Quaker Works 4:1

Entrepreneur Incubator

Commencement and Reunion

Annual Report of Gifts 4:1 | Fall 2012

A New Era Begins

Friends’ Central Welcomes the Sellers Family

2012-2013 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Robert Gassel ’69, Clerk Karen N. Horikawa ’77, Vice-Clerk Melissa Anderson James B. Bradbeer, Jr. Adrian Castelli Carolyn Cohen Kenneth Dunn George Elser Wilson Felter Christine Gaspar ’70 Edward Grinspan Deborah Hull Kent Julye Michael C. Kelly Matthew S. Levitties ’85 Craig Lord Suzanne Morrison James Murdock ’73

Ann V. Satterthwaite Phillip E. Scott ’73 Joy Takahashi Helene van Beuren Peter Arfaa, Emeritus Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita Hillard Madway, Emeritus Joanna Schoff ’51, Emerita

2012-2013 Alumni/ae Board Clio Mallin ‘96, Co-President Latifah McMullin ‘99, Co-President Bess Collier ‘96, Secretary

Deborah Charamella ‘01 Lauren Collier ‘99 Alice Hess Crowell ‘46 Andrea Deutsch ‘85 David Ellis ‘51 Janice Decker Frohner ‘60 Ruba Habtemicael ‘96 Susan Kelsay ‘59 Peter Klein ‘87 Kimberly Kurtz Lent ’87 Patrick Lord ‘90 Jane Cubberley Luce ‘68 Lauren Albert Ravitz ‘93 Angelina Riley ‘00 Alex Rolfe ‘01 Rachel Newman Schwartz ‘89 Jessica Zeldin ‘88 Gail Carter Zuagar ‘97

Jesse Amoroso ‘04 Jeffrey Brody ‘98

Students in Josh Weisgrau’s Upper School photography classes last spring focused their portraiture project on the style popularized by Richard Avedon. This style consists of a basic studio setup with a plain white backdrop. Subjects are invited to “come as they are” or bring with them a significant representative object. What developed was a true picture of the FCS community—vibrant, original, diverse, and real!

Opening Comments

Letter from the Head of School Dear Friends,

Craig N. Sellers

Great communicators have a way of capturing the biggest ideas with simple, memorable images.

Jim Mack Director of Publications

Head of School Editor

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I recently attended an educational conference where the presenter started with the question, “Your school has three choices: you can be on a train to the future; you can be at the station waiting for the train to stop; or you can be saddling a horse, looking to the past with optimism. What are you doing?”

Provocative? Yes. And certainly the point gets made. We need to intentionally, boldly construct the foundation and the framework for great teachers to practice their craft. The best independent schools leverage the advantages of independence, where teachers can have a great idea over the weekend and implement it on Monday without fear of losing the ability to teach to an almighty test. I think you will see evidence of this kind of energizing freedom all through this issue of Quaker Works.

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Great Atlantic Director of Institutional Advancement

Lydia A. Martin Director of Communications

Lisa D’Orazio Director of Alumni/ae Affairs

Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 Director of Annual Giving

Jody Mayer Development Associate

Diana Bleakley ’01 Archivist and Alumni/ae Associate

Jim Davis Outreach Coordinator

We also get to ask an even bigger question at Friends’ Central, regardless of the “age” we are in—that is, how well are we balancing time and eternity? Our community knows we have a huge advantage right from the beginning—we get to start with Meeting for Worship.

Lindsey Elkin ’08

This September, I participated in Meeting for Worship with students for the first time in more than five years, and I was reminded why our students have such a distinctive combination of compassion and innovation in their collective DNA. Experiencing 45 minutes of silence with 400 sophisticated, plugged-in high school students begins to explain the magic of a Friends’ Central education—our students listen well to themselves and to others, and from there the roots of divergent, creative thinking take hold and grow. Innovation, like compassion, begins in that small, still place inside. We tend to that place in each of us every week at Friends’ Central.

We welcome any comments, letters, photographs, and suggestions for future issues. Please send all communications to: Editor, Quaker Works: The Magazine

I have no doubt that this issue of Quaker Works will impress you with details and destinations related to Friends’ Central’s train to the future. Even though my family and I are the new kids at school, it is clear that these tracks of progress have delivered a transforming education since 1845. We are, to be sure, just as certain that Meeting for Worship is central to our progress, regardless of the era.

© 2012 Friends Central School

In this way, we continue to balance time and eternity—a perfect approach for a school determined to move boldly into the future while remaining grounded in our sustaining traditions. QW

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Lisa D’Orazio, Jay Gorodetzer, Diane Heard, Laura Keen, Jim Mack, Mike Tolbert

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Contents Quaker Works • The Magazine of Friends’ Central School • 4:1 | Fall 2012

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F e at u r e s

Learn, and Lead: A New Era Begins 12 Listen, with the Sellers Family

A new era begins this year for Friends’ Central, and leading the charge is new Head of School, Craig Normile Sellers.

Commencement 2012 18 A Friends’ Central education is very much an intellectual journey, as students are encouraged to forge their own path, guided by the Quaker values that have infused their learning.

This June, the Class of 2012 embarked on a new journey.

Passion for Invention, A Bold Entrepreneur: 22 AFCS Alumnus Named Thiel Fellow

What if you never had to stand in a checkout line at a store again? What if retailers could eliminate shoplifting? An invention by Spencer Hewett ’10 could make it happen.

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O pening Comments Letter from the Head of School

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Alumni/ae 28 Reunion 2012 A Beautiful Day for a Beautiful Community 31 Notes from Friends 41 Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012

On the Cover ENTREPRENEUR INCUBATOR

COMMENCEMENT AND REUNION

ANNUAL REPORT OF GIFTS 4:1 | Fall 2012

A New Era Begins

FRIENDS’ CENTRAL WELCOMES THE SELLERS FAMILY

On the Cover: Craig Normile Sellers, Head of School Photo by Laura Keen

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Opening Comments

Letters to the Editor Lower School faculty. Later these developed into what we have today.

Charlotte presided over fall projects for about 10 years, including the most significant one, “Terra,” which created what we do have today.

Michi taught 4th grade in those days and worked on these themes with the rest of us as a teacher and then continued the tradition when she became principal. Charlotte led many innovations in the late ’60’s and the ’70’s in Lower School.

Jack Briggs, 3rd Grade Teacher

A Tradition of Innovation

Ron Diment ’67 Editor’s note: While football joined

What a thorough and interesting article Beth Burrell wrote for Quaker Works! I enjoyed reading it and now more fully appreciate Friends’ Central School’s groundbreaking ideas and subsequent evolution. It is inspiring to learn how early FCS adopted programs and other initiatives that are commonplace today.

Beth Dahle, Parent ’12, ’14

Remembering a Lower School Pioneer Please note that Charlotte DeCosta created the Lower School Fall Thematic Project, not Michi Tashjian, as stated in the “Tradition of Innovation Guides our Future” article in Quaker Works. Charlotte was the principal before Michi, and she began the fall themes in 1968 with “Quakerism.” Its purpose was to develop a sense of unity and strengthen collegiality among the

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sports, we continued to play a full Inter-Ac schedule until a couple of years after I graduated. We were still overmatched in basketball (Germantown Academy, best team in the city in 1967, beat us 98-26 on our home court!), but we at least held our own in soccer, baseball, track, and most other sports. Along with Germantown Friends, we were the only co-ed school in the InterAc, had many fewer boys to play on teams, and didn’t recruit. I can only say I relished every victory we had on the soccer field and baseball diamond!

the Penn Jersey League in 1965, all other sports did not join until 1969.

Read past issues of Quaker Works at www.friendscentral.org/about/publications

Charlotte DeCosta (right) led many of the innovations in the Lower School in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Share your thoughts with us!

We welcome all readers to give us

Glory Days In the most recent FCS magazine, it is noted that in 1965 Friends’ Central left the Inter-Ac League for the Penn Jersey League for sports. In 1965 the football team, which was getting hammered in the Inter-Ac, did switch leagues, which had immediate benefits as they went 5-3, the first winning season in several years. For all other

feedback on this issue or to share story ideas for future issues. All letters to the editor that we receive will be considered for publishing in the next issue of Quaker Works.

(Letters are edited for length.)

Letters to the editor can be emailed to communications@friendscentral.org or mailed to Editor, Quaker Works: The Magazine, 1101 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096.

Campus Log For more School news visit the FCS Pressroom at www.friendscentral.org/pressroom.

Ringing of the Friendship Bell Marks Transition to Middle School On the last day of school, after a special Meeting for Worship, each 4th grader, (including Hannah Rossio, pictured here) gave the Friendship Bell one final ring—a symbolic signal that closes the school year and has traditionally set the 4th graders on their journey to Middle School. In 1990 former Lower School art teacher Marcia Slade gave Friends’ Central the bell in honor of her late husband, David Slade.

Upper School Celebrates End-of-Year Student Awards This past spring, 19 members of the Class of 2012 were inducted into the Cum Laude Society, and more than 20 additional Upper School students were recognized for their outstanding efforts in academics, arts, athletics, service, and citizenship at Friends’ Central’s Upper School Academic Awards Assembly. The following recent graduates were inducted into the Cum Laude Society for the distinguished record each of them achieved during their academic career at Friends’ Central School: Leah Adelson, Andie Belkoff, Samuel Brodfuehrer, Paula Burkhardt, Jeremy Crimm, Rebecca Dahle, Emily deLisle, William Fedullo, Alexander Flick, Rory Giszter, Jeffrey Horowitz, Sarah Kim, Naomi Minkoff, Harrison Pharamond, Tiffany Phuong, Samantha Resnik, Daniel Stern, James Ulrich, and Spencer Villars.

Our Ingenious 4th Grade Inventors Our 4th Grade inventors showed off their clever and practical creations at their Invention Fair this past March. From a marble-race game, to a new kind of toothpaste, to an automatic drink-mixer, to an electric toilet seat warmer, these amazing inventions highlighted the creativity and practical thinking of FCS’ young scientists.

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A Strong Spring Season for FCS Sports

Brings Home Coveted Felsen Cup Every year, Friends’ Central and Germantown Friends compete in Varsity sports for the Felsen Cup. With each victory, the winning school earns a point. This year, the Cup came down to the final two diamond contests. The Baseball team rallied for a 7-6 victory, and the Phoenix Softball team outlasted the Tigers by a score of 11-9. With these two victories, and wins by the Girls’ Soccer, Boys’ Soccer, Girls’ Basketball, Boys’ Basketball, Wrestling, and Boys’ Tennis teams earlier in the year, the overall score ended up at 8-7, and the Felsen Cup will remain at Friends’ Central for another year!

FCS athletes had an outstanding spring season.

Track sensation and team MVP Imani Shell won Friends Schools League (FSL) and Pennsylvania Independent School State titles in both the long jump and triple jump. Her Imani Shell ’12 triple jump of 36’1” at the state meet broke her own school record.

The Softball team won its first FSL championship in 10 years behind the outstanding contributions of MVP Isabel Nardi and Suzy Bernstein, both of whom were named First Team All-League and All-Main Line. Brianna Folwell received

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The 2012 Friends Schools League Softball Champions.

All-League First Team and All-Main Line Second Team honors.

Ally Wirshba ’12

The Girls’ Lacrosse team lost only once in the league during the regular season to Germantown Friends, but won redemption with a victory over GFS in the FSL championship game, claiming their third-straight FSL title. Becca Dahle was named MVP and received Honorable Mention All-American honors. Dahle and Ally Wirshba also earned Academic All-American honors. Receiving All-League First Team Honors were

Becca Dahle, Emma Dahle, a Main Line Times Athlete of the Week selection, Aubrey Faggen, Maria Pizzini, Ashley Tedesco, and Sophie MacFarlane. The Dahle sisters were both named First Team All-Main Line.

The Boys’ Tennis team capped off a superb, undefeated season with a perfect finish, going undefeated in the league championship match and bringing home their fourth consecutive championship and 10th since 2001.

MVP Declan Hahn, Sam Silver, Raaj Singh, and Max Ginsberg all received All-League First Team honors.

Declan Hahn ’12

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The Writer’s Path This past summer, Madi Archard ’13 and Carlos PriceSanchez ’14 attended the University of Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, a prominent program for teenage writers in which they participated in workshops, explored the works of well-known writers, and wrote (and re-wrote!) their own material.

Jefferson Chooses Duke In front of a packed crowd in Friends’ Central School’s Shimada Athletic Center on May 15, All-American Amile Jefferson ’12 announced that he would be attending Duke University, signing his official letter of intent to play basketball for the Blue Devils.

“I wanted to discover a writing style I can call my own,” says PriceSanchez, who attended the poetry workshop. “Poetry can do a lot of good in the world. It gives well-deserved weight to topics that sometimes get overlooked.”

Archard sought to continue her growth as a prose writer. “FCS has taught me how to be more analytical and technically proficient in my literature and history essays,” she says, “but I also found this to be very helpful in my prose. I really want to learn how to simplify my writing while maintaining a sense of honesty.”

“Duke has the best combination of academics and athletics,” Jefferson said during his press conference. “Duke is a prestigious school, and it is an honor and a privilege to play for Coach K [Duke head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski].”

In his four years at Friends’ Central, Jefferson led his team to four consecutive Pennsylvania Independent School State championships and two Friends Schools League championships, was a two-time Pennsylvania AA Player of the Year selection, a three-time Pennsylvania First Team All-State selection, a two-time recipient of the Philadelphia Inquirer Southeastern PA Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year award, a two-time recipient of the ESPN/Gatorade Pennsylvania Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year award, and a McDonald’s All-American selection with over 1,500 career points and 800 career rebounds.

Notable People Convene at Lower School This past March, grade 2C held its annual Notable People Convention. Each of the children dressed up as the notable person he or she had been studying since January. Parents and teachers asked each student questions and tried to guess who they were, and then the children went up on stage for a presentation. After returning to their classroom, the group of students and parents enjoyed a buffet of food representing something about each of the Notable People, and they looked at portraits drawn by the students and letters written to their respective Notable People.

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A Little Pizazz for Middle School Dressmakers This year, students in Leslie Grace’s Middle School service group embarked on a creative, fun, and fulfilling project: making tie-dyed “pillow case dresses” for girls in need. At the onset of the project, many pillow cases were donated by the FCS community, but they were mostly all white.

“We decided to tie-dye them to add a little pizazz and color! We think this will be an annual tradition for us now,” says Grace.

Once the fabric dried, the seamstresses in the group sewed simple dresses, which will be donated to girls in need. With their hard work and creativity, the students in this service group began a project that promises to help young children in need for years to come.

Marathon Prima Lingua Spelling Contest It took 14 grueling rounds, but with a successful spelling of “sumptuary,” Galen Cassidy (pictured here with runner-up Annie Roberts) took home the title in the Fifth Annual Prima Lingua and the Bee Spelling Contest in April. The 6th grade Prima Lingua class studied a unit on Latin prepositions and how these words are used as prefixes in other languages such as English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Says Middle School language teacher Margaret Roberts, “Knowing the Latin prepositions enables us to break down large words that have prefixes and know something about the definition of those words. We watched the movie Akeelah and the Bee in preparation, and one of the messages in the movie is that large words are made from smaller words. Understanding Latin prepositions and root words builds our vocabulary exponentially — and not just our English vocabulary.”

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Bio II Music Video Becomes YouTube Rage As part of the Annenberg High School Science Symposium at Lankeneau Hospital, Melinda Yin’s Biology II class created an original music video to punctuate their presentation about ADX, a new breast cancer vaccine that uses bacteria as a Trojan horse to enter cells. The presentation wowed the panel of doctors, and the video became a YouTube hit.

Myles Everett ’12 wrote the music for the song and co-wrote the lyrics with the rest of his classmates.

Advaxis, a clinical stage biotech startup company near Princeton, N.J., that developed the vaccine, was so impressed with the video that they invited the class to tour their facilities. Students got the opportunity to talk with scientists, tour the facilities, and were presented a novelty trophy for “Best Song Ever” by members of the Advaxis team. Search YouTube for “The ADX Song,” and check out the video!

A Social Media Milestone This summer, Friends’ Central passed 5,000 Likes on Facebook!

Thank you for making us reach this social media milestone and for staying connected! Join our fan page at www.facebook.com/friendscentral for even more exciting news and events this year.

The Wonderful Service-thru-Art Jonny Scene-n-Heard Word-Roots Mural Project This year the students in art teacher Caroline Maw-Deis’ Service-thru-Art program put their creative energy and artistic skill to good use to transform the Middle School basement walls. These Middle School students, and a few parents, faculty, and alumnae/ae volunteers, worked to create a wonderfully complex (it even incorporates root words from different languages) and colorful mural.

Through Meg Saligman (current parent and Philadelphia mural artist), Friends’ Central enjoyed working with Jonny Buss, a graffiti artist who now collaborates with the Mural Arts Program. Buss helped the students bring their ideas to visual representations.

“This experience was amazing on many different levels: introducing students to a working artist, witnessing students taking pride and ownership in a piece they all collaborated on, all of us painting together to beautify the campus, and in doing so, delighting in a unified ‘family feeling’ as several students later reflected!”

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Brian Greene Stretches Minds at Friends’ Central Like the vibrating filaments of string theory or our expanding universe, Brian Greene stretched the minds of the Friends’ Central community during a series of intimate classroom discussions in the afternoon and a packed-house public lecture in the evening as part of the School’s Distinguished Visiting Scientist Lecture Series on April 11.

Greene, professor, physicist, string theorist, and author, is described as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today” by The Washington Post. A professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, Greene has focused on unified theories for more than 25 years. He has written several best-selling and non-technical books on the subject including The Elegant Universe, a Pulitzer finalist. Greene captivated the crowd of more than 500 during his public lecture as he wove his tale of dark matter, additional dimensions, and the multiverse—the idea that ours is but one of many universes in the cosmos.

Said Upper School physics teacher Deb Maraziti, “Brian Greene pressed the ideas of intellectual freedom and of getting students to think outside of the box. He encouraged our students to not be afraid to take risks. A lot of times, especially in the world of science, students are too concerned with finding the right answer. Brian stressed the idea of finding a solution, not just one right answer. The Distinguished Lecture Series is a wonderful way to see the breadth of scientific world.”

SPEAKER SERIES 2012 – 2013 INSIDE FCS: A Night Out in the Classroom

Dan Biddle ’71 Thursday, December 6, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Shallcross Hall • 7:30 pm

City Avenue Campus • 7:00 pm

Dan Biddle ’71 highlights our year-long celebration of the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Biddle and Murray Dubin are the authors of Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. While working for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Biddle and his investigative reporting team won a Pulitzer Prize for their series about injustice in the Philadelphia court system.

So many of us have left curriculum nights wishing we could go back to school - well, parents, here is your chance! A Night Out in the Classroom, sponsored by the Advancement Office, is your opportunity to appreciate your children’s teachers in a whole new way. Choose a class from a variety of possibilities, sit back and... learn.

Check your email for sign-up information.

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Distinguished Humanities Lecture

Free Ticketed Event

Please go to friendscentral.org and watch your email several weeks before the event to find out how to reserve your ticket.

New Clerk and Vice-Clerk of the Board Named

For more than 160 years, Friends’ Central School has benefitted from a strong tradition of giving.

Robert Gassel ’69 and Karen Horikawa ’77 began their tenures as Friends’ Central’s new Clerk and Vice-Clerk of the Board of Trustees on July 1.

Gassel is president of Robert Gassel Co., Inc., a commercial real estate development and property management company. As a Trustee, Gassel has served as Clerk of the Trustees and Property Committees and helped oversee the development of Friends’ Central’s Master Plan and campus improvements. He earned the School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009 and was President of the Alumni/ae Board. Most recently, Gassel has served on the Long Range Planning Committee and was Clerk of the Space and Facilities Task Force for Vision 2020, the School’s Long Range Plan.

“The Board feels that it is important for the Clerk to have the ability to communicate with the School—to be visible,” Gassel notes. “Since my son is in 9th grade, I am around a lot. The teachers know me, other parents know me. It is important for the School community—parents, faculty and staff, and alumni/ae—to get to know the Board and what we do.”

Horikawa is a member of the Radnor Monthly Meeting and a science teacher and Associate Science Department Head at Wilmington Friends School. As Clerk of the School Life Committee, Horikawa will ensure that the School is guided by its Quaker principles and that diversity continues to be a priority at Friends’ Central. Horikawa also serves on the Engaged Community Working Group for Vision 2020.

Giving is at the heart of Annual Giving gifts stretch farther and affect more of the Friends’ Central community than any other fundraising effort.

The money is put to immediate use for faculty salaries and retirement, student programs, and financial aid.

Honor your FCS experience with your own tradition of giving.

Make an Annual Giving gift this year and support current students and faculty at Friends’ Central.

Contact Director of Annual Giving Jody Mayer at jmayer@friendscentral.org or 610.645.4499 for more information or visit www.friendscentral.org/support to give online.

“This is a momentous time for Friends’ Central,” says Horikawa. “I am delighted and proud to be part of the countless conversations and processes that strongly connect Friends’ Central to the core values of Quaker education and to the development of a vibrant 21st century learning community.”

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Listen, Learn, and Lead

A New Era Begins with T h e S e l l e r s F a m i ly A new era begins this year for Friends’ Central, and leading the charge is new Head of School, Craig Normile Sellers.

Craig, his wife, Cary, and his children, Bridgman ’15 and Clare ’18, joined the FCS community on July 1, 2012. The Sellers family is Friends’ Central’s first “Head Family” since Merrill Bush and family came to FCS in 1952.

By Lisa D’Orazio

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Listen, Learn, and Lead • A New Era Begins with The Sellers Family

With fresh eyes and the mantra “Listen, Learn, and Lead,” Craig’s eagerness and excitement to kick off the 2012-2013 school year, along with his passion for education, was palpable and contagious during the first weeks of school. I sat down with Craig to find out a little more about the Sellers family, as well as Craig the leader, Craig the person, and his vision for the future of Friends’ Central School.

Q: Welcome to FCS! What were your reasons for taking this job? Why Friends’ Central?

A: Friends’ Central for me has always been one of those mythic schools – you always knew about it and had great respect for this “rock solid” school—but it rarely had openings. I couldn’t believe the Head of School position was open. For me, it was always one of those jobs that was exceptional but unattainable and not likely to cross my path. I flashed back to our tour with David Felsen, about 15 years ago, when I was working at United Friends School in Quakertown.

Friends’ Central for us was, and still is, a school with values

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deeply in line with our values.

This position has now given me an opportunity to go deeper to a place where I can align my professional values with my personal values.

When you find that, you have to grab it.

Q: It must have been hard moving your whole family, including two teenage children, from their town and their school. What was Cary’s reaction to your candidacy at Friends’ Central, and to moving to the Philadelphia area?

A: In the beginning, [the opportunity to be the Head of

Friends’ Central] seemed so farfetched—an opportunity I was almost never going to be able to have. We were very happy in New Hampshire, working at a great school, one that fulfilled my professional values. When the search was narrowed down to about eight candidates, we went from investigating to truly investing—Cary and I realized that we really wanted this. Then, when I saw Al Vernacchio’s article in The New York Times Magazine, I remember thinking that it was a sign—that I not only needed apply for this position, but to really investigate and dig deeper into the opportunity to lead at Friends’ Central.

Friends’ Central’s connection to its Quakerism is a great fit with our personal values. It is a wonderful place for our family. That combination worked and just made sense. Cary said to me when I began at Derryfield that, the next time we moved, it had to be to “a place.”

I asked her what that meant. She said, “like a city—a real, live place.”

Philadelphia is exactly where we wanted to be, and Friends’ Central is the exact school we wanted to join.

Q: What are your first impressions of Friends’ Central after being here for almost two months now?

Though I haven’t been here long, my impressions are that there is a sense of professionalism and pride in the faculty that is truly inspiring, a physical plant that is exceptional—Doug Linton’s passion for the external campus is amazing—and I’m constantly aware of a community that is always welcoming of Cary and me and is ready for my family. I wanted to be

at a place where my children could thrive, and it is a blessing to have my family here.

Q: What do you feel are Friends’ Central’s greatest strengths?

A: Some of my initial perceptions and intuition of Friends’ Central’s strengths are the School’s commitment to its Quaker tradition and values, as both its difference and differentiation, and its driving force for excellence, which is continually brought to my attention. Teachers are both seeking ways to create the curriculum around Quaker values and pushing the envelope in their respective subject areas, which Quakers have been known for in the realm of education.

The soul of the place is its awareness of its Quaker roots.

Q: What is your vision for Friends’ Central?

A: What I’m going to do in my first year is “Listen, Learn, and Lead.”

I’m going to spend a lot of time listening—I know there is a lot to learn from a community of people at the top of their game. Then, as a community, we need to ask ourselves “Where is the North Star? Where do we go from here?” From that point, I’ll know where to lead. My instincts are to continue to look at new markets while still serving our present folks, think globally, and continue to find ways to use technology to bridge the divides.

How can adults use that technology to keep going and keep learning?

Quaker educator Anthony Benezet explained education well when he said “The best education balances a world that is and a world

“Friends’ Central for me

has always been one of those mythic schools – you always knew about it and

had great respect for this

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‘rock solid’ school

that ought to be.” I agree with this statement wholeheartedly, and I feel that Quaker schools succeed at finding that balance.

Q: You are very active on Twitter—what are your thoughts on social media as a whole, and how will that shape your communication with the community?

A: I’m a big believer in ambidextrous communication. I’m active on Twitter, blogging, and emails, but I also communicate through letters, and will eventually offer “Coffees with Craig” for parents, staff, students, and alumni/ae. People will find the channel that works best for them. Social Media is fascinating—we’re still figuring out its power. My instinct is that the essence of it connects all of us in incredible ways.

Q: Where did you grow up?

A: I was born and lived the first years of my life in Levittown, Pa. I attended William Penn Preschool, of which I have no memory. Then, my family moved to Cape Cod when I was in third grade. I attended a small public school, North Falmouth elementary school, where many of the teachers were members of the Meeting. Though it was a public

school, it was influenced heavily

by Friends.

Q: What path took you to Friends education, and then to Friends’ Central?

A: After graduating from Franklin & Marshall in 1984, I took a year off to do photography around the world. That year off was the most amazing experience of my life.

When I came back home, I attended law school in Manhattan. I met Cary at a conference in New York.

She was one of the presenters, and I was working on Wall Street at the time. After Cary and I got married and had been living together for a while, Cary began teaching at The Spence School. I couldn’t help but notice that I was coming home to a wife who was truly happy and was making the world a better place, and I wasn’t. I decided that I wanted a piece of that happiness, too, but wasn’t sure how to get it. Cary suggested I meet with the Head of Spence School, who suggested I meet with Rich Eldridge, Head of Friends Seminary. Rich assured me this was just an informational meeting, that I wasn’t going to get a job out of it. I said that I would take him out to lunch until I did.

During my visit, Rich encouraged me to sit in on Meeting for Worship.

It was sitting in Meeting that I had

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an amazing moment of clarity. It felt like I was coming home. I called my mom later in the week to tell her about my day and about how I felt at Meeting for Worship. She said “Yes, well, that’s because you went to a Quaker Preschool.” Of course, I had no recollection of that, so I said, “No, I didn’t.” She said, “Yes, you did. I’ll send you the diploma.” That diploma is the only one hanging in my office.

Friends’ “Central is a

great fit for its Quakerness, and ours. It is a

wonderful place for our family. That combination worked and just made sense.

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Back to Friends Seminary, it took them 18 months, but Rich finally did give me a job, running the development office and teaching constitutional law to juniors and seniors. After a while, I felt like I should really get a degree in education, so, a subway ride away, I enrolled and got my Master’s at Klingenstein Center Teachers’ College at Columbia University. A few years later, my wife and I joined Morningside Meeting in New York.

Then, I started working at United Friends School, a small Pre-K to 8 School in Quakertown, Pa., where my kids attended from Pre-K

through grade 4. While at United Friends, I went to Thailand on a Fulbright Scholarship. I realized I was missing the older children, and how larger schools connect to one another.

When I returned, I knew I was ready for the next step, which turned out to be Head of Derryfield. After a few years, I realized I was missing the connection to my Quaker faith, as well as the younger children. So, when I reflect on being here, at a Nursery through grade 12 Friends school with the stature of Friends’ Central, I still get tingles thinking about it.

Yorker on the iPad. Now I can’t put it down. I also really enjoy Malcolm Gladwell—a big thinker who captures so much—Tom Friedman, Barbara Kingsolver, and John McPhee.

Q: What are your passions?

A: I just went through four months of a community saying goodbye.

Folks have thought of me in terms of physical plant; that’s not what I want to be known for. I’ve helped schools with their vision and mission. Children at Friends schools learn best when they develop their eye for the invisible and their ear for the unspoken, and if I can be a part of that, I will be thrilled. QW

A: I’m a big basketball fan, particularly the Celtics, but I’m on my way to converting to the Sixers!

I also really enjoy photography and always find a place for photography in my life.

Q: Can you share some of your favorite books or authors?

What are you reading right now?

A: Recently I discovered the New

Q: Who are your favorite musicians?

A: I really enjoy classic 70s music, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger.

Q: What do you feel are your greatest strengths?

Lisa D’Orazio is the Director of Communications at Friends’ Central.

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The Class of 2012 Embarks on a New Journey A Friends’ Central education is very much an intellectual journey, as students are encouraged to forge their own path, guided by the Quaker values that have infused their learning. On June 9,the 96 members of the Class of 2012 embarked on a new journey, as they look toward a future of engagement and leadership in college and throughout their lives.

By Jim Mack

As the sun peaked through what was an overcast morning, the Class of 2012 and their families and friends enjoyed a spirited day of reflection and anticipation, as they shared stories of their time at Friends’ Central and their hopes for the future.

Nicolas DeFina was one of two student speakers at the ceremony. He talked about his struggles with regret, calling it a “subversively powerful demoralizer,” but he encouraged his classmates to use regret in a beneficial way. He quoted playwright Fulton Oursler, who said that “many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for the past and fear for the future.” He challenged his classmates to accept their past experiences and use them to take advantage of their greatest assets, “enthusiasm, curiosity, fearlessness, and compassion.”

“What matters the most is what experiences, friendships, and lessons you have behind you,” DeFina said. “This, my classmates, is what will get us through the mysteries of the future. All we must do is embrace our beautifully erratic pasts; don’t regret them. Free yourselves. You deserve it.”

Kirsten Easley was the second student speaker. She noted the similarities between the now-famous “opposite of loneliness” reflection by Yale graduate Marina Keegan.

Easley expected to be an outsider upon entering Friends’ Central as a freshman. What she discovered, though, was that she was “surrounded by people who were willing and eager to embrace me and my differences.”

“That’s what I love most about Friends’ Central and the people here,” Easley said. “Everyone can come here with different beliefs and world views and no one is discouraged from sharing them … the embrace and love of community and our differences are what make Friends’ Central so special.”

Easley came back to Keegan’s essay as she ended her speech, noting that she realized that she and Keegan were feeling a lot of the same emotions. “Though we were in different places in our lives, the feelings brought to the surface by getting ready to leave one community and to take on the task of finding another were very similar,” Easley said. “Her optimism about her future and the futures of her fellow graduates was infectious,

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and I couldn’t help but believe in every word she spoke.

I feel the same way about our futures as we leave Friends’ Central.”

This year’s faculty speaker was Carrie Brodsky, Co-Director of College Counseling, whose son, Joey Brodsky, graduated this year. Brodsky related the difficulty in boiling down the complex sum of a students’ life and aspirations to “the rigid format of the Common Application.” A quote by Albert Einstein hangs in her office to reassure her advisees: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

Brodsky spoke eloquently of the many things that Friends’ Central students do that matter, but cannot be counted, things such as gratitude and engagement.

She the retold the story of golf balls in the jar—how the golf balls are the important things, like family and friends, and they can fill up the jar. But pebbles still fit, these are jobs and houses and cars. Even these do

not fill the jar, completely, as sand can fill in the spaces.

Sand represents everything else in life. The lesson is that if the sand goes in first, there is not room for the important things. “The same goes for life,” Brodsky said, “if you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, there is no room for the things that are important to you.”

“As you leave Friends’ Central today,” Brodsky concluded, “confident, talented young adults, ready to make your mark in the world, I encourage you to live an engaged life, express gratitude for the things that matter most to you, and be sure to pay attention to the things that can’t be counted.” QW Jim Mack is the Director of Publications at Friends’ Central.

A Change in College Counseling Faculty Commencenment Speaker Carrie Brodsky is leaving her role as Co-Director of College Counseling after 12 years of service to the Friends’ Central community. Stepping in this year as Associate Director of College Counseling is Mike Keaton, who joins us from Haverford College, where he served as Senior Associate Director of Admission.

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The Class of 2012 “The 96 members of the Friends’ Central School Class of 2012 have accepted offers of admission at 60 colleges and universities. The number and variety of institutions represented speaks to the success of this group of students in finding schools that fit their many and diverse interests and aspirations.”

- Grant Calder, Director of College Counseling

Munir Abdus Shakur St. John’s University Francesca Abramson Emory University Leah Adelson Yale University Hannah Albertine Bates College Katherine Andrews American University Jacob Apkon Tufts University Lindsay Auerbach Muhlenberg College Zachary Barron Emory University Chelsea Bedford The George Washington University Robert Bedford University of the Sciences Andie Belkoff Emory University Liza Bergmann Quinnipiac University John Bowie Temple University Sean Bray Haverford College Samuel Brodfuehrer Washington University in St. Louis

Nicholas Clothier University of California at Berkeley Jesse Cooperman Indiana University Bloomington Jeremy Crimm Wesleyan University Rebecca Dahle Brown University Nicolas DeFina University of Pennsylvania Emily deLisle University of Pennsylvania Antonia DiLuca Goucher College Ilan Dreyfuss Washington University in St. Louis Kirsten Easley Northeastern University C. Myles Everett New York University William Fedullo Swarthmore College Allison Feld Boston University Alexander Flick Williams College Aaron Freed University of Pittsburgh

Lauren Harris Occidental College

Jonathan Newman University of Pittsburgh

Jeffrey Horowitz University of Pennsylvania

Shea Norcini West Chester University

Franz Hueber University of North Carolina Wilmington Nathaniel Hurwitz The George Washington University Amile Jefferson Duke University

Charlotte Pawley Boston University Lee Penzarella Case Western Reserve University Harrison Pharamond University of Pennsylvania

Richard Jennings St. John’s University

Elizabeth Phillips Maryland Institute College of Art

George Keith University of Pittsburgh

Tiffany Phuong Lafayette University

Sarah Kim University of Pennsylvania

Aleksandr Pickard Pepperdine University

Lily Kronfeld Emory University Colin Lee Digital Animation & Visual Effects School Asher LethbridgeSimon Syracuse University

Jibreel Powell University of Pennsylvania

Spencer Reiter Tulane University

Michael Michnowicz Kenyon College

Shay Roddy Arizona State University Emily Roll Drexel University

Naomi Minkoff The George Washington University

Meghan Cartafalsa Florida Southern College

Brice Goldberg Syracuse University

Kaitlin Mulholland High Point University

Melanie Chalmus West Chester University

Breanna Guindon Earlham College

C. Miles Mundy Pomona College

Amy Chapkovich Penn State University

Declan Hahn Emory University

Yorito Nakata Oberlin College

Sahara Clement Bryn Mawr College

Benjamin Harris University of Maryland

Andrew Nemroff University of Delaware

Jordan Taffet College of William & Mary Isabel Terres Hobart and William Smith Colleges Sara Refaela Torres University of Delaware James Ulrich Haverford College Cynthia Valdez Bryn Mawr College

Matthew Weinberg Washington University in St. Louis

Claudia Rizzo Trinity College (Conn.)

Joshua Glen Hamilton College

Keira Sultan Bates College

Jacob Reichlin Syracuse University

Katherine McElroy Drexel University

Paula Burkhardt Pomona College

Daniel Stern Vanderbilt University

Spencer Villars Yale University

Samantha Resnik University of Pennsylvania

Rory Giszter Cornell University

Justine SingerKaufold Drexel University

Pedro Rangel West Chester University

Jordan Lucoff University of Colorado at Boulder

C. Joseph Brodsky Ursinus College

Isabelle SingerKaufold Drexel University

Noah Schoenberg Macalester College Giulietta Schoenfeld Bryn Mawr College

Dennis Whitely Indiana University of Pennsylvania Bengt Williams Worcester Polytechnic Institute Allison Wirshba Franklin & Marshall College David Yarnell Oberlin College Dylan Zaccaria West Chester University

Emma Shaw Gettysburg College Imani Shell California University of Pennsylvania

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A Passion for

Invention,

A Bold Entrepreneur

FCS Alumnus Named Thiel Fellow What if you never had to stand in a checkout line at a store again?

What if retailers could eliminate shoplifting?

By Jim Mack

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An invention by Friends’ Central School alumnus Spencer Hewett will allow shoppers to pay for their goods with a tap of their smart phones, while ensuring that merchandise will not leave the store without being purchased. It is a system that has the young entrepreneur on the verge of transforming the retail industry.

Hewett has wanted to be an inventor since he was three years old, and the pursuit of his ideas has occupied his thoughts and actions for as long as he can remember.

Hewett graduated from Friends’ Central in 2010 … barely, he admits.

“I was diagnosed with ADHD in third grade,” Hewett easily offers. “My teachers sometimes had a hard time with me.” As he sits comfortably on a bench in the shady center of Friends’ Central’s campus, you get the sense that his words ring of understatement.

Hewett admits that he was a challenging student and found it hard to maintain focus on projects that he did not find stimulating … especially art projects. “I am a perfectionist,” Hewett says. “It is hard for me to turn in projects when they are not good. So, I am late, or I don’t turn them in at all. If it wasn’t for my advisors, Keith Buckingham and Laura Haimm, going to bat for me and also urging me to finish my art projects, I wouldn’t have graduated,” he says in that same easy manner of someone who has embraced his eccentricities. “The thing is, I really liked my classes! Friends’ Central is an inspiring place, and I had many teachers who were passionate about what they did and encouraged independent thinking.”

Buckingham is a popular Upper School science teacher who saw that Hewett’s perfectionism was his greatest fault and also his greatest asset. “Spencer wants free and rapid flow of information and ideas, and rapid decision-making,” Buckingham says. “He is extremely goal-oriented, but he is freewheeling 24

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and values autonomy. The downside is that when he doesn’t see the value in the work, he doesn’t do it.”

In third grade Hewett invented a peer-to-peer cell phone network.

In high school Hewett and a friend started a company that built personal computers with advanced cooling systems, one of the many side endeavors to which he has devoted his time.

“Mr. Buckingham supported my computer business and realized that my education did not consist solely of my classes,” Hewett says. “He recognized the importance of my business to my learning.”

“Spencer values many of the things that I find intellectually stimulating,” Buckingham adds. “He is willing to take chances, and he is exceptionally tolerant of technical failure if the potential payoff from success will likely be high.”

Now, another mentor has recognized Hewett’s brilliance and has given him a $100,000 fellowship to pursue his passion. PayPal founder Peter Thiel, through his

Thiel Foundation “20 Under 20” program, selected Hewett as one of this year’s crop of Thiel Fellows—a group of 20 creative and ambitious thinkers aged 20 or younger who are guided by scientists, engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs to bring their visionary ideas to life— with one catch: they skip college for two years of self-directed research, work, and education.

Hewett, a computer engineering major who just finished his sophomore year at Washington University in St. Louis, first heard about the Thiel Fellowship in a magazine and then saw a special on CNBC. But the fellowship didn’t inspire Hewett’s remarkable invention. Victoria’s Secret did.

Hewett had already been working on the project that would earn him the fellowship because of his impatience with checkout lines. Last summer, he was interning at GSI Commerce in King of Prussia. After lunch one day, three female coworkers dragged him to Victoria’s Secret in the King of Prussia Mall, where Hewett suffered through a 30-minute wait at the checkout. While they were in line, he told his friend that he would invent a way to get rid of lines. She bet him he couldn’t. This challenge sparked what would become “noQ,” a fusion of radio-frequency identification microchips (RFID) and mobile payment technology.

Hewett’s invention works much like an EZPass. As you leave the store a sensor remotely scans your items and charges the price directly to your credit card via your phone.

An alarm goes off if the item has not been purchased.

If consumers are excited about the possibility of breezing through a store in minutes, retailers are even more excited about the security benefits inherent in this system.

“I will eliminate shoplifting and employee theft,” Hewett says with such assurance that leaves no doubt

“Friends’ Central is an inspiring place, and I had many teachers who were passionate about what they did and encouraged independent thinking.” to his success. Well, almost. “I am 99 percent sure this is going to work,” Hewett says.

As Hewett rolls through the benefits of his innovation, that one percent starts to get smaller.

“Retailers lose $4.5 to $6 billion each year through shoplifting,” Hewett explains, “and stores increase prices to compensate for this loss.

There is also a 67 percent average employee turnover rate per year in retail. Instead of standing at the register all day, employees can be used for customer service. They can spend more time helping people.”

Of course, as with any venture, this project has not been a smooth ride, and this idea has been tried before, but Hewett thinks that his plan is better. “Shopping carts with RFID technology exist, but they are expensive, and people steal them for the parts, he says. “My idea places sensors in the store instead of on the cart, which is a far less expensive solution.”

Hewett’s team has also had to design ways to eliminate radio frequency interference and take into account the hacker factor. “Hackers try to ‘kill’ the tag by scanning it a thousand times to overload the memory, because each time a tag is scanned it alters the memory. They call in ‘tag spoofing,’” Hewett explains. “I’ve invented security to prevent this.”

Even the application for the Thiel Fellowship was daunting. “Like applying to Stanford, but longer,” Hewett jokes. At each point, Hewett

S.T.E.A.M.

(It’s better than S.T.E.M.) The students just couldn’t get enough physics. That planted the seed for what turned into a new program at Friends’ Central, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), FCS’ own take on the STEM movement.

“We are using the MIT Media Lab as our model and following their fourstep process: Invent, Build, Test, and Demonstrate for all projects,” says Upper School science teacher Keith Keith Buckingham (left) and Buckingham. “Our goal is to set up an Colin Angevine ’05 incubator … to throw a bunch of smart people in the same room, start playing with things, and see where it goes. We seek to promote engineering and problem solving skills, creativity, and cross-disciplinary thinking.”

The STEAM initiative is student driven—there were enough kids who hit the end of the line in the physics curriculum, Physics II, and wanted more.

“Why not?” they asked. Buckingham agreed and teamed up with computer science and Latin teacher Colin Angevine ’05 to form a program that helps students learn to apply multi-disciplinary approaches to advance their knowledge and create innovative technologies to tackle practical problems.

Projects may span the gamut across the fields of biology, medicine, computer science, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, material sciences, social sciences, neurosciences, and the arts. Initially the faculty will serve as mentors, but Buckingham and Angevine expect students to move into that role as they gain experience.

“We want to create the right kind of culture. We avoid hierarchy,” says Angevine. “We are trying to set the students up and let them go … but redirect them when needed.”

Art is an important feature of the initiative, Buckingham says. “Steve Jobs talked of the intersection of technology and liberal arts being one of the keys to Apple’s design and innovation. We want to bring technology and the creative/ intuitive together in synergy.” Art teacher Josh Weisgrau has joined the STEAM team, and they expect more faculty to become involved as the project grows.

Buckingham tried this idea before—back when he was teaching physics to AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas ’97. (See the story on page 27.) Thomas is actually advising the FCS STEAM project, and the students attended a Maker Education Initiative Maker Faire in New York City in September.

For now, they are calling STEAM a “non course,” and the group will meet during a weekly free block, but it may be for credit in the future. Right now, the faculty and students are excited just to get started.

“Our group of students have diverse backgrounds,” Buckingham says.

“Most everyone has some physics, all have some calculus. A good number have programming background. All are interested and enthusiastic. That is the single most important point.”

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Even the other Thiel Fellows know Spencer is great.

has risen to the challenge. He went through a series of thorough phone interviews, then flew to San Francisco for interviews with the mentoring groups and past fellowship winners.

The experience has left him in awe of the talent and ingenuity of his generation of young entrepreneurs.

“I’ve never encountered kids like this in all my life,” Hewett says with a smile and a look, almost, of disbelief. “One kid is the youngest

person ever to achieve nuclear fusion … at age 14.”

Now Hewett is among these phenoms whom Thiel has tapped as our visionaries of tomorrow. Since finding out he was selected on April 28, Hewett has indeed left college and moved to the San Francisco Bay area.

Even though he is taking some time off from pursuing his college degree, Hewett credits the engineering department at

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Washington, especially Ron Laue, assistant dean for engineering student services, with being supportive of his latest “side project.” He also credits Friends’ Central with providing the opportunity for his first summer internship—after his sophomore year in high school. At the School’s career day, he met FCS alumna Shana Fisher ’88, who worked with Internet services and retailing company IAC, a job that helped spark Hewett’s interest in ecommerce.

“Spencer has an incredibly positive attitude and natural intellectual curiosity,” notes Fisher.

“He is extremely hard-working and engaged, and I was happy to have him with us during his internship.”

Hewett’s amazing journey was featured on CNBC’s “20 Under 20: Transforming Tomorrow,” a two-part special, which aired in August. QW Jim Mack is the Director of Publications at Friends’ Central.

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Creative and Compassionate,These Alumni/ae Entrepreneurs are Examples of How Quaker Works.

The Power of Sharing When Dan Porter ’84 created the insanely popular Draw Something mobile app, cooperation was on his mind, not competition. “We’re taking game play and wrapping it in the framework of communication, sharing experiences and playing together,” he said in an interview with gigaOM.com.

“I just wanted this to be something hilarious with no winner or loser.”

Cooperation was also on his mind when, as CEO of Omgpop, he rehired 40 staffers that had been let go so they would be able to reap in the profits of the company’s $210 million purchase by gaming giant Zynga. “Those folks deserved to share in the success,” Porter says. “It wasn’t something I thought a lot about. I grew up in a politically 26

active and conscious family, and of course FCS was always trying to engage as a school with the world around it. The rehire seemed on a personal level the right thing to do, even if that trumped traditional business logic of maximum profits.”

Porter is now vice president for mobile and general manager of New York operations for Zynga, and he credits Friends’ Central for showing him that anything is possible with hard work, and for allowing him the flexibility to try new things. He and his friends started a new jazz band at FCS, and his senior project involved writing music with Jim Davis.

“FCS gave me room to really stretch myself,” he says.

Porter’s advice for current students? “Spend as much of your time in college and in your 20’s figuring out what you like to do, what you are good at, and what you aren’t,” he says.

“You can’t do that anywhere else but on the job. It’s OK not to know what you want to do. It takes time and exposure. I sold my first company when I was 34 and Omgpop when I was 45.

It takes a lot of time to get it right.”

Confidence to Embrace Change Resilient, smart, patient, focused.

These are all words that fit Jonathan Wegener ’03. He spent three months riding the subways in New York City to come up with the mobile app hit ExitStrategyNYC.com, which tells you exactly where to stand on the subway platforms to make your trip the most efficient. He is now working on a new product called Timehop.com, which brings together our personal digital history and reminds us in a daily email. “So much of social media is lost as soon as it is posted. We believe that content gains value over time, and we want to help people reconnect with their pasts.” Wegener’s day reads like a start-up laundry list. Half his day is spent working on the product: sketching new features, writing copy, working with designers and developers. The other half is everything else: recruiting, benefits, office space, fundraising.

After graduating from Columbia, Wegener was working for tech start-ups, “a great way to get your feet wet,” he says.

While still consulting, he lost his full-time gig in 2009. But then the idea for Exit Strategy was like a light bulb going on.

Wegener took a potential setback, what he calls a “forced entrepreneurship,” and turned it into a revenue-producing product that launched a new career. Even during his FCS days he was into technology and building websites. His work with start-ups helped him develop the business acumen to envision the intersection of technology and the world. He saw a need and had the vision and skill to fill it. Friends’ Central, he says, helped him learn the most important lesson for success: the best way to learn is by doing. “Start building things early,” he says to budding entrepreneurs, “figure it out, make it happen, teach yourself!”

Optimistic, adaptive, creative. Three more words that define Wegener, and three qualities that Friends’ Central strives to instill in its students.

The Power of Making For AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas ’97, the belief in the power of making, especially for young children, has led her to leave her position as assistant professor of engineering at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and director of the UST Design Laboratory to become the executive director of the Maker Education Initiative (or Maker Ed for short). “As a mother, and as an

engineering professor, I’ve seen how much learning occurs when people work on projects that they are passionate about,” Thomas says. “People are truly excited about the projects that they, and others, are working on. Collaboration, creativity, learning new things, exploring various technology and craft techniques—wouldn’t it be great if every child had a chance to experience these things?”

Maker Ed was founded to create more opportunities for young people to make, and, by making, build confidence, foster creativity, and spark interest in science, technology, engineering, math, the arts—and learning as a whole.

“Making something, be it an electrical circuit, a piece of clothing, a sculpture, or whatever else they are interested in, allows children to see that they can be creators rather than just consumers,” says Thomas. “It’s incredibly empowering to be able to point to something and say ‘I made that!’”

“I’ve spent my career trying to blend art and science and engineering, and I think this stems from how these topics were equally important at FCS. I will forever be grateful for that support and encouragement I received at Friends’ Central.”

Through Maker Ed, Thomas is working to connect parents and educators with the resources and support they need to develop and implement making activities and programs.

Maker Ed’s first program, Maker Corps, places young adult “makers” with youth-serving organizations to help create making opportunities for children in their communities.

Thomas points to Friends’ Central science teachers Pam Nix and Keith Buckingham, art teacher Peter Seidel, and music teacher Carl Bradley as important early influences on her passion for making. “I’ve spent my career trying to blend art and science and engineering, and I think this stems from how these topics were equally important at FCS,” she says. “I will forever be grateful for that support and encouragement I received at Friends’ Central.”

Thomas says that Friends’ Central’s fine arts program first attracted her to the school, but over time, she became more and more interested in science and math and ended up founding the Science Olympiad team. Friends’ Central gave her the opportunity to explore and develop her passions—a critical step, she feels, toward a successful and satisfying life. Other steps? “Be curious about how the world works,” she says. Find interesting people to be around, and learn from them. Share what you do, and the lessons you’ve learned, with others.” fall 2012 magazine

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A Beautiful Day for a Beautiful Community

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On May 12, more than 500 alumni/ae, family members, friends, and faculty came together for a memorable Reunion celebration. Our remarkably gorgeous day began with Archivist Jim Davis giving his popular City Avenue campus tour as our guests enjoyed relaxed conversation and breakfast treats on their meanderings through Felsen Common. A late-morning Meeting for Worship set the stage for the Reunion Program, at which we honored our Distinguished Alumnus/a Award winners Jonathan Adler ’87 and Beth Davis Johnson ’77. After a flurry of class photos, we regrouped for a delicious picnicthemed lunch on the Common and were serenaded by a faculty-alumni/ae folk band. While some toured the

Archives display, others took in some Phoenix athletic contests (and an alumna-student field hockey game!), and a large contingent sat in on a lecture by our nationally recognized sexuality educator Al Vernacchio.

As the setting sun cast a warming glow over the Wood Building Terrace, we traded stories and memories over cocktails before ending our night with our festive class parties. Thank you to everyone who attended and made Reunion 2012 a special event. It was a beautiful day for a beautiful community. QW

Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 is the Director of Alumni/ae Affairs at Friends’ Central.

D i st i n g u sh e d A l u mn u s / a A wa r d W i nn e r s In his acceptance speech, Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner Jonathan Adler ’87, pictured here with daughters Ellie and Madeline, thanked Friends’ Central for “helping us learn the importance of asking questions and thinking critically, something which is obviously important for what I do today, [and] … for supporting us as we sought to take control of our own education, providing space for entrepreneurial efforts, giving us the space to succeed or fail and to learn from it.” Adler, a prolific legal scholar and professor, received the award for his outstanding accomplishments in the field of education and environmental law. Frequently sought by fellow scholars and the national media, Adler is a recipient of both the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies, Paul M. Bator Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award.

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Beth Davis Johnson ’77 was chosen as the 2012 Distinguished Alumna Award Winner for her outstanding accomplishments in the field of education and her commitment to the FCS community. Johnson served Friends’ Central for 25 years as teacher, admission director, and Upper School principal, as well as a friend and trusted mentor. Her passion for education, social justice, and the well-being of others has enriched the lives of countless young people and fellow educators. Johnson is now taking up a new challenge as Director of Admissions at the William Penn Charter School. “Friends’ Central is a place where one builds relationships with teachers, coaches, staff members, and of course, peers,” Johnson said in her acceptance speech. “I know these relationships are built in an institution that provides a challenging, vigorous, and intriguing academic program, exciting arts and athletics offerings, and it is a Quaker school, where truth, peace, equality, and simplicity are paramount. Clearly, these points must not be lost, but, … and I think many of you will agree, Friends’ Central is about the people.”

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1948 Jack Banks is crossing things off his bucket list and traveled to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil this spring. He hopes to be back at FCS for his 65th Reunion this year and see many of his classmates.

Ted Reinke ’48

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Robert Weir gave a paper at the “Maple Leaf and Eagle” historical conference sponsored by Canada and the University of Helsinki this past May. “For the first time in awhile,” he writes, “my wife, Anne, and I took a bit more ambitious trip. We followed the conference up with a Baltic cruise and enjoyed both the conference and the cruise thoroughly.

Helsinki is a lovely city.”

Alice Hunt Daily writes that she still lives in Savannah, Ga., and has held a number of offices in The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia. She is deeply involved in the Society’s museum house, the Andrew Low House, transcribing diaries and documents of the Low family.

1947 J. Richard Relick has made several visits with Diane Bault DeMille ’46 in Boston. They spend a lot of time talking about their FCS days.

Ted Reinke rode his Victory motorcycle across the country by himself this summer, and stopped by Friends’ Central to show off his wheels and catch up on FCS news. He visited a number of friends on his trip to California. The motorcycle enthusiast takes a long trip on his bike each summer.

1952 Jack Banks ’48 danced the tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this April.

Patricia Carroll Shuss and her husband, Richard, moved from New Jersey to an independent living community in Naples,

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granddaughter of Elizabeth M. Jones Smith ’18.

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» ( From left) Jack Balson, George Harris, Emanuel “Pat” Hudock, Jim Wilson, Jacquie Watkins Slifka, Carol Jerjisian Churukian, and Jetta Sommers Bracken

Fla. “We were unable to attend the recent 60th Reunion, but I enjoyed seeing the photo of the class members who made it!” she writes. “Everyone looks great!”

1954 Elizabeth Smith Harper shares a photo of her granddaughter, Margaret Eowyn Harper-Mangels, also the great-

Class of 1955 Can’t Wait!

George Walters ’55 and Ann Dothard Walters ’58

Mayer Schnyder ’55 and his wife, Roz

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George “Toby” Walters organized a mini-reunion in Florida at the Doubletree Resort in North Reddington Beach this May for those classmates who did not want to wait until their 60th Reunion to see each other again. Also attending were Marcy Henry Ballis with husband, George; Ed Rummel and wife, Georgia; Maryellen Kirkpatrick McCormick and husband, Bill; Ted Clisby; Mayer Schnyder and wife, Roz; Middy Minster Larson; and Ann Dothard Walters ’58.

Although stormy weather kept the group inside at the beachfront resort, they had

Margaret Eowyn Harper-Mangels, granddaughter of Elizabeth Smith Harper’54

1956 Bill Flynn and his wife, Nancy, are both retired and live in three communities.

They winter on St. Simons Island, Ga.,

fun sharing laughs, conversations, and good food. Middy Larson won the Class of 1955 trivia contest, and the group relished in a three-hour dinner at the nearby Wine Cellar restaurant.

Maryellen McCormick captured the essence of the weekend in an email sent to George Walters, in which she wrote, “Weather notwithstanding, the weekend was a spectacular success. It was amazing to me how quickly the years faded, and within an hour, we were all school friends again. By all means, let’s do it again in two years.”

Ted Clisby ’55, George Walters ’55, and Ed Rummel ’55

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went above and beyond to start the ball rolling. Bruce Yoskin with the T-shirts. Dennis Linnehan with his beautiful book. The entire experience was fantastic. Hope we will have many more!”

of 1957

» ( From left) Richard Klein, Barbara Davis Widmayer, Hank Zoob, Jack Lilly, Roberta Sheen

David Wetterholt is in private practice as a “somewhat renegade general practitioner and founder/owner of the Saratoga Walk-in Clinic in Saratoga, California.” He splits his time between living in Saratoga and Paris. He married Annick Deschard Cristin in 2006.

Peterson, Bryan Pokras, and Jill Banks Barad

1967 summer in Maine on Moosehead Lake on their island, and spend part of the spring and fall in Hermitage, Pa. Formerly of Bucks County, they moved to Hermitage to be near children and grandchildren.

Inspired by the Friends’ Central education, Bill and Nancy sent both of their daughters to the George School.

Robert F. Sylk received a gubernatorial appointment to be the Selective Service director for Riverside County, Calif. He is a candidate for mayor of the City of La Quinta, Calif., home of the Bob Hope PGA Golf Tournament.

1962 Sue Perilstein Herring had a great time seeing everyone at George and Lynne Tindle Schnyder’s home the night before the Reunion. “They were such gracious hosts,” she writes. “The feeling of seeing all our classmates was truly indescribable. Roz Miller Meyer

Russ Bleakley and his wife, Karen, both retired this year and are excited to live the good life as snowbirds in Ft. Myers, Fla., and beach bums in Ocean City, N.J., he writes. “I’ve enjoyed being back on campus for many sporting events, including watching my daughter, Diana ’01, coach the Girls’ Lacrosse team to their third-straight FSL championship!”

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of 1962

1960 Bruce Woodruff reports that he’s blessed to still be representing ING Financial Partners after 45 years with time out for good behavior to fish with his grandson Joey.

» ( Front, from left) Janet Weil Van Cleave, Lee Hillerson, Patricia Stanton Cooley, Betty Johnson

Bruce Woodruff ’60 takes time to fish with his grandson Joey.

Pribula, Betsy Norcross Ingram, William Dean, Den Linnehan, Connie Harthum-Nitzke, Chris Woerner, Todd Lieber, Kathleen Murray Allain, and Allan Kluber; (middle, from left) Diana Khinoy Reed, Roslyn Miller Meyer, Lynne Tindle Schnyder, Charlotte Herrmann Brown, Ann Hayward, Sara Clark Linder, Sally Price Honey, Margery DeArnold Maconachy, Patricia “Penny” Laws Curran, Michael Cohen, Betsy Charr Bodurtha, and Kenneth Kirchhofer; (back, from left) Peter Hickman, Jesse Wagner, Christopher “Kit” Clews, Henry Clews, David Boyd, George Schnyder, Rob Klaus, Bob McClenahan, and Fran Bradley

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of 1967

1970 Sherry McVickar’s portraits of local and historic barns will be part of the Chester County Historical Association’s exhibition of 150 years since the Civil War in October.

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of 1972

1979

» ( From left) Eileen Bilynsky, David Havgaard, G. Loie Grossmann, Craig Martin, Tim Ely, Jim Strong, and Mitchell Rosenberg

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of 1977

Michael Rothman writes that he has enjoyed more that 26 years of marriage to his wonderful wife, Lynn, who is the president of their Allentown synagogue, Temple Beth El. His daughter Jeannette is a senior at Penn State majoring in public relations and marketing with minors in economics and recreation, park, and tourism management. His daughter Sarah is a sophomore at Franklin & Marshall College, majoring in English and environmental studies. Rothman continues to work as a neuroradiologist.

1980 Jeffrey Miller will be back in Philadelphia more often now that his daughter Alison began her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Boca Raton, Fla., with his wife, Rachel, and two daughters, and practices as a urologist there. Charlie King helped Miller move his daughter in to the dorm at the start of school.

» ( Front, from left) Rodney Willis, Karen Horikawa, Karen Murphy Cain, David Frenze, Mark

Adams, David Shakespeare, Rick Moses, and Beth Clouser Hare; (back, from left) Alan Redfern, Beth Davis Johnson, Rachel Fell McDermott, Ethyl Treatman, Lise Funderburg, and Morris Kay

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1984 James Bucci was named to the 2012 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in the state.

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of 1982

A Celebration of Teaching

» ( From left) Chip Purcell, Ed Rehfeld, Heidi Pokras Sattalamacchia, David Niles, Jennifer

Balson, Paul Clough, Eric Larson, Martin Wachs, Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson, Jon Fiebach, and Rachel Levov Hollingsworth

He is a partner in the Genova Burns Giantomasi & Webster’s Philadelphia and Camden offices, and is a member of the firm’s Employment Law & Litigation and Complex Commercial Litigation Practice Groups. Outside of work, Bucci has served on the Haddonfield, N.J., Planning Board and Environmental Commission for many years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Haddonfield Little League and as a General Member of the Cooper’s Ferry Partnership. He received his Juris Doctor in 1991 from the Temple University School of Law, where he served on the school’s Editorial Board. He graduated in 1988 from Dickinson College, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts.

1987 Sara Shack serves on the Board of Next Level Sports, a local sports organization, and is actively involved in its Next Level Achievers program, which is designed to show urban children the many roads to success, such as business, academics, or athletics.

Daniel Bernstein Barnz ’88 wrote and directed the film Won’t Back Down, which stars Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Holly Hunter and opened this fall. “I hope all my terrific FCS teachers will see themselves in this great celebration of teaching,” he writes. Barnz invited the FCS faculty to a preview of the film in Philadelphia in September. He made his feature directorial debut with the award-winning Phoebe in Wonderland at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Ben, and two children, Zelda, 11, and Dashiell, 9.

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of 1987

» ( Front, from left) Beryl Brown, Elizabeth Toborwsky Pollard, Kimberly Kurtz Lent, Danielle

Paul Barson, Pam Phillips, Dawn Schakett, Sara Volkman Shack; (back, from left) Peter Klein, Alex McDonnell, Jonathan Adler, Seth Lundy, Rebecca Abbott, Kennedy Robert Behrman, Samantha Marks Gordon, Melanie Ficsher Rubenstein, Krissy Chimes Bresnan, and Marcus Alston

James Bucci ’84

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live a couple of hours south of Lauren’s brother, Ander Pindzola ’85, Sasha has a playmate in Ander’s third child, Jude, who is 3 years old.

of 1992

1995 Katie Heller Akyuz is currently residing in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband, Osman.

» ( From left) Alisa Newman Hood, Rachel Pickard Rothman, Andres Colapinto, David White,

Rachel Volkman Kushel, Ruth First Goldstein, Jen Johnson Smith, Elena Karp Korngold, Fran Lord, Elissa Levin, and Liz Sklaroff

1993

epidemiologist with the Research Triangle

Lauren Pindzola Courtney and her

Institute, where she has worked for

husband, Andrew, welcomed their

almost nine years, focusing on behavioral

daughter Hanna on March 13. She joins

epidemiology and HIV in Africa. Andrew

big sister Sasha. The family lives in

works at the Nature Conservancy and

Falls Church, Va. Lauren is a research

finished his MBA last year. Since they

FCS Grad Heads Lankenau Medical Center’s Ambulatory Services This past March, Chinwe Onyekere ’94 was appointed Director of Ambulatory Services and Business Development at Lankenau Medical Center.

Onyekere was previously executive director of Health Leads in New York, which implemented a new level of healthcare delivery in which patients’ unmet resource needs were systematically addressed as a standard element of patient care. In her new role, Onyekere will implement innovative models for primary care medicine being practiced at Lankenau’s Clinical Care Center, as well as build relationships with communitybased organizations in the Philadelphia area.

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Jennifer Briggs has been running a parttime Son-Rise program for the past year with her oldest daughter, Sarah, who has special needs. “We call it Sarah-Rise,” she writes. “It has been making a dramatic difference, especially with her language.

If anyone has children with special needs, especially on the autism spectrum, I cannot recommend this enough. It has improved our life in all ways.”

1996 Evie Bricklin Marsh and her husband, Rob, welcomed their new son William Bennett Marsh on April 17, 2012.

“Growing up in West Philadelphia, many of my neighbors had a hard time accessing health care,” explained Onyekere. “My desire to focus on public health and eliminate disparities in care was greatly influenced by my childhood experience.

At Lankenau, I will utilize my experience in public health to continue to improve the quality of care for our patients.”

Onyekere received a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, as well as a Certificate in Business Essentials from Wharton School of Business.

“Chinwe has a keen understanding of how to develop and manage programs that have the potential for far-reaching impact on people’s health, the quality of care they receive, and the systems that provide that care,” said Phil Robinson, President of Lankenau Medical Center. “Her knowledge and expertise will help play a role in primary care at Lankenau and how we deliver quality care to the population we serve.”

William, 6 lbs, 3 oz., and 19 in. at birth, joins big sister, Addie.

long with temperatures reaching 117 degrees this year. The race is invitation only and Murphy was one of six veteran women competing.

1997

William Bennett Marsh, son of Evie Bricklin Marsh ’96

Meredith Bobroff Murphy completed the Badwater Ultramarathon Challenge of Champions this summer for the second time. The race is one of the toughest in the world, starting at Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif., and finishing 13 miles up Mount Whitney. The race is 135 miles

Matt Murphy Garmur and his wife, Kelly, welcomed baby Lucy Jean Garmur on August 12. The family lives in Oakland, Calif., where they get a chance to see Anne Griffith Olow and Ari Moskowitz on a regular basis.

Murphy Garmur is CTO of a small startup and looks forward to life as a new parent.

Lucy Jean Garmur, daughter of Matt Murphy Garmur ’97

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of 1997

Zach Leibowitz and his wife, Lisa, welcomed their baby boy, Miles, in January.

“Everyone’s doing well, and while certainly life changing, it’s just the biggest blessing,” he writes.

Leibowitz works at the financial public relations firm of Dukas Public Relations in New York City as the director of media relations and broadcast operations.

David Wertime started an e-magazine called Tea Leaf Nation, which, as described on the website, “aspire[s] to be a must-read source for China experts of all stripes–journalists, diplomats, academics, analysts–while remaining fun and accessible to casual China watchers. Our founding team, based in China and the United States, scours Chinese social media every day to spot trends, gauge sentiment, and carry major news stories one level deeper.” Wertime first visited China as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and since then, he has lived, worked, and studied in Beijing, Chongqing, and Hong Kong. While at Harvard Law School, he was co-president of the Harvard Asia Law Society. He lives in Washington, D.C.

1998 Mike Blum recently began a new job as the director of teen engagement for the Jewish Community High School of Gratz College, in Melrose Park, Pa. He recently moved to Ambler, Pa., from Cherry Hill, N.J.

2001 » ( From left) Nick Dent (with wife, Sarah, left), Matt Hagarty, Max Cooper, Emil Steiner, and Ann Scharff Vernon

Casey Cipriani began the Master’s program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She will be specializing in the Arts & Culture concentration, focusing on entertainment reporting and film criticism.

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Notes from Friends Jessica Phillips Wiedmann is changing fields and is currently enrolled in nursing school at Villanova University after many years in the music industry. “I’m thankful to Friends’ Central for teaching me that a career in helping others is both personally and professionally fulfilling,” she writes.

2002 READ DeSabato and Sara Kankowski DeSabato welcomed their son, Robin Eugene Anthony DeSabato, on July 12, 2012. He weighed 8 lbs., 15 oz. and was 22 in. long.

C. Jerome Mopsik ‘02 married Emily Carnevale this past June in Stone Harbor, N.J.

Jess English and her husband, Mike, welcomed their first baby, Charlie, on May 16.

READ DeSabato ’02 and Sara Kankowski DeSabato ’02 with their son, Robin Eugene Anthony DeSabato

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C. Jerome Mopsik married Emily Carnevale on the beach in Stone Harbor, N.J., on June 9. In attendance were his sister Jennie Mopsik ’04 and many friends and family. Jerome and Emily met while attending Skidmore College together. They celebrated their honeymoon in The Azores and Lisbon, Portugal.

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David Kleban graduated from Harvard Law School this spring, and began work as a Litigation Associate at the firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in Manhattan in September.

Benj Pasek has been named one of the “Top 25 Under 35 Emerging Broadway Players” by Artinfo.com. His musical, Dogfight, for which he co-wrote the music and lyrics, opened off Broadway at New York’s Second Stage Theater this summer.

2005 Leah Franqui is the marketing director for Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile.

» ( From left) Jeff Meyerson, Edward Silver, Jon Grinspan, Todd Schneider, David Gershkoff

Slusky, Lauren Talemal, Gabriel Csanalosi, Mary Boardman, Tanya Johnson Muse, Mike Anastasio, Jeffrey Pozzuolo, Dana Cohan, David Glasser, Sara Kankowski DeSabato, George Heckert, Hanna Muenke Popick, and Adam Cohen

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Joey Guerin is now the programs coordinator for Philadelphia’s Arts and Business Council.

2006

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Dwight Dunston, Galen Guindon, and Ryan Levan spent last year back on the FCS campus working for their alma mater. Dunston served as a Development Associate, Guindon was the School’s full-time substitute teacher, and Levan was a part-time substitute teacher. This year, Dunston is an Assistant Director of Admission at FCS; Guindon serves as the Phoenix Varsity Boys’ Soccer Head Coach while pursing a Master’s in music education from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music; and Levan is in his first year of Columbia Law School.

of 2007

» ( From left) Jason Landau Goodman, Amber Sims, Jasmine Hill, Samuel Harrison, and Samantha Eisenberg

(From left) Dwight Dunston ’06, Ryan Levan ’06, and Galen Guindon ’06

Lawrence Murray is pursuing a Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.

trip and promises to keep building our School’s connection to the community there through the CTC Ten Foundation.

2007 Noor Beckwith and Eli Muhrer ’05 matriculated into the Harvard Medical School Class of 2016 M.D. program. “It was a bit of a surprise to Noor Beckwith ’07 discover each other here in Boston after about 7 or 8 years!”

Beckwith writes.

Matt Bernstein is spending a year in Khayelitsha Township, South Africa, as an intern working at the Chris Campbell Memorial Field. He is excited about his

Claire Glass wrote a heartfelt and insightful story about the all-consuming nature of her grandmother’s anorexia for XOJane that was picked up by AlterNet and Salon. She is the literary editor at GapersBlock, works for Story Studio Chicago, and is a freelance writer.

Jeremy Greenbaum made his Broadway debut in July as The Mute and Aaron Carter’s understudy for Matt in The Fantasticks.

Natalie Kitroeff is working as an editorial assistant for Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times.

2008 Matt Bernstein ’07

Logan Brenner is attending Columbia University working towards her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing on past climate change.

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Notes from Friends Adara Cohen is interning in New York at Red Light PR, and was excited to help prepare for Fashion Week. “I’m in love with the city,” she writes.

Lindsey Elkin was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study toward a Master’s in International Relations in Cape Town, South Africa, beginning in January 2013.

She graduated from Vanderbilt University in May with a Bachelor of Science in Human and Organizational Development. Elkin is back on the FCS campus this fall, serving as an Outreach Coordinator. She credits Friends Central for instilling her foundation in service and concern for others. “As one of Rotary’s Ambassador Scholars, I intend to support The Rotary Foundation’s mission to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace as a journalist pursuing justice and human rights issues and conflict resolution in my work,” Elkin says.

on the team and 29th overall at the Centennial Conference Championships last year, helping the women’s team to a fourth-place finish that matched the program’s best performance at the conference meet.

Kelly Diamond spent her last three summers working in the film industry in Los Angeles and will soon be pitching a television show to Nickelodeon. She plans to move to California after she graduates from Penn this May. Eric O’Brien won first place in a computer hackathon hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in January.

At the hackathon, students had to create a computer program from scratch in less than 48 hours. He is a senior majoring in computer science in the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean O’Brien was named to the Dean’s List this past spring at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a dual major in computer science and music.

2010 Kaitlyn McCaffrey a sophomore on the Muhlenberg College women’s lacrosse team, was named to the All-Centennial Conference second team. Despite missing five games due to injury, she still ranked third on the team in caused turnovers (13), fourth in draw controls (23) and fifth in ground balls (21).

Lindsey Elkin ’08

2009 Erica Bash was named a co-captain of the 2012 Muhlenberg College cross country team. A three-time letterwinner, Bash finished second

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Rachel McVey was published in the spring issue of University of Wisconsin’s Undergraduate Journal of International Studies. Her paper, “Altruism, Culture, and Prejudice: Education and Roma in the Decade of Roma Inclusion,” critiques the disproportionate emphasis on Roma education advocacy as a means for ending the marginalization of Roma (Gypsies) in Europe. The article can be found on the journal’s website. McVey

credits FCS teacher Kelley Graham for inspiring her to make getting published a goal. McVey attends the University of Pittsburgh, where she is pursuing degrees in history and sociology, and a minor in children’s literature.

In Memoriam Faculty and Staff Harry “Bud” Millinghausen Frederick Osborne

Alumni/ae Lucy Christman Statzall ’37 Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39 John McCoy, Jr. ’40 Mary Ann Cohee Freeman ’42 Katherine Whitenack ’48 Mary Galbraith Williams ’48 Jane Lines Manring ’51 Joseph Donald Reimenschneider ’52 Barbara “Bonnie” Bressen Gross Wood ’56 Gabrielle Schwarz Haab ’57 Rose Phillips ’57 Blair Stevens Newton ’59 Eric Levin ’00

ANNUAL REPORT of GIFTS 2011-2012

The Annual Report of Gifts acknowledges all those who have made gifts to Friends’ Central School during the fiscal year July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012.

The Development Office has worked carefully to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within these pages. If you come across an error or omission, please accept our apologies and advise us of the error by calling 610.645.5039 or emailing giving@friendscentral.org.

Visit us at www.friendscentral.org/support.

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Dear Friends, Thanks to your support, 2011-2012 was a success in many ways. We achieved record participation rates for Annual Giving from both our parent (86%) and alumni/ae (34%) communities. In total, 1,941 generous donors gave $988,456 to fund faculty salaries, student programs and activities, campus improvements, and more through Annual Giving. On behalf of our students and teachers, I cannot thank you enough for this critical support of the School we love. I look forward to another successful year in 2012-2013.

In addition, we received $57,900 for financial aid through the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. Friends’ Central alumni/ae, faculty, students, parents, and friends created two new endowed funds for financial aid one honoring the life of Upper School secretary Laurie Fox and one in honor of David Felsen. Together with the completion of a planned gift by Irene Reiser ’38, Friends’ Central added about $800,000 in gifts and pledges to our endowment for financial aid.

Of course, none of these accomplishments would be possible without the hard work of our many volunteers. Our dedicated phonathon callers, the Alumni/ae Board and class agents, and parent and faculty reps led the charge to rally support for our Annual Giving campaign, and the Clerk of our Development Committee, Trustee Edward Grinspan, provided immeasurable guidance throughout the year. To our enthusiastic and generous volunteers, you have my heartfelt thanks.

One last but important note, the Friends Central community is tremendously excited to welcome our new Head of School, Craig N. Sellers, his wife, Cary, and children, Bridgman ’15 and Clare ’18. We are looking forward to Craig’s leadership, as he brings his passion for education, deep Quaker faith, and engaging personality to FCS. I know he will be as inspired as I am by the following pages documenting the incredible support of the Friends’ Central community.

Best wishes for a successful 2012-2013 school year!.

Lydia A. Martin Director of Institutional Advancement

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For Current Operations (As of June 30, 2012)

Unrestricted Annual Giving Source Dollars Donors

Trustees

$

151,736

27

Former Trustees Alumni/ae

$

25,696

19

$

342,445

1049

Current Parents

$

497,539

562

Parents of Alumni/ae

$

160,542

229

Faculty/Staff

$

53,838

166

Former Faculty/Staff

$

50,077

59

Grandparents

$

50,685

85

Grandparents of Alumni/ae

$

1,650

11

Friends

$

3,328

16

Matching Gifts

$

24,331

17

Foundations & Corporations

$

226,346

62

Minus Double Entries

$ (599,756)

(361)

Total

$

988,456

1941

Educational Improvement Tax Credit

$

57,900

Other Restricted Purposes

$

49,375

Total

$

107,275

Restricted Capital Gifts

$

72,833

Endowed Faculty Support

$

48,632

Endowed Financial Aid

$

472,102

Total

$

593,567

GRAND TOTAL

$ 1,689,307

Restricted Gifts to Current Operations

Capital Programs and Endowment

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Revenues and Expenses 2011-2012 Summer Programs 4% Endowment 5% Annual Giving 5%

Tuition 86%

Revenues Tuition

86%

Annual Giving

5%

Endowment

5%

Summer Programs

4%

100%

Non-academic programs & Support 5% Facilities management 7% Supplemental academic programs 7%

financial aid 14%

salaries and benefits 67%

Expenses Salaries and Benefits

67%

Financial Aid

14%

Facilities Management

7%

Supplemental Academic Programs

7%

Non-academic Programs & Support

5%

100%

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

E n d ow m e n t F u n d s a n d C a p i ta l G i f t s Class of 1957 Fund for Faculty and Staff Retreats Stephen A. Cozen ’57 Richard B. Klein ’57

Faculty Salary Endowment Cameron Memorial Fund Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell

The David M. Felsen Scholarship Fund Clayton L. Farraday ’32 Mastership Fund Anonymous Marta R. and Robert S. Adelson Michelle and Michael Apkon Carolyn Cambor Beth and David Dahle Karen Davidson Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss Ruth and Richard Horowitz Beverly and John Keith Brendan Lee Natalie Lee Marcia and Sarah Martinez-Helfman Ellen Meier and Michael Freed Sara and Jay Minkoff John Norcini Norma and Lawrence Reichlin Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and Kenneth Resnik Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer Helena and Eric Sultan Sharon and David Taffet Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter

Endowment for Financial Aid The Estate of Charles D. Allen Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright Janet and Hillard Madway Mirowski Family Foundation Doris and Dana Greenblatt Denise Koehler Morris Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69 Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman

Anonymous Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41 Anne and Peter Arfaa Charlotte Eby Bartlett ’43 Jessica Melaragni Baugher ’89 Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi Ellan and Leonard Bernstein Trina and Keith Bradburd Peggy Brumfield Bruton ’53 Debbie and Richard Buchwald ’81 Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54 Ellen Burr ’46 Barbara M. Cohen Samuel D. Cozen Memorial Fund Sandy and Stephen A. Cozen ’57 Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Kathryn and Edwin Davison Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55 Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic Kathy and Jerry Drew Alexa Dunnington ’98 Drew Faust and Charles Rosenberg Linda A. Fischer ’61 Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50 Ivan H. Gabel ’49 Jacqueline V. Guynn ’89 Susanna and Warren Hauser L. F. Howe, Jr. ’41 Elizabeth Shinn Hulford ’98 Deborah and T. Regan Hull Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord Francis M. James III ’53 Rosalind and Alan Kaufman Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92 Betty T. Lam ’94 Emma Lapsansky-Werner ’68 Anne Lazarus and Mitchell Klevan

Rosemary and G. Craig Lord Allan N. Mackey ’55 Lydia Martin and William Kennedy Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius Salli Mickelberg Bruce J. Miller ’55 Sara and Jay Minkoff Molly Mullahy ’98 Sarah De Vita Napoli ’50 Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61 Philip H. Osborne ’51 Anita and Anthony Parker Evelyn P. Rader Barbara C. and James E. Roddy Jerilynn and Doug Ross Ann V. Satterthwaite Julia Fineman Sauter ’81 Seed the Dream Foundation Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg Colleen and Jay Shoemaker Marie A. and William J. Strahan Jill Hajjar Sullivan ’64 Jeremy D. Treatman ’83 Louise and Thomas Tritton Nina Weisbord ’78 Wyncote Foundation Leonard Haas ’76 Donald Yorkman ’95

The William D. Fordyce ’52 Scholarship Fund The Estate of William D. Fordyce ’52

The Laurie Fox Scholarship Fund Anonymous Barbara and Robert Behar Karen and Russell Bleakley ’67 Cynthia and Bruce Boehmke Susan Brandt Ann Butchart Matthew Carrafiello Marie Cecchine

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Endowment Funds and Capital Gifts

Deanna S. Ciarrocchi Nicholis Cipriani Cantrill Clark & Davis Susanne and Brian Clark Lawrence Coburn Elsa Cohen Patricia and Peter Crippen Susan and Albred Danenberg Kathryn and Edwin Davison Trudy and Howard Dolgin Leticia Dorsa Patricia Dubin Anna Marie and Paul Eisele Namoi Ellenberg-Dukas Peggy Esposto Liza Ewen Allen P. Fisher Suzanne Fluhr and Steven Albelda Idee Fox Phyllis Fox Carole and Bernard Gottlieb Linda and John Graham Laura Bell Haimm Paul Hannum Kathryn Hayward and Tom MacFarlane Susan Heinsen and Michael Gross Susan Irving Carol Jessup John Kaffenberg Rita Klein Theresa and Peter Koway Rosemary Kurtz

Patricia and David Laverty Janice Leavy Justine and Edward Lehmann, Jr. Nicholas Maiale Lydia Martin and William Kennedy Randi Martin and Mary Duff Holly and David McCloskey Frances Menin Jill and Alphonse Montagna William Morehouse Sandra Moriarity Ruth Neifeld Jane Nickel Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga Marie Pagano Barbara Paul and Karyn Kernagis Patricia and Bob Perrone Monica A. Peterson Patricia Potocny Angela and Francis Quigley Peter Rayner Emily and Robert Rowley Michael Russo Drew Salaman Arlene Schaller Jacqueline and Nicholas Scharff Lois and Lee Schwartz Mary Scotti Jutta Seibert and Koffi Anyinefa Barbara Spitz and Cheryl Cook Carol Spitz Carol Straub

Shelby and Daniel Sulman Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman Jean Wolf Proceeds from the Laurie Fox Scholarship Fund Bake Sale

The Dorothy Kurtz Scholarship Fund Dorothy J. Kurtz ‘19 Trust

The Joey Pozzuolo ’98 Memorial Scholarship Sharyn and Joseph Pozzuolo

Irene Elizabeth Rieger ‘38 Scholarship Fund Estate of Irene Rieger ’38

The Merrill E. Bush Memorial Fund M. Reid Bush ’59

The Zeldin Family Scholarship Fund The Zeldin Family Foundation Stefanie Zeldin Sigal ’79 Claudia Zeldin ’81 Jessica Zeldin ’88 Martin Zeldin Sybille Zeldin

2011-2012 Trustee Donors Melissa Anderson Adrian Castelli Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita Carolyn Cohen Kenneth Dunn George Elser Wilson Felter Christine Gaspar ’70 Robert Gassel ’69 Edward Grinspan

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Walter Harris ’75 Karen N. Horikawa ’77 Deborah Hull Kent Julye Michael C. Kelly Matthew S. Levitties ’85 Craig Lord Edward Marshall ’68 Suzanne Morrison James Murdock ’73

Jeffrey Purdy Marsha Rothman Ann V. Satterthwaite Joanna Schoff ’51, Emerita Philip E. Scott ’73 Jonathan Sprogell Joy Takahashi Helene van Beuren James Wright

Unrestricted Annual Giving

Leadership Giving Annual Giving Campaign 2011-2012

The Heart of Quaker Works

Leadership Giving

Campaign Co-Chairs

Fernanda Moore (’14, ’20)

Edward Grinspan, Trustee

Since 1676, our family has owned Magnolia Gardens, a former plantation near Charleston, S.C., which my grandfather turned into a year-round attraction for tourists. My grandfather prioritized philanthropy, so a big part of our yearly board of directors meeting involves charitable donations for the year. Our charitable foundation is modest, so we tend to focus on smaller institutions and businesses, where what we are able to give can really make a difference.

Leadership Co-Chairs Susan Gay

Parent Co-Chairs Donna Davin Mary Ann Decusatis

When Zander ’14, had been at Friends’ Central for a couple of years, our lives suddenly changed, and we needed financial aid if he was going to continue. It really meant a lot to me that FCS was so Fernanda Moore with sons Thad ’20 (left) and generous, and willing to accommodate us, and I thought, “I may not be able to pay full tuition, but perhaps I can acknowledge how much Alexander ’14] the School’s gift means to me by giving my own gift in return.” I wrote a letter to the Trustees, saying that I’d like to make a donation. It struck me as a strange position to be in, both a financial aid recipient and a donor, but I explained my situation, and that year I gave my entire foundation allotment to FCS. I’ve continued to do so ever since.

Leadership Volunteers David Arnold Elizabeth Cohen ’83 Jessica Coss Beth Dahle Amy DiLuca

There is a real connection between my grandfather’s family and Philadelphia Quakers. John Grimké Drayton, who designed Magnolia Gardens, was the nephew of Sarah and Angelina Grimké, famous Quaker abolitionists and feminists in Philadelphia in the years before the Civil War. (Zander’s middle name is Grimké!) I love that Magnolia, a former slave plantation, can now help a Quaker school.

Kim Emmons-Benjet David Felsen Cynthia Harris

Ever since Zander started in 6th grade, I have had the amazing feeling that we found the perfect school for our child, where he would be happy socially, challenged intellectually, and guided morally and spiritually. I love the way community service is now an unremarkable and constant part of Zander’s life. When you’re surrounded by kids and teachers who take certain things for granted—that you will behave with kindness and respect toward your community, that you will give back to that community and to the world in general, and that you will find ways to promote peace and respect and love both in yourself and in the world— you are changed for the better.

Marilyn Murray ’64 Jay Seid Andy Stifler William Weiner ’76

I feel fortunate that I can give something back to the school that has been such a great place for my son (and will, I’m sure, be equally meaningful for his younger brother, Thad ’20).

Leadership Giving (Gifts of $1,845 or more)

Leadership gifts set an expectation of success for the community. They signal belief in the School’s mission and inspire generosity in others.

$700,000

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Leadership Giving

Forum

$25,000 or more Anonymous

Pacesetters

$15,000 - $24,999

Patricia Andrade and Beny Parnes Elizabeth and Craig Owens Wyncote Foundation

Circle

$10,000 - $14,999

The Abramson Family Foundation Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Carolyn and Scot Cohen Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Karen Johansen and Gardner C. Hendrie ’50 Molly Love and Adrian Castelli MKM Foundation Marie and Bruce Satalof Catherine and James Murdock ’73 The Philadelphia Foundation Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly Sprague Foundation, Inc. Evelyn and Marc Duvivier van Beuren Charitable Foundation Helene and Archbold van Beuren Edwin S. Webster Foundation Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris

Founders

$5,000 - $9,999

Anonymous Anne and Andrew Abel Barbara and Ted Aronson Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57 Beth and David Dahle Kathryn and Edwin Davison The Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach Fund Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach ’82 Amy and James Goldman Judith and Edward Grinspan Japanese Language School Curtis H. Jones ’46

* denotes deceased

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Fariha I. Khan and Michael D. Carey Stephanie H. Koenig ’70 Jane Koppelman The Levitties Foundation Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and Matthew Levitties ’85 John A. Levitties ’84 Marvin B. Levitties Suzanne Levy William Levy Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62 Suzi Morrison and Grant Calder Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62 Judy and Buddy Newman Martin D. Phillips Sharon and Harry Pollack Rothman Family Foundation Marsha and Richard Rothman Meg and Peter Saligman Gregory Segall Jay Seid Family Marcy and Robert Shoemaker Amy and Randy Stein Danielle and Jay Tapper Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69 Hakim H. Warrick ’01

Council

$3,000 - $4,999

Marta R. and Robert S. Adelson Laura and John Armstrong Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan Elizabeth Cohen and David Whellan ’83 Brigitte and Robert Cooperman Deborah and Frank Correll The Friedman/Taub Charitable Foundation Rebecca Taub and Paul Friedman Mignon and Jim Groch Catherine C. and Todd E. Henry Ruth and Richard Horowitz Aeolian Jackson William W. Judson ’62 Magnolia Plantation & Gardens Family Foundation Fernanda Moore Catherine Marshall and Michael Pedrick

Lydia Martin and William P. Kennedy Sara and Jay Minkoff Marilyn Murray ’64 Hisano and Yuji Nakata Lisa and Anthony Palmieri Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and Kenneth Resnik ’81 Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and Jon Rubin ’83 Lynn Schuchter and John Broaddus Meade B. Thayer Frances Vilella-Velez and Jeffrey Golan

1845

$1,845 - $2,999

Anonymous Alice Amsterdam Barbara and Robert Behar Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi Tami Benton-Condiff and Allessandro Condiff Elyse and Max Berger Christopher S. Bonovitz ’87 William A. Brown ’68 Cameron Memorial Fund Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell William G. Carson ’41 Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Barbara M. Cohen Alison and Scott Cook-Sather Jessica and Christopher Coss Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 Anthony DiLuca Kim Emmons-Benjet and Brian Benjet Amy and John Estey Anne Maddock Ewing ’39 Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50 Janice Decker Frohner ’60 Ivan H. Gabel ’49 Susan Gay and Jonathan Andrews Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley and Kevin Pawley David S. Glasser ’02 Jeds Foundation Laurie and Steven Katznelson Louise Krasniewicz and Richard M. Leventhal

Lopez-Lieberman Philanthropic Fund DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez

Jordan Rubin ’98

Isobel J. Stockdale and Harry F. Yanowitz

Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler

Marie A. and William J. Strahan

Rosemary and G. Craig Lord

Debbie and Ronald Schiller

Joy Takahashi and John Gullace

MaryFran and David Schlessinger

Ronit and Howard Treatman ’79

Irene and Bruce Marks

Lynne Tindle Schnyder ’62 and George H. Schnyder ’62

Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60

Jody Mayer

Kim and Koji Shimada

William McVail

Cindy and Mike Silver

United Way of Delaware Susan and Lloyd M. Wirshba

Gladys Baker Monier ’32

Melisande J. Simmering and Ian B. Wilcox

Andrew Newcomb ’87 Thomas H. Patterson ’59

Arnold E. Smolens ’38 Memorial Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation

Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan

Beth and Craig Snider

William L. Weiner ’76

Calvin H. Rankin, Jr. ’43 Fund

Stacey Goldsborough Snider ’78

Dawn Witzel and Peter Lakin

Alexander M. Rolfe ’01

Jacqueline and Eric Stern

Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi

Miriam K. Rothenberg

Andrew T. Stifler ’57

The Zeldin Family Foundation

Julie Low and Gilbert Block Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky

Elizabeth and Robert Nourian

Anne and Richard Umbrecht

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Albert C. Pottash ’66 Laurie and J. Scott Victor

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Gift Clubs Meeting

$1,200 - $1,844 Anonymous (2)

Jessica and Eric Berger Meg Boscov and Randy Brown Janet and Jeffrey Bowker Richard C. Burgess ’65 David M. Felsen James H. Gallagher ’08 Elizabeth Goldmuntz and Frederic Barr Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick Maria and Mark Herman L. Elizabeth Horning ’63 Noreen D. Howard and Daniel Diadul Pamela Lethbridge and Theodore Simon Pat and Jim Lobb Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo Christine McGinley and Richard Gendelman Elizabeth D. Morgan Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga Virginia Rauh and Rollin Gallagher David Roberts ’83 Sidney Rosenblatt Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 Mark H. Tashjian ’80 Cindy and Bill Torres Sherri Apter Wexler and Lewis Wexler Eve E. Wollman and James R. Sperans

Benefactors $800 - $1,199 Anonymous

John Abramson Cindy and Cary Anderson Richard G. Angell ’54 Helene and Allen Apter Bruce G. Babcock ’60 Jennifer E. Balson ’82 John E. Balson ’52 Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich Donald M. Briskman ’60 Carrie and David Brodsky Mari Ann and Christopher Campbell

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Andrea G. Cohen ’86 Ellen M. Cohen ’88 Marguerite and Matthew Cooper Scott G. Davis ’62 Anthony C. DeCusatis ’09 Mary Ann and Anthony DeCusatis Sarah and Andrew DeMichele Neil Faggen Jonathan H. Feinberg ’93 Sharlene Ferrin Wendy Frame and Christopher Blackman Winkie Ostroff Gaev ’50 Carolyn Ulmer Gorman ’66 The Green Foundation Paula Yudenfriend Green and Arlin Green Eli A. Gross ’86 Harweb Foundation Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris Mary Hediger George E. Weaver Joanne P. Hoffman Ralph H. Horning ’60 Susan and Douglas E. Hyman ’79 Linda and Ivan Inerfeld Susan Johntz and David Velinsky Penny and Ronald Joines Kassabaum Family Charitable Trust Karen and Philip Ivory Beverly and John Keith Cynthia J. Kendall ’76 and John W. Lindquist ’76 Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92 Betty T. Lam ’94 Elena and Ken Levitan Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62 Bonnie and Daniel Linn LM Charitable Gift Trust Charles C. King ’80 Sandra Slevin Lockhart ’60 Hao-Li and Evan Loh Lois A. Maiman ’60 Jeanne A. Markey and Gary L. Azorsky Adrienne and George Martin Ellen Meier and Michael Freed Lincoln Meyers ’80 Jodi K. and David H. Miller Catherine and Steven Nierenberg Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane

Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg Margaret O’Sullivan and Ciaran Roche Karyn and Aaron Polak Sonya Pollack Jenni Punt and Stephen Emerson William D. Ravdin ’46 *J. Donald Reimenschneider ’52 Theodore Reinke ’48 Lori Cozen Rosenberg and Peter Rosenberg ’82 Ann V. Satterthwaite Alan Scharfstein Mary Deming Scott ’60 Henry P. Shapiro ’82 Gary Smith Jonas Stiklorius ’90 Winifred Jess Tierney ’53 Mary H. Trapnell Christiana H. Tritton Maggie and Alan Vickery Andrew G. Weinstein ’65 Deborah and David Weiss Bruce A. Yoskin ’62

Blue& Gray Associates $300 - $799

Anonymous (5) David M. Albert ’86 Susan Albertine Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41 Tonia and Albert Alwyn Elizabeth Anderson Nancy Andrews and Robert Schall Michelle and Michael Apkon Douglas G. Baird ’71 Karen Kroiz Baris ’92 Nicole C. Barnum and Sophia Lee Madeline and Richard Baron Beth Berman Ellan and Leonard Bernstein Dana and Jeffrey Berstein Roland S. Beverly ’73 Dan Biddle ’71 Georgeann Schellenger Blaha ’75 Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62 Richard P. Bowen ’76

Lee H. Bowie ’51 Francis E. Bradley ’62 Janet and Samuel Brill Jeffrey M. Brody ’98 Caroline and Donald Brooks Charlotte Hermann Brown ’62 Kelly and Daniel Brown Peggy Brumfield Bruton ’53 Marlene Miller Buckley ’53 Robert R. Buckley ’53 Ellen Burr ’46 Barrett S. Caldwell ’80 Linda and David Callans Bradley M. Campbell ’79 Diane Bierman Carson ’67 Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62 Kim and Bart Cassidy Steven Chanin ’86 Silvia and Mark Chapkovich Debbie J. and Young Rak Choi Janice I. Chu ’85 Joy Clairmont ’91 and Max Kaufman ’91 Terry and Jim Clampffer Christopher S. Clews ’62 Audrey and George Clothier Charlotte Cook Catherine Corson and Charles McCammon Henry R. Cowell ’50 Marjorie Hallahan Crawford ’67 Mary Ann Crawford and Brett Skolnick Sara and Allan Crimm Michelle and Daniel Crowley Tara L. Cuda and Pasquale A. Colavita Julie Pontz Curson ’61 Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin Nancy Davis Catherine and Ronald P. Dawson William W. Dean ’62 Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55 Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy Patricia DeRusso and Christopher Forrest Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44 Thomas P. Donaldson ’59

Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss Dwight S. Dunston ’06 Shirley Smith Earle ’51 John C. Eissler ’42 R. Elaine C. Swartz Eissler ’46 Eve E. Ellis ’76 Anna D. Ensor ’63 Charles L. Epstein ’74 Abigail First Farber ’55 Eileen C. Farnon ’90 Maria M. Farnon ’88 Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and Michael Fedder Randi and Rick I. Feld Jared N. Fertman ’99 Ginger and Mark Fifer Frank Fisher Robert Folwell ’80 Jean and Carl Fridy Christina and David Fryman Kathryn Furey Mary and Michael Furey Keiji and Narumi Furuuchi Ed Gardiner Jamie L. Garfield ’96 William S. Gartner ’55 Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford Walker N. Gilmore ’91 Jill and Stephen Ginsberg Virginia Arnold Gleason ’60 Robin Goldberg-Glen and Jeffrey Glen Anita M. Gonzalez ’76 Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and Brian Gordon Murray S. Gorson ’74 Gayle G. and George M. Gowen Lawrence V. Graves ’63 Richard M. Grossman ’86 Nancy and Peter Grove Meena and Anil Gupta Margret MacGaffey Hagar ’82 Marjorie Miller Hallowell ’56 Mary Jane Dorey Handler ’53 George Hardman ’58 Beth Clouser Hare ’77 George C. Harkins ’52 Elizabeth Smith Harper ’54

Michele and Jeffrey Harris Walter P. Harris ’75 Ann S. Hayward ’62 Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane Raymond C. Heising ’92 John W. Herron ’62 Lee S. Hillerson ’62 Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy Karen N. Horikawa ’77 Louise Goetzenberger Howard ’40 Eric L. Hoyle ’86 Grace Hsu and Edward Fox Louise H. Huber Emanuel Hudock ’52 Deborah Hull William Humenuk Betsy Norcross Ingram ’62 Lauri and Leigh Jacobs Mercedes Jacobson and Eric Greenblatt Francis M. James ’53 Jennifer Ornsteen James ’68 Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56 Shirley Tuska Jenks ’48 Macon Pickard Jessop ’88 Antoinette Leroux Jewell ’65 Juan Jewell ’68 Cynthia Jobe and Sean Goggins Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and Martin Johnson Shirley Jones-Shakur Franklyn N. Judson ’60 Andrew D. Katz ’86 Rosalind and Alan Kaufman David N. Kendall ’75 Judy Kessel Daniel J. Kessler ’08 Gail and Alan Kessler Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim Shami and Anand M. Kini Kenneth A. Kirchhofer ’62 Marianthi Kiriakidou and Zissimos Mourelatos David R. Kirk ’69 Dorothy Dunne Kittrell ’45 Robert C. Klaus ’62 Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Gift Clubs

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Nancy Kleinberg

Marsha Neifield and Alan Folkman

Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer

Carolyn Klock and George McCook

Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum

Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson

Kerri Konik

Robert S. Noone ’53

Alice Saligman

Joyce Boardman Kurr ’47

John Norcini

Frederic Z. Samelian ’65

Marilyn and Eric Lager

Jana Norris and Steven Cole

Jane and Bentley M. Saul

Christine Laine and David Weinberg

Michelle and Andrew B. Olson

Sue Williams Saul ’44

Edwin Lakin

Carol Orenstein and Charles Nichol

Sandrine and Edward Schoenfeld

Alexandra Langendorfer and Thomas Pickard

Karen D. Palcho ’78

Bonnie Boardman Schoennagel ’55

Marianne Colville Parkinson ’48

Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp

Brendan Lee

Kim Parris and Peter Seidel

Alvin Schwartz

Natalie Lee

Arthur J. Parsons ’58

Merrill Schwartz

Wai Lee

Carol Perloff

Rachel Newman Schwartz ’89

Jenifer and Michael Lehrer

Joel R. Perloff ’86

Blaine W. Scott ’46

Sarah Jackson Leonard ’78

Marian Petrarca

Nicholas Scull ’60

Diana and Gerry Lewis

J. E. Pew ’82

Angela Scully and George Elser

Karen Lewis and Howard Kruger

Sabitha Pillai and Michael Friedman

Sara Volkman Shack ’87

Albert J. Lilly ’57

Julie H. and Steven Plunkett

Amy and Carl Shaw

Ami and Jess Lonner

Julie G. and Brad F. Pogachefsky

Leslie K. and Donald L. Siegel

Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’69

Maria and Kenneth Pollack

Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77

Deborah Maraziti

Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87

Jessamyne Simon and Gabriel Tatarian

Joni R. Marcus and Edward F. Greves

Jason M. Polykoff ’02

Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold

Fran and Robert Margulies

Richard S. Pompetti ’04

Ashu Diwan Singh ’89

Joan Henley Mattoon ’50

Sharon Popik and Kevin Fosnocht

Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85

Norman McAvoy ’48

Daniel B. Price ’94

Anita and Bob Somers

Amy and Matthew McDonald

Geraldine Hamilton Price ’90

Emma and Gregory Staton

McDonalds Corporation

Beth S. and Steven G. Prusky

Amy Steerman and Mary Ann Stover

Alexander McDonnell

David B. Pudlin

Wendy Steinberg

Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie

Bernard A. Purcell ’82

Helena and Eric Sultan

Felice G. and James J. McSwiggan

The Estate of Mary Ann Ramsey ’41

Jamie Goldsborough Swift ’84

Iris Melendez and Henry R. Adamczyk, Jr.

Clemence Ravacon-Mershon ’63

Susan Tabor-Kleiman and Robert Kleiman

Sarah Mendelson ’80

Christine Red

Sharon and David Taffet

Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh

Carl E. Reichert ’49

Robert Tamaccio ’95

Michael Mersky ’72

Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance

Nancy Warwick Tarlton ’48

Judith Kirk Meyer ’74

Barry J. Reimenschneider ’48

Alan D. Taylor ’71

Katherine Meyer ’74

Stephen J. Reynolds ’58

Ira Thal

Roslyn Miller Meyer ’62

Whitten W. Richman ’56

Niku Thomas and Eric Mitchell

Salli Mickelberg

Valeri S. and Mark H. Riesenfeld

Lauren Tierney

Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram

Sharon Ritt

Conrad W. Turner ’76

Susan and Jay Miller

Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83

Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson ’82

Tracy Mills and Kent Julye

Mary Roberts

Carol Perloff Capper Twain ’56

Jodi Mindell and Scott McRobert

Mary L. Robertson ’43

Laurel and Gael Ulrich

Katherine Mitchell

Ann and Paul Rogers

Sheila and Akhil Vaidya

Laura and Mark Mulholland

John Rogers

Laura and Ricardo Verges

Scott E. Myers ’72

Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer

Jennifer Vollmer and David Copas

Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51

Joan and Tim Roll

Tyrone G. von Gorski ’62

Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61

Jerilyn and Doug Ross

Susan and David Wadsworth

Friends’ Central School

Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman Harvey F. Weiner ’81 Daniel A. Weiser ’76 Sharon Weiss and David Arnold Barbara Davis Widmayer ’57 Debra Will and David Thomas Matthew P. Williams ’91 Paula Williams and Robert Williamson Wendy Wolf Pam and Don Yih Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds Ye Zhang and Xiaohong Xu Henry A. Zoob ’57

Blue & Gray Patrons $150 - $299

Anonymous (2) Marc L. Ackerman ’81 Mark S. Adams ’77 Jonathan H. Adler ’87 Jeannette Lapsansky Aldous ’90 Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47 Joan Shapiro Alexander ’71 Richard Allman ’61 Ashley Altman Rebecca and Iain Anderson Colin S. Angevine ’05 Jennifer J. and Noel C. Archard Jane Davis Atkinson ’61 Sandy Axelrod Holly and Percy Ayres Bruce C. Baird ’73 Stephen A. Baldi ’94 Jill Banks Barad ’57 Danielle Paul Barson ’87 Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore Mary and Marshall Bassett Steffi Zitin Becker ’82 Frances R. and Frederic A. Beckley Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford Jeannine and William Bedford Wendy Beetlestone and John Detre Sherri and Laurence Belkoff Kathleen K. and H. Jay Bellwoar Cari Feiler Bender and Rodd William Bender

Gifts to Annual Giving help Friends’ Central students learn from interactive community-building projects such as the Lower School Harvest Show.

Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80 and Larry Bendesky ’80 Steven C. Benjamin ’82 Denise and Lout Benrahou Barbara Bentley Mary Beth Griffith Berggren ’48 Liza Jane and Thomas Bernard Jordan S. Bernstein ’86 Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle ’60 Madge L. Bird ’49 Jeannine Thomson Bishop ’91 Anne McAvoy Blackburn ’50 Diana W. Bleakley ’01 Karen and Russell M. Bleakley ’67 Peter Bloomfield Perri Shaw Borish ’92 Joseph I. Borneman ’55 Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor Janet and Jeffrey Bowker Katherine Bowker ’08 David M. Boyd ’62 Dillon H. Boyer ’79 Carl Bradley

Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis Nancy and Paul Bray Annabelle C. Brett ’65 Holly and David R. Brigham Wendie and Joshua Broker ’86 Michele V. and Jeffrey F. Brotman Chris and Andrew Bruckner Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54 Beth Burrell and David Sorensen Barbara Burtness and Israel Mushi Robert R. Buswell ’61 Muge and Kivanc Caglar Jed Z. Callen ’67 Carolyn Cambor Vincent Cappelli John S. Carson ’44 David N. Cherner ’82 Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52 Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani Rebecca Klein Clark ’81 Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay Henry M. Clews ’62 Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Gift Clubs

Benjamin Cohen ’93 and Ruthi Cohen Denis Cohen Michael A. Cohen ’62 Kathy Coleman-Martin Bess M. Collier ’96 Patricia Stanton Cooley ’62 Carol A. Cooper ’70 Charles H. Cooper ’74 Linda Hawkins Costigan ’86 Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs Elaine and Michael Crauderueff Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Patricia Laws Curran ’62 Deana Kelly Czaban ’86 Jeanine and Joel Dankoff Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr Lisa and Keith deLeon Donald Denton Sara Kankowski Desabato ’02 and READ DeSabato ’02 Lisa and Don Dissinger Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic Stephanie Dolores Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43 Lisa D’Orazio and James Lowther Lis and Jag Dosanjh Susan Dreher and Mark Wheeler ’87 Kathy and Jerry Drew Sarah Arnold Du Bosq ’62 Ginny Duerr Pamela Duke and Laurent Guy Julie Miller Edgerton ’47 Lynn Volckhausen Edinoff ’60 Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88 Barbara Acomb Elliott ’47 David M. Ellis ’51 Charles W. Ensor ’59 Mika and Allen Epps June Singley Evans ’66 Rochelle M. Fedullo and William P. Fedullo H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and Leigh Bergmann James M. Fell J. Wilson R. Felter David E. Fenkel ’93 Claudia Ferran and James Banko

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Alexander L. Fetter ’54

Christopher Guides

Richard W. Fetter ’64

Ruba Habtemicael ’96

Betsy and Bob Fiebach

Laura B. Haimm

Mark O. Fifer ’96

Robert B. Hall ’59

Megan E. Fifer ’96

Robert W. Hallett

Linda A. Fischer ’61

Andrew Hamilton ’84

Shana Fisher ’88

David H. Hardin ’55

Deborah Fleisher and Stephen Starr

Kendell Hardy

Keith Warrick Fletcher

Cornelia E. Harthun-Nitzke ’62

Rani and Mark Fogel

Valorie Haves

Sari and Ethan Fogel

Mary Hannah Hawkins ’61

Aqueelah Folwell

Sumner H. Hayward ’61

Daniel B. Forman ’92

Susan Herzberg Henry ’65

Laura J. Forman ’91

Spencer T. Hewett ’10

Princess and Earl Foster, Sr.

Peter D. Hickman ’62

Ashley M. and Adam W. Fox

Cinda Buswell Hill ’59

Bethanne Fox and Brendon Shank

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Jeffrey Pasek

Amalia and Tony Franklin

Rachel Levov Hollingsworth ’82

Liselotte Freed

Susan and Richard Holt

Mary Ann Cohee Freemann ’42

Alisa Newman Hood ’92

David W. Frenze ’77

Joyce Horikawa and Nicholas Torno ’80

Amy and Ronald Fuchs

Amy and Franz Hueber

Howard B. Fussell ’44

Elizabeth Shinn Hulford ’98

R. and K. Ganesan

Jonathan A. Hunter ’90

Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur

Susanne Phillips Isaacs ’45

Sophie and Tom Gibson

Grant L. Jacks ’75

Elaine and Everett Gillison

Brenda Jackson

Jeanette S. Gillison

Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord

Zachary C. Glaser ’92

Peter S. Javian ’96

Lynne and Steven Glasser

Gwendolyn and Steven F. Jess ’59

Janet Goldwater ’68 Diane and Rick Graboyes

Jewish Endowment Foundation Julian Good

Sarah B. Grafman ’96

John R. Jones ’47

Adam H. Granite ’92

Franklyn S. Judson

Michaela McCormick Gravel ’94

Kimberly and Clayton Justice

S. Denham Laverty Grearson ’63

Kristina and Michael Kallam

Jason T. Green ’94

Janet E. Kang ’99

Angela and Gary Greene

Douglas A. Kaplan ’84

Leslie Greenfield

Farah and Rahul Kapoor

Mary H. Gregg

Amy and Michael Karliner

Anne K. Griffith ’97

Diane Karp

Dean E. Griffith ’91

Mauri C. and Andrew C. Kassner

Kathryn J. Griffo and Jeffrey L. Schlegel

Stephen L. Kay ’87

Jonathan C. Grinspan ’02

Richard R. Keller

Michele and Paul Grossman ’87

Judith Kiesel and Michael Bolotsky

Laura and George Groves

Kristin and Todd Kimmell

Robert Kirschner

Stephanie W. and William R. B. McCullough

Nicholas A. Pulos ’02

Stephanie McCurry and Steven Hahn

Julia G. Raphaely

Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein

Rachel Fell McDermott ’77

Alan B. Redfern ’77

Peter G. Klein ’87

Laura R. McKelligott ’97

Margery and Raymond Reed

Richard B. Klein ’57

James H. McKeogh ’00

Penny and Maury Reiter

David E. Kline ’06

Barbara Pauser McLean ’54

Edward F. Rice ’34

Molly Jones Kline ’51

Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris

Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon

Linda Kloss and Marcelo Sanchez

Nicholas D. Meyer

Eric Rieder ’71

Lori M. Koch and Samuel H. Israel

Jeffrey L. Meyerson ’02

Rita L. Ritsema and Karl G. Schwabe

Debra and David Kornblatt

Barbara A. Miller ’90

Donald J. Ritt ’52

Elena Karp Korngold ’92

Jeffrey I. Miller ’80

Anne Robbins and Craig Lichtman

Eric F. Kramer ’89

Rosina S. Miller and James P. Gilroy

Susan and Harvey Robbins

Sandra Kuby

Sharon Moolten

Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr

Anne Ballen Ladenson ’83

Mary Drayer Moran ’86

Norman P. Robinson ’46

Connie Burgess Lanzl ’68

Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92

Sondra E. Rosenberg ’97

Bill Larson ’80

Michelle Morrison

Penny and Fred Rosenblum

Mildred Minster Larson ’55

Sally Reynolds Motley ’59

Anne R. Ross ’94

Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman

Bridget Murnaghan and Hugh Gordon

Laura and Leonard Rossio

Dorothy and Kevin Lee

James P. Murray

Michael Rothman ’79

Deborah Leibel and Fred Goodman

Kathleen A. and Robert V. Nardi

Robin H. Rothman ’84

Kimberly Kurtz Lent ’87

Susanne Price Neal ’58

Hyman Sall

Mrs. Robert Leventhal

Cristina Neilson

Nancy A. Sanders ’83

Murray S. Levin

Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff

Wynn S. Sanders ’92

Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis

Sara Nerken and Robert Karpinski

Julia Fineman Sauter ’81

Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber

Alison and Yaron Netz

Peter V. Savage ’57

Dennis Linnehan ’62

Bruce C. Newton ’61

Alexander G. Schall ’86

David J. Linton ’59

Nancy Nghiem and Edward Nguyen

John M. Schalow ’69

Linn and Douglas Linton ’68

David A. Niles ’82

Kurt Schilling ’51

Kenneth A. Litwin ’88

Diane Nissen and Jerry Gollub

Patricia and Claude Schoenberg

Mireia Lizandra and Eric Smith

Rachel Pickard Rothman O’Connell ’92

Philip E. Scott ’73

Barbara and Morris Longstreth

Alexander V. Otey ’78

Judith R. Seltzer ’65

Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao

Kirk J. Paul ’75

Barry Sharpless ’59

Seth H. Lundy ’87

Alice Legge Penza ’36

John Shaw ’74

Andrew MacGaffey ’79

Karen and Felix Penzarella

Kathy Shaw

M. Robin Maddox and Ralph Luongo

Ryan M. Pesin ’96

Robin Sheldon and Gerard Lewis

Melissa Richter Marchand ’71

Amy B. and Jeffrey D. Petersohn

Susan Shilcrat and Harry Mazurek

Marcie and Jeffrey Marcus

Pamela Reif Phillips ’87

Rachel H. Shore ’02

Ronnie and Lawrence Margel

Sherri Pillet

Mark I. Silberberg ’84

Betsey K. Margolies ’06

Regina Pinotti and John Shields

Michael G. Silver ’86

Anne Martin

Barbara Porter and Stephen Yarnell

Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius

Kathleen and David Porter

The Simkiss Family Foundation Kathleen and John A. Simkiss

Ilene and Joseph McCaffrey

Erika Halloran Posner ’97

Eve Slap ’73

Robert W. McClenahan ’62

Charles C. Price ’66

Bunny Slepin

Linda Kent McConnell

Marianne Price

Jacqueline Watkins Slifka ’52

Susan and James McCoy

Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell

Donald B. Small ’53

Momoko A. Kishimoto and Frank R. Borchert

Joan Raina

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Gift Clubs

Janet Weiss Smith ’42

Linda Kidder Yarlott ’84

Sarah J. Brodsky ’07

Lara N. and Evan J. Smith

Kris and Christopher Yoo

Emily M. Brodsky ’10

William W. Sniffen ’77

Donald Yorkman ’95

Sarah R. Brown ’07

Marjorie Somers and Frank Silvestry

Neil Yoskin ’68

Gabriella S. Capone ’10

Richard R. Spillman ’55

Colleen and John Zaccaria

Anthony C. DeCusatis ’09

Susan and Edward Stadtmauer

Josephine Zaccaria

Michael W. Dohrmann ’08

Karen Strickland

Theoklis E. Zaoutis

Lindsey S. Elkin ’08

Maria Sturm and Elliott Shore

Barry L. Zubrow ’71

Daniel A. Fedder ’08

Kimberly and Dominic R. Tarquinio

Michele and David Zuckman

Caroline A. Fenkel ’07

Michi Tashjian Harold E. Tiffany ’63 Kathleen and Peter Tozer Nancy Trachtenberg Jean and Frank Tracy Amanda Trask ’80 Adrian and Naomi Tschoegl Christopher S. Vaden ’74 Betsey and Gregg VanGundy Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter Ann Scharff Vernon ’97 William W. von Uffel ’53 Martin L. Wachs ’82 Erika Waginger-Goldberg and Barry I. Goldberg George M. Walters ’55 Ann L. and Ed Ward Stephanie H. and Lawrence D. Ward Anita Grumbling Warner ’67 Ronald Waxman Matthew E. Weaver ’98 Lyn Weinberg and Mark Moskowitz Margie and Bryan Weingarten

Libby Fifer ’09

Blue and Gray Clubs, Alumni/ae Classes of 2002-2006

Henry A. Friedman ’08

Jesse T. Amoroso ’04 Natalie J. Aronson ’05 Benjamin H. Daniels ’03 Andrea L. DeSabato ’05 READ DeSabato ’02 and Sara Koukowski DeSabato ’02 Dwight S. Dunston ’06 David S. Glasser ’02 Jonathan C. Grinspan ’02 Galen R. Guindon ’06 David E. Kline ’06 Amy E. Ludwig ’04 Betsey K. Margolies ’06 Jeffrey L. Meyerson ’02 Richard S. Pompetti ’04 Nicholas A. Pulos ’02 Rachel H. Shore ’02 Andrew F. White ’03

Jackson M. Greenberg ’08

$100 or more

Zachary T. Goldman ’09 Jason A. Goodman ’07 Hallie R. Greitzer ’10 Julian B. Guindon ’08 Spencer T. Hewett ’10 Grace B. Honik ’07 Christina M. Hurley ’09 Molly K. Johnston ’06 Matthew R. Karliner ’11 Daniel J. Kessler ’08 David E. Kline ’06 Taylor K. Lee ’08 Laura A. Matey ’07 Alexander E. Mazurek ’08 Richard A. Moses ’09 Eric J. Nisenbaum ’07 Michael H. Pasek ’08 Luke C. Pryor ’07 Emily M. Rosenblum ’09

James D. Weinstein ’56

Blue and Gray Clubs, Alumni/ae Classes of 2007-2011

Phillip R. Rosenblum ’08

Mary Ellen and Drew Weissman

$25 or more

Nan Baker Wertman ’34

Anonymous (3)

Maxwell C. Skolnick ’07

David G. Wetterholt ’62

John R. Armstrong ’09

Jacob S. Snider ’09

Marian Siter Willey ’51

Samuel H. Aronson ’07

Jeremy A. Stursberg ’09

Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77

Max Bernard ’08

Samuel B. Summers ’08

James R. Wilson ’52

Matthew E. Biron ’08

Laura K. Umbrecht ’07

Lisa D. and Richard D. Winward

Gabriel Z. Bloomfield ’07

Natalie A. Willis ’09

Ann Hort Wolfe ’63

Katherine Bowker ’08

Natasha P. Willis ’10

Deborah and Tony Woodbury

Sarah L. Bradburd ’08

Alexander F. Yih ’10

D. Alan Wrigley ’68

Logan D. Brenner ’08

Amanda L. Zeiger ’08

Nina Weisbord ’78 Abby Huberman Weiss ’57 Cathy Weiss

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James H. Gallagher ’08

Friends’ Central School

Robin H. Segal ’08 David M. Siegel ’07 Amber G. Sims ’07

Ensuring Success We are grateful to the donors listed below who increased their gifts to the School in recognition of the rising costs associated with providing a Friends’ Central education.

Anonymous (2) Sophia Abdullah ’99 John Abramson Mark Adams ’77 Jonathan Adler ’87 Meeran Ahn ’04 David Aichenbaum ’05 Susan Albertine Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47 Ashley Altman Jesse Amoroso ’04 Cindy and Cary Anderson Elizabeth Anderson Rebecca and Iain Anderson Patricia Andrade and Beny Parnes Richard G. Angell, Jr. ’54 Colin Angevine ’05 Michelle and Michael Apkon John R. Armstrong ’09 Laura and John Armstrong Samuel Aronson ’07 Adam Axler ’04 Bruce Babcock ’60 John Balson ’52 Jill Banks Barad ’57 Nicole C. Barnum and Sophia Lee Danielle Paul Barson ’87 Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore Kyle Beatty Joan and Eric Beckwith Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford Jeannine and William Bedford Barbara and Robert Behar Sherri and Laurence Belkoff David Beltran del Rio ’90 Cari Feiler Bender and Rodd Bender Steven Benjamin ’82 Denise and Lout Benrahou Tami Benton-Condiff and Allessandro Condiff Beth Berman

Shirley Bernstein Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle ’60 Teresa G. and Chhinder Binning Jeannine Thomson Bishop ’91 Diana Bleakley ’01 Karen and Russell Bleakley ’67 Valerie and Fred Block Susan Bodley and Brad Morris Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62 Christopher Bonovitz ’87 Perri Shaw Borish ’92 Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor William W. Bower Gerald Bowers Lee H. Bowie ’51 Janet and Jeffrey Bowker Rachel Bradburd ’05 Trina and Keith Bradburd Carl Bradley Francis E. Bradley ’62 Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis Leah Brecher-Cohn and Andrew Cohn Logan Brenner ’08 Jennifer Briggs ’95 Holly and David R. Brigham Betty Brizill Emily M. Brodsky ’10 Sarah Brodsky ’07 Jeffrey Brody ’98 Charlotte Herrmann Brown ’62 Sarah Brown ’07 Chris and Andrew Bruckner Marlene Miller Buckley ’53 and Robert Buckley ’53 Richard C. Burgess ’65 Ellen Burr ’46 Beth Burrell and David Sorensen Barbara Burtness and Israel Mushi Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan Linda and David Callans Carolyn Cambor Debbie and Alan Casnoff ’62 Silvia and Mark Chapkovich Deborah Charamella ’01 David Cherner ’82 Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52

Anna Marie Ciglinsky Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay Christopher Clews ’62 Susan and Paul Clough ’82 Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak Andrea Cohen ’86 Benjamin Cohen ’93 Carolyn and Scot Cohen Elizabeth J. Cohen ’83 and David Whellan Ellen M. Cohen ’88 Shannon Coleman Kathy Coleman-Martin Lauren Collier ’99 A. R. Condiff Robert Conn ’43 Charlotte Cook Patricia Stanton Cooley ’62 Brigitte and Robert Cooperman Catherine Corson and Charles McCammon Jessica and Christopher Coss Henry Cowell ’50 Elaine and Michael Crauderueff Sara and Allan Crimm Michelle and Daniel Crowley Tara L. Cuda and Pasquale A. Colavita Julie Pontz Curson ’61 Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright Jeanine and Joel Dankoff Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin Cheryl Davis Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis Scott G. Davis ’62 Kathryn and Edwin Davison William W. Dean ’62 Diane B. De Mille Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy Rachael Goddard Desmond ’58 Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 and Anthony DiLuca Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44 Steven J. Dolores Mary and Thomas Donovan Susan Dreher ’87 and Mark Wheeler Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss Alexa Dunnington ’98

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Ensuring Success

Dwight Dunston ’06

Angela and Gary Greene

Sheryl B. and Karl A. Johnson

Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88

Mary H. Gregg

Susan Johntz and David Velinsky

Charles Epstein ’74

Anne Griffith ’97

Deborah M. Jones

Amy and John Estey

Kathryn J. Griffo and Jeffrey L. Schlegel

John R. Jones ’47

Valarie and Major Everett

Benjamin Grinspan ’05

Joyce J. Jones

Anne Maddock Ewing ’39

Jonathan Grinspan ’02

Shirley Jones-Shakur

Heather Hudgins Exley and Eric Exley

Judith and Edward Grinspan

Eileen Farnon ’90

Nancy and Peter Grove

Barbara Harrison Judson ’68 and Kenneth Judson ’68

Maria Farnon ’88

Rebecca and Eric Guenther

William W. Judson ’62

Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and Michael Fedder

Christopher Guides

Kimberly and Clayton Justice

Galen Guindon ’06

Kristina and Michael Kallam

H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and Leigh Bergmann

Meena and Anil Gupta

Andrew Katz ’86

Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick

Daniel Kaufman ’05

Ruba Habtemicael ’96

Rosalind and Alan Kaufman

Margret MacGaffey Hagar ’82

Nancy Keller-Coffey ’79

Carol Christian Hallgren ’49

Rina and C.J. Keller

Phyllis Hanson

Susan M. Kelsay ’59

Beth Clouser Hare ’77

Cynthia Kendall ’76 and John Lindquist ’76

George Harkins, Jr. ’52

Judy Kessel

Elizabeth Smith Harper ’54

Kenneth Kirchhofer ’62

Michele and Jeffrey Harris

Robert Kirschner

Phoebe Harris ’09

Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83

Walter Harris ’75

Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein

Susanna R. and Warren J. Hauser

Nancy Kleinberg

Valerie and Leon Hawes

Margery Trescott Kniffen ’52

Kathryn Hayward and Tom MacFarlane

Lori M. Koch and Samuel H. Israel

Raymond Heising ’92

Eric F. Kramer ’89

Spencer T. Hewett ’10

Sandra Kuby

Melissa Hewson ’07

Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92

Lee Hillerson ’62

Madeline Church Lai ’64

William Gartner, Jr.

Julie Nathanson Holcomb ’91

Edwin Lakin

Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley and Kevin Pawley

Rachel Levov Hollingsworth ’82

Janet Kendall Lankin ’79

Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy

L. Eric Larson ’82

Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford

Karen Horikawa ’77

Henry W. Lavine ’53

Olivia N. Gillison ’10

Noreen D. Howard and Daniel Diadul

Janice M. Leavy

Andrew Gilman ’00

Jonathan Hunter ’90

Wai Lee

Jonathan Ginsberg ’90

Christina Hurley ’09

Joseph W. Lenski III ’83

Laila Goldberg ’00

Susan and Douglas Hyman ’79

Gerry Lewis

Eli Goldstein ’03

Linda and Ivan Inerfeld

Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis

Gayle G. and George M. Gowen

Betsy Norcross Ingram ’62

Todd M. Lieber ’62

Diane and Rick Graboyes

Susanne Phillips Isaacs ’45

Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber

Leslie M. Grace

Grant Jacks III ’75

Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62

Kelley Graham

Brenda Jackson

Linn and Douglas Linton ’68

Lawrence V. Graves ’63

Lauri and Leigh Jacobs

Ami and Jess Lonner

Richard D. Graves ’59

Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and Martin Johnson

Elizabeth and David Lorry

David E. Fenkel Betsy and Bob Fiebach Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach ’82 Ginger and Mark Fifer Mark Fifer ’96 Frank Fisher Mallory Floyd ’96 Robert A. Folwell ’80 Daniel Forman ’92 Edward Day Frank ’04 Benjamin Freeman II ’55 David Frenze ’77 Isabel Friedman ’08 Janice Decker Frohner ’60 Amy and Ronald Fuchs Kathryn Furey Richard Fussell ’47 Ed Gardiner

S. Denham Laverty Grearson ’63

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Molly Love and Adrian Castelli

Sarah Deming Love ’55

Catherine and James D. Murdock ’73

Jenni Punt and Stephen Emerson

Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao

Bridget Murnaghan and Hugh Gordon

Bernard A. Purcell III ’82

Peter Luborsky ’68

Michael K. Murray ’09

Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan

Mary and Joseph R. Ludwig ’69

Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62

Diana Khinoy Reed ’62

Priscilla M. and John N. Lukens

Malcolm J. Musgrove

Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance

Seth Lundy ’87

Hisano and Yuji Nakata

Clare and Diego Luzuriaga

Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer

Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and Kenneth Resnik

Jessica and Thomas Lynn

Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51

Lucile Lynn

Susanne Price Neal ’58

Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62

Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff

Karen Klein Mannes ’53

Sara Nerken and Robert Karpinski

Jerry Mapp

Alison and Yaron Netz

Deborah Maraziti

Andrew Newcomb ’87

Fran and Robert Margulies

Aaron Nissen ’04

Gayle Waldhauser Martin ’42

Robert S. Noone, Jr. ’53

Lydia Martin and William Kennedy

John Norcini

Laura Matey ’07

Jana Norris and Steven Cole

Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo

Elizabeth and Robert Nourian

Susan Wright Matthiessen ’69

Carol Orenstein and Charles Nichol

Caroline Maw-Deis

Elizabeth Osborne ’54

Josephine E. Mayer

Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane

Christopher McCann Holly and David McCloskey

Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg and Robert Weinberg

Rachel Fell McDermott ’77

Elizabeth and Craig Owens

Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87

Karen Palcho ’78

Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie

Marc S. Parker ’10

James McKeogh ’00

Kim Parris and Peter Seidel

Barbara Pausser McLean ’54

Carol Perloff

Maureen McVail

George Peterson

Ellen Meier and Michael Freed

Monica A. and David T. Peterson

Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh

Marian Petrarca

Judith Kirk Meyer ’74

J. Edgar Pew ’82

Jeffrey Meyerson ’02

Jessica Phillips ’01

Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp

Salli Mickelberg

Martin D. Phillips

Lynn Schuchter and John Broaddus

Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram

Julie H. and Steven Plunkett

Megan Schumacher

Barbara A. Miller ’90

Julie G. and Brad F. Pogachefsky

Blaine Scott ’46

Jeffrey Miller ’80

Maria and Kenneth Pollack

Philip Scott ’73

Rosina S. Miller and James P. Gilroy

Sharon and Harry Pollack

Judith Seltzer ’65

Sara and Jay Minkoff

Jason Polykoff ’02

Kathryn and James J. Sheward

Jonathon R. Moore ’65

Richard Pompetti ’04

Susan Shilcrat and Harry Mazurek

Jerome Mopsik ’02

Barbara Porter and Stephen Yarnell

Marcy and Robert Shoemaker

Mary Drayer Moran ’86

Gail Coleman Powell ’64

David Siegel ’07

Elizabeth D. Morgan

Benjamin Present ’07

Ellen Siegel and Richard Wallace

Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92

Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell

Cindy and Mike Silver

Janine Morton

Luke Pryor ’07

Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77

Molly Mullahy ’98

Nicholas Pulos ’02

Melisande J. Simmering and Ian B. Wilcox

Stephen J. Reynolds ’58 Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon Jonathan Rieder ’65 David Roberts ’83 Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr John Rogers Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82 and Peter Rosenberg Sidney Rosenblatt Anne Ross ’94 Doug Ross Laura and Leonard Rossio Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson Jordan Rubin ’98 Jennette E. Ruckdeschel Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler Angelina Riley Ruffin ’00 Maria C. Sabaj Perez Denise Sabatino and Padraig Barry Marie and Bruce Satalof Andrew Scharff ’95 Lynne Tindle Schnyder ’62 and George Schnyder ’62 Patricia and Claude Schoenberg

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Ensuring Success

Jessamyne Simon and Gabriel Tatarian

Ann Scharff Vernon ’97

Bruce C. Baird ’73

Susan Schultz Simon ’57

Laurie and J. Scott Victor

Mary Beth Griffith Berggren ’48

Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold

Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69

Janice and Seymour Berrian

Lizabeth Sklaroff ’92

Erika Waginger-Goldberg and Barry I. Goldberg

Richard H. Beyer

Ann Dothard Walters ’58 and George Walters, Jr. ’55

Anne McAvoy Blackburn ’50

Jacqueline Watkins Slifka ’52 Donald B. Small ’53 Lara N. and Evan J. Smith Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas Beth and Craig Snider Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85 Maria A. Socorro Bob Somers Richard Spillman ’55 Susan and Edward Stadtmauer Jacqueline and Eric Stern Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 Jonas Stiklorius ’90 Isobel J. Stockdale and Harry F. Yanowitz Mary Worley Stone ’45 Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall Marie A. and William J. Strahan Karen Strickland

Ann L. and Ed Ward Joshua Wasserman ’02 Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman Priscilla Patch Weber ’43 Jonathan Wegener ’03 Nina Weisbord ’78 Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96 Abby Huberman Weiss ’57 Anne and Steve Weiss Deborah and David Weiss Barbara Davis Widmayer ’57 Matthew Williams ’91 Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77 James R. Wilson, Jr. ’52 Wendy Wolf

Allison and Philippe Szapary

Ann Hort Wolfe ’63

Susan Tabor-Kleiman and Robert B. Kleiman

Leslie and Michael Wollock

Sharon and David Taffet Jean and Italo Taranta Alan D. Taylor ’71 Priscilla Taylor-Williams and David Williams ’69

Deborah and Tony Woodbury Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds Donald Yorkman ’95 Melanie Yulman Henry A. Zoob ’57

Ira Thal Meade B. Thayer Margaret Cooper Thompson ’42 Harold Tiffany III ’63 Rachel Tilney ’85 Cindy and Bill Torres Nancy Trachtenberg Carol Trask Noel Trask ’78 John Y. Trumper ’50 Anne and Richard Umbrecht Jonathan Vaden ’85 Betsey and Gregg VanGundy Beth Varcoe and Roderick Wolfson Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter Laura and Ricardo Verges

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Madge Littlefield Bird ’49 Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62 Francis E. Bradley ’62 Charlotte Herrmann Brown ’62 Constance Forster Brown ’52 Victoria Fineman Brown ’79 Richard C. Burgess ’65 Ellen Burr ’46 Jed Z. Callen ’67 Diane Bierman Carson ’67 William G. Carson ’41 Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52 Lawrason Anne Clement ’66 Anne Dufour Clouser ’50 Barbara M. Cohen Elizabeth Cohen ’83 and David Whellan Ellen M. Cohen ’88 Nelly and Jorge Colapinto Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. ’41 William W. Dean ’62 Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55 Pat and Raymond DeSabato Rachael Goddard Desmond ’58 Ronald C. Diment ’67

Loyal Friends This category honors alumni/ae, parents, and friends who have supported Annual Giving for ten consecutive years or more. We are privileged to list the following members of the Friends’ Central community.

Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44 Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43 Judith Martin Dorsett ’50 Martha Shmidheiser DuBarry ’44 Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Elizabeth Daldy Dyson ’57 Shirley Smith Earle ’51 Julie Miller Edgerton ’47 Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88

Consecutive giving for 20 or more years Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47 Joan Shapiro Alexander ’71 Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41 Richard G. Angell, Jr. ’54

David M. Ellis ’51 Charles W. Ensor ’59 June Singley Evans ’66 Jean Farquhar ’70 Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and Michael Fedder

David M. Felsen Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50 Janice Decker Frohner ’60 Marylou and Timothy Golding Janet Goldwater ’68 Richard D. Graves ’59 Judy and Ed Grinspan Robert B. Hall ’59 Nancy and Robert W. Hallett David H. S. Hardin ’55 Elizabeth S. Harper ’54 Gwen J. Hauser Grace and Charles Heising Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie ’50 Patricia Hibbs ’60 L. Elizabeth Horning ’63 Deborah and T. Regan Hull Francis M. James III ’53 Charis Gilbert Julian ’51 Rosalind and Alan Kaufman Joan Kabakjian Keith ’61 Susan M. Kelsay ’59 David N. Kendall ’75 Shahnaz and Mehdi Keykhah David R. Kirk ’69 Donald H. Kirkland ’43 Richard B. Klein ’57 Karen Kramer ’86 Brian S. Kunz ’67 Joyce Boardman Kurr ’47 Carol Weinrott Leebron ’50 Joseph W. Lenski III ’83 Suzanne Murphy Lewis ’59 David J. Linton ’59 Kenneth A. Litwin ’88 Rosemary and G. Craig Lord Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’62 Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62 Melissa Richter Marchand ’71 Francis Markland ’53 Gertrude P. Marshall Leslie Statzell Marshall ’63 Barbara and Nicholas Meyer Judith Kirk Meyer ’74 Amy Anne Miller ’88 Norma and Bruce Miller ’55

Gladys Baker Monier ’32 Morgan F. Moore ’45 Andrea Cantor Moses Rosemary and James Murphy Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62 Scott E. Myers ’72 Sarah De Vita Napoli ’50 Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51 Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61 Andrew Newcomb ’87 Marianne Colville Parkinson ’48 Virginia and Stuart Peltz Alice Legge Penza ’36 Sallie Whitesell Phillips ’55 Stacey Polan ’71 and Richard Kaufman Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87 Curtis M. Pontz ’57 Charles C. Price IV ’66 Marianne Price Helen and David B. Pudlin William D. Ravdin ’46 Carl E. Reichert, Jr. ’49 Joan Hunter Reilly ’54 Theodore Reinke II ’48 Frank Richards ’57 Michael C. Ritter ’61 Susan and Harvey Robbins Sue Williams Saul ’44 Julia Fineman Sauter ’81 Peter V. Savage ’57 Kurt Schilling ’51 Judith Seltzer ’65 Linda and Gerry Senker Barbara Kratz Shaw ’50 Mark I. Silberberg ’84 Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77 Howard D. Sipler ’53 Bunny Slepin David H. Smile ’69 Joan Fleischhauer Smith ’61 Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69 Nancy Schranz Wall ’38 Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman Andrew G. Weinstein ’65

James D. Weinstein ’56 Norma Weiser Nan Baker Wertman ’34 Patricia Myers Westine ’ 57 Elizabeth Hall Williams ’44 Wetherill Cresson Winder ’58 Bruce Woodruff ’60 Martin Zeldin Sybille Zeldin Henry A. Zoob ’57

Consecutive giving for 15 to 19 years Jane Davis Atkinson ’61 Bruce Babcock ’60 William W. Bower Annabelle Brett ’65 William A. Brown ’68 M. Reid Bush ’59 Caroline Kirk Cheatle ’53 Sue Saunders Clark ’54 Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs Nancy Davis Anthony C. P. DeCusatis IV Diane Bault DeMille ’46 Thomas P. Donaldson ’59 Donna Hayes Edwards ’55 Eve Ellis ’76 Anne Maddock Ewing ’39 Eileen Flanagan ’80 Lynn Fowles ’63 Jean and Carl Fridy Howard Fussell ’44 Ivan H. Gabel ’49 Kay and James Gentile William Georges ’88 Walker Gilmore ’91 Carolyn Ulmer Gorman ’66 Jacqueline Gowen-Tolcott Richard Grossman ’86 Laura and Neil Haimm Kendell Hardy Joyce Horikawa ’80 Karen Horikawa ’77 Karen and Philip Ivory Antoinette Leroux Jewell ’65

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Loyal Friends

Charles King ’80 Donald Kirkland ’43 Elizabeth Kolb ’86 Eric F. Kramer ’89 Todd M. Lieber ’62 Linn and Douglas Linton ’68 Ann Tolson Lippe ’57 Sarah Deming Love ’55 Karen Klein Mannes ’53 Anne C. Markland ’56 Lydia Martin and William Kennedy Jonathon R. Moore ’65 Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92 Marilyn Murray ’64 Edwin Nicholson ’43 Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga Chris Ozbun and William Darling Karen Palcho ’78 Kim Parris and Peter Seidel Evelyn P. Rader Stephen J. Reynolds ’58 David Roberts ’83 Marsha and Richard Rothman Michael Rothman ’79 Cindy and Stephen Ruzansky Ann V. Satterthwaite John Schalow ’69 Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 and James Schoff, Jr. Mary Deming Scott ’60 Kimiko and Koji Shimada Cindy and Mike Silver Donald B. Small ’53 Raquel and Alphonso Smith Michi Tashjian Priscilla Taylor-Williams and David Williams ’69 Winifred Jess Tierney ’53 Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60 Anita Grumbling Warner ’67 Mary Hediger and George Weaver Joy Milhous Whiteley ’53 Elizabeth Hall Williams ’44 Matthew Williams ’91 Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77 Wendy Wolf Pam and Don Yih

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At every level, such as in this Middle School science class, Friends’ Central challenges its students to think critically and problem solve creatively.

Claudia Zeldin ’81

Carrie and David Brodsky

Jessica Zeldin ’88

Jeffrey Brody ’98 Wendie and Joshua Broker ’86

Consecutive giving for 10 to 14 years David Albert ’86

Susan Albertine Barbara and Ted Aronson Eleanora Baird John R. Banks ’48 Madeline and Richard Baron Padraig Barry Barbara and Robert Behar Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80 and Larry Bendesky Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich Nancy BreMiller Black ’59 Dorothy Everitt Bond ’35 Joseph I. Borneman ’55 Richard Bowen ’76 Lee H. Bowie ’51

Keith Buckingham Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54 Muge and Kivanc Caglar Linda and David Callans John Carson ’44 David Cherner ’82 Louise Christopher Deanna S. Ciarrocchi Anna Marie Ciglinsky Terry and Jim Clampffer Andrea Cohen ’86 Bess Collier ’96 Michelle and Daniel Crowley Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield ’43 and Benjamin Dangerfield James Dannenberg ’43 Catherine and Ronald Dawson Sarah and Andrew DeMichele

David L. Branning ’59

Sara Kankowski DeSabato ’02 and READ DeSabato ’02

Jennifer Briggs ’95

Dorothy Jones Dick ’44

Kathy and Jerry Drew Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss Alexa Dunnington ’98 Frederick Eissler ’39 Barbara Acomb Elliott ’47 Robert Emory Anna D. Ensor ’63 Liza Ewen Maria Farnon ’88 Stuart Fenkel ’90 Alexander L. Fetter ’54 Jane and Matthew Frankel Winkie Ostroff Gaev ’50 Frances Berger Garfield ’60 and Joseph Garfield ’56 David Jason Gershkoff Slusky ’02 Helen Lawley Gibb ’40 Susan and Peter Gilman Walker Gilmore ’91 Mac F. Given Virginia Arnold Gleason ’60 Douglas Greenfield ’46 Mary H. Gregg Leonard Haas ’76 Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick Marjorie Miller Hallowell ’56 Erika Harnett Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris Cinda Buswell Hill ’59 Louise Goetzenberger Howard ’40 Susan and Douglas Hyman ’79 Grant Jacks III ’75 Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord Brenda Jackson Sibylle and Raymond P. Jefferis III ’56 Cathleen Judge and David Unkovic Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson Beth and Gary Kaminsky Beverly and John Keith Judy and Jerry Kessel Marianthi Kiriakidou and Zissimos Mourelatos Nancy Kleinberg Jane Koppelman Sandra Hull Laber ’88 Marilyn and Eric Lager Janet Kendall Lankin ’79

Janice Leavy

Susan and Joel Rubin

Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and Matthew Levitties ’85

Edward B. Rummel ’55

John Levitties ’84

Michele Scanlon and Gary Nicolai

Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber Hao-Li and Evan Loh Patrick Lord ’90 Molly Love and Adrian Castelli Julie Low and Gilbert Block Jane Cubberley Luce ’68 and Eric Luce Lois A. Maiman ’60 Catherine and Michael Malloy Deborah Maraziti Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87 Linda Kent McConnell Denise and Robert McIvor Gwen McVickar McMahon ’66 Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris William McVail Martha Green Mead ’53 Michael Mersky ’72 Katherine Meyer ’74 Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn Jodi Mindell and Scott McRobert Sara and Jay Minkoff Catherine and James D. Murdock ’73 Carole and James Murray Hisano and Yuji Nakata Marsha Neifield and Alan Folkman

Marie and Bruce Satalof Andrew Scharff ’95 Rachel Newman Schwartz ’89 Ann and Aaron Selkow ’88 Marcy and Robert Shoemaker Stefanie Zeldin Sigal ’79 Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold Eve Slap ’73 Arlette Smith ’76 Raegen Smith ’97 Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas Beth and Craig Snider Lisa Kay Solomon ’89 Susan and Edward Stadtmauer Karen Strickland Helena and Eric Sultan Nancy Warwick Tarlton ’48 Ira Thal Meade B. Thayer Cindy and Bill Torres Kathleen and Peter Tozer Mary Herbert Trapnell John Y. Trumper ’50 Carol Perloff Capper Twain ’56 Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr. Frances Vilella-Velez and Jeffrey Golan

Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff

Ann Dothard Walters ’58 and George Walters, Jr. ’55

Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum

Joshua Wasserman ’02

Robert S. Noone, Jr. ’53

Sara Wasserman ’99

Estelle and Gerald Palevsky

Ronald Waxman

Jack Parsons ’58

Lyn Weinberg and Mark Moskowitz

Kirk Paul ’75

Margie and Bryan Weingarten

Allison Pincus-Jacobs ’00

Robert M. Weir ’51

Jane Pompetti

Nina Weisbord ’78

Nicholas Pulos ’02

Dorothy Schwab Weitthoff ’46

Christine Ramsey and Andrew Fussner

David G.Wetterholt ’62

Margery and Raymond Reed

T. David Williams, Jr. ’64

Barry J. Reimenschneider ’48

Ann Hort Wolfe ’63

J. Richard Relick ’47

Deborah and Anthony Woodbury

Mary Roberts

Colleen A. and John J. Zaccaria

Joan and Tim Roll Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson

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green club The members of this club gave early in the fall, online, or in person to ensure that they would receive no paper solicitations from the Office of Annual Giving. If you are interested in “giving green” this year, please email Jody Mayer at jmayer@friendscentral.org.

Anonymous (5) Sophia Abdullah ’99 Robin and Barry Abelson Catherine Adler-Josem ’07 Meeran Ahn ’04 Rebecca and Iain Anderson Jane Davis Atkinson ’61 Holly and Percy Ayres Bruce Babcock Amanda Ball Danielle Paul Barson ’87 Jeannine and William Bedford

The Quaker testimony of stewardship is embraced throughout the School and in service projects such as the Middle School’s Streamwatch.

Barbara and Robert Behar Sherri and Laurence Belkoff Max Bernard ’08 David P. Biddle ’69 Tiffany R. Blakeney ’87 Gabriel Z. Bloomfield ’07 Susan Bodley and Brad Morris Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor Luisa Bovernini and Jeffrey Heit William W. Bower Janet and Jeffrey Bowker Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis Nancy and Paul Bray Betty Brizill Carrie and David Brodsky Caroline and Donald Brooks Kelly and Daniel Brown Richard Case Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani Anna Marie Ciglinsky Terry and Jim Clampffer Sue Saunders Clark ’54

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Carolyn Cohen and Richard Lynn Susan and Gary S. Cohen Bess M. Collier ’96 Lauren Collier ’99 Elaine and Michael Crauderueff Michelle and Daniel Crowley Jeanine and Joel Dankoff Cheryl Davis Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis Kathryn and Edwin Davison Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr Catherine and Ronald P. Dawson Mary Ann and Anthony DeCusatis Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross Sarah and Andrew DeMichele Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy Esra Diker-Yilmaz and Bilge Yilmaz Marjorie Schwartz Dilsheimer ’58 Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 and Anthony DiLuca Stephanie Dolores

Steven J. Dolores Lisa D’Orazio and James Lowther Valarie and Major Everett Liza Ewen Heather Hudgins Exley and Eric Exley Maria M. Farnon ’88 H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and Leigh Bergmann Caroline A. Fenkel ’07 Ginger and Mark Fifer Frank Fisher Robert Folwell ’80 Gloria Forster Kathleen E. Fox ’07 David W. Frenze ’77 Janice Decker Frohner ’60 Amy and Ronald Fuchs Daniel Gale Matthew Murphy Garmur ’97 Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford

Olivia Gillison ’10

James H. McKeogh ’00

Kathy Shaw and Benjamin Green

Andrew C. Gilman ’00

Latifah La’Nae McMullin ’99

Sharon and Joseph Shelanski

Jeffrey Goldader

Ellen Meier and Michael Freed

Michaela McCormick Gravel ’94

Amy Anne Miller ’88

Wendy Singer-Lowry and Christopher J. Lowry

Patricia Green and Gary Horowitz

Lynda J. and Russell B. Mischel

Gary Smith

Angela M. and Gary A. Greene

Nina Morton

Jacob Snider ’09

Laura and George Groves

Catherine and James Murdock ’73

Terry and Paul Guerin

Michael K. Murray ’09

Thomas S. Spencer ’77

Christopher Guides

Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff

Galen Guindon ’06

Hue and Hoang Nguyen

Joy Halpern

Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum

David H. S. Hardin ’55

John Norcini

Elizabeth S. Harper ’54

Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga

Walter P. Harris ’75

Andrea C. Nuneviller and Jess H. Lord

Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane

Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane

Catherine C. and Todd E. Henry

Karen D. Palcho ’78

Ira Thal

Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt

Kim Parris and Peter Seidel

Yvette and Darrell Thomas

Susan and Richard Holt

Steve Patterson

Lauren Tierney

Joyce Horikawa ’80 and Nicholas Torno

Cristina Sabaj Perez

Rachel G. Tilney ’85

Mercedes Jacobson and Eric Greenblatt

Marian Petrarca

Carol and Noel Trask ’78

Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and Martin Johnson

Martin D. Phillips

Ethyl P. Treatman ’77

Julie H. and Steven Plunkett

Kristina and Michael Kallam

Jason Polykoff ’02

Laurel and Gael Ulrich

Laura Keen and Trevor Smith

Steven W. Portman ’73

Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly

Joel F. W. Price

Robert Kirschner

Luke Christopher Pryor ’07

Linda Kloss and Marcelo Sanchez

Beth Randall and Donald Ringe

Elizabeth Kolb ’86

Ken Reynolds

Sandra Kuby

Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon

Janice Leavy

Daniel Rink

Jenifer and Michael Lehrer

Rita L. Ritsema and Karl G. Schwabe

Suzanne Murphy Lewis ’59

Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83

Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber

John Rogers

Linn and Douglas Linton ’68

Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer

Mireia Lizandra and Eric Smith

Alexander Rolfe ’01

Laurie S. Lubking

Laura Rolfe ’04

Peter D. Luborsky ’68

Jerilynn and Doug Ross

Jim Mack

Alan Scharfstein

Karen Manker

Debbie and Ronald Schiller

Jerry Mapp

Patricia and Claude Schoenberg

Deborah Maraziti

Jane and Schoenborn

Edward Marshall ’68

Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp

Marcia and Sarah Martinez-Helfman

Joanna Haab Schoff ’51

Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87

Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and Mark-Alan D. Pizzini

Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie

Robert L. Stark ’52 Harry Stead Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall Marie A. and William J. Strahan Joy Takahashi and John Gullace Danielle and Jay Tapper Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell

Laura Umbrecht ’07 Jonathan S. Vaden ’85 Mary-Chilton Van Hees Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr. Stephanie H. and Lawrence D. Ward Joshua Wasserman ’02 Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96

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Alumni/ae Giving Class of 1932 (33%)

William G. Carson

Gladys Baker Monier

Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr.

Alumni/ae

G i v ing

Estate of Mary Ann Ramsey

Class of 1933 (50%) Elizabeth Crofoot Bowers

William N. Stecher Dickson Werner

Total Alumni/ae Donors:

Louise S. Colwell

Class of 1942 (37%) Class of 1934 (60%) Edward Rice Sarah Wallis Stevens Nan Baker Wertman

Alice Hunt Daily John C. Eissler

1,049

Mary Ann Cohee Freemann Barbara Miller Gustafson Gayle Waldhauser Martin Janet Weiss Smith

Class of 1935 (17%)

Margaret Cooper Thompson

Dorothy Everitt Bond

Class of 1943 (35%) Class of 1936 (14%) Alice Legge Penza

Class of 1937 (25%) Diana Foote Lawrence

Charlotte Eby Bartlett Robert A. Conn

Dorothy Schock Horne Mary Boileau Ramsey

James L. Dannenberg Nancy Fitts Donaldson, Class Agent Edwin G. Nicholson Mary L. Robertson Priscilla Patch Weber

Arnold E. Smolens Nancy Schranz Wall, Class Agent

Class of1939 (18%) Frederick Eissler II Anne Maddock Ewing

John S. Carson, Class Agent Dorothy Gotwald Dixon Martha Shmidheiser DuBarry Howard B. Fussell Sue Williams Saul

Class of 1940 (33%) Louise Goetzenberger Howard Harry H. Schmidt Kay Staman Swenson

Class of 1945 (41%) Marion Beatty Borden Susanne Phillips Isaacs Dorothy Dunne Kittrell Ellen Fitts Millick Morgan F. Moore

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Class of 1941 (38%)

Barbara Homer Pearson

Priscilla Okie Alexander

Mary E. Stone

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Overall Alumni/ae Participation:

34%

Class of 1944 (40%)

Elizabeth Hall Williams Helen Lawley Gibb

$342,445

Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield

Donald H. Kirkland

Class of 1938 (21%)

Total Raised by Alumni/ae:

Honor Roll

Top 10

Participation: 1962..................... 74% 1957..................... 68% 1934..................... 60% 1952..................... 58% 1982..................... 55% 1959..................... 55% 1953..................... 53% 1933..................... 50% 1955..................... 49% 1961..................... 44%

Class of 1946 (37%)

Julie Miller Edgerton

Barry J. Reimenschneider

Ellen Burr

Barbara Acomb Elliott

Theodore Reinke II

Alice Hess Crowell, Class Agent

Robert H. Fereshetian

Nancy Warwick Tarlton

Diane Bault DeMille

John R. Jones, Class Agent

Class of 1949 (30%)

Joyce Boardman Kurr

Anonymous

Frederick L. Goodman

J. Richard Relick

Frances Fitts Ambler

Gardner Hendrie

Joan Lavine Bank

Carol Weinrott Leebron

Madge Littlefield Bird, Class Agent

Joan Henley Mattoon

Ivan H. Gabel

Barbara Kratz Shaw

R. Elaine Swartz Eissler Douglas A. Greenfield Curtis H. Jones Norman P. Robinson

Class of 1948 (33%)

Blaine W. Scott II

John R. Banks Mary Beth Griffith Berggren Louise Todd Cope Shirley Tuska Jenks Norman McAvoy Marianne Colville Parkinson Marguerite Ridge Perrone

Class of 1947 (31%) Brigitte Solmitz Alexander Mary Louise Craig

Henry R. Cowell Judith Martin Dorsett

Richard L. Fussell

William D. Ravdin

Dorothy Schwab Weitthoff

Anne Dufour Clouser, Class Agent

Cynthia Linton Fleming Winkie Ostroff Gaev

Sarah De Vita Napoli

Carol Christian Hallgren

John Y. Trumper

Carl E. Reichert, Jr.

Class of 1951 (36%)

Class of 1950 (39%)

Lee H. Bowie, Class Agent

Anne McAvoy Blackburn

The Heart of Quaker Works

Alumni/ae Giving and Volunteering Max Kaufman ’91 and Joy Clairmont ’91 (’24, ’26) Friends’ Central has played and continues to play such an important role in enriching our lives that it only makes sense for us to want to give back to the school. A number of our friends from our days at FCS remain dear friends today. We have a special trust and closeness that comes from a lifetime of shared experiences. Our families met for the first time at our graduation, and the photo of us with our diplomas is in a frame in our house. Enrolling our boys at FCS was an easy decision. Friends’ Central feels like home.

We have found Friends’ Central parents to be tremendously warm and friendly. They have invited us into their homes and out to dinner. Although we’ve been involved with Friends’ Central for decades, we’re relatively new to the parent community, and we’ve felt very welcome. We try to go to all of the parent events. We donate every year. We volunteer as much as we can. Joy was the class representative for Leo’s kindergarten class last year. Max participated in Career Day for the Upper School. We’ve attended all of our Reunions including our 20th in May of 2011.

Leo and Jonah have really enjoyed the Lower School so far. They have had fantastic teachers and wonderful classmates.

The cliché is true. More than anything else, what sets Friends’ Central apart is the people: the students, the faculty, the administration, the staff, and the parents. We have gotten a great kick out of reconnecting with folks who worked at the school when we were students and are still there today, including Jack Briggs, Beth Tedesco, Joe Ludwig, and Bob Folwell.

There are warm, caring, and fun people throughout the FCS community, and it is a true joy and privilege to be a part of it.

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Alumni/ae Giving

Helen Starling Burke Shirley Smith Earle David M. Ellis Cyril H. Harvey, Jr. Charis Gilbert Julian Molly Jones Kline Deborah Hazzard Nash David T. Roy Kurt Schilling Joanna Haab Schoff Robert M. Weir Marian Siter Willey

William H. Perloff, Jr.

Class of 1956 (23%)

Ann Dothard Walters

Joan Branen Rawles-Davis

Joseph M. Garfield Marjorie Miller Hallowell, Class Agent Raymond Jefferis Anne C. Markland Whitten W. Richman Carol Perloff Capper Twain James D. Weinstein

Wetherill Cresson Winder

Howard D. Sipler Donald B. Small Winifred Jess Tierney W. Warren von Uffel, Class Agent Joy Milhous Whiteley

John E. Balson Constance Forster Brown Carol Jerjisian Churukian Anthony P. Fowkes George C. Harkins, Jr. Joan Hoover Hellwege Emanuel Hudock Margery Trescott Kniffen Carolyn Brown Leiby *J. Donald Reimenschneider, Class Agent Donald J. Ritt Barbara Stein Sickles Jacqueline Watkins Slifka Joan Lallou Smith Robert L. Stark James R. Wilson, Jr.

Class of 1954 (41%) Richard G. Angell, Jr. Virginia Lundgren Bortin Diana Stambul Burgwyn Sue Saunders Clark, Class Agent Roberta Cannon Crouse Alexander Fetter Elizabeth S. Harper Barbara Pausser McLean Elizabeth Osborne Joan Hunter Reilly

Class of 1955 (49%) Anonymous Susan Souder Black Joseph I. Borneman Edward V. Clisby Ruth Stubbs Denlinger Colin C. Dickson Donna Hayes Edwards

Class of 1953 (53%) Peggy Brumfield Bruton Marlene Miller Buckley Robert R. Buckley Carolyn Cannon Eagan Dorothy Lieberman Grant Mary Jane Dorey Handler Francis M. James III Henry W. Lavine Karen Klein Mannes Francis Markland Martha Green Mead Deborah R. Miller Robert S. Noone, Jr.

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Perry Anthony Nancy BreMiller Black David L. Branning M. Reid Bush Prudence Sprogell Churchill

Doris Werner Bartlett

Class of 1952 (58%)

Class of 1959 (55%)

Abigail First Farber

Class of 1957 (68%) Jill Banks Barad Richard C. Bookbinder Stephen Cozen Elizabeth Daldy Dyson Gary A. Fields Elizabeth Leiby Hiller Richard B. Klein Albert J. Lilly, Jr. Ann Tolson Lippe Roberta Sheen Peterson Bryan B. Pokras Curtis M. Pontz Frank Richards Peter V. Savage Susan Schultz Simon Sarah Staats Andrew T. C. Stifler Abby Huberman Weiss Mary Lundgren Wentzel Patricia Myers Westine Barbara Davis Widmayer Henry A. Zoob, Class Agent

Benjamin H. Freeman II William S. Gartner, Jr. David H. S. Hardin Middy Minster Larson Sarah Deming Love Allan N. Mackey Bruce Miller Sallie Whitesell Phillips Edward B. Rummel Bonnie Boardman Schoennagel Richard R. Spillman Miriam Repp Staloff George M. Walters, Jr.

Class of 1958 (29%) Rachael Goddard Desmond Marjorie Schwartz Dilsheimer George Hardman John R. Miele Susanne Price Neal Jack Parsons, Class Agent Stephen J. Reynolds Rodman M. Rosenberger Charles W. Schiffer III Jutta Buehne Sterling

Osborn Cresson Thomas P. Donaldson Charles W. Ensor Jean Berg Eselgroth Anne Hall Flaccus Richard D. Graves Robert B. Hall Cinda Buswell Hill, Class Agent Susan Lobb Hoag Carolyn Duthie Houghton Steven F. Jess Susan M. Kelsay Suzanne Murphy Lewis David J. Linton R. Sandra Latshaw McCarthy Sally Reynolds Motley Tim Patterson Dick Richards Bonnie Forster Richards Betsy Markland Schwartz K. Barry Sharpless Joan Shore Steinhouse Maude Southwell Wahlman Robert Ward

Class of 1960 (41%) Bruce G. Babcock Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle Donald M. Briskman Lynn Volckhausen Edinoff John B. Ferguson Janice Decker Frohner Frances Berger Garfield Virginia Arnold Gleason, Class Agent

Susan Phillips Henning

Lynn Grein Brown

Peggy Johnson Hewitt

Alan E. Casnoff

Patricia Hibbs

Christopher S. Clews

Ralph H. Horning

Henry M. Clews

Franklyn N. Judson

Michael A. Cohen

Sandra Slevin Lockhart

Patricia Stanton Cooley

William S. Lundgren

Patricia Laws Curran

Lois A. Maiman

Scott G. Davis

Dena Obus Rakoff

William W. Dean

Judith Deemer Roseland

Sarah Arnold Du Bosq

Mary Deming Scott

Judith Horton Ermilio

Nicholas Scull

Cornelia Harthun-Nitzke

Rich Ulmer

Ann S. Hayward

Peter Kurt Woerner

John W. Herron

Bruce Woodruff

Peter D. Hickman Lee S. Hillerson

Class of 1961 (44%) Richard Allman Jane Davis Atkinson Raymond S. Battey Robert R. Buswell Sally Craig Julie Pontz Curson Deborah Richards Deschamps Jacqueline Fields Linda A. Fischer Mary Hannah Hawkins Sumner H. Hayward Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin

Betsy Norcross Ingram William W. Judson Kenneth A. Kirchhofer Robert C. Klaus, Jr. Allan Kluber Todd M. Lieber Sara Clark Linder Sarah Price Lindsay Honey

Class of 1965 (40%) Joan Decker Battey John Battey Robert Boyer Annabelle C. Brett Richard C. Burgess Kathleen Lane Enscoe Susan Schwartz Goodrich Susan Herzberg Henry Laura Jackson Antoinette Leroux Jewell, Class Agent Jonathon R. Moore Ann Judson Ratcliffe Jonathan Rieder Frederic Z. Samelian Judith Seltzer Philip N. Taylor Andrew G. Weinstein

Diane Viguers McClary Robert W. McClenahan Roslyn Miller Meyer

Pamela J. Melcher

Diana Khinoy Reed

Richard A. Mills

George H. Schnyder

Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe, Class Agent

Lynne Tindle Schnyder

Bruce C. Newton

David G. Wetterholt

Noel Sharpless Wittenberg

Class of 1962 (74%) Stephanie Weber Bell Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha David M. Boyd

John A. Boyd Richard W. Fetter Charles A. Hunter, Jr. Kristina Roth Kling Madeline Church Lai Marilyn Murray, Class Agent Jill Hajjar Sullivan T. David Williams, Jr. John M. Witherspoon, Jr. William M. Young III

Margery DeArmond Maconachy

Joan Kabakjian Keith

Joan Fleischhauer Smith

Class of 1964 (28%)

Dennis Linnehan

Kathleen Murray-Allain, Class Agent

Michael C. Ritter

S. Denham Laverty Grearson L. Elizabeth Horning John R. Levy Leslie Statzell Marshall Judith Herron Mosconi Clemence Ravacon-Mershon Anne Malamud Scholder Harold E. Tiffany III Ann Hort Wolfe

Tyrone G. von Gorski Christopher R. Woerner Bruce A. Yoskin

Class of 1963 (33%) Vivian M. Appel Martha J. DeWindt Anna D. Ensor

Gerd Dasch June Singley Evans, Class Agent Carolyn Ulmer Gorman Gwen McVickar McMahon Albert Carter Pottash Charles C. Price IV

Class of 1967 (33%) John J. Berg Russell M. Bleakley Jed Z. Callen Diane Bierman Carson Marjorie Hallahan Crawford Ronald C. Diment Geoffrey M. Kerr Brian S. Kunz Wayne Michaud Stephen B. Richter Jack W. Schwartz, Class Agent Rob Wadleigh Anita Grumbling Warner Jean Murdock Warrington Thomas P. Woodbury

Class of 1968 (41%) William A. Brown Janet Goldwater Jennifer Ornsteen James Juan Jewell, Class Agent Barbara Harrison Judson Kenneth Judson Connie Burgess Lanzl Douglas Linton Peter D. Luborsky Jane Cubberley Luce Edward Marshall Helen L. Miehle D. Alan Wrigley, Jr. Neil Yoskin

Francis E. Bradley

Lynn Fowles, Class Agent

Class of 1966 (18%)

Class of 1969 (23%)

Charlotte Herrmann Brown

Lawrence V. Graves

Lawrason Anne Clement

David P. Biddle

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Alumni/ae Giving

Robert Gassel

Jill and Glenn Bronson

David R. Kirk

Samuel F. Howe

Joseph Ludwig

Melissa Richter Marchand

Susan Wright Matthiessen

Stacey Polan

Carl J. Parris

Eric Rieder

John M. T. Schalow, Class Agent

Alan D. Taylor Barry L. Zubrow

David H. Smile David Williams

Class of 1970 (18%)

Class of 1974 (19%) Class of 1972 (28%) Kevin D. Brady Carol Clemenko

Carry Cooper

Timothy S. Ely

Linda Lerch DeLisio

Michael Mersky

Jean Farquhar

Charles H. Milligan

Christine Young Gaspar

Scott E. Myers

Stephanie Helen Koenig

Lisa Reischer Payton, Class Agent

Sherry McVickar Blair Roberts Bruce R. Schober

Class of 1971 (23%)

Eliza Schwab Petersen Steven W. Portman Lisa and John Rooney Philip E. Scott Eve Slap Emma George Terndrup

Charles H. Cooper Charles L. Epstein Murray S. Gorson Judith Kirk Meyer Katherine Meyer Stuart L. Sanders John Shaw, Class Agent Christopher S. Vaden

Bruce C. Baird, Class Agent

Joan Shapiro Alexander

Roland S. Beverly III

Douglas G. Baird, Class Agent

Louise Schalow Del Vecchio

Dan Biddle

James Murdock

Ross Donolow

Kirk J. Paul, Class Agent Susan Michael Rogers Daniel S. Temeles Linda Waxman Wasserman

Class of 1976 (28%) Susan Meyer Bach Richard P. Bowen Jane Brooks Sarah Frank Connor Eve Ellis, Class Agent Anita Gonzalez Robin Rosenfeld Gordon Leonard Haas Cynthia Kendall

Class of 1975 (24%) Class of 1973 (28%)

Robert M. Moore III

Georgeann Schellenger Blaha Lee E. Bludman Walter P. Harris Jeffrey R. Higgins Grant L. Jacks III David N. Kendall Abraham Mintz

William H. Lehr John W. Lindquist Elena Gonzalez Shaffer Arlette T. Smith Emilie Richardson Temeles Conrad W. Turner, Jr. William L. Weiner Daniel A. Weiser

Your gift ensures that Friends’ Central will be defined by Quaker values and shows the community your belief in the mission of the School.

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Class of 1977 (33%) Mark S. Adams David W. Frenze Beth Clouser Hare Karen N. Horikawa Beth Johnson Morris M. Kay

Janet Kendall Lankin Andrew MacGaffey Michael Rothman Stefanie Zeldin Sigal Howard Treatman Barbara R. Weinberg Cheryl Nelson Young

Rachel Fell McDermott Richard A. Moses Karen Murphy-Cain Alan B. Redfern David A. Shakespeare Patricia Bleznak Silverstein William W. Sniffen Thomas S. Spencer Ethyl P. Treatman Denise C. Willis Rodney Willis, Class Agent

Class of 1978 (37%) Michael Andrews Creighton H. Boyer Amy and Anthony DiLuca Sylvia M. Hamerman-Brown

Class of 1980 (31%) Lori Epstein Bendesky Barrett Caldwell Eileen Flanagan Robert Folwell Joyce Horikawa, Class Agent Charles King Joshua Klein Bill Larson Sarah Mendelson Lincoln Meyers Jeffrey Miller Michael J. Sernyak Mark H. Tashjian Amanda Trask

Karen D. Palcho Stacey Goldsborough Snider Carol and Noel Trask Nina Weisbord Edward B. Whereat

Class of 1979 (38%) Anonymous Joy Edelman Boonin

Class of 1981 (20%) Marc L. Ackerman Lauren J. Benjamin Rebecca Klein Clark Julie Gordon, Class Agent Sheri Cozen Resnik Sandra E. Rothman Julia Fineman Sauter Harvey F. Weiner Claudia Zeldin

Dillon H. Boyer Victoria Fineman Brown

Class of 1982 (55%)

Bradley M. Campbell

Jennifer E. Balson Steffi Zitin Becker Steven C. Benjamin Shiphra A. Berman David N. Cherner Paul Clough Daniel E. Copeland

Catherine E. Cutler Marion Crowell Entwisle Deborah Peltz Fedder Carol Rubin Fishman Douglas E. Hyman Nancy M. Keller-Coffey

Joanna Gentile Gantz

Andrea M. Deutsch, Class Agent

Margret MacGaffey Hagar

Derick Dreher

Rachel Levov Hollingsworth

Heather Schwartz Hebert

L. Eric Larson, Class Agent

Curtis S. Krouse

David A. Niles

Matthew Levitties

J. Edgar Pew

Corrie Mitchell

Bernard A. Purcell III

Cathi Snyder

Edward B. Rehfeld

Rachel G. Tilney

Katherine Cole Robb

Jonathan S. Vaden

Lori Cozen Rosenberg

Erica Zimmerman

Jennifer Corsan LeBow

Lauren Saler Gerstel Henry P. Shapiro Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson Martin L. Wachs

Class of 1983 (26%) Elizabeth Cohen, Class Agent Noelie Christy Hillebrecht Alexander Klein Anne Ballen Ladenson Joseph W. Lenski III David Roberts

Sarah Jackson Leonard Alexander V. Otey, Class Agent

Jon Fiebach

Margaret S. Roberts Jon Rubin Lauren Becker Rubin Nancy A. Sanders Barrett Tilney

Class of 1986 (41%) David M. Albert Jordan S. Bernstein Joshua Broker Andrea Chait Steven Chanin Andrea G. Cohen Linda Hawkins Costigan Deana Kelly Czaban, Class Agent Eli A. Gross Richard M. Grossman Eric L. Hoyle Andrew D. Katz Elizabeth Kolb Karen Kramer Anja Jefferis Levitties Rebecca Porter Madsen

Class of 1984 (18%) Andrew Hamilton Douglas A. Kaplan John A. Levitties

Mary Drayer Moran Joel R. Perloff Alexander G. Schall Michael G. Silver

Robin Rothman Mark I. Silberberg, Class Agent Jamie Goldsborough Swift Jennifer Trachtenberg Linda Kidder Yarlott

Class of 1987 (34%) Jonathan H. Adler Gwendolyn Angert Danielle Paul Barson Matthew Bernstein Tiffany R. Blakeney

Class of 1985 (26%)

Christopher S. Bonovitz

Theresa Hamilton Callicott

Jessica Coplon

Janice I. Chu

Susan Dreher

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Alumni/ae Giving

Samantha Marks Gordon Paul Grossman Stephen L. Kay Peter G. Klein Kimberly Kurtz Lent Seth H. Lundy Alexander McDonnell Andrew Newcomb, Class Agent Pamela Reif Phillips Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard Sara Volkman Shack

Class of 1988 (31%) Ellen M. Cohen, Class Agent Samantha Hauser Ekert Maria M. Farnon Shana Fisher William D. Georges Elizabeth Gerst Ivanov Macon Pickard Jessop Sandra Hull Laber Jordan J. Lapsansky Kenneth A. Litwin Amy Anne Miller Justin C. Pearlman Aaron Selkow Sonya Sklaroff Jessica Zeldin

Class of 1989 (19%) Leslie Morris Bari Jessica Melaragni Baugher James Christy, Jr. Brooke L. Gelber Eric F. Kramer Gregory Liss Rachel Newman Schwartz Ashu Diwan Singh Lisa Kay Solomon

Class of 1990 (26%) Jeannette Lapsansky Aldous David N. Beltran del Rio

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Eileen Farnon Stuart J. Fenkel, Class Agent Jonathan S. Ginsberg Jonathan A. Hunter Geoffrey G. Klein Patrick C. Lord Barbara Miller Geraldine Hamilton Price Jonas Stiklorius

Class of 1991 (35%) Anonymous Sabina and Atif Ahmad Jeannine Thomson Bishop Joy Clairmont Hassan R. Edge Laura J. Forman Walker N. Gilmore Dean E. Griffith, Class Agent Julie Nathanson Holcomb Nitya Jacob Max Kaufman Elga Jefferis Killinger Matthew McHale Alexander N. Miller Matthew P. Williams

Class of 1992 (32%) Karen Baris Perri Shaw Borish Courtney Papada Daly Daniel B. Forman Zachary C. Glaser Ruth First Goldstein Adam H. Granite Raymond C. Heising Alisa Newman Hood Elena Karp Korngold Rachel Volkman Kushel Adrianne Levin Cantor Frances C. Lord Jessica Christie Morowitz Rachel Pickard Rothman O’Connell

Wynn S. Sanders Lizabeth L. Sklaroff

Class of 1993 (30%) Robyn Needleman Berman Rebecca Carr Calvani, Class Agent Benjamin Cohen Lauren Pindzola Courtney Jonathan H. Feinberg David E. Fenkel Andrea Ellman Mirin Lauren Albert Ravitz Lauren Schneider Shapiro

Ruba Habtemicael Lori B. Holden Peter S. Javian Rachael Lerner LeMasters Clio Alexandra Mallin Evelyn Bricklin Marsh, Class Agent Scott E. Newman Ryan M. Pesin Rebecca S. Smyrl Beth S. Truzansky Hilary Takiff Weiss Vanessa Zaragocin

Class of 1997 (29%) Class of 1994 (24%) Stephen A. Baldi Joseph Dubb Michaela McCormick Gravel Jason T. Green Betty T. Lam Julie H. Levison Daniel B. Price Anne R. Ross, Class Agent

Class of 1995 (20%) Jennifer Briggs, Class Agent Jared Grove Ellen Rink Andrew Scharff Rob Tamaccio Donald Yorkman

Class of 1996 (33%) Mallory Barg Bulman Bess M. Collier Vanessa Duno Mark Owen Fifer Megan E. Fifer Mallory S. E. Floyd Allison Jacobs Friedmann Jamie Lynn Garfield Sarah B. Grafman

Anonymous Nicholas Dent Brett R. Dunn Brian Ellman Matthew Murphy Garmur Anne K. Griffith Laura McKelligott Ari Moskowitz Erika Posner Sondra Rosenberg Ethan Scherer Raegen Smith, Class Agent Ann Scharff Vernon Rachael Landis Weatherly Gail Carter Zuagar

Class of 1998 (25%) Jeffrey Brody, Class Agent Alexa Dunnington Elizabeth Shinn Hulford Julia Kang Molly Mullahy Elizabeth Wells Oppenheim Jordan Rubin Chip Schofield Daniel Silver Brendan Tozer Ross A. Trachtenberg Matthew Weaver

Class of 1999 (24%) Sophia Abdullah Defne Amado Rimi Chakraborty Lauren Collier Margot Conrad Amy Dunn Jared Fertman Benjamin Nussbaum Fogel Brooke Gassel Elizabeth Grinspan Janet Kang Callie Lytton Carroll Reza Madani Latifah McMullin, Class Agent Monet Trent Sara Wasserman

Class of 2000 (17%) Sallie Garfield Andrew C. Gilman Laila Goldberg Erica Jones Douglas Mand James H. McKeogh Allison Pincus-Jacobs, Class Agent Tara Ramchandani Jessica Rosenberg Jeremy Ross Angelina R. Ruffin Teresa Ryan Katherine Yulman

Class of 2001 (18%) Anonymous (3) Diana Bleakley Deborah Charamella, Class Agent Elizabeth Chernett Megan Leigh Hutchin Jessica Phillips Alexander Rolfe Carly Robyn Segal Elizabeth Spector Ryan Tozer

The Heart of Quaker Works

Young Alumni/ae Giving Dan Fedder ’08 The emphasis that Friends’ Central placed on community service from the Lower School to Upper School instilled in me an obligation to give back to people. The Christopher Campbell Soccer Clinic in 2008 in honor of Chris Campbell ’04 is one event that stands out for me. It never would have succeeded without the support and resources of the Friends’ Central community. I learned that it truly takes a community of dedicated people to make something work, whether that applies to running a fundraiser, a club in college, or a business.

I think it is very important to give back to a School and community that provided me with the stability and encouragement necessary to pursue my goals. Because Friends’ Central is extremely diverse both academically and socially, I had the opportunity to experience programs in music, sports, academics, and community service in equally meaningful and impactful ways. I try to give to the programs that had significance for me during my time there, which makes me feel better knowing the direct impact my donation will have on the school.

I hope our alumni/ae understand that we wouldn’t have had the experiences we had at Friends’ Central without the generosity of those who came before us. Even though I can’t give a lot to the school right now, I know that every dollar counts. I am proud of the places from which I came, and Friends’ Central’s continued and renewed sense of progress makes me want to support the School in every way that I can. The Vision 2020 plan indicates the School’s dedication to be the best, and I’m so excited to see where the School will go.

Christiana Tritton Hakim Warrick Jill D. Wimmer

Class of 2002 (28%) Anonymous William Day Frank READ DeSabato Sara Kankowski DeSabato Daniel DeSouza Michael Fox David Samuel Glasser Jonathan Charles Grinspan Jeffrey Meyerson C. Jerome Mopsik Tanya Johnson Muse Jason Polykoff Hanna Muenke Popick

Nicholas Pulos Stephen Rubin Rachel Shore David Gershkoff Slusky, Class Agent Alex Sokolov Peter Viola Joshua Wasserman Geoffrey Wertime

Class of 2003 (14%) Anonymous Patricia G. Baker Benjamin Daniels Blake Emerson Maya K. Francis Eli Goldstein Kristen J. Hart

Larissa Klevan Joshua Ellis Lindenbaum Leah Sandals Jonathan Wegener Andrew F. White Keenan Willis

Class of 2004 (21%) Anonymous Meeran Ahn, Class Agent Jesse Todd Amoroso, Class Agent Adam Wolf Axler Christopher Bleakley Morgan Day Frank Clara Elser Benjamin Hy Friedman

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Alumni/ae Giving

Carly D. Haines Sarah E. Jacobs Amy Ludwig Katherine B. Morris Richard Pompetti Laura Rolfe Lauren Kristen Taylor Sara Viola

Class of 2005 (17%) David Aichenbaum Colin S. Angevine Natalie Aronson, Class Agent Rachel Bradburd Sarah Brown Andrea DeSabato Samuel A. Eisner, Class Agent Leah Franqui Katharine R. Fussner Shaina Graboyes Jennifer Greenberg Benjamin Grinspan Michael Grinspan Kylie Hardin Daniel Kaufman Lawrence Murray

Class of 2006 (18%) Jennica Bocchino Sarah Drew Dwight Dunston Galen R. Guindon, Class Agent Molly Johnston David Kline Karen Lavi, Class Agent Ryan J. Levan Elizabeth Lundy Zachary Malet Betsey K. Margolies, Class Agent Noelle Nacov Lise Rahdert Robert Ricketts

76

Friends’ Central School

Benjamin Schutzman Jaleesa Scott

Class of 2007 (36%) Anonymous Catherine Adler-Josem Joshua Seth Aichenbaum Samuel Henry Aronson Sarah Allison Bach Lindsay Bedford Dana Pevaroff Berschler Gabriel Z. Bloomfield Jordane Blum Sarah J. Brodsky Sarah Renae Brown Samantha Hope Eisenberg Matthew H. S. Elser Caroline A. Fenkel Kathleen E. Fox Julie Gilbert Claire Sarah Glass, Class Agent Jason Goodman Isiah Lee Hammond Melissa Ashley Hewson, Class Agent Grace B. Honik Laura Ann Matey, Class Agent Eric Jeffrey Nisenbaum Benjamin Oscar Present Luke Christopher Pryor Julie Roberts David Siegel Amber Geordei Sims Maxwell Skolnick Laura Umbrecht

Class of 2008 (40%) Thomas M. Bernard Matthew E. Biron Katherine Bowker Sarah Lynne Bradburd Logan D. Brenner Matthew Buchwald Michael William Dohrmann Lindsey Elkin Bryan H. Farrar

Daniel Alford Fedder, Class Agent Henry A. Friedman Isabel R. Friedman James H. Gallagher Jackson Mayer Greenberg Julian Guindon Candice Louise Hardie, Class Agent Daniel Joseph Horowitz Daniel Kessler Taylor Lee Thomas Lefevre Alfonse Mandese Alexander Eli Mazurek Hannah Minkoff Michael Harrison Pasek Alexy Scanlon Posner Samuel Propper Phillip Rosenblum Anne Kathryn Taylor Sprogell Samuel Summers Megan M. Taylor Alison Turka Alexander Judge Unkovic Amber R. Williams Colin Yarnell Amanda Zeiger

Class of 2009 (20%) Anonymous Daniel S. Abelson John Russell Armstrong Anthony C. P. DeCusatis IV Elisabeth Grace Fifer, Class Agent Zachary T. Goldman Samuel Green Phoebe Webster Harris, Class Agent Christina Hurley Maxwell Joseph Kaplan Elizabeth Mitnick Richard Alan Moses Michael K. Murray Eric O’Brien Emily Rosenblum Jacob R. Schutzman

Jacob Snider Jeremy Arthur Stursberg Natalie Adele Willis

Class of 2010 (24%) Anonymous Rebekah Ahn Molly Alexandra Boschan Emily M. Brodsky, Class Agent Gabriella Capone Jacquelynne Conyers-Jordan DeBreea S. Dunston Benjamin Albertine Filreis Olivia Gillison Samantha Lynn Greenberg Hallie R. Greitzer Spencer Hewett Megan Holt, Class Agent Susannah Leigh Ivory Sara R. Matey Kaitlyn McCaffrey, Class Agent Marc Parker Grace Nicole Pearlman, Class Agent Claire Pompetti Emma Richman Natasha Sultan Natasha Peniel Willis Alexander Franklin Yih

Class of 2011 (15%) Anonymous Matthew Block Jonathan Brandin David deLeon Katherine Drebin Michael W. Fires Jaime Hyman Matthew Karliner Nora Elizabeth Koppelman Deborah Lee Ryan McConnell Daniel H. Segall Benjamin Yahalomi

Blackburn Society The Board of Trustees established the Blackburn Society to honor individuals who have made provisions in their wills or estate plans to benefit Friends’ Central School. These donors, who have informed the School of their intentions, have helped provide for the School’s future through a variety of gift planning vehicles including bequest intentions, testamentary trusts, life income vehicles such as pooled income investments, charitable gift annuities, gifts of real estate, and other deferred gifts. Their vision and wisdom extend beyond the immediate needs of the School, and their generosity provides a source of income which the School can depend upon and use to plan for generations ahead.

Alumni/ae

Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41*** Eric Ash ’89 Annabelle C. Brett ’65 Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54 Helen Starling Burke ’51 Ellen Burr ’46 Diane Bierman Carson ’67 Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Ellen M. Cohen ’88 Andrea G. Cohen ’86 Sally Craig ’61 Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Charlotte Pugh Ellithorp ’42 June Singley Evans ’66 Alexander Fetter ’54 *The Estate of Jean-Pierre Guggenheim Elizabeth S. Harper ’54 Margaret H. Harper ’36 Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie ’50 Patricia Hibbs ’60 Cinda Buswell Hill ’59*** Francis M. James III ’53 *Susan L. Kaufmann ’56 Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Henry W. Lavine ’53 Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62 *Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39 Pamela J. Melcher ’61 Margaret G. Mitchell ’35 Gladys Baker Monier ’32*** Jonathon R. Moore ’65

* Deceased

Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51 Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61 Andrew Newcomb ’87 Albert Carter Pottash ’66 William D. Ravdin ’46** Abby Moyerman Renfroe ’77 Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 Sue Williams Saul ’44 Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 Nicholas Scull ’60 Joan Lallou Smith ’52 Lucy Christman Statzell ’37* and Benjamin L. Statzell ’37* Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 Leonard Sylk ’59 Winifred Jess Tierney ’53 Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60 Patricia Myers Westine ’57 David G. Wetterholt ’62 Ann Hort Wolfe ’63 Bruce Woodruff ’60

Trustees and Former Trustees

Peter Arfaa Adrian Castelli Stan Cherim ’59 Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Barbara M. Cohen Deborah Hull Emma Lapsansky-Werner *Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39 Hillard Madway

** Pooled Income Fund Participants

The Blackburn Society was named in honor of Eliza E. Blackburn ‘22 and her family. Their estate gift helped make possible the purchase of the Lower School campus and establish the Blackburn Enhancement, a salary supplement given to teachers each December.

If you would like to inform us of your intention to include Friends’ Central School in your estate plans, or would like information about ways in which you can make planned gifts to Friends’ Central, please call Lydia Martin, Director of Development, at 610.645.5043 or email her at lmartin@friendscentral.org

Buddy Newman George L. Pew William D. Ravdin ’46** Ann V. Satterthwaite Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 Koji Shimada

Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 and John Rooney Ann V. Satterthwaite Lynne and Donald V. Selkow Barbara A. Willis Vera and Murray Wilson

Friends

Faculty and Former Faculty

Marla Hamilton Peele Kim Shimada Ruth Tanur Beverly Ulmer

Current Parents and Parents of Alumni/ae

Anne and Peter Arfaa Grant Calder Barbara M. Cohen Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Colette and Michel Guggenheim Deborah and T. Regan Hull Carolyn Klock and George McCook Emma Lapsansky-Werner Molly Love and Adrian Castelli Janet and Hillard Madway Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius Judith and Bernard Newman Marla Hamilton Peele Sally and George L. Pew William D. Ravdin ’46**

William W. Bower Grant Calder Solveig and Stan Cherim Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius David M. Felsen Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Julia Beyer Houpt and John Kralovec Ann V. Satterthwaite Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57

*** Charitable Gift Annuitants

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Parent Giving Class of 2012 (99%) Anonymous (4) John Abramson Marta and Robert Adelson Susan Albertine Michelle and Michael Apkon Mary Ellen Balchunis Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford Sherri and Laurence Belkoff, Class Agent Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich Susan and John Bowie Nancy and Paul Bray Carrie and David Brodsky Carolyn Cambor Patricia and Benedict Cartafalsa Silvia and Mark Chapkovich Audrey and George Clothier Brigitte and Robert Cooperman Sara and Allan Crimm Louise Culver and Jeffrey Hurwitz Beth and David Dahle

Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick Joy Halpern Randi and John Harris Ruth and Richard Horowitz Amy and Franz Hueber Chloette and Richard Jennings

Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim Andrew Kronfeld Christine Laine and David Weinberg Cindy Landis Alexandra Langendorfer and Thomas Pickard

Maria and Don Lucoff

Stephanie McCurry and Steven Hahn Regina Mickie-Chalmus and Eric Chalmus Sara and Jay Minkoff Laura and Mark Mulholland

Valarie and Major Everett, Class Agent

Malcolm J. Musgrove

Heather Hudgins Exley and Eric Exley

Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff

Susan Gay and Jonathan Andrews

Friends’ Central School

Overall Parent Participation:

86%

Ellen Meier and Michael Freed

Gloria Easley

Alan Filreis

$497,538

Pamela Lethbridge and Theodore Simon

Melinda and Jacques deLisle

Randi and Rick I. Feld

Total Raised by Current Parents:

Dorothy and Kevin Lee

Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo

H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and Leigh Bergmann

562

Beverly and John Keith

Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy

Rochelle M. Fedullo and William P. Fedullo

Total Donors:

Shirley Jones-Shakur, Class Agent

Marcia and Sarah Martinez-Helfman

Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss, Class Agent

G i v ing

Robin Goldberg-Glen and Jeffrey Glen

Doris Davis-Whitely

Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 and Anthony DiLuca, Class Agent

78

Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley and Kevin Pawley

Current Parents

Hisano and Yuji Nakata Jonathan Newman John Norcini Karen and Felix Penzarella Carmen Peraita and Robert DeFina Camilla Pharamond and Michael Gehring Martin D. Phillips Mae and Minh Phuong

Honor Roll

Top 5

Participation: 2012............................. 99% 2021............................. 92% 2014 and 2025............. 91% 2013 and 2019............. 89% 2018............................. 87%

Phoenix athletics is an important component of the FCS community, in which hard work is rewarded with opportunity.

Barbara Porter and Stephen Yarnell

Jacqueline and Eric Stern

Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell

Helena and Eric Sultan

Jennifer J. and Noel C. Archard

Sharon and David Taffet

Laura and John Armstrong

Claudia Ferran and James Banko

Lynn E. Teller and

Frances R. and Frederic A. Beckley

Rani and Mark Fogel

Jeannine and William Bedford

Robert Folwell ’80

Pedro Rangel Penny and Maury Reiter Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and Kenneth Resnik Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon, Class Agent Barbara C. and James E. Roddy

Frederick Villars Cindy and Bill Torres, Class Agent Maria Valdez Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter Erika Waginger-Goldberg and Barry I. Goldberg

Joan and Tim Roll

Nina Weisbord ’78

Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer

Lucy and Erik Williams

Patricia and Claude Schoenberg

Colleen and John Zaccaria

Susan and Lloyd M. Wirshba

Sandrine and Edward Schoenfeld

Class of 2013 (89%)

Amy and Carl Shaw

Anonymous

Judy Shea

Patricia Andrade and Beny Parnes

Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold Jessica and David Solomon

Susanne and Michael Andrews ’78

Neil Faggen

Aqueelah Folwell

Ellan and Leonard Bernstein

Ellen and David Frank

Karen Black and Peter Bessen

Mary and Michael Furey

Michele V. and Jeffrey F. Brotman Rebecca A. Butterfield and Guy A. Laren Kim and Bart Cassidy Nancy and William Cassidy Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay

Elaine and Everett Gillison, Class Agent Tamara Goldman and Marc Epstein Michele and Jeffrey Harris Dianne and John Heard Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt

Susan and Paul Clough ’82

Susan and Richard Holt

Marguerite and Matthew Cooper

Noreen D. Howard and Daniel Diadul

Maryann Cormier

Leigh Jackson and

Mary Ann and

Robert McCord

Anthony DeCusatis

Mercedes Jacobson and Eric Greenblatt

Amy and John Estey

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80

Friends’ Central School

Cynthia Jobe and Sean Goggins Judith Kiesel and Michael Bolotsky Momoko A. Kishimoto and Frank R. Borchert Debra and David Kornblatt Amy and Samuel Kratchman Andrew Kronfeld Sun Hee Lee and Sarto Schickel Deborah Leibel and Fred Goodman Louise Krasniewicz and Richard M. Leventhal Elena and Ken Levitan Lisa and Anthony LoGiurato IV DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez Julie Low and Gilbert Block Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao Paula Luckring Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky, Class Agent Catherine Marshall and Michael Pedrick Ilene and Joseph McCaffrey Theresa M. McLaughlinZerbe and John A. Zerbe Maureen McVail William McVail Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh Nancy Nghiem and Edward Nguyen Memory and Samson Njanike Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga Elizabeth and Craig Owens Kim Parris and Peter Seidel Amy B. and Jeffrey D. Petersohn Maryam and Robert Phillips Zea G. and David E. Piver Jenni Punt and Stephen Emerson Michelle and Frederick Purnell Patricia and Thomas B. K. Ringe III

Anne Robbins and Craig Lichtman

Beth and David Dahle

Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn

Charlotte B. Roberson

Sarah and Andrew DeMichele

Ann and Paul Rogers

Patricia DeRusso and Christopher Forrest

Rosina S. Miller and James P. Gilroy

Brahmani Ross

Lisa and Don Dissinger

Norman Ross

Mary and Thomas Donovan

Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson

H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and Leigh Bergmann

Kathleen A. and Robert V. Nardi

Sharlene Ferrin

Hue and Hoang Nguyen

Brian E. Fischer

Catherine and Steven Nierenberg

Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler Jay D. Seid Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and Mark-Alan D. Pizzini Cindy and Mike Silver Soma G. Simon

Jill and Stephen Ginsberg

Savita and Vijay Singh

Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick

Jessica and David Solomon Susan and Edward Stadtmauer Amy and Randy Stein Theresa and Daniel Vickery Frances Vilella-Velez and Jeffrey Golan

Amy and Franz Hueber Brenda Jackson

Rachael H. and Wesley Wei

Amy and Michael Karliner

Anne and Steve Weiss

Mauri C. and Andrew C. Kassner

Deborah and David Weiss

Cristina Neilson Harry Neilson III

Paola Nogueras Kim Parris and Peter Seidel Maureen and Frank Phillips Mae and Minh Phuong Sabitha Pillai and Michael Friedman

Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris Joyce Horikawa ’80 and Nicholas Torno

Beth and Frank Tedesco

Catherine and James Murdock ’73

Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford, Class Agent

Marcy and Robert Shoemaker

Fernanda Moore

Sherri Pillet Julie G. and Brad F. Pogachefsky Christine Red David Roberts ’83 Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82 and Peter Rosenberg

Paula Williams and Robert Williamson

Laurie and Steven Katznelson

Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77

Rina and C.J. Keller, Class Agent

Dawn Witzel and Peter Lakin Deborah and Tony Woodbury

Class of 2014 (91%) Holly and Percy Ayres

Beverly and John Keith

Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and Jon Rubin ’83 Jennette E. Ruckdeschel Meg and Peter Saligman Karen Samuel

Kristin and Todd Kimmell, Class Agent

Debbie and Ronald Schiller MaryFran and David Schlessinger

Robert Kirschner Susan and Robert Kleiman

Gregory Segall

Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore

Christine Laine and David Weinberg

Gregory Bashaw

Elena and Ken Levitan

Dana and Jeffrey Berstein

Bonnie and Daniel Linn

Leslie Book Janet and Samuel Brill

Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber

Meg Boscov and Randy Brown

Lisa and Anthony LoGiurato IV

Linda and David Callans

Clare and Diego Luzuriaga

Terry and Jim Clampffer Audrey and George Clothier

Jeanne A. Markey and Gary L. Azorsky

Carolyn Cohen and Richard Lynn

Lydia Martin and William P. Kennedy

Robert Cruiess

Erica McCann

Marie A. and William J. Strahan Karen Strickland Kimberly and Dominic R. Tarquinio Ira Thal Ann L. and Ed Ward Lucy and Erik Williams Tracy and Alan Winig Ruth Worthington and Edward Johnson Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi Ye Zhang and Xiaohong Xu

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Parent Giving

Class of 2015 (77%) Anonyous (3) Karen Araiza Peggy Backal and Irwin Balik Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg Bernadette and Robert Bartholomew Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich Ellan and Leonard Bernstein Carl Bradley Beth Burrell and David Sorensen Shannon Coleman Michelle and Daniel Crowley Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic, Class Agent Christine Dubois-Buxbaum and Laurence Buxbaum Lorraine Dugoff and William Schlaff Carol Rubin Fishman ’79 and Charles Fishman, Class Agent Amelia Floresta and Bahman Negahban Amalia and Tony Franklin Dwaraka Ganesan Susan Gay and Jonathan Andrews Roberta Geddis and John Hannon Elizabeth Goldmuntz and Frederic Barr Phyllis Hanson Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord Penny and Ronald Joines Jonathan Kahn Michelle and Jonathan Kalman Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim Marianthi Kiriakidou and Zissimos Mourelatos

82

Friends’ Central School

Helen Levin and Daniel Stevenson Suzanne Levy William Levy Karen Lewis and Howard Kruger Elizabeth and David Lorry, Class Agent Jessica and Thomas Lynn Marcie and Jeffrey Marcus Stephanie McCurry and Steven Hahn Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87 Christine McGinley and Richard Gendelman Jodi Mindell and Scott McRobert Lisa D. and Robert S. Miller Sharon and David Moolten Andrea Mosko and Benjamin Fryer Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff Marsha Neifield and Alan Folkman Carol Orenstein and Charles Nichol Lisa and Anthony Palmieri Sharon and Harry Pollack Beth S. and Steven G. Prusky Sharon Ritt Suzanne and Matthew Sall Robin Sheldon and Gerard Lewis Douglas Shimell Leslie K. and Donald L. Siegel Marjorie Somers and Frank Silvestry Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85 Howard Snyder Jacqueline and Eric Stern Helena and Eric Sultan Beth and Frank Tedesco Carol and Noel Trask ’78, Class Agent Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson ’82 Beth Varcoe and Roderick Wolfson Anne and Steve Weiss Deborah and David Weiss

Mary Ellen and Drew Weissman Kris and Christopher Yoo

Class of 2016 (86%) Anonymous Alice Amsterdam Melissa and Paul Anderson Rebecca and Iain Anderson Jessica M. Aronfreed and Roger C. Sealy Caitlin Bechtel and David Kalanik Frances R. and Frederic A. Beckley Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford Wendy Beetlestone and John Detre Teresa G. and Chhinder Binning Leslie Book Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor Muge and Kivanc Caglar Audrey and George Clothier Susan and Gary S. Cohen Jessica and Christopher Coss Louise Culver and Jeffrey Hurwitz Catherine and Ronald P. Dawson Lisa and Keith deLeon Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss Pamela Duke and Laurent Guy Kim Emmons-Benjet and Brian Benjet Cathy and Jon Fiebach ’82 Aqueelah Folwell Robert Folwell ’80 Princess and Earl Foster, Sr., Class Agent Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur Rebecca and Eric Guenther Michele and Jeffrey Harris Catherine C. and Todd E. Henry Maria and Mark Herman Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt Susan and Richard Holt

Lauri and Leigh Jacobs Penny and Ronald Joines Kristin and Todd Kimmell Brendan Lee Natalie Lee Wai Lee Deborah Leibel and Fred Goodman DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez Clare and Diego Luzuriaga Fran and Robert Margulies, Class Agent Lydia Martin and William P. Kennedy Howard McCabe Theresa M. McLaughlinZerbe and John A. Zerbe Felice G. and James J. McSwiggan, Class Agent Maureen McVail William McVail Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram Lynda J. and Russell B. Mischel Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer John Norcini Julie H. and Steven Plunkett Maria and Kenneth Pollack Michelle and Frederick Purnell Beth Randall and Donald Ringe Julia G. Raphaely Russell C. Raphaely Rita L. Ritsema and Karl G. Schwabe Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and Jon Rubin ’83 Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance Sandrine and Edward Schoenfeld Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and Mark-Alan D. Pizzini

Judy Shea Sherri J. Shields Traci M Smith Beth and Craig Snider Ira Thal Theresa and Daniel Vickery Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69

Nancy Andrews and Robert Schall

Sarah and Andrew DeMichele

Deborah Maraziti

Susanne and Michael Andrews ’78

Amy and John Estey Wendy Frame and Christopher Blackman

Stephanie W. and William R. B. McCullough

Nicole C. Barnum and Sophia Lee Bernadette and Robert Bartholomew Christine Baysmore

Fatima and Roger Williams

Jessica and Eric Berger

Eve E. Wollman and James R. Sperans

Karen Black and Peter Bessen

Pamela and Marc Zisselman

Class of 2017 (86%)

Meg Boscov and Randy Brown Sandra Bowman, Class Agent Michele V. and Jeffrey F. Brotman

Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn

Jill and Stephen Ginsberg

Jodi K. and David H. Miller

Jeffrey Goldader

Catherine and James Murdock ’73

Elizabeth Goldmuntz and Frederic Barr

Regina Pinotti and John Shields

Leslie Greenfield

Sharon and Harry Pollack

Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane

Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82 and Peter Rosenberg

Barbara and Mark Helpin

Meg and Peter Saligman

Peggy and Dedrick Hervas Fariha I. Khan and Michael D. Carey

Debbie and Ronald Schiller, Class Agent Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas

Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp

Cindy and Cary Anderson, Class Agent

Andrea and Mark Chesen

Momoko A. Kishimoto and Frank R. Borchert

Deborah and Frank Correll

Kerri Konik

Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85

LiRon Anderson-Bell and Glenn Bell

Tara L. Cuda and Pasquale A. Colavita

Anja Jeferris Levitties ’86 and Matthew Levitties ’85

Howard Snyder

Anonymous (2)

Maria Sturm and Elliott Shore

The Heart of Quaker Works

Parent Giving

Patrícia Carlos de Andrade (’13) My son Fernando’s experience at Friends’ Central has been amazing. It is difficult to explain the transformation that he has been going through during these two years. One of my motivations to move from Brazil was Fernando’s lack of enthusiasm about his school life in our country, where he never found a good environment for his interests. The educational system in Brazil is different. The students sit and listen passively, and as a result, Fernando felt like he was forced to go to a place he found boring, oppressive, and lonely. This feeling changed completely at FCS, where he felt welcomed by teachers and peers and flourished as a student and a young man. I will always keep in my memory his surprise with himself when he discovered that he was missing school for the first time in his life after last year’s summer vacation.

Friends’ Central gave so much to me and my family that as soon as our financial situation allowed, Fernando’s father, Beny Parnes, and I felt we should give back. FCS gave me my first lesson about the incredible values that built a country that I love and admire. It was a lesson of welcoming and generosity.

I moved back to the United States two years ago, but I also lived in the U.S. for five years before Fernando was born. My older daughter, Helena Bokel was accepted and got a scholarship from FCS in 1988, when I was new to the country as a graduate student at Penn. The same happened to my second daughter, Luisa Parnes, one year later. They both had the time of their lives at Friends’ Central. We intend to give back to FCS for as long as we can and are sure that Fernando will do the same.

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Friends’ Central School

Kimberly and

Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky

Carolyn and Scot Cohen

Tahira and Tokunbo Adelekan

Dominic R. Tarquinio

Lydia Martin and William P. Kennedy

Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis

Sabina and Atif Ahmad ’91

Kim Emmons-Benjet and Brian Benjet

Rebecca and Iain Anderson

H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and

Leslie Book

Terri and Martin Vaughn Laura and Ricardo Verges Laurie and J. Scott Victor Sharon Weiss and David Arnold Lisa D. and Richard D. Winward Kris and Christopher Yoo Lisa Zaoutis Theoklis E. Zaoutis

Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87 Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer

Anonymous Melissa and Paul Anderson Cari Feiler Bender and Rodd Bender Elyse and Max Berger Betty Brizill Caroline and Donald Brooks Floyd Butler Kim and Bart Cassidy

Harry Neilson III

Michele and Paul Grossman ’87

Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane

Rebecca and Eric Guenther

Idrees Jones

Russell C. Raphaely

Kelli Jones

Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan

Laura Keen and Trevor Smith

David Roberts ’83

Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and Brian Gordon

Fariha I. Khan and

Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83

Mignon and Jim Groch

Michael D. Carey

Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr

Laura and George Groves

Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83

Kathryn S. Hayward and

Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and Matthew Levitties ’85

Tom MacFarlane

Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp

Maryann Cormier

Jamie Sheller and Mark Greisiger

Michelle and Daniel Crowley

Savita and Vijay Singh

Ellen and Richard Cutshall, Class Agent

Eve Smith Howard Smith

Denise and Leroy Cypress

Joy Takahashi and John Gullace

Paula and Larry Durlofsky Cathy and Jon Fiebach ’82 Keith Warrick Fletcher Angela and Gary Greene Michele and Paul Grossman ’87 Meena and Anil Gupta Farah and Rahul Kapoor Karen Lewis and Howard Kruger Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber Elizabeth and David Lorry

Esra Diker-Yilmaz and

Julia G. Raphaely

Sara Volkman Shack ’87 and Evan Shack

Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross

Elizabeth Cohen ’83 and David Whellan

Maria and Kenneth Pollack

Carolyn and Scot Cohen, Class Agent

Kathryn and Edwin Davison

Sheryl B. and Karl A. Johnson

Denis Cohen

Susan Johntz and David Velinsky, Class Agent

Renata Cobbs-Fletcher

Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin

Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani

Amy and Ronald Fuchs

Lynn Schuchter and John Broaddus

Jessica and Christopher Coss

Holly and David R. Brigham

Leigh Bergmann

Cristina Neilson

Karyn and Aaron Polak

Class of 2018 (87%)

Gregory Bashaw

Ami and Jess Lonner

Bilge Yilmaz Wendy Frame and Christopher Blackman

Jenifer and Michael Lehrer Mireia Lizandra and Eric Smith, Class Agent

Andrea Mosko and Benjamin Fryer Alison and Yaron Netz Minh T. and Khai Nguyen

Monique Mooney and Christopher Menen

Catherine and Steven Nierenberg

Suzi Morrison and Grant Calder

Elizabeth and Robert Nourian

Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer

Julie H. and Steven Plunkett

Carol Perloff

Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler

Laura and Leonard Rossio, Class Agent

Meg and Peter Saligman Lisa and Bradford Sandler

Suzanne and Matthew Sall Jane Schoenborn

Anonymous

Sandrine and Edward Schoenfeld

Gregory Segall

Tonia and Albert Alwyn

Kathryn and James J. Sheward

Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg

Marcy and Robert Shoemaker

Robin Sheldon and Gerard Lewis

Tami Benton-Condiff and Allessandro Condiff

Helena and Eric Sultan

Class of 2019 (89%)

Jessica and Eric Berger Leah Brecher-Cohn and Andrew Cohn, Class Agent Chris and Andrew Bruckner Barbara Burtness and Israel Mushi Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan

Niku Thomas and Eric Mitchell Susan and David Wadsworth Kate and Michael Wallace Sherri Apter Wexler and Lewis Wexler

Melisande J. Simmering and Ian B. Wilcox Beth and Craig Snider Eve E. Wollman and James R. Sperans Leslie and Michael Wollock

Class of 2021 (92%) Class of 2020 (83%)

Anonymous

Anonymous

Melissa and Paul Anderson

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Unrestricted Annual Giving

Parent Giving

Cari Feiler Bender and

Lara N. and Evan J. Smith

Regina Pinotti and John Shields

Lisa and Bradford Sandler

Rodd Bender

Howard Smith

Lara N. and Evan J. Smith

Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis, Class Agent

Eve Smith

Valeri S. and Mark H. Riesenfeld

Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall

Meg and Peter Saligman

Joy Takahashi and

Suzanne and Matthew Sall

Class of 2024 (76%)

John Gullace

Jane Schoenborn

Tahira and Tokunbo Adelekan

Nancy Trachtenberg

Patty and Jeffrey Seltzer

Luisa Bovernini and

Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter

Wendy Singer-Lowry and Christopher J. Lowry

Jeffrey Heit

Kate and Michael Wallace

Beth and Craig Snider

Joy Clairmont ’91 and Max Kaufman ’91

Stephanie H. and

Emma and Gregory Staton

Jeanine and Joel Dankoff

Lawrence D. Ward

Isobel J. Stockdale and Harry F. Yanowitz

Christina and Joseph Dubb ’94

Jason Warley

Evelyn and Marc Duvivier

Kyle Yates

Danielle and Jay Tapper

Jeffrey Goldader

Stacy L. Thomas

Kathryn J. Griffo and

Sherri Apter Wexler and Lewis Wexler

Jeffrey L. Schlegel

Eve E. Wollman and James R. Sperans

Carrie L. Harcus and Ray S. Jaffe

Debbie J. and Young Rak Choi Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak Alison and Scott Cook-Sather Catherine Corson and Charles McCammon Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin Mika and Allen Epps Eve and Michael Galvin Gayle G. and George M. Gowen Kathryn J. Griffo and Jeffrey L. Schlegel Naomi Haas and Peter O’Dwyer Heather Schwartz Hebert ’85 and John Hebert Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis Ami and Jess Lonner Joni R. Marcus and Edward F. Greves Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87 Tracy Mills and Kent Julye Alison and Yaron Netz Andrea C. Nuneviller and Jess H. Lord Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane Chris Ozbun and William Darling Nancy Peterson and Michael Gross Sharon Popik and Kevin Fosnocht Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and Jon Rubin ’83

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Class of 2022 (77%) Tonia and Albert Alwyn Jessica and Eric Berger Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza

Valerie and Leon Hawes

Christina and Joseph Dubb ’94 Evelyn and Marc Duvivier, Class Agent

Class of 2023 (76%)

Michelle K. and

Elizabeth Cohen ’87 and David Whellan

Jeffrey L. Eichen Ashley M. and Adam W. Fox A. Christine GiorganoSchoenwandt and Tobias Schoenwandt Jeffrey Goldader Nora Jones and Pedro Sanoja Kimberly and Clayton Justice Shami and Anand M. Kini

Rebecca and Eric Guenther

Anonymous

Catherine Corson and Charles McCammon Jessica and Christopher Coss Michelle and Daniel Crowley Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin, Class Agent

Grace Hsu and Edward Fox Kristina and Michael Kallam Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis Priscilla M. and John N. Lukens Deborah Maraziti Michelle Morrison Sharon Palmieri Morsa and Louis Morsa, Class Agent Margaret O’Sullivan and Ciaran Roche Dawn and Julian Ovalle

Lori M. Koch and

Susan Dreher ’87 and Mark Wheeler

Samuel H. Israel

Keiji and Narumi Furuuchi

Patty and Jeffrey Seltzer

Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman

A. Christine GiorganoSchoenwandt and

Wendy Singer-Lowry and Christopher J. Lowry

Tobias Schoenwandt

Emma and Gregory Staton

Paige W. Macfarlan and Jonathan M. Kopcsik Deborah Maraziti

Julie and Rohan Gopalani

Iris Melendez and Henry R Adamczyk, Jr.

Kimberly Gross

Monique Mooney and Christopher Menen

Idrees Jones

Michele and Paul Grossman ’87

Kathleen and David Porter

Amy Steerman and Mary Ann Stover Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall, Class Agent

Kelli Jones

Jennifer Vollmer and David Copas

Susan and James McCoy

Kate and Michael Wallace

Ann and Aaron Selkow ’88

Marianthi Kiriakidou and Zissimos Mourelatos

Jamie Sheller and Mark Greisiger

Elizabeth and Robert Nourian

Shemaiah Murphy

Michelle and Andrew B. Olson

Jana Norris and Steven Cole

Stephanie H. and Lawrence D. Ward

Kathryn and James J. Sheward

Margaret O’Sullivan and Ciaran Roche

Mary Claire O’Mara and Corrie Mitchell ’85

Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds

Friends’ Central School

Eleanora Baird

The Heart of Quaker Works

Parent Giving and Volunteering

John E. Balson ’52 Madeline and Richard Baron Mary and Marshall Bassett

Debbie Dolic (’15)

Joan and Eric Beckwith

One reason that Annual Giving is so important to the School is that it helps fulfill Friends’ Central’s commitment to economic diversity. The School opens its doors and generously accepts students with natural aptitude and skills who need financial resources to make their academic experience achievable. That is why I volunteer to be a Phonathon caller and why I joined the Auction Committee. The Phonathon is an awesome way to meet and greet families, create friends, and help the FCS community.

It’s the gift that keeps giving. You give today and your return on Debbie and Steven Dolic (’15) investment will be tenfold. Acts of kindness and generosity are like a boomerang … they always come back. I work the Phonathon with my sister Shirley Jones-Shakur [’09, ’12]. All the members of the Phonathon team bring an abundance of high energy when we are together. I hope the parents that I call can hear the smile on my face when I talk to them about Friends’ Central!

Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80 and Larry Bendesky

Barbara and Robert Behar

My daughter’s [Ivana-Ajee Dolic ’15] experience at Friends’ Central has been phenomenal.

What stands out for me are the critical thinking methodology that is taught and the nourishing environment she feels in all aspects of the school. Knowing that Friends’ Central has our daughter’s best interest at heart, as well as keeping her safe, mean the world to us. Friends’ Central is a great fit for our daughter. She absolutely loves it!

Denise and Lout Benrahou Beth Berman Liza Jane and Thomas Bernard Janice and Seymour Berrian Karen and Russell M. Bleakley ’67 Valerie and Fred Block Peter Bloomfield Susan Bodley and Brad Morris Janet and Jeffrey Bowker Trina and Keith Bradburd Carrie and David Brodsky Jill Eiseman Bronson ’71 and Glenn Bronson Mari Ann and Christopher Campbell Janice and Vincent Cappelli Salvatore Carfagno Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62 Wei-Chen and Chang Chen

Class of 2025 (91%) Kelly and Daniel Brown Kathryn and Edwin Davison Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza Brooke Devenney-Cakir and Saffet Cakir Mignon and Jim Groch Valorie Haves Heather Schwartz Hebert ’85 and John Hebert Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy Farah and Rahul Kapoor Linda Kloss and Marcelo Sanchez Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie Iris Melendez and Henry R Adamczyk, Jr.

Tanya Johnson Muse ’02 and Omar Muse Andrea C. Nuneviller and Jess H. Lord Nancy Peterson and Michael Gross Kathleen Richards and Michael Romanosky Denise Sabatino and Padraig Barry Jane and Bentley M. Saul Kathryn and James J. Sheward Jessamyne Simon and Gabriel Tatarian

Lisa D’Orazio and James Lowther

Barbara M. Cohen Nelly and Jorge Colapinto

Bethanne Fox and Brendon Shank

Kathy Coleman-Martin

Amy and Matthew McDonald

Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57

Jane and Bentley M. Saul

Mary Louise Craig ’47

Emma and Gregory Staton

Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs

Julie and Daniel Van Duzer

Elaine and Michael Crauderueff

Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds

Mary Ann Crawford and Brett Skolnick

Michele and David Zuckman

Alice Hess Crowell ’46

Legacy Parents

Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield ’43

Anne and Andrew Abel

and Benjamin Dangerfield

Class of 2026 (67%)

Robin and Barry Abelson

Nancy Davis

Joy Clairmont ’91 and Max Kaufman ’91 Jennifer and Caleb Cross

Jorge Arauz

Louis DelSoldo

Barbara and Ted Aronson

Donald Denton

Sandy and David Axelrod

Pat and Raymond DeSabato

Vida and Burton Cooperberg

Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright

June and Fred Dohrmann

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Legacy Parent & Grandparent Giving

Ross Donolow ’73 Kathy and Jerry Drew Ginny Duerr Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Melissa Eastman Brenda and David Elkin Meryweather and Clinton Ely Abigail First Farber ’55 Christa and William Farnon Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and Michael Fedder Daphne and James Fell Betsy and Bob Fiebach Jacqueline Fields ’61 Ginger and Mark Fifer Deborah Fleisher and Stephen Starr Sari and Ethan Fogel Elizabeth W. Fox Michael Fox Anne Francois and Marc Lazard Jane and Matthew Frankel Jean and Carl Fridy Christina and David Fryman Christine Young Gaspar ’70 and Alfred Gaspar Kay and James Gentile Susan and Peter Gilman Lynne and Steven Glasser Amy and James Goldman Susan Schwartz Goodrich ’65 Diane and Rick Graboyes Patricia Green and Gary Horowitz Paula Yudenfriend Green and Arlin Green Helaine and Jack Greenberg Judy and Ed Grinspan Nancy and Peter Grove Terry and Paul Guerin Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Hamerman Kendell Hardy Erika and Gerald Harnett Gwen J. Hauser Susanna R. and Warren J. Hauser

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Mary Hediger and George Weaver

Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’69

Grace and Charles Heising

M. Robin Maddox and Ralph Luongo

Paulina and Byron Hewett

Catherine and Michael Malloy

Patty and Ted Hewson

Flo and Alan W. Margolis

Miiko and Herbert Horikawa

Irene and Bruce Marks

Emanuel Hudock ’52

Claire C. Marsh and Stephen Freed

Deborah and T. Regan Hull Susan and Douglas E. Hyman ’79 Karen and Philip Ivory Sonia Jaipaul and Charles Wardlaw Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56 Anabel Johns Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and Martin Johnson Cathleen Judge and David Unkovic

Gertrude P. Marshall Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius R. Sandra Latshaw McCarthy ’59 Holly and David McCloskey Marian and Alexander McDonnell Denise and Robert McIvor Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris Emilie and Edward McVey

Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson

Richard A. Melaragni

Diane Karp

Barbara and Nicholas Meyer

Rosalind and Alan Kaufman

Salli Mickelberg

Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Keller

Norma and Bruce Miller ’55

Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly Gail and Alan Kessler Shelly Kessler and John Farrar Shahnaz and Mehdi Keykhah Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein Richard B. Klein ’57 Nancy Kleinberg Carolyn Klock and George McCook Jane Koppelman Brian S. Kunz ’67 Marilyn and Eric Lager Emma Lapsansky-Werner Middy Minster Larson ’55 Mary and Lance Laver Susan Lea and Edward Frank

Susan and Jay Miller Andrea Cantor Moses Bridget Murnaghan and Hugh Gordon Rosemary and James Murphy Sara Nerken and Robert Karpinski Judy and Buddy Newman Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum Diane Nissen and Jerry Gollub Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg and Robert Weinberg Marian and Larry Pearlman Alice Legge Penza ’36 Judith and Bryan B. Pokras ’57 Doris and Harold Polan

Lonnie and Murray S. Levin

Stacey Polan ’71 and Richard Kaufman

Marvin B. Levitties

Jane Pompetti

Linn and Douglas Linton ’68

Gerald and Judy Porter

Pat and Jim Lobb

Marianne Price

Hao-Li and Evan Loh

Helen and David B. Pudlin

Rosemary and G. Craig Lord

Evelyn P. Rader

Molly Love and Adrian Castelli

Joan and Brad Rainer

Jane Cubberly Luce ’68 and Eric Luce

Christine Ramsey and Andrew Fussner

Virginia Rauh and Rollin Gallagher William D. Ravdin ’46 Margery and Raymond Reed Daniel Rink Susan and Harvey Robbins Mary Roberts Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 and John Rooney Sidney Rosenblatt Penny and Fred Rosenblum Jerilynn and Doug Ross Marsha and Richard Rothman Sheila Royal-Moses and Richard A. Moses ’77 Susan and Joel Rubin Cindy and Stephen Ruzansky Marie and Bruce Satalof Ann V. Satterthwaite Michele Scanlon and Gary Nicolai Deena and Thomas Schneider Charlotte and Daniel Schutzman Hannah and Merrill Schwartz Angela Scully and George Elser Joseph Seitchik Linda and Gerry Senker Edward O. Shakespeare Kathy Shaw and Benjamin Green Sharon and Joseph Shelanski Susan Shilcrat and Harry Mazurek Ellen Siegel and Richard Wallace Kathleen and John A. Simkiss, Jr. Bunny Slepin Raquel and Alphonso Smith Wendy and Larry Steinberg Patricia and Jeffrey Swigart Jean and Italo Taranta Michi Tashjian Rebecca Taub and Paul Friedman Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell

Yvette and Darrell Thomas

Barbara M. Cohen

Kathleen and Peter Tozer

Gloria and A. R. Condiff

Jean and Frank Tracy

Charlotte and Bud Cook

Naomi and Adrian Tschoegl

Vida and Burton Cooperberg

Sally and Adelbert Tweedie

Jeannie and Timothy Coss

Anne and Richard Umbrecht

Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57

Sheila and Akhil Vaidya

Rosane Dahle

Thomas Murphy

Betsey and Gregg VanGundy

Cynthia Dayton and William Humenuk

Miriam and Ezat Negahban Bernice and Martin Neifield

Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and Dennis Wasserman

Anne DeLay

Judy and Buddy Newman

Marianne and John Devenney

Estelle and Gerald Palevsky

Ronald Waxman

Bunni and Jeff Feingold

Santi Pizzini

Lyn Weinberg and Mark Moskowitz

Betsy and Bob Fiebach

Sandra and Bruce Vermeychuk

Margie and Bryan Weingarten Norma Weiser Cathy Weiss Richard Wertime Debra Will and David Thomas Priscilla and David Williams ’69 Barbara A. Willis Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77 Wendy Wolf Patricia Wood Pam and Don Yih Mary Lee and John T. Young Melanie and James A. Yulman Martin Zeldin Sybille Zeldin Regina and Robert Ziffer

Joan Fowler Elizabeth W. Fox Liselotte Freed R. and K. Ganesan Ed Gardiner Sophie and Tom Gibson Carole and John Gilbert Jeanette S. Gillison Ricki and Mel Greenblatt Abby and Ed Grinberg Stanley Hahn Fonda Hartman Linda and Ivan Inerfeld Aeolian Jackson Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56 Joyce J. Jones Lois and Ivan Kauffman Judy and Jerry Kessel

Marian and Alexander McDonnell

William W. Bower

Carol Millinghausen

Janet Bowker

John Bowie

Katherine and Robert Mitchell Roberta Mitchell

Keith Bradburd Carl Bradley

Elizabeth Morgan

Jack Briggs Carrie Brodsky Keith Buckingham Grant Calder Maura Caldwell Kathleen Canaris Richard Case

Sonya Pollack

Jebb Chagan

Marianne and Russell C. Raphaely

Deanna S. Ciarrocchi

Arnie Riisen

Anna Marie Ciglinsky

Mary Roberts

Susan Clough

Miriam Rothenberg

Nelly Colapinto

Alice Saligman

Frank E. Cooney

Joan and Hyman Sall

Michael Crauderueff

Selma and Samuel Savitz

Daniel Crowley

Eleanor and James Shaw

Michelle Crowley

Stelle Sheller

Joel Dankoff

Patty and Frederick Smith

William Darling

Toby and Morton Soffer

Cheryl Davis

Ronnie and Bob Somers

James F. Davis

Doris and Seymour Stadtmauer

Kathryn Davison

Penelope and Gerald Stiebel

Catherine Dawson

Laurel and Gael Ulrich

Donald Denton

Maggie and Alan Vickery

Patricia DeSabato

Tana and Michael Wall Sally and Leonard Weiss

Raymond DeSabato READ DeSabato ’02

Grandparents

Sandra Kuby

Anonymous

Alma and Edwin Lakin

Madlyn and Leonard Abramson

Eleanor M. and Robert Leventhal

Nina Allen

Marvin B. Levitties

Faculty and Staff

Ashley Altman

Janet Levy

Anonymous (4)

Elizabeth Anderson

Diana and Gerry Lewis

Iain Anderson

Judy Andrews

Barbara and Morris Longstreth

Colin S. Angevine ’05

Liza Ewen

Pat and Phillip Annas

Lucile Lynn

Phillip Annas

Heather Hudgins Exley

Helene and Allen Apter

Pat and Charles Maraziti

Amanda Ball

Cathy Fiebach

Sandy and David Axelrod

Ronnie and Lawrence Margel

Padraig Barry

Ginger Fifer

Barbara and Joe Bentley

Anne Martin

Kyle Beatty

Mark Fifer

Rosemary Matthews

Barbara Behar

Frank Fisher

Joan Henley Mattoon ’50 and Peter Mattoon

Diana Bleakley ’01

Cristina Fitzpatrick

Karen Bleakley

Robert Folwell ’80

Shirley and Seymour Bernstein Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62

Elaine and Frank Wright Jo and John Zaccaria

Stephanie Dolores Steven J. Dolores Thomas Donovan Lisa D’Orazio Joseph Dubb ’94 Alexa Dunnington ’98

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Daniel Gale

Brad Morris

Ross A. Trachtenberg ’98

Anne Dufour Clouser ’50

Glenn A. Gale

Sharon Palmieri Morsa

Kaz Uyehara

Elaine Crauderueff

Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81

Nina Morton

Mary-Chilton Van Hees

Louis DelSoldo

Jacqueline Gowen-Tolcott

Tanya Johnson Muse ’02

Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr.

Christopher Dorrance

Leslie Grace

Cristina Neilson

Jason Warley

Clinton Ely

Mary H. Gregg

Jennifer Nemroff

Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75

Robert Emory

Peter Grove

Latonya P. Nesmith-Carter

Joshua Weisgrau

Louise Evans

John W. Gruber

Gary Nicolai

Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96

Sara L. Matthews

Rebecca Guenther

Laura Novo

Dwayne A. Wilkerson

Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79

Terry Guerin

Steve Oster

Debra Will

Michael Fedder

Christopher Guides

Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg

Erik Williams

David M. Felsen

Galen R. Guindon ’06

Dawn Ovalle

Sammie Wilson

Mark Owen Fifer ’96

Laura Bell Haimm

Julian Ovalle

Pam Yih

Laura J. Forman ’91

Phyllis Hanson

Kim Parris

Melinda Yin

Wendy Frame

Erika Harnett

Steve Patterson

Melanie Yulman

Matthew Murphy Garmur ’97

Cynthia Bidart Harris

Monica A. Peterson

Regina Ziffer

Kay and James Gentile

Joanne P. Hoffman

Marian Petrarca

Michele Zuckman

Mac F. Given

Mary Lynne Jeschke

Julie H. Plunkett

Beth Davis Johnson ’77

Jason Polykoff ’02

Deborah M. Jones

Jane Pompetti

Kristina Kallam

Joan Raina

William P. Kennedy

Brian Ramsey

Marilyn Lager

Christine Ramsey

Janice Leavy

Ken Reynolds

Douglas Linton ’68

Robyn Richmond

Linn Linton

Margaret S. Roberts ’83

Laurie S. Lubking

John Rogers

Joseph Ludwig ’69

Sheila D. Rohrer

Priscilla M. Lukens

Chris Rosenbaum

Diego Luzuriaga

Penny Rosenblum

Tom MacFarlane

Doug Ross

Jim Mack

Michael Russo

Karen Manker

Cristina Sabaj Perez

Lisa McInally Mansure

Katharine Pidot

Jerry Mapp

Megan Schumacher

Deborah Maraziti

Peter Seidel

Lydia Martin

Antonia R. Sharp

Caroline Maw-Deis

Gary Smith

Jody Mayer

Maria Alejandra Socorro

Dottie Mazullo

Harry Stead

Christopher McCann

Stephanie Storm

Former Faculty and Staff

Evelyn P. Rader

Holly McCloskey

Beth Tedesco

Richard H. Beyer

Stephen Ruzansky

Alexander McDonnell ’87

Keino Terrell

Rachel Bradburd ’05

Ann V. Satterthwaite

Linda Kent McConnell

Darrell Thomas

Sara Callaghan

Aaron Selkow ’88

James H. McKeogh ’00

David Thomas

Louise Christopher

Edward O. Shakespeare

Alex Miller

Mary Fran Torpey

Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59

John Shaw ’74

Friends’ Central School

Timothy Golding

Former Trustees Anonymous Marta and Robert Adelson Barbara and Ted Aronson Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57 Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55 Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43 Jean Farquhar ’70 Sally R. Harrison Samuel F. Howe ’71 Laura Jackson ’65 Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson Emma Lapsansky-Werner Lonnie and Murray S. Levin Lincoln Meyers ’80 Judy and Buddy Newman William D. Ravdin ’46 Kimiko and Koji Shimada Dickson Werner ’41

Leonard Haas ’76 Robert W. Hallett Kendell Hardy Miiko Horikawa Samuel F. Howe ’71 Juan Jewell ’68 Carolyn O. Kendall Casper J. Knight III Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Elizabeth Kolb ’86 Connie Burgess Lanzl ’68 John P. Louchheim Michael Mersky ’72 Suzi Morrison Richard A. Moses ’77 James Murray David A. Niles ’82 Elizabeth Osborne ’54 George Peterson III Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87 Joel F. W. Price Nicholas Pulos ’02

The arts is celebrated at Friends’ Central, as the School believes that creativity gives children a unique advantage. Friends’ Central cultivates creativity in every aspect of the curriculum.

Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 Jean Taranta Michi Tashjian Meade B. Thayer Mary Herbert Trapnell Naomi Tschoegl Betsey VanGundy Joshua Wasserman ’02 Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77 Mary Lee Young Erica Zimmerman ’85

Friends Kathleen K. and H. Jay Bellwoar Diane De Mille Sandra Derr Louis and Gloria F. La Noce Kathryn Furey Viola Geiger Louise and Joseph Huber

Jean Kornfeld Adrienne and George Martin James Mellor, Jr. Gregg Miller Carol Millinghausen Eleanor Rankin Alan Scharfstein Amy and Robert Silverman Carol and Fred Tompkins

Foundations and Matching Gift Companies Anonymous (3) The Abramson Family Foundation Advantage Industrial Supply Ally Bank Arader Tree Service Archway Press, Inc. Armstrong, Doyle, Carroll

BlackRock Matching Gift Program Calvin H. Rankin, Jr. ’43 Fund Cameron Memorial Fund Campbell Soup Company Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Doyle & McDonnell, PC E. & M. Construction Company Edison International Education Facility Management, LLCLLC Edwin S. Webster Foundation Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund The Friedman/Taub Charitable Foundation GlaxoSmithKline Foundation The Glenmede Trust Company

Google, Inc. The Green Foundation Haines Landscaping Service, Inc. Harweb Foundation HEITS Building Service Houghton Mifflin Company Japanese Language School Jeds Foundation Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia Just Give Kassabaum Family Charitable Trust Lankenau Hospital The Levitties Foundation LM Charitable Gift Trust Lopez-Lieberman Philanthropic Fund Magnolia Plantation & Gardens Family Foundation

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Gifts in Memory & Gifts in Honor

Thematic learning, like last year’s Lower School focus on Water, provides a wonderful way to teach critical 21st century skills through a rich cross-curricular course of study.

McDonalds Corporation Mechanical Solutions Associates, LLCLLC Merck Partnership for Giving MKM Foundation Morgan Stanley Matching Gifts Program Natural Gardens & Lawns, Inc. Network For Good New York Painters’ Supply Co. Newman & Company Oracle Matching Gifts Program PepsiCo Foundation Pfizer Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation PJM Interconnection PNC Bank Foundation Prime Buchholz & Associates Princeton Area Community Foundation Qyst Rothman Family Foundation Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. The Simkiss Family Foundation Site Engineering Concepts Sodexo, Inc.

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Sprague Foundation, Inc. Subaru of America Foundation, Inc. Time Warner Matching Gifts Program Top-A-Court Tennis Company 12th Street Catering United Way of Delaware Valley Press, Inc. van Beuren Charitable Foundation Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Vanguard Group, Inc. Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program Wyncote Foundation The Zeldin Family Foundation

Thank-you Gifts in Honor of Teachers Anonymous Jessica and Eric Berger Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor Kelly and Daniel Brown Keith Buckingham

Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan Joy P. Clairmont ’91 and Max Kaufman Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak Benjamin ’93 and Ruthi Cohen Carolyn and Scot Cohen Jessica and Christopher Coss Jeanine and Joel Dankoff Randi and Rick I. Feld Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach ’82 Bethanne Fox and Brendon Shank Susan Gay and Jonathan Andrews Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and Brian Gordon Mignon and Jim Groch Rebecca and Eric Guenther Maria and Mark Herman Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83 DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez Fran and Robert Margulies Lydia Martin and William Kennedy Ellen Meier and Michael Freed Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram

Kim Parris and Peter Seidel Julie and Steven Plunkett Julia G. Raphaely Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance Valeri S. and Mark H. Riesenfeld Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr Lisa and Bradford Sandler Stelle Sheller Kathryn and James J. Sheward Amy and Robert Silverman Susan and Edward Stadtmauer Marie A. and William J. Strahan Susan Tabor-Kleiman and Robert B. Kleiman Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter Laura and Ricardo Verges Theresa and Daniel Vickery

Gifts in Memory Gifts were made in memory of the following community members in 2011-2012.

Mr. And Mrs. Alexander Thomas Alwyn Salvatore Anicito Patricia Bowie ’51 Geneva Strong Bradley Elizabeth Brett ’62 Mary Butler Stanley Cherim Christopher Campbell ’04 Elaine Cohen Jeanine Colville Charles J. Cooper Rhonda Uthe Deleguardia ’65 R. Scott Drayer Wayne Evans Clayton Farraday ’32 Hans Fickenscher Ruth Fiesel Laurie Fox Robert Gartner ’56 Patricia Gibbon ’48 Julie Goldstein Anita Griffey

Frank Groff Gabrielle Haab ’57 Frances Hancock ’62 Linda Hansen ’65 Gerald Harnett Mary Jane Harvey Linda Hensel Kimberly Lai Jackson Mildred Jackson Grace Johns Sam Kahn Susan Kaufmann ’56 Barbara Kidder Fred Klaus ’63 Loretta Korostoff Holly Lorah ’64 Jane Manring ’51 Murray Marsh ’40 Richard Martin ’63 John McCollum Harry Millinghausen Carole Motter ’57 Rosemary Mundy Doris Murphy A. Stewart Murray Irv Orenstein Joanne Pearson ’60 Rose Phillips ’57 Hobson Pittman Mary Ramsey J. Donald Reimenschneider Richard Reish Hermann Rosenberger ’57 Frances Rothman Irwin Rothman Emily Sander ’49 Morgan Saunders Irene Schoenfeld John Singer John Siter Danny Slade Alvah and Julia Small Arlette M. Smith John P. Smith, Jr. Leola Smith Nan Somerville Lucy Christman Statzell ’37 and Benjamin Statzell ’37

Arlene Thal Ann Whitcraft Mark Whitlock Berenice Woerner Thomas Wood

Gifts in Honor Gifts were made in honor of the following community members in 2011-2012.

Francesca Abramson ’12 Hannah Albertine ’12 Christopher Annas ’17 Asa Bell ’17 Angelique Benrahou ’10 Lisa Bernstein ’15 Suzanne Bernstein ’13 Jackie Bitensky ’86 John Bowie ’12 Samara Bradley ’15 Carl Bradley Samuel Brodfuehrer ’12 Grant Calder Galen Cassidy ’18 Ryan Cassidy ’13 Joy Clairmont ’91 Class of 1962 Class of 1967 Class of 1982 Class of 1987 Class of 1992 Class of 2012 Class of 2020 Coaches at FCFCS Barbara Cohen Stephen Cozen ’57 Abigael Crowley ’15 Colleen Crowley ’23 Morgan Crowley ’18 Becca Dahle ’12 Emma Dahle ’14 Catherine Dawson James Davis Jack Demetris Raymond DeSabato Diane DeVan Benjamin Donolow

Faculty and Staff at Friends’ Central School William Farnon David Felsen Joshua Fiebach ’16 Matthew Fiebach ’18 Ginger Fifer Mark Fifer The 5th Grade Team Irving Fogel Ephraim Frankel ’10 Michael Furey ’13 Liam Giszter ’21 Rory Giszter ’12 Jerry Gollub Patricia Gorman Kelley Graham Jeffrey Greenberg ’84 Marielle Greenblatt ’13 Declan Hahn ’12 Saorirse Hahn ’15 George Halterman Sarah Hassold Joanne Hoffman Amile Jefferson ’12 Beth Johnson ’77 Krishna Kahn ’15 Daniel Kaufman ’05 Jonah Kaufman ’26 Leo Kaufman ’24 Max Kaufman ’91 William Kennedy Daniel Kessler Jason Kramer Carolyn Lazard ’05 Matthew Levison Joseph Ludwig ’69 Gregory Lynn ’14 Julia Lynn ’14 Anna Lynn-Palevsky ’13 Jacob Lynn-Palevsky ’18 Brent McIvor ’95 Greg McIvor ’99 Caelie McRobert ’15 Lauren Milgram ’16 Dylan Mitchell ’19 Madeleine Murdock ’17 Nicholas Murdock ’14

Andrew Nemroff ’12 Daniel Nemroff ’15 Alison Netz Nir Netz ’19 Tal Netz ’21 Jonathan Newman ’12 Laura Novo Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg Aryanna Pollack ’15 Nicole Pollack ’17 Christine Ramsey Pedro Rangel ’12 D. Reynolds Bryan Roberts ’81 David Roberts ’83 Justin Robson ’14 Doug Ross Aliza Sall ’20 Max Sall ’15 Melanie Sall ’22 Ann Satterthwaite Sophie Schall ’17 Craig Sellers Emma Shaw ’12 Bettina Greenberg Shenkman ’82 Andrew Shoemaker ’13 Zoe Shoemaker ’19 Samuel Silver ’13 Noah Silvestry ’15 Isabelle Singer-Kaufold Daniel Stadtmauer ’13 Noah Tischler ’08 Kazuo Uyehara Al Vernacchio Andrew Vickery ’13 Hannah Vickery ’16 Maude Wahlman ’59 Elsie Walker Charles Wallace ’24 Sophie Wallace ’21 William Wallace ’19 Bengt Williams ’12 Phyllis Williamson ’13 Andrew Winig ’14 Reid Wollock ’20 James Wright Hanella Zuckman ’26

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Gifts to Current Operations Arboretum Fund Kate Di Pietro

The Digital Media Lab Fund Carolyn and Scot Cohen Brendan Lee Natalie Lee Molly Love and Adrian Castelli Jay D. Seid Helene and Archbold van Beuren Anne and Steve Weiss

Night Out in Classroom Sponsors Financial Aid Advantage Industrial Supply Arader Tree Service Archway Press, Inc. Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn Doyle & McDonnell, PC E. & M. Construction Company Education Facility Management, LLC Haines Landscaping Service, Inc.

HEITS Building Service Mechanical Solutions Associates, LLC Natural Gardens & Lawns, Inc. New York Painters’ Supply Co. Prime Buchholz & Associates Qyst Site Engineering Concepts Sodexo, Inc. Top-A-Court Tennis Company 12th Street Catering Valley Press, Inc.

Other Restricted Gifts Robert Davis The Fannie Cox Foundation The George W. Rentschler Fund Elizabeth S. Harper Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Nancy Klaus and Jeffrey Cooper Donna Koenig Memton Fund MKM Foundation

Catherine and James Murdock Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg Todd Phillips

Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Bayada Nurses Bryn Mawr Trust Company Endless Pools, Inc. The Mutual Fire Foundation Osage Investments Philip Rosenau Co., Inc. Stein Realty Capital, LP Zuckerman Honickman, Inc.

The John Singer ’01 FCC Greenhouse Memorial Fund Edward Singer Ruth Tanur Naomi and Adrian Tschoegl

Students in this Upper School chemistry class experience the rigorous curriculum that helps shape our future leaders.

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Do You

L VE Friends’ Central

&

Pay Any of These Taxes Corporate Net Income Tax • Capital Stock Franchise Tax Bank And Trust Company Shares Tax Title Insurance Company Shares Tax Insurance Premiums Tax • Mutual Thrift Institutions Tax

If the answer is

YES

then you should know . . .

A gift to Friends’ Central can cost your company just a dime for every dollar you give when you make a contribution to Friends’ Central’s scholarship fund through the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program.

For more information, please contact Lydia Martin, Director of Development, at 610.645.5034 or lmartin@friendscentral.org.

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Home & School Association (HSA) 2011-2012 The Home and School Association is the organized body of all Friends’ Central parents. The personal investment of mothers and fathers in their children’s education is an integral part of the School’s philosophy and, by encouraging parental involvement, Friends’ Central accomplishes its goal of establishing a partnership between the School, the student, and the family. Thank you to the following parents who held leadership positions and to all those who volunteered at HAS events throughout the year.

Executive Committee Co-Presidents Heather Osborne Kimberly Tarquinio

Parent Representatives 12th Grade

Jodi Mindell

Amy DiLuca Ihnsouk Guim Penny Reiter

Treasurer

11th Grade

Secretary

Betty Bard

Immediate Past President

Maggie Cooper Dianne Heard Carolyne Willlis

5th Grade

Doug Davis (LS) Joyce Stovall (LS) Sherri Wexler (LS)

Chris Bruckner Anja Levitties Kathy Sheward

DVD Program

4th Grade

Cristina Neilson

Rebecca Anderson Leslie Wollock

Friends in the Garden

3rd Grade Christine Coburn Gayle Gowen Lauren Rubin

2nd Grade Michelle Eichen Valerie Riesenfeld Elizabeth Nourian

1st Grade Elizabeth Cohen Lara Smith

Cristina Neilson

eScrip

Barb Helpin

Gift Wrap Cristina Neilson

Holiday Shop Gretchen Bedford Lorna Dreyfuss Cathy Fiebach

LS Book Fair Michelle Eichen Beth Snider

LS Winter Blast

Amy Estey

10th Grade

Upper School Co-Chairs

Kindergarten

Terri Jones Elena Levitan

Kristin Kimmell Julie Pogachefsky Lucy Williams

Middle School Co-Chairs

9th Grade

Pre-Kindergarten

Sharon Pollack Sharon Ritt Kris Yoo

Nancy Peterson Andrea Nuneviller

Parents of Students of Color

Nursery

8th Grade

Jane Saul

Betty Brizill Jodi West-Booker

Deborah F. Correll Jessica Coss

Lower School Co-Chairs Ami Lonner Kate Wallace

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Beth Burrell Dana Greenblatt Diane Heard

Friends’ Central School

Sharlee Casnoff Joy Clairmont

Dani Tapper

MS Book Fair Momoko Kishimoto Anja Levitties

Pumpkin Fair

Carol Bradbeer Susan Holt Penny Joines

Committee Chairs

Debbie Hoppy Lara Smith

7th Grade

Box Tops for Education

Quaker Life Group

Bernadette Bartholomew Amy Estey Wendy Frame

Cristina Neilson

6th Grade Betty Brizill

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Cathy Fiebach Lynn Schuchter

Community Service Elena Levitan (US) Peggy Hervas (MS) Eric Mitchell (MS)

Kristin Kimmell Todd Kimmell Robert Williamson

Welcoming Committee Heather Osborne, Coordinator

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