Buxton School Annual Report 2018 - 2019

Buxton School Newsletter & Report on Philanthropy for fiscal year 2018 - 2019

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Letter from the Director

Fall 2019 Courses

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Greetings from the Learning Center

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Comparison of Last 5 Fiscal Years

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Memorial Gifts

Geometry at Buxton

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Giving for 5 or More Consecutive Years

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Honorary Gifts

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20-24 Reunion photos!

33 Gifts to Permanently Restricted Funds

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Melting & Reshaping Plastics

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Progressive Education Fellowship

Teaching at Buxton

Sophomore English

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Employer Matching Gifts

First-Time Donors

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Annual Fund Giving Levels

Gifts from Businesses

Alumni Giving by Class

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Giving by Group

Planned Giving

Report on Letter from Philanthropy the Chair of the Board of Trustees

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Lifetime Giving Recognition

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Gifts In-Kind Board of Trustees

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Letter from the Director, Franny Shuker-Haines It was Mountain Day last week. As always, the seniors planned it in secret and surprised the rest of the school the morning of. As always, most kids were excited and full of energy. As always, some kids were not thrilled but managed to be good sports anyway. And, as always hoped for, the weather and the views were spectacular!

We are lucky to be in such a beautiful place.

Mountain Day is, in many ways, a microcosm of Buxton. It is student-driven and student-run.

It involves commitment and planning and effort and energy—all in the pursuit of an activity, an action, that benefits the community and knits us all more tightly together. It involves sacrifice: reluctant kids taking the hike anyway for the sake of the common good, teachers giving up class time for a beloved ritual, the kitchen working hard to get all the food where it needed to be throughout the day. And it emphasizes that Buxton is what we do together, whether that doing takes place in the chem lab, the ceramics studio, the Spanish Room or on the top of Mt. Greylock.

Those values hold true even after people leave Buxton. The school needs the whole community to come together and travel up the mountain with their hope, optimism, and belief in the beauty and purpose of the school in order to keep it going. No independent school can survive on tuition dollars alone; the economics just don’t work. What they need—what Buxton needs more than most—is the commitment and hard work of the people who have benefited from its unique, trusting, and humane approach. The present relies on the past. The future depends on you.

This newsletter and annual report reflects the ongoing commitment of our entire community.

The students and faculty of Buxton School 2019’20 and well beyond thank you. We hope that this will inspire everyone to contribute—maybe even sacrifice a little?—to this special place, so we can keep doing Mountain Day—and so much more— for many years to come.

BILINGUAL STUDENTS

The Buxton student–and the Buxton experience–is like no in all facets and believe that

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people thrive when differences

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other. We welcome diversity

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are honored. We encourage our students to engage not just with each other but also with the world beyond our doors.

We believe that young people can be trusted to live lives that are balanced, ethical and productive.

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38% STUDENTS OF COLOR

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Mariko Bolton ’21

J u n z h e Ya n ’ 2 0

I took Biology my sophomore year at Buxton. I loved attending this class, which included detailed and interesting lectures and creative labs.

One of the things I enjoy the most in my time here is the Senior Art Seminar. Since I am interested in art and design, and will probably pursue further education in this field, I have been trying to get myself prepared. Senior Seminar has been extremely helpful.

Frequently Linda would also take us outside for nature walks, where we would study the forest and ponds on Buxton’s campus.

One of my favorite assignments included writing a research paper about genetic engineering and CRISPR technology.

We are going to talks at Williams College so that we know what’s happening in the art world and what current artists’ approaches are. We talk about each others’ projects and ideas, broadening each others’ visions. There are critiques and more specific lessons on techniques to get us prepared for life in art schools/majors.

The discussion in class has been open and encouraging. I have taken Studio Art for three years at Buxton, mainly working on my own or with Frank. It is exciting to have this platform and opportunity to communicate with other artists at school and to have a more systematic approach to the subject. I believe this experience will assist in a smooth transition if I am going to study art and design in college and also in my personal growth.

It is a very joyful experience so far and I am looking forward to more of the same in Senior Seminar.

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I’ve been doing studio art since coming to Buxton my freshman year and I really appreciate the freedom it has given me to experiment with my art. My favorite medium is watercolor but I love making oil paintings because it’s something that would be very hard to do outside of Buxton. I love the art studio because it works well as a quiet space or a loud space and I never know which it is going to be before I show up.

- Nola Muscatello ’20

Happening at School

fall 2019 courses Agriculture Algebra I, II Biology Calculus Ceramics Chemistry Current Events Drama I, II English I, II, III, IV French I, II

Advanced French Geometry Health Introduction to Trigonometry Marine Science Middle East Music I, II Photography Physics Plastics

Precalculus Principals of Computer Science Psychology Russian Spanish I, II, III, IV, V Studio Art US History Video Production Western Tradition

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Message from the Associate Director, Peter Beck When Lizzy (English II) was in college, she had to memorize the first several lines from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (she can still recite them!). My own favorite lines come later on, at the end of the clerk’s section: “And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.” Or, in modern English: “And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.”

I think about that a lot at Buxton—how inseparable teaching and learning really are. It’s hard to imagine a learning process that doesn’t involve some teaching, or a teaching practice that doesn’t involve continuous learning. And that’s exactly what happens at Buxton, every day.

When my students and I dig into a primary source in U.S. History, I hope I’m teaching them about the material—I’m certain they’re teaching me. Teaching, learning. When our students sign up to be Peer Tutors, they get to practice teaching themselves, building up our academic community together. Teaching, learning.

When our Teaching Fellows debrief a class with their mentors, Buxton helps train the progressive educators of the next generation. Teaching, learning. I can’t imagine a school—or at least not a Buxton—where teaching and learning could ever really be separated.

There’s another word in that Chaucer line that I haven’t brought up yet: gladly. It’s probably the most important part. It’s what makes all this teaching and learning possible. At too many schools, teaching becomes a chore.

In too many classrooms, learning is an ordeal. The enthusiasm and energy of students and faculty at Buxton this fall is incredible. Teach and learn at Buxton? Gladly.

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M o i k a C a r r o l l J e a n - L o u is ’20 My favorite class in all my time at Buxton is African Dance and Drum. I have been dancing since I was about 6 years old so when I was looking for a school, dance classes, especially African dance, were really important to me.

Dancing with Kathleen has been amazing. She is so much more than a dance teacher. She took me under her wing when I came to Buxton. She is my role model. What I love about her as a teacher is that she is still learning herself. She researches the history and the stories of the dances we learn which is interesting and helps us understand the dances and the emotions behind them.

Sadi e Cherni la ’21 One of my favorite things about Buxton is our annual Urban Intensive Trip. It is such a unique experience to travel with Buxton and learn in a new environment and way. It’s a time for us to take a break from our normal day-to-day life in Williamstown and get to be together and bring our community to a new place.

Every year I am thankful for the opportunity to go on our trip.

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- David Bluestein ’08, Science Teacher Plastic has been an increasingly versatile, inexpensive, and commonplace material all over the world for the past century. Now that it has permeated every aspect of life, even if it wasn’t supposed to, many people are becoming more conscious of its presence, but its properties remain a mystery to most. This year we are pioneering a class on the physical properties, environmental and biological impacts, production/reproduction, and modern cultural and economic relevance of plastics.

Along with the class, we are bringing to campus a whole new art medium, a way for us to reduce the environmental impact of the school, and an exciting new way to collaborate with the Williamstown community.

The process will begin in work program, where students and faculty will help collect, clean, and sort recyclable plastics from Buxton’s and Williams College’s waste streams. Then, students taking the class on plastics will use a machine to tear the plastics into small shreds, sorting them by color as they go. Then, once the students have learned about the different properties of plastics, they will begin to use another machine to melt down the plastic

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shreds and reshape them into art or new products.

Machines made from the same design are being used around the world to create things ranging from building materials and toys to imitation rhinoceros horns and abstract sculptures. I can’t wait to see what Buxton students will create as they blend their understandings of science, consumerism, and environmental concerns, all in the process of developing their skills in this new art form!

I was first inspired to start this whole program when I saw a video about “Precious Plastics” online.

Precious Plastics is an organization that has provided open-source blueprints and instructional videos for small scale plastic recycling machines. In hopes of starting plastic recycling at Buxton, I applied for a grant from Voya Financial’s “Unsung Heroes” program. I was shocked when I got a letter in June congratulating me on being one of 50 teachers nationwide to receive the grant! Now our class is working hard to reform the way that Buxton students dispose of plastics, researching types of plastics, and getting ready for when the shredder arrives so we can start building a stock of material to work with.

is one of my favorite activities here at Buxton! It is a small, intentional team full of dedicated students who are there not because they are required to or have already mastered math and are looking to win competitions, but because they genuinely want to be there and are enthusiastic about learning new, challenging things. It’s been such a supportive environment for me to expand my mathematical and problem-solving abilities through low-stress but thorough practices, and competitions with other schools around the country. Math team has allowed me embrace my love of math outside of the classroom with a group of other kids who are just as enthusiastic as I am about facing problems head on and finding creative ways to solve them.

- Karleigh Bath ’21

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Progressive Education Fellowship!

We are really excited and proud to announce the first year of the Teaching Fellowships in Progressive Education at Buxton School! The program is designed to bring young aspiring teachers to our campus for a year of immersion, mentoring, learning, and teaching in Buxton’s unique style of education. They are fully engaged in the life of the school while also getting curricular and hands-on instruction in teaching, as well as being mentored as individuals and as a cohort. This year, we have three Teaching Fellows: John Kalapos, a Buxton alum and graduate of Pitzer College, who has spent the last several years working on the ground for the Democratic Party, Harry Trask, a graduate of Bard College and a recipient of a master’s degree from Yale’s Divinity School, and Nyasha Franklin, also a Buxton grad and newly minted graduate of Mount Holyoke College.

Here, Nyasha shares her reflections on being part of the first group of Progressive Education Teaching fellows!

my experience as a Progressive Education Fellow

- Nyasha Franklin ’15, Teaching Fellow

My experience being a Progressive Education Fellow at Buxton is like finally getting invited to the adults’ table at a Thanksgiving dinner. One could only wonder what they laughed about, what the food and drink were, and most importantly what the conversations were like. I am quickly realizing though, how similar the two groups are­—students and faculty—and now have a restored curiosity in how my new—and yet old—environment works.

It’s only been a few weeks since I arrived on campus as a Fellow, now living in the Barn, but I was reminded within the first few days of the students’ arrival why I decided to return to Buxton as an adult: our community investment. Students and faculty put in a great deal of time and energy to make Buxton a school and community that they care about, that they critique and question, and that they ultimately ask returners and newcomers alike to routinely invest in, every day. How can we live better together? How can we live happily together? What can we do to be active

community members at Buxton while also being global citizens? Clubs like the P.O.C (People of Color) Union, the new Green club, Dungeons and Dragons sessions, long artistic bouts in the arts building, or playing music in the practice room, among other activities at Buxton, keep the individual pulses in the school going and help the community thrive. Students answer these questions with their actions, asking each other hard questions, entertaining each other, and exploring their artistic lives together. What is most notable is the way the student body drives the heartbeat of the community. This heartbeat forces me to ask myself not only what I can do as a Progressive Education Fellow, but what can I bring to support the stew brewing on campus?

To be invited to rejoin this community is an honor. As a recent college graduate, I’m still figuring out what I bring to the table, but I’m confident my interactions with students and faculty are already revealing that to me. Working with these students, observing

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N y as ha Frankiln classrooms, and assisting with Alternative sports during the first few weeks makes me excited for what this year has in store. Although faces at the school have changed since I graduated, a curiosity of mine has been restored, filling me with questions I had while a student and as an alumna while in college. Ultimately, what this Fellowship will help me investigate is how do we get people to be excited about learning and asking questions about the world?

I am excited to take on this question in a place that allowed me to explore its many answers as a student in classrooms, on the annual Urban Intensive Trip, and living in community with other young scholars.

To today’s Buxton: thank you for letting me return and allowing me to be curious in an intergenerational community once again. To all alumni: current students should see that they are connected to a web of exciting Buxton grads! Our doors are open, come and see us!!

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Teaching at Buxton

- David Bluestein ’08, Science Teacher

Thirteen years ago, the idea of teaching at Buxton entered my head as a distant and unlikely dream.

Even when I graduated two years later, I expected I would only return to visit. Now I am starting my fourth year living that unlikely dream! Throughout the time I spent attending college and graduate school, I always missed the little school on the side of a hill in the Berkshires. Returning to campus for occasional arts weekends and reunions, I realized that the people of the school are always changing, and the campus itself isn’t completely static either. Each year the school feels different, but the purpose and the spirit of the school never change. Every day I see in my students the same drive, passion, and questions that my peers and I shared over a decade ago. Working alongside some of my former teachers I continue to cherish the compassion, respect, and guidance that they give to students (and former students) and coworkers alike.

Living this dream brings new challenges every day.

Teaching a class requires you to master the topics of the class and the mediums you communicate them through, but you also have to know the students that you are teaching. I have always been awed by the unique power that Buxton shows in the bridges built between its teachers and its students. Getting to know who my students are as people can be a messy, gritty, and very time-consuming process; but it has been the most rewarding experience in my career.

Living on campus, sharing meals, attending events, living intentionally as part of this community­—Buxton has taught me that everything I do as a person is meaningful in some way. Whether I’m discussing the dynamic interactions between polar molecules in a classroom or chatting about movies while playing cards with a few students, I love that I am learning about the students as they learn from me. It always amazes me how much intellectual, emotional, and personal growth everyone experiences at Buxton in just a few short years!

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- Lizzy Beck, English Teacher

In his poem “January Morning,” the American poet William Carlos Williams writes: I wanted to write a poem that you would understand.

For what good is it to me if you can’t understand it?

But you got to try hard— I shared these lines with the Sophomore English class on a recent Friday morning before we sat down together for our first weekly poetry discussion. I love Williams’s articulation here of the mutual responsibility necessary to create a good reading experience, and by implication, a good learning experience. In my own education, sophomore year of high school was the first time I was ever challenged in an English classroom. Though I’d always loved to read, I’d never really liked reading for school until that year, when the books were suddenly hard, and powerful, and real to me. As a teacher, I’m always seeking to provide something of that experience of awakening. I like to teach rich, vivid, sometimes difficult material. But I’m glad I have Williams to remind me: What good is it to me if you can’t understand it? And to remind all of us: But you got to try hard. I’m looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

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Agriculture Program This summer I was hired

by Matt Kramer to do work with him in the gardens. The schedule was strict: get here by 6:50 am, start work no later than 7:00 am. It was worth the early morning bike ride! Working here was the most rewarding job I’ve had yet. We were harvesting and planting non-stop. What we didn’t freeze or pickle we donated to the Berkshire Food Project. I am glad to be gaining so much knowledge in this field and to inspire other people to learn too.

- Lola Bohle ’22

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Greetings from the Learning Center - Matthew Martin, Learning Specialist

Greetings from the Learning Center! Hailing originally from Virginia, I’ve come to Williamstown as the spouse of a Williams College sociology professor.

After fifteen years of teaching students in a variety of settings and subjects—including history, English, and psychology—I’m thrilled to begin my role as the Learning Support Coordinator. In these first few weeks, I’ve been immersed in the pleasures of teaching in a new environment—getting to know my students and fellow faculty, and setting up my new space.

was by a classmate (Bob Flynt, ’74), and captured the nervous anticipation just prior to Buxton’s 1973 graduation, as the seniors prepared to deliver their speeches at the First Congregational Church.

As I’ve been settling into my new role, this painting has illustrated the incredible work Buxton students are capable of producing. But it has also reminded me just how quick our time with them can feel. Those nervous moments before graduation speeches will be here before we know it. In the meantime, it’s my My first visit to the Learning Center presented privilege to work alongside students with specific something of a mystery. Leaning against the wall was learning differences, as well as any who need extra a striking painting of two young people, one wearing support in academics. We’ll work on planning and a brown suit, the other a white dress, staring out time management, and develop specific strategies pensively from the canvas. Who were these students? for improving reading, writing, or math skills. Most Was this a quiet moment during a school dance? How importantly, we’ll be working to help Buxton students old was this painting, and who was the artist? feel prepared not just for that graduation speech, but what comes afterward as well. I look forward to Working in the Learning Center one afternoon this taking that journey with our students, and to filling summer, a chance meeting with former director the walls of the Learning Center with their work along Pete Smith (’74) provided the answer: the painting the way!

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Geometry At Buxton Defense Against the Dark Arts

- Ben Ripley ’99, Geometry & Photography Faculty Ideally, education should be both immediately applicable and valuable over time. This is a challenge for classes like high school mathematics, whose utility in adolescence and beyond can be suspect. With this in mind, geometry at Buxton uses a math curriculum as a way to examine and practice the process of working through confusion to clarity.

Geometry is lovely because things make visual sense. You can often see immediately whether two triangles appear to be equal or whether a figure has been bisected. The challenge lies in finding a way to explain what is known visually or intuitively through verbal or mathematical argument.

The idea of geometry is to look at logical arguments using the simplest objects. A line has only one quality: length. You can say nothing else about a line. It has no color, no width, no political affiliations. I can’t think of anything simpler. The class practices producing clear, precise proofs about the simplest figures and then applies the same skills to more complex language, employed in, for instance, news stories or debates. For this reason, we now start the class by looking at grammar and language.

Today in class we were talking about inductive reasoning, building up an idea from evidence. I gave “the sun rises every day” as a reasonable conjecture (vocabulary word) based on past observations. A possible counterexample that would prove the conjecture false might be “a

day when the sun didn’t rise.” A student (who, incidentally, hadn’t completed his homework) pointed out that if the sun didn’t rise it wouldn’t really be day, so there couldn’t be a counterexample and the conjecture must be true.

From this we went into a conversation about definitions and whether communication could be meaningful if one person defines a “day” as twenty-four hours and another defines it as the time when the sun is up. And that’s pretty much how the class proceeds.

This kind of class requires students to be actively engaged. There are few specific facts or formulas to memorize, but many things to think through. The class depends on the desire of each student to communicate their observations and beliefs to the world, and to achieve a clear understanding of what they hear or think themselves.

Geometry in the “post-truth era” seems particularly urgent. The class could reasonably be renamed Defense Against the Dark (Political) Arts. Knowing exactly what a candidate is offering, what a statement necessarily means, and refusing to be thrown off balance by irrelevant or misleading statements are particularly important skills when students are becoming leaders in the fight against climate change and when their voices are gaining political strength. This explicit link between real life and its abstraction in geometry is one way in which Buxton’s math curriculum strives to be relevant, progressive, and rigorous with purpose.

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between the Barn & Main House has happened twice!

This semester, girls are back in the Barn!

Progressive Education Teaching Fellows have joined us (Nyasha Franklin ’15, John Kalapos ’13, and Harry Trask)

Former faculty member Peter Beck returned as the new associate director after graduating from Yale Law School Katelin Roberts joined us as our

full-time school counselor

with 22 years of experience as a school counselor in 3 different New England Schools.

90th year

We celebrated our at reunion in June. Here’s to another 90!

Our Annual Fund grew to the highest it has ever been, thanks to the generosity of our alumni, friends and families!

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alumni from years 1950 2016!

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Buxton Students are

leaders and innovators. Our world needs these creative, community-minded, curious young people. Your support makes this education possible.

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Letter from Tom Rutledge, chair of the board of trustees A beautiful Berkshires fall is underway at Buxton. But, man, it feels like spring.

A spirit of renewal is in the air. We have a truly remarkable team in place across the faculty and staff. It’s a combination of names that have been part of the community for years, and a group of fresh faces that Franny has assembled since she assumed the directorship two years ago. We are especially excited to celebrate the return of Lizzy and Peter Beck as teachers, and Peter in the role of Associate Director.

Having just finished Yale Law School, Peter saw many professional roads open up before him. He has come back to Williamstown to work and evangelize for Buxton as a model for what progressive education can be.

In my role, I’ve also had a lot of contact with the extended community of alumni and parents. I feel lucky to deliver the story that underlies our Capital Campaign. We believe in both the educational model and the financial model, and we are excited about the possibilities that lay before us with an endowment that can put the question of finances to rest.

With the help of everyone, Buxton is sure to continue to bloom in familiar ways, and in new ones.

employer matching gifts The following people made the effort to have their employers match their gifts to Buxton last year. We are grateful to these businesses and foundations for their gifts, and to the Buxton community members who made it happen!

Vanguard Hannah Dancing and Amma Boateng

J. Paul Getty Trust Karen Jones Clark and Stephen Clark

Norfolk Southern Foundation Peter Morgan

Penguin Random House Paolo Pepe

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Adam Ambrose ’68 Chauncey and Georgiana Anderson Kwang Arnzen ’13 Brandon and Jennifer Baldock Jeffrey and Julie Bath P’21 Christopher Bolton P’21,23 Roger and Julia Bolton G’21,23 Naeemah Brown P’20 Patricia Dinner G’20 Terrence Fina and Elizabeth Young P’20 Theresa Flaherty P’20 Robin Gardner ’18 Kara Geraty ’88 Kolya Hache ’97 James and Francesca Hetfield P’20 Lynda Hulkower P’08,12

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First-Time Donors last fiscal year Phyllis Hurwitz Jieyu Jiang and Yan Xie P’19 John Kalapos ’13 Josh Keshen Holly Drumm Laws ’97 Joan Lawson G’21 Carole Liggett P’19 Abaigael Lypps ’17 MASS MoCA Joseph Mattern G’19 Jim and Lee Maxwell P’19 Danny Mayer and Amy Swarbrick P’16 Heather McAvoy P’18 Jason Merrill P’21 Katherine Merrill P’21 Scott Michalowski P’21 Cynthia Miller P’22

Anne O’Connor P’22 Daniel and Mary O’Connor G’22 Raven Ocasio ’10 Meghan Phillips P’21 Beth Reisboard Dana Reisboard Gary Roth Lenin and Danielle Serrano P’22 Louise Smith ’09 Michael Smith ’58 Izzy Swarbrick ’16 Magali Torres Thomas Wilkins ’18 Sarah Workneh Logan Wright ’17 Stephen and Donna Wyatt Yuyang Yao ’19 Zehong Zhu ’17

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total gifts to buxton - last 5 years

$700,000

$642,299

$600,000

$511,442

$500,000

$438,494

$400,000 $300,000

$290,008 $284,127

$200,000 $100,000

FY 2014/ 2015

FY 2015/ 2016

FY 2016/ 2017

FY 2017/ 2018

FY 2018/ 2019

Giving by fund Annual Fund $600,000

$400,000

$269,896 $4,000 $10,230

Endowment

Other

$438,494 $0 $0

$431,599 $77,895 $1,946

$448,609 $182,030 $11,659

FY 2016/ 2017

FY 2017/ 2018

FY 2018/ 2019

$279,007 $1,000 $10,000

$200,000

FY 2014/ 2015

FY 2015/ 2016

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these donors have made a steadfast commitment to buxton by

giving for 5 or more consecutive years Anonymous * Arjun Achuthan ’86 Adams Community Bank Genna Lewis Anderson ’51 * Ralph and Elisabeth Arlyck P’94 Alex Azima ’67 * Bill Beardsley ’56 * Stephanie Goldstein Begen ’72 * C. William Bennett * Theresa Bensew P’08 Lou Bluestein P’08 * Elizabeth Breeze P’91 * Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 * Ann Brown ’85 * Candace Brown P’96 Grant Brown ’75 P’14 * Thelma Bullock P’85 * Crystal Campbell P’80 G’07,08 * Margo Cardner * Tobe and Margaret Carey P’02 * Lea and Pamela Carnevali P’13 * Don and Susan Churchill P’79 * Laurance Clark ’79 * Marga Cooper Sproul ’63 Matthew Coughlin and Chrissie Hines P’11 Arianne Dar P’07 Andy and Roberta Denenberg P’08 * Art Desimine and Liz Weiss P’15 David Donaldson ’80 Susan Draper Walker ’74 Kevin and Beth Ellingwood P’15 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich * Adam Falk P’14 Sophie Fels ’92 * Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93 * Catharine Fincke ’68 Pauline Fleszar G’11 *

Robert Flynt ’74 Steven Forman and Constance Eeghen P’09 * Jeff Franzen P’12 Michael Freed P’99 Winfried and Silke Fuchshofen P’13 * Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 * Nancy Glowa ’73 Owen Goldfarb and Priscilla Fairbank P’05 * Andrew Gross and Linda Koenig P’15 Henry and Elizabeth Harrison P’93 Mickey and Jackie Herbert P’13 Ms. Lillis C. Hines Bonnie Holden Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,11,14 * Robert and Cora May Howe P’77,79 * Dorianne Hutton Samuels ’71 Emelie Kenney P’08 Walter Kernan ’74 * Marlyn Klee P’87 Jeffrey Ladd ’73 Amrita Lash ’99 and Adrian St. John ’00 Maggie Laurie ’94 Judy and Philip Lescarbeau * Charlotte Levine G’00 * Robert A. Levy ’67 * Nan Lombardi P’87 Bill Low ’70 * Jean MacFadyen ’73 * Ed Martin ’72 P’08 * Janet McGhee P’11 * George and Carolyn McLellan P’91,98 * Mark Meachem ’72 * Alice Mello P’14 Smokey Minot ’62 * Bernard and Jennifer Mirling P’91,98 G’10 *

Peter Mitchell and Suzette Barclay P’00 * Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 * Michael and Hannah Moore P’08 * William Morse Peter Neuman ’84 Nancy Newberger P’09 * Jonathan and Sigrin Newell P’93 David Oliver and Roberta Bonisson Machado P’11,17 * Overland Summer Camps, Inc. Bruce Pandolfini and Roselyn Abrahams P’04 * John Parkinson ’80 Paolo Pepe ’78 Katherine Perls P’91 * Eric and Ellen Petersen P’88 * Elizabeth and James Pickman P’95 * Diana Hitt Potter ’51 P’82 * Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82 * Gregory Prestopino ’65 r.k. Miles, Inc * Josh Reisner ’95 * Philip Rickey ’78 * Bruce and Lori Rosenblum * Lisa Rosenthal P’16 Marjorie Rosenthal Amanda Ross ’84 P’17 * Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47 * Tony Rousmaniere ’91 David Rubin ’70 * Patricia Ryan P’78,84 * Evan Sachs ’49 * Lawrence Sapadin and Marilyn Segel P’09 Bonnie Schorske P’87 G’19 Franny and Timothy Shuker-Haines P’16 * Jeffrey Shumlin ’78 * Daniel Simons ’02 and Barbara Berska ’02

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Randy Smith and Tina Cohoe P’12 Peter ’74 and Jane Smith P’09,14 * Ann Steadman ’55 Edward Stockman ’66 * James Stockman ’60 * Christopher and Mary Stone P’00 * Jonathan Sylbert ’76 * Jim and Cindy Tuite P’04 * Viola van der Meulen and Jim Morrison Dirk van Loon ’57 Robert and Nancy Vaughn** P’01 * Peter and Barbara Waksman P’06 * Beatrice Weinberger ’76 * West Oil Company * B. Harton Wolf ’62 * Wrinkle In Time Foundation, Andrea Currier, President ’74 *

* Indicates a donor who has given for 10 or more consecutive years. ** Deceased

GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT FUNDS made i n 2018 -2019

Arjun Achuthan ’86 Lou Bluestein P’08 Linda Burlak and Lawrence Smith David Donaldson ’80 Kevin and Beth Ellingwood P’15 Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93 Walter Kernan ’74 Nancy Newberger P’09 Diana Hitt Potter ’51 P’82 Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82

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LIFETIME GIVING RECOGNITION WE HONOR THESE DONORS WHO HAVE GIVEN TO BUXTON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE HELPED COUNTLESS STUDENTS AND PROVIDED ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR PROGRAMMATIC AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES AT BUXTON. $2,000,000+ Wrinkle in Time Foundation Andrea Currier ’74, President

$100,000+ Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93

$1,000,000+ Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01

Henry and Mary Flynt** P’74,’77 Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,’11,’14 Christa Lancaster P’01

$750,000+ Diana Hitt Potter ’51, P’82

Nancy Newberger P’09 Tony Rousmaniere ’91 Ann Wiener** P’79,’80 Charlie ’72 and Shelly Yedlin P’03

$250,000+ Anonymous Cynthia Croatti P’02, ’05 Jane Greenberg ’77 P’07

Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82

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annual fund giving levels dorm supervisors

kitchen Krew Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999

Dorm Supervisors take on the biggest leadership role in the dorms, handling the logistics of work jobs and room cleanup and also acting as “big brothers” and “big sisters” to the new students. Dorm Supervisors are de facto liaisons to the faculty and staff and represent the rest of the students.

On Saturdays, the students take over the kitchen! It’s a chance for people to share recipes, learn kitchen skills, and make their favorite foods. Yum!

David Donaldson ’80 Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93 Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01 Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,11,14 Nicholas ’82 and Cami Lenett P’19 Nancy Newberger P’09 Tom and Mimi Rutledge P’16 Daniel Simons ’02 and Barbara Berska ’02 Justin Theroux ’89 Wrinkle In Time Foundation, Andrea Currier ’74, President

the forge Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 A beloved campus building built by students many moons ago! Also the name of a student publication that solicits input from all students.

Estate of Louise See Bingham ’40 Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 Nick Brown ’02 Cynthia Croatti P’02,05 Judy Denenberg G’08 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich Jeff Franzen P’12 David Gardner and Phyllis Guerra P’18 Jane Greenberg ’77 P’07 James and Francesca Hetfield P’20 Jessica Mezzacappa ’85 Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82 Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47

Bill Beardsley ’56 Peter and Lizzy Beck C. William Bennett Lou Bluestein P’08 Stephen Burr ’47 Arianne Dar P’07 Catharine Fincke ’68 Dorianne Hutton Samuels ’71 Walter Kernan ’74 Peter Mitchell and Suzette Barclay P’00 David Rubin ’70 Peter Shumlin ’74 and Katie Hunt Rebecca Vitali-DeCola ’00

senior service Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Sunday nights are a special time on campus because a senior delivers remarks to the entire school community. Everyone dresses up for these occasions!

Anonymous Danny Adler ’68 Mark Alkiewicz ’86 Michael Brandt P’03 Grant Brown ’75 P’14 Tobe and Margaret Carey P’02 Sammy Chamino ’07 Timothy Collins and Kirsten Dahl Collins P’17 W. Bayard Cutting ’76 Hannah Dancing ’02 and Amma Boateng Patricia Dinner G’20 Meg Ellingwood ’15 Robert Flynt ’74

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Gifts of $10,000+

Catherine Eddy Gallagher ’74 Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 Dickson and Mary Glass P’01 Owen Goldfarb and Priscilla Fairbank P’05 Henry and Elizabeth Harrison P’93 Lucinda Hodgson ’90 Mary Holland ’08 Maria Huffman P’94 Frank Jackson and Amy Podmore P’11 Karen Jones Clark and Stephen Clark P’04,07 David Kelso Simmone La Corte and Nicholas Heldfond P’20 Jeffrey Ladd ’73 Siiri Lane ’86 P’20 Robert Levine ’83 Jean MacFadyen ’73 Mardi Manary Ed Martin ’72 P’08 Alexander ’03 and Connie Matisse Heather McAvoy P’18 Benjamin Mezzacappa ’91 Jacob Mitchell ’00 Michael and Hannah Moore P’08 Robert and Celia Morris P’90 Robert Hauter Myslik Memorial Fund Elizabeth and James Pickman P’95 Philip Rickey ’78 Thomas and Moira Ripley P’99 Bruce and Lori Rosenblum Charles Schiff and Christine Califra Schiff P’19 Jeffrey Shumlin ’78 Nathan Spencer and Jennifer McLean Spencer P’21 James Stockman ’60 Mark ’87 and Alison Tulloss P’19 Robert and Nancy Vaughn** P’01 Marco Williams ’75 Yuyang Yao ’19 Robert Yedlin ’03

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stove stokers

rec committee

Gifts of $500 - $999

Gifts of $250 - $499

Keep the fire burning! There are fewer wood stoves on campus now, but several buildings still have wood-burning stoves, and stoking those stoves is as important as ever.

One of the most coveted leadership roles at Buxton is to be in charge of “Rec Committee.” This group of students takes charge of generating an all-school activity every Friday night. Whatever the activity, whether silly or serious, the value of these Friday nights is that we are making exciting things happen together.

Anonymous Arjun Achuthan ’86 Robert and Deborah Andrus G’20 Catherine Belden and James Nail Roger and Julia Bolton G’21,23 Margo Cardner Laurance Clark ’79 Deanna Dement Myers P’16,19 Andy and Roberta Denenberg P’08 Adam Falk P’14 Geoffrey Feldman ’71 Josh Fincke ’93 Doug Green ’73 Kolya Hache ’97 Robert and Cora May Howe P’77,79 Keith Jameson Daniel Janczewski and Amanda Maguire P’20 Joanie Kemsley ’71 Anne Lawson P’21 Joan Lawson G’21 Thomas and Elizabeth Marino P’96 Harry Maurer P’07 Janet McGhee P’11 Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 John Parkinson ’80 Katherine Perls P’91 Eric and Ellen Petersen P’88 Ann Pratt ’76 Christopher Reilly ’85 Katherine Shorey Herold ’78 David Skutch ’78 Peter ’74 and Jane Smith P’09,14 Howard Sollins and Barbara Resnick P’05 Edward Stockman ’66 Valerie Swarbrick G’16 Jim and Cindy Tuite P’04 Asher Woodworth ’05 Isaac Zaur

Sherif Ahmed ’08 Jeffrey and Julie Bath P’21 Theresa Bensew P’08 Crystal Campbell P’80 G’07,08 Lea and Pamela Carnevali P’13 Christian Dauer ’83 Joseph DeCola ’00 Susan Draper Walker ’74 Michael Freed P’99 Warren Freyer and Cynthia Wu P’19 Winfried and Silke Fuchshofen P’13 Nicholas Glass ’83 John Guenther ’61 and Melody Tilton P’89 Mickey and Jackie Herbert P’13 Robert A. Levy ’67 Patricia and Jay Lorsch P’90 Bill Low ’70 Abaigael Lypps ’17 Rowan Magee ’06 Robert Martel ’55 Malcolm McPherson and Kelly Gross P’19 Peter Morgan ’68 William Morse David Oliver and Roberta Bonisson Machado P’11,17 Megan Reilly Grossman ’90 Josh Reisner ’95 Amanda Ross ’84 P’17 Ellen Shershow ’90 Lindsey Siegal ’95 Pamela Skyrme P’08 Randy Smith and Tina Cohoe P’12 Jonathan Sylbert ’76 Anne Undeland P’18

Viola van der Meulen and Jim Morrison Dirk van Loon ’57 Jeff Von Arx ’87 Carol Von Arx P’87 Frank Wood ’79 Dan and Annette Woodside P’17 Charlie ’72 and Shelly Yedlin P’03

the gate Gifts of $100 - $249 The Gate is not only a beloved dorm but also the very first building that visitors to campus come upon. It was the “Gate House” to the old Sangster Estate.

Yasmin Aga Khan ’69 John and Leslie Akula P’03 Ed and Mary Ambrose P’81,85 Genna Lewis Anderson ’51 Breck and Lani Arnzen P’13 Brandon and Jennifer Baldock Elizabeth McIntosh Bauman ’89 John Benjamin ’86 Yoseff Ben-Yehuda ’06 Laura Bethea ’94 Heather Brown ’07 Naeemah Brown P’20 Kristin Brown ’68 Mike Browne ’03 Hetty Jo Brumbach ’60 Bernie and Karen Bucky P’15 Thelma Bullock P’85 Don and Susan Churchill P’79 Marga Cooper Sproul ’63 Janet and David Corrigan P’13 Anne Dailey ’78 Art Desimine and Liz Weiss P’15 David Dickinson and Ann Morse P’02 Sandra Feck G’21 Terrence Fina and Elizabeth Young P’20 Stephen and Alicia Fitch P’20 Theresa Flaherty P’20 Pauline Fleszar G’11 Castle and Alice Freeman P’93,96

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Daniel Moses ’98 Jonathan and Anne Mossop P’01,04 Richard and Carolyn Neely P’99,06 Peter Neuman ’84 Lotte Neuman P’97 Eugene and Leslie Newman P’06 Max and Edna Nigh G’95 Anne O’Connor P’22 Daniel and Mary O’Connor G’22 Guadalupe Pacheco and Linda Hanten P’01 Bruce Pandolfini and Roselyn Abrahams P’04 Marlyn Park P’05 Neville Bryan Peltz ’69 Paolo Pepe ’78 Nancy Perkins ’74 Natasha Perlis ’92 Max Petersen ’88 Meghan Phillips P’21 Lindsay Potts ’73 Gregory Prestopino ’65 Winfred Proffitt, Jr. and Beth Proffitt P’19 Tisha Pryor ’86 Daria Walls Rice ’89 Carol Roosevelt P’73,81 Dirck Roosevelt ’73 Lisa Rosenthal P’16 Marjorie Rosenthal Gary Roth Tony Rousmaniere ’91 Phillip and Sylvia Rowlands P’05 Tara Rullo ’92 Patricia Ryan P’78,84 Stephen Saltonstall ’63 Lawrence Sapadin and Marilyn Segel P’09 Anthony Schneider ’98 Bonnie Schorske P’87 Franny and Timothy Shuker-Haines P’16 Michael Smith ’58 Henry Smith and Torie Nichols Sheila C. Smith ’74 P’09,14 Jane Sobel P’81,83 Jacob Sollins ’05 Ana Soto P’05,07,08

Christopher and Mary Stone P’00 Ingrid Strong ’77 Peter Tacy P’81,84 Sarah Howe van Ryckevorsel ’79 Peter and Barbara Waksman P’06 Beatrice Weinberger ’76 Dennis West and Phoebe Walker ’86 P’22 Robert Wheten P’07 Melinda H. White-Bronson P’93,96 B. Harton Wolf ’62 Dina Wolkoff Sarah Workneh Logan Wright ’17 Nancy Yedlin ’71 Steve and Doe Zottoli P’02

Gifts under $99 Adam Ambrose ’68 Pat Anderson ’55 Chauncey and Georgiana Anderson Rosetta Annin ’55 Ralph and Elisabeth Arlyck P’94 Kwang Arnzen ’13 Alex Azima ’67 Jeffrey Barnes ’01 Stephanie Goldstein Begen ’72 Christopher Bolton P’21,23 Linda Bratton ’61 Elizabeth Breeze P’91 Alexander Brooks ’74 Ann Brown ’85 Candace Brown P’96 Liam Brown ’14 Molly Campbell P’81,84,85,91 Joseph Chernila and Alana Chernila P’21,23 Bill and Sharon Cooke G’17,20 Sarah Cooke P’17,20 Matthew Coughlin and Chrissie Hines P’11 Barbara Davis ’66 Alexander de Havenon ’75 Andrea DeMayo Mae Dement G’16,19 Sophie Fels ’92

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Sarah Friedman ’01 and Paul Salama Katie Gieges ’89 Nancy Glowa ’73 Jessica Grindstaff ’96 Andrew Gross and Linda Koenig P’15 Candida Harper and Ulysses Lieblich P’09 Will Harris-Braun ’17 John Hood P’83 Lawrence Johnson ’59 John Kalapos ’13 Emelie Kenney P’08 Marlyn Klee P’87 Sarah Koshar ’05 and Rodolfo Velazquez Jennie Campbell Kristel ’80 P’08 Pascal Lafontant and Tamara Beauboeuf P’15 Ming Lash P’99,01 G’20 Maggie Laurie ’94 Lynn Leibovitz ’77 Judy and Philip Lescarbeau Charlotte Levine G’00 Efrat Levy P’09 Natasha Lisman P’96 Nan Lombardi P’87 Kate Lundell ’99 Jill Machol ’64 Alice Mackler ’50 Francis Magai ’16 Don and Anne Magai G’16 Ronald and Patricia Malvin P’08 Katherine Drew Margolin ’70 Joseph Mattern G’19 Katharine Maunz and Peter Hawkins P’20 Jonah Maurer ’07 Jim and Lee Maxwell P’19 Danny Mayer and Amy Swarbrick P’16 George and Carolyn McLellan P’91,98 Fred McMane and Cathrine Wolf P’05 Jason Merrill P’22 Scott Michalowski P’21 Cynthia Miller P’22 Bernard and Jennifer Mirling P’91,98 G’10 John Moortgat ’51 Zhana Morris ’90

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38 Tim Fetzer ’71 Chloë Foglia ’96 Steven Forman and Constance Eeghen P’09 Steven Freed ’99 Annette Freeman and Cooper Boyd P’12 Robin Gardner ’18 Kara Geraty ’88 Robert Gluck and Pamela Lerman P’08 Junior Gomez ’07 Susan Grigsby P’91 Lillis C. Hines Bonnie Holden Lynda Hulkower P’08,12 Phyllis Hurwitz Cynthia Jackson ’68 Jieyu Jiang and Yan Xie P’19 Avie Kalker Michael Kemsley ’70 Josh Keshen Blair Kloman and John McLeod P’13 Hazel Koziol ’09 Maeve ’95 and Josh Lahey Jessica Ryan Lapinski ’84 Amrita Lash ’99 and Adrian St. John ’00 Holly Drumm Laws ’97 Meirav Levy-Bernstein ’09 Carole Liggett P’19 David and Cindy McMullen P’08 Mark Meachem ’72 Alice Mello P’14 Smokey Minot ’62 Brenda Moyd P’21 Jonathan and Sigrin Newell P’93 Raven Ocasio ’10 Daniel Pacheco ’01 Barbara Petro Iso Rabins ’99 Joan Howard Ramos ’56 Beth Reisboard Dana Reisboard Emma Rhoads ’75 Ben Ripley ’99 Judy Rosenthal ’56 Susan Roth ’58

Ali Rubinstein ’82 Nancy Baker Rullo P’92,95 Evan Sachs ’49 Craig Senior ’60 Lenin and Danielle Serrano P’22 Rose Shuker-Haines ’16 Louise Smith ’09 Marilyn St. John P’00 Ann Steadman ’55 Jefferson Strait and Robin Brickman Izzy Swarbrick ’16 Cynthia and Skip Thomayer Jinx Tong Magali Torres Clint Ulmer ’07 Isaak van der Meulen ’13 Maria Vincent Frank Weddell ’62 Emma Weisman ’99 Thomas Wilkins ’18 Paul and Stephanie Wright P’17 Stephen and Donna Wyatt Zehong Zhu ’17 ** Deceased

special thanks to these businesses for their gifts to buxton Adams Community Bank Atlassian Berkshire Fairfield Insurance Agency LLC Mark Smith Design Inc. MASS MoCA Overland Summer Camps, Inc. r.k. Miles, Inc ST Insurance Agency Inc. West Oil Company West Package Store, Inc. Williamstown Motel

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alumni Class Giving alumni class giving 1940 Estate of Louise See Bingham 1947 Stephen Burr Nina Peek Rothchild 1949 Evan Sachs 1950 Anonymous Alice Mackler 1951 Genna Lewis Anderson John Moortgat 1955 Pat Anderson Rosetta Annin Robert Martel Ann Steadman 1956 Bill Beardsley Joan Howard Ramos Judy Rosenthal 1957 Dirk van Loon 1958 Susan Roth Michael Smith 1959 Lawrence Johnson Frosty Puestow Montgomery 1960 Hetty Jo Brumbach Craig Senior James Stockman

1961 Linda Bratton Grae Fincke John Guenther 1962 Smokey Minot Frank Weddell B. Harton Wolf 1963 Paul Brooke Marga Cooper Sproul Stephen Saltonstall 1964 Jill Machol 1965 Gregory Prestopino 1966 Barbara Davis Edward Stockman 1967 Alex Azima Robert A. Levy 1968 Danny Adler Adam Ambrose Kristin Brown Catharine Fincke Cynthia Jackson Peter Morgan 1969 Yasmin Aga Khan Neville Bryan Peltz 1970 Michael Kemsley Bill Low Katherine Drew Margolin David Rubin

1971 Geoffrey Feldman Tim Fetzer Dorianne Hutton Samuels Joanie Kemsley Nancy Yedlin 1972 Stephanie Goldstein Begen Ed Martin Mark Meachem Charlie Yedlin 1973 Nancy Glowa Doug Green Jeffrey Ladd Jean MacFadyen Lindsay Potts Dirck Roosevelt 1974 Alexander Brooks Andrea Currier Susan Draper Walker Robert Flynt Catherine Eddy Gallagher Walter Kernan Nancy Perkins Peter Shumlin Peter Smith 1975 Grant Brown Alexander de Havenon Emma Rhoads Marco Williams 1976 W. Bayard Cutting Ann Pratt Jonathan Sylbert Beatrice Weinberger

1977 Jane Greenberg Lynn Leibovitz Ingrid Strong 1978 Anne Dailey Adam Emmerich Paolo Pepe Philip Rickey Katherine Shorey Herold Jeffrey Shumlin David Skutch 1979 Laurance Clark Sarah Howe van Ryckevorsel Frank Wood 1980 David Donaldson Jennie Campbell Kristel John Parkinson 1982 Nicholas Lenett Elizabeth O’Connell Potter Horatio Potter Ali Rubinstein 1983 Christian Dauer Nicholas Glass Robert Levine 1984 Jessica Ryan Lapinski Peter Neuman Amanda Ross 1985 Ann Brown Jessica Mezzacappa Christopher Reilly

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these buxton alumni gave back to the school last year. Any gift, large or small, makes a big difference for the current students and the future of the school.

1986 Arjun Achuthan Mark Alkiewicz John Benjamin Siiri Lane Tisha Pryor Phoebe Walker 1987 Mark Tulloss Jeff Von Arx 1988 Kara Geraty Max Petersen 1989 Elizabeth McIntosh Bauman Katie Gieges Daria Walls Rice Justin Theroux 1990 Lucinda Hodgson Zhana Morris Megan Reilly Grossman Ellen Shershow 1991 Benjamin Mezzacappa Tony Rousmaniere 1992 Sophie Fels Natasha Perlis Tara Rullo 1993 Josh Fincke 1994 Laura Bethea Maggie Laurie

1995 Maeve Lahey Josh Reisner Lindsey Siegal

2005 Sarah Koshar Jacob Sollins Asher Woodworth

1996 ChloĂŤ Foglia Jessica Grindstaff

2006 Yoseff Ben-Yehuda Rowan Magee

1997 Kolya Hache Holly Drumm Laws

2007 Sammy Chamino Junior Gomez Jonah Maurer Clint Ulmer

1998 Daniel Moses Anthony Schneider 1999 Steven Freed Amrita Lash Kate Lundell Iso Rabins Ben Ripley Emma Weisman 2000 Jacob Mitchell Adrian St. John Rebecca Vitali-DeCola 2001 Jeffrey Barnes Sarah Friedman Daniel Pacheco 2002 Barbara Berska Nick Brown Hannah Dancing Daniel Simons 2003 Mike Browne Alexander Matisse Robert Yedlin

2017 Will Harris-Braun Abaigael Lypps Logan Wright Zehong Zhu 2018 Robin Gardner Thomas Wilkins 2019 Yuyang Yao

2008 Sherif Ahmed Mary Holland 2009 Hazel Koziol Meirav Levy-Bernstein Louise Smith 2010 Raven Ocasio 2013 Kwang Arnzen John Kalapos Isaak van der Meulen 2014 Liam Brown 2015 Meg Ellingwood 2016 Francis Magai Rose Shuker-Haines Izzy Swarbrick

We believe the information in this report is accurate.

Please accept our apology for any error.

If you have a question regarding your giving anywhere in this report, please contact the Development Office at 413-4584970 or email suzy@ buxtonschool.org and we will be happy to review your record and make any necessary changes.

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memorial gifts In Memory of Mary Brandt, Oliver’s Mom Michael Brandt P’03

In Memory of Eric Catton Stephen Saltonstall ’63

In Memory of Marie Croatti Nick Brown ’02

In Memory of Mary and Henry Flynt Robert Flynt ’74

In Memory of Marsha Freed Steven Freed ’99

In Memory of John B. Lawson

In Memory of Virginia Hall Smith

Joan Lawson G’21

Peter Morgan ’68 Zhana Morris ’90

In Memory of John Lisman Natasha Lisman P’96

In Memory of Phillip Mahoney Christopher Reilly ’85

In Memory of Sally Todd Nelson Nancy Glowa ’73

In Memory of Matthew J.N. Tivy ’79 Keith Jameson

In Memory of David Shorey Katherine Shorey Herold ’78

In Memory of Owen Sweeney ’20 Nicholas ’82 and Cami Lenett P’19 Carole Liggett P’19 Malcolm McPherson and Kelly Gross P’19 Anne O’Connor P’22 Louise Smith ’09 Magali Torres Rebecca Vitali-DeCola ’00

HONORARY GIFTS

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In Honor of Jonah Horace Beck and Penelope Beck

In Honor of Ben and Magda Fincke

Peter and Lizzy Beck

Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93

In Honor of C. William Bennett

In Honor of Frank Jackson

Judy Denenberg G’08 Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01 Lynda Hulkower P’08,12

Sarah Workneh

In Honor of Ethan Scheuer ’84 Siiri Lane ’86

In Honor of Andy and Sally ’P75 G’07,14 and Grant Brown ’75 Heather Brown P’07

In Honor of Linda Burlak Heather McAvoy P’18

In Honor of Margo Cardner David Kelso

In Honor of Marie Croatti Cynthia Croatti P’02,05

In Honor of Lola Dement ’16 and Ivy Dement ’19 Deanna Dement Myers P’16,19

In Honor of the Wonderful Faculty at Buxton Robert Gluck and Pamela Lerman P’08

In Honor of Tallula Sorst ’20 Patricia Dinner G’20

In Honor of Evan Spencer ’21 Nathan Spencer and Jennifer McLean Spencer P’21

In Honor of Isabelle Swarbrick ’16 Beth Reisboard

In Honor of Emily Woodside ’17 Dan and Annette Woodside P’17

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SANGSTER SOCIETY Buxton’s Sangster Society recognizes the outstanding generosity of those who have made a planned gift to Buxton. This important commitment is a critical step to ensuring the vitality and financial stability of the school.

Anonymous C. William Bennett Lou Bluestein P’08 Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 John Churchill ’79 David Dickinson and Ann Morse P’02 Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 Susan Prentice Gould ’57 Medarda Kerr

Michael Kroxta ’75 Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 Philip Rickey ’78 Matthew Sokolowski Roberts ’80 Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47 Fred Savard ’79 Laura Doyle Stochholm ’49 Edward Stockman ’66 Helga Maurer Wagner ’64 and Paul Wagner

If you have included Buxton in your estate plans please make us aware of your intentions for our records.

We will only share your intention in our reports with your permission.

GIFTS IN-KIND The following people made gifts in-kind this past year. Though these are non-monetary gifts, they nevertheless had a huge impact on the life of the school.

Danny Adler ’68 Charlie Elster ’76 and Myrna Zambrano Terrence Fina and Elizabeth Young P’20 Gwladys Hopkins ’57 John Ratnaswamy and Victoria Zimmerman Ratnaswamy P’20 Greg Roach and Robin Meyer Tom and Mimi Rutledge P’16 Michael and Christine St. Pierre The Tsubo Body

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Our Board of Trustees Arjun Achuthan ’86 C. William Bennett Grant Brown ’75, P’14 Andrea Currier ’74 Grae Fincke ’61, P’93 David Gardner P’18 Nancy Glowa ’73 Frank Jackson P’11 Walter Kernan ’74

Cami Lenett P’19 William Morse Nancy Newberger P’09 Diana Hitt Potter ‘51, P’82 Amanda Ross ’84, P’17 Tom Rutledge P’16 Franny Shuker-Haines P’16 Daniel Simons ’02

*this reflects the Trustee list as of October 1, 2019, not the members during the 2018-2019 fiscal year

total giving by group: fiscal year 2018-2019 OTHER 2%

ALUMNI FAMILIES 29%

TRUSTEES 46%

ALUMNI 21%

CURRENT FAMILIES 2%

planned giving: gifts for the future Retirement Plan Gift Name Buxton as a beneficiary of your IRA, 401(k), or other retirement plan. Buxton will receive the balance of your plan, tax free.

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