Forte et Gratum: Winter 2011

AN ALUMNAE PUBLICATION: WINTER/SPRING 2011

A Passion for

Architecture CHALLENGE.

CHARACTER.

COMMUNITY.

Columbus School for Girls, continuing a 113 year tradition of excellence, provides a superior college preparatory education within a diverse and caring community that emphasizes leadership development in an atmosphere of moral and social responsibility.

“A View From The Senior Commons Window” by senior Grace Bowen. “I drew this piece on Bristol vellum paper with micron pens. Earlier this year my concentration was a documentation of places that were important to me. The commons is probably the best part of senior year, so I decided to draw a view from the window from there. I was attracted to the building and I think that the (CSG) mansion is one of the most impressive in Bexley.”

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OFFICERS/EXECUTIVE BOARD

Winter /Spring 2011

Susan Tomasky, Chair Bernie Ostrowski, Chair Elect Sarah Windels Ziegler, ’87, Vice Chair and Capital Campaign Chair Lavea Brachman, ‘80, Vice Chair Beth Crane, ’69, Secretary Timothy J. Faber, Treasurer Terry L. Sanders

BOARD MEMBERS

Milton Baughman Tom Brigdon E. Gordon Gee, Ed.D. Denise Glimcher Glenda Pierce Harrison Sarah Benson Heinrichs, ‘97 Jeff Henderson Stephanie A. Hightower Lisa A. Hinson Nancy K. Jeffrey (Lifetime Member) John P. Kennedy Dawn Tyler Lee, ‘90 Robert H. Milbourne Tim Miller Tom O’Hara Pam Phillips, M.D. Rocky Robins Brian X. Tierney Kimberly Rice Wilson, ‘80 Leigh Ann Wobst May Zia Elizabeth Carlin , ’83, National Alumnae Council Babette T. Gorman, ‘69, Alumnae Board Laurie Desai, Parents’ Association Lee Ann Hadley, Parents’ Association Tom Skoulis, Fathers’ Association Kate Giller, ’87, JUBILEE 2010 Jennifer Zaranek Wood, JUBILEE 2011

EX OFFICIO

Elizabeth (Liza) M. Lee, Head of School Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, Ph.D., Associate Head of School Christy Rosenthal, Director of Development and External Relations Jane Gibson, Director of Business and Finance

COMMENTS

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On & Off

Campus 5 From the Head of School 6 Then & Now: Campus 7 Alumnae Gathering 8 A Passion for Architecture 24 Archiving Corner 26 CSG Unveils Facilities Plan 30 Class News 53 Milestones

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COVER: Columbus School for Girls main campus at 56 South Columbia, aerial view 2010. DesignGroup’s conceptual drawings, for more on CSG’s Facilities Master Plan, see page 26-27.

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Friday, April 29, 2011 9 - 11 am 12 pm 6 - 8 pm

Class Visitations and School Tours Luncheon at CSG House, hosted by Babette Gorman, ‘69, Alumnae Association President* Welcome Cocktail Party on mansion terrace with current and past faculty*

Saturday, April 30, 2011 10:15 - 1 pm

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Alumnae Luncheon* with class reunion photographs and a reception in honor of the 2011 Alumna Award Winner, Nancy Pace, ‘71

* The cost for each of these events is $25 per person if registered by Friday, April 15th, or $30 if registered after that date.

Final date for reservations is Monday, April 25th. You may register through the Development Office or online at www.columbusschoolforgirls.org. Click on Alumnae, then Alumnae Weekend 2011.

Reunion Giving The tradition of Alumnae Weekend, started in 1931, is one of our most cherished events. Our alma mater is also fortunate to have a long tradition of alumnae support which helps bridge the gap between tuition and true cost. All of our CSG educations were partially funded by the generosity of alumnae who went before us.

Please join your classmates in making a gift in honor of your reunion and continuing this important CSG tradition of giving back so that today’s CSG girls and young women may receive excellent educations and opportunities as we have. Reunion classes are vital contributors to the Annual Fund, accounting for a large percentage of the total amount given by alumnae. The contributions current CSG students make to the future are shaped by the contribution you make today.

The Red and Gold Cup and Champagne Cup offer your class the opportunity to receive recognition at the Alumnae Luncheon for the most reunion funds raised and highest class participation.

Gifts can be made online by going to www.columbusschoolforgirls.org. Click on Giving, then Donate Online. If you prefer, you may send a check in the enclosed envelope.

If you have any questions or would like to help with your class reunion event planning or giving, please contact: Lucy Ackley, ‘83, Assistant Director of Development, Alumnae Relations lackley@columbusschoolforgirls.org 614-252-0781, ext. 136

Liza Lee

Head Of School We admire a building or a group of buildings because they express, however subtly, certain images and ideas we have about ourselves.

Craig Whitaker in Architecture and the American Dream This issue of Forte et Gratum is inspired by our plans for our building project. The excitement generated by the decision to build a wellness center and a new theater has reminded the community of the importance of CSG’s architecture as a reflection of its mission and purpose.

The School has always been mindful of the fact that it required a master plan to take into account not only its present needs, but also its future aspirations. Six years ago, our own Susan Abel Maxman developed an extensive plan to serve an expanded school of 700 students. (I can still remember how exciting it was for all of us working in girls’ schools when Susan was named the first female president of the AIA.) Now, however, with a very different economic outlook and a desire to maintain the intimacy of a smaller school, our building plans are smaller and more focused. Therefore, based on the previous plans, and after interviewing alumnae, faculty, students, parents, and trustees, a local firm, DesignGroup, was hired was hired to look at our acute needs as they exist at the beginning of the second decade of this century. Members of the firm explored the campus, researched educational materials, and observed the life at CSG. Although the impetus to construct arose out of a series of concerns for our performing arts programs, our outdated and problem-ridden pool, and our physical education and athletic programs, the finished design reflects our sense of the school as a whole. The new construction will be one more definition of CSG as a diverse community where everyone is made welcome, where contemplation and excitement, art and athleticism exist in equal measure, and where discipline and nature are brought into harmony. The entrances will no longer be amorphous and confusing, but orderly and welcoming; the spaces give a sense of openness and transparency, the landscaping will be serene and orderly.

Moreover, the buildings and landscape will reflect our desire for a sustainable future.

The articles in the magazine are as much about the future, as they are about the present. Each one of them gives a glimpse of the ways in which CSG alumnae, parents, or students are influencing the physical shape of the world we inhabit. The students analyzing for themselves the way in which imagination intersects with the practicalities of life, or Karen Handy Kempton, ’80, and Julianne Mueller, ’74, preserving the past so that we can better prepare for the future, or Darryl Rogers and Jana Maniace reconciling creative vision with technical requirements, or Susan Abel Maxman, ’56, and Catharine Fergus Garber, ’76, expressing the personal in the universal, or Katy Potts, ’96, leading her students to their own careers in architecture. Each person featured is expressing a moral vision that is integral to her/his work, and each one is determined to protect the future of the earth’s environment.

It is no surprise that a school whose mission is to help its students appreciate and welcome challenge, to help them create a moral and diverse community, and to give them the qualities of character that will make them leaders of the future, produces alumnae who are intimately involved in community development and architecture. Our cities remain public reflections of our private selves, and our insistence on character and service are as essential to civic order as they are to private morality.

We know that these projects, built in a vernacular combining present and past, will create a brighter future for us, just as we know that there will be future projects inspired by new circumstances. T.S. Eliot said it most succinctly: Time present and time past

Are both perhaps contained in time future And time future contained in time past.

The gardens at the CSG House, planted by Liza and Will Lee

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Columbus School for Girls campus, Then & Now: In June of 1953, when Parsons Place was considered dangerous for the safety of our students and too expensive to repair, the Brown House was purchased for $133,000. It was built in 1917 by John B. Brown. All existing land and buildings that CSG owend were sold to cover the cost including Parsons Place itself, the Lodge, the Farm, and Gladden House. The land on which the Brown House stands was considered “Refugee Land” and was part of a larger tract originally deeded to a “refugee”, this deed was signed by Thomas Jefferson in February 1802.

1. Parson’s Place 2. Rear of Brown Mansion in the 70s/Gladden-McClure Hall at recess 2010 3. Spirit Courtyard 4. Original mansion front desk/reception area 5. Brown Mansion, later named Gladden-McClure Hall, before the Unicorn Courtyard 6. Lazarus entrance to Lower School 7. The Lodge 8. Class and Student Council Presidents, Thanksgiving Program 2010 9. Bryden Hall columbus school for girls Forte et Gratum Winter/Spring 2011 6

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1. Front Row: Sarah Sofia Knepp, ’96, Nicole Wade, ’98, Jacquilyn Stavroff, ’00, Katy Murnane Reis, ’00, Jessica Germain, ’00 Back Row: Molly Schirner Fortune, ’96, with son, Nolan, Melissa Seidel Bedolla, ’96, with son, Jack, Marjorie Yano, ’03, Karen Levin, ’03, Yoci Vorys, ’98, and daughter, Adeline, Claire Murnane, ’01, Wendy Fahey Currier, ’02, Miranda Martin Warren, ’98, with daughter, Audrey

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3. Adam and Sarah Sofia Knepp, ’96, Joan and John Knepp, 4. Mary Beth Schmitt, Jill Pentimonti, and Adam Knepp 5. Melissa Seidel Bedolla, ’96, son, Jack, and Melissa’s father, Rich Seidel 6. Jessica Germain, ’00, Claire Murnane, ’01, and Vera Stavroff, mother of Jacquilyn Stavroff, ’00 7. Nicole Wade, ’98, Miranda Martin Warren, ’98, and daughter, Audrey 8. Jessica Germain, ’00, and Jeff Price 9. Marjorie Yano, ’03, Jacquilyn Stavroff, ’00, Katy Murnane Reis, ’00 ’00, Molly Schirner Fortune, ’96, with son, Nolan Susan and Zuheir Sofia

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A Passion for

Architecture

CATHARINE FERGUS GARBER, CLASS OF 1976

Architect of Custom Residential Homes & Environmental Steward Catharine Fergus Garber is the founding partner of Fergus Garber Group, an architectural firm specializing in custom single family residential design.

After graduating from CSG, Catharine attended Middlebury College where she received her B.A. in Art History.

From there, she went on to the University of Illinois, Chicago campus, to complete her Masters in Architecture in 1984. Working out of her home, she established Fergus Garber Group in Chicago in 1987 and relocated the firm to Palo Alto, CA, in 1996, currently employing 13 people. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Build It Green, and the US Green Building Council.

Catharine’s interest in architecture was peaked at an early age as her family remodeled their home several times. She loved “the process.” There was also a family friend who was an architect, whom she admired very much. She says she had one very lucky break, early in her career. While walking on the beach in South Western Michigan, she said hello to a couple who were looking at their newly purchased lakefront property. Serendipitously, they hired her on the spot to design their vacation home.

Often she will meet her next client socially, although more typically, her past clients recommend their friends to her. With greater frequency her clients have found her through the web. Most of the homes she has designed have been for families with young children and include primary and vacation homes, as well as renovations.

Fergus Garber Group’s primary goals are to create homes that both they and their clients are proud of, to be strong managers of their client’s design and construction processes, and to continue to be leaders in environmental stewardship. Catharine says that she does not have a signature style, and designing in different styles is what makes being an architect so satisfying for her. This bodes well for her goal to embrace her clients’ interests and desires. She enjoys matching her clients’ needs to the essential qualities of good architecture: strong plans, good proportions, and a high attention to detail to make functional and beautiful houses.

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Her firm’s clients tend to be those looking for a higher level of attention, management, and environmental stewardship.

Located in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, their clients are often in the technology world, or venture capitalists.

Catharine has done work for Apple, Google, HP, and AOL executives. Sometimes these clients’ technology world tendencies – such as the importance of getting new products on in a timely manner - bleed over into their demands on her. She has had a couple of jobs where her clients have wanted to get their projects built in record time, requiring tight management and lots of overtime work by the contractor.

Good management of the entire process is extremely important, and Catharine and her colleagues work closely with their clients to establish the design services, teams, deliverables, and fees that will best support their project. They utilize online anticipated cost systems, issuance and information tracking and collaboration tools that help sustain the highly collegial relationships they have with their clients, contractors and other consultants that compose the design team.

These management tools and comprehensive design documentation result in projects that run smoothly and efficiently and are highly valued by their clients.

Fergus Garber is very involved with sustainability. Catharine feels it is every architect’s responsibility to steer clients to be focused on building healthy, energy efficient structures. They have a Sustainability Manager on their team - an environmental engineer who provides extensive consulting services in this discipline. The firm’s focus and expertise in green design has resulted in one of their houses meeting LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum criteria, one of Northern California’s first. Their firm will be among the first in the nation to have performed an embodied energy analysis of a portfolio of their single family houses to establish targeted embodied carbon footprint for their house designs. They have significant expertise in designing to meet Green Points, LEED, California’s Title 24 and CALGreen requirements. Catharine feels lucky to be working in a part of the country that is very aware of the importance of building sustainably, and says that clients and governing jurisdictions in general are pushing sustainability.

Ten years ago, Catharine had the good fortune of having her husband, Dan Garber, also an architect and a Palo Alto planning commissioner, join her firm. “I work for my wife,” he often says to people, “I’d say that we’re an anomaly. The firm is built around Catharine and the way she designs and the things that are interesting to her.” Working together has given the couple an advantage. “It’s actually benefited the family and it’s better for the business,” Catharine remarked.

Although Catharine started the firm, she wants to make it clear that she thinks of her working relationship with her husband as a partnership. They have jointly and equally owned the firm. Starting the New Year, and in keeping with the firm’s collaborative nature, they are excited to be bringing on a third partner.

When they’re not designing homes for other families, Catharine and Dan love spending time outdoors, playing tennis, walking, hiking, biking, skiing, and keeping track of their two sons, Reed and Corwin. To read more about Catharine’s firm and see some of her notable projects, please visit www.fgg-arch.com.

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KAREN HANDY KEMPTON, CLASS OF 1980

Designing Homes with Historical Integrity Karen Kempton opened her own architectural firm in 2005, Karen B. Kempton AIA Architecture. Located on Cape Cod, her residential design firm specializes in both custom and speculative homes, blending traditional New England architecture – Shingle Style, Gambrel, Greek Revival, Farm House, etc., with today’s contemporary lifestyle.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Design, Karen worked for a number of design firms in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Washington DC. She and her husband, Peter, always dreamed of moving to Cape Cod. In 1988, they realized that dream. Karen designed their West Barnstable home where they still live with their three sons.

From 1988 to 2004, Karen worked for Eastward Companies, the company that built their home, as a designer and principal architect. As the only woman in all male company she strove to not differentiate herself from what the guys could do.

She climbed ladders, crawled across roof ridges three floors up, walked around foundation walls before backfilling, walked up steep ramps to get to construction sites, and always had 4 wheel drive. However, once Karen became pregnant with her youngest son, she luckily had a valid excuse not to try to keep up with the guys at construction sites. Since then she’s felt that she’s earned their respect, a respect that was hard to achieve, not only because she was a female but a female architect!

Karen believes that those years working for a builder/developer in a design/build relationship help set her apart from other architects. She learned a lot about building techniques, how to build efficiently, and what’s necessary to draw on the plans and what isn’t. Karen has had great field experience and the background of a builder. The developer background allowed her to design houses on speculation and learn what sells, what people are looking for in homes in the area, and to design accordingly.

Thirty percent of her work is still designing homes for Eastward Companies, with whom she’s had a great working relationship.

Karen’s interest in home design began at a young age; having moved a few times during her childhood, she fondly remembers exploring her new homes. She can still draw the floor plans in her mind , and still thinks about these houses and analyzes their features… “Was this a useful layout? What rooms made me happy? How did they relate to the outside?, etc.” She used to dream about hidden rooms behind her closet wall. Now Karen creates secret spaces for kids that are either accessed by a ships ladder in their room or secret doors in their closets for reading nooks.

Karen also credits CSG and her Senior May Program with inspiring her to study architecture. She recalls taking a watercolor class with Mrs. Clark and learning pen and ink techniques while drawing building facades like the Mansion entrance and homes in Sessions Village; she still has her watercolor of the Mansion entrance from those many years ago. She treasured her little watercolor tackle box for many years and enjoyed experimenting with different brushes for vegetation, brick, etc. During May Program Karen interned for a couple of different architectural firms in Columbus, a truly valuable experience. However, she says her earliest interest was reading Elizabeth Enright’s The Four-Story Mistake. “Who wouldn’t love as a child to discover secret rooms in their houses?”

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With each house, renovation, or addition she designs, Karen is inspired by her clients’ needs, trying to understand what they want when they may not really know what they want, and ultimately collaborating to produce a home that her clients will love and which she can feel proud to drive by for many years to come. All of this, of course, comes with its challenges. Builders and designers have a saying, “trying to fit 10 lbs of stuff into a 5 lb bag.” Basically it means they are usually working with extremely small grandfathered lots and trying to squeeze everything the owner wants into a footprint while trying to conform to building coverage, building height and setback lines, and most importantly, with the neighborhood aesthetic. And, many of the homes she designs are adjoining wetlands, conservation areas, and the oceanfront. “We have to be extremely mindful of the footprint we leave and go to great lengths to reduce the environmental impact,” said Karen.

As far as green building, Karen says solar orientation is key here as is the use of sustainable building materials as well. Higher Rvalue insulation, more energy efficient windows and doors, and higher efficiency heating and cooling systems are being utilized.

In addition to state mandated energy-efficiency, there are strict wind impact codes to resist hurricane forces. When building homes on the Cape, people usually want a home that references their childhood on the Cape, or one that feels likes it’s been developed and added onto over the years. Karen and her colleagues have been “green” for a long time, using reclaimed wood for flooring and antique beams and posts for exposed work, helping to give a sense of history to an otherwise new structure.

In addition to residential design, Karen has done two projects for the Town of Chatham. She designed an addition for handicapped accessibility to the historic Atwood School (circa 1869), while preserving its historical integrity. The building continues to be used for Girl Scout and Boy Scout meetings and won a Historic Preservation award from the Town of Chatham. She also worked on an accessibility and preservation project for the Chatham Railroad Museum, which was originally built in 1887.

Because of their location on Cape Cod and Chatham in general, designers and builders there haven’t suffered as much as the rest of the country when it comes to building statistics, and Karen has been steadily busy even during the economic slowdown in the building industry. She feels fortunate to be able to continue her passion of designing homes where the clients are able to relax and enjoy family time while highlighting and preserving the beauty of the area.

Karen is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For more information about Karen’s career and company, or to see more of her beautifully designed homes, visit www.karenkempton.com or the company she continues to be affiliated with, www.eastwardco.com.

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JANA MANIACE, PARENT—ALISON, CLASS OF 2019 Sustainable Design with Contemporary Style Jana Maniace has always gravitated to the arts and enjoyed drawing, painting, and creative expression. As a young child, she visited Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada and was captivated by a modern apartment building on the St. Lawrence River called Habitat 67. It was designed by Israeli/Canadian Architect Moshe Safdie. Looking down from the monorail, Jana could see the beautiful blue river and alongside it the most incredible structure. It looked like a pile of blocks randomly thrown together mounting about ten stories high and mysteriously interconnected. She couldn’t stop thinking about what it would be like to experience this amazing space as she watched its bold, sculptural reflection shimmer in the river.

Growing up in New York City also inspired Jana’s love for architecture. Her family spent a great deal of time at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where Jana also studied ballet. She has always been drawn to the way classicism is abstracted into modern form, particularly with the design of the three major theaters. Marc Chagall’s expressive murals framed by monumental arches, the dramatic Apollo mobile of brass panels which seem in flight, and the tree studded pocket park and pool, reflecting a massive Moore sculpture, all enhance the pristine elegance of the Center. Her time there influenced how she viewed the world and sparked her interest in creative expression.

An intimate structure, known as The Erlanger House, which is located on a heavily tree lined street of suburban Urbana, Illinois might have had the most impact on Jana. The Erlanger House is a modest former private residence now owned by the University of Illinois. Architect Jack Baker designed the house for Margaret Erlanger, former Head of Dance at the university, reflecting her love of nature and simple tastes. The house is now used by visiting artists and scholars. Jana had the opportunity to stay at The Erlanger House several years ago as a guest of the university and was most impressed by how the use of the natural elements was integrated into the interior design. Jana said the house has “a sense of openness and privacy simultaneously achieved by large expanses of glass and skylights, walled courtyards, and continuity of materials from exterior to interior.” Jana considers the Erlanger House a forerunner to Sustainable Architecture in that it heavily relies on natural elements such as daylight and indigenous building materials for the function and aesthetic of the design. It was difficult for her to leave an environment so harmonious and inspiring in its beautiful and creative expression of the built and natural worlds.

These inspirations throughout her life led Jana to her current profession as an independent architect, but she also worked for large nationally-recognized firms such as NBBJ, Burgess and Niple, and Karlsberger in Columbus, and Perkins Eastman in New York City. She developed her own management style while working on the headquarters for Abercrombie and Fitch. The project’s biggest challenge was in their firm’s role of Architect of Record, not creating the design concept, but taking the schematics and developing them into buildable architecture, producing all the necessary drawings and documents.

Jana approaches every project with a clean slate and with an open mind. The client’s requirements, desires, and aesthetic preferences are her priority as well as the context of the project. She is interested in using quality and sustainable materials, materials that will wear well and even improve in appearance over time. A beautiful and functional flow of space, proportion, scale, lighting, artistic and fine workmanship, attention to detail and creativity are all aspects she carefully considers.

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Jana gravitates to a contemporary style, using neutral colors and natural materials, but she also enjoys projects that require traditional design because of her interest in art history and historic preservation. “From the most conservatively traditional to avant-garde, the end product should function well, but it should also delight, making one feel it is a unique and engaging environment.”

Jana tries to incorporate sustainable design in all of her work. Maximizing the use of natural light, natural ventilation, high performance equipment, materials that absorb and distribute solar energy, and interior products with low volatile organic emissions are a few strategies. “Often architecture requires problem solving and being critical about your own design. Sometimes rethinking your plan helps you develop good solutions to the problem.”

Jana enjoys reading and learning about interesting people from all walks of life and historic periods; their stories often encourage her to be a stronger and braver person. She gets her inspiration from people who work diligently toward their dreams and goals and those who thrive to make a difference in the world, even if it requires them to go against the grain. Frank Lloyd Wright is one of those people. His buildings are unique, exquisite creations on many levels, from exterior massing to details and even furnishings.

He found inspiration from many sources, yet his interpretations are original, artistic expressions. Jana admires his dedication and pioneering spirit, his creative use and profound understanding of building materials, and his efforts at city planning and affordable housing.

Jana’s ultimate goal is to enhance the quality of life for her clients and the community. It gives her greatest pleasure to be able to provide hope to those who are in need. She sees her education and skills as tools to help achieve this goal. When the architect, client, contractor, and community can work collaboratively, the process and product are best. She is a member of the City of Columbus Downtown Commission—the approval authority for Downtown Planning, Zoning, Graphics, and Design Review. The Commission is supported by the City of Columbus Planning Division. Jana considers her participation on the Commission to be one of the most rewarding aspects of her career. She also sits on the Board of Trustees of Franklin County Veterans Memorial. Jana would like to be remembered for being a good and caring mother, wife, and daughter. And as for her work, she would like to be remembered for utilizing her education and skills as an architect to make a positive impact on our community and the future.

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SUSAN ABEL MAXMAN, CLASS OF 1956 Commitment to Sustainable Design and the Healthy Future of our Environment After graduating from CSG, Susan attended Smith College for two years, then married and started a family. “I always wanted to be an architect but in those days, women didn’t become architects, so I was discouraged from it for many years. After reading an article about architect Lou Kahn, I decided that I wanted to go back to Penn and study with him. Today, of course, more than 50 % of the students in architecture school are women.” A decade later she went back to school, earning her master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1981 Susan established her own architecture firm, Susan Maxman Partners, in Philadelphia. Restoration and interior design were her firm’s primary focuses at that time. Some of their notable projects include Cusano Environmental Center at the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge, an addition to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Julia DeBurgos Elementary School in Philadelphia, and Woods Residence Hall at Penn State Berks Campus.

The firm, recently renamed SMP Architects, currently employs 18 people. “We have been about green buildings since 1991, way before it was the thing to do. I realized then that we could design in a way that conserved resources and ‘tread more lightly on the earth’.” Marrying the principles of sustainable design, historic preservation, and not detracting from the beauty of nature, her firm’s architecture is “always concerned with mitigating the effects of the built environment on our eco-systems.”

In 1993, Susan became the first female president of the American Institute of Architects in its 135 year history, and introduced sustainable architecture around the world, becoming a leader in this movement. Susan viewed her appointment as not only symbolic of the potential impact women can make on the architectural profession, but as a position from which to “advocate two issues that she regarded as complementary: a greater environmental awareness and accountability on the part of architects, and urban revitalization.” At the 1993 UIA/AIA World Congress of Architects, a Declaration of Interdependence for a Sustainable Future, co-authored by Susan and the President of the UIA, was adopted. This declaration outlines responsible architectural practices with relation to the environment and sustainable design. The declaration in its entirety can be found at http://www. uia-architectes.org/texte/england/2aaf1.html.

SMP Architects’ client base is primarily institutions and non-profit organizations, including community groups, government agencies, schools, and universities. When asked if they have a signature style, Susan replied “We do not have a signature style because our architecture is about finding solutions for specific problems with specific sites and needs. Thus the design evolves from specifics and is not a design aesthetic that is unique to me or my firm…The appropriate sustainable approach to each project is unique, and depends on the client, the site, and the budget.” Susan judges the success of her firm’s projects by the satisfaction of their clients, and to date, all have been extremely satisfied. Her main challenge lies in convincing the client that additional expenditure of money for energy efficiency will pay off in the end.

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Susan has received numerous honors and awards for design excellence and her advocacy of sustainable design and preservation, including Honorary Doctorates from Ball State University and The University of Detroit-Mercy. She was the first recipient of AIA Philadelphia’s Thomas U. Walter Award, which is presented to a current member of the architectural profession and recognizes the recipient’s outstanding contributions to the architectural community through service to the AIA and other related professional organizations. Susan is on the Pennsylvania Honor Roll of Women, is a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. She has served in such capacities as Chair of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Chair of The Urban Land Institute’s Environmental Council. She has also been admitted to the College of Fellows of the AIA, a distinction held by less than five percent of her professional peers. Her individual distinctions are too numerous to list, as are those of her firm, which number in excess of sixty.

Susan recalled a funny memory about her career: hearing workers whisper “lady architect” when she visited construction sites.

Clearly this “lady architect” can be very proud of her career and her strong dedication to preserving history, beauty, and the environment. She and her colleagues bear in mind the following Native American Adage: “We do not inherit our land from our ancestors; we borrow it from future generations.”

For more information about Susan Maxman, SMP Architects, and sustainable design, visit their website: www.smparchitects.com.

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JULIANNE MUELLER, CLASS OF 1974 Helping People Understand the Benefits of Historical Preservation Julianne (Julie) Mueller was inspired to study architecture from family vacations to historical sites and by an amazing professor in college. On a trip to France with her parents at age fifteen, Julie found Chartres difficult to leave. She claims that it was there that the “architectural bug” bit her. At the end of that summer, she enrolled at CSG in 10th grade. Her favorite structure at CSG is the Mansion, which she recalls as the historic core of the school.

“The upstairs rooms were wonderful classroom spaces because of their large windows and intimate size.” She fondly remembers the pergola, connecting the Mansion with the newer part of the building, which has lovely views and sounds wonderful when it is full of girls walking to class Julie remembers always being aware of buildings around her. Her senses were always on alert. She affectionately remembers the first house in which she lived —a lovely two-story frame home on Brandon Road in Upper Arlington. She loved it because it had so many qualities that inspired wonder in her.

The front had a stone facing filled with tiny fossils that she never tired looking for and thinking about. Her bedroom came with pink and black wallpaper patterned with a female French poodle in various states of repose: lounging by the pool with a fancy drink, and in a bubble bath, to name a few. She often fell asleep at night making up stories about that dog.

The backyard was surrounded by high lilac bushes which bloomed in all shades of pink and lavender in the late spring.

The scent and colors are unforgettable to Julie to this day. Finally, she loved the linoleum floor in the front hall which had been poorly laid by a previous owner. Because of the crinkling sound it made when people walked on it, Julie could always tell who was passing through the hall by the specific crinkle that person’s footsteps made.

Julie’s love of architecture led to a 30-year career in architectural history. She currently works for a public agency that is responsible for managing 150 historical and archaeological resources. The Cultural Resources Stewardship Section of Montgomery County Parks in Maryland consists of six employees and dozens of volunteers. When asked what her favorite building style is, she puns “Consensus Building.” She is a patient listener, bringing people together to work toward a common goal. Nothing gets done, built, or rehabilitated without consensus from a wide group of users or clients.

“Any interesting building that is saved and re-used is a success in my book,” says Julie. “Helping people to understand the benefits of reusing old buildings and then seeing it actually happen is a high.” Her office faces many challenges in its mission to preserve the many historical buildings in its inventory. Three of these challenges are convincing people to reuse existing buildings, using a decreasing budget to complete a growing number of projects, and providing more educational programming than they currently can offer.

When Julie worked in the private sector, she had numerous contracts with the Department of Defense. That job afforded her the opportunity to go to places she might not otherwise have seen. She traveled all over the country, providing advice on cultural resources management, sometimes getting into unexpected situations. Once she was thrown in the brig for taking pictures of buildings even though she had official papers allowing her to do so. It took a day to extricate her. On another occasion, Julie was chased into a lake by a stampede of bulls!

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In addition to her professional life, Julie is surrounded by others interested in history. Julie’s husband, Thomas Johnson, is an award-winning preservation architect who has restored beautiful historic theaters all over the country. They enjoy traveling to see historical buildings. Most recently, they had the incredible opportunity to visit Havana where they saw fantastic mid-20th century architecture. Perhaps her most favorite building from her travels is Saint Chapelle in Paris.

“The windows are awe inspiring.” Julie’s 18-year-old daughter, Natalie, is also a history buff. She serves as a volunteer “conductor” on Montgomery County Parks’ Underground Railroad Experience Trial, a guide at the Josiah Henson Historic Site (Harriet Beecher Stowe based her character Uncle Tom on his autobiography), and a costumed interpreter at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. And last, but certainly not least, history is the favorite subject of her 10-year-old son, Garrett.

Julie is very involved in volunteer work with her temple, at her children’s schools, and her college alumni association, for whom she raises scholarship funds. She is the past president of the D.C. Preservation League. Her kids bought her a refrigerator magnet that reads “Stop me before I volunteer again!”

Julie’s ultimate goal is to keep things in perspective and to make sure that work and home life are balanced. She wants to be remembered for being a good mom. To learn more about Julie’s work with The Cultural Resources Stewardship Section of Montgomery County Parks, please visit its website at www.HistoryintheParks.org.

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KATY POTTS, CLASS OF 1996 Mentoring Students in Architecture and Engineering When Katy Potts moved from Clintonville in the fifth grade, she had visions of designing her own bedroom, including a glass-block tree houselike structure on the side of the room where she could play and read. Instead she found herself in a typical suburban home with a plain bedroom.

She did however, spend a lot of her time walking through her new neighborhood looking at the houses, while trying to imagine what the rooms would look like inside. At home, Katy would draw floor plans for her dream home, incorporating the images from her neighborhood.

Before starting CSG in eighth grade, Katy took a shop class where one of the projects included designing a small house, complete with floor plans and a model built out of blue foam board. This class combined art and math, and taught her to think about public versus private rooms, forms, and proportions. Katy loved it! In eighth grade, Ms. McClarren gave the class the assignment of creating a poster about a science profession. Katy really wanted to write about architecture, but didn’t think it related to science. Ms. McClarren allowed it, and Katy made a very detailed poster about the profession, spending quite a bit of time creating buildings for the background of the poster. Katy’s mom saved the poster until her graduation from architecture school.

Katy attended The Ohio State University for her Bachelor of Science degree. After a study abroad trip to Italy, Katy and some friends made a pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut chapel outside the tiny town on Ronchamp. It was not an easy site to get to—they took several trains and a steep hike to get to the tiny chapel. When they finally got inside the chapel, Katy said “it was breathtaking.” She had written a lot about the building at school, but “the actual experience of it was more than I could have imagined.”

Katy completed her Masters in Architecture from Arizona State University and now works for Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects (GWG) in New Haven, Connecticut, completing a wide range of residential, institutional and commercial projects. The company’s resume include projects as simple as a master bath renovation to designing a brand new train station in West Haven. GWG’s services include architecture, urban design, and interiors. Working for GWG has given Katy the opportunity to design a wide variety of projects and also see those designs become reality on the construction site. columbus school for girls Forte et Gratum Winter/Spring 2011 18

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Before working with GWG, Katy interviewed with firms that made it clear they were looking for someone to sit quietly at their desk and produce a lot of work. GWG let Katy know from the start that she would split her time between the office and construction sites, giving her responsibilities that others might not have thought she was ready to handle. She feels this has given her the opportunity to grow professionally. GWG is a family-oriented firm—long hours and weekends at the office are not expected. Katy rarely takes work home and has the flexibility in her schedule to take care of family obligations.

Katy has been a mentor for the ACE Mentor Program (www.acementor.org) for the past six years, which is for high school students who are interested in careers in architecture, engineering, and construction. For four years, Katy has been a team leader, working with six other mentors and 15 students. They meet with the students every other week and teach them about their professions through a design project. Last year, Katy’s team participated in a national design competition sponsored by ACE and the Construction Industry Round Table. They designed a block of sustainable homes for a neighborhood nearby in East Haven. In addition to designing floor plans, the students learned about civil engineering and site design, structural requirements to hold up the house, and how to heat and cool buildings. They were limited to a budget that would make homes affordable, so the students performed a thorough cost estimate that led to some design changes. The group was invited to present their program to a jury in Washington, D.C. comprised of CEOs of some of the country’s largest construction firms, and they were honored to win second place. During the trip, the students toured the Capitol and had a chance to meet their local representatives. This year, Katy and her students are designing a health center and have adopted a community clinic nearby to act as their owner’s representative, providing information and critiques about their designs.

Katy’s firm is very supportive of her volunteer work by allowing her to mentor during company time. Mentoring takes up a lot of her time, usually several hours per week during the school year, plus time spent recruiting students and planning their project in the fall. “It’s thrilling to see students move on from our program to study architecture or engineering in college, and they often return to show us their latest design work or to look for an internship,” said Katy.

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DARRYL ROGERS, PARENT—SARAH ROGERS, CLASS OF 2013 Integrating Sustainable, Energy Saving, and Eco-Friendly Concepts Darryl Rogers has had an intense interest in designing, building, and creating things since his youth. His signature style is rooted in meeting his client’s goals and vision and relating the design solution to the specific site and context. He prefers not to impose a preconceived, stylistic appearance to his work, but rather to provide a unique design response to the unique goals for each project. Darryl gets his inspiration from the work of great architects such as Thom Mayne, James Stewart Polshek, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, and Richard Meier. His firm, Rogers Krajnak Architects, Inc., (RKA) is located in a converted early 20th century automotive service garage in downtown Columbus. Many first time visitors have commented that the last time they were in the building they were having their car serviced.

Because Darryl believes in sustainable thinking and design, most of his firm’s work involves challenging and complicated renovations, restorations, and adaptive re-use of existing buildings. According to Darryl, re-use of an existing building is fundamentally the most sustainable approach to a project. RKA is an active member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and Darryl has his LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation. He educates clients on strategies for integrating sustainable, energy saving, and eco-friendly concepts into their projects. Darryl believes the biggest challenge is balancing the upfront costs and many benefits associated with the sustainable design options with the long term financial payback.

RKA recently earned LEED Gold Certification from the USGBC for their work with the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.

The project was meaningful because not only did the facility improve Mid-Ohio Food Bank’s ability to serve the community, but the project design enables visitors to experience what the food bank is all about. The project also recently received a Platinum Reconstruction Award from the national magazine Building Design + Construction.

When asked about his most successful project to date, Darryl found it difficult to answer. He believes that all of the projects he has worked on are successful on different levels. When he meets a client’s goals, budget, and vision, then success has been achieved. RKA is currently working with The Church of the Epiphany, located in downtown Washington, D.C., two blocks east of the White House. Darryl says it has been amazing to work with this diverse group that offers so many outreach and service programs in the heart of the nation’s capital. Darryl’s travels have frequently taken him to architectural landmarks including the British Museum and Westminster Abbey in London, the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, The Getty Center and Cathedral of Our Lady in L.A., The Guggenheim Museum in New York, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Falling Water in Pennsylvania. The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh had a truly profound effect on Darryl.

“It is a thoroughly modern building with clever references to Scottish tradition and history. The building also appropriately represents the country of Scotland emerging from the political shadow of England.”

Darryl’s passion for working with older buildings, his client-centered design solutions, and leadership skills have made a positive impact in central Ohio and beyond.

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Encore

Students Exploring Architecture Encore is a new program in the Lower School intended to give the students an opportunity to extend their knowledge in an area of their interest and to extend the curriculum in creative ways. Activities have ranged from chess, LEGO building and cooking, to a trip to Franklin Park Conservatory, learning about Aesop’s Fables and more. We have had artists, playground engineers, cooks and bakers, chess aficionados, and improvisational actors.

Students enjoy getting to know students in other grade levels better during the process. In October, Encore time was used exclusively to extend curriculum. Form III girls conducted their studies of the United States, and Form IV Ohio’s prehistory with a focus on the Adena and Hopewell Native American tribes. Form V Encore experiences have been devoted to service related activities.

During the recent Form III study of famous people, one Encore group chose to explore the architecture of Mary Colter and Frank Lloyd Wright. The initial fascination of how Colter and Wright incorporated nature into their designs led the students to work through the process of how an architect must work within the confines of the given space. Eager to start building, the girls practiced patience as they developed a collaborative plan for a world of islands. Each student had a voice in conceiving how her island would contribute to the collective whole. Each “architect” drafted an island design and brought in a variety of building materials. Given a three by five plot, these young architects experienced how to plan, use and share resources, adjust their designs, and solve structural problems. This Encore experience provided a novel context for students to explore creatively a shared area of interest and to appreciate and support one another.

CSG Community Network, Stay Connected Keep up with the CSG community by becoming a part of the Columbus School for Girls social network.

Don’t forget about our website: www.columbusschoolforgirls.org for other happenings and updates about the school.

We hope to see you on the web!

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Red & Gold

Leadership Luncheon

Head of School, Liza Lee hosted the 7th Annual Red and Gold Leadership Luncheon on November 16th at CSG House, honoring those alumnae who have pledged their financial support to the Annual Giving Campaign at or above the Red and Gold Leadership Level. Alumnae who attended the luncheon had the pleasure of meeting four Upper School students and hearing about their CSG experiences. Sophie Sugar (Form IX), Rachel Canowitz (Form X), Ranndi Grubbs (Form XI), and Imani Caldwell (Form XII), each talked about a highlight of her life at CSG. Though each of these young women shared something different about what makes CSG so special to them, each of their experiences included the common threads of community, caring, and healthy challenge.

We extend a special thank you to the Red and Gold Leadership Committee: Cecily Chester Alexander, ’88, Leslie Sawyer, ’71, Connie Aldrich Bodiker, ’54, Judy Yenkin Brachman, ’56, Carolyn Thomas Christy, ’60, Karen Lurie Jones, ’87, Jill Levy, ’70, Susy Culter Meiling, ’61, Lisa Benson Meuse, ’99, Jane Arthur Roslovic, ’80, Julie Schottenstein Saar, ’84, Margie Barton Williams, ’57, Kim Rice Wilson, ’80, and Dorothy Sugar Ziegler, ’55. Your generosity and dedication of time is invaluable to the continued excellence of our alma mater. The Red and Gold Leadership Program is of vital importance to CSG, and we welcome all alumnae who wish to participate.

Initiated in the fall of 2003, the Red and Gold Leadership Program comprises alumnae working together to maintain and strengthen the long tradition of CSG alumnae giving and to increase the number of alumnae who give at the Red and Gold Leadership Level of $1,500 or above; $1,500 is the approximate gap between tuition and the true cost of educating each CSG student each year.

Red and Gold Chair, Cecily Chester Alexander, ’88, and Co-Chair, Leslie Sawyer, ’71, led this successful and very important relationship-based effort. They and their twelve member committee personally solicited 53 local alumnae for leadership gifts. Currently, 44 alumnae have made a Red and Gold Level commitment, their gifts and pledges totaling more than $148,000. As alumnae of the school, we are all aware that our CSG educations were partially funded by the generosity of alumnae who went before us and that Annual Giving helps meet the costs associated with creating the collaborative, interactive, and meaningful environment that is CSG. Great appreciation goes out to those alumnae who have made, and those who plan to make, a leadership gift to this year’s Annual Giving Campaign. Thank you for your commitment to continuing this important CSG tradition of giving back so that today’s CSG girls and young women may receive excellent educations and opportunities as you have received.

Top left: Liza Lee, Cecily Chester Alexander, ’88, Red Gold Chair, and Ellen Havens Hardymon, ’73, enjoyed listening to current students. Top right: Alumnae and the four student speakers got to know each other and shared CSG experiences. Bottom Right: Junior Ranndi Grubbs spoke to the assembled group of alumnae about what makes CSG so special to her.

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Archiving Corner Archiving in the 21st Century After a 4-year hiatus, the archiving committee— Connie Aldrich Bodiker ’54; Susy Cutler Meiling ’61; Babette T. Gorman ’69; Janie Marr Werum ’70; and Jill Levy ’70—is back in action. Their first order of business was to clean up and clear out the attic space, which had grown quite cluttered in their absence.

They spent most of the summer doing this and now that they have the space to spread out, they are beginning to get down to the fun business of sorting, identifying, filing and cataloging their finds.

The Archiving Committee wanted to find the safest means of preserving and storing these precious ephemera. Originally they thought that digitizing everything would be the answer, but there is some discouraging news as to the longevity of the digital process. In the meantime, they are storing things in acid-free boxes, archival polymer sleeves, and archive-appropriate folders.

“Turning a page in a weathered pamphlet entitled The Columbus School for Girls in Pictures, I see my mom’s (Jane Mitcheltree Werum, ’43) bright shining face in a choir picture, her blonde hair in a page cut. How great it is to wipe off the dust, open a page, and see my young, vibrant, high school-aged mom and know that she has stayed that way!”

- Janie Marr Werum, ’70, Archiving Committee Member

In the recent past, CSG had been very fortunate to have Betsy Kurtz Argo, ’63, and Carolyn Thomas Christy, ’60, in-house to identify alumnae, past parents, and teachers as well as some very important memorabilia over the years. Today, the committee still relies heavily upon the Development Office— Tiffany Burton Duncan, ’92, Christine Neubauer, Lucy Ackley, ’83, and Christy Schoedinger Rosenthal, ’87—to help them identify and sort the abundance of materials.

The Archiving Committee’s plans in 2011 are to bring in groups of alumnae from each available decade to identify students in the pictures from those eras. Most of the pictures are an amalgamation of photographs taken for Topknot (originally spelled Top Knot). Look for regularly featured pictures or objects that need identification in upcoming issues of Forte et Gratum.

Second Shepherds’ Play, year unknown

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If you have anything that you would like to donate to the CSG archives, the school would be honored to include your gift in the collection.

“The Scroll, Vol. X, No. 3, Christmas 1936 was edited by Charlotte Lazarus, and its staff was Catherine Coffman, Lois Gundersheimer, Harriet Hall, Phyllis Harmon, Ann Lazarus (Char’s first cousin) and Marjorie Vance. My mother, Char, went on to major in creative writing at Wellesley and her dear friend and step-cousin Phyllis Harmon Greene, ’37, is now known world-wide as the “91-year-old blogger” (wedeb90.blogspot.com). Char and Phyllis had poems and stories in many of the Scrolls we have found in the attic of Kibler House. As always, Char’s imagination, impeccable scanning, and internal rhyme schemes still tickle me. In my later years I have taken up the family pen (now keyboard) to dash off poems and song parodies, but few can live up to the wit of the late Charlotte Lazarus Witkind, Class of 1937.

Here is an excerpt from a long poem in the aforementioned Scroll, which Char wrote about (of all things) skiing. She was visually impaired and terrified of sliding down anything.

The greatest fanatics are often rheumatics, And children and fledglings can master their edglings.

They can teach you your turns amidst palm leaves and ferns, And the country’s best tracks are on sixth floor at Saks.”

- Babette Gorman, ’69, Archiving Committee Member

One of the exciting finds for the committee this summer was a card catalogue with the grades for the students who attended CSG from 1900-1914. Most interesting to find was that it was rare to find an A given out, even in the Lower School. Here is one of the few that accomplished exemplary marks.

“I thought the letters from the various heads— Miss Gladden, Mrs. McClure, Dr. Shellabarger— explaining some aspect of the school during their tenure were fascinating. Tuition costs through the decades intrigued me as well.”

- Connie Aldrich Bodiker, ’54, Archiving Committee Member

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CSG Unveils Facilities Plan For over a century, Columbus School for Girls has been a landmark, setting the standard for excellence in educating the girls and young women of Columbus, Ohio - young women who go on to become outstanding civic and national leaders and citizens. It is a rigorous intellectual community - vibrant and dynamic, nurturing the growth and development of all its members. Head of School, Liza Lee, states “Challenge, character and community are the watchwords of the CSG mission, and we believe we have created a blueprint that will challenge us to be one of the finest schools in the nation, that will express the content of our character, and that will enhance the Bexley community that we treasure.”

As the school enters the second decade of the 21st century, the Board of Trustees, in its critical role of strategic governance, has committed to a major comprehensive capital and endowment campaign that will position the School to transition into the coming decades while remaining true to its values and revered traditions. The next step, a new Wellness Complex and Performing Arts Center, will ensure that the tradition of this beloved institution remains vibrant and constant, spirited and steady.

The new Wellness Complex will include an enhanced athletics entrance, a ground-level 8-lane pool for aquatics, a new fitness center including a state-of-the-art workout room and group exercise studio, as well as a renovated and expanded dining area. The Wellness Complex creates a multi-faceted center to help support and enhance our athletic programs, as well as healthy lifestyle standards and patterns that will stay with our girls for their entire lives.

The Performing Arts Center will include a new 420-seat theater, as well as new arts lobby and Columbia Avenue entrance plaza.

The new theater provides a double-benefit- a beautiful performing arts space as well as a distinctive, elegant lobby able to accommodate large special events and gatherings. It will become a landmark in its own right - a central gathering place for the entire school community.

Working closely with our architects, the DesignGroup, our guiding principles for the project are: establish clear entryways (academic, athletic, arts), celebrate natural light, convey a timelessness of materials, capture a forward-looking spirit, and express CSG’s motto, Strength and Grace. Working with the Bexley community our goals are: respect the architectural heritage, scale and character of the neighboring and residential community; continue to invest in the buildings and grounds of the Bexley campus; and to create opportunities for community collaboration and shared learning.

Fundraising for the Landmark Campaign has successfully begun with a goal of $17 million for construction and $3 million for endowment. The first phase of construction includes the Wellness Complex and renovations to the dining room. Construction on the Performing Arts Center will follow. In January, we achieved an important milestone: Liza Lee and DesignGroup presented the proposed building renovation and expansion plans to Bexley City Council. City Council approval was unanimous. Several city council members thanked CSG for listening to community concerns and for being a good neighbor.

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All conceptual drawings created by DesignGroup for Columbus School for Girls.

Above: A new 8-lane swimming pool with bleacher seating and an abundance of natural light and exterior views will replace the existing second floor 4-lane pool, which will be demolished.

A new fitness center, group exercise studio, and locker rooms will complement the existing wellness and athletics programs.

The existing dining room will be expanded and renovated to provide a more flexible space for gathering and dining.

Right: An arts lobby will serve as a flexible events space for the theater beyond.

Natural light enters both the lobby and theater, providing an enhanced user experience with strong connection to the outdoors.

Opposite page: DesignGroup’s proposed building renovation and expansion footprint now approved

by Bexley City Council.

Much more news is to come on this exciting project, including a construction timeline. In the meantime, if you would like any more information, please feel free to contact CSG Director of Development and External Relations, Christy Rosenthal at (614) 252-0781 ext. 130 or crosenthal@columbusschoolforgirls.org.Â

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CSG Senior, Enri Small

Alumnae Spotlight: Brittany Westbrook, ’98, Speaks at the Martin Luther King Program Introduction by CSG Senior Enri Small: “Brittany Westbrook graduated from CSG in the Class of 1998 and went on to Northwestern University where she majored in Broadcast Journalism. While in college, Brittany did reporting for WGEM-TV in Quincy, Illinois.

Following graduation she worked for WKEF/WRGT in Dayton, Ohio, and later moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania where she worked as a reporter and weekend anchor for WFMZ-TV. In 2007, Brittany returned home to Columbus work for WBNS 10 TV. Currently, Brittany works as a Public Affairs Manager at The Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation and also hosts a show called Game Changers for WOSU. Brittany wrote in her CSG yearbook that she developed a philosophy on life which she refers to as the three Rs: “Respect, Receiving, and Recycling.

Respect because you expect nothing less than to be respected. Receive because if you don’t receive and grab hold of every opportunity put before you, someone else will. Recycling, not talking about paper and plastic, but of knowledge and success. Give these back to society because like paper and plastic, both knowledge and success, if not recycled, will result in limited resources and a lost future. “

An excerpt from Brittany’s Speech: “Good morning everyone—Mrs. Lee, faculty, staff, alumnae, parents, and most directly, young ladies of Columbus School for Girls. Every time I am surrounded by these walls, even when I drive by on the street, I am reminded of the education I received at CSG. Not just the 10 page papers I had to write to pass Dr. Roger’s class, or the demanding curriculum imposed upon me by the one and only Mr. Burton, but on the lessons I learned that were never written in any book or scrawled across a white board.

Brittany quoted from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech “In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds... We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline... Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”

“In this time when physical force seems the only force to take the spotlight, I challenge all of you young ladies, in your day to day differences to identify and rely on your soul force…to not hurl words of hurt, but to seek common ground and at the least mutual acceptance. To discuss your differences, not in the spirit of division, but in the spirit of celebrating the fact that you are allowed to be different. There is no requirement to agree on everything, but there is a responsibility, an American responsibility, a human responsibility to sort out our differences in a way that upholds the validity of very voice. Whatever your problem or difference, it’s easy to get mad about it. But there is a certain power, a more real power in a peaceful exchange. It’s there that you really learn something and benefit from having your own ideas. It’s there that you will really reach the goal of not just saying something, but being heard.

That’s what I learned here at CSG, took with me to Northwestern University, employed in the newsrooms where I worked and still uphold in my interactions throughout my career. “

You can view the CSG Martin Luther King program, and more of Brittany’s speech at youtube.com/user/ColumbusSchoolGirls

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Winter 2011

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1929 Mary Poston Burke turned 99 years old on January 28th! She is doing well and has 16 great-grandchildren. She loved CSG. She is blind now and cannot write and moved in with her daughter on January 25th.

1933 Class Representative Position Available Annette Dods Stoddard-Freeman is now 94 and living in St. John’s-on-theLake with a view of Lake Michigan. Her grandson F. Jackson (Jack) Stoddard is married to Katie Hollenbaugh, ’96, and they live in San Francisco in the Mission District with their son, Owen, who is now over one year old.

Kate (L) and Meg Wilson (R), Class of 2017, with Libby Gill Kurtz, ‘31, classmate of their grandmother, Miriam Francisco Rice

Suzanne Kibler Morris hosted 37 members of the Kibler family—her family and her sister Barbara’s children and grandchildren—at her house on December 23 for their annual holiday dinner.

1935 Class Representative Position Available Jeannette Hillman Henney has a new great grandson. He brings the total of great grandchildren to five!

Carolyn Barton Davis, Class Representative Phyllis Harmon Greene was on BBC America with her daughter, D.G. Fulford, on September 16, 2010. The story was titled “The 90 Year Old Blogger”. You can view the story by following the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ world_news_america/8999217.stm.

Phyllis also co-authored an article with her daughter, D.G. Fulford, and granddaughter, Maggie Sherman, titled Real Life: 3 Generations of Caretakers. The article is published in the March 31, 2011 issue of Woman’s Day Magazine. You can read the article and see beautiful pictures of Phyllis, D.G., and Maggie, online by following the link: http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Lifestyle/Real-Life3-Generations-of-Caretakers.html Members of the Class of 1982 in the Program for Young Children

Phyllis Harmon Greene, ‘37, passed away peacefully at home on February 24, 2011

1939 Lainie McCune Altmaier, Class Representative Lainie McCune Altmaier spent Christmas in Northern Michigan with her family. Her new great granddaughter was born in November.

1940 Suzy Kibler Morris, Class Representative susiemorris1@aol.com Ann McElroy Wright was happy to have 22 members of her family at her house for Christmas dinner! Mark, David, and Peter, their wives, and nine of her grandchildren and five great granddaughters!

Can anyone claim more? She sends best wishes, peace and joy to all.

Jane Mitcheltree Werum, Class Representative jwerum@columbus.rr.com Janet Lee Morris will be moving to a larger space in her retirement home. She had a broken rib last summer which kept her in assisted living for two months.

Luckily she has a close cousin who lives in San Diego who has helped her out.

She wanted the class to know she had, in her 40s, gotten an MA in French at University of California at Irvine where she lived.

Marty Downing Johnson sent a wonderful newsy poem at Thanksgiving with news of all her family (remember she has six great grandsons) and reveling in her new life in their retirement community.

Mernie Stevenson Longman returned her card reporting that she has two daughters and their families who live near her in Sarasota and make her life full, busy, and enjoyable. Also two married grandsons in West Hartford, CT and another in D.C. She has two great granddaughters and another granddaughter in L.A. What a nice spread out family!

She still plays a little tennis and rides her bike. Good for you Mernie.

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Patsy Gumble Grayson reports all is well with her and hers and nothing exciting is happening, Nancy Purdy Sprague is kicking along quite well. Three sons have wives, she has seven grandchildren, and four greats—a very satisfactory lot. She wishes everyone the best.

Jane Mitcheltree Werum wishes everyone a happy, healthy 2011!

1944 Marilyn Kent Hall, Class Representative mhall6@columbus.rr.com Charlotte Nelson Cunningham wrote: “Thank you so much for continuing to be our class representative although, sad to say, there probably aren’t very many of us left to represent. I had my annual note from Betty Blau Stickney (Honolulu, Hawaii) recently and she too would like to know how many of us are still in contact with you. I was very impressed with the cover story on the alumnae magazine about Ann Crane’s daughter, Sally, and the picture of her family inside -- Jimmy as handsome as ever. I am very well -- no slings and errors of the advancing years which I attribute to daily swims, bridge, crosswords, and this magic machine -oh, and a little chardonnay. I am totally content in my mountain nest and have no desire to stir. Three of my four children and their families are relatively nearby and the fourth in London. I often recall and treasure many happy memories of our days at Parsons Place and ‘the farm,’ and look forward to the alum magazine for the current news and events. Quite different from ‘our day,’ but it all sounds very interesting and progressive, as it should.”

Joanne Vercoe Cooper sold her Florida condo last November. She still has her place in Michigan. Three homes were too much, especially without Bob. Her great grandson Jonathon is now 2-1/4 years, very active, and talks up a storm.

She spent part of Christmas at Marcia’s in Maryland and part at Christopher’s in Florida. Busy, but lots of fun. She loves being with the children. Beats one little old lady talking to a dog all day! For the

The Class of 1959: Miranda Marvin, Lynn Haverick Ryan, Linda Yenkin, and Toni Seymour in Philadelphia

moment, she is well -- that’s a plus. She plays lots of bridge and enjoys her family and friends.

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Marilyn Kent Hall has lived for nearly four years at Friendship Village of Dublin, and shares that her decision to move there was timely and extremely rewarding. Thus far, she has been secretary of the Executive Council for two years and editor of the monthly Newsletter for two years. For one year she held both “jobs” simultaneously which is how they were squeezed into three years.

It has been a challenge and fun to play piano accompaniment for the monthly Sing-Along programs as well as for the seasonal style shows. The activities there are plentiful and most enjoyable. They have a beautiful swimming pool, wonderful exercise facilities, and three dining areas. Many card games are played on a regular basis. Recently Marilyn has been learning how to play Mah Jongg which provides an interestingly frustrating challenge! She looks forward to celebrating her 85th on Easter Sunday 2011, even though, truly, she never expected to see the year 2000. “How amazing it has been to see CSG grow and grow since I entered the school in 1940.” The opportunities provided in 2011 are most appropriate and endless indeed.

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65th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 The theme running through most of our classmates’ reports is family! A number of us have great grandchildren. Anne Jeffrey Robinson has four, Peggy Westerman Thomas has two and Sally Luethi Havens has one. Other news ….Honnie MacDonald Robinson has a grandson at Yale, Harriet Moeller de Rosiere loves living in Palm Beach. Her son lives in Paris with his family and visits regularly. Bev Prentiss Dunkel has a grandson serving in Afghanistan. Janie Turton Miller is still going strong. Her latest project at the library in Stuart, Florida, is Foreign Films After Dark and did I mention that she has started a library at her church?

As for your correspondent, Nancy Dunn Williams, I am almost recovered from an exotic fungus, common in Ohio but not in Oregon.

1947 Jane Maize Stone, Class Representative Sally Wise Kopplow is now living in Fort Myers, Florida. In August, Sally had a memorial service for her husband, Fred, in Michigan. She then spent time with

her son Freddie and his family in Cincinnati. She visited CSG for the first time in 16 years. Sally attended Parsons Place with Jane Maize Stone.

Lucia Borys Schockley is hoping for better health for her husband. He has been on chemo for cancer, but the tumor is shrinking. They came to Ohio in July for a family get together and a baptism for a great grandchild.

Barbara Van Meter Carey and Don recently spent two months in England walking 115 miles on the Cornwall Coast. They spent a week in Isles of Scilly visiting relatives in Yorkshire and a week in London. Gita, Seth, and four year old twins, Indy and Amara, came to New Hampshire for Christmas. Their son, Ted, who is working on a sweet potato project in Ghana, also came for Christmas. Barb and Don will visit Ted in Ghana in March.

1949 Class Representative Position Available Marilyn Havens Bagby’s granddaughter, Lauren, was married in Key Largo, Florida in September to Mr. Blake Sergot.

Marilyn is still enjoying retirement.

Judith Gibson Stone, Class Representative judygstone@yahoo.com Judy Gibson Stone writes “Will you believe we made one more trip to Switzerland?” Because of Jerry’s deteriorating condition, Judy assumed their travel days were over, but the trip was his idea.

In two weeks they visited friends they’ve known since they lived in Basel in the early 1960’s and they returned to some of their favorite places. It was a terrific journey down memory lane and they loved every minute of it.

Fred and Jeanne Stoddart Barends are very content in their warm and comfortable home. She thinks often with joy of the 60th reunion. What a blessing that so many of our class returned. Thank you!

60th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Nancy Cottingham Johnson, Class Representative papa7nanio@aol.com Brenda Mykrantz Milum and husband George really did the travel this last year.

I’m still waiting for the published book, as Brenda is a fabulous writer. Living in Squaw Valley, Ca. and skiing is incidental to their real life. They live all over the world literly. Nicaragua was their destination and see it they did but prefer Guatemala. Just about every destination they did some snorkling or diving. This wasn’t their favorite.They came to Columbus for the reunion of The Jeffrey Clan where all 250 assembled to renew the family ties every 5th year. Being on this coast led them to Iceland. It began in Reykjavik the capital and on to the W. coast to see Snaefellsnes Peninsular, Akureyri visiting lava fields and on to Gimsey where they walked across the Artic Circle. Then dipped in the hot thermal waters of the Blue Lagoon. Then on to Columbus Beach Club on Bert Lake, Michigan, on to Sandpoint, Idaho and Lake Pend Oreille and past the Grand coulee Dam on the way to Seattle. The adventure of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Islands called to them along with the snorkling. Jarakta and Yogyakarta where they visited 9th Century Hindu Temples. On to the Buddhist center at Borobudur. The eruption of volcanos was evident in the temples distruction as late as 2006. Timor-Leste was the worlds newest country so of course this was a must see. But somewhat of a disappointment out of the 100+ countries already visited.

So on to Bali, Nusa Lembongan and a stay at Mushroom Bay. Snorkling was good with many various colored fish to see....

The real treat was an Indonesian dinner.

On to Komodo and Rinca to view the Komodo Dragons!! An interesting aside: Religion in the Tana Toraja region centers around death and funerals but in spite of their adherence to traditional beliefs, their principal religion is Christianity. They did more in this country and W.Africa but that’s for later...

The late Betty Ann Wegener Elliott and Debbie Diehl Jones, Class of 1956, at their 50th reunion in 2006.

1952 Barbara Swisher Kelly, Class Representative barbs_loghome@yahoo.com Barbara Swisher Kelly had an accident last May 14th. She tripped on some wires under the craftmatic bed in her cattery which threw her down on her replaced knee shooting pain and vibration up her leg and breaking the femur bone and fracturing her hip. The pain was terrific as was the ride in the ambulance into Gallup. Surgery followed the next morning and six weeks recovery in a nursing home. She has a rod in her upper leg but is walking pretty well after two months on a walker and in a wheel chair. She bought a little red scooter and did manage to wheel around the Bernalio Wine Festival, the Albuquerque Rio Grande Art Festival, and the Greek Festival! Oh yes--also the New Mexico State Fair, where there’s a will there’s a way-ha! “Well, I’m old, but my “get up and go” hasn’t left me.” She hopes her classmates are doing well-healthy and finding peace and joy during these anxious times. She wishes everyone love and kindness. Does anyone know where Joyce is? She’s concerned! Hugs to all! Barbara Swisher Kelly

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Sue Brubaker Allen, Class Representative sballen385@gmail.com Sharon Henry Zaharee and her husband spent the summer and fall with health problems, but now they are doing better.

Their two sons came to help for a while.

She is looking forward to this new year.

Nancy Cramer Dickerson has been facing some very difficult times. Her husband, Dave, died this Fall. Then on Nov. 22 she tripped and fell in a parking lot, breaking her right knee cap and shattering both shoulders requiring two shoulder replacements. She is in rehab now, but cards can be sent to her house where her daughter-in-law will pick them up daily: 7501 E. 33rd St., Tucson, AZ 85710. Nancy is progressing well, but would enjoy encouragement from her classmates. Thank you Barbara Wagstaff Lowry for passing along that news.

So nice to receive a phone call from Penny Packard. In spite of being tethered to oxygen she has no complaints about her life. She especially enjoys connecting to friends by phone (614-775-0710) and said she feels closer to her CSG classmates now than she did back in school.

Sandra Yenkin Levine found not hosting Thanksgiving for the first time in about 40 years surprisingly enjoyable. Her brother Bernie turned 80 around that time and the extended family gathered in Columbus. That celebration followed a little relaxation time for Sandra and Herb in Florida Nancy Coughlin Lucas is headed to Ohio for 10 days at Christmas. All three of her children and her five grandchildren live in Columbus so she makes the trip from Florida twice a year. She continues to be active in the emergency rape and crisis center in Sarasota.

Sally Lou Kirkendall McDonald spent Christmas with daughter Heidi in N.C., and New Years with Katrina who lives in Ithaca. Sally Lou goes back to the farm in Ohio yearly and visits with her Ohio daughter, Linda who adopted a son (now 5) from Siberia. Her life continues to be filled with tennis, bridge, church work and a daily two mile walk.

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Jo Bruny Griswold and Grant are traveling a little less, but did enjoy a restful trip to Umbria, Italy and Amsterdam.

In both places they enjoyed soaking up Carole Kennon-Eaton, Class Representative the arts. They also enjoy their peaceful VirtualCarole@aol.com life on the farm, and their good health.

Hello Gang of ’55! This is your Roving Sally Lane Crabtree and Doug celebrated (Internet) Reporter and we do have news. her big birthday in a Paris apartment near the Luxembourg Gardens, visiting muse- First, our Entrepreneurs are expanding ums and walking a lot. In August, they their product lines. Myla Shisler Colhad a wonderful week on Hornby Island, lier is developing small tapestry weaving B.C. with some of her children. Lots of kits that will be available in the spring. wildlife, but the most entertaining were Check out samples at: http://mylastathe mink and otters living in the rocks. pestry.com/Site/HOME.html. You can Shane continues to work on her paint- also learn the difference between reguing, using brown paper bags and unusual lar weaving and tapestry there. Anne materials. Wish her well as she faces some Johnston Redner surprised everyone at surgery on a torn meniscus (old injury Jubilee when she showed her glass work from falling off Queenie years ago). decorative dishes as well as her already acclaimed beautiful dichroic jewelry.

Yvonne Yaw had a rough Spring of illness that was quite disabling and caused It was delightful to hear from Martha her to take a medical leave from full-time Davis Shirer. She still lives in Bossier teaching. It was the physical therapists City, LA and so do her two children, who enabled her to get back into the real Sidney and Patricia. Sidney works for the world in even better shape and stronger. local ABC affiliate where he is in charge During the summer she had a marvelous of the studio. He has also worked on a time creating a new course: Literature few movies that have thbeen made in town. for Girls. As she drew up the reading Patricia is in her 18 year thof teaching, list of girlhood favorites, she began to currently presiding over a 4 grade class. feel younger and younger. Then a pixie Martha volunteers in an elementary haircut further transformed her! If, at school library and substitutes in a pre75, you wish to pursue this “fountain school. She is about to start remodeling of youth” I’m sure Yvonne would share her home “which I share with two dogs her reading list. She would also love to and three cats.” Finally, she says she is involve more classmates in a collabora- going to visit Ohio “very soon!” tive narrative, essay and poem about our grown children (or anything of inter- Esther Webster Summers is pursuest to all of us) that she began with ing much intellectual enlightenment Sally and Sandra a few years ago. You through a weekly poetry group which can contact her at yyaw@Bentley.edu. focuses on American Poetry from 2006 forward. Her opera class has just finished Finally, I (Sue Brubaker Allen) survived a very complete examination of Othello an eye-opening trip to north central as an opera, of course, a play, a ballet, and India. What a colorful, chaotic, noisy, a film noire. Who wuda thunk it. dirty, friendly place!! It’s hard to accept the poverty that is so ingrained in this culture, and to see the very close juxtaposition of slums, luxury hotels and high rise corporations. But no matter what the circumstances, the people were always friendly, inviting us to join in their many festivals, or share their simple meals.

The Camel Festival was a kaleidoscope of sights, sounds, smells -- thousands of camels, cattle, beautiful horses, gypsies, villagers, religious pilgrims, musicians and dancers. Not an easy trip, but very mind-expanding. I am now enjoying the quiet, snow covered hills of Vermont.

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Now for the more peripatetic among us.

Rosamond Brown Vaule had a “fabulous” Audubon Society sponsored trip to Kenya and Tanzania last November. Here are a few highlights from her email. “The slice of Africa I saw” had grand, vast natural landscapes, evidence of political corruption in terrible roads, fragile traditional cultures like Maasai undergoing change, and an appreciation for the astonishing, though threatened, wildlife resources which form a base for the crucial tourism industry.

Roberta Yenkin Krakoff had a “very eclectic” travel schedule to Tunisia, Cuba,

and Panama this year. Roberta is also really enjoying her new docent position at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is ready to give any and all of us the grand tour.

Marcia Willcox McHam spent Thanksgiving (a first away holiday in many years) in San Francisco to which her son, Jeffrey, just moved from New York City.

Carole Kennon-Eaton feels like the Country Mouse. She got as far away as Lafayette, Indiana, for a family visit this year. She is still teaching Basic English as a volunteer twice a week at a center for adult employment training in Southeast DC. This is not English as a second language, but rather English the second time around for African American students who were short changed in the public education system.

1956 55th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Patty Park Bowman, Class Representative mpbowman@columbus.rr.com Julia Brooks Katz will not be returning to Columbus for the 55th....but she sends everyone her best wishes and greetings for the year ahead.

Mary Rose Webster, Class Representative mwebster@lightlink.com

Lynn Miller Cooper says that 2010 has been a very good year for her. In the summer, she spent several days at the races in Saratoga Springs, NY with a Washington, D.C. friend who has written a cookbook interspersed with some historical facts about Saratoga. In the fall, she enjoyed taking oil painting classes and even joined the gym and is now doing Zumba, Salsa, yoga and pilates. For Thanksgiving, she went to Boston to be with her son, Scott, and daughter-in-law, Diana. They then took her to their pied-a-terre in Paris for a 70th birthday celebration. She says, “what a way to welcome in a new decade!”

Kelly Jean Peters reports that she has been heavily involved in a Screen Actors’ Guild program called Book Pals. She reads to special education students in kindergarten and the second grade. She also reads to other first graders. She goes to the library once a week to select the books that she hopes “her students” will enjoy. She says that this program has given her a real sense of purpose.

Malinda Kilbourne Boyd was surprised last summer by her husband, Richard, and their daughters, Gretchen and Rebecca, along with the sons-in-law and all seven grandchildren at a 70th birthday dinner in Cincinnati. They spent Christmas week and the month of January in Hilton Head where Becca and her

husband and their two young daughters live. They will be in Orange Beach, AL for the month of February where three friends from Western Kentucky winter. We’ve been going to Hilton Head and Austin, TX in the winter for years and have become real “Snow Birds” she says.

1960 Carolyn Thomas Christy, Class Representative carolyn@kira.net There was a very interesting article in The New York Times on December 1, 2010 featuring Angela Westwater and the Sperone Westwater Gallery on the Bowery. Here is the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/ fashion/02Close.html?emc=eta1.

1961 50th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee: Susy Culter Meiling, susymeiling@yahoo.com Tana Sterrett Scott Anne Kirsten Wilder, akw4@sbcglobal.net Ellen Larrimer Tripp, eltripp16@gmail.com Anne Saxby Houle, ahoule@hollins.edu Anne Kirsten Wilder, Class Representative akw4@sbcglobal.net

Marilyn Masson McRae and her husband, Dave, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Their son, Tom, invited them to visit him in California and treated them to a wonderful 10 days in Maui. Dave and Tom walked the beach, paths, and golf course daily and helped Marilyn travel to favorite spots and interesting and delicious restaurants.

1958 Malinda Kilbourne Boyd, Class Representative biglin@insightbb.com In August, Nancy Walz Chinn, hosted a Walz reunion at her ranch in Colorado.

Sisters, Miriam Walz McCall, ’66, and

Aase Møller-Hansen, ’63, with her family. L to R: Wilford, Maiken, Julie, and Aase

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Joanna Walz Foster, ’56, joined her, as well as all of their children and grandchildren. They had a fabulous time!

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Juli Saxbe Spitzer came home to take her mother, Dolly, for their annual 3-week Palm Beach visit. Mrs. Saxbe fell at home and had surgery on her hip on January 20th. Her surgeon? Emmie Seymour Berend’s son, Keith Berend.

Juli’s older daughter, Cari, is in Germany and Juli plans to visit her there soon. Heads up, Suzanne, Juli hopes to rendezvous with you if possible.

Mary Louise Briscoe Kahn has a new address at a care facility. Feel free to send her a message via Doug’s e mail (dougkahn@ umich.edu). Her address: 200 Silver Maples Drive, Apt. 1204, Chelsea, MI 48118, phone (734) 475-8764.

Recent picture from an impromptu lunch: Nancy Seibert Hess, and Lynne Aronson, Class of 1970.

Kathleen Raney and her dad moved to Wimberly, Texas after her mother passed away two years ago. They stayed in a rented house while they built their current home, which they moved into July 20, 2010.

1962 Patty Tice Offenberg, Class Representative poffenb63@yahoo.com Leslie Zollinger Gerrity is wintering and working in Florida.

Melinda Miller is well in Marin County, CA. Cynthia Bashore is busy with her son’s family in Maryland.

Kathy Braley Yoakum is working hard and has cleared her home of “stuff ”.

Patty Tice Offenberg is still designing kitchens and baths. Her family is well.

They spent time in Durham, NC, after Christmas.

Diana Clatworthy Morgan’s darling mother, Rovena “Connie” Jordan’s funeral was at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on January 17th.

1963 Joy White Culp, Class Representative joy_culp@yahoo.com Aase Møller-Hansen and Claudia Mangum Roach recently had a long walk followed with coffee at the Green Lake in Seattle.

Pam Pryor drove up to Northern Michigan for a visit with Jim and Betsy Kurtz Argo in October, and Louis and Nancy Kauffman Sanford joined them for dinner one evening. There was a bit of wine tasting and shopping involved in this trip. Then Jim, Pam, and Betsy drove up to the Upper Peninsula for a visit with Martin and Chris Gabay Tuckett, where there was just a wee bit of casino action as well.

Edwina Scott (Scotty) Jenkins is recovering at home after 6 months of surgeries and radiation for cancer. Although she is still weak and dealing with the side effects, her prognosis is excellent. Scotty’s address is 6622 Balsam Dr., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068.

Ted and Doodie Gorrell Frank just got back from visiting friends in Vermont and stopped to visit Charlie and Lisa Blakey Thompson in Dorset, Vermont, who are fine and happy -- their daughter lives right next door with Lisa’s two grandchildren. Lisa hasn’t changed a bit.

Matthew Robert Shedenhelm, son of Bob and Maureen Stevens Sheden-

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helm was married to Saundra Ritchey on December 18, 2010.They will reside in New Albany. The name of Matt’s new business is The Media Shed.

Aase Møller-Hansen spent last year’s holidays in LA with Julie and Tim, Tim’s mother, plus brother Dan, wife Brooke, and daughters Fiona and Zoe. The Danish side also counted Maiken and Peter (son of her sister Eva) plus his girlfriend Lisette, who currently live in Boston. As always they had a great time, played a little golf, enjoyed the good weather and just generally enjoyed being with the family. Maiken was at this time already beginning to question whether she should stay in Copenhagen working for TDC or find a new job. She actually loved the TDC job but she missed her US friends and the American way of life.

Actually she had never worked in DK before! Sometime in February 2010 she decided to leave TDC, and in March 2010, started a new job at Amazon.com in Seattle working as a project manager for the Kindle. Before leaving for Seattle she came home to go through all her stuff in the attic to sort out what to bring with her, and actually some of her sisters too, since Amazon was paying for her things being sent to US. Golf has, as usual, taken up quite a bit of our time. In February 2010, Aase went to Mallorca with brother Helge for a week. They expected nice weather but ran into the first snow in 20 years. They managed their five rounds anyway but were very thankful for having brought warm clothes. In April 2010 they went to Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, with their friends Kjeld and Anne Marie from Århus. The name of the island means lots of wind, and Aase can tell you – it doesn’t lie. It taught her a lot, but she doesn’t think she’ll ever go there again. Late April we had a chance to catch up with US friends Frank and Kerry at their grandson Jonas’ confirmation in Copenhagen. Their daughter, Julie, is married to Aase’s cousin’s son.

Another fun reunion took place in June when they went to London to visit with Marie Louise (daughter of her sister Lise).

She had been studying and working in London the past eight years and was now ready to return to DK. They wanted to make use of her expert knowledge before she left. She showed everything there is to see sights, markets, pubs, shops, you name it. They also saw the musical “We Will Rock You”. She should have brought some better walking shoes as she got the

biggest blisters since her marathon days.

They troubled her for the next month – but she thinks she learned a lesson. The summer also gave them time to spend several weekends around the country with good friends. The summer also gave us time to visit our place in France. This time again with friends Edith and Ivan.

We had time for both golf and visiting some of the sights. The sun was shining every day. Great. In October 2010 they went to the US to visit the girls. In Seattle they took part in Maiken’s housewarming. She now has a really nice two room flat with a view of the Space Needle and the water. They also spent time with the Lines and with Claudia Mangum Roach.

They also made a two day tour in the Cascades staying overnight at a winery, seeing lots of apple orchards and beautiful scenery. Back in LA, they enjoyed mainly the family being together. Wilford is supposedly retiring completely by the end of the year, so next year they can travel as much as they want. Many plans are in their heads, but nothing definite yet.

Jim and Betsy Kurtz Argo are enjoying Northern Michigan as their permanent home. They are in the process of building an addition onto their cottage. Their house in Jersey is for sale (come one, come all and buy it!).

Carol Benua Major, Class Representative mmcmajor@bellsouth.net Mary Monaghan Lisko has some happy news to report. Their daughter Samantha has been dating a young man, Michael Troy, since she was sixteen. On the eighth anniversary of their first date, he proposed and they are getting married next year on their ninth anniversary, August 6. They are busy making all of the plans and having a great time. She is getting married at the Raystown Resort which is on a lake and nestled in the hills.

Catherine Sirak Bardsley’s older son, Edward, was married last July to Jennifer Kan -- a wonderful and happy event from which they’re still on a high. Edward and Jenny live in Mountain View, California, where he is a software engineer with Google and she is a sales representative for a French maker of custom saddles. Younger son Jeffrey (and best man at the wedding) received a Masters of Accountancy in May 2010 and works as a business analyst for Wayne’s company, Government Scientific Source. Catherine continues to work as a partner at K&L Gates in the firm’s investment management practice.

Linda Krech Archer and her husband Tom welcome their second grandchild, Amelia Blue Archer. They are calling her “Emmy.” She was born on May 20,

2010 and is the daughter of their son John and daughter-in-law Julie. She was named after Tom’s mother, Helen Amelia Archer. She giggles for her older brother Charlie, who is almost three years old. Linda is just back from Freeport on Grand Bahama Island and writes that “the water is so aqua blue and clear.

What a great escape!”

Sandi Jordan has moved to Scottsdale, AZ this past April where she’s working for Humana Insurance in Tempe as an Rx Mentor Specialist in their pharmacy department. She is 20 minutes from her daughter Sarah and her husband Aaron and also about 20 minutes from her sister Eva. Her sister Laura lives in Moreno Valley, CA which is about a 5-6 hr. drive.

She loves being in AZ, even though the summer was hot in the triple digits. It is a dry heat, so not like walking into a sauna with the humidity levels in Ohio.

The temps fell into the high 70s and some 80s during the days, and the nighttime temps are in the 50s...perfect sleeping weather! She actually feels better, as the low humidity is helping her scoliosis and arthritis in her hip and knee joints.

She looks out over Camelback Mountain from her kitchen window! What a view!

And she is loving the sunshine and clear blue skies! Sandi’s physical address has changed to: 4435 N 78th Street, #101A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Her cell phone number is 614-563-4559.

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Below is a link to an article about Barbara Bentley Weiner’s daughter. http://www. post-gazette.com/pg/10346/1110179-61. stm. Bentley Weiner is the producer for the HBO Winter Classic ‘24/7’ show. The Class of 1963 is so proud of her.

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Martha Wyker Anderton has a new grandson, born on January 24, 2011.

1966 45th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee: Lynn Byers Barno, lbarno@sbcglobal.net Susie Shepard Carr, scarr4585@wowway.com Jane Schiff, jschiffent@yahoo.com

Sisters weekend in Sedona…From Left to Right: Caron Zand, ’74, Patty Williams French, ’74, Marcia Zand, ’76, and Liz Williams, ’76

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Michael and Julie Van Allen Shamos are now the proud, first-time grandparents of Harlow Elizabeth Crane, born April 9, 2010. Harlow and her parents live 3 blocks away, so Julie and Michael are thrilled to babysit and watch her development.

Nancy Benua, under nom de brush “Benny Alba”, had her first retrospective this year, along with a museum solo in southern California, a show in Montana and an installation of her “Beauty, Thy Name is Night” in another California gallery. You can see the last in her upcoming solo at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center this Feb. 2011. Flashlights supplied!

1968 Class Representative Position Available Kathy Wilson Muth spent a week in Peru in September for work, visiting Lima, Iquitos, and Arequipa. She loved Peru, and would like to return with her husband, Ward, on vacation!

1969 Candace Corson, Class Representative drcorson@aol.com Helen and Bob Nycz live in Cummings, Georgia, and are loving having time with their grown children and many wonderful grandchildren. This fall they took a great trip to New Hampshire and Boston, where Bob played on an undefeated Ivy League championship football team, in their 40th anniversary season. In New England they saw many friends from past years, including Bob’s professor who helped him earn the Fulbright to teach in Paris. Of course, they loved spending time with daughter Kate in Boston.

Candace Corson lives with husband George Knowles in Granger, Indiana (South Bend) near Notre Dame where George (retired from Emergency Medicine) enjoys teaching first and second year medical students. She respectfully retired from Family Medicine practice in favor of empowering a lot more people with prevention. She has found much more fulfillment and success seeing people actually get healthier, in

her work with evidence-based nutrition as an independent rep and team leader for JuicePlus (CorsonWellness.com).

The most fun of all is enjoying their four grown sons around the country, and one-year old granddaughter a few hours away in Indianapolis. Wishing everyone a beautiful year to come.

1970 Jill Levy, Class Representative levyprice@insight.rr.com Randi Stein Hutton joined up with Marge Larrimer Tennenbaum and Peggy Kauffman Connors while looking at colleges with her son, Zachary.

Chris Heer Dill came back to town to attend Nancy Seibert Hess’ mother’s funeral, Ruth Pryor Seibert, ’32.

Chris had so many wonderful memories of Ruth and made us laugh at the vivid remembrances.

Anne Jeffrey Wright and her family spent Christmas & New Years in Egypt!

Prompted by son Jeffrey’s semester abroad at the American University in Cairo, Anne, Rick & Abbe joined Jeff for holiday fun floating down the Nile and amidst pyramids and artifacts. After a memorable trip, Jeff returned to Kenyon College where he is a senior; Abbe is the Assistant to the Creative Director at “O, The Oprah Magazine”; Rick is still involved with new product development for surgeons; and Anne is in her 17th year at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children as Hospital Strategy & Marketing Leader. Photos in next edition...!

Randi Stein Hutton has posed a question asking if anyone remembers our college admissions process as being as overwhelming as it is today? As she has been visiting college campuses, she has been taking a quiet survey of how many people end up actually getting a job in the field of their major -- shockingly, not as many as a $200,000 degree should support!

Babs Summer Glazier’s son, Scott, who graduated from Boston Medical Center in May and is now in the Emergency Room residency program at UMass, is engaged to a fellow medical school student who is doing her surgical residency at Boston

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Medical Center. Since she is from Hawaii, they are planning to be married in Honolulu in March, 2012. Hopefully, Babs can use those miles she’s been saving up!

Her mom fell about 2 months ago and is in very bad shape. She is in constant pain and not doing well. The silver lining is that Babs found a wonderful caretaker for her whom she adores, which takes a lot of pressure off of her. Hopefully, over time, she will heal and feel better.

Peggy Kauffman Connors’ second granddaughter, Isabella Ann Tromonda, was born on December 15, 2010. She is beautiful and very tiny weighing in at 6lbs, 8 ounces.

Chris Heer Dill writes Happy Healthy New Year to all. She received her Illinois license in the mail...no test...no stress… so she will be massaging in 2011...THE HONEYMOON IS OVER...LOL. Beth Byers Sells’ daughter Katie Sells, ’02, was married on Nov 6, 2010 to a lovely young man- Dr. Greg Carozza.

Sally Schmidt Austen’s mom had a big celebration for her 90th...hope we can all do the same.

Her boys, Watts & Lang, now 14 are wearing her out with attendance at sports events...they of course had to play soccer, football, basketball and lacrosse for different schools so she could put miles on the car. The new retail store is very small and grand. They should have a website up by 2011... www.austen.ws. They’ll be spending the holidays under snow in Vail...anyone who still likes to get cold and go fast, call and visit. Otherwise, you’ll find Sally on a tennis court.

Lynn Aronson retired at age 56 from Columbia Gas of Ohio and began full focus, as Director on the animal rescue charity, Stop the Suffering, that she cofounded in 2002. This endeavor keeps her much busier than any position she has ever had! She also has 8 dogs of her own and usually has one foster dog.

Her husband is very understanding but cannot say he likes this passion of hers.

She recently had an impromptu lunch with Janie Marr Werum and Nancy Seibert Hess. “I can’t tell you how great it was to be 16 again.” Lynn drives to southern Ohio every Thursday or Friday to transport death row rural shelter dogs on the first leg of an “underhound railroad” that her group coordinates. The

Engracia Dougherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring of last year and went through a lumpectomy, 2 rounds of chemo, and 6 weeks of radiation. She says she always knew she “had a constitution like a horse!” She is doing well.

1971 40th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee: Leslie Sawyer, leslie.j.sawyer@hotmail.com Lisa Westwater, lwestwater@aol.com Sandra Mendel Furman, sandramendelfurman@gmail.com Nancy Pace, pacely@aol.com

Jeanne Ferguson Fansler’s (Class of 1972) daughter, Alison’s wedding. The Fansler Family: L to R: Sam, Tom, the bride, Alison, the groom, Andy, Jeanne, and Molly.

drivers take a route that ends in Minneapolis. On a non-dog note, still married to Bill (Schiffman), still playing tennis and still vegetarian! Lots of love to everyone and hope we can reunion more often than every 5 years. Anyone in town please feel free to call any of us alumnae here and we will promptly get everyone together.

1972 Caroline Farrar Orrick, Class Representative Jeanne Ferguson Fansler and her husband, Thomas, are still living in Minnesota, and loving it. The kids are all grown and keeping them busy with lots of projects and performances. Alison (27) is a Minneapolis based singer/songwriter who just released her 3rd CD, Chinese Whispers, on September 11th.

Biggest gig so far has been opening for Bon Jovi at the St.Paul Xcel Center last April. Quite the story. You can read about it on her website www.alisonscott. com. Also, they had their first family wedding in August of ’08. Alison married Andy Mattila and a good time was definitely had by all. Molly (25) is currently a second year med student at the University of Minnesota and loving every minute. Last summer, she spent a month working at a medical clinic in Les Cayes on the southern coast of Haiti. Loved it and can’t wait to go back. Sam (21) is a junior at Northwestern studying computer engineering and performing with his a cappella group. He loves Chicago! As for Jeanne, she’s looking for her next big adventure!

Marnie Chapman Black joined Bill and Caroline Farrar Orrick (and daughter Sarah) for dinner at their lovely house in Washington, DC in November while Tim was attending “judge school” for his new position as Federal District Court

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Lesley Willson Schaab’s son, Hank, is a Junior this year at Bishop Watterson High School, where he plays football.

Beginning in August, the team had “twoa-days,” which means practice from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. and again in the afternoon 1:00-3:30 p.m. It was decided that the boys would go, by class, to a player’s home to eat, rest, and cool off during lunch. All the families gave money to purchase food, drink, etc., and a committee planned and prepared daily menus. For the Juniors, they volunteered their house, which meant that for about 3 weeks, they hosted 22 football players for lunch and loved every second of it! The boys were all very polite and appreciated being able to relax. The season went beautifully, culminating in the Division III State Championship!! The State Championship rings will be delivered in a few weeks (enormous things!) and all the guys are swaggering around in their letter jackets.

We’re proud of them all! Hank is also on the Watterson bowling team and loves singing in concert choir. College visiting is coming up, so that will be their new project!

Kim Williams has 3 grandchildren.

Her youngest daughter Cathy, has a 10 year old daughter - Jeneil (and Kim still calls her Baby J). Jeneil was diagnosed with leukemia in Nov of 2009. She has steered her fund-raising efforts to St. Jude’s Childrens Hospital - she cannot begin to tell you how heart-stopping it is for the doctor to come out of surgery and say, “Sadly, yes, it’s leukemia.” Right now, those in the Columbus area might be able to see her on TV - Jeneil is one of the children working with the Blue Jackets for their Feb 24th fund-raiser for Childrens Hospital: Black Tie Blue Jackets. The other two grandchildren are Brian & Jeannie, ages 4 and 2 1/2. They are the children of Kim’s daughter Megan and her husband Richard. Two years ago they moved to Alabama for his job and in January that same job moved them to Denver, Colorado. Their life is busy!

Oh - they also have one dog and one cat. Kim’s oldest daughter, Jenny, is head coach for the Prep Op team at Cyclone Gymnastics in Gahanna. She loves it, and is very busy. Cyclones are the host team for everything gymnastics at the Arnold. Her son, Wesley, served in Iraq, was injured, and is now out of the service and a fireman in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where he and his wife, Ali, and their 2 dogs and 2 cats are now living.

Kim still helps organize MARCON, a science fiction and fantasy convention - this year it will be May 27 - 29 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus.

Teri Gockenbach, Class Representative anuragart@earthlink.net

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Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.

He was appointed by President Obama last Dec. and confirmed unanimously by the Senate in May. Daughter Abby, a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, is teaching art in Minneapolis and Emily, a junior at the University of Richmond, has recently returned from 5 months abroad in Sydney. I am still tutoring high school students in Cincinnati and studying Italian in hopes of becoming fluent in that language as I have an exciting new job that takes me to Tuscany for a few weeks each summer.

Tracey Lind and her partner, Emily Ingalls, celebrated their 10th anniversary, by going off to New Hampshire last August and getting married. Now, they wait and work toward the State of Ohio and the federal government to recognize their legal status. They’re happily living in their newly renovated house on the North Coast (aka Lake Erie) just 15 minutes from downtown Cleveland. Trinity Cathedral is doing well, continuing to grow and thrive in the midst of a shrinking city and region. Tracey is deeply involved in the civic dialogue, and the cathedral has become a leader in Cleveland’s sustainability movement. Serving as a trustee of the Episcopal Church Pension Group, she gets to travel to New York City every other month, so what could be better? Come for a visit. There’s plenty of room.

Caroline Farrar Orrick reports that her oldest daughter, Sarah, was accepted into Boalt, University of California’s Berkeley law school. Katherine, her second daughter, who has been working for Global Vision International for the last 6 months, has just been hired as a permanent staff leader for the Mariepskop Mountain in the Karongwe Game Reserve (South Africa) directing studies and research for the area for the next year!! Youngest daughter, Libby, continues to be a busy sophomore at the University of Puget Sound. In addition to being an RA for her dorm, she has been playing ultimate Frisbee, and working as a campus tour guide. The Orricks had a terrific visit with Tim and Marnie Chapman Black when they were in town.

Caroline had two wonderful visits with her cousin Toni (Antoinette Farrar Seymour (’59) this fall. The second visit included a trip to the Barnes Foundation before it moves to a new home in downtown Philadelphia. Caroline also saw a

wonderful show of Toni’s paintings, as well as other local art treasures.

Janie Aronson Baskin just returned from a workshop in Mexico where she worked with Lisa Sonora Beam and a group of incredible women. They used a unique hands-on approach, using journaling and art techniques to work on business plans and expansion of businesses. It was an amazing week. She went to Florida to visit her daughter Erin, and meet up with her brother and his family who live in Greensboro. She was recently asked to join the board of the Guild, an organization that raises money for One Step Camp, a camp for children with cancer and leukemia. She teaches the art program at the camp for the 13-16 year olds. Janie now teaches mosaics and other art classes in her studio and at a local gallery. Beginning in January, she began to revise her novel and several picture books. Check out her website www. unframedheart.com.

1974 Muffy Hamilton Parsons, Class Representative Muffyparsons@columbus.rr.com

Stephanie Burchfield celebrated her Lisa Brustein Brand’s son, Michael, was 55th birthday with old and new friends, in charge of defense last summer at John including classmates, Claire Davis Hay High School, a large Cleveland inner Mancha and Ann Adrian, both now city school. It’s the only public honors living nearby in Portland. Stephanie high school program in Cleveland. Every is a fish biologist at National Marine student must take a qualifying exam and Fisheries Service (NOAA). Ann is the keep up their grades to attend. The year director of the Lake Oswego Adult Combefore last was their first season of foot- munity Center (check her out: http:// ball. They play with a bare bones team www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story. since they don’t have the numbers of php?story_id=121866599859721700). students to choose from compared to Claire is a jill-of-all-trades, including an other large Cleveland public schools. accomplished florist and a medal-bearHer son, whose passion is football coach- ing dachshund breeder. Anything goes ing and who has coached over the years in Oregon! for several Cleveland city high schools, often tells her: “What I’m doing is not really about football. It’s about the kids, because in Cleveland instead of “no child left behind”, every child is left behind. At Leila Lindemann Bacho, Class Representative one game the players were taunted by the clbacho@comcast.net opposing team. They had twice as many players and most of them twice as big Anne Kanengeiser has a new email as the John Hay students. They repeat- address: kanenball@gmail.com. edly chanted “your grades won’t help you now.” (There is quite a bit of tension in Judith Altreuter wrote that she went to the Cleveland city schools and unfortu- see Harry Potter with Julie Janata, who nately a self-destructive culture of dis- is in NYC for a month or two editing a dain for academic excellence.) Therefore, film before going back to LA. As a sucit was a very sweet victory when John cessful film editor, Julie gets to see all the Hay won! And Lisa adds, the defense was major movie releases. Judith and Julie the magic in that game. Lisa’s son’s other have been able to get together a few times passion is cooking. (Who knew that a for dinner and visits. What an interestchild who claimed he could barely figure ing life. out how to slap a piece of cheese between two slices of bread for himself would We are proud to announce that Julie grow up to be a gourmet cook?) So last Janata has won an Emmy Award from

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season he was coach and chef, preparing meals for the players before or after practice and games and knocking the socks off the parents who heard about the feasts and soon started showing up for a bite. As an added bonus, some of the John Hay players are Lisa’s patients so she got to do their sports physical exams and hear how much they adored her son.

Now that was a great perk of her job!

She is still working for the county health system in a large public health clinic.

On a different note: last summer Lisa’s daughter Lori moved to Denver so they had an opportunity to spend an enjoyable afternoon up in the mountains with Sally Schmidt Austen ’70.

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the Chicago/Midwest region of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for producing the documentary Girls on the Wall (www.girlsonthewallmovie.com) Teen girls in maximumsecurity prison get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a hip-hop musical based on their own lives. As they write and stage their play, the girls must re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity, and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system. The film played on PBS and PBS International, and is available on Amazon and at the CSG library.

1976 35th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Michelle Gockenbach Lewis, Class Representative mlewis8@columbus.rr.com Betsy Steigerwald Yingling spent a few days with Ann Arthur Cook at her house in Big Sky, Montana in August—part of a great two week camping trip out west.

Her son, Charlie, is a freshman at Lehigh University and loving it! Her daughter, joy, is a senior and still working on college applications.

1977 Tricia Smith McConnell has fond memories of everyone. For someone who joined the class in high school, it was a shock and a pleasure to be accepted for who she was and not made to fit into a clique or a mold. Now in her fifties, Tricia understands it was the first step to preparing her to hold her own in a field traditionally held by men - Mechanical Engineering and Program Management.

It also gave her the courage to step out and own three businesses for about 25 years on top of working full time. As she takes time to relax more and thinks about retiring, Tricia spends more time with family, her 4-legged rescues (mostly cats and dogs), quilting and gardening.

There is life beyond work! She sends love to all, especially the class of 1977!

Christie Fung Pritchard’s boys attend Univ. of Florida in Gainesville (they are GATOR fans - YES!) and both are studying Environmental Science. She still

Paula Penn-Nabrit wrote that life has been busy for her family-in town and elsewhere! In September her Mom celebrated her 80th birthday in Columbus and her mother-in-law celebrated her 83rd at home in Tampa. Charles’ sister and her husband had their first grandchild (Rosalee) in Bern, Switzerland and her brother David and his wife had their first grandchild (David Washington Penn, V, affectionately known as 5!) here in Columbus. On October 9th, Paula’s son Damon married an amazing woman, Tanika Whitfield, at an incredibly beautiful service at their church with over 300 guests! They took a two-week honeymoon in Bangkok and returned in time to move into their new home and get to the rehearsal for her “baby” sister Courtney’s (‘89) November 6th beautiful wedding to William Blevins-also at church. Meanwhile their son Charles was working on Paula Brooks’ (sadly unsuccessful) congressional campaign!

And finally, their son Evan was invited to show and discuss some of his art work in Paris during the week before Thanksgiving-so they’re still on a pretty intense high! Definitely check out some of Evan’s work at http://issuu.com/enabrit/docs/ asim-pieta.

Maggie Wuorinen Koerner’s oldest son Jimmy is graduating in June from Columbus Academy and is headed to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Gavin is a freshman at Columbus Academy. Maggie is still the CFO there. She and Jim will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in June!

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from Wendelin that included an evening field trip to the movies to watch a private screening of the movie Flipped with Wendelin in the audience with them. As fabulous as that was, the zenith of her perennial author stalking was in August 2010 when Wendelin invited her to LA to join in the movie premiere festivities, (hence the decision to read Flipped as a whole school read) and Kate delightedly had her lovely 16 year old daughter, Liza, attend with her. She and Liza stayed with Wendelin and her family at their home and she can officially state that her status has permanently moved from stalker to friend. Priceless.

Yasyn Lee reached her term limit with the Iowa Board of Medicine, so she ended her service with the state agency that licenses and regulates physicians in April 2010. She is continuing with the National Board of Medicine and is in her fourth term on the Ambulatory Care Test Item Development Committee for the United States Medical Licensing Examination. It’s very challenging and interesting to write test questions in the subject area of psychiatry for physicians who must pass this exam to be licensed to practice in the US. Her employment is still with Medical Associates, in Dubuque, Iowa, where she practices part-time, mostly geriatric psychiatry, consulting to the local hospital and nursing homes. Yasyn and Mark celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary this summer by completing a major remodel of their home. Their daughter is a college sophomore at Macalester College in St. Paul, and their son is a high school freshman. Dubuque, rated the number one best small city in which to raise a family

by Forbe’s magazine this year, has been a good place to raise their family and work.

They’re only three hours from Chicago; Yasyn writes “Google the attractions in Dubuque and come visit.”

Kate Estabrook Schoedinger, Class Representative schoedingerk@sau25.net Happy 50th Birthday to all of us! Kate Estabrook Schoedinger continues to savor her role as reading specialist in the same NH 7th and 8th grade middle school where she can bother teachers and students in all subjects all day. The “Whole School Read” this year is Wendelin Van Draanen’s novel, Flipped. They thoroughly enjoyed a wild two day visit

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Constance Staber, Class Representative constancestaber@hotmail.com

continues to work in the environmental consulting field and now that both she and Ed are empty nesters they want to do more travel! Christie and Ed are going on a dive trip to Roatan, Honduras.

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Margaret Cunningham Basiliadis, Class Representative

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basiliadis@sbcglobal.net Dorrie Andermills recalls a trilogy (or series?) of books that many of classmates read in about 7th grade. She can’t remember what they were called, but would very much like to track them down. The books were fiction, and were not about the Wright brothers, but were about two brothers inventing a flying machine. Mostly, she remembers the feeling of the stories: the scents, the atmosphere, the emotions. The informational pieces she can recall were (if she recalls correctly) that the main setting was at an old, weathered house (farm house?) in, perhaps, New England or England. She remembers the description of the crisp linen sheets, of all things.

One of the brothers was in an accident, probably in a flying machine, and ended up walking with a limp and perhaps a cane. She thinks both brothers loved the same young woman. She is fairly adept at googling, but the little bits she is working with aren’t very useful as search elements. If anyone remembers the name of the series or of any of the books, or even remembers reading them, she’d love to hear from you.

1980 Class Representative Position Available Fiona Crean Tierney and Richard Tierney were married in a Humanist Ceremony in the garden of their home in the Cotswolds in July. Her sister, Philippa Crean Campbell and their mother and step-father were at the wedding, as were Richard’s and her children from their previous marriages – Fiona’s 12 year-old twins (Neil and Georgina), Richard’s 12 year-old twins (Tom and Tilda) and his 18 year-old daughter, Rosie. They are continuing to divide their time between Cheltenham (where they have a flat and her children attend Cheltenham College Junior School) and Willersey (where she built a house six years ago).

Reunion Committee Jenny Corotis Barnes, jenny.barnes@osumc.edu Marla Krupman, mkrupman@hotmail.com Jenny Corotis Barnes, Class Representative jenny.barnes@osumc.edu Jenny Corotis Barnes is making a big shout out to all her classmates to attend the 30th Reunion. She says this will be a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and share some special moments.

Please send your ideas to Jenny so she can work with the reunion committee on what you all want to do. About that reunion committee – please volunteer – so we can make this fun for all. Jenny’s e-mail is jenny.barnes@osumc.edu.

1983 Bridget Hart, Class Representative info@bridget-hart.com Lucy Morris Crotty is at Skidmore College in Development. Her husband, Sean, is flying—moving into a 747. She still cannot get over how big these planes are!

Her son, Ryan, is a senior, and college applications are the number one topic.

Molly is a sophomore, and Annie is in 5th grade.

1984 Ngina Chiteji, Class Representative nchiteji@skidmore.edu Julie Schottenstein Saar is in Columbus and her daughter Ruthie, 7, is in Form I at CSG. All is well!

Diane Little Sassano reports that her eldest daughter, Tori, is 13 and in the 8th grade. Natalie is 10 and in the 5th grade. Both participated in their schools’ ski clubs starting in January. Tori skied at Camelback and Natalie at Shawnee, in the nearby Pocono Mountains in PA. Diane is busy volunteering at both girls’ schools, especially in the libraries. She is also in a book club and recently joined

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Michelle Kozak, ’85, and croquembouche.

an adult co-ed volleyball league. Husband Frank is also doing well.

Ann Johnston Wilde reports that her youngest daughter, Cecile, plays tennis in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Juniors league and is in the championship division in Texas. Both Cecile and Ann’s son, Blake, who is 15, hold the singles club championship title.

It is Cecile’s third year in a row to win this title. Ann happens to hold the women’s singles club championship title, and started competing again in December.

She looks forward to defending her title successfully.

Katie Kessler Chatas’ daughter Sophie is running winter track - really gearing up for the spring track season! For those who have not yet heard, Sophie also ran cross country in the fall, and represented CSG proudly in the state championship meet.

Sarai Brachman Shoup’s son Eli played tackle football and travel soccer in the fall and will be playing basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring and summer. Her youngest son Caleb played

Her younger son, Frankie, is 17 and a junior at St. Charles. The boys and her husband are all doing well.

Finally, speaking of college, I work at a college. I (Ngina--the class representative) am looking forward to having lunch with Lucy Morris Crotty, ’83 this month.

We both work at Skidmore College!!! If any of you want to send your collegebound kids to Skidmore, we would be happy to have them here.

1985 Robin Ives Canowitz, Class Representative robin.canowitz@nationwidechildrens.org

Boomee Hahn Danenberg, ’86, with her son, Cody.

travel soccer and basketball this fall and will play baseball in the spring and summer.

Speaking of sports, Tina Isaac Goize’s son, Jules, loves swimming and soccer.

Those of us who know Jules are looking forward to watching him in a future World Cup Championship--maybe in 2022 or 2026.

Sheri Gillery Scaglione ran the Columbus marathon in October and then the New York marathon three weeks later.

How awesome is that!!! (That’s Ngina speaking; Sheri is too modest to toot her own horn.)

Kim Feinknopf-Dorrian’s son, Mason (age 10), was a lead scorer on his soccer team that won the league championships.

Kim’s daughter, Lainey (age 6), is enjoy-

There is news on the college-front for the Class of ’84. (Yes, some of our classmates are old enough to have college-age children!) Candy Katz Kerker’s daughter Danielle will attend the University of Pennsylvania for college. If any of you fellow CSG alumnae have girls that go there as well, please connect with the Kerkers at ckkerker@aol.com.

Andi Wobst-Jeney’s oldest son, Xander, is studying in Boston at Northeastern.

Michelle Kozak spent five weeks in November/December 2010 in Paris completing the Intensive Intermediate Pastry course at Le Cordon Bleu. Next November she will return to finish the last of three courses needed to get her pastry chef diploma. This past year she started a pastry business, Pâtisserie Lallier, on the side, while still working full-time at Chase.

Lena Myers Lini is doing well. She is living in Kernersville, NC and is the director of Cost Containment for a workers comp insurance company. Her husband is in grad school to get his masters in education and their 2 sons are now 5 1/2 and 4 - growing like weeds!!!!

She hears from Marilyn Beckman Wilson every once in awhile. Marilyn is in Winston-Salem, which is only about 15 minutes from Lena. Lena still keeps in touch with Lisa Busche-Welch and Jayn Moore-Warner who are both doing well.

Stephanie Barnhart Kiesel’s son, Nicholas, turned 4 in August and they took him to Disneyland for the 1st time to celebrate. Her husband, Marty, has gone back on active duty with the Navy as a LCDR in a staff job that will last through the fall of 2011 - crossing their fingers that he won’t deploy to the Middle East or other turbulent areas of the world!

She is about to start her LAST semester of law school with an expected graduation date of May 14th.

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Christine Thorne’s daughters are athletes. Sarah is a 4th grader and recently was promoted to purple belt in tae kwon do. Katy is an 8th grader, and competes on her school’s soccer and swim teams.

She is also a lead in Jungle Book. As for Christine, she was promoted to staff ophthalmic surgeon at Louis Stokes VA Medical Center as of July 1st. As of September, the Medical Center has a beautiful brand new, state of the art Eye Clinic and offers full service surgery and laser.

Our U. S. Veterans deserve the best.

ing tap and first grade! Both kids are still busy with animals around the house, as her husband is a licensed falconer. As for Kim’s latest activities, after 20 years of working as an object/photography curator at the Ohio Historical Society, she decided to leave her full time career to be home with her two kids. Today her side business of “Feinknopf Preservation Services” keeps her busy. She started it 17 years ago to help families, organizations and businesses care for their history.

Kim also finds time to work as an online antique expert for a California company.

Despite so many activities, Kim says that she could not have found a better balance. From working with the Columbus City Schools on history to identifying rare treasures such as early 18th century. furniture and being home, Kim says “it is the best of both worlds!”

Pam Prouty’s son, Zach, spent the summer taking Italian language classes in Lecce, Italy. He is a sophomore at The Ohio State University.

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ezdonaldson@gmail.com Paige McCoy Meuse writes that everything in San Francisco is amazing. Their children, Chloe, Ella and Oliver are all on the Squaw Valley ski team, which is so fun and means lots of skiing for Paige and Chad.

Ellis Avery, ’90, Sayre Graves, and Suny Monk, Director of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, together with a painting of former CSG student Elizabeth Ireland Graves, ’32. (Photographer: Bill Winston.)

1986 25th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee Kelli Reavling-Cobb, reavling-cobb.1@osu.edu Suzie Cho Helgaas, bhelgaas@yahoo.com Louise Davidson-Schmich, Class Representative davidson@miami.edu

1990 Paige Conrad McIntosh, Class Representative pacmcintosh@comcast.net Ellis Avery (Elisabeth Atwood) is happy to announce a second novel coming out next summer from Riverhead Books. Set in the expatriate world of 1920s Paris, The Last Nude was inspired by the life and work of Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Avery’s first novel, The Teahouse Fire, set in the tea ceremony world of late nineteenth-century Kyoto, came out from Riverhead in 2006 and has since been translated into five languages and honored with three awards.

Much of The Last Nude was written at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a retreat center which offers writers,

composers, and visual artists three meals a day, a bedroom, a studio, and an ideal balance of solitude and community in an idyllic rural setting. While most resident artists are asked to make a contribution toward the cost of their residency, Columbus School for Girls alumnae and faculty are eligible for a full scholarship through the Columbus School for Girls Endowment. This special program is funded through the Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation, which was founded

by Sayre Graves in honor of her mother, a member of the Class of 1932.

This is a life-changing opportunity. Take it from Ellis: you will be stunned by the beauty and tranquility of VCCA; you will meet astonishing people; and you will get so much work done! Please apply! For more information, please visit vcca.com.

1991 20th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Giving Chair Alissa Hadley Hines, ahadleyhines@gmail.com Amy Cherup Curley, Class Representative ccurley10@comcast.net

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Liz Zimmerman Donaldson, Anne Budros Fletcher, and Marya Goldberg Cassandra hosted a wonderful fundraiser for Laurel Beatty’s campaign at Liz’s house. It was really a lot of fun to see lots of CSG classmates from 1992 and other alums, younger and older, as well. Laurel’s classmates could not help but remind her of the song she used when she ran for middle school student council, “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Vote Beatty!” And of course all of this contributed to her win with 68% of the vote! Thanks to the entire CSG community for all of their support, and most of all their votes!

Allison Deverman Vietor attended CSG in 7th and 8th grade. Although she didn’t graduate from CSG, she said it did have a profound effect on her. Allison just earned her MBA in October from Babson College and started a new job managing the Legal Department of Mercy Corps, an international NGO based in Portland, Oregon. She’s married to Nick Vietor and has one daughter, a sophomore at an all-girls high school in Portland.

She would love to get together with old friends from CSG who live in Portland, Oregon or when she’s visiting her mom in Ohio. 936 SW Dolph Street, Portland, OR 97219, (617)519-7784 (mobile), adevermanvietor@mercycorps.org Sarah Lowder’s dear sister Megan Lowder Kauffman, ’89 passed away on 28 September, 2010. Her obituary is at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ dispatch/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory &pid=145770315. Sarah is grateful for the outpouring of love and support from the CSG community and others; it has meant a lot to the Lowder and Kauffman families. Her e-mail is sarahklowder@ gmail.com.

Liz Brown Chan wrote “It’s been a busy year for us.” She and her husband, Steve, welcomed their son, David, into the

she is able to pursue her passion in wedding and event planning. You can check out Sarah Sofia Productions at www.

SarahSofiaProductions.Com or find us on Facebook. In December 2010 Sarah moved to Charlotte to join her husband Adam, who is working for TIAA Cref.

Sarah travels between Charlotte and Columbus. Her new mailing address is 5801 Wedgewood Drive, Charlotte, NC 28210.

Meredith Keeran Kessler is a pro-triathlete and the new Saucony spokesperson. In 2010, she placed 1st at Ironman Canada and 2nd at both Ironman Coeur D’Alene and Ironman St. George.

Coming off a huge year, and poised for success in 2011, Meredith signed with Saucony.

L to R Back Row: Andrew Anderson, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, Pamela Hashem, Amy Sabath, Suzanne Whisler; L to R Front Row: Jason Molihan, Justice Judy Lanzinger, and Sarah Sofia Knepp, '96

world in November. They already have a daughter, Kate, who is four years old.

They also relocated from Georgia to Maryland this summer and are really liking the area.

1993 Joanne D’Ippolito Brake has been working at the headquarters of Kappa Kappa Gamma now for 10 years and her husband, Jay, is still at Cardinal Health.

1994 Brooke Brown Helmstetter, Class Representative

bhelmstetter1@bellsouth.net Monica Welt had a very busy year full of great work and travel. She and husband, Babak, went to Australia and New Zealand for a month in March, then came back to prepare for two big trials in the fall. They took a trip to Bermuda as their last trip of the summer and to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary. Any alums in the DC area should email her if they want to get together for drinks— mwelt@crowell.com.

15th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee Melissa Seidel Bedolla, muhlisa@gmail.com Molly Schirner Fortune, mollyschirner@aol.com Joanne Strasser, jstrasser@mac.com Sarah Sofia Knepp, Class Representative sofia_sarah@hotmail.com Sarah Sofia Knepp recently served as Finance Director at PRH Consulting firm, where she raised and directed nearly a million dollar winning political campaign for Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger and helped raised nearly a million dollars for Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, the first woman elected to the position in the state of Ohio. Combining her love for entertaining and her stylish attention to detail, Sarah launched Sarah Sofia Productions in October 2010. Sarah Sofia Productions is a wedding and event planning company, located in Columbus, Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina. Sarah grew up learning the art of entertaining. Even at a young age, Sarah enjoyed planning birthday parties and celebrations for family and friends. Now

1997 Julie Ferber Zuckerman, Class Representative juliezuckerman@gmail.com Susie Mayhan Bauman and her husband, John, welcome Colette Vera Bauman born on October 17, 2010 at 4:25am weighing 5 lbs 1 oz and measuring 17.5 inches. She was 4 weeks early and was a tiny, but healthy baby. Susie and John are loving the new adventures of parenthood!

1998 Class Representative Position Available Kacey Chappelear has spent much of the year fixing up her campus area house.

The biggest project was renovation of the “back room,” which is now a beautiful family room. She became a high school field hockey official and refereed games all fall. On the work front, she continues to fight crime as an assistant county prosecutor.

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Julia Dawn Buckner, Class Representative julie_smith321@hotmail.com

1996

Katy Potts and her partner just finalized the adoption of their little girl, Ivy Grace Mastin. She was born on September 6, 2009, and they have been fostering her since January, 2010. “She’s such a joy to have in our lives!”

Class News Left: Susie Mayhan Bauman, ’97, and her husband, John, with Colette Vera Bauman, born on October 17, 2010 Right: Katy Potts, ’96, with her daughter Ivy, born September 6, 2009

Jennifer Miller travelled to Tibet and Cambodia for Free To Smile in the fall and has now joined a dental practice with Dr. William Wadell at 9926 Brewster Lane, Powell 43056, 614-764-1013.

They are opening a brand new dental office across the street soon!

1999 Amy Westwater Sullivan, Class Representative afw.sullivan@gmail.com Melissa Merritt is working in the props department on the NBC show, “Parenthood.” I feel lucky to say that I love my job and on any given day could be doing anything from building an Eiffel Tower out of Popsicle sticks to serving Thanksgiving dinner to a cast of 17. I also just bought my first house in Pasadena and am having fun fixing up all 800 square feet of it. Would definitely love to connect with any alumnae in the area!

Becki Cooperman Kay graduated from University of Miami School of Law in 2007 and is working as a medical malpractice defense attorney at Kubicki Draper in Miami. She was married on February 13, 2010 in Boca Raton, Florida to Eric Kay. Amy Westwater Sullivan and Kate Ersly were at the wedding.

They missed Bridget Shea because she was unfortunately stuck in the blizzard in Washington, DC. Becki and Eric live in Fort Lauderdale and would love to see anyone who is in the South Florida area.

Nicolette Woodburn Lamont is now doing public relations for Neiman Marcus and was married in July. The wedding was July 24th on a farm on Martha’s Vineyard and she married Miles Lamont. Lisa and Jessie made the journey east. Also, Nicolette and Miles had a blast at Jessie’s wedding and had so much fun connecting with Amy W, Kate L, Kate E, Lisa, Jess, Alissa, and Jen Fahey.

Mollie Fankhauser has just finished her 2010 Season on the Ladies European Tour (LET), and had a fantastic time traveling and playing golf. She just finished Qualifying School for the Ladies Professional Golf Association in Daytona, Florida and gained full status for the 2011 season.

For 2011 she will be playing full time in the USA on the LPGA as well as playing a full schedule on the LET in Europe and Asia. Her first tournaments in Australia and New Zealand were the first three weeks of February!

Alissa Schottenstein Simon and her husband, David Simon, welcomed their baby boy, Jackson Irving, on Octo-

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ber 19th. Alissa reports that they are all doing well and Jackson is growing and happy. She also shares other exciting news of completing her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Adler School in Chicago, Illinois.

In August, Wendy Fahey, married longtime boyfriend David Currier (CA ’02 and sisters Anne Currier Michaels, ’96 and Megan Currier Stableford, ’93) in Columbus. Wendy’s two sisters, Holly and Jen Fahey, ’99 along with fellow classmate Laine Richardson O’Donnell, ’02, were part of her bridal party. It was a beautiful celebration that included many fellow CSG alumnae. David and Wendy currently live in Columbus, just outside Bexley with their adorable (and massive) dog Charlotte!

2000 Erica Reaves, Class Representative elreaves@gmail.com Jacquilyn Stavroff graduated with her MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management in June and accepted an offer from Procter and Gamble, and began work there in October.

Heather Enlow-Novitsky’s wedding. From left to right, Amanda Moore McGinnis, ’99, Meghan Reidy, ’99, Nancy Kohler, ’99, Heather Enlow-Novitsky, ’99, Annette Enlow, ’00, Julia Stevenson, ’99, Laura Ritter, ’99, Laura Barnhardt, ’02, and Hillary Castrop Compton, ’99

As of September 1, the Germain Family acquired Immke Northwest Honda on Sawmill Road in Dublin. Jessica Germain resigned from practicing law at the firm and she is currently working at the

store full-time as General Manager. She loves her job and the Honda franchise!

Nicole Fetingas, now Nicole Sharp, was married on the beach in New Smyrna, Florida. Her husband had been planning the wedding for a year and completely surprised her. Visit www.GeoffandNikki. com for details. The wedding is featured in the November issue of Columbus Monthly. The couple will honeymoon in Australia for 5 weeks.

Liz Wheeler has had a great year! She won three different awards for acting and has been in six shows already this year. Please make sure to come see her in Encyclopedia Brown being produced by Catco-Phoenix. Liz has also been teaching with Catco-Phoenix for a while now and has recently branched out into private lessons. She teaches private vocal and acting lessons for all ages. Liz also recently started directing and choreographing! Liz often gets together with Faon Bridges and is very sad that she had to miss the Reunion Weekend in April. If anyone is interested in private lessons, please feel free to contact Liz at lizwheeler100@gmail.com with any questions.

2001 10th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee Ashley Love, ashleylatrice@gmail.com Anne Morelli, aemorelli@gmail.com Ashley Love, Class Representative ashleylatrice@gmail.com Kristen Orlando Ricordati has left her position as Producer at NBC4 to accept the position of Senior Manager of Media Relations and Content Development at Resource Interactive, a digital marketing firm in Columbus, Ohio.

Robert and Amy Trumbull Rowlette welcomed Robert Alonzo Rowlette, IV aka “Bobby” was born 10-7-10 in Nashville, TN. He was 5lbs 10oz and 18inches long. He arrived just before their three year anniversary (Robert was hoping for an anniversary baby).

Sarah Mendelsohn has recently ended her Peace Corps Service in Cape Verde to obtain her Masters in Environmental Engineering in Montreal, Canada.

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Abby Sturges is in her second and final year of graduate school at Stanford University finishing up her Masters in Design. She is busy working on her Thesis, TAing, and planning a lecture series hosting Design leaders from across the globe (volunteering her time as a ploy to meet her design heroes - sweet deal!). Over the summer she worked for D-Rev: Design Revolution as a product designer on their Chennai, India based team developing a low cost phototherapy device for the treatment of neonatal jaundice in the Indian market. While in India she got to travel around the country for research and took some time for vacation in Sri Lanka to learn what an Ayurveda Resort is all about. Her work in India this past summer and in Kenya this past spring helped formulate the direction of her thesis to explore how to connect women in developing countries with women in developed countries in a mutually beneficial way. Right now she is exploring the foods of different countries, which continues to be a fun and interesting experience.

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Natalia Rivera Foreman and Chris Foreman welcomed little Louis Christopher Formen IV (but he goes by Louie!) and he was born on July 21st 2010. He was 7lbs. 14.8 oz and 20 inches long. And obviously you know that I am married (was married May 23, 2009 to Louis Christopher Formen III, but he goes by Chris) and we live in Gahanna.

Claire Kelley has a new assignment at work!! As Marketing Manager at Simon and Schuster she is currently facilitating an international web chat with Dr. Oz for an online discussion on parenting!

On top of being busy at the Statehouse, Ashley Love is busy teaching Spanish classes to young students in Central Ohio! Lingua Love, LLC, a language services firm, offers professional interpretation and translation, and child/family language classes focusing on Spanish language development for students beginning at age one! Visit www.mylingualove.com for more information!

This fall, Katie Logan decided it was time to get out of the crazy television business and take on a new challenge. She left her job as a producer at 10TV in August and is now working in the Physician Recruiting department at OhioHealth. Katie is working a Monday through Friday schedule for the first time ever and is loving having weekends, nights and holidays off! Katie helps recruit doctors to work in OhioHealth’s hospitals and offices. If any CSG ladies (or their husbands) are finishing up their residencies/ fellowships or are currently practicing and looking to move back to the area, feel free to contact Katie about openings!

KLogan3@ohiohealth.com.

Katie Huss continues in graduate school at the University of Vienna, Austria.

2002 Lauren Yen, Class Representative lyen@spenceschool.org Hilary Leister got engaged to Paul Ritter in Chicago on July 16, 2010. They are planning a July 2011 wedding in Columbus. They met at the Abercrombie & Fitch home office where they both work as visual merchandisers.

In November 2009, Neelam Patel got engaged to her now husband Neal Patel in Chicago. He proposed in a very unique way; while they were at the Field Museum in Chicago, he planned ahead and talked to a curator to let him put the ring in an empty exhibit. When they walked through an exhibit and were just about to leave he opened up the exhibit and grabbed the ring, which was on a pedestal in an exhibit box, and proposed.

The two were married on April 3, 2010 in Columbus in a traditional Indian wedding and a Hindu ceremony with 3 days of events and celebrations. In addition, Neelam graduated from medical school in May 2010. She and her husband are both residents at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She is in her 1st year of Pediatrics residency. With their hectic schedules, Neelam and Neal are still adjusting to their big move to Central New Jersey. If any CSGers are in the NYC area, be sure to get in touch!

Mandy Varley just finished her MBA at Lancaster University and says it “feels great to be finished!” She then took some time off to return to the States and visit her family. Upon returning to London, she found a great flat with two fantastic girls - a Norwegian and a Canadian (“so quite an international little household!”) Now she is job-hunting in the not-for-profit sector looking for something related to communications/marketing and/or management consulting.

Her fingers are crossed that she receives her work visa!

Jeny Reynolds and Andy Kuss (CA ’99) welcomed their daughter Ella in March 2010. They are living in Portland and planning their wedding for September 2011. Jeny was previously working for a non profit coordinating special needs for international adoptions.

Jane Alexander continues to love NYC. In November, she started a new job as a Nurse Practitioner at Columbia University. She is currently the Clinical Director of Bariatric Surgery at Lawrence Hospital, a surgery center for Columbia, and absolutely loving the job!

Laine Richardson and her husband, Lucas, are moving to D.C.! Lucas will be a Patent Examiner at the Patent and Trade Office, and Laine will be attending George Washington University finishing her master’s in school counseling.

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2003 Jackie Massie Jaroncyk, Class Representative jackiejaroncyk@yahoo.com Emily Allen Cowles is going to be a bridesmaid in her best friend and CSG classmate, Katie Orlando’s July 2011 wedding. She is thrilled! They will be sure to send pictures.

Lauren Yost was married on June 12, 2010 to Andrew Gerk. Lauren and Andy are living in Oklahoma City, OK. Lauren is teaching 4th grade science & history at a private Episcopal school – The Cassidy School. Andy is in his 2nd year of law school.

2004 Emily Kasler, Class Representative emily.kasler@gmail.com Leigh Ann Osborne graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Gettysburg College in 2008 with majors in Art History and Religion. She then went on to receive a Masters in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2010. Leigh Ann is currently working at Sotheby’s and living in Manhattan.

Adrienne Walters is living in Brooklyn, New York and working for a New York law firm.

Lindsey Innes works at The Carey School as a kindergarten teacher, after working for two years as a teaching intern at The Hamlin School in San Francisco. She graduated from the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute where she received her Multiple Subject Credential in K-8 education.

Christine Guenther is currently a third year medical student in Philadelphia which means the occasional living out of a suitcase for a month on away rotations! She ran the Chicago Marathon on 10/10/10 and finished 17 minutes faster than her first marathon for the Hall Steps Foundation.

2005 Allison Ansari, Class Representative allison.ansari@gmail.com JM Hodge is alive and doing well in Peace Corps Azerbaijan. She has been posted in Shabran, a town 75 miles up the coast from the capital city of Baku.

She will be teaching English, as well as other community development projects.

Feel free to check out her blog: http:// caucasusmountainhigh.blogspot.com/ After a busy and trying campaign, Katy (Uli) Shanahan enjoyed seeing the Golden Class over the holidays! With her time off, Uli has been trying to figure out her next step and has also realized that she can turn you from a human to a Carter. She’s glad that Trisha Breitwieser has moved back to the Heartland and that she’s still got so many chips, people call her Hewlett Packard. Remember, girls: make jokes, no stress. Love, live, life, proceed, progress.

Samantha Parsons finished her first term studying Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics. She is also interning with Greener Museums, where she is working with the Tate Modern museum to help them become more sustainable.

After less than a year in her current position as Staff Assistant, Erica Brillson has been promoted to Member Services Coordinator at The American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington DC. She will now be responsible for managing the membership details of the organization’s 11,000 members.

Kerry King, Taylor Pospichel, and Allison Ansari, members of the Class of 2005, at the beach in San Francisco all wearing their Scholarship Walk t-shirts, and at the 2010 San Francisco Giants World Championship Parade

Chelsea Rauck is in graduate school for architecture at the University of Cincinnati DAAP program. While working on her Master’s degree, Chelsea has four quarters of co-op experience where she works directly in a firm. During her spring co-op, she worked in New York City, and this past fall co-op quarter, she worked in a downtown Columbus firm. She enjoys the work experience, especially since it provides little to no studio homework and allows for time to hang with other ’05-ers in the C-Bus area. She returned to the grind in Cincinnati on January 3rd, and invites friends to come down and explore “The Queen City” in all of its glory.

2006 5th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee Katelyn Ashbaugh, kdashbaugh@gmail.com Meera Mani, mani.15@buckeyemail.osu.edu Jeanne Durell, durell.5@buckeyemail.osu.edu Meera Mani, Class Representative mani.15@buckeyemail.osu.edu Ashley Todaro took the LSAT on October 9th!

Heather O’Connell graduated from Miami University this past May. She recently moved to Scottsdale Arizona and is loving the lack of snow as well as the 80 degree weather in December! She is working in the admissions department at Grand Canyon University and plans to start her MBA in January. If anyone is in the area, she would love to catch up! Hoconnell22@gmail.com, 614-214-2823.

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Since October, Sarah Powers has been an English teaching assistant in Madrid, Spain. The program is through the Spanish Ministry of Education, and she will be working there until the end of June. She helps teach English, introduces American holidays to students, and also started a pen-pal program with the 3rd and 4th grades at CSG. Sarah joined a Frisbee team called Los Quijotes and Dulcineas.

Over the long weekend in December, she went to her first beach tournament in Punta Umbria, in the south of Spain.

Sarah is looking forward to her first visit to Paris, France! Unicorn visitors are more than welcome.

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Sara Winters, Class Representative winterssa@gmail.com There was an absolutely wonderful article about Katie Smiley in her college newsletter North by Northwestern on November 19, 2010. Katie has taken crafting to a new level, reusing and recycling items that she sells on Etsy.com as well as other places to raise money for GlobeMed, a student organization that works with health centers in resource-poor areas. Check out the full article online at www.northbynorthwestern.com/2010/11/98165/crafter-for-life/.

Hannah Scheckelhoff recently traveled to New York to attend the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA) at West Point Military Academy as Wittenberg University’s delegate. The 62nd SCUSA conference, made up of topic meetings, panel discussions, lectures, and a keynote address, centered on the theme of U.S. hegemony and whether it can be maintained in this ever-changing world.

The topics ranged from U.S.-China Relations to Nuclear Proliferation to Global Warming, and each group was lead by notable and published experts in the field.

Top: The CSG Class of 2010 enjoys its 4th annual “bond”-fire get-together at the home of Maya Zinkow over Thanksgiving weekend. This was the class’ first reunion since leaving for college. Back: Jen Wetzel, Ali Seybold, Maya Zinkow, Anne Milne, Sarah Henderson, Sarah Dutton Front: Laura Arnold, Kelsey Klopfer.

2008 Caitlin Allen, Class Representative caallen@davidson.edu Alyssa Denisky studied in Europe (Luxembourg) with Miami University for her fall semester. She is currently a junior at Ohio State and says the homework is akin to CSG levels! Her parents’ response? “Forte et Gratum.”

Caitlan Ruff is a junior at Wittenberg University. She is pursuing a triple major in Political Science, East Asian Studies, and Chinese language. Classes fall semester have been challenging, but she is looking forward to her internship in Washington D.C. The year 2011 will be an exciting year for Caitlan! She will be interning in Washington D.C. starting in January followed by the summer spent in Beijing and Hong Kong. She will actually miss the first week of school at Wittenberg. If you would like to contact her, please email her at s12. cruff@wittenberg.edu. She would love to hear from you!

Middle: Members of the Class of 2010 visited CSG on January 4th to have lunch and pick up their Topknots. Sarah Henderson, Natalie Hummel, Elle Irwin, Ally Martin Bottom: Apple Justice, Sarah Henderson, Laura Arnold, Betsy Potts, Kelsey Klopfer

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Ladman loves her classes and professors at Kenyon College, where she has joined many clubs, including the Dance Team, and is a member of the Kenyon Field Hockey team. Sloane Williams is relieved to have survived her first semester at Boston University, and is still finding more and more to do in the massive city. Mariah Fuerst is the president of her dorm and has been initiated into Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of South Carolina. Natalie Hummel and Lily Burkhalter are both at the University of Virginia where they are both enjoying their time. Natalie has joined a club on campus “where you help international students practice their English speaking skills by having conversations with them.” She says through participating in this club, she has been exposed to a wide array of cultures and has made friends from around the world.

In honor of the Class of 2010, Lily organized a Quidditch tournament at UVA, but says she “missed all of the Gryffindors from CSG!”

Top: Laura Erickson, Lizzy Hubler, Anne Milne, Sarah Henderson, Natalie Hummel, Liza Lee Bottom: Ari Shonebarger, Lisa Ball, Zoe Peters, Jen Wetzel, Sloane Williams, Sally Hauser

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Katie Pickworth, Class Representative quarknerd@gmail.com

Sloane Williams, Class Representative slwill10@bu.edu

Elyse Cooke is halfway through her sophomore year at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH. She is currently double majoring in Early Childhood Education and Spanish. She is an active participant and leader in many on-campus organizations such as Weaver Chapel Association, Lutheran Student Movement, and Colleges Against Cancer. She is a Resident Adviser to 26 residents on the third floor of Ferncliff Hall and participates in theater alongside her many other activities. Everything is going very well for her and she recently received news that she will be going abroad for the Fall Semester of 2011 to Chile.

The Class of 2010 has been enjoying their first semesters at their new schools!

Elizabeth Hubler is at George Washington University and says that “DC is a really exciting city and there’s always something going on!” Sally Hauser, at Marietta College, says “I am running Track & Field—the 400, 800, and 1600.”

She was also in Marietta’s fall production of Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio. Erica Kang was made 1st clarinet this fall in the University Band at the Ohio State University. Kate Franks is also at the Ohio State University, where she says college is amazing. Grace Erickson is at Ithaca College in New York and says “Ithaca is Gorges.” Anne Milne is attending Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO, which she says is “a great city to explore with friends.” Jen Wetzel is now at Butler University, where she is now a German minor and an English major. Stephanie

Sarah Henderson has begun her freshman year at Georgetown University in the McDonnough School of Business.

She is a member of the Georgetown University Dance Company, DC Reads Program, Hoya Spirit Club, Marketing Association, and several other groups and clubs.

Gracie Umana loves OU! She went canoeing on a freshman trip to Boundary Waters in Minnesota. She is a member of the Outdoor Club and is playing Broom Ball.

Maya Zinkow is singing with Pizmon– really fabulous – you will see her peek through from the back row, on the left, every now and then…enjoy! http:// www.youtube.com/user/zoosh89#p/u/1/ Ndrc-6SS2W4

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Molly Schissel has had an excellent first semester at Saint Louis University. She has taken advantage of living in the city and enjoys the view from her 16th floor dorm room. She and fellow classmate Anne Milne often get together for coffee to catch up. Molly cannot wait to see what the future has in store for her and the Class of 2010.

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Faculty/Staff News: Lindsey Kelley and her husband, Brennan, welcomed Brayden Jeffrey Kelley a month early on December 23rd at 8:14 in the morning. He weighed 5 lbs and 14 oz and was 19 inches long.

They were able to go home Christmas night and it was a great present to be home for the holiday.

Stanford University has recognized Dana Paine for his exceptional teaching at Columbus School for Girls. This honor was due to a Stanford University Annual Teacher Tribute Initiative submission from Caitlin Fong, CSG Class of 2010. Caitlin had the following to say about Dana’s dedication to the field of education: “Not only is Mr. Paine a brilliant teacher, but he is also a true mentor and friend to each of his student. Able to form strong relationships within the classroom, Mr. Paine teaches so much more than just French. Just as importantly, he also develops each student as a person so that students leave his class with a larger understanding of who they are as individuals. And it is for these reasons, and more, that he creates a class that is truly one of the best at CSG. Thank you, Mr. Paine.” Stanford University’s annual Teacher Tribute Initiative confirms the significant role that the faculty at Columbus School for Girls has in the intellectual, academic, social, and personal development of our young women. We wish Caitlin great success at Stanford and congratulate Dana on his special honor.

The White House Council on Women and Girls invited Associate Head of School, Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, Ph.D., to tour the White House in December. Dr. Scheckelhoff’s invitation was extended to her for her extensive work with women and girls over many years with the Governor’s Office, The Women’s Fund, and other initiatives in Ohio. The purpose of the Council on Women and Girls, created by President Obama in 2009, is “to ensure that each of the agencies in which they’re charged

Terrie Scheckelhoff, and family at the White House on December 18, 2010. Husband, Kevin, daughter, Hannah, ’07, son, Hale, and Terrie.

takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support” and that the true purpose of our government is “to ensure that in America, all things are still possible for all people.”

CSG Lower School faculty member, Charlotte Stiverson, developed an educational programs, entitled The Ohioana Library Travels - The Underground Railroad. It is a traveling kit that contains tools designed to provide resources for students, teachers, and librarians in order to augment and enhance the standard classroom curriculum. The goal of this educational kit is to reach out to students and teachers throughout the state of Ohio. Resources, information, documents, classroom book sets, videos, lesson plans, and other materials are included to enable teachers to select appropriate materials and ideas in order to reach children of all learning styles in all disciplines of study, including math, geography, social studies, language arts, art, and music. You can find details about Ohioana and the Ohioana Library Travels the Underground Railroad project, visit http://www.ohioana.org/features/ur/ .

Janetta Davis, Theater Program Coordinator at Columbus School for Girls, won Best Actress Award at Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable’s annual awards ceremony.

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for outstanding acting in the annual Roundtable Awards, eight were chosen for recognition. The acting category was comprised of members in 2010 productions from Actors’ Theatre, Curtain Players, Emerald City Players, Gallery Players and Solstice Theatre Company, Theatre Daedalus and Weathervane Playhouse.

Janetta won the best actress category for her role as the mother, Amanda Wingfield, in Actors’ Theatre’s The Glass Menagerie.

Davis is a professional actor, director, stage manager and costume designer. She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and has been involved in professional and collegiate theater since 1979. She has performed in regional professional theaters in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. As a Resident Acting Company Member of CATCO she performed over twenty roles in addition to serving as Production Manager and Resident Costumer. She has performed in New York City at the Fringe Festival in a new musical, and in numerous local productions.

Janetta earned her MFA in the Professional Actor Training program at Ohio University and her BFA in performance and directing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Davis has been directing theater and teaching students and adults acting, playwriting, and general theater for over 25 years in a variety of styles and settings.

M I L E S T O N E S WITH CONGRATULATIONS

We celebrate the joyous occasions of Columbus School for Girls Alumnae.

Births Drew and Boomee Hahn Danenberg, ’86 On the birth of their son Cody Elias Danenberg April 29, 2010

Tyler and Margaret Forbes Baker, ’89 On the birth of their twins Edward and Elizabeth Baker April 2010

Jonathan and Stephanie Taub Fox, ’90 On the birth of their daughter Sally Belle Fox June 15, 2010

Jay and Joanne D’Ippolito Brake, ’93 On the birth of their daughter Graceann Lucia Brake March 5, 2010

Sean and Jennifer Ull Frey, ’94 On the birth of their daughter Molly Josephine Frey December 6, 2010

On the adoption of their daughter Ivy Grace Mastin September 6th, 2009

John and Susie Mayhan Bauman,’97 On the birth of their daughter Colette Vera Bauman October 17, 2010

Andy Kuss and Jeny Reynolds ’99, On the birth of their daughter Ella Kuss March, 2010

David and Alissa Schottenstein Simon ’99 On the birth of their son Jackson Irving Simon October 19, 2010

In Memoriam Past Faculty

Courtney Penn, ’89

Mary Alice Fite

On her marriage to William Blevins November 6, 2010

November 7, 2010

Nicole Fetingas ’99 On her marriage to Geoff Sharp

Sharon Dietzel Daughter, Jill Esposito Alles, ’83:

On her marriage to Anthony Burnside November 5, 2010

2421 Williams Avenue, Vienna, VA 22180 Husband, Al Dietzel: 256 Dibble Hill Road, West Cornwall, CT 06796-1527

Wendy Fahey, ’02 On her marriage to David Currier August 14, 2010

Lauren Yost, ’03

Condolences To

On her marriage to Andrew Gerk June 12, 2010

Joan Shumaker Andrews, ’44 On the death of her husband Robert Andrews, October 20, 2010 Joan: 3500 Trillium Crossing, Apt. 5015, Columbus, OH 43235

WITH SYMPATHY We acknowledge the loss of members and friends of the Columbus School for Girls family and extend our deepest sympathy.

Condolences may be sent to the relatives listed.

Arden Patricia Goss Dick, ’47 On the death of her daughter Lee Ulmer, September 12, 2010 Patty: 11201 Rene Street, #901, Lenexa, KS 66215

Leslie Carroll, ’69 On the death of her mother Natalie Cole Carroll, October 23, 2010

In Memoriam Alumnae

Leslie: 3913 Easton Square Place Columbus, OH 43219

Phyllis Harmon Greene, ’37 February 24, 2011 Daughter, Deborah Greene Fulford Sons, Robert and Timothy Greene Condolences to her children may be sent to Deborah: 93 S. Kellner, Columbus, OH 43209 Sister-in-law, Sue Bowman Harmon, ’48: 500 S. Parkview Avenue, #300, Columbus, OH 43209

On the death of their grandfather Arthur I. Vorys, February 5, 2011

Caroline: 5826 Havens Corners Road, Gahanna, OH 43230

Kate: Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 2524, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235

Eleanor: 5810 Havens Road, Gahanna, OH 43230

Roganne McGuire Clark, ’48

Karen Larrimer Scherbaum, ’94

November 14, 2010

Johanna Greenwald Bowen, ’50

On the death of their father and

Jill Hubbuch, ’06, Kate Vorys, ’07, and Eleanor Vorys, ’12

Jill: 3742 Dixon Road, Pataskala, OH 43062

January 5, 2011 Daughter, Claudia Mangum Roach, ’63: 3232 36th Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98199

Robert and Amy Trumbull Rowlette, ’01

Caroline Vorys, ’69, and Lucy Vorys, ’74

Lucy: Route 2, Box 75, Birch Tree, MO 65438

Mildred McLeskey Mangum, ’39

On the birth of their son Louis Christopher Formen, IV, “Louie”, July 21, 2010

On the birth of their son Robert Alonzo Rowlette, IV, “Bobby” October 7, 2010

December 3, 2010

Kendra Bobulski, ’00

Son, William Clark: 3513 Nakora Drive, Tampa, FL 33618 Daughter, Pamela Clark: 13140 Village Chase Circle, Tampa, FL 33618 Daughter, Laura Clark LaChapelle: 902 Tranquiview Lane, Valrico, FL 33594

Chris and Natalia Rivera Formen, ’01

Son, Franklin Fite: 16930 SE 58th St., Bellevue, WA 98006

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Katy Potts ’96 and her partner,

Marriages

On the death of her father and,

Louise Larrimer Swanson, ’58, and Ellen Larrimer Tripp, ’61 On the death of their brother Dr. Nye Larrimer, October 28, 2010

Karen: 110 East End Avenue #1D, New York, NY 10028.

Louise: 2519 Fair Avenue, Columbus, OH 43209 Ellen: 5420 Clark State Road, Gahanna, OH 43230

January 2, 2011 Husband, Martin R. Bowen: 1208 Leaning Oak Court, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

Aileen Targett, ’05

On the death of her father, Larry Targett, January 22, 2011 Aileen: 2581 36th Street, Apt. 5D, Astoria, NY 11103 www.columbusschoolforgirls.org

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1 National Alumnae Council member, Deborah Sawyer, ’74, hosted a delightful evening at her beautiful home on January 24th for Chicago area CSG and Columbus Academy alumni.

This is the first time CSG and the Academy have co-sponsored an alumni event and a great time was had by all. We extend a big thank you to Deborah for graciously welcoming everybody to her home. Plans are in the works for future joint events in other parts of the country. We hope you’ll be able to attend to reconnect with old friends!

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2. Columbus Academy Alumni and Development Officers, Front Row: Andy Buchanan, ’84, Jonathan

Wolman, ’86, Regan Mazak, Assistant Director of Annual Giving, Jared Golden, ’04, Rajive Tandon, ’90, Jill Grube, Director of Alumni Relations Back Row: David VerMeulen, ’85, Erich Hunker, ’81, Assistant Headmaster

3. Valerie Carberry, ’88, and friend, Richard Wright (L), with Jonathan Wolman, CA Class of 1986 (R) 4. Leslie Sawyer, ’71, Ann McCabe, ’75, Deborah Sawyer, ’74 5. Tara Bonaventura DeFreytas, ’97, Julie Ferber Zuckerman, ’97, Allyson Heumann, ’92 6. Ann McCabe, ’75, Lucy Ackley, ’83, Cathy Stephenson, ’71, Jared Golden, CA Class of 2004 7. Sarah Resch, ’00, and fiance, Charlie Flower 8. Bill and Betsy Cook Werth, ’65

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Alumnae Board The Nominating Committee of the Alumnae Association Board met in December to create this proposed slate for the 2011-2012 Alumnae Board. The slate will be officially voted on at the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association on Saturday, April 30th at the Alumnae Luncheon.

PRESIDENT* Cathy Jones Williard, ’83 PRESIDENT-ELECT* Colleen Duffy, ’84 TREASURER* Nicole Wade, ’98 RECORDING SECRETARY* Becky Moehring, ’83 NOMINATING CHAIR* Babette Gorman, ’69

SCHOOL LIAISONS* Lucy Ackley, ’83 Christy Schoedinger Rosenthal, ’87

GALLERIA CO-CHAIRS-ELECT Emily Kasler, ’04 Andrea Krupman Powell, ’84

VOLUNTEER CHAIR* Karma Hayes Payne, ’88

HISTORIAN/ARCHIVING CHAIR Jill Levy, ’70

ALUMNAE WEEKEND CHAIR Paige Shalter Bruening, ’89

HISTORIAN EMERITA Jane Farrar Seymour, ’34

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE CHAIR Kelli Reavling-Cobb, ’86

REUNION GIVING CHAIR Kacey Chappelear, ’98

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES Anne Miller Paschall, ’68 Lesley Wilson Schaab, ’71

REUNION SOCIAL CHAIR Yoci Vorys, ’98

GALLERIA CO-CHAIRS Lisa Sugar Gitz, ’79 Claire Murnane, ’01

YOUNG ALUMNAE COUNCIL Melissa Seidel Bedolla, ’96 Ashley Love, ’01 Katy Murnane Reis, ’00 Carolyn Thurman, ’04 *Executive Committee

Spring Alumnae Phonathon COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS / ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN 2010–2011

One Click Makes All the Difference.

Visit our secure web site at www. ColumbusSchoolforGirls.org

Congratulations to the CSG Faculty, Staff and to Parents of Form IV students for reaching 100% participation in Annual Giving. THANK YOU to everyone in the CSG community who has already contributed to Annual Giving 2010-2011,

CSG alumnae volunteers will be calling on March 29, 31, and April 4 asking you to invest in the future by supporting a CSG education for today’s girls and young women.

If you would like to give before you’re called, you may submit your gift or pledge in the enclosed envelope or online at www.columbusschoolforgirls.org.

Click on Giving, then Donate Online.

Your continued support is deeply appreciated.

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Columbus School for Girls 56 S. Columbia Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43209 www.columbusschoolforgirls.org

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Term 1: June 20-July 8 • Term 2: July 11-July 29 August in Action Week 1: August 1-5 • Week 2 • August 8-12

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