Hall of Fame and Women of Distinction 2020 and 2021 Program

Lake Forest Academy and Ferry Hall Hall of Fame and Women of Distinction 2020 and 2021 September 25, 2021

Midwestern Heart. Global Mind.

LFA School Facts Our Campus

Lake Forest Academy, founded in 1857, is situated on an historic, wooded 150-acre campus, including more than 30 buildings— state-of-the-art dormitories, a modern student center, cutting-edge science laboratories, contemporary classrooms and wide-ranging athletic facilities.

Student Body

437 students representing 15 states and 40 countries and territories

49% Boarding 51% Day 25% International

36% Domestic Students of Color

Head of School

José M. De Jesús P’22 (3rd Year)

32% of families receive need-based financial aid

100% enrollment in 4-year college

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Student Life

In the Classroom

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More than

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extracurricular activities, including clubs and relationships with local organizations, such as: l

A.J. Katzenmaier Academy Bernie’s Book Bank

Average class size:

North Chicago Community Partners

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courses offered

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Northern Illinois Food Bank l

Nuestro Center

7:1 student-to-faculty ratio

38 athletic teams l Focus on sportsmanship and success measured in both victories and individual development

66 teaching faculty; 85% with an advanced degree

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Each year, Caxy athletes graduate to play collegiate sports and competitive junior hockey

Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered Median ACT Score:

30 Median SAT Score: Verbal

670 Math

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“Fair Lake Forest” Words by McLeod E. Boyle, 1914 Music by W. Fischer

Fair Lake Forest, alma mater, Fond devotion binds us to thee; Heart and hand we pledge to serve thee True and long as life.

See the black and orange Waving proudly o’er thee; Emblem true of all we do To spread abroad thy glory.

Fair Lake Forest, when we sever, Live we in thy spirit ever; We’ll forget thee never, never!

Dear old LFA. Ferry Hall Alma Mater Words and Music by Dorothy Freytag Beck von Peccoz Howe ’53

Dear Alma Mater, Ferry Hall to you we sing our praise, Our thanks we give with voices For many glorious days; For friendships won that will endure when memories fond recall; The work we did, the fun we had at dear old Ferry Hall.

As we have journeyed on our way and girlhood days are o’er The ideals you’ve imparted will linger evermore As we look back upon our days within her ivied wall With love we’ll praise our alma mater dear old Ferry Hall

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Hall of Fame and Women of Distinction 2020 Zaid Abdul-Aleem ’90 Robert Bates ’60 Bill Dolbee P’04,’10 Gloria Harper P’93 Rebecca Makkai ’95 Eric Stisser ’90

2021 Makola Abdullah ’86 Elizabeth Plamondon Cutler ’85 Jason Delane Lee ’90 Paul Dunlop George Gillett ’56 David Gupta ’81 John Marlatt ’65 Constance McCabe Nancy Royster Rice ’61 Michael Springer ’71

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2020 Zaid Abdul-Aleem ’90 Service to the School As a decade-long member of the LFA Board of Trustees (2007 to 2017), Zaid Abdul-Aleem ’90 helped strengthen the school through service on the Board’s advancement committee, finance committee and the endowment subcommittee. While devoting his time and talents to the fiscal health of LFA, Abdul-Aleem used his voice as a trustee to advocate for pluralism—extending his volunteerism to involvement with the Academy’s students and alumni through the Black Student Union, in particular.

At LFA, Abdul-Aleem was both junior and senior class president, prefect, Caxy Key and All-Conference in football, basketball and track. He still holds the school records for long jump and triple jump. He went on to Duke University where he was a Dean’s List recipient and earned B.A. and M.A. degrees. He was also a Fulbright Scholar, studying the economy and African influence in Brazil. He served as captain of the Duke Hall of Fame Bowl football team, earning All-Academic ACC honors, Student Athlete of the Year and a place on the 1994 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, an annual award given to college football players for the impact they make off the field.

Abdul-Aleem serves on Duke’s Graduate School Board of Visitors, Chicago Board of Ethics and is a Life Trustee at Lake Forest Academy. He has also been a facilitator at Francis W. Parker School’s People of Color Conference.

Abdul-Aleem is managing director and co-founder of the Private Funds Advisory group at Moelis & Company and has previously worked within investment banking in London, Tokyo and Johannesburg. He lives in Chicago with his family.

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2020 The late Robert Bates ’60 Service to Society The late U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Robert Bates ’60 is honored posthumously for his ultimate sacrifice for our nation. In addition to the Purple Heart, Bates also received a Silver Star for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action” in his command of the First Platoon, Company G, Second Battalion, Third Marines during Operation KERN in the Republic of Vietnam, before he was mortally wounded on October 22, 1966. Bates was the first soldier from Lake Forest who died in Vietnam. A statement from the Marine Corps reads, in part: “By his outstanding courage, initiative and devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Bates served to inspire all who observed him and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

He gallantly gave his life for his country.”

The Bates family’s connection to the Academy is longstanding. One of the first buildings on the current LFA campus was Bates House, constructed in spring 1948.

This dormitory was funded, in part, by Robert’s father, George Bates, Class of 1922. Additional LFA alumni with family connections to Lt. Bates include George Bates ’52, Kathryn Bates Leonard ’82, Nancy Bates Westergard ’87 and Lesley MacGregor ’03.

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2020 Bill Dolbee P’04,’10 Service to the School With his retirement following the 2019-20 school year—a year punctuated by the school’s transition to e-learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic—Bill Dolbee P’04,’10 left a legacy of 36 years of service and leadership to the Academy. Long-heralded as one of the school’s most storied and celebrated instructors, he was the 1991 recipient of the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, selected as graduation speaker for the classes of 1993 and 2020 and had the school’s yearbook, the Caxy, dedicated to him in 1995.

Head of School Emeritus John Strudwick worked hand in glove with Dolbee during his nearly two decades as head of school at LFA and witnessed firsthand his colleague's prowess both as a teacher and an administrator. Dolbee assumed the roles of associate head of school; assistant head of school; dean of faculty; history department chair; dormitory parent; coach of football, softball and basketball; club adviser; and mentor to all.

In 2018, Dolbee was named the inaugural recipient of the Ned & Lynn Jessen Endowed Chair in the Humanities. Always a proponent of a pluralistic community, Dolbee was a major force in helping LFA become the diverse and empathetic institution it is today. Among his final duties prior to retirement was to support the transition of José M. De Jesús as Head of School.

Whether attending a sporting event, concert, student activity or alumni gathering it was never a surprise for Dolbee to stop by to let students, alumni and his fellow faculty and staff members know they were supported. His greatest legacy is making a difference in people’s lives; Dolbee’s wisdom and dry humor impacted thousands of students, faculty and staff.

He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Michigan State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, respectively.

Dolbee and his wife, former dorm parent Sue Peecher, live in Mundelein, Ill. Their two sons are LFA graduates, Samuel ’04 and Joseph ’10.

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2020 Gloria Harper P’93 Woman of Distinction Lifelong educator Gloria Harper P’93 served LFA as dean of students; dean of multicultural affairs; AP Biology, Biology I, Freshman Physics, Current Issues in Science, Anatomy and Physiology instructor; dormitory parent/head; and cheerleading coach while employed at LFA from 1989-2006. The year after leaving LFA’s faculty to assume the position of chief program and academy officer with the Golden Apple Foundation (where she served for 11 years) in Chicago, Harper began a decade of service on the Academy’s Board of Trustees. She was elected as an LFA Life Trustee in 2017.

LFA alumni continue to share stories of how Harper’s science classes were inspiring and thought-provoking. When Harper is in the room, she embraces “her children.” She currently serves as chair of the board of trustees for the Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center, a not-for-profit outpatient addiction treatment center on Chicago’s West Side, and the board vice chair for the Winston Knolls Education Group/School for students on the autism spectrum in Hoffman Estates, Ill. She also served on the board of the Global Youth Leadership Institute.

Harper received her B.A. degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota at Moorhead, M.A. degree in natural science from Chicago State University and education certificate from Loyola University. She served as a Chicago Public Schools teacher and as an instructor for the summer enrichment programs at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts before joining LFA. She has been honored for her years of dedicated service as an educator, including by the University of Chicago as an outstanding high school teacher; the Kohl Foundation for excellence in teaching; LFA as occupant of the Harold H. Corbin Jr. Chair in Environmental Science; National Institute of Health with a fellowship; CPS District 4 as teacher of the year; Illinois Institute of Technology; and as a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science.

Harper, the mother of Ricquel Harper ’93, lives in Chicago.

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2020 Rebecca Makkai ’95 Achievement in the Arts The induction of Rebecca Makkai ’95 into the LFA Hall of Fame is but the most recent in a long list of achievements. Named one of Chicago Magazine’s 50 most powerful women, this acclaimed author saw her first novel, The Borrower, awarded a Booklist Top Ten Debut, Indie Next pick and O Magazine selection. Her second book, The Hundred-Year House, received commendation as The Chicago Writers Association’s novel of the year and received raves in the New York Times Book Review and elsewhere. Her 2015 short story collection, Music for Wartime, included four stories that were featured in the Best American Short Stories anthology. Makkai’s The Great Believers was named a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the 2018 National Book Award, and won the ALA Carnegie Medal, the LA Times Book Prize, the Stonewall Award, and the Clark Prize, among other honors; it was also named one of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books of 2018. The Great Believers has been optioned for television by Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions. Makkai’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Resident on LFA’s campus with her husband, Jonathan Freeman, assistant dean of students/director of residential life and English teacher, Makkai maintains strong connections to many of her former LFA teachers, and in 2019 was able to honor her former AP English teacher, Tom Elieff, with the Chicago Writers Museum inaugural Inspiration Award. In addition to her writing, Makkai serves on the faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University and is artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Makkai holds an M.A. degree from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and will receive an honorary doctorate from Lake Forest College in 2022.

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2020 Eric Stisser ’90 Achievement in Athletics As vice president of corporate partnerships for the St. Louis Blues (NHL) and the indoor sports venue (Enterprise Center), Eric Stisser ’90 earned his second major sports championship ring when the Blues won the Stanley Cup in 2019. He received his first pro title ring from his time with the St. Louis Rams, Super Bowl champions in 2000. In his 14th year with the Blues, Stisser manages and develops strategic business relationships and generates revenue through corporate partnerships, advertising sales, signage, media, community relations, promotions and other sales.

Athletics were integral to Stisser’s LFA experience—he was a three-year starter and team captain for football, basketball and baseball and was named All-Conference and All-Lake County his senior year in all three sports. As quarterback of the football team, he led the team to a 10-1 season. LFA faculty member and alumnus Chris Dozois ’84 once said Stisser “was so valuable to the team that the head coach would not let him play defense in fear that he might get hurt.” He was also a 1,000-point scorer as point guard on the basketball team and a stellar shortstop on the Caxy baseball squad. Also in his senior year, Stisser served LFA as prefect and Caxy Key. Following his graduation from DePauw University with a B.A. degree, Stisser returned to LFA as assistant director of admissions and development from 1994-96 and also served as assistant coach for football, baseball and basketball. He then embarked on his successful career in professional sports. He earned his MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Fellow alumni in Stisser’s LFA family tree include David Andreas ’67, Andy Lee ’87, Cayman Lee Campbell ’89, Mark Stisser ’89 and Jason Delane Lee ’90.

Stisser lives in St. Louis with his wife, Rebecca, and children, Emily and Graham.

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2021 Dr. Makola Abdullah ’86 Service to Society The youngest African-American in Northwestern University’s history to receive a Ph.D. in engineering, LFA Life Trustee Dr. Makola Abdullah ’86 became a career all-star academic administrator, serving multiple roles while championing the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the United States. Since 2016, he has served Virginia State University, an HBCU, as its 14th president.

Following his graduation from LFA, Dr. Abdullah received his B.S. degree from Howard University in civil engineering, then earned both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, also in civil engineering. He spent two years working as a civil engineer while beginning his academic career as adjunct professor of Physics and Engineering Mechanics at Chicago State University.

From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Abdullah rose through the academic ranks at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. He began as assistant professor, served as associate vice president for research and was ultimately named dean and director of 1890 Land Grant Programs in the College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture. He has been described as an academic administrator recognized for outstanding research.

Prior to his appointment as president of Virginia State, Dr. Abdullah also served as provost and senior vice president at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., as well as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens.

In just five years at the helm of Virginia State, Dr. Abdullah’s work has included establishing VSU student mentoring partnerships in math and reading with local public school systems; opening the Academic Center of Excellence as a one-stop advising/ tutorial hub for first-year students; and establishing the university’s Advisory Board for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/ Questioning Intersex Ally+ (LGBTQIA+) Inclusion among other initiatives. His fund raising prowess has seen the largest gift ever to the university.

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In 2017, HBCU Digest named Dr. Abdullah the HBCU Male President of the Year. In 2018, Virginia State University was named HBCU of the year, and its Board of Visitors received the Best Board of Trustees of the Year award, and one of its students was named the Female Student of the Year. VSU has also been recognized as one of the nation’s top 20 Best Colleges for African Americans by Essence magazine. In July 2017, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s then Governor Terry McAuliffe presented the inaugural Outstanding State Stewardship Award to VSU for the preservation of Summerseat, an historic house built around 1860 near VSU. Dr. Abdullah serves as vice chair for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Board of Directors and as a member of the executive committee for the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the 5000 Role Models of Excellence.

At LFA, Dr. Abdullah served on the Board of Trustees from 2010-19 and as interim board chair in 2018-19. Howard University, his undergraduate alma mater, bestowed upon him its 2021 Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement.

Dr. Abdullah, his wife, Ahkinyala Cobb-Abdullah, and their two children live in Petersburg, Va.

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2021 Elizabeth Plamondon Cutler ’85 Woman of Distinction Elizabeth Plamondon Cutler ’85 is an entrepreneur best known for co-creating the fitness phenomenon, SoulCycle, with Julie Rice.

Differentiating themselves from other fitness businesses, SoulCycle, through the creative leadership of Cutler, provided consistent customer service paired with excellent instructor training. Using 30 unique modules, instructors go through eight weeks of hospitality training, including brand history and inter-colleague communication.

After growing to 60 studios, Cutler and Rice sold the company in 2016.

Following her graduation from LFA, Cutler went on to the University of Colorado Boulder and earned her B.A. degree in art history and religious studies. Her studies took her to Bodh Gaya, India where she lived in a Buddhist monastery and traveled throughout Southeast Asia.

Prior to the success of SoulCycle, Cutler served the real estate industry and had invested in Izze Beverages, whose founder is the husband of Cutler’s LFA classmate, Eliza Ellsworth Woloson ’85, and named for the Wolosons’ daughter Isabel. In 2016, Cutler and Rice formed LifeShop, an umbrella company focused on advising, investing and incubating new ideas rooted in community and emotional intelligence. She also co-founded Peoplehood in 2020, a new concept for community, conversation, and connection.

Peoplehood is a space where anyone can learn how to nurture relationships with the people they care about and create connections with those they better want to understand.

Cutler has been honored with several awards, including being named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Builders + Innovators in both 2013 and 2014. SoulCycle was voted one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in fitness 2013 by Fast Company, and Culter one of Fast Company’s Most Creative people in Business in 2014 and one of AdWeek’s Brand Geniuses in 2015. She was a member of ELLE magazine’s, The Agenda, a board of 43 female powerhouses who are joining forces to improve the lives of women.

Additional Lake Forest Academy connections include Cutler’s father, George ’55, who was also a member of the Board of Trustees, and brother, George ’87.

Cutler lives in New York, N.Y., with her husband, Allen, and children, Nina and Lucy.

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2021 Jason Delane Lee ’90 Achievement in the Arts Acclaimed actor of stage and screen, Jason Delane Lee ’90 says he is most proud to have originated the role of Malcolm X in the 2013 world premiere production of Kemp Powers’ play One Night in Miami, at Los Angeles’ Rogue Machine Theatre and having the opportunity to perform in three different productions of the work in cities around the country. This world premiere production was nominated for Los Angeles Theater’s Best Ensemble of the Decade by Broadway World.

Following his graduation from LFA, Delane Lee received his B.A. degree in history and theatre from Wittenberg University, then earned an MFA degree from the Professional Actor’s Training Program at Ohio University. He rose through the Chicago theater ranks, ultimately securing lead roles at the Goodman, Victory Gardens and Lookingglass theaters, among others, before heading to Los Angeles.

As a first-time writer/director, Delane Lee recently completed the short film, Lifeline, in which he starred alongside his wife, Yvonne, and their three children, Grace, Maya and Maximo. He is a founding ensemble member of the award-winning non-profit arts collective Lower Depth Theatre, which produces intimate theater in the greater Los Angeles area through a global, African diaspora lens. Its mission is to champion new plays breaking down barriers of cultural misunderstanding, keeping a pulse on social conversations in our global community and believing in the power of storytelling to challenge, reveal and heal.

Alongside his wife, Delane Lee also founded Lagralane Group, an award-winning film finance company that produces, develops and helps create story content for independent film and documentaries. With Lagralane, he helped bring the Academy Award-winning documentary ICARUS to life.

In addition to his work on the Board of Lower Depth Theatre, Delane Lee also serves as board member to The Classical Theatre of Harlem and is a passionate supporter of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s mission/vision.

Delane Lee and his family live in Studio City, Calif.

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2021 Paul Dunlop Service to the School A fixture at Lake Forest Academy from 1979 to 2021, Paul Dunlop, along with his wife, Connie McCabe, was instrumental in the formation and reinvention of the Academy’s English as a Second Language program (now known as ELL) that allowed international students to ease into American culture as well as the English language at LFA. Passionate about language acquisition, the couple travelled the globe creating relationships that turned into partnerships for the Academy. They recruited students for LFA, wanting the best and brightest to attend and make the community stronger.

Dunlop and McCabe are credited for creating and implementing the summer program for ESL students along with summer sports programming.

Dunlop received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and religious studies from Wagner College before enrolling at Rutgers University, where he earned an M.A. degree in linguistics and English as a Second Language education.

His professional affiliations abound. Dunlop serves on the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET) as the commission past chair and sits on the executive committee. At LFA, he was the director of the American Language Academy for more than 20 years.

Dunlop’s retirement following the 2020-21 school year, along with McCabe’s, meant the departure of the Academy’s longest-serving faculty members. They live in Lake Bluff, Ill.

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2021 George N. Gillett, Jr. ’56 Achievement in Athletics Businessman George N. Gillett, Jr. ’56 is an entrepreneur who took his childhood interest in athletics and nurtured it, along with his marketing prowess, to foster intimate participation across myriad professional sports organizations—from Alpine skiing to NASCAR, the NFL and NHL to the Harlem Globetrotters.

Gillett first attended Amherst College following his LFA graduation and is a 1961 graduate of Dominican College of Racine, Wis. His first post-college position was in sales and continued in marketing and management consulting, initially with McKinsey & Co. By 1966, he was business manager and partner of the Miami Dolphins. In 1968, he parlayed his $1 million investment in the Dolphins, selling it for $3 million, and using some of the proceeds to purchase the nearly defunct Harlem Globetrotters. He reinvigorated the Globetrotters through marketing and a Saturday morning cartoon series and formed nationally syndicated radio group Globetrotters Communications.

In 1978, Gillett bought Packerland Packing, and with its success, he diversified into radio and television with the start of Gillett Communications Company. At its peak, Gillett Communications owned network affiliates, the majority of which were CBS, in many of the country’s major television markets.

Gillett acquired the Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts in 1985 and launched a massive installation of high-speed chairlifts. He also supported major alpine ski events at a time when most ski areas in America declined to host international races. continued on next page

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In 2001, Gillett bought an 80% interest in the Montreal Canadiens and their home arena, Molson Centre. In 2007, he purchased a controlling interest of the NASCAR team Evernham Motorsports from founder Ray Evernham, thereby forming Gillett Evernham Motorsports, which merged in 2009 with fellow NASCAR team Petty Enterprises. From 2007-2010, Gillett was co-owner of the storied Liverpool F.C., a soccer team in the Premier League.

Gillett’s other business interests include marine transportation company Northland Services Inc., landscaping and gardening enterprise Great Northern Bark and Sierra Organics, and auto dealership group Summit Automotive Partners, among others.

He and his wife, Rose, live in Vail, Colo. They have four children.

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2021 David Gupta ’81 Service to Society Former LFA Trustee David Gupta ’81 was the inspiration and guiding force behind the Academy’s inaugural Chicago Networking Event, the now-annual educational and social gathering of alumni and parents, which for a decade and a half has taken place in Chicago’s Loop. Gupta is the middle of three LFA graduates in his family—his brothers Raj ’79 and Mark ’83 are also Caxys, as is his cousin, Sidhartha Gupta ’94.

Gupta earned his B.S. degree in architectural engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was honored as the school’s Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award winner in 2020. Gupta also graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA degree.

He is the founder and CEO of SDI Presence LLC, an IT managed services provider and consultancy that leverages team presence to advance its clients to a secure digital enterprise.

Before starting his own company, he was a senior vice president at Environmental Systems Design. Gupta also founded PGV Solutions, which merged into SDI in 2016. He is proud that SDI consistently ranks as a “Best Place to Work” by Crain’s Chicago Business, the Chicago Tribune, and Built in Chicago.

Gupta’s volunteer and philanthropic efforts focus on children and education, as well as economic development, science and technology.

Gupta and his wife, Dawn, live in Chicago with their four children and are proud grandparents.

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2021 John Marlatt ’65 Service to the School A dedicated member of the LFA community, John Marlatt ’65 has taught at the Academy, supported philanthropically many of LFA’s capital and programming initiatives and now serves as chair of the Board of Trustees.

Marlatt’s board work has included a close partnership with the Academy Woods property owners, adjacent to the school, to ensure the Academy community and neighborhood work cooperatively together. He also has served as chair of the Board property committee as well as the ad hoc master planning committee.

During his school years as a Caxy, Marlatt played on the basketball and golf teams while also running on the cross country team. He further participated in the bridge and cribbage clubs and was a staff member of the literary magazine.

Marlatt earned his B.A. degree in economics and political science from DePauw University. He then attended Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he received his MBA degree in finance.

His education led him to the banking profession, where Marlatt rose through the ranks at multiple organizations.

He served as a branch manager, managing director and senior vice president at multiple global banks including Credit Suisse and Commerzbank AG. A career of nearly 40 years gave him expertise in an array of corporate financial solutions and the ability to understand client issues to successfully construct, coordinate and deliver global solutions through geographic and product teams.

Marlatt and his wife, Peggy Fox, are longtime residents of Lake Forest and members of LFA’s Richards & Tremain Society. Through frequent attendance at LFA functions, they have created and maintained connections with a wide network of alumni and community members.

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2021 Connie McCabe Service to the School An award-winning LFA educator and the face of the Academy’s English as a Second Language program (now ELL) for many years, along with husband Paul Dunlop, Constance “Connie” McCabe served LFA students from 1979 until her retirement following the 2020-21 school year.

McCabe founded the writing center on campus and advised the Chinese Dictionary Project. She was the first participant in the teacher exchange program between LFA and the high school attached to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

Her passion for language led her to assisting the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET) in accreditation processes for ESL programs around the country.

In addition, McCabe has presented at conferences of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Illinois TESOL Bilingual Education (ITBE) and Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). She has also designed the Oral English Training Course for Teachers for the Department of Education in Jiangxi Province, China, and has implemented the course with elementary, middle and high school teachers in Nankang, Chongyi, Shangyou, Xingguo, and Chengdu, China.

McCabe was cherished as a mentor and leader by many in the LFA community. The curriculum she facilitated for ESL students is regarded as thoughtful and precise, balancing the needs of students from different nations at a wide variety of starting points. As the English as a Second Language Chair, she and Dunlop worked together on the Academy’s international program. Together they brought dozens of LFA educators with them on trips to China. In June 2010, McCabe received the Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence and in May 2013 she was awarded with the Laima Salcius Faculty Award.

McCabe earned her B.S. degree from the University of Vermont and an M.A. degree from New York University. McCabe and Dunlop live in Lake Bluff, Ill.

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2021 Nancy Royster Rice ’61 Woman of Distinction A legacy Ferry Hall graduate (following her mother, Helen Heyl Royster ’29, and sister, Jean Royster Smiley ’56), Nancy Royster Rice ’61 learned to forge her own path at her family’s alma mater.

Following graduation from Ferry Hall, Rice went on to Smith College for her undergraduate studies. She then earned a M.A. degree in history from Bryn Mawr College while teaching at Friends Central School in Philadelphia. She attended Emory University Law School for two years, completing her law degree at Harvard University.

As one of the first 12 women partners at the historic law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston, Rice specialized in health law. She worked as the primary general counsel for teaching hospitals and the New England regional organ and tissue bank organization.

Her particular interests include patient rights, clinical human research, corporate compliance, physician practice issues, health data management and risk management. Rice is also the founding chair of the Health Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

She has spent time giving back as an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Law and the Suffolk University Law School.

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2021 Michael Springer ’71 Service to the School A changemaker in the medical publishing industry, Michael Springer ’71 is a proud Chicago native. His work as a writer of commercials and for the TV show The Waltons started him on a path to publishing and executive management at four of the most influential organizations in health care. After his son was born, Springer accepted what he thought would be, at most, a six-month job at the American Medical Association. He ended up staying at the AMA for 15 years and helped facilitate AMA’s launch into online publishing. During that time, the AMA and mentor Dr. George Lundberg sponsored Springer to attend the Stanford Professional Publishing Program. This, along with his B.S. degree in communications from Northwestern University and his certification in business from the University of Illinois at Chicago, made him realize he wanted to move on from the editorial side and become a publisher.

Springer served as publisher of new media at the AMA before being recruited to become president and CEO of the American Hospital Publishing Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of the American Hospital Association. After a merger with Health Forum, Springer worked with Care Pages, which was bought by WebMD. Then, for nine years, Springer was the VP for publishing and communications at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He then served as the managing vice president for publishing and ultimately the senior vice president for business and publishing for the American Dental Association. He currently works for himself as president of M2M Communications Inc., which specializes in business development and governance for publishing, media and health care.

During his illustrious career, Springer recognized the importance of mentorship and investment in people and technologies. He is a vocal proponent of continual personal reinvention and has been active on many boards.

A former member of LFA’s Board of Trustees, Springer is one of the founding architects of the Walter Hoesel Fund, which helps LFA’s neediest students be fully involved in school life. The fund is named for former LFA Head of School Walter Hoesel. Springer also served on the Alumni Council and is a Richards & Tremain Society member.

Springer and his wife, Susan, live in Estero, Fla. They have two sons.

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Historical List of Hall of Fame and Women of Distinction Honorees Hall of Fame Samuel Addoms ’57 Sidney Ainsworth Sandra Alcosser ’62 Edward Arpee P’52,’54 GP’80,’81 H. Leslie Atlass ’36 Robert Bacon ’66 Lillian Barbour, Class of 1911 Lilace Barnes, Class of 1917 Hazel Schurig Barr ’46 Ernest Barry Mary Friedman Baske ’71 George Bates ’22 Charles Beard ’52 Leon Beiderbecke ’24 John Bird Mary Alice Bird Neil Blatchford ’64 Randall Bongarten ’67 Anna Bowditch Ebenezer Bowditch Watson Branch ’53 Claude Brenner ’44 Richard Bressler ’48 Nanette Colehower Britton ’40 Temple Buell, Class of 1912 Muriel Burnet ’40 Colin Campbell ’56 Jay Chandrasekhar ’86 Nancy Simonian Cole ’79 Phil Collins ’69 Florence Smith Corbin Harold Corbin Jim Cowart ’69 Paul Crimm ’52 Cedric Cromartie ’81 Wilson Dennehy ’56 Ruth DeYoung Kohler ’59

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Leslie Dohr Gaylord Donnelley ’27 Doris Douglas Howard Dubin ’50 Thomas Duckworth P’08,’10,’12,’14 Faye Iten Evans ’45 John Fennelly Merrill Ferguson ’72 Frank Ferry ’39 A. Gilmore Flues, Class of 1922 Austin Fragomen ’61 Jonathan Fremd P’66 Robert Friery Charles Fuller ’52 Debra Fulscher ’81 Louise McLean Gentle, Class of 1914 John Goodwillie ’52 Lauren Gorter P’06,’09 John Grady ’48 Jon Greeley ’53 Sally Proudfoot Gries ’63 Michael Hall ’66 Peter Hall ’53 Jean Harlow ’29 Howard Hilton ’54 Alice Hixon Mary Ann Hodgkins P’82,’85 GP’19 Thomas Hodgkins ’53 P’82,’85 GP’19 David Holtzman ’58 Isabella Houk Carla Huiskamp ’64 A. John Huss ’58 William Hutchinson ’34 Richard Jaros ’70 Ned Jessen P’01,’05 Gwethalyn Jones Ralph Jones

Laurel Bye Kamen ’64 Allan Kaplan ’72 P’03 Loretta Kalnow Kaplan ’73 P’03 Christoph Keller ’34 Jeffrey Keller ’87 Thomas Kelley ’65 Tom Klingbiel ’53 Arthur Kneibler ’35 Newton Korhumel P’59,’65,’66 GP’82,’85 Lynne Kulieke Melvin Laird ’40 William Lane ’61 Charlene Vala Laughlin ’64 Michael Leonard ’66 William Lewis Glen Lloyd Marion Lloyd Albert Louer ’63 Mary Jones Lozier, Class of 1916 David MacKenzie ’50 Gertrude Magee ’31 Harry Manchester ’52 Michael McCarthy ’71 Patrick McCarthy ’73 Arthur McIntosh, Class of 1896 Kathryn Warner Miller ’70 Paul Moore ’74 Margaret Iten Murphy ’56 Robert Myhrum ’44 Jeffrey Neal P'00, '02 Miriam Lovell Neff ’39 H. Gerald Nordberg ’53 Dellora Norris, Class of 1920 Barry Oppenheimer ’54 Keith Owen ’64 Frances Perkins James Prestini

Edmund Rendtorff ’43 John Richards Annamae Houston Sandegren ’22 Michael Schell ’65 Nauman Scott ’34 Louise Hamilton Short ’66 Lyle Sitterly ’65 Marian Smith Nancy How Speer ’59 Virginia Speidel, Class of 1918 Peter Stebbins ’52 Theodore Stein ’45 Harold Sternberg John Strudwick P’13,’15,’18 Loring Strudwick P’13,’15,’18 James Stuart ’59 Judith Baar Topinka ’62 Eloise Tremain Donald Trieschmann ’54 William Vernon ’50 Frederick Wacker ’36 Catherine Waddell P’01,’03 Bruce Wade ’70 Stephen Wade ’70 Donald Wager ’53 Benjamin Waldie ’52 Frances Wallace Ezra Warner, Class of 1895 Paul Weinbrenner ’39 Carl Weston ’52 Christopher Wetzel ’67 Nicholas Wetzel Walton Wetzel ’79 John Winsor ’54 Watson Wise, Class of 1918 Robert Wood Robin Zafirovski P’04,’05,’09 John Ziebell ’70

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Women of Distinction Mary Anne Ameter '61 Karen Keating Ansara ’75 Nancy Neustadt Barcelo ’70 Elizabeth Teegarden Bertani ’49 Anne Bloomberg '59 Muriel Burnet ’40 Mary Colvert Carroll ’58 Keena Dunn Clifford ’64 Janet Wemmer Crawford ’61 Evan Gaines DeRenzo ’69 Ruth DeYoung Kohler ’59 Lavern Norris Gaynor ’41 Sally Proudfoot Gries ’63 Terry Hall ’67 Catharine Cline Hamilton ’65 Amy Hempel ’69 Phebe Carter Hethcock ’54 Dorothy Freytag Beck von Peccoz Howe ’53 Loretta Kalnow Kaplan ’73 Jeanette Cullinane Kinsella ’57 Lynne Kulieke Charlene Vala Laughlin ’64 Susan Pike Lovejoy ’64 Cecily Barnett Meers ’69 Kathy Neustadt ’74 Margo Pinney Norris ’54 Pamela Norris ’71 Happy Tomson Pross ’56 Ann Ridge ’71 Susan Neustadt Schwartz ’72 Beth Petit Shaw ’75 Harriet Arpee Sherman ’54 Ann Stebbins Sidles ’54 Nancy How Speer ’59 Loring Strudwick P’13,’15,’18 Nicki Newman Tanner ’53 Judy Wax Lavine Saslow ’55

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Inspire & Invest Initiative 16.1 Million Committed Toward $20 Million Goal

In January 2018, Lake Forest Academy began the leadership phase of an initiative to sustain and grow LFA’s efforts to provide deserving students access to scholarships as well as attract and retain first-rate faculty. This initiative is part of the LFA Strategic Plan, which challenges the Academy family to increase the permanent endowment for enhanced fiscal stability. More than $16.1 million has been committed toward the $20 million goal.

The endowment’s market value on June 30, 2021 was approximately $56.3 million, up substantially from its market value of $11 million in 2001. Although the endowment continues to grow through estate gifts and other contributions, a school of LFA’s size, stature, age, operational breadth and program expanse needs a substantially larger endowment to compete with other private schools. Growing the endowment to three times the operating budget of $24 million or more will position LFA well for its future under the leadership of Head of School José M. De Jesús, who arrived in 2019–20. The Initiative is co-chaired by Academy alumnus and Trustee Jim C. Cowart ’69 of Laguna Nigel, Calif., and fellow Trustee Patrick Corsiglia of Lake Forest (parent of three alumni).

To learn more about the Inspire & Invest Initiative, go to www.lfanet.org/inspire or contact Robert J. Buckla, Vice President of Advancement at rbuckla@lfanet.org or call 847.615.3276.

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