THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL 2023 – 24 ANNUAL REPORT
Message from Head Owl Gretchen
Warner
Dear Overlake Community,
As the newest Head Owl of The Overlake School, I want to take a moment to express my deep appreciation to the board of trustees, faculty, staff, s tudents, alumni, and entire community who participated and contributed to making 2023–24 a wonderful school year. I also have much appreciation for Eric Temple, who served as our interim head of school last year.
The information highlighted in this 2023–24 Annual Report reflects the remarkable achievements and dedication of our community, which paved the way for me to begin my first year with joy and excitement for the dynamic future of Overlake. The School’s mission to champion students and their vast potential through engaging educational experiences in a diverse and inclusive community — resonates deeply with me. I am thrilled to join a school that is thoughtfully future-forward; not only for our students, but for our campus as well. Our mission is at the heart of what we do, and I am excited to work alongside all of you to further cultivate this inspiring environment.
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of our donors and volunteers. Every gift to the annual Overlake Fund, Senior Class Legacy Fund, and Owls Night Out event makes a meaningful difference to all our students, educators, and programs. The ongoing success of the Doors to Discovery capital campaign also signals the strength of our collective vision. The completed Whitten Math & Sciences Center is a thriving hub for classes, new curriculum offerings in the innovative Idea Lab, and a new home for our Robotics teams. Financial aid endowment more than tripled to expand our commitment to socioeconomic diversity. And the upcoming Student & Community Center will provide our students with much-needed spaces to collaborate, congregate, and celebrate with each other. You can read more about this transformational new building and our final year of the capital campaign on page 22.
Thank you again for all that you do for Overlake. Together, guided by our mission and vision, we will continue to prepare students to make a difference in the world.
With gratitude,
Gretchen Warner Head of School
2023– 24 OVERLAKE SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Maurice Carson, President
Prienca Punhani, Vice President & Co-Chair of Personnel Committee
Juli Rasmussen, Secretary & Chair of Development Committee
Mike Bee, Treasurer
MEMBERS
Hafsa Azaz, Co-Chair of Diversity Committee
Vikram Bakhshi
Greg Bamford (’92), Chair of Sustainability Committee
Dee Dee Dahlen, Chair of Governance Committee
Andrea Dancs, Chair of Campaign Steering Committee
Milen Gala
Bob Ho
Elizabeth Huang
Lucy Hur, Co-Chair of Personnel Committee
Edward Im, Chair of Building & Grounds Committee
Justin Marks
Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
Priscilla Paris-Austin, Co-Chair of Diversity Committee
Monica Reilly
Mohammed Samji
Sara Womack
EX OFFICIO
Kate Berry (’08), Alumni Board President
Molly Honig, PGA President
Eric Temple, Interim Head of School
Special thanks to our outgoing trustees from 2022–23, Victor Casalino, Shuang Hou, Jaime Teevan, and Tanya Vail.
The Annual Report is produced by Overlake’s Development Office and includes all gifts received between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. In preparing this report, every effort was made to ensure that all information is accurate and complete. If there is an omission or an error in spelling, please accept our apologies and notify the Development Office so that our records can be corrected at 425-868-1000 or development@overlake.org
$1,032,085
$162,910
$23,603,368
$23,603,368
2023–24 Donors
The 2023–24 school year would not have been possible without the steadfast support of our generous donors. The following recognition list includes all of our individual supporters who collectively participated in our annual Overlake Fund, Senior Class Legacy Fund, Endowment, and Owls Night Out initiatives. (Our Doors to Discovery capital campaign donor listing can be found on page 22.) From all of us at Overlake, thank you for what you made possible for our students, faculty, and programs throughout the year. And a very special thank you to all of the senior students who participated — your support is incredibly meaningful and inspiring.
LEADERSHIP GIVING
Overlake Visionary Circle
($50,000+)
Bruce & Lynn Gibson
1967 Founders Circle
($25,000+)
The Foster Foundation
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Aurangzeb & Labiba Khan
Hatem Zeine & Rasha Qamheyeh
Head’s Circle
($15,000+)
Yahn Bernier & Beth McCaw
Xiaohua Ma & Liangxiao Zhu
Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
Tom & Kate Peters
Monica & Matt Reilly
Tim & Tiffany Wissner
Victor Wu & Vivian Zheng
Jason Xu & Rachel Ren
Xiaowei Yin & Cherry Tao
Wei Yu & Ying Hao
Eric Yun & Jie Xie
Green & Gold Circle
($10,000)
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
Deborah Black & Jim Stewart
Virgil & Marnie Bretz
Alvaro Celis & Aleida Serron
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
Doug Davis & Michelle Wilson
Anoop Gupta & Yumi Iwasaki
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
C arlos Hernandez & Arantxa Alonso
Edward & Jill Im
Hui Jiang & Michelle Wong
Lloyd & Melody Kee
Bowen Li (’24)
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Qiang Lou & Qiong Wei
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Sudipta Sengupta & Nevedita Mallick
Charles & Lisa Simonyi
Andrew Verprauskus & Michaelanne Ehrenberg
M arcus & Sara Womack
Tall Firs Circle
($5,000+)
Anonymous (3)
Bill & Jean Avery
Maggie Bai & Marc He
Hillary & Andrew Barr
Stan & Lisa Cho
Gagan & Rashmi Chopra
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Craig Edwards & Kate Behncken
Scott & Cherie Emigh
Malia Foley & Ernest Chui
Vishal & Milen Gala
Burke & Dolores Gibson
Ramesh Gowrishankar & Thenmozhi Ramar
Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin
Bob Ho & Eileen Lee
Andrew & Molly Honig
Ying Huang & Li Ma
Maria & Vernon Hui
Moon & Lucy Hur
Yan Ke & Claire Fang
Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna
Thomas & Peggy Ku
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
Chao & Peng Li
Tao & Liya Li
Xiaojun Li & Yan Tu
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
Alex Lima & Sylvia Lin
Xun Liu & Ni Zhou
Paul Lou & Fang Liu
Rajeev & Shalini Misra
Terry & Katie Myerson
Syam & Savita Nair
Mahesh Nemichand & Kavitha Manivannan
C ebert SJ Noonan (’79)
Andy & Theresa Ortega
Chandrasekhar Pasupuleti & Kasturi Bonam
M onica Perez & Emmanuel Lopez
Leadership Circle ($3,000+)
Anonymous (5)
Elbio & Vania Abib
Muhammad Abozaed & Majida AboRkia Abozaed
B ogdan & Cassandra (’98) Andriychenko
Muthukaruppan Annamalai & Vaishnavi Sannidhanam
Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi
Ramesh Balasubramanian & Mythili Muruganathan
Nancy & Peter Pitarys
Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng
Alex (’81) & Ange Smith
Yancey Smith & Rebecca Pleich
Sandy Stark
Scott Stiles & Andrea Dancs
Harris & Maryam Syed
Zhiguo Tan & Olivia Yan
Lisa & Moz Thomas
David & Lynn Treadwell
Peter & Jane Barrett
Nihar & Ojasa Bihani
Lubomir Birov & Rossi Birova
Leonardo & Sriya Blanco
Brian & Katie Boland
Nathan & Laura Brown
Huoping Chen & Esther Li
Kevin Chen & Lian Shao
Sophie Chen & Donald Lu
Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping
The Chien Family
Sekhar Chintalapati & Suma Uppuluri
Pamela Du & Yinglin Xia
Charles Duba & Masayo Arakawa
Vincent Fei & Lucy Liu
Tony Fung & Happy Hong
Jennifer & Mike Gallop
Dinesh Govindasamy & Anu Kannian
Joe Gradilla & Karen Patterson
Karan & Rashmi Gupta
Randi Hedin & Andy Gardner
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
Hai Huang & Ying Zhao
Qian Huang & Wei Zhang
Matt & April Isenhower
Joanna Jiang & Haiyong Wang
Tom Jolly & Rebecca Zou
Li & Julie Kang
Jed & Sherry Kim
Sravani Kothapalle & Srikant Vemparala
D ave Kwan & Kelly Tan
Jun Lai & Joy Xu
Daniel & Tamara Leeks
Boxin & Nannan Li
Cary Li & Joyce Zhou
Lei Li & Lan Wang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Ted Liu
Raveendrnathan Loganathan & Hemavathy Alaganandam
Fiachre & Rose O’Neill
Frank & Anouk Pape
Shu Peng & Dongyun Liu
Liviu Prisecaru & Cristina Bucur
David Qiu & Lucy Liu
David & Juli Rasmussen
Asir & Caroline Selvasingh
Rafael & Steven Sosa-Krall
Wei Sun & Bo Tian
Cindy Tai & Michael Bee
Eric Temple & Garry Schermann
Ivy Tian & Derek Qi
Sky Tian & Jenny Pan
Rachel & Luke Timmins
Sid & Ashwini Uppal
John & Tanya Vail
Brihadeeshwar Venkataraman & Chitra Brihadeeshwar
Brandon Wang & Jenny Sheng
Jian & Yiqiu Wang
David Warrick & Laura Harding
Danny & Lily Wei
Brian & Amy Wulfestieg
Tong Xu & Lei Zha
Jian Xue & Lili Che
Maggie Yang & Victor Lin
Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang
Sophia Zhang & Barry Chen
Hugo Zhu & Jessica Shao
PARTICIPATION GIVING
Owls Circle ($1,000+)
Anonymous (8)
Abhi Abhishek & Piali Choudhury
Mahmoud Elhaddad & Neven Abou Gazala
Rajas Agashe (’14)
Abhisht Arora & Pawni Beaspal
Girish & Disha Bajaj
Aravind Bala & Nandita Sampath
Rick Barnett & Su Su
Katharine Barrett
Parry Bedi & Sinead Slattery
Ganesh Bheemarasetty & Madhuri Maddala
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
Scott & Brisen Brady
Maurice & Gina Carson
Benson Chen & Janice Kim
David Chen & Karen Xu
Jian Chen & Rong Zhao
Murali & Girija Chintalapati
Jeff Chu & Cathy Yang
Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz
Sean & Erin Croman
Lauren Crooks (’04)
Sean Crooks (’06)
Heng Cui & Siyun Li
Jim & Kimberly Darrin
Krishna Davda
Ke Deng & Adele Yu
Chirag Dhawan & Neema Chawla
Klaus & Laura Diaconu
Anand Eswaran & Kavitha Krishnan
Vadim Eydelman & Rimma Gorovaya
Yuan Fang & Wendy Shen
Stanley Feng & Olivia Zhu
Hod & Steff Fowler
Weimin Gao & Mei Zhang
Bob & Jiaru Goodwin
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
N ancy Guo & Yuanfeng Gao
Nishant Gupta & Anju Aggarwal
Tushar & Vivek Gupta
Richard & Joanne Harris
Mathieu Henaire & Kathy Aubin
Patrick & Leigh (’85) Hines
Ryan & Robyn Hites
Tat Wai Ho & Ada Cho
Taeok & Steven Hong
Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid
Rundong Hu & Haihui Sun
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Jason & Lauren Hubler
Mustafa Husain & Noreen Awan
Chris & Kim Hutton
Drs. Laurie Jacobson & Howard Willson
Er ik Johnson & Elizabeth Kain
Raj Kasi & Suma Parthasarathy
Larry & Susan Keller
Mujtaba & Yoshemiah Khambatti
Humayun Khan & Tallat Fahim
Sameer & Moona Khan
Rajesh & Geeta Khetan
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Damon Kim & Chloe Jeong
Issei & Mika Komatsu
Jyotsna Krishan & Sanjiv Dobhal
Anand Krishnamurthy & Pavithra Thiruvengadam
Michael & Kirstin Larson
James & Viena Lau
Tony Lee (’80)
Kirill Levanidov & Nadia Levanidova
Haroldo Level & Ileana Liendo
Eric Li & Sharon Liang
Richard Li & Rachel Wang
Xiaoguang Li & Bingbing Wu
Neil Lin & Gladys Jin
Jong Liu & Dan Li
Maggie & David Locker
Anthony Lora & Penelope Lora Ramirez
Roger Lou & Maggie Zhu
Bo Lu & Crystal Luo
Joe Magerramov & Fang Liu
Meher & Satya Malakapalli
Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
Justin & Margaret Marks
Omar Mawjee & Zaheera Valani
McDougall Family
Akash & Reshma Mehrotra
Zori Miltcheva & Stefan Miltchev
Katherine Min
Sanjay & Sudipti Mishra
Kanchan & Srobona Mitra
Mudit & Shivani Mittal
Farookh Mohammed & Rachana Mundra
Prathiban Mohanasundaram & Aarthi Thangamani
Francisco Moneo & Maribel Torres Vidal
A parna Mulukutla & Satish Pachalla
Susheel & Anupa Mutyala
Ashwin Needamangala & Anu Shenoy
Gor Nishanov & Anzhela Nishanova
Ioan & Beatrice Oltean
Luis Padilla & Karend Padilla Vasquez
Vikram Paramasivan & Bhuvana Vikram
C hloe & Soomin Park
Deepak & Hema Patil
Larry Pederson & Grace Cheong
Wesley Pereira & Aman Benes
Amin Pezeshk
Laura Pitarys
Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi
Hari Prasad & Shubha Nambiar
Gary Purchase & Yunyan Wang
Peter Que & Jessica Bao
Jay Raja & Farzana Rahman
Sujit Ravindranath & Preethi Ramarathinam
Ron & Heather Rosenberg
Ryan & Berea Schaffer
Molly & Lindsey Schwartz
Cy & Kerri Scott
Sanjay Shah & Taral Patel
Kenny Shi & Julie Bai
Zhen Shi & Xiaojie Wu
Amit & Sangya Singh
Jaswinder Singh & Dee Kaur
Avijit Sinha & Sangeeta Ranjit
Marie & Daniel Slater
Baskar Sridharan & Sambhrama Mundkur
C hris & Melissa Stroud
Wing Tsui & Emily Ching
Kam & Patricia VedBrat
Srikanth & Sheena Velamoor
Ricardo Villarreal & Laura Gonzalez
Wilton Wang & Yumeka Soga
Zheng Wang & Joyce Zheng
Danny & Niki Wattendorf
Rebecca Wells
Luke Woodward & Sarah Cassidy
Wenzhong Wu & Wendy Wan
Bin Xie & Gia Guo
Yanling Xiong & Xin Yao
Ruslan & Tatyana Yakushev
Li Yan & Ying Liu
Letu Yang & Melody Chen
Allen Zhang & Tracy Wen
Hao Zhang & Yaqiong Liao
Honggang Zhang & Zhihong Duan
John Zhang & Jo Hu
Tao Zhang & Helen Wang
Wenge Zhang & Athena Zhao
Xiaoding Zhou & Jing Qian
Dexin Zhu & Lihua Wen
Friends of Overlake ($1+)
Anonymous (41)
Katie (Riese) (‘03) & Sam Al-Khoury
Mo Al-Shahrani
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Bill & Anna Armstrong
Lisa Arnold
Kate & Tony Asgari
Charles Auclair & Deborah Lacy
Tone Austin & Priscilla Paris-Austin
Amy Bahl & Viven Gupta
John & Tarrah Baker
Jenni & Ryan Baldwin
Argaw Ballecha
Greg Bamford (’92) & Shannon Armitage
The Bancroft Family
David Banks (’83)
Sara Baquero-Garcia & Doug Davis
David Basham & Jane Betzer
Stephanie Belieres
Kate Berry (’08) & Tom Austin
Nitin Bhandari & Komal Kashiramka
Gerald Blycker & Kristin Jongejan
Travis & Lisa Boyce
Eva Bretz (’20)
Laura Brown
Pavin Browne
Steve Bush & Christine Chang
Raj & Mona Butani
Katrina & Josh Cameron
The Capello Family
Victor & Monica Casalino
John & Shanna Case
Stephanie Castle
Benito Castro II
Cipriano & Lynn Castro
Gaurang Chandrakant & Meng-Hua Wei
C atherine Chatalas
Kenny Chen & Jade Qiang
Yuren Chen & Xiao Han
Zheyi Chen & Mingqi Wu
Shingo & Izumi Chihara
Sean Clark
Chris & Natalia Clower
John & Lorna Croswell
Brian & Julie Curkendall
Charlie Dahlgren (’80)
Rajeev & Mayuri Dasari
Mike & Casey Davidson
Jeremy & Christen Davis
John & Leija Davis
Dave De & Ina Saha
Greg Dean & Jennifer Otten
Lance & Jeannette DeLay
Francisco & Melis del Rey
Sid Dhodi & Nikita Gusain
Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95) & Ricco DiStefano
Michelle & Donovan Douvia
Pavan Edara & Manjeera Narukonda
Sid Eland (’76)
Eamon & Susan Essex
Angus Fan & Stephanie Leung
Chris (’10) & Grace Faulkner
Laya Fawal
Mike & Anna Fine
Kathy Finkenstadt
Clare Fischer
Sarah Fitzpatrick
‘becca & Matt Flora
John & Jennifer Friend
Nik & Natalie Garkusha
Thomas George & Reshma Alex
Mark & Olga Gershaft
Adrian & Samantha Chan (’01) Hillyer
David & Carol Hoag
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
John & Trisha Hoss
Reid Hu (’24)
Mike & Jennai Hufstader
Sophia & Eddie Hui
Bess Hurlock (’24)
Colin & Angie Hurlock
Wayne & Irene Hwang
Idris Idris & Asiya Ismael
Nancy Iff
Jenna Ireland
Doris Factory Jackson
Kurt & Dana Jacob
Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala
Omar Jimenez & Dallas Moody-Jimenez
B ill Johns & Stephanie Kallos
Warren & Stephanie Gilles
Allison Gilman
Miles W. Glew (’00)
Alicia Gold
Tracy & Jason Goldberger
Jenna Goltermann (’05)
Erica & Joshua Goodman
Alexander Gounares
Rimma Gounares
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva
Kevin & Ann Gruben
Joanna (’03) & Garrett Guiler
Tad Gulick (’76)
Sapan Gupta & Chandee Pandey
Dan & JoAnne Guralnick
Luis Gutierrez & Maria Pena
Chris & Mags Hanaoka
Kayleigh Harper
Raheleh Hassanisadi
Chris Hayes
Jay & Chana Heath
Jen & Chris Herink
Katie Hill (’14)
Amanda Jones
Janet & Adam Jones
Krista Kang
Befekadu Kassaye & Betelhem Zeru
Kevin & Stasia Kehoe
Miles & Linda Kristman
Michael T. Krumbholz
Chris Kuipers
Ethan & Moneta Kushner
Liming & Ning Lee
Rob & Terrel Lefferts
Dana & Matt Len
Ning Li & Xiaofei Kong
Yu Liang & Li An
Rick Linn
Xian Liu & Carina Zhang
Yong & Li Liu
Delano Lopez
Mark Lotz
Louie Lu & Rong Shen
Xiongbo Lu & Yan Chen
Margaret Lynch
Samantha (’05) & Cameron Macbride
Mireille Machefert
Vikram Malaiya & Silky Jain
Leile & Crystal Maly
Sarah & Danny Mansour
Kyle & Kay Martin
Andrea McCandlish
Marshall McCurties
Mindy McGrath
Mulugeta Mengistu & Tina Liven
Elaine Messier
Jon & Susan Messier
Kevin & Karen Mihata
Rajnish Mishra & Hina Sahi
Jerone Mitchell
Nitin Mohan & Shivani Agarwal
Mollie Montgomery
Malcolm & Phoebe Ann Moore
Rebecca Moore
Greg & Elaine Morse
Tara & Conrad Mounsey
Steven Mraz
Mike Mullen
Hideki & Miwa Nagai
Rohit & Arthi Naik
Vijay Nair & Sandhya Vijayachandran
Bill Neil
Jessica Nelson
Aimé Ngandu & Hanani Dube
Libby Nielsen
David & Patricia Noble
Julian Odell & Julie Barker
Seyi & Ebun Onagoruwa
Lisa Orenstein
Jasmine & Jea Park
Aaron & Kelli Pleskac
Ashley & Nathan Powel
Tracy Prellwitz
Justin & Allison Prohn
Regina Quiban
McKenna & Ryan Quick
Ben Ramage
Anand Ramakrishna & Soumya Subramanian
Usha Raman
Rajesh Ramanathan & Sudha Sharma
Kevin Ramirez
Michelle Raught
Linda Kay Reini
Kent & Denise Renno
Kristina Rey
Stephen & Bretta Ringo
Robe Roberson
Kim Robertson (’77)
Cynthia Rosales
Emma Ross
Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian
Dwayne & Lisa Scholten
Pierce (’93) & Juliette Scranton
Endale Sebre & Meseret Haile
Elena & Tim Sellers
Delanie Seman
Krishnan Seshadrinathan & Swetha Krishnan
K ai Shih & Ingrid Chiang
Stephanie Siegfried
Leslie Palmer Siggs
Jeff (’76) & Judith Silverman
Jose Simonet & Erin Fox
Nikhil & Urmila Singhal
John & Cathy Smith
Matthew & Kerry Smith
Vani & Sherwyn Soff
Jack Southwick
Doren & Alicia Spinner
Evan Spinner (’24)
Laka & Anusha Sriram
Anshuman (’00) & Bhavya Srivastava
Carole & Sheldon Stearns
Rich Stearns & Erin Gabriel
Tristan Steel (’90) & Jeff LaGasse
Alisa Steinhilber
Stashu & Crissy Stemkowski
Kim & Jim Stevens
Paul Stolarczuk & Jacqueline Riddell
Samantha Strickland
James & Julie Sun
Johnny & Denice Sun
Deriek Ta & Bic Nguyen
Aryav Taneja (’24)
Vineet Taneja & Khushboo Sharan
Chen Tang & Huanhui Hu
Hua Tang & Fang Fang
Cale Teevan (’24)
Dillon Teevan (’24)
Loren Thomas (’03)
Briana Titus
Mr. Troy & Mrs. Sarah B. (’05)
Tompkins
Clarissa Toupin
Karin Treadwell
Laura Triebold
Danielle Troy
John Tu & Christine Li
Aleksy Umbers (’24)
Zhenia Umbers
Rachel & Kris Vale
John Valente & Allison Kristman-Valente
K alyan Valicherla & Subha Hajeebu Venkata
Paul Velasquez
Sekar Velu & Nisha Bansal
Katie & John Viacava
Flavia Vidal & Claudio Chamon
Kelly Vikstrom-Hoyt
Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham
Chrissy Wakeling (’02)
Robin & Maggi Walker
Richard & Mia Wall
Walter Wang & Nan Cai
Gretchen Warner & Robin Laqui
Sadie Wickham (’24)
Sara Wilcox
John (’83) & Kelly Wiley
Myk & Jodi Willis
Bob & Debbie Wood
Phyllis Woodward
Kera Wright
Djimon Wulah
Limei Xu
Naveen Yajaman & Deepa Mungasavalli Prabhu
K aren & Kimberly Zaidberg
Ellen Zarter
Henry Zhang & Monica Li
Zhen Zhang & Grace Han
Victor Zhu & Amy Han
The Overlake Fund
Making a Positive Difference
Our Overlake Fund theme for the year was We Are Overlake, and thanks to our wonderful community for supporting our Owls, they thrived! We are especially grateful to each and every donor who supported the Overlake Fund during the 2023–24 school year. The Overlake Fund once again raised more than $1 million with 100% faculty and staff, Board of Trustees, Parent Guardian Executive Committee, as well as an inspiring 90% parent/guardian participation.
The Overlake Fund directly benefits all of our students, teachers, and programs, and touches every aspect of the school. We hope you enjoy these uplifting and inspiring examples of what you made possible throughout the school year. Thank you so very much from all of us at Overlake.
Teaching and Learning
• Faculty benefited from a variety of professional development opportunities throughout the year. Science Department Chair Janet Jones received her Master’s Degree in Education in Learning, Design, and Technology through Penn State University to strengthen her practice and better integrate technology throughout the science curriculum to help students learn more effectively.
• A rts Department Chair Erin Gabriel attended the Washington Music Educators conference with sessions including building and maintaining choral programs, innovative and fresh rehearsal strategies, and choral inclusivity. Faculty member Kristina Rey also attended a summer institute for AP Music Theory, which resulted in better instruction, curated activities and projects, and curriculum mapping in preparation for students to take the AP exam.
World Languages faculty Briana Titus attended the American Classical League’s annual conference, including a session on the new AP curriculum for Latin.
• Faculty and staff, including Krishna Davda, Susan Essex, Samantha Hillyer (’01), and Laura Triebold, attended Yale
University’s RULER Training in Social Emotional Learning, the best-in-class offering to ensure we do everything we can to support students’ mental health.
• Director of Outdoor Education José González served on the steering committee and presented at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Risk Management Conference, elevating and establishing Overlake as an industry expert in the outdoor education field.
• Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Joey Swidler attended the National Strength & Conditioning Association c onference with workshops like Common Knee Injuries in Youth Athletes and Using Kinetic Analysis to Inform Training Prescription to keep our student-athletes healthy and prevent injuries.
• Five new courses were introduced in the Upper School for the first time ever, including Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, Business DECA, Issues in Science Fiction Film, and History of Rock and Roll.
• The science curriculum was aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, which sets content expectations for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. For example, in 9th grade biology, Life on our Planet,
Arts
• Two vocalists from Apollo5, in town during their international tour, visited the Chamber Choir class for a workshop on vowel placement, tonality, rhythm exercises, and vocal unity, in preparation of their performance together with other local high schools at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle.
• The Middle School and Upper School choirs also performed at Seattle Pro Musica’s Journey of Song concert. Beforehand, professional composer Eric Tuari visited classes to help them prepare.
• The Fulton Performing Arts Center got some much-needed upgrades in the Production Booth, replacing all the old analog audio gear and bringing Overlake into the modern digital era.
students engage in the practices of science to explore life at different scales, from the chemistry of the smallest biological molecules to the global flow of matter and energy. Students explore the relationship between molecular and cellular structures of organisms and their life functions, the transmission of traits across generations, the role of evolution in driving biodiversity, and the interdependent relationships between living things and Earth’s environment.
• In 8th grade Social Studies, students analyzed the US Constitution in detail and learned about what each government’s branch does, as well as whether the power between the branches is balanced and why. They analyzed the Supreme Court by looking at landmark cases throughout history and explored how cases and decisions have affected society. They also reviewed the Bill of Rights and the several amendments to learn about civic rights and responsibilities.
• For the second year, Overlake hosted ROOST: Rising Overlake Owls Starter Training to prepare new incoming 9th graders in their transition to Overlake. Topics included C anvas, time management, support services, and more. It has been a great way for students new to Overlake to understand how to navigate and be successful in the Upper School.
• In addition to all the amazing Middle School and Upper School orchestra, band, and choir concerts, several theater productions showcased the incredible talents of our students, including the 5th/6th grade musical, School House Rock, Jr., 7th/8th grade play Ghostlight, Upper School musical Into the Woods, and Upper School play LOVE/SICK.
or the first time, a new Hoop League was launched for fifth graders and any other Middle Schoolers not part of an interscholastic team. The practice sessions for both boys and girls included skill work and small-sided games, allowing kids of any skill to play basketball and increase their basketball
verlake was awarded “The Champion of Champions” for our 2023-24 performances on the fields, courts, and courses, as we finished #1 in our classification (1A) in the State of Washington.
• Highlights for the year included:
° Boys Soccer won the State Championship, beating the Royal 1-0 at Renton Memorial Stadium. This was the second championship for Head Coach Scott Lane (first was in 2018) and he was named the State Coach of the Year. Overlake also won the Emerald Sound Conference title with a 10-1-1 league record.
° Girls Tennis repeated as State Champions. Sarina Z. (’27) won the State Singles Championship, and Sylvia Lou (’24) and Sharon Z. (’25) won their second consecutive State Doubles title. Sadie Wickham (’24) and Sae K. (’26) finished 4th at State. The Owls claimed another Emerald Sound Conference title and District title as well.
° B aseball won our first ever State Championship in walk-off fashion in the title game, 3–2 over the Meridian Trojans in Bellingham. Head Coach Mike Davidson, a veteran of 23 seasons at the helm, saw the team punch their ticket to the finals as his son, Hank D. (’26) scored the winning run in the semifinal. Coach D was also named State Coach of the Year.
° Girls Golf cruised to their State Title behind a solid cast of veterans (2nd in State in 2023) and a standout freshman, Kendria W. (’27). Kendria ran away from the rest of the field,
notching her fist individual State Title, and first for Overlake since Stephanie Wei in 2001. Co-Coaches Shawn FarmerSese and Justin Prohn are a lethal combination in the golf ranks.
° Boys Tennis was great again, claiming the District Championship, and sending Rishi S. (’26) to State, where he fought his way to a 3rd place finish.
° Boys Ultimate returned to State for the first time since 2014, under new Head Coach Ben Ostman.
° Boys Cross Country was led by three of our best runners ever — Keith Hunter (’24), Jack Kehoe (’24), and Aleksy Umbers (’24) — all seniors, who all ran in State for the final time.
° Girls Cross Country was able to get back to State as a team again and had four qualifiers of their own — Sarah Guralnick (’24) (who set the 5K school record), Sae K. (’26), Talia Willson (’24), and Avani B. (’25).
° Boys Golf had one golfer, Anthony C. (’25), make it to State.
° O ther Team Awards:
- ESC Team Sportsmanship: Girls Soccer; Girls Basketball; Boys Basketball; and Girls Golf.
- ESC Coach of the Year: Rick Nelson (Girls Basketball); Jeff Loranger (Girls Tennis); Scott Lane (Boys Soccer); and Shawn Farmer-Sese (Girls Golf).
- A nd kudos to the many successful Owl coaches who also had great seasons and dedication to their kids this year.
• PREP, a new strength and conditioning class, was launched to help beginners learn critical movement foundations and proper training techniques, and those more advanced to learn how to progress their training safely and effectively. Students also had the opportunity to earn a Varsity letter through their participation in the course.
Beyond the Classroom
• Thanks to our Upper School ASB President Evan Spinner (’24), Owls Nest was brought back for the first time since COVID-19. Middle School and Upper School advisories were paired together for the year with designated times to connect and have fun together. Doing so forged memories and was a reminder of how unique and fortunate we are to be a school with grades five through twelve.
• Overlake’s signature Outdoor Education program provided unique opportunities for students to experience our inspiring environment. A few of the many offerings included kayaking on the Snoqualmie River, paddleboarding at Deception Pass, sailing with the Center for Wooden Boats, hiking and snowshoeing near Mt. Ranier, as well as an Odyssey challenge course, bike class at Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park, a summit hike to Silver Peak, and much more.
• For the first time ever, Overlake hosted a Middle School Design Day Challenge in the Whitten Math & Sciences Center’s Idea Lab. Students were given four possibilities, collaborated and iterated their prototypes, then pitched their ideas a la Shark Tank in Fulton. So many creative projects were presented as they designed: 1) A playground accessible
to all children; 2) Food waste reduction in the Campus Center; 3) A music class for hearing impaired students; or 4) An activity for Overlake PE that emphasize collaboration and cooperation instead of competition.
• The DECA club and Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and DECA class launched a new custom t-shirt service.
• Thank you to the HOSA Club for hosting a school blood drive with Bloodworks Northwest in January. Every pint made a difference.
• To raise awareness for seasonal depression and to spread positivity in its wake, Overlake’s Forefront Club and The Overlake Hoot r an a photography contest featuring Overlake community work. The prompt was as follows: find or take a photo inspired by what you believe makes life worth living. Forefront also organized friendship bracelets, card making, and flower-a-grams for students to share their appreciation and gratitude for one another.
• For the first time ever, a competitive Middle School Robotics Team was launched. Along with the three Upper School teams, they competed at the First Tech Interleague Championship, and out of 31 teams, our 8–12 grade teams finished 1st and 4th! As a result of this incredible performance, Overlake’s robot, affectionately known as 16965, moved on to the Washington State Championships.
• For the first time ever a Thespian Club was offered for students.
• C ongratulations to our 12 students who made it all the way to the National Speech & Debate Association competition this year (only 2% of speech and debate students qualify for nationals in the US). Kudos to Fiona Li (’24) who received a speaker award for placing 13th out of almost 1,000 speakers in Worlds School Debate, competing against teams across the US and seven other countries, and to Avery Z. (’26), who advanced to the semifinals in Big Questions (top 4) and got a trophy and scholarship.
Speakers and Symposiums
• Participation in Quiz Bowl is also popular, and this year students went to Chicago to compete in the Small School National Tournament and Middle School National Tournament.
• Spring Service Day took every student off campus. For example, sixth graders went to two local farms, Food Bank Farm Snohomish and Oxbow Farm in Carnation.
• The Overlake Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) clubs, launched an Overlake TED Speaker Series, hosting workshops featuring professionals from innovating AI/ML startups and companies about how AI works and how it is being applied in the real world in areas like robotics.
• In May, the Middle School Writer’s Symposium welcomed award-winning author Maggie Tokuda-Hall (books include Also an Octopus; The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea; Squad; and Love in the Library ). She did several workshops with fifth and sixth graders, held an All-Middle School presentation, and hosted an open lunch with students in the Alumni Room.
hank you to FBI agent Stefanie Hanley for presenting to our seventh and eighth graders on how to stay safe from yberbullying, cyberharassment, and other internet crimes.
he Upper School Writer’s Symposium, one of our longer and most treasured traditions, welcomed Pulitzer Prizewinning author Hua Hsu. His memoir, Stay True, was also a Top 10 Book of the Year at The New York Times and was named a Best Book of the Year at TIME, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and more. In addition to an Upper School assembly, he hosted two smaller writing workshops with students.
• The Idea Lab welcomed David Allais, an internationally known developer of barcoding, automatic identification, and data capture technology, to speak with students.
2023–24 Overlake Fund Donors
The Overlake Fund makes a meaningful and positive impact each school year, benefitting all our students, teachers, and programs, and providing a critical 5% of our annual operating budget. This year’s Owls Night Out paddle raise also helped support faculty/staff professional development, further strengthening Overlake Fund resources for this important program. Thank you again to our wonderful community, including our current and alumni families, faculty, staff, trustees, grandparents, students, alums, and friends for your deeply inspiring support.
GIVING BY CONSTITUENCY
Fifth Grade
Anonymous (3)
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Muthukaruppan Annamalai & Vaishnavi Sannidhanam
Nihar & Ojasa Bihani
David Chen & Karen Xu
Sophie Chen & Donald Lu
John & Lorna Croswell
Rajeev & Mayuri Dasari
Jessica Klein DiStefano (‘95) & Ricco DiStefano
A nand Eswaran & Kavitha Krishnan
Carlos Hernandez & Arantxa Alonso
Matt & April Isenhower
Mujtaba & Yoshemiah Khambatti
Boxin & Nannan Li
Chao & Peng Li
Tao & Liya Li
Xun Liu & Ni Zhou
Joe Magerramov & Fang Liu
Aparna Mulukutla & Satish Pachalla
Vijay Nair & Sandhya Vijayachandran
Chandrasekhar Pasupuleti & Kasturi Bonam
Wesley Pereira & Aman Benes
Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng
Ryan & Berea Schaffer
Kenny Shi & Julie Bai
Kai Shih & Ingrid Chiang
Chen Tang & Huanhui Hu
Robin & Maggi Walker
Li Yan & Ying Liu
Sixth Grade
Anonymous (5)
Charles Auclair & Deborah Lacy
Aravind Bala & Nandita Sampath
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
Benson Chen & Janice Kim
Kenny Chen & Jade Qiang
Yuren Chen & Xiao Han
The Chien Family
Jeff Chu & Cathy Yang
Jeremy & Christen Davis
Greg Dean & Jennifer Otten
Francisco & Melis del Rey
Sid Dhodi & Nikita Gusain
Charles Duba & Masayo Arakawa
Pavan Edara & Manjeera Narukonda
Angus Fan & Stephanie Leung
Malia Foley & Ernest Chui
Tony Fung & Happy Hong
Weimin Gao & Mei Zhang
Nik & Natalie Garkusha
Joe Gradilla & Karen Patterson
Nancy Guo & Yuanfeng Gao
Karan & Rashmi Gupta
Mathieu Henaire & Kathy Aubin
Hui Jiang & Michelle Wong
Raj Kasi & Suma Parthasarathy
Yan Ke & Claire Fang
Jed & Sherry Kim
Takuya Kudo & Laura Pitarys
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
Ethan & Moneta Kushner
James & Viena Lau
Liming & Ning Lee
Cary Li & Joyce Zhou
Paul Lou & Fang Liu
Mulugeta Mengistu & Tina Liven
Sanjay & Sudipti Mishra
Prathiban Mohanasundaram & Aarthi Thangamani
Francisco Moneo & Maribel Torres Vidal
Susheel & Anupa Mutyala
Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
Amin Pezeshk
Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi
David Qiu & Lucy Liu
Vani & Sherwyn Soff
Johnny & Denice Sun
Lisa & Moz Thomas
Sky Tian & Jenny Pan
Wing Tsui & Emily Ching
Jian & Yiqiu Wang
Letu Yang & Melody Chen
Eric Yun & Jie Xie
Hao Zhang & Yaqiong Liao
Henry Zhang & Monica Li
John Zhang & Jo Hu
Zhen Zhang & Grace Han
Seventh Grade
Anonymous (5)
Bogdan & Cassandra (’98) Andriychenko
Abhisht Arora & Pawni Beaspal
Amy Bahl & Viven Gupta
Maggie Bai & Marc He
Girish & Disha Bajaj
Ganesh Bheemarasetty & Madhuri Maddala
Leonardo & Sriya Blanco
Shingo & Izumi Chihara
Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz
Doug Davis & Michelle Wilson
Dave De & Ina Saha
Chirag Dhawan & Neema Chawla
Craig Edwards & Kate Behncken
Vishal & Milen Gala
Ramesh Gowrishankar & Thenmozhi Ramar
C hris & Mags Hanaoka
Jason & Lauren Hubler
Matt & April Isenhower
Joanna Jiang & Haiyong Wang
Befekadu Kassaye & Betelhem Zeru
Aurangzeb & Labiba Khan
Humayun Khan & Tallat Fahim
Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna
D ave Kwan & Kelly Tan
Haroldo Level & Ileana Liendo
Eric Li & Sharon Liang
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Yu Liang & Li An
Alex Lima & Sylvia Lin
Qiang Lou & Qiong Wei
Louie Lu & Rong Shen
Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
O mar Mawjee & Zaheera Valani
Syam & Savita Nair
Mahesh Nemichand & Kavitha Manivannan
Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
Sujit Ravindranath & Preethi Ramarathinam
K ai Shih & Ingrid Chiang
Avijit Sinha & Sangeeta Ranjit
Matthew & Kerry Smith
Rafael & Steven Sosa-Krall
Laka & Anusha Sriram
Harris & Maryam Syed
Srikanth & Sheena Velamoor
Sekar Velu & Nisha Bansal
Brihadeeshwar Venkataraman & Chitra Brihadeeshwar
Wilton Wang & Yumeka Soga
Danny & Lily Wei
Victor Wu & Vivian Zheng
Xiaowei Yin & Cherry Tao
Hatem Zeine & Rasha Qamheyeh
Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang
Wenge Zhang & Athena Zhao
Xiaoding Zhou & Jing Qian
Eighth Grade
Anonymous (5)
Abhi Abhishek & Piali Choudhury
Muhammad Abozaed & Majida
AboRkia Abozaed
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Rick Barnett & Su Su
Parry Bedi & Sinead Slattery
Scott & Brisen Brady
Kevin Chen & Lian Shao
Sekhar Chintalapati & Suma Uppuluri
S ean & Erin Croman
Ke Deng & Adele Yu
Paul Lou & Fang Liu
Bo Lu & Crystal Luo
Justin & Margaret Marks
Jon & Susan Messier
Zori Miltcheva & Stefan Miltchev
Mudit & Shivani Mittal
Nitin Mohan & Shivani Agarwal
Larry Pederson & Grace Cheong
Laura Pitarys
Gary Purchase & Yunyan Wang
Jaswinder Singh & Dee Kaur
Sandy Stark
Stashu & Crissy Stemkowski
Vineet Taneja & Khushboo Sharan
David & Lynn Treadwell
Karin Treadwell
Sid & Ashwini Uppal
John Valente & Allison Kristman-Valente
Paul Velasquez
Walter Wang & Nan Cai
Tim & Tiffany Wissner
Marcus & Sara Womack
Nishant Gupta & Anju Aggarwal
Richard & Joanne Harris
Bob Ho & Eileen Lee
John & Trisha Hoss
Mustafa Husain & Noreen Awan
Chris & Kim Hutton
Idris Idris & Asiya Ismael
Kurt & Dana Jacob
Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala
Raj Kasi & Suma Parthasarathy
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Thomas & Peggy Ku
Lei Li & Lan Wang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Richard Li & Rachel Wang
Anthony Lora & Penelope Lora Ramirez
X iongbo Lu & Yan Chen
Vikram Malaiya & Silky Jain
Meher & Satya Malakapalli
Leile & Crystal Maly
Akash & Reshma Mehrotra
Rajnish Mishra & Hina Sahi
Alexander Gounares
Rimma Gounares
Kevin & Ann Gruben
Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin
Tushar & Vivek Gupta
Carlos Hernandez & Arantxa Alonso
Ryan & Robyn Hites
Andrew & Molly Honig
Qian Huang & Wei Zhang
Ying Huang & Li Ma
Maria & Vernon Hui
Yan Ke & Claire Fang
Lloyd & Melody Kee
Sravani Kothapalle & Srikant Vemparala
K irill Levanidov & Nadia Levanidova
Haroldo Level & Ileana Liendo
Jong Liu & Dan Li
Ninth Grade
Anonymous (11)
Nitin Bhandari & Komal Kashiramka
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
The Capello Family
John & Shanna Case
Benson Chen & Janice Kim
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
Jim & Kimberly Darrin
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Craig Edwards & Kate Behncken
Yuan Fang & Wendy Shen
Stanley Feng & Olivia Zhu
Thomas George & Reshma Alex
Alexander Gounares
Rimma Gounares
Dinesh Govindasamy & Anu Kannian
Srikanth & Sheena Velamoor
Sekar Velu & Nisha Bansal
Robin & Maggi Walker
Brandon Wang & Jenny Sheng
Wilton Wang & Yumeka Soga
Zheng Wang & Joyce Zheng
Brian & Amy Wulfestieg
Jason Xu & Rachel Ren
Jian Xue & Lili Che
Naveen Yajaman & Deepa Mungasavalli Prabhu
Tao Zhang & Helen Wang
Hugo Zhu & Jessica Shao
Tenth Grade
Anonymous (9)
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi
Aravind Bala & Nandita Sampath
Ramesh Balasubramanian & Mythili Muruganathan
A rgaw Ballecha
Rick Barnett & Su Su
Hillary & Andrew Barr
Huoping Chen & Esther Li
Jian Chen & Rong Zhao
Stan & Lisa Cho
Gagan & Rashmi Chopra
Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz
Mike & Casey Davidson
Mahmoud Elhaddad & Neven Abou Gazala
Vadim Eydelman & Rimma Gorovaya
Vincent Fei & Lucy Liu
Vishal & Milen Gala
Mark & Olga Gershaft
Sapan Gupta & Chandee Pandey
Luis Gutierrez & Maria Pena
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
Tat Wai Ho & Ada Cho
Taeok & Steven Hong
Andrew & Molly Honig
Hai Huang & Ying Zhao
Maria & Vernon Hui
Tom Jolly & Rebecca Zou
Sameer & Moona Khan
Luis Padilla & Karend Padilla Vasquez
V ikram Paramasivan & Bhuvana Vikram
Deepak & Hema Patil
Monica Perez & Emmanuel Lopez
Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi
Hari Prasad & Shubha Nambiar
Jay Raja & Farzana Rahman
Cy & Kerri Scott
Endale Sebre & Meseret Haile
Amit & Sangya Singh
Scott Stiles & Andrea Dancs
Wei Sun & Bo Tian
Ivy Tian & Derek Qi
Rachel & Luke Timmins
John Tu & Christine Li
Kam & Patricia VedBrat
Damon Kim & Chloe Jeong
Issei & Mika Komatsu
Jyotsna Krishan & Sanjiv Dobhal
Anand Krishnamurthy & Pavithra Thiruvengadam
Jun Lai & Joy Xu
Ning Li & Xiaofei Kong
Xiaojun Li & Yan Tu
Neil Lin & Gladys Jin
Raveendrnathan Loganathan & Hemavathy Alaganandam
Xiaohua Ma & Liangxiao Zhu
Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
A parna Mulukutla & Satish Pachalla
Syam & Savita Nair
Frank & Anouk Pape
Tom & Kate Peters
Aaron & Kelli Pleskac
Liviu Prisecaru & Cristina Bucur
Rajesh Ramanathan & Sudha Sharma
Monica & Matt Reilly
Sudipta Sengupta & Nevedita Mallick
Deriek Ta & Bic Nguyen
Cindy Tai & Michael Bee
Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham
David Warrick & Laura Harding
Myk & Jodi Willis
Victor Wu & Vivian Zheng
Yanling Xiong & Xin Yao
Tong Xu & Lei Zha
Wei Yu & Ying Hao
Allen Zhang & Tracy Wen
Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang
Honggang Zhang & Zhihong Duan
Sophia Zhang & Barry Chen
Victor Zhu & Amy Han
Eleventh Grade
Anonymous (5)
Elbio & Vania Abib
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Abhisht Arora & Pawni Beaspal
Bill & Jean Avery
Yahn Bernier & Beth McCaw
Raj & Mona Butani
Alvaro Celis & Aleida Serron
Murali & Girija Chintalapati
Heng Cui & Siyun Li
Klaus & Laura Diaconu
Michelle & Donovan Douvia
Pamela Du & Yinglin Xia
Scott & Cherie Emigh
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
Kevin & Ann Gruben
Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin
Jen & Chris Herink
Patrick & Leigh (’85) Hines
Chris & Kim Hutton
Larry & Susan Keller
Rajesh & Geeta Khetan
Thomas & Peggy Ku
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
Xian Liu & Carina Zhang
Yong & Li Liu
Maggie & David Locker
Rajeev & Shalini Misra
Terry & Katie Myerson
Hideki & Miwa Nagai
Julian Odell & Julie Barker
Ioan & Beatrice Oltean
Shu Peng & Dongyun Liu
Peter Que & Jessica Bao
Anand Ramakrishna & Soumya Subramanian
D avid & Juli Rasmussen
Ron & Heather Rosenberg
Asir & Caroline Selvasingh
Sanjay Shah & Taral Patel
Zhen Shi & Xiaojie Wu
Nikhil & Urmila Singhal
John & Cathy Smith
Baskar Sridharan & Sambhrama Mundkur
C hris & Melissa Stroud
Johnny & Denice Sun
Cindy Tai & Michael Bee
Zhiguo Tan & Olivia Yan
David & Lynn Treadwell
Kalyan Valicherla & Subha Hajeebu Venkata
A ndrew Verprauskus & Michaelanne Ehrenberg
Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham
Danny & Niki Wattendorf
Marcus & Sara Womack
Luke Woodward & Sarah Cassidy
Ruslan & Tatyana Yakushev
Eric Yun & Jie Xie
Hatem Zeine & Rasha Qamheyeh
Tao Zhang & Helen Wang
Dexin Zhu & Lihua Wen
Twelfth Grade
Twelfth grade parents were also invited to support their Senior Class of 2024 Legacy Fund. Please see page 17 for more details.
Anonymous (5)
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
The Bancroft Family
Brian & Katie Boland
Virgil & Marnie Bretz
John & Shanna Case
Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping
John & Leija Davis
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Erica & Joshua Goodman
Bob & Jiaru Goodwin
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
Tat Wai Ho & Ada Cho
Taeok & Steven Hong
Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid
Colin & Angie Hurlock
Krista Kang
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Ted Liu
Roger Lou & Maggie Zhu
Kanchan & Srobona Mitra
Gor Nishanov & Anzhela Nishanova
Alex (’81) and Ange Smith
Doren & Alicia Spinner
Sandy Stark
Vineet Taneja & Khushboo Sharan
Hua Tang & Fang Fang
Lisa & Moz Thomas
Zhenia Umbers
Xiaowei Yin & Cherry Tao
Students
Reid Hu (’24)
Bess Hurlock (’24)
Bowen Li (’24)
Evan Spinner (’24)
Aryav Taneja (’24)
Cale Teevan (’24)
Dillon Teevan (’24)
Aleksy Umbers (’24)
Sadie Wickham (’24)
Alumni
Anonymous (1)
Rajas Agashe (’14)
Katie (Riese) Al-Khoury (‘03)
Cassandra Andriychenko (’98)
Greg Bamford (’92)
David Banks (’83)
Kate Berry (’08)
Eva Bretz (’20)
Pavin Browne (’13)
Lauren Crooks (’04)
Sean Crooks (’06)
Charlie Dahlgren (’80)
Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95)
Sid Eland (’76)
Chris Faulkner (’10)
Miles W. Glew (’00)
Jenna Goltermann (’05)
Joanna Guiler (’03)
Tad Gulick (’76)
Katie Hill (’14)
Samantha Chan Hillyer (’01)
Leigh Hines (’85)
Ryan Hites (’98)
Tony Lee (’80)
Samantha Macbride (’05)
Peter McDougall (’86)
Cebert SJ Noonan (‘79)
Kim Robertson (’77)
Pierce Scranton (’93)
Jeff Silverman (’76)
Alex Smith (’81)
Anshuman Srivastava (’00)
Loren Thomas (’03)
Sarah B. Tompkins (‘05)
Chrissy Wakeling (’02)
John Wiley (’83)
Alumni Parents
Anonymous (2)
John & Tarrah Baker
Katharine Barrett
Steve Bush & Christine Chang
Maurice & Gina Carson
Victor & Monica Casalino
Catherine Chatalas
Brian & Julie Curkendall
Lance & Jeannette DeLay
Eamon & Susan Essex
Mike & Anna Fine
Sarah Fitzpatrick
Hod & Steff Fowler
John & Jennifer Friend
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Warren & Stephanie Gilles
Alicia Gold
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva
Tad Gulick (’76)
Randi Hedin & Andy Gardner
David & Carol Hoag
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Moon & Hur
Edward & Jill Im
Doris Factory Jackson
Erik Johnson & Elizabeth Kain
Rob & Terrel Lefferts
Dana & Matt Len
Margaret Lynch
Kyle & Kay Martin
Kevin & Karen Mihata
David & Patricia Noble
Lisa Orenstein
Leslie Palmer Siggs
Paul Stolarczuk & Jacqueline Riddell
Danielle Troy
John (’83) and Kelly Wiley
Faculty & Staff
Anonymous (17)
Mo Al-Shahrani
Bill Armstrong
Lisa Arnold
Kate Asgari
Jenni Baldwin
Sara Baquero-Garcia
David Basham
Stephanie Belieres
Gerald Blycker
Travis Boyce
Brisen Brady
Laura Brown
Katrina Cameron
Stephanie Castle
Benito Castro II
Cipriano Castro
Zheyi Chen
Sean Clark
Krishna Davda
Mike Davidson
Lance DeLay
Susan Essex
Laya Fawal
Mike Fine
Kathy Finkenstadt
Clare Fischer
Sarah Fitzpatrick
‘becca Flora
Jennifer Friend
Erin Gabriel
Warren Gilles
Allison Gilman
Alicia Gold
Joanna Guiler (’03)
Kayleigh Harper
Raheleh Hassanisadi
Chris Hayes
Jay Heath
Katie Hill (’14)
Rick Linn
Delano Lopez
Mark Lotz
Margaret Lynch
Mireille Machefert
Sarah Mansour
Andrea McCandlish
Marshall McCurties
Mindy McGrath
Susan Messier
Karen Mihata
Jerone Mitchell
Mollie Montgomery
Dallas Moody-Jimenez
Rebecca Moore
Greg Morse
Tara Mounsey
Steven Mraz
Mike Mullen
Bill Neil
Aimé Ngandu
Patricia Noble
Lisa Orenstein
Jasmine Park
Kelli Pleskac
Ashley Powel
Tracy Prellwitz
Justin Prohn
Regina Quiban
McKenna Quick
Ben Ramage
Usha Raman
Kevin Ramirez
Elena Sellers
Delanie Seman
Jose Simonet
Alisa Steinhilber
Crissy Stemkowski
Kim Stevens
Samantha Strickland
Chen Tang
Eric Temple
Briana Titus
Clarissa Toupin
Laura Triebold
Danielle Troy
Rachel Vale
Katie Viacava
Flavia Vidal
Kelly Vikstrom-Hoyt
Chrissy Wakeling (’02)
Mia Wall
Sara Wilcox
John Wiley (’83)
Kera Wright
Djimon Wulah
Limei Xu
Karen Zaidberg
Sophia Zhang
Alumni Faculty & Staff
Bob & Debra Wood
Ellen & Gary Zarter
Current & Alumni Grandparents
Anonymous (1)
Peter & Jane Barrett
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
Samantha Chan Hillyer (’01)
Mike Hufstader
Nancy Iff
Jenna Ireland
Omar Jimenez
Bill Johns
Amanda Jones
Janet Jones
Michael T. Krumbholz
Chris Kuipers
Dana Len
Michelle Raught
Linda Kay Reini
Denise Renno
Kent Renno
Kristina Rey
Stephen Ringo
Robe Roberson
Cynthia Rosales
Emma Ross
Ernesto Sanchez
Dwayne Scholten
Sophia & Eddie Hui
Miles & Linda Kristman
Elaine Messier
Libby Nielsen
Nancy & Peter Pitarys
Stephanie Siegfried
Leslie Palmer Siggs
Phyllis Woodward
FOUNDATIONS
& CORPORATIONS
Thank you to the following organizations for their donations and matching gifts to Overlake.
Apple
AT&T
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
Costco Wholesale
Expedia
Hiya Inc.
JP Morgan Chase & Co
McDonald’s
Microsoft
MSCI
Nintendo of America
Nordstrom
NVIDIA
Oracle
PayPal Giving Fund
Salesforce
Starbucks
Symetra Financial Corporation
T-Mobile
UBS Financial Services
Wells Fargo Bank
Weyerhauser
Zoom Video Communications
RESTRICTED GIVING
Donors may choose to designate their Overlake Fund support to particular programs, specific purchases, faculty support, or scholarships, for example.
Alumni Program
Alex (’81) & Ange Smith
Arts Program
Overlake Friends of the Arts (OFTA)
Eva Bretz (’20)
Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping
Miles W. Glew (’00)
Kurt & Dana Jacob
Mark Lotz
Liviu Prisecaru & Cristina Bucur
Kristina Rey
Doren & Alicia Spinner
Stashu & Crissy Stemkowski
Johnny & Denice Sun
Kam & Patricia VedBrat
Luke Woodward & Sarah Cassidy
Kera Wright
Victor Wu & Vivian Zheng
John Zhang & Jo Hu
Athletics Program
Anonymous (1)
Amy Bahl & Viven Gupta
Ganesh Bheemarasetty & Madhuri Maddala
The Capello Family
Jian Chen & Rong Zhao
Scott & Cherie Emigh
Anand Eswaran & Kavitha Krishnan
Mike & Anna Fine
John & Jennifer Friend
Tony Fung & Happy Hong
Kevin & Ann Gruben
Karan & Rashmi Gupta
Chris Hayes
Mike & Jennai Hufstader
Krista Kang
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
Xun Liu & Ni Zhou
Xiongbo Lu & Yan Chen
Leile & Crystal Maly
Thank You to Our Overlake Fund Volunteers!
We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers who worked on the 2023–24 Overlake Fund, with special recognition to our Parent Co-Chairs Milen Gala and Anouk Pape, as well as all our amazing Overlake Fund Representatives, whose personal outreach and positive connections were instrumental to the success of this year’s campaign.
PARENT CO-CHAIRS
Milen Gala A nouk Pape
OVERLAKE FUND LEADERSHIP TEAM
Chitra Brihadeeshwar Kate Peters Jessica Rossman
Andrea Dancs Laura Pitarys Tanya Vail
Dan Evans Rasha Qamheyeh
Elizabeth Huang Juli Rasmussen
OVERLAKE FUND REPRESENTATIVES
5th Grade
Carlos Hernandez
Sha Meng
6th Grade
Happy Hong
Jo Hu
Anupa Mutyala
Susheel Mutyala
7th Grade
Cassandra Andriychenko (’98)
Vivian Zheng
8th Grade
Erin Croman
Maria Hui
Vernon Hui
9th Grade
Heather Ure Dunagan
Lisa Golden
Kim Hutton
10th Grade
Lisa Cho
Laura Gonzalez
Monica Reilly Yan Tu
FACULTY & STAFF CO-CHAIRS
Jenni Baldwin Robe Roberson
SENIOR STUDENT CO-CHAIRS
Hideki & Miwa Nagai
Fiachre & Rose O’Neill
Kim Robertson (’77)
Dwayne & Lisa Scholten
Zhen Shi & Xiaojie Wu
Avijit Sinha & Sangeeta Ranjit
Vani & Sherwyn Soff
Sandy Stark
Chris & Melissa Stroud
Zhenia Umbers
Brandon Wang & Jenny Sheng
Co-Curricular Program
Honggang Zhang & Zhihong Duan
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program
Anonymous (3)
Nitin Bhandari & Komal Kashiramka
Laura Brown
Allison Gilman
Jay & Chana Heath
Nancy Iff
Omar Jimenez & Dallas Moody-Jimenez
H aroldo Level & Ileana Liendo
Mulugeta Mengistu & Tina Liven
Syam & Savita Nair
Jay Raja & Farzana Rahman
Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian
Jose Simonet & Erin Fox
Mr. Troy and Mrs. Sarah B. (’05) Tompkins
Sara Wilcox
Faculty & Staff Professional Development
Anonymous (4)
Katie (Riese) (‘03) & Sam Al-Khoury
Jeff Chu & Cathy Yang
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
Weimin Gao & Mei Zhang
Thomas George & Reshma Alex
Reid Hu (’24)
Sara Womack
11th Grade
Julie Barker
Susan Keller
Lydia Liu
12th Grade
Overlake Fund and Senior Class
Legacy Fund Reps
Krista Kang
Jennifer Reid
Lisa Thomas
Jiali Goodwin (’24) Catherine Liu (’24) Evan Spinner (’24)
Eric Li & Sharon Liang
Lei Li & Lan Wang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Julian Odell & Julie Barker
Endale Sebre & Meseret Haile
Financial Aid
Anonymous (8)
Kate & Tony Asgari
Peter & Jane Barrett
David Basham & Jane Betzer
Stephanie Belieres
Gerald Blycker & Kristin Jongejan
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
Krishna Davda
Clare & Ben Fischer
Alicia Gold
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
Tushar & Vivek Gupta
Adrian & Samantha (’01) Hillyer
Mustafa Husain & Noreen Awan
Doris Factory Jackson
Omar Jimenez & Dallas Moody-Jimenez
O mar Mawjee & Zaheera Valani
Marshall McCurties
Kevin & Karen Mihata
Lisa Orenstein
Aaron & Kelli Pleskac
Ashley & Nathan Powel
Kent & Denise Renno
Sanjay Shah & Taral Patel
Sky Tian & Jenny Pan
Laura Triebold
Danielle Troy
Paul Velasquez
Chrissy Wakeling (’02)
Hao Zhang & Yaqiong Liao
Global Service Program
Sameer & Moona Khan
Louie Lu & Rong Shen
Wilton Wang & Yumeka Soga
Summer Link
Angus Fan & Stephanie Leung
Technology Program
Anonymous (3)
Rick Barnett & Su Su
The Chien Family
Stan & Lisa Cho
John & Lorna Croswell
Greg Dean & Jennifer Otten
Sid Dhodi & Nikita Gusain
Sapan Gupta & Chandee Pandey
Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala
Jed & Sherry Kim
James & Viena Lau
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
Kirill Levanidov & Nadia Levanidova
Cary Li & Joyce Zhou
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Ning Li & Xiaofei Kong
Wesley Pereira & Aman Benes
Anshuman (’00) and Bhavya Srivastava
D eriek Ta & Bic Nguyen
David & Lynn Treadwell
Honggang Zhang & Zhihong Duan
GIFTS IN KIND
In addition to monetary gifts, Overlake receives contributions of goods and services that enhance our school and program.
Full Scale Entertainment
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Lisa & Moz Thomas
Senior Class Legacy Fund
The Senior Class Legacy Fund tradition began with the Class of 2014 as a way to give back to Overlake and establish a lasting legacy. Gifts to the Senior Class Legacy Fund are restricted to the school’s endowment for financial aid, furthering our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity.
Many thanks to the following donors for their meaningful gifts to their Senior Class Legacy Fund during the 2023–24 school year. Congratulations to everyone in the Class of 2024 who raised an inspiring $136,000+ with 80% parent/guardian participation.
Parent/Guardian Volunteers
Dan Evans, Co-Chair
Tanya Vail, Co-Chair
Krista Kang, SCLF Rep
Jennifer Reid, SCLF Rep
Lisa Thomas, SCLF Rep
Senior Class of 2024
Legacy Fund Donors
A nonymous (5)
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
Tone Austin & Priscilla Paris-Austin
Sara Baquero-Garcia & Doug Davis
Virgil & Marnie Bretz
Nathan & Laura Brown
John & Shanna Case
Gaurang Chandrakant & Meng-Hua Wei
Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping
Chris & Natalia Clower
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Jennifer & Mike Gallop
Tracy & Jason Goldberger
Bob & Jiaru Goodwin
Dan & JoAnne Guralnick
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
Taeok & Steven Hong
Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid
Rundong Hu & Haihui Sun
Colin & Angie Hurlock
Wayne & Irene Hwang
Drs. Laurie Jacobson & Howard Willson
K rista Kang
Li and Julie Kang
Kevin & Stasia Kehoe
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
Michael & Kirstin Larson
Daniel & Tamara Leeks
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Xiaoguang Li & Bingbing Wu
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Ted Liu
Roger Lou & Maggie Zhu
Katherine Min
Ashwin Needamangala & Anu Shenoy
Gor Nishanov & Anzhela Nishanova
Chloe & Soomin Park
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Molly & Lindsey Schwartz
Krishnan Seshadrinathan & Swetha Krishnan
M arie & Daniel Slater
Alex (’81) & Ange Smith
Yancey Smith & Rebecca Pleich
Doren & Alicia Spinner
Carole & Sheldon Stearns
Rich Stearns & Erin Gabriel
James & Julie Sun
Hua Tang & Fang Fang
Lisa & Moz Thomas
John & Tanya Vail
Ricardo Villarreal & Laura Gonzalez
Rebecca Wells
Wenzhong Wu & Wendy Wan
Bin Xie & Gia Guo
Xiaowei Yin & Cherry Tao
Honor & Memorial Gifts
We extend our sincere gratitude to the following donors for commemorating their friends and loved ones with a thoughtful gift to Overlake.
Jenni & Ryan Baldwin
I n memory of my dad Gene Larson
Kate Berry (’08) & Tom Austin Baldwin
I n memory of Dot Boyack
Nitin Bhandari & Komal Kashiramka
I n memory of Vijay Kumar Kashiramka
Ganesh Bheemarasetty & Madhuri Maddala
I n memory of Anasuya Devi
Travis & Lisa Boyce
I n memory of Camille Lucas
Krishna Davda
I n memory of Sarla Davda, who believed education is a significant value
Doug Davis & Sara Baquero-Garcia
I n honor of Roberto Davis-Baquero (’24)
John & Leija Davis
I n honor of Carolyn Davis III (’24)
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
I n honor of Tessa Mary Carol Dunagan (’24)
Angus Fan & Stephanie Leung
I n honor of the Summer Link students
Alexander Gounares
I n honor of George (’27) & Renat (’28) Gounares
Karan & Rashmi Gupta
I n memory of R. M. Gupta
David & Carol Hoag
I n memory of Paul Weston
Hai Huang & Ying Zhao
I n honor of Zach Huang (’26)
Sophia & Eddie Hui
I n honor of Edison (’26) & Evan (’28) Hui
Laurie Jacobson & Howie Willson
I n memory of Daphne Wickham (’26)
Ethan & Moneta Kushner
I n memory of Ronald Kushner
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
I n honor of Ashley (’25) & Evan (’22) Lee
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
I n honor of Sienna Lai (’25)
Malcolm & Phoebe Ann Moore
I n memory of Gretchen Davis King
Libby Nielsen
I n honor of Katelyn Darrin (’27)
Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
I n honor of Paxton (’29) & Phoebe Ott (’30)
Deepak & Hema Patil
I n honor of Overlake alumni
Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi
I n honor of Dr. Deepika Rustogi
Jay Raja & Farzana Rahman
I n honor of M. R. Hussain
Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian
I n memory of Esperanza
Lindsey and Molly Schwartz
I n honor of Jagger Schwartz (’24)
Jeff (’76) & Judith Silverman
I n memory of Denver Ulery
Daniel and Marie Slater
I n honor of David Slater (’24)
Evan Spinner (’24)
I n honor of Erin Gabriel
Zhenia Umbers
I n memory of Drew Umbers
John and Tanya Vail
I n honor of Avery Vail (’24)
Myk & Jodi Willis
I n memory of Grandmother Anne Rogers
Endowment & Planned Giving
Building a strong endowment is the best way to ensure that today’s students, as well as future generations, benefit from Overlake’s exceptional educational environment and diverse and inclusive community. The principal of Overlake’s endowment is never spent, while the interest accrued on these funds serve as a perpetual source of income for our annual operating budget.
We are deeply grateful to the following donors who supported Overlake’s endowment during the 2023–24 school year.
Unrestricted Endowment Gifts
Donations to Overlake’s unrestricted endowment enable the school to direct resources where they are most needed.
Burke & Dolores Gibson
Financial Aid Endowment Fund
Donations to Overlake’s general endowment for financial aid strengthen our commitment to accessibility.
Anonymous (1)
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
Named endowment funds provide generous donors with the opportunity to establish a lasting and impactful legacy that aligns with their philanthropic priorities. The principal is never spent and the interest earned benefits the designated program every year in perpetuity.
William C. and Annalee F. Armstrong Financial Aid Endowment Fund
In 2017, the Overlake community came together to establish the William C. and Annalee F. Armstrong Financial Aid Endowment Fund, affectionately referred to as The Army & Anna Fund, in honor of Overlake’s longest serving educator and his devoted family. The fund is dedicated to ensuring that students of families with limited financial means can access an Overlake education, furthering our commitment to increased inclusivity.
Cebert SJ Noonan (‘79)
This fund was created through a bequest from H. Willard Nagley in 2007, grandparent of Race (’08) and Kit (’10). Income from this fund supports the maintenance and upkeep of the school’s athletics and physical education facilities.
Bukhari-Khan Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
Tristan Steel (’90) & Jeff LaGasse
Richard & Mia Wall
Labiba and Aurangzeb Khan, along with their children Sameen (’29) and Inaya (’32), established this fund in 2022 to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
John Colleran and Michelle Kastner, along with their children Jessica (’20) and Joshua (’22), established this fund in 2019 to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Lenore Eustis Learning Resources Fund
Family and friends of Lenore Eustis, one of Overlake’s founders and a teacher here for 15 years, established this fund in 2005. Income supports tutoring and testing for financial aid students with learning differences.
Faculty and Staff Professional Development Endowment Fund
Overlake established this fund in 1998. The fund supports faculty and staff professional growth through the school’s sabbatical program, continuing education, workshops, conferences, and advanced degrees.
Foreign Exchange Program Endowment Fund
Income from this fund supports the school’s foreign exchange programs with schools abroad.
Fries
Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
Robert Fries and Debra Dahlen, along with their children Annaliese (’14), Galileo (’19), and Morgan, established this fund in honor of Nola M. Moore, MD in 2022, with the purpose to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Gibson Scholarship Endowment Fund
Bruce and Lynn Gibson, along with their children Grant (’14) and Burke, established this fund in 2019 to provide annual, ongoing need-based scholarships for students in the sixth through twelfth grades of African American heritage. This Fund is an extension of the Gibson Diversity Scholarship Fund that provided tuition assistance and additional financial support for one historically underrepresented student between 2010 and 2016.
Bruce & Lynn Gibson
Matt Horvat Scholarship Endowment Fund
Throughout his 11-year tenure, Head Owl Matt Horvat was dedicated to ensuring that a life-changing Overlake education was possible for more families from all socioeconomic circumstances. Inspired by Matt’s passion for greater inclusivity and accessibility, the Overlake community came together to establish this scholarship fund in his honor as a parting gift in 2023. Thank you to the following donors whose gifts were received between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024:
Bill & Jean Avery
Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi
Deborah Black & Jim Stewart
The Foster Foundation
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Edward & Jill Im
Farookh Mohammed & Rachana Mundra
Tom & Kate Peters
Hatem Zeine & Rasha Qamheyeh
Malone Scholarship Endowment Fund
The Malone Family Foundation established this fund at Overlake in 2007. Income from the fund provides need-based financial aid for students in seventh through twelfth grades.
Anoop Gupta & Yumi Iwasaki
Dean Palmer Endowment Fund
Overlake’s Board of Trustees established this fund in 1984 in honor of Dean Palmer, Overlake’s head of school from 1970 to 1984. Income from this fund helps provide two $500 awards to enable one Middle School student and one Upper School student with the resources with which to “stick their neck out” and pursue a particular talent or passion over the summer.
Qamheyeh and Zeine Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
Rasha Qamheyeh and Hatem Zeine, along with their children Nina (’25) and Amin (’29), established this fund in 2022, with the purpose to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Hatem Zeine & Rasha Qamheyeh
Raman Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
Suri and Mala Raman, along with their children Nithila (’16) and Kamya (’23), established this fund in 2023 to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
James Reber Callaghan Scholarship Endowment Fund
Jim Callaghan was essential to sustaining Overlake in its early days, serving as President of the Board of Trustees, and providing experienced and expert leadership when the school needed it most. As the parent of five Owls, he knew first-hand what made the Overlake educational experience unique. This fund was seeded in 2023 by an alum.
Shuey Family Endowment Fund
Eric and Janelle Shuey, along with their children Jenna (’20) and Jake (’23), established this fund in 2020 to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Srivastava Family Endowment Fund
Amitabh and Richa Srivastava, along with their children Anshuman (’00), Shivani (’04), and Tapan (’16), established this fund in 2021 with the purpose to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Wharton Faculty Enrichment Award
The Wharton Foundation, Ellen Wharton Peterson (’88), and Gregory Wharton (’86) established this fund in 1989. Income from this fund helps provide a $1,000 grant each year to a faculty member to pursue an area of interest or an activity that encourages personal growth.
Writer’s Symposium Endowment Fund
Income from this fund supports The Overlake School’s annual Writer’s Symposium.
Bill & Anna Armstrong
Richard & Mia Wall
Yu Hao Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
Wei Yu and Ying Hao, along with their children Ella (’28) and Dylan (’26), established this fund in 2022 with the purpose to provide an annual need-based scholarship for a student.
Wei Yu & Ying Hao
NAMED PROGRAM FUNDS
Named program funds offer generous donors the opportunity to create a fund that provides supplemental resources beyond the regular operating budget allocations. Program funds are used each year until they are fully spent.
Trevor Brenden (’95) Project Week Scholarship Fund
Dave and Krecia Brenden established this fund in 2003 in memory of their son Trevor (’95). The fund supports two Project Week scholarships annually for one Middle School student and one Upper School student who are receiving need-based financial aid.
Janet & Adam Jones Pierce (’93) & Juliette Scranton
Brian & Amy Wulfestieg
Expert in Residence Fund
This fund was created in 2010 during a paddle raise at the auction. It enables Overlake to bring inspiring experts in a given field or discipline to spend two to five
days on campus engaging with students in classes, giving lessons, and sharing their knowledge with faculty and staff. In 2023–24, Francis Edward Su, Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and past president of the Mathematical Association of America, began to work with the entire math department to implement aspects of his book, Mathematics for Human Flourishing. Dr. Su will return in 2024–25 to complete his Expert in Residence and work with students.
Francisco J. Grijalva Fund for Global Service & Music Trips
Friends and family of Frank Grijalva, Overlake’s head of school from 1995 to 2012, established this fund in 2012 to provide need-based financial aid for Project Week students applying to a global service project, annual music travel trip, or foreign exchange trip.
Anonymous (1)
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva Mollie Montgomery
The Pete Schoening Outdoor Education Fund
Mark and Emmy Schoening, parents of Daniel (’06), Allison (’08), and Brian (’12), established this fund in 2004 in honor of their grandfather, Pete Schoening. This fund supports Overlake’s robust outdoor program that benefits all students every year.
PLANNED GIVING THE HERITAGE SOCIETY
Overlake’s Heritage Society honors those who have chosen to provide for Overlake in their estate plans by means of a bequest, trust, gift of life insurance, or other estate-planning instrument. Their thoughtful and generous foresight will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come.
Anonymous (1)
Robin Eising (’76)
Miles W. Glew (’00)
Marcia McGreevy Lewis & Robert Lewis
Lyn & Tom White
Previously Received Bequests
Estate of Klaus H.C. Engel
Received in 2013
E state of Harriet U. Fish
Received in 1999
E state of John M. Goodfellow
Received in 1998
E state of H. Willard Nagley
Received in 2007
E state of Catherine McNutt Rooks
Received in 2010
To learn more about planned giving opportunities, please contact Director of Development Brisen Brady at bbrady@overlake.org or 425-868-1000.
2023–24 Capital Campaign Leaders
A ndrea Dancs, Chair
Chitra Brihadeeshwar
Dan Evans
Elizabeth Huang
Milen Gala
Rasha Qamheyeh
Juli Rasmussen
Tanya Vail
Sara Womack
Faculty & Staff Leaders
Eric Temple, Interim Head of School
Br isen Brady, Director of Development
Mar garet Lynch, Assistant to the Head of School
Susan Messier, Director of Communications & Marketing
C ampaign Counsel
James Plourde, JP Fundraising Solutions
Our vision for the Doors to Discovery capital campaign is to open doors to the broadest range of possibilities today for our students to reach their fullest potential tomorrow. We are honored to thank and recognize all our visionary supporters who have joined together to open the Whitten Math & Sciences Center, triple our financial aid endowment, and now build our new Student & Community Center. On behalf of all our Owls, past, present, and future, we thank you!
Many thanks to all our generous donors who have contributed to Doors to Discovery as of December 1, 2024, and whose investments in the future of Overlake will leave a lasting legacy:
Anonymous (20)
Anonymous in honor of Overlake Middle School Teachers
A nonymous in memory of Annika Jane Berger
Anonymous in memory of Cheng Wei Wei
Lydia Mayfield Abbott
Elbio & Vania Abib
Majida & Muhammad Abozaed
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Alex & Susie Algard
Katie (‘03) & Sam Al-Khoury
Lee & David Amos
in honor of Piper (’22) & Zander (’19) Gillett
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Steve & B.J. Anderson
Rhonda Norvell Andres
Bogdan & Cassandra (’98) Andriychenko
The Apreutesei Family
Abhisht & Pawni Arora
Tone Austin & Priscilla Paris-Austin in memory of Gaudiosa Erazo Paris
Gigel & Marilena Avram
Amy Bahl & Viven Gupta
John & Tarrah Baker
Scott Baker & Shaun Kaneshiro
Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi
Jenni & Ryan Baldwin
Chris (’98) & Trista Bamer
Greg Bamford (’92) & Shannon Armitage in honor of Overlake Faculty
David Banks (’83)
Rick Barnett & Su Su
Diane & Drew Baron
Hillary & Andrew Barr
Katharine Barrett
Amy Bartlow
Stephanie Belières
Yahn Bernier, N. Elizabeth McCaw & Cameron (’25) Bernier
Kate Berry (’08) & Tom Austin Baldwin
A nn & Arvind Bhat
Bheemarasetty Family
in memory of Anasuya Devi
Nihar & Ojasa Bihani
Alice & Hugh Birch
George Birch (’17)
Margaret Black
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
George & Leslie Bond
Chris Border
Jill Bowles
Scott & Brisen Brady
Clay & Anne Marie Brandes
Virgil & Marnie Bretz
Robert H. Bristol
Michael & Emi Brown
in honor of Kai (’23) and Liana (’26) Brown
Gerald Buhaly & Marjan Spaander
Marie Jean Buhaly
Meike Buhaly (’15)
Steve Bush & Christine Chang
Drs. Raj & Mona Butani
Maurice & Gina Carson
The Casalino Family
Shanna, John, Will (’24) & Drew (’27) Case
The Cashman Family
in honor of John & Mary Jo Cashman
Zachary Chan (’04)
The Chandrakant Family
Chai & Petcha Chaoweeraprasit
Catherine Chatalas
in memory of Jeanne Kapsi
Karen Chaudiere (’81)
Huoping Chen & Esther Li
Kevin Chen & Lian Shao
Long Chen & Yun Li
Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping
Shingo & Izumi Chihara
Sekhar Chintalapati & Suma Uppuluri
Hoon & Junehee Cho
in memory of Cheng Wei Wei
Stan & Lisa Cho
Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz
Sean Clark
Veronica Codrington-Cazeau
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Student & Community Center
A place to congregate,
collaborate, and celebrate
Construction is underway on Overlake’s new 8,000-square-foot Student & Community Center, which will open this summer!
The Student & Community Center perfectly complements the Whitten Math & Sciences Center, which opened in 2021. Whitten provides the tools to educate students in math, science, and computer science, while the Student & Community Center is designed to foster the social and collaborative skills graduates need to succeed in an increasingly integrated world.
The centerpiece of the Student & Community Center will be a multipurpose space that can seat 250 people. With a dedicated lobby and pre-function area, we will be able to host a full array of events, meetings, and gatherings that aren’t possible today.
Our new Student & Community Center is more than just a building. It is a place where students can learn, grow, and connect with each other and the world.
We look forward to inviting you to hard hat tours and building opening celebrations in 2025!
John Colleran & Michelle Kastner
Gretchen Colonius & Paul Wetherbee
Michael Coulson & Patricia Orellana
Sean & Erin Croman
Heng Cui & Siyun Li
The Cusick Family
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
Beau & Suzanne Damon
Carolyn Davis (’24)
Doug Davis & Michelle Wilson
Elizabeth & Chasen Davis
Dave De & Ina Saha
Ke Deng & Tao Yu
Klaus & Laura Diaconu
Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95)
Charles Duba & Masayo Arakawa
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Nathan & Jenna Edmunds
Sid Eland (’76)
Colby Emerson (’02)
James C. & Carli Emerson
Mark & Tessa Encarnación
Misook Eum & Junhyoung Ahn
Alan Everitt (’06)
Carl & Judy Everitt
Vadim Eydelman & Rimma Gorovaya
Yuan Fang & Wendy Shen
Laya Fawal
Mary Ellen Fine
Sarah Fitzpatrick
The Foster Foundation
Hod & Steff Fowler
Mariyan Fransazov & Katerina Bodurova
Diane & Walt Freytag
in honor of Barbara Fowler
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Ed & Kim Fujinaga
in honor of Ben (’17) & Grace (’19) Fujinaga
Tony Fung & Happy Hong
Erin Gabriel & Rich Stearns
The Gala Family
Ted & Helen Gamelin
Arif & Nausheena Ghouse
in memory of Khwaja Moinuddin Ahmed & Sajida Shaheen
Lynn & Bruce Gibson
Alicia Gold
Adam Goodman (’20)
The Goodman Family
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
Dinesh Govindasamy & Anu Kannian
Ramesh Gowrishankar & Thenmozhi Ramar
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva
Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin
Karan & Rashmi W Gupta
Luis Gutierrez & Maria Pena
Jeff & Cathi Haight
Aaron Halabe & Judy Edelstein
Laura Hamill & Keith Rettig
Fred & Sydney Hammerquist
Chris & Mags Hanaoka
Mioi Hanaoka
in honor of Noah Hanaoka (’29)
Ming Hao & Xia Li
Ying Hao & Wei Yu
Richard & Joanne Harris
Bob & Beth Hart
Cui He & Jie Bai
Jay & Chana Heath
Randi Hedin & Andy Gardner
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
Carlos Hernandez & Arantxa Alonso
David Hill
Molly Hill
Adrian & Samantha (’01) Hillyer
Bob Ho & Eileen Lee
Taeok & Steven Hong in honor of Sara (’21) and Ellie (’24) Hong
Andy & Molly Honig
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid
Rundong Hu & Haihui Sun
Felix & Elizabeth Huang in honor of Felix (’19), Catherine (’21) & Eddy (’23) Huang
Hai Huang & Ying Zhao
Qian Huang & Wei Zhang
Ying Huang & Li Ma
Zach Huang (‘26) & Family
Jason & Lauren Hubler
Maria & Vernon Hui
Moon & Lucy Hur
Brian & Amy Husted
Dave & Joanna Hutton
Edward & Jill Im
The Isenhower Family
Doris (Factory) Jackson
Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala
Joanna Jiang & Haiyong Wang
Qiming Jiang & Yimen Wu
Erik Johnson & Elizabeth Kain
Karin Johnson & Chris Peterson (’85)
Andrew Johnston (’83)
Janet & Adam Jones
Krista Kang
Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna
C yndee Kraiger & Brett Burris
Jun Lai & Joy Xu
Daniel & Tamara Leeks
Anthony & Cynthia Leibovitz
Li & Julie Kang
Abhinav & Anshul Kashyap in honor of Amil (‘30) & Adya Kashyap
L akshminarasimhan Kasi & Sumahitha Parthasarathy
Yan Ke & Claire Fang
Lloyd & Melody Kee
Matthew (’75) & Bev Kelleher
Aurangzeb & Labiba Khan
Sameer & Moona Khan
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Dongil Kim & Ju Hee Lee in memory of Cheng Wei Wei
Jason Kim & Elaine Chong
Jed & Sherry Kim
Dennis (’83) & Jill Kirkpatrick
Tomek (’02) & Anne Kott
Thomas & Peggy Ku
Takuya Kudo & Laura Pitarys
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
Dave Kwan & Kelly Tan
Julien Lamb & Catriona Watson in honor of Olivier Watson-Lamb (’26)
Michael & Kirstin Larson
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
Nadia & Kirill Levanidov
Boxin & Nannan Li
Chao & Peng Li in honor of Mingdi Li (’31)
Eric Li & Sharon Liang
HongQiao Li & Tang Tang
Lei Li & Lan Wang
Naizhi Li & Yi Gao
Richard Li & Rachel Wang
Tao & Liya Li
Wujun Li & Lei Zhang
Xiaoguang Li & Bingbing Wu
Xiaojun Li & Yan Tu
Yonggang Li & Hui Guo
Yu Liang & Li An
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
Alex Lima & Sylvia Lin
George Lin & Donna Liu
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Neil Lin & Gladys Jin
Susan Lin
Xian Liu & Carina Zhang
Zhuyuan Liu
Raveendrnathan Loganathan & Hemavathy Alaganandam
Paul Lou & Fang Liu
Qiang Lou & Qiong Wei in honor of Eric Lou (’29)
Bo Lu & Crystal Luo
Susan & Dan Luedke in honor of Phoebe Jacob (’27)
Deke & Annie Lundquist
Huajun Luo & Xiaoxia Ji
Angelica & Cornel Lupu
Margaret Lynch
Ana & Gustavo Mahler
Meher & Satya Malakapalli
Kevin & Annemarie Marcus
Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
M argaret & Justin Marks
Kyle & Alicia Martin
Melissa Martin
Campbell & Melissa Mathewson
The Matsuno Family
Omar Mawjee & Zaheera Valani
Keith & Elaine McCall
The McDaniel Family
Catherine McDonough
Anil & Gwen Mehra
Ushma & Miten Mehta
Jon & Susan Messier
Kevin & Karen Mihata
The Miltchev Family
Rajeev & Shalini Misra
Farookh Mohammed & Rachana Mundra
M onolithic Power Systems
Malcom & Phoebe Ann Moore
in honor of Rebecca C. Moore
Wing L. Mui
Mythili Muruganathan & Ramesh Balasubramanian
Susheel & Anupa Mutyala
Vikram Nagaraj & Vandana Nandan
Vivek Narasayya & Shreevijaya Ammankallu
A shwin Needamangala & Anu Shenoy
B uff & Lori Nelson
Mahesh Nemichand & Kavitha Manivannan
Janis Nevler & Mark Hanna
Gor Nishanov & Anzhela Nishanova
The Noble Family
Julian Odell & Julie Barker
Fiachre & Rose O’Neill
Andy & Theresa Ortega
in memory of Gordon & Patricia McHenry
Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre
Jennifer Pan-Lopez & Enrique Lopez
Frank & Anouk Pape
Chloe & Soomin Park
Jasmine & Jea Park
Taral Patel & Sanjay Shah
Deepak & Hema Patil
Larry Pederson & Grace Cheong
Frank & Kaili Pelzer
Shu Peng & Dongyun Liu
Alejandro Pérez-Tenessa & Blanca Barrio-Omeñaca
The Peters Family
Kurt Phillips
The Pike Family
Vaqar & Manizeh Pirzada
James Plourde
in honor of Brisen Brady
Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi
in honor of Punya Swamidas
M arcin & Aga Przysucha
Rasha Qamheyeh & Hatem Zeine
Peter Que & Jessica Bao
Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng
Kate Rabinowitz (’78)
Farzana Rahman & Jay Raja
The Raman Family
Beth (’99) & Joe Randall
Wasif Rasheed & Humera Ali
David & Juli Rasmussen
Sujit Ravindranath & Preethi Ramarathinam
Eric & Jacqueline Reichanadter
Monica & Matthew Reilly
Kent & Denise Renno
Matthew Roberts & Wady Milner
Michael & Susan Shin Robinson
Michael & Daphna Robon
Megan Rodrigues & Henry Ly
Ron & Heather Rosenberg
Emma Ross
Lee & Shaney Rudolph
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Karen & Bill Sample
Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian
The Sapirstein Family
Sheldon T. Schatzman (’16)
Alex & Gena (’96) Schirer
Cy & Kerri Scott
Thomas Seltz & Julia Zalba Seltz
Krishnan Seshadrinathan & Swetha Krishnan
D rew & Nicolette Sharp
Spencer & Erin Shepler
Kai Shih & Ingrid Chiang
Janelle & Eric Shuey
Ray & Jennifer Shyu
Stephanie Siegfried
Sumi Singh & Rakesh Tangirala
Daniel & Marie Slater
Alex (’81) & Ange Smith
Yumiko & Karson Snyder
Rafael & Steven Sosa-Krall
Baskar Sridharan & Sambhrama Mundkur
A mitabh & Richa Srivastava
Sheldon Stearns
Drew & Carrie Steedly
Axel Steinman & Claudia Maceroni
Scott Stiles & Andrea Dancs
Paul Stolarczuk & Jacqueline Riddell Family
Wei Sun & Bo Tian
Ananth Sundararaj & Ashwini Pai
Sumeet & Shweta Swami
Harris & Maryam Syed
Cindy Tai & Michael Bee
The Takayama Family
Zhiguo Tan & Olivia Yan
Vineet & Khushboo Taneja
Eric Temple & Garry Schermann in honor of the Capital Campaign Committee
Jan ter Meulen & Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen
Lisa & Moz Thomas
Khoa & Vandung To
David & Lynn Treadwell
Karin Treadwell
Don & Ann Tschan
Saria Tseng & Carlos Castaneda
The Tuffaha Family
Dan & Alison Turner
Doug Turner & Sonia Savelli
Sid & Ashwini Uppal
John & Tanya Vail
Srikanth & Sheena Velamoor
Sekar Velu & Nisha Bansal
Brihadeeshwar Venkataraman & Chitra Brihadeeshwar
Steve Veres (’03)
Andy Verprauskus & Michaelanne Ehrenberg
Ricardo Villarreal & Laura Gonzalez in honor of Lucia (’26) & Emilio (’24) Villarreal
Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham
Robin & Maggi Walker
Bin Wang & Ying Yang
Gretchen Warner & Robin Laqui
Danny & Lily Wei
Brandon Weinan Wang & Jenny Jie Sheng
W ilton & Yumeka Wang
Xiong Wang & Yuqing Zhong
The Wells/Rodey Family
Ed & Cecilia Whatley
Claudette & Reginald Whiting
Gregory & Michelle Whitten
John & Margaret Williams
Myk & Jodi Willis in honor of Jack Willis (’26)
The Willson Family
Donna & Troy Wilson
Fabian Winternitz & Miriam Rosenberg
Tim & Tiffany Wissner
The Womack Family
Bob & Debbie Wood
Phyllis Woodward
Karen, Chris, Hunter (’06) & Nick (’09) Wright
Dong Wu
Bob & Lisa Wyler
Yanling Xiong & Xin Yao
Jason Xu & Rachel Ren in honor of Isabel Xu (’27)
Tong Xu & Lei Zha
Naveen Yajaman & Deepa Mungasavalli
C hris Yang & Clare Chen in memory of NianMo Chen
Maggie Yang & Victor Lin
Xu Yang & Jing Li
Maria & James Yarrow
Xiaowei Yin & Yaqin Tao
Shengang Yuan & Shuang Hou
Eric Yun & Jie Xie
Ellen & Gary Zarter
Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang
Pusheng Zhang & Yinghui Wang
Ruofei Zhang & Yu He in honor of Lishun He & Xiangli Hu
Tao Zhang & Helen Wang
Wenge Zhang & Athena Zhao
Vivian Zheng & Victor Wu
Liangxiao Zhu & Xiaohua Ma
Hugo Zhu & Jessica Shao
2024–25 is the Final Year for the Capital Campaign!
This is the final year of fundraising for our ambitious Doors to Discovery capital campaign, which launched in 2017–18 and completed the Whitten Math & Sciences C enter, tripled our financial aid endowment, and is now constructing the new Student & Community Center. This is the largest capital campaign in the school’s history — thank you for everyone who has stepped up to invest in Overlake’s future!
A s of press time, we have raised more than $5.7 million toward the Student & Community Center with a goal to raise another $1 million or more by June 2025.
Please join us! Director of Development Brisen Brady is happy to facilitate your giving or answer any questions you may have. Please contact her at bbrady@overlake.org or 425-868-1000. You may also scan this QR code to make a donation or multi-year pledge today.
Donor Recognition and Naming Opportunities
All donors, at every level, will be included on the donor recognition wall located in the Whitten Math & Sciences Center lobby.
Specific naming opportunities in the Student & Community Center include:
• Student & Community Center facility: $5 million
• Discovery Hall (multipurpose room): $3 million
• Entry & Lobby: $1 million
• Admin Wing: $1 million
• Conference Room: $250,000
Parliament Society
We are honored to acknowledge our dedicated and long-standing donors who have generously supported the school for five consecutive years or more, including the 2023–24 school year. The name Parliament is defined as a group of Owls or can represent many people coming together to help make a community better. Both interpretations of the word seemed to be the perfect tribute for our steadfast supporters.
40-Year Circle
Tony Lee (’80)
Cebert SJ Noonan (’79)
35-Year Circle
Bill & Anna Armstrong
Greg (’81) & Ann (’82) Foster
Tad Gulick (’76)
Leslie Palmer Siggs
Bob & Debbie Wood
30-Year Circle
Lisa Orenstein
25-Year Circle
Anonymous (2)
Lydia Mayfield Abbott
Catherine Chatalas
Sid Eland (’76)
Sarah Fitzpatrick
Hod & Steff Fowler
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva
Margaret Lynch
Rich Stearns & Erin Gabriel
Alisa Steinhilber
Ellen Zarter
20-Year Circle
Anonymous (1)
Greg Bamford (’92) & Shannon Armitage
D avid Banks (’83)
Charlie Dahlgren (’80)
Doris Factory Jackson
Bill Johns & Stephanie Kallos
Kevin & Karen Mihata
Pierce ’93 & Juliette Scranton
Paul Stolarczuk & Jacqueline Riddell
John (’83) & Kelly Wiley
15-Year Circle
Anonymous (1)
John & Tarrah Baker
Katharine Barrett
Deborah Black & Jim Stewart
Victor & Monica Casalino
Sean Clark
Mike & Casey Davidson
Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95) & Ricco DiStefano
Jim & Carli Emerson
Vadim Eydelman & Rimma Gorovaya
Mike & Anna Fine
‘becca & Matt Flora
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Bruce & Lynn Gibson
Warren & Stephanie Gilles
Miles W. Glew (’00)
Alicia Gold
Anoop Gupta & Yumi Iwasaki
Randi Hedin & Andy Gardner
Michael T. Krumbholz
Mireille Machefert
Sarah & Danny Mansour
Mollie Montgomery
Rebecca Moore
Steven Mraz
David & Patricia Noble
Aaron & Kelli Pleskac
Justin & Allison Prohn
Kent & Denise Renno
David & Lynn Treadwell
Karin Treadwell
Danielle Troy
Richard & Mia Wall
Sara Wilcox
10-Year Circle
Anonymous (6)
Jenni & Ryan Baldwin
Sara Baquero-Garcia & Doug Davis
Peter & Jane Barrett
Gerald Blycker & Kristin Jongejan
Benito Castro II
Cipriano & Lynn Castro
Kevin Chen & Lian Shao
Brian & Julie Curkendall
Lance & Jeanette DeLay
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Eamon & Susan Essex
Kathy Finkenstadt
John & Jennifer Friend
Burke & Dolores Gibson
Erica & Joshua Goodman
Luis Gutierrez & Maria Pena
Richard & Joanne Harris
Adrian & Samantha (’01) Hillyer
Patrick & Leigh (’85) Hines
David & Carol Hoag
Matt Horvat & Susan Fine
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Mike & Jennai Hufstader
Moon & Lucy Hur
Edward & Jill Im
Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna
John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee
Rob & Terrel Lefferts
Kirill Levanidov & Nadia Levanidova
Mark Lotz
Deke Lundquist
McDougall Family
Jon & Susan Messier
Julian Odell & Julie Barker
Vikram Paramasivan & Bhuvana Vikram
A shley & Nathan Powel
Hari Prasad & Shubha Nambiar
Marcin & Aga Przysucha
Jay Raja & Farzana Rahman
Anand Ramakrishna & Soumya Subramanian
D avid & Juli Rasmussen
Asir & Caroline Selvasingh
Stephanie Siegfried
Marie & Daniel Slater
Alex (’81) & Ange Smith
Carole & Sheldon Stearns
Chen Tang & Huanhui Hu
John & Tanya Vail
Limei Xu
5-Year Circle
Anonymous (16)
Abhi Abhishek & Piali Choudhury
Katie Riese Al-Khoury (’03) & Sam Al-Khoury
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
Eric & Inessa Anderson
Abhisht Arora & Pawni Beaspal
Kate & Tony Asgari
Tone Austin & Priscilla Paris-Austin
Bill & Jean Avery
Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi
Aravind Bala & Nandita Sampath
Ramesh Balasubramanian & Mythili Muruganathan
A rgaw Ballecha
The Bancroft Family
Rick Barnett & Su Su
Hillary & Andrew Barr
Stephanie Belieres
Yahn Bernier & Beth McCaw
Kate Berry (’08) & Tom Austin
Lubomir Birov & Rossi Birova
Brian & Katie Boland
Travis & Lisa Boyce
Scott & Brisen Brady
Virgil & Marnie Bretz
Steve Bush & Christine Chang
Raj & Mona Butani
Maurice & Gina Carson
John & Shanna Case
Benson Chen & Janice Kim
Huoping Chen & Esther Li
The Chien Family
Murali & Girija Chintalapati
Sekhar Chintalapati & Suma Uppuluri
Stan & Lisa Cho
Gagan & Rashmi Chopra
Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz
Kristoph Cichocki & Terumi Sakaki
Heng Cui & Siyun Li
Hui Dai & Shijing Fang
John & Leija Davis
Klaus & Laura Diaconu
Michelle & Donovan Douvia
Craig Edwards & Kate Behncken
Scott & Cherie Emigh
Yuan Fang & Wendy Shen
Chris (’10) & Grace Faulkner
Laya Fawal
Clare & Ben Fischer
Jennifer & Mike Gallop
Mark & Olga Gershaft
Jenna Goltermann (’05)
Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati
A lexander Gounares
Rimma Gounares
Joanna (’03) & Garrett Guiler
Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin
Sapan Gupta & Chandee Pandey
Dan & JoAnne Guralnick
Jay & Chana Heath
Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan
Jen & Chris Herink
Bob Ho & Eileen Lee
Taeok & Steven Hong
Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid
Hai Huang & Ying Zhao
Maria & Vernon Hui
Chris & Kim Hutton
Wayne & Irene Hwang
Idris Idris & Asiya Ismael
Nancy Iff
Kurt & Dana Jacob
Drs. Laurie Jacobson & Howard Willson
Mathrubootham Janakiraman & Ranjini Mathrubootham
Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala
Omar Jimenez & Dallas Moody-Jimenez
Eric & Peggy Johnson
Amanda Jones
Janet & Adam Jones
Krista Kang
Kevin & Stasia Kehoe
Humayun Khan & Tallat Fahim
Sameer & Moona Khan
Brandon Kim & Bon Koo
Damon Kim & Chloe Jeong
Thomas & Peggy Ku
Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani
Michael & Kirstin Larson
Daniel & Tamara Leeks
Dana & Matt Len
Ning Li & Xiaofei Kong
Xiaoguang Li & Bingbing Wu
Xiaojun Li & Yan Tu
Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Neil Lin & Gladys Jin
Xian Liu and Carina Zhang
Raveendrnathan Loganathan & Hemavathy Alaganandam
Xiongbo Lu & Yan Chen
Huajun Luo & Xiaoxia Ji
Xiaohua Ma & Liangxiao Zhu
Samantha (’05) & Cameron Macbride
Anil & Niriksha Malladi
Justin & Margaret Marks
Kyle & Kay Martin
Andrea McCandlish
Mindy McGrath
Akash & Reshma Mehrotra
Rajnish Mishra & Hina Sahi
Rajeev & Shalini Misra
Kanchan & Srobona Mitra
Farookh Mohammed & Rachana Mundra
M alcolm & Phoebe Ann Moore
Greg & Elaine Morse
Tara & Conrad Mounsey
Aparna Mulukutla & Satish Pachalla
Terry & Katie Myerson
Hideki & Miwa Nagai
Ashwin Needamangala & Anu Shenoy
Bill Neil
Aimé Ngandu & Hanani Thelma Dube
Ioan & Beatrice Oltean
Frank & Anouk Pape
Chloe & Soomin Park
Jasmine & Jea Park
Deepak & Hema Patil
Shu Peng & Dongyun Liu
Tom & Kate Peters
Liviu Prisecaru & Cristina Bucur
Peter Que & Jessica Bao
Rajesh Ramanathan & Sudha Sharma
Eric & Jacki Reichanadter
Monica & Matt Reilly
Linda Kay Reini
Stephen & Bretta Ringo
Kim Robertson (’77)
Ron & Heather Rosenberg
Emma Ross
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian
Dwayne & Lisa Scholten
Delanie Seman
Krishnan Seshadrinathan & Swetha Krishnan
Sanjay Shah & Taral Patel
Jeff (’76) & Judith Silverman
Jose Simonet & Erin Fox
Nikhil & Urmila Singhal
John & Cathy Smith
Yancey Smith & Rebecca Pleich
Doren & Alicia Spinner
Sandy Stark
Stash & Crissy Stemkowski
Kim & Jim Stevens
Scott Stiles & Andrea Dancs
Chris & Melissa Stroud
James & Julie Sun
Johnny & Denice Sun
Hua Tang & Fang Fang
Mr. Troy & Mrs. Sarah B. (’05) Tompkins
Laura Triebold
Zhenia Umbers
Kalyan Valicherla & Subha Hajeebu Venkata
K am & Patricia VedBrat
Andrew Verprauskus & Michaelanne Ehrenberg
Kelly Vikstrom-Hoyt
Ricardo Villarreal & Laura Gonzalez
Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham
Chrissy Wakeling (’02)
Robin & Maggi Walker
Danny & Niki Wattendorf
Rebecca Wells
Cecilia & Ed Whatley
Myk & Jodi Willis
Marcus & Sara Womack
Luke Woodward & Sarah Cassidy
Phyllis Woodward
Victor Wu & Vivian Zheng
Wenzhong Wu & Wendy Wan
Yanling Xiong & Xin Yao
Tong Xu & Lei Zha
Ruslan & Tatyana Yakushev
Maggie Yang & Victor Lin
Xiaowei Yin & Cherry Tao
Wei Yu & Ying Hao
Eric Yun & Jie Xie
Karen & Kimberly Zaidberg
Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang
Dexin Zhu & Lihua Wen
Hugo Zhu & Jessica Shao
Victor Zhu & Amy Han
OVERLAKE’S ANNUAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Owls Night Out at the Bellevue Arts Museum brought our community together for an incredible celebration! Replete with delicious food, fabulous company, fun entertainment, amazing raffles, a welcome by incoming Head O wl Gretchen Warner, and a special fund-a-need opportunity to support faculty/staff professional development, a wonderful time was had by all.
A very special thanks to our Co-Chairs Lisa Golden and Kerri Scott, who ensured that this year’s Owls Night Out was a memorable and meaningful evening. And many thanks to Mags Hanaoka for being our Raffle Chair extraordinaire. We couldn’t have done it without you!
We also extend our deepest thanks to the following companies and families whose contributions helped offset the expenses and allowed us to invite our entire faculty and staff community to participate.
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
City Flowers
EVENT CO-CHAIRS
Lisa Golden
Kerri Scott
RAFFLE CHAIR
Magdalena Hanaoka
EMCEES
Samantha Hillyer (’01)
Marshall McCurties
CORPORATE SPONSORS
Owls Take Flight Circle
Remont Construction
Seahurst Electric
Wise Wings Circle
Castle Bespoke Flooring
Mithun
Feathered Friends Circle
GarageExperts of Seattle
Hewitt Cabinets
Johansen Mechanical
J.P. Morgan
Wells Fargo
Hoot Circle
Chown Hardware
Coughlin Porter Lundeen
ISSQUARED
Pivetta Brothers Construction
Veracross
Owlet Circle
Eastside Truck Repair
MicroK12
Sound Hardwood Solutions
Woodinville Print
Anonymous (1)
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Girish & Disha Bajaj
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
Scott & Brisen Brady
Maurice & Gina Carson
John & Shanna Case
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna
Ethan & Moneta Kushner
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Anthony Lora & Penelope Lora Ramirez
C arlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
Justin & Margaret Marks
Aaron & Kelli Pleskac
Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng
David & Juli Rasmussen
Mohammed & Ash Samji
Cindy Tai & Michael Bee
Zhiguo Tan & Olivia Yan
Brihadeeshwar Venkataraman & Chitra Brihadeeshwar
Flavia Vidal & Claudio Chamon
David Warrick & Laura Harding
Ed & Cecilia Whatley
Myk & Jodi Willis
Tim & Tiffany Wissner
Marcus & Sara Womack
GIFTS IN KIND & RAFFLE DONORS
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Auclair Winery
Raj & Mona Butani
Climb the Mountain Speech & Debate
C ountryside Floral & Garden
DeLille Cellars
DigiPen
Chris & Mags Hanaoka
Harbor Food Service
Heidi Leonard Photography
Helena’s Cleaners
Inspired Orthodontics
Brandon & Bon Kim
Lighthouse Cellars
Mark Ryan Winery
Matthews Winery
Terry & Katie Myerson
Nespresso
Pepper Bridge Winery
Tom & Kate Peters
Seattle Cascades
Seattle Tempest
Sparkman Cellars
Teaching is Fire
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
TOPS Eastside Tennis
UPS Mukilteo-Print Shop
The Whipple Family
FUND-A-NEED for Faculty/Staff Professional Development
Thank you to all our donors who helped raise over $25,000 to support our educators!
Anonymous (11)
Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang
Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans
Girish & Disha Bajaj
Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden
Scott & Brisen Brady
Raj & Mona Butani
Maurice & Gina Carson
Jeremy & Christen Davis
John & Heather Ure Dunagan
Malia Foley & Ernest Chui
Vishal & Milen Gala
Chris & Mags Hanaoka
Jay & Chana Heath
Bob Ho & Eileen Lee
Felix & Elizabeth Huang
Maria & Vernon Hui
Boxin & Nannan Li
Chao & Peng Li
Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang
Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral
Joe Magerramov & Fang Liu
Marshall McCurties
Monica Perez & Emmanuel Lopez
Tom & Kate Peters
Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng
David & Juli Rasmussen
Monica & Matt Reilly
Jack Southwick
Eric Temple & Garry Schermann
David & Lynn Treadwell
Rachel & Kris Vale
Gretchen Warner & Robin Laqui
Tim & Tiffany Wissner
Alumni Engagement
Overlake’s Alumni Engagement Program included a variety of events, programs, and communications for our alumni community throughout the 2023–24 school year. Highlights include:
The Alumni Association’s mission is to create lifelong relationships between The Overlake School and its alumni, provide networking opportunities, help maintain The Overlake School’s history, and support its mission.
2023–24 ALUMNI BOARD
Kate Berry (’08), President Ryan AuYeung (’09), Vice President Jack Roberts (’13), Secretary Chris Faulkner (’10), Chair of Student Engagement
Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95), Chair of Alumni Engagement
Nick Bay (’01)
Matt Bellamy (’04)
Jimena Sanchez Gallego (’12)
Samantha Chan Hillyer (’01)
Tellier Lundquist (’18)
Kirsten Parris (’12)
Kim Robertson (’77)
Anshuman Srivastava (’00)
Sarah Tompkins (’05)
Andrea Wynn (’18)
Alumni Happy Hours
A fun Mini Golf and Put at Flat Stick Pub in Redmond took place on November 19, 2023, bringing together alums for a fun social evening.
The annual Alumni Holiday Happy Hour took place at Whitten on December 14, 2024 — cheers to all the alums who attended.
Milestone Reunions
The Class of 1984 had a fun 40-year reunion gathering on July 13, 2024, at the home of Jody Chatalas (’84). Nearly the entire class was in attendance, as well as faculty from their era!
Fall Alumni Gathering
We had a lovely alumni gathering at El Gaucho on September 28, 2023, for alums to hear from Interim Head Eric Temple, Kate Berry (’08), Christian Fulghum (’77), and Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95) about the school and its plans for the future.
Distinguished Alumni Award
On November 3, 2023, the sixth annual Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to Sahar Fathi (’01) for her work in human rights. Sahar is currently the Policy Director for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. She gave two in-person assemblies, one for the Middle School and one for the Upper School.
Alumni Association Welcome
Kate Berry (’08) and Chris Faulkner (’10) welcomed the Class of 2024 to the Alumni Association at a special assembly in Fulton on April 22, 2024. Cookies and gifts were given to all the soon-to-be-graduates.
Alumni Speakers
The October Admissions Open House featured a stellar alumni panel, including Matt Bellamy (’04), Chris Faulker (’10), Maddie Hitchcock (’18), and Kirsten Parris (’12)
Grads Return
Our Annual Grads Return event took place on January 5, 2024. Many thanks to the 20+ alums who came to campus and spoke with all Upper School students to share their insights and advice on their college search process and experiences at their current schools. This was the first time Grads Return took place in person since 2020.
Retirement Party
Thank you to the many alums who attended the special retirement party for Overlake legends Sarah Fitzpatrick , Lisa Orenstein, Kent Renno, Stephen Ringo, and Alisa Steinhilber on June 13, 2024. It was an incredible turnout and very meaningful tribute to these amazing retirees.
Wine & Watch
A group of nearly a dozen alum Owls attended the revival performance of Into the Woods on January 13, 2024, with a reception for the former cast members with Sarah Fitzpatrick and Erin Gabriel, co-hosted by Samantha Chan Hillyer (‘01).
College Reveal Day
On May 3, 2024, the Alumni Association partnered with College Counseling during the national College Reveal Day to welcome seniors as our newest Owl alums and present a small gift they can take to college and beyond. Congratulations again to the amazing Class of 2024!
KEEP IN TOUCH!
Please know that your Alumni Association is always here for you. Let us know how we can help!
Jenni Baldwin
Director of Alumni Engagement a lumni@overlake.org | 425-868-1000
Alumni Parent/Guardian Program
We held our second annual Alumni Parent/Guardian Event on October 19, 2023. It was a wonderful chance for everyone to meet Interim Head Eric Temple and hear from alumni parent and current trustee Dee Dee Dahlen about the importance of staying connected as alum families. Thank you to the 40+ guests w ho joined us — we loved seeing you!
ALUMNI PARENT/GUARDIAN COUNCIL
Katharine Barrett
Emily (’15), Henry (’19) & Teddy (’21)
Nicole Chang
Christopher (’11), Matthew (’13) & Nicholas (’15)
Dee Dee Dahlen
A nnaliese (’14) & Leo (’19)
Alicia Gold
B ecky (’11), Andrew (’14) & Matt (’18)
Shairose Gulamani
A rmaan (’14)
Randi Hedin
B ob (’12) & Harry (’18)
Molly Hill
Katie (’14), Allie (’16) & Charlie (’19)
Margaret Lynch
A llison (’02)
EMERITUS MEMBERS
Lydia Mayfield Abbott
Taylor (’05), Carter (’08), Kristi (’14) & Steven (’19)
Kim Slee
M att (’17)
To stay in touch and be invited to future events for our alumni families, please contact us at development@overlake.org.
Friend Overlake Alum on Facebook.
Connect with us on LinkedIn. Visit linkedin.com and search for The Overlake School in Groups. Add Overlake in your education profile and make sure to join the Overlake Alumni Connection group: linkedin.com/groups/74971.
Follow us on Instagram @overlakeowls
Parents of Alumni: If your child no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please notify us at alumni@overlake.org or 425-868-1000.
All- School BBQ
On September 9, 2023, more than 500 parents, guardians, students, and family members came to campus for the fourth annual All-School BBQ. We were so delighted to celebrate the start of the school year with everyone in person.
42nd Annual Grandparents & Special Friends Day
On November 17, 2023, nearly 50 grandparents and special friends enjoyed breakfast in the Campus Center, a preview of the Middle School production of Ghostlight in Fulton, and attended class with their Owls. Thank you to everyone who joined us for this special day!
Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
On May 17, 2024, we recognized and feted all our amazing volunteers who went above and beyond last school year at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast. Everyone received delicious macarons from Lady Yum, and in keeping with our time-honored tradition, volunteers with a graduating senior also received a single yellow rose. We are so grateful for our wonderful Owl community of volunteers!
Parent Guardian Association
We are so grateful to our community of volunteer leaders who share their time and talent to sustain Overlake. Thank you to everyone for all that you did for our Owls, their families, faculty, and staff all ye ar long!
2023–24 PGA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Molly Honig, President
Allison Kristman-Valente, President-Elect
Justin Marks, VP of Community Engagement
– Grade Level Representative (GLR) Lead
Labiba Khan, VP of Community Engagement
– Faculty Staff Appreciation (FSA) Lead
Helen Wang, VP – Communications
Sambhrama Mundkur, VP – Diversity
Peter Voutov, Secretary
Matt Isenhower, Treasurer
2023–24 PGA COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Milen Gala, Parent Ambassador Co-Chair
Michelle Douvia, Overlake Athletic Club Chair
Stasia Kehoe, Overlake Friends of the Arts Co-Chair
Jessica Rossman, ParentNet Chair
Denice Sun, Parent Ambassador Co-Chair
Peter Voutov, Ski Bus Chair
Jenny Wang, Overlake Friends of the Arts Co-Chair
2023–24 PGA GRADE LEVEL REPS
Sophie Chen, 5th Grade
Liya Li, 5th Grade
Kathy Aubin, 6th Grade
Stephanie Leung, 6th Grade
Lisa Thomas, 6th Grade
Li An, 7th Grade
Lily Wei, 7th Grade
Gary Purchase, 8th Grade
Tiffany Wissner, 8th Grade
Lili Che, 9th Grade
Amina Khan, 9th Grade
Javiera Silva Aldana, 10th Grade
Jenny Wang, 10th Grade
Pamela Du, 11th Grade
Sambhrama Mundkur, 11th Grade
Gia Guo, 12th Grade
JoAnne Guralnick, 12th Grade
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OWLS & ALL THAT JAZZ
Saturday, March 15, 2025 • 6pm • Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Join us for a festive evening to celebrate and support our wonderful community at this year’s Owls Night Out. It’s the party of the year and everyone is welcome! (AGES 21+)