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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, I V
Rachael T. Gambel 1987
Dathel C. Georges 1986
Scott M. Ham, President, Dads’ Club
Gretchen Hennessy, Faculty Trustee
Je rey 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
R ichard Simmons
Charles Van Horn 1977
John Weigel, Jr.
Cynthia H. Weinmann
A ndrew D. Weinstock
Gina Womack
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CONTRIBUTING W RITERS
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 Mi in 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 A frica,The Story of Cedar House & Country Day,” page 17) has a goal to support women in developing nations. A s 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), A lyce 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 A rts and Sciences,” page 14) he analyzes Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the influences of the past, and the present realities of academia.
Lower S chool 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 T heatre, an M A in Children’s Literature, and a Masters in Library S cience. She has studied mime
in Paris, worked as a puppeteer, organized an international puppetry festival, and worked as a legal librarian for Freeport McMoR an.
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 sta who o ered 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 A ssistant. She grew up in New York and Connecticut, studied EnglishWriting Studies at Pfei er 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 (“A rt 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. A fter her studies at Harvard, Betsy worked with the Boston Globe, and later the Times-Picayune as a feature writer for the Sunday magazine. A s 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
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 di erent 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!
Cordially,
Carolyn B. Chandler
Charles Dickens at Country Day
- Marigny Dupuy 1965 and Meghan Kelly
Photos by Deborah A mann 2014
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
A s 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 o ers 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 o 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. A ll 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
A fter attending the 2010 Dickens Universe conference, we collaborated on
DICKENS Continued on page 6
“Dickens’ concern with social and environmental issues, urban crime, child abuse, poverty, and exploitation, makes him very much a writer for our own time.”
What are they reading?
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
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. T he 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 e orts 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 A lcott, 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. T wo 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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of 2011 and have thirty-three members already, some from Country Day, but many from the greater New Orleans community. T he 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
Contact dickensfellowship@mpcds.com for further information about the Dickens Fellowship of New Orleans
Madeleine Albright Visits Country Day
“I was very impressed by their questions and knowledge of what’s happening in the world.”
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Madeleine A lbright
In May 2011, Former Secretary of State Madeleine A lbright was in New Orleans to promote an exhibit of her brooches, “Read My Pins: The Madeleine A lbright Collection,” at the New Orleans Museum of A rt. Through the e orts of a Country Day trustee, former Secretary A lbright, 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. A lbright was greeted by over 200 smiling lower school students and their teachers waving A merican 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 Strei er, Lee R ittenberg, and A my 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 di cult crisis that you faced as Secretary of State? How will the current political unrest in the Arab world a ect the future safety and security of Israel? How did the Rwandan genocide a ect 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 Strei er, remarked that Secretary A lbright was “very easy to talk with. She really opened my eyes and inspired me to take A P Government, and to become more involved.” Upon her exit, Secretary A lbright 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
DICKENS
TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM A BIASED VIEW
- A lyce Hesse 1997 Photos by Deborah A mann 2014
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 A lgebra II course. The scene described is similar to what occurs today in Country Day’s math classrooms, with two important and paradigm-shifting di erences: 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 e ciencies 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 di erent than what they encounter everywhere else. A n 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.”
A ll 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.
A n ine ective teacher provided with a projector, a computer, and several powerful programs will probably be no better o . However, if you provide these tools to a passionate, knowledgeable, and e ective 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. “ T wenty-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. U ltimately, it is the right combination of teacher and relevant technology that leads to greater student engagement and deeper understanding. h
What is she reading?
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Country Day Cum Laude Society welcomes 2012 inductees
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.
JUNIORS
Nick Beachy
Caroline Borron
Mason Moore
Libby Rudolf
Bobby Sanders
SENIORS
Margot Beerman
Ellie George
Carolyn Holtzman
Becca Lapeyre
Adeem Nachabe
Lee Rittenberg
Katie Thompson
Nancy Weinstock
SENIORS
ELECTED 2011
Nina Haug
Maddy Livaudais
Lane Porter
Amy Schully
Chris Strei er
Katie Strei er
Mindset,
Carol S. Dweck
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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 A ssociation 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 Katrina. Under her leadership, Country Day has returned to its pre-Katrina enrollment, added a sought-after Pre-Kindergarten program, and paid o 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 a ords 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
Stone Whispers
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
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
A s 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 A ssistant 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 M A in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
For more information about NAIS, visit www.nais.org h
What is she reading?
The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else, by George A nders
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
A N D…. your New Orleans HOR NETS! A nnouncer Chuck Edward’s voice introduces another wild night of Hornets basketball. T hese games usually come down to the wire in the hands of the players or between two sections of the arena showing o for the dance-cam, the kiss-cam, the flex-cam, or the smile-cam. T he opening tip signals the commencement of the game. Fans in the arena and in their homes in front of T V 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” o 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 o 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. A nd 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. FA N UP, NEW OR LEA NS 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
- Adam Goldberg 2013 & Lee R ittenberg 2012, Photo by Deborah A mann 2014
THE HORNETS
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 playo s. Fans in New Orleans feel such a connection with the professional athletes that represent them, and we thrive o of that relationship. Our players feel that love and support when there’s an arena full of fans cheering for them.” W E 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. U ltimately 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
the city in the form of visitor spending, both at the A rena and in the Central Business District during the forty plus home games a year. A long with the loss of employment opportunities, the New Orleans A rena, 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 su er 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.
“A ND… your New Orleans HOR NETS!”
We’re in. A re 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
The Arts & Sciences REPAIRING THE BREACH:
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
T he Renaissance mind worked in dualities; in R aphael’s School of Athens, Plato points up to Heaven and A ristotle 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 A rts and Sciences, the Renaissance conception of the unity of knowledge. T he 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 e ect 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
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. A s R ichard 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
What’s he reading?
The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand
Our Obligation to Country Day
- Leon H. R ittenberg, Jr. 1952
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 e ect 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. A n 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. T hese various donation alternatives include Charitable Remainder Unitrusts, Charitable Remainder A nnuity 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 A frica has played host to a lot of global events lately. T here was the FIFA men’s soccer World Cup in 2010, the U N Climate Change Conference beginning in 2011, and, closer to home, the Country Day exchange program. For two weeks in S eptember, Country Day high school students, along with Head of School Carolyn Chandler and history teacher Charles Cowherd, experienced S outh A frican life and culture—both types. You see, South A frica is a divided nation. It’s composed of indigenous black A fricans and white descendants of Dutch and British settlers; it’s situated on the sea, but su ers 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.
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 A frica. 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 A frican 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 A frican 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 A frikaans word for apartness, and that’s exactly what it meant in South A frica. Apartheid was a program of systematic racism and racial segregation implemented in South A frica throughout the twentieth century. Under apartheid, race wasn’t black, white, Latino, and A sian, as we think of it. Instead, people were divided into three racial groups: white (Caucasian), black (A frican), 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 A frica, 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 A frica. 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. A fter years of protest both in and out of South A frica, apartheid slowly declined in the 1990s. By 1994, South A frica’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 A frica so blatantly racist, and so to them, the world might never have been thus divided. Racial di erences 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 A frica’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 A frica. The fact that eighty percent of South A fricans are black is inescapable. The Country Day students discovered the di erences between Cedar House and other parts of the nation through an annual Cedar House excursion to Bulungula, in the hinterlands of South A frica. This trip to the rural village of Nqileni was, according to Ms. Chandler, one of the most important parts of the South A frica exchange. She explains, “If you’re going to go to South A frica, 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 A fricans live. A s Zoe explains, “The
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 A fricans are unemployed. In addition, South A frica 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 su cient medical care to cope with the AIDS epidemic, or with the high infant and maternal mortality that it contributes to. Most South A fricans who struggle with unemployment, poverty, and AIDS are black or mixed race. With the global economic crisis, the South A frican government is struggling more than ever to provide for all South A fricans and to right racial imbalances. In an attempt to help provide aid to South A fricans, a young South A frican 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 A frica. 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 A nnual 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 A merican music and culture, their school experience was extremely di erent in some ways. Like us, they don’t wear uniforms, but
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. A nother 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 di erences between Country Day and Cedar House, the students share similar values and have developed lasting friendships.
South A frica is facing the end of its early modern age. The younger generations in South A frica have grown up without apartheid, and they’re facing the problem of maintaining peace in such a racially diverse nation. Nelson Mandela is aging. A fter his death, South A frica 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 A frica. They will have to help South A frica act as a nation to overcome its di culties, just like the Country Day students are using their experiences from South A frica to help New Orleans overcome its di culties. “I admire how everyone in South A frica embraces di erences 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 A frica, but she’s also trying to work with New Orleanians to improve the quality of life here. A s 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 A frica.” h
What’s she reading?
Cheney Gardner 2011
A Morehead-Cain Scholar
Exploring the World, Determined to Save It
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 ra e 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 sta
in weekly recycling e orts and composting on campus. A n avid outdoor enthusiast and aspiring cultural anthropologist, Cheney spent last summer backpacking through A laska and investigating the local culture.
Cheney is working hard and as always has great aspirations. She intends to major in Journalism and A nthropology 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.
A s 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 o to Peru. “I’m planning to work as a volunteer in the Peruvian A ndes 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 a ording 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 di erence.”
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
Cheney Gardner 2011, left, pictured in Alaska
Suzanne Collins
The Beat Goes On
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 o er a smile.
So how did he land on our campus? A nd 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 A merican 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 A merican Studies and an M A 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 A merican 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 A rts 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 di erent 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
embraced me immediately. No one cared that I was the guy in the room and really, we aren’t very di erent 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 una ected, 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.”
What’s he reading?
Islands Beneath the Sea, by Isabel A llende
The Forgotten Heroes of Watergate - Ben Koch 1998
History bu s 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 (CR P 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. A ll the President’s Men (the book and the movie). The smoking gun.
Millions of A mericans 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. A nd while the Watergate Committee did bring the scandal’s dirtiest deeds to light, it did not convince R ichard 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. A s 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 O ce.
That security vanished during the last week of July 1974, when the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment. A lmost 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 A mericans. Tarnished by its lone use against a president—A ndrew 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.
T hat 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. T his action convinced A mericans that their president was hiding something from them. T he immense public outcry shocked Nixon. Monday morning, impeachment resolutions overflowed the House’s bill hopper.
The House Judiciary Committee hired a special sta to consider impeachment and worked dutifully throughout the winter and spring to compile the evidence against the President. But not quickly enough. A mericans 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 coi ed white hair and a gravelly voice, worked
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 A mericans. 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 R ichard 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. A nd 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.
A nd it was. Days later, President Nixon finally turned over the tapes, including the “Smoking Gun.” A lmost immediately after the break-in at the Watergate,
he had ordered the CIA to tell the FBI to back o its investigation because the burglary was part of a national security operation. But this was a lie, as the operation was politically motivated, an e ort 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 o ense: 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
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
HØW THE NUM3ERS WILL 5AVE US
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
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.
A fter 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
- Hani Nahkoul 2003
play a role in many types of cognition and behavior, give o electrical signals in two di erent 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 S ociety 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 di erent 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
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 A ne 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. A s 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
Hani will complete his combined MD/PhD at Tulane in 2019, and hopes to remain in New Orleans.
Two Presidential Scholar Nominees
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
What’s he reading?
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 o ered this scholarship often accept the McDermott over scholarships o ered by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Cal-Tech, and many other exceptional colleges and universities.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré.
Athletics: 2011-2012 Year in Review
State Champions
Boys Soccer
Boys Tennis
Boys Tennis- Doubles
Girls Cross Country
Girls Tennis- Doubles
Girls Track- 4x400 Relay Volleyball
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 Playo s
A ll 17 varsity teams qualified for the State Playo s
Regional Champs
Boys Golf
Boys Tennis
Girls Tennis
Girls Track
Join the Movement
- Gary Briggs 2006
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 di erent 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.”
A ll 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 A merica. 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.
W hite 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 a liation, is a great honor.
A Collective Fight
I’m currently teaching at the Harriet Tubman Elementary School, an RSD Charter School in A lgiers, 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 di cult and daunting challenge of closing the achievement gap. A s 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. A mericans don’t connect to generic anecdotes of success in the classroom. A mericans 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
What is he reading?
Why The Saints Matter
- Bert Bartlett 1975
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 A merican 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 levelbut 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. A ll 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.
Follow Bert at www soulsofthesaints com h
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
ART HISTORY STUDENTS
VISIT WORLD-CLASS COLLECTIONS
- Betsy Petersen
Students in A P A rt 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 A ntiques on Royal Street. For several years, students have visited the internationally known Japanese art collection of Kurt Gitter and lice Yelen, parents of Manya Gitter 2009, at their home near Country Day (Comments, pring 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 frican art in A merica.
scending 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 stu 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 su ering from health problems, a community seeking protection from its enemies or success in trade. A nd 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 A s 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 A frica, 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.” A fter looking at pictures of A frican art in books, “all of a sudden there they were and they could touch them.”
T he 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.”
A frican art, he tells them, di ers 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 a ected 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 A frican 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. [A frican art] is the art that inspired Picasso.”
A student asks why he started collecting A frican 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 A frican art in New Orleans. Lewis says New Orleans is a good place for people with an interest in A frican art. Not only is the Davis Gallery “probably the finest gallery of A frican art in the country,” but the New Orleans Museum of A rt has one of the best museum collections in A merica. Lewis has also acquired pieces in Paris and Brussels, both important centers for A frican art, and he is a past president of the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of A frican A rt in Washington D.C.
A n 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 A frica, 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
What’s he reading?
The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt
HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, KIDD!
- Laura Michaud
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.
K idd’s most recent research will be detailed in her upcoming paper, “The Goldilocks E ect,” 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 di cult 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 e ort between Kidd, R ichard A slin, 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 A nnual 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 o cially 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 A nnenberg 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 A riel A rts 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
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 e ciently.”
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 di erent 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.”
Celeste hopes to secure a tenure-track research faculty position at a university. She’d like to continue her current lines of research, as well as her collaboration with colleagues. h
What’s she reading?
The Marriage Plot, by Je rey Eugenides
Paul Frantz to join Country Day Middle School
Mr. Paul Frantz, A ssociate Head of School at Berkshire Country Day S chool in Lenox, M A , has been selected as the incoming Middle School Principal for 2012-2013. Paul is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the A merican International College in Springfield, M A , 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 di erentiating 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. A n
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 helped to integrate New Orleans schools in 1960.
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 o ers little in the way of downhill ski racing, Country Day welcomes Mr. Frantz’s leadership and enthusiasm to our Cajun community. h
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 e orts 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.
Pictured: Bobby Sanders, Isabelle Shall, Libby Rudolf, Christopher Golizio, Blake Anderson, Leona Tate, Parker Prince, Jordan Battiste, Abby Buchmeyer
ON EXHIBIT
The recent renovation of the Country Day art gallery, now known as Georges A rt 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 o 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 A rt Therapy A ssociation, opened in Georges A rt 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 A rt Therapist Celeste Schexnaydre ATR-BC, who contributed to the exhibit, says, “creative
Terrance Osborne & his wife, Stephanie
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 A medee and Christian Stock. Guests were delighted to see A medee’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.
A rtist Christian Stock draws inspiration from structural forms and mechanical systems to create his intricate glass, steel, and concrete designs. “A rchitectural 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’ A ssociation gallery curators, Terese Bennett and Erica Lemann, for their commitment to keeping our community engaged in relevant artistic conversation. h
In September 2011, Country Day was honored to host alumnus Ian Carney 1986 and his wife Eleanor for two full performances of their renowned electroluminescent light show, Darwin the Dinosaur. Ian and Eleanor Carney, both highly acclaimed professional dancers, spent years training in New York, Boston, Indianapolis, and Alabama. Ian completed his studies at Tulane University while performing with the Ballet Hysell in New Orleans, and Eleanor, a graduate of SMU with a BFA in dance, performed with the esteemed Lexington Ballet, among others. The couple joined the Montgomery Ballet in 1996 and list principal roles in Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade, Petrouchka, and Les Sylphides
among their many accomplishments. Millions of musical theater fans remember Ian on Broadway in Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp’s musical Movin’ Out, where he danced the lead role for three years.
It was on Broadway that the couple met Corbin Popp, a professional dancer with a degree in biochemistry and a minor in math and physics, who shared their fascination with art, theater, technology, and the desire to create something completely original for the stage. While tinkering with gadgets (yes, even Broadway stars enjoy power tools and the Sunday trip to Lowes), the team came across an intriguing product called EL wire, an electroluminescent wire powered simply by batteries.
Translation: it glows in the dark. “And the possibilities seemed endless,” says Ian.
The friends formed the Corbian Visual Arts and Dance company, and between their busy choreography and performance schedules, developed puppetry-based creatures that quickly formed their own identities. With EL wire delicately fastened to the puppets, the puppeteers could remain concealed by total darkness while their illuminated creations told visually dazzling stories. After years of technical development, engineering, and careful
DARWIN & THE EVOLUTION OF ART + TECHNOLOGY
- Photo by Stephen Charles Nicholson
choreography, the story of ready to be unveiled, and Corbian Arts travelled the world to promote their work; the world took notice. Darwin has received enthusiastic reviews by theater critics from Munich to Moscow.
This fall, Ian was home for a highly publicized series of Darwin performances at the Contemporary Arts Center and agreed to bring the show to Country Day. As soon as the seats filled with curious, excited students, Weinmann Auditorium was completely blacked out. Seconds passed before a powerful musical score poured through the speakers and two massive pterodactyls, illuminated by EL wire, erupted from the darkness and rushed the stage.
Immediate gasps turned into “aahhs” of delight as the birds floated elegantly above the stage and then faded away as quickly as they emerged.
A small flicker of red light, representing the heart bestowed upon all natural beings, appeared on stage.
And so began the evolution of Darwin the Dinosaur, a seven-foot electroluminescent dinosaur, who through a series of developmental milestones, while exploring the dangerous, amusing, and inevitable transformations of the world around him (including a light-saber fight with a ten-foot red T-Rex), discovers the true meaning of love.
Darwin o ers the audience a menagerie of illuminated beings from the smallest sea creatures to massive birds that dance gracefully to the brilliant musical score. From
start to finish, the audience, in this case Country Day Pre-K through grade twelve students, was captivated by “eye-popping” imagery and a poignant story. As intended, we forgot about the completely concealed cast operating the massive structures.
Ian Carney and Corbian Arts have indeed created a cutting-edge show, one that the LA Times calls “a wonderful hour of fantasy that combines ancient, wordless storytelling with modern technology and music.” As inspirational as the success of Darwin was Ian’s humility upon addressing the students. “This is where it all began for me,” he said. “I made my first mistakes on this stage and was allowed to keep trying until I got it right. Remember this feeling because you cannot get [it] from a video game, a DVD, a tweet, a blog... the only way we can get this feeling is in the theater.”
A standing ovation, hugs from former teachers, and questions from very inquisitive students marked the end of an incredibly exciting experience.
Corbian Arts is not about to slow down. They recently spent two weeks in Austin, TX, for the premier of their latest light wire show, The Ugly Duckling Eleanor Carney happily reported that the “show was well received and is o on tour through the end of May.
Darwin has been booked for a week in Taipei this spring and Duckling is going to Hong Kong in August. We feel like very proud parents.” h
Through the Lens of Deborah Amann
Q: Do you think you see the world di erently 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 di erently; at the end of the day, the details make the big picture interesting.
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.
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
Mathematical Sciences Institute
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 A nja 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, A ndy 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 A rabia; 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, A lyce Hesse, who was a co-instructor at the A nja 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 A lyce 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 A ndover, who earned his PhD from Northwestern before studying mathematics at Cambridge University.
“Good teachers will always remain learners,” says Kuhlman. “MSI o ers 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 NOL A 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 co ee 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 “A stronomy and Precalculus: A Match Made in Heaven.” h
For more information about MSI visit http://msi-no org
Country Day’s Lower S chool chess team, coached by Greg A gamy, is flourishing this year. T he team, consisting of second grader Maximo Valobra, kindergartener Walker Gordillo, and first grader A neesh 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 A neesh 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. A n 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 A lumni Weekend. Loyal Edward Heller 1943 and Sandy entertained at home with Donald Bradburn 1942 and A nne, 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.
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. A s a child, Frank once rode it behind the Rex Parade in New Orleans one Mardi Gras day and once over the Mississippi R iver’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 A merica, one at the Henry Ford Museum and one was in Steve McQueen’s collection.
1950s
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 A rt Center in New York City in November 2010.
1960s
Alan Malone 1960 writes, “The Great A merican 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.” A lan’s book is titled, The Quotidian Time Traveler.
When he’s not writing, A lan 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.
1970s
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 o cial 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 A lumni Board.
Edwina and Frank Costley on their 1897 double bike
Michael O’Donnell 1979 has joined CMS, Inc. - General Contracting & Construction Management in Charlottesville, VA
1980s
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. T he consulate has several hundred employees, and its jurisdiction covers a region of 200 million people.
A career Foreign Service O cer 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 o cer and vice-counsel at the U S Embassies in Caracas, Venezuela
and Bangkok, Thailand, and in the State Department’s Operations Center Crisis Management o ce. Roy is the recipient of several Department of State superior and meritorious honor awards and the A merican Foreign Service
A ssociation’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 A mbassador, 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.
Karla Newburger Diehl 1981 is working for the Peace Corps in Uganda. Check our her blog: http://karla-o script.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
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.
Roy Perrin 1980 (third from right)
Bronson Newburger 1986 and his family
Glenn Gardner 1988 sporting his CD letterman jacket
Lee Rittenberg 2012 with his uncle Andy Rittenberg 1988 and cousin Bradley
Eric Norman 1981 lives in Atlanta with his wife, A ngela, 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 A shley’s and Capital Bar and Grill in Little Rock, A rkansas.
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.”
Anne England Wall 1989 and her husband, Stacy, welcomed Thomas A lexander Wall on January 5, 2012. Thomas joins big brother, Charlie. The Walls live in New York City.
1990s
Robbie Little 1990 is coaching baseball at Baylor University.
Andy Mathes 1992 and his family have moved from Memphis to
A lexandria, VA A ndy 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).
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, A miee, started a non-profit organization called Addie’s A ngels (www.addiesangels.com). Named after their 2 year old daughter, Addison, Addie’s A ngels 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 A ngels, the nonprofit has provided New Orleans area children with helpful things
such as ramps, walk-in tubs, and adaptive scissors.
T his past summer, Patrick Christovich 1998 prevailed at the Louisiana Golf A ssociation Mid-A mateur at English T urn 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. A mateur 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. A fter a few years away from golf, he regained his amateur status in 2008.
Mary McIlhenny Ankenbauer 1999 married Stephen A nkenbauer on November 19, 2011.
Kate Dietzen Beaulieau 1999 and her husband, Curt, have a son, R iley Callaway Beaulieau.
Hyder Brewster 1999 and his wife, Caitlin just celebrated their daughter Mary Catherine’s first birthday.
Ellie Rodriguez Brown 1999 and her husband, Cli ord, welcomed a son, Cli ord, on February 7, 2012. Cli ord joins big brother, Matthew.
Annie Clements 1999 married Thad Beaty in February 2011. Both
Class of 1996 thirteen year vets at their 15th Reunion in December
Olivia Michal Gaines, daughter of Clark Gaines 1995 and wife Whitney
Patrick Christovich 1998
Ben Koch 1998
A nnie 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 W hite 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, A lston Gregory, daughter of Charlotte Haygood Gregory 1998 and Tom.
Sean Bode 2000 writes, “Life is great. I am living in A sheville with my beautiful wife of 6 years, Sarah. Raising Thomas, almost
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 A ssistant 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 A ngeles, CA and is working for the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
Elizabeth Wolfson 2000 wrote, “ I’m in my second semester of my doctoral work in the Department of A merican Studies at Brown. My work is primarily focused in two areas: transnational approaches to A merican 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
Taylor Simon 1999 and his wife Jody Webre
and creatively about questions and problems in the classroom.
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 A merican Dance Legacy Initiative (which is housed at Brown), which will open in mid-March.”
Ryan Littlewood 2001 is currently nearing the end of a PhD in sedimentology at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
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. T he group works together to use their resources and skills to support initiatives e ecting positive
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
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.
Pierre Moses 2004 is the executive manager of Make It Right Solar.
He is responsible for orchestrating all of the residential solar energy installations on Make It Right homes and advancing the a ordability 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 o ce operations with the foundation’s online communication database.
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.
A fter 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
Emily Zeanah Shelton 2000, Sue Borchers, Katy Zeanah 2002, and Melanie Zeanah 2011
sale department while completing his MBA
Charles Jamison Beuerman 2005 graduated from R hodes 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.
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.
Andy Gaines 2005 is a Commercial Credit A nalyst 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. A ndy 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.
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, A ndrew 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.”
Blathrae Gillin 2006 was initiated into the A lpha 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 A airs and Spanish.
Heidi Heumann 2006 is a commercial real estate appraiser in New Orleans and a member of Country Day’s A lumni 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.”
Robert Eshleman 2007 wrote, “In May, I graduated with distinction from U VA ., 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 sta 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 o -Broadway theatre in the East Village in Manhattan.
This fall, I was fortunate to intern with two talented theater professionals at NY T W: 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 NY T W’s fall productions, I also helped to outfit and set up the theater’s brand new scene and costume shops. (NY T W’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.”
Matt Stone 2007 with Athletic Director Mike McGuire and Dave Sherman
Class of 2006 at their 5 year reunion in December
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.
Leonard Kimball Nicholson 1976 on January 19, 2012.
R ichard Drake Norton, Jr. 1957 on Monday, May 31, 2010.
Brucie Ra erty, former lower school principal, on April 19, 2011.
Jo Gwin Shelby, former teacher, on August 29, 2011.
Georgia Monsted Simmons 1959 on November 9, 2011.
Benjamin Rush Strong 1944 on January 17, 2010.
Judith Nott Strong 1947 on February 11, 2010.
Cornelius “Dee” White 1970 on December 16, 2011.
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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 A nnual Report. Thanks to your extraordinary support, the Country Day Fund raised $620,184. A s always, 100% of our Board of Trustees, A lumni Board, and faculty/sta 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, A nne Redd
Sallee and Tommy Benjamin Danielle Guidry Dana Hansel
Stephanie McDu e
Megan and William Nelson
Class of 2024 Jessica Boelte
R ick Price Edmund Redd Suzanne Rusovich
Michael Tubbs
Marion and A ndy Weinstock
Parent Giving Committee Chairs, Lisa and Rob Vosbein
Catherine Varino
Class of 2023 Michelle Cossé
Sherri O’Bell
Class of 2022 Vicki Herman Evans
Emily and Wade Hammett
Class of 2021 A my Feirn Serena Vaughan
Class of 2020 Joelle and Eddie Halpern
Schlesinger
Class of 2019 Leslie and Jonathan Fawer Eugenie and Gary Menszer
Class of 2018 A my and Charlie Lavis Troylynn Maupin
Deborah A scha enburg Scott Duggins
Christian Gambel
Rachael Gambel
Dathel Georges Brandon Key
Class of 2017 Carrie and Eric Berger Gina Womack
Class of 2016 Emily Brown Tracy Kuchler
Class of 2015 Catherine and A ndrew Downs
Class of 2014 Adele and Haden Lafaye
Sheila St. Etienne
Class of 2013 Monique Gardner
Class of 2012 R ica Miniclier
Ellen and Barry Schully
Class of 2011 Lisa Craig Paula and Charley Zeanah
Alumni Giving Committee Chair, Charlie Van Horn
Charlie Lanier
Malcolm Meyer A nne Redd
Wendy Rock
Laura Schneidau
Grandparent Giving Chairs, Martha and Bill Gunther
Parent of Alumni Giving Chairs, Deborah and Eli Tullis
Faculty/Sta Giving Chair, Gretchen Hennessy
Emily Strong Clancy Stumpf
Julie Terrell A shbrooke 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 Bestho
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 McDu e
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
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
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
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
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. Je rey R. Doussan, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Falstad
Mr. and Mrs. S. Stewart Farnet, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Allen Favrot
Mr. Ca rey 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 Ho man
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. Strei er
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.
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
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 Hu , 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. Ca ery 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. Geo rey 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. Je rey 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. Ascha enburg
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 Bono
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. Je rey 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.
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. Je ery 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. Ap el
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. Woodru 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
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. Je rey 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. Condli e
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. Je rey 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
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. Gi ord
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
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. Hu t
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. Ja e
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. Je rey 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. Je rey 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. 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
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. Gi en 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
Chesley Johnson Dale 1940
Eddie Benjamin 1942
Maia Weston Luikart
1943
Edward Heller
Tommy Lemann
Avis Reynick Moore
1946
Claire Clark
Boatner Reily
Eli Tullis
Jack Weinmann
1948
Eleanor Hart Condli e
Bonnie Mossler Rault
Nancy Perdue Wogan
1949
Margie Upham Banks
Kit Rittenberg Samuels
1950
Bucky Barkley
Eben Hardie
Albert Lamar
Sam Parkhouse
1952
Olive Rodriguez Fuchs
Mary Edna Clark Hollins
Barbara Young Rhodes
Leon Rittenberg
Richard Sears
1953
Jeanne Labouisse Cummings
Ann Lampton Curtis
Gayle Rich Roberts
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
1961
Tommy Coleman
Howard Strei er
1962
Peter Coleman
Molly Voorhies Gahagan
John Little
Tony Rodriguez
1963
Patty Latter Barnett
Terry Hall
Jennifer Huber Johnson
Mary Baldwin North
Lee Parsons
1964
Peter Dodge
Susu Wilkins Kearney
Ken Manson
Bill Thompson
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 Kabaco Thomas
1967
Kathy Manson Alexander
Richard Andry
Barry Mabry
Je 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
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
1975
Wayne Barrett
Bert Bartlett
Mick Behre
Larry Beron
David Bland
Danny Bronfin
Howard Hunter
Gisele Truax Kingsmill
Diane McConnell
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
Je 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
Gi en Weinmann
Liz Williams
1979
Debbie Ascha enburg
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 Co man
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
Ti any Carr Rieveschl
Kelley Hammett Trammell
1984
Steven Bain
Cindy Cole Cucuzzella
Ca rey 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 Ap el
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
1991
David Beach
Deborah Berins
Erica Alexander Brown
Jim Connolly
Jack Counce
Scott Davis
Scott Duggins
Jenny Farnsworth Francis
Scott Fuselier
Rogerwene Washington Gi ord
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
1992
Lauren Geraghty
Jakeen Williams Johnson
Marley Eastman LeBourgeois
Ashley Pradel
1993 Ryan Moore
1994
Amy Korndor er Daly
Warren Irwin
Niki LeBoeuf-Little
Malcolm Meyer
Corey Passman
Gaines Seaman
Liza Becker Twerdahl
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
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
Robin Burck
David Oh
Emily Strong
Julie Terrell
2002
Je rey Doussan
Caroline Gray
Beth Shapiro
Matt Sherman
Shay Steckler
Jeremy Weil
Katy Zeanah
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
Je rey 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
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 Ho man
Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Holtzman
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Hu t
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. Strei er
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. Je rey 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. Hu t
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. Geo rey 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 McDu e
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 Ho man
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. Geo rey 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 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. Ja e
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
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
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
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. Ja e
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 McDu e
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. Je rey 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 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.
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
CLASS OF 2022
Mr. and Mrs. Neil C. Abramson
Mr. Je rey 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. Je rey 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 2023
Mr. Je ery 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/sta 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
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
I n memory of Mr. Albert L. Ascha enburg
Ms. Deborah H. Ascha enburg
I n 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
I n memory of Mrs. Marguerite B. Cappel
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bell
Ms. Virginia Bestho
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Blessey
Mrs. Susan Bradley
Mrs. D. Blackshear Cha e
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
I n memory of Mr. James V. Carisella II
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dunlay
I n memory of Mr. James M. Davis
Mr. Matthew Davis
I n 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.
I n 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
I n 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. Strei er
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
I n memory of Mr. Donald A. Hammett
Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel
I n memory of Mr. Theo M. Heller
Mr. and Mrs. Art Kleinstein
I n 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
I n memory of Mrs. Eugenie J. Huger
Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunter White, Jr.
I n memory of Mrs. Harriet Kugler
Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel
I n memory of Mr. Edward B. Ludwig, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Howell Crosby
I n memory of Mr. S palding K. Manson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hazelwood
Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Sr.
I n memory of Ms. Lisa G . Messersmith
Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg
Mr. and Mrs. D. Blair Favrot
I n memory of Mr. Robert P N ormann, S r.
Mrs. Constance Weston Dahlberg
I n memory of Mrs. Bruce W. R a erty
Dr. and Mrs. René Koppel
Ms. Lanier Watson
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Zuraw
I n 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.
I n memory of Ms. Jo Gwin S helby
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. Kabaco
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
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. Je rey L. Weiss
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. White
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy R. Wolstencroft
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Woodru
Ms. Linda P. Woodwell
Ms. Margaret H. Woolley
Dr. and Mrs. John M. Yarborough, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Yort
Legacy Lunch
On October 18th, Country Day hosted the 4th A nnual Legacy Lunch. A lumni 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.
172 Legacies
24 A lumni are also grandparents of current Cajuns
Country Day produces approximately 3,500 pounds of Red Beans & Sausage every year
106 A lumni are also parents of current Cajuns
Second Annual Math Olympiad
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 o er 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
Horse of Branches
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
METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
Class of 2012 Acceptances as of May 8, 2012
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama
American University
Auburn University
Austin College
Barnard College
Bates College
Baylor University
Bentley University
Bowdoin College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Centre College
College of Charleston
University of Cincinnati
Clemson University
Colby College
University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado College
Davidson College
DePauw University
Duke University
Emory University
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
Furman University
The George Washington University
University of Georgia
Guilford College
Hendrix College
High Point University
Howard University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Kent State University
King’s College London
Louisiana State University
University of Louisiana
Loyola University New Orleans
Lynchburg College
Macalester College
Marymount Manhattan College
University of Miami
University of Michigan
Millsaps College
Mississippi College
United States Air Force
University of Mississippi
University of New England
University of New Orleans
New York University
Oxford College of Emory University
University of the Pacific
University of Pennsylvania
Pepperdine University
Point Park University
University of Redlands
Regis University
Rhodes College
University of Richmond
Roanoke College
Saint Mary’s College of California
Salem College
Samford University
University of San Diego
Sewanee: The University of the South
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
Southern Methodist University
University of Southern Mississippi
Spring Hill College
St. Edward’s University
Syracuse University
Texas Christian University
The University of Texas, Austin
The University of Texas, Dallas
Transylvania University
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
Ursinus College
US Air Force
Vanderbilt University
Villanova University
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis
Whittier College
Wo ord College
Country Day is Pleased to Introduce a New Way for Alumni to Stay Connected with The Metairie Park Country Day School Alumni Mobile App!
No matter where you live or how busy your schedule is, you will be able to connect with other alums and keep up to date with the latest Country Day school and alumni news.
The free app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android.
Features include:
Alumni directory integrated with LinkedIn
Real time Class Notes
Alumni Events Calendar
Facebook, T witter, and Vimeo
To download the app on an iPhone, scan in this image.
To download the app on an Android, scan in this image.
NOTE: To scan the QR code, you must have a scanning app on your phone. You may also download the app from your app store.
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