Sundial Magazine Fall 2025

PERFORMING ARTS TAKE FLIGHT

From Walker’s Stage to the World Stage

THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL MAGAZINE

At Walker’s, the performing arts have always functioned explicitly as powerful expressions of who our students are and who they are becoming. From the first lines spoken in rehearsal to the triumphant notes that ring out on opening night, the performing arts at Walker’s embody courage, creativity, and community.

This issue celebrates the vigor and brilliance of our traditions and our exceptional faculty, as well as welcoming an exciting new chapter unfolding before us. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Alexandra Badger Airth ’83 and her mother, Jacqueline Mars P’83, as well as an anonymous donor couple, our beloved theatre is being revitalized as a state-of-the-art home for music, dance, drama, and the spoken word. We are also thrilled to welcome Travis Daly as our new Director of Theatrical Arts. His vision for collaboration and self-discovery will inspire new generations of Walker’s students.

You will also read about the remarkable journeys of four alumnae who found their voices and callings on our stage. Their stories remind us that when young women are given the space to take risks and the support to shine, they not only discover themselves but also reshape the world around them. The great dramatic coach Stella Adler once commented, “The play is not in the words, it’s in you.”

The curtain is rising. I invite you to step into this issue and bear witness to the wonder of Walker’s performing arts.

Warmly,

Dr. Meera Viswanathan Head of School

Performances at Walker’s during their high school years, clockwise from left: Mariela D’Alessandro ’19, Nafarrah Ramsay ’21, Isabella Manganiello ’19, and Garet Wierdsma ’18.

PERFORMING ARTS TAKE FLIGHT

FROM WALKER’S STAGE TO THE WORLD STAGE

BY JANE BUCHBINDER

The room is a portrait of the energy that flows through it: a drum kit flanks a dozen djembe drums, a coterie of cymbals — wobbly heads balanced on stands — nod to four levels of chairs, upright in deference to a nearby baby grand, while a neighborly acoustic guitar rubs shoulders with a rack of chimes, flashing their silver smile at the long stretch of a desk that serves as gate protecting the teacher’s pet: a dusty, old-fashioned chalkboard beaming with musical notes.

This is the choir room, the room for chamber music, gospel, a capella, and rock. It is also the music theory lab, the drum studio, and the rehearsal space for private voice lessons and musical theater tunes — among anything else Music Department Chair Laurie MacAlpine P’08 might make happen here.

The students come milling in, two or three at a time, talking together, giggling; they are a diverse group unified by a shared, surprising liveliness for Monday morning’s first class. Amid chatter, someone sings a long, high note — eyes askance, pretending not to be doing so — for no obvious reason.

“Are you okay?” another student asks, rhetorically, followed by a zither of laughter.

Then Ms. MacAlpine bursts through a back door that didn’t seem to exist moments ago. As if she were late (she is right on time), and the class was already in session, which, suddenly, it is. She is tall, elegant, deeply alive to the fact that so much depends upon a series of ascending and descending vocal scales: “maa-maa-maa-maa-maa-maa-maa.”

Choir class is a swift rapture of lessons about noticing patterns, about sight reading, about clapping the notes and saluting the rests. “Every time someone messes up, we go faster,” Ms. MacAlpine thunders, and the pace, steadily, accelerates. “It is a language; you’ve got to read it!” she says redirecting a student, without naming names, whose eyes have turned away from the sheet music in her hands. Ms. MacAlpine’s music lesson is ribboned with personal wisdom: “Watch yourself carefully to see where you are and what gets in

your way.… Make your mistakes loudly so you may learn from them,” she says pacing, every pulse in her body keeping time. Then she is stomping and swinging, a human metronome. “You are here to help everyone else in the room... when you are all in it together, you will feel it in your body.”

She turns up the volume and the tempo, snapping out the rhythm, a series of staccato eighth notes, dotted eighth notes, and rests. “Kick it!” she sings. And every single girl in the room does just that. “Yes! Yes!” she cries. “Bring energy to each note as if it is the very last one.”

Ethel Walker, visionary, generous, and as open-minded as she was, could not possibly have imagined how alive the performing arts have come to be at her namesake school, nearly 115 years after its inaugural day. Yet the School’s

mission, from the very start, was unique among its peer schools because it was a catapult into further education rather than a finishing school. Back in 1911, she was already encouraging student participation in the performing arts — particularly highly-dramatic theatrical productions with musical accompaniment, elaborate costumes, and dancing. Independent-minded, Ethel had no problem pushing back the norms and expectations foisted upon women, and encouraged her students — including those focused on the performing arts — to do the same. Walker’s students

mimicked the wild leaps and intricate moves of traditional all-male dance troupes. They also took to the stage playing female and male roles, as did the vanguard performers of that time.

As different as the world is today from the world she lived in, we imagine that Ethel Walker would be proud of the alumnae who have been transformed by the performing arts at her school and are now using their education as a catapult into careers where they just may transform the performing arts.

Kick it!” she sings. And every single girl in the room does just that....“Bring energy to each note as if it is the very last one.”

WELCOMING OUR NEW THEATRE DIRECTOR

The Ethel Walker School is delighted to welcome Travis Daly as the new Director of Theatrical Arts, bringing with him nearly two decades of experience directing, teaching, and producing theatre that empowers young people to find their voice, confidence, and creativity. “My teaching focuses on collaboration and building strong ensembles. I’ve seen how the arts can inspire students to take bold risks and find their unique artistic voices, which is what it’s all about.”

Daly began his career as Artistic Associate for Education at the Berkshire Theatre Group, where for more than 18 years he oversaw a vibrant education program serving over 13,000 students annually. During this time, he directed and produced upwards of 200 productions, ranging from community tours to large-scale musicals, and created curriculum in acting, playwriting, movement, and storytelling. He also helped pioneer sensory-friendly performances, ensuring accessibility to students of all abilities.

Prior to his debut at The Ethel Walker School, Daly taught theater and language arts across grades 6 through 12, as well as at the college level, integrating storytelling and performance into all his curricula. As Walker’s embarks on an exciting new season of performing arts in its soon-to-be renovated theatre, Daly looks forward to shaping a program that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and self-expression.

Music Department Chair Laurie MacAlpine P’08

FINDING HERSELF THROUGH PERFORMING

Growing up in Farmington, in a family with two athletic brothers and a high school soccer coach for a father, Mariela D’Alessandro ’19 described herself as a competitive sporty girl who spent her free time running around with sporty boys. She never imagined she’d consider doing anything other than running cross country and swimming the 200-yard breaststroke, even though there was always another side to her.

As a young child, whenever family came to visit, she joyfully recalls being asked to sing and dance. “I didn’t need to be begged to break out into a song from The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast. Her greatest moments of selfexpression, she says, always came through performing.

It wasn’t until Mariela became a student at Walker’s, in eighth grade, that

she auditioned for the school musical, The Little Mermaid, and landed her first role as the comic lead, Flounder. “I remember practicing my solo song “She’s in Love” and not being able to hit the high notes,” (private voice lessons at Walker’s came to her rescue). More importantly, participating in the musical “awakened the dream of performing that had been dormant in me for so long,” she says.

Along with that awakening, Mariela began developing meaningful relationships with her teachers and other girls at Walker’s. “No one had ever paid such close attention to me in school before,” she says, explaining that she wanted to utilize every drop of encouragement she received. Former theatre director Shannen Hofheimer and music director Ms. MacAlpine “kept telling me I have theatrical talent,” she says. “Their feedback helped me to see myself — and then grow into myself — in new ways.”

she was exposed to an expansive range of creative opportunities within the theatrical arts. “Walker’s opened my eyes,” she says. Her list of extracurricular activities made it clear that she took on every possible opportunity: choir, orchestra, Grapes a capella group, gospel choir, Voce Felice (chamber choir, which performs classical music in Italian, French, and German), as well as acting classes.

A year later, with encouragement from all of Walker’s performing arts teachers,

Her sophomore year, Mariela portrayed Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act, and her junior year, she transformed herself into Penny Pingleton in Hairspray That’s the year she was also the student leader in nearly every theatrical extracurricular activity — and on the honor roll, and captain of the cross country and swim teams.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE

When the stress of pushing herself to perform so highly in so many ways became overwhelming, she needed a

My teachers’ feedback helped me to see myself — and then grow into myself — in new ways.

MARIELA

D’ALESSANDRO ’19

break. Mariela says her teachers reminded her that stumbling is part of the journey to success. Their support provided her with a “soft place to land.” They also helped her realize that caring for yourself is a sign of self-knowledge and strength.

When she returned to school her senior year with new wisdom and renewed energy, she auditioned for Walker’s spring musical, Chicago, and was awarded the lead role — “the greatest thrill of my high school experience.”

Mariela looks back on her years at Walker’s with gratitude and wisdom. “Everything I received at the School was everything I needed to shape me to become who I am today,” she says. That includes inspired, expressive, courageous, diligent, self-motivated, and self-aware.

It also helped her to gain entry and a merit scholarship to a BFA program in Musical Theatre at Southern Illinois University.

Today, Walker’s leading lady has a resume chock-full of regional and educational theatre, cabaret performances, and film roles. She’s saving up for a move to Manhattan where she plans to dive into Broadway auditions as well as applications for an MFA in theatrical performance.

A STRONG, SELF-RESPECTING VOICE

“Walker’s is the first place where it felt like everyone wanted to see me win,” says Nafarrah Ramsay ’21. Raised in inner-city Hartford, Nafarrah’s public school experiences, like Mariela’s, offered few opportunities for performing. Her vocal talent was quickly recognized at Walker’s. She became the head of the gospel choir, as well as a member of the choir and a capella groups. “When I was interested in something at Walker’s, I was encouraged to learn how to do it.”

Musical theatre became her first focus at the school, with leading roles in both Chicago and RENT (which was canceled due to COVID).

Those experiences enabled Nafarrah to apply to the University of Hartford’s summer musical theatre program. Impressed by the rich, resonant tone of

her voice, the directors provided her with solo songs for the opening and closing of a grand retrospective program. But when they handed her the music — a song from a minstrel show — she was stunned to be asked to sing about a man who loves his mammy and the Mason Dixon line. “There are many ways to acknowledge our past without further humiliating the people it oppressed,” she says.

Despite that this was her first opportunity to perform in a show outside of Walker’s, and despite that she had received a scholarship to the program, “I told them I could not sing this.” After replacing the minstrel song with a Josephine Baker song, along with a song from The Color Purple for the end of the performance, she had a realization: “I asked not to be a ‘black face’ character so they cast me as black characters; It showed me that they weren’t seeing me as a person who could play any role.”

ENTER THE VIRTUOUS, COURAGEOUS PRINCESS

The next year at Walker’s, Nafarrah gained her first auditory experience of what would become her creative calling. She recalls Ms. MacAlpine and Ms. Hofheimer working hard to inspire enthusiasm for a regional choir

competition; without knowing much about it, she joined in to help them out. The audition included singing an 18th-century Italian art song, “Caro Mio Ben,” that she now recognizes as the “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” of opera. Learning to sing this song, in this new vocal style and language, required staying after all the other rehearsals she was already a part of for extra instruction — the benefit of a boarding school and that special added dimension of Walker’s dedication.

“As they were teaching me this foreign song, I got really interested in it.” Within a couple of weeks, something started to unite the forces between Nafarrah’s heart, ear, and vocal cords. “Everything about the music felt right to me,” Nafarrah says.

But that rightness was tempered by her recent disappointment at the summer program. “I wondered what are the odds that a person who looks like me could be in this field?” That’s when Ms. MacAlpine showed her videos of Kathleen Battle and Jesse Norman singing African American spirituals at Carnegie Hall. “Goosebumps waved over my body. The beauty of their voices and the orchestration…it turned music into magic,” she says.

Walker’s is the first place where it felt like everyone wanted to see me win.

Nafarrah was hooked. “I wanted to learn everything I could about it.”

She describes tumbling into the rabbit hole of opera as an “all-at-once” experience. She alternated clicking on YouTube opera videos with listening to Apple music’s classical compilations — both obscure and popular songs, as well as arias from different eras. “I didn’t dive in with any direction. I just consumed as much as possible.”

Taking private voice lessons during free blocks with Ms. Hofheimer, she started learning classical songs in German, Italian, and French. At the end of each song, she would share with her a piece she couldn’t stop listening to, asking if I “could learn that next?” The answer was always “Let’s do it!” Nafarrah also found the time to teach herself other songs she had become obsessed with, including a Rachmaninov composition she had heard Katherine Barnett sing. “In opera, I told myself, I could play a Russian princess and no one would question it.”

Learning at a feverish pace served Nafarrah well, as COVID soon sent the students into remote schooling. “I hadn’t even had a full year of instruction — and now I had to do the bulk of my training online, with just one summer to go before auditioning for college” — a rigorous preparation which typically takes up to two years of rehearsals.

A daring, stand-out selection of opera songs, far beyond her age and experience, gained her admittance to NYU’s vocal performance program. Four years later, Nafarrah remains as mesmerized by opera as she was back in Ferguson Theatre. Having sung in Dido and Aeneas, Suor Angelica, Die Zauberflöte, to name a few operas, she says she still feels the music so deeply.” She surmises that this is because the story’s subtext is written into the music itself, rather than just the words. “If the singer does their job executing all the composer’s notes, the dramatic story comes rushing through them.”

Nafarrah’s abilities to do precisely this recently earned her admission to the acclaimed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, one of the most renowned master’s programs in classical performance in the nation. After that, she hopes for a fellowship with an opera company either here or abroad. Her supporters at Walker’s echo words she’s heard many times before: “Brava! Brava, Nafarrah!”

FROM DANCING TO UNDERSTANDING

“I have been thinking a lot about childhood and how we move on,” says Garet Wierdsma ’18, describing the inspiration for her newest choreography, ‘Nostalgia.’” The works in the show, which were recently performed at the Gilman Theatre at the Mandell Jewish Community Center in West Hartford, explore youthful play, joy, and anger, and then literally and figuratively roll

Ms. Soule taught us about movement by talking about what it feels like rather than what it looks like.

GARET WIERDSMA ’18

Photo by Elias Olsen

toward a sense of maturity and acceptance. With her dance company, Garet&Co, heading into the steady rhythm of its fifth solid season, the time felt right, she says, to look back.

Garet was introduced to dance classes at the age of two by a mother and aunt who had been serious dancers. As she got older, she felt adrift when she didn’t experience the natural fit that they both had enjoyed. She explains that most dance teachers narrowly focus on a dancer’s body — its range of motion and technical abilities — rather than the whole, expressive person. “This left me feeling separated within myself and emotionally alone,” something she wasn’t able to articulate with language. She kept hoping that “the next dance school” would be the one to help re-integrate her body with her emotions. “I didn’t blossom into speaking until an older age,” she says. “I had to work out what I had to say through dance, first.”

Joining Walker’s in ninth grade as a day student, the dance program was her deepest experience of “moving liberation,” and it quickly became the most powerful and creative one. “Right away, it was clear that Walker’s was a place where who I was inside mattered.” She describes her early classes with Cheri Soule, the director of the dance program, as encouraging her to embrace her potential and talent directly from the source within herself. “This is the first reason why I owe so much to Walker’s,” she says. “But,” she continues, “it’s not the only reason.”

Garet quickly became part of Walker’s dance community. She explains how Ms. Soule fosters a learning community of dancers by integrating and educating the full range of students at the same time. “She taught us about movement by talking about what it feels like rather than what it looks like,” Garet says. “This enabled everyone to progress together, at the same time — an entirely new approach for me!” Experiencing this

transformation both within herself and along with the rest of the girls in the dance program was critical for Garet’s development at such a complex and delicate time in life.

Learning about herself as a dancer, from the inside, at Walker’s became the centering she needed to continue her “intense, competitive, at times confidence-draining” professional dance training outside of school, for six hours every day. Walker’s also provided Garet with the unique high school opportunity of choreography classes.

“That’s incredibly rare,” she says, “and for me, it was invaluable,” as is the culminating opportunity for each senior to choreograph their own dance. “I couldn’t wait,” she says. In fact, “I thought about it throughout all my years of high school,” constantly revising her ideas along the way.

Together, with shared enthusiasm and an unlimited sense of possibilities, students created their own individualized dance vocabularies and repertoires. “Ms. Soule was always incredibly receptive to student ideas, even when they were outlandish and impractical. She does everything she can to understand what’s at the core of an expressive desire, and to wonder, with you, how you can make it even better?”

RECLAIMING HER STRENGTH

It’s no surprise that Garet’s senior choreography at Walker’s was all about reclaiming confidence and power. Part of what helped her build that confidence was running rehearsals, for the first time, all on her own, exactly the way she had hoped for during her own early life as a dancer — in deep connection with herself and the other dancers. “My choreography is about relationships, so I show women partnering with one another and portraying every part of a meaningful interaction.” While, historically, dance has featured men lifting women, at Garet&Co, one of the many ways women demonstrate their strength is by lifting each other (see the cover photo).

Director of Dance Cheri Soule with Garet Wierdsma ’18

Photo by Elias Olsen

This experience shaped Garet’s process, and remains the process through which she’s been choreographing ever since her high school years at Walker’s – both as an undergraduate at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and afterward, in her own dance company. The success of her approach has been proven by Garet&Co’s invitation to perform at a multitude of theatres, festivals, and shows, including Jacob’s Pillow, Symphony Space, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, The Warner Theatre, Dixon Place, and TADA Emerging Artists Theatre. Garet was also selected as the Emerging Choreography Fellow at Sacred Heart University in January 2022, and she has been teaching since then, as an adjunct professor.

Her relationship to Walker’s was reignited that same year, when Ms. Soule commissioned a new piece of her choreography for the school’s dance students. She’s still teaching Walker’s weekly contemporary dance class. Two Walker’s students also recently participated in Garet&Co’s professional troupe as recipients of the Company’s scholarship program for high school students, helping dancers to build their resumes for post-high school opportunities.

In the winter, as a follow-up to last year’s immersive program at the Middletown Art Center, Garet&Co will be providing a multifaceted show featuring dance performances, media installations, and interactive programs at 60 Charter Events in Hartford. In every sense of the word, Garet&Co is on the move, sharing a glimpse of Walker’s fulfilled promise with the larger world.

UNSTOPPABLE POP

Like lots of imaginative kids, Isabella (Bella) Manganiello ’19 was a child of wide-ranging creative pursuits: you name it, she was either already doing it or game to try. The depth and breadth of arts offerings at Walker’s became her raison d’être for choosing it over other schools.

As a long-time student of ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop, her first stop was the dance director’s office. Dealing with the double awkwardness of adolescence and starting a new school, Bella was thrilled by Ms. Soule’s invitation to join a group of girls already meeting, every afternoon, to dance. “She helped me feel I really belonged at Walker’s,” Bella says.

The dance studio quickly became a safe space. She loved “trying all kinds of crazy things there, with the girls risking failure and then learning from it.” This unfettered experimentation fostered a deep bond among the dancers.

Struggling with ADHD, however, made her academic classes more challenging. Ms. Soule’s office quickly became her “goto” place. “During the day, I often ran in there for reasons that had nothing to do with dance — like I’m struggling with math, do you think I should go see my math teacher?”

Bella balanced her difficulties with math and science, with the joyful connections and confidence-building responsibilities she gained by adding theatre and music activities to her dance schedule.

“I had loved music in middle school,” she says, “but I fell ten times harder for it after I started learning from Ms. MacAlpine.” First there were piano lessons, and then music theory, where she learned about intervals, ear training, and how to write

music and create arrangements. She joined every singing group and choir she could fit into her schedule, just to be in Ms. MacAlpine’s presence; her impassioned approach to both music and teaching became Bella’s model for a woman who takes the arts, and the jubilation of creativity, seriously.

THE BLESSING OF THE SLOWING DOWN

During her multi-faceted, multi-talented years at Walker’s, a question started forming in Bella’s mind: “If I want to be really good at something, instead of pretty good at a bunch of things, how do I make a choice?”

As COVID slowed down everything, including her final collaborative creative dance and theatre projects at Walker’s, she found herself with a surplus of time for writing and singing her own songs. “I started reading music newspapers online, thinking about what it would be like to move to Nashville someday and become a country singer.” And then she started sending query letters — dozens of them — to music executives to learn more about that world. Just one wrote back to her; he said if you don’t want to be a star singer, learn to write pop music because a songwriter’s payment is tied to the number of times their songs get played on the radio.

After graduating from Walker’s, she took a gap year and two virtual courses focused on the craft of songwriting at the Berklee College of Music. The pandemic helped her stop and notice what was happening inside her, as Ms. MacAlpine had always prodded the students in Bella’s class to do. She realized that songwriting was bringing her a deep and self-sustaining pleasure. Months later, she auditioned for Berklee, playing original songs on the piano in her living room, “ready to put

At Walker’s, I learned the power of following my passions, and that hard work can make a dream come true.

BELLA MANGANIELLO ’19

my whole head and heart into it, to see how far I could get.”

That insight made her unstoppable. At Berklee, she attended every office hour, every week, with every teacher. She took note of who the best songwriters were, and tried to get to know them. With an old lack of confidence resurfacing, she often believed she was the “worst writer” in the room; “and then I realized that was a gift,” she says, “because the worst one in the room always has the benefit of getting to learn the most.”

Bella’s tenacity paid off when a professor suggested that she apply to a highly-competitive class about writing for top 100 billboard songs. After making the cut (with only 10 students admitted), she met a new friend, Sasha, with whom there was instant chemistry. “Our brains are like puzzle pieces that just fit together.” Almost immediately, they started writing together every day after school.

THE SONGWRITING DEAL

Today, they’re living in Los Angeles, the hub for pop songwriters, with a publishing deal from Warner Chappell Music, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, and the home to some of Bella’s favorite pop stars, including Bruno Mars, Cardi B, and Ed Sheeran. Several of their songs already have been recorded and released. “This feels like the opportunity of a lifetime,” she says.

These days, Bella participates in songwriting sessions with performing artists and other songwriters. Every day is like the first day of a new job, she says, sharing that she recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Ross Golan, the writer of Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Woman.” “I’ve been listening to his podcast since I was at Walker’s. He’s literally been in my head for years, showing me all kinds of songwriting techniques and approaches. Working with him was such a thrill!”

These opportunities are the reward of the diligent effort she learned to make at Walker’s — both in her most difficult academic classes and also within her

creative courses. “All the teachers in the performing arts department instilled in us an understanding that you have to get away from the idea of a magical process,” she says, and rely on the hard work of craft: a concept, a melody, lyrics, and a song title. Some days, she says, every line feels difficult, and she racks her brain to find a way to bring a new song to closure. “On good days, though, I relax into my musical intuition, as Ms. MacAlpine taught us to do, and the lyrics and melodies flow.”

With all the demands and gifts of her current life, Bella says she still looks back at her years at The Ethel Walker School with indebtedness for all she learned, and also some new perspective. “Students think they need to have it all figured out before they graduate — but I could never have imagined that the life I’m living now was in my future. My mother has always told me that dreaming is the easy part. At Walker’s, I learned the power of following my passions, and that hard work can make a dream come true.” 

Bella Manganiello ’19 , right, and her songwriting partner

THE BUZZ ABOUT WALKER’S

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Walker’s educational innovations are garnering attention by local and national news sources. This past summer, the Hartford Courant published a front-page article about the School’s first-in-the-nation all-girls Horizons program, an award-winning academic and enrichment program serving students who experience inequities in their education from the Hartford community. This fall, Hartford Business Journal highlighted Walker’s approach to teaching financial literacy through the School’s investment program and its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance initiative, through which IRS-trained students prepare personal income tax returns for low-income families in the greater Hartford area. Soon to be hot off the press: Connecticut Magazine is featuring an article about Walker’s distinctive partnership with Stanford University through our Advanced Scientific Research in Molecular Genetics class (Stan-X).

CAPABILITIES THAT LEAD TO OPPORTUNITIES

“What is each person able to do and to be?” This deep question, posed by Nobel laureate economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, has been probed for four decades, as a path to considering the opportunities people have to live the kind of lives they value. The philosopher Martha Nussbaum made a small, significant edit to the question to apply it to the lives of women: “What is each person actually able to do and to be?” Open to a wide variety of answers she continues, to this day, to advocate for circumstances that enable women to live in accordance with their own, self-defined well-being.

By empowering students to view themselves as “principle doers and changemakers,” Randall Shō Northrop, History Department Chair and Executive Director of Walker’s Capabilities Approach, is leading a school-wide initiative that puts this philosophy into action. His goal is clear: that every Walker’s student graduates with both a deep knowledge and a profound sense of self-directed agency. His new position reflects Randall’s long-standing commitment to expanding opportunities for girls through curricula that highlights women’s leadership, mentoring teachers in inclusive pedagogy, and fostering civic engagement across campus.

Walker’s Capabilities Approach builds naturally upon the fact that girls’ education is uniquely positioned to disrupt entrenched gender norms and elevate the full range of contributions by women in society. The framework is poised to become a signature strength of Walker’s, guiding the transformation of students into confident, capable, and courageous leaders ready to create a future in which they want to live.

Walker’s Capabilities Approach is not a single program but a unifying framework that weaves through academics, student life, and student leadership development.

SELF-SELECTED CAPABILITIES allow students to take ownership of their learning by choosing focus areas that spark curiosity and purpose. They design projects that blend creativity, scholarship, and community engagement – learning to see themselves as capable, curious, and courageous agents of change.

DISCOVERIES include international travel with the School, and global engagement within our international communities. It also means learning to live sustainably by developing a sense of environmental stewardship. Internships are another important avenue of discovery for students.

AGENCIES include important life-saving skills, such as CPR, swimming with confidence and safety, and self-defense — all of which build girls’ confidence in the world today.

FLUENCIES enable students to practice using their voices and ideas in meaningful ways — as demonstrated through Senior Speeches, Stan-X research, Model UN debates, and coding solutions. Every junior also completes the Financial Fluency training, becoming an IRS-certified tax preparer.

Randall Shō Northrop

Only you can be you. You have your own special gifts to offer this world.

LIBBY MOORE

FROM OPRAH TO ETHEL

When Libby Moore, former Chief of Staff to Oprah Winfrey and creative consultant, visited The Ethel Walker School, she inspired the community with a message of possibility, authenticity, and personal courage. Drawing from her remarkable career and journey, Libby spoke about the importance of listening to one’s inner voice, taking risks, and embracing uncertainty as a pathway to growth.

She shared stories from her years working alongside Oprah, highlighting the lessons she learned about leadership and resilience. “Someone on our team was difficult, and everyone bowed down to them. I told Oprah and she said ’Libby, you are my chief of staff; if you think that person has more power than you, you’re right — because you just gave it to them.’”

Libby also reminded students and faculty that success is not just about achievement, but about cultivating presence, curiosity, and gratitude.Throughout her talk, she encouraged the girls of Walker’s to trust themselves, lean into their creativity, and not to fear “failing forward.” Her humor, warmth, and openness created a powerful connection with the audience, leaving many inspired to think about their own paths in new ways.

Libby asked the girls what they wanted to become when they were younger. Ella H. ’26 shared that she wanted to become the President. “Libby urged me to never give up on that dream; to keep that piece of me alive.”

The visit exemplified Walker’s mission to prepare young women to live with confidence and conviction. Libby’s journey — rooted in courage, authenticity, and imagination — offered a living example of the values Walker’s seeks to instill in every student. Her message was clear: your story is unfolding, and you have the power to write it.

INSPIRATION FROM A WORLD-CLASS MUSEUM DIRECTOR

The Ethel Walker School community gathered in Ferguson Theatre on a crisp October afternoon for one of the School’s most anticipated traditions — the Margaret Huling Bonz Women of Distinction Speaker Series. This fall’s lecture featured a homecoming of sorts, as renowned art historian Mimi Gardner Gates ’60 returned to her alma mater to share wisdom from a life dedicated to scholarship, leadership, and global cultural preservation.

Named in honor of former Head of School Dr. Margaret Huling Bonz, who led Walker’s from 1988 to 1999, the Bonz Speaker Series has, since 1998, introduced students and faculty to women who embody excellence in their fields. Past speakers have included such luminaries as Gloria Steinem, Robin Roberts, Janet Hanson, and Karenna Gore.

Gates took the audience on a journey from her days as a Walker’s student in the late 1950s to her pioneering role as

Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and later as the 15year Director of the Seattle Art Museum.

“It was here at Walker’s that I first learned to think for myself, to think independently, to write, and to speak,” she shared. “And it was here that I formed lifelong friendships. If I had not had the advantage of attending Walker’s and later Stanford and Yale, I doubt that I would have had the marvelous life and career I’ve had.”

She recounted with humor and candor the challenges of being a woman in the male-dominated art world of the 1970s and 1980s, and how those experiences shaped her determination to open doors for others. “I think fear is our greatest enemy,” Gates said. “If you overcome fear, it’s amazing what life can be.”

As the lecture concluded, the community left with a renewed sense of pride in the School’s legacy and a deeper appreciation of art’s power to connect humanity.

DOGSWOOD DAY

Despite a cloudy day, the Suns came out on top!

CLASS OF 2025 COLLEGE MATRICULATIONS

American University

Amherst College (2)

Auburn University

Carnegie Mellon University (2)

Cornell University

Elon University

George Washington University

Goldey-Beacom College

Johns Hopkins University

COMMENCEMENT

Hooray Sunray to the Class of 2025!

Michigan State University

Mount Holyoke College

New York University (3)

Northeastern University

Oklahoma State University

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rollins College

Savannah College of Art and Design

Sewanee: The University of the South

Smith College

Spelman College

Stonehill College

SUNY at Purchase College

University of Connecticut

University of Florida

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Rhode Island (3)

University of Saint Joseph

University of Vermont

University of Virginia

Washington University in St. Louis

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Word of Life Bible Institute

Yale University

Commencement Speaker and Stanford University Professor Seung K. Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

THE PHILANTHROPIST BEHIND ETHEL WALKER’S VISION

BY KIM HARRIS-THACKER P’24, ’27

Ethel Walker was born, in 1869, to a family of lofty social standing; her father owned two Indiana newspapers and enjoyed a promising career as a politician. But this changed during the Civil War, when his reputation was sullied by his activities as a “Peace Democrat.” Leaving Ethel without a financial inheritance did not, however, change her outlook or her sense of purpose. Instead, she helped pay for her college tuition at Bryn Mawr by teaching at a local school. With an undergraduate degree in history and economics, and a master’s degree in Greek archaeology, Ethel was determined to create a life of societal significance. Opening a school of her own – one of few avenues available to an unmarried woman of her stature — became her quest.

To make this financially feasible, Ethel’s sister urged her to write to a fellow Bryn Mawr alumna Ethel scarcely knew. “Her interests were educational and philanthropic, and I felt that having vision herself, she might understand and sympathize.” In her letter, Ethel described her ambition and the capital she needed — $10,000, equivalent to $350,000 today. She quickly received a check with a note stating that she could “repay the principal if and when it became convenient.”

In addition to supporting Ethel’s dream, Emma Carola Woerishoffer — known as Carola — was already deeply engaged in the world of philanthropy. With a grandmother who was well-known for establishing a liberal German-American newspaper and for supporting like-minded institutions, Carola grew up with vivid memories of “her innumerable efforts to make life more tolerable for the weak and the poor.”

Curious in disposition, hungry for knowledge, and driven to make a difference, Carola moved to Greenwich Village – at the time, an impoverished immigrant neighborhood in Manhattan — to begin training for work that would benefit women and children. She kept her wealth a secret and lived as, and among, the population around her.

unionism, and during the shirt-waist strike of 1909, when many young women were thrown in jail, Carola appeared in court with a $75,000 bond to pay their bail. Though reporters were eager to publish this story, Carola shifted their attention to the strikers; humility and a desire for anonymity were characteristic of her service. This may be one reason she eagerly joined New York’s newly founded Bureau of Industries and Immigration. Carola served as a sort of undercover operative for the Bureau, continuing her work in Greenwich Village by embedding herself in immigrant settlements and camps, discovering exploitation, and bringing its proof to the state department.

On March 25, 1911, a terrible fire consumed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village. Because the factory owners had locked the building’s fire doors, some young women leapt from the building’s windows to their deaths while others died in the fire. According to the Bryn Mawr alumnae bulletin, “Woerishoffer started a relief fund and participated in the investigation, for which she collected invaluable evidence and testimony from survivors.”

Carola served as a sort of undercover operative… discovering proof of exploitation, and bringing [it] to the state department.

Working in the city’s laundries, Carola was “at her tub or mangle or feeding machine at 7:30 a.m., staying on into the night, when work demanded it.” She became involved in trade

A couple of months later, following a visit to New York City, Ethel wrote to her sister, sharing that she had attempted to contact Carola: “...only to find that she was living down at Greenwich House in the slums.” Because Carola was away the day she visited, Ethel left her a note, hoping to thank her in-person another time.

But this was never to be. Soon after, while traveling home from a labor camp in the New York countryside, 26-yearold Carola lost control of her car as it skidded down an embankment, trapping her beneath it. She died the next day, with Greenwich Village friends surrounding her hospital bed.

After Carola’s death, a Bryn Mawr classmate wrote, “Those of us who came under the spell of that brilliant and powerful personality will always feel that to have known her was a privilege of incalculable significance. She was indeed a figure to fire the imagination — so clear, so receptive, so vigorous, so unfettered by convention and tradition!” 

At Walker’s, each of you will emerge into your true selves, blessed with confidence and ready to take on life at college and beyond.

SUSANNA A. JONES, HEAD OF SCHOOL, 1999-2007

IN REMEMBRANCE

FORMER HEAD OF SCHOOL SUSANNA A. JONES

Susanna Adams Jones, who served as Head of The Ethel Walker School from 1999 to 2007, is remembered as a visionary leader whose tenure helped to shape the School’s trajectory into the 21st century.

A graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Princeton University, Susanna also earned an M.A. and an M.Phil. in history from Columbia University. Prior to The Ethel Walker School, she served as Upper School Director at Marlborough School and in leadership and teaching roles at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s School, Union Theological Seminary, and The Spence School.

During her tenure at The Ethel Walker School, Susanna guided the School through a thoughtful period of reflection, planning, and renewal. She believed that strategic planning was not simply an administrative exercise, but a vital opportunity to bring the community together — trustees, faculty, students, alumnae, and families — to imagine what excellence could look like for generations to come. Through this process, she deepened Walker’s mission-driven commitments to diversity, community, friendship, honor, learning, and excellence, while ensuring that each student’s unique voice was nurtured. Susanna understood that Walker’s was more than an

academic institution; it was, in her words, “an education for life.” She championed a holistic experience that valued the arts and athletics as much as academics, and she celebrated the leadership opportunities girls found in classrooms, on playing fields, and in the barn. She cherished the bonds of friendship and trust that arise from residential life, knowing they are at the heart of the Walker’s experience.

When Susanna concluded her tenure in 2007, she left Walker’s with a renewed sense of clarity and direction. She went on to lead the Holton-Arms School in Maryland, where she also became a founding member of One Schoolhouse, a nonprofit consortium that was the first online school for girls. After retiring from Holton-Arms, Susanna became a practice leader at the educational consulting firm Carney Sandoe & Associates. She also continued to promote girls’ education as Executive Director of The 1911 Group, an association of heads of school that emphasizes female leadership where she also wrote a monthly blog for the Association of Academic Leaders at One Schoolhouse.

Her memory will continue to inspire us to honor our mission and believe, as she did, in the limitless promise of girls’ education. 

PASSING THE TORCH

WELCOMING EMMA SIMON ’89 AS BOARD CHAIR

“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.” –Malala Yousafzai

The updated version of an old expression goes like this: Behind every great woman stands a great woman. There’s no more obvious place for this to be true than at a girls’ school where inspired learners become inspiring leaders. Part of what creates the atmosphere of supported ambition at The Ethel Walker School is that it is modeled at the very height of leadership. The relationship between the woman-chaired Board of Trustees — the School’s governance arm — and the woman-led academic administration are linked together for strength.

Walker’s Head of School Dr. Meera Viswanathan describes this relationship as centered upon “reciprocity and women’s leadership.” Katharine “Kit” O’Brien Rohn ’82, Board Chair for almost a decade, explains that she and Meera “have an enormous shared belief in what Walker’s can be and equal determination to bring vision into reality.” Together, the two were characterized as unstoppable academic

and campus-wide contributors to the School’s mission: to awaken students to their capabilities in an environment engineered for girls. So, when Kit decided it was time to step aside to focus her efforts on fundraising, she knew it was critical to pass the Board Chair position onto a person who would take her collaboration with Meera to the next level of effectiveness.

That “great woman” is Emma Simon ’89. After serving on the Board for the past six years, Emma was, to both Kit and Meera, the obvious choice.

“When Kit invited me to join the Board,” Emma recalls, “she told me to take some time to think about it. I accepted immediately. Joining such a powerful team was something I could not wait to do.” Following the last year as Vice Chair, Kit nominated her to become the Chair. On July 1, she assumed the Board Chair’s mantle.

“I’m honored and awed by the responsibility of taking the Board that Kit has so carefully built to the next level.” Emma says. Recalling the start of a recent board meeting under her leadership, she describes looking around the table and viscerally sensing the force of energy,

I’m honored and awed by the responsibility of taking the Board that Kit has so carefully built to the next level.

EMMA SIMON ’89 CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

enthusiasm, and hard work filling the room. “This is a testament to what this School has given to all of us.”

DEEPLY COMPATIBLE AND DEEPLY COMMITTED

Kit describes Emma’s working style as both very different and deeply compatible with Meera’s steady stream of visionary ideas. Emma’s strengths stem from an ability to organize, systematize, and execute with great precision — skills honed by decades in the corporate sector, where she continues to work as a managing director of marketing in the financial arena.

“I love working on a variety of projects simultaneously. Tackling problems by structuring flexible solutions, and addressing changing landscapes is where I thrive,” Emma says. “The challenge of marrying my skill set with Meera’s innovative views on education is what excites me about this role. Together, we are building for tomorrow’s leaders.”

Far from a newcomer to the School, Emma has been actively supporting Walker’s for decades, beginning as a 14-year-old student tour guide. Prior to re-joining the Board, she also served as the Alumnae Board President, on the Auction Committee, Campaign Committee, Campaign Steering Committee, Centennial Honorary Committee, Development Committee, and Marketing Committee, as well as a leadership solicitor, Reunion Gift Chair, class agent, Advancement Committee solicitor and, most recently, a Reunion Tri-Chair.

“There’s a rigor about her,” says Meera, referring both to Emma’s steadfast commitment and her detail-orientation. “She’s a woman with specific questions who wants specific answers.” This made her, constitutionally, a great fit for the role, preparing over the last year by joining Kit and Meera’s weekly morning meetings, as well as 10 committee and task force meetings. “Kit enveloped me with attention and shared the intention of the work that she’s done for a decade now.”

This includes thoughtfully expanding the Board of Trustees, safely guiding the School through a global health crisis, increasing the endowment, and creating the School’s Campus Master Plan, an environmentally sustainable overhaul that includes the recent completion of Mountain View House.

A CALLING

Meera’s respect and enthusiasm for her new collaborator is clear. “Emma is a wonderfully pragmatic idealist. She has a great sense of humor and is enormously dedicated and generous-hearted; she comes in on the weekends and answers the phone whenever I call.” New leaders at Walker’s take the baton to continue along the path of solving challenges and bringing new energy and insights to the School. Meera is certain that Emma will also raise the bar of achievement. “I grew tremendously from my work with Kit, and I’m already beginning to grow from working with Emma” she says. “I welcome it.”

All three women agree with philosopher and ethical leadership pioneer Joanne Ciulla, who has written: “Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.”

Meera adds that all three women stand in support of one another because education, itself, is a purpose higher than any individual’s purpose. In her characteristic eloquence, she calls both Kit and Emma “agents of transcendence” who have given far more than was ever expected of them. “Working in support of education is a calling rather than a job,” she says. Working for the benefit of The Ethel Walker School requires a singlemindedness that unifies all three leaders. 

CONTRIBUTING TO CONFIDENCE, COMPASSION, AND INDEPENDENCE

A seasoned leader in business, design, and health innovation, Sarah Gray P’29 joined the Board of Trustees this year. She brings professional expertise and a deep personal commitment to Walker’s mission of educating and empowering young women.

Sarah currently serves as Vice President of Strategy at Apercen Partners LLC, a premier tax advisory firm, where she oversees design, facilities, and office management nationwide. Her career began in multi-family asset management. Managing large portfolios and teams of more than 300 employees, she observed how thoughtful design and leadership transformed communities. That experience sharpened her skills in the creative and human side of design. In 2020, Sarah co-founded Panel Health Medical, a concierge naturopathic practice offering high-touch, boutique care.

Sarah and her family joined Walker’s in 2023 seeking an environment to nurture the independence and equestrian training of their daughter, Jillian ’29. “My journey has always been about building environments where people can thrive,” she reflects. “Walker’s is doing the same thing: creating an environment where girls grow in confidence, compassion, and independence. I’m honored to be part of that mission.”

A STAGE REBORN

A TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFT FOR WALKER’S ARTS

The curtain is rising on a new era for the performing arts at The Ethel Walker School, thanks to transformational gifts that will remake the beloved Ferguson Theatre. Alumna and trustee Alexandra Badger Airth ’83 and her mother Jacqueline B. Mars P’83, made a $5 million gift, inspiring an anonymous donor couple to join them with a $5 million gift, bringing the total to $10 million. With this support the Theatre is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation that will ensure future generations of students have access to a worldclass performing arts facility.

For Badger Airth and Mars, this gift is deeply personal. Both women are longstanding champions of girls’ education and the arts. Their support reflects a belief that creativity, confidence, and collaboration flourish when students have the space and resources to tell their stories.

“We are thrilled to be able to provide this current generation of Walker’s students

— and those of future generations — with access to a state-of-the-art facility that will encourage their growth and development in theater, music, and the arts,” said Badger Airth.

Built in 1969 and long considered the cultural heart of campus, Ferguson Theatre has served as the stage for countless plays, concerts, dance recitals, and community gatherings. But after more than five decades of use, the space is ready for renewal. This gift will breathe new life into the 350-seat venue, positioning it as both a teaching space and a community hub for the arts.

The renovation will modernize every corner of the theatre. Students and audiences alike will benefit from an upgraded sound system, enhanced lighting and rigging, a refurbished stage, fully renovated seating, carpeting, and restrooms. Air conditioning will also be added to the theatre.

We are thrilled to be able to provide… access to a stateof-the-art facility that will encourage [Walker’s students] growth and development in theater, music, and the arts.

ALEXANDRA BADGER AIRTH ’83

These improvements will not only support Walker’s thriving performing arts programs, but will also make the space more comfortable and accessible for visiting artists, guest lecturers, family audiences, and community organizations who make use of the space.

For Walker’s students, these enhancements mean more than just fresh paint and updated technology. They represent an expanded platform to explore creativity, take risks, and grow into confident performers and leaders. Whether rehearsing a Shakespeare play, performing in a jazz ensemble, or sharing their own choreography, students will now have access to facilities that mirror

the professional stages they aspire to reach.

In speaking about their commitment, the anonymous couple said, “We are thrilled to help revitalize a space where hundreds of students, teachers, families, alumnae, and neighbors come together to experience the power of performance. The theatre will be a place not only for artistic expression, but for community — one that extends well beyond the School’s walls.”

Head of School Dr. Meera Viswanathan emphasized the broader impact of this generosity: “Walker’s has a storied history of theater, dance, and the arts, and we are so grateful that this philanthropy will

ensure the School will continue to grow its programs and shape strong young women,” she said.

With construction set to revitalize one of the School’s most iconic spaces, the community is looking forward to the grand reopening of the theatre. When the lights go up and the first performance takes place, it will not only mark the debut of a renewed space, but also honor a legacy of alumnae and families who understand the power of the arts in shaping lives. 

Ferguson Theatre as imagined in the Campus Master Plan book

DEAR COMMUNITY,

Your extraordinary generosity to Walker’s in fiscal year 2024-2025 has created a transformative impact across our entire school community. Thanks to supporters like you, we achieved a milestone fundraising year that reflects the deep commitment our community has to Walker’s mission and future. This Annual Report of Philanthropy celebrates our collective impact.

Your gifts are immediately put to work enhancing every dimension of the Walker’s experience, strengthening our innovative academic programs such as our signature Capabilities Approach, state-of-the-art facilities, including our Mountain View House residence hall, and vibrant campus life and student experience. From dynamic classroom learning and cutting-edge laboratories to our comprehensive athletics program, meaningful community traditions, and robust financial aid initiative that makes Walker’s accessible to families from all backgrounds, your philanthropy touches every corner of our School.

Most importantly, your gifts directly affect our students’ daily lives and long-term success. They ensure our faculty have the resources to inspire and challenge, our facilities remain exceptional learning environments, and our programs continue to evolve with the changing needs of education and society.

Thank you for being an essential part of the Walker’s story. Your trust in Walker’s mission and investment in our students’ futures make extraordinary education possible.

With deepest gratitude,

Gretchen Orschiedt Assistant Head of School for Advancement

ANNOUNCING OUR RENAMED ANNUAL FUND PROGRAM to celebrate the year of our founding — an incredible milestone in our history. We look forward to celebrating our 115th year with you!

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

Sources and Applications of Funds FY 2024-2025

GIVING SOCIETIES

Every member of our donor community is essential. Your gifts in Fiscal Year 2024-2025 to the Annual Fund for Walker’s, capital projects, endowments, and Horizons make our current programs and future plans a reality.

COPPER BEECH SOCIETY

$100,000+

Donors who have pledged to give $100,000 or more to Walker’s over three years. The Society was formed in 2019.

Jennifer Alter Abt ’89

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83

Margaret M. Ashforth ’84

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Ann Watson Bresnahan ’69

Sarah Gates Colley ’75

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Jean Moore Edwards ’69

Susan S. Ford ’63

Aileen Turnbull Geddes ’56

Sara Kellogg Goodrich

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69

Shelley Marks ’81

Jacqueline Mars P’83

Amie Rappoport McKenna and Stephen V. McKenna P’24

Laura Mountcastle ’74

Lillian Irani Mueller ’77

Kathryn McCarthy Parsons ’75

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

Margot Treman Rose ’80

Lisa Pagliaro Selz ’69 and Bernard Selz

Emma Simon ’89

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Margery Holley Uihlein ’40+

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Helen Potter Wagner ’75

Emily R. Wick P’15

Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80*

HEAD’S CIRCLE

$50,000+

In honor of the Head of School for giving at the highest level

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83 and Alan F. Airth*

Roberta Gerstell Bennett ’53

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Ann Watson Bresnahan ’69

Sarah Gates Colley ’75*

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21*

Jean Moore Edwards ’69*

Susan S. Ford ’63*

Sara Kellogg Goodrich*

Horizons National Student Enrichment Program, Inc.

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60 and Peter R. Kellogg*

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69*

Shelley Marks ’81*

Jacqueline Mars P’83

Laura Mountcastle ’74

Kathryn McCarthy Parsons ’75

Jeanette Poillon ’75*

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85*

Ethel Worthington Riley ’35+

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82 and Robert L. Rohn*

Molly and Thomas Rutledge

The Rutledge Family Foundation

Kelli and Scott Schlesinger P’26

Lisa Pagliaro Selz ’69 and Bernard Selz

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14*

Helen Potter Wagner ’75*

Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80*

Xuefen Zheng and Caijun Xu P’27*

SUNDIAL SOCIETY

$25,000+

In honor of the School symbol

Margaret Ashforth ’84

Susan and William Bardel P’27*

Constance Lavino Bell ’48, P’72, ’75, GP’12, ’14

Margaret and George Davis P’26

Mary Gardner Gates ’60*

Aileen Turnbull Geddes ’56*

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Lillian Irani Mueller ’77*

Barbara Nash and Patrick Flynn P’05

Emma Simon ’89

Ruth Streeter ’72 and Charles Hirschler*

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Yanzhi Zhang and Futian Ye P’28*

HORAS AUREAS SOCIETY

$10,000+

In honor of the School’s motto, Nullas Horas Nisi Aureas, "None But Golden Hours"

Jennifer Alter Abt ’89*

Phoebe Haffner Andrew ’56

Christina Ball ’05*

Margaret and Ian T. Ball P’05

Jan and John R. Barr P’04*

Margaretta Bredin Brokaw ’66*

Whitney A. de Roulet Bullock ’70*

Lisa Smith Cashin ’71

Paulette Castillo ’73*

Kaiyu Dang and Zhijiang Guo P’27*

Diane Solomon Doppelt ’75*

Mary Melvin Fleming ’75*

Gail Chandler Gaston ’70*

Sarah Gray and Tom van Loben Sels P’29*

Ann C. Madonia Hamm ’84*

Kathryn Loomis Harris ’72*

Frieda P. Jacobs ’71*

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

Anne Wakefield Leck ’62

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05

Mary Ann Shoenberg Margaretten ’60*

Anne Sprole Mauk ’69

Carolyn Lanuza Lui and Eddy Lui P’26

Alison McCall ’72

Ruth Cummings Mead ’47*

Payne Payson Middleton ’45+

Brenda and David R. Pelizzon P’07*

Jeanette C. Pelizzon ’07

Melissa and Thomas Regan P’13

Brice Barry Russian ’89*

Nancy and John Sabol GP’20

The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Robin Hunziker Smith ’73*

Kelly and Hamburg Tang P’27

Tina Tiedtke ’70*

Kelly Tran ’07*

Meera Viswanathan and Eric Widmer

Michaelynn Ware and Thomas Miller P’28, ’29*

Emily R. Wick P’15

Sumner C. Wick ’15*

Sieglinde Wikstrom GP’04*

Joseph Williams*

Yan Zhao and GuoPing Shen P’26*

ETHEL WALKER SMITH SOCIETY

$5,000+

In honor of the School’s founder, Ethel Walker Smith

Denise and Chad Alfeld P’19

David H. Badger P’83*

Christina Ball ’05

Elizabeth Elkinton Barr ’69

Lawrence E. Bathgate II P’90*

Barbara Bristol ’67*

Claudia Ramsland Burch ’68*

Carroll Morgan Carpenter ’59, P’68*

Yan Chang and Zicai Wu P’25*

Christine and Kevin Chessen P’17

Gillian Reighley Christensen ’69

Elizabeth Sivage Clark ’67, P’04

Rebecca and G. Munroe Cobey P’01, ’03

Mary Jane Levy Dickson ’68*

Cynthia Smith Evanisko ’71*

Fidelity Charitable

Henrietta Clement Hildebrand ’65

Toan Huynh ’93*

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10

Gurukirn Khalsa ’69

James W. Kinnear W’47, P’69, ’71

Frances Lee ’99

Cecily Chilton Matthai ’77*

Sarah-Jane McCarthy ’80, P’21

Patricia and Omar Meguid P’17*

Alice Kerr Moorhead ’61

Pamela Webster Murphy ’94

Amy H. Neidlinger ’00

Audrey Nevins ’73*

Elizabeth and Andrew Parks P’27*

Kelly O’Connor Pasciucco ’79 and Gerald Pasciucco*

Deidra Roach-Quarles ’72*

Lisa and Piyum Samaraweera P’26

Elisabeth Dobbin Sherwood ’57*

Catherine Clark Shopneck ’72

Tania Whitman Stepanian ’60

Beth and Christopher E. Strapp P’18, ’21

Catherine Taylor P’30*

Elizabeth Smith van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09*

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

LEADERSHIP LEAGUE

$2,500+

In honor of our volunteers who take a leadership role

Alexandra Flood Alcoff ’94 and Sam Alcoff P’27*

Andrew Ashforth*

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26*

Jenny Belknap ’90*

Dorothy Burke GP’26*

Virginia Jones Bush ’60*

Mary Laub Cowan ’69

Eleanor and Steven Daugherty P’26

Elizabeth S. Davis ’14*

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89*

Caryl Van Ranst Dearing ’60

Ashley Bourne Dewey ’82*

Leander Altifois Dolphin ’95 and Raymond Dolphin P’24

Sally Mason Ellison ’55*

Tania Goss Evans ’55*

Bonnie A. Ewald ’00*

Susan Nichols Ferriere ’69*

Margaret S. Filoon ’81*

Lindsay P. N. Flynn ’05 and Christopher Cassimus

Alescia C. Ford P’28*

Gartner Group Charitable Fund

Nancy Cisco Gilbert ’72

Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00*

Lisa Lorillard Halsted ’77*

Hilary Walker Hotchkiss ’75*

Hubbell Foundation

Holly Hulburd ’67

Carol Hoffman Jason ’75*

Lisa Kruidenier ’74*

Ying Li and Wendong Xu P’15*

Anne and Michael G. Licopantis P’84, ’87

Angela W. Maine P’09

Eliza David Massaro ’92*

Rose Marie and Philip McLoughlin P’98*

Glenna McMahon ’93*

Henry D. Mercer, Jr. P’75, ’78*

Amy Diana Natalicchio ’87*

Gretchen Orschiedt

Julie Lange Peyton ’67*

Mary Beth Rettger ’81

Corlene Cathcart Rhoades ’82*

Anne Brainard Schmitt ’64*

Lynn Staley and Martin Linsky*

Elizabeth Sudler ’77*

Jamiah N. Tappin ’00*

Kerry Heneghan Tharpe ’91*

Julianna J. Thompson and Joseph Capozzoli P’26, ’29*

Abigail Trafford ’57

Virtus Investment Partners

W. J. Mountford Co.

Teresa C. Younger*

Orrin Zirbel GP’25, ’27*

Anonymous

1911 SOCIETY

$1,911+

In recognition of the year of the School’s founding

Frances Beatty Adler ’66*

Elizabeth Paschal Alrick ’81*

Junli An and Lingyun Zhou P’28*

Cynthia Anderson-Barker ’72*

Penelope and William Bardel GP’27*

Robin Frost Bessin ’63*

Deanna Briggs and Nicolas Ramkowsky P’25*

Jean Waller Brune GP’17, ’19

Qun Cao and Wenkui Liang P’28*

Janet Cohen P’93, GP’15, ’16, ’18, ’20, ’21*

Catherine Conrad ’83*

Sharon and John B. Davies P’96, ’00*

Ximena Eleta de Sierra ’83

Ashley Bourne Dewey ’82*

Stacey Lombardo DiPiazza ’89*

Miranda Sampsell Donnelley ’61*

Juliet Ward Flood ’77*

Christopher Garrity*

James P. Gorter W’50, P’77*

Wells Downey Hamilton ’66

Jennifer Hermann ’78*

Roberta Downs Houghton ’59*

Anthony Hulme

Richard Hulme P’25*

Judith and Thomas Iovino P’99*

Miisha S. Jones ’10*

Whitney Williams Jones ’82*

Edith Khayatt GP’24*

Caroline R. Kieltyka ’10*

Suzette Spitzer King ’48*

Mary Gorter Krey ’77*

Kathryn Spector Lasater ’87*

Sally Chapin Levin ’59*

Alyssa Levy ’63*

Yue Li and Musong Cheng P’25*

Meleda Wegner Lowry ’81

Colleen and Robert Magnus P’20*

Kristen Lashnits McGowan ’04*

Martha Bloch McLanahan ’58*

Sejal Patel Mitra ’95*

Gail Sheppard Moloney ’56

Elizabeth Yinkey Moore ’64*

Myra J. Morgan*

Vance Morgan W’53*

+Deceased *Met the Match!

WHY I GIVE

XUEFEN (AMANDA) ZHENG P’27 GUANGZHOU, CHINA

I give because the guidance and support that the School and teachers have provided to my daughter have made me feel like my daughter is everyone’s daughter. I feel that the School offers abundant positive energy to its students, both academically and in their personal growth. As a parent, I’m deeply moved and reassured. I feel truly honored to be able to support these outstanding girls, and I hope all the students can grow together.

Lucille and Lane Morrison P’93, GP’26*

Nina and Markus Nolff P’29*

Kemble Lickle O’Donnell ’79*

Ashley Lickle O’Neil ’78*

Patricia and Thomas Pikor GP’27*

Esther Pryor ’85

Elizabeth Rauch Rainoff ’53*

Brooke Gaffney Redmond ’90*

Dana and Craig Riendeau P’26*

Pamela Safford ’81

Jennifer Soderburg ’98*

Sarah Royce Stevenson ’75*

Pennell Whitney ’69*

Anne Coit Williams ’68*

Xinyi Yao P’27*

Xuhong Zhao and Ruiyuan Sun P’26*

Yufeng Zhang and Guo Xiang He P’28*

CLUETT SOCIETY

$1,000+

To commemorate the original Cluett Dormitory, given in memory of Emily Cluett, Class of 1919, by her family

Jada Adams ’20*

Cynthia Johnston Alexander ’67*

Thara Mathews Alexander ’03*

Maria Alulema P’25*

Katharine and Matthew Atkinson P’28*

Patricia Holmboe Atwood ’71*

Susan Arnold ’63*

Brooke Berescik-Johns ’98*

Suzanne Chapin Berl ’64

The Boston Foundation*

Christopher L. Brigham

Allison Joyner Brown ’93*

Elizabeth A. Brucker P’95

Linda Hale Bucklin ’62*

Elise Burns ’70

Anne Crandall Campbell ’78

Susan and Peter Chapman*

Jessica and Edward Chicoski P’30, ’31*

Maryann and Ed Chicoski GP’30, ’31*

Paula Chu and Laura Danforth P’05*

Mary Lou Cobb

Christina Dillon Cohen ’85

Karen C. Cook ’73*

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Ned W. Edwards P’07, ’10

Barbara O. David P’92

Susan Ziebarth Delaporte ’75*

Tom DiMartino

Sarah Elting Doering ’65*

Clarissa Yantis Downey ’53*

Mollie Stark Eckelberry ’48, P’82*

Kirsten Eckelmeyer ’94*

Cynthia Emerson ’70*

Kristen and Antonio Fernandez P’26*

Susan Hewitt Fischer ’66*

Phyllis Richard Fritts ’60

Ying Gao and Guowei Zhang P’25

Elizabeth Gemmill ’63

Elizabeth Jack Ghriskey ’63

Susan and Bill Gillespie GP’26*

Meghan and Eric Girard P’31, ’32*

Ruth Harrison Grobe ’69

Antoinette Sickles

Guerrini-Maraldi ’49, P’74

Sonja and Edrick Hall GP’25*

Mary Cobey Hallissey ’01

Suzanne Hannay and John F. R. Palmer*

Anne Herr ’81*

Alice Hicks*

Carryll Hua ’94*

Lisa Danforth Hurst ’79*

Jessica Smith James ’73*

Sandi Juliano*

Constance Mellon Kapp ’88

Margaret Prizer Kenny ’63

Stella and Christopher Kessel P’28*

Nancy Smith Klos ’77*

Ellen and Gordon Knight*

Joan Krohn*

Erica Ohanesian Lamson ’01*

Sara Lavery ’00*

Mary Stout Lawrence ’59*

Melissa Jackson Loree ’88*

Deborah Loven-Gray ’81*

Suzanne Frey Luetkemeyer ’61

Aimee Gilleaudeau Lundy ’72*

Mary Ann Kelly MacDonald ’79*

Kathleen MacNaughton ’71*

Alline Matheson ’78*

Thara Kay Mathews ’03*

Kellie Molander*

Mollie Morrison ’20*

Ellen Morrissey ’73*

Tammi Morton P’25*

Lisa and Jeffrey A. Moss P’09*

Mary Mountcastle ’72

Barbara Merlin Neal ’77

Leslie Hailand Newman ’66

Rosaline Ng and Luk Man Li P’25*

Wendy French Nolan ’67

Lauren Schmidt Nowicki ’00

June Wyer Nugent ’68*

Jenifer and William O’Keefe P’27

Jane Orndahl ’71*

Dwana Parkes ’95*

Pamela Paterson GP’17, ’19*

Amy and Neil Paul P’16, ’18*

Anne Lacouture Penniman ’76*

Amie Rappoport McKenna and Stephen V. McKenna P’24

Susan Jensen Rawles ’82

Shannon Young Ray ’80*

Tracey S. Reifler ’82*

Christine Gibbons Roberts ’78*

Catherine Munson Rogerson ’75*

Roberta Roll ’72*

Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’59*

Margot Treman Rose ’80

Carol and Martin Ross P’18, ’19

Debbie and Bernard Rosselli P’98

Christine Sanni*

Mary Bebel Schinke ’81*

Patricia Kelsey Schultz ’60

Joanna Holdredge Seaver ’99*

Robin Gorham Sedgwick ’61

Nicole Lewenson Shargel ’95*

Tracey Flach Shiel ’82

Nina McCullough Sidley ’70*

Elizabeth Arienti Sloane ’83*

Michelle Soderburg ’95*

Kristin Decker Somerville ’00*

Julia Darling Spahr ’61

Laura and George C. Springer P’13*

Alexis A. Stephan ’10*

Susan Storer ’71

Amy Storrow ’81

J. Randall Furlong Street ’57

Linda Strohmeyer P’21

Alexandra Tamutus ’95*

Lin Tao and Deming Yang P’27*

Catherine Terry Taylor ’79

Robin Raff Taylor ’85*

Helen Thomas P’09

Lisa and Christopher Thompson P’26*

Hilary Thornton ’77*

Emiliana Vegas ’85

Ana Cutillas Walker ’78*

Laura Maver Ward ’73

Deana Washburn ’80*

Brenda and Orwin Watson P’31*

Julia Wilcox ’87*

Hooey Stewart Wilks ’82*

Susan Foster Work ’63

Anstiss Wynn*

Chenxi Xiang ’24*

Jing Xie and Duan Liang P’27

Linda Roberts Zinn ’63*

Jennifer and Jeffrey Zirbel P’25, ’27*

DOGSWOOD CLUB

$500-$999

AARP Employee Matching Gifts Program

Lynn Allegaert ’64

Amica Companies Foundation

Anne Dobbin Bailliere ’59

Clarissa and Alan Basch P’15

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

Alicia Kelly Benedetto ’97

Ellen Krimmel Besobrasov ’78

Blair Beuttas ’88

Dorothy Scullin Cabot ’52

Merrill Ware Carrington ’68

Elizabeth Rockwell Cesare

Laurann L. Claridge ’84

Frances Haffner Colburn ’54

Catharine Conway Coleman ’70

Evelyn Carter Cowles ’69

Mally Cox-Chapman ’69

Wendy Hodgkins DeLorey ’83 and Christopher J. DeLorey P’20

Sarah House Denby ’72

Deborah Bard Dewing ’66

Ann Higbie Eckrich ’54

Frances Beinecke Elston ’67

McCall Watson Eng ’81

Sheryl and Marc Green GP’29, ’31

Mary Fentress Grumhaus ’57

Patricia J. Haigh ’93

Mimi Morrison Harrison ’93 and John Harrison P’26

Kyra and Rob Hartnett P’26

Yijin He and Jianxian Wang P’25

Suzette Scott Hearn ’74

Mackenzie Hine ’16

Shenitha Holley

Nancy King Howe ’57

Nishette Isaac

Anna Johnson ’60

Crystal Kay ’00

Lizbeth Licopantis King ’87

Hyojeong Lee and Michael Mulcahy P’26

Jiajie Lin and Zhishan Li P’28

Dorothy Hirsch Loebl ’45

Alexander Lunding

Winnie Crane Mackey ’53

Nora Martin GP’24

Allison and Graham Mattison P’27

Laurie Mack McBride ’57

Sandra Rohde McNamee ’84

Mary and Jack Merselis GP’23

Janet Henning Miller ’68

Kimberly Brown Morrow ’78

Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55

Rachel Myers

Susan Kinnear Neul ’71

Gunnel Orndahl ’74

Marion and Guy Paterson P’17, ’19

Kathryn Auchincloss Porter ’54

Rachael S. Rosselli ’98 and Andrew Haynie

Suzanne Safford ’84

Thomas Salvatore P’22

Phyllis Satter

Barbara Johnston Schechter ’74

Margaret Schwartz ’02

Laura Scott ’83

Lucinda Atkins Sheffield ’82

Elizabeth Cobey Simonton ’03

Katharine Swibold ’78

Caroline O’Brien Thomas ’84

Karen Thompson ’73

Elenor D. van Gemeren ’09

Nancy Mack von Euler ’79

Linda Trimingham Warriner ’61

Diana Dyer Watson ’65

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82 and Charles D. Wetmore P’18

Larke Woods Wheeler ’76

Gretchen and Frederick Wierdsma P’18

Bethany Wood-Leidt and William Leidt P’13

Terry and Dana Yanaway P’14, ’17

BEAVER BROOK CLUB

$250-$499

Grace Zelinka Becker and Lawrence Becker

Gabriela Porta Beecher ’91

Monica Sheehan Bennett ’73

Marie Herkert Bogdanovics ’79

Margaret H. Bonz

Sally Schade Bowman ’74

Elizabeth Pryor Bradley ’85

Paul Breault

Christy Hoffman Brown ’60

Nevon Bush ’97

Sage Dunlap Chase ’62

Saeeun Choi P’25

Shelley Cole ’76

Ana Consuegra Cummins ’83

Tricia Tourville Dave ’82

Marion Linen Dawson Carr ’58

Catherine McKee Donovan ’68

Ashley and Ryan Dorin P’29, ’31

Katherine Dresdner ’69

Marcia P. Easterling

Tanis Higgins Erdmann ’55

Nancy Ford GP’28

The GE Foundation

Samara H. Ginsburg and Andrew Ginsburg P’29

Madison S. Glass ’14

Kerri and Josh Glass P’14

Catherine Grant-Alston and Reginald Alston P’28

Stephanie Bothwell Grillo ’90

Dolly Hall ’78

Kimberly Harris-Thacker and David Thacker P’24, ’27

Lee-Ann and Mitchell Harris P’13

Martha Hedgpeth ’71

Linda and Iain Howard-Sorrell P’09

Susan Lins Jackson ’66, P’93

Hye Jeon and Seong Jo P’15, ’18

Emily Eckelberry Johnson ’82

Tracey Kammerer ’79

Anne Kennedy ’80

Margaret Lamb ’87

Yvette Larrieu ’80

Judith Scott Larsen ’67

Karinna Perez-Rubio Levy ’91

Olivia S. Lovelace ’74

Emily B. Cole-Chu MacSwain ’00

Meg S. Mahoney

Isabella Manganiello ’19

Christina and Mark D. Meador P’25

Megan Mehr and Andreas Mang P’29

Charlotte Meyer ’64

Megan Rogers Miller ’76

Kayla A. Monroe ’12

Connie Morales ’92

Constance Bell Moser ’72

Marion Flinn Moulton ’88

Catherine and Michael Nartey-Tokoli P’24

Brittany Coons Noble ’02

Mary Derbyshire Petty ’79

Lela Schaus Philip ’79

Amanda Pitman ’90

The Pittsburgh Foundation

Principal Financial Group

Dar Reimer Barrett ’79

Jennifer Rodts ’86

Evelyn Lisle Rooney ’56

Deborah Safford P’81, ’84

Subha Sankaran

Gina Scinto P’29

Christopher Semk

Steven Shea P’16

Katherine Flanagan Shoss ’97

Leslie and Steven Silverman P’15

H. Catherine Skinner P’82

Claudia Mesch Smith ’86

Nancy Hathaway Steenburg ’68

Janet Stott ’66

Ann Boland Strachan ’83

Jane McCurrach Talcott ’54

Jane-Byrd Wiley Terlizzi ’79

Andrea Coggins Toivakka ’06

Sheila and Michael Toto P’26

Elizabeth van Gemeren ’07

Bathsheba Veghte ’77

Haydee Diaz-Camacho von Sternberg ’64

Anne Fuller Wall ’64

Elizabeth Wright Wempe ’86

Eliza Wetmore ’18

Vanessa Guerrini-Maraldi Wilcox ’74

Shari and Albert Wong P’26

Sierra J. Yanaway ’14

Hong Zhao and Lei Chen P’27

MAYPOLE SOCIETY

GIFTS UP TO $249

Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

Nura Abdul-Karim and Salih Abdur-Rahman P’29

AIG

Diana Aixala ’82

Corina Alvarezdelugo

Lea Osborne Angell ’59

Susan Bierwirth Arbios ’74

Barbara Arnold ’69

Margaret Ashley ’18

Kara Ashley P’18

Carolina and Will Atwood P’26, ’30

Andrea Baier ’81

Betsy Ballenger ’71

Josey Ballenger ’87

Je Banach

Ruth Banta ’76

Ariella N. Freund Bareket ’10

Allison Barringer P’13

Ethan Basch

Talia A. Basch ’15

Owen Bass

Sheriden Beard ’16

Seddon Kelly Beaty ’64

Emily and Andrew Bedell P’26

Eda E. Bell ’12

Brett Benzio

Rosalind and Walter Bernheimer

Ece Bidav ’15

Lilli Bieler Biedermann ’83

Tracey Mueller Biedron ’80

Alexandra Bisbee ’82

Anne and Rodman R. Black, Jr. P’03

Averill Blackburn ’04

Lucia Bryant Blanchard ’65

April Bolton Mwangi ’00

Ashley Bonet

Randi Booth

Susan Churchill Bowman ’72

Allison Snyder Brates ’70

Anita W. Brean

Vickery Brewer ’79

Karen Brooks ’72, P’03

Amber and Jeremiah Burrow P’28

Hillary Bush ’86

Judith and Alan Bush P’86

Caroline A. Calandro ’14

Carol Large Calhoun ’55

Kelly Callender

Coleen Campbell

Summer and Kevin Carney P’27

Alison Carlin Carrabba ’86

Jennifer Cavallari and Daniel Durkin P’27

Emily I. Cazares ’17

Isabel Ceballos P’29

Elizabeth Swearengen Cerullo ’78

Cheryl Clark Chalmers ’63

Nicole Madison Chan ’99

Jenny Stewart Chandler ’55

Jean Brigham Chant ’82

Nga Chau

Jing Chen and Yunping Xu P’26

Maanavi Chendanda and Bejan Shirvani P’30

Samantha F. Chessen ’17

Sarah Chotkowski ’08

Awele N. Chukwura ’17

Ursula and Everett Clark P’80, ’84

Carol Clark-Flanagan and Thomas M. Flanagan P’93, ’97

Michelle Class P’28

Angela Coggins P’06

Katherine Rodriguez Colone ’05

Clive K. Connor P’05

Spencer L. Cook ’09 and Tom Cook

Marie and Henry R. Coons P’02

Sofia and Alan Cooper P’29

Dorothy Ferguson Corbiere ’64

Eve Agush Costarelli ’82

Ann Stone Costello ’68

Michelle E. Coster ’12

Alicia Couch-Edwards ’07 and John Monagan

Mary Coyne ’82

Patricia McCurdy-Crescimanno and Terry Crescimanno P’08, ’13

Karen Crowe ’97

Crum & Forster Insurance

Julia Blodgett Curtis ’58

Leslie Kelly Cutler ’61

Nichelle Davidson ’88

Lauren Schwarz Davis ’15

Emily Davis-Knight ’80

Stephanie Davison ’80

Gigi Henriquez de Cardoze ’92

Lorinda Payson de Roulet ’47, P’70

Margaret Shaw Dean ’52

Sarah Bryant Dean ’62

Elisa Del Valle

Brooke DeLorey ’20

Kelly DeVivo

Muhisoni Donavine P’29

Colleen and Eric Doshna P’21

Calista Duggan ’18

Nicole Hart Dunn ’96

Mimi and Paul Duran P’18

Marilou Dusyn

Amanda Eastman ’93

Katharine Beadle Eikenberry ’75

Cynthia Elliott ’71

Erin Shupenis Ellis ’98

Sara and Daniel English P’27

David Erickson

Stephen Erickson

Sara Esthus ’99

Patricia Tierney Falkenhagen ’66

Rachel Feldman

Julie Retzlaff and Whitney Flood P’27

Carolyn Foley ’65

Lisa Harrington Foote ’72

Marissa and William Forde P’28, ’31

Emily Forman ’02

Pamela Forsyth ’76

Lori-Jean and Wayne P. Foster P’17

Adaline Dean Friedlander ’18

Linda Walker Fuerst ’64

Mark Fuller

Louise Gabrielle ’81

Ashley Gaddis P’18

Laurel C. L. Gaddis ’18

Shari and Michael Galvin P’14

Catherine and Justin Gervais P’30

Shelley Rea Gilbert ’65

Susan Kleinhans Gilbertson ’53

Tiffany and Douglas Glanville P’30

Yujean K. ’26 at Maclay Regionals

Photo by Jess Windhurst Photography

Meredythe Goethe ’05

Sam Gonzalez ’13

Beatriz and Andres Gonzalez P’24

Charnaie Gordon

Claire Graham ’15

Margaret Gray ’67

Lisa Weber Greenberg ’76

Nicole T. Gregory ’13

Lauren Griffin

Colin Griggs

Kathy and John Groff

Tara Gunn

Yinghua Guo and Jian Ma P’28

Holly Guzman ’02

Christopher Hague

Leslie Bucklin Haines ’61

Cicily Warren Hajek ’58

Margaret Hall GP’18, 21

Margo Hanlan ’01

Hanover Insurance Company Payroll Campaign Fund

Allison L. Harris ’13

Sarah Skinner Hart ’44

Suzanne Hartt ’77

Beryn Frank Harty ’72

Melissa and Jesse Hayes P’25, ’27

Nancy and Frank Hemmerich III P’27

Mary B. Hendrickson and Kenneth A. Poppe

Marguerite and Charles Hensley GP’26

Lorna Hickerson ’87

Laura and George V. Hicks P’10

Elizabeth Palmer Higgins ’74

Adrianne Massie Hill ’56

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

Margaret Holley ’62

Lisa Howard-Sorrell ’09

Helen Bryan Hubbard ’75

Frances Hughes ’78

Marsha Hughes ’95

Anne E. Hull P’79, ’85

Maria and Jonathan Huttner

Katherine R. Hypolite-MacMannis ’04

Karen and Ralph Jacob P’00

Windy Black Jansen ’03

Mandy and Juan Luis Jaramillo P’30

Jill Englund Jensen ’72

Jenny Engles Johnson ’76

Joanne Johnson GP’25

John Johnson Art Direction & Design

Tammy and Christopher Johnson P’22

Jillian Jones ’19

Lauren and Philip Jones P’27

Devon C. Kalune

Jennifer Kawaja P’30

Annie Keating-Scherer and Adam Scherer P’30

Jill Keffer-Crowe ’82

Kerry and Paul Kendall P’30

Catherine T. Kenney ’84 and Michael Vogel P’25, ’28

Keybank Foundation

Justine J. Kieltyka ’16

Judith Coburn Klein ’65

Elizabeth Kueffner Koors P’27

Cynthia Krohn

Diana Waud Kruglick ’53+

Lauren Krupnikoff ’23

Patricia and Henry D. Krupnikoff P’23

Mona Lake P’23

Dana Carter Lange ’79

Elizabeth Hanson Lawlor ’71

Myra Laws

Sarah Sneve LeDoux ’78

Tavia Lee-Goldstein

Juliet Legassa ’23

Darby Tench Leicht ’74

John Lendvai

Caroline Baldwin Lewis ’67

Chun Li ’15

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Teal Spencer Lindsay ’75

Max Lindsay-Capobianco

Nancyrose Logan and David Rakyta P’96

Valerie Stoddard Loring ’55

Kara Lucht ’00 and Justin Lucht P’29

Jessica and Geoffrey Luxenberg P’29

Megan Rosidivito Lyczak ’03

Karim Mabrouk

Laurie J. MacAlpine P’08

Nicole Macari ’20

Alexandra de Casteja Mahony ’85

Brennan A. Maine ’09

Silvia Manent ’08

Lynn Sheppard Manger ’59

Leontina Marcotulli ’83

Sarah Crosskey Marvin ’81

Colin May

Anne Austin Mazlish ’51

Ellen McClure

Kathleen McCombe ’70

Deborah and Geoffrey R. McConnell P’98

Beth McGuinness ’88

Elisabeth Holmes McKean ’83

Lué McWilliams ’80

Justine Medic

Margaret E. Meinert ’88

Amy Melnicsak ’90

Amy Merselis P’23

John Merselis P’23

Jessica Meyer and Jason Pope P’29

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Rebecca and Terrence Milka P’08

Ruth Miller

Blair and Christopher Miller P’26

Emily Mitchell

Rebecca Morris ’19

Dinah Bortz Moyer ’78

Megan Mulhern

Joan Berg Mullen ’46

Jonathan Near

Julia Mailliard Nelson ’76

Emily Agnew Nelson ’63

Kristin F. Nicolle

Kimberley Smith Niles ’68

Emilee O’Brien ’13

Louise and Daniel O’Connell P’99

Christine and Mike O’Connor P’19

Ann O’Reilly ’80, P’17

Patricia O’Reilly ’77

Mary and James Obeng P’18

Dele R. Odumosu ’12

Caroline E. Olesh ’15

Cassandra Sperry Ordway ’80

Erin and Gene Ott P’32

Keisha S. Palmer P’18

Margaret Palmer ’78

Carol Bruenner Parker ’66

Mallory Greene Pasquariello

Emma Paterson ’19

Idabelle Paterson ’17

Jessica Bartolini Patras ’95

Holly E. Paul ’18

Georgia C. Paul ’16

Martha Nevins Pawasarat ’80

Elizabeth O’Brien Paxton ’73

PayPal Giving Fund

Angela M. Peavy ’15

Veda Pendleton ’75

Trish and Robert Perry GP’27

Suzanne Phillips ’64

Suzanne Piela P’22, ’28

Suzanne Podurgiel

Kerry Scott Pokorny ’90

Alexandra Potts Pool ’48

Larcia Premo ’83

Sandra Price ’82

Patricia Onderdonk Pruett

Dennis J. Puleo

Alden Calmer Read ’48

Chelsea B. Regan ’13

Annabelle Reid ’78

Julie Relyea and Randall Shō Northrop

Deborah Mercer Ribas ’75

Katherine R. Richardson ’14

Elizabeth C. Ridgley ’22

Patty and Allen Riendeau GP’26

Karen Robbins P’24

Cynthia Higgins Roby ’64

Eleanor Ross ’15

Emily Ross ’19

Llewellyn G. Ross P’80

Emily Rossiter ’96

Nancy Rova

Nicole E. Rusch ’15

+Deceased *Met the Match!

Isabelle Russell

Sidney Russell P’02

Jane Shanholt Sacasa ’69

Barbara Safford P’81, ’84

Margaret Broadus Saling ’75

Emily Sappington ’06

Sydney C. Satchell ’10

Dorothy Kirmse Scarlett ’70

Philip K. Schenck P’88

Marcia Schoeller

Whitley Ram Schoeny ’92

Kayla I. Scinto ’15

Deborah Seaman ’71

Sandra Lipson Sears ’57

Ann and Rick Semk

Holly and Donald Shanly P’19

Judith and Thomas H. Shannon P’07

Sarah Shaw ’23

Laura MacIntyre Shaw ’78

Andrew Sheintop P’22

Julia Sheldon P’20, ’23

Gail and James Shelton P’12

Sharon Shenberg

Rachael Jenkins Sherrill ’51

Carolyn Stein Shohet ’57

Karen Simmons Rose ’82

Pamela Bennett Skinner ’95

Thalassa Skinner ’82

Nicola and Brenton Slade P’24

Deborah Flagg Smith ’85

Elaine and Raymond Smith GP’25, ’27

Jennifer Smith ’76

FOR GIRLS AND THEIR HORSES

ENHANCING THE WALKER’S EQUESTRIAN EXPERIENCE

Thanks to the generosity of donors, The Ethel Walker School has made significant improvements to its barn and surrounding equestrian facilities, ensuring an even better experience for students and horses alike.

Over the past year, the School has added three spacious 12’ x 36’ run-in sheds in the fields, each built on carefully prepared stone bases to provide comfort and protection for the horses. To enhance care and safety, automatic waterers were installed, supported by new water and electrical lines, ensuring that horses now have constant access to fresh water in every field. More than 3,000

Lorna and Anthony Smith P’28

Sarah Blair Smith ’70

Cheri Soule

Liana Sowa

Eleanor S. Speers ’16

Bessie and Tom Speers P’16

Lisa and Scott Spencer P’27

Kristen T. St Louis ’21

Ashleigh N. Stephan ’11

Alicia Sternberg-Llanos and Ricardo Llanos P’21

Arzu and Carlos Stetzelberg P’23, ’26

Katherine Jones Stillwell ’79

Christine and Robert Stirt P’27

Clara Perkins Stites ’60

Caroline M. Strapp ’18

Allison and Timothy Sullivan P’27

Gretchen Swibold P’78

Eleanor Taylor ’89

Joan Gilbert Thayer ’50

Susan Knapp Thomas ’80

Robin and Daniel P. Towle P’08

Justin Treado

Kyle Trogstad-Isaacson

Shauna Turnbull ’85

Jamie Patterson Valentine ’82

Sarah and Thomas Van Leeuwen

Brianna Vega ’20

Carmen and Pedro Vega P’20

Melissa and Martin Vega P’24

Beverley Dunn Wadsworth ’58

Emily Lawrence Walberg ’03

feet of new fencing, including electrified lines, was installed to create secure boundaries and upgraded paddocks near the barn were built to expand capacity.

Inside the equestrian center, all footing in the Henderson Riding Ring was replaced, providing improved surfaces for training and competition. In addition, the Frank O.H. Williams Barn’s iconic cupolas were rebuilt and freshly painted, preserving both function and tradition. Philanthropy has also provided practical tools for daily operations, including the donation of a utility vehicle that supports fieldwork and horse care.

Louisa and Nicholas Walsh P’29

The Walt Disney Company Foundation

Qiong Wang ’15

Patricia Connors Warrender ’60

Scott M. Watson W’70

Marianne Pettit Watt ’10

Ting Chu-Richardson Waymouth ’05

Jennifer Schnabel Wedemeyer ’82, P’16

Abigail Welch ’20

Noble Welch P’87

Jennifer Wells

Kim Matthews Wheaton ’68

Glenn Shannon Whipple ’54

Nicole Paquet Whitehead ’01

Margaret C. Wierdsma ’18

Lamonda Williams ’87

Bianca Wilson and Robert Logan P’28

Marion Bierwirth Woolam ’69

Mimi Wriedt ’53

Emily and Benjamin Wry P’27, ’29

Lili Xu and Xiangshu Zhu P’28

Xiang Xu and Hanrong Du P’23

Jingyi Yan ’18

Susan Griffin Yonkers ’78

Constance Yu ’26

Alexa Zakaszewski

Weijia Zhang ’17

Beini Zhong ’23

Patricia Zimmerman ’85

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Looking ahead, Walker’s continues to plan future enhancements, including the installation of a sprinkler system in the barn. These improvements not only strengthen the School’s nationally recognized equestrian program but also reflect the deep commitment of the Walker’s community to supporting the care of its horses and the education of its students.

Barn Manager Kristen Blatt reflects, "The addition of the new turnout fields has been a wonderful improvement to Walker’s barn. It has given us the opportunity to provide our school horses with the proper retirement they truly deserve after long and dedicated show careers, followed by their second careers as school horses. The fields have also allowed some of our horses to be turned out in groups, giving them the chance to live more socially and naturally — just as horses are meant to.”

CUMULATIVE

GIVING HONOR

ROLL 2024-2025

The Ethel Walker School honors individuals who have given loyally to the School over a period of time. We salute you for your faithful and stalwart support of Walker’s and its mission.

35+ YEARS

Anne Dobbin Bailliere ’59

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

Constance Lavino Bell ’48, P’72, ’75, GP’12, ’14

Roberta Gerstell Bennett ’53

Suzanne Chapin Berl ’64

Anne and Rodman R. Black, Jr. P’03

Lucia Bryant Blanchard ’65

Sally Schade Bowman ’74

Ann Watson Bresnahan ’69

Whitney A. de Roulet Bullock ’70

Lisa Smith Cashin ’71

Elizabeth Rockwell Cesare

Sarah Gates Colley ’75

Tricia Tourville Dave ’82

Marion Linen Dawson Carr ’58

Susan Nichols Ferriere ’69

Susan Hewitt Fischer ’66

Susan S. Ford ’63

James P. Gorter W’50, P’77

Elizabeth Palmer Higgins ’74

Nancy King Howe ’57

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

Tracey Kammerer ’79

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60

James W. Kinnear W’47, P’69, ’71

Jocelyn Allan Linke ’48

Dorothy Hirsch Loebl ’45

Suzanne Frey Luetkemeyer ’61

Sarah Crosskey Marvin ’81

Martha Bloch McLanahan ’58

Gail Sheppard Moloney ’56

Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55

Leslie Hailand Newman ’66

Kathryn McCarthy Parsons ’75

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Elizabeth Rauch Rainoff ’53

Shannon Young Ray ’80

Alden Calmer Read ’48

Deborah Safford P’81, ’84

Rachael Jenkins Sherrill ’51

Julia Darling Spahr ’61

Susan Storer ’71

J. Randall Furlong Street ’57

Gretchen Swibold P’78

Jane McCurrach Talcott ’54

Helen Potter Wagner ’75

Diana Goss Ward ’47

Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80

30-34 YEARS

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Elizabeth Sivage Clark ’67, P’04

Barbara O. David P’92

Carolyn Foley ’65

Mary Stout Lawrence ’59

Sarah Sneve LeDoux ’78

Jacqueline Mars P’83

Sandra Rohde McNamee ’84

Ruth Cummings Mead ’47

Janet Henning Miller ’68

Jennifer Rodts ’86

Elisabeth Dobbin Sherwood ’57

Nancy Hathaway Steenburg ’68

25-29 YEARS

Susan Bierwirth Arbios ’74

Gabriela Porta Beecher ’91

Margaretta Bredin Brokaw ’66

Gillian Reighley Christensen ’69

Rebecca and G. Munroe Cobey P’01, ’03

Julia Blodgett Curtis ’58

Ruth Harrison Grobe ’69

Margaret Holley ’62

Elizabeth Hanson Lawlor ’71

Meleda Wegner Lowry ’81

Anne Sprole Mauk ’69

Rose Marie and Philip McLoughlin P’98

Laura Mountcastle ’74

Lisa Pagliaro Selz ’69 and Bernard Selz

Emma Simon ’89

Sarah Blair Smith ’70

Katharine Swibold ’78

Vanessa Guerrini-Maraldi Wilcox ’74

20-24 YEARS

Margaret Ashforth ’84

Clarissa and Alan Basch P’15

Anne Crandall Campbell ’78

Christina Dillon Cohen ’85

Clive K. Connor P’05

Mollie Stark Eckelberry ’48, P’82

Lindsay P. N. Flynn ’05

Emily Forman ’02

Shari and Michael Galvin P’14

Kate Crichton Gubelmann ’67

Frieda P. Jacobs ’71

Connie Morales ’92

Constance Bell Moser ’72

Barbara Nash and Patrick Flynn P’05

Kathryn Auchincloss Porter ’54

Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’59

Patricia Kelsey Schultz ’60

Carolyn Stein Shohet ’57

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Joan Gilbert Thayer ’50

15-19 YEARS

Phoebe Haffner Andrew ’56

Betsy Ballenger ’71

Elizabeth Elkinton Barr ’69

Susan Churchill Bowman ’72

Christopher L. Brigham

Virginia Jones Bush ’60

Paulette Castillo ’73

Sage Dunlap Chase ’62

Frances Haffner Colburn ’54

Elizabeth Hubbard Cook ’44

Alicia Couch-Edwards ’07 and John Monagan

Caryl Van Ranst Dearing ’60

Wendy Hodgkins DeLorey ’83 and Christopher J. DeLorey P’20

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Deborah Bard Dewing ’66

Leander Altifois Dolphin ’95, P’24

Cynthia Emerson ’70

Cynthia Smith Evanisko ’71

Mary Melvin Fleming ’75

Lisa Harrington Foote ’72

Louise Gabrielle ’81

Aileen Turnbull Geddes ’56

Mary Fentress Grumhaus ’57

Mary Cobey Hallissey ’01

Lee-Ann and Mitchell Harris P’13

Henrietta Clement Hildebrand ’65

Adrianne Massie Hill ’56

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

Katherine R. Hypolite-MacMannis ’04

Jill Englund Jensen ’72

Anne Kennedy ’80

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69

Anne Wakefield Leck ’62

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05

Leontina Marcotulli ’83

Cecily Chilton Matthai ’77

Sarah-Jane McCarthy ’80, P’21

Glenna McMahon ’93

+Deceased *Met the Match!

Lué McWilliams ’80

Mary Mountcastle ’72

Emily Agnew Nelson ’63

Brittany Coons Noble ’02

Carol Bruenner Parker ’66

Mary Gibbs Piper ’57

Susan Jensen Rawles ’82

Melissa and Thomas Regan P’13

Mary Beth Rettger ’81

Jill Gillette Reydel ’51

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

Emily Rossiter ’96

Pamela Safford ’81

Anne Brainard Schmitt ’64

Deborah Flagg Smith ’85

Robin Hunziker Smith ’73

Bessie and Tom Speers P’16

Katherine Jones Stillwell ’79

Jamiah N. Tappin ’00

Caroline O’Brien Thomas ’84

Karen Thompson ’73

Abigail Trafford ’57

Diana Dyer Watson ’65

Ting Chu-Richardson Waymouth ’05

Terry and Dana Yanaway P’14, ’17

10-14 YEARS

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83

Denise and Chad Alfeld P’19

Je Banach

Talia A. Basch ’15

Seddon Kelly Beaty ’64

Jenny Belknap ’90

Blair Beuttas ’88

Marie Herkert Bogdanovics ’79

Jean Waller Brune GP’17, ’19

Isabel Ceballos P’29

Christine and Kevin Chessen P’17

Karen C. Cook ’73

Sarah Elting Doering ’65

Clarissa Yantis Downey ’53

Mimi and Paul Duran P’18

Mary Gardner Gates ’60

Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00

Beryn Frank Harty ’72

Suzette Scott Hearn ’74

Holly Hulburd ’67

John Johnson

Whitney Williams Jones ’82

Yvette Larrieu ’80

Olivia S. Lovelace ’74

Alexander Lunding

Shelley Marks ’81

Marion Flinn Moulton ’88

Emilee O’Brien ’13

Ann O’Reilly ’80, P’17

Kelly O’Connor Pasciucco ’79 and Gerald Pasciucco

Idabelle Paterson ’17

Marion and Guy Paterson P’17, ’19

Amy and Neil Paul P’16, ’18

Lela Schaus Philip ’79

Esther Pryor ’85

Chelsea B. Regan ’13

Tracey S. Reifler ’82

Corlene Cathcart Rhoades ’82

Ethel Worthington Riley ’35+

Margot Treman Rose ’80

Carol and Martin Ross P’18, ’19

Debbie and Bernard Rosselli P’98

Dorothy Kirmse Scarlett ’70

Barbara Johnston Schechter ’74

Holly and Donald Shanly P’19

Gail and James Shelton P’12

Beth and Christopher E. Strapp P’18, ’21

Elizabeth Sudler ’77

Artemis E. M. Talvat ’14

Eleanor Taylor ’89

Elizabeth Smith van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Meera Viswanathan and Eric Widmer

Gwendolyn Walker ’85

Patricia Connors Warrender ’60

Nicole Paquet Whitehead ’01

Emily R. Wick P’15

Bethany Wood-Leidt and William Leidt P’13

Linda Roberts Zinn ’63 Anonymous

5-9 YEARS

Diana Aixala ’82

Alexandra Flood Alcoff ’94 and Sam Alcoff P’27

Elizabeth Paschal Alrick ’81

Corina Alvarezdelugo

Andrew Ashforth

Kara Ashley P’18

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26

Andrea Baier ’81

Christina Ball ’05

Margaret and Ian T. Ball P’05

Sheriden Beard ’16

Grace Zelinka Becker and Lawrence Becker

Eda E. Bell ’12

Alicia Kelly Benedetto ’97

Monica Sheehan Bennett ’73

Alexandra Bisbee ’82

Margaret H. Bonz

Randi Booth

Barbara Bristol ’67

Claudia Ramsland Burch ’68

Hillary Bush ’86

Nevon Bush ’97

Dorothy Scullin Cabot ’52

Caroline A. Calandro ’14

Merrill Ware Carrington ’68

Elizabeth Swearengen Cerullo ’78

Cheryl Clark Chalmers ’63

Jean Brigham Chant ’82

Samantha F. Chessen ’17

Sarah Chotkowski ’08

Ursula and Everett Clark P’80, ’84

Carol Clark-Flanagan and Thomas M. Flanagan P’93, ’97

Mary Lou Cobb

Shelley Cole ’76

Katherine Rodriguez Colone ’05

Dorothy Ferguson Corbiere ’64

Eve Agush Costarelli ’82

Gwendolyn Couch and

Ned W. Edwards P’07, ’10

Evelyn Carter Cowles ’69

Mally Cox-Chapman ’69

Karen Crowe ’97

Eleanor and Steven Daugherty P’26

Lauren Schwarz Davis ’15

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89

Lorinda Payson de Roulet ’47, P’70

Margaret Shaw Dean ’52

Elisa Del Valle

Susan Ziebarth Delaporte ’75

Sarah House Denby ’72

Mary Jane Levy Dickson ’68

Catherine McKee Donovan ’68

Diane Solomon Doppelt ’75

Colleen and Eric Doshna P’21

Katherine Dresdner ’69

Calista Duggan ’18

Nicole Hart Dunn ’96

Amanda Eastman ’93

Jean Moore Edwards ’69

Ximena Eleta de Sierra ’83

Tanis Higgins Erdmann ’55

Tania Goss Evans ’55

Margaret S. Filoon ’81

Marissa and William Forde P’28, ’31

Pamela Forsyth ’76

Laurel C. L. Gaddis ’18

Ying Gao and Guowei Zhang P’25

Gail Chandler Gaston ’70

Elizabeth Gemmill ’63

Nancy Cisco Gilbert ’72

Shelley Rea Gilbert ’65

Susan Kleinhans Gilbertson ’53

Kerri and Josh Glass P’14

Madison S. Glass ’14

Sam Gonzalez ’13

Lisa Weber Greenberg ’76

Nicole T. Gregory ’13

Antoinette Sickles

Guerrini-Maraldi ’49, P’74

+Deceased

Leslie Bucklin Haines ’61

Dolly Hall ’78

Lisa Lorillard Halsted ’77

Ann C. Madonia Hamm ’84

Allison L. Harris ’13

Kimberly Harris-Thacker and David Thacker P’24, ’27

Martha Hedgpeth ’71

Jennifer Hermann ’78

Laura and George V. Hicks P’10

Mackenzie Hine ’16

Alicia Little Hodge ’01

Elisabeth Allen Holland ’83

Richard Hulme P’25

Toan Huynh ’93

Nishette Isaac

Susan Lins Jackson ’66, P’93

Windy Black Jansen ’03

Carol Hoffman Jason ’75

Emily Eckelberry Johnson ’82

Sarah Johnson ’78, P’10

Tammy and Christopher Johnson P’22

Jillian Jones ’19

Jill Keffer-Crowe ’82

Catherine T. Kenney ’84 and Michael Vogel P’25, ’28

Margaret Prizer Kenny ’63

Gurukirn Khalsa ’69

Patricia and Henry D. Krupnikoff P’23

Mona Lake P’23

Margaret Lamb ’87

Linda and Kenny Langmeier

Judith Scott Larsen ’67

Caroline Baldwin Lewis ’67

Nancyrose Logan and David Rakyta P’96

Megan Rosidivito Lyczak ’03

Jan Mactier ’68

Meg S. Mahoney

Eliza David Massaro ’92

Deborah and Geoffrey R. McConnell P’98

Beth McGuinness ’88

Elisabeth Holmes McKean ’83

Margaret E. Meinert ’88

Charlotte Meyer ’64

Rebecca and Terrence Milka P’08

Megan Rogers Miller ’76

Rebecca Morris ’19

Dinah Bortz Moyer ’78

Pamela Webster Murphy ’94

Susan Kinnear Neul ’71

Kristin F. Nicolle

Kimberley Smith Niles ’68

Ashley Lickle O’Neil ’78

Cassandra Sperry Ordway ’80

Gretchen Orschiedt

Emma Paterson ’19

Holly E. Paul ’18

Jeanette C. Pelizzon ’07

Veda Pendleton ’75

Jeanette Poillon ’75

Patricia Onderdonk Pruett

Katherine R. Richardson ’14

Evelyn Lisle Rooney ’56

Rachael S. Rosselli ’98 and Andrew Haynie

Brice Barry Russian ’89

Molly and Thomas Rutledge

Nancy and John Sabol GP’20

Barbara Safford P’81, ’84

Thomas Salvatore P’22

Sydney C. Satchell ’10

Mary Bebel Schinke ’81

Margaret Schwartz ’02

Deborah Seaman ’71

Sandra Lipson Sears ’57

Christopher Semk

Lucinda Atkins Sheffield ’82

Tracey Flach Shiel ’82

Leslie and Steven Silverman P’15

Karen Simmons Rose ’82

Elizabeth Cobey Simonton ’03

H. Catherine Skinner P’82

Cheri Soule

Lynn Staley and Martin Linsky

Tania Whitman Stepanian ’60

Clara Perkins Stites ’60

Amy Storrow ’81

Janet Stott ’66

Caroline M. Strapp ’18

Linda Strohmeyer P’21

Andrea Coggins Toivakka ’06

Shauna Turnbull ’85

Brianna Vega ’20

Carmen and Pedro Vega P’20

Melissa and Martin Vega P’24

Emiliana Vegas ’85

Nancy Mack von Euler ’79

Beverley Dunn Wadsworth ’58

Emily Lawrence Walberg ’03

Linda Trimingham Warriner ’61

Deana Washburn ’80

Jennifer Schnabel Wedemeyer ’82, P’16

Elizabeth Wright Wempe ’86

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82 and Charles D. Wetmore P’18

Eliza Wetmore ’18

Shari and Albert Wong P’26

Marion Bierwirth Woolam ’69

Susan Foster Work ’63

Mimi Wriedt ’53

Jingyi Yan ’18

Sierra J. Yanaway ’14

Teresa C. Younger

Anonymous (2)

Student leaders during Opening Days

With the extraordinary generosity of an alumna and her husband, Walker’s community had an opportunity to bring in an additional $2.5 million in matching funds for our beloved School! Your generosity was historic!

THE ANNUAL FUND FOR WALKER’S TOTAL DOLLARS RAISED

A HISTORIC GIVING YEAR WITH

$11,786,860

141 NEW DONORS JULY 1, 2024–JUNE 30, 2025 GIVING YEAR

901 TOTAL DONORS

If a donor gave a new or increased gift of $250 or more based on their summary of giving from the previous year, their donation was eligible for a matching gift.

$250+ NEW OR INCREASED DONATION QUALIFYING AS A MATCHED GIFT

$801,671 MATCHED DOLLARS 246 DONORS WITH MATCHED GIFT THANK YOU, WALKER’S COMMUNITY!

$2,353,455 TOTAL IMPACT (GIFTS PLUS MATCHED AMOUNT)

REUNION AT WALKER’S

In May 2025, we welcomed over 130 alumnae and former faculty back to campus for Reunion Weekend to celebrate class years ending in 5 and 0.

The weekend — which was led by our Reunion Tri-Chairs Helen Potter Wagner ’75, Amanda Pitman ’90, and April Bolton Mwangi ’00 — was a beautiful celebration of friendship, tradition, and new beginnings. Attendees from the Classes of 1955 through 2020 connected with one another and their school through special traditions such as the third Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Alumnae Ride, Reunion Chapel, awards banquet, and Ba-Na-Na dance party. Attendees were also welcome to participate in engaging activities and events across campus, such as history walks, master classes, the State of the School address, an alumnae and student lacrosse game, a Walker’s Women of Color conversation, and a TedX: Walker’s Women in the World panel.

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

The Ethel Walker School Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes those who, as student-athletes, coaches, teams, or contributors, have played a significant role in the success of the athletics program and, in so doing, have shown a consistent commitment to honoring their sport.

Hooray Sunray to our 2025 inductees: Mary Willcox Knapp ’44+, Ruthann Bowers ’80, Lee Fantasia Burns ’90, and Sydney Satchell ’10!

Do you know an athlete who should be honored for their achievements at Walker’s and beyond? Submit your Athletics Hall of Fame nomination by December 1, 2025 for Class of 2026 consideration. Nominations are reviewed throughout the year.

MARGOT TREMAN ROSE ’80 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNAE AWARD

The Margot Treman Rose 1980 Distinguished Alumnae Award is The Ethel Walker School’s highest honor. It is presented to graduates of the School who best exemplify Margot Rose’s attributes, ensuring that her work, dedication, and influence will be remembered now and always. When awarded, it honors alumnae who, by their devotion and talent, elevate the work of their profession, influence their community, or give extraordinary service to their School.

Many congratulations to our 2025 recipients: Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55, Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80, Mimi Gardner Gates ’60, Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60, and Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60!

2024-2025 REUNION AWARDS

THE GATES FAMILY BOWL

Established in 2002 by Trustee Emerita Sarah Gates Colley ’75 in honor of her parents, John and Christine Gates, and her family’s longstanding relationship with The Ethel Walker School. The bowl is awarded to the Reunion Class that raises a gift of $100,000 or more.

Congratulations and thank you to the Classes of 1960 and 1975!

THE TERESE TREMAN WILLIAMS ’55 BOWL

Established in 2000 in recognition of Former Trustee Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80’s remarkable, generous, and dedicated achievements on behalf of Walker’s. The bowl is awarded to the Reunion Class(es) that raises a gift to the Annual Fund for Walker’s between $75,000 and $99,999. This bowl was not awarded in 2025.

THE CLASS OF 1944 BOWL

Established in 1994 and awarded to the Reunion Class(es) that raises a gift to the Annual Fund for Walker’s between $50,000 and $74,999. This bowl was not awarded in 2025.

THE ELIZABETH NASH MUENCH ’55 TRAY

Awarded annually to the Reunion Class(es) that have achieved the highest level of participation in the Annual Fund for Walker’s by Reunion Weekend.

Congratulations to the Classes of 1955 and 1960!

THE ALUMNAE BOARD SOCIAL ACTION AWARD

During Prize Night, the Alumnae Association awards the Alumnae Board Social Action Award to seniors who “have demonstrated a concern for issues of social inequality and have acted on their concerns through actively promoting awareness or participating in community service, activism, or social entrepreneurship intended to advance positive social change.”

Congratulations to our Class of 2025 recipients: Max Kaiser, Val Lawson, and Luran (Amy) Yu!

SUNDIAL BOWL

Awarded each year to the class with the largest percentage of classmates registered for Reunion Weekend.

Congratulations to the Class of 2015!

LONG DISTANCE AWARD

Presented each year to the attendee who, based on their home address, lives the farthest away from Simsbury, Connecticut. This year’s recipient was Sally Mason Ellison ’55, who traveled 3,110 miles from Portola Valley, California!

ALUMNAE DONORS BY CLASS YEAR

The alumnae of The Ethel Walker School are the backbone of our giving program. Their loyalty to their alma mater is shown through their generous donations. We gratefully acknowledge and thank our alumnae wholeheartedly for all that they do for their School.

Tania Goss Evans

Valerie Stoddard Loring

Elizabeth Nash Muench

Ethel Worthington Riley+

1944

Elizabeth Hubbard Cook

Sarah Skinner Hart

1945 REUNION!

Dorothy Hirsch Loebl

Payne W. Middleton+

1946

Joan Berg Mullen

Ruth Cummings Mead

Lorinda Payson de Roulet

Diana Goss Ward

Constance Lavino Bell

Mollie Stark Eckelberry

Jocelyn Allan Linke

Alexandra Potts Pool

Suzette Spitzer King

Alden Calmer Read

1949

Antoinette Sickles Guerrini-Maraldi

Joan Thayer

Letitia McClure Potter

Terese Treman Williams

Anne Austin Mazlish+

Rachael Jenkins Sherrill

Jill Gillette Reydel

Dorothy Scullin Cabot

Margaret Shaw Dean 1953

Roberta Gerstell Bennett

Clarissa Yantis Downey

Susan Kleinhans Gilbertson

Diana Waud Kruglick+

Winnie Crane Mackey

Elizabeth Rauch Rainoff

Mimi Wriedt

Frances Haffner Colburn

Ann Higbie Eckrich

Kathryn Auchincloss Porter

Jane McCurrach Talcott

Glenn Shannon Whipple

Carol Large Calhoun

Jenny Stewart Chandler

Sally Mason Ellison

Tanis Higgins Erdmann

Phoebe Haffner Andrew

Aileen Turnbull Geddes

Adrianne Massie Hill

Gail Sheppard Moloney

Evelyn Lisle Rooney

1957

Mary Fentress Grumhaus

Nancy King Howe

Laurie Mack McBride

Sandra Lipson Sears

Elisabeth Dobbin Sherwood

Carolyn Stein Shohet

J. Randall Furlong Street

Abigail Trafford 1958

Marion Linen Dawson Carr

Julia Blodgett Curtis

Cicily Warren Hajek

Martha Bloch McLanahan

Beverley Dunn Wadsworth

1959

Lea Osborne Angell

Anne Dobbin Bailliere

Carroll Morgan Carpenter

Roberta Downs Houghton

Lucy Rosenberry Jones

Mary Stout Lawrence

Sally Chapin Levin

Lynn Sheppard Manger

Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt

1960

ANNUAL

REUNION!

Margot Campbell Bogert

Christy Hoffman Brown

Virginia Jones Bush

Caryl Van Ranst Dearing

Harriet Blees Dewey

Phyllis Richard Fritts

Mary Gardner Gates

Anna Johnson

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg

Mary Ann Shoenberg Margaretten

Patricia Kelsey Schultz

Tania Whitman Stepanian

Clara Perkins Stites

Patricia Connors Warrender

Abra Prentice Wilkin

1961

Leslie Kelly Cutler

Miranda Sampsell Donnelley

Leslie Bucklin Haines

Suzanne Frey Luetkemeyer

Alice Kerr Moorhead

Robin Gorham Sedgwick

Julia Darling Spahr

Linda Trimingham Warriner

1962

ANNUAL

Linda Hale Bucklin

Sage Dunlap Chase

Sarah Bryant Dean

Margaret Holley

Anne Wakefield Leck

1963

Susan Arnold

Robin Frost Bessin

Cheryl Clark Chalmers

Susan S. Ford

Elizabeth Gemmill

Elizabeth Jack Ghriskey

Margaret Prizer Kenny

Alyssa Levy

Emily Agnew Nelson

Susan Foster Work

Linda Roberts Zinn

1964

Lynn Allegaert

Seddon Kelly Beaty

Suzanne Chapin Berl

Dorothy Ferguson Corbiere

Linda Walker Fuerst

Charlotte Meyer

Elizabeth Yinkey Moore

Suzanne Phillips

Cynthia Higgins Roby

Anne Brainard Schmitt

Haydee Diaz-Camacho von Sternberg

Anne Fuller Wall

1965 REUNION!

Lucia Bryant Blanchard

Sarah Elting Doering

Carolyn Foley

Shelley Rea Gilbert

Henrietta Clement Hildebrand

Judith Coburn Klein

Diana Dyer Watson Anonymous

1966

Frances Beatty Adler

Margaretta Bredin Brokaw

Deborah Bard Dewing

Patricia Tierney Falkenhagen

Susan Hewitt Fischer

Wells Downey Hamilton

Susan Lins Jackson

Leslie Hailand Newman

Carol Bruenner Parker

Janet Stott

1967

Cynthia Johnston Alexander

Barbara Bristol

Elizabeth Sivage Clark

Frances Beinecke Elston

Margaret Gray

Holly Hulburd

Judith Scott Larsen

Caroline Baldwin Lewis

Wendy French Nolan

Julie Lange Peyton 1968

Claudia Ramsland Burch

Merrill Ware Carrington

Ann Stone Costello

Mary Jane Levy Dickson

Catherine McKee Donovan

Jan Mactier

Janet Henning Miller

Kimberley Smith Niles

June Wyer Nugent

Nancy Hathaway Steenburg

Kim Matthews Wheaton

Anne Coit Williams 1969

Barbara Arnold

Elizabeth Elkinton Barr

Ann Watson Bresnahan

Gillian Reighley Christensen

Mary Laub Cowan

Evelyn Carter Cowles

Mally Cox-Chapman

Katherine Dresdner

Jean Moore Edwards

Susan Nichols Ferriere

Ruth Harrison Grobe

Barbara Thomas Kennedy

Gurukirn Khalsa

Anne Sprole Mauk

Jane Shanholt Sacasa

Lisa Pagliaro Selz

Pennell Whitney

Marion Bierwirth Woolam

1970 REUNION!

Allison Snyder Brates

Whitney A. de Roulet Bullock

Elise Burns

Catharine Conway Coleman

Cynthia Emerson

Gail Chandler Gaston

Kathleen McCombe

Dorothy Kirmse Scarlett

Nina McCullough Sidley

Sarah Blair Smith

Tina Tiedtke

+Deceased

CARRYING FORWARD A LEGACY

ALISON MCCALL ’72 AND HER PHILANTHROPY AT WALKER’S

When Former Trustee Alison McCall ’72 reflects on her time at The Ethel Walker School, she often thinks about what she wishes she had learned — especially about money.

“I knew how to balance my checkbook, but that’s all,” she recalls.

“I kept wishing I had been pushed more in that arena.” Today, her philanthropy to Walker’s ensures that current students have the financial literacy skills she longed for as a girl.

Alison’s father, Julien Lachicotte McCall, was a banker, a Walker’s trustee and a man devoted to numbers. Even at 100, he was still balancing his checkbook by hand and preparing his own tax returns. “My father was always concerned about financial literacy,” Alison explains. “He would be thrilled that the girls are learning about the stock market, doing tax returns, and understanding real financial responsibilities.”

Inspired by conversations with Head of School Dr. Meera Viswanathan, Alison felt a spark. She saw in Walker’s Capabilities Approach, and its focus on financial literacy, an opportunity to carry forward her father’s values and extend his legacy. Through her family foundation — which stems from her father’s foundation — she has directed support to Walker’s in the form of The McCall Endowed Fund for Financial Education, ensuring that today’s students gain the knowledge and confidence she lacked.

Alison’s gift is deeply personal. It connects her father’s passion for teaching responsibility through numbers with her own commitment to preparing the next generation of girls. It also reflects the continuity of service her family has given to Walker’s: from her father’s trusteeship to her own philanthropy. “In a way, he was supporting it,” she says. “That makes it feel even more meaningful.”

Outside of her philanthropy, Alison’s career has been vibrant and creative. An art history major at Mount Holyoke, she worked in New York City as an interior designer and events producer. She helped organize Madison Square Garden’s 100th anniversary celebration and was part of the team that restored Radio City Music Hall to its former glory.

Now, as she looks at the opportunities available to Walker’s students, she sees something even greater than the dazzling events she once created. “Girls today have more options when they graduate,” she says. “They are more confident about a variety of areas.” Thanks to Alison McCall’s generosity, Walker’s girls will also have the financial skills and confidence to navigate their futures with strength and independence.

1971

Patricia Holmboe Atwood

Betsy Ballenger

Lisa Smith Cashin

Cynthia Elliott

Cynthia Smith Evanisko

Martha Hedgpeth

Frieda P. Jacobs

Elizabeth Hanson Lawlor

Kathleen MacNaughton

Susan Kinnear Neul

Jane Orndahl

Deborah Seaman

Susan Storer

1972

Cynthia Anderson-Barker

Susan Churchill Bowman

Karen Brooks

Sarah House Denby

Lisa Harrington Foote

Nancy Cisco Gilbert

Kathryn Loomis Harris

Beryn Frank Harty

Jill Englund Jensen

Aimee Gilleaudeau Lundy

Alison McCall

Constance Bell Moser

Mary Mountcastle

Deidra Roach-Quarles

Roberta Roll

Catherine Clark Shopneck

Ruth Streeter

1973

Monica Sheehan Bennett

Paulette Castillo

Karen C. Cook

Jessica Smith James

Ellen Morrissey

Audrey Nevins

Elizabeth O’Brien Paxton

Robin Hunziker Smith

Karen Thompson

Laura Maver Ward

1974

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION 19%

ANNUAL FUND GIVING

$5,338

RESTRICTED GIVING $100,000

Susan Bierwirth Arbios

Sally Schade Bowman

Suzette Scott Hearn

Elizabeth Palmer Higgins

Lisa Kruidenier

Darby Tench Leicht

Olivia S. Lovelace

Laura Mountcastle

Gunnel Orndahl

Barbara Johnston Schechter

Vanessa Guerrini-Maraldi Wilcox

1975 REUNION!

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION

GIVING

GIVING $30,000

Sarah Gates Colley

Susan Ziebarth Delaporte

Diane Solomon Doppelt

Katharine Beadle Eikenberry

Mary Melvin Fleming

Hilary Walker Hotchkiss

Helen Bryan Hubbard

Carol Hoffman Jason

Teal Spencer Lindsay

Kathryn McCarthy Parsons

Veda Pendleton

Jeanette Poillon

Deborah Mercer Ribas

Catherine Munson Rogerson

Margaret Broadus Saling

Deborah Bell Spoehel

Sarah Royce Stevenson

Helen Potter Wagner

1976

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION

Ruth Banta

Shelley Cole

Pamela Forsyth

Lisa Weber Greenberg

Jenny Engles Johnson

Megan Rogers Miller

Julia Mailliard Nelson

Anne Lacouture Penniman

Jennifer Smith

Larke Woods Wheeler

1977

ANNUAL

ANNUAL

Juliet Ward Flood

Lisa Lorillard Halsted

Suzanne Hartt

Nancy Smith Klos

Mary Gorter Krey

Cecily Chilton Matthai

Lillian Irani Mueller

Barbara Merlin Neal

Patricia O’Reilly

Elizabeth Sudler

Elizabeth Smith van Gemeren

Hilary Thornton

Bathsheba Veghte

Anonymous

1978

Ellen Krimmel Besobrasov

Anne Crandall Campbell

Elizabeth Swearengen Cerullo

Dolly Hall

Jennifer Hermann

Frances Hughes

Sarah E. Johnson

Sarah Sneve LeDoux

Alline Matheson

Kimberly Brown Morrow

Dinah Bortz Moyer

Ashley Lickle O’Neil

Margaret Palmer

Annabelle Reid

Christine Gibbons Roberts

Laura MacIntyre Shaw

Katharine Swibold

Ana Cutillas Walker

Susan Griffin Yonkers

1979

Mary Ann Kelly MacDonald

Dar Reimer Barrett

Karen Polcer Bdera

Marie Herkert Bogdanovics

Vickery Brewer

Lisa Danforth Hurst

Tracey Kammerer

Dana Carter Lange

Kemble Lickle O’Donnell

Kelly O’Connor Pasciucco

Mary Derbyshire Petty

Lela Schaus Philip

Katherine Jones Stillwell

Catherine Terry Taylor

Jane-Byrd Wiley Terlizzi

Nancy Mack von Euler 1980

Tracey Mueller Biedron

Emily Davis-Knight

Stephanie Davison

Anne Kennedy

Yvette Larrieu

Sarah-Jane McCarthy

Lué McWilliams

Ann O’Reilly

Cassandra Sperry Ordway

Martha Nevins Pawasarat

Shannon Young Ray

Margot Treman Rose

Susan Knapp Thomas

Deana Washburn

1981

Elizabeth Paschal Alrick

Andrea Baier

McCall Watson Eng

Margaret S. Filoon

Louise Gabrielle

Anne Herr

Deborah Loven-Gray

Meleda Wegner Lowry

Shelley Marks

Sarah Crosskey Marvin

Mary Beth Rettger

Pamela Safford

Mary Bebel Schinke

Amy Storrow +Deceased

1982

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION 36%

ANNUAL FUND GIVING

$130,240

RESTRICTED GIVING $3,023

Diana Aixala

Alexandra Bisbee

Jean Brigham Chant

Eve Agush Costarelli

Mary Coyne

Tricia Tourville Dave

Ashley Bourne Dewey

Emily Eckelberry Johnson

Whitney Williams Jones

Jill Keffer-Crowe

Sandra Price

Susan Jensen Rawles

Tracey S. Reifler

Corlene Cathcart Rhoades

Katharine O’Brien Rohn

Karen Simmons Rose

Lucinda Atkins Sheffield

Tracey Flach Shiel

Thalassa Skinner

Jamie Patterson Valentine

Cynthia T. Vega

Jennifer Schnabel Wedemeyer

Leila Howland Wetmore

Hooey Stewart Wilks

1983

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION 22%

ANNUAL FUND GIVING

RESTRICTED GIVING

Alexandra Badger Airth

Lilli Bieler Biedermann

Catherine Conrad

Ana Consuegra Cummins

Wendy Hodgkins DeLorey

Ximena Eleta de Sierra

Elisabeth Allen Holland

Leontina Marcotulli

Elisabeth Holmes McKean

Larcia Premo

Laura Scott

Elizabeth Arienti Sloane

Ann Boland Strachan

1984

$105,663

$5,405,802

1985 REUNION!

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION

Elizabeth Pryor Bradley

Christina Dillon Cohen

Alexandra de Casteja Mahony

Esther Pryor

Deborah Flagg Smith

Robin Raff Taylor

Shauna Turnbull

Emiliana Vegas

Gwendolyn Walker

Patricia Zimmerman

1986

Hillary Bush

Alison Carlin Carrabba

Jennifer Rodts

Claudia Mesch Smith

Elizabeth Wright Wempe 1987

Josey Ballenger

Lorna Hickerson

Lizbeth Licopantis King

Margaret Lamb

Kathryn Spector Lasater

Amy Diana Natalicchio

Julia Wilcox

Lamonda Williams 1988

Blair Beuttas

Nichelle Davidson

Constance Mellon Kapp

Melissa Jackson Loree

Beth McGuinness

Margaret E. Meinert

Marion Flinn Moulton

ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION 13% ANNUAL FUND

Margaret Ashforth

Laurann L. Claridge

Ann C. Madonia Hamm

Catherine T. Kenney

Sandra Rohde McNamee

Suzanne Safford

Caroline O’Brien Thomas

Jennifer Alter Abt

Stacey Lombardo DiPiazza

Fiona de Kerckhove

Brice Barry Russian

Emma Simon

Eleanor Taylor

Anonymous

Jenny Belknap

Stephanie Bothwell Grillo

Amy Melnicsak

Amanda Pitman

Kerry Scott Pokorny

Brooke Gaffney Redmond

Gabriela Porta Beecher

Karinna Perez-Rubio Levy

Kerry Heneghan Tharpe

Gigi Henriquez de Cardoze

Eliza David Massaro

Connie Morales

Whitley Ram Schoeny

Allison Joyner Brown

Amanda Eastman

Patricia J. Haigh

Mimi Morrison Harrison

Toan Huynh

Glenna McMahon

Alexandra Flood Alcoff

Kirsten Eckelmeyer

Carryll Hua

Pamela Webster Murphy

Leander Altifois Dolphin

Marsha Hughes

Sejal Patel Mitra

Dwana Parkes

Jessica Bartolini Patras

Nicole Lewenson Shargel

Pamela Bennett Skinner

Michelle Soderburg

Alexandra Tamutus

1996

Nicole Hart Dunn

Emily Rossiter

1997

Alicia Kelly Benedetto

Nevon Bush

Karen Crowe

Katherine Flanagan Shoss

1998

ANNUAL

Brooke Berescik-Johns

Erin Shupenis Ellis

Rachael S. Rosselli

Jennifer Soderburg

1999

Nicole Madison Chan

Sara Esthus

Frances Lee

Joanna Holdredge Seaver

2000 REUNION! ANNUAL

Bonnie A. Ewald

Samara M. Khalique Grove

Crystal Kay

Sara Lavery

Kara Lucht

Emily B. Cole-Chu MacSwain

April Bolton Mwangi

Amy H. Neidlinger

Lauren Schmidt Nowicki

Kristin Decker Somerville

Jamiah N. Tappin

2001

Mary Cobey Hallissey

Margo Hanlan

Alicia Little Hodge

Erica Ohanesian Lamson

Nicole Paquet Whitehead

2002

Emily Forman

Holly Guzman

Brittany Coons Noble

Margaret Schwartz

2003

Thara Mathews Alexander

Windy Black Jansen

Megan Rosidivito Lyczak

Elizabeth Cobey Simonton

Emily Lawrence Walberg

2004

Averill Blackburn

Katherine R. Hypolite-MacMannis

Kristen Lashnits McGowan

2005 REUNION!

Christina Ball

Katherine Rodriguez Colone

Lindsay P. N. Flynn

Meredythe Goethe

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner

Ting Chu-Richardson Waymouth

2006

Emily Sappington

Andrea Coggins Toivakka

2007

Alicia Couch-Edwards

Elizabeth van Gemeren

Jeanette C. Pelizzon

Kelly Tran 2008

Sarah Chotkowski

Silvia Manent

2009

Spencer L. Cook

Lisa Howard-Sorrell

Brennan A. Maine

Elenor D. van Gemeren

2010 REUNION!

Ariella N. Freund Bareket

Miisha S. Jones

Caroline R. Kieltyka

Sydney C. Satchell

Alexis A. Stephan

Marianne Pettit Watt

2011

Ashleigh N. Stephan

2012

Eda E. Bell

Michelle E. Coster

Kayla A. Monroe

Dele R. Odumosu

2013

Sam Gonzalez

Nicole T. Gregory

Allison L. Harris

Emilee O’Brien

Chelsea B. Regan

2014

Caroline A. Calandro

Elizabeth S. Davis

Madison S. Glass

Katherine R. Richardson

Artemis Talvat

Sierra J. Yanaway

+Deceased

ANNUAL REPORT OF PHILANTHROPY

2015 REUNION!

ANNUAL

ANNUAL

RESTRICTED GIVING

Talia A. Basch

Ece Bidav

Lauren Schwarz Davis

Claire Graham

Chun Li

Caroline E. Olesh

Angela M. Peavy

Eleanor Ross

Nicole E. Rusch

Kayla I. Scinto

Qiong Wang

Sumner C. Wick

2016

Sheriden Beard

Mackenzie Hine

Justine J. Kieltyka

Georgia C. Paul

Eleanor S. Speers

2017

Emily I. Cazares

Samantha F. Chessen

Awele N. Chukwura

Idabelle Paterson

Weijia Zhang

2018 ANNUAL

Margaret Ashley

Calista Duggan

Adaline Dean Friedlander

Laurel C. L. Gaddis

Holly E. Paul

Caroline M. Strapp

Eliza Wetmore

Margaret C. Wierdsma

Jingyi Yan

2019

Jillian Jones

Isabella Manganiello

Rebecca Morris

Emma Paterson

Emily Ross

2020 REUNION!

Jada Adams

Brooke DeLorey

Nicole Macari

Mollie Morrison

Brianna Vega

Abigail Welch

2021

2022

C. Ridgley

2023

Lauren Krupnikoff

Juliet Legassa

Sarah Shaw

Beini Zhong

2024

Chenxi Xiang

PARENT, GRANDPARENT, AND GUARDIAN DONORS

Each year, families of students and alumnae show their resounding support of The Ethel Walker School through their generous giving. Their appreciation of the School affirms our mission and ensures the continuation of Walker’s premier education.

CURRENT PARENTS

Nura Abdul-Karim and Salih Abdur-Rahman P’29

Alexandra Flood Alcoff ’94 and Sam Alcoff P’27

Maria Alulema P’25

Junli An and Lingyun Zhou P’28

Katharine and Matthew Atkinson P’28

Carolina and Will Atwood P’26, ’30

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26

Susan and William Bardel P’27

Emily and Andrew Bedell P’26

Deanna Briggs and Nicolas Ramkowsky P’25

Alexandra Browne P’27

Amber and Jeremiah Burrow P’28

Qun Cao and Wenkui Liang P’28

Summer and Kevin Carney P’27

Jennifer Cavallari and Daniel Durkin P’27

Isabel Ceballos P’29

Yan Chang and Zicai Wu P’25

Jing Chen and Yunping Xu P’26

Maanavi Chendanda and Bejan Shirvani P’30

Jessica and Edward Chicoski P’30, ’31

Saeeun Choi P’25

Michelle Class P’28

Sofia and Alan Cooper P’29

Kaiyu Dang and Zhijiang Guo P’27

Eleanor and Steven Daugherty P’26

Margaret and George Davis P’26

Muhisoni Donavine P’29

Ashley and Ryan Dorin P’29, ’31

Sara and Daniel English P’27

Kristen and Antonio Fernandez P’26

Alescia C. Ford P’28

Marissa and William Forde P’28, ’31

Ying Gao and Guowei Zhang P’25

Catherine and Justin Gervais P’30

Samara H. and Andrew Ginsburg P’29

Meghan and Eric Girard P’31, ’32

Tiffany and Douglas Glanville P’30

Catherine Grant-Alston and Reginald Alston P’28

Sarah Gray and Tom van Loben Sels P’29

Yinghua Guo and Jian Ma P’28

Kimberly Harris-Thacker and David Thacker P’24, ’27

Mimi Morrison Harrison ’93 and John Harrison P’26

Kyra and Rob Hartnett P’26

Melissa and Jesse Hayes P’25, ’27

Yijin He and Jianxian Wang P’25

Nancy and Frank Hemmerich III P’27

Richard Hulme P’25

Mandy and Juan Luis Jaramillo P’30

Lauren and Philip Jones P’27

Jennifer Kawaja P’30

Annie Keating-Scherer and Adam Scherer P’30

Kerry and Paul Kendall P’30

Catherine T. Kenney ’84 and Michael Vogel P’25, ’28

Stella and Christopher Kessel P’28

Elizabeth Kueffner Koors P’27

Hyojeong Lee and Michael Mulcahy P’26

Yue Li and Musong Cheng P’25

Jiajie Lin and Zhishan Li P’28

Carolyn Lanuza Lui and Eddy Lui P’26

Jessica and Geoffrey Luxenberg P’29

Allison and Graham Mattison P’27

Christina and Mark D. Meador P’25

Megan Mehr and Andreas Mang P’29

Jessica Meyer and Jason Pope P’29

Blair and Christopher Miller P’26

Tammi Morton P’25

Rosaline Ng and Luk Man Li P’25

Nina and Markus Nolff P’29

Jenifer and William O’Keefe P’27

Elizabeth and Andrew Parks P’27

Suzanne Piela P’22, ’28

Julie Retzlaff and Whitney Flood P’27

Dana and Craig Riendeau P’26

Lisa and Piyum Samaraweera P’26

Kelli and Scott Schlesinger P’26

Gina Scinto P’29

Lorna and Anthony Smith P’28

Lisa and Scott Spencer P’27

Arzu and Carlos Stetzelberg P’23, ’26

Christine and Robert Stirt P’27

Allison and Timothy Sullivan P’27

Kelly and Hamburg Tang P’27

Lin Tao and Deming Yang P’27

Catherine Taylor P’30

Julianna J. Thompson and Joseph Capozzoli P’26, ’29

Lisa and Christopher Thompson P’26

Sheila and Michael Toto P’26

Louisa and Nicholas Walsh P’29

Michaelynn Ware and Thomas Miller P’28, ’29

Brenda and Orwin Watson P’31

Bianca Wilson and Robert Logan P’28

Shari and Albert Wong P’26

Emily and Benjamin Wry P’27, ’29

Jing Xie and Duan Liang P’27

Lili Xu and Xiangshu Zhu P’28

Xinyi Yao P’27

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

Yanzhi Zhang and Futian Ye P’28

Yufeng Zhang and Guo Xiang He P’28

Hong Zhao and Lei Chen P’27

Xuhong Zhao and Ruiyuan Sun P’26

Yan Zhao and GuoPing Shen P’26

Xuefen Zheng and Caijun Xu P’27

Jennifer and Jeffrey Zirbel P’25, ’27

ALUMNAE PARENTS

Denise and Chad Alfeld P’19

Kara Ashley P’18

David H. Badger P’83

Margaret and Ian T. Ball P’05

Jan and John R. Barr P’04

Allison Barringer P’13

Clarissa and Alan Basch P’15

Lawrence E. Bathgate II P’90

Constance Lavino Bell ’48, P’72, ’75, GP’12, ’14

Anne and Rodman R. Black, Jr. P’03

Karen Brooks ’72, P’03

Elizabeth A. Brucker P’95

Judith and Alan Bush P’86

Carroll Morgan Carpenter ’59, P’68

Christine and Kevin Chessen P’17

Paula Chu and Laura Danforth P’05

Elizabeth Sivage Clark ’67, P’04

Ursula and Everett Clark P’80, ’84

Carol Clark-Flanagan and Thomas M. Flanagan P’93, ’97

Rebecca and G. Munroe Cobey P’01, ’03

Angela Coggins P’06

Janet Cohen P’93, GP’15, ’16, ’18, ’20, ’21

Clive K. Connor P’05

Marie and Henry R. Coons P’02

Gwendolyn Couch and Ned W. Edwards P’07, ’10

Barbara O. David P’92

Sharon and John B. Davies P’96, ’00

Lorinda Payson de Roulet ’47, P’70

Wendy Hodgkins DeLorey ’83 and Christopher J. DeLorey P’20

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Leander Altifois Dolphin ’95, P’24

Colleen and Eric Doshna P’21

Mimi and Paul Duran P’18

Mollie Stark Eckelberry ’48, P’82

Danielle and Scott D. Edwardson P’24

Lori-Jean and Wayne P. Foster P’17

Ashley Gaddis P’18

Shari and Michael Galvin P’14

Kerri and Josh Glass P’14

Beatriz and Andres Gonzalez P’24

James P. Gorter W’50, P’77

Antoinette Sickles

Guerrini-Maraldi ’49, P’74

Lee-Ann and Mitchell Harris P’13

Kimberly Harris-Thacker and David Thacker P’24, ’27

Laura and George V. Hicks P’10

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

Linda and Iain Howard-Sorrell P’09

Anne E. Hull P’79, ’85

Judith and Thomas Iovino P’99

Susan Lins Jackson ’66, P’93

Karen and Ralph Jacob P’00

Hye Jeon and Seong Jo P’15, ’18

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10

Tammy and Christopher Johnson P’22

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

James W. Kinnear W’47, P’69, ’71

Patricia and Henry D. Krupnikoff P’23

Mona Lake P’23

Nilda and Ariel Legassa P’23

Ying Li and Wendong Xu P’15

Anne and Michael G. Licopantis P’84, ’87

Nancyrose Logan and David Rakyta P’96

Laurie J. MacAlpine P’08

Colleen and Robert Magnus P’20

Angela W. Maine P’09

Jacqueline Mars P’83

Sarah-Jane McCarthy ’80, P’21

Deborah and Geoffrey R. McConnell P’98

Patricia McCurdy-Crescimanno and Terry Crescimanno P’08, ’13

Amie Rappoport McKenna and Stephen V. McKenna P’24

Rose Marie and Philip McLoughlin P’98

Patricia and Omar Meguid P’17

Henry D. Mercer, Jr. P’75, ’78

Amy Merselis P’23

John Merselis P’23

Rebecca and Terrence Milka P’08

Lucille and Lane Morrison P’93, GP’26

Lisa and Jeffrey A. Moss P’09

Catherine and Michael Nartey-Tokoli P’24

Barbara Nash and Patrick Flynn P’05

Mary and James Obeng P’18

Louise and Daniel O’Connell P’99

Christine and Mike O’Connor P’19

Ann O’Reilly ’80, P’17

Keisha S. Palmer P’18

Marion and Guy Paterson P’17, ’19

Amy and Neil Paul P’16, ’18

Brenda and David R. Pelizzon P’07

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Melissa and Thomas Regan P’13

Karen Robbins P’24

Carol and Martin Ross P’18, ’19

Llewellyn G. Ross P’80

Debbie and Bernard Rosselli P’98

Sidney Russell P’02

Deborah Safford P’81, ’84

Barbara Safford P’81, ’84

Thomas Salvatore P’22

Philip K. Schenck P’88

Holly and Donald Shanly P’19

Judith and Thomas H. Shannon P’07

Steven Shea P’16

Andrew Sheintop P’22

Julia Sheldon P’20, ’23

Gail and James Shelton P’12

Leslie and Steven Silverman P’15

H. Catherine Skinner P’82

Nicola and Brenton Slade P’24

Bessie and Tom Speers P’16

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Laura and George C. Springer P’13

Alicia Sternberg-Llanos and Ricardo Llanos P’21

Arzu and Carlos Stetzelberg P’23, ’26

Beth and Christopher E. Strapp P’18, ’21

Linda Strohmeyer P’21

Gretchen Swibold P’78

Helen Thomas P’09

Robin and Daniel P. Towle P’08

Elizabeth Smith van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09

Carmen and Pedro Vega P’20

Melissa and Martin Vega P’24

Michaelynn Ware and Thomas Miller P’28, ’29

Jennifer Schnabel Wedemeyer ’82, P’16

Noble Welch P’87

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82 and Charles D. Wetmore P’18

WHY I GIVE

Emily R. Wick P’15

Gretchen and Frederick Wierdsma P’18

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80

Bethany Wood-Leidt and William Leidt P’13

Xiang Xu and Hanrong Du P’23

Terry and Dana Yanaway P’14, ’17

GRANDPARENTS

Penelope and William Bardel GP’27

Constance Lavino Bell ’48, P’72, ’75, GP’12, ’14

Jean Waller Brune GP’17, ’19

Dorothy Burke GP’26

Maryann and Ed Chicoski GP’30, ’31

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Nancy Ford GP’28

Susan and Bill Gillespie GP’26

Sheryl and Marc Green GP’29, ’31

Margaret Hall GP’18, 21

Sonja and Edrick Hall GP’25

Marguerite and Charles Hensley GP’26

Joanne Johnson GP’25

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

Edith Khayatt GP’24

Nora Martin GP’24

Mary and Jack Merselis GP’23

Lucille and Lane Morrison P’93, GP’26

Pamela Paterson GP’17, ’19

Trish and Robert Perry GP’27

Patricia and Thomas Pikor GP’27

Patty and Allen Riendeau GP’26

Nancy and John Sabol GP’20

Elaine and Raymond Smith GP’25, ’27

Sieglinde Wikstrom GP’04

Orrin Zirbel GP’25, ’27

ALEXANDRA ALCOFF ’94, P’27

NEW YORK, NY

I give because Walker’s has given so much to me. My time at Walker’s (1991-1994) changed my life and helped me believe in myself and my dreams. I treasure the friendships I made, which I still have today, the community that embraced and supported every step of my education and the mission of the School to empower young women to break boundaries, think constructively and be agents of change. I give because my daughter, Class of 2027, is now being nurtured and inspired by the dedicated faculty and staff as she continues on her journey to discover who she is and the potential for what she can become.

A VOICE FOR GIRLS’ EDUCATION

For Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05, The Ethel Walker School was more than a place of learning — it was the community that helped her discover her voice. Growing up in West Hartford, Charlotte’s early school years were idyllic. She remembers walking to primary school with the neighborhood children. When she entered a crowded middle school as a shy student in a class of more than forty, she felt lost. Recognizing this, her mother — herself a graduate of an all-girls school — encouraged Charlotte to try Walker’s.

At first, Charlotte resisted. Transitioning into a class of only five girls was a shock, but it soon became transformative. “Walker’s didn’t allow me to fall behind,” she recalls. “It gave me the confidence to speak up and to grow into myself.” Boarding in high school further deepened her connection to the School, as did the teachers who inspired her most. She still fondly remembers faculty members like Carol Clark-Flanagan P’93, ’97 aka “Clarky,” Laurie MacAlpine P’08, and Dr. Julia Sheldon P’20, ’23 — mentors who balanced high expectations with compassion. “I was a proud Grape and member of the choir while at Walker’s and continue to feel such joy and love whenever I spend time with these faculty. They are incredible teachers who bring such light to their work that you can’t help but be inspired!”

Charlotte went on to Bates College, where she majored in art history. But the lessons of Walker’s stayed with her, shaping her conviction that a girls’ education has unmatched power — particularly in the younger years. “Being surrounded by women and empowered by them opened my world,” she says. “I want as many girls as possible to have access to that same opportunity.”

GRATITUDE TRANSFORMED INTO ACTION

In 2024, Betty Flanders Foster ’53 committed a transformative gift to establish The Madelene Sala Endowed Fund for Music and the Visual Arts, ensuring that generations of Walker’s students will benefit from vibrant instruction and performance opportunities in both disciplines. When asked to recall her earliest memory of Walker’s, Foster points to a powerful first impression. “I think Mrs. Galbraith was my earliest memory,” she reflected. “She was formidable and quite lovely…important enough for me to feel slightly awkward and curious about Walker’s.” That curiosity quickly blossomed into a deep connection with the School. Foster’s pride in Walker’s rests in its inclusiveness. For her, what mattered most was that “every girl was a part of Walker’s and it wasn’t just the Big 6 — it was everybody in the school. It was important, and I liked living in that atmosphere.” This sense of shared community, where each student’s presence was valued, helped shape her enduring loyalty to Walker’s. Foster’s own generosity is rooted in family history. She recalls her mother’s candid words: she could not have attended Walker’s without her grandmother’s financial support. “That really touched me at the time when I was there. It wasn’t just, ’oh, she’s going to Walker’s.’ My family’s income wouldn’t have allowed me to go if it hadn’t been for the extra money from my grandmother.”

Her commitment has translated into generous support for Walker’s, both financially and through service. As a member and then Co-Chair of the Alumnae Board, as well as its liaison to the Board of Trustees, Charlotte has seen firsthand how vital the Annual Fund is to sustaining the Walker’s experience. “Those flexible dollars are the ones that make the biggest difference,” she notes. “I trust Meera and the School to use them where they’re most needed.”

Every visit back to campus renews her dedication. Seeing today’s students and teachers reminds her of the community that shaped her own journey — and inspires her to keep giving back. Now the mother of two young daughters, ages four and two, Charlotte feels an even deeper sense of responsibility. “I care deeply about the future of women’s rights and education,” she says. “Supporting Walker’s is one way I can help ensure that future.”

This awareness, instilled during her student years, inspired her to give back in turn. As she describes it: “I got so much. I really got a lot from Walker’s. Walker’s is a generous place. If you put your hand out, it gets filled. And I think that being so, you’ve got to do a part of filling up when somebody’s hand [is outstretched].”

Her creation of the Madelene Sala Endowed Fund is both a tribute to the inspiring teacher it honors and an embodiment of Foster’s belief that generosity sustains community. The Fund ensures that music and the arts, cornerstones of a Walker’s education, will flourish for generations of girls.

Looking forward, Foster’s vision for today’s and tomorrow’s Walker’s girls is grounded in both pragmatism and optimism. “I hope for a continued solid education and a sense of security,” she said. Most importantly, she hopes Walker’s students will carry into adulthood the confidence “not to be afraid to be in the world, whatever that means to them.”

Betty Flanders Foster’s story is one of gratitude transformed into action. From the support she once received to the support she now provides, her philanthropy underscores a lifelong relationship with Walker’s. Through her endowed fund, she has given the School — and its students — the same gift she once received: the chance to thrive in a place where generosity, belonging, and opportunity define the experience.

Betty Flanders Foster ‘53 (right) with Laurie MacAlpine P’08

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ‘05

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, FUNDS, AND MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES

AARP Employee Matching Gifts Program

Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

The Abra & Jim Wilkin Fund

AIG

American Endowment Foundation

Amica Companies Foundation

Arthur K. Watson Charitable Trust

The Barbara M. Neal Trust

Bessemer Trust

Bindon Foundation

BNY Charitable

The Boston Foundation

BWX Technologies, Inc. Charity Custodial Account

The Carrington Family Charitable Fund

Cashin Family Fund

CDM Foundation

The Charles & Elizabeth Barr Foundation, Inc.

The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation

Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies

Corning Incorporated Foundation

Crum & Forster Insurance

Darling Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation

Deloitte

The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc.

Fidelity Charitable

Firman Fund

Fleetwood Foundation

Gartner Group Charitable Fund

The GE Foundation

Goldstone Family Foundation

Gorter Family Foundation

Hanover Insurance Company Payroll Campaign Fund

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Henry F. Sears Foundation

Hickory Hill Foundation

Horizons National Student Enrichment Program, Inc.

Hubbell Foundation

ImpactAssets, Inc.

InfoShred, LLC

The Irani Family Foundation

J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund

The James E. and Constance L. Bell Foundation

James W. Thornton Family Foundation

John and Nancy Sabol Foundation

John Johnson Art Direction & Design

Jones Family Foundation

Keybank Foundation

The Knapp Fund

Lange Family Foundation II

Lee Family BOA Charitable Gift Fund

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Marie Christine Tiedtke Trust

Mary F. & David D. Grumhaus Fund

Mass Mutual

Microsoft | Give with Bing

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program

Moorhead Family Fund

Morgan Stanley | Gift

National Christian Foundation of South Florida

Nelson Mead Fund

The New York Community Trust

Nyssa Foundation

Otis Elevator Company Charity Custodial Account

PayPal Giving Fund

Peter R. & Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation

The Pittsburgh Foundation

Poillon-Brescia Family Fund of the BOA

Charitable Gift Fund

Principal Financial Group

The Prospect Hill Foundation

Rauch Rainoff Foundation

The Richard Foundation

The Rutledge Family Foundation

S. Spencer Scott Fund, Inc.

Schwab Charitable

The Selz Foundation, Inc.

Sheffield Foundation

Shopneck Family Foundation

Stanley Black and Decker

Stephanie and Lawrence Flinn, Jr.

Charitable Trust

The Tharpe Family Fund, Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley

T. M. and M. W. Chilton Family Foundation

Tidewater Jewish Foundation

TisBest Philanthropy

Transfer Enterprises, Inc.

United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

Vanguard

Vanguard Charitable

Virtus Investment Partners

W. J. Mountford Co.

The Walt Disney Company Foundation

WestWind Foundation

The Wikstrom Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

Woodland Foundation, Inc.

Anonymous

Jonathan C. S. Cox Family Foundation

The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Student leaders welcome New Girls

LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDOWMENT GIFTS

The School welcomes your interest in supporting our endowment, which provides the essential foundation for Walker’s long-term strength and sustainability. Endowment gifts are transformative investments that continue giving year after year, ensuring that future generations of students will benefit from the exceptional education and opportunities that define the Walker’s experience.

For those seeking a more personalized legacy, named endowed funds offer the opportunity to create a lasting tribute while supporting specific areas of school life. With a minimum commitment of $100,000, you can establish an endowed fund that reflects your passions and values — whether supporting faculty excellence, student financial aid, academic programs, athletics, arts, campus sustainability, or other unrestriced support. Named funds create a permanent connection between your family’s philanthropic vision and Walker’s mission, with recognition that honors your generosity for generations to come.

If you have ideas or questions about our endowment, please contact Senior Director of Development and Engagement Marion Paterson P’17, ’19. mpaterson@ethelwalker.org +1 860-408-4257

’19

ENDOWMENT AND CAPITAL GIFTS

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83

Roberta Gerstell Bennett ’53

Christopher L. Brigham

Caryl Van Ranst Dearing ’60

Fidelity Charitable

The James E. and Constance L. Bell Foundation

Jacqueline Mars P’83

Barbara Nash and Patrick Flynn P’05

Ethel Worthington Riley ’35+

Robin Hunziker Smith ’73

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Jamiah N. Tappin ’00

Helen Potter Wagner ’75

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80

FACULTY AND STAFF DONORS

We extend a special thank you to the faculty and staff of The Ethel Walker School for their boundless contributions.

Je Banach

Clarissa Basch P’15

Brett Benzio

Ashley Bonet

Randi Booth

Paul Breault

Isabel Ceballos P’29

Carol Clark-Flanagan P’93, ’97

Alicia Couch-Edwards ’07

Elisa Del Valle

Kelly DeVivo

Tom DiMartino

Mimi Duran P’18

Ned W. Edwards P’07, ’10

Rachel Feldman

Marissa Forde P’28, ’31

Mark Fuller

Michael Galvin P’14

Christopher Garrity

Beatriz Gonzalez P’24

Colin Griggs

Christopher Hague

Allison L. Harris ’13

Kimberly Harris-Thacker P’24, ’27

Laurie Hine P’16

Nishette Isaac

Jillian Jones ’19

Annie Keating-Scherer P’30

Linda Langmeier

Tavia Lee-Goldstein

Nilda Legassa P’23

Karim Mabrouk

Laurie J. MacAlpine P’08

Brennan A. Maine ’09

Colin May

Justine Medic

Emily Mitchell

Kellie Molander

John Monagan

Megan Mulhern

Kristin F. Nicolle

Randall Shō Northrop

Gretchen Orschiedt

Erin Ott

Mallory Greene Pasquariello

Marion Paterson P’17, ’19

Amy Paul P’16, ’18

Suzanne Piela P’22, ’28

Melissa Regan P’13

Julie Relyea

Carol Ross P’18, ’19

Isabelle Russell

Pamela Safford ’81

Christine Sanni

Christopher Semk

Julia Sheldon P’20, ’23

Cheri Soule

Liana Sowa

David Thacker P’24, ’27

Justin Treado

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82, P’18

Meera Viswanathan Anonymous

Marion Paterson P’17,

Corina Alvarezdelugo

Andrew Ashforth

Owen Bass

Rosalind and Walter Bernheimer

Margaret H. Bonz

Anita W. Brean

Christopher L. Brigham

Susan and Peter Chapman

Nga Chau

Nancy Deming

Marcia P. Easterling

Sara Kellogg Goodrich

Kathy and John Groff

Tara Gunn

Suzanne Hannay and John F. R. Palmer

Alice B. Hicks

Anthony Hulme

Sandi Juliano

Ellen and Gordon Knight

Cynthia Krohn

FRIENDS GIFTS IN KIND

BlueStar Communications Group, Inc.

Nancy Deming

Paige DiPietro

Danielle and Scott D. Edwardson P’24

Thalia Falcon ’89

Joan Krohn

Kenny Langmeier

Max Lindsay-Capobianco

Meg S. Mahoney

Myra J. Morgan

Suzanne Podurgiel

Mary B. Hendrickson and Kenneth A. Poppe

Patricia Onderdonk Pruett

Dennis J. Puleo

Molly and Thomas Rutledge

Phyllis Satter

Marcia Schoeller

Lynn Staley and Martin Linsky

Sarah and Thomas Van Leeuwen

Eric Widmer

Joseph Williams

Anstiss Wynn

Teresa C. Younger

WHY I GIVE MARISSA FORDE P’28, ’31 VISUAL ARTS FACULTY

SIMSBURY, CT

Judy Fletcher

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

Joan Jacobs

Kelianda Farm

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

I choose to give because I see Walker’s as more than just a place of employment; it’s a community I am deeply invested in, both professionally and personally. As a teacher, I dedicate my time and energy to empowering my students, and my donation is an extension of that commitment. It’s a way to support the programs that enhance the experience for all students, including my own daughters. My giving is an act of gratitude and a way of paying it forward to the School that has become a second home for my family.

Students looking at Walker’s campus from Talcott Mountain on Mountain Day

GIFTS TO HORIZONS AT THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL

Horizons at The Ethel Walker School, the first all-girls Horizons program in the nation, serves 130 underserved girls in Greater Hartford public schools in Pre-K-8th grade. Walker’s is proud to sponsor and host this program, which creates the conditions, connections, and community that enable every girl who attends to gain the skills, confidence, and motivation to overcome the opportunity gap and realize her potential. Horizons at The Ethel Walker School builds brighter futures for girls by creating year-round academic, artistic, and athletic opportunities, nurturing potential, and inspiring individual dreams in a safe and supportive community.

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26

Clarissa and Alan Basch P’15

Ethan Basch

Talia A. Basch ’15

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Christopher L. Brigham

Kelly Callender

Coleen Campbell

Carol Clark-Flanagan and Thomas M. Flanagan P’93, ’97

Mary Lou Cobb

Spencer L. Cook ’09 and Tom Cook

Eleanor and Steven Daugherty P’26

Marilou Dusyn

David Erickson

Stephen Erickson

Charnaie Gordon

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Mackenzie Hine ’16

Shenitha Holley

Horizons National Student Enrichment Program, Inc.

Linda and Iain Howard-Sorrell P’09

Lisa Howard-Sorrell ’09

Maria and Jonathan Huttner

Nishette Isaac

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10

Devon C. Kalune

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69

Caroline R. Kieltyka ’10

Myra Laws

John Lendvai

Alexander Lunding

Angela W. Maine P’09

Brennan A. Maine ’09

Ellen McClure

Ruth Miller

Rachel Myers

Jonathan Near

Ann O’Reilly ’80, P’17

Gretchen Orschiedt

Mallory Greene Pasquariello

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

Carol and Martin Ross P’18, ’19

Emily Ross ’19

Nancy Rova

The Rutledge Family Foundation

Molly and Thomas Rutledge

Subha Sankaran

Ann and Rick Semk

Christopher Semk

Sharon Shenberg

Emma Simon ’89

Alexis A. Stephan ’10

Ashleigh N. Stephan ’11

Beth and Christopher E. Strapp P’18, ’21

Kimberly Harris-Thacker and David Thacker P’24, ’27

The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Helen Thomas P’09

Kyle Trogstad-Isaacson

Elenor D. van Gemeren ’09

Elizabeth van Gemeren ’07

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Virtus Investment Partners

Meera Viswanathan

Jennifer Wells

Alexa Zakaszewski

Horizons third graders in their African drumming elective

TRIBUTES

IN HONOR OF

Each year, gifts are made in honor of members of the Walker’s community.

SAVANNAH ATKINSON ’28

Susan and Bill Gillespie GP’26

MAYA ATWOOD ’26

Alice Hicks

EMILIA AUGER ’26

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26

QUINN AUGER ’25

Jennifer and Christian Auger P’25, ’26

MAUREEN BERESCIK P’98

Brooke Berescik-Johns ’98

BETTY CASTILLO

Paulette Castillo ’73

SAGE DUNLAP CHASE ’62

Linda Hale Bucklin ’62

CAROL CLARK-FLANAGAN P’93, ’97

Glenna McMahon ’93

Jessica Bartolini Patras ’95

Mary B. Hendrickson and Kenneth A. Poppe

Katherine Flanagan Shoss ’97

Elizabeth Smith

van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09

CLASS OF 1953

Clarissa Yantis Downey ’53

CLASS OF 1964

Dorothy Ferguson

Corbiere ’64

CLASS OF 1975

Jeanette Poillon ’75

ANNE DAUGHERTY ’26

Eleanor and Steven Daugherty P’26

BETHANY DAVIS

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

ELISA DEL VALLE

Carmen and Pedro Vega P’20

DIALS

Maria Alulema P’25

Anne Dobbin Bailliere ’59

Ariella N. Freund

Bareket ’10

Jenny Belknap ’90

Deanna Briggs and

Nicolas Ramkowsky P’25

Alison Carlin Carrabba ’86

Samantha F. Chessen ’17

Karen C. Cook ’73

Sofia and Alan Cooper P’29

Mary Coyne ’82

Patricia McCurdyCrescimanno and Terry

Crescimanno P’08, ’13

Jill Keffer Crowe ’82

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89

Sarah Bryant Dean ’62

Brooke DeLorey ’20

Harriet Blees

Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Cynthia Emerson ’70

Mary Melvin Fleming ’75

Adaline Dean Friedlander ’18

Mark Fuller

Meredythe Goethe ’05

Allison L. Harris ’13

Hilary Walker Hotchkiss ’75

Joanne Johnson GP’25

Jillian Jones ’19

Lauren and Philip Jones P’27

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69

Suzette Spitzer King ’48

James W. Kinnear W’47, P’69, ’71

Judith Coburn Klein ’65

Yvette Larrieu ’80

Kathryn Spector Lasater ’87

Mary Ann Shoenberg

Margaretten ’60

Anne Sprole Mauk ’69

Sandra Rohde McNamee ’84

Sejal Patel Mitra ’95

Mollie Morrison ’20

Brittany Coons Noble ’02

Jeanette C. Pelizzon ’07

Suzanne Phillips ’64

Susan Jensen Rawles ’82

Tracey S. Reifler ’82

Corlene Cathcart

Rhoades ’82

Priscilla Reynolds

Roosevelt ’59

Margaret Schwartz ’02

Catherine Clark Shopneck ’72

Pamela Bennett Skinner ’95

Claudia Mesch Smith ’86

Jennifer Smith ’76

Kristin Decker

Somerville ’00

Sarah Royce Stevenson ’75

Catherine Taylor P’30

Shauna Turnbull ’85

Brianna Vega ’20

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Marianne Pettit Watt ’10

Julia Wilcox ’87

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

Jennifer and Jeffrey Zirbel P’25, ’27

THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT OFFICE

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82 and Charles D. Wetmore P’18

THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL FACULTY

Emily Forman ’02

THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Eleanor Taylor ’89

MARISSA FORDE P’28, ’31

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

ALORA G. FOSTER ’17

Lori-Jean and Wayne P. Foster P’17

BEATRIZ GONZALEZ P’24

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

SARA KELLOGG GOODRICH

Julia Wilcox ’87

ADDISON HALL ’25

Sonja and Edrick Hall GP’25

ALLISON L. HARRIS ’13

Abigail Welch ’20

VALERIE THOMAS HARTSHORNE ’49

Tara Gunn

MACKENZIE HINE ’16

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

NISHETTE ISAAC

Maria Alulema P’25

GRACE JOHNSON ’25

Sandi Juliano

LANA JONES ’27

Lauren and Philip Jones P’27

JANE KAWAJA ’30

Jennifer Kawaja P’30

MUJEEB KHALIQUE P’00

Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00

PHOEBE WELCH KNIGHT ’87

Noble Welch P’87

LAURIE J. MACALPINE P’08

Isabella Manganiello ’19

LIESL MANG ’29

Megan Mehr and Andreas Mang P’29

ELIZA DAVID MASSARO ’92

Barbara O. David P’92

JOYCE MCINTYRE P’92

Glenna McMahon ’93

Mary B. Hendrickson and Kenneth A. Poppe

Andrea Coggins Toivakka ’06

NAOMI SERVANTE MCNALLY ’92

Marcia P. Easterling

MIKAYLA MORALES ’23

Mona Lake P’23

MYRA J. MORGAN

Patricia Zimmerman ’85

AUDREY NEVINS ’73

Martha Nevins Pawasarat ’80

GRETCHEN ORSCHIEDT

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

ERIN OTT P’32

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

MARION PATERSON P’17, ’19

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

Shelley Cole ’76

MELISSA REGAN P’13

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

JULIE RELYEA

Xiaomei Zhang and Lian Shen P’25

AVERI RODRIGUEZ ’24

Nora Martin GP’24

KATHARINE O’BRIEN ROHN ’82

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Mary Lou Cobb

Gretchen Orschiedt

Isabelle Russell

CAROL ROSS P’18, ’19

Shenitha Holley

MICHAEL SADOWSKI P’02

Meredythe Goethe ’05

PAMELA SAFFORD ’81

Mary Beth Rettger ’81

Deborah Safford P’81, ’84

SUZANNE SAFFORD ’84

Deborah Safford P’81, ’84

SUSANNA SCHERER ’30

Annie Keating-Scherer and Adam Scherer P’30

KELSEY A. SHELTON ’12

Gail and James Shelton P’12

BETH STRAPP P’18, ’21

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

SUNS

Diana Aixala ’82

Carolina and Will Atwood P’26, ’30

Susan and William Bardel P’27

Roberta Gerstell Bennett ’53

Robin Frost Bessin ’63

Averill Blackburn ’04

Randi Booth

Elizabeth Pryor Bradley ’85

Claudia Ramsland Burch ’68

Nevon Bush ’97

Virginia Jones Bush ’60

Jennifer Cavallari and Daniel Durkin P’27

Jing Chen and Yunping Xu P’26

Saeeun Choi P’25

Laurann L. Claridge ’84

Frances Haffner Colburn ’54

Eve Agush Costarelli ’82

Ana Consuegra Cummins ’83

Sarah Elting Doering ’65

Diane Solomon Doppelt ’75

Gwendolyn Couch and

Ned W. Edwards P’07, ’10

Bonnie A. Ewald ’00

Ashley Gaddis P’18

Laurel C. L. Gaddis ’18

Nicole T. Gregory ’13

Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00

Dolly Hall ’78

Martha Hedgpeth ’71

Adrianne Massie Hill ’56

Laurie and Robert H. Hine P’16

Margaret Holley ’62

Marsha Hughes ’95

Richard Hulme P’25

Jessica Smith James ’73

Mandy and Juan Luis

Jaramillo P’30

Carol Hoffman Jason ’75

Crystal Kay ’00

Edith Khayatt GP’24

Caroline R. Kieltyka ’10

Sally Chapin Levin ’59

Nicole Macari ’20

Eliza David Massaro ’92

Glenna McMahon ’93

Emily Agnew Nelson ’63

Carol Bruenner Parker ’66

Amy and Neil Paul P’16, ’18

Holly E. Paul ’18

Trish and Robert Perry GP’27

Julie Lange Peyton ’67

Patricia and Thomas Pikor GP’27

Jeanette Poillon ’75

Kerry Scott Pokorny ’90

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Amie Rappoport McKenna and Stephen V. McKenna P’24

Jennifer Rodts ’86

Catherine Munson Rogerson ’75

Pamela Safford ’81

Margaret Broadus Saling ’75

Lucinda Atkins Sheffield ’82

Katherine Flanagan Shoss ’97

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Janet Stott ’66

Ann Boland Strachan ’83

Elizabeth Sudler ’77

Gretchen Swibold P’78

Katharine Swibold ’78

Jamiah N. Tappin ’00

Joan Gilbert Thayer ’50

Susan Knapp Thomas ’80

Deana Washburn ’80

Alexis A. Stephan ’10

Eliza Wetmore ’18

Leila Howland Wetmore ’82 and Charles D. Wetmore P’18

Margaret C. Wierdsma ’18

Terese Treman

Williams ’55, P’80

Linda Roberts Zinn ’63

GRETCHEN SWIBOLD P’78

Katharine Swibold ’78

PARKER A. TOWLE GP’08

Robin and Daniel P. Towle P’08

BRIANNA VEGA ’20

Carmen and Pedro Vega P’20

MEERA VISWANATHAN

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Suzanne Hannay and John F. R. Palmer

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

IRENE WANKO

Devon C. Kalune

ELIZA WETMORE ’18

Max Lindsay-Capobianco

LEILA HOWLAND WETMORE ’82

Max Lindsay-Capobianco

Eliza Wetmore ’18

WANXIN XU ’26

Jing Chen and Yunping Xu P’26

ARIANNA ZIRBEL ’25

Elaine and Raymond Smith GP’25, ’27

Orrin Zirbel GP’25, ’27

EMMYT ZIRBEL ’27

Elaine and Raymond Smith GP’25, ’27

Orrin Zirbel GP’25, ’27

IN MEMORY OF

Each year, gifts are made in memory of members of the Walker’s community who are no longer with us.

ELIZABETH COWLES ARMOUR ’41

Elizabeth C. Ridgley ’22

BARBARA BALCH

ARNOLD ’42, P’69, ’73

Barbara Arnold ’69

PHILIP E. BONZ

Margaret H. Bonz

NANCIE MAGEE

BOURNE ’53, P’77, ’82

Susan and Peter Chapman

Ashley Bourne Dewey ’82

Marcia Schoeller

Sarah and Thomas

Van Leeuwen

EMILY BROIDRICK ’98

Jennifer Soderburg ’98

ALEXANDRA BRUCKER ’95

Alicia Kelly Benedetto ’97

Elizabeth A. Brucker P’95

Nicole Lewenson Shargel ’95

MAUDE URMSTON

CHILTON ’53, P’77, ’79

Cecily Chilton Matthai ’77

T. M. and M. W. Chilton Family Foundation

DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1959

Mary Stout Lawrence ’59

JACQUELINE AND DANIEL J. DIANA P’87

Amy Diana Natalicchio ’87

KATHRYN GRAHAM ’65

Judith Coburn Klein ’65

NANCY GERDAU GRAVES ’59

Anne Dobbin Bailliere ’59

MARY HALL ’80

Dolly Hall ’78

VALERIE THOMAS HARTSHORNE ’49

Tara Gunn

BLANCHE B. HOAR

Kim Matthews Wheaton ’68

TRACY HOWELL ’81

McCall Watson Eng ’81

FLORENCE HUNT

Haydee Diaz-Camacho von Sternberg ’64

EMMA SMITH

JOHNSTON ’39, P’66, ’67

Cynthia Johnston Alexander ’67

ABDUL KHALIQUE P’00

Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00

NICOLE KUHNKE ’99

Louise and Daniel O’Connell P’99

RICHARD MAINE P’09

Brennan A. Maine ’09

ANNE CUNNINGHAM

MCCLURE ’40, P’66

Wells Downey Hamilton ’66

PATRICIA KELLY MCCORNACK ’54

Seddon Kelly Beaty ’64

MEAGHAN KATE MCLEAN ’99

Brooke Berescik-Johns ’98

PAYNE PAYSON MIDDLETON ’45

Vanessa Guerrini-Maraldi

Wilcox ’74

ANSTISS OHL MILLER ’47

Anstiss Wynn

MAUREEN BUCKLEY O’REILLY ’50, P’77, ’78, ’80, GP’17

Patricia O’Reilly ’77

REKHA AND PRAKASH PATEL P’95

Sejal Patel Mitra ’95

LEE MILLS PETTY ’48

Alexandra Potts Pool ’48

SONDRA SICKLES PHELAN ’53

Vanessa Guerrini-Maraldi Wilcox ’74

MARIE CONNORS SULGER

ROBERTS ’49, P’84

Patricia Connors Warrender ’60

MICHAEL SADOWSKI P’02

Meredythe Goethe ’05

MADELENE SALA SALSTER

Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’59

W. L. SMITH

Nancy Smith Klos ’77

DIANE NEWTON SUMNER ’41, P’70

Elise Burns ’70

PARKER A. TOWLE GP’08

Robin and Daniel P. Towle P’08

THE SUNDIAL GIVING CHALLENGE 2024-2025

The SunDial Giving Challenge is a yearly fundraising tradition where Suns and Dials compete to see who can rally the most support for Walker’s. The 2024-2025 SunDial Challenge raised over $225,000 for the Annual Fund for Walker’s and brought us all together in school spirit.

HOORAY SUNRAY TO THE SUNS,

Thank you for your spirit and support!

ALCIOUS WATSON GP’31

Brenda and Orwin Watson P’31

ANNE FORCIER WATSON ’70

Scott M. Watson W’70

PAMELA WESTFELT ’60

Patricia Connors Warrender ’60

ERIC WIDMER

Rosalind and Walter Bernheimer

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89

Suzanne Hannay and John F. R. Palmer

Edith Khayatt GP’24

Ellen and Gordon Knight

Elizabeth Smith

van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09

Melissa and Martin Vega P’24

Meera Viswanathan

SUSAN SALANT WIERDSMA ’55

Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55

VERA RICHARD WOOD ’39

Phyllis Richard Fritts ’60

HAROLD L. WOODS

Larke Woods Wheeler ’76

RICHARD T. WRIGHT P’86

Elizabeth Wright Wempe ’86

WHY I GIVE AND VOLUNTEER

EMILY COLE-CHU

MACSWAIN

’00 CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, NY

I cannot overstate my relief and gratitude that I found my way to Walker’s nearly three decades ago. The education, fun, and friendships forged during my time there have been a gift in perpetuity for me. My donations to the Annual Fund say thank you “to the School we love so well” and support opportunities for the next generation of young women. Furthermore, as an Alumnae Board member and former faculty, I give to Walker’s because I am keenly aware of how transformative the Walker’s experience is for all community stakeholders — not just the students! We are all so lucky and I know that every little bit helps Walker’s continue to do brave, wonderful things.

2024-2025 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82 Chair · Darien, CT

Emma Simon ’89 Vice Chair · West Hartford, CT

Thomas Regan P’13

Treasurer · Avon, CT

Michaelynn Ware P’28, ’29 Secretary · Farmington, CT

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83 Newport Beach, CA

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60 Trustee Emerita · Bedford Hills, NY

Elizabeth Rockwell Cesare Trustee Emerita · Norwalk, CT

Mary Lou Cobb West Simsbury, CT

Sarah Gates Colley ’75 Trustee Emerita · Hobe Sound, FL

Dr. Eleanor Daugherty P’26 Washington, DC

Margaret G. Davis P’26 Petaluma, CA

Harriet Blees Dewey ’60, P’86, GP’21

Trustee Emerita · Ridgefield, CT

Leander Altifois

Dolphin ’95, P’24 Hartford, CT

Jean Moore Edwards ’69 Saint Helena, CA

Ximena E. Eleta de Sierra ’83 Panama City, Panama

2024-2025 ALUMNAE BOARD

Dr. Samara M. Khalique Grove ’00

Co-Chair · Salem, VA

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Co-Chair

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Katharine Swibold ’78

Secretary · Tarrytown, NY

Eda E. Bell ’12

Chadds Ford, PA

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89 Newbury, United Kingdom

Sarah Elting Doering ’65 Malibu, CA

Nicole Hart Dunn ’96 Weatogue, CT

Dr. Alicia Little Hodge ’01 Washington, DC

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05 Bronxville, NY

Silvia Manent ’08 Concord, MA

Eliza David Massaro ’92 Avon, CT

Charles Hirschler Greenwich, CT

Toan C. Huynh ’93 New York, NY

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10 Palm Beach, FL

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60 Hanahan, SC

Barbara Thomas Kennedy ’69 Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Shelley Marks ’81 San Francisco, CA

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85 Trustee Emerita · Greenwich, CT

Alvaro E. Rodriguez P’24 Westerville, OH

Beth Strapp P’18, ’21 Granby, CT

Kelly Lee Tang P’27 New York, NY

Jamiah N. Tappin ’00 Boston, MA

Cynthia T. Vega ’82

Ex Officio

Co-Chair, Alumnae Board

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Dr. Meera Viswanathan

Ex Officio

Head of School Simsbury, CT

Teresa C. Younger Brooklyn, NY

Kayla A. Monroe ’12 Enfield, CT

Dele R. Odumosu ’12 Brooklyn, NY

Jeanette C. Pelizzon ’07 San Diego, CA

Tracey S. Reifler ’82 Seattle, WA

Sarah Shaw ’23 Southwick, MA

Kristen T. St Louis ’21 New Haven, CT

Caroline M. Strapp ’18 New York, NY

Eliza Wetmore ’18 New York, NY

Chenxi (Rita) Xiang ’24 Chengdu, China and Stanford, CA

Le (Sarah) You ’22 Wuhan, China and Boston, MA

THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL HERITAGE SOCIETY

The Ethel Walker Heritage Society celebrates and honors those women and men who have chosen to make gifts to The Ethel Walker School through a bequest or other legacy giving, including life insurance and remainder trusts. Throughout Walker’s long history, planned gifts have been the largest source of income for the School. Ethel Walker Smith’s personal planned giving reflects this philosophy and generosity of spirit. She has been an extraordinary benefactor to the School, having shaped the School with her vision from its founding moments and now with her planned giving into perpetuity. Her demonstration of planning for the future helped to realize her philanthropic ambitions. It is a fitting tribute that our planned giving society bears her name. We invite alumnae, parents, and friends to share in Ethel Walker Smith’s ambitions and commitment to an extraordinary education for girls and consider joining her and many others by creating a planned gift.

Ted Alexander GP’13+

Lynn Allegaert ’64

Elizabeth Radley Anderson ’53+

Joan Garver Anderson ’57+

Marie D. Ballenger P’71, GP’87+

Beverly Vander Poel Banker ’60, P’82+

Karen Polcer Bdera ’79

Ruth Russell Belding ’42+

Suzanne Chapin Berl ’64

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Constance Irwin Bray ’56+

Ann Watson Bresnahan ’69

Hope Nesbit Brown ’43+

Helen Watson Buckner 1936+

Frances Hazen Bulkeley ’44, P’68+

Paul M. Butterworth+

Elizabeth Rockwell Cesare

Helen Willard Chapin ’47, P’64+

Hilary Clark ’87+

Ruth Cleveland+

Rebecca and G. Munroe Cobey P’01, ’03

Sarah Gates Colley ’75

Clive K. Connor P’05

Quarrier Bloch Cook ’53+

Sharon and John B. Davies P’96, ’00

Elizabeth Carpenter Davis ’41, GP’80+

Leonor Lobo de Gonzalez ’51+

Antoinette and Nicholas de Wolff P’23

Amey Amory DeFriez ’45, P’67, ’69+

Elizabeth G. Fortune 1936+

Alice G. Gay+

Sally Young Gevalt 1938+

Sara Kellogg Goodrich

Ruth Harrison Grobe ’69

Kate Crichton Gubelmann ’67

Harriet Henderson 1918+

Constance and C. Hugh Hildesley P’85

Katharine Lee Howard 1936+

Leslie Davies Huguenin ’96

Joan Pruitt Ireland ’49+

Carol Hoffman Jason ’75

Sarah E. Johnson ’78, P’10

Louisa Livingston Kennedy ’52+ and Moorhead C. Kennedy+

Diana Waud Kruglick ’53+

Elizabeth Grant Lasell 1932, P’62+

Barbara Miller Lawson ’43+

Dora Sinclair Loutrel 1933+

Eileen Josten Lowe ’43+

Tatiana Litchfield Lowe 1935+

Mary Coe Lynch 1933+

David O. MacKenzie W’55+

Deborah Williams MacKenzie ’55+

Doris Merrill Magowan 1932+

Stella Moore McClintock ’53

Anne Cunningham McClure ’40, P’66+

Virginia McCurdy GP ’08, ’10+

Louise Miller McElhinny ’53+

Martha Bloch McLanahan ’58

Vernon Lynch Merrill ’44+

Payne Payson Middleton ’45+

Katherine Mountcastle P’72, ’74+

Kenneth Mountcastle P’72, ’74+

Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55

Leslie Hailand Newman ’66

Celeste Royall Niarchos ’64

Marguerite Sykes Nichols 1931, P’53+

Frances McKee O’Brien ’26, P’57+

Harriet Parker 1923+

Judith Anne Walker Peabody ’47+

Judith N. Phelps+

Letitia McClure Potter ’55, P’85

Elizabeth Rauch Rainoff ’53

Shannon Young Ray ’80

Alita Weaver Reed ’60+

Tracey S. Reifler ’82

Ethel Worthington Riley 1935+

Barclay Robinson+

Margot Treman Rose ’80

Hester Jones Sargent 1937, P’63, ’65, ’68+

Mary Bebel Schinke ’81

Tracey Smith ’74

Jane Bassett Spilman and Robert Spilman P’76+

Wendell Miller Steavenson ’58

Amy Storrow ’81

Emalea Warner Trentman 1932+

Molly Mixsell Waldron 1932+

Phyllis Watts P’17

Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60

Louise Brooks Willard ’46+ and Henry K. Willard II+

Terese Treman Williams ’55, P’80

Nancy Cooper Young-Williams ’48, P’70+

+Deceased

A LEGACY OF FRIENDSHIP AND GIVING

HONORING WALKER’S THROUGH PLANNED GIFTS

As the Class of 1981 prepares to celebrate its milestone 45th Reunion this year, longtime classmates Mary Bebel Schinke and Amy Storrow find themselves reflecting on the profound ways Walker’s shaped their journeys. From classmates to accomplished women who have carried Walker’s values into their careers and communities, their bond exemplifies the enduring connections forged within our School. Today, both Mary and Amy have chosen to honor that experience through their planned gifts to The Ethel Walker School Heritage Society, ensuring that future students will discover the same life-changing opportunities that defined their own time here.

For Mary, an attorney from Roxbury, Connecticut, Walker’s was “one of the most important periods” of her life. She recalls the friendships, creativity, and encouragement that helped her grow. “I was given a great deal by the Walker’s experience and community,” she shares. “For me, making a gift to Walker’s in my estate plan is the best way to give in a meaningful way, ensuring future girls can have the same opportunities I did.”

PLANNED GIVING

Amy, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer and writer who lives in Mystic, Connecticut, agrees. She credits Walker’s with instilling the confidence that carried her through a groundbreaking career.

“I graduated in 1981 believing that girls could do anything, that I could do anything,” she says. When she joined the Heritage Society, she saw it as a way to pass that confidence forward. “How do you put a price on a mindset? My approach has been to designate a percentage of my estate [and wonders,] can you spare at least 10% to help other girls grow their capabilities? Say you’ll join me.”

Their stories remind us why Walker’s holds such a special place in so many hearts. Their thoughtful planned gifts reflect not only gratitude for a cherished past, but also confidence in Walker’s future. Through their generosity and leadership, they are helping to write the next chapter of the Walker’s story — one that will inspire and transform countless students yet to walk our halls. Mary and Amy demonstrate that the bonds formed here truly do last a lifetime, continuing to strengthen our community for generations to come.

Making a planned gift is a wonderful way to show your support and appreciation for The Ethel Walker School and its mission while meeting your personal financial, estate-planning, and philanthropic goals — extending your generosity into the future. We encourage you to explore how planned giving might fit into your own story. Taking even small steps now, like learning about options or having initial conversations, can help you make an informed decision about your long-term impact. Planned giving isn’t just for retirees or those with significant wealth — it’s a thoughtful option for anyone who wants to create lasting impact for causes they care about.

Many planned gifts cost nothing during your lifetime

· You can start small and adjust your plans as circumstances change

· The sooner you begin planning, the more options you have to structure your giving Professional advisors can help explore what works for your situation

· Your gift can provide for both loved ones and charitable causes

Planned gifts can take many forms:

· Bequests in your will or trust

· Charitable gift annuities that provide income during your lifetime

· Life insurance policies naming Walker’s as beneficiary

Retirement account designations

Charitable remainder trusts

· IRA charitable rollover allows individuals 70 ½+ years to make tax-free gifts each year up to $100,000

Please request our complimentary guides about planned giving. We look forward to speaking with you about your philanthropic goals. To learn more, visit ethelwalker.giftplans.org or contact Marion Paterson P’17, ’19 at mpaterson@ethelwalker.org or +1-860-408-4257

Mary Bebel Schinke ‘81

Amy Storrow ‘81

2024-2025 ADVANCEMENT VOLUNTEERS

Every fundraising program relies upon and succeeds only with the dedication of its volunteers. Alumnae, parents, grandparents, and friends of The Ethel Walker School once again joined together to realize our 2024-2025 philanthropic goals. To each and every one, we extend our heartfelt thanks.

PARENTS ASSOCIATION

Alescia Ford P’28, Co-President

Thomas Miller P’28, ’29, Co-President

Jennifer Auger P’25, P’26, Vice President

Darci Vallez P’27, Treasurer/Secretary

Daryl Vallez P’27, Co-Chair

Julie and Whitney

Flood P’27, Co-Chairs

Jessica Chicoski P’30, P’31, Member

Kim DeSio P’25, Member

Sheila Toto P’26, Member

Amber Berry P’30, Member

PARENT REPRESENTATIVES

Amber Berry P’30, Middle School

Jessica Chicoski P’30, P’31, Middle School

Tom Miller P’29, Middle School

Alescia Ford P’28, 9th Grade

Daryl and Darci Vallez P’27, 10th Grade

Carolina Atwood P’26, 11th Grade

Julianna Capozzoli P’26, 11th Grade

Tobi Tranter P’26, 11th Grade

Jennifer Auger P’25, P’26, 12th Grade

ANNUAL FUND

VOLUNTEERS

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83

Sarah Gates Colley ’75

Leander Altifois

Dolphin ’95, P’24

Jean Moore Edwards ’69

Toby Bolden Hudson P’24

Charlotte Weidlein

Lenzner ’05

Amie Rappoport

McKenna P’24

Shelley Marks ’81

April Bolton Mwangi ’00

Ann O’Hara P’21, ’23

Katharine O’Brien Rohn ’82

Melanie and Todd Pancavage P’21, P24

Letitia McClure

Potter ’55, P’85

Emma Simon ’89

Cynthia Vega ’82

Kelly Tang P’27

Michaelynn Ware P’28, ’29

HOSTS

Alexandra Badger Airth ’83

Alexandra Flood Alcoff ’94

Margot Campbell Bogert ’60

Jing (Sherry) Chen P’26

Leander Altifois

Dolphin ’95, P24

Cynthia Kirkland Kellogg ’60 and Peter R. Kellogg

Kathryn Spector Lasater ’87

Linda and Kenny Langmeier

Lin Tao P’27

Zhongli (Joanie) Xu

Xuefen (Amanda) Zheng P’27

SPEAKERS

Jennifer Belknap ’90

Mary Melvin Fleming ’75

Meredythe Goethe ’05

Johanna Hill ’90

Brooke Gaffney Redmond ’90

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME COMMITTEE

Jennifer Belknap ’90

Margaret Filoon ’81

Susan S. Ford ’63

Samara Khalique Grove ’00

Sydney C. Satchell ’10

Susan Storer ’71

CLASS

CORRESPONDENTS

1947 Ruth Cummings Mead

1952 Carol Grady Andrews

1953 Susie Kleinhans Gilbertson

1955 Letitia McClure Potter

1956 Adrianne Massie Hill

1957 Jean Tilt Sammis

1958 Barbara Welles Bartlett

1959 Elena Miller Shoch

1960 Phyllis Richard Fritts

1962 Sage Dunlap Chase

1965 Sarah Elting Doering

1968 Kimberley Smith Niles

1969 Gurukirn Kaur Khalsa

1970 Gail Chandler Gaston

1971 Betsy Ballenger

1971 Deborah A. Seaman

1971 Cynthia Smith Evanisko

1972 Gilda Rogers

1974 Vanessa GuerriniMaraldi Wilcox

1975 Veda Pendleton

1976 Nita Koutsoukos

1977 Juliet Ward Flood

1978 Katharine Swibold

1979 Karen Polcer Bdera

1980 Jennifer Hetzler

1981 Veronica Leger

1982 Cynthia Vega

1985 Esther Pryor

1986 Tahra MakinsonSanders

1987 Lori Stewart

1988 Carolyn Pouch

1989 Marsha Davis

1990 Amanda Pitman

1991 Sarah Keefer

1992 Whitley Ram Schoeny

1993 Augusta Morrison Harrison

1994 Philippa Eschauzier Earl

1995 Nicole Lewenson Shargel

1997 Karen Crowe

1997 Alicia Benedetto

1998 Brooke Berescik-Johns

1999 Vivienne Felix

2000 Allison Quigley

2001 Alicia Little Hodge

2002 Holly Jackson

2005 Emma Bedford-Jack

2006 Marielle Vigneau-Britt

2006 Alle Shane

2006 Ebony Moses

2007 Jeanette Pelizzon

2007 Emily Casey

2008 Kathleen Kirby

2009 Caitlin Moss

2010 Marianne Pettit Watt

2011 Kelsey Ballard

2012 Jordana Clarke

2013 Paige Williams-Menard

2013 Ameena Makhdoomi

2014 Brittany Camacho

2014 Artemis Talvat

2014 Lisa Volg

2014 Taryn Anderson

2014 Olivia Aker

2015 Talia Basch

2015 Emily Mauldin

2016 Georgia Paul

2017 Idabelle Paterson

2018 Caroline Strapp

2019 Katherine Dunn

REUNION VOLUNTEERS

1965 Sarah Elting Doering

1970 Whitney A. de Roulet Bullock

1970 Gail Chandler Gaston

1975 Wendy B. Briggs

1975 Sarah Gates Colley

1975 Diane Solomon Doppelt

1975 Hilary Walker Hotchkiss

1975 Kathryn McCarthy Parsons

1975 Jeanette Poillon

1975 Deborah Mercer Ribas

1975 Catherine Munson

Rogerson

1975 Deborah Bell Spoehel

1975 Sarah Royce Stevenson

1975 Helen Potter Wagner

1985 Esther Pryor

1990 Amanda Pitman

1990 Brooke Gaffney Redmond

2000 Samara M. Khalique Grove

2000 April Bolton Mwangi

2000 Allison M. Quigley

2000 Jamiah N. Tappin

2005 Meredythe Goethe

REGIONAL VOLUNTEERS

Alexandra Flood Alcoff ’94

Fiona de Kerckhove ’89

Wendy Hodgkins

DeLorey ’83, P’20

Sarah Elting Doering ’65

Samara Khalique Grove ’00

Alicia Little Hodge ’01

FORMER TRUSTEES

Renee H. Alexander P’13

Chad Alfeld P’19

Abdulatif Al-Hamad P’02

Lynn Allegaert ’64

L. Thomas Applegate P’95

Julia Whitfield Auerbach ’82

Bruce Backman P’16, ’18

David H. Badger P’83

Betsy Ballenger ’71

Ann Barry P’14

Lawrence E. Bathgate II P’90

Timothy R. Bazemore

Emilie and Stephen Becker P’15

Constance Lavino Bell ’48, P’72, ’75, GP’12, ’14

Stuart M. Bell

Roberta Gerstell Bennett ’53

Julie Berard P’19

Suzanne Chapin Berl ’64

Anne Black P’03

Ann Watson Bresnahan ’69

Christopher L. Brigham

Lorraine Smith Brooks ’75

Wendy Buck Brown ’79

Claudia Ramsland Burch ’68

Joseph J. Carideo P’93

Janet Carroll ’72

David Castellani P’09

Paulette Castillo ’73

Page Chapman P’81

Kevin Chessen P’17

Elizabeth Sivage Clark ’67, P’04

G. Munroe Cobey P’01, ’03

Shayna Cohen ’93, P’20, ’21

Jeffrey W. Cook P’73, ’75

Natalie Corbett P’21

Ann Stone Costello ’68

E. Kay Cowan

Mally Cox-Chapman ’69

Darrell W. Crate P’19

Gizella Callender Crawford ’81

Terry Crescimanno P’08, ’13

Philip Crowe, Jr. P’97, GP’13

Robin Lorton Danell ’81

Charle Darlo

Barbara O. David P’92

John B. Davies P’96, ’00

Lorinda Payson de Roulet ’47, P’70

Sarah House Denby ’72

Ashley Bourne Dewey ’82

Mishone Donelson P’25

Ruth Z. Dougher P’89

S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., P’95

Clive L. DuVal III P’09

Margaret Field ’60

Susan Hewitt Fischer ’66

Alfred J. Fisher III P’92

Lindsay P. N. Flynn ’05

Patrick Flynn P’05

Susan S. Ford ’63

Stuart Forman P’02

Kathanne Fowler P’12

John R. French P’83, ’87

David M. Gaffney P’90

Gail Chandler Gaston ’70

Aileen Turnbull Geddes ’56

Sara Kellogg Goodrich

James P. Gorter W’50, P’77

Richard Gottlieb P’93, ’96

Margaret Gray ’67

Lawrence C. Gregory P’13

Kate Crichton Gubelmann ’67

Fred A. Hazlewood P’92

Elise Truebner Henning ’61

C. Hugh Hildesley P’85

Adrianne Massie Hill ’56

Mark R. Hornberger P’01

Iain Howard-Sorrell P’09

Pamela Wasley Hughes ’63

Lucy Rosenberry Jones ’59, P’80, GP’21

Ann H. Kaplan P’95

George E. Kelly, Jr. P’93, ’97

Spencer Lampert P’14

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05

Charlotte Weidlein Lenzner ’05

Beth McGuinness ’88

Jeanette Pelizzon ’07

Tracey S. Reifler ’82

Jamiah Tappin ’00

Eliza Wetmore ’18

Michael G. Licopantis P’84, ’87

Frances Lippincott ’76

Russell R. MacDonnell P’96

Cythlen Cunningham Maddock ’63

Colleen Magnus P’20

Lynn Sheppard Manger ’59

Cecily Chilton Matthai ’77

Anne Sprole Mauk ’69

John J. McAtee

Alison McCall ’72

Geoffrey R. McConnell P’98

Jay H. McDowell P’89

Mary Mead-Hagen ’72

Sophie Mellon P’15

Curtis Mewbourne P’18

Gail Sheppard Moloney ’56

Elizabeth Yinkey Moore ’64

Myrthia Moore ’79

Lane Morrison P’93, GP’26

Laura Mountcastle ’74

Elizabeth Nash Muench ’55

Bettina P. Murray P’88

Leslie Hailand Newman ’66

Celeste Royall Niarchos ’64

Dane Nichols ’64

Robert E. Nolan P’84

Katharine S. O’Brien P’82, ’84

Kemble Lickle O’Donnell ’79

Ann O’Hara P’21, ’23

G. Peter O’Neill

Harold C. Parisen P’90

Kathryn McCarthy Parsons ’75

Kelly O’Connor Pasciucco ’79

Amy Paul P’16, ’18

Gitte Pedersen-Botero P’21

Angelene Pell ’57

Amanda Pitman ’90

Patricia Onderdonk Pruett

Diane Puckhaber P’07

Elizabeth Rauch Rainoff ’53

Susan Jensen Rawles ’82

Shannon Young Ray ’80

Brooke Gaffney Redmond ’90

David N. Reid P’09

Catherine S. Roberts P’96

Margot Treman Rose ’80

Sahba Sadegh-Vaziri ’82

Pamela Safford ’81

Jean Tilt Sammis ’57

Wilner Samson P’20, ’23

Susan Sappington P’06, GP’24

Nicholas Schaus P’79

Mary Bebel Schinke ’81

Staley Cayce Sednaoui ’76

Lisa Pagliaro Selz ’69

Gail Shelton P’12

Glenn A. Sieber P’09

DeBorah Bryant

Sonnenschein ’73

Donya Nagib Soriano ’90

Deborah Bell Spoehel ’75, P’14

Elizabeth Austell Straight ’68

Ruth Streeter ’72

Linda Strohmeyer P’21

Richard P. Sullivan P’83, ’84

Susan Knapp Thomas ’80

Edith Timken P’89

Abigail Trafford ’57

Elizabeth Smith

van Gemeren ’77, P’07, ’09

Emiliana Vegas ’85

Victoria Veh ’76

Carol Watson ’90, P’23

Emily R. Wick P’15

Frederick Wierdsma P’18

Abra Prentice Wilkin ’60

Terese Treman

Williams ’55, P’80

Marilyn Hodges

Wilmerding ’60

Vanessa Wilson ’76

Katharine Winship ’73

William Wrigley, Jr. P’14

WAYS TO GIVE TO WALKER’S

At the heart of Walker’s mission is our commitment to prepare students to make a difference in our world. Whether you are an alumna, parent, employee, or friend of the School, you know that service to others and a philanthropic spirit are central to who we are and what we do.

When you give to Walker’s, you participate in something bigger than all of us: a tradition of giving since 1911 that spans generations of Walker’s women, their loved ones, and countless friends and supporters. Whatever method is best for you, we thank you for making Walker’s a philanthropic priority.

Please let us help facilitate your giving. Contact us at any time about making gifts via phone, mail, online, recurring, planned, in-kind, cash wire, or stock. We are here to help.

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Christopher French Major Gifts Officer cfrench@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4256

Allie Harris ’13 Advancement Communications Coordinator aharris@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4249

Jillian Jones ’19 Advancement Assistant jillianjones@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4253

Kellie Molander Director of Annual Giving kmolander@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4250

Marion Paterson P’17, ’19 Senior Director of Development and Engagement mpaterson@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4257

Melissa Regan P’13 Major Gifts Officer mregan@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4259

Isabelle Russell Director of Stewardship and Operations irussell@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4332

Liana Sowa Advancement Database Assistant lsowa@ethelwalker.org · +1-860-408-4258

Foam party at the Ba-Na-Na

SAME MISSION. MORE IMPACT. NEW NAME.

In honor of our founding date of October 3, 1911, we are thrilled to announce that our Annual Fund has been renamed The 1911 Fund. This new name pays tribute to the philanthropic tradition since 1911 of Walker’s that spans generations of women.

Whether you’re giving for the first time, returning after time away, or increasing your support, this year, you can increase the impact of your support with The Match for Girls. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of a loyal Walker’s alumna and her husband, eligible gifts to the 2025-2026 1911 Fund will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $2,500,000!

If you increase or match your gift from last year! or

If you are a new donor!

Young Alums (2011-2025), this is for you! Join our Pepperpot Society and your gift will be matched 2:1!

Give your gift in support of what matters most to you.

Greatest Needs

Academic and FacultySupport

Financial Aid

Student Life

The Arts

Athletics and Clubs

The Match for Girls — where every gift lifts another. Thank you for your support of Walker’s.

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