Comments Magazine 2012

COMMENTS METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

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Journey to South Africa

Cedar House & Country Day The Forgotten Heroes of Watergate Here’s Looking at You, Kidd

An Extraordinary Summer Arts Program for Children

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FEATURES

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Charles Dickens at Country Day

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Technology in the Classroom

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Our Obligation to Country Day

The Journey to South Africa

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Saving the Hornets

Repairing the Breach: The Arts & Sciences

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Cheney Gardner 2011: Morehead-Cain Scholar

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The Beat Goes On

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The Forgotten Heroes of Watergate

How The Numbers Will Save Us

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Join the Movement

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Here’s Looking at You, Kidd

Darwin & The Evolution of Art + Technology

Through The Lens

World Class Collections

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QUICK TAKES Albright Visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 NAIS Appointment . . . . . . . .11 Stone Whispers . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Two Presidential Scholar Nominees. . . . . . 25 Athletics Year in Review . 26 Why the Saints Matter . . 29 Paul Frantz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 On Exhibit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 MSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Checkmate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Class Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Annual Report 2012 . . . . . 50 Math Olympiad . . . . . . . . . . 64 Horse of Branches . . . . . . . 64 2012 Acceptances . . . . . . . 64

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COMMENTS MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 Carolyn Chandler Head of School Lori Gordillo Director of Development Elizabeth Grace Associate Director of Development Leigh Victory Moss 1989 Director of Alumni Pam Guter Development Assistant Calais Hurst Director of Marketing & Public Relations, Managing Editor, Comments Magazine Scott Carroll Creative Director 2011-2012 Board of Trustees Robert H. Saer, Chair Michael J. Siegel, Vice Chair Michael Whealdon, Treasurer Edgar Bright, III 1973, Secretary Carolyn Chandler, Head of School Daniel Conwill, IV Rachael T. Gambel 1987 Dathel C. Georges 1986 Scott M. Ham, President, Dads’ Club Gretchen Hennessy, Faculty Trustee Jeffrey J. Huseman Charles Lanier 1977 President, Alumni Association Margaret LeCorgne President, Parents’ Association Matthew LeCorgne 1976 Robert Maupin, M.D. Robert Patrick, Jr. Gregory Rusovich Richard Simmons Charles Van Horn 1977 John Weigel, Jr. Cynthia H. Weinmann Andrew D. Weinstock Gina Womack

Marigny Dupuy 1965 and her cohort Meghan Kelly have thrown open the door for Dickens fans to share their fondness for the author’s timeless literature (“Charles Dickens at Country Day,” page 5). Before her 17 years at Country Day, she worked in publishing at Yale University Press and Ticknor & Fields/Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. She has reviewed books for the NY Times and still writes reviews for the Times-Picayune.

Budding sports analyst Adam Goldberg 2013 (“Saving the Hornets,” page 12) has fun between schoolwork and team sports, posting to his blog, http://www.fannation.com/blogs/ show/16499-sports-society. His sports opinion shapers: sportspickle.com, borowitzreport.com, & grantland.com.

Nina Haug 2012 (“Journey to South Africa,The Story of Cedar House & Country Day,” page 17) has a goal to support women in developing nations.

As a recipient of the University of Texas at Dallas’ prestigious McDermott Scholarship, she will have ample opportunity to realize this and many other aspirations.

Alyce Hesse 1997, a self-professed tech-junkie, and the new Educational Technology Facilitator, is maintaining Country Day’s presence in the IT revolution. In this issue (“Technology in the Classroom, A Biased View,” page 12), Alyce gives us a glimpse into how these powerful tools can help to revolutionize the way we teach and learn.

Academic Dean Howard Hunter 1975 continues to seek the cutting edge of education. In this issue (“Repairing the Breach, The Arts and Sciences,” page 14) he analyzes Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the influences of the past, and the present realities of academia.

Lower School Librarian Meghan Kelly (“Charles Dickens at Country Day,” page 5) has nurtured enthusiasm for literature among Country Day students for over 11 years. She holds a BA in Theatre, an MA in Children’s Literature, and a Masters in Library Science. She has studied mime

in Paris, worked as a puppeteer, organized an international puppetry festival, and worked as a legal librarian for Freeport McMoRan. Ben Koch 1998’s (“The Forgotten Heroes of Watergate,” page 24) research led him on a journey into the world of political scandal that is worthy of a spythriller manuscript: shut-down by the CIA, entrusted with an original diary containing never-before published details on the impeachment debates, as well as meetings with members of Special Counsel John Doar’s staff who offered personal recollections of Nixon’s fall from grace. In his dissertation, Ben acknowledges Academic Dean and Country Day history teacher, Howard Hunter, for his inspiration, counting himself “a lucky beneficiary of his largesse.”

Laura Michaud (“Here’s Looking at You, Kidd,” page 34) is serving in her fourth year as the Lower School Library Assistant. She grew up in New York and Connecticut, studied EnglishWriting Studies at Pfeiffer University in North Carolina, and is currently working on her masters. Laura worked in publishing for Little, Brown and Company, Hyperion, Disney and Candlewick Press while in Boston, before moving to New Orleans in 2004.

Betsy Petersen (“Art History Students Visit World Class Collections,” page 32) has always loved english, but never expected to enjoy teaching art history quite as much as she does. After her studies at Harvard, Betsy worked with the Boston Globe, and later the Times-Picayune as a feature writer for the Sunday magazine. As a free-lance writer, her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, New Orleans Magazine, and Independent School.

Her memoir, Dancing with Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained, was published in hardcover and paperback

by Bantam and translated into Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German.

Lee Rittenberg 2012 (“Saving the Hornets,” page 12) @lritt504 started Country Day’s Economics Club in 2011 and in January accepted early admission to his first choice, the University of Pennsylvania. He follows hornets247.com, rivals.com, soonerscoop.com and http://sports. yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner.

Carolyn B. Chandler

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Cordially,

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In March, in the weekly Country Day newsletter, Upper School Principal Howard Barton shared an observation sparked by a sign he recently saw in front of a Mississippi high school. “Home of the 1973 State Baseball Champions,” it proudly proclaimed. Mr. Barton noted that Country Day has garnered twentyone state championships in ten different sports since 2000, never mind 1973, and remarked that this wonderful record has been achieved by students attending a school that emphasizes academics above all. I’m reminded that a very small percentage of schools in this country ever even once have a student named as a Presidential Scholar, the highest honor our nation bestows on a high school senior. In 2008, Country Day had its second Presidential Scholar, and this year, we have not just one, but two seniors nominated for this most auspicious award.

This issue of Comments magazine highlights the impressive achievements of these scholars, distinguished Country Day alumni, and present faculty. Our mission calls us to “foster critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and a love of learning for its own sake,” and we hope the articles you read in this year’s installment of Comments will give you a sense of how we are living into our mission in 2012. Please come visit campus any time. Joyful learning is alive and well at Country Day!

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- Marigny Dupuy 1965 and Meghan Kelly Photos by Deborah Amann 2014

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The Small House in Allington,

by Anthony Trollope and Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick - Meghan Kelly The Sense of an Ending,

by Julian Barnes - Marigny Dupuy

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“Dickens’ concern with social and environmental issues, urban crime, child abuse, poverty, and exploitation, makes him very much a writer for our own time.”

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f Charles Dickens--who was born exactly 200 years ago--were to walk onto the Country Day campus today, he might be surprised to find a large group of fifth grade Dickens Club members in the lower school library mesmerized by a reading of A Christmas Carol and another even larger group of adults in the Dickens Fellowship of New Orleans deep in a discussion about Oliver Twist in the Bright Library. We can only assume that he would be delighted to find that his books are just as popular today as they were in the mid-nineteenth century.

What began for us as a collegial pastime has now blossomed into a community-wide enthusiasm, and has even reached the greater world through an article in The New Yorker and a WWNO radio interview on The Reading Life.

As a Country Day lower school librarian and a fifth grade humanities teacher, we are avid readers, and we discovered a shared interest both in the works of Charles Dickens and also in listening to audiobooks. We began listening to recordings of Dickens’ novels about two and a half years ago just for the fun of it, and the more we listened, read, and discussed, the more entranced we became with Dickens’ writing.

We had been involved in an informal study of Charles Dickens for more than a year when we became aware of the Dickens Project after picking up a flyer at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge; it announced that LSU had been invited to join this prestigious organization. The Dickens Project is an international research consortium, which began thirty years ago and is based at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. LSU scholars are in excellent company, as the consortium includes impressive member institutions such as Yale University, MIT, Princeton University, University of Melbourne, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among others.

The mission statement of the Dickens Project offers the most concise and apt rationale for what drives those of us who are Dickens enthusiasts: “Arguably the first modern novelist, Dickens’ concern with social and environmental issues, urban crime, child abuse, poverty, and exploitation makes him very much a writer for our own time, partly because he is so much a writer of his own time. The Victorian Period faced, and in some cases created, the same problems that concern us today. Through the study of Dickens and some of his contemporaries, we engage in an ongoing social commentary that is still relevant. As a writer, Dickens is modern in his self-consciousness about the act of writing fiction. His novels explore aspects of the writer’s dilemma in ways that invite new critical methods.”

The Dickens Project supports many academic programs, but the gem is their annual conference, which they call the Dickens Universe. It is held at the end of the summer on the beautiful campus of the University of California in Santa Cruz. With the support and encouragement of Carolyn Chandler, we went off to Santa Cruz in the summer of 2010.

What makes this conference special is that not only is it the pre-eminent conference on Dickens in the world, but also that they invite non-specialists to participate as well as scholars. Out of the 250 attendees, fifty or so are senior academics, scholars of Dickens and Victorian Literature. The rest of the group is made up of graduate students, secondary school teachers, and a sprinkling of devoted Dickens fans such as ourselves. All come together for a week of intense study focused on one, or at most two, of Dickens’ works. That first year the books were Oliver Twist (1837) and Sketches by Boz (1836).

We listened to scholarly papers about Dickens and the Victorian period; we discussed Dickens in seminars, in classes, and at mealtime; we watched several film versions of Oliver Twist; we chatted about Dickens during a daily Victorian tea and again during Post Prandial Potations each evening—and we most probably dreamed about Dickens. The nickname for this annual event is “Dickens Camp,” and the name could not be more fitting. We were hooked and went back again in the summer of 2011 for a similar and equally gratifying intensive study of Dickens’ 1860 novel, Great Expectations.

After attending the 2010 Dickens Universe conference, we collaborated on

DICKENS Continued from page 5 a wonderfully successful venture between fifth grade and the lower school library called the Dickens Club. Seventeen fifth graders signed up for a semester of lunch meetings during which we read A Christmas Carol (1843), watched film versions and power points, had rich discussions, and ended with a plum pudding feast. We even had a field trip to the Academy of the Sacred Heart to watch their fifth grade production of Scrooge and Marley.

The next year, in the fall of 2011, the Dickens Club grew to twentysix fifth grade members, so we think that the buzz among the students must be very good!

During the spring semester, we transformed the Dickens Club into the Classic Books Club.

The first year we read two late Victorian children’s classics, Five Children and It (1902) by E. Nesbit and The Secret Garden (1910) by Frances Hodgson Burnett, using the same multi-media formula, and this year we are reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll.

These book clubs have been so

popular that we decided to continue them as the students moved into middle school. Ably assisted in our efforts for this crossover class by Corbett Simons, Lilian Mullane, Kathy Brennan-Haug, Meb Norton, and Cathy Friedmann, we began the Classic Books Club Continued last fall. We met every other week with a group of sixth grade students and read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In January, we decided to increase our meetings to once a week and are reading Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott, which we are all enjoying thoroughly. This is our third year of extracurricular reading with sixth grade students, and we find the experience exhilarating.

This year we decided to extend our enthusiasm to the adult community. We returned from the Dickens Universe this past summer again delighted and newly energized. Two of the lecturers at the Universe are leading Victorian literature scholars from LSU, Dr. Elsie B. Michie and Dr. Sharon Weltman, who said that they would be most interested in participating

in a local Dickens fellowship if we were to establish one.

Again we turned to Carolyn Chandler for assistance and again her spirited support was forthcoming. With help from Elsie Michie and Sharon Weltman, we have started the Dickens Fellowship of New Orleans. When we submit our charter this summer we will become a branch of the London-based Dickens Fellowship, which was founded in 1902 and is “a worldwide association of admirers, enthusiasts, and scholars, whose mutual interests are the life and works of Charles Dickens.”

It has over fifty-five branches internationally and twenty-three in the United States – soon to be twenty-four.

We meet on the second Saturday of each month from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Bright Library here at Country Day, and rotate book discussion one month with alternating movies and lectures the next. Dues are $20 annually (couples $30), and the book this year is Oliver Twist. We had our first meeting in November

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Madeleine Albright Visits Country Day

- Madeleine Albright

In May 2011, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in New Orleans to promote an exhibit of her brooches, “Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection,” at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Through the efforts of a Country Day trustee, former Secretary Albright, now a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University, agreed to visit Country Day for a discussion with students about current events and foreign policy. Upon arrival, Dr. Albright was greeted by over 200 smiling lower school students and their teachers waving American flags in her honor, which she later said “made her feel like a true dignitary.” The former Secretary spoke eloquently about her career in politics and turned her attention to student panelists Nina Haug, Chris Streiffer, Lee Rittenberg, and Amy Schully, who asked well thought-out questions of the tenacious diplomat: As a woman, did you encounter problems and challenges that men would not have had to face? What was the most difficult crisis that you faced as Secretary of State? How will the current political unrest in the Arab world affect the future safety and security of Israel? How did the Rwandan genocide affect your later decisions as Secretary of State?

“I loved being able to hear about being a ground-breaking female in politics,” said panelist Nina Haug. Her classmate, Chris Streiffer, remarked that Secretary Albright was “very easy to talk with. She really opened my eyes and inspired me to take AP Government, and to become more involved.” Upon her exit, Secretary Albright congratulated Ms. Chandler on the acuity of the student body, “I was very impressed by their questions and knowledge of what’s happening in the world,” she said. “Great questions. This has been a wonderful visit.” h

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Contact dickensfellowship@mpcds.com for further information about the Dickens Fellowship of New Orleans.

“I was very impressed by their questions and knowledge of what’s happening in the world.”

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of 2011 and have thirty-three members already, some from Country Day, but many from the greater New Orleans community.

The shared enthusiasm and camaraderie has been remarkable and completely enjoyable.

Because 2012 is the bicentenary celebration of Dickens’ birth on February 7, 1812, our interest in the life and work of Charles Dickens has been shared by the world at large with major stories about him in The New York Times, The Smithsonian Magazine, Time Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New Yorker, to name only a few. New Yorker writer, Jill Lepore, attended the Dickens Universe last summer and interviewed us about our work with Dickens and lower school students. Her long, interesting piece, “Dickens in Eden,” ran in the August 29, 2011, issue and featured a nice mention of Meghan Kelly and our fifth grade Dickens Club. That was a thrill!

Susan Larson interviewed us for the 2011 Christmas edition of her weekly book show on WWNO, “The Reading Life.” It was great fun to do, but more importantly, it made booklovers all over the New Orleans area aware of our wonderful new Dickens Fellowship of New Orleans. Several of our current members came to us after hearing that show.

So, Charles Dickens, we send you our best wishes on the occasion of your two-hundredth birthday. Your spirit lives on and is thriving here at Country Day. h

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM A BIASED VIEW

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- Alyce Hesse 1997 Photos by Deborah Amann 2014

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Consider the following assignment: “The scatter plot on page 195 of your textbook shows the number of CDs sold in the US from 1988-1996 on the x-axis, and the number of cassette tapes sold in the US during that time period on the y-axis. Come up with a linear equation to represent this pattern, and use your equation to figure out how many cassette tapes will be sold in 2000.” In many math classrooms today, teachers pose this exact question to their students. They hope the students engage the problem, solve it, and give an answer demonstrating that they understand the math involved and the context of the problem. But what if, while the teacher assumes students are thinking hard about how to approach the problem mathematically, half of them are sidetracked, wondering, “What is a cassette tape?” It turns out that by the time these students were born, cassette tapes were obsolete. The teacher might then ask the students to copy this problem down on graph paper, so they can sketch the line through the data by hand. Since their first attempt probably isn’t very accurate, students are most likely instructed to try again and set to work repeating this fifteen-minute process. With marginally better results the second time around, the teacher would attempt to use the equation they found to predict future values.

By now most of the kids have figured out that what they are “predicting” actually happened twelve years ago, meaning the results are totally irrelevant to today’s world. At this moment, many of them most likely choose to check out. Sound familiar?

Make it relevant The skills learned in the lesson above are those needed to perform linear regression, which is an important and necessary component of any Algebra II course.

The scene described is similar to what occurs today in Country Day’s math classrooms, with two important and paradigm-shifting differences: linear regression has been webified and digitized. Graphing scatterplots and producing lines of best fit was previously done by hand, because that was the only available method. Today, Country Day students leverage technology to accomplish this task so that they can move quickly to the more important data-analysis portion of the lesson. Graphing

programs like Microsoft Excel, FluidMath, and Logger Pro provide efficiencies in the classroom that allow teachers to focus more time on the skills that students will need to be successful in an ever-changing and datadriven world. The injection of technology into a math classroom is valuable for this reason alone; but there’s more to the story.

With the Internet at their fingertips, students need no longer rely on canned, outdated, and often irrelevant data sets that have little to do with the world they live in.

Teachers can encourage students to go to the Internet, find data sets that interest them, analyze this data, and then have each student present their results to the class.

In this model, students are engaged at a much deeper level, as they are truly interested in the outcome. They are also gaining important skills, including how to find reliable data on the Internet and how to present their findings to a group of peers.

Engage your audience Technology can be used to enhance lessons in every subject area. English teachers can post questions to students on a class blog about a book they are reading, have students respond to the question, and then respond to each other. In history, students can create a video about a topic they are studying, or role play and be a historical character in a video. World language instructors can use social networking to connect with classes in nativespeaking countries. Science students can use programs like Google Sketch-Up to create three dimensional representations of complex cellular structures.

Other tools are more universal. Polling sites like socrative.com give teachers the ability to engage every student at once. Teachers send students short answer, multiple choice, or true/false questions by way of laptop, smartphone, or any device which can connect to the Internet. Sites like socrative tally up the responses in real time, provide a wonderful platform for discussion, and indicate to the teacher how well students are processing the information. Microsoft OneNote, a program that has been used in Country Day’s classrooms for the past five years, gives students and teachers an edge in organization. It allows students and teachers

to share notebooks, so that students have their notes, homework, and the teacher’s notes on their computer in a sophisticated organizational structure.

Go where they are Students interact with technology every day; it comes naturally to them. Unfortunately, sometimes they don’t use it in a productive or safe way. We need to teach them to be responsible digital citizens, teach them how to use the Internet safely and in a way that will benefit them later in life. If we keep technology out of the classroom, we’re sending them a message that what they learn in school is not relevant, that it’s different than what they encounter everywhere else. An environment void of technology is not the world they live in, nor is it the one they will work in.

Country Day’s mission statement says that the school’s mission is to “prepare its students … to succeed in a rapidly changing and culturally diverse world. Country Day’s cooperative learning environment encourages individual achievement, and fosters critical thinking, curiosity, creativity.” Finally it states that Country Day students “learn to be flexible, to be adaptable.”

All three of these statements support the need to incorporate technology into our teaching and educate our students about how to use it.

Is it worth it?

Many people question whether or not educational technology is worth the investment. With so much emphasis currently placed on standardized tests, some point to a lack of normalized gains on high-stakes assessments in technology-rich environments as evidence that it is not. But are these assessments, in their current form, really the best way to measure the impact and value of using technology in the classroom?

Perhaps a better metric would be to consider the types of activities that today’s students are likely to be engaged

in during their professional lives. How many will be expected to prepare a multimedia presentation to convey a point or close a deal? How many will collaborate on a project with people in another area of the country or the world? How many will have to rapidly adapt to an unfamiliar piece of new software? How many will employ the Internet to learn what they need to know on the spot, wherever they find themselves? These are just a few of the technology-based skills that our students will need when they leave the academic world.

The right combination Technology does not make us better educators.

An ineffective teacher provided with a projector, a computer, and several powerful programs will probably be no better off. However, if you provide these tools to a passionate, knowledgeable, and effective teacher, one who is not afraid to try new things, one who uses the endless resource of the Internet to gather ideas from colleagues across the world, you might see something amazing. The opportunity technology provides to someone like that, the opportunity to engage students with the course content and connect them with the world around them, is worth every cent and every minute put into the program. “Twenty-first Century Learning” is not about how many “techy” tools you can use in your class on any given day; it is about how you use the tools to do something with your students that you either could not do without them or are able to do much better with them. Ultimately, it is the right combination of teacher and relevant technology that leads to greater student engagement and deeper understanding. h

What is she reading?

Mindset, by Carol S. Dweck

SENIORS Margot Beerman Ellie George Carolyn Holtzman Becca Lapeyre Adeem Nachabe Lee Rittenberg Katie Thompson Nancy Weinstock

The Cum Laude Society, which is the high school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, is a national organization founded in 1906. Its primary goal is to recognize and honor superior scholastic achievement. The number of students and faculty who can be elected is based on a percentage of juniors and seniors in any given year. Their nomination is based on their superior GPA, good character, honor, and integrity in all aspects of their school life. Congratulations to the thirteen new members.

SENIORS ELECTED 2011 Nina Haug Maddy Livaudais Lane Porter Amy Schully Chris Streiffer Katie Streiffer

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JUNIORS Nick Beachy Caroline Borron Mason Moore Libby Rudolf Bobby Sanders

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Agnes Scott College American University Appalachian State University Arizona State University Auburn University Austin College Babson College Barnard College Baylor University Bennington College Birmingham-Southern College Boston College Boston University Brandeis University Brown University Bucknell University Butler University Carleton College Centenary College of Louisiana Chapman University Charlemagne University College Antwerp Clark Atlanta University Clemson University College of Charleston Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Corcoran College of Art and Design Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College DePaul University Drexel University Duke University Elon University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Emerson College

Emory University Flagler College Florida A&M University Florida Institute of Technology Florida State University Furman University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Hampden-Sydney College Hampshire College Harvard University Hendrix College High Point University Howard University Huntingdon College Indiana University at Bloomington James Madison University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lake Forest College Louisiana State University Louisiana Tech University Loyola Marymount University Loyola University, New Orleans Lynchburg College Lynn University Manhattanville College Marymount Manhattan College Marymount University Mercer University Miami University, Oxford Middlebury College Millsaps College Mississippi College Mississippi State University Mount Holyoke College New College of Florida New York University

Nicholls State University North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oglethorpe University Parsons School of Design Pennsylvania State University Pomona College Pratt Institute Princeton University Randolph College Randolph-Macon College Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute Rhodes College Rice University Roanoke College Rockhurst University Rollins College Saint Louis University Samford University San Francisco Art Institute Santa Barbara City College Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Seton Hall University Sewanee: The University of the South Smith College Southeastern Louisiana University Southern Methodist University Spelman College Spring Hill College St. Edwards’ University St. Lawrence University St. Leo College

Stanford University Texas Christian University The American International University in London, Richmond Transylvania University Trinity College Trinity University Tufts University Tulane University Tuskegee University University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa University of Arizona University of California at Berkeley University of California at Los Angeles University of California at Santa Barbara University of California at San Diego University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Denver University of Dayton University of Denver University of Georgia University of Kansas University of Kentucky University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Miami University of Mississippi University of Missouri at Columbia University of New Orleans University of North Alabama

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Diego University of South Alabama University of South Carolina University of Southern Mississippi University of Tampa University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Texas, Austin University of Texas, Dallas University of Vermont University of Virginia Valparaiso University Vanderbilt University Vassar College Virginia Polytechnic Institute Wabash College Wake Forest University Washington & Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wesleyan University Williams College Winthrop University Wofford College Wright State University Xavier University of Louisiana Yale University

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Carolyn Chandler Elected to Board of National Association of Independent Schools Congratulations to Head of School Carolyn Chandler, who has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

This is a prestigious and well-deserved appointment for Chandler, the only NAIS trustee from Louisiana, who was named Head of School in 2006 during the aftermath of Hurricane © Mike Palumbo Katrina. Under her leadership, Country Day has returned to its pre-Katrina enrollment, added a sought-after Pre-Kindergarten program, and paid off its bond debt six years in advance, an impressive financial victory for Country Day. Carolyn calls her NAIS board service “a magnificent learning opportunity and one that affords Country Day the chance to contribute to the advancement of independent schools in a meaningful and exciting way.”

The NAIS provides services to more than 1,700 schools and associations of schools in the United States and

abroad, including 1,400 nonprofit, private K-12 schools in the U.S. The twenty-two member NAIS board provides leadership and strategic direction for the organization and ensures that the association fulfills its mission and operates in a fiscally and ethically sound manner. The NAIS board recruits leaders who possess a vision for the future of independent education and the future of NAIS. As Patrick Bassett, the president of NAIS, notes, “The latest group of NAIS trustees is extremely creative and solution-driven. They know how to ask generative questions that spur innovation. I feel confident that their work will add enormously to NAIS and the independent school industry as a whole.”

Carolyn first joined Country Day as Assistant Head of School in 2003. She was named a Klingenstein Fellow for the Head of School Program in 2010 and holds several awards for excellence in teaching. She received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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What is she reading?

The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else, by George Anders

MacKenzie Duncan 2017 New Orleans Voices

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Green musty smells swim under sweaty tourists’ noses As they exit the gothic chapel at St. Roch Cemetery The rusty iron gates close Spirits roam the holy field speaking Italian and French Baby Webster climbs his crumbling grave Like cat’s claw on a brick wall He moans the deep painful cry of the long dead A gold figure rises from a decaying tomb With turquoise sequined bottles dangling from her long bony fingers Stone doves circle the wingless angels and purple plastic lilies Warning the Campo Santo souls to return to their graves Sullen spirits drag themselves back to their fern- covered wall ovens As the pink sun appears over Rampart Street Warming the air like a sand storm

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Photo by Deborah Amann 2014

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- Adam Goldberg 2013 & Lee Rittenberg 2012, Photo by Deborah Amann 2014

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AND…. your New Orleans HORNETS! Announcer Chuck Edward’s voice introduces another wild night of Hornets basketball. These games usually come down to the wire in the hands of the players or between two sections of the arena showing off for the dance-cam, the kiss-cam, the flex-cam, or the smile-cam. The opening tip signals the commencement of the game. Fans in the arena and in their homes in front of TV sets stand until the Hornets score the first points of the game.

At once it comes: “WOOOOO!” You sit... and release a sigh of relief. Your dad then lets out a “WOOOOO!” of his own, trying to recreate the soundtrack for another Hornets basket. It’s a new year, a new season, but the atmosphere of a Hornets game never changes--because the formula works.

Country Day’s Hornets Sports Business Class has given us the opportunity to see what running an entire professional sports organization is like, from marketing and communication, to sales, basketball operations, and community involvement. We are taught that entertainment provided by the “players” off the court is just as important as entertainment provided by the players on the court. Our instructors gave us some insight about knowing the audience, building a strategy, and executing it. What fans don’t get to see, that our Country Day class does, is that every second of entertainment that does not include players on the court is expertly choreographed by the entire Hornets organization.

They know what people want to take away from an NBA experience: non-stop action, NBA basketball, and a chance to live a dream for thirty seconds. The 25% entertaining, 25% magic, 50% life-threatening halftime shows, in-game text trivia, and the Honeybees are critical. Roll in the uncoordinated fan chosen to attempt an unlikely half-court shot for a chance at winning $500.

He comes up short on his third and final attempt and enjoys the “ooh” from the crowd. He walks off the court with a smile on his face, because although he didn’t win the money, he enjoyed the experience and is thankful for the opportunity that night. We all are. So the Hornets’ formula works again...

This is a big business. This is the NBA. Yes, the Hornets bring this city the opportunity to catch a professional basketball game, but consider that they also introduce kids to role models and provide dream moments. At every

game, the Touro Kids cam highlights the kids’ ecstatic faces as they sport their Hornets jerseys. These guys go home from every game, every day after school, and count down from five... dribble to the left, to the right... take the shot at one... beating their own buzzer... and SCORE!... imitating their favorite player at their backyard hoop.

They go to bed at night looking at that Hornets player’s poster, and wake up to the player’s Fathead on their ceiling, reminding them of yesterday’s alley-oop. The Junior Hornets Program turns the dream of being a ball boy into a ball boy living a dream. Whether you watch the Honeybees or dance with the Used-To-Bee’s, since the franchise moved here in 2002, the marketing giants have created a family-oriented atmosphere that has morphed into a local tradition. And traditions in New Orleans are priceless.

Enter the Hive 2011. Said pricelessness left us floundering without an owner and thus the only team in the NBA’s full control. Welcome to the notso-glamorous reality of running a professional NBA team, and it’s up to the pros to turn it all around. Forget the dizzy bat races and roster management; now it’s time for crisis management. Were we about to lose the Hornets?!

With all eyes on Team President Hugh Weber, people (including us Cajuns) wanted to know what the strategy would be. FAN UP, NEW ORLEANS. They made it our fight, too.

Unexpectedly, the sports freaks and number geeks in the Country Day’s Hornets Sports Business Class had a front-row seat to sports history in the making.

Despite being in full battle mode, the Hornets’ marketing

E HORNETS the city in the form of visitor spending, both at the Arena and in the Central Business District during the forty plus home games a year. Along with the loss of employment opportunities, the New Orleans Arena, Cox Sports Television, the French Quarter, and the neighboring bars, restaurants, and hotels stand to lose an insurmountable amount of business.”

Weber was clear to point out to us that it goes beyond just numbers; our city would suffer an emotional loss as well. The passion for our team, the excitement of the games, the need for the tradition, exists inside each individual—from the average fan to the little kid with nothing more than a ball, a hoop, and a poster, or the Country Day student who wants to pursue his goal of one day running a professional sports franchise, or the college intern who wants work experience in the field of professional sports. Each deserves to walk into the teal arena, smell the trumpets filled with jambalaya, and share high-fives with the most loyal fans in the NBA. Our Hornets are safe now.

So it’s your turn to enter the stadium. To hear the emcee introduce the away team, and to embrace the moment as it arises; when they dim the lights, play the video, and you feel an electric current pulsate throughout the stadium.

5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Then blackout.

We’re in. Are you? h

For the past three years, as part of Country Day’s multi-faceted relationship with the New Orleans Hornets, Hornets executives have taught a Hornets Sports Business class to Country Day students. The students, who must apply for admission to the class, learn about the business of running a professional sports franchise from a variety of experts in the field. Several students from this class have gone on to externships with the Hornets.

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team continued our classes and allowed us to look on as they hustled to engage fans in the fight to keep OUR franchise. Commercials, billboards, real-time ticket sales tickers, social media blitzes, and testimonials from fans, players, and local leaders could be seen all over the city. “Emotionally, sports bring people together and have a special way of uniting a city,” said Weber. “During the 2010-11 season, that unity was felt during the playoffs.

Fans in New Orleans feel such a connection with the professional athletes that represent them, and we thrive off of that relationship. Our players feel that love and support when there’s an arena full of fans cheering for them.” WE helped to ensure another season for our team... and the Hornets’ formula worked again, for now.

Weber and his crew are still working behind the scenes, because this fix is not as simple as a city painted in yellow and blue. A new lease agreement with the state has been reached-- the team is here through 2024 with no opt-out clause, securing the Hornets in New Orleans for years to come. By March, reports surfaced suggesting that two groups were in contention to buy the team: one led by L.A. based swimsuit manufacturer Raj Bhathal, and former Hornets minority owner Gary Chouest. Ultimately Saints owner Tom Benson stepped up to acquire the NBA team for a reported $338 million.

But we were worried. What if the lease had not gone through? What if the Hornets left New Orleans? Mr. Weber was pretty candid with us when we asked these questions. “Economically,” he said, “the Hornets provide employment opportunities, as well as a financial boost to

REPAIRING THE BREACH:

The Arts & Sciences

Leonardo Da Vinci argued that the artist had to capture both the body and soul of a subject in order for the painting to be true.

- Academic Dean, Howard Hunter 1975

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brain traits, have been beaten down by a linear world.

McGilchrist argues persuasively that we have become “decontextualized” to the point where we cannot connect ideas or objects to a narrative or coherent whole. The Enlightenment notion of clarity has turned to a brutalist literalism, and ideas by themselves mere abstractions – reality television and obtuse academic theory are two ends of the left-brained spectrum. The separate spheres of our academic disciplines are simply an extension of this left-brained thinking.

But there is a way out of the left-brained conundrum.

Early 19th century Romantics made little distinction between the arts and the sciences. Shelly, Keats and Byron for example, saw both poetry and scientific discovery as identical acts of the imagination. As Richard Holmes has written in The Age of Wonder, “The notion of an infinite, mysterious Nature, waiting to be discovered or seduced into revealing all her secrets, was widely held.” Sir Humphrey Davy who discovered the chemical elements potassium and sodium was also an accomplished poet. Davy would pack the house on Friday nights at the Royal Society conducting public chemical demonstrations; women would swoon. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, is not only a riveting story but an admonition on the danger of scientific hubris, no doubt an adumbration of the horrors of the 20th century. For the romantics, finding the sublime in scientific discovery and poetry utilized both sides of the brain – precision and creativity both being essential to the process.

The Renaissance and the Romantic periods leave a rich legacy of dynamic creativity as well as clues on how we should educate. We don’t even have to go back to the 16th century - at the 2011 iPad2 launch, the late Steve Jobs said “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It is technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.” He was our modern-day Vitruvian Man. h

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The Renaissance mind worked in dualities; in Raphael’s School of Athens, Plato points up to Heaven and Aristotle points down to earth. Leonardo Da Vinci argued that the artist had to capture both the body and soul of a subject in order for the painting to be true. His Vitruvian Man, inspired by the first century Roman architect Vitruvius, connected the proportions of the human body to the natural world. While scholars have questioned the mathematics, Vitruvian Man metaphorically represents the link between the Arts and Sciences, the Renaissance conception of the unity of knowledge. The notion of duality – earthly and spiritual, man and nature, rational and intuitive – has largely eluded us in favor of linear modes of thinking. In school we have developed rigid categories (called subjects) that seem to have very little to do with one another, especially in the arts and the sciences.

The breach started with the utilitarianism of the Enlightenment. Instead of the Renaissance dictum that knowledge for its own sake is a good thing, the Enlightenment thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries believed that through reason – whether by Descartes’s logic, Bacon’s empiricism or Voltaire’s good sense, le bon sense – we can discover universal truths that can effect human progress. There is only one right answer to a problem, and by establishing certitude about nature’s laws we can dominate nature for the good of humanity.

There is urgency in Enlightenment thought to rid the world of ignorance, superstition, and tyranny, all for the good. Yet there is a dark side, as manifested by the French Revolution, that demands clarity, order and control, qualities that cognitive scientists have located in the left side of the brain.

If the Enlightenment introduced left-brain rationalism, the Industrial Revolution perfected it.

According to Ian McGilchrist author of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, imagination, metaphor, and intuition, ascribed as right

Our Obligation to Country Day

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- Leon H. Rittenberg, Jr. 1952

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Supporting Country Day financially in accordance with our respective needs and means is an obligation of our Country Day families. Donations to Country Day are a way in which we minimize tuitions and improve the school. Without our help, either tuitions would be increased at more dramatic rates, government funding would be required, or the quality of the Country Day education would decrease. Government funding is only available through the receipt of taxes. Therefore, contributions to the school are really a tax (a substitute for taxes) and a debt that is owed by each Country Day family. Substantial tax savings can accrue from donations to Country Day. This article is based upon current tax laws and on the assumption that the tax code structure now in effect will not change even though rates, exemptions and deductions may be modified. Examples of tax savings resulting from charitable donations and bequests are listed below. These calculations are based on a thirtythree percent federal income tax rate, a six percent state income tax rate, and a thirty-five percent estate tax rate with no state inheritance tax.

A $100,000 cash donation would reduce the donor’s income taxes by $39,000 (thirty-three percent plus six percent), resulting in an after tax cost of $61,000.

If a donor dies shortly after a donation, then his or her estate would have been reduced by $100,000, resulting in an estate tax savings of $35,000, further reducing the after-tax cost of this donation to $26,000 ($61,000 minus $35,000). In this example, our federal and state governments will have subsidized about seventy-five percent of the donation.

If a donor does not want to part with funds prior to his or her death, he or she could bequeath $100,000 to a surviving spouse, or if the estate will not be subjected to estate taxes, then to children with a request that they donate $100,000 to Country Day. This would reduce the cost of this donation to the family unit to $61,000 since there would be a $39,000 income tax savings. If one wants to make a bequest to Country Day in his or her will

rather than parting with the amount during his or her lifetime, it may make more financial sense to bequeath the amount of the proposed donation to a surviving spouse or children with a request that the recipient donate the funds to Country Day. This donation method provides an income tax benefit to the family unit and does not deprive the donor of the use of these funds during his or her lifetime. An estate tax benefit is not applicable since this taxpayer would have had no estate taxes to pay.

There are many vehicles available to transfer assets to Country Day. The first question is what type of property should be donated; the second, how should the donation be made.

Donations can be made in cash or with capital gain or other property. A likely subject of a gift is publicly traded securities that have been held by the taxpayer for more than a year. If securities held for more than a year are donated rather than sold, then the donor avoids the capital gain taxes due if the securities were sold.

Donations can also be made of a remainder interest in property with the donor retaining an income equivalent, i.e. an amount equaling a percent of the value of the property, or can be made of the income if the donor wants to retain the principal. These various donation alternatives include Charitable Remainder Unitrusts, Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts, and Charitable Lead Trusts. It is a lot less expensive for members of the Country Day family to support the school with tax deductible contributions than to increase tuition even more. h Leon H. Rittenberg, Jr. has practiced law for more than 50 years and is of counsel to Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, L.L.C. He attended Metarie Park Country Day School and later obtained his LLB degree from Tulane Law School. He is a former director of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is also a board-certified estate planning and administration specialist and a board-certified tax law specialist (both by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization).

JOURNEY TO SOUTH AFRICA Cedar House & Country Day - Nina Haug 2012

South Africa has played host to a lot of global events lately. There was the FIFA men’s soccer World Cup in 2010, the UN Climate Change Conference beginning in 2011, and, closer to home, the Country Day exchange program. For two weeks in September, Country Day high school students, along with Head of School Carolyn Chandler and history teacher Charles Cowherd, experienced South African life and culture—both types. You see, South Africa is a divided nation. It’s composed of indigenous black Africans and white descendants of Dutch and British settlers; it’s situated on the sea, but suffers from extreme droughts; and it’s the world’s largest producer of both platinum and gold—but fifty percent of the population live in poverty.

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Two years ago, Ms. Chandler received the Klingenstein Grant, a program at Columbia University for heads of schools from around the world. Through this program, Ms. Chandler met Frank Rumboll, head of Cedar House School in Cape Town, South Africa. Ms. Chandler and Mr. Rumboll discovered that Country Day and Cedar House have similar values, and Mr. Rumboll suggested an exchange program; Ms. Chandler eagerly agreed. Last February, a group of South African students visited New Orleans, and this year, Country Day students followed up with a visit to Cape Town.

Cape Town, Ms. Chandler says, “feels more like a European city than an imagined African city.” It’s a city on the Atlantic Ocean, with beautiful terrain made up of a vast plateau surrounded by hills. But nearly fifty percent of Cape Town’s inhabitants live below the poverty line. The Country Day visitors didn’t experience this side of Cape Town during their visit. Ms. Chandler stayed in “a beautiful English cottage with heated floors in the bathroom – gorgeous, landscaped green property with spring bok and guinea fowl all over the grounds.

But to get there, you had to go through a guard, and a barrier, and a gate. They were living in beauty, but there was fear, there, too.” The fear, however, has decreased since the time of apartheid, when the walls and barriers were built.

The word “apartheid” comes from the Afrikaans word for apartness, and that’s exactly what it meant in South Africa.

Apartheid was a program of systematic racism and racial segregation implemented in South Africa throughout the twentieth century. Under apartheid, race wasn’t black, white, Latino, and Asian, as we think of it. Instead, people were divided into three racial groups: white (Caucasian), black (African), or colored (mixed race or other ethnicity). Whites and non-whites were forbidden to intermarry, non-whites were limited to certain specific residential areas, and the right of blacks to own land was extremely limited. Violators of these laws were punished with fines, life imprisonment, and even death. Nelson Mandela, the famous former president of South Africa, was imprisoned for violating the apartheid laws.

Robben Island, where he was imprisoned for eighteen of his twenty-seven year sentence, is another example of the duality of South Africa. The island is physically beautiful, but it used

to be home to a jail within which humans’ worst traits were institutionalized. Prisoners on Robben Island were subjected to “organized cruelty,” as Ms. Chandler calls it. For example, non-white prisoners were given fewer ounces of food than white prisoners. After years of protest both in and out of South Africa, apartheid slowly declined in the 1990s. By 1994, South Africa’s constitution had been rewritten to abolish apartheid, and Nelson Mandela, once a victim of institutional racism on Robben Island, was elected the nation’s first black president.

Many of the students at Cedar House were born after apartheid was abolished. They never lived in a South Africa so blatantly racist, and so to them, the world might never have been thus divided. Racial differences weren’t emphasized at Cedar House. Junior Zoe Weber explains, “You would think there would be racial tension between them, but not at all!

They see race, but they accept it. You’re black, I’m white, but that doesn’t mean anything.” Despite the lack of racial tension, the recent history of apartheid is stressed at Cedar House. “We talked about apartheid every single day,” Zoe says. Sophomore Heather Duplessis, who identifies herself as black, says that although there was no racial tension at Cedar House, students would “get frustrated with me when I said I was black because according to them I was colored,” or mixed race. Students at Cedar House, though, in no way discriminated because of race.

Cedar House has truly embraced South Africa’s post-apartheid morals of racial equality.

While race wasn’t an issue for the Country Day students at Cedar House, the racial divide still exists in other regions of South Africa. The fact that eighty percent of South Africans are black is inescapable. The Country Day students discovered the differences between Cedar House and other parts of the nation through an annual Cedar House excursion to Bulungula, in the hinterlands of South Africa.

This trip to the rural village of Nqileni was, according to Ms. Chandler, one of the most important parts of the South Africa exchange. She explains, “If you’re going to go to South Africa, you should see the town and the country.” Cedar House’s annual trip is a way for these students, who live in a higher socioeconomic bracket than much of the country, to see how most South Africans live. As Zoe explains, “The

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A Song for Summer, by Eva Ibbotson

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their dress code is much more lenient than ours. “It gave the message that it didn’t really matter what you were wearing, that it was more about education than appearance,” Zoe says.

Another example of the relaxed environment at Cedar House is their form of assembly. Instead of having an assembly in an auditorium, Cedar House students congregate once a week outside, with chairs gathered from various locations around the campus. Despite the minor differences between Country Day and Cedar House, the students share similar values and have developed lasting friendships.

South Africa is facing the end of its early modern age. The younger generations in South Africa have grown up without apartheid, and they’re facing the problem of maintaining peace in such a racially diverse nation. Nelson Mandela is aging. After his death, South Africa will be faced with the political factions of Mandela’s former fellow idealists, the widespread AIDS epidemic, and the lingering racial divisions throughout the nation. In a growing nation where the youth is socially and economically divided, the well-educated, higher socioeconomic bracket of young people, such as Cedar House students, will grow up to help lead South Africa. They will have to help South Africa act as a nation to overcome its difficulties, just like the Country Day students are using their experiences from South Africa to help New Orleans overcome its difficulties. “I admire how everyone in South Africa embraces differences in one another and how diversity plays such a key role in everyday life,” says senior Regan Nelson. “I want to make that happen in New Orleans, too.”

She’s spearheading the Global Citizens movement at Country Day, which is working to raise money for South Africa, but she’s also trying to work with New Orleanians to improve the quality of life here. As Ms. Chandler sums up our relationship with Cedar House, “We want to be strong for New Orleans, and they want to be strong for South Africa.” h

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government now has to provide for the whole country, instead of the twenty percent that’s white,” as they did during apartheid. According to the CIA World Factbook, nearly fifty percent of South Africans are unemployed. In addition, South Africa has the greatest number of people living with AIDS in the world, as well as the highest AIDS death rate. At the same time, there is not sufficient medical care to cope with the AIDS epidemic, or with the high infant and maternal mortality that it contributes to. Most South Africans who struggle with unemployment, poverty, and AIDS are black or mixed race. With the global economic crisis, the South African government is struggling more than ever to provide for all South Africans and to right racial imbalances. In an attempt to help provide aid to South Africans, a young South African backpacker founded the Bulungula Incubator, a privately funded group that has worked to improve life in Bulungula without imposing western ideals or culture. The incubator, Ms. Chandler explains, began as a backpacking lodge in the village, but it has developed into a full non-profit association that helps improve the quality of life in rural South Africa. The villagers of Nqileni work at and are fortypercent owners of the Bulungula Lodge, which is part of the Bulungula Incubator. According to The Bulungula Incubator 2011 Annual Report, the incubator focuses on educating the children in the village, helping the villagers create a sustainable livelihood, providing basic services (such as clean water and energy from solar and wind powered sources), and maintaining good health and nutrition in the villages.

For the Country Day students, who come from a place where education, a livelihood, clean water, electricity, and healthcare are all provided, seeing life in this rural village was the most meaningful part of the exchange program.

Even though the Nqileni trip was the most profound part of the program, the Country Day students also loved their time at Cedar House School. They thought it was especially interesting to compare and contrast Country Day with Cedar House. While the Cedar House students were very similar to Country Day students in their knowledge of American music and culture, their school experience was extremely different in some ways. Like us, they don’t wear uniforms, but

Cheney Gardner 2011 A Morehead-Cain Scholar Exploring the World, Determined to Save It

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Cheney Gardner 2011, left, pictured in Alaska

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Cheney Gardner 2011, recipient of the University of North Carolina’s prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship (moreheadcain.org), the oldest scholarship program in the United States, has settled nicely into her surroundings in Chapel Hill. She is living with friends whom she met on campus, has pledged Kappa Delta sorority, and is only a “little bummed” that her name was not selected in a raffle for much soughtafter Duke basketball tickets.

For any college freshman these are the makings of a healthy and exciting first year. While this is indeed true for Cheney, she, however, proves not to be just any college freshman. Her sight remains focused on changing the world, a commitment that has not shifted one bit since she graduated from Country Day. Cheney has long been an advocate for global and environmental issues, which along with her exceptional academic record (she scored a 35 out of 36 on the ACT) and proven leadership ability, made Cheney a prime candidate for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship. She was a member of the Green Club at Country Day, and engaged students and staff

in weekly recycling efforts and composting on campus. An avid outdoor enthusiast and aspiring cultural anthropologist, Cheney spent last summer backpacking through Alaska and investigating the local culture.

Cheney is working hard and as always has great aspirations. She intends to major in Journalism and Anthropology and minor in Environmental Studies. “I would love to do long-form reporting once I graduate...” says Gardner.

She is humble about her successes and diligent in her work, and her leadership and zeal for cultural awareness is well received at UNC. Cheney is a published writer for the school’s student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, digging into stories about local protests, exposing clashes in landmark preservation, and profiling local authors. “It is a huge time commitment, but it’s so much fun to see my work in print. I send a copy of every one to my parents,” says Gardner. She is hoping to spend one of her Morehead-Cain summers working at an esteemed publication such as National Geographic, but jokes, “that’s a lofty dream.”

We’ll see about that. For Cheney, anything is possible and her enthusiasm has set the course for a very exciting summer.

As a Morehead-Cain scholar, she will enjoy four summer enrichment experiences that expose her to outdoor leadership, public service, private enterprise, and international research (moreheadcain.org). This year

Cheney is off to Peru. “I’m planning to work as a volunteer in the Peruvian Andes with Awamaki, a non-profit organization that works with Quechua women weavers to ‘improve their skills and increase their access to the market, thereby revitalizing an endangered weaving tradition while affording Quechua women with a reliable source of income.’

(Awamaki.org). I’ve applied to work with the Weaving Community, working with the weavers, creating on-line weaver profiles, and working in the store in Ollantaytambo, in the central Quechua community of Patacancha.” Cheney will also serve as the Trails and Trekking volunteer, leading hikes for the tourists who travel through Ollantaytambo. “I couldn’t be more excited!”

In a March 2011 article published in the Times-Picayune, Metairie Park Country Day student wins big scholarship, Cheney told the reporter, “one of my goals is to continue giving back to the community and to put into action changes that can make the world, make the environment, a better place for everyone. I really want to make a difference.”

By any measure, it would seem that Cheney Gardner is on her way to doing just that. h

Read Cheney’s work at Tarheel.com What’s she reading?

Hunger Games,

by Suzanne Collins

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embraced me immediately. No one cared that I was the guy in the room and really, we aren’t very different at all. We are a cohesive unit and learn a great deal from one another.”

Michael Skinkus is four years in now and has fallen into a steady rhythm. His experiences on stage and in percussion have given him an innate advantage in the classroom, in fact, he calls himself “an expert at crowd control.” “One’s voice cannot be heard over the drums, so the students, just like a crowd of fans, have to be guided in other ways,” he said. His successes in the classroom quash the presumptions that male teachers relate better to male students or that they fail to nurture. Michael believes he has found a balance with his students. “Gender is not an issue, and the beauty of the small class size is that I know their individual needs; I have a chance to be there for all of them. The nurturing takes work, but it is a quality that I constantly refine. I make certain that everyone gets a moment in the spotlight, and inevitably they show me the most amazing things.”

While Michael’s classroom is exciting, it is also highly regulated and his students understand that negative actions carry consequences. He believes that healthy boundaries provide the security needed for students to grow creatively and to begin making decisions for themselves. “Positive reinforcement is the goal. I’ve learned that from my colleagues, and man, does it work.”

“From our experience together, I want students to take away a love of learning, a fascination with the world, a confidence in their own uniqueness and abilities and in their tremendous potential for creativity. I want them to have a healthy respect for themselves, their classmates, and their school, and a respect for the diversity of our world.”

While it might be true that only a small percentage of teachers in elementary school classrooms are male, Mr. Skinkus is unaffected, and is reminded of his status as the lone male teacher in Lower School only occasionally -- when the wedding shower invitations arrive via e-mail.

For the most part, he is too busy enjoying the beat and engaging in the collective approach to knowledge and education that defines the Country Day faculty.

“With every year I grow more deeply into the fabric of the this community. This is a challenging career, which I love and am honored that it is my calling.”

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In the music world, Michael Skinkus is a highly sought after percussionist who has livened up stages from Italy to Morocco. He has lived in Chile, enjoyed extensive study trips to Cuba “for as long as Castro would allow,” and for nearly twenty years, has controlled the beat on the hottest Jazz Fest stages. To the Country Day community, “Mr. Skinkus” is a beloved fifth grade teacher, mild mannered and always willing to offer a smile.

So how did he land on our campus? And more importantly, one wonders how Mr. Skinkus, the only male teacher in a lower school dominated by women, found his rhythm among the Cajuns.

Michael, “from somewhere outside of Philly,” majored in Latin American Studies at Tulane University and started his first band at eighteen. “I loved the challenge and complexity of the drums,” he says. A self-proclaimed perpetual student with a love of music, Michael remained at Tulane, earning a BA in Latin American Studies and an MA in ethnomusicology “to understand the people behind the drums.” He followed the music and enjoyed a busy stage schedule for nearly sixteen years. But when he received the call to be a bandleader in the first Jazz Fest after Katrina, Michael knew he was ready to come home and determined to challenge himself even further.

Adept in Latin American languages and culture, Michael accepted a part-time position teaching music at the International School of Louisiana. “Teaching music was a great experience and my students thrived, but I was ready to dive into new subjects like languages and humanities,” said Skinkus, “and engage in the pursuit of music outside of the classroom.” A veteran Country Day Creative Arts instructor, Michael was fond of the Country Day community, so when he discovered an opening in the Lower School, he pounced. Research has shown that men make up only about 9% of elementary education teachers in the United States (menteach.org), so what would make Michael Skinkus dive fearlessly into the female-dominated arena? “My parents were both teachers. One of my sisters is a teacher. It’s just in my blood I suppose,” said Skinkus, with his comfortable grin.

“I’d been around strong women all of my life, and besides, fifth grade was my favorite year in school. I knew I could relate, and I was psyched.”

Michael’s first year came with a learning curve, but he remained positive and undaunted. “It was definitely a different world. I learned quickly that sarcasm doesn’t work with fifth graders,” he chuckles, and working with all women presented its own fun challenges, but “they

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The Forgotten Heroes of Watergate - Ben Koch 1998

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History buffs know the story of Watergate. The breakin at the Democratic National Committee. The former spy with White House ties. The Plumbers. The wiretaps.

The Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP or CREEP, depending on your political inclination). The slush fund. The cover-up. Woodward and Bernstein.

Follow the money. The Nixon tapes. The Saturday Night Massacre. The 18½-minute gap. All the President’s Men (the book and the movie). The smoking gun.

Millions of Americans remember watching the riveting testimony of John Dean, televised nightly during the summer of 1973. When Senator Howard Baker asked, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” Dean recited a litany of misdeeds in mind-boggling detail. In sum, Nixon’s administration had long spied on its perceived enemies, and when the Watergate breakin threatened to expose all of its malfeasance, Nixon ordered his aides to cover-up the evidence. Though Nixon wouldn’t resign for another year, many people remember this Senate Watergate Committee as the straw that broke his back—unless they’re among those who believe that the newspaper reporting of Woodward and Bernstein brought down a presidency. And while the Watergate Committee did bring the scandal’s dirtiest deeds to light, it did not convince Richard Nixon to resign.

No, Nixon continued to fight until he could fight no more. In his resignation speech, he justified his decision by saying that he had lost his congressional base. Though it was an easy excuse to escape blame, it was also true. As long as his Republican allies believed that Watergate was a Democratic vendetta devised to get a man they had long despised, Nixon felt secure in the Oval Office.

That security vanished during the last week of July 1974, when the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment. Almost forgotten in the detritus of the more salacious moments of the Watergate

scandal, the impeachment inquiry was neither the most dramatic investigation nor the most comprehensive. Yet, it was the only one backed by the Constitution, and the only one able to prosecute a president.

The idea of impeachment shocked Americans.

Tarnished by its lone use against a president—Andrew Johnson in 1868—it was considered a political weapon unbefitting an ethical Congress. Despite John Dean’s testimony and the Washington Post’s reporting, few imagined that Democrats would have the gall to commence a process that could remove the democratically reelected President of the United States.

Impeachment was a word to be whispered.

That is, until the Saturday Night Massacre, October 20, 1973. In order to keep incriminating taped conversations between himself and his aides confidential, President Nixon removed his attorney general, the deputy attorney general, and the Watergate special prosecutor who had subpoenaed them. This action convinced Americans that their president was hiding something from them. The immense public outcry shocked Nixon. Monday morning, impeachment resolutions overflowed the House’s bill hopper.

The House Judiciary Committee hired a special staff to consider impeachment and worked dutifully throughout the winter and spring to compile the evidence against the President. But not quickly enough.

Americans were tiring of the constant Watergate refrain on the news, the economy was rocky, and so many months with nary a peep convinced cynics that perhaps impeachment was indeed a Democratic scheme. The Committee did not begin its hearings until May, and did so entirely behind closed doors.

Behind those doors, however, Chairman Peter Rodino, a machine Democrat from New Jersey with perfectly coiffed white hair and a gravelly voice, worked

Ben Koch 1998 just completed his PhD in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Searching for a thesis topic, Ben had fortuitous encounter at a dinner party with star Watergate witness John Dean, who suggested that he write about the House Judiciary Committee and impeachment.

Taking the advice, Ben won a Congressional Research Award from the Dirksen Congressional Center allowing him to “visit 15 libraries during one long six week, 6,700 mile research road trip.”

What’s he reading?

Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin

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he had ordered the CIA to tell the FBI to back off its investigation because the burglary was part of a national security operation. But this was a lie, as the operation was politically motivated, an effort to gain dirt on Democrats.

The Smoking Gun tape vindicated those members of the Judiciary Committee who had risked their careers to vote their conscience.

Impeachment is the most political of constitutional remedies. It was devised as a tool to be used only rarely, and in the direst of circumstances. To this day, the House Judiciary Committee’s Nixon inquiry remains the model for other presidential impeachments. But it was also the most clear-cut case, as the evidence met the slippery definition of an impeachable offense: high crimes and misdemeanors. Because high crimes and misdemeanors are so amorphous, politicians have used impeachment in recent decades to threaten presidents whose policies they dislike. In fact, there is nothing legally prohibiting Congress from impeaching and removing a president for almost any reason whatsoever. Nothing but the scruples of brave men and women willing to stand up for right. h

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magic. Fully aware of the skepticism surrounding impeachment, he knew that any recommendation must be bipartisan. With a four-vote majority on the Judiciary Committee, the Democrats did not need Republicans to support impeachment, but a party line vote would have seemed suspect in the minds of Republicans and many Americans. From the outset, Rodino preached fairness to the President, fairness to his attorneys, and fairness to the Republican minority. If that meant accommodating Nixon in spite of his better judgment, so be it. Rodino’s fairness did not suit the liberals on his committee and, at times, Rodino himself was not altogether fair to Nixon.

But he was fair enough. In an era when some southern Democrats were more conservative than northern Republicans, a bipartisan “fragile coalition” of four southern Democrats and three Republicans concluded that Richard Nixon had obstructed justice and abused his presidential power.

These were not just any congressmen. They were not fire-breathing activists, but thoughtful men respected by their colleagues. They all lived in districts that had voted for Nixon, and their votes carried weight. Nixon’s congressional diehards would defend him to the last, but fence-sitting representatives knew that their friends on the Judiciary Committee had done their research. And if this conservative coalition believed that the President should sit trial for his alleged abuses of the Constitution, then that was that. On top of this, in the back of their minds, undecided congressmen realized that if the Judiciary Committee could recommend Nixon’s impeachment based solely on other evidence, then whatever was on those tapes he was withholding must be truly explosive.

And it was. Days later, President Nixon finally turned over the tapes, including the “Smoking Gun.” Almost immediately after the break-in at the Watergate,

HØW THE NUM3ERS WILL 5AVE US - Hani Nahkoul 2003

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Mathematics and biology have enjoyed a close relationship for centuries, but in the past fifty years or so, the applicability of mathematical techniques to complex biological research has exploded. In our time, mathematics gives detailed models of phenomena throughout physiology and systems biology, provides statistical and algorithmic methods

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for dealing with large quantities of data in genomics and proteomics, and formalizes the problems of epidemiology and infectious disease; it reveals patterns we might otherwise miss.

After graduating from Country Day in 2003, I went to Harvard for college and majored in math.

Now, as an MD/PhD student at Tulane, I hope to apply my

training to problems in medicine.

The majority of my research experience has been in two fields: computational neuroscience and cancer biology. Working with Carmen Canavier at the LSU Health Sciences Center, I helped to create a mathematical model that reproduces the behavior of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. These neurons, which

Two Presidential Scholar Nominees

Hani will complete his combined MD/PhD at Tulane in 2019, and hopes to remain in New Orleans.

What’s he reading?

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré.

Seniors Nina Haug and Lane Porter have been nominated for the United States Presidential Scholars Program by the U. S. Department of Education. This prodigious honor recognizes the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors for their broad academic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership, and service. Each year 3,000 candidates are nominated based on exceptional SAT and ACT scores.

Five hundred candidates are named as semifinalists and approximately 141 students from across the nation are chosen as Scholars. Nina and Lane have also been recognized as 2012 National Merit Scholarship® Finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Country Day is proud to acknowledge students who have been honored by the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program in previous years: Cheney Gardner 2011 Nominee Jara Crear 2008 US Presidential Scholar Jordan Katz 2006 Semifinalist Patrick Tyler 2005 Semifinalist Jonathan Soslow 1995 US Presidential Scholar We are also pleased to announce that Nina has accepted admission into the prestigious McDermott Scholars Program at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Only sixteen to twenty scholars are selected annually on the basis of academic and extracurricular achievements. Students offered this scholarship often accept the McDermott over scholarships offered by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Cal-Tech, and many other exceptional colleges and universities.

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analyze the changes that take place in a population of cells. In a paper published earlier this year, Gertung M., Nakhoul H., Beerenwinkel, N. 2011 Evolutionary Games with Affine Fitness Functions: Applications to Cancer, we showed that a strategy of cooperation between tumor and normal cells, combined with an intrinsic biological fitness advantage for the tumor cells, could lead to stable coexistence of the cell types.

Second, we used recent statistical methods to analyze the relationship between structural changes to DNA and the expression pattern of genes in one cancer subtype. We found a number of DNA regions and genes that were highly regulated, suggesting a possible role for them in cancer progression.

I haven’t mentioned many other problems that are open to mathematical biologists like the immune system, drug design, and medical imaging. As I go through medical school, I’m impressed at what is already known, but I’m often surprised by how much remains to be understood. Though it may be that medical research satisfies only a certain kind of curiosity, for myself I can imagine no more rewarding career. h

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play a role in many types of cognition and behavior, give off electrical signals in two different patterns: the first is like a heartbeat in which regular “spikes” of electrical activity are separated by periods of rest. In the second, the spikes cluster together with little rest between them, producing a “burst” of electrical activity.

Together with biologists, we devised equations to reproduce the shifts between the two patterns that occur in real neurons and presented this work at the Society for Neuroscience conference in 2009.

While working with Niko Beerenwinkel and Moritz Gerstung at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, I focused my attention on theoretical models of the development and progression of cancer. We know that over many generations of cell division in the body, some cells acquire mutations that permit them to grow and reproduce uncontrollably; these cells are the precursors of tumors.

However, given a particular mutation in a tumor cell, it is not always clear whether the mutation is partly responsible for the tumor’s behavior, or whether it has simply occurred at random. There are so many genes in our DNA (over 20,000) that the classical methods of statistics cannot be used to analyze the relevant data.

Complicating matters further, recent studies have shown that tumors actually depend on interactions with normal tissue to support their continued growth.

We used two different techniques to attack the problem.

First, we used game theory, which provides a mathematical model of cooperation and conflict between individuals in a population, to

Athletics: 2011-2012 Year in Review

State Champions

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Boys Soccer Boys Tennis Boys Tennis- Doubles Girls Cross Country Girls Tennis- Doubles Girls Track- 4x400 Relay Volleyball

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State Runners-Up Boys Cross Country Girls Tennis

District Champions Boys Basketball Boys Cross Country Boys Soccer Girls Basketball Girls Cross Country Volleyball

Coach of the Year Boys Basketball Boys Soccer Girls Basketball Baseball Cross Country Volleyball

Qualified for Playoffs All 17 varsity teams qualified for the State Playoffs

Regional Champs Boys Golf Boys Tennis Girls Tennis Girls Track

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- Gary Briggs 2006

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Life after Country Day has been quite the whirlwind, to say the least. I graduated from Country Day in 2006 amidst several changes in both our dear city and my personal life. I was a member of the “Katrina Class”- a class that has left an indelible mark on our school’s history. The resilience that we demonstrated after the hurricane still resonates with me to this day. We learned to cope with stressful and seemingly impossible situations while maintaining a strong sense of pride in our community. I carried that pride with me as I began my college career at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

I decided to major in political science with a minor in sociology and caught the political bug during my sophomore year in the midst of the historic 2008 presidential campaign. It was then that I realized that ordinary citizens could achieve remarkable results in our political system if we exercise our democratic rights. I became heavily involved in political organizations during my time at TCU and was given the Senior Legacy Award my last year. Issues around both real and perceived injustice allowed me to find my voice on campus. I utilized the communication skills that I learned at Country Day to give voice to students who otherwise would not have spoken out against unfairness.

The Movement During my senior year, I began to think about the different ways to rejoin the New Orleans community.

I read about the pervasive changes in the deficient educational landscape, and it was clear that an education movement was unfolding in the city - a movement that many call the “civil rights movement of the 21st century.” I agree with that comparison, and I knew I had to be involved. I consider it criminal that public school students in

New Orleans are several years behind in academic achievement compared to students who are able to attend schools like Country Day. Socio-economic status should be not an indicator of educational achievement. I will not accept the idea that we in New Orleans foster and support the “anomaly student.”

All students can and will learn and achieve if given the proper resources and support systems. I truly believe that.

TFA Brings Him Home I wanted to come home and I wanted to be part of the movement, so I decided to apply to Teach For America. TFA is a nationally recognized program that accepts recent college graduates to teach in a classroom for two years.

The selection process is highly competitive, and an applicant can be dropped from the process at any stage. They look for young, idealistic individuals who possess fervor for fighting injustice. In my interviews, I articulated my beliefs in the potential for academic achievement in the inner cities. I wove my own personal experience of coming from a public-charter school juxtaposed with my private school education. I described how I ultimately wanted every student in New Orleans to receive a Country Day-like education, because children can only rise to the occasion when they have the tools to do so. I was accepted into the program in November 2010. I was thrilled to hear the news, and I can think of no better place to begin the long and arduous trek of combating inequality than in the classroom.

I was even more thrilled to learn that I was given my top preference of New Orleans. The fact that I was returning home in this capacity was really special to me because I was beginning my post-collegiate career in a place that had the entire nation’s attention.

Why The Saints Matter - Bert Bartlett 1975

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What is he reading?

Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

In reponse to the question of whether too much emphasis was placed on sports in society, the fine late writer, David Halberstam, who did his share of sports writing, said sports were important to the extent of attention that the culture pays to them, and that moral arguments on the issue were moot.

When New Orleans was awarded an NFL franchise in 1966, the excitement around town included that the city was going to the big leagues, but would remain a small place unique unto itself, not homogenized into the evolving modern identities of most American cities.

The new team’s moniker evoked grace, humor, a tad of haughtiness, and some undertones of guilt associated with traditional influences of Catholicism. It also introduced football fans to the French concept of a lily flower.

On the field, from their bumbling, charming beginnings, to their colorful records, and oft present drama, particularly at the end of contests, besides providing good theater, no one can contend that the Saints have not taught us some biblical lessons in delayed gratification.

Targeting opposing players has always been a part of the sport’s motivational hot air machismo - at any level but since the Saints took it too far, sinners have now been mixed into their image. The silly aspect of bounties on players is that they are hardly necessary to win. All in all though, the Saints have functioned as representative of the city from which they hail.

Supporting the team has never cultivated partisanship or exclusivity in creed, race, or class. In a place where plenty of schisms have existed, mass amelioration is the Saints’ most valuable contribution, and it is the essence of why they matter. Former Louisiana governor Huey Long would have loved the Saints almost as much as he did LSU, which was considerable. Every Fan A King!

Nothing in New Orleans can bring as many neighborhoods to a meeting of the minds or generate as many instant friends as much or as quickly as the Saints.

The score on this tally isn’t even close, with Mardi Gras a distant second. One can only imagine what the city would be like if this sense of community devotion were applied to recurring challenges such as education, economic development, politics, and crime prevention. Is it mere coincidence that the NOPD reports that crime rates are inordinately low while the Saints are playing? Halberstam likely would have thought not.

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White House Detour There was more work to be done before I began my TFA commitment. A few weeks after my TFA appointment, I received the news that I had been accepted into the White House Internship Program for the spring of 2011. I worked in the White House for five months in the scheduling and advancement department for President Obama, helping to plan the President’s trips and schedule. The experience in the White House was invaluable and it was a time in my life that I will always cherish. Being part of a presidential administration, regardless of party affiliation, is a great honor.

A Collective Fight I’m currently teaching at the Harriet Tubman Elementary School, an RSD Charter School in Algiers, with former Country Day teacher Julie Lausé serving at the helm as school principal. I teach fifth and sixth grade reading, which has proved to be quite the challenge, but it is rewarding to watch my students move toward their individual reading goals. I’m reminded every day what the power of an education can do for young lives in this city, and even on my worst days, I know that I’ve impacted a child’s life in some way. It is that idea that keeps me grounded in this difficult and daunting challenge of closing the achievement gap. As a community, we have to begin the process of being a part of the lives of students who need us most.

We ultimately all want what is best for the kids.

It requires political will and changing the narrative surrounding the educational debate. Americans don’t connect to generic anecdotes of success in the classroom.

Americans need to hear specific examples of these successes. These students deserve every opportunity that I received at Country Day, but it will require work on our part to ensure that they can handle those opportunities when given. I believe my students can, and I give voice to all 120 of them.

We, as a country, will act when these students are in the forefront of our minds. Imagine what they could do if we all participated in their educational experience. h

ART HISTORY STUDENTS VISIT WORLD-CLASS COLLECTIONS - Betsy Petersen

Students in AP Art History take a close look at paintings and sculptures from around the world, and not only in their nine-pound, 1084-page college textbook, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. Just before their final exam last April, Country Day parent Bill Rau gave them—including daughter Hannah 2011—a whirlwind review of western painting from the Renaissance to the twentieth century at Rau Antiques on Royal Street. For several years, students have visited the internationally known Japanese art collection of Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen, parents of Manya Gitter 2009, at their home near Country Day (Comments, Spring 2010); and for two years, students have visited the uptown home of Tom and Diana Lewis, grandparents of Sophia 2016 and Logan 2018 Stouse, to see one of the finest private collections of African art in America.

Ascending the broad front steps, the students enter the Lewises’ comfortable living room, filled with screens, masks, and figures that Tom Lewis calls “tools for living.” Standing on the landing of a graceful staircase, he tells his visitors how these works “have two lives. It’s stuff hanging on walls that appeals because it’s there—art as we know it. But to the people who made it, it had a use; it was a tool for dealing with the problems

of life, the same problems we have now.” Those who use such tools might include a farmer whose crops need rain, a woman trying to get pregnant, a man suffering from health problems, a community seeking protection from its enemies or success in trade. And in contrast to western art, he says, “the pieces themselves have power in them.” It’s not that they represent a spirit—rather, they actually are that spirit.

He points out an ancestor screen—used both to honor and to receive help from a deceased forebear—on the living room wall. “This came from a trading house in the Niger delta, in all probability a trading house for slaves.

The founder is at the center—it’s not a picture of him, it’s him. As long as you take care of him, he’ll treat you right.”

Younger students at Country Day have also benefited from Lewis’s expertise: he brought four canvas bags filled with sculptures to Marigny Dupuy’s fifth grade classroom while his granddaughter, Sophia Stouse 2016, and her classmates were studying Africa, and returned two years later, when grandson Logan 2018 was in the class. “It was just mesmerizing,” Marigny recalls. “He was so interested in what he was talking about that he made it completely interesting to the children. He has such a connection with his pieces that he made them come alive for the kids.” After looking at pictures of African art in books, “all of a sudden there they were and they could touch them.”

The upper schoolers who visit Lewis’s home are given the same freedom to get close to the objects in every room—even the kitchen has sculptures on the counters.

“If you want to touch any of it, go ahead,” he says. “You can’t hurt it.”

African art, he tells them, differs from western art before the twentieth century not only in how it’s experienced in its communities, but in its style, and that style profoundly affected European art. “The standard in western art was mimesis, imitation,” he tells the students: the goal was “to reproduce nature.”

But “at the end of the nineteenth century, that started to break down, when Picasso and Matisse discovered African art. They found a whole lot of shapes and colors that they hadn’t seen before. They helped to break this lock, to liberate art, if you want to put it that way, from naturalism. [African art] is the art that inspired Picasso.”

A student asks why he started collecting African art.

“Bad luck,” he jokes. “I started with oriental rugs—I stopped myself when there was no room in the house for all of them. I did give some thought to old masters.

But then Charlie Davis had this gallery on Magazine. I walked in there thirty-five or forty years ago and bought something for a hundred bucks. You could trade it in five years later for a hundred and fifty. That was a hook, and I’m a sucker. I’ve gone back and back and back.”

Lewis’s collection contains western art as well, including works by the influential artist Robert Gordy, who was himself one of the first collectors of African art in New Orleans. Lewis says New Orleans is a good place for people with an interest in African art. Not only is the Davis Gallery “probably the finest gallery of African art in the country,” but the New Orleans Museum of Art has one of the best museum collections in America.

Lewis has also acquired pieces in Paris and Brussels, both important centers for African art, and he is a past president of the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C.

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What’s he reading?

The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt

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An Italian Renaissance painting hangs near a terra cotta sculpture from Djenne in present-day Mali from about the same time period. Lewis acquired the Italian piece when his son Michael was working in an art gallery.

Michael went on to become the bestselling author of such titles as Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short; his children, Quinn and Dixie, attended Country Day in the spring of 2008 while their father worked on a book in New Orleans.

Tom Lewis’s collection contains pieces in bronze, iron, gold, ivory, and terra cotta, including some pieces that are very similar to those illustrated in the students’ textbook.

A terra cotta head from the fifth century B.C.E. Nok culture and a much more recent wood, copper, and brass Kota reliquary are especially familiar to the students.

Whether he’s talking with upper schoolers immersed in a college-level art history course or fifth graders writing reports on Africa, Lewis clearly loves to show his astonishing collection. Through his grandchildren, he has a good sense of the education kids get at Country Day, which he describes as “happy, vigorous, intelligent. Kids love going to school. I don’t remember ever loving school.”

He congratulates the older students visiting his home on the opportunity to study art history. “It will change your life,” he says, “and nobody can ever take that away.” h

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- Laura Michaud

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It has been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but as Country Day alumna Celeste McGovern Kidd 2001 is finding, they can also tell us a lot about the brain. Kidd, a Ph.D. candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, is part of a team of researchers studying infant cognition. Interpreting the meaning of babies’ gaze patterns through the use of eye tracking software is just one of the many ways that the team is expanding our knowledge of what babies know and when they know it.

own projects. “There’s never a dull day!” she adds. “Last week, I was trying to figure out how to build a machine to automatically dispense marshmallows to macaques, and this week I am learning how to program in Python, a high-level language programming software, so I can write infant eye-tracking studies more efficiently.”

For Kidd, learning new skills is made even more interesting because she studies learning. “I enjoy the discovery process and receiving a subjective experience of the same processes I am theorizing and studying empirically. It’s interesting to me how different each type of learning is from the last. I enjoy progressing from being completely incompetent at something to eventually being able to do it pretty easily.”

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Kidd’s most recent research will be detailed in her upcoming paper, “The Goldilocks Effect,” and what she is finding about infant attention patterns has her very excited. The results suggest that infants prefer concepts that are just a little bit but not too surprising.

Like Goldilocks herself, it seems there is something to us liking things “just right.” She explains, “If something in the world is already well understood, and thus very predictable, there’s nothing much there to learn. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if a concept is completely novel and complex, it will be inaccessible and thus difficult to learn. Topics that contain an intermediate amount of complexity are likely the sorts from which infants can learn most readily.”

The research project was a collaborative effort between Kidd, Richard Aslin, professor and Director of The Rochester Center for Brain imaging, and Steven T. Piantadosi, of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The original research will be published in the proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, and will be given as a talk at that meeting on August 8th in Portland, Oregon.

Kidd says that she’s always been fascinated by human behavior in general, but especially that of children.

Long before she was officially old enough to work, she volunteered at Edisen House, going on to spend after school and summers there for years before college. Her natural curiosity about things and her penchant for writing led her towards a BA in Print Journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She describes her move towards being a scientist as something she didn’t see coming until right before it was happening and appreciates that it allows her to explore some of her other interests much further.

Through her research she explains that she is “starting to think of attention in terms of a type of decision-making. Attention is essentially deciding where to put your eyes and focus!” Kidd’s attention and focus is plentiful, and her enthusiasm for new experiences has even led her towards an interest in cirque. While her research may show that infants prefer to avoid giving their attention to either overly predictable or overly surprising events, the same cannot be said for the 2001 Country Day graduate. She trains a few times a week at Ariel Arts of Rochester, enjoying silk and trapeze so much that she set up rigs for both at home. She credits the activity both with helping her de-stress and be present in the moment.

She speaks highly of her experience at Rochester, where she says graduate students are treated as peers by even the most senior faculty members. While the faculty typically serve as advisers, they are also collaborators, making her responsible for all levels of her

Paul Frantz to join Country Day Middle School

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Mr. Paul Frantz, Associate Head of School at Berkshire Country Day School in Lenox, MA, has been selected as the incoming Middle School Principal for 2012-2013. Paul is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the American International College in Springfield, MA, where he received his Masters in Education. He brings to Country Day 27 years of experience in education- 23 of those in administration.

“Middle School has always been my draw,” said Paul. “Even from my counselor days, I connected with and understood this age group. I have a deep understanding of where they have been and where they will go.” He follows current brain research and means of differentiating instruction that derive from this research. He has spent time in the classroom, teaching math to students in grades four through nine, and will teach a section of 9th grade math at Country Day. An

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outdoor enthusiast, Paul has coached cross-country, lacrosse, soccer, and downhill ski racing, in addition to implementing a successful outdoor leadership program at Berkshire Country Day. At a meeting with parents of rising middle school students Paul described his immediate attraction to Country Day. He saw and felt the energy, collegiality, and strength of the community and was impressed with students, parents, and faculty alike.

In a letter addressed to parents this spring, Carolyn Chandler shared the Head of Berkshire Country Day’s description of Paul: “With compassion and a deep regard for children, Paul has touched the educational and personal lives of a generation of students, their parents, and his colleagues. Embodying the very spirit of our school... his contributions to the culture and successes of [Berkshire Country Day] have been nothing short of remarkable. With a wonderful sense of humor, integrity, gentle kindness, and an unwavering regard for the promise of each person, he has exemplified our mission and served as a model for others.”

Paul will move to New Orleans with his wife Susan.

While we regret New Orleans offers little in the way of downhill ski racing, Country Day welcomes Mr. Frantz’s leadership and enthusiasm to our Cajun community. h

SERVICE LEARNING SUPPORTS

LEONA TATE FOUNDATION

This year, three senior boys completed their service learning requirement by working concessions at Hornets games so that their “wages” would be donated to the Leona Tate Foundation.

Ms. Tate was one of the “McDonogh Three” who Pictured: Bobby Sanders, Isabelle Shall, Libby Rudolf, Christopher Golizio, helped to integrate New Orleans schools in 1960. Blake Anderson, Leona Tate, Parker Prince, Jordan Battiste, Abby Buchmeyer In order to learn more from their experience, these boys, joined by five juniors, had lunch with Ms. Tate on Wednesday, April 25th, in Mr. Hunter’s room. Ms. Tate talked about her experience as a child at McDonogh 19 and the subsequent schools she attended, as well as the current work of her foundation to create a lasting tribute to school integration and to further educational efforts in New Orleans. Students were impressed with Ms. Tate’s bravery and determination and were in awe at just how recent “history” sometimes is.

For more about Ms. Tate, see http://www.tulanelink.com/tulanelink/leonatate_box.htm.

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expression allows people to understand how the unconscious operates and ultimately manage the daily stresses of life or the significance of a severe trauma.”

The final exhibition, Constructions, revealed artistic expression through the use of mathematical form and function in the sculptures of Wayne Amedee and Christian Stock. Guests were delighted to see Amedee’s acclaimed “Grateful Labors,” a large-scale threedimensional sculpture donated by the artist to City Park as a tribute to all who assisted in the ongoing recovery post-Katrina.

Artist Christian Stock draws inspiration from structural forms and mechanical systems to create his intricate glass, steel, and concrete designs. “Architectural and organic frameworks, suspension bridges, medieval contraptions, and primitive supporting structures are among the forms that influence my sculpture,” said Stock. The “apparent unsuitability” of glass has been an integral part of his interpretation of ideas into objects.”

Upper school pre-calculus students appreciated a special visit from the artist to discuss the use of parabolic functions and trigonometry in his work.

Country Day is grateful to the Dathel and John Georges family for their extraordinary support and to our Parents’ Association gallery curators, Terese Bennett and Erica Lemann, for their commitment to keeping our community engaged in relevant artistic conversation. h

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The recent renovation of the Country Day art gallery, now known as Georges Art Gallery, provided the atmosphere needed for this year’s stunning exhibitions by acclaimed artists, Country Day parents, students, faculty, and alumni. The annual series kicked off with visual artist Terrance Osborne’s series, The Color of Wonderful. His tributes to New Orleans, based on childhood memories infused with electrifying color and intricate three-dimensional detail, have caught the eye of avid art collectors across the nation.

In October we welcomed Life in Balance, an exhibit showcasing the painting and sculptures of four local professionals, Max Ryan 1991, Ruth Owens, Connie Kittok and Pio Lyons, who manage to successfully juggle the demands of their careers and still find time to explore their creative side through art. Ruth Owens, a plastic surgeon, and Max Ryan, are both Country Day parents, and Max is a proud member of the class of 1991.

The Healing Power of Art, sculpture and paintings

by Beverly Morris and members of the Louisiana Art Therapy Association, opened in Georges Art Gallery in January 2012. This unique installation introduced the Country Day community to art therapy, an expressive form of therapy that engages creativity to improve physical or emotional well-being. Country Day parent and board-certified Art Therapist Celeste Schexnaydre ATR-BC, who contributed to the exhibit, says, “creative

Terrance Osborne & his wife, Stephanie

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host try Day was honored to In September 2011, Coun o tw for r ano Ele e wif 6 and his alumnus Ian Carney 198 t cen nes ir renowned electrolumi full performances of the osaur. light show, Darwin the Din both highly acclaimed y, rne Ca r Ian and Eleano York, nt years training in New professional dancers, spe his ted Alabama. Ian comple Boston, Indianapolis, and the h wit ng rsity while performi studies at Tulane Unive of ate du gra a r, ano leans, and Ele Ballet Hysell in New Or ed eem est the h wit d me ce, perfor SMU with a BFA in dan the ned g others. The couple joi Lexington Ballet, amon in 6 and list principal roles 199 Montgomery Ballet in ade, raz ehe Sch y, aut er, Sleeping Be Coppelia, The Nutcrack Petrouchka, and Les Sylphides

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musical plishments. Millions of among their many accom l and Joe Ian on Broadway in Billy theater fans remember the ced dan Movin’ Out, where he Tw yla Tharp’s musical lead role for three years.

Popp, a t the couple met Corbin It was on Broadway tha and a y h a degree in biochemistr professional dancer wit ation cin fas ir cs, who shared the minor in math and physi ate cre to ire ology, and the des with art, theater, techn ginal for the stage. While ori y tel ple something com rs enjoy (yes, even Broadway sta tinkering with gadgets m tea the ay trip to Lowes), power tools and the Sund an e, wir EL led g product cal came across an intriguin ies. ter bat by ply sim d e powere electroluminescent wir itie bil s the dark. “And the possi Translation: it glows in . seemed endless,” says Ian Corbian Visual Arts and the d me The friends for graphy ween their busy choreo Dance company, and bet ased y-b les, developed puppetr and performance schedu s. tie nti ide n med their ow creatures that quickly for ets, pp pu the to ed fasten With EL wire delicately by led cea con ain rem ld the puppeteers cou ed nat mi ir illu total darkness while the g zlin daz lly creations told visua stories. After years of , technical development engineering, and careful

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Ian’s humility upon add t ,” he said. “I made my firs me for is where it all began ing try p kee to ed was allow mistakes on this stage and er this feeling because you mb me Re ht. rig it until I got , a blog... eo game, a DVD, a tweet cannot get [it] from a vid r.” ate the the this feeling is in the only way we can get and rs, che tea r from forme A standing ovation, hugs end itive students marked the uis inq y ver m fro s question g experience. of an incredibly excitin ently ut to slow down. They rec abo t Corbian Arts is no ir the of er mi pre the n, TX, for spent two weeks in Austi or an Ele . ing ckl Du ly e Ug latest light wire show, Th that the “show was well ed ort rep y pil hap y Carne y. r through the end of Ma received and is off on tou spring s thi i ipe Ta in d for a week Darwin has been booke feel We st. gu Au in ng Ko Hong and Duckling is going to h like ver y proud parents.”

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Through the Lens of Deborah Amann Q: Do you think you see the world differently than most?

A: I think that everybody sees the world in their own way. I pay attention to the little things that add up to frame the world differently; at the end of the day, the details make the big picture interesting.

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Q: What can photography can do for people?

A: It can change perspective. The photographer’s perspective provides a way of appreciating everything around you—even the things that you might not expect to notice most of the time.

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Q: Do you feel safer with a camera in your hand?

A: I feel well equipped. Having my camera with me is more of a form of insurance that if I happen to see something I like, I’ll be able to keep it forever.

Q: Who are some of your idols?

A: I’ve always been inspired by the photos of Sally Mann. The photos that she takes of her kids are bold, yet intimate. I also have respect for people who dedicate their lives to making the world better, doing for others. Some of them do it out in the open and risk their lives, and others use their celebrity to bring attention to important causes (George Clooney, I’m talking about you).

Q: If you could shoot anything anywhere...?

A: I’ve always wanted to go to India. There are so many contrasts- the bright colors that are so much a part of the visual landscape versus the poverty and the urban crowding. I’ve also always wanted to shoot in Prague.

I hope to spend a semester there in college.

Q: Digital or film?

A: Hands down, film. Being in the darkroom is so much more of an interactive process. You get a better sense of light and contrast, and it just feels richer to me.

Q: Do you take photography classes outside of Country Day? A: I attend NOCCA for media arts, and during the past two summers, I have attended classes at Maine Media Workshops.

Q: What experiences at County Day have helped your photography skills?

A: Mr. [Barry] Kaiser’s photography class in middle school art was the first time that I’d ever been in a darkroom. He made me understand that darkroom photography is an art form that should never die out; that class changed my outlook on all art.

Q: Your portraits are impressive.

A: The hope is to convey a piece of that person through the photo; it’s like you’re capturing a piece of their soul in the negative.

Q: Will you do this professionally?

A: I love photography and filmmaking and can imagine spending my life working in those media. I think I would be lucky to be able to make a living doing something that means so much to me.

Deborah will graduate from Country Day in 2014. We are grateful for her artistic contributions to this issue of Comments. h

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Country Day is bringing the Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) back to Tulane University this summer.

From July 16-20, math and science professionals and teachers will explore mathematical issues and ideas relevant to secondary school teaching and learning in the 21st century.

The institute, modeled after the prestigious Anja S. Greer Conference held at Phillips Exeter Academy each year, was started in 2005 “as a way to bring quality mathematics and science professional development to the New Orleans area on an annual basis,” says MSI Director and Country Day math and science teacher, Andy Talmadge, PhD. The program is growing and Talmadge’s initial hope, for MSI to become “an attractive professional learning and networking experience for local, regional, national, and international teachers,” is being achieved.

Last year’s MSI attendees came from across the United States and even as far as Saudi Arabia; enrollment for 2012 is shaping up to be equally diverse.

2012 MSI instructors are mathematical heavyweights from schools around the country, including Country Day math guru, Alyce Hesse, who was a co-instructor at the Anja S. Greer Conference at Exeter in 2009. “I like this program for the same reason that I like Exeter-teachers get together and focus on a topic or a skill for a solid week.

When you walk away from the conference, you’ve already started working on how to integrate what you learned into your classes.” says Hesse of MSI. Alyce will be instructing participants on how to revitalize their teaching on Tablet PCs through the use Microsoft OneNote software and

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FluidMath, a pen-centric software designed for teaching and learning mathematics.

She will be joined by several more instructors including Bruce Baguley of Cascade Math Systems, who received his MS in Mathematics from MIT; Karen Bryant, a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow in 1993 in the Mathematics of Change Institute, who serves as the chair of the math department at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Ma.; and Doug Kuhlman of Phillips Academy of Andover, who earned his PhD from Northwestern before studying mathematics at Cambridge University.

“Good teachers will always remain learners,” says Kuhlman. “MSI offers terrific opportunities for math teachers to learn new mathematics, experiment with new technology, and be challenged to try new pedagogical techniques. I came back from NOLA with several new ideas that I shared with my colleagues here at Phillips Academy. In addition to the formal learning in classes, there is much sharing of ideas over lunch, during coffee breaks, or while walking on campus.

Total immersion in all things math—a math teacher’s version of heaven... Now if you could only do something about the humidity.”

Participants will enjoy classes ranging from “A Mathematical View of the World through Digital Content” to “Astronomy and Precalculus: A Match Made in Heaven.” h For more information about MSI visit http://msi-no.org.

Country Day’s Lower School chess team, coached by Greg Agamy, is flourishing this year. The team, consisting of second grader Maximo Valobra, kindergartener Walker Gordillo, and first grader Aneesh Melachuri, finished ninth in the second grade and under section of the Louisiana Scholastic Chess League’s Holiday Chess Tournament, held on December 3. Out of a field of seventy-four participants, Maximo tied for thirtieth place and Walker and Aneesh tied for forty-first place individually.

Chess is an exciting game to students at this age, and as they enjoy playing, they are also improving the skills they need in order to succeed in school, college, and life. An article posted on Championshipchess.net suggests chess can raise academic performance by teaching skills such as focusing: chess teaches students the value of careful observation and concentration; visualizing and thinking ahead: it develops the ability to imagine an entire sequence of actions and responses before the sequence begins; weighing options: the first idea is not always the best, and students learn to identify and judge alternatives and evaluate the results of specific actions; and thinking abstractly: chess develops the necessary ability to step back and consider the bigger picture, as well as to take patterns used in one context and apply them to new situations.

With an excellent coach and a history of solid achievement, the Country Day chess team is poised to dominate!

Class Notes 1940s Local 1943 alumni, out of town ones, and nearby classes, met at a pair of gatherings on Alumni Weekend. Loyal Edward Heller 1943 and Sandy entertained at home with Donald Bradburn 1942 and Anne, Sally Thomson Parker 1945 in town from Union SC, and Avis Reynick Moore 1943 and Bill in town from Gaithersburg MD. Most of the same suspects were seen together again at the Boothby Club Dinner, augmented by Tommy Lemann 1943 and Sheila and Sally’s daughter Lucy Prim who had driven her mom down from SC, and her good friend Peggy Polchow 1964 from Christwood.

Shep Stahel 1955 was appointed to represent Plano, Texas on the board of the North Texas Municipal Water District. The District provides fresh water to 1.6 million people in 61 towns and cities, plus sewer and and landfill services. He retired from the Plano city council in 2008 after 9 years of service.

Shep was also elected to the board of the Collin College Foundation.

This is a 2 year college serving

40,000 students. The foundation raises money for scholarships.

Jack Boasberg’s 1958 show “Light Work” was exhibited that The New Art Center in New York City in November 2010.

When he’s not writing, Alan is a very popular flight instructor. Some of his students include Terry Hall 1963, Poco Sloss 1972, Robert Weinmann 1977, and Thomas Beron 1980.

John Little 1962 was recently elected Chairman of the New Orleans Leadership Institute.

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1960s Alan Malone 1960 writes, “The Great American Novel, the project for which I gave up a promising career as a physics teacher, is done!

On January 13th, in Pensacola, Florida, I put the finishing touches on the first draft! I wrote it to learn what it was like to write a novel.

Now I don’t exactly know what to do with it.” Alan’s book is titled, The Quotidian Time Traveler.

Bert Bartlett 1975 has written a book, A Tale Of Two Seasons, Katrina & A Super Bowl. Bert’s classmate Chris Fischer 1975 collaborated as illustrator. Check it out: http://write2grow.org/bartlett/.

Paul Norman 1975 runs Thibodeaux’s florist, and the store is in its 71st year of business.

Thibodeaux’s is the official florist for Country Day’s graduation.

Tommy Benjamin 1979 is an attorney at Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in New Orleans.

Charlie Lanier 1979 is the President of Country Day’s Alumni Board.

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Edwina and Frank Costley on their 1897 double bike

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Edwina Saunders Costley 1949 and husband, Frank celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a stay at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, WV. On their return to North Carolina, they picked up their newly restored 1897 Punnett Companion double bike which has been in the family for over 100 years. As a child, Frank once rode it behind the Rex Parade in New Orleans one Mardi Gras day and once over the Mississippi River’s Huey Long Bridge above New Orleans. It’s a little tricky to ride, but with practice it’s lots of fun. We only know of three others, one at the Bicycle Museum of America, one at the Henry Ford Museum and one was in Steve McQueen’s collection.

Michael O’Donnell 1979 has joined CMS, Inc. - General Contracting & Construction Management in Charlottesville, VA.

Roy Perrin 1980 (third from right)

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Roy Perrin 1980 has been appointed to the position of acting Consul General at the consulate in Chengdu, China.

Consul General is the highest position at a consulate. Chengdu is the capital city of Sichuan Province and has a population over 11 million. The consulate has several hundred employees, and its jurisdiction covers a region of 200 million people.

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A career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State, Roy is currently serving in the economic section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China with the diplomatic title of First Secretary. He has served previously as an economic officer and vice-counsel at the U.S. Embassies in Caracas, Venezuela Bronson Newburger 1986 and his family

and Bangkok, Thailand, and in the State Department’s Operations Center Crisis Management office.

Roy is the recipient of several Department of State superior and meritorious honor awards and the American Foreign Service Association’s 2002 Achievement Award. His foreign languages include Spanish, Thai, and Chinese.

Roy and his wife, Michelle both still consider New Orleans home.

Michelle is the event planner for the Ambassador, and their daughter, Isabelle attends the International School of Beijing. Roy is an active member of the Beijing Peloton road bicycling club and enjoys fast club rides in the beautiful hills surrounding Beijing.

Roy’s nephew is a third grader at Country Day and just last month, Room 9 “FaceTimed” with Roy and Isabelle. The students asked questions about China and Isabelle showed them how beautifully she writes in Chinese.

Bill Reddoch 1980 lives in Memphis where he works with his brother Michael Reddoch 1981 at ACCRAbond.

Lee Rittenberg 2012 with his uncle Andy Rittenberg 1988 and cousin Bradley

called Infosys which is based in India, and he travels there about once a quarter.

Elizabeth Jurisich 1981 lives in Charleston, SC with her husband, Ben Cox and their daughter, Gwen.

Elizabeth and her husband are both professors at the College of Charleston.

Laurie Berenson Maas 1981 lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, Dale, and their children, Rachael and Benjamin.

Karla Newburger Diehl 1981 is working for the Peace Corps in Uganda. Check our her blog: http://karla-offscript.blogspot.com.

Paul Gottesegen 1981 lives in Morristown, NJ with his wife and three kids Joel (19), Claire (16) and Leah (5). Paul works for a company

Glenn Gardner 1988 sporting his CD letterman jacket

Eric Norman 1981 lives in Atlanta with his wife, Angela, and their two girls, Caroline (14) and Charlotte (10). He enjoys training and running marathons and has completed 12 in the last 6 years. He works for InterContinental Hotels Group.

Michael Reddoch 1981 lives in Memphis with his wife, Melissa and their two children, Michael Jr. (9th grade) and Lauren (7th grade). He is the owner of ACCRAbond, a small niche chemical adhesive company and also a co-owner of silicone company in Atlanta. When he’s not attending his son’s basketball games and tennis matches and his daughter’s lacrosse, basketball and soccer games, he enjoys water skiing, hunting, and playing golf and tennis.

Chef Lee Richardson 1988 won “Best New Chef of the Midwest” in Food and Wine Magazine’s competition in 2011 receiving almost 40% of the votes. Lee works at Ashley’s and Capital Bar and Grill in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Suzy Loeb Miller 1989 writes, “I have two daughters at CD. Madison is in 7th, Sara is 4th. I work as a licensed clinical social worker doing private adoptions in the region.”

Robbie Little 1990 is coaching baseball at Baylor University.

Andy Mathes 1992 and his family have moved from Memphis to

Class of 1996 thirteen year vets at their 15th Reunion in December

Alexandria, VA. Andy reports that he is looking to meet up with other CD alums in the DC area.

Clark Gaines 1995 and his wife, Whitney, welcomed a daughter, Olivia Michal Gaines, on October 5, 2011. They live in Columbus, Ohio.

Anne Meyer Arrington 1996 lives in Lubbock, TX with her husband, Jodey, and baby, Nate. Nate will be one year old in March 2012.

Tricia Lillich Aucoin 1996 lives in New Orleans with her husband, Tommy, and their 3 children: Charlie (7), Ella (5), and Katherine (2).

Patrick Christovich 1998

Mary McIlhenny Ankenbauer 1999 married Stephen Ankenbauer on November 19, 2011.

Kate Dietzen Beaulieau 1999 and her husband, Curt, have a son, Riley Callaway Beaulieau.

In 2007, after living in New York for over a decade, Esther L. Greenbaum 1996 happily returned home to attend Tulane Law School. She is currently practicing family law in New Orleans, running half marathons, and reconnecting with her erstwhile Country Day friends.

Bill Gallagher 1997 and his wife, Amiee, started a non-profit organization called Addie’s Angels (www.addiesangels.com). Named after their 2 year old daughter, Addison, Addie’s Angels works to raise awareness and funds to assist local youth who have lost the use of one or more of their limbs (specifically the arms). Using donations and funds raised at their annual Walk with Angels, the nonprofit has provided New Orleans area children with helpful things

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Olivia Michal Gaines, daughter of Clark Gaines 1995 and wife Whitney

This past summer, Patrick Christovich 1998 prevailed at the Louisiana Golf Association Mid-Amateur at English Turn Golf & Country Club. He shot 11-under-par 205 for 54 holes, earning a repeat victory - by nine strokes - at the event. On the final day, he missed only one fairway.

Patrick’s win qualified him for the U.S. Amateur at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin. Patrick played on CD’s state championship team and attended Mississippi State where he majored in golf management.

He turned pro in 2000 and worked for four years as a club pro in Nashville, TN. After a few years away from golf, he regained his amateur status in 2008.

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Anne England Wall 1989 and her husband, Stacy, welcomed Thomas Alexander Wall on January 5, 2012.

Thomas joins big brother, Charlie.

The Walls live in New York City.

such as ramps, walk-in tubs, and adaptive scissors.

Ben Koch 1998

Hyder Brewster 1999 and his wife, Caitlin just celebrated their daughter Mary Catherine’s first birthday.

Ellie Rodriguez Brown 1999 and her husband, Clifford, welcomed a son, Clifford, on February 7, 2012.

Clifford joins big brother, Matthew.

Annie Clements 1999 married Thad Beaty in February 2011. Both

5, and Michael, 18 months, is more rewarding than I could ever imagine. I am working on an Executive MBA with Duke that takes me around the world to Shanghai, London, Dubai, New Delhi, and St Petersburg.”

Adrienne Laborde Ehrensing 2000 is living in New Orleans and working as the Assistant Brand Manager for Luzianne Tea at Reily Foods Company.

Lauren Seaman 2000 writes, “I moved from New Orleans to Honolulu, Hawaii at the beginning of 2012 to pursue a more outdoorsy lifestyle. I am hiking, surfing, reading, writing, and mastering my yoga handstand.”

Kacey Marshall Matthews 2000 is beginning graduate school at Mississippi College for a Masters in dyslexia therapy. She and her husband Baron have two children and live in Jackson, Mississippi.

Lauren Vosbein 2000 recently relocated to Austin, TX from Los Angeles, CA and is working for the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

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Taylor Simon 1999 and his wife Jody Webre

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Annie and Thad are guitarists for country music superstars, Sugarland. The couple will hit the road to tour with the band this summer. When they are not on tour, they live in Franklin, TN. Kendall Chauvin 1999 and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of a daughter, Lacey Norvelle Chauvin.

Katy Reily Roubion 1999 and her husband, Dennis, are busy keeping up with their twin boys, Reily and Holden.

Booth Samuels 1999 and his wife, Mary, welcomed a daughter, Caroline Reid Samuels.

Mary Kostmayer Schwing 1999 married Robert Schwing on November 12, 2011.

Taylor Simon 1999 married Jody Webre in New Orleans on Saturday, April 14, 2012.

Kristin Weidner Stewart 1999 and her husband, John, welcomed a daughter, Louise Taylor Stewart.

Abby Foley Wilson 1999 and her husband, Matt, are the proud parents of a son, Oliver Bruce.

Joe Wells 1999 and his wife, Lexi, are the parents of Joseph Hudson Wells.

Megan White 1999 married Erin Frazier on September 18, 2010.

2000s Ashley Agular Angelico 2000 and her husband Blaise welcome a son, Thatcher, in February 2011.

Lindsay Farris Dawson 2000 and her husband Joe, welcomed a daughter, Lillian, in February 2011 also. Thatcher and Lillian spend their days together at Edisen House with another alumni baby, Alston Gregory, daughter of Charlotte Haygood Gregory 1998 and Tom. Sean Bode 2000 writes, “Life is great. I am living in Asheville with my beautiful wife of 6 years, Sarah. Raising Thomas, almost

Elizabeth Wolfson 2000 wrote, “I’m in my second semester of my doctoral work in the Department of American Studies at Brown. My work is primarily focused in two areas: transnational approaches to American historiography, and the history and theory of photography. In addition to my coursework, I’ve helped start an interdisciplinary group called the Creative Scholars Project, which explores the nature of creativity and how to develop new pedagogical practices that teach students to think both critically Class of 2006 girls

Emily Zeanah Shelton 2000, Sue Borchers, Katy Zeanah 2002, and Melanie Zeanah 2011

and creatively about questions and problems in the classroom.

Beth Shapiro Levin 2002 is the Chair of the Board of the Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans. EPNO is an initiative to engage young leaders in New Orleans in philanthropy. The group works together to use their resources and skills to support initiatives effecting positive

Pierre Moses 2004 is the executive manager of Make It Right Solar.

Eliza Trice 2004 married Dr. Michael Worley in New Orleans on April 14, 2012. Will Hales 2004, Tanya Harding 2004 and Rachael Seelig 2004 were all part of the wedding party. Eliza has been teaching Pre-K at Country Day for the past two years, but she and Michael are moving to Salt Lake City this summer for Michael to begin a two year fellowship.

After graduating from LSU, Matthew Argote 2005 began working for Home Servicing LLC, a mortgage and real estate investment firm in Baton Rouge.

He currently lives in New Orleans and manages the company’s short

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Ryan Littlewood 2001 is currently nearing the end of a PhD in sedimentology at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.

Katy Zeanah 2002 married Sue Borchers on September 10, 2011 on the beach in Cape Cod. Katy and Sue met through mutual friends after college. Sue is currently a middle school Physical Education teacher and Varsity Girls basketball coach in Granville, OH. Katy is pursuing her PhD in School Psychology at Ohio State University. Country Day was well represented at the ceremony!

Emily Zeanah Shelton 2000 and Melanie Zeanah 2011 were Katy’s bridesmaids. Dayna Singerman 2002 and Sarah Applebaum 2002 were both readers. Miriam Greenbaum 2000 and Kristen Butcher 2000 sang at the wedding, and Sarah Farris 2000, Virginia Knecthel 2000 and Erin O’Connell (former CD teacher and coach) were all in attendance.

He is responsible for orchestrating all of the residential solar energy installations on Make It Right homes and advancing the affordability and accessibility of solar technology in other communities in and around the New Orleans area. Pierre has also been working as a Project Manager, leading a series of structural testings that Make It Right has implemented in conjunction with the University of New Orleans. He also coordinates post-occupancy asset management as well as assists in office operations with the foundation’s online communication database.

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My studies at Brown follow a year spent on a Fulbright grant, teaching at a university in Turkey.

I also conducted research on contemporary Turkish art, which I published as a monthly column for the Art21 blog (a website associated with the critically-acclaimed television program Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century). While my freelance writing career is largely on hold while I focus on my coursework, I’m still taking on small independent curatorial projects. At present I’m putting together an exhibit for the American Dance Legacy Initiative (which is housed at Brown), which will open in mid-March.”

change in the Greater New Orleans community. Check out www.emergingphilanthropists. org and contact Beth if you are interested in getting involved.

Other Country Day alums that have been “class members” at EPNO include, Tim Soslow 1999 and Emmeline Johnston 1999.

sale department while completing his MBA. Charles Jamison Beuerman 2005 graduated from Rhodes College with a B.A. in English.

He lives in Baton Rouge and is currently in his first year of law school at LSU. Matthew Q. Davis 2005 graduated from Rollins College in 2009 with degrees in International Relations and Jewish Studies.

He is currently working in New Orleans for Sizeler Companies, while continuing his education in the PMBA program at Tulane University.

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Charlie Evans 2005 was awarded one of La Fondation Louisiane’s ten Heritage Scholarships. Charlie and the other Louisiana college students spent the 2011-2012 academic year in France teaching conversational English in French elementary, middle and high schools. He will also be enrolled in a master’s degree at the University of Rennes in Brittany.

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Andy Gaines 2005 is a Commercial Credit Analyst and Underwriter for Iberia Bank in New Orleans. He was a member of the first Management Development Program for the bank after graduating with Honors from Texas Christian University. Andy was recently elected to the Board of Directors for Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation.

Tippins Crosby Gandy 2005 and her husband, Wilson, welcomed a daughter, Eloise Tippins Crosby “Elle” on December 3, 2011.

Class of 2006 at their 5 year reunion in December

Blathrae Gillin 2006 was initiated into the Alpha Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Georgia. Phi Beta Kappa was organized in 1776 and is the oldest honorary society in the US. She also graduated Summa Cum Laude in both her majors, International Affairs and Spanish.

Heidi Heumann 2006 is a commercial real estate appraiser in New Orleans and a member of Country Day’s Alumni Board.

Holly Mabry 2006 is a graduate student at LSU studying speech pathology.

Julie Sanders 2006 lives in New York City and works for Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Katie Scanlon 2006 is a nursing student at LSU. Alden Littlewood 2006 started LSU Medical School in August.

Congratulations to Matt Stone 2007, who starred at CD during his high school career in football and basketball, for winning the starting punter position for the SMU Mustangs football team. Matt became a starter after joining the team last season as a “walk-on.”

Andrew Hunter 2005 is currently tour managing up-and-coming Miami artist, Cris Cab. While working at a music management firm since graduating from the University of Miami, Andrew has toured with O.A.R., Matisyahu, Matt & Kim, and Bruno Mars. He lives in New York City.

Mary Walker Baus 2006 lives in London.

Christian Galle 2006 and Paul Provosty 2006 are enjoying the success of their band, “Ear Phunk.”

Matt Stone 2007 with Athletic Director Mike McGuire and Dave Sherman

Robert Eshleman 2007 wrote, “In May, I graduated with distinction from UVA., with majors in English and Psychology. In addition to classes during my last semester, I worked as a carpenter in the scene shop at the U.Va. Drama Department and designed lights for the Drama Department’s mainstage production of dark play or stories for boys, a play that explores identity in the digital age, directed by Marianne Kubik. I also advised the technical staff of the student theater group First Year Players for their production of the musical Rent.

I accepted a semester-long internship position in Technical Direction at New York Theatre Workshop, an off-Broadway theatre in the East Village in Manhattan.

This fall, I was fortunate to intern with two talented theater professionals at NYTW: Brian Garber, the theater’s Production Manager, and Paul Bradley, the Technical Director. My hope is to gain a better understanding of what goes into producing professional shows while I consider possible career options in theater.

In addition to assisting with planning and scenic construction for NYTW’s fall productions, I also helped to outfit and set up the theater’s brand new scene and costume shops. (NYTW’s fall season included “The Select,” a play based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, and the new musical “Once,” based on the 2006 Irish film by the same name.) It goes without saying that I’m beyond excited to be living and working in New York, and I’m enthusiastic to learn more about professional theatre.”

Deaths Robert “Bobby” Boasberg 1959 on January 10, 2011.

Eugenie Sarre’ Bollier, former Head of Admissions, on June 6, 2010.

Marguerite Burke Cappel 1989 on May 29, 2011.

Judy Sharp Cobb 1957 on December 18, 2011.

Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Ewing 1954, on January 11, 2011.

Ronnie Frazier, Buildings and Grounds supervisor, on May 1, 2011.

Carter Hall, former Head of School, on April 3, 2011.

Barbara Strong Harvey 1942 in November of 2011.

Susan Oderr Hendricks 1962 on October 28, 2011.

Robert Legier Kuhner Jr. 1982 on May 12, 2011.

Mary Latter 1969 in December 2009.

Lisa Messersmith 1984 on February 7, 2011.

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Leonard Kimball Nicholson 1976 on January 19, 2012.

Richard Drake Norton, Jr. 1957 on Monday, May 31, 2010.

Brucie Rafferty, former lower school principal, on April 19, 2011.

Georgia Monsted Simmons 1959 on November 9, 2011.

Judith Nott Strong 1947 on February 11, 2010.

Cornelius “Dee” White 1970 on December 16, 2011.

To: 20222 CAJUNS name@ emailaddre ss.com

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Benjamin Rush Strong 1944 on January 17, 2010.

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Jo Gwin Shelby, former teacher, on August 29, 2011.

2010-2011 Annual Report We are pleased to recognize the generosity of Country Day donors during the 2010-2011 fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011, in this Annual Report. Thanks to your extraordinary support, the Country Day Fund raised $620,184. As always, 100% of our Board of Trustees, Alumni Board, and faculty/staff members supported the Country Day Fund. Parent giving reached 72%, and overall alumni giving climbed to 21% - an all-time high for the school. Without the support of our dedicated volunteers, Country Day would not have enjoyed such success. Thank you to the volunteers whose tireless work on behalf of Country Day made 2010-2011 one of the best in the history of our school.

2010-2011 Country Day Fund Country Day Fund Chairs, Rachael and Christian Gambel Major Gifts Committee Chair, Anne Redd Sallee and Tommy Benjamin Danielle Guidry Dana Hansel Stephanie McDuffie Megan and William Nelson

Rick Price Edmund Redd Suzanne Rusovich Michael Tubbs Marion and Andy Weinstock

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Parent Giving Committee Chairs, Lisa and Rob Vosbein

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Class of 2024

Jessica Boelte Catherine Varino

Class of 2017

Carrie and Eric Berger Gina Womack

Class of 2023

Michelle Cossé Sherri O’Bell

Class of 2016

Emily Brown Tracy Kuchler

Class of 2022

Vicki Herman Evans Emily and Wade Hammett

Class of 2015

Catherine and Andrew Downs

Class of 2021

Amy Feirn Serena Vaughan

Class of 2014

Adele and Haden Lafaye Sheila St. Etienne

Class of 2020

Joelle and Eddie Halpern Vera Schlesinger

Class of 2013

Monique Gardner

Class of 2012

Class of 2019

Leslie and Jonathan Fawer Eugenie and Gary Menszer

Rica Miniclier Ellen and Barry Schully

Class of 2011

Class of 2018

Amy and Charlie Lavis Troylynn Maupin

Lisa Craig Paula and Charley Zeanah

Alumni Giving Committee Chair, Charlie Van Horn Deborah Aschaffenburg Scott Duggins Christian Gambel Rachael Gambel Dathel Georges Brandon Key

Charlie Lanier Malcolm Meyer Anne Redd Wendy Rock Laura Schneidau

Grandparent Giving Chairs, Martha and Bill Gunther Parent of Alumni Giving Chairs, Deborah and Eli Tullis Faculty/Staff Giving Chair, Gretchen Hennessy

Emily Strong Clancy Stumpf Julie Terrell Ashbrooke Tullis Walter Weil William Wolf

Donors

by Giving Level We are pleased to recognize donors who made gifts to Country Day at the following giving levels: Founders Circle $20,000 and above Anonymous Ms. Virginia Besthoff Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Coleman Edward E. Ford Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Gunther The Lupin Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William Boatner Reily IV Mr. and Mrs. Eli W. Tullis Trustees Circle $10,000 - $19,999 Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bart Mr. and Mrs. W. Christian Gambel, Jr. Ms. Patricia E. Weeks and Mr. John P. Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. Chad J. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hines Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William McDuffie William B. Reily Companies, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory R. Rusovich Mr. and Mrs. John F. White Mr. and Mrs. John F. White, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. White Wiggle Bug Foundation Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation

Fellows $500 - $1,499 Dr. and Mrs. Shiva Akula Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Alexander III Ms. Vicki Herman Amann Mr. and Ms. Howard E. Barton, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Donald P. Bennett Mr. Lawrence P. Beron Mr. and Mrs. John Biguenet Ms. Elizabeth A. Boh Mr. Sergei Boissier Mrs. Caroline Huger Boone Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bridgewater Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Brinson Dr. and Mrs. James E. Brown, Jr. Mrs. Nannette Jolivette-Brown and Mr. Marcus V. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Buchmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Craig O. Canon Mr. Gordon F. Chadwick Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Chadwick Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Chappell III Mr. and Mrs. William H. Church, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Citro Mr. Leonard J. Cline, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Max Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Cowell Mr. and Mrs. E. Howell Crosby Dr. and Mrs. Frank Culicchia

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Associates of Excellence $2,500 - $4,999 Baptist Community Ministries Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Beron Dr. and Mrs. William Borron Ms. Elinor S. Bright Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Coleman Dr. John L. Freiberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gravois III Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Hales Mr. and Mrs. Scott McDonald Ham Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hansel

Associates $1,500 - $2,499 Mr. and Mrs. Neil C. Abramson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Agular Mr. and Mrs. Cary J. Amann Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Barreca, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marc Beerman Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Benjamin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Mente Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. John Boelte III Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Bossier Mr. Timothy P. Bright Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brinson Mr. and Mrs. George E. Brower III Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Brown Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cerise Mr. and Mrs. R. Vaughn Cimini Mr. and Mrs. Dane S. Ciolino Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Coleman Mr. Christopher P. Coulon Dr. Tracy M. Crear Ms. Raine Bedsole and Mr. George Demmas Mrs. Karen P. Dorignac Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Doussan, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Falstad Mr. and Mrs. S. Stewart Farnet, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Allen Favrot Mr. Caffrey F. Favrot Mr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory C. Feirn Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Fleming II Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. George Drs. Sharon and Grant Gillen Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Gordillo Mr. and Mrs. L. Trimble Green Mr. and Mrs. William T. Green Mr. Matthew H. Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. Hammett Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss C. Havens Dr. and Mrs. Gregor Hoffman Ms. Calais P. Hurst Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Isacks, Jr. Dr. Ruth Owens and Dr. David A. Jansen Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Kelleher, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Kern

Dr. and Mrs. Samir T. Khalaf Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Koppel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. LeBlanc III Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lemann Dr. and Mrs. James Lilly Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Ludwig III Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Luquet, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. C. James McCarthy III Mr. and Mrs. James P. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miniclier Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Moss IV Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Newburger Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Eric O’Bell Mr. and Mrs. David W. Perlis Mr. and Mrs. James M. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reisman Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg III Dr. and Mrs. Carlos O. Rodriguez-Fierro Mr. and Mrs. John K. Saer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Yousef Salem Mrs. Margaret C. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Barry C. Schully Shell Oil Company Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sinnott, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Streiffer Mr. Paul Thionville, Sr. Ms. Mignon Topping Mr. and Mrs. Harper B. Trammell Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Van der Linden Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Vosbein, Jr. Mr. George G. Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wisdom Mr. and Mrs. Robert Worley, Jr. Dr. Lisa Wyatt and Ms. Cynthia Sprow Drs. Paula and Charles Zeanah Mr. and Mrs. Luis Zervigon Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Zone, Jr.

COMMENTS

Country Day Council $5,000 - $9,999 Ms. Carolyn B. Chandler Donum Dei Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation Ms. Amy Feirn Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. William S. LaCorte Merrill Lynch Mrs. Theodosia Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Polchow Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Roddy Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Dr. and Mrs. John C. Steck Mr. and Mrs. John M. Turner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Whealdon

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Howson Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel Dr. and Mrs. Haden A. Lafaye Mr. and Mrs. G. Charles Lapeyre Dr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Lawrence Mr. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew P. LeCorgne The Bruce Levy Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Linquest Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morse Mr. and Mrs. William C. Nelson Mr. R. Ray Orrill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund E. Redd Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boatner Reily III Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. David S. Thomas, Jr. Mr. Michael F. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Van Horn Ambassador and Mrs. John G. Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Weinstock

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Mr. and Mrs. Joshua C. Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Matthew N. Diehl Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dumont Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Eshleman III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Farnsworth III Mr. Gervais F. Favrot, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Fawer Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Flow Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Fort IV Mr. Richard W. Freeman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Gardner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Gitter Mr. Scott A. Griggs Mr. and Mrs. James C. Guidry, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Hardin III Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Herman Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Holman Mr. Dan Huff, Jr. Mr. John O. Humphreys III Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Ingram Ironman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Johnson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Kehoe, Jr. Dr. Suzette Killeen and Mr. Shawn Killeen Mr. and Mrs. John L. Koch III Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Koppel Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Krantz Dr. Kristina Lafaye and Mr. J. Ryan Lafaye Dr. and Mrs. James Lam Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Lamar Mr. and Mrs. H. Merritt Lane III Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Lanier, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lapeyre, Jr. Drs. Dana and Dinh Le Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Leger, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Monte M. Lemann Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Lemann Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. Marc M. Livaudais Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Lombard III Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Marsiglia Mr. and Mrs. D. Caffery McCay Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. P. McIlhenny Dr. and Mrs. Gary D. Menszer Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm D. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Moore Dr. and Mrs. William H. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morton, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mumford Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Nelson Mr. Eric Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Nelson New England Prep Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Ottelin Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Parker Mr. and Mrs. William M. Parsons Dr. and Mrs. Corey M. Passman Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Perino Ms. Mary Beth Plauché Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Price, Jr. Dr. Lan Luo and Mr. Mark H. Qi Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Redmon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Reed Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Reily

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Resor Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ricchiuti Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rivas Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Rochelle Mr. and Mrs. James T. Rogers III Dr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Saer Mr. and Mrs. Charles McK. Saltzman Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Samuels Mr. and Mrs. Francis Scarpulla Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schwing, Sr. Mr. Jay W. Seastrunk III Ms. Catherine A. Boozman and Mr. Howard Shapiro Ms. Stephanie Stokes and Mr. Daniel Shea Dr. and Mrs. Stanton E. Shuler Mr. and Mrs. John T. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. I. William Sizeler Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Smith, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Shepheard Stahel Mr. and Mrs. William S. Steinhardt Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Stouse Mr. Andrew V. Talmadge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thionville, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Al M. Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Thompson Mr. and Mrs. J. David Tufts III Dr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Van Horn III Ms. Serena C. Vaughan Mrs. Shaun C. Viguerie Mr. and Mrs. Preston Wailes Mrs. Anne England Wall and Mr. Stacy Wall Ms. Lanier Watson Mr. and Mrs. John Weigel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Winston E. Weinmann Ms. Audrey Browne and Mr. James L. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Whitehead Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Wilkinson III Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Williams Ms. Sara Winstead Mr. William E. Wolf Mrs. Mary K. Zervigon Red and Blue Club $250 - $499 Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Abbott Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Ainsworth Ms. Deborah H. Aschaffenburg Mr. J. Ronald Atchley Ms. Paula Atchley Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Baker Bank of America Mr. and Mrs. N. Buckner Barkley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Best Mr. Greg J. Beuerman Mr. and Mrs. E. Christian Blessey Ms. Amy Bonoff Dr. Caroline Campion and Dr. John Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Cedric J. Cascio Mr. and Dr. John C. Centanni, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Wouter K. de Klein Mr. and Mrs. Maurice de la Houssaye Mr. and Mrs. John F. Derenbecker Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ducanes El Paso Corporation Dr. and Mrs. George S. Ellis, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. W. Brooks Emory Mr. and Mrs. John D. Fox

Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gabriel Mrs. Anita Georges Mr. and Mrs. L. Patrick Giroir, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan L. Grace Mrs. Barbara Treat Green Mr. and Mrs. Eben Hardie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Haydel Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Heller Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hinds III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hood Intel Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Irwin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Warren B. Irwin Dr. Jakeen W. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Johnston Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brandon S. Key Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Kissel Mr. and Mrs. E. James Kock III Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lavis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. LeBourgeois Mr. and Mrs. Justin W. Lilley Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Lindner Mr. and Mrs. William Mabry Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mann Capt. and Mrs. Michael T. D. Miller Dr. Lauren V. Myers and Mr. Paul Myers Mr. and Mrs. Anh Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Nockton Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Norman Mr. and Mrs. Emery Olcott Drs. John and Irma Overby Mr. and Mrs. John C. Overby Mr. and Mrs. David Perlis Mr. Lindsay L. Pickens Mr. and Mrs. James G. Pitcher Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Poole Ms. Jacqueline E. Post Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Rault Ms. Emily S. Bingham and Mr. Stephen R. Reily Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rippner Mr. Andrew P. Rittenberg Mrs. Gayle Roberts Ms. Renée M. Robichaux Ms. Adrea D. Heebe and Mr. Dominick A. Russo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell B. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Clifton J. Saik Ms. Lisa Craig and Mr. Alan Saucier Ms. Laura S. Schneidau Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schneider Mr. and Mrs. W. Gaines Seaman III Mr. Philip B. Sherman Ms. Sara Ansley Smythe Ms. Karen Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. St. Paul III Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Stumpf, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Thompson Ms. D. Ashbrooke Tullis Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Varisco Mr. and Mrs. Wade Waguespack Mr. and Mrs. Merrill C. Wautlet, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Whiteside Mr. and Mrs. Scott Zimmerman, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Eveline Ms. M. Elizabeth Ewing Mr. Gregory Faia Mrs. Tanya P. Faia Mr. and Mrs. John P. Farnsworth Mr. and Mrs. Robert Faurie Ms. Melissa A. Rogers and Mr. Stan Fendley Dr. Sara Fernandez and Mr. Mark Fernandez Mrs. Katherine F. Ferweda Ms. Shannon C. Foley Dr. Karen Foti Ms. Adair Friedrichs Fox Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Francis Ms. Akili E. Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Albert Franklin Dr. Rudolph M. Franklin Mr. Rudy Franklin Mr. and Mrs. R. West Freeman III Ms. Alexandra S. Freeman Ms. Lea Freeman Golizio Ms. Becky Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Tony R. Friedmann Ms. Lynn O. Fry Mrs. John C. Fuchs, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fuselier Mr. and Mrs. William W. Gahagan Ms. Rebecca Gaillot Mr. George A. Gaines Mrs. Kimbel Peiser Gaither Mr. and Mrs. Leon Galey Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Cameron C. Gamble Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garcia Ms. Monique Garcia Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gardner Ms. Laurie Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Kittredge M. Garren Mr. Trenton Gauthier-Balluf Reverend and Mrs. W. Gedge Gayle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ney Gehman Mr. and Mrs. John D. Georges Ms. Lauren E. Geraghty Mr. and Mrs. Marshall F. Gerson Mr. and Mrs. Brooks L. Gibert Ms. Cheryl B. Gibert Mrs. Rogerwene C. Gifford Ms. Nabeela Gill Ms. E. Blathrae Gillin Ms. Lynette D. Montero and Mr. Patrick Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. Peter Golding Mrs. Alice S. Goodsell Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gordon Mr. and Ms. Joel D. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Gordon Ms. Tara C. Graber Dr. and Mrs. H. Devon Graham III Ms. Madeline E. Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Mark Greenbaum Ms. Vanessa M. Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Groner Mr. Herbert Gross Dr. and Mrs. Orin F. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Guillory Mr. William Hales Ms. Jennifer Hall Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Hall

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Dr. and Mrs. Andy Burka Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Burke Mr. and Mrs. P. Gibbons Burke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin O. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Craig I. Cahen Mrs. Carol O. Caplan Dr. and Mrs. Craig F. Caplan Mr. Michael Capobianco Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Casey, Jr. Ms. Helga Krauss and Mr. Lawrence Y. Chapman, Jr. Mr. Kendall H. Chauvin Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Chesnut Dr. and Mrs. Charles Chester Mr. and John C. Christian III Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Christovich Ms. Meg Bradley and Mr. George Choquette Ms. Claire J. Clark Mrs. Mary C. Schexnaydre and Mr. Paul E. Clement, Jr. Ms. Ann D. Clements Mr. Joshua S. Cohen Mr. Steven Richard Cohen Mr. George Read Coleman Dr. and Mrs. James Collier Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Condliffe Mr. James L. Connolly Mr. and Mrs. Clayton M. Connors Mrs. Martha L. Conover Mr. Jack Counce Mr. and Mrs. Michael Couvillon Mr. Charles Cowherd Ms. Kate Cowhey Dr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Cucuzzella Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cummings Mr. and Mrs. H. Hackett Cummins Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg Mrs. Chesley J. Dale Mrs. Amy K. Daly Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Daly, Jr. Mr. Scott C. Daly Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Davidson Mr. Larry Davis Mr. Scott F. Davis Ms. Susan M. Gisleson and Mr. Stephen R. Deputy Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Dike Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Dinvaut Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Dodge Ms. Adela C. Baker and Mr. Michiel J. Dop Mr. Jeffrey R. Doussan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Downs Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Dozier Mr. and Mrs. Ian Dreyer Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Dudley Mr. and Mrs. Jay P. Dufrechou Mr. W. Scott Duggins Mr. and Mrs. Brooke H. Duncan III Ms. Marigny J. Dupuy Ms. Hyland F. Durant Dr. and Mrs. Val Earhart Capt. Glenn K. Edisen Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Elizardi Mr. Matthew M. Ellefson Ms. Mary Beth Ellis Mr. and Mrs. James Ely Mr. Charles Evans

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Gifts up to $250 Ms. Michelle Abram Dr. and Mrs. Steven Abramson Ms. Kristen M. Adamson Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Adatto Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Agnew Ms. Katherine M. Alexander Ms. Patricia G. Alexander Mr. Jeffery B. Amann Mr. and Mrs. David W. Anderson Ms. Langley B. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson Ms. Dwen Andrews-Cita Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Andry Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Andry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Antis Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Apffel Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Applebaum Ms. Lindsey Argote Mr. Matthew Argote Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Arnoult Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. August Mr. and Mrs. Mark Avery Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Badeaux Ms. Daria C. Badini Ms. Gemma C. Badini Mr. Perrin C. Badini Ms. Erin C. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Loren T. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Bain Ms. Brooke Baker Ms. Cristina M. Baker Dr. and Mrs. Woodruff A. Banks Jr. Mr. Michael J. Baranovic, Jr. Ms. Lynne Sherar Barnes Mr. Patrick B. Barnes Dr. and Mrs. Lester Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Gerard W. Barousse, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Barrett Mr. Albert D. Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. David M. Beach Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Becker Mr. Michael R. Behre Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Byron F. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Berger Mr. and Mrs. David H. Berglass Ms. Deborah L. Berins Mr. and Ms. Sid Bertheaud Mr. and Mrs. Casey Biehl Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Birdsall Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bolles Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bordelon Dr. and Mrs. Brian B. Borg Mr. and Mrs. David J. Bourg Mr. and Mrs. David V. Bouy, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Bouza Ms. Jaimee L. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Brandes Mr. and Mrs. Steven Breen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Brennan Mr. G. Hyder Brewster, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Bronfin Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Brown Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bubis Ms. Robin M. Burck

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Mr. Dane D. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hamilton Ms. Ann Hammett Mr. and Mrs. Wade B. Hammett Mr. Andrew C. Hamric Mr. and Mrs. Gary F. Hanford Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hannan Ms. Sarah H. Hansel Mr. and Ms. Harry T. Hardin IV Ms. Lisa M. Harlow Ms. Laine B. Harper Mr. and Mrs. Welcy Harrell Mr. and Mrs. William W. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Haspel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Hatheway Mr. Don D. Hattier, Jr. Ms. Kathleen Brennan-Haug and Mr. David Haug Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Havill Ms. Lee U. Hays Ms. Sally Upham Hays Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hazelwood Mrs. Bernhardt C. Heebe Ms. Dorothy M. Hennessy Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hennessy Mrs. Dara Y. Herman Mr. and Mrs. Nowell Hesse Ms. Heidi C. Heumann Mrs. Kristi L. Trail and Mr. Blake R. Heymann Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hirsch Mr. Douglas A. Hock Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Hogan, Jr. Mr. Keith J. Holbrook Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hollins Ms. Kathleen W. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holt Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Holtzman Mr. and Mrs. William H. Howard III Mr. and Mrs. Gilles F. Hudelot Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Hufft Mr. and Christopher P. Hunter Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Huppman Mr. Edward D. Hyman Mr. and Mrs. Juan B. Ibieta III Mr. and Mrs. George R. Irvine III Mr. and Mrs. Craig C. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. James H. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. B.R.H. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Jalenak, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. James III Ms. Evelyn M. Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Johnson Ms. Angelle E. Juneau Mr. Dan Juran Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Juran Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Kahle Mr. and Mrs. Carlie M. Kahn Mr. Barry A. Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Kearney Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kelchen Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Kelleher Ms. Elizabeth F. Kelleher Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Kelleher III Mrs. Margaret D. Kelly

Dr. Judith L. Corey and Mr. Greg G. Kempton Ms. Peggy W. Reily and Mr. C. Barrett Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. David R. Kent Ms. Jennifer L. Kenwood Mr. and Mrs. Steve Keppler Drs. Denise and E. Kenneth Kerut Mr. Fredric A. King Mr. and Mrs. William Kingsmill Ms. Catherine F. Kirkwood Mr. and Mrs. David W. Kish Mr. and Mrs. Kyle B. Kloor Mr. James Kohlmann Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Kohlman Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Kornblum Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Kornman Ms. Mary B. Kostmayer Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kronenberg Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Krouse III Mr. and Mrs. Joey J. Kuchler Dr. Richard S. Kugler Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Kuhner II Ms. Susan M. Kurnit Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kvet Ms. Laura Leigh Lady Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan A. LaNasa Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lanclos Mr. and Mrs. Melvin P. Landry, Jr. Ms. Mimi C. Landry Mrs. Janeileen C. Langmann Dr. Carol A. Langston and Mr. Terry D. Langston Mr. and Mrs. Pierre F. Lapeyre Mrs. Jeanne-Marie J. LaRue Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Lashley, Jr. Mr. Jonathan P. Latner Professor Richard B. Latner Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Laughlin Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Launey Mr. Jeffrey C. Lawrence Mr. Joseph S. Lazarus Mr. and Dana E. Leaman Mr. and Mrs. J. D. LeBlanc, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Leboeuf-Little Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. LeBourgeois, Jr. Mr. Kenneth P. Legeai Mr. William R. Legier, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Leigh Mr. and Mrs. Mark Drago Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Leopold Mr. Daniel R. Lesser Mr. and Mrs. Gus Levy II Mr. and Mrs. Jay Levy Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. John F. Little III Mr. and Mrs. Ian J. Llewellyn Mr. and Mrs. Gustave J. Lore Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Lotz Mr. and Mrs. John Lovoi Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Lowentritt Mr. Joshua Lowentritt Dr. and Mrs. C. Bryan Luikart, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Justin Lund Major and Mrs. Charles Lynn Ms. Holly A. N. Mabry Mr. and Mrs. R. Dale Mackie Mr. and Mrs. A. Wayne Magee Ms. Dena L. Majett Mr. and Mrs. S. Kenan Manson III Mr. Andy Marchal

Ms. Melinda A. Marcus Dr. and Mrs. Randall E. Marcus Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Marcus III Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas A. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Martin Ms. Elizabeth McGovern and Mr. David Mason Mr. Blake H. Massey Ms. Skipper Prince Masur Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mathews Mrs. Katherine L. Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Maupin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Mauthe Dr. Susan McLellan and Mr. David McConnell Ms. Diane R. McConnell Dr. Diane McConocha and Mr. Paul R. McConocha Ms. Kelly M. McGeehan Ms. Angeles C. Lamoli-Silvestry and Mr. Kevin McGill Mr. and Mrs. Mike M. McGuire Mr. Peter L. Mears Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Meltzer Ms. Evelyn F. Menge Dr. and Mrs. Carl S. Merlin Ms. Pamela Metzger Mr. and Mrs. Damion Michaels Mr. and Mrs. Marc Michaud Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Miler Mr. and Mrs. Dean H. Miller Ms. Dorothy Miller and Ms. Kathie Ozborn Ms. Katherine C. Miller Ms. Anne Mueller and Mr. Robinson Mills Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Miralda Ms. Gretchen Miller Mixon Mr. and Mrs. Parviz Mojgani Dr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Molony Mr. and Mrs. D. Richard Moore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan C. Moore Mr. and Mrs. deLesseps S. Morrison III Mr. and Mrs. Kent Morrison Mr. Robert H. Morriss Mr. and Mrs. John F. Morton IV Ms. Catherine Varino and Mr. Michael Mueller Ms. Shelley J. Hesse and Mr. Stephen Murray Dr. and Mrs. David M. Mushatt Mrs. Laverne Myers Mrs. Michelle D. Natinsky Mr. William W. Neill Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nelson New Mexico Association of Independent Schools Mr. and Mrs. Bronson E. Newburger Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Newton Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nichols Mrs. Mary Baldwin North Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Norton Ms. Collette Felix-Norwood and Mr. Stanford T. Norwood Ms. Susanna Novick Mr. and Ms. Ian Oberhelman Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. O’Brien Mr. David Y. Oh Dr. and Mrs. Edgar C. O’Neal Mrs. Edward M. Ordemann Mr. and Mrs. Perry Pace Mr. John Samuel Parkhouse Dr. and Mrs. Lee Parsons Mr. Prentiss C. Patrick

Dr. Karen L. Paul Mr. and Mrs. Anders Pedersen Mrs. Diane Copes Person and Mr. John C. Person Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Pettey III Mr. Bradley S. Philipson Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Phillips Ms. Deborah L. Pigman Mr. and Mrs. Reese B. Pinney Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pitalo Mr. and Mrs. William F. Murray Ms. Marjorie R. Polchow Ms. Claiborne Polhill Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenan Poole Mrs. Amburn Power Ms. Ashley E. Pradel Ms. Lindsey Skye Price Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Prince Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ramirez Mr. Samuel J. Ramirez Ms. Kathryn Vitrice McMurry and Mr. John Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Reasonover Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Reddoch Mr. and Mrs. John M. Reeve Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Regan Mrs. James W. Reily, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Reily Captain and Mrs. James Reiss Dr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Reitman Mr. and Mrs. Vance G. Reynoir Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Rhodes, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Scott K. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. F. Wayne Richmond Ms. Louise W. McIlhenny and Mr. Hugh C. Riddleberger Mr. Joe T. Ridgeway Mr. and Mrs. David C. Rieveschl Dr. Andrew K. Rindsberg Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Rock Mr. and Mrs. Antonio J. Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Rommel III Dr. and Mrs. John D. Rose Ms. Ann Rosenberg Mr. Mark R. Rosenberg Dr. Beth Rota and Mr. Matthew Rota Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Roubion Mr. and Mrs. David A. Rubin Ms. Lissa R. Rubman Mrs. Evelyn S. Rucker Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ruddick Mr. and Mrs. Phillip S. Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Ron G. Ryals, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Marc R. Samolsky Mr. and Mrs. R. Craig Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sanders IV Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Schenthal Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Scheps Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Schlesinger Mr. and Mrs. Claiborne Schmidt Ms. Catherine Schully Mr. Charles Schully Ms. Lauren Schully Ms. Kathryn C. Schulze Mr. and Mrs. John W. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Schwarz Mr. Edward D. Schwarz Mr. Llewellyn C. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Seaman

Dr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Watkins III Ms. Julie Haskell-Webb and Dr. Raymond Webb Mr. and Mrs. John F. Weeks II Mr. Jeremy D. Weil Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Weinman Mr. and Mrs. J. Giffen Weinmann, Jr. Mr. Jake J. Weinstock Mr. and Mrs. Robert U. Weiss III Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Mr. and Mrs. Eric West Mr. F. Evans F. White Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. White Ms. Chappell C. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Jé Williams Ms. Leila E. Williams Dr. Rachele M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Christian Wilms Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. Winstead Mr. and Mrs. J. Wardlaw Witherspoon, Jr. Mr. James Wardlaw Witherspoon III Mr. and Mrs. André O. Wogan Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Wolf III Ms. Gina B. Womack Mrs. Betty Friedrichs Wood Mr. and Mrs. James K. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Wood III Dr. and Mrs. N. Knight Worley Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Yanez Dr. and Mrs. John M. Yarborough, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas H-K Yokum Ms. Jodi M. Yuspeh Ms. Mindi P. Yuspeh Ms. Kathryn L. Zeanah Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Zuraw

Alumni Donors by Class 1939 Chesley Johnson Dale 1940 Eddie Benjamin

1943 Edward Heller Tommy Lemann Avis Reynick Moore 1946 Claire Clark Boatner Reily Eli Tullis Jack Weinmann 1948 Eleanor Hart Condliffe Bonnie Mossler Rault Nancy Perdue Wogan

1961 Tommy Coleman Howard Streiffer

1950 Bucky Barkley Eben Hardie Albert Lamar Sam Parkhouse

1962 Peter Coleman Molly Voorhies Gahagan John Little Tony Rodriguez

1952 Olive Rodriguez Fuchs Mary Edna Clark Hollins Barbara Young Rhodes Leon Rittenberg Richard Sears

1963 Patty Latter Barnett Terry Hall Jennifer Huber Johnson Mary Baldwin North Lee Parsons

1953 Jeanne Labouisse Cummings Ann Lampton Curtis Gayle Rich Roberts

1964 Peter Dodge Susu Wilkins Kearney Ken Manson Bill Thompson

1954 Chuck Abbott Betsy Ewing* Sally Upham Hays Ken Newburger Yvonne Laan Viguerie 1955 Ginger Friedrichs Burke Connie Weston Dahlberg Rick Dike Shep Stahel 1956 Barbara Haspel Galey Jack Groner Susan Jones Gundlach 1957 Judy Wells Canon Keith Hammett Craig Nelson 1958 Cinda Richardson Anderson John Fox Carlie Kahn Bob Ruddick Wardlaw Witherspoon Betty Friedrichs Wood 1959 Nancy Witherspoon Gamble Tom Hogan Bob Johnston Larry Lashley Gretchen Miller Mixon Ruth Adler Ruder Georgia Monsted Simmons* 1960 Larry Chapman Sandra Helis Citro Diana Dymond Earhart Anne Vaughan Jones Rick Price

1965 Marigny Dupuy Susan Upham Gayle Nancy Harvey Hales Anne Richards Havill Debby Smythe Kuhner Kitty Clark Manson Diane Martin McConocha Jane Caldwell Rose 1966 Vais Favrot Peter Kahle Eddie Scheps Margot Kabacoff Thomas 1967 Kathy Manson Alexander Richard Andry Barry Mabry Jeff Meltzer Debby Pigman Robin Reily 1968 Porge Davis Casey Randy Marcus Richard Polchow George Ellis Vickie Rucker Polchow Woodie Van Horn Raymond Walker 1970 Brooke Duncan Claudia Manson Hazelwood Julie Worrill Reeve Alice Taylor 1971 Ron Atchley Cheryl Gibert Bill Parsons Ginny Lott Pettey Peggy Reily Andrew Rindsberg Pam Slater

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1942 Maia Weston Luikart

1949 Margie Upham Banks Kit Rittenberg Samuels

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Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Sears Ms. Mary Marshall Seaver Captain and Mrs. Robert R. Senter, Jr. Ms. Beth R. Shapiro Ms. Amelia Sherman Mr. Matthew A. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. John F. Shreves Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Shuler Ms. Sarah Shuler Ms. Brenda Silverstrim and Ms. Alice Spindel Mr. and Mrs. Walker C. Simmons, Sr. Mr. Joseph M. Simon Mr. S. Corbett Simons Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Skalley Mr. Michael D. Skinkus Mr. and Mrs. David Skutch Dr. Pamela M. Slater Mrs. Dixie G. Smythe Ms. Lessley H. Soniat Dr. Kylie Cormier and Dr. Jonathan H. Soslow Mr. Timothy L. Soslow Mr. Elijah T. Sproles Mr. Gregory M. St. Etienne Mr. and Mrs. Adam Starbird Mr. Cory P. Steckler Mr. Scott S. Steckler Ms. Shay A. Steckler Ms. Elizabeth Barrekette and Mr. Jonathan M. Steinberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Steinfeld Ms. Sara Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Predrag Stojakovic Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Stolley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Strain Ms. Emily C. Strong Ms. Beverly Stuart Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stuckey Mr. and Mrs. Alaster D. Swanson Mr. and Mrs. Clint L. Szubinski Dr. and Mrs. E. Armistead Talman Ms. Deborah Alice Taylor Mr. and Mrs. H. Denny Taylor Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Richter Mr. and Mrs. Jannero Temple Ms. Bonnie J. Melville and Mr. Daniel G. TerLouw Ms. C. Julie Terrell Mr. and Mrs. Hans F. Tharp Mr. and Mrs. H. Grant Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Thompson III Ms. Sandra H. Thornburg Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Thorpe Ms. Rachel Tobias Mrs. Marianna Tomeny Ms. Rachel L. Treen Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Troyano Mrs. Liza Becker Twerdahl Ms. Lori N. Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Uddo Mr. C. James Van Horn, Jr. Ms. Ann-Hunter Van Kirk Ms. Logan J. Van Meter Mr. Stephen T. Victory II Ms. Brigid F. Viguerie Mr. and Mrs. Paul Viguerie Mr. and Mrs. John B. Waid II Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Wallman Mr. and Mrs. Will Walter Mr. Peter A. Waring

1972 Bill Benjamin Ken Chadwick Julie Livaudais George Melinda Marcus Hugh Wilkinson 1973 Edgar Bright Scott Richardson 1974 Ricky Cohen Robbin Bartlett Flow Brooks Gibert Helen Crosby Gibert Laine Harper Sally Huger Lapeyre Marc Livaudais Pete Mears Tim Molony

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1975 Wayne Barrett Bert Bartlett Mick Behre Larry Beron David Bland Danny Bronfin Howard Hunter Gisele Truax Kingsmill Diane McConnell

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1976 Gerry Barousse John Christian Leslie LeGardeur Dudley Jay Dufrechou Glenn Edisen Sally Suthon Ely Tina Friend Ferweda Von Graham Keith Holbrook Chris Hunter Mimi Harper Kahle Ricky King Jimmy Kock Larry Kornman Matt LeCorgne Ken Legeai David McConnell Whit Neill Vance Reynoir Tracy Ridgeway Beth Crews Rommel Laura Mills Ryals Bo Sanders Mark Schenthal Jim Stuckey Pringle Teetor Peter Waring Winston Weinmann Michael White Leila Williams Ann Benjamin Zuraw 1977 Joe Agular Ned Benjamin

Cabby Huger Boone Tim Bright Craig Cahen Bibba Bullington Carlton Jeff Christovich Howell Crosby John Derenbecker Charlie Eshleman Nancy Prince Guidry Susan Shuler Hall Nell McLellan Howard Mimsy Huger Lindner Trip Ludwig Carolyn Loria Pitalo Sally Bartlett Sanders Kathy McCoy Skutch Charlie Van Horn Merrill Wautlet Robert Weinmann 1978 Arden Conover Armstrong Susan McLellan Bo Reily Carrie Lee Pierson Schwartz Marion Fagan Skalley Giffen Weinmann Liz Williams 1979 Debbie Aschaffenburg Tommy Benjamin Wendy McCarthy Beron Katie Andry Crosby Kim Peiser Gaither Monique Gaudin Gardner Marilyn Clements Garren Sarah Louise Wood Ham Susan Wolfe Huppman Philip Ingram Charlie Lanier Skipper Prince Masur C.C. Pulitzer-Lemann John Steck 1980 Lynne Sherar Barnes Thomas Beron Elinor Bright Gibbons Burke Suzanne Friedrichs de la Houssaye Catherine Hays Downs Carole Taylor Garcia Elizabeth Graham Giroir Craig Jackson Mark Kronenberg Emily Wolfe Leigh Gus Levy Marianne Midlo Rochelle 1981 Michael Andry Tracy Rudman Berglass Susan Zackin Bubis Ellen Heller Cohen Karla Newburger Diehl Shannon Skelton Holtzman Tim Miler John Morton

Megan McCarthy Nelson Donald Newton Eric Norman Mike Reddoch Katherine Van Horn Saer Karin Hardy Wood Cassie Steck Worley 1982 Ashley Simmons Bright Bill Church Mary Cynthia Dupy Church Mary Virginia Weinmann Coffman Michael Daly Adair Friedrichs Fox Joel Gordon Eddie Halpern Lee Hays Sallye English Irvine Leonard Isacks Jim Lilly Michael Miller Lil Mackie Pinney David Pixberg Nancy Gamble Reed Robyn Perrin Richmond Janie Kohlmann Rippner John Schwing Mignon Favrot Topping Mary Crosby Whealdon Virginia Burke White 1983 Cary Amann Connie Cobb Brennan Poe Tuchman Carpenter Jay Jalenak Elly Kohlmeyer Lane Charlie Lavis Stephanie Blessey Lilley Rini Morrison Marcus Kirk Reasonover Tiffany Carr Rieveschl Kelley Hammett Trammell 1984 Steven Bain Cindy Cole Cucuzzella Caffrey Favrot Leslie Harris Fawer Barbara Feringa Henry Johnson Dan Juran Albert Kelleher Adele Newburger Lafaye Melissa Rogers 1985 Les Alexander Lisa Van der Linden Amann Christian Blessey Bruce Brandes Tommy Farnsworth Jonathan Fawer Laurie Gardner Odom Heebe Loretta Felder Hudelot Mike Juran Sally England Lynn

Stephanie Hammel Poole Leon Rittenberg Shelby Mayhew Saer Jacki Gettleman Samolsky Laura Schneidau Mary Shea Burke Strain Ashbrooke Tullis John White Flurry Normann Yanez 1986 Michael Applebaum Cedric Cascio Cathy Corder Ducanes Shannon Foley Dathel Coleman Georges Susan Spell James Chrisie Edrington Kelleher Jay Levy Stef Catha Levy Joshua Lowentritt Bronson Newburger Stuart Earhart Pitcher Betty Stewart Poole Anne Flower Redd Wendy Davidson Rock Craig Sanders Ansley Smythe Jonathan Steinberg Paul Viguerie Wendy Manshel Weinman 1987 Paula O’Quinn Apffel Caitlin Hesse Collier Chip Cossé Scott Daly Aimee Adatto Freeman Rachael Tullis Gambel Ann Hammett Brian Katz Jennie Davis Kenwood Rob Koppel Hope Goldman Meyer Chep Morrison Arthur Reitman Edward Schwarz Jay Seastrunk Elizabeth England Siegel Steve Victory Maeve Juran Watkins Andy Wisdom 1988 Curtis Amann Dwen Andrews Andrews-Cita Lindsey Flower Jenny Profumo Irwin Elesha Clynes Kelleher Andy Rittenberg Ashley Price Swanson Brigid Viguerie 1989 Laura Cummings Amann Tarry Kelly August Adela Baker Karen Smythe Breen Craig Caplan

John Farnsworth Elaine Gleason Elizabeth Kelleher Leigh Victory Moss Karen Paul Walker Simmons Anne England Wall Rachele Williams Jodi Yuspeh 1990 Vicki Herman Evans Wade Hammett Michael LeBourgeois Billy Legier Cristy Gilbert Newton James Reiss

1993 Ryan Moore 1994 Amy Korndorffer Daly Warren Irwin Niki LeBoeuf-Little

1995 Langley Garoutte Anderson James Bolles Jaimee Landry Boyd Matthew Ellefson Akili Franklin Tara Graber Drew Hamric Lisa Harlow Brandon Key Laura Leigh Lady Jon LaNasa Jeanne-Marie Gisclair LaRue Blake Massey Nicole Biguenet Pedersen Sam Ramirez Isabel Strong Schmidt James Snyder Lynn Cook Snyder Jon Soslow Bricker Waid

2002 Jeffrey Doussan Caroline Gray Beth Shapiro Matt Sherman Shay Steckler Jeremy Weil Katy Zeanah

1996 Lissa Heumann Rubman 1997 Alyce Newlin Hesse Kathleen Holmes Evelyn Simmons Kissel Joey Lazarus 1998 Whitney Lamb Brooks Charlotte Haygood Gregory Harry Hardin Jon Latner Michael Seaman Rachel Tobias 1999 Hyder Brewster Kendall Chauvin Annie Clements Read Coleman Taylor Guiza Justin Haeuser Mary Kostmayer Porter Randle Renée Robichaux Katy Reily Roubion Lew Scott Philip Sherman Timothy Soslow Chappell Williams William Wolf 2000 Kristen Adamson Hyland Durant Brian Elizardi Kacey Marshall Matthews 2001 Perrin Badini

2003 Tricia Alexander Erin Bailey Josh Cohen Dane Halpern Angelle Juneau Buddy Patrick 2004 Gemma Badini Will Hales Skye Price Mark Rosenberg Lessley Soniat Cory Steckler Rachel Treen Ann-Hunter Van Kirk 2005 Matthew Argote Patch Barnes Charlie Evans Andy Gaines Amelia Sherman 2006 Lindsey Argote Michael Baranovic Gordon Chadwick Kate Cowhey Allie Freeman Blathrae Gillin Maddy Greenbaum Vanessa Greenbaum Heidi Heumann Daniel Lesser Holly Mabry James Van Horn Logan Van Meter 2007 Marjorie Polchow Charles Schully 2008 Rudy Franklin Lauren Schully 2009 Trenton Gauthier-Balluf Jennifer Hall Jeffrey Lawrence Jake Weinstock

2010 Catherine Schully

Current Parent Donors by Class CLASS OF 2011 Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Benjamin Dr. and Mrs. Donald P. Bennett Mr. Greg J. Beuerman Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Birdsall Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Bright III Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Brinson Mrs. Nannette Jolivette-Brown and Mr. Marcus V. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brown Mr. and Mrs. Max Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Fleming II Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Gardner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Georges Ms. Patricia E. Weeks and Mr. John P. Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. Mark Greenbaum Ms. Sarah H. Hansel Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hansel Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hinds III Dr. Ruth Owens and Dr. David A. Jansen Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Kern Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Krouse III Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Lanier, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew P. LeCorgne Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Martin Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mumford Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Ottelin Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Polchow Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Regan Mr. and Mrs. William Boatner Reily IV Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Ms. Lisa Craig and Mr. Alan Saucier Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. St. Paul III Mr. and Mrs. David S. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Thorpe Ms. Leah Tubbs Mr. Michael F. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. John M. Turner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Waguespack Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Wallman Drs. Charles and Paula Zeanah Mr. and Mrs. Scott Zimmerman, Sr. CLASS OF 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Agnew Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Arnoult Mr. and Mrs. Mark Avery Mr. and Mrs. Marc Beerman Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Beron Mr. and Mrs. David S. Bland Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Brown

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1992 Lauren Geraghty Jakeen Williams Johnson Marley Eastman LeBourgeois Ashley Pradel

Robin Burck David Oh Emily Strong Julie Terrell

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1991 David Beach Deborah Berins Erica Alexander Brown Jim Connolly Jack Counce Scott Davis Scott Duggins Jenny Farnsworth Francis Scott Fuselier Rogerwene Washington Gifford Dara Herman Shelley Hesse Charlie Hirsch Doug Koppel Sheri Herman Kornblum Marjie Miller Laughlin Ian Llewellyn Megan Thompson Lovoi Ben Lowentritt Michelle Bronik Natinsky Lisa Richardson Nelson Robert Nockton David Rubin Renée Seré Rubin Max Ryan Mary Marshall Seaver Doe Pandey Starbird Allison Lamb Steinfeld Clancy Stumpf Hans Tharp Kristi Trail Jane O’Connor Wesley Evans White Wardlaw Witherspoon Cristina Baker Woods Mindi Yuspeh

Malcolm Meyer Corey Passman Gaines Seaman Liza Becker Twerdahl

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Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Charles Chester Ms. Sharon Marie Chester Mr. and Mrs. Dane S. Ciolino Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Mr. Larry Davis Mr. and Mrs. John F. Derenbecker Ms. Laurie Friefeld Ms. Monique Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. George Mr. and Mrs. John D. Georges Mr. Eugene M. Golizio Ms. Lea Freeman Golizio Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. William W. Harrison Ms. Kathy Brennan-Haug and Mr. David Haug Dr. and Mrs. Gregor Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Holtzman Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Hufft Mr. and Mrs. James H. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Kelleher Ms. Catherine F. Kirkwood Mr. and Mrs. Terrence K. Knister Mr. and Mrs. John L. Koch III Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Krantz Dr. and Mrs. Haden A. Lafaye Mr. and Mrs. G. Charles Lapeyre Dr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Leopold Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Linquest Mr. and Mrs. Marc M. Livaudais Ms. Angeles Lamoli-Silvestry and Mr. Kevin McGill Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miniclier Dr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Molony Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Nelson Mrs. Edward M. Ordemann Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick, Sr. Ms. Jacqueline E. Post Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Post Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Prince Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg III Mr. and Mrs. Gregory R. Rusovich Mr. and Mrs. Barry C. Schully Ms. Catherine A. Boozman and Mr. Howard Shapiro Dr. and Mrs. John C. Steck Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Streiffer Mr. and Mrs. David S. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Robert StG. T. Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Weinstock Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Worley, Jr. CLASS OF 2013 Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Ainsworth Mr. and Mrs. David W. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bart Mr. and Mrs. William D. Beachy Dr. and Mrs. William Borron Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Buchmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. John C. Centanni, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Vaughn Cimini Ms. Cathy S. Cline Mr. Leonard J. Cline, Jr. Ms. Raine Bedsole and Mr. George Demmas Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dumont

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Franklin Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Gardner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. William W. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. B. R.H. Jacobs Drs. E. Kenneth and Denise Kerut Mr. and Mrs. David W. Kish Mr. and Mrs. Matthew P. LeCorgne Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Lieberman Dr. and Mrs. Arnold M. Lupin Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Luquet, Sr Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Martin Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morton, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Scott Novick Ms. Susanna Novick Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Perino Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Resor Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ricchiuti Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Mr. and Mrs. R. Craig Sanders Mr. and Mrs. John F. Shreves Mr. and Mrs. J. David Tufts III Mr. and Mrs. John M. Turner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Waguespack Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Whealdon CLASS OF 2014 Ms. Michelle Abram Mr. and Mrs. Cary J. Amann Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Badeaux Ms. Karen Norfleet and Mr. Howard Barton Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. George E. Brower III Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Carpenter Dr. and Mrs. Charles Chester Ms. Sharon Marie Chester Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Dr. Jobie A. Crear, Sr. Dr. Tracy M. Crear D.D.S. Dr. and Mrs. W. Brooks Emory Mr. Cal Froberg Ms. Lynette D. Montero and Mr. Patrick Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. Gary F. Hanford Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Holman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Huseman Mr. and Mrs. James H. Jackson Dr. Ruth Owens and Dr. David A. Jansen Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Kern Mr. and Dr. Shawn Killeen Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Kuchler Dr. and Mrs. Haden A. Lafaye Dr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Lawrence Ms. Jill LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. LeBlanc III Dr. and Mrs. James Lilly Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mann Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Maupin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mike M. McGuire Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Ottelin Mr. and Mrs. William Boatner Reily IV Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg III Dr. and Mrs. Carlos O. Rodriguez-Fierro Capt. and Mrs. Robert R. Senter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Dr. and Mrs. John C. Steck Ms. Leah Tubbs Mr. Michael F. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. Wade Waguespack

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. Winstead Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Wolf III Mr. and Mrs. Luis Zervigon CLASS OF 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Marc Beerman Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Bright III Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Chesnut Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Mr. and Mrs. Maurice de la Houssaye Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Downs Ms. Isabel Freiberg Dr. John L. Freiberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Georges Ms. Cheryl B. Gibert Dr. Javed I. Gill Ms. Nabeela Gill Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gravois III Ms. Kathy Brennan-Haug and Mr. David Haug Mr. Douglas A. Hock Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Hufft Mr. and Mrs. Warren Irwin Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Kelleher III Dr. and Mrs. James Lam Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Linquest Mr. and Mrs. Marc M. Livaudais Mr. and Mrs. David S. Lowry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mathews Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Parker Mr. and Mrs. David W. Perlis Mr. and Mrs. Edmund E. Redd Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reisman Ms. Toni L. Weiss and Mr. Gary Remer Mr. and Mrs. R. Craig Sanders Ms. Stephanie Stokes and Mr. Daniel Shea Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Smith, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jannero Temple Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Van Horn Mr. and Mrs. Wade Waguespack Mr. and Mrs. Robert StG. T. Weinmann Ms. Audrey Browne and Mr. James L. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Whealdon Mr. and Mrs. John F. White, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. White CLASS OF 2016 Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Agnew Mr. and Mrs. David W. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Casey Biehl Ms. Elinor S. Bright Dr. and Mrs. William Borron Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Bossier Dr. and Mrs. James E. Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Vaughn Cimini Mr. and Mrs. Max Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Cowell Ms. Raine Bedsole and Mr. George Demmas Mr. and Mrs. W. Christian Gambel, Jr. Ms. Laurie Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Peter Golding Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. James C. Guidry, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Chad J. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. Welcy Harrell Ms. Toni Orrill Jenkins & Mr. Andrew Jenkins

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Kehoe, Jr. Mr. James Kohlmann Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Kuchler Mr. and Mrs. Melvin P. Landry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Leger, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lemann Mr. and Mrs. Marc M. Livaudais Mr. and Mrs. A. Wayne Magee Ms. Diane R. McConnell Mr. and Mrs. William McDuffie Mr. and Mrs. James P. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Damion Michaels Mr. and Mrs. Felix Miralda Mr. and Mrs. William C. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Anh Nguyen Mr. R. Ray Orrill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Petagna Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ricchiuti Mr. and Mrs. David Rieveschl Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg III Mr. S. Corbett Simons Mr. Gregory M. St. Etienne Ms. Sheila H. St. Etienne Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Stouse Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Weinstock Mr. and Mrs. Robert U. Weiss III Dr. and Mrs. N. Knight Worley Mr. and Mrs. Luis Zervigon CLASS OF 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Cary J. Amann Ms. Brooke Baker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Eric Berger Mr. and Mrs. David V. Bouy, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cerise Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Faia Ms. Adair Friedrichs Fox Mr. Falvey Fox, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks L. Gibert Mr. and Mrs. Scott McDonald Ham Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hennessy Dr. and Mrs. Gregor Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Juan B. Ibieta III Mr. and Mrs. Warren Irwin Mr. Avery V. Jenkins, Sr. Ms. Evelyn M. Jenkins Drs. E. Kenneth and Denise Kerut Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Kohlman Mr. and Mrs. David S. Lowry Mrs. Kristine Livingston and Mr. Charles Megnin Ms. Pamela Metzger Mr. and Mrs. Marc Michaud Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morse Dr. and Mrs. David M. Mushatt Mr. and Mrs. Anh Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. Scott Novick Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Parker Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reisman Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Rock Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Gregory R. Rusovich Mr. and Mrs. Yousef Salem Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Shuler Mr. and Mrs. John F. White, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jé Williams

Ms. Gina B. Womack Mr. Arthur D. Wynne III Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Zone, Jr.

CLASS OF 2020 Ms. Elinor S. Bright Dr. and Mrs. James Collier Mr. and Mrs. Irvy E. Cossé III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Faurie, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Fort V Dr. Karen Foti Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Halpern Ms. Ann L. Hammett Mr. Donald D. Hattier, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hennessy Mr. Thomas Hood Mr. and Mrs. Juan B. Ibieta III Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Kelleher Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Launey Drs. Dinh and Dana Le Mr. and Mrs. William McDuffie Mr. and Mrs. James P. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Kent Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morse Dr. and Mrs. David M. Mushatt Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Petagna Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Poole Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Rock Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell B. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Mr. and Mrs. Yousef Salem Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Schlesinger Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Shuler Ms. Sarah Shuler Ms. Leah Tubbs Mr. Michael F. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Vosbein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Weinstock Mr. and Mrs. Christian Wilms Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wisdom

CLASS OF 2022 Mr. and Mrs. Neil C. Abramson Mr. Jeffrey B. Amann Dr. and Mrs. Craig F. Caplan Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Daly, Jr. Ms. Adela C. Baker and Mr. Michiel J. Dop Mrs. Vicki Herman Evans Dr. Sara Fernandez and Mr. Mark Fernandez Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Goodwin Mrs. Ashley Greenbaum Mr. Matthew H. Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Wade B. Hammett Mr. Donald D. Hattier, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Isacks, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Johnson, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Samir T. Khalaf Dr. Kristina Lafaye and Mr. J. Ryan Lafaye Dr. and Mrs. Gary D. Menszer Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Poole Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. Jannero Temple Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Vosbein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert U. Weiss III Mr. and Mrs. Christian Wilms Dr. and Mrs. N. Knight Worley

CLASS OF 2021 Mr. and Mrs. Brian B. Borg Dr. and Mrs. William Borron Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Bouza Mr. and Mrs. Clayton M. Connors Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Mr. and Mrs. Ian Dreyer Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Fawer Ms. Amy Feirn Mr. and Mrs. Gregory C. Feirn Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Fort V Mr. and Mrs. L. Trimble Green Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe, Jr.

CLASS OF 2023 Mr. Jeffery Amann Ms. Seema Sudan and Mr. Sidney Bertheaud Mr. and Mrs. David V. Bouy,Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Carey Dr. Caroline Campion and Dr. John Carlson Dr. and Mrs. James Collier Mr. and Mrs. Irvy E. Cossé III Mr. and Mrs. Joshua C. Cummings Mrs. Vicki Herman Evans Mr. and Mrs. Ney Gehman Drs. Sharon and Grant Gillen Ms. Ann L. Hammett Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Haydel Mr. and Mrs. Juan B. Ibieta III Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Launey Ms. Dorothy Miller and Ms. Kathie Ozborn Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan C. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Eric O’Bell Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Schlesinger Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schneider Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schwing, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Pedja Stojakovic

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thionville, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Jé Williams CLASS OF 2024 Mr. and Mrs. Phil Antis Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. August Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Barreca, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Boelte III Mr. Sergei Boissier Dr. and Mrs. James E. Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Vaughn Cimini Mr. and Mrs. Wouter K. de Klein Mr. and Mrs. Mark Drago Mr. and Mrs. W. Christian Gambel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Gordillo Mr. and Mrs. L. Trimble Green Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Hatheway Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Koppel Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. Justin Lund Mr. Andrew Marchal Ms. Kate Marchal Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas A. Marshall Ms. Anne Mueller and Mr. Robinson Mills Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Moss IV Ms. Catherine Varino and Mr. Michael Mueller Ms. Collette Felix-Norwood and Mr. Stanford T. Norwood Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rivas Mr. and Mrs. James T. Rogers III Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sinnott, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Predrag Stojakovic Mr. and Mrs. Clint L. Szubinski Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Varisco Dr. Lisa Wyatt and Ms. Cynthia Sprow

Faculty/ Staff Donors We are pleased to report that once again 100% of Country Day faculty/staff members supported the Country Day Fund.

Katie Antis Adela Baker Howard Barton Bill Beachy Angela Beerman Ned Benjamin Marsha Biguenet Myra Bordelon Angela Borron Kathy Brennan-Haug Whitney Brooks Michael Capobianco Carolyn Chandler Ellen Cohen Caitlin Collier Stephanie Connors Courtney Couvillon Charles Cowherd

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CLASS OF 2019 Ms. Lynne Sherar Barnes Mr. Thomas B. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Gerard W. Barousse, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Berger Mr. and Mrs. David V. Bouy,Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Buchmeyer Dr. and Mrs. Craig F. Caplan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conwill IV Dr. and Mrs. Frank Culicchia Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Daly, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Downs Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Fawer Mr. and Mrs. R. West Freeman III Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gabriel Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe, Jr. Mr. Avery V. Jenkins, Sr. Ms. Evelyn M. Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Johnson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Kelleher

Dr. Judith L. Corey and Mr. Greg G. Kempton Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Koppel Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lavis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Lombard III Mr. and Mrs. Marc Michaud Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Moss IV Dr. Lauren Myers and Mr. Paul Myers Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Ian Oberhelman Mr. and Mrs. John C. Overby Dr. Karen L. Paul Mr. and Mrs. James T. Rogers III Mrs. Serena C. Vaughan Mr. and Mrs. John Weigel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wisdom

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CLASS OF 2018 Dr. and Mrs. Shiva Akula Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Alexander III Mr. J. Ronald Atchley Ms. Paula Atchley Ms. Elinor S. Bright Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cerise Mrs. Mary C. Schexnaydre and Mr. Paul E. Clement, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Person Dr. and Mrs. Frank Culicchia Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Daly, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Falstad Mr. and Mrs. Robert Faurie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. West Freeman III Ms. Laurie Gardner Dr. Javed I. Gill Ms. Nabeela Gill Mr. and Mrs. Peter Golding Mr. and Mrs. James C. Guidry, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Chad J. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Kelleher III Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Koppel Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kronenberg Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lavis, Jr. Drs. Dinh and Dana Le Mr. and Mrs. Zack Lemann Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas A. Marshall Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Maupin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kent Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Petagna Mr. S. Corbett Simons Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Stouse Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Varisco Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Wallman Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. White Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wisdom

Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Kohlman Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kronenberg Mr. and Mrs. Melvin P. Landry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Lotz Dr. and Mrs. Gary D. Menszer Ms. Pamela Metzger Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morton, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Scott Novick Ms. Susanna Novick Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schwing, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Robert StG. T. Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Whealdon Dr. and Mrs. N. Knight Worley Mr. and Mrs. Luis Zervigon

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Trina Derenbecker Sam Dozier Karen Dumont Marigny Dupuy Mary Beth Ellis Pam Eveline Susan Faurie Cathy Friedmann Louise Gabriel Rebecca Gaillot Amber Gallagher Laurie Gardner Lauren Gehman Susan Gisleson Peter Golding Tracey Golding Alice Goodsell Janet Goodwin Lori Gordillo Elizabeth Grace Reed Green Charlotte Gregory Mary Guillory Lauren Hamilton Fran Hannan Eileen Hardin Bill Harrison Mónica Harrison Don Hattier Gretchen Hennessy Alyce Hesse Wini Holt Howard Hunter Calais Hurst Julie Ibieta Jenny Irwin Kitty Jackson Barry Kaiser Lisa Katz Abby Kelchen Meghan Kelly Chris Keppler Kelly Kloor Kirsh Kronenberg Susan Kurnit Kathy Kvet Kelly Lanclos Mimi Landry Carol Langston Dana Launey Dana Leaman Cecilia Leon-Drago Buddy Lore Gary Lotz Erica Lund Wayne Magee Dena Majett Andy Marchal Tommy Mathews Kelly McGeehan Betsy McGovern Mike McGuire Vitrice McMurry Evelyn Menge Laura Michaud Amie Miller Katherine Miller Brendan Minihan, Jr. Brendan Minihan, Sr.

Jen Morrison Leigh Moss Chris Nichols Karen Norfleet Meb Norton Bob O’Brien Joan O’Brien Remi Ottelin Lisette Overby Sheila Pace Suzanne Perlis Betsy Petersen Brad Philipson Alan Phillips Mary Beth Plauché Claiborne Polhill Beth Rota Julie Schneider Brenda Silverstrim Joe Simon Corbett Simons Michael Skinkus Lessley Soniat Alice Spindel Elijah Sproles Shay Steckler Edie Steinhardt Sara Stevenson Ann Stolley Andy Talmadge Raynna Temple Sandy Thornburg Eliza Trice Sue Troyano Lori Tyler Mark Uddo Ninnette Varisco Steve Victory Ashley Walter Lanier Watson Ray Webb Emily West Amy White Gary White Claudia Winstead Richard Wood Cassie Worley Brenda Yokum

Memorial Donors In memory of Mr. Albert L. Aschaffenburg Ms. Deborah H. Aschaffenburg In memory of Mr. John C. Baile Ms. Mimi C. Landry Mr. & Mrs. Leon Rittenberg, Jr. Ms. Adrea D. Heebe & Mr. Dominick A. Russo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Don Stone Ms. Lanier Watson In memory of Mrs. Marguerite B. Cappel Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bell Ms. Virginia Besthoff Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Blessey

Mrs. Susan Bradley Mrs. D. Blackshear Chaffe Ms. Carolyn B. Chandler Ms. Danica A. Cordell-Reeh Ms. Florence Cordell-Reeh Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cummings Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg Mr. and Mrs. David D. Duggins Ms. Marguerite Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Gunther III Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Isacks, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James R. Jeter, Jr. Mr. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. LeBourgeois Mr. and Mrs. J. Alfred Levert II Mrs. Helen S. McCallum Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Montz Ms. Camille Cordell-Reeh Owsley Mr. Cordell Dane Anderson Owsley Mr. and Mrs. David D. Plater Mr. and Mrs. Edmund E. Redd Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Significance Foundation Dr. and Mrs. John C. Steck Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunter White III Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunter White, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wisdom Drs. Charles and Paula Zeanah In memory of Mr. James V. Carisella II Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dunlay In memory of Mr. James M. Davis Mr. Matthew Davis In memory of Dr. Elizabeth R. English Mr. Lee Adler Mr. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rippner Mr. and Mrs. John M. Turner, Jr. In memory of Ms. M. Elizabeth Ewing Mr. and Mrs. James A. Churchill Mr. and Mrs. John R. Crane Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Epstein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Christian Gambel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Mrs. Sally Upham Hays Ms. Mary Ann Jackson Ms. Claudia F. Kelleher Ms. Beth B. May Mrs. Susan M. Cole and Mr. Charles G. McCarthy Ms. Brenda B. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Stouse Mr. Christopher Wiseman In memory of Mr. Ronnie K. Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Blaise Angelico Mr. J. Ronald Atchley Ms. Paula Atchley Mr. and Mrs. Loren T. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bell Miss Esmé Benjamin Mr. Hughes Benjamin Dr. and Mrs. Andy Burka Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Coleman

Ms. Lisa Craig and Mr. Alan Saucier Miss Abigail S. Fort Mr. Arthur T. Fort Mr. and Mrs. Tony R. Friedmann Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. George Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Gibert III Mr. and Mrs. L. Trimble Green Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Hales Mr. William Hales Dr. Carol A. Langston and Mr. Terry D. Langston Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Marsiglia Country Day Middle School Student Council Country Day Parents’ Association Ms. Anne Mueller and Mr. Robinson Mills Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Norton Mr. and Mrs. Anders Pedersen Mr. and Mrs. James M. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Prince Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosenblum Ms. Lauren C. Rosenblum Ms. Lindsay A. Rosenblum Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Capt. and Mrs. Robert R. Senter, Jr. Ms. Beth R. Shapiro Ms. Brenda Silverstrim and Ms. Alice Spindel Mr. Richard L. Simmons Ms. Sara Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Streiffer Mr. and Mrs. Richard Treuting Ms. Jan Villarrubia Ms. Lanier Watson Mrs. Jessica L. White Mrs. Cornelius Dee White III Mr. and Mrs. John Wright Ms. Lanier Watson Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Zuraw In memory of Mr. Donald A. Hammett Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel In memory of Mr. Theo M. Heller Mr. and Mrs. Art Kleinstein In memory of Mr. Jerry S. Hoggatt Mr. and Mrs. James A. Churchill Mr. James B. Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Ralston P. Cole Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg Mrs. John C. Fuchs, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Mr. and Mrs. Halley H. Hoggatt Ms. Joan Knobel Mr. and Mrs. Jerry P. Nusloch Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Symon In memory of Mrs. Eugenie J. Huger Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunter White, Jr. In memory of Mrs. Harriet Kugler Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel In memory of Mr. Edward B. Ludwig, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. Howell Crosby In memory of Mr. Spalding K. Manson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hazelwood Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Sr.

In memory of Ms. Lisa G. Messersmith Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg Mr. and Mrs. D. Blair Favrot In memory of Mr. Robert P. Normann, Sr. Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg In memory of Mrs. Bruce W. Rafferty Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel Ms. Lanier Watson Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Zuraw In memory of Mr. Charles K. Reasonover Citizens National Bank Mr. and Mrs. John C. Combe Dr. and Mrs. E. Bruce Edrington Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Perry J. Mills, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Doug Ostrover Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Paul Mr. and Mrs. James M. Petersen Ms. Mary J. Phelan Mr. and Mrs. Lise R. Poirrier Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence N. Powell Mrs. Amburn Power Ms. Lisa F. Quackenbush Ms. Mary G. Radtke Mr. Paul Raether Mrs. James W. Reily, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Riess Robbins Family Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosenblum Ms. Lauren Rosenblum Ms. Lindsay Rosenblum Ms. Libby Rudolf Mr. and Mrs. William B. Rudolf Mr. Charlie Ruehr Ms. Adrea D. Heebe & Mr. Dominick A. Russo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Saer, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Saer, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Saer Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Saer Mr. and Mrs. Charles McK. Saltzman Ms. Laura S. Schneidau Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Schwarz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Shannon Ms. Beth R. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Sherrill Ms. Marjorie F. Shushan Mr. and Mrs. Tom Siebel

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Ms. Brenda Silverstrim and Ms. Alice Spindel Mr. Richard L. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Singer Mr. and Mrs. James A. Skinner Mr. and Mrs. Gwin Smith Mr. and Mrs. Pearman Smith Dr. and Mrs. Stover L. Smith, Jr. Mr. Charles W. Stern Mrs. Warren L. Stern Stewart Enterprises Mr. and Mrs. Don Stone Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Stouse Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Stuart IV Mr. and Mrs. David F. Thorpe Mr. and Mrs. Richard Treuting Ms. Alison A. Troy Mr. and Mrs. James Shelby Tucker, Jr. Ms. D. Ashbrooke Tullis Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Van Houten Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit M. Veeder Ms. Jan Villarrubia Mr. and Mrs. Judson Watson III Ms. Lanier Watson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. White Mr. and Mrs. Tracy R. Wolstencroft Mr. and Mrs. John T. Woodruff Ms. Linda P. Woodwell Ms. Margaret H. Woolley Dr. and Mrs. John M. Yarborough, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Yort

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In memory of Ms. Jo Gwin Shelby Ms. Nancy Alchek Mr. and Mrs. Cary J. Amann Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert M. Amthor Mr. and Mrs. Allain C. Andry III Mr. Allain Andry Ms. Katie Andry Mr. Michael Andry Ayco Charitable Foundation Mr. Michael G. Barger Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Barnes Mr. Patrick Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Clark M. Barousse Mr. and Mrs. Gerard W. Barousse, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Beer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berner Ms. Christine A. Bicknell Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Boh Ms. Pamela Bonner Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick M. Bott Mr. and Mrs. Bob Breck Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Bright III Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. G. Bright, Jr. Mrs. Alfred W. Brown, Jr. Mr. Scott D. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Pat W. Browne, Jr. Mr. H.L.R. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Carpenter Mr. Guy S. Carr-Harris Mr. and Mrs. Jake Caruso Ms. Carolyn B. Chandler Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chicorelli Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. E. Howell Crosby Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg Mr. and Mrs. Dean W. Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Degruy Mr. and Mrs. Pat W. Denton Dr. and Mrs. Carl J. Dicharry Ms. Helen M. Dickinson Mr. Farrell Diliberto Ms. Anne C. Dilworth Mr. Hiram Dilworth Mr. Parker Dilworth Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Dilworth Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Dilworth Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Drapanas Mrs. Fontaine Y. Draper

Mr. and Mrs. R. Foster Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Eagan, Jr. Ms. Andree P. Eddleman Mr. Stephen Edwards Mr. Brittin Eustis Mr. James Eustis Mr. Laurance Eustis III and Ms. Karin Giger Mr. and Mrs. C. Scott Fahey Ms. Melissa A. Rogers and Mr. Stan Fendley Mrs. John S. Ferretti Ms. Mary S. Foote Freeborn Foundation Ms. Lynda C. Friedmann Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Gaines Mr. and Mrs. W. Christian Gambel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Gart Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. George Ms. Ellie George Mr. Will George Mr. and Mrs. John D. Georges Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Goltz Mr. Matt Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodyear Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Grasso Mr. and Mrs. George G. Green, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William T. Green Mr. William Hales Mr. and Mrs. Rufus C. Harris, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Odom B. Heebe, Jr. Ms. Eleni D. Henkel Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan A. Hunter Ms. Anne Legendre Idsal Mr. Karsten Tobin Idsal Mr. W. Barclay Idsal Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Ireland Isidore Newman School Mr. and Mrs. E. Douglas Johnson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Judge Mrs. Martha H. Kabacoff Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Kallman Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Kelleher III Mr. and Peter Keogh Mrs. James H. Kepper, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Kossman, Jr. Ms. Mimi C. Landry Mr. and Mrs. H. Merritt Lane III Ms. Cindy Lang Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Laux Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Liebers Mr. Stephen Loeb Ms. Katherine Armstrong Love Ms. Patricia O. Lovejoy Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Lowentritt Mr. and Mrs. David B. Macfarlane Mrs. Katherine K. Marrero Ms. Skipper Prince Masur Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mayhew Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Mayhew, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. James McCarthy III Ms. Gaye McCutchen Ms. Nan N. McGarrh Mr. and Mrs. Seth R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Sterling A. Millet, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George R. Neblett Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Olmstead

Legacy Lunch

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On October 18th, Country Day hosted the 4th Annual Legacy Lunch. Alumni parents and grandparents of current students enjoyed a traditional lunch of red beans and rice and lemon ice box pie under the oak tree in the picnic area.

The hosts and honored guests of this year’s lunch were the 19 legacies in the Class of 2012.

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172 Legacies

Country Day produces approximately pounds of Red Beans & Sausage every year

3,500 24 Alumni are also

grandparents of current Cajuns

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106 Alumni are also parents of current Cajuns

Second Annual Math Olympiad

Horse of Branches

On Saturday, May 5, Country Day hosted its second annual Math Olympiad, a math tournament in which teams of students from area schools in grades four through six compete face-to-face for over four hours.

This competition, based on the Mathematics Olympiad for Elementary and Middle School Students, MOEMS, is the only one of its kind in the New Orleans area.

Seventy students competed in two events, solving ten individual problems and ten team problems; no calculators were permitted. When the competition heated up, tough lightning round tiebreakers determined the winner. Every student received a certificate of participation, and awards were given to high scoring individuals and teams.

Program coordinators Math Department Chair Gretchen Hennessy and lower school math instructor Rebecca Gaillot are enthusiastic about the 2012 competition. “We want to continue to offer a place where students can come together for a collective math experience,” says Gaillot. “The Country Day math program is exciting, real, and alive, and we are sharing this with others. It’s a beautiful thing to see a large group of children burst out into cheers over the answer to a math problem. This is an unsurpassed opportunity for students to grow mathematically.”

In 2011, sixty students from area schools participated in Country Day’s Math Olympiad. h

Solemnly, he stands alone, head bowed, Flanked by powerful oaks.

Trapped in a forest of fire, Surrounded by an ocean of blood.

He who succumbs to fate always drowns in misery.

His sturdy legs that carried mountains were replaced By interlaced fingers of flimsy twigs, Ready to snap under the heavy burden of failure, His sullen soul must endure.

Memories of the hope he betrayed haunt him, Like silvery specters thirsty for any last trace Of life.

He is a pillar of loneliness, An example of crimson fear, For posterity.

Solemnly, he stands alone, head bowed, His troubled mind saturated with unwanted wisdom, His abandoned spirit left solitary and unaided.

He who gives up forever Always hungers for lost amity.

Catherine Cerise 2017 New Orleans Voices

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METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Class of 2012 Acceptances as of May 8, 2012

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