June 2019 Reporter

JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL

R EPORTER JUNE 2019

Fully Engaged and STEM-Powered Girls pursue their interest in science through a wide array of STEM courses and extracurricular activities.

When Dan Barton began teaching industrial technology and engineering (ITE) at Burroughs in 1982, girls generally took home economics and boys took shop. That soon changed, and he’s been encouraging girls’ participation in ITE ever since, from robotics to the Super-Mileage Vehicle Club. When he founded SMVC in 2008, only three students on a team of 20 were girls. “Now, it’s 50 percent female, and of our four leaders this year, three of them are female,” Barton says.

During SMVC’s April trip to California for its fourth Shell EcoMarathon, event organizers took notice of that. Given the event’s initiative to get more women involved in STEM fields, organizers were intrigued by the @JBSGirlsofSTEM Facebook page, managed by co-president Hallie Williams ’20. Shell featured the Burroughs team in their 2019 marketing campaign, interviewing co-president Chloe Sowers ’19 in a “Shell Women in STEM” segment.

“Gender doesn’t seem to be a barrier to participation and achievement in STEM at Burroughs,” says physics teacher and STEM coordinator Martha Keeley. She and Computer Science chair Martha McMahon unearthed

Chloe Sowers ’19 works on her redesigned cockpit door for a super-mileage vehicle, which not only seals off gas fumes, but allows the driver to exit more quickly.

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92% of this year’s female seniors took a STEM class (science, computer science, industrial technology or engineering) in addition to math.

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The Science Olympiad team was 58 percent female.

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37% of the girls in this year’s senior class took two or more STEM classes in addition to math.

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58% of the seniors enrolled in science courses were female.

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29% of the students (grades 9­­–12) enrolled in computer science courses were female.

And they are taking it to the next level: Nearly 40% of the women in the Class of 2019 plan to study premedicine, engineering or science in college.

PUBLISHED BY JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL FOR ALUMNI, PARENTS AND FRIENDS

Exploring Careers

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Photo Gallery

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Science in the STAR

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Teachers Beyond Burroughs

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Alumni News

Alum Profile: Henry Domke '70

these statistics (2018­­–19) that reveal areas of strength and some areas of potential growth: •

Campus News

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Alum Profile: Liberty Vittert '06

ON COVER: Hallie Williams ’20, co-president of the Super-Mileage Vehicle Club, cuts off an axle on a biodiesel car.

C AMPUS NEWS

Imster Leads Advancement and External Affairs Ginger Imster began her career at City Academy, spent years in the innovation sector and now comes full circle with a return to independent education.

Ginger Imster, who brings more than 20 years of experience in fundraising, communications, board governance, relationship development, project management and strategic planning, recently joined the Burroughs faculty as director of advancement and external affairs.

She comes from the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, where she served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and helped develop The Helix Center, an incubator for bioscience, agricultural technology and plantscience startups in Creve Coeur.

Before that, she served as executive director of Arch Grants, a nonprofit providing equity-free grants to startups. Over three years, she grew the staff and worked with local, regional and state officials to replicate the Arch Grants model in Kansas City, Cape Girardeau and Springfield, Missouri.

Imster began her career in 2001 at City Academy, a nonprofit private independent elementary school located in one of St. Louis’ most disinvested neighborhoods.

Imster says she’s enjoying being around students again and is eager to start working on the centennial celebration in 2023.

During her 13 years there, she helped the school expand in many ways, including spearheading its first capital campaign, which resulted in $11.5 million for facilities and $10 million toward City Academy’s endowment.

Imster lent her talents as a volunteer as well, including with the BioSTL Coalition, the Regional Legislative Coalition, the St. Louis Equity in Entrepreneurship Collection, the Crime Commission, the St. Louis Chamber Policy Council, the Ferguson Commission RFQ Committee, the Visiting Nurses Association, the Bellefontaine Cemetery Association, STL-250, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Optimist Club of St. Louis and the Friends of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis.

She also has close personal connections to Burroughs: her husband is Harry Imster ’83, and her late mother-in-law, Margery Dodson Imster ’41, was a member of the Burroughs fine arts faculty for 16 years.

“Margery never missed an opportunity to remind me of the value of a Burroughs education,” Imster says. “This was especially true when I was at City Academy, and she was volunteering significant time to the school. She wanted to see City Academy graduates attend John Burroughs just as her children had.”

Imster says she enjoys being around students again and is eager to start working on the centennial campaign.

“The 100th anniversary of John Burroughs School in 2023 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

to celebrate a century of service and to ensure the school has the resources required to support a second century of impact locally and globally,” she says.

During her first few months at Burroughs, Imster spent time attending student, faculty, parent and alum meetings and events. She has also reached out to volunteer leadership to help her broaden and deepen both her knowledge and relationships.

Please take a moment to introduce yourself — knowing you is one of the very best ways for Ginger to know Burroughs.

Athletic Improvements Next on the Agenda As part of the Board of Trustees’ five-year strategic plan, the administration and Board have identified several improvements to strengthen the school’s athletic facilities. These improvements would impact diving, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, squash, swimming and water polo programs, at all levels — and, as a bonus, provide additional parking to support all of these activities. The hope is to complete these projects in advance of the school’s Centennial in 4½ years.

Given strong interest by some families, the school is in the midst of discussions with the City of Ladue and is also reaching out to families whose children play these sports to gauge their interest.

Construction schedules will turn on full costs (yet to be determined) and the level of community engagement. Here’s a snapshot: SWIMMING, DIVING AND WATER POLO

The six-lane pool was built as part of the Cissel Center more than 30 years ago. There is ample space immediately south of the current pool to build an eight-lane regulation pool with new locker rooms and much-improved spectator viewing areas. This new venue would serve the swimming, diving and water polo programs as well as the JBS Health Club. It is more economical — and obviously more beneficial to our athletes — to

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build a new natatorium than repair the current lagging facility.

SQUASH

Squash players travel off campus to practice and compete. If the new pool is built, the school would be able to build four regulation squash courts — along with additional flexible court space and a viewing area — on the 1986 pool footprint.

Having courts on campus would allow squash to be elevated to a school-sponsored sport.

FIELD HOCKEY, LACROSSE AND SOCCER

As part of the scheduled replacement of synthetic turf on the field hockey field, there is the opportunity to expand the field to support practice and regulation play for lacrosse and soccer. All of these programs have grown tremendously during recent years, and a multi-use venue would provide much-needed flexibility during the fall and spring sports seasons.

PARKING

And, of course, there must be ample parking for all the members of the Burroughs community and visitors who attend athletic contests and other events on campus. The school recently tore down an old residence on the southwestern corner of campus and covered that footprint with gravel to

A rendering showing the footprint of the proposed athletic facilities.

provide additional parking during high-demand times. With the city’s permission, Burroughs will make this a permanent addition to the Clayton lot.

As always, the goal is to support and keep up with the needs and talents of students and faculty with minimal disruption and in keeping with schoolwide priorities.

For more information, please contact Ginger Imster at gimster@jburroughs.org or 314/993-4040, ext. 256.

S TUDENT RESOURCES

Finding Something You Love to Do

The M a k er space

New programming and expanded resources in the Rassieur Career Center provide career exploration opportunities.

Room for Ideas

More than 40 years ago — long before it was a best practice at secondary schools — Frank Rassieur ’44 created the Benjamin F. Rassieur Career Center in honor of his father. Originally a mini-library tucked inside the Stamper Library, the center provided resources — books, career files, filmstrips and periodicals — to help students as they considered career and post-secondary educational paths.

Now located in the College Counseling suite in the Commons, the Rassieur Career Center still includes a wealth of reading material, but it has expanded into programs and activities that bring professionals on campus, provide insight into individual interests and aptitudes, and connect students to people and opportunities off campus.

PROFESSIONALS ON CAMPUS

As early as seventh grade, students are learning about peoples’ jobs at morning assembly. Guest speakers representing a range of fields make assembly presentations several times throughout every school year. By the time this year’s seniors graduate, they will have heard from an impressive list of alums, including computer programmer/entrepreneur Sam Altman ’03, playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon ’95, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley ’67 and Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith ’73.

A more focused consideration begins with Career Day during spring of the sophomore year. The morning is devoted to learning about career options and talking with professionals. Several weeks before the event, students identify careers they would like to know more about, and the Alumni Office coordinates the morning to bring professionals on campus to interact with students in small group sessions.

This year’s speakers included journalist Carrie Epstein Edelstein ’94, attorneys Evan Fowler ’06 and John Meehan ’06, businessman Ben Kline ’03, architect Christy Phelps ’09, computer programmer Sally Steuterman ’10 and physician Emily Epstein Ziaee ’91.

Students also take a personality inventory that day to identify abilities and interests, and college counselors introduce them to Naviance, an online tool that helps them align their interests and strengths with postsecondary goals and build a resume that will make it easier to apply to summer internships and later, colleges.

OUTSIDE OPPORTUNITIES

Naviance also points 10th through 12th graders to summer enrichment opportunities across the country, and Burroughs maintains its own website, which is available to all students (including middle schoolers).

Parent- and student-recommended opportunities

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A junior working with e-NABLE the Future, a nonprofit that donates artificial hands and arms, prototyped parts for a limb design, then 3-D printed it in industrial technology and engineering (ITE).

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Seventh graders made “fascicles” (chapbooks) of autobiographical poems, written in response to Jacqueline Woodson’s verse memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming.

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Seventh-grade science students designed, built and tested seismographs.

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German students built scale models of buildings to get a better understanding of the country’s architecture.

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Eighth-grade science students prototyped Rube Goldberg projects before building them in the STAR building’s project room.

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Geometry 10, Multivariable Calculus and Math 7 classes crafted 3-D models of complex mathematical concepts.

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Students designed props for the fall play, Almost Maine.

Laura Fogarty, associate director of college counseling, works with senior Juliet Mahony as she considers college programs that will help her meet her professional career goals.

include GlobalHack software competitions, River Styx writers’ workshops, a mini-medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, engineering summer camps at Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville, wilderness expeditions, and the competitive Students and Teachers as Research Scientists program for rising seniors, which is coordinated by the University of Missouri-St. Louis in cooperation with other locally based research institutions.

MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES

Every resource in the Rassieur Career Center is meant to help students and parents take the college and career process as far as they can, as early as they can, without becoming overwhelmed.

When students want to build a low-tech prototype or a model of a complex idea, they often start in the Science, Technology and Research (STAR) building’s Makerspace. Designed with input from every department and stocked with tools from hammers and string to die-cutting and sewing machines, students find a range of ways to use the space:

Once a student has identified an interest area, mentors become crucial.

In addition to the opportunity to connect with alums who return for Career Day, the College Counseling office maintains a mentoring handbook with professional profiles of alums and current and past parents. Categorized by industry, each page features a professional who is willing to serve as a resource for students and recent graduates. Mentors hail from a wide array of industries. The current handbook includes lawyers, architects and social workers, to name a few.

Every resource in the Rassieur Career Center is meant to help students and parents take the college and career process as far as they can, as early as they can, without becoming overwhelmed, according to Laura Fogarty, associate director of college counseling.

Career Day gets the conversation started.

For more, follow @jbsmakerspace on Instagram.

“Then when students meet with us as juniors and say, ‘I don’t know what to study,’ we can go back to those personality assessments. We have insight right there that can help us direct students to other resources that we have available. If you want to be an engineer, what does that mean? And if so, what kind? It helps you drill down and get more specific.”

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The College Counseling Department welcomes the involvement of JBS parents and alumni who are willing to talk to students and young alums about career-related topics, May Projects, internship opportunities and shadowing experiences in their industry.

The time commitment is flexible and can range from a phone conversation to sponsoring a summer intern.

To add your profile to the mentoring handbook, visit http://bit.ly/2XW1i1t.

Seventh graders (from left) Aaliyah Elliot, Elsa Wimmer and Katherine Long document prototypes of their earthquake seismographs in the STAR building’s Makerspace.

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Blonde Ambition A cast of 37 hit the Haertter Hall stage on February 28 and March 1 and 2 for this year’s musical, Legally Blonde.

Directed and choreographed by Taylor Pietz (Theatre, Speech & Dance), the production featured Isabella Koster ’20 as Elle Woods, Ben Cummings ’19 as Emmett Forrest, Lindsey Okafor ’20 as Paulette Bonafonté, Matthew Stroup ’20 as Professor Callahan, Rob Leavitt ’20 as Warner Huntington III and Cary Smith ’19 as Vivienne Kensington.

A Sense of Place Model Citizens A group of 33 students traveled to Doha, Qatar, in January to participate in The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN), where they presented a proposal to help girls in poverty gain access to period products, the lack of which often prevents them from attending school. In April, six students attended the United Nations Model UN Youth Summit in New York City, participating in a meeting for youth who are involved in global projects supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Four hundred students representing 25 nations attended, as well as UN officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres.

Checkmate!

In February, during the House Cup (a service learning competition with some friendly competition between grades), Sam Lu ’24 (left) executed a brilliant strategy at the chess table. A few days later, Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca visited campus and faced off with 7th graders Ashley Clarkson and Jack Parsons and seniors Avi Goldberg and Jason Zhou during assembly. The latter are part of a group of seniors who are members of an exceptional chess team, which won second in state in 7th grade, first in state in 8th grade and second in state in 9th, 10th and 11th. The team kept up its winning streak in 2019, placing second in the state championship for the fifth straight year. On board 2, Avi Goldberg took second place; on board 3, Matthew Yee took third place; and on board 4, Colin Bradley was the state champion.

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Art for Breakfast The Fine Arts Advisory Committee hosted its annual Art for Breakfast event on campus, using it as an opportunity to showcase Burroughs’ growing art collection, including works by Jennifer Bartlett, Jackson Pollock and more. Head of School Andy Abbott spoke about John Burroughs, a new sculpture by Tom Friedman ’83 which will be installed near Graduation Grove, as well as the Schiele Westward Expansion Collection, to be housed in the library. St. Louis University art history professor, Dr. Bradley Bailey, followed with remarks on his curatorial process for the Bonsack exhibit The Transient and the Permanent. Nearly 150 alums and friends then took selfguided tours to view art around campus.

Telling Her Stories English Department chair Ellie DesPrez (above, right) brought best-selling author and lifelong friend Emily Bernard to Burroughs on February 12.

Bernard spoke at morning assembly and read an excerpt from her new essay collection, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. Named as one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s 25 Most-Anticipated Books of 2019, Black Is the Body was in its second printing just two weeks after its release.

While on campus, Bernard talked about writing with students during English and African American Studies classes. Then, that evening, Dr. DesPrez led the public conversation during Bernard’s appearance at St. Louis County Library Headquarters.

Just Dance Twenty-one student choreographers had 51 dancers performing a range of dance styles including hiphop, jazz, contemporary, ballet, tap, Thai, Indian and Bollywood at the annual Dance Show on the Haertter Hall stage on January 25 and 26. Jennifer Kinney (Modern Languages; Theatre, Speech & Dance) directed the show, and seven students on the tech crew oversaw costumes as well as lighting, sound and staging.

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New Spaces, New Opportunities in Science New rooms in the STAR building, including classroom-laboratories, a project space, a biodiesel lab and a neuroscience lab, are changing the ways students learn science at Burroughs.

When Burroughs built Gaylord Science Building 52 years ago, it sent a message: Science is important here. “That’s always been part of our philosophy, and with the new building, we’ve absolutely maintained that philosophy,” says biology teacher Margaret Bahe, who joined the science faculty in 1979. When the Science, Technology and Research (STAR) building opened last fall, she says teachers suddenly had the ability to teach handson science every day, not just two days a week during double periods in the labs. That’s thanks to the CLABs, or combined classroom-laboratories. “Even on single-period days, we can be in a lab area,” Bahe says. “Your plants are growing, your bacteria is growing. You can check on them often because you’re right there in a lab.”

SPACES FOR SCIENCE

“That gives us a lot more freedom in designing our lessons for the day,” agrees Science Department chair Wayne Winters. Lectures, discussions and note-taking skills still have a place, but students spend considerably more time doing science rather than listening to a teacher talk about science. “All the data and research show that science is better learned hands-on,” he says.

Although the daily classroom experience underwent an immediate shift in the new spaces, Winters says the structure of the curriculum remains the same. In middle school, students acquire the skills they’ll need to succeed in high school. Seventh graders study life and earth science; eighth graders, chemistry and physics. Winters says it’s not the specific subject area that’s important at this point. “We used to teach a weather class. You could easily have an astronomy class. It’s the skills that are important,” he says. Those include “taking data, learning proper ways of analyzing the data, what equipment or software you use to do that, and finding the best scientific methods for collecting data and doing experiments.”

Now, middle schoolers have their own dedicated rooms in which to work and don’t have to take down their experiments to make way for the next high school class.

Upper school students take biology (ninth grade), chemistry (tenth grade) and physics (eleventh grade). As seniors, they pursue increasingly specialized areas of study. They can choose engineering or AP physics; carbon chemistry or AP chemistry; behavioral neuroscience or AP biology; and bioethics or AP environmental science.

The new building is full of specially designed spaces that accommodate these study tracks (see facing page). All grades use the project room and the greenhouse.

OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Teachers are also using the STAR building to connect students to learning opportunities on other parts of campus — and even off campus.

Tracy Walther, who teaches AP environmental science, led a field trip to Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, which is known for its prairie restoration work. Students worked with the center’s staff on water-quality testing and species monitoring, then shadowed them to learn more about prairie ecosystems, including what roles specific plants play in the environment (for instance, attracting pollinators). Students left with a list of plants that they could start from seed in the greenhouse and then transplant to Burroughs’ prairie garden.

The independent project space gives students a place to work, alone or in groups, outside of class. It was a highly trafficked building area for the 30 competitors and one alternate who participated in the Science Olympiad Missouri State Tournament in April. The practice space paid off: the JBS team scored among the top five teams in

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Some Facts about the sciences at JBS

4.667 out of 5, average AP Chemistry score compared to a 2.8 average nationally

93% of this year’s seniors elected to take at least one science course

36% of this year’s seniors elected to take two science courses

74% of this year’s seniors elected to take an AP science class

11 of the 23 events and took first place in the experimental design event.

CLABS...AND COLLABORATIONS

A spirit of collaboration has always existed in the Science Department — e.g., the popular bioethics course cotaught by Bahe and Mark Smith (History) — but the hope is to foster even more of that in the STAR building, not just with students but with faculty as well. One space that touches every department, but gets especially heavy use for science projects, is the Makerspace (see more on p. 3).

Heading up the push for collaboration, inside and outside the Makerspace is physics teacher and STEM coordinator Martha Keeley. She says the science teachers are excited about the proximity of the Industrial Technology and Engineering Department (ITE) to the science classrooms and the independent project space.

ITE chair Chris Lubniewski trained the Science Olympiad coaches on basic safety in the metal and wood shops, “so now it’s safe for us to take students in there to do some work during practices,” Keeley says. (Students train on the equipment in middle school.) “Just this weekend, we went to a practice tournament for which they built a xylophone using copper pipes and made wooden bases to hold them. The mousetrap car team has been in ITE, 3-D printing wheels and a chassis. In past years, these things would have been tough to do.”

Lubniewski’s engineering class also fosters interdisciplnary study, connecting math, science and ITE. In the first semester, students learn about the engineering design process, view case studies and discuss engineering ethics. In the second semester, they do hands-on projects, including building an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) based on those built for the national SeaPerch Challenge underwater robotics competition.

FUTURE PERFECT

So far, the Science Department is still stretching out and learning what’s possible in the STAR building. Eventually that positive impact will expand and affect every aspect of learning science at Burroughs, according to Winters.

“As we get used to the spaces and get used to the idea of what’s possible, our curriculum will change,” he says, “but our priorities will not.”

AC ADEMICS

It’s a classroom! It’s a lab!

It’s a CLAB. The STAR building’s classroom-labs have transformed day-to-day science teaching. “You can set up a lab in biology that has to sit for half an hour, and in that time, we can talk about the next steps, and then finish up,” Bahe says. “The idea is to do what works best, so if we need to spend 10 minutes talking and taking notes and working through some problems, we can do that and then move into something more hands-on,” Winters says. “It gives us a lot more freedom.”

The Neuroscience Lab Scott Deken’s behavioral neuroscience students now work with “model organisms” — like the rat in the photo at left — in a specially designed neuroscience lab, observing first-hand how the brain works, including sleep cycles and memory. Each team has a dedicated room where it weighs and trains its rats, and there’s a large common area with easily sterilized stainless steel counters that can be used for cleaning cages. The additional space opens up the possibility of working with larger animals, including birds.

The Science Curriculum

Independent Project Space The independent project space is where middle schoolers build their first Rube Goldberg machines and where they make rudimentary seismographs that they can test on a vibrating box fan. It’s also where upper school students work on multistep projects like mousetrap cars for the Science Olympiad. “They used to have to work on those at home,” Winters says. Now, they work on projects at school with access to a 3-D printer and a wealth of different materials. They can also lock up their projects at the end of the day for safekeeping.

The Biodiesel Lab For several years, chemistry teacher Eric Knispel has been converting the school’s used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel used by the Super-Mileage Vehicle Club and Plant Operations Department, which uses it to power its equipment. The new biodiesel room can handle every step of the process, from filtration to titration, and it’s big enough to accommodate an entire class. Two sophomore volunteers, both members of the SMVC (Super-Mileage Vehicle Club), helped Knispel set up the equipment and know how to run quality-control tests on the final batches. His hope is to get more students involved in the future.

The Greenhouse AP Environmental Science classes studied both conventional and genetically modified soybeans to see how nutrients and pesticides affected their growth. “But if you’re going to do an experiment like that, you need environmental controls,” Winters says. Only soil and seeds are permitted to enter, never plants, to ensure that the greenhouse isn’t contaminated. Irrigation, nutrients and heating/cooling run on an automated system controlled by a laptop computer that turns on swamp coolers, deploys a sun screen to deflect heat and triggers heaters — or sends out an alert to teachers if there’s a system failure.

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Russia to Senegal, Off Broadway to Baltimore JBS faculty make their marks in national and international arenas.

Nice Nod for Chen English teacher Andy Chen was one of six teachers nationwide to receive the Early Career Educators of Color Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The winners met in Baltimore last summer and are working with mentors to develop curriculum projects to implement at their schools. They’ll also present their projects at the NCTE convention in the fall. Chen is working with Jeffrey Cabusao, associate professor of English and cultural studies at Bryant University, as he develops a senior honors seminar on Asian-American literature for Burroughs, with the goal of expanding that into the American literature and middle school curricula.

Science On Board Paul Salomon (Math), on left, co-designed an educational board game, Periodic: A Game of the Elements, with John Coveyou of Genius Games, a St. Louis publisher specializing in science games. As players move their pieces around the periodic table, they learn about sets of elements and various groups of elements like halogens and transition metals. The game was posted to kickstarter.com last September and raised $236,000 in preorders in a month. It’s now in production and expected to deliver in June, with a retail release to follow. Salomon is currently working with Coveyou on a game based on Mendelian genetics and is developing his own game with Elf Creek Games in Champaign, Illinois.

Called Honey Buzz, players act as queens of their own bee colonies, sending workers out to expand the hive, forage for nectar, produce honey and eventually sell it to bears, badgers and other woodland creatures.

Barnes in Moscow

Art and French in Senegal Allégra Clément-Bayard (French), on right, spent 12 days in Senegal, West Africa, in February. The trip, organized by the cultural exchange organization There Be Dragons, was themed around the concept of music and mysticism.

The itinerary included forays into both urban and rural environments, including a Sufi neighborhood in Dakar and Niodior, a mangrove-filled fishing village in the Saloum Delta region. The group stayed with host families (Clément-Bayard’s host family spoke French as their third language, so they were able to converse), visited markets, met with local religious leaders (including a Sufi imam) and learned more about Senegalese culture from traditional artists and musicians.

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Philip Barnes (Classics), on right, presented a paper at the International Educational Christmas Readings 2019, held in the Kremlin in Moscow. While there, he visited the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts to examine its display of “Priam’s Treasure” and other archaeological artifacts uncovered at Troy — a follow-up to his exploration last year of the dig site in Turkey’s northwestern Çanakkale province. Barnes also met with Anton Troianovski ’04 (on left), who is Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post.

Pierson Off Broadway John Pierson (Theatre, Speech & Dance chair), traveled to New York City to direct two of three one-act plays premiering at the fourth LaBute New Theater Festival, held January 10-27 at Off Broadway’s Davenport Theatre.

Produced by St. Louis Actors Studio, the twice-yearly festival debuts new works by playwright, screenwriter and director Neil LaBute. The festival was widely reviewed, including in The New York Times.

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES

Alumni News & Notes Don’t see your note? The notes, marriages, births and condolences on these alumni pages were received by April 15, 2019.

1930s Dorothy Gartside Riesmeyer ’39 evacuated from Hilton Head, South Carolina, during Hurricane Florence in September 2018. She reports that it was tough, but she is grateful to have left safely.

1940s

(Mathematics, retired) — and also saw Carol Armstrong, Carol Loeb and more!”

Kate Stith Cabranes ’69 reports that her younger son, Ben, is a second‑year student at University of Virginia School of Law. Her older son, Alejo, after four years at a Wall Street law firm, is now a principal of Promotion Financial, LLC. Kate continues to work as a law professor at Yale, and her husband, José, still serves as a federal appeals judge.

1970s Mary Cissel Suttell ’70 writes, “I spent a wonderful few days on Squam Lake, New Hampshire, in October with classmates Alice Walz Galt, Linda Leber Piper and Beth Fisher High.”

After 35 years, Richard Gordon ’71 retired from the University of Delaware and moved to Pittsburgh to live near his son’s family. He hosts a radio show,

John Minton ’46 writes that he and his wife, Cee, “are finally established as Hoosiers in Bloomington, Indiana, where Cee’s son and his family live.”

Warren Bruce ’48 is retiring (“Golf, anyone?”) after a varied career that included jobs with DuPont, the American Chemical Society and Homeland Security, and roles that included Coast Guard auxiliary pilot, county commissioner, skydiver, SCUBA instructor and flight instructor.

1950s Shirley Thomas Wulfing ’52 writes that since the death of her husband, Fred Wulfing ’51, in February 2017, she has been contemplating transitioning out of being a one-person homeowner and is exploring retirement communities.

The Delaware Contemporary Museum recently held a retrospective of artwork by Gina Cranston Bosworth ’56. The museum honored Gina by naming a creativity award, the Bosworth-Rothrock Award, in her honor.

Kitty Greve Darst ’56 writes that she broke a kneecap and is in rehab at home — giving her the opportunity to “read LOTS of books.”

John Liebson ’57 writes that his research on wildfire suppression technologies, which he began in the 1980s, will be included in the holdings of the National Fire Heritage Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The center is located across the street from his alma mater, the National Fire Academy.

1960s Betsy Goodson Van Winkle ’60 reports that everything is good — “though life is moving too fast!”

Bonnie Burst Freeland ’61 and her husband, Jerome, have moved back to Kirkwood, Missouri, where they had their three children. “Loving condo life and the lock‑it‑and‑leave‑it lifestyle. We’re grandparents of seven super kids.”

Tom Heineman ’63 writes that now that he and his wife, Sandy, are grandparents of a JBS 8th grader, they have become active members of the school’s Grandparents Committee. “We enjoy the activities sponsored by the committee, as well as the many other Burroughs events. In addition, I am an active member of the Alumni Board.”

Jon Edwards ’68 writes: “Couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed our 50th reunion. Sat next to my favorite teacher at dinner — Tex Yager

ALUM UPDATE

HENRY DOMKE ’70: ART & NATURE Henry Domke ’70 graduated from Burroughs the same year as the first Earth Day, but he says his love for nature, and his concern for protecting it, began long before that.

Burroughs instilled that in him, he says, along with his passion for art. “Joanna Collins, my art teacher, was my mentor. I really focused on painting, and that continued to be my main interest for a long time.”

He’d planned to go to art school, but then decided on medicine. Still, throughout his 25 years of medical practice, Domke made art.

On a visit to Apple’s corporate headquarters in the ’80s, he had the opportunity to play with a Photoshop prototype on an early Mac. Though he considered himself a painter, it ignited a fascination with digital art tools and photography as well.

Now his interests come together at the 540-acre Prairie Garden Trust (PGT), 121 miles west of St. Louis in New Bloomfield, Missouri. Domke has lived there more than 30 years, and it’s where he takes most of his photographs. His images of dew-spangled prairie grasses and wildflower fields are available as art prints, but his interests really intersect in the large-scale photographic murals he creates for hospitals and clinics. He says research suggests that people who have a view of nature (rather than a sterile white wall) heal faster.

Domke approaches PGT as a work of art, a “nature garden that offers the beauty of native plants without the messiness of nature untended.” Since the beginning that’s meant both combating invasives like bush honeysuckle and planting and nurturing native plants like asters, black oaks and prairie blazing star. PGT boasts distinct biomes­— a lotus pond, woods, lakes, prairie and savannah — that provide habitat for native Missouri butterflies, bees, dragonflies, frogs, toads, bats, foxes and more than 150 bird species.

Things have really accelerated in the past 10 years, Domke says. PGT brought in a

landscape designer to scheme out paths, lookout areas and a visitor’s center, and hired a full-time groundskeeper and a horticulturist.

And the work never stops. Right now, PGT is planting thousands of dollars of native seeds, and working with the National Fish and Wildlife Service on a pollinator count.

One thing they haven’t done is advertise — but word is getting out. Domke says the number of visitors doubled last year, including photographers, birders, scientists and nature tourists from as far away as Seattle and France.

He is quick to emphasize that PGT isn’t a preserve, reserve or a botanical garden — but it does have a very distinct mission. “We want to provide a place that’s experiential,” Domke says. “A place where people can experience the beauty of nature — and be inspired.”

The Prairie Garden Trust is open April 1 through October. Visit prairiegardentrust.org for details. To see Domke’s art, go to henrydomke.com.

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“Whiskey Before Breakfast,” on Carnegie Mellon University’s station, WRCT. The show is currently broadcast on three other stations in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Tennessee. Richard also enjoys chasing grandkids and making music friends in his new hometown.

Michael Drennan ’73 regrets that he missed his 45th class reunion, but hopes to make it to the 50th.

“Having fun helping Carolyn run our nursery,” he writes of the family business, Carolyn’s Shade Gardens.

Tina von Gontard Duemler ’73 says, “Fun to see classmates at our reunion. A wonderful group.”

After 37 years of shooting TV news and working as a staff news photographer for KABC-TV Los Angeles in the station’s Inland Empire Bureau, David Busse ’74 has retired. He is happy to report that he’ll continue working as a freelance writer and photographer.

Jeffrey Grinnell ’74 writes that last November, he “revisited Athens, Greece, which I visited on a JBS spring trip with Peter Schandorff (History, retired) and students in 1973. I still love the place, and it brought back memories.”

Robin Winfield ’74 exhibited her artwork at California’s Monterey Museum of Art in April.

She’s also working on reducing her plastic consumption, “especially single-use! And I have gone electric with an electric car.”

The reunion committee is looking for a grand turnout for the Class of ’74’s 45th reunion, to be held during Alumni Weekend, October 3 through 5, 2019.

Katherine Rainey Bussmann ’75 has become a grandmother for the first time. “James Brice Reid was born September 28, 2018,” she writes. “He is absolutely beautiful!”

Rebecca Stith ’75 recently completed a term as chair of the Tacoma Human Rights Commission, while husband Gen Obata ’75 is making a series of artists quilts and performs in three bands playing folk, bluegrass and jazz. They have two daughters, Emma and Taylor, and several feline and canine grandchildren.

In April, Danny Meyer ’76 launched his newest restaurant, Cedric’s at The Shed, a 3,000-squarefoot, 121-seat restaurant within The Shed, a $475 million independent nonprofit arts center located in New York City’s Hudson Yards area.

In late January, Todd Schnuck ’77 was named chairman of the board of directors at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.

Victoria Vasileff ’77 recently moved to Steilacoom, Washington, 45 minutes south of Seattle, where she works at a civil commitment (non-voluntary) facility for patients with mental illness on McNeil Island.

“I take a ferry to and from the island every day,” she writes.

1980s Lee Newman ’85 and his wife, Ellen Hamilton Newman, reside in Madrid, Spain. Lee reports that his daughter, Ella, is turning four and “keeps us busy as late-in-the-game parents.” He is currently the dean of the IE School of Human Sciences & Technology, where students from the U.S. are now among the largest cohort in both the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. He writes that his family “would love to meet up with other JBS alumni living in Europe or visiting Madrid!”

Katie Silberman ’89 works at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, as the associate director of community relations. Sons Lincoln, 12, and Haven, 9, keep her on the soccer sidelines most weekends, and between game days, the family

enjoys exploring the cultural offerings on Brown’s campus and throughout the Providence area. “I’d be happy to welcome any of my JBS classmates on college visits with your own kids!” she writes.

1990s Amy George Rush ’92 says she’s loving her work as director of marketing and communications for the Lodge and Spa at Three Forks Ranch in Savery, Wyoming.

Rachel Peters ’95 reports that her comic opera Companionship made its world premiere with the Fort Worth Opera in May. “No Ladies in the Ladies’ Book,” one of four short operas commissioned by Utah Opera to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, debuted May 20. Her minioratorio, “If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free,” made its world premiere at the Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival on May 31.

Beau Willimon ’95 paid a visit to St. Louis during the first week of February to attend the opening night of the St. Louis Actors’ Studio production of his political drama, Farragut North, which was directed by Wayne Salomon (Theatre, retired).

Tom Sly ’96 works for Amazon Web Services. He and his wife, Danielle, have three children and live in San Francisco.

John Rossi ’98 completed his second year in a five-year training program to become a NOAA hurricane hunter pilot or WP‑3D aircraft commander. The training required 42 hurricane eyewall passes.

Rung, the nonprofit founded by Ali Kindle Hogan ’99 in 2009 to financially empower women, has invested $20 million to build a new campus in the Fox Park neighborhood. Set on 3.5 acres of land, the nonprofit plans to begin construction on the

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LIBERTY VITTERT ’06: STORYTELLING WITH STATISTICS How much chocolate should you eat? How much plastic do we recycle? How often do airplanes crash? Dr. Liberty Vittert ’06 can give you those numbers — and unravel the stories they tell. It’s something she does for NPR, Fox News and the BBC. For instance: To benefit from the flavanols in dark chocolate, you’d have to eat ¾ of a pound per day. Only 9 percent of the world’s plastic gets recycled, and if you figure out what to do with the rest, you’ll be rich enough to buy Apple. Your chance of dying in an airplane crash is about 1 in 330…for certain airplane models, at least.

The idea is that without knowing it, we do statistics and math every day,” she says. “There are so many interesting ways statistics define our society — even something silly like how much chocolate you’re going to eat. It brings it back to ground to help people understand why this is important.”

Making numbers relatable was her task last year at Washington University in St. Louis, when she taught math to nonmajors. The psychology and English majors dragged in dreading it (it’s a required class). But they had fun — and walked out knowing how math touches every part of our lives.

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This summer, Vittert will be at Harvard, where she’ll serve on a team developing a new course on quantitative reasoning which will be a required course for every Harvard undergraduate. She’ll also help launch the brand-new Harvard Data Science Review. (Afterwards, she’ll return to St. Louis, where she will be teaching at Wash. U.’s Olin School of Business.)

an objective patient scorecard, saying ‘This is a good surgery’ — or not,” she says. “It’s quite definitive.

Every assessment is objective, and it means no matter where you are, you’re receiving the same standard of care.” Those assessments will also be used to help train new doctors. As if that’s not enough, she’s also working on a manuscript for a book on data science, due out later this year.

Before she left for Harvard, Vittert came to Burroughs to help pick the winner of the 2019 Newman Prize, which she’s done for nearly a decade. After back-to-back interviews, the jury chose Jordon Ryan ’20. “I learn so much,” she says.

“It’s an insight into a different generation.”

“It looks at this new discipline, navigating different aspects of it, and explores how it’s being applied to pretty much every industry,” she says.

“Data science is so new, no one quite knows exactly how to define it yet — including me!”

When she’s not teaching (or doing research, penning articles or making media appearances) Vittert lends her expertise to Smile Train, a nonprofit that sends U.S. plastic surgeons all over the world to train doctors in corrective surgeries for kids with facial deformities. Vittert studied facial mapping at the University of Glasgow, where she earned a doctorate. She helped Smile Train develop a digital camera that algorithmically maps a child’s face before and after surgery. “It spits out

Learn more about Vittert’s work (including her cooking show), at libertyvittert.com.

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new facilities this year, with plans to complete the project by early 2020.

2000s Emily Baron Bernstein ’02 and Ted Schnuck ’03 were included in the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual “40 under 40” listing.

In April, Peter Lazaroff ’03 published his first book, Making Money Simple: The Complete Guide to Getting Your Financial House in Order and Keeping It That Way Forever. The book aims to demystify the financial sector for the average person so that they can make good decisions about saving and investing money, including managing a 401(k).

In early 2018, Matt Mendelsohn ’03 and his wife, Lauren Martini, spent three months in the neonatal intensive care unit after their daughter, Marcella, arrived almost 4 months early. Thanks to “a team of amazing medical professionals, we brought Ella home last April,” Matt writes. “She just celebrated her first birthday! She is big, completely healthy and has a megawatt smile that she flashes with abandon.”

Rachel Lawton-Colman ’04 and her husband, Ruben, relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, in July 2018.

Both Rachel and her husband work at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Ruben is completing a clinical fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, and Rachel is a child psychologist focused on providing mental healthcare for children and families.

Sameer Bhalla ’05 is having fun exploring his new gluten-free diet.

As part of her 2018-19 residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Julia Bullock ’05 performed Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine, a tribute to St. Louis native Josephine Baker, to excellent reviews in The New York Times and other media outlets.

Margaret Naunheim Huston ’05 is completing her fellowship training in Seattle and has accepted a position at Washington University in St. Louis Medical School.

Max Obata ’05 is a lecturer in architecture at the University of California–Berkeley’s School of Environmental Design.

Jenny Albus Fehlman ’06 completed a residency in dermatology in 2018, passed the national board certification exam and is now in private practice in St. Louis.

Katie Shortt ’07 earned a doctorate in bioinformatics and cell biology from the University of Missouri­-Kansas City. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she works as a bioinformatics scientist for Intermountain Health Care.

NPR and U.S. World and News Report.

Emily Goodloe ’13 is currently a second-year student at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kansas.

Clara Abbott ’14 teaches middle school English at Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas. “Hope all is well with you all,” she writes. “I think about my awesome JBS teachers and pals every day!”

Jackson Hoagland ’14, a knowledge engineer for Amazon, helps program Alexa with answers.

Lindsay Garcia ’15 writes, “In May 2019, I will graduate from the University of Miami with a degree in pre‑physical therapy and bachelor’s degrees in science in health studies and Spanish and minors in psychology and sports medicine.”

Jeremy Smith ’15 was named a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the world’s leading think tanks, which specializes in international affairs. Jeremy will participate in the Asia Program, working at the Economics Desk, beginning August 1.

Teddy Maritz ’08 had his on-screen premiere in the western Big Kill starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Patric and Danny Trejo. The film was released in October 2018. “I played Cavalryman Davey,” he writes.

2010s Alex Abramson ’11, a grad student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is part of a research team developing a pill that delivers insulin orally, eliminating the need for intravenous injections for people with diabetes. That research was covered by several news outlets in February, including The New York Times, WIRED, The Boston Globe, Science,

Jake Bain ’18 talked about coming out as a senior, the support he received from the Burroughs community and his experiences as an openly gay member of the Indiana State University football team on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 7. In May, he announced he was stepping away from athletics to focus on academics and activism.

Births & Adoptions Congratulations to: Michael Collaco and Aarti Shah ’93 on the birth of a son, Alexander Dharma Collaco, on December 25, 2018.

Jeff and Allison Laycob Matty ’02 on the birth of a son, Zachary Paul Matty, on January 6, 2019.

Will ’05 and Ashley Younger Chapman ’05 on the birth of a daughter, Campbell Grace Chapman, on February 9, 2019.

Doug Scherrer ’99 and Adiana Schmidt on the birth of a daughter, Caroline Julia Scherrer, on October 9, 2018.

Sam Sherraden ’02 and Allison Spector ’02 on the birth of a daughter, Chloe Yu Sherraden, on September 20, 2018.

Michael McFadden and Stephanie Williams Cotta ’00 on the birth of a son, Brooks Forrest McFadden, on February 18, 2019.

Matt Mendelsohn ’03 and Lauren Martini on the birth of a daughter, Marcella Martini Mendelsohn, on January 18, 2018.

Jim ’01 and Liz Maritz on the birth of a son, James Maritz V, on February 6, 2019.

Joe ’03 and Nicole Passanante on the birth of a son, Ray Luca Passanante, on November 18, 2018.

Andrew Gerber and Jeanne Du Preez ’06 on the birth of a daughter, Taylor Elizabeth Gerber, on November 8, 2018.

Andrew Miller and Mary Stranghoener ’01 on the birth of a son, Charlie Miller, on March 2, 2019.

Teddy ’04 and Katie Taylor Felker ’04 on the birth of a son, Case Theodore Felker, on December 14, 2018.

Ben and Sydney Miller Schaefer ’06 on the birth of a son, Nathan Winn Schaefer, on October 12, 2018.

Ben and Carrie Kemper Dougan ’02 on the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Woods Dougan, on November 24, 2018.

Brett and Kati Hermann Mawhiney ’04 on the birth of a daughter, Molly Lou Mawhiney, on January 7, 2019.

Isaac and Alex Davis Wouk ’06 on the birth of twin sons, Hunter Davis Wouk and Wyatt Davis Wouk, on January 18, 2019.

Scott ’05 and Audrey Van Slyke on the birth of a daughter, Evie Mae Van Slyke, on January 9, 2019.

Hunter and Sadie Beaver Altvater ’06 on the birth of a daughter, Lennon Mary Altvater, on May 14, 2018.

FROM LEFT: Hunter and Wyatt Wouk, sons of Isaac and Alex Davis Wouk ’06; Caroline Julia Scherrer, daughter of Doug Scherrer ’99 and Adiana Schmidt; Zachary Paul Matty, son of Jeff and Allison Laycob Matty ’02, with big brother Jacob; Elizabeth Woods Dougan, daughter of Ben and Carrie Kemper Dougan ’02.

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Marriages Congratulations to: Kurt Deutsch ’84 and Rachel Martin on May 5, 2018.

Alan Bisarya ’97 and Liz Hooghkirk on September 15, 2018.

Charles Tompkins ’04 and Amy Determan on October 12, 2018.

Scott Huston and Margaret Naunheim ’05 on October 6, 2018.

David Truetzel ’06 and Shireen Shoheili on February 2, 2019.

David Baer and Rachel Sandler ’07 on September 16, 2018.

Steven Rothstein and Margot Danis ’08 on May 26, 2018.

Vibhav Reddy and Nishi Muddasani ’09 on November 3, 2018.

Tim Trovillion ’09 and Melanie Smith on November 10, 2018.

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP: Top left, Liz Hooghkirk and Alan Bisarya ’97.

Top right , from left (row 1) Abby Stone ’06, Sam Fowle ’06, Michael Brasher ’06 and Sydney Miller Schaefer ’06; (row 2) Jenny Weinstein McPhee ’06, Rosemary Forsyth Nazaruk ’06, Sadie Beaver Altvater ’06, David Truetzel ’06, Lara Gershman ’06 and Kate Niesen Sawin ’06; (row 3) Meredith Chapman ’06, Caroline Cherrick ’06, Max Zarin ’06, Nick Watt ’06, Drew Trovillion ’06, Brad Guest ’06, Lizzie McLoughlin ’06 and William Feuerbacher ’06.

Middle, from left (row 1) Abby Stone ’06, Sarah McLoughlin ’09, Lizzie McLoughlin ’06, Margot Danis Rothstein ’08, Kelly Corbett McLoughlin ’80, Kim Walter Boyer ’80, Bahja Johnson ’08, Marc Niemeyer ’10, Abby Siwak ’08 and Claire Lampen ’08; (row 2) Rachel McLoughlin Hirshberg ’02, Jake Hirshberg ’02, Caleb Liberman ’08, Chris Danis ’10 and Jordan Stone ’08.

Bottom right, from left (row 1) Olga Symeonoglou ’09, Caroline Trovillion ’04, Tim Trovillion ’09, Melanie Smith Trovillion, Ellen Witscher Trovillion ’73, Lynn Yerges Buhl ’73 and Cicely Jordan Drennan ’73; (row 2) Blake Larson ’09, Drew Trovillion ’06, Rob Guyol ’09, Nishi Muddasani ’09, Abby Sandberg ’09, David and Stephanie Truetzel, Jim ’69 and Michele Maritz, Jay and Audrey Feuerbacher, Lynn and Craig Westbay and Carr Trovillion.

Below, from left, Taylor Seabaugh ’09, Annie McClorey ’09, Vibhav Reddy, Tim Trovillion ’09, Nishi Muddasani Reddy ’09, Olga Symeonoglou ’09, Monika Wolaniuk ’09 and Forrest Richmond ’09.

Condolences Condolences are offered to: Leonard Furlow ’48 on the death of his wife, Libby Truitt Furlow, on December 18, 2018.

David Bauer ’66, Eliza Bauer Scallet ’72 and Nick Bauer ’77 on the death of their father, Hank Bauer, on December 3, 2018.

Tom Frank ’66 on the death of his wife, Gail Radcliffe O’Day, on September 22, 2018.

Elizabeth Barks Van Ness ’66 and Kate Barks Freed ’69 on the death of their mother, Elsie Dickson Barks, on December 8, 2018.

Dan Brown ’69 and Bucky Brown ’73 on the death of their father, Harold Brown, on June 1, 2017.

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Susan Klein ’69 on the death of her father, Louis Edward Klein, on December 1, 2018.

Kathie Ernst ’77 on the death of her father, Richard Ernst, on December 31, 2018.

Nate Medoff ’87 on the death of his father, Gerald Medoff, on January 14, 2019.

Linda Lewis McCoy ’73 and Whitney McCoy ’07 on the death of their husband and father, Timothy McCoy, on January 5, 2019.

Mark Reed ’82 on the death of his daughter, Alison Reed, on January 29, 2019.

Anita Mehra ’88 on the death of her mother, Usha Mehra, on December 5, 2018.

Nicole Stucki ’84 on the death of her father, Mishell Stucki, on June 8, 2018.

Alex Martinson ’90 on the death of his father, Carl Martinson, on April 17, 2019.

Rick McGinley ’74, Mary McGinley ’77 and Mike McGinley ’79 on the death of their father, Richard McGinley, on January 25, 2019.

Christy Duncker Blumenhorst ’75, Steve Duncker ’77 and Kathy Duncker Romanak ’80 on the death of their mother, Sandy Duncker, on January 2, 2019.

John Friedel ’75 on the death of his mother, Aileen Friedel, on February 5, 2019.

Rick Summers ’84 on the death of his father, Richard Summers, on January 27, 2019.

Felix Germuth Bloomhardt ’86 and Amy Germuth ’87 on the death of their mother, Felix Creighton Germuth, on January 23, 2019.

Louisa Carl ’87 on the death of her mother, Juanita Buster Carl, on February 15, 2019.

Kathleen McCoy Bartin ’91 and Margaret McCoy Chapman ’93 on the death of their father, Allen McCoy, on December 14, 2018.

Michelle Leontsinis Reisner ’98 on the death of her father, George Leontsinis, on November 19, 2018.

Lauren Zuckerman Gomez ’04 on the death of her father, Gary Zuckerman, on January 2, 2019.

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Obituaries The Reporter includes death notices for alumni and faculty as soon as possible after notification has been received. Survivors and friends of the deceased can help by sending information to Alumni Office, John Burroughs School, 755 South Price Road, St. Louis, MO 63124 or to alum.ofc@jburroughs.org.

1930s Anne Bretzfelder Post ’34 died on January 9, 2019.

Mrs. Post graduated from Bennington College in 1938 and moved to New York City to pursue a career as a sculptor. During her early years there, one of her closest friends was fellow St. Louisan Tom “Tennessee” Williams; she was a trusted reader of his first drafts. She met her future husband, Joseph Post, at a party thrown by a mutual friend. They married in 1942, right after Dr. Post graduated from medical school and was drafted into the Army.

Mrs. Post exhibited her sculpture regularly in New York and internationally. Her work is held in private collections, museums and universities. She was dedicated to human rights causes, including women’s issues and civil rights. She loved to read and was a seasoned world traveler.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Post’s family, including two sons and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and sister Louise Bretzfelder Rederer ’31.

1940s Donald Altvater ’40 died on December 25, 2018.

Mr. Altvater earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

He began his career as a salesman with Western Supplies Company, founded by his father in 1923, eventually taking over as president. The company supplied St. Louis’ footwear industry throughout the 20th century and did contract work for the United States Department of Defense during World War II. Mr. Atvalter served as CEO of the company, now Independent Die, LLC, into his 90s.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Altvater’s family, including a son, two daughters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a brother, Roger Altvater ’46. He was followed in death by his second wife, Nancy Bakewell Altvater. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Enid Oonk Altvater; a son; another brother; and sister, Joyce Altvater Deibel ’42.

and the arts. She also loved roses from her garden, poetry and spending time on Lake Michigan. She toasted every family gathering with the saying, “’Tis love that brings us here.”

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Nelson’s family, including three sons, daughter, and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Nelson, and a brother, Marvin Boisseau ’37.

Mrs. Nelson graduated from Wellesley College in 1944. She married her husband the same year and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mrs. Nelson loved the arts, nature, travel, reading, skiing and tennis. She taught her four children to ski and encouraged them to participate in theatre, tennis

Ann Niemeyer Maritz ’43 died on December 14, 2018.

Mrs. Maritz was a native of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Her family moved to New Orleans, then St. Louis.

After graduating from Burroughs, Mrs. Maritz attended Finch Junior College in Manhattan, New York, and worked as a shoe designer in New York City and St. Louis.

Mr. Clifford earned a bachelor’s degree in science from Washington University in St. Louis and a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco.

She married James A. Maritz Jr. ’40 in 1948. While assisting her husband with the family business, Maritz, Inc., she continued her creative pursuits through the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and the St. Louis Water Color Society. Mrs. Martiz also served as a docent with the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). An accomplished cook, she combined her talents as co-editor of Artist in the Kitchen, a cookbook that raised money for SLAM. Mrs. Maritz spoke fluent French, played competitive tennis, played bridge and spent many hours in her garden.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Clifford’s family including a son and granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his wife, Judith Kinsella Clifford; a sister and two brothers. The school thanks the family for suggesting that memorial gifts be made to John Burroughs School.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Maritz’s family, including a son, Jim Martiz ’69; daughter; two grandsons, Jim Martiz IV ’01 and Teddy Maritz ’08; a granddaughter, Lindsey Maritz Waite ’04; and great-grandchildren. Her husband preceded her in death.

Lewis Vollmar ’42 died on January 3, 2019.

Franny Clarkson Rogers Breckner ’45 died on April 4, 2019.

Morton Clifford ’42 died on January 3, 2019.

Mr. Vollmar earned an engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1946 and the same year co-founded Vollmar Bros. Construction.

The company specialized in industrial, commercial and river construction projects. It also assisted in the construction of Six Flags Over Mid-America in the late 1960s.

Mr. Vollmar was a member of the Engineers Club of St. Louis, the Missouri Athletic Club and the Foundation for the Restoration of Ste. Genevieve (Missouri). He earned a pilot’s license in 1945 and constructed a saltplane in his basement, which he flew regularly. He was also an active amateur radio enthusiast.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Vollmar’s family, including two daughters, Linda A. Vollmar ’66 and Victoria Vollmar ’74; two sons; grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Olive Vollmar, and a brother, Joseph E. Vollmar ’37.

Doris Calhoun Fitzgerald ’43 died on September 16, 2018.

Valerie Boisseau Nelson ’40 died on February 8, 2019.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Fitzgerald’s family, including a son, Tom Fitzgerald Jr. ’67; two daughters, one of whom is Lucy Fitzgerald Stein ’76; two granddaughters; and sister Phyllis Calhoun ’47.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Tom Fitzgerald Sr.; son, John Fitzgerald ’69; and a sister, Margaret Calhoun Uhlemeyer ’41.

Mrs. Fitzgerald graduated from Vassar College in an accelerated program in chemistry in 1946.

She worked briefly for Shell Development before marrying and raising her family. Her hobbies included bridge, sewing, Scrabble, crossword puzzles and reading. An avid sports fan, she read the sports page daily to keep up with her favorite teams.

Mrs. Breckner attended Bennett Junior College, earning an associate’s degree in early childhood education in 1947, then worked as a preschool teacher. She had an interest in history and volunteered with the Missouri History Museum.

Her hobbies included tennis, bridge and world travel.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Breckner’s family, including a son; two daughters; three grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and a sister. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Paul Rogers; her second husband, Kenneth Breckner; and a brother.

Gloria Gardner Wilkinson ’45 died on December 26, 2018.

Mrs. Wilkinson earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vassar College and a master’s degree in early childhood education from Tulane University. After graduation, she remained in New Orleans, teaching in the city's Head Start program as well as at Trinity Episcopal School. She was also a sustaining member of the Junior League of New Orleans. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Mrs. Wilkinson relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. She was an amateur genealogist and enjoyed spending time with friends.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Wilkinson’s family, including three daughters, a son, two

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grandchildren and two sisters, Alice Gardner Kerckhoff ’46 and Annette Gardner Lasley ’48. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Wilkinson Jr.

1950s Andrew Meyer ’51 died on January 27, 2019.

John Meyer ’48 died on January 8, 2019.

Dr. Meyer earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. In addition to teaching at Wash. U. medical school, Dr. Meyer served at the Veteran’s Hospital and Jewish Hospital before being appointed chief of pathology at St. Luke’s Hospital. His hobbies included canoeing, hiking, reading, music and playing the violin.

The school offers condolences to Dr. Meyer’s family, including his wife, LaVerna Meyer; a daughter, Margaret Meyer Hvatum ’73; three sons, two of whom are John Meyer ’76 and Charles Meyer ’82; three grandchildren, Elm Meyer ’06, Julia Meyer ’10 and Elizabeth Rill ’13; a sister, Caroline Meyer Sant ’53 and a brother, Philip Meyer ’57.

Barry Mendle Kayes ’49 died on March 24, 2019.

Mrs. Kayes earned a bachelor’s degree in botany from Wellesley College in 1953, a master’s degree in education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1968 and a master’s degree in biology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1975.

She taught biology at Burroughs from 1967 – 71.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Kayes’ family, including two sons, one of whom is Matthew Kayes ’77, and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Kayes, son Jonathan Kayes ’75 and sister Norma Mendle Lytton ’55.

Kenneth Read ’49 died on October 26, 2018.

Mr. Read earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard. He was president of the Don R. Hinderliter Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1960s and ’70s. After selling his share of the company, he earned a Ph.D. in plant ecology from Duke University. Due to his interest in the stock market and computers, he became one of the early day traders in the 1980s and ’90s. He was an avid birdwatcher and enjoyed hiking and canoeing. He also played trombone in several Dixieland jazz bands.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Read’s family, including three daughters, two sons and 12 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brother, Dale Read ’57.

Mr. Meyer earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard. He maintained a private law practice in St. Louis for many years. He was a gentle man who loved good conversation and his many friends.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Meyer’s family including a sister, Caroline Meyer Sant ’53, and a brother, Philip Meyer ’57.

Joy Schmitt Klein-Abeyta ’55 died on March 16, 2019.

Mrs. Klein-Abeyta graduated from William Woods College with an associate’s degree in sociology in 1957. She worked as an administrator at BDM, TETRA Corporation, TRW and SRC. She was a member of Eastern Star and the Assistance League. An animal lover, she contributed to many animal welfare organizations.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. KleinAbeyta’s family, including her husband, Benjamin Abeyta; a son; a daughter; three stepchildren; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Naomi Hanser McCann ’55 died on September 2, 2018.

Mrs. McCann graduated from Vassar College in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She settled in Jensen Beach, Florida, and enjoyed playing tennis. One of her most passionate interests was the rescue and adoption of retired racing greyhounds. She was active in the American Greyhound Association and adopted a number of rescue dogs herself.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. McCann’s family, including a son, a daughter, and a sister.

Carl Wattenberg ’56 died on March 27, 2019.

Mr. Wattenberg graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s in sociology in 1960. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, earning his law degree in 1968. He served in all five branches of the military, including in Army Intelligence and as a Navy reserve officer. Following his military career, he served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Mark Twain Bancshares for 24 years. His hobbies included gardening and traveling.

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The school offers condolences to Mr. Wattenberg’s wife, Betty Stumpf Wattenberg; a son; a daughter; two stepsons; a stepdaughter; and 10 grandchildren.

1960s John Kopolow ’64 died on December 12, 2018.

Mr. Kopolow earned degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California­–Berkeley and University of Maryland School of Law. After earning his law degree, he worked as an attorney with the Appellate Division of the Public Defender’s Office for the State of Maryland and argued before the Supreme Court.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Kopolow’s family, including his wife, Carol Zack Kopolow.

1970s Fred Davidson ’70 died in November 2018.

Mr. Davidson, known to his family and friends as Woody, was a longtime resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico. No further information is available.

The school offers condolences to Mr. Davidson’s family, including a sister, Mary Davidson McWilliams ’67.

Nancy Evans Brunner ’74 died on December 5, 2018.

Mrs. Brunner earned a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from St. Louis University in 1978.

There, Mrs. Brunner met her future husband.

They moved to Ohio, where she worked as a physical therapist as well as medical staff for an endocrine and diabetes care center. Her hobbies included spending time with her family and friends and her King Charles Springer Spaniels.

She also enjoyed reading, going to movies and sailing with the Sandusky Yacht Club.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Brunner’s family, including her husband, Jack Brunner; two sons; and daughter. She was preceded in death by a brother, John Evans ’69.

Catherine Holekamp Hartig ’77 died on December 24, 2018.

Mrs. Hartig attended Columbia College, earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1985, and worked as a teacher. She was known as “a doer and a worker bee,” admired for her creativity and her artistic flair, as well as her adventurous spirit and her tendency to champion the underdog.

The school offers condolences to Mrs. Hartig’s family, including her husband, Mat Hartig; three sons, a stepdaughter; a granddaughter; two brothers; and two sisters, one of whom is Tamara Holekamp Lutz ’78.

MEMORIAL AND TRIBUTE GIF TS

Memorial and Tribute Gifts Thank you to the members of the Burroughs community who have honored friends and loved ones through memorial and tribute gifts to John Burroughs School. The following gifts were received from December 1, 2018, through April 15, 2019.

IN MEMORY OF John A. Acker Jr. Pamela Morris Clark ’58 Judith Baker To the Judith & Dr. Gilbert Grand & Family Tuition Aid Fund Gil & Judy Grand Henry H. Bauer Nancy Leyhe Allen ’66 Marilyn Block Brad & Anne Bishop Nicholas Booker ’18 Rand E. Dankner David Dávila ’18 Charles & Talia Goldfarb Peter & Connie Orchard Hoffman Jennifer Johnston ’18 Margaret Johnston ’18 Maureen Levine Jack & Susan Musgrave Owen Sklansky ’21 Paul Steinle & Maryam Naemi Chris, Heather Gaskin ’91, Sealy ’18, Grace ’20 & Annabel ’23 Thompson Chris & Shilpa Thornton Cheryl D.S. Walker William A. Borders Jr. ’56 Kevin Morrin Jr. ’56 Carlisle Vose Brigham ’01 Daniel Kodner ’05 Jacob Liberman ’05 Henry Sears ’05 Elizabeth Brown ’11 To the Elizabeth C. Brown Chair in Environmental Science Chad & Constance Reis Mary Beth & Allen Soffer Edward W. Cissel Jr. ’74 To the Edward W. Cissel Jr. Memorial Scholarship D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68 Morton Clifford ’42 Bank of America To the John Mackey Community Outreach Fund Joseph A. McQuade W. Tom Costen ’81 To the Lt. W. Tom Costen USN Memorial Scholarship Catherine Costen Swope ’73 William E. Crabtree Bob & Mary Jo Sortland James “Skip” Alverson Nan Simril Spencer ’66 Beth Dunaway ’86 Terry & Jan Dunaway Sandra S. Duncker Andy & Katie Abbott Stella M. Alexander Norman ’58 & Carolyn Arneson Virginie Brightman

Sandra S. Duncker continued Sandra Dillard Adele B. Dilschneider Tim Dixon Charles J. Galli Karen Kassabaum Ivory ’75 Bettie Schroth Johnson Carolyn Hirth MacLea ’53 Steve ’74 & Julie Mathes Steve & Laura May Gordon ’53 & Susie Berger Philpott ’53 Frank ’44 & Mary Rassieur Sally Rosenthal Donald H. & Helen B. Streett Andy ’66 & Barbara Taylor Addison & Nancy Thomas Joseph & Gail Steiner Trigg ’55 John & Ellen Wallace Jim & Catherine Walther Meryl, Chuck, Ian & Andrew Witmer Lisa Holekamp Yost ’78 Bernard A. Edison ’45 Maureen Levine Kelli Eggers-Larson Mac, Deborah & Katherine Moore Ben ’72 & Lynn Rassieur Sally Tucker Elson ’63 Jane Tucker Vasiliou ’68 M. Peter Fischer ’53 Jason Goode ’93 Margaret Rackerby Flint ’55 Meeghan Flint McLachlan Carter Margaret Rackerby Flint Carter Christopher Gale ’57 To the 50th Anniversary Scholarship Fund John & Anne Marbury McDonnell ’57 Melissa Graviss ’88 Jack & Susan Musgrave Jane Cunliff Gray ’70 Margaret Latzer Whitehead ’64 John J. Hamilton Jr. To the John J. Hamilton Jr. Memorial Scholarship John ’74 & Carol Hamilton Deborah Garner Hamm To the Deborah Garner Hamm Memorial Scholarship Ernest & Carolyn Clarke Gary & Susanne Tobey Mrs. S. Miller Harris Steve ’74 & Julie Mathes Catherine Holekamp Hartig ’77 Kurt Altvater ’77 Valerie Grace Ricordi ’77 Lisa Holekamp Yost ’78 James L. Haskins Christy Haskins Blair ’78 Valerie Haskins ’75 Helen Hassakis Steve ’74 & Julie Mathes

Elizabeth Rogers Hayes ’59 To the Ebet Rogers Hayes Faculty Study Fund Nicholas Hayes Jr. J. Chris Jacobsen ’79 To the J. Chris Jacobsen Scholarship Helen Jacobsen Pierson Christine B. Johansen ’33 Charlotte Johansen Hamilton Kathryn Hizar Johnson ’86 Jack & Susan Musgrave Jonathan M. Kayes ’75 To the Jonathan M. Kayes Library Fund Matthew M. Kayes ’77 Newell S. Knight Jr. ’47 James & Sylvia Schlapp Symington ’49 Kerry S. Kuehner ’68 D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68 Mary Ann MacCarthy Lee ’43 Andy ’66 & Barbara Taylor Renee Lees To the Judith & Dr. Gilbert Grand & Family Tuition Aid Fund Gil & Judy Grand Charles G. Lischer ’60 Carol Westerman Watt ’62 Daniel W Loeb ’84 To the Daniel W Loeb Memorial Scholarship David C. Farrell Carol B. Loeb Jeffrey & Sharon Rosenblum Jason K. Lohr ’91 To the Jason K. Lohr Memorial Scholarship Tom & Laura Moran Ann Niemeyer Maritz ’43 Alan & Carol Bornstein Phyllis Cherrick Scott ’70 & Michelle Harris Carr & Ellen Witscher Trovillion ’73 Marie Witscher John Sykes Martin ’43 To the John Sykes Martin Memorial Scholarship John S. Martin Jr. ’75 Mary Catherine Martin ’76 To the John Sykes Martin Memorial Scholarship Ken Silverstein Thomas M. McConnell To the Thomas M. McConnell Memorial Scholarship Michael McKenna Levy ’62 Christopher A. Mill ’62 Nan Simril Spencer ’66 D. Bruce Merrifield Sr. ’38 D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68

Andrew S. Meyer ’51 Gordon ’53 & Susie Berger Philpott ’53 Mr. & Mrs. John T. Sant Donald H. & Helen B. Streett John S. Meyer ’48 Joanne Gravely Curlee ’48 Joe Edwards ’64 John Loy ’48 Gordon ’53 & Susie Berger Philpott ’53 Edwin A. Schmid ’74 Allen & Mary Beth Soffer Donald H. & Helen B. Streett Lisa Holekamp Yost ’78 Jean Milder To the Judith & Dr. Gilbert Grand & Family Tuition Aid Fund Gil & Judy Grand Charles D. Mill ’32 Christopher A. Mill ’62 Gaylord Montgomery Pamela Morris Clark ’58 Dennis Moore Paul & Stephanie Sortland Pericich ’87 Chris ’90 & Lisa Schoenecker Bob & Mary Jo Sortland Barbara Shapleigh Murphy ’70 Julie Schwab Charles ’68 Jane Krause Paine ’44 To the Jane Krause Paine Memorial Scholarship Brian DeLany & Lynn W. Paine ’71 Nydia G. Peluffo Jerry & Carol Carinci Steven I. Plax Katie Plax ’85 Don Shelby Pruett ’52 Jack & Susan Musgrave Bill & Caroline Meyer Sant ’53 Henry Rogers ’14 To the Henry Rogers Memorial Scholarship Zach Lamb ’14 Edward R. Samuels ’41 To the Edward R. Samuels Memorial Scholarship Jim & Kris Samuels Holmes ’78, Katie ’09, Davey ’12 & Sam ’18 Holmes Sallie Samuels ’76 Betty B. Schmid Leo ’72, Ed ’74, Steve ’78 & Dave ’82 Schmid Roslyn Schulte ’02 To the Roz Schulte Spirit Fund Larry McMahon ’69 Christy Shields ’68 To the Christy Shields Memorial Scholarship Edward Goodstein & Francesca Eastman

Alan H. Siegerist ’48 June Siegerist Carter Stith Spano ’64 Gen Obata ’75 & Rebecca Stith ’75 Michael Steinbaum To the Judith & Dr. Gilbert Grand & Family Tuition Aid Fund Gil & Judy Grand Ann Carter See Stith ’38 Gen Obata ’75 & Rebecca Stith ’75 Gautam Sundaram ’86 To the Gautam Sundaram Memorial Scholarship Elise Csapo Ilona Csapo ’89 Alfred J. Damus Barbara Knoll Radha Naidu C. & S.V. Ramanan Laraine & Mike Silberstein Murali Sundaram Anne Symington ’68 D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68 Sameer R. Talwar ’08 Jim & Diana Rothbarth Jerome A. Taylor Chris ’90 & Lisa Schoenecker Dennis G. Thomas ’68 David Thomas ’70 William T. Thomas Whitney Thomas ’89 Dora Tickner To the Jim Stevens/Dora Tickner Scholarship Jerry & Catherine Spitzer Gidlow ’65 Betty Howard Troth ’57 Col. Robert Symons Troth Mrs. L. John Vogel Steve ’74 & Julie Mathes Marian Walsh Georgeann Kepchar Fred H. Wenzel ’57 To the 50th Anniversary Scholarship Fund John & Anne Marbury McDonnell ’57 Timothy R. Wnuk ’00 To the Timothy Richard Wnuk Scholarship Adam E. Klepper ’00 John R. Woods ’58 Laura Woods Gunderson ’85 Cathy Woods Hill ’79 Julie Woods Hill ’82 John Woods Jr. ’78 Chloe C. Woods-Ward ’55 Jennifer Woods Tierney ’78

Macon Paine Finley ’73 Brian DeLany & Lynn W. Paine ’71 Jason W. Goode ’93 Swope Clarke ’93 Matthew Fischer ’93 Damon P. Goode ’91 John Guenther ’93 Joseph A. Mitchell ’93 Deena Goran To the STAR building Jim & Diana Rothbarth Judy Grand To the Judith & Dr. Gilbert Grand & Family Tuition Aid Fund Lois Friedman

Jonathan Hamm ’89 To the Deborah Garner Hamm Memorial Scholarship Ernest and Carolyn Clarke Eric Hanson Damon P. Goode ’91 Kennedy Holmes ’23 Chris & Nancy Leyhe Allen ’66 Barbie Barrow ’66 James M. Lemen To the Jim Lemen Fund D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68 Jane Lester ’50 Margaret Rodes White ’50 Derrick Miller ’19 Terri Cheuk

Gordon ’53 & Susan Berger Philpott ’53 Marilyn Montgomery Sebastian '53 Wayne Salomon Dan ’92 & Kathleen Bomze Rachel Sandler ’07 & David Baer Anonymous Sam Schnabel ’12 Betty Jane Shultz Edwin G. Shifrin ’40 Mary Shifrin Bloch ’74 Ellen Shifrin Kearns ’68 Dan Shifrin ’71 Alice Snodgrass To the Alice Snodgrass/Kemper Family Chair for Excellence in Teaching D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68

Robert A. Sortland To the Robert A. Sortland/Kemper Family Chair in American Studies D. Bruce Merrifield Jr. ’68 Nan Simril Spencer ’66 James E. Stevens To the Jim Stevens/Dora Tickner Scholarship Jerry & Catherine Spitzer Gidlow ’65 Charles Tompkins ’04 & Amy Determan Anonymous Steven L. Trulaske ’75 Mary Beth & Allen Soffer Bruce D. Westling Nan Simril Spencer ’66

IN HONOR OF Andy Abbott Caroline Cherrick ’06 William Ames Bascom ’58 To the Jack Acker Faculty Fund Michael Anderson & Lee Ames Bascom ’82 Margaret Rackerby Flint Carter Meeghan Flint McLachlan Carter Paul & Beth Rives Chesterton ’83 Family Matter Family Office Class of 1993 25th Reunion To the STAR building leaded glass window project JBS Class of 1993 Susan Felker Michael & Susan Murphy

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CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED

Alumni Day of Service Kris Samuels Holmes ’78 and John Meehan ’06, above, lent a hand for the JBS Alumni Day of Service on May 4, volunteering for the Flora Conservancy of Forest Park. Volunteers dug up tulip bulbs around the Jewel Box, which were then bagged and sold at the conservancy’s annual plant sale. Proceeds supported the maintenance of Forest Park’s grounds and surrounding areas.

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