Connections Summer 2016 Campaign History

ISSUE EIGHT | SUMMER 2016

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Steve Lisk Meg Reed Michael Schwartz ’98 PHOTOGRAPHY Fran Cooper Courtesy Austin Cook Eric Forberger Kit Fuderich Nick Gould Lancaster Newspapers Murray Associates Architects Meg Reed Michael Schwartz ’98 John A. Secoges David Sinclair Gage Skidmore Rob Trubiano Todd Trout Walpole Foundation Donna Wilcox

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This collage features a portrait of Marcia Hubbard ’53, a shot of children climbing the stairs of The Shippen School on Lime Street, a drawing by John Jarvis of how the school would look after the Foundations for the Future campaign construction, and a section of blueprint from the current Room to Grow project.

LCDS CONTACTS Paul Allen Director of Admission ext. 9-227 allenp@lancastercountryday.org Dulcey Antonucci Director of Communications ext. 9-229 antonuccid@lancastercountryday.org Kristin Kopp Director of Constituent & Alumni Relations ext. 9-328 koppk@lancastercountryday.org

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he spirit of philanthropy is woven deep into the core of Lancaster Country Day. Our campus — the land and buildings — as well as our endowment all owe their existence to the generosity of generations.

Philanthropy is essential to fulfilling our mission to provide students the best education we can. Though there is no line item in the Country Day budget labeled “Generosity,” the school simply wouldn’t be able to function without it.

Philanthropy is essential to fulfilling our mission to provide students the best education we can.

This issue of Connections differs from others in the recent past.

Rather than presenting a series of alumni profiles that offer a retrospective picture of the school, here we look forward as well as back.

In June, we broke ground on the first part of the Room to Grow project. This includes extensive renovations to the Lower School, including air conditioning, which we will also extend to the science and art wings. In addition, the theater will see significant audio upgrades, as well as new carpet and curtains.

Beginning this fall, we will expand the athletics and physical education complex, realizing the athletics vision laid out in the Cornerstone Campaign nearly 30 years ago. Please look to Page 12 for specifics about how the Room to Grow campaign will improve the school.

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These facility changes are the latest in more than six decades of continual upgrades to the school. This issue tells a story in pictures of Country Day’s capital campaign history, from 1949 to today, celebrating the individuals whose efforts help us become the school we are.

We also pay special tribute to an alumna whose singular generosity leaves us collectively speechless and humbled. Marcia Hubbard ’53 is the school’s single most generous donor, though for many years her gifts were anonymous. On the occasion of her $5 million bequest that LCDS received earlier this year, we felt it only appropriate to share a little more about a little-known woman whose profound impact on Country Day has improved the education of every alum of the past three decades.

The history of Lancaster Country Day could not have been written without the magnanimity of our ever-expanding family.

I want to thank every one of you for being a part of this storied past, and for allowing us to commence writing the next, bright chapter of the Country Day story.

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Thursday’s TV Highlights

Leola Teen Named April’s ‘Caped Crusader’

Rya Kihlstedt ’87 acted in the series finale of “Heroes Reborn” on NBC.

Central Penn Parent nominated Antonio Astarita ’20 for its Caped Crusader Award for his Eagle Scout project at the Clare House.

1 / 2 / 1 6 | Reading Eagle

Reading-made Capri Pants on ‘The Biggest Loser’

Katie Kozloff-Banks ’99, owner of Katie K Active, said her brand’s capri shorts were worn by the female contestants on “The Biggest Loser.”

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Lancaster Crowns Two Youth Poets Laureate

Natalia Delgado ’18 was named a Lancaster youth poet laureate.

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How Late-Night Comics Tackle the Election

| Katie Kozloff-Banks ’99 is the owner of Katie K Active.

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Mike Still ’99, artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, talked about comedy and the election.

TOP RIGHT | Rya Kihlstedt ’87

acted in the series finale of “Heroes Reborn” on NBC.

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MHP’s ‘Wake the Vote’ Comes to Iowa

LEFT | Austin Cook ’12

on the MSNBC set.

Austin Cook ’12 explained how he engages in the democratic process.

S P O RT S H I GH L I GH T S

| LCDS players on the L-L League Girls Lacrosse All-Stars Team.

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Varsity Boys Tennis Team.

The boys and girls basketball teams made it to the PIAA District III playoffs.

Tayler Eynon ’17 was named to the Tri-Valley League All-Stars Boys Basketball Second Team.

Miguel Jacome ’18 finished seventh at the PIAA State Swimming Championships in the 200-meter freestyle and 500-meter freestyle events and made the Lancaster-Lebanon League Coaches’ Association All-League teams for the 200 and 500 freestyle.

The girls lacrosse team ended their season in the District III Tournament quarterfinals. The following players earned a spot on the L-L League Girls Lacrosse All-Stars Team. First Team: Grace Zechman ’16; Second Team: Taliah Carson ’17, Morgan Ernst ’17, Ashley Ingram ’16, Lindsay Socie ’17.

Honorable Mention: Emma Stover ’18.

The boys tennis team competed in the District III Class AA Tournament, earning two second-place finishes in team competition and in doubles play with George Markley ’19 and Drew Kopan ’17.

Both advanced to states.

Girls squash took second place in the Division V round-robin at the U.S. Squash High School Team National Championships in Philadelphia.

Matt Lane ’18 earned an L-L League All-Star Honorable Mention for his play this season on the boys lacrosse team.

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and Sarah Frick ’18 traveled around China and attended SMIC School in Shanghai during winter break.

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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS 2 2 | In the local Rotary Club’s Mid-level Four

Way Speech Test, Courtney Ricci ’16 took first place and Zoe Walling ’17 came in second.

Madison Brown ’17 also participated and performed well.

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League Charles Patton Qualifier, the Middle School robotics team qualified for the championship event at the University of Pennsylvania. They earned the Robot Design: Strategy and Innovation Award.

3 | In May, Michael Etter ’18 and Matthew

Gerace ’19 earned first place awards, both with perfect scores, and James Luo ’17 earned a second place award at the PJAS state science fair.

4 | The LCDS MathCounts team placed first at

the regional MathCounts Competition held at Millersville University in March. Gavin Wang ’22 also won the individual competition.

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In town to perform his one-man show about Emmett Till at The Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center, actor mike wiley stopped in to do a workshop with theater students.

ben atwater from Atwater

sneed collard iii visited the Lower School.

He is an award-winning author of more than 50 children’s books.

courtney sheinmel, award-winning author of the “Stella Batts” series, spoke to the Lower School. She is the niece of LCDS parent laura liss.

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/ NOVEMBER / 20 michael gleiberman,

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cassidy gleiberman ’21,

Upper School Mandarin teacher catherine haddad spoke to the

Middle School about her experience practicing mindfulness.

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spoke to seventh graders about his experience as a Polish Jew during World War II and the Holocaust.

Malick, an independent investment firm, spoke to the Investment Club.

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/ JANUARY / 21 Manheim Township Police Officer michelle johns

made a presentation on cybersafety to Middle School students.

/ FEBRUARY / 17 To prepare for “Little Shop of Horrors,” 17 theater students traveled to Monkey Boys Productions to learn how to manipulate the giant Audrey puppet.

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Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray appointed fifthgrade teacher Meg Reed to the Commission to Combat Poverty in Lancaster.

At the 2016 North Museum Science & Engineering Fair, Ned Bushong received the Excellence in Science Education Award.

Soccer Coach Dale Mylin hit a milestone 300 career wins in November.

Upper School French teacher Olha Drobot earned her Master of Education degree in language and literacy from Millersville University in 2015.

Chief Advancement Officer Shelby LaMar earned an MBA from Elizabethtown College in 2015.

Seventh-grade English teacher Meghan Kenny has been awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in fiction. She will attend The Sewanee Writers’ Conference in Tennessee in July. Her collection of short stories, “Love Is No Small Thing,” is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2017.

ben walton ’12 worked with

dance students in March.

At the Rochester Institute of Technology, he is part of several dance groups.

Lancaster comedian rubi nicholas discussed

inclusive language and diversity in an Upper School assembly.

gene luen yang’s 2006

graphic novel “American Born Chinese” was nominated for a National Book Award. He writes for Dark Horse Comics’ “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and DC Comics’ “Superman.”

In honor of Earth Day, Mobile Ed Productions gave a presentation about the earth to the Lower School.

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eugene gardner ’84,

principal at Gardner Russo & Gardner, spoke to the Investment Club.

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of professionals who share their expertise with the students. If you have a specialty

you’d like to share, contact Shelby LaMar Lancaster County Commissioners joshua parsons and dennis stuckey visited Middle School assembly to talk about service and community.

kelly hallinger ’05 presented research that looked at songbird songs as a function of environmental conditions. She is currently a graduate student at Cornell University.

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FAREWELLS Our love and thanks go out to the following faculty and staff members who have been with the school for five years or more and decided to retire or move on at the end of the 2015-2016 school year.

C. Eric Bondy Head of US | 7 years Rose DeSante Custodial Maintenance | 6 years Kathy Horein LS Music Faculty | 20 years Sarah Julsonnet MS & US Librarian | 6 1/2 years Kim Jureckson Dance Faculty | 15 years Karen Oxholm Library Assistant | 10 years

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Sam Schindler US History Chair | 6 years Christina Simonds Head of LS and Asst. Head of School | 8 years

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Scott Spangler Grounds Maintenance | 16 years Sue Ziemer MS History Faculty and Asst. Head of MS | 27 years

volunteer hours

NEW FACULTY & STAFF Ty Book Build Project Liason

to the program.

Lindsay Deibler-Wallace Science Faculty Nicholas Freysz Custodial Maintenance Megan Gallagher Music Faculty

Horizons at LCDS is a six-week summer learning and enrichment program for low-income students from the School District of Lancaster.

I n April, fifth-grade teacher and Horizons Executive Director Meg Reed was invited to present at the Horizons National conference in Atlanta, keeping company with more than 50 prestigious independent schools.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural summer, this year the program will double. Thirty students from two partner schools will enjoy classroom learning, field trips, swim lessons and healthy meals.

e Class of 2019 has Th adopted Horizons as its service learning project.

Twenty-nine Upper School students will dedicate 2,400 volunteer hours to the program this summer.

Emma Miller Humanities Faculty Sarah Parker Humanities Faculty Anthony Venti Grounds Maintenance

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PUBLIC EVENT New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle spoke about his book “The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown,” on Feb. 16

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letter landed on the desk of John Jarvis on Wednesday, May 14, 1986. It said, “Enclosed is a certificate for 500 shares of Merck & Co. common stock. The value to the school is $90,250.”

What the letter didn’t say was the name of this person who brought Christmas to Country Day seven months early.

A stunned Jarvis composed this reply, “Will you please let this most generous friend of the School know how much the 500 shares … mean to the school? We are all dumbstruck by this gift … for it comes at a time when the school is making good the gains that it has achieved over the past few years.”

Jarvis didn’t know it at the time, but “this most generous friend of the school” was an alumna who has become Country Day’s most generous benefactor, Marcia Hubbard ’53.

Her gift of Merck stock in 1986, worth almost $200,000 in 2016 dollars, was just the first in a parade of generosity that culminated with one final, grand act: Marcia left the school $9 million when she passed away in 2001, $4 million of which the school received in 2002, and $5 million of which the school received earlier this year. | ISSUE NO. EIGHT SUMMER 2016 | 9

“Marcia Hubbard’s stunning generosity allows us to keep our eyes on Country Day’s future while remaining true to — and grateful for — the school’s past.”

Once again, she has set a new standard for Country Day’s largest charitable gift.

The school will use this latest munificent windfall to enrich the LCDS endowment and to establish the Hubbard Fund for Strategic Initiatives. The first of these initiatives is a $1 million contribution to the Room to Grow project, which includes extensive renovations to the Lower School, as well as the building of a new physical education and athletic center.

“What the Hubbard Fund gives Country Day, above all else, is the means to finance projects from a solid fiscal base. This money will put our school in a much stronger position over the long term,” said Head of School Steven D. Lisk.

“Marcia Hubbard’s stunning generosity allows us to keep our eyes on Country Day’s future while remaining true to — and grateful for — the school’s past.”

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Marcia Hubbard was a very private woman who largely lived alone, or, in later years, taking care of her aging aunts. Born in 1936, Marcia attended Lancaster Country Day (still called the Shippen School for her first two years) from first grade through graduation. She was an outstanding student, finishing first or second in her class each year, winning the Trustee’s Prize for having the highest GPA during Upper School, and going on to college at Swarthmore and Barnard.

Between 1986-1998, Marcia gave Country Day almost $1.2 million in gifts. In 1998 alone, she pledged $500,000. That became the leading donation to the Reach for Excellence campaign and built the Science Center that now bears her name.

Her $4 million bequest in 2002 increased the school’s endowment by 50 percent, in addition to establishing the Bowers and Hubbard Endowed Faculty chairs.

Though her younger brother, John Cooper Hubbard, also attended Country Day — and also leaves a generous legacy (see sidebar) — until her gift of Merck stock in 1986, Marcia kept her love for the school close to the vest. In subsequent years, however, she not only let her identity be known, she became the school’s most reliable benefactor.

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“The time clock which rang the bells of the school was antiquated to say the least. … Mr. Ditzler, who keeps everything in shape, was getting increasingly upset. Now a new automated time clock has restored his equanimity.”

copier for

faculty room $3,000

“LCDS has always tried to present a strong academic and extracurricular program in a comfortable atmosphere of caring and trust. These many improvements to the school have enhanced both the program and the atmosphere.”

— Donna Luttrell

New School

station wagon $15,000

raising a Family business left Portrait of Marcia L. Hubbard ’53 center Austin Hubbard in the hatchery. bottom left The Annual Poultry Festival,

Hershey, Pennsylvania, 1956. (standing l to r) Leslie Hubbard (president of the Poultry and Egg National Board) and his wife Iola Hubbard; (seated on the far side of the table) Verone Blass, Mrs. Ezra Benson, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, and Mrs. Walter Shearer; (foreground) Mrs. Bicksler and Mr. Homer Bicksler (president of the Poultry Federation). Leslie Hubbard promoted chicken consumption by holding barbecues around the country. bottom right The Hubbards’ first chicken

coop, which was built in 1914, marked the beginning of a major enterprise.

Originally from New Hampshire, the Hubbard family still has deep ties to the Granite State and remains the most generous benefactor to the University of New Hampshire, donating more than $50 million to the school over the years.

The Hubbard Farms poultry business, which consisted of Marcia’s father Leslie and his brothers, Oliver and Austin, truly hit its stride when the brothers identified and selectively bred a species of New Hampshire Red chicken that was free from the salmonella pullorum plague ravaging the country’s chicken population at the time.

“The emphasis was no longer on selling chickens for meat, but rather on selling disease-free breeding stock, first in America and later worldwide,” according to a history of the family written by the Walpole Foundation. “The operation that literally started with a rude chicken coop and a small group of chicks in the basement became a world-recognized poultry breeding organization with a global market.”

Leslie Hubbard ran the business, which pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. acquired in 1974 for $70 million in stock (about $340 million today). At the time of the company’s sale, it had been a multinational corporation for more than 20 years and operated in 50 countries. When Marcia Hubbard made her first anonymous gift to Country Day in 1986, the currency she traded in was that same Merck stock.

The Hubbard’s legacy of generosity to Country Day extends beyond Marcia, however. Her recently departed brother John Cooper Hubbard established a scholarship endowment in 2011, and their father, Les, made giving to the school a priority when he served on the LCDS Board of Trustees in the 1940s.

“The Department of Theatre expresses its deepest appreciation for the new stage curtains in black velour and the refinished stage floor in deep tones of Jacobean walnut.”

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Growth ‘Room to Grow’ the

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The Room to Grow capital campaign will make possible new construction and a series of incremental upgrades to our campus grounds and academic spaces, including improvements to the Lower School in Phase One and building a new athletics and physical education complex in Phase Two. Changes to the grounds include a new east-facing orientation of our campus, a front entrance facing Clay Street off of North President Avenue, opening Clay Street to vehicle traffic and expanded parking.

The plan also includes the eventual construction of a new theater, which we hope to build within the next 5 years, along with a K-12 Science Center.

These sweeping changes will not occur in a single construction phase but in a series of stages over the next two decades. The timing of these phases will rely on fundraising and the urgency of our programs’ needs.

Construction and renovation began this summer and will likely take 15 months. It entails four major parts: renovating academic spaces, adding parking, creating a new entrance off President Avenue, and building the aforementioned PE complex.

physical education and fitness center

Sometime before the first day of school in 2017, we will have an entrance to our Lower School that will be accessible from President Avenue via Clay Street. This entrance will alleviate traffic congestion, improving pedestrian and vehicular safety and also making morning drop-off more efficient.

A fitness center with a full complement of free weights and cardio equipment. …

A multipurpose physical education, dance and yoga space. …

Five regulation squash courts with seating for fans. …

A sports medicine and training room. …

New student locker rooms, adult changing rooms, restrooms, office and storage space and a concessions stand. …

A two-story lobby entrance to the new athletics area and theater, which is to be built later pending fundraising.

In addition, we will be adding parking immediately north of the school. This new parking lot, located on the southwestern-most lots on Shreiner Avenue, will be equipped with storm water management and will increase the number of on-campus parking spaces.

To this end, for a limited time, every dollar of new and increased gifts given to support Room to Grow is being matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $1 million. This unique opportunity is made possible by the new Hubbard Fund for Strategic Initiatives, which Marcia Hubbard’s ’53 generous bequest enabled us to establish.

When complete, the new athletics facility will include:

For more details, visit www.lancastercountrydayschool.org/building / spring 2016 / phase

One renovation

Break ground in 2016 on a new parking lot and begin Lower School renovations.

Address academic spaces: science wing and arts center will be air conditioned in 2017.

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Two construction

Begin construction of locker rooms, trainer room, visitor restrooms, fitness center, concessions, and a multipurpose dance/yoga/early-childhood studio.

/ winter 2016 / Build squash courts to expand one of our most popular team sports, as well as improving our physical education program in all divisions. Current dance studio and fitness studio to be repurposed for academic use.

/ spring 2017 / Create a new front entrance from President Avenue with safer drop-off lane at the Lower School entrance.

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2016 lancaster country day school graduates james albert abraham ii david alexander anderson

malick mohamed guissĂŠ sonia hafiz

ben matthew rich

paidin stephenson pierson andreas

madeline jane harenza

niall patrick bailey

jessica anne heberlein

nicole allayna carthage beidleman

samantha jane hershey

victoria lynn bowman bethany rose burton cheng chi jong - ha choi ivemar xaviera cortez alexander patrick d ’ entremont ralph avrom daniel drake

courtney allison ricci

kevin hsu ashley marie ingram sara kate kelly andrew maxwell liss bailey marie macdowell sean michael maley madison victoria mohn

mehar simran duggal

paul abello price

elizabeth quinn evans

emily jennae quan

jordyn catherine richardson joshua philip riebel griffin yee roth ethan david sterenfeld vanessa isabel stoltzfus emma carlaine swartz elizabeth garrett vanasse lindy john vicari ella emmons walker alexander michael wege matthew alan weinstock - collins

andrea rose everett

zachariah a . rahman

erika anne faulkner

jessica nicole rampulla

steven michael frick

nicholas maxmillian rangel

grace kathleen yingling

samantha paige garvey

matthew william reiss

grace elizabeth zechman

lila brooke elise gibson

elliot francis rhoads

jack michael zuckerman

Randolph-Macon College

tahra albert wohlert

Villanova University University of California Colorado College University of Alabama Boston University

Boston College Berklee

Bloomsburg University CollegeStevenson of Music University Washington University in St. Louis

Savannah College of Art and Design

High Point University

Gettysburg College

George Washington University Franklin & Marshall College Temple University Vassar College | 14 | CONNECTIONS Ithaca College

College of William and Mary

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the trustee prize

elizabeth quinn evans

Awarded to the senior with the highest grade point average.

ruth s. hostetter award bailey marie macdowell

This award honors the memory of a Shippen School graduate from the class of 1931 and recognizes a senior who, over an extended period of time, has worked selflessly and enthusiastically to enhance the school community.

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award recipients

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| steven michael frick |

ann musselman award

faculty award andrea rose everett

paidin stephenson pierson andreas jack michael zuckerman

Given in honor of Ann Musselman, who was an LCDS teacher for 30 years, this prize is awarded to the students who have enthusiastic curiosity, take intellectual risks, love to learn and live life to the fullest.

Given to the student who embodies what the faculty most respect in a scholar and a person, an individual who has a true love of learning and is a model citizen.

head of school award steven michael frick

Presented annually by the Head of School, this award recognizes the senior most deserving of special praise for exhibiting qualities such as leadership, school spirit, persistence and civic virtue.

Seton Hill University Dickinson College Wheaton College

Carleton College

University of Notre Dame

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Florida Southern College University of California Susquehanna University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fordham University University of Southern California

Creighton University

Sciences Susquehanna University Delaware Valley University University of the Champlain College University of Minnesota

Oxford College at Emory University Pennsylvania

New York University

NO. EIGHT SUMMER 2016 | 15 State University Sewanee:| ISSUE The University of the South

class notes We recognize that social media is an easier way than Class Notes for our alumni to stay in touch. Please see Page 2 for a listing of LCDS social media accounts. You’ll notice alumni news and updates moving more onto these networks, even as Class Notes continues to be a place to see select alumni submissions, reunion updates and event pictures. To submit a class note for print or web publication, contact the Alumni Office at alumni@lancastercountryday.org.

1950s

1970s

Margaret Haller Hannum

Melissa Byers

717-299-3798 phannum3@verizon.net

818-719-6550 melissabyers@earthlink.net

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1975

Sally Rich Rohrer

Diane Eshleman Djordjevic

717-394-0847 1955

410-919-7219 dianedjordjevic@gmail.com

Eunice Fulton Blocker

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1971

502-895-2691

Margaret Hall Norton

1958

503-638-6127 Margie.Norton@cenveo.com

Barbara Jaeger Gillis 717-299-3374 wicklawn1770@comcast.net

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1960s 1960

Anne Campbell Slater

Lauren Bell Isaacs ’99, and husband Michael welcomed Margaret June Isaacs on January 15. Maggie joins big sister Evelyn, who will be turning 3 in September.

Lauren writes, “As a digital media specialist, writer and style columnist with several parenting publications across North Carolina, I’m learning to practice what I preach in those realms as I try to figure out how to balance motherhood and a freelance career.”

1980s 1983

John F. Hinkle III 717-898-5728 jfh3rph@comcast.net 1984

Kathleen Murphy Jasaitis 781-631-7899 kmjasaitis@comcast.net 1985

Deborah Dodds 310-415-7796 Debby@DebbyDodds.com 1986

Eileen Eckenrode Vroom

Joanna Underhill

540-338-3630

717-468-3788

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1987

Sarah Miller Dorgan

Kristen K. Gedeon

717-687-6466

703-283-6187 kristengedeon@hotmail.com

610-896-6468 Slater.Anne@gmail.com

Libby Roman ’05, got engaged on November 20, 2015 to Cody Caldwell. The wedding will be held in downtown Lancaster in June 2017.

1961

Alix Shuman Roth 717-507-8227 alixsroth@verizon.net

1988

Jack Fulton 717-394-2255 jack.fulton@tecomet.com 1989

Bob Porter

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pistol3667@aol.com

Phyllis Morgan-Rupert 717-768-3322 1966

Joseph A. Myers Jr. 717-394-9854 joemyers1@comcast.net 1968

Deborah Murray Martin 717-290-2082 debbie.martin@fandm.edu

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Megan MacAlarney Medina ’06, married Steven Medina on June 6, 2015, in Lancaster.

The ceremony was held at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church followed by a reception at Bent Creek Country Club. Megan is the daughter of Elizabeth Savoca MacAlarney ’79.

Margaret Rigas ’07 and Melissa Harvey ’06 were bridesmaids. The Medinas reside in the Philadelphia area.

1 | Ryan Miller ’01 hosted an alumni business mixer at his store, Brent L. Miller Jewelers, on March 9.

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2 | Betsy Wademan Ahlstrand ’95 hosted an alumni regional reception at her home in San Francisco on February 23.

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3 | The Shippen Society Lunch, for Shippen School or Country Day alumni who have celebrated their 50th reunion, was held on April 29.

4 | The Lifers Lunch was held on Friday, April 1, celebrating the Class of 2016’s nine lifers.

5 | Students and their families at the Jarvis Scholar luncheon on May 5.

Sally Jarvis and her daughters, Gina Jarvis Whelan ’74 and Anne Jarvis Gerbner ’72, also attended.

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2000s

2010s

Mary Fulton Gingrich

Nicole Richie

Molly Umble

717-560-4908 maryfgingrich@comcast.net

404-216-2053 nrichie617@yahoo.com

UmbleME@hendrix.edu

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Piera Moyer

Kelsey Gohn

610-376-7546 pieraesmesnyder@gmail.com

717-575-9034 kelseygohn@gmail.com

2001

Emily Weinstock-Collins has a

1990

2000

Susan Hull Ballantyne 717-464-3537 shballantyne@yahoo.com

Bianca M. Heslop

1992

Kate Matwiczyk Hemmerich 1993

Jennifer Gschwend McGough 610-430-7671 drgschwend@yahoo.com 1994

Stacey Gregg 919-622-4284 sgregg13@yahoo.com 1995

Betsy Wademan Ahlstrand 415-845-7654 betsyahlstrand@gmail.com

Jennifer Mikes Mullen 781-558-5293 jcmikes@gmail.com 1996

Dennis M. Baldwin 484-269-4309 fcsp3@yahoo.com

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303-859-4994 stuff@foresightphoto.com 1998

Alexandra Minehart Goodman agoodman@fraser-ais.com

Lauren Bergen Pryor 703-254-7632 lauren.pryor@klgates.com 1999

Meagan W. Dodge 415-846-8715 meagan_dodge@yahoo.com

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Caitlin Bailey was named to the

2002

Corie Patterson Burton Corie.Burton@gmail.com 2003

Andrew England

10/14 –10/15

aengland1@gmail.com

Alumni Weekend …

Elizabeth Reidenbach

10/25/16

Former Faculty Lunch …

12/16/16

Recent Grad Gathering

717-560-9470 Elizabeth.reidenbach@gmail.com 2005

Libby Roman 717-669-8307 RomanL@lancastercountryday.org 2006

Brendan Drewniany brendan.drewniany@gmail.com

krinato@gmail.com

Mark Ewing

2004

elizabethsudhakar@gmail.com

Lauren Allwein-Andrews

Kerry Diamond Rinato 1997

laurens99@hotmail.com

Elizabeth Sudhakar Caroline Landau ’09, earned the Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Kelly Leonard ’15, will be finishing her gap year, which included missions travel in Guatemala, Malaysia and Botswana. She will travel to Kenya in June where she will spend time with her Compassion International sponsored child.

2012

triple major in Spanish, math and College of Letters (a three year, interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature) at Wesleyan. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Madrid starting in August. She will be teaching high school and part of her job description includes preparing students for MUN.

BiancaMHeslop@gmail.com

kmatwiczyk@gmail.com

2010

Lauren Smedley was the lead

graphic designer for the Franklin Institute’s newest, permanent exhibit, “SportsZone.”

2008

Erika Vernet 484-269-7483 Erika.vernet@gmail.com 2009

Grace Chesters works for PNC

Financial Services. She recently moved back to Lancaster from Philadelphia to take a position with the commercial lending team and was promoted to assistant vice president, associate relationship manager.

dean’s list for the fall semester at Emerson College in Boston, where she is a senior majoring in theater arts, with a minor in women and gender studies.

2013

Alison Charles was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Penn State University, University Park, where she is majoring in elementary education.

2014

Oleksander Kerod was named to

the dean’s list for the fall semester at Widener University, where he is a sophomore majoring in physics.

He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society and Sigma Alpha Pi, the National Society of Leadership and Success.

2015

Elizabeth Warfel ewarfel@middlebury.edu

IN MEMORIAM Jeanne Stevens Coleman ’42 (3/14) Charlotte “Jeff” Jeffries Liddell ’43 (2/16) John Cooper Hubbard ’59 (9/15) George Leaman Myers ’62 (2/16) Suzanne Shaub Feldman ’62 (4/16) John Holden ’70 (11/15) Earl “Tom” Kegel ’71 (1/16)

2016 april 23, 2016

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