The Bridge 2012-13

THE BRIDGE A P U B L I C AT I O N O F P H O E N I X C O U N T R Y D AY S C H O O L

PCDS prepares promising students to become responsible leaders and lifelong learners through an education that emphasizes intellectual engagement, independence, collaboration, creativity, and integrity.

THE BRIDGE Phoenix Country Day School, Fall 2012 Andrew Rodin Headmaster James Calleroz White Assistant Head of School for Institutional Advancement Gina Bridgeman Editor/Writer Katie Zink Design Kelsey Neal Class Notes Judy McAdams & Carelie Bisinger Donor Record Largo Photography Feature Photography & Special Events Other photography: Nancy Crase, Duke Photography, Scott Minard ’13, Desiree Ong, Gabi Ragsdale, Philip Rody ’13, Kimberly Saur, John Schupbach ’06, Teeraya Tomlin, Katie Zink, and PCDS student, faculty, alumni, and parent contributors.

We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Please email The Bridge at communications@ pcds.org.

© 2012 Phoenix Country Day School.

All rights reserved.

Cover: Upper School students Staley Lane, Edgar Ocampo, Jess Cohen, Bernardo Fonseca, and Mariclare Rethore with Headmaster Andrew Rodin.

Contents

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FEATURES 4

What I Liked About Graduation 2012 Lance Coon, English Department Chair & Upper School English teacher

10 Portrait of a Graduate

Introduction by Andrew Rodin, Headmaster

12 20 Questions with Schweik

Gina Bridgeman, Communications Director

16 Speech! Speech!

Rachel Chanen ’11

24 Claudia

Jazmin Nido ’13

32 Hall of Famers

Gina Bridgeman, Communications Director

44 Transformed

John Schupbach ’06, 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year

48 Where Are They Now?

DEPARTMENTS 2

Letter from the Headmaster

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Graduation 2012

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Upper School Year in Photos

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Athletic News

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Lower School Year in Photos

20

Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day

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Academic News

26

Make a Difference Day

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Yellott Grants

30

Middle School Year in Photos

36

Arts News

38

Beyond the Classroom

40

Outstanding Alumni of the Year

50

Class Notes

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Annual Report on Giving

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MESSAGE FROM THE HEADMASTER

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ANDREW RODIN, Headmaster

It’s with great joy that I introduce you— the community of Phoenix Country Day School—to The Bridge, our new magazine.

The thought behind a magazine at PCDS is three-fold: 1. It’s important that our community hear about all the incredible things that are taking place here on campus.

2. It’s time to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of nearly a half-century of graduates.

3. This is the perfect opportunity to connect (or reconnect) our graduates and our entire community around their common affection for this wonder ful school.

Trustees

BOARD OF

Larry Clemmensen President

Morrie Aaron Vice President, Finance & Investments, Treasurer Samuel Garvin Vice President, Advancement Michelle Hosmar Vice President, Facilities Planning Jahm Najafi Vice-President, Strategic Planning Andrew Rodin Headmaster Augustine Gomez ’99 Alumni Association Susan Greenfield P.A President Nicholas Firestone Adam Goodman Grant Hill Larraine Ho Kwang-Wu Kim Wendy Selig-Prieb Chida Tse Charlene Whitfill Advisory Trustees Beverly Ax Susan Bansak Daniel Donahoe Bennett Dorrance Susan Garrity Herbert Louis Donald Loback Nan Miller Ellie Nolan

When we first started talking about a new publication, I told the Advancement Office that I was most excited about the Class Notes. I know that I’m personally drawn immediately to the back pages of the magazines I receive from my own alma maters, curious to see pictures and read updates about my friends from way back when. I’m proud of the notes we’ve collected for this first issue, but please see this as my request to you, our alumni, to contact our alumni office to let us know how you’ve been; I promise that your classmates will appreciate that you reached out.

Anxious might be a better word to describe how we felt about choosing a title for this publication. Because the name The Bridge seems so fitting, it’s hard to believe

how much we struggled with the many possibilities. We didn’t want it to be bland, like The Magazine, and we certainly didn’t want it to be too esoteric. (I admit that I offered The Talon as a possibility; it seemed like a good idea at the time!)

For all of us, the bridge is so much more than a concrete and metal structure spanning our east and west campuses. Built in 1990-91, the bridge was dedicated in memoriam to Ann Hays Daley, mother of four PCDS graduates and a tireless volunteer for the School, and was the crown jewel of a joint project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that helped protect the School against dangerous floods. In a fortuitous turn, payment from the Corps for an easement on the property to build a diversion

Frederick Pakis W. Lee Pierson Bernard Rethore Nicholas Sakellariadis Jonah Shacknai Shoshana Tancer Garth Wieger Gay Wray

channel enabled the School to refill its coffers at a critical moment in our history.

As a metaphor, the bridge speaks to each student’s coming of age—their journey from Lower and Middle Schools to the Upper School. For our alumni, we hope it continues to transport them back to a time in their lives that brings fond memories.

Bridges are all about connections, and it’s our goal to help all of you feel connected to Phoenix Country Day. So I hope you will find the time to sit back and enjoy this publication. Share it with your family. Show it off to friends and neighbors. And take pride in knowing that you continue to play a vital role in the connections our students make every day here at PCDS.

Graduation 2012 WHAT I LIKED

ABOUT

“When Nicole’s cap finally fell off during her speech, as she had predicted it would, Headmaster Andy Rodin didn’t miss a beat, retrieving it for her while she finished her speech.”

By Lance Coon, English Department Chair and Upper School English teacher The class of 2012 made it official on Thursday evening, May 31. This was my 30th PCDS graduation—there have been 48 total—and these were my favorite moments:

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THE AISLE: I enjoy the procession with my colleagues, the aisle lined with parents, grandparents, siblings, and former students. I like to make eye contact with them, wave, and grin.

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THE SPEECHES: I particularly enjoyed this year’s speeches. Jack Phillips’s thoughts on the balance and tension between individuality and community represent both our greatest strength and our ongoing challenge. Rachel Rummel wittily asked for the unknown powers-thatbe to grant her classmates the wisdom and strength to face all the challenges of the future. And Nicole Bassoff summarized the high school experience of her class with some aptly chosen numbers.

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THE REHEARSAL: Every year we walk through the ceremony with the seniors the morning of commencement. My favorite part is practicing standing up in unison, row by row, to line up for crossing the stage.

There is always one who misses a beat, and by the end of the practice, the seniors are competing to be the row that gets it right the first time.

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THE WAIT: After their class portrait, the seniors waited in the Lower School library for the processional to begin. I went with them, partly for the air-conditioning, but mostly to enjoy the easy banter, the photo ops, and the sense of anticipation.

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THE ASSIST: When Nicole’s cap finally fell off during her speech, as she had predicted it would, Headmaster Andy Rodin didn’t miss a beat, retrieving it for her while she finished her speech.

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THE PROCESSIONAL: Even though not all the seniors and the faculty know each other, I love the shaking of hands, the exchanging of hugs, the heartfelt congratulations, and the smiles.

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THE TASSELS: I always like to watch how 58 accomplished teenagers, as they come down from the stage, manage to complicate the business of moving their tassel from one side to another, stepping into the photog-

rapher’s light, holding their diplomas right-side up, and smiling for the camera. It sounds simple, but it definitely isn’t.

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THE CAPS: Apparently, the graduates couldn’t remember the exact cue to shout and throw their caps back over their heads. So the caps seemed to go in approximate thirds, one batch every time Mr. Phillips said “the class of 2012.”

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THE ROBES: After 90 minutes in fulllength, black polyester robes, in near-record heat, returning the robes to their boxes in the Lower School workroom was a welcome relief. On the way, our line briefly crossed that of the new graduates returning to the library for the same purpose, so there was a brief final flurry of high fives and congratulations.

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THE DRIVE HOME: In the car afterward, a mixture of relief at the end of a long year, pride in all the work done by everyone to get us all there, and a tinge of sadness, knowing that I will miss this remarkable group of young people.

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DESTINATIONS 2012

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Amy Aube

Devra Hock

Rachel Rummel

Case Western Reserve University

Montana State University, Bozeman

Northeastern University

James Barranco

Samantha Kaplan

Alec Schnall

Franklin and Marshall College

University of Colorado, Boulder

Loyola Marymount University

Nicole Bassoff

Nimra Khan

Claire Schollaert

Harvard University

Georgetown University

Bowdoin College

Maxwell Baum

Rohit Kothur

Joseph Schornak

Syracuse University

University of Pennsylvania

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Jehan Bista

Danielle Lee

Jessica Segal

University of Southern California

Harvard University

Bates College

Nicole Burke

Megan Lehrer

Tianna Sheih

New York University

George Washington Univ., Honors College

Scripps College

Lauren Chanen

Ryan Levinthal

Eric Showers

Brown University

ASU, Barrett Honors College

Stanford University

Lindsay Coda

Sawyer Lincoln

Eden Shuster

Carnegie Mellon University

Whitman College

ASU, Barrett Honors College

Alessandra Dagirmanjian

Moises Lopez

Avery Silverman

Boston College

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Duke University

Natalie Davenport

Benjamin Mattinson

Zoe Simon

Kalamazoo College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Jeffrey Dempsey

Brandon Mayhew

J. Barrett Stockslager

New York University

University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Southern Methodist University

Aida Duarte

Frea Mehta

Leah Stofko

Barnard College

ASU, Barrett Honors College

University of Southern California

Clare Fuller

Nicholas Meyer

Catherine Swett

Emerson College

Amherst College

Amherst College

Alexander Garner

Justin Morgan

Sierra Treiman

Southern Methodist University

DePaul University

Occidental College

Elliot Goldberg

Leah Motzkin

Rachel Underhill

Drexel University

Yale University

Boston University

Katharine Gonzales

Nathaniel Nearhood

Harrison VanDolah

Southern Methodist University

Colorado College

St. Olaf College

Norma Gutierrez

Reid Price

Mikaela Verhein

St. Mary’s University of San Antonio

Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Kevin Heath

Kylie Prusak

Konstantin Von Beringe

Harvey Mudd College

University of Southern California

ASU, Barrett Honors College

Allyn Hess

Alexa Roeper

Southern Utah University

Occidental College

James Hobin

Christine Rohacz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Santa Clara University

06 | Class of 2012 Destinations

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AWARDS 2012

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Art Department Award Pauline Shongov Rhode Island School of Design Award Reid Price Choral Award Devra Hock Band Award Justin Morgan Reid Price Strings Award Harrison VanDolah English Award Leah Motzkin English Award for Composition Clare Fuller History Award Eric Showers Salo Baron Prize Natalie Davenport Mathematics Award Nicole Bassoff Rensselaer Medal Madeline Stern Life Science Award Nicole Bassoff Alexa Roeper Devra Hock

Latin Award

Margaret Madden Speech Prize

Angelica Sisson

Rachel Rummel

Benjamin Mattinson Avery Silverman

Mandarin Award

Senior Prize

Whitney Fahnbulleh

Outstanding Science Achievement

Robert Hendrickson Community Service Award

Nimra Khan

Benjamin Mattinson Leah Motzkin Eric Showers

Lindsay Coda

Bausch & Lomb Award

Eagle Awards

Jacob Feder

Zoe Simon

Katherine Gonzales Nathaniel Nearhood

Geoffrey D. Campbell Award

Physical Science Award

Heritage Language Award

Galen Brewster Leadership Prize

Konstantin von Beringe

Paulina Moreno

Athletic Department Prize

Spanish Award

Leah Stofko Nicole Bassoff

Victor D. Feeney Prize

Most Outstanding Athlete Awards

Faculty Prize

Nicholas Meyer Danielle Lee

Nicole Bassoff

Jordan Cohen French Award Nicole Burke

08 | Upper School Award Recipients

Nicholas Meyer

Thirteen PCDS seniors (representing 22 percent of the class) were named Finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. Of those, 11 received National Merit Scholarships. The program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships for high school students.

More than 1.5 million students nationwide took the qualifying test, the 2010 Preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test,

which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Each year, those scoring highest in each state are named Semifinalists. To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

Nicole Bassoff Jehan Bista Lauren Chanen Kevin Heath James Hobin Rohit Kothur Benjamin Mattinson Leah Motzkin Alexa Roeper Rachel Rummel Joseph Schornak Eric Showers Avery Silverman

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Graduate PORTRAIT

OF A

At our opening faculty meetings this year, we dedicated considerable time to talking about the most fundamental piece of our educational puzzle: our students—both current and former. While I recognize that there’s nothing revolutionary about the fact that a school was talking about its students, the conversation was particularly illuminating.

Our Upper Division has recently spearheaded an all-school effort to unearth just exactly what it is that sets a PCDS student apart.

Over the course of the last 12 months, we have conducted interviews with every exiting senior and scores of alums. We have read relevant books and articles by acclaimed authors and experts in the field, including Tony Wagner, Thomas Sergiovanni, Joe Murphy, Ted Sizer, Robert Marzano, James Popham, Lawrence Summers, Malcolm Gladwell, and even John Irving. We have spoken at length to representatives from dozens of colleges and universities. And we have dug deep with our own faculty and staff. Below is what we came up with. We call it our “Portrait of a Graduate,” and I hope it rings true for you. -- Andrew Rodin, Headmaster

I AM A GRADUATE OF PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. I am an individual.

Where I come from, where I am headed, and the path I have chosen make me unique. I know things other people don’t know, and I have the courage to ask questions others haven’t asked. I am proud of the things that make me different from others. I give myself permission to chase the things that challenge my mind and move my heart.

I am part of a whole.

I am an individual, but I am not alone.

I am curious about others. I acknowledge that my experience is valid but that it does not tell me everything I need to know about the world. I seek out opportunities to understand the

world outside of my experience. I am careful and compassionate, empathetic and effective in my communication, in speaking and listening. I am not just tolerant of difference, I believe the diversity of human experience is its strength.

I know how to think.

I am knowledgeable, literate, and conversant in many subjects. I am proud of the things I know, but I joyfully acknowledge that there is much I don’t know. I am not ashamed of the limitations of my knowledge, because I love learning. I use what I know to learn what I don’t know. I seek to apply and practice concepts and skills in new and orig-

inal ways, and I am not afraid of failure.

I ask questions. I look for patterns and connections among disciplines. Having learned what I’ve learned, I know that I can learn.

I am inclined to action.

I solve problems with courage, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and dedication. I have made a difference in my community and I will continue to make a difference in the communities I join. I will use my education and my individuality to benefit someone other than myself. Because I know myself and I am curious about my world, I will identify an impact only I can make, and I will make it.

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UPPER SCHOOL YEAR IN PHOTOS

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Schweik 20 Questions with

by Gina Bridgeman, PCDS Communications Director

Paul Schweikher is into his 39th year at PCDS. He stands as close to the end of the graduation handshake line as a faculty member can get. Words like legend and icon come easily to mind. But how about chef? Father? Or bass guitarist? We played 20 questions with Schweik and learned a few things we bet you never knew.

What was your first job at PCDS? I taught Comparative Political & Economic Systems to freshmen and U.S. History to juniors. I was chair of the history department—which consisted of two people.

What do you remember about your first day on the job?

It was August 1974. I remember driving into the dirt parking lot, just a piece of desert, situated about where my office is now.

What words describe what PCDS was like in the 1970s?

Laid-back, a desert oasis. There were coyotes in the wash! Really, it was quaint, like a family. The Upper School had only 79 students.

Do you have a favorite decade at PCDS? No, not really. I grew up with the School and each decade brought all kinds of stories and its own charm and contributions to my growth and the School’s.

How did you become the college counselor?

It was sometime in 1976. I had done a little of that in my previous job and I was very interested in it, so I asked [Headmaster] Joel Monell if I could be Director of College Counseling.

I was still teaching and department chair. There weren’t that many of us here then.

What part of your job do you like best?

I love teasing out the stories kids have to tell about themselves as an introduction to the process. Helping them unlock that story and helping them tell it. And I love advocating on behalf of students.

What do you like least?

In this college counseling/college admission world today, I'm frustrated by an answer I most often give and one I most often receive: "It depends...”

There are few yeses and nos in the college admission process and many shades of gray.

What were your SAT scores? Just kidding--nobody cares about SAT scores once you’re in college.

If they did I wouldn’t be sitting here talking with you!

What words of advice would you give your 18-year-old self, applying to college?

Relax. Trust your heart, your intuition.

It’s cliché, but after hundreds of conversations in my office encouraging young persons, it’s the best advice I can give.

What’s a good day in your college counseling world?

When I know I’ve helped a kid dig out his or her story and figure out how to articulate it. A good day is doing more listening to students than talking.

Let’s talk about the car-what year is it?

1967—the best year of all. Any VW aficionado or mechanic will tell you that.

But I bought it in ’81.

Will you ever get a new car?

Absolutely not. Are you kidding? It will survive me.

If you had never become a teacher, what would you be doing?

Reading…maybe I’d have put together a good, old-school bookstore. A comfortable place to sit and read, occasional conversation. Or I would have been a VISTA volunteer. I enjoy doing good for someone else.

How do you feel about your daughter [Claire Tyra] teaching at PCDS? It’s great! She was a student here and now she’s come back [in pre-k]. It’s a wonderful opportunity.

Any words of advice for her?

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young said it best: Teach your children well.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I’m a voracious reader. And a voracious watcher of college and pro sports on TV. I’d love to have season tickets for everything—pro baseball, basketball, football, and everything at ASU as well.

You went to Cornell. How many applications did you complete?

Three.

What is your secret wish?

To be a simple but great chef. And to play bass guitar in a folk-rock band.

Which schools and why?

Yale—it was dad’s alma mater. Columbia—no idea why. Cornell—no idea— no, wait. It was because the Yale admissions interviewer said, “Perhaps you might consider Penn or Cornell if you’re serious about the Ivy League.”

What is one of your best PCDS memories?

I have a lot of them around softball— I’ve been a varsity softball coach for 36 of my 39 years here. In 1987, my team won the state championship, the School’s first AIA championship. It was definitely one of my proudest moments.

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ATHLETIC NEWS

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VARSITY BASKETBALL WINS FIRST-EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP For the first time in the 50-year history of PCDS, the boys’ varsity basketball team won the state championship. The Eagles captured the Division IV crown with a 49-29 victory over the Arizona Lutheran Coyotes. Team co-captain AJ Hess ’12 was named Small Schools Player of the Year by The Arizona Republic. AJ also was named to the 2011-12 All-Arizona Boys Basketball team, one of only five players chosen statewide.

During the season, AJ averaged 19.5 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. He became the School’s all-time leading scorer with more than 1,800 career points. Co-captain Nate Nearhood ’12 became the 2nd all-time scorer with 1,300 career points. Other player honors from The Arizona Republic included Division IV First Team for both AJ and Nate, and Honorable Mention to Nic Meyer ’12 and Alex Sylvester.

Also honored by The Arizona Republic was varsity coach Shane Lewis, named Small Schools Coach of the Year. Coach Lewis led the team to a 31-5 record and the Division IV state championship in his third season. He also was awarded Division IV Coach of the Year by the Arizona Basketball Coaches Association.

SENIOR WINS AIA HONOR SWIMMER OF THE YEAR: DANIELLE LEE ’12

Nic Meyer ’12 ended his high school athletic career with the state’s top honor. He was named the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s Student of the Year, chosen from among all Arizona high school boys who play sports. Nic also was a finalist for the 1A-3A Scholar Athlete Award. He was honored at the AIA Champions Awards Luncheon at the University of Phoenix Stadium in May. Every year, the AIA recognizes outstanding Arizona high school students, teachers, coaches, officials, administrators, and schools for “outstanding achievements, on and off the field, and exemplifying trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.” At PCDS, Nic played varsity soccer, baseball, and basketball, and was a member of the state championship basketball team. Nic now attends Amherst College.

14 | 2011-12 Athletic News

Danielle Lee ’12, who never lost a race in her four-year high school career, was named Girls Swimmer of the Year by The Arizona Republic. Starting with her freshman year, Danielle won eight individual state titles and holds seven individual PCDS records (50, 100, 200, 500 freestyle; 100 backstroke; 100 butterfly, 200 individual medley). She also holds Division I records in the 100 backstroke, 100 freestyle, and 200 freestyle.

Danielle was named Swimmer of the Meet at the state championships all four years she competed.

She also won PCDS’s Most Outstanding Athlete Award in 2011 and 2012. PCDS swim coach Mike Maczuga, quoted in The Arizona Republic, attributed Danielle’s success to hard work, saying that she always showed a lot of talent, but “when she started to put the work into it, she took it to another level.”

A four-time All-American, Danielle attends Harvard University.

GIRLS’ TENNIS WINS STATE DOUBLES AND TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP The girls’ tennis team beat Miami 5-3 to successfully defend its Division III state championship and win its third state title in four years. Leah Stofko ’12 and Nicole Bassoff ’12, the 2011 state doubles champions in Division III, retained their title with a victory over Tucson Pusch Ridge Christian. PCDS tennis is coached by Jerry Keever.

OLYMPIAN VISITS PCDS Phoenix Country Day School and the Marlins welcomed five-time Olympic medalist Greg Louganis to campus in September 2011 to run a three-day camp for divers from across the Valley.

Louganis won back-to-back gold medals in both tower and springboard diving events at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. His ’88 win was well remembered after he hit his head on the diving board in a qualifying round.

In 1995, Mr. Louganis came out as gay and HIV positive and became a role model for many. He then published his first of two books, Breaking the Surface, which remained number one on The New York Times Best Sellers list for five straight weeks.

HONORS FOR AJ HESS ’12 In addition to several honors from The Arizona Republic, AJ also received recognition from the Arizona Basketball Coaches Association. He was the ABCA’s unanimous choice for Division IV Player of the Year. Also, he and teammate Nate Nearhood ’12 were named ABCA Senior All-Stars for a game played at Mesa Community College in May.

GIRLS’ SWIM CHAMPIONS The PCDS girls’ swim team took first place at the 1A-3A Invitational swim meet held at PCDS last fall. The boys’ team finished fifth. Swim is coached by Mike Maczuga.

Mr. Louganis’s philosophy behind the camp is to give athletes and performers the tools that will help them learn to trust their bodies and their muscle memory for peak performance. At the PCDS camp, he introduced participants to yoga, meditation, dance, and visualization in order to teach the skills that he learned to rely on for his successful career as an athlete and beyond.

GOLF WINS REGION The PCDS varsity golf team, coached by Bob Hendrickson, won the 2012 Region Championship. Morgan Gonzales was the individual medalist with a final round score of 65. She finished 8 under par for the 2-day match, shooting a course record at Coyote Lakes Golf Course.

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAMS WIN TITLES Mountain Valley Athletic League champions: 5/6 boys’ basketball team, under Coach Amp Lee, and the 5/6 girls’ soccer team, under Coach Jenn Hallas. Finishing in the runner-up slots were the 7/8 boys’ basketball team (Coach David Cureton) and our 7/8 girls’ soccer team (Coach Jenn Hallas). In addition, the 6/7/8 softball team won the Great Hearts League championship, under coach Diane Jessen.

The 5/6 and 7/8 boys’ flag football teams were both championship winners in the Mountain Valley Athletic League. The 5/6 team defeated Tesseract; the 7/8 team defeated Rancho Greenway. Both teams were coached by Sean Newland and Patrick McHonett.

ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME The purpose of the PCDS Athletic Hall of Fame is to build tradition and recognize our outstanding athletes and coaches who have built a strong athletic foundation for years to come. Our goal is for the Athletic Hall of Fame to serve as a source of pride and tradition for our School and school community. The next induction ceremony will take place in 2013.

Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees: 2011: 1981 Varsity Baseball, 2000 Girls' Basketball State

Championship Teams 2010: Kristina Simonds ’86, Erich Schweikher ’97, Sarah Engle ’01, Alex

Ashby ’05 , Bob Hendrickson, Bob Kosower 2009: Lynne Diethrich Jackson ’79, Jeremy Ringel ’95, Georgia Buelow 2008: Billy DuMone '90, Courtney Lewis '00, Paul Schweikher

The senior speech is an experience shared by every graduate of PCDS since 1990, one of the School's great traditions. Rachel Chanen '11 talked with the man who has steered the ship for 18 years –Dave Martin -- to find out why.

Martin Article

Speech! Speech!

I sank into a chair in the library conference room alongside twenty of my peers on a hot May day—the kind you understand only if you’re from Arizona.

We were there to interview a headmaster candidate—the third of three. In walked Andrew Rodin, and after the usual introductions and formal questions, he turned the tables and began to question us.

“If you come back here in twenty years,” he wondered, “what’s one thing that you would want to see the same?”

This was perhaps the most striking question asked by any of the candidates. The first student answered emphatically, “Senior speeches have to be here when I come back.” By the time it was my turn, nearly every student had reiterated that thought.

So, when all heads turned toward me I said, “Well, not to copy everyone else, but I have to agree. The senior speech program is what makes PCDS a community.

I would be so upset if speeches were ever taken away.”

What is it about the senior speech program that engenders such strong feelings in students? To help answer that question I sat down with Mr. Martin, the charismatic, incredibly talented, genuinely caring history teacher extraordinaire. For the past 18 years he has acted as Senior Speech Coordinator, a multi-faceted job that puts him at the center of this celebrated tradition.

“My job is to determine the speech requirements—in consultation with the administration and faculty—to recruit faculty advisors, to set the dates and schedule the kids, to mediate disputes or controversial subjects, to collect the finished product, and then to pass it along to the Upper School for binding.” He explained that every speech, once bound, is archived in the US library should students want to know what has been done in the past.

The process begins in the fall with the schedule. Who doesn’t remember arriving at Mr. Martin’s classroom at some ridiculously early hour to sign-up for their desired speech date? That part alone helps make the speech an important rite of passage for seniors, and Mr. Martin believes in the value of that common experience.

“I think it’s important that a community have benchmarks and hurdles that every member of that community must weather,” he said. “It binds us together much closer as a community.”

Senior speeches began in 1990, when Head of School Margaret Madden instituted them as a graduation requirement. In my four years in the Upper School, I heard over 240 senior speeches and delivered one. I heard speeches that brought tears to my eyes, both in laughter and sorrow; speeches that inspired, speeches that infuriated me, and speeches that made me think about my life and who I want to be. But the reason I loved sitting down during morning meeting to hear these speeches was that they made me feel as though I was part of something larger than myself. A freshman who doesn’t even know the senior giving the speech feels connected to that person at the microphone.

“Societies need these rites and passages that every member goes through and passes on to the next generation,” Mr. Martin said. “The younger ones look at it, emulate it, and it becomes something to appreciate, to realize how important this really is. [To think] this is a tradition; I’m part of it. It is, in a way, its own graduation.”

Hearing Mr. Martin’s words, I realized that being a PCDS student means more than getting into college or achieving a high GPA. In those seven-to-nine minutes of a speech, being a PCDS student is more about articulating who you are, what you believe in, or what is important to you. At PCDS, it is sometimes easy to feel as though things are out of your control. There are always the hyperbolic gripes in the hallways, such as “It’s not fair that everything I’ve worked for is ruined because of that one test.” But your senior speech is exactly that, yours. That unique ownership is at the heart of what Mr. Martin likes best about senior speeches.

“What makes me feel the best is when a kid nails it like a performance,” he said. “Where a kid has really crafted the speech, worked on the speech, invested time and energy in it. And it may be a student who isn’t academically the strongest but, boy, the speech is their platform and they walk off smiling, beaming, happy.”

Senior speeches give students a platform to prove themselves as more than academics, athletes, or artists. They prove who they are as people rather than the labels that high school sometimes forces onto them. That includes showing that they have the skills to face life’s

varied experiences. For example, when writing speeches, students must manage their time. Mr. Martin laughs about the rampant procrastination among seniors, revealing that “some of the speeches literally get written or finished within thirty minutes of delivery.”

Speeches also provide students the opportunity to interact closely with, and be accountable to, an adult, their speech advisor. And this is a position these adults take very seriously. Mr. Martin spoke of the honor the position brings, but also the pressure. The faculty advisor’s efforts exemplify perhaps the most affecting aspect of a senior speech—the support students are given throughout the process.

They are afforded an opportunity to see what the community values about them through the faculty introduction, and how much people care by the hugs and congratulations following the speeches.

Most of all, students are able to see how their actions, words, and thoughts influence their community. Many students experience a standing ovation, or conversations about how their words caused their peers to think or gain a new perspective. Senior speeches, for me, were a truly humbling experience, one that, as I described in my own speech, “makes us realize the strength and wisdom of the people who surround us.”

So now I think I know why I love the senior speech program so much. I’ve realized that the speeches are more than just a graduation requirement, or simple words typed up hastily on a page. Senior speeches define PCDS, and in turn, become something that defines every PCDS graduate. We are connected by this unique, nerve-racking, and empowering experience that is the senior speech, and we will never want to let that go. ● ● ●

Rachel Chanen ’11 is a sophomore at Harvard, where she plans to major in Psychology and minor in Global Health and Health Policy.

She interned in the Office of Alumni Affairs last summer, where she worked on updating alumni records (contacting many alumni in the process) as well as interviewing Mr. Martin and writing this story. "Working closely with many familiar faces gave me a new appreciation of everything PCDS has to offer," she says. This year Rachel hopes to study abroad and become involved in more public service and global health initiatives.

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Back row, left to right: Maki Fullerton (Middle School), Susan Crane (Upper School), Kyle Skolfield (Upper School), Joe Tamer (Middle School), Sara Wood (Lower School), Brian Mensinger (Middle School), Alex Holwerda (Middle School), Lauren Strohacker (Upper School), Lynn Quartermaine (Lower School) Front row, left to right: Jennifer Cunningham (Middle School), Hallie Mueller (Middle School), Claire Tyra (Lower School), Kate Newton (Lower School)

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GRANDPARENTS' & SPECIAL FRIENDS' DAY

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ACADEMIC NEWS

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CLASS OF 2016 CELEBRATES 8TH-GRADE COMMENCEMENT The 65 members of the PCDS eighth-grade class celebrated their commencement on Wednesday, May 30, in a ceremony attended by parents, faculty, and friends.

Each member of the class received a certificate to commemorate their completion of Middle School at PCDS. Eighth-grade students Iya Agha and Mala Bansal acted as emcees, presiding over the ceremony at Camelback Bible Church, across the street from PCDS. After a welcome by Mort Dukehart, Head of Middle School, eighth-grader Stephanie Kay performed on the piano, followed by other musical performances

by Jillian Gilburne, Freya Irani, Elle Miraglia, and Natalie Prieb, also members of the class. The student speakers, chosen by their classmates, were Anita Sheih, Tara Dugel, and Jason Greenfield.

This year brought a new tradition to the commencement ceremony, the presentation of the Middle School Award. According to Mr. Dukehart, this honor is given to the student who best exemplifies the philosophy of the PCDS Middle School. This year, Jason Greenfield received the award, and five students received Certificates of Merit: Tara Dugel, Sam Garvin, Jillian Gilburne, Oliver Marsden, and Anita Sheih.

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PCDS STUDENTS EXCEL ON LATIN EXAM Ninety percent of Phoenix Country Day School students who completed the National Latin Exam in May received awards for their high achievement. This year, 78 PCDS Latin students (grades 7-12) joined over 150,000 students from across the United States and 13 countries to participate in this competitive exam. Students who scored well earned medals, certificates of achievement, and in some cases, scholarships. According to PCDS Latin teacher Robin Anderson, on average, 30 percent of students worldwide who complete the exam receive an award. The 90 percent achievement rate was a new high for PCDS. Of the 78 students who completed the exam, 70 earned awards, with 30 students earning the highest award possible. Besides Ms. Anderson, PCDS Latin teachers are Stephani Stephens and Rebecca Bernhardt.

MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH STUDENTS RANK HIGH Many Middle School students participated in monthly math contests throughout the school year through the Continental Math League. Every Middle School student participated in the Math League Press contest in the spring.

PCDS 6th-graders placed 13th out of 59 schools across the country and 2nd in the region. Eighth-graders placed 8th out of 48 schools across the country and 2nd in the region. The Middle School MATHCOUNTS team placed 4th at the chapter competition, and one student advanced to state competition.

FRESHMAN WINS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP IN GRAMMAR BOWL Kyle Kinnie, a PCDS freshman at the time, finished among the final four contestants at the 2012 Arizona EGUMPP Grammar Bowl, winning a $5,000 scholarship to the college or university of his choice. Approximately 500 8thand 9th-graders from around the state participated in the contest, with 23 competing in the finals at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix in April.

POLICY DEBATE TEAMS SHARE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Three PCDS Policy Debate teams, comprised of students Eric Showers ’12 and Frea Mehta ’12; Jehan Bista ’12 and current senior Nitya Agrawal; and current sophomores Sabrina Whitfill and Fallon Leyba, won the state championship in their division (schools with fewer than 1000 students) at a Speech and Debate tournament held in March in Winslow, Ariz. This is the 8th consecutive year (and 10th out of the last 11 years) that a PCDS team has won the state tournament. For Eric it was a fourth state title, and the second state title for Frea, Jehan, and Nitya.

UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS EXCEL AT MOCK CONGRESS Nineteen PCDS students attended the Arizona Junior State of America (JSA) Mock Congress in Phoenix in October 2011. Out of approximately thirty proposed bills, only two passed both Houses of Congress, and both were written

by PCDS students. April Curci and Andrew Garner passed a law regulating labeling foods in restaurants, and Lauren Chanen ’12 and Derek Chan proposed a bill on the morning-after birth-control pill. Several other delegates wrote bills that passed their respective houses but failed to win ratification.

According to JSA faculty advisor and History and Social Sciences Department Chair Dave Martin, PCDS students distinguished themselves at this conference of 200 students from Arizona and New Mexico. “They successfully defeated legislation, negotiated compromises, and essentially came to know first hand the difficulty of negotiating legislation,” he said. Megan Lehrer ’12 was named best speaker in the House of Representatives, winning a gavel for her efforts.

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A PCDS Project Excellence Success Story

By Jazmin Nido ’13 Phoenix Country Day School’s signature outreach program, PCDS Project Excellence, has been in place for 26 years. According to its mission statement, its goal is to “enrich, engage, and empower first-generation, college-bound students from local public schools and partnering organizations, and their parents, by providing resources and opportunities to encourage intellectual, cultural, and personal growth.” The program takes students in grades 4 through 12 from around the Valley and not only challenges them in ways their own schools can’t but exposes them to different things and prepares them to reach higher education. Students attend weekend workshops during the school year and a five-week summer session. On average, the program serves more than 150 students from 13 public school districts and partnering organizations annually.

Many of those students have gone on to apply and enroll at PCDS. One of the most successful is Claudia Gonzalez ’02. She graduated from PCDS and Emory University, with a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Literature. Afterwards, she took a one-year teaching fellowship at PCDS. While on the faculty, and for the following year, she worked with PCDS Project Excellence. She then spent a year in South Korea, teaching English as a second language. Ms. Gonzalez returned to Arizona, and graduated from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in May. In August 2012, she joined the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (www.firrp.org), a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services to individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Arizona.

Ten years have passed since Ms. Gonzalez’s PCDS graduation, and she has done so much.

But she looks back at the time she spent at PCDS with a smile.

Jazmin: What are some of the PCDS experiences that had the biggest impact on you?

Claudia: During my sophomore year, I went to San Francisco for the NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) Student Diversity Leadership Conference and I remember having such a great time. I learned a lot about myself and, during our peer-group sessions, I met some pretty amazing high-school students that I still keep in touch with. And I remember having a nerdy-blast studying for a chemistry test that my roommate and I knew we had to take when we got back to PCDS! Also during sophomore year, I won the Latin Award. Those awards generally go to juniors or seniors, and receiving that award made me realize that all my hard work was worth it and that someone had finally recognized it. It made me feel for the first time that I belonged at PCDS. Another special moment was when I decided to read my graduation speech in both English and Spanish because I wanted my parents to be able to understand what I was saying.

Jazmin: You were a PCDS Project Excellence student. Tell us a bit about your experience with the program.

Claudia: I’ve gone through every stage of PCDS Project Excellence, and I truly feel it is an incredible program. I do not know where I would be without it and the people who ran it and the people who cared. I first became a student, I believe, in 6th grade and then I went to the summer session and then the Saturday workshops, up until I was accepted at PCDS. Then I became an intern, then student intern (when you can no longer be a student in the program), and then lead intern. I worked on the summer program for two summers while still at Emory, working with Melanie Sainz, the program’s director at the time. So it was very cool for me to get to see the program in a full circle, especially since I had been in classes and then got to see other people go through the entire program. It was very special to me, and I mostly do still keep in touch with the people I’ve met through Project Excellence.

Jazmin: Do you have any advice for students in high school now?

Jazmin: Why you think this program is still so successful after 26 years?

Claudia: It’s so cliché but always follow your heart; be you! Anytime I did something because I thought it would be the right thing to do since my peers were doing it, or someone else wanted me to do it but it never felt right for me, I didn’t have it in me and I didn’t do a good job.

Take the fact that I’m going into immigration law. Many people think it’s not a good idea because when you think “attorney” you think “money” and immigration law doesn’t have much money in it. But I am passionate about helping these people.

There will be times when you will doubt yourself, like I did, but follow your heart!

If only people listened to this piece of advice more often.

Claudia: I feel it is a very sustainable program because it not only is a gifted program, it achieves its objective, which is to give students a better opportunity to get a higher education. Honestly, it would not have survived if the people who ran it did not care so much.

Jazmin Nido ’13 is a senior at PCDS. She has been an attendee of PCDS Project Excellence for the past six years and is currently co-teaching in the program’s Saturday workshops. Jazmin plans to study graphic design and animation in college next year.

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY

Phoenix Country Day School students may be found almost anywhere lending a hand when needed, from tutoring peers and stocking shelves at a food bank to protecting our planet.

Community service/service learning is an important part of a PCDS education, as students learn how to use their talents and skills for a greater good. In service learning, students share, in a formal way, with peers, family, or the local community, what they have learned about themselves from their community service involvement and how it may connect with what they have learned in school.

Monthly themes such as Back-toSchool supply drives and holiday food drives guide all-school community service. Each division is free to be creative in developing its own unique activities. In Lower School, Sharing Tree has become an important annual tradition. Students bring a pres-

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PCDS students make a difference

ent requested by a child and the Salvation Army distributes the gifts with a homemade card attached. Middle School students are encouraged to suggest community service ideas for the division. In Upper School, in addition to division-wide activities, students are required to complete ten hours of community service in each of their four years.

Last year, Maria Nolasco, Assistant Director of Community Engagement, the office that coordinates community service and service learning at PCDS, compiled a list of the various forms of service in which our students were involved. The list included volunteer hours at summer camps, serving food at homeless shelters, renovating villages and schools internationally, building and cleaning up trails for the National Park Service, assisting at hospitals, organizing back-to-school drives and delivering clothes, shoes,

and backpacks, leading religious education at students’ places of worship, organizing food pantries, book nooks, and furniture for refugee organizations, and assisting in planning fundraising events.

Every year, PCDS provides opportunities for students to serve others.

The largest of these efforts is Make a Difference Day. This all-school event, inspired by national Make a Difference Day, took place at PCDS on October 25, 2011. Several Upper School students organized the daylong effort while faculty and staff from all three divisions provided support, advice, and the necessary manpower for the day. Activities brought students together across the divisions to work on projects to benefit others.

The entire Upper School spent some time off campus, volunteering with organizations such as Phoenix Head

with their dedication to service, on campus and in the community.

Start, St. Vincent De Paul, Ronald McDonald House, Lucky Paws Animal Shelter, Interfaith Cooperative Ministries (ICM), and several Balsz District elementary schools. When Upper School students were back on campus, they worked with both Lower and Middle School students on several projects that yielded great results:

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• Students made 80 fleece blankets and decorated 240 pillowcases.

These were donated to Crockett School in the Balsz District for their clothing/supply closet used by their families, many of whom are homeless.

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• Students assembled 200 candy bags, donated to Phoenix Children’s Hospital for Halloween.

According to Ms. Nolasco, students learned a lot that day but not in the traditional classroom sense. “The learning happened by students being actively involved in activities that benefited those in need. It happened when they viewed a documentary about students from around the

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Students created dozens of ABC 123 books for young children, to be delivered to the Mwereni Integrated School in Moshi, Tanzania; Nuestra Senora

del Carmen, a school for disabled children in Cusco, Peru; and children in the village of Chiliphua, Peru.

Students assembled 171 I Spy Bottles, donated to Phoenix Head Start.

• Students made more than 2,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, delivered to Waste Not clients.

Students made more than 550 cards for soldiers that were shipped to Staff Sergeant Ian Sharp, PCDS Security Coordinator, who was serving in Afghanistan. He shared them with his entire platoon.

country reaching outside themselves.

Learning happened when our students discovered their individual leadership skills while working with younger students, and as they listened to a speaker who told a personal story to show how one person can make a difference. And the learning continued when students spoke about the day with their teachers, at home, or while using social media like Facebook with their peers.”

She praised the students who put together the day’s activities. “They understood that the day needed to go beyond just making things or going somewhere and volunteering. It showed that PCDS is a school in action, fulfilling the idea of ‘a private school with a public purpose.’ ” For more information about Community Service at PCDS, visit Community Engagement at www.pcds.org.

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Yellott Grants 2012

“The real challenge in teaching lies in finding the way to ignite the spark of interest and enthusiasm in each student, and the real compensation lies in watching the spark grow into a flame as the student finds that learning can really be its own reward.�

That quote, from John I. Yellott, who was PCDS headmaster from 1966-1972, appears in the School’s history book, Voices in the Desert. Mr. Yellott’s philosophy of seeking growth and improvement in the classroom in order to ignite a love of learning in students is the foundation of the endowment named in his honor.

Every year, funds are awarded from the Yellott Memorial Endowment to faculty who apply to complete research or develop projects with ongoing value for the School. Below are excerpts from the teachers’ proposals, providing a glimpse into the work that took place during the summer of 2012.

INTEGRATED SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCE MANUAL FOR THE SECOND-GRADE CURRICULUM Cindy Davis, Evelyne Macrodimitris: Currently the second

grade does not use a textbook for social studies. We primarily teach about the seven continents, including information on the people, culture, and animals, as well as basic map skills. Our teaching goals have been accomplished by using teacher-made materials, books, and pertinent websites. The goal: To create a working manual for use by teachers and students, combining the best of these resources.

DESIGN THINKING: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Jenny Treadway, Liz Olson: Design thinking is a set of skills that prepare students to solve complex, cross-curricular, real-world problems by teaching effective ways of thinking and collaborating.

By learning these skills students are able to solve problems confidently and creatively – traits that many in higher education and in the business world consider essential to success in the 21st century. The goal: Create a step-by-step design-thinking handbook to teach these skills.

STAGECRAFT ORIENTATION & CURRICULUM WORKBOOK Keith Burns: Students in Theatre Arts classes and others who are committed to working in the shop on productions need to be trained.

The goal: To develop a brief and intentional program/process to instruct students in theatre shop work, safety, storage, terminology, and techniques. The program will cover the use of power and manual tools, safety requirements and procedures, shop contents and storage, and terminology for a basic understanding of theatre equipment and construction techniques.

“THEORIES OF JUSTICE” CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT KINDERGARTEN MATH CURRICULUM RECONSTRUCTION Lee Edwards, Jaime Sheridan: We feel it is important to empha-

size more hands-on activities in addition to paper and pencil tasks when working with patterns, number concepts and operations, and time, money, and measurement. The goal: Develop a program that gives students a better sense of numbers and how they relate to everyday life.

WORLD HISTORY CURRICULUM REDEVELOPMENT Judson Garrett: Primary sources provide a window into the past—

Judson Garrett, Matt Guthrie: We felt that the history department

curriculum was lacking a direct encounter with moral philosophy, and that this dearth limited the students' ability to successfully confront problems in a wide variety of areas. The goal: Develop a new Upper School course, “Theories of Justice.” Major theorists from ancient, medieval, early modern, and contemporary schools of thought will be presented in order to both examine the various theories of justice offered throughout history as well as develop the critical thinking skills of our students within their own understandings of justice.

unfiltered access to the record of artistic, social, scientific, and political thought and achievement during the specific period under study, produced by people who lived during that period. The goal: Reorganization of the curriculum in order to emphasize primary sources and seminar discussions, which are invaluable for developing critical thinking skills. Recognizing the opinions of others while articulating one's own is a necessary skill for historical analysis. Such reorganization will allow time for deep inquiry into the texts while simultaneously covering the secondary historical accounts of the significant events in world history provided by the textbook.

Peter Flanagan-Hyde: The concept of the “flipped classroom,” using short (10-15 minute) video lectures, worked very well for my courses last year. The goal: To create an interactive eBook for Statistics, AP Statistics, and Calculus. The eBook would include video lectures that introduce curriculum topics, some text explanations, activities for students, and animated or interactive drawings and diagrams. It would be distributed free to students who have an iPad. The same content would be available for other students via pdf documents that would include links to the videos and interactive content online.

ORGANIZATION AND STUDY TECHNIQUE PLAN FOR NEW STUDENTS & PARENTS

REORGANIZATION OF THE ALGEBRA II/TRIG & PRECALCULUS AB/BC COURSES

Chris Eriksen, Rebecca Bernhardt: Developmentally, fifthgrade students need assistance in order to be successful and to learn positive study habits when at school and at home. The goal: To help create active learners by developing a manual to help both students and parents in the areas of organization, long-term planning, effective use of assignment books, use of desk calendars, and design of an effective study space and time period.

Sue Mazzolini, Stewart Pierson: It is important to view these

CREATING AN INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC BOOK

courses within the context of the “big picture” of advanced mathematics. The goals: Establish essential learning objectives and goals for each course; redefine the scope and sequence of each course with an eye toward eliminating some of the overlap/ review material in Precalculus AB/BC; create sample activities and assessments for each course.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL YEAR IN PHOTOS

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The PCDS Time Capsule, containing memorabilia from the School’s first 50 years, was buried as part of Blue and Gold Homecoming Weekend festivities in October 2011. Lower, Middle, and Upper School students and faculty, staff, athletics, alumni, and the Parents’ Association all contributed items. Included were a PCDS 50th Celebration book, an MP3 player containing the top 200 songs of 2011, athletic jerseys, and a class ring from 1965, the first PCDS graduating class.

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by Gina Bridgeman, PCDS Communications Director

Close your eyes for a moment and picture this: the PCDS campus with no gym and no swimming pool— just one large field, about where the baseball field is now, and two outdoor courts where competitive teams played volleyball and basketball. Those were the athletics and physicaleducation facilities when Georgia Buelow began teaching middle and upper school girls’ P.E. in 1973. So she knew there was a lot of room for growth for the young school’s athletic department. What she couldn’t have known was that a seemingly random encounter in a classroom would introduce her to the man with whom she would work to foster that growth over the next 30-plus years— and who would become her lifelong friend.

Bob Kosower came to Arizona while on sabbatical from teaching in Minnesota.

The idea was for him and his wife, Jean, to stay for a year while Bob earned his master’s degree in secondary education.

He met Georgia in 1978 when both were taking ASU graduate classes at West High School. Georgia knew there was a boys’ P.E. job open at PCDS. She suggested that Bob apply—and now when the two friends sit down together to reminisce, even that first job interview brings back memories.

“I showed up for my interview in a green leisure suit with a yellow shirt,” Bob remembers. “With bell-bottoms,” Georgia interjects, as they both start laughing.

“We had been working well together, and we both wanted to build this program.”

At first, Bob’s job was to teach both Middle and Upper School boys’ physical education. He took the job thinking it would be temporary, and the rest is PCDS history–71 years of it if you combine the PCDS experiences of Bob and Georgia.

In Bob’s first year, he and Georgia worked together to build the physical-education program. Then Bob was offered the Athletic Director’s position and became Georgia’s boss. How did she feel about that?

“I was thrilled,” she says. "We had been working well together, and we both wanted to build this program." And they were building from the ground up. Bob’s office was tucked away in the current maintenance storage area. (If you want proof, check the outside door that still says “Locker Room,” the tile floor from the old showers, and the sports photos that are still taped to the walls.) But that didn’t stop him from dreaming big dreams.

“I had a vision for the athletic program, that we would get recognition in the state,” Bob says. “We stressed a commitment to the team, getting kids to realize that they could contribute.

They began to have fun, and their participation grew.”

The programs at PCDS continued to grow, and soon new athletics and P.E. staff were added. That included a young guy named Danny Majeski, who joined the staff in January 1981. Still, one giant piece was missing. PCDS had opened the 34 | Hall of Famers

pool in 1974 but was still without a gym.

And while the athletic program was gaining recognition with Independent High School state championships in baseball and boys’ tennis, it was tough to excel in basketball and volleyball without a gym. So in the fall of 1982, parents formed the first PCDS booster organization, with a long-term goal of raising money to build a gym. According to Bob, it took just under a million dollars to get it done. And both he and Georgia agree that when the gym opened in 1985, it was a turning point for the school.

“We had some absolutely wonderful people on the board of trustees who worked hard to get the gym built,” Georgia says, “and the kids were so excited.

This was their home court; this was where their pride was.”

“All the kids used the gym, of course,” Bob adds, “not just for athletics but for P.E. It completely changed the P.E. program.”

Georgia continued to be an integral part of that program. She coached softball, volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Over the years in P.E., she taught girls to play volleyball, flag football, soccer, softball, basketball, golf, badminton, swimming, diving, and the skills of track and field and archery. And that brings her to perhaps the only negative thing you’ll ever hear her say about Bob. “He’s not a good archery teacher,” she says, and they look at each other and burst out laughing. It seems Bob was a few minutes late to teach archery on what is now the baseball field. The targets were set up along the west side of the field, and while Bob took a lastminute phone call in his office, the kids started without him. When he arrived at class, arrows were flying over the bushes into the neighborhood beyond.

with the strugglers. I loved doing that,” she says. At some point she realized that she wasn’t as competitive as she used to be, even as a coach, but she never grew tired of teaching, mainly because of what the job did for her.

“The best part was the kids,” she says, “always the kids. Maybe I’d come to work tired or not focused, and that first class would come through the door and I’d get my energy immediately. It was so much fun.”

As Bob and Georgia talk, they outline a philosophy for athletics that both have adhered to in their long careers.

“Being active made our kids better students,” he says, “and, I like to think, better people.”

“And that’s the last time we let him teach archery,” Georgia says, still laughing about it.

As you might have guessed, Bob and Georgia were also a strong team outside of PCDS. From 1980-83, they coached together at Phoenix College. Bob was head coach of the women’s basketball team, and Georgia was his assistant. She also babysat for all three of Bob and Jean’s children, including their youngest, Jaime, now a PCDS kindergarten teacher. Georgia is also Jaime’s godmother. “I don’t know whether that shows how close we are or how old we are!” Georgia says.

One thing you notice when Bob and Georgia get together is that they’re very modest—but they like to brag about each other. She’ll tell you that Bob played baseball and was pretty good at it. In fact, he played competitively until age 46 and even played in the Men’s Senior League World

Series. But his career aspirations were to be a teacher and a coach. He coached both his 1981 and 1985 baseball teams to state championships. (The entire 1981 team was inducted into the PCDS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.) As Athletic Director for 32 years, he presided over several other championship seasons, as well.

Bob will tell you that Georgia, too, was an excellent athlete. She was a national championship softball player at Arizona State University and is a member of the Arizona Softball Hall of Fame. She also was inducted into the PCDS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009. But her real passions were coaching and teaching. She speaks fondly of the challenge of teaching P.E. to students of varying skill levels.

“I liked responding to kids’ needs, to teach skills that were maybe completely new to them. The more-skilled kids could help each other, and I could spend time

“Number one, have fun,” Georgia says. “Number two, learn something new.

And then by doing one and two, you become a better athlete.”

Bob picks up the thread as though finishing her thought. “Our program has always been based on these ideas,” he says. That may be why he is so proud of the character awards PCDS has received, such as the AIA Blue Cup (for excellence in Pursuing Victory with Honor), AIA School of Distinction honors (for excellence in providing educational athletic programs to young people), and the Girls’ Athletic Program of the Year award.

"Being active made our kids better students," he says, "and, I like to think, better people."

Bob is in his 35th year at PCDS, now as Associate Athletic Director. He’s received the highest accolades, including induction into both the Arizona Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Hall of Fame and the PCDS Athletic Hall of Fame. After 36 years at PCDS, Georgia retired in 2010 and is busy and happy.

She takes care of her mom and spends time with friends and family. She plays golf, rides her bike, goes to the lake with friends, and hangs out with other retired teachers. And she looks back with nothing but the warmest memories.

“The school was wonderful to me.

The support from parents was amazing, the kids worked hard and wanted to have fun—how could I look back and not say that was the best experience of my life?”

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UPPER SCHOOL STUDENT WINS FILMMAKING AWARD The Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona named Scott Minard the Institute's "Emerging Filmmaker" for 2012 last May. Through a national competition, this annual award is given to a student in grades 7-12 who demonstrates excellence and creativity in storytelling in a motion picture. Scott's entry, The Epic of Bob, was produced as a class project in the Upper School's Art of Digital Video course this semester. In addition to winning an HD digital video camera, Scott was honored at the Institute's yearly film festival during the Memorial Day weekend in Sedona.

STRINGS STUDENTS EXCEL Four Upper School strings students were chosen last spring to participate in the Arizona Music Educators Association regional music festival. They were Wynston Hamann (cellist); Flavia Pajaro-Van de Stadt and Chelsea Wu (first violins); and Tianna Sheih ’12 (first violin). According to Maurine Fleming, PCDS strings teacher, hundreds of musicians auditioned in the western region. Chelsea and Flavia also were selected by audition to play in the 2012 All-State Festival of Performance Orchestra in April at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

ALUMNUS VISITS AFTER-SCHOOL ART Phoenix-based artist and illustrator Sebastien Millon ’00 visited Lower School art teacher Michelle Gurnee’s Creating Characters art class last fall, part of the after-school Eagles' Wings art program. The students, in first through third grades, had the opportunity to learn and create with a professional artist whose whimsical work served as a natural inspiration for the Creating Characters concept. Ms. Gurnee put the names of animals in a basket, and the students chose an animal and had to characterize its image.

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The class viewed Mr. Millon’s art before beginning their own work. Their final project was an animal-character tower that was displayed outside the Lower School art room.

STUDENTS HONORED IN SYMPHONY ART CONTEST Lower School students were honored for the fourth year in a row for their entries in the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra's Paint to Music Competition. The annual contest,

presented in partnership with Young Arts Arizona, encourages students from around the Valley to create artwork inspired by particular pieces of music or themes. The theme of the competition, part of the symphony’s Arizona centennial celebration, was “Happy Birthday, Arizona!” and students’ work was inspired by Arizona landscapes.

The PCDS student-artists in grades 2, 3, and 4 saw their winning art-

more than 200 submissions sent by Arizona students in grades 7-12. The contest, sponsored by Scholastic and the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in New York City, is the nation's longest-running, most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for student achievement in the visual and literary arts.

LOWER SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN ART HONORS Greta Bindley won first place in the kindergarten-grade 5 category in the Vessels of Hope art contest. Michelle Gurnee, Lower School art teacher, entered several pieces by her first- and third-grade students in the competition. Judges were professional ceramic artists and professors of ceramics from ASU. Greta’s winning ceramic piece will be on display for one year at the Cancer Treatment Center of America as part of the Creative Arts in Healing program. McKinley Paltzik won a secondplace award. Honorable Mention went to Miles Sabeeh, Andrew Conomos, Darwin Harriss, and Claudia Sheridan.

Middle School art teacher Melanie Sainz was honored in the adult category, receiving a third-place award.

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work displayed before the Symphony for the Schools concerts that their classes attended. Phoenix-area students had submitted more than 600 pieces of art, and, based on adjudicators’ recommendations, the top 67 pieces were chosen for display at the concerts. Winners were Alexandra Ashner, Sabrina Bailey, Greta Bindley, Elsa Jackson, GiGe Neck, Renat Robinson, Brierly Wand, and Brendan Zuieback.

UPPER SCHOOL STUDENT HONORED FOR ART & WRITING Pauline Shongov won both Gold Key and Honorable Mention awards at the regional level in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Contest. Her Gold Key artwork, The Skeleton, went on to the national competition. Two of her stories –“The Caulfield Clockmaker” and “Yew and I: Trapped in a Wood Box of Mine”– were chosen for Honorable Mention honors among

Six PCDS students were selected by audition for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Western Regional Honor Choir, held in Reno, Nev., in March. More than 11,000 students from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah auditioned.

Chris Puglisi was selected for the High School Men's Honor Choir, one of only 100 singers chosen out of over 1,800 auditioners. Melissa Greenberg was named to the High School Women's Honor Choir, one of 100 singers chosen out of more than 3,000 auditioners. Named to the Junior High Women's Honor Choir were Jillian Gilburne, Freya Irani, Elle Miraglia, and Natalie Prieb. More than 5,000 singers auditioned for this group, and 150 were selected.

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BLUE TIDE ROBOTICS WINS AWARD AT REGIONAL COMPETITION The Upper School robotics team, Blue Tide, was honored with the Innovation in Control Award (sponsored by Rockwell Automation) at the 2012 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Arizona Regional, held March 23-24 at Hamilton High School in Chandler. The team won the award for its inventive use of an ultrasonic sensor to measure distances. In the competition, Blue Tide finished 8th out of 50 teams from four countries, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.

In addition to the team’s success, Avery Silverman ’12 was awarded the Steve Sanghi Scholarship, a $16,000 prize awarded to an outstanding FIRST participant who intends to pursue a college degree in science, technology, engineering, or math. Sanghi, a former PCDS parent, is president and CEO of Microchip Technology, the organizing sponsor of the FRC Arizona Regional.

UPPER SCHOOL STUDENT WINS NATIONAL ROBOTICS AWARD Ben Mattinson ’12 was honored in May with one of the highest individual awards given by FIRST -- a national organization founded to inspire students’ interest and participation in science and technology – for his work on an eyetracking system that allows people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to use eye movements to control a computer cursor to type and access the Internet. The EyeWriterB 2.1 is an improved version of an eye-tracking system. Ben received the FIRST Future Innovator Award at the opening ceremonies of the FIRST Robotics World Championships, receiving a standing ovation from the more than 10,000 FIRST supporters in the Edward Jones Football Dome in St. Louis, MO. According to FIRST, "This award recognizes creativity in effectively solving a real-world, complex problem through the invention of a unique solution beyond the requirements of the FIRST competition season and events." The award is sponsored by the Abbott Fund and was presented by Jamey Jacobs (pictured with Ben), vice president and general manager of Abbott Vascular. Competition for the award was open to over 50,000 students from 2,343 teams, in 12 countries, competing in the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition. As the recipient of the FIRST Future Innovator Award, Ben received a trip to meet with ONSET Ventures, a venture capitalist firm in Menlo Park, Calif., for a real-world experience discussing his invention and possible business applications.

PCDS FACULTY MEMBER AND ADMINISTRATOR EARN ADVANCED DEGREES Heather Arguello, fourth-grade teacher, received a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Arizona State University. She graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. Mrs. Arguello received a great surprise at the ceremony when she spotted six of her students sitting in the stands cheering for her.

Assistant Head of School and Director of Advancement, James Calleroz White, was awarded his doctoral degree in May from Arizona State University.

Dr. Calleroz White earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in the DELTA program. DELTA is an acronym for Doctorate in Education, Leadership, Teaching, and Administration.

UPPER SCHOOL TEACHER HONORED WITH HEMINGWAY AWARD Upper School English teacher, Sarah Driscoll, was named the 2012 recipient of the Hemingway Foundation and Society's William P. Corrigan Fellowship Award for the study of Hemingway and Cuba. With the award money, she traveled to Princeton University last summer to study the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Walter Houk, through Houk’s recently donated personal collection.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS HELP FEED ANIMALS In the two weeks leading up to winter break, PCDS seventh-graders collected 1,000 pounds of dog and cat food for the Empty Bowl Pet Food Pantry. The non-profit organization’s mission is to distribute free pet food to those in need, so pets don’t go hungry or become abandoned.

Seventh-grade teacher Desiree Ong explained, “Empty Bowl Pet Food Pantry serves pets in the same way that food banks serve people. When families can no longer afford food for their cats and dogs, rather than turn them over to the Humane Society, the Pet Food Pantry supports families in need of meals for their furry friends.” On the last day before the break, the seventh grade worked together to bag the food in small portions for distribution to struggling families.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Mona Shahid from Pakistan was the second full-year junior exchange student at PCDS under the U.S. State Department-sponsored AFS/YES Program for students from countries with significant Muslim populations.

PCDS hosted a sophomore exchange student, Veronika Levintova, from the Landfermann Gymnasium in Duisburg, Germany, for the 2011 fall semester.

Chinese exchange teacher "Stonex" Shi Sixiang came from our sister-school, the Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School. During his two-month stay, Mr. Shi taught the Mandarin language portion of the fifth-grade Exploratory Languages program.

During spring break, 12 Upper School students, chaperoned by three faculty members, visited our exchange school in Chengdu, China, for a 10-day stay with host families to visit the school and tour local sights in Sichuan Province.

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The Phoenix Country Day School Alumni Association honored Leora Romney ’82 and John Schupbach ’06 as the Outstanding Alumna and Alumnus of the Year. Each year, the Alumni Association honors a graduate of the School who has distinguished himself or herself in community service, professional achievement, or service to PCDS. The two outstanding alumni chosen this year were honored at the Annual Alumni Party on Saturday evening, May 5. If you know someone who should be considered for this award, please contact Kelsey Neal, Director of Alumni Affairs, at kelsey.neal@pcds.org.

Leora Romney ’82 studied history and evolutionary science at the University of Arizona and then received a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.

As a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times for over twenty years, Ms. Romney has covered pressing social issues such as California’s troubled mental health system. Her work as a journalist has always shown a deep concern for the plight of others. Most recently, she covered the volatile Occupy Oakland protests and the subsequent police response. As an authority on the issue, she was featured on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation and asked to appear on MSNBC. Says fellow alumna Liz O’Brien ’81, “Lee is brave, brilliant and chooses to use her gifts to give disenfranchised citizens a voice.”

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John Schupbach ’06 graduated in May 2010 with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, receiving a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering while also completing the pre-med track. What began as a plan to gain a global perspective on medicine before applying to medical school has turned into a labor of love as he volunteers in the urban slum of Faridabad, India, with the Squalor to Scholar Program. This charitable organization helps to provide at-risk children, who exhibit high potential, with educational opportunities that would be otherwise beyond their grasp. Mr. Schupbach's work is helping to bring care, literacy, and hope to this impoverished area.

Mr. Schupbach is also a pilot, EMT, photographer, and writer. To read more about his work in India, see page 40.

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Nick Sakellariadis ‘69 Steve Talley ‘69 Cleve Jones ‘72 Robin Mullen Waldmann ‘72 Carolyn Polson O’Malley ‘65 Michael Pachtman ‘70 Jim O’Connor ‘77 Herman & Cathy Lewkowitz ‘79 Anne Brook, Honorary Fritz Henze ‘67 Clarissa Simek Robinson ‘88 Tom Kempner, Jr. ‘71 Laurie Wray ‘80 Barbara Jones Hirvela ‘70 Peter Spiegel ‘88

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Arden O’Connor ‘96 Joan Hay ‘67 Ana Maria Lopez ‘78 Rebecca Moran ‘95 Kirstin Gormley-Ghaster ‘89 Margi Woods Brown ‘85 Eric Felten ‘82 Matt Rollings Stanley Casselman ‘81 Jacques deLisle ‘78 Peter Spiegel ‘88 Apichai Shipper ‘87 Paul Wernick Rhett Reese ‘87

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I once read a proverb that states, “The mind cannot know what the eye has not seen.” No matter how many blog posts I write, photos I publish, or presentations I give, I will never be able to convey the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges that

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my life in India. It is one thing to visit an impoverished region for a few weeks, volunteer in a community, and then board a plane for home. However, it is an entirely different experience to spend nearly half a year in disquieting hospitals and gut-wrenching slums and to live among hardworking souls who sleep on dirt floors, cook their food with dried cow feces, and feel rewarded when they can afford potatoes to feed their children.

When I left the U.S. for India, I never expected to help care for more than 6,000 patients alongside nearly 50 physicians across 14 specialties in 11 radically different public and private hospitals; I never expected to seek and find deformed slum children or to help them obtain medical treatment for the first time. I never expected to start my own charity, Squalor to Scholar, or to enroll 36 destitute children in one of the finest private schools in their city. I never expected to become the adopted son of 12 Carmelite nuns or that a convent would become my second home. And, I never expected that my blog would touch tens of thousands of people in more than 90 countries and become a source of opportunities and resources for an entire community.

On the night of my 24th birthday in December 2011, I flew out of my comfort zone – toward 1.25 billion people without knowing a single one of them and toward a culture that mystified me. I had chosen to embark on this five-month medical mission to India because I wanted to make a difference in the lives of others and learn something that I could not learn from the comfort of America. I had reached the fork in the road that plagues many recent college graduates and was not yet ready to decide my future path. To help find my way, I decided to do something bold and unorthodox. I chose India because its vast poverty, crowded cities, limited infrastructure, and societal striations made me the most uncomfortable of any country I could imagine visiting.

India did not just help me find my path, it shattered my preconceived notions about life, ideals, and success.

The Indian people even challenged my innermost beliefs and ethics–elements of my identity that I never expected would budge. Treating people with leprosy, polio, and tuberculosis; taking children from lives of illiteracy

WANT TO LEARN MORE? The blog: www.johnschupbach.wordpress.com. Here you will find the entire story, including nearly 2,000 photos from the journey.

The website: www.squalortoscholar.org. Learn more about Squalor to Scholar, our many needs, and ways to donate or help. We are already educating 36 talented students from the slums but have hundreds more to educate through the years. Our emphasis is on the quality of education we provide and the capabilities of the students we produce.

If you have any fundraising ideas, speaking engagements at which I may present, connections/skills that would be of assistance to our mission, or any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me anytime at squalortoscholar@gmail.com.

I did not know what to expect when I went to India. I had no idea where I would go, what I would do, or whom I would meet. All I had been told by my volunteer placement organization was that a man holding a sign with my name on it would be waiting for me at the airport and that I would be working as a volunteer in the medical field for the next five months. I had a water purifier, mosquito net, container of antimalarials, liter of Purell, 12 rolls of tightly compressed toilet paper, and enough doses of Imodium and Pepto-Bismol to last the entire trip. The uncertainty was endless and anxiety stronger than I had ever felt.

The key ingredients for my journey were not material, however, but mental. I went with a positive attitude, tolerant mindset, and desire to expand my horizons while improving the lives of others. However, I could never have predicted that I would be rewarded so magnificently by people from nearly every striation of society and would gain a unique and devout appreciation for what it truly means to be human.

and poverty to ones of hope and opportunity; and tearing down remnants of the caste system by inspiring locals and foreigners from diverse backgrounds to understand how they can help one another are just a few of the experiences that have profoundly impacted my perspective.

I thought I was grateful for my PCDS education, but then I watched my six 10-year-old students wake up in the slums before dawn with smiles from ear to ear, wash themselves under communal hand pumps, and put on their pristine new uniforms

in preparation for the first day of school in their entire families' histories. I thought I knew what it felt like to help people, but then I met an impoverished man who brought his deformed daughter 600 miles on a 22-hour journey to find me for help.

I thought I understood the resilience of the human spirit, but then I witnessed the indomitable courage of an 18-month-old boy named Manish who, despite living in a slum with a venous malformation engulfing half of his face, smiled and danced every time he saw me coming to take him to the hospital.

My life will never be the same. I look to the future now with a compulsion to help people in the most meaningful ways imaginable. I now run Squalor to Scholar and Healing the Hidden from my home in Scottsdale. I am applying to medical schools throughout the United States and wish to become a leader in the fields of global health and health-care delivery to underserved populations. I will return to India this spring, and I urge you to please follow the blog now so you will receive updates when I leave.

Many thanks to my loyal friends, loving family, and the PCDS community for supporting our efforts and our dozens of precious students and patients receiving world-class education and healthcare for the first time.

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The PCDS production of Into the Woods was a show of “firsts” for the School. It was the first time the choral and drama departments had attempted the sophisticated and notoriously difficult work of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim. It was the first time drama teacher Keith Burns had directed a PCDS musical, working alongside music director and choir teacher Brenda Schertenlieb. And it was the first musical production staged in Dorrance Auditorium.

But perhaps the most remarkable fact about that 2004 production is that at least five cast members—out of a cast of 25—are now working professionally in theater. Keith Burns doesn’t find that hard to believe.

“It doesn’t surprise me with that show— I remember we had no casting struggles.

Everyone was so strong.” But he adds that the fact that not just one or two but several cast members have gone on to such careers is exciting and encouraging.

“I love that it flies in the face of the presumption that those careers are the exception and out of reach for most people.

It shines a light on the possibility that those kinds of creative, artistic careers don’t have to be a long shot.”

Brenda Schertenlieb, who was at the helm of 22 PCDS musicals, remembers the dedication both cast and crew brought to rehearsal and performance.

“There were so many really talented kids in the show. It was amazing for a school that size. And the musical was so important to them. They had such a love for it.”

Looking back, she says Into the Woods is one of her very best PCDS memories.

“It’s one of my all-time favorite shows.

And that production was magical – everything worked. The leads were strong, the ensemble, and the adults that worked on the show—everybody worked together so well. It was a great team effort. And it was just so much fun! ” So we thought it would be fun to catch up with some members of this talented cast and find out where they are now and what they remember about their PCDS Into the Woods experience.

Anne Slovin ’05 - Chicago, IL Into the Woods role: Cinderella

Ross Bridgeman ’07 - Nashville, TN Into the Woods role: Cinderella’s Prince

Anne returned to Chicago recently (where she graduated from Northwestern in 2009) after a year in Paris, where she studied voice on a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians.

She sang the role of Aline in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer at the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in August, where she was awarded the prize for Best Female Voice. Last year she sang the same role with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company in Chicago's Hyde Park.

Ross (who composed the PCDS alma mater) graduated from Belmont University in 2011 and stayed in Nashville to pursue music. He has sung in several productions with the Nashville Opera, and will again appear with the opera next January in Cinderella. He’ll follow that with Big River at Studio Tenn in Franklin, Tenn. Last summer, he played the lovesick Dean in the musical All Shook Up at the Fort Peck Summer Theatre in Montana. And his band Mother Honey just released an album. Ross also has enjoyed work as an extra on the set of the new ABC drama, Nashville, shooting in the city this fall.

What comes to mind first when you remember Into the Woods? What I remember is how HARD it was. Music Man had its moments, and Pirates of Penzance was very demanding, but Into the Woods required mental gymnastics from everybody in the cast, and I thought we pulled it off beautifully.

Do you recall a specific moment from the show?

I recall that I could never hold it together when Ross looked at me in our big serious confrontation scene and said, "I was raised to be charming, not sincere." I always had to look into the distance at that moment, because I knew that if I looked straight at him I would laugh! I also remember learning how to trip and fall without hurting myself and getting pretty badly bruised.

Does it stand out as one of your better theater experiences? Oh, definitely. Into the Woods was already one of my favorite shows--my grandmother had taped the original cast performance when it aired on PBS, and we used to watch it together at her house.

Honestly, thinking back on this production, I think I was just tickled pink to actually be performing in it.

It was a bit of a dream come true, as cliché as that sounds. My experience in the musicals at PCDS set the bar awfully high for shows that came later, and I'm not sure that anything can quite top them.

What comes to mind first when you remember Into the Woods? It was cool as a freshman to act alongside older students who I looked up to from previous years. Everyone just wanted to put on a great show, and welcomed me in even though I was new to high school. The whole experience made me think, "Man, if you can make a living having this much fun, sign me up!

Do you recall a specific moment from the show?

Actually, the Upper School teaser. It was the first time we had an audience for any part of the show, and I got to do my scenes with Nick (Lupinetti), my stage prince brother. It was the first time I had gotten serious laughs from an audience, and it was tremendously exciting.

Does it stand out as one of your better theater experiences? I feel Into The Woods was my emergence as a performer because of the part--I was more than just Man #1! That made it one of the best, because it was one of the first. And at 14, I got to sing and act in a part long before I could ever do it in a professional theater. That's the beauty of a high school musical, and the reason it's an invaluable experience.

Tori Jeans ’05 - Chicago, IL Into the Woods role: Cinderella’s mother

Katie Lupica ’07 - New York City Into the Woods role: Cinderella’s stepsister

Carolyn Daucher ’04 - New York City Into the Woods role: The Baker’s Wife

Tori Jeans graduated from Lake Forest College in 2009 with a degree in English, with most of her theater work extra-curricular. For two years she freelanced as a stage manager at such prestigious Chicago theaters as Steppenwolf Theatre and The Goodman Theatre. She now works as the Production Assistant (essentially a seasonlong Assistant Stage Manager) during the regular season at Northlight Theatre.

Katie is an Editorial Assistant at the play publishing company Samuel French, Inc. She graduated from Columbia University in 2011 with a double major in theatre and history. Since then she directed Portrait and a Dream at the New York International Fringe Festival, and was chosen for an “observership” through the national directors and choreographers union, with the director of the Broadway revival of Godspell. In September she worked as dramaturg on the U.S. premiere of Construction of the Human Heart at the Access Theater in New York.

Carolyn graduated from Penn in ’08 and says she’s “been tackling (or maybe 'wrestling with' is a better term) New York as an actress and writer.” In 2011 she appeared in the world premiere of Scared of Sarah at the New York International Fringe Festival.

Earlier this year she kept busy with workshops of Honky! (Urban Stages) and The Asexual Love Story of Seth and Lucy (The Drawing Board NYC). Currently she is working on the web series Stalking Ryan Gosling and “a full slate of terrible reality television for my blog, Bad TV for Embarrassed People.”

What comes to mind first when you remember Into the Woods? What has stayed with me has been the cast. It was such a close-knit group of talented, thoughtful kids, and I remember being so thankful to be part of it. I often experienced [PCDS] as a place where students were encouraged to think for themselves and find their passions and challenge their comfort zones. And the cast members of Into the Woods were some of the best examples of that.

What comes to mind first when you remember Into the Woods? I loved being in the show and think of it often. When I do, what springs to mind is friendship and terror, in equal proportion. I'm not much of a singer and I thought Schert was totally nuts for giving me this wonderful, beautiful, difficult part. I remember being almost constantly at the edge of vomiting - but a whole cast of friends was there to distract me with their hilarity and talent. [That show is] still a favorite in a sea of good PCDS memories.

What comes to mind first when you remember Into the Woods? Mostly I remember crawling up and down a stool to get into my cutout tree to sing. I then remember falling off on the day of taping (the DVD), onto Ross and Anne, as they exited offstage behind the tree.

Do you recall a specific moment from the show?

When thinking back on the show, I remember experiencing the passion and camaraderie of theatre. I remember the feeling of everyone working toward one common goal, something that is not always experienced in other professions.

Does it stand out as one of your better theater experiences? Absolutely! I got to sing from a tree. Plus I remember my dress was awesome!

Do you recall a specific moment from the show?

[Some other] memories are more general: driving home each night after rehearsal with my brother, Charlie, who was also in the show; warming up with the cast and trying so hard to learn all the harmonies; and learning and creating all the fun blocking I got to do with my fellow "evil stepsister," Jamie Johnsen-Brigham, involving frilly bloomers and being blinded by birds.

Does it stand out as one of your better theater experiences? This show will always be one of my most memorable and cherished theater experiences. I was blessed to work on material I cared about with people I looked up to, learning new things from the challenges that arose along the way. You can't ask for much more than that at any level in this field.

Do you recall a specific moment from the show?

Any moment of Charlie Lupica playing Jack is pretty much seared into my memory. He achieved this perfect mix of idiocy and endearment and I never stopped laughing.

Does it stand out as one of your better theater experiences? Strange to say because it was so long ago, and because so much has happened since, but Into the Woods is still one of my favorite experiences in the theater. I think it always will be.

Note: We know there may be others who should have been included in this story. If you are among them, please email gina.bridgeman@pcds.org and let us know about it. Thanks!

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1969 VIRGINIA ANDERS writes, “I've been busy. I published a book through amazon.com in February. Joe's War: His Yorktown Letters Home, 1944 - 1945 is the culmination of my 20-year project to prepare my father's World War II letters for publication. I am also teaching at Phoenix College in the Success Center, English and writing.” 1

1971 MATT LANSER sent “a picture of my

wife Karen (right) and my daughter Carolyn (left); I’m in the middle. We celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary on June 5th.” 2

1973 DORIAN (ELDER) KUPER writes “My

husband Tom and I are engineering geologists and have moved to Helena, Montana from Portland, Oregon. Giving up rain for sunshine and chilly winters is fine for us! We are still enjoying geology life - just spread it from Oregon to Montana!”

1976 BARBARA BAXTER ANDRINO says, “I am living in Northern Virginia and working full time as a public health physician at the county Department of Health where I am at the forefront of the battle against various ills. I have a full house with 7 children and my husband of over 25 years. Our most recent family additions are my 2 youngest children, birth siblings we adopted from Ethiopia 5 years ago. My Amharic is still rudimentary but my Spanish is getting a lot of practice at my work. I do a lot of driving kids to things and watching their ball games. Greetings to all my former classmates, especially to my prom date, Peter!”

1977 BRIT ETZOLD writes, “In early 2011, after 13 fun-filled years as an airline pilot for Northwest and Delta, I left Minnesota and returned to the Northwest (Renton, Wash.). I now work for Boeing 50 | Class Notes

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in the Puget Sound area (Everett specifically) as one of two managers of Boeing's external global and domestic aviation safety efforts. My kids remain in Minnesota to finish high school, with the oldest daughter heading to Anchorage in the fall to study marine biology."

1981 STANLEY CASSELMAN had two paint-

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1982 EDWARD SHANKEN has been named Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis. This fall, he is teaching the class "Inventing the Future" using his book, Art and Electronic Media, as the course text. He and his wife, Dr. Yolande Harris, celebrated their daughter Jasmin's first birthday on September 19. Ed visited PCDS in March 2012 and delighted an audience of Upper School students and faculty with a talk in Dorrance Auditorium. 5

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LAURENCE SCHREIBER says, “After 21 years as an investment banker, I finally took the leap and got out. I’m helping to run two tech start-ups, one based in the Midwest and the other in Singapore (and I'm having a LOT more fun).

Daniela and I have been in Teaneck, NJ, for a long time. Daughter Raquel is a sophomore at Harvard; Adam is a freshman at Cornell (and a jock); and Sofia is in 10th grade.”

1985 NICK ASHTON-HART is currently the

Geneva Representative of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA). Prior to that he was

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Senior Director for Participation and Engagement and Director for At-Large at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

He has been active in international policy development and intergovernmental negotiations in various areas including sustainable urban development, intellectual property, and Internet governance. 6 SARAH MILLER is on the art department faculty at the University of Toledo. Fall 2011 she had a solo exhibition of mixed media painting, “Meditations,” in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. In May 2012 she was featured in a front-page story in the Toledo Free Press. This fall she has two exhibitions of mixed media works: a solo show at the University of Toledo (Eberly Center for Women) and also at the Wolfe Gallery at Maumee Valley Country Day. You can view her work at www.sarahsol.com. 7

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JOHN SNEAD says that he’s “living and loving the dream in San Diego with my wife Carolyn and our two boys, Finn (13) and Whitney (11).”

See the photo of the family at Yosemite National Park. 8

1986 ELIZABETH (BETH) THOMSEN GREENBERG writes, “This past spring I was

promoted to the position of Vice President of Academic Affairs at Maine Media Workshops + College. We are a center for photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia artists, offering programs for lifelong learning from our Young Artist Program for high school students to a low-residency MFA program. I often reflect on the outstanding teachers I had at PCDS and the passion they had for teaching - it has been a tremendous influence in my life (though I bet none of them ever thought I would end up in the academic world)! And, like many of the faculty I had during my time at PCDS, I have now spent 22 years dedicated to the programs here.” 9

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1987 CHRISTINE LANE BONANNO says, “I am still in the Phoenix area. My husband Tore and I have been married for 8 years, and have two fabulous kids, ages 7 and 5, that keep me very busy. After 13 years of running the reading program at Sun Canyon Elementary in west Phoenix, I’m back in the first-grade classroom, which I taught long ago. I am an avid runner and love to run half marathons.”

COLTON GRAMM , brother of PCDS third-grade teacher Kimberly Abbott, is a Talent Manager for Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Colton's client, Tom Berenger, won the 2012 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Hatfields & McCoys. 11

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APICHAI W. SHIPPER writes, “I have moved to Washington, D.C., where I serve as the Asia Regional Chair at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Basically, I supervise the training of U.S. diplomats, who will be posted in all of Asia, on the history, geography, economics, politics, religion, arts, culture and social customs, and U.S. foreign policy in different Asian countries or regions.” 13

1989 ROZ BOLGER ABERO says, “I was re-

cently promoted to Vice President and Managing Director at the ASU Foundation. I live in Phoenix with my husband Inaudi and six-year-old son, Edu.” 10

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1990 SONIA ABHYANKER GODBOLE writes,

“I am a physician at the VA hospital in Phoenix. I am happy that my son started second grade at PCDS in the fall of 2012!”

PINAR TASHMAN KORZAY writes, “As an alumnus and current [PCDS] parent, I have a lot of exciting things happening.

My daughter Sedona Korzay finished second grade at PCDS and will now study in Madrid, Spain, for one year.

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NICOLLE MUSCHINSKI says, “After teaching middle school science for five years, I went back to school for my PharmD degree. I have been working as a pharmacist for 5 years. The best part is that I get to work from home to take care of my family more and work on writing for children. I was married in 2010 to Rick Auck and we have a very active 15-month-old girl and another girl due October 4th." 14

1995 JULIE LEVENBERG ZEMEL celebrat-

ed her 10th wedding anniversary to Howard Zemel with her two sons, Noah and Ben, in Denver, Colo., on November 16. 15

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the CFO of Athletics at UC Berkeley where I also oversee four sports (men’s and women’s tennis, men’s golf, and men’s soccer). My husband, Brett Hazlett, works in finance at Levi Strauss.

We live in Berkeley with our daughter Olivia, who will be 5 in February.”

KONRAD LEE writes, “I quit my job

at Lockheed Martin in 2009 to go to the University of New Hampshire law school. I just graduated, took the bar exam in Massachusetts, and I’m currently working at EMC Corporation.”

1998 MARNEY BINNS BOUGHAN says, “Last June, SCOTT SCHWARTZ '96 and I both graduated from Kellogg School of Management. We both received MBAs, and I also received a master’s in Engineering Management (MEM). I've attached a picture (from left to right: me, my husband Booth Boughan, Scott Schwartz, and his girlfriend Stephanie). We called ourselves the Frozen Eagles ... PCDS'ers reunited in Chicago." 16 SARAH VIEH DWORKIN writes, “I wanted to share an update from the classes 54 | Class Notes

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of 1997-1999 who had a mini-reunion in May, thanks to JAY KAHN ’98 and his new bride, Lauren Thaler Kahn .

Jay and Lauren had a gorgeous wedding at the Four Seasons in Scottsdale on May 19. The festivities kicked off at the rehearsal dinner with a visit from everyone's favorite mascot, the PCDS Eagle. As you can see from the photo, the Eagle was the hit of the party!

The wedding guests included (in their custom-made PCDS T-shirts): DARREN RINGEL ’98, JORDAN KAHN ’99, MIKE KAHN ’99, ERIC SHOEMAKER ’97, JAY KAHN ’98, SARAH VIEH DWORKIN ’98, NATE DWORKIN ’98, MELISSA TOMINAC STEWART ’98, MIKE STEWART ’98, JONATHAN KRAUSE ’98, SOPHI JACOBS ’98, JANELLE PLAZA ’98, LAUREN THALER KAHN, EMILY DELGADO GRAY ’98, ANAMAY MELMED CARMEL ’98. Emily's husband, Jack Gray, was

the good sport who agreed to wear the Eagle costume. 17

1999 CHRISTOPHER FREDERICK is on the air

in Chicago as Brotha’ Fred on KISS FM, 103.5. 18 AYLIN TASHMAN KIM is looking for a

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school in Seattle for her three-year-old daughter, Azalea Tashman Kim, that can compare to PCDS. Until then, she will have to settle for driving around town with a PCDS bumper sticker. 19 SHARON LIPOVSKY says, “I walked the

Camino de Santiago in northern Spain for three weeks...while 6 months pregnant. My husband Colin and I are expecting our first baby this September.

Other fun news: I graduated last year from Georgetown's Executive Leadership Coaching program and have since been establishing my own practice. A fabulous year.”

2000 GLEN GOODMAN has been awarded a

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship to study in Berlin.

This will complete the other half of his research (following a Fulbright year in Brazil) for his Ph.D. in history.

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COURTNEY LEWIS MASON writes, “I

am now the Associate Counsel for the Phoenix Suns. Prior to joining the Suns, I was the Legal Counsel for the Phoenix Coyotes. I married Richard Mason on May 12, 2012 at the Royal Palms... bridesmaids were my best friends and PCDS classmates ELIZABETH PERLA ’00 and KENDRA (DAVIS) KAPLAN ’00. 20

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SEBASTIEN MILLON visited the PCDS

Lower School last year to work with art teacher Michelle Gurnee and her students in the after-school art program. Sebastian writes, “It was a blast! The kids are amazingly creative and talented…I like to think that I can inspire them a little bit, and they, without realizing it, inspire me (a lot)!” Sebastien works as an artist in a cartoon/comic style and runs his own company. Check out his work at www.sebastienmillon.com.

TIFFANY WESTLIE PONDELIK and her husband Miles welcomed a daughter, Cassandra Ellen Pondelik on June 27, 2012. Tiffany is currently working as a sommelier in New York and plans to graduate from the International Wine Center with her WSET Diploma of Wine and Spirits in 2013. 21

2001 BRYANT GUFFEY is Chief Executive Of-

ficer and co-founder of ZetrOZ. Bryant teamed with several others to form the company in 2009 while gaining his MBA at Cornell University. ZetrOZ launched its first veterinary ultrasound product, employing its patented miniaturization technology, in spring 2011. 22 GORDAN KRNJAIC writes, “I completed my Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., and started a research position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics outside Toronto, Ontario.” 24 ASHLEIGH LEVINSON says, “I am cur-

rently doing an ophthalmology residency at the University of California San Francisco. I complete residency in July 2013. I will be applying this year for a vitreo-retinal surgery fellowship.” 23 56 | Class Notes

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lissa and I welcomed our first child, Caleb Marshall, on New Year's Eve, 2011. We live in Wickenburg, Ariz., about an hour northwest of downtown Phoenix, where I am the city manager.

We recently moved back to the Valley after ten years in the Tucson area, where we both attended The University of Arizona and I worked for the municipal government in Marana.” 28

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on September 15, 2012. He writes, “We met in Scottsdale after college and were later set up by LISA KIRKWOOD '02 . Caitlin is a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers and I am an account executive at a Silicon Valley startup called Box. After a honeymoon in Taiwan and Bali, we live in San Francisco." Photo includes PCDS alumni EVAN DEMARK '02 (far right) and NINA SCHULZE-SOLCE is fourth from left (would have been '02 but she left in '00). 25 ADAM LEWKOWITZ writes, “In the

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last year, I've moved back from Beijing to NYC, got married to Alison Rosenberg, graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and am moving with Alison to San Francisco for my residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCSF. If that weren't enough, I've become an uncle: JENNIFER LEWKOWITZ ABELSON '04 and her husband Ben are proud parents to Gabriela Leonore Abelson. 26 27

2003 DANIKA COOPER says, “After graduat-

ing from Washington University in St. Louis, I joined an architecture firm in Bombay. Three years later I was offered a teaching position at a design university where I spent two years teaching. I'm now at Harvard's Graduate School of Design where I am pursuing a Master of Design Studies.”

REID DAVIS writes, “I graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2010 and have since been practicing at Manatt,

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CHERILYN GAIN (a former teaching fellow at PCDS) writes, “I got married last April in Phoenix and my husband and I are living in San Francisco, riding the blissful waves since the honeymoon. I am teaching a combined 3rd- and 4th-grade class at a gifted school called Synapse in Menlo Park.

It’s known for the way it incorporates emotional intelligence into the curriculum. It’s such a stimulating place to work--just like PCDS.” 32 YUKI KONDO-SHAH writes, “I just graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with my master’s in Public Policy. I attended on a fellowship from the U.S. State Department and joined State in September as a Foreign Service Officer. I spent my summer working full-time with the Obama campaign in Arizona.” 30

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VERONIQUE MILLON graduated from

UCLA School of Law in May 2012. 34 JESSICA WEISER writes, “I married Avi Feller on March 18th, 2012, at the Phoenix Art Museum. I was thrilled to have 6 of my PCDS classmates there to support me. Next year, I will be pursuing my master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing on civic and moral education.” 33

2004 CYNTHIA BENIN writes, “A bit of a fun fact is that CHARLIE LUPICA ’04 and I are both attending NYU School of Law. We finished our first year (phew!) and are enjoying spending time in NYC together. I live in Manhattan and Charlie lives in Brooklyn with his sister, KATIE LUPICA ’07.

LEAH BLOOMBERG writes, “I graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and then moved back to Phoenix to begin a career as a pastry chef. I’m now working at the JW Mar58 | Class Notes

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riott Desert Ridge Resort in the pastry department. This past year I was sent to The Ritz-Carlton in Phoenix to work as an interim pastry chef, helping out with the busy December high tea.

I also became a homeowner! I do enjoy my job very much, and PCDS gave me the confidence to not be afraid, to sink my teeth into whatever, whenever, wherever, and end up successful.” 31 CLAIRE BRANDON says, “I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. I am specializing in modern and contemporary art and working toward being a curator of 20th-century art." 35 ELIZABETH DIAS is working as a writerreporter for TIME Magazine in Washington D.C., covering national news and religion. Recently she reported coverlength stories on Trayvon Martin, Mitt Romney, and Rick Warren. She graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in May 2011. 36

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2005 DANNY CURZON writes, “I got married on May 12, 2012, to my high school sweetheart, Kelsey (though she didn't go to PCDS), at my parents' house in Phoenix.” 38 JOHN KESTER attended Denison Uni-

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versity for bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Economics and Northern Arizona University for a master’s degree in Sustainable Communities. He is currently in a Ph.D. program in Environmental Dynamics at the University of Arkansas, where he is a Distinguished Doctoral Fellow. John is also a research assistant at The Sustainability Consortium, and helped put together workshops and facilitate member engagement at the group’s first member summit, held at ASU in October. 37 BRYAN MCLAREN works in the Envi-

ronmental Sustainability program at Northern Arizona University. He recently completed an Ironman competition in Canada. 39

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DANIEL SCARPACE says, "I recently

completed an M.A. in Linguistics at the University of Illinois and am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Linguistics also at U of I." 41

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ANNE SLOVIN returned to Chicago

(where she graduated from Northwestern University in 2009) after a year in Paris studying voice on a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians. In August, she was awarded the prize for Best Female Voice at the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, where she sang the role of Aline in The Sorcerer. 43

2006 CHLOE BRANDON writes, “T. Andrew Charlton and I met as undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was studying biology, was president of the Penn Pre-Vet Club, and a member of Delta Delta Delta. Andrew proposed to me at the summit of Pinnacle Mountain in Little Rock, Ark., near where we bought our first home together. We plan to marry on January 4, 2014, in Paradise Valley. Andrew works for Medtronic as a clinical specialist in pacemakers and defibrillators. I am in my second year at the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine, graduating as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in May 2015. 42

writes, “I recently moved to New York City from D.C. to take a new position at U.S. News & World Report. I worked for them in D.C. as well, but switched roles with the move. I also graduated from Georgetown University with my M.A. in English this past May.” 40

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2007 ROSS BRIDGEMAN appeared this sum-

mer in All Shook Up at the Fort Peck Summer Theatre in Montana. He also appeared in the premiere of an original musical, City of Light, outside Nashville, Tenn. His band, Mother Honey, released an album this fall. 44 60 | Class Notes

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2011 with a B.S. in Accounting and a Certificate in Writing. He is studying law at ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Hal writes, "I spend a considerable amount of my free time training with my parkour team, hiking and climbing out in nature, and getting involved within the ASU and Jewish communities." 45 ALEX DEBEUS teaches math at Sage

Ridge School, a 7th- through 12thgrade prep school in Reno, Nev., where he is also Head Debate Coach.

DANIA GOLD teaches middle school art at BASIS Chandler. 46 GREER GOSNELL is at the London

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School of Economics working on a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics.

Greer graduated in 2011 from the Honors Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a degree in Economics and Political Science. She plans to pursue a career in global environmental economics/ development economics or the sustainable food industry. 47

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BLAKE LEWKOWITZ writes, “After graduating from Harvard, I accepted a position as Assistant Merchant at Abercrombie and Fitch Corporate Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. I have been working here for 15 months and was recently promoted to Associate Merchant. In June, my fiancée, Victoria Pratt, graduated from Harvard, and I proposed. She is working at A&F Corporate in the role of Merchandise Planner. We will be married August 23, 2013, in Coronado, Calif.” 48 KATIE LUPICA is an Editorial Assistant at Samuel French, Inc., in New York City. In September she worked as dramaturg on the U.S. premiere of Construction of the Human Heart at the Access Theater in New York. 49 THAIS MORAES became a United

States citizen in August and lives in Washington, D.C.

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BASIS Phoenix school, newly opened for the 2012-13 school year in northeast Phoenix. 50

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ANDRU ROYSDEN says, “In May, I

graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Electrical Engineering. I then moved to Seattle, where I'm working for Microsoft as a Program Manager for Microsoft Office.” 51

2008 YESENIA ARMENDARIZ writes, “I grad-

uated from Lehigh University this May with bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Studies, Spanish, and Earth and Environmental Science. I will be pursuing my master’s in Environmental Policy Design at Lehigh over the next two years while working as a graduate assistant in the Office of Admissions. I served as president of the Spanish Club for four years and helped found a new student organization, Latino Student Alliance.

We played an integral role in making Hispanic Heritage Month recognized and celebrated on the Lehigh campus.

I also helped bring Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority--the first multicultural greek letter organization in the nation--to the Lehigh campus. 52 MICHELE BARNHILL graduated with

honors from Claremont McKenna College with a B.S. degree in Biology.

In addition, she made the All-Conference Academic team this past year.

Michele is in her first year of study at Georgetown Medical School. 53 SAM DEBOLD graduated from the

University of Notre Dame and is starting her first year at Texas Tech Medical School.

DANNI LIN graduated in May from

Duke University, Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with a Political Science degree. She started this fall at Columbia Law School. 55 REBECCA MYER (BECKY) graduated in May from DePauw University with 62 | Class Notes

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a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. She plans to take a year off and then start a graduate program in August 2013. 54 JESSICA NICHOLLS graduated from

Hendrix College with a degree in Spanish and was accepted into the Teach for America program. She teaches 2nd grade at Tallulah Elementary School in Tallulah, La. 56 SCHOONER SONNTAG is engaged to

Emma Katz. 57 CAITLIN WILENCHIK writes, “I was in

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the Miss Arizona Pageant 2012, my first pageant, and received first-runner up. I have also been the Face of the Arizona Foothills Magazine this year. I graduated from the University of Arizona and am studying for the LSAT to attend law school next year. I am currently Miss Paradise Valley, and will hopefully succeed in gaining the title of Miss Arizona USA, and then compete in the Miss USA pageant.” 58

2009 BEN MURPHY, a senior at Pomona

College majoring in geology and physics, was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for Excellence in Education, one of only two Arizona recipients of this prestigious award. The program provides scholarships to talented college students who intend to pursue careers in science, mathematics, or engineering. 61

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HANNAH KEOGH says, “I had a suc-

cessful finish to my sophomore year at the University of Arizona and spent the summer abroad in Segovia, Spain, while finishing my minor in Spanish. I also interned for CollegeFashionista.com.

I am very involved in my sorority, Pi Beta Phi, and also serve UA by giving tours as an Arizona Ambassador.” 59 ALEXIS MYERS transferred from Mount Holyoke College to Vanderbilt University and declared her major in public policy studies. 60

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2011 CHANEN writes, "Since graduating from PCDS, I've made a new, chilly home at Harvard College.

But I couldn't stay away from PCDS for too long, so I interned in the Office of Alumni Affairs last summer. I also interned for an online fashion startup, MIKEL. In August, I traveled to Beijing with the Harvard Summit for Young Leaders Conference, where I taught four classes of Chinese high school students about American holidays." 62

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CHRISTINE STOCKSLAGER received the

Faculty Choice Award for Excellence in Spanish at Texas Christian University in the spring. This annual award from the university’s Department of Spanish and Hispanic Studies honors overall excellence in Spanish. 63 ● ● ●

Do you have news to share? We are always excited to hear from you. Please send pictures and details about a graduation, a new job, a birth, engagement or marriage announcement, a recent trip, a new hobby, or a visit with another alumnus. Email your news to Kelsey Neal, Director of Alumni Affairs, at kelsey.neal@pcds. org. We look forward to learning what you have been up to!

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Giving

ANNUAL REPORT ON

“Apart from the ballot box, philanthropy presents the one opportunity the individual has to express his meaningful choice over the direction in which our society will progress.” - George G. Kirstein

JUDY MCADAMS, Director Of Annual Giving & JAMES CALLEROZ WHITE, Director Of Advancement

OUR DONORS For over 50 years, our donors have responded thoughtfully and generously when asked for support.

On behalf of the students and faculty at Phoenix Country Day School, thank you. Your gifts have touched every aspect of the School—the people, programs, and facilities that come together to create the transformative environment that is PCDS. Last year was one of the most successful years ever at PCDS in every facet of school life, including a large percentage of National Merit Scholars, multiple state athletic championships, and state and national awards for the arts. So many of the accomplishments of our students and faculty have been made possible to some degree by the generosity of those who have given to the Annual Fund. This generosity has enabled PCDS to provide opportunities for our students that go way beyond what tuition alone can fund.

The level of excellence that Phoenix Country Day School has achieved reflects years of investment from generous and loyal supporters. We are extremely grateful to all those who have supported PCDS in the past because their generosity built a foundation of excellence. We are truly indebted to those who currently support PCDS because their support has enabled us to continue to move forward. And lastly, we are hopeful that current and new donors will continue to invest in a PCDS education because they believe, as we do, that our future as an institution, and the future of the students we serve, will continue to get brighter.

Thank you for all you do to support PCDS. With gratitude, The PCDS Advancement Office

THE ANNUAL FUND The Annual Fund aims to make up the difference between tuition dollars received and the actual cost of a PCDS education. It is the School’s top fundraising priority. The Annual Fund benefits every student every day in every aspect of the PCDS experience, and is vital to making PCDS the special place it is for our students.

THE PHOENIX FUND As participation in annual fund giving steadily increased, we wanted to create an identity to bring our com-

munity together. We are delighted to introduce our new name for the annual fund, The Phoenix Fund.

and teaching environment that is second to none and is clearly an oasis of education here in the desert.

Remember that the impact of your donation to The Phoenix Fund will be felt by current as well as future generations of students. We hope that if you haven’t already contributed, you will consider doing so this year. Your donation can, and will, make a very real difference.

THE SAGUARO SOCIETY

Gifts to The Phoenix Fund offer the School maximum flexibility to create, develop, and maintain a learning

Going forward, The Saguaro Society will honor those donors who give consecutively for more than three years.

With your support, the School— your school—continues to discover the promise, inspire the journey, and celebrate the achievement of our students.

Again, thank you!

GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND FOUNDER’S CIRCLE - ($25,000.00 + ) Jewish Communal Fund

Kathryn & Thomas Kempner ’71 Linda F. Noyes Charitable Lead Trust

Linda Noyes

Kate Portanova ’96

Zeb Portanova ’97

Clarissa (Simek) ’88

& Brian Robinson Brandi & Michael Minor Najafi Companies

Cheryl & Jahm Najafi Mary Stoner & James Wendt AQUILAE - ($15,000.00 + ) Carol & Larry Clemmensen Cole Capital Equity Fund Advisors The Denver Foundation

Shelby & Stephen Butterfield ROUNDTABLE - ($7,500.00 + ) Anonymous Beverly & Peter Ax Century Foundation

Amy & Timothy Louis ’81 Roger S. Firestone Foundation

Jacqueline & Nicholas Firestone Louis Foundation, Inc.

Julie & Herbert Louis Mary & Dennis Wise PHOENIX SOCIETY - ($5,000.00 + ) Anonymous Carrie & Morris Aaron Kathy & Lawrence Bain Julia & Taylor Burke Herman Chanen Jeanne & Steven Chanen Donna & Douglas Currault Patricia & Robert Dettmer Freeport-McMoRan Copper

& Gold Foundation Larraine Ho & Pravin Dugel Elizabeth Byrnes & Barton Faber Stephanie & Adam Goodman Donna & Stephen Johnson Julie & Nick Sakellariadis ’69 Stephanie McGillivray EAGLE FELLOWSHIP - ($2,500.00 + ) Anonymous Wendy & Michael Beninato Polly & Blair Bindley

Addison & Walt Brown Stacy & Richard Cooper Kerry & Dirk Cussler The Firefly Trust

Andrew Norris ’81

Joan B. Norris

Jonathan Norris ’77 Rita & Samuel Garvin Sheela & Mark Giraudo Erin & Michael Ham SC Johnson Donna & David Loretta Irina & Marius Nistor Erin & Craig Olschansky Joanne Shen & Robert Ortega Sarah & John Pappas Wendy & Laurel Prieb Sylvia Mamby & Brian Puglisi Julie & Vasif Sabeeh Penny & Robert Sarver Tracy & Marc Schwimmer Nancy & Jason Singer Mitzi Krockover & Jacque Sokolov Shoshana & Robert Tancer Michelle & Adam Tuton Charlene & Jim Whitfill LEADERSHIP CIRCLE - ($1,000.00 + ) Anonymous Maria-Goreth Fidalgo & Lishan Aklog Rebecca & Ken Allison Annaliza & Kenneth Anaeme Trisha Refo & Don Bivens Linda Jorgensen-Bracher

& G. Alan Bracher Tracy & William Brennan Mistalene & James Calleroz White Joo & David Cantor Peter B. Clark Maria & Joseph Cooper Debora Tennant & Juan Corsillo Sybil Francis & Michael Crow Angela & John Dagirmanjian Misty Anne & Fabrice Dechoux Shelly & Mark Detmer Carol & Bill Dever Eli Lilly & Company Jacqueline & Nicholas Firestone Sally & Karl Forster The Mikita Foundation

Noel & Joseph Garagiola, Jr. Susan & Thomas Garrity Theresa & Michael Gregory

Susan & Mark Greenfield Jeri & Jason Hanson Jackie & John Hayden ’82 Henry Family Foundation

Leslie & David Lewis Michelle & Michael Hosmar Alisa & Charles Jost Mary Beth & Andrew Kent Kwang-Wu Kim Jill & Burt Kohler Cristina & Shane Lewis Toni & Don Loback Joyce & Dorsey Lynch Jackie & Brandon McDermott Kate Groves & Warren Meyer Joan P. Miller Margaret & Steve Minard Jeanne & Chad Miraglia Vicki & Neil Motzkin John S. Mueller Kelsey Neal Elizabeth Olson Claudia & Shahram Partovi Kathryn & Michael Peters Colleen & Thomas Peterson Terry Switsky & Savas Petrides James Pfeiffer Dana & Peter Powell Nancy Gonzales & Peter Reilly Shirley Michels & Bernard Rethore Beverly & Michael Roberts Lydia & Andrew Rodin Jeanne Wilcox & Joseph Rody Leigh & Brent Roland Alpa & Ashesh Sanghvi Kelly Hsu & Charles Schron Natalia & Anthony Sheesley Susan & Charles Shields Eva Sperber-Porter & Mark Svejda Chris & Eric Swett Marcella & Fife Symington Ann Taylor Anne Mueller Thoits Jennifer Treadway Renee & Chida Tse Margaret M. Tse Stacy & Michael Tucker Lisa & Brian H. Walsh Pamela & Michael Watson Ellen & Ian Whitmore Kimberly & Michael Yue Sheila & Michael Zuieback

COMMUNITY CIRCLE - (UP TO $999)

Terry & Eric Cole

Julie Grasso

Anonymous

Deanna & Paul Conomos

Barbara & David Greenberg

Kimberly Abbott

Dell Taylor & Jerry R. Cook

Cindy Griffin

Maha & Nabil Abou-Haidar

Judy Mitchell & Lance Coon

Ann Stanton & Robert Haddock

Jenifer & Ayad Agha

Donna Corbett

Dan Haddock ’06

Ruth Bristol & Felipe Albuquerque

Clint Corcoran ’03

John Haddock ’03

Ray S. Alderman, Jr.

Marlene & T. J. Corcoran

Nell Haddock ’99

Norma & Randy Allmon

Mark Corliss

Antoinette Hall

Heather Arguello

Carla Cose-Giallella

Beth & Curtis Hamann

Arizona Public Service

Elaine & John Crabb

Tammy McLeod & John Hamilton

Jennifer Scudiere & Dominic Armato

Toni & Vincent Curci

Angela & Edward Harris ’88

Alex Ashby ’05

Peter Curzon ’04

Li-An Hsieh & Patrick Heath

Stephanie & Jonathan Ashman

Yana & Igor Dashevsky

Carrie & Barton Hechtman ’79

Patricia & Blair Ashner

Michael Dean

Kristin & Robert Hendrickson

Ilene Aube

Andrea Decker

Nancy (Volpe) ’74 & Lee Hinsley

Lyn Bacon

Melinda & Thomas DeMark ’93

Jeanel Hoagland

Smita & John Bailey

Deutsche Bank

Kim & Phat Hoang

Nicole Barber

Liz & Dan Dever

Mary & Sean Hobin

Jessica & F. David Barranco

Jacqueline & Tim Dollander

Adrienne Meredith & Brian Hoblit ’92

Alison & Michael Bassoff

Linda & Ira Drate

Michele & Bryan Huskey

Riham & Ahmed Bedeir

Kathleen & David Drewitz

Intel Matching Gifts

Laura & Jeff Beraznik

Paula & Mort Dukehart

Jaki Ivins

Kristie & Gary Berg

Sarah Vieh Dworkin ’98

Eric Jackson

David Biel ’01

Farah Sutton & Dan Eberhart

Marilyn & Louis Jacobo

Marie & Roger Bippus

Lee Edwards

Michelle Rotman Jassem ’89

Carelie Bisinger

Beth & John Elardo

Nancy Best Johnston ’80

Salma Jesmin & Amar Bista

Christian Eriksen

Jay Kahn ’98

Sarah & David Bodney

Sadie Etheridge

Jean & Robert Kosower

Brittany Bonfield ’06

Kai Etheridge

Ann & Gary Lane

Adrienne Bonnet

Sharon Mills & Bruce Feder

Ericka & Tim Larson

Elizabeth & Eric Borowsky

Katy & John Fielder

Arlene Y. Lassila

Gina & Paul Bridgeman

Katherine & Allan Flader

Tina Lassila

Karen & James Bruntz

Maurine Fleming

Nancy Laubach

Lisa Budinger

Michaela Flynn ’06

Janelle Plaza Lederman ’98

Lee Buettner

Julia & Terry Forbis

Seth Leibsohn ’87

Toni & Al Burger

Cynthia Fowler

Courtney Lewis ’00

Susan & Richard Burnham

Valeska French ’93

Leslie & Robert Lewis

Kelly Butler

Jill & Michael Freret

Genevieve & Eli Leyba

Barbara & Patrick Bzdak

Susan Funkhouser

David Linder ’10

Eduardo Caro

Sandra & Guy “Tracy” Gamble III

Nancy & John Linder

Jenny & Kevin Cherilla

Roy Gardner ’71

Victoria & Steve Lindley

Rebel Rice & Adam Chodorow

Joan & G. Kenneth Gates

Julie & Gary Linhart ’88

Wendy & Michael Cianci, Jr.

Susan Gerhard

Jeannie & Carter Lloyds

Lora & Nicholas Cogliani

Yolanda Gilbert

Elizabeth & Carsten Loelke

Lauren & Jordan Cohen

Ronda & Adam Gilburne

Vanessa Lee & Ian Lopatin

Maileen & Mitchell Cohen

Tom Giller

Evelyne & Aristotle Macrodimitris

Lois Sayrs & Scott Cohen

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Daniel Majeski

GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND Kathy & Dick Malone

Barbara (Pritzlaff) ’74

Marti & David Skloven

Ilene Manna

Catherine Smith

Debbie & William Martin

Andri & W. Lee Pierson

Ellen Solowey

Thelma & Ernesto Martinez

Shannon Pierson

Adam Spiegel ’92

Allison & John Mathews

Stewart Pierson

Daisy & Bart Steiner

David Matwijkow

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust

Jennifer Sterling

Sherri & Robert Mayhew

Amy & Alan Pitt

Lucy Marshall & Robert Stern

Susan & John Mazzolini

Jody & Kerry Pokorski

Shirley & Wolf Stiles

Judy McAdams

Tiffany Westlie Pondelik ’00

Laura & Matthew Stockslager

Jessica & Patrick McHonett

Betsy Pregulman

Tracy & Robert Sucato

Andy McKean

Lyvie & Ralph Racine

Linda & Frank Surdakowski

Katie McKean

Jules & Andrew Rafal

Mike Swingler

Mary Kay & Dennis Meyers

Sylvia & Alex Ramirez

Susan & Thomas Sylvester

Microsoft Giving Campaign

Frederika Ranucci ’84

Thuy Vo & Marvin Tam

Leslie Milne

Joyce & Ed Ravitsky

Corey Rudnick ’95 & Tallie Taylor

Betsy (Ryan) ’79 & Doug Miller

Denise & William Reaves

Lee Hong & Keng Boon Tee

Lawrence Mills

Lisa Reid

Barbara Thommen

Jane & Bobby Mirzaie

Lori Reynolds-Smalley ’78

Kenneth Thommen

Serena & J. Andrew Montooth

Elisa & Fernando Reynoso

Sharon & David Thompson

Priscilla & Paul Moore

Bethany Richardson

Caroline Thompson ’05

Kathryn & Kevin Murphy

Lisa Richardson

Elizabeth Thompson ’07

Jennifer & Christopher Neck

Janet & Paul Richmann

Mary Jo Phalen & Ian Thurbon

Mary Helen Neck

Elizabeth & Raymond Rooney

Stephen Ticktin ’88

Laura Neller ’02

Kathy & Burke Rosenzweig

Laura & Daniel Tillman

Carol & Eric Neufer

Barbara Pockaj & Michael Rossides

Wendy & Rick Timone

Kelli Newsome

Dave Rowe

Trudy & Hugh Tom

Sean Newland

Suzanne & Marc Rubin

Lori & Quentin Travis

Nicky B’s LLC

Alison Wrigley Rusack ’76

Ruta & Vijay Wakharkar

Jill Niemczura

Melanie & Felix Sainz

Christopher Walker ’65

Maria Nolasco

Kimberly & Eric Saur

Christine Grau ’89 & Richard Walton

Cari & Mike Oberfield

Steven Schnall

Brian Wand

Karen & George Odden

Deborah Ravin & Mark Schornak

Laurie & Michael Wang

Jennie Miller Oleksak ’77

Laura & Daniel Schwartz

Sarah Watson ’05

Dawn & Mike Olsen

Mary & Paul Schweikher

Gail Weiss ’77 & Sam Brooke

Desiree Ong

Jack Schwimmer ’09

Cynthia & David Werth

Sandra Orrick

Max Schwimmer ’07

Amanda Mabbitt Westlake ’99

Kathleen Weber & Geoffrey Ossias

Wenda & Dana Seltzer

Kimberly & Hal Owens

Susan & Daniel Semegen

Kelly & Mike Whalen

Dominique van de Stadt

Yuri Kondo & Firoz Shah

Grady Wieger ’06

Gloria Yueh & Sudhama Shastri

Dean Wilkins

Christine & Bruce Palmer

Ulrika Sandbacka & Hani Shennib

Jennifer & Frederic Winssinger

Priya & Gunjan Parikh

Edmund Sherman ’97

William Wrigley ’81

Pamela & Irwin Pasternack

Shelly & Charles Sherman

Jianwen Wu & Yufeng Yang

Indu Gupta & Maitray Patel

Sarah & Charles Sidi

Kimberly Yamanouchi ’74

Carol & Richard Peairs

Joan & Gary Silverman

Lucia Yao

Elizabeth Perla ’00

Leslie Lerman & David Silverman

Katie & Jack Zink

Danielle & Jack Phillips

Eileen & Blair Singer

& Octavio Pajaro

& V. Douglas Pierce

& Garret Westlake

FACULTY & STAFF GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND Anonymous

Maurine Fleming

Maria Nolasco

Kimberly Abbott

Cynthia Fowler

Elizabeth Olson

Rebecca Allison

Valeska French ‘93

Desiree Ong

Randy Allmon

Susan Gerhard

Sandy Orrick

Heather Arguello

Yolanda Gilbert

Christine Palmer

Nicole Barber

Antoinette Hall

Kathryn Peters

Kristie Berg

Jeanel Hoagland

Jack Phillips

Marie Bippus

Michele Huskey

Shannon Pierson

Carelie Bisinger

Jaki Ivins

Stewart Pierson

Adrienne Bonnet

Marilyn Jacobo

Lisa Reid

Gina Bridgeman

Robert Kosower

Bethany Richardson

Karen Bruntz

Shane Lewis

Andrew Rodin

Lee Buettner

Evelyne Macrodimitris

Dave Rowe

Kelly Butler

Daniel Majeski

Melanie Sainz

Barbara Bzdak

Kathy Malone

Kimberly Saur

James Calleroz White

Ilene Manna

Paul Schweikher

Eduardo Caro

William Martin

Marti Skloven

Jenny Cherilla

Susan Mazzolini

Catherine Smith

Jerry R. Cook

Judy McAdams

Jennifer Sterling

Lance Coon

Patrick McHonett

Shirley Stiles

Donna Corbett

Andy McKean

Tracy Sucato

Mark Corliss

Katie McKean

Linda Surdakowski

Carla Cose-Giallella

Mary Kay Meyers

Michael Swingler

John Crabb

Laurence Mills

Barbara Thommen

Andrea Decker

Leslie Milne

Kenneth Thommen

Linda Drate

Bobby Mirzaie

Sharon Thompson

Mort Dukehart

Judy Mitchell

Trudy Tom

Lee Edwards

Kelsey Neal

Jennifer Treadway

Christian Eriksen

Eric Neufer

Dean Wilkins

Sadie Etheridge

Sean Newland

Katie Zink

Kai Etheridge

Kelli Newsome

John Fielder

Jill Niemczura

ALUMNI GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND Alex Ashby ’05

Michelle Rotman Jassem ’89

Frederika Ranucci ’84

David Biel ’01

Nancy Best Johnson ’80

Alison (Wrigley) Rusack ’76

Britney Bonfield ’06

Jay Kahn ’98

Nick Sakellariadis ’69

Clint Corcoran ’03

Thomas Kempner ’71

Lori Reynolds-Smalley ’78

Peter Curzon ’04

Seth Leibsohn ’87

Clarissa (Simek) Robinson ’88

T.R. Demark ’93

Courtney Lewis ’00

Jack Schwimmer ’09

Sarah Vieh Dworkin ’98

David Linder ’10

Max Schwimmer ’07

Nicholas Firestone ’84

Gary Linhart ’88

Edmund Sherman ’97

Michaela Flynn ’06

Timothy Louis ’81

Adam Spiegel ’88

Valeska French ’93*

Betsy (Ryan) Miller ’79

Corey Rudnick Taylor ’95

Roy Gardner ’71

Laura Neller ’02

Caroline Thompson ’05

Christine Grau ’89

Andrew Norris ’81

Elizabeth Thompson ’07

Dan Haddock ’06

Jonathan Norris ’77

Stephen Ticktin ’88

John Haddock ’03

Jennie Miller Olekskak ’77

Christopher Walker ’65

Nell Haddock ’99

Elizabeth Perla ’00

Sarah Watson ’05

Edward Harris ’88

Barbara (Pritzlaff) Pierce ’74

Amanda Mabbitt Westlake ’99

John Hayden ’82

Janelle Plaza Lederman ’98

Gail Weiss ’77

Barton Hechtman ’79

Tiffany Westlie Pondelik ’00

Grady Wieger ’06

Nancy (Volpe) Hinsley ’74

Kate Portanova ’96

William Wrigley ’81

Brian Hoblit ’92

Zeb Portanova ’97

Kimberly Yamanouchi ’74

PARENTS’ GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND BY CLASS CLASS OF 2012

Chris & Eric Swett

Ann & Gary Lane

Ilene Aube

Susan & Thomas Sylvester

Genevieve & Eli Leyba

Jessica & F. David Barranco

Lori & Quentin Travis

Stephanie McGillivray

Alison & Michael Bassoff

Renee & Chida Tse

Kate Groves & Warren Meyer

Salma Jesmin & Amar Bista

Michelle & Adam Tuton

Margaret & Steve Minard

Jeanne & Steven Chanen

Ruta & Vijay Wakharkar

Serena & J. Andrew Montooth

Angela & John Dagirmanjian

Terry Switsky & Savas Petrides

Li-An Hsieh & Patrick Heath

CLASS OF 2014

Denise & William Reaves

Mary & Sean Hobin

Beverly & Peter Ax

Elisa & Fernando Reynoso

Sherri & Robert Mayhew

Lois Sayrs & Scott Cohen

Wenda & Dana Seltzer

Kate Groves & Warren Meyer

Sally & Karl Forster

Mitzi Krockover & Jacque Sokolov

Vicki & Neil Motzkin

Susan & Mark Greenfield

Eva Sperber-Porter & Mark Svejda

Joyce & Ed Ravitsky

Alisa & Charles Jost

Laura & Matthew Stockslager

Steven Schnall

Leslie & David Lewis

Pamela & Michael Watson

Deborah Ravin & Mark Schornak

Victoria & Steve Lindley

Charlene & Jim Whitfill

Joan & Gary Silverman

Amy & Timothy Louis ’81

Ellen & Ian Whitmore

Laura & Matthew Stockslager

Betsy (Ryan) ’79 & Doug Miller

Jennifer & Frederic Winssinger

Chris & Eric Swett

Dominique van de Stadt

CLASS OF 2016

CLASS OF 2013

Amy & Alan Pitt

& Octavio Pajaro

Anonymous Lyvie & Ralph Racine

Anonymous Jenifer & Ayad Agha

Wendy & Michael Cianci

Elizabeth & Raymond Rooney

Kathy & Lawrence Bain

Lauren & Jordan Cohen

Alpa & Ashesh Sanghvi

Joo & David Cantor

Maileen & Mitchell Cohen

Laura & Daniel Schwartz

Jeanne & Steven Chanen

Debora Tennant-Corsillo & Juan Corsillo

Sarah & Charles Sidi

Lauren & Jordan Cohen

Toni & Vincent Curci

Ellen Solowey

Maileen & Mitchell Cohen

Donna & Douglas Currault

Lori & Quentin Travis

Maria & Joseph Cooper

Sharon Mills & Bruce Feder

Mary Stoner & James R. Wendt

Larraine Ho & Pravin Dugel

Julie Grasso

Cynthia & David Werth

Rita & Samuel Garvin

Barbara & David Greenberg

Yufeng Yang & Jianwen Wu

Ronda & Adam Gilburne

Michelle & Michael Hosmar

Susan & Mark Greenfield

Mary Beth & Andrew Kent

CLASS OF 2015

Erin & Michael Ham

Donna & David Loretta

Carrie & Morris Aaron

Jackie & John Hayden ’82

Margaret & Steve Minard

Maria-Goreth Fidalgo & Lishan Aklog

Michelle & Michael Hosmar

Kathryn & Kevin Murphy

Beverly & Peter Ax

Alisa & Charles Jost

Sarah & John Pappas

Alison & Michael Bassoff

Leslie & David Lewis

Jody & Kerry Pokorski

Sarah & David Bodney

Victoria & Steve Lindley

Sylvia Mamby & Brian Puglisi

Lora & Nicholas Cogliani

Sherri & Robert Mayhew

Beverly & Michael Roberts

Toni & Vincent Curci

Jeanne & Chad Miraglia

Jeanne Wilcox & Joseph Rody

Yana & Igor Dashevsky

Cari & Mike Oberfield

Kelly Hsu & Charles Schron

Jill & Michael Freret

Wendy & Laurel Prieb

Lucy Marshall & Robert Stern

Beth & Curtis Hamann

Elisa & Fernando Reynoso

PARENTS’ GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND BY CLASS Penny & Robert Sarver

CLASS OF 2018

Rebel Rice & Adam Chodorow

Shelly & Charles Sherman

Carrie & Morris Aaron

Misty Anne & Fabrice Dechoux

Christine Grau ’89 & Richard Walton

Maha & Nabil Abou-Haidar

Larraine Ho & Pravin Dugel

Laurie & Michael Wang

Annaliza & Kenneth Anaeme

Beth & Bart Faber

Beverly & Peter Ax

Rita & Samuel Garvin

CLASS OF 2017

Smita & John Bailey

Sheela & Mark Giraudo

Maria-Goreth Fidalgo & Lishan Aklog

Sarah & David Bodney

Tina Lassila

Annaliza & Kenneth Anaeme

Tracy & William Brennan

Julie & Gary Linhart ’88

Riham & Ahmed Bedeir

Jenny & Kevin Cherilla

Vanessa Lee & Ian Lopatin

Linda Jorgensen-Bracher

Carol & Larry Clemmensen

Brandi & Michael Minor

Terry & Eric Cole

Jeanne & Chad Miraglia

& G. Alan Bracher

Addison & Walt Brown

Michael Dean Cheryl & Jahm Najafi

Jenny & Kevin Cherilla

Stephanie & Adam Goodman

Dawn & Mike Olsen

Carol & Larry Clemmensen

Cindy Griffin

Desiree Ong

Debora Tennant-Corsillo

Jackie & John Hayden ’82

Kimberly & Hal Owens

Eric Jackson Colleen & Thomas Peterson

& Juan Corsillo

Sybil Francis & Michael Crow

Serena & J. Andrew Montooth

Lyvie & Ralph Racine

Donna & Douglas Currault

Priscilla & Paul Moore

Lisa Richardson

Liz & Dan Dever

Cheryl & Jahm Najafi

Lydia & Andrew Rodin

Tom Giller Cari & Mike Oberfield

Leigh & Brent Roland

Antoinette Hall Karen & George Odden

Barbara Pockaj & Michael Rossides

Tammy McLeod & John Hamilton

Kimberly & Hal Owens

Penny & Robert Sarver

Donna & Stephen Johnson

Claudia & Shahram Partovi

Mitzi Krockover & Jacque Sokolov

Jill & Burt Kohler

Indu Gupta & Maitray Patel

Thuy Vo & Marvin Tam

Amy & Tim Louis ’81

Shannon & Stewart Pierson

Lori & Quentin Travis

Thelma & Ernesto Martinez

Janet & Paul Richmann

Yufeng Yang & Jianwen Wu

Jackie & Brandon McDermott

Leigh & Brent Roland

Jennifer & Christopher Neck

Elizabeth & Raymond Rooney

CLASS OF 2020

Dawn & Mike Olsen

Alpa & Ashesh Sanghvi

Patricia & Blair Ashner

Erin & Craig Olschansky

Penny & Robert Sarver

Laura & Jeff Beraznik

Kathleen Weber & Geoffrey Ossias

Laura & Daniel Schwartz

Salma Jesmin & Amar Bista

Claudia & Shahram Partovi

Daisy & Bart Steiner

Liz & Dan Dever

Shannon & Stewart Pierson

Lucy Marshall & Robert Stern

Jacqueline & Nicholas Firestone

Betsy Pregulman

Tracy & Robert Sucato

Jeri & Jason Hanson

Denise & William Reaves

Christine Grau ’89 & Richard Walton

Alisa & Charles Jost

Nancy Gonzales & Peter Reilly

Laurie & Michael Wang

Jill & Burt Kohler

Suzanne & Marc Rubin

Pamela & Michael Watson

Joyce & Dorsey Lynch

Lee Kuan & Keng Boon Tee

Allison & John Mathews

Anne Mueller Thoits

CLASS OF 2019

Priscilla & Paul Moore

Michelle & Adam Tuton

Trisha Refo & Don Bivens

Jennifer & Christopher Neck

Brian Wand Tracy & William Brennan

Claudia & Shahram Partovi

Charlene & Jim Whitfill

Terry Switsky & Savas Petrides

Joo & David Cantor

Janet & Paul Richmann

Kim & Phat Hoang

Kristin & Robert Hendrickson

Suzanne & Marc Rubin

Elizabeth & Carsten Loelke

Joanne Shen & Robert Ortega

Eileen & Blair Singer

Amy & Timothy Louis ’81

Pamela & Irwin Pasternack

Anne Mueller Thoits

Kathleen Weber & Geoffrey Ossias

Dana & Peter Powell

Lisa & Brian Walsh

Colleen & Thomas Peterson

Jules & Andrew Rafal

Brian Wand Clarissa (Simek) ’88 & Brian Robinson

Gloria Yueh & Sudhama Shastri

Laurie & Michael Wang

Suzanne & Marc Rubin

Natalia & Anthony Sheesley

Sheila & Michael Zuieback

Mary Jo Phalen & Ian Thurbon

Laura & Daniel Tillman

Wendy & Rick Timone

CLASS OF 2021

CLASS OF 2023

Charlene & Jim Whitfill

Patricia & Blair Ashner

Anonymous

Kimberly & Michael Yue

Polly & Blair Bindley

Lisa Budinger

Linda Jorgensen-Bracher

Julia & Taylor Burke

CLASS OF 2025

Shelby & Stephen Butterfield

Anonymous

Terry & Eric Cole

Barbara & Patrick Bzdak

Jennifer Scudiere & Dominic Armato

Deanna & Paul Conomos

Terry & Eric Cole

Stephanie & Jon Ashman

Stacy & Richard Cooper

Kerry & Dirk Cussler

Riham & Ahmed Bedeir

Kerry & Dirk Cussler

Jeri & Jason Hanson

Lisa Budinger

Kathleen & David Drewitz

Michele & Bryan Huskey

Julia & Taylor Burke

Katherine & Allan Flader

Jeannie & Carter Lloyds

Shelly & Mark Detmer

Stephanie & Adam Goodman

Irina & Marius Nistor

Jacqueline & Tim Dollander

Julie & Gary Linhart

Julie & Vasif Sabeeh

Beth & John Elardo

Jeanne & Chad Miraglia

Susan & Charles Shields

Theresa & Michael Gregory

Erin & Craig Olschansky

Nancy & Jason Singer

Jeri & Jason Hanson

Indu Gupta & Maitray Patel

Tracy & Robert Sucato

Kim & Phat Hoang

& G. Alan Bracher

Lisa Richardson Marcella & Fife Symington

Jeannie & Carter Lloyds

Nancy & Jason Singer

Thuy Vo & Marvin Tam

Clarissa (Simek) ’88 & Brian Robinson

Marcella & Fife Symington

Anne Mueller Thoits

Lydia & Andrew Rodin

Kimberly & Michael Yue

Stacy & Michael Tucker

Ulrika Sandbacka & Hani Shennib

Laurie & Michael Wang

Marcella & Fife Symington

CLASS OF 2022

Kelly & Mike Whalen

Stacy & Michael Tucker

Jenifer & Ayad Agha

Kelly & Mike Whalen

Stephanie & Jonathan Ashman

CLASS OF 2024

Smita & John Bailey

Anonymous

Julia & Taylor Burke

Ruth Bristol & Felipe Albuquerque

Susan & Richard Burnham

Wendy & Michael Beninato

Deanna & Paul Conomos

Susan & Richard Burnham

Michael Dean

Deanna & Paul Conomos

Melinda & T.R. DeMark

Melinda & Thomas DeMark

Kathleen & David Drewitz

Farah Sutton & Dan Eberhart

Maurine Fleming

Katherine & Allan Flader

Theresa & Michael Gregory

Stephanie & Adam Goodman

GIFTS TO DESIGNATED FUNDS

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT DONATIONS Carrie & Morris Aaron

Arleen & Frederic Schwartz Tracy & Marc Schwimmer Susan & Daniel Semegen Dimitri Shivkov Shoshana & Robert Tancer Charlene & James Whitfill

CHINESE STUDIES ENDOWMENT Rene & Chida Tse Margaret M. Tse

REX L. ALLISON CHAIR FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Rex Allison Education Foundation Genevieve Allison Bush

FINANCIAL AID Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon

ROBERT WILSON SCHOLARSHIP MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon

JAMES ROOF HUMANITIES MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon

ROBOTICS Ilene Aube Mirelle & Conan Dailey Patricia Sallen & Paul Davenport Dignity Health Sharon Mills & Bruce Feder Praveena & Ramkrishna Kothur Elizabeth & James Lincoln Linda & Thomas Marquis Benjamin Mattinson Shelly & Manoj Rawal Elizabeth & Raymond Rooney Elise Schornak Joan & Gary Silverman Christine & Eric Swett

ANNA MUNCZEK MEMORIAL FUND Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon Carol & Richard Peairs

KATHERINE DELONGY O’CONNOR SCHOLARSHIP MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND Maria DeLongy LINDA BRYANT MEMORIAL ART FUND Alisa & Charles Jost Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon Carol & Richard Peairs MARY LU SYLLABA MEMORIAL FUND Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon KENDRICK PROJECT EXCELLENCE ENDOWMENT Anonymous Rebecca & Ken Allison Stacy & Richard Cooper DeFalco Family Foundation Victoria & Steve Lindley Larraine Ho & Pravin Dugel Eagle Open Sponsors Wendy & Michael Beninato Polly & Blair S. Bindley Addison & Walt Brown Holly & Gary Fechtmeyer Nancy & William “Fritz” Henze ’67 International Dairy Distributors James Van Houten Zion Management Service The Mikita Foundation Noel & Joseph Garagiola Barbara & Henry Hirvela Jeanne Lamont Nicky B’s LLC Jessica & F. David Barranco Yomi Owoyemi Elizabeth J. Perla Shirley Michels & Bernard Rethore

SYDNEY ANNE STEWART MEMORIAL FUND Julia & Taylor Burke UNRESTRICTED ENDOWMENT The Dorrance Family Foundation Susan J. Bansak Sandra & Guy “Tracy” P. Gamble Louis Foundation, Inc. Herbert J. Louis Carol & Richard Peairs VICTOR D. FEENEY MEMORIAL AWARD ENDOWMENT Mary G. Feeney WEST CAMPUS CAMPAIGN ENDOWMENT Wendy & Michael Beninato Shelley & Geoffrey D. Campbell Rita & Samuel S. Garvin Edward K. Gaylord Donna & Stephen Johnson YOUNGEST RED-HAIRED SON ENDOWMENT Judith Mitchell & Lance Coon Carol & Richard Peairs

ARIZONA TAX CREDIT GIFTS Carrie & Morris Aaron

Lisa Camarata

Ralph E. Farrar

Maha & Nabil Abou-Haidar

Elisabeth & Paul Cereghini

Holly & Gary Fechtmeyer

Lishan Aklog & Maria-Goreth Fidalgo

Jennifer & Kevin Cherilla

Sharon Mills & Bruce Feder

Rebecca & Ken Allison

Rebel Rice & Adam Chodorow

Alisa & Earl Feng

Steven J. Ashby

Wendy S. Cianci

Adele Ferrini

Stephanie & Jonathan Ashman

Carol & Larry Clemmensen

Ann & William Fielder

Beverly & Peter Ax

Lauren & Jordan Cohen

Patricia Finkenstadt

Albena Baharieva

Tracy & Joshua Cohen

Jacqueline & Nicholas Firestone

Smita & John Bailey

Lois Sayrs & Scott Cohen

Sharon & Peter Flanagan-Hyde

Kathy & Lawrence Bain

Deanna & Paul Conomos

Joanie Flatt

Juliette & Douglas Barkdull

Lance Coon & Judith Mitchell

Elizabeth Foglesong ’03

Jisook & Bruce Barnhill

Nazreen & Furrokh Cooper

Cynthia Fowler

F. David & Jessica Barranco

Kimberly Cordes

Nancy Bodinet & Todd Franks

Toshi & Keith Baum

Elaine & John Crabb

Mari Fukami & Jon Sabol

David Benin

Kimberly A. Crain

Susan Funkhouser

Michael A. Berch

Marylouise Cullen

Mary & John Furniss

Kristie & Gary Berg

Donna & Douglas Currault

Guy Gamble ’08

Laura Dickinson & Paul Berman

Kristine Curry

Rita & Samuel Garvin

Connie & Jim Binns, Jr.

Anne & Thomas Curzon

Kevin Ghaswala ’98

Wilma & David Birk

Angela & John Dagirmanjian

Robin & Thomas Gilson

Carelie Bisinger

Yana & Igor Dashevsky

Mirav & Stephen Glacy

Sarah & David Bodney

Vishal Dass

Erin & John Gogolak

Joanne & William Bonfield

Patricia Sallen & Paul Davenport

Marjorie & Philip Goldfarb

Fernanda & Ruggero Borletti

Michael Dean

Lorelei & David Gonzales

Linda Jorgensen-Bracher

Misty Anne & Fabrice Dechoux

Stephanie & Adam Goodman

& G. Alan Bracher

Bette DeGraw

Gary J. Goodman

David A. Bradley

Shelly & Mark Detmer

Adriana Holy & Alan Gordon

Gina & Paul Bridgeman

Laura Dickinson

Jane & R. Randall Grace

Maria Bridgeman

Philip Dodell

Janet Gray

Ruth Bristol & Felipe Albuquerque

Kathleen & David Drewitz

Susan & Mark Greenfield

Ellen & Fowler Brown

Nancy C. Driessche

Don Greenlee

Fowler Brown ’06

Larraine Ho & Pravin Dugel

Nancy Greenlee

Julia & Richard Burke, Jr.

Celeste & Arnaud Dunoyer

Penelope Greenler

Susan & Richard Burnham

Keith Eager

Theresa & Michael Gregory

Kelly Butler

Randy Eakin

Susan & H. Hughes Grehan

Shelby & Stephen Butterfield

Arthur Eisenhower

Torie & Ian Hackett ’89

Sally Reinbold Button

David Elliott

Sherrie & Robert Hackett

Patrick Bzdak

Karin & Michael Epstein

Jane Hagen

ARIZONA TAX CREDIT GIFTS Antoinette Hall

Alison Lewis & Craig Krumwiede

Don Nemke

Bruce Hallowell

Lance C. Labun

Carol & Eric Neufer

Erin & Michael Ham

Heather Larson

Irina & Marius Nistor

Beth & Curtis Hamann

Arlene Y. Lassila

Joan B. Norris

Jeri & Jason Hanson

Tina Lassila

Kendall & Louis Novoa-Takara

Betty & Wesley Harker

Wendy & Harry Lee

Karen & George Odden

Michelle Harrison

Stephen E. Lee

Norman Odden

Thomas Harvey ’96

Tami Dairiki & Evan Leibner

Kristen Oelze ’04

Li-An Hsieh & Patrick Heath

Donna & Marc Levison

Elizabeth Olson

Debra A. Hill

Leslie & Robert Lewis

Amy & Robert Orenstein

Iva & Lawrence Hirsch

Cathy & Herman Lewkowitz ’79

Joanne Shen & Robert Ortega

Barbara (Jones) ’70 & Henry Hirvela

Genevieve & Eli Leyba

Kathleen Weber & Geoffrey Ossias

Sean & Mary Hobin

Steve & Victoria Lindley

Kimberly & David Paltzik

Michelle & Michael Hosmar

Susan K. Lindley

Teresa Seville & Panagiotis Panoto

Joel Hoxie

An-Pyng & Jong-Shang

Devesh Patel

Susannah Hsu

Olg & Hector Lopez

Indu Gupta & Maitray Patel

Elizabeth deBeus Hull

Joyce & Dorsey Lynch

Carol & Richard Peairs

Laura & Ronald Huser

Mali Mahalingam

Kathryn Ann & Michael Peters

Michelle & Bryan E. Huskey

Daniel D. Maki

Amy & Alan Pitt

Rebecca Yuan & Lun-Chih Hwang

Kathy & Dick Malone

Jody & Kerry Pokorski

Brian Imdieke

Lisa Mansueto

Heather Post-Logan

Rodney Iverson

Stephanie Martin

Frank M. Price, Jr.

Ricky Ivie

Ida & Robert Mattinson

Wendy & Laurel Prieb

Jaki Ivins

Susan & John Mazzolini

Sobha & Raju Pusapati

Jerry James

Carolyn McCord

Jules & Andrew Rafal

Donna & Stephen Johnson

Edward McGee

Janaki & Panol Ram

Robert Jones

John McKelvey

John Randolph ’69

Alisa & Charles Jost

Joann Miller

Graeme Rankine

Ellen & Robert Kant

Margaret & Steve Minard

Frederika Ranucci ’84

Dana & John Kay

Brandi & Michael Minor

Joyce & Ed Ravitsky

Mary Beth & Andrew Kent

Jennifer & Samuel Money

Michael D. Reardon

Ayesha & Mansur Khan

Priscilla & Paul Moore

Phyllis & James Rector

Carol Colombo & Louis Kirby

Julie M. Moss

Denise & Naveen Reddy

Frances Kirschner

Vicki & Neil Motzkin

Ralph Reid

Robert Kline

Cecilia Murillo & Jeffrey Lehrer

Marilyn Rethore

Rachel & Doyle Knudson

Kathryn & Kevin Murphy

Shohreh Moshrefzadeh & Hamid Rezva

Alona & Jacob Kost

John Naumann

Lisa Richardson

Mitzi Krockover & Jacque Sokolov

Richard Nearhood

Janet & Paul Richmann

Joanne & J. Patrick Riding

Jonah Shacknai

Jennifer Treadway

Clarissa (Simek) ’88 & Brian Robinson

Melissa & John Sheridan IV

Thuy Vo

Jeanne Wilcox & Joseph Rody

Shelly & Charles Sherman

Linda & Peter Volny

Kathleen & Stephan Rohacz

Sarah Showard

Kathleen & Robert Wade

Louise & Kenneth Rosengren

David Silverman

Judith Walker

Barbara Pockaj & Michael Rossides

Joan & Gary Silverman

Lisa & Brian Walsh

Kurt Rowe

Irene Silverthorn

Laurie & Michael Wang

Julie & Vasif Sabeeh

Amy & Lee Silverthorn

Paul Warthen

Joanna Solowska & Myllin Safir

Jack O. Sipperley

Robert B. Washburn

Melanie & Felix Sainz

Harvey K. Smith

Kari & Jeffrey Watts

Smita & Anil Samant

William Smith

Sandra & E. Louis Werner, Jr.

Julie & John Samota

S. Snegireff

Cynthia & David Werth

Stephen E. Sample

Mitzi Krockover & Jacque Sokolov

Kelly & Michael Whalen

Ulrika Sandbacka & Hani Shennib

Judy & Richard Spiegel

Charlene & Jim Whitfill

Jennifer & Charles Sands

Steven Spivey

Andrew & Georgeanna Wielkoszewski

Alpa & Ashesh Sanghvi

Ryan Stark

Jeanne Wilcox & Joseph Rody

Penny & Robert Sarver

Toni & Craig Stein

Sue Wilcox

Lois Sayrs & Scott Cohen

Daisy & Bart Steiner

Jonathan Woodard

Bahar & Markus Schippel

Jeffrey Stern ’90

Pam & Jerry Wright

Steven Schnall

Lucy Marshall & Robert Stern

Yufeng Yang & Jianwen Wu

Kelly Hsu & Charles Schron

Laura & Matthew Stockslager

Melinda & Robert Xanthos

Laura & Daniel Schwartz

Areena Swarup

Dr. & Mrs. H. W. Yamanouchi

Arleen & Frederic Schwartz

Susan & Thomas Sylvester

Pauline Tom & Bruce Yee

John Schwarzmann

Marcella & John Symington

Rebecca Yuan

Mary & Paul Schweikher

Justin Talbot-Stern

Kimberly & Michael Yue

Jack Schwimmer ’09

Thuy Vo & Marvin Tam

Qi Wu & Kang Zhang

Tracy & Marc Schwimmer

Florine Tamasco

Ellen Ziegler

Max Schwimmer ’07

Shoshana & Robert Tancer

Carolyn Ziffrin

Susan & Lee Segal

Darin Taverna

Susan & Norman Zitomer

Jane Hagen & Thomas Selling

Gwen & Jack Tierney

Jamey & Troy Zurawski

Wenda & Dana Seltzer

Florine Tomasco

Susan & Daniel Semegen

Steven Torres

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Lifers

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Class of 2012

These students attended Phoenix Country Day School from pre-k or kindergarten through their senior year. From the Top: Alex Roeper, Elliot Goldberg, Reid Price, James Barranco, Nate Nearhood, Kate Gonzales, Max Baum. Not pictured: Amy Aube.

1) Headmaster Andrew Rodin’s pink pants. 2) Director of College Counseling Paul Schweikher’s VW bug. 3) Upper School teacher Matt Guthrie’s bicycle. 4) Upper School English teacher Becky Allison. 5) The office of Upper School science teacher Catherine Smith. 6) Upper School Latin teacher Robin Anderson. 7) Lower School P.E. teacher Danny Majeski’s whistle. 8) A favorite phrase of former Middle School teacher Rod Dashnaw. 9) Associate Athletic Director Bob Kosower. 10) Lower School teacher John Fielder. 11) Upper School history teacher Dave Martin.

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