A Note from Head of School
Dr. Betty Noel-Pierre
As I reflected on Mary Lockey’s profound legacy on Founder’s Day at the end of April, I invited the audience to consider the importance of this moment. Everyone there was part of the link between Castilleja’s impressive past and expansive future. Now, I want to acknowledge your role in this storyline because as donors to the Open Their World—The Campaign for Castilleja, you set the foundation for that future.
“Together, we will see this project through to the finish line, building a campus to match our highest aspirations not only for our own daughters, but for women leaders everywhere.”
New heads of school often begin their tenure right after a campaign has concluded. After all, it’s a tall task to arrive in the midst of a $125 million campaign. However, there were two factors that assured that this goal was well within our reach. The first is something I know we all agree on—the vital importance of the mission. Our shared work is more relevant today than ever before. The second factor is all of you. Your early and deep commitment proved to me that the Castilleja community will stand behind its ambition. We have high hopes for the next generation of women leaders, and we are going to make our vision for the future a reality together.
The new campus will help define Castilleja’s second century, but new buildings are just the beginning. Modern, purposefully built spaces will inspire deeper connection, curiosity, and joy. Ultimately, your gifts are supporting what will be possible once we cut the ribbon, when phenomenal teachers, curious students, and our supportive community co-create Castilleja’s next chapter.
Thank you for your steadfast commitment as early donors. You, and your generous investments in the school’s future, have inspired me, and I know you will also be an inspiration to the rest of the Castilleja community as we finish this campaign and open their world in our modernized learning spaces.
With gratitude,
Dr. Betty Noel-Pierre Head of School
Parking Garage and Casti Village Start to Finish
May 2026
Casti Village Exciting Progress: Construction Update
Casti Village and the underground parking garage are done!
At the start of the 2025-26 school year, the below-grade concrete pours were completed and the scaffolding and wooden molds were removed, creating the steel-reinforced shell of our new parking structure. As the entry ramp from Bryant and the exit ramp to Emerson took shape, the focus shifted to the garage’s interior, where the crew installed electrical, ventilation, plumbing, and fire safety systems.
With the foundation complete, hundreds of metal beams, known as “sleepers,” were installed across the cap (or roof) of the garage to anchor and stabilize the modular components that now make up the learning and program spaces in Casti Village. Capital campaign donors saw the work in progress during several hard hat tours and alums enjoyed a sneak peek during Reunion/Alum Day 2025.
Following Commencement, Phase 2, construction of the modernized campus, will begin and is expected to last 24 months.
PHASE 1 BEGINS PARKING GARAGE
Our Projected Timeline
PARKING GARAGE COMPLETED
FALL 2024
SPRING 2026
PHASE 2 BEGINS ACADEMIC BUILDINGS SUMMER 2026
NEW CAMPUS OPENS 2028 FALL
Donor Spotlights
Among the many generous donors who have joined together in support of Open Their World, we gratefully highlight these members of our community— parents of two students and an alumna—who share what inspired them to make this investment in the school’s future. Over the last year, many capital campaign commitments have come from Middle School families who are thoughtfully investing in Castilleja so early in their daughters’ journeys. Alumnae also continue to step forward to give back, and we celebrate their lasting connections with the school. Thank you to everyone who is participating in this historic transformation.
Beaky Chan and Gregory Haardt P’28 ’30
“We are proud to support Castilleja because we have seen how much the school helps girls grow not only as students, but as adults and future members of our communities. The academics are strong, but what matters just as much to us is the way Castilleja encourages girls’ curiosity, confidence, kindness, and courage to speak up.
As parents who were both born outside the U.S., we know how important a wellrounded education, personal values, and resilience are in living a fulfilling life. We hope this campaign helps preserve what makes Castilleja special: a place where girls are challenged, supported, and given the space to discover who they are and what they care about.
Supporting this campaign feels like investing in the next generation of thoughtful, capable, and compassionate young women. We are grateful to be part of that.”
A beloved piece of Castilleja history, the carved doors from 1962 will be preserved and thoughfully reinstalled as the new Middle School entrance on Bryant Street.
“I hope the new campus at Castilleja School will embody the same excellence, ambition, and sense of possibility that define a Castilleja education. My experience there was deeply meaningful, and I graduated feeling confident, empowered, and prepared to take on new challenges.
My years at Castilleja instilled in me a resilient self-confidence that became a real asset in my career as an investment manager. Being able to contribute to portfolio committee decisions and advocate for ideas, sometimes as the only woman in the room, drew directly on the
strength and leadership foundations built during high school and honed at Stanford and Anderson.
Because of that, I believe the facilities should be just as outstanding as the education itself—spaces that inspire learning, foster connection, and support every student in discovering her strengths and voice. I hope the new campus honors the spirit of Castilleja while creating an environment that reflects its extraordinary impact on students’ lives and continues to empower future generations.
Some of my dearest friends are from Castilleja and it is with them in mind that I felt inspired to make an investment in the school.”
Lynn Anderson Poole ’78
Castilleja’s Okawa Pool, built in 2001, was named after Isao Okawa, former chairman of Sega. Mr. Okawa gave the lead gift and was joined by over 100 other donors.
NEW CAMPUS
Our new Aquatics Center will host swim meets and water polo tournaments, as well as practices. The below-grade pool will feature tiered spectator seating and have direct access to locker rooms in the gym.
Our current classrooms have been in constant use for decades: Rhoades Hall since 1967 and the spaces in the original dormitory, built in 1962 and renovated in 1997.
NEW CAMPUS
Flexible learning spaces will support the way students are learning and leading in the 21st century.
Donors to Open Their World—The Campaign for Castilleja
We recognize and thank all members of our community who are championing the campus transformation with their capital campaign giving. Our newest donors, since the last newsletter, are shown in red, below.
$20 million and above
Mary Speiser and Mike Speiser P’20 ’22
$10,000,000–$19,999,999
Carol and John Giannandrea P’21
$5,000,000–$9,999,999
Anonymous
Cindy and Evan Goldberg P’17
Shruti Haldea and Neil Kumar P’31
Angela Chen Sabella ’69
John A. Sobrato Sr.
$2,500,000–$4,999,999
Heidi Hopper and Jeffrey Dean P’13 ‘17
Anjali and Sundar Pichai P’21
$1,000,000–$2,499,999 Anonymous (6)
Sybilla and Alexandre Balkanski P’18
Pree Basaviah and Venky Ganesan P’21 ’23
Julie and Andrew Cheng P’26
Simone and Tench Coxe P’20
The Estate of Madeline Ehrman ’60
Theresia Gouw P’21
Jaynie and Bill Kind P’09
Jamaica and Jay Kreps P’28 ’30
Kate Li and Jianming Yu P’20
Becky Long and Ken Hirsch P’17 ’19
The Magic Beans
Linda and Jim McGeever P’21
The Estate of Adrienne Hiscox Mitchell ’44
Penny Pritzker ’77 and Bryan Traubert
Sarah and Greg Sands P’16 ’19 ’24
The Estate of Helen and Robert Sturges P’75
$500,000–$999,999
Leila Al-Muhtasib and David Renie P’31
Diana Alvarez Kaba and Armando Mann P’28
Tony Cannon P’30
Toni Cupal and Mike Volpi P’18
Nancy Kedzierski and Gordon Chaffee P’26
Jennifer and David Ko
Yan Liu and JieFu Zhang P’19
Christine O’Sullivan and James Bean P’21
Paula and Michael Rantz P’13
Nipa and Beerud Sheth P’22
Andrea Navarro Sobrato ’08 and John Sobrato
$250,000–$499,999
Anonymous (5)
Sher Amos-Grosser and Adam Grosser P’18
The Estate of Sreyashi Jhumki Basu ’94
Joyce Bogner Bohn ’72
Ashley and John Chambers
Patti and Edward Chan P’22 ’25
Tina Chen and Anthony Lin P’27 ’29
Lori and Brian Goler P’21 ’25
Noriko Honda and Norman Chen P’21
Sarah Kimball and Bryan Mazlish P’29
Michele and Steve Kirsch P’12 ’20
Yidrienne Lai and Chris Chang P’26 ’28 ’31
Gab and Thomas Layton P’18 ’23
The Estate of Diane Cory McNiel ’56
Viola Mong Meehan ’82
Jennifer Newstead and Alex Mishkin P’26
Olivia Nottebohm and T.J. Rylander P’28
Leyla and David Scott P’20
Polly Tam and Hsien-Chung Woo P’18
Jessica and Chris Varelas P’21
Petra Wright and Steve Dowling P’24
Nila Yeung and Kenneth Ng P’29
Amanda and Zac Zeitlin P’24
$100,000–$249,999
Anonymous (3)
Alison and Edward Abbo P’19
Iké and Ore Adeyemi
Kelli and Michael Agnich P’26 ’28
Reena and Raj Agrawal P’28
Kathryn Bojack and Ravi Mhatre P’17
Beaky Chan and Gregory Haardt P’28 ’30
Stephanie and Sherwin Chen P’26
Nandini and Mathews Cherian P’23
Carolyn Choi and Jeffrey Wong P’24
B.J. Lockhart Cowie ’54 and William Cowie Jr.
Hala Kurdi Cozadd ’92 and Bruce Cozadd
Helen Cui and Yi Huang P’30
Sara and Brian Elkin P’23
Susan Fleischmann and Mark Brazeal P’29
Steve Franklin P’03
Yuyan Fu and Jack Feng P’31
Sean and Anna Glodek P’28 ’30
Shari and Andrew Guggenhime P’20 ’22
Suzan Halabi and Anas Osman P’27
Brooke Heckert and Michael Linse P’22 ’25
Elizabeth and Patrick Heron P’21
Katrina Fu Jhun ’99 and Paul Jhun P’29
Seyonne Kang and Scott Johnston P’27
Teresa and Brian Kelleher P’23
Hanna and Dong Min Kim P’31
Ning and Lexin Li P’27
Aileen Lee and Jason Stinson P’24
The Estate of Marilyn Senn Moll ’47
Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97 and Peter Munzig
Usha and Diaz Nesamoney P’19
Andrea and Geoff Nudd P’31
Julie and George O’Brien P’31
Suzanne and Eric O’Brien P’21
Fang Fang and Jeff Paulson P’31
Yvonne Gavrilis Pawlowski and Richard Pawlowski P’31
Lynn Anderson Poole ’78 and Edward Poole
Aarthi Prabhakar and Ganesh Srinivasan P’27 ’30
Nirmala Ramarathnam and Jay Venkataramani P’27
Alyssa Rieder and Eric Byunn P’20 ’23
Angela Song and Ammar Maraqa P’26
Cathy and Tod Spieker P’97 ’99
Diana Sunshine and William Onderdonk P’19 ’23
Mahjabeen and Tarim Wasim P’29
Sarah and Karl Wiley P’26
Chenyu Wu and Yan Li P’31
Grace and David Yuan P’26
Nazhin Zarghamee and Kourosh Gharachorloo P’23
Jie Zheng and Alex Wu P’30
Linhong Zhu and Dingxiong Deng P’30
$50,000–$99,999
Anonymous (2)
Claire and Tim Burks P’23
Cindy Chen and Bob Kocher P’25 ’26
Nam Cho and Nate Gallon P’26
Marcie and Gregg Farano P’26 ’30
Sheridan and David Foster P’19
Maggie Pringle Grauer ’71
Nidhi Gupta and Bhaskar Himatsingka P’27
Nanci KauffmanHA and Scott Kauffman P’06
Esther and Michael Lee P’30
Ranjini Malavalli and Ush Patel P’27
Gerry Marshall
Brandy and Daniel Navarro P’28 ’30
Susan Packard Orr ’64
Barb and Gregory Rosston P’12
Steve Rosston P’16
Ting Shen and Kai Kuo P’31
Melanie Vinson P’23
Jackie Wong and Albert Hong P’30
$25,000–$49,999
Bilge and Aykut Atali P’29
Amy and Jeff Bonforte P’31
Saima Hasan ’04 and Sharjeel Hasan
Cary Golub Lurie ’64
Shweta and Amish Mehta P’29
Laurie and Duco Pasmooij P’20 ’22 ’24
Amy Rao and Harry Plant
Shobana Sankaran and Harikesh Nair P’31
Tenley Stephenson and John Pimentel P’21’29
Varsha and Pradeep Tagare P’22
Kathleen and Scott Tandy P’15
Mariko and Phillip Yang P’17 ’22
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Shelli Ching and Rowland Cheng P’15
Judy and Ronnie Dang P’26 ‘28
Mahooya Dinda and Michel Del Buono P’25
Elizabeth Douglas and Evan Hurowitz P’27
Shirley Ely P’71
The Priscilla Endicott Charitable Foundation
Brittany and Daniel Feitelberg P’26 ’28
Odette Harris and Edward Sharp P’22 ’24
Esther Kletter P’91
Anne Biaggini Krattebol ’64
Lisa and David Merenbach P’09 ’11 ’14
Robert “Buff” Miller & MSNQS Family
Parinaz Mohamadi and Mostafa Ronaghi P’29
Jessica Pan-Beesley and Michael Beesley P’24
Denise and Mike Pope P’14 ’17
Melissa Riofrio ’85
Peggy Tseung and Vineet Seth P’28
Jennie Tung and Derrick Lee P’28 ’30
Nancy Tuck P’17
Eugenie Van Wynen and Chris Markesky
Lisa Kitayama Wallgren ’94 and Markus Wallgren P’27
Huisheng Wang and Yinqing Zhao P’24
$5,000–$9,999
Dana and Brian Ascher P’24
Cheryl Hertzog Coleman ’64
Janet Mauel Cronk ’64
Nayna and Gambhir Kaushek P’21
Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen P’31
Lindsay Austin Louie ’98 and Ting Louie
Bradley Quarton and Seri Nakazawa
Mia and Jose Rocha P’26
Anne and Richard Schmidt
Lindsey and Alan Schroeder P’28
Pratima Sethi ’94 and Amaury Bellemans P’27 ’29
Tom Stephenson
Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza and James Carranza P’21
Eric Temple
Katrina Wollenberg
$1,500–$4,999
Megan Jones Bell ’00
Diane Brooks Dixon ’69 and Patrick Dixon
Jeffie Welsh Feakins ’64
Pat Hunter Gregory ’64
Denise Kaufman ’64
Zander Lurie and Kristin Vogelsong
Carla Roth ’65
Michaele Roth Thunen ’64
Elizabeth Yin ’00
Gail Wilson Zetter ’64
Up to $1,499
Anonymous
Bonnie Eggink Allen ’64
Eliza Becker
Audre Brokes ’81
Marilyn Katz Caine ’80
Anna and Tony Carrasco
Wendy Carrel ’65
Veronica Chiu ’81
Kelly Conway ’90
Janet Cox ’64
Ellen Curtis ’64
Maria Cristina Lerche de Balestra ’64
Amanda Dillon DeLuca ’10
Rachelle and Scott Doorley P’26 ‘29
Lorraine Duval and David Cardinal P’11
Janey Manuel Edwards ’64
Riley Guggenhime ’20
Cherri Linderman Gurney ’64
Libby Swindells Hulsey ’80
Talia Kertsman ’18
Allison Koo ’98
Molly Ledwith ’16
Jennifer Lee ’95
Barbara MacCornack Leutwiler ’64
Samantha Levison ’10
Amber Lombard ’10
Jason Lurie
Pamela Schaap MacKean ’64
Fiona Maloney-McCrystle ’13
Jeannine Marston and Ted Marston P’89 ’94
Charise Hale McHugh ’70
Alanna McNaughton ’14
Anne Kelly Mellenthin ’80
Stephanie Merenbach ’11
Tania Montoya ’06
Ellen Stewart Moore ’80
Fay Jones Nestlerode ’64
Emily Colvin O’Malley ’10
Seana McNamara Oliver ’06
Laura Golub Overett ’68
Claire Patterson ’12
Shanti Perkins ’90
Pamela Johnson Pollack ’91
Molleigh Preefer ’10
Sarah Morris Pullen ’64
Eleanor Rakonitz P’87
Elizabeth Sellman Redman ’63
Laura and Daniel Rhinehart P’31
Sandra Pearson Shlapak ’64
Lauren Sibley ’20
Martha Huff Smiland ’64
Leslie Cardozo Stafford ’93
An MacKenzie Standing ’64
Sarah Rakonitz Stein ’87
Lindsay and John Sterling P’24
Rachel Sussman ’93
Sarah Sussman ’90
Lee Taubeneck
April and George Triantis P’19 ’21
Eileen Tse ’90
Kathryn and Eric Verwillow P’15
Giuliana Danon Vural ’75
Suzanne and Robert Washburn P’77 ’80
Elizabeth Gage Weber ’64
Christina Hulden Westmoreland ’64
Helene Chandler Williams ’64
Susan Duncan Williams ’65
Kathy Mauel Wright ’68
When you support Open Their World—The Campaign for Castilleja at any level, you are making an investment that affirms your belief in the power of women learning, women leading.
For more information, please contact:
Sue Kim, Director of Advancement, skim@castilleja.org
Caroline New ’01, Director of the Capital Campaign and Major Gifts, cnew@castilleja.org
Or visit opentheirworld.castilleja.org
