Garrison Forest School Magazine 2012

G A R R I SON F OR E S T 2012

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From the Head of School BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2012-2013 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD

David M. DiPietro, President Carroll Dawbarn ’64, Vice President Amabel Boyce James ’70, Treasurer Timothy T. Weglicki, Secretary BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Emily Gardner Baratta ’88 Sara N. Bleich ’96 Frank A. Bonsal III Robert S. Brennen Diana Warfield Daly ’74 Timothy F. Daniels Mathias J. DeVito Stacy Garrett-Ray ’92 Kimberly W. Gordon Molly Mundy Hathaway ’61 Timothy W. Hathaway Sarah LeBrun Ingram ’84 Catherine Y. Jackson ’83 Mark W. Mullin William M. Parrish Gregory C. Pinkard Karan H. Powell Frances Russell Rockwell ’68 R. Todd Ruppert Sarah Crosby Schweizer ’84 Elizabeth B. Searle ’74 Helen Zinreich Shafer ’93 Caroline Rinehart Stewart ’66 Elizabeth Garland Wilmerding ’78 Frederick W. Whitridge William L. Yerman EX-OFFICIO

Natalie W. Frazier William S. Hodgetts Eleanor Shriver Magee ’89 G. Peter O’Neill, Jr. Gillian Willard Shafer ’91 Mary P. Stewart TRUSTEES EMERITI

Frank A. Bonsal, Jr. H. Grant Hathaway Henry H. Hopkins Douglas A. McGregor Elinor Purves McLennan ’56 Francis G. Riggs Clare H. Springs ’62 Katherine R. Williams

NOTHING BEATS A NATIONAL SHOUT-OUT.

Earlier this year, I was listening to Pat Bassett, president of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and a Garrison Forest grandparent in 2011-12, at the 2012 NAIS annual convention in Seattle. He was at the podium introducing keynote speaker Bill Gates and speaking about innovation, the theme of the conference, to the crowd of nearly 4,200 educators. en it happened. Pat mentioned Garrison Forest by name, lauding our innovative programs. It was one of those moments any head of school dreams about: recognition for one’s school among a national audience of independent-school peers. His comment was tweeted immediately—by others, not me. I am not yet that innovative. I spent the remainder of the conference filled with pride, happily and humbly receiving compliments from conference attendees.

Pat and leaders across every field agree that innovation is a crucial skill for success in the 21st century. Far from mere invention, innovation means taking risks.

Infusing a culture of innovation allows—not forces—new ways of thinking differently, creatively and purposefully to meet a challenge.

Innovation is palpable at Garrison Forest. We see it in the hands of students using the latest digital technology to delve deeper than ever before into a subject.

It percolates in our Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) research partnership with e Johns Hopkins University and our first internship program with Jhpiego, the JHU-affiliated international health organization. is summer, the inaugural Shafer Fellows, teams of selected faculty who received competitive GFS Shafer Innovation Grants, collaborated on critical educational challenges and are creating innovative solutions.

Consider another national shout-out: e College Board’s 2011 annual report cited Maryland high school seniors as the top scorers in the nation for the Advanced Placement (AP) exams—for the fourth year in a row. e percentage of Maryland’s independent, public and parochial school seniors who achieved a score of “3” or higher on one or more AP exams is 27.9 percent.

At Garrison Forest, the percentage of our seniors who take AP exams and score a “3” or higher is 87 percent—three times the nation’s highest average. AP test scores, and, indeed, any standardized testing, continue to be under close scrutiny and honest debate. But this achievement and every accomplishment by any GFS student represent the essential quality of innovation in education: collaboration between student and teacher. is deep relationship, infused with respect, rigor and a joy for learning, is reflected in the most central, cherished part of our mission.

We are educating our students to be innovators in fields not yet imagined, for jobs not yet created, for technology not yet developed. ey are achieving at impressive levels and through remarkable opportunities. Now that’s something to shout about.

G. Peter O’Neill, Jr.

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16 GFS Global Students, faculty and alumnae are creating a better world through global service.

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Garrison Forest Gallery A sampling of student artwork and creativity.

DEPARTMENTS

2 Newsmakers Alumnae, Students and Faculty Make Headlines

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12 Commencement

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14 Faculty at the Forest

> ON THE COVER What’s Up? by Tyra Bell ’12 The open-ended assignment that resulted in the cover painting was to use objects that best express the artist. Tyra’s composition literally elevates paint tubes to convey her passion for creativity and for the discipline she is pursuing at the Rhode Island School of Design. “I wanted to portray the authority of the arts and have the viewer looking up at the paint tubes instead of down as we usually do,” says Tyra, who was a boarding student from Washington, D.C. “Bold colors also express who I want to be.” Her English Class (above) is part of a series of pastels she created on the theme of youth and technology. Last spring, What’s Up? won third place in the regional Youth Arts Showcase, and one of her pastels was selected for the National High School Art Show in New Hampshire. Her favorite art class at GFS was her first: Design with B.J. McElderry in Ninth Grade. “Sometimes the first things that happen are the most electric,” she reflects.

EDITOR AND WRITER

DESIGN

Sarah Achenbach Director of Communications sarahachenbach@gfs.org

Cortney Geare, Art Director Jamie Conway, Designer Jeni Mann, Director Clipper City Custom Media www.clippercitymedia.com

CLASS NEWS EDITOR AND WRITER

Aja Jackson Assistant Director of Communications ajajackson@gfs.org

Frederick C. Baldwin, Jim Block, Galeone Photography, Bill McAllen, Clay Shaw, Michele Shepherd, Justin Tsucalas, Zachary Zirlin

PHOTOGRAPHY

28 Spirit of Giving The Fund for Garrison Forest; Class of 2012 college and university list; Leadership at the Forest; The Marshall-Offutt Circle; Career Day 2012

36 Class News 120 End Note WE ARE NOW ONLINE!

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JACkIE MAGAHA ’16

Engineering Past the Competition Out of the more than 100 kids competing that day throughout all of the events, Jackie was the only female solo competitor.

Innovative Use is considered the premier event at the competition, requiring a student to design an innovative, practical use for his or her robot. Jackie created BOEPAD, a Basic Stamp Board of Education (BOEBOT) robotics kit to which she added a mechanical arm and a marker. Taking inspiration from last year’s GFS Middle School robotics team project involving robotic prosthetics, Jackie designed and programmed BOEPAD to write all 26 letters of the alphabet. “Programming each letter,

“I’m not really competitive. I just try to do my best. I love it when I program and program and the robot actually does what I want it to do.”

—JACKIE MAGAHA ‘16

JACKIE MAGAHA’S favorite part about competing in the annual Johns Hopkins University Robo-Challenge isn’t beating her male competitors, though she has for the past few years. It isn’t the months spent working on building and programming the robot either.

It’s the moment in the heat of the competition when it all comes together—the idea and the hours of engineering and re-engineering. “I’m not really competitive. I just try to do my best. I love it when I program and program and the robot actually does what I want it to do,” says the award-winning Eighth Grade robotics enthusiast. “If the robot doesn’t work, it’s user error because I didn’t program it properly.”

As a sixth-grader, Jackie entered the annual Hopkins competition for state middle- and high-school students as a member of a GFS team and garnered an Honorable Mention.

Last year, she stepped up her game by competing individually in “So, You Think Your Robot Can Dance?” and the Tumor Challenge, two of the competition’s several categories.

Channeling her inner-Dancing Queen—or to be more precise, programming a robot to dance the Cha-Cha Slide—she slid effortlessly into first place, beating a field of all-male high-school teams. In the Tumor Challenge, she came in second place against (again) older, nearly all-male teams.

She won first place again in May 2012, this time beating 12 mostly male, high-school teams in the Innovative Use category.

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I realized how complicated it is for a robot to perform simple moves,” she explains. The letter “I” was the easiest to program, while the letter “B” was especially complex with 23 different angles requiring 23 different calculations.

Like any engineer, Jackie discovered that the success of her final design came from its failures. “First, I tried to get it to be voice-activated, but that was complicated to program because everyone has a different voice pitch,” she says. Using her iPad to program touch commands proved to be too expensive, so she created the letters on her Tablet PC and programmed BOEPAD’s responses by using p-Basic and Bluetooth technology. The writing tool on the robot’s extension arm was trial and error, too. Pencil ripped the paper, and pen ink was inconsistent. The third time was the charm: a permanent marker whose tip bends when drawing.

“I went through five markers,” she says with a laugh.

Jackie’s love for engineering comes naturally. Her father is a software engineer, and she learned to program with the Middle School robotics team. Now an Upper School student, she will compete with the robotics team and plans on doing computer engineering research through Garrison Forest’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) partnership with Johns Hopkins, an experiential program through GFS’s James Center.

She and sister Alyssa ’19 already are working on their joint entry for the 2013 Hopkins Robo-Challenge. As for BOEPAD, Jackie plans to revisit her earlier voice recognition challenges and re-tackle the complexities of touch commands. She also hopes to program it to write words. “My main goal for BOEPAD is to help people with disabilities,” she says. Her robot may have implications for the field of robotic prosthetics, but her achievements are harbingers of her future in engineering.

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Marty Moss-Coane ‘67

25 Years of Asking WHYY NPR LISTENERS in Philadelphia call Marty Moss-Coane ’67 “a treasure.” For two hours a day, five days a week, she engages them on WHYY with an eclectic mix of interviews.

Topics can range from the crisis in Syria to the search for more natural gas to a new art exhibit in town, and guests often include writers, governors, Pulitzer Prize winners, musicians, athletes, poets and scientists. is year marks Marty’s 25th anniversary hosting the show, a milestone she never thought she would reach. After she had burned out on a few other careers—waitressing, selling furniture and counseling children—she started working at WHYY as a volunteer in the late 1970s on the advice of her mother. After immersing herself in radio news production, she was given the chance to develop a show called Family Matters. It aired once a week for an hour, and her background working as a case manager with children was a critical factor in its success. At the same time, she was an associate producer for a local interview show called Fresh Air with host Terry Gross.

When that show went national in 1987, Marty launched Radio Times so that WHYY listeners would still have their own interview show.

In the intervening years, Marty has won numerous accolades for her work. In 2002, the Philadelphia Business Journal named her a Woman of Distinction; and Philadelphia Magazine has twice named her “Best radio Talk Show Host.” e Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists both have given her awards for her work.

Marty’s standing joke as she “over-prepares” for interviews is that she is “making up for all the time (I) didn’t study in high school.” Marty’s classmates remember her as talented, creative, funny, energetic, sensitive and gregarious, traits she brings every day to her job as an interviewer. Garrison Forest, she says, taught her the importance of being part of a community, a concept she understood as a boarder “despite feeling like a misfit.” She remembers weekends spent in Philadelphia with a Quaker work camp and afternoons at rosewood, near GFS, where she and classmates would work with children with serious physical challenges.

Marty’s advice to today’s Garrison Girls: “Follow your passion. keep that spark alive. Make mistakes. And remember that every job, no matter how insignificant it may seem, will teach you skills you can use later on. I learned all kinds of things as a waitress that I use as a radio host every day—listening carefully, answering diplomatically and juggling simultaneous demands inside and outside the kitchen.”

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LEArIC CrAMEr ’96

Putting Pedal to the Metal

“JUST YOUR AVERAGE girl with an affinity for things that go fast.” That’s the way Learic Cramer ’96 describes herself. In reality, “average” is the last word that should be used to describe the autocross, monster truck and race-car driver who works in Strategic Market Development for the ISR and Space Systems Division of Northrop Grumman and holds an M.B.A. and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Learic always knew that she liked to drive fast, but she didn’t realize any practical benefit to her heavy foot until 2005, when she was introduced to autocross racing.

Her interest in the sport grew over the next several years, and in 2008 she competed in the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championship, coming in seventh place.

The same year, she drove the Star Mazda open-wheel formula car for the first time at an “experience day.”

She was hooked. Working with a coach, John Walko, and AIM Autosport, Learic made her Star Mazda Series racing debut in September 2011 at the Baltimore Grand Prix.

It was the first time she had ever run a road race. While she finished 11th out of 13 cars due to mechanical issues, she considers it a success, writing on her website, www.learic.com, ”I know I could have done better, but given it was my first time out there I'm just happy to make it back in one piece.”

To date, Learic has won numerous championship titles for autocross racing.

In addition to driving in the Grand Prix, she also experienced the world of monster trucks for the first time in 2011, testing trucks with Monster Jam. She continues to race all across the U.S.

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NEWSMAKERS

National Merit Award Winners Each year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recognizes students across the U.S. for their remarkable achievement in the PSAT. From a pool of the more than 1.5 million students who took the test in 2010-11, four members of the Class of 2012 received National Merit honors. National Merit finalists Kit Brennen and Sara Hamilton represent the top 1 percent of members of the Class of 2012 nationwide who took the PSAT as juniors. Classmates Naya Frazier and Julie Stellmann were honored as Commended Scholars, representing the top 5 percent of high school juniors taking the PSAT. Naya also was named a National Achievement Scholar.

NATIONAL MERIT FINALIST

SARA HAMILTON ‘12

“Learning is not about a grade. It’s about being curious about something and pursuing it. rough Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), I had the chance to study at Johns Hopkins, which means being immersed in such a passionate, determined, intellectual atmosphere.

After WISE, I took the idea of marine sciences and wrote an independent research paper.”

NATIONAL MERIT FINALIST

KIT BRENNEN ‘12

“My teachers have always encouraged me to delve deeper. ey tusted me to pursue my passion for languages and to take AP French and AP Latin at the same time.”

A sampling of Kit’s GFS activities:

• Jenkins Fellow (2010): volunteered in an all-girls’ orphanage in New Delhi, India

A sampling of Sara’s GFS activities:

• WISE research/lab mentorship with The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (2010); researched food chain impact of marine systems’ mercury contamination (below) • Jenkins Fellow (2010): volunteered in an orphanage in Mandeville, Jamaica

• Co-head, Service League

• Boarding Class President (two years) and Residential Life Student Leader (three years)

• Co-head and co-founder, Global Philanthropy Committee

• Boarder since Ninth Grade, Churchville, Va.

• Forum representative

• Head, Amnesty International Club

• Independent studies in ancient Greek and German

• Independent Senior Project and paid summer 2012 internship with NASA’s Earth Sciences Division, working with renowned glacierologist Laura Konig, Ph.D.

• Co-winner, 2012 Donald Elliott Humanities Award

• Post-GFS: environmental science major at Bowdoin College

• Chamber Choir and Ragged Robins

• Independent Senior Project at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (above), working with educator Alice Iglehart Schwarz ‘79 • Attended GFS since Preschool; sister Annie ’13 • Post-GFS: enrolled in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, a year-long, language immersion program in Berlin, Germany; in fall 2013 will attend the University of Chicago to major in art history and the Classics Read the magazine online at www.gfs.org/magazine

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NATIONAL MERIT COMMENDED SCHOLAR

JULIE STELLMANN ‘12

NATIONAL MERIT COMMENDED SCHOLAR AND NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLAR

NAYA FRAZIER ‘12

“Our teachers are here to push us, to see what we can do and to challenge our assertions to make us think more deeply. is style of education is so much more than memorizing or even synthesizing. e Garrison Forest teachers require us to think of things ourselves and then challenge what we think.”

A sampling of Naya’s GFS activities:

• Jenkins Fellow (2011); taught guitar and English to kindergarten students in Senegal (above) • GFS representative and executive board member for Baltimore Student Congress for Service (three years) • Service League Board member (three years) • Chamber Choir and Ragged Robins

“Even with this

“I’ve been challenged here, which is what I wanted. My AP biology class was an incredible environment. We all loved biology and shared with each other what we were reading outside of class. AP calculus BC was the hardest class I’ve taken. I struggled at the beginning, but Ms. Conte kept telling me that I could do it. I ended up liking calculus more than any other class at Garrison Forest.”

National Merit

A sampling of Julie’s GFS activities:

experience. Their

• Jenkins Fellow (2010); assisted on a medical mission to remote villages in the Andes Mountains, Peru

distinction, these young women are already distinguished and represent the full range of the GFS achievement attests

• Independent service trip/medical mission to Honduras (2011, pictured below)

to the fact that

• Varsity polo team (three years); played on the 2011 Women’s Interscholastic national championship team

our program and

• Member of Spanish Club, Service League, Grizzly Guide (student tour guide group) throughout Upper School tenure • Paw Print (school newspaper) business manager • Independent summer research project (2011) in the Hanes Lab, part of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital

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teachers challenge a student to her fullest ability.”

—PETER O’NEILL HEAD OF SCHOOL

• Attended GFS since Preschool; sister Lily ‘09 • Post-GFS: premed and double major in biology and Spanish and Echols Scholar, University of Virginia

• Academic Mentor and Peer Tutor • French Club member and Lower School French assistant • Reporter, Teen Perspective 2NEWS show, ABC2NEWS Teen Media Program (two years) • Attended GFS since Sixth Grade; sisters Kara ’16 and Eryn ‘17 • Post-GFS: international business and community health major and Banneker-Key Scholar, University of Maryland Honors Program

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DAvID BErDAN

running Man WORLD-CLASS ELITE RUNNER David Berdan, science teacher (Fourth – Sixth Grades) and resident faculty, logged hundreds of miles last year on the road to his dream to qualify for the 2016 Olympic trials. He shares his skill and road wisdom with the GFS cross country team, coaching it to a second-place IAAM “C” Conference finish last fall. In October, he’ll run the Baltimore Marathon as the hometown favorite. During last year’s event, he led the front-runners for the race’s first 11 miles, ultimately finishing 10th— the highest finish by a Maryland resident in the history of the event.

Throughout the race, TV reporters repeatedly mentioned his day job; “People were cheering, ‘Go, Teach!

Go, Teach!’ It was amazing,” David recalls. A week later, he won the 2011 Maryland Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (his third straight win in the annual 5K event) as part of Team GFS, a 300-member team of students, faculty, staff, parents and alumnae.

David, his wife Amanda, a triathlete, and their two young sons live in Robinswood.

Running in the 2011 Baltimore Marathon.

Carley Miller Sullivan ‘75

Blades of Rekindled Glory FOR HER 55TH BIRTHDAY, all Carley Miller Sullivan ’75 wanted was to land an ice skating jump that she hadn’t done in 30 years. “And I did it!” she said. Landing the jump marked one milestone on a journey more than 40 years in the making and one that just three years ago she never would have dreamed possible.

As a shy 11-year-old, Carley’s parents signed her up for ice skating lessons with the hope that she would come out of her shell by interacting with other kids. It didn’t work.

“Because I was so shy I just practiced instead of interacting,” she said. Fortunately her shyness paid off on the ice. By focusing on her skating, what started as a hobby turned serious, and before long she found herself able to express herself through the sport.

She continued skating during summers and on weekends after coming to Garrison Forest as a boarder and in college, where she also played ice hockey. As a young adult, Carley competed and taught skating while working as a teacher in New York City. en life took over. “I gave up skating when I turned 30,” she said. “Between working and kids, skating didn’t fit in.”

It wasn’t until more than 20 years later, when her youngest daughter was preparing for

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college, that she gave her skates a second look. Worried about not being occupied once she and her husband became empty-nesters, she wanted to try skating again as a hobby.

She reconnected with some former skating friends through Facebook and told them she was interested in going back. “ey all laughed at me,” she said. “ey said I was too fat—at the time I was 60 pounds overweight—and too old.”

It was all the motivation she needed. She found a camp run by Olympic skating legend Dorothy Hamill and committed herself to losing the weight before attending. She bought a pair of skates and started practicing, but her reintroduction wasn’t so smooth. “I got on the ice and absolutely hated it,” she said. “I thought I had made a huge mistake.”

Still, she remained persistent, got in shape, trained intensely and attended the Dorothy Hamill figure skating fantasy camp in 2010.

In 2011, she competed for the first time in decades at the U.S. Adult Figure Skating Nationals in Salt Lake City. Despite being “a nervous wreck” she tied for sixth place in the competition. “I kept thinking, ‘What am I doing?’” she said. “But once I did it, it was just a thrill.”

In 2012, she competed in the Midwestern Adult Sectional Championships, taking third place and qualifying for Nationals once again.

She has been featured in Skating Magazine, and earlier this year penned a chapter in the new book, Still Skating Forward. She has no plans to hang up her skates again anytime soon. “As long as my body holds up I imagine I will be skating into my 70s,” she says.

“I would like to think that it will be a part of my life for the rest of it.”

For now, Carley is taking joy in the fact that she has reignited her passion and is better known now as a skater than she ever was 30 years ago. “Don’t give up on your dreams,” she says. “Sometimes we can get lost in our families. I’ve found who I am again, and I like it.”

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Garrison Forest Musicians Hit High Notes GARRISON FOREST musicians enjoyed a banner year at adjudicated competitions. In April, the Upper School Chamber Choir earned a double win at the 2012 Music in the Parks competition at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, va.

In its first competition under the direction of Upper School music teacher Cedric D. Lyles, the group won “Best High School Women’s Choir” among a field of five female choirs from across the U.S. ey also won “Best Overall Choir” among the 20 high school choirs (coed, female and male groups from independent, public, church and community groups) competing that day. e 50-member Middle School Chorus enjoyed a sweet repeat in May, garnering its second consecutive “First Place Women’s Choir” honor and a superior rating honor at the 2012 Music in the Parks competition at Hershey Park. Choir director Ginny Flynn, Middle School music teacher, chair of the GFS performing arts department and president of the Maryland Music Educators Association, also inaugurated in 2012 what she hopes will be a new GFS singing tradition: e Blue Belles, an audition-only Middle School vocal ensemble.

“With a choir, you have a group of people bringing so much to the music as a team and as individual artists,” notes Mr. Lyles, a veteran of numerous choral competitions. “It’s intellectually rigorous, it’s confidence building, and it’s transforming. You find connections with people that you didn’t know you could make, and you discover things about yourself.”

Individual GFS musicians received statewide honors for their talents in 2011-12. Briana Downs ’13, a member of Chamber Choir and the ragged robins (the school’s student-led a cappella group), was named to the Maryland Senior All-State Mixed Chorus. Middle School Chorus member and Blue Belle Julie Connor ’17 was named to the Maryland Junior All-State Chorus. Ellie Dominguez ’13 earned a first viola alternate slot for the Maryland Senior All-State Orchestra. Out of more than 1,000 students from both independent and public schools across Maryland, only 120 vocalists and 135 musicians were selected for the Junior and Senior Choruses and for the Senior Orchestra.

Top: The Chamber Choir and director Cedric D. Lyles celebrate their wins.

Above: The Middle School Chorus and director Ginny Flynn display their trophy.

In May, boarder Mengchu “Michelle” Chen ’15 won first place in her age group in the Maryland State Piano Solo Festival competition, sponsored by the Maryland State Music Teachers Association. She began playing piano at age 5 in her native China; she has participated in a few competitions before, but this is her first win. Mengchu studies with Dr. Hyun-Sook Park, a member of GFS’s applied music faculty and a Peabody-trained, award-winning concert pianist and Peabody faculty member.

From left: Ellie Dominguez ‘13, Briana Downs ’13, Mengchu “Michelle” Chen ’15, Julie Connor ’17

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Pictured on the House of Cards set.

Designing Woman Tiffany Zappulla ‘85 TIFFANY ZAPPULLA ’85 has pretty much designed it all, including a fake Oval Office for a fake president. It’s not an odd request from a residential or commercial client, though she’s had a few since she founded her interior design firm, TAZ Designs, Inc., in 1990. Her most surprising design challenges come from her newer, 12-year career as a set decorator, production and set designer, producer and art director in film, Tv and commercial projects. (The ersatz White House interiors are for House of Cards, Netflix’s first-ever series, a political thriller starring kevin Spacey and robin Wright currently in production near Baltimore.) Since landing her first job as set decorator on My Father’s House, an independent film shot in Baltimore in 2000, Tiffany has grown an impressive list of screen credits in set decoration, including big-budget productions from Ladder 49 and Syriana to HBO’s Game Change and Veep. A past GFS Trustee, Tiffany earned a degree in advertising design and art history from Boston University; she studied interior design at Maryland Institute College of Art and architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

My career in film and TV is one of those random things.

Homicide [the 1990s Tv police series] asked to shoot in a rental property I own in [Baltimore’s] Little Italy. They invited me to the set, and I loved the energy. I did a little research and answered an ad for My Father’s House. My first feature film was Tuck Everlasting (2002) as assistant to the art director.

I had little film experience but was thrust into this incredible environment [to learn from] a mass of talent.

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The best advice I’ve received is not to let my designs become precious. Those

who can’t let go, fail. In film, you need to be flexible and incredibly organized. It’s complex with so much going on at any time. The film industry is animal kingdom— you never show fear. I cultivated the confidence I need for this job at Garrison Forest.

There are very few female production designers in feature

I have production designed independent films where I’ve had no budget. You learn to do a lot more with a lot less.

Set decoration is a lot of research. That’s my favorite part.

I read a script and get a vision of what I think it will look like before I meet with the production designer [her boss on a set].

I am most proud of Game Change [HBO’s acclaimed movie about the McCain-Palin campaign]. It’s mostly hotel rooms and not my prettiest, most aesthetic film, but it is entirely authentic.

The appointments written on a wall calendar on screen are the real appointments. Their Coke machine dispensed red Bull, so ours did, too. Woody Harrelson [who played McCain strategist Steve Schmidt] thanked me for the level of detail, and a McCain aide said he had chills when he walked on set. It was like walking into the real campaign office.

You can’t be creative in a vacuum. To be around such creative people and to take something from a typewritten page and see it come together three-dimensionally is incredible. films.

My most useful class at Garrison Forest was Miss Simpson’s algebra class. People

often say that they never use algebra after high school. Are you kidding? I solve for the unknown every day.

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Wendy Watriss ’60

Vision Award Honoree Photographer. Journalist. Curator. Creative catalyst. For four decades, these roles have embodied Wendy Watriss ’60, the awardwinning photojournalist and artistic director of FOTOFEST, the Houston-based, internationally renowned photographic arts and educational organization that she co-founded in 1983 with husband and photographer Frederick C. Baldwin.

FOTOFEST and its highly regarded Biennial, the country’s largest international photography festival, have nurtured the creativity and careers of photographers around the world. Varied Biennial themes turn the lens on issues such as the global environment, human rights, the war in Afghanistan and the artist’s response to violence. Last fall, to honor Wendy and Fred’s seminal role in the field of photography, the Center for Photography at Woodstock bestowed upon them its Vision Award.

Wendy’s passion for documenting different cultures and viewpoints was sparked by a childhood in Madrid, Greece and San Francisco—and by the worldly view and wisdom of her French teacher at Garrison Forest, the complex, sophisticated Elizabeth K. Boyd. A self-admitted rebel,

Wendy chose to take a different path post-GFS than that expected of a girls’ school graduate on the cusp of the 1960s. She studied her freshman year at the University of Madrid before completing her English degree with honors at New York University. A job as a general assignment reporter for the St. Petersburg Times followed graduation, but it was a position with the Public Broadcasting Laboratory (the precursor to public television) and evening classes in documentary photography that forever altered her future. “I began to understand how important visual imagery was to reaching people,” says Wendy. “I loved the idea of moving around the world with a still camera.”

And move she did. From 1970 to 1992, as a freelance photojournalist, she covered political upheavals in East and Central Europe, civil wars in Central America, the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans, and the cultural, racial and political frontiers in rural Texas. The Texas project was funded by a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and was Wendy’s first artistic collaboration with Fred. In 1972, they began documenting life in the Lone Star State, eventually settling in Houston.

A decade later, Wendy received the prestigious World Press and Oskar Barnack awards for her work on Vietnam veterans and received an invitation to a photography festival in the south of France in 1982.

“Back on the plane, Fred and I talked about how there was nothing like it in the United States, so we decided to start one in Houston as an international platform for the discovery of important work.”

FOTOFEST was born, and numerous exhibitions, programs, awards, honors and publications have followed.

“When we started FOTOFEST, there were only four similar events in the world,” says Wendy, who also serves as FOTOFEST’s senior curator. “Now there are over 80. We’re very proud of being able to help so many talented people create international networks, introduce new and historical work and be forces for positive change in the art world.”

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Fulbright Scholar Eva Rigamonti ’02 HER GARRISON FOREST TEACHERS always knew she was a superstar, and 10 years after her GFS graduation, Eva rigamonti ’02 is proving them right.

She graduated from Yale Law School in June, and in October, she begins nine months of studying in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar. She will research the country’s juvenile justice system, intern on all three levels of the court system, visit prisons and volunteer within the prison system. e focus of her Fulbright experience is to compare Italy’s system of treating adolescents to the United States’ system.

In 2006, Eva graduated summa cum laude from Cornell, where she majored in history with a concentration in Latin-American studies. Before enrolling in law school, she spent two years with Teach for America, working with sixth-grade students with severe learning differences at MS 145 in the Bronx, an experience that led her to a career in juvenile justice. “ese students have a very low graduation rate and are at great risk of ending up in prison,” Eva says. “My goal is to improve their chances in life.” She shared the challenges and rewards of working with high-risk students with Garrison Forest as the 2008 Cum Laude speaker.

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NEWSMAKERS

Roll on, Blue: Two Championships, 15 All-Stars, Six Playoffs, and 42 Teams in 16 Sports GARRISON FOREST’S interscholastic athletics and the athletes

who play and coach them continue to grab headlines. Last fall, the undefeated Grizzly varsity field hockey team clinched its fourth IAAM “A” Conference championship in six years with a 3-0 victory over McDonogh. With only three members of the talented squad graduating this past June, hopes are high for continued Grizzly achievement in one of the region’s most competitive girls’ field hockey conferences. varsity indoor soccer defended its 2011 championship title in February, outscoring St. Paul’s School for Girls 6-1 to earn a fourth consecutive IAAM “B” Conference championship. e match marked the Grizzlies’ fifth straight championship appearance. During the season, the GFS squad was the top team in offense and defense across both the IAAM “A” and “B” conferences. e Upper School and Middle School riding teams enjoyed impressive team and individual finishes at the 2012 Interscholastic Equitation Association (IEA) National Finals in April, GFS’s 10th straight appearance at Nationals. Several riders placed within the top 10 national winners in their classes. e Upper School riding Team won third place, and the Middle School (Futures) Team placed fifth. At the IEA Zone 3 Finals prior to Nationals, the Middle School team was named Champion, and the Upper School team earned the reserve Champion title. e varsity polo team fell just short in its quest to defend its national championship in March in the semifinal match. e all-senior team’s stellar season included wins over all of the college teams it faced and all but one of its high school

The 2011 IAAM “A” Conference field hockey champs with co-coaches Traci Davis (second row, far left) and Leigh McDonald Hall ‘81 (second row, far right).

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opponents. At Nationals, Duncan Huyler, chairman of the U.S. Polo Association Interscholastic/Intercollegiate Committee, compared the Grizzly team to another famous group of athletes.

“He equated putting on the blue jersey of GFS to putting on the pinstripes of the Yankees,” notes head coach Cindy Halle. GFS polo has competed at Nationals since the tournament was founded in 1991, winning 13 championships.

“Our athletic program is highly successful.

Every team does well and, most important, has fun and works together for a common goal.”

—TRACI DAVIS, GFS ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

For the second year in a row, varsity softball matched bats with St. Paul’s School for Girls in the IAAM “C” Conference Championship. ough GFS lost by one run, the Grizzlies’ seventh-inning, six-run rally embodied the teamwork and tenacity they displayed throughout their 10-2 season.

In 2011-12, Garrison Forest added two new sports, squash and indoor track, to its interscholastic roster. One-third of the 30 GFS runners qualified for the IAAM Indoor Track and Field Championships during the team’s inaugural season. Last year, 15 GFS athletes were named IAAM All-Stars.

The 2012 IAAM “B” Conference indoor soccer champs. Coach Bill Tarlton (second row, far right) and Assistant Coach Lauryn Goode (first row, second from right).

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Flo Smith Stone ‘56

Founder of Film Festivals Debuts Major Milestones THIS PAST ST. PATRICK’S DAY, Flo Smith Stone ’56 found herself celebrating a different kind of green.

Shortly after 1 p.m. on March 17, she introduced the Environmental Film Festival’s Animated retrospective to a packed National Geographic auditorium and took her seat. e house lights dimmed. e projector began rolling. Within the hour, so did her tears. e final film of the retrospective was e Man Who Planted Trees, exquisitely animated pastel drawings about a shepherd who plants thousands of seeds, turning a wasteland into an oasis. Winner of the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, it’s the film she cites when asked to name her favorite from the hundreds of films screened over the Environmental Film Festival’s 20 years. “I’ve seen it many times, but I cried this year,” Flo says. “e movie is about making a difference quietly over time.”

It’s a fitting choice for the woman who is founder and president of the world’s first comprehensive film festival about the environment. Twenty years ago, 1,200 people attended the first Environmental Film Festival, which screened 70 films at 40 different locations around Washington, D.C. is year, from March 13 to March 25, 31,000 people watched 183 films from 42 countries at 65 locations, including 11 embassies, every D.C.-area university, the Smithsonian and several theaters.

(For more, visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org.)

Impressive statistics, but consider that what is now the world’s largest environmental film festival is actually the second film festival Flo has founded. In 1977, while working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Flo proposed an anthropological film festival to explore cultural diversity. Coincidentally, iconic anthropologist Margaret Mead was turning 75 that year; thus, the Margaret Mead Film Festival was born. is year, it celebrated its 35th year. “I recently learned that it was the first documentary film festival in the United States,” remarks its proud founder.

She organized the Margaret Mead Film Festival until 1985 when she and husband roger moved to Washington.

Flo took a position opening the D.C. office of Earthwatch.

“I missed the excitement of organizing a film festival and missed documentaries,” she says. Always looking for connections, she created Earthwatch-sponsored awards for documentary films to be presented in the then brand-new Grosvenor Auditorium at National Geographic. “D.C. is

so unique with its embassies, universities, museums and headquarters of so many environmental groups. I saw it as a collaborative opportunity.” A filmmaker and philanthropist suggested that Flo create a film festival, and with a $25,000 grant from the Golden rule Foundation, the Environmental Film Festival took root.

Like the hopeful hero in her favorite film who scatters seeds across the land, Flo’s purpose was clear from the

“A film from a very different part of the world or situation can have tremendous relevance in a person’s own life.” —FLO SMITH STONE ‘56 beginning: Give filmmakers the theme of the environment broadly read. “We present films that give you a profound sense of place—wildlife films, ocean films, films for children, art films, films on water use.”

Today, going green is mainstream, but in the mid-1970s, several people urged her to change the festival’s name.

“People said that it was too polemic, that people didn’t want to be lectured,” she recalls. “But we were really trying to change the way people thought about the environment.”

Two decades later, her brainchild has inspired festivals across the country and globe. recently, she was the only non-korean judge at the Seoul festival, and last fall she was head of the jury for a festival in Armenia. “A film from a very different part of the world or situation can have tremendous relevance in a person’s own life,” says Flo.

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COMMENCEMENT

2012 Commencement “MY WORLD AT GARRISON FOREST challenges each student to learn, react, perform and understand the concepts of movement and personal responsibility in a very public forum.

Kim Marlor (third from right), baccalaureate speaker and physical education department chair, and members of the Class of 2012 gather following the baccalaureate service.

You can’t hide movement: It’s there for everyone to see. Each of these girls is very much an individual, but when you look at this body of young women, there is one overriding word that embraces who they are as one group: leader. It is a word that requires a great personal journey where conscious choices, compromises, sacrifices and decisions must be made and, more important, committed to, so that the entire group benefits and ultimately thrives. The Class of 2012 did just that, leading by example throughout the year.”

—Kimberley “Kim” Marlor, 2012 baccalaureate speaker, has taught and coached at Garrison Forest School since 1986. The 2004 recipient of Garrison Forest’s Distinguished Teacher Award, Ms. Marlor serves as chair of the physical education department, teaches Middle School physical education, and coaches the tennis and badminton teams. Ms. Marlor has served as a residential life faculty member (1988-2006) and as president of the Association of Interscholastic Athletics, the precursor to the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM).

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Commencement Award Winners

FACULTY AWARD

Haley Austin ’12

“GARRISON FOREST IS our PLACE; for some of us it’s the only one we’ve ever known. We have claimed it, embraced it and loved it. And now it’s time to say goodbye to it. It is only natural that as we leave Commencement today, that everything will be different. But who said that being different is a bad thing? Our class has proven time and time again that some of the best things in life are different. Each of us comes from a unique background, with varying beliefs and differing values, but our commitment to this school has singlehandedly brought us all together and made this year so meaningful,

ALUMNAE AWARD

and for this, we are forever indebted to the Forest. While the trees and buildings make

rachel Safferman ’12

the campus aesthetically beautiful, it is the people that make this Forest idyllic. Our teachers never wavered in their belief that we could lead this school with poise and confidence. With their support, we were truly able to shine.”

—rachel Safferman ’12, President of the School

SHRIVER AWARD

Gussie Smith ’12

The Ragged Robins, the student-led a cappella group, performs at Commencement, which was held this year in the Elizabeth B. Searle ’74 Athletic Center due to inclement weather.

PHILIP J. JENSEN AWARD

Mollie Myers ’12

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FA C U LT Y

Faculty at the Forest GREAT teaching is the core of the Garrison Forest experience and mission. Each

year, we honor individuals for their devotion to students, commitment to their profession and dedication to the GFS community.

2012 DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD

Janet Snow Blatchley, Middle School Mathematics

In 1980, Elinor Purves McLennan ’56 and Courtney McLennan Myhrum ’79 established the Distinguished Teacher Award to recognize excellence in teaching at Garrison Forest. Each year’s recipient is determined by a committee of parents, students and faculty. Janet Snow Blatchley’s dedication to her students is legendary. e first to arrive to school and often the last to leave, she eats lunch at her desk to make herself available to students whenever they need her help with an equation. Deftly blending technology with her instructional skills, she creates homework videos to help students master mathematics, extending her classroom and teaching talent beyond the boundaries of the Middle School. Her exceptional gift of explaining complex

Janet Snow Blatchley receives her award form Head of School Peter O’Neill during Commencement.

concepts in the simplest of ways is matched by her deep level of compassion for her students and colleagues. Whether teaching algebra to a classroom full of eager Eighth Grade students or patiently helping a girl one-on-one, Ms. Blatchley teaches for her love of math, learning and helping young people succeed.

Carl Wolfson accepts the McGregor Distinguished Service Award from Peter O’Neill.

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2012 IRVIN D. McGREGOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Carl Wolfson, Facilities Department e annual Irvin D. McGregor Distinguished Service Award honors members of the Garrison Forest staff who have shown an extraordinary level of dedication and commitment.

Carl Wolfson, assistant director of facilities, demonstrates his commitment to the GFS community day after day.

His skills are impressive: Mr. Wolfson has been a licensed Maryland tree expert for 36 years and has been recertified three times as a master truck technician.

But it is perhaps the qualities he has brought to GFS for 19 years that have had the most impact. He approaches every task and any weather with grace, purpose, warmth and a remarkable eye for detail, ever ready for the next challenge, always willing to help others.

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TWENTY-YEAR SERVICE PINS In 1992, Garrison Forest established the tradition of honoring faculty and staff who have attained 20 years of service to the school. The outstanding loyalty and commitment of so many GFS faculty and staff is one of the true hallmarks of Garrison Forest.

Karen Meyers, Middle School Science

A progressive educator and thinker, karen Meyers constantly questions the status quo in order to find better ways to serve her students. With the goal of sparking in her students the excitement she has for her chosen discipline, she created her own text book for Seventh Grade life science and is developing an interdisciplinary unit for Seventh Grade.

An equally passionate researcher, Ms. Meyers’ scientific curiosity has taken her to the Peruvian Amazon several times, to the Northern Atlantic aboard a research vessel as a teacher-liaison, and to the Arctic Circle to study climate change as part of an Earthwatch team. e mother of katherine Meyers Bissett ’02, Ms. Meyers serves GFS on the Academic Council and the professional development committee and is a member of the Habitat for Humanity faculty team. She shares her passion for social justice as faculty adviser to the Middle School’s Afghan Women’s Fund, helping the students raise thousands of dollars for the all-girls’ Mandawera School, GFS’s sister school in Afghanistan.

Linda Rowe in her favorite spot on Manor House porch.

Linda Rowe, Business Office Mary Stewart in the Middle School Art Room.

When Linda rowe began working in the Business Office in 1990, her plan was to stay for just six weeks. Her neighbor Bill Hodgetts, assistant head of school for finance and operations, had asked her to help out while a member of his staff was on maternity leave. She quickly proved indispensible. Over two decades later, Ms. rowe continues to call GFS a second home and is a role model to many, a friend to all and a trusted colleague. Efficient and organized, reliable and honest, she solves problems and tackles challenges with competence, collegiality and no shortage of charm. She engages with everyone and relishes in their lives, families and stories, sharing just as many stories of her three adult daughters and two grandsons.

Always pleasant, Ms. rowe treats each person with dignity and respect.

Mary Stewart, Middle School Art Mary Stewart’s touch and talent are clearly evident throughout the Garrison Forest campus and community. She began her GFS affiliation as a parent volunteer in the Lower Division art classroom when daughter Ellie Stewart Austin ’03 was in Preschool. In 1992, Ms. Stewart joined the Preschool faculty in the rees classroom. After six years, she became Preschool and Lower School art teacher and in 2007 brought her energy to the Middle School art program. Ms. Stewart connected Garrison Forest to race for the Cure, now one of the school’s largest service efforts. She has served on virtually every committee, chaired the Centennial Celebration for faculty, students and staff, and serves as faculty/staff representative to the Board of Trustees. Her house portraits are presented to the new, proud owners of each Sandtown Habitat for Humanity house built by the GFS faculty and staff. With elegance and enthusiasm, Ms. Stewart embraces each student’s artistic potential—and what can be within and beyond Garrison Forest—by encouraging beauty and instilling the habits and rewards of hard work.

Karen Meyers with her students.

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GFS

Global THE WALK FROM ONE SIDE OF THE GARRISON FOREST CAMPUS TO THE OTHER SIDE IS AN EASY STROLL. But the distance covered by the school’s global curricular and outreach programs and the countries represented by GFS’s diverse community is another matter entirely. Garrison Forest students, teachers and alumnae are reaching across the globe to learn, teach, volunteer, work and create to show that as the world gets smaller, Garrison Forest is making a big difference.

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THE JENKINS FELLOWS Since 2005, nearly 40 Garrison Forest Jenkins Fellows have traveled into Baltimore, across the country or around the world to immerse themselves in summer service projects. ey have assisted children with disabilities at an Arizona camp and installed mosquito nets in Malawi. ey have chopped invasive bamboo in the Amazon rain forest, worked with HIv/AIDS patients in the Dominican republic and translated for a nervous mother while she waited with her children in a temporary medical clinic in the Andes Mountains. Organized through the school’s James Center, the program is named for the Elsie Foster Jenkins ’53 Community Service Endowment. is endowment supports the competitive Jenkins grants and Service League outreach programs and brings speakers to campus.

Former Jenkins Fellow Sandra Mukasa ’08 received an early graduation gift last April. A senior at Princeton, Sandra was awarded Princeton’s Henry richardson LaBouisse ’26 Prize Fellowship. e $25,000 prize, which Sandra Mukasa ’08

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was given jointly for the first time since it was instituted in 1984, will support Sandra and Princeton friend and classmate Brittany Cesarini, as they work to establish a communitybased organization in Tanzania addressing gender-based violence and its connection to HIv/AIDS. Sandra’s most recent work in Tanzania builds upon years of interest in service and social justice work in Africa sparked at Garrison Forest School.

Born in Uganda, Sandra moved to the United States with her family when she was just a year old. She traveled to Uganda twice with her parents before applying for a Jenkins fellowship her sophomore year. However, in those early trips to Uganda she got to explore little of the country. “It was a very insulated, sheltered experience,” she said, “But I started to think, ‘What if I wasn’t in the U.S.? What would life be like if I was back in Uganda?’” rough Jenkins, she took her opportunity to find out.

After applying and receiving a Jenkins fellowship, Sandra went to kyanja, outside of the capital of Uganda, for three weeks as a teacher’s aide at the Brain Tree Primary School, a day and

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It was instrumental in giving me the confidence to pursue other opportunities.”

And pursue she did. e summer after her freshman year at Princeton, she joined a program to study Swahili in Tanzania. e original goal of the trip was to immerse herself in Swahili for language acquisition, but it is also where

boarding school, where most of the students were HIv/AIDS orphans. She acted as an extra pair of hands in the classroom and helped organize the school’s new library. e experience opened her eyes to issues related to HIv, gender and social justice around the world. Living and working in “THE JENKINS PROCESS HELPED ME BUILD CONFIDENCE IN WRITING Uganda without her parents marked the beginning of her learning to feel comfortable PROJECT PROPOSALS AND THINKING THROUGH GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. a world away from her Owings Mills home.

IT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GIVING ME THE CONFIDENCE TO PURSUE “at was an experience that helped me to OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.” begin to branch out,” she said. “It helped me to —SANDRA MUKASA ‘08 build a global perspective.” e Jenkins fellowship also paved the way for her to seek out the many opportunities she would take advantage of throughout the rest of high school and college. “e Jenkins process helped me build confidence in writing project proposals and thinking through goals and objectives.

she first began to learn more about the emerging women’s movement in Tanzania and intimate partner violence. She began to think about the next step that later would become the basis of her proposed program for the LaBouisse Prize. “ere

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“MY VIEW OF GLOBAL SERVICE HAS CHANGED SINCE MY JENKINS EXPERIENCE. I WANT SOMETHING MORE SUSTAINABLE NOW. MY THINKING HAS EVOLVED TO HOW CAN I DO MORE, MORE DEEPLY?” —KRISTEN MILLER ‘10

were many women’s support organizations, but I wanted to pause and go back to look at preventative measures,” she said.

She would later go to South Africa as well, studying gender equality in Cape Town, where she lived for a semester.

At the same time, Sandra worked passionately as an advocate for Princeton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community as a peer educator, co-chair of the LGBT Task Force and organizer of Sustained Dialogue, a program in which she brought together students from across campus on a regular basis to have in-depth conversations about campus life and culture. In 2010, Sandra, who was also active in the Gay Student Alliance (GSA) while at GFS, interned at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice in New York City, and earlier this year she received Princeton’s MLk Day Journey Award for her work with LGBT students and students of color. e goal of her new program in Tanzania is to develop a collaborative, peer-based education model to help prevent intimate partner violence by working with various Tanzanian schools, churches and organizations. e LaBouisse Prize funds the program for one year, but Sandra’s hope is to create something that lasts well beyond her time in Tanzania.

She anticipates living there for 1 1/2 to two years building a sustainable program. While her plan is to return and pursue a master’s in public health, she’s open to whatever the future holds. “I’m trying to keep an open mind and come back and

figure out the next step from there. My focus on gender equality and social justice is not necessarily location-based.”

As much change as her focus has and will create, Sandra chooses to describe her work as social justice rather than service. “It’s not so much service as it is working with others to collaborate on efforts,” she says. “I work with a team of 20 to 25 Tanzanians working with different schools and communities.

Now they all are interconnected. e idea is to get rid of the hierarchy of one person giving and the other person receiving.”

Though Jenkins Fellows projects extend for a few weeks each summer, the experience is lasting. Here’s a sampling of past Jenkins Fellows today: > Kelly Dale ‘08 Part of the first class of Jenkins Fellows in 2005, kelly traveled to kaqchikel, Guatemala to paint a community school. After graduating last spring from vanderbilt University (with a double major in child development and community development and a minor in sociology), she joined the Peace Corps.

Stationed in Benin in West Africa, kelly is a community health adviser educating rural communities about child nutrition and HIv/AIDS. “My Jenkins fellowship was truly a life-altering experience. Coming back from the trip and sharing my experiences with the whole school was just as special as the actual trip. Cross-cultural awareness is extremely important, and the fellowship allows for the whole school, not just the volunteers, to be able to benefit from the program.” > Susannah Feinstein ‘10 In summer 2008, Susannah constructed storage facilities for a rural farming community in Honduras with the American World Service volunteer Summer Program. Today she’s a Brandeis student juggling a double major in health sciences society and policy and women and gender studies. “Jenkins opened up my eyes to the power women have. You go to a country where you think the women have no power, but sometimes the power is in their sexuality, the power of birth.

I met a lot of inspirational midwives in Honduras. It lit my

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activist fire and made me question a lot of things.”

She organized Brandeis’ first student health fair, is a student sexuality counselor and plans to earn a graduate degree in public health.

2012 JENKINS FELLOWS This past summer, five Garrison Forest students were selected as Jenkins Fellows and continued the program’s legacy of intense, impactful service abroad and at home.

Katie Bhattacharya ’13 spent three weeks as a volunteer therapeutic riding counselor at Camp Cheerful, a residential and day camp in Strongsville, Ohio, for children with disabilities.

The first Jenkins Fellow to work with animals in a service capacity, Katie, a member of the GFS Equitation Team and an experienced riding camp counselor, chose this role to combine her love of children and riding and hopes to create more animal-related service opportunities at Garrison Forest.

> Kristen Miller ‘10 kristen volunteered at the ryvanz-Mia Orphanage in Ghana for her 2009 Jenkins fellowship. Upon returning to the States, she founded the Children of Ghana Foundation to support the orphanage (www.childrenofghana.org). An international relations major at Northeastern University, kristen spent the 2012 spring semester as a community engagement intern (for credit) at OxFam America, part of the international relief and development organization. She lobbied on Capitol Hill, developed a volunteer training program and canvassed for signatures at Tennessee’s four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in June—skills that are helping her to broaden her foundation’s reach. “We’ve added a sponsorship program, expanded to a special needs school in Ghana and now use social media for more word-of-mouth,” she explains. “My view of global service has changed since my Jenkins experience. I want something more sustainable now. My thinking has evolved to how can I do more, more deeply?”

Katie Bhattacharya assisting with a therapeutic riding lesson at Camp Cheerful.

Jessica Howard ’13 spent three weeks in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, working in an orphanage through Projects Abroad. In addition to caring for, feeding and playing with the children, many of whom were left parentless as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s violent rule, Jessica taught English.

Jessica Howard at the Cambodian orphanage.

> Holly Rocha ’09 A social work major and family studies minor at St. Olaf ’s College, Holly has her Jenkins fellowship to thank for a college scholarship.

Her work as a Jenkins Fellow at Cooperstown, New York’s Pathfinder village, a residential program for adults and children with Down syndrome, and her subsequent role as head of the GFS Service League helped her earn a Service and Leadership Scholarship at St. Olaf ’s where Holly is president of a serviceoriented honors house and is interning at the American Indian Center for Child Welfare in Minneapolis. “rough the social work lens, we talk a lot about different populations.

I was anxious about going to Pathfinders; Jenkins put me in a setting that scared me initially, and I came out stronger.

I know in the future that I will be able to handle any population a social worker assists.”

Amy Mullan ’14 split her Jenkins fellowship between working in Udayan Care, a girls’ shelter in New Delhi, India and teaching at Pratham, an educational organization in Mumbai.

Amy Mullan at the girls’ shelter in New Delhi.

Seniors Amanda Selsky and Joo Eun Lee spent August at the Shalom Child Care Center in Hongseong Central Methodist Church in Hongseong, South Korea. They taught English to kindergarten students and donated $500 worth of art and school supplies to the rural school. Joo Eun, a boarding student from Korea, translated and shared her U.S. experience with Korean children. Amanda participated in the 2011 GFS China Odyssey trip as a Lijiang Ethnic Orphans School volunteer.

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Leeli and a few of the Tibetan Buddhist nuns who assist the Tara Foundation.

Leeli Helm Bonney ’65 and Nepalese children and adults, who are wearing fleece outerwear donated by Leeli’s Tara Foundation.

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and life. e foundation’s mission is to preserve the unique culture of the Himalayas and to improve the welfare and education of its people. “We take jackets and vests on every trip, but I don’t arrive with any prescribed idea of what we are going to do.” e foundation has created deep networks within villages across the Everest region to gain a clear understanding of what people need. Projects include donating baby and toddler fleece clothing to kunde Hospital to entice mothers to deliver their children in a hospital, helping to fund the construction of a micro-hydro plant and replacing 270 wooden poles for electricity with metal poles. e foundation assisted Nepal Telecom in laying underground telephone cables to villages

Leeli Helm Bonney ’65 laughingly admits that, yes, Bob Seger and e Silver Bullet Band helped to change her life. In 1975, Leeli was a young stay-at-home mother when the rock band released the song, Katmandu with its lyrics “I think I’m going to katmandu/at’s really, really where I’m going to/If I ever get out of here/at’s what I’m “YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH SOMETHING gonna do.” e song stuck in her head for the next 25 years, and in 1999, she finally booked a trek SO SIMPLE. THIS KEEPS ME GOING BACK. I’VE FOUND A WAY TO to katmandu. Her main goal: check off a “bucket FORMALLY EMBRACE WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO ME.” list” item.

—LEELI HELM BONNEY ‘65 e packing list included instructions to bring clothes to leave behind for the people of Nepal. She previously without telephone service and is building new collected 23 fleece jackets for what she thought would be her rooms at khari Gompa, a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery located first and last trip. She returned a year later with 500 jackets. near the Nepal-Tibet border. “Primitive construction is Fourteen trips and more than 3,000 overstating how nice the current rooms are,” Leeli says of the jackets and counting, Leeli has made unheated monastery rooms built into the side of a hill. “My lasting change in the remote villages of dream is to set up a sustainability fund so the nuns, who are Nepal. “e people of Nepal are remarkable,” says Leeli. “Ninety percent vital to the foundation’s work, will always have money for food and construction projects.” of the region is still subsistence Bob Seger’s song may have inspired quite a few people to farming, yet the people are content and travel to katmandu and tackle Mt. Everest, but that climb holds happy with no expectations of help, no interest for Leeli. She’s focused on reaching a different sumbut so grateful.” mit.

“You realize that you can make a difference with something In 2007, she founded the nonprofit so simple,” she says. “is keeps me going back. I’ve found a way Tara Foundation, named for the to formally embrace what’s important to me.”

Tibetan deity who protects her people.

“When the Tibetan people call for To learn more about Tara Foundation, go to help, Tara comes,” explains Leeli, who www.tarafoundationusa.org. is a practicing Buddhist as a result of her immersion in the Tibetan culture

Leeli Helm Bonney ’65

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“GARRISON FOREST IS PREPARING US FOR A GLOBAL WORLD. WE ARE EXPECTED TO FIX PROBLEMS. BEING GLOBALLY AWARE AND HAVING EXPERIENCES LIKE OUR JHPIEGO INTERNSHIP ARE CRITICAL.” —MADISON FARLEY ‘13

THE MESSENGERS Like most teenagers, Ellie Dominguez ’13 and Madison Farley ’13 are fluent in Facebook. As Garrison Forest’s first-ever Jhpiego interns, they’ve combined their digital savvy with a driving passion to spread the word about public health issues affecting women and children worldwide. e Jhpiego internship is Garrison Forest’s newest Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. WISE, the GFS/Johns Hopkins University experiential learning partnership, gives students hands-on research experience in science, engineering, public policy, public health and the humanities. Jhpiego is the Hopkins-affiliated international nonprofit health organization dedicated to improving women’s and children’s health, particularly maternal health.

Ellie and Madison first learned of Jhpiego in April 2011 when Dr. Leslie Mancuso, Jhpiego’s President and CEO, spoke to the Garrison Forest Upper School. Dr. Mancuso shared a few startling statistics, including the fact that nearly 1,000 women die every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, mostly in developing countries. at visit began the James Center’s partnership with Jhpiego and sparked a passion in Ellie and Madison. As Jhpiego interns during the 2012 spring semester, they spread awareness about Jhpiego and the need for its innovative, low-cost health solutions, messages Madison says cannot be ignored: “Childbirth is the number one killer of women globally. Living in the U.S., we are so fortunate.

Ellie and I aren’t doctors and can’t help in that way, but we can inform people.”

ey created GirlSpot, regular posts on the Jhpiego Facebook page, by researching a health issue and talking via Skype and email with Jhpiego doctors, nurses and midwives around the globe. GirlSpot posts include information on tuberculosis and an interview with Sheena Currie, a midwife and a maternal health educator who has practiced in A Jhpiego-trained nurse in Tanzania assists Afghanistan, Ethiopia and a mother and her newborn. Photo courtesy Tanzania, where girls as young of Jhpiego. as 12 are becoming mothers.

Ellie and Madison also got face-to-face with their GFS peers through Morning Meeting announcements and a campus lunch with a live video feed of Gayle Lemmon, author of e Dress Maker of Khair Khana, as she spoke about her book detailing an Afghan female entrepreneur under Taliban rule.

On International Women’s Day, March 8, they launched Garrison for Girls, a GFS club to support Jhpiego. “Garrison Forest is preparing us for a global world,” says Madison, who lived and studied in Spain in 2011 through the GFS program created by Spanish teacher Joan Hurley. “We are expected to fix problems. Being globally aware and having experiences like our Jhpiego internship are critical.” is academic year, another GFS student will serve as the Jhpiego intern, but Ellie and Madison have found a calling and are continuing their GirlSpot posts. “Women are the foundation of every society,” says Ellie, who spent three weeks this summer on a solo service trip to India. “e life of a girl is invaluable here and abroad. We are all girls, and we can all make a difference.”

Catch up on all the GirlSpot posts at www.gfs.org/magazine or scan the QR code on page 25.

For more information on Jhpiego, visit www.Jhpiego.org, and for more information on the James Center, visit www.gfs.org/jamescenter.

Ellie Dominguez ’13 (left) and Madison Farley ’13

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THE STORYTELLERS Dr. Elizabeth Wham Hanson’s French IV Honors class knows a thing or two about storybook endings. e students in this class, which included juniors who studied AP French, were selected as the only student translators in an international co-publishing initiative to provide children’s books to classrooms in African nations. e nine-month project, a collaboration between the International Book Bank and CODE (Canadian Organization for Development through Education), translated four children’s books, originally published in Swahili, into six languages. Garrison Forest students handled all English-to-French translations for the project, while professional writers, translators and linguists translated the books into other languages. kate Joyce ’93, former Peace Corps volunteer in Mali and executive director of the International Book Bank, knew GFS could help tackle the project’s scholarly and literal size.

“IN MANY DEVELOPING NATIONS THE TEACHERS HAVE FEW BOOKS. IF THESE BOOKS ARE USED FOR AT LEAST FOUR YEARS, ALMOST TWO MILLION WEST AFRICAN STUDENTS WILL SEE AND HEAR THE STORIES THE GFS STUDENTS TRANSLATED.” —KATE JOYCE ‘93 referred to as “big books,” the kindergarten through third grade books are purposely oversized for use in African classrooms that often include 60 or more children, allowing the children to see the story from a distance. “In many developing nations the teachers have few books with which to teach the

Several GFS translators enjoy the literary fruits of their labors.

students,” kate explains. “If these books are used for at least four years, almost two million West African students will see and hear the stories the GFS students translated.” e International Book Bank donates close to two million books per year to literacy programs, schools and libraries in developing countries.

Students spent several weeks translating the books, guided

by Dr. Wham Hanson, who also teaches Spanish in the Upper School. “is project provides valuable academic and real-life experience for our students,” explains Dr. Wham Hanson, who led a group of GFS girls on a service trip in June 2011 to Martinique.

“French-speaking Africa represents an area larger than the United States and has the highest illiteracy rate in the world. It is an area that needs and deserves our attention, and those who speak French are the best equipped to help.”

For more information on the International Book Bank, go to www.internationalbookbank.org

From left: Kate Joyce ’93, Danielle Ziegelstein ’13, Amanda Selsky ’13, Stephanie Pieper ’13 and Fabiana Berenguer Gil ’14 pose with the books the French IV Honors class translated.

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Above: The girls at the shelter in Bolivia enjoy sketching.

Left: GFS art teacher Hannah LeVasseur poses with the GFS book and a few of her Bolivian art students.

THE ARTIST Painter Hannah LeVasseur finds artistic inspiration from a variety of sources, transforming these ideas into creative projects and cultural exploration as Garrison Forest’s Preschool and Lower School art teacher. No stranger herself to different cultures, Ms. Levasseur has traveled to Cambodia and East Timor to visit her aunt and uncle who do medical mission work and spent a week volunteering in a Mexican hospital with adults and children who are disabled.

While deciding how she would spend her 2012 summer vacation following her busy (and first) year as a teacher, Ms. Levasseur created a schoolwide cultural immersion project that now spans the Americas. “I was planning on visiting my aunt and uncle in Bolivia,” she explains. “en Aunt Eileen told me she had been working at a shelter for abandoned and abused girls.” ere wasn’t any art program for the girls, a situation Ms. Levasseur decided to change.

Funded by a Dodge Foundation grant, a Garrison Forest faculty development endowment that supports noncurricular professional development, Ms. Levasseur taught art at the Bolivian shelter for girls, ages 3 to 18, from June to August. She packed a very special gift from Garrison Forest: copies of a book she created with GFS Preschool through Upper School students: Artists of Garrison Forest School: Creating Visual Celebrations of Cultural Expressions. She asked

GFS students to submit artwork that depicts their culture. “e artwork visually explains a part of our culture, something the student artist wants to celebrate,” explains Ms. Levasseur, who used the online publishing program blurb.com to create the book.

While in Bolivia, she and the girls created a sequel to the initial book to share with Garrison Forest as part of the cultural exchange. “Art is an incredible tool for everyone to express their feelings and thoughts,” notes Ms. Levasseur. “I am especially honored to unveil some of its secrets to the girls at the shelter who have experienced injustices and heartache from abandonment and abuse. My goal is to have the Bolivian girls and GFS students see how close that language can make strangers from any part of the world.”

To view a copy of the Garrison Forest book, go to www.gfs.org/magazine or scan the QR code on page 25.

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Above: Garrison Forest Traveling Teacher Diana Gross and her students in Cambodia. The films these students created with Ms. Gross inspired the GFS students’ water project.

Left: The Class of 2019 measuring its water usage.

THE WATER BEARERS Four hundred gallons. at’s the amount of water an average American household of four uses every day.

Just ask Garrison Forest students. ey can spout numerous facts about water use, thanks to a multifaceted lesson on water scarcity in developing countries taught via Skype with GFS’s Traveling Teacher Diana Gross and some creative, hands-on (albeit some of it wet) learning last spring.

Ms. Gross, a filmmaker and teacher, is traveling the world for two years, connecting the GFS classroom via the latest in digital technology with school children and organizations across the globe. In 2011-12, she traveled to Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, russia, ailand and vietnam, relaying her educational adventures to GFS via Skype and a blog.

Coordinated through Chris Shriver, Lower School technology coordinator, and Lindsay kelland, Middle School technology coordinator, lessons have included live chats with Mongolian students and a virtual field trip to the ai Elephant Conservatory to speak with a volunteer elephant trainer.

Like winding creeks converging to form a river, the water use project coursed through last year’s Fifth and Sixth Grades in different ways. It was inspired by Ms. Gross’ video workshop with

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Cambodian high school students at the Chey Primary School. ere, Ms. Gross guided budding filmmakers as they produced videos on their lives using an iPad2. ree of the students decided to tell the world about the water well problem in their village, which has 20 working wells for 500 people. “Two years ago, a foreign organization had built 40 wells but then left,” Ms. Gross explains. “When the wells broke, the Cambodians did not have the tools or the knowledge for how to fix them.” GFS students watched the videos and then asked questions of the Cambodian students through Ms. Gross’ blog and via Skype (http://travelingteacherblog.com). “e girls were immediately interested and asked how they could help,” explains Ms. kelland, who had been searching for an inquiry-based learning project to help the Sixth Grade channel its passion for service. “Before we decided how to help, the students researched the issue of water use in countries such as Cambodia.

Talking with the girls about how to be purposeful and thoughtful in their efforts was a great discussion and led us to decide on organizing two fundraising events, a restaurant night and bake sale.” e Middle School students also produced a public service announcement, wrote an article for the Middle School blog, the Grizzly Gazette, and send tweets to nonprofits working on the issue. Working with Dana Livne’s Fifth Grade class, they collectively raised $1,017 for Water for People and Water.org— enough funds to help 25-30 people have access to clean water.

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rough class-only and an all-Lower “BY RESEARCHING ABOUT WATER ISSUES AROUND THE WORLD AND THROUGH School Skype session with Ms. Gross and the SKYPING WITH MS. GROSS, THE GIRLS DEVELOPED A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING Cambodian students, the Fifth Grade learned OF WATER USE AND PROBLEMS WORLDWIDE AND A DEEPER AWARENESS OF more about the wells, filmmaking and each HOW THEY USE WATER IN THEIR OWN HOMES AND WAYS THAT THEY other. In comparing their lives, the Cambodian CAN CONSERVE WATER.” and GFS students discovered that SpongeBob SquarePants and pizza are loved universally —DANA LIVNE across the globe.

When asked how much water the average ese are exactly the lessons the Traveling Teacher wants to family in the village uses daily, Ms. Gross didn’t have an answer, impart. “We all have a vital voice to add to the global discussion but she had an idea: “I suggested the Fifth Grade use a bucket to of world issues. In this case, it is water,” says Ms. Gross. “I act develop an understanding of just how much water we use in our as a bridge between schools. In teaching the Cambodian students lives to brush our teeth, wash our clothes, bathe, etc.” how to produce a video, they were able to articulate their Each morning for a week, Ms. Livne’s class filled a five-gallon situation better than anyone else. ese students spend most of jug, just as women and children would do in villages without their lives as the recipients of donations and foreign development running water for use in their homes. As GFS students used aid, and for them to be recognized as experts in both the waterwater throughout the school day—flushing the toilet, getting a well situation and in video-making helped them realize that they drink from the water fountain—they poured out the equivalent are a vital part of the global discussion.” amount from the jug. Hand washing was done with soap and Technology, Ms. Shriver adds, humanizes the lesson, letting water from the jug to further simulate the experience learning and understanding flow between cultures: “Half the of not having running water. world and classroom walls suddenly disappear when students e Fifth Grade researched water use, created a public service are face to face with counterparts across the globe.” announcement and class blog, produced personal and group videos on water use and crafted a joint letter to send to rEI requesting a donation of ceramic water filters, a device Ms. Gross explained has been helpful in Cambodia. “e girls discovered ways that they could connect with the world,” says Ms. Livne.

“By researching about water issues around the world and through Skyping with Ms. Gross, the girls developed a deeper understanding of water use and problems worldwide and a deeper awareness of how they use water in their own homes and ways that they can conserve water.”

What’s your story?

Share your global perspective and experiences with the online Garrison Forest Magazine and read more alumnae profiles. Scan the QR code on your smartphone or log on to www.gfs.org/magazine.

There are more fun features for this article online: student PSAs; videos on water usage; the Traveling Teacher blog link; and more.

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Garrison Forest Gallery Garrison Forest Corral by Abby Kemp ’12

“Art is essential, not merely important.”

—B.J. McELDERRY, CHAIR OF THE GFS ART DEPARTMENT

Accepted into the prestigious National High School Art Show (NHAS) competition sponsored by the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Abby and four of her fellow students exhibited work in the show, the most GFS artists ever selected for the NHAS. Abby also had a photograph exhibited in Congressman John Sarbanes’ (D-Md.) annual high school art competition and show.

Garrison Forest’s arts faculty embodies these words. Using a variety of media, students convey ideas via creative expression, all the while honing critical skills for the 21st century. “Art synthesizes all of your experiences, emphasizing the habits of the mind—problem-solving,

Yosemite Tree

by Sara Hamilton ‘12 Accepted to The Youth Arts Showcase, a juried show of artwork from Baltimore’s public, independent and parochial schools, sponsored by the Towson Arts Collective.

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perseverance and cause and effect— that include the experiences of science, language and humanities.

You name it, art does it,” says Ms. McElderry.

To see artwork from each division, scan the QR code on your smartphone or visit gfs.org/arts/gallery.

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by Yeon Ji Kim ‘14 Using the campus as muse, Yeon Ji digitally altered her photograph of the historic chapel near Lochinvar with Photoshop in the Digital Imaging I class.

27 Untitled, Designed by Kate Fenwick ’12 (modeled by Sarah Rozmiarek ‘12)

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For her AP 3D Portfolio, Kate created two wearable sculptures from recyclables.

Arabesque by Fabiana Berenguer Gil ’14 Students in 3D Studio explored a variety of materials to best interpret—personally, expressively and innovatively —the open-ended prompts offered by teacher Michele Shepherd.

Classic Vinyl by Claire Forbes ‘13

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Honorable Mention, Congressman Sarbanes’ art show.

Reflecting #2 by Catherine DiPietro ‘12 First-place winner, painting category, The Youth Arts Showcase.

This portrait of Catherine’s younger sister, Allie ’15, is part of a series of portraits Catherine is creating of her family. Her drawing Ecotone won first place in Congressman Sarbanes’ annual competition. GFS students compete in annual juried shows across Maryland and the nation.

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SPIRIT OF GIVING

THANK YOU for supporting The Fund for Garrison Forest. In 2011-12, Alumnae, Parents, Grandparents, Faculty and Friends gave a total of $1,376,400.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2011-12 FUND: The 2012-13 fiscal year began July 1.

Please join us in supporting Garrison Forest this year.

Give or pledge online at www.gfs.org/give.

Spread the impact of your gift over several months by signing up for monthly installments. A Shriver Society gift of $1,000 over 12 months is only $84/month.

Tuition alone does not cover the full cost of providing the GFS educational experience for every student. In 2011-12 gifts to The Fund for Garrison Forest made up 5 percent of the annual operating budget, providing crucial support for faculty salaries and benefits, financial aid and general operating costs.

THE FUND FOR GARRISON FORES T 5 % ENDOWMENT 6 %

TOTAL RAISED: $1,376,400, or $2,121 per student

AUX ILIA RY 5 %

OTH ER 6 %

GENERAL OPERATING COSTS 2 7 % FINANCIAL AID 1 4 % TUITION AND FEES 7 8 %

For a complete overview of 2011-12 giving, check out the online GFS Donor Report beginning Sept. 1. www.gfs.org/ donorreport

A SPECIAL THANK YOU to all Fund Volunteers, particularly: Sana Naylor Brooks ’85, Overall Chair Chris Newman, Parent Fund Agent Chair Kellie McGowan, Parent Fund Agent Vice-Chair SALARIES & BENEFITS 5 9 %

Helen Zinreich Shafer ‘93, Leadership Chair Vail Romeyn ‘87, Overall Reunion Chair

All figures for fiscal year July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

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Chris Shriver, Faculty Fund Chair

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THEY DID! Members of the Class of 2012 proudly wore their college sweatshirts this past spring. This fall, these young women embark on the next phase of their educational journeys, as they begin their college careers. The Fund for Garrison Forest plays a key

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role in every acceptance letter and every decision a Garrison Forest senior makes about the next step.

Annual gifts to The Fund for Garrison Forest support each student every day at GFS. As a critical part of the school’s operating budget, The Fund helps cover expenses such as financial aid, technology, teacher salaries and benefits, athletic equipment and cherished traditions including Service League, student government and other clubs—everything a Garrison Girl needs to prepare for a bright future.

The Class of 2012 will be attending the following colleges and universities: Allegheny College

Franklin and Marshall College

Syracuse University

University of Pennsylvania

American University

George Mason University

Trinity University

University of Tampa

Auburn University

Howard University

University of Arizona

Bates College

Johns Hopkins University

University of Virginia (2, including Honors Program)

Kenyon College

University of California at San Diego

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Marist College

University of Chicago

The College of Wooster

McDaniel College

University of Delaware

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

New York University

University of Houston

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

University of Mary Washington

Bowdoin College Bryn Mawr College Carnegie Mellon University Carroll Community College Clemson University Coastal Carolina University Colorado College Cornell University Delaware Valley College Denison University Dickinson College Emmanuel College

Rhode Island School of Design

University of Maryland, College Park (3, including Honors and Scholars programs)

Savannah College of Art and Design

University of North Carolina at Asheville

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Pepperdine University

Go to www.gfs.org/magazine for podcasts by the GFS College Counseling Office on a variety of topics covering the myths and realities of today’s college admissions climate and for a list of the 162 colleges and universities where the Class of 2012 was accepted.

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SPIRIT OF GIVING

Leadership at the Forest 2011 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA AWARD WINNER:

Emily Gardner Baratta ‘88

2011 Distinguished Alumnae Award Winner Emily Gardner Baratta ’88 celebrated her honor with her family at the Leadership Recognition Dinner. From left: Chris Baratta, Emily, Nina Gardner, Julie Gardner ’85 and Timothy Gardner.

Established in 1981, the Distinguished Alumna Award is presented annually to the alumna whose leadership and service to Garrison Forest merits special recognition and appreciation. Last fall, Emily Gardner Baratta ’88, trustee and current parent, received this prestigious honor for the depth and breadth of her devoted service to her alma mater. She began volunteering the year she graduated and has served as a phonathon volunteer, class fund agent, leadership solicitor, reunion program chair and class parent, and is currently Lower School lacrosse coach and an Admission Office tour guide. A past president of the Alumnae Board, Emily joined the GFS Board of Trustees in 2008. She took her volunteering to historic levels during the school’s Centennial in 2010. As Centennial Chair, she was integral in planning every aspect of the grand birthday celebration. Daughters Ali ’17 and Lizzie ’19 are following in their mother’s abundant joy for all things Garrison Forest. “Garrison Forest provided me with an incredibly strong academic foundation,” Emily said upon receiving the honor. “My teachers and coaches inspired and pushed me, and I gained lifelong friends, selfconfidence and an appreciation for the importance of community service.”

2011 H. BRIAN DEADY VOLUNTEER AWARD:

Morry Zolet e H. Brian Deady volunteer Award, established in memory of exceptional parent volunteer the late Brian Deady, father of Anne ’01, honors equally remarkable parent volunteerism. Morry Zolet, current and past parent, is the 2011 recipient. Morry began serving as a grade fund agent shortly after he and wife Lisa enrolled daughter Alyson ’11 in Fourth Grade. Daughters Lindsay ’14 and Cara ’18 quickly followed. A tireless grade fund agent for e Fund for Garrison Forest, he also served on the 2011 Senior Class Gift Committee.

Morry is a senior vice president of Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He has received numerous honors over his 25-year financial planning career including recognition by the National Football League Players’ Association as a registered Players’ Financial Advisor and by Barron’s as one of the top 1,000 financial advisers in the country.

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Morry Zolet with (from left) wife Lisa, Pat Deady and Anne Deady ’01 during the September 2011 Leadership Recognition Dinner.

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On July 1, Garrison Forest welcomed two new members to the Board of Trustees.

Tim Hathaway, father of Lila ’19, is a partner at Brown Advisory in Baltimore with 13 years of investment industry experience.

Tim joined the GFS Investment Committee in 2009 and the Finance Committee two years later. He has a deep family connection to the school. e son of past board presidents Grant and Molly Hathaway (Molly Mundy ’61), he is the brother of kate Hathaway Bagli ’84 and Liza Hathaway Tim Hathaway Matthews ’83. He is a board member of PACT, a kennedy krieger Institute-affiliated organization for children with special needs, a trustee of the Gilman School and a director of e Hathaway Family Foundation. He received his B.A. from randolph Macon College and his M.B.A. from Loyola University Maryland.

Mark Mullin

Also joining the Board of Trustees is Mark Mullin, father of Courtney ’13, Erin ’15 and Gillian ’18. Mark is president and CEO of AEGON. Since joining AEGON in 1987, he has held positions in the United States and in Europe. Mark holds a B.A. in English and International Studies from LaSalle University and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and an M.S. in Finance from Loyola University Maryland. He and his family relocated from Iowa in 2011.

Garrison Forest welcomes Fred W. Whitridge, Trustee Emeritus and Board President from 1976 to 1981, to a one-year appointment as a member of the Board. e school extends its deep gratitude to Jeff Durkee, Lila Boyce Lohr ’63 and Ira Malis, who completed their terms this summer.

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THANK YOU TO THE 2011–12 FUND FOR GARRISON FOREST VOLUNTEERS Sana Naylor Brooks ’85, Overall Chair Chris Newman, Parent Fund Chair Kellie McGowan, Parent Fund Vice-Chair Helen Zinreich Shafer ’93, Leadership Chair Vail Romeyn ’87, Overall Reunion Chair Chris Shriver, Faculty Fund Chair PARENT FUND VOLUNTEERS Jen Arrup Dan Balkin Dirck Bartlett Lou Chirgott Lacie DeCosta Dawn Dias-Bulls Debbie and Paul Foreman Stephen Goldstein John Harroun Geoff Hengerer Les Hershfield Jay Jarrett Peter Korzenewski Brian Martin

ALUMNAE VOLUNTEERS S. Dorsey Smith ’65 Margie Garland Whitman ’75 Sana Naylor Brooks ’85 Susan McCormick Scarborough ’89 Beth Fenwick Garner ’91 Alex McCrory Wilkes ’91 Ashley Ingraham ’95 Natalie Litz Bissonnette ’98 Kristina Kassolis O’Keefe ’00 Anne Deady ’01 Colleen Hodgetts ’03 Laura Waters ’04 Amber Rehman ’05 Abigail Malis ’06 Courtney Smith ’08 Holly Rocha ’09 Dani DiPietro ’10 Meredith Good-Cohn ’11 CLASS OF 2012 SENIOR CLASS GIFT COMMITTEE Michele and Billy Yerman, Co-Chairs Betsy and Bob Brennen Christy and David DiPietro Ellen and Jim Ivey Caryl and Bob Siems FACULTY FUND Barb Ackerman Cindy Bacon Ginny Berrier Gail Hutton Karen Meyers

Brent Matthews

SENIOR CLASS GIFT Michele and William “Billy” Yerman chaired the 2012 Senior Class Gift Committee. Senior parents and grandparents raised $122,000 for e Fund for Garrison Forest to name the courtyard between the Middle School and the Molly Mundy Hathaway ’61 Fine and Performing Arts Center in honor of the Class of 2012.

Brian McComas

REUNION GIFT CHAIRS

Kellie McGowan Amber Nestico

Katharine “Kitty” McLane Hoffman ‘37, Honorary Chair

Chris Newman

1947 Laura Franklin Dunn

Carrie Parker

1952 Joan McHenry Hoblitzell

Karen Rosenberg

1957 Kate Condon

Steve Sarigianis

1962 Clare Springs

Laura Schuebel

1967 Ann Carroll Harris

Neal Shapiro

1987 Rebecca Ferrell Smith

Chris Shriver

1992 Julie Martin McAllister

Marcelle Simon Gretchen Townsend Morry Zolet

2002 Erica Chan Day Lauren Misera 2007 Charlotte Pinkard

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Planned Giving 101: THERE’S AN ALUM FOR THAT Ever dreamed of being a major donor to Garrison Forest even if your bank account says otherwise? Ever wondered about how you could help that elderly aunt you love so much? GFS alumnae are experts in helping people help themselves and the institutions they love. We asked four of them for advice.

HOW THE SANDWICH GENERATION CAN HELP its ELDERS. Lee Hurd Switz ’60 is a principal in The Monument Group in Richmond, Va. A 1964 Smith graduate with an M.B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, Lee has spent her career helping nonprofit organizations raise money. She has volunteered with an organization modeled on Hull House and is a board member of the Virginia Network of Nonprofit Organizations.

Aunt Emma is getting by on a rather limited income.

Remember how good she was to you when you were little?

Want to help her now and get a tax-break at the same time?

> THINK ABOUT WHO HAS BEEN IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE. Maybe it’s been your grandfather. Maybe it’s been your mother-in-law. Whoever it is, a charitable gift annuity can be a great way to help them and Garrison Forest at the same time. One of my favorite stories is about a much-beloved parent whose son funded an annuity for her decades ago.

At 104, she is still receiving those quarterly checks—and thank heavens, since most of her other assets have long since been depleted.

> UNCLE SAM SWEETENS THE PIE. When you fund an annuity, you get a sizable tax deduction for the year in which you make the gift. The person receiving the payments will receive a check four times a year, a portion of which will be tax-free.

> CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS: ANOTHER GOOD OPTION. The idea is the same: You make a gift to Garrison Forest that will pay you or a loved one for life. There are a few differences—annuities provide fixed income, for example, while trusts provide variable income. Either way, you would be providing help to someone dear to you and to Garrison Forest School.

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> WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? Philanthropy, in essence, is about making a difference.

Gift annuities and trusts allow us to do that in two separate directions—first to people who are important to us and then to the institutions we love.

HOW WE CAN ALL BE MAJOR DONORS, EVEN IF WE DON’T HAVE MAJOR BUCKS. Elizabeth Piper ’88 is the Director of Development for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which is part of the University of Virginia. She graduated from UVA in 1992 with a major in American Studies and is a board member of the Piedmont Council for the Arts in Charlottesville. Her two sisters, Jenepher and Loring, are also GFS alumnae.

Not all of us can send a check to underwrite Garrison Forest’s next big program. Many of us, however, have retirement plans and/or life insurance policies that could allow us to make the kind of gifts that will strengthen GFS.

> THINK ABOUT LEAVING A LEGACY. Garrison Forest made me who I am today. I used to dream about having a permanent impact on the school, but the problem was that I knew I didn’t have the means to make a major gift.Then I made GFS a beneficiary of my retirement plan. All it took was a phone call and a change of beneficiary form. It makes me feel proud to know that someday I will be making a real difference to help young capable women have the same opportunities I had at GFS.

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> START YOUNG. Most people think that planned gifts are for older people, but we should all be building our retirement funds from the moment we have an employer who offers one. By the time retirement age comes around, that fund will have grown substantially, and even if we have only designated the School to get 10 percent of it, that could easily translate into a major gift.

> DON’T FORGET ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES. Life insurance policies are another easy way to make a major gift to GFS. Whether you have insurance on your own or through your employer, you can simply arrange for Garrison Forest to be one of the recipients.

> MAKE YOUR ASSETS WORK FOR YOU. Many people have stocks they acquired decades ago that are not producing much income for them. They are reluctant to sell them because of the capital gains taxes they’d have to pay. These taxes on sale can be avoided, and a current charitable deduction obtained, by giving the stock to a charitable remainder trust, which would pay income to the donor for the rest of her life. A similar result can be obtained by giving the stock to GFS in return for a fixed annuity, payable by GFS, for the rest of the donor’s life.

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HOW WE CAN HELP OURSELVES NOW AND GFS LATER. Virginia Coleman ’62 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe and a year later entered Harvard Law School, where she was one of about 20 women out of 500 in the Class of 1970. She spent her career in Boston with Ropes & Gray, specializing in estate planning. During the course of her career she was recognized by the Boston Estate Planning Council as the Estate Planner of the Year, was one of the first recipients of the ScholarMentor Award from Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and was elected to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. Recently retired as a partner, she continues to consult with her former firm.

Planned giving is all about converting non-income producing assets into a steady income stream for yourself or your loved ones while dedicating the asset itself to charity.

Such assets could include stocks with a low-cost basis or a second home you no longer use.

If you have some land or perhaps a vacation home you no longer need, you can contribute that as well to a charitable remainder trust with the same result as outlined above.

Alternatively, if you would like to continue to live in the property for the rest of your life, you may make a donation of the property, which is effective at your death. Either way, a charitable deduction would be available, so both you and Garrison Forest would benefit from your generosity.

> GO WITH A PRO. Philanthropy makes the world a better place. But before you make a major decision, you need to make sure that the gift you have in mind is consistent with your long-term goals.

A good estate planner will be able to help you balance your family’s needs and your desire to be philanthropic.

> WHERE THERE’S A WILL …

You might want to consider the most familiar planned gift of all: remembering Garrison Forest in your will. Your thoughtfulness could make a difference for generations of future Garrison Girls.

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HOW GRANDPARENTS CAN HELP THEIR GRANDCHLDREN. Susan McCormick Scarborough ’89 is a Financial Advisor and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ professional with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Lutherville, Maryland. She provides clients with comprehensive wealth management and investment strategies. A University of Richmond graduate, she is a member of the GFS Alumnae Board and of the board of the House of Ruth Maryland.

> CHARITABLE LEAD TRUSTS CAN HELP THEM LATER. A charitable LEAD trust won’t help with tuition, but it’s a wonderful way for grandparents to provide for their grandchildren down the line. Here’s the idea: You set up the trust now, and it will provide money to Garrison Forest for a certain amount of time, usually between 10 and 20 years. When that time period is up, the trust passes to your grandchildren—with reduced estate and gift taxes. Garrison Forest will have been able to do something substantial with your gift, and you will have made a very thoughtful gift to your grandchildren.

> IT TAKES A GOOD LAWYER. Many grandparents are helping to pay for their grandchildren’s education. A few have been farsighted enough to make a major gift at the same time—and get a potential tax-break, too.

> CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS CAN HELP GRANDCHILDREN NOW. Instead of sending a check every year to cover their grandchildren’s tuition, some grandparents choose to set up a charitable remainder trust to cover those same expenses.

They get a tax deduction when they establish the trust; they receive income from it to pay for tuition, and when the term of the trust is completed, Garrison Forest receives a major gift for its Endowment. It is a wonderful way to help your grandchildren and Garrison Forest at the same time.

THE MARSHALL-OFFUTT CIRCLE: 210 LEGACY DONORS AND COUNTING! Carroll Dawbarn ’64, Chair NEW MEMBERS 2011-12 Isabel Brannon Spencer ’58 Helen Lippincott Jennings ’62 Catherine White Murphy ’85 Erika Daneman Slater ’88 Helen Zinreich Shafer ’93 Poppy Hall ’07 TOP CLASSES FOR MARSHALL-OFFUTT CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP 1958 = 8 1978 = 7 1948 = 6 1945 = 5

1946 = 5 1960 = 5 1966 = 5 1971 = 5

Read the magazine online at www.gfs.org/magazine

Both of these trusts are great vehicles for grandparents who want to make a difference in their grandchildren’s lives and in the future of GFS. Remember, though, that estate tax laws are complicated and are subject to change. It’s really important to get tax and legal advice before making any major decisions.

This advice not intended to provide individually tailored investment, tax and/or estate planning advice.

Consult your tax adviser for matters involving taxation and tax planning and your attorney for trust and estate planning and other legal matters.

Learn more: VISIT www.gfs.plannedgiving.org for the student-created “Why I Love GFS” video featuring legacy donors, the complete list of Marshall-Offutt Circle members and much more.

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CONTACT Paula Ferris Einaudi, Director of Gift Planning.

She can create a profile for you of how these and other planned gifts may benefit your particular needs and wishes. paulaeinaudi@gfs.org or (410) 559-3130

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Career Day 2012 ON MARCH 14, 2012, 19 alumnae shared their career paths and advice with

the Upper School students. Thank you, Career Day panelists:

• Gabrielle Abiera-Kerr ’92, Program Host, QVC • Liza Corbin Cole ’98, former Development Officer, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University.

Now Manager, The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program • Catharine “Catie” Corbin ’00, Program Associate, Creative Associates International • Danielle Saba Donner ’86, Artist, Danielle Donner Fine Art • Gretta Gordy Gardner Esq. ’86, Family Violence Director, Travis County Counseling & Education Services • Sarah “Sassy” Stifel Jacobs ’94, Co-owner, Sassanova • LaKeisha Jones ’97, International Health Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) • Kate Joyce ’93, Executive Director, International Book Bank, former Peace Corps volunteer • Katherine Brune Kimball ’69 Book Designer, University Press of New England • Emily Livingston, Esq. ’98, Legislative Assistant, United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) • Christianna McCausland ’93, Freelance Writer and Author, Christianna McCausland, LLC • Selden Jones Morgan ’90, Store Director, Tiffany & Company, Towson Town Center

2012 Career Day panelists with Head of School Peter O’Neill.

• Caroline Stewart Nation ’73, Founder, www.MyFoodMyHealth.com • Jenny-Sayre Ramberg ’83, Director of Planning and Design, National Aquarium in Baltimore • Alice Iglehart Schwarz ’79, Museum Educator in Charge of Teen Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art • Hilde Schirmer ’97, Acupuncturist, Hummingbird Preventative & Integrative Medicine LLC

“Life will deal you all kinds of twists and turns. Establish your point of resilience.

Have a good group of friends. Hold your course, hold your intention and trust yourself.”

• Lauren Sheets Esq. ’04, Attorney, Legislative Coordinator, The American Tort Reform Association • Tanya Tag, DVM ’93, Chief of Staff, The PET+ER • Daisy Nelson White, Ph.D. ’64, President, White Ridgely Associates

—CAROLINE STEWART NATION ’73, former associate publisher of W Magazine and publisher of W Europe; founder of www.MyFoodMyHealth.com

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Alumnae Class News STAYING CONNECTED GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT! Get the free GFS app for iPhone and Droid for the latest news and events, connect with classmates, fun polls, and more!

Download it from the iTunes store at http://www.u360mobile.com/garrisonforest/ Download it from the Droid store at http://www.u360mobile.com/garrisonforest/android/ NEED MORE LIGHT BLUE/DARK BLUE IN YOUR WARDROBE? Shop the GFS School Store online at www.gfs.org/school-store for the latest in GFS apparel and gear.

BUTCH DARRELL, longtime Middle School history teacher and former GFS coach, is retiring in June 2013.

Garrison Forest will celebrate his remarkable career by honoring him at the Alumnae Picnic on Reunion Weekend, Saturday, May 4, 2013. All alumnae are invited to attend this event. Details will follow in early winter.

If your class year ends in a “3” and “8,” it’s your year to return to The Forest to celebrate with your classmates on Reunion Weekend, May 3-5, 2013.

DO YOU OWN YOUR PIECE OF HISTORY? Signed copies of A Century of Spirit: Garrison Forest School, 1910-2010, written by Sarah Achenbach and designed

by Wendy Tripp Ruffin ‘86, are available through the Alumnae Office and School Store ($65.00 plus tax and shipping, if applicable).

CALLING ALL HALL OF EXCELLENCE NOMINATIONS! Do you know of a deserving Garrison Forest alumna to be nominated for the GFS Hall of Excellence? Nominations are being accepted for the fall 2013 slate of inductees. To see the criteria and nominate an alumna, simply complete the online form at gfs.org/alumnae/hall-of-excellence or contact Peggy Tiffany Bittner, Director of Alumnae and Parent Relations, at (410) 559-3139 or peggybittner@gfs.org.

INTERESTED IN A CAMPUS TOUR AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT GFS TODAY? Contact Leslie Tinati, Director of Admission, at (410) 559-3111 or leslietinati@gfs.org about any of the following: Mark your calendar for the Alumnae Open House, Tuesday, September 25, 2012.

Check gfs.org/admission for the full slate of 2012-13 Parent Visiting Days.

Take a tour, and meet faculty and administrators.

Interested in boarding? Call (410) 559-3111 to schedule an overnight visit tailored to your daughter’s (granddaughter’s, niece’s, etc.) interests or attend the Garrison Getaway on Thursday-Friday, November 8-9, 2012.

The Alumnae Legacy Scholarship offers two merit-based legacy scholarships for any new student or current day student entering Grades 8-12 to board at Garrison Forest. Scholarships are renewable each year with good academic standing. Alumnae daughters, granddaughters or nieces are eligible.

The scholarship covers the difference in cost between a day and a boarding tuition. Eligible families may also apply for additional need-based financial aid.

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The Class News section of the magazine is not included in the online version. If you did not receive your 2012 Garrison Forest Magazine, please send your updated address to: Alumnae Office Garrison Forest School 300 Garrison Forest Road Owings Mills, MD 21117 gfs_alum@gfs.org You may also email magazine@gfs.org to receive the Class News section as a PDF.

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Words We Live By slights. It didn’t Every so often I get a fortune cookie that says, “Be yourself, matter who said you’ll be at home anywhere.” Or “Be yourself, everyone else is the first hurtful already taken.” at last line is attributed to Oscar Wilde, words, what who had the courage to be himself at a time when being his mattered was particular self was risky business. getting up the Since the fall of 1968, when I arrived at Garrison Forest as courage to a seventh-grader, the motto Esse Quam Videri—“To Be apologize, to Rather an to Seem”—has been indelibly imprinted on my value friendship conscience. I’ve tried to live by it, and I’m trying to teach my over pride. daughter to do the same. ose early teen years are all about developing a sense of I suspect one reason Garrison Forest’s motto struck me so self—a fact my 14-year-old daughter and her friends bring deeply had to do with the times. My classmates and I came of home to me daily. “Is that a new freckle?” I’ll overhear one age when American women were bristling at their prescribed friend frantically ask as the others examine her arm. roles. Yes, we girls devoured quizzes on such critical issues As young women, they are as “How to Tell If You’re entering a world that too Popular” in Seventeen “Since the fall of 1968, when I arrived at often prizes seeming at the Magazine (as I recall, the Garrison Forest as a seventh-grader, the expense of being. As toddlers, key was to say words like motto Esse Quam Videri—“To Be Rather they learned that the pink fantastic, terrific and Than to Seem”—has been indelibly aisle in the toy department is incredible a lot). But on theirs—regardless of the fact the evening news every imprinted on my conscience.” that some of the coolest toys night we saw Vietnam are over in the red-and-blue aisle. In Sixth Grade, some of war footage and photos of young men burning their draft the girls quit soccer and became instant experts at applying cards and women burning their bras. If being popular took eyeliner and flicking their hair back with a toss of the head. gushing, being true to yourself took guts.

In Seventh, they teetered to bar and bat mitzvahs in their first When I think back on Garrison Forest, I remember stiletto heels. Now they’re preparing for high school, both insignificant things that had a lot to do with trust: spotting excited about and fearful of the future. one another doing backbends, hoisting a ring of flowers up What I hope for my daughter and her friends as they the flagpole and doing a Maypole dance around it venture off to high school is that they will discover what in our nightgowns. I recall impassioned Garrison Forest gave me: the courage to be myself, rather conversations about than play a part. In politics, in the media, in athletics, in politics and boardrooms and in classrooms, our country needs women tearful talks (and men) who not only know themselves, but are themselves. about slights and perceived — Charlotte Bruce Harvey ’74 Brucie Harvey inaugurates a new column for the Garrison Forest Magazine with her essay on what Esse Quam Videri means to her. Managing editor of the Brown Alumni Magazine, Brucie Harvey lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her 14-year-old daughter, Nellie.

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RETIREMENT INCOME. Will you have enough?

Whether you are 40 or 90, you might be interested in knowing how a gift to Garrison Forest could increase your income during your retirement years.

Ask us how a charitable gift annuity could provide you with income for the rest of your life. Incidentally, some of that income may be tax free. If you’d like to provide income to an elderly relative instead, we can help you with that, too.

PLEASE CONTACT: Paula Ferris Einaudi Director of Gift Planning Garrison Forest School 300 Garrison Forest Road Owings Mills, MD 21117 410-559-3130 paulaeinaudi@gfs.org www.gfs.plannedgiving.org

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