Today at Breck
Spring 2014
Today at 123 Ottawa Avenue North
8/ Dr. Jacob Miller, center, celebrates with family and a good friend.
School Year’s End Brings Recognition for Faculty and Staff In annual recognition ceremonies, there were special awards for members of the faculty and staff.
• Joyce McCann, preschool, received the Lee and Penny
Anderson Family Breck Faculty Chair.
• Katie Scherer, eighth grade English, received the Carl
and Eloise Pohlad Family Breck Faculty Chair.
• Dallas Crow, Upper School English, received the
Wigley Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Dr. Jacob Miller, Upper School science, was the
faculty’s choice for the Ernest Campbell Award for “self-giving love to Breck.”
• Margaret Wong, Upper School Chinese and director of
Breck Students Recognized as Scholars of Distinction 38 students in Minnesota have been honored for exemplary academic performance, and 12 of them are from Breck. Congratulations to our Scholars of Distinction: Claire Simpson (Leadership), Elliot Weiler (Mathematics), Madison Ernst (Science), Sofie Kim (Science), Jacob Levy (Science), Patricia Zhao (Science), and Meritorious Performance winners Wolfgang Ofstedal (Science), Nath Samaratunga (Science), Darartu Gamada (STEM), Luis Guzman (STEM), Julia Joern (STEM), and Rustam Kosherbay (STEM).
In Memoriam The Breck community notes with sadness the deaths of two current parents and a former trustee and sends heartfelt condolences to their families. Christopher Curry ’83, father of Aidan ’20 and former
international education, was the Class of 2014’s choice
Breck students Rowan ’21 and Bronach ’23, and husband
for the yearbook dedication.
of Cate, died suddenly and unexpectedly on May 11 at the
age of 49.
• Robin Fondow, Jil Franke, Tom Hegg and Dulcenee
Walsh were recognized for 30 years of service.
Thomas Carpenter, who served on the Breck board of
trustees from 1974-1980, died in Buffalo, Wyoming, at the
• Gary Marlow and Derek Yang were recognized for 20
years of service.
age of 81.
Tyrone Kindle, father of Zarkari, Takina ’14 and Nehemiah
• And Donald Bell, Rob Johnson ’90, Stacey Koehler,
Mark Nolan, John LaRotonda and Gordon Tennis
’18, and husband of Kathy, died of an illness on June 19.
were recognized for ten years of service.
He was 53.
Who Knew?
420 attendees at this year’s Pancake BreckFest celebration of service