CONGRATULATIONS
HARKER HISTORY
Congratulations to the Class of 2013
Nikhil Agarwal ● Rohit Agarwal ● Robert Amick ● Erik Andersen ● Kiran Arimilli ● Cobi Ashkenazi ● Priscilla Auyeung ● Neeraj Baid ● Lori Berenberg ● Paulomi Bhattacharya ● Ragini Bhattacharya ● Pranav Bheda ● Nisha Bhikha ● Neel Bhoopalam ● Joshua Bollar ● Kevin Cali ● Deniz Celik ● Leslie Chan ● Rohan Chandra ● Christopher Chang ● Albert Chen ● Jenny Chen ● Michael Chen ● Michael Cheng ● Amie Chien ● Jonathan Cho ● Aneesh Chona ● Emily Chu ● Nicholas Chuang ● Keri Clifford ● Isabelle Connell ● Siobhan Cox ● Roshan Daran ● Karan Das-Grande ● Nik Datuashvili ● Madeleine Dawson ● Ashley Del Alto ● Tiphaine Delepine ● Robert Deng ● Ria Desai ● Rahul Desirazu ● Sylvie Dobrota ● John Patrick Doherty ● Michelle Douglas ● Molly Ellenberg ● Richard Fan ● Rebecca Fang ● Vladimir Feinberg ● Sean Fernandes ● Neelima Gadagottu ● Amy Gendotti ● Justin Gerard ● Matthew Giammona ● Jasmine Gill ● Drew Goldstein ● David Grossman ● Varun Gudapati ● Akarsha Gulukota ● Sonia Gupta ● Jacob Hoffman ● Samantha Hoffman ● Patricia Huang ● Ryan Hume ● Shrreya Jain ● Neel Jani ● Cristina Jerney ● Andre Jia ● Carlos Johnson-Cruz ● Shantanu Joshi ● Reyhan Kader ● Sartajdeep Kahlon ● Amanda Kalb ● Daria Karakoulka ● Michaela Kastelman ● Zoya Khan ● Nayeon Kim ● Caroline Lai ● Cecilia Lang-Ree ● Sondra Leal Da Costa ● Joy Li ● Kevin Lin ● Victoria Lin ● Sierra Lincoln ● David Lindars ● Rebecca Liu ● Andrew Luo ● Timothy Luong ● Meera Madhavan ● Catherine Manea ● Simar Mangat ● Dorsa Massihpour ● Maverick McNealy ● Preeya Mehta ● Adrienne Mendel ● Ramakrishnan Menon ● Catalina Mihailide ● Daphne Millard ● Sumit Minocha ● Shivani Mitra ● Payal Modi ● Marissa Moser ● Ryan Mui ● Rahul Nalamasu ● Suchita Nety ● Chau Nguyen ● Chloe Nielsen ● Sean Nierat ● Gilad Nilo ● Simon Orr ● Nikhil Panu ● Isha Patnaik ● Laura Pedrotti ● Andrew Perez ● Svetlana Petrova ● Piyush Prasad ● Hannah Prutton ● Spenser Quash ● Anika RadiyaDixit ● Arvind Ramgopal ● Tara Rezvani ● Daniza Rodriguez ● Shelby Rorabaugh ● Kyle Roter ● Alison Rugar ● Nina Sabharwal ● Maya Sathaye ● Indulaxmi Seeni ● Raghav Sehtia ● Raghav Selvaraj ● Curran Shah ● Pooja Shah ● Anuj Sharma ● Pranav Sharma ● Wendy Shwe ● Arhum Siddiqui ● Sonia Sidhu ● Alan Soetikno ● Jessica Son ● Hansa Srinivasan ● Shannon Su ● Christopher Sund ● Kathir Sundarraj ● Indica Sur ● Kevin Susai ● Ashvin Swaminathan ● Eric Swenson ● Ravi Tadinada ● Renee Tam ● Apurva Tandon ● Apricot Tang ● Lynda Tang ● Joshua Tien ● Andre Tran ● Alice Tsui ● Shreya Vemuri ● Sarina Vij ● Daniel Wang ● Emily Wang ● Joseph Wang ● Amy Wardenburg ● Lydia Werthen ● Molly Wolfe ● Lorraine Wong ● Katherine Woodruff ● Iris Xia ● Justin Yang ● Wilbur Yang ● Rachel Yanovsky ● Vincent Yao ● Robert Yeats ● Michael Yu ● Eric Zhang ● Ilsa Zhang ● Michelle Zhang ● Warren Zhang
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The Harker School tradition spans more than 100 years and our roots run deep in this valley. In 1893, David Starr Jordan, then president of Stanford University, saw a need for a local preparatory school to raise the standards of academics and moral character at his university, so he encouraged biologist and Stanford graduate Frank Cramer to establish the Manzanita Hall for Boys. With similar goals in mind, Jordan inspired Catherine Harker to found the nearby Miss Harker’s School for Girls in 1902. Both schools provided a superior education and emphasized not only scholarship, but also ethics and leadership. In 1919 Manzanita Hall became the Palo Alto Military Academy (PAMA). Major Donald Nichols, who assumed leadership of PAMA in 1950, acquired Miss Harker’s School for Girls, transforming it into a coeducational day school. Major Nichols merged the two schools in 1972, and moved the school to the current Saratoga Avenue location, under the name Harker Academy. In 1973 Howard Nichols assumed leadership, and over the years phased out the military program and expanded the academic focus. Diana Nichols became the head of the school in 1983. Together, Howard and Diana Nichols led Harker’s rise to international prominence, along the way officially changing the school’s name to The Harker School. To fill the growing need for exceptional, non-religious high school education in the Bay Area, Harker expanded in 1998 to include grades 9-12. Fully enrolled since its inception, our upper school quickly earned a reputation for excellence, with students matriculating to prestigious universities throughout the world. Harker now proudly serves more than 1,800 students from kindergarten to grade 12 on three San Jose campuses. Howard and Diana Nichols retired as administrators in the spring of 2005 and Head of School Christopher Nikoloff, along with a dedicated and passionate community of faculty, students and families, continues Harker’s tradition of excellence today.
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