PDS Fall Journal 2020

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FACING FORWARD:

Update on Strategic Plan for

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

2020 EVERYDAY HEROES: Faculty Respond to

COVID-19 PLUS

Report on Philanthropy Class Notes with Alumni Spotlights

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Paul J. Stellato head of school As I write this letter, the campus is as quiet as it was this spring, although the reason for the lull is quite different. Earlier this year, as we retreated to remote instruction and readied ourselves for the opening of school in September, the campus grew still and grew lush in the spring and summer sun and rain. For three days this week, students are enjoying a brief respite as their teachers—some of whom are in their classrooms, others of whom are in their home offices—are moving forward with parent/teacher conferences. For three days before the Thanksgiving break, our faculty are renewing a great Princeton Day School tradition: sharing with all of our parents their insights and experience of the children they teach. In this year, and in this time, these conferences take on greater meaning, as the greater number of students and faculty have enjoyed what teachers and students across the country have longed for: real, live, in-person relationships.

As I write this letter, we are concluding our tenth week of in-person instruction.

Although the numbers have varied a bit from week to week, our school has averaged a weekly, on-campus population of more than 800 of our 950 students. Garbed in masks and slathered in one disinfectant lotion or another, students and faculty continue their lives as they have in every other year. Junior varsity and varsity teams have played a fair number of games, even as much of our traditional competition (mostly the large number of our boarding school opponents) decided not to field fall teams. The appearance of the classroom (all plexiglass partitions, DTENS-D7s and spray bottles) may have changed, but the real work of exchanging ideas and building foundations goes on as it always has. The Facing Forward working groups, advisories, class meetings, affinity groups and clubs, the Garden, the Spokesman: all are in their rightful place, welcoming and encouraging each student to join. I could not be more proud of the school Princeton Day School has willed itself to be this fall.

But as I write this letter, COVID-19 cases in the state of New Jersey—and across our country— are growing in number. We have been fortunate to have experienced very few cases, although I am reminded by the experience of peer schools in our area—many of which will close for extended periods of time—that we have earned and been granted a long reprieve. In our tenth week of in-person instruction, we have benefitted from wise planning, careful and thoughtful execution, and a little good luck. The warm weather has favored us, allowing students and faculty to spend free time and class time in the fall sun. Just a bit audacious, we are putting the final touches on the Thanksgiving assembly and winter athletic schedules. How wonderful it will be to throw open the doors of the Princeton Day School Athletic Center. Fully aware of how far we still must go, we are wise enough to appreciate how far we have come. We have traveled a great distance in ten weeks.

I am hoping for more.

Paul J. Stellato

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A Middle School homeroom begins their day together on campus and at home, September 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE

CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2020!

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PDS REOPENS, AUTUMN PHOTO GALLERY

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FACING FORWARD Update on Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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EVERYDAY HEROES Faculty Respond to COVID-19

12 Retirees 36 Board of Trustees News 40 Report on Philanthropy 2020 73 Class Notes & Alumni Spotlights 112 Remembrances & In Memoriam 114 The Last Word

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Class President Eric Leung

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Faculty speaker Dr. Michael Friedman

Student speaker Maggie Madani

Student speaker Tommy Bocian

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Margaret Schulte Amaral Nasim M. Amer Esther Kobayili Apedo Brianna Kelly Astbury Aaron Razi Baseman James Joseph Smith Bennett Reyna Bhens Thomas Joseph Bocian cum laude Krista Jenna Caasi cum laude Calvin Welch Caputo Maxwell Devlin Caputo John Andrew Carroll Emily Alexandra Antonacci Cavuto cum laude Christopher Lane Cecila cum laude Valerie Giselle Cerna Jaylin Ahmad Champion-Adams Julia R. Chang cum laude Andrew Decker Ciccarone Sophia Hannah Cohen Alexandra Ann DiNovi cum laude Kevin Andrew Dougherty Kyra Lauren Douglass Evan William Dries Armaan Dugar Carly Aliyah Feldstein Riley Kathleen Felsher Brynna Vansant Fisher Alexander Ryan Frank cum laude Zaiya Gandhi cum laude Makayla Anna Gayden Alexandra Glezer Stepan Nikolaevich Gorelenkov Lucas Hayden Green Caroline Elizabeth Haggerty Charlotte Rose Haggerty Alexis Lynn Hausheer Benjamin P. Hornick Joseph Robert Hudicka II Fechi Adaora Inyama cum laude Madison Moro Izzard Ariana Jones William Avery Jones Arihant Kaul

Spencer Lawrence Knerr John F. Kopacz Harini Krishnan Carly Mia Kunkle Julia Anna Lach Caitlin Elizabeth Lee Robert Matthew Lee cum laude Eric Ka Leung Emily Sarah Levine Adayliah Jacqueline Griffin Ley Audrey Siyang Liang Kathryn Arden Lytkowski George Ma cum laude Margaret Ann Rose Madani Tazee E. Mahjied II Grace Evelyne Marshall Jomar Christopher Jordan Meekins Justin Dean Mortman Skylar Ruth Mundenar Ari Nagelberg cum laude Aidan O. Njanja Fassu Alan Victor Norcott Raina Nickesh Pahade Tulsi Pari Sachin H. Patel Joshua Ian Rafferty Dayana Ramirez Zoe Rivera Gregorio Rodriguez IV Ellie Katherine Schofield cum laude Julia M. Sclove Rina A. Sclove cum laude Ankita Sen David Sherman cum laude Justin Sherman cum laude Ahzaria Divinity Silas Harjap Singh Benjamin Elliot Soos Luigi Rafael D. Soriano cum laude Chad Sprague Hannah Yi Su cum laude Annabel Marshall Thomas Megha Elizabeth Thomas cum laude Audrey Khatcherian Toscano Krithika Vasireddy Athena West Tessa Jade Wu Eyal Eran Yakoby FALL 2020

congratulations

The members of the Class of 2020 never appreciated their School more than when their on-campus experience was taken from them last spring with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Showing their resilience and drive, the seniors made the most of the Panthers Online program, including completing arguably the most creative Senior Projects of any class. They participated enthusiastically in cherished and innovatively reimagined end-of-year events, including virtual Blue & White Day, virtual Academic Awards, Baccalaureate and Lifers’ celebrations, and a virtual Commencement on June 5, followed by a campus drive-through car parade on June 6. Working with Head of School Paul Stellato, they capped off a truly exceptional year on August 1 with a successful in-person commencement ceremony, the first return of any PDS students to the campus since it closed in early March. For Senior Spotlights of each student published in the run-up to graduation last spring, click on “School News” after selecting “Quicklinks” at the top of the pds.org homepage.

lifers Margaret Schulte Amaral Thomas Joseph Bocian John Andrew Carroll Emily Alexandra Cavuto Valerie Cerna Jaylin Ahmad Champion-Adams Sophia Hannah Cohen Kyra Lauren Douglass Evan William Dries Julia Anna Lach Caitlin Elizabeth Lee Robert Matthew Lee Adayliah Jacqueline Ley Margaret Ann Rose Madani Tazee E. Mahjied II Grace Evelyne Marshall Jomar Meekins Skylar Ruth Mundenar Alan Victor Norcott Sachin Patel Joshua Ian Rafferty Dayana Ramirez Ahzaria Divinity Silas Annabel Marshall Thomas Audrey Khatcherian Toscano Eyal Eran Yakoby PDS Class of 2020 Lifers joined the School in PreK, K or Grade 1.

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COLLEGE MATRICULATION

CLASS OF 2020

Amherst College Babson College Berklee College of Music Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University

Brown University (3) Bucknell University Colby College Columbia University (2) Cornell University (2) Dartmouth College Dickinson College

Drew University (3) Duke University (2) Elon University Emerson College Emory University Franklin and Marshall College George Washington University (3) Georgetown University (2) Harvard College Johns Hopkins University (2) Lehigh University Loyola University Maryland (3) Middlebury College (5) Muhlenberg College New York University Northeastern University Oberlin College Occidental College (2) Pennsylvania State University Pitzer College Pratt Institute Princeton University (3) Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2) Rutgers University Swarthmore College Syracuse University (3) Texas Christian University The College of New Jersey Trinity College Tufts University United States Coast Guard Academy University of California–Los Angeles University of California–Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Colorado Boulder University of Michigan–Ann Arbor University of Notre Dame (3) University of Pennsylvania (3) University of Richmond University of Southern California University of Vermont Vanderbilt University Villanova University (2) Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College West Virginia University Williams College

cum laude Thomas Bocian Krista Caasi Emily Cavuto Christopher Cecila Julia Chang

Alexandra DiNovi Alex Frank Zaiya Gandhi Fechi Inyama Robert Lee

George Ma Ari Nagelberg Ellie Schofield Rina Sclove David Sherman

Justin Sherman Luigi Soriano Hannah Su Megha Thomas

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GARY LOTT ART PURCHASE AWARD •

The qualities of intellectual curiosity, creativity, integrity and resilience that define each senior class shone through in these award winners and the Class of 2020 as a whole, perhaps more poignantly this year than any other.

ENGLISH AWARD •

Julia Chang ENGLISH AWARD • Kathryn Lytkowski WRITING AWARD • Spencer Knerr HISTORY AWARD • Thomas Bocian MATH AWARD • Alexandra DiNovi JIM WALKER MEMORIAL MATH AWARD •

Joseph Hudicka COMPUTER SCIENCE AWARD • Kyra Douglass COMPUTER SCIENCE AWARD •

Armaan Dugar BIOLOGY AWARD • Megha Thomas THE HUBERT N. ALYEA CHEMISTRY AWARD • Fechi Inyama PHYSICS AWARD • Ari Nagelberg AWARD FOR OVERALL SCIENCE EXCELLENCE • Luigi Soriano ELIZABETH FINE LATIN AWARD • Ankita Sen FRENCH AWARD • Adayliah Ley CHINESE AWARD • Justin Sherman SPANISH AWARD • Zaiya Gandhi DUAL LANGUAGE AWARD • Alexandra Glezer ARCHITECTURE AWARD • Justin Mortman CERAMICS AWARD • Riley Felsher MEDIA AWARD • Aaron Baseman MEDIA AWARD • Makayla Gayden PAINTING AND DRAWING AWARD • Raina Pahade

Head of School Paul J. Stellato speaking at Commencement on August 1

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Sophie Cohen

THE MARK WINSTANLEY ’90 ART PURCHASE AWARD • John Kopacz PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD •

Joe Hudicka

ANDY FRANZ WOODWORKING AWARD •

Ari Nagelberg CHORAL MUSIC AWARD • Christopher Cecila INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AWARD • Hannah Su THEATER AWARD FOR PERFORMANCE • Krista Caasi THEATER AWARD FOR TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT •

Kyra Douglass

DANCE AWARD •

Kathryn Lytkowski ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD • George Ma JOHN DOUGLAS SACKS-WILNER ’80 AWARD •

Esther Apedo

FREDERICK D. WOODBRIDGE ’78 MEMORIAL AWARD • Eric Leung GIRLS GOLD P ATHLETIC AWARD •

Ellie Schofield BOYS GOLD P ATHLETIC AWARD • Calvin Caputo FRANKIE K.’76 SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD •

Skylar Mundenar Jomar Meekins

THE PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD • Caroline Haggerty THE PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD • Christopher Cecila

NJISAA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD •

Christopher Cecila

Opposite page: One of the most bittersweet senior events, in retrospect, was the 100 Day Lunch, when seniors enjoyed a special meal in the Fox Room and read letters from their parents to begin the official 100-day countdown to graduation. On that early March day, the seniors were anticipating spring break and sprinting through their final year on the Great Road, chalking up tournament championships in multiple sports including Girls Varsity Soccer and Boys Varsity Basketball, and the thrilling overtime ice hockey victory against rival Lawrenceville at Princeton’s hallowed Hobey Baker Memorial Rink; a groundbreaking fall play, “26 Pebbles”; arguably the most impressive musical performances ever across the jazz, orchestra, chamber, chorus and madrigals groups; phenomenal student writing and photography accomplishments; a wildly successful senior cohort of REx scholars; and a spellbinding, student-led winter musical, “The Old Man and the Old Moon”, to name a few favorite moments. Little did they realize at the time that this would be their last gathering of the school year.

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100 day lunch March 3, 2020

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retirees

Five cherished faculty, 140 years of impact guided both the halting and heroic through the particular challenges confronting young skaters, encouraging their progress, soothing their hurt feelings (and bruised knees), and celebrating their successes. In twenty-minute intervals over more than three decades, she has become an essential feature of every lower schooler’s experience. Gail cherishes memories that range from sewing Halloween parade costumes for the PE department to the small moments helping to tie students’ skates, and says, “I’ll miss the students most of all.”

Will Asch retires after teaching math and physics at PDS for 19 years. He has taught hundreds of students and also mentored a series of math department chairs and guided scores of colleagues in the math department and beyond. His colleagues will miss his irrepressible personality and wide-ranging commentary in the math office, along with his trademark “fancy” attire. Will paired his keen understanding of math with a deep affection for his students, and in return he was considered a favorite teacher by many. His talents as a tennis player and PDS tennis coach helped lead Panther tennis teams to championships and each player to a new level of individual excellence for the past two decades. Will shared that he has most appreciated seeing the growth of his students at PDS and their achievements, and will miss the classroom atmosphere and working with students who have a strong desire to learn.

Gail Gomez retires after 34 years of ice skating instruction at Princeton Day School and oversight of one of its iconic traditions: Lower School skating. If you’ve ever stopped by the Lisa McGraw ’44 Skating Rink on a winter school day and seen lower schoolers learning how to ice skate, you will no doubt have watched Gail Gomez in action. Patiently and enthusiastically, Gail has JOURNAL

Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick joined the PDS faculty in 1969 and retires from the classroom named in her honor as the longestserving member of the faculty, surpassing in tenure the hundreds who have taught at Miss Fine’s School, Princeton Country Day School, and Princeton Day School. For 50 years, Eileen generously shared her mastery of photography and teaching with students— who were her north star—as well as faculty, parents and heads of school. Her students benefited not only from her consummate photography skills and artistry; legions of them received the gift of a wise, patient, caring mentor and guide. In her time here, Eileen helped bring into focus the postPDS educational and career trajectories of literally hundreds of students, many of whom are successful professional photographers, cinematographers and artists. In June, a send-off Flipgrid video for Eileen, featuring alumni well-wishers spanning 50 years, bore testimony to her enormous influence on so many lives. Not surprisingly, Eileen says that she will miss the students and the faculty most of all. She leaves an enduring legacy as one of the most talented and impactful teachers at any school, anywhere.

Jenny Mischner retires after 23 years as head Lower School librarian. Jenny fostered the joy of reading among thousands of our youngest students. Kind and encouraging, Jenny possesses the rare talent of being able to meet all lower schoolers exactly where they are and, from there, take them on the kind of adventure that only books afford. She has cared for and stewarded one of our School’s most beloved spaces. “I will miss taking care of the PDS chickens on the weekends and helping in the garden, my students, the parent volunteers, and my colleagues… working in the sound booth for the 4th Grade Operetta, the Lifers dinner, the Ropes Course, and blowing bubbles from the balcony of the LS on the last day of school,” Jenny stated.

Jeffrey Rubens retires after 14 years in the math department. He has been a kind, caring, supportive advocate and ally of his students and colleagues, sharing his time and talents as an Upper School teacher, faculty advisor and coaching on the soccer fields. In the math office, he has always appreciated what he describes as “a fabulous set of colleagues who are fun, creative, collaborative, dedicated and supportive of one another in so many ways.” He has been a guiding light of the SiMS Center, an essential resource for students seeking student-centered academic support. He is deeply grateful for what his students have given him over a lifetime career as an educator, stating, “Whether it was as their teacher, coach or advisor, I hope that I have challenged, supported and inspired my students as much as they have done for me.”

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BY MELANIE SHAW

Facing Forward

Princeton Day School’s Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The School’s Community and Multicultural Development Team (CMDT) includes from left to right, LS Representative Daniel Cohen, CMDT Chair Caroline Lee, MS Representative Victor Cirilo, Director of Health and Wellness Dr. Candy Shah and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Anthony McKinley, plus Parent Representative Tiffany Smith (top inset), US Representative Darling Cerna (bottom inset) and Head of School Paul Stellato

On May 25, 2020, an extended period of civil conflict and nationwide protests against systemic racism erupted when George Floyd’s life was extinguished and an arresting officer was video recorded pressing his knee unrelentingly on Mr. Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes. Among many other consequences, organizations including schools have been called upon to stand up for Black Lives Matter, undertake comprehensive structural change to eradicate racism and rebuild their community cultures equitably and inclusively.

Dr. Diana Artis

A SUMMER OF SOUL SEARCHING AND CHANGE AT PDS

Galvanized by these events and its own community members, including Black alumni, students and adults who candidly shared their experiences of discrimination and marginalization on their @blackatpds Instagram page, the School’s leadership, faculty and staff leaned into the hard work of creating change from within. Over a period of weeks, led by Head of School Paul J. Stellato and the Board of Trustees, the School held seven painful town hall meetings, attended by the leadership team and members of the Board of Trustees, to hear from all segments of Paul J. Stellato the PDS community.

“The specter of racism and intolerance may have shamed us, but we did not turn away. We listened as our Black and Brown children, parents and colleagues urged our School to love them as much as they love it,” Mr. Stellato stated.

“We’ve said these ways can no longer stand, that we cannot leave at the margins those who belong at the center of our School or treat them with anything less than the respect they have earned and deserve. We must educate ourselves, our families and our students to be better and more thoughtful,” he declared.

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Caroline Lee

Feedback from those town halls prompted several significant changes, including retaining the services of Olive Branch Educators and its founder and principal Dr. Diana Artis, a highly regarded diversity education leader, to help achieve comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) work across the School; the internal appointment of former CMDT Chair Anthony McKinley to the new fulltime position of Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; and the appointment of former CMDT Upper School Faculty Representative Caroline Lee to CMDT Anthony McKinley Chair.

The Board of Trustees is fully invested in systemic change and the self-work it requires. As Board Chair Rebecca Bushnell ’70 stated, “The Board is committed to combating racism and any form of hatred and intolerance at Princeton Day School.

We will make this a core mission in the months and years to come. We must, of course, begin with our own self-evaluation and education.”

Dr. Rebecca Bushnell ’70

Many faculty and staff, meanwhile, engaged in multiple DEI-related grassroots professional development efforts, including structured conversations on racism and white privilege designed to build competencies to teach without implicit or explicit bias. The CMDT worked to provide community support by assembling, reviewing and publishing a vast array of community resources that became the central feature of the re-imagined DEI website content on pds.org.

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Drawing on her more than 25 years of diversity education program experience and using evidence-based principles and well-established models of identity development, Dr. Artis is well equipped to assist in the journey towards increased self-awareness regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. As Dr. Artis noted in her early July introduction to the PDS community, “In the midst of racial unrest there is a great source of encouragement to know that PDS and your Head of School Paul Stellato are not lapsing into a period of paralysis, but instead are moving forward with a strategic plan to begin the healing process in your community… I have been hired to support the mission outlined by Mr. Stellato and the Board of Trustees to unpack and dismantle the racist systems and practices within the PDS community.

Together with the assigned task forces, we will create and execute a plan for lasting change.”

DEI Director McKinley, who has been integrally involved in DEI work for his entire career, was eager to collaborate with Dr. Artis and colleagues. At Millbrook, he helped lead diversity and inclusion efforts while also teaching, coaching and running a dormitory; at PDS since 2013, he chaired the CMDT for the past four years in addition to his work as an Upper School English teacher, US student advisor, student leadership program advisor, and assistant basketball coach. As DEI Director, his focus includes creating professional development opportunities for faculty, enhancing the curriculum, and partnering with the School to help build and retain a diverse faculty and prospective family community.

Mr. Stellato noted that Mr. McKinley quickly zeroed in on priorities. “Tony has heightened our awareness of our individual and collective responsibility to one another, and helped to identify the roles we can play—and the steps we must take—to become a more welcoming, generous community,” he stated.

“One of my main goals in my first year as Director is to be relentless in reminding PDS of the importance of this DEI work that I’ve dedicated my life to. It has to happen at the same time as everything else, even with all that the pandemic also brings to our work,” Mr. McKinley declared.

“Another goal is to make sure that every conversation at PDS applies the DEI lens. A DEI component needs to be present in every facet of the School, from curriculum to hiring, to how we plan for the opening of school, to conversations about welcoming into the community the Black families we admit,” he adds.

about DEI work to date at PDS, she launched a series of 15 PDS community focus groups, designed not to rehash grievances but to find a way forward together to address perceived inequities and programmatic gaps. The 15 focus groups included adults and students and encompassed the diversity of races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and gender identities that comprise the PDS community.

“There is a strong desire for change to happen at the School,” Dr. Artis observed. “Different constituencies have been able to articulate things they would like to see happen. They also voice what I consider helpful and appropriate concern about whether change will happen. Translating what the community has brought forward into actionable next steps requires managing expectations, challenging people to dig into spaces that are uncomfortable through honest and challenging conversations, and encouraging people to be open to change,” she explained.

Mr. McKinley agreed. “I believe there’s a commitment to being better and a real opportunity for authentic change.

It is clear to me that the School is willing to acknowledge and to accept the role that it has played in perpetuating systems of inequity and marginalization. The School has committed to identifying and making progress in those areas,” he shared.

Reflecting on the @blackatpds Instagram page, Mr. McKinley saw it as a necessary change agent. “I looked at it as the most authentic and empowering racial audit that you can have,” he explained. “The narratives revealed the educational power of storytelling, which I especially appreciate as an English teacher. It put these students and alumni at the center of the conversation. It was moving data because the humanity was very much the focal point,” he added.

A powerful takeaway from the town halls for Mr. McKinley was the loyalty and love for the School that he witnessed among Black alumni, parents and students.

“Even with all they’ve undergone, there continues to be unwavering commitment and selflessness. Every session ended with, ‘But I’m here to help. Tell me what I can do to help.’ This will to partner is a powerful catalyst for the work ahead,” he stated.

PUTTING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK INTO ACTION

Dr. Artis also dove into the work immediately. After several meetings with School leadership and many conversations

Daniel Cohen

In partnership with Mr. McKinley and Dr. Artis, the CMDT is building on the Work (with a capital W, as the CMDT says) they have been pursuing for years.

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plan that addresses diversity, equity and inclusion across the School. The plan, initially announced in August and updated in October, is considered a top priority as well as a work in progress that will be measured over years of thoughtful, intentional and thorough change.

Victor Cirilo

Dr. Candy Shah

Darling Cerna

Tiffany Smith

Victor Cirilo (MS), Dr. Candy Shah (Health and Wellness), Darling Cerna (US) and Tiffany Smith (Parent Rep)—to continue advancing the CMDT’s critical and ongoing role in helping create the inclusive learning community the School aspires to be.

Ms. Lee recalled, “We began with our central question, ‘Why?’ and re-grounded ourselves in our team’s values and principles. We discussed the variety of roles we are taking on throughout the year, and what drives our Work. Whether we are acting as bridge-builders or visionaries, disruptors or caregivers within our community, we are always educators first, driven by our love and support of the students.”

One of the CMDT’s biggest priorities this year is identifying educational learning goals for the community. “It might seem counterintuitive, but we are slowing down, getting present, feeling and reflecting on what it means to be a member of an inclusive learning community,” Ms. Lee shared.

“We are mining our community for stories and partnering with our colleagues who are already doing this Work both in and out of the classrooms. We are hoping to root our community in the transformative power of storytelling and story-listening: Who were we? Who are we? Who and how do we want to be? The story we tell must be co-constructed by our whole community both past and present. Each member of our community has a story to tell and that story is PDS,” Ms. Lee continued.

To engage the larger community, the CMDT is looking to create learning opportunities where the sometimes uncomfortable Work on one’s self is understood to be a necessary part of self-actualization. “This includes supporting the teaching and learning for faculty in each division around DEI and Cultural Competencies, as well as the Science of Learning and Social-Emotional Learning,” she added.

PREPARING AND FOLLOWING THROUGH ON A STRATEGIC PLAN

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“Touching on all areas of school life, Facing Forward seeks to engage parents and students, faculty and staff, alumni and trustees in the work of combating racism and intolerance by creating opportunities to educate ourselves, discuss and debate matters of substance and importance, and arrive together at outcomes that will serve and endure,” Mr. Stellato explained. “Princeton Day School has committed all of its resources to this institutional priority and we encourage every member of our community to find a role to play in this vital work,” he declared.

The plan outlines DEI initiatives and expected outcomes for seven key areas of School operations and culture: • Academic Program • Standards of Conduct • Training and Education • Hiring, Retention, Advancement, Evaluation • Student Life • Admission, Financial Assistance, Retention • Parent and Family Outreach and Engagement Further, the plan tasks seven corresponding work groups to review, identify and craft processes designed to integrate effective DEI practices into each of the seven key areas.

“The goals of the working groups are to identify some of the areas that continue to marginalize and to prevent access to all members of our community, and to prepare recommendations to help undo past practice and build equity and inclusion,” Mr. McKinley noted.

Day School has committed all of “itsPrinceton resources to this institutional priority and we encourage every member of our community to find a role to play in this vital work.” —Paul Stellato These seven groups are considered key drivers of the strategic plan, and more than 50 faculty and staff have volunteered to participate, including roughly 20 co-chairs who will take on major responsibilities within each group.

“I want to give a shout out to these group chairs especially, because no one is being compensated and there are no reductions in class loads, just a genuine interest in being a part of the work in moving the School forward,” Mr. McKinley pointed out. “The folks who have been doing this

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work for a very long time also deserve kudos, particularly the CMDT members and a number of faculty who have been committed to this work forever,” he added.

Since the start of the school year, a number of initiatives are moving forward across key constituencies:

Leadership: Schools communicate their key priorities at the beginning of the year, and at the top of Princeton Day School’s list this year were two pillars: (1) the health and safety guidelines and operational practices for responsibly opening the school, and (2) DEI work. From the start, the faculty’s opening days in August emphasized training and workshops on anti-racism, work on the self and identifying how issues of race show up in the School community. This work will continue with structured trainings and climate surveys for faculty and staff, students and families, to educate, evaluate and gather feedback on how change is happening.

As Dr. Artis noted, “PDS has already begun some targeted training sessions with the members of the work groups. We are also having targeted conversations with affinity group adult leaders and with the administrative and leadership teams, including the Board of Trustees, which has established an ad hoc board committee to address DEI.” The process of moving from theory to practice happens best “by drilling down and identifying key concepts,” she continued.

“For example, having conversations about where our biases are showing up and preventing us from moving forward, where privilege shows up. The end goal in strategic training sessions is to help folks increase their personal awareness about how these concepts play out in their own sphere of influence and in the larger community,” she explained.

The School’s new Non-Discrimination Policy is a key early result of such efforts. Work began on the policy this summer with a thorough self-audit involving leadership, Dr. Artis and faculty, bolstered by best practice findings, including resources from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights and language from the United Nations on hate speech. Mr. McKinley, Acting Head of Upper Christian Rhodes School Chris Rhodes and US history and religion teacher Dr. Michael Friedman took on the bulk of the drafting responsibilities. Dr. Michael Friedman As Mr. Stellato stated when the policy was distributed across the PDS community on October 29, the NonDiscrimination Policy seeks to:

• Renew our individual and collective commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive community • Define discriminatory harassment • Outline the process for reporting complaints and identify resources for students, faculty and staff who believe they have encountered discriminatory harassment • Provide age-appropriate, division-specific disciplinary and restorative responses to complaints “While the policy covers each of these, my hope is that it will serve a larger purpose: to remind all members of our community of their responsibility to ensuring that their words, actions and interactions with others promote respect and trust,” Mr. Stellato noted.

end goal in strategic training sessions is “toThe help folks increase their personal awareness about how these concepts play out in their own sphere of influence and in the larger community.”—Dr. Diana Artis “We have spoken often this year with students in all divisions about civil discourse and the power of words.

Working closely with Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tony McKinley, we are developing robust, school-wide programming, which, paired with the NonDiscrimination Policy, will support our students as they navigate the coming weeks and the rest of the school year,” he explained.

“Our School can and must play a central role in engendering in its students an understanding of their responsibility in engaging one another in important, formative—and often fraught and impassioned—conversations about their beliefs and those of their peers. Through classroom discussions, advisory meetings and division-specific gatherings, the School has tied the importance of civil discourse to its mission: fostering both independence and responsibility in all of its students,” Mr. Stellato stated.

Faculty and Staff: Faculty members worked this summer to create adult affinity and ally groups whose work centers on equity and eradicating racism within the PDS community through education and support. The willingness of dozens of teachers and staff to serve this fall on the seven working groups is another indicator of their strong commitment to DEI work, given how full everyone’s plates are. Many faculty and staff went straight from a springtime of allconsuming remote learning programming to adding significant responsibilities through the summer and fall.

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They worked not only without a break, but without many of the things they typically rely on to restore themselves and enjoy time with their friends and loved ones. Through it all, they have placed DEI dialogues, candid self-reflection, intentional culture change and program development front and center.

Students: The energy that many PDS students bring to DEI work is truly inspiring. This fall, the School has facilitated conversations with the entire student body on the critical importance of civil discourse and mutually respectful language, which is clearly reflected in the new Non-Discrimination Policy. Student-led DEI work is also particularly noticeable among students who bring a diversity of identities to the community, from their eagerness to be involved in enhancing the School’s affinity group programs and mission-oriented clubs, to actively organizing assemblies and special events focused on equity and inclusion. Affinity groups are undergoing an intentional review process with long-term goals of strengthening Middle and Upper School affinity group design alignment and advisory training. The student anti-hate program is another committed, multi-year initiative undergoing a restructuring of its work. In addition, Dean of Students Dr. Elizabeth Monroe and faculty advisors are working with student-led clubs and allyships that are open to those in the community who want to learn and explore more about Dr. Elizabeth Monroe other cultures, religions and identities.

Already this year, a series of special student-led activities and assemblies in each division has explored identity and community through the lens of Hispanic Heritage Month. Some US students involved with the Jewish Union are putting together a proposal to discuss the rise of antisemitism and their experiences at PDS. Several students have reached out this fall to Mr. McKinley and the CMDT to provide their DEI lens to articles they are seeking to publish, including the Spokesman’s student writers and editors who regularly provide DEI-focused news. In Middle School, CMDT faculty representative Victor Cirilo facilitated conversations about identity that resulted in several students participating with peers from other schools in a virtual Middle School Equity & Inclusion Summit in October. In the Lower School, students are immersed in a year-long exploration of “Who We Are.” Families: The School is seeing significant interest this fall from families offering to share experiences and resources and asking how they can help with DEI work. The turnout for Dr. Artis’s book clubs and webinars, and for the town halls and focus groups this summer, was exceptionally high.

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Program: A number of teachers have training and are skilled in DEI work, and every summer they have evaluated their curriculum and made enhancements. This year, efforts are underway to formalize this curricular work across departments. The English department, for example, is looking at the entire English curriculum, PreK-12, to identify DEI blind spots and move the whole program forward as opposed to particular classes or teachers.

“I have connected with the heads of the English and History departments to discuss the curriculum content that is being presented,” Dr. Artis explained. “This includes looking at texts that are being offered and also making sure the faculty who are facilitating the curriculum are skilled in managing those difficult conversations that will happen. PK-12 goals, which will take some time, are first to have curriculum that is specifically focused on DEI skills—ideally, a series of required classes that students go through in their time in the school. And second, also evaluating the general curriculum that is being offered and how the DEI lens is being presented,” she added.

Authentic change takes a long time, and Mr. McKinley is keenly aware of the importance of acknowledging fatigue, showing grace and demonstrating patience. “I understand the stakes and I understand that people want immediate change. I think there are some things that we can do immediately, but what we’re trying to do is deep-rooted and the process is a long-term one,” he explains.

Mr. McKinley continued, “We also have to acknowledge that community members are at different places in their personal lives with DEI work. One of the difficult things about DEI work is that it is rooted in the self and how you show up. It’s not as simple as just picking up an anti-racist text and then teaching it in the classroom or living it as a student.”

I understand the stakes and I understand that “people want immediate change. I think there are some things that we can do immediately, but what we’re trying to do is deep-rooted and the process is a long-term one.” —Anthony McKinley Go to pds.org, and on the homepage or in the “About” menu section, explore “Our Journey: Teaching and Learning for Social Justice” for community resources and updates on the School’s DEI work, including the new Non-Discrimination Policy, Facing Forward plan and update, and much more.

Facing Forward Plan Originally published August 21, 2020

LEADERSHIP FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

The June appointment of Anthony McKinley as Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion provides institutional leadership for this essential area of school life. As Director, Mr. McKinley serves as a member of the School’s Leadership Team and plays a key role in the creation of school-wide policy and programs.

Following soon after Mr. McKinley’s appointment, the School partnered with Olive Branch Educators and its founder and CEO, Dr. Diana Artis. In her work with dozens of independent schools, Dr. Artis has proved successful in motivating, educating, and inspiring those seeking a path to enhanced diversity, equity and inclusion.

Her style is highly collaborative, engaging all members of a school community in a focused, forward-moving process. Dr. Artis is working closely with Mr. McKinley, Head of School Paul Stellato and Board Chair Rebecca Bushnell ’70.

The Community and Multicultural Development Team (CMDT), the School’s standing committee for diversity programming for students and faculty, expands its membership and mandate in the coming year. It is now chaired by veteran faculty member and diversity practitioner Caroline Lee. FOCUS GROUPS AND TOWN HALLS

The Facing Forward initiative began with seven town halls for Black members of our community: students, parents and alumni. It continues even now, through the work of the School’s consulting partner, Dr. Diana Artis of Olive Branch Educators, whose 15 focus groups have engaged a wide range of constituent groups within our community.

With the knowledge, wisdom and direction acquired through those many gatherings, the School will now begin to identify and address the ways in which its current policies and practices will need to change to ensure that all may participate equally.

Seeking to address the challenges that stand between the community we are today and that which we aspire to be, the School will embark on a multi-year strategic plan to examine every facet of school life, leading to recommendations that, when implemented, will encourage and make possible the equal participation of all of its members.

A RESOURCE HUB

Robustly expanded content on the School’s website serves as a resource and a transparent accounting of our School’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion work. Our Journey: Teaching and Learning for Social Justice offers a transparent accounting of our School’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion work. Elevating the Conversation is the Community and Multicultural Development Team’s resource center for the community.

These pages are a digital archive of the work, marking where we have been and where we are headed. This content is a window into the hallways of the School, where plans for our community become its daily practice, elevating our school-wide conversations. Residing here will be the structural and cultural change outcomes of every thread of our DEI tapestry: Town Halls, Working Groups, Affinity Groups, the work of the DEI Director and CMDT, the Focus Groups and the programmatic work of Dr. Diana Artis, the efforts of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Alumni Council, the experiences shared through @blackatpds, and the collective efforts of the entire School community. It will be a dynamic, regularly updated repository for educational material that will also include a guide to Black-owned businesses in the area.

Next Steps Fall 2020

1. WORKING GROUPS

While the work of the Facing Forward initiative is, in the broadest sense, the responsibility of every member of our school community, it will be shaped and led by seven working groups focused on two goals: • To review the School’s policies, programs and practices and identify those that restrict or compromise the full and equal participation of all community members • To recommend the process, timetable and steps for ensuring full and equal participation of all community members Mr. McKinley will chair the entire effort and will work closely with Dr. Artis and the chairs of the seven working groups. During the week of August 24, Dr. Artis and Mr. McKinley will meet with the seven working group chairs as they develop and agree on common methods and approaches FALL 2020

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for their work. From there, the chairs will build out the membership of their groups. Wherever possible, the working groups will be composed of faculty, students, alumni and parents. While all groups will have a specific charge to guide them, the groups will define their scope of work and report back to the School community at regular intervals. To be wholly transparent in this work, group progress updates will be made available at regular intervals on the School website.

Academic Program: A comprehensive review of the PreK12 curriculum, to ensure that the program fully incorporates the experiences and contributions of Black and other underrepresented and marginalized communities. It will consider the academic program and, in particular: reading lists at all levels, grading policies, standardized testing and course placement/prerequisites.

Standards of Conduct: A review of standards of conduct and behavioral policies, academic honor policies, judiciary and student handbooks, to see that all expectations are fair and applied equally; and to ensure that discriminatory conduct of any kind is not tolerated.

Training and Education: A plan for the incorporation of anti-racism and cultural competency education for students and parents, faculty and staff, to provide shared language and understanding of the responsibilities of membership in a diverse community. With Dr. Artis and Mr. McKinley, the working group will build and implement a year-long education and training program for faculty and staff, students and parents. It will also consider the role the Community and Multicultural Development Team will play in these efforts.

Hiring, Retention, Advancement, Evaluation: A review of hiring, orientation, retention, professional advancement and evaluation policies and programs, to increase and enhance the diversity of faculty, staff and leadership across the School and to make available resources sufficient to retain and support a diverse faculty community.

Student Life: A review of student life, college counseling and athletics programs and policies, to provide equal opportunity and benefit of these essential programs for all students. Its areas of focus may also include counseling and academic support, speakers clubs, Peer Group and Bridges, affinity groups, NAIS Lead for Diversity and People of Color Conference, athletic offerings and team membership, college advising practices.

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recommendations about admission practices, the uses and goals of financial aid, admission outreach and the retention of current students and families of color.

Parent and Family Outreach and Engagement: A review of parent and family orientation and outreach, to welcome, connect and support Black families and other families of color. The working group will review the practices and goals of the Parents Association, new parent orientation and ongoing engagement of families of color with the School.

2. TRAINING AND EDUCATION

During the week of August 31, Dr. Artis will lead her first training session with all members of the faculty and staff. Dr. Artis and Dr. Bushnell ’70 have prepared and distributed a board survey which will serve as a prelude to her work with the Board of Trustees. As Dr. Artis concludes her focus groups just before the start of the new school year, she and Mr. McKinley will partner with the Training and Education working group to build a calendar of opportunities for faculty and staff, students and parents and School leadership.

3. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL

Arising from several town hall meetings, during which Black alumni expressed a strong interest in involving themselves more deeply in the life of the School, the Committee will work with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director and the Alumni Office to reconnect the School to its underrepresented communities; to determine the interest and feasibility of establishing affinity groups within the alumni community; and to promote the talents and interest of those alumni within the broader School community. The Committee will help to ensure that all alumni enjoy the full benefits of membership within the Princeton Day School community; afford opportunities for alumni to play roles in the lives of current students and young alumni; shape alumni programming to serve all alumni better and more fully; and provide guidance and counsel to the School as it strives to become more inclusive and equitable. Its co-chairs will sit as members of the Alumni Board Executive Committee.

Facing Forward Progress Report

Work to date as of October 19 TASK FORCES

All working groups have been populated with members and chairs, totaling over 50 selfless members of our community.

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Chairs meet with Dr. Artis and Mr. Stellato twice a month, while scheduling their own meetings with the members of their respective groups. We’ve also completed three official training sessions focused on DEI skill development, all of which took place in September and October.

FOCUS GROUPS

All racial/ethnic/identity focus groups for parents, faculty, staff, alumni and Upper School students have been completed by Dr. Artis.

STUDENT AFFINITY GROUPS

A hold has been put on all affinity groups due to the feedback received by members of the community. Dr. Artis and Mr. McKinley have met with the faculty leaders of all affinity groups to discuss common experiences, language, training (for adult facilitators) and a feedback survey for the students. The data from the survey will guide our next steps.

FACULTY/STAFF AFFINITY GROUPS

We created five faculty/staff affinity groups: 1. Building Antiracist White Educators (BARWE) 2. White Consciousness Group 3. Latinx and Hispan@Faculty and Staff Affinity Group (LHFSA) 4. Black Faculty and Staff Affinity Group 5. APIDA Faculty Group

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

The first round of a series of meetings with department chairs have been scheduled and completed. The goal was to listen, discuss areas of confidence, need for support and specific DEI-focused goals. The feedback collected will guide the next steps.

WORKSHOPS

Faculty and Students: Two DEI-focused workshops took place during opening days for new faculty and returning faculty. Both focused on identifying race, the importance of working on the self, recognizing anxiety in the body, sharing personal narratives on when we first became aware of our racial identities, and how race shows up at Princeton Day School.

We also facilitated DEI workshops on race and identity with our Ninth Grade class. Additionally, 10 Middle School seventh and eighth graders had the opportunity to attend the Middle School Equity and Inclusion Summit

with keynote speaker Dr. Rodney Glasgow, Head of Sandy Springs Friends School, on October 15 via Zoom.

Parents: Two seven-week book clubs and one webinar were created; they commenced the week of October 5. The book clubs focused on race, while the webinar focused on religious discrimination.

Series One: Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey Series Two: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Series Three: A discussion group focused on religious and cultural discrimination, which begins with a discussion of antisemitism and then considers other forms of religious/ cultural discrimination experienced by non-Christians living in the U.S. Board of Trustees: The first step of the training, a climate survey created by Dr. Artis, was completed by members of the Board. The data collected will guide the next steps for the Board of Trustees.

PROGRAMS/POLICY

We created and organized multi-divisional celebrations of Latinx Heritage Month to honor members of our community who identify as Hispanic or Latinx. Also, regarding school-wide policy, both Diwali and Eid al-Fitr were added to our list of religious observances that fall under “nothing due” days, preventing our students from choosing between honoring their faiths and completing school work.

COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM (CMDT)

The Community Multicultural Development Team updated its mission statement and website to more accurately reflect Princeton Day School’s commitment to DEI work.

Additionally, Darling Cerna ’13 was announced as the Upper School representative.

We’re proud of the advances that we’ve made thus far, while remaining fully aware of the amount of work that’s still to be done. Fortunately, the long road ahead is accompanied by your unwavering support and selflessness in volunteering your time and feedback. You can expect periodic updates on the progress that we continue to make as a community.

Please feel free to email us with comments or concerns.

Your involvement in this process remains invaluable.

Here’s to change.

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BY MELANIE MELANIE SHAW SHAW

Everyday Heroes Faculty Respond to COVID-19

Faculty and staff gathered at the Campus Center for opening meetings in August.

Through the spring, summer and fall of 2020, a year unlike any other in memory, the Princeton Day School faculty have worked tirelessly to keep students strongly connected with their learning and each other. This feature honors our faculty as we share some of the many ways they have risen to every challenge and, in the process, uplifted the entire PDS community.

SPRINGTIME AT HOME, CONNECTED REMOTELY THROUGH PANTHERS ONLINE

As the nation first grappled in March with massive shutdowns and self-quarantine to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the faculty pivoted rapidly to all-remote learning for the remainder of the 20192020 school year. The “Panthers Online” remote learning model was new to everyone, from leadership to faculty and students alike, and the learning curve was steep and swift.

The Spring Break period was extended a week for families so that faculty and staff, many of whom had spent the break developing the online learning plan, could immerse themselves in the technology and resources required to redesign and deliver their curricula exclusively online.

Head of School Paul Stellato forged the path forward, beginning what would become his signature series of regular video updates to the PDS community. “We took this enormous program and put it online in a remarkably short amount of time. It’s one of the strengths of the School when we launch any initiative, that we commit ourselves to continually re-assessing it, and that’s what we will continue to do as we move forward,” he declared in one of the first broadcasts. He promised from the start that the School would celebrate its end-of-year events whether virtually or in person and that PDS would continue to deliver an engaging, world class program to finish out the 2019-2020 year and in the 2020-2021 school year, as well. In every way, and beyond, Mr. Stellato has delivered on those promises.

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Lower School students working from home loved seeing their teachers and classmates during Panthers Online remote learning.

When the School introduced Panthers Online remote learning last spring, the original organizing principle was to provide asynchronous lessons (that is, lesson assignments that did not require real-time video connection between teacher and students). As the School collected weekly survey feedback from families, and teachers assessed how the students were responding, “we all started to appreciate just how much the kids really missed each other and interacting with their teachers, which an asynchronous model does not provide,” Lower School Head Dr. Sandy Wang stated. “Faculty were eager to adjust and make changes. The LS teachers slowly and steadily started incorporating more live sessions and continued to focus on making sure the kids felt connected through the rest of the school year,” she noted.

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Head of School Paul Stellato forged the path forward for Panthers Online, beginning what would become his signature series of regular video updates to the PDS community.

“The Panthers Online experience showed us how important it is to scaffold steps, and really structure the learning experiences, for a child to be able to navigate the process without a teacher in the classroom answering questions,” said Tara Quigley, humanities teacher, Director of Miss Fine’s Center, and Acting Co-Head of Middle School along with Nicole Mangino and Channing McCullough.

“It became very evident that, at least for middle schoolers, it was crucial for them to have some synchronous time as a shared learning community to understand what we were doing. My kids said they really liked starting every class with 5 or 10 minutes where I went through the lesson plan and also was there online so they could come back and ask questions,” she added.

“The spring experience involved not just changing mindsets, it involved thinking about the classroom experience in radically new ways,” said Acting Head of Upper School Chris Rhodes, who was teaching US history at the time while also beginning to take on his new administrative leadership role. “Through the spring, we shifted our focus to the importance of bringing the synchronous experiences back, which had to be done with everyone in different locations. I think it was incredibly impressive what the faculty and students went through and accomplished during that time. One big advantage last spring was that the classroom culture and relationships were already in place and you could build from it even though we were remote. The faculty’s efforts to build those relationships in the fall, starting from scratch with new student groupings both on campus and at home, are especially important,” he continued.

The spring experience involved not just “changing mindsets, it involved thinking about

the classroom experience in radically new ways.”

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SUMMER SESSIONS CONTINUED THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Immediately following virtual closing assemblies, multiple virtual celebrations for the Class of 2020 and the June 5

virtual Commencement—each of which required its own extensive planning processes—more than 76 faculty volunteered to host online Summer Sessions for PDS students free of charge for three two-week sessions from late June through early August. Rather than focusing on summer rest and relaxation, they got to work planning and delivering those courses online.

Panthers Summer Session PDS online Summer Sessions drew major interest from families.

“The goal with the summer sessions was to keep the students and the faculty connected. There was a lot of creativity in designing the various classes that were offered to increase the kids’ engagement and it was all faculty generated,” Mr. Rhodes explained.

A cross-team collaboration drove the Summer Sessions program design, Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategic Priorities Kathy Schulte explained. Ms. Schulte led a group of seven from across the school who “came together to partner with our faculty colleagues to create an online summer experience for our Princeton Day School students and the children of our colleagues. Through the generosity of the teachers and staff who donated their time, we were able to offer, free of charge, this program to bring the community together during the summer.

It was by all accounts a smashing success with over 500 students participating in unique and fun online educational experiences. The program epitomized Princeton Day School at its very best,” she observed.

The planning team included Ms. Schulte, along with Director of Annual Giving Jill Goldman, US English teacher Seraphine Hamilton, Assistant Director of Admission Linda Lippman, Administrative Director of Summer Programs Rose Price, Acting US Head Chris Rhodes and Associate Head of School Dr. Lisa Surace.

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The energy, creativity and expertise of the participating PDS faculty members and affiliated instructors, who developed and taught a diverse menu of 113 session courses, fueled the program.

With these critical investments paired with all of the facilities and operational changes, the faculty were equipped with a powerful new infrastructure designed to provide a nimble and dynamic 2020-21 daily experience for students.

“Families felt like they could do a summer session and also participate in other camps. For the kids, it was fun and a small overall time commitment, and achieved the goal of maintaining a PDS community connection,” Dr. Wang reflected.

“In the Middle School we had a group that we called ‘Seal Team 7’—Nicole Mangino, Jonathan Martin, Channing McCullough and Angharad Rebholz, myself, Amy Beckford, and Annemarie Strange. We basically designed the new schedule and then we designed the safety and logistical protocols for the Middle School space,” Mrs. Quigley recalled.

24/7 REOPENING PLANNING FOR FACULTY AND STAFF

All the while, the work to responsibly reopen the School was underway, with Mr. Stellato, the leadership team and the PDS Reopens Operating Group troubleshooting the 2020-21 operating plan. Dr. Surace chaired the reopening operating group and provided unflagging leadership, task organization and deadline accountability for each step along the way. Director of Wellness Dr. Candy Shah shouldered the enormous responsibility of clarifying and overseeing the School’s health and safety protocols. Armed with federal, state, CDC and other guidelines, as well as emerging models at schools and colleges across the country, the School developed procedures and recommended facilities enhancements from more sophisticated air filtration systems to classroom video broadcasting systems designed to engage students whether in person or at home. Teachers and staff worked with division leaders to rethink and map out virtually all of their daily routines and logistics. Everything from drop-off to pick-up, the traffic patterns in the hallways, the furniture and arrangements of their rooms, how recess and lunch would be conducted, how rooms would be kept clean between classes, and so much more, was reinvented.

Retrofitting the School’s infrastructure was an essential step in responsibly reopening, followed by intentionally redesigning virtually each course and unit to accommodate both in-person and remote learners.

The crown jewel of all of this preparation was the School’s $1.2 million summer investment in technology upgrades, including faster and larger-capacity internet connectivity, the new DTEN D7 program broadcast platforms and a migration to Zoom and Zoomroom remote access (which happened in tandem with the planned-for and labor-intensive transition to the new Student Information System, Veracross). “The support that the tech team gave us was critical,” Mr. Rhodes said. “That the DTENS were purchased, installed, and ready to go on such a short timeline is just mind-blowing,” he added.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR CUTTING EDGE PROGRAM DELIVERY

While retrofitted infrastructure was an essential step in responsibly reopening, the fact remained that virtually each course and unit needed intentional redesign to accommodate both in-person and remote learners. Faculty poured countless hours into preparations, including three weeks of explicit, uniquely designed PDS summer professional development (PD) to immerse themselves in best practice for blending on-campus and remote student programming.

The PD program was an ambitious effort to establish a 2020-2021 learning program framework for Princeton Day School students that: • identified clear and focused learning objectives • standardized delivery modules • utilized accessible learning tools • built faculty competencies • supported and developed student agency • acknowledged the age and capabilities of our students

To accomplish their mission, faculty first looked at the goals and determined how best to meet them in a variety of learning settings and ultimately chose to use the guidance of One Schoolhouse, an organization that specializes in training educators in best practices for hybrid and online learning; they are recognized as a leader in the field of virtual learning. Using the One Schoolhouse model of “Design, Build, Teach,” a small group of PDS administrators and faculty took the One Schoolhouse course, then designed and built an online version of PDS training modules in Schoology. This core group became the trainers for the rest of the PDS faculty, with the goal of ensuring academic continuity throughout the hybrid curriculum and faculty competencies using the available resources.

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responded to this summer’s PD work “asFaculty an opportunity to grow as educators and to create stronger, more relevant classes that were better for their students and the community.”

—Tara Quigley

PD WORK DOVETAILED WITH DEI EFFORTS Faculty PD focused on reimagining the curriculum and technology training to provide the best on-campus and remote learning experience.

goals included streamlining the learning management system to clarify expectations for the kids, how to get feedback and lowering the demand on their executive functioning. We wanted to make sure that the kids stayed focused on the content of the classes and not just navigating different teachers’ idiosyncratic ways of creating a Schoology page. The next part of the PD was thinking about the primary goals of the class and how we could use the platform options to meet our goals. At the time, we didn’t know whether we would be remote, hybrid or in person, so we had to prepare for all possible scenarios. The central goal for the faculty was knowing what the major takeaways were, what the major lessons of the course would be, and then backwards designing,” he continued.

“It was so inspiring to see how faculty responded to this summer’s PD work as an opportunity to grow as educators and to create stronger, more relevant classes that were better for their students and the community,” Mrs. Quigley observed.

The PD design effort was led by a core group: division heads Sandy Wang, Renée Price and Chris Rhodes, and Academic Affairs leadership, which included Casey Upson (LS), Tara Quigley (MS), Jason Park (US), Amy Beckford (US) and Associate Head of School Surace. From there, subcommittees with additional faculty were formed to focus on the three themes of “Design, Build, Teach.”

The Design group walked faculty through rethinking what they teach and identifying the core elements, information and next steps the students needed in order to understand and successfully follow through. The Build group focused on using what we know about brain science as well as the tools of Schoology and Seesaw (delivery systems for US, MS and LS learners) to create easy, navigable ways for students to get information.

The Teach group prioritized social emotional learning (SEL) and building community, incorporating the diversity, equity and inclusion lens.

Leadership, faculty and staff committed themselves to diversity, equity and inclusion as another fundamental strategic priority over the summer and going forward.

Supported by the Board of Trustees, urged by Head of School Paul Stellato, and facilitated by Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tony McKinley and Dr. Diana Artis of Olive Branch Educators, the faculty participated in multiple candid conversations about racism and bias, undertaking their own self-work as well as engaging through the PD sessions in the meticulous process of further integrating DEI programming across the curriculum and culture. Faculty across the school have volunteered on the seven task forces set up to lead the continuing DEI work this year, ensuring that the work moves forward and expands.

“The idea that students feeling comfortable being themselves and recognized as themselves and protected as themselves is critical to the learning process was a key segment of the summer PD,” Mr. Rhodes stated. “I was also amazed at the faculty’s commitment to the importance of doing this for ourselves. We have two faculty groups, Building Antiracist White Educators (BARWE) and White Consciousness, and it is astounding how many people are showing up this fall after long workdays, in the middle of long weeks, when so much else is going on,” he continued.

The ‘Teach’ group leaders, counselors Samantha Dawson and Cloey Talotta, bolstered by the School’s DEI commitment, explicitly focused on conversations with faculty about understanding their own culture and identity and helping kids process theirs. “We know that a strong sense of belonging really helps with learning, and it felt very natural for the Teach module to center around belonging and feeling safe,” Mrs. Quigley noted.

“As a result of this work, in Middle School humanities, instead of starting the year with the traditional short story about something that happened over the summer, we talked about identity, used visual resources, and each kid designed an identity map. Then they created a name story of their heritage and where their names came from, which we have incorporated into our class experiences. Humanities has always been about perspective, so a lot of what we do is whose stories are being told, who has the power, and why is that the story being heard,” she added.

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PDS FACULTY LEADERS FOR SUMMER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS

Supporting Faculty: Sheila Goeke Anne Louise Ennis (LS Math Chair) Ashleigh Young (LS Psychologist)

Given that a strong sense of belonging helps significantly with learning readiness, the Teach module of the faculty’s summer professional development naturally centered around the DEI lens of belonging and feeling safe.

“Lower School professional development was truly ‘backwards design’ work this summer. Knowing that we would have a mix of on-campus and remote learners this year freed us from the mindset that this or that field trip or favorite lesson had to be rolled, out and forced us to zero in on how to reach our goals in reimagined ways,” Dr. Wang explained.

In LS social studies, the faculty re-thought the Westward Expansion and Lewis and Clark units in light of the new teaching environment while also more intentionally refocusing the DEI teaching lens. With the students’ social and emotional well-being as the priority, the 3rd Grade team morphed social studies this fall into an exploration of community and mapping the threads of community membership through discussions of essential questions.

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perspective was not the only story, and have reframed it this year to make even more room for the Native American story being told. The Lewis and Clark exploration unit is also going to look very different. In the past couple years, we incorporated the Shoshone Native American community of Lewis and Clark’s female guide Sacagawea, without whom they would never have survived. This year we further reframed this unit with our essential questions focused on community,” stated Margie Gibson, 3rd Grade teacher and Director of Service Learning.

“Every time we talk about community and the way we want to understand and value somebody else’s perspective, it informs the students’ understanding of the meaning of social studies. I feel like we’re reflecting more on the real value of social studies, and it allows us to touch on current life, including the presidential election this fall and how government works, what your culture is like and what your own beliefs are,” she added.

time we talk about community and the “wayEvery we want to understand and value somebody else’s perspective, it informs the students’ understanding of the meaning of social studies.”

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“I think that community feeling is such a critical foundation for having rich and fruitful discussions,” Mr. Rhodes stated.

“There needs to be faith and trust between the teacher and the students and between the students with each other, and these components take time to develop. So priority number one is to make sure the kids feel cared for and connected.,” he continued.

PHASED REOPENING AND NEW LEARNING FOR ALL

The School’s phenomenal security, facilities and buildings and grounds teams, led by Rob Toole and Robert Clemens, had remained on campus throughout the spring and summer, along with a small core of essential workers.

Howerever, most faculty and staff had been working from home through July and, understandably, many were nervous about returning. With strong leadership from Mr. Stellato, including an inspiring and socially distanced welcome session on the Colross lawn, this major transition hurdle was surmounted in August when all faculty and staff reported to campus for duty. Conducted with the new health and safety protocols in place, these August faculty and staff opening days were filled with meetings and classroom preparations thoughtfully prepared by Dr. Surace and division leaders.

“It was a critically important period for the professional community to begin the 2020 school year and adjust to a new phase of working life on campus during the COVID19 pandemic,” Dr. Surace observed.

As Mr. Stellato noted during the opening meetings, “Scores of faculty and staff have invested thousands of hours in readying us to reopen. Leaders have risen from every corner of our School to answer the challenges of this moment. I am amazed by them all and have confidence in them. I trust them and want to honor their work.”

The final weeks of August blurred together as the School hurtled toward the first of several phased reopening chapters, starting with wholly redesigned pre-season

athletics programming and a brand new take on multiple student orientation groups, all conducted with new health and safety protocols in place.

For faculty and staff, those first weeks back on campus morphed without a break into the official start of the 2020-2021 school year on September 9. The transitions were not trivial for faculty, staff, students or families as the School rolled out staggered on-campus schedules for different grades over the first weeks. But as each week brought significant progress for all involved, a new sense of normalcy steadily emerged in a year that has been anything but normal. One new tradition this year: the on-campus and remote plans for families have been polled for each fourweek period so far this year, with families given the option of choosing on-campus learning (which allows students to stay home whenever families deem it appropriate) or remote learning (a decision which must be adhered to without interruption for the four-week period). In an overwhelming sign of confidence, when the poll for the October 5-November 6 period occurred as the first three weeks of school ended, roughly 90% of the PDS student community chose to be back on campus as of October 5.

Scores of faculty and staff have invested “thousands of hours in readying us to reopen.

Leaders have risen from every corner of our School to answer the challenges of this moment.

I am amazed by them all and have confidence in them. I trust them and want to honor their work.” —Paul Stellato “The phase-in was a great way for the School and families to adjust and feel comfortable. By having only certain grades present and also allowing families to self-select whether they were remote or on campus, it allowed us to have smaller numbers in the classrooms, which slowly increased over time,”

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Dr. Wang explained. “Before the school year started, teachers and families were nervous about what it would look and feel like, given that they have children’s lives in their hands that they are keeping safe. Dr. Shah and her great nursing staff boosted everyone’s sense of safety and being cared for. Over time, the LS teachers felt secure about the effectiveness of the protocols that we have in place,” she added.

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In the Lower School, everyone benefited from the contributions of Dr. Wang’s new leadership team of Language Arts Chair Casey Upson, Math Chair Anne Louise Ennis and Psychologist Dr. Ashleigh Young. They have already made a huge difference this school year as they took on and delivered significant faculty support and also directly supported students and families.

Dr. Wang noted, “Casey has been pulling remote cohorts for reading groups so these students receive individualized attention. Stacey Walker is also working with small groups. Our LS assistant teachers have been providing exceptional individualized attention to both remote and on campus learners. Ashleigh has been amazing. In addition to coordinating the Learning Center, she has taught lessons in every single classroom and is working directly with teachers on how to implement executive functioning lessons to help the children with managing themselves.”

Faculty continue to fine-tune the programming and daily experiences as the school year rolls on. In Middle School, faculty are using breakout stations and hyperdocs to engage students both in the classroom and at home. Another important enhancement was to provide clear standards for materials and organizing resources so that the students had fewer questions about what they are supposed to be doing and when. Each Middle School student has a folder for the week and each day has a folder, for example. In the Lower School, tools like Google slides and Padlet allow the kids to read and respond to each other no matter where they are, and Zoom ‘breakout rooms’ provide collaboration experiences.

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It is hard to overstate the amount of work in which faculty are engaged on a daily basis this year. Not only do all faculty have to plan and re-plan for multiple subject areas, the way they teach humanities/social studies, literacy/English, math, science, the arts and PE/athletics has to be continually re-thought. And they are also in frequent contact with the families to help support our school-home partnership and bring families up to speed with all that has changed about how the School delivers the program. Every step of the way, teachers are spending more time than ever before on planning, setting up the classroom, facilitating the classroom work and providing student feedback. “I have been doing a lot more individual check-ins to assess how the students are engaging in the work. It’s so important during class time to focus on every single person in the class and how they’re doing both in class and at home,” MS Science teacher Annemarie Strange commented.

“It has been so impressive and amazing to witness the commitment, the hours and hours and hours spent putting the program together and giving feedback to peers. The faculty care so deeply about being able to provide what our students need,” Mrs. Quigley noted.

Seeing the kids is the best motivation for me.

“They are endless bundles of energy that keep me going.”—Annemarie Strange Given their traditional reliance on labs and experiential learning, redesigned science units offer a powerful example of recreating meaningful learning experiences for the students that are easy to transfer back and forth from the classroom to home. Ms. Strange explained, “In science, we’re doing a lot more online simulations this year and a lot more labs from home. Then when we come to class we discuss what we found. The lessons are set up so that students can participate whether remote or in-person, including hyperdocs for 5th Grade student collaboration on brain structure studies. For the 6th Grade “How to Do Science” unit, we gave them all peas to plant at home and asked them to design their own experiments to demonstrate their understanding of variables and procedures. In 8th Grade, we are doing experiments with ice and salt and measuring melting points; we ordered ice cube trays and different kinds of salts so students could conduct the experiments at home.

“We are also using a lot of rubrics so students have examples of what excellence looks like, what proficient looks like, etc.

This competency-based grading is focused more on the how and why of knowing something rather than how much you know about it.,” she continued.

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that most of us faculty are changing almost our entire curriculum to make sure that it fits for both in-home and in-person students and have put a lot of work into creating really awesome content. We have made really intentional choices and are really trying our very best,” she added.

Visiting professional artist helped PDS 4th graders explore finding their voice through art.

Virtual visits from career professionals also provide powerful learning opportunities. “REx program co-leaders Dr. Charles Alt and Dr. Kelley Bethoney are keeping that program exciting and engaging by bringing in speakers, which started last spring and has continued this fall. Since summer internship lab experiences were not feasible this year, connecting the kids with experts to gain a sophisticated understanding of science research areas is a wonderful way of making the best out of a difficult situation and using technology to our advantage,” Mr. Rhodes shared.

AT PDS, THE HIGHEST STANDARDS ARE NONNEGOTIABLE

Dr. Wang reflected, “The LS faculty have not lowered their standards for how much they care about their students’ wellbeing and how connected they are with the families and the parents. They are determined to deliver the best experience to the kids both on campus and at home. Through all of the challenges over the past several months, at no point did any faculty say, ‘I’m not going to do the work anymore.’

Everybody has pitched in, supported each other, talked openly about how they are feeling and, equally important, brainstormed ideas for how to move forward.”

“Seeing the kids is the best motivation for me. They are endless bundles of energy that keep me going,” Ms. Strange observed. “I believe families and the administration appreciate

Teachers are also grateful for family support. “My students’ parents have been nothing but supportive and understanding. It means the world to me as an educator, because whatever I’m doing and however many hours I’ve put in—and during those times when I feel like I’ve never done this before—the parents are still reassuring,” Mrs. Gibson shared.

“The faculty have been tirelessly problem solving to figure out the best way forward and they’re committed to finding the solutions. In the end, when the kids can be engaged with the teachers and one another it means so much, and families are really grateful for it,” Mr. Rhodes observed.

Winter and spring lie ahead, and the only certainty is that none can know what the coming months will bring. For Princeton Day School faculty, with the student experience as their north star, their commitment to seeking out and bringing the best of their abilities to the work remains unflinching.

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We continue to learn so much about what it takes to deliver the best program experience and to remain open. It is the continuous work of the faculty and staff that has moved the School forward. If you talk to people in the community they will tell you that no school in the area has done it as well as Princeton Day School. The faculty have provided for each of our students a first class, world class experience.

If you’ve been at our School for even a brief time, you know that none of us needs to be reminded to question everything. But with that charge comes another: to seek answers and solutions wherever they may be found.

Our success this year will be a collective success, and it will be made of our individual efforts to will ourselves, our students and our colleagues forward.”

—Paul Stellato

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of trustees

Writing this letter brought me to reflect on Princeton Day School’s challenging journey over the past eight months. I thought back to the early spring, when I was anticipating my fiftieth reunion, recalling what the School was like in the late 1960s while looking forward to a year of exciting changes on our campus. None of us anticipated then the tumultuous months to come, when we grappled with closing and then reopening, while also engaging in the important work of strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion in our community.

When I reflected on the past, I marveled at how much had physically changed at Princeton Day School during those decades, with expanded athletic facilities, new buildings for the Lower and Middle Schools, the reimagined Shepherd Commons, the Wellemeyer Steam Center and an extraordinary arts center. I saw then, too, how academically we had launched fully into the twenty-first century, developing stateof-the-art curricula and programs and hiring the best faculty to meet the demands of the future.

Now, however, I see how important it was that over these years Princeton Day School also nurtured the culture of innovation and resilience that prepared us to move so quickly to institute remote learning, and to reopen with a reconfigured physical campus and on-campus and remote instruction. Never before have the School’s faculty, staff, and leadership team been so tested and they have responded with extraordinary dedication and creativity to sustain the School’s mission to “nurture the mind, body and character of each and every student.” In particular, the Board of Trustees has deeply appreciated how Head of School Paul Stellato brilliantly responded to ever-changing conditions, always focused on that mission and the well-being of our faculty and students. Paul’s wisdom, guided by experience and strong values, has helped steer Princeton Day School for over a decade, and we are very lucky to have him with us now.

Over the summer, the Board of Trustees and the School community have also been fully engaged in our “Facing Forward” initiative. Many trustees attended the town halls with our Black alumni, parents, students and faculty last summer, and we were deeply moved by what we heard of their painful experiences. At that time, the Board committed itself to combating racism and any form of hatred and intolerance at Princeton Day School in the years to come. As a first step, we have convened a board-level Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, to help us recruit new trustees who reflect the School’s community and bring new perspectives to our work. The Committee will also design a process for board education in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, and advise us on how we can most effectively support the school’s DEI initiatives in the future.

I believe that when the Class of 1970 does finally reunite, while we will enjoy reminiscing about the past, we will celebrate how Princeton Day School has emerged even stronger from the trials of 2020.

We will have reinvented our teaching, deepened our connections with each other, and raised our sights, with a renewed positive vision of our future.

Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70

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board of trustees

Ashley Aitken-Davies

Sanford Bing h’87

Christopher Bobbitt

Michael Bracken ’98

Marc C. Brahaney

Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70

Carol Chiang-Li

Kun Deng

Sejal Doshi

Beth Geter-Douglas

Georgia (Robin) B. Gosnell

Thomas B. Harvey

Anna Horner

Suzy Lebovitz-Edelman

Cynthia O. Linville

Lorraine Sciarra

David R. Scott

Jacob Silverman ’89

Joanne Liu

Paul J. Stellato

Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70, Chair Thomas B. Harvey, Vice Chair Mark E. Thierfelder, Treasurer Cynthia O. Linville, Secretary/Parliamentarian Ashley Aitken-Davies Sanford Bing h’87 Christopher Bobbitt Michael Bracken ’98 Marc C. Brahaney Carol Chiang-Li Kun Deng Sejal Doshi Beth Geter-Douglas Georgia (Robin) B. Gosnell Anna Horner Suzy Lebovitz-Edelman Joanne Liu Amanda Maher Lee Maschler David L. Richter Lorraine Sciarra David R. Scott Jacob Silverman ’89 Paul J. Stellato Amrit Walla Zaidi John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Robert C. Whitlock ’78 William P. Burks, Trustee Emeritus Barbara Griffin Cole ’78, Trustee Emerita Marilyn W. Grounds, Trustee Emerita John P. Hall, Jr., Trustee Emeritus Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Herb Kendall, Trustee Emeritus Samuel W. Lambert III, Trustee Emeritus Edward E. Matthews, Trustee Emeritus C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80, Trustee Emerita Andrew M. Okun, Trustee Emeritus John D. Wallace ’48 PCD, Trustee Emeritus

Amanda Maher

Amrit Walla Zaidi

Lee Maschler

John C. Wellemeyer ’52

David L. Richter

Robert C. Whitlock ’78

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welcome new trustees This year, the Princeton Day School Board of Trustees welcomes five new members, each of whom brings many talents and a wide array of experience along with their commitment to serving the School in the vital work of school stewardship.

“I am delighted that we have been able to recruit such a talented group of new trustees, with impressive experience in science, finance, culture and education, as well as strong connections to Princeton Day School,” stated Dr. Rebecca Bushnell ’70, Chair of the Board of Trustees.

(This announcement was first posted on July 15 on pds.org.)

Suzy Lebovitz-Edelman ’89

background in the social impact space, technology, innovation and human resources. She has held leadership positions at strategy consultancies, talent acquisition firms and consumerfacing cultural institutions. Suzy resides in New York City with her family.

Amanda Maher, J.D., Ph.D.

Beth Geter-Douglass, Ph.D. ’82

Beth Geter-Douglass, Ph.D. ’82

Amanda is a current parent of three children. Amanda received a B.A. from Duke University in political science, earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Chicago. She is a part-time professor at Drexel University in the Political Science department.

She is also co-owner of The Meeting House restaurant on Witherspoon Street with her husband, Amar Gautam.

Beth attended Princeton Day School from 9th through 12th grade and is the parent of alumna Kyra Douglass ’20, who is a PDS “lifer” attending Brown University this fall. Beth received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from American University. She is Associate Director, North American Regulatory Leader in Neuroscience Drug Development at Johnson & Johnson. Beth has been a member of the PDS Alumni Board from 20142020. She is an Annual Fund volunteer, a class agent, and has been on her PDS reunion committee.

Suzy Lebovitz-Edelman ’89

Suzy attended Princeton Day School from 5th through 12th grade and graduated with honors in 1989. She is the co-chair of The Edelman Family Foundation where she oversees the organization’s strategy and advocacy goals.

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Joanne Liu

Amrit Walia-Zaidi

Joanne Liu

Amrit Walia-Zaidi

Amrit is a current parent. She is a Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director of NJ for Wells Fargo Private Bank. Amrit earned a B.A. from Rutgers University and an MBA from Hofstra University. She is a member of the Princeton Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors and is finishing her term on the Board of Trustees for Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart (PASH). Amrit is also the co-chair of the PDS Annual Fund Leadership Committee.

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Joanne Liu is a current parent and also parent of alumna Elsie Wang ’19, who attends Stanford University. She received her B.A. from Beijing Medical University of China and M.S. from West Virginia University. Joanne was a Director and Head of Asia Pacific Operation in Clinical Data Management at Merck. As the co-chair of the Ovations Committee of the PDS Parents Association for the past three years and a member of the PDS Annual Fund Leadership Committee, Joanne also continues serving the School community as the President-Elect of the Parents Association.

farewell departing trustees

J. Christopher Dries P ’18 ’20 Adeoye Olukotun P ’94 Mark Thierfelder P ’19 ’22 Alanna Bocklage P ’26 ’29 (2019-2020 PA President) J. Christopher Dries

Adeoye Olukotun

Mark Thierfelder

Alanna Bocklage

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Net Tuition 84.3%

Endowment Support 9.5% Annual Giving 5.4% Net Auxiliary Programs .03% Other Income 0.04%

REVENUE

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Tuition Financial Aid grants & remission Net Tuition Endowment Support Annual Giving Net Auxiliary Programs Other Income Total

34,550,700 (6,997,672)” 27,553,028 3,115,787 1,751,661 101,771 143,230 $32,665,477

106% -21% 84.3% 9.5% 5.4% 0.3% 0.4% 100%

EXPENSES Faculty and Staff Faculty Enrichment, Supplies, Travel, Professional Services Campus and Technology Maintentance Utilities/Insurance Debt Service Total

25,369,631

78%

3,270,441

10%

2,560,258 767,605 696,936 $32,664,871

8% 2% 2% 100%

EXPENSES Faculty Enrichment, Supplies, Travel, Professional Services 19% Campus and Technology Maintenance 8% Utilities/Insurance 2%

Debt Service 2%

Faculty & Staff 78%

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Message of Gratitude I have so many reasons to be thankful this year but this is not an ordinary thank you because these are extraordinary times. Your support of Princeton Day School is important to the school, now more than ever.

In the face of the COVID-19 global health crisis, we remained a community. I am grateful for all we have accomplished this year. Distance only reinforced our strength. The Annual Fund, the School’s number one philanthropic priority, met its budgeted goal of $1.71 million with gifts totalling more than $1.75 million from 1,869 trustees, alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends. The main reason for this success was the fourth annual Day of Giving which was held on May 8th. Our goal was 331 gifts which represents one gift for every teacher, advisor, coach and staff member–the individuals who remain at the heart of our community. Our successful fundraising day brought in 618 gifts, totaling $436,616–breaking all previous records–during a pandemic. I am grateful for everyone who supported the school this year, our many volunteers and my team. Thank you for being a community!

Despite the many challenges we faced this past spring, your commitment to the Princeton Day School mission to nurture the mind, the body and the character of each student remained a priority. Many of us struggled day-to-day to find the balance in our lives dealing with working from home, parenting 24/7, remote learning and the well-being of our loved ones. With the continued uncertainty around our health, our finances and our future, you remembered Princeton Day School. You gave back to ensure that we remain resilient and able to adapt to these ever-evolving circumstances. Thank you for your commitment to safeguard our school now – and always!

Your support demonstrates confidence in our leadership and institution. It is the essential component to our success this past year and years to come. As we move closer to the completion of the THRIVE! Campaign, we have so much to celebrate– like the new Athletic Center that will provide increased practice and competition space for our athletes, while also serving as an all-School community gathering space. We remain strong– thanks to you– there’s no doubt about that. Thank you for your unwavering confidence in our great school’s past, present and future.

Because of you, Princeton Day School is an incredible place– a confident, committed community.

With warmest thanks, Katherine A. Schulte Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategic Priorities

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The following individuals, families, foundations and corporations have made contributions from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

Princeton Day School wishes to acknowledge their generosity and commitment to providing outstanding educational opportunities for our students.

Giving categories reflect all gifts made to Princeton Day School during the past fiscal year.

Excellence Circle Named in honor of those donors whose philanthropy sustains the School’s commitment to excellence, this level recognizes gifts of $1,000,000 or more.

Anonymous The Estate of Dean W. Mathey ’43 Mr. Paul S. Vogel ’62 The Vogel-Seidenberg Charitable Fund

Founders Circle Named in honor of those individuals whose generosity provides Princeton Day School with the means to carry on the outstanding educational experience inspired by its founding schools, Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Country Day School, this level recognizes donors of between $500,000 and $999,999.

Anonymous Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67

Leadership Circle Named in honor of those individuals whose philanthropy allows Princeton Day School to fulfill its mission, this level recognizes donors of between $250,000 and $499,999.

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Johnston

1899 Circle Named in honor of those individuals whose generosity and vision were the very foundation of our School, this level recognizes donors of between $100,000 and $249,999.

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bartlett Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Family Foundation Mr. N. Harrison Buck ’77 and Mrs. Nancy B. Buck Harrison and Nancy Buck Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 and Mr. John Toner Mr. Christopher B. Kuenne ’80 Mrs. Carol Chiang-Li and Dr. Ronald Li Dr. and Mrs. Judson Linville Mr. Johnathan L. Seeg and Ms. Sasha C. Appleton Mr. and Mrs. Tucker S. Triolo

Dean Mathey Circle

The 1965 Society

Named in honor of Dean Mathey, whose generosity and vision were the very foundation of our School, this level recognizes donors of between $50,000 and $99,999.

Named in honor of Princeton Day School’s founding year, this level recognizes donors of between $10,000 and $24,999.

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. George Aitken-Davies Mrs. Li Cheng and Mr. Ming Zheng Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey L. Cook † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li Mr. and Mrs. Tareq Mansour † Mr. David Mathey ’47 David Mathey Irrevocable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Bradford A. Mills ’72 Debbie and Steve Modzelewski Mr. and Mrs. C. Schuyler Morehouse Princeton Area Community Foundation George G. & Elizabeth G. Smith Foundation, Inc. Mr. Curtis McGraw Webster ’75 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Mr. Robert N. Wilson

Trustee Circle Named in honor of the distinguished men and women whose leadership sustains the School’s commitment to excellence, this level recognizes donors of between $25,000 and $49,999.

Anonymous (4) Mr. Kun Deng and Professor Zhen Deng Zhen Deng and Kun Deng Family Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable Mr. Timothy R. Gardner and Ms. Meredith P. Asplundh Gardner Family Charitable Gift Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Amar Gautam and Ms. Amanda Maher Ms. Georgia B. Gosnell The Griffin-Cole Fund Mr. John P. Hall ’79 and Mrs. R. May Lee Hall The Hall and Lee Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Ms. Christine Grant Halpern and Mr. Michael D. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Harvey The Emily & John Harvey Foundation Mrs. Anna Horner and † Mr. Jonathan P. Horner Johnson & Johnson Mr. Lee S. Maschler Ms. Marjorie Maschler Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Merse Kevin and Alicia Merse Charitable Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Kewei Ming and Mrs. Zhanyun Zhao Mr. Christopher A. Sheldon ’92 Mr. Jacob L. Silverman ’89 Ms. Karen A. Wells Mr. Michael G. Wells Mrs. Mary Roberts Woodbridge ’42 Woodbridge Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. Anping Wu and Ms. Yong Qin Li

Anonymous (5) Bank of America Foundation Mr. Krishna Bhagavathula and Ms. Sangeeta Sarma BM Consulting Services, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Chandler B. Bocklage Mr. Michael T. Bracken ’98 and Mrs. Lindsay Bracken Mr. and Mrs. Marc C. Brahaney Brahaney Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Mr. and Mrs. David Bremer Bushnell/Toner Fund Mr. Hon Chang and Ms. Jenjen Chen Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. Yongzhang Chen and Mrs. Fengying Zeng Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Chia Dr. Jixin Dai and Dr. Yi Liu Dr. J. Christopher Dries and Mrs. Kristen Dries Dries Family Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Susan Lebovitz-Edelman ’89 and Mr. Joseph Edelman The Edelman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Shawn W. Ellsworth ’75 Mr. Benjamin M. Frost ’92 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Geltzer Geltzer Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Jordan M. Gray Jordan and Kristin Gray Donor-Advised Fund at Schwab Charitable Mrs. Sally Campbell Haas ’63 Sally Campbell Haas Foundation of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. Hanson Alex and Laura Hanson Charitable Gift Fund, Inc. LFAS Consultancy Services Corp Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. and Mrs. Jason N. Longo Mr. Parvez Mansuri and Mrs. Sunitha Banda Mr. Edward E. Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Ted Mazzarisi Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Sumit Mukherjee Dr. Hong Ni and Ms. Xun Xu Dr. and Mrs. David Nieves Mr. Abner Qu and Mrs. Haiyan Zeng Mr. and Mrs. Jack Z. Rabinowitz Mr. and Mrs. James S. Radvany Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richter Mr. and Mrs. Jason K. Ridings Mr. A. Richard Ross ’68 and Ms. Judith Heim Mr. D.G. Sarsfield and Ms. Judith Reich Mr. and Mrs. Asit K. Sen Dr. Marjorie D. Shaw ’70 and Mr. Barney S. Rush Shaw Rush Giving Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Fund Ms. Michelle Hays Simonds Mr. and Mrs. Sahni Singh Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Neil Tang Mr. Nils E. von Zelowitz ’88 and Ms. Leigh-Anne Wiester Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace ’48

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Faculty Circle By far the greatest strength of Princeton Day School is its dedicated faculty whose wisdom and patience have guided countless students through the learning process. This level recognizes donors of between $5,000 and $9,999.

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. David Broeker Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Caputo Class of 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Philip DelVecchio Mr. T. Wilson Eglin, Jr. ’82 Eglin Family Charitable Giving Fund Mr. Michael Englander ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Figel Google Matching Gifts Program Mr. John L. Griffith III ’99 and Dr. Rebecca Lintner Griffith ’95 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Harris Harris Family Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Ms. Deborah V. Hobler ’66 Ms. Nancy W. Hobler ’74 Mr. Randolph W. Hobler ’61 Mrs. Mary Hobler Hyson ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Arbind Jha Mr. and Mrs. Amit Karande Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh Khanna Harold Kramer Foundation Mr. Sajjad S. Ladiwala and Ms. Anjum M. Khan Mr. and Mrs. RJ Lumba Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation Mrs. Marcia Goetze Nappi ’52 MGN Family Foundation Mr. Jared R. Nussbaum ’93 Nussbaum Charitable Gift Fund Mr. John Pepe and Mrs. Sabrina Mirza-Pepe Ms. Dorothy C. Pickering ’71 Mr. Howard F. Powers, Jr. ’80 and Mrs. Alexandra B. Powers Mr. and Mrs. William Rue, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sedgley Anna and Robert Sedgley Family Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Dennis Stattman Ms. Virginia W. Stattman ’09 Mr. William T. Stattman ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Jon H. Stevens Mr. Yu Sun and Dr. Xinye Wu Ms. Martha Sullivan Sword ’73 Mrs. Lucy Englander van den Brand ’78 Mr. Alexander T. Wei ’93 Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 † Denotes Deceased

Colross Circle Named for the historical campus building, this level recognizes donors of between $2,500 and $4,999 whose generosity preserves our traditions of excellence. This level also includes graduates of the last 20 years whose gifts total $1,000 or more.

Mrs. Maria Tardugno Aldrich ’99 and Mr. Stephen P. Aldrich BAE Systems Mr. Edward S. Barclay ’57 Mr. Deepinder S. Bhatia and Dr. Nandini Chowdhury Bhatia-Chowdhury Family Giving Fund Ms. Rachel Cantlay ’13 Mr. Brian P. Caulin ’04 Dr. Min Cha and Mrs. Soyoung Lee Mr. Marc A. Collins ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. DiBianca Mr. Shuang Du and Mrs. Feng Pan Ms. Jeanine M. Figur ’74 Mr. Ethan M. Geltzer ’10 Mr. Isaac S. Geltzer ’08 Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Dr. Yunhong Gu and Dr. Shuang Liu Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hall, Jr. Ms. Natalie Hamill ’01 Mr. Daniel J. Helmick ’90 Helmick-Fox Fund of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Dr. and Mrs. H. James Herring Mr. Joseph H. Highland and † Mrs. Dorothy Highland Highland-Mills Foundation, Incorporated Mr. C. Justin Hillenbrand ’94 Mr. Taylor K. Hwong ’88 Mr. Hu Jin and Ms. Aizi Shi Mrs. Nancy Hudler Keuffel ’58 Mr. Jonathan Levy and Ms. Jill Nusbaum Mr. and Mrs. Jian Ma Mr. Zili Ma and Ms. Lin Zheng Dr. Burton G. Malkiel and Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel Mr. and Mrs. George H. McLaughlin II Mr. Paris L. McLean ’00 Mr. Matthew S. Miller ’89 Mr. Nishant Nair ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Joel Namm Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter Pechter Polls Piper Sandler Companies Mr. Joseph D. Punia ’71 Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Cameron Rogers ’09 and Mr. Joseph P. Rogers ’09 Ms. Julie Roginsky ’91 Mr. Scott E. Rosenberg ’04 Mr. Llewellyn G. Ross and Ms. Miles Dumont Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. Alvin Seow and † Ms. Seok Fun Tan Dr. Utpal (Paul) Shah ’90 and Dr. Maritoni Calon Shah Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Silva Mr. James W. Simpson ’89 Dr. Shalabh Singhal and Dr. Shivani Srivastava Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Smith Paul J. and Maureen O. Stellato Dr. Gerald Suh and Mrs. Soo Kim Dr. Ramamirtham Sukumar and Dr. Satya Varagoor

Mr. Thomas J. Sullivan and Ms. Bonnie L. Higgins Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung Mr. Suhan Tang and Ms. Yali Shi Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tourville Mr. and Mrs. Krishna Vasireddy Mr. Leo Wang and Ms. Faye Chen Mr. Ian P. Wijaya ’95 and Ms. Anupa Shah Wijaya ’94 Mr. Charlie Wu and Dr. Xiaolan Zeng Dr. Chao Yan and Ms. Lang Sun Mr. Ting Yang and Mrs. Lei Ye Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian Ms. Amy Zakar-Banner and Dr. Adrian Banner Mr. Shudan Zhang and Mrs. Shirley Zhang Dr. Jiang Zhao and Ms. Ruozhen Chen Mr. Ruibin Zhou and Dr. Yunrong Ye Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Ziegler

Young Alumni Leadership Circle This level recognizes the generous young alumni building the next generation of leadership support at Princeton Day School. Members of this circle have made a contribution of $500 or more to the 2019-2020 Annual Fund and have graduated from our School within the last 15 years.

Ellen C. Bartolino ’13 Peter A. Blackburn ’11 Christopher P. Bonnaig ’11 Madison C. Brisseaux ’06 Catherine A. Chomiak ’05 Christopher Chomiak ’07 Brian C. Crowell ’11 Brooks P. Herr ’10 Sarah Louise Linville ’14 Alexandra W. Feuer Portale ’10 Alexandra Hiller Rorick ’07 Anu R. Shah ’05 Jeffrey A. Straus ’12 Carl M.M. Vik ’11

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Mrs. Susan Schildkraut Wallach ’64 and Mr. Kenneth Wallach Susan S. & Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation Mr. Fuhai Wang and Ms. Yuan Zhao Ms. Lisa A. Warren ’71 LAWsgiving Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Mr. Robert C. Whitlock ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wolfe Mr. Haibo Wu and Mrs. Danfeng Wang Dr. Asim Zaidi and Ms. Amrit Walia-Zaidi Mr. Chao Zhang and Ms. Hong Chang Dr. Peng-Liang Zhao and Ms. Yanmei Lian

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Trustees We are deeply grateful to the Board of Trustees and Trustees Emeriti for continuing to make Princeton Day School their philanthropic priority.

Mrs. Ashley Aitken-Davies Mr. Sanford B. Bing h’87 Mr. Christopher B. Bobbitt Mrs. Alanna Bocklage Mr. Michael T. Bracken ’98 Mr. Marc C. Brahaney Dr. William P. Burks Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 Mrs. Carol Chiang-Li Mrs. Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Mr. Kun Deng Mrs. Sejal Doshi Dr. J. Christopher Dries Ms. Georgia B. Gosnell Mrs. Marilyn W. Grounds Mr. John P. Hall, Jr. Mr. Thomas B. Harvey Mrs. Anna Horner † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson Mr. Samuel W. Lambert III Mrs. Cynthia O. Linville Mr. Lee S. Maschler Mr. Edward E. Matthews Mr. Andrew M. Okun Mr. David L. Richter Ms. Lorraine Sciarra Mr. David R. Scott Mr. Jacob Silverman ’89 Mr. Paul J. Stellato Mr. Mark E. Thierfelder Mr. John D. Wallace ’48 Mr. John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Mr. Robert C. Whitlock ’78 Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 The following alumni from Miss Fine’s School, Princeton Country Day School and Princeton Day School supported the 2019-2020 Annual Fund.

MISS FINE’S SCHOOL ALUMNAE Class of 1940 Phyllis Vandewater Clement ****** Louise Russell Irving *

Class of 1942 † Sally Kuser Lane ******

Class of 1943 Marjorie Libby Moore ** Marie Frohling Rawlings **

Class of 1944 Eleanor Vandewater Leonard ******

Class of 1946 Markell Meyers Shriver ******

Class of 1949 Lucy Law Webster

Class of 1950 Wendy McAneny Bradburn ******

Class of 1951 Gordon McAllen Baker ****** Barbara Johnston Rodgers ******

Class of 1953 Anne Carples Denny ****** Elaine Polhemus Frost *** Hilary Thompson Kenyon ****** Hope Thompson Kerr ****** Jane Gihon Shillaber ******

Class of 1954 Louise Mason Bachelder **** Nancy Shannon Ford *** Lynn Prior Harrington **

Class of 1955 L. Chloe King ******

Class of 1956 Carol Harris Bradley ** Kathleen Dunn Lyman *** Marina Turkevich Naumann ** Cicely Tomlinson Richardson ***

Class of 1957 Susan Smith Baldwin * Nancy B. Miller ***** Susan Barclay Walcott ****

Class of 1958 Elizabeth Carter Bannerman Ellen Freedman Dingman ** Nancy Hudler Keuffel ****** Anne Prather Tirana *

PRINCETON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ALUMNI Class of 1940 Michael G. Hall

Class of 1943 Peter E. B. Erdman****** David H. McAlpin, Jr. *

Class of 1944 Markley Roberts *

Class of 1947 Paul M. Roediger *

Class of 1948 Alexander S. Burnstan George C.S. Hackl * John D. Wallace ****

Class of 1950 Richard N. Stillwell ***

Class of 1951 Edwin H. Metcalf ****** Henry G. Rulon-Miller ** Peter G.P. Wright **

Class of 1952 J. Robert Hillier * John C. Wellemeyer ***

Class of 1959

Class of 1953

Ann Kinczel Clapp ****** Cecilia Aall Mathews

Class of 1954

Class of 1960 Susan Carter Avanzino ** Louise Scheide Marshall Kelly * Sally Hagen Schmid **** Carol Garrigues Scofield

Class of 1961 Julia Fulper Hardt ***** Julia Cornforth Holofcener *** Deborah Moore Krulewitch Lucia Norton Woodruff

Class of 1962 Gail M. Cotton ****** Katharine Walker Ellison **** Susan Shea McPherson * Tamara Turkevich Skvir * Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ******

Class of 1963 Patience Outerbridge Banister ****** Joan Knapp Crocker * Wylie O’Hara Doughty ** Kathleen Sittig Dunlop ** Sally Campbell Haas ***** Polly T. Miller **** Valerie Wicks Miller ** Jane Aresty Silverman

Henry B. Cannon III ****** Austin P. Sullivan, Jr. ******

Class of 1955 † Guy K. Dean III ****** William R. Kales II *** Patrick Rulon-Miller **** Clark G. Travers **

Class of 1956 John F. Cook * Peter R. Moock ** Daniel Quick ** Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. * David B. Smoyer ******

Class of 1957 Edward S. Barclay, Jr. * James Carey, Jr. ***** Harrison S. Fraker, Jr. ** W. Andrew Harris * William M. Morse *** Joseph H. Wright *

Class of 1958 Richard W. Baker III Toby Knox

Class of 1959 Howard McMorris II ****

Class of 1964

Class of 1960

Jettie Edwards * Cary Smith Hart ****** Gail Petty Riepe ***** Susan Schildkraut Wallach ******

Class of 1961

Class of 1965 Margaret Woodbridge Dennis * Karen M. Fraser

John H. Odden * Thomas D. Chubet ****** Randolph W. Hobler J. Regan Kerney ** Peter H. Raymond Father John R. Sheehan * Edward G. Warren III ** John O. Willis **

Consecutive Annual Fund Donors: 5 plus years *; 10 plus years **; 15 plus years ***; 20 plus years ****; 25 plus years *****; 30 plus years ******

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Class of 1969 Kathleen Gorman Colket ** Susan Denise Harris ** Elizabeth C. Healy Barbara Thomsen Kerckhoff ** Laura J. Lamar Deborah Light Thomas H. Paine, Jr. Elizabeth Bristol Sayen * Austin C. Starkey, Jr. ****** Brent Vine * Jane T. Wiley ***** Robert D. Wilmot ***** Jean Gorman Wilson *****

Class of 1970 • 50th Reunion

Class of 1962 John C. Baker ** Richard K. Delano John M. Gaston III ** Richard G. Marcus * J. Rodman Myers * Paul S. Vogel *

Class of 1963 William Edwards, Jr. ****** Jonathan S. Linker Charles O’Brien * Bradley Y. Smith **

Class of 1964 Stephen Lane *** Michael D. Simko *

Class of 1965 Nathaniel C. Hutner William S.M. Sayen *

PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL ALUMNI Class of 1966 Linda Staniar Bergh ****** Mary Carol Bilderback Deborah V. Hobler *** Sally K. Lane * Patience Morgan-Irigoyen **** Margery Cuyler Perkins *

Class of 1967 Patricia Sly Chamberlain * Susan Fritsch Hunter Julia D. Lockwood * Mary Woodbridge Lott *** Pamela Erickson MacConnell * Jo Schlossberg McConaghy ****** Martha F. Miller **** Laura B. Peterson *** Marta Nussbaum Steele * Phoebe Knapp Warren *

Class of 1968 Sophia Godfrey Bauer John W. Claghorn III ***** Andrew J. Fishmann *** † Denotes Deceased

Reunion Committee: Lewis C. Bowers II, Rebecca W. Bushnell, Rett Campbell, Frederica Cagan Doeringer, Allison Gilbert Kozicharow, Janet M. Masterton, Meg Brinster Michael Thomas J. Berger * Lewis C. Bowers II Rebecca W. Bushnell ** Rett Campbell Frederica Cagan Doeringer **** Frederic P. Erdman Diane Erickson * H. Porter Eubank, Jr. * Ann Wiser Fries Louise A. Hutner John H. Kilgore Allison Gilbert Kozicharow * Hilary J. Martin Janet M. Masterton ** Linda L. McCandless Shelby Brewster McMahan Wendy Lawson-Johnston McNeil ***** Meg Brinster Michael Barbara R. Miller * Robert Rands Peck William K. Power, Jr. James C. Rodgers ** M. Nicole Sarett Harriet M. Sharlin ** Marjorie D. Shaw ****** Cynthia A. Shoemaker * Stephen M. Vine ***** William E. White Ann M. Wiley ****** Donald R. Young, Jr. *

Class of 1971 Jeremy T. Bonner Richard L. Bryant David T. Claghorn Bill Flemer Richard B. Kramer * Catherine S. Lane Kevin McCarthy Tania Lawson-Johnston McCleery ***** Edward R. McCluskey Robert A. Norman *** Dorothy C. Pickering ***** Kathrin W. Poole * Joseph D. Punia ******

Rebecca Ramsey Nina Shafran ** Timothy E. Smith * George D. Treves Howard A. Vine Lisa A. Warren **** Natalie W. Huston Wiles Victoria M. Willock Thomas C. Worthington ***** Laurie Bryant Young *

Class of 1972 Henry P. Bristol II ** Jan Hall Burruss *** Michael Englander **** Jody Erdman **** Mark Delavan Harrop Katherine Gulick Hoffman ***** Alexander D. Laughlin Ellen Sussman Karen M. Turner ***** Henry T. Vogt *****

Class of 1973 Joe Abelson ****** Glenna Weisberg Andersen ***** Cynthia H. Bishop * H. Andrew Davies II *** Anne Bishop Faynberg ***** Ellen M. Fisher **** Louise Whipple Gillock ***** Erica L. Klein Mary-Lynn Lavine Carol M. Lifland * John B. Mittnacht ***** Charles H. Place III *** Russell B. Pyne ***** Jeffrey E. Schuss *** Susan Bauer Schwinger **** Daniel J. Skvir h’73 * Martha Sullivan Sword *** Virginia Vogt ** Newell B. Woodworth III

Class of 1974 Ted Brown * Evelyn Turner Counts ** Jeanine M. Figur ** Samuel C. Finnell III ** Wendy Frieman ** Jill L. Goldman ****** Nancy W. Hobler Eleanor Funk Schuster Julia Sly Selberg ** Barbara A. Spalholz ****** David B. Straut * Francis D. Treves Palmer B. Uhl ****** Terry L. Ward ** Polly Hunter White *** Anne A. Williams

Class of 1975 • 45th Reunion Carl G. Briscoe II Eric C. Dunn Shawn W. Ellsworth ****** William P. Graff *** Alexandra Smith Gunderson ****** Caroline Erdman Hare ** Livingston Johnson ** Dafydd P. Jones

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Michael L. Hart Mary Hobler Hyson ****** Ann I. McClellan **** A. Richard Ross *** Beth Schlossberg *

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Yuki Moore Laurenti * Kip Herrick O’Brien ** Anne Russell-Barrett * Lars A. Selberg ** Keith A. Thomas Curtis McGraw Webster ** Harvey M. Wiener ** Gay Wilmerding ***** Hilary A. Winter *

Class of 1976 Mary Murdoch Finnell ** Julia Stabler Hull *** Gwyneth Hamel Iredale J. Stephen Judge Emily Rothrock Kastler Gregory E. Matthews ***** Ann Wittke Morrissey * Elizabeth Partridge Raymond * Sandra L. Shaw ** William H. von Oehsen III ** Cintra Eglin Willcox ******

Class of 1977

Holly Burks Becker ** N. Harrison Buck Annabelle Brainard Canning * Christina Bachelder Dufresne ***** Thomas A.D. Ettinghausen Anne Dennison Fleming *** Barbara Russell Flight ****** Andrew Hildick-Smith Simeon H. Hutner ***** Alexis Arlett Kochmann ** Livia Wong McCarthy ** Robert N. McClellan *** Tamar Pachter Andrea Avery Renault Caroline W. Sherman Jennifer Weiss ** George M. Zoukee ******

Class of 1978 David A. Barondess ** Susan Blaxill-Deal Nancy Chen Cavanaugh *** Barbara Griffin Cole **** Robert N. Cottone, Jr. Thomas R. Gates ***** Alice Lee Groton ***** Jennifer Chandler Hauge **** Barbara Vaughn Hoimes * Claire Jacobus William W. Kain Sheila Mehta * Gregory F. Morea * Jeff R. Patterson * Heather Dembert Rafter *** Robyn J. Ultan Lucy Englander van den Brand **** Robert C. Whitlock ***

Class of 1979 John W. Ager III * Vance G. Camisa ***** Pamela Kulsrud Corey * Benjamin D. Dubrovsky * Douglas A. Fein *** David S. Fitton, Jr. ****** Delia Smith Gardiner Louis C. Guarino ** John A. Gutman ** John P. Hall III *

Martha Lewis Hicks * Christopher J. Horan ***** Jane Henderson Kenyon ****** Teresa D. Lane Catherine White Mertz ****** Evan R. Press * Christopher W.H. Price Muna Shehadi Sill **** David S. Weiner ** Sarah Woodworth-Gibson Henry H. Zenzie *

Class of 1980 • 40th Reunion Reunion Committee: James Cox III, John G. David, Sally L. Fineburg, Robert E. Jordan, James Y. Laughlin, Jamie Phares, Howard F. Powers, Jr., John J. Scott, Jr., Lynn Shapiro Starr, Christian D. Wallace, C. Treby McLaughlin Williams Stratos G. Athanassiades * John W. Banse James C.E. Burke Susan Goldman DeCaro Sally L. Fineburg James Y. Laughlin ***** Robert M. Leahy, Jr. ** Jennifer Brannon Manning * Jay R. Marcus ****** Nicholas De Jongh Osborne * Jamie Phares ***** Joy E. Power ** Howard F. Powers, Jr. ****** Lynn Shapiro Starr Dana H. Stewardson ***** Christian D. Wallace * Leslie Straut Ward **** David C. Whitlock ** C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ****

Class of 1981

John Cavuto ** Cynthia Griffin Ferris Jane L. Gerb * Mark Goodman * Sarah Sword Lazarus ** John S. Marshall ** Kirsten Elmore Meister R. Wade Speir, Jr. * Daniel F. Thompson

Class of 1982 April Barry Braswell Donald DeCandia T. Wilson Eglin, Jr. Mark A. Egner ***** Beth Geter-Douglass **** Suzanne Haynes Hallé Lorraine M. Herr James P. Herring J. Cameron Johnson Laura Stifel Murphy *** Kang Na ****** Lindsay McCord Norman * Leslie G. Pell Jeffrey F. Perlman ****** William R. Rossmassler III Alice Ganoe Ryden ***** Lauren Goodyear Schramm ****** Lindsay S. Suter * Robert C. Szuter *** Newell M. Thompson ** John E. Vine ****

Class of 1983 Stephanie L. Bogart ** Louise Matthews Flickinger ** Matthew P. Kohut ** Edwin B. Metcalf * Zoe Nicolich Nelson Sandra Danielson Quirinale * Julia Katz Schonfeld Elisabeth Reichard Swanbery * Kelly Lambert Walker ** Rena A. Whitehouse **

Class of 1984 Victoria C.P. Chen ****** Marjorie Wallace Gibson ***** Daniel R. Herr ****** Suzanne E. Lengyel ***** Hilleary T. Thomas * Sarah Griffin Thompson ** Edward J. Willard John T. Woodward IV ***

Class of 1985 • 35th Reunion Reunion Committee: Birgit H. Enstrom, Lynch W. Hunt, Jr., Stephen M. Sinaiko Laura S. Bennett ****** Patrick L. Courtney ** Tonya Elmore Davis Samantha Levine Dawson * Mary Lawson-Johnston Howe **** Lynch W. Hunt, Jr. *** Jamison D. Suter * Karen Callaway Urisko *****

Class of 1986 Jaye Chen ***** Sean P. Cullen Leslie Elmore Scott W. Fulmer Jonathan S. Gershen ** Susan C. Hockings **** Timothy S. Howard *** Mitchell J. Klein *** Samuel Wm. Lambert Elizabeth S. White Meahl Elizabeth Zenzie Meyer Andrew B. Smith David C. Sullivan Lisa A. Taitsman *** Eric G. Tamm *

Consecutive Annual Fund Donors: 5 plus years *; 10 plus years **; 15 plus years ***; 20 plus years ****; 25 plus years *****; 30 plus years ******

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Class of 1987 Sanford B. Bing h’87 *** Peter F. Biro * Jeffery N. Brown ** Lisa Somerstein Kulka Shana Fineburg Owen Stephanie Richman *** William D. Schafer ***** Michele Sternberg ***** Craig C. Stuart *** Randall S. Walter ****

Class of 1988 Hilary H. Bachelder Elaine N. Chou * Amy Venable Ciuffreda * Marc A. Collins ** Jivan B. Datta * Edward S. Eglin Janie Hwang Taylor K. Hwong *** Mike Lingle * Bennett J. Matelson ** Melissa Baron Murdoch Brooke C. Murphy * Arianna Rosati **** Jeremy E. Rothfleisch **** Abigail Zimskind Schein Peter C. Sienkiewicz Julia Herr Smith ** Nils E. von Zelowitz * Lambros Xethalis

Class of 1989 James Aversano III * Katherine Baicker Alicia M. Collins * Michael B. Cook * Karen P. Fredericks ***** Gregory P. Gordon * Matthew C. Henderson Elizabeth Griffith Hipp * Jacqueline Reiss Kravitz Kentigern S.M. Kyle Susan H. Lebovitz-Edelman * Matthew S. Miller Hardy S. Royal ***** Alejandro C. Sagebien Carlos A. Sagebien * Jacob L. Silverman James W. Simpson ** Megan E. Taylor Beth Schwartz Waisburd *

Class of 1990 • 30th Reunion Reunion Committee: Daniel J. Helmick, Arielle Miller Levitan, Erik L. Oliver, Timory Howe Ridall Lylah M. Alphonse *** Edith Baronian * Zachariah D. Gursky Daniel J. Helmick **** Benjamin A. Hohmuth ** Jason M. Hollander ** David A. Ragsdale *** Timory Howe Ridall * Utpal S. Shah ** Julie K. Taitsman ** Sara Matelson Taylor ** Ramsay W. Vehslage, Jr.

Class of 1991 Ara Baronian * Aly Cohen ** Jeremy S. Kuris ** L. Campbell Levy Amy R. Livingston ***** Brendan T. Lucey Julie Roginsky ** Jonathan E. Trend ** Rachel Bridgeman Trend **

Class of 1992 Jason A. Bilanin Adam Bromwich **** Charles J. Buttaci ** Kevin M. Capinpin ***** Carolyn S. Cooper Ravindra V. Dalal * Benjamin M. Frost ***** Judson R. Henderson Katherine K. Marquis ** Gary A. Moore * Natasha Datta Moore * John D. Stitzer, Jr. *** David I. Wise * Eric R. Wolarsky ***

Class of 1993 Scott J. Feldman ***** Benjamin B. Kuris *** Emily S. Miller * Jared R. Nussbaum * Matthew H. Shaffer * Stephen S. Siegel ** Alexander T. Wei Philip A. White

Class of 1994 Michael L. Brown Jessica E. Seid Dickler * Jason M. Hart ** C. Justin Hillenbrand ** Bradford D. Johnston ** Rachel Zublatt Kusminsky ** Veronica M.S. White * Anupa Shah Wijaya * Christina P. Williams * Cornelia Wu ***

Class of 1995 • 25th Reunion Reunion Committee: Zaneta Shannon Chambers, Jennifer Mitchell Reddien, Amanda Tate Speedling Zaneta Shannon Chambers Philip J. Glassner Rebecca Lintner Griffith * John H. Helmick ** Myong S. Lee Alexander K. Manka ** Shawn P. O’Connor Stephen C. Rose * Amanda Tate Speedling * Ian P. Wijaya *

Class of 1996 Eric M. Boyd Mark W. Chatham ** Robert A. Drabiuk ** Dana DeCore Falconi Sara Zoe Hart ** Kathleen O. Jamieson **** Justin M. Krebs Galete J. Levin ** Liuba Shapiro Ruiz ** Rebecca Nemiroff Siegel **** Peter C. Suomi ** Sarah E. Weeks

Class of 1997 Seth Adler ** Alexandra Johnston Mandy Rabinowitz Plonsky ** Jeffrey Schor *** Ameesh R. Shah **

Class of 1998 Lauri Accardi Jessica Collins Anderson *** Michael T. Bracken * Robin Ackerman Cameron ** Leif C. Forer * Eric D. Hochberg *** Jeffrey Kurtz Giovanna Gray Lockhart **** Kevin Meehan Bryan T. Newman Robert E. Paun ** Matthew Trowbridge Andrew T. Warren * Erin Conroy Welling

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Class of 1999 Maria L. Tardugno Aldrich **** Annie Jamieson Applegate *** Lauren Kostinas Birkhold Ariana Jakub Brandes **** Christina Flores Cordes ** Joseph A. Gallo * Christopher W. Gerry *** John L. Griffith III *** Maren Levine Hefler ** Keri Bernstein Keiter Alexander C. Mathews Sean N. Merriweather **** Alexander J. Nanfara ** Benjamin J. Petrick * Alexander T. Sigman Jane Stockdale Janine C. Winant ***

Class of 2000 • 20th Reunion Reunion Committee: Jerome M. Kemper III, Paris L. McLean Tracey Spinner Baskin **** Benjamin T. Brickner * John L. Dorazio, Jr. ** Brendan G. Hart ** Dixon Hayes Trevor J. Lamb ** Jared P. Lander * Christina S. Lee * Frank Y.K. Lee Dalya H. Levin Erin C. McCaffrey * Paris L. McLean ** Christopher J. Ordowich Page Schmucker **

Class of 2001 Mark M. Caruso Steven A. Chiavarone Mia Rabinowitz Cote Zachary Faigen * Michael D. Fishbein Summer L. Headley Sara Peach Messier *** Kristin M. Miller * Sydne Levine Miller ** Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski *** Jessica Feig Opet *** Lauren J. Sanders ** London Thomson-Thurm Greson A. Torchio *

Class of 2002 Courtney C. Bergh *** Kathryn Babick Brickner ** Daniel S. Crosta ** Sarah H. Elmaleh Aviva Perlman Fintz ** Grant Schmucker * Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker ** Ilona Spiro **

Class of 2003 Joanna L. Bowen *** Christopher C. Campbell ** Katherine J. Fanok Amy M. Gallo ** Andrew V. Gentile ** Jessica Grossi Grace * Tony A. Hack *

Joseph R. Joiner, Jr. * Kelley Keegan *** Erich Matthes * Russell A. Nemiroff ** Eleanor Oakes Nicholas L. Perold * James M. Ramos Justin M. Revelle Elizabeth W. Sayen ** Julia Kay Thompson Christopher L. White

Class of 2004 Julianne E. Befeler Jason D. Bender * Lillie G. Binder ** Brian P. Caulin * Katherine Chimacoff Dickens Molly Jamieson Eberhardt * John M. Gallagher Jim F. Harding, Jr. ** Russell P. Joye ** Nanette R. O’Brien-Blake ** Scott E. Rosenberg *** Joshua T. Thompson

Class of 2005 • 15th Reunion Reunion Committee: Jay V. Bavishi, Hilary Richards Conger, Anu R. Shah Jay V. Bavishi *** Catherine A. Chomiak Hilary Richards Conger * Harrison I. Epstein Rajiv M. Mallipudi Cecily E. Moyer ** Megan E. Keegan Murphy ** Robert J. Quigley Sara M. Schwiebert h’05 ***** Anu R. Shah ** Bruce Thurman *

Class of 2006 Madison C. Brisseaux Marissa L. Carberry Laurie J. Cartwright Jacob M. Fisch ** Rebecca Gallagher John E. Maher III * Allissa Crea Mason ** Ian D. McCue Patrick McDonald * Praveen G. Murthy ** Ram M. Narayanan * Daniel Rathauser ** Seth Stein Kristen Tomlinson * Matt O. Weinstock

Class of 2007 Claire H.E. Alsup Tanner J. Campbell Christopher Chomiak ** Justin Colnaghi * Meghan P. Francfort * Anna Liu Alexandra Hiller Rorick ** Zachary J. Shechtel * Andrea E. Spector Joseph Yellin **

Class of 2008

Tessica Glancey Crampton ** Hannah K. Epstein Benjamin Fisch Gregory R. Francfort Isaac S. Geltzer * Kalla A. Gervasio ** Emmeline Morehouse Hatcher Taylor T. Kenyon * Mark Madden ** Alexa R. Maher * Matthew Oresky ** Raquel Perlman * Philip A. Stadulis Warren J. Wilson, Jr. *

Class of 2009

Daniel B. Altman * Elena V. Bowen * Brian Fishbein ** Dana Modzelewski * James Patteson Alexander Phipps Erin E. Cook Phipps Cameron Linville Rogers ** Joseph P. Rogers * Nashalys K. Salamanca * Ashley Smoots **

Class of 2010 • 10th Reunion Reunion Committee: Neal A. Bakshi, Abhijit Basu, Ian P. Crowell, James Fuhrman, Christopher H. Gibson, Brooks P. Herr, Alexandra W. Feuer Portale Neal A. Bakshi ** Abhijit Basu * Dennis Cannon ** Theodore J. Casey Ian P. Crowell Megan Davis ** James Fuhrman Sheridan L. Gates ** Ethan M. Geltzer ** Christopher H. Gibson Eliza Hanson * Brooks P. Herr ** Matthew S. Mantell Nishant Nair ** Adam Oresky ** Anna D. Otis ** Alexandra W. Feuer Portale Evan M. Quinn Courtney Sackey Coco C. Sednaoui * Dina A. Sharon ** W. Daniel Shipper ** Elizabeth Yellin **

Class of 2011 Meade F. Atkeson * Peter A. Blackburn Christopher P. Bonnaig Caylin E.L. Brahaney * Caitlin Cannon * Kevin Chen * Benjamin Cohen Brian C. Crowell * Adam Fisch Kevin E. Francfort * Alison Frieder ** Jessica Frieder **

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The Blue and White Society was established in 2010. Seniors are asked to make a four-year pledge to the Annual Fund for the years following their graduation from Princeton Day School. The alumni listed here are members in good standing who have fulfilled their pledge for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

Class of 2016

Matthew Garry Katherine W. Gibson * Emily V. Jaeckel William Kearney * Perry L. McCarthy Christopher Moyer Karthik Nagalingam William K. Powers * Nicholas J. Rehmus Bailey M. Richards * Evan D. Seto * Aaron I. Shavel * Alexandra C. Sherman * Jacqueline Stevens * Carla M. Tamburro * Carl M. M. Vik *

Class of 2012 Nicholas Y.F. Banks William E. Bucklee * Brendan D. Clune * Joseph Duvall * Ashley M. Egner * Jenna Fritz * Thomas Keegan III * Nicole Barraza A.L. Keim Jennifer M. Martin * Julia S. Miller * Annie Nyce Carly Ozarowski * Eric Powers * Peter F. Powers * Callie H. Schneider * Jeffrey A. Straus * Paul D. Zetterberg * Alexander Zink

Class of 2013 Ellen C. Bartolino Christina Bowen * Jill C. Cacciola * Rachel Cantlay * Darling G. Cerna Barbara L.S. Cole * Thomas G. Davis, Jr. * Leah G. Falcon * Bradley Freid * Elizabeth Frieder Paul T. Fuschetti Alexander E. Gershen * Robert D. Hrabchak Carolyn Kossow *

Abha A. Kulkarni * Robert S. Madani * Allison Persky * Kelsey Scarlett Elizabeth C. Sednaoui * Tucker S. Triolo * Carlton H. Tucker h’13 ***** Corinne E. Urisko * Adriana van Manen * Colby L. White

Class of 2014 Lewis Blackburn John E. Egner * Alexis Fairman Rory E. Finnegan * Edward B. Hannush * Nicholas B. Jaeckel * Sarah Louise Linville * Olivia G. Melodia Mallory J. Richards * Emma R. Rosenthal Sean K. Timmons Mary G. Travers * Colby M. Triolo Michael P. Tucker * Gabriel Vazquez

Class of 2015 • 5th Reunion Reunion Committee: Adam G. Gershen, Erin M. Murray, Adina Triolo Katharine L. Alden * Davin Bialow Kathleen Crowell * Emily Dyckman * Adam G. Gershen * Camille B. Konopka Saarika Kumar * Kirsten Kuzmicz Yahya A. Ladiwala * Grace Lee * Caroline R. Lippman * Alexandra L. Marshall Cole J. McManimon Paul Meggitt Erin M. Murray * Brigette A. Suerig * Katherine Venturo-Conerly * Caitlin Grant Wood William T. Wright *

Maximilian B. Adam Ahmed Beizaeipour Sophia Bernardi Connor F. Fletcher James A. Fragale Tess C. Gecha Jacquelyn Hart Rea Isaac Maya Jones Katelyn S. Laughlin Ottilie L.B. Lighte Sarah Lippman Jamie L. Maher Julia McCusker Isabel Meyercord Ava R. Nusblatt Sean Nyce Caroline Okun Julia L. Paneyko Austin R. Phares Rahul Rajaram Isaac Rosenthal Katharine V. Sanderson Peter Sanderson Rowan Schomburg Noam P. Yakoby

Class of 2017 Jack S. Amaral Eva J. Appelo William F. Brossman III Ashley C.A. Cavuto Jacob T. Chang Juliana M. David Alexis Davis Nicholas Z. Day Paulina Enck Hannah Freid Nicole Hartley Russell D. Kirczow Allison J. Klei Logan Kramsky Hassan A. Ladiwala Amberjean Leist Shana C. Levine Julia E. Marshall Jack A. Mascali Kyra J. Mason Oliver McIntosh Michelle Mendez-Castro Cierra Moore Amanda Ostendorf Henry E. Reynolds IV Carter H. Sednaoui * Ryan M. Sparks Erica T. Walsh Ruchita Zaparde

Class of 2018 Anonymous Saahil S. Adusumilli Grace K. Barbara

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Katherine E. Bennett Rahul K. Bhatia Ryan Bremer Elizabeth W. Brennan Amalia Cappuccino Jerry F. Chen Sara J. Chopra Nikolai Darenkov Alexander H. Decker Maxwell J. Difazio Ryan Donnelly Linnéa C. Eberly Danielle R. Gershen Kyra F. Hall Hallie B. Hoffman Iheanyichi C. Inyama Arya Jha David N. Jones Bridget Kane Jack T. Konopka Rebecca Kuzmicz Clara M. Love Max S. Miller Madison Mundenar Sarah A. Prilutsky Tara R. Sabbineni Elena Schomburg Eric Sherman Emily Trend Alexander J. Waclawski Devon L. Wenzel Palmer R. White Colton Wolk Renita Zaparde

Class of 2019 Nina M. Ajemian Bryn L. Aprill Elisabeth J. Berman Samuel R. Bernardi Rahul Bhandaru Seshasri Bhaskar Madeline N. Birch Hugh T. Brophy Eric C. Chen Marilena L. Cordón-Maryland Amon M. DeVane Oona J. DiMatteo Charlotte L. Eiseman Fernando Erazo Giulia Gerschel Flynn G. Gorman Lucy D. Gutman Skylar J. Hall David J. Hoffman Nina Kanamaluru Raina Kasera Aneesh Kumar Salina Kumar Margaret J. Laughlin Helen M. Mehreteab Matthew W. Nyce James W. O’Connor Julia M. Parks Julianna R. Patterson Rakesh Potluri Eric I. Quirinale Kyle C. Ready Ava S. Roitburg Dylan Sakaria Joseph T. Santamaria

Thomas Sarsfield William C. Scarlett Ryan T. Sullivan Angela R. Talusan Daniel Tang Samantha A. Vareha Elsie R. Wang Hailey M. Young

Parents The following parents supported the 2019-2020 Annual Fund.

CLASS OF 2020 Anonymous Mr. Patrick E. Amaral and Ms. Katherine Schulte Dr. Debra L. Baseman Mrs. Dawn Z. Bocian and Mr. David A. Bocian Mr. Pari Boopalan and Dr. Sadhana Pari Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Caputo Dr. John N. Cavuto ’81 and Dr. Robin R. Antonacci Mr. and Mrs. Mario Cecila Mr. and Mrs. Scott Chang Mrs. Stephanie A. Hanzel Cohen and Mr. Daniel Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Michael DiNovi Dr. J. Christopher Dries and Mrs. Kristen Dries Ms. Jenny Du-Soriano Mr. and Mrs. Jon Felsher Mr. Mark Fisher and Ms. Laurie VanSant Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Frank Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Dr. Stanislav Glezer and Dr. Olga Tarasova The Griffin-Ley Family Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hausheer Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Izzard Mr. William T. Jones and Ms. Roxane Scurlock Jones Ms. Lena Khatcherian Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Knerr Mr. and Mrs. John Kopacz Mr. Kenny Leung and Ms. Vivian Lu Mr. and Mrs. Jian Ma Mr. and Mrs. M. Jack S. Madani Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied Mr. Daniel A. Marshall and Dr. Rebecca G. Marshall Ms. Shamlie N. McInnis Mr. Greg R. Mortman and Ms. Zulema Vicens-Mortman Dr. Michael J. Mundenar and Mrs. Jill Mundenar Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Njanja Fassu Ms. Andrea Norcott Mr. Pankaj J. Patel and Ms. Tejal Gandhi Mr. and Mrs. Elder E. Ramirez Mr. Guillermo Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Schofield Mr. and Mrs. Asit K. Sen Mr. and Mrs. Boris Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Sahni Singh Dr. Ian Soriano Mr. Xiaohang Su and Ms. Yafei Huang Mr. and Mrs. Krishna Vasireddy Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West Dr. and Mrs. Nir Yakoby Mrs. Sally Yang and Mr. Joe Liang

CLASS OF 2021 Anonymous (2) Dr. Homayoon M. Akbari Professor Suzanne C. Akbari Mr. Thomas Beal and Ms. Margaret Kelly-Beal

Mr. and Ms. Sanjeev Bhardwaj Mr. Kamlesh H. Bhatia and Dr. Jyoti K. Bhatia Mr. and Mrs. Jayadratha Bhowmick Dr. Cindy Blitz and Dr. Itzhak Yanovitzky Mr. William Chaves and Ms. Olga Gamboa Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Chia Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Choe Mr. and Mrs. David Clingman Dr. Frans M. Coetzee and Dr. Catherine A. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Brock L. Covington Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Cucchi Dr. Samantha Dawson ’85 Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Emann Dr. Brian Fink and Dr. Heather Sings Mr. Timothy R. Gardner and Ms. Meredith P. Asplundh Mr. Donato Gasparro Dr. Eric Gellasch and Dr. Patricia Gellasch Mr. Jason M. Hollander ’90 and Dr. Sarah Werbel Nicole and Richard Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh C. Jain Dr. Rand Jerris and Ms. Kate Newman Jerris Mr. Kiran Kumar and Dr. Anita Kumar Dr. Chun Lin and Mrs. Guohong Cheng Mr. James Linnehan Mr. and Mrs. Gary Littman Dr. William Maggio and Dr. Vijay Maggio Dr. and Mrs. Ramy A. Mahmoud Professor and Mrs. Neal Masia Dr. and Mrs. Ted Mazzarisi Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McChesney Mr. Musie Mehreteab and Ms. Mekdes Amine Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Miranda Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver Dr. Rajesh Pazhianur and Dr. Zhuo Chen Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Rogerio Pinheiro Mr. Prasad Potluri and Dr. Haritha Potluri Reverend and Mrs. C. Nadir Powell Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richter Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Romano Mr. Randolph Samuels, Sr. and Ms. Scarla Basnight Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sarnow Mr. D.G. Sarsfield and Ms. Judith Reich Mr. Suhail Sayed and Ms. Farhat Siddiqui Dr. Nicos Scordis and Dr. Frances Katrishen Dr. Utpal (Paul) Shah ’90 and Dr. Maritoni Calon Shah Mr. Aditya Sharma and Mrs. Dipti Sharma Mr. Kaushik Suchak and Dr. Vaishali Suchak Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Van Dusen Mr. Fuhai Wang and Ms. Yuan Zhao Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wexler Mr. and Mrs. William Yales Dr. Peter Yang and Dr. Songyan Zheng Mr. Inhyok Yim and Dr. Young Kim Mr. and Mrs. Darius B. Young Dr. Asim Zaidi and Ms. Amrit Walia-Zaidi Mr. and Mrs. Wieslaw Zebrowski Mr. Chao Zhang and Ms. Hong Chang Mr. Chaowen M. Zhang and Mrs. Min Ye Dr. Yehong Zhang and Dr. Janet Zhang Mr. Tim Zhu and Ms. Joan Wang

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CLASS OF 2023 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Edem K. Afemeku Mr. John Ajemian and Dr. Mia Manzulli Professor Joe Amon and Ms. Erin Galbraith Mr. and Mrs. Marc Baranski Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Bernardi Ms. Amanda Bessing Mr. Krishna Bhagavathula and Ms. Sangeeta Sarma Mr. and Mrs. Jayadratha Bhowmick Mr. and Mrs. Todd B. Bialow Mr. William C. Brittingham Mr. Eric M. Brown and Ms. Therese A. Hassett Brown Mr. Barry A. Bruno Mr. and Ms. Chihming Chen Mr. and Mrs. Brock L. Covington Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Cucchi Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Fenton Mr. Tony Fong and Mrs. Yajai Yodin Mr. and Mrs. Todd C. Galla Mr. Timothy R. Gardner and Ms. Meredith P. Asplundh Dr. Marco Gruteser and Dr. Youngja Park Mr. and Mrs. David Hall Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hall, Jr. Ms. Julia He Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Huff Dr. Rand Jerris and Ms. Kate Newman Jerris Mr. Hu Jin and Ms. Aizi Shi Mr. Kamal Kasera and Ms. Ritu Jajodia Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh Khanna Mr. Kiran Kumar and Dr. Anita Kumar Mr. Ivan Latanision and Ms. Staceyann Smith Dr. William Lee and Mrs. Alison M. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lezny Mr. Zili Ma and Ms. Lin Zheng Mr. Lee S. Maschler Ms. Marjorie Maschler Mr. Ronald Masciantonio and Mrs. Laurie Palaia Dr. and Mrs. Ted Mazzarisi Mr. Venu Moola and Ms. Priya Moola

Dr. Natasha Datta Moore ’92 and Mr. Gary A. Moore ’92 Dr. Hong Ni and Ms. Xun Xu Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter Mr. Rajan Ramaswamy and Ms. Vijayalakshmi Rajan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rentner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Romano Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Ruf Dr. Charles Ryan and Dr. Maria Ryan Dr. Steven I. Ryu and Dr. Seungyeon Nam Mr. and Mrs. Ravi Sakaria Mr. Steven M. Sandberg and Dr. Jean Pineda-Sandberg Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sarnow Mr. Suhail Sayed and Ms. Farhat Siddiqui Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Silva Mr. Yu Sun and Dr. Xinye Wu Ms. Kathryn Terry Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Eric Vandal Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Weinstein Mr. Weiyi Yang and Ms. Melody Shan Mr. and Mrs. Wieslaw Zebrowski Mr. Lepeng Zeng and Mrs. Jun Wang Mr. Ruibin Zhou and Dr. Yunrong Ye Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo

CLASS OF 2024 Mr. Salvatore Babbino and Ms. Jennifer Basselini Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Blakes Nadia and Bradley Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Caputo Mr. Leo Chen and Ms. Amy Liu Mrs. Stephanie A. Hanzel Cohen and Mr. Daniel Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Cook ’89 Mr. Thierry Demorre and Mrs. Su Zhang Mr. Kun Deng and Professor Zhen Deng Dr. Jianzhong Ding and Ms. Ziping Fu Ms. Clare Dougherty Mr. Shuang Du and Mrs. Feng Pan Dr. Rachel Dultz and Ms. Michelle Silverman-Dultz Dr. Brad Elkin and Dr. Liza DiMedio-Elkin Mr. Michael Epstein and Ms. Karen Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Flory Dr. Robert A. Glasgold and Dr. Jean Goh Mr. Asit Govil and Ms. Sonal Gupta Mr. and Mrs. Jordan M. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Mark Herrmann Mr. Jason M. Hollander ’90 and Dr. Sarah Werbel Nicole and Richard Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Arbind Jha Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Jones Mr. and Ms. Andrew Kaplowitz Mr. and Mrs. Amit Karande Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Law Mr. John Leaver and Ms. Denise Savitt-Leaver Mr. and Mrs. Gary Littman Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Liu Mr. Reuben Loewy Mr. Lee S. Maschler Ms. Marjorie Maschler Professor and Mrs. Neal Masia Dr. and Mrs. David Nieves Mr. Manikandan Padmanaban and Mrs. Abiramasundari Manikandan Mr. Hemanshu Pandya and Dr. Heena Pandya Dr. Jigar Patel and Dr. Hemal Patel

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Mr. and Mrs. Igor Roitburg Mr. Scott Schlenker and Ms. Andrea Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Bobbi M. Shah Dr. Utpal (Paul) Shah ’90 and Dr. Maritoni Calon Shah Mr. Hongliang Shen and Mrs. Pengfei Xiang Mr. Chun Shi and Ms. Yinghui Li Mr. and Mrs. David E. Silverstein Mr. and Mrs. Sahni Singh Dr. Benny Soffer and Dr. Janet Chen Mr. David C. Sullivan ’86 and Mrs. Diana M. Sullivan Mr. Wenjun Sun and Ms. Ji Liu Mr. Winston Sun and Ms. Sarah Karchere Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace Mr. Suhan Tang and Ms. Yali Shi Mr. Jonathan E. Trend ’91 and Mrs. Rachel Bridgeman Trend ’91 Mr. Nils E. von Zelowitz ’88 and Ms. Leigh-Anne Wiester Mr. Leo Wang and Ms. Faye Chen Ms. Karen A. Wells Mr. Michael G. Wells Mrs. Sally Yang and Mr. Joe Liang Mr. Frank Yasunas and Ms. Michelle Zarish Mr. Peilin Zhang and Ms. Xiaomei Dai Mr. Shudan Zhang and Mrs. Shirley Zhang Mr. Jianfeng Zhu and Ms. Jinxin Jiang Ms. Laura Ziv

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Mrs. Barbara G. Richards and Mr. Cyril A. Richards Ms. Stephanie Richman ’87 and Mr. William Reilly Dr. Tomasz S. Rzeczycki and Ms. Ruth A. Ochs Dr. Divya Sareen Mr. Gerard Sentveld and Ms. Lori Sentveld Professor and Mrs. Jacob Shapiro Ms. Maria E. Shepard and Mr. David M. Freedholm Mr. Robert L. Sichel and Mrs. Sylvia Gomez-Sichel Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Spence Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace Mr. Robert Thomas and Dr. Holly Welles Mr. Jonathan E. Trend ’91 and Mrs. Rachel Bridgeman Trend ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Voulgarelis Dr. Michael Walker and Dr. Jinghua Liu Mr. and Mrs. James Wang Mr. Charlie Wu and Dr. Xiaolan Zeng Mr. Haibo Wu and Mrs. Danfeng Wang Dr. Jiang Zhao and Ms. Ruozhen Chen Ms. Laura Ziv

CLASS OF 2025 Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Seth Adler ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bailey Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bartlett Mr. Barry A. Bruno Mr. Junjie Chen and Mrs. Zhen Chen Dr. Aly Cohen ’91 and Dr. Stephen Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Patrick L. Courtney ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Calin R. Cristian Mr. Stuart C. Dorman II Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Doshi Ms. Kathleen Drake Mr. and Mrs. Troy B. Ewanchyna Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Fenton Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Figel Mr. and Mrs. Barry W. Frost Ms. Elisabeth Krebs Mr. Michael P. Lackey and Dr. Archana Pradhan Lackey Mr. Sajjad S. Ladiwala and Ms. Anjum M. Khan Mr. and Mrs. David Lauer Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li Dr. Hailong Li and Dr. Ying Qiu Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. and Mrs. Sachit Malhotra Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. McCain Mr. Kewei Ming and Mrs. Zhanyun Zhao Dr. Xuejun Peng and Dr. Chaohui Wang Mr. Wenhong Qu and Ms. Yi Jia Mr. Gerardo Ramirez and Mrs. Deivy Doria Mr. Subramanya Kumar Reddy and Mrs. Shalini Arya Reddy Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richter Mr. and Mrs. William Rue, Jr. Mr. Scott Schlenker and Ms. Andrea Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Bobbi M. Shah Mr. and Mrs. Peter Simms Ms. Michelle Hays Simonds Dr. Benny Soffer and Dr. Janet Chen Mr. Kaushik Suchak and Dr. Vaishali Suchak Dr. Ramamirtham Sukumar and Dr. Satya Varagoor Dr. Hajime Takano and Dr. Li Li Mr. William J. Takeuchi and Ms. Jennifer Shin Ms. Kathryn Terry Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tourville Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Turchetta

Mr. Nils E. von Zelowitz ’88 and Ms. Leigh-Anne Wiester Ms. Debbie Wang Mr. Yiqiang Wang and Ms. Lucy Lu Mr. Anping Wu and Ms. Yong Qin Li Dr. Yun Xia and Ms. Xiaohua Zhao Dr. and Mrs. Nir Yakoby

CLASS OF 2026 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Saras N. Agarwal Mr. Stephen Ahrens and Ms. Claire Perkins Mr. Andrew Aprill Mr. and Mrs. Kishore K. Bagga Mr. Christopher B. Bobbitt and Ms. Tiffany L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Chandler B. Bocklage Dr. Amy Bridgeman Nadia and Bradley Campbell Mrs. Li Cheng and Mr. Ming Zheng Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Chia Dr. Jixin Dai and Dr. Yi Liu Mr. Joseph D’Elia and Dr. Jie D’Elia Mrs. Jessica Seid Dickler ’94 and Mr. Dane E. Dickler Mr. and Mrs. Olumide Egbeleye Dr. Brent Field and Mrs. Carmen Oveissi Field Dr. Shana Fineburg Owen ’87 and Mr. Donald B. Owen Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Harrison Mr. and Ms. Andrew Kaplowitz Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh Khanna Mr. Gaurav Khanna and Ms. Gurpinder Kaur Mr. and Mrs. John Kopacz Mr. David Kragseth and Mrs. Leigh Engelhardt Mr. Sergey Kriloff and Ms. Galina Flider Mr. Jonathan Levy and Ms. Jill Nusbaum Mr. and Mrs. Tareq Mansour Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Patel Ms. Stephanie Richman ’87 and Mr. William Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Patrik B. Ringblom Mr. and Mrs. Eric Santini Dr. Nidhi Saran and Mr. Siddharth Saran Mr. C.J. Schoonejongen and Ms. Nina Rizzo Ms. Michelle Hays Simonds Dr. Shalabh Singhal and Dr. Shivani Srivastava Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Spence Mr. Yu Sun and Dr. Xinye Wu Mrs. Michele L. Walsh and Mr. James Walsh Mr. Ian P. Wijaya ’95 and Ms. Anupa Shah Wijaya ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wolfe Mr. Zhongyuan Xue and Mrs. Qian Yin Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian Ms. Amy Zakar-Banner and Dr. Adrian Banner Mr. ZhongDong Zheng and Mrs. Wenli Peng

CLASS OF 2027 Mr. and Mrs. Seth Adler ’97 Mr. and Mrs. George Aitken-Davies Mr. Bertin Aparicio and Ms. Maria Reyes Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bartlett Mr. Steven Behnamnia and Mrs. Jill E. Anderson-Behnamnia Dr. Cindy Blitz and Dr. Itzhak Yanovitzky Amy Alexis Cedeno Dr. Min Cha and Mrs. Soyoung Lee Mr. Hon Chang and Ms. Jenjen Chen Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Dr. Aly Cohen ’91 and Dr. Stephen Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Cook ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Philip DelVecchio Mr. and Mrs. Alan Dowling Dr. Brent Field and Mrs. Carmen Oveissi Field Mr. and Mrs. Artur Gajewski Mr. and Mrs. Gino Hernandez Mrs. Anna Horner and † † Mr. Jonathan P. Horner Mr. Ashish Jha and Ms. Bhawna Bist Dr. Amit Kalra and Dr. Tamanna Kalra Mrs. Rachel Zublatt Kusminsky ’94 and Mr. Andrew Kusminsky Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Law Ms. Emily Liu and Mr. Benjamin Yeh Mr. Antonio Lopez-Torrero and Mrs. Kristen Lopez-Watt Mr. and Mrs. RJ Lumba Mr. and Mrs. Kunal Madhok Dr. and Mrs. Sagar Munjal Mr. and Mrs. Michael Price Mr. Srinivasan Renganathan and Ms. Sudha Srinivasan Mr. and Mrs. Igor Roitburg Mr. and Mrs. William Rue, Jr. Professor and Mrs. Jacob Shapiro Mr. Robert L. Sichel and Mrs. Sylvia Gomez-Sichel Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Streeper Dr. Gerald Suh and Mrs. Soo Kim Mr. Nils E. von Zelowitz ’88 and Ms. Leigh-Anne Wiester Dr. Michael Walker and Dr. Jinghua Liu Mr. David Wang and Mrs. Sophie Jiao Mr. Hongyan Wu

CLASS OF 2028 Mr. and Mrs. George Aitken-Davies Mr. and Mrs. David Broeker Mr. and Mrs. Philip DelVecchio Mrs. Jessica Seid Dickler ’94 and Mr. Dane E. Dickler Mr. Chauncey S. Farrington and Dr. Rachel S. Farrington The Frascella Family Mr. Amar Gautam and Ms. Amanda Maher Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Mr. Darren Greenblatt and Mr. Samuel Hunt Dr. Guenter R. Janhofer and Ms. Liliana Janhofer Mr. and Mrs. Arbind Jha Mr. and Mrs. Amit Karande Mr. Sergey Kriloff and Ms. Galina Flider Mr. and Mrs. Jason N. Longo Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Maione Mr. Christopher McDonald and Ms. Hiam Boraie Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Merse Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis Dr. Jigar Patel and Dr. Hemal Patel

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Mr. Alvin Seow and † Ms. Seok Fun Tan Dr. and Mrs. Ashish Shah Ms. Michelle Hays Simonds Mr. and Mrs. Neil Tang Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Turchetta Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Upson Ms. Karen A. Wells Mr. Michael G. Wells Ms. Veronica M.S. White ’94 and Mr. Stephen Acunto Mr. Ian P. Wijaya ’95 and Ms. Anupa Shah Wijaya ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wolfe Mr. Daming Zhang and Ms. Xiaoming Li Mr. Zhanjiang Zhang and Ms. Runlian Fu

CLASS OF 2029 Mr. and Mrs. Seth Adler ’97 Mr. Richard Allen and Mrs. Chelare Baykal Allen Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bergstein Ms. Shonell Best Dr. Cindy Blitz and Dr. Itzhak Yanovitzky Mr. and Mrs. Chandler B. Bocklage Mr. Eric M. Boyd ’96 and Dr. Samantha Boyd Mr. Steven A. Chiavarone ’01 and Mrs. Katie Chiavarone Dr. Rachel Dultz and Ms. Michelle Silverman-Dultz Mr. Matthew Fede and Dr. Seema Basi Dr. Yunhong Gu and Dr. Shuang Liu Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Harrison Ms. Julia He Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kazanov Mr. Gaurav Khanna and Ms. Gurpinder Kaur Dr. James Lipuma and Dr. Hanyun Chang Mr. Rajesh Madala and Ms. Pallavi Bandi Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Merse Mr. and Mrs. Abhinav Mittal Mr. Paminas Mogaka and Mrs. Catherine Mogaka Dr. Natasha Datta Moore ’92 and Mr. Gary A. Moore ’92 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis Dr. and Mrs. David Nieves Ms. Karen Ochoa Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Patel Riten Patel and Reeveka Bhuyan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Price Mr. Bryan Rozo Mr. Mario San Martin and Mrs. Abril San Martin Mr. William J. Takeuchi and Ms. Jennifer Shin Mr. and Mrs. Neil Tang Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Upson Mr. Zhongyuan Xue and Mrs. Qian Yin

CLASS OF 2030 Mr. and Mrs. George Aitken-Davies Mr. Nabeel Arif and Dr. Sarah Nabeel Mr. and Mrs. David Broeker † Denotes Deceased

Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. Xiaomu Chen and Ms. Chunyuan Jing Mr. Yongzhang Chen and Mrs. Fengying Zeng Mr. and Mrs. Bradley W. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Connolly Mr. Shuang Du and Mrs. Feng Pan Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Fenton Mr. Amar Gautam and Ms. Amanda Maher Mr. Gabriel Gloege and Ms. Jing Li Mr. Justin Goldberg and Ms. Sara Lester Mrs. Emily S. Miller Jee ’93 and Mr. Robert T. Jee Rachel Zublatt Kusminsky ’94 and Mr. Andrew Kusminsky Mr. and Mrs. RJ Lumba Mr. and Mrs. Sumit Mukherjee Dr. and Mrs. Sagar Munjal Mr. Jason Park and Ms. Christina S. Lee ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Elder E. Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Roselli Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung Mr. and Mrs. Kyle L. Van Arsdale Dr. Xiaofei Wang and Dr. Yanhua Zhang Mr. Charlie Wu and Dr. Xiaolan Zeng Mr. and Mrs. Xuedong Wu Dr. Peng-Liang Zhao and Ms. Yanmei Lian Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Ziegler

CLASS OF 2031 Mr. and Mrs. Seth Adler ’97 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bartlett Mr. Michael T. Bracken ’98 and Mrs. Lindsay Bracken Dr. Gong Chen and Mrs. Yao Lu Mr. Junjie Chen and Mrs. Zhen Chen Mr. Steven A. Chiavarone ’01 and Mrs. Katie Chiavarone Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cichowski Mr. Chauncey S. Farrington and Dr. Rachel S. Farrington Ms. Jennifer L. Gallagher and Mr. David Mesuda Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Mr. Steven Harlan and Mrs. Michele Harlan Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hayes ’00 Mr. Frank Henson and Mrs. Cecily Williams Henson Mr. and Mrs. Keith E. James Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kazanov Dr. Kai Ma and Ms. Sha Li Mr. Christopher McDonald and Ms. Hiam Boraie Mr. and Mrs. Abhinav Mittal Mr. Venu Moola and Ms. Priya Moola Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Morand Mr. Richard V. Prus-Wisniewski and Mr. Kevin C. Sopko Mr. and Mrs. Jason K. Ridings Mr. Mario San Martin and Mrs. Abril San Martin

Mrs. Zheng Chen Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Cohen Mrs. Mia Cote ’01 and Mr. Matthew R. Cote Mr. Christopher M. Cramer Ms. Lissette De Los Santos Mr. Justin Goldberg and Ms. Sara Lester Mr. Brian Hickel and Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 Mr. Kang Huang and Mrs. Honglu Que Mr. and Mrs. Geary K. Jefferson Dr. and Mrs. Hans Y. Kim Mr. and Mrs. Jason N. Longo Mr. Rajesh Madala and Ms. Pallavi Bandi Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Maione Dr. and Mrs. Ted Mazzarisi Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Merse Mr. and Mrs. Sumit Mukherjee Mr. Yanto Muliadi and Ms. Cui Chen Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nutt Mr. Jason Park and Ms. Christina S. Lee ’00 Mr. John Pepe and Mrs. Sabrina Mirza-Pepe Mr. and Mrs. Jason K. Ridings Mrs. Jennifer Ruina Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sullivan Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung Mr. and Mrs. Neil Tang Mr. and Mrs. Kyle L. Van Arsdale Ms. Veronica M.S. White ’94 and Mr. Stephen Acunto Ms. Janine Winant ’99 and Mr. Jonathan A. Cooper Mr. Arnaud Wisnia and Dr. Diane Wisnia Dr. Chao Yan and Ms. Lang Sun

CLASS OF 2033 Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Alt Mr. and Mrs. Etienne Bilodeau Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cichowski Dr. Jixin Dai and Dr. Yi Liu Ms. Seraphine Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hayes ’00 Mr. Edward S. Kim and Mrs. Stacey Lee Mr. and Mrs. David Moore Mr. Christopher J. Ordowich ’00 and Mrs. Marcie Ordowich Ms. Ann Robideaux and Mr. Jesse Neuman Mr. Nate Saint Victor and Dr. Christina Twyman-Saint Victor Mr. and Mrs. Gyan R. Singh Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stutts Mr. Paul Tye and Dr. Anna Mak Mr. Ting Yang and Mrs. Lei Ye

Faculty and Staff Special thanks to the 92% of faculty and staff members who supported the Annual Fund this year. Their support means a great deal and inspires others in our community to join them in giving back.

Mark Adams ** Edem K. Afemeku ** Alana Allen Charles J. Alt William M. Asch *

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Mr. Ashish Shah Ms. Janetta Squire Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wolfe Mr. Daming Zhang and Ms. Xiaoming Li

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Stephanie Balazsi Kimberly A. Ballinger *** Marjorie Barlet Orelia Barrientos ** Jamison Bean * Jeffrey Beck Amy E. Beckford ** Robin Bernard Scott Bertoli ** Shonell Best * Kelley Bethoney Neetika Bhalla Corinne E. Bilodeau * Dawn Z. Bocian ** Theodor D. Brasoveanu Ryan Brechmacher * Barbara A. Brent ****** Amanda Camelio Briski Jill Brown Thomas Buckelew * Stan Cahill * Luis A. Camacho ** Christine Cantera * David Caputo Carlos A. Cara ** Laurent Cash * Darling G. Cerna ’13 Margot Chalek ** Wenting Chen Robert Clemens Jessica Reinertsen Clingman ** Daniel I. Cohen ** Dorothy Colavecchio Kimberly Collura Thatcher Cook Rachel Cooper Christian Cousins Irina V. Covington ** Jeanne M. Crowell * Julie M. Cucchi ** Liz R. Cutler **** Patricia Davidovich Thomas Davis Samantha Levine Dawson ’85 * Christina DeCesare Christopher J. Devlin ** Janet Zoubek Dickson * Alison Distefano Ann Donovan Ryan Donovan ** Kira Dudeck Toni Dunlap Grace Ederer Michael S. Emann ** Paul Epply-Schmidt **** Jody Erdman ’72 **** Sophie Evans * Nelda Fajardo Laurence M. Farhat ** Heather Farlow * Chauncey S. Farrington Katherine Fay ** Jennifer C. Fenton * Susan C. Ferguson *** Pamela J. Flory * Myriam Folkes ** David M. Freedholm ** Michael Friedman Beverly G. Gallagher ***** Emily Q. Gallagher *** Jennifer L. Gallagher *

Amy M. Gallo ’03 ** Dulany H. Gibson ** Marjorie Wallace Gibson ’84 ***** Victoria Gibson * Sheila S. Goeke * Jill L. Goldman ’74 ****** Kevin Graham ** Sarah M. Graham ** William Greene Tarshia M. Griffin ** Kelly Grosskurth Todd B. Gudgel **** Seraphine Hamilton Caroline Erdman Hare ’75 ** Gene Hartway * Beth Hatem Rony Hernandez Courtney Hodock Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick **** Samuel Hunt * Samuel Jensen Gina Karsten Kaylie Keesling * Nina Keller * Deborah Koehler John Kopacz Jessica Kunz Karen Latham ** James Y. Laughlin ’80 ***** Marjorie Laughlin ***** Lauren Ledley * Andrew Lee Caroline Lee * Christina S. Lee ’00 * Linda Lippman ** M. Jack S. Madani *** Heather Maione * Nicole Reiners Mangino * Jessica Manners Mia Manzulli * M. Yves Marcuard ****** Edgar K. Mariano Jonathan Martin Ruth Y. Martinez * Amy Matlack Brian R. Mayer * Janet Mayo * Maritza Maysonet Jamie McCulloch * Channing McCullough * Anthony McKinley Thomas McStravock * Katherine Meredith * Cynthia Michalak * Emilie Miller Tyrone Miller, Jr. Henry R. Minarick * Jennifer E. Mischner **** Brian Mochnal ** Paminas Mogaka ** Elizabeth A. Monroe * Elias Montes ** Joan C. Mullen Jesse Neuman * Aimée A. Nyce * Carol J. Olson * Maryann F. Ortiz *** Jon Ostendorf * Jason Park * Erin Ferro Pelc Gary Perchalski *

Karen E. Pike * Alexandra W. Feuer Portale ’10 Howard F. Powers, Jr. ’80 ****** Renée Charity Price * Rose Price * Suzanne Procaccino ** Tara Wyman Quigley ** Thomas J. Quigley, Jr. ** Julia Quindlen * Catherine Quinlan Patricia Raymond Angharad Rebholz Joseph Reilly * Eric Rempe Christian Rhodes * Michael Rich * Hector Rivera ** Ann Robideaux * Brianna Robinson Valerie Robinson Kim Roesing Wendy L. Roitburg ** Kerry Ross Jeffrey D. Rubens ** Maria del Rocio Ruiz Cabalga Tomasz Rzeczycki Kenneth Sajo Carmen Santa-Cruz * Stefanie Santangelo Christine Scheil Aaron W. Schomburg ** Katherine A. Schulte *** Candy C. Shah ** Amy Sharpless * Melanie Shaw Michelle Simonds Chandra Smith Mitchell F. Smith * Maureen O. Stellato ** Paul J. Stellato ** Steven J. Storey ** Annemarie Strange Lisa S. Surace ** Cloey Talotta Katy Terry * Jill L. Thomas ****** Sarah Griffin Thompson ’84 ** Ronald Tola * Robert K. Toole Matthew Tramontana Allison Treese Matthew Trowbridge ’98 Casey Cirullo Upson * Carolee Van Dervort * Audrey L. Vareha * Spencer Vining Jennifer E. Vradenburgh ** Stacey L. Walker ** Michele L. Walsh ** Sandra Wang Deva Watson James Will Timothy Y. Williams * Krysta A. Woll * Dolores Wright ***** Beth J. Yakoby **** Darius Young * Tracy L. Young *

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The following former trustees supported Princeton Day School in 2019-2020.

Anonymous Dr. Robin Antonacci Mr. Robert H.B. Baldwin, Jr. Mr. Deepinder S. Bhatia The Reverend Henry P. Bristol II ’72 Dr. William P. Burks Dr. James J. Chandler Mrs. Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Mrs. Evelyn Turner Counts ’74 Mrs. Christina Bachelder Dufresne ’77 Mrs. Edith B. Eglin Mr. Shawn W. Ellsworth ’75 Ms. Sally L. Fineburg ’80 Mr. Benjamin M. Frost ’92 Mr. Thomas R. Gates ’78 Mr. Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Mrs. Virginia C. Goldberg Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 The Honorable and Mrs. William S. Greenberg Mr. John L. Griffith, Jr. Mrs. Marilyn W. Grounds Mr. Gordon Gund Mr. John P. Hall, Jr. Ms. Christine Grant Halpern Mrs. Laura Hanson Mrs. Susan Denise Harris ’69 Ms. Jennifer Chandler Hauge ’78 Mr. Judson R. Henderson ’92 Mrs. Carol Herring Mr. Joseph H. Highland Mr. Donald J. Hofmann, Jr. † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson Mrs. Lynn Dixon Johnston Mr. Stephen F. Jusick Mrs. Jane Henderson Kenyon ’79 Mr. Samuel W. Lambert III Ms. Yuki Moore Laurenti ’75 Mrs. Karen S. Law Ms. Galete J. Levin ’96 Dr. Nancy W. Malkiel Mr. Edward E. Matthews Ms. Meg Brinster Michael ’70 Mrs. Polly T. Miller ’63 Debbie and Steve Modzelewski Mrs. Liza Morehouse Mrs. Jill Mundenar Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Ober, Jr. Mr. Andrew M. Okun Mr. John M. Peach Ms. Melissa J. Phares ’80 Mrs. Shari Phillips Mr. Jack Z. Rabinowitz Mr. James C. Rodgers ’70 Mr. Mark J. Samse Mr. G. Carter Sednaoui Mrs. Markell Meyers Shriver ’46 Mrs. Jane Aresty Silverman ’63 Mr. Richard W. Smith Mrs. Amanda Stanton Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stockman Mr. Charles L. Taggart Mrs. Penny Thomas Mr. Newell M. Thompson ’82 Mrs. Lucy Englander van den Brand ’78 Mr. George A. Vaughn III Mrs. Ann B. Vehslage † Denotes Deceased

Mr. John D. Wallace ’48 Mrs. Noel S. White Ms. Anne A. Williams ’74 Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80

Parents of Alumni The following parents of alumni supported Princeton Day School in 2019-2020.

Anonymous (2) Dr. Alexander M. Ackley, Jr. Ms. Denise R. Adams Mr. Mark S. Adams Mr. William M. Asch and Dr. Gina Del Giudice Mr. and Mrs. Keith Asplundh Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Babick Mrs. Louise Mason Bachelder ’54 and Mr. Joseph E. Bachelder III Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Bailey Mr. Robert H. B. Baldwin, Jr. and Ms. Margaret J. Sieck Ms. Susan Smith Baldwin ’57 Mrs. Elizabeth Becker ’77 and Mr. Paul Becker Dr. Ronald W. Behling and Ms. Fina Raccuia-Behling Dr. Kofi D. Benefo and Dr. Prema A. Kurien Mrs. Linda Staniar Bergh ’66 and Mr. William G. Bergh Mr. Deepinder S. Bhatia and Dr. Nandini Chowdhury Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 Mr. and Mrs. Marc C. Brahaney Mr. and Mrs. David Bremer Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brent Mr. Brent Bridgeman The Reverend Henry P. Bristol II ’72 and Mrs. Susan P. Bristol Mrs. Graham M. Brush Mr. N. Harrison Buck ’77 and Mrs. Nancy B. Buck Dr. and Mrs. William P. Burks Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Campbell Ms. Tara Cannon Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Capinpin Mr. and Mrs. Carlos A. Cara Ms. Eva Carey Ms. Donna D. Carson Dr. and Mrs. James J. Chandler Rabbi and Mrs. Joel Chernikoff Mr. and Mrs. Merkle Cherry, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Chew Mr. Alan Chimacoff and Ms. Joan S. Girgus Mr. and Mrs. H. Martin Chomiak Mr. Jitender Chopra and Mrs. Jeannie L. Chopra Mr. and Mrs. David J. Coghlan Mrs. Barbara Cole ’78 and Mr. Christopher A. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Collins Mr. John F. Cook ’56 and Mrs. Jeanne K. Cook Mrs. Evelyn Turner Counts ’74 Mrs. Jean D. Crane Dr. and Mrs. Barrington Cross Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Crowell Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Curtis III Ms. Elizabeth R. Cutler and Mr. Thomas G. Kreutz Mrs. Flora B. Datta Ms. Elizabeth S. Davis Ms. Stephanie J. Davis † Mr. Guy K. Dean III ’55 and Mrs. Victoria N. Dean Mr. John H. Denny, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. DiBianca Mr. Donald T. Dickson

Mr. Peter Dickson and Ms. Janet Zoubek Dickson Mr. Eamon M. Downey Ms. Sally Drayer Mrs. Christina Dufresne ’77 and Mr. David Dufresne Reverend and Mrs. Craig Dykstra Mrs. Edith B. Eglin Mrs. Debra C. Egner Mr. Mark A. Egner ’82 and Mrs. Maeve Egner Mrs. Joan M. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Shawn W. Ellsworth ’75 Mr. Paul and Reverend Joanne Epply-Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan I. Epstein Ms. Jody Erdman ’72 Mr. Peter E.B. Erdman ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Falcon Ms. Laurence M. Farhat Mrs. Jean Farina Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Farina Professor Jacob Feldman and Professor Karin Stromswold Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Felton Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. James Finnegan Mr. Samuel C. Finnell ’74 and Mrs. Mary Murdoch Finnell ’76 Professor Nathaniel J. Fisch and Dr. Tobe M. Fisch Dr. Keith J. Fishbein and Dr. Nancy L. Feldman Mrs. Nancy Shannon Ford ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Forer Ms. Betty Ann Fort Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Frieder Mr. and Mrs. David A. Frothingham Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Fuschetti Mrs. Beverly G. Gallagher and Mr. John F. Gallagher Ms. Debbie Gallo Mr. Stephen R. Gallo Mrs. Audrey Gates Mr. Thomas R. Gates ’78 and Mrs. Tracey W. Gates Mr. and Mrs. David R. Geltzer Dr. Alexandra Wetherill Gerry Mr. Jonathan S. Gershen ’86 and Mrs. Ilene J. Gershen Mrs. Marjorie Wallace Gibson ’84 and Mr. Peter E. Gibson Mr. and Mrs. David E. Goldberg Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 Ms. Georgia B. Gosnell Mr. William P. Graff ’75 The Honorable and Mrs. William S. Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Huson R. Gregory Dr. Christopher Gribbin and Dr. Dorota Gribbin Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Griffith Mr. and Mrs. John L. Griffith, Jr. Mrs. Marilyn W. Grounds Mr. Louis C. Guarino ’79 and Mrs. Patricia Guarino Mr. Todd B. Gudgel and Ms. Colleen A. Foy Mr. Gordon Gund Mr. John A. Gutman ’79 and Ms. Elizabeth A. Duffy Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hall, Jr. Ms. Christine Grant Halpern and Mr. Michael D. Halpern Mr. Andrew C. Hamlin and Ms. Kathleen Deignan Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Haney Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. Hanson Ms. Caroline Erdman Hare ’75 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Harris

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Ms. Christine Hart Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Helmick Mr. and Mrs. Judson R. Henderson ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Henkel Ms. Gayle Henkin and Mr. Thomas P. Smith Dr. Gary A. Herman and Dr. Debora Williams-Herman Dr. and Mrs. H. James Herring Mr. Joseph H. Highland and † Mrs. Dorothy Highland Mr. J. Robert Hillier ’52 and Ms. Barbara Anne Hillier Mr. and Ms. William L. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hofmann, Jr. Ms. Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick and Mr. Michael D. Lemonick Dr. Charles B. Howard Mr. and Mrs. John B. Howe Mrs. Mary Lawson-Johnston Howe ’85 and Mr. Nathaniel S. Howe III Ms. Liang Huan Ms. Tamara Jakub Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Jamieson, Jr. † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson Mr. Livingston Johnson ’75 and Mrs. Maria Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jusick Mr. and Mrs. Renard Kardhashi Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Keegan, Jr. Mrs. Jane Henderson Kenyon ’79 and Mr. Kevin R. Kenyon Mr. and Mrs. David Kirczow Mr. John T. Konopka III Professor Alain L. Kornhauser and Dr. Elizabeth A. Monroe Mr. Ashish Kumar and Dr. Monica Kumar Dr. Ramesh Kumar and Ms. Linda Matusick-Kumar Professor and Mrs. Matthew W. Kunz Mr. Kentigern Kyle ’89 and Mrs. Elena R. Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert III Mr. David H. LaMotte and Ms. Jani Rachelson † Mrs. Sally Kuser Lane ’42 Dr. Karen Latham and Dr. Andrew Latham Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Laughlin ’80 Ms. Yuki Moore Laurenti ’75 and Mr. Jeffrey Laurenti Dr. Clayton E. Leopold Mr. Ye Li and Ms. Angela Deng Ms. Derry Light ’69 Dr. Shiow Lin and Dr. Hsiu-ping Lin Dr. and Mrs. Judson Linville Ms. Therese Lisk and Mr. Richard Lisk Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Z. Liu Mrs. Mary Woodbridge Lott ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Love Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maher, Jr. Dr. Burton G. Malkiel and Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel Mr. and Mrs. Jules W. Marcus Mr. John S. Marshall ’81 and Mrs. Lori A. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Marshall, Jr. Mrs. Cecilia Aall Mathews ’59 and Mr. Michael S. Mathews Dr. Elisa Matthes Mr. Edward E. Matthews Mr. Gregory E. Matthews ’76 Reverend David H. McAlpin, Jr. ’43 Mrs. Livia Wong McCarthy ’77 and Mr. Joseph D. McCarthy Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClellan

Mr. Robert McCulloch and Ms. Jennifer Bazin Mr. Daniel McIntosh Mrs. Wendy Lawson-Johnston McNeil ’70 and Mr. Thomas McNeil Mrs. Lara Meggitt Mr. Michael Meggitt Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Melodia Mr. Orlando Mendez and Ms. Yadira Castro Mr. Edwin H. Metcalf ’51 and Mrs. Nancy B. Metcalf Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Milizzo Mrs. Catherine Miller Mrs. Polly T. Miller ’63 and Mr. G. Nicholas Miller Mr. and Dr. Kenneth R. Mischner Dr. Jacqueline Mislow Debbie and Steve Modzelewski Mr. Kenneth E. Moll and Dr. Nancy L. Carteron Mr. and Mrs. C. Schuyler Morehouse Dr. Marina Turkevich Naumann ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Ober, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John R. O’Brien Laurie and Andy Okun Mrs. Maryann F. Ortiz Mr. and Mrs. Jon Ostendorf Ms. Bente L. Ott Mr. Thomas H. Paine, Jr. ’69 and Mrs. Lisa Paine Mr. Ashish Patel and Ms. Arti Patel Mr. and Mrs. John M. Peach Ms. Cynthia H. Peifer Ms. Janet H. Perkins Mr. Jeffrey F. Perlman ’82 Ms. Melissa J. Phares ’80 Ms. Karen E. Pike Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Plohn, Jr. Ms. Kathrin W. Poole ’71 and Mr. Howard H. Tomlinson Mr. Howard F. Powers, Jr. ’80 and Mrs. Alexandra B. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Quigley, Jr. Mrs. Sandra D. Quirinale ’83 and Mr. John Quirinale Mr. Rajaram Radhakrishnan and Dr. Sowmya Ramakrishnan Mr. and Mrs. James S. Radvany Mr. David Rehmus and Ms. Suzanne Farhat Ms. Susan Repko Dr. Yale Richmond and Mrs. Ilene Richmond Ms. Sarah Ringer Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rizza, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. F. Edward Roberts, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Rosenberg

Mr. Llewellyn G. Ross and Ms. Miles Dumont Mr. Orville J. Rothrock Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rothstein Mr. Toms B. Royal Mr. Henry G. Rulon-Miller ’51 Mr. Patrick Rulon-Miller ’55 Dr. Jonathan R. Sachs and Dr. Susan B. Sachs Dr. and Mrs. Jan N. Safer Mr. Mark J. Samse Mr. Elliot L. Savitzky and Ms. Karen E. Ahern Mr. William S. Sayen ’65 and Mrs. Elizabeth Bristol Sayen ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Devon A. Scarlett Dr. and Mrs. Peter H. Schafer Mr. Aaron W. Schomburg and Mrs. Erin L. Schomburg Mrs. Sara M. Schwiebert h’05 Mr. and Mrs. G. Carter Sednaoui Mr. Gerald P. Seid Dr. Sandra Sharon and Dr. Yitzhak Sharon Mrs. Michael Sherman Mrs. Jane Gihon Shillaber ’53 The Honorable and Mrs. Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff Dr. Lawrence R. Siegel and Mrs. Paula Siegel Mrs. Jane Aresty Silverman ’63 The Reverend Daniel J. Skvir h’73 and Mrs. Tamara Turkevich Skvir ’62 Mr. Donald V. Smith Mrs. Maureen A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Smukler Ms. Bette Ipsen Soloway Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stanton Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Sternberg Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stockman Mr. Dennis J. Stoker and Ms. Victoria L. Stabile Mr. William A. Stoltzfus III and Ms. Alison L. Baxter Mrs. Sheila M. Stuart Mr. Thomas J. Sullivan and Ms. Bonnie L. Higgins Ms. Martha Sullivan Sword ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Szuter ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Taggart Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Tate Mr. Mark E. Thierfelder and Ms. Courtney Lederer Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Thomas Mr. Newell M. Thompson ’82 and Mrs. Sarah Griffin Thompson ’84

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Former Faculty and Staff, Grandparents and Friends The following former faculty, grandparents and friends supported Princeton Day School in 2019-2020.

Anonymous (2) Mrs. Louise Mason Bachelder ’54 and Mr. Joseph E. Bachelder III Mr. Stephen C. Bailey Ms. Janet L. Baker Mr. and Mrs. John Bankson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Baykal Mrs. Denise G. Bencivengo Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 Mr. Monroe Blakes Ms. Madiha Boraie Mr. Peter Boyer Mr. Brent Bridgeman The Reverend Henry P. Bristol II ’72 Mrs. Mary K. Bucher Mr. N. Harrison Buck ’77 and Mrs. Nancy Buck Dr. and Mrs. William P. Burks Mr. Graham Byra Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Campbell † Denotes Deceased

Mr. Jerome M. Campbell Mr. Michael J. Campbell Mr. Tanner J. Campbell ’07 Ms. Anne Charity-Hudley Dr. Renard A. Charity and Dr. Cynthia M. Charity Mr. Renard Charity, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Manmohan S. Chopra Mrs. Amy Ciuffreda ’88 Mr. David S. Congdon Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Conners Mr. Matthew Connolly Mr. John F. Cook ’56 and Mrs. Jeanne K. Cook Ms. Mary H. Cosby Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cousins Mrs. Patricia N. Cross Mr. Brian C. Crowell ’11 Mr. Ian P. Crowell ’10 Mrs. Florence Cucchi Mrs. Alice O. Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Cutts Ms. Susan Daly-Rouse and Mr. Charles B. Rouse Mrs. Flora B. Datta Ms. Elizabeth S. Davis Mrs. Victoria N. Dean Mrs. Betsy Dykstra Mrs. Debra C. Egner Mr. Joseph T. Elicone Dr. Robert E. Epstein and Dr. Eileen R. Lilley Ms. Gail Olivia Everett Mrs. Jean Farina Mr. and Mrs. David Fay Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Fenton Mrs. Sandy Fetter Mr. Samuel C. Finnell ’74 Ms. Ellen M. Fisher ’73 Mr. Gary Fitton Mr. David A. Frothingham Mrs. Pamela K. Frothingham Mr. James Fuhrman ’10 Mrs. Audrey Gates Mrs. Tracey W. Gates Mr. and Mrs. David R. Geltzer Mr. Joseph F. Gerdes and Mrs. Berna Itez-Gerdes Dr. Alexandra Wetherill Gerry Ms. Lauren Gleeson Mr. Justin Goldberg Mr. Huson R. Gregory † Ms. Jane E. Grigger Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hall, Jr. Mr. Andrew C. Hamlin Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Hancock Ms. Christine Hart Ms. Melissa Haskell and Mr. Daniel Polasky Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Haskell, Jr. Mr. Marshall A. Hatcher Mr. Tyler Henderson Ms. Gayle Henkin Mr. David Heubach Mr. Erik Hove Mr. John B. Howe Ms. Alison Hwong Mrs. Kathleen Jamieson Ms. Davetta Johnson Ms. Rachel Kamen Mrs. Paulette G. Kampe Mr. Theodore J. Katramados Mr. John Keating Mr. John M. Kerekes and Mrs. Wendy S. Toth-Kerekes Ms. Ann Marie King Mr. John Knowles and Ms. Liana Valentin

Ms. Judy Kosta Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kubach, Jr. Mr. David H. LaMotte Mr. and Mrs. John Le Page Mr. Harvey Lee Mr. and Mrs. Chin F. Lin Ms. Jane Lin Mr. David N. S. Liu and Mrs. Celia W. Liu Mr. Reuben Loewy Ms. Alexa R. Maher ’08 Mr. Zachary Martin Ms. Linda Masia Dr. and Mrs. Frank Masino Dr. Elisa Matthes Mr. Edward E. Matthews Ms. Joyce McDonnell Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGill Mr. and Mrs. Brendan McGovern Mr. Perry McGuire Mr. and Mrs. George H. McLaughlin II Mr. Paris L. McLean ’00 Mrs. William Michaels Mrs. Catherine Miller Ms. Nancy B. Miller ’57 Dr. Joseph Mollica and Ms. Dottie Sellers Mr. John Moran Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Muller Ms. Bente L. Ott Ms. Cynthia H. Peifer Ms. Janet H. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Peterson Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce Mrs. Alexandra B. Powers Mr. Justin Price Mr. and Mrs. Jack Z. Rabinowitz Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Reed Mrs. Susan M. Reichlin Mr. Michael Remsen Ms. Susan Repko Mrs. Elizabeth Rizza Mrs. Marybeth Roach Mr. James C. Rodgers ’70 Mrs. Linda M. Rubens Mr. Henry G. Rulon-Miller ’51 Dr. Carlos A. Sagebien ’89 Mr. Nicholas Sampogna Mrs. Andrea Schafer Mrs. Sara M. Schwiebert h’05 Mr. Gerald P. Seid Ms. Maria E. Shepard Mrs. Markell Meyers Shriver ’46 Mrs. Paula Siegel Ms. Mary Sisson The Reverend Daniel J. Skvir h’73 Mrs. Tamara Turkevich Skvir ’62 Mr. Donald V. Smith Mrs. Maureen A. Smith Ms. Bette Ipsen Soloway Ms. Jane Spencer Mrs. Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62 Mr. Richard Steinhart and Ms. Teresa Lin Mr. William A. Stoltzfus III Ms. Martha Sullivan Sword ’73 Mr. Vi K. Ta and Ms. Kamla Vacher-Ta Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Taggart Ms. Sandra Tanners Ms. Hilleary T. Thomas ’84 Mr. Carlton H. Tucker h’13 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Upson Mr. and Mrs. George A. Vaughn III

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Mr. Clark G. Travers ’55 Mrs. Jeannette Tregoe Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Triolo Mr. and Mrs. Tucker S. Triolo Mr. and Mrs. Carlton H. Tucker h’13 Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III Mrs. Lucy Englander van den Brand ’78 Ms. Monique R. van Perlstein Mr. and Mrs. John Vareha Mr. and Mrs. George A. Vaughn III Mrs. Ann B. Vehslage Professor David F. Venturo and Ms. Jeanne C. Conerly Mr. Brent Vine ’69 and Ms. Olga Yokoyama Dr. John E. Vine ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vradenburgh Mr. Anthony Waclawski and Mrs. Dianna Waclawski Mrs. Susan Barclay Walcott ’57 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Walter Mrs. Leslie Straut Ward ’80 and Mr. Grant M. Ward Ms. Lisa A. Warren ’71 and Mr. Robert Cantlay Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wenzel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Westcott Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick W. White Mrs. Noel S. White Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe White Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Whitney Ms. Laura Wild Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wilde III Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Winstanley Ms. Hilary A. Winter ’75 and Mr. John L. Thurman Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wood Mr. Newell B. Woodworth III ’73 Mr. and Ms. Edward J. Yurkow Drs. Benjamin and Lisa Zablocki Ms. Donna S. Zarzecki

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Mrs. Kaye B. Vosburgh Ms. Barbara Walker Ms. Joan Walker Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace Mr. Frank W. Walter Zhenghua Wang Mrs. Kathleen W. Webb Mrs. Doreen K. Weinberg Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe White Ms. Ann M. Wiley ’70 Mrs. Judy Williams Ms. Mary K. Williams Ms. Sherrie Willner Mr. Peter A. Wood Ms. Jun Yan and Mr. Jikai Li Ms. Amy Zakar-Banner Ms. Donna S. Zarzecki Mr. David T. Zhang and Ms. Sophie L. Wan Mr. and Mrs. Jason Zhang Mr. Andrew Zielinski Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Zuray

Corporations and Foundations The following corporations, matching gift companies, organizations and foundations supported the 2019-2020 Annual Fund.

Anonymous (8) 6 Brothers Foundation 2125 Pelican Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Adler Family Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Amazon Smile Foundation The Avery-Renault Family Charitable Fund The Baldwin Foundation Baldwin-Sieck Family Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Family Foundation Bayberry Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Bhatia-Chowdhury Family Giving Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Biro Family Charitable Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Blue Dish Fund at Schwab Charitable BM Consulting Services, LLC Brahaney Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Brickner Family Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Brownington Foundation Harrison and Nancy Buck Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Judith and William Burks Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Bushnell/Toner Fund within the Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund Cedar Grove Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation The Victoria Chen and Jeffrey Guild Fund of Vanguard Charitable The Chomiak Family Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee The David and Olive Coughlan Charitable Giving Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation Deluxe Corporation Foundation Zhen Deng and Kun Deng Family Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable

Dries Family Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Edelman Family Foundation Eglin Family Charitable Giving Fund Dr. Nancy Feldman and Dr. Keith Fishbein Family Fund of Vanguard Charitable Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fleming Family Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Francfort Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Gardner Family Charitable Gift Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Geltzer Family Foundation Girgus/Chimacoff Family Fund Google The Griffin-Cole Fund Guggenheim Partners, LLC Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation Sally Campbell Haas Foundation of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund The Hall and Lee Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Alex and Laura Hanson Charitable Gift Fund, Inc. Harris Family Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation The Emily & John Harvey Foundation Sylvia Taylor Healy Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Helmick-Fox Fund of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Highland-Mills Foundation, Incorporated Hofmann Family Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey Honey Perkins Family Foundation, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Jordan and Kristin Gray Donor-Advised Fund at Schwab Charitable The Nancy E. & William R. Kales Fund at Schwab Charitable Kalra Family Giving Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Harold Kramer Foundation LAWsgiving Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation LFAS Consultancy Services Corp.

The Losam Fund Madison Linville Charitable Giving Fund Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation The McAlpin Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Foundation, Inc. Kevin and Alicia Merse Charitable Gift Fund of Fidelity Charitable MGN Family Foundation The Kurt & Jacqueline Mislow Charitable Fund of Vanguard Charitable The Joseph Mollica Charitable Fund of the Glenmede Donor-Advised Fund The New York Community Trust Nussbaum Charitable Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund O’Connor Family Foundation of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Omega Painting Services LLC Pechter Polls The PIMCO Foundation Piper Sandler Companies Princeton Area Community Foundation, Inc. Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Rossmassler Family Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Fund

Royal Family Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable Fund Patrick Rulon-Miller Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Fund Schwab Charitable Fund Anna and Robert Sedgley Family Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Shaw Rush Giving Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Fund George G. & Elizabeth G. Smith Foundation, Inc. The David B. Smoyer Fund of Vanguard Charitable The Sullivan Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Penny and Ted Thomas Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Tucker Family Charitable Trust of the Fidelity Charitable Fund United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey Vanguard Charitable Vine Family Giving Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Vogel-Seidenberg Charitable Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation Susan S. & Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation Eric and Nancy Weinstein Giving Fund Kendrick and Lisa White Family Foundation Woodbridge Family Foundation, Inc.

Semper Luceats The Semper Luceats are our most loyal donors who have given to the Annual Fund for 10 or more consecutive years. We thank them for giving back and helping us provide opportunities to the students of today. Semper Luceat was the Miss Fine’s School motto and means “may it always shine.”

Mr. Joe Abelson ’73 Dr. Alexander M. Ackley, Jr. Mr. Mark S. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Seth Adler ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Edem K. Afemeku Mrs. Maria Tardugno Aldrich ’99 and Mr. Stephen P. Aldrich Ms. Lylah M. Alphonse ’90 Mr. Patrick Amaral and Ms. Katherine A. Schulte Dr. Glenna Weisberg Andersen ’73 Mrs. Jessica Collins Anderson ’98 Mrs. Anne Jamieson Applegate ’99 Ms. Susan Carter Avanzino ’60 Mrs. Louise Mason Bachelder ’54 and Mr. Joseph E. Bachelder III Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Bailey Mrs. Gordon McAllen Baker ’51 Mr. John C. Baker ’62 Mr. Neal A. Bakshi ’10 Mr. Robert H. B. Baldwin, Jr. and Ms. Margaret J. Sieck Dr. Kimberly A. Ballinger and Mr. Eric Rosenthal Mrs. Patience Outerbridge Banister ’63 Dr. David A. Barondess ’78 Ms. Orelia Barrientos Mrs. Tracey Spinner Baskin ’00 Mr. Jay V. Bavishi ’05 Mrs. Elizabeth Becker ’77 and Mr. Paul Becker Ms. Amy E. Beckford Mrs. Denise G. Bencivengo Dr. Kofi D. Benefo and Dr. Prema A. Kurien Ms. Laura S. Bennett ’85 Ms. Courtney C. Bergh ’02

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Mr. and Mrs. Brock L. Covington Ms. Tessica Glancey Crampton ’08 Mrs. Jean D. Crane Dr. and Mrs. Barrington Cross Mr. Daniel S. Crosta ’02 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Cucchi Ms. Elizabeth R. Cutler and Mr. Thomas G. Kreutz Ms. Susan Daly-Rouse and Mr. Charles B. Rouse Mr. H. Andrew Davies II ’73 Ms. Megan Davis ’10 † Mr. Guy K. Dean III ’55 and Mrs. Victoria N. Dean Mrs. Anne Carples Denny ’53 Mr. John H. Denny, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Devlin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. DiBianca Mr. Donald T. Dickson Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Ms. Ellen Freedman Dingman ’58 Mrs. Frederica Cagan Doeringer ’70 Mr. Ryan Donovan and Mrs. Kristina O’Brien-Donovan Mr. John L. Dorazio, Jr. ’00 Mr. Stuart C. Dorman II Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Doshi Mrs. Wylie O’Hara Doughty ’63 Mr. Robert A. Drabiuk ’96 Dr. J. Christopher Dries and Mrs. Kristen Dries Mrs. Christina Dufresne ’77 and Mr. David A. Dufresne Mrs. Kathleen Sittig Dunlop ’63 Reverend and Mrs. Craig Dykstra Mr. William Edwards, Jr. ’63 Mrs. Debra C. Egner Mr. Mark A. Egner ’82 and Mrs. Maeve Egner Mr. and Mrs. Adam L. Eiseman Mrs. Katharine Walker Ellison ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Shawn W. Ellsworth ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Emann Mr. Michael Englander ’72 Mr. Paul and Reverend Joanne Epply-Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan I. Epstein Ms. Jody Erdman ’72 Mr. Peter E.B. Erdman ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Falcon Ms. Laurence M. Farhat Mrs. Jean Farina Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Farina Ms. Katherine Fay Mrs. Anne Bishop Faynberg ’73 Dr. Douglas A. Fein ’79 Mr. Scott J. Feldman ’93 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Felton Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Ferguson Ms. Jeanine M. Figur ’74 Mr. and Mrs. James T. Finnegan Mr. Samuel C. Finnell ’74 and Mrs. Mary Murdoch Finnell ’76 Mrs. Aviva Perlman Fintz ’02 Ensign Jacob M. Fisch ’06 Professor Nathaniel J. Fisch and Dr. Tobe M. Fisch Dr. Keith J. Fishbein and Dr. Nancy L. Feldman Ms. Ellen M. Fisher ’73 Dr. Andrew J. Fishmann ’68 Mr. David S. Fitton, Jr. ’79 Mrs. Anne Dennison Fleming ’77 Dr. Louise Matthews Flickinger ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund O. Folkes Mrs. Shannon Nancy Ford ’54 Ms. Betty Ann Fort Mr. Harrison S. Fraker, Jr. ’57 Ms. Karen P. Fredericks ’89

Mr. David M. Freedholm and Ms. Maria Shepard Ms. Alison Frieder ’11 Ms. Jessica Frieder ’11 Ms. Wendy Frieman ’74 Mr. Benjamin M. Frost ’92 Mrs. Elaine Polhemus Frost ’53 Mr. and Mrs. David A. Frothingham Mrs. Beverly G. Gallagher and Mr. John F. Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Gallagher Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Mr. Timothy R. Gardner and Ms. Meredith P. Asplundh Mr. Donato Gasparro Mr. John M. Gaston III ’62 Mrs. Audrey Gates Ms. Sheridan L. Gates ’10 Mr. Thomas R. Gates ’78 and Mrs. Tracey W. Gates Mr. and Mrs. David R. Geltzer Mr. Ethan M. Geltzer ’10 Mr. Andrew V. Gentile ’03 Mr. Joseph F. Gerdes and Mrs. Berna Itez-Gerdes Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Mr. Jonathan S. Gershen ’86 and Mrs. Ilene J. Gershen Dr. Kalla A. Gervasio ’08 Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Mr. and Mrs. David Gibson Mrs. Marjorie Wallace Gibson ’84 and Mr. Peter E. Gibson Mrs. Louise Whipple Gillock ’73 Mr. and Mrs. David E. Goldberg Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 Ms. Georgia B. Gosnell Mr. William P. Graff ’75 Mrs. Sarah M. Graham and Mr. Kevin Graham The Honorable and Mrs. William S. Greenberg Dr. Christopher Gribbin and Dr. Dorota Gribbin The Griffin-Ley Family Mr. and Mrs. John L. Griffith, Jr. Mr. John L. Griffith III ’99 and Dr. Rebecca Lintner Griffith ’95 † Ms. Jane E. Grigger Mrs. Alice Lee Groton ’78 Mrs. Marilyn W. Grounds Mr. Louis C. Guarino ’79 and Mrs. Patricia Guarino Mr. Todd B. Gudgel and Ms. Colleen A. Foy Mrs. Alexandra Smith Gunderson ’75 Mr. John A. Gutman ’79 and Ms. Elizabeth A. Duffy Mrs. Sally Campbell Haas ’63 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hall, Jr. Mr. Andrew C. Hamlin and Ms. Kathleen Deignan Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Haney Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. Hanson Mr. Jim F. Harding, Jr. ’04 Mrs. Julia Fulper Hardt ’61 Ms. Caroline Erdman Hare ’75 Ms. Lynn Prior Harrington ’54 Mrs. Susan Denise Harris ’69 Mr. Brendan G. Hart ’00 Dr. Cary Smith Hart ’64 Ms. Christine Hart Mr. Jason M. Hart ’94 Ms. Sara Zoe Hart ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Harvey Ms. Jennifer Chandler Hauge ’78

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Mrs. Linda Staniar Bergh ’66 and Mr. William G. Bergh Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Bernardi Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bertoli Mr. Deepinder S. Bhatia and Dr. Nandini Chowdhury Mr. Kamlesh H. Bhatia and Dr. Jyoti K. Bhatia Ms. Lillie G. Binder ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Blakes Dr. Cindy Blitz and Dr. Itzhak Yanovitzky Mr. Christopher B. Bobbitt and Ms. Tiffany L. Smith Mrs. Dawn Z. Bocian and Mr. David A. Bocian Ms. Stephanie L. Bogart ’83 Ms. Joanna L. Bowen ’03 Ms. Wendy McAneny Bradburn ’50 Mrs. Carol Harris Bradley ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Marc C. Brahaney Mrs. Ariana Jakub Brandes ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brent Mr. Benjamin T. Brickner ’00 and Mrs. Kathryn Babick Brickner ’02 The Reverend Henry P. Bristol II ’72 and Mrs. Susan P. Bristol Mr. Adam Bromwich ’92 Mr. Jeffery N. Brown ’87 Mr. Barry A. Bruno Mrs. Graham M. Brush Dr. and Mrs. William P. Burks Mrs. Jan Hall Burruss ’72 Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 and Mr. John Toner Dr. Charles J. Buttaci ’92 Mr. Luis A. Camacho Ms. Robin Ackerman Cameron ’98 Mr. Vance G. Camisa ’79 Major Christopher C. Campbell ’03 Mr. Michael J. Campbell Mr. Dennis Cannon ’10 Mr. Henry B. Cannon III ’53 Mr. Kevin M. Capinpin ’92 Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Capinpin Mr. and Mrs. Carlos A. Cara Mr. James Carey, Jr. ’57 Ms. Donna D. Carson Mrs. Nancy Chen Cavanaugh ’78 Dr. John N. Cavuto ’81 and Dr. Robin R. Antonacci Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chalek Mr. Mark W. Chatham ’96 Ms. Jaye Chen ’86 Ms. Victoria Chen ’84 Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Chew Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Chia Mr. Alan Chimacoff and Ms. Joan S. Girgus Mr. Christopher Chomiak ’07 Mr. Thomas D. Chubet ’61 Mr. John W. Claghorn III ’68 Mrs. Ann Kinczel Clapp ’59 Mrs. Phyllis Vandewater Clement ’40 Mr. and Mrs. David Clingman Dr. Frans M. Coetzee and Dr. Catherine A. Peters Dr. Aly Cohen ’91 and Dr. Stephen Lewis Mr. Daniel Cohen and Mrs. Stephanie A. Hanzel Cohen Mrs. Barbara Cole ’78 and Mr. Christopher A. Cole Mrs. Kathleen Gorman Colket ’69 Mr. Marc A. Collins ’88 Mrs. Christina Flores Cordes ’99 Ms. Gail M. Cotton ’62 Mrs. Evelyn Turner Counts ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick L. Courtney ’85

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Mrs. Maren Levine Hefler ’99 Mr. Daniel J. Helmick ’90 Mr. John H, Helmick ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Henkel Ms. Gayle Henkin and Mr. Thomas P. Smith Mr. Brooks P. Herr ’10 Mr. Daniel R. Herr ’84 Mr. C. Justin Hillenbrand ’94 Ms. Deborah V. Hobler ’66 Mr. Eric D. Hochberg ’98 Ms. Susan C. Hockings ’86 Ms. Katherine Gulick Hoffman ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hofmann, Jr. Dr. Benjamin A. Hohmuth ’90 Ms. Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick and Mr. Michael D. Lemonick Mr. Jason M. Hollander ’90 and Dr. Sarah Werbel Ms. Julia Cornforth Holofcener ’61 Mr. Christopher J. Horan ’79 Dr. Timothy S. Howard ’86 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Howe Mrs. Mary Lawson-Johnston Howe ’85 and Mr. Nathaniel S. Howe III Nicole and Richard Hughes Mrs. Julia Stabler Hull ’76 Mr. Lynch W. Hunt, Jr. ’85 Mr. Simeon H. Hutner ’77 Mr. Taylor K. Hwong ’88 Mrs. Mary Hobler Hyson ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh C. Jain Ms. Tamara Jakub Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Jamieson, Jr. Ms. Kathleen O. Jamieson ’96 † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson Mr. Livingston Johnson ’75 and Mrs. Maria Johnson Mr. Bradford D. Johnston ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Johnston Mr. Russell P. Joye ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jusick Mr. William R. Kales II ’55 Mr. Kamal Kasera and Ms. Ritu Jajodia Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Kaufman Ms. Kelley Keegan ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Keegan, Jr. Ms. Hilary Thompson Kenyon ’53 Mrs. Jane Henderson Kenyon ’79 and Mr. Kevin R. Kenyon Mrs. Barbara Thomsen Kerckhoff ’69 Mr. J. Regan Kerney ’61 Mrs. Hope Thompson Kerr ’53 Mrs. Nancy Hudler Keuffel ’58 Ms. Lena Khatcherian Ms. L. Chloe King ’55 Mr. Mitchell J. Klein ’86 Ms. Alexis Arlett Kochmann ’77 Mr. Matthew P. Kohut ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Vijaysinha R. Kokkirala Ms. Elisabeth Krebs Dr. Ramesh Kumar and Ms. Linda Matusick-Kumar Mr. Benjamin B. Kuris ’93 Mr. Jeremy S. Kuris ’91 Mrs. Rachel Zublatt Kusminsky ’94 and Mr. Andrew Kusminsky Mr. Trevor J. Lamb ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert III Mr. David H. LaMotte and Ms. Jani Rachelson Mrs. Sally Kuser Lane ’42 Mr. Stephen Lane ’64 Ms. Cynthia M. Laskin

Dr. Karen Latham and Dr. Andrew Latham Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Laughlin ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Law Mrs. Sarah Sword Lazarus ’81 Ms. Suzanne E. Lengyel ’84 Mrs. Eleanor Vandewater Leonard ’44 Ms. Galete J. Levin ’96 Mrs. Carol Chiang-Li and Dr. Ronald Li Mr. Ye Li and Ms. Angela Deng Dr. and Mrs. Judson Linville Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Lippman Ms. Therese Lisk and Mr. Richard Lisk Ms. Amy R. Livingston ’91 Ms. Giovanna Gray Lockhart ’98 Mr. Reuben Loewy Mrs. Mary Woodbridge Lott ’67 Ms. Kathleen Dunn Lyman ’56 Mr. and Mrs. M. Jack S. Madani Mr. Mark Madden ’08 Dr. William Maggio and Dr. Vijay Maggio Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maher, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied Dr. and Mrs. Ramy A. Mahmoud Dr. Burton G. Malkiel and Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel Mr. Alexander K. Manka ’95 Mr. M. Yves Marcuard Mr. Jay R. Marcus ’80 Ms. Katherine K. Marquis ’92 Mr. Daniel A. Marshall and Dr. Rebecca G. Marshall Mr. John S. Marshall ’81 and Mrs. Lori A. Marshall Mr. Lee S. Maschler Ms. Marjorie Maschler Mrs. Allissa Crea Mason ’06 Ms. Janet M. Masterton ’70 Mr. Bennett J. Matelson ’88 Dr. Elisa Matthes Mr. Edward E. Matthews Mr. Gregory E. Matthews ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. McCain Mrs. Livia Wong McCarthy ’77 and Mr. Joseph D. McCarthy Mrs. Tania Lawson-Johnston McCleery ’71 Ms. Ann I. McClellan ’68 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClellan Mr. Robert N. McClellan ’77 Mrs. Jo Schlossberg McConaghy ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGill Mr. and Mrs. George H. McLaughlin II Mr. Paris L. McLean ’00 Mr. Howard McMorris II ’59 Mrs. Wendy Lawson-Johnston McNeil ’70 and Mr. Thomas McNeil Mr. Michael Meggitt Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Melodia Ms. Sean N. Merriweather ’99 Ms. Catherine White Mertz ’79 Mrs. Sara Peach Messier ’01 Mr. Edwin H. Metcalf ’51 and Mrs. Nancy B. Metcalf Ms. Martha F. Miller ’67 Ms. Nancy B. Miller ’57 Mrs. Polly T. Miller ’63 and Mr. G. Nicholas Miller Mrs. Sydne Levine Miller ’01 Mrs. Valerie Wicks Miller ’63 Mr. Kewei Ming and Mrs. Zhanyun Zhao The Mischner Family Mr. John B. Mittnacht ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mochnal

Debbie and Steve Modzelewski Mr. Paminas Mogaka and Mrs. Catherine Mogaka Mr. Elias Montes and Ms. Elisabeth Garsia Mr. Peter R. Moock ’56 Mrs. Marjorie Libby Moore ’43 Mr. and Mrs. C. Schuyler Morehouse Ms. Patience Morgan-Irigoyen ’66 Dr. William M. Morse ’57 Ms. Cecily E. Moyer ’05 Dr. Michael J. Mundenar and Mrs. Jill Mundenar Mrs. Laura Stifel Murphy ’82 Ms. Megan E. Keegan Murphy ’05 Dr. Praveen G. Murthy ’06 Mr. Kang Na ’82 Mr. Nishant Nair ’10 Mr. Alexander J. Nanfara ’99 Dr. Marina Turkevich Naumann ’56 Mr. Russell A. Nemiroff ’03 Dr. Hong Ni and Ms. Xun Xu Mr. Robert A. Norman ’71 Dr. Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski ’01 Mr. and Mrs. John R. O’Brien Ms. Kip Herrick O’Brien ’75 Ms. Nanette R. O’Brien-Blake ’04 Laurie and Andy Okun Mrs. Jessica Feig Opet ’01 Mr. Adam Oresky ’10 Mr. Matthew Oresky ’08 Mrs. Maryann F. Ortiz Ms. Anna D. Otis ’10 Ms. Bente L. Ott Dr. Jigar Patel and Dr. Hemal Patel Mr. Robert E. Paun ’98 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Peach Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter Ms. Cynthia H. Peifer Mr. Jeffrey F. Perlman ’82 Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67 Ms. Melissa J. Phares ’80 Ms. Dorothy C. Pickering ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Rogerio Pinheiro Mr. Charles H. Place III ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Plohn, Jr. Mrs. Mandy Rabinowitz Plonsky ’97 Ms. Joy E. Power ’80 Mr. Howard F. Powers, Jr. ’80 and Mrs. Alexandra B. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Drew Procaccino Mr. Joseph D. Punia ’71 Mr. Russell B. Pyne ’73 Mr. Daniel Quick ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Quigley, Jr. Ms. Heather Dembert Rafter ’78 Mr. David A. Ragsdale ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Elder E. Ramirez Mr. Daniel Rathauser ’06 Mrs. Marie Frohling Rawlings ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Reichlin Mr. Michael Remsen Mrs. Cicely Tomlinson Richardson ’56 Ms. Stephanie Richman ’87 and Mr. William Reilly Dr. Yale Richmond and Mrs. Ilene Richmond Mrs. Gail Petty Riepe ’64 Mr. Hector Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rizza, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Roach Dr. and Mrs. F. Edward Roberts, Jr. Mrs. Barbara Johnston Rodgers ’51 Mr. James C. Rodgers ’70 Mrs. Cameron Rogers ’09 and Mr. Joseph P. Rogers ’09

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Dr. Sandra Sharon and Dr. Yitzhak Sharon Dr. Marjorie D. Shaw ’70 and Mr. Barney S. Rush Ms. Sandra L. Shaw ’76 Mrs. Jane Gihon Shillaber ’53 Mr. W. Daniel Shipper ’10 Mrs. Markell Meyers Shriver ’46 Dr. Lawrence R. Siegel and Mrs. Paula Siegel Ms. Rebecca Nemiroff Siegel ’96 Mr. Stephen S. Siegel ’93 Ms. Muna Shehadi Sill ’79 Mr. James W. Simpson ’89 Mr. Bradley Y. Smith ’63 Ms. Julia Herr Smith ’88 Ms. Ashley Smoots ’09 Mr. David B. Smoyer ’56 Dr. Benny Soffer and Dr. Janet Chen Ms. Bette Ipsen Soloway Dr. Barbara A. Spalholz ’74 Ms. Jane Spencer Ms. Ilona Spiro ’02 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stanton Mr. Austin C. Starkey, Jr. ’69 Mrs. Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62 Paul J. and Maureen O. Stellato Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Sternberg Ms. Michele Sternberg ’87 Mr. Dana H. Stewardson ’80 Mr. Richard N. Stillwell ’50 Mr. John D. Stitzer, Jr. ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stockman Mr. William A. Stoltzfus III and Ms. Alison L. Baxter Mr. Steven J. Storey Mr. Craig C. Stuart ’87 Mr. Austin P. Sullivan, Jr. ’54 Mr. Thomas J. Sullivan and Ms. Bonnie L. Higgins Mr. Peter C. Suomi ’96 Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace Ms. Martha Sullivan Sword ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Szuter ’82 Dr. Julie K. Taitsman ’90 Ms. Lisa A. Taitsman ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Tate Mrs. Sara Matelson Taylor ’90 Mr. Mark E. Thierfelder and Ms. Courtney A. Lederer Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Thomas Ms. Jill L. Thomas Mr. Newell M. Thompson ’82 and Mrs. Sarah Griffin Thompson ’84 Mr. Clark G. Travers ’55 Mr. Jonathan E. Trend ’91 and Mrs. Rachel Trend ’91

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Ms. Julie Roginsky ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Igor Roitburg Mrs. Alexandra Hiller Rorick ’07 Ms. Arianna Rosati ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Rosenberg Mr. Scott E. Rosenberg ’04 Mr. A. Richard Ross ’68 and Ms. Judith Heim Dr. Jeremy E. Rothfleisch ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rothstein Mr. Hardy S. Royal ’89 Mr. Toms B. Royal Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey D. Rubens Mrs. Linda M. Rubens Mrs. Liuba Shapiro Ruiz ’96 Mr. Henry G. Rulon-Miller ’51 Mr. Patrick Rulon-Miller ’55 Mrs. Alice Ganoe Ryden ’82 Dr. and Mrs. Jan N. Safer Mr. Mark J. Samse Ms. Lauren J. Sanders ’01 Mr. D.G. Sarsfield and Ms. Judith Reich Ms. Elizabeth W. Sayen ’03 Mr. William S. Sayen ’65 and Mrs. Elizabeth Bristol Sayen ’69 Dr. and Mrs. Peter H. Schafer Mr. William D. Schafer ’87 Mrs. Sally Schmid ’60 Mr. Grant J. Schmucker ’02 and Mrs. Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker ’02 Ms. Page Schmucker ’00 Mr. Aaron W. Schomburg and Mrs. Erin L. Schomburg Mr. Jeffrey Schor ’97 Ms. Lauren Goodyear Schramm ’82 Mr. Jeffrey E. Schuss ’73 Mrs. Sara M. Schwiebert h’05 Mrs. Susan Bauer Schwinger ’73 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sedgley Mr. and Mrs. G. Carter Sednaoui Mr. Gerald P. Seid Mr. Lars A. Selberg ’75 and Mrs. Julia Sly Selberg ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Asit K. Sen Ms. Nina Shafran Mr. Ameesh R. Shah ’97 Mr. Anand R. Shah ’05 Dr. Utpal (Paul) Shah ’90 and Dr. Maritoni Calon Shah Dr. Harriet M. Sharlin ’70 Ms. Dina A. Sharon ’10 † Denotes Deceased

Mr. and Mrs. Tucker S. Triolo Mr. and Mrs. Carlton H. Tucker h’13 Professor Karen M. Turner ’72 Ms. Palmer B. Uhl ’74 Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III Mrs. Lucy Englander van den Brand ’78 Professor David F. Venturo and Ms. Jeanne C. Conerly Dr. John E. Vine ’82 Mr. Stephen M. Vine ’70 Mr. Henry T. Vogt ’72 Ms. Virginia Vogt ’73 Mr. William H. von Oehsen III ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vradenburgh Mrs. Susan Barclay Walcott ’57 Ms. Barbara Walker Mr. and Mrs. Brent C. Walker Mrs. Kelly Lambert Walker ’83 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace ’48 Mrs. Susan Schildkraut Wallach ’64 and Mr. Kenneth Wallach Mrs. Michele L. Walsh and Mr. James Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Walter Mr. Randall S. Walter ’87 Mrs. Leslie Straut Ward ’80 and Mr. Grant M. Ward Mr. Terry L. Ward ’74 Edward G. Warren III ’61 Ms. Lisa A. Warren ’71 and Mr. Robert Cantlay Mr. Curtis McGraw Webster ’75 Mr. David S. Weiner ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Weinstein Ms. Jennifer Weiss ’77 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Mr. Michael G. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick W. White Mrs. Noel S. White Mrs. Polly Hunter White ’74 Ms. Rena A. Whitehouse ’83 Mr. David C. Whitlock ’80 Mr. Robert C. Whitlock ’78 Dr. Harvey M. Wiener ’75 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wilde III Ms. Ann M. Wiley ’70 Ms. Jane T. Wiley ’69 Mrs. Cintra Eglin Willcox ’76 Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 Ms. Mary K. Williams Dr. John O. Willis ’61 Ms. Gay Wilmerding ’75 Mr. Robert D. Wilmot ’69 Ms. Jean Gorman Wilson ’69 Ms. Janine Winant ’99 and Mr. Jonathan A. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Winstanley Mr. Eric R. Wolarsky ’92 Dr. John T. Woodward IV ’84 Mr. Thomas C. Worthington ’71 Ms. Dolores Wright Mr. Peter G.P. Wright ’51 Ms. Cornelia Wu ’94 Dr. and Mrs. Nir Yakoby Ms. Elizabeth Yellin ’10 Mr. Joseph Yellin ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Darius B. Young Dr. Benjamin Zablocki and Dr. Lisa Zablocki Ms. Donna S. Zarzecki Mr. Shudan Zhang and Mrs. Shirley Zhang Dr. Jiang Zhao and Ms. Ruozhen Chen Ms. Laura Ziv Mr. George M. Zoukee ’77

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Every year Princeton Day School receives gifts in honor or in memory of someone special.

GIFTS MADE IN HONOR OF

In Honor of Sanford B. Bing h’87 Ms. Janet L. Baker Mrs. Denise G. Bencivengo Mr. T. Wilson Eglin, Jr. ’82 Mr. Howard A. Vine ’71

In Honor of Mark S. Adams Ms. Joanna L. Bowen ’03 Mr. Ryan Bremer ’18 Mr. Eric Sherman ’18

In Honor of Mikayla Blakes ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Blakes

In Honor of Edem Afemeku Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster Mr. Iheanyichi C. Inyama ’18

In Honor of Ryan Brechmacher Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi

In Honor of Alana Allen Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jackson Ms. Lena Khatcherian In Honor of Charles J. Alt Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Ms. Danielle R. Gershen ’18 Ms. Lena Khatcherian In Honor of William M. Asch Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. and Mrs. Mario Cecila Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Van Dusen In Honor of James Atkeson Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Krista Atkeson Ms. Alexa R. Maher ’08 Mr. John Pepe and Mrs. Sabrina Mirza-Pepe In Honor of Jan Baker Mrs. Ann Wittke Morrissey ’76 Ms. Arianna Rosati ’88 In Honor of Joan C. Baker Mrs. Kathleen W. Webb In Honor of Stephanie Balazsi Ms. Grace K. Barbara ’18 In Honor of Kimberly Ballinger Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied In Honor of Marjorie Barlet Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Figel Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Turchetta In Honor of Jeffrey Beck Mr. and Mrs. David Lauer In Honor of Amy E. Beckford Mr. Christopher B. Bobbitt and Ms. Tiffany L. Smith Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 The Nowack Family Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Scott Bertoli Mr. Lewis Blackburn ’14 Mr. Peter A. Blackburn ’11 Mr. Logan Kramsky ’17 In Honor of Kelley Bethoney Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Van Dusen In Honor of Neetika Bhalla Dr. Rachel Dultz and Ms. Michelle Silverman-Dultz Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Corinne E. Bilodeau Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Andrew D. Bing ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87

In Honor of Theodor Brasoveanu Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82

In Honor of Jill Brown Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Theodore Brown ’08 Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mrs. Jennifer Ruina In Honor of David Burkett Ms. Grace Lee ’15 Ms. Renita Zaparde ’18 In Honor of Hilary Bing Butera ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 In Honor of Stan Cahill Mr. Ahmed Beizaeipour ’16 Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. David Nathaniel Jones ’18 Mr. William T. Jones and Ms. Roxane Scurlock Jones Ms. Emily Trend ’18 In Honor of Carlos Cara Ms. Grace K. Barbara ’18 Ms. Maya Jones ’16 Ms. Ava R. Nusblatt ’16 Mr. Joseph T. Santamaria ’19 Ms. Jane Spencer In Honor of Laurent “Chip” Cash Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio In Honor of Ava Alexis Cedeno ’27 Ms. Amy Alexis Cedeno In Honor of Darling Cerna ’13 Ms. Giulia Gerschel ’19 In Honor of Wenting Chen Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West In Honor of Sarah Chopra ’18 Mr. Jitender Chopra and Mrs. Jeannie L. Chopra Mr. and Mrs. Manmohan S. Chopra Mr. and Mrs. Chin F. Lin Ms. Jane Lin Mr. Richard Steinhart and Ms. Teresa Lin In Honor of Jessica Clingman Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. Robert L. Sichel and Mrs. Sylvia Gomez-Sichel In Honor of Daniel Cohen Ms. Jill C. Cacciola ’13 Mr. Sergey Kriloff and Ms. Galina Flider Dr. Jigar Patel and Dr. Hemal Patel Dr. and Mrs. Ashish Shah Ms. Veronica M.S. White ’94 and Mr. Stephen Acunto

In Honor of Rachel Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster In Honor of Sara Cooper ’80 Ms. C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 In Honor of W. Christian Cousins Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cousins Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Van Dusen In Honor of Julie Cucchi Ms. Marilena L. Cordón-Maryland ’19 Mr. Nikolai Darenkov ’18 Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace In Honor of Elizabeth Cutler Ms. Arianna Rosati ’88 In Honor of Patricia Davidovich Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Douglas Davis Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster In Honor of Megan Davis ’10 Ms. Elizabeth S. Davis In Honor of Thomas Davis Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Thomas Davis, Jr. ’13 Ms. Elizabeth S. Davis In Honor of Samantha Levine Dawson ’85 Ms. Joanne Liu In Honor of Christina DeCesare Ms. Grace K. Barbara ’18 Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi In Honor of Corey Dempsey Mr. Robert Thomas and Dr. Holly Welles In Honor of Christopher J. Devlin Mr. Eric I. Quirinale ’19 Mr. Ryan M. Sparks ’17 In Honor of Dr. Alison Distefano Mr. Eric M. Brown and Ms. Therese A. Hassett Brown In Honor of Hugh Dougherty ’24 Ms. Clare Dougherty In Honor of Eamon Downey Mr. Rahul K. Bhatia ’18 In Honor of Brian Dudeck Mr. Matthew W. Nyce ’19 In Honor of Toni Dunlap Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Paul Epply-Schmidt Ms. Nina Kanamaluru ’19 Mr. Max Miller ’18 Dr. Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski ’01 In Honor of Sophie Evans Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu In Honor of Laurence Farhat Mr. Samuel R. Bernardi ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster Mr. Aneesh Kumar ’19

In Honor of Kimberly Collura Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster

In Honor of Heather Farlow Ms. Ann Robideaux and Mr. Jesse Neuman

In Honor of Thatcher Cook Mr. Amon M. DeVane ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster Ms. Ava S. Roitburg ’19 Mr. Joe Liang and Mrs. Sally Yang

In Honor of Katherine Fay Mr. and Mrs. David Fay Ms. Ellen M. Fisher ’73 Ms. Carolyn Kossow ’13

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In Honor of Hailey Harlan ’31 Mr. Steven Harlan and Mrs. Michele Harlan

In Honor of Atlee V. Fenton ’30 Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Fenton

In Honor of Logan Harrison ’24 Mr. Donald V. Smith

In Honor of Calvin R. Fenton ’25 Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Fenton

In Honor of Jacquelyn Hart ’16 Ms. Jane Spencer

In Honor of Cole D. Fenton ’23 Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Fenton

In Honor of Beth Hatem Ms. Caroline Erdman Hare ’75

In Honor of Susan Ferguson Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Ms. Caroline Erdman Hare ’75 Dr. Peng-Liang Zhao and Ms. Yanmei Lian

In Honor of Jennifer Chandler Hauge ’78 Dr. and Mrs. James J. Chandler

In Honor of Blossom Fishmann Dr. Andrew J. Fishmann ’68 In Honor of Pam Flory Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel In Honor of Andrew Franz Mr. James C.E. Burke ’80 Mrs. Ann Wittke Morrissey ’76 Mr. Andrew B. Smith ’86 In Honor of Michael Friedman Dr. Melissa E. Bennett and Mr. Matthew M. Bennett Mr. Jacob T. Chang ’17 The Griffin-Ley Family Ms. Lena Khatcherian Ms. Clara M. Love ’18 Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Steven E. Gadd Mr. Xien Fan and Mrs. Fang Sheng In Honor of Emily Gallagher Mr. Michael T. Bracken ’98 and Mrs. Lindsay Bracken In Honor of Amy Gallo ’03 Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 Ms. Kaylie Keesling Mr. Nicholas Sampogna In Honor of Maureen E. Gargione Ms. Caroline Erdman Hare ’75 Dr. Peng-Liang Zhao and Ms. Yanmei Lian In Honor of Marjorie Wallace Gibson ’84 Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Dr. Rachel Dultz and Ms. Michelle Silverman-Dultz Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Upson In Honor of Victoria Gibson Ms. Robin C. Bernard In Honor of Jill Goldman ’74 Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Ms. Katherine Fay In Honor of Sarah M. Graham Mr. Xien Fan and Mrs. Fang Sheng In Honor of Tarshia Griffin Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied Mr. Robert L. Sichel and Mrs. Sylvia Gomez-Sichel In Honor of Kelly Grosskurth Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Todd B. Gudgel Ms. Sara J. Chopra ’18 Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Christopher Haldane ’05 Ms. Donna D. Carson In Honor of Jaden Hall ’23 Ms. Gail Olivia Everett Ms. Ann Marie King

In Honor of Jerry Hirniak Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Ms. Hallie B. Hoffman ’18 In Honor of Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick Ms. Nina M. Ajemian ’19 Ms. Elizabeth Brennan ’18 Mr. Kevin M. Capinpin ’92 Mr. Thatcher Cook Mr. Jonathan S. Gershen ’86 and Mrs. Ilene J. Gershen Mr. Edward B. Hannush ’14 Ms. Galete J. Levin ’96 Ms. Ottilie L.B. Lighte ’16 Ms. Julia McCusker ’16 Ms. Corinne E. Urisko ’13 Ms. Erica T. Walsh ’17 Mr. Alexander T. Wei ’93 In Honor of Samuel Hunt Ms. Joanne Liu In Honor of Beatrice and Corrington Hwong Ms. Alison Hwong In Honor of Hellen Jin ’23 Mr. Hu Jin and Ms. Aizi Shi In Honor of John Kopacz ’20 Mr. and Mrs. John Kopacz In Honor of Anthony Lapinski Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio In Honor of Karen Latham Ms. Ashley C.A. Cavuto ’17 Mrs. Dana DeCore Falconi ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster Ms. Nicole Hartley ’17 Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West In Honor of James Y. Laughlin ’80 Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Nearly New Shop Mrs. Jennifer Ruina Ms. Veronica M.S. White ’94 and Mr. Stephen Acunto In Honor of Lauren Ledley Ms. Nina M. Ajemian ’19 Ms. Danielle R. Gershen ’18 In Honor of Caroline Lee Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Ms. Laurence M. Farhat Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 The Griffin-Ley Family Ms. Lena Khatcherian Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter Ms. Ruchita Zaparde ’17 In Honor of Courtney Leopold ’06 Dr. Clayton E. Leopold In Honor of Jack Madani Ms. Susan Daly-Rouse and Mr. Charles B. Rouse In Honor of Chris Maher Mr. Adam Fisch ’11

Mr. Benjamin Fisch ’08 Ensign Jacob M. Fisch ’06 Professor Nathaniel J. Fisch and Dr. Tobe M. Fisch In Honor of Heather Maione Dr. Gong Chen and Mrs. Yao Lu Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Dr. and Mrs. Frank Masino In Honor of Nicole Mangino Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brent Ms. Sara J. Chopra ’18 Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 In Honor of Jessica Manners Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 Mr. Max Miller ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Romano Dr. Ian Soriano Mr. Devon L. Wenzel ’18 Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West In Honor of Mia Manzulli Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 Ms. Laurence M. Farhat Ms. Lena Khatcherian Ms. Hailey M. Young ’19 In Honor of Yves Marcuard Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Edgar Mariano Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foster Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Jonathan Martin Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Fenton Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Figel Ms. Chrissy Johnson Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody In Honor of Amy Matlock Mr. Christopher B. Bobbitt and Ms. Tiffany L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wexler In Honor of Brian Mayer Ms. Seshasri Bhaskar ’19 Mr. Xien Fan and Mrs. Fang Sheng Mr. Iheanyichi C. Inyama ’18 Ms. Clara M. Love ’18 In Honor of Ann McClellan ’68 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClellan In Honor of Robert McClellan ’77 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClellan In Honor of William McClellan II ’75 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClellan In Honor of the McClure Family Ms. Laura J. Lamar ’69 In Honor of R. James McCulloch Ms. Sara J. Chopra ’18 Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Ms. Danielle R. Gershen ’18 Mr. Iheanyichi C. Inyama ’18 In Honor of Channing McCullough Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Mr. ZhongDong Zheng and Mrs. Wenli Peng In Honor of Ameera McDonald ’31 Mr. Christopher McDonald and Ms. Hiam Boraie In Honor of Lailah McDonald ’28 Mr. Christopher McDonald and Ms. Hiam Boraie

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In Honor of Douglas A. Fein ’79 Ms. Catherine White Mertz ’79

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In Honor of Anthony McKinley Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Mr. Fernando Erazo ’19 Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Cynthia Michalak Ms. Grace K. Barbara ’18 Mr. Devon L. Wenzel ’18 In Honor of Nancy B. Miller ’57 Dr. Benjamin A. Hohmuth ’90 In Honor of Jenny Mischner The Mischner Family In Honor of Brian Mochnal Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu In Honor of Eizabeth A. Monroe Mr. Saahil S. Adusumilli ’18 Mr. Rahul K. Bhatia ’18 Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Difazio Mr. Kyle C. Ready ’19 Ms. Adriana van Manen ’13 In Honor of Noelle Moore ’33 Mr. and Mrs. David Moore In Honor of Justin Mortman ’20 Mr. Greg R. Mortman and Ms. Zulema Vicens-Mortman In Honor of Jesse Neuman Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi In Honor of Grace W. Nicholas ’17 Ms. Sally Drayer In Honor of Ariana Nicozisis ’32 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis In Honor of Elias Nicozisis ’28 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis In Honor of Nia Nicozisis ’29 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nicozisis In Honor of Alan Norcott ’20 Ms. Andrea Norcott In Honor of Carolyn Norin Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Ms. Linnéa C. Eberly ’18 Ms. Allison J. Klei ’17 Ms. Salina Kumar ’19 In Honor of Nanette O’Brien-Blake Mr. and Mrs. John R. O’Brien In Honor of Maryann Ortiz Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Jason Park Ms. Kelly Grosskurth In Honor of Summer A. Patterson ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGill In Honor of Tiffany I. Patterson ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGill In Honor of Austin Phares ’16 Ms. Melissa J. Phares ’80 In Honor of Hadley Phares ’14 Ms. Melissa J. Phares ’80 In Honor of Howard Powers, Jr. ’80 Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West In Honor of Caroline Price ’29 Ms. Anne Charity-Hudley

In Honor of Carter Price ’27 Ms. Anne Charity-Hudley

In Honor of Christine Scheil Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi

In Honor of Renee Price Dr. Renard A. Charity and Dr. Cynthia M. Charity Ms. Anne Charity-Hudley Dr. Robert A. Glasgold and Dr. Jean Goh Ms. Sheila S. Goeke Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. and Mrs. Tazee Mahjied Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace

In Honor of Katherine A. Schulte Mr. and Mrs. Igor Roitburg Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace

In Honor of Tara Quigley Mr. Jonathan Levy and Ms. Jill Nusbaum In Honor of Thomas J. Quigley, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Mr. Russell D. Kirczow ’17 Mr. Rakesh Potluri ’19 Ms. Adriana van Manen ’13 Mr. Palmer R. White ’18 Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Davon M. Reed ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Reed In Honor of Susan Reichlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stockman In Honor of Joseph Reilly Mr. Jonathan Levy and Ms. Jill Nusbaum Mr. Robert L. Sichel and Mrs. Sylvia Gomez-Sichel Mr. ZhongDong Zheng and Mrs. Wenli Peng In Honor of Christian Rhodes Mr. Maximilian B. Adam ’16 Ms. Sara J. Chopra ’18 Ms. Amberjean Leist ’17 Mr. Joe Liang and Mrs. Sally Yang In Honor of Hector Rivera Ms. Giulia Gerschel ’19 In Honor of Betsy Rizza Mrs. Stephanie A. Hanzel Cohen and Mr. Daniel Cohen Ms. Sarah Ringer In Honor of Ann Robideaux Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi Mr. Andrew West and Mrs. Shawna Han West In Honor of Kim Roesing Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 In Honor of Wendy Roitburg Ms. Ava S. Roitburg ’19 In Honor of Leon Rosenberg Ms. Salina Kumar ’19 In Honor of Maria del Rocio Ruiz Cabalga Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian In Honor of Tomasz Rzecycki Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Professor Tao Zhou and Ms. Beifang Guo In Honor of Trixie Sabundayo Dr. Melissa E. Bennett and Mr. Matthew M. Bennett Dr. Robert A. Glasgold and Dr. Jean Goh In Honor of Regina Saint Victor ’33 Dr. Christina Twyman-Saint Victor and Mr. Nate Saint Victor In Honor of Dominique Samuels ’14 Ms. Stephanie J. Davis In Honor of Stefanie Santangelo Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Romano

In Honor of Sara M. Schwiebert h’05 Ms. Janet L. Baker In Honor of Maritoni “Candy” Shah Dr. and Mrs. Santiago Caasi In Honor of Dina Sharon ’10 Dr. Sandra Sharon and Dr. Yitzhak Sharon In Honor of Anny Shi ’22 Mr. Chun Shi and Ms. Yinghui Li Ms. Jun Yan and Mr. Jikai Li In Honor of Michelle Simonds Mr. Rahul K. Bhatia ’18 Mr. Iheanyichi C. Inyama ’18 Mr. David Nathaniel Jones ’18 Ms. Isabel Meyercord ’16 In Honor of Mary Sisson Mr. Devon L. Wenzel ’18 In Honor of Chandra Smith Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Doshi Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li In Honor of Jane Spencer Ms. Jacquelyn Hart ’16 In Honor of Paul J. Stellato Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 and Mr. John Toner Mr. Peter Dickson and Ms. Janet Zoubek Dickson Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li Dr. Hong Ni and Ms. Xun Xu Ms. Jane Spencer Mr. Noam P. Yakoby ’16 In Honor of John Garet Stoker ’10 Mr. Dennis J. Stoker and Ms. Victoria L. Stabile In Honor of Olivia Stoker ’07 Mr. Dennis J. Stoker and Ms. Victoria L. Stabile In Honor of William A. Stoltzfus Mr. Maxwell J. Difazio ’18 Ms. Sarah Lippman ’16 Ms. Virginia Vogt ’73 Mr. Noam P. Yakoby ’16 In Honor of Steven Storey Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Devlin In Honor of Stephanie Stuefer Ms. Allison J. Klei ’17 In Honor of Elizabeth E. Sullivan ’32 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Zuray In Honor of James F. Sullivan ’31 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Zuray In Honor of Caitlin Sung ’32 Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung In Honor of Elise Sung ’30 Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung In Honor of Nathan Sung ’30 Mr. Baehyun Sung and Dr. Nancy Sung In Honor of Lisa Surace Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Pechter In Honor of Thomas G. Talaba ’32 Ms. Lissette De Los Santos In Honor of Jonathan Tatkon-Coker Ms. Tara R. Sabbineni ’18

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In Honor of Jill Thomas Ms. Joanna L. Bowen ’03 Mrs. Dana DeCore Falconi ’96 Ms. Katherine Fay Mr. Andrew C. Hamlin and Ms. Kathleen Deignan Ms. Madison Mundenar ’18 Mrs. Timory Howe Ridall ’90 Ms. Ava S. Roitburg ’19 Dr. Lisa S. Surace and Mr. Robert J. Surace In Honor of Sarah Thompson ’84 Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Mrs. Jennifer Ruina In Honor of Allison Treese Ms. Kelly Grosskurth Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. Biao Yu and Mrs. Li Qian Mr. ZhongDong Zheng and Mrs. Wenli Peng In Honor of Matthew Trowbridge ’98 Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. Robert Thomas and Dr. Holly Welles In Honor of Tian Tu Mr. Jerry F. Chen ’18 Mr. Christopher Moyer ’11 In Honor of Carlton Tucker Ms. Jane Spencer

In Honor of Elaine Wu ’23 Ms. Julia He

In Honor of the Class of 2024 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Herrmann

In Honor of Helen Wu ’29 Ms. Julia He

In Honor of the Class or 2025 Dr. Xuejun Peng and Dr. Chaohui Wang

In Honor of Eric Xia ’25 Dr. Yun Xia and Ms. Xiaohua Zhao

In Honor of the 12 Faculty and Staff that have Made My First Year at PDS Great Mr. Ryan Vandal ’23

In Honor of Beth Yakoby Nadia and Bradley Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Dipal Doshi In Honor of Fabio Yales ’21 Mr. and Mrs. William Yales In Honor of Darius Young Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce In Honor of Jordan Young ’21 Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce In Honor of Tracy L. Young Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce In Honor of the Class of 1958 Mrs. Anne Prather Tirana ’58 In Honor of the Class of 1967 Ms. Marta Nussbaum Steele ’67 In Honor of the Class of 1970 Ms. Diane Erickson ’70 In Honor of the Class of 1970’s 50th Reunion Mrs. Frederica Cagan Doeringer ’70

In Honor of Carlton Tucker and his family Mrs. Denise G. Bencivengo

In Honor of the Class of 1971 Ms. Catherine S. Lane ’71 Ms. Rebecca Ramsey ’71

In Honor of Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 Ms. Laura S. Bennett ’85

In Honor of the Class of 1975 Ms. Anne Russell-Barrett ’75

In Honor of Carolee Van Dervort Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Mr. Ashish Shah

In Honor of the Class of 1976 Ms. Gwyneth Hamel Iredale ’76

In Honor of Jennifer Vradenburgh Mr. Jintang Chen and Ms. Qian Liu Dr. Guenter R. Janhofer and Ms. Liliana Janhofer Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Upson In Honor of Barbara Walker Mr. Alexander H. Decker ’18 Ms. Shana C. Levine ’17 In Honor of Happy and Jack Wallace’s 60th Wedding Anniversary Mr. Patrick E. Amaral and Ms. Katherine Schulte Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 In Honor of Elizabeth Wang ’27 Zhenghua Wang In Honor of Sandra Wang Dr. Gong Chen and Mrs. Yao Lu Dr. Peng-Liang Zhao and Ms. Yanmei Lian In Honor of Deva Watson Ms. Laura Longman and Mr. Michael A. Kody Mr. and Mrs. Michael Voulgarelis In Honor of Dorothea Webster Mr. Hugh T. Brophy ’19 Mr. Dylan Sakaria ’19 In Honor of Krysta Woll Mrs. Kim Roesing In Honor of Aiden Wu ’27 Mr. Hongyan Wu In Honor of Alice Wu ’25 Mr. Anping Wu and Ms. Yong Qin Li † Denotes Deceased

In Honor of the Class of 1988 Mrs. Amy Venable Ciuffreda ’88 Ms. Melissa Baron Murdoch ’88 In Honor of the Class of 2006 Nearly New Shop In Honor of the Class of 2007 Mr. Joseph Yellin ’07 In Honor of the Class of 2008 Mr. Mark Madden ’08 Nearly New Shop In Honor of the Class of 2012 Mr. Nicholas Y.F. Banks ’12 In Honor of the Class of 2016 Nearly New Shop In Honor of the Class of 2018 Ms. Sara J. Chopra ’18 Mr. Maxwell J. Difazio ’18

In Honor of all the Amazing Teachers Mr. and Ms. Andrew Kaplowitz Mr. Jonathan Levy and Ms. Jill Nusbaum In Honor of all First-Grade Teachers!

Dr. Gong Chen and Mrs. Yao Lu In Honor of My 17 3-Gib Heroes Mrs. Marjorie Wallace Gibson ’84 and Mr. Peter E. Gibson In Honor of the Lower School Faculty Mr. John Pepe and Mrs. Sabrina Mirza-Pepe In Honor of Lower School Specials Teachers Mrs. Jennifer Ruina In Honor of the Middle School Faculty and Staff Mr. and Mrs. Sanghosh Bhalla Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li Mr. and Mrs. Michael Price Matthew Trowbridge ’98 and Suzanne Cunningham In Honor of Sixth Grade Teachers Dr. Shalabh Singhal and Dr. Shivani Srivastava In Honor of all Freshmen Faculty Mr. and Mrs. Sanghosh Bhalla In Honor of the Admission Office Mr. David T. Zhang and Ms. Sophie L. Wan In Honor of the English Department Ms. Katherine E. Bennett ’18 Ms. Mary Sisson In Honor of the Orchestra Mr. Thomas Sarsfield ’19 In Honor of the Princeton Day School Advancement Team Mr. Peter Boyer Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Mr. John Keating Mrs. Kim Roesing Ms. Dolores Wright In Honor of the Princeton Day School Faculty and Staff Dr. and Ms. Amit Kulkarni Professor and Mrs. Neal Masia Paul J. and Maureen O. Stellato

GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY OF

In Honor of the Class of 2020 Mr. Patrick E. Amaral and Ms. Katherine Schulte Mr. Thomas M. Keegan III ’12 Mr. Greg R. Mortman and Ms. Zulema Vicens-Mortman Ms. Michelle Hays Simonds

In Memory of Angeline Barquist Mr. and Mrs. H. Martin Chomiak

In Honor of the Class of 2022 Mr. Tony Fong and Mrs. Yajai Yodin Mr. and Mrs. Anupam Nandwana

In Memory of Robert S. Bennett, Jr. Ms. Laura S. Bennett ’85 Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III

In Honor of the Class of 2023 Mr. Tony Fong and Mrs. Yajai Yodin Dr. Yunrong Ye and Mr. Ruibin Zhou

In Memory of Kim Tumilty Bedesem Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Curtis III Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III

In Memory of Alice Elgin Bishop ’50 Mrs. Anne Bishop Faynberg ’73

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In Honor of Katy Terry Mrs. Jill Brown Mr. Frank Ming Li and Mrs. Annie Yang Li

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In Memory of David C. Bogle Mrs. Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62 In Memory of Jane C. Borgerhoff ’67 Mrs. Susan Fritsch Hunter ’67 Dr. Julia D. Lockwood ’67 In Memory of Elisabeth BorgerhoffPomerleau ’69 Mrs. Susan Denise Harris ’69 Dr. Julia D. Lockwood ’67

In Memory of Elizabeth Hutner Flemer ’73 Mr. William Flemer ’71 and Mrs. Louise Hutner ’70 Mr. Nathaniel C. Hutner ’65 In Memory of David Gabriel, Bianca and Chalie Frascella The Frascella Family In Memory of Joan Freedman ’51 Ms. Ellen Freedman Dingman ’58

In Memory of Susan Bridgeman Dr. Amy Bridgeman

In Memory of Pauline Gallo Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Mr. Stephen R. Gallo

In Memory of Glenn Bucher Mrs. Mary K. Bucher

In Memory of Abbe Gasparro Mr. Donato Gasparro

In Memory of Seth M. Chilton ’79 Mr. Evan R. Press ’79

In Memory of Moore Gates, Jr. ’42 Mrs. Audrey Gates Mr. Thomas R. Gates ’78 and Mrs. Tracey W. Gates

In Memory of Colleen M. Clancy ’81 Dr. Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 In Memory of Elizabeth N. Cobb Ms. L. Chloe King ’55 In Memory of Irene Conroy Ms. Katherine Gulick Hoffman ’72 In Memory of Dr. Pabitra Datta Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bailey Mrs. Flora B. Datta

In Memory of Linda Geltzer Mr. and Mrs. Eric Santini In Memory of Peter S. Goldman Ms. Jill L. Goldman ’74 In Memory of Kyra Shafran Griffitts ’73 Ms. Nina Shafran ’71 In Memory of Joan Daniels Grimley ’46 Ms. Joyce McDonnell

In Memory of Miles E. Delemos Reverend and Mrs. C. Nadir Powell

In Memory of Walter P. Hall ’38 Dr. Michael G. Hall ’40

In Memory of Robert Dougherty ’43 and Patricia Paine-Dougherty Mr. Thomas H. Paine, Jr. ’69

In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Hicks III Ms. Martha Lewis Hicks ’79

In Memory of Stanislaw Drabiuk Mr. Robert A. Drabiuk ’96 In Memory of John E. Egner, Jr. Mrs. Debra C. Egner In Memory of Charlene Elmore Anonymous Mrs. Tonya Elmore Davis ’85 Mrs. Kirsten Elmore Meister ’81 Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III In Memory of Michele Namm Epperson ’90 Dr. and Mrs. Joel Namm In Memory of Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Mr. Thomas A.D. Ettinghausen ’77 In Memory of Charles Farina Mrs. Jean Farina Dr. Douglas A. Fein ’79 In Memory of Charles Fetter Ms. Tessica Glancey Crampton ’08 In Memory of Jean and Joseph Figur Ms. Jeanine M. Figur ’74 In Memory of Elizabeth Fine Mr. Kang Na ’82 Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67 In Memory of Joan Fitton Mr. Gary Fitton Ms. Melissa Haskell and Mr. Daniel Polasky Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Haskell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Le Page Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Peterson In Memory of Joan Fitton and David Fitton, Sr. Mr. David S. Fitton, Jr. ’79

In Memory of Peter Higgins Mr. Mark S. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Cohen Ms. Heather Farlow The Griffin-Ley Family Mr. Trevor J. Lamb ’00 Mr. Perry McGuire Mr. Paris L. McLean ’00 Mr. Cole J. McManimon ’15 Mr. Russell A. Nemiroff ’03 Mr. James W. O’Connor ’19 In Memory of Herbert W. Hobler Ms. Deborah V. Hobler ’66 Ms. Nancy W. Hobler ’74 Mr. Randolph W. Hobler ’61 Mrs. Mary Hobler Hyson ’68 In Memory of Jonathan P. Horner Mr. and Mrs. Keith Niedfeldt In Memory of Marianne Hyman Mr. Daniel Rathauser ’06 In Memory of William Penman Jacobus ’79 Mr. Benjamin D. Dubrovsky ’79 Mr. Evan R. Press ’79 In Memory of Maria Janhofer Dr. Guenter R. Janhofer and Ms. Liliana Janhofer In Memory of Calis and Rosa Johnson Ms. Davetta Johnson In Memory of Robert S. Krueger Mr. and Mrs. George H. McLaughlin II In Memory of Marlene Kurtz Dr. Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski ’01 In Memory of Marlene and Peter Kurtz Mr. Jeffrey Kurtz ’98

In Memory of Stephen A. Lawrence Mrs. William Michaels In Memory of Genevieve Lescroart ’03 Ms. Elizabeth W. Sayen ’03 Mr. William S. Sayen ’65 and Mrs. Elizabeth Bristol Sayen ’69 Mr. Grant J. Schmucker ’02 and Mrs. Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker ’02 Mr. Joshua T. Thompson ’04 and Mrs. Julia Kay Thompson ’03 In Memory of Gary M.C. Lott Dr. Douglas A. Fein ’79 Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67 Ms. Julia Herr Smith ’88 In Memory of Barbara Maloney Mrs. Aviva Perlman Fintz ’02 Mr. David M. Freedholm and Ms. Maria Shepard Mr. Nicholas B. Jaeckel ’14 Ms. Abha A. Kulkarni ’13 Dr. Sandra Sharon and Dr. Yitzhak Sharon Ms. Jane Spencer Mr. Colby M. Triolo ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Carlton H. Tucker h’13 Ms. Barbara Walker Mr. William T. Wright ’15 In Memory of Thomas J. Malsbury Ms. Barbara Walker In Memory of Kristine Anastasio Manning ’81 Ms. Jane L. Gerb ’81 Mr. Mark Goodman ’81 In Memory of Robert K. Marshall ’07 Mr. Zachary J. Shechtel ’07 In Memory of Henry H. and Carole S. Matelson Mr. Bennett J. Matelson ’88 Mrs. Sara Matelson Taylor ’90 In Memory of Dr. Richard Matthes Dr. Elisa Matthes In Memory of Scott M. Mauney ’95 Anonymous In Memory of Herbert McAneny Ms. Wendy McAneny Bradburn ’50 Dr. Edward R. McCluskey ’71 Mr. Peter R. Moock ’56 In Memory of Douglas McClure Mrs. Ann Wittke Morrissey ’76 In Memory of Corky Cohan McGuinness Ms. L. Chloe King ’55 In Memory of Fowler Merle-Smith Mr. and Mrs. Sanford B. Bing h’87 In Memory of Abby Militano Ms. Rachel Kamen Mr. and Mrs. Brendan McGovern In Memory of John Mislow ’88 Dr. Jacqueline Mislow In Memory of Susan E.G. Moll Mr. Kenneth E. Moll and Dr. Nancy L. Carteron In Memory of David R. Mottley ’77 Ms. Alexis Arlett Kochmann ’77 In Memory of Shin Na ’84 Mr. Kang Na ’82 In Memory of Jennifer E. Namm ’87 Dr. and Mrs. Joel Namm In Memory of Christine Otis ’67 Ms. Anna D. Otis ’10

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In Memory of Penny Wallace ’69 Ms. Derry Light Wills ’69

In Memory of Beverly Williams Ms. Anne A. Williams ’74

In Memory of Winthrop and Nancy Pike Anonymous

In Memory of Murray B. Weiner Mr. David S. Weiner ’79

In Memory of The Reverend Carl D. Reimers Mr. Robert N. McClellan ’77

In Memory of Shirlee Wenzel Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wenzel

In Memory of Mark Winstanley ’90 Ms. Lylah M. Alphonse ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Winstanley

In Memory of Harriet Robertson Ms. Ellen M. Fisher ’73

In Memory of Robert C. Whitlock Mrs. Karen Callaway Urisko ’85 and Mr. John C. Urisko III

In Memory of Stuart Robson Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Vosburgh In Memory of C. R. Perry Rodgers, Jr. ’58 Mr. Toby Knox ’58 In Memory of Anne H. Rothrock Mrs. Emily Rothrock Kastler ’76 In Memory of Peter Sears Ms. Erica L. Klein ’73 In Memory of Anne and Manny Sharlin Dr. Harriet M. Sharlin ’70 In Memory of Alison Shehadi Ms. Muna Shehadi Sill ’79 In Memory of Anne B. Shepherd Ms. Jaye Chen ’86 Mrs. Katharine Walker Ellison ’62 Mrs. Pamela Erickson MacConnell ’67 Ms. Sheila Mehta ’78 Dr. Marina Turkevich Naumann ’56 Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67 In Memory of Rada Fulper Shows ’58 Mrs. Julia Fulper Hardt ’61 In Memory of Ira D. Shull ’82 Mr. Kang Na ’82 In Memory of Moyne Smith Ms. Barbara R. Miller ’70 Ms. Martha F. Miller ’67 Ms. Laura B. Peterson ’67 In Memory of William S. Smoyer ’60 Mr. John H. Odden ’60 In Memory of Jean Osgood Smyth ’31 Dr. John O. Willis ’61 In Memory of Jack Speiller Mr. and Mrs. Carlton H. Tucker h’13 In Memory of Regina Spiegel Dr. Aly Cohen ’91 and Dr. Stephen Lewis In Memory of David H. Stark ’71 Mr. Howard A. Vine ’71 In Memory of Charles Barnwell Straut, Jr. Mr. David B. Straut ’74 In Memory of Elizabeth Trapp Mr. Taylor Kenyon ’08 In Memory of Arthur H. Turner, Jr. ’76 Professor Karen M. Turner ’72 In Memory of Sherwood Vine Dr. Douglas A. Fein ’79 In Memory of Mitzie L. & Louis F. Vogel Mr. Paul S. Vogel ’62 In Memory of James W. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Bailey Ms. Amy M. Gallo ’03 and Mr. Brian Hickel Ms. Barbara Walker In Memory of John D. Wallace, Jr, ’78 Mrs. Jean D. Crane † Denotes Deceased

In Memory of K. Wendy Sarett Young ’71 Ms. M. Nicole Sarett ’70 In Memory of Mark L. Zaininger ’81 Mr. Mark Goodman ’81

The May Margaret Fine Society Honoring and recognizing those who understand the important legacy a planned gift creates.

The May Margaret Fine Society: Established in 1998, the May Margaret Fine Society recognizes those loyal alumnae/i, parents and friends who have informed the school that they have made provisions for Princeton Day School in their estate plans. Including the school in their will, establishing a charitable trust while maintaining life income, or naming the school as a life insurance beneficiary are some of the ways these individuals have helped secure the long-term strength of Princeton Day School. We are grateful for the generosity and vision of these planned giving donors.

Mr. Seth L. Baranoff Mrs. Denise G. Bencivengo † Mrs. Gladys Borrus Mr. and Mrs. David Bremer † Mrs. Sarah Hart Brodsky ’54 † Mrs. Katherine Eisenhart Brown ’38 Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 and Mr. John Toner Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Bylin Mrs. Melissa Rosendorf Calvert ’91 † Mr. Joseph M. Conroy † Ms. Therese E. Critchlow ’39 † Ms. Helen M. Crossley ’38 † Miss Shirley Davis Mr. and Mrs. Guy K. Dean III ’55 † Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth Mrs. Edith B. Eglin Mr. and Mrs. Shawn W. Ellsworth ’75 † Mrs. B. Adelaide Banks Evers ’28 Ms. Ellen M. Fisher ’73 Mrs. Nancy Shannon Ford ’54 Ms. Wendy Frieman ’74 † Mrs. Joan Daniels Grimley ’46 † Mrs. Joanne C. Sly Hicks ’40 † Mr. James S. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hofmann, Jr. † Mrs. Betty Wold Johnson † Mr. Theodore G. Kane † Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley Mr. J. Regan Kerney ’61 Mrs. Nancy Hudler Keuffel ’58 Ms. L. Chloe King ’55 Mrs. Jacqueline Reiss Kravitz ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert III Mrs. Mary Woodbridge Lott ’67 † Mr. Dean W. Mathey ’43 † Mr. David Mathey ’47 Mr. Edward E. Matthews Reverend David H. McAlpin, Jr. ’43 † Miss Leslie C. McAneny ’54

Ms. Ann I. McClellan ’68 Mr. Edwin H. Metcalf ’51 and Mrs. Nancy B. Metcalf Ms. Nancy B. Miller ’57 Mrs. Marcia Goetze Nappi ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Ober, Jr. Ms. Bente L. Ott Mr. and Mrs. John M. Peach Ms. Cynthia H. Peifer Ms. Laura B. Peterson, Esq. ’67 Ms. Dorothy C. Pickering ’71 † Dr. Donald A. Pickering † The Reverend Carl D. Reimers † Mrs. Elizabeth Meredith Rigo ’71 Mrs. Joyce S. Robinson † Mr. Christopher R. P. Rodgers Ms. Arianna Rosati ’88 † Mrs. Wendy Gartner Rowland ’53 Mr. Jeffrey E. Schuss ’73 Mrs. Markell Meyers Shriver ’46 Mrs. Jane Aresty Silverman ’63 † Ms. Ann A. Smith ’56 † Dr. Margaret P. Smith-Burke ’61 † Mr. Stanley C. Smoyer † Mrs. Patricia Smith Thompson ’45 Professor Karen M. Turner ’72 Mrs. Lucy Englander van den Brand ’78 Ms. Lisa A. Warren ’71 † Ms. Elizabeth McGraw Webster ’44 Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman ’52 Ms. Ann M. Wiley ’70 Mrs. Mary Roberts Woodbridge ’42 † Mrs. Helen Woodruff Mrs. Laurie Bryant Young ’71 Mr. George M. Zoukee ’77 If you have already included the school in your estate plans or would like more information, please contact: Courtney Hodock in the Advancement Office at chodock@pds.org or (609) 924-6700 ext. 1251.

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In Memory of Robert N. Otis ’62 Mr. John M. Gaston III ’62

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Thank You to Our Volunteers Campaign Leadership Gift Committee Barbie Griffin Cole ’78, Co-Chair Cindy Linville, Co-Chair Ashley Aitken-Davies John Bartlett Rebecca Bushnell ’70 Kun Deng Katie Fay Anna Horner Lynn Johnston Kathy Schulte Jake Silverman ’89 Paul Stellato Nils von Zelowitz ’88 John Wallace ’48 John Wellemeyer ’52

Annual Fund Leadership Gift Committee Ashley Aitken-Davies, Co-Chair Amrit Walia-Zaidi, Co-Chair John Bartlett Leigh Bartlett Katie Fay Jill Goldman ’74 Annie Li Cindy Linville Joanne Liu Qian Liu Alicia Merse Kevin Merse D.G. Sarsfield Kathy Schulte John Wellemeyer ’52 Richard Wolfe

Annual Fund Parent Volunteers Rich Bernardi, Chair Pat Amaral, 12th Grade Captain Lena Khatcherian, 12th Grade Captain Cheryl Dougherty Paul Dougherty Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Rose Haggerty Doug Jackson, 11th Grade Captain Farhat Siddiqui, 11th Grade Captain Roxanna Choe Nancy Difazio Kate Jerris Shari Phillips

Linda Lippman, 10th Grade Captain Wendy Roitburg, 10th Grade Captain Jody (Glasgold) Goh Rakhi Kalra Alison Lee Zhanyun Zhao Rich Bernardi, 9th Grade Captain Melissa Bernardi Chandra McQueen Laurie Palaia Nicole Hughes, 8th Grade Captain Aprajita Jha, 8th Grade Captain Randy Jones Feng Pan Barbara Richards Gerard Sentveld Phyllis Wang Joy Turchetta, 7th Grade Captain Lisa Figel Yi Jia Annie Li Laura Longman Shalini Reddy Lily Wang Stephanie Richman ’87, 6th Grade Captain Margy Bagga Heather Chambers-Daley Jessica Chia Galina Flider Rori Lamin Rosy Munjal, 5th Grade Captain Jennifer DelVecchio Sophie Jiao Kristen Lopez-Watt Hemal Patel, 4th Grade Captain Edith Juarez Sharmili Kareer Amy Rijsinghani Stacey Nieves, 3rd Grade Captain Sophie Fan Chloris Li Sarah Nabeel, 2nd Grade Captain Laura Cohn Ena Lumba Nancy Sung Cecily Henson, 1st Grade Captain Frank Henson, 1st Grade Captain Kevin Sopko Melissa Sullivan Adrienne Longo, Kindergarten Captain Sophie Chen Mia Cote Amy Gallo ’03 Gina Mukherjee Jennifer Ruina Aimee Alt, Pre-Kindergarten Captain

Faculty and Staff Volunteers Chris Devlin, Staff Representative Sam Hunt, Faculty Representative

Development Committee of the Alumni Board Michael Bracken ’98, Chair Taylor Hwong ’88 Daniel Helmick ’90 Christopher Gerry ’99 Paris McLean ’00 Cameron Linville Rogers ’09 Joseph Rogers ’09 Brooks Herr ’10 Brian Crowell ’11 Jeffrey Straus ’12

Alumni Class Agents Laura Peterson ’67 Rick Ross ’68 Nancy Cavanaugh ’78 Cathy Mertz ’79 David Weiner ’79 John Marshall ’81 Beth Geter-Douglass ’82 Lynch Hunt ’85 Jonathan Gershen ’86 Lambros Xethalis ’88 Maria Aldrich ’99 Annie Applegate ’99 Ariana Brandes ’99 Joanna Bowen ’03 Amy Gallo ’03 Joe Joiner ’03 Scott Rosenberg ’04 Jay Bavishi ’05 Anu Shah ’05 Allissa Mason ’06 Tess Crampton ’08 Greg Francfort ’08 Kalla Gervasio ’08 Neal Bakshi ’10 Brooks Herr ’10 Brian Crowell ’11 Kevin Francfort ’11 Jessica Frieder ’11 Peter Powers ’12 Alec Gershen ’13 Katie Alden ’15 Kathleen Crowell ’15 Emily Dyckman ’15 Yahya Ladiwala ’15 Grace Lee ’15 Caroline Lippman ’15 Katherine Venturo-Conerly ’15 Max Adam ’16 Sophia Bernardi ’16

Connor Fletcher ’16 James Fragale ’16 Tess Gecha ’16 Jacquelyn Hart ’16 Kate Laughlin ’16 Jamie Maher ’16 Julia McCusker ’16 Julia Paneyko ’16 Austin Phares ’16 Isaac Rosenthal ’16 Katie Sanderson ’16 Peter Sanderson ’16 Rowan Schomburg ’16 Noam Yakoby ’16 Jack Amaral ’17 Will Brossman ’17 Ashley Cavuto ’17 Julie David ’17 Nick Day ’17 Hannah Freid ’17 Russell Kirczow ’17 Logan Kramsky ’17 Hassan Ladiwala ’17 Shana Levine ’17 Oliver McIntosh ’17 Ruchita Zaparde ’17 Saahil Adusumilli ’18 Rahul Bhatia ’18 Ryan Bremer ’18 Elizabeth Brennan ’18 Sara Chopra ’18 Nick Darenkov ’18 Danielle Gershen ’18 Hallie Hoffman ’18 Ihea Inyama ’18 Jack Konopka ’18 Rebecca Kuzmicz ’18 Elena Schomburg ’18 Eric Sherman ’18 Cole Wolk ’18 Renita Zaparde ’18 Bryn Aprill ’19 Rahul Bhandaru ’19 Seshu Bhaskar ’19 Amon DeVane ’19 Charlotte Eiseman ’19 Raina Kasera ’19 Ava Roitburg ’19 Will Scarlett ’19 Hailey Young ’19

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Princeton Day School Endowed Funds The Princeton Day School students and faculty benefit from the significant investment that donors have made to our School’s endowment funds over our five decades. We are grateful to those donors who have given a gift to the School that will continue to provide for our community for the lifetime of the School.

Endowments contribute to every aspect of life at Princeton Day School. There are endowments that support financial aid, academic programs, student experiences, athletics, faculty professional development, speaker series, student prizes and general endowment. For additional information, please contact the Princeton Day School Advancement office. The endowed funds are listed below.

Support for Academic Programs Asian Studies Fund Established in 2007 by an anonymous Princeton Day School family and supplemented by an alumnus. Annual income is restricted to funding activities, initiatives or personnel across all divisions and departments that support an understanding and awareness of Asian history and culture.

Mary (Polly) R. Hamill Memorial Fund Established in 1996 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Trustee Mary (Polly) R. Hamill. This fund is supplemented by the Board of Trustees and by Mrs. Hamill’s mother, Mrs. Joseph Townsend. Annual income is restricted to funding Middle School programs that support and strengthen the education of young women and foster in them the skills and confidence to most fully achieve their potential in life.

David Noyes Lecture Fund Established in 1984 with gifts from parents in memory of Princeton Day School teacher David Noyes. Annual interest is restricted to funding guest speakers in the Middle School on the general subject of American History. Speakers are to be approved by the Head of Middle School.

Pioneers in Science Fund Established in 2003 through the initiative and generosity of former Trustee Marc Ostro and supplemented by friends of the School. Annual income underwrites the expense of an annual Upper School lecture by a scientist who has excelled in his or her field.

Rosenberg Science Grant Fund for Academic Support Established in 2000 with gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Leon E. Rosenberg. Annual income from this endowed fund is to be used to provide financial support for the Research Experience (REx) program in the Science department of the Upper School of Princeton Day School. The REx program is a two-year program consisting of required courses and placement of students in outside laboratories in the junior year; refinement of research experiences and preparation of a finished scientific poster

during the senior year. REx attracts many of Princeton Day School’s most accomplished and eager science students. It is the intent of the donor to support both the students and faculty engaged in this innovative program. Each year the Science department chair and the faculty member leading the REx program will together allocate the annual income from the Fund as they see fit to enhance the experience for students and faculty alike. It is the donor’s intent that students and faculty will use this fund for science research and Princeton Day School will allocate these funds appropriately should the REx program no longer exist.

Anne Rothrock Lectureship Fund Established in 1996 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Upper School teacher Anne C. Rothrock. Annual income supports the Anne C. Rothrock Lecture, an annual event that brings to Upper School students and faculty a guest speaker with expertise in public policy or important contemporary social issues.

Support for the Arts Lively Arts Program Fund Established in 1984 with gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert III in honor of Mr. Lambert’s mother, Mary H. Lambert of the Miss Fine’s School Class of 1919. The fund has been supplemented in subsequent years by friends and family, the E. E. Ford Foundation, The Bunbury Company, and The Baldwin Foundation. Annual income is restricted to bringing to the campus artists and performers that support the teaching of art at Princeton Day School.

Gary M.C. Lott Fund for the Arts Established in 2004 with gifts from alumni, family and friends in memory of longtime Upper School teacher and history department chair, Gary M.C. Lott. Annual income supports the purchase and display each year of an outstanding student’s artwork for the School’s permanent collection.

John D. Wallace, Jr. ’78 Memorial Guest Artist Series Fund Established in 1991 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace ’48 in memory of their son, John D. Wallace, Jr. ’78. The annual income is to support a guest artist(s) program to promote the arts in all three divisions of the School. With the authorization of the donors, principal may also be used for these purposes.

Mark Winstanley ’90 Memorial Fund Established in 1990 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Mark Winstanley ’90. The annual income is to be used to purchase art work by seniors for the School’s permanent collection.

Support for Facilities Artandi Fund Established in 1992 with gifts from Dr. Susan Artandi in honor of her grandsons, David A. Ragsdale ’90 and Daniel A. Ragsdale ’93, and in memory of her husband and their grandfather, Dr. Charles Artandi. The annual income is to fund the maintenance of the flagpole and the surrounding area near the School entrance.

Support for Faculty Salaries and Benefits Class of 1994 Faculty Salary Fund Established in 1994 with gifts from the parents of the class of 1994. Annual income restricted to the general support of faculty salaries and benefits.

Faculty Salary Fund Established in 1986 with gifts from The Bunbury Company and many Princeton Day School parents and alumni. The fund was supplemented regularly in subsequent years by The Bunbury Company, Mr. Samuel Lambert III, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grounds, and many parents, alumni and friends of the school.

The annual income is restricted to the general support of faculty salaries and benefits.

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Carroll O’Brien Kane Fund

Concordia Scholarship Fund

Eric Haring ’77 Scholarship Fund

Established in 2000 in honor of former Lower School teacher, Carroll O’Brien Kane and her twenty-six years of devoted service to the students of Princeton Day School. Funded by gifts from her children T. Gibbs Kane ’61, Richard S. Kane ’70 and Katherine K. Nichols ’74 and later supplemented

by Carroll and Ted Kane, the fund generates annual income restricted to helping underwrite the educational expenses incurred by the families of faculty and staff whose children attend Princeton Day School.

Established in 2004 through the generosity of the Directors of the Concordia Foundation. Annual income is restricted to supporting a Princeton Day School student who qualifies for financial aid and whose educational options other than Princeton Day School are especially limited.

Established in 1979 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Eric A. Haring ’77. The Fund is supplemented regularly by gifts from his family.

Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Elizabeth C. Dilworth Scholarship

Established in 2005 with gifts from Beverly and Jack Gallagher and others in memory of Mrs. Helen Glickman. Annual income is to be used to support special or unforeseen needs of Lower School children.

Miss Fine’s School Fund Established in 1991 through the leadership and generosity of Susan Schildkraut Wallach ’64, Jane Aresty Silverman ’63 and many Miss Fine’s School alumnae. Annual income is restricted to supporting the Miss Fine’s Sabbatical, which is awarded annually to a deserving member of the Princeton Day School faculty.

Carl Reimers Distinguished Teaching Chair Fund Established in 1999 with anonymous gifts in honor of long-time faculty member, and former trustee, Carl D. Reimers. This first fully endowed teaching chair at Princeton Day School provides annual income to underwrite the salary and benefits of an outstanding member of the faculty who is chosen by the Head of School in consultation with the Division Heads. Exceptional teaching and devotion to students are among the criteria considered.

An amount of $2,500 will be provided annually during the three-year appointment for continuing education, conferences, equipment, books, supplies, or other purposes that further enhance the recipient’s teaching skills at Princeton Day School.

Established in 1968 with gifts from family and friends in honor of long-time Miss Fine’s School Trustee and Princeton Day School Board Chair, Elizabeth C. Dilworth. Supplemented in subsequent years by Mrs. Dilworth, and supplemented in 1991 with many gifts in memory of Melissa Dilworth Gold ’61, the annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Endowed Scholarship #1 Established in 1999 with a gift from an anonymous Princeton Day School family. Annual income to be used for an Upper School student, preferably for the child of a Princeton University administrator or faculty member, who qualifies for financial aid. If such a candidate is not available in any given year, that year’s allocation (or balance of the allocation) may be used at the discretion of the School to support other students who qualify for financial aid.

Michele Namm Epperson ’90 Scholarship Fund Established in 2005 with gifts from family, classmates, and friends in memory of Michele Namm Epperson ’90. Annual interest is restricted to supporting the financial aid program at Princeton Day School.

Olivia Fill Scholarship

Established in 1976 with gifts in honor of former Director of Admission Wes McCaughan and longtime English teacher, Anne Shepherd. Annual income supports a faculty sabbatical.

Established in 1987 with a gift from former PDS parent and former Trustee, Olivia Cox Fill. Annual income is restricted to supporting an African American female student who has qualified for financial aid.

Support for Financial Aid

Richard A. Fox ’00 Memorial Scholarship Fund

Shepherd-McCaughan Sabbatical Fund

Elinor Shreve Barclay Memorial Scholarship Established in 2001 with a gift from Edward S. Barclay, Jr. ’57 in honor of his mother, Elinor Shreve Barclay, and her years of service from 19521974 as a Lower School teacher at Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Day School. Annual income is restricted to supporting Princeton Day School’s financial aid program.

Class of 1980 Sandy Bing Scholarship Established in 2005 by members of the Class of 1980 on the occasion of their 25th reunion. Named in honor of former Upper School Head and Interim Head of School, Sandy Bing, in recognition of the guidance and friendship he so freely provided their class. Annual income supports the School’s general financial aid program.

Class of 1984 Scholarship Established in 1984 by the parents of the Class of 1984. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Established in 1999 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Richard A. Fox ’00. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Helen’s Fund

HK Hochschild Scholarship Established in honor of Harold K. Hochschild, a PDS parent and trustee of both Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Country Day School. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Joyce Johnson Scholarship Established to provide general unrestricted support to the School’s general financial aid program.

Robert Wood Johnson III Scholarship Established in 1975 with a gift from The Robert Wood Johnson III Charitable Trust and supplemented in 1997 and 1998 with grants from the Robert Wood Johnson III Charitable Trust made at the request of Trustee Emerita, Betty Wold Johnson. Annual income supports the School’s general financial aid program.

Page and Otto Marx, Jr. Scholarship Fund Established in 1999 and supplemented in subsequent years by the Page and Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation. Annual income is restricted to providing financial aid to support deserving minority students, and if possible, minority students in the Lower School who qualify for financial aid.

The David Mathey ’47 Scholarship Fund The David Mathey ’47 Scholarship Fund was established in 2004 with a grant from the David Mathey Trust in honor of David Mathey ’47. The annual income is restricted to supporting Princeton Day School’s financial aid program.

Dean Mathey Scholarship Fund

Established in 2007 through the generous support of David and Leslee Geltzer and the Geltzer Family Foundation. Annual income to support a Middle School student who qualifies for financial aid and who has attended the Princeton Day School Lower School.

Established in 1981 and regularly supplemented with gifts from The Bunbury Company and the Pocumtuck Company in honor of Dean Mathey, Sr., a major benefactor of Princeton Day School and the individual who donated the land that comprises much of the current school campus.

Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Goldman Sachs Scholars Fund

David Mottley ’77 Scholarship Fund

Geltzer Family Scholarship

Established in 2013 with a gift from Goldman Sachs Gives. Annual income is to be used for needbased financial aid for outstanding students who would otherwise be unable to attend Princeton Day School due to their financial circumstances.

The Fund will be known as the Goldman Sachs Scholars Fund and recipients shall be known as Goldman Sachs Scholars.

Established in 1976 with gifts from classmates, family and friends in memory of David R. Mottley ’77 and supplemented in 2002 with gifts in memory of Lawrence Mottley, Alexander Mottley ’11 and David Mottley ’08. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

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Established in 2007 with gifts from Marcia Goetze Nappi ’52, Robert Nappi and the MGN Foundation. Annual income is restricted to supporting the special or unforeseen needs of Princeton Day School students whose economic circumstances make it difficult or impossible to participate in educational, athletic and extracurricular opportunities more readily available to other students.

The Martha L.A. Norris Memorial Scholarship Fund Established in 2005 through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Ellsworth ’75 and their children John L. Griffith III ’99 and Alyssa A. Ellsworth, in memory of Mrs. Ellsworth’s mother, Martha L.A. Norris. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program and, if possible, a student who has demonstrated a volunteer commitment to serving others.

Princeton Day School Scholarship Fund Established in 1978 and supplemented in subsequent years with many gifts from parents and alumni. The Fund is designated in support of the general financial aid budget at Princeton Day School.

Anne B. Shepherd Scholarship Established in 1977 and supplemented in subsequent years by long-time English teacher Anne B. Shepherd and later by many colleagues, friends and family in Mrs. Shepherd’s memory.

Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s financial aid budget and, if possible, an enrolled minority student for his or her junior or senior year.

The Mitzie L. & Louis F. Vogel Scholarship Fund Established in 2020 through the generous support of Paul S. Vogel ’62 and Beth C. Seidenberg and in memory of Mitzie L. & Louis F. Vogel. Annual income is restricted to supporting the Princeton Day School financial aid program and, if possible, a student who has demonstrated a special interest or ability in athletics.

Wallace Family Scholarship Fund Established in 1999 with gifts from Margaret Cook Wallace ’27 and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wallace ’48. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s financial aid program.

Marjorie Williams ’75 Scholarship Established in 2005 through the generous support of members of the Class of 1975, family, and friends in memory of Marjorie Williams ’75.

Annual income is restricted to supporting: 1) the School’s financial aid program and, if possible, a student who has demonstrated a special interest or ability in writing, and 2) an annual student award for excellence in journalistic writing by a member of the junior class.

Stuart van V. Willson ’76 Scholarship Fund Established in 1983, and supplemented with gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Matthews, in memory of Stuart van V. Willson ’76. Annual income is restricted to supporting the general financial aid program at Princeton Day School.

Frederick Woodbridge ’78 Scholarship Fund

Established in 1981 with a gift from The Pocumtuck Company in memory of Noel J. Stace ’47. The fund is supplemented regularly by The Pocumtuck Company. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Established in 1986 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Frederick Woodbridge ’78 and supplemented in 1993 with gifts received in memory of his father, Mr. Dudley Woodbridge, and again in 2005 by his mother, Mary Roberts Woodbridge ’42. Annual income is restricted to underwriting the annual cost of the Woodbridge Award and to provide general support to the School’s financial aid budget.

C. V. Starr Scholarship Fund

Helen Woodruff Scholarship Fund

Established in 2000 and subsequently supplemented with grants from the C. V. Starr Foundation. Annual income is restricted to supporting the School’s general financial aid program.

Established in 1985 through the estate of former Trustee, Mrs. Helen Woodruff. Annual income is designated by the Trustees of Princeton Day School to provide general support to the School’s financial aid program.

Elaine and Sydney Sussman Scholarship Fund

The Kevin M. Zlock and Sima Zlock Scholarship Fund

Established in 2007, The Elaine and Sydney Sussman Scholars Fund provides support for up to three students new to the Upper School who demonstrate superior academic performance and who qualify for financial aid. Students will be selected without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, or gender, and will demonstrate intelligence, ambition, persistence, integrity and an exemplary work ethic.

Established in 2013, the Kevin M. Zlock and Sima Zlock Scholarship provides need-based financial aid for outstanding children to pursue a quality education at Princeton Day School.

Noel Stace ’47 Scholarship Fund

Arthur H. Turner, Jr. ’76 Memorial Scholarship Fund Established in 1989 and supplemented with gifts from family, alumni/ae and friends in memory of Arthur H. Turner, Jr. ’76. The annual income is to support the School’s general financial aid program.

Support for Libraries Library Fund Established in 1994 with an anonymous gift in memory of Mr. John Cylio. Annual income is restricted to the purchase of library books and supplies.

Support for Student Prizes Bencze Art Scholarship Prize Established in 1984 with gifts from family and friends in memory of Princeton Day School parent, Thomas S. Bencze. An annual scholarship award is presented at the Senior Awards Ceremony to a dedicated art student in the senior class whose intention is to pursue further education in the field of visual arts.

William R. Plapinger ’75 Cross Country Fund Established in 1999 with memorial gifts from the family of William R. Plapinger ’75. The annual income is to be used to underwrite the annual budget of the PDS cross-country team and to fund an annual award for the member of the crosscountry team who, in the eyes of the cross-country coach(es), is the most valuable member of the team.

John D. Sacks-Wilner ’80 Award Fund Established in 1980 by Dr. Sacks-Wilner and with gifts from family and friends in memory of John Sacks-Wilner ’80. The fund was supplemented in 1993 with gifts in memory of Dr. Erwin SacksWilner. Annual income is restricted to funding the John D. Sacks-Wilner Award, given each year to that member of the graduating class who has shown exceptional determination, courage and selfcommand.

Anne B. Shepherd Humanities Prize Fund Established in 1988 with a gift from Professor and Mrs. Theodore K. Rabb in honor of former Upper School English teacher Anne B. Shepherd whose teaching career at Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Day School spanned 55 years. Annual income is restricted to funding an award presented to a junior boy or girl with the highest academic standing in the humanities.

Support for Professional Development Academic Excellence Fund Established in 2005 through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Shechtel. Annual income is restricted to supporting professional development opportunities for teachers as well as academic and extracurricular initiatives that create or enhance academic enrichment opportunities for students.

David C. Bogle Award Established in 1995 with gifts from family and friends in memory of David C. Bogle, who devoted seventeen years of service to PDS as Director of Development. Annual income is restricted to underwriting an outstanding faculty initiative or professional development experience that most clearly advances the pursuit of teaching excellence at Princeton Day School.

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Doll Family Fund Established in 2007 through the generous support of Robert and Leslie Doll and the Doll Family Foundation. Annual income is restricted to supporting summer study opportunities, coursework, seminars, conferences and other professional development opportunities for teachers at Princeton Day School.

Miss Fine’s Center Fund Established in 2014 through the generosity of Susan Schildkraut Wallach ’64 and Kenneth L. Wallach. The purpose of the Miss Fine’s Center is to promote the collaborative study of topics and themes that demand and benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. This endowed gift provides ongoing financial support for professional development, travel, and research for Princeton Day School faculty.

Johnston Faculty Enrichment Award Fund Established in 1987 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Johnston. Annual income is restricted to supporting professional development opportunities for faculty that enhance and enrich their teaching expertise and their students’ classroom experience.

Kaye Family Fund for Professional Development Established in 2011 by Robert Kaye, in honor and recognition of the vital role played by members of the faculty in the lives of his grandchildren, the Kaye Family Fund supports a travel grant for professional development. Annual income from the fund will provide the opportunity for a member of the faculty to enhance and enrich his or her teaching expertise and, thus, the experience of his or her students, through summer travel and research.

Lila Boyce Lohr Fund Established in 2000 with gifts by School trustees in honor of Lila Boyce Lohr h’00, Head of School from 1995 - 2000. Annual income is distributed at the discretion of the Head of School in the form of “Lohr Grants” to support the needs of the PDS faculty and/or academic initiatives that strengthen the educational programs at Princeton Day School.

Mario Fund for Science Established in 2003 through the generosity of the Mario family. Annual income is restricted to supporting summer study opportunities, coursework, seminars, conferences, and other professional development opportunities for science teachers at Princeton Day School.

The Minerva Fund Established in 2007 by an anonymous Princeton Day School family, The Minerva Fund generates annual income to fund the continuing professional growth of PDS faculty and staff including conferences, seminars, workshops, graduate courses and other professional development opportunities that support teachers and enhance the educational experience of PDS students. Recipients will have demonstrated records of superior achievement in and beyond the classroom, as well as evidence of great promise in the years to come. Each year, Princeton Day School will award as many as three $5,000 Minerva Grants, one per division,

based upon proposals submitted to the Head of School. Faculty with 12 or fewer years of teaching experience, at least four of which have been spent at Princeton Day School, are eligible for the grants.

Ostro Grant Fund for Interdisciplinary Programs Established in 2000 with a gift from Dr. Marc J. Ostro and Dr. Evelyn Godin-Ostro. Annual income is restricted to increasing and strengthening interdisciplinary studies at Princeton Day School through an annual grant that is awarded to faculty initiative that enriches the School’s teaching curriculum through the integration of two or more disciplines.

Parents Association Faculty Enrichment Fund Established in 1987 with funds raised by the Parents Association at the Squibb Benefit and supplemented in 2005 by the Parents Association.

Annual income is restricted to supporting faculty professional development and enrichment opportunities.

Meredith Peterson Fund Established in 2008 through the generous support of Peter Peterson and Joan Cooney, Michael Peterson, and others in memory of Princeton Day School parent, Meredith Peterson. Annual income is restricted to supporting professional development opportunities for Lower School faculty.

Robert C. Whitlock Award Fund Established in 1993 with gifts from Mrs. Robert C. Whitlock, family and friends in memory of long-time architecture teacher, Robert C. Whitlock whose career at Princeton Country Day and Princeton Day School spanned 42 years. The annual income is to fund the Whitlock Award for Distinguished Teaching, the School’s highest honor for faculty.

Whitman Faculty Development Fund Established in 2007 through the generous support of Marina von Neumann Whitman ’52, Robert Whitman and the Whitman Family Foundation.

Annual income is restricted to supporting summer study opportunities, coursework, seminars, conferences, and other professional development opportunities for teachers at Princeton Day School.

The Kevin M. Zlock and Sima Zlock Faculty Fund Established in 2013, the Kevin M. Zlock and Sima Zlock Faculty Fund supports Princeton Day School faculty in their pursuit of creating and teaching interdisciplinary courses and promotes student independent research in the Upper School. Annual income is restricted to these two initiatives.

Support for Student Programs Class of 1977 Community Service Fund Established in 2007 through the generosity of the Class of 1977 on the occasion of their 30th Reunion. Annual income is to support the School’s community service program by providing ongoing funds for individual community service projects.

The Scott M. Mauney ’95 Memorial Fund Established in 1998 by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. White in memory of Scott M. Mauney ’95. Annual income is restricted to supporting substance abuse education programs in the Upper School.

The Peter W. Merle-Smith ’85 Memorial Fund Established in 1999 with gifts from Mrs. Fowler F. Merle-Smith and Margaret F. Merle-Smith Bergstrand ’83 in memory of Peter W. Merle-Smith ’85. Annual income is restricted to supporting substance abuse education programs in the Middle School.

The Susan E.G. Moll Fund for Community Service Established in 2004 with gifts from family and friends in memory of PDS parent Susan E.G. Moll.

Annual income is restricted to supporting an annual Upper School assembly on the subject of serving others and underwriting new student initiatives and other opportunities to enhance the community service program at Princeton Day School.

Regina Spiegel Memorial Fund Established in 1997 with gifts from friends and family in memory of Middle School music teacher Regina Spiegel. The annual grant from this endowment may be used to send the recipient to a summer theater art program/workshop (preferably a Lincoln Center program/workshop) or to bring an artist (preferably a Lincoln Center artist) to PDS to give 8th graders hands-on-training in the theater arts.

The Mark L. Zaininger ’81 Memorial Award Established in 2010 through the generosity of the Zaininger family and friends, the Mark L. Zaininger ’81 Award honors an alumnus whose professional and personal life was dramatically and positively influenced during the summer of his junior year at Princeton Day School, through his participation in a creative, challenging and rigorous summer program. The award is given annually to a member of the Princeton Day School junior class whose proposed summer experience in pursuit of an interest or passion has the greatest likelihood of inspiring and revealing to the recipient new horizons and directions for his/her life path.

Princeton Day School complies with all Federal and State Laws prohibiting discrimination in its admissions, employment and administrative policies.

The Princeton Day School Annual Report is a publication of the Advancement Office.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this report.

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Phyllis Vandewater Clement 2375 Range Avenue, #157 Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (707) 823-0925 (home) pvanclement@gmail.com

I’m grateful to Class Notes for giving me an excuse to stay in touch with the two classmates I remember from the old days.

I had a good talk with Peggy Munro Griffin.

We laughed most of the time, in spite of her failing eyesight and my failing hearing. We are both living good lives, and both are most appreciative of our children.

I wonder how my teachers of the ’20s and ’30s would have liked to teach by Zoom!

1943 Editor’s Note: We were very sorry to learn that Marjorie Libby Moore passed away in October.

She served as class correspondent for many years.

We send our condolences to her family and friends.

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Lucy Law Webster 19 Church Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 437-0887 (home) lucylawwebster@gmail.com

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Donata Coletti Mechem 49 Marcela Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116-1471 (510) 851-1123 (cell) doe@mechem.org

There isn’t much to report. I only have contact with two others, Jean Milholland Shriver and Wendy McAneny Bradburn. Jean, Wendy and I are all sheltering in place and carrying on with our lives. None of us has fallen victim to COVID-19, or old age. Jean lives in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, Wendy, with her husband, Norman Bradburn, in Arlington, VA, and I in San Francisco with my husband, Kirke Mechem.

Wendy wrote in July: “We (Wendy and husband Norman) are pretty much housebound except for a weekly grocery run. In this place, a retirement community, we put together two condos becoming a six-room flat, still pretty small after a 12-room house. They shut the dining room for several weeks, but it is now open. So far none of the residents have become infected from the virus. We report our temperatures every morning and wear masks outside our unit.” Wendy and her husband were able to have a two-week vacation at Lake George with their daughter, Laura, her husband and two boys, but then had to quarantine for two weeks when they got back to Arlington.

Jean has recently finished class news for the alumnae associations of Vassar and Madeira.

She does Zoom meetings, which she hates, with family, and writes her newspaper column and that’s about it. She says her father’s aunt, an artist, was featured on the front page of the NYTimes arts section on August 20, telling about her trip west in 1916 campaigning against President Wilson.

Like all people in our age bracket, we are staying home most of the time and fortunate to be able to do so. We take almost daily walks in Golden Gate Park here in SF. My husband, Kirke, a composer, is deeply involved writing a piece for an adult and children’s chorus, four soloists and a small orchestra on the Italian folktale about “Befana.” It could be done as a short opera or some other musical form like a cantata. We had a wonderful family Zoom call with our four adult kids, spouses and four college-aged grandkids to celebrate my husband’s 95th birthday this summer. My sister, Mimi Coletti Dow ’51, and her husband Peter are mostly at home in their house in Buffalo but did take a short trip to Maine this summer and a short trip to Nantucket where they have owned a house for years. All of her four grown children and spouses and nine grandchildren are healthy.

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Marcia Goetze Nappi 251 Gardenside Lane Shelburne, VT 05482-6541 (802) 985-3070 (home) marciagn@aol.com

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Joan E. Kennan 3143 O Street, NW Washington, DC 20007-3117 (202) 342-2118 (home) joankennan@gmail.com

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L. Chloe King 25 Stonehaven Drive, #217 South Weymouth, MA 02190 (781) 660-5191 (home) (781) 898-8312 (cell) lchloek@comcast.net

Merriol Baring-Gould Almond: “We are staying briefly at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA where we’ve been having a family gathering with our four children, their spouses, and eight of our nine grandchildren. We’ll have pre-dinner drinks and dinner together and then breakfast tomorrow before we return home to Connecticut. Two of our adult children came from California, which still has unacceptably high infection rates, so they had to have very recent negative COVID-19 tests just before flying here.

All are practicing seemingly flawless social distancing except when the kids are in the pool together. (The kids mask and distance themselves appropriately when they come out.) And we are enjoying splendid New England weather as a bonus! What a very nice treat after Doug and I have been self-isolating at our home in Connecticut for just over five months. We hope you’ve all stayed safe and well and will remain so. Much love, Merriol” Jo Cornforth Coke: “One heck of a summer! In Dallas for three weeks, helping my son clear out my hoarder ex-husband’s 3,000-square-foot house, full of three generations of STUFF!! In Dallas heat! Thanks to Habitat and THREE dumpsters, we got it done! Son #1 came from California for a week, so it was a good project for both of them. Hasn’t happened in a long time. Now headed for Pennsylvania for a visit with my sister, Julia ’61. She and her daughter bought a lake house in the Poconos, so it should be a delightful, cool rest! Other than that, I am not buying any lipstick stock or new pants.

Tired of Zoom meetings, but glad to stay in touch at least. Love to you and hope you stay well....”

Jean Crawford: “I’ve been reading, gardening and spending time on Zoom. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman was about the 14th century plague and 100 Years War, such an interesting comparison. A medical procedure slowed me down a bit, so I have done some needlepoint, too. My family is healthy.

Various changes of plan, of course. Reading group has ordered Jon Meacham’s His Truth Is Marching On, which is about John Lewis.

Alice Marie Nelson: “No exciting news other than the effects of the pandemic, which has affected us all. Ann and I have spent the majority of our time at our little cabin on Lake Swartswood, NJ. We only go into the city to deal with mail, pay bills and see doctors/dentists and to get our haircut! Those bare necessities of life! We surely have been reading a lot of books—some challenging, some not so challenging, but all worth the time and effort. I would definitely recommend Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, No Man’s Land by Wendy Moore and Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver. Have also read several Michael Connelly books as well as rereads of Lee Childs. The only other important thing

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT riences, developing critical and analytical thinking skills, and learning how to be an effective verbal and written communicator were skills that my PDS experience certainly emphasized that were later built upon through my academic and professional career,” she stated.

“My career in vaccine development was purely sparked by interest and sustained by serendipity—I was in the right place at the right time with the right group of people,” she continues.

Ami Shah Brown ’92 Ph.D., MPH

The common thread of Dr. Ami Shah Brown’s life and work has been her foundational training in public health. As she puts it, “Each and every one of my academic and professional experiences have formed the basis of the work I’m doing now.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust Dr. Brown’s work into the spotlight because her company is one of several working to develop a vaccine for this novel virus. Dr. Brown is Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs for Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA and focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of DNA medicines to prevent and treat today’s cancers and challenging infectious diseases.

“My work to rapidly advance a COVID-19 vaccine into Phase 1 clinical testing in the midst of a global pandemic represents a culmination of all of my academic and professional endeavors,” Dr. Brown states.

In the midst of her hectic schedule, Dr. Brown took the time to share her story with PDS, noting how the School has helped shape her educational and career arc. “My PDS education provided a solid, broadbased foundation for my career in vaccine development. Gaining scientific and technical expertise from hands-on, practical expe-

“With the educational foundation from my 12 years at PDS [she attended from Grade 1 through 12], I attended the University of Pennsylvania, where I was fortunate to work on a discovery, development and clinical evaluation program for an early DNA-based vaccine for HIV, which continued for several years after I finished my undergraduate studies at Penn. While there, I met and worked with many of the same people I currently work with at Inovio.”

The skills Dr. Brown gained “at the bench” in the HIV vaccine laboratory shaped her interest in infectious diseases and clinical trial design, which she pursued throughout graduate training in public health at The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and then at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she earned a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology.

“My current daily experience hasn’t changed in terms of my main focus, which is exploring opportunities for innovation in the field of DNA medicines,” Dr. Brown observes. “Every day, I’m faced with a new set of challenges and questions to answer.

We developed our COVID-19 vaccine candidate, and the nonclinical and clinical programs to test it, at the exact same time we are learning about the SARSCOV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease. I liken this to the idea of ‘attempting to build an airplane while trying to fly.’ And not unlike the experiences of many others, my

daily experience of building this airplane is being done remotely from my dining room table isolated from my closely-knit team,” she adds.

As everyone involved in Panthers Online can attest, the challenges of remote school, and work, can be daunting: “My daily experience also involves the requisite technological issues arising from Zoom meetings and overwhelmed internet connections due to shared bandwidth with my entire family, including my three sons currently navigating the reality of distance education,” Dr. Brown notes.

Through it all, Dr. Brown has been focused on creating solutions that could have global ramifications. “My PDS experience from a very early age normalized the idea of innovation, which has always been at the very core of my work in vaccine development, but even more so now with our COVID-19 effort—to explore new ways to solve problems, to think about broad-reaching implications and to extend thinking beyond precedence, are all critical elements of being an innovator,” she explains. Nothing less than this kind of commitment is needed to achieve rapid licensure of a COVID-19 vaccine.

In closing, Dr. Brown shared a message for today’s PDS students: “Explore any and all of your interests, carve your path and create your own niche. It’s not about the path you take. Rather, it’s about your unique story—made up of your lessons learned and how you choose to apply them to each new step. Value your relationships above all else and work to cultivate these relationships—the world is much smaller than you may think.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

The Alumni Spotlights located throughout Class Notes in this Fall Journal 2020 are focused on some of the many school alumni working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Princeton Day School extends heartfelt thanks to these alumni and every community member striving to help others through this challenging time.

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in my life is a Caregivers Support Group I am a member of, due to helping to care for an old friend and colleague who had stage four lung cancer and has since died of it. I am also the executor of her will and am dealing with all the paperwork attendant with that. It’s a long story—that’s the short version. At any rate, the group meets (virtually now) once a week and is a vital part of my psychic life these days. Life is very circumscribed and the prospect of an autumn and winter with no opera, concerts, theater is truly depressing. At least we hope to be able to go to a few museums.

Take care, stay safe and well. All the best, Alice Marie”

Laura Travers Pardee: “The only thing I can say is that we walk over three miles around the beautiful grounds four days a week and take yoga class via Zoom two mornings a week. We are well taken care of. The dining room is closed but we can get as many meals as we want to take to our apartment every day because the kitchen is still in full operation.

Employees in Resident Services do marketing twice a week, go to Total Wine once a week and pick up non-prescription items at the local drug store twice a week. So far, all residents are well but masks are required throughout the building and outside guests are not allowed. We can go out for doctor’s appointments, etc., but on return we have to have temperature taken and oxymeter test done at the gate. We are very thankful to be here at Bay Village. Reading the New York Times, the Washington Post and our local paper keeps us occupied each day. We’ve also enjoyed many PBS shows and watching ‘ancient’ movies from our youth. In addition, Kindle has kept us well supplied with international reading material. Hugs, Laura” L. Chloe King, the forever secretary (happily!): Life is very quiet here in South Weymouth, MA. This summer we have been able to venture as far away as northern NH to enjoy our cottage on the lake. We go back and forth frequently for various appointments and to get our mail. Mary Lou has a brand new shoulder, which will be in full operation in a reasonable length of time. I continue to be as active as possible, and have all original body parts, which function acceptably well. We are well and hope all of you are, too. Hope to hear from more classmates when life becomes more normal, whenever that may be. Best to everyone, Chloe

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Charlotte Harding Cook, Ph.D. 1133 55th Street Sacramento, CA 95819-3911 (916) 739-8918 (home) ccook@csus.edu

Like many of us ’56ers, Joan Pearce and husband Klaus Anselm have abandoned travel for the summer and fall. They had hoped to spend time in Germany with Klaus’ sister.

Joan reported that the virus has slowed down their dog shows, although some are starting up again. Their grandson was scheduled for college this fall, but nothing is final, and Joan commented, “how all this gets resolved is beyond me!” She is thankful that they live in a gated community with space to move about, and she had been enjoying discovering new trails—remote, isolated, well wooded and unused—until somebody mentioned BEARS! In conclusion, Joan let us know that another move may be forthcoming: “We are thinking of downsizing, trimming the sails, alerting our two sons to think of what might be theirs.

Rent rather than own. In the meantime, Klaus and I stay physically active and don’t have many doctors’ appointments. Dentists are another story, however.”

Margy Pacsu Campbell is overjoyed to share the news that the August CT scan to check on her lungs revealed no changes from six months ago. Two-year-old grandson, Emerson, continues to bring joy and wonder to all of his extended family. Margy has taken on the project of writing her memoirs and called me (Charlotte Cook) to ask for recollections of our trip to Europe for the summer of 1960. Unfortunately, I could only remember a few fragments from that daredevil time.

I only recall too much wine and gin, driving too fast, overnighting in youth hostels, brazen flirting and other common, crazy activities of the 1960s!

Molly Wade McGrath and husband Norman are looking for a tenant for their NYC apartment so they can stay in their summer house in Paterson, NJ through the winter months, away from the city and COVID-19. They are both excited about this idea, but do acknowledge that it might get very cold in the country, and if “we start to freeze to death we will probably retreat to the city.” Two-yearold granddaughter, Annabel, behaved like an angel during her first day of daycare, much to the relief of all grownups! In closing, Molly told us that on the health front she has some macular degeneration, but it is well managed, and otherwise, she and Norman are doing well.

Anne Harrison and partner Bob sent us this update: “We live a safe and quiet life in our lovely home in Williamsburg. I have the aggravating problem of short-term memory loss. My solution is to have a mate whose memory is still very sharp! In September, Bob and I will celebrate our 17th year of unmarried togetherness. We are very fortunate because Bob has mastered the navigation of Amazon/Whole Foods and other mail order sites. Just about everything we need shows up at our front door within a day or two. With this bountiful supply, Bob turns out delicious dinners night after night. Williamsburg has changed dramatically under COVID-19.

Tourist business has dried up, and the hotels and restaurants are barely surviving. Our

plans for the future are to stay put. I think the tragic situation will endure until next spring or summer.”

Carol Harris Bradley caught us up with herself and her husband, Trump: “Life goes on at a slow pace here, but all is well—considering.

It’s been quite easy to ‘shelter in place’ as we are nursing a variety of physical ailments— back surgery in January for me, a cracked rib from a fall on our stairs for Trump, upcoming hip replacement for me, deteriorating disc issues for Trump. You get the picture.

On the upside, we live in a condo on a short, private street in the woods where the neighbors feel like an extended family. We used to have monthly TGIF parties. Now we sit in chairs in our driveways and/or stroll along the road greeting one another once a month. In between, we share food, gardening chores and errands. We are fortunate, too, to have family nearby, and to share our home with an elderly and very entertaining orange cat. When the weather turns frosty it may be harder to stay upbeat, but for now it’s been OK. “Like Charlotte, I’ve used the time to address some long-deferred cleaning out, which is always interesting—like an archeological dig.

Also, I bought a new computer and have had to tackle Windows 10. It’s a good thing I have had plenty of time for the latter as I am definitely NOT an electronics nerd. Windows 7 was s..o..o.. much easier and I miss it, but I am making real progress on the new software at last!”

Kay Dunn Lyman is dealing with several challenges at this time: “Quarantine has given me time to think of old friends, and I miss all of you. For me, summer is the best time for the COVID-19 lockdown because I can see friends (socially distanced on their decks or mine) for ice tea, a glass of wine or an early supper before it gets dark, and I’m learning more recipes to do on the grill for early suppers. These last six months have been made even harder because Dick is now in a nursing home. On April 30, he woke up and could not stand because of pain in his abdomen, 911— emergency room, hospital, rehab, etc. The problem was that Parkinson’s had stiffened his bladder. He now has a permanent catheter and is on his third UTI. He has not been able to walk since that fateful morning. His dementia and Parkinson’s is worsening and despite rehab, he is weaker. He needs too much care to come home to this wheelchair-inaccessible house, and home care is almost impossible to find. Luckily, he is in a good place, 20 miles away, but one of the closest places to our remote town. I am now allowed to see him in full PPE for about a half an hour every other day, which is much better than ‘through the glass door’ of our original visits.

“I have almost finished with my book on the life-course of Simmons alumnae in the 20th century. It may never get published, but it has

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been an enlightening project to do and I have learned much about writing and editing.

“Our beloved Golden died in July after almost 16 years with us, so this house is really quiet. I believe that I will find a new dog, hopefully a rescue, and small. I need canine company. The virus has been blessedly small here in Maine, but as I have learned from other states, that could change. I am careful and always masked.

I send cheers and blessings to each of you!”

Editor’s note: We learned after these notes were submitted that Kay’s husband, Dick, passed away suddenly on August 27, 2020. We send our condolences to Kay and her family.

Cicely Tomlinson Richardson and John are staying in their hilltop home in New England this summer instead of making the journey to their Cape Cod house, largely because of COVID-19. Cicely is still working with local media, but has narrowed the focus of her reporting to local schools. Unfortunately, their son who lives in Ireland is not coming home to the US for his annual summer visit, so the family will have a quieter summer than usual (like many of us).

Marina Turkevich Naumann sent us news from her Princeton home on Palmer Square: “Even with COVID-19 lurking around, I am OK, yet physically and mentally sheltered in—no chapel organ concerts, library, art museum, etc. The most notable recent event was ferocious tropical storm Isaias barreling down Hodge Road, across Palmer Square, and onto Wiggins Street. The beautiful tall trees in the square were fully blown down, tangling all utility wires, blocking roads and outing traffic lights. My building retained its electricity but 6,000 people in the area were left in the dark, some for five or more days.”

Marina also has some happy PDS news: her two younger grandchildren will be entering PDS when it opens its doors in the fall: Max to Class of ’28, and Sophie to Class of ’31.

They will join Marina ’56, their dad ’84, and auntie ’82, making THREE generations and a 75-year school legacy!

Betsy T sent us her memories of a most happy summer: “Somehow life is very full, even when social distancing. With several new regular Zoom gatherings, my social calendar is busier than before. I’ve been blessed to spend much of the time since COVID-19 at my cottage on Thompson Lake, ME. My past pattern has been to come and go between Maine and Boston and to rent the cottage for five or six weeks of the summer. But it’s been wonderful to have so much time here. It is quieter and safer than Boston, but best of all has been the constant beauty, and all the little surprises that come of living in the woods and on a lake.

Another bonus was that my son and family, who live in Florida, spent much of July on the lake with me. I was thankful that Pete and I decided to keep both houses after we got married—at one point there were 12 of us here!

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“Maine has been strict about out-of-staters, so I’ve spent a lot of time in self-quarantine, but have often been busier than I wanted to be.

That was especially true at the start. I’ve been chair of the Parish Council at my church, King’s Chapel, and on the board of Beacon Hill Village. That put me on ‘response teams’ for both organizations as they scrambled to keep community going after the rapid shutdowns in March. It’s been amazing to see how many of us, even old folks, quickly learned new skills, even if we complain about too much time on Zoom. Love to all.”

Rosemarie Marshall Johnson sent us this update. “Anesthesiologists are never late, but retired ones… I almost never answer such other requests, but I don’t want to disappoint Charlotte, and I do relish hearing from all of you, so here I go.

“Daughter Mia and her children, Derek (15) and Kiera (13), are living with us and we are a fearless and obedient COVID-19 team. The children are online smooth and easy. Husband Joe is nine years post-lung transplants. My internal health is fine but my musculoskeleton, not very cooperative: neck, back, both knees and a few concussions from falls, but my tough Italian bones are recovering well. Joe’s law firm now works from home and may do this permanently.

We appreciate being home. Lunch every day together! Joe wants me to tell you I received the Achievement Award for community service from the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association. Quite a surprise!

“Joe and I stayed with Lockie when we had our class reunion, and I admired her birdsong clock so much, Joe got me one when we returned. Now I have a sweet reminder every day of our exquisite and remarkable friend.

Aren’t I lucky! Virtual hugs to one and all of you. Stay safe and be careful.”

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Rosalind Webster Perry 1009 N. Ontare Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 682-3664 (home) rosperry@impulse.net

After many years of keeping us up to date on our classmates’ activities, Susie Smith Baldwin has handed the baton to me. Thanks, Susie, you really did a fantastic job! I hope all of you will send me your family news and photos. This summer I heard from several classmates about the many changes in their lives caused by the extraordinary events of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Alissa Kramer Sutphin told me she has been shocked and shaken by the pandemic. “It has been beyond my wildest nightmares or even imagination. We do not travel to see, interact with or even hug our family members as I wish we could. First, I fear for their health and I am also concerned about the restrictions

this has imposed on their education and their ability to earn a living. Our life has become much more limited, with the library, theatres, restaurants, etc., closed. I am upset that more people are not wearing masks or safe distancing and that they are pushing for ending a lot of restrictions.”

Susie Smith Baldwin emailed me to tell how recent events have affected her. “The protests, as well as the pandemic, have heightened my awareness of all I have taken for granted, especially ‘white privilege.’ My granddaughter, Julia Hillier, had a typical COVID-19 outdoor, mask-wearing, social distancing, drive-in high school graduation at a fairground.” Susie was impressed by the graduation speaker—a passionate and inspiring Black activist student leader. Susie added, “contemplation, meditation and connection with nature have provided pandemic support, as they continue to be mainstays in my life journey. Change is the only constant. Enjoy with me this example: What if airplanes required no runways, no airports and no fuel? My grandson, Willem Hillier, is working full-time for Beta Technologies here in Burlington, VT. His team tests what they believe will be the world’s most versatile aircraft—an electric vehicle with vertical take off and landing!”

I also heard from Bonnie Campbell Perkins: “I am fine, staying healthy at this time, but disgusted at how badly the US is doing with COVID-19. I have had to twice cancel a trip back to Cape Cod this summer, and I’m still hoping to go in the fall. Otherwise, life is still pretty uneventful. I’d like to do more traveling before too long. Colorado has lost some of its luster, but I still enjoy the outdoor life of hiking, skiing, etc.”

Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky emailed me with some distressing news: “I don’t have much good news to report—I’ve been treated for small-cell lung cancer for the past two years and the most recent chemo treatment seems to be doing more harm than good. So yesterday, my wonderful oncologist and Joe and I decided to stop the chemo. In the meantime, the good news is that our grandson, Simon Wisnovsky, and his wife had their first baby a week ago: Arthur Thomas Wisnovsky. So we are now greatgrandparents.

Simon Wisnovsky, grandson of Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky ’57, and greatgrandson Arthur Thomas Wisnovsky

Simon just finished four years of biochemistry post-doc work at Stanford and is waiting to hear about jobs for next year. COVID-19 has put a halt on decisions like this, but they are hoping. Our son and his wife are professors at McGill, which is where Simon got his undergraduate degree, then Ph.D. at U. of Toronto.

Simon and his wife, Caroline, love the West Coast but want to settle in Canada.”

Molly Menand Jacobs had to change her moving plans. “I was all set to move to Buffalo in March, and then the virus came. I thought it was too risky to move to an apartment with elevators, let alone making the trip itself. So, I’m still in my apartment just outside Princeton and will now play it by ear.

I went to Cape Cod this summer where my daughter, Anne, has a home. Very hot, to put it mildly.”

Moving has also proved a challenge for Nancy Miller, who wrote me about her impending move to Pennswood Village in Bucks County, PA. “The pandemic has, of course, made my move that much more difficult. I’m now planning on moving August 26, come hell or high water! Pennswood has been vigilant in keeping COVID-19 at bay. They’ve just lifted lockdown but the dining room, pool, gym, etc., are still closed. I think that maybe I’ll have to be in quarantine for two weeks when I move in. There is SO much to do and I’ve spent many sleepless nights worrying about how I’m going to get the house cleaned out.

One of my main worries is about books—no one is accepting them right now, and I have a ton of books! I realize that I have never been sympathetic enough for anyone who is moving. Forty years worth of stuff is a lot of stuff! My recommendation to all of you is to start cleaning out desks and drawers even if you aren’t planning on moving. Your heirs will thank you!” My new address is: 1383 Newtown-Langhorne Road, Pennswood Village C105, Newtown, PA 18940.

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Nancy Hudler Keuffel 1329 West Indian Mound Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 (248) 540-8024 (home) (586) 481-7043 (cell) acornnhk@aol.com

COVID-19 has been the main topic since the last Class Notes. Michigan has been hit badly by this virus, and I am wearing my mask or a vinyl shield, which allows for easier breathing when shopping, etc. My salvation has been golf, as I can get some exercise, be outdoors and see some friends sans mask. In August, our daughter and family, who live outside San Francisco, visited and we had a great time in northern Michigan at a lake house—with more golf. Also, our son from Bryn Mawr was here with his family, and it was wonderful to see all after a long hiatus. Gerd and I have traveled— regretfully not overseas as those trips were can-

celed—to Virginia and New York City. Planes have been quite empty even though airline schedules have been drastically cut.

Faith Wing Bieler wrote: “What I’ve found most important to do is to seek/find new ways of being/doing… not focusing on waiting/pining for normal again…, a challenge, not easy inner work for sure… Contentment with less, peace with less of what’s familiar… plus fun creativity/delight in process of discovering new ways of being/living.”

It has been reported that Rooney Eichelberger Hall has moved to a retirement community in Blue Hill, ME where she formerly had a home.

1959 Nancy Hudler Keuffel ’58 golfing with grandsons, Eric and Otis Aley, in Michigan Bev Ward Docter wrote, “Both Steve and I came down with the COVID-19 virus in March, survived and are doing well now.

Our oldest daughter is enjoying teaching at The Hun School in Princeton, and loves living in Princeton. Her youngest child is a junior at Hun. Our oldest grandchild is in her fourth year at Thomas Jefferson Medical School, and will be applying for residency this fall. She is married and loves living in Philadelphia. Geriatrics is her specialty!!!

One of our grandsons is living and working nearby where we live.

“We live in a lifecare facility with 500 people in independent living. We have found the meal delivery service from our fabulous kitchen to be wonderful. We are biking and walking. I play tennis twice a week, but for the most part we are sheltering in place, wearing masks and social distancing. We join others for a picnic, once in a while, each bringing our own food and sitting more than six feet apart.

We are the lucky ones!”

Lisa Fairman Heher says, “I have been sheltering ever since mid-March thanks to Margo and her family insisting I am of an age to be vulnerable to the virus. I have been blessed to have them doing the shopping, etc., so my only outings have been an occasional doctor’s appointment in mask.

“Both granddaughters have been home since NJ went into lockdown in March. American University and Columbia High School were on-line and so was Sebastian, my son-in-law, who taught from home. Margo’s Wells Fargo office closed and she, too, has been working from home. During the early cooler weather, I made 125 masks at a time when people here in town were pretty desperate, so my handiwork got spread among the friends of the family. The garden has been spectacular despite hot, humid weather but now hits the August tired period! I have read lots of books from our ‘home’ library, and have undertaken to needlepoint two more cushions for our church.”

Ann Kinczel Clapp 5 Farview Road Baltimore, MD 21212 (410) 464-9471 (home) AnnClapp@hotmail.com

Usually I report on exotic trips classmates have taken. However, COVID-19 has caused several classmates to cancel future trips.

Most of us are reading and streaming and cleaning closets. Nan Nicholes Goodrich is doing jigsaw puzzles ONLINE (I can’t even do them on the table). Jean Schettino Conlon realized this has been the first time she has not worked since college graduation.

She has been enjoying having her son back in NY. Ralph reported that Wendy Yeaton Smith has been taking belly-dancing lessons but has refused my request for a video.

Fortunately, Dana Conroy Aymond was fly-fishing in Montana when a tornado hit her Michigan home. Abby Pollak is enjoying time baking with their twin granddaughters when not working on getting out the vote in November. Happily for me, Peggy Wilber ’61 was able to track me down and even sent me a wonderful book by Wilkie Collins. Her sister lives near me, but COVID-19 has prevented us from meeting in person.

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Penelope Hart Bragonier, Ph.D. 68 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 (617) 742-0093 (home) (617) 823-1150 (cell) Pbragon@gmail.com

Wow, what a year it has been since I wrote my last Class Notes: COVID-19 fears and anguish over a nation in acute distress. Luckier than most in our society, we all seem to have managed well enough: roofs over our heads, adequate resources and virtual hugs with our grandchildren. Like many of you who’ve written, I’m keenly aware of my privilege and pained by what others are forced to endure.

Nancy Davis Sachner said: “I’m in a fortunate minority able to work from home (I’m getting comfortable with doing therapy virtually) and can afford to live in a beautiful home. After the first two to three weeks of social isolation, I was able to adjust and adapt, in spite of living in the woods, not seeing a soul except FALL 2020

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT hospital building that we had just opened up two years ago. We filled it completely with COVID-19 patients. We opened some de-commissioned areas of the hospital and I staffed my surge unit with nurses mostly from procedural areas, such as post-anesthesia care units, where volume was down, and nurses from preadmission testing. Most of us were nurses who had been away from direct bedside care for several years.

Erin McCaffrey ’00

Radiology Department Nurse Manager, New York City PDS alumna Erin McCaffrey ‘00 set her sights on nursing after PDS, graduating in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania Nursing School and staying on to work at UPenn Hospital’s trauma surgical ICU for the next few years before doing some travel nursing around the country. She earned her Master’s in Public Health and Health Management from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

In 2012 she started working at New York University Hospital in the radiology department and has been the department’s Nurse Manager since 2013.

Radiology is a critical hospital care department, encompassing imaging, including CT scans and MRI, but also a large and active procedural component, which makes up the majority of Erin’s nursing team at her hospital. “Interventional radiology covers a vast array of patient care and treatment that typically involves sedation for patients as we carry out minimally invasive procedures [for everything from blood clot removal to vascular repair and targeted chemotherapy],” Erin explains.

The radiology department’s typical routines were turned upside down this spring, along with the rest of the hospital, due to the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. “We went through the most intense and difficult environment I’ve seen in my professional career,” Erin recalls. “Two thirds of my nurses had to shift to help with patient care in the ICUs and acute care floors, while I was tasked with opening one of the first surge units to accommodate the inflow,” Erin continues. “We were very fortunate that we had a brand new JOURNAL

“The surge team was nervous about whether they would be doing everything right and giving the best of care” as they dealt with the highly infectious virus and lack of data on the trends and complications of the novel disease, Erin explains. “All of us had to commit to doing the best we could and focusing on the most urgent care and safety, medicine and oxygen support priorities. It was a huge challenge for all of us.”

The feeling of all being in it together was one of many factors that helped the team through the spring. “At the peak we had at least five full ICUs. Everybody was put into action on teams and everybody was in the same boat, even the on-call doctors, who ranged from rheumatologists to plastic surgeons. It was very humbling and also a growth experience,” she reflects.

Their experience with so many patients helped them learn quickly. “Because of the patient numbers, we started to really learn the patient population, observe trends and better know what to expect and what to look for,” she explains. “We observed some complications that had not really been discussed yet in the press or literature. The very complex nature of this disease started to emerge as we realized it was not just about respiratory attack.”

With case loads down significantly as of the end of May, “we are finally having a chance to breathe and start processing things. Thankfully, the hospital realized how traumatizing this would be for staff and provided numerous services along the way,” Erin adds.

“Not being able to see family outside of my hospital ‘family’ has been tough,” Erin says, “and I can’t imagine missing key milestones like graduation for the PDS seniors.” At the same time, Erin has a message for her fellow Panthers: “As difficult as it is to lose or have to postpone

those things, it’s worth it to stay safe. It becomes very real when a family member falls ill. And it is vital to remember that those who are infected are of all ages, including those who were previously very fit and healthy.”

While she is relieved that the first wave has peaked, she remains wary. “Opening up can be safe if people are taking the proper precautions,” Erin says. “We’ve seen how bad it can get and how destructive this disease is. And you don’t want to see anybody else in that situation.

Culturally it requires a big shift, even for those of us in healthcare. We are not used to wearing PPE for our entire shifts. Part of therapeutic communication is going in and sharing a smile.”

When she thinks back on her time at PDS, Erin is clear about the biggest takeaway. “I so appreciate that students at PDS were given the room to think and problem solve creatively, and given the opportunity to fail and to try again to turn things around without feeling badly about themselves. That ethos has helped me prepare for my whole career, and especially this spring I’ve put it to critical use thinking outside of the box and developing a strong and diverse nursing team. We were able to cultivate a team in which everyone was valued and supported, making contributions and problem-solving in diverse ways.”

Asked if she had any shout-outs to friends and teachers, she says, “Definitely Chris Ordowich, my brother Michael McCaffrey, Paris McLean and Alex Koerte; Paris and Alex have been amazing about checking in and seeing how I’m doing. And I always love the opportunity to acknowledge my favorite advisor and teacher, Harvey Lee. I think of Harvey especially when I think of how PDS allowed people to make mistakes and try again. He went out of his way to support and not judge. He would say, ‘You’re teenagers. You are going to get some things wrong before you get them right!’”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

for delivery people, and without a partner to hunker down with. Nevertheless,” she added, “the horrific state of our nation and the world is taking a toll on me.”

As if the other crises weren’t enough, Anne Kales Howson wrote about the California fires: “north, south and east of us…. We all monitor the Purple Air web site several times a day. The index can change in just minutes. I was out walking the dog early this morning, wearing an N95 mask, when it read around 130 (over 100 is pretty bad).”

Anne thanks the lucky stars that she and Jeff moved across the bridge from San Francisco to Marin County when they did. A garden pool where they gather twice a week with their children, Erika and Rusty, and their families, is “a godsend. There is easy access via a gated pathway at the side of the house. So no one comes inside, and we have plenty of room for ‘social distancing’ around the pool.”

Caroline Godfrey Werth caught “almost the last plane back to Boston” after a trip with her sister, Gigi, to visit Gigi’s son in Hawaii.

She then spent two and a half months living with Gigi and her husband in Freeport, ME before opening her cottage in Blue Hill. But now, “with no children to rely on,” she has elected to become “a snow bird” and move to a retirement spot just south of Portland, where she hopes to make new friends and form new interests.

Harriet Gaston Davison Zoomed like mad with her family at their various spots in England. “Then things eased up, and I started seeing them a lot and recently came back from nearly three weeks in Cornwall with all 16 of us!” She has managed to “stay sane, positive and quite cheerful through it all, largely helped by the glorious weather we’ve had and, above all, the fabulous friendly neighborhood I live in.”

Speaking of neighborhoods, Martha Thompson Eckfeldt is moving into a retirement facility only three blocks from her house in Brooklyn Heights. She looks forward to life at the newly renovated Watermark building with its “gorgeous 1920s décor, as well as an amazing array of activities every hour, it seems. And my new apartment has a breath-taking view of bridges, skyscrapers, boats and the Statue of Liberty!” Sad though she is to leave the lovely house she and Dick bought decades ago, she is thrilled that her small granddaughter, Eliza, and parents will be its new occupants.

Susie Behr Travers is “so grateful that I am healthy and safe, with a beautiful garden and home that I love.” She’s struggling to become more tech savvy in order to connect with children, Kim and Ben, who live in Dallas and San Francisco, respectively. She talks often with Mary Jane Burbidge Hayes “as we are the last of the class to still be here” in the Princeton area. “It’s nice to have someone

nearby to share memories with.” She reported that Eileen Baker Strathnaver, with whom she speaks from time to time, “is safe and healthy, too.”

Those of us with partners count our blessings. Carol Garrigues Scofield wrote that “COVID-19 has allowed me to spend the past six months truly ALONE with my husband of 59 years and, surprisingly, it has been wonderful! Who would have thought?”

Louise Scheide Marshall Kelly has “learned a few things during this time of uncertainty and unrest: I know a whole lot more about toilet paper than I ever thought I would need to know. I’ve learned that I touch my face more than I previously realized.” But, best of all, “I’ve learned that I enjoy being alone, being with my husband, with my dog, and all of us staying relatively isolated.” Nevertheless, she was thrilled when daughter, Jenna, and family joined them in Vermont during the summer.

“We were able to enjoy many outdoor activities with them, but no touching until their departure when we all had teary, masked hugs.” Louie added that “Zoom has enriched and expanded my life in many ways—enjoying yoga with my Vermont teachers, regardless of my location and realizing that there will be no yoga snow days this winter!”

My (Penny Hart Bragonier) last real-life hug with my grandson, 12-year-old Bodhi Bragonier, was on March 5 in the Christ Church airport as he and his parents, Dean and Sally, headed for home—just in time, as it turned out, for Bodhi’s school in Cambridge MA to shut down. (Frank and I followed two days later, barely making it into the US.) Thanks be for the two-plus weeks we all had together in NZ: swimming with dolphins in the open sea, boogie boarding (two runs did it for me), hiking and rejoicing in each other’s company. Dean says we should’ve stayed.

Penny Hart Bragonier ’60 enjoying a nonvirtual hug in New Zealand with her grandson, Bodhi Bragonier Frank and I will probably hang out on the Vineyard until Thanksgiving. Despite quarantining there, in Michigan and elsewhere, our lives have been full. Thanks to scheduled Zoom meetings (bridge, book and film clubs, meetings, etc.), we usually know what day it is. Besides working hard to register FL and PA residents to vote by mail, I spend much of my time guiding small groups of dyslexic kids through the virtual curricula developed by my son’s non-profit, NoticeAbility Inc., when

schools closed last spring. One of my groups: four delightful and ingenious boys in Canada, MN, ME, and Zimbabwe! I’ve also been kayaking a lot, feeling like Superwoman as I power through heavy winds and lively waves, until I return to the beach and can barely get out of the damn boat. Thanks, knees.

Certainly, the death of Sally Hagen Schmid this past July weighs heavy on our hearts.

Memories of her chuckle, warmth, athletic grace and zest for life and travel stay with us.

And we are ever grateful to her for providing the spark (our 60th birthday reunion at her place in Florida) that has kept us all close over nearly two decades now.

Yes, we are getting older and mindful of what lies ahead. Carol (Garrigues Scofield) says that losing two of her oldest and closest friends this year has “brought into focus what will happen when I die and what I want to do before then. I am an active member of Compassion and Choices and urge everyone to check it out.”

How disappointing it was that the COVID-19 threat forced Louie to cancel this September’s reunion in Vermont. But, with luck, we’ll get together next year when, as Carol wrote, “we pray that the world will have settled down, that there will be more compassion and love, and that we will be hugging again.” Amen.

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Mahala Busselle Bishop 145 Goody Hallett Drive Eastham, MA 02642 (207) 266-9066 (home) mahalabishop@gmail.com Julia Cornforth Holofcener Placido Mar #1406 5200 North Flagler Drive West Palm Beach, FL 33407-2768 (908) 217-0327 (cell) holofcenerltd@comcast.net From Polly:

Tibby Chase Dennis wrote: “The first half of 2020 has been doubly challenging for me, in that just a couple of months after the totally unexpected death of my husband, Chip, from sudden heart failure, COVID-19 exploded on the scene. Nowadays, deep connections often turn into marathons of mutual sharing—partly about personal issues, of course, but also about the pandemic and the huge upheavals in the country following the murder of George Floyd. I find it hard to imagine a future in which life will ever again be what we used to consider ‘normal’ and I’m sure that most, if not all, of us feel the same way.”

Julia Cornforth Holofcener: “I’m sitting here in the Pennsylvania Poconos overlooking a lovely lake with swans and ducks floating by and mama and baby deer eating below my sunroom windows from time to time. The rest of the world is tragically experiencing an his-

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toric pandemic, and I grieve for the more than 180,000 Americans who have lost their lives to date, as well as the many global deaths. I feel guilty that I am able to enjoy so easily my family and friends abroad thanks to the internet and cell phone, but at 77, I’m constantly hearing warnings from my daughters to take care. For some reason they think I’m old!

“Sadly, my European trip to Greece, France and London with my daughter, granddaughter and sister was canceled. My granddaughter experienced a virtual graduation and her college has instituted online attendance for her first semester and perhaps longer. Her attitude is amazing, but she has had more than her share of disappointments over the past few months. We have all been very fortunate as no one in the family has contracted the virus, and I only go out, mask in place, for food shopping. I will return to West Palm mid-November in the hopes that some of the statistics are better.”

Sheila Long wrote: “I recently listened to La Peste and read Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed thanks to fabulous access to the New York Public Library via Overdrive. I was struck by how closely the characters’ reactions to the plague in both books mirrored the reactions of Americans during the current pandemic. Since mid-March, the main difference in our lives has been the absence of guests, which has had a financial impact, but we haven’t experienced the isolation or loneliness felt by so many. Our dearly beloved yellow lab, Monk, died leaving a gaping hole in our hearts but now Ruby, a red lab, has joined our little community.”

Lucia Norton Woodruff wrote: “I’d love to have a reunion, if possible. Never, ever would I have dreamed that my connection with all of you at MFS would come to mean so much over the years. We are lucky.”

Nancy Smoyer reported: “Since I last wrote, my life was busy... and then, it wasn’t. In January I went again on a safari trip to Africa—my fourth. I liked it so much I could do it again every year. Since March, I’ve rediscovered books—specifically mysteries, which I’ve never been into before. I find they’re addictive, blotting out all my resolves to finally read the classics I should have read years ago. Almost all the fun activities that make Fairbanks special have been canceled, but fortunately, I have a yard, which is mostly woods. As my neighbor said, I’ve been cleaning up the woods of brush and fallen trees. I can still just barely manage my electric chain saw.”

Cynthia Weinrich wrote: “I’m thankful to report that I have stayed healthy so far throughout all the terrible times. NYC was in a bad way in March and April, but it tended to be cluster-oriented, and my neighborhood wasn’t badly hit. Thank God for all the health and other essential workers who stepped up, JOURNAL

and also that our political leaders here in the Northeast were tough in their response.

Also, that it was a lovely spring here to get outside and walk. How awful if it had hit in November! In July, I managed to get out of town to upstate NY, and then spent a lovely week in Tibby’s cabin in New Hampshire in August. Also, thank God for telephone and internet, to keep in touch and help to keep sane. But the personal silver lining is how it challenged me to think about what’s important, and the extra time suddenly available for sorting and organizing (and often getting rid of—best of all) excess STUFF—as well as doing things, like writing, that I’ve always said I wanted to do!”

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Susan Shea McPherson P.O. Box 506 41 Hawthorne Avenue Hyannis Port, MA 02647 (508) 775-1368 (home) suebear3@gmail.com

Gail Cotton wrote: “Thanks to COVID19 and our underlying health issues, we are leading a very limited existence. I hope some of our other classmates will have more interesting news! I’m glad you are well and I am happy to report that we are, too. Thanks for continuing to be our Class Secretary.”

Pat Halcomb Phillips wrote: “Susie, soooooo good to get your note. Glad all is well with you and your family. It will be fun to have your grandsons with you this summer. I fully get why a bakery would be very popular during these stressful times! I can only imagine the peace of waking up to the ocean every morning—I’ll take even the Intracoastal!

“This was a good weekend with a golf ‘skins’ game at Seminole here—and, ta da, baseball from Korea! And then German league soccer matches. Leo was in heaven! Not to overlook whatever racing is done at Darlington and in Charlotte. I did hear that Charlotte drivers will be called directly from their RVs adjacent to the field, to cars, without any practice. Not one of my favorites...

“Since my earlier email, Tom Brady will now be playing once again—and we can’t wait— with The Gronk. Maybe this will brighten Brady’s otherwise age issues? Stay tuned.

“Even though Florida is ‘opening up,’ the southeastern part of the state is scary. Leo and I still mask and glove up when going out, and plan to continue bringing food in rather than stepping out. Our scary thing here is the opening of the beaches. Sunlight and fresh air are good, yes. But Florida seems to attract so many ‘outsiders’ because of the tourism, cruises, etc. Makes things kind of harder to monitor.

“There is almost too much information to sort through what is happening now with COVID-19, how to treat, and what is coming.

I wish the antibody question could be determined. In the meantime, am going to look forward to your visit next winter!!! Stay well.”

Kate Sayen Kirkland wrote: “You are so nice to do this. Yes there do seem to be a lot of names missing, but maybe Linda Maxwell Stefanelli will be able to help you. We celebrated my sister Connie’s 70th with a family get-together in Austin in February, just before COVID-19 changed our lives. Happily I have no friends who have contracted the disease. I have actually used the time of limited interaction to write a book that has been simmering for ages. I am now on part three of a triple biography, so hope to keep on slogging. It will be nice to feel that travel is once again safe, but for the moment virtual friends are the best. Zoom is a marvelous invention! I hope you and your family are safe and healthy.”

Lucinda Brown reported: “I got back from a colonial Mexico tour and solo visit to the Monarch Sanctuary in March as awareness of COVID-19 was the chatter. And I live in one of the worst states—‘Floriduh’ is not a joke. Sister Sally is doing well in her locked down assisted living, and I am living an even simpler life: online yoga and kung fu (no, not warrior level), swimming, outdoor distanced coffees with one or two neighbors, some good books, assorted TV, Zoom sit-ins (the first PDS Black alumnae/i meeting was mindopening), cooking experiments and my ever expanding Virginia family research that has turned into a personalized history project (fun and frustrating). The world beyond is so horrifying it seems unreal. I look forward to hearing about you all.”

I, Susan Shea McPherson: These last several months have been a difficult time for our country. I hope you all have been safe and healthy. Fortunately, our son, Rob, and his family, including two boys, ages four and one, came up here to the Cape for seven weeks this summer—it was such fun to have them for a long visit; we could do things that normally we can’t during the usual two-week stay.

Otherwise, I haven’t crossed the Cape Cod Canal, nor do I have plans to do it.

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Virginia Elmer Stafford 312 Tulane Drive SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 (505) 342-2855 (home) vesalb@aol.com

It was great hearing from some of you.

Hoping that those who did not share are doing well and staying well during these challenging times.

Liza Maugham has retired and is looking forward to being able to decide “what I want to do and when I want to do it.” On the other hand, she is a little frightened not to have a set schedule. She welcomes suggestions on this and sends her best to everyone.

Laurie Rogers said news is scarce as they had to cancel or postpone many plans due to COVID-19. At the beginning of the pandemic, she confessed that she was feeling sorry for the “elderly” who were particularly vulnerable, until, “I slapped myself and realized that I am most definitely part of that group! How did THAT happen?!” She wonders if anyone else is experiencing reminders of our advancing years. In June, she found it hard to move her sister into a senior living place. She and Bob are feeling lucky to be healthy and living in Connecticut, where virus levels are low and where they are doing day trips to farms, mountains and the seaside. She also enjoys Zoom Pilates, yoga, time with friends, reading, sailing and admits to a Netflix addiction.

Sally Campbell Haas has found the summer especially hard as she has canceled trips to the Cape three times due to travel restrictions.

Up until the virus hit she was skiing regularly, and recently she is glad to be back in the Pilates studio, walking and adding some hiking. She is hoping for a vaccine soon.

Sharon Stevenson Griffith reported that she and Chuck were in their apartment in Florida when the virus hit, and since New York was a disaster they were not eager to return. She was relieved that they timed it right and got back to Pound Ridge in May before Florida got so bad. They are now staying close to home where they have many projects to keep them busy. They canceled travel to Nantucket, Norway and Finland, and are just hoping that their son will be able to visit from Seattle at Christmas. Sharon also sent a copy of the family Valentine’s Day letter full of family news and pictures of her son’s artwork on display in Concourse C of the Seattle Airport.

Ellen Levy is working on her art projects and encourages anyone interested to look at her current work, SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN, which is on her website.

Kleia Raubitschek Luckner enjoys living in McLean, VA where she visits often with her three granddaughters. She finds it fascinating to see the difference between how she and Kurt did things and how this generation is parenting. Her sister and brother are also nearby. She is busy with AAUW and AARP activities with a primary focus on women’s health. She is finding it hard to get used to doing all her activities remotely, but is grateful that her apartment has a lot of natural light, no stairs and plenty of space.

Turid Helland expressed how she still talks about her time at MFS and how impressed she is at the MFS ability to stay in touch. She says that Norway has done well at keeping the virus down, but it has meant that she and her husband canceled several trips, including their 50th anniversary trip to France. She is a professor emerita at the University of Bergen and still active with research in dyslexia, developmental language delay and multilingualism.

Their two children, with careers in research and journalism, have two children each, who keep them on the alert and updated. Turid and her husband live in their wooden house by the sea where her goal is to keep “dipping.”

Kathy Sittig Dunlop said that she and her husband are making the most of these crazy times catching up with old friends and getting rid of stuff. Kathy is very grateful for all Richard does for her since her stroke and losing some vision. Kathy is dedicated to her exercise and has been processing her feelings about current events by writing. Kathy’s faith in God is also a great source of strength.

Pamela Sidford Schaeffer wrote: “It’s not easy being original or having much to say during this time of COVID-19.” She has been isolated in her beautiful southern CA neighborhood since March. Since they are usually on the Cape, it is the first time in 20 years they have experienced summer in CA. She has improved her “eating-everything-all-the-time skills” and is grateful their Labradoodle needs lots of walks. She also reported not knowing she was old until the pandemic, when she started shopping at the senior hour of 7am!!

Polly Miller lost her 31-year-old mare in July but has found Timothy, a seven-year-old horse full of character. She sent a lot of news about children and grandchildren, whose lives are different with the pandemic. She wishes that all classmates stay healthy and busy through these dreadful times.

I, Virginia Elmer Stafford, continue to keep very busy with my counseling practice. I am not sure I will ever completely retire but hope to slow down some once the demand due to COVID-19 reduces. I am planning on moving to Olympia, WA and a house with lovely views of the Puget Sound sometime later this year. The desert has never been my place, so I am very happy to be able to get back to water and near some grandchildren. My greatest hope for the future comes from my grandchildren (ages 15-25) who have all found their passions and ways they want to find meaning and contribute.

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Barbara Rose 33 Calhoun Street, Suite 218 Charleston, SC 29401 (609) 937-1700 (cell) barbarabrose@me.com

She was always a good listener. Early on, our paths crossed at Radcliffe and again when we were newlyweds in California. I missed out on the family raising, community building and pottery-making segment of her life in Atlanta but enjoyed catching up in the DC/ Johns Hopkins chapter, where we often got together. She was a dedicated educator working to improve public high schools, especially in the South and in science education. She won and managed a huge Gates Foundation grant to do just that. Although she was not in good health, she traveled widely for her work, generous with her time and her expertise, and she loved her visits to her kids and grands in Spain and California. I was fortunate to have several special conversations with her in the last weeks of her life. Even then, isolated in a hospital and then a nursing home in COVID19 times of no visitors, she didn’t complain.

Punctuated with her fine sense of humor, she shared her insights into healthcare culture and the empathy she felt for her caregivers.

We and countless students and teachers owe Joanna a debt of gratitude for all she did to make schools better. Thank you, Joanna.”

It is Dora Lange who probably knew Joanna the best and the longest. They began their friendship at John Witherspoon Middle School. Dora shared her long association with us: “Joanna and I were fast friends from the day we met in sixth grade at Witherspoon School in Princeton: two nerdy girls who liked to walk round and round the playground at recess, talking, like two serious professors talking. We made quite a pair! I went on to Miss Fine’s for high school, and she followed shortly after, becoming a shining light academically in our class. She was a math and science whiz and a talented writer in any genre Mrs. Shepherd assigned for our weekly compositions. She was the gifted editor of our 1964 edition of The LINK yearbook, and wrote the insightful free verse interpretations of each classmate. When her father was appointed President Johnson’s science advisor, Jo came to stay with our family for our last months of high school. She went off to Harvard; then we lost touch for many years, while she raised her children, Lara and Dan, in Atlanta, became a potter, and eventually found her way to the field of education.

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of one of our own.

Joanna Hornig Fox passed away at the end of May after a brief illness.

It is to her memory we dedicate this column.

Cary Smith Hart and Joanna’s paths crossed a number of times after graduation from MFS. Cary shared her thoughts of those times: “I was honored to consider Joanna a good friend.

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Xan Nowakowski ’01 Ph.D., MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatrics / Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine (Orlando Regional Campus) “Growing up at a medical school—both of my parents are developmental neurobiologists who specialize in clinical education—I suppose it was probably inevitable that I always had strong interests in both health science and social justice. But my sense of purpose in my own practice as a health researcher and clinical educator comes equally from my own personal challenges,” Dr. Nowakowski explained in a recent conversation with PDS. Dr. Nowakowski was born with cystic fibrosis (CF), a progressive genetic disease that affects the whole body, and very rare genetics were eventually identified in Dr. Nowakowski’s case. Despite frequent illness and struggles with lung, heart, kidney and blood vessel damage, Dr. Nowakowski earned a BA in Political Science from Columbia, a Master’s degree in Public Health at Rutgers, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Medical Sociology at FSU, the latter while working full time for the College of Medicine. It was during this time that Dr. Nowakowski’s particular CF gene mutations were identified after genetic testing that took place in Orlando, where Dr. Nowakowski has been based at the local FSU COM Regional Campus since 2016.

“As I became more active with different CF organizations, infection control became more and more of a central theme in my work as a clinical educator. I also

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teach research methods, data analysis, clinical skills and special topics related to LGBTQIA+ health in addition to supporting students with their community engagement and quality improvement projects. I understand the patient perspective intimately, and along the way, I’ve worked with many students who themselves had chronic physical conditions. It’s been incredibly rewarding to see them flourish and find their unique path as clinicians,” Dr. Nowakowski explains.

“I also teach undergraduate and graduate students, and have been helping all of my students understand the COVID-19 pandemic in clear terms, and have encouraged them to share relevant information with their friends and family members who don’t work in the health field. I’ve also been working with several of my medical students to develop and enhance a web resource for our local Orlando Health network that helps clinicians get current and thorough information about emerging infectious diseases. I’ve been working on this with a colleague who is an infectious disease clinician and epidemiologist, with both of us providing input and mentorship for the students,” Dr. Nowakowski adds. “I also write periodically for CF Roundtable, the official newsletter of the US Adult CF Association. My latest piece, which dropped earlier this month, is all about implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for our community.”

Asked about key factors that fueled Dr. Nowakowski’s education and career arc, this PDS alum had a ready answer: “A PDS education encourages students first and foremost to consider and respond to the needs of others. My parents let me choose where I wanted to attend Middle and Upper School, and I chose PDS for this reason above all. Nearly 19 years after graduating, I still stand by this choice. PDS helped me hone my intuitive interest in helping others into concrete leadership and teamwork skills that would help me make a strong impact,” Dr. Nowakowski reflects.

“My years at PDS also taught me a lot about the value of social resources in living a healthy life. Our collective ability to survive and thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic depends strongly on our ability to show up for one another socially while

staying apart physically. I see every day how my education at PDS prepared me to lead on this front. In our PDS community, every strength a student showed was valued and given space. We learned how it takes a village to solve problems and make progress, and how no one skill set is more valuable than another. This has allowed me to connect with people in the unique ways that best support them, and to appreciate what I can learn from those interactions while providing helpful feedback myself.

We have to rise up and be the helpers we would have looked for as children—in the ways that we can within our unique circumstances,” Dr. Nowakowski adds.

“Sometimes this means helping loved ones at home stay calm and well during a time of great uncertainty. Sometimes it means providing direct care or other frontline services. And sometimes, as it has for me, it means working in the background to ensure that clinical care providers have the right tools and know how to use them,” Dr. Nowakowski observes. “Masks and gloves help a lot… but so does understanding the ethical implications of choices about how to use ventilators, or knowing how to evaluate a patient for breathing support on an individual basis, or helping a family stay emotionally connected while one of its members has to self-quarantine, or supporting a domestic violence survivor stuck at home with their abuser.”

“For me, the great shining light of a PDS education is that it shows us all how to ‘be the helpers’ (to paraphrase Mr. Rogers) in our own unique ways,” Dr. Nowakowski declares. “Moreover, it gives us personalized support in developing those skills and the confidence to use them. I know I came out of PDS a better person than I went in, because I was better equipped to make a difference for others. I know I am in the right place because I still feel that light burning within me every day. Semper luceat—may it always shine.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

Later we met a few times in Washington, DC, where we joined with Sue Jamieson as ‘Grannies Unite!’ We met again in California, getting together here in Indio a couple of times in connection with her Johns Hopkins University consulting. Her work in the education field was her passion and was making an impact with teachers across the country. We visited Joshua Tree National Park as wildflowers were beginning to bloom and spent hours reminiscing about Miss Fine’s and discussing her fascinating and important work at JHU. She was making plans for retirement when she passed away in May in Washington, DC after a brief illness. Her ashes will be returned to Little Compton, RI, a place she visited and loved since childhood. I treasured her sharp mind, wry sense of humor, professional dedication and, most of all, her friendship. When we look back on our days at Miss Fine’s we will always remember Joanna as a vibrant and beloved classmate. She will be greatly missed!”

Joanna spent the last 15 years dedicated to the success of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins School of Education. Her associates wrote a lovely tribute last spring, which included, “Joanna worked at the Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS) for over 15 years as a program developer and senior program officer. At CSOS, she made major contributions to research, development and dissemination efforts, including Talent Development Secondary and Baltimore Talent Development High School; the evaluation of Public Broadcasting’s American Graduate effort; Building a Grad Nation’s annual reports on improving the nation’s high school graduation rate with CIVIC; implementation and study of early warning systems and ninth grade promotion coaches in Alabama; and most recently, the Pathways to Adults Success project, the direction and development of which she helped to shape in her role as codirector. Through all this, she was a force of nature, free-thinking, insightful and speaking her mind, always pushing in smart and creative ways to help the students and communities least served by existing supports and institutions. She made a difference and will be missed. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, there will not be a memorial service until 2021. In lieu of flowers, donations are being made to Save the Redwoods League in San Francisco, CA. In these challenging times, Joanna would push us all to keep doing what matters.”

As a class, 17 in number, we became a cohesive group of interesting, intelligent, freethinking women with a broad range of personalities and talents. There was always room to express yourself, to be who you were.

Joanna, we are proud to say, will always be “one of us.”

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Margaret Woodbridge Dennis 11115 Fawsett Road Potomac, MD 20854-1723 (301) 983-9738 (home) hotyakker@gmail.com

Peggy Woodbridge Dennis: COVID-19 has made life very boring. All the travel, groups and friends that make life in the DC metro area wonderful are canceled indefinitely. I’ve spent time calling old friends around the country and world.

I’ve also had time to think about reasons I’m grateful that I went to Miss Fine’s School.

I have fond memories of: Susan Anthony; Madame Holenkoff; Mrs. Shepherd and Mrs. Smith; music teachers in Middle School; George Warren; Miss Campbell; and, of course, Tom Hartman, our new, senior-year Head of School, whom we all adored.

Martha Gorman Nielsen: “This will be short... my husband had a stroke and is in the hospital, but I had planned this entry before that. Last fall, I took a trip to Italy for three weeks with friends. What a wonderful trip!”

Ellen Aronis Heard told us: “Jamie (my husband) and I moved into our dream ‘retirement’ home. It was the project of a lifetime. We are grateful to have a lovely place for us to shelter in place. You can view our house online at wiedemannarchitects.com. We are under New Homes, Corner Courtyard Residence.

“I am still working at educational consulting for adolescents and young adults who struggle to navigate the world successfully. I am practicing my meditation and Qigong daily and looking for some inner joy. That is my hope for us all in the future.

“My children, Sarah and Nick, and my grandkids, Callum (6) and Maisie (3) are living in San Francisco. Prior to the COVID-19 situation, we were able to visit quite regularly, but our visits have now been relegated to Zoom sessions/FaceTime or simply phone.”

Dabby Bishop Palmer wrote: “Life continues very quiet here in the Poconos. We don’t go out, but stay home avoiding crowds. Our daughter, Amanda, a teacher in Washington, DC, has been here for about six weeks. She has been tutoring remotely, and studying for her comps for her Ed.D. program at Johns Hopkins. Proud to say she passed!!! Now, on to completing her dissertation!!! She will be teaching remotely during September.”

Phoebe Russell Ozuna wrote: “I am still living happily in Pasadena, CA with my husband, Ron Ozuna. We retired in 2011 and are now mentoring teachers in the Education Department of Loyola Marymount University. I am also a poet and a co-founder of Cahuenga Press, a literary press in LA. I recently published my seventh book of poems and the press has just published its 28th book.

“Ron is a bird photographer and we have taken many birding excursions, most recently to Colombia. Colombia has 25% of the world’s bird species and 25% of the world’s flower species—glorious. Ron takes amazing photos, which can be found at https://rozuna. smugmug.com

“I have two sons; the oldest, Ocean, who lives in San Francisco with his wife Suzanna and three children (Astrid, Axel and Lena), is a general manager at Fandom and Suzanna is an executive at YouTube. They moved out to CA from Brooklyn three years ago and it seems to agree with them, although things are very tough right now in the Bay Area because of the fires. I am delighted that they are closer!

My son, Will, who lives near Amherst, MA, is a theater professor at Hampshire College.

“At the moment, our life consists mostly of athome activities. Like many of us, we are being very careful. The big adventure of the week is going to Trader Joe’s or the grocery store. We are still birding, which gets us outside and away from the news. Otherwise, there is reading, writing and taking walks when it is cool enough to do so. Recently, I volunteered to be an online tutor for my grandson!! As I head ever onward into my 70s, I am amazed that it has been 55 years since we graduated. How is that possible? I wish everyone good health and a peaceful soul.”

Sally Stewart Gilbert reported: “Mostly we’re doing as well as can be expected. The wonderful part of all this is that we see two of our grandchildren many times a week. Without that I would be a basket case. I know, I’m really lucky. Love to all.” (Editor’s note: We are sad to report that the above Class Note was written before the recent passing of Sally’s husband Steve Gilbert)

Alison Hubby Hoverstein wrote: “I continue to enjoy all that Denver has to offer culturally and athletically, as well as the many possibilities for volunteering. My major in art history is well served by our wonderful Denver Art Museum, and we had an active theatre scene. I have become an avid road biker (not motorcycles!), am addicted to pickle ball, and still have a pretty good game of tennis! Pre-COVID-19, I drove on a weekly basis for a program called Road to Recovery, taking cancer patients to treatment. I travel as much as possible, which usually has me doing active (road biking or hiking) vacations with a US company called Backroads. My two oldest and I are about to do a trip in the San Juan Islands; it will be a nice break for all of us. Seeing the US and other parts of the globe from the vantage point of a bicycle is, in my mind, pretty neat!

“My daughter lives and works in the Vail Valley so I can get my mountain fix when the spirit moves me. My oldest son lives in LA and is in the video streaming business and dabbles in other pursuits. The youngest is based in Denver, although he travels the world working as a lighting director for some

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of the top bands in the industry. Because of COVID-19, he is not working but is on retainer with Bruno Mars and hopes to get back to his normal routine sometime in 2021.

“If any of you happen to come through Denver, please let me know. In the meantime, stay safe and well!”

Molly Dorf Purrington wrote: “I am still working raising money for the Humanities Division at the University of Washington in Seattle. I love it and plan to retire next year. I live on an island close to Seattle and it is quiet and beautiful, so COVID-19 has certainly not been as difficult for me as for others. My dog takes me out for at least four miles a day and I marvel at all the sights. My children, Marya and Adam, live on their own and are good people, so I don’t think I can get much better than that. I sleep in a canvas tent in the summer and revel in the birds in the morning. Hard to imagine what this will all be like when the rain starts.”

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Peter E. B. Erdman 700 Hollinshead Spring Road, Apt. D100 Skillman, NJ 08558-2038 (609) 759-3362 (home) PErdman700@comcast.net

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David C.D. Rogers 1602 Tuckers Lane Hingham, MA 02043 (781) 749-9229 (home) (413) 575-8575 (cell) drassoc53@comcast.net

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John D. Wallace 90 Audubon Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 921-2257 (home) njnb1@aol.com

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Michael P. Erdman 20 Pond Lane Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (610) 528-5148 (home) (610) 608-8665 (cell) mperdman57@gmail.com

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Edwin H. Metcalf 900 Hollinshead Spring Road, Apt. J100 Skillman, NJ 08558 (609) 921-2386 (home) ehmet@comcast.net

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Philip Kopper 4610 DeRussey Parkway Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5332 (301) 652-2383 (home) PosPress@AOL.com

Weary of grousing and hearing others grouse about life as we have come to know it, I challenged my ancient classmates to find some other news to report for this issue of the Journal. Let us ignore the agonies of COVID19/lockdown/quarantine, I dared and find “something better going on… in your personal Slough of Despond.”

Responses came from nearly half our class of barely nine survivors, and most of them involved literature one way or another.

Could we consider it a legacy of our Form Six English teacher, Headmaster Mr. Henry Ross? That’s your call.

Tim Cain fired back from upstate New York: “The confinement here has given me time to do more reading than usual.” He offered one recommendation: “During the past six months, no book has been more impressive than Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky.”

John Wellemeyer phoned from the comforts of Rosedale Road, listing a veritable library that he has plowed through during the present unpleasantness. His catalogue of recommended reading included some surprises: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser, an eye-opener about the brave folk who drove our westward expansion in the 19th century, as seen through a life of the author of the Little House on the Prairie books. The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 by George Howe Colt, a snapshot history of our time centered on the epic gridiron contest that was played a decade after John and I left New Haven. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson. This bestseller recalls Churchill’s first year in office when his gifted leadership saw the nation through terrible crisis. It is a wonderful antidote to today’s front pages. The Room Where it Happened, A White House Memoir by John Bolton. One insider’s tell-all memoir, which John found “very upsetting!” Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy by Seth Jacobs. Renegades in striped pants have performed marvelous feats for America, gaining such territories as the Louisiana Purchase and tout Texas.

Farther afield, in southern Vermont, I reached Sherry Smith, whose recent vocation had been operating a used bookstore in Brattleboro with his sister, Jane Smith ’61. Sad to say they retired that enterprise two years ago. Sherry reported he is staying close to home and boosts his karma by keeping in touch with local friends.

Reporting in just before deadline, Bob Hillier said he remains “relatively positive in this

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‘Damndemic’ period” by staying busy with architecture projects and sparkplugging his journalistic venture, Princeton Magazine.

A forthcoming article reveals New Jersey’s unsung role in food processing through companies ranging from Welch’s Grape Juice to Taylor’s Pork Roll. Bob’s contribution to the article was to highlight Kerr’s Butterscotch, a candy maker in Jamesburg owned by the father of our lamented classmate, Tom Kerr.

Bob wrote: “When I entered PCD in the First Form, my family lived in Cranbury and about five miles farther east there was a small town called Jamesburg where there was a butterscotch company owned by the father of our classmate, Tom Kerr. I was born a Canadian and came to the US because my father got a great opportunity at RCA’s Sarnoff Research Center. Mr. Kerr was also Canadian, and the story is he moved the company from Canada so that his kids could get a better education.

But, he was also a Princeton grad, Class of 1934, which is probably why he picked Jamesburg for his Kerr’s Butterscotch Factory.

“After prep school at Groton, Tom ended up as a classmate again at Princeton, from which, he then went on to seminary and became an Episcopal priest (pastor). He passed away in December of 2018.”

For myself (Phil Kopper), after Netflix binges wore thin, my wife and I rediscovered the joys of reading aloud. Our book club had chosen a monster for our next (virtual) gathering, David Copperfield, which weighs in at 860 pages. Daunted by the heft of Dickens’ tome, we found a joyous way to engage with it and spend evenings chipping away, reading back and forth. (That chestnut also prompts sweeter dreams than Sopranos reruns.)

I just hope the Journal’s next issue reflects a happier time than these dark days of galloping pandemic, confining quarantine, vanishing civility, confounding economics and staggering governance.

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Kenneth C. Scasserra The Court at Palm Aire 2701 N. Course Drive, Apt. #509 Pompano Beach, FL 33069 (609) 598-1776 (home) kscas@hotmail.com

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Fred M. Blaicher, Jr. 710 Manatee Cove Vero Beach, FL 32963-3728 (772) 231-0046 (home) fritzblaicher@yahoo.com

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Need Correspondent

Editor’s Note: We were so sorry to learn that your classmate Guy Dean passed away on October 11, 2020. Guy was a correspondent

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT on people. Specifically, seeing patients in the hospital who are really sick or dying and who are not able to be with their loved ones is especially hard. Of course, basic measures (aside from PPE) that have proven to be effective include washing your hands a lot and not touching your face. I have become a true practitioner,” Caitie continues.

Caitie Gribbin ’09

M.D., Internal Medicine Resident

Since the global pandemic arrived on the east coast, Dr. Caitie Gribbin has been working with patients seeking treatment.

“When the virus first started sweeping through New York, I was working overnight shifts admitting a lot of people to the hospital with COVID-19 symptoms,” Caitie recalls. “It’s interesting to see how things have evolved over time. A few months ago, we were still figuring out best practices and how to manage the complications of COVID-19.”

By the end of May, the huge flood of people being admitted daily with the virus to her NYC hospital was down to a steady trickle, although they were “still seeing many patients with complications. At the same time, some others who were struggling recovered. It’s so important to understand why some do well and others don’t.”

Caitie’s rotation shifted during the spring to a step-down unit as one of the team members, working full shifts six days a week. “We take care of admitted patients during the day and formulate their plans.

So instead of intake and initial planning and stabilizing them overnight, we’re working with them and changing the plan day by day, taking care of the patient the whole time they’re in the hospital,” Caitie explains. “This allows us to see the entire arc of their hospital experience. We have a lot of patients coming in who need a lot of oxygen but aren’t intubated, and who recover well. While some have come out of the ICU, others who have had tracheostomies had to go on respirators in very serious condition.”

While Caitie and her colleagues have done all in their power to help ‘flatten the curve’, “we’re all seeing how difficult some of the measures have been in terms of the effect

“There will be additional waves of this pandemic, and certain protective measures will continue to be needed,” Caitie adds, but she foresees some shifts. Seeing family members and having very small gatherings and going into stores in a cautious fashion with controlled numbers, for example, are practices “we will have to work on as we continue to live with this threat over the months ahead,” she notes.

What’s gotten her through the hard times so far, we asked? Caitie didn’t skip a beat in her answer: “My colleagues, for one. I can’t imagine being in a more supportive environment than my hospital. Everyone is so open and honest; we rely on each other to not gloss over feelings, which is really important for connecting and maintaining a sense of perspective in any organization at such a difficult time.

“Focusing on social connections is important,” Caitie adds. “I love running in Central Park with my fiancé, Brian. I also talk to my parents a lot and my Dad is now FaceTiming regularly, which he never used to do! My friends and I have a weekly trivia night and a virtual happy hour on Zoom. I’m also allowing myself to rest and just do things for fun when I’m not at work. Getting enough sleep is so important; I need my 7 1/2 hours each night. Even though I’m not great at drawing, I’m making an effort to draw now, reading more, even trying to make sour dough bread—although that hasn’t yet been a huge success!”

Reflecting on Princeton Day School, Caitie sees how her higher education and career choices naturally evolved. “PDS was a big part of my life for so many years. I went to PDS from elementary school on. After I graduated, I went to Cornell for college, then med school.

I guess you could say I stay at the same school for the long term!”

Another PDS legacy: her continued passion for both the humanities and science, along with athletic pursuits.

“I liked both science and the humanities at PDS, but focused more on English then. I distinctly remember creative writing classes with Q (Tom Quigley), which I loved. I did a lot of writing for the Spokesman and cymbals. Other teachers I really enjoyed included Carlos Cara, who was my bio teacher and advisor, and my physics teacher Anthony Lapinski. I really grew as an athlete during my time at PDS, and loved playing field hockey with Coach Jill Thomas. I also enjoyed being on the rowing team for Mercer Junior Rowing, and at Cornell, I ended up rowing for four years,” she recalls.

“I always thought I wanted to do something where I was working with and serving people. I was a bio and English major in college and did bench work while there.” She found she loved her bio classes and the lab, and found a way to combine both while doing a year and a half of research during her med school and master’s degree five-year program at Cornell. “That experience really got me to the idea of training to be a physician scientist,” she explains.

Caitie’s goal is to complete a hematologyoncology fellowship program, which helps participants go through residency and fellowship training and “then get funding with the goal of having your own lab. After I finish clinical training, I plan to work a couple of years in the lab and then will try to get hired somewhere where I can see patients and also have a lab,” Caitie says.

Caitie feels fortunate that overall, the COVID-19 treatment trajectory at her hospital is encouraging. “One of the reasons is that our critical care teams are truly excellent. Though it has been such a challenging and sad time, I’m hopeful and grateful to be doing what I’m doing right now.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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for the class of 1955 for many years and was a dedicated and faithful alumnus and past parent. We send our condolences to his wife, Vicky, and their children, Andrew ’98 and Wistar.

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Robert E. Dorf 1063 Vail View Drive, Unit 26 Vail, CO 81657 (970) 471-1067 (home) dorf b@outlook.com

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James Carey, Jr. 245 A Chestnut Avenue, Unit 2 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (781) 801-2490 (cell) tim_carey@nobles.edu

As I am sure every other class scribe will do, I begin with hope beyond hope that all members of our PCD Class of 1957 are not only faring well, but also thriving. Those who responded to my pleas for news speak for themselves. So here you go:

Bob Smyth answered my request last night, as I was about to write this note. Like others, he misses the parts of his life that get him out of the house and keep him active.

“I didn’t realize how much I would miss substitute teaching elementary school kids in Princeton. Likewise, the senior citizen memoir writing class and the GrandPals program. I went from having to be somewhere to do something every day and now to doing nothing. I read, clean the house (I must say, better than the cleaning service we had), run errands, do laundry and other miscellaneous chores. I don’t care much about sports, at any level, except the Steelers and my wife’s cousin, Kevin Streelman, who plays on the PGA Tour. He’s currently ranked 28 in the FedEx Cup standings and it’s fun to watch him. I guess the high point for me since March was our annual trip up north to the Adirondacks on Lake Champlain. I have been making this trip every summer of my life, and the beauty and tranquility of the place have not changed over all those years. Sorry to be grim, but I look forward to better times.”

Pony Fraker also came through yesterday, and it is clear that moss is not growing under his feet. “I am playing tennis, and I have taken up golf... a humbling and continuing learning experience. I have also been finishing, with co-authors in Sweden and Bulgaria, a second book in my seventies (late bloomer) on neuroscience and urban design. A lot of fun.

It is coming out in the fall by ORO Editions.

I finally built raised vegetable beds and have been enjoying the fruits with my gourmet cook spouse. I must say, I continue to be anxious in these troubling times, in spite of binging on multiple Netflix series, dance and theatre broadcasts. Hope you all are well...we are so privileged.”

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Bev Aaron wrote to extol the blissful aspects of being retired. “I’m living in Phoenixville, PA in an apartment directly overlooking a bike path that follows French Creek for many miles. From the apartment it’s a tenminute drive to the horse farm owned by my daughter, Liz, and her banker husband, Luke, who’ve blessed me with three grandchildren.

After 42 hectic years spent as the writer/producer of Prime Time, a weekly magazine-format show at WPVI-TV, the ABC station in Philadelphia, I’m relishing the blissful peace of retirement. It’s been well worth the wait.”

It is no surprise that Adam Hochschild remains actively writing along with his wife, Arlie. “My latest book, Rebel Cinderella, appeared in early March, but, not surprisingly, the country seemed more interested in COVID-19. Advice to classmates: never publish a book in the middle of a pandemic. We have been waiting out the virus at home in Berkeley, CA and, since my wife is also a writer and we both normally work at home, our lives are largely unchanged.

As our oldest son likes to say, ‘My dad’s been sheltering in place for 40 years!’ We’ve got our kids, grandkids and many friends close by, and have been seeing them for socially distanced outdoor visits in our backyard. So we have little to complain of and much to be grateful for.

This past spring my UC Berkeley writing class had to switch to Zoom in mid-semester, and my students are graduating into a world that will be mighty difficult for them. I’m hoping greatly it will be a better one, for them and all of us, after November.”

Hugh Wise, with whom I used to play endless games of stickball in front of my house in town, just wrote to say, “Mary and I are fine. We are mostly staying at home, watching the ducks, but no rubber ducky, on our neighborhood pond. Aspen seems to have the bug contained because of strict mask requirements. Our present problem is the smoke from the wildfires in Western Colorado. It is hard to both chew and breathe the air at the same time.”

Writers abound in this class as Pony and Adam have shown us. Some of you may have received from Andy Harris a note about his new book in which he wrote the following, introducing his text, but before that, extolling Adam’s work. “Since there are so few of us from the Class of 1957, I hope you will indulge me with a little unabashed selfpromotion of my recently published book, Spirituality & Social Action. But before I do that, if you haven’t read Adam Hochschild’s books, you have been missing some great literary treasures. My personal favorites are Bury the Chains and King Leopold’s Ghost, but everything that Adam writes is first class.

“2020 is a year of struggle and awakening in America. The country reels from the COVID19 pandemic, social distancing, an economic recession and protests over persistent racism.

Where does faith fit into the seismic changes shaking the foundations of our society?

Spirituality & Social Action addresses the intersection of faith and social justice. It discusses racial inequality, economic disparity, violence vs. nonviolence, climate change and other pressing issues of our day, and advocates for faith in a loving and merciful God as a key to the way forward. For more information, including how to order, please go to the book’s website: www.SpiritualityandSocialAction. com. Rob Kuser and his wife, Mary Kay, recently read the book and haven’t asked for a refund… yet!”

And in his note to me, Rob Kuser, aside from reporting that the last five months have kept him isolated at home, did say, apropos of Andy’s comment, “Indeed, I heartily endorse this book. I read it in a day and was greatly inspired by Andy’s thoughtful reflections on how we should lead our lives.”

Joe Wright, who comes and goes from Toronto to Florida to Nantucket, offered the following: “Every day is the same as the day before and the next day! That is life in 2020. We returned to Toronto from Florida on March 6. We realized the severity of the virus quickly and spent the better part of four months in our apartment except for trips to buy food, drugs and wine! We also exercised every day, me walking outdoors and she Zooming Pilates. We Zoomed with friends near and far. We arrived in Nantucket on July 8 and quarantined for two weeks and then back to the same routine as Toronto. We realize that we are among the most fortunate as we will not be financially and emotionally devastated like so many others.”

From the West Coast, Staff Keegin reported: “The only news of significance is that I’m still alive, and we moved into our new house that was built to replace the one we totally lost in the 2017 fires. Last March, I was in NYC for the CCA ‘big brass’ meeting, and figured that I just missed COVID-19 on that trip. So upon return to Sausalito, I took to sheltering in place, which was easy to do because there wasn’t much law work around. As summer approached, I figured I had about a 65% chance of going to Maine and a 65% chance of not going. I ended up not going. So the boats were returned to their respective sheds, moorings were pulled, and that’s about it.

Well, not quite, because along came the new fires. About two weeks ago, Susan and I went up to Kenwood and took photos of everything we owned inside the house and shed, just in case. So far, and the season is still young, our brand new house hasn’t burned, but boy, is it ever smokey. The closest fires are about 15 miles east in Napa and 15 miles west. The winds are light tonight, and that’s good.”

And from Florida, Bill Smith reported: “When I retired from the banking business in 2014, Maria and I sold our house in Princeton Junction and moved to a townhouse/condominium in Pompano Beach, FL. After we arrived in Florida, I agreed to take on the job

of treasurer and then president of my condo association. Tough jobs. Over the last five years, the association has had to deal with a fire, a big hurricane—and now COVID19. Children are working hard. Daughter Caroline is principal of a private school and has just finished developing remote learning programs for her 450 students. She lives in Boca Raton along with husband Andy, and their daughter, Alessandra, and son, Blake.

Our son, Jonn, is a serial entrepreneur. He has just sold his internet advertising business to a French company and has started still another internet business. He lives in Ann Arbor with wife, Aimee, and their sons, Zachary and Riley. Zach enters University of Michigan this year.”

Like most of you, I have slowed the level of my activity. I continue to volunteer at a local Catholic school that enrolls underserved boys in Boston and help them apply to Catholic and independent high schools. My photo passion has been cut since all sports were canceled in the spring. I might be able to do some work this fall with those schools that will offer certain sports and some games. My hospital volunteer work is on hold. But I am exercising a great deal, playing golf more than I have ever done, and it provides lots of walking. I miss seeing my children and grandchildren who are spread out in Philadelphia, Colorado Springs and Ithaca. But, like others, I have absolutely nothing about which to complain. I have good health and a comfortable place to live. Right this minute, I am imagining how people are surviving the massive hurricane in Texas and Louisiana in the midst of a pandemic.

Sending my best and many thanks to you all.

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Toby Knox 122 Fairway Drive South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 985-3191 (home) toby@tobyknox.com

From David Stewart: “Has it really been 62 years? Good grief. Trust you and family (and our classmates) are doing well COVID19-wise. In brief: I’m still enjoying my postretirement gig teaching international law as a ‘professor from practice’ at Georgetown Law, doing some writing and consulting. Spent a truly exciting 33 years in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State (but glad not to be there now). Children grown and thriving: respectively, an investment adviser, a career military officer, a physician and a mental health counselor. Jennifer (a retired MD) and I dote on grandkids whenever possible, treasuring our good health and good fortune and hoping to be able to travel soon to exotic places. Like most, we worry about the future of the country and the planet. Best to all.”

Frank Bushnell checked in from hot Texas and sent his “pandemic journal.” “On March

10, I told my barber to cut my hair a little shorter because I would not be back soon.

Since then Jean and I have been on patrol at periscope depth for six and a half months with occasional foraging missions, primarily for beer and wine. At that time, our refrigerator began to fail—the freezer became the refrigerator and the fridge kept things below room temperature. Fortuitously, a year or so ago, our regional grocery chain recognized trends and began curbside and home delivery—what a godsend. Also, a kind neighbor offered to shop, and she is much more selective than the grocery service. Thank goodness, too, for Amazon. On Bastille Day, we finally got a new freezer/refrigerator bought through e-commerce.

“I bicycle frequently for exercise. And shocking to some Easterners, I endured six months without refreshing marksmanship skills but finally got to the range twice this month.

“Saving graces: while serving on submarines, I learned to keep a haircut in trim so now you likely would not realize that I haven’t seen my barber for all of these many months. However, I miss going—harmless ‘un-woke’ and ‘uncanceled’ humor there—and I feel sorry for the business he must be missing. I have thought that I ought to pay for those visits for which I have budgeted but not spent, much like paying the demand charge that utilities assess for keeping capacity available.

“With care, we’ll make it. Just a new set of challenges that keep the mind active. Best to all of you.”

Sandy Kirkpatrick reported: “So far we have canceled trips to Italy and Colorado this year.

A driving trip to Asheville, NC, planned for September/October, is in doubt, as Florida’s virus numbers are so bad that some states are beginning to discourage us from visiting.

“We have been hardening our 32-year-old house from hurricanes (many are forecast for this year), and should be finished this month when a generator and huge propane tank are to have been deployed. We haven’t minded being sequestered here, as we like our house and have a man cave and a woman cave, which cater to our respective interests. We are in excellent health and are trying to be careful.

“My oldest son David has become friends with former President Carter and is an Executive Producer of a documentary film called, Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President.

It has received excellent reviews and has been purchased by CNN.

“David has a daughter headed for Taft this fall. They live in Georgia, which is a ‘bad’ virus state, so the ‘onboarding’ experience involves a delayed start, tests, quarantining and limits on parental visits. She is an athlete, but sports are out for this year. Ugh!” John White chimed in that “Kath and I and all our family are the fortunate ones, as no

one has the virus. We do not know anyone who has had it. We live in the country in northeast CT where there are more cows than people. Very few cases here. This summer we returned to our summer camp in Maine, near Bath, for July and August and joined family and friends in another safe bubble.

“However, anxiety is very much alive in our family and coming to a head now that school is about to begin. Both our daughters are teachers and our three grandkids are in middle and high school. Never did we have such an anxious time in our schooling at PCD!!!!

“Yes, I do remember Civil Defense drills, which were a welcomed diversion more than a threat (anyway, that’s my memory)! Best from a former Pink Slip Specialist.”

News from the Class Correspondent Toby Knox: Kathryn and I beat a hasty retreat from Portugal in mid-March when it was announced (falsely by the President) that anyone traveling from Europe could not get into the US. We cut our trip short by 10 days (much to Kathryn’s initial unhappiness) but luckily were able to change our return flight from Lisbon. The thought of potentially coming down with the virus while traveling was more than I wanted to gamble. Otherwise, we very much enjoyed our visits to Lisbon and Porto and recommend a voyage to Portugal if you have not yet been there.

We are awaiting the birth of our third grandchild in late September. Our son, Andrew, who was with Second City in Chicago, moved with his wife to Los Angeles in May, just as Hollywood was shutting down. Hopefully, the comedy and acting world in LA will open up soon. It has been a delight having our daughter, Amanda, and her family back in Vermont and so close to us.

John White and I are going to count up our pink slips someday to see who had the most.

I’m putting my money on myself.

My thanks to my loyal contributors to Class Notes. By the time the Journal reaches readers, I assume the election will be over and hopefully with the turn of the year a vaccine will keep all of us, our loved ones and the rest of humanity safe from the virus.

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Stephen S. Cook 928 Mill Creek Drive Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 (561) 660-7890 (home) (908) 227-4391 (cell) stevecook566@gmail.com

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Peter H. Raymond 547 East Street Dedham, MA 02026-3060 (617) 365-0236 (cell) peterh.raymond@protonmail.com

Low attendance at the off-line August email convocation of the PCD Class of 1961 is, as of this writing, frighteningly ominous.

Perhaps it’s just the same old environmental collapse, viral infections, wildfires, protests and anti-protests and anti-anti-protests, super tides, hangnails, chasms in the social landscape and baking yeast shortages. So perhaps folks are hunkering in their bunkers. As we are entering ancientdom with its myriad vulnerabilities and pitfalls, all are forgiven for playing it safe.

In the absence of response from so many whose responses would be so welcome, I have a mind to follow the example of Richard Reynolds who, in support of the geological counterpart to a Journal class secretary desperate for column filler, concocted… well, he should tell his own story: “... I wrote that Mary and I returned to Nepal and settled north of the Annapurna Himal in Braga, close to Manang. They farm potatoes and onions, and welcome all alums passing through (Braga, Manang, and Thorung La were then at least a 14-day trek from the nearest road.) For years afterward, departmentmates reuniting at conferences would express surprise. ‘I thought you were living in Nepal.’

‘Oh, when did you return from Nepal?’”

Of course, it would be wrong to make up a story that Regan Kearney owes the Lawrenceville School library $346.27 in overdue fines; that Peter Kirkpatrick is conducting research on an indoor solar-powered Zamboni; that Ward Kuser finished third in the National Ambulance Stunt-Driving Jamboree in Medallion, MT; or that Peter Katzenbach will, according to a time telescope patented by Bob Griggs, file for defamation compensation the moment he reads this. Who would even think up such awful things?

Back to reality: Richard gives this lame excuse for not hiking early in the morning: “We have too many burnable bushes (and trees) too close to the house in the new normal of a 10-month fire season. I’ve always been aware of El Fuego’s hazards but never been so anxious, with current Colorado fires and air overladen with soot particulates (the tiny, really bad ones) from California now degrading the visibility even at 50 meters. The air Richard Reynolds quality isn’t fit even for ’61 on Grand West Nile virus-carry- Canyon rowing trip ing mosquitoes.” this year JOURNAL

Father John Sheehan noted correctly (I have a calculator) that “this year coming will be our 60th from leaving PCD—realizing that future planning at this stage is somewhat akin to writing science fiction—but does anyone have any plans, informal or otherwise?”

As 1961’s high-powered, hyperactive, vigilant and responsible Class Agent, I can state emphatically, “No.” Not yet, anyway. Lots of time left to procrastinate.

Sheehan caught us all up on his everythings: “I returned from Amman on March 3, that cab ride from the airport my last ride in a car.

I live at a medical care/senior citizen center on the Fordham University campus in the Bronx, though I belong to neither of those categories; there were no open guest rooms in Manhattan. Since March, I have not been off the Fordham campus—we are technically a nursing home and have been under extraordinary precautions. I do go out and smoke a cigar or a pipe on occasion—and that means I don’t have to wear a mask.

“So, here I sit without an assignment on the horizon. I’ve been doing a fair amount of writing, and I sing for 90 minutes a day. I’m sorry the Met Opera chorus isn’t auditioning. I lost 60 pounds in Jordan and I’ve kept it down. A two-day, in-hospital physical established that I’m in good health.

“I have done several Father John Zoom meetings and masses—one memo- Sheehan ’61 in Notre Dame mask rial mass had over 250 screens in attendance. I have been invited to resume as National Chaplain for the Catholic War Veterans and for the National Association of Blind Veterans.

“Jesuits are supposed to be contemplatives in action—I have had enough contemplation for the next year and am more than ready for some action.”

Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ, Murray Weigel Hall, 515 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 104585029. Cell: (347) 326-4134

Randy Hobler’s book on Peace Corps volunteers in Libya should be available by the time this issue arrives; it, like Sheehan’s next assignment and a bazillion other matters, has been thwarted by COVID-19; if Randy’s book isn’t out, check out www.101arabiantales.com as I just did, as it includes Randy explaining the amazing Berber counting system.

As an alternative to the Reynolds/Raymond approach to Class Notes, Randy wrote, “I came up with a great idea now being implemented by our Andover class secretary. The issue, of course, is fresh input. He solicits stories about families—usually their fathers and

Randy Hobler ’61 on Berber counting video what they did during the war… sometimes the mothers. I, for one, would be so curious to know what Petito’s or Young’s or your father did during the war. Of course, Rich Reynolds’ father was at Los Alamos and on Tinian to inspect/monitor the Enola Gay.”

When not losing wakefulness over my Class Secretary responsibilities, I sit where I am now, on my couch with a keyboard in my lap, working on manuscripts of projects that absolutely must be published but are unlikely ever to be. I am very excited about one, a short anthology tentatively entitled, You Could Be Dealing With An Oarsman, a compendium of choices only oarsmen (or similarly demented individuals) predictably make—such as, in my case, being waterskied around a whole island, my back screaming in sciatic pain. When asked why I didn’t just let go, I explained, “It never occurred to me. Oarsmen don’t let go.”

The glimmer of a new writing project lit up all 27 of my brain’s functioning synapses. Oh—and I adopted a pair Peter Raymond ’61 with of kittens, adept adoptees Tenebrio and Pishogue proofreaders.

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John F. McCarthy III 25 Brearly Road Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 924-3926 (home) (609) 731-1287 (cell) jack@mccarthyllc.com

Rick Delano, Rick Eckels, John Gaston, Rod Myers and I have done several Zoom conferences following our annual Martin Luther King weekend get-together.

Delano (our PCD teachers always addressed us by our last names) and his wife, Janice, sold their fifteenth (or so) home—this one in Bridgehampton. Their formula for success is to buy a house, renovate, live there for a few years and then sell it. Well done!

Retired after a rewarding career as an investment advisor, Eckels is dividing his time between Memphis and Ponte Vedra, FL.

Miss Fine’s and Princeton High School ladies of a certain age still ask me about Johnny Gaston and Rod Myers.

Gaston has moved to Portland, ME and is still working full-time in construction management that includes work on the Spiral Building, the signature structure in the Hudson Yards development in New York City.

Also retired (as a commercial lender), Myers is still living in Washington, DC and has substituted long walks with his wife, Pat, for golf games. (He does not want me to publicize the score cards from our last three matches.)

McCarthy is still the Princeton Municipal Judge (which would be a shock to most of the PCD faculty) and is practicing law.

If any classmates would like to join our Zoom conference, please contact Rick Delano, our tech wizard, at rdelano@fordngl.com.

I hope everyone is safe and healthy. Speaking of safe and healthy, do we all remember Ralpha Nini?

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John A. Ritchie 6776 Southern Oak Court Naples, FL 34109 (301) 564-1227 (cell) jhnritchie@yahoo.com

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William E. Ring 149A Avenida Majorca Laguna Woods, CA 92637 (310) 600-2015 (home) mwmaverick@gmail.com Donald E. Woodbridge 64 Depot Hill Road Amenia, NY 12501-5817 (845) 373-7035 (home) maderacito@yahoo.com

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Deborah V. Hobler 1342 Rialto Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 682-4896 (home) (805) 314-8490 (cell) dvhobler@cox.net

The last time I wrote this column was in mid-February before the pandemic closed down many of our states. Here I am six months later, five pounds heavier, and my garage no longer houses my car but rather

paper towels, toilet paper, bleach (not to drink), canned goods, face masks, ultraviolet wands, and emergency supplies—and now of course, California has fires raging all over the state—this past week in Santa Barbara we had four days of smoke from up north, the closest was more than 300 miles away, and I was unable even to go walking outside. Between our fires, mud slides, earthquakes and now the COVID-19 virus, I feel I should have built one of those bomb shelters in my backyard— the kind we grew up with in the 1950s to be prepared for a nuclear war. That being said, I have used my pandemic lockdown time to go through my parents’ cartons of files and ancestral scrapbooks. It’s labor-intensive work, but I have had the time and have really enjoyed discovering new family histories and photos.

I have been funding UPS with mailings of boxes of family items that historical societies have said they wanted. I feel good about finding homes for these items as I have learned that the younger generation generally does not seem interested in keeping cherished old family things. Like many people, I have added Zoom meetings with my siblings and friends to my life, which helps me feel connected at a time when traveling is not an option to see anyone.

Margery Cuyler is once again writing; does that surprise any of us? She signed four new book contracts with Simon and Schuster!

Congratulations, and this in addition to her newest book, Snow Friends, which is coming out in October.

On Facebook this spring, she shared beautiful photos of a fawn that took up residence in her backyard, which gave me a sense of peace and quiet and “normality” in the Fawn in the backyard middle of all the COVID-19 chaos. of Margery Cuyler ’66

I can’t remember if I reported on the exciting news that Sarah Jaeger was recently named 2019 Montana Potter Laureate by Montana Clay, an organization of fellow professional ceramic artists. “What makes the potter laureate so meaningful to me,” Sarah said, “is that the recognition comes from my peers, my clay family.” Sarah has now been a ceramic artist for more than 50 years, and during that time, has been the recipient of the 1991 Emerging Talent Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and the 1996 Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. In 2006, she was a United States Artists Target Fellow, and was also featured as one of the artists profiled in the PBS documentary Craft in America in 2007. Despite her

2019 Montana Potter Laureate Sarah Jaeger ’66 ongoing health concerns (which she shared with us in Class Notes earlier) and limited mobility, she has continued to create a whole new line of plates and pots, and with her work with the Prickly Pear Land Trust, which advocates for accessible urban trails. Sarah says it’s taken three years to figure out how to live with her disease, but live with it, she does. Our congratulations on becoming Potter Laureate, Sarah!

Barbara Sullivan wrote in June: “We are well here in Wilmington, although last night there was the beginning of some violence downtown,” in relation to the Floyd protests in town. “The local NAACP and BLM chapters had sponsored peaceful rallies, but a rogue group came into town with less than peaceful ideas, so we stayed home.

“Our son Charles is an ER doctor in Brooklyn. He was in the deepest part of the deep end when the epidemic was at its worst.

All the media stories you heard with the lack of PPE and the ER being turned into an ICU, with everyone being totally overwhelmed, were true. Basically, he dealt with people arriving dead, or dying within hours of arrival or a few days. Very few survivors. Very sad. His wife is a PA assigned to a COVID19 unit at a different Brooklyn hospital, dealing with the same issues. They have an adorable seven-month-old baby, Henry (congratulations to the grandparents). They are all healthy, by some miracle.”

Barbara has enjoyed her gardening a lot this year, doing some watercolor paintings and research on a new book (climate change gardening for the Southeast). “I have about a year to research and write it. It’s a large topic. We’ve been doing six-foot wine and cheese gatherings on the porch evenings with friends, and I do my yoga class twice a week on Zoom. I’m involved in my Middlebury reunion online Zoom meetings, and a friend and I host one of the ‘rooms’ on sexism and feminism then/now.”

Hannah Blakeman has taken to posting mouthwatering photos of what’s on her dinner plate on Facebook, for example: Yucatan citrus chicken bowl with poblano smoky red pepper crema and pickled onions… In this time of staying home and eating more, this

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has been dangerous for me. Every time I see a new dish of hers, I have to ask her for the recipes. My favorite so far has been a mushroom and farro pilaf Israeli salad.

Linda Staniar Bergh is enjoying her new life as a grandmother.

Lane was a happy one, and because he was a Princeton grad, Princeton University became a big part of her life. She was a member of the Princeton Varsity Club and the only female lifetime member of the Princeton Football Association. Sally loved traveling, often following family members who were living abroad at one time or another. Most important, she was a passionate, lifelong Yankees fan, and carried around a transistor radio in her purse so she could steal away at parties to check the scores in the ladies room!

She lived a remarkable life. Our class extends our deepest sympathies to Steve ’64, Sally ’66, Mark ’70, Catherine ’71, Henry ’74, Mary ’75, and Teresa ’79, her 16 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.

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Linda Staniar Bergh ’66 with her one-yearold grandson, Finn Katherine Becker unfortunately got the COVID-19 virus. She wrote, “Yes, I caught the hoax, the ‘make believe’ ailment” in late March and struggled with respiratory cough and chest pain after the initial symptoms (including loss of appetite and trouble staying hydrated) went away. Because she didn’t fit the COVID-19 profile, (low fever) she wasn’t allowed to have a COVID-19 test.

Fortunately, she recovered, and when she did, she worked on her new house; gardening, putting up artwork, and planning a kitchen redesign (it’s from 1987). As a regular participant in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (and one of the reasons she moved to Ashville), she was disappointed when they canceled the spring term. This summer there were 10 online courses, but she doesn’t know what lies in the future. Like all of us, there are no planning schedules for some time. I know Katherine had to cancel an Italy trip in the fall. Let’s hope online courses remain available!

I was very sad to learn of the death of Sally Lane’s mother, Sally Kuser Lane ’42 on June 7.

All of us who were fortunate enough to know her remember her as a lovely, striking, tall, confident and warm woman who dearly loved her family and Princeton. She touched anyone she met. She attended Miss Fine’s School, and all of her seven children attended Miss Fine’s or Princeton Country Day School or Princeton Day School. She had a huge community of friends (and family) and kept in touch with them often by sending postcards for birthdays, graduations, marriages, christenings, anniversaries and to any of her family at sleepaway camp. Her 50-year marriage to Art JOURNAL

Susan Fritsch Hunter 49 Boatwrights Loop Plymouth, MA 02360 (774) 773-9627 (home) (203) 206-6402 (cell) ares543@comcast.net

This is probably the strangest, most unsettling year I’ve lived through since putting together this column. It all started for me with a text from my daughter telling me to stay inside.

“Don’t go out,” she said. “It’s dangerous out there. I’ll get your groceries.” And so began March and April, figuring out Instacart, doing a jigsaw puzzle, peering at my confused grandchildren through the car window, not wanting to watch the news with reports of deaths and confirmed COVID-19 cases. This time has also meant long walks through the pines and on the beaches, off-season bike rides on the Cape, Zoom dinners and meetings, and finally, with warmer weather, babysitting for grandchildren and restaurant eating outside. I hope and pray for an easing of this pandemic across the country and around the world.

Francoise Foassier wrote about her “lockdown life” in southwest France: “I came back from seeing the Northern Lights, also called Aurora Borealis, in the very north of Norway on March 9, just a few days before the solemn words of the President indicating that all schools, high schools and universities would close until no one knew exactly when. It was a time of gorgeous weather, and after a period of frenzied work in the apartment cleaning, sorting and painting, I took walks every day in the park along a little brook with a neighbor whose conversation I enjoyed a lot. The happiest part of this time was that my grandson #2 got his baccalaureate without having to sit for it! I’m not sure if the older boys did a lot of homework, but my younger three—two girls, 11 and 12, and a boy, eight—had a lot of homework and did very well.

I long to travel to the States again, but when will that be?”

Marta Nussbaum Steele wrote: “I moved back to Bucks County, PA right before COVID-19 hit and am glad I got in under the wire, although moving was very stressful, as it always is. Glad to be back, to have rustic hiking trails I can go to for exercise, scenery close to where I am, and friends nearby. I don’t miss city noise, but I do miss being able to walk or Metro everywhere and am getting used to lots of time in the car. It’s great to be close to family in NYC, except that my daughter, Liza, and her family are in Switzerland indefinitely, in a lovely location in the Jura Mountains, where my granddaughter is taking pony-riding lessons, her first outside activity since COVID-19 hit.

She has lived in three different places this year, but as a four-year-old, she’s acclimating well.

Oh, what changes the pandemic has wrought!

My move, of course, was planned before it hit, not as a result. As a freelancer working out of a home office, I’m less affected than many, though many of us are retired. I do miss my outings, and, other than hiking, I go out only when it’s essential.”

Mary Woodbridge Lott wrote: “I escaped NJ at the end of May, and I quarantined in Maine for two weeks as was required. As I write this, I’m still here until October. I miss my family. Up here, I have a prosperous garden; the tomatoes, squash and cucumbers are about to overwhelm me. I’ve been playing pétanque with many friends here. We’ve had some unbearably hot days, but as I write, summer is coming to an end. I hope all my classmates are okay. Weezie Huntington came up for a few days. It was a good time. I’ve been in touch with Franny Gorman and Betsy Gilliam Brown.”

Jo Schlossberg McConaghy had some good news to report. “Our big news is that Bill and I became grandparents in June. Our daughter, Laura, and her husband, Ky, who live nearby, welcomed Rory Sykes Winborn on June 19, weighing in at nine pounds. We’re in their bubble and so have been able to Rory Sykes Winborn is enjoy several weeks the new grandchild of Jo together at our Cape Schlossberg McConaghy home in Eastham. ’67 and husband Bill.

It’s a most joyous time in these crazy times!”

Julia Lockwood wrote: “The virus has certainly thrown a monkey wrench into visiting plans! We’re hunkered down here in Maine.

Rachel has a new professorship in history at the College of Idaho, which is online this fall, so she’s teaching remotely and living here in Maine. We tore down the old Wildwood

house and have built a new smaller, more modern one that we like very much. Rachel is living there for now. Shradha is working at Pineland Meats as the quality supervisor and living in Portland. Priyanka is headed back to UMaine in Farmington next week for a semester living off-campus and attending mostly virtual classes. I had to stop my various volunteer activities—Humane Society, Homeless Teens Health Center, Portland school-based clinic, as well as my singing groups and, of course, church. I’m still studying languages—French, German and Japanese—remotely, which has given me something to do, and I’m doing music on my own. Marc is busy playing golf, and we’ve been busy building and furnishing the new house and are now tackling the grounds.

We’re all healthy. I’ve been starting to make calls for the Democratic Committee and am looking forward with anxious hope to November.”

Pam Erickson MacConnell wrote: “I’ve been in Macon, GA since August 2 helping my daughter and her husband juggle their jobs and two children during the start-up of the academic year. My son-in-law, Justin, is a specialist for students with vision impairment in the school system. He was able to work virtually all spring and, therefore, help his oldest, Audrey, with her first grade home schooling. This school year, as in many parts of the country, things will be very different. Georgia has one of the worst rates of COVID-19, and it’s not really slowing down. The school system has announced the delay of the start of school until the day after Labor Day and that the first nine weeks will be virtual. But teachers had to report for pre-planning on August 6. My daughter, Sarah, works as the Director of Career Services for the Mercer University School of Medicine, which has declared all orientation and classes to be in person. No staff or professors are allowed to work from home, not even for childcare or health issues! So, I’m here to take care of the kids and probably supervise the virtual learning until something stabilizes—who knows when! It will be a challenge juggling a prekindergartener and a second grader, but I do enjoy being with my grandchildren. That’s a good thing as I will be here until the end of September or longer.

“I send my best to the Class of ’67 and all those I knew at PDS. We’re strong and well educated and know how to adapt to this crazy world. I look forward to the day when we can gather again at PDS and celebrate.”

I hope that those of you who read this column and haven’t contributed in a while will email me your current email addresses, so I can add them to my PDS email list. My email is ares543@comcast.net.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Dr. Andrew Fishmann ’68

Pulmonology, Respiratory Therapy, Critical Care Medicine; ICU Director, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

When asked about the key experiences that led him to a career in medicine, Dr. Fishmann recalled, “I had always considered being a doctor, beginning when I was quite young accompanying my mother and ill grandfather to his many doctor appointments. I also credit two Princeton Day School teachers: my biology teacher, Barbara Schleyer, who first inspired me about science, and my math teacher, Steve Gilbert, who was also very supportive.”

ICU Director at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, CA and co-founder of Cogent Healthcare, Dr. Fishmann is also a senior partner at California Lung Associates, a pulmonary and critical care practice, among his many other professional affiliations and accomplishments in a career spanning more than four decades. HIs extensive experience and particular focus on pulmonary and critical care have placed him in a key position to contribute to the urgent work of quelling COVID-19.

“Having been on the medical front lines for the past 42 years, starting with Legionnaires’ disease as a senior medical student in Philadelphia, then the AIDS epidemic as a pulmonary, critical fellow and private practitioner, onto SARS and H1N1 infections, I am currently serving in other ways than on the front lines because of age and other risk factors. Like a general supervising the troops, I find myself overseeing young new ‘Intensivists’ [intensive care specialists] fighting the daily battles,” Dr. Fishmann explains.

Dr. Fishmann’s days in his home office are devoted to supporting front-liners in his 28-bed ICU and the cardiac unit, which has accommodated COVID-19 patient overflow, reviewing daily charts and x-rays and consulting on patient care. He also scours the literature on COVID-19 and the experiences of those combatting COVID19 in foreign countries, New York hospitals and local universities. His mentorship of young physicians at Good Samaritan Hospital has added stability to the ranks in this fast-paced and demanding environment.

Dr. Fishmann reports that, like so many others across the country, the hospital initially struggled with limited PPE supplies such as masks, shields, gloves and gowns.

To address the issues, the hospital moved to laundered gowns in the spring, and the hospital was able to obtain 400,000 masks for their use and for other hospitals thanks to a Good Samaritan colleague with family in China able to help coordinate with those involved in the supply of masks.

Because of the hospital’s specialty in pulmonology and respiratory therapy, they fortunately were well stocked with ventilators and were even able to send 60 across California to be shared where needed. At the time of this interview, Dr. Fishmann reported that supplies of test kits were still inadequate, “making it difficult to identify those who have had the virus and who now may be candidates for donating plasma, a promising therapy that needs testing.”

Dr. Fishmann concluded with a cautiously optimistic reminder. “Post-COVID-19 will be a new world,” he stated, “but in the meantime, life will continue to be different than we have known it until we have a vaccine or the drugs and disease knowledge to manage the virus.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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Sophia Godfrey Bauer 50 Hopedale Dr. North Kingston, RI 02852 (860) 707-5649 (cell) sbauer2086@gmail.com Mary Hobler Hyson 1067 Wolf Hill Road Cheshire, CT 06410-1732 (203) 272-1294 (home) (475) 434-7773 (cell) bassett7750@cox.net

Herb Hobler, father of Mary Hobler Hyson ’68, at dedication of Princeton Day School Class of 1968 Graduation Class of 1968 10th Reunion

“Take a stroll down memory lane... through our 55 years at PDS! From 1965 to 2020!”

For news about Dr. Andrew Fishmann see the Alumni Spotlight on page 91.

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Susan Denise Harris 801 Ocean Boulevard Isle of Palms, SC 29451 (203) 517-7656 (cell) susandeniseharris@gmail.com

Beverly Bevis Jones: “Filling in the missing years. I am doing amazingly well in Stuart, FL my adult home now for 40 years. It’s hard to believe I just celebrated #69. The years between graduation and moving to Stuart in 1990 were remarkable. I attended three colleges: Bennington, La Universidad de las Americas, Pueblo, Mexico, and then got my BFA degree from the University of Denver. Other stops on my adventures included living in San Francisco, LA, Key West, NYC, Antigua and London.

I met my husband, Ryland ‘Taff ’ Jones, in London and we married in November 1990 and began living in Stuart. I don’t have any children by design. Unfortunately, Taff and I divorced, and he was tragically killed in a helicopter crash in Guam a year after our divorce.

He was a pilot and died doing what he loved.

Class of 1968 20th reunion

Class of 1968 40th reunion

“I wish I had remained in touch with more of you over the years, but my family moved to Stuart when I was a freshman at Bennington. It was so great seeing many of you at our 50th reunion.

“I am still happily working (most days anyway).

I have two small businesses. One is a website and digital marketing company (www.pdgostuart.com). I kicked off my career in Stuart doing fundraising and then realized I was supposed to be in PR. I am rebranding the PR company as a virtual agency with other colleagues who are experts in related services.

“COVID-19 has been a real toll on everyone’s life. Fortunately, the digital world remains active, and I am just running along; trying to keep up.

Class of 1968 45th reunion

“I would love to hear from you or, better yet, see you in person. Contact me at Beverly@ bbjonespr.com. Hugs to all.”

Laura Lamar: “We are doing well here in the Sonoma Valley, in spite of COVID-19, drought and fires. We’re both reading a lot, walking a lot (when it’s not smoky!) and enjoying the ‘Chopped kitchen challenge’ of learning to cook JOURNAL

with what shows up in our CSA (commonly supported agriculture) box each week—a change in our shopping habits to stay out of grocery stores. Food photography has always been, and continues to be, a shared hobby for Max and me (follow us on Instagram @LauraLamar36).

Otherwise, faring well in solitude; lots of e-chatting these days. Cheers to all our PDS tribe.”

Doug Rieck: “My kids are in high school, with my daughter at 17, a senior, and my son at 16, a junior. We live at the shore, so PDS was not an option, but we do have an excellent school district. COVID-19 and the lockdowns have not been fun, seeing them miss the spring part of the school year and feeling their pain. Kids need the community of school so that they can grow and develop as we did. Life is bleak with school in a lockdown. Last year, my daughter missed her induction into the National Honor Society, her spring trip to Costa Rica, Junior Prom, her spring sport of sailing, even her SATs. Last January, my daughter and I did manage to get in two college visits prior to the lockdown. Summer has been better with both of them having summer jobs and being out with friends again.

“The coming school year is starting in the new hybrid fashion. Three days one week and two the next week. The school district had wanted a five-day-a-week program but was persuaded to use the hybrid. This is better than the virtual program. Last spring, all learning stopped when the schools went virtual and the kids stayed at home. I have hope but feel that my children will miss out again on a significant part of their formative teenage life. My years at PDS were so significant to me, that while my kids are not at PDS, they need the opportunity to grow at their high school.

“Since I am likely the only class member with children in school, this is my opportunity to express my thoughts. Best wishes to all.”

Bob Rathauser shares that, after completing his Israeli Tour Guide extensive course with honors, he has been locked out of most opportunities to guide by the COVID-19 restrictions on travel. Bob is currently in New Jersey awaiting the joyous occasion of his son, Daniel ’06’s, wedding to the lovely Erin on October 12 on Long Island. A very small family affair. Bob’s mother, who just celebrated her 93rd birthday, will share in the event via Zoom—one of the benefits of COVID-19. We shall have to travel to Israel for a PDS tour when the restrictions are lifted. And who better to show us his beloved home than Bob? Beth Healy: “I keep in touch with Blair, Jeanie, Jane, Candy and some others via FB. I feel so lucky to live here with husband, Jack Calhoun, in the small village of Harrisville, NH, population 1000—our house is on Harrisville Pond.

With this summer’s amazing weather since March, we have been in Harrisville doing lots of flower and veggie gardening and I swim twice daily with ‘Harrisville Pond Mermaids!’

Silver linings to COVID-19: Jack’s son, Peter,

bought a house in NH, moving back from San Fran, where he’s lived for eight years. Daughter, Nelly, lives in Brooklyn and was able to stay in her mom’s house in Keene for the last six months. Great to see both kids more. This fall I will continue my literacy and ESL volunteering— but mostly via Zoom! A new world, trying daily to adapt—hope you and your families are safe.”

Our heartfelt sympathies to Blair Lee on the death of her father, Maurice Lee, after a fall. Her dad would have turned 95 this fall; he was a beloved professor of history at Rutgers University.

Fortunately, despite the restrictions, Blair and her children were able to visit him after the fall. Her daughter, Brita, traveled from London and her son, Lucien, from NYC. Blair is recovering from knee surgery and awaiting surgery for the second knee. She is seeing clients via Zoom.

Susan Denise Harris: “Life is not very different for me during COVID-19: walks on the beach, swimming, cooking meals and seeing grandchildren outdoors enjoying time with cousins. Having grandchildren in high school, I do agree with Doug that this is a very difficult time for them, and virtual learning for the elementary-aged children is extremely difficult.

My greatest hope is for these children to be allowed to gather soon before mental illness and addictions take their toll. My best to all of you. The South Carolina beaches are open if you want to visit.”

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Ann M. Wiley 124 Traditions Way Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (609) 902-8132 (cell) awileyemail@gmail.com From May 2020:

Margaret Meigs wrote: “I am incredibly bummed that we are not together this weekend.

Paul and I are hunkered down in Philadelphia.

Left: Ronan and Scarlett; right: Wylie — grandchildren of Margaret Meigs ’70

Thank goodness for our grandchildren— Ronan and Scarlett (who live 10 blocks from us in South Philly) and Wylie (who lives in Brooklyn). We will definitely have a great time next May and I am grateful for the Class of ’70.”

1957 nursery school graduation photo courtesy of Bobbie Miller ’70, which includes Bobbie, and PDS classmates: Eve Robinson, Bruce Plapinger, Freddi Cagan and Laurie Linowitz, plus Lisa Warren ’71 and Ellen Stern ’71 Bobbie Miller sent a great photo of her 1957 nursery school graduation. Eve Robinson, Bruce Plapinger, Freddi Cagan Doeringer and Laurie Linowitz were classmates. Bobbie was so sorry our reunion was canceled but she hopes to be there for Fifty Plus One.

Freddi Cagan Doeringer reported that she had the same nursery school photo, and she also looks forward to our reunion next May.

Eve Robinson also has the same picture. “I’m so glad you sent it because mine is ripped and now I have a good copy. There are two other folks in it from PDS, Lisa Warren ’71 and Ellen Stern ’71.

I think they were in the year behind us at PDS, but in this nursery school class. I grew up with everyone in this picture, so it’s very nostalgic to look at it now.”

Bob Salup wrote: “Here I am, happily lost in happiness, probably because I don’t know any better. I live off Route 29 in Ewing, NJ with my three cats and big black dog named Bukowski. He plays the alto sax. Melody and memories make me happy. So what I remember about PDS is this giant collage of ‘feel goods’ and ‘didn’t give a s***s.’ All of it is wrapped carefully without regrets. I looked forward to seeing everyone at the 50th. I’ll just wait another year. I’m still a window fashion expert. I write every day. You can find me at assorted poetry readings online or live.

I’m in a new relationship again. I hope we all make it through this with little loss and lots of love. See you all in a year. Oupy”

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MY NEW GIRLFRIEND by Bob Salup Seeing you with your new haircut, I think I’ve known you my whole life.

We met at a zen funeral for a naval Air Force general.

Blue Angels firing tracers overhead.

They floated his funeral barge down the Delaware Ablaze. Like George Washington on Christmas Day. And there you were.

Easy to talk to.

Eyes with built in tears military dress in all black.

Was a heck of a party

anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. In a very different realm, I’m working on projects on theater, videogames and virtual reality. My two daughters are both working in the digital economy: Ruth is a senior applied scientist for Twitch (sadly for me, far away in California), and Emily, a digital projects librarian at Temple University. My husband, John Toner, is still working hard, overseeing new construction at the County Theater here in Doylestown, as Founding Director of Renew Theaters, which runs four independent cinemas in the Philadelphia area (including the Garden Theatre in Princeton).”

Afterward. We laid in bed and talked about hairdos, color and highlights.

Janet Masterton reported: “Just like most folks, I am hunkered down during these crazy sad times… cleaning out and reorganizing stuff. By now, most everything is labeled and in alphabetical order. Actually, I have been running errands and even dining out… yes, masks and social distancing. As you can imagine, no pharmaceutical consulting, which is ok with me for now. I have mostly kept in touch with Ann Wiser Fries and Meg Brinster Michael.

Also, some correspondence with Brita Light.

All are well… I have had the delightful treat to be corresponding with Huson Gregory and his family. Huson (retired) and his lovely wife, Mimi, reside on Cape Cod. Daughter Liza is in California and son John is in Australia. They are all doing fine! We must encourage Huson to visit our 50 Plus One Reunion, hopefully being held in the spring of 2021. After all, we did dedicate our 1970 FAB yearbook to Huson! That was quite a while ago, seems like yesterday in some ways. I hope everyone is well, this too shall pass!

“I wish you and your loved ones: good health and be safe!”

Eve Robinson ’70 before and after her first pandemic haircut: “Lots more gray than before!!”

Bob Peck and family at Convict Lake near Yosemite From August 2020:

Bob Peck wrote: “COVID-19 hasn’t changed things much—have to run Ian in the evenings. Older son is out slinging happiness. I’m finally essential! Princeton comes up in my dreams once in a blue moon or so—about A., or hanging with Sam on Nassau, or at one of Jack’s parties, or swimming in a drunken boat at Woodstock... still waiting for tea at Miss Havisham’s.”

Isn’t PDS so fortunate to have “our” Rebecca Bushnell leading the Board of Trustees; I imagine leading the School during a pandemic is more than what she anticipated. She updated us with: “Of course, serving as chair of the PDS Board of Trustees in this time of upheaval has kept me very busy; it seems I’m always on the phone or in Zoom meetings. I’m so proud of the way the School has met the ongoing challenges, while we still have much to do. I have retired from teaching at Penn, but I still enjoy doing all the work of a scholar. I have a new book coming out in the spring from Penn Press, called The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before 1700. Drawing from medical texts, herbals and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, and poetic works, the JOURNAL

Eve Robinson wrote: “This has been a challenging spring and fall; my husband, Tom Fraioli, and I started our isolation in early March and it continues on (and on and on and on). I am shocked that it is now late August. I am keeping busy, and not retiring. I continue to provide support to child care/early childhood education programs in the state of NJ through a quality rating system and direct a program that provides that support throughout Northern NJ. In addition, I am on the faculty at Montclair State University in the Department of Social Work and Policy and teach in the McCormick Center for Child Advocacy as a visiting specialist. I have one more year to serve out my term on the Montclair Board of Education as well, where I was President last year. So I had more than enough to keep me busy and working remotely, but you still miss all the human, face-toface interaction that goes with those activities.

Tom continues his music life in his studio in the basement; he gives jazz violin lessons to students from around the world who find him through his YouTube channel.

“My children are doing fine; Sophia Fraioli will be married in September 2021 (we hope we can all be together by then!) to her mate, Bobby, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where she lives.

Olivia Fraioli lives in Portland, ME and has remained busy with her work at STRIVE, a not-for-profit serving young adults with disabilities.

“I send best wishes to the Class of ’70 and hope we all stay healthy!”

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Blythe Anne Kropf 4343 East Soliere Avenue, Apt. 2097 Flagstaff, AZ 86004 (917) 763-4923 (cell) blythekropf5@gmail.com Thomas C. Worthington 4355 Brook Avenue South Saint Louis Park, MN 55424-1011 (952) 927-9828 (home) worthington_tom@yahoo.com From Tom:

Nina Shafran reported: “All things considered, I am fine. All of us at the Federal Communications Commission have been on mandatory telework since March 20. I’m not a huge fan of working from home day in/day out for months on end, but I certainly am blessed to have my job and to be collecting a paycheck.

Work has been as busy as ever. Plus, the agency is moving in the middle of this pandemic.

I was given a maximum five-hour window to go to my office and retrieve any personal items I would need before we get into our new HQ, which might not be until next spring!

Everything is very up in the air.

“I haven’t been able to go anywhere except several extended weekend trips to New Jersey to see my parents, my sister and her husband, and my nieces, plus a few church services here and there and the laborious trips to the supermarket with all the gear and wiping down the groceries, etc.

“I hope you and all my classmates are surviving well enough in these extraordinary times.”

I believe I was in Second or Third Form at PCD when William Remsen first took me on one of his arrowhead searches along Stony

day is a joy (and tiring!) for me. I’m sure we are all going through so much as we feel the upheaval of our country and the impact of the pandemic. I’m still working a bit as a psychiatrist and I hear about the range of ways that people have rearranged their lives.

Besides enjoying my grandchildren and doing some oil painting, I follow politics obsessively and worry about democracy. We all came of age in terrible societal upheaval and this time reminds me of that.

“I hope everyone is remaining healthy and I look forward to being able to see you all at our next reunion.”

William Remsen ’71 and his crew at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Brook. He is still protecting the past as we learn from his update: “Son Peter (23) spent his senior year spring semester with us in Gloucester, MA while finishing Georgetown remotely. My daughter, Allie (27), will start her final year at Georgetown Law this fall.

My daughter, Sara (30), is Vice President for Augmented Reality at a Boston technology company. More importantly, she and her husband are expecting their first child in February.

Being a grandparent will definitely require some mental adjustments!

“My company, International Preservation Associates, Inc., has just finished successfully de-installing two remarkable ancient monuments that were on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. These were an Egyptian tomb from 2,400 BC, composed of very fragile carved and painted limestone blocks weighing up to 2,700 pounds each, and a magnificent, large marble Roman doorway from around 200 AD. My team and I had to design structural systems that would allow us to safely move and store the individual blocks, while permitting access for further conservation, and which would also facilitate the future re-installation of the monuments at the museum.

“Because there were no records of how these monuments were installed in the 1930s and because we were not allowed to touch the decorated surfaces, my team and I had to overcome many technical challenges. We were honored to work closely with the MFA’s professional conservators and curators on such exciting, creative and fun projects.

“I regret that Wes McCaughan isn’t around to discuss these projects with his special, supportive enthusiasm!”

Rebecca Ramsey wrote: “Spending the pandemic in Vermont where we bought a second home that is rapidly becoming a first home!

We have been lucky to have our son and his family staying with us for help with childcare, and my dear niece, her baby and husband.

I am a fool for child development, so every

Lizette Mills Hardie ’71, with her cosurgery teacher, “suited up for the reality of in-person surgery teaching with our Minion goggles. It’s going to be a fun fall.”

Lizette Mills Hardie reported: “Went into phased retirement (North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine) this summer, but with all the planning needed for a hybrid online/in person teaching experience, it’s been a frantic summer.”

Lisa Warren provided this summary judgment and reminder: “COVID-19 pretty much ruined 2020 for most of us. The PDS Class of 1970 was unable to celebrate their 50th reunion. Alumni Weekend 2021 is May 14-15.

COVID-19 permitting, at that time, both classes will celebrate our 50ths along with classes ending in 0, 1, 5 and 6 at the largest Alumni Weekend in our School’s history! I truly hope we can all be together then. SAVE THE DATE!”

The grandchildren of David Claghorn ’71; future athletic greats to be sure!

Now from your Class Correspondent, Tom Worthington: Thanks to everyone who submitted notes for the Journal; it’s loads of fun to hear from you. On the home front, Melissa and I are excited to report the birth of our third granddaughter (Lella Caroline). She is here in Minneapolis so we will have lots of time with her.

I hope you all stay safe and that we can get together next spring in Princeton for our 50th!

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John L. Moore III 6 Ridge Farms Road Norwalk, CT 06850 (310) 357-9158 (cell) johnlmoore3@gmail.com

Welcome to the COVID-19 column! Who knew?? My family and I are so extremely blessed and fortunate to be alive and healthy and hope that yours are, too. I remember the surprise, shock and fear I felt on March 3 when the news announced that the second confirmed case in the NYC metro area and the country’s 12th apparent case of person-toperson spread was in Westchester County, and commuted into NYC for his law practice. His home was only 20+ miles from us along the crowded northeast corridor. They calculated he had been in contact with 1,000+ people in a 24-hour period. It was shocking to hear the decision to close the borders of his whole town. Much has changed since that day, but much is still unknown. I pray that the daily data and news overdose does not dull people’s moral responsibility to remain vigilant and safe for each other.

The pandemic became personal on Sunday March 15, when I opened an email from Jean Beckwith Funk, only to read: “Passing along that Paul tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. He had fever Wednesday afternoon, not high and no other symptoms, but went to Urgent Care. Tested for flu, came back negative.

The doc (who was a bit cavalier in retrospect) said odds extremely low that he had COVID19, but given his age and underlying condition, he tested him. We split up in our little house and began safety measures. Paul developed no additional symptoms: just fever, a few aches, and exhaustion. No sore throat, cough, or breathing issues. Friday afternoon they called with positive result. I went to see if I could be tested—BUT, as I have no symptoms and they must ration tests, I could not be tested.”

Jean updated her March email: “This past spring our lives were rocked by the pandemic.

Paul contracted COVID-19 when he was out skiing in Colorado, and after being ill for a week at home, went by ambulance to Morristown Memorial Hospital on March 17.

Ultimately, he spent 24 days intubated and on a ventilator, 41 total days in the ICU, 11 days on the pulmonary floor, and 21 days at Kessler Rehab. We were unable to see him at any

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Paul Funk ’72 with his wife, Ellen Beckwith Funk ’72 point. Twice he almost died, but his medical team was excellent, and Paul was well served by being in great cardio shape before contracting the virus.

“The lengthy intubation severely damaged his tongue and vocal cords. He came home unable to speak, eat or drink, with a feed tube in his stomach, unable to walk more than half a block, and down to 131 pounds.

“BUT after three months of relentless work every day with PT, speech and swallow therapists—combined with Paul’s determination, and wonderful support from family and friends—he is now able to speak, to eat real food, to hike a few miles. It has been a long, often dark journey, but Paul has had a miraculous recovery, and we are beyond grateful.”

Now I’m happy to share the following recent email: “Paul Funk and Jean Beckwith Funk are well, all three grown sons are happy and healthy, and we are enjoying our sweet grandson, Ryan, now a one-year-old.”

Jean ended by writing: “Across this journey, we had unrelenting love, support and prayers from family and a wide circle of friends old and new. Dozens of our PDS pals reached out with messages of encouragement, almost weekly. So lovely, but not a surprise! We hope you ALL are healthy and well, and we look forward to seeing you at the next reunion. To be honest, these days we look forward to every morning!”

Steve Bash wrote: “Living in Santa Monica since 2009, which under any circumstances is a pretty nice gig. With shelter-at-home it’s been a blessing to be in such a beautiful, healthy, fun and great weather environment. My fourth daughter (Stevie—yes, a female chip-off-theold-block version) just turned five and begins Zoom kindergarten in a few days. And yes, she is taking tennis lessons! My three daughters from my first marriage are all holding up well, one in Raleigh, NC and two in Charlotte, NC. Have two grandchildren—Reese, five and a half, (Raleigh) and Frasier, six, (Charlotte).

I am not yet retired although I can finally see that horizon and am moving towards it.

Playing tennis, golf, swimming, biking, cooking (my true passion) and playing with Barbies and STEM robots as well.”

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I received a nice note from Susan Ecroyd: “Hi John, Thanks so much for doing this, I do love reading about all of us! My husband David Flanders and I both retired about ten years ago and re-located from central Illinois to Madison, WI. It has been a gorgeous summer here in Madison, and summer is really magic in Wisconsin. With the lockdown, we have not been socializing as much as we would like, but we have a few friends in our ‘pod’ and it has been a good summer for long evenings of wine and fine restaurant take-out around the fire pit.

We had several trips planned for late spring and summer—bicycling Belgium with our kids and their spouses, an East Coast tour, a visit to winemaker cousins in California… All of them are, of course, now on hold. In some ways though, it has been relaxing not to be doing so much coming and going this summer.

I am finding that I have trouble keeping track of the days, which seem to be marked only by whether the beans or the tomatoes need to be picked in the garden. Probably like most of us, I desperately miss some of my activities, like singing with the Madison Symphony Chorus, attending concerts and the theater, having houseguests, and eating in amazing restaurants (indoors!). We are all getting so much more accustomed to living our lives online. I feel like I spend hours at my computer with virtual meetings, virtual events, FaceTime and Zoom. But, I hate to say it, virtual is not always equivalent. So, in closing, stay healthy, be considerate of yourselves and of others, and VOTE this fall.”

Jan Hall shared a harrowing bit of news with a happy ending: “Glad to hear you’re well. It’s been quite a year. I am Director of Activities on two units at the nursing home where mom lived her last eight years. Like many in Massachusetts, our facility got slammed early in April by COVID-19. About 80% of our residents got it, with too many deaths, and about 40% of the staff, myself included, but no staff died. I had a relatively mild case and isolated at home as my dear husband of 38 years cooked and put good food through a door for a scary 15 days until I was released by my excellent virtual medical team. After a few weeks more of exhaustion, I think I’m now back 100%. I’m incredibly grateful to have survived and to be healthy to meet my first baby granddaughter, born 6/17 in the NEK (Northeast Kingdom) of VT, and have my family, friends and work moving forward. Stay safe and well, all—we’ve all still got a lot of work to do to fix our broken world—we can’t leave it like this for our children and grandchildren.

Great to hear from our classmate John Kalpin: “My two childcare centers have remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, providing care for the families of first responders and essential workers. After an expansion two years ago, we are licensed for 164 children. A planned expansion this summer at the second facility has been post-

John Kalpin ’72 at the wedding of his son, John poned. However, somewhere I have building renovation projects going on at all times. It seems that I’m happiest when my creative, builder aspects are at work.

‘Meanwhile, my son, John, was married last April (finally at 42) to a wonderful woman, Julie Morrison. They reside in New Hope, PA.

“I remain in a long-term relationship with Jacqulyn Buglisi, a NYC choreographer whose “Table of Silence” 911 memorial and peace project will be performed for the 10th year around the Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center on 9/11.

“Finally, my annual motorcycle road-trip with Steve Zudnak is scheduled later this fall.”

And this tantalizing tidbit from Brigid Moynihan: “Great outreach John. I have a funny bit of writing to send. Stay tuned. Brigid” While posting a happy birthday wish to Ellen Sussman on Facebook, I came across a wonderful post from Laurie Merrick Winegar to Ellen. There’s Laurie lying on a poolside lounge chair over Labor Day weekend reading Ellen’s bestselling novels, allowing Laurie to vicariously escape to Paris, Bali and Provence!

Wonderful!

John Gordon continues to inform and amuse through his wry and dry humor via Facebook.

Of note was his and wife Bobbie Moser’s generous effort to cut and sew hundreds of facemasks for their local Burlington, VT community.

Tom Reynolds was spotted at the Fort Worth Zoo Ball a couple Septembers ago. He was fronting with the Steve Miller Band and word has it he was helping Steve to master a couple of complicated chords!

Finally, my condolences to our classmate Alex Laughlin and his siblings and PCD/PDS alums Toby ’64, Buzz ‘65 and Carin Laughlin ’74 on the recent passing of their father and my uncle, Leighton H. Laughlin (PCD Class of ’41). Uncle Leigh (Dash to his family) was a quiet, thoughtful man with a good sense of humor and always a twinkle in his eye. He was not only supportive to his family but also behind the scenes to many community organizations in the Princeton area. He will be missed by many.

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Cassandra L. Oxley 171 Pine Hill Road Boxborough, MA 01719-1915 (978) 264-4938 (home) (978) 270-1057 (cell) cassandra.oxley@gmail.com

Happy fall to one and all, we made it through summer… what a crazy few months it has been. I hope you all are doing well and feeling well. I’ve been working from home now since the second week in March. And we just learned that we will not be returning to our office in Cambridge until at least January 1, 2021, which comes as a bit of a relief. Working at home was something I had been doing once or occasionally twice a week, but now, every day!

That has been very different. Things are starting to get a little easier but we still don’t know if we might experience another surge. Hang in there, everyone: we will get through this.

Anne McLeod Weeks sent a thoughtful note from her home in Canada: “As I am sure it has been for everyone, life took a turn this year, pushing us to face change. Fortunately for us, we live in one of the safest places in North America when it comes to the virus. We hope, daily, that it remains as such. With our local dog park closed, we hit the many trails and sidewalks for mammoth walks. We discovered a quieter pace to each day, and we found little gems in nature and town that we had not encountered in the past. I reinvigorated my writing by taking an online fiction class, after years of publishing work in academic journals. I even had a flash fiction piece accepted and am waiting on the results of more submissions. I have sold a few art pieces despite the galleries being closed and the shows canceled. As things eased up a bit in August, I managed to get in some lovely days paddling. As fall begins, I look forward to many more days hiking with my Jack Russell pal, Murphie. The downside, though, is not being able to see family, especially my son and his fiancée, who are holding down the fort in Baltimore in health care and transportation advocacy. I miss playing pickle ball and my live Pilates class. I miss the weekly farmers market and the community coffee circle it brings with it.

However, I am thankful to wake each morning in a beautiful part of the world. I Anne McLeod Weeks ’73 am also thankful with her husband, Jim, to be in touch and dog, Murphie with my high school girlfriends. Sending my best wishes to all of you during this time and sending you all the strength to weather the election in November.”

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Polly Hunter White 2224 Carlow Drive Darien, IL 60561-8458 (630) 234-1691 (cell) pwhite2224@gmail.com

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Yuki Moore Laurenti 464 Hamilton Avenue Trenton, NJ 08609 (609) 394-1065 (home) Laurentijy@earthlink.net Mary Sword McDonough 111 North Main Street Pennington, NJ 08534-2206 (609) 737-8435 (home) (609) 468-5437 (cell) mollyswordmcdonough@yahoo.com

Since our last report, the pandemic has had quite an impact on our lives, our families, our health, our livelihoods and our PDS community. Who could have imagined how complicated foraging for food would be or how ubiquitous video conferencing would become? The latter, as well as email and the old fashioned phone, has allowed for communications and reconnections with family and friends far and near.

Sending wishes for good health and finding some good cheer during these challenging times to all ’75 classmates.

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Katharine G. Kehoe 2060 Cumberland Trail Plano, TX 75023-3225 (972) 897-6609 (cell) kgkath@verizon.net What a year!

And it ain’t over, but so far as I know, we’re all still standing and there’s something to be said for that. I think it’s been a little tough for everyone to feel as though there’s much to share—we’ve all been cooped up with nowhere to go and pretty much everything put on hold, so it’s not surprising that few of you responded to the call for news this go around. I hope that means you’re saving your stories for the spring Journal and for our big reunion in May ;-) The usually world-traipsing Julie Stabler Hull has been homebound like the rest of us, and shared: “Hope everyone has stayed safe and healthy during COVID-19. I continue to lead the Board of Directors of MAIA, an organization that helps educate and mentor young Maya women in rural areas of Guatemala so they can break the cycles of poverty (very rewarding work). I also work as a freelance copy editor on a variety of projects. Our big news is that we’re going to become first-time grandparents at the beginning of March! A new chapter in our lives.” Congrats, Julie and fam! How many among us are a grandparent, I wonder? Not I—not yet. My boys are single and still figuring life out.

Jonathan Stein was also quite a traveler before things got crazy. He wrote: “With the lockdown, I had tons of work and personal travel canceled. But in February, I was in Florida for a business meeting and was evacuated from the hotel at about 5am due to a fire. That was exciting. Then, about a week later, I joined a tour sponsored by Hagerty (I work for them) and about 40 older/special interest cars in Gettysburg, PA, and took the long way to Amelia Island near Jacksonville. Most of the weather was awful, and my 1962 MGA coupe doesn’t have the greatest wipers or defroster.

Along the way we stopped at a few private collections, lapped the Michelin test track near Greenville, SC, and got in a lot of seat time.

We came back the direct route, but again, we made it without incident, cruising at up to about 70 mph with no problems. A few of you may know the car, seeing that I’ve had it since 1977. With a family vacation to Europe canceled for April and news that a trip to Austria and Germany I was working on for the Smithsonian Journeys program was also called off, it was a good time to get more back surgery. It’s not as if I had to go anywhere. And a month later, wife Beki had ankle surgery. We could both work from home and hardly went out, so it has worked out fine. Now we are looking forward to seeing our daughter, Remy, when she visits from Salt Lake City in early September. She’ll be arriving on our 37th anniversary, and I can’t think of a better present, even if I have to drive an hour and a half each way to pick her up in Philadelphia.” Jon, if your MGA is anything like my old green MGB that was one very long trip. I loved her, but not for long trips!

Gwyneth Hamel Iredale wrote: “Cheers from Oregon! This year I saw my 20-year-old son start his own drone business for vitaculture inspections in Napa, CA while working for his dad to fund it. My daughter is working part time, starts driving her car and I expect will give me ulcers as I learn to ‘let it go.’

She’s thinking Oregon ‘Duck’ Class of ’26.

My mother Phyllis, who lives here in Eugene, loves seeing ‘I Grew Up in Princeton’ posts on Facebook, reads TownTopics.com, volunteers weeding and hooks rugs. I am one of the many thousands of unemployed software business end workers. The pandemic has afforded me time to get certified in ‘Enterprise Blockchains,’ hone my skills and keep current.

I stay fit by dancing, doing yoga and hiking the amazing trails around Eugene, and welcome any visitors to our outdoorsy state.” I’m sorry to hear you lost your job, Gwyneth, and hope you land something even better when the dust settles. We’re a diverse and resourceful bunch— would anyone be interested in networking on behalf of classmates and their families looking for a new position? Hop on over to our private FB group “PDS ’76 Classmates” and make your needs known and let’s see what we can do for one another.

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Ann McClure Noel shared some pics on Facebook and checked in with a bit of news: “All well here in VT. Our youngest just moved out of the basement to his own apartment, so I’ve been busy organizing, decluttering things that he had boxed up and pushed into various corners! I was able to get to our camp in Maine for a couple of weeks. Spent time with family (made fairy gardens and picked blueberries with my nieces and their kiddies), and special friends. Hoping we can all get together next spring for our reunion.” Me too, Annie!

My e-commerce business went nutso in a good way when the lockdown was in full swing and remains robust, which is a real blessing and I am grateful. I’m launching a new brand this fall and have two more I’m readying for release next spring. It keeps me more than busy!

Harold Tanner added: “COVID-19 time moves quickly. Old dogs learn new tricks. With college courses going online, spent two months this summer building a course on Japanese history. One day into the semester as I write, I can see why some of my colleagues like teaching online. In a classroom, especially with 50+ students, student opportunity for engagement is limited. In the online milieu, all the students participate, and it’s probably a lot more fun for them than sitting in uncomfortable chairs, listening to lectures delivered in a Jersey accent.”

Let’s set our sights on getting together in May for the big reunion. 2020 is one for the books—bring on 2021!

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Sandra Benson Cress 3726 Connecticut Avenue, NW Apt. 113 Washington, DC 20008 (503) 388-2686 (home) sbcress@aol.com

Hello, PDS ’77-ers. Goodness. Six months ago when last I was doing this, we had NO IDEA what the next few months would have on tap for us. And here we are... locked down, longing for travel and meals out... missing family and friends IRL. Living online and on Zoom as if we were born in 2000, not 1959. Hope you all have managed to stay healthy and sane.

On to a bit of news or updates from our classmates.

Pete Buck ’77 (second from left) with family Pete Buck wrote: “Greetings from the Buck family. So far so good. Henry and wife Callie (daughter of Denis Frelinghuysen!) are living in Miami. Harrison, Mallory and little one live in Portsmouth, NH and Caroline married John Ogden (Lawrenceville graduate!) and live down the street in Rowayton. Nancy and I are in Florida most of the time but love our time up north, especially when we can spend time with this crew.”

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lockdown, which was an interesting feat. I had a lovely visit with Julia Penick Garry, which definitely helped get me to the end!

“Last year, I was lucky enough to travel to Lake Tahoe, Kenya and Shanghai to represent our STEAM program at conferences, so when our plans to visit Portugal for April break had to be canceled, we were resigned. Looking forward to that trip in the near future!?

“Hope this helps! Looking forward to our 45th!”

Clooie Sherman from Seattle: “Hanging in there. Had a car accident (no injuries) and our car was totaled.

Took two months to get a new car due to COVID-19-related manufacturing delays! We feel lucky to live in the city where we can walk to the store or easily order what we need. Other than that, working from home has been kind of nice.

We were able to rent an RV and get out of Dodge for a week. It’s been wonderful!”

Elaine Howard has definitely made good use of the time at home: “I work as a web developer/programmer for a company that gives cyber security seminars. Fortunately, everything can be done remotely over the WWW and computer screens. One would think that I wouldn’t mind the lockup/lockdown, since all I do is stare at a computer screen all day. Muss das sein?

Family of John Haroldson ’77 in North Carolina From John Haroldson: “The silver lining to this COVID-19 quarantine has been having our two grown daughters choose to join their parents in NC rather than stay locked down in their NYC apartments. Who would have thought we’d get this amount of quality time together at this point in their lives! One has since headed back to NY and the other is weighing her options, so it might be coming to an end, but it has been a pleasure!”

Lisa Yokana added: “OK, here goes: my youngest daughter got married last October, thankfully pre-COVID-19, and she and her husband just bought a house around the corner from us in Bronxville, NY. My oldest daughter lives in Manhattan, so I am lucky enough to have them both close by.

“I made it through the spring semester teaching Entrepreneurship and running our STEAM department at Scarsdale High School, through teaching remotely, as we were the first school in our area to send everyone home! We escaped to our summer house in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont mid-June, but now have to return to NY, for me to go back to a hybrid, in-person teaching model and for my husband, Blake Auchincloss, to go back to work in person at Steelcase in the city. We are both not happy about it, but until we retire...

“My father, Andre Yokana, passed away January 1, 2020, and we sold my family house in Princeton just before the pandemic shut everything down. So, I had to empty the house in

“I wrote my 100th song: https://soundcloud. com/likesunshineafterrain/zigzag-rag. I plan to write 100 more before the year ends. That might be a rather ambitious plan.

“However, I don’t plan to retire. Over the next few centuries, I’ll amass an immense fortune and move to a planet at the farthest reaches of our galaxy. Yes, just like Mr. Flint on the Star Trek episode ‘Requiem for Methuselah.’

“I’m learning to speak German. https://soundcloud.com/likesunshineafterrain/fruhlingswalzer.

Mr. Poole and Madame Echeverria tried—in vain—to teach me French. My favorite word so far is ausgezeichnet (excellent). I first heard it in a Volkswagen commercial a long time ago, but not in a galaxy far, far away. That word alone is a good reason to learn a language.

“My brother, also a graduate of PDS, lives in the Princeton area. Sadly, my father, mother and sister passed away. I sometimes walk along the Princeton canal for exercise.

“No pictures have I to show. I’m still learning to use my iPhone. It has everything but the kitchen sink. I’m a low-tech high-tech person.

“My most incredulous/incredible memory from PDS was when, as their senior prank, the graduating class that year wound yarn all around the library in a gigantic Charlotte’s web. The librarian was Mrs. Webb! I don’t know if I really remember it or if it is a dream.

“Anyway, live long and prosper.”

Ibby Carothers shared: “Doing fine in the West Village here in NY; although the city has slowed significantly, the myriad outdoor cafes, fortunately, offer somewhat of a street fair feel, with outdoor music. I miss NY’s theater scene right now, and the permanent closure of many local businesses is heartbreaking. Thankfully, working for Apple continues to be an adventure and I recently celebrated five years with the company. In June, I shifted from the instore retail team to temporarily support Apple’s Retail Contact Center, where we field customer calls in the US and Canada, which I continue to enjoy. I’m also grateful to see Mom weekly now, at her community residence.”

Sandra Benson Cress ’77 and her husband, Doug, celebrated their daughter’s graduation from college.

Mathieu Roberts ’77 at work Finally, Mathieu Roberts chimed in: “Hi Gang, Yes, unbelievable that our 45th is coming up soon. I’m still trying to figure out what to do when I grow up, but meanwhile* I’ve had the pleasure of working on Beyonce’s new project, ‘Black is King.’ Various scenes were shot by yours truly for the New York leg of the music video. What exactly did I do on the music video, explaining that might take 1/2 the Journal so the short cut, if you’re curious, is to look at my website: mathieuroberts.com.

“Meanwhile, my daughter, Sophie, is finishing up college at UCSB, finishing a year and a half early. Frankly, I’m tired of her getting As all the time, and beg her to get a few gentlemen Cs, but she refuses. Very disappointing.

“My best to all and look forward to being with you at the reunion (hopefully, without masks by then). *‘Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans.’” ( John Lennon)

And, Mathieu, very cool website! Really, so much artistry and creativity still in action in our class... John Haroldson has honed his wildlife photography skills in Africa, Elaine Howard’s composing, Lisa Yokana still producing visual art, Clooie Sherman and I have both enjoyed continuing our choral singing (such a painful thing to give up during this lockdown), Sarah Rothrock still choreographing and teaching dance, Kerin Lifland and his spectacular marquetry and woodworking…

As for me, Sandra Benson Cress, it’s almost cruel to be locked down in DC with all her

great museums, and to be unable to visit them!

However, like John H., we are counting our blessings that we get this “stolen season” with our daughter at home, post college. Lauren “graduated” virtually from Connecticut College this spring. The cats are particularly thrilled to have three humans at home. I spent six months doing administrative work at Georgetown, and am now spending another month working for the census.

Hoping you all remain safe and healthy and in good spirits and mental health!

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Nora Cuesta Wimberg 5240 Oakwood Court Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215 (609) 418-0190 (cell) nlazz@mac.com

“All is well in my household. My husband, Charlie, was supposed to retire in March, then this all happened, so he is working from home.

They said that everyone would return in June and that did not happen, so he did not retire in June. Then it was said September, but now it has been changed to March 2021! Why retire? He is getting paid and we are home. We have to look at the positive, not the negative.

Some of us have lost loved ones in this horrific time and that cannot be looked on as a positive. I volunteer at the food bank and at the Red Cross, and my husband helps out at the family business (funeral home). We see such sad issues, but we try to help in different ways.

Please reach out to someone who needs a kind word, a bag of food, a virtual hug—we can get through this… TOGETHER. Love you all!”

Sue Fineman Keitelman wrote: [re: Nora’s photo] “The farthest person on the right in the green dress looks like my face, but I don’t remember having a dress like that! I have a grandson (born 12/24/2019), my first!

His name is Ezra Lawrence Keitelman.

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, I have not been able to hold Ezra Lawrence him since he was Keitelman, grandthree months old. I’ve son of Sue Fineman seen him at a six-foot Keitelman ’78 distance, but it’s just not the same! Hope you are all well!”

Brian Trubee wrote: “On July 1, I retired from the fire service after 31 years. Just catching up Nora Cuesta Wimberg wrote: “I thought I on things after the last few months of work. would try something new….

Both sons are home for a visit this summer— one from Italy and the other is working in From Nora: This picture was taken at Nora Cuesta Wimberg’s Quinceñera (Sweet 15), and it holds dear memories for me as my Seattle. My only plans this summer are a trip parents, Dr. Cuesta and Mrs. Cuesta, wanted to continue and to the Oregon coast celebrate our Spanish/Cuban traditions. It was held in the PDS and flying my plane cafeteria with a live band. Can you find yourself?? I am standing back to the east coast, in the middle, dressed all in white, holding the arm of Steve! stopping on the way to visit relatives and friends.”

Greg Morea wrote: “Big news is, gulp, in February, I hit the big 60, and suddenly I feel like a kid not knowing what I want to do with my life.

Retirement is just a few years away, and Barbara and I are excited about traveling to our bucket list sights. Hopefully, a month in Fairbanks, AK (during the win-

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Dr. Jeffrey Swisher ’78

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, CA Pacific Medical Center When asked about turning points that helped shape his career path, Dr. Jeffrey Swisher ’78 fondly recalled his Princeton Day School teacher (and later, Head of School) Sandy Bing who, taking him aside one day, suggested Stanford University as a potential college choice for him.

When young Jeffrey visited the campus, he knew it was the right choice; his college experience was exceptional and his career arc flowed from there. Dr. Swisher still marvels at Mr. Bing’s insightful understanding of his interests and attributes, which led to such a great college match for him. He often thinks about how those small gestures continue to ripple positively through his life.

“At PDS, teachers cared deeply and took a personal interest. An education at PDS was a unique and wonderful experience,” he reflected.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in International Relations from Stanford University, Dr. Swisher turned toward medicine, earning a second degree in biology, followed by a return to Stanford for his medical degree. He completed a residency in Anesthesiology from Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, and a Fellowship in Pain Management at the University of California, San Francisco, where he then taught as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology for seven years. Today Dr. Swisher chairs the Anesthesiology Department at CA Pacific Medical Center, the largest private practice in San Francisco. He also maintains a full-time clinical practice and specializes in liver transplant anesthesia.

As an anesthesiologist, critical care management is an integral part of the work Dr. Swisher does on a daily basis. During the COVID-19 health crisis, he has consulted on patients in the ICU struggling with complications from the virus, many of whom are relying on ventilators for survival. Given his experiences and the patients with whom he works, Dr. Swisher feels obligated to educate people about COVID-19 and the critical importance of following social distancing guidelines to avoid infection and the consequent surges that may overburden hospital resources. As challenging as the economic fallout may be from significant business shutdowns around the world, he believes that they need to be borne to help put a speedier end to the global pandemic. He also sees opportunity amidst the pain of economic challenges as societies re-imagine solutions, working together to solve problems—a process he compares to the World War II era, when America became “collectivists,” a term used to signify their collaborative work to solve problems.

Like families across the country and at PDS, Dr. Swisher’s family also has had to adjust to changed expectations about anticipated milestones scheduled for this spring. His daughter, Kate, graduated from college this spring, but gatherings for commencement ceremonies and other celebratory events were canceled or put on hold. As a father, he is impressed with his daughter’s resilience in the face of disappointment after having worked so long and hard to get to this moment. With pride, Dr. Swisher shared a statement from Kate to inspire the Class of 2020 PDS seniors: “’Live every day, enjoy every day, make memories on a daily basis. Be at peace and have no regrets.’”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

ter), back to Israel, Italy, and visiting Fair Isle, Shetland and other remote places. When I graduated from PDS, I spent five years at Columbia University and after graduating with a degree in civil engineering, I got married to Barbara.

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still an engineering supervisor at Electric Boat.

Barbara and I are having fun as empty nesters, and I would not trade one minute of what I’ve been blessed with for anything! Also, in April, Karana joined us! Karana is a two-year-old Chihuahua rescue that our daughter found for us. She stole our hearts and is thoroughly spoiled. It is especially fun to watch Karana

try and boss around Rebecca’s Brynn, who is triple her size. And yes, both kids, Joseph and Rebecca, are both well, as are all of their dogs, cats and snakes.

Barbara and I are still waiting to become grandparents, but that is out of our control; yet we hope. Best to all.”

Karana, new puppy of Greg Morea ’78

Jeff Swisher wrote: “It has been a very strange year for sure. I am pretty sure I had COVID19 in January, as both my wife and I were really sick two weeks after we had dinner with a lawyer friend who had just returned from Wuhan on business (though I am antibody negative??).

I had a bit of national 15 minutes of fame in March and April as I was briefly on Good Morning America and CBS evening news discussing the pandemic, and PPE shortages.

Then I was featured on a few podcasts, including my sister Kara’s Pivot podcast, and a lot of local news programs. Glad that has stopped.

I don’t know how Kara handles it.

“It actually has been feast or famine in the operating room as this pandemic has developed. We canceled all elective surgeries for about a month, and only did emergencies.

So I had days of no work, followed by days of working 40 plus hours in a row doing liver and kid- Jeff Swisher ’78 in full ney transplants. Not gear a healthy lifestyle.

We are back to a relatively routine schedule now, but I am worried that if things get worse that we may have to revert back to emergencyonly surgery. I hope not.

“I feel very badly for the kids who have had their educations shortchanged because of this.

Thankfully, all of my children are done with college, but two of them have had jobs canceled or delayed because of the situation. My eldest son, Henry, lives and works in Australia, so he is fine (he lives near Manly Beach and surfs every day, bummer) and working hard, but feels isolated as we cannot visit him and he cannot come home to visit us. Peter was ready to move to Tokyo this month, but that’s not happening; Kate is looking for teaching jobs. Plenty of on-line opportunities, but that is tough for a new teacher! My wife, Dana, is a second grade teacher who is facing another year of Zoom classrooms.

She is an awesome teacher, but that is a formidable job to accomplish with younger children.

I feel for her. It is so much harder than being in

the classroom. It makes me really appreciate the outstanding teachers we had at PDS, and especially ones like your parents, Nora.

“All is good with me. I am getting a little tired of COVID-19 though. Today was a full PPE day. Give my best to all! Stay safe, and wear a mask ’til this thing is over.”

Liz Mason Cousins wrote: “Our daughter lives in Boston and was married last year in April. We counted our lucky stars that it wasn’t scheduled for 2020. Our son lives in LA and, sadly, we haven’t seen him since Christmas due to COVID-19. Thank goodness for FaceTime and Zoom.

“As educators, we’ve been navigating this weird new normal since 3/13 here in the Philly area.

My husband took the upstairs office, and I set up camp in the dining room. It went pretty well, but it’s a good thing we’ve been married for 35 years and know each other well! I won’t complain about the fun things we missed (big anniversary and birthday!) as so many have struggled with the basics. We didn’t have to worry about a paycheck or try to corral small children while working. We have remained healthy, as did our families, including my 98-year-old mom and Neal’s 93-year-old mom.

“Our big excitement these days is our clichéd COVID-19 puppy, a blonde Cockapoo named Colby (yes, after our college).

We did things backwards, having Colby, new puppy of the kids first and Liz Mason Cousins ’78 then the puppy after they were long gone! We figure he will get us out walking and has been something positive to focus on each day. I’m sorry we waited so long. I hope our classmates have fared well.”

Jeff Ritter wrote: “Working at home on an ed tech startup, after leaving my professor job of 23 years. Not quite retiring, but more fun than thinking about teaching behind plexiglass. My daughter is home, having graduated from college, and is working at a math camp for super math kids; one of her bosses is Mr. Howe!

Both kids out of college and the world turns into a nightmare. Sorry, kids. Graduating college in 1982 was a piece of cake compared to today. Hope you are buena y segura!”

Allison Ijams wrote: “Nora! This photo is amazing!! Thanks for sharing! Hope you are all well. Our family has been on Fishers Island, a small island off the coast of Connecticut, since March 15. We expected to stay for the weekend and never left! We have our two sons and one son’s girlfriend with us. Our married daughter and son-in-law arrived in May, having spent the balance of the spring in NYC.

We feel so lucky in spite of our enormous grocery bills (which only rival our wine bills). We are all fine but are saddened by the loss of life and economic security for so many. Sending best wishes for good health to all in the great Class of 1978!”

Nancy Chen Cavanaugh wrote: “Thanks for always bugging us to send news! [Re Nora’s photo:] I see myself peeking out from behind Heather, but I also see that Robyn is hiding behind me, ha-ha! Your Quinceñera was so much fun. We’re doing well in North Carolina, despite staying at home most of the time. For exercise and entertainment we go to the beach for a walk and swim. Steve and I are enjoying retirement! Hope all is well with you and love to all my ’78 great classmates.”

Tom Gates wrote: “We are all well here, and despite his being so far away, our grandson, Hudson, still provides a lot of the joy and laughs. We snuck away to Oregon in June to get our fill. Tracey and I have been staying home, me with the mortgage business busier than ever, and Tracey building, polishing and delivering via Zoom her workshop titled, “A Few Kind Words.” Still playing a lot of tennis and volunteer farming at Double Brook Farm in Hopewell. Miss y’all!

“On September 5, Tracey and I had the pleasure of participating in a 5K walk to benefit two organizations that Sara Cooper ’80 is deeply committed to: #LetsKickSomeALS and www.hopelovescompany.org.

It was so lovely to see Sara, and experience some of the incredible positivity and optimism that she possesses! Go, Sarah, go!”

Tricia Metzger wrote: “Most of my summer has been sitting by the pool reading and reading! So, I cannot complain. Jeff and I have been limiting our visits to immediate family and we canceled our trip to hike the Grand Canyon, for the time being. We are hoping next summer we will be up for it! Our joy is our two grandchildren: Nami is four, and Kai is two. ( Jeff ’s daughter and her husband live about a mile away.) We see them often!! In fact, we had a slumber party at our house last night.

“My kids are good. Robert has been married for nearly three years and now lives with his wife, Erika, in Massachusetts. Amanda loves city living and has been a New Yorker for many years! Charlotte moved to the city last summer but quarantined with us for a while—safer than living in an apartment with many roommates!

I spent the spring teaching online—very tough and I really missed the students. Fortunately, our district PD for the past five years has been focused on personalized and flipped learning, so I was able to transition to online lessons and the students were familiar with the technology. I was grateful that I had been in class with them for the first two-thirds of the year as it made our Zoom meetings and personalizing assignments much easier. I also got to know a few of their parents much better. I am looking forward to returning to teaching in September—however that plays out.”

Keith Baicker wrote: “The pandemic continues to restrict so much of our daily activities. Fortunately, my photography experiments with water drops remain unaffected. Tinkering with Photoshop opens up even more potential.”

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Tracey and Tom Gates ’78 with Sara Cooper ’80

Photo by Keith Baicker ’78

Catherine White Mertz 67 Rybury Hillway Needham, MA 02492 (781) 449-4993 (home) (339) 225-0835 (cell) cathywhitemertz@gmail.com Evan R. Press 2707 Lakefield Way Sugar Land, TX 77479 (479) 283-8246 (cell) EvanRPress@gmail.com

Tom Gates ’78 (l) and Mike “Wally” Walters ’78 (r) connected in July.

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memories of one another—make that extra effort to reach out and (virtually) touch someone! Be strong and be safe.

Karen Polcer Bdera: “Since leaving our March Aruba vacation mid-way, we have been ‘hunkering down’ in NYC. Spring here was pretty scary (we happen to live in the zip code with the largest number of cases in all five boroughs), but things are calming down now—our first haircuts at the end of June were the highlight of our spring season. Nick and I spend a lot of time walking in local parks in Queens. Thank heaven for Netflix! Hoping that 2021 will bring better news and more to report.”

Joe Lapsley: “Nutshell: It’s a year since Jana passed away. My band is busy with a beer garden show in Chicago, recording and making a movie for the soundtrack: https://portmanteauzone.bandcamp.com/album/the-moose-cycle.

We filmed the bad guy, Double-Bladed AxeWielding Pseudo-Ecoterrorist Moose, going out an airplane at 400 feet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVmtCqbTrKU). I have on my YouTube channel several short history talks about 18th c. British North America and the subsequent US (https://youtube.com/channel/ UCM5tV-xz1Pov0o9tJAP1aqQ). I take care of my two dogs, Kima and Lucy, and am getting ready for ZoomWorld fall college teaching.”

From John Ager: “Anne and I have been thriving through the pandemic. I am no longer regularly traveling, so we have more time together to cook fabulous meals and enjoy each other’s company. Our daughters observed that we are social distancing champions, having been practicing for the past ten years or so. Also, we have enjoyed having them back at home, Gigi doing data analytics remotely in San Francisco and Belle studying remotely at Drew.”

Cynthia Tregoe Richetti: “Like all, I am experiencing COVID-19-related ramifications jobwise, etc. We had two Zoom graduations this year—our daughter’s from Eckerd College and our son’s from high school. After dropping our son at Denison, we have officially joined the ranks of empty nesters. As another small-world reminder, his roommate is from Princeton! I was lucky enough to recently have dinner with Muna Shehadi—she and her new trilogy are doing well.”

John Hollister wrote: “I’m just sitting out the pandemic, tending to vegetables and parents, reading Camus to escape into more literary plagues. Academia has collapsed, but I can be like a medieval scribe stockpiling lore for some future where academia is possible again.”

From Laura Farina: “Last year, I returned to NJ to be closer to family, the beach and NY. When I moved from DC, I wasn’t anticipating the pandemic, so the 2020 I expected is far from the reality. The upside: In March, I hunkered down with my Mom (now 90), and we became roommates again—first time since I was 17. I turned one of her bedrooms into my home office, and was able to cook dinners, have JOURNAL

good conversation, and watch movies, and her beloved game shows, and she and my doggie became fast friends.

The downside, of course, is the tragedy and difficulty Laura Farina ’79 and her we all have mom showed off their first haircuts in lockdown. experienced to some extent. I “The BEST day in at least have so missed three months!” seeing and visiting friends, going to concerts and teaching in person on campus. But like everyone, Zoom became my friend and I have enjoyed connecting and re-connecting with friends. I’ve also enjoyed socially-distanced gatherings with a small bubble of family and friends.”

Sam Martinuzzi ’79 and his daughter, Meredith (March 7, 2020) Sam Martinuzzi wrote: “My daughter, Meredith, got married to a great guy in Palm Springs in March—they’re happy and residing in San Francisco. I am still working/volunteering—teaching (and now fundraising) at St. Bernard High in Playa del Rey, CA.”

A few years ago, Laurie Habgood Carpenter left a 35-year career in international and corporate finance, earned a master’s degree in couples and family therapy earlier this year, and is currently working at Justice Resource, Inc., near her home Miriam Chilton ’79 (center) with (l-r) her husband, Joel Dorow, her on the North Shore son, Sam (22), daughter, Shaina (26), and Shaina’s beau, Ethan of Massachusetts.

From Miriam Chilton: “Finding every reason Laurie’s two children are pursuing their pasto be outside and to congregate with family and sions and careers, with Will at Steps to Peace friends. My husband, Joel, an awesome harmonand Purpose in NC, and Sarah at Naropa ica player, hosted a backyard concert, and Candy University and Expand Mentoring in CO. Beagles and her husband joined us. A real treat.” Laurie has enjoyed spending time with Cynthia Tregoe Richetti and her family, and Chris Horan wrote: “Sorry, nothing to reconnecting with many classmates on social report. Haven’t done much or seen anybody media and at our 40th class reunion last year. for months. Closest thing to being normal is Laurie’s brother, Bob Habgood ’78, also lives that the girls ice hockey team I coach (Lady Patriots U19A, Travel Team) is back practicing. in Massachusetts with his wife and three adult children.

But no games can be scheduled yet.”

From Vance Camisa: “My younger daughter, Sydney, got married in May—they were determined to make it happen, pandemic notwithstanding, and so exchanged vows by self-officiating, with eight family members in attendance and the ceremony Zoomed to family and friends. My older daughter, Holly, was a (virtual) summer associate at a Philadelphia law firm, where she’ll be working after she graduates in the spring. In June, my wife, Ruth, and I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary.

Gigs for my quartet have all but been erased, although I did play (outdoors) at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in July. I’m looking forward to when I can start playing again regularly.”

Laurie Habgood Carpenter ’79 with her son, Will, and daughter, Sarah

Nevin R. Press (18), son of Evan Press ’79, graduating from high school in June, with his older sister, Harley L. Press (21) Evan R. Press is fighting the cliché emptynest depression (joy?), with both his progeny matriculating at college simultaneously for the first time! “COVID-19 has affected all our lives as it has everyone. Be safe and vote… unless I wouldn’t want you to do so.”

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Camie Carrington Levy 2212 Weymouth Street Moscow, ID 83843-9618 (208) 301-0203 (cell) camie@palousetravel.com Kirsten Elmore Meister 1004 Tasker Lane Arnold, MD 21012 (410) 647-5432 (home) kmeister5@yahoo.com

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Lynch W. Hunt, Jr. 771 Mayflower Avenue Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (609) 851-5521 (home) (609) 851-5521 (cell) lynchhunt@alumni.upenn.edu Marisa Petrella 40 Oval Turn Lane Levittown, PA 19055 (609) 462-3101 (cell) sales4metoo@msn.com

Lorraine M. Herr 9S021 Skylane Drive Naperville, IL 60564 (847) 525-3576 (cell) LHerr@herr-design.com

Adam Sternberg ’85, clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, helped his clients weather the pandemic storm.

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Noelle Damico 325 Main Street, Apt. 3B White Plains, NY 10601 revdamico@gmail.com

’79 classmates Evan Press and Nicolas Donath sharing pandemic fashion 1,200 miles apart

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Suzanne Albahary D’Amato 16 Maiden Lane Bedford, NH 03110 (603) 472-5667 (home) suzannemndamato@yahoo.com

Rena Ann Whitehouse 1309 South 92nd Street Omaha, NE 68124 (770) 845-1577 (cell) renawhitehouse@hotmail.com

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Edward J. Willard 214 Lynchburg Road Pilot Mountain, NC 27041 (336) 401-6360 (cell) tcwillard@mac.com

I recently friended Matt Beechold on FB, remember him? He was at PDS through Ninth Grade, and his parents decided that Karen Kelly Catholic school would be a better fit for 43 White Pine Lane him. After high school, he studied music Princeton, NJ 08540 performance at the Berklee College of Music (908) 533-7437 (home) in Boston, and then went to Penn State (908) 295-9699 (cell) for engineering and completed a graduate k2pk@comcast.net degree at UT-Austin. For years, he worked as a technical project manager and then joined his wife in expanding her Montessori School. By 2018, they had grown the school to more than 100 students and sold the school along with the school buildings. They are now planning a post-pandemic move west of the Mississippi.

He has been in the Raleigh area since 2007. His daughter is a junior at UNC at Chapel Hill, and his son will start at Appalachian State this fall. His oldest stepson is a biophysicist at the University A pre-COVID-19 dinner at Keens Steakhouse in NYC of Michigan, and his youngest with Chris Wallace ’80, John David ’80, and is at boarding school in PA. Tim Thomas ’80

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Mollie D. Roth 1666 East Cindy Street Chandler, AZ 85225 (202) 280-5887 (cell) mollie.roth@pgxconsulting.com

1987

Sofia D. Xethalis 1953 Shore Oak Drive Decatur, IL 62521 (217) 422-5648 (home) (217) 454-3345 (cell) sxethalis@yahoo.com.au

For news about Karen Cunningham see the Alumni Spotlight on page 104

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Mike Lingle 498 NE 55th Terrace Miami, FL 33137 (917) 882-8397 (cell) mlingletonic@yahoo.com

1989

Doria Roberts PO Box 8461 Atlanta, GA 31106 (404) 874-3779 (home) doriaroberts@yahoo.com

1990

Deborah Bushell Gans 103 Bilboa Drive Jupiter, FL 33458 (561) 799-2463 (home) (561) 252-4501 (cell) gansdebby@gmail.com

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Karen Cunningham ’87

Critical Care Nurse, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC As a Princeton Day School freshman, Karen Cunningham developed what would become a lifelong passion for photography. Some of her recent photographs were featured this spring in The New Yorker magazine: a series of powerful black and white images revealing the daily realities and challenges of treating patients with COVID-19 inside the Intensive Care Unit of Lenox Hill Hospital, where Karen works as a critical care nurse on an ICU Step Down team.

In her twin endeavors of photography and nursing, Karen shares a bond with many other PDS alumni who have found ways to integrate their artistic talents with their deeply held beliefs in the value of service to others.

“Nursing is a second career for me,” Karen explains. “I worked as a professional photographer for 22 years after graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where I earned a BFA in photography. I later earned a BSN in nursing from SUNY Downstate Medical College and have been working as a professional nurse for seven years.” In addition to nursing, Karen is owner and principal photographer of Karen Cunningham Photography. Recognized as one of the industry’s best wedding photographers by Photo District News, she has contributed to The New York Times, “Vows”, New York Magazine Weddings, The Knot, Martha Stewart and Instyle Weddings. Her fine art work is collected and exhibited throughout New York City and the United States and is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of the City of New York.

She credits the skill and caring mentorship of legendary PDS photography teacher Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick (who retired in June 2020) with helping shape her life journey. “My education at Princeton Day School was absolutely formative in my career path as a professional photographer,” Karen reflects. “Ms. H-L encouraged my talents and interest in photography at PDS and showed me it was possible to pursue a professional photography career. I will be forever grateful to her.”

In her nursing work, Karen has found photography to be an essential means to help process and reflect on the situations she, her colleagues and the patients experienced this spring. As an ICU nurse working at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, Karen has been living every day in the direct arc of the virus as infection rates soared in New York City and intensive care units filled with critically ill patients. “It was initially a shock to see how virulent and aggressive the disease is,” Karen shares. “However, after eight weeks of nursing the patients I was encouraged by the progress the medical teams made handling the patient load and the recovery of some of the most ill patients.”

Moving forward, she is determined, and thoughtfully optimistic. “The teamwork and dedication of my hospital and the other hospitals around the world doesn’t surprise me.

This is what we’ve trained for. I am hopeful that wide-range testing will be followed by a vaccine,” she concludes.

Karen’s recent portfolio, “A City Nurse, Healing in the I.C.U. During COVID-19” may be found in The New Yorker magazine.

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

1991

Aly Cohen 1 Big Barn Road Cranbury, NJ 08512 (917) 273-4573 (cell) alycohen@yahoo.com

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environment in a way I never anticipated, and it has truly changed me, both as a doctor and as a human being. I would imagine that my PDS classmates, especially those working in healthcare, share the same feelings.

Despite the horrible news in the world, I still continue to spread the word on environmental health... how our environment plays a key role in human health. It turns out (and many

people aren’t aware) that chemicals in our food, in the air we breathe, in our personal care and cleaning products, furniture and clothing, contribute to a variety of chronic health conditions. These conditions/co-morbidities include high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune disease, autism, ADHD, depression and some cancers, and involve both endocrine and inflammatory pathways. The evidence is robust.

My new book, Non-Toxic: A Guide to Healthy Living in a Chemical World, was released in late August and shares practical, cost-effective, evidence-based information, resources and tips to help you reduce chemical exposures from food, drinking water, personal care and cleaning products, indoor air, baby products, and how to safely manage EMF radiation from all of our beloved tech toys! This book was written with my co-author, Frederick vom Saal, Ph.D., renowned developmental neurobiologist, who is largely responsible for removing bisphenol A (BPA) from baby bottles in the US in 2012.

I hope the PDS community will embrace this book and share its important information widely among family, friends, and colleagues.

It can be purchased at TheSmartHuman.com, Amazon, and BarnesandNoble.com.

1992

Judson R. Henderson 5073 Province Line Road Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 924-6446 (home) (609) 651-2226 (cell) jhenderson@callawayhenderson.com

For news about Dr. Ami Shah Brown see the Alumni Spotlight on page 74.

1993

Darcey Carlson Leonard 5405 Windy Ridge Drive Midlothian, VA 23112 (757) 634-4432 (home) darceyva@gmail.com

1994

Cynthia Shafto 9948 Robbins Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 498-1064 (home) Cynthia.678@icloud.com

To all Panthers, the Class of ’94 extends its hope that you and your families are safe and sound, that we will recover from all yesterdays past into a brighter, stronger future for all and always.

From Pete Nowicki we are reminded that life is but an ever evolving journey, that we must be patient and continue to seek what to us is most sought after, a life ITself : “Nine years and one summer ago, I had the good fortune of washing up on the shores of Portsmouth, NH, a city (the third oldest in the United States, I just learned!) that I barely knew

existed prior to my arrival. A strange series of difficult events led me here, events that left me stranded in this oasis without a job, without a plan, and without knowing a soul.

Pete Nowicki ’94 with It was a hard life his dog, Bruin reset at the age of 35. But after a lifetime of feeling rootless, I finally found a home where I formed incredible friendships and started a web design firm (Flylight Media) with nothing but a laptop, a dream and a business partner who was in an equally precarious position. Along the way, I competed in a 444-mile paddling race near the Arctic Circle as part of a tandem kayak team; it was the experience of a lifetime.

And then I met an impressive and beautiful woman unlike any I have ever met. I was truly surprised to learn that she liked me as much as I liked her. Stesha came into my life with a Husky named Bruin just as my business started hitting its stride. The three of us have navigated this global pandemic together and somehow emerged unscathed, perhaps even better off than we were before it started. I feel incredibly fortunate and grateful for this life I have and for the education, friendships and life skills I acquired at PDS. I hope all of you are doing well and staying safe.”

1995

Melissa Woodruff Mccormick 257 South State Street Newtown, PA 18940 (215) 550-6596 (home) mwoodruf99@yahoo.com Hi everyone! It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since we graduated. And although we couldn’t celebrate together in person (hopefully, next May!), it’s been so nice to hear from so many of you. Here’s some fun news from our class:

From Amanda Tate Speedling: “I live in Hopewell Borough with my husband, Tom, and our four-year-old daughter, Summer. I have annual visits with Jenn Mitchell Reddien, when she’s in from Dallas, and see Dave Babad and his wife, Katie, and their two adorable little girls when they are around. Jenn, Zaneta Shannon Chambers and I were our 25th reunion co-chairs, so stay tuned for correspondence from us once we have more details on the rescheduled reunion festivities in 2021. I hope to see lots of ’95-ers there. It will be fun to catch up!”

Justin Graham currently lives in Monroe, NJ with his wife and two children (14 and a newborn). He has worked in law enforcement with the state of NJ for the past 20 years.

Myong Lee wrote: “Hi everyone! I live in Boulder, CO with my wife, Connie, and my two sons: Miles, six years old, and Luca, two years old. I am lucky to have my wife take care of our sons at home while I launched a VC-backed Medicare Advantage health plan (Clever Care Health Plan) in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. We are going live 1/1/21, so wish us luck!

Kevin Gallagher sent this update: “I am living in Hanover, MA. I have three boys…Aiden is 17, Connor is 15, and Ryan is 11. We have a four-month-old puppy named Max and two cats. I work at Bain Capital in Boston, but for the last six months my office has been my back patio under an umbrella!”

“I recently reconnected with Ian Wijaya, who happens to bank the managed care sector! Two PDS alumni working in managed care—that’s random. I’m also having fun advising multiple early stage healthcare technology companies. Hope everyone is safe from COVID-19.”

Alex Manka lives in Southern California and is a guidance and control engineer at Phil Glassner ’95 and his family on vacation the NASA Jet Propulsion in Cambridge, England, 2019 Laboratory. He just got engaged and is expecting a baby boy in November.

Phil Glassner lives in Stockton, NJ with his wife, Kyla, and three boys: Evan, 13, and twins Another alum living out in California is Connor and Mason, who are nine. He is an Lindsey Sternberg Pierce. She sent me orthopaedic surgeon at MidJersey Orthopaedics this update: “I am living in San Francisco in Flemington, NJ and works at the Hunterdon and work in Oakland as a family medicine Medical Center. physician for Kaiser. I have a husband, Doug, and two kids, Jackson, eight, and Hannah, six, Taryn Esposito White wrote: “Rich and I live and a cat named Burl. in Princeton Junction, NJ and have two boys, Payton (13) and Alexander (11). When it’s Our new favorite thing to do is put on our not a pandemic, we spend our time either on wetsuits and go boogie boarding at Ocean football or lacrosse fields. Fun Fact: Dan Knipe Beach, which is cold all the time... surfing and I have wished each other a happy birthday might be next!! every year since 1988!”

“An interesting PDS fact is that at my kids’ Amy Kaplan Schecter wrote: “Jordan and I school in San Fran, we became friends with a celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary in family whose dad grew up in Pennington and August. We have four children: Sydney (13), all the kids went to PDS. His sister went to Braeden (10), Ezra (six), and Yael is almost prom with my brother and played lacrosse with three! We live in Livingston, NJ. I have a primy sister! Small world!!” vate practice (BreastfeedingMedicineNJ.com) in West Caldwell. I’m currently leading a group of NJ physicians in guiding school districts in the process of school reopening during the Lindsey Sternberg COVID-19 pandemic.”

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testing residents for Kaiser Permanente for COVID-19 in San Francisco

Lindsey Sternberg Pierce ’95

Zaneta Shannon Chambers wrote: “I am living in Washington, DC and, although I miss NJ, I really like living in the city. I have twin boys who are eight years old and they definitely keep me on my toes! I have been teaching at Sidwell Friends School for seven years, and I am currently the Lower School Reading Specialist and Learning Support Coordinator. I am also a contracted teacher at the Smithsonian National Zoo, where I get to teach about wildlife conservation.”

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featured on the “Private Land Stewardship House Tour,” sponsored by the Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space. In addition, the Watershed Institute awarded them the 2017 “Resident of the Year Award” for being “The Face of River-Friendly Living.”

Samantha is an executive committee member of the Garden Club of Trenton, and she has given Zoom talks at their club meetings as well as for the Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. Samantha enjoys sketching birds in her free time, and you can read all about her gardens and the birds and bees that inhabit them, on her blog, “FlutterByMeadows.com.”

Blythe Quinlan lives in Princeton with her four children and works in film and TV as a set designer.

After living in Hawaii for 18 years, Weston Willard and his family moved to Rabun Gap, GA.

2001

Carolyn Yarian Morgan 430 E. 57th Street, Apt. 4C New York, NY 10022 (609) 638-7249 (cell) carolyn.morgan2012@gmail.com

Missy Woodruff Mccormick ’95 with husband Kevin and kids, Connor, Jackson and Cameron musical. My family loves to travel, and I’ve started writing about our adventures on my blog, “PrettySweet.com.”

1996

Stephen J. Nanfara 1023 Clinton Street, 5A Hoboken, NJ 07030 (908) 310-9724 (cell) nanfara@yahoo.com

1997

Ellyn Rajfer Herkins 6 Anvil Court Marlboro, NJ 07746 (732) 970-8122 (home) ellynrajfer@gmail.com

Deb Pollard Wepman ’95 with her husband, Noah, and kids, Toby and Ella Deb Pollard Wepman sent this update: “We are living in Seattle, WA going on 10 years now and love it here on the left coast. Noah and I have two kids, Toby, 14, and Ella, 11. I have been teaching the past few years but am taking some time off from that this fall. We’ve been staying sane during COVID-19 by getting out to the mountains as often as we can.”

Jon Hirsh is currently directing and executive producing a six-part documentary series for CNN on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. It’s being narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and is scheduled to premier in late 2020/early 2021.

Dan Rizza is in his seventh year at Climate Central, a non-profit based in Princeton, and lives with his wife and kids across the Delaware in Bucks County. Dan’s kids actually go to school with my kids, so it’s been fun seeing him at various school events and performances.

As for me… I’m still living in Newtown, PA with my husband, Kevin. We have three kids: Connor (14), Jackson (11) and Cameron (nine), a Vizsla (Zoe) and a cat (Dante). I teach Middle School drama part-time at Chapin School, where I direct the eighth grade play, and direct/choreograph the

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Mandy Rabinowitz Plonsky 60 W 23rd Street, Apt. 1611 New York, NY 10010 (609) 937-6348 (cell) mandyplonsky@gmail.com

Wilson H. Weed 707 10th Avenue, Unit 817 San Diego, CA 92101-6586 (808) 859-1629 (cell) wweed1@gmail.com For news about Xan Nowakowski ’01, see the Alumni Spotlight on page 82.

2002

Aviva Perlman Fintz 275 W 96th Street, Apt. 5D New York, NY 10025 (609) 617-3754 (cell) aperlman26@gmail.com For news about Alice Chow ’02, see the Alumni Spotlight on page 108.

2003

Allison Marshall 317 NW 89th Seattle, WA 98117 (202) 375-9559 (cell)

James Ramos wrote: “We had a beach vacation in the quarantine; Seb and I had a great time watching the sun go down. I wanted everyone to know that I love PDS!”

1998

Giovanna Gray Lockhart 15 Willow Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (917) 545-2575 (cell) gray.giovanna@gmail.com

1999

Joanna Woodruff Rominger 836 South Broad Street Lansdale, PA 19446 jbw1980@gmail.com

2000

Natasha Jacques Nolan 35 Pine Street Roswell, GA 30075-4819 (609) 647-6982 (cell) nnolan@gigisplayhouse.org Sapna E. G. Thottathil 4127 Bayo Street Oakland, CA 94619 (510) 604-2357 (cell) sapna.thottathil@gmail.com For news about Erin McCaffrey ’00, see the Alumni Spotlight on page 78.

James Ramos ’03 and his son, Sebastian Allison Marshall started a new job in July working as a product manager at Amazon Connect (AWS), an omnichannel cloud contact center solution. She, her husband, John, and almost one-year-old daughter, Isla, have been staying close to home as a new family of three.

2004

Katherine Chimacoff Dickens 41640 Ferber Court Leonardtown, MD 20650 (925) 998-8191 (cell) Mrskatedickens@gmail.com Scott E. Rosenberg 111 S. 15th Street, Apt. 2204 Philadelphia, PA 19102 (609) 462-2526 (cell) rosenbergse@gmail.com

Michael Costa and his wife, Alison, welcomed their daughter, Danielle, into the family on

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Michael Costa ’04 with his new daughter, Danielle September 1, 2020. Everyone is happy and healthy and soaking up all of the newborn moments.

Mallory Sosinski Bryson reported: “This year has been a crazy one for the Bryson family!

In May, my husband, Bobby, completed his Missileer training with the Air Force, after a rigorous six-month training course. We then immediately moved for the second time in nine months (and mid-pandemic!) from California to our new home in Wyoming. We love life here so far and are eagerly anticipating seeing snow for the first time in a long time. Last month, I returned to teaching with the district here as an elementary special education teacher.

Our little Benjamin gets bigger by the day and continues to be the light of our lives. We can’t wait to see what he learns next. Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe!”

Alex Sugiura started working for Axios back in June as the mix engineer for their daily podcast “Axios Today.” He sent his love to all!

Kathryn Batchelor Barth shared: “On December 20, 2019, Michael, Matthew and I welcomed Kaitlyn Abigail Barth into our family. It has been amazing to watch Kaitlyn grow taller and bigger over the months and watch Matthew become such a great big brother! We are looking forward to the days when we can hang out with our PDS friends again in person rather than virtually.”

Tyler Pakradooni shared: “Hi everyone.

My wife, Melissa, and I have been living in London for the past three years. Melissa works for LinkedIn in advertising, running channel sales for EMEA. As for me, I am still with Accenture, six years as a management consultant focusing on the consumer goods industry within the product development function. We are enjoying life here with our dog, Charlie, a small Australian Labradoodle. We are contemplating a move back to the US, but nothing is final yet.

London is a great medium between the work/ life culture of the US and Europe, so it is difficult to leave! Before COVID-19, we were able to explore Europe extensively, both the mountains in the winter and beaches in the summer. If anyone needs some tips, please reach out!”

Kate Chimacoff Dickens completed her family’s move to Iwakuni, Japan in August. She joins her husband, Matt, who moved in the spring. Their oldest, James, is attending second grade in an American school, while their younger two children, William and Emma, are

Mark Webb ’00

MBBS MSc FRCS (Tr & Ortho), Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant Surgeon, St. George’s Hospital, London “I have always wanted to be an orthopaedic surgeon,” PDS alumnus Mark Webb recalls.

“I think that it was a combination of enjoying woodworking at PDS with Mr. Franz and playing ice hockey and lacrosse. My interaction with doctors was always related to sports injuries and a lot of the techniques I learnt in woodworking are relevant to orthopaedic surgery,” he explains.

After graduating from PDS in 2000, Mark attended Newcastle University Medical School in England “because it was one of the only universities in the UK with a medical school and an established ice hockey team,” he declares. In 2006, he graduated from medical school and started working as a doctor. Mark started his orthopaedic training in 2011, completing it in 2017. After a one-year stint in Australia focused on sports hip and knee surgery, he followed up with a trauma fellowship in London and San Francisco. Now a consultant surgeon at St George’s Hospital in London, one of London’s four major trauma centers, he typically spends thirty percent of his time on major trauma surgery and the rest managing sports hip and knee injuries.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, “our day to day work changed greatly,” Mark explains. “As a department, hospital and health system, we acted early and implemented plans to try to cope with the pandemic,” including canceling all nonurgent cases and only operating to save life or limb. “Our trauma service divided into teams with a rota of three days on and three days off. During our days in hospital we still had trauma operating to do, although this drastically decreased as fewer people were on the roads,” he adds.

His department coordinated the COVID proning teams, groups of about five that would go through the COVID units and “turn intubated patients onto their front to aid in ventilation.” Recently produced BBC news coverage shows the contribution of the orthopaedic team at St. George’s Hospital to the ICU care of COVID-19 patients.

“Due to the planning and amazing work of my colleagues, I have not personally experienced any lack of PPE and although busy, the hospital has not been overwhelmed,” Mark says, with justifiable pride. Of course, being on the frontlines during the pandemic takes its toll. Among the difficulties: managing family life and childcare. “My wife is also a doctor, and we essentially worked the opposite three days to each other this spring. Our two girls are too young for school,” so Mark and his wife have had to coordinate at-home coverage, he explains.

Despite the global challenges wrought by COVID-19, Mark focuses on the bigger picture and the importance of resilience. “I hope that this experience has helped people get perspective on life and what is important to them. By working together, looking after each other and helping those that need it, we will get through this.” He credits his mother’s outlook on life and personality with informing his own perspective. When she passed away in 2012, the family chose two songs that reflected her attitude: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” (Monty Python) and “Here Comes the Sun” (The Beatles). “I think both are helpful now,” Mark reflects.

He values two other key character attributes that he strengthened during his days at Princeton Day School: “I think two main things that PDS helped me with were not being afraid to work hard and to go for the things you want. The importance of being more than an academic has helped balance my life. Lacrosse has probably had the biggest influence. I started a lacrosse club in Newcastle with the help of my brother (Robin Webb ’06), helped it to become a recognized university sport and then had the opportunity to play for England in the 2011 World Indoor Championships and be team doctor to England Lacrosse from 2012 to 2014.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Alice Chow ’02

RN, MSN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Emergency Department, Los Angeles “So many of my experiences at Princeton Day School have helped shape my life path,” Alice Chow ’02 reflects. “From Pretty Brook Farm expeditions in Lower School to having amazing teachers like Mrs. Maloney for AP Biology, PDS fostered a sense of curiosity in the world and a love for the sciences that has served me well. And of course, the discipline and teamwork of playing sports has been a huge influence in my career successes.”

After PDS, Alice earned her BS in Biology from Union College. She initially worked as a lab research assistant in Boston before deciding that nursing would be a better fit for her personal strengths and interests. Alice earned her MSN from the University of California-Los Angeles and stayed in California after landing her first job at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

After five years spent on a Medical-Surgical floor taking care of post-operative patients, she found herself at the suggestion of a co-worker taking a position as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department, where she has worked for the last four years.

“Healthcare, especially in the Emergency Department, is a team sport,” Alice explains.

“In that respect, no one has had more of an influence on my daily work than Coach Jill Thomas. From the RNs, MDs, respiratory therapists and social workers, to the storekeepers, housekeepers and too many other departments to name, we all have our roles to play in providing the best care for each patient. As an ED nurse, you need to be prepared for anything that comes through the doors, and to ‘love the pressure,’ as Ms. Thomas used to say. Cedars-Sinai is a Level 1 Trauma Center. It’s been a crazy ride and even more so now with the COVID-19 pandemic,” she continues.

Every day in the ED is different, and Alice’s responsibilities change depending on where in the department she is assigned. In the Triage area, she is focused on learning a patient’s initial story while making a quick assessment of how serious their symptoms are and what level of care they may need. “With COVID-19, the wide range of disease presentation means that staff need to act as if every patient might be infected and assess the risk as best we can,” Alice explains.

Risk assessment and infection mitigation is a continual consideration in her work.

“Intubations and cardiac arrest resuscitations occur regularly when working in the Trauma/Acute or COVID-19-designated areas, and these procedures carry a greater risk to healthcare providers for exposure to the virus if we’re caring for an infected patient,” Alice observes. Part of her focus has been on helping introduce staff safety enhancements. “I was involved with educating my co-workers about new changes made to our protocols that make it safer to perform these life-saving procedures while minimizing virus exposure to staff and other patients,” she shares.

Keeping patients’ families in touch and updated is another COVID-19-related challenge for Alice. Because safety protocols did not allow visitors inside the hospital this spring, with the patient’s permission, she fielded phone calls from family members to explain the patient’s treatment and to help them understand the next steps, updates that were deeply appreciated by each family.

Even with all of the challenges, Alice sees the pandemic as a continuous opportunity “to learn from the new information and discoveries about this novel virus and its treatment coming from the scientific and medical communities. We’re all here to do our best, while adapting and adjusting our practices as necessary,” she notes.

Her message for the PDS community is candid and grounded in experience: “It’s scary to see how serious this disease can be, so I want to express appreciation for the social efforts and personal sacrifices being made to keep the spread of the virus in check. From the frontlines, I can tell you that it has made a difference. Stay safe and stay healthy out there!”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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in an immersion program at a local Japanese school. Aside from being far from friends and family, it has been great so far. It’s going to be a crazy few years!”

2005

Hilary Richards Conger 295 Washington Avenue, #5A Brooklyn, NY 11205 (609) 915-6651 (cell) hilary.conger@gmail.com

Nick Maloney wrote: “I’ve freelanced in the film and TV world for about seven years now, mainly in NYC. I’ve worked just about every position possible on a set while continuing to navigate a career as a photographer and videographer, which has taken me all over the country. I’ve carved out a small niche for myself as a behind-the-scenes photographer within the commercial world, and am lucky enough to be shooting film, whenever the budget allows it. My most recent gig, however, has been within the locations department for SNL. Quarantine has placed me in Montclair, NJ since the lockdown started, and I assume many of us are searching for some solid ground as this year continues to challenge us to adapt. My industry went on a pretty serious hold, so for me, I’ve taken my photography skills into the real estate and interior design world, which has been fun and challenging at the same time. Last year, while spending some time at home, I took a darkroom class at Mercer County College, and it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. If anyone ever wants to reach out during these crazy times I’m always available to talk, and it would be great to reconnect.”

I, Hilary Richards Conger, continue to teach sixth grade in New York City. It will be an interesting year, to be sure!

2006

Jacob “Mendy” Fisch 696 Elm Place, Apt. 308 Highland Park, IL 60035 (609) 731-2540 (cell) mendyman@gmail.com

Thanks to Dan Rathauser and Jason Ferree for writing in and updating us. Although some of us may feel we might as well be anywhere, or nowhere, it’s good to hear where these classmates are.

Jason Ferree and his wife recently moved to Seattle. He wrote: “I recently left my role as a private banker with Morgan Stanley in Boston, in order to return to school. My wife and I just relocated to Seattle, where I will be attending the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington to obtain my MBA.” Dan Rathauser is about to get married and will stay in New York. He wrote: “The big news in my life is that Erin Alpert and I got engaged on the beach in Tel Aviv in

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Dr. Rajiv Mallipudi ’05

MHS Attending Hospitalist Physician, Yale New Haven Health Bridgeport Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Yale School of Medicine

Dan Rathauser ’06 and his fiancée, Erin December. We will be getting married in a ceremony with immediate family next month. Also of note, after three years of practicing at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, I transitioned to a team at Moelis & Company that supports investors seeking to raise institutional capital. We will be in NYC for at least the next year as Erin completes her third year of pediatrics residency at NYU/Bellevue. Hoping everyone in the class is well and making the most of this period!”

Congrats to Dan and Jason. As for everyone else, stay well and think of updates for next time.

2007

Nina Crouse 535 Harrison Avenue, Apt. A201 Boston, MA 02118-4416 ninacrouse@gmail.com Vishal Gupta 58 East Springfield Street, Unit 3 Boston, MA 02118 (609) 658-4768 (home) vishgupta2@gmail.com Alexandra Hiller Rorick 10 Downing Street, Apt. 4L New York, NY 10014 (609) 658-2961 (cell) ali.rorick@gmail.com

2008

Tessica Glancey Crampton 301 East 63rd Street, Apt. 6-J New York, NY 10065 (202) 603-1979 (cell) tessicaglancey@gmail.com

Hannah Epstein spent six weeks this past summer in Los Angeles working on the NFL Films show, “Hard Knocks.” She recently spoke with the LA Chargers podcast, “Playmakers” to discuss her favorite part of working on the show and her role as the first female staff cinematographer in NFL Films history.

Greg Francfort spent the last several months on Long Beach Island, NJ and also grew a beard!

Rajiv Mallipudi ’05 admits that he is very, make that extremely, goal-driven. It’s a defining characteristic that he honed at PDS and that has shaped his higher education and career to date. Given his heightened scientific interests at PDS, he went on to earn his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and achieved research success and earned various scientific awards as he pursued a career as a physician. He currently serves as the youngest Unit Medical Director physician at Yale New Haven Health Bridgeport Hospital and is the COVID-19 Physician Lead for the Division of Hospital Medicine.

As one of the first COVID-19 unit medical directors at the hospital, he completed a voluntary stint of 42 consecutive days in the COVID-19 unit, inspired to “make a difference” during the height of the pandemic’s spread this spring. During that time, he worked as a physician lead on several treatment initiatives, including treatment algorithms and proning (turning patients to improve breathing) and he is responsible for implementing continuous oxygen monitoring protocols in the hospital.

His commitment to making a difference fueled his energy to keep working during the pandemic’s most intense first-wave consequences. “I really wanted to keep going [beyond 42 days without a day off] but the hospital told me to stay home and get some rest,” Rajiv declares.

“PDS shaped who I am on a level of the greatest significance outside of my family,” Rajiv explains. “The School really helped me develop my time management, multitasking and work/life balance skills,” he continues. “While at PDS, I learned that my personality is exceptionally goal driven, and I carried that through college,” Rajiv recalls.

“My mantra was, ‘Do what will make you the best at what you do,’” he says, adding that the hobbies and interests he focused on at PDS are still those he loves to this day. “My hobbies keep me grounded and disciplined. In fact, I helped maintain my sense of balance during my 42 days straight at the hospital by continuing the same activities I started at PDS to balance my academic schedule: working out and playing hockey [this spring, in his room]. As soon as I heard the lockdown was imminent and gyms would be closed, I immediately ordered a set of adjustable dumbbells because I knew I needed to be able to continue working out to stay on track.”

Rajiv also credits his classmate and ice hockey teammate Will Denise ’05, explaining, “Will strongly influenced me because he was so intelligent, hardworking and disciplined both in and out of the classroom. He was an exceptional student-athlete and inspiring leader who was always looking out for his teammates and pushing us to be better. We’d be down in the third period and he’d rally us together to win. He inspired all of us through his servant leadership. That mindset has had a huge impact on how I’ve shaped myself as a physician leader during this COVID-19 pandemic.”

Rajiv feels prepared to face whatever challenges may come. He has a message to current students grappling to understand these new times in which we find ourselves: “The lessons you’re learning now are life skills you’ll be able to apply down the line in your lives, regardless of the path you take. I learned directly through the rigorous academic and athletic programs at PDS how to manage and deal with stress to deliver outstanding results consistently. That’s something that high schoolers are dealing with now and will need to continue in the future. Your ability to be resilient now and learn from it is going to carry you through everything you do in your life.”

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Ashley Smoots ’09

Epidemiologist, CDC Foundation, Senior Project Coordinator based at the Centers for Disease Control, working with the Division of Reproductive Health On April 17, epidemiologist and PDS alumna Ashley Smoots ’09 hosted a livestreamed session with Princeton Day School juniors and seniors participating in the School’s signature Research Experience (REx) program, which is co-directed by US faculty Dr. Charles Alt and Dr. Kelley Bethoney. The 14-month REx program is designed to provide extended independent study opportunities in scientific research and to bring students into direct contact with scientific research professionals in an array of fields and disciplines at organizations and leading university labs across the country. While this summer’s hard-earned university lab student internships are virtual or postponed for REx rising seniors, the REx students continued this spring to participate in opportunities to connect with experts whose work may inspire future studies and career choices.

Ms. Smoots began working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) after receiving her BS in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in Public Health in Epidemiology from Emory University. As an undergraduate, her lab work included technology, drug development and testing. Her early career included studying contraception practices among HIV-positive women and working as an analyst studying birth defects and related infant disorders during the Zika virus outbreak in 2016.

Her interest in science, research and human health was propelled at PDS during her “favorite” class, AP Biology. “Research has been a big part of my career trajectory for the last 11 years, starting with my senior project at PDS,” Ms. Smoots explained.

She briefly considered becoming a doctor, she added, but her lab work at Drexel University during a summer program class on engineering exposed her to research aimed at strategies, data collection and review. While keenly interested in research, Ms. Smoots also wanted her work to be patient-focused. This, combined with her interest in diseases, led her to pursue a career in public health.

“My work offers the best of both worlds, combining comprehensive research and interaction with patients,” Ms. Smoots declared. “It directly impacts people.”

For example, Ms. Smoots currently supports state programs to review all overdose deaths that occur during pregnancy or within one year of when pregnancy ends. As part of this project, CDC is developing processes and tools that MMRC’s can use to improve data quality to better capture, analyze and prevent maternal overdose deaths. Data from this effort will be used to develop strategies for preventing overdose deaths.

Ms. Smoots ended the PDS session by fielding questions from the REx participants, including questions about the epidemiology of COVID-19 and her group’s potential involvement in its study. At this point, the epidemiological data on COVID-19 is still being urgently acquired, and there is much that remains to be understood about the virus and its complications. As with SARS and Zika, there will be an important role for analysis of COVID-19 and reproductive health, which is already underway at the CDC and elsewhere.

Note: The Alumni Spotlights in this issue of the Journal were first published on pds.org during the spring and early summer of the COVID-19 pandemic when virtually the entire nation, and much of the globe, was sheltering in place.

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Aditi Juneja has been working to prevent election crises while staffing the National Taskforce on Election Crises. Aditi said, “I’d ask my classmates to vote!”

Will Stattman wrote: “I weathered the worst of the virus in Princeton and now I’m back living in Boston. I’ve been working hard on residential real estate in projects in New Jersey, Delaware, and Massachusetts, and also on a utility scale solar project outside of Chicago.”

I, Tessica Glancey Crampton, temporarily quarantined in Avalon, NJ, but recently relocated back to New York City with my husband, Rob.

2009

Ashley Smoots 1339 Westchester Ridge Northeast Atlanta, GA 30329-2483 (267) 987-9448 (cell) asmoots@gmail.com Vinay Trivedi 325 Ridge Avenue Newtown, PA 18940 (267) 229-2425 (cell) vt1090@gmail.com

For news about Caitie Gribbin ’09, see the Alumni Spotlight on page 85.

2010

Anna D. Otis 42 Mercer Street, Apt. 3B Jersey City, NJ 07302 (908) 418-6102 (home) annaotis92@gmail.com Alexandra Feuer Portale 125 North Park Road Newtown, PA 18940 (609) 240-1706 (cell) awfeuer@gmail.com

2011

Evan D. Seto 18 Lynn Court North Brunswick, NJ 08902 (732) 710-0020 (cell) eseto17@gmail.com

From Caylin Brahaney: “I’ve been incredibly lucky during the pandemic and my heart goes out to everyone who has been affected. I’ve continued to run (although most in-person races have been canceled) and recently got my hands on a road bike, which has been fun!

I’m currently applying to medical school for fall 2021, and recently started as a medical assistant at a dermatology office. As a final thought, I’d like to encourage everyone to vote and vote early!”

The pandemic hit during the last leg of Allie DeCandia’s Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, so she spent the past six months writing her dissertation, learning Spanish online and exploring the neighborhoods and natural areas around the eerily

deserted Princeton University. She defended her dissertation in August and moved down to Washington, DC to begin a new job as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

From Meade Atkeson: “I’ve been staying safe and healthy in Boston over these past few months. My fiancée, Shannon, and I were supposed to get married in June, but obviously those plans were scaled back. We held a small ceremony with family, and hope things look better next year for the celebration as planned.

Like many others, my wife and I decided the best thing to do during this time would be to adopt a puppy. He’s very cute, and we love having him around.”

Evan Seto hopes everyone is staying safe and healthy. And while normally, he’s always encouraging people to come say hi, for now, “Stay away! Feel free to email, though.”

2012

Rachel Maddox 58 Fieldcrest Avenue Skillman, NJ 08558 (908) 829-4230 (home) (609) 571-7998 (cell) Rachel.Maddox@conncoll.edu Annie Nyce 9 Brookside Avenue Pennington, NJ 08534 (609) 558-2453 (cell) annienyce@gmail.com Peter F. Powers 143 W 69th Street, #2A New York, NY 10023 (609) 658-8799 (cell) peterfpowers@gmail.com

2013

Leah G. Falcon 10985 Bluffside Drive, Apt. 5218 Studio City, CA 91604 (609) 279-9774 (home) (609) 558-3887 (cell) lgfalcon04917@gmail.com Robert S. Madani 2662 Oregon Avenue St. Louis, MO 63118 (609) 771-0912 (home) (609) 240-9420 (cell) robert.s.madani@gmail.com

We love hearing from you.

Please send your news to your class correspondent, or, if no correspondent, please send your news to classnotes@pds.org.

2014

Rory E. Finnegan 154 East 29th Street, Apt #13G New York, NY 10016 (908) 391-9303 (cell) ref8af@virginia.edu Mary G. Travers 433 Whitney Avenue, #B4 New Haven, CT 06511 (609) 216-3244 (cell) mary.travers@yale.edu

2015

Grace Lee 67 Bridle Path Belle Mead, NJ 08502 (908) 280-0006 (home) (847) 387-9129 (cell) gracelee6666@gmail.com Caroline R. Lippman 13 Aqua Terrace Pennington, NJ 08534 (609) 737-3235 (home) (609) 651-0771 (cell) crlippman@gmail.com

2016

Embrace, an online and print magazine at Ithaca College, was co-founded by Alexis Davis ’17

Kathryn T. Cammarano 6 Hunters Ridge Drive Pennington, NJ 08534 (609) 610-4340 (cell) Helen Healey 25 Springdale Road Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 613-3983 (cell) helen.healey97@gmail.com Peter W. Klein 15 Planters Row Skillman, NJ 08558 (609) 218-1350 (cell) pklein@nd.edu

2017

Abigail Atkeson 17 Hart Ave Hopewell, NJ 08525 (609) 213-7427 (cell) abigail.atkeson@gmail.com Tyler A. Birch 10 Moselem Springs Court Skillman, NJ 08558 (609) 619-1727 (cell) tbflyers@gmail.com

Alexis Davis co-founded the first online and print magazine at Ithaca College aimed to highlight the experiences of traditionally under-represented students. Embrace Publication is currently one of the largest organizations on campus with a staff that consists mainly of people of color.

2018

Hallie B. Hoffman 63 Grist Mill Drive Belle Mead, NJ 08502 (609) 480-4240 (cell) halliebryn@gmail.com

Devon Wenzel wrote: “After the COVID19 pandemic kicked me from living in a castle in Chicago, back to somewhat rural Pennsylvania, I did absolutely nothing for months. I took a fifth class with an online school and started to learn Catalan, despite the fact I still cannot speak French. Over the summer, I rejected an offer from Goldman Sachs to work with their hedge fund division in New York City to pursue my real passion of breeding and harvesting C. Elegans. My brief tenure as a feline publicist ended when my client, Nestor, moved back to the Netherlands…

2019

Amon M. DeVane 287 Bunker Hill Road Princeton, NJ 08540 (908) 202-1402 (cell) amond1234567@gmail.com Raina Kasera 20 Nostrand Road Cranbury, NJ 08512 (609) 716-7551 (cell) raina.kasera@gmail.com

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Pete Higgins

Jane Grigger

Joan Baker

The School learned on June 3 of the untimely passing of Pete Higgins, coach, physical education instructor and friend to all he met.

Head of School Paul Stellato stated: “For more than 20 years, Pete was a fixture on our playing fields, in our gyms and classrooms, and through the hallways and Campus Center, where he met old friends and made new ones. Gregarious, generous, garrulous, Pete welcomed the world and all it had to offer, making the most of every opportunity that came his way. He loved his students, and, if you asked Pete for a story of a Panther who graduated 5, 10 or 20 years before, he could summon a gentle memory as fresh as the present moment. If you asked a student or alumnus about the Three Higgs Rules, they would say: Show up! Have your stuff ! Bring your best effort!

“Born and raised on Long Island, Pete was educated at Guilford College, Adelphi University and Long Island University. Before arriving on the Great Road in 1997, he taught in both the Smithtown and Three Village school districts, and coached at SUNY Stony Brook and Smithtown West High School.

“During a wide-ranging, 23-year Princeton Day School career, Pete played a variety of roles: PE teacher, coach of basketball, lacrosse and football, health instructor, Peer Group advisor. Still, in Pete’s heart, there was room for just one sport: lacrosse. Given his Long Island roots, Pete came by his love of lacrosse naturally. From Syracuse University to the University of Virginia and every Division I, III, or club and travel team in between, Pete knew the players, coaches and traditions. He treasured the game and he relished talking about it with anyone who shared this great passion.

“Pete was a true, loyal colleague. He loved Princeton Day School and was proud of the role he played in its many successes. He was responsible for more of them than we can now number.

“A kind, empathetic friend, he was the loving, doting father of Catie ’17, Jane ’22, Mickey ’23 and Quinn. Pete was a devoted partner and friend to his wife, Becky. We embrace them now in their time of trial and sadness; and we commit ourselves to them as they move forward.”

We learned on August 6 of the passing of dear, long-time colleague Jane Grigger, retired Middle School science teacher, after a brief illness.

In recalling Jane, one cannot help but think of two things: her ever-present smile and the trove of newspaper and magazine clippings. It is hard to imagine that Jane ever had a bad day, as she dispensed kind words and wise thoughts while warming a room or hallway with her smile. She was curious and inventive; and she loved to make connections among people and places.

Active and engaged, she challenged us to keep up with her, even when she was slowing down. And Jane just didn’t slow down that much. Truly, we may have seen her as much during her retirement as we did in her teaching days, as she was a go-to substitute for so many of our colleagues. She loved being back at Princeton Day School and made no secret of it.

Head of School Paul Stellato recalled, “And who among us was not the beneficiary of Jane’s keen eye for and interest in newspaper and magazine stories of interest to her colleagues? I believe that one of the ways Jane shared her fondness for us all was by knowing what we liked, knowing what mattered to us. She expressed that care by sharing with us things that spoke to us.

Although she rarely put her name on any of these clippings (for my first five or six years, I had no idea who was sending me all this stuff ), we came to know that, through these small gifts, Jane was looking out for us.”

Jane retired in June, 2016 after 41 years of service to our school. Mr. Stellato shared, “In speaking with her brother John, he mentioned several times that Jane was lucky to have had two families: those to whom she was related by birth; and those at Princeton Day School who came to cherish her, and whom she cherished in return.”

Joan C. Baker h’69 passed away at the age of 99 this past spring. Married to Wolcott Baker PCD ’33, Joan worked at Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Day School for 30 years, from 1956-1986.

Joan was the school registrar, but she was so much more to the students and faculty who deeply admired her wit, wisdom and kindness.

Joan was an essential presence through the Miss Fine’s School-Princeton Country Day merger and her tireless commitment to the School made her one of the foundation blocks throughout Headmaster Doug McClure’s tenure (’66-’82).

Indeed, From These Roots, a history of Princeton Day School, reported that in the early days, the School’s daily operations rested squarely on the shoulders of three individuals—known as “the three J’s”: Joan Baker, Jean Smyth and Jane Whitehead, who “…collectively provided the experience required to conduct the work of the office.”

So integral was Joan to the student experience that the Class of 1969 chose Joan to be an honorary class member, and the Class of 1971 dedicated their Link yearbook to her. In it they wrote:

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Most of us came to know you after we were already formed. You dispelled our doubts, calmed us, and accepted us when we were afraid no one else would. When we needed a strong, decisive answer, you were the one to provide it. You were logic, strength and warmth.

For the present, we thank you for the tangible work you did for us and the hours you spent doing it; for always, we will thank you for being the person you are.

We send our condolences to Joan’s daughter, Linda Baker Bogue ’68 and her family, her niece, Eileen Baker Strathnaver ’60, nephews, Richard Baker ’58 and John Baker ’62, and to the many MFS and PDS alums and faculty who considered Joan a second mother and peerless advocate.

in memoriam The School has learned of the passing of the following members of the Princeton Day School community. We wish to extend our deepest sympathies to their families and friends.

Tehmina “Tammie” Alphonse Mother of Lylah Alphonse ’90, Navroze Alphonse ’91 and Cyrus Alphonse ’93; and Grandmother of Dylan Alphonse ’21 and Eden Alphonse ’23 Joan Baker h’69 Miss Fine’s School/PDS former registrar; Mother of Linda Baker Bogue ’68 and Aunt of Richard Baker ’58, Eileen Baker Strathnaver ’60 and John Baker ’62 Albert C. Barclay, Jr. Father of Albert C. Barclay III ’80, Lee Barclay Reinmann ’80 and Elizabeth Barclay Livingston ’83 Harriet Bogdonoff Mother of Alan Bogdonoff ’73 Rose R. Bonini Mother of John Bonini ’75, Nancy Bonini ’77, James Bonini ’81 and Jennifer Bonini ’87 (Scott Miller ’87) Katharine Bryan Bulkley ’47 Leon J. Christen Father of Joseph Christen ’83 and Grandfather of Simone Christen ’11 and Julia Christen ’14 Mary Roberts Craighill ’53 Sister of Markley Roberts ’44 Guy K. Dean III ’55 Husband of former physical education teacher/ coach Vicky Norris Dean and Father of Andrew Dean ’98 Joanna Hornig Fox ’64 Sister of Ellen Hornig ’68 Cornelia Fuller Mother of Alison Hopfield Lifland ’75 (Charles Lifland ’75) and Jessica Hopfield ’82 Steve Gilbert Former Upper School math teacher and former Head of Lower School; Husband of former Middle School English teacher Sally Stewart Gilbert ’65 and Father of Nathaniel Gilbert ’93 and Joshua Gilbert ’97 Peter Goldman Father of PDS Director of Annual Giving Jill Goldman ’74, Susan Goldman DeCaro ’80, Daniel Goldman ’83; and Grandfather of Hilary Richards Conger ’05, Maxwell Richards ’08, Bailey Richards ’11 and Mallory Richards ’14 Jane Grigger Former PDS Middle School science teacher

Charles “Chip” Henderson Husband of Elise “Tibby” Chase Dennis ’61 Peter “Pete” Higgins PDS health and physical education teacher, coach and Peer Group advisor; Father of Catherine Higgins ’17, Jane Higgins ’22, Michael Higgins ’23 and Quinn Higgins Dorothy “Dottie” Highland Wife of former Trustee Joseph Highland and Mother of Rebecca Highland ’95, Michael Highland ’03 and Samuel “Vladi” Highland ’11 Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Mother of Robert “Woody” Johnson ’62 and Christopher Johnson ’77; and Step-Mother of PDS Chair of the Board of Trustees Rebecca Bushnell ’70 Carroll K. King Mother of Nancy King Carleton ’67 and Frederick P. King III ’70 Sally Kuser Lane ’42 Mother of Stephen Lane ’64, Sally Lane ’66, Mark Lane ’70, Catherine Lane ’71, Henry Lane ’74, Mary Lane ’75 and Teresa Lane ’79 Leighton Laughlin ’41 Brother of James Laughlin ’43 ( Julia Gallup Laughlin ’55), Ledlie Laughlin ’45 and Robert Laughlin ’49; Father of Leighton (Toby) Laughlin ’64, Christopher Laughlin ’65, Alexander Laughlin ’72, Carin Laughlin Hoffman ’74; Grandfather of Logan Laughlin ’06; Uncle of John Moore ’72, Peter Moore ’73, Thomas Moore ’76, Ophelia Laughlin ’77 and PDS Lower School teacher James Laughlin ’80; and Great-Uncle of Margaret Laughlin ’16 and Margaret Laughlin ’19 Robert M. Laughlin ’49 Brother of Leighton Laughlin ’41, James Laughlin ’43 ( Julia Gallup Laughlin ’55) and Ledlie Laughlin ’45; Uncle of Leighton (Toby) Laughlin ’64, Christopher Laughlin ’65 Alexander Laughlin ’72, Carin Laughlin Hoffman ’74, Ophelia Laughlin ’77, PDS Lower School teacher James Laughlin ’80; and Great-Uncle of Logan Laughlin ’06, Margaret Laughlin ’16 and Margaret Laughlin ’19 Maurice D. Lee, Jr. Father of L. Blair Lee ’69 Irwin Litt Father of Lisa Litt ’82 and David Litt ’85 Richard “Dick” Lyman Husband of Kathleen “Kay” Dunn Lyman ’56 Marjorie Libby Moore ’43

Anne Freedman Mizgerd ’55 Barbara MacLeod Morgan Step-Mother of Anne Morgan Battle ’67 (Craig Battle ’62), Catherine MorganStandard ’70 and Cynthia Morgan Pastahov ’72 Mary Catherine Paci Mother of George Paci ’88 and Michael Paci ’90 Claire Grover Parsells ’45 Lewis Pepperman Father of Michael Pepperman ’99 and David Pepperman ’04 Richard A. Ragsdale Father of David Ragsdale ’90 and Daniel Ragsdale ’93 Scott Roberts ’84 Brother of Todd Roberts ’87 Harriett Robertson Mother of Pieter Fisher ’72 and Ellen Fisher ’73 Cintra Carter Sander Mother of Cintra Huber McGauley ’70, Richard Huber II ’72 and Casilda Huber ’76; and Step-Mother of Leslie Sander ’73 Sally Hagen Schmid ’60 Sister of Nancy Hagen Spaulding ’57 Thomas Suarez Father of Christopher Suarez ’17 Seok Fun Tan Mother of Arius Seow ’28 Suzanne Touzet ’95 Sister of Sebastian Touzet ’97 Suzy Trowbridge Mother of Jamie Trowbridge ’86, Jeb Trowbridge ’88, Mark Trowbridge ’92 and PDS Middle School humanities teacher Matt Trowbridge ’98; and Grandmother of Calvin Cunningham-Trowbridge ’34 Martha Vaughan Wife of former Trustee George “Arky” Vaughan and Mother of Barbara Vaughn Hoimes ’78, Susan Vaughn-O’Brien ’80 and Phoebe Vaughn Outerbridge ’84 Mary Osborne Witherbee Mother of Lily de Jongh Downing ’81; Stepmother of Jean Beckwith Funk ’72 (Paul Funk ’72) and David S. Beckwith ’75; and Aunt of Leslie Osborne Coleman ’76, Lindsay Osborne Vogel ’78, Nicholas Osborne ’80 and Stanley “Sandy” Osborne ’89 Sophia Zaininger Mother of Alexander Zaininger ’77 and Grandmother of Charlotte Zaininger ’14 and Luke Zaininger ’18

If you know that a School community member has passed away (alumni; former or current PDS parent, grandparent, board member or faculty/staff member; or the spouse, sibling or child of anyone from our community), please send that information to Ann Wiley ’70, editor of the In Memoriam page, at classnotes@pds.org. If possible, please include a copy of the obituary (or information to locate the obituary).

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the last word

“Welcome to the Princeton Day School Athletic Center, a space that welcomes our entire community and provides enhanced facilities for our athletics program. Our Athletic Center builds upon our best traditions and captures what never stops at Princeton Day School: progress. We’ve been able to take the best of what was here in ways that reflect who we are today and aspire to be tomorrow.

“Completing this project is a milestone in the great tradition of philanthropy at Princeton Day School, a tradition that has made our excellence possible. This breathtaking new place is for all of us. Thank you to all who have supported this project. I look forward to welcoming you into the Princeton Day School Athletic Center and celebrating our Panther pride together!”

— Head of School Paul J. Stellato

View Head of School Paul Stellato’s video introduction and tour of the new Athletic Center on the pds.org homepage.

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Transform. Enrich. Leave a legacy.

When you make a planned gift – of any size –you help strengthen the Princeton Day School experience for the next generation.

Your gift can enhance campus priorities that have personal meaning to you, such as faculty support, financial aid, athletics, and art programming. Or you can make an unrestricted gift that enables PDS to best address its future needs.

Whatever your commitment, you’ll join a special tradition of giving and be welcomed into the May Margaret Fine Society, Princeton Day School’s planned giving society. pds.org/giving/planned-giving We are happy to help you make a meaningful gift to both you and the School. Please contact: Courtney Hodock in the Advancement Office at chodock@pds.org or (609) 924-6700 ext. 1251.

The May Margaret Fine Society: Established in 1998, the May Margaret Fine Society recognizes those loyal alumnae/i, parents and friends who have informed the school that they have made provisions for Princeton Day School in their estate plans.

Including the school in their will, establishing a charitable trust while maintaining life income, or naming the school as a life insurance beneficiary are some of the ways these individuals have helped secure the long-term strength of Princeton Day School.

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