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The Fine Arts: A Fine Balance Our Favorite Things: Traditions We Love

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College Acceptances for the Class of 2013 Adelphi College Agnes Scott College American University Auburn University Ave Maria University Calvin College Catholic University of America Case Western Reserve University Christopher Newport University Clark University Clemson University Coastal Carolina University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Creighton University Curry College Denison University DePaul University Dickenson University Drexel University Duquesne University East Carolina University Elon University Endicott College Emerson College Fairfield University Flagler College Florida Atlantic University Florida International University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College George Mason University Gettysburg College Grinnell College Hampton College High Point University Hofstra University Howard University James Madison University John Carroll University B

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Kalamazoo College Longwood University Loyola Maryland Loyola New Orleans Lynchburg College Marymount University Marymount Manhattan College Marquette University McDaniel College Miami University, Oxford Mount Holyoke College Mount Saint Mary’s University Niagara University Northeastern University Pace University, New York City Pennsylvania State University, University Park Providence College Polytechnic Institute of NYU Regis University Roanoke College Rochester Institute of Technology Rollins College Rosemont College Saint Joseph’s University Saint Louis University Saint Vincent College Salisbury University Seton Hall University Simmons College Spring Arbor University Spring Hill College St. John’s University Stetson University Syracuse University Temple University Texas Christian University Towson University Trinity College Tulane University

University of Alabama University of Arizona University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Denver University of Connecticut University of Dayton University of Delaware University of Denver University of Florida University of Georgia University of Hartford University of Louisville University of Mary Washington University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Maryland, College Park University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Michigan University of Mississippi University of Notre Dame University of Pittsburgh University of Richmond University of San Francisco University of South Carolina University of Tampa University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Texas, Austin University of Wisconsin Villanova University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Wake Forest University Washington College Washington University in St. Louis West Virginia University Wheaton College, Massachusetts Xavier University York College of Pennsylvania *as of May 24, 2013

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Dear Friends of Holy Child,

t is most fitting that our Annual Report comes to you during this season of giving. We have so much for which to be grateful. The 20122013 school year witnessed significant accomplishments. As has been true for the past fifty-one years, we have been blessed by a community that supports our school with time, talent, and treasure. The whole community came together—parents, alumna, and staff—to raise $302,000 from the Fall Classic, the Gala, Mayfield Market and the Tiger Trot; the Annual Fund raised $522,000. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all those volunteers listed in this report, who spent countless hours ensuring the success of these events. However, beyond fundraising, Holy Child, like most independent schools, is tuition driven. Like many independent schools, funds raised by the Annual Fund and events are needed to provide scholarships, financial aid, and funds for professional development for our faculty. Not only are they exceptional teachers, they are lifelong learners. Speaking of faculty, since last July, our Latin teacher took a thirteenday trip to Turkey, our AP English Language and our AP Spanish teacher completed AP teacher training classes, our Physical Education teacher finalized her Olympic archery certification, and our Theatre teacher wrapped up a course on stage lighting for school productions. Six faculty members and two administrators were trained in “Teaching All Kinds of Minds: Principles and Strategies of Neuroeducation,” which focuses on using science and research to enhance their teaching practices. Our technology director took a class on the Foundation of Information Security and Assurance, and two middle school teachers are continuing their graduate work in school administration. Finally, the entire faculty and staff are looking forward to this month’s in-service day with Dr. Leonard Sax, author of Girls on the Edge, an excellent book on the challenges facing girls in the 21st century. As all of you know, this is my 20th and last year as Headmistress at Holy Child. When I informed the Board of Trustees of my decision to step down next June, I also committed to one final project: the renovation of

our gym and stage. The plan is to upgrade the gym with new windows and motorized shades, install HVAC and a new stage floor, refinish the gym floor and provide new rigging and fire resistant stage curtains. Some of you may remember that at my installation in September 1994, I stated that I would not leave the school without air conditioning the gym! I am extremely pleased that the Board of Trustees formally approved this project on November 13, 2013. To date we have received almost $800,000 in gifts towards our goal of $1.2 million. In the coming weeks Sean Glynn, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and I will be reaching out to all of our constituents to support this much-needed renovation. In closing, I wish to recall the final verse of the Hymn to Holy Child. “Thou Alpha Omega, first and last, in whose eternal love our lives are passed; Thou art the Christ the living God’s own Son. Make us with Thee in heart and spirit one, O Holy Child.” I wish I could personally thank each of you, our trustees, alumnae, alumnae parents, faculty, staff, and most of all our great young women, past and present, who have with your hearts and hands, kept the spirit of Holy Child, Potomac true to the mission and philosophy of Cornelia Connelly. With my gratitude and prayers, Maureen K. Appel Headmistress Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

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A New World

ack in the day, say 1995, my magazine colleagues at Discovery Communications and I were pondering how to explain the “WorldWideWeb” to our nation of readers. We were just launching a website, an idea that was not yet an everyday habit. Now, these decades later, we are still launching things that need a little explanation. Your alumnae/community magazine is still here, but now we are equal partners with that essential tool on the Web. Many of you have been introduced to our newly launched website (www.holychild.org), a more robust vehicle that carries both the critical day-to-day information for our parents and students, but also timely news from near and far. For now, your class notes reside in these pages, but now you will be able to see and update them during the year, not just in the summer. Profiles of our alumnae can be posted monthly, not yearly. And you will be able to keep up with the events on campus and off with the click of a mouse. So why print? We have a renewed opportunity to showcase what makes Holy Child the special place that it is—in beautiful images and storytelling. We are fortunate to have had enthusiastic and talented alumna write our features! We have freshened up our look, and in all of our materials, from the new design of the website to the new viewbook, we have taken steps to capture the unique spirit of our school. We hope you enjoy it all. Kathy Ely Editor and Director of Communications

ON THE COVERS: Graduate Haley Williams exemplifies the beautiful day (front); Our senior pink ladies get goofy before walking the stage (back).

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Madeleine Bromiley Kathy Ely Linnea Farnsworth Justin Gordon Robert Isacson Wendy Steck Merriman Suzi Montes de Oca Stone Photography Kaitlyn Valis Betsy Young

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Editor, Director of Communications

Victoria Barry ’13 Editorial Assistant

Kaelyn Serena ’12 Editorial Intern Art Director

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Director of Development Director of Special Events & Parent Programs

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School News New Chapters

Sending our girls to the next level: MS Closing, Baccalaureate, Graduation.

Traditions: Indescribable!

Student Achievementt

Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Headmistress

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Ms. Veronica Ahern Ms. Nancy Binnie Mr. Daniel Dean Mr. Paul Dell’Isola Ms. Patricia Farrell Mrs. Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93 Mr. Howard Hill Mr. Timothy Jorgensen Ms. Geraldine Kavanagh ’67 Mr. Paul B. Kern, III Mr. Brett MacInnes Mrs. Mary McCann Ms. Janice Obuchowski

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Mr. Sean Glynn

Mr. Peter Plamondon, Jr. Mr. Thomas Sanders Mr. Paul Sullivan Mr. Bill Whitaker Mr. Edward Williams

The Art of Balance

by Victoria Barry

An alumna paints an intimate picture of the eclectic cast of Holy Child arts.

Ready to Take on the World by Kathy H. Ely

How Holy Child brings 21st-century attributes into its “life ready” curriculum.

NHS; AXA scholarship; MOAS president

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Alumnae profiles, from oceanographer to maple syrup tycoons and comediennes, plus our largest class notes ever.

Annual Report – 2012/2013

by Julianne Pearson

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2012-2013 Board of Trustees

Spring Break in France; Service Weekend in Jamaica

Father-Daughter Breakfast; Why I Sent My Daughter Here; Grandparents Day; MotherDaughter Breakfast; In Memoriam

20 Fine Arts:

World Travels

An alumna profiles an athletics program with strong roots and a growing future.

We are Family

An alumna walks in the shoes of Campus Minister, Jean Plummer

Tigers Roll On

Smithsonian fellowship in Appalachia; a beloved counselor retires

by Kelly Whelan

Service: Born to Serve

36 Faculty News

30 Athletics:

By Kaelynn Serena

An alumna looks back at the shared traditions that makes a Holy Child school unique.

View from the Top

60 Volunteers:

Parents in Action

Development

“Denim & Diamonds” Gala; Fall Classic; Mayfield Market; Tiger Trot

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Last year’s winners, this year’s quiz.

school news Speaking of Writing… THE ANNUAL AUTHOR speaking series in McShain Library

is alive and well. In her continuing efforts to encourage recreational reading, librarian Katy Oskoui brings a wide range of local fiction writers in for engaging “meet-andgreets” with our students. Author Ellen Oh, who spoke to both Middle and Upper School students, spoke of Korean and Japanese legends, which inform her exciting debut novel Prophecy. By sharing detailed historical images from Korea, and tales of infighting among minikingdoms, invasions by several Chinese dynasties, the Mongols, and Japan, Oh not only was entertaining but wove in a history lesson to boot. Returning author Laura Elliot spoke about her novel, Under a War-Torn Sky; if her stories didn’t do enough, she helped bring Civil War times to life by allowing our Middle Schoolers to try on a hoop skirt. A visit from author Katherine Marsh, who was awarded with the Edgar Award for the Best Juvenile Mystery for her novel, The Night Tourist, also spiced things up in the library with scary stories. International stars “visited” the library as well, through the magic of live streaming: webcasts with authors Shannon Hale, known for her extremely popular Princess Academy books, and Harry Potter’s J.K Rowling, were well-received. The students were excited to send in questions (sadly, not selected), for one of the more popular events: a live webcast from country pop star Taylor Swift. The message, in addition to seeing how the megastar works, was how literature has been Taylor’s main inspiration for her songwriting. Just one more reason to hit the fiction racks!

Robotics On The Move THE BIG GREEN machine climbing over the obstacles was just a bunch of plastic

pieces and wires a few hours ago, another creation of the Middle School robotics class, an elective started three years ago that uses a Carnegie Mellon curriculum to teach software and engineering skills. (Isabelle Tyshing and Colleen Whitcomb try out their creation.) Sophomore Ren McFaden got the Upper School “Tech Club” up and running as well, meeting weekly with monitor Mr. Gordon to exercise technical expertise in personal projects: laser pointers, speakers, lit pumpkins. All thanks to the Fathers Club and Mr. McFaden for funding. Did you see the LED lights on the computer lab Christmas tree, the lit-up fireplace in Beauty and the Beast? Science, technology, engineering, math, and fun on display. You go, STEM girls.

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Gabby Hanley (left) gets in the Civil War spirit, while Emma Grassi (above) gets her Oh novel personally signed.

Babies & Baptisms Karin Wells, director of the Writing Center and faculty advisor for The Willow, and her husband, Kevin, welcomed baby number two, Andrew Adams Wells, on December 10, 2012. A whopping 9 pound, 2 ounce Andrew was welcomed with open arms by his big brother Matthew (3). Congratulations to student life assistant director Shannon Pitcher Van Why ’97 and her husband, Eric, who welcomed their firstborn, Jackson Shamus Van Why, on April 4, 2013. She decided this summer that she couldn’t leave Jax behind, so did not returnin this fall to work at Holy Child.

Molding Girls Into Artists THINGS WERE HEATING up this summer at

Holy Child, as Ms. Lyons’ summer ceramics and 3D art class cooked up some pretty spectacular crafts. From intricate candle holders to clay “rubber ducks,” the Middle School art room was filled with hand-crafted decorations and pottery. Middle school offers ceramics through the elective during the school year, but the summer program allows the girls more freedom to make whatever they’d like. “It’s a way to express myself…in 3D!” one camper exclaims. And with our very own kiln at the ready, Ms. Lyons is planning to expand the ceramics program and integrate it into the Upper School. We sure can’t wait to see what our girls cook up next! –KAELYNN SERENA

English teacher Katie Moylan, who celebrated with a staff shower with Shannon, delivered a beautiful baby girl just a couple weeks later, on April 21. Marjorie “Marjie” Anne Moylan clocked in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

Girls on target: Isabelle McBride, Honor Upton, and Tati Klinkenbergh take aim in PE class.

Alumnae association president Jessi Williams Frend ’01 feels so at home at Holy Child that she wanted her November 2012 baby, Jack, to be baptized in the chapel. So this January, Fr. Jim Greenfield (who also married Jessi and her husband, Tim), presided over Holy Child’s first on-site baptism, with Jessi’s sister, Allie ’07, overseeing as a very proud godmother.

Bulls-eye! TAKING AIM AT ARCHERY: The immensely popular movies The Hunger Games, Brave, even TV’s “Revolution”

have showcased the sport of archery, even made it cool. Holy Child has included archery as a part of physical education for many years now, but this spring our very own Leslie Whitaker has upped the ante in our archery program. Leslie, featured in an article in the Potomac Almanac, became certified in the National System of Instruction, applied for and was awarded a grant from The Easton Foundation in Van Nuys, CA. This national foundation, building on the increasing popularity of the sport, is pushing to bring it back into the NCAA; the grant made possible a whole range of equipment: four targets, indoor screening, a large complement of bows and arrows. By instituting this particular system—the one used in the Olympics, with recurve bows that carry sights— we encourage our students to develop skills to be able to compete in college (James Madison, for example, currently competes on a club level), or with enough practice, the Olympics! It also allowed us to start a summer camp to help those and others learn the basics or move to the next level. Leslie reminds us that archery is a “lifetime sport,” which only requires fine motor skills; so anyone, at any age, can learn and succeed at archery if they practice and put their mind to it. Look around, you may see our own Katniss hitting her target. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

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Graduates In The Pink!

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he white dresses, the red roses, the primping and pictures in the library: the graduation rituals were as rich as ever for this “pink panther” class, who didn’t let the rain dampen their spirits. Class president Heather Lamb captured that spirit in her extremely personal commencement speech, relating how this notable collection of girls embodied the special Holy Child traits. Heather walked us through a typical day through the halls, noting each and every one of her “sisters” and their unforgettable selves. Commencement speaker and alumna Jennifer Baumgartner, Class of 1995, evoked both her Holy Child and further education (she is a clinical psychologist and author on girls’ image issues), to offer life lessons that revolve around the paradoxes that exist, from less is more to peace in the chaos. Jennifer, who taught at Holy Child (and whose mother did as well), showed the girls that the familiar “actions not words” motto really matters, even in today’s world.

“Fulfill Your Every Plan” Middle School Closing

nother day of smiles, memories, and sunshine marked the Middle School closing ceremony for 2013. MS Student Council school president Sophia Seymour left no tiger without a smile, highlighting wonderful moments such as Six Flags, Echo Hill and Ellis Island; she reminded all that these girls will cherish and live out their quote on through high school and beyond: “Grant what is in your heart and fulfill your every plan.” Retiring counselor Jane Bandler, who watched the girls’ personal growth over the past three years, elaborated on life plans and transitions as she heads to her next stage. The Native American story she shared with the girls stressed that we have the power to be the good in the world. Clare Bloss, recipient of the J. Robert Walsh Award, also gave a memorable speech, appreciating how the girls are pushed by their teachers to strive for greatness. 8

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The smiling grads (previous spread, from left): Caroline Coppoolse and Annie Donatelli, with Dani Dell’Isola peering in; Paula Mansilla and Frances Agege, Caroline Chiaramonte and B Haynes. (This spread, clockwise from left) Friends en route to the ceremony, and supporting one another (Nicolette McCann and Chloe MacAuliffe; taking selfies (Heather Lamb and Dani Dell’Isola); the official portrait; Tricia Horn with alumna sister Meghan ’08 and family; Daniela Falcone with alumna sisters Stephanie (’08), Rosina (’07), and family; student council president Fannie Benziger with Mrs. Kumm; commencement speaker/alumna Jennifer Baumgartner; Mary Frances Gumbs, whose mom attended a Holy Child school in Ghana; Molly Magnarelli with family; Kaelyn Sclavounos with Trish McCartin; and Debbie Greif giving the high sign.

The Student Council Award Heather Margaret Lamb The Prize for General Academic Excellence Debra Ann Greif The Award for Leadership in Christian Social Action Catherine Rose MacCormack & Mary-Frances Akua Gumbs The Karen Elizabeth Noonan Award Kelly Omolara Omotade The Cornelia Connelly Award Victoria Arlene Barry Alumnae Association Award Melissa Carol Lutes & Molly Elizabeth Magnarelli The Sr. Connie Craig Award Brietta Marie Haynes The Cardinal Hickey Award Romel Keania Cooper The Mary C. Crivella Prize Daniela Falcone

MS grads with roses from their sisters included Grace Kavanagh, Maya Whitaker, Gabbi Brault, and Alanna Dwoskin; Clare Bloss offered a remembrance; Ella Sullivan, Isabelle McBride, and Sophia Seymour of the Student Council; Mrs. Appel congratulates Kaiya Robinson; and Rita Tomon with US science chair and mom, Kelly, and family.

Academic Scholarship Cecile Paquette Dreux Scholarship Rita Tomon Mary Pat Siemien Award Kaiya Robinson

J. Robert Walsh Award Clare Bloss

The Holy Child Scholarship Gabbi Brault

Head of School Award Sydney Francis

Mary Kosch Scholarship Colleen Whitcomb

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Indescribable! Rings and dances and graduation roses are just the beginning of the memorable moments that make up the endearing and enduring traditions of Holy Child. BY KAELYNN SERENA, ’12

nergy. It’s funny how a simple “thing” like energy can affect your day, year, and even life. When I think back on my days at Holy Child, warm memories aren’t the first thing to fill my mind. When I think about Holy Child I get a feeling, a feeling of love, pride, happiness, and utter and complete loyalty. I can still feel the contagious laughter coming from the locker room or the hallways. I can feel the joy that lingers throughout the school, bouncing off the blue and yellow walls. This spirit is embodied through our many traditions. When I transferred to Holy Child my sophomore year, I had no idea what the class colors were, let alone even what they meant. As I arrived on the first day, all I could see was purple covering the outside of the school and I thought “Good thing I was warned about this!” I walked down to the locker room with an “I love seniors” sign draped around my neck, trying to get through a sea of purple streamers and balloons. All I could see—through the purple—were laughing, happy, and friendly girls actually excited to be back at school. I instantly knew I made the right decision. I know I speak for everyone when I say that my classmates became my

The pink ladies’ welcome on the first day of school: Nicolette McCann, Nicole Simpson, Fiona Galliani, Bridget Cahill, Laura Meissner. Blue/Gold games spark spirit (Meghan Gulcher, Kalie Dominick, Theresa Cotton, Rachel Burley, Peyton Holifield), but Spirit Week is “the best week of the year”: Heather Lamb took “roll out of bed day” to new heights, and the seniors eked out a win again.

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sisters and our class color became our identity. Each class at Holy Child experiences the four year journey of high school together, as recent graduate Heather Lamb put it, “…I have thought about how I could appropriately put our journey into words, and, as we discovered on our retreat, it really is impossible to do. Only the 47 of us truly know what it is like to be a member of this class.” From the day the seniors present their color to the incoming freshmen (a day I unfortunately missed out on) to long after graduation, your class color always remains close to your heart. Because that color represents the incredible bond you were so lucky to form with your class. My classmates tried to prepare me as best as they could, but every Holy Child girl, past and present, knows how difficult it is to describe the unforgettable days that make up Spirit Week. I headed into the gym on that wrap-up Friday, my ears pounding from the pre-game cheering; with game-face on, I embraced it immediately. I had never seen such an explosion of color before. I never expected something as simple as a color to

have the ability to mold 50 classmates into one unit, but it did. Beyond the opportunities to shine and be creative, the winning, the school pride, the ability to let loose, and the distraction from school work, the true reward is experiencing the value of teamwork. (But don’t get me wrong, as a member of the class who won group day four years in a row, I can safely say that winning is really fun, too.) I’m especially proud, as a member of the original winning “Our Big Fat Green Wedding” party, to congratulate our green successors, the Class of 2016, victorious in their own group day win with their perfectly executed “Peter Pan: Welcome to Neverland.” The creativity, dedication and over-the-top effort put into each day’s costumes are not done for self-benefit, but for your class. And Heather Lamb’s dedication definitely showed…as a bed bug AND her pink lollipop! Loyalty to your class and class color always remains strong, but the pride that we have for Holy Child as a whole trumps all, which is why we have two more colors that are important to us. The annual Blue/Gold Games not only spark a fun, year-long competition, but they give us another opportunity to show our school pride. From the powder puff football game, to the diaper drive, pep rallies and It’s Academic, Blue/Gold is just another fun way to express school spirit. Blue/Gold was revived in 2006, after a bit of a dormant period, after the colors were changed from brown and gold. We’re sure glad it’s back!

raditions, those things that echo through our lives, are more than just raucous fun. We can thank our original Holy Child students, the Class of 1965, for most of our enduring traditions. Like Ring Day. It’s crazy to believe that the same black onyx ring, inscription and all, wrapped around my finger is the same as someone who also experienced the Holy Child journey decades ago. And that the receiving and turning of the ring ceremony remains the same, with the special bond of senior ring sisters passing on the tradition. Even Holly Ball, our annual winter formal, has been around since the

Group Day honors went to the “Big Green Wedding” in 2012, but the Peter Pan contingent (with Brenna Nammo, Isabelle Tyshing, and Ren McFaden) followed in strong fashion. The tee-hee challenge has been a staple for decades, as has the Tiger cheering on both spirit and basketball games.

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Gold Takes the Gold beginning too. And we still have seniors decorate in a surprise theme for the juniors and sophomores; this year’s “North Pole” provided a fun backdrop. The juniors returned the favor for prom, surprising the seniors with a Casino Royale décor. Some of these longstanding traditions have evolved a bit. Back when our colors were brown and gold, in the 1960’s and 70’s, they had a brown/ gold “day,” which featured brown/gold teams and some fun competitions and pep rallies, with girls dressed up in the colors and tigers cheered on the sports teams. The tiger mascot still roams the sidelines, but brown gave way to blue more than twenty years ago. Then, seniors decorated the school the first day…as our seniors do, but without “colors.” They “TP’d” the school, forked the front field, and drew everywhere with sidewalk chalk. Props to the Class of 1999, the first class to move away from TP—they received praises and cake for following the rules—holding up signs instead. Perhaps they inspired the Class of 2001, the first to evolve the tradition into dousing the campus in their personal class color (theirs was frighteningly black). I was surprised to learn that class colors didn’t exist for the first couple of decades, and weren’t solidified until years after this. (Black had to be discarded after a very haunting first-day-of-school decorating and intimidating Spirit Week set up, moving toward much more “friendly” colors.) Spirit Week days were implemented, with the designated themed days rotating through the years; “Roll-Out of Bed” Day and Disney Day are among the familiar, but along the way we’ve had Crazy Hair Day, Hawaiian Day, Nerd Day, Twin Day, Boy Day, and Tacky Tourist day, to name just a few. Spirit has always been strong, its personality has just changed with the times.

rom day one we’ve learned about Cornelia Connelly, her mission and her values. Her quote “Actions not Words” has been ingrained in us, and for a good reason. The values that we learn and implement in our lives from Cornelia are what binds us to the other Holy Child schools throughout the United States, and even the world. When I watched a goodbye video for the head of Mayfield Junior in California, I felt they had filmed it here, especially when they showed that very motto on the wall. Looking through Mayfield’s annual magazine, you can see “actions not words” and other Cornelia quotes placed throughout its pages. When I arrived at the library the day of graduation and saw all my classmates in their beautiful white dresses and holding their elegant red roses, I had no idea that Holy Child graduates from Rye, Oak Knoll, Anaheim California, and Mayfield were doing the same thing. And although

Last year’s 2012-2013 Blue/Gold games ended in a Gold team victory! Although it was close, with Blue winning powerpuff football, middle school soccer, the student council car wash, sandwiches and T-shirt day, Gold “took the gold” by winning It’s Academic, the diaper drive, bingo and Tiger Trot.

The “white dress for graduation” tradition runs through all the Holy Child schools (see Rye at top), though some vary with the color of the roses and the style of the dress. The onyx ring was designed by the HCPotomac first graduation class, and is celebrated on this past ring day by Dorothy Hastings, Tricia Horn, Becky Ward, alumna and school nurse Cindy Gillette ’79, Haley Williams, Annie Virostek, and Katie Rose Marvin.

Mayfield wears long white gloves, and Oak Knoll holds pink roses, you could tell, even by looking at the photos, that they were Holy Child graduates. Many of the traditions that we share, I suspect, are not by coincidence. A few that we have in common–Big/Little sisters, Kairos, Ring Day, Spirit Week, class colors, Cornelia Connelly day, and Baccalaureate mass are because of Cornelia and because of the seven goals and beliefs we all share. And we love the fireplaces, a staple in all Holy Child schools. It’s touching to know that not only do we have our Holy Child Potomac community, but we also belong to a much larger community, beyond our walls, who embody our same values, mottos and traditions. I am so thankful that I got to be a part of our wonderful traditions at Holy Child. Some longstanding, some new, but all equally memorable and special. Kaelynn Serena, Class of 2012, who appropriately received the Sister Connie Craig Award for exemplifying the spirit of the Holy Child, now revels in the traditions of the “Flyers” at the University of Dayton. This summer was her first year working as an intern in the communications department; interviewing, writing stories and working on our new website. She plans to continue pursuing her interests in photography, communications and public relations as a Dayton sophomore.

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Dads and Daughters ONE OF OUR oldest tradi-

tions carried on this year as a special FatherDaughter Mass was celebrated in the chapel, with a lovely brunch following. Alumna Christie Anne Short, Class of 1996, spoke to the gathered dads and The new tradition of the longstanding Father/Daughter daughters about her chari- Communion Breakfast features an alumna speaker; this year, Christie Ann Short ’96 shared her Haiti stories. Sanari Bryantable work with the poor of Chavis enjoyed bonding with her dad, Samuel. Haiti, as well as her teaching career. Christie, here with celebrant Msgr. John Ensler and headmistress Maureen Appel, was happy to have her own dad, Chuck Short, attend this special morning event.

Grandparents Day THE SPIRIT OF gratitude is in the air around Thanksgiving, and the stu-

dents were especially thankful for the grandparents that traveled near and far just to catch a glimpse of what they do on a regular day at Holy Child. Warm smiles and welcomes were abundant as proud granddaughters, such as Betsi Micholas above, showed off their school and enjoyed a breakfast, mass and the grandparents as “shadows” in class. 14

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Why I Sent My Daughters Here: Keeping It In The Family JEN KRESS IS so familiar in the halls of Holy Child, you’d think she

worked here. She has given selflessly of her time ever since her own graduation in 1985, as board member, alumnae rep, even receiving the Alumnae of the Year award in 1999. Her real claim to fame is as founder of our annual Mayfield Market, now a bigger success than ever in its 10th year. Daughters Katie and Ellie grew up seeing their mother’s involvement and love for Holy Child, so it came as no surprise when the girls visited and felt that same sense of comfort and community. Katie graduated in 2012, after making a real mark in both our Vocal Jazz Ensemble and our yearly musicals; little sister Ellie spent so much time here as a young girl that Holy Child was the only high school she applied to! “I felt really comfortable and all the girls seemed really happy there,” she says. We are happy to welcome her into the Class of 2017, and to have her mom here for another four years. Jen is following in some solid legacy footsteps. Cathy Caspar Delahay relates, “I have had the good fortune to be a part of Holy Child’s history from the beginning, as a member of the first class to enter in 1961, as a member of the first class to graduate in 1965, and as a parent of the first alumnae children to graduate: twins in 1988.” Her other two daughters attended Holy Child as well, and worked in the school to boot! Keeping the tradition alive, Kris and Meghan Rowan both agree that Holy Child was the perfect fit for them. When asked “What makes Holy Child so special?” Kris replied: “Holy Child has been a place where…she has become what she’s supposed to be.” This mother-daughter pair both agree that Holy Child was the perfect environment for Meghan to learn and grow. “The environment is conducive to growing up and becoming independent and a strong young woman, ” says Meghan, Class of 2012, who picked Holy Child on her own in middle school, left us for a bit and returned to her home in the Tigers’ den her sophomore year. Jennifer, class of 1988, and Alexa Urgo, share the same unconditional love for Holy Child. Jennifer is thrilled at her daughter’s success here, both personal and academic. Jennifer said “I am very happy that my daughter picked this place on her own…she came here and she got the feeling that I did years back.” Different generations, different personalities, but all attracted to the same feeling—as Jennifer Urgo says, that “warm, inviting environment” was what drew her and her daughter into Holy Child. –KAELYNN SERENA, ’12

Moms, Grads and a Bit of Brunch Moms celebrated the last official event at school with their graduating daughters: from left, Courtney Bratun with mom, Ali; Sarah Dhallan and mom, Christine Chang; Caroline Chiaramonte with mom, Jennifer.

AMIDST ALL OF the end of the year chaos with graduation

preparations, the Mother-Daughter brunch provides a nice, tranquil escape from all the stress and jitters. This time is special because of the time shared with moms, but it’s touching for classmates, who get their chance for the library to show off the senior class color. The girls receive their yearbooks and class mugs and get to show their moms memories of the year, while making new ones that very day. What a special tradition!

In Memoriam THE HOLY CHILD COMMUNITY HAS LOST MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF FAMILY MEMBERS THIS PAST YEAR; PLEASE KEEP THESE SPECIAL LOVED ONES IN YOUR PRAYERS. Emanuel John Alahouzos, father-in-law of Diane Moore Alahouzos ’71

Mary Daley, grandmother of Carolyn Hodgson ’09

Jean Taylor Brigati, grandmother of Molly Magnarelli ’13 and Kelsey Brigati ’16

Thomas Daley, uncle of Carolyn Hodgson ’09

Rick Hart, brother of Ellen Kumm, faculty

Andrew D. Pochter, brother of Emily Pochter ’08

Ann Jordan, mother of Kelly Jordan ’01 Dr. Robert Norman Schwartz, father of Maria Schwartz ’68

Viola Kamkwalala, mother of Kamana Kamkwalala ’14

Dr. Lewis Scott, grandfather of Lindsey Kane ’05, Meghan Kane ’07, and Jenna Kane ’10

Joel Falk, father of Sarah Falk ’11

Mollie Martin, sister of Maggie Martin ’00

Joseph P. Vaghi, Jr., grandfather of Lizz Vaghi ’06

Thomas A. Farrell, grandfather of Chrissy Yee ’01 and Katie Yee ’04

Michael O’Donnell, uncle of M.K. Raffaniello ’09

Stephen Vermillion, father of Sarah Vermillion ’15

Dr. Francis Chiaramonte, grandfather of Colleen Chiaramonte ’11 and Caroline Chiaramonte ’13

Margaret Golas, mother of Katherine Golas ’72

Elly Paulos, grandmother of Ashley Paulos ’10

Roger Widmark, husband of Charlie Laux Widmark ’81 and father of Lindsay Widmark ’14

M. Malin Craig, RSCJ, sister of Sr. Connie Craig

Geordan Harris, brother of Kristelle Harris Kambanis ’00

Betty Joyce Pearson, mother of Monica Pearson Potter ’93

John Daniel Buckingham, grandfather of Catherine Buckingham ’06, Brianna Buckingham ’08, and Mary Buckingham ’14 Elizabeth T. Carter, mother of Jennifer Carter ’76

Raleigh Daniel, father of Julia Daniel Robertson ’74

Charles John Jorgensen, grandfather of Anna Jorgensen ’15

Patricia A. Donnelly, Class of 1975

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“The happiest people in life are people who live for others—I am convinced of this!”

Born To Serve The tradition of service at Holy Child is embodied in many, but none more so than Jean Plummer, campus minister, teacher, Harry Potter fanatic, and all-around good egg. BY JULIANNE PEARSON, ’12

t’s a Saturday afternoon in October, and ghosts have overtaken Holy Child’s gym, joined by skeletons, pirates, princesses, and other holiday talismans, from witches’ hats to orange and black balloons, all summoned to get visitors in the spirit. The magic hour is almost here—but there is still decorating to be done before the DJ and more than two hundred costumed friends descend upon this Halloween-lover’s lair. In the middle of game and craft stations manned by dozens of volunteers shines the smiling face of the woman who helps conjure up this Best Buddies event each year. It’s a hundred degrees in New York City, and the girls of Manhattan’s Cornelia Connelly Center (CCC) don’t want to go outside. All the better for the juniors, seniors and faculty from each Holy Child high school across the country who’ve gathered here for Camp Cornelia, an eight-daylong service project dedicated to helping the school’s rising fifth graders:

the team has planned a slew of indoor craft projects to challenge the girls’ creativity (and slide in a little math lesson along the way). After morning prayer and reading a chapter of Cornelia Connelly’s book, A Generous Love, it’s time to let loose. Teens and tweens sing Justin Bieber at the top of their lungs and show off their craziest dance moves. When they tire, volunteers tell stories and dispense some much-needed hugs. These simple things go a long way toward encouraging the students, who are rich in spirit but come from financially poor backgrounds. They may not know it, but every day, as they hurry between classes, the girls pass by a Service is an everyday thing with Ms. Plummer, from working with WMSG students (Emilie Signora and Sarah Kern with the girls, left) to regular food donations for the poor (Jenna and Lilly Paro). Amanda Arcidiacono was a key helper in the Plummer army.

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Ms. Plummer brought joy to all of her endeavors, from summer camps (she was the director of the Cornelia in the City last year in NYC) to comfy sleepovers like the annual Washington Middle School for Girls “lock-in” visit at Holy Child. Maureen Appel brought in two stellar campus ministers—Dale Cummings led the Middle School program in collaboration with Ms. Plummer before her retirement in 2012.

quote on a wall—“Be yourself, but make that self all that God wants it to be”—that describes the woman whose servant heart and boundless energy have made this week’s camp possible. It’s Homeroom in the Gym,and like pretty much every Wednesday at Holy Child in Potomac, a bubbly voice comes over the microphone for morning announcements: “Please don’t forget to bring in your sandwiches for Martha’s Table! And we are still looking for a few more volunteers for our WMSG lock-in on Friday. And come to see me right after this if you’re interested in joining us for tutoring at Ivymount today; we have two spots left! Oh, and Foundations Class, our prayer block is tomorrow, don’t forget.” The woman spurring on the students is the driving force behind these seemingly endless community service opportunities—including numerous Best Buddies parties, New York and Washington summer camps, regular tutoring and work with Washington Middle School for Girls, Victory Terrace, the list goes on. She is inspiring. She is indomitable. She is Ms. Jean Plummer, Holy Child’s campus minister, religion teacher, and living embodiment of the Christ-like principles set forth by our foundress, Cornelia Connelly. During my four years at Holy Child, I was fortunate enough to see firsthand why Ms. Plummer has had such an impact on so many people— on both the hundreds of girls she has motivated to serve since she joined the school in 1995, and on the souls who have been touched by all this volunteerism. As one of the senior leaders who traveled to New York with Ms. Plummer to work with the students there, I saw their excitement grow as we affirmed their ability to succeed in life. I saw, during the many

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enjoyable hours I spent on the couch in her office, the tangible evidence of her influence. Notes of love and gratitude from former students decorate one of her walls. Applications for retreats, service trips and other volunteer endeavors are stacked for her attention. A bake sale cart stands ready for members of her much-adored Harry Potter club to generate proceeds for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Whether rallying students for the Help the Homeless Walkathon, fostering friendships between people with and without developmental disabilities through the Best Buddies club, or producing the annual, lifechanging Kairos retreat, Ms. Plummer makes sure that students learn how to apply fundamental Christian principles of love and compassion in the real world beyond the classroom. Even the smallest of gestures on her part speak to her warmth and kindness toward others: Sick students are treated to a cup of tea with honey; those who forget their lunch find a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the ready. From this amazing woman, students discover that living out a life of service is not only possible, it’s a lot of fun! Jean Plummer “pretty much epitomizes a life of service here at Holy Child,” notes more than one staff member; Kathy Ely, alumna mom and communications director, has seen her from many sides: “Through the events that she organizes, how she selflessly finds a way to make each one work—you never get the sense that she is counting her ‘community service hours,’ so no one else does, either. They just give because she does… and because she makes it fun and elicits that sense of peace and grace.” “Her pure heart is transparent…All can see her desire to help those less fortunate,” adds Teri Boragno, Assistant Head of School, Student Life. “She has an energy toward service that is unending. And she does it all with a smile on her face, with joy in her heart.” She even carries it on with her personal passions, from teaching of the fight for good vs. evil in her favorite Harry Potter stories to her continuing work in her own life, with

husband, Charles, generally by her side, helping in his own quiet way. Initially, it was a heart full of another blessing—gratitude—that led Jean Plummer to prioritize being, as she puts it, “other-centered rather than self-centered.” As a college senior at Loyola in Baltimore, “I felt a profound sense of gratitude for all that I had been given in life, and I knew that I wanted to ‘give back’ by participating in some kind of post-college service program,” she says. She found it in a project called the Teacher Service Corps, which was just starting in the Archdiocese of Washington. “I joined the first group of volunteers in this pilot program. We lived together in a community and taught in various underfunded Catholic schools, each of us working for a stipend rather than a salary,” she notes. She did this for two years before stepping up to assistant director of the program for another two. At that point, budget cuts ended her position. She was assured another teaching job by the superintendant of Catholic schools, but an ad for a campus minister at Holy Child resonated strongly with her. “When I came to interview, I fell in love with the place right away,” she remembers of that time more than fifteen years ago. “The opportunity to teach and also do ministry was ideal for me. I was very involved in service programs in middle and high school as well as in campus ministry in college, [so] the chance to work in campus ministry [at Holy Child] was an exciting opportunity.” From the get-go, Jean focused her efforts on inspiring girls to dive into community service opportunities head-on. “I believe that people tend to be naturally compassionate,” she explains, “but for this compassion to be discovered, exercised and deepened, opportunities for service must be provided along with appropriate preparation and reflection. When students experience relationships with people in need, their evoked compassion leads to continued action. All of this helps them to grow, in everything from seeking understanding of the world around them and discernment of their meaningful role in this world, to an experience of meeting God face-to-face in the people for whom and with whom they serve. “No human being can be dismissed from our concern and care,” she insists. “We can’t do everything to alleviate all human suffering and promote every important justice issue, but we can all do something. Commitment to service and justice is part of the ideal profile of a Holy Child alumna.” Ms. Plummer makes clear that she “does not claim responsibility” for alumnae who have gone on to lead lives of service—but she is extremely proud of them nevertheless. She knows the volunteer and career paths of dozens of former students who stay in touch. Among them are more teachers than she can recall; Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers; a social worker who joined the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and graduates who have helped secure loans for farmers in developing countries, worked with the poor and dying in India alongside

The annual October “walkathon” benefits New Endeavors for Women and Bethesda Cares; weekly sandwich-making for Martha’s Table is encouraged at Homeroom in the Gym (past student council members, from left, are Missy Lutes, Fannie Benziger, Katrina Dzyak, Ingrid Gooch, Cat MacCormack, and Katie Pritchard). Alumna and author Julianne Pearson was a longstanding volunteer at WMSG, in NYC, and throughout the years.

Mother Teresa’s Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity, aided children living in poverty in Chicago and Boston, started charitable foundations, and many more who carried forward the “live for others” torch after their years at Holy Child. Jean Plummer was doubtless the one who first set the spark, inspiring them, in one of Ms. Plummer’s favorite quotes in the words of Saint Ignatius, to “go forth and set the world on fire.” I count myself among these women who absorbed from Ms. Plummer the fact that community service is a gift, not a chore. After taking her social justice class my senior year, I joined the Social Justice Residential College theme-based living program that my university, Bucknell, offers. I began tutoring students who learn English as a second language. I traveled to Nicaragua with a service-learning group, and I continue to participate in activities through our Catholic Campus Ministry Team as well. With this remarkable woman’s example threaded into my being (and her ever-famous and downright contagious laugh ringing in my memory!), I understand fully what she recently told me: “The happiest people in life are people who live for others—I am convinced of this!” Julianne Pearson, Class of 2012, was named Potomac Youth of the Year and an “Extraordinary Teen” by Bethesda magazine during her tenure at Holy Child, and continues Ms. Plummer’s legacy now that she’s in college. Editor Maria Mihalik contributed to this article.

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â€œ...it provides every girl that walks the halls access to a diverse range of opportunities to thrive.â€?

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The Art of Balance The Best of Both Worlds in Holy Child’s Fine Arts Program BY VICTORIA BARRY ’13

ho knew Channing Tatum could dance like he did in Step Up, and that Zac Efron could juggle theater and a basketball in High School Musical? Just like these guys, Holy Child girls make it look easy when tackling academics and the arts. The arts program is a central asset to the school, and it provides every girl that walks the halls access to a diverse range of opportunities to thrive. Students know that there is a lot more to creative expression than being in one box or another. Our singers, dancers, actors, musicians, and artists have taken many paths to achievement; if you talk to the girls who have moved through the Holy Child arts program, as I did, you will find that they have a great abundance of memories and experiences to share.

The Voice At the start of every year, many get their first exposure to the arts at Holy Child when the Vocal Jazz Ensemble harmoniously serenades the happy families at Grandparents’ Day. This select á cappella group is just one of the many outlets for voices heard, as well as the Middle School Chorus, the Upper School Chorus, the Middle School production, or the annual winter musical. Through the years, these ensembles have emerged as bold, classical, and melodious but are always a blend of unique styles from the talent within each. Last year’s ensemble showed the girls’ evolution over time, with seniors Alex Phifer, Ashleigh Murray, Mary-Frances Gumbs, Amanda Arcidiacano, Kaylah Simmons, and Nicolette McCann—with the addition of junior Gaby Walton—as they all collaborated seamlessly. Gaby Walton (’14) was regularly heard singing around the halls as a freshman, so it was no surprise when she became a part of the Choral Ensemble. She really broke out of her normally shy performing self when she showed her ability to belt out those numbers at the Spring Concert in 2011. Her time in the spotlight led to a more major role in the following year’s musical, Fame, which showcased her natural acting talent. Now a regular member of the chorus and Vocal Jazz, Gaby wowed everyone with her angelic side when serving as cantor at the Christmas service. You might know Nicolette McCann (’13) as one of the witches in Once on this Island, as Doris Finsecker in Fame, or as a Silly Girl in Beauty and the Beast. But you might not know that she’s been a key part of Holy Child’s arts program since she first stepped foot on campus as a seventh grader back in 2007, up to her cantor role at her graduation in June (with fellow

Gaby Walton (’14) showed her singing skills informally, then broke in to the Holy Child musical groups with gusto. Dance of all varieties shines at Holy Child, including modern and hip-hop (showcased by Leila Ostria et al).

Vocal Jazz singer and classmate Alex Phifer). Along with the busy musical schedule, she found the time to still be part of the chorus and eventually the Vocal Jazz Ensemble as well. Nicolette showed other song styles during annual talent shows, when she would strum on her guitar to country tunes or even a Kings of Leon song, all to thunderous applause. “Holy Child presented me with the opportunity to grow not only as an actress, but also as a person…The small and safe environment provided me with a place where I was able to express myself without fear of being judged.” Nicolette plans to continue preforming at Wake Forest in their á cappella group, and we know she’ll likely steal the show in their musicals as well. Holy Child talent goes beyond the campus and into the real world with guest singing spots at other schools and community theater and events. Maria Berkowitz (’15)—well-known on our stages from Once on This Island, Fame, and Beauty in this year’s musical, in addition to her stints in the Chorus—is a part of the McLean Community Theater and was among the few girls invited to sing in the Catholic Honors Choir. With a lyrical blend, each has found her voice at Holy Child. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

Acting Out When you take that first tiny step into the arts, you never know where it will take you. “I never imagined myself as a theater person; I always saw myself playing sports,” explains Maddy Hopkins (’14). She had always enjoyed being on the dance team and playing the trumpet. But until Ms. Fager encouraged her to audition for a lead in this year’s musical, she never saw herself as an actress. Thank goodness she gave it a shot, she landing the part of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. Now she says, “I loved being on stage!” She tackled the challenge gracefully, even maintaining her full-fledged French accent throughout the whole show (and ignoring the flu right before opening night)! “The arts program at Holy Child allowed me to reach my highest potential, which I myself did not believe I could reach…I found what I truly love to do…and could not have found it anywhere else.” In contrast, recent graduate and winner of this year’s four-year Book Award for Theatre (which she accepted with a dramatic flair), Zoë Irving always knew she wanted to be on Holy Child’s stage. From the first time she saw the Drama Club put on their annual fall play, she realized, “...how much the collaborative effort brought everyone closer together.” Zoë has been a regular presence onstage ever since, in spring productions or numerous Drama Club roles. For Zoë, who has thoroughly enjoyed her

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Cast and crew are equally important, allowing dozens of students to participate in the musicals, such as the 2013 production of Beauty and the Beast. Kamana Kamkwalala works her make-up magic on Cogsworth, aka Zoe Irving; Maddy Hopkins found her passion as Lumiere in Beauty, and author Kaelynn Serena discovered talents she didn’t know she had.

school theater career, this was “a place where I could express myself.” Her monologues in Fame clearly showed her talent, leading to a star turn as Cogsworth (the clock counterpart to Lumiere) in Beauty and the Beast. “Developing a character can be therapeutic, and even though it is hard work, it’s worth it because that character is your creation and the more of yourself you put in it, I find that the audience likes the character more and they find it more relatable or funny.” Next thing you know, we’ll be cheering Zoë on when she accepts her first Oscar or Tony. Kaelynn Serena (’12) had a similar acting bug, but got a later start. After a small part in Once on This Island as a junior (her second year at Holy Child), Kaelynn almost didn’t go for a role in Fame, in which she made a huge comic impact as the outgoing Mabel. “I really enjoy performing and making people laugh,” she says, “but the role required me to sing a solo, which was something that I had never done. The thought of singing for the lead made me so nervous that I nearly didn’t try out for the part. Ms. Fager pushed me to take a risk, encouraging me to try out, and I was fortunate enough to get the role.” The director and others in the HC arts program helped her leave her comfort zone to become more confident and realized how capable she is or more than she originally thought. “I not only took away great memories and experiences, but I left with a newfound sense of confidence and self-assurance. The support that I had from the Holy Child theater community was unbelievable and I am so grateful.”

Instrumentally Speaking If you spied two girls in the back row playing trumpet during the spring “Evening of the Arts,” and noticed a basketball uniform in place of the dressy clothes, that would be Lilly Paro (’16) and her teammate (in basketball and lacrosse), Mary Claire Byrne (’14). As a player on several outside sports teams, with a range of high schools to choose from, Lilly had lots of options. But now that she’s settled in to Holy Child, she is truly happy with her full schedule and choice of high school. “The beauty about being a student at Holy Child is that you can truly do it all. Not only can you be challenged academically, but you can participate in all aspects of the community,” like sports, and even band. Both girls have managed to juggle the arts and athletics. “At times it has been very difficult to run off the basketball court or lacrosse field to make it to a recital or concert,” Mary Claire explains, and we have heard reports of many in-the-car fast-clotheschanges between game and recital. But, she adds, “I have enjoyed being a part of the instrumental ensemble….Ms. Fager and my coaches know that both programs are very important to me and I know the time and dedication they invest is huge, so I try to do my best for them.” Trumpets and flutes are one thing, but when Kiana Padash (’14) stepped onto Holy Child’s campus, she brought a new element to the mix. “I had been playing bass for five years,” and was pretty thrilled to be brought into the small instrumental ensemble here; a group “that allows everyone to show their talent.” This willingness to incorporate the girls’ creativity to thrive in collaboration has benefited other unique talents in the past. Katrina Dzyak’s (’12) multiple solos, bringing composers such as Claude Debussy to the jazz-oriented saxophone, showed the flexibility in the arts curriculum, as did Kaela Jeffers (’10) on drums. “The instrumental ensemble,” Kiana explains, “has helped me grow at Holy Child by getting me involved in lots of events” such as Fame, where she played guitar and bass. “The instrumental ensemble is my favorite part of Holy Child.” Musical Director Ms. Fager “helps push everyone to become a better musician, and helps them find great musical opportunities.” Who knows what notes will be hit in this year’s ensemble?

Individual expression is encouraged in music as in all the arts, whether guitar-backed ballads (Nicolette McCann at the annual Talent Show), brassy brass numbers (with Maddy Hopkins and Lucy Gilak flanking basketball/lacrosse players Lilly Paro and Mary Claire Byrne), or unusual instruments (Kiana Pradash on bass).

An Evening to Remember The spring “Evening of the Arts,” our annual art gallery opening and showcase of the arts at Holy Child, was truly a memorable event. With a new and improved format and setting—our gym/performing arts space—the range of displays and performances were able to shine in their own right. From gallery presentations of artworks from Middle School through ArtIV to theater club short skits, from instrumental mini-concerts to a dynamic dance send-off, the community enjoyed a wide-ranging taste of the girls’ talents and camaraderie—and refreshments—in a scintillating artistic evening. Our arts faculty, including Rachel Ackerman, Heather Nemcosky, Elsbeth Fager, and Eileen Lyons (here with headmistress Maureen Appel, center) worked alongside the artists to bring this professionally staged evening to fruition. Bravo! Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

Dynamic Dancing Dance often goes unnoticed for much of the year, tucked away Connelly Hall’s beautiful mirrored studio, but when Fine Arts month rolls around, the practices have clearly paid off. It is hard to miss that group of girls who turn heads. The final act at this year’s Evening of the Arts sent audiences off with a resounding number, featuring a selection of dances from ballet to hip-hop, with some great moves by Leila Ostria (’14), front and center to the tune of “Girlfriend.” She worked the floor like Beyoncé, and showed both the results of her practice in and out of school. In dance, Leila says, “We learn a bunch of different styles and it teaches you to give everything a chance even if it is out of your comfort zone, which initially helps within dance, [and later on], in the outside world.” The instructors— Crishon Landers, Katie Schwartz, and Paige Friedman—work with the

Dance engages all styles, from Avery Luck balletic leaps to the Irish Step prowess of Tatiana Klinkenbergh, Honor Upton, and Mary Cain to the hip-hop finale (with Kathy Xavier and Leila Ostria leading) to the Evening of the Arts.

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girls to find the particular genre they love. By Leila’s side was Avery Luck (’15), a trained ballerina for the Washington School of Ballet. Avery explains that at Holy Child she learned, “to express myself in different forms of dance that I had never experienced before. “Hip-hop was a huge change,” she adds, because she was so used to the controlled forms of ballet. But after lots of encouragement from the instructors, “I had a lot of fun experimenting with it.” Holy Child girls have access to the different forms of dance—ballet, hip-hop, lyrical, contemporary, and even Irish dance. Seventh graders Tatiana Klinkenberg and Honor Upton, alongside Mary Cain (’16) (at top), performed at this year’s Talent Show and the Evening of the Arts, where they invigorated the crowd with the rhythmic sound of those hard dance shoes. (Mary and Tati have competed in the Worlds this year, and both have placed high in regional competitions!) In dance, as in all of our disciplines, stepping to a different beat is just part of the drill.

The Artists Even when not in an art class, Holy Child is full of creative minds. Normally seen painting away in the art room, Dani Dell’solla (’13) also doodled scenes from the famous Harry Potter books on white boards, appropriate for the president of the Harry Potter Club. When the stage crew for Beauty and the Beast needed artists to paint set panels, many girls—Andrea Manchester, Becky Ward, and others—came out of the woodwork to lend a hand in creating the provincial French backgrounds. You could most often find Meg Dean (’12) toiling away in the art room or solving prayer block troubles up in the sound booth, when she wasn’t scoring goals on the soccer field, that is. Her familiar face up on the sound-loft, working the sound board at concerts, musicals, pretty much everything, led many to worry about who would know what to do when she headed off to the University of Toronto. But what others didn’t know, until she painted the sought-after “international tiger” for sale at the annual gala, was that her art talents equaled, maybe even trumped, her soccer and technical expertise. Art wasn’t just a passion, though she did find success there: her artwork was chosen for the Congressional Art Competition juried show

Author Victoria Barry showcased her ArtIV works at the gallery showing of the Evening of the Arts; artists find their painting inspiration all over campus (Gaby Squiteri and Olivia Meyers), even in 3D in ceramics class (Clare Bloss). The alternating pics, a longstanding visual arts tradition, showcased the mascot.

last year. “Art class taught me to develop traits I could use not only with my other schoolwork, but in life as a whole: creativity, timeliness, work ethic, and ingenuity.” For Meg, “going to art class every day was cathartic and it gave me time to remove myself from academic stress as I lost myself in methodical brush strokes.” Seizing the opportunities her school had to offer, she realized that, “…taking an art class not only adds volume to your transcript, but to your character.” And my experience has been equally special. I have loved art since I was little, and so when I came to Holy Child, there was no question that I would take four years of art classes. Despite my schedule being classified as an “overloaded” one, I never thought of it as such—art was not like any other class. During my years of mentorship under Mrs. Nem, I found outlets for talents I didn’t know I had. Sure, I started out in the freshman arts rotation, and got a taste of traditional visual arts and theater production, but it all came together for me this year. Mrs. Nem takes the time to recognize each student’s talents, and encourages them to integrate their interests to grow as an individual artist. Mrs. Nem realized my work in Photoshop, and we worked together to utilize my skills to better my artwork; it helped me plan a watercolor piece, for which I edited Hubble images before my brush hit paper. A medium I grew to love is chalk pastel; one of my pieces was chosen this year for the Congressional Art Competition and the All-Catholic Art Competition at Gonzaga. I parlayed another kind of artistry by doing hair and makeup for our musicals; I could not get enough of the pre-show chaos in the dressing rooms before Beauty and the Beast! And I even got to try out some illustration and design, creating the artwork for last year’s Christmas card, concert programs, and the invitation to this spring’s Evening of the Arts. My work as an assistant editor on this magazine is a direct outgrowth of all of that. So I salute my fellow artists in all disciplines who have found their literal and creative voices here at Holy Child. I know I have found mine. Victoria Barry, Class of 2013, is the winner of this year’s Cornelia Connelly Award and the four-year Arts Award. This is her second year working as an intern in the communications department; she has designed ads, written stories, and worked on our new website. She will be joining her sister, Charlotte (Class of 2011), at Mount St. Mary’s University this fall, to study communications with a minor in French, where she will work toward her dream job, a position at Pixar. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

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Ready to Take on the World? The three Rs are giving way to a wider range of abilities, thinking and life-ready skills rather than stopping at content. Isn’t that what the Internet has taught us? BY KATHY H. ELY

hen Christine Smith graduated back in 1991, her science background was strong, but she didn’t know what she wanted to do with it. Now, as she heads to the ocean floor off the coast of Hawaii or the reefs near Puerto Rico, the “technology and communications manager” for an environmental consulting firm revels in the life of an oceanographer. (See her story on page 39.) We bet she would have liked our oceanography course. Oceanography, introduced in 2008, is just one of the electives that opens the world of real-life working to the upperclasswomen of Holy Child. (Over the years, we have rotated in astronomy, genetics, bioethics/ biotechnology, environmental science, and anatomy as options.) With a curriculum that combines visits from expert researchers (like the shark expert last year) and a hands-on, in-the-water trip to the MarineLab in Key Largo, Florida, this is a dream for potential biologists and those looking to combine a passion for science and the world’s oceans. Forensics, around for more than eight years, is another opportunity to show science at work in life, real vs. the flashy Hollywood version. How will students

From robotics and engineering (Colleen Whitcomb and Hannah Devine) to medical pursuits (Terra Haddad and Annie Donatelli) and forensics (with Zaria Nabinett, Sofia Alpizar, Rebecca Kazor, and Kathy Xavier), Holy Child students are introduced to 21st-century professions. Oceanography wasn’t yet a course when Christine Smith was here, but her science courses still led her to a career in the field.

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know if the world of “CSI” is of interest, without actually investigating (fake) blood splatters and trajectories to solve science mysteries? Even in the more traditional science courses, field trips tend toward attending cancer conferences and medical museums rather than gazing at textbooks or models—only then can modern trends emerge. But it’s not just science that offers these glimpses at actual profes-

Author Laura Elliott (with Ellie Smith, Eliza White, Bailey Skeeter, Maddie Houston, and MK Stewart) has made numerous visits to the school, showing both history and English in action; Middle School students made solar power work to make s’mores in science class.

sions and negotiating life in general. Social sciences and world cultures courses, even world religions, increasingly include current events, assessing what’s happening now through the prism of the recent and distant past. The math department has added a personal finance course. Teacher Barry Rosenberg notes, “As a former partner at a Big-4 accounting firm and a founding partner of a professional services firm, I fully appreciate

Navigating, Negotiating, Nurturing

Sure you got an “A” in English, but what are you going to do about that boss? BY MARY HOPKINS LIKE ANY “college prep” school, we focus on getting our

graduates into the right college, and ensuring their academic success there. But the world demands more. More competition, increased pressures—we have to care about more than “book learning.” What happens when our girls have their first conflict with a roommate? Can they approach a professor about a grade? Can our graduates successfully manage their first jobs, first bosses, first apartments? Will employers be looking for grades or life skills? We know our mission has expanded: Our graduates need to be “life ready.” Here at Holy Child, we routinely work to educate with the “whole child.” Our foundress Cornelia Connelly stressed the importance of the “unique person . . . of infinite value, dignified by a shared humanity with [the Holy] Child. (from Yes, Lord, Always Yes: A Life of Cornelia Connelly). So we have built self-realization into the fabric of our weeks, from retreats and advisory periods to service projects. Two recent additions– “class meetings” and student-led parent conferences–further develop skills essential to life success. In class meetings, girls in grades 7-10 meet with our school counselor to work on communication skills; Informal yet moderated sessions encourage student-centered discussions on what’s happening with friends, the stress of managing school projects, what constitutes healthy life choices. This program provides a safe place for students to discuss and implement positive solutions to social and emotional issues; their peers help as the school counselor guides them. As the girls move to the next stage, this deeper understanding of values and emotions will help them negotiate challenging social and emotional situations while staying 28

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true to their values and beliefs. Our alumna tell us service and values still resonate in their lives (See story on service, page 17); we trust these sessions will as well. Parent-teacher conferences are nothing new, but student-led conferences have lent a new, confidencebuilding wrinkle to the ritual. Students, not adults, lead the discussion, reviewing their academic progress with their advisors and parents. From sixth grade, when students begin assembling the portfolios to document their time here, with representative works from vital areas: learning methods, written communication, and cooperative learning; seventh graders focus on study skills, math progress, and service learning; eighth graders stress exam prep, the artistic process, and goalsetting for high school. In ninth grade, they emphasize learning styles, use of technology for assessment, and writing; tenth grade assesses lab work in science classes, foreign language acquisition skills, and writing for history class. Students conduct the conferences by detailing skills learned and sharing further goals; they write self-reflective evaluations and analyze their own strengths and weaknesses. This ability to track their own progress, set their own goals, and explain these to others will be essential as they go through college and beyond. So when that boss wants an assessment of an initiative or a new hire, that Holy Child grad, with her excellent life-skills preparation, will negotiate that task with skill and grace. And Cornelia will smile. Mary Hopkins, whose daughter, Maddy, graduates from Holy Child this year, is assistant head of school for academics, as well as head of the Middle School.

the benefits of being able to ‘connect’ knowledge to a logical and practical context.” His goal: “to ensure that students are grounded in the content and fluent in its applications.” These include analyses of current business stories, market fluctuations and behavior dynamics. “Focusing on the context of a mathematical concept–and understanding the “so what?” answers—are what completes the learning process,” he stresses. “We are not just making our students employable, we are preparing them socially and academically for a 21st century workplace.”

ew York Times Education reporter Thomas Friedman quotes Harvard education specialist Tony Wagner as being a “translator between two hostile tribes”—the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner believes that “We need to focus more on teaching the skill and will to learn and to make a difference and bring the three most powerful ingredients of intrinsic motivation into the classroom: play, passion, and purpose.” We’re right there with him. Welcome to the new world of education. Chemistry teacher Helen Place shows the realities of chemical and technological interactions (with Chloe MacAuliffe and Sophia Abshire); the MacLab keeps up with technological innovations (with Gabbi Brault); Mary Overly and Sarah Edgerton create a restaurant—and its marketing campaign—in a special English unit, an adjunct to the classics that serve all manner of social thinking (Rebecca Kazor).

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â€œEvery year, the Holy Child athletic program improves and expands.â€?

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Tigers Roll On Looking back at an athletics program with strong roots and a growing future. BY KELLY WHELAN ’10

s you drive up Holy Child driveway on any given afternoon, back behind Connelly Hall, the Jumbotron proudly announces the activities of the day and welcomes visiting teams as it overlooks the large turf field of the Neil T. Coakley stadium. Girls in all manner of sports gear carry a wide array of athletic equipment on the way from the parking lot. One carries riding boots, another wields a field hockey stick. Yet another is hauling a golf bag along with her already large LLBean backpack. Inside the gym, where the center court circle reminds us that this is the “Home of the Tigers,” banners along the walls boast of the years of ISL championship victories in multiple sports. Players for numerous sports get ready for practice or games, cleats off to save the floor, checking in with the trainer for taping, with the athletic staff for bus schedules and times, looking for coaches, turning in forms. It’s a whirlwind of controlled chaos. Proud to offer a wide range of sports on three separate levels, from Middle School on up, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

his is a typical scene at Holy Child, but it wasn’t always. When the doors opened in 1961, in a white ranch house, sports were not first on the agenda, but with the Cornelia Connelly philosophy, the outdoors and exercise certainly were. The campus did not even have a proper sports field; that would come a bit later. With just sixteen girls in the first class, fielding competitive teams proved difficult. But it didn’t take long for sports to take hold; field hockey became the first official team. Early black and white photographs of equestrian girls in show attire, with coaches known better as the sisters of the SHCJ attest to our rich history in the Potomac equestrian world. Riding has always been in the Holy Child DNA; with a brief hiatus, the equestrian team again grew under the auspices of Sheila Wooters, Athletic Director. Jen Raskauskas, a dedicated riding enthusiast, helped restart the now-thriving program. Jen’s mother, Devereaux Raskauskas, founded the InterSchool Horse Show (ISHS) League, the governing body for school horse shows in Montgomery County. What started as a five-school horse show, now has 38 schools and Devereaux Raskauskas is still the head of the ISHS. Mrs. Wooters was approached, in 1974, by Eileen Stevens to start a lacrosse team. The first coach was Eileen’s father, Don Stevens. First started as a club, by 1997 Holy Child had won its first ISL banner in lacrosse. In 1998, Leslie Whitaker, physical education teacher, started the dance team. “A girls’ school simply must have a dance program,” she said. There were so many girls with dance training, and one in particular, Jessi Williams (now Frend, current Alumnae Association president), who went on to help build the program. The dancers practiced in the hallways of the school, on the field and in the driveway until our mirrored dance studio finally came along the year after Connelly Hall was completed, in 2003.

Maggie Donatelli (left), Catherine Altemus and Lilly Paro (above), carry on the more traditional sports of soccer and lacrosse, respectively, with basketball one of the key sustaining teams at the school. Equestrian (with Gabbi Blault) teams are key in the DNA of the school; not only did we start the show series, we continue to dominate the champion ribbons.

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The swim team makes a splash even without a pool, breaking records regularly; the same happens with tennis (Maggie Connelly wielding her smash). A cheerleading squad made a brief appearance on the sidelines, but waned in interest. Golf, however, recently emerged as a popular choice, so a team was added. (Maggie Schiattareggia was one of our first team members.) Athletic Director Sheila Wooters has directed it all for decades; even her grandsons are at home on our field.

Athletic Awards

From riding horses, to whacking balls and saving goals and much more, our Tigers had a very successful year in athletics. Many were recognized for their hard work, spirited and positive attitudes, and teamwork abilities as the coaches’ and team awards were handed out. Major awards went to:

8th Grade Athlete of the Year Elena Yeutter Freshman Athlete of the Year In recognition of the freshman athlete who has played three seasons at the varsity level

Kosch Craig In recognition of an outstanding athlete and leader dedicated to modeling the highest ideals of the athletic department and school community of Holy Child Daniela Falcone

Mary Clare McCarthy Unsung Heroine Award

In recognition of selfless service to the Holy Child athletic community

ALL ISLs

In addition, the Independent School League (ISL) recognized the following players as best in their season:

Molly Magnarelli

Softball Katie Cynkar

Tiger Award In recognition of the athlete who exemplifies the Tiger spirit celebrated in the athletic department and in the school community Fannie Benziger Special Achievement Award In recognition of outstanding athletic and academic achievement throughout all four years at Holy Child

Lacrosse Mary Claire Byrne Basketball Tally Britt, Eileen Williams

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Then-sophomore Stephanie Farrell pushed to start a swim team back in 1975; Wooters, a swimmer in college, was the coach, and Stephanie returned as an alumna to coach the swim team for 14 years. She handed the reins to current coach, alumna Erin Kemp. Both have led the girls to break numerous ISL records; each year, despite no pool (the girls love, however, swimming at Georgetown Prep), many of our girls qualify for National Catholics. Beginning in 2000, we started a middle school program, and diving has become a crucial part of the competition. Over the five decades, we have built a solid program that makes its mark regularly in the ISL, the Independent School League. As you can see, each new sport that came to Holy Child was created because a passionate group of students wanted to participate in it. Yet, not all sports that existed in the past 52 years have stuck around. To many of today’s Holy Child girls’ chagrin, “Connelly” had a cheerleading team! Wearing the original school colors of brown and yellow, the cheerleaders were a presence at all of the sporting events to root for their fellow students. Innovations are still happening today. In 2012, a few girls approached Athletic Director Sheila Wooters about starting a golf team. The building blocks are now in place, and last spring, our JV squad, small but mighty, participated in three ISL events. Leslie Whitaker applied for and received a grant which gave Holy Child excellent training equipment to start a fullfledged Olympic target archery program. The National Training System was introduced in the PE program; this past summer she launched a summer camp, and a club is in the works. With enough interest, high school interscholastic competition can’t be far behind. This tradition of starting teams shows that through the years, despite changing times, Holy Child girls have always been up to trying something new and following through until they achieve their goals.

Hall of Famers In Our Midst IT WAS AN evening of heartfelt tributes

last fall, odes to a long list of accomplished athletes at a school known for its athletic prowess. But when our very own varsity basketball coach, Jamie Ricca Ready, came to the podium, it was a very special moment indeed. Coach Ready is the first woman to be inducted into the St. John’s College High School Athletic Hall of Fame, and a large family contingent, and several HC staff, were there in support. More congratulations are order for Krista Kennedy, last year’s varsity assistant field hockey coach, who was inducted into the first class of the Poolesville High School Athletic Hall of Fame. A large group of players came along to cheer her on, making it an even better night to remember.

When Coach Jamie Ready’s summer basketball squad went up against Elizabeth Seton in the summer league final, many thought it would be a drubbing. But this scrappy group of JV and Varsity hopefuls, many of them freshman, hung in for the entire game, losing by just a few. It was a bellwether of a strong season to come, and people are taking notice. It takes years to build teams and reputations, and another characteristic of the Holy Child athletes is that whatever the odds, their winning instincts are strong. Despite the fact that the Tigers do not have a barn or horses on campus, Holy Child has led the ISHS for many seasons. Tennis courts are not part of the campus either, yet the Tigers boast a nationally ranked player. Not many players in nationally ranked high school basketball programs can reach 1,000 points in their career, but Keagan Resler (’98) and Rocelia Cooper (’07) did just that. While the turf field was being built, student athletes on the field hockey, soccer, lacrosse and softball teams vividly remember running from campus to Bradley Field up the street or the Avenel fields—a good mile away—to practice on less than optimal grounds. Yet, despite the fact that the Tigers’ rivals got to practice and play in pristine conditions, Holy Child was victorious in 2011, with the lacrosse team and the softball team winning the ISL championships. The young women that started those traditions decades ago did not real-

New coaches in softball, field hockey (Emily Trees, an alumna), and volleyball have made great strides in these squads. Katie Cynkar and pitcher Betsi Micholas are bright lights on the softball diamond; Talley Britt is entering a senior year with many basketball college prospects, and Sarah Edgerton will be wielding her stick for St. Louis University this year.

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Middle School sports rock: Mrs. Appel congratulates Sarah Strachan for her end-of-year award, but all of the players performed with heart: Olivia Fanning in lacrosse, Allie Wolff in soccer, and Julia Strittmatter in softball.

ize the impact that they would have on the athletes to come. Those women were the trailblazers long before Title IX empowered equality in athletics in 1972. While a lot has changed— they played with wood sticks and thin Converse high tops–today’s athletes get along with everything from fiberglass and titanium lacrosse and hockey sticks to state-of-the-art Nike basketball shoes, the spirit of the Tigers has not changed. Today, more than 60 percent of all HC students participate in fifteen different sports. Every year, the Holy Child athletic program improves and expands. With the 2011 completion of the Neil T. Coakley Stadium, the athletes have even more opportunities to improve and be competitive with every school in the ISL; plus, we can now host tournaments. The past several years have seen thousands come for a Middle School lacrosse play day, and local club teams (even DC United) rent the field regularly. These community events are good for the public face of the school, and our coaches—a strong cadre of professionals—find time outside of normal practices to have their players mentor the younger generation on a limited basis. In addition to the lacrosse play day, we are now planning our 7th annual CYO Middle School basketball tournament, which was expanded to include 5th and 6th grade parish teams in addition to the 7th and 8th grade varsity players. Many of those all-tournament stars now proudly walk the halls as Holy Child students. We have added many new elements, yet some things never change. Whether in 2013 or any time in the last twenty years, an alumna walking down the halls of 9029 Bradley is still bound to hear Mrs. Wooters joking with the students or Leslie Whitaker guiding stretches in class. Despite all the changes and improvements over the past few years, the legacy of those teachers, as well as the girls who forged the path for generations to come, will never be forgotten. Kelly Whelan (’10) made her mark at Holy Child as a field hockey goalie, drummer, banjo player, and major sports enthusiast. She has interned in the athletics office for the past two summers. Read her story about playing ice hockey in Russia on page 41.

Let The Girls Play

When the annual CYO Invitational Basketball Tournament was started more than six years ago, who knew it would become one of the more anticipated tourneys in the region? Another hit this past MLK weekend, the tournament again welcomed sixteen teams for three days of competition in both Varsity (7th and 8th grade) and JV (5th and 6th grades), with Varsity coach Jamie Ready and a solid committee running the show. A big congratulations to Blessed Sacrament, who won both the Varsity and JV levels. All the players took home team photos, t-shirts and a lot of fun memories, and several decided to attend Holy Child and continue the fun. So it was only logical that we extend the competition to lacrosse. This 34

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spring saw the annual “Lacrosse Play Day” return to the turf field. Varsity coach Sarah Aschenbach invited a wide range of local teams–parish, school and club–in grades 3 through 8. More than 1,600 players competed over the course of the long day, with four games going on at a time in the segmented field. Another great day for Middle School sports.

taking on the world French Flies IMAGINE BITING INTO a warm, fresh croissant and indulging in a decadent

breakfast crépe, laughing with your friends, enjoying the ambience and the culture of yes, France! Led by Holy Child’s French teacher Carole Dorlipo and fellow teachers/chaperones Elsbeth Fager and Kristin Roberts, this year’s spring break cultural journey took twenty bonne amies on the trip of a lifetime. “The week was full of culture and educational opportunities, allowing the girls to fully experience traveling in a foreign country for the first time. Many of the French students spoke French throughout the trip and it was exciting to see how their studies came to life for them when seeing the art, culture, and historic sites,” says frequent Europe visitor Elsbeth Fager. The group toured major cities including Monaco, Avignon, Paris and even visited the home of famous French poet Victor Hugo. The girls not only experienced the culture of France, but got a few fun history lessons as well. They thrilled to the sights of Notre Dame Cathedral, the Opera Garnier (location of the Phantom of the Opera story and Chagall’s famous ceiling artwork), and the Roman theatre in Arles, Van Gogh’s home town. Yes, they visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris and indulged in that amazing French cuisine, but the

highlight of the week was the breathtaking bike ride at Versailles. The girls enjoyed seeing the red carpet in Cannes and “stunning harbors” of Nice and Monaco as well. The last night in Paris concluded with wonderful French dinner at Le Train Blue. Italy is a possibility for the 2014 sojourn, so brush up on that Italian. Whatever the trip, it will be tres magnifique!

Island Time WHEN YOU HEAR of eight students jetting to

Jamaica over President’s Day weekend, service might not be the first thing that comes to mind. When it’s eight Holy Child girls going to Jamaica, it’s no surprise. Along with Teri Boragno and Nurse Cindy Gillette, our girls were inspired to help the poor of Jamaica in a three-day building and painting blitz. Following the family tradition of Becky Ward (’14) and her mother, alumna Wooly Devine (’79), the group teamed up with a U.S group of 45-plus volunteers as well as the world renowned relief orga-

nization Food for the Poor. Though Holy Child girls have attended in the past, this is the first year the school sponsored a service trip. One of the more touching moments of this three-day working weekend was a visit to an orphanage. When they eventually arrived at the two-room, rather run-down schoolhouse, the girls discovered that it housed 143 students. By the time they had primed and painted this building, and built two more—in just two days—they had relieved much of the cramped space for these children. During breaks, girls played with the

students, who ranged from ages three to six; they really loved that part. The impression on the residents will “live on well beyond the buildings we built,” noted the organizers in a thank you note; but to hear from all the participants, the impressions from the Jamaican people will live on as well. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

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Happy Trails JANE BANDLER ALWAYS seemed

so at home at Holy Child, especially in her comfy retreat for the students, complete with couch, fish tank, and a fun place to sprawl on the floor and talk. In her ten years at Holy Child, as a safe-haven provider, she was also that compassionate listener, who cajoled, encouraged, and simply understood what the girls were going through at any given time. In 2004,

after just one year at Holy Child, Mrs. Bandler created what are now fixtures in Middle School: class meetings for the 7th through 10th grades. “It was a wonderful way to be proactive with the students,” she says now, “teaching them how to communicate in a positive way and problem solve.” Maybe it was her global history that forged that understanding: with a Foreign Service officer for

a spouse, she lived overseas for seventeen years, and circled the globe again just two summers ago, visiting her grown children in farflung places. She has conquered Machu Picchu, not to mention Cyprus, Japan, India, Cameroon, Russia, and Malaysia, to name a few. After completing her master’s degree in counseling psychology in Germany, Bandler taught and directed at several Montessori and other schools there and in Nigeria and France, as well as volunteering with children in a host of countries along the way. Now she is heading off to the next leg of her life’s journey, spending time with her family, especially her two grandsons. She may be retiring, but her legacy of values will live on in the waves of students she served. Mrs. Bandler embodied the values of HC’s counseling program; as she has said, “We pay really close attention to each girl’s individual and social needs,” offering up patience, and kindness, and con-

Jane Bandler with student Missy Lutes.

fidentiality along with regular life lessons. Her heartfelt reflection at this past spring’s Middle School closing exemplified the close relationships she had with our girls; she recalled, “Being a part of young people’s lives is so rewarding and I have loved the opportunity to enjoy the spontaneity, humor, creativity, and joy of the students at Holy Child.” She and her kind heart and calming, positive presence will be dearly missed.

On Fiddles, Southern Writers, and Pepperoni Rolls WEST VIRGINIA, though close in distance, is a

world away from the bustle and business of the nation’s capital. As a selected teacher participant for a National Endowment for the Humanities three-week seminar “Voices from the Misty Mountains,” I joined a diverse group of sixteen K-12 colleagues from across the country in Shepherdstown, West Virginia to learn about Appalachian literature, poetry, theater, music, cuisine, history, and culture. A long book list included authors/poets I’d never heard of but now love, and an entirely new set of American plays at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Silas House, author of Parchment of Leaves, discussed his books with us, answering questions about a now beloved text, and festival director Ed Herendeen and various actors helped us understand their art. We argued about characters’ choices; felt inspired by lives who make art out of poverty and spirit; picnicked by Civil War sites; gaped at the boarded up hole of the Hawk’s Nest industrial disaster; became entwined in yarns told by professional storytellers; listened to Roots/Old Time/Blue Grass music; went to a singin’; wrote papers and reflections; met a chicken farmer/fiddler; and ate pep36

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peroni rolls, hominy, and greens, accompanied by sweet tea. But summer learnin’ wasn’t the main course. I now have a whole region’s rich history, ignored by many, to share with students. My project for the course became the outline for a quarter-long Humanities unit, team taught with Eileen Lyons, using Appalachian culture and literature. It includes storytelling, hiking the Appalachian Trail, visiting the Native American

Kathleen Jensen with Appalachian author Silas House.

history museum, learning clogging, listening to roots music and learning an instrument, reading Parchment of Leaves, and discovering/creating face jugs and quilts, and making our own stories. All in all, a good summer’s sojourn, easy to share with my Holy Child family. –KATHLEEN JENSEN, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIR

student achievement

Hail President Manchester WHEN THE MOAS General Assembly is called to order this

Finding Her Voice KYLAH SIMMONS HAD wowed her classmates with a compelling presentation on over-

coming her stutter, as well as literally overcoming it in relating details from a civil rights trip in front of the entire school. She was recognized for her accomplishments at the Upper School awards ceremony, when representatives from U.S. News & World Report presented her with the AXA Achievement $10,000 scholarship award. Kylah’s submission on how she had made an impact on her community by presenting a health-related project drew on her work promoting stuttering awareness, noting her rapidly growing Facebook page and blog titled “S.W.A.G” (“Stutter With A Group”). Only 42 state winners as well as 10 national winners were chosen for this scholarship, so Kylah stands tall in the U.S. We are proud that she has found her voice in so many arenas.

December, our very own Andrea Manchester (’14) will be wielding the gavel. Andrea was elected president of the Model Organization of American States, a national organization that serves to allow students to negotiate resolutions and promote democracy. Bringing together more than 1,000 students from 25 different schools in a week-long simulation, MOAS simulates political and parliamentary proceedings of the General Assembly and the Permanent Council, and teams train for months to advocate for their given country. For Andrea, with her Argentinean heritage, it’s a great opportunity to combine her love of international relations and her debating skills. For Holy Child, it’s another proud moment.

National Honor Society 2012-2013

An Honor for All LAST FALL AND SPRING, in front of students and parents, we recognized a proud group

of hard-working students, as they were inducted in to the National Honors Society. While maintaining a minimum of a 3.5 grade point average (the scholarship pillar), members, who are nominated by faculty, must exhibit the other three pillars; character, service and leadership. The beautiful ceremonies, which included a ritual of lighting the candles and signing the national registry, were a great testament to the inductees and their hard work. Keep it up girls!

Fannie Benziger Caroline Chiaramonte Keania Cooper Daniela Falcone Debbie Greif Mary-Frances Gumbs Heather Lamb Melissa Lutes Catherine MacCormack Nicolette McCann Laura Meissner Alex Phifer Kaylah Simmons Sophia Abshire

Ashley Arcidiacono Mary Buckingham Dorothy Hastings Maddy Hopkins Sarah Horan Sara Joosten Lauren Keeley Marissa MacDonald Katie Rose Marvin Betsi Micholas Emma Pachon Gabby Southworth Lauren Thomas Eileen Williams

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alumnae

Dear Alumnae: How can it be that another year has come and gone so quickly? I hope that this past year brought new experiences, new friends, and a new curiosity for life. And, I hope that as all the “new” flooded in over the past year, we were each able to take some time and reflect on our time at Holy Child and connect back to the school and our fellow alumnae.

BE OUR FRIEND! Join us on Facebook for photos and in-school and alumnae happenings. Find us at www.facebook.com, search for Connelly School of the Holy Child Alumnae.

The Alumnae Association continues to strive to provide to our community opportunities to connect in person and now online. Last fall, we had our alumnae cocktail reception following the Blue/Gold Games on campus. That evening, many classes went on to celebrate their various reunions. In November, we had a record number of alumnae come out to the school for Mayfield Market; our alumnae used the opportunity to give back to others less fortunate– our generous community sponsored the annual Santa Project for the Washington Middle School for Girls. In January, we had a great turnout for the annual Champagne Brunch at Columbia Country Club. It was at this event that we announced this year’s Distinguished Alumna of the Year, Christie Ann Short (Class of 1996). We had many alumnae come out for the Denim and Diamonds Gala at the school in March;

rumor has it that several former Tigers could be seen that evening riding the mechanical bull. And, finally, I would be remiss if I did not thank the alumnae community for your outstanding financial support of the school. I am happy to report that our alumnae community contributed more than $60,000 to The Fund for Holy Child, pushing the school beyond our overall goal of $500,000 by raising $531,497–another record breaking amount in our school’s history. Thank you for your commitment and continued support! I look forward to meeting and hearing from as many of you as possible. Please do not hesitate to send your input and suggestions to me at jessi.frend@gmail.com. Sincerely, Jessica Williams Frend (’01)

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THESE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR; MOST HAVE A SPECIAL ALUMNA ELEMENT. SEE OLD FRIENDS AND RECONNECT WITH THE SCHOOL.

BINGO Saturday, February 1, 2014

CAREER DAY Friday, April 25, 2014

BACCALAUREATE MASS AND GRADUATION, CLASS OF 2014 Thursday, June 5–Friday, June 6, 2014

ALUMNAE CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH Saturday, January 25, 2014

HOLY CHILD’S 31ST GALA Saturday, March 8, 2014

TIGER TROT 5K Sunday, April 13, 2014

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Christine’s Sea Cruise SOME DAYS, when 1991 Holy Child grad Christine Smith goes to work,

she mows the lawn. That she and her colleagues at ANAMAR, Inc., an environmental consulting firm, do this on the ocean floor is part of what makes her job so remarkable. “Mowing the lawn” is an affectionate term used by Christine, an oceanographer, and her Gainesville, Florida-based team to describe a process whereby they tow a sonar device behind their research vessel to map features of interest on the bottom of the sea. It’s just one technique they use in their collaborations with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the impact that dredging or other navigational projects might have on valuable resources such as reefs, fisheries, and even the food chain that ends with the seafood on our dinner tables. Safety regulations govern any project that disturbs the ocean floor—expanding a port or widening a channel, for instance. The dredgedup sediment must be re-deposited somewhere else, which—without careful analysis—can introduce a host of problems. Christine helps prevent unintended consequences. In one instance off the coast of Florida, “We’d been hearing anecdotes from divers and recreational fishermen that there were high-quality reefs and fish habitats, and we confirmed it,” she says, so another site was chosen for a deposit instead. “I’m a fisherwoman myself, so I know there’s already so much stress on these environments. It’s exciting to get to see these good outcomes,” she shares. Christine’s team uses remotely operated underwater vehicles and divers outfitted with video cameras. She recently took the plunge and became a certified diver herself. “This will balance out the paperwork side of things,” she jokes, because—despite the beautiful places Christine

has worked (the Caribbean, the coral reefs in Puerto Rico and, this past August, the blue waters off Hawaii)—much of her job is actually deskbound. Recently promoted to a vice president, she directs ANAMAR’s marketing efforts and helps create business development strategy and materials. “They [ANAMAR] recognized early in me a strong writing foundation—that’s definitely a Connelly product there,” she says gratefully of her high-school education. “The English department was so strong.” After graduating, she pursued her passion for geography at the University of South Florida (“right on the water, kayaking and sailing between classes on the bay”). She then did freelance mapping work before landing a job with the Florida Marine Research Institute. It was there that she discovered how cartography, when overlain with information gleaned from marine biological research, could create a decision-making tool so vital to preserving precious ecosystems. To any Holy Child girl who might want to test the waters of an oceanography career, Christine offers a realistic, not postcard, picture of life aboard a research vessel. “You have to be resourceful, and you’ll find yourself working long hours with greasy hands lifting heavy tools. You have to be resilient and fearless.” That fearless part came in handy for Smith this summer when she worked off the coast of Portland, Oregon, which she calls “the sort of legendary graveyard of the Pacific”: There, the Columbia River roils into the ocean with high water and rough currents. Yes, she was nervous for that assignment! “But after living in Potomac and wearing skirts for three-anda-half years, it’s fun to put on a hard hat and get physical.”—MARIA MIHALIK

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The Sweet Life in New Hampshire YOU MIGHT SAY that Kate Sullivan Richards has settled into a very

sweet life since her days at Holy Child: She married a New Hampshire man who carries on his great grandfather Al’s 100-year-old maple syrup business, and together they run the Grant Family Pond View Maple Sugar House in Weare. Last year, more than 3,000 visitors stopped by their farm (halfway between Manchester and Concord) in one weekend to celebrate their open house. The guests tasted the maple chili, maple hot dogs, maple cotton candy and biscuits crowned with creamy maple butter. “It was a ton of fun,” Kate says, even if the job of blowing up 800 balloons fell to her! The annual event is not just a community favorite, it’s essential to their business. “In two days, we sell more than half our crop,” she says. Though they are a small producer—last year’s 690 total of gallons of syrup was their biggest yield to date—they are on course to eventually fulfill their dream of making a full-time living from the syrup operations, plus the autumnal vegetables and flowers that their pumpkin farm contributes. For right now, the maple sugar house “is a hobby that can make a millionaire out of a billionaire,” she jokes. Most of the high-volume maple syrup producers are in Canada, and “about 98 percent” in New England have what she calls “real jobs” on top of it. (Hers for the moment is in retail manage40

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ment, though she’s passionately pursuing a healthcare degree to become a part-time patient advocate. On top of this, the family also runs an autocare center.) “You do [syrup production] for the love of the art,” she says. Still, this labor of love has a strong emphasis on labor. Kate handles all of the administrative tasks for the sugar house—making jug tags and bottle labels, handling the media, preparing gift baskets and wedding favors—while Dave sets the taps (1,800 this past year), boils the product, and deals with the surprising amount of science and technology involved. Gone are the days of sap trickling into quaint, wooden, Pa Ingalls-style buckets; today’s operations involve acres of plastic tubing, vacuum pumps, tree rotation and preservation, and more. Kate keeps in touch with many friends from her ’83 to ’85 years at Holy Child, evoking “a lot of good memories of great staff and faculty.” She invites anyone who’d like to make some new, New England-style memories to visit the area— perhaps with a stay at the gorgeous Henniker House Bed and Breakfast nearby—and get their own taste of this Lands End-esque life. Friend her on Facebook at “The Grant Family Pond View Maple Sugar House” or go to www.nh-maple.com. –MARIA MIHALIK

Potomac to Petersburg RUSSIA NORMALLY INVOKES image sof endless cold snow, huge statues of

Lenin, the KGB and rows of uniform apartment blocks. So, when I told my family and friends I would be spending half the year in Saint Petersburg, Russia, they told me I was crazy. My Russian journey began my freshman year of college when I enrolled in Russian 101. Mme. Pilkerton at Holy Child got me interested in the origins of words in my three years of French with her, and I was eager to learn another language. Yet, Russian is a different animal than most; with its different alphabet and case system, its degree of difficulty is a four out of five. But I took to it like a babushka to borscht. It wasn’t just Russian that lured me. Since the day when I was eleven and volunteered to play goalie for my U-12 Chevy Chase team (I wasn’t even big enough to strap my own equipment on), I have been hooked on ice hockey, both playing and watching. My goalie hero was Vladislav Tretiak, the famous #20, probably the greatest goalie in the history of the sport. He won three Olympic gold medals and ten World Championship medals. (He was the goalkeeper pulled in the famous 1980 “Miracle” game.) I have tried to replicate the techniques of Tretiak, who is now president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation. I wanted to go to Russia and train as Tretiak trained. After months of research, and numerous emails with my college recruiting tape, I got a response from three teams, but the Saint Petersburg team— Hokkei Klub Panteri (Hockey Club Panthers)—offered me a spot. Then I found a university program that would transfer back to Rhodes College. I arrived in Russia in the summer for preseason. Not like hopping in the car and heading to the modern rink at home, we spent an hour on the marshrutka (mini-bus), trolley and then the metro to reach the Khrushchevera rink. Unlike the world-class men’s hockey, the Russian women’s hockey program is still fairly new and struggles with a lack of support and corruption. Yet, the level of hockey is high and intense. Luckily for me, I ended up with a coach, Igor Kisilyov, who really wanted to propel the women’s ice hockey program in Russia. Igor didn’t speak any English, so my Russian hockey vocabulary quickly expanded. We traveled all over Russia and the former Soviet Union. Since it was too expensive to bring my own leg pads, I probably played with five different sets over my time there. Coach found out that I was the only player with a driver’s license, so when Igor needed a rest on some of our ten-plus hour drives, I became the driver of the 1982 UAZ Bukhanka 2206 team van. I learned to love Soviet manual transmissions on our trips as well as old Soviet war songs and corny Russian pop coming through the ancient radio. We played everywhere from Moscow to the middle of Siberia, driving or taking the train. We also played in Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine. It’s interesting to see that despite two decades of independence, many of these countries still depend on Soviet infrastructure and Russian language. During the IIHF International Women’s Hockey Day Tournament in Tver, Russia, all the women’s hockey teams of the Russian Federation came to play. My team placed third and thus was invited to the medal ceremony. I nearly passed out when I saw who was standing on the carpet on the ice, ready to present the medals: none other than my hero, Vladislav Tretiak. His speech in Russian spoke of never giving up, despite losses, pain and struggle, then he gave out some special awards. I was listening, but was so mesmerized that I didn’t even notice my own name being called— “K. Velan, HK Panteri, sami lushi vratar turnira (best goalkeeper of the tourna-

ment).” I didn’t move until a teammate whispered to me that I was being called. I skated up to Tretiak and lost all the words that I wanted to say to him if I ever met him. He smiled, handed me my medal and put his hand out to shake mine. As we shook, he said to me nodding to my left hand, my catch glove hand, “U vas yest zolataya ruka (You have a golden hand).” I managed to say, “Spasibo bolshoe (Thank you very much).” Then I was invited to the Russian national team’s training camp for a week-long training session in Moscow, despite the fact that I was American. Tretiak designed his own drills back in the early 1960s, fashioning them after the style of the Russian Cossacks dances; this trained his legs to move side to side quickly along with juggling balls at the same time to keep his hands quick. That week was probably the hardest physical sport training I have ever gone through, but it also was the best. My dream had been to train as Tretiak trained, but I got something better. I got to train with Tretiak. Living in Russia is definitely not the easiest thing. There were some days that I really wanted to go home, especially the two months with no heat in my apartment when it was -20F outside! Holy Child definitely gave me a sense of perseverance: the fact that in Russia, almost no one speaks English, so the first two months it was extremely hard and awkward to try to do anything— from buying a bus pass to paying apartment rent. Sticking with it helped me to become fluent. I was also encouraged to try new things; as you can see, this was not anything I had encountered before, from the whole drafting process to traveling to trying to make friends with my fellow teammates who didn’t speak any English. Every time I step in goal, I remember the first time Coach Whitaker handed me my set of field hockey goalie pads and the voice of Mrs. Wooters telling me that the “goalkeeper is the quarterback of the team” and telling coach to hit harder shots on me. The most important thing that I learned at Holy Child has carried me on, not only just in Russia, but in my hockey career and in life— never give up and always try your best. See Kelly’s story on athletics on page 31. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

Katy’s Newest Slice of Melon ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Adam Melon is adventurous, creative, and back

for the fifth installment as the highly likeable protagonist of the “Melonhead” series of children’s chapter books by Holy Child ’74 alumna and D.C. author Katy Kelly Bottorff. Melonhead and the We-Fix-It Company (New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2013), set in Katy’s own Capitol Hill stomping grounds, hit bookstores on September 10. In it, Adam (Melonhead to his friends) and his friend Sam concoct an ambitious moneymaking plan to bail themselves out of a jam. The book joins previous titles that have charmed eight-to twelve-year-olds (and their parents!) since Katy first gave this funny inventor his own series in 2000: Melonhead; Melonhead and the Big Stink (2010); Melonhead and the Undercover Operation (2011); and Melonhead and the Vegalicious Disaster (2012). Readers initially met Adam Melon when he debuted as a character in Katy’s first children’s books, the popular “Lucy Rose” series. That Katy’s work takes up a good chunk of shelf space (under Katy Kelly) in stores and libraries is no surprise given that writing talent runs in her family. Her mother, Marguerite Kelly, has written the nationally syndicated “Family Almanac” column for the Washington Post since 1979 as well as award-winning parenting books that Katy herself illustrated. (The doubly artistic Katy, who paints and draws, began her professional life thinking she was going to be an illustrator.) Before venturing into children’s books, Katy carved out a successful career writing feature articles for USA Today, U.S. News and People magazine. Holy Child fans of Katy’s might know that one of her proudest creations bears the name of her mother and graduated from Connelly in 2006: daughter Marguerite! –MARIA MIHALIK

Welcome Back, Freshmen AFTER A WHIRLWIND of a first semester, filled with

many highs and a few lows, the Class of 2012 returned to talk to the seniors about the wonder and excitement of college. More than half of the preceding class shared their insights during a lively discussion in the chapel. The college freshmen related a wide range of newfound knowledge. Among the list of college “do’s and don’ts”: Do e-mail your professors if you have a question; Don’t lock your door and stay in your room all day. The alumna were thoughtful when answering questions, be they about about class sizes, dorm life, making friends, roommate troubles or choosing schools big or small. All and all it was a friendly and helpful afternoon filled with advice, honesty, and lots of hugs! 42

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Rising Star WHEN LAUREN ADAMS landed in David Letterman’s chair, it surely

surprised her friends, family, and the Holy Child community…but it also surprised Dave! Her flash mob fashion show ambush this past summer was one of the comedienne/actress’s latest comic turns. Lauren, from the class of 2000, always had a knack for performing, from acting camps, dance classes, and voice lessons as a little girl to her performances at Holy Child. From singing in chorus in Middle School and Chamber Choir and Jazz Ensemble in high school, to participating in the spring musicals, she was among the first to put together a showcase for her senior music performance class. It’s safe to say that performing is in her blood. “I owe a lot of thanks to Holy Child for helping to cultivate confidence in myself as a young woman that has helped me to feel more confident as an adult,” she says. Which is why it came as no surprise when she decided to major in Music Theatre at Elon University. After graduating, she worked at a number of regional theatres prior to deciding to follow her gut: she packed and up and moved to New York City in 2006. Soon thereafter, she began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade, a theatre company founded by SNL Alum Amy Poehler and others, which puts on nightly comedy shows featuring improv, standup, and sketch routines. She performs there regularly, and pays the bills with her work in commercials; be on the lookout for her in ads for Olive Garden (Break Lunch Block) and Boar’s Head; she also does voiceovers. She’s hoping her entertaining

Letterman spot will gain notice, as do her reps. “My agents at CESD are wonderful and are the reason I booked the spot on Letterman. That was a dream come true to be doing comedy at the Ed Sullivan Theatre with DAVID LETTERMAN. It was so cool. ” She claims her agents are the reason she got the spot, but we know it was her charm and talent! Keep it up, Lauren! –KAELYNN SERENA, ’12 See Lauren’s ads and her Letterman appearance on YouTube; contact her through the UCB website newyork.ucbtheatre.com/talent/view/10445

JOIN US FOR CAREER DAY! SHARE. ADVISE. NETWORK. When: Friday, April 25, 2014 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Where: Holy Child Share your professional path with our students in informal panel discussions. Students gain invaluable insights into your field of work, things that worked and things that didn’t, and what wide-ranging opportunities await them after graduation. You have the opportunity to network and catch up with old friends and make new ones at the wrap-up luncheon. Look for notices and registration information on the alumnae Web page (www.holychild.org/alumnae) Or write to Meghan Barry meghanbarry@holychild.org to let her know that you will be there!

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Class Notes

A special thank you to the class reps (listed, with emails, below each year) for helping us gather exciting news on their classmates. It’s been great to hear from so many of our alums this summer, and we’re hoping that even more of you will give us the skinny on what you’re up to. It’s easy to share your information, and find out about your old friends. Make it a habit to visit our brand new website, www.holychild.org (click on alumnae at the top right). It’s even easier to update your information, and we’ll be featuring “spotlights” of many of our alumna throughout the year. Or stop in to our Facebook page (Holy Child Alums) to share your news, check on reunions, and keep up with the Tigers. –MEGHAN BARRY

1965

Cathy Caspar Delahay - delahay01@gmail.com

Rosemary Howard Bergeron, who now lives in Hilton Head, retired after teaching for 27 years, but she still substitutes twice a week. Rosemary and her husband, Peter, celebrated their 39th anniversary on June 30 in Aruba. They enjoy playing golf together. They have two sons, Michael and Brian. Cathy Caspar Delahay and her husband, Jack, spent Christmas 2012 week with all five children, their spouses, and nine grandchildren–in one house at Disney World. While they are inveterate Disneyo-philes, they also gather at each other’s homes on a regular basis (all live within a 40-minute radius). When not with family, Jack and Cathy enjoy a busy travel schedule: from riding elephants in an Indian tiger preserve to walking among China’s terra cotta warriors. Cathy is still checking off her “must-see” list in Western Europe from Mother Paschal’s art appreciation classes. Patti White RadIe and her husband continue to be volunteer co-directors of Inner City Development, which just completed a $187,000 expansion of its facility. They had over 400 children for their summer program.

1966

Luisa Hill - luisabhill@me.com

Debbie Cronin Kissinger is a very busy retired elementary teacher, “grammie” to five beautiful munchkins, and deeply committed to SHCJ Lay Associates,

where she serves on the Core Team. She spends time taking water exercise classes, reading, and making all of her own cards, which is also a prayer ministry. Carol Sinwell retired in 2012 as Dean of Learning Resource Services at Northern Virginia Community College, but continues to teach for the Masters of Education program at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. Carol is also continuing her collaboration with another professor in writing graduate program textbooks. In her “free” time, she volunteers at Wolf Trap, her church, and helps care for her 88-year-old father. Pam Russell Simmonds retired after 40 years as a graphic designer and creative director in advertising and publishing in the DC area and is taking care of her beautiful granddaughter, Estelle Grace Kenealy. She traveled to Scotland and London this September to celebrate the birthdays of several classmates! Kathy Hogan Didden welcomed her fourth grandchild, Georgia. Kathy’s daughter Katy published her first book, The Glacier’s Wake, a beautiful and heartfelt book of poems. Alex Howard Pawlik’s daughter, Laura, is tying the knot. With her three daughters and three unique and different weddings, Alex is retiring from wedding planning. Mary Keene Cornelson Williams’ son, Parker, is getting married soon. Mary Beth Nelson retired after a long career of various federal government positions and without missing a beat, has already started her volunteer career.

1967

Linda Lebling Freitag - annaptags@comcast.net

Brenda Forbes Fox retired from work as a curriculum/literacy specialist with the School District of Philadelphia and embarked on a new career as a professional developer/teacher coach with Children’s Literacy Initiative. Her children, Adam, Gina, Christina and Nicholas, are all on their way with their own careers. Excitement is building as daughter Gina plans her October wedding! Hannah Sheridan Shorey retired last year after teaching kindergarten through sixth grade for 26 years. Her son is an accountant and her daughter is a teacher. Hannah has eight grandchildren ages three to ten. She and her husband, Hank, spend many hours attending sporting events, traveling, and enjoying their retirement in Plano, Texas. Ming Ivory launched a small art gallery in the College of Integrated Science and Engineering at James Madison University, and after classes ended, took a watercolor class last spring. She resides in Harrisonburg, VA.

1968

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Maria Schwartz has three children, five grandchildren, and just became a greatgrandmother. Her mother, who is now 93, lives with Maria and her husband in Silver Spring, MD along with their black lab, two horses, a donkey, a mule, and two pygmy goats. She is

a member of the Trail Riders of Today Executive and works at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and has entered their Honor Law Graduate program. She was recently elected to the position of Executive Vice President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Chapter 208.

1969

Suzanne Hodson MacDaniels suzimacd3@aol.com Mary Beth Pender - mbplaw@verizon.net

Kate Burke Walsh resigned as Head of School at The Willow School, where she had been for the past six years. She is looking forward to spending time with her granddaughter, Taylor Elizabeth Elphick (whose mom is Emily Walsh Elphick ‘99), traveling and helping to plan daughter Libby Walsh’s (’03) May 2014 wedding to Patrick O’Donnell! Mary Beth Pender and her daughter, Gwen, vacationed this past July in Rome, Florence, and Milan.

1970

Nancy Forbes Ephraim - NanCKE@aol.com

Sara Wiesbock moved to Cape Cod in 2011. Sadly, her husband, Karl, passed away in July, 2012. She is adjusting, has her real estate license and works in Sandwich, a true New England village by the ocean. Both of her sons and her four

Pam Russell Simmonds’ granddaughter Estelle Grace Kenealy. Cathy Caspar Delahay ’65 and her husband, Jack, with all five children, their spouses, and nine grandchildren in Disney World. Kate Walsh ’69 with her daughter, Emily Walh Elpick ’99, and her granddaughter, Taylor. Kathy Sullivan ’71 at a handcrafts shop in Amman, Jordan.

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year-old granddaughter, Kennedy, live in Virginia, but she is looking forward to their visits! Ann Hume Wilson was named president & general manager of KMFA Classical 89.5, Austin TX, in December 2012.

where she plays a lot of golf. Sadly, her mom, who many of her classmates knew, passed away April 2013. Katherine’s dad is 89 and doing fine. She is in DC often as she still owns the condo on MacArthur Blvd. she purchased in 1982.

1971

1973

Patsy Lynch has 100 (and counting) images in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. In addition to the American History museum, some of her images of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s photos will be included in the soon- to- be- completed Smithsonian Museum of African American History. Katherine Sullivan still lives in Amman, Jordan with her husband, Alain, and their daughter, Dunya. Kathy is working as a freelance writer/editor and researching a book on American women who came to live in Jordan for a long time for various reasons and their reflections on their experiences.

Tracy Pagenstecher Board lives in York, PA with her husband, Jim. Their son, Jimmy, and his wife live in Houston, TX and have twin boys, who turned three in August. They are expecting a baby girl the end of October. Missy Asbill Attridge lives in Annapolis with her husband, Dan, who recently became Dean of Catholic University Law School after 32 years in private practice. Any students considering CUA Law, feel free to contact her! Missy is organizing the class of 1973’s reunion. Mary and Marguerite Engler are back in the area after many years in San Francisco. Both are working at NIH. Elaine Long Knuth and her husband, Alex, are in the process of moving from Zurich, Switzerland to Qatar. Connie Arzigian is an archaeologist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She teaches in the Archaeological Studies Program and conducts research throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota, and is writing a book on the burial mounds in Minnesota.

Margot Culotta Norton - mmctooth@aol.com

1972

Amy Ryan Rued - amyryanrued@gmail.com

Aline Ryan is still a partner at Hudson Cook, LLP, a law firm of about 60 attorneys, which she helped start in 1997. Her daughter, Katharine Lyon, graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in December, with a degree in sociology. Aline is looking to buy a new home in the Towson, MD area. Life consists of work, play with a few good friends, and time spent with her daughter (who is presently living with her). Mary O’Donnell Grisley spent the summer planning her daughter Colleen’s wedding, which was in Healdsburg, CA this past September. She also had a new grandbaby arrive in July! Mary still works as an assistant principal at East High School in Salt Lake and never thought she would have to attend so many proms! Katherine Golas is now retired. She spends the summer months in Montana, where she built a small ranch, and in San Antonio during the winter months,

Missy Asbill Attridge - Aattridge@verizon.net

1974

Suzi Norris Montes de Oca – smontes@holychild.org

Katy Kelly’s eighth novel for 3rd-6th graders, Melonhead and the Vegalicious Disaster, was published by Random House in September 2012. Suzi Norris Montes de Oca’s daughter, Krista Montes de Oca Kelly ’05, got married in May! Holy Child alumna Margot CulottaNorton ’71, Dagmar Torres Farr ’74, Kathleen Farah Cahill ’74 and Nancie Groff Mackintosh ’74 were in attendance. Congratulations to Charlotte Troha Shields, who passed the Oncology Certified Nurse exams in September 2012. Caroline Battaile Crosby has set-

tled into a wonderful job at an accounting firm in Lexington, MA, specializing in government accounting. Her eldest child, James, is in Los Angeles pursuing a career in acting and her youngest, Willie, graduated from UMass Amherst in May 2012. Caroline’s daughter, Leigh, is working as a relationship advisor at Wellington Management in Boston. Mary Corcoran Knoll and her husband, Billy, are on the trip of a lifetime! Their “Gypsy Tour…AKA The Artful Odyssey” began in October of 2012.

1975

Karen Denison Clark – karenclark317@gmail.com

Karen Clark’s children are out of the nest (for the most part) and now she is looking to reinvent herself (again). If it wasn’t for constantly being on the road, Karen would still be coaching college tennis. She has imported fabrics from India mostly bed linens and tablecloths, but planning this fall to use the fabric for ottomans, footstools, and benches. She will continue to do that on a very small scale, but looking is for her next endeavor. Beth Rauber O’Connor is working at the Long Island Board of Realtors as director of technology training. She has lived on the north shore of Long Island with her husband, Tom, for more than 30 years. Her son, Tom, who is 25, is an Army First Lieutenant currently stationed at Fort Hood, TX. He was deployed to Iraq in 2011 and received a Bronze Star. Marie Reilly Kerins’ son is getting married this November!

1976

Mary Hornish Kempf - mary.kempf@fcps.edu Suzanne Stinson - patjoh104@earthlink.net

Patty Montrie Jannotta is living in Bethesda and working part-time at BioReliance in Rockville. Her daughter, Andrea, just completed her sophomore year at Eckerd College and her son, David, graduated from Walt Whitman in June 2013 and is attending Goucher College. Patty and her husband, Dave, celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary this past July. Jane Rosinski Grenier

recently celebrated 15 sequential years at Condé Nast Media Group. Jane is also headed into her third year as an adjunct instructor at NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Center for Publishing. Jane’s husband, Jean-Marie, is an accomplished sculptor in ceramics, working out of a studio at their home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Cheryl Koenig Cox lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, James, and is a program manager in corporate fitness. Her son, Paul, started his third year of law school while also earning his MBA at The University of Baltimore. Her daughter, Stephanie, who resides in DC, is 28 years old and was diagnosed with MS about six years ago. Determined not to let MS stop her active lifestyle, she found an adaptive rowing team and was recently chosen for the Paralympics rowing camp in Oklahoma City. After the camp she was chosen as an alternate for the upcoming 2016 Paralympics, and World Championships! Mary McHale Rothaus moved to the San Francisco area 31 years ago and is currently living in Danville, CA. She remarried three years ago and has twin stepsons who are 25 years old. Mary works as a regional manager for a wholesale clothing company.

1977

Shana Gaultney Elliot - shanagelliott@aol.com

Shana Gaultney Elliott and her husband, Richard, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with a trip to Rome and Sorrento, Italy. They enjoyed the Vatican most of all since Shana’s recent conversion to Catholicism. She credits Holy Child for planting the seeds for her conversion! Donna Thome (’77) visited Shana in Atlanta twice last year from Raleigh. She was participating in Art Festivals with her jewelry line, Isajul, which she designs and creates. Jeanne O’Connor Wyand lives in Stow, Massachusetts. She has three children in college at the University of Maryland, Brown University, and University of Miami. Jeanne works for a management consulting firm specializing in healthcare. She has several clients in the DC area so she gets down to see her family quite often!

Karen Denison Clark ’75, her daughter, Denison, Rene Leonard O’Grady ’75 and her daughter, Alanna. Tracy Board’s ’73 twin grandsons. Sarah McCandliss ’78. Leslie Paroby Lindstrom ’79 and her three daughters.

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1978

Angela Withers – macsul@smart.net

Jeremy Davis Lopynski and her husband, Johnny, started “The Ryan Lopynski Big Heart Foundation” to honor her oldest son, Ryan, who passed away at the young age of 18 years old on April 26, 2009. They have an annual 5K fundraising race called “The Run for Ryan” that was started in June of 2009 at Virginia Tech. They started their first “Every Heart Counts” wine tasting, silent auction event on January 2, 2013, and raised more than $80,000. Holy Child alums came out to support the cause. Sarah McCandliss lives in Pacific Grove, CA, and has her own business as a landscape designer. In addition, she works for the Santa Lucia Conservancy as the Conservancy construction and compliance manager. She enjoys hosting foreign students in her home who are attending the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Sarah has 14 nieces and nephews and 8 grandnieces and nephews.

1979

Rita Devine - Rita.Devine@nih.gov Stephanie Joyce Farrell stephaniefarrell@verizon.net

Tracey Belt Garber has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 17 years with her three children, Lindsay, Bo, and Max. Their current family goal is to visit Tracey’s old stomping grounds in Ireland (she was an exchange student while at Holy Child), England, and maybe even Scotland! Tracey works as a director/ playwright for area schools, works in community theater,and does a lot of volunteer work. Cindy Comerford Gilette, current Holy Child school nurse, and Wooly Devine accompanied nine Holy Child junior and senior students to Jamaica over a long weekend with “Food for the Poor” to build and paint two elementary schools in impoverished areas. This will hopefully become an annual service trip for the Holy Child students. Eileen Stevens Spencer and Stephanie Joyce Farrell met up with Carol Luce ’78 when she visited the DC area. Stephanie and Eileen’s sons just graduated from Gonzaga together and were in Ireland celebrating with their dads so the moms snuck away for a Holy Child get together. Leslie Paroby Lindstrom is an RN on a mom/baby unit in a hospital

in Denver, CO. She uses her art degree preparing graphics and photography for hospital brochures and posters. Leslie loves spending time with her daughters, especially when they can travel together. They currently live in Colorado and do a lot of skiing and hiking.

1980

Erin Tehan Boccia - Erin.Boccia@comcast.net MaryBeth Allen Corbutt - fourcorbs@msn.com Karen Carestia Crocker - KLCrocker2@verizon.net Jennifer Girardi McCloskey Jennifer.McCloskey@em.doe.gov

Teresa Troha Thomas and her husband, Doug, moved back to the Washington area in August 2013. Doug is retiring from 29+ years in the United States Marine Corps. They have moved more than 20 times, have three successful grown children, Doug, 28, Steven, 27 and Lisa, 23, and are looking forward to settling down in one place and reconnecting with friends from the past. Christine Finch Oleynick works from home in Weston, CT as director of chapter cevelopment & Fairfield County chapter director for Over 40 Females. She hosts monthly networking events for women over the age of 40, providing a platform for every woman to stand up and be heard at every event and is also offering personal online profiles for promotion, blog features, social media, messaging other members and more. Christine lives with her husband, John and their twin 11-year-old boys. Carol Brault is a publisher at Dorland Health/OR Manager/Contexo Media. In her leadership role with the company, Carol directs the strategic planning, growth strategy, and day-to-day direction of the healthcare group, with the overall responsibility of ensuring that revenue and profit goals are achieved. Debbie Stack O’Connor is currently a business owner of three online shops specializing in rosary supplies, sacramental Catholic jewelry, and Celtic jewelry; all three are on the Etsy.com marketplace. Debbie lives in Clarksburg, MD with her husband and their son, Daniel, who will be graduating from Good Counsel in 2014. Their daughter, Kerry, is going to be a junior at University of South Carolina.

1981

Carla Pappalardo carlapappalardo@hotmail.com Charlie Laux Widwark charlie.widmark@comcast.net

Beth Arrigo Collins lives in Fairfax, VA with her husband, Patrick, whom she met while serving in the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka. She has two teenage girls and two rescue dogs. Beth is a training manager and eLearning developer at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA, and is also a certified massage therapist. Renee Panagos plays in a West African Drumming Ensemble called The Akoma Drummers. The band was invited by the DC Arts Commission to play at their summer series Music on the Mall. Kara Buttimer is back in the saddle again, literally. She recently rode her Warmblood mare, Abigail, to a first-place finish in a local dressage show. The gardening gloves and accessories she designs and produces under the label “Angela’s Garden” have been featured in Victoria, O Magazine, Country Living and, most recently, Better Homes and Gardens. Casey Mooney has been appointed director of creative operations at TBWA/ Chiat/Day, an advertising agency that produces work for Apple, Pepsi, Nissan and other notable brands. Erin Dunn Starr spent the summer touring Italy with her mom. Anne-Marie Basdekas Barry’s second daughter, Victoria Barry, graduated from Holy Child in June 2013. Her other daughter, Charlotte graduated in 2011. Alyson Judge Frederick is back in school getting her master’s in teaching at Loyola University, Maryland.

1982

Constance Coakley Caufield - tmcsinger@aol.com Mary Treacy Novajosky mt.novajosky@verizon.net

Susan McCarthy Fitzgerald lives in Chevy Chase in the house her mom grew up in. She has two school age children, 8 and 10, and two out of school. She has been a mortgage banker with Bank of America for the past 20 years. Paula Duke Ebel is teaching 2nd grade reading at Somerset Elementary School in Chevy Chase, MD. She has two boys ages 13 and 11 and lives with her husband, Kevin. Julie Cantrel graduated from Shepherd University with a Master of Arts degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an Art specialization.

She is an elementary art teacher in Hagerstown. Nora Burrus Allen lives in New Hampshire and has a happy empty nest, with a 4th and 5th grandchild on the way. She works for Living at Home SeniorCare as administrative assistant and LNA. Meg Goodyear Murdock celebrated her 12-year anniversary of working at OTJ Architects, where she is both a partner and director of finance. She celebrated her 16th wedding anniversary in June. She and her husband have two girls, Macey, who is 13, and Beth, who is 11 years old.

1983

Suzanne Hohman Matan - suzmatan@aol.com

Joy Laramie is a nurse practitioner at the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC. She manages the clinical care on the inpatient Hospice and Palliative Care Unit. She lives in Arlington, VA, and is a volunteer foster parent for kittens and puppies for Homeward Trails and the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. Maura McGowan Gordy and her husband, Samual, live in Chevy Chase with their three sons. Their twin 15-year-old boys, Jamie who attends Richard Montgomery’s IB Magnet program and Brendan who is at B-CC, are sophomores. Their youngest, Colin, who is 13, is an eighth grader at Westland. Maura is working with the Wydler Brothers Realty Team in Bethesda. Meg O’Connell finished a year as interim president of Onondaga Community College, a twoyear academic institution with 13,000 students. As of July 1, she returned to her position as executive director of the Allyn Foundation. Meg lives in Skaneateles, NY, with her husband of 26 years. They have three daughters, two in college at Dartmouth and Gettysburg and one at Berkshire School playing girls ice hockey. Jen Hall Boyer lives with her husband, Steve, and two children in West Palm Beach, FL. She continues her career in the Information Technology consulting field with Computer Aid, Inc. Her son, Jake, is a senior lacrosse player and her daughter, Bryse, is a freshman soccer player. Both attend Pope John Paul II in Boca Raton, FL.

Eileen Stevens Spencer ’79, Stephanie Farrell ’79 and Carol Luce ’78. Kara Buttimer ’81 and her mare, Abigail. Deirdre Dowd Levine ’85 with husband and son. Karyn Kelly Egan and Sonia LaRosa Hounsell both graduates of 1989 caught up in Seattle.

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1984

Ann Schiattareggia Kern - kern7808@verizon.net

Jackie Jablonski DeCesaris and her husband, Marco, are living at their farm outside of Annapolis, MD. Their oldest daughter, Madeline, is 23 and is living in the Netherlands! Their youngest, Anna, is a sophomore at the Calverton School and spent the summer with her sister touring Europe. Marco and Jackie celebrated their 24th anniversary last summer! Maureen McCormick Grant is happy to announce that her daughter, Caitlin, has joined the Holy Child class of 2017!

1985

Carrie Bittman – bittman_carrie@bah.com Pam Burns – pamelab@pamshops4you.com Jennifer Ralston Kress – Kressfamily5@verizon.net Liz Bouchard Legg – Leggmom@gmail.com

Deirdre Dowd Levine is a consultant for Frontier Science. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Gary, and their one-year-old son, Colin. Cara Deckelman Marks and her husband, Jon, have lived and practiced medicine in Richmond, VA for the past 14 years. They both work part-time while raising their four beautiful children: Anna 13, Meagan 12, Erin 9, and Ben 8.

1986

Amy Beal – stella@seatryst.com

Helen Kilty Toves retired from the Coast Guard in February 2011. Laura Pignone Baker lives in State College, PA with her husband, Eric, and three children, Kaitlyn 17, Ryan 14, and Cassie 13. Laura is a senior business analyst for CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc., where she has worked for the past 22 years. Laura and Eric celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in September. Laura’s boys keep her busy with baseball, golf, football, and basketball. They come home every summer and Christmas to visit family in the DC area and would love to connect with others. Christine Ressa Schultz lives in Chicago with her three boys, Andrew 13, Benjamin 11, Evan 8, and her husband, Rob.

She works as a senior business developer at a litigation consulting company, where she has worked for 20 years. Shannon Hanley traveled the world competing on the ladies European and Asian golf tours. Afterward, she moved back to the United States and began a successful career teaching golf. Shannon is a certified class “A” professional in both the PGA and LPGA. She lives in Steamboat Springs, CO, where, in addition to teaching the game of golf, she is a fly-fishing guide.

1987

Alexandra (Sandy) Khayat Dahl lives in Munich, Germany with her husband and their four children. She works for the Munich Cowboys, an American Football Organization that is in the German Football League (GFL) as VP of marketing. Forough Parvizian Yazdani lives in McLean, VA with her husband and three children, Zach 16, Hannah 13, and Heidi 10. She has a general dentistry practice in Vienna, VA. Jennifer Abbey Johnson is the program administrator for the North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education. They license and regulate child care centers and homes across the state of North Carolina. She is also directly responsible for oversight of all NC Pre-K programs and their federal Race to the Top grant. Kate Sullivan Richards and her husband, Dave, had their 13th and most successful season with their Maple Sugar House this year. They produced 690 gallons of syrup this season and had a very successful Open House Weekend in March. Kate is in school at Granite State College working towards her degree in health care management and hopes to become a certified patienta in the future.

1988

Kay Delahay Kalhorn – kaykalhorn@hotmail.com Barb Delahay Murray – barb_delahay_murray@hotmail.com Jennifer Bigelow Urgo – Jenbigs@aol.com

Kristen Ingram White teaches grade 2 in the Montgomery County Public School System. Kristin and her husband, Geoff, have two children, Ella 8, and Thomas 5.

They are busy with soccer, skiing, swimming, girl scouts, running, yoga, play dates, biking, beach travel and caring for their English Angora rabbit. Geoff participated in the Chesapeake mile swim May 9, 2013! Ally Parvizian Jafarnia lives in Houston, TX with her husband and three children. She recently decided she didn’t want to practice law anymore and opened up a weight loss clinic in Houston. Her sister, Forough Parvizian (’87), first opened the clinic in Virginia as an annex to her dental office. They have had tremendous success and the weight loss is quick and stays off! Judith Ostronic continues spending her time living in India and documenting her adventures in her very interesting blog: Two Years in Gandahar. Check it out! Margie Vechery got engaged to Joey Braun and is planning her wedding. Meghan Skelton and her family completed the 3.5 mile Run Amuck, the Marine Corps Marathon’s messiest mud and obstacle event, which included nearly 3,000 runners facing arduous obstacles and plenty of mud. She was covered in mud by the end, but everyone had a fun day getting dirty!

1989

Nathalie Young Okhowat – Nyokhowat@aol.com

Vanessa Figueroa Brock is currently living in Saint Mary’s, GA with her husband, Scott. She gave birth to her second son, Eli Wilson Brock, on June 27, 2013. Big brother, Enzo, turned two on May 20, 2013. Joelle Slye Flynn and her husband, Kevin, celebrated 20 years of marriage in June! They live in Dana Point, CA with their children Chase 11, Aiden 9, and Seamus 7, and love the area. Joelle was recently elected executive director of a fabulous nonprofit called Girls on the Run. She is working to bring a new chapter to Orange County. Andrea Brunhart Donalty is an active duty Navy pediatrician stationed in Washington State with her husband, Sean, and four boys. She is the department head of pediatrics at Naval Hospital Bremerton. Karyn Kelly Egan and Sonia LaRosa Hounsell got together last spring in Seattle. Karyn lives just outside of Seattle in Newcastle, WA with her husband, Mike, and two children. Sonia lives in Rye, NY with husband, Patrick, and nine-year-old twins.

1990

Ingrid Froehner – jifroehner@yahoo.com Katie Sullivan Tyson – ktsul@yahoo.com

Mary Clare Gartland Claud is a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division. Mary Clare, her husband, John, and their two daughters live in Northwest DC. Kara Aquino Breckstein lives locally in MD with her husband, Aaron, and their two children. Their daughter, Ryan Elle, is 7 and is in 2nd grade. Their son, Gryphon, is 5 and in kindergarten. He joined his sister at Our Lady of Mercy in Potomac, MD. Kara plans on returning to teaching part-time. Joanne DeAusen Saxour is a family medicine doctor in the Daytona Beach, FL area. She has been working in solo practice for 10 years. Joanne is also part-time faculty at the Halifax Family Medicine Residency and at the Florida State University School of Medicine, Daytona Beach campus. She and her husband, Clayton, have two boys, Brandon 10 and Chase 7, who love to play soccer.

1991

Margy Scarff Lourie – mslourie@comcast.net

Gabriele Brunhart Tsung was deployed to Afghanistan as a Navy nurse from July 2011- March 2012. She welcomed a daughter, Alina Sophia, on March 3, 2013. Her family moved to Stuttgart, Germany this past summer. Christine Smith will spend several weeks offshore of Oahu and the Big Island of Hawaii participating in a study that will assess seafloor and sub-seafloor conditions. The project will include sonar surveys to collect bathymetric and subbottom profile data, biological studies, and sampling for sediment chemistry and water quality. Michele Roome has been working at The Woods Academy–her alma mater–in Bethesda for the past 16 years as a Montessori assistant. She works with three to six year olds and loves her job. She purchased her first home in Silver Spring, MD a few years ago.

1992

Erin Dilley Bryer – erinbryer@verizon.net Alli Bigelow Lumpkin – allilumpkin@gmail.com

Suzie Peters is working towards her PhD in Neuroscience and received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of sleep on learning and memory, using mobile technologies. Jennifer Sincavage Connelly and her husband, Jim,

Vanessa Brock ’89 with her husband, Scott, and their sons, Enzo and Eli Wilson. Kara Aquino Breckstein ’90 with husband, Aaron, and Ryan Elle and Gryphon. Joelle S. Flynn ’89 with her husband, Kevin, and their children, Chase, Aiden, and Seamus. Jennifer Sincavage Connelly ’92 and her daughter, Claire.

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welcomed their fourth daughter, Claire Emerson, in April 2013. Her sisters, Emma, Bridget, and Sophia, were tickled to have another little girl join the family.

1993

Dillon Barnes Cox – dilloncox@aol.com Alicia O’Hare Henneberry – Alicia.henneberry@microsoft.com Amy Connors Remington amykremington@yahoo.com

Olga Ranaweera DeMetri lives in Moscow, Russia, as an expat while her husband, Gregg, is on assignment. Francesca Ugolini was one of 13 federal government employees to receive the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Excellence in Federal Service. The award is sponsored by The George Washington University and is given each year to federal government employees in the fields of Leadership and Management; Legal Achievement; and Sciences. Francesca received the award for her work as an appellate attorney at the Department of Justice, Tax Division, where she represents the United States in a variety of federal civil tax cases. Heather Crosby is moving the world to a healthier lifestyle with YUM UNIVERSE! Check out her website, www. yumuniverse.com. Flavia Zara Scalzitti is in her fourth year of writing her food blog, “Flavia’s Flavors,” where she writes about and photographs primarily Italian recipes. Flavia is working to launch her own culinary instruction business to provide Italian cooking lessons and demonstrations. Claudia Pinilla Smith was named one of the Top 10 Designers to Watch in 2012 by Stationery Trends magazine. Her work has graced the cover of Stationery Trends and has been featured several times in top tier publications such as Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides Magazine, and Southern Weddings. She is currently in talks with Urban Outfitters and Paper Source about the possibility of those stores carrying her line of greeting cards and boxed sets. At this year’s National Stationery Show, her company, Fig. 2 Design, launched a special collection called the “Letters for Love Project” where, in collaboration with various calligraphers, Fig. 2 will donate a portion of the proceeds of each “Letters for Love” card sold to charity.

1994

Jessica Colburn – jesscolburn@gmail.com Joanna Smith-Ramani- joramani@gmail.com

Patricia Parada Valado received a Doctorate of Special Education from George Washington University on January 31, 2013. Noelle Walker Prussman welcomed baby girl, Quinn Olivia, on December 19, 2012. She joins big sister, Riley 5, and big brother, Andrew 2. Giovanna Vidoli received her PhD in Anthropology in December 2012 and was hired as research assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and assistant director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Shawna Jackman married Sebastian Gangi on April 20, 2013. Jessica Colburn, Alicia Groft, and Ginger King Shaw, all ’94 classmates, were able to celebrate at the wedding.

1995

Eileen Dwyer Breeze – dwyerei@yahoo.com

Vivian Maria Garcia-Arnold recently accepted a position with a general contractor based in Connecticut. She is working on a project in New Haven for the CT Department of Transportation and has moved to the coastal town of Milford, just one hour north of New York City. Christina Falo works at Columbia University Medical Center and is the director of clinical research in the Department of Neurology and Neuro-ICU. She and her husband live in Darien, CT with their two boys, Luke 2, and Julian 18 months. Christina recently heard from Laura Barrett (’93) who lives near her in Westchester County, NY. Laura is doing great and has a beautiful family. Catherine Jamet Powers is teaching two geology courses at Front Range Community College. Her husband, Peter, is working as a research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, CO. Their children, Marion 4, and Avie 3, are attending a Montessori preschool. Elizabeth (EB) Forst is living in Santa Monica and working at LA County/

USC Hospital as a travel sports orthopedic physical therapist. An avid triathlete and yogi, she spent the month of August traveling to Cambodia, Thailand, and Bali for a mix of yoga/meditation, diving and backpacking. Mary Margaret Reed and her husband, Andy, welcomed their fifth child, a girl, Margaret Katherine in March 2013.

1996

Giselle Cruz Colavita – gisellecc@gmail.com Liz Dolan – lizdolan@access4less.net

Alexis Kaczensky Fabbri lives in Washington DC with her husband, Massimo, and their Maltipoo, LuLu. Alexis works as a communications and social media consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, supporting first responders at the Department of Homeland Security. She recently co-authored ConnectedGov#: Engaging Stakeholders in the Digital Age, a how-to on applying social media at the federal level. You can find some of her lighter work in Maryland Life Magazine. Kate Greene and her husband, Eric Herrmann, moved to Rockville, MD last year after six years in Boston with their daughter, Beatrice. Kate works at Abt Associates in Bethesda, MD in their international health division.

1997

Kara Hannan McGinn – karamcginn@gmail.com Shannon Pitcher Van Why – pitcher.shannon6@gmail.com

Laura Folks Borell and her husband, Jeremy, welcomed the birth of their second child, Caroline Joy Borell, on December 8, 2012. Caroline joins her big brother, Benjamin! Jean Zachariasiewicz moved back to Maryland in September 2012, after completing federal clerkships in Montgomery, Alabama and Austin, Texas. She is currently the Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow at the Public Justice Center in Baltimore, where she practices appellate law in the areas of civil rights and poverty law. Shannon Pitcher Van Why and her husband, Eric, welcomed their son, Jackson Shamus Van Why, on April 4, 2013.

1998

Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz Catherine_albornoz@yahoo.com Mary Frances Conley Williams – maryfwilliams93@gmail.com

Mimi Isabel Diez works for the IMF as a corporate sustainability officer, and is one of the few Latinas in the sustainability field in the DC area. She celebrated her 10-year wedding anniversary in August 2013 with her husband, Joel. They live in Takoma Park and have two energetic and creative children, Alicia 8 and Carlos 5. Meg Zaragoza Velleca ’98, Mariel Sosa Cortese ’98, Mary Larson ’01, and Keagan Resler Lenihan ’98 threw a baby shower in May for Annie Larson Corcoran ’98, who gave birth to twins! Annie also has a twoyear-old boy, Thomas. Keagan Resler Lenihan had a son, Tallon William Lenihan, April 2, 2012. His godmother is Annie Larson Corcoran ’98. Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz and her husband, Gabe, welcomed their third child, Mateo Anthony Albornoz, born on May 31, 2013. Julie Purcell Crafton and her husband, Matt, are excited to announce the birth of their son, William August Crafton, who joined their family on January 28, 2012. Julie works in public relations for the Napa Valley Vintners, and Matt is a winemaker in the Napa Valley. Maria Gabriela Brazley (Gabi Damiani) is pleased to announce the birth of her third child, Nina Maria Brazley, on May 25, 2013 along with her husband, Tony, and their other children, Camila and Jorge. The family is doing well and loving life!

1999

Susan Decker Raff - SDRaff@gmail.com Kate Hannan – katehannan@gmail.com Johanna Bayly Howe – jmkbhowe@gmail.com

Allison Tomai Felsen and her husband, Brian, just bought their first house in Baltimore. Imani Wadud has been living in Germany for the past eight years. She is married, has two children, and is working towards her MA in European American

Kate Greene ’96 with her daughter, Beatrice. Eileen Dwyer Breeze ’95 and her children Tommy, Maggie, and Declan and Martha Nguyen ‘95 and her children, Luke, James, and Andrew relax after a day at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Lisa Mitten ‘99 and Creek Iversen pose during their seedling sale at the Brook Farm Project. Pierce Resler Coffee ’00 and her husband, Richard, traveled to South Africa.

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Studies at the University of Regensburg. Lisa Vicini Hutson has moved to Nashville, TN. She has a position as a high school math teacher at University School of Nashville. Her husband, John, will be a professor of engineering at Lipscomb University. Lucy McGuffie started a new job as an RN in the operating room at Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, OR. Anne Burzio Meyers married Brian Meyers on June 23, 2012! The wedding ceremony took place at Blessed Sacrament followed by a beautiful reception at Chevy Chase Club. Lisa Mitten moved to the Brook Farm Project in New Paltz, NY last December where she and her partner, Creek Iversen, worked together to launch the growing season of the 20-acre community-based sustainable vegetable farm. In May, she began working at SUNY New Paltz as the campus sustainability coordinator in the newly formed Office of Campus Sustainability.

2000

Pierce Resler Coffee – pierce.r.coffee@gmail.com Jessica Dillon Bieligk– jessica.dillon48@gmail.com Meghan Everngam – mever01@gmail.com

Lauren Adams is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. You can hear her voice and see her face on a number of commercials on your television and radio. Jenna Edison Amato married Jonathan Amato in Port Jefferson, NY on April 21, 2012. Pam Hoover Wade ’00 served as a bridesmaid, and Lauren Adams ’00 was vocal soloist during the ceremony. Jenna has continued being creative while working in the online marketing department for Bankrate, Inc. and was able to use her acting talent by starring in the company’s “How To...” videos, found on Bankrate.com. Jenna and Jonathan reside in Astoria, NY. Pierce Resler Coffee and her husband, Bryce, went to South Africa on vacation this past April and enjoyed Capetown, a safari, vineyards, and Victoria Falls.

2001

Elizabeth McNamara – lizmcnamara@gmail.com Grace Easby – Smith Weisser – grace.weisser@gmail.com Jessi Williams Frend – jessi.frend@gmail.com

Kate Russell-Sullivan Barrow received a BA in Honors Sociology from Bishop’s University in Canada. She received an MA in Applied Sociology from the University of Indianapolis. Kate is also a member of Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society. She lives with her husband, Adam, and her three stepchildren, Hailey, Peyton, and Madison. Annie Genevish Matanin and her husband, Brad, recently purchased a home in the Woodley Gardens neighborhood of Rockville. Annie continues to work at American University’s Business School and is pursuing her Master’s degree in Teaching. Jessi Williams Frend and her husband, Tim, welcomed John Michael (“Jack”) Frend to their family on September 16, 2012. They were overjoyed to have him baptized in the Holy Child Chapel in January.

2002

Jillian Bastow – jillian_bastow@yahoo.com Meg Bellino – megbellino@gmail.com Shannon Fitzgerald – SLFitz5@gmail.com Kristin Liverman – Kristin.liverman@hotmail.com

Margaret Harker started clerking for the Honorable Henry E. Hudson on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in August 2013. Cheryl Norcross married Matthew Williams on July 6, 2013. Cheryl is an academic advisor for University of Maryland University College and Matt is a contractor for the Navy. Garry Carroll graduated from the Yale School of Medicine last year and is working as a dermatology physician’s assistant in Connecticut. Her husband, Joe, and she are planning to relocate back to Maryland this fall to be closer to family as they are expecting their first child in December. Megan Bellino Chesek married Luke Chesek

on May 24, 2013 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill and the reception was at Eastern Market. Her bridesmaids included: Kathleen Bellino Hickey ’96, Marianne Bellino Holbert ’98, Kelly Mulder ’00, Mara Bellino ’06, Kerry Bellino ’10, Emily Hayes ’02. Also in attendance were: Nicola De’Montille ’02, Lindsay Pesacreta ’02, Margaret Harker ’02, Delece Smith-Barrow ’02 and Kathleen Luby ’03. Megan is a doctor of physical therapy and works at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia and Luke is an attorney for the Department of Treasury. They reside in Washington, DC. Beatriz Freire-Frey is a special education teacher for Montgomery Public Schools. She married Dustyn Deal in Virginia on October 6, 2013.

2003

Lauren Kopit – lkopit@gmail.com Jenny Fitzpatrick – jfitz747@aol.com Caitlin Duignan - caitlin.duignan@gmail.com Hilary Sama - hsama2@gmail.com

Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge, Maryland. Caitlin James ’03 was maid of honor and Jennifer Fitzpatrick ’03 was a bridesmaid.

2004

Blair Bjellos – blairbjellos@gmail.com Kathleen Boucher – Kathleen.boucher@gmail.com Liz Connor – liz.connor122@gmail.com Alicia Easby-Smith Barton – aesbarton@gmail.com

Jamie Carroll just started in the PhD program in Sociology at University of Texas at Austin this fall. Carla Nally is attending graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania this fall to pursue her Master’s of Science in Education. She will be studying reading, writing and literacy with reading specialist certification. Beth Seifert married Aaron Shura on April 27, 2013 in Baltimore, MD. Amy Ruddell ’03 and Jocelyn Rheem ’04 were bridesmaids.

2005

Carolina Aguilar has been living in New York since she graduated from Duke University in 2007. She is the manager of business development for Foreign Affairs magazine at the Council on Foreign Relations. She got married at her parents’ farm in Comus, MD on May 18, 2013, to Julian Dawes! Caitlin Duignan was proposed to by Patrick Orth on January 19, 2013 on Assateague Island. The couple will be getting married at Holy Child on November 9, 2013. Ally Eckhart got engaged while on top of the Mayan Temple in Belize and was married October 12, 2013 at The Comus Inn. Elizabeth Trocchio is a cheerleader for the DC NBA team, the Washington Wizards. Sarah Reese received her PhD. in May, 2013; she got engaged to Elliott Rosenblum in November 2012 and is getting married on June 14, 2014 in Arlington, VA. Deanna Farishian married Micah Manning on May 26, 2013 at the Hyatt

Irene Firippis – Irene.firippis@gmail.com Krista Montes de Oca – krista.montes@gmail.com Jenny Olszewski Ericka Rojas – ericka.lynn.rojas@gmail.com

Krista Montes de Oca married Michael Kelly on May 25, 2013. Classmates Katie Wilcox, Kiki Janssens, Maureen EasbySmith and Noreen Ahmed attended. Allie Townshend graduated from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work in May 2013, with a Master of Science in Social Work and a concentration in Community & Administrative Leadership. Danielle Clements Capano married Fabio Capano on June 04, 2011. In December of 2011, she received a Master’s degree in Secondary English Education from West Virginia University. She and Fabio moved to Turkey after Danielle was accepted to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant program in Turkey in the summer of 2012. She has been teaching English at Inonu University in

Jennifer Edison Amato ’00. Cheryl Norcross ‘02 and her husband, Matthew Williams. Krista Montes de Oca ’05 married Mike Kelly. Elizabeth Seifert’s ’04 wedding photo with some Holy Child Alums.

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Malatya, a small, developing city in Eastern Turkey. Kate Hinkle’s fiancé, Chris Leighton, is in the JAG Corps and they moved to Germany in April 2013 for three years. She will be working as a school counselor in an American school.

2006

Timi Abimbola – rotimi.abimbola@gmail.com Liz Vaghi – ecvaghi@gmail.com

Soraya Sadjady works as a senior teaching assistant in a London city school. Michelle Mercer married James Shank on June 15, 2013. Meghan Hibey is an HR & recruiting coordinator for WIlliams & Connolly and helps throughout the entire recruitment process for all jobs on the staff side of the law firm. Meghan ran the Army 10 miler in October. Amy Plamondon just graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland School of Nursing and is a NICU Nurse at Shady Grove Hospital. Grace Hanna is the reservations supervisor for the Ritz Carlton Hotels of DC, which includes both locations in Washington.

2007

Claire Easby-Smith – ceasby01@saintmarys.edu Meghan Kane – reignofkane@aol.com Courtney Smith – Jsmith@americanmap.com Allie Williams – allie.williams.13@gmail.com

Isabel Wallisch is stationed at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, WA, working as a fuels management flight commander in the United States Air Force. In May 2013, she was promoted to First Lieutenant. Lucy Boyce Kennedy finished her second year at Vanderbilt Medical School and took the boards. She began her clinical rotations this past summer. Erin Dreux graduated Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Tech. She passed all of her CPA exams and is employed by Baker Tilly. Her younger sister, Caitlyn, graduated this past June from Holy Child. Kerry Kempf is a special education teacher at Herndon Middle School. Christine Matthews has entered the University of South Carolina’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

2008

Julia Murphy - ngarrick@comcast.net Romina Nally - amvalle@worldbank.org

Amelia Kennedy has traveled and worked through Turkey and Eastern and Western Europe. She is currently in Southeast Asia. Amelia started at Yale University in August 2013 to begin a PhD program in Medieval History. Emily Pochter graduated in May 2012 from Rhodes College in Memphis with a degree in International Studies. In the fall of 2012, she worked for the presidential campaign in Columbus, Ohio, for Obama for America (OFA), as the rapid response coordinator and special projects assistant to the communications and policy directors. In January 2013, Emily joined the communications strategy firm of SKDKnickerbocker as an associate. Georgiana Donahue spent three months in South Africa at Mosselbaie for an internship in wildlife photography. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in November 2012 with a degree in photography. She resides in Savannah, has two horses, Boeing and Deville, and is riding competitively.

2009

Kelsey Albanese – albanesk@dickinson.edu Carolyn Hodgson – chodgson@udel.edu

Katherine “Kat” Eisenberg received her Bachelor of Art degree from St. Mary’s College of Maryland on May 11, 2013. She plans to work for a year and apply to grad school in art for the fall of 2014. Kelsey Albanese graduated from Dickinson College with a BA in Psychology in May 2013. She is exploring job opportunities in the fields of education and counseling in the Washington, DC and Boston areas. Vicky Arthur recently graduated from the University of Connecticut. She enjoyed a month of travel hiking throughout Europe. Upon her return, Vicky began a position with

Backcountry Magazine in Jeffersonville, VT. While at UConn, when she was a member of the field hockey team, the Huskies won the Big East Championship in 2009 and 2012 and went to the NCAA tournament all four years, including the national semifinal in 2011.

2010

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Ashley Paulos interned in PR and video-editing at the Discovery Channel this past summer. She will be graduating from the University of Delaware in the spring 2014. Nicole Nguyen transferred to Towson University in the fall of 2012. Karen Hill and Michelle Famulare are roommates and recently modeled in Fordham University’s annual fashion show, a large fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish foundation, and raised more than $7,000 dollars this year. Michelle won the dress she wore from Ali Ro in the raffle. Alexis Szemraj is a senior at The American University of Paris majoring in Arabic Language and Middle East Studies. In the fall of 2012, she participated in the University in the Intensive Arabic Program (IAP) at Cornell University. In the spring of 2013, she travelled to Irbid, Jordan to participate in another Intensive Arabic Language and Middle East Culture program through CET Academic Programs. Katie Ellis and Theresa Yenouskas traveled abroad together for the 2012 fall semester to Sevilla, Spain.

2011

Jessie Ely - Jessely14@aim.com Patricia Yoritomo - sayoritomo@gmail.com

Hannah Gessler is interning for Prada in NYC, in the public relations department. This past spring she interned during fashion week in NYC for Tibi and Rodarte. Sonia Ahmed loves Brown University and decided on a double major in psychology and education.

She worked for Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, MD last summer in their business sector. She is excited about studying abroad in London in the fall. Casey Del’Isola is playing Division 1 lacrosse at George Washington University. Jessie Ely is continuing her science work and clinical hours for her athletic training major at Marist, and still loves how rugby helps keep her sane. Brynn Raffensperger is playing Division 1 lacrosse at Fairfield University and is studying abroad in Florence, Italy this fall! Kate McCormick is studying abroad this fall in Barcelona, Spain. Luciana Giorgio is a mentor for Scholar’s Latino Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a mentor she guides her mentee, now a junior at Asheboro High School, through the college process, helping her pick colleges, practicing SAT and essay writing. SLI is a great program started at UNC that helps students see college as a realistic and accessible option in their futures no matter their financial background.

2012

Julianne Pearson – jpearsonhc2@gmail.com Kaelynn Serena - kaelynn.serena@yahoo.com

Ingrid Gooch was invited to join the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for first-year students who have earned a minimum of a 3.5 GPA as fulltime students in their freshman year at Hood College in Frederick, MD. She also received the James R. Boston Prize which goes to a first-year or sophomore student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in a religion or philosophy class. Madison Glueckert worked for JCrew at the outlets during the summer. She was accepted into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority Virginia Tech chapter last March and is very excited to be a KKG! She LOVES Tech so much and is looking forward to her sophomore year.

Ally Eckhart ’03 and her fiancé on top of a Mayan temple. Megan Bellino ’02 with her bridesmaids Kathleen Bellino Hickey ‘96, Marianne Bellino Holbert ’98, Kelly Mulder ’00, Mara Bellino ’06, Kerry Bellino ’10, Emily Hayes ’02. Katherince Eisenberg ’09 at St. Mary’s College of Maryland graduation. Katie Ellis ’10 and Theresa Yenouskas ’10 abroad in Spain.

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annual report Dear Holy Child Community, Congratulations to all for a very successful school year. Our academic and extracurricular programs continue to thrive, thanks in large part to our wonderful and dedicated teachers and staff. It is truly heartwarming to see so many faculty and administrators present at the myriad events outside of the classroom—whether it was the student council car wash or the annual Gala, you were cheerfully present, which adds so much to our girls’ experience at Holy Child. Our parents and other friends in the community continued to show their support this past year. The Fund for Holy Child raised a record $531,497 for the 2012-2013 year. The Tiger Trot was up more than 19% from last year, with 450 participants! The Fall Classic, Mayfield Market, and Gala were all great successes. Current parent Fund support exceeded 84%, and our alumnae continue to support their alma mater. I am proud that our community believes so deeply in our school and the education it

provides for our girls. Of course, we had the big news of our Head of School’s announcement to step down after the 2013-2014 school year. It will be a big adjustment to picture Holy Child without Maureen Appel. Maureen’s decision has caused our community to reflect on what makes Holy Child unique, and that reflection and resultant positive emotion is a large part of why we had such a successful year. Due to the strength of our leadership and the support of our community, I am excited for the change that awaits our community. Thank you for everything you do to make Holy Child a special place for our daughters. Sean Glynn Chair, Board of Trustees

THE FUND FOR HOLY CHILD is an extremely vital piece of the school’s fundraising pie. Supported by parents, alumnae, faculty and staff, grandparents,

parents of alumnae and many friends of the school, the Fund provides immediate support for necessities and enhancements that make Holy Child the extraordinary experience it is for all the girls. Every gift makes a difference. Every girl makes a difference. And everyone who helped solicit gifts made a wonderful difference—this year more than any before as we went beyond our goal. Our special thanks to each of the representatives for their hard work in making this year’s Annual Fund drive a success. And special thanks to Mary and Brendan Magner, Annual Fund chairs, and Paul Dell’Isola, chairman of the Development Committee, for their continuing support.

Financials 2012-2013 Expenses: $8,203,034.00 15% Financial Aid $1,247,821.00

18% Administrative $1,503,313.00

Revenues*: $9,083,801.00 8% Other Fundraising $808,419.00

6% Annual Fund $522,004.00 3% Investments $230,883.00

18% Plant $1,441,946.00

49% Instructional

$4,009,954.00

*There is a significant gap between tuition and the cost to educate a student.

83% Tuition and Fees $7,522,495.00

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Our 2012-2013 Leadership Reception attendees, including Mark and Jeanne Shriver and annual fund chairs Mary and Brendan Magner, enjoyed the evening at the home of Headmistress Maureen Appel. Maureen was happy to welcome a wide-ranging group of current supporters, like former trustee Missy Asbill Attridge ‘73.

The Fund for Holy Child Cabinet Chairs

Alumnae Chair

Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Aiofe ’15

Mrs. Jessi Williams Frend ’01

Class of 2013

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Meg ’12

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lutes Missy ’13 Mrs. Kelli Magnarelli Molly ’13

Class of 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Kern, III (Ann Schiattareggia ’84) Sarah ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Mike Micholas Betsi ’14

Class of 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner, II Cece ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Aoife ’15

Class of 2016 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brigati Kelsey ’16 Mrs. Mildred Webber Holmes and Mr. Chris Holmes Caroline ’16

Class of 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Meima Rose ’17

Class of 2018 Ms. Dawn Carpenter Emily ’18

Class of 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Grassi Emma ’19

Alumnae Parent Chairs

Grandparent Chairs Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Linke Gena ’17

Faculty and Staff Chairs Mrs. Allison Abbondante Mrs. Heather Nemcosky Mr. Barry Rosenberg Mrs. Suzi Norris Montes de Oca ’74 Director of Development Krista ’05 Ms. Meghan Barry Development Associate and Alumnae Coordinator

Alumnae Association Class Representatives Cathy Caspar Delahay ’65 Luisa Hill ’66 Linda Lebling Freitag ’67 Gerry Kavanagh ’67 Suzanne Hodson MacDaniels ’69 Mary Beth Pender ’69 Nancy Forbes Ephraim ’70 Margot Culotta Norton ’71 Rosemarie Patane Dupy ’72 Amy Ryan Rued ’72 Missy Asbill Attridge ’73 Mary Hornish Kempf ’76 Suzanne Stinson ’76 Shana Gaultney Elliott ’77 Angela Withers ’78 Rita Devine ’79

Stephanie Joyce Farrell ’79 Erin Tehan Boccia ’80 Mary Beth Allen Corbutt ’80 Karen Carestia Crocker ’80 Jennifer Girardi McCloskey ’80 Darla Howard ’81 Casey Mooney ’81 Carla Pappalardo ’81 Carmen Grafton Schwartz ’81 Roberta Laux Widmark ’81 Constance Coakley Caulfield ’82 Mary Treacy Novajosky ’82 Suzanne Hohman Matan ’83 Ann Schiattareggia Kern ’84 Ann Bouchard Kerrigan ’84 Carrie Bittman ’85 Pamela Burns ’85 Jennifer Ralston Kress ’85 Elizabeth Bouchard Legg ’85 Kathryn Delahay Kalhorn ’88 Barbara Delahay Murray ’88 Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 Nathalie Young Okhowat ’89 Ingrid Ortega Froehner ’90 Kathleen Sullivan Tyson ’90 Margaret Scarff Lourie ’91 Erin Dilley Bryer ’92 Allison Bigelow Lumpkin ’92 Amy Connors Remington ’93 Dillon Barnes Cox ’93 Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93 Eileen Dwyer Breeze ’95 Giselle Cruz Colavita ’96 Elizabeth Dolan ’96 Kara Hannan McGinn ’97 Shannon Pitcher Van Why ’97 Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz ’98 Alicia Araoz ’98 Mary Frances Conley Williams ’98 Kathleen Hannan ’99 Johanna Bayly Howe ’99 Susan Decker Raff ’99

Jessica Dillon Bieligk ’00 Pierce Resler Coffee ’00 Meghan Everngam ’00 Elizabeth McNamara Direnfeld ’01 Jessica Williams Frend ’01 Grace Easby-Smith Weisser ’01 Jillian Bastow ’02 Megan Bellino ’02 Shannon FitzGerald ’02 Kristin Liverman ’02 Caitlin Duignan ’03 Jennifer Fitzpatrick ’03 Lauren Kopit ’03 Hilary Sama ’03 Alicia Easby-Smith Barton ’04 Blair Bjellos ’04 Kathleen Boucher ’04 Elizabeth Connor ’04 Irene Firippis ’05 Krista Montes de Oca Kelly ’05 Jennifer Olszewski ’05 Ericka Rojas ’05 Rotimi Abimbola ’06 Elizabeth Vaghi ’06 Claire Easby-Smith ’07 Meghan Kane ’07 Courtney Smith ’07 Allison Williams ’07 Shelby Benkert ’08 Michelle Guzman ’08 Julia Murphy ’08 Romina Nally ’08 Kelsey Albanese ’09 Carolyn Hodgson ’09 Kerry Bellino ’10 Johanna Hernandez ’10 Madeleine Brown ’11 Jessica Ely ’11 Joanna Hess ’11 Patricia Yoritomo ’11 Julianne Pearson ’12 Kaelynn Serena ’12

2012-2013 Board of Trustees Chair

Trustees

Mr. Sean Glynn

Ms. Veronica Ahern Ms. Nancy Binnie Mr. Daniel Dean Mr. Paul Dell’Isola Ms. Patricia Farrell Mrs. Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93

Headmistress Mrs. Maureen K. Appel

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Mr. Howard Hill Mr. Timothy Jorgensen Ms. Geraldine Kavanagh ’67 Mr. Paul B. Kern, III Mr. Brett MacInnes Mrs. Mary McCann Ms. Janice Obuchowski

Mr. Peter Plamondon, Jr. Mr. Thomas Sanders Mr. Paul Sullivan Mr. Bill Whitaker Mr. Edward Williams

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A Gold Medal To All!

Holy Child wishes to express its gratitude to everyone who made a gift to The Fund for Holy Child campaign for the 2012-2013 school year and helped us exceed our goal of $500,000. On behalf of the students, faculty, and staff, we appreciate your support. Holy Child Society $10,000 and Above

Leadership Society $1,500 to $2,499

Mrs. Missy Asbill Attridge Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Boccia Dr. Francis P. Chiaramonte Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dwoskin Mr. and Mrs. William Greif Ms. Lisa R. Kazor-Christovich and Mr. Daniel Christovich Ms. Marina Kotova and Mr. Seyfeddin Roustamov Mr. and Mrs. Mark Matan Mr. and Mrs. David Straus Dr. and Mrs. James Young

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Pat Bowman Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brigati Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Cassidy Ms. Dawn Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Mr. and Mrs. John Devine Ms. Kathleen P. Dunleavy and Dr. Michael P. Lee Mrs. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Ms. Therese Burke Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Brian Henneberry Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hess Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hickey Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kloster Dr. Jenifer A. Luck and Dr. Stephen C. Luck Mr. and Mrs. William C. MacDonald Mrs. Anthony M. Natelli Mr. and Mrs. D. Jeffrey O’Berry Ms. Zoe Rickman Roa Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sechler Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shriver Dr. Cara C. Simmonds and Dr. Albert C. Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. John Suttora Mr. and Mrs. John F. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Frank Titus Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Webster Mrs. Agnes Williams

Trustees’ Society $5,000 to $9,999 Ms. Nancy Binnie and Mr. Marc Bastow Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brickman Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Caulfield Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Ms. Patricia Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lennon Mr. Brett MacInnes Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Mr. and Mrs. David Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Micholas Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rowan, IV Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheehy Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Williams Ms. Elizabeth L. Young and Mr. John M. Benziger

Mayfield Society $2,500 to $4,999 Ms. Veronica Ahern Ms. Teri L. Boragno Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner, II Mr. and Mrs. Sean Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Krister Holladay Mrs. Mildred Webber Holmes and Mr. Christopher M. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Horan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Timothy McCann Mrs. Janice Obuchowski and Mr. Albert Halprin Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Popera Mr. and Mrs. Francis Soistman Mr. and Mrs. David Straus Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek Mrs. Charlie Laux Widmark

Blue and Gold Society $500 to $1,499 Mr. and Mrs. John Alahouzos Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Mrs. Karen Stradtner and Mr. David L. Banta Ms. Jillian Bastow Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Bloss Ms. Cheryl Bruner Mr. and Mrs. Ellis M. Butler Mr. and Mrs. James A. Butz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Collamore Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Dr. Rita W. Devine Ms. Therese Burke Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone Mr. and Mrs. John B. Feeney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Finch Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Frend Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner, II Mr. and Mrs. Sean Glynn Mrs. Lisa Godfrey and Mr. Daniel Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto Gonzalez

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin Green Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hellmuth Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Huebscher Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hussey, Jr. Ambassador and Mrs. Earl M. Irving Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kavanagh Ms. Gerry Kavanagh Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Keeley Mrs. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Kohler Mr. and Mrs. William Kopit Mr. and Mrs. Gregory G. Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Gary LaPaille Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Levine Mrs. Barbara Linder Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Linke Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lutes Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Maddrey Ms. Heather A. Maier Mr. and Mrs. Michael Manders Ms. Carla Marcolin and Mr. Edwin Geils Mr. and Mrs. James J. Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. and Mrs. J. Casey McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCreary Mr. Frank T. McFaden Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meegan Mr. and Mrs. Gus Montes de Oca Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Ms. Laura H. Phillips and Mr. Jared F. Cornfeld Mr. and Mrs. Tom Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Sanders Ms. Cathleen E. Shannon and Mr. Ronald W. Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Jack Singleton Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thomas Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Tigani Mr. and Mrs. Volker Treichel Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Tyshing Mrs. Gail A. Tyus-Hill and Mr. Howard C. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Urgo Mr. and Mrs. John Vardaman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Webster Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wetten Mr. and Mrs. Bill Whitaker Mr. John C. Whitaker Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Clayton K. Yeutter Mr. and Mrs. David Young Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zwisler

Society of the Holy Child Jesus We are grateful to the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus for their continued sponsorship of Connelly School of the Holy Child, as well as their financial contribution and support.

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Patrons’ Society $100 to $499 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aberbach Mrs. Francoise Adamson Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Afable Ms. Veronica Ahern Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ambrosi Mr. and Mrs. Edmund M. Amorosi Mr. and Mrs. Alfio F. Arcidiacono Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Arrowood Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Augustin Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bellino Mrs. Carol C. Bergere Mr. and Mrs. Wesley T. Bieligk Mrs. Virginia Bigelow Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Biggins Mr. and Mrs. Terry Billingsley Mrs. Barbara Bissinger Mr. and Mrs. Jay Blomquist Ms. Pat Lynott Bonan Ms. Maria Bonnemaison-Moore and Mr. Brooks T. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Boone Ms. Teri L. Boragno Ms. Maureen Boucher Ms. Christine Brady Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Bratun Mr. James Brault Ms. Monica Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bryer Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Buckingham, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Budington Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Bulleit Ms. Mary Burke Ms. Maria Ruth Burley Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Cain Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Caldwell Mr. Afshin Cangarlu Dr. Rebecca Herron Carey Ms. Torie Abbey Carlson Ms. Sarah Casey Miss Tierney Caulfield Mrs. Pauline M. Cedar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Christman Ms. Karen Denison Clark Ms. Pierce Resler Coffee Mr. and Mrs. John P. Connelly Mrs. Kathleen Cooney Porter and Mr. David T. Porter Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Coppoolse Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cox Mr. and Mrs. Randy Crocker Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cynkar Mr. and Mrs. William Dahut Dr. Shoba Daney and Mr. Daney Xavier Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D’Avella Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Days Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dedels Dr. and Mrs. John N. Delahay Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. DeLaurentis Mr. and Mrs. James Devine Miss Hannah N. Devine Mrs. Erin Dominick and Mr. Timothy Smith Mr. and Mrs. Don Dominick Miss Georgiana Donahue Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dreux Ms. Lisa Dritschilo Mr. and Mrs. Barton Drummond

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dwyer Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Easby-Smith Dr. Shana Elliott and Mr. Richard Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Ellis Dr. and Mrs. Barry Ephraim Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Fairbanks Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Famulare Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fassl Ms. Shannon Kane Faucette Ms. Susan McCarthy Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. James E. Frech Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Gadra Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Gaffney Mrs. Joan P. Gagliardi Ms. Fabiola Gallego Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Giblin Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Gilak Ms. Trish A. Gilmartin Williams Mrs. Nancy Schwartz Glaeser Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gordy Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gore Ms. Cheryl Becker Grandy Ms. Maureen McCormick Grant Miss Mary Katherine Green Miss Caroline C. Greene Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Guelcher Ms. Elizabeth Guevara Mr. and Mrs. James G. Guidera, Jr. Mr. Javier Guzman Dr. and Mrs. Edward Gwozdz Mr. and Mrs. Tony Haddad Mr. and Mrs. William Hall Mr. and Mrs. Randall H. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Mrs. Mary Hargrave-Berkowitz and Mr. Marc J. Berkowitz Ms. Diane E. Hastings and Mr. Frank Panopoulos Captain and Mrs. Peter D. Haynes Ms. Lauren Straus Heller Mr. and Mrs. Brian Henneberry Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hickman, IV Mrs. Barbara Hightower Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Hollenbeck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Horan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Houston Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Howe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Humen Ms. Mary Beth Sim Hurley Mrs. Jean Iker Mr. and Mrs. James R. Johnston Dr. Elizabeth Jones and Dr. William Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. David Joosten Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kamkwalala Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Kane Mr. and Mrs. James C. Keeley, Jr. Dr. Adrianne P. Kelly Ms. Ann Bouchard Kerrigan Ms. Jennifer Faig Kessler Mr. and Mrs. James Killen Mr. and Mrs. Ed LaPaille Ms. Kathleen McElroy LaValle Mr. and Mrs. Paul Liverman Mrs. Gere Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Michael MacCormack Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacDaniels Mr. and Mrs. William C. MacDonald Ms. Kelli Magnarelli Mr. John B. Maier II Mr. and Mrs. John Marcus, III

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Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Martinkovics Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Marvin Mrs. Shirley M. Mather Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mayo Mr. and Mrs. Timothy McCann Mrs. Patricia E. McCarthy Mr. Joseph P. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Christopher McGee Ms. Kathleen McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Justin McInerny Mrs. Rebecca F. Meissner Mrs. Teresa C. Melchior Mr. and Mrs. Duke Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Metro Mr. and Mrs. William Moore Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Morse Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Murray Mr. and Mrs. David Nammo Ms. Mehrnaz Neyzari and Mr. Majid Padash Ms. Martha Nguyen and Mr. Gregory Wright Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norris Dr. Margot Culotta-Norton and Mr. Robert E. Norton Mr. and Mrs. William P. Novajosky Mrs. Janice Obuchowski and Mr. Albert Halprin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O’Leary Ms. Julia Omotade Ms. Katy Oskoui Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paro Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pascale, Jr. Ms. Mildred A. Patterson and Mr. Marc Grossman Mr. William F. Peel III Ms. Mary Beth Pender Dr. and Mrs. Mark A. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Phifer Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Popera Ms. Anne Powell Mr. and Mrs. David Raff, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ralston Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Remington Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Richards Mrs. Kathleen Stetler Ridenour Mr. and Mrs. John Rittenhouse Mr. and Mrs. John Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Roth Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Ruhe Mr. James Russ Mrs. Mary L. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Fahim Sadek Mrs. Alice Sandifer Ms. Carla T. Sarmiento and Mr. Eduardo F. Simpson Ms. Melissa Villemarette Scanlon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scheld Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Schiattareggia Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schiattareggia Ms. Mary Jean Schmitt Ms. Joanna Schrock and Mr. Michael Rosenweig Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Serena Mr. and Mrs. Kim Sims Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sinwell Ms. Jennifer Harbison Slease Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Steuart Ms. Suzanne K. Stinson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. William M. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. George Sushinsky Mr. and Mrs. William Tayman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Texido Dr. Catherine E. Theisen Mr. and Mrs. John F. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson Ms. Sara M. Thompson Ms. Blair Buckland Todd Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tomasso Mr. and Mrs. John Tomon Dr. Monica Turner Ms. Maria Umana-Marulanda Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vaghi, III Ms. Katia Vargas and Mr. Jose Alpizar Mr. and Mrs. Neil Versteeg Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek

Mr. R. Taylor Walsh Mrs. Grace Easby-Smith Weisser Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whalen Miss Tess Williams Ms. Michele L. Williams Ms. Murphy Tuomey Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Don Womack Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Yoritomo Mr. and Mrs. John Ziemski

Friends of Holy Child Up to $100 Mr. and Ms. Michael Abbondante Ms. Judy Martini Abshire Mr. Marc Abshire Mrs. Jennifer Aitoumeziane Miss Sarah Aldemeyer Ms. Tarah Anderson Ms. Alejandra Matus-Augirre Arreseigor Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bandler Mrs. Jessica Herron Banias Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Barry Ms. Alicia Easby-Smith Barton Mr. and Mrs. Paul Benkert, Jr. Ms. Marie E. Betteley Ms. Nancy Binnie and Mr. Marc Bastow Ms. Katherine Booher Mrs. Melissa Brault Ms. Andrene Bryan Ms. Donna Cahill and Mr. James Cahill Mrs. Sandra Wakely Camp Miss Madeleine Cantrel Dr. Anne Cardile and Mr. Daniel Cardile Dr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carroll Ms. Laura Chap Ms. Marie Collins Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Conley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cotter Ms. Patricia Cotton Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cowan Miss Mary Jeanne Coyle Miss Elisabeth Crisafulli Mr. and Mrs. Philippe de Raet Miss Kelly Decker Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeGiorgi Mr. and Mrs. Sergio del Castillo Ms. Clare F. Devine Ms. Caitlin Duignan Miss Anne Seton Easby-Smith Ms. Emily Walsh Elphick Ms. Jessica Ely Miss Anabela Esteves Ms. Meghan E. Everngam Miss Rosina Falcone Miss Michelle Famulare Ms. Alison S. Fassl Miss Katherine Fassl Ms. Meghan Fassl Ms. Allison Tomai Felsen Miss Riley Fisher Mrs. Patricia Fisher Ms. Brenda Forbes Fox Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fox Dr. Graciella Garcia Mrs. Theresa Gartland Ms. Catherine Greene Ms. Mary Lane O’Donnell Grisley Ms. Karen Gwozdz Blumhardt Miss Elizabeth Halprin Ms. Kathleen Hannan Ms. Patricia Harden Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartwick Ms. Patti Hellmuth Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hickey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hilley Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holifield, Sr. Mrs. Laura Hoover Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, Sr. Ms. Cynthia Horner Ms. Nicole Hess Iadarola Ms. Jennifer Rice Jaiswal Ms. Kathleen Jensen Mrs. Lois Johnston Ms. Delia Kurry Kampner

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Miss Jenna K. Kane Miss Lindsey Kane Miss Meghan Kane Mr. Patten M. Kazor Mrs. Ann Kelly Mrs. Krista Montes de Oca Kelly Mr. Ed Kent Mrs. Sherrie K. Kopka-Kennedy and Mr. J. Lionel P. Kennedy Ms. Julia M. Koropoulos Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kumm Ms. Kathleen McEvoy Kyne Mr. and Mrs. John Lindner Mr. German Lopez Miss Patricia P. Lynch Ms. Patsy Lynch Ms. Eileen Lyons Ms. Ana Manchester and Mr. James Tucker Dr. and Mrs. C. Doyle Maull Miss Brynn Mayo Mr. and Mrs. David Meyers Mrs. Nancy Gwozdz Miller Ms. Lisa Mitten Ms. Valaree Moodee Lockman Miss Sophia A. Motta Ms. Meg Nalls Mr. and Mrs. George Nemcosky Miss Sara Novajosky Mr. Hector Orozco Miss Catherine A. Overly Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Overly Ms. Denisse Paul Miss Janey Peel Mrs. Allison Grabias Pera Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Petruccelli Miss Victoria N. Petruccelli Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pilkerton Mr. and Mrs. James Pinkston Mr. John M. Quigley Ms. Mary P. Radle Mr. Juan J. Ramirez and Ms. Rocio Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T. Renzy, III Ms. Abby Root Ms. Katie Ryan Ms. Vesta Salehi Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schmitt Mrs. Joan Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Seymour Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Skeeter Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smits Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spencer Ms. Denise M. Stablein Ms. Jane Stenson and Mr. Charles Paquette Miss Cicely P. Thigpen Ms. Tracy Tkac Mr. and Mrs. William Travis Ms. Marisa Van Saanen Mr. and Mrs. Eric Van Why Mr. and Mrs. Jared J. Violante Mrs. Margaret L. Vorndran Miss Isabel Wallisch Ms. Colleen C. Wealton-Mailander Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Whitaker Mr. and Mrs. Mark White Mr. and Mrs. Geoff White Mr. and Mrs. Don Wiggins Miss Kathleen Wilcox Ms. Allison Williams Mrs. Louise Witt Ms. Christina Yee Ms. Katharine F. Yee

Current Board of Trustees Ms. Veronica Ahern Ms. Nancy Binnie Mr. Daniel K. Dean Mr. Paul Dell’Isola Ms. Patricia Farrell Mr. Sean Glynn Mrs. Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93 Mr. Howard Hill Mr. Timothy Jorgensen Ms. Gerry Kavanagh ’67 Mr. Paul B. “Rocky” Kern Mr. Brett MacInnes Mrs. Mary N. McCann

Ms. Janice Obuchowski Mr. Peter Plamondon Mr. Thomas M. Sanders Mr. Paul Sullivan Mr. Bill Whitaker Mr. Edward Williams Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Mr. Sean Glynn

Past Trustees Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aberbach Mr. and Mrs. John Alahouzos Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Mrs. Missy Asbill Attridge Ms. Nancy Binnie and Mr. Marc Bastow Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Caulfield Mr. and Mrs. John J. Coyle Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dolan Mr. and Mrs. William Greif Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hess Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacDaniels Ms. Cathy MacFarlane Mrs. Patricia E. McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ralston Mr. and Mrs. Ignacio E. Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sinwell Mr. and Mrs. David Straus Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tomasso Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Williams

Current Faculty and Staff Mr. and Ms. Michael Abbondante Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bandler Ms. Teri L. Boragno Ms. Alicia Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cox Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeGiorgi Mr. and Mrs. Karl L. Ely Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Famulare Dr. Graciella Garcia Mr. Javier Guzman Ms. Patricia Harden Miss Meaghan Hollenbeck Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Ms. Nicole Hess Iadarola Ms. Kathleen Jensen Mr. Ed Kent Mrs. Maureen Koch Mr. and Mrs. William Kopit Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kumm Mr. Adam Lewin Mr. German Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mayo Mr. Joseph P. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Gus Montes de Oca Mr. and Mrs. George Nemcosky Mr. and Mrs. Jean Orban Mr. Hector Orozco Mr. Salvador Orozco Ms. Katy Oskoui Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pascale, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pilkerton Ms. Jean Plummer and Mr. Charles Huber Mr. John M. Quigley Mr. Juan J. Ramirez and Ms. Rocio Sanchez Ms. Abby Root Mr. Barry Rosenberg Ms. Denise M. Stablein Ms. Jenna Sutton Mr. and Mrs. John Tomon Ms. Kaitlyn Valis Ms. Colleen C. Wealton-Mailander Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Whitaker Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wooters Mr. and Mrs. David Young

Former Faculty and Staff Mrs. Beverly Billingsley Ms. Gerry Kavanagh Mrs. Shaye Sims

Current Parents Class of ’13 – 72% Mr. and Mrs. Alfio Arcidiacono Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bratun Mr. and Mrs. James Butz Ms. Donna Cahill and Mr. James Cahill Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cassidy Mr. and Mrs. Romeleus Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Coppoolse Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Dreux Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Gumbs Captain and Mrs. Peter Haynes Ambassador and Mrs. Earl Irving Mr. and Mrs. Eric Jorgensen Mrs. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lutes Mr. and Mrs. Michael MacCormack Mr. and Mrs. Raymond MacDougall Ms. Kelli Magnarelli Ms. Heather Maier Mr. John B. Maier II Mr. and Mrs. Mark Matan Mr. and Mrs. J. Timothy McCann Mr. Paul Meissner Mrs. Rebecca Meissner Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Murray Ms. Julia Omotade Mr. Kola Omotade Mr. and Mrs. Robert Overly Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Phifer Ms. Carla Sarmiento and Dr. Albert Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Williams Ms. Patricia Williams Mr. Thomas Williams Ms. Elizabeth Young and Mr. John M. Benziger Mr. John Sclavounos Ms. Elizabeth L. Young and Mr. John M. Benziger

Class of ’14 – 81% Ms. Judy Martini Abshire Mr. Marc Abshire Mr. and Mrs. Alfio Arcidiacono Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Ballard Ms. Maria Bonnemaison-Moore and Mr. Brooks Moore Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brickman Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Buckingham Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Budington Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cassidy Ms. Donna Cedar-Southworth and Mr. Scott Southworth Mr. and Mrs. John Connelly Ms. Rita Devine Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Evans Mr. and Mrs. Steven Fairbanks Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fanning Mr. and Mrs. William Goetzenberger Ms. Diane Hastings and Dr. Frank Panopoulos Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Richard Horan Ms. Cynthia Horner Mr. Larry Horner Mr. and Mrs. James Hunt Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hussey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Johnston Mr. and Mrs. David Joosten Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kamkwalala Mr. and Mrs. James C. Keeley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kern, III Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kohler Senator and Mrs. Gary LaPaille Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Lennon Mr. and Mrs. William MacDonald Ms. Ana Manchester and Mr. James Tucker Ms. Carla Marcolin and Mr. Edwin Geils Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Martinkovics Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Marvin

Mr. and Mrs. James Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Micholas Mr. and Mrs. William Moore Ms. Consuelo Pachon Dr. and Mrs. Mark Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Popera Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sechler Ms. Cathleen Shannon and Mr. Ron Watkins Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Ms. Tracy Tkac Mr. and Mrs. Volker Treichel Ms. Maria C. Umana-Marulanda Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek Mr. John Ward Mrs. Charile Laux Widmark Ms. Michele Williams Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Yoritomo

Class of ’15 – 90% Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Arrowood Ms. Elvira E. Barrios Mr. and Mrs. Jay Blomquist Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Bloss Mr. and Mrs. Pat Bowman Mrs. Joan C. Brady-Rios and Mr. Augusto C. Rios Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cynkar Mr. and Mrs. Philippe de Raet Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Dunne Ms. Nancy A. Fabara Mr. and Mrs. John B. Feeney Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner, II Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Giblin Mr. and Mrs. Sean Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Tony Haddad Mrs. Mary Hargrave-Berkowitz and Mr. Marc J. Berkowitz Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hickman, IV Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Huebscher Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Jorgensen Mrs. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Dr. Jenifer A. Luck and Dr. Stephen C. Luck Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Mr. and Mrs. John Marcus, III Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Mr. and Mrs. J. Casey McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCreary Mr. and Mrs. Christopher McGee Mrs. Teresa C. Melchior Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Metro Ms. Dawn Morton Ms. Mehrnaz Neyzari and Mr. Majid Padash Mr. and Mrs. D. Jeffrey O’Berry Mr. and Mrs. Luis F. Orozco Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Overly Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Poch Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schiattareggia Dr. Cara C. Simmonds and Dr. Albert C. Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Steuart Mr. and Mrs. John Suttora Mr. and Mrs. Tim Thistle Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Volker Treichel Mr. Michael Upton Mr. and Ms. Kevin Urgo Mrs. Jennifer I. Vermillion Mr. and Mrs. Tony Womack

Class of ’16 – 99% Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Afable Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Aguzin Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Anastasi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Augustin Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Boccia Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Boone Ms. Monica Brewer Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brigati Ms. Maria Ruth Burley Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Cain Mr. Afshin Cangarlu Ms. Patricia Cotton

Dr. Shoba Daney and Mr. Daney Xavier Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D’Avella Mrs. Erin Dominick and Mr. Timothy Smith Mr. and Mrs. Barton Drummond Ms. Kathleen P. Dunleavy and Dr. Michael P. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Fanning Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Gilak Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Guelcher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartwick Mr. and Mrs. John F. Henschel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hickey Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Holifield Mr. and Mrs. Krister Holladay Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Hollenbeck, Jr. Mrs. Mildred Webber Holmes and Mr. Christopher M. Holmes Mr. Patten M. Kazor Ms. Lisa R. Kazor-Christovich and Mr. Daniel Christovich Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kloster Mr. Greg Lockman Mrs. and Mr. Fernanda Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. Frank T. McFaden Mr. and Mrs. Justin McInerny Ms. Valaree Moodee Lockman Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Murray Mr. and Mrs. David Nammo Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paro Ms. Laura H. Phillips and Mr. Jared F. Cornfeld Mr. and Mrs. Tom Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Fahim Sadek Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. John Shoraka Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shriver Mr. and Mrs. Francis Soistman Mr. and Mrs. Ivica Stankovic Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Tigani Mr. and Mrs. William Travis Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Tyshing Ms. Katia Vargas and Mr. Jose Alpizar Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Webster

Class of ’17 – 89% Mr. and Mrs. Edmund M. Amorosi Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Bloss Mr. James Brault Mrs. Melissa Brault Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Christman Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Days Mr. and Mrs. John Devine Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dwoskin Mr. and Mrs. Bob Francis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kavanagh Mr. and Mrs. James Killen Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery W. Maddrey Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Meima Ms. Karen J. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Seymour Dr. Cara C. Simmonds and Dr. Albert C. Simmonds Ms. Jane Stenson and Mr. Charles Paquette Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. John Tomon Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Wetten Mr. and Mrs. Bill Whitaker Ms. Trish Whitcomb and Mr. Kevin Whitcomb Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Clayton K. Yeutter

Class of ’18 – 81% Mr. and Mrs. Ellis M. Butler Ms. Cheryl Bruner Ms. Dawn Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Collamore Ms. Marie Collins Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fischbach Ms. Kathleen Gunning and Mr. John C. Keeney, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Mr. and Mrs. Frans Klinkenbergh Ms. Marina Kotova and Mr. Seyfreddin Roustamov Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Daivd Meyers Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman Mr. and Mrs. Francis Soistman Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Steuart Mr. and Mrs. William Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Tigani Mr. and Mrs. Frank Titus Dr. and Mrs. James Young

Class of ’19 – 87% Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ambrosi Ms. Andrene Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Houston Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Ms. Joanna Schrock and Mr. Michael Rosenweig Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheehy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Skeeter Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Mark White Mr. and Mrs. John Ziemski

Alumnae listed by Class 1965 Cathy Caspar Delahay Mary White Radle

1994

Lisa Godfrey Cheryl Becker Grandy Murphy Tuomey Wilson

Laura Chap

1995

1976

Eileen Dwyer Breeze Martha Nguyen

Marie Betteley Alicia Rebbert Gore Phoebe Moran Manders Zoe Rickman Roa Mary Jean Schmitt Suzanne Stinson

1996 Catherine Greene Kathleen Bellino Hickey

1997

1977 1978

Kara Hannan McGinn Marisa Van Saanen Shannon Pitcher Van Why Tiffany Thompson Violante

Patricia Norair Green Catherine Theisen

1999

Diane Stone Dyer

1979 Karen Gwozdz Blumhardt Michelle McGill Boyle Rita Devine Dedie Giuliani Kathleen McEvoy Kyne Elizabeth McHugh Sara Thompson

1980 Erin Tehan Boccia

1981 Nancy Gwozdz Miller Charlie Laux Widmark

1982

1967

Kathleen Cooney Porter Susan McCarthy Fitzgerald Denisse Paul Kristin Cotton Rowan Kathleen McCarthy Texido

Brenda Forbes Fox Gerry Kavanagh

1983

1966 Carol Pender Sinwell

Jennifer Aitoumeziane Tarah Anderson Jessica Herron Banias Christine Brady Sandra Wakely Camp Rebecca Herron Carey Alexandra Alahouzos Dedels Emily Walsh Elphick Allison Tomai Felsen Theresa Gartland Kathleen Hannan Johanna Bayly Howe Jennifer Rice Jaiswal Delia Kurry Kampner Julia Koropoulos Lisa Mitten Allison Grabias Pera Susan Decker Raff Vesta Salehi

2000 Jessica Dillon Bieligk Pierce Resler Coffee Meghan Everngam Alison Fassl

Maura McGowan Gordy

1968 Marie Clarke Tayman

1969 Patti Hellmuth Suzanne Hodson MacDaniels Mary Beth Pender Anne Powell

1970 Nancy Forbes Ephraim Lea Kelley Gargulinski Meg Nalls Anne McInerny Pinkston Marie Guevara Ruhe

2001

1984

Jessica Williams Frend Laura Hoover Katherine Booher Katie Ryan Melissa Villemarette Scanlon Blair Buckland Todd Grace Easby-Smith Weisser

Shannon Kane Faucette Janet Gwozdz Gaffney Nancy Schwartz Glaeser Ann Schiattareggia Kern Ann Bouchard Kerrigan

1985 Deirdre Dowd Levine

2002

1986 Amy Clarke Maull

Jillian Bastow Nicole Hess Iadarola Jennifer Faig Kessler

1987

2003

Maureen McCormick Grant Susanne Brunhart Wiggins

Diane Moore Alahouzos Mary Anne Melo Conley Mary Beth Sim Hurley Patsy Lynch Margaret Culotta Norton Julia Stetler Versteeg

1988

Caitlin Duignan Meghan Fassl Lauren Straus Heller Meredith Kruse

Jennifer Bigelow Urgo Kirsten Ingram White

2004

1972

1990

Mary Lane O’Donnell Grisley Lisa Lanham Hall Margaret Walker Matthews Kathleen Lynott Scheld

Torie Abbey Carlson

1971

Allison Tarka Abbondante Alicia Easby-Smith Barton Maureen Boucher Clare Devine

1989 Anne Auger Biggins

2005

1973

Erin Dilley Bryer Anne Charbonneau Cardile Ann Aberbach Lindner

Sarah Aldemeyer Meaghan Hollenbeck Lindsey Kane Krista Montes de Oca Kelly Kathleen Wilcox

Missy Asbill Attridge Therese Burke Ellis

1993

2006

1974 Mary Battiata Mary Beth Perpich Humen Kathleen McElroy LaValle Susan Norris Montes de Oca

1975 Pat Lynott Bonan Sarah Casey Karen Denison Clark

1992

Alejandra Matus-Augirre Arreseigor Dillon Barnes Cox Elizabeth Guevara Alicia O’Hare Henneberry Laura Barrett Plunkett Amy Connors Remington Jennifer Harbison Slease

Elisabeth Crisafulli

2007 Rosina Falcone Katherine Fassl Riley Fisher Meghan Kane Isabel Wallisch Allison Williams

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2008 Madeleine Cantrel Georgiana Donahue Anne Seton Easby-Smith

2009 Victoria Petruccelli

2010 Tierney Caulfield Mary Katherine Green Jenna Kane Janey Peel

2011 Jessica Ely Anabela Esteves Alexandra Guntle Patricia Lynch Sophia Motta Tess Williams

2012 Caroline Greene Juliet Halprin Hadleigh Lynch Catherine Overly Cicely Thigpen Rachel Thomas Molly Virostek

Alumnae Consecutive Donors for 2-5 Years Jennifer Aitoumeziane ’99 Jillian Bastow ’02 Mary Battiata ’74 Pat Lynott Bonan ’75 Katherine Booher ’01 Michelle McGill Boyle ’79 Christine Brady ’99 Eileen Dwyer Breeze ’95 Torie Abbey Carlson ’90 Tierney Caulfield ’10 Laura Chap ’94 Karen Denison Clark ’75 Cathy Caspar Delahay ’65 Clare Devine ’04 Jessica Ely ’11 Meghan Everngam ’00 Rosina Falcone ’07 Shannon Kane Faucette ’84 Susan McCarthy Fitzgerald ’82 Lea Kelley Gargulinski ’70 Maura McGowan Gordy ’83 Cheryl Becker Grandy ’75 Mary Katherine Green ’10 Elizabeth Guevara ’93 Alexandra Guntle ’11 Patti Hellmuth ‘69 Meaghan Hollenbeck ’05 Laura Hoover ’01 Johanna Bayly Howe ’99 Mary Beth Perpich Humen ’74 Delia Kurry Kampner ’99 Jenna Kane ’10 Lindsey Kane ’05 Meghan Kane ’07 Gerry Kavanagh ’67 Krista Montes de Oca Kelly ’05 Ann Bouchard Kerrigan ’84 Jennifer Faig Kessler ’02 Amy Clarke Maull ’86 Lisa Mitten ’99 Mary Beth Pender ‘69 Laura Barrett Plunkett ’93 Kathleen Cooney Porter ’82 Susan Decker Raff ’99 Marie Guevara Ruhe ’70 Katie Ryan ’01 Vesta Salehi ’99 Cicely Thigpen ’12 Blair Buckland Todd ’01 Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 Marisa Van Saanen ’97 Grace Easby-Smith Weisser ’01 Charlie Laux Widmark ’81 Kathleen Wilcox ’05 Tess Williams ’11

Alumnae Consecutive Donors for 6-10 Years Allison Tarka Abbondante ’04 Alicia Easby-Smith Barton ’04 Erin Dilley Bryer ’92 Anne Charbonneau Cardile ’92 Rebecca Herron Carey ’99 Pierce Resler Coffee ’00 Dillon Barnes Cox ’93 Elisabeth Crisafulli ’06 Georgiana Donahue ’08 Caitlin Duignan ’03 Riley Fisher ’07 Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Kathleen Hannan ’99 Kathleen McElroy LaValle ’74 Patsy Lynch ’71 Kara Hannan McGinn ’97 Elizabeth McHugh ’79 Kristin Cotton Rowan ’82 Carol Pender Sinwell ’66 Marie Clarke Tayman ’68

Alumnae Consecutive Donors for 11-15 Years Jessica Dillon Bieligk ’00 Anne Auger Biggins ’89 Jessica Williams Frend ’01 Dedie Giuliani ’79 Alicia Rebbert Gore ’76 Patricia Norair Green ’78 Lisa Lanham Hall ’72 Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93 Deirdre Dowd Levine ’85 Phoebe Moran Manders ’76 Margaret Walker Matthews ’72 Susan Norris Montes de Oca ’74 Martha Nguyen ’95 Zoe Rickman Roa ’76 Sara Thompson ’79

Alumnae Consecutive Donors for 16-20 Years Diane Moore Alahouzos ’71 Missy Asbill Attridge ’73 Mary Anne Melo Conley ’71 Rita Devine ’79 Therese Burke Ellis ’73 Nancy Forbes Ephraim ’70 Nancy Schwartz Glaeser ’84 Mary Beth Sim Hurley ’71 Ann Schiattareggia Kern ’84 Suzanne Hodson MacDaniels ’69 Meg Nalls ’70 Margaret Culotta Norton ’71 Anne McInerny Pinkston ’70 Kathleen Lynott Scheld ’72 Mary Jean Schmitt ’76 Kathleen McCarthy Texido ’82 Julia Stetler Versteeg ’71 Tiffany Thompson Violante ’97 Susanne Brunhart Wiggins ’87 Murphy Tuomey Wilson ’75 Kirsten Ingram White ’88

Grandparents Mrs. Francoise Adamson Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Barry Mrs. Carol C. Bergere Mrs. Barbara Bissinger Mrs. Pauline M. Cedar Dr. Francis P. Chiaramonte Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cotter Mr. and Mrs. James Devine Mr. and Mrs. Don Dominick Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Gadra Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Glynn Mr. and Mrs. William Greif Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holifield, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, Sr. Mrs. Jean Iker Mrs. Lois Johnston Mrs. Ann Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Ed LaPaille Mrs. Barbara Linder Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Linke Mrs. Shirley M. Mather Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Morse Mrs. Anthony M. Natelli

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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norris Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T. Renzy, III Mrs. Alice Sandifer Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Schiattareggia Mrs. Joan Schneider Mr. Samuel Seymour Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wernett Mr. John C. Whitaker Mrs. Agnes N. Williams Mrs. Louise Witt Mr. and Mrs. Don Womack

Parents of Alumnae Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aberbach Mrs. Maureen K. Appel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bellino Mr. and Mrs. Terry Billingsley Ms. Maria Bonnemaison-Moore and Mr. Brooks T. Moore Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Buckingham, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Budington Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Bulleit Ms. Mary Burke Dr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Caulfield Ms. Hanja Cherniak Mr. and Mrs. F. Hugh Collins Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Coppoolse Mr. and Mrs. John J. Coyle Mr. and Mrs. Randy Crocker Mr. and Mrs. William Dahut Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeGiorgi Mr. and Mrs. Sergio del Castillo Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. DeLaurentis Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Mr. and Mrs. James Devine Dr. Joan M. Donahue Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dreux Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Dunne Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dwyer Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Easby-Smith Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Karl L. Ely Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Famulare Ms. Patricia Farrell Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fassl Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Finch Mrs. Patricia Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fox Mr. and Mrs. James E. Frech Mrs. Joan P. Gagliardi Mr. and Mrs. Sean Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. William Greif Mr. and Mrs. James G. Guidera, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Guntle Mr. Javier Guzman Dr. and Mrs. Edward Gwozdz Mr. and Mrs. Randall H. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hargett Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hellmuth Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hess Mrs. Barbara Hightower Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hilley Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Hollenbeck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hussey, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Ingram Dr. Elizabeth Jones and Dr. William Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Kane Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kay Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Keeley Dr. Adrianne P. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. William Kopit Mrs. Sherrie K. Kopka-Kennedy and Mr. J. Lionel P. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Scott R. Leachman Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lindquist Mr. and Mrs. Paul Liverman Mrs. Gere Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacDaniels

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. MacDougall Mr. Brett MacInnes Mr. and Mrs. James J. Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mayo Mrs. Patricia E. McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. J. Casey McCormick Mr. Frank T. McFaden Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meegan Mr. and Mrs. Duke Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Gus Montes de Oca Ms. Dawn Morton Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norris Mr. and Mrs. William P. Novajosky Mrs. Janice Obuchowski and Mr. Albert Halprin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O’Leary Ms. Julia Omotade Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Overly Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pascale, Jr. Ms. Mildred A. Patterson and Mr. Marc Grossman Mr. William F. Peel III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Petruccelli Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Phifer Mr. and Mrs. Paul Piccone Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Popera Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ralston Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Richards Mr. and Mrs. John Rittenhouse Mr. and Mrs. Michael Robertson Mr. and Mrs. John Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Roth Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rowan, IV Mrs. Mary L. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Ignacio E. Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Schiattareggia Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schmitt Mrs. Joan Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Serena Mr. and Mrs. Kim Sims Mr. and Mrs. Jack Singleton Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smits Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Still Ms. Suzanne K. Stinson Mr. and Mrs. David Straus Mr. and Mrs. George Sushinsky Mr. and Mrs. John F. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson Ms. Tracy Tkac Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tomasso Dr. Monica Turner Mrs. Gail A. Tyus-Hill and Mr. Howard C. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Piero Ugolini Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vaghi, III Mr. and Mrs. John Vardaman Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek Mrs. Margaret L. Vorndran Mr. R. Taylor Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whalen Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Williams Ms. Michele L. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Yoritomo Ms. Elizabeth L. Young and Mr. John M. Benziger Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zwisler

Gifts in Honor Of Mrs. Francoise Adamson Mia Collins (’18) Mrs. Carol C. Bergere India (’15) and Honor Upton (’18) Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Barry Charlotte (’11) and Victoria Barry (’13) Mrs. Virginia Bigelow Alexa Urgo (’15) Mrs. Barbara Bissinger Mary (’15) and Sara Simmonds (’17) Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carroll Meghan Carroll (’13) Mrs. Pauline M. Cedar Gabriella Southworth (’14) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cotter Mary Hartwick (’16)

Mr. and Mrs. James Devine Becky Ward (’14) Mr. and Mrs. Don Dominick Taya Smith (’16) and Kalie Dominick (’16) Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Ellis Katherine Ellis (’10) Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Gadra Caroline Henschel (’16) Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Glynn Meagan (’11) and Kate Glynn (’15) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holifield, Sr. Peyton Holifield (’16) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, Sr. Maddy Hopkins (’14) Mrs. Jean Iker Sarah Vermillion (’15) Mrs. Lois Johnston Zoe Irving (’13) Mr. and Mrs. Ed LaPaille Grace LaPaille (’14) Mrs. Barbara Linder Sarah (’13) and Olivia Edgerton (’15) Miss Hadleigh J. Lynch Maureen Appel Mrs. Shirley M. Mather Elena Rios Brady (’15) Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Morse Emily Travis (’16) Network For Good Lauren Wood (’04) Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Josie Ziemski (’19) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norris Krista Montes de Oca Kelly (’05) Mrs. Anne McInerny Pinkston Lydia Shea McInerny (‘16) Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T. Renzy, III Rose Meima (’17) Mrs. Alice Sandifer Caroline Ambrosi (’19) Mrs. Joan Schneider Kaitlin Schneider Spivak (’01) and Megan Schneider (’08) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strittmatter Julia Strittmatter (’19) Miss Molly Virostek Maureen Appel Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wernett Lydia S. McInerny (’16) Mr. John C. Whitaker Maya Whitaker (’17) Mrs. Agnes N. Williams Haley Williams (’13) Mrs. Louise Witt Gena Witt (’17) Mr. and Mrs. Don Womack Ellie Womack (’15)

Gifts in Memory Of Ms. Brenda Fox Virginia Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Gingery Roger Widmark Ms. Mary L. Grisley Margaret Ryan ’72 Ms. Elisabeth Gonglewski Roger Widmark Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Holt Roger Widmark Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Martinkovics Roger Widmark Mr. and Mrs. James Pinkston Francis W. McInerny, Karen Hill ’72, Rev. Mother Mary Celestine SHCJ Caroline M. Rerucha Richard Kosch Mr. and Mrs. Hap Ridgeway Roger Widmark Triangle Community Foundation, Inc. Roger Widmark Mrs. Margaret L. Vorndran Mother Mary Theodore Walmsley and Sarah and Seth Walmsley Mrs. Charlie Widmark Roger Widmark Ms. Murphy T. Wilson Pat Donnelly Mr. Dan Zimmerman Roger Widmark

Gifts in Kind Mr. and Mrs. Al Arcidiacano Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ballard Ms. Teri L. Boragno Easton Foundations Mr. Casey McCormick Ms. Betsy Young

Neil T. Coakley Scholarship This fund was established especially for students accepted into the Connelly Program, designed for students who welcome the challenge of a strong academic program but have learning differences that compromise their ability to access curriculum in conventional ways. 9501 Georgia Avenue, LLC Mr. and Mrs. David Alexander Ms. Hallie Bastian and Mr. Steven Payne Bavarian Holdings, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bell Mr. Kevin O. Boland Mr. Thomas Branson Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brown Mr. Scott Browning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Cafferty Canal Walk Construction LLC Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Caulfield Chevy Chase Trust Mrs. Gerry Coakley Mr. and Mrs. Brian Coakley Mr. and Mrs. Rory S. Coakley Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Coakley Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Colliton Cork Real Estate Management, LLC Mr. and Mrs. James Corcoran Mr. and Mrs. Fad Sami Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Dean Drewyer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Edwards Mr. Robert Eisinger Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ellis, Jr. Mr. L. John Finamore Dr. and Mrs. Tobin Finizio Mr. and Mrs. Clay FitzGerald G Street Fabrics Mr. and Mrs. Edward Grenier Mr. and Mrs. James J. Hagerty Mr. and Mrs. John Hanrahan Mr. and Mrs. Harkins Herb Krusen Insurance Group Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Heslin Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hinton Kane Construction Dr. Karen J. Ivers and Mr. John F. Jaeger Kendall Capital Mr. John Killeen Mr. and Mrs. George P. Kreis Loiderman Soltesz Associates, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Magruder Mr. and Mrs. Hall Martin Murphy Insurance Group Payroll Network, Inc. Mr. Richard Reed Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Reed Ms. Erin Reid Riley & Associates, LLC Rose Real Estate & Financial Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James Round Seneca Land LLC Signature Space, LLC Silent Solutions, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Speros Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Sullivan TW Perry Mr. Tony Velazquez Westex Group, Inc. Mr. Raymond Whalen Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Gary Williams Mr. John Williams Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Williams

Mary C. Crivella Fund Mr. and Mrs. Barto Crivella and their family established the Crivella Fund as a memorial to their daughter, Mary. The Crivella Fund supports an

extensive audiovisual collection and supplements book purchases for the library. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Crivella Dr. Michael and Margo Colbert Keegan ’69 Dr. Ruth Anne McCormick ’69 Raymond E. and Naomi Dungan Foundation

Hispanic Scholarship Fund The Hispanic Scholarship has been established by an anonymous donor to provide a Holy Child education to a young Hispanic woman who shows academic promise.

Mary Kosch Scholarship The Mary Kosch Scholarship Fund was established by Kathie and Mike Williams in honor of Mrs. Mary Kosch and her outstanding dedication and service to Holy Child. It is awarded to a rising freshman who has demonstrated a strong academic effort and a commitment to community service.

Karen Noonan Fund The Karen Noonan Fund was established to honor the memory of Karen Noonan, a graduate of the Class of 1986. Because of Karen’s desire to become a teacher, gifts endow a fund for faculty education and enrichment. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard DeFiore Robin Marino Hoeymans ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Noonan Ms. Dawn Noonan Ziemski ’88 and Mr. John Ziemski

Jan Norton Scholarship Fund The Jan Norton Scholarship is awarded to a sophomore for her junior and senior years. The Fund was established by Mr. Forry Norton in memory of his daughter, Jan, who died unexpectedly during her sophomore year at Holy Child.

Weisbrod Scholarship The Weisbrod Scholarship is provided in memory of Sr. Mary Helen Weisbrod, an educator who inspired her students with the vision of Cornelia Connelly to “meet the wants of the age.” She instilled in her students confidence, trust and the value of service. This scholarship is a fitting tribute to her dedication to education and her sharing of the charisma of Cornelia Connelly. It is awarded annually to a current student. Society of the Holy Child Jesus

Mary Pat Siemien Scholarship The Mary Pat Siemien Award was established to be presented annually to the student whose own determination, dignity, honesty and humor echo the qualities Mary Pat embodied as an exceptional member of the Holy Child Class of 1977.

The J. Robert Walsh Scholarship Fund At the request of Colleen W. Walsh (’78), the J. Robert Walsh Scholarship Endowment Fund was established in loving memory of her father. Each year this scholarship is awarded to a prospective 9th grader on the basis of academic merit and good character.

Planned Giving Mrs. Carole Bittman Mr. Steven Virostek

Grants The Clark-Winchcole Foundation The James M. Johnston Trust for Charitable Purposes

Tiger Club Tiger Club donations support Holy Child athletics throughout the year. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Afable Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Anastasi Ms. Maria Bonnemaison-Moore and Mr. Brooks T. Moore Mrs. Joan C. Brady-Rios and Mr. Augusto C. Rios Mr. James Brault Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brickman Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brigati Mr. and Mrs. James A. Butz Ms. Donna Cahill and Mr. James Cahill Ms. Donna Cedar-Southworth and Mr. Charles S. Southworth Mr. and Mrs. Paul Christman Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cynkar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Mr. and Mrs. Doug Donatelli Mr. and Mrs. Barton Drummond Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Dunne Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Fairbanks Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fischbach Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner, II Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Giblin Mr. and Mrs. Sean Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Captain and Mrs. Peter D. Haynes Mr. and Mrs. Krister Holladay Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Hollenbeck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Huebscher Mr. and Mrs. James R. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. David Joosten Ms. Lisa R. Kazor-Christovich and Mr. Daniel Christovich Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Kern, III Mrs. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kloster Mr. and Mrs. Gregory G. Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Gary LaPaille Dr. Jenifer A. Luck and Dr. Stephen C. Luck Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Maddrey Ms. Kelli Magnarelli Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Ms. Heather A. Maier Mr. Mario A. Mansilla Mr. and Mrs. John Marcus, III Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Mark Matan Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McAuliffe Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Timothy McCann Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. J. Casey McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Christopher McGee Mr. and Mrs. Justin McInerny Mr. and Mrs. David Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Micholas Ms. Valaree Moodee Lockman Ms. Mehrnaz Neyzari and Mr. Majid Padash Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paro Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman Ms. Carla T. Sarmiento and Mr. Eduardo F. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schiattareggia Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sechler Ms. Cathleen E. Shannon and Mr. Ronald W. Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheehy Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shriver Dr. Cara C. Simmonds and Dr. Albert C. Simmonds

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Skiscim Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Steuart Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. John F. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. William Travis Mr. and Mrs. Volker Treichel Dr. Edmund Trepacz Ms. Maria Umana-Marulanda Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Urgo Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Webster Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wetten Mr. and Mrs. Clayton K. Yeutter Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thomas

Rev. Stephen W. Planning, SJ – Gonzaga College High School Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey O’Berry Mrs. Janice Obuchowski and Mr. Albert Halprin Mr. John Thomas Dr. Stephen P. Tigani, DDS Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Virostek Mr. William Whitaker – Washington Jesuit Academy Ms. Debbie McCarthy Whyte – Whyte House Monograms

CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) Basketball Tournament Sponsors

Anytime Fitness As Kindred Spirits Aveda The Ballard Family Barston’s Childs Play Behnke’s The Boccia Family California Tortilla Capital Swim and Sport Catch Can Chaos Chef Geoff’s Chevy Chase Supermarket Chop’T Coca Cola Cold Stone Creamery Drink More Water Estee Lauder Extend Yoga Fine Swine Five Guys Fleet Feet Fraiche Cupcakery Freddy’s Fresh Market Giant Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gosnell Great Harvest Bread Company Hard Times Café Harris Teeter Hearth & Plow Hunter’s Inn Jenny Cakes Bakery Julie Rock Life’s A Beach Love My Carwash Lucy Marilyn Menick MOM’s Organic Market Orange Leaf Yogurt Pacer’s Parker’s PJ Sports Potomac River Running Quizno’s in Wheaton Red Door Spa Robek’s Mr. Barry Rosenberg Roy Rogers Salon Jean Ski Liberty Ski Whitetail Sundun Vending Sweet Green Target Trader Joe’s Two Coconuts The Webster Family The Wetten Family The Whitaker Family ZenGo

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Anastasi Caliber Funding Chesapeake Foods Inc. Confidence Title & Escrow, Inc Counselors Title, LLC Dyer & Associates P.C. Holy Child Fathers Club Maggie’s of Bethesda, LLC Matan Family Foundation, Inc. McCormick Paints Perfect Settings, LLC Mr. and Mrs. William Slater Transwestern Mr. John Williams Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Williams Mr. Thomas Williams

Gala Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Andy Cassidy Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garner Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kloster Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lennon Mr. and Mrs. Bill MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Magner Mr. and Mrs. Hermino Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Mark Matan Mr. and Mrs. Tim McBride Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Dan Paro Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. Jim Signora Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Doug Webster

Tiger Trot Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Rob Alexander – Orange Taxi Ms. Teri Boragno Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bulleit Mr. James Cahill Coakley Williams Construction Mrs. Giselle Colavita – Charles Schwab Coughlin Bus Service Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dell’Isola Mr. and Mrs. Doug Donatelli Mr. and Mrs. Bart Drummond Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone Mr. and Mrs. John Feeney Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival Mr. and Mrs. Richard Horan Ms. Lisa Kazor-Christovich and Mr. Dan Christovich – Savantage Solutions Ms. Lou King and Mr. Doug Edgerton Mr. and Mrs. William Kopit Ms. Marina Kotova and Mr. Seyfeddin Roustamov Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Lamb Ms. Heather Maier Mr. William Manders – Manders Decorating Mr. James Matthews – The Birchmere Mr. and Mrs. J. Timothy McCann Mr. Steven McCartin Mr. and Mrs. J. Casey McCormick Mr. and Mrs. David Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Michael Micholas Mr. and Mrs. Arman Moshyedi Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pecoraro Dr. Mark Peterson

Tiger Trot Post-Race Party and Awards Sponsors

Prom Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Horan Mr. and Mrs. Bill MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Tim Marvin Mr. and Mrs. William Moore Mr. and Mrs. Greg Popera Mr. and Mrs. Jim Signora Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas

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Faculty Staff Wish List Donors Ms. Diane Boragno Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Mr. and Mrs. Bart Drummond Holy Child Fathers Club Mr. and Mrs. Bill MacDonald Mr. Frank McFaden Mr. and Mrs. Mike Micholas Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Yeutter

Technology Advances Anonymous

Volunteer Listing 2012-2013 We could not operate without the contribution of time and effort from an army of volunteers, both in the school and at home.

Class Captains/Room Moms Melchora Alexander Cindy Anastasi Judy Arcidiacono Jeanie Blomquist Chris Butler Dawn Carpenter Sue Cassidy Anne Clark Christman April Contee Traci Cowan Kimberly Cynkar Joan Dreux Patty Feeney Margo Francis Rebecca Gumbs Monica Haynes Lisa Henschel Cheryl Hickman Jane Horn Cindy Horner Liz Houston Kristen Johnston Lisa Kazor-Christovich Marilyn Keeley Lisa Kloster Janelle Lynch Suzanne Matan Chris McCreary Teresa Overly Consuela Pachon Lisa Paro Ann Rudman Cara Simmonds Cathleen Shannon Nancy Skeeter Gina Tyshing Jennifer Vermillion

Welcome Committee Melchora Alexander Cindy Anastasi Cynthia Butz Sue Cassidy Margo Francis Rebecca Gumbs Cheryl Hickman Karen McGee Lisa Paro Cathleen Shannon Holly Soistman

Faculty-Staff Appreciation Joy Afable Laarni Aguzin Nancy Altemus Cindy Anastasi Judy Arcidiacono Elizabeth Barrios Nancy Barry Erin Boccia Mary Kay Bowman Monica Brewer Patrice Brickman Melody Britt Ruth Burley Sherry Cain Sue Cassidy April Contee Patricia Cotton Lu Ann Cravath Kimberly Cynkar

Michele Diffenderfer Erin Dominick Christine Drummond Kathleen Dunleavy Diane Dyer Nancy Fabara Mary Fairbanks Rosita Fanning Patty Feeney Julie Gilak Christine Guelcher Kathy Hartwick Diane Hastings Lisa Henschel Cheryl Hickman Beth Higgins Diane Hollenbeck Carol Holladay Mildred Holmes Cindy Horner Kristen Johnston Helen Jorgensen Ann Kern Lisa Kloster Susan Kohler Christine LaPaille Jenifer Luck Mary Magner Ana Manchester Carla Marcolin Maureen Martin Fernanda Martinez Margit Martinkovics Molly McCarthy Kathleen McCormick Chris McCreary Justin McInerny Valaree Moodee Lockman Bonnie Moore Janice Murray Laura Nammo Louise O’Berry Miriam Ostria Teresa Overly Consuelo Pachon Lisa Paro Laura Phillips Lisa Popera Julie Price Elaine Robinson Annie Ryan Pam Schiattareggia Julie Sellinger Cathleen Shannon Cara Simmonds Holly Soistman Mary Thomas Susan Thomas Helga Treichel Gina Tyshing Maureen Webster Lynn Witt Karie Womack Maria Umana Jennifer Urgo Jennifer Vermillion Mary Anne Virostek

Back to School Night Middle School Rosalie Days Aeri Seymour

Back to School Night Upper School Joy Afable Ruth Burley Sherry Cain Terri de Raet Rebecca Fuldner-Meissner Rebecca Gumbs Susan Hanley Monica Haynes Lisa Henschel Carol Holladay Diane Hollenbeck Mildred Webber Holmes Jane Horn Helen Jorgensen Viola Kamkwalala Fairleigh Killen

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Maureen Martin Fernanda Martinez Margit Martinkovics Ingrid McAuliffe Laura Phillips Julie Price Cara Simmonds Rosanne Strittmatter Mary Thomas Megan Williams

Robin Neal Maria Lelia Orozco Julie Price Augie Rios Pam Schiattareggia Joe Schiattareggia Holly Soistman Mary Anne Virostek Kevin Virostek Elizabeth Young

Blue/Gold Day

Open House

Joy Afable Lawrence Afable Melchora Alexander Judy Arcidiacono John Benzinger Melody Britt Paul Christman Traci Cowan Rosalie Days Thomas Fanning Rebecca Fuldner-Meissner Helen Jorgensen Lisa Kazor-Christovich Lou King John Martin Margaret Matthews Justin McInerny Valaree Moodee Lockman Maria Lelia Orozco Chuck Paquette Mark Price Augie Rios Anne Rudman Eriny Sadek Julie Sellinger Cathleen Shannon Jeanne Shriver Nancy Skeeter Ron Watkins Pauline White Karie Womack Tony Womack

Jose Alpizar Mark Altemus Nancy Altemus Judy Arcidiacono Jim Brault Monica Brewer Melody Britt Sherry Cain Angelica Castro-Conroy Traci Cowan Bart Drummond Kathleen Dunleavy Mariagustina Fabara Kim Glynn Susan Hanley Lisa Henschel Chip Hopkins Jane Horn Cindy Horner Lisa Kloster Bunny Lamb Ana Manchester John Marcus Maureen Martin Leslie Martinkovics Kathleen McCormick Chris McGee Karen McGee Julia McInerny Meredith Meyers Bonnie Moore Maria Lelia Orozco Majid Padash Chuck Paquette Lisa Paro Julie Price Augie Rios Elaine Robinson Karen Robinson Cathleen Shannon Cara Simmonds John Strittmatter Rosanne Strittmatter Mary Thomas Ed Trepacz Gina Tyshing Jennifer Urgo Trish Williams

Middle School Conferences Dana Davella Fernanda Martinez Chris McCreary Tom Skeeter Nancy Skeeter Heidi Titus Helga Treichel Diane Hollenbeck

Upper School Conferences Joy Afable Rosemary Agege Cindy Anastasi Ruth Burley Cynthia Butz Sherry Cain Sue Cassidy Mahdea Cooper Kathleen Dunleavy Nancy Fabara Christine Guelcher Nada Haddad Diane Hollenbeck Mary McCann Kathleen McCormick Karen McGee Louise O’Berry Miriam Ostria Teresa Overly Elaine Robinson Heidi Titus Helga Treichel Megan Williams Jennifer Urgo Cristy Yeutter

Fall Classic Al Arcidiacono Judy Arcidiacono Dan Christovich Thomas Fanning Elizabeth Garner Rocky Kern Karen McGee Mike Micholas Bonnie Moore

Mayfield Market Joy Afable Rosemary Agege Laarni Aguzin Melchora Alexander Nancy Altemus Megan Ambrosi Cindy Anastasi Judy Arcidiacono Sandra Aresta Louisa Augustin Kevin Barry Jeanie Blomquist Erin Boccia Ralph Boccia Mari Bonnemaison-Moore Mary Kay Bowman Joan Brady-Rios Ali Bratun Monica Brewer Patrice Brickman Melody Britt Cheryl Bruner Mary Kay Bowman Carolyn Buckingham Ruth Burley Cynthia Butz Donna Cahill Jim Cahill JD Cahill Sherry Cain

Zelda Caldwell Dawn Carpenter Sue Cassidy Carmen Castro-Conroy Anne Christman Margaret Connelly April Contee Mahdea Cooper Mary Jo Coppoolse Patricia Cotton Traci Cowan Lu Ann Cravath Kimberly Cynkar Bob Cynkar Dana D’Avella Tony D’Avella Terri de Raet Margo Devine Erin Dominick Bart Drummond Kathleen Dunleavy Diane Dyer María Fabara Anna-Maria Falcone Jenna Fairbanks Mary Fairbanks Rosita Fanning Patty Feeney Stacy Fischbach Rebecca Fuldner-Meissner Kevin Furman Margaret Gallagher Sheena Galliani Liz Garner Karen Giblin Kim Glynn Susan Hanley Kathy Hartwick Diane Hastings Monica Haynes Lisa Henschel Pamela Hickey Cheryl Hickman Carol Holladay Diane Hollenbeck John Hollingsworth Mildred Webber Holmes Mary Hopkins Jane Horn Tony Horn Cindy Horner Liz Houston Patrick Houston Charles Huebscher Grace Huebscher Jim Hunt Jeanne Irving Helen Jorgensen Marilyn Keeley Fairleigh Killen James Killen Lisa Kloster Susan Kohler Jen Kress Bunny Lamb Christine LaPaille Stephanie Lennon Jenifer Luck Christy MacCormack Rachel MacDonald Kelli Magnarelli Mary Magner Ana Manchester Carla Marcolin John Marcus Monique Marcus David Martin Kirsten Martin Maureen Martin Fernanda Martinez Margit Martinkovics Suzanne Matan Anita McBride Tim McBride Mary McCann Tim McCann Molly McCarthy Kathleen McCormick Chris McCreary Chris McGee Karen McGee

Julia McInerny Justin McInerny Meredith Meyers Hunt Mitchell Tara Mitchell Valaree Moodee Lockman Bill Moore Bonnie Moore Janice Murray Robin Neal Maria Lelia Orozco Teresa Overly Consuelo Pachon Chuck Paquette Courtenay Pecoraro Janine Pendley Amy Peterson Laura Phillips Lisa Popera Julie Price Mark Price Mollie Prominski Colleen Quinn Augie Rios Elaine Robinson Anne Rudman Annie Ryan Eriny Sadek Carla Sarmiento Joe Schiattareggia Pam Schiattareggia Tracy Schooling Charlotte Sechler Julie Sellinger Tom Serena Cathleen Shannon Nicole Sheehy Kim Shoraka Jeanne Shriver Cara Simmonds Nadia Skiscim Holly Soistman Jane Stenson Julia Strittmatter Rosanne Strittmatter Paul Sullivan Catherine Suttora Kirsten Thistle Mary Thomas Susan Thomas Kathy Tigani Heidi Titus Heidi Travis Ed Trepacz Gina Tyshing Jennifer Urgo Mary Anne Virostek Maureen Webster Megan Williams Trish Williams Sue Whitaker Lyn Witt Tom Wolfe Karie Womack Tony Womack Cristy Yeutter Dawn Ziemski

Wilkins Avenue Women’s Center (WAWC) Service Project Steve Aguzin Brigh Cassidy Kearney Cassidy April Contee Tony D’Avella Margo Devine Kylie Famulare Chris Hickey Chris Holmes Katie Horan Rebecca Kazor Greg Lockman Jenifer Luck Heather Maier Fernanda Martinez Karen McGee Hunt Mitchell Courtenay Pecoraro Kim Shoraka Cara Simmonds Paul Sullivan Gina Tyshing Lyn Witt

Father-Daughter Service Project at Washington Middle School for Girls Dan Christovich Chris Holmes Mike Lee Tim McBride Casey McCormick Justin McInerny Mark Price Augie Rios Jim Signora Tom Squitieri Paul Sullivan Gina Tyshing Ron Watkins Kevin Whitcomb Daney Xavier James Young

Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) Basketball Tournament

Cindy Anastasi Louisa Augustin Holly Soistman

Joy Afable Nancy Altemus Megan Ambrosi Paul Ambrosi Cindy Anastasi Dan Anastasi Lauren Anastasi Judy Arcidiacono Melody Britt Anthony Cowan Traci Cowan Doug Edgerton Chris Evans Daniela Falcone Karen Giblin Rebecca Gumbs Kristen Johnston Maureen Martin Casey McCormick Kathleen McCormick Frank McFaden Ren McFaden Dan Paro Lisa Paro Timothy Smith Carly Soistman Tim Thistle Glenn Thomas Mary Thomas Tom Williams Jennifer Urgo

Christmas Decorating

Hot Chocolate Tradition

McShain Library Sherry Cain Zelda Caldwell Nancy Fabara Anne Rudman Cara Simmonds

Grandparents Day

Zelda Caldwell Lia Grassi Nada Haddad Anita McBride Consuelo Pachon Holly Soistman Donna Southworth Rosanne Strittmatter

Megan Ambrosi Tawnya Brown Sherry Cain Tony D’Avella Kathleen Dunleavy Nancy Fabara Lisa Henschel

Jenifer Luck John Martin Annie Ryan Holly Soistman Rosanne Strittmatter

Bingo The Arcidiacono family Amy Beal Diane Boragno Teri Boragno Kate Lee Clarke Rita Devine Daniela Falcone Robin Marino Hoeymans John Hollingsworth Heather Lamb Suzi Montes de Oca Jenna Sutton Becky Ward

Communion Breakfast Christine Drummond Kathleen Dunleavy Diane Hollenbeck Cathleen Shannon

Beauty and the Beast Dana D’Avella Nancy Fabara Julie Gilak Karen McGee

Gala Allison Abbondante Al Arcidiacono Judy Arcidiacono Teri Boragno Ali Bratun Christine Butler Alicia Cohen Dana D’Avella Christine Guelcher Lisa Henschel Marni Holifield Mildred Webber Holmes Christine LaPaille Ashley Lowry Christy MacCormack Amy Micholas Romina Nally Josh Oliviera Laura Nammo Julie Price Margaret Russell Yvonne Russell Eriny Sadek Cathleen Shannon Cara Simmonds Holly Soistman Suzanne Stinson Rosanne Strittmatter Kathy Tigani Jennifer Urgo Elizabeth Young Cristena Yeutter

Father-Daughter Service Project at McKenna’s Wagon Jessica Afable Lawrence Afable Jeanne Ryan Russ Ryan Caroline Henschel Lisa Henschel

Tiger Trot Volunteers Melchora Alexander Judy Arcidiacono Cheryl Bruner Carolyn Buckingham Sue Cassidy Bobby Cohen Philippe de Raet Bart Drummond Christine Drummond Kevin Furman Julie Gilak

Envelope Stuffing

Rebecca Gumbs Beau Hanley Gabrielle Hanley Susan Hanley Monica Haynes Chris Hickey Cheryl Hickman Holly Hickman Diane Hollenbeck Jim Hunt Lisa Kloster Tom Kloster Bunny Lamb Greg Lamb Heather Lamb Avery Luck Steve Luck Kelli Magnarelli Maureen Martin Anita McBride Gigi McBride Tim McBride Ren McFaden Julia McInerny Mackenzie Myers Mehrnaz Padash Courtenay Pecoraro Layton Poch Emily Price Augie Rios Pam Schiattareggia Cathleen Shannon Nicky Sheehy Cara Simmonds Holly Soistman Kendall Soistman Jane Stenson Paul Sullivan Jenna Sutton Gina Tyshing Isabelle Tyshing Jennifer Urgo Ron Watkins Sue Whitaker Michele Williams

Joy Afable Judy Arcidiacono Cheryl Bruner Ruth Burley Cynthia Butz Diane Hollenbeck Cindy Horner Helga Treichel Michele Williams

Tiger Shop

Middle School Dance Sandra Aresta Gregory Bloss Ellis Butler Rosale Days Claire Dwoskin Marie Collins Kevin Furman Mercedes Kavanagh James Killen Mary Bridget Klinkenbergh Jane Lockmuller Janelle Lynch Meredith Meyers Tracy Schooling Cara Simmonds Kevin Whitcomb Monica Wolfe Cristena Yeutter

Prom Night Al Arcidiacono Judy Arcidiacono Tawnya Brown Diane Hastings Ana Manchester Justin McInerny Valaree Moodee Lockman Consuelo Pachon Michele Williams

Graduation Day Volunteers Elizabeth Garner Julie Gilak Kelli Magnarelli Maria Orozco Kathleen Shannon

Megan Ambrosi Cindy Anastasi Al Arcidiacono Andrene Bryan Sue Cassidy Marie Collins Jenna Fairbanks Mary Fairbanks Patty Feeney Stacy Fischbach Liz Garner Karen Giblin Kim Glynn Susan Hanley Lisa Henschel Pamela Hickey Fairleigh Killen Carla Marcolin Ingrid McAuliffe Karen McGee Kathleen McCormick Amy Micholas Janine Myers Janine Pendley Elaine Robinson Anne Rudman Tracy Schooling Julie Sellinger Nicky Sheehy Holly Soistman Cathie Suttora Mary Anne Virostek Maureen Webster Pauline White Michele Williams Karie Womack Cristy Yeutter Dawn Ziemski

Hot Lunch Melissa Brault Patrice Brickman Tawnya Brown Rita Devine Kathleen Dunleavy Carrie Dunne Diane Dyer Doug Edgerton Stacy Fischbach Liz Garner Katie Horan Kristen Johnston Helen Jorgensen Mercedes Kavanagh Lisa Kazor-Christovich Fairleigh Killen Susan Kohler Bunny Lamb Suzanne Matan Jim Matthews Margie Matthews Kathleen McCormick David Meyers Rebecca Meissner Amy Micholas Tara Mitchell Miriam Ostria Mehranaz Padash Courtenay Pecoraro Amy Peterson Elaine Robinson Cara Simmonds Heidi Titus Loretta Wetten Cristy Yeutter Betsy Young

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volunteers Parents Association 2012-2013 President: Holly Soistman Volunteer Coordinators: Karen McGee Recording Secretary/Family Support: Nancy Fabara Communion Breakfast: Anthony Falcone and Sean Glynn Gala Co-Chairs: Marni Holifield, Yvonne Russell, Kathy Tigani Fall Classic: Rocky Kern and Kevin Virostek (golf); Mary Anne Virostek (tennis) Mayfield Market: Jen Kress, Rachel MacDonald Prom Night: Judy and Al Arcidiacono Refreshments: Julia Omotade Ring Day: Judy and Al Arcidiacono, Mary Ellen Jorgensen Teacher Appreciation: Courtenay Pecoraro Tiger Shop: Mary Fairbanks, Courtenay Pecoraro Tiger Trot: Christine Drummond, Bunny Lamb Welcome Committee: Kimberly Cynkar

Parents Association 2013-2014 President: Holly Soistman Volunteer Coordinators: Karen McGee Gala Co-Chairs: Marni Holifield, Amy Micholas, Yvonne Russell Fall Classic: Dan Christovich, Rocky Kern, and Kevin Virostek (golf); Mary Anne Virostek (tennis) Mayfield Market: Jen Kress, Rachel MacDonald Teacher Appreciation: Susan Hanley, Peggy Rowe Tiger Trot: Cindy Anastasi, Christine Drummond Welcome Committee: HCPA Class reps

Fathers Club 2012-2013 President: Paul Sullivan Treasurer: Ron Watkins Secretary: Augie Rios At-Large: Kevin Furman At-Large: Dan Christovich

Fathers Club 2013-2014 President: Augie Rios Treasurer: Ron Watkins Secretary: Tim Jorgensen At-Large: Dan Christovich At-Large: Chris Holmes

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The Whitcombs, Holmes, Kazor-Christovich, Lee, and Rios father-daughter teams (with friend Lucy Gilak) volunteered to spruce up the classrooms for the WMSG.

Fathers Take Action THE HOLY CHILD FATHERS CLUB (HCFC) has become an active

part of the Holy Child “social scene,” supporting the myriad events of the calendar, from setting up, meeting/greeting, and parking for Open House to making set-up and teardown of Mayfield Market seamless. They cooked for Blue/Gold Day and our lacrosse playdays, provided major support for our CYO BB tournament, and their fabulous “barbecue basket” was a real hit at the Gala. But their events with the girls are even more impressive, with fun outings such as bowling and paintball. Even more meaningful is the Father-Daughter Breakfast, which this year welcomed alumna and Haiti volunteer Christie Ann Short (’96) as keynoter. They continued the service theme with several projects, including numerous weekends repairing and repainting classrooms at the Washington Middle School for Girls and providing (with help from the rest of the family as well) a week’s worth of meals—serving them as well—at the Wilkins Avenue Women’s shelter in Rockville. Go, Dads!

Parents Take Charge THE PARENTS ASSOCIATION

(HCPA) was in high gear as usual, racking up more than 2,500 volunteer hours at the school supporting the many community events, including Open House and Blue/Gold Day to Mayfield Market and Tiger Trot. Parents helped with mailings, worked hot lunch, the Tiger Shop, and A day at the links: Volunteers Kimberly Cynkar, Judy Arcidiacono, Augie Rios, the library; our tireless room and Bonnie Moore made the Fall Classic possible…and fun! parents and class captains racked up even more time (another thousand hours) getting out their messages and coordinating their individual class happenings and the information flow between parent and faculty. Luckily, the institution of the website SignUpGenius (thanks to Karen McGee, volunteer coordinator) made it even easier to help. Our parent coffees, another way to keep communication lines open between parents and faculty/staff, were continued this year; bimonthly “open-forum” gatherings included informal sessions with administrators: Maureen Appel, Ashley Lowry, Mary Hopkins, and Teri Borgano. Not only were these opportunities for questions, but parents shared thoughts and strategies on academics, social life, bullying, social media, athletics and much more. President Holly Soistman is entering her second year leading the HCPA, and is hopeful that another energetic parent will step up to take her place!

development

A Year to Remember WHO WERE THOSE tennis stars relaxing after a hard day on the

courts? Who won the “closest to the pin” competition? And was that really the gala chair giving the mechanical bull a run for its money? Yes, our development events are about the money, but as you can see on the pages that follow, they are confirming what most people know about Holy Child: it’s a great community, one that supports its students and has a great time doing it. Join us this coming year to top the great fun had by all at the Gala, the Fall Classic, Mayfield Market, and the Tiger Trot. We’ll be happy to see you!

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Raising Funds… And Fun And they’re off...Holy Child’s 3rd annual 5K got off to a great start last April, with a great contingent from Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department participating and accepting the check they do for our community.

Mayfield Market 2012 welcomed numerous alumna, including a visit from Jessi Williams Frend ’01; son, Jack; and beaming grandmother (and former trustee), Kathie Williams; they also sold their wares--Paz Velasco Galey has featured her handpainted gift selections for years.

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Rocky Kern and Kevin Virostek once again chaired the Fall Classic (with Dan Christovich); a great day was had by all, including golfers Doug and Mary Donatelli, Allen Carroll, and Mark Matan.

Gala 2012 chairs Kathy Tigani, Marni Holifield and Yvonne Russell got in the spirit of the “Denims and Diamonds” theme, and alumna Jessica Dillon Belijck ’00 thrilled to the mechanical bull. The dancing portion of the evening took a honky-tonk turn with theology teacher Meg Russell, Ned Williams and Maureen Appel sharing the stage with others to serenade the crowd. Fall/Winter 2013- Connelly Contact

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Who Are You? THE MYSTERY PERSISTS—Who are these gals? If you know, write to us at hccommunications@holychild.org

LAST YEAR’S PHOTO: It’s like “Throwback Thursday!” Yes, we got some answers to last year’s Mystery Photo (at left), but it’s still in dispute. So we offer it up yet again, along with a new challenge. We will post suggestions and the real answers on the alumnae page on the website. Stop by early and often www.holychild.org/alumnae. See you there!

UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION We don’t want to lose track of any of you! Please make sure we have your latest addresses, both street and email. We have change of address forms on both the Parents section (if you are current) or the alumnae section—see tabs at top of website www.holychild.org. Thank you!

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Celebrate 20 Years of Tradition Save The Date

Saturday, May 17 Evening reception Adults only

Join us as we toast Maureen Appel and bid her farewell after two decades as headmistress at Holy Child. Invitation to follow

Non-Profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 33 Rockville, MD 20850

9029 Bradley Boulevard Potomac, Maryland 20854 www.holychild.org phone: 301.365.0955 fax: 301.365.0981