TRACING BURKE’S ROOTS
THE ESCAMILLA FAMILY
Genna Gores ‘10
Elisa Gores ‘03
Adriana Schwartz Gores ‘75e
Ana Clare Smith ‘07
Mariana Schwartz Smith ‘77e
Eva Smith ‘13
Stella Smith ‘16
Kara Fleishhacker ‘12
Victoria Schwartz ‘79
Bambi Escamilla Schwartz ’56
William Fleishhacker
Roberta Escamilla Garrison ’57
Orrie Rindal ‘18
Kären Rindal ‘21
Edie Fleishhacker Rindal ‘84
Victoria Escamilla Fleishhacker ’60
Orrie Montgomery von der Lieth ’28
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ne of the most sprawling families of Burke’s alumnae started, like so many of them do, with one girl. Orrie Montgomery von der Lieth, who would later go on to work as an interior designer and help found the San Francisco Ballet, attended Burke’s as part of the Class of 1928. With her first husband, Dr. Roberto Escamilla, she also gave birth to three future Burke’s students: Elisa “Bambi” Escamilla Schwartz ’56,
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Roberta “Joie” Escamilla Garrison ’57, and Victoria Escamilla Fleishhacker ’60. The decision to send the three sisters to Burke’s continues to reverberate on campus today, with two more generations continuing in the footsteps of the women before them. “My parents sent me to Burke’s because my mother went there, and it was the only school she liked,” Bambi says, adding that her
mother had a cousin — Sarah “Sally” D’Ancona — who was a member of one of Burke’s first graduating classes. “Also, when I started in the preschool, it was wartime and we didn’t have use of a car. Burke’s had a bus that picked me up every day.” Similarly, when it came time for Bambi and her husband Ed to choose a school for their three daughters, they sent Adriana Schwartz Gores ’75e, Mariana