Georgetown Days // Fall 2015

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Annual Report

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Thank you to all of our staff and alumni writers for your contributions to the magazine. We welcome submissions from all Georgetown Day School community members. Please contact agrasheim@gds.org to learn more. Alumni are encouraged to send their news with photos to alumni@gds.org for inclusion in the Georgetown Days magazine.

REBECCA DROBIS

OUR MISSION DRIVES ALL THAT WE DO. Georgetown Day School honors the integrity and worth of each individual within a diverse school community. GDS is dedicated to providing a supportive educational atmosphere in which teachers challenge the intellectual, creative, and physical abilities of our students and foster strength of character and concern for others. From the earliest grades, we encourage our students to wonder, to inquire, and to be self-reliant, laying the foundation for a lifelong love of learning.

FALL 2015 GEORGETOWN DAYS Head of School Russell Shaw Associate Head of School Kevin Barr Assistant Head of School for Equity and Social Impact Crissy Cáceres

MAGAZINE STAFF

Officers Brad Vogt, Chair Jill Lesser, Vice Chair Eric Koenig, Treasurer Lisa Fairfax, Secretary David Leary, At Large Trustees Jenny Abramson '95 Stephen Bailey Phil Bronner Monica Dixon Franklin Foer ’92 Rosemary Kilkenny Reid Liffmann Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger Pamela Reeves Scott Shepperd ’79 Jeff Shields Hunker David B. Smith Erik Smulson ‘85 Anu Tate David Wellisch

CONTENTS FEATURES

AROUND CAMPUS 3 In the Classroom 10 Beyond the Classroom 18 Arts & Performances 22 Athletics 26 Faculty KIMBERLY GOLDWEIN

2015-16 GDS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Director of Institutional Advancement Kendra Brown Director of Communications Alison Grasheim Storyteller and New Media Associate Kimberly Goldwein Magazine Design Think 804

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FROM WHERE I STAND

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MEET THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 44

ALUMNI REUNION & NOTES

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ANNUAL REPORT

A Message from Head of School Russell Shaw

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FROM WHERE I STAND This morning I received an email from a member of the Class of 2015 that included the following paragraph:

Almost every time I have spoken to my mom on the phone, I have told her that, although I fully appreciated GDS while there, it is not possible to understand just how great it is until you are somewhere else. Few Yale freshman can say that they preferred the teachers they had senior year of high school to those they have freshman year of college. But I can and do. My favorite classes last year remain, without a doubt, the most stimulating courses I have taken.

What is remarkable about this note is how unremarkable it is.

Each fall I hear from GDS alumni and their parents that while they are happy in college, the education that they are receiving simply doesn’t stack up against what they learned at GDS. While this may have something to do with the woeful lack of attention to pedagogy at most universities, it also speaks powerfully to the talent, skill, and passion of GDS teachers.

In most school communities there are a handful of transformative teachers. These are the individuals to whom the yearbook is repeatedly dedicated or who are perennially featured in school publications like this one. What makes me most proud of our GDS faculty is the breadth of excellence. When GDS students or recent alumni are asked which teachers inspired them, they will name dozens, and the lists will be varied. (I know this because I ask this question each spring, when I do exit interviews with all of

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Russell Shaw, Head of School

our seniors in small groups.) At GDS, teachers embrace teaching as craft and calling, art and science. They recognize that great teaching calls for excellence in a range of areas, including: • Connections to and relationships with children; • Subject-area expertise; • A nuanced understanding of child/adolescent development; • The ability to inspire passion in others; • A commitment to knowing each child in the classroom and to supporting their needs.

GDS teachers are passionate about our mission, our School, their subject area, and, most of all, the children that grace their classrooms each day. These teachers collaborate to create a culture of joy, excellence, and mission that, for many of our alumni, makes GDS a place of singular devotion and identity formation.

In this issue of Georgetown Days, you can read the reflection of one of our recent alums, Julia Fisher ‘09. Each fall since I arrived at GDS six years ago, I have received a letter from Julia on the first day of school. I look forward to these letters and to the window they provide me into one alumna's experience. I hope you enjoy Julia's article, which is based on this year's letter, along with all of the other stories that share the rich, varied experience GDS offers– the kind of experiences that make our alums eager to return.

Around Campus IN THE CLASSROOM

Technology is the Tool Building off of last year’s success with the 3rd grade 1:1 iPad program, every student in grades 3 through 6 started off 2015 with a Chromebook in hand.

Going 1:1 with laptops for these grades has been a longtime goal for LMS technology integration coordinators Laura Loftus and Holly Holt Salb. The new technology available through Chromebooks coupled with the generous support from individual donors and the GDS Innovation Fund helped make this dream a reality.

“The benefits of a successful 1:1 device program are both deep and broad for our community of learners. Most notably, the program is an embodiment of the School’s mission of equity, by putting a computer in the hands of every student and removing the barrier of access to technology both on and off campus.

Equitable access allows students to seamlessly transition from working on projects at school to continuing that work at home— all using the same piece of reliable, familiar technology,” said Director of 21st Century Learning and Technology Tim Lyons.

Laura speaks with excitement about the opportunities available to teachers through the 1:1 program: “Technology is just the tool here, not the focus. Once teachers don’t have to worry about the tool, then they can use technology in whatever creative way that comes up. My job is to help them know the breadth of options out there.”

New Technology Facilitates Metacognition The 1:1 Chromebook program has opened up a new assessment tool for teachers in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Using the software Socrative, teachers and students can quickly catch a glimpse of where students see themselves in their learning experience.

In her MS English classes, Oveta Willie-Jenkins is an early adopter of Socrative, a software program that uses real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization in order to engage, assess, and share students’ thoughts about their own learning experiences. Using this software with the Chromebooks allows Oveta’s students to think about themselves as learners and connect with other students’ experiences. Socrative also helps students practice empathy for themselves and others in the class as they work to improve and overcome challenges.

Off to a strong and relatively smooth start with these 1:1 initiatives, teachers and students are already reaping the benefits of these devices in their teaching and learning. The Technology team looks forward to supporting teachers and students as the year unfolds, and to capturing some of the innovative instruction and student productions that will follow.

This project is made possible by the GDS Innovation Fund.

GDS STRATEGIC PLAN

GOAL 3– CURRICULUM EVOLUTION

STEAM: Further integrate GDS Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math curriculum.

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Around Campus IN THE CLASSROOM

G D S D E LV E S D E E P

Two Grades Explore Social Identifiers Curriculum Social identifiers include race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, ability, sexual orientation, geographic background, family structure, and personal choices. The list is commonly referred to as the “Big 8 Plus 1,” but in recognition of the ever-expanding ways that individuals define themselves, GDS refers to the growing list as “social identifiers.”

GDS students do their first deep dive into social identifiers during the “Identity Project” in 2nd grade. In 6th grade, students further their study of social identifiers in the social justice seminar.

THE IDENTITY PROJECT: SECOND GRADERS DISPLAY THEIR SELF-EXPERTISE The 2nd grade team has built an innovative new project around one agreed-upon truth about young students: they are experts on themselves. Harnessing this strength, the 2nd grade team leads their students in year-long explorations of social identifiers.

For this project, students learn about race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, ability, geographic background, family structure, and personal choices.

In previous years, the culmination of this curricular activity was a book students wrote about themselves that they shared with one another. This past spring, the 2nd grade decided to try something new, pushing the project to a new level. In place of a book, students created individual, multi-dimensional art installations that shared and celebrated their identities. The installations were collectively hung in the LMS black box, transforming the space into a gallery for the grade’s “Museum Day.”

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For the opening of Museum Day, parents, teachers, and students were invited to tour the gallery. Standing on chairs so that they could speak at eye level with their visitors, the 2nd graders served as docents for their installations, sharing what they learned about their identities and how they chose to share it.

In introducing the project, the 2nd grade team shared, “We know that students learn best from one another. The best way for students to learn about social identifiers is through thoughtful dialogue with each other.”

Second grade teachers worked together to reframe the end project into Museum Day. The 2nd grade team also engaged the students’ families and the larger GDS community in the dialogue.

For the 2015-16 school year, the 2nd grade team has a few surprises ahead. While they would not hint at what the community can expect to see in the spring, they did volunteer that this year the classes will be delving deeper into the lessons around social identifiers.

Events from the Summer

Raised the Significance of the Identity Project for 2nd Grade Teachers: Todd Carter: “As the Black Lives Matter movement gained steam, and politicians continued talking about border fences, I felt privileged to be part of a school community that gives students language and the critical thinking skills necessary to talk about these issues. I had conversations with my own kids and was impressed by their ability to contextualize these events. I think you can see evidence of how a GDS education teaches students to think about difficult issues surrounding race and identity. As an educator, I’m proud to be part of that.”

Mandy Kimlick: “Engaging in this work with my colleagues and students was a powerful moment to not only explore our own identities, but unify us as a community. Being in a school that allows us to engage in these meaningful and sometimes difficult discussions and explorations allows me to grow both professionally and personally.”

Githa Natarajan: “Over the summer, there have been many moments of reflection, discussions, and inspiring moments surrounding race and identity with kids. I am very excited to share more ideas with my team to enhance and continuously develop our project.”

Danny Stock: “The summer seemed to roil with fierce bigotry and moments of social growth. With a backdrop of racially motivated brutality, the Supreme Court again and again brought down victories for civil rights and social justice movements: marriage equality, housing discrimination, confederate flag and free speech, and employment discrimination. This is the country in which our children live and learn. We owe it to them to begin as soon as possible to equip them with the language, tools, and mindset needed to lead and challenge the status quo. Each year at GDS is another opportunity for students and faculty alike to grow and rededicate themselves to this work.”

The 2nd grade’s Identity Project and Museum Day were featured on the National Association for Independent Education’s Blog Inspiration Lab on June 24, 2015.

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SIXTH GRADE EXPLORES THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE Based on the tenet that every element of identity begins with exploring who we are, the 6th grade social justice seminar starts off the year by looking inward. Armed with knowledge about social identifiers, students write "Bio-Poems" that reflect who they are and how they see themselves in the world. The poems, which detail students’ aspirations, fears, passions, and relationships, are used to contextually show that every person has a story that they bring to the table.

At the completion of the project, 6th graders read their Bio-Poems to their classmates. According to Crissy Cáceres, Assistant Head of School for Equity and Social Impact, hearing their peers’ experiences helps the students bridge relationships and become advocates of each other’s experiences. She said, “Students realize they have the ability, power, and choice to be empathetic toward one another.”

The Bio-Poem, along with the seminar’s other projects and discussions, help inform students’ experiences beyond the seminar. In other 6th grade classes, students are identifying with characters in literature, making connections in history classes, and developing deeper empathy in service-learning projects.

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“These 6th graders are making positive life choices. They care about their community and are willing to step in to shape the lives of others.”

Students are also applying their new understanding of equity and justice in their lives at home. One MS parent shared, “The [seminar discussions] are coming into our dining room.”

According to Crissy, students come away from the seminar understanding the capacity and power they have to make changes in their own life experiences and those of others.

“They are action agents,” she said. “These 6th graders are making positive life choices. They care about their community and are willing to step in to shape the lives of others.”

The 6th grade seminar is taught by a team of five MS faculty members, including Crissy, director of auxiliary programs Vinita Ahuja, English teacher Charles Edwards, and principal Nancy Kaplan. This diverse group of faculty provides perspectives on literature, leadership, service, equity, and extracurricular life.

o read about the ninth grade seminar, "Diversity and T Equity: the Intersections of Identity" visit the GDS Blog, The Hopper Effect at www.hoppereffect.gds.org.

GDS STRATEGIC PLAN

GOAL 3: CURRICULUM EVOLUTION

Students’ definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion that were incorporated into their Bio-Poems: Diversity A wide variety of ethnic groups, races, and religion like a mix.

A bunch of different people.

What differentiates us.

The difference between self and other people.

Equity Equality for most things.

Being equal.

It’s all the same, not discriminating.

Everyone getting the same thing.

Being a part of something.

Inclusion Getting a chance to be a part of something.

Not leaving anybody out.

Everyone should have same rights.

Programs that support student success.

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Around Campus

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IN THE CLASSROOM

Innovators Make…Slenches?

Play, Passion, and Purpose

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he innovation lab, cleverly coined “Ordradek,” is the maker-space for a new High School elective called Play, Passion, and Purpose. This hands-on, experiential elective is based in design thinking, and team-taught by HS dean of students Bobby Asher, Spanish teacher Yka de Castillo, science teacher Matt Eddy, and history teacher and experiential learning coordinator Catherine Pearson.

model, success is measured in iterations, and innovators are valued over innovation.

The class curriculum is based on the “learn by doing” approach used by Stanford University’s Institute of Design, or the d.school.

Play, Passion, and Purpose embodies the values of creative problem solving, collaboration, and empathy. According to this

What’s a Slench?

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A strong-supporter of the new curricular approach, Bobby said, “Honestly, I can’t think of a better way to teach empathy, to encourage creativity and innovation, or to broaden our students’ academic experience.”

The “slench” is a perfect example of Play, Passion, and Purpose in action. Students in the class were tasked with designing and

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building a useful piece of furniture out of pallets of wood. One group decided to make a sled, but hit a wall mid-process. Rather than starting over or struggling to fix the original design, the team pressed pause and took the d.school approach—they channeled their innovator mindsets and decided that their sled could be re-designed as a hybrid sled/bench. Hence, the “slench” was born.

“I loved seeing how one thing can turn into something totally different than your original idea,” one of the slench designers shared.

GDS STRATEGIC PLAN

GOAL 3– CURRICULUM EVOLUTION

STEAM: Further integrate GDS Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math curriculum.

o see more photos from this project, check out Bobby’s T blog post on The Hopper Effect at hoppereffect.gds.org

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Around Campus BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

Congratulations to the Class of 2015 G eorgetown Day School held its 44th commencement exercises on June 7, 2015, at the George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium.

character does. And we know our own success will not be won; it will be woven, as we tether and tie together our own life-stories.

The graduating class of 2015 is a remarkable group, defined by a deep passion for learning, a strong inclination for inquiry, and a joyful, playful approach to life.

Student speaker Jessie Schwalb '15: We didn’t just learn integration and imperfect subjunctive here. At GDS we’ve begun to ready ourselves for a different type of test, one that Mr. Green assures us doesn’t end anytime soon.

This test asks whether we arbitrarily let others ascribe meaning—or if we create that meaning ourselves, enabled by the privilege we have. It questions whether we are eager and driven for things other than multiple choice. It forces us to prepare for the fact that we have to start grading ourselves now, and sometimes we might not do so well. It is filled with the questions that strike to the chest, that force us to evaluate the person we’re creating and what work remains to make ourselves better.

Read on for excerpts from the days remarks.

Student speaker Marcus Lustig '15: …(T)he modest truth which all here today have learned the past four years: that really at GDS students don’t grow top down or bottom up, but from the inside out.

And what does that mean exactly? It means our teachers taught us to stretch and reach, not only up to grasp for the stars but for the hands of another; it means we learned that our intelligence is worthless without integrity, that happiness begins with humility, and that, rather than solemnity, empathy is the hard evidence of maturity. We know now that achievement does not bring success, 10

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Main graduation speaker Nina Pillard, GDS Parent and U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: The hallmark of GDS is that the adults stand back and let the students figure it

out. I remember when Aidan visited GDS as a prospective 3rd grader, and he came home wide-eyed. He was amazed that, between class periods, the kids walked from one classroom to another without having to line up and have a teacher accompany them. (I understand the High School allows that as well). Aidan wanted to come to this school, where kids are given a lot of freedom and trusted to take responsibility for their own learning.

Faculty Graduation Speaker Anna Goldstein Howe, HS English teacher and GDS parent: Storytellers, it’s time to write your stories! You are walking into a world that has, in many ways, been perverted by generations before you. A world crippled by poverty and hatred and division—but also a world that possesses indescribable beauty. You need to seek out the beauty and find ways to overcome the ugliness.

That’s a lot to ask—and I don’t expect you to answer that call from me or from anyone else. In fact, I don’t want you to worry about what any one of us expects.

Look to yourself to find the answer.

Welcome from Head of School Russell Shaw: At about one o’clock on the day of your prank, [Cirque de GDS], I was sitting in my office having a meeting…and as this person shared his concern, I was doing my best active listening, nodding carefully and looking appropriately grave. And then, through the window immediately behind the person who I was so carefully listening to, I saw a llama. Or perhaps it was an alpaca—I sometimes get them confused. At any rate, it was tall, and graceful, and on a leash being led by one of you. And immediately behind the llama came a pony. The pony was tiny—I didn’t think they made ponies that small. Crowds of students were outside cheering, following the llama and the pony up and down Davenport Street.

And all the while, I continued to listen and nod, and my constituent continued to share his concerns, and silently, I thanked each of you. And so, today, I get

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Address from HS Principal C.A. Pilling: So my message to you today is simple.

In fact, it can be summed up in just three words: Practice Being Grateful. It’s three words and yet I know there is someone out there right now who, because of the influence of our world of hashtags and twitter feeds, texting and celebrating everything that can be said in as short a sound bite as possible, is asking why isn’t it just “Be Grateful”? Why use three words when you could have said it in just two? Because that first word––Practice–– is the key.

to do so out loud. Thank you, seniors.

Class of 2015, as you embark from our community and prepare to head off to college and your next adventure, I’ve been reflecting on what you’ll need for your journey, and what GDS has given you to take along. One thing that I urge you to bring is the joyful spirit that you brought to our classrooms and hallways every day, and that led to Cirque de GDS. You already know that life offers plenty of hard moments, plenty of cause for seriousness. Bringing a little spontaneous joy to the world every once in a while is a meaningful gift.

What the class of 2015 will bring with them from 4200 Davenport Street, A brief sampling: Liam Albrittain’15 I'll take from GDS a lifelong love of sports…I could not have anticipated the profound friendships I would leave with; before long, I learned that we won as a team and lost as a team, and if part of GDS is about tearing down stigmas, then we destroyed the stigma of running as an individual sport. The team atmosphere made me not just a runner, but a competitor—I wanted us to dominate other schools because I knew (and know) that no other program does it quite like GDS. I have never felt more a part of something.

Andie Asher ’15 I will take a constant desire to learn about and engage in the world around me.

Chris Hopson ’15 GDS is a place of challenge…What I’ll take with me from this place is an understanding of the necessity to push and to be pushed, a willingness to criticize and to accept criticism. Because with those values, I know that change and progress are all but inevitable.

Arianna Neal ’15 I will take wonderful memories, bellyaching laughs, and amazing friends.

Jenny Riemer ’15 I will be taking Joy with me. Even now it’s hard naming the many joys of GDS, but I’ll try. It’s the steps in the forum, the intense class discussions, the bond between student and teacher. It’s the everyday conversations that aren’t so everyday, because I know that at other places, people don’t talk about what GDS kids talk about. It’s the passion of the teachers. It’s the competitive yet supportive students. It’s being able to walk into C.A.’s office and have a conversation. It’s the joy I feel walking into GDS everyday, the joy of feeling at home.

Read the full speeches from the Class of 2015 Graduation:

Please visit the GDS website at www.gds.org/page/School-Life/SpecialEvents/HS-Graduation.

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The Next Steps for the

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The GDS philosophy of college counseling is that there are no “best” colleges—instead, there are colleges best for each individual student. From the beginning of the college process our students are encouraged to be openminded, curious, and thoughtful in their college search.

Not surprisingly, they don’t disappoint us! The breadth of their college choices is remarkable and reflects their unique strengths and talents, as well as their diverse interests.

The 124 members of the GDS Class of 2015 submitted 812 applications to 184 different colleges and universities. They were admitted to 164 of these and enrolled at 70 different schools. They headed to universities as nearby as American University, Georgetown University, GW University, and Howard University, and as far afield as University of British Columbia and University of St Andrews in Scotland. They intend to major in everything from English and engineering to art and French horn. The majority of our seniors began college undecided about their future major and excited to explore new academic areas. A number of students are pursuing fascinating gap year experiences, including CityYear, year-long international service projects, and language immersion, before heading off to college in Fall 2016.

Regardless of when they will matriculate, our students will be certain to influence college classrooms and college campuses across the country and around the world. We are so proud of every member of the GDS Class of 2015!

University of British Columbia (Canada) x 1

University of Puget Sound x 1

University of California, Santa Barbara x 1

Occidental College x 1 Pepperdine University x 1 University of California, Los Angeles x 1 University of Southern California x 2 California Institute of Technology x 2

Claremont McKenna College x 2 Harvey Mudd College x 2 Pomona College x 2 Scripps College x 2

Interesting trivia regarding the college admissions experience for our Class of 2015: 12

Colorado College x 2

Stanford University x 1

The Class of 2015 matriculated at a wide array of schools across the country and internationally: Midwest 18%

Southeast

14% 17% West

New England

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22% Mid-Atlantic <1% Southwest <1% International

As of September 2015, 124 members of the Class of 2015 have committed to enroll at the following colleges and universities: Bennington College x 1 Bucknell University x 1 Dickinson College x 2 Franklin and Marshall College x 1 Gettysburg College x 1 Haverford College x 1 Pennsylvania State University x 1 Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University x 1 Swarthmore College x 2 University of Pennsylvania x 4 University of Pittsburgh x 2

Carleton College x 2

Dartmouth College x 1 Bates College x 2 Bowdoin College x 1 Colby College x 1

Wesleyan University x 1 Yale University x 4

University of Michigan x 1

Brown University x 3

University of Wisconsin-Madison x 7 Northwestern University x 1 School of the Art Institute of Chicago x 1 University of Chicago x 2

Bard College x 1 Columbia University x 2 Cornell University x 1 New York University x 1 St. Lawrence University x 1

Oberlin College x 1 University of Maryland, College Park x 1

Amherst College x 1 Clark University x 1 Boston College x 1 Boston University x 1 Harvard University x 5 Northeastern University x 2 Tufts University x 4 Wellesley College x 1 Smith College x 1 Williams College x 2

American University x 1 George Washington University x 1 Georgetown University x 2 Howard University x 1

Washington University in St. Louis x 7

Elon University x 2

Emory University x 1 Spelman College x 1

College of William and Mary x 3 University of Richmond x 1 University of Virginia x 2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute x 1

Southern Methodist University x 1

University of St Andrews (Scotland) x 2 Tulane University x 3

Eckerd College x 1 University of Miami x 2

The colleges and universities that received the largest number of GDS applications were:

The colleges and universities that enrolled the largest number of GDS students are:

University of Michigan (22) University of Virginia (19) Washington University in St. Louis (19) University of Maryland, College Park (18)

University of Wisconsin, Madison (7) Washington University in St. Louis (7) Harvard University (5) University of Pennsylvania (4) Tufts University (4) Yale University (4)

Throughout the fall of 2015, more than 140 different colleges and universities visited GDS and met with our students and our college counseling staff.

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30 Minutes from the GDS 2015 Pickle Ball Tournament The GDS High School is home to a variety of unique sports clubs, including pickle ball, badminton, floor hockey, ping pong, and ultimate Frisbee. Quirky and fun, these breaks in the day are also competitive. Here's a brief dive into pickle ball!

• Players: Open to all.

• Equipment: Ping-pong paddles. Tennis balls. Tennis nets. Court.

• Uniform: Shoes are optional. Spirited uniforms with emblems of powerful fictional characters are encouraged for reigning champions.

• Skills: Quick feet. Big swings. Confidence. Team spirit. Ability to get knocked down and get back up again.

• Body Language: Always return to the ready position with a wide stance and focused gaze. Grunt and cringe when the opponent scores. No matter who wins, smile, shake hands, and dismiss any hard feelings. Reigning champs slap paddles every time the team scores, and huddle on three-minute intervals.

Slapping paddles and huddling may happen simultaneously.

• Scoring: Teams play to nine points. A point is scored when an opposing player aggressively swings and misses the ball or rushes to make a hit and instead falls. Missing the ball and falling is honorable, but the opponent still gets the point.

• Winning: Following the game, players all smile proudly and shake hands. It’s unclear if there is a winner. Perhaps the winners announce themselves at the following year’s tournament by wearing matching uniforms with emblems of Superman or the like.

• Dismissal: Before the tournament can officially end, players must take photos with the most senior tournament member.

The senior tournament member will then laugh about the number of photos people are taking. The crowd disperses.

Making Friends & Winning Trophies High School history teachers and It’s Academic co-advisors Abraham Pachikara and Sue Ikenberry, who has been the It’s Academic faculty advisor for nearly three decades, say the reasons to join the trivia team are endless. “But above all, it's just fun! It's a chance to hang around with a fun group of students, take trips, win some trophies, and make some friends for the future,” said Sue. Sue says that students often reconnect with other It’s Academic and Quiz Bowl players when they go off to college and many of the teams' alumni come back to visit during Reunion Weekend.

Alumni also continue competing in trivia at the college level and beyond. This fall Quiz Bowl alumnus Matt Jackson ’10 appeared on Jeopardy, hitting a winning streak of 12 games, winning more than $400,000, and qualifying him for Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions.

In an email to HS faculty, Matt wrote, “…There is absolutely no way I could have gotten to this stage without each of the dedicated teachers who stoked my love of learning and pushed me to explore in more depth rather than rest easy with simple explanations. I'm grateful every day for the incredible education I got at GDS, which has set me up for a life of learning in so many ways.”

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Nearly three-fourths of last year’s It’s Academic team graduated in June 2015, but the recruitment for the 2015-16 team has been strong. The television team includes Abe Atwood ’18, Zander Bhatia ’17, and Tajin Rogers ’16, with Alex Jacoby ’18 serving as the official alternate. Over a dozen other members are involved in the It’s Academic practices, as well as Quizbowl practices and tournaments.

As the only returning television member of the It’s Academic team, Tajin is excited to see his new teammates working hard together and improving rapidly. He says that the team is particularly strong in geography, history, and math.

Tajin adds, “It's Academic is a great competition that all can enjoy, not just a specialized few—and it's fun being on TV.” The 2014-15 It’s Academic team went on to play in the Washington Championship. The team brought home a new plaque for the trophy case, a check for $2,500 for financial aid, and stronger ties as friends. This year’s team hopes to secure another spot at the Washington Championship, and this time, take home the winning trophy.

YOU CAN CATCH 'IT’S ACADEMIC'

on Saturday mornings throughout the year.

Dates and times for airings are listed in Next Week at GDS and on the www.GDS.org online calendar.

Country Market Day 2015 was a huge success, thanks to indefatigable Chairs Leila Bremer â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90 and Jason Snyder, section chairs, and the more than 100 other volunteers whose commitment of time and blood, sweat, and tears made it all possible.

From old-fashioned carnival games like three-legged races to the amusement park ride pirate ship; from the beloved Bottlemania to the new stage entertainment, this event is all about the GDS community coming together in support of financial aid. Thank you!

PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF MICHAEL DESAUTELS AND ERIC FRIEDENSON.

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TRAILBLAZING WOMEN:

A Conversation about Gender

By Katherine Dunbar HS English department chair and teacher

On a sunny Thursday afternoon back in May 2015, about 100 GDS high schoolers gathered in the library not really knowing quite what to expect. What they did know was that they had a ton of homework due the next day, that they had to rush off to sports practice or theater rehearsal or a club meeting later that afternoon, and that there’s almost nothing better than a pretty spring day after the last bell. But they also knew that something exciting and important had been happening around school over the previous couple of months, and they wanted to be a part of it.

Those 100 students were choosing to participate in A Conversation about Gender, the final event organized last year by the Girls’ Retreat Group (the GRG), now named the FMG affinity group (Feminisms for those Marginalized by Gender). I have the honor of being the FMG faculty advisor, this year joined by fellow English teacher Nadia Mahdi as co-advisor, and I’ve never been as inspired by a group of GDS students as I was by the 30 or so trailblazing young women whose year of hard work had brought that crowd of students into the library that afternoon.

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The creation of the Girls’ Retreat Group last year was so true to GDS values that it might have used GDS’s mission statement as its playbook. Students in the high school who identified as girls sensed that their experiences in and out of the classroom were playing out in complexly gendered ways that were going unrecognized by many of their peers and teachers.

They were deeply concerned that their worth as individuals was being diminished by their prescribed gender roles and that their intellectual and creative spirits were being suppressed by pernicious gender stereotypes. And perhaps most luminously, they were convinced that the full humanity of every member of the GDS community suffered when half of its population suffered.

After hearing these stark and compelling feelings expressed by more than a couple of girls, I asked the administration if I could lead a weekend-long Girls’ Retreat. With the school’s warm support, I sent out an open invitation to all GDS high school students who identified as girls.

The enthusiastic response was stunning, and after several intense planning meetings, 28 girls and I—along with several very generous female faculty, including C.A. Pilling our High School principal, who rotated in and out throughout the weekend— “retreated” in February to a cozy Capitol Hill townhouse for a weekend of committed conversation.

As hoped, the retreat offered these girls who felt diminished by the gendered paths they traveled through their day a safe place to talk long and hard about their shared experiences. Knowing GDS students as well as I do, though, I suspected that sharing experiences would be only Step One and that community action would be Step Two. But even I was surprised, and utterly exhilarated, by the powerful vision these young women were determined to bring back to GDS. The FMG’s Action Plan reached deep into the school. One group of girls committed themselves to educating their peers about gender inequities. They ran a Wage-Gap Bake Sale (pictured right) at which cupcakes cost a dollar for men and 72 cents for anyone identifying as female, and where they also handed out a fact sheet and New York Times editorial explaining the U.S. wage-gap injustice.

Another group wanted to educate the faculty about their experiences as girls in classrooms. They made a moving presentation to a meeting of the entire High School faculty in which they offered up specific moments of diminishment that they and their fellow Retreaters’ had suffered and then also suggested possible remedies.

A third group of FMG girls focused on curricular issues, holding conversations about gender representation in our curriculum with key teachers from the English and History/Social Science departments and the 9th-grade seminar (now called Diversity and Equity: Intersections of Identity) and Health Education programs.

(As chair of the English Department, I can attest to the power of the presentation made to our English 11 teachers and to its direct effect on our construction of the curriculum this year.)

In bringing their Action Plan back to the school, the FMG quickly discovered that not every moment of engagement with the community would go smoothly. Just as the girls voiced an array of feminist viewpoints at the retreat—from those who wanted boys

simply to understand why girls sometimes feel quieted in class discussions to those who spoke in terms of radically dismantling the patriarchy—so, too, these viewpoints elicited a range of reactions when presented at school.

In these most challenging moments of engagement, the girls learned the hard lessons of social action and the community (those who embraced the FMG’s work as well as those who resisted it) learned the hard lessons of status quo disruption.

We’re now in the midst of year two of the FMG, and our initial meetings attracted more than 50 interested students. One of our first tasks was to write a mission statement, a task that took us into the wonderfully rich and beautifully difficult intersection of language and action. We worked hard to describe our work and our membership without relying on a binary construction of gender–and we began with the aforementioned name change from Girls' Retreat group to Feminisms for Those Marginalized by Gender.

We are still working hard to be fully inviting to students of color and ensure in word and deed that we honor the distinctions as well as the overlaps of various forms of feminism. And we're eager to bring even more students into the library on a warm May afternoon this year for a second Conversation on Gender that validates the power of dialogue without obviating the need for action.

In continuing this exciting and crucial work as the year unfolds, I will hold in my mind the very first email I received in response to my very first Girls’ Retreat invitation, not from a girl but from a boy, that read, “This sounds like an awesome idea . . . good luck pulling it all together.” And in my heart I will hold the words one of the FMG young women wrote on the snowy Sunday morning that marked the close of our first retreat: “I was thrilled by the passion and determination of everyone here, which makes me optimistic for real change.”

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ARTS & PERFORMANCES

A Rumble in the Jungle Every fall, LMS art teachers Susan Mols and Geoff Byrne ask their 4th graders to imagine themselves as impressionist artist Henri Rousseau. During the study of his work, they learn that the artist never actually visited a jungle, but was able to produce phenomenal images of animals in rainforest foliage.

These GDS lower schoolers also must use their imagination in lieu of a jungle field trip. By mimicking Rousseau’s approach and style, carefully studying animals and their characteristics, and focusing on the triad of foreground, middleground, and background, the results are imaginative artwork depicting lush, tropical landscapes.

The links this project reveals go beyond the connection between art history and the 4th grade artist’s design marker. The project also connects grade levels and subjects when Nooman Kacem’s 8th grade French students use the 4th grade artists' work to inspire their own poetry or fictional story. While the 4th graders

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are studying Rousseau and modeling their artwork after his, the 8th graders are studying French art and presenting to their class about an artist of their choice.

“Cross-curricular activities such as this project deepen learning, and deep learning engages the whole student, with both heart and mind. [For the 8th graders,] writing stories and poems about a work of an artist they studied adds an important missing piece to their presentations: personal feeling through the stories and the poems. The 4th graders view their work from different angles through the different stories and interpretations of older students.

The joy the younger ones express when they see older kids interested in their work and value is tangible,” said Aicha Kacem, the French teacher who originated the 8th grade project.

Geoff and Susan agree that the cross-grade project adds value: “This project teaches students how art and writing can enhance as well as support each other’s work.”

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BY NICK RYA N , HS CE R AMI CS & S CUL P T UR E TE ACH E R Course: Introduction to Ceramics & Sculpture Project: Red-Slip Plates The second project we complete in Introduction to Ceramics & Sculpture in September is the Red-Slip Plate. It is the second project because it builds on the emerging skills of my pottery students and introduces them to some of the principles of design, primarily: unity/variety, contrast, rhythm, repetition, and emphasis.

Once students have successfully learned how to throw a plate on the pottery wheel they move onto to the Red Plate Project. To start they must use a plate that has already been trimmed with a foot, signed, and dated. Ideally it should have a good flat surface and a clean raised rim so the design resonates with the overall design.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Build kinesthetic skills and manual dexterity.

2. Introduce a decorative process that is applicable to future assignments.

3. Develop an awareness of the principles of design.

4. Develop the ability to effectively use the principles of design in one’s artwork.

5. Successfully complete all aspects of the assignment to completion.

THE PROJECT INVOLVES THE FOLLOWING STEPS:

1. Start with a well-trimmed plate, foot already carved in, and the plate signed and dated.

2. The slip adheres best to clay that is moist (dark gray). If it’s gotten dry then students must wet it under the faucet briefly and keep it wet using the spray bottle to mist it.

3. Fasten the plate securely to one of the Griffin Grip Trim Wheels.

4. Use the small stainless steel tools to carefully carve concentric circle or spiral patterns into the surface.

STUDENTS CAN THEN:

• Paint a thin layer of red slip over the surface, then wait for it to dry before carving the design in.

• Paint a design of concentric circles directly on the surface of the plate.

• Use a damp sponge to soften lines, wipe away red slip, and otherwise blend the design.

STUDENTS MUST REMEMBER:

• When coating with the red slip, spin the pottery wheel slowly; fast does not equal better in this case!

• Let the plate dry a bit (use hair dryer if necessary) before carving a design with the small carving instruments, otherwise the carved bits will stick in the wet red clay.

• Carve only through the thin layer of red slip to reveal the gray clay. DO NOT carve deeply into the gray clay or you risk carving through the plate.

• Finally, check for any missed spots, uneven texture, and messy edges. Clean that all up before placing in the kiln room to be fired.

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INTO THE W WRESTLING WITH COMPLEXITIES: THE MORAL

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igh School performing arts department chair Laura Rosberg must have her finger on the pulse of Hollywood. After a 22-year hiatus from producing Into the Woods , Laura laid down plans for GDS’s comeback of the musical in Spring 2015—just in time for the beloved musical to hit the big screen.

In a lengthy NPR interview prior to staging the production, Laura said that when she first produced Into the Woods more than two decades ago, she thought the musical was about romance and adventure: “I think as I near my 70th birthday, I’m more interested in the idea that it’s about the ambiguity of life and the challenges of growing up.”

Into the Woods is a complex moral story that explores the concepts of being right, good, and nice—all of which the cast and crew wrestle with on and off stage.

Jacob Roberts ’15, who played the role of Cinderella’s prince, explained, “Into the Woods reminds us that nothing is quite so black and white in life as it is in fairy tales…Into the Woods defies the audience’s expectations and, in doing so, challenges the overly simplistic morals of the fairy tale genre from which the musical draws its inspiration.”

When put to a vote, the cast and crew of Into the Woods were divided between the importance of being good and right, while also acknowledging that some of the characters lacked a moral compass entirely.

Andrew White ’18, production assistant, house manager, and assistant to director Laura Rosberg, placed his vote with being right: “Personally, I think it’s best to be right. In history and the play, the right character is generally not the one who has the moral high ground, and in order to solve your problems, sometimes you have to be a little dubious.”

Goodness received a few votes as well, and set crew head Susana Hair ’16 shared that while being nice and right have their downfalls, goodness prevails: “Goodness at the least provides good intentions and the desire to enact a positive outcome. Morally good actions have the chance of being the most beneficial.”

Though personally believing being right to be the highest of the three concepts, Jacob found that his role as Cinderella’s Prince allowed him to explore a life without concern for ethics. Jacob said, “He’s certainly not the paragon of morality.

Just as he says, he was raised to be charming, not sincere!”

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As is the case with most GDS theater performances, Into the Woods tickets sold out. The final performance was so packed that students were rushing to find additional seats for faculty to sit and properly enjoy the show.

This concern for the comfort of their community is just one tiny testament of how the GDS theater program embodies kindness, regardless of any intentional prioritization. The students’ moral compasses may point towards rightness and goodness, but being kind is second nature.

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The women's varsity cross country team made GDS history when it won the Independent School League XC Championships on October 31. This is the first ever ISL XC Championship banner and the first ever upper division banner for GDS women's cross country.

Cross country coach and LS teacher Anthony Belber said, “To be that dominant in a 16-school league speaks volumes to how hard our runners have trained and prepared themselves this year and how motivated they were to inspire their teammates who were watching and waiting for their various races to start.”

The team’s top five female runners averaged the fastest times in league history for any school's top five. No team in league history has ever been this fast.

In the ISL Varsity "B" Race, GDS had a perfect score of 15 points and finished in first, sweeping the first six places and nine of the top thirteen places.

When Baseball Season Ends, THE TEAM KEEPS WORKING

Being a member of the baseball team at GDS is a serious commitment, with practices and games five to six days a week.

But once the season is done, the team does not rest. They get back to work, self-organizing workouts and practices over the summer and during breaks.

This past summer, students organized 30 unofficial practices on their own and committed to serious workout regimens. And this fall, players have already been holding their own meetings to plan for off-season workouts. Twenty-seven varsity and JV players attended a student-organized meeting earlier this fall where, according to varsity player Jaren Zinn ’17, “All expressed enthusiasm about beginning to work towards a [Mid-Atlantic Conference] championship.”

Head baseball coach and LS 2nd grade teacher Todd Carter is thrilled with the students’ initiative, and he’s also pleased with the numbers. He said, “If all of these kids show up in the spring, it would be the largest turnout baseball has [seen] in my eight years with the program.”

This past spring, Todd led the team as the new varsity coach and increased total runs scored by 60% while decreasing runs allowed by 66%. MS teacher Mark Allen-Gifford stepped in to head the JV program, and under his leadership, the team experienced added structure and quality instruction.

While hard at work this fall, the team is looking forward to the spring season, their eyes set on a MAC championship title. Varsity player Noah Ezickson ’16 is confident the team can reach their goal: “Every single player in the program is extremely motivated and wants nothing more than to hang that MAC Champions banner in the Hopper Dome. With a fantastic coaching staff leading practices balanced between focus, hard work, and team bonding, the baseball program will transform.”

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Coach of the Year

High school track and cross country coach and 3rd grade teacher Anthony Belber was selected as the inaugural District of Columbia 2014 HS Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

“This is an incredible accomplishment, and I can't think of a coach more deserving of this kind of recognition,” said 4th grade teacher Jenny MedveneCollins.

Anthony believes that the USTFCCCA recognition is a true reflection of the team’s stellar year. The HS men’s cross country team finished in first place at the MAC Championships, second place in the MD/DC Private School Championships, and took home the State Championship banner at the DC State Athletic Association Championships.

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High School Athletic Director Honored High School Athletic Director Kathy Hudson was named the first ever DC State Athletic Director of the Year by the Maryland State Athletic Directors Association (MSADA), selected from among 550 Athletic Directors in the state of Maryland and DC. Following up on that award, Kathy also received the State Award of Merit from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association in cooperation with Maryland and the District of Columbia for 2016.

A student athlete summarized Kathy’s efforts on behalf of our HS athletic program: "We give Kathy two sticks and ask her to build an entire fort."

“Anyone who knows athletic programs and then thinks about the logistics of what it takes to run one with only one field and one gym, knows how true that student’s statement is,” said HS principal C.A. Pilling.

Crew Unlocks the Secret to Loving Early Mornings During the spring 2015 semester, the GDS crew team circulated a recruitment email that not only made a solid case for joining the team, but also shared the thing they love most about their practices: early mornings.

In an enthusiastic email full of exclamation points, the crew team cited the top five reasons to join the team, and the number one reason was, “You get up early!” Sprinkled throughout the list were more than a dozen shout outs to early mornings, including seeing sunrises early in the morning, early morning showers after early morning workouts, and eating bagels early in the morning.

The team brought home its strongest finish yet from Philadelphia’s Stotesbury Cup Regatta, where GDS competes with national powerhouses. Each GDS team showed improvements from their previous year’s performance.

Noted as the second solid reason to join crew, team members described their experience at Stotesbury: “[It’s] one of the best experiences in [the] world! I guarantee you will love it…it’s just great!”

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The Hopper Athletic Leadership Team (HALT) said, “A huge thanks to Kathy for all that she does to make every season terrific!”

These are well-deserved awards and a huge accomplishment for the Hopper athletics program.

Come spring 2016, the competitive crew season kicks off with those aforementioned early morning practices Monday through Friday, followed by weekly Saturday regattas, including the League Championship Regatta on May 14. Once again the crew team will represent GDS at Stotesbury on May 21 and 22.

The Hopper crew team is looking forward to retaining leadership from returning seniors Sydney Barksdale, Shonali Bose, Chris Foley, Laurent Guichard, David King, Jillian Lerner, Brandon Minor, Pippa Spindel, and Jun Sung. This group of seniors will be joined by 16 other returning rowers from last year’s team, as well as a handful of novices who participated in the fall learn-torow program.

The team’s coaches, including Head Coach Alan Burch, Women’s Coach Josh Gazdik, and HS teacher and crew coach Paul Bolstad, confirmed that this crew team has tapped into the success of rising early and loving it—committing to the tough hours of practice, and to upping their rowing game. When asked to capture the essence of GDS crew in 140 characters or less (the length of a Tweet), Paul shared: “Committed to hard work, early mornings, a beautiful sport, each other and their school. #HoppersOnTheWater!”

VA R S I T Y If you ask head coach Alcides “Tico” Cummings, each of the 14 women on the varsity volleyball team have exactly what it takes to be champions on and off the court: the right attitude.

Coach Tico kicked off the start of practice every week this fall with a group intention, and one of the first intentions was “attitude.” Together, the team harnessed the mentality of champions: playing to win, being a strong team, and rebounding from mistakes.

Tico has been coaching women’s varsity volleyball for the past four years, and he believes that lessons like the one in attitude benefit his team both on and off the court. While building a team of fierce competitors is important, the driving goal for Tico is about work ethic and approach.

“Whatever their passion is in life, I hope that they will be able to focus in on that…if you work hard, you might not always win but you will have a better chance if you give it everything you’ve got,” he said.

The foundation of the team are co-captains Regina Fairfax ’16 and Eliana Miller ’16, who are charged with maintaining the team’s strong, positive attitude. Regina, who has been playing

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AT T I T UD E varsity since her sophomore year, is what Tico calls “upfront fire.”

Tico explains, “She tells her teammates what, when, and how to do what it takes to improve—unapologetically. And the team responds to her fierce leadership.”

Eliana, who has played varsity since her freshman year, is the team nurturer, bringing her teammates along in a softer way.

She describes herself as an, “enthusiastic and supportive leader who aims to lead by example.”

Together, the co-captains help get the team where they need to go and encourage them to embody the mentality of champions.

Regina says, “A champion is a leader, designated or not, because everyone looks up to that girl who fights with everything she has, works harder everyday to achieve her goals, and ultimately comes out victorious.”

Women’s varsity volleyball leadership team also includes assistant coach Brandon Weiss and assistance coach and HS teacher Martin Bullock.

When this magazine went to print, the women’s varsity volleyball team beat Holton-Arms, ranking the team in third place and earning them a seat at the ISL Tournament.

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We Live

THE MISSION During her career working in independent schools, Kim Scott was often one of the only African American individuals—first as a student, then as a teacher, and finally as a member of an admissions team. Now the LMS Director of Admissions after 10 years at GDS, Kim drew on her personal experiences in these roles when she presented to dozens of admissions professionals at an annual independent schools admissions conference (called SSATB) in September about how the admissions office can support diversity in schools.

Joined by former GDS colleague Lisa Shambaugh (now the Director of Admissions at St. Andrews Episcopal School), Kim shared a three-tiered approach to putting a diversity lens on the admissions process: know yourself, know your school, and know your community.

“We asked admissions professionals to lean into their own discomfort in order to increase their outreach into diverse communities and engage in successful, multi-cultural conversations,” said Kim. Kim said that going to the SSATB conference and presenting these ideas on a national stage was rewarding, because it’s a topic that deserves attention: “Lisa and I have a passion for the work that’s done at GDS around social justice and diversity. We take our roles in educating families about GDS very seriously!

And sharing with others how we build authentic, transparent relationships with potential GDSers was really impactful.”

“Kim's presentation was a very necessary addition to the ongoing development of admissions professionals. Across the country, our school markets are becoming more competitive and our school communities more diverse. Admissions professionals are on the front lines of this rapidly changing landscape in independent schools, and this workshop was an opportunity for

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For the first tier, both Lisa and Kim revealed information about themselves to the group, including their own unconscious biases, that might influence their work with potential families and asked others to do the same. For the second, they advocated that admissions professionals have a true understanding of their school—their school’s history as it pertains to diversity, the experience of underrepresented groups within the school, and biases or objectivity in the admissions and outreach process. And lastly, they provided tips for studying the demographics of the school’s broader community. each of us to effectively steward that change in inclusive ways,” said Barbara Eghan, GDS Director of Enrollment and Financial Aid. To that end, Kim agrees that continuing involvement in professional development—as student and teacher—pays off in more ways than one. “We’re not just a school, but a community of active learners—it’s an ongoing part of life here. We live the mission,” she said.

Volunteering Around the World The author pictured with boys from a monastery in Myanmar receiving a health and dental check-up.

A young Cambodian girl modeling Senhoa jewelry.

By Tuan Nguyen, HS Technology Integration Specialist

I’ve been volunteering for more than 15 years for multiple nonprofits whose missions range from providing free medical and dental care to community development to human rights and anti-human trafficking. I started volunteering as a producer/director for a small television news channel in the DC metro area. This unique opportunity allowed me to network with other organizations and learn about their causes, some of which I felt an instant connection to.

In 2005, I was invited to join World Health Ambassadors as a video documentarian on a medical mission in Vietnam. They provide free medical and dental care to remote areas of the world. Since then, I’ve been on five medical missions in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and in the DC metro area. My responsibilities have grown since I began and they now include videography, photography, translation, logistics, blogging, and support staff. I go with a team of 20 to 30 people (doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, and support staff) and we spend 24/7 with each other for about two weeks. The people whom we help rarely get professional medical treatment and are extremely grateful when we are there.

This past spring I collaborated with a different nonprofit: Senhoa in Cambodia. Senhoa’s mission is to support vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking through prevention, rehabilitation, and advocacy programs. We completed several projects, including starting a sewing program, producing video/photography for marketing, and dance choreography with the children.

I volunteer as a way to show gratitude for all the help that my family and I received as refugees in 1980, when we came to the U.S. Sometimes we all need a helping hand, and I try to be that hand for others.

Young girls sharing a microscope at a Senhoa school in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

GDS and the tech team have been supportive of me from the start.

Working in an environment that supports work-life balance allows me to grow as a person. Volunteering keeps me grounded; it keeps things in perspective and allows me to express my gratitude, which ultimately makes me happy.

The organizations mentioned: www.senhoa.org www.whausa.org www.childrenvietnam.org www.hftusa.org

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WELCOMING DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

TO THE GDS COMMUNITY

This summer, Nickole Sharp made the move from Alice Springs, Australia to join Georgetown Day School as the new Director of Diversity and Inclusion.

She is tasked with designing and orchestrating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and initiatives within the GDS community; serving as a member of the GDS Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and organizing the 9th grade seminar, “Diversity and Equity: the Intersections of Identity.”

Nickole, pictured at right with Crissy Cáceres,Assistant Head of School for Equity & Social Impact

Much of Nickole’s personal and professional journey has made diversity and inclusion central to her experiences. Prior to joining GDS, she served as a history teacher and the Director of Multiculturalism and Inclusion at Sage Hill School in California. At Sage, she created and advised a student leadership organization, S.A.M.E. (Sage Advocates for Multicultural Education), a committee consisting of trustees, faculty, and students called C.A.F.E. (Cultural Awareness for Everyone), and G.L.O.W. (Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever), which trained faculty members to serve as allies for LGBTQ students.

While in Australia, Nickole worked with Birth and Beyond Parent Resource, a nonprofit organization aiding women, children, and their families in the Northern Territory. Her work with indigenous people, especially women and children, in Alice Springs helped inform her work at GDS. “This allowed me to experience not only cultural and racial differences from a global perspective, but also make the connections and intersections of being a woman of color living abroad with ties to and history with the U.S.,” said Nickole.

Nickole is eager to be an active participant in GDS’s community and begin building relationships with students. She said, “There is a global connection between youth. Students here at GDS, as students in Alice Springs…, are students who are not only concerned about the world in which they live, but what type of world they are inheriting.”

Nickole holds a BA in African American Studies and Women’s Studies from Virginia Tech and an MA in History from St. John’s University, where her exploration of the intersections of race, class, and gender shaped her work as both a history teacher and diversity practitioner.

After living in Australia for three-and-a-half years, Nickole and her family are back in the U.S., adjusting to their new lives—though there are some big differences, according to Nickole:

1. Instead of having kangaroos in my backyard, I now have squirrels, chipmunks, and deer.

2. I will actually experience the seasons again. In the

Northern Territory city of Alice Springs, it always feels like summer. Winter average temps = 40s to 50s. Summer average temps = the upper 90s to 115 degrees. Winter months are only May and June.

After that we are back into the 90s!

3. Driving on the right hand side of the road again after driving on the left side for 3.5 years.

4. Everyone speaking to you as you walk down the

street: "G'Day!" or asking, “How ya going?!” And my all time fave, “Good on ya!”

5. Living in DC, we have access to amazing food

choices only steps away from our home. In Alice Springs we were very limited.

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6. Watching college football on Saturday and NFL

football on Sunday: My New Orleans Saints—Who Dat! My undergraduate alma mater Virginia Tech— Go Hokies!

7. My 2-year-old daughter Sloane attending school five days a week...without me.

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8. Listening to the radio and not knowing ANY of the music...

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By Moira E. McLaughlin Ellie, Zoe, Ella, and Stella—four students—sat in a corner of their brightly colored classroom, among large, blue cushions, and books lining small shelves at their eye level. The children were focused on little boxes filled with trinkets lined up on the carpet.

They gently handled various miniature figurines: a horse, a monkey, two brightly colored roosters, and a little yellow, legless, wobbly doll that, “never falls down,” Ella noted.

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The boxes Stella explained, are, “Where you put stuff that’s yours.”

“And it’s really special,” Zoe followed up.

It was a typical day in Jody and Jessica’s mixed PK/K class at Georgetown Day School. The classroom, full of labeled bins of markers, crayons, Legos, construction paper, magnetic tiles, and blocks, was covered in color, despite the school-typical cinderblock walls and square tiled floor. Art work, students’ photos, students’ family photos, letters, numbers, a calendar, a weather board: Everywhere a child gazed presented an opportunity to look and learn. The air buzzed with energy during this daily two-hour block known as “choice time”; kids sat for a while in one place, drawing, or building with blocks, until moving on to something else, like working with play dough or making up a game of super heroes.

The students are involved in what some teachers today might call experiential learning, or associative play, or cooperative play, or joyful learning, or play-based learning.

To the kids, it’s just play. And to the GDS PK/K teachers, it’s critical for healthy, whole-child development based on research— and it’s how students this age learn best.

“What we know from being specialists is, play is their work. Play is their right. Play is their enterprise,” said Jody Welsh who has been teaching at GDS for 15 years. “Play is research-based and intentional.”

Where Has All the Play Gone?

Over the past decade, classrooms across the nation increased their focus on reading and mathematics skills development— even in the youngest grades—mostly in response to highly publicized national legislation like the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) and subsequent Race to the Top grant program (2009).

These programs emphasize test scores and achieving strict educational milestones with consequential outcomes. Time spent in classrooms hoping to meet these indicators of success started to come at the expense of traditionally labeled “non-academic” subjects and playtime.

The more traditional didactic teacher-led model, where the teacher stands in front of the class and the students sit still and listen has resurfaced in younger grade levels with the increased high-stakes accountability in public schools.

The play-based model for learning stands in juxtaposition to these high-stakes approaches. And it has come to the forefront as a fitting rejoinder.

To those not trained in early childhood education, a playbased classroom can seem a little like controlled chaos, as kids maneuver through activities and relationships.

But it’s in that seeming chaos that students make their greatest strides—a finding supported by research. Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg of the American Academy of Pediatrics notes, “Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth.”

In The Power of Play, child psychologist Dr. Rachel E. White further explains, “In the short and long term, play benefits

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cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Children learn cognitive skills such as creativity, problem solving, divergent thinking, mathematics, and language. They learn to negotiate social relationships, regulate their emotions, and control their own behaviors. Play also fosters the development of fine and gross motor skills. When play is fun and child-directed, children are motivated to engage in opportunities to learn.”

A Long-standing GDS Approach As recently highlighted in The Atlantic and other media, play-based learning might seem like a new concept. But at GDS, it’s always been the norm.

“It’s important not to rush children,” said Joanna Phinney who has taught kindergarten at GDS for 25 years, speaking to the way GDS supports children’s acquisition of skills. “We want them to be in charge of their learning.”

And what are they learning specifically?

According to Jody, they’re learning important life skills like cooperation and compromise, while also gaining standard academic skills in a meaningful way that will stick with a child.

Later during choice time, Ellie, Zoe, Ella, and Stella were still playing together. Now, however, two of them were acting like cats, meowing and crawling over large blocks that had previously served as a fort for another group. The other two were dogs, barking and following their cat friends.

“Pretend I was a rescue,” Ellie said.

Here was an example of what Jody called “playing with a script and all agreeing to it and building on it.” If the kids want to be a friend and have fun, Welsh said, they have to be flexible and move from “ego-centering to de-centering” and be able to see their friends’ perspectives in order to all have fun playing together.

“Everyday they are learning ways to play with one another,” Welsh said. “They learn responsible decision making. How will the choice I make affect my friend?”

Then there’s also the learning of conflict-resolution through playbased learning. With two teachers in the classroom, dozens of activities and 22 kids, it’s inevitable that one child will become annoyed with another at one point. While a teacher may observe this conflict, they oftentimes observe from the sidelines to see what skills children apply in these circumstances. The children must initiate their social problem-solving abilities; the goal is for them to do it themselves.

That happened to Ella and Madison, two students playing at the Playdough table. They, no doubt, would not have been able to verbalize the definition of conflict-resolution, yet they practiced it seamlessly when they discovered there was only one purple heartshaped cookie cutter. And so they agreed to take turns. Madison first cut out a heart shape. Then Ella. Then Madison. Then Ella. The two together soon filled a small, clear bin with their “cookies.”

Play-based learning is “the most natural and primary way that we know how to interact with our environment,” said Laura Yee, GDS Lower School Principal. Indeed kids everywhere from various places and socio-economic backgrounds naturally gravitate to play.

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“It’s authentic, meaningful, and long lasting,” Laura continued.

“I think the [traditional] way we do schooling is unnatural,” she said. “We compartmentalize everything and take it apart into these arbitrary disciplines: art, science, and math, and it’s actually quite artificial...tasks completed out of context don’t necessarily ensure that students will remember concepts because the meaning they gain is nothing they are creating...The antithesis of that is play-based learning.” Such learning creates opportunities for children to apply their understanding of the world and their skills in unexpected, challenging ways.

Laura also noted that in watching play-based learning, teachers become researchers. They can observe their students and discover things like which student is verbal, which is flexible, or which adds to the play. When students engage in play they inevitably draw upon their academic skills. They create signs, sell food, collect money, build structures, divide resources, and explain how contraptions work. All these tasks require them to write, read, negotiate, apply numeric and computational understanding, and communicate clearly to others.

“A teacher watches to see how they interact, how they use language, how they draw upon their understanding of numbers; their prosocial skills; are they taking suggestions and revising or are they resisting these things?...These are things you can’t understand if you are having kids sit at a desk,” Yee explained. Play-based learning, “provides more ways to understand, reach, and teach the child.”

While at times play-based learning is structured through choice activities consistently available around the room (dramatic play area, block area, writing table, etc.), at other times, teachers design intentional play activities. These activities engage students and develop a variety of literacy, fine motor, gross motor and cognitive skills through painting, drawing, or specific games. Children are challenged while simultaneously learning, oftentimes without even knowing that they’re acquiring new skills.

Back in Jody and Jess’ PK/K classroom, the cats and dogs, Ellie, Zoe, Ella, and Stella, continued their game, moving it into a part of their classroom that was set up as a home. Now one of the cats was working on a laptop emailing her grandma, and a dog was talking on the phone and looking for baby food. Ellie, the cat and Zoe, the dog decided that they were twins.

“We are at our home, and it’s my and Zoe’s birthday party,” narrated Ellie.

In eager confirmation, Zoe barked, “Ruff! Ruff!”

As the script evolved, so did the learning, the cooperation, the compromise and the role-playing, of course, but most importantly to the kids, so did the play.

“Play is the work of children,” Laura said. “That’s the goal. When a child is so interested in an activity that both challenges and develops their various skill sets—and they don’t want to stop doing it—we’ve hit the sweet spot. After all, don’t we want them to develop into adults who love to be productive, challenged, and efficacious?

When work and play are one and the same, we know children—and adults—will yearn to learn more. They’ll also more likely create a balanced life for themselves. Too often we overlook the importance of that.”

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT:

Christi Hay

GDS is nothing without our vibrant volunteer parent community. We are grateful for the people who support the work of the School!

The 2015-16 Annual Fund Chair, Christi Hay, has been a GDS parent since 2005, and has devoted herself to the School ever since. With a 10th grader (Katherine) and 8th grader (Julia), she’s experienced all levels of life at the School—and has the volunteer resumé to prove it.

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In addition to taking on the lead role with Annual Fund, her family has been a buddy family for new students to GDS, and she's been a room parent, a tour guide for the admissions office, and a parent member of the Board Diversity Committee, among other roles. A pediatrician, Christi has given a TEDx talk that shares her non-traditional professional career path.

Christi says that supporting GDS with time and resources is a family commitment, along with her husband Reggie, because parents are an integral part of the team. “When we first came to GDS, with Peter Branch as Head of School, at the open house, he said, ‘If you want to really understand GDS, go look at the HS.’ We weren’t thinking about high school at that point. Now that I’ve been in the community for so long, I understand what he was emphasizing.

It’s a process, and at the end, your result is a productive young adult, able to navigate the world in a smart, savvy way. That’s what everyone wants, and that’s what requires everyone to participate…to create this phenomenal product.”

GROW, LEARN, LIVE…GIVE!

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the gds 15-second Interval

By Julia Fisher '09 Five years and a few months after I graduated from GDS, I found myself once more commuting to 4200 Davenport St. every day, this time to teach English. There was one question seemingly everyone was eager to ask me last year: Was it weird to be back at GDS, teaching alongside many of my high school teachers?

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I usually avoided the question by offering an answer about how much I loved the job. But, of course, things can be both wonderful and weird. I knew the people asking the question—former classmates, current and former GDS parents, GDS teachers—expected to hear something about changed relationships, a sense of dislocation, maybe some juicy insights I’d now be privy to as a teacher. Curmudgeonly alumni worried about the demise of Old GDS (in other words, all alumni) secretly hoped I’d be able to tell them about all the ways in which the school we knew was no longer recognizable.

Everyone wanted a story of change.

But the truth was that my new role didn’t really feel weird at all. There was no great revelation about the school’s underbelly. I saw a little bit more: some behind the scenes conversations, a little more tiredness, just what actually happens at those Wednesday faculty meetings. But Clay Roberson’s commentary when I sat next to him at an all-school faculty meeting was exactly what I’d always imagined it would be. Teachers—both those who had taught me and those who’d arrived at the school since I graduated—treated me as an adult, but that didn’t feel too different from how I’d been treated as a student.

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If I couldn’t offer my questioners tales of my own dislocation in a new role, at least, surely, I should have reports about how the school was changing, slipping away, going to hell, right?

And sure, I could tell them that kids were more obsessively concerned about grades than ever, that the library no longer presented itself as a repository of books, or that the second floor now held a mysterious room called the Odradek. I could tell stories about ongoing rifts over political correctness—but those debates are old news, just newer

iterations of the same controversies we’d faced as students.

I couldn’t tell stories about a fundamentally changed nature of GDS kids or the changed meaning of a GDS education, either.

I could tell this story, which felt very Old GDS: On one of my early days teaching, we were discussing a strange but fascinating novel called Geek Love, and the topic of the day's conversation happened to be how conjoined twins might have sex.

One girl, a senior, was making an argument that none of her classmates agreed with. Frustrated—she was actually making a good point and no one seemed to acknowledge it—she announced, "I'm leaving," and got up to do so. A classmate interrupted: "Wait—I want to respond to your point. Can you wait to leave until after that?" She took her seat, he responded to her idea, and she became so engrossed in discussion she forgot all about leaving.

All this can't have taken more than 15 seconds. And, in earlier years, none of it would have struck me as out of the ordinary—and that's important to note: At GDS, I don't think such an exchange is out of the ordinary at all.

I had come to GDS after teaching at a draconian charter school in New Haven, and the experience had helped me see just how amazing those 15 seconds were.

Consider how many things would not have happened that way at my school in New Haven: First, we'd never have been talking about conjoined twin sex—that would have been considered wildly inappropriate.

Actually, we never would have been talking at all, because class discussion was considered a waste of time.

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Second, no student ever would have been so invested in class discussion that she would have responded emotionally when her comment went overlooked.

Third, once a student had decided to leave the room in frustration—and that happened frequently, though for very different reasons—nothing would have made her turn around, and surely not a classmate calmly saying he'd like to respond to her argument.

Fourth, by this point, in New Haven, at least five students surely would have received demerits for their behavior, so there would be no civil and engaging discussion to return to at all. And so on.

GDS is made of 15-second intervals like that one— every day, in every class: kids and teachers who care about each other's ideas, who approach tasks before them with the knowledge that the books or theorems they are discovering, like their own ideas, matter, and who, because of all this, breathe a unique energy into every 15-second chunk. I’m thinking about integral calculus and Tolstoy: The infinitesimal moments, taken together, integrated over time, convey a sense of an enormous arc of history. (In some sense, GDSers all know the 15-second glimpse really does reveal GDS’s spirit; why else would so many classes work to craft particularly bizarre moments when admissions officers bring a tour into the room?)

But that can't be all that makes GDS GDS. Nor is it GDS’s emphasis on demanding classes, artistic expression, or social justice—all those thrive at GDS, but they exist in lots of other places, too.

GDS may be a vanguard in some ways, but it will never be the school's innovation, its physical or academic offerings, or even its excellence that define the place. It’s more than that.

I’ve come to think there are three main things that distinguish GDS: the notion that kids, even from a very young age, have things to say that matter; the depth and comfort of relationships no matter the status or position of the people involved; and the intensity and passion that mark all pursuits intellectual and artistic (that's that lifelong love of learning).

Recently, I’ve reencountered several GDS alumni whom I had not seen in years. The conclusion I draw from these encounters isn’t just that GDSers stick together (though my experience at every stage confirms that, as does my Facebook news feed: I see pictures every day of groups of GDS alumni together in cities across the country and countries around the world; I gather this is an unusual phenomenon among high schools). It’s been clear each time that each of us was indelibly shaped by

GDS. Still more striking, though, was how GDS shaped us to be: Most GDS alumni I meet are just more confident, more omnivorously curious, quicker to find humor than most people. We are more likely to keep up a good conversation even when work is waiting. We are more likely to do things we love.

And why? Probably because of those three things that mark GDS. We care about other people’s ideas because we don’t know not to. We know that ideas matter, no matter the field, so we want to gobble up new topics about which to form opinions. And we know that friendship undergirds all deep understanding, that laughter is the stuff of friendship, and that no idea is too serious to be laughed about together. Many formative years of our lives were built of those 15-second moments of energy. We’ve all been both that first student, frustrated not to be heard, and the second, welcoming another back into the fray of discourse, many times over.

Most people at GDS—students and teachers— take each 15 seconds for granted. It’s hard not to: There are so many of them, and we don’t normally sit around thinking about small chunks of time, or even, usually, large ones. Nor should we. From within 4200 Davenport or 4530 MacArthur, one doesn’t even know to fathom that other places might have slightly less energy. That’s a good thing: not that we be carelessly ungrateful, but that a certain ignorance of duller worlds should buoy our own.

The beginning of a year—or the end of a year—is as good a time as any to think about what makes GDS GDS. Some of it is in traditions—seniors welcoming (and gloriously disrupting!) a new year with the run-in, the magic of snow falling at the Christmas Assembly—but more of it is in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Some of them are vivid, memories from just a few months ago; others may have become tall tales by now. GDS is the school where kids can lie on the floor in class with no ill effect (true and beautiful when I was a freshman; less true, it seems, now).

At GDS, kids call out racist guards at Best Buy. The cross country team says “run good” because, long ago, GDS runners thought grammar was a good way to make fun of competitors. Some of the stories we tell are about the future, and those matter, too. To take stock of 70 years, we need every one of an infinite array of 15-second glimpses—past and future, ugly and beautiful, from every mind, told and changed in the retelling. We become—we remain—what our stories show us we are.

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Meet the Trustees

GDS is fortunate to have a diverse, distinctive, and engaged Board of Trustees working in partnership with our administration to support the GDS mission. For the 2015-16 school year, we are pleased to announce the addition of these four new Board members, who join an active Board focused on strategic planning, campus planning, and financial goal-setting. For more information about other members of our board, go to www.GDS.org/Board.

As a GDS alumnus, Franklin is grateful for the approachable, intellectual, challenging, and extraordinary teachers that shaped his education; and as a current parent, he is eager for his two daughters Sadie ’23 and Theodora ’26 to experience courses with the same remarkable faculty.

Franklin Foer ’92

Serves on the Advancement and Audit Committees.

Franklin Foer ’92 says that while GDS taught him to challenge institutional loyalism and be a contrarian, one exception exists: his genuine belief in the School. And it’s that very belief in the School and its future that inspired him to join the Board of Trustees.

“Progressive education isn't a hollow mantra here—it's a palpable belief in progress, including the School's own. I'm inspired to join the Board as the School is in the midst of hatching its plans to boldly seize the future,” he said.

My 95-year-old grandmother still visits the school each year. She likes the surge of nachas that comes from visiting my kids in their classrooms. When she arrives, a bit slowly these days, she's greeted like a celebrity. One of my old teachers brings her flowers. Other teachers remember her and embrace her. That to me is the very height of community. It's a place where devoted teachers stay for decades and pay loving attention to the families that pass through their classrooms; it's a place of warmth and soul. –Franklin Foer ’92

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“What a disappointment college was!” he said. “All those famous professors weren't nearly as engaging as the ones at GDS. I'm hoping that my favorites don't make any hasty decisions to leave before my kids can experience them.”

Franklin Foer edited The New Republic magazine for seven years. He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, and with fellow GDS grad Marc Tracy ’03, he wrote Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. Franklin is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation and writing a book about the imperiled future of knowledge. He graduated Columbia College in 1996.

Cathy MacNeil Hollinger Serves on the Advancement and Finance Committees.

As the parents of GDS alumnus Tyler ’15 and current student Devin ’17, Cathy and her husband Mark were first drawn to GDS by the School’s relaxed feeling, coupled with its rigorous academics.

“It is a low-key, casual place with few explicit rules—where students call their teachers by their first names and where repeatedly we have found that even the youngest students speak to adults with confidence,” she said. “It is also a tremendously welcoming community in no small part because of the school’s strong commitment to its mission of inclusiveness and tolerance.”

Cathy also loves that GDS focuses on encouraging its students to discuss hard topics, ask difficult questions, and take on challenges, while also embracing goofiness and fun. She says that these values are “vividly revealed in the teacher dressed as the Hopper greeting arriving students at the LMS, the high school faculty surprise flash mob in the middle of an assembly, and the crazy competitions of the high school’s annual First Friday. Deep learning and risk taking thrive in a safe environment, and even more so when it’s a place that the students love to be. GDS excels at this.”

Cathy has a long history in nonprofit theatre management, working with organizations such as the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/NY (ART/NY), Music-Theatre Group, and Library Theater.

Cathy also worked at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, and from 2000 to 2012, Cathy served on the Board of Directors of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.

Cathy holds a BA in English from Colgate University, an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama, and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

With the forthcoming campus expansion, Cathy said that this is an exciting time to be a part of GDS’s future and to deepen her involvement with the community. She is looking forward to serving on the Board and helping GDS take its next big step forward.

Rosemary holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelors and Masters degrees from Kent State University.

To my mind, there is no more perfect physical manifestation of [the school’s] openness than the high school’s Forum. It is a reminder that first impressions and external appearance can be deceptive. Backpacks, clothing, and books strewn on the floor look like chaos and might suggest a space that the students don’t respect. But it is the opposite; it is the students’ space, the heart of the high school, a space they love and where they come together as a community.

–Cathy MacNeil Hollinger.

Rosemary Kilkenny Serves on the Diversity and Investment Committees.

Rosemary has been Georgetown University’s first Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity since 2006. Before coming to Georgetown as the Special Assistant for Affirmative Action Programs, Rosemary served as the Assistant Dean for graduate recruitment at Kent State University, where she developed a national program to increase the representation of Black graduate students. She then served as the Director of Affirmative Action programs at State University of New York at Albany.

Rosemary has two sons—one a current GDS 8th grader and the other is a Georgetown University graduate.

Rosemary has previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Affirmative Action, Howard Road Academy, the Discovery Creek Children’s Museum, and National Child Research Center.

Erik Smulson '85

Serves on the Facilities Master Planning and Finance Committees.

Erik Smulson ’85 joined the Board of Trustees after decades of involvement in the community. Since 2012, Erik has served on the GDS Board Committee on Diversity, and in the 1990’s, he served on the Alumni Board.

Erik credits his parents with having the insight to send him to a progressive school known for its diversity, outstanding academics, visionary leadership, and inspiring teachers. As the parent of GDS senior, Hannah ’16, Erik said, “Based on my daughter’s time at GDS, these qualities still ring true.”

For Erik, being a part of the GDS community means being a part of a school that is committed to educating the whole person and that recognizes each student’s individuality and talent. “GDS gives students the opportunity to grow and to learn and to become the best they can be,” he said.

A lifelong Washingtonian, Erik graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1985 and from Georgetown University in 1989. Over the past 25 years, Erik has worked in various public affairs positions on Capitol Hill and currently as Vice President for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor to the President at Georgetown University.

Erik is grateful for the lifelong friends he has made through GDS and looks forward to helping the School maintain a strong sense of community for future students.

FUND-A-SCHOLAR February is just around the corner!

Fundraising for financial aid is the focus at GDS all month long in February. Donate online during our fundraising campaign, join us for a beer and bourbon tasting party, and bid on staff sensations during this year's abridged auction! All proceeds benefit financial aid and allow us to support our diverse community.

Save the Dates

Thursday, February 4 Beer & Bourbon Tasting to Support Financial Aid Sunday, February 21 - Sunday, February 28 Online Auction for Staff Sensations to Support Financial Aid

Alumni Notes 1970

Maggie Kast’s debut novel, A Free, Unsullied Land combines a compassionate portrayal of a young woman’s struggle to escape an abusive home with an incisive depiction of a critical moment in history. Beginning in Chicago, 1930, the novel transports 19-year-old Henriette Greenberg into the heart of the Jim Crow South to protest the conviction of the socalled Scottsboro Boys and later to New Mexico where she does fieldwork among the Apache.

1979

Adam Idelson (pictured below, left) is a writer and Supervising Producer of the animated adventure series, Octonauts, which he describes as "Star Trek meets Jacques Cousteau for little kids." The hit show is about to dive into its fourth season on Disney Channel, and is broadcast and streamed worldwide. Adam lives in New York with his family, but recently came back to town to participate on a panel for Capitol Hill Ocean Week, where he was thrilled to meet legendary oceanographer, Dr. Sylvia Earle. The entire Octonauts team is proud to partner with NOAA to further the goal of ocean awareness and education.

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Kate Schecter (pictured above) has been appointed as the President and CEO of World Neighbors, a 64-year-old international development organization that works in 13 countries (in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean) with rural communities. Before this appointment, she worked for 14 years at the American International Health Alliance as a Senior Program Officer working on health care development in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

1986

Adam Novak read from his book Take Fountain at Politics & Prose in June and in attendance were Kim Gordon Schoonover, Matt Weiss, Jonathan Novak, and Rebecca Fishman (all pictured above). Take Fountain is about a podcast transcript which is turned into a small Los Angeles publishing house to be published—and it is also a piece of missing evidence in a brutal murder mystery.

1988

Teresa E. Doniger started her own private psychotherapy practice in Washington, DC. Her website is donigerlpc.com

1995

On April 1, 2015, Nina Ritch and her husband, Michael Boland, welcomed John Esper "Jack" Boland (picture above, right)

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to the world. He joins big brother Sam, who is currently enjoying his first year in PK at GDS.

On October 10, Peter Labourdette married Mara Stein—with many a Hopper in attendance (pictured above).

1998

Marian Makins received her Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Since then, she has held an appointment as a full-time lecturer in Penn's Critical Writing Program, where she teaches undergraduate writing seminars. Marian is currently working on two articles and a book project relating to her dissertation, “Monumental Losses: Confronting the Aftermath of Battle in Roman Literature.” She lives in Center City Philadelphia with her Irish musician husband, Gabriel Donohue, with whom she also performs from time to time.

2001

Alex Hirschhorn is in his third year of graduate school at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he is getting

Alumni-send us your news!

Please send us your news! Your former classmates and teachers want to know all about it. Send us the photos and details at alumni@gds.org

his JD and MBA. He was back in DC this past summer interning in the White House Counsel's office (and attending two Class of '01 weddings).

2004

Over the summer, The Washington Post beamed about a performance of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" by GDS alumnus and Levine Music teacher Samuel J. Post, calling his performance "triumphant" and his set "confidently-played." Sam also runs "The Music Post," a podcast focused on the intersection of music, science, and history. Read more on Sam’s website: www.samueljpost.com

Those living in the DC-metro area can “know your farmer” at Groundworks Farm, which has Winter-Spring CSA Shares. Kevin ‘05 and Margaret Brown at Groundworks Farm provide organically and sustainablygrown produce, meat, and eggs to their members year-round. Sign up at http:// www.groundworksfarm.com/winter-farmshares/.

2012

Congrats to Anthony Campbell UNCCharlotte '16 on finishing in the Top 15 Nationally (51-11 1/4), in the College Men's NCAA Track & Field Championships 2015, in Eugene, Oregon. Anthony finished behind two future Olympians and highly talented jumpers. His career best (52-2 3/4) came in Conference USA Championships last month.

2002

On September 26 at 6:37pm, Liz Levine and husband Brian Rafkin welcomed son Peter Glen Rafkin (pictured above). He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and is 20 inches tall. Everyone is very happy and healthy.

2005

Elizabeth Schachter (pictured above) married Jon Stoner on June 20, 2015 with dozens of GDSers, including her mother Rose Bednar and brother Sam '09, in attendance.

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was an exceptional one: GDS hosted a number of new events and invited all classes to participate. Nearly 300 alumni, former and current faculty, and staff came together for this weekend chock full of events.

The weekend began with an opportunity for alumni to see current student artwork displayed at the Art Show opening on Friday evening. Also on Friday were Class Parties for those classes ending with 0 and 5, from 1975 to 2010. The Class of ’75 hosted about 20 people at the home of Elizabeth Sternberg ’75, and the largest showing was from the class of ’90, who had about 40 people in attendance at the home of Melissa Green ’90.

Other parties were hosted throughout the weekend at alumni homes or local restaurants.

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Saturday began with a community service event for “Cup of Joe” where alumni, alumni children, and staff prepared 450 breakfast meals with notes of kindness that went to the 801 East Men’s Shelter. Students led a tour of the High School, followed by a campus planning update from Head of School Russell Shaw.

The afternoon also included a special alumni versus students It’s Academic match.

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Reunion Weekend 2015

A highlight of the daytime activities was a basketball tournament refereed by HS Dean of Students Bobby Asher, where alumni battled it out on the court.

Approximately 60 alumni and alumni family members attended the tournament, and with a close match up, the ’90’s inched forward for the win.

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40% Students of color

SIXTY PERCENT OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN

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Nine countries visited during school-sponsored spring break trips.

Ten markers used to represent skin color of students in LS classroom art supplies.

ATHLETICS

$5.7 MILLION

AWARDED IN FINANCIAL AID PK-12

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Number of hours per student of service-learning each year in the Middle School

Age of ‘Ghostbuster’ the turtle, a classroom pet

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Minutes of P.E. per week in the Lower School

Treasurer’s Report I am pleased to report that GDS had another terrific year. We are fully enrolled, with many applicants competing for each spot in all grades. We expanded our excellent programming school-wide and in each of our divisions. We ended fiscal year 2015 (last year) with a small budget surplus and expect to duplicate this result for the current school year. We maintained our commitment to keep tuition increases as low as possible. And we have also pursued our ambitious project to unify our campuses without dipping into either tuition or annual fund revenues.

We could not have achieved these overall results without the careful management of our resources by our Head of School Russell Shaw, the Principals, and the Finance and Operations and Advancement teams. The Board of Trustees, in partnership with the staff, has worked to ensure that our operations are focused effectively on achieving our mission; they have also provided the financial stewardship necessary to strengthen the sustainability of our programs for the future.

Without a doubt, we also could not have achieved these results without tremendous support from our community. Nearly 90% of our parent body and 93% of our faculty contributed to the Annual Fund last year, raising a record $2.1 million, all of which will be used in our operating budget to support our students’ learning. Thank you! The Annual Fund is vital to the success of our School, and we hope that we can continue to count on your support for this year’s campaign.

We have continued to take meaningful steps to enhance the compensation of our treasured faculty to promote academic excellence and long-term retention, and to ensure that we are fully competitive with our peer schools. Here are just a few examples of last year’s programmatic enhancements: • We added maker innovation spaces in the Lower/Middle School, following our successful addition of the Odradek at the High School last year.

• We introduced a Design Thinking course at the High School, revamped service-learning opportunities at the LMS, and launched the Second Grade Identity Project.

• We now have full-time counselors in all three divisions.

• We have implemented 1:1 technology learning device environments in grades three through six.

• Our student athletes are earning league titles, and our athletics, from varsity to intramural play, have never been more competitive.

This year, we made progress towards campus unification. Just last month, we filed our proposed development plans with the city. This follows an extensive period of outreach, discussions, and consultation within our community and with our immediate and wider Tenleytown neighbors.

During this period, we also have been able to earn significant revenue from the leaseback of the Safeway and Martens properties. We are closely evaluating the opportunities to strengthen and diversify our revenue sources, promote our long-term financial sustainability and fulfill our mission. These include the development of the Martens site and the possibility of selling or leasing the MacArthur campus. And, of course, Russell, the Board, and our administration remain fully dedicated to and focused on the lived experience of our current students from day to day.

We deeply appreciate our community, and we thank you for your continued support.

Eric Koenig

Treasurer, Board of Trustees

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COMPREHENSIVE GIVING FOR 2014-15 At GDS, a student’s advances in academic knowledge, creativity, and curiosity are matched with growth in emotional intelligence, social aptitude, and physical development. Each individual who gives to Georgetown Day School supports these advances every day of our students’ lives.

GDS students leave our school ready to fully live in the world—and pursue their dreams. From the earliest grades, our emphasis on social justice, innovation, critical thinking, and leadership means that our graduates are equipped with the skills and capacities needed to succeed in an ever-changing world and to identify their unique place in it. Our academic excellence—the dynamic and personalized learning that happens at GDS in every class, the technology to support it, and the infrastructure to make it all possible—is enhanced through the generosity of those in our community from grandparents, to alumni and their parents, current parents, faculty and staff.

Donations to GDS are investments shaping our students’ lives. Thank you to every single member of our community that is making these moving and meaningful investments.

The following represents the comprehensive giving to GDS for any purpose during our 2014-15 fiscal year, July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. These are gifts received and do not include pledges.

$100,000 and Up Anonymous (2) Lammot J. du Pont Caleb Kramer ’87 Karen and Ethan Leder $50,000-$99,999 Ruth Compton Amy Dixon and Gregg LoCascio Angela and Joel Glazer Jill ’85 and Robert Granader Leslie and Bruce Lane Mr. and Mrs. Theodore N. Lerner Sue Schaffer and Michael Rogan Kate and Brad Vogt $20,000-$49,999 Anonymous Tamer Amr ’88 Katherine Borsecnik and Gene Weil Toni and Ned Brody Raina Brubaker and Jessica Hough Monica and David Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Friedman Nicole Rabner and Larry Kanarek Ricki and Joel Kanter Elizabeth and Michael Keeley Kimberly and Jonathan Klein Kate Koffman and Sid Banerjee Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lang Molly Levinson and Josh Wachs Connie and Erik Lindenauer

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Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moore Sarah and Eric Rosand Daniel Sharfman ’97 Jane and Bill Stetson Shira Stutman and Russell Shaw Anupama and Matthew Tate Ilene Weinreich and David Smith Laura Wertheimer and Andrew Pincus Pat and Eric Widra $15,000-$19,999 Thea and Asad Amr Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bergreen Emily Bloomfield and Byron Auguste Mr. and Mrs. Ben Boley Lisie and Michael Gottdenker Lord William Haughey Nancy Lemann and Mark Clein Jacqui Lieberman and Paul Ameer Nancy and Reid Liffmann Susan Neely Sarah and Jed Nussdorf ’98 Alison Schneider and Richard Avidon Catherine and Tom Strong Richard Tuckerman Ms. Elizabeth Wachs Elizabeth Westfall and Scott Wiener Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zirkin

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$10,000-$14,999 Anonymous Ann-Marie and Bill Burke Gema and Paul DeCain Mary Dickie and Leslie Dach Cynthia Dunbar and Charles Cerf Abby Greensfelder and Franklin Foer ’92 Jessica Gladstone and Chris Connell Brenda Gruss and Daniel Hirsch Lisa Hook and Peter Gillon Jennifer Klein and Todd Stern Jill Lesser and Jonathan Diesenhaus Mr. and Mrs. David Lipman Lourdes Lopez-Isa and Jeffrey Lamken Vicki and Jim Margolis Jennifer Noland and Steve McBee Melanie and Lawrence Nussdorf Robin and Gary Orseck Helen Rhee and Tarik Taybi Lucretia Adymy Risoleo and Robert Risoleo Anna Swerdel and Jonathan Rich Laurie Wingate and Mark Chandler Barbara Yellen and Phil West Neustar, Inc. $5,000-$9,999 Whitney and Sydney Albrittain Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Nancy Bard and Donald Baer Mr. Jeff D. Bauman Jessica Bauman ’85 Mr. and Mrs. William Beach

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Jessica ’01 Berenson and Mark ’00 Berenson Stephanie and David Bergman Liz and Lane ’85 Blumenfeld Katherine Borsecnik and Gene Weil Lori Brainard and Robert Liebowitz Leila Bremer ’90 and Karim Zia Nancy Robinson Breuer and Lanny Breuer Toni and Dwight Bush Heather Chen-Mayer and Rulon Mayer Abby and Andrew Cherner Dianne and Jonathan Cogan Renata and James Cooper Sharmini Coorey and John Hicklin Ann Danelski and Timothy Bergreen Laurie Davis and Joseph Sellers Denyette DePierro Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer Dina Elboghdady and James Cooper Nicole Elkon and Neal Wolin Resa and David Eppler Ms. Linda Fienberg Barry Ford Sharon and Adrian Forsyth Karin and Tom Freedman Jamie Gardner and Jonathan Stern Susie and Michael Gelman Mrs. Malcolm Glazer Dep Goldstein Ronald Goldstein Daniel Hamilton ’85 Ellen Harris and David Zinn Pamela Harris and Austin Schlick

Jennifer Hillman and Mitchell Berger Sydney Hoffmann and David Krakoff Ulrich Jacoby Amy Jeffress ’83 and Casey Cooper Danielle Knight and Alexander Wood David Leary and Seth Perretta Linda Lipsett and Jules Bernstein Angela and Michael Madnick Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Malek Vicky and Greg Marchand Sabina Menschel and Bill Priestap Patrice and Herbert Miller Sarah and Alexis ’92 Mitchell Mary Morton and Keith Forman Mr. and Mrs. Carl Oppenheim Jimmie and Matthew Paschall Margaret Pearson and Steven Gunby Eileen Penner and Daniel Ritter Cecily and Charles Pilzer Susan Pondfield and William Mentlik Rory and Edward Quint ’87 Laure Redifer Mrs. Carol Robinson Stacy and Andrew Rosen Mary Beth Cisneros and Michael Rosenman ’85 Mylene and John Rozendaal Sarah Rueven ’05 Pilar and Adam Ruttenberg Amy Schwartz and Eric Koenig Erin Segal and Michael Sachse ’95 Cathy and Bob Solomon Virginia Solomon ’99

Julie and Steven Stone Leigh Stringer and John Hlinko Lee Tiedrich and Ian Simmons Petia Topalova and Shawn Cole Nina Weissberg ’80 and Stuart Martin Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wertheimer Marcy Wilder and Aurie Hall Becky and Jeremy Wolsk Jennifer Zucker and Herbert Hsu $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (5) Wafa Fahmi Abdelati Anne and Ronald Abramson Leslie Adelman and Kenneth Grossfield Julie Chrisco Andrews and Michael Andrews Chieko and John Barry Carol and Michael ’62 Berenson Jennifer and Matthew Berzok Sara and Karan Bhatia Dominic Bianchi Penelope Perlman Blank ’86 Amy Borrus and Rich Miller Cathy and Barry Boss Catherine Botticelli and Michael Spafford Cindy Boyle Naatz and Daniel Naatz Tracey Braun and Chris McIsaac Brooke and Philip Bronner Susan and Laird Burnett Mrs. Lenore Clark Mr. John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mrs. Mary L. Cornille Suzy Friedman Cohen and David Cohen

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Lee Carol Cook and William Cook Brian Cox Kim Cubine and Chris Quillian Erin Davis and Jonathan Etter Mr. and Mrs. Mark Davis Angelique dePlaa and Christoph Duenwald Jennifer and Viet Dinh Molly Elkin and Ivan Wasserman Mary Ellis and Christopher Foley Laura Epstein and Kenneth Boley Alison Fellowes Comly and Nate Comly Marti and Steven Friedman Nancy and Michael Gaba Jamie Gangel and Daniel Silva Ramona and Thomas Gann Eve Gerber and Jason Furman Marc Glosserman ’92 Scott Glosserman ’95 Nancy and Andrew Gralla Judith Gravitz and Lester Sotsky Jennifer and Jeffrey Grosman James Harmon ’89 Guian Heintzen ’75

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Amy and Andrew Herman Melinda Humphry Becker and William Becker Jane Humpstone and Courtney Ward Ali and Barry Hurewitz Alessandra Iorio Mary Jacoby and Glenn Simpson Tereza and Peter Jacoby Paul Jeon and Ryan O’Hara Patricia and Daniel Jinich Lisa and Jonathan Kanter Karen and Joseph Kelliher Simmie Kerman and Steven Aarons Rachel Kronowitz and Mark Lewis Susie and Andrew Lazerow Mr. Seymour Lesser and Ms. Audrey Zucker Laura and Barry Levine Mara Liasson and Jonathan Cuneo Sharon and Marc Lindsey Rachel Marcus ’85 and Eddie Atwood Wendy Wilk Markarian and Tom Markarian Toni and Peter Marx Thea and Gary Mason Patricia Raber Max and Kenneth Max

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Menschel Megan and Fabrice Souchaud Elaine Metlin and Andrew Clark Quentin Meyer ’58 Sabine Miltner and David Estabrook Wendy and Matthew Morris Nayantara Mukerji and Thomas Dohrmann Louise Nelson and David Smith Deborah and Brett Orlove Ingrid Ott and Douglas Jones Kimberly Parker and Daniel Mach Elana and Jonathan Perl Nina Pillard and David Cole Tracy Pilzer ’75 Hayley Gordon Pivato ’88 and Gianluca Pivato Vicky Quint and Michael Quint ’90 Laura Rabinovitz ’04 Marc Rabinovitz ’96 Mythili and Venkatesh Raman Michael Reilly and Jeff Blum Melissa Reinberg and Neal Kravitz Amy Rifkind and Bruce Brown Cynthia Rohrbeck and Philip Wirtz

Barbara Rollinson and Warren Crowdus Mr. and Mrs. Paul Saperstein Miriam Sapiro and Stephen Labaton Lisa Schneiderman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Schwabacher Marlisa Senchak and Tom Delaney Ana Serra and Karl Driessen Mr. and Mrs. J. Curtis Shambaugh Joye and Scott ’79 Shepperd Mickie Simon and Brian Schwalb Jennifer and Erik ’85 Smulson Christopher Sperl and Christopher Erckert Kathryn and Mark Spindel Laurie Sprung and William Mayer Brian Steinwurtzel ’95 Richard Steinwurtzel Debra Stencel and Patrick Phillips Hillary and Frank Stiff Nancy Stone and Chuck Miller Vikki Tobak and Bijan Salehizadeh Churek and Nurbek Turdukulov Suzanne Turner and David Schulman Diane Ty and Daniel Connors Valeria Van Brummelen and Chris Newkirk Jennifer and Paul Verbesey Alexandra Verveer Rachel and R. Jacob Vogelstein Stephanie and Arnim von Friedeburg David Wallack ’78 Carla Wheeler and Jeff Naimon Sondra Novick Wolff ’89 and Evan Wolff Katie Wood and Valerie Hletko Kinney Zalesne and Scott Siff Adobe Amgen Foundation Matching Gifts Google The Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund The Neiman Marcus Group Wells Fargo Foundation $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (6) Ms. Patty Abramson and Mr. Lester Silverman Natalie Adler ’88 and Christopher Walker Susannah Kerr Adler and John Adler Michele Altemus and Joseph Cullen Susan Anderson and Doug Shulman Karen Antebi and William Goldfarb Keiko Antoku and Chris Papageorgiou Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher Veronica Aulestia and Tim Boyer

Ms. Hope Babcock Pareezad and Viraf Bankwalla Leah Barr and Brian Joseph Sylvia Becker and Hugh Winkler Mr. Henry Belber Amy Berger and Glen Nager Melissa Bianchi and Manny Pastreich Benu Bidani and Hanan Jacoby Ellen and John Boardman Eve Harmon Bould ’92 Megan Bowles and Alfred Levitt Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bozzi Rita and David Brickman Mr. and Mrs. William Brodsky Dr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Bronner Judy Brown Steven Bryan Lauren Chelec Cafritz and Elliot Cafritz ’77 Carol Carter and Charles Glaser Elizabeth and Bart Cobbs Lynn and Robert Coffman Laurie ’93 and Gary Cohen Beth and Brian Cohn Yue Sonya Cong and Shanjin He Jonathan Cooper ’01 Maygene and Stephen Daniels Claudia de Colstoun-Werebe and Roberto Werebe Benjamin Dean ’02 Laura Dean ’06 William Dean ’10 Andrea and Mark Dettelbach Mr. Martin Dickinson Stacey Dixon ’89 Mr. and Mrs. William Dockser Nicole Donath and Sean Lev Adrienne and Wayne Edisis Elizabeth Eggleston and Bo Chipman Mr. Andre Elkon Karen Barr and Andrew Engel ’80

Nicole Erb ’85 and Henry Farrell Shamita and Ralph Etienne-Cummings Ellen and Rodney Eyster Kelly and Doron Ezickson Stefania Fabrizio and Humberto Lopez Lisa and Roger Fairfax Mr. Hughlyn Fierce Amy Finch Paige Fitzgerald and Dan Froomkin Danielle and David Frum Nat Frum ’12 Vince Gabor ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gaines Robin and Todd Galkin Noe Gerson and Peter Reinecke Mindy Ginsburg and Gregg Elias Christine and Ted Gistaro Neal Glickfield Jonathan Glickman ’87 Natalia and Beni Golani Ellen and Joseph Goldstein Mrs. Toni Gordon Alexandra and Wayne Gore Jefferson Gramm ’93 Mr. and Mrs. William Green Marilyn Gushner Catherine and Joe Hall Anne Harkavy and David Ogden Christi and Reginald Hay Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heckel Diane Holt and Michael Feldman Dominique Howard and Charles Faselis Louise and Mark Howe Tracey Hughes and David Stern Jeffrey Shields Hunker and Mark Hunker Lisa Berenson Hurst ’97 Catherine and Richard Jackson Sonali Jain-Chandra and Rinku Chandra Nancy and David Jameson Heather Jeffress

$1,000,000

Amount spent on technology in 2014-15

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William Jeffress ’92 Jennifer Johnson-Calari and Cesare Calari Andrea and Adam Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Joel Kamya Jennifer Kaplan and Kenneth Doroshow Nancy Kaplan Robert Kaplan Anjali Kataria and Vinay Bhargava Alyce Katayama Jenkins and Thomas Jenkins Cynthia Kendrick and Donald Fowler Alka and Sudhakar Kesavan Sarah Kilmer and David Gordon Jeong Kim and Kihwan Sung Nancy Kim and Charles Hewlett Linda and Michael King Jane Kirby-Zaki and Fares Zaki Alisa Klein and Craig Goldblatt Cynthia and Todd Klein Stacey and Daniel Kohl Laurie Kohn and Christopher Murphy Irine Kokaia and Koba Gvenetadze Mr. and Mrs. John Kossow Christine and Tim Koubek Vinca and David LaFleur Susan and Gary Lancz Julie Lang Evelyn Laurencin and Eric Vincent Guichard Tamara Wilds Lawson ’92 Mr. David Leary Micki Leder Jeremy Levitt ’98 Joan Bialek Levitt and Louis Levitt Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Lichtman Jacqueline Rosenberg London and Paul London Janice Lower and Paul Berger Jodi and Philip Lowit Amy and Bruce Lustig Lynn and Matthew Mahaffie Sherry and Marlon Maragh Ann Walker Marchant ’78 Carmen Marchetti and Vivek Arora Aleta Margolis and Michael Brodsky Dee Martin and Vijay Shanker Colette Matzzie and Daniel Rosenberg Danna and John McCormick Mrs. Betsy McIsaac Kim and Bob McKernan Deryl McKissack and Leon Albritton April Mellody and Chris Gillespie Norma and Kenneth Mendelson Rhonda and Evan Migdail Patricia Millett and Robert King

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Joyita Mukherjee and Robert Palacios Mr. and Mrs. David Nexon May Ng and Gilles Alfandari Charlotte Oldham-Moore and David Lubitz Michelle and Chris Olson Nancy and Adam ’85 Oppenheim Cynthia Cramer Osaghae and Michael Osaghae Raja Parihar and Subash Penmetsa Jacob Perlman ’94 Mrs. Julia Perlman Sarah Perlman Paulsen ’90 Carolyn (C.A.) Pilling Sue Pleming and David Satola Mrs. Avril Plotnek Mary Qualiana and Carlos Vazquez Hillary Quarles and David Smith Susan and Arnold Quint Randa Radwan Bozena Radzewicz-Bak and Tadeusz Bak Charla Rath and Chip Henstenburg Pamela Reeves and Jeffrey Goldberg Scott Renschler ’88 Cynthia Richman and Jason Snyder Kay Richman and Daniel Kaplan Edith and Matthew Roberts Amber and Warren Romine Sheri and Rob Rosenfeld Patricia Rosenman Gloria and John ’57 Runyon Mr. Harry Sachse Kim Sajet and Anthony Meadows Katherine Samolyk and Robert Avery Susana Sanchez and Tom Kahn Ken Schaner Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schneiderman Allyson Senie and Roger Colaizzi Bahram and Mandana Shahriari Stephen Shapiro and Susana Fainbraun Shapiro Kevin Sheekey ’84 Fern Shepard and Matthew Olsen Lilian Shepherd and Neil Albert Marie Sheppard and Scott Rockafellow Beverly and Harlan Sherwat Judy and Jerry Shulman Megan Smith and Kara Swisher Aileen and Henry Solomon Matthew Solomon ’90 and Kate Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sosnoff Lori and Ben Soto Lisa Stark Alissa Stern and Louis Boorstin Sarah Stettinius ’90

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Lisa Swoboda and Jit Singh Natalie Tawil and James Morsink Allison and William Treanor Margaret Trias ’99 Lisa and Seth Tucker Jill Tuennerman and Michael Kirk Douglas Usher ’87 Tara van Emmerik and Thomas Carcaterra Sona Varma and Sujoy Bose Jenny and Stewart Verdery Michael Ward ’82 Deb and Michael Warsaw Sarah Rosen Wartell and Ted Wartell Mr. Douglas Watson Lindsay Lavine Webster ’85 Marisa and Evan Wechsler ’96 Susan and Adam ’83 Wegner Jessika and David Wellisch Emily West Leigh Williams Georgia Willie-Carnegie and Shafee Carnegie Allison and Eric Win Wendee Wolfson Christina Wood and Marcus Noland Yuqing Rebecca Xue and Hao Kang Rachel Winnik Yavinsky ’01 Julia and Smith Yewell Allison Zieve and Aaron Kaslow General Electric Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts $500-$999 Anonymous (8) Miriam and Sanford Ain Tricia and Bobby Asher Samantha ’86 and Matthew Babcock Susan Baer and Michael Abramowitz Olivia and Bill Baker Lewellyn and Anthony Belber Kim Berman and Farzad Mostashari Shelly and Peter Berman Mary Lou Berres Nancy Black Jackie and Ken Blank Claire Bloch and Geoffrey Griffis Mr. Norman Blumenfeld Elena Boley and David Leviss Kristin Brady and Andrew Gunther Koren Brewer ’85 Malia Brink and Matthew Holmwood Benjamin Britton ’95 Marilyn and David Brockway

Allyson and David Brown Sharon Brown and Michael Pollowitz Abir Burgul and Nabil Fawaz Phyllis Chovitz and Danny Gainsburg Tanya Chutkan and Peter Krauthamer Penelope Codrington Robert Cohen Sue Cohn ’76 and Larry Novey Debby and Bob Cooper Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79 Meredith and Michael Cymerman Leah Daniels ’98 Shawn Davis-Wilensky and Peter Wilensky Kathleen Day and Charles Rothfeld Deborah DeMasi and Robert Jaffe Marie Henriette dePelet-Colaço and Francis Colaço Tania Dmytraczenko and Christopher Mackie Sharon Donnell and Paul Wagner Uzma and Larry Dorman Katherine Dube and Donald Saelinger Maureen Duignan Katherine Dunbar and Mark Levitch Rebecca and Jacob Dweck Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr Betsy and Sid Edelmann Lexa Edsall ’85 and Bob Victor Denver George Edwards Lucy Eldridge and Larry Freedman Linda Elliott and John West Jennifer and David Ernst Barbara Felber and George Pavlakis Mrs. Jewel Fierce Karen Fitzgerald and Robert Vigersky Ilana Fogelman and Tim Zimmermann Robin Miller Friedman ’94 and Brian Friedman Shelly and Joseph Galli Itobomo and Rufus Garba Melinda and William Gardner Alison Kadzik Gathright ’00 Holly and Rudolph Geist Gina Gionfriddo ’87 Megan Glasheen and Joseph Liu David Goldberg ’98 Adriana Gomez and Angel Gil-Ordonez Jo Ann Grainger and John Devlin Michelle Grant Ervin Melissa Green ’90 Andréa Guedes and Marcelo Da Silva Cintia and Flavio Guimaraes Winnie Hahn and Jack Flyer

Alan Harper ’74 Nancy Herman Sheila Heslin and Klaus Tilmes John Hockmeyer ’88 Cynthia Hogan and Mark Katz John Holmes Lee Reizian Holmes Marshall Horowitz ’81 Mary Houghton ’76 and Kevin Barr Laura and Andrew Howell Susan and Kenneth Ikenberry Damon Jackson Ketanji and Patrick Jackson Toni Michelle Jackson Ruth and Simon Jacobsen Jennifer James and Arthur Hepler Norma and Christopher Jeffers Judith and Bill Jeffress Cheryl Johnson and Clarence Ellison William Jordan, Jr. Asyeh and Allen Kabiri Ana and Philippe Karam Jessica Keimowitz ’90 Cameron Kennedy and Rick Desimone Julie and Andy Klingenstein Irene and James Koukios Joni Kuckuck Belinda Lai and Steve Cowan Marsha Lea and J. Stephen Morrison Meheret Morrison ’14 Mr. Thomas B. Lemann Michael Lenkin ’82 Virginia Levin and Bruce Vinik Ms. Marion Lewin Yan Liu and Jing Zhang Tim Lyons Tanya and Alejandro Mayorkas Leta and Jeffrey Mays Natallia and Michael Mazo Vonya McCann and Richard Roberts Sabrina McCarthy and David Etheridge Ambassador Donald McHenry Perry and Darin McKeever Kimberly McMillan Monica Medina and Ron Klain Ron Merenstein Linn Meyers Ellen Mignoni Sandra and Christopher Minor Rebecca Mishuris ’97 Kelly Mistretta ’94 Menghua Mu and Meiyan Zhang

Fedora and Martin Mühleisen Simonetta Nardin Jonathan Nathan ’90 Sharyn Nerenberg Debony Hughes and Leroy Nesbitt ’78 Kirstiaan and John Nevin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newkirk Anne and Peter Nguyen Inna Dexter and Benjamin Nussdorf ’00 Jane and Glenn Oakley Eloise Obadia and Stefano Curto Mr. and Mrs. Casper Y. Offutt Steven Oritt ’92 Barbara Ormond and Ted Ahlers Polly Panitz and Allen Joseph Stacey and Joshua Perelman Kim-Quyen Pham and H. T. Than Joanna Phinney Joshua Pincus ’06 Elizabeth Pitofsky ’87 and David Mode ’87 Jennifer and David Plotnek Diane and Arnold Polinger Jean and Terry Pool Reyna and Laurence Pratt Margaret and Jim Pressler Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Price Rebecca Prime and David Bloch Amy and Robert Quackenboss Heather Quinn and Laura Shores Jocelyn and Michael Rapelyea Tamara Razi and Peter Lewis Ona Reckling and Leonard Rayford Margo Reid and Greg Simon Sarah Rinaldi ’94 Sarah Rogan ’00 Thomasina Rogers and Gregory Gill Allison and Dean Rosen Beryl Howell and Michael Rosenfeld ’74 Stephanie Rosenthal ’98 and Scott Meisler Lynn Rothberg Andrea Lebbin Rubinfeld ’98 Naomi Rutenberg and Robert Burn Lana Ryaboy and Alex Yazlovsky Sherill and David Sanger Jennifer and Vittorio Sartorelli Elizabeth Saul Samantha Scher ’98 Daniele Schiffman and Toby Heffernan Amy Scott and David Cooper Jacqueline Scott and David Fortney Sara Sellers ’13 Mr. and Mrs. David Shaw

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Sarah Page Shea ’79 Caroline Russell Smith ’90 Deborah Smolover and Eric Bord Shalini Soni-Bhagat and Vipul Bhagat Sarah Lichtman Spector ’90 and Edward Spector Micah Stein-Verbit and Scott Mikolajczyk Mary Stewart and Thomas John Sandra Stewart Andrea Sussman and Ray Adomaitis Sheryl Swankin ’75 Mrs. Jeffere Taylor Karla Taylor and Mike McNamee Kathryn Taylor and Marc Schwartz Julia TenEyck Lauren and Mark Tobias Kathy Toomey and Josh Freeman Andrea Townsend and Anders Agerskov Sayuri Umeda and Jay Thomas Beth and Sanford Ungar Dr. John Vance John Vibert ’89 Xiaolan Wang Zheng Wang and Vitali Nazlymov Judith Warner and Max Berley Artherelle and Gregory West Marti and Richard Weston Mr. Alan Raphael and Ms. Elizabeth White Jacqueline and James White Reed White Jill Wilkins and Jonathan Kaplan

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Florence and Jamie Williams Joanne Wong and Lona Nallengara Jin Wu and Yue Tang Laura and Michael Zeilinger Mauri Ziff and Jeff Hamond Mr. Matthew Zinn Duke Energy Matching Gifts Program Raytheon

Coleman Bazelon ’82 Susan and Ashby Beal Sage and Jonathan Belber Tamara Belt and Sean Greene Marilyn Benoit and Geoffrey Brown Mrs. Susan Benson Rod Beresford ’75 Deborah Berkowitz and Geoffrey Garin Andrew Berman and David German $250-$499 Alicia Billings and Bradford Brown Anonymous (6) Kova Blake Sonya and Kenneth Abney Susan and Robert Bodansky Jenny Abramson ’95 and Jake Maas Brooksley Born and Alexander Bennett Linda Adams and Jonathan Greenblatt Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brand Lucile Adams-Campbell and Thomas Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brody Nathaniel Ahlers ’06 Barbara and David Buonora Vinita Ahuja Crissy Cáceres and James Cox Amala Alag Sybil and Joe Caldwell Sarah Alexander and William Pearce JD and Neal Callander Leslie Allen and Gregory Foote Jenaro Cardona-Fox ’96 Veronica Ampey Rachel Carren and Mark Young Alfredo Apolloni ’84 Paige Chabora and Jared Freedman Millie Ariza and Ameer Qureshi Mr. and Mrs. Reid P. Chambers Pamela Arya Irica and James Cheeks Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Bacsinila Matthew Clement ’94 Stephen Bailey Michelle Cobb Laura Ballard Jaclyn Cohen ’03 Mr. John Banzhaf Mr. Edwin Cohn Mary and Bertram Bartlett Natasha Cole-Leonard and Joe Leonard Alicia Batts Kevin Collar Sarah Bax and Clarence Wooten Abigail Colucci ’90

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Lara and Nicolas ’98 Cuttriss Elan Daniels ’97 Vyjayanti and Sanjay Desai Mayra Diaz Laura Dickinson and Paul Berman Kim DiDonato-Murrell and Martin Murrell Mr. David Dixon, Sr. Jason Dixon ’98 Karen Donfried and Alan Untereiner Jonathan Drobis ’98 Jeffrey Dygert and Mark Seifert Janann Eldredge ’90 Mark Epstein Marie-Jose Etheart and Jay Feldman Katherine and Bob Eustice Mrs. Turry Eustice Julie Fernandes and Avner Shapiro Suzanne and Theodore Fields Andrea Nix and Sean Fine ’92 Lois and Michael Fingerhut Elizabeth ’86 and Christopher Finley Rebecca Fishman ’86 Deborah Berger Fox ’91 Julie and Martin Franklin Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman Francesca Frey-Kim and Ryan Kim Lorraine Friedman and Douglas Goldstein Gulrukh Gamwalla-Khadivi and Mehran Khadivi Laura Garcia de Mendoza and Gustavo Hormiga Jessica and David Gillespie Amilda Gjecovi and Cezar Kongoli Amy Glickman ’90 Anne Glusker and Scott Busby Susan Goda Jeffrey Goldberg ’94 Lee and Robert Goldman Kimberly Gordon Schoonover ’86 Kate Gephardt Greenberg and Neil Greenberg Karen and George Greenfield Mr. Ron Lehker and Ms. Linda Greensfelder Lynne and Alfred Groff John Guttmann Ashley Cooper Hair Nina Hammond Shelley Harris Florence and Peter Hart Michael Desautels Margaret Hennessey Amber Hilliard ’00 Alexander Hirschhorn ’01

Lee Hockstader Ayanna Hudson ’89 Kathy Hudson Ben Hutchens Holly Idelson and Donald Simon Lindsey and Evan Jacobson Phebe Jensch and Donald Baur Libby Jewett and Stephen Teach Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone Johnson Roz Jonas Heather Jones ’90 Anne Joyce and Clifton Johnson Terri Judge and Philip DeCola Matthew Kaminski ’90 Eli Kaplan ’02 Janice Kaplan and Michael Allen Tara Swaminatha and Robert Kaplan ’87 Sherry and Stuart Kaswell Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Keeley Amy ’90 and Quinn Killy Andrea and David Kirsch Lisa Kleine and James Meltsner Alexandra Klingenstein ’05 Laura and Daniel Koffsky Aimee Kohn ’88 Ann and Peter Kolker Dresden Koons Ellen Krieger and Gary Ratner Shimareet and Dhruv Kumar Mandinema Kumbula-Fraser and Andre Fraser Mr. and Mrs. Nick Lamont Georgina Larkin ’90 Martha and Eugene Larkin Anita LaRue-McAfee and Arthur McAfee Nancy Lazear and Patrick Coyne Daniel Lewin ’79 Stephen Lewis ’82 David Lublin ’86 Lynne Mackay-Atha and Donald Atha Benjamin Mankiewicz ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Markarian Ronald Maxwell ’74 Kendal Culp McManus ’90 Kasia Mendelsohn ’87 and Paul Gresens Eric Menell ’93 Andrew Mergen ’82 Mihriye and Cem Mete HarDisha and Ransom Miller Penelope Mitchell Jacqueline ’88 and Alexander Moen Arshad Mohammed Alison Murray Cromer and Warrick Cromer

Harold Newton Maia Gemmill and Daniel Nexon ’91 Aromie Noe and Halsey Rogers Ellen Opper-Weiner Carol Paige-Marshall and Carlton Marshall Angela Pak and Diego Arioti Michael Parker ’92 Elizabeth Parkinson-Wyner and Joshua Wyner Lydia and Sanford Parnes Amy and Peter Pastan Sarah Pekkanen and Glenn Reynolds Eva Perdahl and William Wallace Leslie Phillips Linda and Gordon Phillips Sheila Pires and Kathy Lazear Jennifer Popek ’93 Carol Prince and Michael Pretzer Tracey Pyles ’82 Brandon Qureshi ’12 Sarah Bloom Raskin and Jamie Raskin ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rehorst Pauline Robison Nicolette Romano ’89 Aviva and Dan Rosenthal Lizzie Rosenthal ’94 Richard Rubenstein Amy and Laurence Ruberl Katherine Russell and George Askew Susan Ryerson Holly Holt Salb and John Salb Lida Salmani Ryan Samuel ’96 Janis and Phil Schiff Barbara and Eric Schone Anya Schoolman and Barry Lynn Evelyn and Steven Schulman Peg Schultz Joanna Schwartz ’90 Rhonda Schwartz and Steve Wermiel Dr. and Mrs. Ira Scott Suzanne and Roger Segalla Lisa and Jay Shambaugh Mr. George H. Shapiro Sally Shea and Michael Christian Paula Young Shelton and Hilary Shelton Susanne and Tony Shine Maggie Siena ’81 Justin Silver ’97 Beth and Leonard Sloan Elizabeth Slobasky ’97 Danielle and Jesse Smallwood William Smith

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Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Snyder Dale and Stephen Sonnenberg Abbe and Peter Steinglass Casey Stewart ’94 Elaine and Aaron Stopak Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt Rhonda Stroud and Larry Nittler Tricia Su and John Moy Deirdre Sumida ’85 Kristin Thomas Tappan Lauren Tappan ’16 Danielle Tarantolo ’97 RaeCarole Tekeste ’74 Margaret Thale and David Sonoda Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Thomas Kamaya Thompson Thomas Tillotson ’93 M.J. and Herman Torres Brenda Turnbull and Robert Tomasko Keven Vance and Philip Gerson Aaron Vernon ’94 Annie Vinik ’97 and Jamie Lawrence ’97 Katharine and Thomas Waldmann Karen and Darwin Walker Mrs. Cecille Wasserman Monique and Daron Watts Peggy and Ted Weidlein Amy Weiss and Peter Kadzik Arthur Weiss Colleen and Bryan Williams Mr. and Mrs. George Willie Barbara Winnik Joel Winston Andrea Wolfman and William Brighton Mr. and Mrs. David Wolsk Diana Wright ’65 Julia Wright and Peter Shapiro Carole Yanofsky and David Anderson Shiva and Shawn Zargham Hewlett-Packard Company Match Weygandt Wines Up to $250 Anonymous (22) Vanessa and Doug Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Morton Abramowitz Mala Adiga and Charles Biro Elizabeth Ahlers ’03 Walter Ailes Daniel Ain ’05 David Ain ’00 Sartaj Alag

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Nina Albert ’90 Brooke Alexander and Robert Brown Mary Jane and Robert Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Alexander Nizam Ali ’88 Alejandra and Albert Allen Jaber Altaki ’81 Jacob Anbinder ’10 Ana and Paul Anderson Mac Andrews ’15 Caroline Anstey and Milt Hudson Lindsey Antos Molly Appelbaum ’08 Christine Arnold-Lourie and Benjamin Lourie Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Aserkoff Mark Ashin ’14 Ian Andrew Askew ’15 Anna and Anders Aslund Sheila Allen Avelin ’89 Linda and James Avery Dzifa Awunyo-Akaba ’95 Ted Baab ’01 Michelle Bacchus and Marc Van Allen Sarah Baird ’97 Lizzy Baker ’13 Laura ’91 and Grant Baldwin Holly Balshem Phil Bansal Brenda Barbour and Laton Palmer Sarah Barillaro ’95 Betty Barker Janice Barksdale Taylor Barksdale ’13 John Barnes Betty Barnett Ian Barr ’08 Nancy Barrett Mary-Patricia Barron ’03 Carrie and Mamadou Barry Elisse Battle Elena Baylis and Donald Munro Catherine Beal ’13 Mr. Charles Beard Zoe Beard-Fails ’13 Charles Becker ’72 Jane Becker ’75 Marina Beckhard and Alan Luberda Rose Bednar and Lee Schachter Nicholas Beizer ’90 Johanna Bell ’94 Jane Benesch ’76 Ben Berger ’14

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Rebecca A. L. Berger ’15 Michele Bergeron Barbara Bergman Jamie Berkelhammer ’01 Alexandra Berkley ’03 Mrs. May Berkowitz Brooke Bernold ’00 Annie Bernstein ’06 David Bernstein ’85 Nancy Bernstine Barbara Betsock and Tristan Jorge Orellano Kathy Beusterien and Andrew Nicely Jyothi and Ramesh Bhargava Mr. Paul Bianchi and Mrs. Barbara Bianchi Dunbar Ingrid Binswanger ’90 Garren Campbell Bird ’95 Griffin Black ’14 David C. Blair ’54 Benjamin Blount ’09 Bradley Blount ’12 Diane and Willie Blount Julia Blount ’08 Sam Boardman ’14 Daniel Bodansky ’02 Margaret Bonacorda Aisha Wilson Bond ’93 and M. Jermane Bond Mr. and Mrs. Jack Borrus Avery Boyce ’97 Mrs. Jane Boynton Marissa Boynton ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Brach Matthew Bradley ’06 Megan Bradley ’07 Jeffrey Brand Grant Braswell ’02 Marina and Philip Braswell Rebekah Braswell ’99 Jan Braumuller Patricia and Daniel Braun Carolyn and Kevin Braxton Maya Braxton ’10 Katie Bartlett Brebbia ’95 Louise and Bruce Brennan Joyce Ann Brentley Krista Brentley ’94 Ben Breuer ’13 Julia Broder ’04 Louise Brodnitz Diane Brodsky Philip Bronstein ’08 Frances ’79 and Steven Brookner

Mary and Charles Brooks Carol Brooks and Peter Biersteker Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brooks Henry Brown ’12 Taylor Brown Linda Bryant and Paul Gaston Joel Buchwald ’72 Martin Bullock, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Busby Daniel Butts ’90 Elaine Byergo and John Burghardt Geoff Byrne Elisabeth Cafritz ’13 Mr. Michael Trister and Mrs. Diffy Campbell Rhona Campbell Elyssa Caplan ’03 Lynda and George Carlson Elizabeth and Todd Carter Terence Carter ’97 Elizabeth Carty ’82 Mr. Mario Casarella Rita Castillo Vivian Cavalieri and Dan Grosse Cally Chakrian Ms. Hope Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chartoff Rachel Cherner ’14 Johanne and Paul Chévere

Yi-Na Chung Robynne Chutkan Mr. and Mrs. Winston Chutkan Michelle Clair ’98 Marjorie Clark Melissa Clark Geoffrey Claussen ’97 Cori Coats Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cogen Jocelyn and Mark ’80 Cogen Gaby Cohen ’15 Giselle Cohen and Franklin De La Rosa Mark Cohen Michael Cohen ’05 Miriam Cohen ’97 Phillip Cohen ’06 Antoine Colaço ’90 Kimberly Colden-Massey and John Massey Brooke Coleman John Comer ’90 Janet Hanson and Gary Conklin Ingrid Conklin Paula and Kevin Connelly Joy and Eric Contee Susan Cook Amy Gerstin Coombs ’75 Alexander Cooper ’87

Nataki Corneille Pat and Kevin Cornell Maureen Corrigan and Richard Yeselson Amy Cortina Noah Cowan ’15 Susanna Cowen ’97 Megan Coyne ’05 Peter Coyne ’07 Rachel Coyne ’11 Brent Creelman ’76 Mrs. Nannette Crowdus Constance Crowley Catherine Cullen ’02 Kate Cullen ’12 Emily and Robert Culp Alcides Cummins Liz Curry ’80 Mike Curtin Ms. Carol Cutler Caitlin Adams and Gary Cutler Eliza Dach ’13 Jonathan Dach ’04 Nicholas Dale ’67 Kimberly Damm Rachel Dan ’14 Miriam Daniel and Larry Wolff Jennifer Daniels and Herrick Fox Mr. and Mrs. Gary Danis

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COMPREHENSIVE GIVING FOR 2014-15 (cont.)

Amba Datta ’99 Cecelia Davis Kathleen Dawson Diana de Brito and Jonathan Gottlieb Yka de Castillo Sarah de Ferranti ’86 Florri and Kenneth DeCell Perry Degener Eric Deinoff ’98 Corazon dela Santa Regina dela Santa ’03 Aidan Delaney ’14 Ayesha Delany-Brumsey ’01 Robin Delany-Shabazz Jeffrey M. Delozier Rachel Delston ’98 Erica DeMille Michael Demos ’86 Flore de Preneuf Amanda Deringer Noami Devore ’93 Sora Devore ’90 Lauren Dickert Allease Dillard and Annice Lawrence Laisha and Horace Dismuke Kiran Dixit and Nitin Gogtay Allison Dodge ’95 Joan and Douglas Dodge Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dohrmann Melissa Dorfman ’91 Mrs. Hattie Dorman Sean Dougherty Claire Douglass ’01 Timothy Dowd ’84 Nichelle Dowell David Driscoll ’04 Danielle DuCré Benjamin DuGoff ’96 Eva DuGoff ’98 Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar Topher Dunne

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Abraham Dyk ’00 Benjamin Dyson ’91 Matthew Eddy Susie and Rick Edelson William Edgar ’80 Charles Edwards Natalie Francesca Edwards ’14 Rachel Eggleston ’08 Barbara Eghan Maggie Ehrenreich ’09 Jedd Ehrmann ’93 Emily and Michael Eig Juliet Eilperin ’88 David Eisenberg ’00 Angela and Edison Elkins Sophie Emery ’13 Laura Emmons and Neal Brown Anita and David Ensor Michael Eppler ’13 Alexandra Epstein ’13 Berlinda and Kenneth Eras Julia Ernst ’14 Vivian Escobar-Stack and Robert Stack David Eskin Andrew Ryan Eugene ’09 Jennifer and Ronald Eugene Asli Everett and Patrick Carome Anna Fajerson ’79 Lisa Fall Judy Falloon and Lee Helman Anne Hassenbusch Falvey ’75 William Fastow ’96 Elaine Feidelman Joel Feidelman Nancy Feidelman ’84 Cara Feinberg ’94 Ilana Feldman ’87 Rachel Feldman ’90 Will Feldman ’13 Lewis Ferguson Tasha Ferguson ’96

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ferrie Joshua Fingerhut ’01 Ellen Ross Finn ’85 Meg Finn and David Michener Marc Finzi ’13 Susan Alpern Fisch and Ricky Fisch Aaron Fisher ’14 Julia Fisher ’09 Karen Fitzgerald-Shelton ’80 Janet Fleischman and Joel Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flyer Joshua Foer ’00 Elizabeth Foley ’13 Pamela and Benson Forman Hunter Fortney ’11 Olivia and David Foster Mrs. Helen Fox Chris France Patricia Francis Mrs. Bathsheba Freedman Kimberley Freeman Monica and Thomas Friday Jeremy Fridling ’11 Joseph Fridling Nicole Fridling ’14 Aileen Mannix and Eric Friedenson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friedenson Jennifer Friedman ’01 Robin Friedman ’85 Matt Friel Jennifer Gibson Frink ’88 Agnieszka Fryszman and Stuart Ishimaru Jesse Fuchs-Simon ’98 Beatrice Fuller Brian Fung ’06 Kevin Fung ’11 Ms. Elizabeth Gable Elizabeth Gaines Anna Lipton Galbraith ’04 Gillian Galen ’97 Mr. and Mrs. James Galkin Robert Ganz ’90 Laura Gardner ’87 Lily Gasperetti ’14 Daniel Gati ’95 Jeb Gaybrick ’00 Maria Pia Gekas ’05 Bill George Robert Gerber ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gerson Matthew Gerson ’14 Barbara and Charles Gholz

Matthew Gillespie ’08 Sam Gilman ’11 James Ginsburg ’83 Brian Glick ’94 Marilyn and Michael Glosserman Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Glusker Alexander Goldberg ’11 Barbara Goldberg Donna Goldbloom ’75 Alejandro Golding ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Goldman Scott Goldman ’00 Elizabeth Goldmuntz ’79 Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. ’51 Anna and Thomas Howe Fatoumata Goodwin Jacob Gordon ’13 Sue and Lenny Gordon Jacqueline Gosby Marc Gottesman ’11 Caroline Gottlieb ’13 Karen Trister Grace ’87 and Peter Grace Alison and Adam Grasheim Alexandra Graubert ’73 Victor Green Liza Greenberg ’79 Rochelle Greenberg Marcia and Michael Greenberger Jesse Greenblatt ’08 Rhonney Greene ’92 Elaine Greenstone Mr. and Mrs. Burt Griffin Sean Griffin Cristina Murphy Griffith ’87 Stacey and Sherlock Grigsby Jennifer Grollman ’90 Ariella Pearl Cavalieri Grosse ’15 Monique ’90 and Sandy Gulino Raymond Gustini ’05 Ms. Doreen Guttenberg Alejandra Guzman ’00 Nicholas Hadjimichael ’14 Gayle and Todd Hager Sabrina Halberg ’13 Eric Halperin ’88 Karen Feidelman Hamlin ’87 Jason Hanerfeld ’13 David Hannallah ’90 James Harmon Michele Harrington Stephen Harris Christopher Haskett ’80

Rebecca Haskins ’93 Charles Hatton Mrs. Earlean Hay Nicholas Hazen ’99 Eliza Hecht ’07 Jennifer Heffernan Ellen Heiman and Steven Agresta Constance and Richard Heitmeyer Rafael Heller ’85 Andrew Hellman ’09 Peter Helman ’11 Sarah Helmstadter and Gregg Solomon Alex Hemmer ’04 Gregory Henderson Karen Henderson ’73 Mrs. Sondra Henderson Karen Hendrixson and Robert Sharer Brian Hennessey ’00 Lisa Henry Maile Hermida ’00 Monica Cheek Hernandez ’81 Jo Ann Hersh Rebecca Shulman Herz ’89 Jeffrey Herzog ’96 Mrs. Peg Heslin Sharmen Hettipola ’13 Meryl and Jevon Heyliger Alastair Hicklin-Coorey ’13 Shalini Hicklin-Coorey ’14 Dr. W. Dulany Hill ’70 Jill Himmer and James Duncan Carole Hirsch ’94 Leni Hirsch ’13 Michael Hirsch Betsy and Ronald Hirschel Carole and John Hirschmann Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hletko Ann Hoenigswald and Nicholas Thorner Patrick Holland ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holle Rhoda and Stuart Holzer Ronald Hopson and Nicholas Manning Sandy and Al Horowitz Melissa Houghton Richard Houghton Brooke Houghton-Dorsey Laraine and Arthur House Hsi-Mei Huang Calder Hudson ’11 Oliver Hudson ’10 Keith Hudspeth Karen and Richard Huff

Taylor Hull Carole and Melvin Hurwitz Scot Hutchins Demetra and Louis Hutchinson Emily Hutson ’07 Judith Ikle ’81 Miriam Ikle-Khalsa ’87 Juanita Irving ’90 Kafayat and Kola Isiaq Ayoka Neal Jack ’86 Mrs. Barbara Jackson Joyce Jackson-Pierce and Theodore Pierce Linda Jackson Marcus Jackson ’91 Rhonda Freeman Jackson ’80 and Edward Jackson Veronica and Alan Jackson Vicki Jackson and Robert Taylor Benjamin Jacobs ’02 Simone Jacobs and Derek Edwards Olivia Jacquemin ’10 Julian Jamison ’91 Regina and Erwin Jansen Craig Jatlow ’04 Jonathan Jeffress ’90 Kimberly Jenkins-Chapman and Bryan Chapman Wendy Jennis and Douglas Mishkin Mojisola Jimoh ’07 Erica and Jun Jin Ms. Myrtle Johns Carroll Johnson-Welsh and Joseph Welsh Donna Johnson Angela Messersmith and Frank Johnson ’61 Rashida Johnson ’91 Ava Jones ’02 Courtney Jones ’04 Cornelia Jones Denise Jones Dwayne Jones Elizabeth Jones and Thomas Vidano Joseph Jones Khalil Jones ’14 Malik Jones ’14 Rhonda Jones Gabriel Joselow ’01 Marissa Joseph ’07 Anita Josey-Herring and Albert Herring Seamus Joyce-Johnson ’15 Aicha and Nooman Kacem Rimal Kacem ’05 Melissa Kadzik ’99

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Laurel and Al Kamen Morgan ’07 and David ’06 Kanarek Minneh and Bill Kane Stephanie Weiss Kaplan ’96 Alessandra Karam ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kaslow Carrie and Daniel Kasper ’97 Maggie Nash Kast ’51 Noah Kaswell ’09 Dara Katz ’93 Deborah Katz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Katz Sally Katzen and Timothy Dyk Jenny and Chris Kaufmann Ozhan B. Kazempour ’15 Sarah Keegan and Joel Davis Jonathan Keljik Morgan Kennedy ’03 Allena and Iman Kennerly Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alonzo Kennerly Brendon Kenney ’87 Stephanie Kent Julia Lichtman Kepniss ’93 Dr. and Mrs. David Kerman Dorothy Kerr and Joseph Beshouri Kathryn Kerr Beth Kevles Hisham Khalid ’85 Cyrus Kharas ’04 Evelyn Khoo Schwartz Brady Kirchberg ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Klein Hilary Nover Klein ’86 and Steve Klein Laura Klein ’75 Sam Klein ’14 Virginia Kling ’76 and Jonathan Greenbaum Anne Kneedler ’96 and Samuel Bryson ’00 Mrs. Doris Koenig Miriam and Martin Kohn Carlyn Kolker ’94 Noa Krakoff ’14 Laurie Kramer Zachariah Kramer ’90 David Krucoff ’85 Ella and Neal ’48 Krucoff Karin Kuenstler Walt Kuenstler Jamie Rose Kuhar ’05 Nishant Kumar ’00 Welmoed Laanstra and David Corn Meredith Persily Lamel and Joshua Lamel Belinda Lartey and Kwame Pobee

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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lassiter Janna and George Laudato Christina Laverentz ’01 Maria Lawson Winston Leong Gabriel Lerner ’14 Ilene and Michael Lerner Riva Letchinger ’10 Will Letchinger ’13 Susan and Edward Levin Elizabeth Levine ’02 Joshua Ethan Levine ’90 Mrs. Catherine Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Leviss Claudia Koeppel Levitas ’83 Alexa Levitt ’95 Barbara and David Levitt Christopher Levy Will Ley Greta and Peter Lichtenbaum Judith Lichtenberg and David Luban Ms. Mimi Liebeskind Simma and Ronald Liebman Denise and Alexander Liebowitz Deborah Edelfelt Likens ’72 Rachel Weston Linnemann ’99 Courtney Linsky ’03 Andy Lipps Lys and Ian Litmans Todd Liu Emily Livelli Michael Lloyd ’82 Devra Lobel ’00 Elena Lobo ’04 Carolyn Lockie Helen Louise Loennig ’86 Marjorie Loennig Laura and Christopher Loftus Gayle and Jeff Lomax Denese Lombardi Julie and Brian Lonardo David London ’10 Gabriel London ’95 Laura London ’07 Hannah Loonsk ’12 Harper Loonsk ’14 Laura Louis-Fils Sabria Lounes and Moncef Benyoucef Dana Louttit and John Loonsk Adrian Loving Johannah Lowin ’05 Sarah Lubega

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Chinara Lucas ’00 Rachael Lucatorto ’90 Manjula and Haresh Luthria Conor Mack ’98 Jim Mahady Nadia Mahdi and Elliott Colla Marian Makins ’98 Cynthia Malasky ’07 Mitchell Malasky ’04 Lauren Malhotra ’13 William Malone Amy Maniatis and Martin Gammon Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Maragh Julie and Stuart Margel Amy Margolies ’00 Linda Marison Zachary Mark ’05 Joshua Marks ’91 Jaclin and David Marlin Carolyn and Harold Martin Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Martin Polly Martin Thomas Mason ’90 Gayle Masri-Fridling and Barry Fridling Veronique Mattei Alicia McClintock ’05 Patricia McCole Kim McDaniel Elizabeth McDermott and Thomas Mostowy Princess and Kenyan McDuffie Ivy McLemore-Dastur Louise McIlhenny and Hugh Riddleberger Julia Davis Mead ’01 and Nelson Mead Mrs. Jeanne Medina Jenny Medvene-Collins ’04 Dr. and Mrs. Bob Mendelsohn Seth Menell ’97 Roshni Menon and Narender Mangalam Benjamin Messner ’08 Matthew Mettille Dan Meyer ’13 Megumi and Christopher Meyerson Mrs. Beatrice Meyerson and Mr. John LeMoyne Ellicott Naomi Mezey and Matthew Paul William Miezan Adam Milch ’00 Colin Miller ’05 Harrison Miller ’04 Kay Miller Rebecca Miller ’92 Susan and Leonard Miller

Rosemary Millet Logan Milliken ’01 Joanna Millstein ’13 Natalie Millstein ’14 Kenny Miluk Erica Mintzer and Robert Cull Denise Mitchell and Ray Abernathy Rebecca Mode ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Azizali Mohammed Mary Beth Moore and Douglas Ruby Tessa Adelaide Morgan ’77 Jessica Morris Kelly Morris Sydney Morris ’14 Anne and Alan Morrison Nina Morrison ’88 Davlyn Grant Mosley ’03 Tessa Muehllehner and John Day Barbara and Mark Mutterperl Luisa Myavec Susannah Myerson ’94 Lauren Levien Nagin ’01 Ron Nahr Claudia Naim-Burt ’04 Yolanda and Salim Nashid Paul Nass Lisa and Chuck Natanson Githa and Arun Natarajan Damali Neal ’91 Eddie Neal Lisa and James Neal Mrs. Marilyn Neely Vanessa Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nerenberg Tricia Nevarez Tuan Nguyen Deirdre Nicholson Grayce Niles ’14 Masako and Akihiko Nishio Sarah Nissim ’96 Melanie Nix ’87 The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton Sarah Nutman ’07 Melis Odabas-Geldiay ’14 Selin Odabas-Geldiay ’12 Denise Odell ’84 Michel Woodard Ohly ’93 Suzanne and Michael Oliwa Mrs. Myrna Olsen Ronni and Eric ’89 Oppenheim Andrew Oram ’73 Rebecca Oremland ’01

Sharon and Norman Oremland Joshua Orenstein ’86 Karen and Jan Orenstein Jacob Osterhout ’98 Jeannette Osterhout ’00 Alexandra Owens ’09 Abraham Pachikara Leslie and Benjamin Page Cordenia Paige ’83 Freeman Palmer ’75 Neville Palmer ’14 Sarah Panzer ’14 Beth Parker and Holly Holland Steve Parnell Naomi Parnes ’05 Sonija Parson ’02 Maya Patel ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Paul Nancy Furman Paul and Marc Paul Alexandros Pavlakis ’14 Eleni Pavlakis ’09 Catherine Pearson Skylé and Kalim Pearson Stephanie Pecaro ’14 Frederick Pelzman Sczerina Perot and Gary DiBianco Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perretta Victoria Perry Beth and Charles Peters Allison Noble Petro ’78 Margaret and Sandy Pfunder Mr. and Mrs. Charles Piercey Aidan Pillard ’15 Sarah Pilzer ’01 Kim and Anthony Pimenta Diamond and Calvin Piper Monica and Umberto Pisoni Shelley Bryant Plass ’80 Mia Plehn ’95 Julie Polinger ’01 Michele Pollak and Michael Letchinger

Melanie Pontz ’97 Margaret Athey Press ’93 Nicole and Craig Preston Emma C. Pretzer ’17 Sebastian M Pretzer ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Priestap Maria Prieto and Eduardo Gonzalez Troy Prinkey Nick Prout Nina Prytula Jonathan Psotka ’01 Charles Psychos Teresa and Jeffrey Puretz Cynthia Putchat Leslie Quezaire Reena and Jeffrey Racki Catherine Ragonese ’14 Jennifer Randolph ’81 Alisa Rashish ’76 Heather Ratner ’13 Donna Rattley and Adrian Washington Lisa Rauschart John Ravenal ’77 Maaike Ravesteijn ’09 Paula Recart and Roberto Brodsky Mrs. Eva Redmon Katie Redmond Sarah Redmond Mrs. Joan Ress Reeves Marc Regardie ’90 Diana Rehfeldt Ariana Reichert ’14 Rachel Reider ’95 Frances Rekrut ’02 Jamie and Stuart Rennert Philip Reno ’90 Mr. Dave Reynolds and Mrs. Jean Lockwood Reynolds Anna Rhymes Robert Rich ’96 Mr. Stan Leven and Ms. Mary Richardson

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Tess Richman ’10 Joan Braden Ridder ’72 James Riddleberger ’05 Sarah Riddleberger-Jones ’01 Marc Rieffel ’90 Corinna Riginos ’96 Mimo and David Riley Leah Rinaldi ’00 Nina Hammond Ritch ’95 and Michael Boland Clay Roberson Jacob Roberts ’15 Barbara and Sherman ’61 Robinson Bonnie Robin-Vergeer and Vytas Vergeer Andrew Robison Beth Rogan ’01 Matthew Rogan ’04 Mrs. Barbara Rollinson Michael Rolnick ’83 Corinne Roosevelt ’88 Laura and Gerald Rosberg Ms. Barbara Rosen Eli Rosenbaum ’01 Alejandro Rosenberg ’98 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Douglas Rosenthal ’00 Rahel and Jordan Rosner Tovia Rosner ’15 Dorothy and Stanford Ross Steven Ross ’95 Nicholas Rubenstein ’00 Sandra Rubin and Steve Calem Bruce Ruble Dianne Rudo and Andrew Gilman Kate Rueter Jack Rushford ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rutenberg Jamie Rutenberg ’03 Izabela Rutkowska and Michal Rutkowski Nicholas Ryan Carolyn and Peter Saba

Yvonne Sabban Nicole Sackley ’90 Nicole Sade Nicole Saiontz ’92 Carly Salaman ’95 Shirin Fleischmann Salerno ’01 Jesseca Salky ’99 Alexander Samaha ’14 Dorothy and Stanton Samenow Daniel Samet ’12 Sarah Berger Sandelius ’95 Nancy Sanders Diann and Waydal Sanderson Angela Sandford Payal Sangani Robbie Saunders Elizabeth Schachter ’04 Barney Schecter ’81 Kate Schecter ’77 and Aaron Roth Anne and Barry Schenof Jennifer Scher ’86 Charlene and Ed Scherr Michael Schiffer Mr. and Mrs. David Schneider Jessie Schneiderman ’01 Rachael Schneiderman ’14 Nina and Carmi Schooler Nancy Schreiber ’84 Kyra Schulman ’14 Susan and Roger Schwabacher Karen Schwartz Katie Powers Scott Kim Scott Gerald Secundy ’59 Alison and Dennis Seese Dorothy Seidel ’04 Laura Seidel ’02 and Arthur Delaney ’01 Lillian Seidel ’06 Eva Seligman ’03 Catherine Sellers and Marc Rosenblum

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Shawn Sendar ’06 Lindsay and Rene Sepulveda Kavita Sethi and Fred Olowin Adam Sexton ’82 Rima Shaffer-Meyer Shahab Shaghaghi ’00 Reema and Umesh Shah Jo Ann Shaner and Reza Malek-Madani Ellen Shapiro ’99 Jon Sharp Adam Shear ’89 Rebecca Sheinbaum ’90 Sonia and James Shelton Andrew Shephard ’00 Gail Shepherd-Smith and Rudolph Smith Nick Shestople ’57 Clay Shields ’84 Sarah Shine ’15 Sarah Shohet and John Mikhail Michael Sidgmore ’07 Ferima Sidibe ’04 Margaret Siebel and Stuart Brown Galia Siegel ’85 Joshua Siegel ’01 Joel Silberman ’01 Joanna Silver ’85 Sarah Silverstone ’94 Alexandra Silverthorne ’98 Darren Silvis Kenneth Simonson ’62 Mrs. Rose Singer Lola Singletary ’81 Atiya Ranee Smith ’99 Colleen Smith Evan Smith Edwina Smith and Sam Simmens Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Smith Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith Anastasia Snejnevski ’08 Cylburn Soden ’95 Martha Solinger ’77 Julie Solomon ’13 Tracy Solomon ’77 Katharine Sonnenberg ’82 Sasha Soper Carlos Soriano Patricia Sosa Carolyn Soults ’98 Dana Southerland Elana Spector ’22 Brooke Spellman ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sperl

Thomas Spilsbury Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spindel Alexandra ’97 and Matthew ’94 Squire Pamela Stanfield Natalie Starr Anim Steel ’90 John Steever ’85 Gideon Stein ’90 Julie Stein ’99 Vicki Steinwurtzel Jennifer and James Stenger Danny Stern ’11 Ed Stern Emma Hughes Stern ’15 Elizabeth Sternberg ’75 Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers Jim Stillwell Aden Stinebrickner-Kauffman Danny Stock Jerilyn and Alan Stone Laura Stone and Ezra Levine Mr. and Mrs. James Stringer Sarah Struble ’06 Mr. Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Ms. Suzanne Stutman Ximena Suarez-de-Cornejo Nura Suleiman ’03 Lida Sunderland ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Super Jennifer Swedish ’97 Julia Sweig and Reed Thompson Leon Swerdel-Rich ’14 Sarah Taber and David Ensign Joan and Mark Tannenbaum Jonathan Tannenwald ’02 Nahid Tayebi and Kazem Kazempour Alison Taylor Amy and Simeon Taylor Joann Taylor Michael Taylor ’01 Michael Telis ’04 Jerry Tersoff ’73 Leah Thayer Vassili Thomadakis ’92 Mrs. Jean Thomas Rebekah Parker Thomson ’94 Annie Thrower-Patterson and Robert Patterson Elliott Thurston ’78 Kathryn Tolbert and Robert Dohner Gretchen and Tom Toles Laura Tolliver Mercedes Tolve ’97

Julia Tomasko ’05 Laura Tomasko ’02 William Tomasko ’09 Aaron Tracy ’98 Mr. Robert Brodsky and Mrs. Antoinette Treadway Adam Trebach ’09 Lynda Tredway Jeff Trembly Noah Trister ’97 Ashley Trout ’99 Jay Tucker Jennifer Tuerk ’89 Josh Turley Brinley Schwartz Turner ’90 Waseem Ullah Marion and Michael Usher Shana Vaknin ’90 Jessica Valner and David Flohr Karin van der Cammen Alexandra and David Vance Simone and Douglas ’83 Velvel Vildan and Jos Verbeek Mr. and Mrs. Philip Verveer Nancy Foltz Vest ’62 Jessie Vinik ’01 and Andrew Sunderland ’01 Nicholas Viorst ’81 Nathan Vish Gambrill Hollister Wagner ’88 Lalage Wakefield and Eric Finzi Vernetta and Terrell Walker William Wallace ’05 Matthew Wallack ’80 Eduardo Wallentin and Cristina Padrao Mrs. Joan R. Walton Alec Ward ’13 Wendy Wasserman Janis and James Webb Holden Wegner ’14 Daniel Weidenfeld ’00 Stacy Sherwat Weinberger ’89 Andrew Weiner ’90 Marilyn and Harold Weiner Jonathan Weinrieb ’90 David Weinstein ’90 Marnie Weinstein ’97 Megan Weintraub ’95 Kristin Wells and Earl Yates Jody Welsh Michael Wenthe Geoffrey Werth Chip West ’03

Wyeth West ’12 Saman Julia Westberg ’95 Adam White ’14 Katherine Whitson Emily Widra ’11 Mrs. Karla Widra Kirk Widra Derek Wiebenson ’91 Carolyn Douglas Williams Damien Williams ’00 Devon Williams ’05 Mrs. Penny Williams Oveta Willie-Jenkins Larry Wilner Julie Wilson ’03 Harrison Wilton ’14 Carol and Michael Winer Matthew Winer ’04 Read Winkelman ’88 Arielle Winnik ’03 Mrs. Eugenia Winters Megan Wirtz ’15 Denise and Freddie Wofford Muriel Wolf Edith and Jan Wolff Sau and King Wong Leah Wortham and Eric Hirschhorn Susan Wright Mols Shari Murphy Wynn ’79 Ian Yaffe ’05 Sharon Yanagi and Alan Yu Laura Yee Thomas Yoder Katherine Yorks Shari Yost Gold and Jason Gold Mrs. Gloria Young Azeem Zainulbhai ’00 Tameem Zainulbhai ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Zalesne Judith and Donald Zauderer Simone Zehren ’10 Daniel Zhang ’14 Xueying Zhang Mr. Shuzheng Cong and Mrs. Yiling Zhuang Miriam Zimmerman and Steve York Ivan Zizek Eric Zuckerman ’90 Lynn Zuckerman Stephanie Zuniga ’97 Mr. Louise Albright and Mrs. Barbara Zwick GlaxoSmithKline Quest Diagnostics

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The 1945 Society, named for the year in which GDS was founded, was established to provide leadership donors with the opportunity to express their dedication and commitment to GDS’s mission, values, and future through a significant gift to the School’s Annual Fund. Each year, members of The 1945 Society honor the founding families’ vision, ideals, and principles—all of which continue to be a part of GDS 70 years later. The 1945 Society includes Annual Fund gifts of $2,500 or more.

$20,000 and Up Anonymous Raina Brubaker and Jessica Hough Katherine Borsecnik and Gene Weil Ruth Compton Lammot J. du Pont Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Friedman Angela and Joel Glazer Jill ’85 and Robert Granader Elizabeth and Michael Keeley Kimberly and Jonathan Klein Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moore Sarah and Eric Rosand $15,000 - $19,999 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bergreen Mr. and Mrs. Ben Boley Monica and David Dixon Karen and Ethan Leder Jacqui Lieberman and Paul Ameer Sarah and Jed Nussdorf ’98 Anupama and Matthew Tate Ilene Weinreich and David Smith Elizabeth Westfall and Scott Wiener Kate and Brad Vogt $10,000 - $14,999 Toni and Ned Brody Gema and Paul DeCain Amy Dixon and Gregg LoCascio Cynthia Dunbar and Charles Cerf Jessica Gladstone and Chris Connell Lisie and Michael Gottdenker Brenda Gruss and Daniel Hirsch Nancy and Reid Liffmann Mr. and Mrs. David Lipman Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Vicki and Jim Margolis Susan Neely Melanie and Lawrence Nussdorf Helen Rhee and Tarik Taybi Laurie Wingate and Mark Chandler

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5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Alison Schneider and Richard Avidon Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Nancy Bard and Donald Baer Jessica Bauman ’85 Mr. and Mrs. William Beach Jessica ’01 and Mark Berenson ’00 Stephanie and David Bergman Liz and Lane ’85 Blumenfeld Lori Brainard and Robert Liebowitz Leila Bremer ’90 and Karim Zia Ann-Marie and Bill Burke Toni and Dwight Bush Heather Chen-Mayer and Rulon Mayer Abby and Andrew Cherner Dianne and Jonathan Cogan Renata and James Cooper Sharmini Coorey and John Hicklin Ann Danelski and Timothy Bergreen Laurie Davis and Joseph Sellers Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer Dina Elboghdady and James Cooper Nicole Elkon and Neal Wolin Resa and David Eppler Ms. Linda Fienberg Barry Ford Sharon and Adrian Forsyth Karin and Tom Freedman Jamie Gardner and Jonathan Stern Susie and Michael Gelman Mrs. Malcolm Glazer Dep Goldstein Ronald Goldstein Daniel Hamilton ’85 Ellen Harris and David Zinn Pamela Harris and Austin Schlick Jennifer Hillman and Mitchell Berger Ulrich Jacoby Amy Jeffress ’83 and Casey Cooper Nicole Rabner and Larry Kanarek Jennifer Klein and Todd Stern Kate Koffman and Sid Banerjee Leslie and Bruce Lane Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lang

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David Leary and Seth Perretta Jill Lesser and Jonathan Diesenhaus Molly Levinson and Josh Wachs Connie and Erik Lindenauer Linda Lipsett and Jules Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Malek Vicky and Greg Marchand Sabina Menschel and Bill Priestap Patrice and Herbert Miller Sarah and Alexis ’92 Mitchell Mary Morton and Keith Forman Mr. and Mrs. Carl Oppenheim Robin and Gary Orseck Jimmie and Matthew Paschall Eileen Penner and Daniel Ritter Rory and Edward Quint ’87 Laure Redifer Lucretia Adymy Risoleo and Robert Risoleo Mylene and John Rozendaal Sarah Rueven ’05 Pilar and Adam Ruttenberg Amy Schwartz and Eric Koenig Erin Segal and Michael Sachse ’95 Virginia Solomon ’99 Julie and Steven Stone Catherine and Tom Strong Shira Stutman and Russell Shaw Lee Tiedrich and Ian Simmons Petia Topalova and Shawn Cole Nina Weissberg ’80 and Stuart Martin Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wertheimer Pat and Eric Widra Marcy Wilder and Aurie Hall Becky and Jeremy Wolsk Barbara Yellen and Phil West Jennifer Zucker and Herbert Hsu $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (3) Wafa Fahmi Abdelati Anne and Ronald Abramson Leslie Adelman and Kenneth Grossfield Julie Chrisco Andrews and Michael Andrews Chieko and John Barry Carol and Michael ’62 Berenson

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Jennifer and Matthew Berzok Dominic Bianchi Emily Bloomfield and Byron Auguste Amy Borrus and Rich Miller Catherine Botticelli and Michael Spafford Cindy Boyle Naatz and Daniel Naatz Tracey Braun and Chris McIsaac Brooke and Philip Bronner Susan and Laird Burnett Mr. John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mrs. Mary L. Cornille Lee Carol Cook and William Cook Brian Cox Kim Cubine and Chris Quillian Erin Davis and Jonathan Etter Mr. and Mrs. Mark Davis Angelique dePlaa and Christoph Duenwald Jennifer and Viet Dinh Molly Elkin and Ivan Wasserman Mary Ellis and Christopher Foley Alison Fellowes Comly and Nate Comly Abby Greensfelder and Franklin Foer ’92 Marti and Steven Friedman Nancy and Michael Gaba Ramona and Thomas Gann Eve Gerber and Jason Furman Marc Glosserman ’92 Scott Glosserman ’95 Nancy and Andrew Gralla Judith Gravitz and Lester Sotsky James Harmon ’89 Guian Heintzen ’75 Amy and Andrew Herman Sydney Hoffmann and David Krakoff Melinda Humphry Becker and William Becker Jane Humpstone and Courtney Ward Ali and Barry Hurewitz Alessandra Iorio

Mary Jacoby and Glenn Simpson Tereza and Peter Jacoby Paul Jeon and Ryan O’Hara Patricia and Daniel Jinich Lisa and Jonathan Kanter Ricki and Joel Kanter Karen and Joseph Kelliher Simmie Kerman and Steven Aarons Rachel Kronowitz and Mark Lewis Susie and Andrew Lazerow Mr. Seymour Lesser and Ms. Audrey Zucker Laura and Barry Levine Mara Liasson and Jonathan Cuneo Angela and Michael Madnick Rachel Marcus ’85 and Eddie Atwood Thea and Gary Mason Patricia Raber Max and Kenneth Max Mr. and Mrs. Richard Menschel Megan and Fabrice Souchaud Elaine Metlin and Andrew Clark Quentin Meyer ’58 Sabine Miltner and David Estabrook Wendy and Matthew Morris Nayantara Mukerji and Thomas Dohrmann Louise Nelson and David Smith Deborah and Brett Orlove Ingrid Ott and Douglas Jones Margaret Pearson and Steven Gunby Elana and Jonathan Perl Tracy Pilzer ’75 Hayley Gordon Pivato ’88 and Gianluca Pivato Vicky Quint and Michael Quint ’90 Marc Rabinovitz ’96 Mythili and Venkatesh Raman Michael Reilly and Jeff Blum Melissa Reinberg and Neal Kravitz Amy Rifkind and Bruce Brown Cynthia Rohrbeck and Philip Wirtz

Barbara Rollinson and Warren Crowdus Mary Beth Cisneros and Michael Rosenman ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Saperstein Miriam Sapiro and Stephen Labaton Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Schwabacher Marlisa Senchak and Tom Delaney Ana Serra and Karl Driessen Mr. and Mrs. J. Curtis Shambaugh Joye and Scott ’79 Shepperd Jennifer and Erik ’85 Smulson Christopher Sperl and Christopher Erckert Laurie Sprung and William Mayer Brian Steinwurtzel ’95 Richard Steinwurtzel Debra Stencel and Patrick Phillips Hillary and Frank Stiff Nancy Stone and Chuck Miller Leigh Stringer and John Hlinko Vikki Tobak and Bijan Salehizadeh Churek and Nurbek Turdukulov Suzanne Turner and David Schulman Diane Ty and Daniel Connors Valeria Van Brummelen and Chris Newkirk Jennifer and Paul Verbesey Rachel and R. Jacob Vogelstein Stephanie and Arnim von Friedeburg Ms. Elizabeth Wachs David Wallack ’78 Carla Wheeler and Jeff Naimon Sondra Novick Wolff ’89 and Evan Wolff Katie Wood and Valerie Hletko Kinney Zalesne and Scott Siff Adobe Amgen Foundation Matching Gifts Google The Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund Wells Fargo Foundation

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ANNUAL FUND – GIFT CLUBS At GDS, our children forge lifelong bonds with exceptional faculty and classmates within a diverse student body. An exciting breadth of curricular and extracurricular programs, innovative service-learning, and new partnerships connect our students to their learning, their neighborhood, and their world.

The Annual Fund supports the people and programs that make GDS so special. Tuition alone does not cover all of the School’s operating expenses. The Annual Fund supports critical investments in the School and its programs and helps keep tuition increases low. Unrestricted giving through the Annual Fund also ensures that GDS has the ability to fulfill strategic plan initiatives and take advantage of new opportunities.

Our gratitude to each individual who contributed to the Annual Fund in 2014-15 is so much deeper than can be reflected in words—this report is one attempt to demonstrate our gratitude. It is in the growth and accomplishments of our students that the impact of your giving is best demonstrated. Thank you! $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (5) Ms. Patty Abramson and Mr. Lester Silverman Natalie Adler ’88 and Christopher Walker Susannah Kerr Adler and John Adler Whitney and Sydney Albrittain Karen Antebi and William Goldfarb Keiko Antoku and Chris Papageorgiou Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher Veronica Aulestia and Tim Boyer Ms. Hope Babcock Leah Barr and Brian Joseph Sylvia Becker and Hugh Winkler Mr. Henry Belber Amy Berger and Glen Nager Sara and Karan Bhatia Melissa Bianchi and Manny Pastreich Benu Bidani and Hanan Jacoby Ellen and John Boardman Cathy and Barry Boss Eve Harmon Bould ’92 Megan Bowles and Alfred Levitt Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bozzi Rita and David Brickman Mr. and Mrs. William Brodsky Dr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Bronner Judy Brown Steven Bryan Lauren Chelec Cafritz and Elliot Cafritz ’77 Carol Carter and Charles Glaser Elizabeth and Bart Cobbs Lynn and Robert Coffman Laurie ’93 and Gary Cohen Suzy Friedman Cohen and David Cohen Yue Sonya Cong and Shanjin He Jonathan Cooper ’01 Maygene and Stephen Daniels Benjamin Dean ’02

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Laura Dean ’06 William Dean ’10 Andrea and Mark Dettelbach Mr. Martin Dickinson Stacey Dixon ’89 Mr. and Mrs. William Dockser Nicole Donath and Sean Lev Adrienne and Wayne Edisis Mr. Andre Elkon Karen Barr and Andrew Engel ’80 Laura Epstein and Kenneth Boley Nicole Erb ’85 and Henry Farrell Shamita and Ralph Etienne-Cummings Ellen and Rodney Eyster Kelly and Doron Ezickson Stefania Fabrizio and Humberto Lopez Lisa and Roger Fairfax Mr. Hughlyn Fierce Amy Finch Paige Fitzgerald and Dan Froomkin Danielle and David Frum Nat Frum ’12 Vince Gabor ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gaines Robin and Todd Galkin Noe Gerson and Peter Reinecke Mindy Ginsburg and Gregg Elias Neal Glickfield Jonathan Glickman ’87 Ellen and Joseph Goldstein Mrs. Toni Gordon Alexandra and Wayne Gore Jefferson Gramm ’93 Mr. and Mrs. William Green Marilyn Gushner Anne Harkavy and David Ogden Christi and Reginald Hay Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heckel

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Diane Holt and Michael Feldman Dominique Howard and Charles Faselis Louise and Mark Howe Tracey Hughes and David Stern Jeffrey Shields Hunker and Mark Hunker Lisa Berenson Hurst ’97 Catherine and Richard Jackson Sonali Jain-Chandra and Rinku Chandra Nancy and David Jameson Heather Jeffress William Jeffress ’92 Jennifer Johnson-Calari and Cesare Calari Andrea and Adam Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Joel Kamya Jennifer Kaplan and Kenneth Doroshow Nancy Kaplan Anjali Kataria and Vinay Bhargava Alyce Katayama Jenkins and Thomas Jenkins Cynthia Kendrick and Donald Fowler Alka and Sudhakar Kesavan Sarah Kilmer and David Gordon Jeong Kim and Kihwan Sung Nancy Kim and Charles Hewlett Linda and Michael King Jane Kirby-Zaki and Fares Zaki Alisa Klein and Craig Goldblatt Cynthia and Todd Klein Stacey and Daniel Kohl Laurie Kohn and Christopher Murphy Irine Kokaia and Koba Gvenetadze Mr. and Mrs. John Kossow Christine and Tim Koubek Vinca and David LaFleur Susan and Gary Lancz Julie Lang Tamara Wilds Lawson ’92 Mr. David Leary Micki Leder

Joan Bialek Levitt and Louis Levitt Jeremy Levitt ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Lichtman Sharon and Marc Lindsey Jacqueline Rosenberg London and Paul London Lourdes Lopez-Isa and Jeffrey Lamken Janice Lower and Paul Berger Jodi and Philip Lowit Amy and Bruce Lustig Lynn and Matthew Mahaffie Sherry and Marlon Maragh Carmen Marchetti and Vivek Arora Aleta Margolis and Michael Brodsky Wendy Wilk Markarian and Tom Markarian Dee Martin and Vijay Shanker Toni and Peter Marx Colette Matzzie and Daniel Rosenberg Danna and John McCormick Mrs. Betsy McIsaac Deryl McKissack and Leon Albritton April Mellody and Chris Gillespie Rhonda and Evan Migdail Patricia Millett and Robert King Joyita Mukherjee and Robert Palacios Mr. and Mrs. David Nexon May Ng and Gilles Alfandari Charlotte Oldham-Moore and David Lubitz Michelle and Chris Olson Nancy and Adam ’85 Oppenheim Cynthia Cramer Osaghae and Michael Osaghae Kimberly Parker and Daniel Mach Mrs. Julia Perlman Sarah Perlman Paulsen ’90 Nina Pillard and David Cole Carolyn (C.A.) Pilling Sue Pleming and David Satola Mrs. Avril Plotnek Hillary Quarles and David Smith Susan and Arnold Quint Bozena Radzewicz-Bak and Tadeusz Bak Pamela Reeves and Jeffrey Goldberg Scott Renschler ’88 Cynthia Richman and Jason Snyder Kay Richman and Daniel Kaplan Edith and Matthew Roberts Amber and Warren Romine Sheri and Rob Rosenfeld Patricia Rosenman Gloria and John ’57 Runyon Mr. Harry Sachse Kim Sajet and Anthony Meadows Susana Sanchez and Tom Kahn

Ken Schaner Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schneiderman Allyson Senie and Roger Colaizzi Bahram and Mandana Shahriari Stephen Shapiro and Susana Fainbraun Shapiro Kevin Sheekey ’84 Fern Shepard and Matthew Olsen Lilian Shepherd and Neil Albert Marie Sheppard and Scott Rockafellow Beverly and Harlan Sherwat Judy and Jerry Shulman Mickie Simon and Brian Schwalb Megan Smith and Kara Swisher Aileen and Henry Solomon Matthew Solomon ’90 and Kate Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sosnoff Lori and Ben Soto Kathryn and Mark Spindel Alissa Stern and Louis Boorstin Sarah Stettinius ’90 Lisa Swoboda and Jit Singh Allison and William Treanor Margaret Trias ’99 Lisa and Seth Tucker Jill Tuennerman and Michael Kirk Douglas Usher ’87 Tara van Emmerik and Thomas Carcaterra Sona Varma and Sujoy Bose Jenny and Stewart Verdery Michael Ward ’82 Deb and Michael Warsaw Sarah Rosen Wartell and Ted Wartell Mr. Douglas Watson Lindsay Lavine Webster ’85 Marisa and Evan Wechsler ’96 Susan and Adam ’83 Wegner Jessika and David Wellisch Leigh Williams Georgia Willie-Carnegie and Shafee Carnegie Wendee Wolfson Christina Wood and Marcus Noland Yuqing Rebecca Xue and Hao Kang Rachel Winnik Yavinsky ’01 General Electric Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts $500 - $999 Anonymous (7) Miriam and Sanford Ain Michele Altemus and Joseph Cullen Susan Anderson and Doug Shulman Samantha ’86 and Matthew Babcock

Susan Baer and Michael Abramowitz Olivia and Bill Baker Pareezad and Viraf Bankwalla Kim Berman and Farzad Mostashari Shelly and Peter Berman Nancy Black Jackie and Ken Blank Claire Bloch and Geoffrey Griffis Mr. Norman Blumenfeld Elena Boley and David Leviss Koren Brewer ’85 Malia Brink and Matthew Holmwood Benjamin Britton ’95 Marilyn and David Brockway Allyson and David Brown Sharon Brown and Michael Pollowitz Abir Burgul and Nabil Fawaz Phyllis Chovitz and Danny Gainsburg Tanya Chutkan and Peter Krauthamer Penelope Codrington Robert Cohen Beth and Brian Cohn Sue Cohn ’76 and Larry Novey Debby and Bob Cooper Leah Daniels ’98 Shawn Davis-Wilensky and Peter Wilensky Kathleen Day and Charles Rothfeld Deborah DeMasi and Robert Jaffe Tania Dmytraczenko and Christopher Mackie Sharon Donnell and Paul Wagner Uzma and Larry Dorman Katherine Dube and Donald Saelinger Rebecca and Jacob Dweck Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr Betsy and Sid Edelmann Lexa Edsall ’85 and Bob Victor Denver George Edwards Elizabeth Eggleston and Bo Chipman Lucy Eldridge and Larry Freedman Jennifer and David Ernst Barbara Felber and George Pavlakis Mrs. Jewel Fierce Karen Fitzgerald and Robert Vigersky Ilana Fogelman and Tim Zimmermann Robin Miller Friedman ’94 and Brian Friedman Shelly and Joseph Galli Melinda and William Gardner Alison Kadzik Gathright ’00 Holly and Rudolph Geist Gina Gionfriddo ’87 Christine and Ted Gistaro Megan Glasheen and Joseph Liu

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Natalia and Beni Golani David Goldberg ’98 Adriana Gomez and Angel Gil-Ordonez Jo Ann Grainger and John Devlin Michelle Grant Ervin Melissa Green ’90 Winnie Hahn and Jack Flyer Alan Harper ’74 Nancy Herman Sheila Heslin and Klaus Tilmes John Hockmeyer ’88 John Holmes Lee Reizian Holmes Mary Houghton ’76 and Kevin Barr Susan and Kenneth Ikenberry Ketanji and Patrick Jackson Ruth and Simon Jacobsen Jennifer James and Arthur Hepler Norma and Christopher Jeffers Judith and Bill Jeffress Cheryl Johnson and Clarence Ellison William Jordan, Jr. Asyeh and Allen Kabiri Robert Kaplan Ana and Philippe Karam Jessica Keimowitz ’90 Cameron Kennedy and Rick Desimone Julie and Andy Klingenstein Irene and James Koukios Joni Kuckuck Belinda Lai and Steve Cowan Evelyn Laurencin and Eric Vincent Guichard Marsha Lea and J. Stephen Morrison Meheret Morrison ’14 Mr. Thomas B. Lemann Michael Lenkin ’82 Virginia Levin and Bruce Vinik Ms. Marion Lewin Yan Liu and Jing Zhang Tim Lyons Ann Walker Marchant ’78 Tanya and Alejandro Mayorkas Leta and Jeffrey Mays Vonya McCann and Richard Roberts Sabrina McCarthy and David Etheridge Ambassador Donald McHenry Perry and Darin McKeever Kim and Bob McKernan Linn Meyers Ellen Mignoni Sandra and Christopher Minor Rebecca Mishuris ’97

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Kelly Mistretta ’94 Menghua Mu and Meiyan Zhang Fedora and Martin Mühleisen Simonetta Nardin Jonathan Nathan ’90 Sharyn Nerenberg Debony Hughes and Leroy Nesbitt ’78 Kirstiaan and John Nevin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newkirk Anne and Peter Nguyen Inna Dexter and Benjamin Nussdorf ’00 Jane and Glenn Oakley Eloise Obadia and Stefano Curto Amy Oberdorfer Nyberg ’91 and Dan Nyberg Mr. and Mrs. Casper Y. Offutt Steven Oritt ’92 Barbara Ormond and Ted Ahlers Polly Panitz and Allen Joseph Raja Parihar and Subash Penmetsa Stacey and Joshua Perelman Kim-Quyen Pham and H. T. Than Joshua Pincus ’06 Elizabeth Pitofsky ’87 and David Mode ’87 Jennifer and David Plotnek Diane and Arnold Polinger Jean and Terry Pool Reyna and Laurence Pratt Margaret and Jim Pressler Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Price Rebecca Prime and David Bloch Amy and Robert Quackenboss Mary Qualiana and Carlos Vazquez Heather Quinn and Laura Shores Randa Radwan Jocelyn and Michael Rapelyea Charla Rath and Chip Henstenburg Ona Reckling and Leonard Rayford Margo Reid and Greg Simon Sarah Rinaldi ’94 Sarah Rogan ’00 Allison and Dean Rosen Stacy and Andrew Rosen Stephanie Rosenthal ’98 and Scott Meisler Lynn Rothberg Andrea Lebbin Rubinfeld ’98 Naomi Rutenberg and Robert Burn Lana Ryaboy and Alex Yazlovsky Katherine Samolyk and Robert Avery Jennifer and Vittorio Sartorelli Elizabeth Saul Samantha Scher ’98 Daniele Schiffman and Toby Heffernan

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Lisa Schneiderman Amy Scott and David Cooper Jacqueline Scott and David Fortney Sara Sellers ’13 Mr. and Mrs. David Shaw Caroline Russell Smith ’90 Deborah Smolover and Eric Bord Shalini Soni-Bhagat and Vipul Bhagat Lisa Stark Micah Stein-Verbit and Scott Mikolajczyk Mary Stewart and Thomas John Sandra Stewart Andrea Sussman and Ray Adomaitis Sheryl Swankin ’75 Karla Taylor and Mike McNamee Kathryn Taylor and Marc Schwartz Lauren and Mark Tobias Kathy Toomey and Josh Freeman Andrea Townsend and Anders Agerskov Sayuri Umeda and Jay Thomas Beth and Sanford Ungar Dr. John Vance John Vibert ’89 Xiaolan Wang Zheng Wang and Vitali Nazlymov Artherelle and Gregory West Mr. Alan Raphael and Ms. Elizabeth White Jacqueline and James White Reed White Jill Wilkins and Jonathan Kaplan Florence and Jamie Williams Joanne Wong and Lona Nallengara Jin Wu and Yue Tang Laura and Michael Zeilinger Allison Zieve and Aaron Kaslow Mauri Ziff and Jeff Hamond Mr. Matthew Zinn Duke Energy Matching Gifts Program Raytheon $250 - $499 Anonymous (4) Sonya and Kenneth Abney Jenny Abramson ’95 and Jake Maas Linda Adams and Jonathan Greenblatt Lucile Adams-Campbell and Thomas Campbell Nathaniel Ahlers ’06 Amala Alag Sarah Alexander and William Pearce Leslie Allen and Gregory Foote Veronica Ampey Alfredo Apolloni ’84

Millie Ariza and Ameer Qureshi Pamela Arya Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Bacsinila Stephen Bailey Laura Ballard Mr. John Banzhaf Mary and Bertram Bartlett Alicia Batts Sarah Bax and Clarence Wooten Coleman Bazelon ’82 Susan and Ashby Beal Lewellyn and Anthony Belber Tamara Belt and Sean Greene Marilyn Benoit and Geoffrey Brown Mrs. Susan Benson Rod Beresford ’75 Deborah Berkowitz and Geoffrey Garin Alicia Billings and Bradford Brown Kova Blake Susan and Robert Bodansky Brooksley Born and Alexander Bennett Kristin Brady and Andrew Gunther Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brand Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brody Crissy Cáceres and James Cox Sybil and Joe Caldwell Jenaro Cardona-Fox ’96 Rachel Carren and Mark Young Paige Chabora and Jared Freedman Mr. and Mrs. Reid P. Chambers Irica and James Cheeks Matthew Clement ’94 Michelle Cobb Jaclyn Cohen ’03 Mr. Edwin Cohn Natasha Cole-Leonard and Joe Leonard Kevin Collar Abigail Colucci ’90 Alison Murray Cromer and Warrick Cromer Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79 Lara and Nicolas ’98 Cuttriss Meredith and Michael Cymerman

Elan Daniels ’97 Vyjayanti and Sanjay Desai Michael Desautels Mayra Diaz Laura Dickinson and Paul Berman Kim DiDonato-Murrell and Martin Murrell Mr. David Dixon, Sr. Jason Dixon ’98 Karen Donfried and Alan Untereiner Jonathan Drobis ’98 Maureen Duignan Jeffrey Dygert and Mark Seifert Janann Eldredge ’90 Linda Elliott and John West Mark Epstein Marie-Jose Etheart and Jay Feldman Katherine and Bob Eustice Mrs. Turry Eustice Julie Fernandes and Avner Shapiro Suzanne and Theodore Fields Andrea Nix and Sean Fine ’92 Lois and Michael Fingerhut Elizabeth ’86 and Christopher Finley Rebecca Fishman ’86 Deborah Berger Fox ’91 Julie and Martin Franklin Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman Francesca Frey-Kim and Ryan Kim Lorraine Friedman and Douglas Goldstein Gulrukh Gamwalla-Khadivi and Mehran Khadivi Itobomo and Rufus Garba Jessica and David Gillespie Amilda Gjecovi and Cezar Kongoli Amy Glickman ’90 Anne Glusker and Scott Busby Susan Goda Jeffrey Goldberg ’94 Kimberly Gordon Schoonover ’86 Kate Gephardt Greenberg and Neil Greenberg Karen and George Greenfield Mr. Ron Lehker and Ms. Linda Greensfelder Lynne and Alfred Groff

John Guttmann Ashley Cooper Hair Shelley Harris Florence and Peter Hart Margaret Hennessey Amber Hilliard ’00 Alexander Hirschhorn ’01 Lee Hockstader Marshall Horowitz ’81 Laura and Andrew Howell Ayanna Hudson ’89 Ben Hutchens Holly Idelson and Donald Simon Toni Michelle Jackson Lindsey and Evan Jacobson Phebe Jensch and Donald Baur Libby Jewett and Stephen Teach Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone Johnson Roz Jonas Heather Jones ’90 Terri Judge and Philip DeCola Matthew Kaminski ’90 Eli Kaplan ’02 Tara Swaminatha and Robert Kaplan ’87 Sherry and Stuart Kaswell Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Keeley Andrea and David Kirsch Alexandra Klingenstein ’05 Danielle Knight and Alexander Wood Laura and Daniel Koffsky Aimee Kohn ’88 Ann and Peter Kolker Dresden Koons Ellen Krieger and Gary Ratner Shimareet and Dhruv Kumar Mandinema Kumbula-Fraser and Andre Fraser Mr. and Mrs. Nick Lamont Georgina Larkin ’90 Martha and Eugene Larkin Anita LaRue-McAfee and Arthur McAfee Nancy Lazear and Patrick Coyne Daniel Lewin ’79 Stephen Lewis ’82

13,176 hours of community service performed by the 2015 senior class; 103 hours per student.

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David Lublin ’86 Lynne Mackay-Atha and Donald Atha Benjamin Mankiewicz ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Markarian Ronald Maxwell ’74 Kendal Culp McManus ’90 Kasia Mendelsohn ’87 and Paul Gresens Eric Menell ’93 Andrew Mergen ’82 Mihriye and Cem Mete Penelope Mitchell Jacqueline ’88 and Alexander Moen Harold Newton Jennifer Noland and Steve McBee Ellen Opper-Weiner Carol Paige-Marshall and Carlton Marshall Angela Pak and Diego Arioti Michael Parker ’92 Elizabeth Parkinson-Wyner and Joshua Wyner Lydia and Sanford Parnes Amy and Peter Pastan Sarah Pekkanen and Glenn Reynolds Eva Perdahl and William Wallace Leslie Phillips Linda and Gordon Phillips Joanna Phinney Sheila Pires and Kathy Lazear Jennifer Popek ’93 Carol Prince and Michael Pretzer Tracey Pyles ’82 Brandon Qureshi ’12 Sarah Bloom Raskin and Jamie Raskin ’79 Tamara Razi and Peter Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rehorst Pauline Robison Thomasina Rogers and Gregory Gill Nicolette Romano ’89 Aviva and Dan Rosenthal Lizzie Rosenthal ’94 Richard Rubenstein Amy and Laurence Ruberl Susan Ryerson Holly Holt Salb and John Salb Ryan Samuel ’96 Sherill and David Sanger Janis and Phil Schiff Barbara and Eric Schone Evelyn and Steven Schulman Rhonda Schwartz and Steve Wermiel Dr. and Mrs. Ira Scott Suzanne and Roger Segalla Mr. George H. Shapiro

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Sally Shea and Michael Christian Paula Young Shelton and Hilary Shelton Maggie Siena ’81 Justin Silver ’97 Beth and Leonard Sloan Elizabeth Slobasky ’97 Danielle and Jesse Smallwood William Smith Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Snyder Dale and Stephen Sonnenberg Sarah Lichtman Spector ’90 and Edward Spector Abbe and Peter Steinglass Casey Stewart ’94 Elaine and Aaron Stopak Rhonda Stroud and Larry Nittler Tricia Su and John Moy Deirdre Sumida ’85 Kristin Thomas Tappan Lauren Tappan ’16 Danielle Tarantolo ’97 Natalie Tawil and James Morsink Mrs. Jeffere Taylor RaeCarole Tekeste ’74 Margaret Thale and David Sonoda Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Thomas Kamaya Thompson Thomas Tillotson ’93 M.J. and Herman Torres Brenda Turnbull and Robert Tomasko Keven Vance and Philip Gerson Annie Vinik ’97 and Jamie Lawrence ’97 Karen and Darwin Walker Judith Warner and Max Berley Mrs. Cecille Wasserman Monique and Daron Watts Peggy and Ted Weidlein Amy Weiss and Peter Kadzik Arthur Weiss Marti and Richard Weston Mr. and Mrs. George Willie Barbara Winnik Joel Winston Andrea Wolfman and William Brighton Mr. and Mrs. David Wolsk Diana Wright ’65 Carole Yanofsky and David Anderson Julia and Smith Yewell Shiva and Shawn Zargham Hewlett-Packard Company Match Up to $250 Anonymous (22)

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Vanessa and Doug Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Morton Abramowitz Mala Adiga and Charles Biro Elizabeth Ahlers ’03 Vinita Ahuja Walter Ailes Daniel Ain ’05 David Ain ’00 Sartaj Alag Nina Albert ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Alexander Nizam Ali ’88 Alejandra and Albert Allen Jaber Altaki ’81 Tamer Amr ’88 Jacob Anbinder ’10 Ana and Paul Anderson Mac Andrews ’15 Caroline Anstey and Milt Hudson Lindsey Antos Molly Appelbaum ’08 Christine Arnold-Lourie and Benjamin Lourie Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Aserkoff Tricia and Bobby Asher Mark Ashin ’14 Ian Andrew Askew ’15 Anna and Anders Aslund Sheila Allen Avelin ’89 Linda and James Avery Dzifa Awunyo-Akaba ’95 Ted Baab ’01 Michelle Bacchus and Marc Van Allen Sarah Baird ’97 Lizzy Baker ’13 Laura ’91 and Grant Baldwin Holly Balshem Phil Bansal Brenda Barbour and Laton Palmer Sarah Barillaro ’95 Betty Barker Janice Barksdale Taylor Barksdale ’13 John Barnes Betty Barnett Ian Barr ’08 Nancy Barrett Mary-Patricia Barron ’03 Carrie and Mamadou Barry Elisse Battle Elena Baylis and Donald Munro Catherine Beal ’13 Mr. Charles Beard

Zoe Beard-Fails ’13 Charles Becker ’72 Jane Becker ’75 Marina Beckhard and Alan Luberda Rose Bednar and Lee Schachter Nicholas Beizer ’90 Johanna Bell ’94 Jane Benesch ’76 Rebecca A. L. Berger ’15 Ben Berger ’14 Michele Bergeron Barbara Bergman Jamie Berkelhammer ’01 Alexandra Berkley ’03 Mrs. May Berkowitz Andrew Berman and David German Brooke Bernold ’00 Annie Bernstein ’06 David Bernstein ’85 Nancy Bernstine Barbara Betsock and Tristan Jorge Orellano Kathy Beusterien and Andrew Nicely Jyothi and Ramesh Bhargava Mr. Paul Bianchi and Mrs. Barbara Bianchi Dunbar Ingrid Binswanger ’90 Garren Campbell Bird ’95 Griffin Black ’14 David C. Blair ’54 Benjamin Blount ’09 Bradley Blount ’12 Diane and Willie Blount Julia Blount ’08 Sam Boardman ’14 Daniel Bodansky ’02 Margaret Bonacorda Aisha Wilson Bond ’93 and M. Jermane Bond Mr. and Mrs. Jack Borrus Avery Boyce ’97 Mrs. Jane Boynton Marissa Boynton ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Brach

Matthew Bradley ’06 Megan Bradley ’07 Jeffrey Brand Grant Braswell ’02 Marina and Philip Braswell Rebekah Braswell ’99 Jan Braumuller Patricia and Daniel Braun Carolyn and Kevin Braxton Maya Braxton ’10 Katie Bartlett Brebbia ’95 Louise and Bruce Brennan Joyce Ann Brentley Krista Brentley ’94 Ben Breuer ’13 Julia Broder ’04 Louise Brodnitz Philip Bronstein ’08 Carol Brooks and Peter Biersteker Mary and Charles Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brooks Henry Brown ’12 Taylor Brown Linda Bryant and Paul Gaston Joel Buchwald ’72 Martin Bullock, Jr. Barbara and David Buonora Mr. and Mrs. Robert Busby Daniel Butts ’90 Elaine Byergo and John Burghardt Geoff Byrne Elisabeth Cafritz ’13 JD and Neal Callander Mr. Michael Trister and Mrs. Diffy Campbell Rhona Campbell Elyssa Caplan ’03 Lynda and George Carlson Elizabeth and Todd Carter Terence Carter ’97 Elizabeth Carty ’82 Mr. Mario Casarella Rita Castillo

Vivian Cavalieri and Dan Grosse Cally Chakrian Ms. Hope Chambers Rachel Cherner ’14 Johanne and Paul Chévere Yi-Na Chung Michelle Clair ’98 Marjorie Clark Melissa Clark Geoffrey Claussen ’97 Cori Coats Jocelyn and Mark ’80 Cogen Gaby Cohen ’15 Giselle Cohen and Franklin De La Rosa Mark Cohen Michael Cohen ’05 Miriam Cohen ’97 Phillip Cohen ’06 Antoine Colaço ’90 Kimberly Colden-Massey and John Massey Brooke Coleman John Comer ’90 Janet Hanson and Gary Conklin Ingrid Conklin Paula and Kevin Connelly Joy and Eric Contee Susan Cook Amy Gerstin Coombs ’75 Alexander Cooper ’87 Nataki Corneille Pat and Kevin Cornell Maureen Corrigan and Richard Yeselson Amy Cortina Noah Cowan ’15 Susanna Cowen ’97 Megan Coyne ’05 Peter Coyne ’07 Rachel Coyne ’11 Brent Creelman ’76 Mrs. Nannette Crowdus Constance Crowley Catherine Cullen ’02

$22,700

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Kate Cullen ’12 Emily and Robert Culp Alcides Cummins Liz Curry ’80 Mike Curtin Ms. Carol Cutler Caitlin Adams and Gary Cutler Eliza Dach ’13 Jonathan Dach ’04 Nicholas Dale ’67 Kimberly Damm Rachel Dan ’14 Miriam Daniel and Larry Wolff Jennifer Daniels and Herrick Fox Mr. and Mrs. Gary Danis Amba Datta ’99 Cecelia Davis Kathleen Dawson Diana de Brito and Jonathan Gottlieb Yka de Castillo Sarah de Ferranti ’86 Florri and Kenneth DeCell Perry Degener Eric Deinoff ’98 Corazon dela Santa Regina dela Santa ’03 Aidan Delaney ’14 Ayesha Delany-Brumsey ’01 Robin Delany-Shabazz Jeffrey M. Delozier Rachel Delston ’98 Erica DeMille Michael Demos ’86 Flore de Preneuf Amanda Deringer Noami Devore ’93 Sora Devore ’90 Lauren Dickert Mary Dickie and Leslie Dach Allease Dillard and Annice Lawrence Laisha and Horace Dismuke Kiran Dixit and Nitin Gogtay

Allison Dodge ’95 Joan and Douglas Dodge Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dohrmann Melissa Dorfman ’91 Mrs. Hattie Dorman Claire Douglass ’01 Timothy Dowd ’84 Nichelle Dowell David Driscoll ’04 Danielle DuCré Benjamin DuGoff ’96 Eva DuGoff ’98 Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar Katherine Dunbar and Mark Levitch Topher Dunne Abraham Dyk ’00 Benjamin Dyson ’91 Matthew Eddy Susie and Rick Edelson William Edgar ’80 Charles Edwards Natalie Francesca Edwards ’14 Rachel Eggleston ’08 Barbara Eghan Maggie Ehrenreich ’09 Jedd Ehrmann ’93 Juliet Eilperin ’88 David Eisenberg ’00 Angela and Edison Elkins Sophie Emery ’13 Laura Emmons and Neal Brown Michael Eppler ’13 Alexandra Epstein ’13 Berlinda and Kenneth Eras Julia Ernst ’14 Vivian Escobar-Stack and Robert Stack David Eskin Andrew Ryan Eugene ’09 Jennifer and Ronald Eugene Anna Fajerson ’79 Lisa Fall Judy Falloon and Lee Helman

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Anne Hassenbusch Falvey ’75 William Fastow ’96 Elaine Feidelman Joel Feidelman Nancy Feidelman ’84 Cara Feinberg ’94 Ilana Feldman ’87 Rachel Feldman ’90 Will Feldman ’13 Lewis Ferguson Tasha Ferguson ’96 Joshua Fingerhut ’01 Ellen Ross Finn ’85 Meg Finn and David Michener Marc Finzi ’13 Susan Alpern Fisch and Ricky Fisch Aaron Fisher ’14 Julia Fisher ’09 Karen Fitzgerald-Shelton ’80 Janet Fleischman and Joel Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flyer Joshua Foer ’00 Elizabeth Foley ’13 Pamela and Benson Forman Hunter Fortney ’11 Olivia and David Foster Mrs. Helen Fox Chris France Patricia Francis Mrs. Bathsheba Freedman Kimberley Freeman Monica and Thomas Friday Jeremy Fridling ’11 Joseph Fridling Nicole Fridling ’14 Aileen Mannix and Eric Friedenson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friedenson Jennifer Friedman ’01 Robin Friedman ’85 Matt Friel Jennifer Gibson Frink ’88 Agnieszka Fryszman and Stuart Ishimaru

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Jesse Fuchs-Simon ’98 Beatrice Fuller Brian Fung ’06 Kevin Fung ’11 Ms. Elizabeth Gable Elizabeth Gaines Anna Lipton Galbraith ’04 Gillian Galen ’97 Mr. and Mrs. James Galkin Robert Ganz ’90 Laura Garcia de Mendoza and Gustavo Hormiga Laura Gardner ’87 Lily Gasperetti ’14 Daniel Gati ’95 Jeb Gaybrick ’00 Maria Pia Gekas ’05 Bill George Robert Gerber ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gerson Matthew Gerson ’14 Barbara and Charles Gholz Matthew Gillespie ’08 Sam Gilman ’11 James Ginsburg ’83 Brian Glick ’94 Marilyn and Michael Glosserman Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Glusker Alexander Goldberg ’11 Barbara Goldberg Donna Goldbloom ’75 Alejandro Golding ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Goldman Lee and Robert Goldman Scott Goldman ’00 Elizabeth Goldmuntz ’79 Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. ’51 Anna and Thomas Howe Fatoumata Goodwin Jacob Gordon ’13 Sue and Lenny Gordon Jacqueline Gosby Marc Gottesman ’11 Caroline Gottlieb ’13 Karen Trister Grace ’87 and Peter Grace Alison and Adam Grasheim Alexandra Graubert ’73 Victor Green Liza Greenberg ’79 Marcia and Michael Greenberger Jesse Greenblatt ’08 Elaine Greenstone

Mr. and Mrs. Burt Griffin Sean Griffin Cristina Murphy Griffith ’87 Stacey and Sherlock Grigsby Jennifer and Jeffrey Grosman Ariella Pearl Cavalieri Grosse ’15 Andréa Guedes and Marcelo Da Silva Monique ’90 and Sandy Gulino Raymond Gustini ’05 Ms. Doreen Guttenberg Alejandra Guzman ’00 Nicholas Hadjimichael ’14 Gayle and Todd Hager Sabrina Halberg ’13 Catherine and Joe Hall Eric Halperin ’88 Karen Feidelman Hamlin ’87 Nina Hammond Jason Hanerfeld ’13 David Hannallah ’90 James Harmon Michele Harrington Stephen Harris Christopher Haskett ’80 Rebecca Haskins ’93 Charles Hatton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hay Nicholas Hazen ’99 Eliza Hecht ’07 Jennifer Heffernan Ellen Heiman and Steven Agresta Constance and Richard Heitmeyer Rafael Heller ’85 Andrew Hellman ’09 Peter Helman ’11 Sarah Helmstadter and Gregg Solomon Alex Hemmer ’04 Gregory Henderson Karen Henderson ’73 Mrs. Sondra Henderson Brian Hennessey ’00 Lisa Henry Maile Hermida ’00 Monica Cheek Hernandez ’81 Jo Ann Hersh Rebecca Shulman Herz ’89 Jeffrey Herzog ’96 Mrs. Peg Heslin Sharmen Hettipola ’13 Meryl and Jevon Heyliger Alastair Hicklin-Coorey ’13 Shalini Hicklin-Coorey ’14

Dr. W. Dulany Hill ’70 Jill Himmer and James Duncan Carole Hirsch ’94 Leni Hirsch ’13 Michael Hirsch Betsy and Ronald Hirschel Carole and John Hirschmann Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hletko Ann Hoenigswald and Nicholas Thorner Patrick Holland ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holle Ronald Hopson and Nicholas Manning Sandy and Al Horowitz Melissa Houghton Richard Houghton Brooke Houghton-Dorsey Laraine and Arthur House Hsi-Mei Huang Calder Hudson ’11 Kathy Hudson Oliver Hudson ’10 Keith Hudspeth Karen and Richard Huff Taylor Hull Carole and Melvin Hurwitz Scot Hutchins Demetra and Louis Hutchinson Emily Hutson ’07 Judith Ikle ’81 Miriam Ikle-Khalsa ’87 Juanita Irving ’90 Kafayat and Kola Isiaq Ayoka Neal Jack ’86 Mrs. Barbara Jackson Linda Jackson Marcus Jackson ’91 Rhonda Freeman Jackson ’80 and Edward Jackson Veronica and Alan Jackson Vicki Jackson and Robert Taylor Joyce Jackson-Pierce and Theodore Pierce Benjamin Jacobs ’02 Simone Jacobs and Derek Edwards Olivia Jacquemin ’10 Julian Jamison ’91 Regina and Erwin Jansen Craig Jatlow ’04 Jonathan Jeffress ’90 Kimberly Jenkins-Chapman and Bryan Chapman Wendy Jennis and Douglas Mishkin Mojisola Jimoh ’07

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Erica and Jun Jin Ms. Myrtle Johns Donna Johnson Angela Messersmith and Frank Johnson ’61 Rashida Johnson ’91 Carroll Johnson-Welsh and Joseph Welsh Ava Jones ’02 Courtney Jones ’04 Denise Jones Dwayne Jones Elizabeth Jones and Thomas Vidano Joseph Jones Khalil Jones ’14 Malik Jones ’14 Rhonda Jones Gabriel Joselow ’01 Marissa Joseph ’07 Anne Joyce and Clifton Johnson Seamus Joyce-Johnson ’15 Aicha and Nooman Kacem Rimal Kacem ’05 Melissa Kadzik ’99 Laurel and Al Kamen Morgan ’07 and David ’06 Kanarek Minneh and Bill Kane Stephanie Weiss Kaplan ’96 Alessandra Karam ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kaslow Carrie and Daniel Kasper ’97 Maggie Nash Kast ’51 Noah Kaswell ’09 Dara Katz ’93 Deborah Katz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Katz Sally Katzen and Timothy Dyk Ozhan B. Kazempour ’15 Sarah Keegan and Joel Davis Jonathan Keljik Morgan Kennedy ’03 Allena and Iman Kennerly Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alonzo Kennerly Brendon Kenney ’87 Stephanie Kent Julia Lichtman Kepniss ’93 Dr. and Mrs. David Kerman Dorothy Kerr and Joseph Beshouri Kathryn Kerr Beth Kevles Hisham Khalid ’85 Cyrus Kharas ’04 Evelyn Khoo Schwartz Amy ’90 and Quinn Killy

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Brady Kirchberg ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Klein Hilary Nover Klein ’86 and Steve Klein Laura Klein ’75 Sam Klein ’14 Lisa Kleine and James Meltsner Virginia Kling ’76 and Jonathan Greenbaum Anne Kneedler ’96 and Samuel Bryson ’00 Mrs. Doris Koenig Miriam and Martin Kohn Carlyn Kolker ’94 Noa Krakoff ’14 Caleb Kramer ’87 Laurie Kramer Zachariah Kramer ’90 David Krucoff ’85 Ella and Neal ’48 Krucoff Jamie Rose Kuhar ’05 Nishant Kumar ’00 Welmoed Laanstra and David Corn Meredith Persily Lamel and Joshua Lamel Belinda Lartey and Kwame Pobee Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lassiter Janna and George Laudato Laura and Gerald Rosberg Christina Laverentz ’01 Maria Lawson Winston Leong Gabriel Lerner ’14 Riva Letchinger ’10 Will Letchinger ’13 Susan and Edward Levin Elizabeth Levine ’02 Joshua Ethan Levine ’90 Mrs. Catherine Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Leviss Claudia Koeppel Levitas ’83 Alexa Levitt ’95 Barbara and David Levitt Christopher Levy Will Ley Greta and Peter Lichtenbaum Judith Lichtenberg and David Luban Ms. Mimi Liebeskind Simma and Ronald Liebman Denise and Alexander Liebowitz Deborah Edelfelt Likens ’72 Rachel Weston Linnemann ’99 Courtney Linsky ’03 Andy Lipps Lys and Ian Litmans Todd Liu

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Emily Livelli Michael Lloyd ’82 Devra Lobel ’00 Elena Lobo ’04 Carolyn Lockie Helen Louise Loennig ’86 Marjorie Loennig Laura and Christopher Loftus Gayle and Jeff Lomax Denese Lombardi Julie and Brian Lonardo David London ’10 Gabriel London ’95 Laura London ’07 Hannah Loonsk ’12 Harper Loonsk ’14 Laura Louis-Fils Sabria Lounes and Moncef Benyoucef Dana Louttit and John Loonsk Adrian Loving Johannah Lowin ’05 Sarah Lubega Chinara Lucas ’00 Rachael Lucatorto ’90 Manjula and Haresh Luthria Conor Mack ’98 Jim Mahady Nadia Mahdi and Elliott Colla Marian Makins ’98 Cynthia Malasky ’07 Mitchell Malasky ’04 Lauren Malhotra ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Maragh Julie and Stuart Margel Amy Margolies ’00 Linda Marison Zachary Mark ’05 Joshua Marks ’91 Carolyn and Harold Martin Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Martin Polly Martin Thomas Mason ’90 Gayle Masri-Fridling and Barry Fridling Veronique Mattei Natallia and Michael Mazo Alicia McClintock ’05 Patricia McCole Kim McDaniel Elizabeth McDermott and Thomas Mostowy Princess and Kenyan McDuffie Ivy McLemore-Dastur Louise McIlhenny and Hugh Riddleberger

Kimberly McMillan Julia Davis Mead ’01 and Nelson Mead Mrs. Jeanne Medina Jenny Medvene-Collins ’04 Dr. and Mrs. Bob Mendelsohn Norma and Kenneth Mendelson Seth Menell ’97 Roshni Menon and Narender Mangalam Benjamin Messner ’08 Matthew Mettille Dan Meyer ’13 Megumi and Christopher Meyerson Mrs. Beatrice Meyerson and Mr. John LeMoyne Ellicott William Miezan Adam Milch ’00 Colin Miller ’05 HarDisha and Ransom Miller Harrison Miller ’04 Kay Miller Rebecca Miller ’92 Susan and Leonard Miller Logan Milliken ’01 Joanna Millstein ’13 Natalie Millstein ’14 Kenny Miluk Erica Mintzer and Robert Cull Denise Mitchell and Ray Abernathy Rebecca Mode ’82 Arshad Mohammed Mr. and Mrs. Azizali Mohammed Mary Beth Moore and Douglas Ruby Tessa Adelaide Morgan ’77 Jessica Morris Kelly Morris Sydney Morris ’14 Anne and Alan Morrison Nina Morrison ’88 Davlyn Grant Mosley ’03 Luisa Myavec

Susannah Myerson ’94 Lauren Levien Nagin ’01 Ron Nahr Claudia Naim-Burt ’04 Naomi Mezey and Matthew Paul Yolanda and Salim Nashid Paul Nass Lisa and Chuck Natanson Githa and Arun Natarajan Damali Neal ’91 Eddie Neal Lisa and James Neal Mrs. Marilyn Neely Vanessa Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nerenberg Tricia Nevarez Maia Gemmill and Daniel Nexon ’91 Tuan Nguyen Deirdre Nicholson Grayce Niles ’14 Masako and Akihiko Nishio Sarah Nissim ’96 Melanie Nix ’87 Aromie Noe and Halsey Rogers The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton Melis Odabas-Geldiay ’14 Selin Odabas-Geldiay ’12 Denise Odell ’84 Michel Woodard Ohly ’93 Suzanne and Michael Oliwa Mrs. Myrna Olsen Ronni and Eric ’89 Oppenheim Andrew Oram ’73 Rebecca Oremland ’01 Sharon and Norman Oremland Joshua Orenstein ’86 Karen and Jan Orenstein Jacob Osterhout ’98 Jeannette Osterhout ’00 Alexandra Owens ’09

Abraham Pachikara Leslie and Benjamin Page Cordenia Paige ’83 Freeman Palmer ’75 Neville Palmer ’14 Sarah Panzer ’14 Beth Parker and Holly Holland Steve Parnell Naomi Parnes ’05 Sonija Parson ’02 Maya Patel ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Paul Nancy Furman Paul and Marc Paul Alexandros Pavlakis ’14 Eleni Pavlakis ’09 Catherine Pearson Skylé and Kalim Pearson Stephanie Pecaro ’14 Frederick Pelzman Sczerina Perot and Gary DiBianco Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perretta Victoria Perry Beth and Charles Peters Allison Noble Petro ’78 Margaret and Sandy Pfunder Mr. and Mrs. Charles Piercey Aidan Pillard ’15 Sarah Pilzer ’01 Kim and Anthony Pimenta Diamond and Calvin Piper Monica and Umberto Pisoni Shelley Bryant Plass ’80 Mia Plehn ’95 Julie Polinger ’01 Melanie Pontz ’97 Margaret Athey Press ’93 Nicole and Craig Preston Emma C. Pretzer ’17 Sebastian M Pretzer ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Priestap

TUITION COVERS ONLY 87%

OF THE COST OF A GDS EDUCATION

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Maria Prieto and Eduardo Gonzalez Troy Prinkey Nick Prout Nina Prytula Jonathan Psotka ’01 Charles Psychos Teresa and Jeffrey Puretz Cynthia Putchat Reena and Jeffrey Racki Catherine Ragonese ’14 Jennifer Randolph ’81 Alisa Rashish ’76 Heather Ratner ’13 Lisa Rauschart John Ravenal ’77 Maaike Ravesteijn ’09 Paula Recart and Roberto Brodsky Mrs. Eva Redmon Katie Redmond Sarah Redmond Mrs. Joan Ress Reeves Marc Regardie ’90 Diana Rehfeldt Ariana Reichert ’14 Rachel Reider ’95 Frances Rekrut ’02 Jamie and Stuart Rennert Philip Reno ’90 Mr. Dave Reynolds and Mrs. Jean Lockwood Reynolds Anna Rhymes Robert Rich ’96 Mr. Stan Leven and Ms. Mary Richardson Tess Richman ’10 Joan Braden Ridder ’72 James Riddleberger ’05 Sarah Riddleberger-Jones ’01 Marc Rieffel ’90 Corinna Riginos ’96 Mimo and David Riley Leah Rinaldi ’00 Nina Hammond Ritch ’95 and Michael Boland Clay Roberson Jacob Roberts ’15 Barbara and Sherman ’61 Robinson Bonnie Robin-Vergeer and Vytas Vergeer Andrew Robison Beth Rogan ’01 Matthew Rogan ’04 Mrs. Barbara Rollinson Michael Rolnick ’83 Corinne Roosevelt ’88

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Ms. Barbara Rosen Eli Rosenbaum ’01 Alejandro Rosenberg ’98 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Douglas Rosenthal ’00 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Rahel and Jordan Rosner Tovia Rosner ’15 Dorothy and Stanford Ross Steven Ross ’95 Nicholas Rubenstein ’00 Sandra Rubin and Steve Calem Bruce Ruble Dianne Rudo and Andrew Gilman Kate Rueter Jack Rushford ’13 Katherine Russell and George Askew Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rutenberg Jamie Rutenberg ’03 Izabela Rutkowska and Michal Rutkowski Nicholas Ryan Carolyn and Peter Saba Nicole Sackley ’90 Nicole Sade Nicole Saiontz ’92 Carly Salaman ’95 Shirin Fleischmann Salerno ’01 Jesseca Salky ’99 Lida Salmani Alexander Samaha ’14 Daniel Samet ’12 Sarah Berger Sandelius ’95 Diann and Waydal Sanderson Angela Sandford Payal Sangani Robbie Saunders Elizabeth Schachter ’04 Barney Schecter ’81 Kate Schecter ’77 and Aaron Roth Anne and Barry Schenof Jennifer Scher ’86 Charlene and Ed Scherr Michael Schiffer Mr. and Mrs. David Schneider Jessie Schneiderman ’01 Rachael Schneiderman ’14 Nina and Carmi Schooler Anya Schoolman and Barry Lynn Nancy Schreiber ’84 Kyra Schulman ’14 Peg Schultz Susan and Roger Schwabacher

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Joanna Schwartz ’90 Karen Schwartz Katie Powers Scott Kim Scott Gerald Secundy ’59 Alison and Dennis Seese Dorothy Seidel ’04 Laura Seidel ’02 and Arthur Delaney ’01 Lillian Seidel ’06 Eva Seligman ’03 Catherine Sellers and Marc Rosenblum Shawn Sendar ’06 Lindsay and Rene Sepulveda Kavita Sethi and Fred Olowin Adam Sexton ’82 Shahab Shaghaghi ’00 Reema and Umesh Shah Lisa and Jay Shambaugh Jo Ann Shaner and Reza Malek-Madani Ellen Shapiro ’99 Jon Sharp Adam Shear ’89 Rebecca Sheinbaum ’90 Sonia and James Shelton Andrew Shephard ’00 Gail Shepherd-Smith and Rudolph Smith Nick Shestople ’57 Clay Shields ’84 Susanne and Tony Shine Sarah Shohet and John Mikhail Michael Sidgmore ’07 Ferima Sidibe ’04 Margaret Siebel and Stuart Brown Galia Siegel ’85 Joshua Siegel ’01 Joel Silberman ’01 Joanna Silver ’85 Sarah Silverstone ’94 Alexandra Silverthorne ’98 Darren Silvis Kenneth Simonson ’62 Mrs. Rose Singer Lola Singletary ’81 Atiya Ranee Smith ’99 Colleen Smith Edwina Smith and Sam Simmens Evan Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Smith Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith Anastasia Snejnevski ’08 Cylburn Soden ’95 Martha Solinger ’77

Julie Solomon ’13 Tracy Solomon ’77 Katharine Sonnenberg ’82 Sasha Soper Carlos Soriano Patricia Sosa Carolyn Soults ’98 Dana Southerland Elana Spector ’22 Brooke Spellman ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sperl Thomas Spilsbury Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spindel Alexandra ’97 and Matthew ’94 Squire Pamela Stanfield Natalie Starr John Steever ’85 Gideon Stein ’90 Julie Stein ’99 Vicki Steinwurtzel Jennifer and James Stenger Danny Stern ’11 Ed Stern Emma Hughes Stern ’15 Elizabeth Sternberg ’75 Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers Jim Stillwell Aden Stinebrickner-Kauffman Danny Stock Jerilyn and Alan Stone Laura Stone and Ezra Levine Mr. and Mrs. James Stringer Sarah Struble ’06 Mr. Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Ms. Suzanne Stutman Ximena Suarez-de-Cornejo Nura Suleiman ’03 Lida Sunderland ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Super Jennifer Swedish ’97 Julia Sweig and Reed Thompson Leon Swerdel-Rich ’14 Sarah Taber and David Ensign Joan and Mark Tannenbaum Jonathan Tannenwald ’02 Nahid Tayebi and Kazem Kazempour Amy and Simeon Taylor Joann Taylor Michael Taylor ’01 Michael Telis ’04 Julia TenEyck Jerry Tersoff ’73

Vassili Thomadakis ’92 Mrs. Jean Thomas Rebekah Parker Thomson ’94 Annie Thrower-Patterson and Robert Patterson Elliott Thurston ’78 Kathryn Tolbert and Robert Dohner Laura Tolliver Mercedes Tolve ’97 Julia Tomasko ’05 Laura Tomasko ’02 William Tomasko ’09 Aaron Tracy ’98 Adam Trebach ’09 Lynda Tredway Jeff Trembly Noah Trister ’97 Ashley Trout ’99 Jay Tucker Richard Tuckerman Jennifer Tuerk ’89 Josh Turley Brinley Schwartz Turner ’90 Waseem Ullah Marion and Michael Usher Shana Vaknin ’90 Karin van der Cammen Simone and Douglas ’83 Velvel Vildan and Jos Verbeek Nancy Foltz Vest ’62

Jessie Vinik ’01 and Andrew Sunderland ’01 Nicholas Viorst ’81 Nathan Vish Gambrill Hollister Wagner ’88 Lalage Wakefield and Eric Finzi Vernetta and Terrell Walker William Wallace ’05 Matthew Wallack ’80 Eduardo Wallentin and Cristina Padrao Mrs. Joan R. Walton Alec Ward ’13 Wendy Wasserman Janis and James Webb Holden Wegner ’14 Daniel Weidenfeld ’00 Stacy Sherwat Weinberger ’89 Andrew Weiner ’90 Marilyn and Harold Weiner Jonathan Weinrieb ’90 David Weinstein ’90 Marnie Weinstein ’97 Megan Weintraub ’95 Kristin Wells and Earl Yates Jody Welsh Michael Wenthe Chip West ’03 Wyeth West ’12 Saman Julia Westberg ’95 Adam White ’14

Number/Percentage who gave to the Annual Fund: Current Parents (712)

89%

Alumni (700)

19%

Parents of Alumni (300)

12%

Grandparents (210)

14%

Faculty/Staff (205)

93%

Trustees (23)

100%

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EXTRAORDINARY Katherine Whitson Emily Widra ’11 Mrs. Karla Widra Derek Wiebenson ’91 Carolyn Douglas Williams Colleen and Bryan Williams Damien Williams ’00 Devon Williams ’05 Mrs. Penny Williams Oveta Willie-Jenkins Larry Wilner Julie Wilson ’03 Harrison Wilton ’14 Allison and Eric Win Carol and Michael Winer Matthew Winer ’04 Read Winkelman ’88 Arielle Winnik ’03 Mrs. Eugenia Winters Megan Wirtz ’15 Denise and Freddie Wofford Muriel Wolf Edith and Jan Wolff Leah Wortham and Eric Hirschhorn Julia Wright and Peter Shapiro Susan Wright Mols Shari Murphy Wynn ’79 Ian Yaffe ’05 Sharon Yanagi and Alan Yu Laura Yee Thomas Yoder Katherine Yorks Shari Yost Gold and Jason Gold Mrs. Gloria Young Azeem Zainulbhai ’00 Tameem Zainulbhai ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Zalesne Judith and Donald Zauderer Daniel Zhang ’14 Xueying Zhang Mr. Shuzheng Cong and Mrs. Yiling Zhuang Miriam Zimmerman and Steve York Ivan Zizek Eric Zuckerman ’90 Lynn Zuckerman Stephanie Zuniga ’97 Mr. Louise Albright and Mrs. Barbara Zwick GlaxoSmithKline Quest Diagnostics

That’s one of the words that comes to mind as GDS considers the generosity of those who have made multi-year commitments in addition to their Annual Fund gifts equaling $10,000 or more in support of financial aid and strategic plan initiatives. We would like to express our gratitude to the following individuals, and thank them for making GDS a philanthropic priority, each and every year.

$100,000 and Up Anonymous (2) Ruth Compton Lammot J. du Pont Angela and Joel Glazer Jill ’85 and Robert Granader Leslie and Bruce Lane Karen and Ethan Leder Nancy Lemann and Mark Clein Mr. and Mrs. Theodore N. Lerner Sarah and Eric Rosand Ilene Weinreich and David Smith $50,000-$99,999 Mary Dickie and Leslie Dach Amy Dixon and Gregg LoCascio Elizabeth and Michael Keeley Mr. and Mrs. William Kerr

Molly Levinson and Josh Wachs Connie and Erik Lindenauer Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Sarah and Jed Nussdorf ’98 Catherine and Tom Strong Anna Swerdel and Jonathan Rich Kate and Brad Vogt Elizabeth Westfall and Scott Wiener Pat and Eric Widra Up to $49,999 Abby Greensfelder and Franklin Foer ’92 James Harmon ’89 Ricki and Joel Kanter Jennifer Noland and Steve McBee Erin Segal and Michael Sachse ’95 Anupama and Matthew Tate Richard Tuckerman

YOUNG ALUMNI FIVE-YEAR FUND For the fourth year, graduating seniors have made a commitment to the GDS Annual Fund through their college years. We are so appreciative of the classes of 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 for embracing this effort.

A special thank you goes to our most recent graduates, the Class of 2015, many of whom have pledged $20.15 for the next five years! In this way, our most recent graduates express their gratitude to GDS and join the ranks of alumni who already contribute to making our School the special place it is.

It’s never too late to join the Young Alumni Five-Year Fund!

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SENIOR GIFT : CLASS OF 2015 FOUR-YEAR FINANCIAL AID AWARD The Class of 2015 elected to donate all Senior Gift funds to support financial aid at GDS through a four-year high school financial aid award. The graduates are honored to donate the funds raised through a variety of student activities and through parent giving to support a socio-economically diverse student body—because who is in the classroom at GDS matters most!

Whitney and Sydney Albrittain Michele Altemus and Joseph Cullen Julie Chrisco Andrews and Michael Andrews Tricia and Bobby Asher Pareezad and Viraf Bankwalla Chieko and John Barry Sylvia Becker and Hugh Winkler Stephanie and David Bergman Nancy Black Mary and Charles Brooks JD and Neal Callander Suzy Friedman Cohen and David Cohen Beth and Brian Cohn Andrea and Mark Dettelbach Katherine Dunbar and Mark Levitch Anita and David Ensor Laura Epstein and Kenneth Boley Berlinda and Kenneth Eras Katherine and Bob Eustice Barry Ford Sharon and Adrian Forsyth Marti and Steven Friedman Itobomo and Rufus Garba Laura Garcia de Mendoza and Gustavo Hormiga Christine and Ted Gistaro Natalia and Beni Golani Lee and Robert Goldman

Andréa Guedes and Marcelo Da Silva Catherine and Joe Hall Nina Hammond Cynthia Hogan and Mark Katz Tracey Hughes and David Stern Anne Joyce and Clifton Johnson Alyce Katayama Jenkins and Thomas Jenkins Simmie Kerman and Steven Aarons Jeong Kim and Kihwan Sung Jennifer Klein and Todd Stern Christine and Tim Koubek Rachel Kronowitz and Mark Lewis Janice Lower and Paul Berger Amy and Bruce Lustig Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Carolyn and Harold Martin Toni and Peter Marx Kim and Bob McKernan Kimberly McMillan Monica Medina and Ron Klain Norma and Kenneth Mendelson Megumi and Christopher Meyerson Susan Neely Raja Parihar and Subash Penmetsa Jimmie and Matthew Paschall Margaret Pearson and Steven Gunby Nina Pillard and David Cole

Pamela Reeves and Jeffrey Goldberg Lucretia Adymy Risoleo and Robert Risoleo Edith and Matthew Roberts Thomasina Rogers and Gregory Gill Cynthia Rohrbeck and Philip Wirtz Barbara Rollinson and Warren Crowdus Beryl Howell and Michael Rosenfeld ’74 Katherine Russell and George Askew Katherine Samolyk and Robert Avery Sherill and David Sanger Lisa Schneiderman Anya Schoolman and Barry Lynn Susanne and Tony Shine Mickie Simon and Brian Schwalb Debra Stencel and Patrick Phillips Hillary and Frank Stiff Julie and Steven Stone Natalie Tawil and James Morsink Julia TenEyck Deb and Michael Warsaw Ilene Weinreich and David Smith Colleen and Bryan Williams Allison and Eric Win Joel Winston Julia and Smith Yewell Allison Zieve and Aaron Kaslow The Class of 2015

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ALUMNI GIVING BY CLASS Class of 2014 – 34% Participation Mark Ashin Benjamin Berger Griffin Black Samuel Boardman Rachel Cherner Rachel Dan Aidan Delaney Natalie Edwards Julia Ernst Aaron Fisher Nicole Fridling Lily Gasperetti Matthew Gerson Nicholas Hadjimichael Shalini Hicklin-Coorey Khalil Jones Malik Jones Samuel Klein Noa Krakoff Gabriel Lerner Harper Loonsk Natalie Millstein Sydney Morris Meheret Morrison Grayce Niles Melis Odabas-Geldiay Neville Palmer Sarah Panzer Maya Patel Alexandros Pavlakis Stephanie Pecaro Sebastian Pretzer Catherine Ragonese Ariana Reichert Alexander Samaha Rachael Schneiderman Kyra Schulman Leon Swerdel-Rich Holden Wegner Adam White Frank Wilton Daniel Zhang Class of 2013 – 26% Participation Elizabeth Baker Taylor Barksdale Catherine Beal Zoe Beard-Fails Benjamin Breuer Elisabeth Cafritz Elizabeth Dach Sophie Emery Michael Eppler

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Alexandra Epstein William Feldman Marc Finzi Elizabeth Foley Jacob Gordon Caroline Gottlieb Sabrina Halberg Jason Hanerfeld Sharmen Hettipola Alastair Hicklin-Coorey Leni Hirsch Patrick Holland Alessandra Karam Will Letchinger Lauren Malhotra Daniel Meyer Joanna Millstein Heather Ratner Jack Rushford Sara Sellers Julie Solomon Alec Ward Class of 2012 – 7% Participation Bradley Blount Henry Brown Kate Cullen Nathaniel Frum Hannah Loonsk Selin Odabas-Geldiay Brandon Qureshi Daniel Samet John West Class of 2011 – 10% Participation Rachel Coyne Hunter Fortney Jeremy Fridling Kevin Fung Samuel Gilman Alexander Goldberg Marc Gottesman Peter Helman Calder Hudson Daniel Stern Emily Widra Class of 2010 – 9% Participation Anonymous Jacob Anbinder Maya Braxton William Dean Oliver Hudson

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Olivia Jacquemin Riva Letchinger David London Tess Richman Simone Zehren Class of 2009 – 11% Participation Anonymous Benjamin Blount Maggie Ehrenreich Andrew Eugene Julia Fisher Andrew Hellman Noah Kaswell Alexandra Owens Eleni Pavlakis Maaike Ravesteijn William Tomasko Adam Trebach Class of 2008 – 9% Participation Anonymous Molly Appelbaum Ian Barr Julia Blount Philip Bronstein Rachel Eggleston Matthew Gillespie Jesse Greenblatt Benjamin Messner Anastasia Snejnevski Class of 2007 – 9% Participation Megan Bradley Peter Coyne Eliza Hecht Emily Hutson Mojisola Jimoh Marissa Joseph Morgan Kanarek Laura London Cynthia Malasky Sarah Nutman Michael Sidgmore Class of 2006 – 10% Participation Nathaniel Ahlers Annie Bernstein Matthew Bradley Phillip Cohen Laura Dean Brian Fung David Kanarek

Joshua Pincus Lillian Seidel Shawn Sendar Sarah Struble Class of 2005 – 21% Participation Anonymous Daniel Ain Michael Cohen Megan Coyne Maria Pia Gekas Raymond Gustini Rimal Kacem Alexandra Klingenstein Jamie Rose Kuhar Johannah Lowin Zachary Mark Jeannette McClintock Colin Miller Naomi Parnes James Riddleberger Carolyn Rosenthal Sarah Rueven Julia Tomasko William Wallace Devon Williams Ian Yaffe Class of 2004 – 20% Participation Julia Broder Jonathan Dach David Driscoll Anna Galbraith Alex Hemmer Craig Jatlow Courtney Jones Cyrus Kharas Elena Lobo Mitchell Malasky Jenny Medvene-Collins Harrison Miller Claudia Naim-Burt Laura Rabinovitz Matthew Rogan Elizabeth Schachter Dorothy Seidel Ferima Sidibe Michael Telis Matthew Winer Class of 2003 – 17% Participation Elizabeth Ahlers Mary-Patricia Barron

Alexandra Berkley Elyssa Caplan Jaclyn Cohen Regina dela Santa Alejandro Golding Morgan Kennedy Courtney Linsky Davlyn Mosley Jamie Rutenberg Eva Seligman Nura Suleiman Lida Sunderland Chip West Julie Wilson Arielle Winnik Tameem Zainulbhai Class of 2002 – 11% Participation Daniel Bodansky Grant Braswell Catherine Cullen Benjamin Dean Benjamin Jacobs Ava Jones Eli Kaplan Elizabeth Levine Sonija Parson Frances Rekrut Laura Seidel Jonathan Tannenwald Laura Tomasko Class of 2001 – 29% Participation Anonymous Ted Baab Jessica Berenson Jamie Berkelhammer Marissa Boynton Jonathan Cooper Arthur Delaney Ayesha Delany-Brumsey Claire Douglass Joshua Fingerhut Jennifer Friedman Alexander Hirschhorn Gabriel Joselow Brady Kirchberg Christina Laverentz Julia Mead Logan Milliken Lauren Nagin Rebecca Oremland Sarah Pilzer

Julie Polinger Jonathan Psotka Sarah Riddleberger-Jones Elizabeth Rogan Eli Rosenbaum Shirin Salerno Jessica Schneiderman Joshua Siegel Joel Silberman Andrew Sunderland Michael Taylor Jessie Vinik Rachel Yavinsky Class of 2000 – 26% Participation David Ain Mark Berenson Brooke Bernold Samuel Bryson Abraham Dyk David Eisenberg Joshua Foer Alison Gathright Jeb Gaybrick Scott Goldman Alejandra Guzman Brian Hennessey Maile Hermida Amber Hilliard Nishant Kumar Devra Lobel Chinara Lucas Amy Margolies Adam Milch Benjamin Nussdorf Jeannette Osterhout Leah Rinaldi Sarah Rogan Douglas Rosenthal Nicholas Rubenstein Shahab Shaghaghi Walter Shephard Daniel Weidenfeld Damien Williams Azeem Zainulbhai Class of 1999 – 26% Participation Anonymous Rebekah Braswell Amba Datta Nicholas Hazen Melissa Kadzik Rachel Linnemann

Jesseca Salky Ellen Shapiro Atiya Smith Virginia Solomon Julie Stein Margaret Trias Ashley Trout Class of 1998 – 21% Participation Michelle Clair Nicolas Cuttriss Leah Daniels Eric Deinoff Rachel Delston Jason Dixon Jonathan Drobis Eva DuGoff Jesse Fuchs-Simon David Goldberg Jeremy Levitt Conor Mack Marian Makins Jed Nussdorf Jacob Osterhout Alejandro Rosenberg Stephanie Rosenthal Andrea Rubinfeld Samantha Scher Alexandra Silverthorne Carolyn Soults Aaron Tracy Class of 1997 – 21% Participation Sarah Baird Avery Boyce Terence Carter Geoffrey Claussen Miriam Cohen Susanna Cowen Elan Daniels Gillian Galen Lisa Hurst Daniel Kasper Jamie Lawrence Seth Menell Rebecca Mishuris Melanie Pontz Daniel Sharfman Justin Silver Elizabeth Slobasky Alexandra Squire Jennifer Swedish Danielle Tarantolo

Mercedes Tolve Noah Trister Annie Vinik Marnie Weinstein Stephanie Zuniga Class of 1996 – 13% Participation Jenaro Cardona-Fox Benjamin DuGoff William Fastow Tasha Ferguson Jeffrey Herzog Stephanie Kaplan Anne Kneedler Sarah Nissim Marc Rabinovitz Robert Rich Corinna Riginos Ryan Samuel Evan Wechsler Class of 1995 – 27% Participation Anonymous Jenny Abramson Dzifa Awunyo-Akaba Sarah Barillaro Garren Bird Katherine Brebbia Benjamin Britton Allison Dodge Vince Gabor Daniel Gati Scott Glosserman Alexa Levitt Gabriel London Mia Plehn Rachel Reider Nina Ritch Steven Ross Michael Sachse Carly Salaman Sarah Sandelius Cylburn Soden Brian Steinwurtzel Megan Weintraub Saman Westberg Class of 1994 – 18% Participation Johanna Bell Krista Brentley Matthew Clement Cara Feinberg Robin Friedman

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Brian Glick Jeffrey Goldberg Carole Hirsch Carlyn Kolker Kelly Mistretta Susannah Myerson Jacob Perlman Sarah Rinaldi Rachel Rosenthal Sarah Silverstone Matthew Squire Casey Stewart Rebekah Thomson Aaron Vernon Class of 1993 – 13% Participation Laurie Cohen Noami Devore Jedd Ehrmann Jefferson Gramm Rebecca Haskins Dara Katz Julia Kepniss Eric Menell Michel Ohly Jennifer Popek Margaret Press Thomas Tillotson Aisha Wilson Bond Class of 1992 – 15% Participation Eve Bould Sean Fine Franklin Foer Marc Glosserman Rhonney Greene William Jeffress Tamara Lawson Rebecca Miller Alexis Mitchell

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Steven Oritt Michael Parker Nicole Saiontz Vassili Thomadakis Class of 1991 – 14% Participation Laura Baldwin Melissa Dorfman Benjamin Dyson Deborah Fox Marcus Jackson Julian Jamison Rashida Johnson Joshua Marks Damali Neal Daniel Nexon Amy Oberdorfer Nyberg Derek Wiebenson Class of 1990 – 48% Participation Nina Albert Nicholas Beizer Ingrid Binswanger Leila Bremer Daniel Butts Antoine Colaco Abigail Colucci John Comer Sora Devore Janann Eldredge Rachel Feldman Robert Ganz Amy Glickman Melissa Green Jennifer Grollman Monique Gulino David Hannallah Juanita Irving Jonathan Jeffress Heather Jones

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Matthew Kaminski Jessica Keimowitz Amy Killy Zachariah Kramer Georgina Larkin Joshua Levine Rachael Lucatorto Thomas Mason Kendal McManus Jonathan Nathan Sarah Paulsen Michael Quint Marc Regardie Philip Reno Marc Rieffel Nicole Sackley Joanna Schwartz Rebecca Sheinbaum Caroline Smith Matthew Solomon Sarah Lichtman Spector Anim Steel Gideon Stein Sarah Stettinius Brinley Turner Shana Vaknin Andrew Weiner Jonathan Weinrieb David Weinstein Eric Zuckerman Class of 1989 – 16% Participation Anonymous Sheila Avelin Stacey Dixon James Harmon Rebecca Herz Ayanna Hudson Eric Oppenheim Nicolette Romano

Adam Shear Brooke Spellman Jennifer Tuerk John Vibert Stacy Weinberger Sondra Wolff Class of 1988 – 21% Participation Anonymous Natalie Adler Nizam Ali Tamer Amr Juliet Eilperin Jennifer Frink Eric Halperin John Hockmeyer Aimee Kohn Jacqueline Moen Nina Morrison Hayley Pivato Scott Renschler Corinne Roosevelt Gambrill Wagner Read Winkelman Class of 1987 – 26% Participation Alexander Cooper Ilana Feldman Laura Gardner Gina Gionfriddo Jonathan Glickman Cristina Griffith Karen Hamlin Miriam Ikle-Khalsa Robert Kaplan Brendon Kenney Caleb Kramer Catherine Mendelsohn David Mode Melanie Nix

Elizabeth Pitofsky Edward Quint Karen Trister Grace Douglas Usher Class of 1986 – 19% Participation Samantha Babcock Penelope Blank Sarah de Ferranti Michael Demos Elizabeth Finley Rebecca Fishman Kimberly Gordon Schoonover Ayoka Jack Hilary Klein Helen Loennig David Lublin Joshua Orenstein Jennifer Scher Class of 1985 - 27% Participation Jessica Bauman David Bernstein Lane Blumenfeld Koren Brewer Lexa Edsall Nicole Erb Ellen Finn Robin Friedman Daniel Hamilton Rafael Heller Hisham Khalid David Krucoff Benjamin Mankiewicz Rachel Marcus Adam Oppenheim Michael Rosenman Galia Siegel Joanna Silver Erik Smulson John Steever Deirdre Sumida Lindsay Webster Class of 1984 – 9% Participation Alfredo Apolloni Timothy Dowd Nancy Feidelman Denise Odell Nancy Schreiber Kevin Sheekey Thomas Shields

Class of 1983 – 11% Participation James Ginsburg Amy Jeffress Claudia Levitas Cordenia Paige Michael Rolnick Douglas Velvel Adam Wegner Class of 1982 – 16% Participation Coleman Bazelon Elizabeth Carty Michael Lenkin Stephen Lewis Michael Lloyd Andrew Mergen Rebecca Mode Tracey Pyles Adam Sexton Katharine Sonnenberg Michael Ward Class of 1981 – 15% Participation Jaber Altaki Monica Hernandez Marshall Horowitz Judith Ikle Jennifer Randolph Barney Schecter Maggie Siena Lola Singletary Nicholas Viorst Class of 1980 – 18% Participation Mark Cogen Liz Curry William Edgar Andrew Engel Karen Fitzgerald-Shelton Christopher Haskett Rhonda Jackson Shelley Plass Matthew Wallack Nina Weissberg

Class of 1979 – 18% Participation Frances Brookner Ralph Cunningham Anna Fajerson Elizabeth Goldmuntz Eliza Greenberg Daniel Lewin Jamie Raskin Sarah Shea Scott Shepperd Shari Wynn Class of 1978 – 11% Participation Ann Marchant Leroy Nesbitt Allison Petro Elliott Thurston David Wallack Class of 1977 – 11% Participation Elliot Cafritz Tessa Morgan John Ravenal Kate Schecter Martha Solinger Tracy Solomon Class of 1976 – 13% Participation Jane Benesch Sue Cohn Brent Creelman Mary Houghton Virginia Kling Alisa Rashish Class of 1975 – 20% Participation Jane Becker Rod Beresford Amy Coombs Anne Falvey Donna Goldbloom Guian Heintzen Laura Klein

Freeman Palmer Tracy Pilzer Elizabeth Sternberg Sheryl Swankin Class of 1974 – 17% Participation Alan Harper Ronald Maxwell Michael Rosenfeld RaeCarole Tekeste Class of 1973 – 20% Participation Alexandra Graubert Karen Henderson Andrew Oram Jerry Tersoff Class of 1972 – 31% Participation Charles Becker Joel BuchwaldDeborah Likens Joan Ridder Class of 1971 or earlier – 10% Participation Michael Berenson Nicholas Dale Robert Gerber Arthur Goldschmidt W. Dulany Hill Frank Johnson Maggie Kast Neal Krucoff Quentin Meyer Sherman Robinson John Runyon Gerald Secundy Nicholas Shestople Kenneth Simonson Jan Solomon Nancy Vest Larry Wilner Diana Wright

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Our alumni know better than anyone the unique benefits of an exceptional GDS education. Through alumni support of salaries, financial aid, and programming, they help make the everyday experience at GDS extraordinary for new generations of Hoppers. We are incredibly grateful for this dedicated and growing group of alumni who choose to give year after year. When we come together, we make big things happen.

The dedication of GDS alumni to our school and our students lasts a lifetime. And our gratitude is boundless. Thank you!

20 Years or More Jessica Bauman ’85 Coleman Bazelon ’82 Lane Blumenfeld ’85 Eve Bould ’92 Sue Cohn ’76 Andrew Engel ’80 Gina Gionfriddo ’87 Rhonda Jackson ’80 Jessica Keimowitz ’90 Virginia Kling ’76 Aimee Kohn ’88 Georgina Larkin ’90 Michael Lenkin ’82 Stephen Lewis ’82 Helen Loennig ’86 Ronald Maxwell ’74 Susannah Myerson ’94 Denise Odell ’84 Tracy Pilzer ’75 Scott Renschler ’88 Sherman Robinson ’61 Carly Salaman ’95 Kenneth Simonson ’62 Katharine Sonnenberg ’82 Sarah Stettinius ’90 David Wallack ’78 Sondra Wolff ’89 15-19 Years Rebekah Braswell ’99 Katherine Brebbia ’95 Krista Brentley ’94 Antoine Colaco ’90 Abigail Colucci ’90 Ralph Cunningham ’79 Benjamin DuGoff ’96 Eva DuGoff ’98 Marc Glosserman ’92 Scott Glosserman ’95 Eric Halperin ’88 Daniel Hamilton ’85 Marshall Horowitz ’81 Mary Houghton ’76

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Carlyn Kolker ’94 Caleb Kramer ’87 Jamie Lawrence ’97 Rachel Linnemann ’99 Ann Marchant ’78 Rachel Marcus ’85 Alexis Mitchell ’92 David Mode ’87 Tessa Morgan ’77 Jed Nussdorf ’98 Andrew Oram ’73 Elizabeth Pitofsky ’87 Edward Quint ’87 Sarah Sandelius ’95 Barney Schecter ’81 Nancy Schreiber ’84 Adam Shear ’89 Maggie Siena ’81 Matthew Solomon ’90 Sarah Lichtman Spector ’90 John Steever ’85 Jerry Tersoff ’73 Douglas Usher ’87 Adam Wegner ’83 10-14 Years Jenny Abramson ’95 Natalie Adler ’88 Sheila Allen Avelin ’89 Johanna Bell ’94 Mark Berenson ’00 Michael Berenson ’62 Daniel Bodansky ’02 Leila Bremer ’90 Frances Brookner ’79 Elliot Cafritz ’77 Terence Carter ’97 Matthew Clement ’94 Laurie Cohen ’93 Alexander Cooper ’87 Eric Deinoff ’98 Noami Devore ’93 Allison Dodge ’95 Juliet Eilperin ’88

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Anne Falvey ’75 Rebecca Fishman ’86 Franklin Foer ’92 Alison Gathright ’00 David Goldberg ’98 Scott Goldman ’00 Elizabeth Goldmuntz ’79 Melissa Green ’90 Jennifer Grollman ’90 Monique Gulino ’90 Raymond Gustini ’05 Lisa Hurst ’97 Judith Ikle ’81 Julian Jamison ’91 Amy Jeffress ’83 Jonathan Jeffress ’90 Frank Johnson ’61 Julia Kepniss ’93 Amy Killy ’90 Jeremy Levitt ’98 Michael Lloyd ’82 Kendal McManus ’90 Quentin Meyer ’58 Nina Morrison ’88 Jonathan Nathan ’90 Leroy Nesbitt ’78 Benjamin Nussdorf ’00 Joshua Orenstein ’86 Steven Oritt ’92 Freeman Palmer ’75 Sarah Paulsen ’90 Hayley Pivato ’88 Melanie Pontz ’97 Margaret Press ’93 Philip Reno ’90 Marc Rieffel ’90 Sarah Rogan ’00 Michael Rosenfeld ’74 Rachel Rosenthal ’94 Sarah Rueven ’05 John Runyon ’57 Samantha Scher ’98 Joanna Schwartz ’90 Daniel Sharfman ’97

Elizabeth Slobasky ’97 Caroline Smith ’90 Brooke Spellman ’89 Elizabeth Sternberg ’75 Nura Suleiman ’03 Andrew Sunderland ’01 Michael Taylor ’01 Mercedes Tolve ’97 Laura Tomasko ’02 Jennifer Tuerk ’89 Annie Vinik ’97 Jessie Vinik ’01 Gambrill Wagner ’88 Michael Ward ’82 Ian Yaffe ’05 5-9 Years Ted Baab ’01 Samantha Babcock ’86 Sarah Barillaro ’95 Mary-Patricia Barron ’03 Jessica Berenson ’01 Penelope Blank ’86 Marissa Boynton ’01 Grant Braswell ’02 Elyssa Caplan ’03 Jenaro Cardona-Fox ’96 Elizabeth Carty ’82 Geoffrey Claussen ’97 Jaclyn Cohen ’03 Jonathan Cooper ’01 Megan Coyne ’05 Peter Coyne ’07 Amba Datta ’99 Laura Dean ’06 Benjamin Dean ’02 William Dean ’10 Maria dela Santa ’03 Jason Dixon ’98 Janann Eldredge ’90 Andrew Eugene ’09 Elizabeth Finley ’86 Julia Fisher ’09 Joshua Foer ’00 Robin Friedman ’94 Robert Gerber ’70 James Ginsburg ’83 Karen Trister Grace ’87 David Hannallah ’90

Andrew Hellman ’09 Alex Hemmer ’04 Karen Henderson ’73 Brian Hennessey ’00 Alexander Hirschhorn ’01 Samantha Holloway ’99 Ayoka Jack ’86 Rimal Kacem ’05 Matthew Kaminski ’90 Daniel Kasper ’97 Dara Katz ’93 Brady Kirchberg ’01 David Krucoff ’85 Jamie Rose Kuhar ’05 Tamara Lawson ’92 Elizabeth Levine ’02 Elena Lobo ’04 Laura London ’07 David London ’10 Johannah Lowin ’05 Julia Mead ’01 Catherine Mendelsohn ’87 Eric Menell ’93 Seth Menell ’97 Andrew Mergen ’82 Rebecca Mishuris ’97 Davlyn Mosley ’03 Lauren Nagin ’01 Amy Oberdorfer Nyberg ’91 Michel Ohly ’93 Adam Oppenheim ’85 Eric Oppenheim ’89 Jeannette Osterhout ’00 Jacob Perlman ’94 Sarah Pilzer ’01 Julie Polinger ’01

Jennifer Popek ’93 Jonathan Psotka ’01 Tracey Pyles ’82 Laura Rabinovitz ’04 Marc Rabinovitz ’96 Jennifer Randolph ’81 Frances Rekrut ’02 Joan Ridder ’72 James Riddleberger ’05 Elizabeth Rogan ’01 Eli Rosenbaum ’01 Alejandro Rosenberg ’98 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Michael Sachse ’95 Shirin Salerno ’01 Scott Shepperd ’79 Michael Sidgmore ’07 Galia Siegel ’85 Joel Silberman ’01 Justin Silver ’97 Atiya Smith ’99 Deirdre Sumida ’85 Jennifer Swedish ’97 Danielle Tarantolo ’97 RaeCarole Tekeste ’74 Vassili Thomadakis ’92 Elliott Thurston ’78 Julia Tomasko ’05 John Vibert ’89 William Wallace ’05 Stacy Weinberger ’89 Megan Weintraub ’95 Matthew Winer ’04 Rachel Yavinsky ’01

PERCENTAGE OF FACULTY

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HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS In honor of Hannah Avidon ’19 Alison Schneider and Richard Avidon

In honor of Tara Bhagat ’19 Shalini Soni-Bhagat and Vipul Bhagat

In honor of Joe Caldwell ’19 Sybil and Joe Caldwell

In honor of Richard Avidon Vince Gabor ’95 Eliza Hecht ’07

In honor of Marley Boss ’23 Cathy and Barry Boss

In honor of Reily Christian ’17 Sarah Page Shea ’79

In honor of Teddy Boss ’20 Cathy and Barry Boss

In honor of Alyssa Cogen ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cogen

In memory of Laura Both ’95 Jenny Abramson ’95 and Jake Maas Sarah Barillaro ’95 Katie Bartlett Brebbia ’95 Allison Dodge ’95 Rebecca Drobis ’95 Scott Glosserman ’95 Susan and Edward Levin Alexa Levitt ’95 Gabriel London ’95 Sarah Nissim ’96 Mia Plehn ’95 Rachel Reider ’95 Nina Hammond Ritch ’95 and Michael Boland Sarah Berger Sandelius ’95 Megan Weintraub ’95 Saman Julia Westberg ’95

In honor of Mark Cogen ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cogen

In honor of Dylan Bronner ’22 Mrs. Jewel Fierce

In honor of Ava Comly ’27 Alison Fellowes Comly and Nate Comly

In honor of Rose Bednar Amanda Deringer Karin and Tom Freedman Elizabeth Schachter ’04 Kim Scott

In honor of Mason Bronner ’27 Mrs. Jewel Fierce

In honor of Sarah Cooper ’19 Dina Elboghdady and James Cooper

In honor of Sophia Bronner ’23 Mrs. Jewel Fierce

In memory of Benjamin Cooper ’98 Daniel Sharfman ’97

In honor of Anthony Belber Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr

In honor of Brittany Brookner ’14 Frances ’79 and Steven Brookner

In memory of Bernice Bennett Janice Barksdale

In honor of Judy Brown Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

In honor of Henry Cunningham ’16 Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

In honor of Emily Batts Alicia Batts In honor of Lucas Bauer ’02 Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer In honor of Nicholas Bauer ’99 Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer In honor of Sophie Bauer ’06 Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer In honor Sophia Bax-Wooten ’19 Sarah Bax and Clarence Wooten In honor of Maxwell Becker ’16 Melinda Humphry Becker and William Becker

In memory of Psyaih Bennett Donna Goldbloom ’75 In honor of Barbara Bergman Jamie Gangel and Daniel Silva In honor of Andrew Berman Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr In honor of Halle Beshouri ’16 Dorothy Kerr and Joseph Beshouri

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In memory of Stephen Broy Eliza Hecht ’07

In honor of Rebecca Cogen ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cogen In honor of Zeke Cohen ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Friedman In honor of Sam Cohen ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Friedman In memory of Alain Colaço ’94 Sarah Silverstone ’94 Aaron Vernon ’94 In honor of Kevin Collar Alison Taylor

In honor of Ms. Joan Cunningham and Ms. Cynthia Melman Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

In honor of Barbara Buonora Alison Fellowes Comly and Nate Comly

In honor of Julian Cunningham ’21 Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

In honor of Benjamin Burnett ’18 Mr. Robert Brodsky and Mrs. Antoinette Treadway

In honor of Julie Cunningham ’81 Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

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In honor of Kevin Barr Philip Bronstein ’08 Jamie Gangel and Daniel Silva Kevin Sheekey ’84

In honor of Ariella Cymerman ’19 Meredith and Michael Cymerman In honor of Cecily Davis ’18 Sean Dougherty Leslie Quezaire In honor of Kathleen Dawson Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr In honor of Ayesha Delany-Brumsey ’01 Robin Delany-Shabazz In honor of Simon Diesenhaus ’19 Jill, Jon, Josh and Owen Diesenhaus In honor of Nichelle Dowell Alison Fellowes Comly and Nate Comly In memory of Michael Duignan Maureen Duignan In memory of Rita Eisenberg David Eisenberg ’00

In memory of Cecilia Ekperi ’05 Anonymous Daniel Ain ’05 Michael Cohen ’05 Megan Coyne ’05 Nina Fainberg ’05 Maria Pia Gekas ’05 Raymond Gustini ’05 Rimal Kacem ’05 Alexandra Klingenstein ’05 Jamie Rose Kuhar ’05 Johannah Lowin ’05 Zachary Mark ’05 Alicia McClintock ’05 Jeannette McClintock ’05 Colin Miller ’05 Naomi Parnes ’05 James Riddleberger ’05 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Sarah Rueven ’05 Julia Tomasko ’05 William Wallace ’05 Devon Williams ’05 Ian Yaffe ’05

In honor of Gabriel Feldman ’03 Marie-Jose Etheart and Jay Feldman In honor of Kira Feldman ’07 Marie-Jose Etheart and Jay Feldman In honor of Lillian Forman ’18 Mary Morton and Keith Forman In honor of William Foster ’19 Olivia and David Foster In honor of Eric Friedenson Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr In honor of Henry Furman ’25 Eve Gerber and Jason Furman In honor of Louisa Furman ’26 Eve Gerber and Jason Furman In memory of Toby Galle ’88 Nina Morrison ’88 In honor of Francesca Galli ’19 Shelly and Joseph Galli

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HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS (cont.)

In memory of Theresa Lucatorto A Gambaro ’90 Juanita Irving ’90 Rachael Lucatorto ’90 In honor of Lucy Gammon ’18 Amy Maniatis and Martin Gammon In memory of Greg Gardner ’92 Melinda and William Gardner Marcus Jackson ’91 In honor of Lyra Gemmill-Nexon ’22 Maia Gemmill and Daniel Nexon ’91 In honor of Bill George Gambrill Hollister Wagner ’88 In honor of Sam Gilman ’11 Dianne Rudo and Andrew Gilman In honor of Jeffrey Goldberg ’94 Barbara Goldberg In honor of William Goldberg ’19 Pamela Reeves and Jeffrey Goldberg In honor of Michael Gottdenker Julie and Martin Franklin Lisa Henry Laura and Daniel Koffsky In honor of Nicole Greenberg ’15 Kate Gephardt Greenberg and Neil Greenberg In honor of Sophie Gresens ’26 Kasia Mendelsohn ’87 and Paul Gresens In honor of Hannah Grosman ’19 Jennifer and Jeffrey Grosman In honor of Carly Grossfield ’19 Leslie Adelman and Kenneth Grossfield In honor of Steve Gunby Josh Turley In honor of Aaron Hart ’98 Florence and Peter Hart In honor of Morgan Heller ’07 and David Kanarek ’06 Wendee Wolfson

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In honor of Christopher Hepler ’93 Jennifer James and Arthur Hepler

In honor of Nancy Kaplan Jane Kirby-Zaki and Fares Zaki

In honor of Emma Herman ’19 Amy and Andrew Herman

In honor of Patrick Keeley ’19 Elizabeth and Michael Keeley

In honor of Mr. Dulany Hill, Jr. Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79

In honor of Alix Kennerly ’29 Smashing Smiles Orthodontics

In memory of Julia Hill Maria Casarella Cunningham and Ralph Cunningham ’79 In memory of Elizabeth Hirsch Carole Hirsch ’94 In honor of Alexander Hirschhorn ’01 Joshua Siegel ’01 In honor of Ava Holmes ’19 John Holmes In honor of Laura Howell Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr In honor of Sue Ikenberry Sam Gilman ’11 David Lublin ’86 Darren Silvis In honor of Juanita Irving ’90 Damon Jackson In honor of Benjamin Ishimaru ’19 Agnieszka Fryszman and Stuart Ishimaru In memory of Dorothy Jackson Toni Michelle Jackson William Jordan, Jr. In honor of Paul Jeon and Ryan O’Hara Julie and Stuart Margel In honor of Lee Brun Johnson Lee Carol Cook and William Cook In honor of Eve Jones ’15 Susan Neely In honor of Aicha Kacem Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt In honor of Nooman Kacem Hunter Fortney ’11 Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt

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In honor of Sunil Kennerly ’26 Smashing Smiles Orthodontics In honor of Owen Killy ’19 Amy ’90 and Quinn Killy In honor of Alexander Koenig ’17 Mrs. Doris Koenig In honor of Daniel Koenig ’19 Mrs. Doris Koenig Amy Schwartz and Eric Koenig In honor of Miriam Koenig ’20 Mrs. Doris Koenig In honor of Max Krauthamer ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Winston Chutkan Robynne Chutkan Tanya Chutkan and Peter Krauthamer Mark Epstein Anita Josey-Herring and Albert Herring Donna Rattley and Adrian Washington In honor of Emma Leary ’19 David Leary and Seth Perretta In honor of Amanda Leder ’19 Karen and Ethan Leder In honor of Jillian Lerner ’16 Ilene and Michael Lerner In honor of Riva Letchinger ’10 Michele Pollak and Michael Letchinger In honor of Will Letchinger ’13 Michele Pollak and Michael Letchinger In honor of Paul Levy Ann Hoenigswald and Nicholas Thorner In honor of Ethan Litmans ’20 Mr. and Mrs. William Green In honor of Tyler Litmans ’21 Mr. and Mrs. William Green

In honor of Todd Liu Juanita Irving ’90

In honor of Sophia Mohammed ’19 Arshad Mohammed

In honor of Elena Lobo ’04 Denese Lombardi

In honor of Daniel Mu ’19 Menghua Mu and Meiyan Zhang

In honor of Carolyn Lockie Charles Psychos

In honor of Aidan Murphy ’22 Mr. Stan Leven and Ms. Mary Richardson

In memory of Barbara Lockwood Beatrice Fuller

In memory of Lori Murphy ’76 Shari Murphy Wynn ’79

In memory of Frank Loennig Nancy Feidelman ’84 Marjorie Loennig

In honor of Sarah Naatz ’16 Cindy Boyle Naatz and Daniel Naatz

In honor of Hannah Loonsk ’12 Dana Louttit and John Loonsk In honor of Harper Loonsk ’14 Dana Louttit and John Loonsk In honor of Alexander Lourie ’96 Christine Arnold-Lourie and Benjamin Lourie In honor of Nathan Lourie ’06 Christine Arnold-Lourie and Benjamin Lourie In honor of Owen Lourie ’01 Christine Arnold-Lourie and Benjamin Lourie In honor of Anjali Martin- Shanker ’26 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Martin In honor of Dylan McAfee ’19 Anita LaRue-McAfee and Arthur McAfee In memory of Gary McCown Nancy Feidelman ’84 Gambrill Hollister Wagner ’88 In honor of Eliana Miller ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Borrus In honor of Ransom Miller, IV ’19 HarDisha and Ransom Miller In honor of Henry Mitchell ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heckel Frances Rekrut ’02 In honor of Stuart Mitchell ’28 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heckel

In honor of Ari Naimon ’17 Carla Wheeler and Jeff Naimon In honor of Arianna Neal ’15 Lisa and James Neal In memory of Wayne Nesbitt ’81 Lola Singletary ’81 In honor of Elaine Ogden Anne Harkavy and David Ogden In memory of Matthew Ornstein ’98 Michelle Clair ’98 Marian Makins ’98 Joel Silberman ’01 In honor of C.A. Pilling Jamie Gangel and Daniel Silva In honor of Clay Roberson Sheila Allen Avelin ’89 Mara Liasson and Jonathan Cuneo Alec Ward ’13

In memory of Douglas Schneiderman Lisa Schneiderman Jessie Schneiderman ’01 In memory of Mary Jane Scott Jacqueline Scott and David Fortney In honor of Che Shabazz ’11 Robin Delany-Shabazz In honor of Katie Shambaugh ’19 Lisa and Jay Shambaugh In honor of Russell Shaw Mr. and Mrs. David Shaw In memory of Paulette Siegrist Linda and Michael King In honor of Matthew Siff ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Zalesne In honor of Joanna Silver ’85 Marion and Michael Usher In honor of Kovan Smith ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Smith In memory of Zachary Sobol ’84 Katharine and Thomas Waldmann In honor of Alexandra Solomon ’26 Sarah Helmstadter and Gregg Solomon In honor of Gladys Stern Annie Bernstein ’06 In honor of Harry Summers ’11 Victoria Perry

In honor of Leo Rosand ’26 Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wertheimer

In honor of Ruth Summers ’08 Victoria Perry

In honor of Sam Rosand ’25 Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wertheimer

In honor of Deborah Cogen Swartz ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cogen

In honor of Laura Rosberg Eliza Hecht ’07

In memory of Linda Thaler Jeannette Osterhout ’00

In honor of Isabelle Saba ’19 Carolyn and Peter Saba

In honor of Eli Thayer ’19 Leah Thayer

In honor of Gaia Sartorelli ’16 Jennifer and Vittorio Sartorelli

In honor of Jacquelyn Tisdale Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr

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In honor of Sophie Tucker ’19 Lisa and Seth Tucker In memory of Bill Turner Elena Lobo ’04 In honor of Douglas Usher ’87 Marion and Michael Usher In honor of Jens Verbeek ’15 Vildan and Jos Verbeek In honor of Henry Wachs ’26 Mrs. Catherine Levinson Ms. Elizabeth Wachs In honor of Louisa Wachs ’27 Mrs. Catherine Levinson Ms. Elizabeth Wachs In honor of Lucy Walker ’19 Natalie Adler ’88 and Christopher Walker In honor of Ilan Wallentin ’14 Jessica Valner and David Flohr In honor of Julian Wallentin ’16 Jessica Valner and David Flohr In honor of Eleanor Wartell ’19 Sarah Rosen Wartell and Ted Wartell In memory of Willard Mitchell Frances Rekrut ’02 In honor of Janis Webb Amanda Deringer Jennifer Webb ’08

In memory of Robyn Weinstein ’97 Jennifer Friedman ’01 Barbara and Mark Mutterperl In honor of Jacob Weitzner ’18 Mr. Louise Albright A and Mrs. Barbara Zwick In honor of Zoe Welsh ’18 Carroll Johnson-Welsh and Joseph Welsh In honor of Julian Werebe ’09 Claudia de Colstoun-Werebe and Roberto Werebe

In honor of Matilda Wolfers ’27 Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers In honor of Ethan Wolin ’23 Mr. Andre Elkon In honor of Oliver Wolin ’26 Mr. Andre Elkon In honor of Zoe Wolin ’28 Mr. Andre Elkon In honor of Becky Wolsk Mr. and Mrs. David Wolsk

In honor of Nathalie Werebe ’12 Claudia de Colstoun-Werebe and Roberto Werebe In honor of Marti Weston Sheila Allen Avelin ’89 Sarah Rogan ’00

In honor of Claire Wolsk ’19 Becky and Jeremy Wolsk In honor of Cole Wright-Schaner ’19 Ken Schaner In honor of Asha Yates ’18 Kristin Wells and Earl Yates

In honor of Ethan Widra ’18 Alcides Cummins Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ferrie Karin Kuenstler Walt Kuenstler William Malone Kirk Widra

In honor of Paula Young Shelton Rasha Ebeid and Khaled Sakr In honor of Ilana Zeilinger ’19 Laura and Michael Zeilinger

In honor of Benjamin Wiener ’21 Ms. Elizabeth Gable In honor of Nathaniel Wiener ’19 Ms. Elizabeth Gable Elizabeth Westfall and Scott Wiener In memory of Richard Wolf Muriel Wolf

STUDENT TO TEACHER RATIO »

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6:1 >> middle school

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7:1 >> high school

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2014-15 ANNUAL FUND VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP Annual Fund Chairs Nicole Elkon Christi Hay Parent Division Chairs High School Michele Altemus Janice Barksdale Cynthia Cramer Osaghae Middle School Andrew Herman Barry Hurewitz Lower School Rebecca Dweck Angela Messersmith Jonathan Perl Parent Grade Chairs PK Paul Jeon

Jacob Vogelstein K Jenny Dinh Heather Quinn Helen Rhee 1st Holly Holland Beth Parker Jonathan Perl 2nd Matt Berzok Ruth Jacobsen 3rd Abir Burgul Gregg LoCascio 4th Ann-Marie Burke Frank Foer ’92 5th Meredith Cymerman

Michael Cymerman Gema DeCain 6th Raina Brubaker Ian Simmons 7th Barry Hurewitz Vicky Marchand Cathy Strong 8th Sybil Caldwell Andrew Herman 9th Renata Cooper

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Karen Leder 10th Ashby Beal

Dominic Bianchi Tony Pimenta 11th Janice Barksdale Rita Castillo Kathryn Spindel Allison Treanor 12th Michele Altemus Andrea Dettelbach Frank Stiff

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Senior Gift Chairs 2015 Simmie Kerman and Steve Aarons Rachel Kronowitz and Mark Lewis Alumni Annual Fund Chairs Matt Solomon ’90 Liz Levine ’02 Grandparent Annual Fund Chairs Yvonne and Lee Roy Bronner Hughlyn Fierce Jewel Fierce Faculty/Staff Annual wwFund Chairs High School Martin Bullock Kathy Hudson Middle School Perry Degener Lida Salmani Lower School Geoff Byrne Skylé Pearson Alumni Board President Rachel Winnik Yavinksy ’01 Vice-President Tamara Wilds Lawson ’92 Melanie Brissett Nix ’87 Sondra Novick Wolff ’89 Matt Solomon ’90 Jeff Goldberg ’94 Nina Ritch ’95 Jonathan Drobis ’98 Jess Salky ’99 Ben Nussdorf ’00 Liz Levine ’02 Alex Golding ’03 Elena Lobo ’04 Reunion 2015 Chairs Lane Blumenfeld ’85 Melissa Green ’90 Class and Reunion Chairs RaeCarole Tekeste ’74 Leroy Nesbitt ’78 Scott Shepperd ’79

Kamal Ali ’80 Nina Weissberg ’80 Lane Blumenfeld ’85 Michael Rosenman ’85 Deirdre Schwiesow Sumida ’85 Cristina Murphy Griffith ’87 Julie Fanburg ’89 Jessica Davis Ba ’89 Ayanna Hudson ’89 Abby Mann Colucci ’90 Melissa Green ’90 Jess Keimowitz ’90 Sarah Lichtman Spector ’90 Tommy Mason ’90 Rashida Johnson ’91 Johanna Bell ’94 Lizzie Rosenthal ’94 Tiffany Watkins ’94 Jenny Abramson ’95 Jennifer Baker ’95 Katie Bartlett Brebbia ’95 Scott Glosserman ’95 Liz Slobasky ’97 Stephanie Rosenthal ’98 Amba Datta ’99 Rebekah Braswell ’99 Scott Goldman ’00 Amber Hilliard ’00 Nishant Kumar ’00 Alex Hirschhorn ’01 Brady Kirchberg ’01 Robin Carr ’02 Randall Carter ’02 Frances Mitchell ’02 Jaclyn Cohen ’03 Mary-Pat Barron ’03 Julia Broder ’04 Elizabeth Schatchter ’04 Naomi Parnes ’05 Carolyn Rosenthal ’05 Sarah Rueven ’05 Alea Stein ’05 Annie Bernstein ’06 Alex Boyce ’08 Samy Kumar ’08 Adam Isaacson ’09 Julia Pockros ’09 Jannah Tate ’09 Sam Breuer ’10 William Dean ’10 Lexi Levin ’10 Hunter Fortney ’11 Jeremy Fridling ’11 Sam Gilman ’11 Marc Gottesman ’11

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ONLINE AUCTION AND FINANCIAL AID A very special thank you to Juanita Irving ‘90, Chair, Fund-A-Scholar February 2015.

The GDS Community knows that each and every student in our community enriches the lives of us all. That is why we came together during Fund-AScholar February to support what matters most: students. GDS remains dedicated to creating a diverse community and supporting a high-caliber student body—your generosity gives us the opportunity to do so.

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