Park School Bulletin - Fall 2017

The Park School FA LL BU LLE T I N 2017

FALL BULLETIN 2017

ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING 2016 –17

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017 – 18

ALUMNI COMMITTEE 2017 – 18

Fall Bulletin 2017 Annual Report of Giving 2016 – 17

Officers Seth Brennan, Chair Polly Crozier, Vice Chair Katie McWeeny, Secretary Sam Wilderman, Treasurer

Greg Kadetsky ’96, Co-Chair Emily Potts Callejas ’89, Co-Chair

Editor Kate LaPine

Neeraj Agrawal Martina Albright ’83 Laura Barkan Peter Barkan ’86 Denise Jefferson Casper Carlos Castillo ’97 Mark Dolins Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95 Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 Heeten Kalan Conan Laughlin Jessica Lutzker Todd MacLean Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 Rebecca Nordhaus Nikki Nudelman Neela Pal Joseph Robbins Shadé Solomon Christina W. Vest Edward “EJ” Whelan Mary Witkowski Emily Lubin Woods Ex Officio Cynthia A. Harmon Head of School Kimberly Boyd Assistant Head of School for Finance & Operations Board Chairs Emeriti Kennett F. Burnes Vincent Chang David D. Croll Charles C. Cunningham, Jr. George P. Denny III David G. Fubini M. Dozier Gardner John L. Hall II Kevin J. Maroni J. Michael Maynard Anne Worthington Prescott Suzie Tapson Deborah Jackson Weiss Headmaster Emeritus Robert S. Hurlbut, Jr. Head of School Emeritus Jerrold I. Katz

John Barkan ’85 Peter Barkan ’86 Mercy Bell ’05 Kathrene Tiffany Bell ’96 Bob Bray ’53 Aldel Brown ’04 Astrid Levis-Thorne Burns ’98 Elyssa Carlson ’07 Carlos Castillo ’97 Greg Cope ’71 Lilla Curran ’95 Melissa Deland ’95 Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95 David Glynn ’91 Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 Anne Collins Goodyear ’84 Jennifer Segal Herman ’82 Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93 Alex Jundanian ’07 Joanie Amick Kelly ’83 Bob Kenerson ’53 Amy Lampert ’63 Abbott Lawrence ’85 Eve Wadsworth Lehrman ’95 Nia Lutch ’97 Chip Pierce ’81 Miriam Posner ’03 Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy ’98

Sarah Shoukimas Ryan ’97 Kate Gormley Saeli ’02 Katharine Burrage Schmitt ’95 Jordan Scott ’89 Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89 Diana Walcott ’85 Rebecca Wilsker ’00

Design Robert Beerman, Onward Upward Photography Coffee Pond Photography Flo Farrell Kate LaPine John Rich Printing

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Cover Artwork Animals in the African landscape Audrey Kim ’19

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Introducing Scott Young, Park’s Next Head of School

6 New Trustees Elected in September 2017 Neeraj Agarwal Mark Dolins

Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 Rebecca Nordhaus Joe Robbins

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Graduation Address: Eliza Thomas ’11

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Alumni Notes

Annual Report of Giving 2016 – 17

Alumni Achievement Award: Sarah Conway ’97 inside back

Young Alumni Achievement Award: Addison Godine ’04 cover

Annual Report of Giving 2016 – 2017

Introducing Scott Young, Park’s Next Head of School This fall, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to appoint Scott M. Young as the fourteenth head of The Park School. Scott will succeed Cynthia A. Harmon, Park’s interim Head of School on July 1, 2018.

Scott currently serves as Dean of Faculty at Marin Academy in San Rafael, CA, and brings two decades of exceptional achievement to Park as a strategic, compassionate, and effective leader at three nationally recognized independent schools.

A native of Rhode Island, Scott graduated from Brown University with his BS in neuroscience. Originally planning to pursue a career in medicine, Scott decided to take a short break from his own education to teach. His career as an educator began as a science teacher and coach at Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI. After a few years, Scott was asked to lead Rocky Hill’s K-12 science department, and he quickly realized that education and educational leadership were his true callings. After six years at Rocky Hill School, Scott left for Harvard where he earned an MEd in school leadership. Following Harvard, Scott joined The Potomac School in McLean, VA, where he served as the Dean of Students and Academic Dean and continued to teach and coach. While at Potomac, Scott built a broad and lasting student leadership program, led the design of Potomac’s Science and Engineering Research Center, and launched a teacher-focused professional growth program. In his final year at The Potomac School, Scott was named an NAIS Aspiring Heads Fellow.

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“ Our students will inherit a world that requires active citizens ready to think, question, innovate, and act.”

In 2011, Scott joined the senior administrative team at Marin Academy as Academic Dean; then was appointed to the role of Dean of Faculty. In these roles, Scott directed a complete re-envisioning of educational and institutional technology, played a central role in the design, planning, and fundraising for Marin Academy’s $19 million Science + Innovation Center, led initiatives to foster inter- and trans-disciplinary curriculum and instruction, developed a comprehensive faculty professional growth and evaluation program, and served as a principal author of Marin’s 2017 – 2027 strategic plan. Scott has also demonstrated a deep commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and multiculturalism. He served on and chaired the school’s diversity council, explored the impact of stereotype threat on learning, and designed and implemented a more inclusive hiring and recruitment process.

Scott is thrilled to be joining the Park community as Head of School. He and his wife, Katie, along with their children Peter (5) and Caroline (2), will move into 133 Goddard Avenue this summer.

There will be further communication about the upcoming leadership transition. In the meantime, you can get to know Scott by watching this short video (parkschool.org/meetscott) and by reading his Educational Philosophy on the following pages. fall 2017

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Educational Philosophy Before we turned the front door’s key, before we unpacked the pots and pans, before we stripped the wallpaper and painted the walls, we turned our attention to the garden. We divided the plants, cut the beds, prepared the soil, and laid the plans.

My earliest memories of work and learning live in the gardens of my childhood. Amongst the flowers, herbs, compost, and cobblestones, I learned a craft through necessary repetition and hands-on experimentation, and I inherited a pursuit that has provided me creativity and purpose from the rocky loam of New England, to the alkaline clay of Virginia, to the arid soil of Northern California.

As a gardener, I make placements that will last a lifetime and tend to details that matter only in the moment. When the season is right, I plant fruits and vegetables and edible herbs that provide utility, diversity, and beauty; however, it is the flagstones and flowers, herbs and gravel paths, shrubs and trees for which I have the clearest vision and glean the greatest joy. A garden needs attention and neglect—a delicate balance that depends on the circumstances of the year, the needs of the plants, the condition of the soil, and the makeup of the ecological community.

My affinity for gardening didn’t direct me to teach and to lead—my start as an educator was more serendipity than plan—and yet, the similarities between these vocations that care, create, and

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cultivate aren’t lost on me. Effective school leaders, like experienced gardeners, know that schools require clarity of vision and attention to detail. They are reflective and strategic. They are deliberate and creative. They understand that diversity provides balance and beauty, excellence and strength, and they know that honoring the past, engaging in the present, and imagining and building a better tomorrow are the keys to preparing students, faculty and schools for the future.

Our students will inherit a world that requires active citizens ready to think, question, innovate, and act.

It will demand leaders who exhibit awareness of self and others, balance multiple perspectives, detect and filter bias, synthesize knowledge, think critically, and seek creative solutions. Our students will need to be global citizens exhibiting cultural competencies and the desire and capacity to solve emerging and entangled real world problems. The graduates of tomorrow will need to be ethical leaders addressing adaptive challenges and demonstrating emotional intelligence in the form of resilience, motivation, selfawareness, and empathy.

Meeting the challenges of the 21st Century does not require reinventing the wheel. Our schools teach global perspectives, encourage creative problem solving, possess robust language programs, promote community engagement, and develop quantitative

skills. Our challenge is to combine what we have always done well with what we are just beginning to understand in order to prepare our students for a tomorrow we can’t begin to imagine today.

With this in mind, I offer four principles integral to every school’s approach to the craft of teaching and learning.

Our schools must be student-centered. Students must be known and feel valued by the adults in their community. Teachers must create spaces where students can take risks, make mistakes, and engage with the authentic assessments that permit them to demonstrate their forming skills and knowledge in unique and accurate ways. As educational leaders, we must create schools that allow students to develop their own intellectual identities—identities that are unique combinations of their capabilities, their growth edges, and their intellectual passions.

The best schools encourage students to be partners and leaders in the teaching and learning process.

Our schools must be inclusive, equitable, and culturally competent. Diversity is critical to academic excellence. As school leaders, we must recognize that all students should see themselves reflected and have the opportunity to explore the experiences of others in the curriculum.

Diversity of thought, experience, and background provides perspective, encourages us to challenge assumptions, and forces us to look inward and beyond ourselves. Difference encourages us to work harder, search deeper, and be creative. Diverse communities are critical to effective education at every level and benefit students, families, faculty and collective communities alike.

Our schools must foster and celebrate growthmindset. Our students will enter a rapidly changing world. The ability to embrace challenge and change, respond to setbacks, seek feedback, and learn from the success of others to develop novel skills and knowledge is more important for them than for any generation before them. Growth mindset is equally important for faculty, staff, administrators because the decades ahead will demand that we confront shifting paradigms in assessment, the ongoing evolution of educational technology, and the emergence of transdisciplinary orientations to teaching and learning. Leaders must understand

that the future for schools will be dynamic, unpredictable, and disruptive, and only those who embrace growth and change will possess the capabilities to respond and succeed.

Finally, our schools must inspire joy and encourage play. School is purposeful, learning is hard; however, purpose and hard work alone are insufficient in sustaining energy and fostering inspiration. The best schools recognize this tension and balance the hard work of learning and growing with play, joy, a strong sense of community, and a willingness to be vulnerable. The best teaching encourages curiosity, welcomes laughter, and meets students where they are developmentally.

If we don’t laugh with our students and laugh at ourselves, we limit the depth of the relationships we develop. Laughter, sense of humor and an appreciation for childhood can go a long way in maintaining perspective and keeping the big picture in focus. As leaders and educators, we must remember that play is a powerful teacher, and joy is a bountiful fuel.

The challenges schools face in the 21st Century are real. By reinforcing what we have always done well, embracing the change and challenge around us, and staying true to our institutional missions, we will continue to prepare students for the world they will inherit, cultivate and create. As I watch my son and daughter in the garden search for pillbugs, collect leaf litter, and pick flowers to create “beautiful” homes for their crustacean friends, I think about their future. Mostly I think about the educational experiences ahead of them— the relationships they will develop, the risks and mistakes they will take and make, the opportunities they will have, the communities they will join, and the people they will become. There has never been a more exciting time to be an educator, and I feel fortunate, as a father and a school leader, to have a front row seat.

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eeraj grew up in the dynamic, diverse community of Queens, NY. He attended Stuyvesant High School, where at the age of 13, he commuted an hour each way on the adventure-filled NYC subways. His time at Stuyvesant is where he really developed a passion for technology and computer science.

He turned this skill into a job where he helped manage computers for less tech-centric adults.

It was also here that he met and wooed his wife Papri (although some suggest it was the other way around).

After high school, Neeraj studied computer science at Cornell and completed his MBA at Harvard Business School. Upon graduation in 2000, Neeraj joined the local venture capital firm Battery Ventures, where he invests in software and internet companies. Neeraj has enjoyed living and working abroad, with stints in Basel, Switzerland, Bogota, Colombia, and Melbourne, Australia. His time abroad helped to ignite his interest in the history of cultures of other regions. He is thrilled to see Park embrace a global perspective and hopes to see it continue to expand in this area.

When Neeraj and Papri ask their sons Devan (Grade V) and Dillan (Grade II) about Park, Devan often relays stories that highlight how talented and kind his classmates are.

Neeraj and Papri feel the same way about the greater Park community. In addition to appreciating the small class size and strong academics, Neeraj is most excited to see core school values, such as empathy and respect, being reinforced with his children. Neeraj says, “It has been an amazing five years for Papri and me, and we feel blessed to be part of this special community.”

Neeraj is excited to be joining Park’s Board of Trustees. It will be his first time serving on a non-profit board, although he serves on the boards of 15 technology firms. He hopes to learn a lot and to share some of his experience from his many boards in the corporate sector.

In addition, he hopes to be able to bring his passion for computer science and technology to Board discussions. He looks forward to working with the Board to help ensure the School continues to be the best it can be for many generations to come.

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hen Mark first visited Park with his wife, Jennifer, to consider the School for their children, Park’s culture had a pronounced impact on them both. They were particularly struck by the way Park weaves together mutual respect, humanity, and diversity with scholarship.

Both Mark and Jen realized that Park would provide their adventurous and creative girls, Avery (Grade VII) and Grayson (Grade IV), the best opportunity to grow and take risks in an environment where they would be nurtured and encouraged by not only the faculty, but also their fellow students.

Mark was raised in Weston, where he attended the Weston public schools. After receiving a BA from Denison University, he attended Duke University, where he received a JD. He returned to Boston and practiced corporate law at Nutter, McClennen & Fish and Bingham McCutchen. Some time after that, Mark migrated to investment banking, first working for Cowen and Company in Boston and London before opening Lazard’s Boston office in 2007. Jen practiced law in Boston at Bingham McCutchen and in London at Fried Frank before winding up her legal career at Fish & Richardson in Boston. Jen now devotes her time to raising their two children and a variety of Boston area charities, including Beacon Academy. At Park, Jen has enjoyed a broad array of roles including serving as a Class Representative, Front Desk volunteer, and Springfest Raffle Co-Chair while Mark has been a member of the Major Gifts Committee.

As Park enters a new phase in its evolution, Mark looks forward to bringing his unique combination of skills and experiences honed through a legal and finance career to contribute to Park’s growth.

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bigail fondly remembers being at summer camp when her father called to say that she had come off of the waitlist for Park.

“My dad was so overwhelmed that he cried tears of joy with the news. Having never attended college, he couldn’t believe that he was able to offer the gift of a Park education to me, and ultimately to all three of his children.” It is no surprise that Abigail and her husband Mark, despite living in Cambridge, decided to send their three daughters (Rebecca ’20, Hannah ’22 and Esmé ’25) to Brookline for Park’s unique educational environment. “We love Park’s holistic approach to education. The School sets high expectations for academic excellence, offers opportunities for leadership, reflects our diverse and complex world, and respects each child’s unique characteristics. We want our girls to be engaged citizen of the world and Park nurtures this cosmopolitan spirit.”

Abigail has been working in the field of contemporary art for over 17 years. In 2010, after a decade leading the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, she decided to focus on curatorial projects and collection building. Her firm Goodman Taft now has projects and clients around the world.

Abigail enjoys giving back to the organizations and institutions that she admires and loves.

She is a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a member of the advisory board of the The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, and a partner of the VIA Art Fund. Abigail has also leveraged her passion for long-distance running to raise money for organizations like the One Fund, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and Casa Myrna Vasquez. At Park, she has served as a Class Representative for her Park School Class of 1991, a co-chair of the Alumni Annual Fund, member of the Alumni Committee, and as a Pre-K Class Representative. She is looking forward to serving on Park’s Board of Trustees as well. “I have so many wonderful memories of my own Park experience, so I am especially grateful for the privilege and opportunity to serve the Park community.”

Abigail has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. She loves traveling for work and with her family, seeking new adventures, and opportunities to learn. That said, her happiest places are in the mountains of Vermont or by the ocean in Rockport, MA, surrounded by her girls, Mark, and their dog, Freddie.

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hen the Nordhaus/Curry family was visiting the Boston Children’s Museum on MLK Day in 2009, they happened upon a diverse, engaged school choir performing a civil rights concert, led by a dynamic and charismatic music teacher (Janice Allen). Moved by the choir’s performance, Rebecca and Will approached one of the parents in the audience and asked what school they were from. Keeping that first encounter with The Park School in mind when it came time to think about elementary school for their own children, Park was at the top of the list. As they learned more about Park, Rebecca and Will were particularly impressed with the School’s commitment to nurturing curiosity, achieving academic excellence, and developing empathic and civically-minded citizens. Rebecca and Will recently moved to Brookline where they live with their three girls Annabel Curry (Grade V), Margot Curry (Grade II), and Alexandra Curry (Grade II), and their beloved pets Bridger and Carrots.

Rebecca attended the Foote School, an independent day school in New Haven, CT, that is very similar to Park. After Foote, Rebecca attended Phillips Academy in Andover, and then received a BA from Yale and a JD from Harvard Law School. Rebecca joined the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, advocating for alternatives to incarceration on behalf of youth and young adults, and later continued legal defense at a large law firm. After the birth of her daughter Annabel, Rebecca moved into a career in finance. Today, she is a partner at Finepoint Capital, a private investment partnership based in Boston.

Rebecca has served on the board of several organizations that promote learning and education, including the Boston Collegiate Charter School, the Spruce Street Nursery School, and the Boston Public Library Foundation. Rebecca enjoys being engaged with Park’s wonderful community of students, families, and educators. She is honored to be able to to give back to the school that has given her family so much by serving on the Board of Trustees.

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rowing up in a small town in the Catskills of upstate New York, Joe learned to appreciate the benefits of a tight-knit community. It was the promise of a similar shared sense of purpose and support that first drew Joe and his wife, Debby, to The Park School. “The commitment and expertise of the teachers, the dedication of the staff, the passion of the parents, and of course, the enthusiasm of the students were immediately obvious,” Joe recalls of his early visits to campus. “That kind of community is just an irreplaceable asset for the School and its students, and we were excited to become a part of it.”

After graduating from high school in New York state, Joe attended Harvard College, where he studied philosophy, history, and economics. After several years as a management consultant and early-stage company executive, Joe attended Harvard Business School. He has spent the past ten years at Bain Capital Partners, where he is a managing director in the private equity group and one of the leaders of the North American industrials practice, overseeing large investments in manufacturing, industrial technology, and energy.

Joe continues to be highly focused on supporting the communities in which he lives and works. At Park, he has served for the past three years on the Major Gifts Committee and previously spent two years on the Buildings & Grounds Committee.

He also serves on the board of trustees for Crossroads, a Boston-based organization that provides summer and school-year enrichment programs to under-resourced Massachusetts youth, and on the regional advisory board for Jumpstart for Young Children, a national early literacy program for preschoolers.

Joe and Debby live in Newton with their four children, Ellen (Grade II), Alex (K), Jacob (age 4), and Lily (age 1.5).

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Graduation Address: Eliza Thomas ’11

G Each year, a Park School alum with six years of post-Park experience is the featured speaker at Graduation. At the School’s 129th graduation exercises in June, Eliza Thomas delivered the address.

After graduating from Park in 2011, Eliza went to Concord Academy, where she played lacrosse and soccer and was the student head of school during her senior year. Now a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, Eliza is majoring in geology and taking as many classes in art as she can. She is an RA on campus and serves as captain of the club lacrosse team. Eliza has taken advantage of opportunities to study away from campus.

In her junior year at Concord Academy,

ood morning everyone! It is an honor and joy to be with you all here today, to celebrate with you and the class of 2017 as they graduate from The Park School. Thank you for inviting me to share this special day with you.

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that I was sitting where you are, partly because it was only a few years ago, but also because I still turn to teachers like Ms. Fries for advice – including when it comes to writing a graduation speech. I have so many fond memories of my eleven years at Park. A few that come to mind are our ninth grade trip to Cape Cod Sea Camps where our class of 31 really gelled for the first time. Or playing Laertes and sword fighting on stage during our production of Hamlet. I remember how it felt to lead the rest of the school during Total Day, taking pride in our goofy outfits and loud cheers. In college, I take a lot of art classes; I still wear these overalls that I painted with Ms. Sparks in seventh grade. They have plaster and clay on them now, but the flowers, grass, and clouds I painted to begin with still pop through, reminding me each day of where my love of art began. I look back with gratitude for how Park supported and challenged me to grow. The Park School has been, and continues to be, an important part of my life.

So … Class of 2017: you did it! Regardless of how many years you’ve spent at Park, every one of you has worked hard to be sitting in those seats today. Today marks a big accomplishment: in just a few minutes, you will officially become alumni. I am so excited for you, and we all are proud of what you did to arrive at today. Congratulations.

My grandfather loves to tell the story of the kindergartener who comes home at the end of the school year, so proud of having finished and now being ready for first grade, just like

she spent a semester at The Mountain School. Then, at Carleton College, she spent a semester in New Zealand conducting oceanographic research and another semester in New Zealand, in the Cook Islands, and then in Australia, studying studio art. Passionate about the outdoors, Eliza leads backpacking trips in the summer and has enjoyed biking, hiking, and rock climbing in Minnesota during the school year.

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you are ready for ninth grade. The child comes home and along the way sees a neighborhood child two years older and says: “I’m going to be in first grade next year.” The older child just shrugs and says “First grade is terribly hard!” Hopefully, you’re wise enough already to know that if I were to tell you that ninth grade is terribly hard, you’d discount it a bit. So I’ll give it to you straight: It’s All Hard!! Ninth grade is hard; tenth grade is harder; junior year—forget about it!—senior year I can’t remember, and COLLEGE IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

But so what? You’ve got what you need to deal with it.

More on that in a moment.

I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with you all a few weeks ago. We talked about your year so far, your passions and interests, and who you saw yourselves to be as a collective group. You are a kind, energized, committed, and thoughtful group. Three things stood out: 1) you’re curious about life 2) you’re committed to social justice, and 3) you really love and enjoy each other. In our hyper-competitive world, these qualities are not automatic at all. Bravo to you, and bravo to this community for supporting and encouraging you to be this way.

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I’m only seven years older than you. So I’m not here because I’ve had a scientific breakthrough or written a book.

I’m not a professional athlete or under consideration for a Nobel Prize. I sense that Park has asked me to be here not because of some intimidating list of accomplishments that I’ve had since leaving here, but rather because I’m pretty normal, just a version of you a few years from now. And so maybe—in that limited sense—my experiences of leaving Park and jumping into the next phase can offer you some insights.

I know you just finished your poetry anthologies, so I’m confident that some, if not most of you, are already familiar with the great New England poet Mary Oliver. One of her most famous poems reminds us that we are not in a dress rehearsal for our lives, that we get only “one wild and precious life” and this is it. She asks us what are we going to do with it?

That of course is the perfect question for a graduation event, but let me suggest that it is a question that really should be front and center throughout your education and your whole life. It’s something of a miracle that we are here at all. So what will we do with this amazing opportunity? The point of this

great education you’re getting is not just to get ahead in life, but it’s also to figure out what is out there to get excited about, how can we serve, how can we leave the world a better place.

Her poem is a reminder that we will have—hopefully—a lot of choices in life. And those are Your choices, not your parents’, or your sibling’s, or your spouse’s, or your boss’. Your choices.

SO… “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”

I’m on that same journey myself, just a few years ahead of you. I’m a geology major, and I love art and the outdoors and sports. I’m still working on what I’m going to do with my wild and precious life. So I hope you’ll find the fact that I’m still working on these questions at least a little comforting. But there are two things that have really helped me over the past few years. The first is HAVING TRUST. Have trust in what you already know, trust in the communities that surround you, and trust that things will work out. If I had to point out one common theme that I see stopping people, it’s fear or anxiety.

“Am I going to get through this course? Is this relationship going to work out? What if I don’t know yet what I’m going to do for my career?” And on and on …

It’s normal to have these kinds of thoughts (I’ve certainly had plenty of them myself), but they are mostly unproductive.

TRUST that you’ve got what it takes to get through adversity,

because you do. TRUST that you’ve got family and friends pulling for you, because you do. TRUST that things are going to work out one way or another, because they almost always do. TRUST in your own capacity to make meaningful friendships, because there is nothing more valuable than a friend.

Those of you who have been on teams or in theatre know what I’m talking about. When someone has your back, you have greater power, just from the knowledge that someone’s there for you. Be that friend to other people, and TRUST that it will make a huge difference in their lives but also in yours.

Here’s an illustration. My freshman year in college, I got a crushing 56 on my first Computer Science exam. I called home to get some cheering up but also to see if my parents would be upset. You know what my dad said to me? “Eliza, if this were a presidential election, 56 percent would be close to a landslide!”

The point was not that it was o.k. to get a 56, but that I needed to trust the situation enough to know that this was a temporary setback, not a permanent one. This idea of a presidential landslide of 56 percent made me laugh of course, but also made me realize that it was only one test and not the end of the world. I learned so much from my mistakes on that test. My initial failure was essential in my future success—it served to motivate me and to make me work harder and focus better.

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That experience also relates to the second point I want to make to you today, which is that “You Are The Authors of Your Own Narratives.” What I mean by that is that the stories or narratives that we tell ourselves about our situations are vital to how they will turn out. If my dad had been angry at that 56 or if I had let the situation persuade me that I’d never succeed in Computer Science, I would not have been able to turn it around. The alternative narrative—that this was a slip but not a fall—made the difference. The Story—that I could find a way to do better—was a choice of how to deal with the problem, a choice that allowed for a different outcome.

There are so many ways that NARRATIVE impacts our choices and our results. You’ve heard a lot at Park, I suspect, about persistence and grit. Resilience, it turns out, is a pretty good predictor of how people are going to hold up in school and in life. When you think about it, resilience is really about the narrative one tells oneself. Self-talk like: “I can figure this out.” “I can do better if I work harder at this.”

Or perhaps more importantly, “just because things didn’t work out this time, it doesn’t mean it’s going to always be that way.” The choices you make will also reflect your narrative of what you want your wild and precious life to be about. Your

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choices—your narratives—are a reflection of who you are and want to be in the world. Let the narrative be your own.

Let me share with you an experience where Trust and Narrative made a difference. Last winter, I spent two months on a sailboat conducting oceanographic research off the east coast of New Zealand. I hoped it would be a once in a lifetime experience, and it was, but not exactly in the way I’d imagined.

I’d grown up to be familiar with sailboats, so the thought of being at sea for two months was exciting to me. I’d never been seasick during my childhood, so I was not at all worried about it. Much to my surprise and disappointment, I was the student on the boat who was most affected by motion sickness. For two months, I was barely able to keep a meal down, let alone conduct scientific research or sail the ship. It was debilitating and frustrating.

What got me through that difficulty, and disappointment, was TRUST that things were going to be o.k. TRUST that the ship would not sink. TRUST that the crew knew how to handle this situation. TRUST that if things got really bad, we’d go inland for help. I told myself that both I and my shipmates were capable of handling the situation. My narrative was about adventure and capability, not disaster and inability.

Both stories (My 56 on the exam, and two months of seasickness) have two things in common: trust, and the narrative I told myself. First, I trusted that I had what it took to overcome these challenges. I didn’t shy away or give up. Second, I realized that I had a choice in the narrative I told myself about each situation. I could have told myself that by virtue of failing my exam, I was a terrible student who was hopeless at Computer Science and I should just give up then and there. Instead, I told myself that this was a unique opportunity to grow as a learner, and that Computer Science did not determine my value as a human being. In New Zealand, I could have told myself that it was a mistake to be on the sailboat, that I was wasting a whole semester, and that I wasn’t capable of handling my responsibilities while I was so sick. Instead, I reached out to my peers for support, and had a relentless positive attitude.

My Narrative of “I Can Do This” turned a debilitating situation into an empowering one.

Your challenges in the next few years will of course be your own. You will not have much control over what they are and when they arrive. But you do have control over how you respond. Please remember to Trust that you have—yes, already—everything you need to overcome obstacles. And remember You should be the Only Author of Your Narratives of how you deal with these challenges. Are they roadblocks or opportunities for growth? Your narrative determines how you experience your life, and that is yours to create, not anyone else’s.

So with that, I’d like to leave you with Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day.” Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down– who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Thank you, and Congratulations 2017!

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We are intelligent, enthusiastic, and can bring a new perspective to any challenge that crosses our path.

Class Graduation Speaker: Ian Glick ’17

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ur grade has been known for many things throughout our time at Park. We are loud, funny, and have talents ranging from balloon animal making to trumpet playing to competitive rock climbing.

We are intelligent, enthusiastic, and can bring a new perspective to any challenge that crosses our path. The Class of 2017 is all of these things and more, but the characteristic that I think most defines our time at The Park School has been our role as pioneers.

At Park, we have been the first to do many things. For example, in third grade, we were first class to have our own iPads, and we used them for Math Ninja, Math Bingo Bungee, and most of all, Stack the States. We were the first to run jubilantly down to the Shire to practice Typing Pal instead of learning cursive. We were the first to type out essays on shiny new Chromebooks. We were the first to study the brand new Facing Our History course in eighth grade social studies and the first to debate current events as they unfolded with our Weekly Upd8! Blog. We were the first eighth graders to lead Clash and Total Days and lead the School. And now we are the first eighth grade to graduate on the last day of the year.

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Some of these firsts may have not been our choice, but I do not think that it is a coincidence that we have often been chosen to dive into new things.

I know that our class is innovative and enthusiastic. We are passionate and are daring enough to differentiate ourselves from the rest. Through lively greetings in the West Building before Morning Meeting, Tabasco-y lunches in the Dining Room, recesses creating multicolored pom-poms, intricate animations, and posters in the Library, TEACH times spent diligently studying for upcoming assignments, and TEACH times where that happened a bit less, I see these characteristics in our class every day.

However, no one can always exemplify these attributes. Sometimes we were nervous and unsure. Sometimes things went wrong. Sometimes we made mistakes. We forgot our P.E. shorts and had to wear a bathing suit to track practice. We didn’t dig a big enough tunnel to crawl out of the Pre-K playground. We hit the wrong buttons on Desmos projects, causing the animation to spin wildly out of control. Despite these setbacks, what truly made our grade the most well suited to be pioneers was that we rarely experienced these problems as defeats. From struggling through the red board books in Kindergarten classrooms to writing essay after essay for school applications, our grade has always been tough and resilient and we never gave up.

If anyone ever doubted our mental and emotional toughness, all they have to do is look back on our biggest projects at Park. When walls and doors didn’t fit and windows were cut backwards in the house project, we took more measurements and cut perfectly on the second (or the ninth) try. When faced with the balancing board challenge on Project R.E.A.S.O.N, we experimented with arrangements, timing, and poses,

and eventually beat each challenge with ease. When our catapults couldn’t throw a poker chip more than 50 centimeters, we looked adversity in the face like Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, or maybe even Carson Wentz does midway through the fourth quarter, calling a revised play and eventually firing a three meter strike to our target across the science room. In the face of difficult tasks, our grade has always persisted and approached the situation in a new way to reach success.

Through mud-caked October soccer practices, exam blocks that, at one moment seem endless and at the next seem shorter than a green inchworm clinging to the Buddy Bench railing on a warm May morning, nerve-wracking performances, and thousands of lunches with friends in the Dining Room, we have been a special class at Park.

Our grade has gained new skills, conquered fears, and dived into unfamiliar things with enthusiasm and excitement.

We find innovative ways to address challenges, and are resilient after things don’t go our way. Our grade can do anything we set our mind to. My challenge to all of us is to take what has made us special at Park into the world ahead. In high school, we should continue to be the firsts, the people to explore new things and create our own path. Start a club! Create an exciting new project! Set records! Take on new roles! Advocate for your beliefs! At Park, our grade has been the pioneers, and I know that we can take this role, and all of the traits that go with it, to high school and beyond.

THE JOAN CROCKER AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE CELEBRATING EACH GRADUATE

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ark’s Graduation is a moment to celebrate every member of the graduating class. Beginning with the Class of 2017’s graduation ceremony, the School will no longer recognize individual achievement in the form of student awards.

The student awards were introduced in the 1960's and 70's, as a way to celebrate and recognize important personal characteristics. However, awards given to a handful of students do not represent the spirit of the day, which is an experience of inclusion and a celebration of every student. Beginning in 2016, we began a new tradition of recognizing all of the graduates with a plaque in the main

hallway so that alumni can find their names on the wall when they return to Park. (The plaques for student awards, an important piece of Park history, can be found in the hallway leading to the Conference Room.)

Alison Meyer Hong Each year, the Parents’ Association presents this award in honor of former Park parent Joan Crocker, who exemplified the kind of devotion and steadfast zeal this award recognizes in its recipients.

Alison Meyer Hong (left) receives the Crocker Award from PA president Laura Barkan.

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Park has taught us that we need to go forward in life with dignity, humility, and purpose.

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arents, teachers, students, and alumni, My name is Livvy Hartshorn, and I am speaking on behalf of the eighth grade, the “Prime” Class of 2017.

I want to begin this morning with a word of advice. Never lose your sense of self. Never lose your sense of home. It’s important that throughout life’s many twists and turns, that you stay grounded and rooted. So that’s why today I’m going to talk about trees. I know you all are probably thinking “Oh great. Another speech about the Charter Oak and how it means so much.” Well I can tell you with complete confidence that this speech isn’t the same as the others, because it’s for us, and it ties together who we are as a grade and what been through together.

To be honest, I always found the Park symbol and mascot kind of funny. A tree that sits in front of the West Building.

It’s on all of the sports uniforms, so why isn’t it something exciting, something to strike fear into the hearts of our competitors? But the truth is that the symbol isn’t for our competitors, it’s for us. The symbol of the tree is important because that tree means home.

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Next Schools for the Class of 2017

Class Graduation Speaker: Livvy Hartshorn ’17

Home is a place where you have roots. Roots are the most important thing you can ever have. Our roots keep us grounded. When you grow and spread you can have hundreds of branches, but they all stem from one place. The place you grew up, the place you know is home.

As a first generation American, I never felt like America was my home. I don’t have extended family here, and the roots of my family are from Australia and New Zealand. My home always felt in limbo. But when I was seven, I came to Park and began to establish roots and began to consider Park as a second home.

I suspect that Park has given roots and a home to everyone in this class.

Roots help us to grow and to stand

strong and tall. Park has been our home, because the people that we have met here, we consider as our family, because every day we are welcomed, and because we are accepted and loved for who we are.

The people we have met at Park have changed our lives. So, on behalf of the Class of 2017, I want to say thank you to our teachers. These teachers have made us all better people. Please join me in a round of applause for all of the adults who have taught over our years at Park.

I want to say a few specific thank you’s to our teachers. Ms. Sparks, I’ve never met anyone like you before, you radiate sheer joy and happiness and you light up the room when you walk in.

You’ve taught me so much more that just art. You also taught me that teachers

INDIA ADAM

DANA HALL SCHOOL

JACK BARTON

NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL

AMY BAUMEL

NEWTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

AINSLEY BONANG

DANA HALL SCHOOL

MAISIE BRIGHAM

CONCORD ACADEMY

JASPER BURNES

MILTON ACADEMY

OSCAR BURNES

MILTON ACADEMY

DAVID CAMMARATA-GREEN

NEEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL

CLARA CHOI

RIVERS SCHOOL

CLAUDIA CORTELL

BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS

KENITRA DALY

THAYER ACADEMY

ARIA DE MARCO

WINSOR SCHOOL

PRIYA DEVAVARAM

BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS

EMILY DHADLY

NEWTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

JAKE DIADAMO

PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER

WILL DIGIOVANNI

MILTON ACADEMY

OLIVER EIELSON

MILTON ACADEMY

BILL EUGENE

MILTON ACADEMY

MAX EWALD

BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS

GEORGE FULTON

MIDDLESEX SCHOOL

WILL GEDNEY

BOSTON UNIVERSITY ACADEMY

really do care, and when they’re not wearing their teacher hats, teachers can be great friends. So thank you for always stopping me in the hallway and saying hello. Ms. Fries, I can remember every play, every class, every rehearsal so clearly. It always makes me laugh, just looking back on all the hours spent in that theater, doing the craziest plays with the craziest casts. Thank you for always believing in me, especially when I didn’t believe in myself. Ms. Harmon, I first met you as a Middle Division Head, and you were always there, you always listened to us and made sure that we always felt heard.

Now, you’re the Head of School and you are doing all of this and more. Thank you for all the awesome conversations over M&Ms. Thank you all for being our roots.

Class of 2017, we have been roots for each other. It’s been one heck of a ride. And sure, we’ve all had our ups and downs, we’ve seen each other at our best, and at our worst, but I guess that’s why we’re roots for each other. Because only when someone sees you at your lowest

low, can they really understand. Park has taught us that we need to go forward in life with dignity, humility, and purpose. If you have these qualities, you can do great things. And even when life gets hard, if you lose yourself along the way, keep going, persevere because there is always going to be a light at the end of a dark tunnel.

We’ve all known each other for a long, long time, which is a beautiful thing. For some of us it’s been ten years, for some of us it’s been one. For me it’s been seven, and I can’t think of a better place to have grown up. I remember my first day ever at Park. I walked in the front door and up the stairs, scared out of my mind, and Mrs. Ball introduced herself and talked to me, and I suddenly felt so comfortable in that space, and I’m sure many people have gone through a similar experiences on their first day of school. But what I’m always going to remember about that first day, is that I met students and teachers that I am proud to say have watched me grow up.

So here we sit today, moving on to

a new chapter in our lives and I want to ask you all a question: who do you want to be? As you strive throughout your life to answer this question, take with you an unusual fact that Ms. Fries told me earlier this month. Some trees move. They move towards the sunlight. But their roots are always a steady base, a place the tree can always come back to when the sun is gone. Remember, move towards the sunlight and do great things but also remember that Park is a place that you can come back to and be greeted with open arms.

Park is my roots, at least part of them.

You all are my roots, and as you go on to different schools, to different lives, I dare you to remember—to remember everything that we have gone through together and to remember that this is always home.

Class of 2017, may your roots run deep, and may you go on to do amazing things. And let’s give ourselves a well deserved pat on the back, we did it!!

NICKY GLASSMAN

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

NINA PORTER

MERIDIAN ACADEMY

IAN GLICK

MILTON ACADEMY

TREVOR RESNIKOFF

BROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL

SARAH HART

NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL

LILLY RIEHL

CATE SCHOOL

LIVVY HARTSHORN

BROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL

DAVID ROME

DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL

CHARLOTTE HECHT

DANA HALL SCHOOL

SAMI ROME

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

LUCY HIRSCHFELD

MILTON ACADEMY

MAX RUDIKOFF

NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL

MATTY HONG

BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS

LEAH SAGER

NEWTON SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

RAVI KALAN

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

KAORI SAKURAI

CONCORD ACADEMY

DANNY KANG

COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL

ISABEL SULLIVAN

DANA HALL SCHOOL

NINA KATHIRESAN

MILTON ACADEMY

RYAN SWORDS

NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL

ABBY KAUFMAN

CONCORD ACADEMY

NIKA TALEGHANI

DANA HALL SCHOOL

CAROLINE KEATING

NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL

JOLI VEGA

BROCKTON HIGH SCHOOL

KATA KHAKALI

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

ALEXIS VILMENAY

WINSOR SCHOOL

MATTHEW KLOSEK

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

JOSIE VOGEL

MILTON ACADEMY

MARISSA LEHV

GANN ACADEMY

SOPHIA WALLACH

LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY

SOPHIE LEWIS

NEWTON SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

LUCY WILMERDING

ST. MARK'S SCHOOL

REBECCA LIPSITCH

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

SOPHIE WILMERDING

BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

EMMALEE MANIGAT

NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL

ERIKA WITKOWSKI

DANA HALL SCHOOL

SOFIA NOGUEIRA SANCA

DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL

SHIRA WOLPOWITZ

PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER

SEBASTIAN PARK

MILTON ACADEMY

JAMES WOOD

BROOKS SCHOOL

JOSH PIERCE-GUPTA

CONCORD ACADEMY

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REUN ION

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On a beautiful Saturday in May, alumni with class years ending in 2’s and 7’s returned to Park to celebrate their Reunion.

The festivities began in Park’s Library where, over drinks and hors d'oeuvres, alumni had the opportunity to reconnect with one another and faculty guests. The celebration continued with dinner in the Dining Room, where Director of Alumni Relations Rena LaRusso ’04 and Head of School Cynthia A. Harmon addressed the crowd. A special shout out was given to the Class of 1967 who were in attendance celebrating their 50th Reunion! (The Class of 1967 was also the first to graduate in Park’s Grade IX year.) Many thanks to the Reunion volunteers who helped to make Reunion 2017 a memorable evening for everyone. We look forward to seeing the 3’s and 8’s this spring!

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1: Maia Sharpley ’82 & Ali Ehrlich ’82 peruse some archival photos 2: Kate Milliken Vaughey ’87 speaks with Sally Baker 3: Jennifer Burnes Fulton ’82, Headmaster Emeritus Bob Hurlbut, Tetsuo Iguchi ’82, and Andrew Winter ’82 4: Nia Lutch ’97, Sarah Conway ’97, Sarah Shoukimas Ryan ’97, and Caroline Ress Lichter ’97 pose in the Instagram frame!

5: Comfort Halsey Cope, Sally Baker, and Judy Hale 6: Kathy Berenson & Marshall Berenson ’77 7: Head of School Cynthia A. Harmon and Director of Alumni Relations Rena LaRusso ’04 address the crowd 8: Cheryl Paris Chandler ’82 & Ali Ehrlich ’82 9: Reunion crowd at the cocktail party 10: Todd Larson ’77, Sandy Forbes ’77, Sam Solomon ’77, and Alex Bourne ’77 11: Gary Tulman ’87, Christina McGinnes McCormick ’87, Natalie Coggeshall Nelson ’87, and Amy Saltonstall ’87 12: The Class of 1992 at dinner: Front row - Elizabeth Sandman Norian, Tom Stebbins, Laura Dahmen Merriman, Louise Baker Lee, Vanessa Kerry; Back Row - Sarah Hall Weigel, and Alyssa Burrage Scott 13: Frances Walton Karlen ’87 & Laura Dahmen Merriman ’92 14: Samantha Bendetson McCourt ’02 & Trevor McCourt 15: Comfort Halsey Cope, Mary Sarah Fairweather ’87 & Sam Fairweather 16: Tetsuo Iguchi ’82 & Dean Conway 17: Steve Kellogg, William Fubini ’07, and William Maness ’07

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1987 Class of 1967 Left to Right: Georgia Brown Pollak ’67, Stephen Weiss ’67, Heidi Ravven ’67 & Jonathan Shaw (past faculty) Class of 1977 Left to Right, front row: Alex Bourne, Kevin Bynoe, Sandy Forbes, Alice Perera Lucey, Todd Larson, Chris Rowland; back row: Stuart Remensnyder, Sam Solomon, Marshall Berenson

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Class of 1982 Left to Right: Maia Sharpley, Ali Ehrlich, Tetsuo Iguchi, Jennifer Segal Herman, Sarah Russell, Nicholas Butterworth, Andrew Winter, Jennifer Burnes Fulton Class of 1987 Left to Right: Kate Milliken Vaughey, Natalie Coggeshall Nelson, Geoffrey Glick, Gary Tulman, Mary Sarah Fairweather, Amy Saltonstall, Frances Walton Karlen, Christina McGinnes McCormick

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Posy Kent Sprague tells us that “I nearly had a bank account denied recently because of my elegant Park School handwriting!”

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

1937 Robert Ehrmann says, ‘I continue to live comfortably at Fox Hill Village, a senior community in Westford, MA. At Park, I was in the class of 1937, at the lower school. My homeroom teacher was Mrs. Hubert. Mrs. Shurecliff at the Upper School taught us how to make marionettes. We made the heads out of papier-mâché.’

1960 Peggy Lash Wolman shares, “Every year, I am thankful Josh, Sarah, Dave, and Dan had the benefit of a Park School education—and for myself, too! Roger Nott, Mino Sullivan and Lydia Cohen are the three classmates I have seen over these many, many years.”

1963 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Amy Lampert

1938 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

1966

Putty McDowell

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Jerry Godfrey Paul reports, “In our late eighties, my husband and I are still volunteering for Meals on Wheels and our local nature Sanctuary. All four children thriving and scattered around the US. I’m waiting impatiently for a great-grandchild.”

1945 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Natalie Park Shutz

1953 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Bob Bray Jean Snedeker Hughes shares, “I’m now at a retirement community, Fox Hill Village, in Westwood, MA. Just returned from visiting friends on the North Shore and in another week will go to Maine to visit my sisters.

Long range plans will be enjoying my granddaughter’s bat mitzvah in November and I’m looking forward to celebrating my 80th birthday at St. John in the Caribbean in February.”

1967 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Davis Rowley

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1977

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Sam Solomon

Wigs Frank

1944

alumni notes

RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Vicky Hall Kehlenbeck

1970 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Lynn K. Nyhart says, “I am still teaching history of science at The University of Wisconsin, Madison.

We are moving out to the country 45 minutes away: prairie, trout stream, hawks, eagles, and lots of other birds, and next year, sheep!

A great retirement project for my husband Tom. I plan to explore podcasts while commuting.”

1973

RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Rick Berenson

Anne Singer

1974

Anne Singer ran into Henry Richardson at their Harvard 40th Reunion and enjoyed reminiscing about playing Iago to his Othello in Mr. Shaw’s Grade VIII production.

Natalie Ziegler Zirschky is running for office in 2018 for the Maryland House of Delegates for District 9A. Her goal is to work toward common sense solutions based on data and research, not politics. Go Natalie!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Margaret Smith Bell Rodger Cohen

1975 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Colin McNay Bill Sullivan

Rebecca Cunningham-Weiss is marking her 15th year working at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFAVT) and coaching high school girls lacrosse in Northern Vermont. She met George Lucey ’11, son of Alice Perera-Lucey ’77, at Colby College this spring as he and Becca’s daughter, Thea, are friends. “Small world! Hard to believe it’s been 40 years since we walked out of the doors at Park each day!” Dawn McMahan is President of the Pythia Arts Center for Social Change in Oakland, CA; Chris Schenck is a principal at Knapp Schenck Insurance Services in Boston and Braintree; and Charlotte Sonnenblick Van Doren is a licensed associate real estate broker for Stribling & Associates.

1978

RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

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1979

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Tenney Mead Cover

Lalla Carothers Sally Solomon

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Roger Brown writes, “I’m retired from teaching math at Conard High School in West Hartford, CT. My wife, Sally, and I now live near our two sons and their families in Glastonbury, CT. I struggle with dementia but manage to be active at church and get out to my men’s group and teacherrelated organizations.”

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Andres Hurwitz Anne Singer ’70 and Henry Richardson ’70 at their Harvard Reunion this fall

1981 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Matt Carothers Alex Mehlman

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From left: Jonathan Segal ’86 and Jonathan Tucker ’98 in Hollywood, celebrating the wrap of Jonathan Tucker’s upcoming season 3 DirecTV/ATT’s series Kingdom; Mary Sarah Baker Fairweather ’87 and sister Louise Baker Lee ’92 celebrated together at each of their Reunions at Park in mid-May; Class of 1998 classmates Daphne Johnson Berger, Alex Whisnant, Astrid Levis-Thorne Burns, and Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy and her daughter Hannah Quincy got together for a lunch in Boston over the summer.

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Liza Cohen Gates

Lilla Curran Matthew Stahl

Lydia Hawkins Meg Lloyd Sarah Swettberg

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Allison Nash Mael

1983

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Sam Levy worked as cinematographer for the film Lady Bird, directed

by Greta Gerwig.

Lisa Livens Freeman Elise Mott

1989

RE U N ION YEAR!

RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

1984 Anne Collins Goodyear

Dahlia Aronson Ian Glick Rebecca Lewin Scott

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

1986 Jay Livens

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Congratulations to Chloe Lewis, on her marriage to Des Jennings on September 30th. Other Park alums in attendance were: Anna Lewis ’97 and Eve Lewis ’04, Abbie Johnson McKeon ’98, Sam Plimpton ’98, Sophie Plimpton ’00, Lucy Baldwin Rotelli ’99, Margaret Gormley Donahue ’99, and Sarah Conway ’97.

Zachary Cherry Alexander Rabinsky

Sarah Conway Suzy McManmon Sarah Robbat

Colin Arnold Susanna Whitaker Waters Elizabeth Weyman

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!

Congratulation to W. Kamau Bell on his Emmy win and nominations!

Kamau and his show United Shades of America won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program. Kamau was also nominated for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program.

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RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Jessica Ko Beck Jaime Quiros Alison Ross

1994 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Alan Bern Aba Taylor

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Francis Denny ’00 and Catherine Duffy have teamed up in a creative partnership called Dafne.

Frances F. Denny ’00 for Dafne

Mary Sarah Fairweather Geoffrey Glick

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Kathrene Tiffany Bell Nick Brescia Merrill Hawkins Katayoun Shahroki

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

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alumni notes

2000 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Clockwise from far left: Aldel Brown ’04 at his Harvard Law School Graduation in May; this past spring, Mercy Bell ’05 stopped by Park for a visit, coincidentally on Clash Day! Here she is with Kyra Fries and Andrea Sparks in full get-up!; Catie Hoyt ’06 and Matt Smith at their wedding on September 9, 2017

Jessica Whitman Seney Frances Denny is an artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She tells us: “a few months ago I launched a creative partnership called Dafne (www.dafne.work) with an art director colleague, Catherine Duffy. Catherine and I met when we were both graduate students at RISD and now we live/ work in Brooklyn. Dafne specializes in photography and design, producing campaigns and visuals for emerging and established brands.” Adilia James shares, “I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in Spring 2017. I started a new position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.” Congratulations, Adilia!

2001 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Ben Bullitt Barbara Lee, mother of Suzanna Lee, tells us that Suzanna is vice president for special projects for Warner Music Group in New York City.

10th: 2008

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15th: 2003 20th: 1998 25th: 1993 30th: 1988 35th: 1983 40th: 1978 45th: 1973 50th: 1968

Saturday REUNION 2018 May 19 If you are interested in helping plan your reunion, please contact Rena LaRusso ’04, Holly Dando ’79 and her Relations, at 617-274-6022 Director of Alumni mom celebrating midsummer or alumni@parkschool.org in Sweden.

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Alejandro Alvarado Alexander Lebow

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Congratulations to Amy Kurzweil, who published her first book in October 2016, Flying Couch: a graphic memoir. Farrell Frankel has moved to State College, PA, and is working as the sports dietitian for Penn State Athletics in the Big Ten Conference.

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Steven Fox Molly Lebow Congratulations are in order for some members of the Class of 2004! Specifically: Aldel Brown, who graduated from Harvard Law School on May 25th, 2017! Eliza Cope, who graduated from Teton Science Schools in Wyoming! Eliza is now attending the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and plans to get her MSc in outdoor environmental and sustainability education.

Steven Fox, who married Erin Reissman in mid-September!

2005 RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Diana Rutherford Alex Lee was married on July 18, 2016 to Margi Dashevsky. The couple met at Dartmouth College.

Alex received his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is now an assistant professor of environmental ethics at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage.

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Lily Bullitt

2006 CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

McCall Cruz Congratulations to Catie Hoyt who married Matt Smith on September 9th in Kennebunkport, ME. Park classmates Camilla de Braganca and Jessica Schlundt Finn were bridesmaids, and Catie’s sister, Emily Hoyt ’10, was the maid of honor.

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2007 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Thomas Cope Benjamin Schwartz Mollie Cunningham Young Jacob Aduama shares, “I was in Dubai in February with a few friends for a weekend. I just got back from Italy where I spent time in Como, Cinque Terre, and the Amalfi Coast.

A few of my friends and I drove down from Gothenburg and spent a week driving in northern Italy before we settled in the south near Sorrento. Was a fantastic trip!”

Elyssa Carlson moved back to Boston and is enjoying working at the Omni Parker Hotel as a Catering Sales Manager. Thomas Cope and James Poss went fishing together this summer on the Gros Ventre River, located in Teton National Park just outside of Jackson, WY. The Copes were in town for Eliza Cope’s (Class of 2004) graduation from the Teton Science Schools.

Camilla Golestaneh writes, “ I recently moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA in graphic design at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Getting ready to go back to school this fall has definitely made me nostalgic for Park in a funny way—would love to connect if you’re in the area! After three years with Beyoncé, Samantha Greenberg went back to school “to (finally) finish my undergrad. I graduated from The George Washington University in December 2016! In February I moved out to Los Angeles to start working at Creative Artists Agency for the managing partner, Kevin Huvane, and have been loving it! This summer I got to spend time with Camilla Golestaneh and Nina Wolpow in Nantucket which was a HIGHLIGHT! I see Ben Schwartz way too much and had dinner with Kaveh Veyssi at Catch which was so much fun. PARK 4 EVA!” Will Maness spent the summer in Boston with friends and family and is working as a senior associate in PwC’s risk assurance practice. “I’m currently working on understanding how cloud computing technologies are impacting the financial statement audit process. It’s been a busy undertaking this summer, but I was lucky enough to take a week off to go to Thailand and Singapore with my girlfriend. I was a little

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Clockwise from top left: Jacob Aduama ’07 posing by the beautiful blue waters of Capri, Italy; Else Sharp ’07 and Camilla Golestaneh ’07 in San Francisco; 2007 classmates and friends Thomas Cope and James Poss fishing in Teton National Park; Jamaica Plain neighbors rendezvous out west. Former fourth grade teacher, Ted Wells, meets up with Thomas Cope '07, on a ranch near Missoula, Montana; Mollie Young visited Camilla Golestaneh and Else Sharp in San Francisco.

disappointed not to see many classmates from the Class of 2007 at the 10-year reunion in May, but am excited to catch up with everyone soon.” Nelson Santry says, “I’m out in San Francisco, coming up on three years at Tesla. It’s been a fun time out here.” Else Sharp is also in San Fran; she works for the founders of a tech company, eero. “I live with my sister, Ashley Sharp ’05, who is an anesthesiology resident at UCSF. Else enjoyed meeting with Wanda Holland Greene for advice on careers in SF before making the move last summer!” Nina Wolpow reports “This summer was awesome—I was living at home, so it’s the most time I’ve gotten to spend with my little brother, Thomas Wolpow ’13, since I was like 14; HOWEVER, I’ve been missing my little sister, Julie Wolpow ’09, like CRAZY, as she’s deep into her awesome first job in New York City. Robin Slater Wolpow ’76 and I also chill a lot. The other day I ran into Ben Schwartz on the

beach; I had a crazy face paint party with Emily Summit and her boyfriend when they visited me here; Kaveh Veyssi and I enjoyed the same Zedd show (concert? party? what do we call these things these days?) in Las Vegas and noticed via Instagram; and I feel so grateful that I still talk to Mollie Young, Camilla Golestaneh, Else Sharp and Samantha Greenberg almost every single day. In the fall, I return to NYC to complete the second year of my MFA in fiction writing (shout out to Mrs. Lelon—I still write because of you!).

Hopefully I’ll be published soon.

When that happens, if you meet a familiar character, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.” And finally, Mollie Young had the opportunity to visit Camilla Golestaneh and Else Sharp in San Francisco this spring.

“It was so much fun to be together and get a glimpse of their life on the West Coast! I still live in New

York City and work at the public relations agency Weber Shandwick.

Hope everyone is doing well!”

2008

RE U N ION YEAR!

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Manizeh Afridi Marielle Rabins Moira McCrave-Carragee graduated from Boston College in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. In 2015, Moira lived in Pune, India for six months, working for Shelter Associates NGO, using satellite systems to map urban areas for sanitation projects. In 2016, she lived in Washington, DC, and worked for World Resources Institute, a global research organization.

Moire recently moved to Knoxville, TN, where she is working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Computational Sciences & Engineering Division Postgraduate Research Program.

2009 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Mercedes Garcia-Orozco Cary Williams

2010 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Gilad Seckler Michela Thomsen Clockwise from top left: Gracie Donnell-Kilmer ’11 spent a semester studying at the University of Cape Town last year; Megan Duckworth ’16 painting a mural this summer with the Mayor’s Mural Crew; Zoe Falkson ’16 (right) with a friend at the Cape Cod Challenger Club

Congratulations to Emily Hoyt, who will be a master’s research fellow for two years at the University of Cambridge.

2011 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Grace Donnell-Kilmer Eliza Thomas Eliza Thomas was the featured speaker at the Class of 2017’s graduation ceremony this past June. Turn to page 7 to read her remarks!

Gracie Donnell-Kilmer shares, “I just returned from my semester abroad studying in Cape Town, South Africa at the University of Cape Town through my university (Loyola University, Maryland).

Allie Tearney also studied at UCT the semester before me in the Fall of 2017. Additionally, I happened to see Lilah Lutes there while she was traveling around the world—unfortunately we did not get a picture together!’

2012 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Enya Meade Jaleel Williams Very exciting news for Wiley Holton: in April, her mother shared that “Wiley was named NESCAC Softball Pitcher of the Week for her two impressive wins against Bates College! A wonderful validation of all the hard work and many hours she has invested, and of her love for the sport!” Adon Wade-Currie is a junior at Washington University in St. Louis. His mother let us know that “Adon is the recipient of the prestigious Mellon Mays Fellowship. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York, the program aims to increase diversity in higher education by supporting undergraduate research and by encouraging talented but

underrepresented students to pursue doctorates in the humanities and the social sciences. The fellowship includes funding for undergraduate research focused on humanities or social science projects related to diversity, identity and social justice; faculty mentoring; and a supportive network.

The university’s program includes a weekly for-credit seminar. His project, Real Southern Hip-Hop: Mitigating the Differences Between Our

Conceptualizations of Identity, seeks to better understand the social phenomenon of gatekeeping by studying how Southern hip-hop gained legitimacy beginning in the 1990’s.

By understanding gatekeeping in this context, Adon hopes to develop a working theory of how it functions with respect to racial-minority identity groups.”

2013 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Maddie Hurley Katherine Mitchell This fall, Denny Yu began his studies at Wesleyan University, and Chloë LeStage is attending Harvard University. Congratulations!

2014 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Ellie Formisano Olivia Mills

2015

S AV E T H E D AT E !

YOUNG ALUMNI

BAGEL BREAKFAST For the Classes of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 F R I D A Y, D E C E M B E R 1 5 BREAKFAST

8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

The Park School Dining Room

YULE FESTIVAL

9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

The West Gymnasium

Questions?

617-274-6022 or alumni@parkschool.org

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Caroline Beecher Jonathan DeJesus Congratulations to Julia Holton on being named a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

2016 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

John Joseph DeMarco Charlotte Ketterson Gage McWeeny River Studley Zoe Falkson had a meaningful summer: “I worked at the Cape Cod Challenger Club in Osterville, MA. It’s a summer camp for kids and young adults with physical and developmental disabilities. This

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organization provides the campers with opportunities for long lasting friendships and days full of exciting activities! We do all types of athletics from kick ball to basketball as well as play board games, color, have music time, and even go on exciting trips like whale watching and mini golf. Challenger is an amazing place, and I’ve learned so many important lessons, and working and volunteering there has given me a new perspective on life. I’ve realized the importance on being grateful for my health and my abilities, and I learn something new from the kids every day. The campers have taught me a lot, but most importantly they’ve taught me the importance in finding joy in the small victories in life.

Seeing the kids’ faces light up when they kick the kickball far or when

they see their friend walk through the door is so rewarding and so important because so many people today don’t stop to appreciate the small things in life like so many of these kids do.” Megan Duckworth also had a great summer as a member of the Mayor’s Mural Crew, creating beautiful public art in Roslindale. (In fact, she was working for Heidi Schork, mom of Sophia Clarke ’12!)

The Class of 2017 Joins the Alumni Association Following the Young Alumni Panel, Director of Alumni Relations Rena LaRusso ’04 welcomed the Class of 2017 to the Alumni Association as the newest members of the alumni community.

This spring tradition provides an opportunity for the upcoming graduates to get their first look at life after Park. Congratulations to Ainsley Bonang, Priya Devavaram, and Nina Kathiresan for being elected as Representatives of the Class of 2017!

2017 CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Ainsley Bonang Priya Devavaram Nina Kathiresan

Inaugural Young Alumni Panel As the Class of 2017 was preparing to graduate this spring, Park organized the first Young Alumni Panel for our eighth graders readying themselves for high school. Co-hosted by the Alumni Office, the Secondary School Office, and the Grade VIII Advisory Team, the evening featured a panel of high school- and college-aged alumni who shared their own experiences about transitioning from Park to secondary school. The panel provided an opportunity for eighth graders to hear from seven eloquent and accomplished young alumni about their challenges and accomplishments in a wide variety of high schools including Brookline High School, Cambridge School of Weston, Groton School, Milton Academy, Newton North High School, and Winsor School.

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alumni notes Past Faculty News

Arrivals Hannah Elizabeth Quincy, daughter of Eliza DrachmanJones Quincy ’98 and Rich Quincy

1998 Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy and Rich Quincy Hannah Elisabeth Quincy May 8, 2017

Above, L-R: Abby Witkin ’88, Frances Sandys Boarder, Lucy Robb, and Michael Rosenfield ’88

Juliet Baker writes, “Please let former students know how often I think about them and miss them. I also read the Bulletins carefully. I continue teaching as a tutor in the local public schools and at Belfast’s Senior College.

There I teach literature courses, everything from the Old Testament, to a feminist reading of Jane Eyre, to Dickens, to Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the fall I’ll be teaching Chaucer. No more Macbeth for now. The seventh grade memories are so rich and positive (what great students) that I’ll hold on to them as the definitive matter!”

In 1982, Frances Sandys came to Park to teach a Grade IV class in a one year exchange program. Frances swapped places with former faculty member Chris Carter (P’07, P’08) and he taught Frances’ class in England.

This past October, Frances visited Park for the first time since she left in the early 80’s, this time accompanied by her husband, John Boarder. She reconnected with two of her former students, Abby Witkin ’88 and Michael Rosenfield ’88, as well as former Grade IV colleague Lucy Robb.

On his way back to Boston after visiting his son and family in California, Steve Kellogg took a side trip to see Andrea Sparks in her new home in New Mexico! “We are on top of the trail at El Morro National Monument—a great hike!

We had a picnic up there, shared stories, and fond memories of Park!”

Weddings 1999 Chloe Lewis and Desmond Jennings September 30, 2017 2003 Alex Lee and Margi Dashevsky July 18, 2016

2004 Steven Fox and Erin Reissman September 16, 2017 2006 Catie Hoyt and Matt Smith September 9, 2017

1997 Sarah Shoukimas Ryan and Michael Ryan Jack Benjamin Ryan June 12, 2017 Anna Lewis and Alexander Israel Stella Ripley Israel April 4, 2017 Jennifer Goldstein and David Bilodeau Vivienne Sloane Bilodeau August 30, 2017

1999 Susanna Whitaker-Waters and William Waters Callum ‘Cal’ Rahilly Waters March 15, 2017 2001 Antonia Stubbe Pettersson and Axel Pettersson Oliver Arthur Pettersson May 12, 2017 2002 Kavita Siegel-Howe Smith and Jon Smith Julian Francis Smith April 23, 2017

In memoriam Harriet T. Cope August 1, 2017 Mother of Greg Cope ’71, Grandmother of Eliza Cope ’04 and Thomas Cope ’07

Susan Storey Lyman ’33 December 29, 2016 Sister of James Storey ’45, Mother of Jane Shaw Bizzi ’55, and stepmother of Mabel Lyman Whiteside ’61

Olivia “Owie” Coolidge Dworkin ’37 April 28, 2017 Sister of Hamilton Coolidge ’38 and cousin of Pamela Biren ’50

Dorothy Beckwith Nelson ’45 October 11, 2016 Sister of Richard Beckwith ’51 and Harry Beckwith ’48

Rosamond ‘Rarie’ Taylor Dye ’39 April 11, 2016 Sister of Charles H. Taylor ’43 and Pamela Taylor Wetzels ’45

Robert Claxton Robinson July 28, 2017 Faculty (Science Department Head) 1973 – 1982

Francis Fiske, Jr. July 23, 2017 Faculty (Math, Grade VI homeroom, coach, woodworking, and folk-singing) 1961 – 1963

Dorothy B. Scott April 15, 2017 Grandmother of Dana WelshmanStudley ’85 and Tracy Duliban; mother of Patricia Zifcak

Amnon Levy April 17, 2017 Father of Sam Levy ’88

Bob Wheeler October 27, 2017 Upper School Head (1977 – 1983); Father of Amy Wheeler ’81 and Beth Wheeler ’81

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College Choices for the Class of 2014 Margaret Ames Reginald Anderson Teagan Atwood Adam Banks Samuel Barton Julian Batt James Bell Emma Bernstein Charlotte Blum Miranda Brown Elliot Burnes Henry Burnes James Carroll Henry Claudy Sophia Cohen Dan Colombo Adelaide Daly Fiona Duckworth Sarah Evenson Eleanor Formisano Lillian Gifford Sophia Gillies Eliza Grossman Myles Haigney Penrose Hallowell Jacqueline Hayre-Perez Ashley Herman Erica Jarrell

Gap year then Harvard University Dartmouth College Duke University Bates College University of Chicago Tufts University Dartmouth College Middlebury College Colorado College Barnard College Harvard University Harvard University Santa Clara University Colgate University Wesleyan University Bates College Connecticut College Hamilton College Haverford College Boston College Wake Forest University University of Vermont Northeastern University Gap year then Stanford University Colby College Yale University University of Wisconsin, Madison Harvard University

Members of the Class of 2014 Graduating from High School in 2018 Ian Brostowski Hayden Cheek Robert Crawford Jr. Rohan Dhir Simone Henry Daniel Little Sophia Perry

Senior at Rivers School Senior at Nobles and Greenough Senior at Roxbury Latin Senior at Rivers School Senior at Cambridge School of Weston Senior at Milton Academy Senior at Buckingham Browne & Nicholls

Please note that the above list, compiled by the Alumni Office, does not include all members of the Class of 2014. Alumni not appearing on this list have not submitted their information to our office. Please call the Alumni Office at 617-274-6022 or email at alumni@parkschool.org with any changes or additional information. Thank you.

Jabari Johnson Maxwell Keating Livia Kelly Rachel Kennedy Thaddeus Kennedy Lilias Ketterson Sadie Kraft Ellie Laabs Rachel Leighton Nina Logan Christopher Marcus John Maroni Charles Mathews Christopher Mathews Lilian McCarthy Olivia Clare Mills Jack Mueller Andrew Muggia Samuel Murray John Parry Sarah Power Pauline Santry Lillian Schernecker Maya Seckler Brianna Silva Reed Winter Robert Zintl

Syracuse University University of California, Berkeley McGill University Princeton University Harvard University Yale University Northwestern University Rollins College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Skidmore College Vanderbilt University Harvard University Bucknell University Dickinson College Smith College Boston College George Washington University Gap year then Santa Clara University Harvard University University of Chicago Tulane University Hamilton College University of North Carolina Oberlin College Simmons College Grinnell College Gap year then Santa Clara University

Become a Class Representative Classes of 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1985, 1991, 1992 á Stay in touch with friends! á Gather class news for the Bulletin! á Help plan your reunion!

Want to learn more?

Please contact Rena LaRusso ’04, Director of Alumni Relations, at 617-274-6022 or alumni@parkschool.org

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THE PARK SCHOOL

Annual Report of Giving 2016 – 2017

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Dear Park School Community,

Greetings.

It is with mixed feelings that I write to you in my

last act as Chair of Park’s Board of Trustees. As I step off the Board after three years in my role as chair, I feel a debt of gratitude to the amazing community that is “Park.” Every family who has volunteered at Springfest, or at a Chop-a-thon, or made a birthday box, or cheered on the whole team on the sidelines, or served on a committee or five committees, or come to a play, or driven a gaggle of seventh graders home from a dance—each has together demonstrated the spirit of Park. I love this community. Equally strong is my feeling for my colleagues on the Board who have given so much of their time and talent to advance the needs of the School. It has truly been a privilege to work with these dedicated parents, alumni, and friends of Park.

Park kids are great kids. Park families are great families.

Leading through change: Throughout a period of significant leadership transition as well as the rise of a number of external issues during my tenure, I am most proud of how Park continued to thrive on many levels, especially in enrollment and secondary school placement. The demand for Park admission remains incredibly strong, and the demand for Park students as they enter secondary schools is as strong as it has ever been. While the School has undergone some important changes, clearly the School’s core remains steadfast. Park kids are great kids. Park families are great families. For many of us, Park has become our family’s home away from home, a place where our children are both welcomed and challenged, embraced and pushed, known and discovered. This is the School’s strength and essence.

Generosity: Throughout Park’s recent transitions, I am also very proud that the Annual Fund has continued to grow each year; achieving an unprecedented $2.3 million in 2016 – 17! This demonstrates the great generosity of the Park community, which never ceases to impress me.

The successful conclusion of the Park21 capital campaign in 2015 was another example of this generosity, raising $15.8 million to purchase adjacent land and to create a $9.5 million endowment for innovation. As board chair, I saw first-hand what your investments have meant to our operating budget, and the powerful choices those donations have enabled. Thank you so very much.

Excitement for the future: In looking ahead, the things that I am most excited for include: • The extensive Head of School search concluding with the appointment of Scott M. Young as Park’s next Head of School. As a member of the Search Committee, I was able to witness a pool of hundreds of outstanding candidates from across the country. These candidates consistently regarded Park as one of the finest Pre-K – Grade VIII schools in the nation. I am thrilled that the search has delivered a real gem: Scott possesses the vision, the skill, and the wisdom to lead Park successfully into the future.

• The beginning of implementation of Park’s dynamic new strategic plan. I am very proud of the strategic plan that was voted by the Board last April, and greatly looking forward to seeing its impact as it is implemented in the coming years.

• Completion of a campus master plan. A talented new architectural firm is working with Park’s Buildings & Grounds Committee to set a vision and roadmap for the School’s physical space for the next 30 years.

Clearly, 2017 – 18 promises to be a productive and dynamic year in the life of The Park School, and the Board stands ready to serve, leading the School forward while maintaining the level of academic excellence, citizenship, and achievement that have defined our program since 1888. continues, next page

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Vinny Chiang letter, continued

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to formally acknowledge the leadership and dedication of Cynthia Harmon, who stepped into the role of Interim Head of School for two critical years.

Cynthia has been a 23-year leader and role model in the Park community and we look forward to recognizing Cynthia’s many contributions throughout this year.

I feel honored to have served as Park’s board chair, and am humbled by those who came before me in this role. I am incredibly pleased to be passing the baton to Seth Brennan P ’19 ‘21 ’23, ’25, who will be an outstanding leader as Park’s next board chair. I wish him and the entire Board the best as the School embarks on this exciting new chapter in the School’s history. Thank you for your great partnership.

Sincerely,

Dear Members of the Park Community,

With thanks

to the many volunteers

and hundreds of loyal donors who made 2016 – 17 another successful year in Park’s advancement efforts, we are very pleased to bring you this year’s Annual Report. In the pages that follow, you will see the names of a host of current parents, alumni, grandparents, parents of alumni, current and former faculty and staff, and many friends of the School, each of whom helped move the School forward in meaningful ways last year. On behalf of every student and teacher

Vinny Chiang Chair, Board of Trustees

who has benefitted from this collective generosity, thank you.

The three of us had the joy of working this past year with some stellar volunteers and volunteer leaders whom we wish to recognize here. Specifically, we are pleased to acknowledge the efforts of these great volunteers who stepped into leadership roles in 2016 – 17:

Page 1: Squirrel mixed media Sienna Henry, Kindergarten Page 32: Butterfly mixed media Garrett Zug, Kindergarten Plant drawings throughout: pen & ink Amos Lawrence, Grade V

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• Nikki Nudelman P ’21 ’22 and Joe Robbins P ’24 ’26, Co-Chairs of the Major Gift Committee • Pierce Haley P ’16’ 18 and Russ Porter P ’17 ’22, Co-Chairs of the Annual Fund • Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy ’98 and David Glynn ’91, Co-Chairs of the Alumni Annual Fund • Bob and Carol Amick, Grandparent Giving Chairs • Happy and Will Rowe P ’16, Past Parent Giving Chairs This year we have some important metrics to report that speak to a very strong program and an even stronger base of support. The Annual Fund finished 2016 – 17 at a record-breaking total of $2,300,416 raised, the first time

The Park community should be so proud of the School’s fundraising success this year.

we have ever breached the $2.3 million mark.

Ninety-three percent of parents made a gift to the Annual Fund this year, a testament to their strong endorsement of Park’s program.

Approximately $1 million of the Annual Fund came from donations stewarded with great care by our Major Gift Committee volunteers. A total of $409,653 came from alumni (which includes parents who are also alumni), and we were so pleased that we can report alumni participation of 17% for a third year in a row. Finally, faculty and staff once again set an outstanding mark of 95% participation in the Coyne Scholarship Fund or the Annual Fund.

In addition to the Annual Fund, the School also received $1,055,000 in Park21 capital pledge payments and restricted gifts, for a total year of $3.7 million raised. The Park community should be so proud of the School’s fundraising success this year.

None of this would be possible without the incredible work of so many parent and alumni volunteers who gave tirelessly of their time to bring about the year’s success. Likewise, we are very grateful to Interim Head of School Cynthia Harmon’s steadfast support of advancement efforts on every front. We also want to recognize outgoing Board Chair Vinny Chiang P ’15 ’16 ’19, who, in his three years at the helm of Park’s Board of Trustees, promoted and advocated fearlessly for the Annual Fund and philanthropic support of Park from the Board and from the whole community. We also want to express gratitude to three outgoing members of the

Development Committee—Pete Riehl P ’15 ’16 ’17, Stan Shaw P ’16 ’19, and Kerry Swords P ’17 ’19 ’23—who have given Park their advice, leadership, and many, many hours of their time to advance the School’s development efforts.

A strong foundation remains intact to approach an exciting new chapter in the School’s history as we embark on a new strategic plan and the funding that will be needed to bring it to life.

As we look ahead to 2017 – 18, Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 P ’14 will step down as co-chair of the Development Committee and continue in her role as trustee. This year, we welcome trustee and parent Jessica Lutzker P ’21 ’23 as the next co-chair of the Development Committee. We look forward to a terrific year ahead with EJ and Jessica leading the charge.

Thank you for all you do for The Park School, and for your abiding care and support of this wonderful institution.

Best Regards,

Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 P ’14 Co-Chair, 2016 – 2017 Development Committee

EJ Whelan P ’19 ’21 Co-Chair, 2016 – 2017 Development Committee

Bea Sanders Director of Development

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Budget Summary

2015 – 16 Budget

2016 – 17 Budget

Revenues Gross Tuition

$17,859,000

$18,528,000

$1,973,000

$2,084,000

$2,000,000

$2,050,000

Auxillary Programs (net)

$599,000

$636,000

Other

$360,000

$359,000

$22,791,000

$23,657,000

Endowment Funds Annual Fund

TOTAL REVENUES

Expenses Salaries & Benefits

$13,749,000

$14,425,000

Financial Aid

$3,028,000

$2,944,000

Operation and Maintenance of Physical Plant

$2,846,000

$2,856,000

Instructional Materials

$2,267,000

$1,843,000

$901,000

$1,589,000

$22,791,000

$23,657,000

Administration & General Institutional TOTAL expenses

Budgeted revenues 2016 – 17

Tuition

Budgeted expenses 2016 – 17

78%

Salaries & benefits

61%

12% 9%

9%

Financial aid

Endowment funds

Annual fund

3% Auxilliary programs (net) 2% Other

12% O peration and maintenance of physical plant

8% I nstructional materials and student activities

7% A dministration and general institutional

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Board of Trustees Committees 2016 – 17 Audit Committee Conan Laughlin, Chair John Barkan ’85 Peter Barkan ’86 Denise Jefferson Casper Kimberly Boyd Vincent Chiang Cynthia Harmon Todd MacLean Stanley Shaw Karen Siegel

Buildings and Grounds Committee Peter Barkan ’86, Chair Martina Albright ’83 Kimberly Boyd Vincent Chiang Jug Chokshi Polly Crozier Vinicius Gorgati Cynthia Harmon Conan Laughlin Jennifer Mullin Nikki Nudelman Jorge Vega Joseph Robbins

Committee on Trustees Peter Riehl, Chair Seth Brennan Denise Jefferson Casper Vincent Chiang Polly Crozier Florence Farrell Cynthia Harmon Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 Bea Sanders EJ Whelan Sam Wilderman

Development Committee Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86, Co-Chair EJ Whelan, Co-Chair Seth Brennan Vincent Chiang Pierce Haley Cynthia Harmon Jessica Lutzker Katie McWeeny Nikki Nudelman Sharra Owens-Schwartz Russ Porter Peter Riehl Joseph Robbins Bea Sanders Stanley Shaw Kerry Swords Christina Vest

Diversity Committee Heeten Kalan, Co-Chair Katie McWeeny, Co-Chair Seth Brennan Carlos Castillo ’97 Vincent Chiang Polly Crozier Cynthia Harmon Merle Jacobs Samantha Kaplan Russ Porter Liza Talusan

Annual Fund & Restricted Gifts # of Donors

$2,300,416

Trustees

28

$536,648

Parents

304

$1,335,145

Alumni*

371 $166,354

Educational Policy Committee Kate Olmsted, Co-Chair Emily Woods, Co-Chair

Grandparents, Former Grandparents & Friends

104

$165,398

Parents of Alumni

138

$93,772

Martina Albright ’83 David Ball ’85 Laura Barkan Denise Jefferson Casper Vincent Chiang Cynthia Harmon Merle Jacobs Jennifer Lindstrom Katie McWeeny Nikki Nudelman Christian Porter Stanley Shaw Shadé Solomon Mary Witkowski

Current & Former Faculty & Staff

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$3,099

Finance Committee Sam Wilderman, Chair Laura Barkan Peter Barkan ’86 Kimberly Boyd Carlos Castillo ’97 Vincent Chiang Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95 Cynthia Harmon Jessica Lutzker Todd MacLean Neela Pal Shadé Solomon Karen Siegel Christina Vest Mary Witkowski

Investment Committee Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95, Co-Chair Sam Wilderman, Co-Chair

Annual Fund

(including trustees who are parents and/or alumni) (including parents who are alumni)

*Total alumni giving, including parents and trustees, was $409,653

The Marshall B. Coyne Scholarship Fund Faculty and Staff Participation

$18,314

172

Restricted and Unrestricted Endowment Funds

$64,670

Class of 1986 Restricted Endowment Fund The Lighthouse Fund The Nancy Hurlbut Visiting Authors Fund The Rudginsky Fund The Ruth Williams Faculty Grant Fund Jessica Stone Baker ’89 Scholarship Fund The Sara Beth Narins ’88 Memorial Library Fund Park School Outdoor Learning Garden Other Gifts Received Park21 (cash gifts and pledge payments)

$222,000

$1,055,098

Total Gifts — All Sources $3,660,498

Kimberly Boyd Vincent Chiang Cynthia Harmon Kevin Hayes Peter Riehl Robert Small

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Leadership Giving to The Park School Annual Fund The Charter Oak Association recognizes Park’s leaders in annual giving.

Dubbed the Charter Oak when Park moved to Goddard Avenue in 1971, the large, red oak tree that stands alone at the edge of Park’s playing fields symbolizes the strength of The Park School and the values that the School’s leadership donors help to sustain. The School gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary generosity of these contributors. Please note that the following listing only acknowledges gifts to the Annual Fund made between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

Pudd in gstone Assoc i ates

Go d dard A ssoci ates

Recognizing the solid puddingstone ledge on which Park’s main building sits, the Puddingstone Associates level honors donors who contribute $50,000 and above.

Recognizing Goddard Avenue, the location to which the School moved in 1971, the Goddard Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $25,000 and above.

Denise Jefferson Casper Marc Casper The Furtherance Fund Fred & Anne Henning Conan & Brooke Laughlin Erik & Mary Witkowski

JJ & Deb Allaire The Berylson Family:

John & Amy Smith Berylson ’68

Elizabeth Berylson Katz ’01 & Robert B. Katz

James Berylson ’97

Jennifer Berylson Block ’94 & Jonathan F. Block Peter & Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95 Nick & Sonya Good Jim & Beth Holzman Jeff & Kristi Leerink Mark & Donna Leventhal Rebecca Leventhal ’97 Dana & Jon Lewis The MacLean Family Scott Nathan & Laura DeBonis George Rizk & Melanie Giegel Robert Small & Christine Olsen EJ & Lori Whelan Sam & Bea Wilderman Greg & Emily Woods

Kennar d Associates Recognizing Kennard Road, the early site of The Park School, the Kennard Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $35,000 and above.

Seth & Elizabeth Brennan Richard & Nancy Lubin Tristin & Marty Mannion Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 Katharine Olmsted & John Grossman Peter Riehl & Allison Horne Brendan & Kerry Swords

Cityscape paper Kai Tjia, Grade VII

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Columbian Apartment Building mixed media Clara Young & Bihal Dawan-Abdullah, Grade II

Caroli ne Pi erce A ssoci ates Recognizing the first headmistress of “Miss Pierce’s School,” the original predecessor of The Park School, the Caroline Pierce Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $15,000 and above.

Anonymous (2) Neeraj Agrawal & Papri Sarkar Rory Altman & Rebecca Mayne Peter Barkan ’86 & Amy Barkan James & Fiona Benenson James Berylson ’97 Chris Bierly & Margaret Boasberg Jonathan & Jennifer Berylson Block ’94 Gordon Burnes & Suzie Tapson Amy & Ethan d’Ablemont Burnes ’86 Jon & Danya Dinwoodey Mark & Jennifer Dolins John & Jennifer Eielson Oliver & Negin Ewald Graig & Jacqueline Fantuzzi Peter & Rebecca Forkner Ken & Tamar Frieze Tom & Kate Gilbane Josh & Sarah Greenhill Ashley & Jamie Harmon Tom Hill & Nancy Hagens Pete & Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93 Young Lee & Young Ju Rhee Jackson Loomis & Bihua Chen Glendon Sutton & Kate Lubin Joshua & Jessica Lutzker Daisuke & Tomoyo Matsuzaka Gregory & Alissa Pool Joseph & Deborah Robbins Jeff & Jessica Scherer Drs. Mary & Richard Scott Jordan Scott ’89 & Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89

Walnu t Street A ssoci ates Recognizing the original site of “Miss Pierce’s School,” the Walnut Street Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $10,000 and above.

Anonymous (4) Jon Bernstein & Martina Albright ’83 Brian Hirschfeld & Minnie Ames ’86 George Bene & Francesca Signorelli Jason & Astrid Glass Mark & Jennifer Segal Herman ’82 David Jennings & Jennifer Krebs Nathaniel Jeppson & Suzanne Cullinane Jeppson Xuesong Jin & Aihua Xu Kris & Victoria Joshi Elizabeth Berylson Katz ’01 & Robert B. Katz David Kim & Yoon Chun Joshua Klevens & Anna Sinaiko Brian Knez & Wioletta Zywina Josh Kraft ’82 & Carolyn Kraft Mark & Becky Levin Michael & Jodi Masdea Sean May & Adrienne Flight Brian & Kimberly McCaslin Liz & Tim Morningstar Michelle & Ted Noon Harry & Nikki Nudelman Jamie Rome & Leila Mankarious Rome Jim & Carolyn Rubenstein John & Christina Vest

Jul ia Park Associ ates Recognizing the principal and headmistress of The Park School from 1910-1922, the Julia Park Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $5,000 and above.

Anonymous (3) Lars Albright ’90 & Lawson Albright Bob & Carol Amick John Barkan ’85 & Laura Barkan Zdeno & Tatiana Chara Kevin & Rachel Conn Rob & Lisa Amick DiAdamo ’86 Linda & Michael Frieze Dozier & Sandy Gardner Joe Grimberg John & Annie Hall Kevin & Julie Hayes Becca & Kevin Heist Bayard & Julie Henry Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Hewitt, III Preble Jaques & Jessica Shattuck Chris McKown & Abby Johnson Dennis & Heena Lee Xiaojun Li & Hongyu Jiang Evan & Amy Lieberman The Nanji Family Russ & Tracy Richmond Ollie & Tara Albright Robinson ’84 Dov and Anne Rothman Sam & Jessie Rubenstein David & Suzanne Samuels

Pamela Saunders-Albin ’74 James & Renee Skeffington Magdi Sobeih & Dawn DeMeo Brian Swett ’94 Ladd & Sigrid Thorne Ralph & Diana Gardner Vogel ’83 Robert & Elizabeth Wood David & Megan Zug

C harter Oak A ssoci ates Recognizing the large red oak tree, the symbol of The Park School, the Charter Oak Associates level recognizes donors who contribute $2,500 and above.

Anonymous (3) Richard & Kristin Abati David Ball ’85 Brett & Carol Batchelder Alice Watson & Alastair Bell Asher Berger Meredith Berger Carla & Hans Brigham Jimena Canales Thomas & Janet Cha Victor & Andrea Chiang Vinny & Susanne Chiang Jae Cheon Choi & Sook Hee Chon Patience Crozier & Jessica Keimowitz Christopher & Heather Davidson Julia Frost-Davies & Jason Davies Jon & Margot Davis George & Leigh Denny Baily Dent Emmanuel & Rebecca Doe David Doran ’83 & Tricia Doran John & Barbara Emery Stephen & Rebecca Fair Kim Faulkner ’45 & Nancy Faulkner Joan FitzGerald Rick Gershberg & Carolyn Greenspon Charlie & Betsey Gifford Todd & Martha Golub Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 & Mark Goodman Thomas Hecht & Susan Korrick Andrea & Theron Hoffman Christine Lee & David Jackman Gareth & CydCharise Jeyes Jonathan Katz & Barbara Ito Abbott Lawrence ’85 & Amanda Lawrence Eve Wadsworth Lehrman ’95 Gregg & Julia LeStage Hilary Maddox ’93 Eric & Susan Marandett Kevin & Polly Maroni Carmine & Beth Martignetti Brian McDonnell & Julianna Connolly Mark & Katie McWeeny Lesley and Harold Miller Jr. Kent Min & Mimi Yum Sekar Kathiresan & Neela Pal Samuel Plimpton & Wendy Shattuck Samuel Plimpton ’98 Sophie Plimpton ’00 Dmitri Rabin & Irene Porokhova

Mark Romano & Marci Joy Penny Rossano Robert L. & Sharon G. Ryan Fred & Kathy Schultz Jeffrey Webb & Mark Schuster Drs. Stanley and Alice Shaw Beth Kramer & Jarred Sherman Jeffrey Tulman ’90 & Rebecca Tulman Tom & Sarah Hall Weigel ’92 Judi Rotenberg & Ed Zuker

Acorn A ssoci ates The Acorn Associates level recognizes Young Alumni (up to and including those celebrating their 15th Reunion) who contribute between $100 and $2,499.

Mercy Bell ’05 James Bell ’12 Henry Bell ’10 George Bell, III ’08 Eleanor M. Boes ’16 Aldel Brown ’04 Charles Bryson ’08 Tarun Chally ’11 Oliver Hermann ’12 Julia Hermann ’07 Camilla Hermann ’05 Matthew Kaufman ’15 John Maroni ’14 Katharine Maroni ’10 Polly Maroni ’08 Michael Martignetti ’05 Samantha Bendetson McCourt ’02 James Craige McNay ’08 Eliza Craige McNay ’13 Seth McNay ’10 Eleanor Grant Parker ’13 Molly Boskey Pascal ’02 Ethan Ruder ’11 Joshua Ruder ’09 Benjamin Schwartz ’07 Natalee Sohn ’08 Julia Spiro ’02 Neekon Vafa ’12 Keyon Vafa ’09 Farzan Vafa ’08 Anne E. Wernikoff ’04 Jeremy LeBoff Williams ’05 Bennett M. Wilson ’04 Natalie C. Young ’02 Golden Gate Bridge craypas Jamesy Benenson, Grade I

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Current Parent Giving

$1,335,145

It is with great appreciation that we thank our current Park parents for their generous commitments

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

93%

OV ERALL PARTICIPATION

in support of the Annual Fund. The 2016 – 17 year represented strong participation, with 93% of the parent community contributing. Parent participation in the Annual Fund makes an enormous impact on each student’s experience and also symbolizes parents’ collective stake in the School.

GRADE VI I I 90% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Brian Hirschfeld & Minnie Ames ’86 Lisa and Drew Barton* Andy Baumel & Miriam Dellheim Baumel Courtney & Tim Bonang Carla & Hans Brigham Gordon Burnes & Suzie Tapson Jae Cheon Choi & Sook Hee Chon Eric Cortell & Julia Wong Amy & Ethan d’Ablemont Burnes ’86 Michael & Jennifer Daly John & Maria De Marco Prabhakar Devavaram & Leann Canty Mandeep Dhadly & Amy Parminder Rob & Lisa Amick DiAdamo ’86 Chris & Sudie Naimi DiGiovanni ’80 John & Jennifer Eielson Oliver & Negin Ewald Will & Jennifer Burnes Fulton ’82 Richard & Alicia Gedney Laurie Glassman & Carla Bettano Julia Clarkson & Steve Glick Richard Green Asheesh Gupta & Elinor Pierce Andrew Hartshorn Thomas Hecht & Susan Korrick Alison Meyer Hong & Michael Hong ’88 Heeten Kalan & Jenny Dahlstein Kenny Kang & Grace Kim Karen Kaufman & Kelly Bonnevie Greg & Sarah Keating Charles Khakali & Patricia Espinosa Robin Gross & Anthony Lehv Raphael Lewis & Kathryn Sillman Marc Lipsitch & Meira Levinson Fred & Carine Manigat Sekar Kathiresan & Neela Pal Robert Park & Holly Oh Christian & Russ Porter Nathaniel Resnikoff* Peter Riehl & Allison Horne Jamie Rome & Leila Mankarious Rome Alan & Veronica Rudikoff

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Jason Sager & Chenghua Gu Mariko Sakurai Deon Wolpowitz & Shanti Serdy ’87 Michelle St. Paul TC Haldi & John Sullivan Brendan & Kerry Swords Jorge Vega & Liza Talusan Ralph & Diana Gardner Vogel ’83 Jori Ward* Chris & Jean Wilmerding Michael & Laura Church Wilmerding ’84 Erik & Mary Witkowski Robert & Elizabeth Wood

G R A D E V II 80% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Rory Altman & Rebecca Mayne Sarah Alvord The Armand Family Jonathan & Jennifer Berz Chris Bierly & Margaret Boasberg Susan Bogue Myslik Glen & Kristyn Brenner Richard & Rachel Carter Denise Jefferson Casper Marc Casper Gregory & Nancy Cohen Michael & Christy Doherty Jennifer and Adam Feldman Francis & Nicoletta Fynn-Thompson Rick Gershberg & Carolyn Greenspon Charlie & Betsey Gifford Kathryn Rexrode and Steven Goldman Todd & Martha Golub Nick & Sonya Good Jose Guerra & Elizabeth Maziarka Pierce & Alison Haley Tom Hill & Nancy Hagens Jim & Beth Holzman Dan & Liz Hostetter* Ahmed Ismail & Ubah Hussein Preble Jaques & Jessica Shattuck Xuesong Jin & Aihua Xu* Jeff Paquette & Heidi Johnson

Stephen & Joan Amick Kelly ’83 Dana & Jon Lewis Evan & Amy Lieberman Tristin & Marty Mannion Mark & Katie McWeeny Dung & Yen Ngo Shuhei & Yoriko Ono Leo Peltier & LaToya Downing-Peltier Chip Pierce ’81 & Wendy Pierce Dmitri Rabin & Irene Porokhova Janice Powell Steven Samuels & Ami Cipolla Darshak & Elizabeth Sanghavi Jeffrey Webb & Mark Schuster David Shaff ’87 & Heidi Shaff Darin & Jaye Smith Jennifer Tjia & Jane Givens* Ly Tran & Lexie Olmsted Ahmet & Deborah Uluer David Weinstock & Gianna Zuccotti

GR AD E VI 94% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (3) Babak Aliabadi & Leila Jalinous JJ & Deb Allaire* Brian Hirschfeld & Minnie Ames ’86 John Barkan ’85 & Laura Barkan Tom & Karin Beecher Jonathan & Jennifer Berz Seth & Elizabeth Brennan Shawn Burgess & Keisha Powell-Burgess ’90 Maria Castro Myra Chen Vinny & Susanne Chiang Steven Cohen & Bruce Withey Eric Cortell & Julia Wong Mandeep Dhadly & Amy Parminder Mark & Jennifer Dolins John & Barbara Emery David Feldman & Janet Echelman* Valerie & Fleishman Frankie & Ayana Gonzalez Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 & Mark Goodman William Grimes & Melinda Stanford

”We give to Park because we feel

fortunate that our children, Samantha and Brady, have had the opportunity to be part of such a

diverse community led by caring and committed administrators and inspiring and dedicated teachers. We are grateful that our children have had a variety of wonderful experiences in the classroom, in the athletic arena, and in the arts.

Park is a joyful place which our children have loved attending for the past nine years. For all of this and more, we are proud to contribute to the Annual Fund.”

Andrew & Kate Chappell Parents of Brady Chappell ’17 and Samantha Chappell ’20

Kevin & Julie Hayes Mark & Jennifer Segal Herman ’82 Ephraim Hochberg ’85 & Claudia Hochberg Jim & Beth Holzman Todd & Lorraine Idson Mervin Johnson & Dacia Campbell* Heeten Kalan & Jenny Dahlstein Kenny Kang & Grace Kim David Kim & Yoon Chun Conan & Brooke Laughlin Dennis & Heena Lee Gregg & Julia LeStage Raphael Lewis & Kathryn Sillman Glynn Lloyd Jackson Loomis & Bihua Chen Matthew Lowry & Samantha Kaplan Brian & Kimberly McCaslin Darius McCroey Meave O’Marah & Sandy Zaragoza Erik & Leslie Owens* Sekar Kathiresan & Neela Pal Melissa Potter & Mary Gaynor Brendon Reay & Caroline Bicks Alan & Veronica Rudikoff Amy Saltonstall ’87 Julie & David Saltzman Mohamed & Rakie Sesay Drs. Stanley and Alice Shaw Claudia Silva Jesse & Folashadé Solomon John & Sara Promand Strand Jeffrey Tang Ly Tran & Lexie Olmsted John & Christina Vest Ralph & Diana Gardner Vogel ’83 Sam & Bea Wilderman Robert & Elizabeth Wood

GRADE V 91% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (2) Richard & Kristin Abati Rory Altman & Rebecca Mayne Sarah Alvord The Armand Family Brett & Carol Batchelder George Bene & Francesca Signorelli Courtney & Tim Bonang Eden Brenner & Robin Martin Glen & Kristyn Brenner Ramsay & Darline Cadet Andy & Kate Chappell Kevin & Rachel Conn Sarah Elliot Peter & Shannon Falkson Daniel & Shoshana Farb Julia Clarkson & Steve Glick Nick & Sonya Good Matthew & Elaine Hamilton Xuesong Jin & Aihua Xu* Robin Johnson* Kris & Victoria Joshi Kate LaPine Abbott Lawrence ’85 & Amanda Lawrence Young Lee & Young Ju Rhee Xiaojun Li & Hongyu Jiang Marc Lipsitch & Meira Levinson Todd & Laura MacLean Mark & Katie McWeeny Kent Min & Mimi Yum David & Beth Perry Rick & Nancy Pinchera Gregory & Alissa Pool David Puner & Amy Jones George Rizk & Melanie Giegel*

The Roberts Family Ollie & Tara Albright Robinson ’84 Mark Romano & Marci Joy Jamie Rome & Leila Mankarious Rome Eric & Cheryl Rosenberg Penny Rossano* Jill Rubinstein Heberden & Beth Ryan David & Suzanne Samuels Jordan Scott ’89 & Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89 Rob Seaver & Tracey Bolotnick Deon Wolpowitz & Shanti Serdy ’87 David Shaff ’87 & Heidi Shaff TC Haldi & John Sullivan Michael & Kate Sweeny Jorge Vega & Liza Talusan Stephen Warrington* Erik & Mary Witkowski Melissa & Jim Woodman* Owen & Valerie Young

GR AD E I V 95% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (2) Neeraj Agrawal & Papri Sarkar Jon Bernstein & Martina Albright ’83 Lars Albright ’90 & Lawson Albright Peter Barkan ’86 & Amy Barkan Lisa and Drew Barton* Brett & Carol Batchelder Aaron Belyea & Vianka Perez Belyea The Beroukhim Family Seth & Elizabeth Brennan Jimena Canales Patience Crozier & Jessica Keimowitz William Curry & Rebecca Nordhaus Christopher & Heather Davidson

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”We are always impressed with

how far the members of the Park community are willing to extend themselves. The sense of caring

for one another starts with small steps. We have experienced it with the admissions team, with the faculty and staff in the classrooms and dining room, and with other families. We wondered how it was possible for a relatively large school to have a commitment to inclusiveness permeate through so many levels. As we start a new school year, it is a perfect time to say thanks to be part of this genuine community.”

Sang Park & Simon Kim Parents of Justin Kim ’24

Joel & Esther DeJesus Christina DeVaughn ’90 Graig & Jacqueline Fantuzzi Valerie & Fleishman Tom & Kate Gilbane Jason & Astrid Glass Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 & Mark Goodman Zachary & Alyson Greene Ephraim Hochberg ’85 & Claudia Hochberg Jim & Beth Holzman Douglas & Heather Smith Hsu ’95 David Jennings & Jennifer Krebs Li Jin & Fiona Wang David Kim & Yoon Chun Joshua Klevens & Anna Sinaiko Conan & Brooke Laughlin Eloise Lawrence ’88 & Kelly Lawrence Dana & Jon Lewis Irina and Hans Lidforss* Jackson Loomis & Bihua Chen Matthew Lowry & Samantha Kaplan Joshua & Jessica Lutzker Rob & Melissa Daniels Madden ’85 Eric & Susan Marandett Marshall+ & Liz Neilson Patricia Rea Peter Rempelakis & Merle Perkins Christopher Roy & Charlene Chiang-Roy William Rutledge Amy Saltonstall ’87 Julie & David Saltzman Jeff & Jessica Scherer* Joshua Schultz & Shoma Haque Andrew Scott ’93 & Sarah Rosenberg-Scott Richard & Paige Sutphin John & Christina Vest Ralph & Diana Gardner Vogel ’83 Amanda Ward

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EJ & Lori Whelan Mike & Vernee Wilkinson Caleb & Phoebe Gallagher Winder ’84 David & Megan Zug

G R A D E III 95% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Brian Hirschfeld & Minnie Ames ’86 Eddy Avignon & Suze Berthold-Avignon George Bene & Francesca Signorelli Ted & Naomi Berk* Adam Bookbinder & Dara Brodsky Alex & Emily Potts Callejas ’89 Wendelyn Carruthers David Chang & Sarah Cho Baily Dent Rob & Lisa Amick DiAdamo ’86 Jon & Danya Dinwoodey Mark & Jennifer Dolins John & Jennifer Eielson Daniel & Shoshana Farb Clark Freifeld ’93 & Andee Krasner Francis & Nicoletta Fynn-Thompson Jason & Astrid Glass Frankie & Ayana Gonzalez Vinicius Gorgati & Victoria Griffith Sergio Guzman & Carolina Mujica Zhigang He & Linyun Chen Christine Lee & David Jackman Nathaniel Jeppson & Suzanne Cullinane Jeppson Dennis & Heena Lee Young Lee & Young Ju Rhee Hilary Maddox ’93 Daisuke & Tomoyo Matsuzaka Kent Min & Mimi Yum Richard Lamb & Katrina Newbury ’85

Harry & Nikki Nudelman Katharine Olmsted & John Grossman Sekar Kathiresan & Neela Pal Yonatan & Carmen Pena Christian & Russ Porter David Puner & Amy Jones Giuseppe & Emily Raviola George Rizk & Melanie Giegel* Dov and Anne Rothman David & Suzanne Samuels Steven Samuels & Ami Cipolla Ramzi & Catherine Sarkis Joshua Schultz & Shoma Haque Sondra Schwartz Rob Seaver & Tracey Bolotnick Mohamed & Rakie Sesay Magdi Sobeih & Dawn DeMeo Jesse & Folashadé Solomon John & Sara Promand Strand Didzis Voldins & Elizabeth Yellen Tom & Sarah Hall Weigel ’92 Sam & Bea Wilderman Greg & Emily Woods Kellyn Wrencher

GR AD E I I 93% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (4) Peter Barkan ’86 & Amy Barkan Alice Watson & Alastair Bell* Asher Berger Meredith Berger The Beroukhim Family Seth & Elizabeth Brennan Zdeno & Tatiana Chara Myra Chen Julia Frost-Davies & Jason Davies Bilal Dawan-Abdullah & Korrey Lacey-Buggs

Jason & Jennifer de los Santos Emmanuel & Rebecca Doe Michael & Christy Doherty Patrick & Elizabeth Dunn Stephen & Rebecca Fair Graig & Jacqueline Fantuzzi Daniel & Shoshana Farb Peter & Rebecca Forkner David Glynn ’91 & Elizabeth Glynn Nick & Sonya Good Zachary & Alyson Greene Matthew & Elaine Hamilton Dirk Hentschel & Ling Cui Andrea Hernandez Ephraim Hochberg ’85 & Claudia Hochberg Shondra Jones Kris & Victoria Joshi Joshua Klevens & Anna Sinaiko Abbott Lawrence ’85 & Amanda Lawrence Jeff & Kristi Leerink Dana & Jon Lewis Caroline Lindsley Coleman Lindsley Joshua & Jessica Lutzker Todd & Laura MacLean Russ & Tracy Richmond George Rizk & Melanie Giegel* Ollie & Tara Albright Robinson ’84 Saul & Laura Salcedo Jordan Scott ’89 & Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89 Beth Kramer & Jarred Sherman James & Renee Skeffington Richard & Paige Sutphin Michael & Kate Sweeny Brendan & Kerry Swords Josh & Nicola Syken Jeffrey Tang Jorge Vega & Liza Talusan Ted & Anna Wells Caleb & Phoebe Gallagher Winder ’84

Erik & Mary Witkowski Robert & Elizabeth Wood Owen & Valerie Young

GRADE I 94% PARTICIPATION

Neeraj Agrawal & Papri Sarkar James & Fiona Benenson Paisley & Susan Boney Caroline Buckee* Jim Butler Thomas & Janet Cha Sarah & Jug Chokshi Tiffany Hogan & Arturo Clemente* Steven Cohen & Bruce Withey Rodney Coleman Nadine Coleman William Curry & Rebecca Nordhaus Emily & Bruce DaSilva* Baily Dent Jon & Danya Dinwoodey Seeta Badrinath & Jeffrey Dvorin The Eddings Family Peter & Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95 Ken & Tamar Frieze Tom & Kate Gilbane Jason & Astrid Glass David Glynn ’91 & Elizabeth Glynn Abigail Ross Goodman ’91 & Mark Goodman Josh & Sarah Greenhill Sergio Guzman & Carolina Mujica Eliza Hoover Gareth & CydCharise Jeyes Pete & Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93 Leign & Jennifer Kempinski Simon Kim & Sang Park Chappell & Elizabeth Lawson Jackson Loomis & Bihua Chen Glendon Sutton & Kate Lubin Hilary Maddox ’93

The Dumphy Manfredi Family Michael & Jodi Masdea Daisuke & Tomoyo Matsuzaka Brian McDonnell & Julianna Connolly Michael McWilliams & Christine Ayash Maria Fernandes & Nelson Miranda The Murphy-Hara Family Joseph & Deborah Robbins Eric & Cheryl Rosenberg Dov and Anne Rothman Jeff & Jessica Scherer* Douglas & Alyssa Burrage Scott ’92 Andrew Scott ’93 & Sarah Rosenberg-Scott Kim Soderberg* Michael Sze & Doreen Ho John & Kathleen Tregoning* Tom & Sarah Hall Weigel ’92 Rodney & Alisha Williams Greg & Emily Woods

KI ND E RGARTE N 98% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (5) Lars Albright ’90 & Lawson Albright Dawn Avery* Leigh-Alistair Barzey & Carolyn Bowes George Bene & Francesca Signorelli Ted & Naomi Berk* Justin Braman & Eliza Botsford Peter Bown & Paige Largay Seth & Elizabeth Brennan Richard Champagne & Cassandra Villari* David Chang & Sarah Cho Victor & Andrea Chiang Julia Frost-Davies & Jason Davies Patrick & Elizabeth Dunn Judith Edersheim & Nicole Danforth Stephen & Rebecca Fair Daniel & Shoshana Farb Cindy Talbot & Jason Frangos

”Sadie and Clara love

going to school and being part of

an energetic and diverse community where they are encouraged to be curious students and thoughtful citizens. They are excited about what happens in the classroom each day.

We all appreciate Park’s joyful and creative approach to teaching and learning and give to the Annual Fund as an expression of our gratitude.”

Owen & Valerie Young Parents of Sadie Young ’20 and Clara Young ’23

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Clark Freifeld ’93 & Andee Krasner Korie E. Handwerger* Ashley and Jamie Harmon* Becca & Kevin Heist Andrea Hernandez Douglas & Heather Smith Hsu ’95 Christine Lee & David Jackman Brian Knez & Wioletta Zywina* Eloise Lawrence ’88 & Kelly Lawrence Jeff & Kristi Leerink Diana Yousef and Sebastian Martinek Sean May & Adrienne Flight Brian & Kimberly McCaslin Liz & Tim Morningstar* Michelle and Ted Noon* Olufemi & Nicole Obi Dmitri Rabin & Irene Porokhova Joseph Ramadei Patricia Rea Katie & Albert Reed* Maryum Reed* Russ & Tracy Richmond Sam & Jessie Rubenstein* Hilary Sargent ’94 James & Renee Skeffington Jeffrey Tulman ’90 & Rebecca Tulman David & Megan Zug

Parent Annual Fund Volunteers The Park School has an amazing parent community and parent volunteers who are deeply dedicated to all things that make the School great. We rely on the untold talents, energy and commitment of our parent volunteers to help raise more than $2 million. This $2 million is a critical contribution to the overall operating budget and sustains the school, retains teacher talent and provides financial aid to about 23% of our students. Thank you parent volunteers! You make all the difference in this vibrant community.

Pierce J. Haley Co-Chair Russ Porter Co-Chair

PR E -KI N D E RGART E N 96% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (2) Ali Bahadori & Mahnaz Nouri* Lisa and Drew Barton* Aaron Belyea & Vianka Perez Belyea James & Fiona Benenson Asher Berger Meredith Berger Paisley & Susan Boney Mulian Chen Myra Chen Patience Crozier & Jessica Keimowitz Mark & Miriam Gorman* Jen & Colby Hewitt* David Jennings & Jennifer Krebs Lesley and Harold Miller Jr.* Celina & Amon Millner* The Nanji Family* Marshall+ & Liz Neilson Jamie & Kate Ramsdell* Kathleen Reardon Joseph & Deborah Robbins Andrew Scott ’93 & Sarah Rosenberg-Scott Robert Small & Christine Olsen* Angela & Patrick Smith* Michael Sze & Doreen Ho Jeffrey Tang John & Kathleen Tregoning*

Seth Brennan

Alison King

Pete Riehl

Ramsay Cadet

Abbott Lawrence

Joe Robbins

Greg Cohen

Dana Lewis

Suzanne Samuels

Emmanuel Doe

Kate Lubin

Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89

Mark Dolins

Jess Lutzker

Stan Shaw

LaToya Downing-Peltier

Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86

Christina Vest

Nick Good

Katie McWeeny

EJ Whelan

Julie Hayes

Harry Nudelman

Chris Wilmerding

Beth Holzman

Nikki Nudelman

Robert Wood

Preble Jaques

Wendy Pierce

David Zug

Joanie Amick Kelly ’83

Rick Pinchera

* First time donor to Park — thank you! + indicates deceased

Simone acrylic Kata Khakali, Grade VIII

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Alumni Giving Information $196,014

$409,653

G IFTS TO R ES T RI CT ED A N D /OR END OWED FUNDS (Includes payments to Park21)

G I F T S TO T H E A LUM N I A N N UA L FUN D

$605,667 TOTA L A LU M NI GIVING 2016 – 17

(Includes alumni who are also trustees and/or parents)

Reunion Giving

Thank you! â â

We extend our thanks to the alumni in their Reunion years

A sincere thank you to the following alumni who

who gave to the Annual Fund. Reunions are an opportunity

volunteered their time and invested their energy

for alumni to reconnect with classmates, friends, and faculty,

into supporting The Park School 2016 – 2017

and to reflect on how Park is meaningful to them. Alumni

Alumni Annual Fund.

often make gifts in gratitude of their time at Park, even if they are unable to return to campus for Reunion itself.

This commitment of Park alumni speaks volumes about the wonderful relationships alumni in Reunion classes have formed together in the Park community. Park is grateful for the generosity of this year’s Reunion classes.

David Glynn ’91 Total Alumni Annual Fund Gifts from Reunion Classes

Co-Chair, Alumni Annual Fund $52,732

Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy ’98 Co-Chair, Alumni Annual Fund

Top Reunion Classes (Dollars raised)

$20,675

$14,140

$7,972

CLASS OF 1982

CLASS OF 1997

CLASS OF 1992

Top Reunion Classes (participation)

26%

21%

21%

CLASS OF 1987

CLASS OF 1977

CLASS OF 2007

Katherine Tiffany Bell ’96

Sara Leventhal Fleiss ’95

Bob Bray ’53

Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93

Aldel Brown ’04

Greg Kadetsky ’96

Astrid Levis-Thorne

Joanie Amick Kelly ’83

Abbott Lawrence ’85

Burnes ’98

Emily Potts Callejas ’89

Chip Pierce ’81

Carlos Castillo ’97

Miriam Posner ’03

Lilla Curran ’95

Rebecca Lewin Scott ’89

Melissa Deland ’95

Diana Walcott ’85

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Alumni Giving $409,653

Thoughtful support and enthusiastic participation from Park alumni strengthen the School community and provide a meaningful foundation for the Annual Fund each year. We are deeply grateful to each of the

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND

17%

PARTICIPATION I N TH E ALUMNI ANNUAL F U N D

individuals listed below for choosing to make Park a philanthopic priority through gifts to the 2016 – 2017 Annual Fund or other funds.

1933

1949

1958

19 67 • R EUN I ON YEAR

25% PARTICIPATION

25% PARTICIPATION

17% PARTICIPATION

12% PARTICIPATION

Seth Briggs

Elisabeth Grote Lay Amy Simonds Naimi

F. Gorham Brigham III Rusty Wright Reiber Ruth Vose

Betty Morningstar Georgia Brown Pollak Heidi Ravven

1935 33% PARTICIPATION

1950

Galen Stone

33% PARTICIPATION

1959

19 68

1936

Galen Clough Charles Faulkner

15% PARTICIPATION

17% PARTICIPATION

James Edward Downes III Ann Williams Woll

Amy Smith Berylson Vickery Hall Kehlenbeck Catherine Lemann Margaret Quine McGovern Sarah Wilson

50% PARTICIPATION

Henry Goethals Posy Kent Sprague

1937

1952 20% PARTICIPATION

1960

Carol Foley Surkin

20% PARTICIPATION

13% PARTICIPATION

1953

Bob Ehrmann

28% PARTICIPATION

193 8 44% PARTICIPATION

Osborn Howes Colin Irving Barbara Tilden Lindeman Putty McDowell

1944

Bob Bray Sally Williams Casey Bob Kenerson Brownie Swartwood Peter Wetherbee

1954 24% PARTICIPATION

Peter Dickson Roger Nott Charlie Stillman Ginny Vose Peggy Lash Wolman

Katherine Russell McCurdy Sarah Wehle

1970

12% PARTICIPATION

26% PARTICIPATION

William Brigham Mary Ann Dexter

Paul Ayoub Alison H. Burr Connie Milender Goebel Tamsin Knox Lauranne Oliveau Carey Peabody Henry Richardson Anne Singer Sarah Ewell Smith

1962

Jerri Godfrey Paul Elizabeth Hood Pigford

1945

1955

1963

50% PARTICIPATION

15% PARTICIPATION

13% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Josephine Harding Brownback Kim Faulkner Catherine Coolidge Lastavica Elizabeth Haffenreffer Monrad Jim Storey Alice Wheatland Wellman

Caroline Swartwood Blash Charles Gagnebin

Amy S. Lampert Gwen McDermott Benjamin White

1956

7% PARTICIPATION

1961

Betsy Heald Peter Moore Pauline Bray Nutting Anne Newell Robertson

50% PARTICIPATION

19 69

12% PARTICIPATION

Mary Hope Dean Susie Jackson Stillman

197 1 9% PARTICIPATION

Christopher Boutourline Greg Cope

24% PARTICIPATION

1964 12% PARTICIPATION

197 2 • R EUN I ON YEAR

Constance Brown Louise Wright Huntoon William Shaw McDermott

13% PARTICIPATION

29% PARTICIPATION

Bonnie Bonnet Akins Roger Brown Judy Chapman Jane Dexter Coleman Eddie Lawrence

T. Corwin Fleming Lisa Faulkner Jones

1957

8% PARTICIPATION

Joanna McNay Nelson Lynn Nyhart Asa Phillips Amy Wehle Amy Dickersin Whitehead

Rose Bigelow Bensen Rob Lawrence

197 3

1946

1 948 50% PARTICIPATION

Vera Converse Gibbons Deborah Shaw Link Renny Little Ginny Bridge Welch

37% PARTICIPATION

Claire Gardiner Burke Buzz Burrage Lorena Scotten Brigham Faerber Jay Williams Howland Ruthie Chute Knapp Nat Pierce John Thorndike

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1965

1966 13% PARTICIPATION

Emily Burr Sally Sullivan Curran Wigs Frank

11% PARTICIPATION

Rick Berenson Phillip Dean, Jr. Maggie Frank O’Connor Anne Phillips Ogilby

1974

198 0

1984

19% PARTICIPATION

16% PARTICIPATION

26% PARTICIPATION

Pamela Saunders Albin Wendy Sonnabend Erickson Kitta Frost Shady Hartshorne Polly Hoppin Sarah Henry Lederman Allene Russell Pierson Gardner Wallace

Helen Amick Jenny Swett Chrisman Stephen Conkling Sudie Naimi DiGiovanni Andrew W. Edmonds, Jr. Apple Faulkner Nat McCormick Melissa Weintraub

1975

198 1

24% PARTICIPATION

20% PARTICIPATION

Tim Friedman Anne Collins Goodyear Alex Heard Tom Kates Cam Naimi Lucy Elizabeth Perera Tara Albright Robinson Hannah Mickley Swett Adam Weitzman Laura Church Wilmerding Phoebe Gallagher Winder

Debra Smith Knez Laura Russell Malkin Colin McNay Dave Mushatt Eric Schorr Meli Solomon Bill Sullivan

Nicholas Butterworth Matt Carothers Howard Chaffey Corinne Field Mischa Frusztajer Chip Pierce Lanny Thorndike

197 6

1982 • R EU N IO N YE AR

16% PARTICIPATION

12% PARTICIPATION

Alexandra Bacon Amy Tayer Goldman Alison Hoppin Murchison Jonathan Richardson Marc Safner Tedd Saunders

Jennifer Burnes Fulton Emily Hall Jennifer Segal Herman Josh Kraft Martin Roach

197 7 • REU N I O N Y EA R

20% PARTICIPATION

21% PARTICIPATION

Kevin Bynoe Bertha Coombs Rebecca Cunningham-Weiss Alice McNay Curtin Lisa Sharf Green Juliet Lamont Alice Perera Lucey Stuart W. Remensnyder Sam Solomon

197 8 23% PARTICIPATION

Robert Amick Sierra Heath Bright Josh David Annie Faulkner Scott Freeman Frederick Marshall Patti Sonnabend Wagner

1983 Martina Albright Robert Ball David Doran Minor Hall Joan Amick Kelly Alexandra Boardman Reynolds Diana Gardner Vogel Josh Wolman

1985 33% PARTICIPATION

David Ball John Barkan Jessie H. Cahill Nancy Baker Cahill Amy Davis Elizabeth Morse Giovine Jen Hershfang Ephraim Hochberg A.T. Howe, Jr. Abbott Lawrence Melissa Daniels Madden Katrina Newbury Diana Walcott Gretchen Weismann Dana Welshman-Studley Elizabeth Wiellette

Eleanor Rigby colored pencil Nina Porter, Grade VIII

198 6 21% PARTICIPATION

Minnie Ames Peter Barkan Maureen Collins Beekley Jill Bernheimer Ethan d’Ablemont Burnes Lisa Amick DiAdamo Mark Epker Eve Herzog Robbins Amy Lloyd McCarthy Matthew McGinnes

Thank you REUNION VOLUNTEERS! â â Reunion volunteers are an essential part of the Alumni Annual Fund. Without the commitment and enthusiasm of our Reunion Committee, Park would not have been able to reach its participation or dollar goals. Their important efforts help to build excitement around Reunion events and Reunion fundraising, and they serve as a vital link between Park and their classmates.

We are grateful to the following alumni who volunteered their time to support this year’s Reunion.

1979 20% PARTICIPATION

Abby Ames Caroline Perera Barry Lalla Carothers Holly Dando Henry Hammond Linda Runyon Mutschler Margie Talcott John Tayer Will Thorndike

19 67

Georgia Brown Pollak • Heidi Ravven • Stephen Weiss

197 7

Stuart Remensnyder • Sam Solomon

1982

Jennifer Burnes Fulton • Jennifer Segal Herman

1987

Mary Sarah Baker Fairweather • Geoffrey Glick • Amy Saltonstall

1992

Louise Baker Lee • Elizabeth Sandman Norian

1997

Nia Lutch • Sarah Shoukimas Ryan

20 02

Alejandro Alvarado • Samantha Bendetson McCourt

20 0 7 Ivy Alphonse-Leja • Thomas Cope • William Manness • Anna Porter

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Alumni Giving continued 1987 • REU N I ON Y E A R

199 0

1993

1996

26% PARTICIPATION

24% PARTICIPATION

10% PARTICIPATION

17% PARTICIPATION

Ali Friedman Baird Nicole D. Chiasson Mary Sarah Baker Fairweather Jenna Glasser Geoffrey Glick Francie Walton Karlen Christina McGinnes McCormick Natalie Coggeshall Nelson Richard Pemberton Amy Saltonstall Shanti Serdy David Shaff Kate Milliken Vaughey

Lars Albright Ali Burnes Balster Robert D. Becher John Collins Christina DeVaughn Richard Knapp Jill Kantrowitz Kunkel Nick Lloyd Keisha Powell-Burgess Gigi Saltonstall Jeffrey Tulman

Anonymous Julia Lloyd Johannsen Allison Lewin Hilary Maddox Andrew Scott David Walton

Anonymous Kathrene Tiffany Bell Merrill Hawkins Rob Higgins Marisa Connors Hoyt Greg Kadetsky Leah Cumsky-Whitlock Lavin Elizabeth K. Prives Carolina Samudio-Ortega George Sargent* Jonathan Sheffi Ladd Thorne

1988 17% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Michael Hong Josh Kantrowitz Eloise Lawrence Charlotte Finley Maynard Michael Rosenfield Melissa Rubin

1989 12% PARTICIPATION

Emily Potts Callejas Jordan Scott Rebecca Lewin Scott Phyllis Thompson Katie Westgate Matthew Zises

1991 17% PARTICIPATION

Jennifer Walton Burke Bob Collins Leslie Eckel Allyson Field David Glynn Abigail Ross Goodman Ashley Dodd Phipps Vanessa Hynes Taylor

1992 • R EU N IO N Y EAR 12% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Laura Dahmen Merriman Elizabeth Sandman Norian Alyssa Burrage Scott Peter Nimitz Van Dorn Sarah Hall Weigel

1994 11% PARTICIPATION

Jennifer Berylson Block Judd Cherry Elizabeth Sarles Dias Jake Peters Hilary Sargent Brian Swett

1995 28% PARTICIPATION

Melody Bartlett Diana Potter Chevignard Lilla Curran Melissa R. Deland William Dick Michael Ellis Sara Leventhal Fleiss Julie Hume Gordon Alexander Henry Heather Smith Hsu Thomas Hynes, III Hilary Walton Lehman Eve Wadsworth Lehrman Katharine Burrage Schmitt Amanda Walton

1997 • R EUNI ON YEAR 15% PARTICIPATION

Kristaps Aldins James Berylson Amanda Burrage Carlos Castillo Sarah Conway Rebecca Leventhal Alexander Leventhal Nia Lutch Danielle Miley Sarah Shoukimas Ryan

1998 18% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Karen Blumenthal Astrid Levis-Thorne Burns Caitlin M. Connolly Nathan Henderson Constantino Michaelidis Samuel Plimpton Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy Dan Stone Alex Whisnant

”My Park experience set my

expectations for my own life. I came to understand the power of open-minded thinking and learned to appreciate cultural differences. (Any friends of mine celebrate Kwanzaa in fourth grade outside of Park? I don’t think so!) My teachers taught me to be enthusiastic about learning and to be excited for new opportunities. Equally impactful have been the powerful friendships I made at Park.

I adore the classmates I am in touch with

(a surprising number of them) for their kindness, life endeavors, and overall love and support.”

Kate Milliken Vaughey Class of 1987

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1999

20 0 5

9% PARTICIPATION

14% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous (2) Margaret Gormley Donahue Caitlin Tierney Hurley Jeremy Kellogg Susanna Whitaker Waters

Anonymous Mercy Bell John Dean* Aaron Hale* Camilla Hermann Michael Martignetti Khari Slaughter* Sarah Buckley Tiedemann Jeremy Williams*

20 0 0 8% PARTICIPATION

Parker Brickley David Kehlenbeck Yrinee Michaelidis Sophie Plimpton Rebecca A. Wilsker Charles Cunningham Young

20 0 1 17% PARTICIPATION

Gints Aldins Diego Alvarado Chris Burrage Nathaniel Dean* Kate Haskell Celeste Hughey Elizabeth Berylson Katz Jennifer McInnis Becca Spiro Avery Williams-Vafai

20 02 • REU N I O N Y EA R 10% PARTICIPATION

Katherine Brustowicz Nathan Kellogg* Samantha Bendetson McCourt* Molly Boskey Pascal* Katherine Gormley Saeli Julia Spiro Natalie C. Young

20 03 13% PARTICIPATION

Eric Brotman Grace Cinquegrana India Davis Goodridge Alex Haskell-Adkins Katharine Stearns Johnsen Anna Moss* Andrew Ostroff Miriam Posner* Hilary Segar*

20 04 17% PARTICIPATION

Aldel Brown Susannah Burrage Steven Fox* Addison Godine Rena LaRusso Zachary Modest* Mona Poor-Olschafskie* Anne Wernikoff Elizabeth Wilsker Bennett M. Wilson

20 0 6 6% PARTICIPATION

Noah Donnell-Kilmer Becca MacRae Madeleine Mitchell Samuel Platt Liz Rappaport

20 0 7 • R EU N ION YE AR 21% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Ivy Alphonse-Leja Elyssa Carlson Nicholas Carter* Rebecca Freeman-Slade Camilla Golestaneh Julia Hermann William Manness Anna Porter Jacob Romanow* Ben Schwartz Rebecca Shaw Alexandra Turner-Owens* Benjamin Wilsker Mollie Cunningham Young*

20 0 8 24% PARTICIPATION

George Bell Woody Bryson Robin Carter* Olivia Cinquegrana Abigail Sweetser Dean* Brett Drucker Polly Maroni Moira McCrave Carragee James McNay Chloe Michaelidis Lydia Mitchell* Charles Platt Marielle Rabins Lindsay Rudolph Natalee Sohn Farzan Vafa

20 0 9 17% PARTICIPATION

Alice Berenson Benjamin Coen* Anna Hale* Benjamin Logan Henry Lucey Isabel Moss* Sophie Moss*

Max Romanow* Joshua Ruder* Lexie Sparrow Keyon Vafa Cary Williams

John Maroni Olivia Mills Sarah Power* Pauline Santry*

201 0

15% PARTICIPATION

14% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Henry Bell Emily Hoyt Katharine Maroni Seth McNay Mackenzie Mills* Adam Rudolph Jonathan A. Sands Padraig Sullivan* Jennifer Walsh*

201 1 14% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Quinn Beaver* Adam Carlson Alec Cover Will Cunningham* Gracie Donnell-Kilmer Jennifer Isaacson George Lucey Erik Reed Ethan Ruder*

201 2 15% PARTICIPATION

James Bell Louie Feingold Oliver Hermann Wiley Holton Claire Mills* Jamie Murray* Joshua Peters* Neekon Vafa Adon Wade-Currie Seho Young

201 3 9% PARTICIPATION

Elspeth Coen* Robby Lamont* Eliza Craige McNay Eleanor Grant Parker Sabrina Rabins Jamie Rudolph* Emily Tyszka*

201 4 18% PARTICIPATION

Anonymous Robert L. Crawford Jr. Ellie Formisano Eliza Grossman Penrose Hallowell Ashley Herman* Ellie Laabs* Daniel Little Nina Logan*

201 5 Caroline Beecher Jonathan DeJesus* Annabelle Fulton Julia Holton Matthew Kaufman* Duncan Lamont Madeline Mills* Kymberleigh-Marie Morris Chloe Page Jurnee Peltier Simone Sparrow Zack Taylor Sewina Yu

2016 16% PARTICIPATION

Rishi Banerjee Eleanor Boes* Jordyn Britton* Shelstie Dastinot* Anne DiAdamo* Breanna Durand* Leyla Ewald* Thacher Formisano David Goldman* Pierce Haley* Zachary Herman* Gage McWeeny* Duncan Mills* Henry Ngo* Jessica Reed* David R. Shaw* Khyle Smith* River Studley* Jack Sullivan* Nicole Taylor* Ben Tyszka* Clare Wibiralske* Ben Wilmerding* John Wilmerding, Jr.* Kion Young*

2017 8% PARTICIPATION

Ainsley Bonang* Jake DiAdamo* Nick Glassman* Nina Porter* Joli Vega* Lucy Wilmerding* *F irst time donor to Park — thank you! + indicates deceased correction: Julia Holton ‘15 was inadvertently omitted from the 2015-16 Annual Report.

We apologize for the error.

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Faculty and Staff Giving In 1977, Marshall B. Coyne, grandfather of Ben Lloyd ’78, Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86, Nick Lloyd ’90, and Julia Lloyd

$18,314

CONTRIBUTED TO THE COY NE FUND

95%

CURRENT FACULTY & STAFF PARTICIPATI O N

Johannsen ’93, and father of the late Linda Fosburg (former president of the Parents’ Association, Trustee, and Board Chair from 1982 – 86), established the Marshall B. Coyne Scholarship Fund—the School’s first restricted endowment fund. For nearly 40 years, Park’s current and former teachers, administrators, and staff members have

We are grateful to the following current and former

chosen to make their annual gifts to the Coyne Fund,

members of Park’s faculty and staff who chose to make

which supports financial aid.

gifts, to any fund, in support of the School.

Anonymous Susan Coe Adams Bonnie Bonnet Akins ’56 Liga Aldins Ivy Alphonse Leja ’07 Elizabeth Ames Jose Andrades Suzanne Archibald Anne Elise Aubry Lila Austin Sally Baker Juliet Baker Betsy Ball Elizabeth Hanselman Ballard Nancy Barre Melody Bartlett ’95 Diana Bateman Brian Beaver Christopher Beeson Shiva Behradnia Jon Bernstein William Bladt Erin Kelly Blute Susan Bogue Myslik Courtney Bonang Eliza Botsford Sarah Bourque Peter Bown Kimberly Boyd Joan Boyle-Dugue Giovanni Bradley-Campbell Rusty Browder Susan Buckey Helen Burrage Jamie Byron Joelle F. Cabot Thomas Cahill Sean Callahan Kat Callard Jane Carney Matthew Carothers ’81

Lalla Carothers ’79 Katie Carr Chris & Carole Carter Joe Casella Brian Cassie Jerry Cathey Joanne Caulfield Emily Cause Kung-Yi Chang Mulian Chen Aaron Christian Grace Cinquegrana ’03 Kathy Coen Kathy Come Alison Connolly Greg Cope ’71 & Comfort Halsey Cope Janet Cowan Rob Crawford Alice McNay Curtin ’77 Julianne Damaskos Pauline H. Davis Deb Dean Christine DeBlois Joel DeJesus Kippy Dewey Lisa DiAdamo Sudie Naime DiGiovanni ’80 Marguerite Dole Beth Donnell-Kilmer LaToya Dowing-Peltier Carolyn Drucker Tracy Duliban Yeja Dunn Leah Dunn Rossi Kathleen Earley Carly Ellis Patricia Espinosa Hilary Fabre Flo Farrell Nancy Faulkner

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Barbara Flanagan Kara Fonseca Kimberly Formisano Valerie Foster Kyra Fries Scott Fries Constance Gagnebin Philip Gambone

Laurie Glassman Steven Goldman India Goodridge ’03 Wanda M. Holland Greene Megan Haddadi Jeannie Hahn Judy Hale Elaine Hamilton Whale block print Paige Hostetter, Grade VII

Cynthia A. Harmon Teri Hauserman Merrill Hawkins ’96 Bunny Healy Dita Henderson Deborah Henry Betty Hillmon Tanya Holton Beth Holzman Caroline Hoppin+ Taylor Horan Roma Hoyt Bob & Nancy Hurlbut Merle Jacobs Elizabeth Jansen Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93 Jerrold I. Katz Steve & Emily Kellogg Maren Kelsey Jean Kendall Matt Kessler Linda Knight Anita Kunhardt Dean Laabs Victoria Lane Kate LaPine Rena LaRusso ’04 Marn Lau David Lawton Sara Lynn Leavenworth Sarah Leonardelli Jennifer Lindstrom Bob Little Claudia Logan Alice Perera Lucey ’77 Nia Lutch ’97 Will Lyons Melissa Daniels Madden ’85 Karen Manning Anthony Marco Sadiemarie Mayes Megan McLean Curt Miller Marianne Miller Gillian Miller-Lewis Katrina Mills Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter Miguel Morales & Patricia Delgado Carol Moran Cicely Morris Jean Kendall Jennifer Mullin Marshall+ & Liz Neilson Mary Joanna Neish Paul Newmark Dung Ngo Jessica Niebuhr Timothy O’Brien Heather Offen Sharra Owens-Schwartz Maureen Cleary Parsons LaToya Downing Peltier Pamela Penna Lucy Elizabeth Perera ’84 David & Beth Perry Allene Russell Pierson ’74

Betsy Platt Christian Porter Jonathan Prosky Eliza Drachman-Jones Quincy ’98 Allison Raabe Shalini Rao Kathleen Reardon Jennifer Riley Alan Rivera Lucy L. Robb Melissa Beth Rubin ’88 Jill Rubinstein Mary K. Russell Amy Saltonstall ’87 Nick Sama Bea Sanders Scott Sandvik Steve Savage Andrew & Susan Segar Elyse Seltzer Sue Seufert Jonathan Shaw Pam Shepley Karen Siegel Claudia Silva Nicole Siverls Tom & Margo Smith Sally Snickenberger Shadrach Sommers-Dehaney Andrea Sparks Jan Spaulding John Spicer Sue Sprague Marjorie Staub Ann Gordon Steinberg Emily Carpenter Sweany Laurie Weisman Swett Pam Swift Ethan Thomas Sara Tollerud Paul Toussaint Laurie Turner Jorge Vega & Liza Talusan Mark Vialva Frantz Vilmenay Megan Volpp Diana Walcott ’85 Ted Wells Dana Welshman-Studley ’85 Carly Westman Lyn Williams Kinnon Williamson Jerilyn Willig Jean Wilmerding Benjamin Wilsker ’07 Connie Yepez Adam Young

We extend a heartfelt thank you to the faculty and staff of The Park School for their generosity to the 2016 – 17 Coyne Fund. This year’s co-chairs engaged their colleagues to raise contributions in support of this endowed scholarship fund, and obtained an amazing 95% participation rate!

Jamie Byron Jorge Vega Jerilyn Willig

+ indicates deceased

Robin’s Nest crayon Gigi Boney, Pre-Kindergarten

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Parents of Alumni The Park School deeply appreciates the ongoing generosity of parents of alumni who support the School financially long after their children have graduated.

$93,772

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

14%

PARTICIPATIO N

We salute these parents for their unwavering loyalty and their generous contributions to the School.

Anonymous (2) Ramadani Abdul-Aziz Martins & Liga Aldins Esther Ames Oliver & Elizabeth Ames Bob & Carol Amick Jane & Paul Ayoub ’70 Douglas Bacon Louis & Ton Ton Bailey Juliet Baker Lisle & Sally Baker Betsy Ball Bhaskar & Taruna Banerjee Mel & Hope Barkan Nancy Bauer & Mark Richard Brian Beaver & Regina McCarthy George & Carrie Bell Julia Parker Bell Richard K. Bendetson Barbara & Rick Berenson ’73 John & Amy Smith Berylson ’68 Julie & Todd Boes William Braucher Bob Bray ’53 & Diana Bray Seth Briggs ’33 & Elizabeth Briggs Ellen Brown Sandra DeJong & Stuart Brown Tom & Judy Bullitt Dan & Holly Burnes Ken & Barbara Burnes Buzz Burrage ’57 & Helen Burrage Jerry & Ilene Carlson Kevin Carragee & Ellen McCrave Laura Carroll Chris & Carole Carter Jerry Cathey & Martha Gray Misen & Judy Chau Ming Hui Chen & Chris Walsh Gerry & Maria Church Jack Cinquegrana & Karen Siegel Jeff Coburn David & Kathy Coen Mary Collins Alison & James Connolly Greg Cope ’71 & Comfort Halsey Cope Michael & Kimberly Cox Rob & Meg Crawford David & Victoria Croll

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Charlie & Georgia Cunningham Sally Sullivan Curran ’66 Lloyd & Gene Dahmen Hilaire Dastinot Jon & Margot Davis Pauline H. Davis Stephen Davis Juliet Davison Philip & Deborah Dean George & Leigh Denny Kippy Dewey Will & Sandy Dick Catherine Dickey Larry & Beth Donnell-Kilmer Michael Drossos & Malva Gordett Carolyn Drucker Jerry & Margie Drucker William & Amy Drucker Brian & Katherine Duckworth Ziggy Durand & Shallyn Joseph Hilary Fabre Kim Faulkner ’45 & Nancy Faulkner Dori Mintzer and David Feingold Gill Fishman & Barbara Tyrrell Joan FitzGerald Cynthia & T. Corwin Fleming ’46 Jim & Kimberly Formisano Marilyn Ray Smith & Charles Freifeld Dozier & Sandy Gardner Richard & Shari Gelber Howie Goldstein & Mimi Ross Phillip & Julie Talmage Gordon ’95 Stephen & Judy Hale John & Annie Hall Joe Hammer Bob Hansel & Lisa Robinson

Don Kilburn & Anne Harvey Kilburn Jay & Bunny Healy Bunker & Dita Henderson Bayard & Julie Henry Peter Hermann & Tammy Hunter-Hermann Prentiss & Polly Higgins Susan Holden Randall & Tanya Holton Bob Thomas & Polly Hoppin ’74 Caroline+ & Fred Hoppin Peter Howe & Holly LeCraw Howe Jay Williams Howland ’57 & Louie Howland Roma & Cliff Hoyt Heidi Hughey Bob & Nancy Hurlbut Arline Isaacson Ruby Druss+ & Merle Jacobs Chris McKown & Abby Johnson Robbie & Cindy Johnson Peter Kadetsky & Ann Stark Warren & Harriet Kantrowitz Jerry & Marti Katz Jonathan Katz & Barbara Ito William & Vickery Hall Kehlenbeck ’67 Steve & Emily Kellogg Matt & Melanie Kelly Michael & Dona Kemp Andy & Emilie Kendall Whit & Ruthie Chute Knapp ’57 Kent Yucel & Tamsin Knox ’70 Josh Kraft ’82 & Carolyn Kraft Patti & Jonathan Kraft ’79 Anita Kunhardt Dean Laabs & Sabrina Learman Elizabeth Lamont Amy S. Lampert ’63

Forest Scene block print Priya Devavaram, Grade VIII

”Our fondest memories

are centered around moments at Park.

The Park School community is a special place that embraces all who enter. We truly appreciate the relationships we have formed over two decades of involvement with the school and the bond of those connection remain strong. We continue to support Park because we believe in this extraordinarily environment dedicated to the educational development of children.”

Michael & Kimberly Cox Parents of Michael Cox ’04, Nicholas Cox ’06, and Mikaela Cox ’13

Joyce & Eddie Lawrence ’56 Michael & Elisabeth Grote Lay ’49 Bernie Lebow & Barbara Guilfoile Mark & Donna Leventhal Sandra Y. Levine Susan Laster & Terry Little Melova Livens Jeanne Hilsinger Loewenguth Chris & Claudia Logan David & Alice Perera Lucey ’77 Karen Manning Kevin & Polly Maroni Carmine & Beth Martignetti J. Michael Maynard & Ilene R. Greenberg Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86 Annie McGreevy Colin McNay ’75 & Anne Craige McNay Sara Mead Peter & Katrina Mills Steve Mills & Janet Dracksdorf Dennis Slaughter & Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter Marshall & Phyllis Anina Thompson Moriarty Jeffrey & Ingrid-Marie Morris Dick & Claire Morse Robb Moss & Jean Kendall Bob & Alison Hoppin Murchison ’76 Terry & Nicole Murray Shapur & Amy Simonds Naimi ’49 Lyn Narins Scott Nathan & Laura DeBonis Denise Oates Megan & Robert O’Block Hans Oettgen & Jennifer Pline Geoffrey & Rhonda O’Hara Elizabeth Page & Marianne Stravinskas

Randy & Caren Parker Laury & Lizzie Perera Caren and Larry Peters Betsy & Ethan Platt Samuel Plimpton & Wendy Shattuck David & Nancy Poorvu Richard Rabins & Nancy Stern Margaret Raymond Daniel Reale James & Mary Reed James Remeika & Ann Clarke Jonathan Richardson ’76 & Dorothy Richardson Dick & Lucy Robb Joyce Rockwell-Michaelidis Will & Happy Rowe Bob & Nina Rubin Eric & Debra Ruder Michael & Nancy Sandman Charles & Anni Santry Steve Savage & Carolyn Stolov Natalie & Robert Schlundt Fred & Kathy Schultz Mark & Marie Schwartz Mary & Richard Scott Jennifer Gamson & Stephen Seckler Andrew & Susan Segar Leslie & Harvey Shaff Marjorie Shapiro Jon & Eugenie Shaw Roger & Pam Shepley Joy Silverstein Tom & Margo Smith Dmitriy Sonkin John Spicer Lionel & Vivian Spiro

Marjorie Staub Bob & Ann Stock Isabelle & Jim Storey ’45 Mark & Quita Sullivan Laurie Weisman Swett Ed and Suzanne Tarlov Ben & Kate Taylor Bob & Sandra Taylor Sandy & Christine Taylor David Taylor Arnaud & Kim Tesson Lanny Thorndike ’81 & Anne Thorndike Will Thorndike’79 & Genie Thorndike Ladd & Sigrid Thorne Edwin & Joan Tiffany Laurie Turner Daniel Tyszka & Gloria Sherman-Tyszka Allison Wade Monte & Anne Wallace W. Gardner Wallace ’74 Bruce & Maria Weinograd Kay Petersen & Woody Weiss Jim & Ginny Bridge Welch ’48 John Studley & Dana Welshman-Studley ’85 Denise Wernikoff Win & Lyn Williams Mark Williams & Meryl LeBoff Ira & Lynne Wilson Sue Witkie Richard & Peggy Lash Wolman ’60 Rod & Natalie Waters Wright Jin Yu & Yee Wong Quan Zhou & Xiaohua Zhang Jeffrey & Fancy Zilberfarb Judi Rotenberg & Ed Zuker

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Grandparents, Grandparents of Alumni, and Friends

$165,398

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

17%

PARTICIPATIO N

The Park School is grateful to these grandparents, grandparents of alumni, and friends who continue to contribute to the School in so many ways. The list below represents the individuals that have supported The Park School through annual giving.

Bob & Carol Amick Co-Chairs

Anonymous (3) Dan & Noreen Abati Barbara & Jim Allaire* Joel & Lisa Alvord Esther Ames Bob & Carol Amick Bruce & Virginia Avery* Mel & Hope Barkan Reverend & Mrs. Charles Barton* Donald & Naren Bauer Mirta Bekoe Claude & Ann Bonang Ken & Barbara Burnes Buzz Burrage ’57 & Helen Burrage Joan Chait Daniel & Young Chang Gerry & Maria Church Eleanor M. Clarkson Mary Catherine Clemente* Randi Cohen Ruth Conn Anne & John Connolly William & Prudence Crozier John & Diddy Cullinane Charlie & Georgia Cunningham Marvin Dennis Carmine & Barbara DiAdamo Dave & Mary Ellen Dinwoodey* James & Terry Dreyfus Jerry & Margie Drucker Jacqueline Hays Dryfoos Daniel & Patricia Dunn Bill & Pauline Egan Wallace & Cecily Feldman* Cynthia & T. Corwin Fleming ’46 Judith & Chris Ford* Marilyn Ray Smith & Charles Freifeld

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Linda & Michael Frieze Anne Taylor Frost Dozier & Sandy Gardner Tom & Mary Gilbane Elizabeth & John Gilmore Mr. & Mrs. Glassman Daniel & Dorothy Grady* Joe Grimberg* David & Mary Grumhaus John & Mary Haldi Charles & Kaaren Hale* John & Annie Hall Fred & Anne Henning Bayard & Julie Henry Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Hewitt, III* Andrea & Theron Hoffman Neal Hogan* Caroline+ & Fred Hoppin Peter & Marion Johannsen Young Kang John Krebs & Joyce Barrett Timothy & Karen Largay Joyce & Eddie Lawrence ’56 Gene & Stephanie Lawson* Yong & Grace Lee Mark & Donna Leventhal Mark & Becky Levin Weldon & Pat Lloyd Harold Lowry Richard & Nancy Lubin Jane MacElree Frank & Beverley MacInnis Tom & Karen Manfredi* Richard & Pauline Mayne Robert & Betsy McCoy Annie McGreevy Sara Mead

Suk Kih & Kyung-Hie Min Dick & Faith Morningstar* Shapur & Amy Simonds Naimi ’49 Judith Neilson William & Barbara Nordhaus Dr. & Mrs. Irwin Nudelman* Elizabeth & William+ Oates Stephanie & Robert Olmsted Robert Oppenheim John & Suzanne Paulson* Cassidy Payne* Laury & Lizzie Perera Evelyn Perkins Richard & Sandra Pinchera Patrick & Joanne Powell Michael Rabinovich & Helen Elperina Elio Raviola Mary Reed* Mr. & Mrs. John Reohr Gordon & Melinda Robinson Barrett Rollins Diana Rothman Jim & Carolyn Rubenstein* Dr. Henry & Linda Rubinstein Mr. & Mrs. Frank B. Ryan* Robert L. & Sharon G. Ryan* Mary & Richard Scott Robert Seaver Leslie & Harvey Shaff Frederick & Jane Sillman Joseph & Susan Silverman Tom & Margo Smith Justine Stevenson Galen Stone ’35 Isabelle & Jim Storey ’45 Maurice Ann Sullivan David Taylor Jonathan & Candace Wainwright Monte & Anne Wallace Robert & Binney Wells Maureen & Joseph Wilkinson Justin & Marilyn Winthrop Janice & Dennis Woods John & Susan Zuccotti Brooks & Linda Zug Judi Rotenberg & Ed Zuker * First time donor to Park — thank you! + indicates deceased

Corporation Giving Each year, the members of the Park School Corporation join current parents in the election of trustees and officers of the Corporation. In addition, Park asks its

$121,093

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

56%

PARTICI PATI ON

Corporation members to serve in their communities as special friends and ambassadors for the School. Park is deeply grateful for their ongoing commitment to and support of the School.

Martins & Liga Aldins Oliver and Elizabeth Ames Bob & Carol Amick Jane & Paul Ayoub ’70 Juliet Baker Lisle & Sally Baker Betsy Ball Bhaskar & Taruna Banerjee Mel & Hope Barkan Brian Beaver George & Carrie Bell John & Amy Smith Berylson ’68 Bob Bray ’53 Tom & Judy Bullitt Dan & Holly Burnes Ken & Barbara Burnes Buzz Burrage ’57 & Helen Burrage Jerry & Ilene Carlson Laura Carroll Carole P. Carter Jerel D. Cathey Gerry & Maria Church Kathy Coen Alison Connolly Greg Cope ’71 & Comfort Halsey Cope Michael and Kimberly Cox Robert & Margaret Crawford David & Victoria Croll Charlie & Georgia Cunningham Jon & Margot Davis Philip & Deborah Dean George P. Denny III Kippy Dewey Will & Sandy Dick Larry & Beth Donnell-Kilmer William & Amy Drucker Hilary Fabre Flo Farrell Nancy & Kim Faulkner ’45 Dori Mintzer and David Feingold Joan FitzGerald Barbara Flanagan Phil Gambone Dozier & Sandy Gardner Stephen & Judy Hale John & Annie Hall Jay & Bunny Healy Peter Hermann & Tammy Hunter-Hermann Prentiss & Polly Higgins

Betty Hillmon Bob Thomas & Polly Hoppin ’74 Fred & Caroline Hoppin+ Jay Williams Howland ’57 & Louie Howland Roma & Cliff Hoyt Bob & Nancy Hurlbut Arline Isaacson Chris McKown & Abby Johnson Jonathan Katz & Barbara Ito Steve & Emily Kellogg Emilie & Andrew Kendall Linda Knight Carolyn & Josh Kraft Anita Kunhardt Amy S. Lampert ’63 Eddie Lawrence ’56 David Lawton Bernie Lebow & Barbara Guilfoile Susan Laster & Terry Little David & Alice Perera Lucey ’77 Kevin & Polly Maroni Carmine & Beth Martignetti J. Michael Maynard & Ilene R. Greenberg Colin McNay ’75 & Anne Craige McNay Curt Miller Marianne Miller Marshall & Phyllis Anina Thompson Moriarty Bob & Alison Hoppin Murchison ’76 Terrence & Nicole Murray Shapur & Amy Simonds Naimi ’49 Dung Ngo Megan & Robert O’Block Elizabeth Page & Marianne Stravinskas Maureen Cleary Parsons David Perry Betsy Platt Samuel Plimpton & Wendy Shattuck Dick & Lucy Robb Eric & Debra Ruder Charles & Anni Santry Mary & Richard Scott Andrew & Susan Segar Pam Shepley Joy Silverstein Tom & Margo Smith Jan Spaulding John Spicer Sue Sprague Marjorie Staub

Flowers watercolor Joe Davies, Kindergarten

Ann Gordon Steinberg Laurie Weisman Swett Pam Swift Ben & Kate Taylor Will Thorndike ’79 & Genie Thorndike Edwin & Joan Tiffany Jim & Ginny Bridge Welch ’48 Dana Welshman-Studley ’85 Denise Wernikoff Win & Lyn Williams Ira & Lynne Wilson Rod & Natalie Waters Wright

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Foundations, Businesses, and Organizations The Park School gratefully acknowledges the following corporations, foundations, and organizations for their generous support this year.

The 1156 Foundation The Albright Foundation Trust Alvord Family Foundation American Online Giving Foundation, Inc Amy Smith & John G. Berylson Charitable Foundation The Ben and Kate Taylor Foundation The Bergen County’s United Way Agency The Boston Foundation The Cambridge Trust Company The Cedar Street Foundation The Charles and Kaaren Hale Family Foundation Combined Jewish Philanthropies The Croll Foundation David V.N. Taylor Foundation Davis Family Charitable Foundation

Fidelity Charitable The FPE Foundation The Frieze Family Foundation The Furtherance Fund George F. & Virginia B. Markham Foundation, Inc. Gifford Family Foundation Harweb Foundation The James and Virginia Welch Foundation James M. Collins Foundation Jane C. Macelree Family Foundation The Jewish Communal Fund The MacInnis Family Foundation MPD Higgins Foundation Northern Trust - Wood Family Foundation The Murray Family Charitable Foundation Reynolds Family Foundation

Chinese Lanterns block print Grace Lloyd, Grade VII

Rhonda S. Zinner Foundation Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation Richard and Claire W Morse Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund United Way of Rhode Island Vanguard Charitable The Vesper Foundation The W. and R. Bernheimer Family Foundation The Westport Fund

Matching Gifts The Park School has benefitted greatly from the generosity of our donors and their matching gift companies. We are thankful to the following donors and employers that have chosen to support the School by increasing the value of

$47,650

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

their gifts through matching gift programs.

American Express Kate Milliken Vaughey ’87

Goldman, Sachs & Company Preble Jaques & Jessica Shattuck

Black Rock Stephen & Joanie Amick Kelly ’83

Google Katherine Westgate ’89

Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation John & Amy Smith Berylson ’68 James Berylson ’97 Jonathan & Jennifer Berylson Block ’94 Elizabeth Berylson Katz ’01 & Robert B. Katz

Fidelity Foundation Ashley & Jamie Harmon

Highfields Capital Jon & Danya Dinwoodey

State Street Boston Corporation Nick & Sonya Good

General Electric Fund Daniel Tyszka & Gloria Sherman-Tyszka

Homesite Group, Inc. Leigh & Jennifer Kempinski

UnitedHealth Group Darshak & Elizabeth Sanghavi

Raytheon Corporation James Remeika & Ann Clarke

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Tribute and Memorial Gifts We thank all who chose to support Park School by making a gift to celebrate a person or special event, or to honor the memory of a friend or family member. Listed below are people in whose honor or memory special gifts were given this year.

In Honor of: Gillian duCharme Esme Goodman ’24 Hannah Goodman ’22 Rebecca Goodman ’20 Jim Hahn Cynthia Harmon Park School Librarians Alice Mamarchev Lucy Rubenstein ’25 William F. Satterthwaite Alisabat Yousef Onsy Yousef Self-portrait craypas Ainsley Bonang, Grade VIII

Gifts-In-Kind and Pro Bono Gifts The Park School is grateful for the generous gifts-inkind and pro bono professional services donated by our friends and families. Listed here are those individuals who have donated their professional services or tangible

In Memory of: Jessica Stone Baker ’89 Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Ellen T. Manahan Downes ’28 Caroline P. Hoppin Sara Beth Narins ’88 Marshall Neilson Cecily Reohr ’20 Susan Sargent Ruth M. Williams Nancy Wilson

The Sara Beth Narins ’88 Memorial Library Fund Established in loving memory by her mother, the Sara Beth Narins ’88 Memorial Library Fund has generously provided Park with a selection of books inspired by Sara’s passions, and a cozy new space in which to enjoy them. Sara had a lifelong love affair with reading and with books.

For Sara books were both personal and professional, and her enduring passion for fine literature, modern fiction, romance classics, and British novels led her from the Park library to positions at Random House and Simon & Schuster where she was able to aid a variety of authors in getting their works into the public realm.

Sara would hope that Park students would avail themselves of the cozy reading nook created in her memory in the library, enjoy the books her fund provides, and marvel as the world opens up to them through the simple turning of pages as it did for her on a daily basis. The range of books to be selected each year is inspired by her passions and all the titles left an indelible imprint on her life.

items to the School. Please note that this list does not include donations to Springfest, the Springfest silent auction or raffles throughout the year.

Bren Bataclan Jay Bordage Cynthia A. Harmon Jim & Beth Holzman Jerry & Marti Katz Brian Knez & Wioletta Zywina Anthony Marco Diana Yousef and Sebastian Martinek

Marshall & Phyllis Anina Thompson Moriarty Rick & Nancy Pinchera Steven Samuels & Ami Cipolla Bea Sanders Laurie Turner Alex Whisnant ’98 Laura Church Wilmerding ’84 Paul Wood

Gazelle craypas and paper Brandon Silva, Grade VI

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Restricted Gifts In addition to the Annual Fund, many friends of The Park School contribute to restricted funds that support specific programs and projects, including financial aid, faculty professional development and innovation. Some friends of the School contribute to endowed funds that provide a lasting financial foundation that will support Park in perpetuity. We thank the individuals listed below for extending their generosity to these important areas this year.

The Cecily Reohr Memorial Fund Pat & Jack Reohr

The Lighthouse Fund Mary Hope Dean ’62

Class of 1986 Financial Aid Fund Todd & Maureen Collins Beekley ’86

Nancy Hurlbut Visiting Authors Fund Bob & Nancy Hurlbut

Creative Arts at Park Marc Kaufman

Outdoor Learning Garden Fund Anonymous

Jessica Stone Baker ’89 Scholarship Fund Ricki & Alan Cohen Kal & Ellen Heller Myrna & Harold Levin Steve & Susan Peltzman Roger & Ellen Plotkin Andrea & Mark Podolsky Cindy Stark Reid & Joseph Reid Mike & MJ Stark

Park School Music Department Penny Rossano

Chinese Painting ink and paper Olivier Armand, Grade VII

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Ruth Williams Faculty Grand Fund Whit & Ruthie Chute Knapp ’57 Melissa Rubin ’88 The Rudginsky Fund Melissa Rubin ’88

Self-portrait watercolor Laila Miller, Pre-Kindergarten

The Sara Beth Narins ’88 Memorial Library Fund Marjorie Shapiro Unrestricted Capital Funds Mel & Hope Barkan The Furtherance Fund Ashley & Jamie Harmon

The Faulkner Society Established in 1998, The Faulkner Society honors James and Mary Faulkner, who in their quiet way ensured the future of Park by donating 24 acres of land for the benefit of Park School. The Faulkners’ generosity exemplifies the strong feelings of commitment that Park has inspired in its families for over a century.

We are pleased to recognize members of The Faulkner Society, who have remembered Park School in their estate plans, and made an extraordinary commitment to our school community for generations to come.

Jon E. Abrams Bob & Carol Amick Dorothy Arnold Dorothy G. Ball+ Tom & Judy Bullitt Paul Carroll J. William Codinha & Carolyn Thayer Ross David & Victoria Croll Charlie & Georgia Cunningham Mary Hope Dean ’62 George P. Denny III Florence A. Farrell Nancy W. Faulkner Tim & Corinne Ferguson David Fubini & Bertha Rivera

Dozier & Sandy Gardner John & K.C. Halpern Peter Hermann & Tammy Hunter-Hermann Robert S. Hurlbut, Jr. Jerrold I. Katz Amy S. Lampert ’63 Amy & Jay Livens, Jr. ’86 Kevin & Polly Maroni Carmine & Beth Martignetti J. Michael Maynard & Ilene Greenberg Joseph C. McNay George & Marti Naddaff Beth Pfeiffer Rosamond Wright Reiber ’58 Jon F. & Bonnie Rotenberg

African Mask fired clay Alex Strand, Grade VI

Linda S. Samuels Fred & Caroline Schernecker Tiina Bougas Smith ’76 Warren C. Smith Meli Solomon ’75 Steven Walske Steve Sayre & Nancy Watters Amy Wheeler ’81 Don & Caroline Cunningham Young ’74

+ indicates deceased

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Half-face Drawing pencil Emma Mangiat, Grade VIII

Grecian Pitcher paper and marker Tuck Gilbane, Grade IV

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Endowment Funds Summary $50,860,715

$6,454,407

EN D OW M EN T VA LU E

D ESIG NATED FUNDS FOR FIN A N C IA L AI D

FI NA N C I AL AI D FU N D S Class of 1974 Financial Aid Fund (2009) $23,735 Created on the occasion of the class’s 35th Reunion, this fund provides financial aid to a student entering Park in the sixth or seventh grade, and continues to support this student throughout his or her years at Park.

Class of 1986 Financial Aid Fund (2006) $426,423 Created in 2006 by 21 members of the Class of 1986 in honor of their 20th Reunion, this fund provides financial aid to a student entering Park in the sixth or seventh grade, and continues to support this student throughout his or her years at Park.

Financial Aid Fund (1985) $2,671,559 Since its inception during the Centennial Campaign, this fund has grown with additional gifts in support of the School’s financial aid budget.

The Jessica Stone Baker ’89 Scholarship Fund (2015) $40,152 Established in loving memory of Jessica Stone Baker ’89 by her family and friends as a testament to Jessica’s bold and loving spirit.

This fund annually supports a girl from an underrepresented population at The Park School, where Jessica enjoyed eight happy years. The spirit of the fund is to enable the Park community to share and learn in understanding and in experience through access to a population diverse in race, religion, ethnicity, and culture.

$4,230,460 DES I GNAT ED FUNDS FOR FACULT Y S ALARI ES AND PROFES S I ONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lighthouse Fund for Financial Aid (1998) $121,384 Established by an alumna in loving memory of Philip ’30 and Hope Sweetser Dean ’32, who met at Park in Grade I, to provide the Dorothy G. Ball and Lucie O. Nagel Lower School grant that will support a recipient family throughout their child’s years at Park.

Marshall B. Coyne Scholarship Fund (1977) $1,062,862 Established by gifts from the generous grandfather of Ben Lloyd ’78, Amy Lloyd McCarthy ’86, Nicholas Lloyd ’90, and Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93, and augmented annually by contributions from current and past Park faculty and staff.

Parents’ Association Financial Aid Endowment Fund (1990) $503,268 Established and generously funded by the Parents’ Association from proceeds of their fundraising events.

Pierofranco Paci Memorial Scholarship Fund (1989) $453,624 Given in memory of her husband and their father by former parent and Parents’ Association president Mary Revelle Paci, and Christopher ’74, Stefano ’77, and Myra Paci ’80.

Also supported by other friends.

Robert S. Hurlbut, Jr. Centennial Fund (1988) $231,306 Established by three Park families in honor of former headmaster Bob Hurlbut, to support Upper School scholarships.

The Rudginsky Fund (1979) $13,296 Set up by the late Harold and Toby Rudginsky, former chair of the Tutoring Department, in memory of Toby’s sister, and augmented by their friends in honor of Toby’s retirement.

Supports tutoring for financial aid students.

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$40,175,848 OT HER DES I GNAT ED FU ND S

Seybolt Family Fund (1987) $101,449 Established by the late George C. Seybolt, former parent and trustee, his late wife Diddy, and their children, Nina ’67 and Calvert “Ace” ’72, to provide income for financial aid.

Swett Family Tutoring Fund (1984) $87,061 Established by former parent Bradford Swett, father of Jenny Swett Chrisman ’80, Brad ’82, and Hannah Swett ’84, to help fund academic support services for Park students.

The Wanda M. Holland Greene Financial Aid Fund (2008) $718,288 Established by trustees, parents, alumni, parents of alumni, faculty/staff, and friends to honor Wanda M. Holland Greene: Upper School Division Head (1997 – 2003), Acting Head of School (2003 – 2004), and Assistant Head for Program and Professional Development (2004 – 2008).

Purple Dog papier-mâché Jenny Jin, Grade V

FACU LT Y FU N D S Charles C. Cunningham, Jr. Headmaster’s Discretionary Fund (1985) $46,705 A fund established by a former chairman of the Board and his wife, Georgia Jenckes Cunningham, to provide funds for special, unexpected needs.

Croll Fund for Faculty Professional Development (2003) $1,727,746 A fund established by David and Victoria Croll to support Park teachers’ pursuit of professional development.

Endowment Fund for Faculty Compensation (James A. Lowell Fund) (1985) $1,236,895 Created during the Centennial Campaign to support faculty salaries and benefits.

The fund includes the bequest of former headmaster James A. “Domie” Lowell and many gifts received during The Park School Pursuit.

Horizon Fund (1986) $51,506 Established by Ellen “Nel” P. Stoia, former parent and trustee, to provide faculty members special opportunities for personal enrichment, travel, and professional development.

Hurlbut Visiting Fellows Fund (1993) $269,011 Established by parents, former parents, faculty, staff, and friends to honor Robert S. Hurlbut, Jr., headmaster emeritus, for his 24 years at Park, 1969 – 93. The fund supports programs for faculty professional development and revitalization, including inviting distinguished educators to School from time to time.

Lower School Developmental Reading Fund (1987) $89,508 Established by a family foundation to help underwrite salaries of Park’s developmental reading teacher and the head of the Academic Support Services Department.

The Lucy L. Robb Professional Development Fund (2002) $28,779 Established by the Robb family in recognition of Lucy Robb, who taught at Park from 1973 to 2002, this fund supports faculty professional development opportunities, especially at local cultural institutions, museums, historical sites, and libraries.

The Martignetti Family Fund (2004) $88,665 Created during The Park School Pursuit by former trustee and parents Carmine and Beth Martignetti, this fund supports the professional development of Park’s coaches.

Richard F. Mott II Fund (1982) $60,004 In memory of former treasurer Peter Mott, this fund provides income to support special projects and conferences for the Business Office.

Professional Development Fund (2003) $274,993 Created during The Park School Pursuit to facilitate professional development by Park’s faculty.

Ruth Williams Faculty Grant Fund (1991) $40,000 Established by colleagues, grateful parents, and alumni to honor a Grade V teacher who retired after 29 years of teaching at Park.

Teaching Internship Endowment Fund (1997) $316,648 A fund established by former parent Barbara Fish Lee during the Campaign for Park to support Park’s Teaching Apprentice Program and attract future leaders to education.

O THE R E N D OWME NT FUND S 50th Reunion Fund (2003) $14,043 Established by members of the Class of 1953, this fund is supported by special gifts to honor the 50th Reunion Class.

Csaba Serdy ’86 Memorial Fund (1986) $10,114 Established in memory of Csaba Serdy ’86, a student at Park from 1975 – 85.

General Endowment $30,936,139 Graduation Awards $5,971 The Lawrence Library Fund (1990) $294,483 Given in memory of Martina Brandegee Lawrence and James Lawrence by James Lawrence III ’51, Lee Lawrence Albright ’54, Edward P. Lawrence ’56, and Robert P. Lawrence ’65 and restricted to support the work of Park’s library.

In 1996, augmented by a bequest from James Lawrence.

Grecian Krater papier-mâché Jack Brennan, Grade IV

The Leighton Family Mathematics Fund (2009) $374,939 Established during Foundations for the Future by Tom and Bonnie Leighton, parents of Alex ’12 and Rachel ’14, this fund supports mathematics and math-related programs at Park.

The Max Warburg ’94 Memorial Fund (1991) $35,550 Established by family and friends in memory of Max Warburg ’94, a Park student from Nursery to Grade VI, to support purchases for the Park School library and its programs.

Nancy Hurlbut Visiting Authors’ Fund (1986) $75,950 In honor of Nancy Gannett Hurlbut, librarian 1974 – 80, 1981 – 83, to support day-long visits of authors, poets, and book illustrators to The Park School library every year.

The Peter H. O. Claudy Family Fund (2007) $32,893 Established in loving memory of her husband and their father by Patricia Claudy, and Henry ’14 and India Claudy ’17, in honor of Peter’s love of learning and passion for reading, this fund supports the acquisition of new books for Park School’s library.

The Service Learning Fund (1986) $459,242 Formerly known as The Helping Hand Fund, the fund was renamed in 2004 to support Park’s commitment to service learning.

Park 21 (2011) $7,963,524 Created to support the 2011 strategic plan designed to focus the School on 21st century learning; ignite innovation in math, science, and technology; promote collaboration and increase professional development for faculty; and increase multiculturalism, service learning and global education.

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2017 Alumni Achievement Award: Sarah Conway ’97 Park is proud to honor environmentalist Sarah Conway ’97 as the 2017 recipient of the Park Alumni Achievement Award.

FROM SPRING 2013 through fall 2016, Sarah Conway worked for the U.S. Department of State and served as Lead Climate Finance Negotiator on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Sarah led the ten-person State and Treasury Climate Finance team at the 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris in December 2015, helping to secure an ambitious, durable, and inclusive climate agreement. Her work in this role also included supporting U.S. government involvement on the Green Climate Fund Board, managing the U.S.Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative

(an early-stage project development grant-making facility), and leading the establishment of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, a public-private partnership that aims to identify, stresstest, and promote the next generation of climate finance instruments to catalyze private investment in low-emission, climate-resilient development—as well as managing other programs. Prior to working at the Department of State, Sarah spent nearly five years living in Indonesia and working on a range of marine and terrestrial conservation finance projects throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Sarah and her sister Megan Conway ’01 both attended Park from Nursery through Grade IX, while their father, Dean Conway, was a fixture of the faculty for seventeen years. After Park, Sarah went on to Phillips Academy, Andover, Claremont McKenna College, and the London School of Economics & Political Science, where she was the joint winner of the MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change Best Overall Performance Prize in November 2012.

We were pleased to host Sarah at Park on Wednesday, October 4th to receive the award!

2017 Young Alumni Achievement Award: Addison Godine ’04 Park’s Alumni Committee is pleased to announce a new Young Alumni Achievement Award to honor recent alumni who have graduated within the past 15 years. We are proud to honor Addison Godine ’04 as the inaugural recipient of this award!

ADDISON GODINE founded livelight in 2016 with the goal of lowering the cost of housing for Boston city residents, while increasing energyefficiency, and other sustainability metrics. At the same time, his proposal to build a model apartment unit was selected by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s Housing Innovation Lab to be the centerpiece of a traveling exhibition on compact living called the “Compact Living Roadshow.”

Called the “uhü,” for urban housing unit, the apartment unit has 385 square feet of interior floor space and was built on wheels so it could travel around the city. The uhü started its journey at Boston City Hall, where it stayed for a month, and then traveled to five different Boston neighborhoods where housing is a major issue.

The city’s goal was to start a conversation about the future of housing in these neighborhoods,

and the uhü provided a space and context for those conversations. The project was part of the Mayor’s initiative to build 53,000 new housing units in Boston by 2030, and attracted over 4,000 visitors over five months. Addison now works as director of construction at Getaway, a hospitality startup based in Brooklyn, New York, that builds tiny houses, places them in nature, and rents them by the night.

Addison attended Park from Grade IV through VIII, along with his sister, Maddy Godine ’06. After Park, Addison went to Phillips Academy Andover and then received his BA in architectural studies from Middlebury College in 2012.

We look forward to welcoming Addison back to Park on Friday, February 2, 2018 to receive the award.

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