Alumni News Alumni Weekend 2013
Park Tudor welcomed more than 300
alumni to campus during Alumni Weekend activities on April 26 and 27. Classmates and friends gathered at Woodstock Club on the evening of Friday, April 26 to honor Kay Ryan Booth ’68 as Park Tudor’s 2013 Distinguished Alumna. “Kay’s approach to life, to her causes, to her work, to her family, to everything she does is marked by great passion, by unshakable loyalty and by a work ethic that has always set her apart form her peers,” said Kay’s cousin Ann Bolin when introducing her at the Distinguished Alumni dinner. Booth has had a successful career on Wall Street since graduating from Tudor Hall and earning her fine arts degree from Indiana University in 1972. She was managing director and vice chairman of Global Research at J.P. Morgan, and most recently has been actively involved in the private equity markets, working with midto small-market companies to provide capital and resources.
Booth was honored by the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women with its 2006 Women of Power and Influence award, among a number of other honors. She is a fervent supporter of Indiana University, serving as trustee of the IU Foundation and as vice chair of the Foundation’s Investment Committee. She is a founding member and chair of the Women’s Philanthropy Council at IU and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, Kay received IU’s highest alumni award, the Distinguished Alumni Service Award. In 2010, the College of Arts and Sciences named her a recipient of the Dean’s Order of Merit, which recognizes individuals who have championed the College in distinct and significant ways. After accepting the award from Head of School Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Booth said: “I think what struck me when thinking about tonight was how extraordinarily my Tudor Hall education prepared me for my future. The education I received fortified
me with all the tools to take the risks and to successfully meet the challenges of continuous change. Tudor Hall’s focus on academic excellence gave me a foundation to contribute, to be a part of the change, and the flexibility to adapt.” She added, “We have lifelong friendships that began right here. Better than that, we can honestly claim to be better people from our experience at Tudor. Leadership and teamwork are the cornerstones of Park Tudor. We may have been fresh-faced kids with concrete for brains when we started, but Tudor Hall shaped who we are, and we are better for it.”
In Memory of Joe Wright ’88
In 2012, members of the Class of 1988
and Park Tudor School purchased their classmate Joe Wright’s Yamaha grand piano to enable his legacy of music to live on at Park Tudor. During Alumni Weekend, pianist Dr. Marianne Williams Tobias ’58 performed a recital centered on the theme of “life” for the dedicatory event. Dr. Tobias is a graduate of Harvard University, Longy School of Music and the University of Minnesota, where she earned a double D.M.A. in piano performance and historical musicology. She is also a public radio commentator, lecturer and writer. Joe Wright passed away in 2009. His mother, retired Park Tudor English teacher Jan Wright, attended the concert and his brother, John Wright ’83, performed on Joe’s piano.
Dr. Marianne Williams Tobias ’58 introduces the pieces she performed at the Joe Wright piano dedication recital on April 27. Kay Ryan Booth ’68 with her sons Dillon (standing) and Casey (seated) at the Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner at Woodstock Club on April 26.