoveries, is universal.”

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STAYING Connected Somehow I have ended up making a living by chasing around the country and the world after people who work the planet’s most dangerous jobs, jobs most would only give passing consideration to before saying ‘No thanks, not for me.’ I rode 16,000 miles in that 18-Wheeler, up in Alaska, and chased those hogs through the sweltering Texas heat, with a camera on my shoulder and a gun on my hip. Filming loggers in the epic vastness of the Pacific Northwest, I almost died twice by getting my face crushed and head snapped off.

That is one of the very most dangerous jobs in the world, with a casualty rate in the 90th percentile.

There is a certain type of ADHD/devil-may-care personality that gravitates to Adventure Television. We are a relatively small club of people who pride themselves on going into untenable situations with as few resources as possible, and delivering cogent, broadcast-worthy narratives. For me, the best part of it is the constant movement, the fight against inertia. I have come to fear only the moments in life when it could possibly slow down.

(again, not my bed-likely the 87th I had occupied so far that year).

The war had started a few days before and I was there having found RT’s man inside the strip, clad in the requisite flak jacket and helmet of foreign war journalists and hourly sending non-stop frenzied broadcasts. We had been chasing tragedy after tragedy, because tragedy is the most common commodity in the Middle East, and an after-lunch coffee had led to an afternoon conversation with a beautiful Spanish photojournalist. She was a big-hearted liberal and I a cold, rational conservative, and we couldn’t have been there for more opposite reasons. She was Pro-Palestinian and wanted to change the world with her images. I was an American in need of a little adrenaline, pro-no one, and enthralled by the idea of making ridiculous money to constantly risk being blown up. Under any other circumstances we likely would never have talked, yet in this insane corner of the world we were in the same place mentally and physically - under constant shelling from all around. As we talked, the breeze from the Mediterranean blowing in the window, I listened to the whistle and thud of the Israeli navy as it pounded the city with cannon fire in a volley response to the ceaseless whine of rocket fire outbound from The Strip. Like a tennis match, back and forth, it went on like this. Day in, day out. I thought: I am breathing rare air. Movies are written around this kind of moment.

Best to remember it. The sound, the smell, the feeling. And I did. It was a moment of clarity when I really began to understand that the universe will amaze and enthrall you if you let it. But you have to be willing to follow the signs it sends and flexible enough to know that a path can change at any moment.

I went on to film three wars in 2014-15. I had my camera taken by a Ukrainian rebel, at gunpoint, only to watch his commander retrieve it for me, using his own pistol. My party and I were chased by mortar shells through the Donetsk airport (there’s a sound and a rush of adrenaline that I’ll never forget) and watched Ukraine tear itself along ethnic and political lines. In Iraq I followed fighters as they occupied recently overtaken ISIS positions, pulling down one flag and raising another.

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At AIS I learned to sit at the dinner table with people of various national traditions. I saw that the difference between people was one mostly of language and tradition, but that one of the core values, the basic human need to explore and share our discoveries, is universal.

As I look at the approach of my fifth decade I don’t know if much has changed. I left high school without a clue as to what I would do with my life. I picked my college on a whim, because my girlfriend was going to a school sixty miles away. On a whim I decided to stay in California, almost penniless and with no formal education in entertainment. Though I have made mistakes, and plenty of them, the adventure my life has taken me on is something I relish. That balmy afternoon in Palestine, the months in the frozen tundra, the freedom of traveling the world on the company dime... those are all special memories I owe to the one immutable force of nature: the world will turn on its own whim. Somewhere along the way I surrendered to the universe’s will and learned to say yes to opportunities leading to the dangerous and the unknown. I walk through the doors that open and away from the ones that close. I live life on life’s terms and don’t for a minute think –at this time in my life and maybe forever- that I control a single element of my fate.

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ALUMNI Q&A:

KATIE DEEDY ’00

Editor's Note: Based in Brooklyn, Katie Deedy is a designer, artist, and entrepreneur specializing in narrative-based pattern design for interiors and accessories. Global Exchange caught up with Deedy this summer.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO TAKE THE LEAP FROM FREELANCE ILLUSTRATOR TO PATTERN-MAKING ENTREPRENEUR?

Though I enjoyed the challenges of designing for others, it didn’t take long for me to realize I wanted to work for myself. Having creative control of the final product was especially motivating; with freelancing I was able to fulfill the artistic vision of my clients, but I wasn’t spending time on my own art. And of course, having the dream is one thing—actually figuring out how in the world to make it happen is a different story altogether. Once I had the confidence to strike out on my own and found my company Grow House Grow, it took years of research, saving, and trial/error before the first wallpaper line came out.

I think the hardest part has been building a career around something for which I never had technical training. When I decided to start designing wallpaper I didn't have a class I could go to with someone who had all the answers.

It took several years of learning everything from the ground up: the history of wallpaper, how to silkscreen, how to create patterns from scratch, and other things like getting a business license and setting up a system for handling accounts. The great thing is that because I did each thing the "hard" way, I have an integral understanding of how each piece of my business works 33

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“It boggles my mind that long after I'm gone, the patterns I thought up in my head will be archived for people to see.

It's a strange feeling.”

WHAT IS THE MOST EXCITING PROJECT YOU HAVE WORKED ON?

That's a really tough question. I've been able to do some pretty interesting things, though I'd say one of the most challenging was helping to design a box set with some amazing record labels, including with Jack White. Both box sets won Grammy Awards for packaging, so I'm really proud about that.

I may be most proud, however, about having my wallpaper accepted into the Brooklyn Museum's permanent decorative arts collection.

It boggles my mind that long after I'm gone, the patterns I thought up in my head will be archived for people to see. It's a strange feeling.

WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS FROM CONCEPTION TO FINISHED PRODUCT—YOUR DESIGN CYCLE?

I usually start with a story. It's normally just a seed of inspiration, like coming across an interesting person or tidbit from history.

Once I get excited about the inspiration, I spend time considering how I can make that person, place, or thing a pattern. I research the design and climate of the era, make word and color maps, and begin to draw.

Once the pattern is finished (sometimes it takes a day, sometimes it takes months), it is sent to a screen builder who hand builds the silk screen and creates a stencil of the pattern on it. Once finished, it's driven to our print shop (which is in an old bowling alley with long tables down the lanes) where we have the colors hand mixed and then printing begins.

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The whole process is done by hand, and the finished product really shows the time and care that went into creating it.

YOUR MOTHER IS A NOTED CHILDREN’S AUTHOR; HOW HAS HER LOVE OF STORYTELLING INFLUENCED YOUR WORK?

I credit my mom with so much: my love of stories, which influence all of my wallpaper patterns; the drive to build one's own creative career without a clear path; and a work ethic that gets it done on the good days and the bad.

WHAT IS YOUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR DESIGNS?

I would love for Grow House Grow to become a larger brand like Finland's Merimekko. They do a beautiful job of applying their patterns onto many products...fashion, ceramics, textiles, etc., and they're all beautifully made. Definitely something to aspire to.

WHAT IS THE MOST REWARDING PART OF WHAT YOU DO? THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE?

Most rewarding: seeing something in my mind and then watching it become a physical product. It's always a little different than how I think it'll look, but that's part of the excitement.

Biggest challenge: balancing motherhood and running a business. It's one of the hardest things I've done (and that I'm still trying to do).

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5-10-15-20 Reunion Weekend

By Sandy Ferko, Alumni and Parent of Alumni Coordinator

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2006

2011

2001

Reunions give us the opportunity to connect with some of the wonderful AIS alumni, and believe me, we are amazed at the things they are doing, the contributions they are making, the lives they are crafting. The influence of their IB education is so apparent in their ability to see the big picture, envision solutions to problems, and think outside the box. Much different from the time I left college when girls could be teachers, nurses or secretaries…I remember laughing at my uncle who suggested I go to med school!

Our biggest reunions every year are the annual ‘Over-21’ during winter break and the NYC reunion – and this past year was no exception as we hugged about 80 alumni at each. Smaller, but equally fun, were reunions for the younger alums over Thanksgiving (also an annual occurrence) as well as Washington, Miami, and London.

New this past year – and a permanent addition to our yearly events – is the multi-class reunion. In May we celebrated a 5-10-15-20 Weekend to celebrate the classes of 2011, 2006, 2001 and 1996.

The classes spent Friday evening and Saturday early afternoon with each other at school, but planned their own events for Saturday

evening and Sunday. In addition to catching up, we were able to connect alums who didn’t know each other, but were living in the same city or working for the same company. This year will mark the 25th anniversary of our first graduates, the Class of 1992. They will join the classes of 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012 for our second annual multi-class reunion weekend the first week in November, I am very excited that we will announce, this fall, a way for alumni parents and alumni to connect via an online group. So if you are traveling and want to hook up with an AIS family or moving to a new city or changing professions – or parents, if you have internship or employment opportunities available, you will be able to connect through your AIS connections. This comes at a time when it is not feasible for all those wanting to connect to come through me…too many people and too many opportunities for one person to manage without the help of social media.

Additional reunions for the 2016-2017 year are being planned. The Young Alums, Over-21, and NYC reunions are scheduled – others are in the planning stage.

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Alumni CLASS NOTES 1995

ELEANOR GREGORY is living in Worthing,

THOMAS MILLET and his wife have two daughters, Camille and Chloe. He and his family live in Arizona.

United Kingdom, with her family where she works as a trainer and practice assessor for the probation service.

Project and is on the board of the ACLU in Oregon.

1998

JP DURAN, ordained as a Catholic priest in 2011, counsels couples in the Washington, D.C. area as they prepare for marriage, helping them set the foundation of communication, respect, and love.

1999

IDO ALEXANDER is the incoming BankMARK NOVAK, his wife and two sons, Oliver

AMY WING hopes to join new husband Habib Hajeh in Amman, Jordan where he works for Save the Children. Amy currently works for CARE in Sudan.

and Mylo, live in Oregon where Mark is a professor.

SAILA HANNINEN recently visited Atlanta

during a business trip with Google. She is training to compete in an Iron Man triathlon (26 mile run, 112 mile bike ride, and 2.4 mile swim) in Barcelona this October. Good luck, Saila!

1996

We were fortunate to have EMMANUEL BLANCO and MATTHIEU SERRALTA fly up from Miami to join the festivities of their 20-year reunion. VALERIE SEEFRIED HENDERSON and her daughter Charlotte also attended the reunion. Valerie is living in Cleveland with her husband and three children.

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ruptcy Bar President of the southern district of Florida, effective July 1, 2016. His law firm, Alexander + Somodevilla, recently merged with Leiderman Shelomith to form a new firm, Leiderman Shelomith Alexander + Somodevilla, PLLC. He and his wife have a son, Ethan David Alexander.

DANIELLE SARANGA and Yoav Marom visited from Israel with their three children.

Congratulations to BOBBIN SINGH on the birth of his daughter, Grace. Bobbin is founding executive director of Oregon Innocence

STAYING Connected If you are in and around New York, look for a play entitled STET conceived by JOSSIE KURITSKY. Inspired by true events, it’s the story of a young reporter assigned to write about sexual assault on college campuses. Looking for a unique angle that will ‘sell,’ she encounters a student who alerts her to what looks like the cover-up of a horrible crime.

weather, has enjoyed living there. He says, "The weather gets crazy, but who doesn't enjoy a little hail every now and then?"

traveled to over 20 countries. They moved to Santa Monica, California and have a baby boy named Levi who was born this past winter.

AMBER STOKES has been working for H.

second child Emily Rose.

S. Photo for 12 years now and became Vice President of Operations in 2015. She spends as much of her spare time as possible traveling; this summer, she will visit Lima, Machu Picchu, and the Amazon in Peru. She's trying to visit all seven continents.

PHILLIP WILLIAMS and his family are living

2002

ANITA MABERLY GISCH welcomed her

in Liège, Belgium.

JESSE HANNINEN was the bachelor on the Finnish version of The Bachelor.

2000

2003

JONNA SEPPA works as a Biology Professional in Animal Health and Clinical Research.

2001

MEGAN LENTZ SEVERS is an editor for Healthline, a consumer health media company.

She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and six-month-old son, Wesley. Prior to moving to San Francisco, Megan lived in Boston, where she earned a Master of Arts in Archaeology.

LUCIEN MOOLHUIZEN has moved from the Middle East to Kuala Lumpur as part of a relocation with his current company.

CARLA WEEKS had a successful art show

in Philadelphia in May and many AIS friends and alumni stopped by, including GRETA MODESITT and husband JON DE OLANO, CHRIS LOWELL, and NEENA BHOLE CHESTNUT. LISA BOX and her husband moved to Atlanta with their two daughters; their eldest daughter attends AIS. "We are still adjusting to being "Southerners" again,” she says, “but overall our first year has been great.”

2004

PENNY AVILES recently completed her chiropractic training at Life University.

ADRIAN CHARLES attended ESC Rennes School of Business and is currently employed

by Geometry Global in Hamburg, Germany.

He works in advertising and communications.

KARSTEN MORAN works as an independent photographer and regular contributor to The NewYork Times. Check out his amazing work at www.karstenmoran.com. Pictured above: Rockaway, Queens post Superstorm Sandy; Swan Lake, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet at Lincoln Center

JOANNA FLEISCH is living and working in

Beijing. She teaches English to adults.

JEREMY HIRSCH and his wife Ellie became

parents to Adam. Major Hirsch is stationed at Langley Air Force Base right now.

BEN LEMOINE moved to Dallas, Texas

almost two years ago - and except for the crazy

TESS PANZER is living in Los Angeles, California, and has spent most of the last two years working for Yahoo as part of a team running their online food and craft magazine.

She is currently spending most of her time as a private chef.

VALERIE ROKHLIN lived in NY for eight years and pursued a career in digital media sales. When she married, she and her husband Chris took a year off for a "mega-moon" and

It was an exciting and adventurous year for VICKI ROKHLIN, JERRY TOLOCHKO, and BRIAN MCELHANEY. The three recently embarked to the Peruvian Amazon to catch up, relax, and glimpse into the abyss of the universe. It was a very fruitful experience!

“Vicki had the pleasure of being born again, rapidly, as every animal since the Mesozoic era, Jerry battled the invisible plant god to obtain a sacred flame, and a giant snake woven from 37

STAYING Connected love flew into Brian's heart. Also, the ceviche was delicious! They would love to go back again in the future, but apparently the future is a non-sensical construct because time is a lie.” (per Brian's vivid imagination)

JOOST TEN LOHUIS works for Deloitte in Amsterdam as a consultant. He loves to go on road trips - 14 this past year, seven of which were with fellow '06ers!

2005

MAY MILKINS just returned to Atlanta after

teaching for five years in Hamamatsu, Japan.

While in Japan, she participated in festivals and was fortunate to visit Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

RACHEL RAMSAY lives in San Francisco

MATTHIEU VAN ASTEN is a senior associate in cloud computing consulting at PwC. He recently moved to Colorado for work and got engaged in 2015.

BARBARA ROSSI moved to Milan, Italy after college to attain her master’s degree.

She is now working in Customer Relationship Management for Ermenegildo Zegna, a luxury menswear brand.

MELANIE WENIGER moved back to NYC where she recently completed her first year of graduate school at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

She is working on a Master in Public Administration with a focus in International Policy and Management.

working for Google as an HR analyst. She's still an artist at heart and in her free time she can be found in her printmaking studio.

ASHLEY SANDERS married Josh Tarica in

May.

2006

ENRIQUE SANCHEZ and his wife Jennifer

Madden became the parents of Camille on Mother's Day, 2016.

HARRISON WIENER graduated with a

degree in International Business and Marketing from UGA and worked for Capgemini. In 2014, he moved to Seattle and recently started working with a start-up.

2008

PAIGE ENFINGER earned her master’s

degree with research on gender with the World Food Programme’s food security assessments in West Africa.

ISABELLA (JOANA) ACKER was recently

named as one of the “eight women who are changing Miami for the better” by Ocean Drive magazine. She was recognized for her work as the creative director of Prism Music Group where she organizes community events that include music, food, health, and art.

ANDY GUTIERREZ completed his BSc degree in Architecture at Cornell University and is finishing his Master of Science in Computer Graphics there as well.

2009

GRAHAM BELTON lives in Buenos Aires, Ar-

gentina working as a civil engineer for Schlumberger. In January 2016 he went on another Engineers Without Borders trip to Cameroon where he helped install a solar water pump.

He's happy to say the system is working well!

EVA IMBSWEILER moved from Germany to Oakland, California in August 2015. She teaches at an international school in Oakland where students learn Mandarin and English.

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After five years on the road as a singer/ songwriter and having made her own record, HOPE SONAM decided to give music a rest.

She is now the Director of Recruiting for Capital Financial Group, a financial planning firm, and serves on the board for the Williamson County Young Professionals. She just bought a townhome in Nashville, Tennessee.

STAYING Connected LUCIA STACEY recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a company she works with, Wu & Y, which creates bohemian and retro-inspired athletic shorts. For more information, please visit wuandy.com.

PAOLO FORNASINI works for Google in

New York.

ELLIOTT FRETWELL is moving to Louisiana

JONATHAN WINSTON works for Co-

ca-Cola in Atlanta.

ANDREW WOOSTER lives in New York

to work for Schlumberger.

working for Exiger LLC.

Congratulations to AMELIA ZUVER who recently earned her master’s degree from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Please see 2012 notes for a photo of Amelia with other recent AIS graduates of Columbia.

ANTON GEBHARD-KÖNIGSTEIN grad-

2012

2011

ic in Atlanta.

ARSALAN AKHAVAN missed the five-year

reunion due to filming in Los Angeles: he has a role in a TV series called Almost There.

JULIE ANQUEZ works for Rocket Internet

in France

MANON AUDIBERT works for fashion

designer Billy Reid.

SAXON BARTSCH works with J. P. Morgan

uated from Georgia Tech in December and, after three months off, he started working at Capgemini Consulting in their Atlanta office.

CHARLIE GEDDES works for Georgia-PacifREBECCA GEIGER graduated from Middlebury College in May after having taken a gap year.

SAMANTHA GRAYMAN graduated from

Emory University last year and traveled to Morocco to complete a year as a Fulbright Scholar.

NICK HOLT works for Apple in the Bay Area.

Congratulations to recent Columbia graduates! THERESA SCHMIDT is a graduate of Barnard College. JOSH COHEN graduated from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

LAETITIA BUTLER is a graduate of the Dual BA program between Columbia and Sciences Po. Also pictured is AMELIA ZUVER ’09 who attained her master’s degree.

in New York.

SAM JACTEL works for Accenture Strategy.

ALANA BESERRA works with CIMA Kids Pediatric Clinic and will begin an Advanced Nursing degree at Emory in August.

JOEY CHAN works with C2 Education.

EMMA IMBER graduated from New York University in December 2015 with a BA in Economics. She now works as a brand strategist for Lippincott, a creative consultancy in New York.

BEN CHERIYAN works for Bloomberg LP in

CHRIS JONES works for Porsche North

New York.

America in Atlanta.

from the University of Surrey with plans to start a job at Standard Life Investments in September.

MARTHA CORREA works for the law firm

ULA KULPA has traded one cold city, Chi-

DEREK HIRSCH completed four years at

Greenberg Traurig LLP in Atlanta.

cago, for another, New York, where she will begin an MA in journalism in the fall.

After taking a gap year upon graduating from Washington & Lee, JULIA LANCASTER is working for Coke. She will begin a master’s program at Columbia in the fall.

NICOLE DANCZ works as the Special Events Coordinator at AIS as well as working with Ms. Ferko and the alumni. Her first big event at AIS, the annual Spring Benefit, was a smashing success!

ALI DOUVRE works for J. P. Morgan in

Having completed his degree at the University of Applied Science of Eastern Switzerland, MAURICE MEISTER (FRIEND OF THE CLASS OF '11), has returned to Atlanta to study at Georgia Tech.

HANNAH MELVILLE is a full-time under-

graduate studying Psychology with a concentration in Substance Abuse Counseling and Inmate Rehabilitation.

AMY O'HALLORAN stayed in Washington,

New York in a division where she can use her creativity.

D.C. to take a position with the US State Department.

NEEMA EBRAHIM-ZADEH works for

Google in the Bay Area.

JONATHAN OLENS works for Senator Johnny Isakson's re-election campaign

GISELE FERANDEL works for Capgemini

ANA PAULA SHELLEY works for EMCAY

in Texas.

ALYONA FORBES works for Medside

Healthcare in Atlanta

JAMES FORDE and ARIANNE KALDEWEY work at the British Consulate in Atlanta.

ANTHONY D’SILVA recently graduated

Wofford College where was in ROTC and played varsity baseball. At his commissioning ceremony, he saluted his brother MAJOR JEREMY HIRSCH ’01, stationed at Langley Air Force Base. Derek is on his way to pilot training at Ft. Rucker. ALEX HIRSCH ’03 joined her brothers at the graduation. Alex is finishing up a two-year clerkship with a NC Supreme Court justice.

JACK MARGOLIN was awarded a Fubright

scholarship and leaves in September for the Ukraine. While an undergraduate at Tufts University, Jack participated in Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) through Tufts Global Leadership Institute (as has THOMAS SINGER ’02).

2014

in New York.

NICOLE WILKE works for WorkPerks, a di-

etician-approved snack subscription service for offices to help employees stay happy, healthy & productive all day. She recently traveled to Ecuador - five days after the earthquake.

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STAYING Connected ELIZABETH ABE studies at the University

of Michigan Medical where she is conducting research in the Department of Pathology and Immunology. She’s researching the effects of removing a component of the complement system that is a component of an enzyme cascade in the innate immune system, which enhances the ability of phagocytic cells and antibodies to rid the body of foreign pathogens.

JAI GORE completed an accounting intern-

ship last summer in Bangladesh.

KESHA KANAKIYA completed a finance

internship at Home Depot in Atlanta last summer.

BASTIAN WEISSENBURGER is doing well and studying hard at Aachen in Germany.

ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES Generous alums visited AIS students and faculty to discuss their life, education, work and travel experiences in topics including design, engineering, international humanitarian work and entrepreneurship.

Thank you to our alumni who participated in our 2015-2016 Alumni Speaker Series!

THE EAGLES FUND provides the vital difference

between what is ordinary and what is extraordinary about the AIS experience. By providing additional resources to our programs, these gifts touch all aspects of our unique community.

It takes the collective annual support of parents, friends, alumni, faculty and staff, to create the learning opportunities that will allow our faculty and students to be a force for positive change in the world.

Help us reach our goal of 100% parent participation by

December 31, 2016! aischool.org/giving

JOSH COHEN ’12

Application Software Engineer, NASA PAOLO FORNASINI ’11

Associate, Ad Partnership Division, Google, Inc. SARAH LEFF ’05

Co-Founder and CEO, Jonathan Cohen Creations ALEXI PIASECKI ’03

Peace Corps Alumna & Public Health Worker CARLA WEEKS ’03

Artist & Designer If you would like to participate in the Alumni Speaker Series, please contact Sandy Ferko, Alumni & Parents of Alumni Coordinator at sferko@aischool.org.

Contact Nicole Dancz, ndancz@aischool.org for more details.

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ANNUAL REPORT / 2015-2016

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Message from the HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT

Cheers to 30 years! The 30th anniversary of AIS afforded our community a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the impact of the early years as well as invigorate the commitment to building a strong future. The year has been filled with heartwarming and humorous stories from AIS founders, families, faculty, staff, and friends all around the world who believe in AIS.

KENDYL MOSS Head of Development

In the fall, led by the largest number of annual fund volunteers in the history of the school, the 30-to-30 Challenge, in celebration of AIS’ 30th anniversary, reached a record-breaking 86% parent participation.

Grades 1 and 5 reached 100% parent participation, earning special tiedye celebrations. And five grades ended the year with over 90% parent participation. With the newly branded Eagles Fund, we look to exceed those efforts in 2016-2017 and appreciate your support in “Helping Every Eagle Soar.”

The annual Spring Benefit, The Emerald Gala: A Celebration of Ireland, proved to be a night to remember with wonderful performances by students, silent and live auctions and--thanks to you--a record-breaking "Stand & Pledge" in support of financial aid.

Our community is stronger and richer because of your volunteerism and support. We will continue to do all we can to make sure our students are equipped with tools to become extraordinary leaders in the 21st Century. Together, we are AIS!

Kendyl Moss

AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

FINANCIAL REPORT 2015-16, ENDING JUNE 30, 2016 Charitable Contributions 7.1%

Other Income 1.6% Auxiliary .7%

OPERATING REVENUE Tuition & Fees $24,012,777 90.6% Charitable Contributions (net) $1,899,090 7.1% Other Income $425,927 1.6% Auxiliary $182,094 0.7%

Tuition & Fees 90.6%

Total Revenue

$26,519,888

100%

Educational Materials & Supplies 5.4%

Administrative 8.2%

Depreciation & Amortization 8.4%

OPERATING EXPENSES Salaries & Benefits $19,318,899 73.1% Buildings & Grounds $1,303,589 4.9% Depreciation & Amortization $2,220,773 8.4% Administrative $2,161,362 8.2% Educational Materials & Supplies $1,436,742 5.4%

Buildings & Grounds 4.9%

Salaries & Benefits 73.1%

2015-16 GIVING

Unrestricted Restricted Total

Eagles Fund $801,878 $274,962 $1,076,840 Spring Benefit (gross) $327,890 $219,000 $546,890

$1,129,768 $493,962

Total Expenses

$26,441,365

100%

Financial Aid TAX CREDIT 2016 FUNDS RAISED $310,468 2016 FINANCIAL AID AWARDED $452,202

$1,623,730

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THE EAGLES FUND Atlanta International School / 2015-2016 Eagles Fund

All contributions raised through the Eagles Fund go directly into the operating budget to help fill the gap between tuition revenue and our operating expenses. Gifts to the Eagles Fund go to work immediately to recruit and retain highly skilled faculty, maintain a campus conducive to learning and collaboration, and offer financial aid to qualified students.

To accomplish our goals, it takes the support of the entire community: parents, trustees, faculty and staff, alumni, alumni parents, grandparents and friends. In 2015-2016, the AIS Eagles Fund raised over $1,000,000. 2015-2016 also presented a new 30-to-30 Challenge in honor of AIS’ 30th anniversary.

Eagles Fund Participation With over 50+ parent, faculty and staff volunteers, the AIS community surpassed its 2015-2016 goal with 86% parent participation! The highest parent participation in the history of AIS! The 1984 Club In 2015-2016, there were 195 members in our leadership giving society, The 1984 Club, named in honor of the year the school was founded.

Their gifts raised the largest percentage of the Eagles Fund total! Membership in the 1984 Club includes an invitation to the annual 1984 Club party, tickets to the Spring Benefit and other leadership benefits. For more information on the 1984 Club, please visit www.aischool.org/giving.

2015-2016 PARENT PARTICIPATION BY GRADE

A special thanks to our volunteers who gave their time to ensure The Eagles Fund was a success.

3K

92%

4K

94%

1

100% 97%

2

88%

3 4

5

92% 100%

6

86% 89%

7

86%

8

80%

9

83%

10

78%

11 62%

12

20

Eagles Fund Chairs Ellen Bender Sarah Milla

97%

5K

0

Board Development Committee Chair Chiara Visconti Pervanas

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80

100

Eagles Fund Parent Volunteers Amy Atkinson David Atkinson Tiyash Bandyopadhyay John Bender Carolin Binder Neerja Breja Susan Brown Michele Casper Jacqueline Chavez Poonam Chawla Susie Cogan Michelle Decoufle Heidi Deringer Nino Doijashvilli Cynthia Elchami Emily Ferguson Ashley Floyd Brad Gerdeman Tina Guess Wendy Gutierrez Manka Haddadin Dawn Hawkins Constance Heery George Heery Yen Jouve Steven Koura Priya Marzorati Leigh Anne Mazzawi Matt Mazzawi Wendie McAfee Dawn Michel Susan Mitchell-Ketzes Kiersten Murnane Martin Neary Kimberly Nottingham Rakhee Parikh

Susannah Parker Shefali Patel Sandra Pitman Teri Proctor Deslie Quinby Duncan Sandys Lei Shan Julie Simon Lucy Soto Giselle Swann Roxanne Varzi Robert Watkins Kalinda Woods Faculty & Staff Volunteers Anna Bartlett Roya Curtis Carol Hoffmann Liz Smithgall Anne Williams Class Agents 1993 Trace Hawkins 1995 Ianna Reid Briggs and Tiffany Richter 1996 Emmanuel Blanco 1998 Robert Raville 1999 Travis Stabler 2000 Linde M. Rickert Tassell 2001 Paul Seefried 2002 Claire Reeve 2003 Arvand Khosravi 2004 Carina Box and Jerry (Tracy) Tolochko 2005 Brianna Carbonell and Corley Thomas 2006 Eva Imbsweiler 2007 Cassie Huntley 2008 Christina Theodore 2009 Julius Gebhard-Koenigstein and Ciara O’Halloran 2010 Timur Selimovic and Ian Hill 2011 Amy O’Halloran 2012 James Ratchford and Laetitia Butler 2013 Brice Williams 2014 Sarah Stebbins, Charlotte Goguillon, and Neeki Memar 2015 Matias Ferandel, Jack Cohen, and Sarah Wren

THE 1984 CLUB Eagles Fund Gift Calculation (Contributions made between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016)

Using the following formula, we calculate each donor's giving to the Eagles Fund: Gifts of Cash or Securities + Matching Gifts from Employers = Eagles Fund Giving Your Eagles Fund pledge or gift is a separate commitment from any Spring Benefit participation.

Every effort has been made to include all contributors and to verify the correct listing of donor names.

If your name has been omitted or listed incorrectly, we apologize and would appreciate notification.

= Development volunteer

Founders’ Council ($20,000+) Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Branch Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fischer Dr. Peter Z. Guan and Ms. Vivian Wong Mr. and Mrs. Martin Neary Major Richard K. Paradies Ambassadors’ Society ($10,000 – $19,999) Anonymous Dr. Mark F. Baucom and Dr. Anne Baucom Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Doyle Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Hayler Dr. Nicholas Hume and The Reverend Dr. Janice J. Hume Mr. and Mrs. Dean W. Morris Ms. Deborah A. Sudbury and Dr. Heinz-Bernd Schüttler Mr. and Mrs. John O. Winchester Consuls’ Circle ($5,000 – $9,999) Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Ziad Abou Mr. Dixon Adair and Mrs. Emily Willingham Adair Dr. Laurent Adler and Dr. Deblina Datta Fred and Catalina Aranas Mr. and Mrs. John Bender Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bostwick Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cain, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Milo S. Cogan Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Dyson Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy C. Faa Mr. and Mrs. P. Foster Finley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fox Dr. and Mrs. Tim Fox Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Glass Mr. Laith E. Haddadin and Mrs. Manka Haddadin Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Huyghe Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. John Mr. and Mrs. Neil R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MacQuillan Ms. Emily C. Sanders and Mr. Jon M. Margolis

Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCarthy Dr. Thinh Nguyen and Dr. Han C. Phan Mr. Michael Oken and Ms. Alla Tsitsior Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Padilla Dr. Manish Patel and Mrs. Shefali Patel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. Shashi Reddy Mr. and Mrs. Nils T. Swann Mr. James Tausche and Ms. Jane Kamenz Mr. and Mrs. Benny Varzi Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ward Ms. Sue Wooldridge Mr. Brent Yamaato and Mrs. Joyce Pascual Yamaato Shutze Guild ($1,984 – $4,999) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Lang Adler Dr. Volkan Adsay and Dr. Jeanette Cheng Dr. and Mrs. Kelly J. Ahn Mr. Amir Alibaksh and Mrs. Sophie Michel Alibaksh Mr. and Mrs. David M. Atkinson Mr. and Ms. William Atkinson Mr. Brad A. Baer and Mrs. Tosha L. Hays Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. Jon G. Bartnick, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Demir Baykal Mr. Tobias P. Behrenwaldt and Mrs. Cheryl Yul-Behrenwaldt Tracy and Scott Britton Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Brown III Mr. Thomas Brown and Mrs. Danielle Drapeau-Brown Ms. Stephanie Brun de Pontet Mr. and Mrs. W. Andrew Bruner Mr. Ronald Carmichael and Mrs. Shelley Giberson Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Center Mr. and Mrs. Pablo Chapa Dr. Zack Charkawi and Dr. Shereen Timani-Charkawi Dr. Jack Chen and Ms. Angela Hsu Mr. and Mrs. David Christman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Clark, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Cleveland II

Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Coble Mr. and Mrs. Peter Coffman Mr. and Mrs. Darrin L. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Miles R. Cook Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cooney Mr. John R. Couvillon and Dr. Jacqui Fisch Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Nick Cross Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Curnyn Mr. Christopher J. Decouflé and Mrs. Michelle T. Caruso-Decouflé Mr. and Mrs. John Dettingmeijer Mr. and Mrs. James P. P. Dirr Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Dotts Mr. Ravi Durairaj and Dr. Anissa Durairaj Dr. and Mrs. Alec N. Elchahal Dr. and Mrs. Mikhael Elchami Mr. and Mrs. Brad Ferguson Mr. Marc J. Fleury and Ms. Nathalie Mason-Fleury Mr. and Mrs. James W. Floyd Mr. William G. Foglesong and Mrs. Heidi E. Deringer Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Fowler Ms. Kim Gallagher-Valeri Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gambardella Mr. Humberto Garcia-Sjogrim and Dr. Lucienne Ide Mr. Thomas Gebhard and Ms. Bettina Koenigstein Mr. Brad Gerdeman and Mrs. Carolina Menezes Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Goguillon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Ms. Susan Grant Mr. Juergen Grimm and Mrs. Angela Ruehle Mr. and Mrs. Avinash Grootens Dr. and Dr. Jeffrey Grossman Dr. and Mrs. Parmeet Grover Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Günther Mr. Bharat Gupta and Ms. Tiyash Bandyopadhyay Mr. and Mrs. Aaron T. Hackett Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Hawkins Mr. Trace Hawkins ’93 and Mrs. Emily Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. George T. Heery, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Matthias L. Heilmann Mrs. Rebecca Messina and Mr. Derk Hendriksen Mr. and Mrs. Matt Herndon Mr. and Ms. Darren K. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Gerry G. Hull Dr. and Mrs. Scott Isaacs Dr. Ajay K. Joshi and Dr. Richita C. Surana Mr. Pankesh Kadam and Mrs. Alka Patel Mr. Thaddeus J. Keefe ’00 Mrs. Margaret Kettlitz Mr. Alan J. Ketzes and Mrs. Susan J. Mitchell-Ketzes Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Kho Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. King III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Klaus Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Loudermilk Mr. Stephen Macauley and Ms. Luz Soto Dr. Jamie MacKelfresh and Mr. Richard MacKelfresh Dr. and Mrs. James M. Mazzawi Mr. and Mrs. Chandler McCormack Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Mendez Mr. Javier Meza Robayo and Mrs. Veronica Galarraga Tola Mr. and Mrs. Arnaud P. Michel Drs. Federico and Sarah Milla Mr. Philip Mills and Dr. Jill Mills Mr. Nicholas R. Misner and

Dr. Alienor S. Gilchrist Mrs. Reid P. Mizell and Mr. Bernard van der Lande Mr. and Mrs. Joshua K. Moffitt Mr. and Mrs. Neil Morrell Mr. and Mrs. Cory Moss Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mulligan Mr. and Mrs. John Murnane Mr. Per B. Normark and Mrs. Cynthia A. Price Mr. and Mrs. Felipe M. Nunez Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. O'Halloran Dr. Babatunde Onasanya and Ms. Carolyn Salas Mr. and Mrs. Joe Owens Mr. Michael D. Page and Ms. Paula V. Pardinas Dr. and Mrs. Shatul Parikh Mr. and Mrs. Chris Parker Mr. Jon Paton-Smith and Mrs. Willa Paton-Smith Dr. Jennifer Pendergast and Mr. Douglas Pendergast Mr. Pablo Perella-Berdun and Ms. Paula Holfeld Mr. Dominique Petitgenet and Mrs. Sylvie Dardoise Mr. Roy Plaut and Mrs. Olga Gomez Plaut Mr. and Mrs. William Propst Mr. and Mrs. Hagen Radowski Dr. Vivek Rajagopal and Dr. Melissa Babcock Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Ratchford, Jr. Mrs. Catherine Reimer Mr. Kevin Reimer and Ms. Elizabeth Fisher Mr. and Ms. Joel W. Richardson III Dr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Richardson Ms. Remedios Rodriguez Dr. and Mrs. Gamwell A. Rogers Ms. Cheryl Rolley Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Sumeet Sanghani Dr. Juan M. Sarmiento and Dr. Patricia Yugueros Mr. and Mrs. Mirko Schueppel Mr Benjamin C. Schuttler ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Thabo Sefolosha Mr. and Mrs. Hale Sheppard Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Smith Mr. Ty Speed and Dr. April Speed Mr. and Mrs. Winburn E. Stewart III Mr. Ron Stockton and Ms. Lei Shan Mr. Thomas Stoupis and Mrs. Antigoni Themistokleous Mr. Joe N. Taylor and Ms. Kreisha M. Shropshire-Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. ten Lohuis Mr. and Mrs. Stefan J. Terwindt Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Thomas III Mr. Richard van Nostrand and Mrs. Darlene van Nostrand Mr. and Mrs. Didier M. Viala Mr. Adolfo Villagomez and Mrs. Veronica Roldan Ms. Gina Vitiello and Ms. Jacqueline Chavez Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Wagner Mr. Robert C. Watkins III and Ms. Stewart Lathan Mr. and Mrs. D. Andres Weaver Mr. Elliott Williams and Ms. Tiffany Mawhinney Mr. and Mrs. Albert Woodroof III Dr. Kevin E. Woods and Dr. Kalinda D. Woods Mr. Guran Yet and Mrs. Ozben Iyigun Yet Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J.Young III Dr. Daniel Zdonczyk and Mrs. Cynthia Fleck

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THE EAGLES FUND JULY 1, 2015 - JUNE 30, 2016

Atlanta International School sincerely appreciates the donors who have generously supported the Eagles Fund. Donors listed below made gifts to the 2015-2016 Eagles Fund.

Anonymous (78) Mr. and Mrs. Ty Abbensetts Dr. and Mrs. Sadique Abdul-Mateen Mr. and Mrs. Haruo Abe Mr. and Mrs. Evan Adler Mr. and Mrs. Koffi Agassi Ms. Kimberly Aguirre Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aibel Mr. Issam L. al Mutawaly and Ms. Haike Wenz Mr. Andrew Katz and Mrs. Karen Albright Mr. Ido J. S. Alexander ’99 Mr. Andres Allpere ’95 Mr. Fernando Almirall and Ms. Virginia Verdaguer Dr. Bahaaldin Alsoufi and Mrs. Rama Tamimi Mr. Márcio Amazonas and Ms. Natália Ferreira Mr. and Mrs. David Anbari Mr. and Ms. Bradley S. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Anthony Ms. Andrea Archie Simon and Felicia Arpiarian Mr. and Mrs. Khoury N. Ashooh Mr. and Mrs. Ron G. Aube Ms. Manon M. Audibert ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Philippe A. Audibert Dr. Frehiywot Ayele Ms. Elisabeth A. Ayres Dr. and Dr. Idelberto Badell Ms. Stacey M. Bailey ’04 Mr. Dylan M. H. Baker ’10 Mr. Markus Baker Mr. Stan Ballman and Mrs. Christiane Buehler Ms. Cindy Balte Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Banks Mr. Kirk A. Barnett Mr. Felipe Barral-Momberg and Mrs. Gioconda Secchi-Rossini Mr. Rodrigo Barria and Mrs. Marcela Esquivel Mr. Peter G. Barrio and Mrs. Elena Barrio Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barron Mr. Christopher L. Barry Mr. Michael Barry and Mrs. Ann Mingledorff Barry Dr. Victoria Plaut Bartlett ’92 and Mr. Robert Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas C. A. Basford Dr. Rahul C. Basole and Dr. Anita P. Basole Mr. Maxence Baudry Dr. Raymond F. Beach and Dr. Genette Ashby-Beach Mr. and Mrs. John Beadles Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Beale III Mr. Cenk Cagatay Beduk and Mrs. Selen Beduk Pirgalioglu Mr. Christopher M. Bell ’02 Mr. David Bell Mrs. Stephanie Bell Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Bellec Mrs. Antje Bender Dr. Chichi Berhane and Mrs. Sineet Tesfay AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

Mr. and Mrs. Francois Berland Mr. Alexander V. Berman and Mrs. Margarita Shaulova-Berman Ms. Alana R. Beserra ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Noorudin Bhanvadia Mr. and Mrs. Joerg P. Biebernick Ms. Anna Bier Mr. and Mrs. Brooks W. Binder III Ms. Kristin A. Birkness Mr. and Mrs. Mark Biron Mr. and Mrs. David Bishko Mr. Michael Black and Mrs. Lilia Ganova-Raeva Mr. and Mrs. Gerald N. Blaney, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Boedenauer Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bohanon Dr. George Bokuchava and Mrs. Nino Doijashvili Mr. C. Philip Bolin Mr. and Mrs. Ian Bolin Mr. Kevin Bolin and Mrs. Laurel-Ann E. Dooley Mrs. Nicole A. Bond Mr. and Mrs. Jamal Booker Mr. David T. Borland Mr. and Mrs. Thierry Borra Mr. Gabriel Botto and Mrs. Mariana Barilli Maiza Mr. Christophe Boudard and Ms. Thi Thu Thao Tran Mr. and Mrs. Alan Box Ms. Carina A. Box ’04 Mr. Shawn Hoekstra and Ms. Lisa F. Box '01 Prof. and Mrs. Oliver Brand Mr. Anthony J. Braniff and Ms. Heidi Baltes-Braniff Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Braverman Ms. Jodi Bray Mr. and Mrs. Kristofer Breedlove Mr. and Mrs. Abhishek Breja Mr. Christian Brennholt and Ms. Anja Pelzer-Brennholt Mrs. Ianna Reid Briggs ’95 and Mr. Jack Briggs Mr. Robert W. Brinson and Ms. Michele L. Howard Mr. and Mrs. William K. Brodnax Ms. Connar E. Brown ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brown Mr. and Mrs. John Brown Mr. and Mrs. Stan Browning Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Bruner Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Bryant Mr. Juan P. Bueno and Mrs. Ana M. Neira Ms. Ana Buling ’09 Mr. Darrell Butler and Mrs. Kenyatta Taft-Butler Mrs. Kathryn Bachman Cagle Mrs. Virginia Cagwin Mr. Harvey S. Cain and Mrs. Michelle Williams Ms. Lisa N. Calderon Ms. Capiz K. Calloway ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Brant Campbell Dr. Emmanuel Carrier and Mrs. Bich Ngoc Nguyen Mrs. April Castro Mr. and Mrs. Alvaro J. Cediel, Jr. Mr. Pierluigi Ceschia and Mrs. Paola Colafigli

Mrs. Nadine J. Chamseddine and Mr. John Lutz Mr. and Ms. Bryan Chandler Ms. Poonam Chawla Vats Mr. James Cheeks and Ms. Wendy Gutierrez Mr. Lee L. Chern and Ms. Nazgol Adili Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Chiappetta Mr. Juan Carlos Cisnado-Hadlow and Mrs. Caroline Cisnado-Davis Ms. Christina Clark Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clayton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Coakley Seth Coan Mr. Joshua K. Cohen ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cohen Mrs. Maxine Coleman and Mrs. Lindsey Coleman Ms. Anna K. Collura ’05 Mr. David F. Collura ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Julian Colvile Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Connerty III Mr. Jonathan A. Cooper ’99 Ms.Yanaëlle Cornez Mr. Thomas Courcoux Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Cox Mrs. Lanie Cox Ben Crabtree Ms. Lorena Craighead Ms. Chantal Credolawson-Darras Mr. Timothy Cronin and Mrs. Veronica Kirk Mr. M. Todd Croom Mr. Gustavo A. Cueto and Dr. Katia Castillo-Cueto Dr. Chris R. Cunningham and Dr. Solveig A. Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Lon C. Cunninghis Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Curtis Mr. Robert L. Dale Ms. Nicole Dancz ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Ajit Dang Mrs. Monique Dangla Mr. and Mrs. John L. Daniel Mr. Thierry Darlis and Mrs. Elyse Bashman-Darlis Dr. Suman Das and Mrs. Nabiha Megateli-Das Mr. and Ms. Scott Daughdril Mr. Adam Davis ’09 Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Davoudi, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. David Davoudpour Ms. Monica De Leon and Mr. Aaron Dixon Ms. Dorothy A. De Lorme Ms. Ana M. de Olano ’09 Mr. John Deacon and Mrs. Caroline Makokha-Deacon Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Dean Dr. Jonathan D. Dear ’99 Mr. Ramon G. E. Delima and Mrs. Mariacarla Piromalli Mr. and Mrs. M. Hans Delly Ms. Regina Deloatch-Ratliff Ms. Daphne A. Demetry ’03 Mr. Alberto W. Dent and Mrs. Alejandra Dent Mr. and Mrs. Joel Deroy Mrs. Marion Derryberry Ms. Kerry L. Devane Mr. Antonio Di Pelino and Ms. Ilse Ortega Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo A. Diaz

Mr. Michael E. Diaz and Ms. Glianny Fagundo Mr. Adam J. Dindorf ’09 Ms. Suzi DiPietro Mr. Daniel G. Dissell and Mrs. Maria Dissell Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Dorsch Mr. and Mrs. Kourosh H. Doulkhani Mr. and Mrs. George Dowling Ms. Margaret S. Dozier Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Droege Mrs. Dagmar Droege Mr. and Mrs. Eric Drummond Ms. Camille Du Aime Mrs. Ellen C. Dutton Mr. William DuVall and Ms. Jamie Everman Ms. Leslie Eastman Mr. Neema Ebrahim-Zadeh ’11 Ms.Yelinee Echemendia Mr. Rodolfo P. Echeverria and Mrs. Maria L. Gimenez Mr. and Mrs. Todd Eichhorn Mr. and Mrs. Safwan A. Elchahal Ms. Paige M. Enfinger ’08 Ms. Rita D. Enfinger Mr. and Mrs. Markus Engel Mr. Ira H. Epstein and Mrs. Susanna M. Freer Passburg Mr. Paul M. Escalante Mr. and Mrs. Mauricio Escoto Ms. Jessica Espadas Mr. Anthony G. Esparza and Ms. Zayda M. Forero Mr. and Mrs. Byron Exarcos Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fabbrini Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fabbrini Mr. and Mrs. Nick Felder Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ferguson Mrs. Sandy Ferko Dr. and Mrs. Marco Fernandez Ms. Beverly G. Fetter Ms. Johanna M. Fleisch ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Floyd Ms. Carla Fonseca Mr. James M. Forde ’11 Ms. Luz E. Forero Mr. Elliot S. Forman ’10 Mr. Randall Foster and Ms. Vicki Strull Mr. and Mrs. David Fournier Ms. Courtney Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Bruno J. Francois Ms. Jessica Frank Ms. Graciela Frecia Mr. Elliott T. Fretwell ’11 Ms. Rosa Frey Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Fritz Mr. Doug Furnad and Ms. Miriam Falco Dr. and Mrs. Lionel Gall Ms. Maria Gamarra Mr. Diego Garcia and Mrs. Pilar Plata Ms. Deena D. Bevis Garzik ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Gasser Mr. Marsal Gavalda and Mrs. Jiaxing Weng Mr. Anton Gebhard-Koenigstein ’11 Mr. Julius Gebhard-Koenigstein ’09 Ms. Catalina D. Ghercioiu Ms. Amber Gibbs Mr. Grayson F. Gibbs ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gillett Mr. Levent Giray and Ms. Deniz Oktar-Giray Mr. and Mrs. Paolo Giuressi Ms. Charlotte F. Goguillon ’14

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Goldsmith Mr. Gerardo Gonzalez and Ms. Celina Acosta Mr. H. Jeffrey Goodall Ms. Maria G. Goodall Ms. Dina Goodman ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Goudie Prof. Arash Grakoui and Dr. Holly Hanson Dr. Damien Grattan-Smith and Dr. Ashley Hayes Dr. Marc Greenberg and Ms. Susan Glatt Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Gregor Ms. Kathryn Gregurke Dr. Lothar Griessbach Mr. Manuel L. Grünenfelder ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Elmar Grutschnig Ms. Tina Guess Mr. Fernando Guevara and Ms. Maria De Lourdes Soto Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Guillot Mr. Joshua Gunnemann ’98 and Mrs. Cindy Gunneman Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Gusavac Ms. Laura Haase Mr. Arndt Hafele Mr. Bahram Hakimi and Mrs. Laleh Sharifi Mr. Jackson A. Hale and Ms. Kay Vermeulen Mr. Woodrow A. Hall and Dr. Glennda M. Hall Mr. Peter Hamer-Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Nabil F. Hammam Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hansen Mrs. Terri Harrington Ms. Valerie Hartman Mr. James A. Harvey and Dr. Lilia Cuesta Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R. Haskins, Jr. Mr. Negasi M. Haskins ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Hayes Mrs. Silke Heinrici Ms. Jessica Heneghan Mr. Irving Herbert and Ms. Josephine Boykin-Smith Chantal Herijgers Mr. and Mrs. Carsten Hesse Ms. Erika Hibbert Ms. Audrey Hibbits Ms. Annalee Higginbottom Mr. Ian L. Hill ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart H. Hoffmann Mr. Thomas Holdsworth Mrs. Tiffany Holland and Mr. Christopher Holland Mr. and Mrs. Hayden S. Horne, Jr. Mrs. Rachel E. Hovington and Mrs. Kristi Hovington Mr. and Mrs. Dean Howell Mr. Greg Hucks Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Hughes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Huitt Mrs. Deidra Ritcherson Hummings and Mr. Martin Hummings Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Husken Ms. Emika Ijuin ’09 Ms. Eva R. S. Imbsweiler ’06 Mr. Florian Ion and Mrs. Marioara Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Isaacs Ms. Jackie Isbell Mr. Richard Isenberg and Dr. Holly Sternberg Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Israelite Mr. Eric Issa and Mrs. Kathrin Koppe Dr. Wissam Jaber and Mrs. Jamilah Sbeih Dr. Michael Jacquorie and Mrs. Alicia Gonzalez Iglesias Mr. and Mrs. Harlyn A. Jerrold Ms. Cuya Jian

Mrs. Gloria Pacheco and Mr. Jorge Jimenez Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jimenez Dr. and Mrs. Ahmad Jingo Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie M. Johns Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Johnson Mrs. Korrin Hume Johnson '92 and Mr. Brian Johnson Ms. Bethan Jones-Evans Mr. Clarkson Jones and Ms. Laura E. Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Jones Mr. and Ms. Kenneth W. Jones, Jr. Ms. Vicki L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jordan Dr. Robert Joseph and Mrs. Sharon Simpson Joseph Mr. and Mrs. JC Jouve Mr. and Mrs. Gareth Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kamerschen Mr. and Mrs. James M. Kane Mr. and Dr. Thierry Kartochian Mr. and Mrs. KC Gazi Kasikci Dr. George Katsitadze and Mrs. Natia Silagadze Ms. Natalie Keen Ms. Christine Kelley Mr. Jarra Keskessa and Mrs. Tenagne Tadesse Mr. and Mrs. Aamir K. Khan Mr. and Mrs. Wadih Khayat Dr. Reza Kheirandish and Dr. Shabnam Mousavi Mr. Arvand Khosravi ’03 Dr. and Mrs. H. Jean Khoury Ms. Lamya Khoury ’04 Mrs. Natalia Khvitia ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andreas Kimmich Mr. Neil J. Kinkopf and Ms. Emily D. Pelton Mr. Robert Klenberg and Dr. Ming Yang Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Koehler Mrs. Arielle Garber Kohan ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Christoph Koslowski Mr. and Mrs. Jorrit Kraus Mr. Henrik Kristensen and Mrs. Anja Boye Kristensen Mr. Benjamin I. Kubaryk ’05 Mr. Paul W. Kvinta and Ms. Becky A. Kurtz Ms. Beth Kytle Chandler ’98 and Mr. Zeb Chandler Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Lacombe Mr. and Dr. Andrew M. Ladd Mrs. Jennifer Lagrange Mr. Thomas P. Lagrange Ms. Karin J. Lancaster ’11 Ms. Tanya C. Lancaster ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lance Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Langer Mr. Adam Lapish Mr. James E. Larson and Ms. Ana C. Chacon Tasara Ms. Eve C. Laurent ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lawrence, Jr. Mr. Colin Lee and Ms. Theresa Ho Mr. Valentin D. Lemoine ’98 Mr. Brandon A. Lenz ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Stéphane Leudet de la Vallée Ms. Michelle Levin Mr. Daniel V. Levine ’09 Dr. William C. Levine and Dr. Sunisa Levine Mr. and Mrs. Michel E. Levisse Mr. Jeffrey C. Levy Mr. Dean Lewis Mr. Jamal Lewis and Mrs. Isabel Coto

Mr. and Ms. Dennis Liber Ms. Anna Lima ’05 Ms. Li Y. Lo Mr. Dennis P. Lockhart Mr. and Mrs. Reid Lockwood Dr. Richard C. Lodise and Dr. Valerie J. Jagiella Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Long Dr. Sagar Lonial and Dr. Jennifer Culley Mr. and Mrs. Iván López Mr. Ricardo A. Lopez ’08 Ms. Meredith Lowe ’09 Ms. Sara Luttrell ’04 Ms. Karla Ly Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Lytle Mr. Toni Maalouf and Dr. Julia Massaad Ms. Eleonore Mabouka Mr. and Ms. Ian R. Macdonald Mr. Sandy Mackenzie Mr. and Ms. Gilbert Madrid, Jr. Mr. Walid Mahran and Mrs. Maria Galindo Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Maldonado Mr. and Mrs. Afzaal Malik Dr. Keith Mannes and Dr. Catherine Dekle Ms. Eliza Mantyh Ms. Mariette R. Marano ’09 Ms. Trish Marcucci and Mr. Tom Sheeran Dr. Grace Wu Marhic and Mr. Ronan Marhic Dr. Laurie Marion and Mr. Richard B. Marion Mr. and Mrs. Neil Marshall Mr. Marco A. Martinez-Obregon and Mrs. Ana Maria Gonzalez Mr. Ricardo M. Martinez and Mrs. Jutta Schlicker-Martinez Ms. Priyanthi Marzorati Ms. Bayley F. Mays, Esq. Mr. John L. Mays Mr. Mauricio Maza Fernandez and Mrs. Maria A. Scarazzini Mr. and Mrs. John C. McAfee Mr. Patrick McAndrew ’95 and Mrs. Marzena Godlewska Mr. and Mrs. David McCarney Mr. and Mrs. John McCusker Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. McDaniel Mr. Brian McElhaney ’04 Ricardo McFarlane Mr. and Mrs. George McGeeney, Jr. Ms. Kathryn McGinn Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell H. McGirt Dr. Bernard J. McGuinness and Dr. Úna M. Casserly McGuinness Mr. Timothy McMahon Mr. and Mrs. Asghar Memarzadeh Mr. Charles Mendels and Mrs. Elaine Rosenblum Mr. Ramesh Menon and Mrs. Preethi Ramesh Mr. and Mrs. Randy G. Merrill Master Damien Michel Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Luc Michel Ms. Martha A. Michielsen Mr. and Mrs. Eric Mikan Dr. and Dr. Vedat Milor Mr. and Mrs. Steven Misner Mr. Brett Mitchell The Honorable and Mrs. Ceasar C. Mitchell Mr. Jonathan N. Mitchell and Mrs. Leonie C. Ley-Mitchell Mrs. Karen Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mitchell Mr. Miguel Molina Peralta and Mrs. Sonia Garcia Lopez

Mr. and Mrs. Marc-Olivier Molter Mr. Norman Molyneux Ms. Nubia M. Moody Dr. Robert Moore and Dr. Eva Lathrop Moore Mr. Andres Morel and Mrs. Alba Nunez De Morel Mr. Peter Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Morris Ms. Pia Morris Mrs. Eunice Moss Ms. Sondra Mullenax Mr. Christian Mustroph ’08 Mr. Jake I. Nadjmazhar and Mrs. Petra Cermakova Mr. Alok Nath and Dr. Sharon Nath Mr. and Dr. Virgis Naujokas Mr. and Mrs. Akbar Nayani Dr. Luminita Neacsu Mr. Brook H. Nickell and Ms. Nicole Florez Mr. Jeffrey Nixon and Mrs. Anne-Constance Nixon-Mulliez ’01 Ms. Olga Nobleton Mr. Edmund Nosegbe and Dr. Clare Babino Mr. and Mrs. Prescott L. Nottingham Mr. and Mrs. Eric Noziere Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Nystrom III Mr. and Ms. David P. O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. O'Brien Ms. Amy O'Halloran ’11 Ms. Ciara O'Halloran ’09 Mr. Eseoghene Ogbu-Sifo and Mrs. Mari Sifo Mr. Kemdi Okparaocha Mr. Jonathan W. Olens ’11 Ms. Lauren T. Olens ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Olens Mr. Mikael Öman and Mrs. Ana Maria Barona-Öman Mr. Kevin Onabiyi Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Or Mr. Nicholas R. Oxford ’15 Mr. Burak Ozbarlas Dr.Yesim Ozbarlas Dr. Roberto Pacifici and Dr. Monica Rizzo Mr. Matt D. Padula and Mrs. Barbara Brockway Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Pahlsmeyer Dr. Seung-Joon Paik and Ms.Youn Young Choi Mr. Johannes G. Palsson and Mrs. Hyeyoung Kim Ms. Alexandra E. A. Panzer ’04 Dennis and Jane Panzer Dr. Christopher Papahalarambus and Dr. Ezra Barzilay Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Pardy Mr. W. Mason Parker III and Mrs. Martina Parker '94 Dr. and Mrs. Ebbie Parsons III Dr. Miro Pastrnak and Ms. Gloria G. Griessman Ms. Danisha Singh Patel ’95 Drs. Jagdish and Hemlata Patel Mr. and Mrs. Pankaj D. Patel Mr. Gary J. Paterson Mr. Pablo S. Patiño and Ms. Victoria E. Gómez Patiño Mr. Santiago X. Patiño ’09 Mr. Thomas Patton and Dr. Jenelle Foote-Patton Ms. Shelley Paul Mr. Fernando A. Paulete and Mrs. Marianne Robbiani 47

THE EAGLES FUND cont.

Mr. and Mrs. Francois Paulhac Ms. Brittany M. Pavon Suriel ’05 Mr. Adrien I. Pellerin ’09 Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki Mr. and Mrs. Sashidhar Pemmasani Mr. Oliver Pennington Mr. Ingomar Penz and Dr. Nirmala Natarajan Ms. Tiffany N. Peon ’04 Mr. Tomás Pérez-Zafón and Dr. Courtney G. Pérez Mr. Tomas A. Perez Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard L. Peschek Mrs. Karen B. Peters Mr. Mark Peterson and Mrs. Sophia Herbert-Peterson Mr. Serge Petitpre and Ms. Martha Petitpre-Harris Ms. Christine Pettitt-Schieber ’05 Mr. Phaethon Philbrook ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Torsten M. Pieper Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford Mr. and Mrs. Sven Pitman Mr. Pawel Pliszka and Mrs. Renata Cichocka Mr. Robert Poels and Ms. Brynan Hadaway Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Poffenberger Ms. Marta Polo ’98 and Mr. Travis Stabler ’99 Dr. Catalin N. Popescu and Dr. Andreea Popescu Mr. and Mrs. David Porter Dr. John G. Porter and Dr. Lucy Axtell Ms. Dianne Potdevin Dr. Maxwell Prempeh and Dr. Ngina Jemmott Mr. LeNorris Price Mr. Stephen M. Prockow ’04 Dr. and Mrs. James Proctor Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Quinby Mr. Amir Rahbar and Ms. Farima Mostofi Ms.Yolanda Ramirez Ms. Cherise Randle Dr. and Mrs. Krishna Rao Mr. James W. Ratchford ’12 Dr. Alfonso E. Rea and Mrs. Jennene Cheshire-Rea Dr. Charles Read and Dr. Shilpa Vyas-Read Ms. Nicole R. Reardon ’09 Ms. Morgan I. Recaborde ’10 Mr. Volker J. Reinert and Dr. Astrid A. Fontaine Dr. Marcus Remmers and Mrs. Jaquelinne Contreras Garcia Mr. Chris Rhue Mr. and Mrs. John P. Richard Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Werner S. Richter Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rieker Ms. Aliza Robinson Mrs. Nicola Robinson Mr. Fabiano Rocha and Mrs. Natalia G. Infingardi Dr. Peter Rogatz and Mrs. Marge Plaut Rogatz Mr. Darren L. Rollins Ms. Lisa Roman Mr. and Mrs. Horacio Romero Ms. Dina Rosas Mr. and Dr. Michael T. Roseman Ms. Carey E. Rosser ’04 Ms. Catherine Hibben S. Rothschild ’04 Mr. and Ms. Joel Rubensohn Mr. Thomas W. Rudderow ’06 Ambassador and Mrs. Detlev Ruenger Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Rutledge AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

Mr. and Mrs. Shrikant V. Saboo Mr. Paul Saeger and Ms. Deborah Saeger Mr. Reza Safarkhani and Ms. Semiramis Mansouri Mrs. Wafiyyah Ali and Mr. Adam Sahib Mr. and Mrs. Rohit Saigal Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas Saignat Mrs. Nancy J. Sainvil Mr. and Mrs. Remi Salako Mr. Wael A. Salama and Ms. Drelin C. Williams Ms. Stella Salazar Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Salisbury Ms. Carmen Samanes Mr. Enrique C. Sanchez Riomana ’06 Mr. Carlos F. Sanchez and Mrs. Guiomar Obregon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sanders Mr. Duncan Sandys Ms. Mary Brown Sandys Dr. Jean-Louis M. G. Sankale and Dr. Jyothi Rengarajan Mr. Richard Santiago and Dr. Madelyn Baez-Santiago Ms. Lynda A. Sarelius Ms. Maria Sarmiento Mr. and Mrs. Ersan Sayman Mrs. Alice P. Schaaf Ms. Anna K. Schaefer Dr. Jodok Schaeffler and Ms. Carmen Lehner Mr. Todd Schaffner and Mrs. Amelia Pane Schaffner Mr. Peter Schelstraete and Mrs. Isabelle Verron Schelstraete Dr. Thomas J. Schmitt and Dr. Melinda Wharton Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Schoen Mr. Greg Schrader and Mrs. Amy Whaley Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Schroeder Dr. and Mrs. Stephan Schwarz Hon. Cons. Gen. Ferdinand C. Seefried and Dr. Monique B. Seefried Mr. and Mrs. Christoph Seidler Mr. Timur Selimovic ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Hatem Sellami II Mr. Thad B. Servi and Mrs. Barbara Vazquez Ms. Urmilla Sethuraman Dr. and Mrs. Cameron Shahab Dr. Mohammad Sharif and Dr. Marjan Malek Mr. Jason Sharples and Mrs. Amalie O. Robert-Sharples Dr. Philip Shayne and Mrs. Helen Marqués-Shayne Dr. Bijal Shah and Mr. Doug Shipman Ms. Hannah O. Shore ’09 Ms. Angela K. Lyda and Mr. Bas Sijgers Mr. and Mrs. Josh M. Simon Ms. Julie Simon Mr. Jason A. Simons Mr. Rajiv Sivaraman and Mrs. Binitha Rajiv Mr. Christopher C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Smith Ms. Maria O. Smith Lizeth Smithgall Mr. and Mrs. David Sockel Dr. Alan Sokoloff and Dr. Michele Casper Dr. Qing Song and Dr. Danzhao Wang Dr. Harlan L. South and Dr. Kadie South-Tabassian Dr. Ioanna Skountzou and Dr. Panagiotis Sparis Mr. and Mrs. Steven T. St. Paul

Mr. and Mrs. John Stabler Mr. and Mrs. Erik H. Steavens Mr. Hendrik Steckhan and Ms. Milagros Leon Mr. and Ms. Mark C. Stedina Mr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Steinwender Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Steinworth Mr. and Mrs. Christian E. Stelea Ms. Claire Sterk Ms. Anusha Sthanunathan ’09 Ms. Laura Stidham Dr. Bruce S. Stiftel and Dr. Janet E. Kodras Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Stiles Mr. Iwan Streichenberger and Mrs. Lorna Street-Streichenberger Mr. Stefano Striuli and Ms. Maria Del Pilar Guzman Nieto Mr. Joseph Strong and Mrs. Florence Wetterwald Dr. and Mrs. N. James Strull Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Stubits Ms. Judy Suarez and Mr. Dennis Alexander Mr. Ricky Summerlin and Mrs. Sheryl Howard-Summerlin Dr. Bernd L. Sunderdiek and Mrs. Susan A. Russell Ms. Alexandra Szilagyi Mrs. Linde M. Rickert Tassell ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Tausche Mr. Corley Thomas ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Thomas Ms. Alyce W. Thompson '03 and Mr. Eli Braun Mr. and Mrs. Colin Thompson Mr. Matt S. Thompson and Mrs. Myrna Antar-Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Guerry R. Thornton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Edward Toledano III Mr. Jerome J. Tolochko ’04 and Mrs. Robin Tolochko Mr. Giorgio Torresani Mr. and Mrs. Mark Towery Mr. Thomas Trissl and Ms. Karen Bellinger Mr. and Mrs. Tim Tuff Ms. Amy C. Tuohy ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Turner III Ms. Tambi Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Dirk Ufer Saloney and Ameesh Vakharia Dr. Mark Vakkur and Dr. Susan Wang Mr. Matthew L. Valdez and Ms. Jennifer P. James Mr. and Mrs. Martin Valkysers Mr. Eduardo Valverde and Dr. Drenna Waldrop-Valverde Ms. Elizabeth G. Varner ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Angelo D. Vasilescu Master Jace W. Vaughn Ms. Reni Vaughn Ms. Shelbi A. Vaughn ’09 Dr. Milena Mihail and Dr. Vijay Vazirani Mr. Ismael Vazquez Mr. Sergey Verba and Mrs. Svetlana Uspenskaya Mr. Lawrence P. Vickers and Mrs. Amparo Mantilla-Vickers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Vincent Mr. and Mrs. Christian Voegt Mr. and Mrs. Oleg Volkov Mr. and Ms. Detlev von Platen Mrs. Maria Voutos

Ms. Chuan Wang Mr. Hanjiao L. Wang and Mrs. Lily Zhao Mr. and Mrs. Zhenjiang Wang Dr. Catherine A. Warner ’04 Mr. Robert J. Warren Mr. Isaac T. Washington Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wasserfuhr Ms. Margaret S. Watts Mr. and Mrs. James Wayt, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Weeks Dr. Rasmus Wegener and Dr. Cornelia Wegener Ms. Ursula Weibert Mrs. Margaret M. Weichert Mr. and Mrs. Johann Weissenburger Mr. and Mrs. Nils S. Wendik Mr. and Mrs. Hal West III Ms. Pier N. Westmoreland Mr. and Dr. Joseph A. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Roger C. Whigham Mr. and Mrs. Gerd P. Wilhelmi Ms. Anne Williams Mr. and Mrs. J. Todd Williams Ms. Suzanne B. Wilner Ms. Abasiemek Wilson Mr. Alan Wilson and Mrs. Moira Wilson Mr. Eddie Wilson and Ms.YanTing Song Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Wimmer Mr. Jonathan P. Winston ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Stefan H. Witte Ms. Lin Wong Mr. and Mrs. Tin Choi B. Wong Mr. Mark Wright and Mrs. Sara Yeglin Mr. Jiang Lyu and Ms. Jie Wu Marat Yafunyaev Mr. and Mrs. Radiy Yafunyaev Mr. and Mrs. Navid Yavari Mr. Jeffrey L.Yeates and Dr. Becky Brock Mr. Vern C.Yip and Mr. Craig B. Koch Mr. and Mrs. C.J.Young Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zachner Mr. Armand Zakarian and Ms. Zoya Dimitrova Mr. and Mrs. Kouros Zarrabi Dr. Ramsey Zein and Dr. Abeer Moanna Grandparent Gifts Mr. and Mrs. Dick Arpiarian Grandparents of William Arpiarian Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Beale III Grandparents of A.J. Bohanon Mr. C. Philip Bolin Grandparent of Amanda Bolin Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Bruner Grandparents of Park Bruner, Maisie Bruner & Wesley Bruner Mr. and Mrs. George Dowling Grandparents of Charlotte Huck Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fabbrini Grandparents of Pablo Fabbrini & Elian Fabbrini Mr. and Mrs. James W. Floyd Grandparents of Lily Floyd & Hugh Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Hayden S. Horne, Jr. Grandparents of Sascha Moffitt & Lucas Moffitt Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Isaacs Grandparents of Arabella Isaacs Mr. and Ms. Dennis Liber Grandparents of Liam Clayton Mr. and Mrs. Steven Misner Grandparents of McLeod Misner

Mrs. Eunice Moss Grandparent of Kellen Moss & Kolby Moss

In Honor of Lee Chern Anonymous

In Honor of Veronica McDaniel ’97 Ms. Karin J. Lancaster ’11

Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Smith Grandparents of Mackenzie Jerrold & Lance Jerrold

In Honor of Kelley Chiappetta Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki

In Honor of Beth Mendez Mr. and Mrs. Abhishek Breja

Dr. and Mrs. N. James Strull Grandparents of Tate Foster

In Honor of Annie Cooper Mr. Jonathan A. Cooper ’99

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Tausche Grandparents of Charlotte Tausche & Andi Tausche

In Honor of Lorena Craighead Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki

In Memory of Jan Mitchell Mr. Alan J. Ketzes and Mrs. Susan J. Mitchell-Ketzes

Mrs. Theresa Terry Grandparent of Lailah Terry

In Honor of Robert Dale Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Steinworth

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Tuff Grandparents of Finley Tuff

In Honor of Sonali Das Dr. Suman Das and Mrs. Nabiha Megateli-Das

Matching Gift Companies & Foundations The Acorns to Oaks Foundation Inc. The Allstate Foundation Allstate Giving Campaign American Endowment Foundation Arby's Foundation, Inc. AT&T Foundation Bank of America Bank of America Foundation Cisco Systems Foundation CLC Foundation, Inc CNN The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. The Coca-Cola Foundation The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education GE Foundation Goldman Sachs Matching Gift Program The Warren and Augusta Hume Foundation IBM Corporation IBM International Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation J.M. Huber Corporation James M. Collins Foundation Kimberly-Clark Foundation, Inc. The Klaus Family Foundation McKesson Foundation Merck Pharmaceuticals Munich American Reassurance Co. National Christian Foundation Novartis Foundation Once For All Trust Oracle Corporation Sprint Foundation Matching Gifts SunTrust Bank Atlanta Foundation SunTrust Banks, Inc. Time Warner Foundation Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Vaughan W. Brown Charitable Trust Verizon Foundation Voya Financial Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program Honor & Memorial Gifts In Honor of Julia Balte Ms. Cindy Balte

In Honor of John Davenport Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki In Honor of Alexis Doyle Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki In Honor of Marshall DuVall Mr.William DuVall and Ms. Jamie Everman In Honor of Elian Fabbrini Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fabbrini In Honor of Pablo Fabbrini Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fabbrini In Honor of Sandy Ferko Ms. Danisha Singh Patel ’95 In Honor of Rosa Frey Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki In Honor of Maria Galindo Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki In Honor of Julius Gebhard-Koenigstein Mr. James M. Forde ’11 In Honor of Sophia Gerdeman Mr. Brad Gerdeman and Mrs. Carolina Menezes In Honor of Catalina Ghercioiu Anonymous In Memory of Joseph S. Grayman Mr. and Mrs. John C. McAfee Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. O'Halloran In Honor of Evan and Milo Hammam Mr. and Mrs. Nabil F. Hammam In Honor of Heidrun & Lothar Heilmann Dr. and Mrs. Matthias L. Heilmann In Honor of Dr. Ron Howard Mr. DanielV. Levine ’09 In Honor of Charlotte Jones Mr. Clarkson Jones and Ms. Laura E. Stevenson

In Memory of Dr. Ali Modarres-Mousavi Dr. Reza Kheirandish and Dr. Shabnam Mousavi

In Honor of Sherry Weeks & the AIS Theatre Program Mr. Jonathan P.Winston ’11 In Memory of Hans Wimmer Mrs. ChristianeWimmer Mr. and Mrs. HermannWimmer

In Honor of Jean & Kevin O'Halloran Ms. Ciara O'Halloran ’09

In Honor of Our Parents Mr. Jarra Keskessa and Mrs.Tenagne Tadesse

In Honor of Anna Pahlsmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Pahlsmeyer In Honor of Simon Pahlsmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Pahlsmeyer In Honor of Kena Kenady Parks Ms. Canditra McLemore In Honor of Jasmine Natarajan Penz Mr. Ingomar Penz and Dr. Nirmala Natarajan

Gifts In-Kind Mr. and Mrs. David M. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Don Dory Mrs. Gillian T. Horsley Mr. Michael Oken and Ms. Alla Tsitsior Mr. Roy Plaut and Mrs. Olga Gomez Plaut The Coca-Cola Company

In Memory of Mary MJ Peterson Mr. Mark Peterson and Mrs. Sophia Herbert-Peterson In Honor of Alasdair Pilmore-Bedford Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford In Honor of Roy Plaut's Birthday Dr. Peter Rogatz and Mrs. Marge Plaut Rogatz In Honor of Amanda Reiling Mr. David Reiling and Mrs. Barbara Reiling In Honor of Willie Richardson Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki In Honor of Isabella Rodriguez Ms. Remedios Rodriguez In Honor of Dina Rosas Mrs. Margaret M.Weichert In Memory of Dan Rosenberg Mr. Shawn Hoekstra and Ms. Lisa F. Box ’01 Ms. Capiz K. Calloway ’98 In Memory of Karen Rosenberg Mr. Shawn Hoekstra and Ms. Lisa F. Box ’01 In Honor of Saumya Saboo Mr. and Mrs. ShrikantV. Saboo In Honor of Adam Sahib Anonymous In Honor of Luz Sanchez Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Abhishek Breja

In Honor of Parks Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kaiser

In Honor of Eva & Harper Schoen Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Schoen

In Memory of Nicola Kettlitz Ms. Alessia E. Kettlitz Mrs. Margaret Kettlitz

In Honor of Jason Simons Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki

In Honor of Tony Locke Mr. Pawel Pliszka and Mrs. Renata Cichocka

In Memory of Lisa Woods Washington Mr. Isaac T.Washington

In Memory of Emily Morgan Mrs.Theresa Terry

In Honor of Carson Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kaiser

In Honor of Cate Levy Mr. Jeffrey C. Levy

In Honor of Rob Warren & the AIS Theatre Program Mr. Jonathan P.Winston ’11

In Honor of Alexi Smith Ms. Maria O. Smith In Honor of Ben Sockel Mr. and Mrs. David Sockel

In Honor of Luca Macdonald Mr. and Ms. Ian R. Macdonald

In Honor of Lailah Terry Ms. Andria N.Terry Mrs.Theresa Terry

In Honor of Kathryn Derryberry Banks Ms. Margaret S. Dozier Mrs. Marion Derryberry

In Memory of Mike Marcucci Mr.Thomas C. Sheeran and Mrs. Anna P. Marcucci

In Memory of J. Karen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Frank E.Thomas III

In Honor of Petra Cermakova Mr. Jake I. Nadjmazhar and Mrs. Petra Cermakova

In Honor of Richard J. Marion Mr. Richard B. Marion and Dr. Laurie Marion

In Memory of Cathie Tuohy Ms. Amy C.Tuohy ’97

In Honor of Harry Chan Mrs. Karen Mei So

In Honor of Elaine Martin Ms. Lisa Barritt

In Honor of Isabella Vakkur Dr. MarkVakkur and Dr. SusanWang 49

FINANCIAL AID TAX CREDIT

Since its inception in 2008, the Financial Aid Tax Credit Program has provided AIS with over $2,000,000 in financial aid funds. These funds allow qualified students in need of financial assistance the incredible experience of an AIS education.

Thank you to the following individuals who participated in 2015-16 to benefit Atlanta International School. We hope you will consider this program in 2016-17. For all inquiries about your 2016 tax credit or how to sign-up for the 2017 tax credit, please contact Amy Hogan, Development Manager at (404) 841-3895 or visit aischool.org/giving.

2016 Participants Mr. Dixon Adair and Mrs. Emily Willingham Adair Mr. and Mrs. Evan Adler Dr. Volkan Adsay and Dr. Jeanette Cheng Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aibel Mr. Amir Alibaksh and Mrs. Sophie Michel Alibaksh Mr. and Mrs. David Anbari Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Anthony Apogee Scholarship Fund, Inc. Fred and Catalina Aranas Mr. and Mrs. Khoury N. Ashooh Mr. and Mrs. David M. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Philippe A. Audibert Dr. and Dr. Idelberto Badell Dr. David A. Baker and Dr. Christine Berthelin-Baker Dr. and Mrs. W. Perry Ballard III Mr. Stan Ballman and Mrs. Christiane Buehler Mr. Franjo Bartolek and Mrs. Arijana Boras Louisa and Armando Basarrate Dr. Mark F. Baucom and Dr. Anne Baucom Mr. Tobias P. Behrenwaldt and Mrs. Cheryl Yul-Behrenwaldt Mr. Nathaniel Ben-Haiem and Mrs. Shayne Walsey Ben-Haiem Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bohanon Mr. Christophe Boudard and Ms. Thi Thu Thao Tran Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bradley Prof. and Mrs. Oliver Brand Mr. and Mrs. Kristofer Breedlove Mr. Robert W. Brinson and Ms. Michele L. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Brown III Mr. Thomas Brown and Mrs. Danielle Drapeau-Brown Ms. Stephanie Brun de Pontet Master William P. Bruner Mr. Harvey S. Cain and Mrs. Michelle Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cain, Jr. Mr. Gabriel J. Callol and Ms. Josette Beaupré-Callol Mr. and Mrs. Brant Campbell Mr. Ronald Carmichael and Mrs. Shelley Giberson Dr. Emmanuel Carrier and Mrs. Bich Ngoc Nguyen Mr. Humberto Castillo and Ms. Janet M. Tirpak Mr. and Mrs. David Christman Mr. Juan Carlos Cisnado-Hadlow and Mrs. Caroline Cisnado-Davis Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Coble The Coca-Cola Company Mr. and Mrs. Milo S. Cogan Dr. Helen Connolly Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Curnyn Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Curtis AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

Mr. and Mrs. Nitin Dalvi Mr. Christopher J. Decouflé and Mrs. Michelle T. Caruso-Decouflé Mr. Peter DeWeerdt Mrs. Maria C. Diaz Keber and Mr. Leopoldo Keber Mr. Ravi Durairaj and Dr. Anissa Durairaj Mrs. Margaret L. Dureke Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Dyson Mr. and Mrs. Todd Eichhorn Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fabbrini Mrs. Sandy Ferko First American Resources Company Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fischer Mr. Marc J. Fleury and Ms. Nathalie Mason-Fleury Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Floyd Mr. William G. Foglesong and Mrs. Heidi E. Deringer Mr. and Mrs. David Fournier Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Fowler Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fox Ms. Jessica Frank Ms. Graciela Frecia Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Fritz Mr. Brad Gerdeman and Mrs. Carolina Menezes Ms. Catalina D. Ghercioiu Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Glass Prof. Arash Grakoui and Dr. Holly Hanson Dr. Damien Grattan-Smith and Dr. Ashley Hayes Dr. Peter Z. Guan and Ms. Vivian Wong Mr. Fernando Guevara and Ms. Maria De Lourdes Soto Mr. Laith E. Haddadin and Mrs. Manka Haddadin Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Hawkins Mr. Trace Hawkins ’93 and Mrs. Emily Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Hayler Mr. and Mrs. George T. Heery, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Greg Hiebert Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Holmann Mr. James E. Honkisz and Ms. Catherine Binns Dr. Eric A. Hunter and Dr. Susan Allen Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hutchings Mr. and Mrs. R. William Ide Mr. Paul Ismail and Ms. Kathy Forbes Mr. Eric Issa and Mrs. Kathrin Koppe Mr. Robert Ivanier Mr. and Mrs. Ron Jacobs Mrs. Gloria Pacheco and Mr. Jorge Jimenez Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. John Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Johnson Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson Dr. Ajay K. Joshi and Dr. Richita C. Surana Mr. and Mrs. Kirit Kanakiya Mrs. Margaret Kettlitz Mr. Alan J. Ketzes and Mrs. Susan J. Mitchell-Ketzes

Dr. Reza Kheirandish and Dr. Shabnam Mousavi Dr. and Mrs. H. Jean Khoury Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Koehler Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Lacombe Dr. and Mrs. S. Robert Lathan Mr. Dominique H. Lemoine and Dr. Chantal Kerssens Dr. William C. Levine and Dr. Sunisa Levine Mr. Jeffrey C. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. N. Litré Mr. Tony Locke and Mrs. Sarah V. Locke Mr. Dennis P. Lockhart Drs. Sharon and David Lockwood Dr. Sagar Lonial and Dr. Jennifer Culley Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin Loudermilk Mr. and Mrs. Willis E. Lowe III Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Manidis Dr. Keith Mannes and Dr. Catherine Dekle Dr. Grace Wu Marhic and Mr. Ronan Marhic Dr. and Mrs. James M. Mazzawi Mr. and Mrs. David McCarney Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Chandler McCormack Mr. Charles Mendels and Mrs. Elaine Rosenblum Mr. and Mrs. Randy G. Merrill Mr. Alfredo M. Mesa and Mrs. Elizebeth K. Ellison Mrs. Rebecca Messina and Mr. Derk Hendriksen Drs. Federico and Sarah Milla Mr. and Mrs. Cory Moss Mr. Ayanaw Muche Mr. Fasil Muche ’93 and Ms. Muna Saadi Mr. and Mrs. John Murnane Martin and Kim Neary Dr. Thinh Nguyen and Dr. Han C. Phan Dr. Farhad F. Nia and Dr. Bahareh E. Nia Mr. Per B. Normark and Mrs. Cynthia A. Price The Physicians' Spine & Rehabilitation Specialists of GA, PC Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. O'Halloran Mr. and Mrs. Glenn O'Leary Mr. Michael Oken and Ms. Alla Tsitsior Mr. Johannes G. Palsson and Mrs. Hyeyoung Kim Mr. and Mrs. Chris Parker Drs. Jagdish and Hemlata Patel Mr. Jon Paton-Smith and Mrs. Willa Paton-Smith Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki Mr. and Mrs. Sashidhar Pemmasani Dr. Bryan Philbrook and Dr. Susan Palasis Mr. Roy Plaut and Mrs. Olga Gomez Plaut Mr. Alain E. Poiraud and Mrs. Carine Poiraud-Bouton Porsche Cars North America, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. David Porter Dr. John G. Porter and Dr. Lucy Axtell Dr. Maxwell Prempeh and Dr. Ngina Jemmott The QUIKRETE Companies, Inc. Dr. Alfonso E. Rea and Mrs. Jennene Cheshire-Rea Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Redwine Mrs. Catherine Reimer Mr. Kevin Reimer and Ms. Elizabeth Fisher Mr. Chris Rhue Mr. Fabiano Rocha and Mrs. Natalia G. Infingardi Dr. and Mrs. Gamwell A. Rogers Dr. and Mrs. Shahrokh Rouhani Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Rutledge Mr. and Mrs. Rolando H. Santos Dr. Thomas J. Schmitt and Dr. Melinda Wharton Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Schoen Mr. Greg Schrader and Mrs. Amy Whaley Ms. Deborah A. Sudbury and Dr. Heinz-Bernd Schüttler Mr. and Mrs. Bharat Shah Dr. Bijal Shah and Mr. Doug Shipman Ms. Angela K. Lyda and Mr. Bas Sijgers Mr. and Mrs. Josh M. Simon Ms. Maria O. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Smith Mr. and Mrs. James T. Snoddy Mr. Ron Stockton and Ms. Lei Shan Mr. Will Stoll Mr. Iwan Streichenberger and Mrs. Lorna Street-Streichenberger Mr. and Mrs. Colin C. Tamsett Mr. James Tausche and Ms. Jane Kamenz Mr. Eduardo Valverde and Dr. Drenna Waldrop-Valverde Mr. Richard van Nostrand and Mrs. Darlene van Nostrand Mr. and Mrs. Benny Varzi Ms. Reni Vaughn Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Vincent Ms. Gina Vitiello and Ms. Jacqueline Chavez Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Wagner Ms. Chuan Wang Mr. Hanjiao L. Wang and Mrs. Lily Zhao Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wasserfuhr Mr. Robert C. Watkins III and Ms. Stewart Lathan Mr. John Weitnauer, Jr. Mr. Eddie Wilson and Ms.YanTing Song Ms. Sue Wooldridge Mr. Jiang Lyu and Ms. Jie Wu Mr. Armand Zakarian and Ms. Zoya Dimitrova Dr. Daniel Zdonczyk and Mrs. Cynthia Fleck

ALUMNI DONORS

AIS LEGACY GIFT

Your generous participation in the Eagles Fund is a strong statement that YOU SUPPORT AIS AND ITS FUTURE STUDENTS. AIS is proud to host an array of events throughout the year for alumni including the annual Back-to-School Picnic, local, regional and international reunions, and holiday gatherings. Additionally, there are plenty of opportunities to give back by volunteering at events or returning to campus as an alumni speaker. Please reach out to Nicole Dancz ’11 at (404) 841-2077 or Sandy Ferko at (404) 841-3866 if you are interested in getting more involved.

Class of 1992 Mrs. Korrin Hume Johnson Dr. Victoria Plaut Bartlett Class of 1993 Mr. Trace Hawkins Class of 1994 Mrs. Martina Striedinger Parker Class of 1995 Ms. Chiara Visconti-Pervanas Mr. Andres Allpere Mrs. Ianna Reid Briggs Mrs. Gemma P. Pockett Crabtree Ms. Deena D. Bevis Garzik Mr. Patrick McAndrew Ms. Danisha Singh Patel Class of 1997 Mrs. Natalia Khvitia Mrs. Veronica Plaut McDaniel Ms. Amy C. Tuohy Class of 1998 Ms. Capiz K. Calloway Mr. Joshua Gunnemann Ms. Beth Kytle Chandler Mr. Valentin D. Lemoine Ms. Marta Polo and Mr. Travis Stabler Class of 1999 Mr. Ido J. S. Alexander Mr. Jonathan A. Cooper Dr. Jonathan D. Dear Mr. Travis Stabler and Ms. Marta Polo Class of 2000 Mr. Thaddeus J. Keefe Mrs. Linde M. Rickert Tassell Class of 2001 Ms. Lisa F. Box Ms. Johanna M. Fleisch Mrs. Arielle Garber Kohan Mrs. Anne-Constance Nixon-Mulliez Class of 2002 Mr. Christopher M. Bell Class of 2003 Ms. Daphne A. Demetry Mr. Arvand Khosravi Ms. Alyce W. Thompson

Class of 2004 Ms. Stacey M. Bailey Ms. Carina A. Box Ms. Lamya Khoury Ms. Sara Luttrell Mr. Brian McElhaney Ms. Alexandra E. A. Panzer Ms. Tiffany N. Peon Mr. Stephen M. Prockow Ms. Carey E. Rosser Ms. Catherine Hibben S. Rothschild Mr. Jerome J. Tolochko Ms. Elizabeth G. Varner Dr. Catherine A. Warner Class of 2005 Ms. Anna K. Collura Mr. Benjamin I. Kubaryk Ms. Anna Lima Ms. Brittany M. Pavon Suriel Ms. Christine Pettitt-Schieber Mr. Corley Thomas Class of 2006 Ms. Eva R. S. Imbsweiler Mr. Thomas W. Rudderow Mr. Enrique C. Sanchez Riomana Class of 2008 Ms. Paige M. Enfinger Mr. Manuel L. Grünenfelder Mr. Ricardo A. Lopez Mr. Christian Mustroph Ms. Lauren T. Olens Mr Benjamin C. Schuttler The CLASS OF 2009 took the prize in the AIS ALUMNI EAGLES FUND CHALLENGE with the highest percentage of their class participating!

Class of 2009 Ms. Ana Buling Mr. David F. Collura Mr. Adam Davis Ms. Ana M. de Olano Mr. Adam J. Dindorf Mr. Julius Gebhard-Koenigstein

Mr. Grayson F. Gibbs Mr. Max J. Hewett Ms. Emika Ijuin Ms. Tanya C. Lancaster Ms. Eve C. Laurent Mr. Daniel V. Levine Ms. Meredith Lowe Ms. Mariette R. Marano Ms. Ciara O'Halloran Mr. Santiago X. Patiño Mr. Adrien I. Pellerin Ms. Nicole R. Reardon Ms. Hannah O. Shore Ms. Anusha Sthanunathan Ms. Shelbi A. Vaughn Class of 2010 Mr. Dylan M. H. Baker Mr. Elliot S. Forman Ms. Dina Goodman Mr. Ian L. Hill Mr. Brandon A. Lenz Mr. Phaethon Philbrook Ms. Morgan I. Recaborde Mr. Timur Selimovic Class of 2011 Ms. Manon M. Audibert Ms. Alana R. Beserra Ms. Nicole Dancz Mr. Neema Ebrahim-Zadeh Mr. James M. Forde Mr. Elliott T. Fretwell Mr. Anton Gebhard-Koenigstein Mr. Charles O. Geddes Ms. Karin J. Lancaster Ms. Amy O'Halloran Mr. Jonathan W. Olens Ms. Ana Paula Shelley Mr. Jonathan P. Winston Class of 2012 Mr. Joshua K. Cohen Mr. James W. Ratchford Class of 2014 Ms. Charlotte F. Goguillon

We sincerely thank the Class of 2016 for its generous support of this year’s Legacy Gift. In keeping with the tradition started by the Class of 2009, part of the funds raised went toward the support of the Educational Advancement Legacy Scholarship. The scholarship awards one distinctly talented member of the junior class the opportunity to pursue an academic, artistic, or service program the summer before their senior year. The recipient must demonstrate the following attributes: exceptional academic standards, a deep commitment to their passion, a desire to push the limits of their knowledge and understanding of the academic field or activity and unbridled enthusiasm. This year’s recipient, selected by an anonymous alumni committee, was Edouard Goguillon ’17, who traveled to Rio de Janeiro to work with an organization called Project Favela.

The AIS community would like to thank the Class of 2016 for their generous contribution back to AIS. Mr. Satoshi T. Abe Ms. Katherine J. Ahn Ms. Elizabeth N. Barnett Mr. Nicolas L. Binder Ms. Emily G. Bishko Ms. Anastasia H. Choi Ms. Emma V. Coffman Mr. Alex N. Cueto Ms. Madison G. Cunninghis Ms. Isabela Espadas Barros Leal Mr. Lewis G. Forde Ms. Rebecca E. Greenberg Ms. Alesandra M. Harper Mr. Negasi M. Haskins Ms. Alexandra V. Herbst Mr. Nathan S. Leopold Mr. Thibault F. Leudet de la Vallée Ms. Mhairi E. Mackenzie Ms. Chloe L. Marshall Ms. Arantxa Martinez-Gonzalez Ms. Nanditha P. Menon Mr. Eduardo Montaña III Ms. Morenike O. Okuwobi Ms. Natalie K. Pardy Mr. Alexander D. Rogers Mr. Iain W. Schmitt Ms. Bonnie C. Watkins Ms. Madeleine H. Werner Mr. Uduakobong A. Wilson Mr. Manfred Wong Ms. Shana A.Yavari

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SPRING BENEFIT 2016

ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

SPRING BENEFIT

EMERALD GALA a Celebration of Ireland On April 16, 2016, AIS hosted it’s annual Spring Benefit, The Emerald Gala: A Celebration of Ireland. Guests were transported to the Emerald Isle with the sounds of the AIS Upper School Orchestra and the traditional Irish band Gael featuring Patrick Finley ’18, a poem from Susannah Atkinson ’17, and a spectacular performance from the King O'Sullivan Irish dance troupe, featuring Emily Bishko ’16! A very special thank you to Fasil Muche ’93 for sharing his AIS story. It was truly a memorable evening!

With over 530 guests in attendance, this year’s Spring Benefit saw the highest attendance ever and we realized a net of more than $400,000 for the school including the record breaking "Stand & Pledge" in support of financial aid here at AIS, with nearly $220,000 this year. Thank you to the entire AIS community for making the 2016 Spring Benefit such a memorable evening!

The Spring Benefit began in the late 1980s to support AIS’s mission of providing the increasingly global Atlanta community with an outstanding independent school. All proceeds support priorities such as highly skilled faculty, spaces that allow learning and collaboration, and financial aid.

AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

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Live Auction Donors Anonymous 3K Parents Dr. Mark F. Baucom and Dr. Anne Baucom Club Choice Ireland Equity Estates Fattoria Varramista S.p.A G2G Collection Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Glass Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. King III Mr. Mike McCarthy and Mrs. Christina Smedley-McCarthy Mrs. Rebecca Messina and Mr. Derk Hendriksen Martin and Kim Neary Mrs. Olga G. Plaut Porsche Cars North America, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Reardon Resort to Laura Madrid Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Sandys Mr. and Mrs. Nils T. Swann Mrs. Pat Tuff In-Kind Donors Mr. Tyler Agar (The Atlanta Hawks) AIS Library Amazing Lash Studio Miami Circle Andretti: Indoor Karting & Games Animal Hospital of Sandy Springs Anis Bistro Artiko Stones Atlanta Movie Tours Bangladesh Dr. and Dr. Rahul C. Basole Beth Bristow Tutorial Services Bon Glaze Doughnuts Callanwolde Fine Arts Center Cason Photography Chateau Elan Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Clark Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation The College Football Hall of Fame Cooks and Soldiers

The Dinner Detective Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Dotts Ms. Camille Du Aime Eclipse Di Luna Fado Irish Pub Fairchild Napa Valley Farm Burger Dr. Bob Feil, D.D.S. Gentle Dentistry and Cosmetic Services Mr. and Mrs. Nick Felder Mr. and Mrs. P. Foster Finley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gambardella Garden Hills Pool and Park Association Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Glass Global Imports BMW Gorilla Sacks Jewels by Julie Dr. Ajay K. Joshi and Dr. Richita C. Surana The Kids Salon Mr. and Mrs. Steven Koura Learning Rx Lightnin RV Rentals Linton Hopkins, Restaurant Eugene Loews Atlanta Hotel Dr. Sagar Lonial and Dr. Jennifer Culley Mr. Sandy Mackenzie Mathnasium Micro Kickboard Miller Union Morgan Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Cory Moss New York Prime No Mas Cantina Old Fourth Distillery Orangetheory Fitness Dr.Yesim Ozbarlas Paranoia Quest Dr. and Mrs. Shatul Parikh Mrs. Sandra Pittman Mrs. Olga G. Plaut Paul Rodgers, CSCS Payal Pittie Rao Fine Jewelry

Dr. and Mrs. Hagen Radowski Mr. Christopher Rhue Roc House Fitness Spa Ms. Remedios Rodriguez Road Atlanta Mr. Reza Safarkhani and Ms. Semiramis Mansouri Saks Fifth Avenue Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Sandys Ms. Lynda A. Sarelius Mr. Todd Schaffner and Mrs. Amelia Pane Schaffner Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Schoen Sea Glass Fine Art Photography Serenbe Playhouse Shops of Buckhead Alice + Olivia Billy Reid Diptyque Georgetown Cupcakes Jimmy Choo La Perla Le Bilboquet Planet Blue Shake Shack Theory Tod’s Atlanta Vilbrequin SkyView Atlanta Smiles on Peachtree Mr. and Mrs. Winburn E. Stewart III Swing Golf Ireland TaDa! The Atlanta Dance Academy Thomas Fallon Photography Vino Venue Mrs. Maria Voutos Thomas Fallon Photography Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tuff Uber Mr. and Mrs. Didier M. Viala Ms. Gina Vitiello and Ms. Jacqueline Chavez Mr. and Ms. Detlev von Platen Wag-A-Lot 53

Walt Disney World Co. Tim and Patty Webb Vern Yip Designs ZenTea Stand & Pledge Donors $20,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fischer $10,000+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas R. Mulliez Dr. Mark F. Baucom and Dr. Anne Baucom Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. O'Halloran Dr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Richardson $5,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Joshua K. Moffitt Mr. Ronald Carmichael and Mrs. Shelley Giberson Mr. Ravi Durairaj and Dr. Anissa Durairaj Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Hayler Mr Benjamin C. Schuttler ’08 Ms. Deborah A. Sudbury and Dr. Heinz-Bernd Schüttler $2,500+ Mr. and Mrs. David M. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. John Bender Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy C. Faa Dr. and Mrs. Tim Fox Mr. Thomas Gebhard and Ms. Bettina Koenigstein Mrs. Rebecca Messina and Mr. Derk Hendriksen Dr. and Mrs. James M. Mazzawi Mr. and Mrs. Dean W. Morris Mr. Fasil Muche ’93 and Ms. Muna Saadi Mr. Jeffrey Nixon and Mrs. Anne-Constance Nixon-Mulliez '01 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tuff $1,000+ Mr. Tobias P. Behrenwaldt and Mrs. Cheryl Yul-Behrenwaldt Mr. and Mrs. Lee Blankenship Mr. Thomas Brown and Mrs. Danielle Drapeau-Brown Ms. Stephanie Brun de Pontet Mr. Juan P. Bueno and Mrs. Ana M. Neira Mr. Pierluigi Ceschia and Mrs. Paola Colafigli Dr. William and Verna Cleveland Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Coble Mr. and Mrs. Milo S. Cogan Mr. and Mrs. Darrin L. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Dean Mr. and Mrs. James W. Floyd Mr. William G. Foglesong and Mrs. Heidi E. Deringer Mr. Brad Gerdeman and Mrs. Carolina Menezes Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Günther Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Hawkins Mr. Trace Hawkins ’93 and Mrs. Emily Hawkins Dr. and Mrs. Matthias L. Heilmann Chantal Herijgers Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Johnson Dr. Ajay K. Joshi and Dr. Richita C. Surana Dr. and Mrs. H. Jean Khoury Mr. and Mrs. Christoph Koslowski Mr. and Mrs. Alan LeBlanc Mr. Paul Lee Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Lytle AIS ANNUAL REPORT | 2015-2016

Dr. Jamie MacKelfresh and Mr. Richard MacKelfresh Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MacQuillan Mr. and Mrs. Chandler McCormack Mr. and Mrs. Neil Morrell Mr. and Mrs. Cory Moss Martin and Kim Neary Dr. Farhad F. Nia and Dr. Bahareh E. Nia Dr. Manish Patel and Mrs. Shefali Patel Mr. Roy Plaut and Mrs. Olga Gomez Plaut Dr. Marcus Remmers and Mrs. Jaquelinne Contreras Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Rohit Saigal Dr. Juan M. Sarmiento and Dr. Patricia Yugueros Mr. and Mrs. Hale Sheppard Mr. Thomas Stoupis and Mrs. Antigoni Themistokleous Mr. James Tausche and Ms. Jane Kamenz Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Thomas III Mr. Richard van Nostrand and Mrs. Darlene van Nostrand Mr. and Mrs. Benny Varzi Tim and Patty Webb Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J.Young III $500+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Philippe A. Audibert Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas C. A. Basford Tracy and Scott Britton Mr. and Mrs. William K. Brodnax Mr. Humberto Castillo and Ms. Janet M. Tirpak Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Center Mr. Gustavo A. Cueto and Dr. Katia Castillo-Cueto Mr. and Mrs. James P. P. Dirr Ms. Camille Du Aime Dr. and Mrs. Mikhael Elchami Mr. and Mrs. P. Foster Finley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Bruno J. Francois Mr. Juergen Grimm and Mrs. Angela Ruehle Mr. Bharat Gupta and Ms. Tiyash Bandyopadhyay Mrs. Silke Heinrici Mrs. Rachel E. Hovington and Mrs. Kristi Hovington Mr. and Ms. Darren K. Howard Mr. Roberto Ioriatti and Mrs. Federica Comai Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. John Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andreas Kimmich Mr. and Mrs. Jorrit Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Long Ms. Bayley F. Mays, Esq. Dr. Bernard J. McGuinness and Dr. Úna M. Casserly McGuinness Drs. Federico and Sarah Milla Ms. Amy O'Halloran ’11 Mr. Michael D. Page and Ms. Paula V. Pardinas Mr. and Mrs. Chris Parker Mr. Dominique Petitgenet and Mrs. Sylvie Dardoise Mr. and Mrs. Hagen Radowski Ms. Remedios Rodriguez Dr. and Mrs. Gamwell A. Rogers Ms. Cheryl Rolley $250 Mr. and Mrs. Chris Archer Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Curnyn

Gloria Enriquez Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gambardella Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Goguillon Mr. Robert Ivanier Mr. and Mrs. JC Jouve Mr. and Dr. Thierry Kartochian Mr. Gregory Kleehammer Mr. Sandy Mackenzie Ms. Trish Marcucci and Mr. Tom Sheeran Ms. Maureen McNamara Mr. and Mrs. Randy G. Merrill George Mina Dr. Thinh Nguyen and Dr. Han C. Phan Mr. Kevin Onabiyi Dennis and Jane Panzer Mr. David Pemberton and Dr. Adina Alazraki Mr. Dennis Retzleff Mr. and Mrs. Horacio Romero Mr. and Mrs. Sumeet Sanghani Mr. Matt S. Thompson and Mrs. Myrna Antar-Thompson Mr. Brent Yamaato and Mrs. Joyce Pascual Yamaato

2016 Spring Benefit Committee Spring Benefit Committee Myrna Antar Alison Newton Bartnick Jessica Braverman Linda Pak Bruner Jacqueline Chavez Jacquelinne Contreras Alessandra Eichhorn Alicia Felder Ashley Floyd Krista Fowler Dawn Hawkins Tosha Hays Kati Heilmann Yvonne Jacobs Semiramis Mansouri Rakhee Parikh Remedios Rodriguez Rupal Romero Morgan Stewart Richita Surana Darlene van Nostrand Patty Webb Irish Authenticity Committee Úna Casserly Tom MacQuillan Adrienne Mulligan Kevin and Jean O’Halloran

Message from the PARENT ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT

It has been a great privilege and pleasure to serve as the President of the Parent Organization (PO) this past year. As my family nears the end of our time at AIS, with our daughter graduating this coming spring, my thoughts go back to the ten wonderful years that we have spent being closely connected to the school. My involvement with the PO has been one of its highlights.

The most important role of the PO is to build and foster a sense of community within the school. For my own part I started off as a Room Parent before moving on to other areas of opportunity such as working with the Ambassador Program, WorldFest Committee, Asian Culture Club and the PO Nominations Committee.

MARK HAYLER President

I would like to strongly encourage all parents to consider how they can become involved in the PO and to look at the very many opportunities available in which they can help depending on their availability in terms of time and skills that they possess. Most roles within the PO community have a one year tenure which enables you to work in any number of roles over your time in the AIS Community. In addition to making our community a better place, the personal rewards are many. I have made many wonderful friends within the school's community and I will value the relationships and the experiences for the rest of my life.

I’d like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to the faculty at AIS for all the support they give the PO, enabling it to operate effectively. I’d also like to express my gratitude to the Business Office, Communications Department, Development Office, Facilities staff and the IT Office as well as Metz Catering for all of their help during the past year.

I wish Mark Ferguson, Kristen Dean and Ron Aube all the very best and look forward to working with them in my new role as a co-chair of the Asian Culture Club this coming year.

Sincerely,

Mark Hayler

Executive Council

President Mark Hayler President-Elect Mark Ferguson Secretary Amy Starling

Lower Primary Jamie MacKelfresh

Arts Alliance Rachel Gordon

Upper Primary Christina Crawford

Parent Programs Grace Marhic Manka Kaur Haddadin

Middle School Linda Pak Bruner Reni Vaughn

Sports Boosters Robert Watkins Dawn Hawkins

Treasurer Laura Stiles

Upper School Laurie Jacobs Roya Memar

School Representatives

Committees

WorldFest Bob Brinson Ozben Iyigun Yet

ELC Julie Schoen

Ambassadors Christina Crawford

Nourish Robyn Bishko

Cultural Clubs

Amigos Ale Dent Anna Jimenez

Asian Culture Club Bich Ngoc Nguyen Grace Marhic Deutsch Connection Michaela Gregor Ensemble

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Our Mission To meet the challenges and opportunities of our interdependent, fast-changing world as responsible citizens, young people require flexible intellectual competence, self-discipline, and a global outlook. To achieve these goals, they need rigorous academic preparation and a passion to become the best they can be. To thrive in and contribute to this world, they must have a solid sense of self and respect for others—as individuals, as members of a group, as citizens of their nations, and as members of the global community. Extraordinary individuals will be called upon to shape the 21st century. The mission of Atlanta International School (AIS) is to develop such individuals.

To fulfill this mission, AIS commits itself to the following goals: --to sustain and grow the exemplary level of teaching and learning that has earned it a world wide reputation for excellent standards in international and multilingual education within the framework of the International Baccalaureate; --to develop each child fully by helping each one to live our core values: the joy of learning and purposeful effort as well as mutual respect and understanding in a diverse setting; --to maintain an optimal size and composition of faculty and students to maximize the opportunities for learning and shared understanding that are necessary for a healthy community;

The joy of learning and purposeful effort We want our students to experience joy in their intellectual, physical,social, and emotional development. At AIS we will create a safe, stimulating educational environment, promoting the wonder and curiosity that motivate a student to explore learning in and beyond the classroom throughout life. We believe that achievement derives from sustained, purposeful effort and that our potential is best developed by learning to think critically, debate confidently, and push our limits. Ours is a community that nurtures and celebrates disciplined and myriad intelligences, and we approach teaching with the expectation that every student will be successful.

Mutual respect and understanding in a diverse community We believe that every human being is valuable and deserves respect. We further believe that respect springs from understanding and that the best way to understand others is by learning to see the world from other points of view. Since each language reflects the values, history, and way of thinking of those who use it, learning another language is a particularly effective means of understanding and respecting others. We believe that a cohesive community of students, faculty, staff, and parents from many backgrounds— socio-economic, ethnic, racial, linguistic, national, and religious—provides an ideal setting for the development of respect and understanding and helps prepare students to thrive in a diverse, interdependent world.

--to help shape and improve local and global communities through the committed participation of its multilingual students, alumni, parents, faculty, and staff.

AIS Non-Discrimination Statement

Our Core Values

Atlanta International School practices a full non-discriminatory policy in all school-administered programs and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national and ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or gender preference in all of its admissions, educational and employment policies, programs, and practices.

What We Believe Is Fundamentally Important We believe that encouraging each student to discover the intrinsic joy of learning and purposeful effort will help each one to set and achieve high academic standards.

Furthermore, we believe it is vital to nurture mutual respect and understanding among all members of our community. Together we cultivate a spirited sense of hope in human potential. We believe the diversity of our community provides an extraordinary opportunity to enable our students to communicate, create, and collaborate in order to build a peaceful future.