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GFA news
GFA launched an ad campaign last year using single black & white portraits of students along with a quote from each. This year the photos have been taken by GFA junior, Brian Hirschfeld, who has been an avid participant in Mr. Hafey’s photo courses. Janet Hartwell has been appointed president of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) for a two-year term. CAIS serves approximately 100 independent schools in the state, representing about 30,000 students. A women’s cooperative in Uganda is now making GFA uniform kilts. School Outfitters Ltd. employs Ugandan women and uses local cloth and materials. A traveling GFA family came across the enterprise and made the initial connection. The dragon appears on the outside waistband of each kilt, and “Twiga” appears on the inside—the Swahili word for giraffe and the brand name of the women’s line of clothing. GFA has announced new Trustees appointed in spring 2010. We welcome parents Roger Ferris, Shelley Goldsmith, Richard Holzinger and Molly McGrath, and also Brian Lizotte, assistant provost at Yale University, to the Board. Retiring co-chair, Deirdre Daly Pavlis, has been recently named deputy U.S. prosecutor in Connecticut.
Westport Country Playhouse Event
GFA’s Parents’ Association held a spring fundraiser at the Westport Country Playhouse in May. Outgoing PA Co-President Molly McGrath, Co-President Lynne McAlevey and event chair Jane Preiser are pictured at the cocktail party preceding the play, “She Loves Me.”
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