Thank You
All Girls Can Be
Dear Foxcroft School Community,
As the incoming Chair of the Board of Trustees and a proud alumna, I’m honored to be part of this vibrant and inspiring community. I’ve long believed in the impact of all-girls education, shaped by my own experience and by the stories shared across generations. It’s always moving to see alumnae returning and inspiring students during our annual Reunion, and I know that energy will carry into the new school year.
This past year reaffirmed that our girls can be scholars, artists, athletes, scientists, writers, leaders, and changemakers, often all at once. Foxcroft remains a place where young women build new skills, form friendships, and discover their unique voices, as Miss Charlotte envisioned.
Thank you to Natalie James Wiltshire ’95 for her devoted leadership over the past two years. Additionally, please join me in warmly welcoming our new Head of School, Dr. Lisa Kaenzig. With her vision and enthusiasm, I’m excited for the journey ahead and know we are in great hands.
Thank you all for your pride, generosity, and dedication. Let’s continue showing every girl that there are no limits to who she can be.
With gratitude,
Elizabeth Lester ’88 Chair, Board of Trustees
Dear Friends of Foxcroft,
Happy new academic year from the Office of Institutional Advancement! We're so grateful to have connected with you over the 2024–2025 school year as our community celebrated “All Girls Can Be.”
This past year featured four in-house horse shows, a Varsity Tennis conference championship win, and wonderful Fine Arts showcases, all of which strengthened our community and connection. The Mars STEAM Building is steadily taking shape, with completion anticipated by the end of 2025.
During Reunion 2025, we welcomed 166 alumnae and their families to campus and celebrated the Class of 2025, our newest alumnae, and all that they accomplished. All of this was made possible through the support of our community.
Your gifts to The Foxcroft Circle, our endowment, the Building for Our Future campaign, and special projects support every aspect of our students’ experiences. Our girls see all they can be because of you and your belief in our School. We cannot thank you enough, and hope that as we move forward, you will continue to stay connected, share our stories, and help our incredible School and students thrive.
With gratitude,
Hayley Munroe Director of Institutional Advancement
From Founding Days in October to Family Giving over the holidays, to Reunion Weekend and more, Foxcroft’s community showed its continued love of our School, its students, families, faculty, and staff. Your support helped to shape our girls’ experiences from the day the new girls arrived through Commencement and beyond.
$986,089 RAISED PARTICIPATION 548 DONORS
THE FOXCROFT CIRCLE GIVING AWARD: Class of 1985 with 35.7% SUPPORTS: 6-8% of our operating budget
The Class of 2025 supported The Foxcroft Circle for their Senior Class gift.
100% TRUSTEES
Thank you for continuing to make Foxcroft a philanthropic priority! We appreciate each and every one of you.
Celebrating Reunion Gifts
Reunion offers alumnae the opportunity to continue the tradition of giving, celebrate their classes and experiences, and help our beloved School move forward.
We enjoyed welcoming all of our alumnae home to campus this spring, especially the milestone Classes of 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. Together, our milestone Reunion alumnae made gifts totaling $103,425 towards The Foxcroft Circle!
In honor of their 50th Reunion, the Class of 1975 raised $25,410 for The Foxcroft Circle.
We are so grateful to all of the Class Representatives and Reunion Co-Chairs! Their leadership, encouragement, and competitive spirit encouraged great participation from our Foxcroft alumnae community. We’re looking forward to continuing this work this coming year!
Reunion Giving Awards recognize classes with the highest participation in The Foxcroft Circle or special class projects through Reunion weekend, and also celebrate our alumnae’s dedication to Foxcroft.
Congratulations and thank you to this year’s winners!
5th–20th Reunion Giving Award
10.9% CLASS OF 2005 PARTICIPATION WITH
32.6%
25th–60th Reunion Giving Award CLASS OF 1985 PARTICIPATION WITH
Foxcroft launched the $65 million Building for Our Future campaign in 2022, with four planned phases. These additions and renovations will support teaching girls the way they learn best through state-of-the-art learning spaces and increased collaboration across disciplines.
This fiscal year, we raised toward the campaign, bringing our total to $3,093,426 $33,037,950.
December 2024
Foundations poured after receiving the official building permit
January 2025
With the Music Building finished and the Mars STEAM Building nearly complete, we are focusing our attention on the Ruth T. Bedford 1932 Performing Arts Center and renovating Schoolhouse. The Arts Center will connect with the Mars STEAM Building to further strengthen collaboration across STEAM disciplines, and Schoolhouse will receive improvements to carry it forward for future generations of Foxcroft students.
March 2025
Completed rough-ins; installed steel joists and floor decking
Through our community's incredibly generous support, we have raised $33,037,950 as of August 2025, and have $31,962,050 to go.
We are especially proud to share that, so far, we have received five multigenerational gifts! Four of the $1 million or larger gifts have been given by women who are 40 or younger.
“As I have gotten older, I have learned that many of my girlfriends were not encouraged by either their families or schools to pursue studies or careers in math or science. I was fortunate to have a father and a school that embraced, encouraged, and fostered that in me. Foxcroft is that school. It has taken a leadership role in educating girls in STEAM. Our donation reflects our commitment to and belief in Foxcroft’s continued support of girls in this area.”
LAUREN EDGERTON ’04
April 2025
Installed floors, main staircase, and glulam beams
May 2025
Started framing; continued electrical, plumbing, and mechanical work
June 2025
Finished exterior sheathing; began interior drywall installation
“What inspired me to give to the STEAM Building, and Foxcroft in general, is because what I learned in chemistry, biology, and algebra helped me not only pass, but ace my college courses. STEAM is so important for girls, and at Foxcroft they can learn without judgment or distractions.”
HOPE JONES
’82
July 2025
Began brickwork, graded the loading dock, and prepared for interior inspections
August 2025
Prepared for inspections; sealed building; activated permanent power
Honoring Cathy McGehee’s Leadership
To celebrate former Head of School Cathy McGehee and her tenure at Foxcroft, and through the support of our Foxcroft community, the Board of Trustees recently dedicated a Collaboration Room in the Ruth T. Bedford 1932 Performing Arts Center in her honor. Former Board Chair Natalie James Wiltshire ’95 announced the naming at the Reunion Weekend Cocktail Party and Celebration this past April.
Anticipated
Completion Date December 2025
SCAN TO VIEW THE TIME-LAPSE VIDEO OF CONSTRUCTION.
Restricted Gifts
Restricted gifts to the School can be designated to fund special projects or supplement operating and capital budgets. This year, gifts were received for academic programming, faculty professional development, student support, and capital improvement projects.
SOME NOTEWORTHY INITIATIVES INCLUDE:
REDLATTICE, COAKLEY & WILLIAMS CONSTRUCTION (CWC) and HORD COPLAN MACHT (HCM) sponsored our 14th Annual STEAM CHALLENGE, which brought together high school and middle school students from around the region to engage in challenges related to the “ChatFXC” artificial intelligence theme. Additionally, volunteers from CWC and HCM shared their experiences and answered questions from the young competitors during a career panel. These sponsors and volunteers help ensure Foxcroft continues to offer stimulating and innovative learning experiences that address challenges facing tomorrow’s workforce.
THE PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION’S annual Silent Auction and Raffle grossed more than $26,000, which was allocated to The Foxcroft Circle, Wintermission, student enrichment, faculty and staff appreciation, and parent engagement.
A bequest from VIRGINIA CRETELLA
MARS, given in honor of her two daughters, Victoria Beth Mars ’74 and Pamela Mars Wright ’78, provided necessary funding for renovations to SPUR & SPOON and COVERT.
A gift to the DUNCAN H. READ OBSERVATORY, from LILIAN AND JOHN HOLDEN, allowed us to repair and upgrade existing equipment, purchase new, state-of-the-art tools for observation, and refurbish the observatory's interior to create a more inspiring and functional learning environment.
DOTTY REYNOLDS BROTHERTON ’70 provided funding to the ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT for the purchase of a high-tech sports camera and subscription, improving our ability to live-stream games as well as providing intelligent playback and analysis content for our players.
THOMAS S. KENAN III generously underwrote a gathering of alumnae, parents, and friends at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, where Foxcroft teachers Julie Fisher, M.F.A., and Meghen Tuttle, Ph.D., presented their lecture, “The Garden Legacy Project: A Study of Charlotte Haxall Noland’s and Rachel ‘Bunny’ Lambert Mellon’s (Class of 1929) influence on the garden movement, garden design, and outdoor education.”
Endowment Gifts
Gifts to Foxcroft’s Endowment are an essential part of the School’s financial foundation. Each gift is invested, and the earnings are used to support all aspects of the School, including academic programs, faculty development, financial aid, and plant maintenance. Endowment earnings account for 36% of our annual operating budget.
NEWLY ESTABLISHED FUNDS
Virginia Cretella Mars Endowment Fund
Established in 2025 in honor of her two daughters, Victoria Beth Mars ’74 and Pamela Mars Wright ’78, this fund supports the operational and infrastructure needs of the School as directed by the Head of School and Board of Trustees.
FUNDS THAT RECEIVED GIFTS THIS YEAR
Bartlett Family STEM Math Scholarship
Celeste and Paul Bergan Financial Aid Fund
Class of 1973 Scholarship Fund
Dede Pickering ’71 Fund
Elizabeth Dillingham Wick Scholarship
Extracurricular Experience Fund
Ferrell Page McClean ’64 Faculty Chair
Hemmenway Scholarship Fund
Honor/Memorial Endowment for Annual Giving*
Josephine Kimberly Peterson Scholarship
Keith M. McBride Fund for Innovative Teaching
Mary Custis Lee deButts ’18 Scholarship
“Miss Margaret” Lee Fund
Robert Emmett Leisher Scholarship Scholarship/Financial Aid Endowment
Second Step Initiative
Stephen L. Matthews Library Endowment
Virginia Cretella Mars Endowment Fund
*The income from the Honor/Memorial Endowment for Annual Giving is applied each year to The Foxcroft Circle and recognizes those honored in perpetuity. In 2024–25, the interest draw from this fund contributed $22,158 to the operating budget, and one name was added to the list of honorees: Laura Leonard Ault ’47. For more information and a complete list of honorees, please visit foxcroft.org/honormemorial.
Forever Foxcroft
Established in 1999 by the Board of Trustees, Forever Foxcroft is the giving society that recognizes individuals who have included Foxcroft in their estate plans. Whether a bequest, trust, annuity, pooled income, or property interests, planned gifts provide for the future needs of the School.
Through these legacy gifts, members of Forever Foxcroft balance their financial goals and charitable interests while ensuring that Foxcroft continues to attract and retain inspiring teachers, that financial aid will be available to prospective students, and that the buildings and grounds will be cared for and upgraded as needed into the future.
We are exceedingly grateful to the alumnae, parents, and friends of Foxcroft who have taken the lead to ensure that Foxcroft continues to thrive.
We have published the names of individuals who have permitted us to do so. If you have included Foxcroft in your long-term financial planning, or would like more information on how to do so, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at advancement@foxcroft.org or 540.687.4510.
WAYS TO JOIN FOREVER FOXCROFT:
• Bequest
• Retirement Gift Account
• Insurance Gifts
• Charitable Remainder Trust
• Charitable Lead Trust
Anonymous (14)
Mimi Mills Abel-Smith ’54
Stacey Morse Ahner ’73
Peggy Wickes Alexander ’64
+ Elizabeth Stewart Baldwin ’23
+ Elizabeth Kemp Beach ’20
+ Ruth Bedford ’32
+ Harriet Aldrich Bering ’40
Pamela Biddle ’81
Dorothy Pickering Bossidy ’71
Elizabeth Boyd ’92
+ J. Bruce Bredin
Dorothy Reynolds Brotherton ’70
+ Mr. and Mrs. Leland Brown
+ Amanda Cadwalader Burton ’44
Tonya M. Butler-Truesdale ’82
Caroline Rinehart Cardais ’01
Moira M. Carroll ’83
+ Cecile Parker Carver ’42
+ Ann Gambrill Casey ’39
Susan Knott Childs ’58
Candida Streeter Clark ’73
+ Mariana Gowen Coleman ’15
Barbara Tragakis Conner
+ Eleanor Chalfant Cooper ’20
Dolph(+) and Beatty Cramer ’66
+ Ailsa Moseley Crawford ’53
Joy Crompton ’78
Victoria Bartlett Donaldson ’70
Sally Bartholomay Downey ’78
Molly West Ellsworth ’50
Nancy Jones Emrich
Lisa McGrath Evans ’67
+ Katherine Crowninshield Ferguson ’53
+ Elizabeth Cheston Forster ’52
+ Lucy Sprague Foster ’46
+ Anna Lauder Garner ’39
+ Barbara Lawrence Garside ’52
Edmee E. Geis ’82
+ Betsy N. Getz
Sandra Norris Ghosh ’75
Brooke Meyer Gray ’59
Chip and Jill Gruver
+ Joy Sheaffer Hall ’57
+ Dorrance Hill Hamilton ’46
Waddell Hancock '71
+ Elizabeth Millard Hanes ’46
Pamela Hartley ’79
Katherine Cooper Hastings ’78
Sarah Stokes Hatch ’63
+ Rosalind Everdell Havemeyer ’35
Trevania Dudley Henderson ’76
Melanie Lozier Henke ’89
Meaghan Keeler Hogan ’10
+ Theodora Winthrop Hooton ’47
Richard and Kimberly Hurst
+ May Field Jackson ’29
Patricia Toy Bryant Johnson ’78
Hope Jones ’82
Hope Haskell Jones ’52
+ Amanda Bryan Kane ’22
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kaplan
Elizabeth Bard Knowles ’78
Nancy S. Krewson ’73
Anne Michele Kuhns ’87
+ Suzanne Kuser ’49
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Lane
Amelia Baker Lauderdale '04
+ James F. Lawrence
Louisa Whitridge Leavitt ’60
Mary Louise Leipheimer
+ Mary Ann Lippitt ’36
+ Elizabeth Livingston
+ Elizabeth Mackubin Lyman ’22
+ Jane Lawrence Mali ’55
+ Nancy R. Manierre ’41
+ Nancy Iselin Marburg ’37
+ Forrest E. Mars, Jr.
+ Virginia Cretella Mars
Dorothy Alexander Matz ’81
Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas May, Jr.
+ Mary Cheston McAdoo ’46
Susan McConnell ’68
Amanda McGuire ’84
+ Anne Kane McGuire ’52
Susan Schoelkopf Mele ’80
Jordan Moore ’01
Melissa Slingluff Morley ’81
Valerie Michel Nelson ’77
Wendy Nelson '83
+ Florence B. Newman
+ Joan Lyman Niles ’51
+ Abby M. O’Neill ’46
Jennifer Sgro Orfield ’91
+ Linda Moore Post ’46
+ Heidi Schmid Powers ’59
+ Suzanne Townsend Purrington ’56
+ Jean Rainey, mother of Ruth Rainey ’82
Pickett D. Randolph ’56
+ Charles and Nancy Thomas Rees ’45
+ Hope Montgomery Scott ’21
Alexandra Flickinger Secor ’80
+ Katherine Snyder Shands ’22
Patricia Sifton-Munro ’76
+ Helen Putnam Sokopp ’49
Nell Cherry Stager ’81
+ Seymour St. John
+ Anne Kinsolving Talbott ’60
Alix Tower Thorne ’67
+ Eleanor Schley Todd ’29
Frances Cheston Train ’44
Carol Exnicios Tucker ’49
Linda Reading Uihlein ’72
+ Grace Sloane Vance ’36
+ Julia Armour Walker ’59
+ Polly Ordway Wallace ’34
+ Wilma Warburg
+ Constance V.R. White ’42
Kendra A. Wilcox-Dillon ’82
+ Mary Hotchkiss Williams ’30
Eva Louise Willim
+ Alice Perkins Winn ’19
+ Lunsford and Curgie
Winchester Yandell ’24
Summary of Gifts
Looking Ahead
Dear Foxcroft School Community,
From my first walk around campus, I was struck by the strength, spirit, and friendship that define this extraordinary School. Foxcroft is more than an education. It is a foundation of leadership, legacy, and individual voices.
I am so honored to join this community shaped by Miss Charlotte’s vision and her belief in traditions that celebrate the limitless potential of young women. Her mission lives on and guides our students, faculty, and alumnae each day.
This year, let us move forward together with understanding, encouragement, and the courage to dream big. We will all strive together to uphold all that makes Foxcroft special while preparing our girls to be unique leaders in a complex world.
Thank you for being a part of this community. I am so excited to walk beside you as we write Foxcroft’s next chapter, rooted in tradition, and reaching toward possibility.
With gratitude and anticipation,
Dr. Lisa Kaenzig Head of School
22407 FOXHOUND LANE
Thank you, thank you for continuing the Foxcroft School legacy, and helping our girls explore all they can be. You are a central part of our community, and we appreciate you!
