Summer/Fall 2012 Issue of the Alumni Magazine

Foote Prints THE FOOTE SCHOOL • NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT • SUMMER/FALL 2012 • VOL. 39, NO. 2

Being Green A Brand-New Building Reinforces Respect for the Environment

Foote students participate in the annual Jump Rope for Heart fundraising effort

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Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

— Vince Lombardi

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Last year, with your help, the Foote School Annual Fund surpassed its $535,000 goal.

Among many items, your contribution helped purchase: Books for the Perrine Library Maps • Computer software • Scales • Microscopes Paintbrushes• Markers • Beakers • Rockets • Clay And much more!

Your gift to the Annual Fund sustains Foote School throughout the year.

THANK YOU!

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Growing the Next Generation of Environmentalists

by Carol Maoz

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Cutting the Ribbon on the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building Ninth Grade Graduation Eighth Grade Recognition Day Accolades Board of Directors Update

Around Campus 22 Field Day 23 May Day 24 News and Notes Report of Giving 30 From the Director of Development 32 Annual Donor Report Alumni 48 69 72

Class Notes Reunion Day 2012 Why I Chose a Career in Science

by Nick Priest ’89

Foote Prints is published twice a year for alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends.

Editor Jane Gordon Class Notes Editor Amy Caplan ’88 Design Thea A. Moritz Contributors Maria Granquist, Julie Moore, Ann Baker Pepe Photography Laura Altshul, Amy Caplan, Ângela Giannella, Margy Lamere, Judy Sirota Rosenthal For the latest in news and events visit us at www.footeschool.org Board of Directors Melinda Agsten, Past President Richard Bershtein, President Kim Bohen Judith Chevalier, Treasurer Jaime Cole, PTC Co-President James Farnam ’65 Joanne Goldblum George Knight Nadine Koobatian, PTC Co-President Richard Lee Cindy Leffell, Vice President Glenn Levin, Secretary Bruce Mandell David Moore, Vice President Zehra Patwa Robert Sandine Jane Shipp David Soper Annie Wareck ’85 Yanyun Wu Kiran Zaman Ex-Officio Carol Maoz, Head of School Cover: The ribbon-cutting for the new Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building

The Foote School does not discriminate in the administration of its admissions or education policies, or other school-administered programs, and considers applications for all positions without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or non-job-related physical disability.

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Growing the Next Generation of Environmentalists Each morning as I greet children arriving at school I am reminded anew that we have a beautiful campus! Its beauty offers daily opportunities to appreciate nature, and the culture of our school encourages exploration and understanding of our environment. Environmentalism is a complex concept, but we teach it to our students in a hundred simple ways, demonstrating our concern for preserving the natural environment to perpetuate a safe and beautiful planet.

There have been philosophical and scientific arguments for hundreds of years about the relationship between humans and the environment. While we often focus on the rational arguments articulated in recent decades by scientists, great thinkers throughout history have expressed the importance of understanding the circle of life and the human role in it.

From kindergarten onward, Foote students learn to appreciate their connection to and responsibility for the natural world. Students of all ages explore and interact with the outdoors and develop an affinity for the environment. Their school days provide frequent opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and to use their imaginations — on green fields, under favorite trees, in the woods and local orchards, on the shaded paths on campus and the beach at Lighthouse Point. Nature and imagination are mutually reinforcing.

How many times have each of us witnessed the ways the beauty of a flower or the movements of an insect can excite young children and inspire their imaginations?

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Head of School Carol Maoz with some of the ninth graders who served as tour guides during the ribbon cutting for the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building

our environment matters. Foote students responsibly and joyfully contribute to the campus compost pile, plan and plant gardens, recycle throughout campus, and participate in the Environmental Action Group. The group has prospered for many years at Foote as passionate faculty help students gain a greater awareness that they are the stewards of our planet and can, individually, make a real difference.

This year, fourth and fifth grade students constructed an interactive tree map of our campus, developing a Google application that visitors to campus will be able to access via cell phone. It was an illuminating pursuit that gave them new insight into the distinct characteristics of the trees

across our campus. The fifth grade science curriculum includes a focus on ecology, with a trip to the Deer Lake campground in Killingworth, Conn., where students hike trails that meander through meadows and forest, and engage in an exciting nighttime walk to savor the sounds of nature. Sixth graders are committed to an annual project to restock salmon in the Connecticut River, an experience that shows them firsthand the impact they can have on the environment. Ninth graders start the year with a twentymile bike ride on the Cape Cod Rail Trail and a whale watch. These experiences stay with our students.

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The Revised PhilosoPhy and a new diveRsiTy sTaTemenT

spreads its limbs to offer shelter. In early spring, our sugar maples go to work, giving forth the sap that Business Manager Jay Cox and his brother Pete turn into our very own Foote School maple syrup. Our youngest students witness the magic of this syrup making, learn how it is done, and taste the results at a pancake breakfast.

Late summer visitors to Foote’s community garden — shared and enjoyed by faculty, staff and students alike — saw an abundant crop: organic berries and vegetables — tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans — and lots of beautiful flowers. Students take an active role with the gardens on campus: the one just north of the kindergarten building (planned, planted and cared for by the kindergarten classes), the butterfly garden in front of the Hosley Gymnasium, the community garden on Highland Street. The gardens provide a plant science laboratory for our students, where children develop their skills of observation using all of their senses. They write poetry and sketch what they see. They learn how coloring dyes are extracted from vegetables and fruits and used to give color to cloth. And they labor — and partake — of the fruits of these gardens, learning that when we give to Mother Nature, she gives back in multiples — and what a joyful lesson that is.

There is, in fact, so much to be reaped in the embrace of sustainability and stewardship. Foote’s organic land management practices speak volumes about the school’s beliefs. Compost tea is the fertilizer on our lawns and playing fields, which are aerated regularly, and over-seeded to create a strong root system. These eco-friendly methods were employed at Foote long before the state mandated organic lawn practices in schools, and our grass is strong, healthy, and chemicalfree as a result.

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Foote students have watched with interest the construction of the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building. This gem was designed to fit in with and take advantage of our natural surroundings. Its construction features many renewable and recycled materials.

It is sited to make best use of natural light; thoughtfully placed louvers ensure that while bright summer light will be blocked, the softer light of winter days brightens each room.

Electrical fixtures assess the natural light and adjust automatically to provide only the amount of additional light needed. The building was planned to be an educational tool in itself, thus the solar thermal water system, cloth ductwork, and numerous other sustainability features are easily visible. Energy use can be tracked and displayed on the building’s computers to develop awareness among students regarding the plentiful tools of energy conservation.

Many of these features are new to our campus, but the concept of treasuring and protecting our natural world is a long-held belief at Foote. We bring together the best of the scientific with the best of the romantic in a way that sparks the mind and the soul. The campus speaks to our deep connection with the natural world around us as a treasure to be protected and cultivated, for generations to come.

The Foote school Guiding Philosophy we believe that … a positive learning environment takes shape when students, parents, and teachers know and respect one another, and work together to uphold the values and expectations of the community. learning together builds community, and yet each student is responsible for engaging in his or her own learning experience. learning takes time, practice and reflection. authentic interactions within the campus environment and with the world encourage students to build upon their knowledge and explore their natural curiosity, imagination, and passions.

Providing children with many avenues for self-expression builds confidence and fosters a willingness to take on further intellectual and creative challenges. we are part of a global community. we are at our best when we embrace and celebrate our diversity and when we actively seek opportunities to serve and lead. life is interdisciplinary. meaningful experiences lead students to discover themselves as scholars and thinkers, as artists and athletes, and as citizens and human beings.

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diversity is at the heart of the Foote school mission and the way we live it. as individuals, we uniquely express our backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs.

Through our relationships and programs, we recognize the inherent worth of each person and strive to respect, understand, and honor the value of all communities.

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A MAGNIFICENT

NEW BUILDING

Stands on the Foote Campus

The Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building from the vantage point of the playing field behind it

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Despite a tornado watch and thunderstorm warnings throughout the day, the sun emerged through the clouds to shine on the formal dedication of the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building Saturday, September 8. The sounds of violin and piano, beautifully rendered by Foote parents Yaira ˘ Matyakubova and Andrius Zlabys, wafted above the courtyard in front of the building. >

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Moments after the couple completed the performance, Board President Richard Bershtein and Head of School Carol Maoz spoke to the audience, along with Libby Peard, who was president of the Board during the early phase of the ‘Imagine Our Future’ campaign that enabled construction of the building.

Then Foote school graduate Jennifer Milikowsky ’02 stepped up to the lectern, delivering a speech that paid tribute to her brother Jonathan ’98, the building’s namesake. Her words drew both tears and laughter from the audience. (See “A Heartfelt Memory of a Beloved Brother” on page 8.)

Three generations of the Milikowsky family gather in the new building.

The crowd stood to give Jennifer an ovation, the ribbon was cut, and guests flowed into the new building. Ninth graders served as tour guides, speaking knowledgeably about the building’s three science labs, technology center, and four classrooms. A classroom on the second floor holds a Harkness Table, a large oval table that encourages inclusion and discussion.

Architect Maryann Thompson of Maryann Thompson Architects of Cambridge, Mass., was peppered with questions about the building, which has numerous sustainability features

including reclaimed wood from seats salvaged from the renovation of the Yale Bowl and white oak repurposed from an Amish barn in Pennsylvania.

Also present was Lou Stone, owner of Chapel Construction, whose workers braved Hurricane Irene in August 2011, a freak snowstorm in October, and a heavy thunderstorm in June that knocked out electrical power to thousands. “I could not be prouder to have been involved in this project,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to dedicate this building to a boy I

Former Board President Karen Pritzker, left, with Melanie Ginter, co-chair of the building committee

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knew since he was a baby, and it’s probably the finest building I’ve ever been involved with.”

The building allows Foote to use all campus space to its best capacity.

“This building gives us room to do the things we do really well,” said Head of Middle School John Turner.

“I’m excited because it helps us push ourselves to the very best in teaching and learning.”

Kindergartners join ninth graders to cut the ribbon on the steps of the building at the community ribbon-cutting Sun., Sept. 9.

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A birds-eye view of the first-floor lobby

Reactions to the building were unanimous. “I want to go back to Foote School,” said John Kebabian ’69, who donated a rug from his family’s New Haven rug gallery to the new building. Others who never had the opportunity to attend voiced similar sentiments.

“It’s a fantastic building,” said Gordon Ambach, grandfather to the Illick boys, Thor (eighth grade), Cyrus (sixth grade) and Kit (fourth grade). ”I’m ready to enroll.”

Peter Pap ’68 with the rug he has loaned to Foote for the ninth grade loft

The next day, Sun., Sept. 9, current Foote students and families attended a community ribbon-cutting. Head of School Carol Maoz, with the help of Foote’s mascot, Falco (ninth grader Ian Ono-Gerow) called on ninth graders and kindergartners to step up to cut the ribbon, and the group

gathered on the new building’s steps, scissors at the ready. A cheer went up as the newly cut ribbons fluttered in the air. The Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building was now formally a part of the Foote School campus.

Owner’s representative Leland Torrence ’68, building architect Maryann Thompson, and Lou Stone of Chapel Construction, whose company constructed the building

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A Poignant Memory of a Beloved Brother

By Jennifer Milikowsky ’02 Hello everyone, I’m so pleased to be with you all today to mark this wonderful occasion.

Coming back to Foote is always like coming home to me. I admit, that may be in part because it is next-door to my actual childhood home, but more importantly it is because of the incredible Foote community that feels much more like a family. And it is because of the generosity of this Foote family that this amazing building went from idea to reality. And what a truly wonderful building it is.

I would like to thank everyone who assisted with the project at all stages, but quickly want thank a few specific people without whom this building truly would not have been possible no matter the amount of money raised.

The entire building committee chaired

by Melanie Ginter and David Moore and spurred on by Jay Cox — thank you. Your effort and commitment to this project have been remarkable. I also want to thank Head of School Carol Maoz, who recognized and articulated the incredible impact this building will have on the school and united the Foote family around this project. And many thanks to the entire development department for everything you’ve done from the very first letter that went out about the project to finding tiny shovels for the kindergartners at the groundbreaking.

You have made this process seem easy and seamless though I’m sure it wasn’t. Special thanks also goes to Ann Baker Pepe who took it upon herself to guide my family through this incredible journey with the compassion and sensitivity of a true friend.

Since the decision to name this building in honor of my brother I’ve so often heard the phrase “how perfect.”

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Jennifer Milikowsky ’02 during her speech at the dedication

who knew Jon and know Foote, it is obvious — this is a perfect tribute.

Jon’s enthusiasm for technology was contagious. He envisioned how revolutionary it would be and was always busy discovering new ways to incorporate technology into our lives and specifically into the classroom. I’ll never forget that I was the first student to put my sixth grade poetry anthology onto a CD instead of a cassette tape, thanks to Jon’s willingness to help.

But I wasn’t the only one in the Foote community who was impacted by Jon’s love of technology. Throughout this past week I have been going through boxes containing old letters

to find inspiration about what I wanted to share today. I couldn’t have stumbled across anything better.

Contained in one box were three emails Jon sent to me while I was at summer camp in 2001. Most of you probably won’t be surprised that he mentions that he’s been busy “playing with computers” in every one of them, but it’s the one from July 25th that made me smile wide as I read “I’m working at Foote now, playing with their 40 new iMacs and some other cool new technology they just got in. It’s really fun and I’m making lots of money teaching these teachers how to check their email.” Not only am I sure that Jon was relishing in his former teachers now being his stuFoote Prints

dents, but I am also confident that Jon loved seeing the positive impact he was having on the school. This building is the perfect way to further that impact.

Beyond technology Jon’s character embodied so much of what Foote stands for and what kind of people Foote teaches us to be. In reading letters I received following Jon’s passing I found friends’ descriptions of him were all so similar. He is universally described as kind, mature, sincere, responsible, and thoughtful.

Based on these characteristics, it’s not surprising that I also often read that “he was the kind of guy who everyone loved and wanted to be near.” Having spent my childhood idolizing Jon and blindly following him I couldn’t agree more. Jon was a perfect example of the type of caring and considerate person that makes up the Foote community.

But, to fully describe Jon, you must mention his ability to laugh, as did all the letters I read. He constantly had a big, bright smile on his face and he typically only stopped laughing himself to make others laugh with him.

I want to quickly share a story that highlights both Jon’s sweet nature and this brilliant sense of humor. And it’s only appropriate that it’s a story shared with me by an incredible English teacher my brothers and I all had the privilege of having in 9th grade at Foote. In his reflection of having Jon as a student he writes, “At one point that year, Jon figured out that I wasn’t always caught up on the class’s reading assignments. With a sly smile, he’d ask me subtle questions in class to test me, and occasionally find me in the library, furiously reading This Boy’s Life. He’d sneak up on me and ask with a laugh ‘Doing your homework, Mr. Milburn?’ He had the graciousness never to tell anyone — it was our private joke.”

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That’s a classic example of who Jon was — quick witted and incredibly intelligent, but gentle and kind more than anything else. And I’m sure within the walls of the building bearing his name, Foote will continue to teach students to be just that.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of you — friends, family, students, alumni, teachers, and staff — for making this building possible. And especially to my parents for ensuring that Jon’s name and spirit will live on forever at Foote.

I couldn’t be more excited for the students whose learning will be enhanced through the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building as I once was by Jon himself all those years ago.

If Jon were here right now, he would tell me to hurry up and finish so we can cut the ribbon and go play on those brand new Macs, so in honor of Jon thank you all for helping to continue his legacy in this most perfect way.

Jon Milikowsky — Ahead of His Time Before the Internet had invaded American households, before “The Big Bang Theory” had made scientists celebrities, and before technology had become to offices what toolboxes are to builders, Jon Milikowsky ’98 had wired his house to enable his friends to play games on several computers at once. He had rigged up a system through the cigarette lighter in his parents’ car to enable himself and his siblings to play TV and video games on long trips. And when he was still a teenager, he was spending summers teaching Foote teachers how to use computers.

“He was always incorporating technology into education, long before it was the new wave,” says his sister, Jennifer Milikowsky ’02. “It’s so obvious to the people who knew him that the new building is a perfect way to honor his legacy.”

He was a technological adventurer. Kind, Jennifer and Jon Milikowsky smart, a mentor, and unendingly patient with those who were lost on technology’s highway, he was beloved by many. Now, with the opening of the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building, he will be remembered by all who pass through its doors.

Jon died in 2006 from complications related to bone cancer. Quiet and seemingly shy to strangers, he was social and quick to laugh with those who knew him.

Perhaps most important to his little sister, he was inclusive and kind, always willing to let her tag along with his friends, coaching her in four square and Capture the Flag, teaching her how to use technology in her school work.

“Technology was fun for Jon,” she says. “He was always trying to make things I did in the classroom better through technology. I’m so glad that will be shared now with the entire Foote community.”

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An environmental focus in the classroom Grass, according to Foote School lore, needs water, seed, sun, and a bit of compost tea to grow. Chemicals?

Never.

Long before Connecticut outlawed pesticides on elementary school lawns in 2010, Foote had gone organic, encouraged by Nancy Alderman ’52, a longtime environmentalist who was instrumental in getting the state legislation passed. And long before the city of New Haven and surrounding towns had adopted recycling programs, Foote was recycling.

Alarm bells have been sounding in the scientific community for decades regarding climate change and the state of the environment, and for many years, Foote’s staff, teachers, and students have been responding to the challenges confronting the environment. From classroom teaching, community service programs, and field trips to organic lawn care and composting, learning in many forms has focused on environmental quality and sustainability. The new energyefficient Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building is a reflection of the school’s ongoing efforts.

Climate change is going to define the lives of our students,” says Middle School teacher Pam Harmon. “I try my best to cultivate habits of the mind and habits of the heart that will enable our students to work and thrive in the very different world and profoundly different times they are entering. It underlines the imperative of nurturing brave thinkers who are creative problem solvers and who understand that everything really is connected.”

How does that thinking manifest itself in the daily life of the school? Here are some examples:

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Lauren Sonnenfeld, Elias Theodore, and Lucy Peterson bring in a bumper crop of tomatoes.

• Ecology plays a part in the curriculum for each grade, from the simplest notion of caring for a garden, to more complex ideas regarding alternative energy and comprehending the environmental costs of consumerism. The community garden is used as a teaching laboratory. Music teachers hold classes in the garden. Language teachers bring their students to practice vocabulary. Mixed Age Group teacher Margy Lamere uses the garden frequently to teach larger lessons to her students. “We talk about sustainability in our soils, weather, aquatic habitats, Africa and Native American studies, using the community garden year round as a place to watch cycles of plants, insects, birds, and small animals; building an awareness of the natural world and the impact humans have on it,” Margy says.

• Students use Foote’s butterfly garden to attract particular species and to gather their larva, and also as a haven for bees. “We have planted all kinds of things to attract insects, which pollinate the whole garden,” Margy says. “Insects, in turn, attract

First and second graders laid wood chips along the garden paths.

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and for the campus • Sixth grade students raise salmon fry in their classrooms, then take a field trip to the Salmon River in Colchester, which is a tributary of the Connecticut River, to release them.

• In the 1990s, EAG students created a Foote School tree trail that identified trees throughout campus.

Recently, fifth grade students developed an online guide to the trail.

Mixed Age Group students engage in a scavenger hunt to learn more about the garden.

birds. My first and second graders are budding ornithologists, having learned to listen to calls and identify field marks. Knowing at a young age that birds are often an indicator of the health of the environment, that something is amiss when certain birds show up at odd times or not at all, is important as a life lesson.”

• Kindergartners have a garden right outside their classrooms, where they learn how to care for plants “in much the same way they learn to take care of one another,” says outgoing Lower School Head Patty Chamberlain.

• Kindergarten through Grade 3 classrooms contribute their compostibles to the compost pile.

The maintenance department uses the compost throughout campus to feed the gardens.

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• Each year, Foote holds an Earth Day Assembly, planned by the Environmental Action Group (EAG), one of Foote’s active extracurricular groups.

The 2012 Assembly focused on educating students about the worldwide water crisis. For the past three years, the group has presented its Environmental Stewardship Award to a community member who has had a positive impact on the environment.

• Ninth grade science classes have been involved in a long-term water quality study of the West River.

“Our data has been used by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and for research at Yale,” science teacher John Cunningham says.

• Ecology is a focus in social studies and science for fifth graders.

Highlighted by a three-day, twonight stay at Deer Lake, a 253acre property in south-central Connecticut, students investigate --the impact of human activity on the environment. For more than 25 years, fifth graders have collected recyclable materials weekly from offices and classrooms throughout the school. In the spring, they also create a working solar oven from recycled and recyclable materials.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of all that goes on at Foote to raise community awareness about environmental issues. It is just a smattering of all that happens each day in the classrooms, the gardens, and the fields and rivers beyond the campus, that educates future citizens about their responsibilities regarding their environment. Says John Cunningham, “The idea that we’re all stewards of our planet — that’s the attitude we’re trying to foster.”

• For the past 25 years, seventh grade students have studied alternative energy and built working alternative energy projects.

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Graduation 2012

The Ninth Grade Class of 2012

The ninth grade Graduation ceremonies combined wit, wisdom, and the occasional hilarious gaffe as 19 ninth graders bade farewell to Foote.

Foote alumnus John Wareck ’84 charmed the graduates and the audience with his delightful admonitions to “Come back to Foote!” John warmly welcomed the new graduates as Foote alumni and announced that Cassidy McCarns and Harrison Lapides would be the correspondents for the Class of 2012.

The keynote speaker, parent and comedy writer Andy Marlatt, gave an uproariously funny graduation speech that was (unwittingly) provided by the ninth graders — with a little help from Andy's prodigious creativity.

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produced for the graduates. (Find Andy’s speech on the following page, but remember, you really had to be there…)

Then a graduate who will remain unnamed stood at the lectern and said, “Choate would like to thank….” when what he actually meant was “Foote would like to thank…” and once he returned to his seat, he realized his error and was summoned back to the lectern to revise his earlier statement, testament to the truth that ‘you have to get back on the horse that threw you.’

All of which contributed to a general atmosphere of good spirits and laughter perfectly suited to a day of celebration. Outgoing Lower School Head Patty Chamberlain led the ceremonies with a reflection, and Class President Cassidy McCarns

welcomed families, faculty, staff, and guests. To add to the general sense of delight, Bryan Zhou announced the Ninth Grade Class Gift, which will be used for financial aid for students.

Parent Catherine Sbriglio, mother of Max, announced that the Ninth Grade Parents Farewell Gift, $10,000 — reached with 100 percent participation! — and provide a bench in the ninth grade lounge in the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building.

The Hannah Lee Diploma, established in memory of Hannah Lee, a member of the class of 2008 who died suddenly in 2004, was given to C. Dary Dunham, interim head of school, 2007–09. Nicolas McCabe bestowed the award, and Dary happily led the ninth graders in the chorus of a favorite song.

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Bryan Zhou and Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, after accepting the Jean B. Shepler Fine Arts Prize, with music teacher Liz Reed-Swale

Middle School Head John Turner announced that the Ninth Grade Outstanding Academic Achievement Award would go to Meera Dhodapkar. Teacher Lara Anderson presented the Outstanding Athletic Achievement Award to Conor Marlatt and Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, and the Jean B. Shepler Fine Arts Prize, presented by music teacher Liz ReedSwale, was awarded to Bryan Zhou and Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy.

The Foote School Prize, awarded by the faculty to the student who best

Aléc and Mikel Zemborain with their parents, Axel Zemborain and Susana La Porta Drago

exemplifies the spirit of the school and who has demonstrated leadership, school spirit, love of learning, generosity of heart and service to others, was presented to Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy.

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Mia Reid and Aléc Zemborain presented a slideshow to music of class memories. The World Rhythm Ensemble, comprising ninth graders and directed by Michelle Cappellieri, played both Nigerian and Cuban celebration rhythms.

Meera Dhodapkar – Hopkins School

New graduates then formed a receiving line, greeting their guests and teachers before joining the crowd for a luncheon celebrating their achievement. Our congratulations and very best wishes to them all.

Caleb Bishop – Amity Regional High School Sam Burbank – Hotchkiss School Jay Coburn – Sacred Heart Academy Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy – Choate Rosemary Hall Max Hauser – The Morgan School Harrison Lapides – Choate Rosemary Hall Conor Marlatt – Choate Rosemary Hall Olivia Matthes Theriault – Choate Rosemary Hall Nick McCabe – Hamden High School Cassidy McCarns – Branford High School Mia Reid – Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School Max Sbriglio – The Loomis Chaffee School Ian Shaw – Mark T. Sheehan High School Peyton Swift – The Taft School Dale Wongwiwat – Hamden Hall Country Day School Aléc Zemborain – Choate Rosemary Hall Mikel Zemborain – Choate Rosemary Hall Bryan Zhou – Choate Rosemary Hall

Max Sbriglio ’12, who was Falco during the 2011-12 school year

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Mia Reid ’12 with her mother, Michelle Turner

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Foote 2012 Commencement

By Andy Marlatt I am truly honored to be able to speak at Foote today. In fact, I’m not often asked to give commencement speeches. Comedy writers seldom are.

Over the course of the next few minutes, you will, I feel confident, understand why.

In trying to find a meaningful, inspiring theme for you today, I asked quite a few people if they remember what was said at their own commencements from high school and college, what the speaker’s message was. Few of them remembered anything. It’s not because the speaker didn’t have an important message to impart. They did. Probably. I don’t remember.

And the reason no one remembers is, on the day you graduate, the commencement speaker isn’t the most important person in your life. The most important person is you. You did the work. You finished. You’re graduating. So what I realized is, if I’m going to find a message with any real meaning for you, it can’t come from me. It has to come from you.

Fortunately, I found one.

I’m going to read you a quote from you, the ninth grade Foote School graduating class of 2012. Although it exemplifies who you are and hints at what you hope to be, you won’t recognize it because you’ve never heard it before, never actually said it before, because it’s a message I found hidden in an anagram built solely using your 19 first names and that of your school.

A secret message from yourselves, to yourselves. And so Sam Caleb Jay Meera Juliette Harrison Conor Olivia Nicholas Cassidy Mia Peyton Alec Bryan Mikel Dale Ian Max (andtheother) Max, here it is: 14

— All hail the cosmic canary, amber avian spirit, jolly, heroic Dalai Lama of the sky. Join ye a hobo dentist cult, and Xerox not a moose. Arm cheese.

E. Amen.”

I know. Inspiring, right? And just the kind of thing these kids would come up with. Honestly you guys. Of course, you totally get it, (right?).

But because there are parents here, who don’t understand how your generation thinks, I’ll go ahead and decrypt it for their benefit.

We’ll start with the beginning: All hail — A simple opening really. You’re saying celebrate, praise yourselves.

You’ve worked hard in your time here. Take a bow. You deserve it. It’s either that or you’re sending yourselves a note on a potentially dangerous weather condition.

Next is the cosmic canary — your meaning here is lovely: embrace the free spirit in you and soar like a bird, following your heart. This, I think, really speaks to who you have become.

Now I’ve known some of you since the mixed-age years and seen you all grow and change. Yes, some of your friends have already left, and those of you still here I don’t often see. I mean Sam, we never hang out anymore.

Dude. (Call me.) But having seen other ninth graders here, I can state that you are a remarkably impressive, unified crew. Compassionate, intelligent, supportive. You really seem to care for one another. Like a flock of canaries would at Foote. If they could go to Foote. Which they can’t. The doors are too heavy for their little beaks.

Of course a flock is made up of individuals, and while I can’t claim to know

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you all well, I have picked up a few things. I’ve been watching you. Which OK, sounds creepy… But what I mean is, I know little things, like I know that Caleb likes corny jokes and Juliette and Conor can really sing and Cassidy likes acting and Max S. should go into acting and Meera and Olivia are excellent at purposefully dancing horribly and Mia and Harrison have this strange debate over whether the plural of moose is moose or meese and Bryan should not be left alone with power tools and Mikel and Aléc can argue with each other fluently in at least three languages. I did not know Harrison could rap. That was… unsettling.

That poetry cabaret reminded me, however, that there was much more to you than any of us could guess.

I didn’t know that Peyton and Jay could express themselves so well, that Ian and Sam could do pratfalls, that Nick and Max H. can do tenacious and silly simultaneously. And Dale.

I don’t know what to feel more: impressed by your writing or frightened that I might accidentally honk a horn in your presence.

In other words, you’re saying you aren’t just canaries. You’re cosmic. I mean, some of you are really out there.

Amber avian spirit — Amber is a color. Colors are nice. It could be that?

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No? OK, probably you’re telling all of us that just as canaries can be yellow or green or brown, you all come from different colors, different races and backgrounds, and you appreciate that.

You’ve embraced that spirit. As Peyton would have said in her poem the other night, if she were talking about avians, color doesn’t make the canary. As you move on to high school and beyond, you’re encouraging yourself: Don’t see color. See the canary underneath each of you.

Jolly — I like this. You’re saying, ‘Let’s just be happy.’ That’s not always easy, especially in high school, which can be depressing, degrading, and demoralizing.

Well, it was for me. But you’ll be fine.

Whatever.

Heroic — This means be brave, right?

As I’ve said, you’ve already shown this.

You’re willing to take risks. In the poetry cabaret. By heading off to China.

So here, with this single word, you are counseling yourselves that sometimes you have to go for it, just jump without looking. Although being canaries, you can fly, so when you jump there’s not as much risk. Which would kind of be cheating.… I’m not sure you thought this part of the message through.

Dalai Lama of the Sky — Two possibilities here. One, be a messenger of peace and goodwill, like the Tibetan Dalai Lama. When the Chinese teacher Wang Manchun stayed with us last fall, we spoke about the Dalai Lama. Wang Manchun was surprised to learn that he was revered around the world. In China, officially, the Dalai Lama is a bad guy. But Wang Manchun learned that the DL is a peace-loving person, and that broke down a barrier for Wang Manchun.

You all have that ability. In some sense you’ve already done it, both in traveling to China and welcoming their students. So you’re telling yourSummer/Fall 2012

selves here to keep doing that, to break down barriers between peoples by using love and understanding.

The other possibility is the Dalai Lama is old and bald and wears glasses, like me, so yeah, ha ha, very funny.

Join ye a hobo dentist cult — I’m really hoping this is a metaphor. You don’t mean to join a hobo dentist cult per se, right? They’re probably not sanitary.

What I think you’re saying is do be willing to try something new, maybe even strange, impractical, unpopular.

That approach to life is going to be important in high school, a place where it’s easy, or at least less risky, to conform and lose who you are. Parents sometimes forget the pressures high schoolers are under, but it’s a place where too often you give in, where you say ‘No’ when you should say ‘Yes,’ and you say ‘Yes’ when you definitely, absolutely should say ‘No.’ And then you make it worse by posting a picture of what you said Yes to on Facebook.

Hobo dentists of course don’t have Facebook accounts. They’re hoboes.

And there’s no Wi-Fi on freight trains.

So in that sense you’re reminding yourselves not to post everything you do on Facebook. Kinda roundabout logic, but I like it.

Xerox not a moose — I guess because that would be stupid? Although if you did, I wouldn’t mind seeing that on Facebook.

Or here you could be offering another metaphor, urging yourselves to protect the environment. Your predecessors haven’t done well with that. We’ve let industry and technology take precedence over wildlife. In other words, we’ve Xeroxed a lot of mooses.

Moose. Meese. And a Xeroxed moose is not a real moose. It’s just a picture of a moose. You’re warning us that if we aren’t better stewards of this planet, pictures is all we’ll have left of

moose… es. And really, you can’t get much of the moose on a copier anyway. Just the back end if you’re lucky.

So what you’re saying is, if we don’t save what we have, all we’ll have left is moose butts.

Arm cheese — Remember to shower regularly? That’s all I got.

The single letter E — This was by far your most complex point. Obviously.

This lone E says, ‘Follow your heart.

Be willing to stand alone if you have to.’ It also reminds you to be inclusive.

After all, this was an extraneous E. Unnecessary. Useless. But not forgotten.

You included it even though it didn’t appear to have a place. Because you look upon everyone as Equal, with a capital E. Lastly, as you clearly know, the bells in the clock tower at Westminster in London are tuned to the key of E, and London will host the Olympics this summer, where all the world will come together in a rare moment of inclusiveness, even the small, unloved, oft-forgotten nation of Estonia.

Personally I think you kind of stretched for that one, but I appreciate the effort.

Amen — I think this is your way of saying, ‘Please Mr. Marlatt, stop now.

That’s enough. We really want to get out of here.’ I think we all hear that message.

And so in conclusion graduates, as each of you leave here today, bravely soaring into a jolly, peaceful Tibetan future, one where you will appreciate color but not judge by it, and where you will resist the temptation to photocopy the back ends of large woodland creatures, remember this: always stay in touch with your inner hobo dentist.

Who has hopefully showered first.

All hail the Foote School class of 2012. All hail the cosmic canaries!

Arm cheese. E. Amen.

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Eighth Grade Recognition Day

The Class of 2013 as they completed eighth grade

The baton was passed several times during Eighth Grade Recognition Day, as successors were named to lead Foote’s numerous clubs and activities.

Honors were bestowed as well at the ceremony, led by Student Council President Peyton Swift on Tuesday, June 12, in the Hosley Gymnasium.

Caldwell, announced that the Eighth Grade Parents Farewell Gift would help equip the eighth grade homerooms in the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building.

Peyton announced that this year’s Student Council Gift, $500, would be given to the Diaper Bank, a non-profit organization founded by Foote parent Joanne Goldblum that raises money to purchase and distribute free diapers to needy Connecticut residents through 66 agencies such as soup kitchens and shelters.

The Eighth Grade Athletic Achievement Awards are given to students who have demonstrated throughout the year high levels of skill, sportsmanship, leadership, spirit and effort. The girls’ athletic awards, presented by Humanities Department Co-Chair Sheila Lavey, was given to Helena Butler and Isabelle Lent. The boys’ award was given by fourth grade teacher John Climie to Jared Milazzo.

Peyton also announced that the 2012– 13 Student Council president would be Sherman Goldblum. (See box on right for a complete list of 2012–13 student leadership positions.)

Heidi Hamilton, the mother of Omari

Science Department Co-Chair Leslie Long presented the Eighth Grade Academic Prize, given this year to two students, Ariel Feinstein and Olivia Podos, with the highest achievement grade averages for the entire eighth

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grade year. Honorable mentions were given to Helena Butler, Ethan Della Roca, and Lilli Gibson.

Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy and Conor Marlatt, the editors of Footenotes, the school’s literary magazine, announced that this year’s issue was dedicated to fifth grade teacher Adam Solomon. In a similar vein, Josie Lee and Mia Reid, the editors of Foote Steps, Foote’s yearbook, announced that the 2012 issue was dedicated to three longtime Foote teachers who were retiring, Lisa Totman, Patty Chamberlain, and Nancy Worms.

Head of School Carol Maoz, Head of Middle School John Turner, and Assistant Head of Middle School Liam Considine presented each departing eighth grader with a Foote School certificate.

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Eighth Graders will attend the following schools: Christoph Bagley – the Foote School Charlotte Beebe – the Foote School Yael Braverman – amity high School Rachel Brennan – the Foote School Lawrence Buhl – the Foote School helena Butler – Choate Rosemary hall Sasha Cadariu – the Foote School Logan Calderone – hamden hall omari Caldwell – hopkins School Caitlin Chiocchio – the Foote School abigail Clarke – the Foote School Ella Cowan de Wolf – the Foote School Ethan della Rocca- Choate Rosemary hall anna diffley – Choate Rosemary hall Natalie diMario – the Foote School Eliza dunham – the taft School ian dunning – the Foote School Mateusz dziuda – the Foote School Sara Feinstein – Choate Rosemary hall ariel Feinstein – Choate Rosemary hall Lilli Gibson – Choate Rosemary hall Joseph Gillis – the holderness School Sherman Goldblum – the Foote School Erika von Graevenitz – Cushing academy Shafton haley – the Foote School John harbinson – amity high School Justine hooks – the Foote School Edward Kennedy – Choate Rosemary hall Chandler hutcherson – the Foote School andrew Jordan – the Foote School Nathaniel Kerman – Choate Rosemary hall healy Knight – deerfield academy anna Lemert – the Foote School Josie Lee – Choate Rosemary hall isabelle Lent – the Foote School tamir March – the Foote School Julian Markese – hopkins School

Leadership Roles for the 2012–13 School Year NiNth GRadE PRESidENt Jared Milazzo StudENt CouNCiL PRESidENt Sherman Goldblum

A heartfelt goodbye Catherine Martin – the Foote School Carson McCarns – the Foote School dylan Miko – the Foote School Jared Milazzo – the Foote School Shelby olivieri – the Foote School ian ono-Gerow – the Foote School Nicholas Palumbo – the Foote School olivia Podos – Choate Rosemary hall Griffin alan Price – Westminster School alexandra Rokhlin – hamden hall Leila Sachner – the Foote School N’dasia Smith – the Foote School Caroline Soper – the Foote School Preston Stump – hopkins School theodore vlock – hopkins School George Wildridge – the Foote School Emma Weiss – hopkins School dominique Williams – the Foote School Benjamin Wishnie-Edwards – Choate Rosemary hall anika Zetterberg – the Foote School

aMNEStY iNtERNatioNaL isabelle Lent, head Marcello de La Mora, assistant head ChiNa aMBaSSadoRS Katie Martin Matt dziuda ChoRuS Lily James, Elena Levin CoMMuNitY SERviCE Leila Sachner, Nathan Chang, Natalie Muskin, amelia o’Keefe ENviRoNMENtaL aCtioN GRouP John Koobatian F-StaNd anika Zetterberg JaZZ RoCK ENSEMBLE andrew Jordan, John Koobatian ModEL CoNGRESS Jared Milazzo, Rachel Brennan, Leila Sachner, Nick Palumbo, Matt dziuda, George Wildridge, Katie Martin, dom Williams FootENotES LitERaRY MaGaZiNE Justine hooks FootE StEPS YEaRBooK Lily James, Jared Milazzo SPi holden turner

Helena Butler awaits her cue.

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Ariel Feinstein and Olivia Podos accept their prizes from science teacher Leslie Long

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Accolades 2012 Congratulations to members of the Foote School student body who have received awards and recognitions.

GRADUATION AND EIGHTH GRADE RECOGNITION The Foote School Prize Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy Ninth Grade Academic Award Meera Dhodapkar Eighth Grade Academic Award Ariel Feinstein, Olivia Podos Honorable Mention: Helena Butler, Ethan Della Rocca, Lilli Gibson Jean B. Shepler Fine Arts Prize Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, Bryan Zhou Ninth Grade Athletic Awards Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, Conor Marlatt

AMERICAN MATHEMATICS CONTEST Sponsored by the Mathematics Association of America (grades 6, 7, 8) The Foote School received a certificate of achievement for scoring a total of 50 points or more.

Daniel Zanuttini-Frank was the overall school winner for the contest.

Honor Roll (represents the top 5 percent of more than 2,300 competing U.S. schools and schools abroad) Daniel Zanuttini-Frank – sixth grade Alyssa Zhou – seventh grade Dominique Williams – eighth grade Certificates of Achievement (awarded to students in sixth grade or below for a score greater than 15) Daniel Zanuttini-Frank, Jonah Berman, William Rosenbluth

Eighth Grade Athletic Awards Helena Butler, Isabelle Lent, Jared Milazzo

Sixth Grade Daniel Zanuttini-Frank, first place Jonah Berman, second place William Rosenbluth, third place

CONTINENTAL MATHEMATICS LEAGUE (Ninth Grade level mathematics)

Seventh Grade Alyssa Zhou, first place Holden Turner, second place Claudia Horvath-Diano, third place

The Foote School Team placed first regionally.

Team members: Caleb Bishop, Meera Dhodapkar, Max Hauser, Harrison Lapides, Conor Marlatt, Olivia Matthes Theriault, Nicolas McCabe, Ian Shaw, Peyton Swift, Aléc Zemborain, Mikel Zemborain, Bryan Zhou

Eighth Grade Dominique Williams, first place Olivia Podos, second place Ian Ono-Gerow, Anika Zetterberg, third place

Meera Dhodopkar placed first individually in the region.

Max Hauser and Bryan Zhou were recognized for achievement.

Eighth Grade Team The Foote team placed third regionally.

Olivia Podos placed fourth regionally.

Team members: Lilli Gibson, Ian Ono-Gerow, Olivia Podos, Preston Stump, Dominique Williams

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NEW ENGLAND MATHEMATICS LEAGUE

Seventh Grade Team The team placed third in the region and 27th in a field of 128 schools.

Alyssa Zhou placed fourth regionally.

Team members: Nathaniel Bogardus, Daniel Kuriakose, Virginia Stanley, Annika Swift, Holden Turner, Alyssa Zhou Sixth Grade Team The team placed second in the New Haven region and 25th overall in a field of 131 schools. Sarah Zhao placed second regionally; Daniel Zanuttini-Frank placed third regionally.

Team members: Jonah Berman, Jackson Haile, Julianna Hellerman, William Rosenbluth, Daniel Zanuttini-Frank, Sarah Zhao MODEL CONGRESS AWARDS Held at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Model Congress included 200 middle school students from 13 independent schools.

Fourteen of 18 legislative bills presented by Foote students passed in their respective committees. One Foote School bill was selected for debate in full committee session in the afternoon. The bill, “An Act to Legalize Euthanasia in All Fifty States,” presented by seventh graders Nico Kenn de Balinthazy and Rody Conway, was selected for full session and subsequently passed.

Honorable Mentions for Best Legislator: Eighth Grade: Katie Martin, Jared Milazzo, Dominique Williams Ninth Grade: Meera Dhodapkar, Max Sbriglio, Mikel Zemborain Golden Gavel Award for Best Legislator: Anna Diffley

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NATIONAL LATIN EXAM This comprehensive exam consisting of 40 questions covering vocabulary and grammar, history and civilization, mythology, English derivatives, and reading comprehension is given to students throughout the United States and in several foreign countries.

Ninth Grade Gold Medal and Summa Cum Laude Meera Dhodapkar Magna Cum Laude Peyton Swift Bryan Zhou Eighth Grade Gold Medal and Summa Cum Laude Ariel Feinstein Olivia Podos Silver Medal and Maxima Cum Laude Omari Caldwell Caitlin Chiocchio Ethan Della Rocca Natalie DiMario Sara Feinstein Lilli Gibson Nat Kerman Healy Knight Dominique Williams Magna Cum Laude Yael Braverman Helena Butler Matt Dziuda Josie Lee Ian Ono-Gerow Leila Sachner Anika Zetterberg Cum Laude Carson McCarns Dylan Miko Jared Milazzo Preston Stump

Seventh Grade Introduction to Latin certificates Certificate of Achievement and a ribbon Nathan Chang John Koobatian Virginia Stanley Annika Swift Sasha Valone Alyssa Zhou Certificate of Achievement Robin Armour Nate Bogardus Ben Barton Rody Conway Tommy Craft James Deakin Marcelo De La Mora Patrick Gallagher Claudia Horvath-Diano Henry Jacob Elena Levin Anees Patwa Simon Schaefer Tim Tompkins Holden Turner Sofie Weiss CT COUNCIL OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS POETRY RECITATION CONTEST More than 750 students from 74 schools in Connecticut competed in the event. Foote students won a first, second, or third place medal in every one of the 12 categories in which they were entered.

Seventh Grade French, High School 1 Nico Kenn de Balinthazy, first place Spanish, High School 1 Claudia Horvath-Diano, second place Latin, Middle School 1 Logan Knight, first place

Meera Dhodapkar accepting the Ninth Grade Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Eighth Grade French, High School 2 Teddy Kennedy, second place Spanish, High School 2 Abby Clarke, second place Latin, Middle School 2 Caitlin Chiocchio, first place Ninth Grade Latin, High School 1 Cassidy McCarns, first place Latin, High School 2 Meera Dhodapkar, third place Spanish, High School 3 Meera Dhodapkar, second place French, High School 3 Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, second place Native Chinese, High School Bryan Zhou, third place

MAROON AND GREY AWARD (Field Day Winner) Grey team: Captains Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy and Mikel Zemborain

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A Year of Growth and Excellence Board of Directors Update This has been an exciting and extremely productive year at The Foote School! On behalf of the Board, I am happy to report that the school remains in strong financial condition and continues to pursue its mission with vigor. Enrollment and annual giving have remained very healthy, allowing the school to meet its programmatic goals. The capital campaign, Imagine Our Future, reached its $12 million goal in mid-June, and the new Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building is open for classes!

and subsequent creation of a full-size playing field there, • construction of a new science/ technology building • renovation of the Middle School building.

The new building truly transforms our Middle School, adding 19 percent to the school’s square footage and providing homeroom areas for the eighth and ninth grades. It also provides three new science labs, a technology center, and classrooms Foote urgently needed.

The Board’s Education Committee, which includes faculty and staff as well as Board members, was involved in the school-wide self-study effort, and will meet with the Visiting Accreditation Committee in October.

We will take pride in presenting Foote to the Visiting Committee and look forward to its report.

The Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building, the Middle School Building and the North Building form three sides of a courtyard that now bustles with students and teachers. And I know many parents and teachers share my pleasure in seeing that the recess field for the Middle School is once again a big, grassy area. The students will enjoy that outdoor space at recess each day!

The former Middle School technology and science labs have been refurbished to provide significant improvements: a Lower School Science Discovery Room, a Lower School World Languages Classroom, and an expanded and thoughtfully designed Learning Support Center.

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With the playing field and the new building now in daily use, the Building and Grounds Committee has turned its focus to the renovation of the Middle School building. An initial step was taken during the summer when the building’s electrical systems were upgraded.

The Nominating Committee identified new Board members to fill the positions of those who have completed their terms. We are fortunate that the Foote School community includes so many individuals who are able — and willing!

— to offer valuable experience, perspective, and skills in support of the school. The newest Board members, elected at the Annual Meeting of the Foote School Association on May 14, are introduced on the following page.

Led by the Governance Committee, the Board also provided feedback to Head of School Carol Maoz and assessed the Board’s effectiveness in its role.

As I pass the responsibilities of Board President to Richard Bershtein, I am grateful to him and to the Board for its dedicated work on behalf of The Foote School.

In Appreciation Foote’s Board of Directors evolves each year. At the Association’s Annual Meeting in May, the Board thanked six departing members for their dedicated service: HeIDI HAMIlton served for almost seven years and took an active role in fundraising for the Annual Fund as a class captain. She will be remembered for her eloquent remarks on the capital campaign video and her constructive questions at Board meetings. lIBBy PeArD served on the Board for two years as PtC co-president and, after a year off the Board, was elected to a four-year term. She served as president for those four years and one year as immediate past president, always with a steady presence and a facility for communicating to all constituencies.

SID BogArDuS served on the Board for eight years, taking an active role on the nominating Committee and chairing the Development Committee and the capital campaign. the consummate loyal director, MelAnIe gInter rarely missed a meeting in the 10 years she served on the Board. She always stepped up, serving as the Board secretary, on the executive Committee, as chair of the Building and grounds Committee, and as co-chair of the Building Committee.

She’s been an effective leader of facilities planning and also served as a valuable link to the neighborhood. MAry Hu, who has served for seven years, has taken a leading role on matters to do with education and has overseen the transformation of the education Committee. Mary kept the Board focused on the core educational mission center of the school and the perspective of faculty. CHeryl nADzAM co-chaired the PtC for two years and served on the Board during that time.

Her energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the school provide an amazing model to all of us.

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Meet the New Members of the Board of Directors

Richard Lee is the managing director of OR&L Commercial, a regional commercial real estate and development firm he founded more than 20 years ago. Over the years he has been a member of many local and national boards, both charitable and business related, and currently sits on the Greater New Haven Goodwill EasterSeals Board. A graduate of the University of Vermont with a bachelor's degree in Economics, Rich is an avid skier, golfer and biker. Rich served on the Building Committee for the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building. He lives in Madison with his wife Amy and their daughters, Ally, a freshman at George Washington University, Josie, a ninth grader at Choate, and Foote student Charlie, in MAG.

Yanyun Wu is an associate professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She was born and raised in China. Yan was on the school board for the Southern Connecticut Chinese School and is also a member of the Woodbridge Summer/Fall 2012

Board of Education and that Board's finance committee, and the American Society for Apheresis. She has taken a leadership role in Foote’s Chinese New Year celebration and has attended one of the delegation dinners, serving as translator between Carol Maoz and the Yali Principal.

Yan and her husband, Yi Zhou, have been Foote parents since September 2009. Their son Bryan graduated from ninth grade in June and is attending Choate; their daughter Alyssa is in eighth grade at Foote.

Kiran Zaman, originally from Pakistan, grew up in South Carolina.

Her family returned to Pakistan when she was 14 years old. She acquired her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and French and her master’s in Fine Arts, from Punjab University. She was professor of Modern Art at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University in Rawalpindi, and she taught French for several years at the Alliance Française in Rawalpindi. Kiran’s paintings have been exhibited and sold in many solo and group exhibitions. Apart from her career as an artist and teacher, she played the lead role in three Pakistani TV drama series. Upon returning to the United States in 2001, she relocated to New Haven where she taught French at Helene Grant School and the Yeshiva High School. She designed a curriculum at Helene Grant using art to teach French to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. She also was the manager and an educator

at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden. Kiran and her husband, Sabooh S. Mubbashar, live in Woodbridge with their three children. Both sons are Foote students; Eesa is in third grade and Ehsaan is in MAG. Their daughter Yasmeena attends preschool in New Haven. Kiran is currently enrolled at Wesleyan University in the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program.

Jaime Cole is co-president of the Parent Teacher Council. She grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut and lived in Chicago for several years while she attended The John Marshall Law School and her husband attended medical school. She was a lead articles editor of the John Marshall Law Review and afterward practiced law at a Chicago firm for nearly five years before returning to Connecticut. Her practice concentrated in labor and employment law and construction law. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of New Haven where she teaches courses in Equality and Employment Law. Of particular interest in her teaching are issues of equality in education. Jaime lives in North Haven with her husband Shawn, a Veterans Administration physician, and their children Nolan, a second grader at Foote, and daughter Mirabel who attends preschool in New Haven.

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Field Day Fun Competition between the maroon and the grey has a long history at Foote, and this year’s field day relays, tug-ofwars, and other feats of derring-do captured the same good-natured spirit of rivalry that has been a Foote trademark since the 1920s.

The Field Day parade was ably led, per tradition, by Foote mascot Falco (aka ninth grader Max Sbriglio) and the ninth graders rallied younger students to achieve their utmost, particularly in tug-of-war, where much energetic vocal encouragement was dispensed.

Kindergartners dove into their first Chicken Dance, the traditional warmup for the day, and grinning faces — and more than a few breathless competitors — were the final result.

Warming up with the Chicken Dance

The race is on!

The grey team pulls mightily in tug-of-war.

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Mastering the art of running and balancing

It isn’t easy, but it’s fun.

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May Day — Savoring the Tradition of Dance The celebration of May Day, which is held at the end of May at Foote, embraces the tradition of the ancient holiday if not the precise date. An astronomical event that falls approximately between a solstice and an equinox, it derives from the Celtic festival of Beltane, in which participants danced around fires, moving in the same direction as the sun as it crossed the sky.

At Foote, traditional dances such as the Maypole Dance, the Sleights Sword Dance of the ninth graders, and the Virginia Reel kept feet tapping and children large and small moving together to festive music.

Around and around the Maypole

Ready to dance

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Above: Kindergartners step by step. Top right photo: The ninth graders and the Sleights Sword dance

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News and Notes

Members of the Community Service group gathered in the spring to write letters and create care packages for soldiers serving in Afghanistan.

Community service Thrives at Foote Foote’s long history of community service manifested itself this year in numerous efforts that benefited nonprofit organizations. Those included the Cook and Care Walkathon, which spreads awareness and raises money to benefit the Community Soup Kitchen, Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, FISH of Greater New Haven, and Interfaith Volunteer Care Givers.

Another effort called Mountain of Warmth collected coats and sweaters for Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, which helps refugee families — who often come from countries with warm climates — prepare for New England winters. Community Service members also wrote letters of encouragement to soldiers in Afghanistan and held a food drive for organizations that distribute food to 24

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needy families. “These efforts help our kids become aware of the value of giving,” says Director of Admissions Laura Altshul, who with After School

Program Director Dawn Walsh advised the group. “It’s a very important part of their education to give back.”

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Of Poetry and Performance The Poetry Cabaret began in 1994, the year writer and poet Michael Milburn began teaching at Foote.

Bob Sandine, who taught ninth grade English at the time, devised the idea of combining poetry and performance.

With support from English Department Chair Allie Kubler and Head of School Jean Lamont, the Cabaret began with students memorizing and reciting poems that they had studied or written in English class. Over the years, it has grown to include musical performances, comedy and dramatic skits, dancing, fencing, and whatever a particular class or student wants to do that involves words, melody, or rhythm.

After the first few cabarets, Michael Milburn’s students began focusing on spoken word poetry, which now is the centerpiece of the program. Students choose material from poems studied in class or that they find on their own.

Many students collaborate.

Ninth graders Max Hauser, left, and Nicolas McCabe, performing at the Poetry Cabaret

A Feast for Foote This year’s Parent Teacher Council’s annual fund-raising auction, Feast for Foote, was one of the PTC’s most successful ever. Alum Bun Lai ’84 was honored with a certificate, a tree planted in his name on campus and with a proclamation from U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, which Bun promptly posted on his Facebook page.

A noted chef, environmentalist, and social activist, Bun Lai owns Miya’s Sushi in New Haven, supplying Miya’s with local sustainable seafood from 100 acres of shell-fishing grounds off Connecticut’s Thimble Islands. He also runs two fishing boats that serve as laboratories for sustainable seafood production. A sought-after speaker, he has been featured on the Food Network and in Food and Wine Magazine, Saveur, Prevention, and the New York Times.

Miya’s has won numerous awards for best sushi, best saké, and for being one of the healthiest restaurants in the United States.

Students spend a month working on the show during English classes.

Milburn tells his students that the Cabaret is essentially their last appearance as a grade in front of the school and their families — apart from graduation — and that they should pick material that they feel strongly about and feel expresses them individually and as a group.

Performances, powerful, emotional, sometimes groundbreaking, traditionally take place on the last Monday of the academic year, in the morning for middle school students and in the evening for ninth grade parents.

Feast for Foote honoree Bun Lai ’84

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PTC Co-Chairs Cheryl Nadzam and Nadine Koobatian redefined the word ‘tireless’ in their efforts to ensure a successful evening.

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Field Trips Help students Gain new perspectives Foote students take dozens of educational field trips each year.

A sprinkling of this year’s trips: The eighth grade traveled to Hyde Park, N.Y. to visit the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Sixth graders visited New York City to view places of worship from the Abrahamic religions, which they had been studying in humanities class.

Seventh and eighth graders attended a Long Wharf Theatre production of Chaim Potok’s best-selling book, “My Name is Asher Lev.” MAG students saw exotic animals close up at the Bronx Zoo. Kindergartners visited Common Ground High School and also traveled to the Peabody Museum of Natural History for the “Big Food” exhibit.

The jubilant sixth grade victors

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Yale graduate student Derek West speaks with Foote students during a field trip on the Salmon River in Colchester. West is a volunteer with a program that educates Connecticut schoolchildren about ecology.

Quiz Bowl Modeled after the original “College Quiz Bowl,” which first aired on radio stations with a competition between Columbia and Northwestern universities in 1953, Foote’s “Quiz Bowl” in May pitted sixth through ninth grade students against one another in good-natured contests of

knowledge — of both arcane subjects and popular culture — and wits. The final contest moderator Carol Maoz read questions to the teams, whose players buzzed in with the first correct answer. When the quizzing was done, the sixth graders had triumphed over their elders, emerging victorious over a quick-thinking and smart ninth grade team.

The ninth graders puzzle over a question.

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Traditions: Maple Syrup Making Making maple syrup requires several steps, all of which Foote students were able to witness in March. Business manager and former teacher Jay Cox, with his brother Pete, a member of the maintenance staff, coordinated Foote’s efforts. The pair grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, watching and eventually participating in the sugaring process.

Step 1: Tap the maple tree using a spigot and a bucket.

Step 2: Pour the sap into a heat-proof pan over a fire to reduce it. Stir every so often. Be very careful.

Step 3: Let reduced sap cool. Strain through cheesecloth into a stovepot. Watching closely, bring to a boil.

Step 4: Serve to eager kindergartners celebrating Pajama-Pancake Day.

Collecting the sap

A jug of Foote School maple syrup is filled.

Boiling the sap

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Around CAmpus

Sports Students from the middle school competed in girls softball, boys baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, and co-ed tennis, advancing school spirit, mastering the fine art of competition, and learning the value of teamwork.

The boys lacrosse team warms up

During tennis practice, reaching for a return

A rush toward goal for the girls lacrosse team

Contemplating the pitch

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Prime pitching form

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For Longtime Faculty, a Heartfelt Farewell

Patty Chamberlain during this year’s May Day celebration

Lisa Totman A third grade teacher and Foote School alumna who left Foote only for high school, college, and a few years with her daughters when they were young, Lisa’s passion for education served as a model for the Foote community. She began as a teacher in 1966 and built a reputation for her adherence to the school motto, “Gladly will I learn and gladly teach,” persistently pursuing new learning, research, and ideas. She was equally dogged in her commitment to understanding and appreciating each of her students — and advocating for them when necessary.

Known for her willingness to speak her mind, particularly in support of Foote’s mission and values, Lisa is the embodiment of a Foote School education: caring, curious, determined. Her influence continues to run through the core of Foote School.

Patty Chamberlain When Carol Maoz visited Foote immediately after being hired, Patty, the head of Lower School, asked her, “Is it OK to give you a hug?” Her fountain of affection always flowed forth, mixing with a special kind of magic, wisdom, and compassion. A longtime MAG teacher, she paid pennies for poems, played games with her students, and sang and laughed, her sense of wonder and humor a gracious and generous gift to Foote School. Her caring and commitment to Foote families is lengendary, and her modesty and openness a model for others.

Nancy Worms Warm, reassuring, and always welcoming, Nancy had a way of making children, parents, and colleagues feel valued. As a MAG teacher, she worked to understand each child as an individual, never assuming that because she had taught an older sibling that she knew the younger one. An exceptional listener, she possessed the gift of giving a child her full attention while tracking all the goings-on in the class, testament to many of her students’ belief that she had eyes in the back of her head.

Leslie Harshfield with her children, Jeremy Zuidema ’99 and Emma Zuidema ’01 at Jeremy’s wedding in Cape Cod, Mass.

Leslie Harshfield Longtime Foote language teacher Leslie Harshfield shone in her role as an advisor to seventh grade students, getting to know the children entrusted to her and counseling them wisely.

Her expectations of all her students were lofty, and her compassionate understanding of their challenges equally high.

She taught both lower and middle school over the years, was chair of the Language Department for two years, and successfully coordinated the ninth grade Peer Tutoring Program, part of the ninth grade community service effort.

Her children, Jeremy Zuidema '99 and Emma Zuidema '01, both attended Foote through ninth grade.

Windy Chen, a former third grade teacher at Foote, with retiring colleagues Nancy Worms and Lisa Totman, at a tea for retired and retiring faculty held on Reunion Day May 5.

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REPORT AROuNdOF CAmPuS GIVING

The Power of Community — Report from the Director of Development At the final meeting of the Capital Campaign Committee, Carol Maoz expressed feelings all of us on the committee share: we are moved and inspired by the amazing Foote School community — and deeply grateful to the many individuals who keep our school so strong.

The word community, of course, refers to a group, and our school community is a broad and diverse group, reaching back almost 100 years, across the city of New Haven and beyond, including students and former students, their families, their teachers and many friends of the school. But the stories that define our school community are, really, stories of individuals — and the choices they have made to support, to lead, to inspire, to give back.

Annual Fund Grows Foote faculty supported the Annual Fund in record numbers during the past year, owing largely to the leadership of Lisa Totman, who retired in June.

Highly regarded by her colleagues as a talented and dedicated teacher, she has long been devoted to supporting the school, every student, and her colleagues. This year many faculty contributions were accompanied by notes that they were given in Lisa’s honor.

Parents also set a record for participation in the Annual Fund, many inspired by challenge grants offered by Richard Bershtein, Board member and Annual Fund chair.

During the past two years, Rich has offered two challenges to double the impact of contributions and promised an additional $10,000 if parent participation exceeded 85 percent. A flurry of gifts just before the June 30 deadline allowed the school to earn that $10,000 grant. We saw once again the decisions of individuals working to maximize support for the school.

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During the past 5 years the rate of parent participation in the Annual Fund has nearly doubled. From 44 percent in 2008, it climbed to 87 percent in 2012.

Seen by many as a measure of the fiscal health of the school, the high rate of participation has sustained the Annual Fund, even during an economic recession and with the concurrent focus on the capital campaign.

Capital Campaign Success Here again, Foote’s success with an ambitious project is the result of the decisions of individuals, their generosity and their interest in sustaining the school’s strengths. In mid-June, two years after its public launch, contributions to Imagine Our Future surpassed the $12 million goal. By that time the purchase of 3.8 acres and the creation of a new playing field had been accomplished, and construction was nearing completion on the new building that will transform the Middle School.

A small Campaign Committee led by Sidney Bogardus and Board Chair Libby Peard worked with Carol Maoz and me to reach out to potential supporters. At every turn we were overwhelmed by enthusiasm about the school, the project and the plans. That positive reaction continued during the construction as the building began to take shape. For many, their memories of outstanding and influential teachers influenced the decision to support the project. Others emphasized the desire to give back to the school that had encouraged the love of learning in them or their children or grandchildren. Some were excited about what the new labs and classrooms could offer their own children and those who followed them. For some, their contribution was a meaningful way to honor a very special young man, whose life was too short. Those who knew

Jonathan say how much he would have loved this building!

An informal committee of past Foote parents played an important role in guiding the effort to reach out to Jonathan’s family and friends, including some who had no previous knowledge of Foote. The group was led by Janet Madigan, and included Maddy Baer, Nancy Lebov, June Sachs, and Carol Clay Wiske. It was their suggestion that we devise a way to permanently recognize all donors to the campaign, and the result was the “railing mailing” asking people how they would like their names listed on the ribbon of stainless steel that will be fitted into the wooden railings inside and around the building. As I write, the railing has not been installed, but we anticipate it will be in place this fall, and we plan to prepare an alphabetical directory to indicate the location of each of the 1,682 names.

On a personal note, it has been exciting and gratifying to be involved in this campaign. I am deeply grateful to the teachers who worked so wisely and generously with my own children, and continue to do so with each new group of new students. I appreciate the chance to work with colleagues who share my love of this special school.

I am inspired by what we can accomplish working together.

I struggle to find words that express our thanks well enough. I encourage you to visit Foote often and feel our heartfelt thanks as you observe the students and teachers who are learning and teaching — gladly! — each day.

With warm regards,

Ann Baker Pepe Director of Development Foote Prints

Gracious Gifts from Alumni Adorn the Milikowsky Building A Note from PTC Co-President Nadine Koobatian and Cheryl Nadzam: The PTC Contributes $65,000!

The Parent Teacher Council had a successful year of community-building and fundraising activities and was able to contribute $65,000 to enrich the educational experience of every student at Foote in the coming year. We are allocating the funds in the following ways: • $11,250 to grades and specials ($625 to each grade, and to the library, music, art, drama, and other subjects) • $1,000 for the Mixed Age Group field trip to the Bronx Zoo • $1,500 for the fourth grade trip to Camp Ingersoll • $2,500 for the fifth grade ecology program at Deer Lake • $500 to STARS (Schools Together for Arts ResourceS) • $500 to Footebridge • $1,600 for the library’s Summer Read Aloud program The PTC also contributed $10,000 to the Capital Campaign. This year, we also announced the gift of two trees to be planted on campus in honor of outgoing Lower School Head Patty Chamberlain and PTC auction honoree Bun Lai ’84.

We were happy to note that the aforementioned funding allocations left $36,000, which will be used toward the new playground for the Middle School field. It is particularly fitting that a PTC contribution will go toward a school playground!

Many thanks to all who contributed and who helped in so many ways this year.

Nadine Koobatian

Cheryl Nadzam

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Amy Caplan ’88 has worked in Foote’s Alumni/Development Office since 2006. She is in contact with alumni all over the country — and beyond — always seeking to build bridges between Foote and its alumni. This year her work has had some very tangible results. Inspired by the architecture of the new Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building, she thought how much more meaningful the building would be if decorated with furnishings from alumni.

The responses to Amy’s queries were immediate and enthusiastic. JOhN KeBABIAN ’69 contributed an 8’ x 10’ rug from his family’s store in New haven, America’s oldest Oriental rug importer. The maroon, black and ivory rug is wool on cotton, hand-knotted near Lahore, Pakistan. It adds warmth and elegance to the new conference room.

PeTer PAP ’68 offered a 9’ x 12’ Persian heriz Oriental rug — which he delivered to the school on Labor Day — which enlivens the ninth grade loft, a cozy gathering space for ninth graders on the second floor of the new building. Peter is the proprietor of Peter Pap Oriental rugs, an internationally respected firm with locations in San Francisco, New York, and Dublin, N.h. In the same space, a handcrafted live-edge cherry table, unique and sturdy, is a daily reminder of the beauty of sustainability and the intergenerational ties that characterize the Foote community. It is a gift from KerrY TrIFFIN ’58, owner of Fair haven Furniture, an alternative New haven home store that features one-of-a-kind furniture and imaginative gifts and accessories.

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REPORT AROuNdOF CAmPus GIVING

Donors The individuals listed below have made a contribution to the Foote School Annual Fund, an endowed fund, or the capital campaign, Imagine Our Future, during the period of the campaign, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012.

We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. Please contact the Development Office if you note any errors or omissions.

For the first time, we have indicated — with the symbol — those individuals who have contributed to Foote’s Annual Fund during all of the most recent five years.

THE HEAD’S CIRCLE ($50,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous (2) Apple Pickers Foundation Vernon Armour Chay & Richard Bershtein Julia & Sidney Bogardus Richard English ’49 * The Foote School Parent Teacher Council Joanne & David Goldblum Barbara & Leon Goldstein Rachel Lampert & Richard Goodwin ** Mady & Sandy Harman Betsy Henley-Cohn ’66 Pamela Hull Lissa Sugeng & Michael Krauss Melanie Ginter & John Lapides Cindy & David Leffell Alexandra Hokin & Glenn Levin ** Jane & Richard Levin ** Ruth Lord Lillian Garcia & Bruce Mandell Jennifer Milikowsky ’02 Matthew Milikowsky ’95 Sharon & Daniel Milikowsky Rebecca & Nathan Milikowsky Deborah & David Moore Mary J. P. Moore * Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff Jonathan Palumbo ’80 & Leslie Palumbo Anne Martin & John Pescatore Judith Chevalier & Steven Podos The Seedlings Foundation Smart Family Foundation, Inc.

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J. Irawan Sugeng Wendy Sharp & Dean Takahashi ** Gail Brekke Vlock & Jim Vlock

MARTHA BABCOCK FOOTE ASSOCIATES ($25,000–$49,999) Anonymous (1) The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation Kris Estes & Stephen Binder ’78 Faye & Andrew Brownfield Laurel & Orrie* Friedman Ann & Don Green Jessica & John Illuzzi Sarah Baird & Benjamin Kerman Meghan & George Knight Lisa & Philip Miller Kim & Ben* Morris Jeffrey Nordhaus ’82 Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Kathy & George Priest Lauren MacGregor & George Romanik Catherine & Robert Sbriglio Anne Wareck ’85 & Iain York

WINIFRED STURLEY ASSOCIATES ($10,000–$24,999) Anonymous (1) Martha & Jim Alexander Lucy & Gordon Ambach Anne & Gordon Armour Madeline & John Baer Rebecca & Shawn Banerji Carole & Arthur Broadus Amy & Lawrence Buhl Samuel P. Clement ’65 & Barbara Clement Emily & Lawrence Coassin Dody & Jay Cox The Cox Family Cristina Brunet & Joseph Craft Renée Perroncel & Neal DeLaurentis ** Eder Family Foundation Sarah & Wes Eder Sharon Oster & Ray Fair James Farnam ’65 & Marcy Stovall Kateri & Joseph Gillis Laura Goldblum Betsy & Len Grauer Margaret Clement Green ’61 Bonnie & Randy Harrison

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Coleen & Brett Hellerman Richmond Hosley ’61* Mary Hu & Jonathan Knisely Alison & Christopher Illick Avlin & Suguru Imaeda Kiki & Ted Kennedy Meghan & George Knight Elizabeth & David Lima Susan & Andrew Metrick Roslyn & Jerome Meyer Lisa Gray & Alan Organschi Claire Priest ’86 Carol & Stephen Ross Diane Palmeri & Albert Rossini Mary Garber-Saleh & Faisal Saleh The Howard Smith Family Margaret J. Smith ’77 Laura Davis & David Soper Happy Clement Spongberg ’60 Nathan Tyler ’84 Barbara Wareck Robert F. Wing ’53

H. EVERTON HOSLEY, JR. ASSOCIATES ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (1) The Anestis Family Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Wick Chambers ’62 & Susan Chambers Annie & Elias* Clark Laura & Fred Clarke James D. English ’46 Maxine Goldblum Beth & Matthew Harman Janet Madigan & Robert Harrity Bertil Hille ’54 & Merrill Hille Gretchen & Charlie Kingsley Brenna & Jeffrey Lent Laura Pappano & Thomas Lynch Lisa & Joseph MacDougald Carol & Michael Maoz Elizabeth & Matthew McCleery The Matthes Theriault Family Courtney Broadus ’84 & Christian Meyers Cheryl & Geoffrey Nadzam Angie Hurlbut & Andrew Nyhart Ann Baker Pepe & Gregory Pepe William Raccio Meg & Joseph Serino Bradlee H. Shattuck ’59 Claire & John Simon

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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Clarky & Jeff Sonnenfeld Marian & Howard* Spiro The Wildridge Family ** Lori & Robert Zyskowski **

Cary Twichell ’76 Nikki & Robert Udelsman Wareham Fund II of the Gloucester Community Foundation Nancy Close & Gene Winter

MARGARET BALLOU HITCHCOCK ASSOCIATES ($2,500–$4,999)

FRANK PERRINE ASSOCIATES ($1,000–$2,499)

Anonymous (4) Leila Hachicho & Ali Abu-Alfa Melinda Agsten The Astmann Family Antony Astmann ’73 Donna & Bill Batsford Serena Totman Bechtel ’84 & David Bechtel Ethel & Eric Berger ’58 Frederick Bohen Preston Brooks ’79 & Seeley Brooks Fay & Larry Buhl Anne Tyler Calabresi ’48 & Guido Calabresi '46 Joseph Camilleri, Jr. Sue & Dean Chang Christine & Vincent Chiocchio Joyce & Dan Chung Catherine Smith Cuthell ’68 Rachel Totman Davis ’86 & Jonathan Davis Bushie Estabrook Elizabeth & Niall Ferguson The Foote School Class of 2010 The Foote School Class of 2011 Marie Christine & Patrick Fourteau Elizabeth Harper Kent A. Healy ’46 Amy & Pat Iannuzzi Rory & David Jones Suzanne & Brooks Kelley Camille & Jon Koff Nadine & Greg Koobatian Neelima Kaushal & Paul Kuriakose Catherine Brooks Laing ’82 Philomena & John LaViola Phyllis Morra Cristina & Walter Oko Jorge Otero Rebecca Paugh Debra & Ted Schaffer Seymour L. Lustman Memorial Fund Musa Speranza & Joseph Shin Christi Moore & Craig Thompson Leland Torrence ’68 & Laura Torrence

Anonymous (6) Cecle & Josef Adler Bethany Schowalter Appleby ’82 & Nick Appleby Samuel Babbitt ’42 & Natalie Babbitt Kevin Baer ’83 Brent Baird Emily Barclay ’61 Anne & Herbert Barker Christine Wilmer Barkus ’69 Margaret Wilmer Bartlett ’58 Mary Warner & Mark Beebe Peggy McCarthy Berman & Barry Berman James Bigwood ’68 Grace & Jay Bright Nathaniel Brooks ’87 & Jessica Brooks Mary L. Bundy John Burbank ’79 Mary & Robert Burger Lisa Pfefferle & Kevin Burns Jonathan Bush Barbara Endres & William Butler Melanie Cameron Rita McDougald-Campbell & Leonard R. Campbell * Corinna & William Clendenen Marge & Gordon Cohen Eileen Moran & John Colberg Nancy Clayton & Brad Collins Glenn Conway Douglas Crowley ’55 & Roseline Crowley JoAnn Hong-Curtis & Jeptha Curtis Anna Huntington Deming ’35 Elizabeth Daley Draghi ’77 ** Eleanore W. Drury Betsey & Jack Dunham Dorota Knyszewska-Dziuda & Darius Dziuda Linda Lorimer & Charles Ellis Laura & James Erlacher Jeralyn Fantarella Susan & Stephen Farrell Lisa & Robert Fitch

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Understanding the Terms The AnnUAl FUnd supplements tuition income. Annual Fund dollars support program, faculty salaries, financial aid — virtually every part of the school’s operating budget.

Without the Annual Fund, Foote’s budget wouldn’t balance, and we would have to reduce offerings to our students or increase enrollment or tuition to make up the difference. As its name implies, the Annual Fund is an annual effort, starting in September and ending on June 30 each year. Parent volunteers reach out to encourage all parents to contribute. This is especially important because grant applications are strengthened when we can report high participation figures.

A cAPiTAl cAmPAign is a fundraising effort over several years to raise money to improve campus facilities or strengthen endowment. contributions are often multi-year pledges. A capital campaign allows the school to undertake significant capital improvements that could not be funded by the operating budget or the Annual Fund.

EndoWmEnT is critical to a healthy school. Endowed funds are invested with the goal of providing a stable, sustainable source of annual income. interest from endowed funds supports critical goals in perpetuity.

Foote’s current endowment of $8,100,000 provided $292,312 last year to support student scholarships, faculty professional development and other priorities. The national Association of independent Schools recommends that an independent school maintain endowment equal to it’s operating budget, which in 2011–12 at Foote was $11,098,550.

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REPORT ALUMNI OF GIVING

Edith & Stephen Flagg Barbara & Jeffrey Fletcher The Foote School Third Grade (2008–12) Susan Forster Francine & Chris Freeman Debbie & Bill Friedman Friends & families of “A Christmas Carol” Allyson & Patrick Gallagher Cheryl Chevis & Edwin Gerow ** Toddie & Chris Getman Denise & Mark Gibson Mariko Masuoka & William Goetzmann A. Reynolds Gordon ’47 Pamela Pond Goss ’45 The Gottlieb Family Shannon Callaway & Philip Haile Heidi Hamilton Debra & Jack Hauser Sabrina Diano & Tamas Horvath Sandy Allison & Jim Horwitz Eugenia Whitney Hotchkiss ’35 Nancy & Bob Hurlbut Jody Sindelar & Roger Ibbotson Cindy Kissin & John Jacobson Melissa & Priya Jamidar Holly Johnson ’81 Michael D. Johnson Sharon Lynn Kagan Nancy Ely Kales ’55 Shauna & Stephen King

Gail & Joseph Labadia Maxine Lampert Philomena and John LaViola Hannah Leckman Deborah Freedman & Ben Ledbetter Beverly Hodgson & John Leventhal Sheila Hayre & Pericles Lewis Mariel & Thomas Lewy Lynn Street & Donald Margulies Kristin Hawkins & Anthony Markese Amy Sherman & John McCarthy Dalton Cox McCurdy ’96 Marilyn & Roger Mentz York Miller ’64 Coleen Mills Cristina Baiocco & Giuseppe Moscarini New Haven Road Race The Niejelow Family Joanna Baumer Noble & Lawrence Noble Betty Lou Osborne Jeni Paolella ’95 & Karlyn Paolella Yong Kyu & In Duck Park Zehra & Huned Patwa Libby & Trevor Peard Jack Ciccolo & Sid Phillips Joan & Erik Pingoud Wendy & Daniel Price Mary & Stephen Rinaldi Kerry & Raymond Russell Anne Sa'adah ’69

Students Contributed Coins to Help Finish the New Building Foote held an All School Coin Drive during the month of May so students could contribute to finishing the new building.

Jars were placed in every classroom, and a bulletin board at the Front Desk displayed class results each week.

The Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building will have the name of every student enrolled during the 2011–12 school year engraved on the railing.

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** Matching Gift Program Participants

Patricia Reilly & Peter Sachner Naomi & Shin Sakurabayashi LaShawn Jefferson & Nicholas Sambanis ** Robert D. Sandine Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin & Mohit Sarin Margaret & Robert Sbriglio Belinda Chan & Peter Schott Tanina Rostain & Richard Schottenfeld Lynne & Mark Schpero Peter Setlow ’57 Mary Sanders & Mark Shifman The Shin Family Jane Shipp Barbara & Robert Siitonen Harriet Goodman & the Singer Family ** Laura & Gary Sklaver Carolyn & Clifford Slayman Deborah Blaisdell & Ray Snowdon Margie & Alan Starensier Cathya Wing Stephenson ’51 Susan Swords Stevens ’62 Dorothy Stubbe & John Thomas Kelly Udelsman ’08 Herra & Marian Vulpe John Wareck ’84 André Warner ’98 Harry Welch ’42 & Betsy Welch Ana & Steven White Betty & Jim Whitney Elizabeth & Steven Wilkinson Carol Clay Wiske & Prescott Wiske Caroline Hendel & John Wysolmerski Sylvia Thayer & Philip Zaeder Pat & John Zandy Yanyun Wu & Yi Zhou

SUSAN O. BISHOP ASSOCIATES ($500–$999) Anonymous (12) Carmela Abbenante Sumiya Khan & Ather Ali Will Amatruda ’56 Nancy & Rick Antle Mary B. Arnstein Asefeh Heiat & Masoud Azodi Constance Bagley Joanne & Paul Bailey Lotte & Bernard Bailyn Rebecca Tannenbaum & Charles Bailyn

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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Marci & David Baxter Richard Bell Joan & John Benevento Marilyn & Richard Berger Jill London & Emanuel Berk Tashi & Tsondru Bhutia Joan Bigwood ’75 Sol Birenbaum Peter Bluhm ’54 Grace Hammond Boss '66 Elizabeth Bradburn-Assoian ’69 Elizabeth Brochin Rabbi & Mrs. Herbert Brockman Linda & Art Brody Elizabeth Gibson Burbank ’80 Massimo Calabresi ’82 August Calderone ** Bette & Joe Camilleri Marc Caputo Caren & Tom Carpenter Christine Barker & Claude Carlier Suzanne Jackson Cartier ’52 Mary Ann Casey ’52 Kathy Hirata Chin '67 & Denny Chin Dina Mayzlin & Aaron Cohen Larry & Jane Cohen Jill Lacy & David Coleman Mary Beth & Robert Congdon Beth & Alex Curtis Ning Wei & Xing Wang Deng Mercedes & Juan de la Mora Milton DeVane ’42* & Margaret DeVane Marti Cowan & Gary deWolf Sheree & David DiMario Lee Dunham ’55 Kris & Viji Erodula Polly & Andy Fiddler Anne Camp & John Flanders Daniel Fleschner ’94 The Foote School Student Council The Foote School Summer Theater Program Alan Frane Raffaella Zanuttini & Robert Frank Friends & families of “You Can’t Take it With You” France Galerneau Mr. & Mrs. Richard Galley Kathy Park & Scott Gettinger Susan Baserga & Peter Glazer Jenny Chan & Jonathan Goldstein

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Elizabeth Reeves Goodspeed ’36 Julia Coley & Jerry Goren Anne Brooks Gwaltney ’72 F Tracy & Eric Hanson Dorothea & Robert Harper-Mangels Daran & William Haug Richard* & Linda Hegel* Ann C. Twichell Hendrie William Henning ’60 Miriam Berkman & Brett Hill David I. Hitchcock ’42 John T.R. Holder ’76 Doreen & Donald Hudson Carmen & Raymond Ippolito Herrick Jackson ’54 Kim Bohen & Douglas S. James Dawn & David Jardini Stephanie & Jacob Jarvis Miriam & Jeff Jennings Anna Miles Jones ’41 Joan & Frank Kenna Amy Justice & Joseph King Janice & John Kirby Bun-Sui Lai ’84 Mie Lai ’91 Ted Lai ’87 & Elizabeth Tomecek Mislal Andom & Michael Lake Campbell Langdon ’76 Nancy & Philip Lebov Amy Starensier & J. Richard Lee Fran Levin Jonathan Levin ’87 & Amy Levin Janet & Robert Lewis Curly & Sandy Lieber Peter Lin ’63 Andrew Lustman ’98 Rakhee & Bhupesh Mangla Nancy & Hugh Manke AF Joseph Matthew, Jr. Nancy Meyer-Lustman Perry L. Miller ’58 & Sandra J. Frawley John Mills Alexandra Moellmann ’82 Elizabeth & David Monz Barbara & Bill Nordhaus Maureen & James Nowak Elaine Nye Nina Nyhart Judy & Kevin O’Hare The O’Keefe Family Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’60 Beverly Gage & Daniel Perkins Laura & Frank Perrine

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Juliana Priest ’94 Andrea & Klaus Radebold D. Ellen Shuman & Douglas Rae Eliot Righter Ramos ’78 Douglas Reigeluth ’66 David Riccio Claire Richards ’76 The James Righter Family Mark Righter ’80 Rossitza Lazova & Kenneth Robinson Joanne Saccio Menaka Sachdev ’10 Monisha Sachdev ’05 Usha Pasi & Subir Sachdev Christin & Ben Sandweiss Allyx Schiavone ’85 The Schneider Family Phyllis & William Scott Pauline Vietor Sheehan ’61 Susan & Linfield Simon Ellen & Derek Smith Roger K. Smith ’75 Mary Stevens ’63 & John Akin Diana T. Stovall Phoebe & Tom Styron Nina Horowitz & Richard Sussman Manish & Suman Tandon The Tendler Family Yesook Kim & Yin-Chao Tseng ** Diane Turner The William & Nancy Turner Foundation Victor M. Tyler II ’42 Lynne & Ralph Valentine Beth Merkin & Michael J. Van Leesten Alexander Vietor ’64 Jill Barron & Manuel Vintimilla Sandra Vlock ’70 & Glenn Arbonies Christine Wallich ’66 Peter Walts ’85 Elizabeth Welles Thomas Whitney ’95 & Carolina Whitney-Riquelme C. Lawson Willard ’47 ** Amy Mulligan Wilson ’85 Susan & Harold Wood Loli Wu ’82 ** Brian Wysolmerski ’07 Michael Wysolmerski ’05 Jennifer & Christopher Young Ning Sun & Hongyu Zhao

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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FOOTE FRIENDS ($250–$499) Anonymous (16) Nana Adae ** Barbara Kinder & Joe Adams Anne & Nick Afragola Suzanne & Jason Alderman Hattie & Willard Allen Lisa DeLima & Bobby Alter Jan & Bob Anestis Jennifer & William Aniskovich Katharine Arnstein ’63 Kate Bigwood Atkinson ’70 Tracy & Alexander Babbidge ’78 The Badrigian Family Elizabeth Caputo Bashawaty ’87 & Albert Bashawaty Ruth & Bernard Beitel Sarah Netter Boone ’89 & Andrew Boone James Boorsch ’47 Thompson Bradley ’48 The Brash-Palmatier Family Irwin Braverman AF Sabrina & Byron Breland Frances & Jonathan Brent Jessie Brinkley ’64 Sallie Farrel Brown ’49 Caitlin Cahow ’00 Francine & Robert Caplan Linda Hamilton Carr ’42 Linsley Craig Carruth ’85 Anna & Rob Casey Belinda & Frederick Chen Shirlee Ching-McGrath Ann Pingoud & Marc Chung Frances & Edwin Clayton Martha Daniels Cohen & George Cohen Jaime & Shawn Cole Karen & Pat Crocco Pierre A. J. Crowley ’83 Judy & Hugh Cuthbertson Deborah Everhart & George Davis Leticia & Victor de Dios Alison De Renzi & Francesco d’Amuri The Hayes-Della Rocca Family William C. DeVane ’84 Ghislaine & Herman Dostie Evan Drutman ’79 Laurie & C. Dary Dunham Ann S. Earley Elizabeth DeVane Edminster ’47 Elizabeth Jonas & Tom Eisen Umar Farooq

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Emily & Christopher Fasano Doris Drisler Ferguson ’42 The Foote School Class of 1975 Nanci & Paul Fortgang Candace & Burvée Franz Jennifer & Alan Friedman Lee Gaillard ’52 Lilliam & Felix Garcia ** John Gardner ’45 Barbara Gibson Angelique Bordey & Keith Gipson The Gobel Family Ward Goodenough ’32 John Grant ’50 Avery Grauer ’87 Jonathan Grauer ’85 Jennifer Griffiths Jane Frey-Gudjohnsen & Einar Gudjohnsen Reyna & Ken Harrison Vicki Schultz & Craig Henry Christina Herrick Brook Hersey ’74 Deborah & David Hesse Joan & Dennis Hickey Carla & Robert Horwitz Caitlin Simon & Gregory Huber Judith S. Hull ’63 Francie Irvine Carol Isaacs Kate Hunter & Richard Jacob Gerald Kahn

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Paula & Jack Kaplan The Kenn de Balinthazy Family Kiley Kennedy ’09 Margalit & Jeffrey Kern Emilie & Herbert Klagsbrun Alexander Kleiner ’00 Diana & Fred Kleiner Nancy Greenberg & Tony Kronman Jean & Nick Lamont Kirsti & John Langbein Jamie Kleinman & Michael Lee Geri & Charles Lemert Jeffrey Lerner Mary & David Lesser Yollanda London Mopsy Seymour Lovejoy ’55 Jon Malkiel ’87 Carole & Robert Mangels Amy & Douglas Manion ** Margaret & Marc Mann Marsha & Brian Maresca Susan & Andrew Marlatt Jamie McCarthy Nawrie Meigs-Brown ’55 The Mena Family Karen Orzack-Moore & Daniel C. Moore Rachel Ebling & Edward Moran Barbara Mordecai Kiran Zaman & Sabooh Mubbashar Eileen Mulligan Joan & Michael Nast

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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Melorie & Charles Noble Ann O'Reilly Patricia Fiorito Oakes ’60 Mary & Robert Outtrim Mrs. Edward Petraiuolo, Jr. Eligio A. Petrelli ’53 Richard L. Petrelli ’57 The Petty Family Elizabeth Prelinger ’68 Jane Prelinger ’70 Polly Prelinger ’72 Richard Prelinger ’67 Lisa & Joseph Rebeschi Dorleen & James Reidy Bruce L. Reynolds ’57 Dr. & Mrs. Frank Richards Rosemary L. Ripley ’68 Monique & James Robinson Eera Sharma & Oscar Rollán Rhoda & Sherman Rosen Donald O. Ross ’62 Amy Estabrook ’72 & Philip Ross ’64 Tracey & Edward Ruotolo Stacy & Patrick Ruwe Susan & Joseph Saccio Jeanne Allison & Paul Sadowitz Letha & Jack Sandweiss Dr. & Mrs Clarence T. Sasaki Ilene & Robert Saulsbury Amy Stevens & Mark Scanlan Josie Schiavone ’90 Alison & Jim Schleifer Carmen & Pradeep Sharma The Arnedt/Sheinberg Family Julia & Martin Shubik William K. Simpson Diana E. Smith ’73 Meg McDowell Smith ’69 Deanna & Mitchell Smooke Penny & Bernard * Snow Sandra & Henry Snow Sarah Clark & Gustav Spohn Ginger Stevens ’96 Leila Wood Stuhr ’82 Shannon Sweeney ’00 Nancy E. Chapman & King-fai Tam Rusty Tunnard ’63 Kathy Cooke & David Valone Mrs. Josiah G. Venter The Visconsi Family Thea Buxbaum & Gar Waterman Bonnie Welch ’79 Thomas Wellington ’76

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Diane & Scott Williams Cathy Edwards & Mike Wishnie Annie Paul & John Witt Samantha & Daniel Wong Amy & Jeff Wongwiwat Yanbin Liu & Y. Richard Yang Lenore & Albert Zimmermann

MAROON & GREY ($1–$249) Anonymous (46) Deborah Abbott ’62 & Preston Abbott The Adae Family Pamela Osgood Adams ’51 Justus Addiss ’73 Susan S. Addiss Elaine & Richard Ades Sarah Afragola ’01 Roya Hakakian & Ramin Ahmadi Mary Ann Alberino Nancy Osterweis Alderman ’52 & Myles Alderman Caron & Norman Alderman Kendall Alford-Madden ’63 Margaret Allison The Alter Family Adele Altschuler Katherine Altshul ’90 Virginia Jenkins ’62 & Thomas Anastasio Christina Van Itallie & James Anderson The Anderson-Dollhopf Family Marie & Warren Andiman Nancy & Ronald Angoff Fatemeh & Manouchehr Ardeshirpour Maria Arnold Mariann Arnold Caroline Atherton Katherine Johnson Atkinson ’77 Sara-Ann & Hillel Auerbach Christina Frodsham & Edward Azhderian, Jr. Caitlin Babiarz ’00 Laura Kautz Baker ’62 Tizzy Freedman Bannister ’74 Laurance C. Barbour ’50 Jennifer Barnhart Judith & Charles Barr Jenny Ford Barrett ’86 Elaine Barse ’81 & Chris Egan Pearl & Phil Basser Roberta & Wilton Baxter Nancy & Joel Becker

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Barbara Currier Bell ’55 Courtney Bell Raina Sotsky & Morris Bell Rita & Gerry Benjamin Clyde Bennett Kay Long & Bruce Benson Aram Berberian ’76 & Julia Berberian Carrie & Bill Bergantino G. Spencer Berger ’56 Sandy Golding & Judith Bergman Elizabeth Wilson & Robert Berman Judith & Eldon Bernstein Ina & Sidney Berson Margaret Berthold Saundra & Donald Bialos Barbara & Timothy Bigelow Jill & Guy Bigwood * Pamela Westerfield Bingham ’78 Susan & Timothy Bingham Kimberly & Scott Bishop Christopher Blackwood ’09 Izabela Blackwood Victoria Meeks Blair-Smith ’50 Natalie Wilmer Blenk ’62 Jennifer & Gary Bloomgarden Halcyone Bohen Jack Bohen ’11 Elizabeth Bohlen ’58 Mary Ann & Geofrey Bonenberger Marcia Tucker Boogaard ’50 Marcia & Edward Boone Elizabeth Borden Patience Meigs Bousel ’59 Deborah Bovilsky Charlotte Bradburn ’99 Luzviminda & Timothy Bradley Melissa Bradley ’57 Margaret Lincoln Bradner ’34 Lynne & Edward Bradstreet Betsy Branch Thomas Brand ’88 Elise Holmes Braun ’46 Elliot Brause Tamar & Michael Braverman Jennifer Jackson Breitling ’91 & Matthew Breitling ** Liz Geller Brennan ’80 & Steve Brennan Judy Brennan Lisa Malitz Briffel ’96 Mary Louise Venter Briggs ’53 Mike Bright ’95 Margot & S.B. Brinkley Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen & Turner Brooks

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REPORT SPOTLIGHT OF GIVING

Mary Jane Brown Rebecca & Leon Brown Susan Brown Michele & James Brownstein Marian & Stanley Brownstein Michael R. Buchanan ’45 Lynn Bullard AF Eleanor Bundy ’06 Mary P. Bundy ’09 John Burbank AF Lucille Burgo-Black Elisabeth Simonds Burns '36 Stuart, Hedy, Derek & Ryan Bush Jonathan Butler ’98, Evan Butler ’99 & Lucas Butler ’03 Diane Buxbaum Polly Byers ’74 Pauline Ho Bynum ’54 Dr. Arina Cadariu Damon Caldwell Ann Calkins Kathleen Camp Jill Campbell Mrs. Robert A. Campbell Susan Canny ’96 Shirley Levinson & Carl Caplan Susan Carney & Lincoln Caplan Molly Caplan ’03 Margaret Bluhm Carey '59 Matthew Carpenter ’03 The Carroll Family Rives Fowlkes Carroll ’57 Sheree Carter-Galvan & Rafael Galvan Kathleen & Robert Casey, Sr. Carolyn & Richard Cavallaro Carol Ann Bradburn Celella ’7 Dorothy Clark Chadwick ’73 Grace Chambers Patricia Chao '69 Carol & Jay Charkow Nancy Farnam Charles ’55 Diane & James Charney Noah Charney ’95 Isabel Chenoweth Joel Chetrick ’73 Beverly & Richard Chevalier Lorraine Cirillo Mine Eder & Gokhan Çirnaz Donald Clark Rob Clark ’68 Karen Bowen-Clarke & Paul Clarke Anne Campbell Clement ’39 & Stuart Clement ’34

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Kate Close ’99 Edward Coady ’05 Leslie Virostek & John Cobb Doreen & Bryan Coburn Alyson & Gary Cohen Dorothy & Irving Cohen Jackie & Michael Cohen Nancy & William Cohen Sally & George Cohn Terry Colby ’48 Ellie & Harris Coles Harriett Milner & David Conger Bruce Conklin ’75 Christopher Conley Kathleen Connell-Kieran & Jerry Kieran James Nicoll Cooper ’48 Eugenie Tyler Copp ’40 Yves Corbière ’95 D. Brooks Corzine Elizabeth Cox ’00 Samuel Craft ’07 Faye & Richard Cramer Amy Cohn Crawford ’90 Emily Crocco ’09 Maria & Marino Crocco Virginia M. Crossley Nicolas Crowley ’81 Judith Resnik & Dennis Curtis Perry Curtis ’45 Nancy Curtis ’50 Tatianna Curtis ’89 June & Larry Dahl Betsy & John Daley III Susan & Fred Danforth Linda & O. Townsend Dann Nina Glickson & Worth David Jennifer Davies Bruce Davis Tessa Stanwood Davis ’57 Marcia & Roger Davis Charles B. Dayton ’36 Ellen K. de Forest Lurline deVos & P. J. Deak Jennifer & Michael Deakin Sally DeGennaro & Family Marrisa DeLise Joan & Larry Delphia ** Peter DeLuca ’98 John Deming ’66 Cynthia Deng ’07 James Deng ’10 Jane & Bill Dennett John Detre ’74

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Jennifer Watts & Bill Deverell Kavita & Madhav Dhodapkar Margarita & José Díaz Barbara DiCaprio Randi & Timothy Diemand Miriam & Daniel DiMaio Verdi DiSesa ’64 Sue & Ken Dobuler Zoe Dobuler ’10 Elizabeth M. Dock Dorothea McFadden Donio The Douglas Family Sarah Drury ’72 & Deborah Sherman Fern Drutman Sonja & John Dudley Tamara Dumas Colleen & Gary Dunning Mr. & Mrs. John R. Eakin, Jr. Mary & Jim Early Patrick Early ’05 Tracy & Brian Earnshaw Gerry & Harvey Eckhardt Brinley Ford ’83 Barbara Ellinghaus Kristina & Theodore Ells Arlene & Marshall Elovich Margaret Howe Emmons ’60 Lane English John Ewell ’57 Peter T. Ewell ’61 Sally Factor Jo-Ann & Jim Farnen Franklin Farrel IV ’52 Malcolm Farrel ’56 & Penny Farrel Caitlin Farrell ’12 Dylan Farrell ’11 Garrett Farrell ’09 Tagan Farrell ’17 Lisa Panzini & Bill Farrell Harriet & John Fast Elizabeth & Richard Fearon Leslie Jacobsen & Jonathan Feinstein Laurie & Richard Feldman Michael Fertik ’93 Barbara Ferullo Anna & Richard Figueroa Lisa & Jonathan Fillmore Danielle Flagg ’81 Nathan Flanders ’08 Bradley Fleming ’99 Flinn Gallery of the Greenwich Library Stephen Fontana ’78 Thomas Fontana ’82

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The Foote School Drama Program The Foote School Sunshine Fund Thomas R. Forbes, Jr. ’51 Veronica Foreman Marcie & Greydon Freeman William Friday Linda & Gary Friedlaender Gail & Peter Fritzinger Jamie Fuller Bradley Fullwood Alexandra Frederick Furutsu ’76 Barbara Fussiner Sondra Lender & Ben Fussiner Carolyn Kuzmeski & Saul Fussiner Sacha Agrawal & Inbal Gafni Jenette & Noah Ganter Miguel Garcia ’84 Nancy Gaylord ’53 Sandra Gaynor Cameron Gearen Flora Vaccarino & John Gearty Melanie Gelfand ’99 Seiko Ono & Aaron Gerow The Gewirtz Family Marcus B. Giamatti ’77 Hira Bluestone & Todd Gilbertsen Linda Gillam Cara Given Diana Vilas Gladden ’52 Lois & Edward Goglia Avery Sachs Goldman ’02 Jacob Goldman ’06 Priscilla Meléndez & Aníbal González Katharine Goodbody Sue & Robert Goodman Justin Goodyear ’88 Carol Gordon ’53 Jessie Hill & Dan Goren Carole & Marshall Gottsegen Brett Dignam & Michael Graetz Charles Granquist ’93 ** Irene & Sidney Greenberg Lois & Ken Greenberg Valerie & Steven Greenberg Shirley Greenwald The Ross M. Grey Family Harriet Ely Griesinger ’54 Marlene Griffith Peter Gross ’59 Curtis Groves ’86 Marguerite & Ira Grudberg Suzanne Gueble Kristin & Jason Gurganus

Summer/Fall 2012

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Lisa & Dan Gurganus William Gurganus Nissa Gurwitt Rob Gurwitt ’72 Kimiko Ishiguro & Bret Halpern Chris Hansen ’86 & Liz Hansen Randi & Hassan Haraj-Sai Herbert Harned ’34 Julian Harris ’80 Ryan Harrity ’98 Suellen Croteau & Michael Hayes Debra & James Healy William K. Healy ’44 Linda Keul Henley Elizabeth Hicks Hilary Fayen Higgins ’81 Frederick Hilles ’52 AF Anne Rose Hilliard ’35 Gilbert Hillman ’57 William L. Hirata ’72 Ellen Hirs ’79 & Edward Hirs Polly Pope Hirsch ’47 Sophie & Randy Hoder Myrna & Don Hoffman Carol & Gil Hogan Shirin Hollis Vanessa Robinson Holstine ’86 Elizabeth Holt ’79 Kyung & Joon Hong Richard Hooker III ’60 Thomas Hooker, Jr. ’54 Marcia Inhorn & Kirk Hooks Briane & Stephen Horner Molly Houston

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Scott Houston ’73 Arthur Howe ’68 Samuel Howe ’62 Shawna Huang ’99 Charles Huntington ’33 Selden & Christopher Illick Simina & Costin Ionescu Zulhija & Yar Jabarkhail Harriet & Sheldon Jacobson Bonnie & Ed James Heather James ’85 Mary Hemingway James ’42 Louise Bluhm Jeanne ’54 Georgette & Tod Jebb Priscilla Jencks Julie Jenkins Ed Johnson ’54 Faith Sargent Lewis Johnson ’57 Kathy Johnson Rebecka & James Jones Constance & Victor Joshua The Junkin Family Mr. and Mrs. Joel Kahan Phillip Kalfas Virginia Kingsley Kapner ’77 Susan & Jonathan Katz Ann Rubin & Jeffrey Kaufman Sarah Kaufman ’09 Katherine Madden Kavanagh ’92 Monireh Kazemzadeh ’78 Eileen McFadden Kelly Eva Kerman ’09 Jeanne Kerr Linda Keul Henley Claire Kilmer Henry Kim Victoria & Donald Kim Nancy & Jackson King Maureen & Robert King M. Jean Kirby * John Kleeman ’60 Siomara & Ami Klin Susan Knutowski The Koenig Family The Kohn Family Rachael Konigsberg ’01 William Konigsberg Barbara Giaimo Koones Sally Osterweis Kopman ’50 Gale & Bernard Kosto Melanie & Paul Kregling Aidan Kropiwnicki Elena Kubler ’60

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REPORT SPOTLIGHT OF GIVING

Ann Labadia Judith Labadia Rita Labell Elizabeth Roth LaFarge ’77 Timothy La Farge ’44 Joseph LaMacchia The Lamere Family Waltrud Lampé Tazer Landow ’10 Natalie Lapides ’08 Lucy Lavely ’03 Gladys Bozyan Lavine ’47 Melody Lawrence ’60 Andrew Lebov ’98 Ian Lebov ’00 Kendall Cox LeClerc ’98 & Richard LeClerc Emma Ledbetter ’03 Susan & Mark Lederer Giovanna & Steven Lee Morgan Lee ’07 Nick Lehmann ’90 F Jay Lender ’84 Molleen Theodore & Andrew Leonard Sandy & Mark Levin Yuko & Andrew Lewandowski Paige Miller Lewellyn ’90 & Curt Lewellyn '89 Jean & Bruce Lewellyn Justin Lewis ’88 Herta Chao & Chiang-Shan Li Barbara & Robert Liberman John Lichtman ’95 Barbara & John Lichtman Georgia Crowley Lieber ’88 & Matthew Lieber ’85 Judith & Herbert Lieberman Margaret Liebling Sam & Nikki Lindberg Mimi Lines Cynthia Albert Link & Lawrence Link Leslie Sefried Lockard ’66 Kate Loewald ’74 Maryann McFadden Lohr Mary & Herman Long Joseph Longa ’95 Katharine Lorimer ’97 Peter Lorimer ’01 Lori Blank & David Low Susan & Mason Lowance Owen Luckey ’83 & Dana Peterson Barbara Rickler & Michael Lustick Gretchen Bronson Lytle ’61

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Deborah & Patrick Madden Davida Gordon Madden ’45 Gwendolyn Fischer Magnan ’82 Rex & Patricia Mahnensmith The Fraenkel/Mamis Family Elizabeth Drye & Jerold Mande Sheida & Arya Mani Samantha Maoz ’11 Wendy Marans Naz Modirzadeh & Andrew March Tisha Markette Andrea Marth Catherine Petraiuolo ’83 & Andrew Martin Talbot Welles ’81 & Tom Mason Tracey & John Mayes Marian McAleenan ’36 Jill McCarns Carolyn & Walter McCoy Patience McDowell ’75 Katherine & Thomas McGwire Laurie Pouzzner McManus ’56 Ruth Rootberg Mealey Jonathan Meigs ’61 & Jane Meigs Linda & Steve Meisel Elizabeth Mello Alinor Sterling & Steve Mentz Suzanne Mentzinger Jennifer Foley & Joseph Miko Andrea Miller ’97 Carol & Donald Miller Ruth & Joe Miller Prudence Loeb Miller ’37 Mixed Age Group Teachers 2008–09 Barbara & John Monahan Caroline Monahan ’09 Kate Monahan ’06 Grace Moore ’04 Judith Buck Moore ’51 Barbara & David Morgan Stanton Morris ’52 Sarah Morse AF Marsha & Ira Moses Melanie Crowley Mullan ’84 Ann Murdock Charlotte & Charles Murphy Kathleen Murphy ’98 Mary P. Murphy ’92 Victoria & Stephen Murphy Elizabeth & Ben Muskin Marcia & Edward Nalebuff Jennie Bailey Nally ’88 Manu G. Nathan ’97

** Matching Gift Program Participants

William Nathanson Navaratnam–Tomayko Family Ferris Nelson Greta Nettleton ’72 Christopher Neville ’77 Jessica Nicholson ’07 Margaret Nicholson ’04 The Nisbeth Family Lawrence Noble ’77 Eleanor Nolan Rebecca Nordhaus ’88 Jane Whittlesey North ’45 JoAnne Pappano & Robert Norton Grace Tuttle Noyes ’41 Joseph O'Donnell ’06 John O'Hare Jacinta O'Reilly Nancy & Marc Olins Donna Olivieri Margaret Foote Oppenheimer ’35 Rosalyn Diaz-Ortiz & Abimael Ortiz Victoria Moore Paine ’56 Jessica Sager & Sachin Pandya Deborah Johnson & Joseph Paolillo Julia Paolillo ’07 David Papermaster The Parents of the Foote School Third Grade 2011–12 Anne Park Emily Peel Ronda Pelkey Leah Pepe ’04 Stacey & Hap Perkins Carol & Ralph Perlberger John W. Persse ’73 Elizabeth Petrelli ’96 Jennifer Petrelli ’88 & Mariano Severgnini Margaret & Richard Pfaff Courtney Freeman Phillips ’87 Cassy Pollack & Jon Pickard Joseph Pickman ’83 Millie & Barry Piekos Grey Maher & Aaron Pine Susan Stokes & Steven Pincus Nancy Berliner & Alan Plattus Aimee DeBarbieri Poirier ’92 Stefanie Markovits & Ben Polak Jeffrey Possick ’89 Jennifer Prah Ruger & Theodore Ruger AF Gina LaRoche & Alan Price Donna & David Pruett

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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Dr. & Mrs. Richard Pschirrer Jeannine & Anthony Purcell Julia Blue & Paul Raspe Marie & Richard Raymond Satya & Sneha Reddy Mr. & Mrs. William H. H. Rees Joyce & Philip Reilly Wendy Wheeler & S. C. Reilly Lillian & John Resnik Mara Revkin ’02 Deborah Blanchard Richardson ’49 Lee Ann Richter ’96 Julia Riddle ’99 Naomi Senzer & Brad Ridky Janet & William Rivers Irene & Vladimir Rokhlin Lydia Romanik Aaron Rosenberg ’02 Pam & Jeff Rosenberg Jeanne Steiner & Will Rosenblatt Shae & Paul Rosenthal Fred Rossomando Kathy Rubano & the Social Studies Department of Trumbull High School The Ruben Family Nancy McFadden Rubery Ann & Peter Ruger Wendy Cohen Sadik ’81 & Haider Sadik Naomi & Dean Sakamoto Susan Devine & David Sakheim Yuri Sakurabayashi ’06 The Salerno Family Mary Beth & Stephen Saltzman Krystn Wagner & José Salvana Kris Sandine ’79 Barbara & Jim Saret John Sasaki ’87 Beth Weinberger & Mark Schafer Sylvia Schafer ’77 Marlene & Jerry Scharr Amy Marx & Robert Schonberger Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Schreiber Drs. Rosemary Balsam & Paul Schwaber Carol Dorfman & William Segraves Meltem & Emre Seli Ismene Petrakis & Michael Sernyak Hilary Shank-Kuhl ’68 Kimberly Bouchard-Shapiro & Philip Shapiro Gilbert Shaw Jane Karlsruher Shedlin ’47 Grethe & Gordon Shepherd

Summer/Fall 2012

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Betty & Myung Soo Shin Jayashankar & Charu Shivakumar Dolores & Sumner Shore Heide Lang & Mark Siegel Lillian & Raymond Siegel William Silva ’66 Ameya Sivaramakrishnan ’99 Bala & Shivy Sivaramakrishnan Brinda Sivaramakrishnan ’01 Susan & Douglas Skalka Edith Cook Smith ’45 Lelly & George Smith Helen Lewis Smith ’37 Olcott & Lucy Smith Foundation Sarah Lohmann Smith ’39 Sarhanna Smith Pam & David Snetro ** Richard M. Sobel ’78 Halie Nichole Sabatasso ’03 Etana Solomon ’11 Linda & Charles Sommerfield Karen Kennedy & Alex Sommers Andrea & Brian Sorrells Lucy & Wayne Spaar Robin & Ron Sparks Elicia Pegues Spearman ’80 Stacy Spell Catherine Spinelli Ted Spirakis ’68 Elizabeth E. Stanley ’11 Morgan Henning Stebbins ’58 Carolyn & Joseph Stein Molly Merrill Sterling Beth Brennan Stetson ’64 Mary & Douglas Stone Betsy Leavy Stroman ’55 Marcie & Richard Sugarmann Curtis Sutro ’73 Erin Sweeney ’02 Katharine M. Swibold ’75 Maria Swift Samone Swift ** Viola Sydoriak Julia Talbot ’82 Julia Talbot The teachers of Mishkan Israel Doreen & Andrew Testa Mary & Louis Theodore Barbara Thompson Maryann Thompson Architects Veronica Thompson Phebe Thorne ’55 Rosalind Baker Tolson ’44

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Becky Conekin & Adam Tooze Grier Torrence ’69 Judith & Decelle Totten Harriet & Harold Traub Rita Trayner Linda & Kurt Treiber Ann Hunt Tritz ’45 Trumbull Alternate High School Nancy Segel & Mike Tuchak Jean & Paul Tupper Sara Shneiderman & Mark Turin Ellen & Leigh Turner Michelle R. Turner Felicity Tuttle ’64 Harriet Twain Eliza Twichell ’66 Faiz Vahidy ’97 Nasim & Misbah Vahidy Wende Valentine ’89 Geraldine & James Valone Julia Adams & Hans van Dyk Erin Vernon Anita Vilter Lisa Wiesner & Fred Volkmar Eve & Heinrich von Staden Catherine Hosley Vouwie ’72 Ellen Sherk Walsh ’73 Marcie & John Walsh Nadia Ward Naomi Rogers & John Warner Sheila & Lawrence Wartel Rebecca Watt ’59 Susan Watts Sayre Weaver ’66 Katharine & Nick Weber Barbara Long Wedmore ’46 Rhona & Alan Weiss Erica & Gordon Weiss Lynda Rosenfeld & Richard Weiss Sallyann & Walter Wekstein W. Perry Welch ’50 Caleb Wertenbaker ’88 Eugenia Lovett West ’36 Carolyn Westerfield Sandy & Dick Whelan Esther & Sidney White Margaret & Richard Wiborg M. E. Wiedersheim Pamela & William Wiehl Kate Ashforth Wiener Marie Wilkinson ’79 Maura Williams Maureen Schorr & Anne Williamson

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REPORT SPOTLIGHT OF GIVING

Jef Wilson Gwen & Ned Wilson Tanya & Randy Wingate Claire Wiseman Linda Wiseman Alexander Wiske ’04 Clay Wiske ’02 Denise & Patrick Witheril Jean-ellen McSharry & Chris Woerner Helen & Stanley Wolfe Emily Mendillo Wood ’51 Yolanda Woods ’70 Harriet Calhoun Wrenn ’43 Zhirong Jiang & Zhiqun Xi Lenore & Jeff Yale Lan Lin & Wu Yan ** Barbara Young Patricia & Mario Zangari Linda & Howard Zonana

FACULTY & STAFF Gifts from these individuals were received in 2011–12.

James Adams & Annie Ducmanis Laura & Victor Altshul Lara Anderson Mariann Arnold Elizabeth Ball Lynne Banta & Javier Garcia Laurie & Fred Bartels Clyde Bennett Carrie & Bill Bergantino Tim & Kris Blauvelt Jacob Burt & Elizabeth Gill Jeannette Byers ’65 Mary Beth & Andy Calderoni Amy Caplan ’88 & Nicolas Gangloff Michelle Cappellieri Patty & Val Chamberlain Katy Clark-Spohn Botta ’98 & Robbie Botta John & Keri Climie Liam & Alison Considine Jay & Dody Cox Peter & Lucy Cox John & Tina Cunningham Ashley DeVito Amanda & Ray Diffley Bette Donahoe Dawn & Dan Farricielli Jennifer & Alan Friedman Jacqui & Stephen Fritzinger

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Angela & Fernando Giannella Cara Given Jane Gordon & Andrew Julien Maria & Charles Granquist Hannah Greenberg Jack & Marge Hansen Tina Hansen Pamela Harmon Leslie Harshfield Sarah Heath & Franz Douskey Steinen & David Hurtado Lynda & Peter Johnson Meghan & Steve Karolyi Özler & Ege Kayaarasi Joseph LaMacchia Margy & Richard Lamere Sheila Lavey & Mike Dooman Leslie & Marshall Long Karen & Bill Longa ** Bill Manke ’91 Carol & Michael Maoz Karla Matheny & Mark Landow Michael McCabe & Donna RehmMcCabe Melissa & Timothy McCormack David & Mary Jane McGaffin Becky & Brad McGuire Jessica McNell Elizabeth Mello Michael Milburn Gail Mirza Julie & Bill Moore Colleen & Michael Murphy Susan Neitlich & Matthew Broder ** Sally Nunnally Cathy & Christophe Pamelard Hilary & Erik Pearson

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Ann Baker Pepe & Greg Pepe Carol & Wes Poling Denise Quinn Dobratz & Erik Dobratz Veena Raghuvir & Ryan Haug Cjet & Cindy Raymond Liz & Tom Reed-Swale Ellen Reif Martha & Larry Reina Deborah Rhoads Debra Riding & Oliver Barton Trevor & Charles Rosenthal Peter & Meredith Ross Donna & Robert Santomasso Julian Schlusberg Susan Shaw Allison Siefert Sally Simonds Walter Siracuse Kelly & Ben Small Adam Solomon Laura & James Stanley Andrew Sweet Deborah Teason & Michael Bergman Lisa Farrel Totman ’56 & David Totman AF John & Elisa Turner Ellen & Joseph Velardi Erika Villa Dawn & Scott Walsh Megan Williams Ted & Lois Willis Jef Wilson Alexandra Wittner Diane & Jeff Wood Nancy & Dewey Worms Kim Yap & Andrew Lewandowski Heather & Fred Zetterberg

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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FAREWELL GIFTS

HONORARY GIFTS

The parents of departing eighth and ninth graders contributed to Farewell Gifts in appreciation of their children's experiences at Foote.

In Honor of the After School Teachers Dawn & Scott Walsh

Departing Eighth Grade Parents The gifts of departing eighth grade parents will help equip the eighth grade science lab in the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building.

Tamar & Michael Braverman Barbara Endres & William Butler August Calderone Damon Caldwell The Hayes-Della Rocca Family Amanda & Ray Diffley Betsey & Jack Dunham Leslie Jacobsen & Jonathan Feinstein Denise & Mark Gibson Heidi Hamilton Meghan & George Knight Judith Chevalier & Steven Podos Gina LaRoche & Alan Price Erica & Gordon Weiss Ninth Grade Parents — 100% This year’s ninth grade families were proud to announce 100 percent participation in the Farewell Gift, with a contribution totaling $10,000. The bench in the new ninth grade “loft” is dedicated in honor of the Class of 2012.

Anonymous Kimberly & Scott Bishop Elizabeth Gibson Burbank ’80 Bryan & Doreen H. Coburn Kavita & Madhav Dhodapkar Debra & Jack Hauser The Kenn de Balinthazy Family Melanie Ginter & John Lapides Susan & Andrew Marlatt The Matthes Theriault Family Donna Rehm-McCabe & Michael McCabe Jill McCarns Catherine & Robert Sbriglio Gilbert Shaw Susan Shaw Michelle R. Turner Amy & Jeff Wongwiwa Yanyun Wu & Yi Zhou

Summer/Fall 2012

* Deceased

In Honor of Bill Manke ’91 Dawn & Scott Walsh

In Honor of Avi Bergman ’00 & Emma Bergman ’02 Deborah Teason & Michael Bergman In Honor of Richard Bershtein John Wareck ’84

In Honor of Cindy Raymond Ning Wei & Xing-Wang Deng

In Honor of Sue Delaney Andrea & Brian Sorrells

In Honor of Margie & Alan Starensier’s 50th Anniversary Shirley Levinson & Carl Caplan Ellie & Harris Coles Sally Factor Lois & Ken Greenberg Harriet & Sheldon Jacobson Ruth & Joe Miller

In Honor of Anna Huntington Deming ’35 John Deming ’66 In Honor of Brilliant & Inspiring Faculty Danielle Flagg ’81 In Honor of Foote Colleagues Jacqui & Stephen Fritzinger In Honor of Hannah Friedman-Bell ’12 & Lucy Friedman-Bell ’12 Laurel Friedman In Honor of Stephen, Jacqui & Lucy Fritzinger Gail & Peter Fritzinger In Honor of Dorothy Gettier Sam Howe ’62 In Honor of Kyle Gelzinis’ Bar Mitzvah Mary Ann Alberino Adam Velardi ’14 In Honor of Alexandra LaViola & John LaViola ’09 Philomena & John LaViola In Honor of Avery Elizabeth LeClerc Julian Schlusberg

** Matching Gift Program Participants

In Honor of Libby Peard Tanina Rostain & Richard Schottenfeld In Honor of Ann Baker Pepe Andrea Marth

In Honor of John Burbank ’79 Dawn & Scott Walsh

In Honor of Leslie Long Ning Wei & Xing Wang Deng

In Honor of Sharon & Dan Milikowsky Jennifer Milikowsky ’02 Matthew Milikowsky ’95

In Honor of Lisa Totman Laurie & Fred Bartels Serena Totman Bechtel ’84 & David Bechtel Courtney Broadus ’84 & Christian Meyers Rachel Totman Davis ’86 & Jonathan Davis Priscilla Jencks The Parents of The Foote School Third Grade Ann Baker Pepe & Greg Pepe David Totman

MEMORIAL GIFTS In Memory of Margaret Brooks Francie Irvine In Memory of Leonard Campbell Harriet Milner & David Conger Gerry & Harvey Eckhardt Veronica Foreman Julie Jenkins Kathy Rubano Trumbull Alternate High School

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REPORT ALUMNI OF GIVING

In Memory of Elias Clark Bushie Estabrook The Howard Smith Family In Memory of E. Huntington Deming ’64 John Deming ’66 In Memory of Malcolm Fleschner Daniel Fleschner ’94 In Memory of Irving Friedman Daniel Fleschner ’94 In Memory of Jean Kirby Gwen & Ned Wilson In Memory of Roberta “Cookie” Krinick Laura Altshul Ann Baker Pepe Donna Batsford Dawn Farricielli The Sunshine Fund The teachers of Mishkan Israel In Memory of Clarence London Yollanda London In Memory of Muriel Lewis Justin Lewis ’88 In Memory of Jonathan Milikowsky ’98 Nina Glickson & Worth David Peter DeLuca ’98 Linda Lorimer & Charles Ellis Harriet Goodman The Gurganus Family David Newton The Singer Family In Memory of Jean Shepler Miller Patience Meigs Bousel ’59 Molly Meigs Cabral ’68 Linda Keul Henley Jonathan Meigs ’61 & Jane Meigs Nawrie Meigs-Brown ’55 In Memory of Al Morra Phyllis Morra In Memory of Harry Mulligan Hedy, Stuart, Derek & Ryan Bush Christopher Conley

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Sally DeGennaro Mary & Jim Early Elizabeth & Richard Fearon Mr. & Mrs. Richard Galley Marian Grey Marguerite & Ira Grudberg Carol & Gil Hogan Laura & Frank Perrine Harry Welch ’42 & Betsy Welch Amy Mulligan Wilson ’85 & John Wilson In Memory of Winifred Sturley Lee Gaillard ’52 In Memory of Yue Wu Yangyun Wu & Yi Zhou

FOOTEBRIDGE The Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation New Haven Road Race The Foote School Parent Teacher Council The Seedlings Foundation Smart Family Foundation, Inc.

FOUNDATIONS & FUNDS Anonymous (2) Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation Eder Family Foundation The Goodwin Levine Foundation, Inc. The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation MJPM Foundation

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Point Harbor Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Sasco Foundation The Seedlings Foundation S. T. Shoff Charitable Trust Smart Family Foundation Olcott & Lucy Smith Foundation William & Nancy Turner Foundation

GIFTS IN KIND Isabel Chenoweth Bun-Sui Lai ’84 Ellen & Joseph Velardi Emily Mendillo Wood ’51 Yaira Matyakubova & Andrius Žlabys

GIFTS TO ENDOWED FUNDS Benevento Family Scholarship Fund Joan & John Benevento C. Dary Dunham School Spirit Fund Catherine & Robert Sbriglio Frank M. Perrine Scholarship Fund Hedy, Stuart, Derek & Ryan Bush Christopher Conley Sally DeGennaro & Family Elizabeth Daley Draghi ’77 Mary & Jim Early Elizabeth & Richard Fearon Mr. & Mrs. Richard Galley The Ross M. Grey Family Marguerite & Ira Grudberg

Donor to the Annual Fund for five consecutive years

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Carol & Gil Hogan Laura & Frank Perrine Betsy Welch & Harry Welch ’42 Amy Mulligan Wilson ’85

Elizabeth Daley Draghi ’77 Evan Drutman ’79 Judith S. Hull ’63 Sam & Nikki Lindberg Mary P. Murphy ’92 Laura & Frank Perrine Elizabeth Prelinger ’68 Anne Sa'adah ’69 Sylvia Schafer ’77

Gary Levene Endowed Fund Nancy & William Cohen John Wareck ’84 Gene J. Takahashi Scholarship Fund Wendy Sharp & Dean Takahashi Kai Takahashi ’09 Kerry Takahashi ’07

Kindergarten & Mixed Age Group Programs Fund Leila Hachicho & Ali Abu-Alfa

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Phyllis Brown Sandine Memorial Scholarship Fund Deborah Bovilsky Anne Sa'adah Bob Sandine Polly Fiddler Art Fund Catherine & Robert Sbriglio Timothy and Mary P. Doukas Fund Pat & John Zandy

MATCHING GIFTS LaViola Family Scholarship Fund Philomena & John LaViola Levin Library Fund Jane & Richard Levin Martha Brochin Endowed Fund Elizabeth Brochin Susan Canny ’96 Amy Sherman & John McCarthy Penny & Bernard * Snow

Jean G. Lamont Scholarship Fund Rita McDougald-Campbell & Leonard R. Campbell * Shirlee Ching-McGrath Harriett Milner & David Conger Gerry & Harvey Eckhardt Veronica Foreman Julie Jenkins Jack Ciccolo, Sid Phillips & Jesse Phillips '11 Kathy Rubano & the Social Studies Department at Trumbull High School Sarah Clark & Gustav Spohn Trumbull Alternate High School

Summer/Fall 2012

Pasi-Sachdev Family Scholarship Fund Usha Pasi & Subir Sachdev

Jonathan Milikowsky Technology Fund Sharon & Daniel Milikowsky Phyllis & William Scott André Warner ’98

Hannah Lee Fund Peggy McCarthy Berman & Barry Berman Anne-Marie Boulade-Perigois Davies & Ray Davies Shirley Levinson & Carl Caplan Ellie & Harris Coles Sally Factor Lois & Ken Greenberg Harriet & Sheldon Jacobson Amy Starensier & J. Richard Lee Amy Sherman & John McCarthy Ruth & Joe Miller Shae & Paul Rosenthal Margie & Alan Starensier

Jean Shepler Miller Fund Kate Bigwood Atkinson ’70 Katherine Johnson Atkinson '77 Elizabeth Bradburn-Assoian ’69 Thomas Brand ’88 Cecie Clement ’62

Adam Velardi Ellen & Joe Velardi

Milos Saccio Fund Mary & David Lesser Joanne Saccio Susan & Joseph Saccio Penny & Bernard * Snow Orten L. Pengue Scholarship Fund Mary Ann Alberino Peggy McCarthy Berman & Barry Berman Sheree & David DiMario Natalie DiMario The Foote School Summer Theater Friends & families of “A Christmas Carol” Friends & families of “You Can't Take It With You” Deborah Freedman & Ben Ledbetter Fred Rossomando Catherine & Robert Sbriglio Julian Schlusberg Susan & Douglas Skalka

** Matching Gift Program Participants

Ameriprise Financial Bank of America Foundation Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Casey Matching Program ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc. Ford Foundation Gartner Group GE Foundation Goldman Sachs & Co. Intermountain Industries J. P. Morgan & Co.Inc. The Kresge Foundation Merrill Lynch Microsoft Parker Hannifin Corporation Pfizer Inc. Pitney Bowes Portland General Electric Co. Rockefeller Brothers Fund Scripps Howard Foundation Travelers T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc. UBS United Technologies William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

STARS (Schools Together for Arts Resources) Laura & Victor Altshul The Foote School Parent Teacher Council Joanne & David Goldblum New Haven Road Race

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REPORT ALUMNI OF GIVING

Endowed Funds Each year The Foote School benefits from Endowed Funds established by parents and past parents, alumni and friends of the school. The capital is not spent, but a distribution is made annually from the interest earned on the invested funds. Foote’s endowment was initiated in the early 1980s. The endowment totaled $7,646,511 in 2011–12. It provided about $300,000 to support the school’s operating budget.

Kindergarten & Mixed Age Group Programs Fund — established by the parents of Foote students Aya and Hadi Abu-Alfa in 2010 to support and enrich the Kindergarten and Mixed Age Group programs.

Foote welcomes contributions to any of the following Endowed Funds.

If you would like to consider creating a named endowed fund at Foote, please contact Ann Baker Pepe, Director of Development, The Foote School, 50 Loomis Place, New Haven, CT 06511; by email at abakerpepe@footeschool.org; or by phone at 203-777-3464. The school requires a contribution of $5,000 to initiate a new fund.

Library Endowment — includes gifts to endowment intended to support the Frank M. Perrine Library.

UNRESTRICTED ENDOWMENT S. Prescott Bush Clement Endowed Fund — established in 2007 in honor of Prescott Clement ’35. The proceeds are used at the discretion of the school’s Board of Directors.

ENDOWMENT FOR CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT Martha Brochin Endowed Fund for Library Books — established in 2004 in memory of Martha Brochin, a Foote School parent and much-loved pediatrician.

Polly Fiddler Art Fund — established by parents and former students in recognition of Polly Fiddler’s outstanding work as an art teacher at Foote for more than three decades (1978–2009). The fund supports the school’s studio art program.

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Levin Fund — established by Jane and Richard Levin to fund the purchase of books and materials to enrich and extend the collection of the Frank M. Perrine Library.

Jonathan Milikowsky Memorial Fund — created by classmates, family and friends in memory of Jon ’98 to provide annual support to the Technology Department, particularly new technology and innovative uses of technology.

Marian W. Spiro Fund for Science Enrichment — established in honor of Marian Spiro, science teacher at Foote from 1970–89, to enrich and enhance the school’s science programs.

Friends of Foote Theater Endowment — established in 2002 by David and Deborah Moore, to support the costs associated with the outstanding drama program.

Jean Shepler Miller Music Fund — established in 2009 by alumni who studied music with Mrs. Shepler during her long career at Foote (1953–91), the Fund provides support for the school’s music department.

ENDOWMENT FOR FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Joya Marks Endowment for Professional Development — created in 2001, and in 2007 named in honor of Joya Marks, Lower School Head (1993–2007), this fund provides support for professional development opportunities to enrich the lives and work of Foote School teachers.

Violet Talbot Endowed Fund — established by parents and faculty in honor of kindergarten teacher Violet Talbot at the time of her retirement in 2001 to provide support for teacher training and for financial aid for children of color.

ENDOWMENT FOR FINANCIAL AID Benevento Family Scholarship — established in 1987 by the Benevento Family.

Simone Brown Fund — established in memory of Simone Brown, Class of 1981, following her death in 1983.

Carolyn Foundation Endowment — established by generous gifts from The Carolyn Foundation in 1989 and 1998, this fund has grown to over a quarter million dollars, providing significant annual funding for financial aid for children of color from New Haven.

Celentano Scholarship Fund — created to recognize the many contributions of Freddie Celentano who worked at Foote as a member of the maintenance staff from 1963–77.

Janis Cooley-Jacobs Scholarship Fund — established in 1999 after the death of Foote parent and pediatrician Janis Cooley-Jacobs.

Timothy & Mary P. Doukas Fund — established in 1997 by Mr. and Mrs. John Zandy in memory of Mrs. Zandy’s parents.

Martha Babcock Foote Fund — established in memory of the founder and first Head of School, 1916–35.

Margaret Hitchcock Fund — established in memory of Margaret Ballou Hitchcock, Foote English teacher and head of the Upper School from 1931–57.

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Jean G. Lamont Endowed Scholarship Fund — established in 2004 in recognition of Jean Lamont’s commitment to diversity and a strong financial aid program during her tenure as Head of School from 1992–2004.

Hannah Lee Memorial Endowed Fund — established in memory of Hannah Lee ’08, 1993–2004, this fund provides annual support for the school’s financial aid program.

LaViola Family Scholarship Fund — established by Philomena and John LaViola in honor of their grandchildren, Alexandra LaViola ’06 and John LaViola ’09.

Jonathan Milikowsky Scholarship Fund — established in 2007 in memory of Jon Milikowsky ’98 by his parents, Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky, brother Matthew ’95 and sister Jennifer ’02, the fund provides financial aid for a student in grades six–nine who demonstrates intellectual curiosity, cheerful engagement with classmates and teachers, kindness, optimism, and appreciation and respect for others.

Pasi-Sachdev Family Fund — created in 2005 by the Pasi-Sachdev family to reflect their deep appreciation of the Foote School community.

Anne Schroeder Vroman Scholarship Fund — created in 2006 by Barent Vroman in memory of his wife, a member of the class of 1946.

Orten L. Pengue Scholarship Fund — created in 2008 by parents and students in honor of Ort’s many contributions to Foote’s theater program.

ENDOWMENT FOR LEARNING SUPPORT

Frank M. Perrine Scholarship Fund — established in 1991 in recognition of Frank’s many contributions to Foote as Headmaster from 1967–92.

Phyllis Brown Sandine Memorial ISIS Scholarship Fund — established in 2002 by ISIS (Inner-City Scholarships for Independent Schools) in honor of Mrs. Sandine, a Foote parent and long-time friend of the school and an advocate for early childhood education. It provides financial aid specifically for New Haven children enrolled at Foote.

Gene Takahashi Scholarship Fund — created in 2010 by Dean Takahashi and Wendy Sharp, Kerry Takahashi ’07 and Kai Takahashi ’09, in honor of Dean’s father.

Milos Saccio Fund — established in memory of Milos Saccio ’83, 1967– 79, who was a sixth grader at Foote at the time of his death, this fund annually provides learning support with the intention of helping children reach their full potential.

RESTRICTED FUNDS The school also appreciates and relies upon the support provided by Restricted Funds. These funds are not endowed — the principal is spent as needed over the years. Current Restricted Funds include: Classical Book Fund — established in 1996 to honor Latin teacher Carol Ross and used annually to provide library and classroom resources to enrich the study of classical Greece and Rome.

C. Dary Dunham School Spirit Fund — established in recognition of Dary Dunham’s leadership of Foote as Interim Head of School, 2007–09, it funds campus activities that build a sense of community.

Friends of Foote Theater Fund — established in 2002, this fund provides support for expanded opportunities in educational theater made possible by the construction of the Robert D. Sandine black box theater.

Foote students gather for Model Congress at the Packer Collegiate Institute in New York.

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Class Notes 1932 We are sad to report the death of Hilda Sizer Warner who died April 20, 2012.

1933 With sadness we report the death of Henry English on July 15, 2012. He is survived by his sister, Eleanor English Whitman.

1934 Class Correspondent: Stuart Clement shclement@comcast.net

Stuart Clement and wife Anne Campbell Clement ’39 hosted a threegeneration reunion bringing together 55 members of the Clement family. It was held at the Millbrook School last July. They came from all over the country — east and west, north and south, and central!

“You know people so awfully well when you grow up with them.”

1935 Class Correspondent: Anna Huntington Deming anitademingo@hotmail.com

1936 Class Correspondent: Elizabeth Reeves Goodspeed 111 Hunter Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801

Our deepest condolences to Lib Sizer Allen whose sister, Hilda Sizer Warner ’32, died April 20, 2012.

1938 75th Reunion, May 4, 2013

1939 Class Correspondent: Anne Campbell Clement shclement@comcast.net

1940 Our deep sympathy to Margaret DeVane Logue ,whose brother, Milton DeVane ’42, died April 7, 2012. Ed Jones writes with some interesting accomplishments and moments from his life: “Retired — combat marine — Okinawa — China — Carrier pilot U.S. Naval Air Corps, two tours Cold War Mediterranean. CVE 40 Tarawa — CVE 43 Coral Sea. Flew anti-sub aircraft out of Floyd Bennett Field (NYC) for several years in Reserves.

Play 18 holes of golf once a week. Wife died age 51 from smoking. We had three sons, Brian, magna cum laude mechanical engineering, University of Connecticut, developing heart pump.

Ed, Brown University, Chief Engineer, The Lee Co., Essex, Conn. Now working for youngest son, Peter, who was in the nuclear Navy and has developed a highly successful power brokerage company nationwide.”

After a Long Time Away, Celebrating Memories at Foote Julia Wallace Taussig ’37 hadn’t been back to visit Foote since she left 75 years earlier, when classes were held in someone’s brick house — she can’t recall whose — and her Foote friends called her ‘Dubby.’

“I remember Foote as a warm and friendly place,” she said on Reunion Day 2012, after she had stepped into the hallway of what to her was the new Foote School, gently shaking hands and greeting well-wishers.

With glistening eyes and a beaming smile, she accepted the gift of a silk Foote scarf and hearty applause for her attendance after so very many years away. The fuss seemed to surprise her. “I’m only 87!,” she said. “I’m planning to live to be 100.”

Her memories of Foote were still vivid, and she keeps close track of her Foote classmates. “Ten of us from that class of, oh, 20 to 22, are still alive,” she says.

She attended Prospect Hill and two years at Sarah Lawrence before leaving to work with the Air Force Materiel Command, meeting Frederick Foote Taussig at a going-away party for a mutual friend in 1945 and marrying him in 1947. The couple had three daughters. “Someone recently asked me what I was most proud of in my life,” she said. “I can honestly say my three girls.”

Her husband’s career took her to Rio de Janiero; Enid, Okla.; the Dominican Republic; Kansas City, Mo.; Denver, and then back east, this time to New Jersey. She drove up to New Haven for the day to greet old friends and make some new ones.

“I had such a nice time today,” she said on departing. “I’ll be back for my 80th.”

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A Lifelong Ornithological Quest (Brought on by a Childhood Case of Spring Fever) 1941 Class Correspondent: Nancy Redway Pugsley 88 Notch Hill Road Evergreen Woods, Apt. 355 N. Branford, CT 06471 203-488-8312

1942 Class Correspondent: David Hitchcock, Jr. HitchDL@aol.com

Our deep sympathy to the family and friends of Milton DeVane who died April 7, 2012. David Hitchcock writes, “I attended the memorial service in New Haven for classmate Milton DeVane with fellow classmates Victor Tyler, Sam Babbit, and Harold Welch.”

1943 70th Reunion, May 4, 2013

1944 Class Correspondent: Ruth Watson Martin

1945 Class Correspondent: Elinor Bozyan Warburg ebwarburg@yahoo.com

Class of 1937

Chuck Huntington ’33 The son of Yale geography professor Ellsworth Huntington, Chuck Huntington ’33, had an idyllic year back in the fifth grade. It was 1929, and his parents whisked him, his sister, Anna (Huntington) Deming ’35, and their brother, George ’38 off to Europe. There, Chuck rode the Orient Express from Milan to Istanbul, then spent two weeks on a tourist steamer on the Nile River.

“It was an extraordinary time for me,” he says. “Ten is a great age for a trip like that.”

Yet the excursion that would create the foundation for his life’s work was a much less ambitious undertaking. When he was just 7, his parents took him to a fishing camp in northern Maine. There, he was enthralled to see ospreys catching fish, then eagles chasing osprey to shake free the catch. “I was interested in birds from then on,” he says.

An entry in the June 1933 edition of Foote Notes reveals Chuck’s early motivation for Credit: Bowdoin College Library, his career. In an essay titled “Spring Fever,” Brunswick, Maine the 13-year-old wrote: “There may be some people who get spring fever only in spring, but I have a chronic case of it all the year round. In summer I want to swim or walk, or play tennis or loaf around. In autumn I want to play football or loaf around. In winter I want to coast or skate or have a snowball fight or loaf around. In spring I want to walk or play baseball or loaf around… Even when I see some birds or flowers I want to go out and look at them more closely.”

Even from his youthful perch, his insight into his own nature was keen.

‘Loafing around’ took a more adult form when Chuck left Yale with a Ph.D. in zoology and accepted a position at Bowdoin College in Maine. There, he taught physiology (“I was not very well-qualified, but hiring was much more informal then,” he says, laughing.) He also taught ornithology, as the youthful pursuit of bird watching had made him something of an expert. He spent summers working at the Bowdoin Scientific Station at Kent Island, a nesting area for seabirds in New Brunswick, Canada, as the field station’s director. “I have had one job my entire life,” he says. “I was never tempted to go anywhere else than Bowdoin.”

At 92, his memory is as sharp as his ability to spot a mountain bluebird on a fence in Wyoming or identify the sound of a Chuck-will’s-widow in the woods at home in Brunswick, Maine. His wits are just as quick, too; when he spotted the mountain bluebird landing on the fence, he grabbed a nearby camera and made it a memory.

And when the Chuck-will’s-widow’s call landed on his ears, he grabbed a tape recorder. (An avid follower of birdlife, he keeps his technology close.)

Julia Wallace Taussig, accompanied here

by Head of School Carol Maoz, represented the Class of 1937.

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Just what is it about birds that he finds mesmerizing enough to devote a lifetime to their study?

“Flying attracted me to birds,” he says. “I guess we all want to fly.”

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Class of 1947

The Class of 1947 was represented by, from left, Harriet Tuttle Noyes, Elizabeth DeVane Edminster, Susan Hilles Bush, Lee Blanchard Seniff, Jim Boorsch, Gladys Bozyan Lavine, Janie Karlsruher Shedlin, and Caroline Stoddard Delgado.

The Class of 1947 gathered in New Haven the Friday before Reunion Day, many of us staying at the Farnam House on Prospect Street, which turned out to be a perfect place to sit around talking for hours. Elizabeth DeVane Edminster came from Washington, Jane Karlsruher Shedlin and Susie Myers Jacobs, (an honorary class member) from Greenwich, Sukie Hilles Bush, and Harriet Tuttle Noyes from the Boston area, Lee Blanchard Seniff from Guilford and me, Gladys Bozyan Lavine from Middletown, RI. At Leon’s that evening we met Caroline Stoddard Delgado, who arrived from New York, and Reynolds Gordon with his wife Janet, from Easton, Conn. And we were delighted to have Head of School Carol Maoz join us for a part of the evening.

Although Reynolds and Janet could not make it to Foote on Saturday, Jim Boorsch joined the group for Reunion Day. The program was interesting, but the real highlights were picking up the familiar threads of our lives and re-weaving them.

We missed many of those who could not come and those who are no longer alive and especially felt for Elizabeth’s recent loss of her brother Milton, class of 1942.

Mostly, however, we talked of the pure pleasure of seeing each other, of travel, adventure, scholarship, teachers, and families past and present. We appeared to be a little wiser, a lot creakier, but otherwise much the same as in our earlier years.

The dominant politics: Democratic. Dominant sound effect: laughter. Still lively and curious, still deeply engaged in the world, and still profoundly appreciative of the place Foote has had in our lives. — Gladys Bozyan Lavine

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Pamela Pond Goss writes, “As of June (never can tell about July!) family has settled down: husband Donald still golfs and swims, watches Netflix, and uses computer a lot. Children (well, adults now!) and grandchildren and one GREAT-granddaughter, all doing well at what they each do. Best wishes to all.”

Michael Buchanan reminisces about cousin Eric A. Sturley ’27 who passed away in 2010. Well into his 90s, Eric survived World War II service in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. He received a Purple Heart, Croix de guerre, Silver Stars, and a lengthy article for capturing a French POW single-handedly. He was the elder son of Foote principal Winifred Sturley and is survived by his younger brother, Richard ’32. John Gardner enjoys Cleveland’s many cultural offerings, especially good music.

He continues to go back and forth to Martha’s Vineyard in summer. Anne Hunt Tritz writes, “When I came back [from England] to the States in 1952, I stayed with the Coopers in Woodbridge for a month or so and acquired a job as secretary in the alumni office at Yale. I found a room with the wife of a Korean soldier for a while and then was accepted at International House (they didn’t have enough foreign students). Then on to an apartment. After four years at Yale, I moved to New York and became secretary at a travel agency and after four years started to have my own clients. Then I met John (Tritz, a Frenchman), married and had two girls. We moved to New Jersey in ’68.

John worked at Bankers Trust until his retirement in 1988. We have a house in St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands) and spend about three months there in the winter. Due to our age, foreign travel seems like a thing of the past — we used to go to France regularly. I never went to college; as in the ’40s women only went if they were real brains (which I was not).” Emily Lewis Lattimore notes, “…through music, I realized that Art doesn’t just happen, but is — though inevitably informed by the Foote Prints

Saving the Earth (Truly) — One Case at a Time Peter Cooper ’52 Peter Cooper is not what he seems. Behind the starched shirt, silk tie, impeccably tailored suit and serene demeanor lies the soul of a ’60s radical. He sits in a conference room at his law offices above a tailor shop, in a restored building on Elm Street in New Haven, combing through the memories of his years as an environmental lawyer.

The environment commanded his attention from early on, back when he and a gaggle of other Foote students from Woodbridge piled into a 1940 woodie — a Ford station wagon with sides constructed of wood – for the trip each morning to Foote. “Growing up here, being part of the community, part of the countryside in which I was born, helped reinforce the importance of place for me,” he says.

He eventually landed at Yale Law School. It was the 1960s, and he was swept up in the idealistic fervor that had flooded campuses then. He vividly recalls one Yale Law School professor in particular, Charles A. Reich, a legal scholar and author of “The Greening of America,” who had offered up the challenge, “if you can identify where the system does not work fairly, can you find a way to help alleviate that problem?”

“I was dealing with teachers who had a huge impact on me in terms of what we could — and should — accomplish,” Peter says. “There was a sense that we needed to help deal with the situation and that we were learning the tools to do just that.”

At that time, effective federal environmental protection legislation for air and water did not exist.

After working as the zoning director for the city of New Haven and becoming increasingly involved in environmental work, Peter opened his own law firm with a partner interested in affordable housing initiatives. “It was April Fools’ Day, 1970,” he says, poker-faced.

The firm, now named Cooper, Whitney, Cochran & Francois, was private but with a focus on public interest work. One of his first cases: a developer had filed a plan to develop the Stratford Great Meadows, which was primarily wetlands. It was a perfect case for a young, idealistic environmental lawyer, but he had no one in particular to represent. So he represented his as-yet-unborn child. “When you are starting out, there are all kinds of risks you are willing to take,” he says.

The developer’s plan failed. The area is now protected from future development.

As his days have been spent saving farmland and wetlands from development, his nights and weekends have been filled with work on the more than 50 acres in Bethany he shares with his wife, Diana Starr Cooper, the first female graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Management. “She knows what she’s doing,” he says. “I pretend.”

Over the years he has witnessed the passage of major federal initiatives protecting the environment, including the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act. He has served as counsel to the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council on several cases, and the Nature Conservancy named him its environmental hero on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. He has been general counsel to the Connecticut Fund for the Environment for more than 30 years, and a legal fellowship named for him funds an internship in the field.

It has been a long career, challenging but rewarding. “There are too many chances to be overwhelmed by the dark side,” he says. “But I wake up each morning wanting to work on the types of environmental problems that I think need some help being solved.”

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Class of 1952 Well, classmates, six of us (Nancy Osterweis Alderman, Paola Oreffice Kulp, Ted Hilles and wife Jane Osgood, Jeremy Nahum, Peter Cooper, and Harald Hille) were able to make it to the 60th reunion at Foote last Saturday and everyone’s reactions were extremely positive — no embarrassing recognition scenes and lots to talk about, new and old. We missed the others who couldn’t make it but this little note is intended to bring them in as spectators. Many good conversations and I (HH) can only report on a few.

Nancy and I had managed to talk to Larry Kingsbury before the reunion (he couldn’t make it in the end). He has moved from Orleans to Chatham next door on Cape Cod and is still active singing in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church there. Carol Stanwood had sent her regrets that she couldn’t attend but said that she continues to work part-time as a psychotherapist and to staff a psychological crisis hot line in the Denver area. She also sings in a couple of groups there. Lee Gaillard couldn’t attend owing to a scheduling conflict and reported from Saranac Lake that he continues to improve his mastery of replaced joints and to write on aviation, American literature and history.

The school staff was very welcoming and the school looks great. The ceremonial part in one part of the huge gym lasted about an hour with Carol Maoz, the head of school since mid-2009, presenting inter alia the results of a survey that had been carried out recently into student, faculty, staff and parent satisfaction along various parameters (results were all encouragingly positive — the lowest score, in the ’80s, came from the question on staff satisfaction with school practices with regard to taking into account staff interests). Carol mentioned that the school will add Chinese as one of its foreign languages, a subject very dear to my heart. She also showed a slide show with pictures of the large school vegetable

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garden, whose produce is used both by the school and by a local food kitchen. The Alumni Prize awardee was Massimo Calabresi, a bright (maybe they’re all bright) graduate from the ‘80s, who writes inter alia for Time magazine, covering both international (Balkan war) and national issues.

A sixth-grade dance troupe presented some Filipino dances with much gusto. Lisa Farrel Totman, Toby’s younger sister, was presented with various tributes and accolades on her retirement after several decades of teaching, mostly third grade. An interesting aspect for me was the mention of Lisa’s focus on having kids learn some cooking skills (who in our time could you imagine would teach us cooking skills?). It all made me want to go back and do Foote again!

Just before lunch I passed around some of Serafina Kent Bathrick’s lovely watercolor cards from her winter home village outside Siracusa in Sicily (beats winters in Wisconsin). We all admired her choice of winter digs and her artistic skills. You can order some of her cards (search for her on Google or use the URL in my previous notes).

We were joined at lunch by Ted’s sister Susan (Sukie) and a classmate from 1947.

Paola talked about her recent trip to Cambodia and Vietnam. Ted and Jane

described their latest building/housing rehabilitation project, this one back in Brooklyn (they now live in Windsor, Vermont), where they are buying an old under-used/problematic building and converting it (mostly a legal/zoning process) into condominium apartments that can be owned and maintained by householders.

After lunch, we had a phone call from Stephanie Dunham Howell in Atlanta, where we got a chance to reconnect, for some after the full 60 years.

Ted and Jane then had to push off to join one of Ted’s sons in a family house near Lyme, Conn., and Peter had to head back to the farm in Woodbridge to mend a fence there or something. At that point, Nancy, one of the most can-do and organizing people I know, swung into action.

She took us on a walk around the neighborhood, first to the old school on St. Ronan Street, (looks much the same, minus a few jungle gyms and the big rainy weather shed in the playground), back along St. Ronan, past Nancy’s old house (site of a few parties and dances) and ending up in front of Jeremy’s old house at 85 Loomis Place across from the school (where Jeremy’s mother taught a number of you piano and we had our graduation).

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tour of the house (Jeremy liked what the new owners had done inside).

Nancy was only getting up to speed. We jumped into her car, and she showed us some of the new facilities on Yale’s Science Hill (where Nancy got a master’s in Environmental Studies in the ‘90s), past the site of Yale’s two new colleges (still just holes in the ground) across the street from the hockey rink over to the relatively new conversion of the old Winchester Arms factory into Science Park, a home for innovative joint ventures involving Yale faculty and business.

Nancy then took us through some of the new housing replacing the “poor” neighborhood on the NW side of the Yale campus, and then we came to Nancy’s pride and joy, the Farmington Canal Trail, a project that turned the former Farmington Canal (and later RR line) into a bike trail (goes from New Haven nearly to Northampton, Mass.), in which Nancy played a crucial role in convincing Yale not to build over the portion of the canal that Yale owned and to allow the conversion to a trail (President Richard Levin is one of her heroes). Nancy also did a very effective job of persuading our little group that New Haven had again become a very nice place to live and work. Her dad, whom a few of us at least remember from his course on the history of New Haven, would have much to be proud of in his daughter, as does our class.

By then, it was nearly 4 p.m. Jeremy had to meet his wife, Katherine, arriving by train from New York, so he gave Paola a lift down to the recently renovated Union Station (Paola and her sister Marina have kept their old NYC apartment), and I headed home to Riverside. It was a fine day, and we all hope we can do it again soon, not waiting for 2017 and with the participation of as many others as can possibly make it.

Be well, and keep in touch. — Harald Hille

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Unconscious — consciously made.

Thus, the best thing anyone can ever say of a painting of mine is that it is — indefinably — ‘musical.’”

1946 Class Correspondents: Kent Healy Kent.Healy@verizon.net Karen Wylie Pryor karenpryor@comcast.net

1947 Class Correspondent: Gladys Bozyan Lavine GBLavine@gmail.com

Please see reunion report on page 50.

Our deep sympathy to Elizabeth DeVane Edminster whose brother, Milton DeVane ’42, died April 7, 2012.

1948 65th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Gay Spykman Harter writes that she continues to advocate for a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. She is part of the First Church P-I task force.

1949 Class Correspondent: Sallie Farrel Brown salliebb7435@msn.com

Ginny Owen Torrance writes from Colorado, “My life is a little too quiet and ordered for my tastes. But my health is good, and the Boulder setting is very beautiful. I read a lot and am looking to be a useful volunteer somewhere.”

1950 Class Correspondent: Mary Pigott Johnsen jlmpjohnsen@west-point.org

1951 Class Correspondent: Emily Mendillo Wood 118 Fifth Avenue Milford, CT 06460-5206 203-878-9963

1952 Class Correspondent: Harald Hille harald.hille@gmail.com

Please see reunion report on page 52.

We received the sad news from Atlanta that Stephanie Dunham Howell, our beloved classmate, died peacefully and surrounded by her family at the age of 73 on Sept. 7, 2012, after a recurring battle with lymphoma.

Stephanie was the daughter of Professor and Mrs. William Dunham of Yale’s History Department, and she and her brother Lee both attended Foote. Steph graduated from Vassar in 1961 and met her husband, Henry Howell, while working in Boston. Henry had known the Dunhams from his Yale years. They married in 1963 and built an active life together in Atlanta, raising three children and eight grandchildren. Steph was active in numerous cultural and civic organizations. Like her mother, she loved nature and was an enthusiastic gardener, birdwatcher, conservationist, and photographer. She will be sorely

In 2016, we will be celebrating Foote’s 100th anniversary, and we are seeking archival materials — letters, photos, school reports, music sheets, any item that seems meaningful to Foote's history. Please send them (originals or copies) to Maria Granquist at The Foote School, 50 Loomis Place, New Haven, CT 06511.

If digitized, you may email Maria at mgranquist@footeschool.org. THaNk you!

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Discovering Passions Worth Fighting For — By Land and Sea Charlote ‘Mopsy’ Seymour Lovejoy ’55 Life’s adventures can be hair-raising enough without sticking one’s neck out, but Charlotte ‘Mopsy’ Seymour Lovejoy ’55 could never settle for being a wallflower.

After Foote, Miss Porter’s and Smith, she traveled with a friend through the Middle East in a taxi. Once they reached the Suez Canal, they hopped a boat to India. “I don’t know why our parents let us,” she says. “But they did.”

Marriage and three children kept her busy, but one day in 1970 she decided to take a scuba diving class at the local YMCA in New Haven, intending to research marine life. Soon after, she began diving throughout the world, asked her daughters to learn, and often took them with her.

She moved with her family to McLean, Va., where she and her husband, the renowned scientist Thomas Lovejoy, divorced nine years after they married, “I had no real profession; I thought life was lovely the way it was, at home with the children, but I had to feed them,” she says. “They kept me going and gave me purpose in a dark time.”

She took courses in respiratory therapy and marine zoology at George Washington University and took a job at Arlington Hospital in Virginia. Then, in 1993, she decided to fulfill a lifelong dream. Leaving all that she owned on land to her now-adult children, she bought a 49-foot Grand Banks trawler — without having any idea how to drive it — and moved to a marina just below the Smithsonian Institution.

“I really think I’m kind of nuts,” she says.

It must have been a happy kind of crazy. She spent months each year motoring up and down the east coast from Newport to the Bahamas, diving all the way. She helped research marine life in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia for Dr. Eugenie Clark, a worldrenowned ichthyologist and shark expert at the University of Maryland. And she became passionately involved with lemur conservation after diving in the impoverished island nation of Madagascar.

During this time, her beloved brother, Charley Seymour ’57, was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His lungs were failing. In 1997, she walked into Massachusetts General Hospital to give him part of her own lung in the hopes of supplementing his own. Heartbreakingly, her brother died soon after the operation.

Three years later, she moved to Florida on the boat, which she sold in 2006.

Struggling now with the same lung disease her brother fought, but with her mind and dry wit as quick as ever, she lives half the year in Florida, half in Washington D.C. close to her children. She does hospice work in Fort Myers, helps to support a school in Ecuador, and “Girls on the Run,” a nationwide Washington-based non-profit, and continues her work with the Lemur Conservation Foundation.

In Washington, she also bathes in the joy of being a grandmother. “This now is my happiness,” she says.

She remembers well her days and her friends at Foote, when classes were in the mews on St. Ronan Street, Mrs. Sturley was head of school, and Mrs. Hitchcock (‘Hitchy’ to most) gave her a love of language, reading, and words. And the friends she made in third grade at Foote remain her friends today.

“That’s really made a huge difference in my life,” she says. “You know people so awfully well when you grow up with them — in and out — and we all had each other’s backs. We still do.”

With her typical enthusiasm and curiosity, she has started a new life chapter, one that — true to form — is focused heavily on helping others. “It’s very challenging, but also very interesting,” she says. “As usual, I’m learning a lot.”

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missed. Wilford Welch writes, “The past 60 years have been good to me, despite the normal ups and downs. I am very happily married, have two daughters who are also happily married, have active professions, and great children. My life has been very international and will clearly remain so. (For example, I am flying to Cuba next Tuesday to join my wife, Carole, there to help lead a trip for her company, Cross Cultural Journeys. (Please go to www.CrossCulturalJourneys.com, if you have an inkling to go on culturally oriented trips to such places as Cuba, Turkey, India, and Ethiopia). I have undertaken a few risky things physically over the years, and occasionally paid a high price, but nothing that dampens my enthusiasm or hinders my activities — although it does bring into question my judgment. I am deeply concerned about the global sustainability challenge, given the doubling of the world’s population in a mere 45 years, coupled with the world’s current value system encompassed by the phrases ‘more is better’ and ‘economic growth at all costs,’ and I am doing my best to help bring about a shift in the values and the actions of individuals, corporations, or public policy makers that will lead us toward a more sustainable world for future generations. (If any of that is of interest, I spell it out in more detail at www.WilfordWelch.com).”

Jessica Rostow, Doug Curtiss, Eleanor Warren Faller and Sam Howe, all class of '62, at the class dinner at Cecie Clement's house.

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1953 60th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Robert Wing wing@astronomy.ohio-state.edu

1954 The Class of 1967 needs a class correspondent. If you are willing to take on the job, please contact Danielle Plante in the alumni office at dplante@footeschool.org.

Herrick Jackson wrote that two of his sons are getting married this fall; one wedding is on the east coast in Springfield, Mass., the other on the west coast in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Three weeks apart!

1955 Class Correspondents: Nawrie Meigs-Brown nawrie@comcast.net Lee Dunham LDunham@sandw.com

We send heartfelt condolences to Lee Dunham whose sister, Stephanie Dunham Howell ’52, died on Sept. 7,

2012, after a courageous battle with lymphoma.

1956 Class Correspondent: Will Amatruda Willtam88@hotmail.com

Anne Bronson Brueckner writes, “I’m celebrating the beginning of my second year relocated from Forest Hills to Rhinebeck (N.Y.), near sister Gretchen Bronson Lytle ’61 and daughter Laurie and family, while still working fulltime (three days in NYC, two at home).

I’ve even found a challenging and rewarding singing group in Woodstock — Ars Choralis — and am enjoying my grandkids, going to soccer games, having sleepovers. Lucky me!”

1957 Class Correspondent: Kevin Geenty kevin@geentygroup.com

Kevin Geenty recently attended the 51st reunion of his high school class.

He continues to work in the commercial real estate brokerage business with

Class of 1957

The Class of 1957 was represented at their 55th reunion by Joan Johnson Stone, Richard Petrelli, and Melissa Bradley.

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1960 Class Correspondent: Happy Clement Spongberg happyspongberg@earthlink.net

1961 Class Correspondent: Muffie Clement Green m_c_green@sbcglobal.net

Don Ross, Buffy Alley Kelly, David Gross, Natalie Wilmer Blenk, Deborah Stilson Abbott, Susie McAllister, Susie Swords Stevens, Ellen Hooker, Laura Kautz Baker, and Cecie Clement.

Class of 1962 Ten members of the Class of ’62 returned to Foote for our 50th reunion. We marveled how quickly the years have passed, shared fond memories of Foote, and congratulated each other on looking relatively unchanged after half a century.

Cecie Clement hosted a party at her house on East Rock Road that evening where classmates Doug Curtiss, Sam Howe, Jessica Rostow, and Ellen Warren Faller joined us for cocktails, dinner, and more reminiscences. Cecie deserves special recognition for spearheading our reunion committee, diligently tracking down missing classmates, editing our reunion notes and photographs, and — finally — hosting a wonderful gathering (without ever mentioning she had to be on a plane to London the next day!). We wished everyone from Foote ’62 could have been with us.

Class of 1967

The Class of 1967 was represented at their 45th reunion by Katie Hicks and Nina Barclay, seen here with Head of School Carol Maoz.

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no end (retirement) in sight or even desired at this point. Richard Petrelli writes, “I was privileged to be one of three classmates attending our 55th Reunion. Joan Johnson did superb cyber research and reconnected with Melissa Bradley. Melissa flew in from Colorado where she raises Thistledown Highland cattle at 7,000 feet (www.thistledownranch.net).

The school presentations, student performances, and luncheon all contributed to a wonderful reunion.”

Muffie Clement Green writes, “Wonderful to be at reunion. The new science and technology building is amazing! Wow. Headed to Scotland this summer [with cousin Cecie Clement ‘62]. Best to all in the class of 1961!”

1962 Class Correspondent: Donald O. Ross dross@winvcounsel.com

1963 50th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Susan Stratton susan@strattonpartners.com

We extend our sympathy to Kathy Arnstein whose mother, Mary Arnstein, died on Sept. 3, 2012.

1964 Class Correspondent: Verdi DiSesa vdisesa@cchosp.com

Our condolences to Pauline Lord, whose father, George Lord, died March 31, 2012.

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Class Correspondent: Eric Triffin Eric_Triffin@aya.yale.edu

Class Correspondent: Eric Berger ericberger@aol.com

Our condolences to Woody Lord, whose father, George Lord, died March 31, 2012.

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1966 Class Correspondent: John N. Deming, Jr. johndeming@yahoo.com

Class of 1972

1967 The Class of 1967 needs a class correspondent. If you are willing to take on the job, please contact Danielle Plante in the alumni office at dplante@footeschool.org.

Please see reunion report on page 56.

1968 45th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Liz Prelinger prelinge@georgetown.edu

1969 Class Correspondent: Meg McDowell Smith megsmithvt@gmavt.net

Our condolences to John Kirby, whose mother, Jean Kirby, died April 16, 2012. Mrs. Kirby was assistant to the headmaster from 1966–91.

Cathy Hosley Vouwie, Jim Gordon, Gardy Morse, Amy Estabrook, Rob Gurwitt, Carol Ann Celella, Michael Lipson, Greta Nettleton, Dolores Delgado, Tom Kligerman, Rob Meyer, and Louise Preston Werden

In recognition of our 40th reunion, there were 12 of us from the Class of ’72 who met up at Foote for the award ceremony and class photo. They included Mike Lipson, Gardy Morse, Carol Ann Bradburn Celella, Bob Meyer, Tom Kligerman, Greta Nettleton, Dolores Delgado, Jim Gordon, Louise Preston Werden, Rob Gurwitt, Amy Estabrook, and Cathy Hosley Vouwie. After the photo we split into self-guided groups interested in the past (the old kindergarten rooms) and the future (the amazing new science building). For those who have not visited in a long time, Foote has really grown into quite an impressive campus.

1970 The Class of 1967 needs a class correspondent. If you are willing to take on the job, please contact Danielle Plante in the alumni office at dplante@footeschool.org.

Our condolences to Henry Lord, whose father, George Lord, died March 31, 2012.

1972 Class Correspondents: Amy Estabrook heyamo@snet.net Cathy Hosley Vouwie chv79@hotmail.com

Greta Nettleton writes, “I’m publishing my book, ‘The Quack’s Daughter,’ a family memoir, in July on Kindle as an e-book. Subtitled ‘A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl,’ it tells the story of my greatSummer/Fall 2012

After we had all relived memories and perhaps wished we were back in school taking classes (maybe not math), we went to Amy’s house for an afternoon cookout. Craig Sleeper Schiavone drove up from Westport, Conn., and joined the throng there, bearing champagne and the news that she has recently remarried.

Carol Ann, who is a minister living in Cheshire, had baked a batch of homemade pies for dessert and confided that she had discovered pies were a magnet at the church coffee hour. After the first bite we immediately understood! Rob, who recently coauthored a book about Circus Smirkus, also showed his baking skills by bringing delicious homemade challah rolls.

It was wonderful to have the afternoon to catch up with one another in an informal setting, and reassuring to find how easily we pick up from wherever we left off, no matter how many years have passed. Tom, an architect in New York, is always traveling to interesting far-flung places for clients and is co-author of a book, “Ike Kligerman Barkley Houses” published in 2010. Greta is working on two books, about her grandmother and great-grandmother, both path-breaking women.

Kudos to Dolores and Bob, who travelled the farthest—from southern Florida.

We missed all who were unable to be with us and hope that you can make the 45th. Who knows… by then we may have pictures of grandchildren to share.

— Cathy Hosley Vouwie

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Classical Ideas, Honed at the Family Dinner Table And Going Strong at a D.C. School Diana Smith ’73 Diana Smith ’73 grew up in a home filled with books and ideas and above all, philosophy, unavoidable because her parents were both philosophy professors, and dinner table conversations centered on ideas. Philosophy was such an overriding topic in her childhood that a longtime family joke was, “Does dinner exist?”

It must have, because those dinners are woven into the fabric of her memory. “I knew that my life would be spent talking with young people about ideas that mattered,” she says.

After Foote, Milton Academy, and Princeton, she kept talking to students, for 21 years at St. Anne’s Belfield School in Charlottesville, Va., where she rose to become assistant head for academics. But the biggest step of her career occurred within the past five years, when she took a leap of faith to move to the Washington Latin Charter School in Washington, D.C. Hired by a former teacher from Hamden Hall Country Day School in Hamden, she faced the challenges — crumbling school buildings, impoverished, often hungry students, crime, and a laundry list of other issues — to accept the position of assistant head of school at what is known as a ‘classical charter’ that mandates six years of Latin.

With 600 students in grades 5 through 12, 85 percent of whom are African-American, the school ‘s admission is by lottery, and Diana will tell you most parents don’t care what kind of charter it is; they just want their children to be safe.

She will also tell you that she is fashioning her school after the ones from her own childhood. “We are trying the experiment of a rigorous system with every single kid here,” she says. “But we are trying not to be a fussy old throwback, when times were good and we all walked 100 miles to school. We are teaching principles, and one I hold dearly is that the curriculum is intended to make you a better person. What you learn and what you read makes you who you are.”

She walks the walk of her old head of school, Frank Perrine, who made it a point at Foote to know the children. She walks the halls of her own school now, although it is certainly not a regal walk: she mops floors, cleans up guinea pig cages and still teaches a section of senior English. She views her years at Washington Latin with a secular religiosity, talking about connections between the intellectual and the moral, “the good and the beautiful and the true.”

As she bicycles around Washington’s streets, opens the doors of her nearby home to faculty and students alike, and contemplates a return to her tennis-playing days, she sometimes thinks of her days at Foote, how in first grade she created grade reports for her dog that mimicked Foote’s own student reports, how Frank Perrine taught her geography, how Bob Sandine gave her room in eighth grade to succeed — or fail — when he worked with her on a production of “Our Town.”

It may be just a coincidence that the school sits in three former church buildings along 16th Street in Washington, and it may be just a coincidence that she calls her teachers “saints,” yet what is clearly evident is that education is Smith’s religion, and school for her is a holy place.

“We are trying here at Washington Latin to create a moral environment without the religious underpinnings,” she says. “Foote definitely shaped the way I think about schools; the idea that you are teaching mind, body, heart, and soul came from Foote,” she says. “Schools are more than factories; they are monasteries to me.”

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grandmother, a piano prodigy from Iowa who was sent to Vassar in 1884 to elevate her family’s disreputable social status. Her mother was notorious across the Midwest as the self-made patent medicine millionaire named Mrs. Dr. Keck.” Greta adds, “I’m still living outside NYC in Rockland County. My older son, Alexander, planned to hike the Appalachian Trail this summer, and my younger son, Luc, is a sophomore at University of Vermont. For the latest information about my book, please visit my website, www.gretanettleton.com.”

Rob Gurwitt co-wrote “Circus Smirkus: 25 Years of Running Home to the Circus!” (June, 2012), a behind-the-scenes account of the Vermont-based circus troupe. In fact, Rob’s two children performed with Circus Smirkus this summer.

1973 40th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Peter Hicks phicks@websterbank.com John Persse john921@juno.com

1974 The Class of 1967 needs a class correspondent. If you are willing to take on the job, please contact Danielle Plante in the alumni office at dplante@footeschool.org.

1975 Class Correspondent: Jessica Drury sjsaz@optonline.net

In 2016, we will be celebrating Foote’s 100th anniversary, and we are seeking archival materials — letters, photos, school reports, music sheets, any item that seems meaningful to Foote's history.

Please send them (originals or copies) to Maria Granquist at The Foote School, 50 Loomis Place, New Haven, CT 06511.

If digitized, you may email Maria at mgranquist@footeschool.org. THaNk you!

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Class of 1977

The Class of 1977 had a merry time catching up. Lizzie Roth LaFarge, Bill Alderman, Elizabeth Daley Draghi, Brian Drutman, and Katherine Johnson Atkinson came back to campus.

Despite cloudy skies and cool weather for early May, the Class of 1977 was well represented at our 35th Reunion by a small, but devoted, contingent of alumni.

Elizabeth Roth LaFarge, Kate Johnson Atkinson, Brian Drutman, Bill Alderman, and Elizabeth Daley Draghi once again gathered to share memories and stories of days long gone, while filling each other in on our current lives and, in particular, the daunting prospect of turning 50!

Lizzie and Kate are each busy with their respective medical practices and children (Lizzie’s son and daughter joined us for lunch before spending some more enjoyable quality time with Lizzie’s parents on the lower school playground!). Brian continues to produce Broadway soundtracks in NYC, and Bill is raising two teenaged daughters while engaged in the fast-paced life of an investment banker. I am still working as an in-house attorney for UBS in Hartford and have three daughters (11, 10 and 7 years old) and a 21-year-old son who just graduated from college (how can this have happened so quickly?!). Lunch was spent reminiscing with Mr. Sandine (who never ages!), followed by a walk around the lower school and visit to our kindergarten classrooms — it is amazing how much we remembered from those years. Brian is especially good at recalling the names of all of our former teachers. Sadly, our busy personal lives did not permit us to spend more than just a few hours at the Reunion together, but we have each committed to freeing up more time at future Reunions, if not before, to have dinner together on Reunion weekend and we would love it if any of our other classmates could return to New Haven to join us!

While we are all busy with our everyday lives and careers, we all mentioned how comforting it is to be with people you have known since childhood at a place that holds such fond memories. We hope many of you, dear classmates, will consider joining us at future Reunions to reconnect and share in our collective history (perhaps even to celebrate Foote’s 100th Anniversary in 2016!) Best wishes to all.

— Elizabeth Daley Draghi

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Art Fuels a Life of Landscapes and Love Kate DeVane ’82 Unbeknownst to Kate DeVane ’82, all that she had done before arriving on Martha’s Vineyard in her mid 20s had prepared her for what she was about to face on that mostly rural, if privileged, island. Little had been clear up until that point. A degree in Fine Arts from the college of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University had honed her artistic skills, but “there are not hundreds of job opportunities when you are a sculpture major,” she says. A chance meeting with former Foote head of school Frank Perrine resulted in a teaching job at Foote, where Kate encountered teachers for whom the word ‘yes’ was the only acceptable response. “Lisa Totman (Foote’s former third grade teacher) is a perfect example,” she says. “She never didn’t get anything done. At Foote, I was always encouraged to figure out what was best for the student.”

Years of watching her mother, Margie DeVane, work with people with disabilities through the Greenbriar program at Edgerton Park in New Haven, where “she expected a lot of them and gave them a lot of respect,” instilled in her a belief that people perform to the level expected of them.

Still, art was her passion, and after an art show in New Haven with Foote art Kate DeVane with her son, Mark Bernard colleagues, she moved to Boston, then Martha’s Vineyard, to pursue a life in art.

And that is when the life she has today began. She discovered that sculpture translates in a practical fashion into landscape design. She built a house from plans she drew on a paper napkin. And she fell in love with a carpenter, Mark Bernard, who came to work on her house. She married him, had twins — one of whom is autistic — and used all that she had learned in that earlier life to blossom in the new one.

She is now a sought-after landscape designer. She also found her voice as the mother of an autistic child on an island with no teaching hospitals, an underfunded support system for children with disabilities, and a lack of understanding about what those children need. But the community was supportive of Kate’s suggestions. She began raising money, so successfully that she leads a non-profit providing equipment and resources to children with autism and their families.

“It’s been a baptism by fire,” she says. “There were a lot of things that were needed for kids with disabilities. It’s huge to have a support system for other parents and other professionals who can guide you in the right direction. Autism doesn’t just affect the child; it affects everyone.”

Her son, Mark, uses an iPad and sign language to communicate and attends Martha’s Vineyard’s Bridge program, where he spends part of his day in a general classroom.

“He lets me know what he wants and needs,” she says. After years spent calming him when he woke screaming and crying from an inability to process what he was hearing and seeing, the family is now witnessing a huge step forward. “He’s developed a much more comfortable situation with the people around him,” Kate says. Maggie, his twin, is thriving in second grade, a loving sister who helps and encourages her brother to achieve.

With fulfilling vocations and avocations, could it be time to take a breath? Absolutely not. “Ultimately, I hope to buy a piece of property here and have a campus for families and kids with autism,” she says. “The siblings can meet other siblings, the kids can meet other kids with autism, we can have speakers. It may take me a while, but ultimately, I think it will happen.”

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1976 Class Correspondent: Hyla Flaks Crane hyla@steppingstonesmuseum.org

Class of 1982

1977 Class Correspondent: Elizabeth Daley Draghi gdraghi@sbcglobal.net

Please see reunion report on page 59.

Christopher Bayes, a professor at Yale School of Drama, credits his experience with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Foote with helping him fall in love with the stage. As he discusses in the Spring 2012 “Taft Bulletin,” “When we put the scene together, we’d rehearse it in really weird places to see what we could discover. We did the scene on the bus. Or we’d go and do it standing in the rain. Or on the beach. Crazy things!

I don’t know if I’d be doing theater today if it hadn’t been for that.”

1978 35th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondents: Nell DeVane Eleanor.S.DeVane@espn.com Stephen Fontana SAFontana@aol.com

Our deep sympathy to Nell DeVane whose father, Milton DeVane ’42, died on April 7, 2012.

Bob Sandine, Clark Thompson, Tom Fontana, Haven Tyler, Leila Wood Stuhr, Darren Clark, Debbie Fong Carpenter, Kate DeVane, Bethany Schowalter Appleby and Massimo Calabresi

We can’t believe that this year we had our 30th reunion at Foote! It was extra special this year because our classmate, Massimo Calabresi, received the Alumnus Achievement award. Although we missed some of our usual reunion stalwarts to family weddings, international travel and other conflicts, we had a great group of ’82-ers attend the reunion festivities. Attendees included: honoree Massimo Calabresi, Darren Clark, Clark Thompson, Debbie Fong Carpenter, Haven Tyler, Bethany Appleby, Kate Devane, Tom Fontana, and Leila (Gus) Stuhr. For our Saturday night get-together, we celebrated in a private room (with our own dedicated bartender) at downtown Irish pub Anna Liffey’s with the class of ’92, Debbie Fong Carpenter’s little sister’s class. Many thanks to Doug Cuthbertson ’92 for helping corral his class for this event. During our celebration, we lifted a glass to Clinton White who could not attend but sent a generous contribution for food and drink. It was terrific to hear Massimo speak about Foote’s impact on his life and his impressive more recent experiences, and everyone enjoyed catching up as always.

It was also fun getting to know spouses and significant others. Thanks for putting up with us!

1979 Class Correspondent: Bonnie Welch Bonniewelch@taftschool.org

1980 Class Correspondent: Liz Geller Brennan gelbren@aol.com

Bill Perrine, wife Anne Roche Perrine ’84, and family moved to Boxborough, Mass. in July; Bill is the new head of Oak Meadow Montessori School Summer/Fall 2012

(PK–8) in Littleton, Mass. Clara (12) and Henry (9) will attend Oak Meadow and Oliver (14) will begin ActonBoxborough Regional High School.

1981 Class Correspondents: Jennifer LaVin jen2766@gmail.com Nicolas Crowley nyjcrowley@hotmail.com

1982 Class Correspondent: Bethany Schowalter Appleby bappleby@wiggin.com

Our deep sympathy to Kate DeVane whose father, Milton DeVane ’42, died on April 7, 2012. Foote will welcome Paul Giamatti back to New Haven as he portrays Hamlet in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production in Spring 2013.

(See back cover for ticket information.)

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Snow, died on Sept. 10, 2012. Our deep sympathy to Spencer Luckey, whose father, Tom Luckey, died Aug. 19, 2012. Isabel Askenase Stover just released her debut CD, “Her Own Sweet World,” available through her music website, www.isabelstover.com or at www.cdbaby.com/cd/isabelstover.

Class of 1987

1986 Class Correspondent: Ellen Prokop prokop@frick.org

1987 Class Correspondents: Jonathan Levin jdlevin@stanford.edu Several members of the Class of 1987 celebrated their 25th reunion. On hand were Jeff Hickey, Michael Crowley, Christina Chen Paul, Kent Zimmermann, Liz Caputo Bashawaty, Nate Rees, and Avery Grauer.

1983 30th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Brinley Ford Ehlers Brinleysf@aol.com

Our deepest condolences to Owen Luckey whose father, Tom Luckey, died Aug. 19, 2012.

1985 Class Correspondent: Carter LaPrade Serxner lapserx@gmail.com

We extend our deepest sympathy to David Snow whose father, Dr. Bernard Snow, died on Sept. 10, 2012. John Sasaki is still in digital effects for the film industry. He worked on the 2012 blockbuster “The Amazing Spider-Man” and is currently working on a Keanu Reeves fantasyadventure-action film, “47 Ronin,” to be released in 2013.

We extend our deepest sympathy to Harry Snow whose father, Dr. Bernard

1984 Class Correspondent: Ann Pschirrer Brandt apschirrer@aol.com

Our deep sympathy to Will DeVane whose father, Milton DeVane ’42, died on April 7, 2012. Anne Roche Perrine, husband Bill Perrine ’80 and family moved to Boxborough, MA in July, as Bill was recently named Head of Oak Meadow Montessori School.

(See class notes under 1980). They have plenty of room for visitors!

Anne continues her work as a criminal defense attorney.

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Author and illustrator Elisha Cooper '86 with Maurice Sendak, who died May 8, 2012.

On the day of Sendak's death, Elisha wrote, "In the few times I was lucky enough to talk with him, Maurice Sendak was indefatigably kind and generous. He also swore constantly.

For these and other reasons, today feels both sad and sweet."

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Class of 1992

Katie Altshul ’89 married Eric Darci on May 5 in Warren, Vermont.

1988 25th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Caleb Wertenbaker is living in Brooklyn and working as design director for Preston Bailey Designs, an event company. As Caleb puts it, “We mostly design décor for weddings for the 1 percent (or the .01%). It’s frivolous and is not saving the world, but it’s fun. Among other things, we had a royal wedding in Saudi Arabia in May.” Jon Lieber is now VP, Sales & Partnerships, at InsideOut Sports & Entertainment in New York City, overseeing a professional tennis tour featuring Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, John McEnroe and other notable players.

1989 Class Correspondent: Toya Hill Clark trose7@hotmail.com

We extend our deepest sympathy to Daniel Snow whose father, Dr. Bernard Snow, died on Sept. 10, 2012. Wende Valentine and husband Jake Norton have been busy with a very special and personal fundraiser for Water For People, the organization for which Wende works, as Jake attempts to summit 21 of the world’s peaks to raise Summer/Fall 2012

Jenny Fong Stevenson, Douglas Cuthbertson, Peter Leckman, Elissa Schpero, Alicia Horwitz, Tad Zimmerman, Jon Ingersoll, Katie Madden Kavanagh, and Jeremy Angoff and many of their children.

The Class of 1992 was represented at the 2012 Reunion Day by Alicia Horwitz, Elissa Schpero, Jeremy Angoff, Peter Leckman, Tad Zimmerman, Jenny Fong, Katie Madden Kavanagh, (who gets the travel award coming from Wilson, Wyoming), Jon Ingersoll, Jenny Fong, and me. Many brought along their significant others and, as befitting our age, children! Alicia, Jeremy, Jenny, Katie, and I brought along our kids, who were all too young to play foursquare (at least effectively), but who all enjoyed the day as well. For those of us who had not walked around the campus in some time, myself included, it was fun to remember where we had spent so much time, and to also see buildings that have been created or altered in the last 20 years, as well as buildings currently under construction. The school looks great — definitely the same place — but with some key additions.

It was also fun to see some teachers that we all knew, including, among others, Lynne Valentine, Lisa Totman, Hannah Leckman, Cindy Raymond, and “Madame” Giannella. I think it amazed them to see how different many of us now appear, but perhaps not too surprising to see that we have really not changed in other ways and are just adult versions of the same people.

The Class of 1982 was kind enough to organize an event that night at Anna Liffey’s, where we were all able to gather to drink, eat, and talk some more. Thank you very much to Bethany Appleby and Deborah Fong Carpenter (Jenny’s older sister) for letting us tag along! And thanks as well to Steve Yardan, who joined us for a few drinks.

See you all at our 25th reunion, where I am sure there will be even more children, and perhaps slightly greyer hair, or maybe just less of it. — Douglas Cuthbertson

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Class of 1997

1992 Class Correspondent: Katie Madden Kavanagh katieblee@hotmail.com

Class Correspondent: Brett Nowak Nowak.Brett@gmail.com

Please see reunion report on Page 63.

Katy Zandy Atlas katy91@gmail.com

1993 20th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondent: Jenny Keul jennykeul@gmail.com

1994 The Class of 1997 was represented by Lily Rhodeen and Eliza Sayward. Ali Gusberg was on campus but not in the photo.

awareness and funds for people who don’t have access to safe drinking water.

For more information or to donate, please visit www.challenge21.com.

Congratulations to Katie Altshul who married Eric Darci on May 5 in Warren, Vermont. Brother Jon Altshul ’88 was also in attendance.

1990 Class Correspondent: Rachel Batsford rachelb1357@gmail.com

Dave Holley writes, “Enjoying being the proud father of a miniature pinscher named Apache. Passed my Shodan (Black Belt) exam in Kendo in May. Working as a virtual event project manager in San Francisco at ON24.com and studying for the PMP (Project Management Professional) exam.”

Class Correspondent: Arna Berke-Schlessel Zohlman arna.zohlman@gmail.com

Our sincerest condolences to Ben Berkowitz whose father, Jeremy Berkowitz, died Aug. 12. J.D. Messick lives in Brooklyn and works for Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects.

1995 Class Correspondent: Jack Hill seaburyhill@aol.com

Matthew Milikowsky writes, “I’m off to Camp Nathan Smith (a former Soviet vegetable canning factory) inside Kandahar City [Afghanistan] for a nine-month tour with second Stryker Brigade. I serve as the brigade’s prosecutor, rule of law attorney, and rules of engagement attorney.”

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Lee Ann Richter writes, “I am completing my residency in Urology at Georgetown and enjoying living in Washington, D.C. with my husband and 1-year-old son.” Congratulations to Annie Berman-Greenstein and husband Seth who welcomed daughter Olivia Lynne Greenstein on Feb. 7, 2012.

1997 Class Correspondent: Eliza Sayward elizasayward@yahoo.com

Emily Williams is working as a development coordinator at YaleNew Haven Hospital and plans to be married this fall.

1998 15th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondents Andrew Lebov alebov@gmail.com Elisabeth Sacco saccopotatoes@gmail.com

Our condolences to John Berkowitz whose father, Jeremy Berkowitz, died Aug. 12. Congratulations to Audra Noble who married Ryan Bekkerus in May 2011 and welcomed son Hudson in July 2012. Audra and Ryan live in Darien, Conn.

1999

Class Correspondent: Bo Bradstreet ebradstr@gmail.com

We extend our deepest sympathy to Jenna Snow whose father, Dr. Bernard Snow, died on September 10, 2012.

1996

Class Correspondents: Chelsea Rittchen 139 Fountain St. Apt. A9 New Haven, CT 06515-1926 203-387-8493 Olivia Lynne Greenstein, daughter of Annie Berman Greenstein '96 and Seth Greenstein, born Feb. 7, 2012

Jeremy Zuidema jmzuidema@gmail.com

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Class of 2002

2001 Class Correspondents: Adam Jacobs 14 Tanglewood Lane Woodbridge, CT 06525 203-393-1760 Cassie Pagnam cassie.pagnam@gmail.com

2002

Rachel Plattus and Michael Wiles represented the Class of 2002 at Reunion Day 2012

2000 Class Correspondents: Alex Kleiner alex.m.kleiner@gmail.com Shannon Sweeney smsweeney07@gmail.com

Our condolences to Brianna Berkowitz whose father, Jeremy Berkowitz, died Aug. 12. Becca Williams graduated from Quinnipiac’s accelerated nursing program with a BSN, and is currently working in the SICU (surgical intensive care unit) at Yale-New Haven Hospital as a nurse. Eleanor Campisano writes, “I’ve had a great year in Tanzania, working at Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam for the non-profit 2Seeds Foundation to increase food security among the country’s many small farmers (see my blog: http://theadventuresofellie. wordpress.com). My mom and little sister came to visit me in March and enjoyed seeing this beautiful country.

After traveling around Africa and through Europe with my boyfriend, I am now back in New York City, where I start a job shortly with Citizen Schools, a non-profit that partners with middle schools to expand the learning day for low-income children; I’ll be deputy campus director at Bronx Writing Academy in the South Bronx.”

Summer/Fall 2012

Class Correspondents: Hope Fleming 47 Old Quarry Road Guilford, CT 06437 203-453-9400 Eric Mayer fmayer2010@gmail.com

Our heartfelt sympathy to Kit Luckey whose father, Tom Luckey, died Aug. 19, 2012. Elise Silverstone graduated from Sacred Heart University in May 2012 with a master’s degree in elementary education. She planned to travel to Spain with her family over the summer. Hans Anderson-Dollhopf begins teaching sixth grade history in Glastonbury this fall. Last spring, Hans came to Foote to observe a class taught by Trevor Rosenthal the day before he presented his model lesson at Glastonbury. Aaron Rosenberg graduated from UConn School of Law

Class of 2005 Foote graduates in the Yale Class of 2012, from left – Hope Kronman, Michael Wysolmerski, Marty Keil, Joseph Schottenfeld, Marian Homans-Turnbull, and Sara Rosen

and will start at Brown Rudnick in Boston in October. He is engaged to his (Hopkins) girlfriend, Megan, and they have purchased a home in Natick, Mass.

2003 10th Reunion, May 4, 2013 Class Correspondents: Courtney Holmes msholmes@att.blackberry.net Adam Shapiro adamshapiro1488@gmail.com

By sheer coincidence, language teacher Jenny Byers bumped into Foote alumnae Rachael Konigsberg ’01 and Sammy Gelfand ’01 in upper Manhattan in May, right before a Foote alumni event.

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Adam Gabbard adamdgabbard@yahoo.com

Kate Monahan is worked in Mexico this summer with a Quaker non-profit, Casa de los Amigos, through a Haverford College program.

2007 Class Correspondents: Kenny Kregling Kregke01@gettysburg.edu Symphony Spell symphony.spell@gmail.com Foote alumni served as interns this summer in the Footebridge program, a collaboration between Foote School and the New Haven Public Schools. It combines a comprehensive summer program for public school kindergartners and first graders with teacher training in curriculum development, classroom management, and literacy instruction. From left to right, Joey Camilleri ’10, Rachel Wishnie-Edwards ’10, Jesse Phillips ’11, Maggie Peard ’10, Samantha Maoz ’11, Mollie Goldblum ’09.

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Class Correspondents: Dillon Long know33@gmail.com

Class Correspondents: Gabriella Rhodeen gabriella.rhodeen@gmail.com

Dana Schwartz dana.schwartz5@gmail.com

Dan Tebes tebesd@kenyon.edu

Peter Ferrante lives in Manhattan and attends the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. Daniel Broder writes, “I was hired to work on former (Virginia) Gov. Tim Kaine’s campaign for U.S. Senate. I am looking forward to the November elections as I try to keep the Senate blue in Virginia.”

Angela Moore graduated from Fairfield University in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and anthropology and a minor in philosophy. She was also inducted into the international honor society Phi Sigma Tau. Nathaniel Moore graduated from Skidmore College, magna cum laude. He plans to pursue a career in acting, film, and creative writing, along with sketch comedy and improv. He would love to hear from you! Tim Gabbard graduated from Albertus Magnus College where he was captain of the tennis team.

Mark Rosenberg graduated from Hofstra and is a singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn.

In 2016, we will be celebrating Foote’s 100th anniversary, and we are seeking archival materials — letters, photos, school reports, music sheets, any item that seems meaningful to Foote's history. Please send them (originals or copies) to Maria Granquist at The Foote School, 50 Loomis Place, New Haven, CT 06511. If digitized, you may email Maria at mgranquist@footeschool.org.

THANk yoU!

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2006 Class Correspondents: Audrey Logan logan.audrey@gmail.com

Our deepest condolences to Walker Luckey whose father, Tom Luckey, died Aug. 19, 2012. Sam Craft just finished his sophomore year at Middlebury College, majoring in Biochemistry. He is on the varsity cross country and indoor and outdoor track teams. Lloyd Hall and Daniel Homer worked as interns for the Foote Summer Drama Program’s production of “Funny Girl.”

2008 Class Correspondents: Michael Milazzo mmilaz3@pride.hofstra.edu Kate Reilly Yurkovsky ker2140@barnard.edu

Class of 2009 Foote alumnae celebrate graduation from Hopkins School: Lauren Monz, who is now attending Northwestern University, Kela Caldwell, attending Scripps College, and Caroline Monahan, in Dublin, Ireland, at Trinity College.

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New faculty and staff—Back row: Mike Golschneider (Art Associate), Tony Bures (Technology Coordinator); Middle row: Megan Maher (Curriculum Coordinator), Tristen Oifer (Receptionist), Silvia Gee (Assistant to the Head of School), Kelly Moran (Receptionist), Liz Wallach (Grade 3 Associate), Wendy Hollister (Technology Coordinator), Emily Buckley (Mixed Age Group Teacher), Jennifer Youngblood (Art), Carole Lupi (Grade 4 & 5 Associate); First Row: Gao Jun (Chinese Guest Teacher), Kiran Zaman (Kindergarten), Janet Cassarino (Spanish), Danielle Plante (Assistant Director of Development & Alumni Programs), McKenzie Stevens (Teaching Intern), Fatima Toor (Mixed Age Group), Lely Evans (Chinese)

Our deep sympathy to Nick Lima whose grandfather, Milton DeVane ’42, died on April 7, 2012. Mike Milazzo worked for Foote’s maintenance department over the summer.

Zoë Goetzmann is attending Sarah Lawrence College.

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Prize, was inducted into the Cum Laude Society, and will be attending Connecticut College in the fall.

Caroline Monahan is going to Trinity College (Dublin) to study law and French and plans to spend a year in France.

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Class Correspondents: Chris Blackwood cblackwood@andover.edu

Class Correspondents: Brandi Fullwood brandi.n.fullwood@gmail.com

Eva Kerman edk2123@barnard.edu

Clay Pepe cpepe13@choate.edu

Eva Kerman had a great senior year at Choate and planned to do volunteer work in Uganda this summer with her parents. She enters Barnard in the fall.

Mollie Goldblum was an intern for the Footebridge program this summer.

She enters Earlham College this fall.

Annie Fowler worked as an intern for the Foote Summer Drama Program’s production of “Funny Girl.” Toby Knisely worked for Foote’s maintenance and IT departments over the summer. Hamden Hall senior Victor Joshua will play basketball at St. Anselm College. Summer Irving received the Hamden Hall AP French

Walker Marlatt is in a band, “Something Simple” frequently playing the New Haven and shoreline area. Check them out on Facebook!

Walker spent spring semester at Choate abroad in La Coruña, Spain, along with fellow alum Julia McCarthy. Danny Smooke writes, “After an ACL injury, I came back to play golf at Westover and won five out of the seven matches I played. I will be captain of the varsity golf team this year.” Cameron Swift completed his junior year at Oxford High School. He ran Cross Country and, as a member of the Track team, was

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selected to 2012 All-Area, AllSouthwest Conference, and All-State teams. Cameron competed in the New England’s in Saco, Maine, in the 4x800 relay finishing fifth overall.

Joey Camilleri, Maggie Peard, and Rachel Wishnie-Edwards were all interns for the Footebridge program this summer. James Deng, a senior at Choate, was selected as one of four high school students to represent the United States at the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad in July in Washington, D.C. Countries from Argentina to Vietnam participate.

View the American Chemical Society’s video of the students at https://vimeo.com/44535290.

2011 Class Correspondents: Nate Barton natebarton95@gmail.com Britney Dumas bdumas13@gmail.com

Jesse Phillips finished his first year at Suffield Academy and enjoyed playing on the varsity lacrosse team. He and Samantha Maoz were interns for the Footebridge program this summer.

2012 Class Correspondents: Harrison Lapides yalehockey20@comcast.net Cassidy McCarns cassidymccarns22@gmail.com

Sam Burbank enjoyed working for Foote’s Summer Program. Mia Reid spent time in Texas and New York.

Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy joined twins Aléc and Mikel Zemborain in a geometry immersion class at Choate Rosemary Hall this summer, Peyton Swift and Cassidy McCarns went to the regional soccer championships, and Cassidy spent time at a soccer camp at Georgetown University.

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FACULTY NEWS Congratulations to Joe LaMacchia (Technical Support Specialist) who proposed to girlfriend Amy Kroeger aboard a sunset cruise around Newport, R.I. this spring. She said, “Yes!” And congratulations to Alexandra Wittner (Kindergarten) and husband Mark who welcomed daughter Linnea Grace Wittner on Aug. 8.

FORMER FACULTY & STAFF NEWS Congratulations to Alison Moncrief Bromage (Eighth Grade English, 2005–07 and 2008–09) and husband Andy who welcomed daughter Lark

Virginia Bromage on May 29 in Burlington VT. Our deep sympathy to Julia Reigeluth Smith (MAG, 1974–75; Third Grade, 1975–77) whose husband, George, died April 2, 2012. We are also sad to report the death of Jean Kirby (assistant to headmaster and Board liaison, 1966– 91) on April 16, 2012.

Dan Haron (Math, 1994–95 and Computer, 1996–97) recently stepped down as principal of Darien (Conn.)

High School to join his family’s real estate development company in New York. Congratulations to CJ Bell (teaching intern, 2010–11) who has been awarded the New England League of Middle Schools’ 2012

A Tribute to Milton DeVane: A Loving Family Man, A Thoughtful Scholar Milton DeVane ’42 was a quiet man who thought before he spoke, embraced learning as a way of life, and believed passionately in justice and fairness. A longtime and ardent supporter of The Foote School who served on the Board of Directors from 1969–77 and 1994–98, he died April 7 at home in Hamden surrounded by his family. He was 82.

“Promising Practitioners Award.”

CJ teaches seventh grade science at the Brookwood School in Manchester, Mass. Congratulations to Charlotte Murphy (director of Communications, 2005–11) who welcomed her first grandchild, Tanner George Murphy Aug. 15, 2012. Charlotte's daughter, Kathleen Murphy Galo ’98 becomes an aunt for the first time as well!

In Memoriam Hilda Sizer Warner ’32 April 20, 2012 Henry English ’33 July 15, 2012

Milton DeVane ’42

He attended Phillips Exeter after Foote, then Yale for his bachelor’s and law degrees. He studied in Cambridge for one year, and spent three years during the Korean conflict as an officer in the Navy. He served on the search committee that hired Frank Perrine as head of school in 1967, and Foote called on him again as a voice of wisdom in the search process that hired Jean Lamont in 1992. He served as Board president from 1973–75 and on the Executive and Development committees, and as counsel to the Board from 1974–84.

A lawyer who was a partner in Tyler, Cooper, Grant, Bowerman & Keefe of New Haven for his entire career, he was a wise advisor to his clients and a good friend to many. He is survived by his wife, Margaret DeVane of Hamden; two sisters: Margaret Logue ’40 of West Tisbury, Mass. and Elizabeth Edminster ’47 of Washington, D.C.; his three children: Nell DeVane ’78 of Cheshire, Conn., Katherine DeVane ’82 of West Tisbury, and Will DeVane ’84 of Dallas; and five grandchildren, including Nick Lima ’08.

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Linnea Grace Wittner, daughter of kindergarten teacher Alexandra Wittner

Stephanie Dunham Howell ’52 September 7, 2012 Jeremy Berkowitz, Board of Directors, 1991–94 August 29, 2012 Milton DeVane ’42, Board of Directors, 1969–84 (President 1973– 75; Counsel 1975–84) and 1994–98 April 7, 2012 Jean Kirby, assistant to headmaster and Board liaison, 1966–91 April 16, 2012

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Reunion Day 2012 The “ties that bind” were clearly in evidence at Reunion Day in May. Hugs abounded among alumni and faculty as graduates from the classes of 1937 to 2002 rejoiced in each other’s company.

Early in the day, alums gathered over coffee in the Perrine Library to catch up with classmates and their families as well as their former teachers. The Assembly took place in the Hosley Gym where Jen LaVin ’81 welcomed returning alumni and said a few words about the recently established Alumni Council. The Alumni Council’s members, to date, have been asked to consider candidates for the Alumni Achievement Award, suggest alumni speakers who might address current students and faculty, and assist with plans for the Foote Centennial in 2016.

Julia Wallace Taussig chose her 75th reunion to return for the first time since graduating in 1937 and was honored by Head of School Carol

Just like the old days: Bob Sandine, former faculty member and assistant head, shares a laugh with former Head of School Frank Perrine.

Maoz with a signature Foote silk scarf.

Michael Crowley ’87, returning to celebrate his 25th reunion, introduced fellow TIME magazine correspondent Massimo Calabresi ’82, recipient of the Foote Alumnus Achievement

Douglas Cuthbertson ’92 with wife Tamar and son Elliot

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Award for his contributions to the field of journalism. Massimo’s speech was filled with reminiscences of his Foote School days, among which he mentioned the lasting influence of fifth grade teacher Bonnie James whose words of wisdom have stayed with him throughout his travels as an international correspondent for TIME: “Should you be anticipating a car accident, be sure to empty your bladder before the crash.”

Debbie Fong Carpenter and Bethany Schowalter Appleby, co-chairs of the Class of ’82 reunion

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Leslie Long, co-chair of the Science Department, announced the creation of Lisa Totman’s Science Kitchen in honor of the departing third grade teacher who has taught at Foote since 1966. The Science Kitchen will form part of the Lower School Science Discovery Room next fall.

It will be dedicated to the kinds of creative experimentation Lisa long made a part of her third grade curriculum.

Development Director Ann Baker Pepe offered reminiscences of three deceased Foote community members: two alumni and a former faculty member, Richard English ’49 and Josh Venter ’59, and music teacher Jean Shepler Miller. After class photos, everyone enjoyed lunch in the Gym, and while some alumni toured the new Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building, other alums and former faculty attended a culinary tour of New Haven led by Foote alum Colin Caplan ’94, owner of Taste of New Haven.

Guido Calabresi ’46 and Anne Tyler Calabresi ’48 with their son Massimo ’82, recipient of this year's Alumnus Achievement Award.

Learning by Doing — in This Case, By Cooking As Lisa Totman’s long tenure in the third grade came to a close, family and friends made plans to recognize her many contributions to Foote over the years. Lisa started her teaching career at Foote, learning from some of the same teachers who had taught her as a Foote student. A lively and humorous teacher, she worked closely with each child to support his or her learning, develop confidence, and encourage all kinds of creative problem-solving strategies. She was a mentor to a generation of young teachers who turned to her for advice about instruction, classroom management, and developing supportive partnerships with parents. Her classes made and sold soup, jams, and chutney, raising funds that they contributed to nonprofit organizations at year-end, and her classroom was easily found by following the enticing aromas wafting from the door.

Susan Hilles Bush '47 with her brother Ted Hilles ’52

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A master of using cooking to teach about other subjects — especially science — Lisa will be honored in the new Lower School Science Discovery Room with Mrs. Totman’s Science Kitchen. In addition to stove and refrigerator, the area will include a large butcher-block table for cutting, measuring, and food preparation.

Foote students will enjoy learning science by cooking in Mrs. Totman's kitchen long into the future!

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Harald Hille and Nancy Osterweis Alderman ’52

Jen LaVin ’81 catches up with classmate Talbot Welles and Clark Thompson ’82

After the reunion festivities, a tea honoring retired and retiring faculty took place in the Perrine Library, drawing back former teachers and students and celebrating the tenures of Lisa Totman, Patty Chamberlain, and Nancy Worms who left in June.

Frank Perrine, Bob Sandine, Polly Fiddler, Francie Irvine, Carol Ross, and many others chatted over tea,

strawberries, and cucumber sandwiches. Carol Maoz spoke of the special bond between Foote and its former faculty members, many of whom return after they “officially” retire to substitute teach, participate in classes and events, or volunteer in the library, making the school an infinitely richer place to learn.

John Deming ’66 and Anna Deming ’35

Leila Wood Stuhr ’82 and Jay Palumbo ’80 at the tea for retired and retiring faculty

Jeremy Angoff ’92 with wife Kate and son Oliver

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Lee Blanchard Seniff and Gladys Bozyan Lavine ’47

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Why I Chose a Career in Science

By Nick Priest ’89 Like most graduates of the class of ’89, I have followed the main outlook I took from my years at the Foote School: a sense of curiosity about the world. I remember having the opportunity to tinker in class at Foote, whether it was expressing creativity in writing and art, working out my own solutions in math, or just finding my personality (Mr. Willis once sent me to the office for being too creative in gym). My fondest memories are of designing and then conducting my own experiments in John Cunningham’s ninth grade science classes. I distinctly remember him reverently holding up Darwin’s The Origin of Species and challenging us to find weaknesses in the evidence. It has not escaped my attention that I eventually chose a career in evolutionary biology.

I am a faculty member in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath, a good department in the United Kingdom for evolutionary biology. I took the job because, after high school at Andover, a bachelor’s degree at Brown, a master’s degree at Georgia, a Ph.D. at Virginia and a short postdoc at Indiana, I was ready to start my own lab. Now four years into the job, I can report that I am working on a number of interesting problems in collaboration with very talented graduate students and colleagues.

I am fundamentally interested in heredity: why things change and why they stay the same. Since the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, the field of biology has mostly focused on unraveling the rules for how DNA contributes to heredity. I take the tack that genetics is only part of the story, that to understand heredity we have to understand how ecology contributes to genetics and how that, in turn, contributes to evolution.

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Nick Priest ’89 I study many questions: Why do we age? How do animals fight off infections? Do lineages have the capacity to accelerate their own evolution? Are social networks important in evolution? What is the map between genome sequence and virulence in MRSA (the superbug that is becoming a major international health problem)? I test these questions usually by gathering my own data from laboratory studies. I use mathematical models to interpret patterns. I have found that the answer to these questions is, invariably, ‘Well, it depends.’ The most rewarding part of the job is figuring out the details of exactly how and why it depends.

I ultimately chose my career because, at heart, I’m a tinkerer. I enjoy figuring stuff out. The mucking about that I do now with fruit flies and honey bees and genetic models or whatever else I can get my hands on or into is just a continuation of what I started doing at the Foote School.

I am extremely excited to see that the new science and technology center has design features that specifically encourage tinkering.

The Foote science program will surely encourage the next generation of great scientists.

Nick’s website: http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/ contacts/academics/nick_priest/ Foote Prints

Coming Together is Good for the Heart Help Us Find These Lost Alums So They Can Get a Hug Too. Below is a list of alumni with whom we have lost touch. If you have contact information for them, please email Amy Caplan, associate director of Development and Alumni Relations, at acaplan@footeschool.org, or contact the lost alum and let that person know we would love to draw them back into the Foote family!

Nancy L. Rossen Allen ’43 Robert Bradley ’43 Woodbury Dunn ’43 Gibby Ferris ’43 Helen Haynes ’43 Alan Marshall ’43 David McCulloch ’43 Eugene Davidson ’53 Karen Kasden ’53 Marcia Miner ’53 Jordon Mott VI ’53 Jonathan Weiss ’53 James Alford ’63 David Berger ’63 Thomas Lane ’63 Stephen Sawyer ’63

Robert Antrum ’73 James Cheney ’73 Matthew Delevoryas ’73 Nathaniel Green ’73 Carol Cavallaro Monday ’73 Martha Salisbury ’73 Michael Clinton ’83 Steve Dunning ’83 Stephanie Panzo ’83 Alicia Garcia-Abrines Romanacci ’83 Ted Sawyer ’83 Orin Sleeper ’83 Damien Vishno ’83 C. Alan Walts ’83 Amy Horton Winnick ’83

Tevall Butler ’93 Andrew Carrano ’93 Matthew Chin ’93 J. Amos Covert ’93 Sarie Dannenberg ’93 Jed Doyle ’93 Laura Jackson Drons ’93 Joseph Fishkin ’93 Alison Gent ’93 Lauren Greene ’93 Jahim Jones ’93 Dong-Seok Lee ’93 Yoon Ho Lee ’93 Amanda Love ’93 Sarah Malech ’93 Alana Montano ’93

Sarah Oster ’93 Liza Riggione ’93 Camila Rivera-Tinsley ’93 Garrett Sawyer ’93 Rachel Sedley ’93 Scott Silverstone ’93 Joshua Smith ’93 Daniel Turrentine ’93 Keiara Waller ’93 Victoria Walters ’93 Mackenzie Warren ’93 Paulo Brito ’03 Christopher Mayer ’03 Brian Pollak ’03 Adam Shapiro ’03

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MARK YOUR CALeNdARS

Grandparents day Friday, October 12, 2012

Grandparents and special friends gather in the morning to visit children in their classrooms and attend mini-courses designed to provide an inside view of a day in the life of Foote.

Young Alums day

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The classes of 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 are invited back to Foote for brunch and to catch up with classmates and former teachers.

Invitations will be mailed to students’ home addresses in early November. details also will be posted on the school’s website and at www.facebook.com/FooteAlums.

Alumni Reunion day Saturday, May 4, 2013

Watch for details in the mail, on www.footeschool.org, and on www.facebook.com/FooteAlums. This is a special reunion for the classes ending in 3 and 8, but all alumni are welcome!

Questions about any of these events? Contact Maria Granquist in the Alumni and development Office (mgranquist@footeschool.org or 203-777-3464).

Foote Night at Yale Repertory Theatre is Sat., April 6, as Paul Giamatti ’82 returns to New Haven in “Hamlet.” Parents and former parents, alumni, grandparents, faculty and former faculty, friends — make plans to enjoy a very special Foote School gathering! More information on tickets and the evening’s events will be forthcoming at www.footeschool.org.

SAve THe dATe!