Alumni Reunion

Reunion 2022 began with lunch on the roof of 40 Charlton. Alumni and current high school students connected about what is happening at LREI today and what the school was like in the past.

Alumni, current families, students, and faculty attended a discussion with Nick Heller ’07 (Michael Patrick Achievement Award recipient), who shared his work as @NewYorkNico.

Current faculty members Ann Carroll and Michel de Konkoly Thege P’08, ’10 performed a reenactment of Randolph Smith's Testimony on “Subversive Influence in the Educational Process,” which initially took place at the hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate in September 1952.

Robert Romero, Nick Heller, and Jonathan Ned Katz, pictured here, received awards from the Alumni Association. Robert and Virgilio Romero, and the entire maintenance team, were honored for their extraordinary work keeping the school running over the past few decades, particularly during the pandemic! Virgilio was the superintendent of buildings for 30 years, and Robert has been at LREI for 33 years and is the current head of maintenance.

Jonathan Ned Katz '56 was the 2022 Distinguished Alumnus, and gave a talk entitled “Little and Red: Coming of Age in Greenwich Village (1938-1956)”. In his talk, he recalled his parents, teachers, and life at the Little Red School House during a repressive era in history.

The weekend concluded with the 6th Annual Alumni Giving Challenge. Thank you for helping us surpass our goal by raising 107 alumni gifts and over $100,000 in alumni donations this year! We are so grateful to our alumni for their generous support and for joining us at Reunion 2022.