Suzannah Flint ❂ Diana Healey Glendon ❂ Marna Hayden ❂ Margaret Lewis Herbert Abigail Senkler Kazanowski ❂ Noel Farnsworth Mann ❂ Judy Olmsted O’Malley ❂ ❖ Victoria Post Ranney ❂ ❖ Judith Kline Rosenthal Katrina Jenney Saltonstall Nathalie Wendell Thomas ❂ CLASS OF 1957 Participation: 59% Annual Fund: $4,980 Class Agent: Monica Wulff Steinert
Ann Ingersoll Boyden ❖ Marjorie Byers-Gay ❖ Barbara Burn Dolensek ❖ Anne McLean Dorr ❖ Helen Hardcastle Gates ❂ Miriam Brooks Hall ❂ Julia Gowing Houk ❂ Carol Swanson Louchheim ❖ Jane Parsons Lyons ❖ Sylvia Fitts Napier Nancy Newbury-Andresen Constance Rohrbough ❂ Monica Wulff Steinert ❂ ❖ Eileen Behr Sunderland ❂ Marcia Synnott ❂ ❖ Edith Van Slyck ❂ Sandra Spencer Williams ❂ CLASS OF 1958 Participation: 54% Annual Fund: $2,501 Class Agent: Sandra Snow Downes Jane Vance McCauley
Barbara McCormick Bailey ❂ Elizabeth Moses Baker ❂ Sally Farnsworth Blackett ❂ Meredith Hare Burke ❂ Diana Knowles Cashen ❂ Nancy Moses Dechert ❂ Sandra Snow Downes ❂ ❖
Nancy Cushman Fairbanks Elizabeth England Fisher ❂ Jacqueline Vaughan Lee ❂ Catherine Holst Levine ❂ Jane Vance McCauley ❂ Katharine Rogers McQuarrie Lydia Saltus Menendez ❂ ❖ Judith Turner Munson ❂ Caroline Murfitt-Eller ❂ Nancy Wolfe Stead Judith Harris Watriss Sarah Whitney CLASS OF 1959 ! 50th REUNION Participation: 69% Annual Fund: $27,670 Restricted Giving: $10,000 Planned Giving: $500,000 Total: $537,670 Reunion Committee: Mary Poole Julia Terry Rosemary Wilson
Susan Whitmore Allan ❂ Bronwen Jenney Anders ❂ ❖ Ainslie Baldwin ❖ Elizabeth Boardman ❖ Anna Lutnicki Bourgeois Virginia Pitkin Bride ❖ Helen Dickson Chaplin ❖ Faith Childs ❖ Linda Merrill Ciccone ❖ Henrietta Briggs Cosentino ❖ Janet Spencer Dougherty ❖ Hope Howland Hale ❖ Carolyn Hall Hejinian Jennifer Johnson ❂ Gillian Shaw Kellogg ❖ Nancy Adams Marenakos ❖ Susan Senkler McMullan Jane Boynton Nahon ❂ ❖ Caroline Craven Nielsen Mary Poole ❂ ❖ Ann Wilson Porteus ❂ ❖ Eleanor Putnam ❂ ❖ Ann Benson Reece ❂ Elizabeth Truslow Russell ❂ ❖ Judith Speckman Russell ❂ ❖
Top Five Reunion Classes: Dollars Raised
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1959
50th Reunion
$537,670
1964
45th Reunion
$501,815
1989
20th Reunion
$235,761
1979
30th Reunion
$40,686
1994
15th Reunion
$32,511
Deceased
F U N D
Mary Poole ’59
A Strong Start
“I
want to do something to help the world,” said Mary Poole ’59. “I know I can’t do that by myself, but CA can do it for me through the strength of its overall education and by giving financial aid to deserving young people.” Back on campus for her 50th reunion this past June, Mary said the school provided her “a source of lasting friendships, and also the best education that I ever received.” Concord Academy was, she said, “more challenging than either college or graduate school. Mme. Miller, our French teacher at CA, gave me a great foundation.” Her language studies, at CA and later at Bennington and at Middlebury, where she earned an MA in French, prepared her for a life that included a brief stint as a teacher at the Chicago Lab School and eight years at the Paris office of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. “To me, education is paramount,” Mary said. “And I think secondary school may be even more important than college. I look at our current president, for instance. The fact that Barack
Obama had access to a wonderful high school and university education is having an effect on the whole world. I would like some of what I leave behind to make it possible for others to get that sort of strong start.” Since her retirement, Mary has lived in the Berkshire village of Alford, Massachusetts and in Key West, Florida. A dedicated gardener, she heads the Alford Land Trust, which works to preserve open land in perpetuity. She is one of six family members to graduate from CA: her sister Marten ’58 led the way, and Marten’s children, Annie Lareau ’86 and Donald H. Lareau III ’92, are graduates, as are Mary’s cousins, Conant Brewer ’74 and Anita Brewer-Siljeholm ’71. When Marten died in 1997, the family established the Marten Ann Poole Arts and Sciences Scholarship Fund at CA, to which Mary has continued to contribute. In addition, she is diligent about giving to the Annual Fund. This past November, after much research and thought, Mary established a generous unrestricted bequest that will benefit Concord Academy after her death. This new gift makes her a member of the Chameleon Circle, which recognizes those who have made planned gifts to the school. Because the gift is unrestricted, it gives the school leeway to use these funds in whatever ways are most helpful. “I’ve been impressed with how much our earlier contributions to the school have increased in value as a result of CA’s investment decisions,” Mary said, “and I have appreciated the annual letter which explains how the income has been used to benefit a particular student each year. I’m very happy with how well those funds are serving their purpose.” With that, Mary went out to join her classmates at reunion, and to enjoy a return to the school whose future she has so generously helped underwrite. — Mary Poole ’59
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