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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO Contributing Writers | Charlotte Bell '19, Kim Hogan, Mary Hopkins, Gigi McBride '19, Katie Moylan, Cara Price '19, Bailey Skeeter '19, Counseling Department Contributing Photographers | Madie Bromiley, Mia Hugo '22, Tess Williams '20 Editors | Nora Fitzpatrick, Katie Moylan Communications Department | Madie Bromiley, Caitlin Chalke 2|3
Cover Art | Mural in the Tigers' Den donated by Flanagan Architects
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
A Letter to the Community
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A Letter from the Board of Trustees Chair
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Campus News
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New Faculty Spotlight
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Counseling Reimagined
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Social Entrepreneur Program
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Classroom Spotlight: Dr. Marissa Bulger
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Innovative Community & Athletic Spaces
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Teaching Students for the 21st Century
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A Letter from the Alumnae Council
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Alumnae Campus News
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Alumnae Spotlights
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Class Representatives
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Class Notes
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In Memoriam
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2017 - 2018 Annual Report
A LETTER FROM DR. GOMEZ
Dear Holy Child Community, Cornelia Connelly founded her first Holy Child school in 1846. Always ahead of her time, her approach to education was innovative for its time. After seeking the counsel of an American Jesuit, she was led “to the vision of a new religious order, free of the restrictions of strict cloister, that would ‘meet the wants of the age’ through direct action with people in need.” As Holy Child grows and evolves, Cornelia’s vision helps to guide us with our mission of educating young women. The phrase "meet the wants of the age" is one that we reflect on often. We treasure the time-honored traditions of Holy Child, and they are valued as part of our daily lives and history. However, it is important to be agile and adaptable so that we can best serve our students as the demands of our society evolve. In the fall of 2018, we were proud to unveil and open our new community spaces on campus. The design of these newly innovated areas allows for flexible learning environments that provide students and faculty opportunities to collaborate. Students at Holy Child have the opportunity to work together in the classroom to problem-solve, communicate, and build their creativity skills through engaging discussion, research, and debate. They can also utilize one of our Innovation or Study Rooms to work on a group project or study independently for a test. Each space is uniquely designed to allow our girls an opportunity to learn in their own way. This personalized learning experience for our students is the hallmark of a Holy Child education and aligns with Cornelia Connelly’s vision. Now that we have specially designed spaces that are flexible and collaborative, teachers can integrate 21st century skills and abilities into each and every lesson by facilitating student-led discussions, debates, and more, allowing our teachers to make learning more engaging. The adaptability of these innovative spaces - from the classrooms, to the study rooms, and even Connelly Commons - allows our students to experience instruction that is consistent with the future demands of the changing workplace. As we highlight in our strategic plan, Holy Child “embraces the individual talents and passions of its students, uses research-based strategies, provides cutting-edge technology and resources, instills a joy of learning, and inspires young women to make a difference.” We will continue to keep Cornelia Connelly’s words of wisdom close as we prepare our students to go into the world as women of faith and action. Sincerely, Dr. Shannon Gomez Head of School 4|5
FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIR
Dear Holy Child Community, Our good friend Merriam Webster defined the word innovation as, “the introduction of something new." But I was also cautioned early in my career that not everything new is good for the particular situation into which it is brought. No worries about that happening with the completion of the Innovate the Space capital improvement project. It was innovative, it was cutting edge, and it was great for the Holy Child school and community. On October 14th, members of the Board of Trustees attended Father Bill Byrne’s blessing of the various capital improvement facilities which were executed under the Innovate the Space project. This was a three year campaign to bring classroom facilities into the 21st century, far ahead of any other schools within the area, and to bring a new common room, study rooms, and athletic training/treatment facilities to Holy Child. Successful innovation also tends to take time and the efforts of many dedicated people at various levels, as we saw with this project. The creative concept of the project by Dr. Gomez and the Board, the budgeting, architectural designs, construction planning, creative strategy, implementation, and the resounding fundraising commitment from countless people in the Holy Child community, were all required elements for this successful project. Though I was present on October 14th for the official ceremony, as the current Chair of the Board, it was Sean Glynn and Nancy Binnie, my predecessor Chairs, who led the navigation through the numerous Board discussions, budgets, fundraising, and creative components of this project. Please accept my sincere gratitude to both of you for all of your leadership, efforts, and dedication to this most successful project. The success of the Innovate the Space project underscores the need for the forward thinking that is a prime objective of any Board of Trustees. We manage the present but need to be on the forefront of looking to the future of the school. To that point, this year the Board is asking each of the various Board committees to take a deep dive into what they would like to achieve during the next 5, 10, 15 years. It is my hope that this will generate new thoughts, approaches, and visions for Holy Child. Innovation starts with ambitious ideas that can be realized, with dedication and support, at all levels for the good of the entire Holy Child community. Thank you, as always, for all of your support of Holy Child. Sincerely, Paul Sullivan Board of Trustees, Chair
Campus News Written by Cara Price '19
GEORGETOWN MEDICAL SUMMIT: Holy Child students attended the Advanced Medical and Public Health Summit at Georgetown University this past summer. They spent the week learning about the four most prevalent diseases in the developing world: malaria, typhoid fever, acute respiratory infections (ARI), and nutritional anemia.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: The most exciting day in September began with seniors welcoming all of the Holy Child students back to campus. With the campus decked out in a Big Blue Wave, the class of 2019 danced and played music to get all of our Tigers pumped for the new school year. Time for class!
OPENING OF CONNELLY COMMONS: After months of renovations, the Tigers have a new cafeteria and community space. Students are found eating, hanging out with friends, studying, or grabbing a hot cocoa in this newly remodeled space. With a wall of windows and a room full of chatter, light fills the space!
TIGER TROT: The 8th Annual Tiger Trot 5K was held on September 23rd. Despite the heavy rain, the Holy Child community came out for a fun run and family activities, as well as Mass in the gym afterwards.
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BLUE/GOLD: September concluded with another fantastic Blue/Gold Game Day. The intense, yet good-natured rivalry took center stage during the afternoon games, leading into a great party for our community under the lights.
WALKATHON: Holy Child students, faculty, and staff participated in our annual walkathon to support New Endeavors by Women! A beautiful day to be outside combined with a beautiful organization to support homeless women getting back on their feet. Big thanks to New Endeavors for their wonderful work!
FRESHMEN RETREAT: A big welcome to the class of 2022! S’mores and fire dancing kicked off the annual ninth grade retreat, followed by a praying of the Rosary in the Chapel and a slumber party in Connelly Hall. With peer groups led by seniors, new students had the opportunity to connect with upper classmen and participate in ice breakers to get to know one another better.
FALL RECITAL: This event is an intimate and outstanding performance by our Arts Department. Students sang and played their instruments, and there were special faculty guests who performed for the audience as well!
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH SPEAKER: Stephanie Valencia, former Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of Public Engagement with the Obama Administration, spoke to students about her educational journey and her time in the White House. She also provided background to her book, "West Wingers."
MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSICAL: The Mad Hatter paid a visit to Potomac in a magical performance of "Alice in Wonderland, JR" by our middle school! With all the classic characters brought to life on our own stage, it was a day to remember. Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah!
GLOBAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM: This fall, Holy Child students participated in an exchange program by hosting a Spanish student for a few weeks from Monaita, a Catholic school in Granada, Spain. The visiting students were immersed in the American experience by living with a Holy Child host family, taking classes with their host student and visiting museums, monuments, historic sites, and more!
GRANDPARENTS' DAY: Grandparents and other special guests joined their granddaughters on Grandparents' Day for lunch, classes, a campus tour, and a special prayer service before starting Thanksgiving break.
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STUDENT DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP: Holy Child's Student Diversity Committee attended the AIMS Baltimore Student Diversity Leadership on November 10th. At the conference, Holy Child students hosted a workshop on immigrants at the United States’ border.
CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION: Holy Child students and parents braved the cold to plan for warmer weather. Holy Child Dad Marc Duffy (Claire ’21) organized a tulip planting project to plan for spring. Students and parents planted over 1,000 tulip bulbs to beautify our campus!
MOAS VICTORY: A group of students attended the Model Organization of American States (MOAS) in December. MOAS is an opportunity for students from many schools around the nation to collaborate and create resolutions on real-world issues in the Americas, which are later debated. At the end of the threeday conference, students voted on a new president for the national organization, and Holy Child junior Frida Perez won the election. Congratulations, Frida!
SHIFTING THE LANDSCAPE SYMPOSIUM: Jaden Faunteroy '21 attended the National Museum of African American History and Culture for the Shifting the Landscape Symposium. The symposium specifically focused on black architects and planners from 1968 to now.
AWARD-WINNING TEACHERS: Two of our faculty members received the Catholic High School Teacher of the Year awards from the Archdiocese of Washington. Social Studies Teacher Ms. Craig received the Veteran Teacher of the Year Award and Math Teacher Ms. Jama received the Novice Teacher of the Year Award.
VETERANS DAY: In honor of Veterans Day, our sixth grade invited a few parent veterans for a special presentation where the students read poems and stories of gratitude for serving our country. It was a morning of inspiration and celebration for all attending.
BASKETBALL IN THE BAHAMAS: Our varsity basketball team traveled to Nassau, Bahamas over Christmas break. They had a great game, defeating a talented local Bahamian team, and had a fun dolphin experience while they were away. Before the trip, parents, players, and coaches collected towels, wash cloths, and vitamins that were then delivered to a local orphanage on behalf of the team.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Holy Child’s annual Christmas Concert showcased singing, dancing, and the best holiday cheer to brighten up exam week! A mixture of classics like "Christmas Canon" and "The Christmas Song" warmed the atmosphere, while an appearance of our very own Santa Claus filled the room with laughter and joy.
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MAYFIELD MARKET: Mayfield Market, in its 15th year, with more than 60 vendors, welcomed hundreds of shoppers over the course of the weekend. Jen Ralston Kress ’85 (P ’12, ’17), who initiated this amazing Christmas shopping event, ended her reign as Chair, and handed over her duties to Yvonne Russell (P ’16, ’18). This year, six of our vendors were either alumnae or parents of alumnae, and more than 100 alumnae attended Mayfield Market.
BEST BUDDIES CHRISTMAS PARTY: Once again, we were thrilled to partner with Potomac Community Resources (PCR) and host the annual Best Buddies Christmas Party. Holy Child values the uniqueness and dignity of each person, and this holiday celebration is a wonderful way to celebrate the season and be reminded that different is not less.
New Faculty Spotlight
This school year, we've welcomed eleven new staff and faculty. Take a look at our new Tiger Teachers!
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1. Carla Nally '04 is a new sixth grade teacher. Prior to her arrival at Holy Child, Ms. Nally worked at Stone Ridge in Bethesda. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Dickinson College and her Master in Education in K-12 Literacy from The University of Pennsylvania. 2. Molly Argersinger, Christian Service Coordinator and JV Field Hockey Coach, was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Classical Studies, and a minor in Theology. Prior to Holy Child, Mrs. Argersinger worked at Georgetown University’s Office of Advancement on the Annual Giving team. 3. Dani Perraut DeWitt, Chief Advancement Officer, has most recently served as the Associate Director of Development at Georgetown Prep. Previous positions include her roles as Development Director for the Order of Malta and Director of Marketing and Communications for the National Foundation for Cancer Research. Mrs. DeWitt is a graduate of Loyola University in Baltimore. 4. Mark O'Dea joins the Religion Department as the 8th and 9th grade religion teacher. Mark earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and recently completed his Master in Education at Providence College. 5. Sarah Kelleher joins the Academic Support team as a learning specialist. Before her arrival, she worked with students in grades Pre-K-8 in Westchester, NY while completing her graduate degree at Fordham University. 6. Chip Comstock joins the Math Department as a geometry teacher. Prior to working at Holy Child, Mr. Comstock had been a math teacher and Assistant Principal for Fairfax County Public Schools (retired) and Montgomery County Public Schools. 7. Alex Barr is the new middle school social studies teacher. Before Holy Child, Mr. Barr taught in Washington, D.C. and with Creighton’s Magis Catholic Teacher Corps. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has his Master in Secondary Education from Creighton University. 8. Sue Anna Clark is happy to be teaching Advanced Placement Psychology at Holy Child this year, following a 35-year career with Fairfax County Public Schools. In her final 12 years with FCPS, she introduced AP Psychology to Oakton High School students, where it quickly became the most requested AP course. 9. Audrey Schultz is the upper school English teacher for 9th and 11th grades. Before joining Holy Child, she worked as a Google Expeditions associate. Ms. Schultz has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from Ohio State University, and a Master in English from Georgetown University. 10. Olivia Hogan joins the Science Department as a middle school science teacher. Olivia graduated from Providence College with a dual degree in General and Special Education, and worked at Commonwealth Academy in Alexandria, VA before joining the Holy Child community. 11. Amanda Colburn is the upper school science teacher. She is pursuing her PhD in Science Education at George Mason University, and graduated from American University in Washington, DC with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Prior to Holy Child, Ms. Colburn worked at Oak Ridge in Baltimore.
COUNSELING REIMAGINED Written by the Counseling Department
Effective school counseling programs are a collaborative effort between the school counselor, parents, and other educators to create an environment that promotes student achievement.
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HOLY CHILD DELIVERS A COMPREHENSIVE COUNSELING PROGRAM that promotes the academic and social/emotional achievement of each student. Adopting appropriate components from the American School Counseling Association (ASCA) model, the Holy Child counselors have established the following standards: • Academic Counseling Standard: Students at Holy Child will demonstrate self-advocacy skills by applying time management, decision-making and problem-solving skills. • Personal/Social Counseling Standard: Students at Holy Child will demonstrate positive attitudes towards themselves and others as unique and worthy individuals as measured by self-reflection. • College/Career Counseling Standards: Students at Holy Child will understand the relationship between educational achievement and college/career success by demonstrating the following school and workplace behaviors: dependability, responsibility, punctuality, integrity, and effort. Additionally, students will increase their ability to demonstrate personal skills, abilities, and school/workplace behaviors. In an effort to work towards realizing these standards, the counselors at Holy Child have developed direct student services (based on ASCA) that incorporate the following: a core counseling curriculum to include targeted instruction and group activities, individual student planning including evaluation of interests, abilities, and skills, advising on goal setting, and college/career options. Additionally, the counselors have established responsive and crisis services for individuals or small groups of students and/or families. These services will provide planned, short-term, goal-focused counseling, and navigation of emergency situations. Through consultation and collaboration, the counseling team will provide indirect services by sharing strategies that support student achievement with teachers, parents, other educators, and community organizations where appropriate. The counseling team will offer referral information in support of students and families for any additional assistance on an as needed basis. Specifically, the delivery of these services will include: a comprehensive orientation program, individual/group counseling, classroom guidance lessons, student success meetings, teacher and parent consultations, parent workshops and speakers, course registration advising, and college counseling. As a team, their goal is to provide maximum student support, with a focus on improving student academic achievement and social/emotional development throughout each student’s Holy Child experience. Holy Child’s comprehensive counseling model ensures that every student has access to academic, personal/social, and college/career services that are both preventative and responsive. They work with students via classroom lessons, small groups, personal counseling, and school-wide events to develop strategies for managing their challenges and capitalizing on their strengths. Ther counselors also stay directly involved with academic interventions and course registrations, allowing the team further insight when working individually with students. In its entirety, the comprehensive counseling model ensures that the counselors provide essential life skills to each student that support her academic success and enhance her personal growth, resulting in a comprehensive picture of each student as a whole and unique individual.
Social Entrepreneur Program
The Junior Entrepreneurship Program provides students in the 11th grade with real-world, hands-on learning experiences. Students learn how to successfully identify problems, needs, and opportunities; test ideas that address those opportunities; and turn those ideas into products, services, and solutions that benefit society. The focus of the program is on innovation, leadership, and group work. Culminating in a “Shark Tank�-like presentation on a morning in late May, each group presents their product and business model to a panel of experts.
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THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM WAS SOMETHING I MOST LOOKED FORWARD TO my junior year, and I was excited to take part in it. At the end of the year, juniors are split up into groups based on their Myers-Briggs personality test. The students are then given a task to create a product or service, which is then presented to the judges at the end of the week. This past year, the program evolved into a social entrepreneurship with a task to identify a problem, need, or opportunity in our community, and create a product or service that addressed that issue and benefited society. The last week of May rolled around, and it was time for the program to begin. Each day, we dressed as if we were going to work and were treated as business professionals attending a conference. Every day was exciting and different. We had guest speakers all throughout the week: a psychologist who helped us to understand our MBTI- personality type; a college professor giving us tools to be good leaders and teammates; business women highly experienced in PR and marketing, one of whom was alumna Katie Tyson (pictured on the previous page); and a successful entrepreneur who was also one of the judges. Attending workshops and ultimately learning what it takes to start and maintain a successful business was fascinating and motivated us to come up with a great idea. We were placed into real world situations and our abilities and skills were tested and improved by learning to work cohesively with one another, deciding on concrete ideas, doing extensive research, and producing a final product or service. Eager to jump into the program, my group came up with “Glam for Good,” a nonprofit service project designed to help long-term hospital patients build confidence and lift their spirits by providing self-care services including: makeup application, hair styling, manicures, pedicures, and more. Our goal was to help patients feel beautiful inside and out throughout their hospital stay. Excited to have come up with an idea of which we were proud, we spent the week reaching out to makeup companies to sponsor us, creating a website, and designing our publicity materials. We received a full line of makeup from a company called Thrive Causemetics, who makes nontoxic makeup specifically made for cancer patients. We also decided “Glam for Good” would make prominent use of the color pink in our materials, paying homage to Breast Cancer Awareness. On the morning of the presentation, nerves were high, but excitement and pride were higher. As each group presented on the stage, it was clear everyone worked their hardest. No two ideas were the same, highlighting everyone’s creativity and uniqueness. It was my group’s turn and our hope was to be enthusiastic, positive and fun; the way we would be when travelling to the hospitals to deliver the services to patients who deserve it the most. We got up on stage and everything just clicked into place. Our nerves calmed, and we just had fun up there presenting the project about which we were so passionate. Our hard work paid off! To our surprise, we were fortunate enough to be the winning team! The entrepreneurship program fostered our organization, and interpersonal and public speaking skills, challenged us to think outside the box, meet deadlines, and manage our time effectively, all while participating in a meaningful and unique program.
Written by Gigi McBride '19
Member of the 2018 Winning Social Entrepreneur Team
HOW THE PROGRAM STARTED Written by Kim Hogan, Director of Teaching & Learning, and Mary Hopkins, Former Assistant Head of School I N T H E S P R I N G O F 2 0 1 6 , M A R Y H O P K I N S , the then Assistant Head of School, proposed the Junior Entrepreneurship Program at Holy Child for Spring of 2017. The goals of the program would focus on helping students develop 21st century skills emphasizing critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication, and problem-solving. The program was developed in consultation with Marc Steren, author of The Student’s Guide to Entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurship teacher at Georgetown University and the Bullis School. Mr. Steren developed a method of teaching the fundamental tenants of entrepreneurship called BACCA or Belief, Association of Teams and Design Thinking, Canvas, Customer Development and Analytics. Using his model for teaching entrepreneurship, Holy Child launched its inaugural Junior Entrepreneurship Program. The program ran for two weeks in May, with each day focused on topics including: team-building activities, team challenges, field trips to small businesses, and guest speakers. Teams of students worked together to create innovative products and services using a business plan that included branding, market analysis, financial planning, and development of prototypes. The two week Entrepreneurship Program ended with a "Shark Tank"-like competition. All teams presented to a panel of judges made up of faculty and alums with extensive business acumen. The pitches themselves were innovative and exciting as teams made use of videography, audience participation, and demonstrations. Products included a phone case that functioned as a fidget to help with focus and attention, and an app to monitor homework assignments. The prize of $2,000 was awarded to the winning team members (Class of 2018's McKenna Gazdag, Eliza Caldwell, Geritza Carrasco, Olivia Welsh, and Audrey Fishbach) to be used towards launching their own company. The winner was "Lend Your Look," a website to facilitate dress exchange (similar to Rent the Runway) among Holy Child girls for dances and other significant events. Following the important first year of the program, the administration and faculty took time to evaluate and reflect, and they decided that, rather than just developing marketable products, the Junior Entrepreneur Program needed a social component to match more closely with the school’s mission and beliefs. Led by Kim Hogan, Director of Teaching and Learning, the program was refocused to require the students to innovate a product or service to solve a real world issue and improve the lives of others. Eleven teams worked together over two weeks to research challenges in the areas of health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services and safety and security. Each team identified a problem; they imagined ways to reframe the problem and create solutions using design thinking. Some teams created apps to provide information about services for the homeless, gun violence, drug safety, and education. Other teams envisioned an educational kit for young children that would make them more active and a soap dispenser machine that would reduce the amount of plastic used for detergent. The winner was a non-profit company called "Glam for Good," that would provide makeovers for long-term hospital patients. This company proposed a partnership with area hospitals and a make-up company that specializes in make-up for cancer patients. Looking forward to our third year, we hope to build on our success and to continue to develop our students into design thinkers who make a difference in our world.
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About the Entrepreneur Program Judges Alexandra Patterson is a graduate of Holy Child's Class of 2010. Upon graduating from Holy Child, Alex continued her education at Virginia Tech. Alex is currently a System Engineer for Booz Allen Hamilton within the company's Defense and Intelligence Group where she provides software solutions to clients within the United States Intelligence Community. Jennifer McCloskey graduated from Holy Child in 1980. She was the Lead Civil Engineer in the office of Environmental Management (EM), lead the seismic analysis of the largest construction project in the world, the Waste Treatment Plant in Hanford Washington. She was the feature of a CBS Evening News story on women in non-traditional roles as well as the subject of several newspaper articles highlighting her career in three different states. Barry Rosenberg has been a teacher in our Math Department for the past eight years. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA. Prior to coming to Holy Child, he was a Partner at Deloitte Consulting from 1990-2004 and then started an outsource advisory consulting firm, which he sold in 2007. His company helped Fortune 100 companies negotiate outsourcing deals with offshore service providers and major suppliers among other things.
Senior Internship Program
The internship program is designed to give seniors an opportunity to explore their career interests and gain experience working in a professional environment. It is a graduation requirement for each senior and must consist of a minimum of 30 hours or 4 work days performed onsite at a business or non-profit organization. Internships are unpaid positions and intended as a learning opportunity. This year, all internships must be completed between May 28th to June 4th, 2019. If you are interested in sponsoring an intern or know of an organization, please contact Karin Wells at kwells@ holychild.org.
Classroom Spotlight
Written by Mrs. Katie Moylan, Writing Center Director & Upper School English Teacher
ABOUT DR. BULGER YEARS AT HOLY CHILD: 8 EDUCATION: Villanova University, B.A. in English Literature; University of Notre Dame, M. Ed. in Secondary English Education; Johns Hopkins University, Ed. D in Mind, Brain, and Teaching COURSES TAUGHT: 9th grade English; 12th grade English; AP Language & Composition BEFORE HOLY CHILD: 10th12th grade English teacher at Ascension Catholic High School in Donaldsonville, LA Next Up: Presenting at South Carolina’s Council of Teachers of English Conference in February; Doctoral Student Adviser and Teaching Assistant at Johns Hopkins
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AS DR. MARISSA BULGER CHATTED WITH HER AP LANGUAGE STUDENTS, she realized that, as teenagers today, they are facing a lot of stress and anxiety in their lives. They and their friends (at a variety of schools in the area) are staying up late to complete their work, trying to manage their own and their parents’ expectations, managing and curating their social media profiles, attending sports and/or play practice, and balancing work and community service. Despite this reality, teenagers are so often told that they are “just teenagers” and their stress isn’t “real” stress. They are feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. Being the dedicated and innovative educator that she is, Dr. Bulger wanted to look for current research about how to help reduce adolescent stress and anxiety within her English classroom, but she found there wasn’t enough out there to tackle what she wanted to accomplish. So, Dr. Bulger asked herself, “Why shouldn’t I be the one to do the research?” and enrolled in the doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education. Three years later, Ms. Bulger is now Dr. Bulger after completing her course work, conducting research, and successfully defending her dissertation in August 2018. Dr. Bulger developed a program with her Holy Child students in mind. She targeted her study on our ninth grade students, “since transitions can be especially stressful in adolescence.” Through a needs assessment, which surveyed over 180 students and two key staff members, Dr. Bulger found that “many students experienced stress and anxiety, and were worried about disappointing themselves, their peers, their parents, and their teachers.” Through her research, Dr. Bulger learned about adolescent development and neuroscience. She took her newfound knowledge and made thoughtful, intentional, and innovative updates to her curriculum and instruction. Her most fruitful research came from working directly with her students. With each curricular and instructional decision she made, Dr. Bulger had students in mind. She invited their voices into the conversation. Dr. Bulger met with students in focus groups “to understand their reading experiences and [to analyze] their writing to gain insight into their thinking processes.” With her students’ needs in mind, Dr. Bulger made professional decisions as an educator that she hoped would “reduce students’ stress and anxiety, increase their sense of autonomy, and alleviate their fears of failure.” In her ninth grade English classes, Dr. Bulger “drew from the research literature of bibliotherapy and reading for pleasure to implement a program in which students read self-selected young adult (YA) novels independently and a teacher-selected YA novel as a class community. Students processed their reading in large group discussions, small group discussions, and reflective writing.” Dr. Bulger found her students to be interested, open, and generous in both sharing their thoughts and supporting her work. As a result of her interventions, Dr. Bulger discovered that “students do not only develop their sense of self as they read, but they take the perspectives of others, a process that develops empathy and understanding of others’ struggles.” In today’s ever-connected, ever-diversifying world, it seems more important than ever for “students to connect to those who may not look like them, pray like them, or love like them.” The findings of her study convinced Dr. Bulger that “reading is one way that students understand our shared humanity.” In reading about diverse experiences, students gain the ability to connect to and respect others’ differences while also valuing their own uniqueness. Cornelia Connelly would be proud to have such an enlightened and innovative professional as an educator in one of her schools. Dr. Bulger is an educator who is truly “meeting the wants of the age,” a key tenant of Cornelia Connelly’s educational philosophy. Dr. Bulger is a devoted professional whose expertise has enhanced the life of each student who has graced her classroom.
Innovative Community Spaces
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ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, all of the students and faculty were ecstatic when they laid eyes on the new spaces. Every day, girls enjoy their lunches in the Connelly Commons. Winnie Beaudet (’19) says her favorite part about the Connelly Commons is that “there is always uplifting and fun music playing inside the commons. I love looking around and seeing girls singing and laughing while they eat lunch. Also, when it is nice outside, we open up the Connelly Commons’ doors so that students can sit in the Hanley Courtyard.” The Tiger’s Den is filled with girls from every grade socializing with their friends. The study rooms are the perfect spot to study in a quiet space or collaborate on a group project with your classmates. These new spaces encourage the social and intellectual growth of each student. Personally, my favorite space is the new Senior Lounge. Every morning, I walk into the Senior Lounge and see 52 girls laughing and conversing with one another before classes begin for the day. We are all so grateful to have a space where we can bond and make memories as a class during our last year at Holy Child. Each new space has so much to offer!
Written by Charlotte Bell '19
New Athletic Facilities Written by Bailey Skeeter '19
I AM A STUDENT ATHLETE HERE AT HOLY CHILD, and when I heard we were creating new athletic spaces, I couldn’t have been happier. For my final seasons of field hockey and basketball, I would be able to use the new fitness center, athletic training room, and team room as well. I have participated in sports during my entire time at Holy Child, but the addition of these new rooms has made me appreciate more of what Holy Child has to offer me as an athlete. Just this year, I have been able to watch our athletic trainer, Mrs. Lewis-Roy, move into a huge space, located right beneath the gym, which is stocked with everything from foam rollers and bio-freeze to a state-of-the-art whirlpool. With this new space, she is able to work with student athletes to treat their injuries and begin rehab throughout the school day. Plus, the fitness center is right next door, which is even more convenient in helping athletes get back on the field or court. The layout is genius! Each room complements the other, and they are all accessible from the field and gymnasium. Our basketball team (pictured above) has benefitted from pre-game team meetings; we get pumped up in our new team room with an amazing surround system. The huge white dry erase board allows our coach to draw up plays or explain the offense during halftime. Interested in checking out the new spaces? Come by for a visit. We’d love to show you around!
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NEWS ALERT! Holy Child Receives National Athletic Trainers’ Association Safe Sports School Award Holy Child has received the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Safe Sports School award for our Sports Medicine Program. The award champions safety and recognizes secondary schools that provide safe environments for student athletes. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention, and treatment. Our Athletic Trainer, Cara Lewis-Roy, is quoted saying: “Holy Child is honored to receive this 1st Team recognition from NATA, and we remain committed to keeping our student athletes safe during physical education classes, team practices and games so they can accomplish their own goals of great competition, winning records, fair sportsmanship and good health. Our goal is to lead our athletics program to the highest safety standards for our players." "We remain committed to the health and welfare of young athletes in competitive sports,” says NATA President Scott Sailor, EdD, ATC. “This award recognizes the contributions and commitment of schools across the country that are implementing safe sports policies and best practices to ensure athletes can do what they love best and have the appropriate care in place to prevent, manage and treat injuries should they occur.”
Teaching Students
for the 21st Century Upfront by Kim Hogan, Director of Teaching and Learning Article by Steelcase OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, HOLY CHILD HAS BEEN COMMITTED to the innovation of our learning spaces to support our students and teachers by creating dynamic learning environments that are flexible and collaborative. Our first step was to implement two Steelcase piloted classrooms with Ms. Ida Pablo and Ms. Kaitlyn Valis. After receiving positive feedback from the students and teachers about the benefits of flexible seating, we began our Innovate the Space campaign with a commitment to innovate all our classrooms within three years using Steelcase furniture. The next step was to learn how to design spaces that would impact a students’ learning environment and build a positive and dynamic learning experience between student and teacher in the classroom. A small group of teachers and administrators were sent to attend the Harvard Institute: Learning Environments for Tomorrow. For three days, this leadership team worked through team-based design activities that looked at five areas: the needs of people, design principles, program goals, plans, and prototypes. We learned that furniture and design can create a sense of connection, create natural and spontaneous learning both in and out of the classroom, and foster collaboration through flexible room design. We are thrilled to partner with Steelecase, a company that has done tremendous research in the area of 21st century school design. They have provided the research and design options that make our spaces dynamic learning environments where our students can prepare for the future ahead. The following article from Steelcase showcases how another school worked closely with the company to implement a 21st century design using Steelcase furniture. 26 | 27
SETTLED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HUB OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
the Institute International de Lancy (IIL) is a school at the forefront of change. With students who represent over 90 nationalities and span from 3–18 years old, 80 percent of whom are bilingual, IIL brings a new meaning to the term diversity. Beginning as a small French-Catholic school, the school has transformed its curriculum, campus and philosophy to become a thought-leader when it comes to the future of education. “The traditional lecture-style classroom with a blackboard and the teacher up front leaves little room for creativity. Creativity needs space and mobility such as you might find in a start-up or modern office building,” says Norbert Foerster, General Director of IIL. As a trained child psychologist, Foerster has had a successful tenure promoting this bold vision for IIL. He implemented the school’s English international section, advocated for technology to be woven into IIL’s DNA and pushed for the necessary evolution of the campus to teach 21st-century skills such as creativity. “We wanted to move away from the traditional classroom set-up,” notes Foerster. When initiating change he and his staff comprehensively researched potential partners. The school realized that to prepare the students of today for the workforce of tomorrow, the classrooms needed to be redesigned. “That’s where Steelcase came in,” says Adrian Hirst, a robotics and coding teacher at IIL. “The kind of furniture and the design of spaces to which our students now have access to in the Steelcase classrooms are well adapted to the types of task they are asked to carry out, these being independent, student- driven, student-centric challenges.” These challenges are steered by the school’s desire to mirror life off campus and to encourage students to practice skills like collaboration, critical thinking and digital citizenship, which is hard to do in the traditional learning environment. “In a traditional classroom with traditional furniture, unfortunately, it’s very difficult to break out of the mold of a traditional teaching style,” describes Hirst. “We’re moving further away from a traditional school setup and into a realistic, collaborative and productive environment where students are working towards goals which are relevant to them in the real world.” A significant influence at IIL is the permanence of technology. IIL was the first Apple Distinguished School in Switzerland and implemented the first one-to-one iPad program in the country. Each student has their own mobile device and technology is fused into the way lessons are structured. Hirst says integrating technology is vital to IIL’s success because “as a school, we are obviously expected to prepare our students for the real world. If we are not reflecting that, we are left behind. That’s why we made these decisions as regards to furniture and the way the spaces were designed. They allow students to perform in a completely different way.” The integration of technology at IIL, coupled with a variety of spaces to study, meet and collaborate outside of the classroom, is what makes the entire campus an immersive learning experience. Students are encouraged to use the diverse mix of spaces and choose a place between classes and during breaks that best suits their needs. Learning is fluid, emulating the real world as Hirst describes. With mobile devices, mobile furniture and the choice and control students have to explore an ecosystem of spaces, ILL fosters teaching and learning beyond the formal learning environment.
This emphasis on a dynamic and flexible environment is critical to the classrooms’ updated design. The Steelcase Education Node chairs, now used in many IIL classrooms, were a deciding factor for IIL. The chair’s mobility and personal worksurface allow teachers to practice an active learning pedagogy where technology seamlessly blends in. Teachers take on the role of a coach with their students, which is central to IIL’s philosophy towards education, by guiding them towards autonomy and allowing them to manage their devices. Caroline Duret, a teacher at IIL, describes the Steelcase Education classrooms as the third teacher, a theory that emphasizes the major role space plays in any learning environment. “Here learners do not turn their backs on each other. They can talk and communicate as they wish. The classroom is also decentralized, the teacher is among the students,” which Duret notes is how she often teaches, sitting side-by-side with her students in a Node chair. Another highlight for Duret is the rhythm of learning that the classroom fosters, which she says keeps students engaged. “This rhythm of learning is very important; students are more active, they get less bored, they get up and move. When I see smiling students who are happy at school, they don’t need to tell me they enjoy learning, their body language speaks for them.” A clear sign of success that the classrooms are effective is the reaction staff get from students. “Students are completely at ease and have adopted the classroom as their own,” remarks Foerster. Instead of rushing out to leave school, he says that students are specifically asking if they can stay and continue working well after normal school hours. Hirst seconds Foerster, agreeing that students use the classrooms in ways they didn’t predict. “This is a great sign that things have worked and will continue to evolve almost by themselves in a very organic way.” As early adopters of technology in the education environment, IIL believes it will play a significant role in the future of education, a future where learning is more personalized and teachers coach students to discover and acquire new skills and knowledge for themselves. The future is impossible to predict, but Hirst knows change takes an open mindset and that’s what the school is creating in their own revolution. As he says, “Education needs to change. We’ve been doing our best to follow the evolution of education but has been said many times before; we don’t need an evolution, we need a revolution.”
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A LETTER FROM THE ALUMNAE COUNCIL Dear Holy Child Community, Our Alumnae Council has had another successful year! As President of the Council, I would personally like to thank each of the 25 alums we have serving on our Council. Each woman has dedicated her time each month to further the goals of the committees and our Council, and I cannot thank each one enough. Many of these alums have also been a huge help in putting together our list of Class Representatives. Thank you to our current Class Reps who help us on the Council and at Holy Child to disseminate information to our alum community. Our Council is evenly split into three committees: Alumnae Recognition and Outreach, Archives, and Network and Events. The Alumnae Recognition and Outreach Committee has put together Alumnae Spotlights you may have seen throughout the year. These pieces are writeups carried out by our committee, spearheaded by Committee Head – Liz Palka Minukas ’04, that highlight one alum each month. These Holy Child alumnae are leaders in diverse fields - business women, doctors, advocates, and athletes. We are so proud to share their stories! So far, we have spotlighted the following alums: Jennie Trocchio ’01, Niya White ’98, Ginger King Shaw ’94, Theresa Gartland ’99, Beth Spencer Collins ’80, and Jessica Dillon Bieligk ’00. You may check out their stories on the Holy Child website’s Alumnae page. The Archives Committee, led by Julia Murphy '08, has been extremely busy. Together they have been sorting through the Holy Child archives – old yearbooks, photos, letters, papers, artwork, and all sorts of treasures – and organizing them for the school. They have used many of their findings for displays throughout the school during different events. Each display has brought smiles and memories back to alumnae, and helped us identify many unmarked photos. The committee is also currently working on a pamphlet detailing the history of the school, as well as the story of Cornelia Connelly. These pamphlets can eventually be used as a mini guide to the history of Holy Child, a great tool for incoming students! Lastly, our Network and Events Committee has been working hard on finalizing our list of Class Representatives. With the help of the Alumnae Recognition and Outreach Committee, the Network and Events Committee has been able to fill in many gaps that the school has had in their Class Reps list. The Committee now can work with Class Reps to keep alumnae informed about upcoming events and reunions. The biggest event on the calendar is the Alumnae Weekend and Reunion that will be on Holy Child’s campus April 26 - 27, 2019. The Committee’s larger, long-term goal is to provide more opportunities for Holy Child alumnae to network, reconnect and continue to grow together as a community. These three committees have worked together beautifully, and it has been such an amazing sight to see their goals come to fruition. Thank you for your continuous support of Holy Child! Sincerely, Lauren Phifer Robinson, Class of 2008 Alumnae Council President
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ALUMNAE ON CAMPUS Alumnae Class Reps Alumnae Class Reps met in early November. They enjoyed dinner, received a school update from Dr. Shannon Gomez, heard reports from the three committees of the Alumnae Council, and toured the school to see the recent renovations. If you’re not a rep but want to know what it takes to be one, please contact Alumnae Council President, Lauren Phifer Robinson ’08 – lphifer518@gmail.com. You will see the class reps listed in the class notes section of this magazine and on our website. Santa Project Provides Pajamas to Washington School for Girls Our Santa Project has just wrapped up, and Alisa ’80 and Robin ’86 Marino happily delivered 130 Christmas presents to Washington School for Girls. Many thanks to all who contributed! A special acknowledgement to Connie Coakley Caulfield ’82 who provided gift bags and Caulfield Provisions Hot Sauce to the faculty and staff at WSG. Class of 2018 Share their College Experiences with the Class of 2019 Members of the Class of 2018 returned to Holy Child in January to speak to our seniors and provide insight about their first semester of college. The conversation included their decision to attend a large university vs. a small college, what extracurriculars they are involved in at school, and how well prepared they were academically for the rigors of their college coursework. They emphasized how they were comfortable self-advocating and talking with professors. Our current seniors felt relief about their upcoming college choices after hearing reassurances from the college freshmen that Holy Child prepared them to handle any challenge they may face next fall when they venture off to their new campuses. Holy Child Alumnae Attend the Gonzaga Business Network Career Fair Alumnae from the classes of 2004-2018 attended this annual event to meet prospective employers and explore internship opportunities. Hosted at Gonzaga College High School, alumnae from numerous Catholic schools in the DMV had their resumes reviewed, took part in mock interviews and met representatives from over 80 businesses, government agencies and non-profits.
Alumnae Spotlight
Written by Liz Palka Minukas '04
JENNIE TROCCHIO CLASS OF 2001 JENNIE TROCCHIO’S FASCINATION WITH AUTISM and learning approaches began while teaching special education in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. She tells us she immediately saw past the behavior autistic children often exhibit and into the brilliance they have locked inside. After years of schooling, including earning her Ph.D. and starting the first school in Florida that offered the successful DIR/Floortime approach, Jennie is now an expert in the field of autism education. Jennie, class of 2001, says Holy Child ignited her passion for special education. Her introduction to the experience was volunteering for Best Buddies. To this day, she is close with her “best buddy” Kate, who she still gets together with regularly. Kate was even a bridesmaid in Jennie’s wedding! She credits former Athletic Director Sheila Wooters for encouraging her to try things that pushed her outside her comfort zone, including heading up a soccer program for children with autism while she was a student at Holy Child. Today, Jennie is working to spread the DIR/Floortime approach to kids, families, and anyone who might benefit from it. This model views each child as an individual and uses a child's strengths to promote development. She is an adjunct professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, and also develops and presents full day, autism-based workshops for other professionals in the field across the country. Most recently, Jennie created ‘Autism Family Field Trips,’ where she gets families together for fun enrichment activities which helps to unite the autism community at the same time.
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What is one of your favorite memories of Holy Child? “On my first day of Holy Child, I remember turning into the driveway, ready to begin the 7th grade, and the entire campus had been toilet papered. I was giddy with the silliness of it all and knew Holy Child was going to be a great experience. My father was less entertained, but it felt like a warm welcome to me. There are many other memories, but this one takes the cake!” Does one teacher stand out to you during your time at Holy Child? “The one teacher that really shaped my entire experience at Holy Child was undoubtedly Mrs. Wooters. She was the one who initially suggested the school to my parents and hooked me on the idea of switching to an all-girls school. Year after year she guided me, watched out for me, kept me on my toes and involved in sports. When I wasn’t interested in playing basketball, she made me the mascot (for a few games at least!) When I didn’t make varsity soccer, she made me the captain of the cross-country team and then the track team. More importantly, she didn’t blink an eye when I told her that if I was going to be the captain of the track team, I wanted to try hurdles and the high jump. (She didn’t see it as a problem that I was only 5’2 with no experience.)” Is there anything about your Holy Child experience that continues to guide you today? “In my experience, too many schools these days focus only on academics. Don’t get me wrong - academics are important. But, Holy Child taught me that the real magic happens when we aren’t seated at a desk. At Holy Child, we were often given time to come together as a class, grade, or school for fun and meaningful activities (including but not limited to: school wide weekly meetings, making sandwiches together for soup kitchens, retreats, and Spirit Week). These were the experiences that allowed us to apply what we were learning, to connect with others, to figure out who we were, and to come together as a community. Likely because of these experiences, I am constantly reminding schools I work with that the most important lessons can’t be taught from a textbook or while sitting at a desk, that academics are important but not everything, and emphasize the importance of connection and community.” What is your biggest piece of advice to a Holy Child student or alumna pursuing her career? “Find and follow what excites you, what motivates you and what leaves you wanting to know more. Follow that wherever it takes you. Once you have figured out what your passion is, create goals for yourself. Stay focused on what you want to accomplish and work hard to get there. Ignore anyone who doesn’t believe in you and cling tight to those who do. Never stop learning and continue to be curious. Stay present and make it fun!”
Do you know of a Holy Child alumna with an interesting career, service project, or hobby that we should spotlight? Send suggestions to alumnews@holychild.org!
Alumnae Spotlight
Written by Liz Palka Minukas '04
DAINA SLEKYS TROUT
CLASS OF 1999
YOU’RE CRUISING THE AISLES AT YOUR LOCAL GROCERY STORE. You come to a halt because you’ve arrived at the refrigerated display with rows of bright colored kombucha bottles. A few years ago, you might not have thought twice about kombucha, the effervescent fermented tea with the funny name chock full of probiotics. But, now kombucha is a staple, a treat – something good you did for yourself today. You reach for the Health-Ade Kombucha with its funky flavors like ‘Blood OrangeCarrot-Ginger’ and ‘Cayenne Cleanse.’ Before you head to check out, there’s one more thing you need to know: a Holy Child alumna is behind that bottle of fizzy happiness you’re drinking. Now go back and buy a few more! Daina Slekys Trout, Class of 1999, co-founded Health-Ade Kombucha in 2012, “with a tiny credit card and a big dream: to brew the best tasting and highest quality kombucha you can buy.” She started brewing kombucha in her apartment with her husband, Justin Trout, and her best friend, Vanessa Dew. Now the Los Angeles-based company has grown to more than 200 employees. The drink is carried in more than 16,000 stores nationwide and is considered to be one of the fastest growing and top performing national brands in the marketplace. Not only that, Daina, who is Health-Ade’s CEO, was named one of Food & Wine Magazine’s 2017 “Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink.”
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While Daina has always been passionate about nutrition, health, and real food, something else drove her to start her own business. She says she, Justin, and Vanessa were unfulfilled in their previous career paths. “We wanted to prove we could run our own business, be our own bosses, make our own rules, and build a company and impact on the country we could be proud of,” Daina says. But success didn’t happen overnight for Health-Ade. Daina will tell you that launching a business and building a company meant navigating a long road of non-stop hurdles where the buck stops with you. She says the secret to winning depends on how hard you’re willing to work for it. “You have to believe in yourself, grow and develop 10 times faster than normal, and run faster and harder than everyone else around you,” explains Daina. “All that said, if you’re called to do this, because you just KNOW you need to do this, my advice would be: JUMP IN. The sooner you do, the sooner you win.” If you’re looking for one more secret to Daina and Health-Ade’s success, look no further than the kombucha bottle itself. Each one says, “Follow your gut!” After all, that’s their tagline for a reason. What are you most proud of when it comes to your company? “The thing I’m most proud of is actually my team. I have 200 soldiers that go out every day and give their all for Health-Ade. It’s an incredible feeling to have attracted such superstars. We wouldn’t be where we are without them.” Where do you see your company going in the future? “I’d like to see Health-Ade Kombucha as the modern soda, replacing sugary carbonated drinks in every fridge in America. I’d also like to expand into other healthy real food categories. No matter what, we always want to totally win - that’s our whole culture.” Tell us about your favorite Holy Child memory or class. “I loved the games, art class, dances, and Spirit Week. So many teachers stand out in my memory. Mr. Woodard I have to thank the most. He made me a better writer. Yes, he was a history teacher, but he was the one who would give me a ‘C’ on a paper because it wasn’t written well enough. I still think of him every time I rewrite a speech to make it that much better." What is your best piece of advice to a Holy Child student or alumna who is pursuing her career/ dream? “Just do it, girl! Believing in yourself is the FIRST most important step that needs to be alive throughout the whole journey. You already have what it takes to get started, and you will get everything else you need along the way if you just keep going. FOLLOW YOUR GUT!”
Class Representatives
Thank you to our dedicated Class Reps! If your class is missing a rep or you want to get involved, please email alumnews@holychild.org. 1965 Cathy Caspar Delahay - delahay01@gmail.com 1966 Carol Pender Sinwell - csinwell@cox.net Debbie Cronin Kissinger - dakissinger66@gmail.com
1978 Jeremy Davis Lopynski - Jeremy.Lopynski@gmail.com Marie Gilmore Williams - MarieGWilliams@msn.com 1979 REUNION YEAR Stephanie Joyce Farrell - stephaniefarrell@verizon.net
1967 Need a class rep!
1980 Jennifer Girardi McCloskey - Jennifer.McCloskey@em.doe.gov
1968 Need a class rep!
1981 Carla Pappalardo - carlapappalardo@hotmail.com
1969 REUNION YEAR Margo Colbert Keegan - auntiemib@gmail.com Suzi Hodson MacDaniels - suzimacd3@aol.com Kate Burke Walsh - kburkewalsh@gmail.com
1982 Mary Treacy Novajosky - mt.novajosky@aol.com
1970 Nancy Forbes Ephraim - NanCKE@aol.com
1983 Suzanne Hohman Matan - SuzMatan@aol.com and Jennifer Slye Aniskovich - jsa@aniskovich.com
1971 Margot Culotta-Norton – mmctooth@aol.com Mary Anne Melo Conley - maconley53@aol.com
1984 REUNION YEAR Ann Bouchard Kerrigan - a.kerrigan@ymail.com Amy Baldwin Doherty - dohertyab@aol.com Jill Slye King - jillsking@gmail.com
1972 Mary Ann Mangold Veirs - Mmmkv@aol.com
1985 Pamela Burns - pamelab@pamshops4you.com
1973 Missy Asbill Attridge - anneattridge@gmail.com
1986 Coleen McDonald Thompson - colenjoe65@aol.com
1974 REUNION YEAR Alicia Ryan Karanian - aliciakaranian@gmail.com Suzi Norris Montes de Oca - smontes@holychild.org
1987 Jennifer Abbey Johnson - djmkc0518@gmail.com
1975 Karen Denison Clark - karenclark317@gmail.com Cheryl Becker Grandy - cherylbgrandy@gmail.com Lisa Metzger - lisammetzger@gmail.com Ann Cassidy Principe - annprincipe@gmail.com 1976 Daniele Cronin-Tewes - danielet48@yahoo.com Mary Hornish Kempf - mary.kempf@yahoo.com Suzie Stinson - patjoh104@earthlink.net 1977 Shana Gaultney Elliott - shanagelliott@aol.com 36 | 37
1988 Margi Vechery Braun - margihh@yahoo.com Mary Pilkerton McAndrews - marypmcandrews@gmail.com 1989 REUNION YEAR Jessica Metz Boessman - jessicalboessman@hotmail.com Laura McGuinn - laura@hotpineappleproductions.com Nathalie Okhowat - Nyokhowat@aol.com 1990 Ingrid Ortega Froehner - jifroehner@yahoo.com 1991 Melissa Plaia Von Stauffenberg-melissavstauffenberg@gmail.com Lisa Knight Steele - Lcknight2003@yahoo.com
1992 Need a class rep! 1993 Elizabeth Guevara - heyguevara@gmail.com Noreen Miyake-Char - clubnor@hotmail.com 1994 REUNION YEAR Ginger King Shaw - ginger@gingersnaps.co Joanna Smith-Ramani - joramani@hotmail.com 1995 Martha Nguyen - marthanguyen@gmail.com 1996 Need a class rep! 1997 Kara Hannan McGinn - karamcginn@gmail.com Tula Orum - too_la@yahoo.com Marisa Van Saanen - marisavansaanen@gmail.com 1998 Katherine Smits - kathryn.smits@gmail.com Desiree Gavilan Speicher - Desiree.G.Speicher@gmail.com 1999 REUNION YEAR Susan Decker Raff - SDRaff@gmail.com 2000 Need a class rep! 2001 Anjanette Cottingim Bizzarro - anjanette@fsp98.com 2002 Jillian Bastow - jillian_bastow@yahoo.com Beatrice Freire-Frey - Beatriz.FreireFrey@gmail.com Shannon FitzGerald Grant - SLFitz5@gmail.com Kristin Liverman - kristin.liverman@hotmail.com Celine Tobal Bryan - celine.tobal@gmail.com 2003 Caitlin James - caitlinmjames@gmail.com Jenny Fitzpatrick - jfitz747@aol.com 2004 REUNION YEAR Alicia Easby-Smith Barton - aesbarton@gmail.com Clare Devine - devinec3@gmail.com Killeen Hanson - killeen.hanson@gmail.com 2005 Irene Firippis - irene.firippis@gmail.com Krista Montes de Oca Kelly - krista.kelly27@gmail.com Caitlin McCarthy - caitlin.mccarthy19@gmail.com Meagan Fitzgerald Romero - meagan0819@gmail.com 2006 Rotimi Abimbola - rotimi.abimbola@gmail.com Catherine Buckingham - Cat.buckingham@gmail.com Elaine Stefanou - emstefanou@gmail.com
2007 Shea Fitzgerald Grant - kimberly.shea.fitzgerald@gmail.com Meredith Hickman -MBHickman1230@gmail.com Isabel Wallisch Klinghorn - iwallisch@gmail.com Sam Cooper McIntee - smcintee13@gmail.com 2008 Kim Dolmuz - dolmuz.kimberley@gmail.com Devika Nair - dnair@fandm.edu 2009 REUNION YEAR Kelsey Albanese - kkalbanese@yahoo.com 2010 Ashley Paulos - ashleydhd3@msn.com Abby Sanders - abigail.w.sanders@gmail.com; 2011 Charlotte Barry - CharlotteKBarry@gmail.com Meagan Glynn - mglynn331@aol.com 2012 Kaelynn Serena - kaelynn.serena@gmail.com Katie Kress - knkress@me.com Christine Troiano - Ctroiano@dimensionalmarble.com; 2013 Fannie Benziger - fannie.benziger@verizon.net Heather Lamb - heatherlamb95@gmail.com Alex Phifer - kap12495@yahoo.com 2014 REUNION YEAR Maddy Hopkins - hopkins.maddy@yahoo.com Marissa MacDonald - Marissamacdonald14@gmail.com Katie Rose Marvin - kmarvin55@gmail.com 2015 Allison Bloss: abloss@foram.edu Cece Garner - ctgarn19@g.holycross.edu Caitlin O’Berry - cberry97@aol.com 2016 Samantha Boccia – sboccia98@aol.com Lilly Paro – Lillyparo1@aol.com Isabelle Tyshing – ityshing@yahoo.com 2017 Caitlin Grant - caitling1202@gmail.com Maddy Moore - mooremaddy99@gmail.com Layo Ojo - joannaojo@gmail.com Elsa Wetten - elsawetten17@gmail.com 2018 Molly Grant - mollyg394@gmail.com Chesney Lynch - cheslynch99@gmail.com Olivia Welsh - oliviawelsh1@gmail.com
Class Notes
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1966 Carol Pender Sinwell is a consultant for Northern Virginia Community College Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success. 1969 REUNION YEAR Save the weekend of June 6 – 8, 2019 for your 50th reunion! Please contact your class reps for more information. 1974 REUNION YEAR Joan Shea Ross (1) is delighted to be a grandmother of twin girls! Colleen Jones Johnson and Jen Ralston Kress ’85 recently had a mini reunion with Sr. Connie Craig and Mary Shields, former Holy Child trustee and teacher. 1977 Shana Gaultney Elliott (2) is a dentist and an associate with the Alpharetta, Georgia dental practice of Stone Stone & Elliott. 1978 The Class of 1978 (3) recently reunited to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their graduation from Holy Child. The day started with a prayer service in Holy Child’s Chapel, then a student-led tour of the school, followed by dinner at the home of Tricia Boland Jones where they Skyped some alumnae out of towners to include them in the festivities. A major thank you to Marie Gilmore Williams and Jeremy Davis Lopynski for organizing this reunion! 1979 REUNION YEAR Laura Whalen Aram is pleased to report that her youngest son, Nicholas Perry Aram, is a rising Sophomore at UMBC, studying International Business, Voice and German. 1982 Elise Sluger Ravenscroft, owner of SpotOnEvents, completed the successful coordination of the GBN Career Fair in January, attended by young alumnae from various Catholic high schools in the DC area, including Holy Child. 1985 Pam Burns, owner of PamShops4you, was highlighted in the Washington Post Express in December. 1988 Dr. Janet Foley (4) founded Sonoma County Mobile Veterinary Hospital in 2014, in Occidental, California. It is a full-service hospital on wheels. Juliana Slye (5) is the founder and CEO of Government Business Results, that specializes in government go-to-market strategy and enablement for technology firms. 1992 Christy Weschler Scango (6), with her husband Chris, opened Capitol Hardscapes, custom tailoring outdoor spaces for your home in the DMV area. 1993 Heather Crosby, owner of YumUniverse, was highlighted in the Thanksgiving issue of the O. Oprah Magazine. 1997 Carolyn Scott Giammarinaro (7) welcomed her fourth son, John Scott, born October 19, 2018.
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1 1998 Meg Zaragoza Velleca is the Senior Design Director of Childrenswear at Vineyard Vines. Kelly Billingsley Smith welcomed a son, Clifford Terry, on May 25. He joins two older sisters.
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2000 Sarah Siciliano Wragge is a holistic nutritionist and wellness expert in NYC. Her website is: www.sarahwragge. com. Meghan Everngam (9) completed her 4th Marine Corps Marathon in October. This year she ran in honor of her mom, former Holy Child trustee, Kathy, who is in advance stages of Alzheimer’s.
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2001 Erica Tokar (10) and her husband Matthew Stone shared the good news about the birth of their daughter Madeline ("Maddie") Mae Tokar Stone on August 1. Maddie's aunt, Tricia Lynch ’11, also attended Holy Child, as did her cousins, Mackenzie Myers ’18 and Catherine Altemus ’16.
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2002 Heather Knighton-Brush (11) announced that her family has now grown in size with the birth of her 3rd child on March 30, 2018. Her name is Brianna and she has a 7 year-old brother, Bryson, and a 10 year-old sister, Baylee. Celine Tobal Bryan is a Project Manager with HNTB, a company that delivers a full range of infrastructure-related services. Celine is participating in Cycle for Survival to honor a relative who died of peritoneal cancer in 2018. Cycle for Survival raises money for rare cancer research where 100% of donations fund research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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2003 Members of the Class of 2003 (12) gathered in November at Tommy Joe’s in Bethesda to celebrate fifteen years since they graduated Holy Child. Many thanks to Jenny Fitzpatrick and Caitlin James for organizing. Lolly Straus Heller (13) owns her company, Lauren Heller Art Consultant, a full service art advisory business. Kerry Shea Offterdinger is National Account Manager at Fuel Education, LLC in Houston, Texas.
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2004 REUNION YEAR Christine Colburn recently completed her M.A. at the University of Denver with a concentration in humanitarian logistics. She spent the summer interning with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is now working at McMurdo Station in Antarctica as an air cargo load planner. Her husband, Mike Lucibella, has worked with the U.S.
Antarctic Program for nearly four years, so she is thrilled to join him at McMurdo. Devon Dow is Director of Global Strategy for Mailman Group, which is a cuttingedge content strategy and digital marketing company that specializes in sports and tourism.
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2005 Caitlin Giblin is Deputy Director of Development at Greenpeace US and has been with them for 9 years. Krista Montes de Oca Kelly (14) and her husband Mike welcomed Caroline Karen Kelly on November 9. Ericka Rojas is Director of Communications at the Office of Naval Research, Naval STEM. Tierney Rowan Gordon (15) and her husband, Matthew, welcomed Matthew McLane, Jr. who was born July 9. Matty joins his big sister Campbell. 2006 Johanna Hancock is a labor and delivery nurse in Charleston, SC. Christine Bequai is Shopper Insights Associate Manager for the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group based in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas. Romina Nally is a talent acquisition specialist who fills software engineer positions for Next Century Corporation, a privately held software services company. Alexi Noelle O’Brien-Hosein is a Senior Producer in Washington, DC, for TRT World, an international broadcast company based in Istanbul. Marguerite Bottoroff appeared on Good Morning Washington in January for a food segment. 2007 Shea FitzGerald is a Commercial and Residential Sales and Leasing Agent at Coakley Realty. 2008 Teran Huguely is an Account Manager with Amify, an internet marketing company based in Alexandria, Virginia that develops and implements tailored marketing plans. Stephanie Ramdat graduated from UNC School of Law in Chapel Hill, NC, in May, and passed the North Carolina Bar Exam. In November, she accepted a position as an Assistant District Attorney with the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s office in Charlotte, NC. Hillary MacInnes (16) married Scott Galey September 1, 2018. Madeleine Diakiwski (17) is Vice President for Business Development and Marketing for Cornerstone Government Affairs, in Washington, DC. 2009 REUNION YEAR Kelly Strain '09 is a PR & Social Media Manager at PGi, Inc. in Denver, CO. Carolyn Hodgson is a Manager in the New York City office of Forensic Risk Alliance. 2010 Katherine Thomas attends George Washington University Law School and is on the Law Review. Lindsay Edgerley is Regional Director of Sales, Southeast, for Employee NAVIGATOR, based in Bethesda, MD. Caroline Guidera is a Senior Associate with Avison Young, a commercial real estate services firm. Katherine Heinssen is Product Manager, Partner Solutions, and Sarah Falk is a Carrier Analyst for Employee NAVIGATION. Joy Phifer is a graphic designer for Eastdil Secured, in Washington, DC. Mary Jeanne Coyle (18) is studying to earn her Family Nurse Practitioner degree at Georgetown. She plans to graduate in May, 2020. Miranda Jacobs (19) married Lenny Taylor December 29. Miranda is a seventh grade special education teacher at Ridgeview Middle School in Montgomery County. Mary Katherine Green (20) married Chris Wienecke on July 7, 2018. Mary Kate Virostek (21) married Jack Gilligan August 18, 2018 on Walloon Lake, Michigan. 2011 Charlotte Barry is a Coordinator, GUMC Annual Giving and Engagement at Georgetown University Medical Center. Meagan Glynn attends George Washington University Law School and is on the Law Review. KT Prominski received her doctorate of Physical Therapy at Columbia University in New York, and is a Physical Therapist at Washington Wellness. Anabela Esteves is a medical scribe at Sibley Hospital. She graduated from George Washington University with Pre-Med and Biology majors, and received her Master in Anatomy. 2012 Kaelynn Serena is taking courses at Georgetown University to receive her Certificate in Health & Wellness Coaching. Maggie Farr is a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst for RSA Security, a division of Dell Technologies. Katie Kress is an Insurance Broker at First Financial Group in Bethesda, MD. Ashleigh Popera moved to is a Marketing Coordinator for Gryphon Graphics in Boston, MA.
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2013 Nicolette McCann gathered a number of her classmates to join her at Holy Child the week before Christmas. Chloe McAuliffe is a construction assistant with HITT Contracting. Alex Phifer is a Project Engineer at Skanska USA Building Inc. Courtney Bratun graduated from Auburn University in August 2018 with a degree in Business Administration. Hayley Williams teaches at St. Jane de Chantal in Bethesda, MD. The Class of 2013 (22) had a reunion on campus during Christmas break to catch up and see the new spaces!
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2014 REUNION YEAR Anna Brickman is an external relations associate at Fractured Atlas, a non-profit technology company that provides business tools for artists. Maddy Hopkins is a Rotational Analyst at TD Ameritrade in New Jersey. Katie Rose Marvin is a Retail Broker at Hunneman in Boston, MA. Annie Virostek is a Development Associate at Washington Jesuit Academy. Sarah Evy Horan accepted a job with IBM in the Summit Sales program in Atlanta, Georgia. She would love to connect with any potential Holy Child alumnae in Atlanta or any who work with IBM. Sophia Abshire is a Structural Designer with Holmes Structures in San Francisco, CA. Emily Hunt interned in Holy Child’s Advancement Office in the fall of 2018, providing support for our events, gathering alumnae contact information, and assisting Liz Palka Minukas ’04 with research for some of our Alumnae Spotlights.
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2015 Holley Hickman graduated from Ohio Wesleyan this past December with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Government and Women’s and Gender Studies. She will be attending law school in the fall. Cece Garner is graduating from College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Education. She is currently applying to graduate school for school counseling.
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RECONNECT and REMINISCE at Alumnae Weekend! Reunion or no reunion, all alumnae are invited to join us Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27, 2019. We will especially recognize the classes ending in "4" and "9" as they celebrate their milestone reunions. FRIDAY, APRIL 26 9 am – 12 noon: Campus tours/sit in on classes 7 pm – 10 pm: “Girls Night Out” SATURDAY, April 27 12:30 pm – 2 pm: Luncheon with Sr. Connie Craig in McShain Library for the “Golden Years” 2 pm – 3 pm: Alumnae Service Project 3:30 pm: History of Cornelia Connelly and the State of the School Report 4:30 pm: Mass in Chapel Reunion Class Get-togethers off Campus – time and locations to be announced
CHECK OUT THE HOLY CHILD ALUMNAE THAT WE FEATURED FOR SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY & NATIONAL WOMEN’S BUSINESS WEEK ON OUR ALUMNAE FACEBOOK PAGE! ALICIA EASBY-SMITH BARTON ’04 – FRANKLIN FLORAL DESIGN – WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM FRANKLINFLORALDESIGN MARTINE BERNARD ’86 – NOURISH – WWW.YOUNOURISH.COM PAMELA BURNS ’85 – PAMSHOPS4YOU – WWW.PAMSHOPS4YOU.COM ELIZABETH WILSON BOLAND ’01 – WILSON BOLAND DESIGN – WWW.WILSONBOLANDDESIGN.COM CONNIE COAKLEY CAULFIELD ’82 – CAULFIELD PROVISION COMPANY – WWW.CAULFIELD HOTSAUCES.COM HEATHER CROSBY ’93 – YUMUNIVERSE – WWW.YUMUNIVERSE.COM LAUREN DUNNE ’08 – VARNISH LANE – WWW.VARNISHLANE.COM DR. SHANA GAULTNEY ELLIOTT ’77 - STONE,STONE & ELLIOTT DENTISTRY - WWW.STONESTONEANDELLIOTT.COM DR. JANET FOLEY ’88 - SONOMA COUNTY MOBILE VETERINARY HOSPITAL - WWW.SONOMACOUNTYMOBILEVET.COM. PAZ VELASCO GALEY ’82 – NAMEDROPPERS GIFTS – WWW.NAMEDROPPERSGIFTS.COM/ARTWORK LISA LANHAM HALL ’72 – LANHAM HALL DESIGN – WWW.LANHAMHALL.COM LAUREN HELLER ’03 - LAUREN HELLER ART CONSULTANT - LHFINEARTCONSULTANT.COM ELIZABETH STILES MCNEVIN ’04 – SOCIALE – WWW.SOCIALECONSUTLING.COM ELISE SLUGE RAVENSCROFT ’82 – SPOTON EVENTS – WWW.SPOTONEVENTS.BIZ/HOME CHRISTY WESCHLER SCANGO ’92 - CAPITOL HARDSCAPES - WWW.CAPITOLHARDSCAPES.COM JOAN HOMA SCHULTZ ’73 – JS HOME DESIGN – WWW.JSHOMEDESIGN.COM JULIANA SLYE '88 – GOVERNMENT BUSINESS RESULTS - WWW.GOVBIZRESULTS.COM DR. AMANDA THOMPSON ’04 – SYNERGY CHIROPRACTIC – WWW.SYNERGYCHIROS.COM DR. MARIELLA YOUNG ’87 – HEALTH AND FITNESS CHIROPRACTIC – WWW.YOUNGCHIRO.COM
IS YOUR NAME MISSING? SEND US YOUR UPDATED CONTACT AND BUSINESS INFORMATION AT ALUMNEWS@HOLYCHILD.ORG.
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In Memoriam
Dorothy Conley Andrews, grandmother of Mary Frances Conley Williams ’98 Keith Bell, step-father of Avery Johns ’24, and husband of Michelle Bernard
Francis Cantrel, grandfather of Katherine Cantrel ’06 and Madeleine Diakiwski ’08 Helen Collins – grandmother of Georgia Collins ’17 John Bernard Conaghan, grandfather of Maggie ’13 and Annie ’15 Donatelli Florence Crisafulli, grandmother of Michele Crisafulli ’03 and Elisabeth Crisafulli ’06 William and Nancy Dahut, parents of Julie Dahut O’Connor ’81 Doreen Denison, former faculty and mother of Karen Denison Clark ’75 and Wendy Denison O’Neil ’79 John T. Evans, father of Meghaan Evans ’03 Betty Farah, mother of Kathleen Farah Cahill ’74 and Tina Farah Logsdon ’80 Margaret Giovanni, grandmother of Mary Jeanne Coyle ’10 Greg Jasper, husband of Camille Corio Jasper ’91 Mary Anne Barrow Lane, mother of Joanne Lane Virostek ’81, grandmother of Jennifer Virostek Love ’04 and Mary Kate Virostek Gilligan ’10, and great aunt of Molly ’12 and Annie ’14 Virostek Shirley Mae Mather, grandmother of Elena Rios-Brady ’15 Suzanne McBride, grandmother of Gigi McBride ’19 Ed and Jean Marie McGolrick, grandparents of Tierney Rowan Gordon ’05 Glenn Mitchell, former Holy Child Trustee, husband of Sylvia Mitchell and father of Stefanie Mitchell Waite ’88 Margaret Moore, former faculty Ethel Scott, grandmother of Lindsey Kane ’05, Meghan Kane Bodner ’07, and Jenna Kane ’10 Frederick L. Shreves, II, grandfather of Peyton Shreves ’22 and father-in-law of Cathyann Hanley Shreves ’89 Maria Silverman, former faculty Deena Baheya Sprague (El-Selehdar), class of 1980, sister of Karima El-Selehdar Miller ’76 Betsy Sullivan, class of 1974 Jim Sullivan, former Holy Child trustee, husband of Joan, and father of current Holy Child Trustee Katie Sullivan Tyson ’90 Alfred J. Tighe, Jr., father of Mary Beth Tighe ’70 and Claudia Tighe ’73, and grandfather of Sarah Reese ’03 Althea Wallace, mother of Eileen Wallace ’83 Karen Zissis, class of 1976
Thank you to our Alumnae Council Members!
Jillian Bastow ’02 Martine Bernard ’86 Caroline Mangan Connelly ’08 Kathleen Cooney-Porter ’82 Caitlin DeLaurentis ’08 Meghan Everngam ’00 Riley Fisher ’07 Joelle Slye Flynn ’89 Jessica Williams Frend ’01 Molly Grant ’18 Alexandra Guntle ’11 Lauren Straus Heller ’03 Alicia Ryan Karanian ’74 Deborah Cronin Kissinger ’66 Alli Bigelow Lumpkin ’92 Chesney Lynch ’18 Elizabeth Palka Minukas ’04 Kate Everngam Muffels ’98 Jordan Quinn ’08 Lauren Phifer Robinson ’08 (President) Ericka Rojas ’05 Christy Weschler Scango ’92 Kelly Decker Shires ’08 (Vice President) Katherine Mangan Siegel ’03 Carol Pender Sinwell ’66 Sister Connie Craig, SHCJ
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A Letter from the
Former Chair of the Board of Trustees Dear Friends of Holy Child, As I reflect on the 2017-2018 year and the many accomplishments our community has achieved, I am reminded of how many hands and hearts are committed to our students’ success and Holy Child’s future. This has been a milestone year with a focus on improving our physical spaces to create innovative, dynamic learning environments that foster collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. With your help, we raised $1.4 million in just 12 months towards phases two and three of the Innovate the Space Campaign. Additional classrooms were renovated over the summer, thanks to the generosity of our Holy Child community. As the parent of an alumna and a part of the Holy Child community since 1995, I could not be more excited about the future of our school and that of the students. While the physical environment is important, the learning experience the faculty provide each day is the transformative core of a Holy Child education. The value of a Holy Child education resonates beyond our own community. While our students receive an excellent well-rounded education during their time on campus, we are unceasingly proud that our students take with them the values of learning, action, and faith into the world. This Annual Report reflects the vision of Dr. Gomez, our Board of Trustees, and the many ways our dedicated and passionate community support Holy Child. We are grateful for such generosity, and thank you for your commitment to Holy Child. On behalf of the students, faculty, and staff—thank you! Your support is vital to our mission and continued success. Nancy Binnie Former Chair, Board of Trustees (2015 – 2018)
President Nancy Binnie (P'02)
2017 - 2018 Board of Trustees
Vice President Paul Sullivan (P’17) Ex-Officio Dr. Shannon Gomez
Trustees Fr. Bill Byrne, Our Lady of Mercy Jessi Williams Frend ’01 Elizabeth Garner (P’15) Joseph Grassi (P’19) Daniel Hanley (P’18, ’20, ’22) Chris Holmes (P’16) Brett MacInnes (P’08) Mary Magner (P’15, ’22) Louise O’Berry (P’15) Lisa Paro (P’16) Mark Price (P’15, ’21) Scott Rembold (P’18, ’21) Kristin Cotton Rowan ’82 (P’12) Kathleen Sullivan Tyson ’90 William Whitaker (P’17)
FUND FOR HOLY CHILD
By the Numbers
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2017-2018 EXPENSES Administrative: $1,633,440 Financial Aid: $1,949,345 Plant: $1,416,340 Instructional: $5,505,360 Consistent with our mission, Holy Child dedicates 71% of the total operating budget for financial aid and educational expenses. Campus maintenance uses 13% of the budget and 16% is used for administration.
2017 – 2018 REVENUE Investments & Auxiliary $519,015 Tuition & Fees: $9,541,920 Fundraising: $1,439,545 Although tuition and fees are the bulk of Holy Child's revenue, donations are also necessary to cover expenses and provide the signature Holy Child experience. Philanthropic gifts made up a critical 13% of revenue in 20172018 and provided the resources to cover the true cost of a Holy Child education.
Support Holy Child Your support enables Holy Child to provide a transformative educational experience that empowers young women of action to become leaders in their home, at work, and in their community. You can make your generous gift to the Fund for Holy Child online (www.holychild.org/giving) or by check, via Venmo (@CorneliaHC), or stock.
Giving Circles Holy Child Giving Circles are based on cumulative giving throughout the 2017-2018 fiscal year and include contributions to the Annual Fund, Innovate the Space, Endowed and Scholarship Funds, Special Gifts, and Event Sponsorship. 1846 — $100,000 and above Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Brickman Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gramm Mr. Seyfeddin Roustamov and Ms. Marina Kotova Actions Not Words – $50,000 - $99,999 Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bishop III Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner II Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Nordberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman Mr. Francis S. Soistman Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Holy Child – $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Allen Mr. Marc Bastow and Ms. Nancy Binnie Mr. and Mrs. Chris Donatelli Mr. and Mrs. Dean Graham Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kane Mr. Brett MacInnes and Ms. Christine Noel Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. John Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jon Slabaugh Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski Cornelia Connelly – $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. Daniel Attridge and Mrs. Missy Asbill Attridge ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bell Mr. and Mrs. Thad Bingel Rev. Odis Braxton Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Hale-Braxton Mr. and Mrs. Rory S. Coakley Mrs. Mary Cull Mr. William Cull Jr. Ms. C. Maury Devine Mr. and Mrs. Peter Flanagan Mr. Brian Henneberry and Mrs. Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93
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Mr. John Hollingsworth and Dr. Rita W. Devine ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Herve Humler Mr. and Mrs. Brett Loper Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Mr. and Ms. William F. Peel III Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon Sr. Mr. William J. Rowan IV and Ms. Kristin Cotton Rowan ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stewart Ms. Rebecca K. Ward ’14 Scholars – $5,000 - $9,999 Dr. and Mrs. George Aguiar Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cerbone Mr. and Mrs. Harry Criswell III Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Crivella Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Geary Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Mr. and Mrs. Michael Magruder Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Marshall III Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. McCaleb Mr. and Mrs. Mark Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Jeff J. O'Berry Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rembold Drs. Jonathan and Margaret Sommerville Mr. and Mrs. David L. Straus Ms. Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 and Mr. Kevin Urgo Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Urgo Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Yavinsky Head of School – $2,500 - $4,999 Mr. Carlton Arrendell and Dr. Kimberly Campbell Arrendell Ms. Jillian Bastow ’02 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bittman Mr. and Mrs. Mike Colavita Dr. and Mrs. Lucas Collazo Ms. Rosemary Collopy ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curley Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Dell'Isola
Mr. Marc Duffy Mr. and Mrs. Collins Ege Dr. and Mrs. Andre Gazdag Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Grassi Dr. Shannon Gomez and Mr. Art Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Herishen Mr. and Mrs. George Kucik Mr. and Ms. Jeff MacKinnon Mr. and Mrs. Chip Mahoney III Ms. Julie A. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Mr. and Mrs. Brendan O'Neill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Puccini Mr. and Mrs. J. Bradley Reese Mrs. Amy C. Remington ’93 Ms. Meghan Rodgers ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Saidy Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Schuler Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Schwenker Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. Mark Skibbie Mr. Robert Stein and Ms. Ellen Perry Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Turley Mr. and Mrs. Kirk von Seelen Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Wetten Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Williams Willow – $1,500 - $2,499 Mr. Duane Albury and Ms. Natalie Ludaway Mr. Reza Amirkhalili and Ms. Martine Bernard ’86 Mr. John M. Benziger and Ms. Elizabeth L. Young Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Mark Calis Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano, Jr. Dr. Peter Eckel and Ms. Erin Rooney-Eckel Mr. Richard Elliott and Dr. Shana Gaultney Elliott ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Feldman Mr. Timothy Frend and Mrs. Jessica Williams Frend ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Erich Fuldner Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gilday, Jr. Mr. F. Gillis Green and Mrs. Lynn Rickman Green ’80 Mr. Christopher M. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Howell Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hussey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kavanagh Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lentz Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mansinne
Mr. and Mrs. JP Matan Ms. Patricia McCarthy and Mr. William Jones Mr. Gus Montes de Oca and Mrs. Suzi Norris Montes de Oca ’74 Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Alan Pumphrey Mr. and Mrs. Vance Redmond, Esq. Ms. Jeannette Roegge Mr. and Mrs. Matt Snowling Mrs. Peggy M. Still Mr. and Mrs. Frank Titus Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Tomasso Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ungerman Mrs. Lucia Basterra Ms. Mildred Webber Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh Mrs. Agnes N. Williams Mr. John Ziemski and Ms. Dawn Noonan Ziemski ’88 Blue and Gold – $500 - $1,499 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Aberbach Mr. and Mrs. Steven Adkins Mr. and Ms. Edward Allen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Todd Anderson Mr. and Mrs. David L. Banta Mr. and Mrs. Richard Banziger Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Belford Mr. and Ms. Joseph C. Bellino Mr. Wesley T. Bieligk and Mrs. Jessica Dillon Bieligk ’00 Mrs. Michelle Bosch Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Boyd Mrs. Jolyne Boyle Mr. Ben Brucker and Mrs. Pamela Combs Rev. William D. Byrne Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Carrasco Mrs. Caitlin Chalke Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Coughlin Drs. Casey and Lisa Crafton Mr. Brian Crowley and Dr. Maureen Banta Mr. James C. Dailey Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Dean Mr. and Mrs. George DeMarse Mr. and Mrs. Mark Derrick Mr. and Mrs. John Derrick Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Dillon Dr. Joan M. Donahue Mr. and Ms. Ted Donatelli Mr. and Mrs. John Donohue Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dwoskin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Easby-Smith Dr. Mary Engler ’73 Mr. and Mrs. David Entwistle
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Famulare Mrs. Stephanie Joyce Farrell ’79 Mr. David Flinchum and Dr. Jennifer Flinchum Mr. and Mrs. Josh Forgione Mr. Grant Gardner and Mrs. Seton Easby-Smith Gardner ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Keno Green Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grisius Mr. Marc Grossman and Ms. Mildred A. Patterson Mr. Javier Guzman Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Hagerup Mr. Tim Hannegan and Ms. Cindy Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hartranft Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hinton Mr. and Mrs. Sung Hong Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Huebscher Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hunt Mr. Jack Jaeger and Ms. Christine Jelen Mr. and Mrs. William Jerro Mr. and Ms. Robert Johnston, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kane Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kannapell Dr. John W. Karanian Ph.D. and Mrs. Alicia Ryan Karanian ’74 Mr. and Mrs. John Karanik Jr. Dr. Michael Keegan and Mrs. Margo Colbert Keegan ’69 Dr. and Mrs. David Keever Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Kotz Ms. Kathleen McElroy LaValle ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee V Mr. and Mrs. David Lentine Mr. Kevin Lockland and Mrs. Gina Carusillo Lockland Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Marshall Ms. Michelle Martin Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Massey Mr. Richard J. McBride Jr. Dr. Ruth Anne Osbourn McCormick ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGowan Mr. and Mrs. John McGuinness, Jr. Mrs. Bonnie Moore Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morton Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Luke O'Boyle Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paro
RAdm Robert Pittman and Dr. Kathy Hayes Mr. and Mrs. John E. Potter Ms. Anne Powell ’69 Mr. Brady Ramminger and Mrs. Alisa Marino-Ramminger ’80 Mr. and Mrs. John Riggins Mr. and Mrs. Scott Roth Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Sanders Mr. Frederick L. Shreves III and Ms. Cathyann Hanley Shreves ’89 Mr. Toufic Sidani and Mrs. Veronica Da Silva Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silverman Mr. William J. Smith III and Mrs. Pamela Torok Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Steuart Mr. and Mrs. Eric Stewart Mr. and Mrs. George Sushinsky Ms. Terri Sutton Mr. and Mrs. John Suttora Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thomas Ms. Sara M. Thompson ’79 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Thompson Mr. Robert Tyson and Mrs. Katie Sullivan Tyson ’90 Mr. and Ms. Luis Velasco Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Velasquez Mr. and Mrs. Dan Venable Mr. John Vinter Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Volovski Mr. Daniel Wagner and Mrs. Lisa Godfrey ’75 Mr. and Mrs. David Weeda Mr. and Mrs. Bill Whitaker Mr. and Mrs. Dale F. Wilcox Ms. Murphy Tuomey Wilson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wright Patrons –$100 - $499 Mr. Gabriel I. Albornoz and Mrs. Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Ms. Jennifer Slye Aniskovich ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Chris Archer Mr. and Mrs. Alan Aria Mr. Mark Avallone Ms. Blossom Baker Mrs. Jennie Bassett Ms. Mary L. Battiata ’74 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Baumgartner Mr. Marvin Beitler Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bezjak Mr. Daniel C. Biggins and Ms. Anne Auger Biggins ’89 Ms. Elizabeth Billett Mr. and Mrs. Terry Billingsley Ms. Blair L. Bjellos ’04 Mr. Gregory Bloss and Ms. Jane Lockmuller Dr. Ralph Boccia and Mrs. Erin Tehan Boccia ’80 Ms. Marie-Lise L. Bonneau Mr. and Mrs. Pat Bowman Mr. James Brault Mr. Alex Bryer and Mrs. Erin Dilley Bryer ’92 Mr. and Mrs. John Burgess Mr. Sean C. Cahill and Mrs. Kathleen Farah Cahill ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Cain Mr. Jerry Cardarelli and Mrs. Carmen De Las Casas Cardarelli ‘91
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Mr. Daniel Cardile and Dr. Anne Charbonneau Cardile ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carlsen Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Cassidy Ms. Elizabeth Cassidy Mr. Joe Cassidy Ms. Carol Cerbone Mrs. Theresa Chang ’92 Mr. Christopher Char and Mrs. Noreen Miyake-Char ’93 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Mr. Richard Coffee and Ms. Pierce Resler Coffee ’00 Ms. Alicia Cohen Ms. Marie A. Collins Dr. Robert O. Conley and Mrs. Mary Anne Melo Conley ’71 Mr. Michael and Dr. Sarah Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Brian Cooper Mr. Gregory M. Corbutt and Mrs. Mary Beth Allen Corbutt ’80 Ms. Gabriella N. Corral ’17 Ms. Mary M. Coughlin Mr. Thomas Cox and Mrs. Dillon Barnes Cox ’93 Ms. Karen D. Craig Mr. and Mrs. Barto J. Crivella, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Cross Dr. and Mrs. Hafez Daneshvar Mr. Gregory Daymude and Mrs. Jennifer Shaw Daymude ’87 Ms. Carmel Deckelman ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Mark O. Decker, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. DeLaurentis Ms. Julie Dillon Dietz ’88 Dr. Robert G. Donahue and Mrs. Kathy Donahue ’76 Mr. Sean Donalty and Mrs. Andrea Brunhart Donalty ’89 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Richard Drummond Mr. Wes Dunning Mr. Gregg B. Dyer and Mrs. Diane Stone Dyer ’77 Mr. Mark Eisel Mr. Robert Eisinger Ms. Lynda M. Elliott Ms. Meghan E. Everngam ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fagan Ms. Dagmar Torres Farr ’74 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fassl Mrs. Irene A. Firippis ’05 Mrs. Patricia Fisher Ms. Maura Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. James E. Frech Ms. Susan Koenig Freericks ’83 Mr. Paolo Galli and Dr. Suzanne Kim K. Doud Galli Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Galvin Ms. Cecilia T. Garner ’15 Ms. Theresa Gartland ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Gilak Ms. Dedie Giuliani ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glaeser Mr. and Ms. Matt Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grabias Mr. Martin Green and Mrs. Patricia G. Norair Green ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gribble
Ms. Anne D. Grossman ’10 Ms. Elizabeth Guevara ’93 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Guidera, Jr. Ms. Alexandra P. Guntle ’11 Ms. Killeen C. Hanson ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Harders Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hauser Mrs. Bobbi Andre Hayes ’73 Ms. Ann Hogan Healey ’78 Mrs. Pamela Hickey Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hickman IV Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Hodgson Ms. Carolyn C. Hodgson ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Hoeymans Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, Sr. Ms. Lise Hopson Ms. Sarah E. Horan ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hortin Mr. Barclay Howe Jr. and Mrs. Johanna Bayle Howe ’99 Ms. Angela C. Howley ’87 Mr. Thomas Humen and Mrs. Mary Beth Perpich Humen ’74 Ms. Mary Beth Sims Hurley ’71 Ambassador and Mrs. Earl M. Irving Ms. Allison Jacobs ’89 Ms. Jennifer Abbey Johnson ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Kane Ms. Geraldine K. Kavanagh ’67 Mrs. Pat Keeley Mr. John C. Keeney Jr. and Ms. Kathleen V. Gunning Mr. Joseph M. Kempf and Mrs. Mary Hornish Kempf ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Keogh Mr. Paul B. Kern III and Mrs. Ann Schiattareggia Kern ’84 Mr. John Kernan III Mr. John J. Killeen Mr. and Ms. Michael Kim Ms. Chris Kirkpatrick Mr. Michael Klingshirn and Ms. Isabel Wallisch ’07 Dr. and Mrs. Ron Kulik II Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Langston, Sr. Mr. Cesar Larrea and Mrs. Aida Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Scott R. Leachman Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Leary, Jr. Mrs. Keagan Resler Lenihan ’98 Mrs. Deirdre Dowd Levine ’85 Ms. Emily Terry Lieginger ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Lindquist Mrs. Emily Dolan Livelli ’98 Ms. Allison Bigelow Lumpkin ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Lutes Mr. Robert J. MacDaniels and Mrs. Suzanne Hodson MacDaniels ’69 Ms. Cathy MacFarlane ’72 Ms. Kelli B. Magnarelli Ms. Aoife Magner ’15 Ms. Kristen Maloney ’92 Ms. Mary Jane Maloney Mr. and Mrs. William E. Manders Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Ms. Therese Matan Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mayo Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCaffrey Mr. and Mrs. Casey McCormick Mrs. Kara Hannan McGinn ’97
Ms. Kathleen McGowan ’85 Ms. Ellen McGowan Mr. Michael W. McGrew and Ms. Monica Clark McGrew ’71 Ms. Elizabeth B. McHugh ’79 Mr. Christopher McLean Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Meegan Ms. Madeline B. Moore ’17 Ms. Margaret A. Moore ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mudlaff Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Naude Ms. Kristen Nelson ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nordberg, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norris Mr. Robert E. Norton and Dr. Margot Culotta-Norton ’71 Mr. William P. Novajosky and Mrs. Mary Treacy Novajosky ’82 Mrs. Marion Nyoh Mr. and Mrs. James O'Boyle Mr. Joseph O'Boyle Ms. Colleen Walsh O'Brien ’78 Mr. and Mrs. John O'Donnell, Jr. Mr. Kwame Oduro and Mrs. Sandra Edwards Ms. Bridget Chiagoro-Ojo Mr. Olakunle Ojo Mr. Curtis Olson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. O’Leary Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ondeck Mr. and Mrs. Brendan O'Neill, Sr. Ms. Lisa Orosa Ms. Eileen O'Toole Mr. Michael Owen Mr. Michael Page and Mrs. Debbie Kerrigan Page ’77 Ms. Lillian N. Paro ’16 Ms. Jenna M. Paro ’16 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Patton Ms. Janey K. Peel ’10 Ms. Mary Beth Pender ’69 Mr. Augusto Perez and Mrs. Luisa Gutierrez Ms. Suzanne Pierron Ms. Morgan Paine Plant ’66 Mrs. Laura Barrett Plunkett ’93 Ms. Kathrine Brauer Pollard ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Karl Pothier Mr. Nathan Price and Rev. Amy Yount Mr. and Mrs. Alan Pumphrey Mr. John M. Quigley Mr. David Raff Jr. and Mrs. Susan Decker Raff ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rembold Mrs. Ellen Davis Rensklev ’76 Mr. David C. Ridenour and Mrs. Kathleen Stetler Ridenour ’75 Mr. Augusto C. Rios Ms. Lauren Phifer Robinson ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rogers, Esq. Ms. Abby Root Mr. Barry Rosenberg Mr. James Russ Mr. and Ms. Daniel L. Russell, Jr. Ms. Caitlin Ryan ’01 Ms. Diane Miller Ryburn ’74 Dr. and Mrs. Fahim Sadek Mrs. Flavia Zara Scalzitti ’93 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schiattareggia
Ms. Mary Jean Schmitt ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schnider, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Schroeter Ms. Katharine F. Yee Scott ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Serena Mr. Josh Shaw and Mrs. Ginger King Shaw ’94 Mrs. Elizabeth Shea Ms. Kelly Decker Shires ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shriver Ms. Katherine Mangan Siegel ’03 Dr. Albert C. Simmonds IV and Dr. Cara C. Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. Kim Sims Mr. Michael Sinwell and Dr. Carol Pender Sinwell ’66 Mr. and Mrs. David Smith Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Smith Ms. Carly F. Soistman ’16 Mr. Charles S. Southworth and Ms. Donna Cedar-Southworth Ms. Nora V. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Robert Stephens Dr. Dennis Stiles and Dr. Marie Tigani Stiles ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Strachan Mr. Ralph Struzziero Mr. and Mrs. William M. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan, Jr. Ms. Donna Sutton Ms. Kathleen Brady Taylor Ms. Jessica Terner Mr. and Mrs. Michael Texido Mr. and Mrs. John Tomon Mr. and Mrs. Volker Treichel Ms. Kaitlyn M. Valis Mrs. Marisa Van Saanen ’97 Ms. Katia Vargas and Mr. Jose Alpizar Mr. and Mrs. Neil W. Versteeg Ms. Kate Burke Walsh ’69 Dr. and Mrs. Peter Weilenmann Ms. Patricia Willard Weiss ’82 Ms. Peggy Weldon Mr. and Mrs. Dave Welgos Mr. Karl Western and Mrs. Aileen Worthington Ms. Honore J. Whalen ’96 Mr. Thomas Whalen Mr. and Mrs. David Whipp Mr. Mikel Williams and Mrs. Becky Effer Williams ’79 Mr. Wesley Wohlgemuth and Mrs. Melanie Eberly Mr. Bryan Wohlgemuth and Mrs. Tanya Topka Mr. and Mrs. Michael Worch Mr. Gregory Wright and Ms. Martha Nguyen ’95 Ms. Christina Yee ’01 Ms. Lacey Yegen ’02 Ms. Jean Yount Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Zwisler Friends of Holy Child – $1 - $99 Ms. Lauren C. Adams ’00 Ms. Noel Adams ’86 Ms. Joan Sullivan Addie ’78 Ms. Lora Sullivan Adler ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Masood Ahmed Ms. Christina T. Aiken ’04
Ms. Kelsey K. Albanese ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ambrosi Mr. Marcelo Andrieu and Ms. Vicky V. Masson Mrs. Debby Anker Ms. Jacqueline T. Appel ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Balla Mrs. Katherine Barr Ms. Charlotte K. Barry ’11 Ms. Tressa Gatewood Bauer ’80 Mrs. Shalisha Bazemore Mr. and Mrs. Wynard Belton Mr. Rafael Bermudez and Mrs. Yanira Reyes Ms. Michelle Bernard and Mr. Keith Bell Ms. Swapna Bhatia Ms. Clare R. Bloss ’17 Ms. Pat Lynott Bonan ’75 Ms. Jessica L. Bosch ’17 Ms. Zeina R. Boustani ’07 Ms. Courtney G. Bratun ’13 Ms. Gabrielle E. Brault ’17 Ms. Sarah D. Bray ’07 Ms. Madie Bromiley Ms. Marissa Bulger Ms. Marley A. Burgess ’17 Ms. Julie Burke Ms. Anna Daragan Cadena ’77 Ms. Bridget A. Cahill ’13 Ms. Katharine M. Carlson ’17 Mr. James Carpenter Mr. Thomas Carroll Ms. Jennifer Carter ’76 Ms. Marie Cefalo ’78 Ms. Denise Chambers ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cherrix Ms. Hanja Cherniak Mrs. Megan Bellino Chesek ’02 Mr. and Mrs. F. Hugh Collins Ms. Alex Corbutt ’07 Ms. Andrea McGarry Cremins ’84 Ms. Michele Crisafulli ’03 Mr. Randy A. Crocker and Mrs. Karen Carestia Crocker ’80 Ms. Anne Cummings Force ’89 Mr. Edward Rosemond Mr. and Ms. Jason Davis Ms. Rachel K. Days ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Philippe de Raet Ms. Emily G. de Raet ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Dedeaux Ms. Kristin E. DeGiorgi ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Sergio del Castillo Ms. Caitlin M. DeLaurentis ’08 Ms. Madeleine Cantrel Diakiwski ’08 Ms. Samantha K. DiBella ’09 Mrs. Katie Dolan Ms. Katherine Hubbell Domning ’69 Ms. Margaret M. Donatelli ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Durbin Mr. and Mrs. James P. Easby-Smith Ms. Claire Easby-Smith ’07 Ms. Maureen E. Easby-Smith ’05 Ms. Katherine R. Eisenberg ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott Ms. Chen Elliott ’07 Mr. William J. Falatko and Mrs. Sandy Fegan Falatko ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Falcone
Ms. Katherine M. Fassl ’07 Mrs. Shannon Kane Faucette ’84 Ms. Belén Fernández de la Peña Ms. Riley E. Fisher ’07 Ms. Jennifer Fitzpatrick ’03 Ms. Hannah O. Fitzpatrick ’17 Mr. Geoff S. Flaherty and Mrs. Kate Covell Flaherty ’87 Ms. Kerry Folan ’97 Ms. Trish Fraser Ms. Shellie Beers Fregnan ’65 Ms. Maggie Y. Fu ’07 Ms. Kim Fuhrman Mr. Joshua Fullenkamp and Mrs. Kate Hannan Fullenkamp ’99 Ms. Anastasia J. Furman ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Willem Gadiano Ms. Jillian H. Geletka ’07 Ms. Sophie E. Ganiban ’17 Ms. Tracey Belt Garber ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Giblin Ms. Fiona P. Giblin ’07 Ms. Lucy E. Gilak ’16 Mr. Michael Gillette and Mrs. Cindy Comerford Gillette ’79 Ms. Kendall L. Goetzenberger ’17 Mrs. Vivian Gorden Ms. Abigail E. Gordon ’05 Ms. Caitlin M. Grant ’17 Ms. Molly G. Grant ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Morley Greene Ms. Jennifer R. Gribble ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Gumbs Ms. Teresa A. Hadeed ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hannan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hansen Mr. and Mrs. James Q. Harrison Ms. Caitlin Holland Hefner ’03 Mr. and Ms. Ken Heft Ms. Lauren Straus Heller ’03 Ms. Jeanne Boone Henze ’68 Ms. Meredith B. Hickman ’07 Ms. Isabella L. Hoyos ’17 Ms. Paulina Hill Wright ’05 Ms. Kathryn M. Hilley ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas X. Hilley Mrs. Kimberlie Hogan Ms. Abigail A. Holtz ’07 Mr. Joseph Iadarola and Ms. Nicki Hess Iadarola ’02 Ms. Kathleen J. Jaeger ’17 Ms. Nawil Jama Dr. and Mrs. Mark Jensen Mr. Jeff M. Johnson and Mrs. Colleen Jones Johnson ’74 Ms. Meghan E. Kane ’07 Ms. Lindsey A. Kane ’05 Ms. Jenna K. Kane ’10 Ms. Meghan M. Karanik ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kaufman Ms. Emma M. Keever ’17 Mr. Michael Kelly and Mrs. Krista Montes de Oca Kelly ’05 Ms. Erin Kemp ’01 Mr. Edward Kent Ms. Ann Bouchard Kerrigan ’84 Mrs. Deborah Cronin Kissinger ’66 Ms. Allison Allen Kistler ’06 Ms. Katherine Klim Ms. Elaine Long Knuth ’73
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Mr. and Ms. Joseph Koch Mr. Fred Kramer and Mrs. Robin Witkowski Kramer ’78 Ms. Prachin Krents Ms. Meredith S. Kucik ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kumm III Ms. Kathleen McEvoy Kyne ’79 Mrs. Lisa Siok Laganke ’79 Ms. Stephanie M. Leland ’98 Mr. Adam Lewin Ms. Cara Lewis-Roy Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Lowry Ms. Lauren Kopit Luker ’03 Ms. Kelli A. Lundregan ’07 Ms. Patsy Lynch ’71 Ms. Adriana Mack ’12 Ms. Kaitlin Mann ’17 Ms. Megan Mann ’17 Ms. Anne E. Martin ’17 Ms. Marie Martin Ms. Molly C. Martin ’15 Ms. Jennifer T. Masi ’00 Mr. Mark Matan and Mrs. Suzanne Hohman Matan ’83 Dr. C. Doyle Maull and Mrs. Amy Clarke Doyle ’86 Ms. Brynn C. Mayo ’10 Ms. Nicolette N. McCann ’13 Mr. Timothy McCartin Ms. Kate C. McCormick ’11 Ms. Liske Craig McCormley ’70 Ms. Grace McNicholas and Mr. Brian Searby Mr. Walter Meek Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Meima Ms. Rose M. Meima ’17 Ms. Christine Hoover Meulemans ’02 Ms. Emily Sama Miller ’98 Dr. Nancy Hadley Miller ’72 Ms. Elizabeth Palka Minukas ’04 Ms. Lisa Mitten ’99 Mrs. Kathryn Moylan Mr. Kevin Mull and Mrs. Karen Adelman Mull ’90 Mr. and Ms. James J. Murphy Ms. Mariah E. Murphy ’07 Ms. Laetitia A. N’Dri ’07 Ms. Rebecca Natiello ’93 Ms. Jill Norair ’74 Ms. Caitlyn P. O'Berry ’15 Ms. Kathleen Kelley O’Brien ’69 Mr. and Mrs. George J. O'Hare Ms. Olufunmilayo J. Ojo ’17 Orozco Family Ms. Caitlin Duignan Orth ’03 Mr. and Ms. Thomas Pablo Mr. Charles Paquette and Ms. Jane Stenson Mr. David M. Parker and Mrs. Cecilia Becker Parker ’78 Mrs. Rosemarie Patane Hale ’72 Ms. Ashley C. Paulos ’10 Mrs. Sonya Payne Ms. Maureen Pender ’67 Dr. Cristy Perdue and Ms. Suzanne Peters ’92 Ms. Anne Stephens Peterson ’70 Mr. James C. Pinkston and Mrs. Anne McInerny Pinkston ‘70
Ms. Helen Place Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pochter Ms. Emily M. Pochter ’08 Ms. Claire Portmann ’72 Rev. George N. Price and Ms. Harriet H. Price Ms. Meg Nalls Price ’70 Dr. William Pritchard and Dr. Elizabeth C. Jones Mr. Ed Purnell and Mrs. Christina Vengazo Purnell ’92 Ms. Mary White Radle ’65 Mrs. Jamie Ready Ms. Kelly Warner Rehman ’04 Ms. Caroline M. Rerucha ’81 Ms. Molly K. Reyda ’17 Ms. Jocelyn L. Rheem ’04 Ms. Leah A. Richardella ’07 Ms. Meaghan Hollenbeck Richardson ’05 Ms. Jenna A. Riemenschneider ’05 Ms. Lauren Sims Risley ’03 Ms. Carly G. Rivers ’17 Mr. and Ms. Chris Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Brian Robinson Esq. Ms. Kaiya J. Robinson ’17 Ms. Ericka L. Rojas ’05 Ms. Grace M. Rowe ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Justin Russell Mr. Clayton Saxour and Dr. Joanne De Ausen Saxour ’90 Ms. Victoria A. Saylor ’17 Ms. Christy Weschler Scango ’92 Ms. Lourdes Pinachos Sejismundo ’92 Ms. Sophia K. Seymour ‘17 Ms. Jasmin Sharifi ’07 Mrs. Maureen Smith Siburt ’99 Ms. Sara M. Simmonds ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Skeeter Ms. Allison Williams Slocum ’07 Mr. Alastair Smith and Ms. Joanna Smith-Ramani ’94 Mr. Walter I. Smits Ms. Linda Fegan Spiker ’78 Mr. Michael Stanton, Jr. and Ms. Kelly Cavanaugh Stanton ’87 Mrs. Maria Daza Stanton ’82 Ms. Coral M. Stanton-Terrones ’07 Mrs. Lisa Knight Steele ’91 Ms. Mary Stetler ’70 Ms. Lauren E. Stewart ’05 Mr. Adam Stinelli and Mrs. Shelly Swendiman Stinelli ’01 Ms. Suzanne K. Stinson ’76 Ms. Sarah A. Strachan ’17 Ms. Cheryl Canfield Stradtner ’74 Mr. Kevin Street and Mrs. Marta Alonso Street ’68 Mr. Terrence C. Sullivan and Ms. Patricia Adams Sullivan ’69 Ms. Ella C. Sullivan ’18 Ms. Nicole Deckelman Swiers ’84 Mr. Jim Haardt and Mrs. Mary Switzer Haardt Dr. Joan Taylor ’70 Ms. Arlee R. Taylor ’17 Mr. Jeffrey Trees and Mrs. Kasey Kane Trees ’80 Ms. Gena M. Turner ’07 Ms. Alyssa Umberger Ms. Elizabeth C. Vaghi ’06
Ms. Justine C. Verheul ’17 Dr. Beverly A. VonDer Pool ’73 Dr. Manfred von Fricken and Mrs. Linda Galliher von Fricken ’72 Ms. Helen Egan Wagner ’75 The Reverend and Mrs. Wright Wall Ms. Therese Walsh ’04 Ms. Lauren Walter Mr. Ronald W. Watkins and Ms. Cathleen E. Shannon Ms. Colleen C. Wealton-Mailander Mr. Kevin Weisser and Mrs. Grace Easby-Smith Weisser ’01 Ms. Marguerite B. Weldon ’17 Ms. Karin A. Wells Ms. Olivia V. Welsh ’18 Ms. Melanie Wexler Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Whitaker Ms. Maya J. Whitaker ’17 Ms. Colleen O. Whitcomb ’17 Mr. Geoff White and Ms. Kirsten Ingram White ’88 Ms. Cynthia White Mr. Don Wiggins and Mrs. Susanne Brunhart Wiggins ’87 Ms. Cynthian Wilhelmy ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Wilson Jr. Ms. Kayla R. Wood ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wright Ms. Elena C. Yeutter ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Yoritomo
The Fund for Holy Child Volunteer Cabinet Chairs Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Caitlin ’17 and Molly ’18 Grant Class of 2018 Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Caitlin ’17 and Molly ’18 Grant Class of 2019 Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Piper Martin ’19 Class of 2020 Mr. and Mrs. Chip Mahoney III Ashley ’20 and Katherine ’22 Mahoney Class of 2021 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark Riley Clark ’20 Class of 2022 Mr. Tripp Shreves and Mrs. Cathyann Hanley Shreeves '89 Peyton Shreves ’22 Class of 2023 Mr. and Mrs. Luke O’Boyle Maggie O’Boyle ’23 Class of 2024 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay Sr. Pearson Shay ’24 Alumnae Chairs Mrs. Lauren Phifer Robinson ’08 Mrs. Kelly Decker Shires ’08
Innovate the Space In 2015, Holy Child embarked on an ambitious plan to transform campus spaces to reflect our institutional values of innovation, collaboration, and community. We are thankful to every donor who made these new spaces a reality for our students. Innovate the Space 1 Anonymous Ms. Veronica Ahern Mr. and Mrs. Colin Beebe Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bell Mr. and Mrs. Thad Bingel The Bosch Family Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Boyd The Brickman Family Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bunch The Butz Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Cain Mr. Jerry Carlsen and Ms. Nancy Brewer-Carlsen Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Carrasco Ms. Rosemary Collopy ’76 Dr. Robert O. Conley and Mrs. Mary Anne Melo Conley ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell Ms. C. Maury Devine Mr. John Hollingsworth and Dr. Rita Devine '79 Mr. and Mrs. Chris Donatelli Mr. and Mrs. Barton Drummond Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fagan Mr. Timothy Frend and Mrs. Jessica Williams Frend ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner II Ms. Shannon Hanley ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kane Mr. and Mrs. John Karanik Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kavanagh Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Kley Mr. and Mrs. Brett Loper Mr. and Mrs. William C. MacDonald Mr. Brett MacInnes and Mrs. Christine Noel Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Ms. Aoife Magner '15 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mrs. Bonnie Moore Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Orloff Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman
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Mr. Frederick L. Shreves III and Mrs. Cathyann Hanley Shreves ’89 Mr. and Mrs. David L. Straus Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Frank Titus Ms. Becky Ward ’14 Ms. Patricia Weiss ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh Mr. Kevin Whitcomb and Ms. Trish O'Connor Whitcomb Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski Innovate the Space 2 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Allen Mr. Reza Amirkhalili and Ms. Martine Bernard ’86 Ms. Jillian Bastow ’02 Mr. Marc Bastow and Ms. Nancy Binnie The Brickman Family Mr. and Mrs. Chris Donatelli Mr. Marc Duffy Mr. and Mrs. Collins Ege Mr. and Mrs. Peter Flanagan Dr. Shannon Gomez and Mr. Art Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gramm Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. and Ms. William F. Peel III Mr. Seyfeddin Roustamov and Ms. Marina Kotova Society of the Holy Child Jesus Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Tomasso Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski Innovate the Space 3 Dr. and Mrs. George Aguiar, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Belford Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bell The Benevity Community Impact Fund Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bishop III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bittman Rev. Odis Braxton, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Hale-Braxton
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Calis Capital Source Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Carrasco Mrs. Caitlin Chalke Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell Mrs. Mary Cull Mr. William Cull Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curley Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Entwistle Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Feldman Gannett Corp. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner II Mr. and Mrs. Dean Graham Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grisius Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Hagerup Mr. Brian Henneberry and Mrs. Alicia O’Hare Henneberry ’93 Host Hotels and Resorts Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kannapell Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Kotz Ms. Allison Bigelow Lumpkin ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Marshall III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Maloney Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. Gus Montes de Oca and Mrs. Suzi Norris Montes de Oca ‘74 Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Nordberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brendan O'Neill, Jr. Dr. Cristy Perdue and Ms. Suzanne Peters ‘92 Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Plamondon, Jr. Mr. and Ms. Ed Purnell Mr. and Mrs. Vance Redmond, Esq. Mr. William J. Rowan IV and Ms. Kristin Cotton Rowan ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rudman Ms. Christy Weschler Scango ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jon Slabaugh Mr. and Mrs. Matt Snowling Mr. Francis S. Soistman Drs. Jonathan and Margaret Sommerville Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Urgo Ms. Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ‘88 Mr. Kevin Urgo VMWare, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Volovski Mr. and Mrs. David Weeda Wiley Rein LLP Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wright Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski Raise the Paddle for Remington Fitness Room Dr. and Mrs. George Aguiar, Jr. Mr. Gabriel I. Albornoz and Mrs. Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz ’98 Mr. Duane Albury and Ms. Natalie Ludaway
Mr. Carlton Arrendell and Dr. Kimberley Campbell Arrendell Ms. Blossom Baker ^Ms. Jillian Bastow ’02 Mr. Reza Amirkhalili and Ms. Martine Bernard ’86 Mr. Marc Bastow and Ms. Nancy Binnie Mr. and Mrs. Thad Bingel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bittman Mrs. Jolyne Boyle Rev. Odis Braxton, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Hale-Braxton Rev. William D. Byrne Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cerbone Mr. Wes Dunning Dr. Peter Eckel and Ms. Erin Rooney-Eckel Mr. and Mrs. Collins Ege Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Feldman Ms. Maura Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Josh Forgione Mr. and Mrs. Erich Fuldner Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner II Dr. and Mrs. Andre Gazdag Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gilday Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Graham Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Keno Green Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Mr. Christopher M. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Howell Ms. Patricia McCarthy and Mr. William Jones Dr. John W. Karanian Ph.D. and Mrs. Alicia Ryan Karanian ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee V Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lentz Mr. and Mrs. Brett Loper Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mansinne Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Marshall III Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Massey Ms. Julie A. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. McCaleb Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stewart Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Mr. and Mrs. Jeff O'Berry Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. Brady Ramminger and Mrs. Alisa Marino-Ramminger ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rembold Mrs. Amy Connors. Remington ’93 Mr. William J. Rowan IV and Ms. Kristin Cotton Rowan ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Saidy Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Schuler Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Schwenker
Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Jon Slabaugh Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan, Jr. Ms. Terri Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Frank Titus Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Turley Ms. Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ‘88 Mr. Kevin Urgo Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Valasquez Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Yavinsky Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski
Endowed Funds
We are extremely grateful and acknowledge those who established funds during the 2017-2018 fiscal year, as well as those who continue to generously support the already established endowed funds at Connelly School of the Holy Child. The Coakley Center for Innovative Learning Gerry and Neil Coakley were stalwart supporters of the school’s academic support program. This fund was established by the Coakley Family to honor their parents’ legacy and commitment to innovative learning. Mr. Mark Avallone Bavarian Holdings, LLC Chesapeake Resources, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Rory S. Coakley Cork Real Estate Management, LLC Mr. James C. Dailey Mr. Robert Eisinger Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hinton Mr. John J. Killeen Mr. Joseph O'Boyle Rose Real Estate & Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Michael Rose Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wolinsky The J. Robert Walsh Scholarship 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. Freddie Mac Foundation Ms. Colleen Walsh O'Brien '78 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. 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. Raymond J. Hoeymans Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Noonan Mr. John Ziemski and Mrs. Dawn Noonan Ziemski '88
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Mary C. Crivella Fund Mr. and Mrs. Barto Crivella, Sr. and their family established the Crivella Fund as a memorial to their daughter, Mary. The fund supports an extensive audiovisual collection and supplements purchases for the library. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Crivella Dr. Ruth Anne McCormick '69 The Mary K. Hopkins Fund for Innovative Classrooms Initiated by Wooly (Rita) Devine ’79, Becky Ward ’14, and C. Maury Devine, this fund provides the foundation for continual improvements in program and professional development for faculty and students. Mr. Marcelo Andrieu and Ms. Vicky V. Masson Ms. C. Maury Devine Dr. Rita Devine ’79 Dr. Shannon Gomez and Mr. Art Gomez Mr. John Hollingsworth Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Volovski Ms. Rebecca Ward '14 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 of Jesus FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ESTABLISHING AN ENDOWED FUND OR SCHOLARSHIP, PLEASE CONTACT DANI PERRAUT DEWITT AT ddewitt@holychild.org or 301-365-0955, ext 2123.
Underwriters & Sponsors CYO Basketball Tournament BSN Sports Charles Schwab/Giselle Cruz Colavita '96 Coakley Williams Construction Counselors Title, LLC Criswell Automotive The Crivella Family Healthy Baller, LLC Holy Child Fathers' Club Potomac Soccer Sandy Spring Bank Skibbie Wealth Management Tamara Kucik Team/Towerhill Realty Tom Williams/McEnearney Associates Gala Dr. and Mrs. George Aguiar, Jr. Mr. and Ms. Edward Allen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Banziger Mr. and Mrs. Thad Bingel Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bishop III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bittman Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Brickman Charles Schwab/Giselle Cruz Colavita '96 Coakley Williams Construction Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell Mr. and Mrs. Harry Criswell Crivella Investment Group Mrs. Mary Cull Mr. and Mrs. George DeMarse Mr. and Mrs. Chris Donatelli Dr. Peter Eckel and Ms. Erin Rooney-Eckel Mr. and Mrs. Peter Flanagan Mr. David Flinchum and Dr. Jennifer Flinchum Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garner II Dr. and Mrs. Andre Gazdag Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Geary Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gilday, Jr. Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Rev. Odis Braxton, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Hale-Braxton Mr. Tim Hannegan and Ms. Cindy Campbell Holy Child Fathers' Club Holy Child Parents' Association Kotova/Roustamov Family Mr. and Mrs. Brett Loper
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We are deeply grateful to those in our Holy Child community who have supported various school fundraising events.
Mr. Brett MacInnes and Mrs. Christine Noel Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mansinne Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Marshall III Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. McCaleb Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Nordberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff O'Berry Mr. and Ms. William F. Peel III Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Potomac Soccer Association Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Puccini Mr. and Mrs. Vance Redmond, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rembold Mr. and Mrs. John Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Scott Roth Safford Automotive Group Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Saidy Sandy Spring Bank Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Schwenker Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silverman Skibbie Wealth Management Mr. Francis S. Soistman Drs. Jonathan and Margaret Sommerville Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Eric Stewart Tamara Kucik Team/Towerhill Realty Thomas O'Connor Plumbing and Heating Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Turley Ms. Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 Mr. Kevin Urgo Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Zukiwski Tiger Trot Dr. and Mrs. George Aguiar, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Allen Mr. Carlton Arrendell and Dr. Kimberly Campbell Arrendell Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bell Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bishop III Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Brickman Mr. and Mrs. Mark Calis Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carlsen Mr. Kevin Lockland and Mrs. Gina Carusillo Lockland Charles Schwab/Giselle Cruz Colavita '96
Coakley Williams Construction Mr. Michael Connelly and Dr. Sarah Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell Criswell Auto The Crivella Family Mrs. Mary Cull Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Dell'Isola Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Entwistle Mr. and Mrs. Peter Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Erich Fuldner Dr. and Mrs. Andre Gazdag Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Geary Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gilday, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Graham Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gramm Mr. Richard Grant and Mrs. Maureen McCormick Grant ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grisius Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hanley Holy Child Alumnae Association Holy Child Fathers’ Club Holy Child Parents' Association Host Hotels and Resorts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Howell Mr. and Mrs. William Jerro Ms. Patricia McCarthy and Mr. William Jones Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kane Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kannapell Mr. and Mrs. David Lentine Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lentz Mr. Duane Albury and Ms. Natalie Ludaway Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Mr. and Mrs. JP Matan Mr. Richard J. McBride, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. McCaleb Mr. and Mrs. John McGuinness, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Nordberg,Jr. Pacers Running Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips RAdm Robert Pittman and Dr. Kathy Hayes Potomac Soccer Association Mr. and Mrs. Mark Price Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Puccini Mr. and Mrs. Alan Pumphrey Relationship Impact Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rembold
Mr. Seyfeddin Roustamov and Ms. Marina Kotova Sandy Spring Bank Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silverman Skibbie Wealth Management Mr. and Mrs. Jon Slabaugh Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stewart Mr. Ralph Struzziero Mr. and Mrs. William M. Sullivan SunDun Office Refreshments Tamara Kucik Team/Towerhill Realty Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Turley United Technologies Corporation Ms. Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 Mr. Kevin Urgo Mr. Luis Velasco and Mrs. Lucia Basterra Mr. and Mrs. Dan Venable Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Wetten
Tribute Gifts
IN MEMORY OF
Milton S. Birch, Sr. Ms. Blossom Baker
Peggy Nguyen ’92 Mrs. Theresa Chang
Chris Remington Mr. and Mrs. Mark Altemus Mary C. Crivella Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bell Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Crivella Rev. Odis Braxton, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Hale-Braxton Mary Kosch Mr. and Mrs. Mark Calis Mrs. Katherine Barr Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Carrasco Dr. and Mrs. Robert Baumgartner Mrs. Caitlin Chalke Holy Child Middle School Teachers Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Easby-Smith Mr. and Mrs. David Entwistle Mrs. Vivian Gorden Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Feldman Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Harders Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grisius Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Jorgensen Kerry Real Estate Holdings, Inc. Ms. Allison Bigelow Lumpkin ’92 Mr. Curtis Olson Mr. and Mrs. Gus Montes de Oca Ms. Abby Root Dr. Cristy Perdue and Ms. Lourdes Pinachos Sejismundo ’92 Ms. Suzanne Peters ’92 Dr. Albert C. Simmonds IV and Mr. and Ms. Ed Purnell Dr. Cara C. Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. Vance Redmond Esq. Society of the Holy Child Jesus Mr. and Mrs. Matt Snowling Mr. and Mrs. David Weeda Kris Timbol LaTour ’87 Class of 1987 Dan Shea Class of 1988 Mrs. Elizabeth Shea Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Daymude Ms. Jennifer Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stephens Ms. Anne Stephens Peterson ’70
Anne Donovan Whalen Ms. Honore J. Whalen ’98 IN HONOR OF Olivia Albury ’22 Mr. Duane Albury and Ms. Natalie Ludaway Alesia Allen ’21 Mr. and Ms. Edward Allen, Jr. The Admissions Team Mr. and Mrs. Thad Bingel Julie Burke Ms. Olivia V. Welsh ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh Class of 1979 Ms. Sara M. Thompson ’79 Class of 1989 Ms. Anne Cummings Force Riley Clark ’21 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark
Kiki Covell ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Covell
Pearson Shay ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Shay Sr.
Ellie Cull ’21 Mrs. Mary Cull
Nadia Sidani ’23 Mr. Toufic Sidani and Mrs. Veronica Da Silva
Anne ’20 and Kate ’21 Distefano Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano, Jr.
Sydney Tepper ’22 Mr. Marvin Beitler
Grace May Drummond ’25 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Drummond
Zoe Ungerman ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ungerman
Faculty and Staff Dr. Michael Keegan and Mrs. Margo Colbert Keegan ’69
India ’15 and Honor ’18 Upton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hauser
Caroline Guidera ’10 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Guidera, Jr. HC Faculty, Staff, and Volunteers Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morton Aileen Hannan ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hannan Holley Hickman ’15 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hickman IV Mary Hopkins Ms. C. Maury Devine Natalie Mercer Howell ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Howell Julianne '22 and Meredith ’17 Kucik Mr. and Mrs. George Kucik Anne Therese McQuillian Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano Jr. James Brennan McQuillian Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Distefano Jr. Mackenzie Myers ’18 Mr. and Mrs. George Myers Aidan ’20 and Megan ’18 O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. John O'Donnell Jr. Graziella Bianchi Pauli '98 Ms. Honore J. Whalen ’98 Madison Phillips ’22 Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Addie Robinson ’20 Mrs. JolyneBoyle Edwin Rojas Ms. Ericka L. Rojas ’05 Grace Schwenker '21 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Schwenker Hanna ’19 and Laney ’17 Sellinger Mr. and Mrs. John Sellinger
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Ms. Vargas and the Diversity Committee Mr. Nathan Price and Rev. Amy Yount
Volunteer Listing We are truly grateful for our volunteers who provide their time and talent for each special event. Rosina Aguiar Gina Carusillo Catherine Easby-Smith Albornoz ’98 Jane Cho Duane Albury Nyla Choudry Helen Allen Jennifer Clark Melissa Allen Mia Collins Caroline Ambrosi Christa Cooper Megan Ambrosi Kristie Corral Kristine Anderson Chris Covell '87 Chris Archer Maria Covell Leslie Archer Tim Covell Gio Ashley Karen Craig and Homeroom 7B Alison Banziger Laura Criswell Richard Banziger Juliana Curay Charlotte Barry ’11 Felice D'Avella Lucia Basterra Jen Daymude Liz Becker Jennifer Daymude Lisa Bell Miriam Dell'Isola Rollin Bell Lauren DeMarse Martine Bernard Susan DeMarse Michelle Bernard Cindy Derrick Kelly Bingel Mbayang Diop Dana Boyd Anne Distefano Kirk Boyd Helen Distefano Odis Braxton Jerry Distefano Patrice Brickman Katie Dolan and Homeroom 11A Lilly Brotons Claire Drummond and Homeroom 10E Tawnya Brown Marc Duffy Pamela Brucker Kathleen Dunleavy The Calis Family Peter Eckel Emma Calis Sandra Edwards Katie Calis Mary Ege Mark Calis Andi Elliott Cindy Campbell Bob Elliott Linda Campbell Brooke Entwistle ’23 Karen Carlsen Brooke Entwistle Kevin Carlsen Cassandra Entwistle Pedro Carrasco David Entwistle
Colleen Evans Meghan Everngam '00 Beth Fagan Michael Fagan Elsbeth Fager Kirkpatrick Family Elizabeth Feldman Greg Feldman Nora Fitzpatrick Kate Covell Flaherty '87 Sheila Flanagan Yvonne Fomengia Liz Forgione Renee Foster Alexis Fuhrman Grace Fuldner ’21 Trish Fuldner Chris Gadiano Magdalena Galli Michele Galvin Aida Garcia Pam Gazdag Jillian Geils Kim Glynn Debra Graham Beth Grisius Kathy Hagerup Susan Hanley Claire Hannan Stacy Hartranft Judi Herishen Pam Hickey Mary Hoernig Sarah Hortin Teresa Hortin Stephen Howell Toni Howell Nawil Jama and Homeroom 12C Ashley Jerro Frank Kannapell LeAnne Kannapell Alicia Ryan Karanian ’74 Priscilla Kaufman Margo Colbert Keegan '69 John Kernan Ann Bouchard Kerrigan '84 Michael Kim Reese Kim Teresa Kim Chris Kirkpatrick Ali Allen Kistler '06 Maggie Koch Maureen Koch Shauna Kopit Brad Kotz Renee Kotz Jennifer Ralston Kress ’85 Jules Kucik Tamara Kucik Sonya Kulik Dee-Dee Latham Kristen Lentine Pam Lentz Ginger Loper Grace Loper Natalie Ludaway Halo Lyman Janelle Lynch John Lynch Lisa Lynch
Mary Magner Allison Shay Dee Mahoney Matt Shay Abigail Maloney Pearson Shay Lynn Maloney Ellen Sheehan Gail Manes Cathyann Hanley Shreves ’89 Lori Mansinne Peyton Shreves Anne Cammisa Manuel Natalie Silverman Carla Marcolin Rob Silverman Alisa Marino-Ramminger ’80 Bailey Skeeter Darcy Marshall Thomas Skeeter Tanner Marshall Kelly Skibbie David Martin Claire Slabaugh Kirsten Martin Annette Smith Maureen Martin Holly Soistman Arianne Massey Noelle Sommerville Lacey Matan Linda Spiker Piper Matan Kelly Stanton Anita McBride Elaine Stefanou '06 Gigi McBride Jennifer Steuart Julie McBride Jeannette Stewart Timothy McBride Rosanne Kane Strittmatter Molly McCarthy Julia Strittmatter Pam McGonigal Tori Struzziero Denise McGowan Jennifer Sullivan Jeanine McGuinness Donna Sutton Bill McKenney Amelia Taylor Noreen Miyake-Char '93 Heidi Titus Colleen Morton Betsy Turley Colleen Mudlaff Jennifer Bigelow Urgo ’88 Kate Everngam Muffels '98 Ella Urgo Michele Murphy Tasha Washington Janine Myers Claudia Wayland Cathy Nolan Allison Weeda Carolyn Nordberg David Weeda Ed Nordberg Jada Welbon Marion Nyoh Jenny Welgos Meghan O’Boyle Maria Welsh Sheilah O’Donnel Melanie Wexler Luke O'Boyle Pauline White Kristin O'Donnell Megan Williams Bridget Ojo Patti Worch Thelmarita Okonji Diana Yemoh Shannan Palazzo Dawn Ziemski Cathy Patterson Laura Zukiwski Alicia Phillips Madison Phillips A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO Suzanne Pierron Jamie Ready Vance Redmond Holy Child Parents' Association President Elizabeth Rembold Claire Slabaugh Nora Rembold Scott Rembold Fathers' Club President Amy Remington Chris Remington, David Martin Chris Remington Lisa Marie Riggins Coco Riggins Annual Fund Chairs Augie Rios Maureen & Rick Grant Johanna Robinson Nelly Romero Erin Rooney-Eckel Tiger Trot Chairs Cami Roth Rosina Aguiar & Maria Welsh Yvonne Russell Eriny Sadek Mayfield Market Chair Stacey Saidy Jen Ralston Kress Tom Saidy Anna Salinas Nicole Schwenker Gala Chairs Hanna Sellinger Maria & Tim Covell, Elizabeth & Scott Rembold Julie Sellinger
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