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Kingswood Oxford School 170 Kingswood Road West Hartford, CT 06119 860-233-9631 www.kingswoodoxford.org Editor: Jackie Pisani, Director of Communication & Marketing Contributors: Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78, Kathy Flaherty ’84, Meghan Kurtich, Rob Kyff, John Nestor, Jackie Pisani, Janet Reynolds Graphic Design: James Baker Design Printing: Allied Printing Services, Inc. Photo Credits: Seshu Badrinath, Highpoint Pictures, Clay Miles, David B. Newman ’80, Jackie Pisani Please direct inquiries or general comments to Jackie Pisani, Director of Communications & Marketing pisani.j@kingswoodoxford.org Class Notes or obituary information to Meghan Kurtich, Assistant Director of Annual Giving kurtich.m@kingswoodoxford.org Address changes to Jennifer Faubert faubert.j@kingswoodoxford.org Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students Kingswood Oxford School admits students of any race, color, or national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs.

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Brewster B. Boyd ’63 James Boyd + Robert P. Bradley ’75 Howard Brayton ’30 + V. Brewer Jr. ’29 + Janet C. Buckingham ’85 Eleanor H. Bunce + Richard P. Carney ’57 Mary Chalfen ’45 + Richard Chapell ’45 + David S. Chapin ’43 + Sandra and Arnold L. Chase Warren D. Chase ’32 + Harold L. Colvocoresses ’68 John A. Cope ’60 Floyd A. Couch Jr. ’45 + J. David Creedon ’47 + Richard S. Cuda Edward H. Deming ’43 + Virginia Denne ’42 Margaret Dewing ’34 + Cornelia Wilde Dickinson ’45 Roger Dickinson ’43 + Patricia and Richard G. Dimock Beverly Beach Eaton ’38 + Laura and George L. Estes III ’67 Matthew Felson ’77 Francis T. Fenn Jr. ’33 + Carlos M. Fetterolf ’44 + Patrick J. Flaherty ’51 Benedict D. Flynn III ’72 Elizabeth Bower Foley ’85 Kenneth L. Frank ’76 Susan and Robert M. Furek Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Karen Koury Gifford ’62 Barbara Godard ’48 Dorothy C. Goodwin ’33 + Ellsworth S. Grant ’35 + Virginia Tuttle Grant ’35 + Helen Gray Richard C. Hastings Jr. ’40 + Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 + Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 +

Lynn and Stephen B. Hazard J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Alyce and David H. Hild I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Lucy Eaton Holcombe ’42 + Frederick B. Hollister ’75 Burton L. How Jr. ’47 Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones ’52 Nancy Brayton Krieble ’33 + Dorothy R. Lazear + Caroline Benner Leech ’38 + Janet and Paul A. Lewis Margah and Thomas D. Lips Michael D. Lipton Fred M. Lougee ’48 + James B. Lyon ’48 Bruce W. Manternach ’33 + Richard C. Marvin Jr. ’77 Nicholas B. Mason ’63 W. E. McClellan Jr. ’37 + William M. McCormick ’58 John F. McDermott Jr. ’47 + E. Merritt McDonough ’51 Martin F. McGrath Jr. ’56 + H. Richard McLane ’53 Chelsea and Adam Meikle Charles W. Merrels ’40 Stephanie K. U. Michalczyk ’61 Maria Molori Marjorie Murphy Morrissey ’29 + Louise and John W. Moses ’63 John Davis Murphy ’30 + Robert H. Murphy ’32 + Elliott Murray ’30 + Arnold M. Nemirow ’61 Francis P. Pandolfi ’61 Edith Wilcock Patrick ’56 Louise Galt Pease ’50 + Agnes and William Peelle, Jr. Samuel G. Peelle ’03 William R. Peelle III ’01 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall Edgar M. Reed ’65 Jane Ribadeneyra ’83

Sali Godard Riege ’43 Heidi Eddy Riggs ’65 Susan Roach ’61 + Jane + and Kenneth D. Roberts ’34 + Ruth Grier Robinson ’49 + Patricia Rosoff + Mary Eddy Schlesinger ’34 + G. William Seawright ’59 Thomas E. Senf ’58 + Laura Jones Shafer ’75 Marc T. Shafer ’75 Mabel Cheney Smith ’34 + Brenda K. Sommers + Esther L. Spafard ’50 Henry M. Spencer ’36 + W. Howard Spencer ’32 + Henry W. Spring ’43 + Karin and William K. Stahl Roger H. Stephenson ’56 Roxanne Richards Stringer ’54 Brenda J. Sullivan Marilyn and Les R. Tager Ann Beecher Underwood ’42 Donald Viering ’38 + Elisa L. Villa Francis L. Wadsworth ’47 June Heard Wadsworth ’53 Raycroft Walsh Jr. ’41 + Alden Y. Warner III ’76 R. Ashley and John M. Washburn III Frederick D. Watkins III ’71 Nancy S. Watters ’64 Dotha Seaverns Welbourn ’36 + Paula and Brian D. Whitney John A. T. Wilson ’56 Martin Wolman Nancie Woodford-Cain James E. Woods ’59

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2 From the Head of School 3 On the Green 14 Alumni Receptions 17 Reunion 23 Athletic Hall of Fame 26 Sports 34 Hoffman Field House 36 An Evening to Remember 37 Commencement 40 Delivering on a Promise 44 I nvestment Club Means Business 46 R emembering the White House 50 A Path Well Crossed 53 Th e Best Restaurant in the World 57 Shine On 59 Fresh and Green Academy 61 Class Notes 73 In Memoriam 80 Annual Report

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Letter from the Head of School

This past June, KO launched its new website and, through it, we hope to paint a fresh picture of our school. The site communicates our mission, our spirit and our educational advantages in an upbeat, conversational way. In developing the website, over the course of several months, a digital copywriter interviewed scores of KO folks — students, teachers, alumni and parents. We discovered that all the participants shared a consistent idea of the school: KO is a place which “allows you the freedom to be who you are and to keep discovering your real self.”

I’m incredibly gratified to hear that our mission and core values are borne out by the experience of the people who know us best because, I believe, that unique, KO experience is our greatest asset.

As a day school, KO shares an especially close connection with parents and we celebrate our shared values. We listen to parents’ needs and wishes for their children and we consistently look for ways to engage with our community.

Providing an exceptional education is an ever-present mandate, just as connecting with students and parents on an emotional level is essential if we are to do our best work.

Every decision we make at KO serves to create a compelling and energizing experience designed to help students refine their strengths and recognize their weaknesses. In our effort to understand, value and cultivate the head and heart of each student, our faculty give the students space to grow, to falter and then grow still more. We acknowledge that we don’t work alone. After a long day, parents cherish the time they have to share a meal with their son or daughter, catch up on the day’s events and further instill in them greater purpose and direction.

Far more than a job, the work we do, as parents and teachers, is a calling and there’s nothing more meaningful. Each day we strive to make a difference in the lives of our children and that collective effort unites us all to do far more than we could accomplish as individuals.

Dennis Bisgaard

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O n the Gre e n

News from around the KO campus

REVERSE ENGINEER

Making a Good Story

This year’s speaker at the Baird Journalism Dinner was Jon Blitzer ’03, who served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the KO News, and is now a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He has written for the magazine since 2014, and was a finalist for a 2016 Livingston Award. His writing and reporting have also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Atavist, Oxford American, and The Nation. Mr. Blitzer graduated from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar.

Blitzer shared with the KO News students that while a student at KO he was not certain about a career path, however, he was always taken with the precision and carefulness of teacher and KO News faculty adviser Rob Kyff ’s words. Kyff was the first working writer whom Blitzer had ever encountered. Blitzer acknowledged, “It meant the world to me to have his direction.” At Columbia University, Blitzer continued to write on music, sports and politics and “reversed engineered” his way into his career. “There’s no template or path. It’s OK not to know, but be open to the possibilities.” After college, Blitzer moved to Argentina, which he described as a stimulating yet “upending experience.”

Through his Fulbright Scholarship, Blitzer went to Spain during a tumultuous time in the country’s recent history. Serious austerity measures had led to daily street protests. Blitzer noticed that the news articles in the Madrid papers were not capturing the energy on the street, which impelled him to question why journalists were missing the story on a human level. He noted, “Writing is incidental to being in the world.” Blitzer’s stories connect the intellectual story line on the human level, exploring the space in between, where one person’s story can illuminate a theme. Blitzer said, “Until I have a character, I don’t have a story.” Blitzer takes this aspect of his job very seriously. “I love when there’s a moment when the person sees themselves in the writing. I don’t know what these stories do to the world, but rendering someone’s life back to them is a tremendous responsibility.” Despite the recent criticism of the media, Blitzer remains a journalist first. He added, “Journalism is a habit of mind, of being receptive. There’s a constant scrutiny of the way things are.”

civics first

For the past three years, the stellar Middle School Mock Trial team has placed third in the state.

Competing against formidable teams who have mock trial classes as part of their curriculum, KO students proved their mettle despite not having the advantage of a formal class.

Initiated by former teacher Nancy Horowitz and lawyer and head coach Ryan Constanini eight years ago, the team learns courtroom procedures like direct and cross examination as well as courtroom etiquette.

Every September, Civics First, an organization whose mission is to advance democracy and law education in the state, distributes a mock trial case to the schools. A dedicated group, the team meets once a week until the winter break and two times a week after the holidays.

As the “court date” approaches, the team connects three times a week to hone their skills. Constantini, faculty advisor Lynne Levine and parents Theresa Ravalese, Rob Scheinblum and Matt Budzik work with the students to help them better express their arguments. Each team consists of six individuals, three lawyers and three witnesses plus alternates. By structuring the teams in this way, both creative students and more analytic students are able to experience a true-to-life courtroom drama.

Teams from across Connecticut wrangled over a case involving the death of a partner in a restaurant who was found frozen in the restaurant’s cooler. Not an open and shut case, the State of Connecticut v. Willy B. Freeman involved an embezzling restaurant owner with a gambling problem and large debts, a shady loan shark who exhibits signs of violence, and a disgruntled business partner. Like any gritty courtroom drama, there were register receipts, blueprint plans, incident reports and red herrings.

Levine, who has run the program for the past five years, said, “I can’t believe how well the students did. They just stepped right in and were so solid. Although they were nervous, you would never know.”

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On th e Green

News from around the KO campus

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Arabian Nights, based on a collection of medieval Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales was KO’s fall play last year. The tale revolves around a king who plans to kill his new wife. Each night, she tells him a new story involving lust, love, forgiveness and revenge, in an effort to heal the king as well as prolong her survival. The queen, Poppy Sheehan ’17, acted as narrator.

Theater Director Eric Langmeyer, directed the production and chose the play to show the importance of stories in shaping society. “Stories have the ability to transport us to different places and to help us think about who and what we are.” Along with being entertaining, Mr. Langmeyer said he hoped this play demonstrated that theater and storytelling can bring unity, refuge, and emotional healing.

The cast came together to rehearse an hour or two, four to fives times a week. Mr. Langmeyer encouraged the students to develop their own characters’ identities so the actors would have the chance to bring their characters to life. “It is liberating to the students to have the choice to act based on how they interpret their characters.”

Even though the cast was on the smaller side, Shelby Fairchild ’17 said the actors were very enthusiastic and open to the challenge of portraying several different and unique characters. The play’s cast included: Scheherazade: Poppy Sheehan ’17 ; Shahryar: James Witt ’17; and Dunyanzade: Amy Mistri ’19. In the ensemble were: Kevin Augustine ’18, Tim Bucknam ’17, Shelby Fairchild ’17, Elise Gendrich ’19, Jack Gao ’19, Alicia Henry ’18, Zachary Herz ’18, Linda Hu ’19, Aparajita Kashyap ’18, Janvi Sikand ’19, Zach Waskowicz ’19, and Angela Yang ’18.

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Pippin explores the bright side Pippin, the surrealistic tale of a boy prince, Pippin, who searches for meaning in his life, was performed in Kingswood Oxford’s Robert’s Theater in February this year.

The story explores the themes of purpose in life, and ultimately settles on the notion that a simple, ordinary life makes a happy man. The play blurs various historical time periods, conflating one era with another to create a disequilibrium. Using the Brechtian style of breaking the fourth wall, the characters speak directly to the audience and draws them into this dreamscape.

Eric Langmeyer, Theater Director said, “This production challenges its performers and audiences to look at the bright side of life, even when Pippin faces the all-too-familiar conflict between the need to fit in and the wish to stand out. We are in control of our own lives and our own happiness. We cannot let others tell us what will make us happy or bully us into certain categories and experiences. The ’leading player’ in your life is you; you decide what makes you happy and where you fit in.”

The lead cast included Dan Carroll ’19 as Pippin, Ellie Bavier ’18, Remy McCoy ’20 and Connor O’Loughlin ’17 as Leader Players, Charlie Coxon ’19 as Lewis, Tim Bucknam ’17 as King Charlemagne, Ayla Schumann ’19 as Fastrada, Carolyn McCusker ’17 as Catherine, Olivia Coxon ’19 as Berthe, and Olivia Pear ’21 as Thea.

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Student Composition Performed at Concert David Marottolo’s ’18 musical composition, Chanson d’automne was selected for performance at the Young Composer Concert at the Eastern Division Conference of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) in Atlantic City. Only thirteen compositions were selected for the concert.

While some have to-do lists in their heads, Marottolo’s is full of notes and rhythms. “I’m always thinking something musical. It’s not distracting, but it’s always in the background.” Playing the piano since he was six, Marottolo favors classical music, from the baroque to 21st century classical works.

Marottolo began thinking about composition in sixth grade. To compose, he requires a quiet place to work, a paper and pencil. He feels that writing his piece long hand makes a deeper impression through its permanence.

Another aspect of his process is to

distance himself from writing from a particular instrument. “I try not to play through things on the piano. I’m trying to hear the music on my own, to visualize and hear the composition before I actually write it down.”

Written over the course of two months, Chanson d’automne is a ten minute piece for a full choir.

Following in the grand tradition of Debussy’s Clair de lune whose piece was inspired by the French fin de siecle Symbolist poet, Verlaine, the lyrics of the Chanson d’automne are based on an elegiac poem of the poet.

Although the poem centers around the return and dormancy of winter, Marottolo took creative liberty and structured his musical composition to include the revival of spring and the cycle of the seasons.

Marottolo considers it an honor to be selected for the NAfME. “There’s something so wonderful about taking the music visual in my head and having it performed. It’s really magical to be heard by others.”

Chips Off the Old Block 2016 Every September, the Alumni Office invites alums whose children are new to KO for a tasty breakfast, This group photo is taken on the steps of Alumni Hall at the end of the event and upon their graduation from KO. Front row, from left: Richard D. Alleyne ’87 and Elyana R. Alleyne ’23; Lee Gold ’90 and Jack I. Gold ’23; Meryl Mandell Braunstein ’87 and Hallie S. Braunstein ’23 Second row, from left: Heather Hills Jacobs ’84 and William H. Jacobs ’23; Mary S. Martin ’77 and James Amell ’20 Third row, from left: John M. de Rham ’83 and Zora P. de Rham ’23; Jennifer Papa Kanaan ’87 and Julia Kanaan ’20; Keith J. Wolff ’91 and Devin M. Wolff ’23 Back row, from left: Charles A. Cavo ’89 and Jack D. Cavo ’19; Head of School Dennis Bisgaard

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writingWHOLE HEART with the

“As people age, they become either bitter or bigger. It will happen, and you don’t know sitting here now who it’s going to happen to.

That is the mystery of who we are.”

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Although she said that her early experience performing stand up at a comedy club had taken two years off her life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout said she learned that, “People laugh when something is true.”

Strout has applied this insight to her penetrating novels that uncover the quirky and comical in life’s dark moments.

Addressing KO students, faculty and staff as the 34th Baird Symposium author at an assembly during her visit to the school last December, Strout read an excerpt from her novel, Amy and Isabelle, which explores the sometimes tense and tenuous relationship between a mother and daughter. Describing Isabelle as “an uptight New Englander,” Strout said Isabelle changes as a person throughout the novel to become a more accepting individ-

ual. She noted, “As people age, they become either bitter or bigger. It will happen, and you don’t know sitting here now who it’s going to happen to. That is the mystery of who we are.”

Last fall, each KO student read one of Strout’s works, while the symposium class did a deep dive into her entire oeuvre. At the assembly, students asked Strout about her motivation and process as a writer. Strout explained that very little of her writing is a conscious choice, that she writes about what makes for good drama, including sex. “I’m interested in what people don’t want to talk about.

My job as a writer is to record the human experience so the reader won’t feel alone, so that they know other people have the same thoughts, too.”

Writing scenes first by long hand, Strout arranges the vignettes on her oversized desk before she commits them to the computer. Each time she begins a new work, Strout experiences a “flicker of anxiety.” She uses that emotion, transposing it to a character along with a sense of urgency. An admitted perfectionist—only in her work—Strout rewrites constantly, to achieve “a higher version of the sentence. I’ll do it forever until it’s right for me.” Once it’s nearly complete, she hands a draft to the one reader who has read her work for the past 34 years. Protective of her work, Strout admits that she relies mostly on her own opinions. She listens politely to her agent’s and her editor’s critiques but, “I don’t like them messing with my work.”

Encouraged by her mother who “wanted to be a writer but never was”, Strout began writing when she was a child, prompted by the many empty notebooks her mother gave her. Strout waitressed for several years while trying to publish her writing and then enrolled in law school as a back up plan, intending to write at night. “I got a job in legal services and realized that I would be an awful lawyer. So I went for writing with my whole heart,” she said.

During her two days at the school, Strout workshopped with the students in the symposium class and shared a reading with teachers from KO and other schools at an evening reception and dinner.

Kingswood Oxford Alum’s Senior Thesis Named National Winner The National Cum Laude Society recently named Kingswood Oxford alum, Benjamin Waldman’s ’16 senior thesis paper the national winner, a prestigious academic honor. In the spring of 2016, Kingswood Oxford teachers submitted Waldman’s thirty page thesis, “Us” vs. “Them”: The Rise and Fall of Religious and AntiReligious Fundamentalism in Gish Jen’s World and Town and Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood to the National Cum Laude Society. There are eight winners each year, one in each district.

From those eight, one is chosen as the national winner. The district winners receive $500, and the national winner receives $5,000.

Each year, Kingswood Oxford seniors are required to write an 15 to 20 page thesis on a subject of their choice, a culmination of four years of the school’s rigorous writing program. Waldman studied Gish Jen in the Kingswood Oxford Symposium class, KO’s signature program that invites a notable author to visit the school, work with students and discuss the writer’s oeuvre that the students have read over the course of several months.

Waldman was so captivated by the topic of religious fundamentalism, he decided to write his thesis paper on the subject. He consulted with his thesis advisors, Lynne Levine and Meg Kasprak, who suggested Waldman counterpoise his argument with an unpacking of Flannery O’Connor’s work. Waldman said both works warn of the pitfalls of fundamentalism yet with different remedies. The paper explores the ways in which the characters solve the void of spirituality. Creating the idea of a spectrum of religiosity, from the very devout to the anti-religious, Waldman maintains that the circumstances of one’s background informs how one finds his or her way through life. Whereas the character in Wise Blood is propelled away from virulent fundamentalism with its antithetical vitriolic expression, the characters in Jen’s work gravitate towards religion as a respite from their feelings of dispossession. Waldman was privileged to consult with Jen while writing his paper, and she affirmed his understanding of her work.

Waldman now attends Yale University and double majors in Math and Political Science. Of his KO education, Waldman said, “One aspect of a KO education that is especially valuable is its emphasis on writing. From Middle School to Symposium, I learned how to critically evaluate others’ ideas and to synthesize my own, which will continue to serve me well in all facets of my life.”

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SENIORS IN THEIR COLLEGE SWAG

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DEBATE THIS

Forensic Union teams awarded With this past year’s presidential elections, there was a lot of talk about the debates. And, there was no shortage of conversation on the topic on the KO campus with plenty of good, albeit different reasons. The Forensic Union teams performed spectacularly well this year and showed tremendous poise and maturity in debate competitions.

Last October, Kingswood Oxford Novice Forensic teams came away with an impressive array of awards at the St. Sebastian Tourney in Needham, Ma, competing against 13 other schools including Choate-Rosemary Hall, Stoneleigh Burnham and Roxbury Latin. Four KO debaters showed an adroit skillfulness in building and sustaining their arguments. First time debaters, Matthew Marottolo ’20 and Esha Kataria ’20 displayed their formidable talents and won two out of three of their debates. Dan Carroll ’19 and Tom Betts ’19, both in their second year of debate but still considered tenderfoots, cleaned up for the school. Carroll received “Best Speaker” at KO and came in second as “All Around Best Speaker” in the competition. Carroll and Betts won the overall “First Place Novice Team” against the other top-notch schools.

Apara Kashyap ’18, David Marottolo ’18, and Connor O’Loughlin ’17 traveled to Vancouver to compete in The International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition in late October. Hosted by the Collinwood School, the event showcased 124 students from Canada, the United States, Bermuda, Great Britain and South Africa who tested their debate skills, persuasive talents and dramatic flair.

O’Loughlin placed in the top four American competitors which earned him a spot at the World Championship in Sydney, Australia in March.

Apara Kashyap , Connor O’Loughlin, and David Marottolo in Vancouver

O’Loughlin performed exceptionally well in the After Dinner category which requires a student to talk to a fictitious group in a humorous or edgy manner.

O’Loughlin addressed a group of Mexican people to convince them that building a wall would serve Mexico’s best interest to protect their culture. O’Loughlin said, “I think the After Dinner is the most fun. I like to take a social premise and then put a twist on it with some substance.” Marottolo’s ’18 persuasive speech, in which one poses a problem and finds a solution, dealt with the death of languages. Kashyap competed in interpretive reading, parliamentary debate and impromptu.

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Beth Repp, advisor to the Forensic Union who accompanied the students to the event remarked, “The students were all amazing and competed in some super tough events. They represented KO with integrity, intelligence and style.”

Marottolo ’18 won top prize at the Choate Rosemary Hall debate in January for First Place Advanced Speaker. As a result of his impressive performance, Marottolo qualified to advance to the World Championships. Over 100 students participated in the debate, which included students from neighboring schools, Choate, Loomis Chaffee and Avon Old Farms.

Seventeen KO seniors were inducted into the Cum Laude Society last February. They are, front row, from left: Emilie Sienko, Cassandra T-Pederson, Sasha Bash, Grace Amell, Tara Kilkenny; back row, from left: Ryan Albanesi, Ryan Silvers, Noah Hawks-Ladds, Jacob Brown, Bonnie Steinberg, Noah Stanton, Celia Jarmoc, Carolyn McCusker, Shelby Fairchild, Alec Rossi, Amanda Civitello and Ambika Natarajan.

CUM LAUDE SOCIETY MEMBERS INDUCTED

The Cum Laude Society is a national honor society for independent schools. Founded in 1906 and modeled after Phi Beta Kappa, it comprises 382 chapters in the U.S., Canada, England, France, Spain, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To qualify, students must be in the top 20 percent of the class by the end of the first semester of senior year and must have demonstrated good citizenship.

Hawks-Ladds; Celia Jarmoc, daughter of Stephen and Karen Jarmoc; Tara Kilkenny, daughter of Thomas and Anne Marie Kilkenny; Carolyn McCusker, daughter of Kevin and Karen McCusker; Ambika Natarajan, daughter of Venkata Natarajan and Lalita Ramesh; Alec Rossi, son of John and Jane Rossi; Emilie Sienko, daughter of Christopher and Donna Sienko; Ryan Silvers, son of Bruce and Leslie Silvers; Noah Stanton, daughter of Gerald Stanton and Claudia Coplein; Bonnie Steinberg, daughter of Michael Steinberg and Felice Heller; Cassandra T-Pederson, daughter of Bruce and Judith Pederson.

The following were inducted: Ryan Albanesi, son of David and Jennifer Albanesi; Grace Amell, daughter of Jeffrey Amell and Mary Martin ’77; Sasha Bash, daughter of Jeffrey and Hope Bash; Jacob Brown, son of Steven Brown ’83 and Sandy Brown; Amanda Civitello, daughter of Phillip and Leslie Civitello; Shelby Fairchild, daughter of Eric and Amy Fairchild; Noah Hawks-Ladds, son of Joshua and Christine

Following the ceremony, the inductees and their parents enjoyed dinner, featuring keynote speaker, Brent Speed ’05, a Senior Research Fellow on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, advocating for the competitiveness of the U.S. capital markets and the stability of the financial system. After graduating from KO, Speed attended Harvard College, graduating Summa Cum Laude and went on to

In a dignified ceremony held in February, seventeen members of the Class of 2017 were inducted into Kingswood Oxford’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society.

Harvard Law School where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Speed began his comments by laughingly admitting that being asked to speak in front of the inductees “confirmed that I am getting old.”

He reflected how the rigors of a KO education, specifically the interactive discussion-based Harkness classes, prepared him for his career, instilling in him the ability to think critically on his feet, analyze, debate and respectfully disagree with others. He said that this skill helped him survive a particularly rigorous contracts class with Senator Elizabeth Warren, who peppered the class with questions. After a demanding BC Calculus class at KO, Speed learned, “Individual failure doesn’t define who you are. If you learn from it, these failures make you better in the long run,” he said. Lastly, Speed encouraged the students to live the KO ethos of “caring beyond self ” simply because it “is the right thing to do.”

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Alumni receptions • NYC Receptions in NYC and Boston (pictured on these two pages) gave alumni the opportunity to get an update on all things KO from Head of School Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22 and to reconnect and reminisce with faculty and other local alumni.

NYC area alumni gathered at Sesame Workshop, hosted by Jeffrey Dunn ’73, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sesame Workshop and and Karen Denuzze Dunn ’73.

Elmo with faculty member Brenda Semmelrock P ’05

Cari Siegal Walker ’91, Steven Friedman ’89, James Walker, Bethany Levy Friedman ’89, and Brenda Semmelrock, faculty

Penny Lee, Jeffrey Dunn ’73, Karen Denuzze Dunn ’73, and James Brown ’76

Shravan Rao ’10, faculty emeriti John Sherfinski P ’01, ’04, and Christopher Chiappetti ’09

Eamon Dworkin ’08; Peter Jones P ’19, ’20, faculty; Nicole Wetsman ’12; and Rob Kyff P ’14, faculty

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Alumni receptions • Boston Alums from the Greater Boston area attended a reception at the Granary Tavern.

Susan and Anthony Morris ’64 and Head of School Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22

Dennis Bisgaard with Katherine Gianni ’14, Shravya Rao ’14, Grace Jarmoc ’14, Taryn Braz ’14, Rachel Paley ’14, Emily Gutermann ’11, and Shelby Smith ’13

Normand Smith ’61, Mark Conrad ’96, trustee, and Dennis Bisgaard

Holiday Houck ’55, Vallente Romasanta ’80, Andrew Diehl ’04, and Lindsay Diehl Wilson ’00

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Oxford ’66 honors classmate On March 31, ’66 classmates gathered at a luncheon in Oxford Hall to celebrate and dedicate the Oxford Class of ’66 Award in memory of late classmate Sue Reynolds.

The 2017 recipients were Gabriela Rusconi ’18 and Remy McCoy ’20.

The impact scholarship will be given annually to a female student who would like to explore her creative arts talents further.

The classmates want to help cultivate and develop the affection for creative arts that they all share with a new generation.

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2017 scholarship awardees Remy McCoy ’20 and Gabriela Rusconi ’18

Reunion • 2017 A fun-filled weekend celebrating classes ending in 2s and 7s.

Faculty member and archivist Brenda Semmelrock P ’05 hosted an Oxford Chat to share memories of their time at Oxford School.

Fred W. Barhoff III ’48 and Jacqueline Barhoff with Gerald W. Brady ’46, P ’79, GP ’13, ’18 and Jane Brady P ’79, GP ’13, ’18

Alexander B. Wilde ’02, Joel Lorden P ’74, ’76, ’80, ’87, ’92, Faculty Emeriti, Bret N. Maffett ’02, and Matthew Whitney ’02

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Reunion • 2017

Head of School Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22, Board of Trustees Vice Chair Bruce Mandell ’82, and Pamela Mersereau Dickinson ’82

Christina Priest Beebe ’82, Marler Beebe, and Anne Mahoney Hayes ’82

Steven Elbaum ’82 and Anthony Faulise ’82 reminiscing while looking at the Prize Boards in Alumni Hall.

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Jessica Jordan Mercuri ’97, Meg Kasprak P ’04, ’04, ’08, faculty, Jennifer Lombardi Darnowski ’97, and Michelle Greenfield Greenhut ’97

Stephanie C. Zessos ’82, Betty Title Feigenbaum ’82, Elisabeth Warner Mayer ’82, Allison Hild ’82, P ’14, ’19, Anthony Faulise ’82

Kathleen Morgan ’12; Nicole Wetsman ’12; Jane Repp P ’06, ’08, faculty; Stacey Tomkiel, faculty; Michele Ruffee ’12; Marie Bernatchez, former faculty; and Carolyn E. Mitchell ’12 SEP T EMBER 2017 • KO MAGA ZINE • 19

Reunion • 2017

William H. Roberts ’67 and Debbie Rogers with Joan McGovern Barrieau ’77 and Gerard Barrieau ’75

Catching up on the Senior Green before dinner

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Brian D. Ferguson ’00, Jaclyn D. Donnelly ’02, Molly M. Dworkin ’02, Sarah A. Quish ’02

Lynne Levine P ’09 , ’12, Faculty, Erin Casey ’12, Mary L. Shimkus ’12, Ted Levine P ’09, ’12, faculty

Henry P. Zaccardi ’12, Jason E. Stein ’12, Fritz D. Goodman P ’05, ’07, Faculty, and Jonah M. Lazowski ’12

KO Classes ending in 3s and 8s, mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend, June 8-10, 2018!

Mark A. Christie ’82, Jeremiah A. DeBerry ’82 and Joan M. Edwards, faculty

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Reunion • 2017

Alumni Boys’ Lacrosse Game

Co-ed Alumni Soccer Game

Alumni Boys’ Tennis Matches honored 50 years of boys’ tennis with coaches Chuck Glassmire P ’91, ’92 and Andy Krugman ’86, P ’20, ’22 22 • KO MAGA ZINE • SEP T EMBER 2017

Athletic Hall of Fame • 2017 Five outstanding alumni athletes and an iconic team were inducted into KO’s Athletic Hall of Fame on June 10, 2017 during a morning ceremony in Roberts Theater with Athletic Director Debra Baer Fiske as Emcee.

Chosen for their tremendous athletic achievements, as well as their integrity, sportsmanship, and character, the new inductees were:

Durelle L. Brown ’97 • Inducted by Andrew C. Krugman ’86, P ’20, ’22, Faculty Durelle Brown played on KO’s varsity basketball team since his freshman year and was elected captain and MVP both his junior and senior year.

He also played on the gridiron in 1994. In 1995-96 and 1996-97 Brown was recognized as the NEPSAC Class B All-Star in addition to being New Haven Register #4 basketball player in the state in 1997. His sophomore, junior, and senior year he was awarded the A.V.A Marsden, given for the highest free throw shooting percentage. He was the first basketball player, and possibly the first athlete, in KO history to earn a full athletic

scholarship to a Division I college or university. Brown continued to play at Manhattan College and was captain his senior year from 2000-01. He was awarded several titles including twotime All MAAC First Team, two-time All Metropolitan 2nd Team (2001), third-time All-time Leading Scorer in school history (1,634 points), and first All-Time Field Goal Percentage (51.7%). In 2001, he was ranked in the top 100 college basketball players. He continued his basketball career for ten years following college, playing professionally in Argentina for four years, Brazil for three years, Holland for two years, and Spain for one year. During this time he won four championships and was awarded three MVPs. In 2013, he was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame. He now serves as the Assistant Director of Admission at the Wilbraham and Monson School in Massachusetts and lives with his daughter, Adelina.

Helen S. Godfrey ’82 • Inducted by Judith Lindsay Bailey ’82, P ’18, ’22, Faculty Helen Godfrey attended Kingswood Oxford from 1978-82 where she participated in field hockey, girls’ basketball and lacrosse at both the junior and varsity levels. Without question, Helen assisted in bringing the basketball team to victory each of the four years she played, in which the team collectively won the coveted KIT All -Tournament Team trophy in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Helen was named KIT MVP in both 1980 and 1981 for her remarkable performance

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Athletic Hall of Fame • 2017 on the court. From KO, Helen continued onto Boston University where she played as an undergraduate student on the varsity field hockey team in the fall and varsity lacrosse in the spring. Already a seasoned leader, Helen served as a co-captain on the field hockey team in 1984 and 1985, helping lead her team progress to a final four match in 1985, where her team was named Northeast Regional All-Americans. While a formidable opponent on Boston University’s field hockey team, Helen also excelled on the lacrosse field. She played for the team from 1984 through the spring of 1988 while studying for her Master’s degree in criminal justice. In the spring of 1988, Helen served as a co-captain for the BU lacrosse team and was honored with the team MVP award in recognition of her exemplary efforts. Over the course of her high school and university career, Helen served in a captainship role on five separate occasions. She went onto coach field hockey at her alma mater BU, Harvard University, and coached basketball at Trukee High School in California for nearly a decade. Helen has since transitioned to the west coast where she is the owner of IBH Water Management.

senior year. Hemingway currently lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with his wife Kathleen and two children, Eric and Sarah. He works as a financial planner at Hemingway Wealth Management.

Richard I. Hemingway ’67 • Inducted by Joel E. Lorden P ’74, ’76, ’80, ’87, ’92, Faculty Emeriti Richard I. Hemingway graduated from KO as a tri varsity athlete (football, basketball, and baseball) as well as captaining the football and baseball team for two years. In both 1965 and 1966, Hemingway was selected as the New England All Star and All-Conference for the football team. In 1966 he set the new record of 62 points scored in a given football season. His senior year, 1967, he was awarded The Irving Prize for contributing most to the baseball team along with The William R. MacDonald Trophy, KO’s highest athletic award for outstanding athlete of the senior class. Not only a leader on the field, Hemingway stood as a senior prefect.

He considers his three high school coaches instrumental in shaping his life. After KO, Hemingway attended Williams College where he played baseball all four years. He was elected captain of the baseball team at the end of his sophomore year, a tremendous recognition for his contributions, and remained captain both his junior and

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Robert H. Murphy ’62 • Inducted

by Maureen Murphy ’89 Robert H. Murphy Jr. attended Kingswood from 1958-1962 where he participated in football, basketball, wrestling, and lacrosse. He served as captain his senior year for both the wrestling and lacrosse team and was presented the MVP award by the Connecticut Valley Lacrosse Club Award (CVLC). In 1962 he received All-State recognition for lacrosse by the New England Private School League (NEPSAC) as well as earning an honorable mention. He placed third for wrestling at the CT Tournament in the 138 lb. weight class. Murphy continued to play lacrosse at Stanford University and was named captain and MVP of the varsity team in 1966. He played at the club level from 1963-1965. Murphy retired to Savannah, Georgia with

his wife, Janet. He has two daughters, Maureen ’89, in Boston and Kelly ’89, in Rye.

Paul J. Noniewicz ’82 • Inducted by Stewart Lindsay, Jr. P ’80, ’82, GP ’18, ’22, Faculty Emeriti Paul J. Noniewicz contributed greatly to KO athletics, participating in soccer, swimming, lacrosse, and football throughout his four years.

His senior year, he served as tri captain for soccer, swimming, and lacrosse. In 1982 he was voted the MVP for lacrosse in addition to receiving The William R. MacDonald Trophy, which recognized his dedication, contribution and leadership to athletics. He remembers his high school athletics career as enjoyable and feels that team sports helped him and his fellow athletes.

Noniewicz moved on to play lacrosse at The University of Vermont where he also received captain his senior year. He now serves as a Senior Manager at CSRA and lives in Lyme, Connecticut with his wife, Jackie, and his daughter, Lindsey.

1945 Football Team • Inducted by Joel E. Lorden P ’74, ’76, ’80, ’87, ’92, Faculty Emeriti The 1945 Kingswood football team was undefeated, untied, and even unscored upon until the waning moments of the final game. Cocaptains Eblen and French, who were both outstanding running backs, led a Wyvern squad that scored 143 points and gave up only six points during a five game season that was truncated due to the burdens of WWII. The season opener with a scrimmage against the Hall High School Warriors proved auspicious for the formidable Wyverns with the Hall coach, Eric G. Norfeldt, abandoning the field in utter disgust. The 1945 team played without facemasks and the jersey numbers simply ran from number one through number 35. The two largest players on the team, Mastriforte and Wasserman, each weighed-in at about 180 pounds.

Although the players of that era played both ways on offense and defense, first year coach Morris was well known for playing as many of his charges as possible. The Chapel bell loudly celebrated each of that season’s three lopsided home game

victories. The 1945-46 school year was also George Nicholson’s last full year as Headmaster before his passing the following year. Chesire fell 19-0, Suffield went down 40-0, Taft lost by a score of 19-0, Admiral Billiard was beaten 45-0 and Hopkins Grammar put some last second points on the board with a touchdown pass and only lost by a score of 20-6.

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Varsity Sports 2016-17

FALL FIELD HOCKEY Coaches: (Head) Nikki Blake, (Assistant) Sarah Thomsen Record: 7-9-1 Captains: Grace Amell ’17, Abigail McGuire ’17, Dakota McMahon ’18 Seniors: Grace Amell, Alexandra Burke, Meredith Ferris, Tara Kilkenny, Abigail McGuire, Grace Miller, Emilie Sienko, Bonnie Steinberg M.V.P. Grace Amell M.I.P.: Mia Seymour ’19 Coaches Award: Emilie Sienko FOOTBALL Coaches: (Head) Jason Martinez, (Assistants) Matt Kocay, Will Amarante, Will Gilyard, Marco Pizzoferrato, Noah Lynd, Jack Murphy Record: 3-4 Captains: Spencer Altman ’17, Clayton Barnes ’17, Kareem Burton ’17, Luke Gioffre ’17, Michael Loughran ’17 Seniors: Spencer Altman, Clayton Barnes, Kareem Burton, Luke Gioffre, Michael Loughran M.I.P.: John Leuschner ’18 M.V.P.: Benjamin Tauber ’18 Coaches Award: David Arcesi ’18 BOYS’ SOCCER Coaches: (Head) Paul Wright, (Assistant) Shannon Perry Record: 4-10-4 Captains: Trevor Krupp ’17, Ben Putterman ’17 Seniors: Jeffrey Baker, Jack Barry, Jacob Brown, Trevor Krupp, Kishan Makati, Drew Nemirow, Benjamin Putterman, Nicholas Ravalese, Matthew Rossi M.I.P.: Drew Nemirow M.V.P.: Trevor Krupp Coaches Award: Ryan Goss ’18

GIRLS’ SOCCER Coaches: (Head) Tracy Deeter, (Assistant) Kelly McDonough Record: 9-6-1 Captains: Samantha March ’17, Meghan Dalton ’17 Seniors: Samantha March, Meghan Dalton M.V.P.: Samantha March M.I.P.: Camilla Berckemeyer ’19 Coaches Award: Charlotte Cyr ’19 VOLLEYBALL Coaches: (Head) Scott McDonald, (Assistant) Carolyn McKee Record: 8-5 Captain: Emma Smith ’18 Seniors: Hannah Ferraro, Emma Fisher, Faith Pease, Isabella Pratt, Noah Stanton M.V.P.: Emma Smith M.I.P.: Faith Pease Coaches Award: Isabelle Raymond ’19 BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY Coaches: (Head) Fritz Goodman, (Assistant) Ron Monroe Captains: Jack Antico ’17, Owen Cotthaus ’17, Noah Hawks-Ladds ’17 Seniors: Jack Antico, Owen Cotthaus, Noah Hawks-Ladds, Robert Balcezak, David Boley, Adam Kim, Connor O’Loughlin, Ryan Silvers M.V.P Ethan Pinkes ’20 M.I.P William Burstein ’20 Coaches Award: Harold Krause ’18 GIRLS’ CROSS COUNTRY Coaches: (Head) Tricia Watson, (Assistant) Natalie Lynd Captains: Ariba Memon ’17, Laura Polley ’17 Seniors: Ariba Memon, Laura Polley, Claudenique Cousins, Lauren McPherson M.V.P.: Magdalen Eberle ’20 M.I.P.: Abigail Fernald ’21 Coaches Award: Laura Polley

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WINTER GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Coaches: (Head) Kyle Chapman, (Assistant) Judy Bailey ’82 Record: 12-11 Captains: Kayla Glemaud ’17, Madison Kalkstein ’17 Seniors: Samantha DiBacco, Kayla Glemaud, Madison Kalkstein M.V.P.: Kayla Glemaud M.I.P.: Victoria Vazquez ’18 Coaches Award: Jane Dunbar ’19 BOYS’ BASKETBALL Coaches: Garth Adams, Brad Seaman Record: 16-9 Captain: Mark Billingsley ’17 Seniors: Mark Billingsley, Kareem Burton, Matthew Lord, Kishan Makati, Nicholas Ravelese, Robert Siuta M.V.P.: Jackson Meshanic ’18 M.I.P.: Mark Billingsley Coaches Award: Sean James ’19 BOYS’ ICE HOCKEY Coaches: Ben Adams, Joe Dabkowski, John Hissick Record: 0-18-0 Captains: Joshua Bobruff ’17, Drew Nemirow ’17 Seniors: Joshua Bobruff, Drew Nemirow M.V.P.: Drew Nemirow M.I.P.: Shane Dawson ’20 Coaches Award: Kyle Frankel ’21 GIRLS’ SWIMMING Coaches: Kristen Barry ’11, Sarah Thomsen Record: 2-8 Captains: Grace Amell ’17, Amanda Civitello ’17 Seniors: Grace Amell, Amanda Civitello M.V.P.: Amanda Civitello M.I.P.: Noa Boyd ’18 Coaches Award: Grace Amell

BOYS’ SWIMMING Coaches: Alex Kraus, Jonathan Briggs Record: 7-2 Captains: Jack Barry ’17, Noah Hawks-Ladds ’17 Seniors: Jack Barry, Noah Hawks-Ladds M.V.P.: Jack Barry M.I.P.: Ellis Winfree ’19 Coaches Award: Jaron Stake ’18

SOFTBALL Coaches: Jason Bradley, Nicole Springer, Molly Geisen Record: 7-6 Captains: Grace Amell ’17, Isabella Pratt ’17 Seniors: Grace Amell, Isabella Pratt M.I.P.: Victoria Vazquez ’18 M.V.P.: Isabella Pratt Coaches Award: Trinity Hudson ’20

BOYS’ SQUASH Coach: Robby Lingashi Record: 2-12 Captains: Ryan Albanesi ’17, Benjamin Putterman ’17 Seniors: Ryan Albanesi, Benjamin Putterman, Jacob Silverstein, William Gitlin M.V.P.: Benjamin Putterman M.I.P.: William Gitlin Coaches Award: Ryan Albanesi

GIRLS’ LACROSSE Coaches: Tim Allerton, Cierra Ward Record: 9-7 Captains: Abigail Eberle ’18, Celia Jarmoc ’17, Isabel Kaufman ’17, Julia Lantieri ’18 Seniors: Bonnie Steinberg, Celia Jarmoc, Isabel Kaufman, Abigail McGuire M.I.P.: Olivia Rossi ’18 M.V.P.: Julia Lantieri ’18 Coaches Award: Abigail Eberle ’18

GIRLS’ SQUASH Coach: Andrew Carr Record:12-6 Captains: Julia Goldsmith ’17, Faith Pease ’17 Seniors: Rose Esselstyn, Julia Goldsmith, Faith Pease, Cassandra T-Pederson M.V.P.: Julia Goldsmith M.I.P.: Camilla Berckemeyer ’19 Coaches Award: Faith Pease

BOYS’ LACROSSE Coaches: Mark Conklin, Will Amarante, David Hild ’80, Tim Randall Record: 0-14 Captains: Owen Cotthaus ’17, Trey Dugan ’17, William Gitlin ’17 Seniors: Joshua Bobruff, Timothy Bucknam, Owen Cotthaus, Trey Dugan, William Gitlin, Matthew Rossi M.V.P.:Trey Dugan M.I.P.: Matthew Rossi CT Valley Lacrosse Club MVP Award: Trey Dugan Coaches Award: Owen Cotthaus

SPRING BASEBALL Coaches: Steve Cannata, Ryan Radmanovich Record: 8-10 Captains: Alex Cahill ’17, Drew Nemirow ’17 Seniors: Spencer Altman, James Barnes, Alex Cahill, Drew Nemirow, Trevor Krupp, Robert Siuta Robert S. O’Brien M.V.P. Award: Drew Nemirow M.I.P.: Clay Barnes Coaches Award: Evan Moore ’19

BOYS’ TRACK AND FIELD Coaches: Alex Kraus, David Baker ’04, Anna Dolan, Jackie Gleisner, Fritz Goodman, Natalie Lynd, Tricia Watson Record: 9-6 Captains: Jack Barry ’17, Keegan Toland ’18, Trey Taylor ’18 Seniors: Jack Antico, Jack Barry, Noah Hawks-Ladds M.V. Runner: Keegan Toland ’18 M.I.P.: Varun Tankala ’18 Coaches Award: Coltrane Joseph ’19 GOLF Coaches: Scott Dunbar, Peter Jones Record: 9-18 Seniors: Jacob Brown, Michael Loughran, Benjamin Putterman, David Yandow Mark Dixon M.V.P. Award: David Yandow M.I.P.: James Amenta ’19 GIRLS’ TENNIS Coaches: Ron Garcia, Chris Grace ’01 Record: 14-3 Captains: Alexis Kubas ’19, Faith Pease ’17 Seniors: Nicole Galik, Julia Goldsmith, Grace Miller, Ambika Natarajan, Faith Pease, Jane Shafer, Cassandra T-Peterson M.V.P.: Alexis Kubas ’19 M.I.P: Molly Baron ’19 Coaches Award: Faith Pease

GIRLS’ TRACK AND FIELD Coach: Tricia Watson Record: 13-4 Captains: Kayla Glemaud ’17, Laura Polley ’17 Seniors: Amanda Civitello, Kayla Glemaud, Samantha March, Laura Polley M.V. Runner: Samantha March M.I.P.: Sydni Jett ’19 Coaches Award: Laura Polley

BOYS’ TENNIS Coach: Andy Krugman ’86 Record: 11-2 Captains: Ryan Albanesi ’17, Brian Gould ’17, Matthew Lord ’17 Seniors: Ryan Albanesi, Jeffrey Baker, Brian Gould, Matthew Lord M.V.P.: Matthew Lord M.I.P.: Ryan Albanesi Coaches Award: Brian Gould

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Also swimming well were Jaron Stake ’18 (8th in 200 Freestyle and 8th in 500 Freestyle), Ellis Winfree ’19 (5th in 50 Freestyle and 8th in 100 Butterfly), and Kyle Zimmerman ’18 (5th in 200 IM and 8th in the 100 Breaststroke) who all placed in the finals (top eight finishers) in both of their individual events.

Boys’ Swim Team Repeats as New England Div. II Champs The Kingswood Oxford boys’ swimming and diving team successfully defended its Division II New England Swimming and Diving Championship, winning its second consecutive crown in March at Roger Williams University.

The Wyverns earned the title with 437 points. St. George’s was second with 397, and Kent came in third at 306.

After graduating a large and talented class in 2016, the Wyverns faced a daunting task to get back to the top, but with some new talent as well as the growth and improvement of key swimmers, the Wyverns emerged as the 2017 Division II New England champions.

“After graduating six seniors, all of whom were double finalists at last year’s New England meet, and with another double finalist no longer with the school, the boys team were in no position to repeat at New England champions or even succeed at the meet,” KO Head Varsity Swimming

and Diving coach Alex Kraus said. “However, many boys adapted to new competitive events and to new roles on the team.

They persevered, worked diligently, and paved the way for their long-term improvement. They improved their strength, their flexibility, their technical skills, and their gained experience throughout the dual meet season.

“They also built a strong and resilient team culture and they were mindful of their sportsmanship. They learned to value each others skills.”

The top finisher for KO was Jack Barry ’17, placing 2nd in the 200 Freestyle and 3rd in the 100 Butterfly. Barry’s strong swimming was supported by Tim Petit ’18, 5th in 200 Freestyle and 3rd in 100 Freestyle, John Hagberg ’19, 2nd in 50 Freestyle and 4th in 100 Freestyle, Ethan Brown ’20, 2nd in 500 Freestyle and 4th in 100 Backstroke, and Captain Noah Hawks-Ladds ’17, 3rd in 500 Freestyle and 5th in 100 Backstroke.

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Other standout performers included Kian Issari ’18, who placed 7th in Diving and 11th in 100 Butterfly; Harry Krause ’18; who finished in 9th in the 50 Freestyle and 13th in the 100 Freestyle; Jamie Amell ’20 who placed 10th in the 200 IM and 6th in the 100 Breaststroke; Ben Zamstein ’20, who placed 13th in the 500 Freestyle and 12th in the 100 Backstroke; and Tom Betts ’19; who finished 12th in the 200 IM and 9th in the 100 Breastroke.

Divers Carter Castanza ’18 (2nd) and Eli Brandt ’23 (4th) were also instrumental to the Wyverns’ success as KO was the top diving school in the boys’ division.

“All of their hard work throughout the season showed at that championship meet. They all competed at least one new, difficult dive and scored well,” KO Diving coach Sarah Thomsen said. “They stayed focused and poised during a long, 11-dive meet. I am very proud of their work this season and look forward to next season.”

Excellent swims that couldn’t score because each team is limited to three scoring athletes included Nick Traver’s ’20 14th place in 50 Freestyle and 16th place in the 100 Freestyle as well as Prithvi Gunturu’s ’18 13th place in the 100 Breaststroke.

In the relays, KO showed strong swimming and flexibility, as many different swimmers contributed to the Wyverns’

success. Taking third in the 200 Medley Relay were Brown, Amell, Zimmerman, and Harry Krause ’18 with a season’s best time. In the 400 Free Relay, the Wyverns took second as Petit, Hawks-Ladds, Hagberg, and Barry swam to a season’s best time and the second fastest KO time ever.

The quartet of Petit, Zimmerman, Hagberg, and Barry finished first in the 200 Free Relay in a season’s best time that was also the second fastest time in KO history.

“In both sessions of the New England championship meet (morning trials and afternoon finals) they swam courageously and they supported one another with enthusiasm and energy,” Coach Kraus said of the team. “Throughout the meet’s ups and downs, they were determined to race well. They persevered and succeeded in defending their New England championship title.”

The Kingswood Oxford girls swim team finished in eighth place. Some top performances included the 200 Medley Relay team of Amanda Civitello ’17, Grace Amell ’17, and Laura Polley ’17 which came in sixth.

Noa Boyd ’18 was 15th in the 200 Freestyle, Civitello was sixth in the 200 IM, Emma Ouellette ’18 came in 11th in the 50 Free, Polley ’17 was 13th in the 100 Fly and Amell ’17 finished 15th in the 100 Free.

Civitello was fifth and Boyd 14th in the 500 Free. The 200 Freestyle Relay team of Boyd, Polley, Grace Miller ’17 and Manisha Satheesh ’17 came in sixth, Amell was fifth in the 100 Breaststroke and the 400 Freestyle Relay team of Boyd, Ouellette, Civitello and Amell was seventh.

Three-peat: KO Boys’ Tennis Wins KITT Another year, another KITT title for the Kingswood Oxford boys’ tennis team.

Led by senior standout Matt Lord ’17 the Wyverns captured the team title for the third consecutive year. This year’s KITT once again included an elite field of tennis teams: Choate, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Hall High School, Westminster, Lawrenceville (NJ), Groton Academy.

Kingswood Oxford once again proved to be the best, finishing with 25 points to edge Deerfield and Choate which tied for second place with 22 points.

The University of Virginia-bound Lord captured a pair of titles on Sunday, May 21 to help lead the Wyverns to victory.

Lord won his fourth consecutive #1 singles championship, the first player to achieve this feat in the tournament’s history. He defeated Choate’s Andres Ballesteros in the finals 6-3, 6-2.

earned the respect of his opponents for his classy demeanor and good sportsmanship.”

Lord wasn’t finished winning with the singles title as he teamed up with partner William Appleton ’18 to win the #1 doubles championship with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over a talented Deerfield team.

In the #2 Doubles Draw, Ryan Albanesi ’17 and partner Luke Riemann ’19 teamed up to defeat a strong Deerfield team in the finals, 6-4, 6-0.

Riemann also finished in third place in the #2 Singles Draw, defeating Groton’s Nico Davidoff 8-6 in a proset.

Appleton finished in fifth place in the #3 Singles Draw with an 8-6 victory over Lawrenceville’s Louis Sardain.

Lord finishes his KITT career undefeated in singles.

“Matt is such a talented player and a great kid,” Kingswood Oxford Boys’ Varsity Head Coach Andy Krugman ’86 said.

“He not only finished his KITT career undefeated in singles but he has also

Brian Gould ’17 earned a fourth place finish in the #4 Singles Draw, earning a first round win over Westminster’s Connor Seeley 6-0, 6-1.

“This was a nice way for our senior captains Matt Lord, Brian Gould, and Ryan Albanesi to cap their KITT careers,” Krugman said.

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Girls’ Track Takes New England Div. III Title This spring Kingswood Oxford girls’ track team capped a strong campaign by winning the New England Division III Track and Field title.

Kingswood Oxford took the top spot with 92 points to outdistance Middlesex School (70) and Marianapolis Prep (45).

The Wyverns’ championship victory was highlighted by a number of record setting performances. Ainsley Vaughn ’20 set school records in winning the 200 and 400 meters while Sam March ’17 set a new school record to win the triple jump and she also added the long jump title.

Vaughn and March teamed up with Desiree Davis ’19 and Kayla Glemaud ’17 to win the 4x100 relay and set a new school and meet record. Davis, Glemaud and Vaughn were joined

by Emma Ouellette ’18 in the 4x400 relay and they won the event in meet record time.

“Since the start of the season we wanted to defend our title as New England Champions. This was motivation for us to work hard and to take every practice seriously,” March said. “We had one of our best team performances at Founders this year and that really made us excited for New England’s. Since our New England’s team was

really small, we knew that we had to step up and have strong performances, which we did.”

Coach Alex Kraus was thrilled to see the team win its second straight New England title and especially for the seniors who were so instrumental in the victory.

“The girls’ team was terrific. Kayla’s throws were superb. She had two huge bests, improving her shot band improving her discus. Laura Polley ’17 had an outstanding day as she placed in both hurdle events with best times. Sam March was the class of the meet in the jumping events, hitting her marks well and winning Long Jump and Triple Jump with personal bests,” Kraus said. “The leadership, experience, and strength of character of Laura, Sam, and Kayla was evident everywhere throughout the meet. The New England

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Championship was their success, their achievement, their day.”

There were also some standout performances by some underclassmen and none better than Vaughn as the freshman won the 200 and 400 meter races and was also a part of two relay wins.

“Ainsley ran beautifully, earning wins and school records in 400 meters and in 200 meters. She ran two smart, well paced races,” Kraus said. “The relays were outstanding. The 4 x 100 ran smoothly with terrific passes, and KO had two accomplished, determined seniors to bring it home in a meet record time. The 4 x 400 runners showed power and sheer determination as they raced Middlesex School from start to finish in a great duel. They prevailed, winning in a new meet record.”

Joe Alissi Honored on Spring Sports Day The first annual Joe Alissi Spring Sports Day held on April 29, was marked with plenty of sun, lots of smiles, great food and a few tears. To honor KO’s former Athletic Director, Joe Alissi, Head of School, Dennis Bisgaard, offered words about the tremendous impact that Alissi had on the school in front of the crowds, including the extended Alissi family. Jo-anne Alissi, Alissi’s wife, was visibly moved by the event and said she was honored that her husband would be remembered by this very special sports day.

John Alissi ’89 told the audience that his father was dedicated to the students, first and foremost, not only as athletes, but as individuals, too. He related that at his father’s funeral, many individuals spoke to him about how his father helped them through a difficult time. He said, “Most of the time, these situations were outside of the athletics arena. Some of those students had made bad decisions but instead of judging the students, my Dad helped them learn from their mistakes and move on. Many of them indicated that it was a significant turning point in their lives. That is the KO Way. Those students achieved great success in their lives because of Dad and the KO Family.”

Jo-Anne Alissi threw the first pitch to open the Boys’ Varsity baseball game.

Several KO teams won their games over the weekend.

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The Hoffman Field House The original Brayton Athletic Center was built in 1979 and the interior renovated in 2017 to create a multi-purpose, state-of-the-art Field House.

The building itself is an all-encompassing 33,300 square feet of multi-functional, year round space for use by the entire KO community.

HOFFMAN FIELD HOUSE • 28,500 square feet of indoor athletic space. Recent renovations offer our community four regulationsized tennis courts, three regulation sized basketball courts with retractable curtains, three volleyball courts, a retractable, 70 foot batting cage and ample space for other indoor sports. The Coolidge Randall Track, comprised of two-lanes added on the exterior of the tennis and basketball courts, improves the physical space affording KO students the opportunity to walk and run on the only physical track on campus.

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WOLFF FAMILY FITNESS STUDIO 1,200 square feet of versatile studio space was built with a focus on lifelong fitness for all.

Features special wood floor that absorbs bounce that acts like a shock absorber to take pressure off the joints when exercising.

HOSPITALITY FUNCTION ROOM A meeting room that can accommodate 40 people overlooking the Field House with 900 square feet of functional space with a kitchenette

RUSCONI FITNESS CENTER A 2,200 square foot, brand new, state-ofthe-art, Fitness Center brings 32 new cardio equipment, Cybex, and circuit training machines to the space.

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An Evening to Remember

Classmates Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72, P ’03, ’08 and John O’Hurley ’72

On June 9th, the freshly renovated Hoffman Field House was officially dedicated with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Board Chair Bradley Hoffman ’78, and his wife Kathy, along with Jeffrey Hoffman, and his wife Nancy, spoke beautifully on behalf of the entire Hoffman family on their deep connection to the school and their excitement for the future. Following the program, John O’Hurley ’72, along with faculty member Richard Chiarappa P ’94, ’96 leading the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra, entertained guests. O’Hurley performed his memoir show of music and humor entitled A Man with Standards, in front of a large captivated audience. O’Hurley sang a nostalgic songbook ranging from Sinatra to Mancini, while including Broadway hits from Man of La Mancha and Chicago. He recalled his time at KO when his eighth grade teacher gave him the encouragement to audition for the school play. The night was described as “magical” and “timeless” by attendees from both the KO community and the greater Hartford area.

Head of School Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22, Nancy and Jeffrey Hoffman, Bradley Hoffman ’78, Board Chair and Kathy Hoffman

Joseph Gianni ’78, P ’14, ’14, Laura Estes P ’98, Bradley Hoffman, George Estes III ’67, P ’98, Trustee Emeriti

Rohan Singh ’12 and Kiara Montalvo, Justin Bram ’12, Brandon Best ’12, and Nathaniel Bedford ’12.

Kathy Hoffman, Bradley Hoffman, Kris Wolff P ’20, ’23, and Keith Wolff ’91, P ’20, ’23, Trustee.

John O’Hurley ’72 performs with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

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“Imagine a better world and the wisdom to get there.”

105th COMMENCEMENT

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Front row, left to right: Mary Martin ’77, Grace Amell ’17, Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones ’52, Merritt McDonough ’51, Ryan Albanesi ’17, Joseph Ravalese, Jr.+ ’51, Nicholas Ravalese ’17 Trevor Krupp ’17; Second row, left to right: Jacob Silverstein ’17, Noa Silverstein ’15, Jane Shafer ’17, Jacob Brown ’17, Steve Brown ’83, Joseph Ravalese III ’79, Joseph Ravelese IV ’17, Meghan Dalton ’17, Blair Fleming Dalton ’84, Gretchen Hall ’83; Third row, left to right: Gerin Silverstein Stevens ’87, Laura Jones Shafer ’75, Carolyn Wolff Gitlin ’85, William Gitlin ’17, Jeff Gitlin ’85, John Burke III ’84, Alexandra Burke ’17, Charna Bortman Kaufman ’85, Isabelle Kaufman ’17, John Kaufman ’85; Fourth Row, left to right: David Shafer ’15, Marc Shafer ’75, Andrew Bucknam ’82, Tim Bucknam ’17

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Despite gray skies, the optimism was palpable and inspiration abundant at the 105th Commencement of the 79 graduates of the Kingswood Oxford Class of 2017 in May. Teacher Ted Levine urged graduates “to imagine a better world and the wisdom to get there.” He suggested students find the wisdom to do not only what one can do, but what one should do.

Keynote speaker and school librarian, Nancy Solomon P ’01, shared stories of an inauspicious beginning to her marriage marked by two fires. Through the ordeal, she learned to appreciate what she had and the significance of having a partner to share the burden. Solomon also encouraged students to “listen to the stories of the people who love you and take the best from them to guide you...”

Head of School, Dennis Bisgaard, encouraged students to “never worry alone. Reach out, engage, connect. Be positive and be kind.”

More than half the class (46 students) graduated with honors. Sasha Bash

received the Dux Prize for the senior with the highest GPA for the year.

Seven members of the class were honored by the National Merit Scholarship Program in recognition of their outstanding academic potential.

Carolyn McCusker was named National Merit® Scholar and Alec Rossi advanced to Finalist standing.

In addition, Ryan Albanesi, Grace Amell, Tara Kilkenny, Noah Stanton and James Witt received Letters of Commendation.

Thirteen members of the Class of ’17 had parents or grandparents who also graduated from KO. Twelve students plan to play sports in college.

Forty-year faculty member veteran, Rob Kyff, quoted slightly revised lyrics from Stephen Sondheim’s Our Time, which students performed recently at the Black Box Theater cabaret, “The moment you are waiting for is here...This is where you began being everything you can.”

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Delivering on a

PROMISE JUST AS HE DID AS A STUDENT, SPORTSCASTER, AND HUMANITARIAN, RYAN GORDON ’05 CONTINUES TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE KO COMMUNITY THROUGH HIS FINAL WISH — TO BEQUEATH PART OF HIS COLLEGE FUND TO THE SCHOOL.

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ormer Kingswood Oxford parents Barry and Phyllis Gordon’s story occurs at the intersection of heartbreak and hope.

Over coffee at the Cromwell Diner, I learn about their son, Ryan Gordon ’05, who passed away in 2006. Just as he did as a student, sportscaster, and humanitarian, Ryan continues to make an impact on the KO community through his final wish – to bequeath part of his college fund to KO.

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As a result, eight students have been able to visit Tobati, Paraguay, for a transformative experience. Ron Garcia, Team Tobati coordinator, said, “At that age, there’s no greater education than to experience a different way of life. Ryan gave our kids a gift he didn’t have himself.”

Born with an extreme case of V.A.C.T.E.R., a rare syndrome known by its acronym, Ryan spent his first six months in Yale New Haven Hospital’s neonatal unit. V.A.C.T.E.R. is characterized by a group of birth defects including, as in Ryan’s case, a severely affected esophagus. By the time he was 16, Ryan had undergone 30 operating room surgeries, most of which occurred before he was seven years old. Barry remarks, “He was the happiest kid. His attitude was his greatest strength. He also had magical thinking and always believed he was going to get better.”

Nothing stopped Ryan. By the time he was nine, he was fundraising for Yale’s Pediatric Speciality Care Clinic’s waiting room by selling self-made books to family and friends. Sales from one of those books – Kevin Learns a Lesson – about a child with a condition like his, also went to charity. In addition, Ryan donated the

proceeds gathered from the one-man plays he performed in his garage.

At KO, Ryan found a place to pursue his passion for sports. Unlike other students, able to join teams casually, Ryan had to consider his health. With the encouragement of his KO Algebra teacher, advisor and hockey coach, John Riley, Ryan managed the ice hockey team. Riley, who knew Ryan was a rabid hockey fan and Hartford Whalers’ season ticket holder, helped Ryan broaden his experience.

A talented writer as well, Ryan wrote about sports for the KO News, and was one of the first students to cover sports outside the school. He interviewed Ken Gernander, then-captain of the Hartford Wolfpack, and befriended Fox 61’s Sports Director, Rich Coppola. “He could talk to anyone,” says Barry. “It was remarkable to watch.”

Extended bouts of his illness, double pneumonia and a couple of surgeries caused Ryan to miss weeks of high school.

While his illness was a mystery to most, Ryan revealed his health struggles during a moving speech on Class Night in his senior year. “The road will not always be smooth,” he said, “When the going gets tough, … remember something

that helped me get through the last four years… during the worst of times, always know the best is yet to come.”

Unwilling to be sidelined by his illness, Ryan attended The University of Central Florida, played golf year-round and studied broadcast journalism. His writing flourished with sensitive, penetrating essays on his illness and politics. Prior to Thanksgiving of his freshman year, Ryan, ever attuned, recognized that his health had become increasingly precarious.

Determined to have a normal holiday, Ryan enjoyed his last meal by mouth with family and, that evening, was admitted to the hospital. Testing revealed squamous cells in his esophagus. Six weeks after a cancer diagnosis, Ryan died.

Consistent with his nature, Ryan wanted his college fund to benefit others. Shortly before he passed away, unable to speak, Ryan wrote that he wanted that money to benefit Kingswood Oxford, the Hartford Wolfpack Community Foundation, and Cystic Fibrosis. Later, the family included Yale Thoracic Oncology Program to honor the service of Ryan’s surgeon, Frank Dederbeck. Ryan also wanted the donation publicly announced, “Make the donation on center ice in Hartford, because, if people see that a kid could contribute, maybe it will inspire other people to give, too.” Phyllis said, “I have come to believe that Ryan gave me this as a gift, also, as a way of being able to give some meaning to his death.”

The initial seed money purchased sports equipment for KO students who otherwise would be unable to afford it. Then, a former KO staffer floated another idea: What about underwriting a student’s community service trip for Team Tobati

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to Paraguay? Phyllis said, “We loved the idea because, although Ryan led a full life in spite of his illness, he was never able to go to Paraguay.” In 2009, through Ryan’s college fund and an anonymous donation, KO sent its first merit student to Tobati. Garcia said that now 70% of KO students visit Tobati and he wants to make it possible for all to participate.

Ryan at 16

I have come to believe that Ryan gave me this as a gift, also, as a way... to give some meaning to his death. –­ Phyllis Gordon

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The Gordons established a fund, Ryan’s Circle of Giving, at The Community Foundation of Middlesex County. Those efforts include a charity golf tournament. Ryan was an avid golfer with a 10 handicap, and one of his greatest joys was playing with immediate and extended family. In addition to the traditional scramble, the tournament boasts a unique, multi-generational scramble with teams of at least two generations from the same family. Children, some as young as eight, play with their parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles. Four members of the KO golf team attended last year’s tournament and won the entire event.

The tournament raised $13,000 the first year and more than $36,000, last year.

The eight KO students who visited Tobati described their experience to the Gordons upon their return. The first recipient of Ryan’s scholarship, Melody Rosas-Granda ’10, wrote a moving letter about her Peruvian immigrant parents and the sacrifices they made for her and her brother’s education. “Both my moth-

Barry and Phyllis Gordon

Ultimately, through their charity, the Gordons’ goal is to send several students to Tobati every year. Students will gain a different perspective on life in another country.

er and father have sacrificed so much, so that my brother and I could have a better life and never forget where we come from...Without the gift from Ryan’s fund I could not go to Tobati and give back in appreciation for all that has been given to me. It inspired me to make a difference.”

Dayna Lord ’13, a recipient of the Tobati scholarship, and a recent graduate of Brown University studying International Relations, described the experience as a privilege that allowed her to connect with people and her KO peers. “The Tobati trip was interesting because I got to see how Paraguayans saw me in the space as a black woman in that culture… Some people thought I was Brazilian. The trip was a great way for me to learn how socioeconomics, race, culture, and politics affect people.” She explains that she’s applied

to her college studies some of what she’d learned on her trip. Dayna is grateful to the Gordons for the opportunity. “I still keep in touch with them,” she says. “They are the nicest, most generous people. It’s important to maintain the relationships with people who gave you the opportunity to grow.”

Ultimately, through their charity, the Gordons’ goal is to send several students to Tobati every year. Garcia estimates that four KO students will have that opportunity this year. “… a student will gain a different perspective of life in another place... It’s very rewarding to hear about the impact the trip has had,” said Phyllis. Garcia concurs, “Tobati changes perceptions. Our students see a happy and lively community life in a developing country. I don’t think the students expected that.”

Life is short and confusing and has a way of sneaking up on you. Let your ambition be to make it honorable – to make it matter... Such a life. is not a gift, but a work of art.yl

­– Pat Rosoffo

While walking in the Middle School after my meeting with the Gordons, I noticed a n small sign taped to a teacher’s door. “Life is short and confusing and has a way of sneaking up on you. Let your ambition be to make it honorable - to make it matter...

Such a life is not a gift, but a work of art.”

Pat Rosoff, our beloved art teacher who passed away tragically in 2014, offered those prescient words during a 1999 commencement address. I couldn’t help thinking of Ryan. His life was that kind of masterpiece.

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INVE S T MEN T CLUB ME ANS

BUSINESS When Ryan Goss ’18 was a freshman he proposed, as would any red-blooded teenager, buying (stock in) Buffalo Wild Wings and Six Flags based on their performance. He recalls there were snickers in the room, but both stocks are now trading at $20 more than when he advised to buy them.

It’s not like any other Kingswood Oxford club on campus. These students mean business. Literally.

Formed in 2006 with $50,000 in seed money from Jim Doran P ’87, ’90, the 30-member strong Investment Club integrates theory with real-world practice as they manage a Fidelity portfolio with the acuity of Wall Street traders. One man’s passion has ignited the interest of these young, savvy KO investors.

Doran, a former chief financial officer for Heublein, became interested in investing in the early 1960s when the NYSE traded three million shares a day, a pittance compared to the 400 million shares traded today. A devotee of the Dow, who starts each morning with a cup of coffee and a perusal of The Wall Street Journal, Doran wants others to have the opportunity to learn about the markets. ”What’s surprising is that there are many bright people who don’t know about the markets. You need to know what’s going on in the world,” he said.

With that thinking in mind, Doran began two investment clubs approximately twenty years ago, the Doran Investment Club at his alma mater, John Carroll University, and the Peggotty Investment Club at his wife’s school, Connecticut College.

Students practice skills in trade messaging, analytics and cost analysis, which prepare them for a challenging global marketplace. His initial donation of $50,000 at each college is now valued at $220,000 and $300,000, respectively. Additionally, the Conn College club pays out 4 percent of its assets to a political science initiative. Doran said, “There is very strong leadership among the students. The annual reports that they produce look like those from a multi-million dollar company. Many of the alumni from these investment clubs have gone on to Wall Street from the experience.”

Believing that high school students have the analytical skills to manage money wisely, Doran turned to KO to start a third investment club. But, with the markets, timing is everything, and the students’ portfolio took at hit when the world markets

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Alec Rossi ’17, left, and Ryan Goss ’18 check the Investment Club stocks in The Wall Street Journal.

collapsed in 2008.

Although the portfolio has rebounded, the experience gave students deep insight into the complexity and interconnectedness of the financial markets. Students manage a KO Jim Doran Fidelity account, a diversified portfolio composed of thirty Blue Chip stocks like Bristol Myers Squibb, Cisco, Disney, and Johnson and Johnson, to shrug off headwinds. Last year the group decided to digress from oil stocks and buy more socially-conscious equities. Each member of the Investment Club follows one stock for a year and can propose to buy or sell a stock. Colleen Woerlen in the KO Business Office executes the trade for the students, and a teacher-advisor counsels the club.

Dedicated member, Ryan Goss ’18, next year’s president of the club, began following the markets in grade school with fictitious dollars. Now that he is managing real dollars, Goss said he makes more conscious decisions. He appreciates the checks and balances in the Investment Club; however, there’s always disappointment when a stock or two slips away.

When Goss was a freshman he proposed, as would any red-blooded teenager, buying Buffalo Wild Wings and Six Flags based on their performance. He recalls there were snickers in the room, but both stocks are now trading at $20 more than when he advised to buy them.

Club president 2016-2017, Alec Rossi ’17, is fascinated by the cause and effect of rhetoric on the financial markets. “I think the most interesting part is the connection between what people say and do and how it quantifies in the markets. Just a simple comment about a business can manifest itself in a big way,” he said.

The Investment Club follows world events, especially the recent presidential election. Goss said, “The group decided not to make any major moves since the market doesn’t like uncertainty. Things would have been tentative, so we held on to our stocks.”

Doran is impressed with the dedication of the KO Investment Club members, and, like any wise investor, he’s in it for the long game. “I want these students to get exposed to and involved in the markets,” he said. “Maybe we’ll come up with a Warren Buffet and he or she can leave KO a 100 million dollars.” Here’s hoping.

Rossi hopes that the KO Investment Club can produce a small-scale version of an annual report to present to Mr. Doran and others. “Each student can write up about how a stock performed. I’d like it to be professional and plant a seed with future members,” he said.

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Remembering the White House Molly Papermaster ’14 recalls her internship during the Obama administration

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urposefully wending her way through tourists snapping photos of the White House in Lafayette Park each morning in the summer of 2016, Molly Papermaster ’14 headed to her internship at the iconic building a bit slack jawed. When she turned onto Pennsylvania Avenue, Papermaster acknowledged, “seeing all those people looking in awe at the building was a very surreal feeling.” Knowing that you have been granted access to one of the most highly secure seats of power in the world was an understandably heady experience for a college student, even one who had become familiar with Washington’s inner workings by binge watching West Wing, Scandal and House of Cards.

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Currently a senior at Boston University studying political science, Papermaster applied online for the coveted White House internship. After waiting a long period for a response, Papermaster was interviewed over the phone by a staffer and was accepted into the program as one of approximately 100 summer interns. Working in the Department of Management and Administration in the Visitors Office at the White House, Papermaster managed the daily correspondence between the Visitors Office and all 535 congressional offices by promptly responding to all phone and email inquiries as well as writing and distributing a weekly newsletter that provided key updates and guidance. Marrying her passion for hospitality and event planning (her original college major), Papermaster helped coordinate 100-plus volunteers for large White House events, including the All Appointees Event, Congressional Picnic, Fourth of July, and the Singapore State Arrival. KO’s training in organizational skills paid off as Papermaster compiled the transition manual event binder for the White House Easter Egg Roll, the largest White House event with over 30,000 attendees.

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on television shows. Although initially intimidated by the scope and the grandeur of the White House, Papermaster soon found herself in her element in the Visitors Office, surrounded by generous, energetic and enthusiastic talent. “The team was absolutely incredible,” she said.

“They are extremely special and passionate people and have taught me so much. The intellectual capital in this one building is overwhelming. Each day you are learning and growing. You can never predict whom you might run into or what you might see on a given day.”

Including former President Obama.

As part of the internship program, the group had an audience with the President who addressed them in a grand room replete with gold jacquard drapery, gleaming crystal chandeliers and an oil painting of George Washington, lest they were to forget where they were. One intern asked the President how he maintained his optimism, which he attributed to his upbringing in Hawaii. Responding to a question about race relations, he cautioned the group that, in wanting to improve race

relations, they themselves do not become “so rigid and sensitive in terms of their own views that, instead of opening up dialogue, they hardened lines and divisions.”

Continuing, the President advised the interns, “Don’t get bored. Don’t get cynical.

You guys are the most privileged people at the most secure and prosperous time in human history...Being useful and having a satisfying life and making a contribution, that’s entirely within your control. Orient yourself towards having an impact and making a difference.”

At the end of the meeting, the interns presented the President with a handmade birthday card with glitter. In a display of his low-key wit, the President chided the interns for having their parents help them make the card.

Another highlight for Papermaster was meeting with the First Lady. “She is an incredible role model,” she said. “One thing that makes her so special is how sincere she is. She took the time to hug every single intern.” As an owner of a Portuguese water dog, Papermaster had the good fortune to meet the First Dogs,

Sunny and Bo, who are the same breed as her pet. Like most everyone’s misbehaved dogs that are usually banished from the furniture, Sunny and Bo sit happily next to Papermaster on a magnificent settee in a photo she treasures.

After taking AP Political Science at KO, Papermaster knew she would pursue this discipline as her degree in college as well as apply for an internship at the White House. Her interest in event planning also stems from some of her KO activities like Epic and Shield and Dragon. This past spring, Papermaster studied abroad in Sydney, Australia, and interned in an events department in New York City during the summer.

Although moving to D.C. might be down the road for Papermaster, she definitely knows that the key to future success is passion and hard work. “I learned a lot about myself from this experience,” she said. “I learned that I love being part of something so much larger than myself. It pays off to be passionate. If you don’t care about what you’re doing, then why do it?”

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Former faculty member Janet Reynolds (left) and Kathy Flaherty ’84 (right) catch up on the Senior Green.

A path well crossed A devoted teacher and a determined student, both mental health advocates, find they’re able to learn from each other once again, after decades apart

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The statistics are sobering: in any given year, one in five adult Americans suffer from mental health illness according to the Quell Foundation, an organization that educates communities about mental health. This means most of us have family, friends or acquaintances who struggle with this illness. By speaking openly and by normalizing the disease, we can start to lessen the isolation of these individuals so they don’t have to cope on their own.

t’s odd how paths cross. People meet under a certain set of circumstances and establish one relationship, completely unaware that decades later they will meet again because of a shared experience neither one of them could have imagined and create another kind of relationship, a connection completely outside the boundaries of a simple classroom. This is that story.

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Janet Reynolds (who taught Upper School English at KO from 1981-1984) When I worked with Mental Health Connecticut to create the Write On! class, I was driven by a need to help young adults with mental illness. As the parent of a son with schizophrenia, I wanted to use the power of writing to help young adults in their recovery process and also help them share their stories as part of an effort to end the stigma surrounding mental health. What I did not expect was to rekindle a relationship with a former student.

When the woman I worked with at MHC to create Write On! called to tell me that a former student of mine was among the applicants, I was curious. “Who is it?” I asked. “Kathy Flaherty,” she said.

Kathy’s smiling face flashed in front of me immediately.

That’s not always the case with teachers and students. In my seven years of teaching, I taught hundreds of teenagers. Add to that mix coaching and other extracurricular activities and the list only grows.

But the number of students who stand out in that mix, the ones whose names and faces I can recall in an instant, are a fraction of that larger whole. Kathy was one of those people.

I remember her enthusiasm in class—her willingness to voice her thoughtful opinion, her work ethic and her overall eagerness to

Over the past several years, KO has instituted several policies and schedule changes to lessen the day-to-day stresses that may exacerbate underlying mental health issues. Through the VQV Seminar (named after our motto Vincit qui se vincit, “One conquers by conquering oneself”), Form 3 students learn coping strategies and the importance of resilience.

The administration revised the schedule of the Middle and Upper School students to provide a framework that fosters excellence in learning, an involved community and a healthy pace of life. Fewer classes per day mean fewer transitions. Classes are structured in longer blocks so learning is deeper and more purposeful.

Students meet with advisors three times a week to talk about academic and personal concerns.

Advisors are often among the first adults with whom students feel comfortable expressing struggles and difficulties. The School also has two professional counselors who are trained and compassionate. Recent assemblies featured the founder of Shatterproof, an organization that raises awareness about substance abuse and motivational speaker, Morris Ervin, who spoke about building a community where you can be your authentic self.

Gabby Ruban ’18 created the Mental Health Awareness Club to improve and sustain conversation on the topic. She admitted, “We’re afraid to talk about it. People often put on a mask and hide who they are. We all have our low points.”

Ruban feels that since the KO community is filled with people committed to helping one another, the club can offer additional perspective and empathy. This spring Ruban shared “minute for mental health” videos during assemblies, and next year she plans guest speakers, workshops and fundraising for PTSD. “Let’s not be closed off from the topic. I want this to be collaborative and welcoming. I don’t want to be the only one talking.”

These are first steps. We continue to reflect on what more we can do.

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depression and anxiety were severe enough to interfere with school; I dropped my senior thesis once I literally was unable to walk into the Science Center. I remained in treatment after graduation, and eventually applied to and was accepted at Harvard Law School.

learn. She also took my jazzercise class, a “sports” class I created as much to offer those not really interested in sports an alternative option as I did to enable me to fulfill my coaching duty while also getting some exercise. Unlike many in the class, Kathy actually did the routines.

When I walked into the building for our first Write On! class, Kathy and I met in the hallway. Yes, we both apparently had aged, but I recognized her immediately and, for an instant, all the various travails we’d both experienced in our travels with mental illness issues slipped away and we were back in a familiar, comfortable role.

Seeing a familiar face helped me as I approached with more than a little trepidation teaching a group of fragile young adults. Kathy was an anchor. In the best of classroom moments, teacher and student travel together, each learning from the other. That happened when Kathy and I first met at KO, and it happened again 30plus years later. Sometimes life’s gifts show up in the most unexpected places.

Kathy Flaherty (KO, Class of ’84) When I opened an email from Mental Health Connecticut about their new writing program called “Write On!” to be taught by Janet Reynolds. my first thought

was that the teacher couldn’t possibly be the same Ms. Reynolds who taught me British Literature in Fifth Form some thirty plus years ago. It was. I was torn about taking the class. It was set up to focus on young adults with mental health conditions to learn how to write their stories. As the Executive Director of Connecticut Legal Rights Project, I knew that the student population targeted included some of our clients - but certainly this wasn’t a class meant for me. I don’t qualify as a young adult chronologically (except in my own head), and I’ve been writing about what it’s like to live with a mental illness since my third year at Harvard Law School.

Nevertheless, I applied; fortunately, I was accepted. I walked in the first day. Janet (I can call her that now) said, “Kathy? Is that you?” I said yes – and so we wrote on.

Looking back on my years at KO, I more than likely could have been diagnosed with any one of a number of mental health conditions (most likely, anxiety or depression.) I wasn’t because it didn’t occur to anyone that a student performing well in school could have anything wrong with her. The system’s failure to label me with a mental health diagnosis at that age was a gift. It was not until my senior year at Wellesley College that symptoms of

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It was during my first year at HLS in the fall of 1990 that I first experienced the symptoms of mania and was correctly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was civilly committed to McLean Hospital by the psychiatrist at University Health Services after an off-the-cuff remark to the RA in my dorm that I would jump off the roof of Langdell Hall. I had no idea that one could be sent to a hospital for treatment against one’s will. That experience was the true beginning of my education in disability rights law, which continued with a summer internship at Connecticut Legal Rights Project in 1992 and clinical placements during law school. I had the opportunity to work with clients who faced the pervasive discrimination and lack of opportunity experienced by many people who live with a mental health diagnosis. I often say that I may have diplomas on my office wall from KO, Wellesley, and Harvard Law, but the most important education I received was the time I spent on the other side of the locked hospital door.

I learned from experience the power of sharing one’s personal story to effectuate change in policy. That is why I have done it for decades, despite receiving well-intentioned advice that I should refrain from doing so out of fear that people would misjudge me. In sharing my story, I often received the gift of others sharing their stories with me - and learning that we have more in common than we ever expected.

The best restaurant

in the world *

* Source: World’s 50 Best Restaurants List presented by San Pellegrino in Melbourne, Australia, April 2017

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hen we approached Billy Peelle ’01, the self-effacing General Manager of New York City’s Eleven Madison Park, about writing this article, he asked that the piece not be about him but about his team. The restaurant was recently named the Best Restaurant in the World by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List presented in April

by San Pellegrino in Melbourne, Australia.

He graciously deflected, “The people I work with are the most important thing.

They’re incredible.”

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So while we’ll try to keep Peelle’s presence to a minimum, it’s hard not to acknowledge his impact on this highly lauded restaurant because he personally interviews every member of the restaurant staff of 150, including a dining room staff of 90. “You need to dig deep and find the right people,” he said. “I know who they are. I don’t care about degrees.

I want people who want to learn, who are genuine and really nice people. The best restaurant people aren’t just talking about zucchini. They have dimension and interests so they can connect with people.

At the end of the day, we are creating experiences, and I want people who love to do that and take great pleasure and pride in looking out for others.”

Located in the north tower of the old Metropolitan Life Building, overlooking Madison Square Park, Eleven Madison Park occupies the street level in a former hall once used by Metropolitan Life for special, company events. In the quiet off hours, there’s an air of expectancy as staffers iron table linens into crisp sheets and polish stemware. Despite the overturned chairs, which would be filled

Billy Peelle ’01 at Eleven Madison Park

to capacity in a few short hours from now until the holidays (it takes that long to get a reservation), everything within the space suggests a restrained opulence. The room is at once grand and warm: 30-foot ceilings, enormous forsythia branches, and vases spilling with bowl-sized, doubleblossom yellow tulips tinged with varying amounts of scarlet. Art deco notes suffuse the space, with decorative woodworking inlaid with ash and walnut, chevron pattern terrazzo floors, and polished steel cladding that ribbons the front wall. If

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God is in the details, one could certainly wonder whether heaven is in close proximity to New York’s Flatiron District.

Originally the brainchild of culinary messiah Danny Meyer who founded the Union Square Hospitality Group consisting of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and the wildly popular Shake Shack among others, Eleven Madison Park opened in 1998. Chef Daniel Humm and restaurateur Will Guidara partnered in 2006 to run the

for the guests and our team.” Intrinsically understanding the need to adapt with the age, the restaurant doesn’t have a rack of ill-fitting blazers and ties for guests to don if they slip up on their attire; that’s because there’s no dress code at the restaurant.

If you can afford $295 per guest for an exquisite, contemporary American, eightto-ten course meal served over three hours, you can still sport your Dussault jeans.

restaurant for Meyer and subsequently purchased it from him in 2011. Since then, there’s been a steady ascendancy in accolades and rankings. In 2010, Eleven Madison Park joined an elite group of the world’s best 50 restaurants, while garnering a four-star rating from The New York Times in 2009. In 2011, the restaurant achieved the ever-elusive three-star Michelin rating, the first restaurant ever to leap to three stars from one in a single year.

Peelle explained that more revered fourstar New York restaurants located north of 42nd Street were ripened with a stodgy, French formality. So, taking a cue from the old guard’s impeccable service and precision, Peelle said the owners of Eleven Madison Park wanted to invent something new. “We wanted to be the four-star restaurant for our generation, but to do it downtown,” he said. “We looked to the established restaurants as inspiration when we first started as our model or example of how we should do things, but we wanted to be louder and looser and grew more comfortable adjusting and changing. Now that we have four stars, we have a platform.

We can make our own rules. We don’t have to look to anyone else on how to do things and are more comfortable recognizing that what we think is right will be right

Eleven Madison Park’s mission is a simple yet Sisyphean one: to be the most delicious and most gracious restaurant in the world. Laughingly, Peelle noted that the restaurant won’t have to change that mission statement for some time. “We talk about this every day. If you want it to come true, you have to say it. It’s not at all to be controversial. You need to state the goal. There’s all this energy, and you don’t want to give it up.” All this might seem like a lot of pressure, but with Peelle’s steady intensity and deep intelligence, it’s clearly an achievable goal.

Peelle explained his career trajectory.

“Since I was 10 I knew that I wanted to work in hotels, but I didn’t know what that meant,” he said. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Peelle studied art history and political science.

After graduating, he worked at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia and realized that he was not attracted to the seniorlevel positions in the hotel business. An interest in “eating” and a conversation with Max’s Restaurant Group owner Rich Rosenthal P ’09, ’11, ’12 led Peelle to attend culinary school in New York City by day and work in a kitchen at night.

Peelle met with Guidara and Humm in 2008, and he has worked at the Make It Nice restaurant group, including stints at Eleven Madison Park’s more casual sister restaurant, NoMad, ever since. Like many restaurants, Eleven Madison Park faced

“ The best restaurant people aren’t just talking about zucchini.

They have dimension and interests so they can connect with people. “

an existential crisis in 2008 when the long shadow of the financial collapse saw many bulwark institutions such as Tavern on the Green and the Rainbow Room shutter.

Several nights during the week, Eleven Madison Park curtained off a section of the room because they couldn’t fill the seats. Fortunately, the success of Meyer’s Shake Shack buoyed Eleven Madison Park financially to gird against the tough times.

With the No. 1 ranking comes the burden of sustaining a level of excellence day in and day out. The menu changes four times a year, with testing beginning in January or February for the fall season. At times, it can take as long as a year to get the menu right because every dish is tweaked eight to nine times. Food is sourced locally within 250 miles of the restaurant, but more important, Peelle said, is that the food needs to tell a story, be delicious and inspired and make sense. At one point several years ago, the meals featured an array of ingredients, but now the dishes may feature one or two exceptional ingredients, such as a braised celery root ball intricately executed tableside in a pig’s bladder with celery root and black truffle puree. Contrast that to the 2009 The New York Times four-star review, which praised the poached prawns with creme fraiche, green apple, lime and avocado or the technique-driven turbot with zucchini and squash blossoms. Clearly, the restraint in ingredients has not dampened the dining experience and displays a deeper confidence in Humm’s technique.

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Walking into the white-tiled kitchen as immaculate as a surgeon’s operating room, the team is met with an elevenword credo on the wall inspired by the improvisational musical styling of Miles Davis: cool, collaborative, vibrant, adventurous, forward-moving, endless reinvention. Peelle explained, “We want to be perfect, but there’s going to be mistakes. It’s an opportunity to get better every day. Every day there’s always something different.” Clocking in 12hour plus days, Peelle admitted that this lifestyle is not for everyone. “We work people very hard, but I need the team to have this sense that they love what they’re doing. There’s almost a little selfishness about it.” For the team, the act of creating an exceptional dining experience is, in fact, an energizing and fulfilling one. Contrary to the histrionics captured on television restaurant shows, the team’s values

coalesce around pride, responsibility and care. “If something goes wrong, that means that I didn’t set them up for success,” Peelle said. The culture and morale of the team is all important, and Peelle takes the group’s temperature every day to make sure things are on track. During the daily line up, employees are routinely singled out for “crushing it.” “You need to praise as much as you critique, and we need to praise more,” he said. Peelle believes his staff operates best when they are empowered to do their job. “The main servers run the show,” he said. “They have complete authority and control. I tell them, ‘Whatever you think we should do, then do it.’”

Following their own standard of “endless reinvention,” Eleven Madison Park closed for the summer, gutted the kitchen,

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revamped the interior and, within one week of the start of demolition, opened a pop-up restaurant for the summer in East Hampton. Team members roomed in local houses and worked in the East End eatery until the Manhattan renovation was completed around Labor Day. Upcoming plans also include an expansion of their NoMad restaurant to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. A stand-alone restaurant is planned at 425 Park Avenue in Manhattan at a later date.

With Peelle and his high-performing team’s shared purpose, this quintessential New York establishment will continue to be the world’s finest restaurant. And, if you can’t get a table, there’s a food truck selling donuts and coffee just steps from the front door. As they say, only in New York, kids.

Shine On fter studying molecular biology and biochemistry as an undergraduate at Middlebury College, you can’t blame A.C. Jones ’08 for his conviction that he was on track to becoming a doctor. He moved

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to Boston in 2013 to work at Massachusetts General and began prepping for the MCAT, the medical school entrance exam. But, happily, for the lovers of curated craft beer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the universe discouraged Jones from his medical pursuit. Lamplighter Brewery, launched in 2016 with Jones and his two

partners, Cayla Marvil and Tyler Fitzpatrick, serves complex, aromatic beers that appeal to both sophisticated as well as novice beer drinkers.

In addition to a crushing workload in college, Jones began experimenting with home brewing beers. He describes

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I have a really awesome team that’s completely overqualified.

It’s a great work environment full of

oldest brewing academy in the country, and got an associates degree in brewing.”

people who love to

Navigating a red-hot real estate market and byzantine zoning laws, Jones opened Lamplighter in a converted former garage that provided the necessary space to house the bulky equipment. With an industrial and raw aesthetic, Lamplighter is, as it should be, all about the beer. What makes Lamplighter truly distinct is its focus on wild fermentation. Jones explains, “We use an alternative yeast that is traditional and use a much less explored method of making beer.” Describing his brews as “big and funky,” it takes approximately two weeks to a month to craft a beer. Lamplighter’s master head brewer, Tyler, who has worked in the industry for nine years, constantly tweaks the process. “We start with thinking about the final characteristics of the beer. What’s the style, the hops, the mouth feel? We’re making technique decisions in order to get to the end product, and our quality keeps getting better and better.”

experiment.

A.C. Jones ’08

the Middlebury beer culture as ubiquitous.

“Middlebury is a town of about 8,500 people, and it has three to four breweries. People are doing really interesting work. It’s a thing that’s a thing.” After moving to Boston, Jones recognized a dearth of breweries to serve its population and understood an opportunity when he saw one. “The idea of opening a brewery became a joke between my partner, Cayla, and me. But, then we drew up a business plan, flew off to the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, the 58 • KO MAGA ZINE • SEP T EMBER 2017

Lamplighter beers rotate constantly, and no one beer is on tap for more than a month at a time. The menu currently showcases twelve beers: porters, Belgian, double IPAs, sours, that feature either notes of caramel, mandarin orange or

Cayla Marvil and A.C. Jones ’08

wheat which are named after songs, in a self-described “kind of chaos” from the musty Astral Weeks to the lemony Sound and Vision. Jones admits, “Once you are a craft beer drinker, you don’t go back to drinking a Bud Light.” In addition to being served in the Lamplighter 70-seat taproom, some beers are served in takehome growlers or can be found on tap in other Boston establishments.

In addition to his walk-to-work commute, Jones considers his team to be the best part of his job. “I have a really awesome team that’s completely overqualified. It’s a great work environment full of people who love to experiment.”

Even though Jones no longer pursues a career in medicine, he can’t help but describe his work at Lamplighter as “triage.”

He credits his KO education with helping him work hard and prioritize his responsibilities. “My to-do list is thirty miles long.

But, I’ve learned how to put everything in its place without freaking out about it. I’ve been doing it since I was twelve years old.”

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Fresh Green

Each year, Todd Jarvis ’00 visits Fresh and Green Academy in Ethiopia

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“When I see the kids, it makes everything worth it.”

Sitting squat and low on a patchy, rutted lawn in an impoverished neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, dotted by vegetable gardens, the Fresh and Green Academy’s cheerful turquoise exterior announces the vibrant activity taking place within its concrete walls. Since 2000, this is where 235 pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade children are fed, showered and taught daily. This school, a respite from life’s harsh realities, is at the heart of these young lives, thoroughly enmeshed in their daily rhythm. For Todd Jarvis ’00 who serves on the advisory board of the 501c3 Friends of Fresh, the school has become an integral part of his life as much as it has become one for the students it serves. Visiting the school once a year for the past nine years, Jarvis says, “As soon as I walk through the gates of the school, my heart lights up. When I see the kids, it makes everything worth it.”

The brainchild of a remarkable Ethiopian woman, a living Mother Theresa, Muday Mitiku, Fresh and Green Academy initially was started as a fee-paying school. As a follower of the Baha’i religion, Mitiku abided by her faith’s basic tenet to eliminate poverty, and one of the best means to do this was through education. The Kotebe section of Addis Ababa is one of the most destitute in the country inhabited by children who sleep on piles of trash and single mothers who are victims of sex trafficking. When

Mitiku began to enroll some tuition free street children into her school, some of the tuition paying families decided to remove their children from the school, creating a financial crisis. A group of flight attendants heard of the plight of the school, and established a non-profit organization, Friends of Fresh and Green Academy Inc, to support the needs of the school through biannual fundraisers. It costs approximately $35 per month per child to run the school, and ninety nine percent of the school’s funding is supported through donations.

Impelled after seeing first hand the harsh living conditions of the students that resided in tin shacks with muddy floors and raw sewage running through the street, Jarvis opened a registry for shoes through Walmart and collected over 300 pairs of shoes and other clothing, totalling 457 items. Since the shipping costs of the 400 pounds of donations were prohibitively expensive, Jarvis and other airline employees packed up suitcases of the donated items, traveled to Ethiopia on discounted flights and delivered the items in person.

Despite the students’ poverty, Jarvis marvels at the pure happiness in the students’ eyes. “They smile and glow.

When you see how much they love to go to school, you realize how much the sense of community and belonging this gives them. Some come to school on Saturday and Sunday, too.

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They’re full of love and curiosity.”

Although he acknowledges that the three meals a day are a tremendous incentive for the children to attend school, the organization also empowers the community as a whole.

Mothers of the students attend vocational training through The Mother’s Cooperative at Fresh and Green Academy and learn skills like basket weaving and pottery making. They sell their handiwork at a commercial stall in front of the school and reap the proceeds of the sales.

Jarvis found a few lessons of his own Fresh and Green Academy. “As long as you have love, support, belonging and safety, you don’t need a lot of money to be happy. What’s important is a sense of community and adults that are invested in your well-being.”

In that regard, Fresh and Green reminds him of his own experience at KO. “I valued that sense of safety and comfort at KO. Everyone said “hi.”

The kids really cared about each other at school. It was a wonderful environment to be raised in and gave me a sense of self. It was such an important part of who I am.”

Jarvis believes that every child deserves to flourish and prosper. As a key member to the Friends of Fresh and Green Academy, Jarvis is helping marginalized young students do just that.

Class Notes september

2017

Oxford 1942

Dorothy Bush Curtis expects to celebrate her 70th wedding anniversary in August 2017.

faithful about coming to our events even though she lives in Fairfield) and Helen (who is also mostly with us but had a graduation which took precedence), and me.

But what about the rest of you: Cathy, Diane, Ann T, Cynny, Joan Muter, Gretchen, Janet Olson, Margie, Arline?

What about planning on coming to our KO 70th Reunion in 2022, if not before?

We miss you.

Kingswood Class of 1947 celebrates 70th reunion with Head of School Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22.

KO bears no resemblance to the Oxford we knew so many years ago. The Oxford campus is no more, as far as we are concerned. KO, now almost entirely at the Kingswood campus, has done a wonderful job in keeping up with the 21st-century academic and sports worlds, while maintaining the warmth we all knew at Oxford.

Oxford 1948

Virginia Woods Kuhl says, “1948 was a long time ago but I’m still 19!”

Oxford 1952

As you know we just had our 65th Reunion at Kingswood Oxford. It seems impossible that 65 years have passed since our commencement.

Oxford Class of 1952 celebrates its 65th reunion.

Reunion was a fabulous event and I wish that you all could have been here. There was a dinner Friday night, which we all missed, but then a luncheon on Saturday and, best of all, a fabulous dinner at Gilda’s home Saturday night. Gilda, Gail, Norma, Ann Baldwin, Janice, Linda, Joanie Warner, and I were there. After all these years it is still wonderful fun to get together and catch up on all the news.

For the record, I went back to our Oxfordian to see what is what. We graduated 25, and have lost Emily Hall, Judy Molinar, Judie Simons, Pudzy, Bettina, Kit, and Bette Taylor.

That leaves the locals, Janice, Gail, Linda, Normal, Gilda, Ann Baldwin (as she is so

In May my youngest grandchild, Laura’s daughter, graduated. She is my last to attend and it looks as though there will be no more. But Laura and Marc are chairing the Capital Campaign, which keeps me in touch with the School.

That is about it!

My love to all of you, with hopes of seeing you here sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Sandra Martin McDonough In Memory of Lucy Ann Read (19382017) Daughter of the Reverend Canon Ralph D. Read and Helen Nothnagle, Lucy passed away in January, 2017, after a brave fight with cancer. After graduating

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from Oxford School in 1956, Lucy graduated from Centenary College for Women and continued her studies at the University of Madrid and Alliance Francaise Paris Ile-de-France, graduating in 1959.

She also graduated from the University of Hartford and received her master’s degree in linguistics at Central Connecticut State University. Lucy taught French, Spanish and English as a second language in the West Hartford Pubic Schools, retiring after 23 years.

Lucy married twice and is survived by two sons, Francisco Patxi Pastor of Miami Beach, FL, and Ralph A.D.F Pastor of Boulder, CO; a daughter, Lucy Pastor of Mesa, AZ; and a stepson, Clayton Platt of Concord, NH, and seven grandchildren.

She leaves a beloved friend of 30 years, Richard Witherell.

She wintered in Ft. Myers Beach, FL, where she became an avid shell collector and artisan, winning many awards for her shell creations. She volunteered for the Shell Crafters organization for many years. Proceeds from sales of her art were donated to the St. Vincent’s Centre for Handicapped Children in Haiti. Lucy’s philanthropic work began in her early years, helping refugees from around the world. She continued through her life focusing on children and the less fortunate. One beneficiary of her charity is a classmate who fell upon hard times. Lucy gathered us and a fund was begun. She and Sally Ardrey provided emotional support and battled with social agencies to garner the assistance available in New York City – a giant uphill struggle.

Debby McBride Pritchard is still showing her Norfolk Terriers and just “finished” (dog term) Joy for her Grand Championship. In addition, she is doing

some writing and editing for publications and gardening.

Heidi Wood Huddleston speaks with Patxi Pastore, having made a dear friendship with Lucy’s son. Heidi is president of the HOA at Hilton Head and travels back and forth to Kentucky. Her daughters visit frequently.

Katrina Shaffer Beaghen called and described her life on the Cape. She has just gotten on email but is not ready to join us yet. Maybe this fall?

Sally David Ardrey is summering in Italy after wintering in Florida. She has been an enormous support to our classmate in New York City.

Nancy Edwards Cogswell continues in good health in Oregon. Sadly, she is no longer able to travel to the East to join our gatherings.

Jane Cady Fitchen is still in Wisconsin.

Bobbi Deeds Schaus let us know how much she appreciated being included in the spring lunch – but she couldn’t attend.

Mary Ellen Doyle sent a note. She is in Bridgehampton on the East End of Long Island with husband, John, who is retired from the practice of law in NYC. She has always painted and had exhibitions at the Athenaeum while we were still at Oxford.

She has a wonderful studio in their home and has a web site: medoylepainter.com.

Their two sons live in Oakland, CA, and Lexington, MA, each with two children.

She and John are enjoying living in the country full time.

Alice Butler Mendell and husband Seth are back on the Cape for the summer. I

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guess living in Florida is fine in the winter and unbearable in the summer. Alice says the two are deeply involved with volunteer activities in the Cape.

Jane Brandon Pfaff, Alice and Seth Mendell, Sandy Travis Zieky, Sally Ardrey, Nancy Reid and I met at Bricco’s on LaSalle Road in West Hartford Center for lunch May. Seth and Alice were here for annual Avon Old Farms activities.

We have been fortunate for many years to meet at Bricco’s during AOF’s spring weekend. All our lunches were set up by Lucy who is described as our “glue and gatherer.” So true. We could have stayed all afternoon and hope to continue to gather as we always have so much to talk about.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Phyllis Chapman Fenander Linda Murphy Richardson has a new smart phone and new email address; their big news is that they have a new grandson, almost three months in June, joining his 5 1/2-year-old brother. They also have two grandchildren in college, and two 7 1/2year-old twin granddaughters. Life is fun and full of surprises.

Sadly, Betty Abel passed away April 11, 2017, at home in Los Altos, CA, leaving a community, patients, family, and friends sorely missing her. Our condolences to her husband, Barton Lane, as well as to her three children. She went by her maiden name professionally, Dr. Elizabeth Abel, but she was also known as Elizabeth A. Lane.

Jill Williams has made her final move to Del Mar, CA, where she walks down the street every evening and watches the sun set. “Magical!” Jill is continuing her

Pearson, and the mighty grandson Thor (pictured, left) in April for a treat of a four-hour dinner, all from the island. My older daughter, Sara-Mai Conway and her husband, Travis Gardner, commissioned a house on Scorpion Bay in Mexico on Baja California Sur, and are arranging tours for yoga and surfing vacations. We’re all having a reunion at Squam Lake in September with Travis’ parents, too, for a week; and then we’re off to the outer banks of Cape Cod in October. We, too, are busy with editing, filming, playing tennis, singing, gardening, and such at the ever-busy Kendal at Hanover.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Sue Mather Dabanian career as a pet portraitist. Her website is www.textruedpetportraits.org, and she encourages the Class of ’57 (and others!) to send pix of your furry loved ones.

(Phyllis bought two pooch portraits of her daughter’s two dogs, and Anne Batterson Owen bought a kitty portrait for her granddaughter.)

It’s a busy year for Nancy Middlebrook Baay and family with a fourth grandson, Andy Baay, graduating Cum Laude with honors in Bioinformatics from Davidson College; another grandson, Gray Rodgers, graduated from JJ Pearce High School in Dallas, a MVP in baseball. And a third “great” granddaughter appeared in June. Nancy and John are busy with bridge, gardening, watercolor painting, and dog walking. “Life is good….age is just a number.”

We (Phyllis and Elliot) traveled to Lummi Island, WA, with my younger daughter, Hilary Conway, and her husband, Joel

First let me apologize for the lack of news last year. I guess I didn’t have the date.

A big thank you to those who sent in some news. I can always count on you and I appreciate it!

Anne Van Winkle is having a wonderful time working for Meals on Wheels and Daily Bread—early morning deliveries of food and fresh bread to seniors and the disabled. Playing tennis four times a week keeps her going as well as her three grand kids who are at the house every other weekend while her daughter gets her MFA in San Francisco.

This May Greg and I were in Venice, FL, for the month, and I met Blair Smyth Lang (pictured, above right) in Punta Gorda for shopping and lunch. Blair recently bought a condo in Naples, FL, to escape the cold weather and to be nearer to daughter Ingrid and the kids, who live in Tampa.

Elise Hooker Sirman was sidelined with a broken ankle over the winter and spent most of her time at PT and in a cast. Now she is looking forward to summer fun in Vermont. With her sister, brother and sons nearby, they get together often. Son Russ and his family are in the same house in West Hartford where Elise grew up!

Penny Hoffman McConnel had just returned from a trip to Phoenix, which she does NOT care for, visiting her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Pen and Jim spent almost three months in Carpinteria, CA, as they do every year.

They got to see son John, who works in the Bay Area. She still works at the bookstore, but not as much, gardens, studies Italian, reads, does volunteer work and sees friends.

Backtracking somewhat, Greg and I spent a couple of weeks on the Cape last September. Sarah Duffield came down from Scituate for a couple of days and we had lengthy gabfests. Her grandchildren are Julian, 12 years-old and 5’9”, and Audrey, 14, who begins high school this year.

I heard from Betsy Swinehart Riel at Christmastime. The highlight of 2016 for her was a trip to Florida to her aunt’s

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Liz Sexton Sgro retired two years ago but still sees the guys every month. She spent last July and August at the house in Calabria, Italy. Her adorable grandson, Leo (pictured, left), was born in Italy and baptized at the Vatican! Now Leo, Liz’s son Gio and his wife are living in LA! Liz loves LA waiting poolside with a glass of wine and waiting for Leo to wake up for playtime. Son Anthony is still in Boston but is thinking of moving to LA also. So, as you can tell, Liz bounces between Italy, LA and West Hartford.

100th-birthday celebration. She met several cousins and their families for the first time! Now that daughter Katie has turned 50, Bets is starting to feel elderly. Katie is getting her master’s in music with hopes of teaching high-school music. Other daughter Beth is enjoying Nashville and has a large organic garden plus chickens.

Bets enjoys visiting.

For my news, one of the highlights last year was granddaughter Nicole’s graduation from college, cum laude. She and her boyfriend celebrated with a lengthy trip through Europe and were able to meet the relatives in Greece. She is working in the insurance business. After our trip to the Cape last September (I’m jumping around a bit), we spent a few delightful days outside of Camden, ME, one of our favorite places. Then it was back to Solvang, CA, another one of our favorite places, in October. 2017 seemed to be my year for surgery. In January I had carpal tunnel surgery and also cataract surgery (a whole bright, clear world has opened up!), then in March, skin cancer (malignant melanoma) on my shin. It took a while for the “crater” on my leg to fill in, but now it’s fine. A mole had changed shape dramatically (one of the signs to watch for!).

This put a damper on our Palm Springs trip since I was unable to go in the pool or hot tub. I sat on the sidelines and sprayed myself with water! Florida was nice for the month of May, although it became quite humid toward the end. A few trips to Tahoe, gardening (aka weeding) and get-togethers with friends and family occupy my time.

Pat Waring came through for me with her news. She is still enjoying her life on the Vineyard and even more now that daughter Diana and 3-year-old granddaughter, Hazel, are there. She still does

Until next year, happy trails. Smather

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Zélie Calvocoressi Tourais freelance writing for the MV Times and local publications and is very involved with her church. Apparently, at age 5 (!!), Pat announced that she wanted to be a writer! Her early life on her grandparents’ farm mirrors her life now--lush nature, gardens, eating local--she’s living out her childhood dream!

On a sad note, Betty Lange Leon lost her husband, Hayden, to cancer two years ago. Our sympathy to you and your family, Betty. Son Chip moved to Hilton Head after his divorce and has taken a lot of the burden off of Betty, and, as another plus, she gets to see her grandkids most of the summer. Hannah will be in eighth grade and is a great lacrosse player. Henry is in sixth grade and good with anything to do with a ball. Betty enjoys shopping and sleepovers with Hannah, while Henry practices golf on the second hole in her back yard and hunts for errant balls from not-so-good golfers. Christine is still with Lane Bryant in Columbus and recently enjoyed Greece with some friends.

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Betsy Keller Kagan (pictured, right) died on June 7, 2017, at The McLure Rehabilitation Center in Oakland, CA, after a long illness. Betsy graduated from Wellesley College in 1963 and earned her MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Performing Arts. She had an illustrious career in modern dance both as a performer and a choreographer.

The pieces that she created and directed delighted audiences on both coasts, and were works that ranged from humorous to lyrical to deeply introspective.

Betsy’s expertise in movement extended beyond dance. She was a certified teacher of Labanotation and was a registered movement therapist. She taught extensively - in studios, colleges and universities throughout the Bay Area, and was known for her deep understanding of the work and for the whimsy with which she approached teaching. The wide range of her students included professional dancers, actors, classical musical conductors,

written by cousin Jane Keller Herzig ’60 Sadly three members of our class have passed away since the issue. Here are some reflections about them written by classmates.

athletes, fitness instructors and stroke patients. She designed classes in movement for the elderly and taught extensively in senior residences. One of her series of workshops for “regular” people was called “Improvisation for Gazelles and Elephants.”

In addition to performing, choreography, private practice involving movement therapy and injury rehabilitation, Betsy directed certification programs for movement analysts at Mills College and Ohio State University. She gave conference presentations for movement specialists in the U.S. as well as in London and Melbourne. She published widely in her chosen field.

Betsy’s pride and joy was her daughter Elsie Kagan. Elsie resides in Brooklyn with her husband Carl Robichaud and their three children, Betsy’s energetic, super exuberant and delightful grandchildren Jasper, Alexan and Willa. Betsy’s family and friends mourn the loss of a remarkable, shining star and at the same time celebrate her legacy and the incredible gift of who she was and what she stood for. –

Betsy Keller Kagan: “Betsy was a dear friend at Oxford, Wellesley and a roommate in NYC after college. Sadly, we never saw each other again after she moved to California, although we kept in touch through e-mails and phone calls.

She was one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers I have ever known. Betsy was a dancer, a choreographer, a leader in the field of movement analysis. She was a teacher of modern dance and Labanotation as well as a lecturer and writer of the study of movement. She had a wonderful sense of humor, which she even incorporated into her choreography. She has left an unique legacy in the field of dance and movement.”– by Linda Keirstead Marth.

Xanny Learned Preston: “Xanny and I met in second grade at the Junior School and quickly became best friends. For years we had overnights at each others’ houses every Halloween, and many other times as well. She was such fun to be with and always good-humored, which she remained throughout her life. When we moved on to Oxford, I realized that she was also the most serious student I knew. After graduating from Smith College and working for a congressman in Washington, she married John and moved to California, where they lived for years until moving back east; and southern California remained her very favorite place to be. Xanny was always a voracious reader. In her home in Georgetown she had a library that was stacked floor to ceiling with her books and even had a library ladder for reaching the top shelves. She also became a knowledgeable art collector, and her home was

filled with art. But in her last few years, when we reconnected after a long absence, Xanny’s most precious possessions were her three dogs, a Jack Russell and two Westies. She doted on them, spoiled them rotten, and made sure they would be provided for on her death. Xanny led her life to the fullest, even through her years of severe illness. She was a great person and a true friend.” –by Julie Peck.

Julie adds “Last summer I did a weeklong canoe/camping trip on the Allagash River in the north woods of Maine with a Maine guide and four other people. It was a wonderful experience in the wilderness, going to sleep every night, hearing the calls of loons and watching moose dive for food in the water. In December I took a ship to Cuba, spending several days in Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba.

It is regrettable, to say the least, that visits such as this will be curtailed in the future.

Ellen Jones Wood and her sister Nancy Jones visited me in Florida this spring, and we all had a very enjoyable reunion, hopefully the first of many.”

Beth Wiesel Rougas: “Beth and I met at Oxford and were dear friends for life.

In West Hartford we used to hang out at Howard Johnson’s and did our senior class biology project together--raising hamsters in my third-floor bath tub. After college we were both in NYC and spent time together. I stood up at her wedding. She then moved to California and we kept in touch. Always having an adventurous streak, Beth and the father of her two sons traveled around the world, going to such exotic places as Afghanistan. They eventually settled in Honolulu, where the boys were raised. Beth had a cleaning service and was a day trader. I had planned to visit her when she got sick. Unfortunately, there never seemed to be another

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good time to visit; but we kept up with Christmas cards and emails. We shared Class Secretary duties for a while before I started doing the whole list. Beth had a wonderful sense of humor; I miss her dry chuckle. She was a sympathetic listener

Janice Cianci Castillo (pictured, left) writes, “As we get up there in years, birthdays become even more special. In 2016 Richard turned 80 so I threw him a big B-day party with lots of family and friends. I had it catered, with live music, and a photo booth with costumes. Great fun! Then for my 75th I decided to do something special too and checked off one more thing on my bucket list, which was doing the “World’s Highest Tandem Skydive.” We did a free fall from 18,000 ft. for 90 seconds at 120 mph and then floated like birds maneuvering around for six to eight minutes after our parachutes opened. It was the thrill of my life!

We could see for miles in all directions.

Also had fun last year catching up with a couple of Oxford classmates! Judith Weinstein Wheeler (pictured, left) and husband Bim spent a weekend here in Cocoa Beach. Then, when Richard and I were in NYC, we got to have dinner with Susan Cohen Casden! (pictured, left) Instead of traveling abroad, we decided to explore some cities in the U.S. that we’ve been wanting to see. We love the “Big Apple” and so spent a long weekend there for our ’city fix’, staying at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. There is so much to see, and each visit we just pick up where we left off before. Another week we spent with two couples in my camera club exploring Gatlinburg. It was such a treat to get to hike the woods and mountains, photographing everything in sight. We also spent another long weekend in Savannah touring homes and gardens. Then, wanting to run away for the Xmas holidays so that I wouldn’t have to decorate and entertain, we spent another week in Nashville staying at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, which was incredibly lit up and decked out. So much history and music to enjoy. Otherwise

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I fill my days with lots of tennis, bridge, gardening, photography, condo board, volunteering, boating, plays and symphonies, friends and family, etc. I’m still not ready to let the grass grow under my feet!

LOL” Judy Weinstein Wheeler “had a lovely get together with Susan Cohen Casden in NY last month. She looks great and is doing well. We are still living on the farm in West Virginia. No more tennis for me, but I still play golf and garden. I have two darling grandkids eleven and eight in Bethesda, MD, whom I get to see every month and two dogs for company on the farm.”

Debbie Mahoney Swenson (pictured, above) reports: “We moved to a wonderful 10-house condo association in Chatham recently-so while we have our own house, share a pool and tennis court, and are within walking and biking to everywhere, we no longer need to shovel, plow, mow, prune, weed or fertilize!

Fabulous trip to the Galapagos, where we practically walked on top of amazing wildlife, swam with more amazing sea life and watched birds galore, and yes, those blue-footed boobies! We still do adven-

turous bike trips with our five-couple group to Montreal last fall and to Spain this coming fall. I did a walking trip in Sicily as well with my new knee. We lost our dear Wheaten Terrier, Bridey, recently after 15 1/2 years. A beloved family member. Jack is still working (age 84), kids good. So grateful for our good health and life.”

Susan McClure Harris and husband Tony traveled to many places in the past year--St. Croix, New Orleans, Williamstown, Amherst and Deerfield, MA, and New Zealand. They took a Danube River cruise starting in Budapest and ending in Nuremburg. They also visited family in The Hague. Their kids and grandkids are doing well. This year Susan will have celebrated her 75th birthday and 25th wedding anniversary.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jane Anderson Innerd Jane Keller Herzig writes that she was so fortunate to be able to attend the Oxford Class of 1960 get together in Jamestown, RI, hosted by Tina Wilcox McIntrye and Carolyn Goodrich at the end of October.

The setting at Carolyn’s home was glorious, and in attendance, besides Carolyn, were Tina, her husband Jerry and their adorable puppy, Prilla Smith Brackett, Susan Lowe Redfield, Ann Faude Newbury and Gay Willcox Squire and her husband, Roger. She says they all had a grand time catching up and enjoying companionship as they were treated to a delicious lobster feast. Tina says that she speaks for both herself and Carolyn that they would love to do it again.

From Washington Jennifer Ripple Akridge writes that nothing noteworthy has happened during the past year. She and Ed continue to winter in Arizona

and summer in Washington, their main residence. They lost their sweet, black toy poodle, Jazzy, in February and now have another black miniature poodle, Gidget, who at the time Jennifer wrote was 16-weeks old and a delight, and, of course, at that age she had an amazing energy level.

Daniel and Scotty Dwyer Benson are going to Ireland in June to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They have not been abroad since 1987, so they are looking forward to a wonderful experience. Scotty notes that she can’t believe they have been married for 50 years (like a lot of us!) and that this year she will be 75 (like all of us!). Their trip to California two years ago was wonderful. The only disappointment was that their helicopter ride into the Grand Canyon was cancelled due to problems with the copter. They were unable to reschedule so will have to go another time. Both Scotty and her husband are still working and probably will until their employers think they are too old and kick them out! Their son, Jim, still lives in Richmond and loves the area. When and if they retire, Scotty and her husband will probably head that way so that Jim can take care of them in their “elderly years.” I am happy to report that Scotty plans to attend the next reunion.

From Boston Prilla Smith Brackett says that she and George are still hanging in there, and still enjoying their downtown condo with the ease of walking or public transportation to most places they want to go. Last summer Prilla eased her way out of a dry period and into a new body of work, all drawings this time. Going to her studio and working there is a great source of joy for Prilla. She will be showing some of her new work in a three-person exhibit in May, 2018, in Boston. She and George are happily involved with their two sons and their families (four grandchildren).

This includes doing after-school care two afternoons a week, other babysitting and family events, a week all together in Stowe, VT, during the February vacation, and a week in a rental on Martha’s Vineyard in the summer. They are biding their time with the current administration, and looking for ways to influence change and resist.

After several attempts at contacting Pitircik Acar Uler by phone Prilla was finally successful. The news is that Pitircik and Yildirim are safe and well. They spent six months in Istanbul in her deceased mother’s small apartment, which is why Prilla couldn’t reach her. Prilla was worried because so many academics have been arrested during the past year. Now they are back in Girne, North Cyprus (Turkish Cyprus), in their flat, which is four flights up. Pitircik’s health isn’t good. Negotiating the stairs is difficult, so she mostly stays at home, and doesn’t move around much. They know people who have lost their jobs due to Erdogen’s clamp down from last summer’s coup attempt. Pitircik says there is a lot of opposition to him, especially in intellectual circles. Turks and foreigners still travel a lot in all parts of the country, and, in fact, life is better than it appears to people overseas. Yet there is a feeling that support from the USA is questionable. Her older grandson, Sinon, got his degree in Cognitive Science in Lyons, France, and is thinking of going to Canada to work on a master’s degree.

Renon, the younger grandson, still lives in Girne, but is no longer attending the University studying architecture. Their daughter, Asli, is still a banker in Geneva. Pitircik is no longer teaching law, although Yildirim is still chair of the law school at the university.

Nan Sunderland Brown and Peter are returning to Oxford University (England) this summer for their seventh consecutive

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year of study. Nan says, “I wish I still had my wildly attractive Oxford blazer to wear. They sure knew how to dress us so that we would not attract potential admirers!” (If anyone still has a blazer I am sure Nan would be pleased to receive it and wear it proudly in England.) Just after sending her news, Nan and her husband left for Amsterdam and a Danube Cruise.

Other news is that her oldest grandchild turned 21. They have four grandsons and four granddaughters ranging from 9 to 21. They always look forward to all the family being together on Cape Cod for two weeks, and this year will celebrate their second son’s 50th birthday. Nan says that “our class all has a big 2017 birthday, and we should celebrate those of us who are here, and will always remember the ones who are not.”

Jane Keller Herzig and Ed now have two residences, their condo in Englewood, NJ, and a small winter abode in Sarasota, FL. They had their first southern winter and did not miss the cold one bit! Their daughter Carolyn just completed her employment at Columbia University, where she was teaching epidemiology to graduate students in the school of nursing. She is embarking on a new career as a Public Health Responder EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service) officer.

Beginning in August, after a month- long orientation at CDC in Atlanta, she will move to Raleigh, NC, to begin a two-year service fellowship. Her daughter, Viola, is entering her sophomore year at Kenyon College. Jane and Ed’s son Michael continues to run Locus Energy in both Hoboken and San Francisco, a job that requires much travel. His wife, Rachelle, continues working as an attending pediatric diabetes physician at Presbyterian Hospital in NYC and happily has been able to negotiate a four-day work week.

With their three young ones, Becca, 7, Jane, 5, and Nate, nearly 3, their home is a lively circus.

Mary-Lew Stearns Kelly says that she and Bill are plodding along doing their gardening and walking and playing with their fur baby Kai. They love Aussies and their Mini Aussie is just a love! Until the ticks got to be a huge problem on the “rails to trails,” they walked with him two to four miles every day. Recently they helped their daughter while their 9-yearold granddaughter was hospitalized for an emergency open heart surgery. She is home now and expected to do very well - no restrictions once fully healed. There have been a couple of bumps in the road over the last couple of years, but thankfully they can still do their beloved gardening and get up each day and thank God they are here to do it. Mary-Lew sends her best to all.

Life has been very kind to Jerry and me, reports Tina Wilcox McIntyre. Their kids are all doing well and living nearby in Rhode Island. They have six grandchildren ages five to 21, the eldest a senior in college. They are “mostly” retired, Jerry from his law practice and Tina from real estate. They sail as much as they can and love to travel. They have planned a bicycle trip for this fall around two islands on the east coast of France, which they worry may be more challenging than they are prepared for. In addition, Tina signed them up for spinning classes, which are rather gruelling. So far, they seem to be in good health. As Tina approaches her 75th birthday this fall she is feeling very fortunate and thankful. She sends her best wishes to all.

In a nutshell, we stay busy, reports Cynthia Baird Roberts. Cindy and Michael are building a home in Hobe Sound, FL. Cindy says that, whenever asked, she simply says that she is a wife of 54 years come this September, a mother and nana to their two grandchildren. Their

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grandson Porter is 6’ 7” tall and will be graduating from St. Luke’s day school in New Canaan, CT, in June. He was on Teen Jeopardy last November, is president of the student body and has known since the beginning of last December that he will be attending Middlebury.

Their granddaughter Eliza is a freshman at Greenwich Academy. She plays both varsity ice hockey and lacrosse for her school and excels in her academics. They are very proud of both. Michael continues to be totally committed to their Nantucket Cottage Hospital, and he has drawn on the expertise of their grandson Porter to finally launch a Center for Leadership at KO. Gay Willcox Squire begins her news saying that there is not a whole lot of news from Squire House and then continues with a long paragraph about what has happened during the past year.

In February, they planned to leave for a long-planned trip through West Texas by motorcycle, but two weeks before departure Gay fractured her right knee cap. So they made the trip as planned, except by car. They flew to Austin and stayed with friends for two nights, then headed west to Fredericksburg and Johnson City. The Johnson Family Ranch was one highlight of the trip, as was the Museum of the War in the Pacific. Admiral Nimitz was from Fredericksburg, Gay writes, who knew?

Then southwest to such places as Luckenbach and Maratho. Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park were both spectacular; then Terlingua and four days in Marfa. They stayed at the famous Paisano Hotel, where the cast of the film Giant stayed while filming in the area.

Lots of memorabilia there and photos of the very young James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.

They did not see the famous “Marfa Lights” even though they stood outside

in the cold for several hours along with many other disappointed spectators. The McDonald Observatory in Ft. Davis was well worth the visit and the nighttime skies in Texas are indeed quite amazing.

The rather sad little town of Rocksprings was their last stop, and it was where one of those “what a small world” events occurred. It turns out that the proprietor of the “Historic Rocksprings Hotel” (that’s its full name), is a very distant cousin of Roger’s. And they thought most of his ancestors never left Connecticut! Then they drove back to Austin for another couple of nights and then went to their usual haunts in Florida for the remainder of their almost one-month vacation. All that time Gay was in an immobilizing brace from ankle to thigh, which she says was more annoying than limiting. They were back home in March, and Gay had six weeks of PT after the brace came off. She is now basically back to 100 percent for which she is so grateful. So that was not a whole lot of news! In August, Gay and Roger are taking their two grandchildren and their son on a houseboat cruise of the Erie Canal and some of the Finger Lakes.

They are praying for good weather. In the next bulletin, she will be able to report whether this idea was a bomb or a success.

Sue Lowe Redfield kindly emailed me to say that Ann Faude Newbury’s brother Bill died suddenly and unexpectedly. This is a very difficult time for Ann and all her family. On behalf of all our classmates, I extend to Ann our love and very deepest sympathy.

Wilf and I continue to enjoy our life in Windsor, ON. We had the pleasure of a visit from Jane and Ed as well as Jane’s brother Jim Keller (Kingswood ’66) and his wife Mary Ellen Hoy. We are looking forward to our yearly week in Stratford, ON with Prilla and George. We have tickets for eight productions and reservations

at six wonderful restaurants. I am going to Bavaria in June to be with my daughter Jane Eleanor and my two grandsons, Ahren, 9, and Aleksander, 8, who are bi-lingual, their second language being German. The boys will be attending a school in Tegernsee for eight weeks while on vacation from their school in St. Louis, MO, where they are learning Spanish. It seems that no one learns French any more in the U.S. Here in Canada our second language is French. - Jane Anderson Innerd, class secretary Cynthia Baird Roberts and her family (pictured, right) at the second marriage of her brother-in-law, Bill Roberts ’67, on Nantucket Island (November 2016).

From left to right: grandson, Porter Bowman, graduating from St. Luke’s School ( June 2017); son-in-law Bill Bowman; husband Michael A.F. Roberts ’59; Cynthia; daughter Cathy Roberts Bowman; and granddaughter, Eliza Bowman, a freshman at Greenwich Academy.

trip to France to explore the hill towns and seaports that attracted Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Leger, and others.”

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Tom Taylor and wife Marty are enjoying their second year of retirement after moving from Boston to Williamsburg, VA. They love William and Mary, Colonial Williamsburg, warm weather and cheap taxes. Tom is playing tennis with two new knees and a very fast “lope.” On a small lake with good fishing. Stop by – all are welcome!

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Oxford 1960 classmates (left to right): Jane Keller Herzig, Tina Willcox McIntyre, Ann Faude Newbury, Prilla Smith Brackett, Gerry McIntyre, Susan Lowe Redfield, Gay Willcox Squire, and Carolyn Goodrich

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Yvonne Chabrier writes, “Would love to hear from my classmates. Still living, happily, on the seacoast in Newburyport, MA. Continuing with explorations in painting, yoga, meditation, and other ’callings’. Just returned from a two week

Judy Whitcomb is still enjoying working full time with an emphasis on breast cancer in her surgical practice. Son Jamie has moved home, and they have two puppies. She took a beautiful raft trip last summer in the U.S.’s largest national park – Wrangell St. Elias. Had a great quick visit with Courtney Graham Donnell in Chicago.

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Don Barlow writes, “The Tommy Hineses, Jon Battersons and Donald Barlows just got back home from a Caribbean cruise to Tortola and St. Thomas.”

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George “Shorty” Dixon, a storied pitcher, was inducted into the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame in April. He was Outstanding Freshman Star Athlete, Best Pitcher and Decade Player of the Year. Before

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teaching at KO for 36 years, he played in the Minnesota Twins minor league. He now volunteers for Mobile Foodshare and is on the Board of Deacons at the First Church of Christ, Congregational in Glastonbury. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie is expecting her fourth grandchild. She is enjoying winters in Florida and summers on Cape Cod.

Oxford 1972 Oxford Class of 1967 celebrates its 50th reunion.

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Believe it or not, the Oxford Class of ’67 celebrated its 50TH REUNION this June. Eleven members of the Class came to celebrate, 30 percent of our class of 34 students. Kate Trafford Smith, Maria-Teresa (Terry) Cavalier Trapani, Lyn Patton Simmer, Bela (formerly Nancy) Breslau, Loretta (Lory) Hervey Pearson, Priscilla Baldwin, Morgan Shannon Butler, Deni Garabedian (formerly Bettyann Denton), K. Saige Behart (formerly Sally Stearns), Anne Holcombe, and Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner made the trip to Hartford. For many it was the first sighting of Priscilla in 50 years!

In the evening we celebrated with dinner and a sleepover at Kate Trafford Smith’s lovely home in Bloomfield. KO treated us to a lavish home-delivered dinner from Carbone’s, and we talked the hours away.

We had a happy, heartwarming time, realizing how we’ve both changed and remained ourselves at core since being 18 years old.

Many, many thanks to our indomitable classmate Kate for hosting us, to Saige for overseeing our wonderful dinner, and of course to everyone for coming. We also are grateful to Elizabeth Bellingrath for her help and enthusiasm in making our reunion happen.

Kingswood Class of 1967 celebrates its 50th reunion.

Kingswood 1967 We gathered on the Kingswood Oxford campus on Saturday, for lunch and a trip back to days of yore in the school’s archives. We managed to unearth the original Oxford School sign that greeted us each day outside Oxford’s Prospect Street campus. It was a trip seeing the memorabilia of our youth.

John Drakos is now retired after 30+ years in the corporate world and fulfilled a lifelong dream of obtaining his private pilot license. He recently earned FAA credentials to fly drones commercially and with much enthusiasm has been developing his new business: Eagle Eye Photo Imaging, LLC, eagleeyedronephoto.com.

Stay in touch – jdrakos@att.net.

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Katharine Newell writes, “I retired in 2013 from the probate court system. I now have time to pursue interests such as rowing crew at Riverfront Recapture in Hartford and other sports. See Diane RisCassi McAndrews and Eloise Biscoe fairly regularly. I’m building a new home at Groton Long Point, CT.”

Oxford and Kingswood Classes of 1972 celebrate their 45th reunions.

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“Yikes,” says Melinda Walsh. “I am now, finally, the mother of a high-school graduate and soon to be paying college tuition!

I know, you are all years past that. I still have a seventh grader too! Sophie is going to London in the fall and then to the College of Charleston. Maybe we’ll get over to see her. I will be working for years to come, but I love it!”

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John Masker was in Tokyo for the 2017 summer teaching at Temple University Japan. John was recently promoted to professor at Temple University and has the fifth edition of his book due out in December. Spouse Sharon White’s book Boiling Lake won the Calvino Prize for Fiction. She had a writing residence at Berthold Brecht House in Svendborg, Denmark, during the summer of 2016.

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KO Class of 1977 celebrates its 40th reunion.

Ethan Felson and his husband Daniel Schapira are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Hannah and son Seth (pictured, above) on July 31, 2016. They reside in New York City and Ethan is the executive director of the Israel Action Network.

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“Hello, it has been a long time since I have connected with KO staff and alumni,” writes Ann Filer. “To say I have been busy is an understatement! I finished my doctoral program in education at the end of 2015 while working full-time at Beacon ABA. I have been with this company for 22 years and have dedicated my 35-year career to working with children on the autism spectrum and their families.”

“I was able to take some time off at the start of 2017 and feel somewhat rejuvenated. I spent a great deal of time “hanging out” with the youngest of my four boys who is age 19. He has joined the Marine Corps and is now at Boot Camp on Paris Island, SC (week five). I have no personal experience with military life, however I am learning quickly and am tremendously proud of him. If anyone has advice for moms and families of Marine recruits I would love to hear from you!”

KO Class of 1982 celebrates its 35th reunion.

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Hiram Maxim (pictured, above), professor and chair of German studies at Emory College, is among the 2017 winners of the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching. Carla Freeman, senior associate dean of faculty, presented the award May 8, 2017 during the Emory College diploma ceremony.

Denise Brodey is a marketing consultant and writer who lives in West Hartford.

Her daughter Emily attends Brandeis.

Her son Toby graduated from Watkinson with the Class of 2017. She is researching her second book, a follow-up to The Elephant in the Playroom (Penguin), to be published in 2017.

Tim Sullivan ’97, coach of Belmont Hill, Stew Lindsay and Brian Geraghty ’87 of St. Mark’s, before their game last April, a day arranged by Brian Mongillo ’78.

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KO Class of 1987 celebrates its 3oth reunion.

KO Class of 1992 celebrates its 25th reunion.

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KO 1999

Mark Milewski summited 29,029-ft. Mt. Everest on May 20, 2016.

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Lance Lee was promoted to associate professor of pediatrics at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. He runs a genetics research lab at Sanford Research, an affiliated private research institution in Sioux Falls, where he also holds the position of director of higher education and oversees graduate and undergraduate research training opportunities.

Mary Kate Healey Buckley is currently working as an RN in the emergency room at the UCONN Health Center.

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Erica Marrero writes, “I am moving to Brussels to work in the public affairs section at the United States Mission to the European Union. Exciting times ahead!”

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Elisabeth Pierce Passeri and her husband Greg welcomed baby Andrew Carlton on August 11, 2016.

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On October 1, 2016, Fletch Thomson became interim vice president and general counsel of Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG, a top 100 global automotive components supplier, headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

KO Class of 1997 celebrates its 20th reunion.

KO Class of 2007 celebrates its 10th reunion.

KO 2010 KO Class of 2002 celebrates its 15th reunion.

KO Class of 2012 celebrates its 5th reunion.

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Sarah Petersen writes, “I am finishing my second year at The Barkhamsted School (teaching K-6 music, 4-6 band/chorus) and will start a musical theater program

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next year. I also started my masters of education (multiple intelligences) at The University of Saint Joseph.”

KO expresses condolences to the families of those who passed away before July 15, 2017 or whose deaths we learned of during that time.

ALUMNI

Robert C. Danaher ’41 February 1, 2017 Brother of John A. Danaher, Jr. ’40

1920s Dorothy Church Zaring ’28 March 3, 2017 1930s Jean Thomson Sargent ’36 July 17, 2016 Mother of Anne Sargent Lewchik ’74; sister of A. Lindsay Thomson ’33; aunt of Mary Thomson Russell ’76 and William B. Thomson ’73; and great-aunt of William M. Thomson ’03 and Lindsay S. Thomson ’06

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Samantha Pinkes (pictured, above) and her swim team placed first at the Club Nationals in the 800-yard freestyle relay and second in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

In May 2017, Reid Collins was named to the All-Centennial Conference Team after a great junior season pitching for the Dickinson College baseball team. Reid now holds the school record for most saves.

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Evan Sliker, a rising junior at the College of Charleston, is majoring in mathematics, specifically with an actuarial science track. He is a member of the executive board of Alpha Tao Omega (ATO) fraternity and plays defense for the hockey team. In May, he began an internship with an insurance company, Assured Partners NL, in Charleston, with opportunities to gain experience in business, finance, economics, and risk management.

James “Shorty” T. Farrell ’37 August 28, 2016 Father of James T. Farrell III ’65 and Douglas A. Farrell ’74; and cousin of Barbara B. Barrett ’35, James T. Healy, Jr. ’45 and Joseph W. Healy ’48 Claudia Eblen Fischer ’38 May 10, 2016 Sister of Roy E. Eblen ’37, William R. Eblen ’43 and Frank L. Eblen ’46 Barbara Andrews Olmsted ’39 October 23, 2015 Mary “Bunny” Beach Shepard ’39 May 24, 2017 Wife of Jean “Red” E. Shepard ’37; mother of Charles “Tim” B. Shepard ’60 and Nancy Shepard Nation ’63; and great-grandmother of Connor S. Zieky ’09

Betty Messenger Morcom ’42 July 28, 2016 Wife of William M. Morcom ’39; mother of Gwyn Morcom Charles ’70 and William M. Morcom, Jr. ’73; sister of Richard G. Messenger ’41; and aunt of Richard E. Morcom ’70 James H. O. Page ’43 January 22, 2016 Peggy Smith Powell ’43 March 12, 2017 Wife of Llewellyn Powell ’37; and mother of Allyn R. Marsh III ’69 and James W. Marsh ’76 Philip C. Steiger Jr. ’43 July 5, 2017 Brother of Mark B. Creed ’38; and uncle of Mark B. Creed ’61 Doris Webster Newman ’44 June 9, 2016 Mother of William W. Britton ’68 John R. O’Hare ’45 March 25, 2017 Brother of Donald J. O’Hare ’44 Donald M. Stewart ’45 December 3, 2015 Brother of Charles P. Stewart ’41 Nancy Callanan Barker ’46 August 26, 2016 Mother of Wensley Barker III ’83

Frances Ingersoll Staniford ’39 May 13, 2016 1940s Roy D. Bassette, Jr. ’40 February 25, 2017 Father of Elizabeth Bassette Lennox ’72 and Roy D. Bassette III ’81; and father-in-law of Bonnie Mecartney Bassette ’81

Robertson Mackay ’46 August 15, 2016

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Marilyn Dickinson Graulty ’47 September 23, 2016 Sister of Roger H. Dickinson ’43; and sister-in-law of Cornelia Wilde Dickinson ’45

Lucy A. Read ’56 January 15, 2017

Janet W. Smith ’47 November 3, 2016

Elizabeth Keller Kagan ’59 June 7, 2017 Cousin of Jane Keller Herzig ’60

Carolyn Short Arvidson ’48 January 12, 2017 Sister of Marjorie Short Comstock ’52 William P. Delaney, Jr. ’48 February 12, 2017 Brother of Robert C. Delaney ’50 Patricia DeWitt Elliott ’49 July 1, 2017 Sister of John D. DeWitt ’48 1950s James A. Nixon ’50 December 19, 2016 Brother of David S. Nixon ’49 Pamela Snow Lovejoy ’51 February 8, 2016 Joseph Ravalese Jr. ’51 July 21, 2017 Father of Joseph Ravalese III ’79 and Beverly Ravalese Yirigian ’80; and grandfather of Rachel M. Yirigian ’14, Joseph Ravalese IV ’15, Robert J. Yirigian ’16, Nicholas J. Ravalese ’17 and James F. Ravalese ’20 Janet Olson Larson ’52 August 16, 2016 Sister of John D. Olson ’54 Helen Dillon Walker ’52 July 10, 2017 Mother of Philip S. Walker, Jr. ’80 Clayton B. Spencer ’55 December 9, 2016 Brother of John M. Spencer ’53, Carolyn T. Means ’59, Virginia Means Giddens ’62 and Frances E. Means ’63

Elizabeth Abel Lane ’57 April 11, 2017

Alexandra Learned Preston ’59 October 28, 2016 Sister of Hope Learned Colt ’54 Beth Wiesel Rougas ’59 October 4, 2016 Sister of Jonathan B. Wiesel ’62 1970s Theodore H. Budkofsky ’76 July 28, 2016 Meliha Ergin Niemann ’76 September 8, 2016 Sister of Tahsin M. Ergin ’77, Tarik J. Ergin ’79 and Turhan M. Ergin ’84+; and sister-in-law of Heidi Richardson Ergin ’79 Lucie Carstens Daly ’78 November 30, 2016 Sister of Julie Carstens Kamis ’77 2010s Ellen M. Goddard ’18 January 16, 2017 Sister of Samuel C. Goddard ’14; and granddaughter of Arthur L. Wasserman ’47

ALUMNI FAMILIES Shirley B. Baker September 10, 2016 Grandmother of William S. Baker ’00 and David A. Baker ’04 Ronald L. Bush Husband of Carlene Dahill Bush ’73

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Conrad D. Collins December 18, 2016 Father of Timothy Collins ’88, J. Matthew Collins ’89 and Melinda Collins Eberle ’91; grandfather of Abigail S. Eberle ’18 and Magdalen R. Eberle ’20; and father-in-law of Christine Randall Collins ’89 Jane A. Cutler July 10, 2016 Wife of David J. Cutler ’65 Michael Dworkin April 28, 2017 Father of Jill Dworkin ’81 Priscilla T. Eatherton September 21, 2016 Mother of James W. Eatherton ’79; and grandmother of Victoria M. Eatherton ’11 and Catherine P. Eatherton ’14 Roy J. Fahl, Jr. March 13, 2016 Husband of Elizabeth Wells Fahl ’48; and brother-in-law of Virginia Wells Andersen ’41 Wilson Faude March 22, 2017 Brother of Ann Faude Newbury ’60 Barbara D. Fleming January 20, 2017 Mother of J. Scott Dunn ’76 Sally M. Fugere August 25, 2016 Grandmother of Hope N. Nemirow ’16 and Drew Nemirow ’17 Andrew F. Ginnis December 14, 2016 Father of Jonathan D. Ginnis ’83 and Katherine B. Ginnis ’87 Robert J. Googins, Faculty Emeriti February 25, 2017 Father of Jennifer Googins ’84 and Jordan M. Googins ’85

Joan P. Hickey June 12, 2017 Wife of J. Gregory Hickey ’47; mother of J. Gregory Hickey, Jr. ’73 and Jeffrey L. Hickey ’75; and grandmother of Conor M. Hickey ’04 Robert J. Higgins December 31, 2016 Father of Lauren Higgins Hancock ’94 Joanne P. Hoffman July 12, 2017 Wife of Richard W. Hoffman, former KO teacher; and stepmother of Christine Hoffman Casarsa ’85 Hank Jansen November 13, 2016 Grandfather of Kristen Kuczenski Cecil ’01 and Michael K. Kuczenski ’05 Eileen S. Kraus, Trustee Emeriti July 1, 2017 Mother of Janet Kraus Giebutowski ’84 and Stephen H.C. Kraus ’95 Lucien Lessard April 23, 2017 Grandfather of Michelle A. Lessard ’09, Derek A. Lessard ’10, Kelly A. Lessard ’12, Mary A. Lessard ’14 and David A. Lessard ’16

Dorothea E. Nordstrom April 21, 2017 Mother of Lee D. Nordstrom ’73

Maureen Tomkiel March 29, 2017 Mother of faculty member Stacey Tomkiel

Stephen O’Brien March 9, 2017 Son of faculty emeritus Robert O’Brien; father of Christopher J. O’Brien ’04; and uncle of John J. Kelley ’04 and Timothy S. Stimpson ’05

Leonard Udolf September 9, 2016 Father of Robert D. Udolf ’79; and grandfather of Samantha E. Udolf ’12, Claudia E. Udolf ’14 and Dylan R. Udolf ’16 Blanche C. Virgien November 23, 2016 Mother of Norton I. Virgien ’70 and David W. Virgien ’72

Jean A. O’Hurley February 9, 2017 Mother of John G. O’Hurley, Jr. ’72 Eugene S. Rotatori March 8, 2017 Father of William E. Rotatori ’82 Ira J. Roy May 25, 2017 Grandfather of Matthew Semmelrock ’05; and father of faculty member Brenda Semmelrock Thelma R. Sack November 22, 2016 Mother of Gerald S. Sack ’71 Myron E. Shafer July 14, 2017 Father of Glenn M. Shafer ’85; and grandfather of Joshua W. Shafer ’18 Janet K. Sherfinski March 27, 2017 Wife of faculty member John M. Sherfinski; and mother of Kristin Sherfinski Calaguire ’01 and David J. Sherfinski ’04

James B. Mongillo February 2, 2017 Father of Brian K. Mongillo ’78 and Elizabeth Mongillo Moran ’85

James Spadorcia March 20, 2017 Grandfather of Jeffrey J. Giuffrida

David A. Nemirow Grandfather of Hope N. Nemirow ’16 and Drew Nemirow ’17

Michael Suisman, Former Trustee November 22, 2016 Father of Sherry J. Suisman ’85 and David M. Suisman ’88; brother of John R. Suisman ’55; and uncle of Lisa Suisman Parsons ’84 and Carolyn Suisman Shaughnessy ’85

Johnnie M. Wasserman July 18, 2016 Wife of Arthur L. Wasserman ’47; and grandmother of Samuel C. Goddard ’14 and Ellen M. Goddard ’18 Peter Wertheim May 21, 2017 Son of Mark E. Wertheim ’67; and brother of Paul J. Wertheim ’94

Barbara B. Lincoln January 31, 2017 Mother of Anthony S. Lincoln ’62, Jeffrey C. Lincoln ’64 and Russell D. Lincoln ’67

John J. Mulkern, Jr. August 8, 2016 Grandparent of John F. Ware ’07, Christopher J. Mulkern ’08 and Matthew M. Mulkern ’12

Elizabeth C. Warfel December 14, 2016 Mother of Michael P. Warfel ’76 and W. Scott Warfel ’81

Robert A. Wolff July 22, 2017 Grandfather of Bridie Clark Loverro ’95, Daniel K. Clark ’98 and Grace Clark Pekkala ’02 Janet J. Wong June 30, 2017 Mother of Benjamin J. Small ’19 and Naomi M. Wong ’22 Mark C. Yellin January 2, 2017 Father of Sheree B. Yellin ’73, Pamela Yellin Stroud ’75, Wendy Yellin Hill ’77 and Jonathan D. Yellin ’81

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Tributes Teacher, coach, advisor, mentor, husband, father, neighbor and friend, Bob Googins, affectionately known to students, colleagues and friends as “Goo,” will be long remembered for his warmth, wisdom and kindness and the generous, vibrant and spirited delight he took in the wonder and whimsy of life. Gentle and poetic, yet mischievous, playful and irreverent, he both charmed and challenged two generations of KO students as he led them through the rich realms of literature, language and life.

Robert J. Googins P’84, ’85 Faculty Emeritus

Bob is remembered for his powerful, provocative questions and for encouraging students to challenge assumptions.

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A native of West Hartford and western Massachusetts, Bob graduated from Wil-braham Academy and Dartmouth College, where he was a standout soccer player. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps for six years, he earned a master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts.

He came to Kingswood Oxford as an English teacher in 1966 and, during his 42-year career, taught some of the school’s most popular elective courses, including The Comic Spirit, Shakespeare, and Literature of War. He presided over campus visits by three English Symposium authors: Richard Wilbur in 1987, Alice Childress in 1991 and Galway Kinnell in 2002. During the 1990s, he proposed and created the Speakers’ Forum, enabling each sophomore to select, prepare and deliver a literary reading, with top performers competing before the entire Upper School.

Enormously gifted as a writer and wit, he delivered two commencement speeches.

His retirement tributes to Head of School Bob Lazear and Associate Head of School Stew Lindsay are remembered as two of the most delightful and humorous testimonials ever presented at KO. For

many years at the annual all-school holiday as-sembly, he would read a passage from “The Grapes of Wrath” describing a trickle of kindness that spreads wider and wider, and on Veterans Day he would read a poem or tribute to those who served and sacrificed to preserve freedom and democracy.

debate coaches, Bob took a low-key, relaxed approach to preparing students for competition. Jon Blitzer ’03 compared him to the character of “Columbo” in the 1970s TV series. “There was a bit of Peter Falk, maybe, in this almost apologetic shuffle of his, as though he was asking us to indulge him for a moment,” Jon said.

As an English teacher, Bob was remembered for his powerful, provocative questions and for encouraging students to challenge their assumptions. Former Eng-lish department chair, Laura Hansen said that Bob conveyed “a humor that is both wry and heartwarming, but also a deep and abiding love of literature, not just for its turn of phrase or eloquent sound, but for the truths it carries, for the abiding faith in the human spirit that great literature teaches.” As Bob’s wife, Carol, said of his inspirational teaching, “His hands held a learning library from which he brought the words of Lincoln, Shakespeare and Yeats to fertile minds.”

Former KO English teacher Kathy Lynch, Bob’s co-advisor of the debate team, noted that “sincerity and civility reigned supreme in every Forensic Union activity that Bob ran . . . Bob stressed that 50 percent of debating was listening, that, while wit and humor were always welcome seasonings in a speech, there was never any room for flippancy or cruelty.”

Bob also coached boys’ soccer and helped found the school’s ice hockey program.

On winter mornings, he would often leave his home in Colebrook, 30 miles west of KO, at 4 a.m. so he could pick up hockey players at their homes and take them to the ice rink as early as 5 a.m. for practice.

He kept a cot in his office for those nights when a late commitment at school made it impractical to drive back to Colebrook.

As devoted as he was to Kingswood Oxford, Bob was equally dedicated to his family and neighbors. “He was always there for me and involved in my life,” said his son, Jordan Googins ’85. “He was a very caring and loving father, encouraging and patient, and gave space for life to unfold.”

During the 1980s Bob revived the school’s speaking and debate program, and over the next quarter century he led hundreds of KO students on distant treks to compete in speaking tournaments, including international competitions as far away as Cyprus and South Africa. Unlike most

After suffering a heart attack in 1998, Bob retired from teaching at KO in 2002 but stayed on to serve as a mentor and coach for young faculty members, thus shaping the quality of teaching at KO for decades to come.

Bob helped anyone in need. He cut through diplomatic red tape to help a KO teacher bring her young son from China to join her in the U.S. He healed the spirits of the Town of Colebrook, which had been bitterly divided over a school budget, by or-ganizing a community parade to celebrate the town’s bi-centennial. Bob and Carol babysat for faculty couples and even handed out Halloween candy at Kathy Lynch’s home so she could go trick-or-treating with her daughter.

When Amias Moore-Gerety’s daughter celebrated her first birthday, Bob wrote her this poem that summed up his buoyant philosophy: Life is short. Break the rules.

Be optimistic. Look for the best in people.

Laugh uncontrollably!

Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly. Love truly!

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

Carol was always by his side, supporting him with her love and encouragement and by participating actively in many of his KO endeavors, including international debate trips. “Carol Googins was the remarkable force who powered Bob’s great love for life,” said Amias Moore-Gerety ’98, who traveled with Bob and Carol to a debate tour-nament in Argentina.

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Tributes A dynamic and intrepid trailblazer, Eileen S. Kraus was the first woman in the United States to lead a major regional bank, a driving force on many corporate and non-profit boards of directors in the Greater Hartford area, including that of Kingswood Oxford, and the recipient of innumerable awards and honors, including membership in the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. But she will be best remembered by her family as a nurturing, loving and caring wife, mother and grandmother who always put her family first.

Eileen S. Kraus P’84, ’95 Trustee Emerita

Her generosity of spirit extended far beyond her immediate family.

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A native of northern New Jersey, she graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1960 and then moved to Connecticut following her marriage to Harold Christian Kraus. Eileen and Hal settled down in West Hartford, where she quickly made friends and put down deep roots into a community that she really loved, and that grew to love her dearly.

Eileen’s life-long devotion to gardening began as she planted her first garden behind her apartment on South Quaker Lane, and she pursued her love of music by teaching herself guitar and assembling a four-woman, semi-professional singing group, The Valley Four, which performed in many venues.

Connecticut Secretary of State Ella Grasso, a fellow Mount Holyoke alumna, soon asked her to serve as her assistant.

From there, Eileen took a job in the devel-opment office at Trinity College, where she also earned a master’s degree in political science and economics.

When her daughter, Janet Janson Kraus ’84, was born, Eileen shifted her focus and her professional skills to benefit the

community through a wide range of volunteer efforts conducted through the Junior League of Hartford.

A pioneering feminist, she started her own consulting firm, Career Research Resources, dedicated to helping women package their not-for-profit work into resumes that would position them for paid careers in the corporate world. In 1979, she was asked by Joel Alford, then president of Hartford National Bank, to join the bank as vice president of human resources. Beginning her banking career with a 13-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, Stephen Harold Kraus ’95, she spearheaded efforts to create and expand day-care options at the bank for her own children as well as those of others. By 1990, Eileen had risen to become vice chairman of Shawmut National Corporation and president of Connecticut National Bank, with responsibility for all consumer banking and marketing.

During and after her retirement from banking in 2004, she served on the boards of directors of several corporations, including Stanley Works, Kaman Corporation, Yankee Energy, Yale New Haven Hospital, and ConnectiCare Inc. She played a key role in many nonprofit organizations as well, serving as president of the Junior League, chair of the Governor’s Council on Voluntary Action, founder of the Hartford Public Schools Volunteer Program, and chair of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce, and serving on many boards, including those of Child and Family Ser-vices, Trinity College, the Capitol City Economic Development Authority,

and the Bushnell Memorial. She served on the board of trustees of Kingswood Oxford from 1990 to 1999, and was a member of its executive committee and head search committee, as well as its finance and investment, audit, educational program, development, and nominating committees.

Eileen received many accolades for her business and civic accomplishments, including being named Business Leader of the Year by The Hartford Courant (1990), Woman of Merit by the Connecticut Valley Girl Scout Council (1994), and Laura A. Johnson Woman of the Year by Hartford College for Women. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002.

Complementing Eileen’s involvement as a business and community leader was her deep devotion to her family. She and Hal were 56-year life partners who teamed to raise their two children, spending unending hours on a multitude of family activities, sports and home projects.

Eileen, who as a young girl had dreamed of playing for the New York Yankees, shared her love of baseball and basketball with Steve, and they were both avid fans of both the Yankees and the UConn women’s basketball team.

made it her golden rule to step out of any meeting, no matter how big or important, to take her son’s call.”

Eileen and Janet were deeply connected through their mutual love of music, business, family celebrations and art. “Her generosity of spirit extended far beyond her immediate family,” Janet wrote in a tribute to her mother. “She was vastly inclusive, and almost everyone who ever met her would say that she touched them in unforgettable ways. She was a thoughtful and active listener who would start every conversation with questions that would create connection, as this was her way of showing how deeply she cared . . . She was inspired by the pride and joy that came from working with others to create something that mattered. She lived life fully engaged, and her love for life and for the people in her life was completely unmistakable in her whole-hearted and full-bodied laugh.”

In a memorial tribute, Steve remembered his mom as his “make-shift baseball catcher who would literally come home from work, pop off her high heels, put on some sneakers and grab a baseball mitt and let me throw pitch after pitch to her in our back-yard . . . She was the first person I would call when I needed to talk about anything and the mom who

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Kingswood Oxford

Annual Report 2016 -2017

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TRUSTEES EMERITI

Ricardo Berckemeyer P ’19, ’21, ’22 Dennis Bisgaard P ’16, ’22, Head of School Heather Clifford P ’17, ’19, Parent Association President Mark D. Conrad ’96 Bonnie L. Dobkin P ’19 Helen Eatherton P ’11, ’14 Christopher G. Gent P ’03, ’08 Joseph R. Gianni ’78, P ’14, ’14 Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85, P ’11, ’13, ’17 Derek P. Green ’81 J. Douglas Harris ’77 I. Bradley Hoffman ’78, Chair Gilbert E. Keegan III ’88, Head’s Advisory Council Chair Fred J. Krieble ’91, P ’21 Jean C. LaTorre P ’12, ’14, ’19, Treasurer Paul A. Lewis P ’05 Patrick J. Maloney P ’11, ’14, ’16 Bruce A. Mandell ’82, Vice Chair Mary S. Martin ’77, P ’17, ’20 Megan Ouellette P ’18, ’20 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73, P ’13, Secretary Michael J. Reilly P ’04, ’08 Marc T. Shafer ’75, P ’08, ’15, ’17 Lori Satell Wetsman ’85, P ’12, ’15 Paula Whitney P ’02, ’04, ’06, ’07 Lewis K. Wise ’65, P ’94, ’00 Keith J. Wolff ’91, P ’20, ’23 Mark Wolman P ’14, ’16, ’19

Sherry Banks-Cohn ’54, P ’78, ’82 Thomas J. Collamore ’77 Allen V. Collins P ’75, ’79, ’82, ’88 Richard S. Cuda P ’79, ’80 George L. Estes III ’67, P ’98 Frederick S. (Fritz) Farquhar ’59, P ’83, ’86 Robert M. Furek P ’96, ’99 Karen Koury Gifford ’62 Marilyn Glover P ’05, ’07, ’11 William H. Goldfarb ’64 J. Gregory Hickey ’47, P ’73, ’75, GP ’04 Alyce F. Hild P ’80, ’82, ’91, GP ’07, ’11, ’14, ’19 Lance L. Knox ’62 Eileen S. Kraus P ’84, ’95 + Thomas D. Lips P ’93 James B. Lyon, Esq. ’48 E. Merritt McDonough ’51, P ’79, ’81 Agnes S. Peelle P ’01, ’03 Anne Rudder P ’68 G. William Seawright ’59 Les R. Tager P ’00, ’03 John A.T. Wilson ’56, P ’84, ’86 Martin Wolman P ’80, ’82, ’84, ’88 Joan Safford Wright ’53

P L E A S E N OT E

to the KO Annual Fund who have multiple connections to the School. Thus, a donor could be listed as a contributor to the School in his/her class and also be listed as a current parent donor, a grandparent donor, a parent of alumni donor or some combination of constituencies.

Great effort has been made to ensure an accurate and thorough Annual Report. We are sorry if errors or omissions occurred. If you discover a mistake, please notify the Office of Institutional Advancement, and we will make sure that the error is corrected in the next publication.

Because we believe that multiple affiliations or legacies are an indication of deep trust and strong conviction in an institution, we have chosen to list more than once those donors Front cover photo: Seshu Photography Other photos: Jackie Pisani, Mandell Family

Again, great care has been taken in assembling these rolls. If we are unaware of an affiliation you have with the School, please let us know so we can maintain complete and up-to-date records.

Thank You! The 2016-2017 fiscal year was a success because of you. You are Kingswood Oxford. Your support of your community provided our students, faculty and staff with resources for their academic, athletic, artistic, and technological endeavors throughout the school year. You are what sets Kingswood Oxford School apart. Thank you.

The KO Annual Fund reached $1,021,530 in entirely unrestricted cash funds which brought us over our budgeted goal by $1,530. The refrain “every gifts counts” has never rung truer!

Led by our KO Annual Fund parent chair, Bonnie Dobkin P’19, and the hardworking members of our committee, parent participation jumped from 43% to 62%. This is a difference of almost 100 donors and made a significant impact on campus.

Along with Bonnie, our KO Annual Fund CoChairs, Barbara and Charlie A. Hartigan ’71, P ’91, ’99, ’01 led the charge for our alumni community increasing our donor base to more than 1,100 gifts.

Thank you to all of our volunteers, Board Chair I. Bradley Hoffman and the Board of Trustees for your tireless efforts.

You are Kingswood Oxford. From near and far, the Class of 1939 to the Class of 2016, you come together to support your school. Whenever asked, you give generously to help us create an exceptional learning experience for our students. Thank you!

M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T

Kingswood Oxford inspires students to excel and to lead lives of integrity and involvement by nourishing their talents in a community of teachers, friends and families.

Vincit qui se vincit.

One conquers by conquering oneself.

C O R E VA L U E S

Demonstrate honesty, integrity, and respect Learn with passion and perseverance Embrace intellectual curiosity Care beyond self Take personal responsibility Work hard, take risks, become involved

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Mandell-Braunstein Family

$1 Million Gift

Kingswood Oxford is thrilled to kickoff this academic year with a $1 million unrestricted gift from the MandellBraunstein family of West Hartford, Avon, and Woodbridge.

This generous contribution supports KO’s 2020 Vision — the five-year campus improvement project that began in 2015.

“This gift is a testament to the dedication of a family to make our community a better place,” said Head of School Dennis Bisgaard. “The Mandell-Braunsteins typify what Margaret Mead once described as ‘thoughtful, committed citizens that can change the world.’ I am deeply grateful for their commitment to and confidence in KO.” Siblings Bruce Mandell ’82, Mark Mandell ’85 and Meryl Mandell Braunstein ’87 are delighted to support KO in such a meaningful way. “A gift to KO today supports the school’s mission to build tomorrow’s leaders. A KO education has a multiplier effect as students and alumni positively impact so many lives in our community and the world at large,” said Bruce, who currently serves as Vice Chair of KO’s Board of Trustees. “Our family is very proud to continue our support of this great institution and the important goals of the 2020 Vision.”

Phase 1 of the 2020 Vision, completed in December 2015, included a redesign of the Trout Brook Drive entrance of the Roberts Center. KO students are now welcomed each day with a large community space and a suite of offices built for Student Life and College Advising.

Phase 2 transformed the Brayton Athletic Center into a multipurpose athletic complex and state-of-the-art fitness and wellness center, which opened in the spring.

Phase 3 will consist of enhancements to the school’s Conklin Library, including an advanced research center.

Bisgaard said, “KO is incredibly fortunate to have the support of the Mandell-Braunstein family. They have consistently demonstrated commitment through financial support as well as their encouragement and vision.”

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1.

You’ll make an impactful gift to KO.

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Including KO as a beneficiary of your estate affords you the unique opportunity to make an impactful gift to the School without having to relinquish any tangible assets today.

2.

You’ll provide yourself with fixed income payments.

Establishing a CGA, also known as a Charitable Gift Annuity provides you the opportunity to support KO in furthering our work and mission with an outright gift while also providing fixed income payments to you throughout your lifetime.

3. You’ll leave a lasting legacy.

By making a gift in support today or benefiting KO after your lifetime, we can help you find a charitable plan that helps provide for you while simultaneously leaving a lasting legacy for the Kingswood Oxford School community for many years to come.

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LEADERSHIP GIVING CLUBS KO’s Leadership Giving Clubs contributed approximately 79% to the KO Annual Fund total. These unrestricted dollars go directly to supporting the School’s operating budget and fund academic programs, athletics, the arts, financial aid and faculty enrichment. We are grateful for this leadership support.

Head of School’s Circle ($25,000 and above) Meryl Mandell Braunstein ’87 and Scott Braunstein Furek Family Foundation Susan and Robert M. Furek Kathy and I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Learned-Preston Foundation Bruce A. Mandell ’82 Merrill and Mark N. Mandell ’85 The Owenoke Foundation Alexandra Learned Preston ’59 + Monica and Avery Rockefeller III Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving

Seaverns Society ($10,000 to $24,999) Elizabeth H. Atwood Sherry Banks-Cohn ’54 Big Bucket LLC Laura and George L. Estes III ’67 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Harry E. Goldfarb Family Foundation Inc. Francine and Robert B. Goldfarb William H. Goldfarb ’64 Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Dorothy + and Louis Hatry + Fred M. Lougee ’48 + Thomas J. Maloney ’80 Maximum Beverage Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Pure Marketing Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall Robinson & Cole LLP

Santa Barbara Foundation Robert G. Schiro ’68 G. William Seawright ’59 Laura Jones Shafer ’75 and Marc T. Shafer ’75 Richard W. Sorenson ’62 Paula and Brian D. Whitney Frazier B. Wilde +

1909 Society ($5,000 - $9,999) Carol-Ann and J. Bruce Barlow Cheryl A. Chase and Stuart D. Bear The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc. Monica and Dennis Bisgaard James A. Brown ’76 Ann Billings Colony ’72 Kimberly Fernandez Conrad ’96 and Mark D. Conrad ’96 Maria and Nelson Correa Carole and Burke Doar John Doar Foundation Vincent J. Dowling Jr. ’78 The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation FIP Construction Inc. Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Richard S. Gersten ’77 Stephanie and Michael V. Greco Lauren Phoenix and James Holley Diane and John Y. Kim John and Diane Kim Foundation Robert C. Knox III ’59 Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Vernon K. Krieble Foundation Elizabeth Abel Lane ’57 + Jean and Benedict P. LaTorre Jr. Janet and Paul A. Lewis James B. Lyon ’48 William and Ellen Macristy Foundation Barbara and Baxter H. Maffett ’68 Jill and Patrick J. Maloney Mary S. Martin ’77 and Jeffrey A. Amell Megan and Eric Ouellette T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation Elizabeth and Michael J. Reilly

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Joan M. Shafer ’71 June Marshall Smith ’82 Janette Austin Steane ’34 + Thornedge Foundation United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut Lori Satell Wetsman ’85 and David Wetsman Lewis K. Wise ’65 Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 Julie and Mark M. Wolman Wyvern Club ($1,000 to $4,999) Anonymous Charlene M. Dufresne-Achatz and Michael J. Achatz Affineco LLC. Kenneth R. Alleyne ’84 Julie and Richard L. Alleyne ’87 Graham Anthony + Graham Anthony Trust Fund Renee and Fred Autorino Ayco Charitable Foundation Shepard W. Baker ’47 Eric D. Batchelder ’89 Karl A. Baumert ’97 Linda and Jeffrey Becker Sally Erdman Belding ’43 and Maxwell M. Belding ’40 Jeanne and Jay S. Benet The Benevity Community Impact Fund Richard F. Berry Jr. ’59 Nancy Loughlin and Warren Boley Lynne Tapper and Leland J. Brandt Dwayne Bray Jonathan T. Briggs Christine and Matthew F. Bromberg Gertrude and Louis Brown Victoria and Edgar B. Butler Jr. ’63 Dorothy Byrne John J. Byrne III ’77 The Byrne Foundation Inc. The Cape Cod Foundation E. Follett Carter ’60 Katherine Cheney Chappell ’63 Sandra and Arnold L. Chase

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The inaugural West Hartford Wine & Food Festival was held at KO on June 17, 2017. It featured a showcase of fine wines and food from area restaurants.

The event was a great success and a portion of the proceeds were donated to KO.

Sandra and Arnold Chase Family Foundation Heather and Michael Clifford Thomas J. Collamore ’77 Edward K. Conklin ’59 Meredith and Matthew W. Crowther Fred B. Cuda ’79 Jacqueline T. Jamsheed and John M. M. de Rham ’83 Natalie Demers Janice and Christopher R. Deskus Diana I. DeVivo ’82 Patricia and Donald A. DeVivo ’80 Irene DeVivo William F. Dominick II ’51 James M. Doran The Dornam Foundation Doro Restaurant Group Valerie and Donald R. Dugan Jr. Helen and James W. Eatherton ’79 Richard K. Elbaum ’84 Anne S. Bingham and Theodore C. Esselstyn Scott C. Evoy ’83 Cyndi and Frederick S. Farquhar ’59 Eric A. Federman ’88 Federman, Lally & Remis LLC

Gary J. Fernquist ’68 Fiduciary Investment Advisors The Fischbach Foundation Kathleen McKenna Fisher ’76 and Mark R. Fisher ’73 Martha and Daniel L. Fitzmaurice Gordon B. Fowler Jr. ’77 William D. Fowler ’47 Kenneth L. Frank ’76 General William Mayer Foundation Mary Ann Pearson Gianni ’81 and Joseph R. Gianni ’78 Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin ’85 and Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85 Michael C. Gitlin ’88 Nancy and Richard A. Gitlin Linda Schiro Glickstein ’65 Marilyn and Paul W. Glover Monica and Lee A. Gold ’90 Peter H. Goodwin ’69 Jordan M. Googins ’85 Sandra and Michael E. Goss Derek P. Green ’81 Steven B. Greenfield ’83 George L. Grody ’76 Veronica Makowsky and Jeffrey C. Gross Michael S. Grossman ’95

J. Douglas Harris ’77 Barbara and Charles A. Hartigan ’71 Devorah J. Hauss ’70 Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 + and Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 + Lynn and Stephen B. Hazard Jennifer and Randy Herz Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Alyce and David H. Hild Wendy Yellin Hill ’77 Calvin A. Hills III ’81 Sally Walton Hills ’57 and Calvin A. Hills Calvin A. Hills IV ’09 The Hills Family Foundation Hinding Tennis LLC Donna and Jeffrey B. Hires Beverly and Timothy A. Holt Heather Hills Jacobs ’84 and Brian Jacobs Sandy and Brion Johnson Andrew C. Jones ’08 Wendy Coyle and Costa Kanis Margaret and John Kasprak Gilbert E. Keegan III ’88 Kelly Family Foundation Inc. Dorothy Honiss Kelso ’44 Emily J. Kim ’09 Dorothy Brooks Koopman ’68

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Rena B. Koopman ’63 Eileen + and Harold C. Kraus Stephen H. C. Kraus ’95 Karalyn Kinsella and Andrew C. Krugman ’86 Jonathan A. Landsberg ’02 Todd H. Larsen ’84 Mary and Robert C. Lawrence III Frank A. Leone ’67 Margarita and Brian J. Lessard Deborah Wood Lilly ’63 Margah and Thomas D. Lips Jonathan A. Lipton ’88 Gail and Stephen P. Lowe Keith G. Lurie ’73 Linda and Austin T. Lydon The Maple Tree Fund William B. Martin Nicholas B. Mason ’63 Muniba Masood Karen and Daniel Mastella Elisabeth Warner Mayer ’82 E. Merritt McDonough ’51 Maryann and Thomas J. McGuire Carolyn F. McKee Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company Susan Somerville Menson ’64 Douglas B. Moore ’78 Robert E. Morris Jr. ’59 Mountain View Landscape LLC Janet and Robert H. Murphy Jr. ’62 Roy E. Norcross ’80 Elaine and David G. Nord Jodi and Anthony Oh The Old Stones Foundation Inc. Dorothy and B. Maxwell O’Meara ’48 Cynthia Clancy and Douglas Ovian Painting & Decorating Inc. Luanne and Mark Paley Wayne J. Pastuszenski ’80 Agnes and William R. Peelle Jr. Jennifer White Pennoyer ’85 and William P. Pennoyer The Prospect Fund Puritan Furniture Mart Inc. Linda J. Quick Charles W. Randall ’63 Arthur M. Rautio ’66

Jean and Joseph Ravalese Jr. ’51 + Brian J. Richter ’87 Patrick A. Rockefeller ’00 James G. Rogers Architects PC Adrian Brown and Kurt Roggendorf Vicki and Richard B. Rosenthal William E. Rotatori ’82 Katherine and Robert A. Roth ’78 Mary Foote Rounsavall ’62 Brett H. Rubin ’91 Elizabeth Stedman Russell ’50 Immad Sadiq W. Allen Scheuch II ’71 H. Andrew Schwedel ’87 Marilyn and Alan R. Schwedel The Schwedel Foundation David C. Shafer ’15 Curtis S. Shaw ’66 Denise and Richard J. Shima Roberta and Bruce Singer Kate Trafford Smith ’67 Bonnie L. Dobkin and Peter Sonntag Thomas C. Spalding ’69 Randy F. Stabile Julia and William J. Stack Jr. ’72 Karin and William K. Stahl Peter N. Stevens ’75 Ellen and Anthony W. Tabell Tabell Family Foundation Marilyn and Les R. Tager Whitney and Matthew P. Taylor Caroline and Kenneth H. Taylor Jr. Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation Travelers Companies Danielle and Robert D. Udolf ’79 Michael J. Vallee ’97 Valley United Way Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program June Heard Wadsworth ’53 and Francis L. Wadsworth ’47 John Y. Wang ’88 Alden Y. Warner III ’76 Frederick D. Watkins III ’71 Margaret and Michael G. Wheeler Faith McGauley Whitman ’86 Penny and John A. T. Wilson ’56

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Lisa C. Kugelman and Roy H. Wiseman Martin Wolman Joan Safford Wright ’53 Shumei Kuo and Jon Zeu Wu John W. Zielenbach Jr. ’86 Susan Gross Zielenbach ’61 and J. William Zielenbach

Young Alumni Leadership Circle $250 and above Classes 2002-2016 Charles P. Bellingrath ’03 Blake T. Berman ’05 Brett P. Champlin ’07 Melissa Cianciolo ’03 Calvin A. Hills IV ’09 Carolyn Marziali Houlihan ’04 Christopher M. Houlihan ’04 Andrew C. Jones ’08 Emily J. Kim ’09 Jonathan A. Landsberg ’02 Aaron R. Paley ’11 Rachel M. Paley ’14 Samuel J. Paley ’09 Zachary C. Paley ’07 Samuel G. Peelle ’03 David C. Shafer ’15 Kevin J. Thorson ’06

Gifts by Classes

# 5+ consecutive years of giving * Faculty or Staff Member + Deceased OXFORD Oxford 1934 Dollars Raised: $5,004 Janette Austin Steane + Oxford 1936 Dollars Raised: $436 Marion Grant + Oxford 1939 Dollars Raised: $100 Josephine Trull Brewer Horn

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Oxford 1941 Dollars Raised: $200 Participation: 25% Margaret Stedman Doherty # Marguerite Steane Kelland Oxford 1942 Dollars Raised: $175 Participation: 18% Dorothy Bush Curtis Jean Flynn Kellogg # Oxford 1943 Dollars Raised: $1,000 Participation: 13% Sally Erdman Belding # Oxford 1944 Dollars Raised: $2,674 Participation: 38% Martha Coolidge Haviland + Dorothy Honiss Kelso # Hazel Vail # Oxford 1945 Dollars Raised: $450 Participation: 43% Mary Hooker Crary # Andrea Saladine Knight # Deborah Fogg Lambert Oxford 1946 Dollars Raised: $370 Participation: 67% Susan Little Adamson # Joan Cascio Griswold # Cornelia Landon Russell # Barbara Johnson Zyla # Oxford 1947 Dollars Raised: $300 Participation: 15% Ann Poindexter Ives # Nancy Clapp Miller #

Oxford 1948 Dollars Raised: $1,050 Participation: 50% Betty Lee Harrington Armstrong # Marylee Burt Dodge # Elizabeth Brainard Glassco # Barbara Godard Virginia Woods Kuhl Carolyn Black Underwood # Oxford 1949 Dollars Raised: $325 Participation: 27% Marilyn Montgomery Cotton # Jean Felty Kenny # Anne Harvey Kulak Carolyn J. Young Oxford 1950 Dollars Raised: $4,106 Participation: 33% Cynthia Brewster Clifford # Elizabeth Stedman Russell # Ruth Kaufman Shulansky # Esther L. Spafard # Elizabeth Long Strout Elsie Heyman Swirsky # Joan Duffield Van Ness # Oxford 1951 Class Agent: Frances Steane Baldwin Dollars Raised: $1,025 Participation: 64% Frances Steane Baldwin # Vivian Hathaway Crouse # Rita Stout Johnson # Pamela Kingan Lillquist # Anne Carter Peck Mahaffey # Sara Barr Palmer # Elizabeth Donegan Schultz Barbara Gowdy Tongue # Gara Van Schaack # Oxford 1952 Dollars Raised: $2,350 Participation: 50% Gilda Sheketoff Brock #

Mary Jane Adams Chute Marjorie Short Comstock # Helen Vosburgh Dixon Gail Warner Hamblett # Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones Cynthia Korper Porter Linda Bland Sonnenblick Oxford 1953 Dollars Raised: $4,377 Participation: 35% Carole Goldenthal Aronson # Page Phelps Coulter Mary Davis DePatie Sandra Gladstein Morrison # Hope Johnson Sass # Nancy Faust Sizer # June Heard Wadsworth # Joan Safford Wright # Oxford 1954 Class Agent: Susan Safford Andrews Dollars Raised: $13,141 Participation: 72% Anonymous Susan Safford Andrews # Sherry Banks-Cohn # Pamela Connolly Bartlett-Little # Hope Learned Colt Ann Whitman Hackl Sheila Hirschfeld Jacobs # Marjorie Harvey Purves Gail Myers Rider Molly Fluty Roraback # Miriam Ford Stahler # Roxanne Richards Stringer # Sandra Solly Utz # Oxford 1955 Dollars Raised: $345 Participation: 24% Barbara Dunnell Clough Holiday Smith Houck # Emily Walker Jones Helene Liberson Keers # Susanne Johnson Mann # Constance Strike Wadsworth #

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Oxford 1956 Class Agent: Sandra Martin McDonough Dollars Raised: $1,365 Participation: 69% Sally David Ardrey # Katrina Shaffer Beaghen Nancy Boots Edwards-Cogswell # Eunice Strong Groark # Cynthia Kohn Hobart # Sandra Martin McDonough Alice Butler Mendell # Jane Brandon Pfaff # Patricia Hanson Rodgers # Susan Taylor Smith # Sandra Travis Zieky # Oxford 1957 Class Agent: Elizabeth Abel Lane + Dollars Raised: $7,650 Participation: 32% Deborah Bland Albert # Linda Mooney Angelastro Phyllis Chapman Fenander Sally Walton Hills Elizabeth Abel Lane + Martha Yost Newcomer # Melinda Murphy Richardson Oxford 1958 Dollars Raised: $475 Participation: 14% Sharon Campbell Benton Susan Mather Dabanian Linda Isaacson French # Cora Kamerman Oxford 1959 Dollars Raised: $26,050 Participation: 33% Janice Cianci Castillo # Katherine Whitcomb Dudzinski # Carolyn T. Means # Lynn Wilkie Murray # Shirley Hampton Pitcher # Alexandra Learned Preston + Anne Little Reiley # Ellen Jones Wood

Oxford 1960 Class Agent: Susan Matorin Dollars Raised: $1,410 Participation: 36% Barbara Hamilton Almy Sabra Dwyer Benson # Nancy Sunderland Brown # Jane Keller Herzig # Jane Anderson Innerd # Susan Matorin # Christina Wilcox McIntyre Ann Faude Newbury Gay Willcox Squire Oxford 1961 Dollars Raised: $2,650 Participation: 23% Yvonne V. Chabrier Elizabeth P. Kohn Jane Anderson Lentz Pamela Davis McGee Elizabeth T. Stout # Susan Calano Watson # Susan Gross Zielenbach Oxford 1962 Dollars Raised: $2,105 Participation: 17% Karen Koury Gifford # Jane Talbot Marshall Mary Foote Rounsavall # Susan L. Stannard Oxford 1963 Dollars Raised: $4,975 Participation: 31% Leslie Carvalho Barlow Katherine Cheney Chappell # Buena Hamlin Chilstrom Mary Bush Hickok Susan Myers Howard # Sally Newell Huss # Rena B. Koopman # Nancy-Coalter Dew Lathrop Ann M. LeRoyer # Deborah Wood Lilly # Nancy Young Luke # Susan Bates Margraf

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Oxford 1964 Dollars Raised: $2,134 Participation: 24% Hannah Williams Boulton Susan Burke Clemow Jane Hube Louttit Susan Somerville Menson # Kathryn Kohn Rieger Nancy S. Watters Oxford 1965 Dollars Raised: $2,625 Participation: 18% Jane Morton Fetter Katherine Hamilton Fleming # Linda Schiro Glickstein # Juliana Boyd Kim Lynne A. Lumsden # Emily Morgan Mugge Barbara Wyper Pettus # Oxford 1966 Dollars Raised: $50 Participation: 3% Anne McCormick Williams Oxford 1967 Class Agent: Kate Trafford Smith Dollars Raised: $1,675 Participation: 36% Morgan Shannon Butler Bettyann Denton Garabedian Anne S. Holcombe Sarah S. Jones Loretta Hervey Pearson Shirley Songer Roux Carolyn Patton Simmer Kate Trafford Smith # Maria-Teresa Cavalier Trapani Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner Oxford 1968 Dollars Raised: $2,633 Participation: 16% Margaret Ferree Brown Sarah Clark Gerrett # Dorothy Brooks Koopman #

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Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie Ann E. Thomas Oxford 1970 Class Agent: Elizabeth Rockwell Booth Dollars Raised: $1,750 Participation: 21% Elizabeth Rockwell Booth # Devorah J. Hauss # Emily G. Holcombe Robin Bassok Kay-Wicker Wendy Brown Lincoln # Brooke Breckenridge Morton Oxford 1971 Dollars Raised: $5,875 Participation: 18% Elizabeth Cooper-Martin # Katharine G. Creedon Marlene Brownstein Gavens # Marjorie McMahon Helfet Joan M. Shafer # Maryanne Waldman # Oxford 1972 Class Agent: Diane Adinolfi Gent Dollars Raised: $11,050 Participation: 23% Eloise Palmer Biscoe # Ann Billings Colony # Teruyo Imori Gardener Diane Adinolfi Gent # Kathleen Van Vleck Haskell Elizabeth Bassette Lennox # Katharine Newell Elsie Watkins Patrick # Oxford 1973 Class Agent: Ann Coolidge Randall Dollars Raised: $12,000 Participation: 29% Suzanne Zajac Birdsey # Carlene Dahill Bush Katherine Sherts Civitillo Karen Denuzze Dunn #

Alice Noble Morse Heidi Winters Murphy # Ann Coolidge Randall # Lisa Shafer Vandenburgh Melinda S. Walsh Sheree B. Yellin KINGSWOOD Kingswood 1935 Dollars Raised: $436 Ellsworth S. Grant + Kingswood 1936 Dollars Raised: $1,404 Winthrop A. Haviland + Kingswood 1940 Dollars Raised: $1,200 Participation: 67% Maxwell M. Belding # Charles W. Merrels Kingswood 1943 Dollars Raised: $200 Participation: 17% Philip C. Steiger + Kingswood 1944 Dollars Raised: $1,100 Participation: 100% James M. Chandler J. Morton Dunn # Leverett M. Hubbard David B. Reynolds # Wayne W. Wall # Kingswood 1945 Dollars Raised: $550 Participation: 40% Peyton H. Mead # Ross R. Roberts # Kingswood 1946 Dollars Raised: $750 Participation: 18% Gerald W. Brady # William S. Wadsworth #

Kingswood 1947 Class Agents: Shepard W. Baker and J. Gregory Hickey Dollars Raised: $7,400 Participation: 65% Shepard W. Baker # Richard C. Buckley Anthony W. Erdman # William D. Fowler # J. Gregory Hickey # Burton L. How Jr. John E. Ives # William P. Keefe # Joseph C. Mayo William F. O’Meara Francis L. Wadsworth # Kingswood 1948 Class Agents: James B. Lyon and B. Maxwell O’Meara Dollars Raised: $21,644 Participation: 31% Charles M. Ericson Fred M. Lougee + James B. Lyon # B. Maxwell O’Meara # Kingswood 1949 Dollars Raised: $1,000 Participation: 45% Thomas H. Brucker Raymond W. Carlson Jr. Samuel P. Cooley John Hooker # Jay W. Jackson # Kingswood 1950 Class Agent: James D. Marinan Dollars Raised: $660 Participation: 45% David K. Dodd # Walter W. Lowell # James D. Marinan # Frederick W. McNabb Blair J.V. Wormer #

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Kingswood 1951 Dollars Raised: $6,450 Participation: 50% William T. Davies Jr. # William F. Dominick II # William L. Eddy # Donald R. Fairbairn Patrick J. Flaherty # Charles F. Leonard E. Merritt McDonough # Joseph Ravalese Jr. + Robert E. Raymond # Kingswood 1952 Dollars Raised: $200 Participation: 13% Robert F. Gadd John A. McGuinn Jr. # Kingswood 1953 Dollars Raised: $935 Participation: 47% Herbert V. Camp George C. Glass Frank P. Haggard # Donald B. Hanson Robert G. Hellstrom Henry R. McLane John H. Underhill Kingswood 1954 Dollars Raised: $280 Participation: 30% Edward D. Duffield II # Henry H. Honiss Lowell T. Spillane Kingswood 1955 Dollars Raised: $1,875 Participation: 42% Jonathan C. Belden # Gerold E. Dehm # James J. Dorsey # George L. Hampton III # J. Bruce Irving # Robert K. Janes Donald M. Pearsall Frederick R. Swan Jr.

Kingswood 1956 Dollars Raised: $4,206 Participation: 33% Richard F. Banbury # John M. Budds Richard F. Di Lorenzo William W. Hughes Robert D. Smith Charles H. Stamm Roger H. Stephenson Charles D. Taylor # David C. Warner John A.T. Wilson # Kingswood 1957 Class Agent: Richard A. Drew Dollars Raised: $1,450 Participation: 30% Philip S. Brown Jr. # David G. Campbell # Richard P. Carney Richard A. Drew # John B. Grant John G. Parsons David D. Roby # Kingswood 1958 Dollars Raised: $350 Participation: 10% Paul M. Dolce John E. Larkin William A. Wurts Kingswood 1959 Class Agents: Richard F. Berry Jr., Frederick S. Farquhar and G. William Seawright Dollars Raised: $28,520 Participation: 71% Richard F. Berry Jr. # Daniel A. Bullard Richard L. Butler # Edward K. Conklin # Horace W. Donegan Frederick S. Farquhar # Bancroft F. Greene # Pope Hoffman # David P. Irwin

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Robert C. Knox III # Henry Lyman Jr. # Steven B. Martin # Richard Morgan V # Robert E. Morris Jr. # G. William Seawright # Stephen L. Snow David H. Stone # Douglass B. Wright George W. Young Jr. # Peter M. Zeman Kingswood 1960 Dollars Raised: $3,350 Participation: 37% Robert D. Bulkeley # E. Follett Carter # John A. Cope # Timothy T. Curtis # Paul A. Eschholz # Robert S. Fleischer # Hugh I. Manke # Robert W. Marshall Baker Salsbury Andrew O. Shapiro # Charles B. Shepard Kingswood 1961 Dollars Raised: $1,500 Participation 25% Peter J. Babin Lawrence M. Cathles Henry M. Greenleaf # Mark L. Kutner # Arnold M. Nemirow Normand F. Smith # David H. Trask Russell H. Weigel # Kingswood 1962 Class Agent: James H. Steane II Dollars Raised: $17,540 Participaton: 91% David W. Ames # Robert H. Barlow Richard M. Caley James V. Calio Michael J. Cavalier

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E. Terry Clark Jeffrey C. Daniels John C. Goodrich # John M. Grocki # Charles H. Hamlin Arthur H. Keeney James S. Keller Lincoln Kinnicutt # Lance L. Knox # Harlan J. Levy Anthony S. Lincoln Robert H. Murphy Jr. Stephen T. Murphy Anthony W. Neidlinger Marshall I. Pomer Robert R. Proctor # Richard B. Redfield Joseph S. Solomkin Richard W. Sorenson James H. Steane II # Julian L. Steffenhagen Robert W. Sullivan Thomas C. Taylor # David Y. Terry # Peter G. White Jonathan B. Wiesel Peter Willis # Kingswood 1963 Class Agent: Brewster B. Boyd Dollars Raised: $11,510 Participation: 67% Donald A. Barlow # W. Alan Baumert # Jack T.F. Bitter Jr. # Brewster B. Boyd # F. Graham Brown # William H. Burling # Edgar B. Butler Jr. # Joel H. Cohen # G. D. Dionne Robert M. Gruber # Brian W. Hedges # Thomas M. Hine # Peter A. Janus # Robert H. Litter # Nicholas B. Mason # John W. Moses #

Charles W. Randall # Barton J. Rapaport # James M. Sacco # Stuart M. Schoolnik # Richard P. Solomon Frank A. Talcott III # Philip F. Walkley III # William W. Wilde # Kingswood 1964 Dollars Raised: $21,375 Participation: 28% Christopher N. Brown # Robert G. Butler William T. Calder # Robert F. Ganley # William H. Goldfarb # Robert A. Horwitz J. Wickliffe Mallory Anthony P. Morris # James L. Pomeranz # Peter M. Schwolsky # Tyler C. Tingley # Kingswood 1965 Dollars Raised: $9,100 Participation: 30% Harold A. Johnson # C. Marston Ladd Gilbert J. Lincoln R. T. Merritt William R. Peelle Jr. # Edgar M. Reed Jerrold F. Rosenbaum Peter T. Shand # John W. Sitarz # Richard F. Steffenhagen # Lewis K. Wise # Kingswood 1966 Dollars Raised: $3,133 Participation: 27% Trevor S. Brown George A. Dixon Jr. # Gerald B. Dubey # Edward J. Forand Robert J. Lange Arthur M. Rautio #

Curtis S. Shaw Jeffrey Truesdall # Stephen H. Watters # Kingswood 1967 Class Agent: Richard I. Hemingway Dollars Raised: $14,331 Participation: 31% Drew K. Dawson # John P. Drakos # George L. Estes III # Peter G. Fisher # James A. Goodwin Jr. # Richard I. Hemingway # Peter B. Kent # Frank A. Leone # Sydney R. Sewall # Jonathan B. Stolzenberg # Robert W. Trainer # Thomas M. Wells Kingswood 1968 Dollars Raised: $20,810 Participation: 22% Harold L. Colvocoresses # Gary J. Fernquist # Edgar R. Glass John B. Graham Baxter H. Maffett # Steven F. Nelson # Robert A. Prutzman # Robert G. Schiro # Donald J. Viering David H. Watters # Kingswood 1969 Class Agent: Howard D. Kunik Dollars Raised: $2,791 Participation: 21% E. Hunt Bergen # Gary Calusine # Peter H. Goodwin # Howard D. Kunik Peter G. Rockwell # Thomas C. Spalding # Stephen R. Treat # Peter B. Viering John S. Wyper Jr. # SEP T EMBER 2017 • KO MAGA ZINE • 93

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Kingswood 1970 Dollars Raised: $1,885 Participation: 23% Alan S. Berson Douglas W. Clark # John E. Fisher Michael C. Konover # Paul A. Kurlansky Alexander J. Nweeia Stuart W. Parsons Allan Singer Paul H. Staker # Bruce W. Talbot Kingswood 1971 Class Agent: Charles A. Hartigan Dollars Raised: $5,220 Participation: 22% Richard D. Becker Dennis P. Brennan Richard M. Fierberg # Charles A. Hartigan # Mark Kinnicutt David L. Maloy # David R. Rosenthal # W. Allen Scheuch II William B. Thomson Frederick D. Watkins III # Kingswood 1972 Class Agent: Robert L. Groundwater Dollars Raised: $4,079 Participation: 33% Christopher A. Austin # David W. Bradley Jere A. Carangelo # Kenneth J. Coco # David A. Dickinson Robert B. Dimmitt # David A. Fechtor Ned L. Fielden Benedict D. Flynn III # David B. Gelles # Robert L. Groundwater # Philip M. Hartigan Howard S. Kruger # Patrick T. LaCava Andrew G. Russell

Michael R. Seltzer Robert W. Seymour William J. Stack Jr. # Steven B. Twitchell Kingswood 1973 Class Agent: Bruce A. Collamore Dollars Raised: $5,575 Participation: 34% David M. Antos # Aaron H. Auslender Andrew M. Chapman William J. Civitillo Bruce A. Collamore # Stanley G. Dimock # Jeffrey D. Dunn # Mark R. Fisher David R. Francis Jeffrey G. Grody R. S. Haskell Robert K. Kaplan Lawrence A. Kenney Peter M. Knowlton Richard D. Krechevsky # Keith G. Lurie Bruce D. Penney # Richard J. Pera # Allen C. Petersen John F. Stevenson # Mark G. Willis # George U. Wyper KINGSWOOD OXFORD Class of 1974 Dollars Raised: $2,860 Participation: 22% Howard S. Comstock III Christopher J. Dawson Robert K. Eliason # Peter A. Falce Gail Lebowitz Ferraioli Marc W. Fisher Jr. # S. Bruce Han # Neale K. Hauss # John F. Havens Jr. Howard B. Hoke Katharyn Risley Hoke

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Jonathan W. Marvin # Marcia Graham Monagan Paul B. Penney Lisa Christensen Petersen # Raymond E. Petersen Jr. # Lynn Gardner Stewart # Brad H. Van Winkle Kenneth B. Walker Class of 1975 Class Agent: Marc T. Shafer Dollars Raised: $17,575 Participation: 27% Brian J. Bailey-Gates # Gerard P. Barrieau Jr. Robert P. Bradley David K. Ellovich Jeffrey L. Hickey # Frederick B. Hollister # Gary A. Lovesky Bryann Lynch # Peter H. Maltbie Joseph J. Nastri Kimberly Collins Parizeau Laura Jones Shafer # Marc T. Shafer # Daniel M. Shepard Kimball R. Smith Peter N. Stevens Anne Woodruff Stout # June Wehrly Szretter Carol O’Rourke Troiani # Kevin N. Tyler Pamela J. Wood # Gregory W. Zabel Class of 1976 Dollars Raised: $13,125 Participation: 21% Jonathan D. Bees # Jay M. Botwick # Vashti D. Brotherhood James A. Brown # Edmond S. Cooley # Martin J. Coursey J. Scott Dunn Kathleen McKenna Fisher Kenneth L. Frank

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James Goldberg George L. Grody Jonathan H. Hurwitz Jr. # Bradford F. Karsky Brenda Lorden Leith # Frederick C. Maynard # Michael G. Pailas # Andrew T. Putnam Scott M. Schwartz Alden Y. Warner III # Linda Rockwell Warner Class of 1977 Class Agent: Mary S. Martin Dollars Raised: $21,807 Participation: 29% Joan McGovern Barrieau Amanda Stedman Bourque Kimberly E. Bush John J. Byrne III Robert Caccomo Thomas J. Collamore # Gary D. D’Abate # James S. Dailey Jr. # Arthur C. DeGraff III Tahsin Ergin Gordon B. Fowler Jr. Emily Van Dyck Frederick # Gloria DeBerry Gallington # Richard S. Gersten Elizabeth Noble Gummere J. Douglas Harris Wendy Yellin Hill Ralph E. Ives David E. Kaplan # Jay A. Lebed J. Stephen Lentz Margaret Gerke Mahony # Mary S. Martin # Hutch Perry # Neil M. Richman # H. Philip Shannon Class of 1978 Class Agents: Charles T. Bellingrath and Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath Dollars Raised: $68,835 Participation: 22%

Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. # Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath # James L. Clifford # Pamela J. Dowling Vincent J. Dowling Jr. # Braden C. Fleming Joseph R. Gianni Howard B. Grody Joseph L. Hammer James T. Healey Jr. I. Bradley Hoffman # Michael J. Kaplan Mitchell Little Sarah H. Maxim Brian K. Mongillo Douglas B. Moore # Mary Susan Buckley Muirhead Jonathan D. Nitkin Robert A. Roth Charles J. Shimkus Jr. Wendy E. Steiner # William L. Walton Louis H. Zarchen II Julie G. Zyla Class of 1979 Class Agent: Jennifer Juros Googins Dollars Raised: $7,703 Participation: 21% John A. Baronian Gerald W. Brady Jr. # Fred B. Cuda # Terri Savin Docal William J. Dunham James W. Eatherton # Robert J. Gfeller Jr. Jennifer Juros Googins # Holly T. Howard Frederick T. Kask # Laura M. LeBlanc Anne Davis Pickart Joseph Ravalese III # David P. Ridlon # Stacy Silk Rome Mary Deck Rutledge Betsy DeGraff Sands Leigh LaBonne Sillner Mary G. Thompson

Robert D. Udolf James M. Ulcickas Gregory J. Zentner Class of 1980 Dollars Raised: $18,055 Participation: 25% Alyce Raboy Alfano # Walter S. Bailey Bruce D. Bower # Donald A. DeVivo Veronica Youmans Dicke # Joanne Malinowski Feinberg # Peter S. Gersten # Gregory A. Hayes # David N. Hild #* Brad M. Hutensky Lisa M. Klemes Janet L. Krevolin Thomas J. Maloney Kathryn McLean Mathias # Hiram H. Maxim II James Nagle Jr. Philip Nassau David B. Newman Edward G. Newton # Roy E. Norcross Wayne J. Pastuszenski # Peter S. Russell # Carol Ribadeneyra Samson Kenneth I. Shapiro # Philip S. Walker Jr. # Beverly Ravalese Yirigian # Class of 1981 Dollars Raised: $8,920 Participation: 17% Peter M. Appleton # Richard S. Arnold Jr. Elizabeth Coppage Brause Peter A. DeFrino # Steven M. Falk Mary Ann Pearson Gianni Derek P. Green Sang H. Han # Jenifer Grayson Hayes # R. Lee Hill Calvin A. Hills III # SEP T EMBER 2017 • KO MAGA ZINE • 95

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Sarah Crosskey Marvin # Jill Youmans Miller William H. Newell II # Jane Anderson Price C. Robinson Reed Deborah Lamson Sohoel-Goldberg Paul G. Stephan # Tobin A. Streett Bonnie Schwartz Weeks # Class of 1982 Class Agent: Anthony Faulise Reunion Class Agent: Elisabeth Warner Mayer # Dollars Raised: $48,770 Participation: 30% Judith Lindsay Bailey #* James A. Baronian Christina Priest Beebe J. Marler Beebe Adrienne Berman Julia Boland George G. Bower Cathleen Cirilli Bradford Andrew G. Bucknam Lynn Mather Charette Mark A. Christie Jennifer Izard Crary # Emily C. Dawkins # Diana I. DeVivo # Pamela Mersereau Dickinson # Anthony Faulise # Betty Title Feigenbaum Dana E. Friedman Allison Nassau Fulcher Myles P. Gibbons Judith Zeffiro Hall # Carl A. Haverl # Anne Mahoney Hayes Allison T. Hild # Mark L. Kirschner Bruce A. Mandell # Elisabeth Warner Mayer # Charles H. Newton Elizabeth Hallisey Norris William E. Rotatori June Marshall Smith #

James F. Sullivan Suzanne McGauley Vide # Class of 1983 Dollars Raised: $6,015 Participation: 11% Steven H. Brown Edward H. Bucknam # Jonathan B. Clifford # John M. M. de Rham Julie Soininen Elkins # Scott C. Evoy Douglas B. Fowler # Steven B. Greenfield Thea Harovas Leach David R. Pinney Marjorie Elliott Pinney William A. Tomasso Class of 1984 Dollars Raised: $7,475 Participation: 13% Kenneth R. Alleyne # John B. Burke III # Daniel P. De Gruttola Jr. Richard K. Elbaum Kathleen M. Flaherty # Laurie Greenwald Hylton Heather Hills Jacobs Todd H. Larsen James C. Maynard # Virginia M. Moran Thomas M. Noniewicz # John M. O’Neil Henry J. Powell David W. Seymour Class of 1985 Dollars Raised: $52,115 Participation: 21% James A. Alissi # Jennifer Large Bowman Denise E. Brodey Mary Stumpf DellaRusso # Rachel Faulise Elizabeth Bower Foley # Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin # Jeffrey S. Gitlin #

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Daniel E. Goldberg # Jordan M. Googins Beth M. Hirschfeld Amy Kraczkowsky Hull # Charna Bortman Kaufman John M. Kaufman Mark N. Mandell # Wendy A. Mazo David I. Patron Jennifer White Pennoyer # Glenn M. Shafer David M. Shurberg Sherry J. Suisman Elizabeth M. Weisman Lori Satell Wetsman # Class of 1986 Dollars Raised: $9,470 Participation: 10% Patrick B. Brady Amy Callanan John T. Conroy Jr. # Nicole Parafioriti Haggerty Andrew C. Krugman #* Steven C. Neiditz Robert A. St. Jean Andrew G. Sziklas Rebecca M. Wheeler # Faith McGauley Whitman # John W. Zielenbach Jr. Class of 1987 Class Agent: H. Andrew Schwedel Dollars Raised: $43,250 Participation: 16% Richard L. Alleyne Melissa Rotenberg Arcaro Meryl Mandell Braunstein # Sarah Bower Bua Heidi Hoffman Gostyla # James A. Haggerty Jennifer Papa Kanaan John J. Kozlowsky David A. Later Beth Gladstone McCarthy # Cindy Lipman Mill James C. Mill Nancy J. Myerson

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Beth Doran Putnam # Brian J. Richter # Kimberly A. Roach # H. Andrew Schwedel Gerin Stevens Class of 1988 Class Agent: Russell A. Delldonna Dollars Raised: $9,400 Participation: 13% Hilary Budlong Allen R. Craig Aronson Russell A. Delldonna # James F. Febeo Jr. Eric A. Federman # Michael C. Gitlin Phuong Hue Dang # Gilbert E. Keegan III # Christopher E. Larkin Jonathan A. Lipton # Mark A. Milewski # Maribeth Fish Miliauskas Gina P. Nelson Susan Krutt Promislo Jennifer Steckler Reisner Bonnie Kraus Scranton # John Y. Wang Class of 1989 Dollars Raised: $3,825 Participation: 9% John J. Alissi # Eric D. Batchelder # Meghan C. Burns Charles A. Cavo Karen L. Febeo # Matthew T. Levy # Kirsten M. Lundeberg Brendan McDonald Kelly Murphy Mulderry Maureen J. Murphy # Peter A. Nigro # John A. Schuster # Class of 1990 Class Agent: Todd A. Sherbacow Dollars Raised: $7,925

Participation: 11% Scott P. Aronson # Sujit Chawla Erin O’Brien Choquette Robert B. Choquette Jo-anne Alissi Cosgriff Wendy E. Davidson Joanne Marks Dragunoff Lee A. Gold Kimberly Karp Krieble # Nicole Boudreau Papas Caroline Dorr Reinke Todd A. Sherbacow Class of 1991 Class Agent: Robert M. Elliott II Dollars Raised: $13,909 Participation: 16% Kevin A. Baumert Wendy Scranton Baumert Theodore Bromley # Jessica Hild Collins # Robert M. Elliott II # Scott C. Farrell John P. Godbout # Fred J. Krieble # Margot W. Moses Helder P. Pereira # Brett H. Rubin # Joanna Santa Ana Sarion Stacey L. Silver Cari Siegal Walker Edward R. Wasielewski Keith J. Wolff # Class of 1992 Dollars Raised: $1,745 Participation: 14% Cheryl L. Abbott Kimberly Monzeglio Anania Caesar A. Anderson Pamela J. Bittner David S. Brennan Amy Woolwich Courtney Brendon J. DeSimone Mark S. Einhorn Arthur T. Gola

Ann B. Mulcahy # Matthew E. Nareff David R. Quick Jeffrey S. Rivard Nicole M. Shea Sarah Hamlin Walsh Class of 1993 Class Agent: Suzanne Lipton Jacoby Dollars Raised: $1,675 Participation: 12% Emily Lips Brenner Leigh Hird Ferrantino Margaret B. Fuller Nicole Chorches Greenblatt Katherine Godbout Hurley Suzanne Lipton Jacoby Lance Lee # Seth I. Levine Robert J. Rice Carolyn Cohen Stockwell Heather Scarritt Willis Class of 1994 Dollars Raised: $1,440 Participation: 14% Johvonne Price Claybourne Rahul Kanwar Courtney B. Larkin Mara Kennedy Montante Jessica Caley Rice Mark R. Salerno Andrew F. Schoolnik Gregory J. Scranton #* Jeremy D. Seidman Tara Meyer Ulrich Jennifer Conrad Wedeles # Thomas K. Wedeles # Class of 1995 Dollars Raised: $3,370 Participation: 13% Joshua M. Benet Margaret S. Fitzpatrick Michael S. Grossman # Stephen H. C. Kraus # Kathleen Fowler Michaud

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Amias Moore Gerety # Jacqueline E. Jordan Beth Carasso Spector

Class of 1996 Class Agents: Kimberly Fernandez Conrad, Mark D. Conrad and Victoria Hatch Kramer Dollars Raised: $8,615 Participation: 16% Aisling Clohessy Bier Alison Zinn Bush # Amanda Chiarappa Candy # Kimberly Fernandez Conrad Mark D. Conrad James S. Friedman Marissa Kreh Gingeleskie # Victoria Hatch Kramer # Benjamin W. Messmore Katherine Rein Muhlenkamp Michelle Reinke Neblett # Caroline T. Nguyen

Class of 1999 Class Agent: E. Brooks Loomis Dollars Raised: $1,505 Participation: 11% Ann M. Calvert # Virginia R. Griffen Jared J. Grise Heather Crispin Polk Tyler B. Polk Afsah Quadri Kristin L. Reinke # Ian P. Zweig

Class of 1997 Class Agent: Daniel M. Shulman Dollars Raised: $3,500 Participation: 16% Karl A. Baumert Meaghan Cahill Becker # Alicia Rinaldi Boyd Durelle L. Brown Jennifer Lombardi Darnowski Jamie M. Dwyer Michelle Greenfield Greenhut Robbie H. Jackter Daniel M. Shulman # Michael J. Vallee Class of 1998 Dollars Raised: $758 Participation: 16% Katherine R. Bradley Edward K. Corcoran Ryan T. Cronin # Joshua A. Decker # Matthew R. Dougherty

Class of 2000 Class Agents: Andrew W. Briggie and Mariah Klaneski Reisner Dollars Raised: $1,700 Participation: 10% Benjamin J. Cordiano # Kristen Roy Cordiano # Ageliki E. Georgopoulos Susan Keppelman Harcourt # Sarah Dwyer Jakeway Brian D. Lee Mariah Klaneski Reisner # Clinton S. Rickards II Patrick A. Rockefeller # Class of 2001 Class Agents: James S. Bookwalter and Daniel N. Buch Dollars Raised: $1,077 Participation: 8% James S. Bookwalter Ryan M. Brodeur Daniel N. Buch # John H. Kraft Erica M. Marrero # William R. Peelle III

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Class of 2002 Class Agents: Sarah B. Bookwalter and Molly M. Dworkin Dollars Raised: $2,650 Participation: 16% Christopher A. J. Aiello Meghan J. Berry Sarah B. Bookwalter # Molly M. Dworkin # John A. Dwyer Jonathan A. Landsberg # Evan O’Hara Elisabeth Pierce Passeri Grace Clark Pekkala Eloise A. Rarey Brian D. Rose # Christopher R. Shea # Alexander B. Wilde Class of 2003 Class Agents: Charles P. Bellingrath and Christopher G. Gent Dollars Raised: $1,910 Participation: 18% Charles P. Bellingrath # Melissa Cianciolo Jonathan L. Cohen Kathleen W. DiSanto* Alexander Doucette Christopher G. Gent Jr. # Michael H. Gladstone Christopher P. Kofoed Eric T. Malinowski David L. Marshall Alexander J. Maulucci Kevin D. May # Tyler Norsworthy Samuel G. Peelle Deanna B. Tocco-Saadat Matthew Wheeler Class of 2004 Class Agent: David A. Baker Dollars Raised: $995 Participation: 13% David A. Baker #*

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William A. Crowe Brittany Davis Ellen P. Fitzgibbon Carolyn Marziali Houlihan Christopher M. Houlihan Frederick J. Jones Tyrone G. Kline Amanda Brouillet Maggiore Marsha N. Mather Aimee W. Pont Christopher M. Reilly Class of 2005 Dollars Raised: $605 Participation: 5% Blake T. Berman # Nina Jacobson Caruso # Chelsea Banks Craigie Brenton N. Speed Class of 2006 Class Agents: Bomani R. Brown, Jeffrey J. Giuffrida, Stephen J. Quish, Addison J. Rosenbluth, and Katharine Donnarummo Schachter Dollars Raised: $956 Participation: 14% Lindsay Repp Armstrong Samuel M. Bellingrath # Kevin Coscarelli Jeffrey J. Giuffrida Aerin Sadowski Haskos Bennett T. Hires Sarah N. Mather # Thomas R. Obando Jessica Rodrick Katharine Donnarummo Schacter # Meredith Maffett Taylor # Kevin J. Thorson # Class of 2007 Class Agent: Rachel L. Meddar Dollars Raised: $1,545 Participation: 15% Mary R. Benoit Brett P. Champlin Sara A. Goldstein

Brian C. Henry Natalie H. Kotkin # Jared A. Lambert Christopher D. McKay # Rachel L. Meddar Julia C. Meo Zachary C. Paley # Jennifer M. Shumway # Jacquelyn E. Simons Uma A. Tantri

Melanie M. da Costa Michael J. DeFilippo # Calvin A. Hills IV Emily J. Kim # Emma J. Levin Patricia J. Murphy Samuel J. Paley # Lisa Reddy

Class of 2008 Class Agents: Katherine C. Gent, Ricardo A. Hernandez and Yuri P. Min Dollars Raised: $2,516 Participation: 23% Alexandra L. Barry Hannah H. Beller # Kaitlyn L. Dell’Aquila Mitchell T. DeLorenzo Kenneth G. DeSimone Matthew J. Farrell Katherine C. Gent # Jonathan B. Guest Andrew C. Jones # Christopher J. Kasprak Brett M. Lerner Yuri P. Min # Abigail Googel Niziankiewicz Derek K. Niziankiewicz James V. Paldino II Kimberly R. Parsons # Jeffrey A. Pinciak Jonathan A. Reilly # Alison R. Romano # John S. Varrone Class of 2009 Class Agents: Taylor E. Barlow, Christopher R. Chiappetti, Melanie M. da Costa, Emily J. Kim, and Cara E. McSweeney Dollars Raised: $4,010 Participation: 12% Jessica A. Anavim Taylor E. Barlow # Thomas W. Bellingrath # Christopher R. Chiappetti #

Class of 2010 Class Agents: Brandon T. Batory, Patrick P. Dowling-Logue, Elizabeth R. Guerrera, and Shravan Rao Dollars Raised: $450 Participation: 10% Brandon T. Batory Theodore O. Brundage Michael Coulom Elizabeth R. Guerrera Benjamin R. McKay # Sarah E. Petersen Shravan Rao Rebecca A. Silvers Class of 2011 Class Agents: Emily J. Howard and Jennifer L. Townsend Dollars Raised: $2,885 Participation: 15% Jacquelyn Amenta # James B. Barlow Kristen J. Barry Savannah E. Berger Victoria M. Eatherton Matthew R. Gauthier # Chloe M. Glover Emily J. Howard Edward B. Miller Aaron R. Paley # Emma J. Pinney Thomas E. Romano # Claudia B. Silvers Jennifer L. Townsend Class of 2012 Class Agent: Alexander C. Roth Dollars Raised: $570 Participation: 20%

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Ty J. Adams J. Maclean Bellingrath Erin Casey Claudenae J. Cousins Jacqueline A. Dunn Flinn B. Esselstyn Thomas A. Giardini Dana F. Levin Gabriel T. Lorenzo Jameson F. McKeown Carolyn E. Mitchell Kathleen E. Morgan Hunter B. Morgan Marcus J. Pugliese Alexander C. Roth Michele M. Ruffee Ben S. Shoham Jason E. Stein Nicole A. Wetsman Class of 2013 Class Agents: Eleanor B. Hayes, Patrick Kilkenny, and Marissa E. Landino Dollars Raised: $325 Participation: 8% Taylor J. Brady Samuel Hammer Patrick Kilkenny # Blake C. Randall Shelby Smith Mark Toubman Class of 2014 Dollars Raised: $2,470 Participation: 10% Watson R. Collins IV Catherine P. Eatherton Grace E. Jarmoc Caroline R. Kaufman Allison H. Kyff Elijah K. Langston Spencer T. Martin Rachel M. Paley John T. Sullivan

Class of 2015 Dollars Raised: $1,345 Participation: 4% Sophia C. Harrison David C. Shafer Molly C. Sullivan Ryan J. Wetsman Class of 2016 Dollars Raised: $150 Participation: 2% Nicolas C. Bisgaard Brittany Schwartz

Gifts by Constituencies C U R R E N T PA R E N TS

Charlene M. Dufresne-Achatz and Michael J. Achatz Jennifer and David Albanesi Julie and Richard L. Alleyne ’87 Rikki and James Altman Laura and Robert Amenta Meryth Andrews Coleen and Victor Antico Asha Appel* and Nikolaus Kashey Deanna and Peter M. Appleton ’81 Jennifer and David A. Arcesi Katina and Glenn Arnold Nicole and R. Craig Aronson ’88 Hayriye and Hikmet Aslan Renee and Fred Autorino Judith Lindsay Bailey ’82* and William R. Bailey Michele and Howard N. Baker Donna* and William Balcezak Anne and David J. Barry Wendy and Richard Bates Elizabeth Schiro and Stephen L. Bayer Jodie L. Sprague and Jonathan D. Beck Linda and Jeffrey Becker Nancy and Douglas Beerbower Eileen Godbout and Michael Betts Monica and Dennis Bisgaard* Mary and William Boardman Tammi Jackson-Bolden and Shawn D. Bolden

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Nancy Loughlin and Warren Boley Kristina and Michael V. Borruso Lily and Edward Bowen Lynne Tapper and Leland J. Brandt Meryl Mandell Braunstein ’87 and Scott Braunstein Dwayne Bray Natalie Bray Jill and Leigh S. Brezenoff Annemarie and Daniel Britt Christine and Matthew F. Bromberg Amy and Robert Brough Sandy and Steven H. Brown ’83 Carrie and John M. Brunalli Heather and Andrew G. Bucknam ’82 Kerri M. Willis and Matthew Budzik Peta and John B. Burke III ’84 Laurie and Robert Burstein Erin and Steven Cannata* Christine and John Capodice Mary and Robert J. Carangelo Eileen and Christopher Carroll Julia and Peter Casey Yecenia and Noel Casiano Melinda and Gregory M. Castanza Michelle and Charles A. Cavo ’89 Lynn Mather Charette ’82 and John A. Charette Hee Lee and Byung J. Cho Clara and Doug H. Choo Leslie and Philip Civitello Amy and Brian Clark Heather and Michael Clifford Claudia R. Coplein Maria and Nelson Correa Heidi and John Cotter Karen and Christopher Coxon Meredith* and Matthew W. Crowther Tracy Bernard and Kenneth R. Cyr Monica and Matthew Dallahan Patricia and Eric Daniels Danielle and Chris Danler Sheila and Patrick C. Dawson Jacqueline T. Jamsheed and John M. M. de Rham ’83 Karen L. Diaz Corinne Schwartz and Frank DiBacco Patricia E. Brett and Dawn M. DiMauro

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Carole and Burke Doar Susannah Byrne and Brian Dowgieiwicz Claudia Baio-Downes and Robert T. Downes Laura* and Michael Doyle Valerie and Donald R. Dugan Jr. Karen and John Eckert Anne S. Bingham and Theodore C. Esselstyn Martha Vergera and Carlos Feged Allison P. Fenton Christine and Patrick Fernald Andrea Ferrucci and Craig Raabe Helen and Eric P. Fisher Kari Flash and Michael Clarke Shelly and Patrick Flynn Jennifer and Glenn Forslund Amy and Glenn A. Frankel Zengdi Zhuang and Yongda Fu Michelle Gagnon Sharon N. Gaskin* Jodi and Charles Gendrich Kathleen M. Ward and Elena M. Gervino Michelle and Mark A. Gibson Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin ’85 and Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85 Gail and William D. Goddard Monica and Lee A. Gold ’90 Jodi Pimentle and James Goldschlager Sandra* and Michael E. Goss Heidi Hoffman Gostyla ’87 and Jeffrey F. Gostyla Lisa and Steven N. Gould Marcey J. Grade Ron Grade Laura and Mark Gravel Stephanie and Michael V. Greco Debra and Joseph L. Hammer ’78 Christina and Arash Hamzavi Christine and Joshua Hawks-Ladds Tonya and Anthony Healis Carol and Martin Henry Kerrie and Mark A. Henry Jennifer and Randy Herz Allison T. Hild ’82 and Paul Petrie Emily G. Holcombe ’70 Kristine and Peter M. Holland Lauren Phoenix and James Holley

Toby and Cecil Hudson Nahaleh and Bahram Issari Heather Hills Jacobs ’84 and Brian Jacobs Erica and Randall James Karen and Stephen M. Jarmoc Andre Jett Medina Jett Sandy and Brion Johnson Kerry and Peter W. Jones* Denise and Seth Kalkstein Jennifer Papa Kanaan ’87 and Joseph Kanaan Tania and Srikant Kashyap Charna Bortman Kaufman ’85 and John M. Kaufman ’85 Anne Marie and Thomas E. Kilkenny Shea and John Kinney Sally and Keith Knowles Mary and John Koduah Grace and Jonathan Korn Bonnie Scranton ’88 and Alexander Kraus* Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Karalyn Kinsella and Andrew C. Krugman ’86* Barbara Tsumagari and Ronald Kuivila Deborah Dietzer and Gregory W. Kulak Maureen and Howard Lantner Jean and Benedict P. LaTorre Jr. Amanda and Michael P. Layden Kathleen and Michael LeGeyt Susan and David J. Lemkuil Elaine and Jerry Leshem Jannine and Ed Leshem Wendy and Howard Levinbook Sharon and Kenneth Levine Lorraine J. Trow and Dennis M. Loughran Anne Marie MacFaddin Panadda Chirakul-Madden and Thomas Madden Shital and Kaushik J. Makati Merrill and Mark N. Mandell ’85 Lisa and Matthew March Elisa Griego and Paul J. Marottolo Lisa and Brian Marshall Mary S. Martin ’77 and Jeffrey A. Amell

Elena C. Diaz and Juan Martinez* Muniba Masood Karen and Daniel Mastella Heidi and Bradley K. Mathis Kelly Mazo Karen and Kevin McCusker Maryann and Thomas J. McGuire Jillian and Paul McLaughlin Nancy and Sean McMahon Claudia and Charles McPherson Jr. Chelsea and Adam Meikle Eileen and Douglas Melody Anila and Mohammed A. Memon Alexandra Muchura-Mensah and Sarfo K. Mensah Sheri Caplan and Kenneth Merkatz Sarah and Peter Meshanic Margaret and Donald Mick Rachna and Kamlesh Mistri Stacey and Stephen R. Moore Shobhana and Ronald Naik Shwetha and Ram Narayan Lalita Ramesh and Venkata Natarajan Dina and Marc Nathan Sonila Noga and Gene Nenshati Jodi and Anthony Oh Deborah and Michael T. O’Loughlin Eric and Megan Ouellette Cynthia Clancy and Douglas Ovian Jennie and Henry Paszczuk Kathryn Emond-Patenaude and Michael Patenaude Patricia Flanagan and Brian Pear Jennifer and Steven Pelletier Jennifer White Pennoyer ’85 and William P. Pennoyer Michelle and Mark Peterson Lakkitta and Sengsavath Phouthakoun Barbara and Marek Pilecki Mary and Robert Place Cathleen Shine and Richard D. Pomp Lara and Mark Poulios Diane and William S. Pratt Emira and Dorjan Puka Theresa and Joseph Ravalese III ’79 Melissa and Thomas J. Regan Elisabeth* and Timothy Repp Maricele and Charles Riemann

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Adrian Brown and Kurt Roggendorf Stacy Silk Rome ’79 and David Rome Patricia and Scott Roth Kristen and Glenn Rowland Zina and Timur Ruban Jacquelyn Rubin-Isenberg* and Gary Isenberg Immad Sadiq Trish and Arthur Schaller Jr. Elizabeth and Kristofer Schumacher Laurel and Steve Schwartz Susan and Gregory Seaver Anna and David W. Seymour ’84 Dana Greenberg and Glenn M. Shafer ’85 Laura Jones Shafer ’75 and Marc T. Shafer ’75 Elizabeth Deckers and Brian Shames Munish Shastri and Sangeeta Peshori Sheri Slobin Shea* Kimberly and Li Shi Donna and Christopher R. Sienko Carmen Sierra Binita and Parwatjit Sikand Leslie and Bruce Silvers Roberta and Bruce Singer Ellen and Lawrence Siuta Christine Pina and Alex D. Smith Kendra Lawrence and P. Davis Smith Lulu Khoosanguanchai and Kongfah Somridhivej Bonnie L. Dobkin and Peter Sonntag Deborah and John Stadelmann Denise and Johnathan Stake Gerald J. Stanton Felice Heller and Michael Steinberg Eileen and Paul G. Stephan ’81 Sheila and Trevor S. Sutton Dawn and Michael Swilling Sudha Swaminathan and Kanishka Tankala Elizabeth and Robert H. Taylor Whitney and Matthew P. Taylor John Toedt Andrea and Tony Toland Tracy Toland Melissa and Garfield Vaughn Jyoti Chhabra and Venkat Vedula Tricia* and Brian Watson

Katherine and Thomas White Meghan and David Wildstein Monique Williams Vera Smith-Winfree and Glenn M. Winfree Colleen* and Brian Woerlen Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 Julie and Mark M. Wolman Joanne and David Yandow Valencia Bagby-Young and Anthony Young Su Zheng PA R E N TS O F A LU M N I Judith and Richard I. Abraham Patricia R. Agostino Jonna Ahl Anne and Adejuwon A. Akerele Lorraine and Robert P. Albanesi Jo-anne A. Alissi Wendy and Timothy Allerton* Laura and Robert Amenta Linda Mooney Angelastro ’57 Deanna and Peter M. Appleton ’81 Lisa* and Charlie Bailey Wendy and A. Robert Baker Donna* and William Balcezak Rebecca Cole and Eric Banasiewicz Richard F. Banbury ’56 Sherry Banks-Cohn ’54 Anne and David J. Barry Beth and W. Alan Baumert ’63 Elizabeth Schiro and Stephen L. Bayer Nancy and Douglas Beerbower Adriane and Peter J. Beller Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath, Jr. ’78 Jeanne and Jay S. Benet Cheryl and John R. Benoit Laura and John A. Berman M. Suzanne and Peter J. Berry Linda and Gerard A. Berube Eileen Godbout and Michael Betts Monica and Dennis Bisgaard* Louis B. Blumenfeld Tammi Jackson-Bolden and Shawn D. Bolden Kristina and Michael V. Borruso

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Cindy and Jay M. Botwick ’76 Diane A. Boyce and Christopher Fuselier Jane and Gerald W. Brady ’46 Ellen and Mark A. Bram Amy and Edward J. Brennan Jr. Maggie and Dennis P. Brennan ’71 Susan and William E. Breslau Gertrude and Louis Brown Sally and Philip S. Brown Jr. ’57 Sandy and Steven H. Brown ’83 Emily and Peter S. Buch Janet and Richard C. Buckley Jr. ’47 Ann H. Bucknam Victoria and Edgar B. Butler Jr. ’63 Dorothy Byrne Carol and Richard M. Caley ’62 Mary and Robert J. Carangelo Carol-Lynne and Joseph Casey Lynn Mather Charette ’82 and John A. Charette Cheryl A. Chase and Stuart D. Bear Kathleen Chase Sandra and Arnold L. Chase Ann Marie and D. Vincent Cherrone Lydia and Mario J. Chiappetti Martha and Richard J. Chiarappa* Jonathan T. Clapp Douglas W. Clark ’70 Joel H. Cohen ’63 Allen V. Collins Beth Ann and Watson R. Collins III Mark S. Conley Jeanne and William D. Conrad Jr. Claudia R. Coplein Carol and Matthew Courtney Aline and Thomas K. Cronin Debra and James M. Davis Stephanie and James DeFilippo Nina C. Del Turco Linda and Robert Demers Janice and Christopher R. Deskus Irene DeVivo Patricia and Donald A. DeVivo ’80 Catherine and George S. Diehl III Sally and G. Dale Dionne ’63 Donna and Thomas M. Divine George A. Dixon, Jr. ’66 Susan and James O. Donaldson

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James M. Doran Glenn B. Dorr, Jr. Maureen and James E. Dougherty J. Morton Dunn ’44 Helen and James W. Eatherton ’79 Lois and E. Michael Ellovich Anthony W. Erdman ’47 Anne S. Bingham and Theodore C. Esselstyn Laura and George L. Estes III ’67 Cyndi and Frederick S. Farquhar ’59 Anita and Salvatore Faulise Stephanie and Richard D. Fischer Helen and Eric P. Fisher Frances and William C. Fitts III Martha and Daniel L. Fitzmaurice Eileen and Patrick J. Flaherty ’51 Molly and Gordon B. Fowler Amy and Glenn A. Frankel Karen and Bruce J. Franklin Susan and Robert M. Furek Roxannah Gallagher Gerald Garfield Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Kathleen M. Ward and Elena M. Gervino Jacqueline and Robert J. Gfeller Mary Ann Pearson Gianni ’81 and Joseph R. Gianni ’78 Ninna and Sebastian Gianni Concettina and Peter W. Gillies Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin ’85 and Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85 Nancy and Richard A. Gitlin Elizabeth Brainard Glassco ’48 Eileen and Charles Glassmire Jr. Marilyn and Paul W. Glover Gail and William D. Goddard Francine and Robert B. Goldfarb Julie and Ethan Goldman Rae Ellen and Laurence J. Goldstein Rosemarie and Frederick D. Goodman* Carol and Robert J. Googins + Joan and Timothy J. Grace Nancy and Peter C. Grassilli Diane and Lawrence Greenfield Paula and James Greenfield

Eunice Strong Groark ’56 and Thomas J. Groark John M. Grocki ’62 Veronica Makowsky and Jeffrey C. Gross Susan and Karl F. Haberlandt Thelma and Robert J. Halloran Jr. Debra and Joseph L. Hammer ’78 Anne Bartholomew and Gregory A. Hanson* Kathy Hayes and John C. Hanson Jacqueline Pisani* and Christopher Harrison Barbara and Charles A. Hartigan ’71 Jean A. Hartigan Paula and Jeffrey A. Hathaway Dorothy + and Louis Hatry + Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 + and Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 + Lynn and Stephen B. Hazard Richard Healey Louise Healey Pamela J. Dowling ’78 and James T. Healey Jr. ’78 Kathleen and Richard I. Hemingway ’67 Jane Keller Herzig ’60 and Edward Herzig Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Allison T. Hild ’82 and Paul Petrie Alyce and David H. Hild Susan and David N. Hild ’80* Sally Walton Hills ’57 and Calvin A. Hills Donna and Jeffrey B. Hires Barbara K. Hoffman Beverly and Timothy A. Holt Dorothy and Kimball H. Hunt Nancy and John J. Jacobson Karen and Stephen M. Jarmoc Andre Jett Medina Jett Joseph W. Johnson Leslie and Frederick J. Jones Jr. Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones ’52 Margaret* and John Kasprak Charna Bortman Kaufman ’85 and John M. Kaufman ’85 Elizabeth and Gilbert E. Keegan Jr. Anne Marie and Thomas E. Kilkenny Dolores Killeen Diane and John Y. Kim

Kirstie and Peter K. Kofoed Bonnie Scranton ’88 and Alexander Kraus* Eileen + and Harold C. Kraus Ruth and David Krugman Robert S. Kyff* Kathryn and Peter C. Lange Nancy and Mark Langston Janet and Christopher Larsen Jean and Benedict P. LaTorre Jr. Susan and David J. Lemkuil Elaine and Jerry Leshem Margarita and Brian J. Lessard Penny Leto Linda and Alan J. Levin Lynne* and Theodore C. Levine* Janet and Paul A. Lewis Kyle and Edward W. Lincoln Jr. Mary + and Stewart Lindsay Jr. Margah and Thomas D. Lips Lorraine J. Trow and Dennis M. Loughran Gail and Stephen P. Lowe Lynne A. Lumsden ’65 and Jon H. Harden Pamela Taxel and Roger D. Luskind Linda and Austin T. Lydon Barbara and Baxter H. Maffett ’68 S. John Malinowski Jill and Patrick J. Maloney Nancy W. Marikar Peter A. Mark Lisa and Douglas A. Martin William B. Martin Sandra J. Mather Joseph C. Mayo ’47 E. Merritt McDonough ’51 Elsee and Thomas A. McEachin Maryann and Thomas J. McGuire Jillian and Paul McLaughlin Marjorie and Peyton H. Mead ’45 Mary Ellen and David C. Mellen Eileen and Douglas Melody Kimberley* and Clayton J. Miles* Susan and Robert M. Miller Louise and John W. Moses ’63 Barbara and Lanny Moskowitz Nancy and John F. Mulcahy Jr.

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Marie and Steven G. Mulkern Janet and Robert H. Murphy Jr. ’62 June E. Murray Patricia and Anthony W. Neidlinger ’62 Elaine and David G. Nord Avra G. Novarr Harriet S. Noyes Amy and John C. Nulsen Robert S. O’Brien Carolyn and James V. Paldino Luanne and Mark Paley Rosemarie and John S. Papa Jennie and Henry Paszczuk Elizabeth and Raymond J. Payne Agnes and William R. Peelle Jr. Jennifer White Pennoyer ’85 and William P. Pennoyer Lisa Christensen Petersen ’74 and Raymond E. Petersen Jr. ’74 Barbara and Wayne Pierce* Diane and William S. Pratt Barbara and Kevin Prout Nancy Letney-Pugliese and Lewis J. Pugliese Jr. Linda J. Quick Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall Jean and Joseph Ravalese Jr. ’51 + Theresa and Joseph Ravalese III ’79 Elizabeth and Michael J. Reilly Jane* and Whitney S. Repp David B. Reynolds ’44 Faye Rachlin and Gary S. Richards Yvonne and R. Craig Robinson Monica and Avery Rockefeller III Marilyn C. Rockwell Lisa and Phillip Y. Roland Lisa and Paul F. Romano Vicki and Richard B. Rosenthal Maureen Rotenberg Katherine and Robert A. Roth ’78 Jacquelyn Rubin-Isenberg* and Gary Isenberg Elizabeth Stedman Russell ’50 Nancy A. Salerno Maureen and Duane A. Sanders Richard Scheuch Kimberly Lucey and James A. Schoenadel

Lesli and Scott M. Schwartz ’76 Nancy L. Schwartz Christine L. Scranton Brenda* and Mark A. Semmelrock Laura Jones Shafer ’75 and Marc T. Shafer ’75 Sheri Slobin Shea* Laurel Cole and Christopher Sheehan Janet + and John M. Sherfinski Denise and Richard J. Shima Dana and Charles J. Shimkus Jr. ’78 Wendi and Michael Shook Ruth Kaufman Shulansky ’50 Joan and Richard C. Shumway Susan and Joseph Sikora Kathleen and James J. Skiff Jeanne and Richard S. Smith Jr. Nancy* and Elliot N. Solomon Sharon and William G. Speed IV Julia and William J. Stack Jr. ’72 Karin and William K. Stahl Charles H. Stamm ’56 Gerald J. Stanton Marilyn and James H. Steane II ’62 Felice Heller and Michael Steinberg Henry Steiner II Nancy Weinstein and Robert J. Stiehler Lorraine and David H. Stone ’59 Christine and John F. Sullivan Christine I. Sullivan Rachel Ivker and Dennis J. Sullivan Marilyn and Les R. Tager Sudha Swaminathan and Kanishka Tankala Elizabeth and Robert H. Taylor Kim and William B. Thomson ’71 Kristine and Robert M. Thorson Marcia and Tyler C. Tingley ’64 Joseph A. Tocco S.Victoria and Robert W. Trainer ’67 Mary and Dean J. Tulumaris Katrina and Elvin D. Turner Dorothy and Richard S. Tuthill Danielle and Robert D. Udolf ’79 Elizabeth and Peter A. Van Loon Elizabeth and Gerard Vecchio Laura and Francis X. Vigliatura Elisa L. Villa

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Lynn and John Wadhams Leslie P. Waite Donna and Lee R. Wenzel Lori Satell Wetsman ’85 and David Wetsman Bridget and Michael A. Wheeler Margaret and Michael G. Wheeler Katherine and Thomas White Paula and Brian D. Whitney Frazier B. Wilde + Holly and F. Scott Wilson Penny and John A. T. Wilson ’56 Lewis K. Wise ’65 Lisa C. Kugelman and Roy H. Wiseman Colleen* and Brian Woerlen Julie and Mark M. Wolman Martin Wolman Shumei Kuo and Jon Zeu Wu Joanne and David Yandow Helen and John C. Yavis, Jr. Beverly Ravalese Yirigian ’80 and Robert Yirigian Andrea and William E. Zabel Susan Gross Zielenbach ’61 and J. William Zielenbach Doreen Fundiller-Zweig and Elliot C. Zweig G R A N D PA R E N TS Lorraine and Robert P. Albanesi Marie and Salvatore Amenta Susan Safford Andrews ’54 and Robert N. Andrews Elizabeth H. Atwood Mary and Chris Bannon Carol-Ann and J. Bruce Barlow Joan and Robert D. Batting Laura and John A. Berman George Borruso Jane and Gerald W. Brady ’46 Gertrude and Louis Brown Carol and John Brunalli Barbara M. Buckley Ann H. Bucknam Kathleen C. Burnett Violet and Nicholas L. Cannata Kay and Philip D. Carestia Ann Marie and D. Vincent Cherrone

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Marjorie and Gordon S. Cohen Robert J. Colliton Irene DeVivo Kathy Ellavsky Pamela Ellavsky Linda and Stewart Everard Constance and Sebastian J. Gallo Phyllis and Myron Genel Ninna and Sebastian Gianni Nancy and Richard A. Gitlin Diane and Lawrence Greenfield Marguerite and William Griego Jean A. Hartigan Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 + and Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 + Louise Healey Estelle Heller Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Alyce and David H. Hild Barbara K. Hoffman Noel J. Holland Margaret and DeWitt C. Jones III Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones ’52 Wendy Coyle and Costa Kanis Elisabeth and Robert Kashey Leach Kelly Kevin Kinsella Ruth and David Krugman Ann and Casimir Kulak Barbara and Charles Lavallee Mary and Robert C. Lawrence III Mary and Stewart Lindsay Jr. William B. Martin Teresa and Edward Mastella Sandra J. Mather E. Merritt McDonough ’51 Ann and John McGovern Jayne and Michael McLaughlin Robert S. O’Brien Eva Overchuk Diana and Karney Ovian Rosemarie and John S. Papa Louise and Michael Pear Mattie and Bobby Pierce Cynthia Pina Ann and Ralph Polley Jean and Joseph Ravalese Jr. ’51 + Cornelia Landon Russell ’46

Caryl Ryan Nancy L. Schwartz Christine L. Scranton Jyotsna and Sudhir Shah Patricia and Charles Shimkus Barbara Slobin and Al Rosenfield Ellen and Anthony W. Tabell Caroline and Kenneth H. Taylor Jr. Alene and Mac Toedt Helen and Tony Toland Alfred Villa Britt and David C. Warner ’56 Lillian Kilkenny and Don Weinstein Gail and Joel Wildstein Chris and Greg Williamson Carolyn K. Winn Ursula and Herb Woerlen FRIENDS AND OTHERS Anonymous Eleanor Adams Karen Altieri Kurt Bock Eileen and Leo Bonetti Tricia Cietek Mrs. William Furnivall Joanne and Fred Hull Tamara Kribs and Jason P. Jarvis Katherine A. Johnston Brandon Kurtich Kathryn and Gary Kurtich Mercedese E. Large Robert McGurgan Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company Jane and David C. Robinson Stacey Schreiber Jane and Henry Weinberg Jessica and Eric M. Zachs Judith Zachs Henry Zachs Elizabeth and Fred M. H. Ziter Jr. F A C U LT Y A N D S T A F F Timothy Allerton William Amarante Asha Appel Judith Lindsay Bailey ’82 Lisa P. Bailey

Kata and David A. Baker ’04 Donna Balcezak Kristen J. Barry ’11 Daniel Bateson Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78 Dean Bellmay Rebecca T. Benavides Dennis Bisgaard Amy Bosco Jonathan T. Briggs Steven Cannata Andrew Carr Richard J. Chiarappa Peggy Clark Alan R. Comrie Mark Conklin Erika Ahrens Costantini Jessica Crouch Meredith Crowther Tracy L. Deeter Natalie Demers Roy A. DeMoura Kathleen W. DiSanto ’03 Anna Dolan Judy Dondero Laura A. Doyle Donna Dudzik D. Scott Dunbar Kathryn A. Dunn Erik Durr Joan M. Edwards Blair Elliott Jennifer Faubert Debbie Fiske Jessica Fowler Denise and Ronald Garcia Joshua Garrison Sharon N. Gaskin William Gilyard Frederick D. Goodman Sandra Goss Katherine Grossweiner Gregory A. Hanson Suzanne Hayes David N. Hild ’80 Danielle Hoff Peter W. Jones Margaret T. Kasprak

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Nicole Kimball Julie Kindl Matthew I. Kocay Alexander Kraus Andrew C. Krugman ’86 Meghan A. Kurtich Robert S. Kyff Lynne and Theodore C. Levine Natalie and Noah Lynd Charles Macksoud Sherri Malinoski Lawrence Marciano Juan Martinez Carolyn F. McKee Stephanie McQueen Kimberley and Clayton J. Miles Todd Millen Steven Mitchell Ronald Monroe Katherine Nicholson Alison O’Donnell Wayne Pierce Rudite E. Pilpel Jacqueline Pisani Timothy Randall Carolee Remme Elisabeth Repp Jane H. Repp Criste Rhea Jacquelyn Rubin-Isenberg Zaira O. Santiago Catherine Schieffelin Lynn Schork Ann L. Sciglimpaglia Gregory J. Scranton ’94 Brenda A. Semmelrock Sheri Slobin Shea Nancy Solomon Randy F. Stabile Scott Tang Sarah Thomsen Stacey Tomkiel Christopher Vicevich Tricia Watson Heather Wayne Jennifer and James Weeks Kristen Weldon Ya-yi Weng

Holly Westfall Colleen M. Woerlen FORMER/EMERITI AND STAFF Jo-anne A. Alissi Marie T. Bernatchez Dennis P. Brennan ’71 Emily Lips Brenner ’93 F. Graham Brown ’63 Carol and Richard M. Caley ’62 Jonathan T. Clapp George A. Dixon Jr. ’66 Laurette and H. Benjamin Duke III Martha Fitzmaurice Emily Van Dyck Frederick ’77 Charles Glassmire Jr. Robert J. Googins + Susan M. Haberlandt Florence C. Hare Barbara F. Hartigan Benjamin J. Hildebrand Lorna Hunter Joseph W. Johnson Christopher J. Kasprak ’08 Thea Harovas Leach ’83 Stewart Lindsay Jr. Janet Mowry Loffredo Cyprian L. Martin David C. Mellen Louise and John W. Moses ’63 Margot W. Moses ’91 Robert S. O’Brien James O’Donnell Barbara J. Prine Linda J. Quick Michelle and Matthew Ruffle Bonnie Kraus Scranton ’88 Jane Daly Seaberg John M. Sherfinski Kathleen and James J. Skiff Robert J. Stiehler Dennis J. Sullivan Tyler C. Tingley ’64 Nicholas Todd Stephen H. Watters ’66

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CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS Aetna Foundation Inc. Affineco LLC. The Auerbach Schiro Foundation Ayco Charitable Foundation Big Bucket LLC Blum Shapiro Foundation Inc. Boston Color Graphics The Byrne Foundation Inc. The Cape Cod Foundation The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc. Sandra and Arnold Chase Family Foundation Choate Hall & Stewart LLP Combined Jewish Philanthropies Community Foundation of North Central Washington Community Foundation of Northern Colorado DonateWell The Dornam Foundation Doro Restaurant Group Federman, Lally & Remis LLC Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fiduciary Investment Advisors FIP Construction Inc. First Insure Inc. The Fischbach Foundation Furek Family Foundation Harry E. Goldfarb Family Foundation Inc. Graham Anthony Trust Fund Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Hills Family Foundation Hinding Tennis LLC James Baker Design James G. Rogers Architects PC Jarvis Group Inc Jewish Community Endowment Fund Jewish Community Foundation Greater Hartford John and Diane Kim Foundation John Doar Foundation Kelly Family Foundation Inc. Learned-Preston Foundation William and Ellen Macristy Foundation

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The Maple Tree Fund Maximum Beverage General William Mayer Foundation Middlecott Foundation Mountain View Landscape LLC NEFCO Corp Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program The Old Stones Foundation Inc. The Owenoke Foundation Painting & Decorating Inc. Pure Marketing Puritan Furniture Mart Inc. Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc Robinson & Cole LLP Santa Barbara Foundation Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving The Schwedel Foundation Shimkus, Murphy & Lemkuil Inc. The Shulansky Foundation Inc. Suburban Commercial Inc. T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation Tabell Family Foundation Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Prospect Fund The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Thornedge Foundation Travelers Companies Truist UBS Financial Services United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut Valley United Way Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Vernon K. Krieble Foundation Alfred N. Watson Family Foundation Wells Fargo Community Support Foundation Zachs Family Foundation Inc.

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS Aetna Foundation Inc. Allstate Bank of America Private Bank Chubb & Son Inc. CIGNA Foundation Matching Gifts Program Disney Corporation Fidelity Foundation Matching Gifts Program IBM Corporation Lilly Endowment Inc. Marsh & McLennan Companies Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation Inc. MFS Investment Management Morgan Stanley Foundation Northwestern Mutual Foundation Inc. Pfizer Foundation State Street Corporation The Walt Disney Foundation Company United Technologies Corporation Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program GIFTS-IN-KIND Mary Britcher Dattco Patricia and Donald A. DeVivo ’80 Bonnie Huang James B. Lyon ’48 Ronit and Scott Shoham Laura and George C. Springer Jr.

Capital and Endowment Giving

ENDOWED FUNDS LIST Dorothy Crawford Anderson and Buist Murfee Anderson Memorial Fund Karen M. Anderson Harriet Kirk Bidgood ’45 Fund Kirk Bidgood

Black & Crimson Gala Mariah Klaneski Reisner ’00 Charles W. Collins Award Jared A. Collins ’88 Tristram E. Collins ’82 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’75 Endowment Unrestricted I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Elizabeth and Michael J. Reilly Monica and Avery Rockefeller III Robert A. Falk ’80 Memorial Fund Steven M. Falk ’81 James Nagle, Jr. Nelson P. and Helen S. Farquhar Faculty Enrichment Fund Cyndi and Frederick S. Farquhar ’59 Financial Aid Endowment Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Robert M. Stavis ’80 Financial Aid Fund Graham Anthony + Graham Anthony Trust Fund Linda Schiro Glickstein ’65 Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Alyce and David H. Hild James and Joann Price Walks Foundation, Inc. Frosty Francis Fund Britt and David C. Warner ’56 James Garfield ’00 Grant Program Kristen Roy Cordiano ’00 and Benjamin J. Cordiano ’00 Goodman Banks Performing Arts Fund William Cohn Wendy E. Steiner ’78 Ryan Gordon ’05 Endowment for Students Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Inc. Phyllis and Barry C. Gordon

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David M. Hatheway Endowed Fund for Faculty Support Frank M. Hatheway ’75 Linda Pease Hicks ’73 Fund Nancy D. Pease and John W. Thomas KO 2020 Vision Fund Charlene M. Dufresne-Achatz and Michael J. Achatz, Sr. James A. Alissi ’85 John J. Alissi ’89 Julie and Richard L. Alleyne ’87 Laura and Robert Amenta Kimberly Monzeglio Anania ’92 Anne and David J. Barry Hope and Jeffrey Bash Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath, Jr. ’78 Courtenay and Ricardo Berckemeyer Blake T. Berman ’05 Monica and Dennis Bisgaard* Pamela J. Bittner ’92 Ellen and Mark A. Bram Lynne Tapper and Leland J. Brandt Meryl Mandell Braunstein ’87 and Scott Braunstein Sandy and Steven H. Brown ’83 Heather and Andrew G. Bucknam ’82 Victoria and Edgar B. Butler, Jr. ’63 Nancy and Philip M. Cahill Elaine and Charles R. Canedy III Mary and Robert J. Carangelo Meg and James Casey Melinda and Gregory M. Castanza David S. Chapin ’43 + Martha and Richard J. Chiarappa* Erin O’Brien Choquette ’90 and Robert B. Choquette ’90 Douglas W. Clark ’70 Heather and Michael Clifford Kimberly Fernandez Conrad ’96 and Mark D. Conrad ’96 Jo-Anne Alissi Cosgriff ’90 F. Michael Crawford ’77 Meredith* and Matthew W. Crowther Debra and James M. Davis Marie Garrick Davis ’95

Jacqueline T. Jamsheed and John M. M. de Rham ’83 Kristen Lorden DeQuattro ’87 and John B. DeQuattro ’87 Janice and Christopher R. Deskus Diana I. DeVivo ’82 Irene DeVivo David K. Dodd ’50 Valerie and Donald R. Dugan, Jr. Kathy Ellavsky Anne S. Bingham and Theodore C. Esselstyn Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund John E. Fisher ’70 Peter G. Fisher ’67 Bethany Levy Friedman ’89 and Steven A. Friedman ’89 Martine and August J. Fusco II Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin ’85 and Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85 Eileen and Charles Glassmire, Jr. Monica and Lee A. Gold ’90 Laurie and Bruce H. Goldsmith Heidi Hoffman Gostyla ’87 and Jeffrey F. Gostyla Derek P. Green ’81 John M. Grocki ’62 Michael E. Hains ’16 Christine and Joshua Hawks-Ladds Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey, Sr. ’47 Allison T. Hild ’82 and Paul Petrie I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Michael A. Jones ’64 Carol and Gerald Joseloff Jennifer Papa Kanaan ’87 and Joseph Kanaan Charna Bortman Kaufman ’85 and John M. Kaufman ’85 Gilbert E. Keegan III ’88 Arthur H. Keeney III ’62 Ann and Patrick W. Kenny Anne Marie and Thomas E. Kilkenny Shea and John Kinney Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 Stephen H. C. Kraus ’95 Helen E. Krieble ’61

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Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Vernon K. Krieble Foundation Mary and Robert C. Lawrence III Margah and Thomas D. Lips Fred M. Lougee ’48 + Lynne A. Lumsden ’65 and Jon H. Harden James B. Lyon ’48 Jill and Patrick J. Maloney The Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation Joyce and Andrew J. Mandell Bruce A. Mandell ’82 Merrill and Mark N. Mandell ’85 James D. Marinan ’50 Mary S. Martin ’77 and Jeffrey A. Amell Charles W. Merrels ’40 Marilena and Dino Miano Mark A. Milewski ’88 Maureen J. Murphy ’89 Jodi and Anthony Oh Dorothy and B. Maxwell O’Meara ’48 Luanne and Mark Paley Rosemarie and John S. Papa Kimberly R. Parsons ’08 Jennie and Henry Paszczuk Jennifer White Pennoyer ’85 and William P. Pennoyer Cathleen Shine and Richard D. Pomp David R. Quick ’92 Arthur M. Rautio ’66 Elizabeth and Michael J. Reilly Ellen and Kenneth Risley Maureen Rotenberg Lesli and Scott M. Schwartz ’76 Brenda* and Mark A. Semmelrock Laura Jones Shafer ’75 and Marc T. Shafer ’75 Carol and Charles B. Shepard ’60 Susan and Joseph Sikora Nicole Simpson-Givens Roberta and Bruce Singer Bonnie L. Dobkin and Peter Sonntag Karin and William K. Stahl Gesella and George P. Stephan Alene and Mac Toedt Lori Satell Wetsman ’85 and David Wetsman

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Frazier B. Wilde + Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 Bette Wolff Thomas J. and Bette Wolff Foundation Martin Wolman Julie and Mark M. Wolman KO 2020 Vision Endowed Fund Francine and Robert B. Goldfarb William H. Goldfarb ’64 Harry E. Goldfarb Family Foundation, Inc. KO Hockey Fund Janet and Paul A. Lewis Stewart Lindsay Fund Sarah L. Lindsay Moses Family Scholarship Fund Louise and John W. Moses ’63 Margot W. Moses ’91 Restricted Operating Funds Andrew Barnard ’91 Ann R. Bartlett ’66 Wendy Scranton Baumert ’91 and Kevin A. Baumert ’91 Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath, Jr. ’78 Brendan Blair ’91 Bresome, Barcome, Inc. Theodore Bromley ’91 Michelle and Charles A. Cavo ’89 Scott D. Cohen ’91 Judy L. Colbert Jessica Hild Collins ’91 Ann-Marie Petry Delaney ’91 George A. Dixon, Jr. ’66 Barbara Dolinsky ’66 Helen Newell Douglas ’66 J. Morton Dunn ’44 William Dunn Martha and Walter Ekwall Steven L. Elbaum ’82 Robert M. Elliott II ’91 Scott C. Farrell ’91 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Jane Cady Fitchen ’56

Michael K. Gallagher ’91 Jana and David B. Gerges Christine and Stephen N. Giamalis Giamalis & Co., CPAs Eunice Strong Groark ’56 and Thomas J. Groark Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Eleanor W. Hayes Ann and Randall M. Hayes ’74 Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Cynthia Kohn Hobart ’56 The Harvey Hubbell Foundation Heidi Wood Huddleston ’56 Virginia W. Hughes ’66 Jennifer Jestin ’66 Jewish Community Foundation Greater Hartford Mary Harvey Kellough ’66 Heather Kennedy Kerekes ’91 Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Deborah Lamont ’66 Carolyn Hawkins Lee ’91 Anne Risdon Lewis ’66 Diana and Paul Longchamps Diana Waters Lyman ’66 James B. Lyon ’48 Sandra Martin McDonough ’56 Alice Butler Mendell ’56 Kathryn Antos Mikkelson ’91 David P. Mitchell ’91 Todd C. Mooney ’90 Dennis Noce Matthew C. Oleyer ’91 Deborah Eichenbaum O’Neal ’66 Susan Read Osborne ’66 Carolyn Noyes Parrack ’66 Agnes and William R. Peelle, Jr. Penelope Fuller Petrone ’66 Jane Brandon Pfaff ’56 Deborah Kearns Pirie ’66 Judith Odlum Pomeroy ’66 Pamela Miller Powell ’66 Tenley Fisher Prince ’91 Nancy Austin-Reed ’56 Thompson Reynolds Lindsey B. Ronald ’91

Mathew J. Roth ’92 Eric Rubenstein ’92 Laurie and Brett H. Rubin ’91 Sara Murphy Rupert ’66 David L. Savin Doris and Mark R. Silk Susan Taylor Smith ’56 Donna Williams Soudan ’66 Margaret Ann and Joseph A. Spinella ’68 Laurie A. Spinnler-Bonner ’91 Barbara Prestley Standke ’66 Andrea K. Stannard ’66 Michael Stern ’91 Whitney Stiehler ’91 Katherine Stevenson Taylor ’66 Sarah T. Taylor ’66 Maureen and Bruce Thompson Marcia Nichols Trook ’66 Julie J. Tsai The Wallace Foundation Wendy and Robert W. Warner Amy Shulman Weinberg ’66 Leslie Chorches Weinstein ’66 Gary Werner Brigid Staunton White ’91 Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 Denise and Stephen Woodruff The Margaret E. and Henry R. Roberts Family Fund Margaret Roberts Brenner ’75 Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Barbara E. Hegel ’62 Cynthia Baird Roberts ’60 and Michael A. F. Roberts ’59 William H. Roberts ’67 The Kenneth and Jane Roberts Scholarship Jane + and Kenneth D. Roberts ’34 + Strategic Initiative Fund Monica and Avery Rockefeller III The Owenoke Foundation Tallwood Warrior Scholarship Jack T. F. Bitter Jr. ’63 LPL Financial

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William J. Tomasso ’50 Scholarship Fund Laura M. LeBlanc ’79

In Honor of Fred W. Barhoff III ’48 Amy Hull Joanne and Fred Hull

In Memory of Suzanne Hammond Corkin ’55 Barbara Gowdy Tongue ’51

Stanley W. Vogel Fund Philip J. Vogel ’72

In Honor of Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall

In Honor of Ava H. Danler ’23 Danielle and Chris Danler

Wolman Family Scholarship Fund The Fischbach Foundation Martin Wolman

Honorary & Memorial Gifts

IN HONOR/MEMORY LIST In Honor of Garth A. Adams Ty J. Adams ’12 In Memory of Aanon J. Ahl ’93 Jonna Ahl In Memory of Joseph A. Alissi Richard S. Arnold Jr. ’81 Lorna Hunter Margaret Gerke Mahony ’77 In Honor of Lois Williams Arnold ’61 Hannah Williams Boulton ’64 In Memory of Carolyn Short Arvidson ’48 Carol and Robert J. Googins + In Memory of Williams E. Baird ’63 F. Graham Brown ’63 In Honor of Kata F. Baker Heather and Michael Clifford In Honor of Donna B. Balcezak Amy and Robert Brough In Honor of W. Ludwin Baldwin Pamela J. Dowling ’78 and James T. Healey Jr. ’78 In Honor of Sherry Banks-Cohn ’54 William Cohn Wendy E. Steiner ’78

In Memory of Ellen J. Berlin ’80 Veronica Youmans Dicke ’80 In Memory of Timothy Berman ’78 Blake T. Berman ’05 Marsh & McLennan Companies In Memory of Harriet Kirk Bidgood ’45 Kirk Bidgood

In Honor of Kayla F. Danler ’21 Danielle and Chris Danler In Memory of William P. Delaney Jr. ’48 Karen Altieri James B. Lyon ’48 Dorothy and B. Maxwell O’Meara ’48 Stacey Schreiber In Memory of Lois Hubbard Dimon ’31 Hannah Williams Boulton ’64

In Honor of Dennis Bisgaard Donna and Jeffrey B. Hires Jane Hube Louttit ’64

In Memory of Mark Dixon ’64 Katherine Hamilton Fleming ’65 J. Wickliffe Mallory ’64

In Memory of Inge Bisgaard Monica and Dennis Bisgaard* Kurt Bock Julie and Mark M. Wolman

In Memory of Vivian Ehlers Laurette and H. Benjamin Duke III

In Memory of Sandra Gersten Blinn ’73 Richard S. Gersten ’77 In Memory of David W. Bradley Robert P. Bradley ’75 In Honor of Dennis P. Brennan ’71 Mark A. Christie ’82 In Memory of Richard Buckley ’80 Mary Susan Buckley Muirhead ’78 James F. Nagle Jr. ’80 In Honor of Richard M. Caley ’62 Robert S. Kyff* Anne Davis Pickart ’79 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. In Memory of Robert B. Coolidge ’42 Blake C. Randall ’13

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In Memory of Michael T. Ergin Tahsin Ergin In Memory of Turhan M. Ergin ’84 Henry J. Powell ’84 In Memory of Thomas B. Fahy ’55 The Bellingrath Family ’78, ’03, ’06, ’09, ’12 In Memory of Nelson P. Farquhar Henry Lyman Jr. ’59 In Memory of James “Shorty” T. Farrell ’37 Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. ’78 Bresome, Barcome, Inc. Judy L. Colbert George A. Dixon Jr. ’66 J. Morton Dunn ’44 William Dunn Martha and Walter Ekwall Jana and David B. Gerges

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Eleanor W. Hayes Ann and Randall M. Hayes ’74 Joan + and J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Diana and Paul Longchamps James B. Lyon ’48 Dennis Noce Doris and Mark R. Silk Maureen and Bruce Thompson Julie J. Tsai Wendy and Robert Warner Gary Werner Denise and Stephen Woodruff In Memory of John Fiske III ’82 Judith Lindsay Bailey #* James A. Baronian Christina Priest Beebe J. Marler Beebe Adrienne Berman Julia Boland George G. Bower Cathleen Cirilli Bradford Andrew G. Bucknam Lynn Mather Charette Mark A. Christie Jennifer Izard Crary # Emily C. Dawkins # Diana I. DeVivo # Pamela Mersereau Dickinson # Anthony Faulise # Betty Title Feigenbaum Dana E. Friedman Allison Nassau Fulcher Myles P. Gibbons Judith Zeffiro Hall # Carl A. Haverl # Anne Mahoney Hayes Allison T. Hild # Mark L. Kirschner Bruce A. Mandell # Elisabeth Warner Mayer # Charles H. Newton Elizabeth Hallisey Norris William E. Rotatori June Marshall Smith # James F. Sullivan Suzanne McGauley Vide #

In Memory of William H. Furnivall ’42 Patricia C. Furnivall In Memory of Dorothy R. Gettier Laurette and H. Benjamin Duke III In Memory of Ellen M. Goddard ’18 Anonymous Donna* and William Balcezak Monica and Dennis Bisgaard* Joan M. Edwards* In Memory of James A. Goodwin ’28 Laurette and H. Benjamine Duke III In Memory of Jennifer Googins ’84 Elizabeth and Fred M. H. Ziter Jr. In Memory of Robert J. Googins Anonymous Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. ’78 Carol and Richard M. Caley ’62 Sandra and Arnold Chase Family Foundation Sandra and Arnold L. Chase Ryan T. Cronin ’98 William A. Crowe ’04 Rudite E. Pilpel* In Memory of Joseph Greenleaf ’62 Stephen T. Murphy ’62 In Memory of Gordon Hamilton ’91 Andrew Barnard ’91 Wendy Scranton Baumert ’91 and Kevin A. Baumert ’91 Brendan Blair ’91 Theodore Bromley ’91 Michelle and Charles A. Cavo ’89 Scott D. Cohen ’91 Jessica Hild Collins ’91 Ann-Marie Petry Delaney ’91 Joan M. Edwards* Robert M. Elliott II ’91 Scott C. Farrell ’91 Michael K. Gallagher ’91 Heather Kennedy Kerekes ’91

Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Carolyn Hawkins Lee ’91 Kathryn Antos Mikkelson ’91 David P. Mitchell ’91 Todd C. Mooney ’90 Matthew C. Oleyer ’91 Tenley Fisher Prince ’91 Lindsey B. Ronald ’91 Mathew J. Roth ’92 Eric Rubenstein ’92 Brett H. Rubin ’91 Laurie A. Spinnler-Bonner ’91 Michael Stern ’91 Whitney Stiehler ’91 Brigid Staunton White ’91 Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 In Memory of Harry Hammer Debra and Joseph L. Hammer ’78 In Memory of Naomi Hammer Debra and Joseph L. Hammer ’78 In Memory of John L. Hanny ’83 Cyndi and Frederick S. Farquhar ’59 In Memory of Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall In Memory of Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall In Honor of I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Tricia Cietek Sandy Rovin In Honor of Peter W. Jones Joshua M. Benet ’95 Watson R. Collins IV ’14 In Memory of Elizabeth Lethbridge Knox ’25 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62

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In Memory of Leonice Merrels Knox ’34 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 In Memory of Leonice Lethbridge Knox ’56 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 In Memory of Robert C. Knox Jr. ’31 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 In Honor of Matthew I. Kocay Jennie and Henry Paszczuk In Honor of Andrew C. Krugman ’86 Blake C. Randall ’13 Mark Toubman ’13 In Honor of Meghan A. Kurtich Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. ’78 In Honor of Robert S. Kyff Jo-anne A. Alissi Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. ’78 Carol and Richard M. Caley ’62 Amanda Chiarappa Candy ’96 Nina Jacobson Caruso ’05 Bruce A. Collamore ’73 John P. Godbout ’91 Neale K. Hauss ’74 Christopher J. Kasprak ’08 Kathryn and Peter C. Lange Todd H. Larsen ’84 Brian D. Lee ’00 Lisa and Douglas A. Martin Cynthia Clancy and Douglas Ovian Jennifer White Pennoyer ’85 and William P. Pennoyer Anders P. Peterson ’95 Anne Davis Pickart ’79 Rudite E. Pilpel*

Linda J. Quick Lynn Schork* Karin and William K. Stahl Jason E. Stein ’12 Matthew Wheeler ’03 Julie and Mark M. Wolman In Memory of Gregory L. Large ’81 Mercedese E. Large In Memory of Robert A. Lazear Laurette and H. Benjamin Duke III In Memory of Robert A. Lazear Jr. ’75 Pamela J. Wood ’75 In Honor of Joel E. Lorden Stephen T. Murphy ’62 In Memory of Brenda Malinowski ’76 Joanne Malinowski Feinberg ’80 In Honor of Jason Martinez Blake C. Randall ’13 In Memory of David S. Mazo ’83 Wendy A. Mazo ’85 In Honor of Samuel F. Mazo ’19 Wendy A. Mazo ’85 In Honor of Scott A. McDonald Kathleen C. Burnett In Honor of Carolyn F. McKee J. Maclean Bellingrath ’12 Heather and Michael Clifford In Memory of F. Price Merrels ’37 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 In Honor of Steve Mitchell Lynn and John Wadhams In Memory of Lawrence Norman ’91 Brett H. Rubin ’91 In Memory of Daniel J. Novarr ’71 David R. Rosenthal ’71

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In Honor of Robert S. O’Brien Carol and Richard M. Caley ’62 In Honor of Wayne Pierce Elisabeth Pierce Passeri ’02 In Honor of Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 Carlene Dahill Bush ’73 In Memory of Lucy A. Read ’56 Anonymous Katrina Shaffer Beaghen ’56 Nancy Boots Edwards-Cogswell ’56 Eunice Strong Groark ’56 Cynthia Kohn Hobart ’56 Sandra Martin McDonough ’56 Alice Butler Mendell ’56 Nancy Austin-Reed ’56 Susan Taylor Smith ’56 Sandra Travis Zieky ’56 In Memory of Thomas J. Redden ’45 Kathleen McKenna Fisher ’76 and Mark R. Fisher ’73 In Honor of Jane H. Repp Allison P. Fenton I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Cynthia Clancy and Douglas Ovian In Memory of Susan Reynolds ’66 Ann R. Bartlett ’66 Barbara Dolinsky ’66 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Virginia W. Hughes ’66 Jennifer Jestin ’66 Mary Harvey Kellough ’66 Deborah Lamont ’66 Anne Risdon Lewis ’66 Diana Waters Lyman ’66 Deborah Eichenbaum O’Neal ’66 Susan Read Osborne ’66 Carolyn Noyes Parrack ’66 Penelope Fuller Petrone ’66 Deborah Kearns Pirie ’66 Judith Odlum Pomeroy ’66 Thompson Reynolds Sara Murphy Rupert ’66

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Barbara Prestley Standke ’66 Katherine Stevenson Taylor ’66 Sarah T. Taylor ’66 Marcia Nichols Trook ’66 Leslie Chorches Weinstein ’66 In Memory of Patricia Rosoff Bank of America Private Bank Katherine Cheney Chappell ’63 Margaret S. Fitzpatrick ’95 Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Caroline Dorr Reinke ’90 In Honor of Jacquelyn Rubin-Isenberg Heather and Michael Clifford In Memory of S. Daniel Schoolnik ’65 Stuart M. Schoolnik ’63 In Honor of Lynn Schork Katherine Rein Muhlenkamp ’96 In Honor of Ann L. Sciglimpaglia Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall In Honor of Brenda A. Semmelrock Randy F. Stabile* In Honor of Ann F. Serow Beth Carasso Spector ’98 In Memory of Janet K. Sherfinski Sherry Banks-Cohn ’54 In Honor of Nancy Solomon Cynthia Clancy and Douglas Ovian In Memory of James Spadorcia Jeffrey J. Giuffrida ’06 In Memory of Kristina A. Stahl ’95 Karin and William K. Stahl Matthew Wheeler ’03 In Memory of Robert B. Swain Jr. ’38 Joanne Malinowski Feinberg ’80 In Memory of Frederick R. Swan ’29 Frederick R. Swan Jr. ’55

In Memory of Arthur L. Wasserman Jr. ’47 Gail and William D. Goddard In Memory of Marion Knox Wilcox ’22 The Lance L. Knox and Mary E. Lambert Family Charitable Foundation Mary E. Lambert and Lance L. Knox ’62 In Memory of Janet J. Wong Allan Singer ’70 In Memory of Mark C. Yellin Wendy Yellin Hill ’77

Volunteers

We are grateful for our dedicated volunteers who share their time, energy, and talents with the School. Volunteers provide the foundation upon which KO’s fundraising success is based.

Jennifer Albanesi John J. Alissi ’89 Julie and Richard L. Alleyne ’87 Susan Safford Andrews ’54 Coleen Antico Renee Autorino Jeffrey Azia ’89 David A. Baker ’04* Michele Baker Shepard W. Baker ’47 Frances Steane Baldwin ’51 Claudia Baio-Downes Taylor E. Barlow ’09 Nancy Baron Eric D. Batchelder ’89 Brandon T. Batory ’10 Linda Becker Charles P. Bellingrath ’03 Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78* and Charles T. Bellingrath Jr. ’78 Ricardo Berckemeyer Richard F. Berry Jr. ’59 William C. Bigler ’80 Monica Bisgaard Sarah Whitney Blanchard ’87 James S. Bookwalter ’01 Sarah B. Bookwalter ’02

Elizabeth Rockwell Booth ’70 Jay M. Botwick ’76 Brewster B. Boyd ’63 Andrew W. Briggie ’00 Amy Brough Bomani R. Brown ’06 Daniel N. Buch ’01 John M. Budds ’56 Mary Carangelo Andrew M. Chapman ’73 Lynn Mather Charette ’82 Christopher R. Chiappetti ’09 Heather Clifford Bruce A. Collamore ’73 Jessica Hild Collins ’91 Kimberly Fernandez Conrad ’96 and Mark D. Conrad ’96 Heidi Cotter Melanie M. da Costa ’09 Susan Mather Dabanian ’58 Monica Dallahan Russell A. Delldonna ’88 Virginia Denne ’42 Karen L. Diaz Bonnie L. Dobkin Pamela J. Dowling ’78 James T. Dowling-Healey ’08 Patrick P. Dowling-Logue ’10 Richard A. Drew ’57 Molly M. Dworkin ’02 Helen and James W. Eatherton ’79 Robert M. Elliott II ’91 Frederick S. Farquhar ’59 Scott C. Farrell ’91 Anthony Faulise ’82 Phyllis Chapman Fenander ’57 Christopher G. Gent Jr. ’03 Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Katherine C. Gent ’08 Joseph R. Gianni ’78 Carolyn Wolfe Gitlin ’85 and Jeffrey S. Gitlin ’85 Jeffrey J. Giuffrida ’06 Michael H. Gladstone ’03 Karlene Glemaud Lee A. Gold ’90 James Goldberg ’76

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Laurie Goldsmith Jennifer Juros Googins ’79 Derek P. Green ’81 Elisa Griego Robert L. Groundwater ’72 Elizabeth R. Guerrera ’10 Debra Hammer J. Douglas Harris ’77 Barbara and Charles A. Hartigan ’71 Eleanor B. Hayes ’13 Gregory A. Hayes ’80 Richard I. Hemingway ’67 Kerrie Henry Ricardo A. Hernandez ’08 J. Gregory Hickey ’47 I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Emily J. Howard ’11 Jane Anderson Innerd ’60 Tammi Jackson-Bolden Suzanne Lipton Jacoby ’93 Charna Bortman Kaufman ’85 Gilbert E. Keegan III ’88 Helene Liberson Keers ’55 Marguerite Steane Kelland ’41 Christina Kelly-Bygrave Patrick Kilkenny ’13 Emily J. Kim ’09 Sally Knowles Victoria Hatch Kramer ’96 Stephen H. C. Kraus ’95 Kimberly Karp Krieble ’90 and Fred J. Krieble ’91 Howard D. Kunik ’69 Helen Carey LaFaive ’68 Marissa E. Landino ’13 Elizabeth Abel Lane ’57 + Jean C. LaTorre Elaine Leshem Jannine Leshem Andrea Leuschner Paul A. Lewis E. Brooks Loomis ’99 James B. Lyon ’48 Anne Marie MacFaddin Patrick J. Maloney James D. Marinan ’50

Mary S. Martin ’77 Susan Matorin ’60 Alexander J. Maulucci ’03 Karen McCusker Sandra Martin McDonough ’56 Cara E. McSweeney ’09 Rachel L. Meddar ’07 Marilena Miano Katharine Miller Yuri P. Min ’08 Alexandra Muchura-Mensah Caroline T. Nguyen ’96 B. Maxwell O’Meara ’48 Vitaline O’Connell O’Toole ’53 Megan Ouellette Sara Barr Palmer ’51 Jennie Paszczuk Heather Pease Jodi Pimentle Christine Pina Tyler B. Polk ’99 Stephen J. Quish Jr. ’06 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 Shravan Rao ’10 Theresa Ravalese Michael J. Reilly Mariah Klaneski Reisner ’00 Addison J. Rosenbluth ’06 Alison H. Rosenthal ’94 Alexander C. Roth ’12 Kristen and Glenn Rowland Mary Pallotti Russell ’73 Robert S. Sarkisian ’84 Andrew G. Satell ’79 Katharine Donnarummo Schacter ’06 H. Andrew Schwedel ’87 G. William Seawright ’59 Glenn M. Shafer ’85 Laura Jones Shafer ’75 and Marc T. Shafer ’75 Mary Beach Shepard ’39 + Todd A. Sherbacow ’90 Cathleen Shine Daniel M. Shulman ’97 Stacey L. Silver ’91 Leslie Silvers

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Roberta Singer Saeed O. Singletary ’92 Jodie L. Sprague William J. Stack Jr. ’72 James H. Steane II ’62 Eileen Stephan Maria Swift Elizabeth Taylor Meredith Maffett Taylor ’06 Zélie Calvocoressi Tourais ’59 Jennifer L. Townsend ’11 Joan Duffield Van Ness ’50 Melinda S. Walsh ’73 Lori Satell Wetsman Ellen R. White ’93 Faith McGauley Whitman ’86 Paula Whitney Meghan Wildstein Heather Scarritt Willis ’93 F. Scott Wilson Lewis K. Wise ’65 Kris and Keith J. Wolff ’91 Mark Wolman Carla Do Nascimento Zahner ’97 Barbara Johnson Zyla ’46

Nicholson-Martin Circle

Members of the Nicholson-Martin Circle have expressed their ultimate commitment to KO through a very special and important form of financial support. These donors have named KO as the ultimate beneficiary of a planned gift.

William J. Aberizk David W. Ames ’62 Florence Hastings Andrews ’42 + Graham Anthony + Walter S. Bailey ’80 Lorraine Walker Bardsley ’34 + Fred W. Barhoff III ’48 Mary S. Barnard + Richard F. Berry Jr. ’59 M. Suzanne and Peter J. Berry William C. Boardman ’39 + George G. Bower ’82

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Kingswood Oxford School 170 Kingswood Road West Hartford, CT 06119 860-233-9631 www.kingswoodoxford.org Editor: Jackie Pisani, Director of Communication & Marketing Contributors: Elizabeth Fahy Bellingrath ’78, Kathy Flaherty ’84, Meghan Kurtich, Rob Kyff, John Nestor, Jackie Pisani, Janet Reynolds Graphic Design: James Baker Design Printing: Allied Printing Services, Inc. Photo Credits: Seshu Badrinath, Highpoint Pictures, Clay Miles, David B. Newman ’80, Jackie Pisani Please direct inquiries or general comments to Jackie Pisani, Director of Communications & Marketing pisani.j@kingswoodoxford.org Class Notes or obituary information to Meghan Kurtich, Assistant Director of Annual Giving kurtich.m@kingswoodoxford.org Address changes to Jennifer Faubert faubert.j@kingswoodoxford.org Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students Kingswood Oxford School admits students of any race, color, or national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs.

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Brewster B. Boyd ’63 James Boyd + Robert P. Bradley ’75 Howard Brayton ’30 + V. Brewer Jr. ’29 + Janet C. Buckingham ’85 Eleanor H. Bunce + Richard P. Carney ’57 Mary Chalfen ’45 + Richard Chapell ’45 + David S. Chapin ’43 + Sandra and Arnold L. Chase Warren D. Chase ’32 + Harold L. Colvocoresses ’68 John A. Cope ’60 Floyd A. Couch Jr. ’45 + J. David Creedon ’47 + Richard S. Cuda Edward H. Deming ’43 + Virginia Denne ’42 Margaret Dewing ’34 + Cornelia Wilde Dickinson ’45 Roger Dickinson ’43 + Patricia and Richard G. Dimock Beverly Beach Eaton ’38 + Laura and George L. Estes III ’67 Matthew Felson ’77 Francis T. Fenn Jr. ’33 + Carlos M. Fetterolf ’44 + Patrick J. Flaherty ’51 Benedict D. Flynn III ’72 Elizabeth Bower Foley ’85 Kenneth L. Frank ’76 Susan and Robert M. Furek Diane Adinolfi Gent ’72 and Christopher G. Gent Karen Koury Gifford ’62 Barbara Godard ’48 Dorothy C. Goodwin ’33 + Ellsworth S. Grant ’35 + Virginia Tuttle Grant ’35 + Helen Gray Richard C. Hastings Jr. ’40 + Martha Coolidge Haviland ’44 + Winthrop A. Haviland Jr. ’36 +

Lynn and Stephen B. Hazard J. Gregory Hickey ’47 Alyce and David H. Hild I. Bradley Hoffman ’78 Lucy Eaton Holcombe ’42 + Frederick B. Hollister ’75 Burton L. How Jr. ’47 Mary Jeanne Anderson Jones ’52 Nancy Brayton Krieble ’33 + Dorothy R. Lazear + Caroline Benner Leech ’38 + Janet and Paul A. Lewis Margah and Thomas D. Lips Michael D. Lipton Fred M. Lougee ’48 + James B. Lyon ’48 Bruce W. Manternach ’33 + Richard C. Marvin Jr. ’77 Nicholas B. Mason ’63 W. E. McClellan Jr. ’37 + William M. McCormick ’58 John F. McDermott Jr. ’47 + E. Merritt McDonough ’51 Martin F. McGrath Jr. ’56 + H. Richard McLane ’53 Chelsea and Adam Meikle Charles W. Merrels ’40 Stephanie K. U. Michalczyk ’61 Maria Molori Marjorie Murphy Morrissey ’29 + Louise and John W. Moses ’63 John Davis Murphy ’30 + Robert H. Murphy ’32 + Elliott Murray ’30 + Arnold M. Nemirow ’61 Francis P. Pandolfi ’61 Edith Wilcock Patrick ’56 Louise Galt Pease ’50 + Agnes and William Peelle, Jr. Samuel G. Peelle ’03 William R. Peelle III ’01 Ann Coolidge Randall ’73 and Ronald C. Randall Edgar M. Reed ’65 Jane Ribadeneyra ’83

Sali Godard Riege ’43 Heidi Eddy Riggs ’65 Susan Roach ’61 + Jane + and Kenneth D. Roberts ’34 + Ruth Grier Robinson ’49 + Patricia Rosoff + Mary Eddy Schlesinger ’34 + G. William Seawright ’59 Thomas E. Senf ’58 + Laura Jones Shafer ’75 Marc T. Shafer ’75 Mabel Cheney Smith ’34 + Brenda K. Sommers + Esther L. Spafard ’50 Henry M. Spencer ’36 + W. Howard Spencer ’32 + Henry W. Spring ’43 + Karin and William K. Stahl Roger H. Stephenson ’56 Roxanne Richards Stringer ’54 Brenda J. Sullivan Marilyn and Les R. Tager Ann Beecher Underwood ’42 Donald Viering ’38 + Elisa L. Villa Francis L. Wadsworth ’47 June Heard Wadsworth ’53 Raycroft Walsh Jr. ’41 + Alden Y. Warner III ’76 R. Ashley and John M. Washburn III Frederick D. Watkins III ’71 Nancy S. Watters ’64 Dotha Seaverns Welbourn ’36 + Paula and Brian D. Whitney John A. T. Wilson ’56 Martin Wolman Nancie Woodford-Cain James E. Woods ’59

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