Spring 2014
News
Alumni Society Alumni Newsletter of Golda Och Academy
What’s Inside 2 Message From The Head of School
Most Likely to Become a Teacher? Schechter Alum to Take Over as Wilf Lower School Campus Principal
2 Message From The Development/Alumni Office
By Becky Isaacson, Class of 2004
2 Messsage from the Associate Director of Development
lashback to your senior year yearbook — have you ever looked back to see if your classmates lived up to their senior year superlatives? “Best Dressed” — are these classmates working in the Fashion Industry? “Most Likely to be get Married” — are they still together? What about “Most Likely to be a Schechter teacher?” Actually, there are a handful of Schechter students who have returned to Schechter/ GOA as teachers. I bet, however, that there was never a superlative for “Most Likely to be a Schechter Principal.” If there was, Carrie Zucker-Siegel should have won the most votes!
3 Joanna Stern, Class of 2002 4 Message From The Alumni Committee 5 Thank you to our SSDS-GOA Alumni Supporters from 2013-2014 7 My Time in the IDF, By Carmelle Bargad, Class of 2013 11 GOA Faculty News
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Carrie Zucker-Siegel graduated Schechter in 1992, earning her undergraduate degree at Brown University, and her masters from the William Davidson Graduate School of Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She was a student teacher at Schechter and began to teach full time after she completed her studies. As Carrie says, “I spent very few years not at Schechter.” Carrie began teaching Jewish Studies at the Upper School, where she worked for eight years until she moved to the Lower School to assume the Vice Principal position. After seven years as VP, Carrie has been offered the position as Principal at the Lower School, when Gloria Kron, the current principal, retires this summer. Continued on page 11
Thank You, Mrs. Kron— We’ll Miss You!
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or the past 34 years Gloria Kron has called Golda Och Academy her home. Some
of her fondest memories of GOA include the glimmer in a child’s eye when he or she reads a word in English or Hebrew for the first time, the “I did it” explanation after solving the challenge problem in math, and the utter delight of getting good and dirty in our new outdoor classroom. “It is an extraordinary community, infused with the joy of learning and a deep commitment to Jewish tradition and continuity,” she said recently. For her accomplishments, Mrs. Kron is one of our esteemed honorees at our Spring Gala this year on May 22. We will miss Mrs. Kron very much and know that her true legacy is helping create a place where students, teachers, and parents come together to learn in an atmosphere of inclusion, appreciation, and respect. Todah Rabah!
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