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WALTER WRIGHT ’64 Reunion Class Gift Committee Member*
At the fifty-year mark, most of us look back at our time at George School as a positive experience in our lives, so we’d like to make a donation.
How do you like coming back for reunions—your fiftieth in particular? I’ve been to eight of ten reunions, as has my wife (maybe a spouse record), and I have always enjoyed them. We had a higher turnout this year and it was great to see classmates who had never been to a reunion or only attended one or two in the past. And it’s always nice to be on the beautiful campus in the spring. You had previously come to campus to see classes. How was that? The gift committee was thinking about contributing to the International Baccalaureate (IB) program for our class gift, so Pete Fraser and I visited and sat in on some IB classes. I was familiar with the program because my two sons participated in it. But there were elements I wasn’t aware of—particularly that it is designed not just for top students but as an across-the-board curriculum for the junior and senior years. That inclusiveness made it more appropriate for the class gift. On our visit, Pete and I were struck by how outstanding the students are. They’re comfortable with adults and much more sophisticated than we were. I was especially impressed by the high level of the post-calculus math class and by the mature discussion of the Great Gatsby in the English class.
SHOWSTOPPER PHOTOGRAPHY
Class of 1964 photographed at their 50th reunion, Walter Wright is in the top row, third from the right
What else did you do like about being on the reunion committee? I enjoyed making phone calls to encourage people to come. I’ve done this for several reunions, and it’s always rewarding. I was shy at George School, but even when I call people I barely knew then, they always seem eager to talk. How do you—and your classmates—feel about your class gift? At the fifty-year mark, most of us look back at our time at George School as a positive experience in our lives, so we’d like to make a donation. We decided to fund an endowment to enable more teachers to get trained for the IB program each year. It’s not as concrete as a bricks and mortar project, but it is a program important to George School and consistent with the school’s values.
Walter lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Leslie. Since retiring from a career as a consulting actuary, he has enjoyed traveling, taking art lessons, and bicycling. Walter’s mother and three children all attended George School and were/are faithful reunion-goers, too. * E specially for milestone reunions like Walter’s, classes often unite to make a significant and meaningful gift to capital improvements or endowment, whose impact lasts for years.
Richard Brown II § Peter D. Crown Susan Lloyd Doran J. Stephen Dummer Marsha Silvers Forman and William R. Forman The Estate of Nancy Ewing Gabel § Lawrence K. Houghteling Karen Johnson Michael S. Landes § David F. Lindenfeld § Georgia Machemer § Mary Jay Taylor Michel James C. Michener Ann Wilkerson Olson and Frank L. Olson § Elizabeth Bernard Phillips §
Sara McKean Plunkett and Michael R. Plunkett ’59 § Lee N. and Kitty Price § Lydia Potts Quill § Catharine Bothwell Rachlin Elma Abbe Rickards § Burt L. and Joan Ross Corey R. and Jonne Smith § Thomas C. Steinmetz § Margaret Uehlein Suby Dorney § Kathryn Waddell Takara Laurie Ticehurst § Robert D. Wayland-Smith §
1962 TOTAL DOLLARS RAISED: $47,803.00 ANNUAL FUND DOLLARS RAISED: $5,489.00 TOTAL PARTICIPATION: 25%
Susan Grad Baerwald and Paul G. Baerwald § Jean A. Boardman Albert M. Bradley and Deborah Teel Bradley ’64 § Newton and Virginia Brosius Ashby E. Denoon David B. H. and Gloria Denoon Louise Walsh Dowd Steven D. Emmet § Charles T. Jr and Martha L. Evans §
Linda Lynes Groetzinger and Norman J. Groetzinger Christopher and Marlene Guild § Susan Booth Houle § Gail E. Jackson § Gretchen Blair Kronenberg Ruth Bonner Levine and Howard Levine § Beal A. Lowen and Hattie Barker § Douglas O. and Diane Maass § Charles L. and Rebecca O. Marshall Thomas D. Nichols J. Robert and Carol Passmore § John M. Jr and Patricia A. Robinson § Sally Holton Sakewicz Dudley W. Saurman Margaret Emory Stackpole §