ULS Perspective Spring 2018 WEB|05082018

Igniting PASSIONS

Stories of Alumni who give back

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UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL 2017-18 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2017-2018 ALUMNI BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Connie Ahee

Katherine Andrecovich ’04

Anthony Alcantara ‘81

Jeffry Bauer ‘73

Bart Bronk, ex officio

Julie Borushko ‘04

William Brusilow

William Canfield ‘64 (Regional Rep)

Gloria Butler Miller

Joseph Cobb ‘04 (Regional Rep)

J. Lewis Cooper III

Paula Cornwall ‘84

Aimée Cowher

Drew Dettlinger ‘11

DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Katie Durno

Shauna Ryder Diggs

Ellie Farber ‘11

James A. Fitzgerald ‘56

John “Chip” Fowler ‘00

Karen Fox

Patsy Gotfredson ‘80

DIRECTOR OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT Stephanie Sikora

Kenneth A. Fruehauf ‘85

Jessica Hall ‘01 (Regional Rep)

Louana Ghafari, Secretary

Thomas Henry ‘61 GPUS (Regional Rep) Waref Hawasli ‘00

SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER Lauren Blue

Jason Patrick Hall Atanas Ilitch

Gail Kachadourian Howe ‘89

Patrick Mansfield

Robert Jewett ‘87

Tomasine Marx ‘78

Abigail McIntyre ‘91, President

James T. Mestdagh

Muffy Boomer Milligan ‘73

Matthew Moroun ‘91

Patrick Monahan ‘12

David A. Nicholson

Kassidy Olson ‘12

Scott A. Reilly, Treasurer

Lynn Carruthers Park ‘73

Thomas Robinson ‘80

Robin Harris Russell ‘59 (Regional Rep)

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Shelika Tate

A. Paul Schaap

Christopher Stroh ‘12, Vice-President

Shema Spivey

Anne Hildebrandt Tranchida ‘92, Secretary

ADVANCEMENT SERVICES MANAGER Genevieve Valiot

Beth Van Elslander Wood ‘89

Bart Bronk

OFFICE OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS ASSOCIATE HEAD OF SCHOOL FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS Kelley Hamilton DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Cressie Boggs

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Marina Harvey DATA RELATIONS MANAGER Trisha Shapiro

John W. Stroh III ’78, President Anne Widlak ‘70 David M. Wu ’83, Vice President Cynthia Ford, Honorary Trustee Ruth R. Glancy, Honorary Trustee William W. Shelden, Jr., Honorary Trustee

Greetings from Cook Road!

Last Spring, I was asked to speak at University Liggett School’s annual academic awards ceremony and Cum Laude induction. At the risk of being slightly iconoclastic given the occasion, I endeavored in my remarks to encourage the students, as they prepared to encounter the greater world beyond our walls, to focus not just on achievement, but rather on fulfillment. Achievement and its trappings – honors, awards, prizes, possessions, lucre – might be the “what” of their lives, but fulfillment was found in discovering their “why.”

Like any sensible orator, I borrowed from more eloquent sources to drive home my point – another school leader, no less! At the Antioch College commencement of 1859, founding president Horace Mann famously exhorted his new graduates: “I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” An editor of college publications is said to have paraphrased Mann sometime later as follows: “Our students have the audacity to believe they can make a difference in the world, and they usually do.” At University Liggett School, we have captured that same principle in our motto “Shaping Lives that Shape Lives.”

Indeed, if our current students need examples of other-centered lives of selfless service, noble purpose, and deep fulfillment, they need to look no further than those who came before.

In this issue of Perspective are contained the stories of alumni who give back. From building community in Chicago through fire-performing, to fighting for global access to clean water, to offering services and programs to victims of cancer, so many University Liggett School alumni have invested their lives in improving the lives of others. We hope you share in our collective pride about this wonderful group of people who are winning victories for humanity, one altruistic gesture at a time.

“From building community in Chicago through fire-performing, to fighting for global access to clean water, to offering services and programs to victims of cancer, so many University Liggett School alumni have invested their lives in improving the lives of others.”

– Bart Bronk Head of School

Please don’t overlook, however, the other evidence of the power of giving back within these pages. You’ll see stories and photos of the wonderful things happening here on campus: terrific student work, proud athletic accomplishments, and the construction of the John and Marlene Boll Campus Center.

None of these would be possible were it not for the charitable gifts we receive from so many alumni and friends. In giving back, you are paying forward the opportunities you had to the next generation of Knights, who, like those that came before, plan to make a difference in the world.

Warm regards,

Bart Bronk Head of School

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World War I Class Hosts Exhibit January 2018 Students in Liggett’s First World War history course presented their research during a special exhibition that explored the global conflict 100 years after its conclusion. The students, acting as docents, discussed their exhibits and research with friends, family and members of the public.

Physics Students Create Sound Proof Booths Upper School students in Scott Brunner’s light and sound waves physics class made soundproof booths from duct tape, recycled cardboard boxes, foam and other materials for students in the Lower School.

Lower School students regularly record themselves reading or doing other work throughout the school day on their iPads and needed a way to block out background noise.

Often, the students’ recordings had background noise from activities happening in the classroom, and sometimes the students had a hard time hearing themselves when documenting their work.

“We thought it would be a fun project to make recording booths. The students had to learn about what kind of materials absorb sound. You only hear yourself when you make your recording,” Brunner said.

“They had to make them so the students could fit their iPads in there.”

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Back-to-Back Champs Hockey and Tennis teams defend titles The girls’ varsity hockey team became back-toback Division 2 State Champions with a 2-0 win over Regina High School. Senior Maddie Hamilton scored both goals with freshman Kendall Zinn and junior Katie Birgbauer assisting on the first goal. Senior Olivia Yates assisted the second goal.

“It was a great way to end the season,” head coach Anna Kuehnlein said.

The No. 1 ranked boys’ tennis team defended its Division 4 state championship last fall against two tough opponents.

“We’re back-to-back state champs, but boy it was tough,” head coach Mark Sobieralski said. “It was a three-team race to the title. We knew that going in.

Our kids won some big matches.”

After the first day, the Knights, Ann Arbor Greenhills and Traverse City St. Francis were tied at the top with 24 points. Each team had all eight flights in the semifinals - with the Knights getting to the finals in seven flights, with three prevailing.

Class of 2018.

Then and Now

As third graders then: Back row from left: Tegan Jones, Maddie Fozo, Jade Shepherd, Annelies Ondersma, Alexandra Diggs, Marika Vreeken, Delaney Bandos, Kaelan Patel. Front row from left; Kelly Solak and Skye Vreeken.

Thespian Group Receives Superior Ratings The Liggett Players thespian group scored superior ratings at the Michigan Thespian State Festival in Grand Rapids. The event drew more than 1,600 participants from around the state.

The students scored superior ratings in a number of categories, and two performances received perfect scores.

Seniors Antonio Cipriano and Catey Elliott received a perfect score in the musical theater duet category and were featured in the all-state showcase. Their performance of “Only Us” from “Dear Evan Hansen” received a standing ovation.

Now: They are standing in the same order.

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Junior William Higbie also received a perfect score in the short film category. Andrew Backer, Geoffrey Elmer, Quinn Nehr, Ross Kogel, EJ Service, Isabella Tomlinson and Mary Weiermiller also received superior ratings and qualified for the national festival competition in June.

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DAR Recognizes Three Liggett Students

Tristan Shogren, Maria Fields and Victoria Ortiz were recognized by the Louisa St. Clair Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution for their submissions in the Christopher Columbus essay contest.

The contest, open to students in metro Detroit, asked students to write about what convinced the Spanish monarchy to support Christopher Columbus instead of the Spanish explorers. Tristan won first place; Maria second place; and Victoria third place. The students were honored in February at the chapter’s Youth Education and Awards Day celebration at the Country Club of Detroit.

Second-graders Share Technology at the State Capitol

Student-Athletes Sign to Play College Athletics Seven members of University Liggett School’s Class of 2018 signed National Letters of Intent to play college athletics, beginning in the fall of 2018.

Top photo: Tommy VanPelt, Maddie Fozo and Desmon Darby signed letters of intent to play college athletics.

VanPelt will play mens’ lacrosse at Vassar College, Fozo will play womens’ tennis at Bowdoin College and Darby will play football at Lake Erie College. Bottom photo: Kelly Solak will play ice hockey at Sacred Heart University; Noah Miller will play baseball at Wayne State University; Maddison Hamilton will play softball at Boston College and Will Morrison will play baseball at Western Michigan University.

Liggett second-graders, including Sonya Jayakar, Kendall Butler, Max Martin and Brooke Demchak visited the state Capitol to demonstrate to legislators and the public how they use technology to enhance learning. At the 17th annual Michigan Virtual Student Technology Showcase, the second-graders designed and created an original board game and the pieces, which they printed on a 3D printer.

“They’ve done amazing thinking and creating, and I’m excited that they showcased that in front of our state’s lawmakers,” says Instructional Technology Integrator Michael Medvinsky, who accompanied the students to Lansing.

For the conference, the students designed and created their own board games. As they went through the design process, the students realized the need for unique game pieces. Using iPads and the Morphi app, the second graders were able to draw a 2D version of their game pieces and then render a 3D model from their drawing.

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What covers the annual cost of educating a child at University Liggett school?

THE ANNUAL FUND UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL 2017-18

27% 73%

Donations

Tuition

All 592 Students Benefit

What does my donation support?

• Art and technology upgrades • Professional development for Faculty • Classroom material and enhancements • Field trips and site visits • Much more!

The Annual Fund at University Liggett School

$1.7 Million This Year’s Goal

2017-18 Participation Board of Trustees 100% Faculty and Staff 100% Parents 92% Alumni 10%

Your gift to the Annual Fund has a direct impact on our students and programs.

“Because of You” we are able to grow in community, innovation, creativity and spirit.

Support the Annual Fund today!

You can make an online gift at uls.org/annualfund. If you have questions, please contact Cressie Boggs at cboggs@uls.org or 313-884-4444, ext. 413.

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Annual Fund parent volunteers from left: Maria Quint, Jackie Pradko, Rebecca O’Reilly ‘96, DeAnn Lukas ‘85, Kristen Harthorn, parent co-chair Patsy Gotfredson ‘80 and Stacy Buhler ‘82.

Liggett’s “Because of You” Annual Fund Campaign Sets New Fundraising Record University Liggett School’s six-week “Because of You” Annual Fund parent campaign achieved a record 91 percent parent participation rate during the six-week campaign.

The overwhelming support from parents raised a total of $440,000, which will be used to enhance academic and extracurricular programs, support faculty enrichment and fund the everyday operating expenses of the school.

“This is an unprecedented level of parent participation, and we are both grateful for and humbled by our parents’ overwhelming support of this campaign,” says Cressie Boggs, Liggett’s director of development.

The 91 percent of parents who made an Annual Fund gift are joined by 100 percent of faculty, staff and the Board Trustees who also made a gift. In addition, 99 percent of senior parents made a gift.

Boggs says the 91 percent participation rate wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the school’s dedicated Annual Fund volunteers.

“We couldn’t have done it without them,” she says. “They called and wrote other parents, and they worked tirelessly to ensure the campaign would be a success.”

Since the conclusion of the six-week campaign, parents have continued to support the Annual Fund and have increased the participation rate to 92%.

To learn more or to make a gift, visit www.uls.org/annualfund.

The “Because of You” Annual Fund parent volunteers included: Patsy ’80 and Ed Gotfredson, Parent Chairs Christine and Tony ’81 Alcantara, Class of 2018 Senior Gift Chairs Stacy Buhler ‘82 Colleen Fitzgerald Kristen Harthorn Elizabeth Homsy DeAnn Lukas ‘85 Elisabeth McCourt Rebecca ’96 and Art O’Reilly Jackie and James Pradko Maria Quint Marcia Taylor

Parent co-chairs Patsy Gotfredson ‘80 and Ed Gotfredson.

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Building For Our Future!

Boll Campus Center scheduled to open in fall 2018

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John and Marlene Boll are the lead donors of the Sure Foundations campaign.

Breaking ground: From left Bart Bronk, Head of School, John Stroh, President of the Board of Governors; Marlene Boll; John Boll; Vivian Day Stroh and Joe Healey, former Head of School.

October 2017: Shortly after the groundbreaking the site was leveled, trenches for the foundation had been dug and the cement was being poured.

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Sparking “Proud Lake was a quintessential Liggett experience that started when I was 11. Now that I’m 40, I see echoes of what I did during that time in the work I do now. It’s amazing.”

Photos by Petr Mesi and Vincent Giovannone.

a sense of wonder Michael LaHood ’95 shares the beauty and safety of fire Fire is a long-present element in Michael LaHood’s life, and it’s been a satisfying way for him to connect with like-minded people wherever he goes. After studying at Stanford, he settled in San Francisco, where he worked in film, and became involved in Burning Man, the annual temporary community gathering in Nevada.

A cross-country move opened LaHood ‘95 to other fire-based events and groups.

“When I moved out of San Francisco, fire had started growing all over the country.

I came to Chicago, and the first people I looked for were my fire people,” says LaHood.

“It’s a small community, and you can get to know close friends with similar interests.”

A working fire performer with a studio in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, fire is a constant rhythm in LaHood’s life. Since 2010, he’s been involved in Full Moon Jam. “Full Moon Jam is always free and open to the public, as close to the full moon as possible each month,” LaHood says.

While the event involves fire dancing, it also features fire education, critical given the recent growth in fire-related events across the country. “We researched and repurposed a basic curriculum and realized that a lot of those who are around fire a lot don’t know the science as much as they need to. We have trained almost 1,000 people in fire safety.”

Full Moon Jam, and the safety curriculum that LaHood has developed, are communitybuilding initiatives that bind people through a sense of shared wonder and respect for the basic element of fire. But it’s also an expression of LaHood’s desire to connect seemingly

disparate elements, a purpose rooted in his approach to his art. With degrees in human biology, media and interdisciplinary art, LaHood has built a practice that shifts continually, refocusing by design.

He may practice woodworking, then teach children on Chicago’s impoverished South Side, build a community park, then work collaboratively to create a social-based game that incorporates performance. He may solder electronics to create a two-person feedback loop, an installation that illustrates how rhythms and internal states affect each other.

“I study and create projects that represent how we perceive each other, how we perceive the world and how we interact,” says LaHood. “How humans on an individual, and a cultural level aggregate into a much larger thing.”

Liggett Middle School outdoor education at Proud Lake was LaHood’s first awareness of interdisciplinary connections. “Things that weren’t supposed to fit together did, and there was an elegance that transcends any one subject, for a deeper understanding across new subjects,” he says. As an upperclassman, LaHood served as a camp counselor at Proud Lake and furthered his respect for the program.

“I wasn’t aware of the impact it would have on me. It set a strong framing for realizing how much I loved working with what pulled me along to the next question. Proud Lake was a quintessential Liggett experience that started when I was 11. Now that I’m 40, I see echoes of what I did during that time in the work I do now. It’s amazing.”

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Helping Others Help Themselves Tascha Alvarez von Gustedt ‘91 empowers others through Water.org On March 22, Tascha Alvarez von Gustedt ‘91 celebrated World Water Day. In her role in the strategic alliances department for Water.org, she’s highly aware of the global water crisis and the critical need for sanitation and clean water everywhere. She works to secure funding from high-level donors to continue the non-governmental organization’s mission of enabling access to clean, safe water and sanitation to people in developing countries through the use of micro-financing.

“Giving poor people a small loan to build a toilet, or a connection to a water line, is incredibly successful,” says Alvarez von Gustedt. “The repayment rate is 99 percent, and when the money is repaid, it is used elsewhere. It has a much bigger impact because it’s sustainable.”

“Going to Liggett really made me the person I am, in a lot of ways. It expanded my horizons.”

By providing a water credit approach rather than a direct action of building a well, Water.org loans funds to individuals to improve their immediate environment, thus meeting their basic needs and empowering them at the same time.

“Water is a key issue, and it has crosscutting implications on health and economic development, especially for women and girls who often walk long distances to collect water. To do this work and know I’m helping people survive and have a better life, it’s incredibly rewarding,” says Alvarez von Gustedt.

Born in Madrid to Spanish and German parents, Alvarez von Gustedt spent her senior year as an exchange student at Liggett and graduated with her class in 1991. Her global perspective offers her daily insight into a wide variety of situations and communities that can benefit from improved access to clean water and sanitation. And when she knows she has helped Water.org make an impact, those are the best situations of all.

“Working from home in front of the computer, you tend to lose perspective; but I have traveled to some of the countries where we have projects, and that has been so wonderful,” she says. “I was in India several years ago, and we met with a group of women, who are the ones who typically take out the loans.

An elderly woman stood up to tell us about how her life had changed, thanks to the toilet she was able to install.”

Living in Grosse Pointe and going to school at Liggett, as an American teenager for a year was an enlightening experience, she says. Going to Liggett really made me the person I am, in a lot of ways. It expanded my horizons.

“I already had a little bit of an international background, so thanks to my parents I was more open-minded than the average Spaniard. But to travel abroad to see what others’ interests are contributed to who I am today.

My year in Grosse Pointe is one of the happiest in my life.”

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Giving from the H.A.R.T. Thomas Graves, M.D. ’78 visits Haiti to provide medical support In 2002, Thomas Graves ‘78 traveled to Guatemala to apply his skills as a family practice physician to people in need of medical help. It was a trip he put off for many years, when he was otherwise busy raising children and building his medical practice. But the experience impacted him so profoundly, that he can’t imagine living a life not giving back.

“I just loved it,” Graves says. “People are so grateful.

They have so little, and their need is great. It gave me such joy, and when I came home, I had a newfound gratitude for things I took for granted.”

After a few mission trips to Honduras and the Dominican Republic, Graves recognized the best parts of the trips were giving school supplies, medical care and soccer balls to kids. That’s when he started working with St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church

in Grosse Pointe to form the Haiti and Africa Relief Team, or H.A.R.T., a group of individuals dedicated to international medical relief efforts.

“In the beginning, it was hard to rustle up a team.

But for the last five years, we have had a two- to threeyear waiting list,” says Graves, who typically visits Haiti once or twice each year with a team of 25 to 30 doctors, nurses, dentists and support staff. Others never travel, but offer their skills on the ground at home to make the magic happen. Graves says the organization can’t exist without these generous people who work outside the limelight to help children and families they will never actually see.

Until the Ebola virus outbreak, the group made occasional visits to Africa, but now work primarily in Haiti, a country with profound need.

“Haiti is an absurdly poor country. Kids will step on a rock and get an infection from a cut, and literally die. So, we bring shoes and food and educational materials. If people can learn English, they will have a chance to get a much better job,” Graves explains.

Three years ago, H.A.R.T. coordinated the construction of a church and provided employment for residents to help build. The effort was a structure sturdy enough even to withstand Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

To prepare for each visit, the team carries antibiotics and pain, blood pressure, and diabetes pills, along with wheel chairs, glasses, soccer balls, candy and other items.

Graves has discovered that when he talks about his work here at home, people reach out to help in any way they can. Last year, his team transported a wheelchair

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“No man is an island, and every person’s life touches another. That was always the expectation at Liggett. It was emphasized that we are all in this together. Don’t just grab and go, but help everyone else.”

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for a young boy unable to walk due to cerebral palsy, who was confined to the mud floor of his home all day while his mother worked. An airline worker asked about the wheelchair, and after learning about their efforts, waived the fees on the additional bags of supplies the entire team was carrying.

This is what Graves calls “the ripple effect,” unexpected kindness that extends the team’s efforts.

Teamwork and kindness are values Graves traces back to his days at Liggett, where support was freely given.

“Mr. Trofi was a beloved English teacher, but I was never his student. I heard that he was helpful at formulating essays, and he met with me and we talked. He was a giving person, and it was just so beautiful,” Graves says.

“No man is an island, and every person’s life touches another. That was always the expectation at Liggett. It was emphasized that we are all in this together. Don’t just grab and go, but help everyone else,” he says.

Learn more about H.A.R.T. at www.h-a-r-t.org.

At Cass Community Social Services, Liggett students prepped and cooked meals for men, women and children who currently call the shelter home. While part of the group was working in the kitchen, another group worked in the shredding building, where they sorted outdated paperwork by color, shredded it and then bundled it into large “hay-like bales” for future recycling.

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He’s on Your Side Jeffry Bauer ’73 supports disaster relief through the American Red Cross Jeffry Bauer’s professional business card probably says that he’s a practicing attorney, specializing in securities, commodities, communications and commercial law. It may mention that he is an arbitrator and mediator, and counsel to small business and individuals.

disaster IT volunteer for all 83 counties in Michigan.

There is a dizzying array of additional roles that Bauer serves – too many, in fact, to fit on a single business card. He’s been involved with the American Red Cross since returning from active duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in 1983. A tenant in Bauer’s Grosse Pointe Park duplex worked in Red Cross public affairs and persuaded Bauer to attend an introductory class in damage assessment. It was a hard sell, but Bauer became deeply interested in the organization’s work.

But Bauer’s volunteer business card, if he had one, would say he’s a volunteer partner to the regional director of Information Technology End User Services for the Central Region of the U.S. for the American Red Cross. As one of two national volunteers at his “Starting in maybe fourth grade, level, Bauer ‘73 manages I was in a tie and jacket every day “volunteers in IT on our corporate side of the house of my education. I didn’t like it from the Canadian border at the time, but in retrospect, to Puerto Rico.”

I can see the benefit of it.”

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six with state police.”

“I can’t even tell you how many classes I have taken and retaken over 34 years,” says Bauer. “Maybe 100 classes with the Red Cross, and 100 with FEMA, and six with the Coast Guard, and six with the Detroit Fire Department and

Knowledgeable in disaster and emergency response, and certified in operations management, Bauer can run

small- to medium-sized disaster relief operations. But he says it’s been an evolutionary process of learning different functions and duties. “We respond annually, on average in the U.S., to 72,000 disasters in the 50 states and American territories,” he says.

Liggett’s prekindergarten students donated mittens and books, and wrapped them in homemade wrapping paper. The gifts were donated to Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan.

Bauer remains professionally focused in the face of an event response. “I don’t think about it that much,” he says. “It would be easy for me or anyone to become emotionally overwhelmed by the things you do. But that would make you ineffective. In my 34 years, I have seen things that other people have not seen, or dreamed of, or read about.”

This includes relief for Florida victims of Hurricane Andrew, and coordinated care for a visit to Detroit Metro Airport by Pope John Paul II. It also includes responding to the August 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 disaster in Detroit, which killed 148 passengers, six crew members and two individuals on the ground.

Several eighth grade students gathered and prepared care packages for patients at the Henry Ford Cancer Center.

“That was something that I never anticipated I would ever do.

Never see, or encounter,” Bauer says.

Throughout Bauer’s experiences, he has relied on his ability to interact effectively with people on all levels, and a sense of personal discipline – a skill he learned early on at GPUS. “Starting in maybe fourth grade, I was in a tie and jacket every day of my education. I didn’t like it at the time, but in retrospect, I can see the benefit of it,” Bauer says. He’s also guided by his favorite book, “Make Your Bed” by Vice Admiral William McRaven (Ret.), the highest-ranked Navy Seal.

“It’s the 10 principles that guide Seals. No. 1 is make your bed. Wake in the morning, and the first thing you do is create a victory by making your bed.

A group of juniors spent the day at Gleaners Community Food Bank packing and organizing more than 1,200 pounds of food for distribution to soup kitchens, food pantries and other organizations throughout southeast Michigan.

The Lower School students collected gift cards, books, toys and clothes for families in Detroit.

More than 100 gifts were donated by Lower School families. The items were donated to Crossroads of Michigan.

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A Transforming Experience Molly Marco ’98 reaches out to those with cancer On a morning just like any other, Molly Marco ‘98 ran to the gym, did strength training, then headed to her office for a typical day of work. When she got there, she felt nauseous and fainted. She found herself in the emergency room where doctors told her she had a brain tumor. Eventually, she’d learn the name for her tumor: grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma of the left temporal lobe.

It may have been growing for as long as 10 years.

As unlikely as it seems, Marco has found strength in her diagnosis by turning her experience into knowledge and support for those around her.

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business. But the highlight of each day comes when Marco connects with others who have brain cancer.

While Marco nurtures relationships with the medical community that provides her care, she says there is nothing more emotionally healing than empathy from someone with the same condition. “What I started doing is finding people who have what I have who will talk me through it. There is a time when you want to talk to other patients. It’s so rare and scary,” Marco says.

With the knowledge of the benefit she gained from talking with others, Marco started to build community through Twitter and Instagram, with an overwhelmingly positive response.

Using the hashtags #braintumor, #braincancer, #astrocytoma, #chemo, and #BTSM (brain tumor social

media), Marco has established an active center of emotional support for people across the globe.

As with any giveback effort, Marco is getting as much as she gives.

“When I talk to someone who is scared and freaked out, it puts me in a new place where I give my perspective to help others,” she says. “It’s so amazing. Social media is very public, but people, especially young women, message me constantly.”

A younger, tech-savvy crowd flocks to social media to share and connect, unlike older generations, who generally keep quiet about medical issues. “Most assume you don’t want to talk about cancer. I love talking about it, and it helps me.

It helps people even without cancer.

“This is the best Mostly, it changes their perspective worst thing that has about what they ever happened to me, tend to complain because now I feel about,” says Marco.

like I have a purpose.”

Marco says she never thought she’d run out of time, and that she’d live 80 or 90 years. But coming face-to-face with the brevity of life keeps her from putting off reaching out to people.

For her outreach efforts, Marco was nominated as a Keeping the Faith Honoree during the Detroit’s 2017 Head for the Cure 5K. “It was awesome to be with a group of people fighting the same battle as I am. And we are all alive, or most of us are.

It’s a feeling like you matter. You are still here, and you can make a difference,” she says, adding that watching TED talks motivates Marco to be a more active voice for those with cancer of all types.

Overall, life, with all of its challenges, is about perspective, Marco says. “This is the best worst thing that has ever happened to me, because now I feel like I have a purpose. I have never been happier. It sounds messed up and weird, but it’s true.

Perspective is huge.”

Students in the Middle School spent the day before winter break participating in a full day of service around the school. The middle schoolers created holiday cards with first-graders and read books to the prekindergarteners.

The Middle School adopted 40 special needs students from Nichols Elementary and Middle School in Detroit and shopped for them during the holiday season in December.

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A Loss that Inspired Erica Denham ’95 honors her brother through her nonprofit Erica Denham was living in San Francisco in June 2006, when she learned that her only sibling, Kyle Denham ‘98, was killed in an automobile accident. He was just 25, and he was Erica’s best friend.

A scholar-athlete and lifer at University Liggett School, Kyle went on to earn degrees in political science and public policy at Duke University. He was a businessman and an aspiring sports attorney.

“I wondered if I would ever be able to smile again,” Erica says.

As Denham ‘95 moved forward in life, she channeled her grief into a nonprofit she founded as a way to create scholarships, initially for future Liggett students. The organization, called Inspired by Thee, has awarded more than $25,000 to Liggett students since 2007, and has a goal of raising $85,000 in the next five years to create an endowment for the Kyle Alan Denham Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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In a larger sense, Denham is working to build a supportive community, through scholarships and interpersonal connections.

“For me, I literally grew up at Liggett, with all my classmates.

My experience at Liggett helped me build confidence. Liggett is my family.”

As a communications strategy manager, Erica uses her corporate knowhow and business skills to further develop scholarship offerings through Inspired by Thee, including:

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attending a college or university in Michigan. * The Heart of a Champion award (still under development) to benefit a student who has experienced significant loss, yet has found a way to excel, either academically or by giving back to his or her own community in a significant way.

“I really want to make Inspired

by Thee an organization that inspires people who have been impacted by loss,” Erica says, reflecting on her own need to connect with others after her brother’s death. “I want to create a community of support and engage people in a fun way. We are there for them.”

While attending Liggett, the Denham siblings were Ewald Scholars, and Erica recognizes the value of paying forward the confidence and financial support afforded to her and Kyle.

“We benefitted from financial aid and scholarships, so anything we can do to help out, we want to do that,” says Erica.

At Liggett, small classrooms and enriching academic

and cultural experiences helped Erica achieve success, leading her to an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Emory University.

As part of the African American Awareness Association at Liggett, Erica wrote and produced a play when she was a sophomore.

“It was a celebration of African American history, and included kindergarteners through twelfth-graders. There was a choir, and dancers,” Erica says. “The performance was standing room only, just electrifying. It was a really amazing experience.”

So significant was the play’s impact on Erica, she chose to share her experience with civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Mamie Till-Mobley, when, as a senior at Liggett, she participated in the Rosa Parks Pathways to Freedom program.

“I have a picture of that moment I shared my play with Rosa Parks and Mamie Till, and from that moment, I knew I’d use that photo when I applied to Stanford. It was a defining moment in life, standing on that stage, at that moment,” she says.

She shares with humility that people have suggested she run for public office, and she speaks with the confidence and optimism of a politician. For now, Erica is not saying whether or not an election campaign is in her future.

“That idea makes me laugh. I guess I’m a visionary. When I see something, and get an idea in my head, I figure out how to make it happen,” she says, admitting that her formative experiences at Liggett have helped her grow and thrive, always confident to pursue big dreams.

“For me, I literally grew up at Liggett, with all my classmates.

My experience at Liggett helped me build confidence. Liggett is my family.”

Learn more about Inspired by Thee at www.inspiredbythee.com.

Liggett’s Modern and Classical Language Department raised more than $2,200 in a Penny War to benefit the people of Puerto Rico after hurricanes Maria and Irma hit the island. The money supported the grassroots efforts of an extended member of the Liggett family: muralist Carla Rivera, a resident of Puerto Rico and aunt of current student Nicole Rivera and Liggett alumnus Nick Rivera ‘17. Carla had a team of neighbors working out of her garage in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, to put together care packages of food, water, toiletries and batteries for those in need.

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Connie Wineman as a junior (front row, second from right) in her 1962 yearbook.

An Activist Enriches the Lives of Children Connie Wineman Jacob ’63 LIG supports summer camp experiences for kids with cancer On 87 acres of pristine, verdant land in Gold Creek, Mont., sits Camp Mak-A-Dream, a memory-making destination specifically designed for children with cancer. Surrounded by mountains, the camp has been serving kids since it was established in 1995 by Michiganders Sylvia and Harry Grenadier.

For years, Connie Wineman Jacob ‘63 LIG has worked tirelessly to build awareness for the camp, and to help send Michigan children to Camp Mak-A-Dream for lifechanging summer camp experiences.

Children and teens who have been diagnosed with cancer, who are in remission or not in remission, visit the camp for one impactful week, cost free.

The camp serves as many as 85 Michigan campers each summer, and about 1,200 Michigan children and teens have visited since it opened.

The camp also supports those with ovarian cancer through a spring retreat program, and has a young adult conference, as well.

“Because the founders came from Michigan, we have a special relationship with the camp, and we have a director here. We send as many kids as we can from Michigan, and sometimes half of the kids at the camp are from Michigan,” says Jacob.

Jacob, in part, is dedicated to Camp Mak-A-Dream as a way to honor her husband, who was an original board member for the camp. He worked as an ear, nose and throat specialist in Detroit for 30 years before he died.

“We continued his dedication and his legacy.”

In her husband’s memory, Jacob helped create a miniature golf course to add to the climbing wall, nature center, riding stables, and archery field at the camp.

As a child, and as a student at The Liggett School, Jacob enjoyed a culture of giving back that has supported her in her work with Camp Mak-A-Dream, even today.

“My grandfather started the North End Clinic in Detroit, which was a place for Jewish doctors to practice, and he ended up founding Sinai Hospital in Detroit,” Jacob says.

During her years at The Liggett School, she volunteered in the hospital, helping patients and interacting with them socially. After she married her husband, Jacob worked in hospital settings wherever they traveled. She also worked in the burn clinic at Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

Always encouraged to do her best by Miss Katharine Ogden, Headmistress of The Liggett School from 19281964, Jacob says she and her classmates thrived at school.

All the benefit of Miss Ogden’s wisdom and support is paid forward through Jacob as she gives back to Camp Mak-A-Dream. “It’s an honor to be able to be a part of this,” Jacob says. “Part of it is working with such phenomenal people, but it’s also how it changes my life.

It is all about the children who can forget their cancer for one week. It is truly rewarding.”

“K.O. instilled values in me of giving and being part of something like Liggett every single day, to be about change, and to be an activist, and to always give back to your community in some small way.”

Learn more about Camp Mak-ADream at www.campdream.org.

Each year, Jacob helps organize and host a benefit at the Somerset Collection to raise money to send kids to camp each summer. Her children chair this event, and all her grandchildren love working and participating with her amongst friends and board members.

“It’s astonishing to meet and be with these campers at our event. We share in their happiness about being together. We learn about what they go through and how camp changes their lives, and we see how they are a support system for each other,” says Jacob.

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Connie Wineman (far right) was a member of the Rivista staff in 1962.

There’s Power in Energy James Cargas ’84 brings efficient energy to devastated communities Like so many in his class, James Cargas has achieved much since his days at Liggett – a time when, on occasion, his class would unify and wear togas to school.

“If you are not in uniform they can send you home, but if everybody is not in uniform, they can’t send you home,” he says.

Today, Cargas serves as a Senior Assistant City Attorney for Energy for Houston, the energy hub of the country.

It may not always be apparent to the residents of the nation’s fourth largest city, but Cargas works daily to save taxpayers money on the city’s energy bill. We have great bargaining power, and I negotiate deals that most folks can’t,” Cargas says. “I’m proud of the fact that Houston’s taxpayers are getting a great deal on energy.”

“Harvey was rough. As we rebuild, there is an opportunity to rebuild better, and we will help this charity do that. We will help them pay for the electrical work, pay for more energy efficient equipment, like air conditioning to be installed, and maybe some solar panels.”

“There were so many great teachers, and small class sizes.

Ms. Colby headed the debate team, which is where I really learned how to put arguments together, how to think on my feet. It was great preparation for law school,”

As the eighth largest purchaser of renewable energy in the country, 85 percent of Houston’s energy load is green, Cargas says. A 2017 installation of a 50-megawatt solar plant in Alpine, Texas, translates to inexpensive energy for city meters for the next five years. “With the solar plant viable, it guarantees the city that a portion of our load will come from solar power for a nice, solid 20 years,” Cargas says. The retrofit of all 550 Houston city buildings with energy efficient elements contributes to the city’s frugal energy use.

When Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston last summer, Cargas, as president of the Houston chapter of the Energy Bar Association, rallied the association’s charitable foundation to raise money nationally to help with the recovery. With a goal of not duplicating relief allocated by FEMA or insurance claims, Cargas’s team focused on energy-related efforts that fell through the cracks.

Energy is a hot topic for Cargas, and serves as a platform for his 2018 race for U.S. Congress. “District Seven is the west side of Houston, which includes the energy corridor,” says Cargas.

“The vast majority of energy companies in Texas have their headquarters here. The person in this seat should be a strong advocate for a national energy policy, including traditional oil and gas, as well as solar and wind renewable energy.”

But Cargas also says he built his foundation of public service in the halls of University Liggett School. “There were so many great teachers. Ms. Colby headed the debate team, which is where I really learned how to put arguments together, how to think on my feet. It was great preparation for law school,” Cargas says. “Ms. Remillet really helped me to learn to write well, and I was involved in theater doing lighting. I had a lot of really great experiences at Liggett.”

James Cargas (far right) with classmates in 1984.

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Building Brighter Futures New Yorker Jennifer Dossin ’71 helps inner city students reach their educational potential Students at inner city schools often don’t have access to college counseling and the intensive support they need to create college lists, craft essays and stay on top of deadlines during college application season. Teachers and guidance counselors simply don’t have the necessary time or resources, and as a result, students can miss opportunities for higher education.

Jennifer Dossin with Vanessa Kilpatrick, head of college counseling at The Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts.

became one of Dossin’s favorite tasks. “Students tend to be modest about their talents and circumstances, and not recognize what is beautiful and unique about them. So, we pull that out and encourage them to put it in their essay,” she says.

For the 15-20 hours a week Dossin has dedicated to her students, she has gained a deeper understanding of a world she might never have experienced.

“I gained insight into another end of the economic community, and the challenges that one might breezily read about in the newspaper. To see it is a completely different experience from reading about it,” she says.

“I also learned how to be patient and allow someone to discover for him or herself what the next steps are. That’s important. Each decision has to be wholly owned by that individual, and that requires patience,” she says.

Jennifer Dossin ‘71 enjoyed supporting her son when he applied to colleges, so she jumped at the chance to mentor students at a high school in Harlem.

“I also learned how to be Through an organization called patient and allow someone ReServe, Inc. in a collaborative effort to discover for him or with AmeriCorps and The Urban herself what the next steps Assembly, Dossin has spent the last seven years at Urban Assembly are. That’s important. Each School for the Performing Arts decision has to be wholly working with Vanessa Kilpatrick, its owned by that individual, dedicated college counselor, guiding and that requires patience.” students through choices, deadlines and paperwork for college entry.

Leveraging the skills she developed through her entrepreneurial career in publishing, Dossin has brought creativity, organization and focus to her role.

“Some of the students’ parents might not speak English, so they might have difficulty in navigating the application process. There also are parents, certainly interested in supporting their kid’s efforts, with demanding workloads or health issues,” says Dossin.

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Her longevity in the role means Dossin can witness the fruits of her labor.

“It’s really delightful seeing some of my students, who are now full of knowledge and advice, give back. I love seeing that they have confidence about the choice they have made. They are graduating from college, and are working or are in grad school.”

Recalling many volunteer projects during her years at Liggett, Dossin says she appreciates how Liggett responded to needs in the Detroit community.

“I loved the outreach we did during my era to the city of Detroit,” she says. “There were initiatives in 11th or 12th grade such as Saturday tutoring elementary school students and rehabbing homes on Hobart Street. This was in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, which was a politically charged time in Detroit. I felt our school responded to that.”

PERSPECTIVE: OFFICE OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Dear Friends, I am pleased to report that the 2017-2018 school year has been marked by great achievement and generosity and, even better, the opportunities that lie ahead are also tremendously exciting.

“We are also working hard to build our endowment and expand our Annual Fund since both of these important resources allow us to support our faculty, staff and students in critical ways - allowing us to continue our tradition of being the oldest and very best independent school in the metro Detroit area.”

– Kelley Hamilton Associate Head of School for External Relations

On the heels of our strongest fundraising year in the school’s history, we continue to find reason to celebrate. Our “Because of You” parent Annual Fund campaign was supported by 92% of our families, Liggett Knight raised nearly $500,000 and the John A. and Marlene Boll Campus Center construction continues to proceed on schedule. It has been thrilling to watch the building go up, and I encourage you to visit www.uls.org/BollCenter to see the progress for yourself.

Just outside this new building we will install a courtyard filled with engraved brick pavers that will greet students, faculty and visitors as they enter the Boll Campus Center. These pavers are available in two sizes and offer you a chance to make your mark while supporting the next chapter of University Liggett School. For more information or to purchase your own personalized paver, visit www.uls.org/PaverLegacy.

While the new Boll Campus Center is crucial to our success, our future isn’t limited to only physical improvements of the campus.

We are also working hard to build our endowment and expand our Annual Fund since both of these important resources allow us to support our faculty, staff and students in critical ways - allowing us to continue our tradition of being the oldest and very best independent school in the metro Detroit area.

As we head into spring and Alumni Weekend draws near, I hope to see you on campus so you can see for yourself all of the great things that are happening at our school thanks to your generous support!

Thank you!

Kelley Hamilton Associate Head of School for External Relations

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E X P L O R I N G PA S S I O N S .

UNCOVERING QUESTIONS. DISCOVERING ANSWERS.

Join us at 7 p.m. May 29, 30 and 31 See first-hand what our seniors uncovered from their Academic Research Projects. To learn more about Liggett’s Academic Research Program, visit www.uls.org/ARP

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We work hard to create a quality magazine that keeps you up-to-date on the news from campus and all around the University Liggett School community. If you would like to support our effort, please make a gift today at www.uls.org/GiveNow. Do you know of an alumni that is not receiving Perspective? Have them contact Katie Durno at kdurno@uls.org to get on the mailing list.

STUDENT PERSPECTIVE

Senior Olivia Ponte ‘18 Makes a Positive Impact on the Liggett Community

By Olivia Ponte ‘18

I first came to Liggett as a timid freshman, not knowing a single person in my class. It was daunting at first, but as soon as I started to get to know the school and the people, I knew I was in the right place.

I also knew I wanted to give back to this community. This is why I ran for Upper School student commission all four years.

I was elected senior class president this year, and I want to do everything I can to use this opportunity to make a positive impact.

One of the first things I did on student commission was organize “Kid’s Night.”

This was an event back in December for Lower School students to hang out with their friends and Upper School students for the night, giving parents time to get some holiday shopping done or just have a night out. Kids and chaperones alike had a great time, and the proceeds went towards Upper School student activities.

Outside of student commission, I am also the Liggett Relay for Life team captain.

Even though the actual event is not until summer, I wanted to start fundraising early so that we can give as much as we can to the American Cancer Society. So, I helped organize a bake sale in January, where all

of the proceeds went towards our school’s Relay for Life team. We had eight tables full of donated baked goods and plenty of customers all day long, making this the most successful Relay for Life bake sale in school history.

The next project for student commission was selling “candy-grams” in February.

These little, personalized notes that go to teachers or friends are not only a school tradition, but also a fun way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. However, due to our early start and success, the Upper School student commission has met its fundraising goal.

So, all of the proceeds from this event will also be going towards the school’s Relay for Life team.

I love being a student at Liggett because I am able to offer and implement new ideas.

I am able to give back to both the Liggett community, as well as the community beyond the school. Lastly, I never have to work alone, thanks to my classmates and teachers who always help and support me.

Being a Liggett student is a special opportunity that I am immensely thankful to have had.

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Lacrosse Field Named in Memory of George Thanasas ‘17 Last June, we suffered an unthinkable loss when George Thanasas ‘17 unexpectedly passed away shortly after his graduation.

George truly gave his all for his teammates and for Liggett. When I think of George, I think of his smile.

He had a carefree and friendly personality, and he had the ability to make others feel comfortable.

He loved life, and it was evident in everything he did. I have fond memories of George. It was an honor to know him; the Liggett community will miss him dearly.

To remember George, the University Liggett School Class of 2018, which includes his sister Maria, initiated a $500,000 campaign to name the school’s lacrosse field and install a scoreboard in his memory.

Each member of the class has made a gift to this initiative, along with other members of our community and Assumption Church members.

All proceeds from this campaign will support the continuing expansion and renovation of Liggett’s athletic facilities and programs, from which George took so much joy.

– Coach Mike Costanzo George decided in his senior year to open himself up to a new challenge of playing on the varsity hockey team. He achieved small hurdles on a weekly basis and on our annual Traverse City trip vs. Toledo St. John’s, George scored his first and only goal of the season.

His smile of accomplishment and the individual celebration that seemed to go on for minutes was something we as a team and coaching staff will never forget. George lived out our team motto. He not only left the hockey program better than he found it, but he made all of us who knew him better.

George’s beaming smile and easy laugh brightened our days, and his calm determination, keen intellect and spirit were an inspiration for everyone who knew and loved him.

With your support, future generations of students will step onto The George Thanasas Lacrosse Field with the example of George’s remarkable life close to mind and heart.

For more information about George, or to donate, visit www.uls.org/Thanasas.

– Coach Mike Hamilton

George was one of the coolest, most even-keeled young men I have ever met.

He had the perfect amount of confidence, and his smile was contagious. As a student-athlete, he always managed to keep things in balance - he worked hard yet had fun; he took things seriously yet he could laugh at himself; he was fiercely competitive yet he could learn from a loss. I have many fond memories of George both on the field and in the classroom. I will always remember the kindness he showed to the people around him. He loved people, and people loved him back.

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LIGGETT

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Liggett Knight Raises Nearly Half a Million Dollars University Liggett School’s annual fall fundraiser, Liggett Knight, raised nearly $500,000 to support innovation and technology, academic initiatives, building improvements, athletics and more.

This was the sixth year for Liggett Knight, which has raised in total $2.17 million since its inception.

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The November event, held at the Detroit Athletic Club, included live, silent and fishbowl auctions as well as a special paddle-raising for innovation initiatives at University Liggett School.

The Innovation Fund paddle-raising alone generated $138,000 for innovation initiatives at the school, allowing students to discover new ideas and solutions to problems, and to have access to devices such as 3D printers, laser cutters and virtual reality equipment.

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1. Back row from left: Eddie Thomas ‘12, Rahsaan Trice ‘12, Meghan Berkery ‘12, Stavros Bricolas ‘12, Brendan Clancy ‘12, Christopher Stroh ‘12, Drew Dettlinger ‘11, Patrick Monahan ‘12, Greg Jones ‘07 and Chris Monsour ‘12. Front row from left: Katherine Parthum ‘12, Haley Smith, Shernaz Minwalla, Bharath Kotha ‘12 and Kassidy Olson ‘12. 2. Brendan Clancy ‘12, Bharath Kotha ‘12, Stavros Bricolas ‘12 and Greg Jones ‘07. 3. Jason and Sarah Havlik. 4. Chris Monsour ‘12, Kassidy Olson ‘12 and Alexis Walker 5. Gloria Butler Miller and Joe Miller 6. Christopher Stroh ‘12 and Alexis Walker 7. Celia Wade and Anne Ugval 8. Stephen and Suzanne Francis and John and Mary Malewicz.

9. Marcia Taylor and Laura Clutterbuck 10. Jennah Johnson, Mandy Johnson and Carla Haladjian 11.

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Alumni Weekend 2018!

Friday, May 18 - Saturday, May 19 We’ll see you here!

2018 Alumni Weekend Schedule of Events Friday, May 18

Saturday, May 19

11 a.m. – noon

9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Pen Pal “Meet and Greet” for 50th Reunion Alumni Location: 5th Grade Classrooms

• 3rd Annual Guided Historical Bus Tour of Detroit with Faculty Emeritus David Backhurst Location: Meet at University Liggett School Main Entrance Fee: $10 per person

noon – 2 p.m.

• Lunch and Learn: With Head of School Bart Bronk and 2018 Distinguished Alumni Keith Richburg ‘76 Location: University Liggett School Tarik Ibrahim ’99 Commons

10 a.m. – noon • All-Alumni “Junior Knights“ Play Date Location: Lower School Playground (weather permitting) 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Keith Richburg ‘76

• 2018 Distinguished Alumni Induction Ceremony of journalist Keith Richburg ‘76/ All-Alumni Cocktail Reception Location: University Liggett School Manoogian Arts Wing Fee: $20 per person

5 – 7 p.m.

7:30 – 10 p.m.

• “Golden Knights” Cocktail Party with Head of School Bart Bronk Location: Head of School’s home, 510 Chalfonte, Grosse Pointe Farms

• All-Alumni & Reunion Class Dinners Location: University Liggett School Manoogian Arts Wing Dance Studio Fee: $25 per person

Register online now at www.uls.org/AlumniWeekend

Milestone Reunions: A Reason to Celebrate!

If your graduation year ends in a “3” or an “8” you will be celebrating a milestone reunion this year. However, all alumni are invited and encouraged to come to campus to enjoy any of our alumni weekend events - regardless of when you graduated!

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PARENT PERSPECTIVE

We Made The Right Decision with Liggett

By Tony Smith and Elena Centeio

My name is Tony Smith and my wife is Elena Centeio.

We currently have two sons at University Liggett School: Stewart ’21 in the Upper School and Tony Jr. ’28 in the Lower School. We moved to the metro Detroit area from New York in 2016 and are in our second year at Liggett.

Prior to moving to this area, our boys attended an independent school in New York City. They were in a nurturing environment, and they looked forward to going to school daily. Their biggest challenge in the transition from New York was leaving their friends. Our biggest challenge as parents was finding the right school that they would love as much as their former school.

In looking at independent schools in this area, I immediately recognized similarities between Liggett and their former school: empowering the student, creating and maintaining a safe and nurturing environment and teaching the student to be a critical thinker. Dr. Healey was also a connection because he was the head of their former school prior to coming to Liggett. As a result, the decision to send them to Liggett was a “no brainer” because we felt that Liggett was the best partner for us, ensuring a great education and all-around experience for our sons. We are very happy with our decision; the overall experience for them has been great.

We had an incident occur a few months ago, which assured us that we made the right decision. Tony broke his ankle ice skating in the McCann Arena. It was his 8th birthday party. He and I left abruptly for the ER prior to singing “Happy Birthday.” He was upset to have missed the pizza and cake. His mom stayed at the party and entertained the guests and blew out the candles. We were so touched by the outpouring

of concern shown to Tony by his schoolmates. With the help of Mr. Medvinsky, the entire 2nd grade communicated with him via Facetime, while he was home for two days. They also made a beautiful card that was signed by the entire 2nd grade and delivered to our home by Mrs. Coyro. Upon his return to school, his schoolmates brought the wheelchair out to help him get around school daily. They were enthusiastic and seemed to never tire of helping Tony and making sure that he was comfortable during the six weeks that he was wearing his cast. The outpouring of concern is something that we will never forget. I am also certain that he will always remember his 8th birthday. He was extremely happy to get back to reading in class, which is his favorite thing to do. He also enjoys playing chess after school.

Dr. Muller’s biology class is Stewart’s favorite. He also loves playing varsity soccer for Coach Dwaihy.

Elena and I appreciate the dedication of the teachers primarily in the Upper School because they avail themselves to provide additional support to the students (if needed). We enjoy the use of SeeSaw in the Lower School because it provides a glimpse into what Tony does daily and allows us to comment in real-time.

It also makes me feel connected to the classroom. Tony gets a kick out of the fact that I sometimes comment on SeeSaw. We also love the school’s proximity to our home.

We cannot properly express how amazing the Liggett community has been in welcoming our family. We have met some amazing people and made great friends in a very short time. We are extremely grateful to the kindness that has been shown to us by the teachers, administrators, parents and students. We feel extremely blessed to be a part of this very special community.

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Thank You to Our

Corporate Sponsors Advertising at University Liggett School is a unique way to support the extraordinary opportunities that our students receive and promote your business at the same time.

There are many ways to advertise your business – on our sports fields, at McCann Ice Arena, with our theater program or with our robotics program. For more information, please contact Trisha Shapiro at 313-884-4444 ext. 411 or tshapiro@uls.org.

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PERSPECTIVE: ALUMNI

“We wouldn’t be the school we are today without your help, so thank you for making us a priority.”

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Palm Beach March 2018

1. Tom Henry ‘61 GPUS 2. Annette Geddes ‘63 LIG, Lore Dodge ‘68 GPUS and BB Friedburg Reis ‘69 GPUS 3. Front row from left: Lore Dodge ’68 GPUS, Sharon Ann Queeney-Weintz ’60 GPUS, Anne Molesky ’60 LIG, BB Friedburg Reis ’69 GPUS, Kelley Hamilton. Back row from left: Walt Cytacki ’67 GPUS, Bart Bronk, Sally Cytacki, Bob Williams, Anne Opperthauser ’49 LIG, Annette Geddes ’63 LIG, Gene Overton, Rob Shannon, Meg Shannon ’63 GPUS, Tom Molesky, Millie Sloan ’70 LIG, Marc Share ’61 GPUS and Tom Henry ’61 GPUS.

As you have surely read by now, this issue of Perspective magazine focuses on just a few of our wonderful alumni who have made it a point to “give back”. Many of these folks mentioned that their desire to serve others was something that was developed and instilled in them during their time here at University Liggett School or one of our predecessor schools. Early on they learned how rewarding it can be to lend a hand and have made it a priority to do so throughout their lives in different and important ways.

Here on Cook Road this philanthropic spirit is something we continue to teach all of our students both young and old. As the lucky beneficiaries of so much generous support from our alumni, parent and friend communities, it is critical that we stress to our students the importance of giving back, because it strengthens our communities, brings us together and provides us with valuable experiences and insights that make our lives richer and more fulfilling – certainly the stories included in this issue are a terrific illustration of this fact.

We wouldn’t be nearly the school we are today without your help, so thank you for making us a priority in your own charitable pursuits. Your support is greatly appreciated and gives us the momentum to keep moving forward! Thank you.

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Katie Durno Director of Alumni Relations P.S. 2018 Alumni Weekend is right around the corner!

I anticipate a full crowd on campus on May 18 and 19 for all of our Alumni Weekend events, including our All-Alumni Cocktail Reception where will honor professional journalist, Keith Richburg ’76 as our 2018 Distinguished Alumnus.

Register now at www.uls.org/AlumniWeekend and let us know you’ll be here!

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Liggett’s Future is Built on its Past Jim Jarosik ‘77 leaves an imprint to benefit future generations of students

By Claire Charlton

On a visit to Grosse Pointe earlier this year, Jim Jarosik ‘77 toured University Liggett School for the first time in many years. In some ways, Jarosik saw the school with fresh eyes, as he experienced a whole new Liggett. Yet the authentic feel of the school remained intact, strong enough to transport Jarosik right back to his own years as a student at Liggett.

and assuredness needed to work with individuals at the top of the business world, even from the age of 22 or 23, Jarosik says. “I went to school with Fords, Hudsons and Strohs, but also with kids from around metro Detroit,” he says. Then, as now, everyone benefited from the blended diversity at Liggett, he says. “It’s clear they are continuing to fulfill that mission.”

“It brought back so many memories,” Jarosik says.

“There was a student gathering area, where we’d come in to the school in the morning and hang out. We’d sit there and laugh with the other kids and make jokes. That’s still there,” he says.

Though he’s long given back financially to Liggett, Jarosik supports providing opportunities to those with ability and need, as well as enriching the music and economics programs at the school.

Also untouched by time is the auditorium where Jarosik played in the pit band for theater productions.

“Maybe the colors were different, but it is virtually identical otherwise. It brought back memories for me because my extracurricular time was centered around that area.”

His love for music is still strong, and in retirement from a career in finance and real estate, he spends time analyzing the songs of artists like Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan, playing keyboards and guitar, even writing and producing some of his own original work for fun.

Music balanced his post-Liggett academic life at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, and stuck with him after he moved to the New York City area, working first at Chemical Bank and then with The Related Companies and its founder, Michigan native Stephen M. Ross.

Through planned giving, Jarosik is helping secure Liggett’s future, a taste of which he experienced when he walked the halls of the Manoogian Arts Wing, impressive, he says, in its size and breadth of focus.

But what impressed Jarosik most was the positive energy he soaked up during his tour, courtesy of Liggett’s current student body.

“You can see it on their faces,” Jarosik says. “They are making progress toward their individual purposes, and achieving purpose in life is pretty darn important.”

To find out more about Planned Giving, call Cressie Boggs at 313-884-4444, ext. 413 or visit www.uls.org/PlannedGiving.

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By Claire Charlton

On May 19, University Liggett School will honor 1976 graduate Keith Richburg with the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. As if all the earthly particles of good fortune have aligned, that very day just so happens to be Richburg’s 60th birthday.

Centre of the University of Hong Kong, where he’s the director. His colleagues encouraged him to make the trip, knowing how very important it is to Richburg to come home to Liggett to accept the honor.

Richburg was selected for this award in recognition of the success, dedication and knowhow he has shown in global journalism. As a sign of his conscientious work ethic, Richburg initially feared he’d be unable to attend the ceremony because it conflicts with the end of the academic year at The Journalism and Media Studies

“Really, I was just lucky most of the time,” says Richburg. “I’m really honored, and I’ve had a charmed life, but there was a whole lot of luck involved. As my old colleague from Liggett says, ‘Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.’ And Liggett gave me the preparation, so when the opportunities came along,

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About his success, Richburg is refreshingly humble.

I was able to grab them. That’s true for all the jobs I wanted, including my current job.”

One of the famed students of the Liggett Class of 1976, Richburg cultivated his love for writing and storytelling at Liggett under the tutelage of Fred Woodhams in English and creative writing, and Mary Remillet in political science and history. He worked with Amy Woodhouse ’76 to Keith Richburg ‘76 in his publish the photocopied-andsenior photo. stapled Periscope, submitting articles and cartoons. After graduation, he attended the University of Michigan and started working at the Washington Post as a summer intern.

By then, Richburg was hooked on sharing truth through journalism and after earning his bachelor of arts degree at Michigan, he joined the Post with his eye on covering global news. Exactly how he captured the role of international correspondent is a carefully guarded secret (hint: it has something to do with luck – attend the May 19 award ceremony for the exclusive scoop), but he served more than 20 years overseas as bureau chief in Manila, Paris, Jakarta and Hong Kong.

newspaper subscriptions and the renewed emphasis on fact-based information.

“And I will train the next generation to the same high standards of truth in journalism. I tell them to put their heads down and keep searching, keep asking questions.

It’s about looking for the truth. The truth and the facts are an important part of our democracy now. The Washington Post has a new tagline, Democracy Dies in Darkness. It sounds like a Batman movie or something, but it’s true.”

The migration of traditional newspapers onto the online space is a shining light for the future of news media, Richburg says, opening up the informationsharing space and decreasing barriers for industry entry — once restricted to just a few big papers, wire services, and newsmagazines.

“Now, if you have a laptop you can just go,” he says, citing Quartz, Sixth Tone, Syria Deeply, and other sites that are hiring journalists to produce content. “If I were a young person now, I would not be worried (about the future of journalism) at all. (Young people) are all digitally savvy, can do video, shoot and cut, and they are photographers with phones that are better than any older camera. And they are so much smarter than I was.”

During Richburg’s time with the Washington Post, he worked on the ground, covering historic events like the genocide in Rwanda, the invasion of Iraq and the U.S. military mission in Somalia, for which he was recognized as a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. He received numerous journalism honors during his career, including the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, the Overseas Press Club Award and the National Association of Black Journalists first place award for International Reporting. His 1997 book, “Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa,” serves as a memoir for the time he spent working in Africa.

After Richburg left the Washington Post, he Keith Richburg ‘76, front far right, was a National Merit semi-finalist while at Liggett. taught at Harvard University’s Kennedy Institute of Politics and at Princeton University, before settling The industry’s use of artificial intelligence is a boon on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand, where he for parsing sports statistics, which frees up journalists to pursued freelance journalism. He was thrilled to have knock on doors and talk to real humans. “That’s a great the opportunity to teach journalism at a top university in thing,” Richburg says.

Asia, and excited to return “home” to Hong Kong in 2016.

In addition to teaching at the University of Hong Kong, In addition to accepting his Distinguished Alumni Richburg writes analyses for the South China Morning Award, and visiting Liggett to talk with students about Post and other local publications. his career, Richburg looks forward to celebrating his 60th birthday with treasured friends in Michigan.

Many might say Richburg departed journalism at just the right time, given media’s current challenges. Not so, “I can’t believe it. It’s a lovely thing. I’ll be with friends I was with when we all turned 18, and then we could he says. drink legally,” he says. “Back then we could really only “CNN has a new ad where they show an apple on put down one beer, but now, because we are 60, we can the screen, and say ‘people will tell you this is a banana.’ still only put down one or two. Life comes full circle.”

But it’s really an apple. Facts matter. And there has never Keith Richburg lives, teaches and writes in Hong Kong with been a time that facts matter more, with all the talk of his wife, Evelyn, who is from Melbourne, Australia. They were fake news and so much fake stuff sloshing around,” married in September 2017.

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2017 Inductees Michael Fox ‘93, Martina Jerant ‘91, Glynn Conley ‘59 GPUS and Jimmy Carson ‘86.

Liggett Honors Athletic Greats Four alumni athletes inducted into 2017 Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame Glynn Conley ’59 GPUS, Jimmy Carson ‘86, Martina Jerant ’91 and Michael Fox ’93 were inducted into the school’s Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame in a touching and personal ceremony in October.

Conley, who was introduced by Chuck Wright ‘66 GPUS, led the 1958 football team to an undefeated season as a captain, leading the squad in rushing and points scored. He also spent years coaching baseball at Liggett.

Carson enjoyed a 10-year career in the National Hockey League, where he scored 55 goals during his second season. At the time, that was a record for an American-born player.

Carson played for several NHL teams, including the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers, and the Detroit Red Wings. He was introduced by his fifth-grade teacher and fellow inductee, Glynn Conley.

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basketball teammates – Dana Roach Thompson ‘90, PR Stark ‘92 and Sarah Cleek Gilmore ‘90 – was captain and MVP of the basketball team her sophomore, junior and senior years at Liggett. She then went on to Brown University, where she was a three-time First Team All-Ivy selection.

She is the third leading scorer of all time at Brown and led the school to three Ivy League titles. She also competed on the Canadian woman’s basketball team in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Fox, who was introduced by his wife and 10-yearold son, Kyle, earned 10 varsity letters in three sports at Liggett (football, basketball and track). In football, he had more than 2,000 all-purpose yards in 1992.

Fox went on to play football at Boston University, where he was named the team’s most outstanding offensive back in 1996 after leading the team in rushing. He also earned an All-Yankee Conference honorable mention the same season.

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We had a perfect day for our 2017 Homecoming festivities. The Knights had a mostly successful day on the fields.

The varsity football team pulled off a stunning, last-minute, 27-23, win over Lutheran North – the top team in the division.

The varsity field hockey team beat Greenhills 2-0 in their Homecoming contest. The varsity soccer team suffered a tough 1-0 loss to Shrine.

The Cross Country team competed at the Hanson’s Invitational at Stoney Creek Metro Park. The girls came in second and the boys finished fourth.

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The 2017 Alumni Soccer game was a lot of fun, and the alumni team beat the varsity soccer team, 5-2. A big thank you to all the players who participated! A special thank you goes to Coaches David Backhurst, David Dwaihy and Andy Knote for making this a terrific event for everyone.

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1. Jim Barnes ‘57 GPUS and Jim Barnes ‘81. 2. Joey Shannon ‘07 and Caitlin deRuiter ‘14. 3. Shelley White Dolan ‘82, Julie Jahn ‘95 with Kelley Hamilton.

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4 4. More than 20 alumni hockey players took the ice at McCann Arena to face off in the friendly, but always competitive alumni hockey game in November. The game ended 4-5, which means the alumni won! Save the date for our fall 2018 game – the game will be the Friday evening after Thanksgiving.

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Liggett Class Representative Norah Williams jackandnorah219@gmail.com Norah Williams: Jack and I have moved to The Rivers, a retirement complex down the road from Liggett’s campus. Our address is Dr. and Mrs. John H. Williams, 900 Cook Road-Apt 219, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Email: jackandnorah219@ gmail.com. Phone: 313-8217179. HAPPY 70th!

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Liggett Class Representative: Barbara Allen Esler P. O. Box 272 Shannon, GA 30172

Norah Williams ‘48 LIG found this photo in her files. “A picture of my classmates who attended the Ladies May Day Luncheon in May 1968.” Frank Sladen, the headmaster, was quoted in the accompanying Grosse Pointe News story, “A Ligett girl is many things, a student, a social worker, an interesting teenager. We are here to develop the whole woman, preparing our girls for further study so they will be in a position to earn a living if it becomes necessary.”

Unfortunately, I must report on the loss of two more members of Liggett ’51 during 2017. They were my two closest friends during our school years and afterward. Sue Crawford Blaney and I met for breakfast regularly when I lived in Michigan, and I visited Lynn Harris Tindle a number of times when traveling between Michigan and Georgia after my daughter and family moved south. I talked with both of them within a month or so of their deaths. There are now thirteen of us remaining, when we include Joan Robertson Jones, who was a member of the class for many years, but moved to Birmingham prior to graduation.

so has a good chance to qualify to be on the U.S. Equestrian Team for the World Equestrian Games in 2018.

There will be qualifying shows in Florida this winter, and then the final trials will be in Europe next summer.

It sounds like an exciting year! Mary Anne took her daughter, Melinda, and her two granddaughters to Germany last summer to watch him compete in the Nations Cup held at Aachen. “The team came in second; we were very proud of them,” she says.

I have not heard from Theresa Font DeCrick, although I did receive word that her older sister, Nanette, passed away not too long ago.

Likewise, no recent news from Emily Hardy Bradbury.

on Facebook, and I believe she had a brief hospital visit during the year, but I have no further details. Jane Patten Dias reported that she and her husband, Al, were surrounded by grandchildren at Christmas.

Mary Anne Chenault McPhail wrote that she and Walter are very happy living full-time in Florida. They built a new home with everything just the way they wanted it. Walter designed it, and then an architect drew it up for them. They are in Palm Beach, on the Intercoastal Waterway, so Walter has a new boat and really loves getting out on the water. Mary Anne is still riding and goes to the farm about five times a week. She guesses she will keep doing it as long as she can climb up, get the leg over, and get on! Mary Anne is part owner/sponsor of a beautiful Danish warm-blood gelding. He is currently in fourth place of all the Grand Prix Dressage horses in the country and

Judy Hubbard Hutchinson was planning for the 2017 holidays and sent a Christmas card. She said she had brunch with her oldest son, Tom Osgood, and his wife and their two 20-something “kids” the day after Christmas. Then, on December 29, her youngest son, Steve, and his wife and their children, (granddaughter, 19 and in college, and grandson, 12) arrived for a brief stay. Another son and his wife and their two sons, 20 and 24, spent holidays with family in Denmark.

I have heard nothing directly from Cynthia Keydel Huebner, but I know Becky Patterson Hein gets together with her frequently. I try to keep up with Sandy Kreis Gibson

Joan Robertson Jones now has two college age granddaughters, one at Butler in Indianapolis and the other at Williams in Massachusetts, and two more leaving high school soon. Her families are still active in Cincinnati and Clinton, New York. Joan now lives near them in New Hartford, NY. I have not heard anything from Carolyn Rice Maslanik or Pat Ward Brian recently, but I received an email from Dorothy White Webb.

She lives in The Villages, Florida and says it is a great place to live. There are so many activities to participate in that you can stay as busy as you like. Dorothy is involved with the computer club, photography club, bonsai club and some game clubs.

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Becky Patterson Hein and I have chatted by phone several times during the year. She went to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving with daughter, Martha, and spent Christmas in Massachusetts with daughter, Katherine, and her two children, Rebecca and Lincoln.

She and Gerry are still traveling. In January 2018, they went on a long cruise, which ended in Cape Town, South Africa.

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She also enjoys the Operation Shoebox group in which she has been active since 2002. They sent more than 25,000 packages to troops overseas this year. Hurricane Irma did damage to the area.

Dorothy lost a large tree, but was glad it fell toward the street and not on her house. She was also glad she no longer lived in Key West because of the devastation there. Dorothy has family living in the area, one of her daughters and husband are over often, and two granddaughters and a great granddaughter and their families live nearby. Her other daughter and family live in Delaware, but manage to get down several times a year. Dorothy’s grandson is getting married in April and plans to move to Florida in the next several years.

2017 was an eventful year for me and my family. In January, daughter Becky Ulrich McAllister – she was a member of the ULS class of 1979 from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade – lost her husband, Mark, after a brief illness. In February, I joined the Three Rivers Singers here in Rome, GA. It is a community choir presenting five or six concerts each year, directed by a professor at one of the nearby colleges. The first concert I did with them was “If It Isn’t Baroque, Don’t Fix It” – music of Bach, Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi and Pachelbel – the kind of thing I grew up with during my summers at Interlochen. In April, 2018, we performed Schubert’s Mass in G. In May, 2017, Becky’s grandson, Sean, and I drove to Norfolk, VA, to participate in the commissioning of granddaughter, Tiffany Ulrich Hewitt, as a Chief Warrant Officer in the Navy. She is nearing completion of 20 years in the Navy, but with this new rank will be continuing toward 30 years. We had a busy weekend with Tiffany and her husband, Christopher, including a day at Colonial Williamsburg.

August found Becky and me on the road again, this time to Michigan for the Ulrich family reunion and dinner with several of the folk with whom I worked at AguaFina before my retirement. Tiffany was in Atlanta, on her way to her new assignment in Hawaii, in time to join Becky and me for birthday dinner in August.

Our family holiday was special this year...Tiffany decided that her mom should not be at home for this first Christmas without Mark, so I spent a week in Colorado with son, David,

and daughter-in-law, Erin, and then flew to Honolulu for Christmas week with Tiffany and Chris. Becky and Sean spent a week in California, sightseeing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as visiting her father, before flying to Hawaii. We all had a glorious week of sightseeing and luaus, before returning to Georgia.

As I write this in early January, regular activities of the Gospel singers several times a week, (Women’s Auxiliary of the Salvation Army,) of which I am currently treasurer, a group of knitters with whom I meet once a month, photo club, Three Rivers Singers rehearsals, etc., are resuming. As Dorothy said about The Villages, I can be just as busy as I want to be! When I’m at home, generally my knitting needles are kept very busy for family and friends. I finished a Christmas tree skirt for Tiffany and Chris and now am working on one for David and Erin.

I have been happy to serve as class secretary these many years and appreciate those who keep in touch with me so I have news to report.

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CDS/DUS Class Representative Margie Reeves Garbarino 23320 Liberty St, St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Margie Reeves Garbarino has graciously volunteered to be the Class Representative for both the Grosse Pointe Country Day School and Detroit University School classes of 1954 – how nice of her! A little ULS history: 1954 was the last year that CDS and DUS operated on two separate campuses. In 1955, the two schools merged to become Grosse Pointe University School, GPUS, which operated at 1045 Cook Road until 1970, at which point it merged with The Liggett School to become the present day University Liggett School. Margie wants to make sure you, her classmates and friends from 1954, are well represented in Perspective because you are the last of the “old days.” So please send your updates to Margie at her home: 23320 Liberty St, St. Clair Shores, MI 48080.

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GPUS Class Representative: Jane Weaver Reuther 81 Lewiston Road, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 jnb7@comcast.net

The following classmates are enjoying visits with friends and relatives: Susan Gillis Snow is having a pleasant year in Oregon. As of January, the weather has been mild.

Her son Mike lives nearby, and she enjoys seeing him and his children often. Son Charlie is engaged to a widow with three children and Susan is happy to be adding more family members. She and her family get together at least once a year!

Kathy Benson Collins enjoyed Thanksgiving at her daughter’s home in Chicago.

Joan LeGro Bushnell splits her time between Grosse Pointe and Grand Bend, Canada where her son, David, lives. In January she attended a wedding in Jamestown, North Carolina, which was a nice break. When she returned home, she continued work on her cookbook: Game On: A Book of Recipes for Those Who Like To Play Around In the Kitchen.

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GPUS Class Representative: George Jerome 40 Edgemere Road, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3709 ggjsr@aol.com Avery Burns: Just checking in so you’ll know I haven’t checked out... yet. Life is fairly routine, but good.

Best wishes to all.

Ginny and Michael Ryan: There isn’t much to report from the snow belt of Michigan, other than to say that this year we are making up for the mild winters we’ve enjoyed in the recent past. We have five foot piles of the white stuff.

Last winter, I escaped for a few weeks to sunny Tibet. In a couple of weeks, I’ll head to the sun in Fiji.

Actually, Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal were a great escape. The dogs of Tibet are fabulous; very polite, even the strays. I was so taken by them that we got a Lhasa Apso pup within weeks of my return. He is definitely a sherpa, and is loving the snow. He’s the highlight of the year and of our lives. We send our best to all, and hope you are having as much fun as we are.

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Sandra Jenkins Eldridge: Sandra continues to enjoy living in Santa Cruz, Cal. She is busy with book clubs and organizations supporting women’s education. Charles has been enjoying flying a light sport seaplane. Their granddaughter, Scarlett is in middle school and loves to draw. Sandy attended a Liggett open house at a lovely home in San Francisco with her sister Mercilee Jenkins ‘64.

Tom Purdy reports that his granddaughter started her freshman year at Clemson. That makes me old.

Stephanie Fink Donaldson: While I maintain a house in Grosse Pointe Farms, I spend most of my life on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron. You may remember we had a cottage there. A number of years ago we added a second story and a two story bay to a seasonal bungalow, winterizing it and making it habitable for all seasons to include the harsh winter that we are currently experiencing. Our grandchildren are the fourth generation on this land.

To keep myself out of pool halls and off of street corners I am in training for ordained ministry. Should I be blessed to see this through I will be Vocational Deacon in the Anglican (Episcopal) Church. I would be a reverend and no, I will not be a nun* and yes, I drink. Actually aged single malt is a beverage of choice as it is with most Anglican clergy.

That’s pretty much my news. Our four sons are all doing well as are seven grandchildren. *While I am deeply respectful of nuns and yes the Anglicans/ Episcopalians have them I will not be one.

Happy 2018 to all, may it bring all the hope and promise of a brave new year.

George Jerome: Attended the Winston Churchill Society of Michigan dinner at Oakland Hills Country Club, last fall, where the keynote speaker was Winston Churchill’s great-grandson Duncan Sandys. He is George’s sixth cousin once removed. George is Winston’s fourth cousin twice removed.

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Julie Pearce has been teaching.

She has a small private practice and is working as a clinical director with newly recovering drug addicts which is very demanding.

Mary Yeager Moore says she took a trip with Mary Pardee Maxwell last summer to Whidbey, Wash.

Carole Williams reports that she has survived the wild winter with tons of snow in New Hampshire.

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Liggett Class Representative: Dana “Bunny” Riley Wormer 7150 Hawks View Trail, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34986 rileybunnyfla@aol.com Our class of 1957 warmly welcomes Bart Bronk as the new head of school. We also share great pride in the University Liggett Schools’ unique sports and activity program requiring all students to participate in two out of three each year. And last but not least, the professional attention Katie Durno, director of alumni relations, has given me regarding my role in taking over the endless years and magnificent job of Diane Bedford Svenonius. - Bunny Clare Hartwick Connor: Son, Jeff, and his family have moved to Naples, Fla., where Jeff has taken a position teaching at a new charter school. Clare and Larry will be able to see more of Jeff’s family as they spent the winter in their Sarasota home. Daughter Lynn is in Ann Arbor and Clare and Larry continue to enjoy their summers in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Millicent Pietra Fite: Millicent is still in Troy, Mich and a happy gal!

Nini Lofstrom: Nini divides her time between California and San Miguel, with travel and ceramics in the mix.

So far, she has fortunately dodged California’s fires and Mexico’s earthquakes.

Sandra White Lovell: Sandra winters in Juno Beach and spends the summers in her four-story Victorian home in Harbor Springs. Her two children, Susan and Michael, and six grandchildren are all fine.

Ann Lawrence: I saw most of the class at our 50th reunion. I give Ann Travis credit for going since Virginia is not just next door. Tim encouraged me to go, so we drove there and made it a mini-vacation by touring the area and heading up for a stay at Mackinac Island. We loved that. It felt really good to be back in Michigan, as I always miss it. Virginia Beach is a great place to live, but I am not a southerner.

Life has been good and filled with adventure, having travelled a lot and lived in multiple places. I have a loving husband and family, with three children and now grandchildren. I seemed to be the only one in the class to already write a biography,

1957 Mary Yeager Moore: Mary Yeager Moore ‘57 GPUS sent out a selfie to let everyone know she is alive and well!

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looking for ways to cut back a little on volunteer work. Diane continues to put out a monthly newsletter for her garden club to feed her writing habit. Endless thanks, to Diane for sharing the messages all these years.

Lou Iacobell ‘57 GPUS does his grocery shopping at Kroger.

instead of a resume, when taking part in news for our reunion. So, instead I will attempt to cause a chuckle to those who read this, especially Bunny!

One day after school, I rode home with Bunny to Grosse Ile., in her cute little car. We were chugging along, when suddenly while stopped, we were hit in the back. Bunny rushed out of the car to check things out and WHAM, a car came along and knocked her car door off! Now what? After taking a deep breath, combined with a few giggles, we did the logical thing that young girls would do. We put the door in the back seat and headed back down the highway.

Not once, but twice we were stopped by police for driving without a door. We gave our pathetic explanation, they somehow let us continue. I do not remember the end of the story, once we reached Bunny’s house. We must have been received peacefully, since I can’t remember the rest! My one regret at our reunion, is that I did not get the opportunity to chat with everyone.

Julia Lathrop Scandrett: Julia is doing relatively well. She is recovering from a bout of chemo and radiation from lung cancer two years ago. Julia is living with her daughter, son and granddaughter, Harriet in Framingham. She says give my best wishes to all 20 of us, if we all remain. We lost Gracie Ambrose 10 years ago.

Diane Bedford Svenonius: Naturally, our most reliable and thoughtful woman of Liggett class of 1957 responded right away, saying she is fine. She stopped doing the University Liggett School class notes after all these years as she was just

Ann Travis: Ann is residing at a beautiful retirement club in Traverse City and is visited us in March. Ann was taken to London for her 80th birthday by Heather Horton, the Earhart granddaughter. They stayed at the private Sloane Club with lords and ladies and had a grand time.

Ann said she loves to travel. She still gets into trouble and likes to stir the pot.

condo in the same location in St. Claire Shores. Chris, her older son, lives in Grosse Pointe Farms and is a project manager. Matt, her younger son, and his wife live in Texas and love their jobs. - Submitted by Anne Wrigley Molesky.

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GPUS Class Representative: Suzie Sisman Decker 77 Muskoka Road, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3009 ssdeck@gmail.com Peter Boone: “I retired in 2017 from the small software company my business partner and I started 35 years ago. My son and his two sons, ages 15 and 12, live here in Manhattan Beach, CA, so I get to see them fairly regularly. My daughter lives in New Haven, CT. We fly back there when her son has spring break.”

Stephanie Hall Hampton: has moved to The Rivers on Cook Road where The Children’s Home used to be. She can walk to ULS.

Kathleen and Jim Stewart with Wendy and Bill Krag who were at the home of Mary Roby ‘50 CDS.

Dana “Bunny” Wormer Riley: I am still loving, laughing and living since my stroke in March 2008. We are blessed to have a happy, blended family. Three grandchildren: Alexander in Seattle, and in San Diego are Tatum and Tess. Son, Christopher’s company Weed Mill Lab recently completed the Felix restaurant located in the new Atlanta baseball stadium. Son, Chip flies internationally as a 777 captain for a major airline.

Jim and I have been accepted into the “wows,” widows or widower, group in Port Saint Lucie.

An awesome group of people got together through the Legacy Country Club, and socialize about twice weekly, meeting at various restaurants, the theatre, musicals and festivals on the Treasure Coast.

We are the only married couple in the “wows” of about 30 winter and seasonal residents.

Best wishes to each of you for days filled with sunny skies and starry nights.

Judie Schneider Bailey: Judie moved in November to a first floor

Suzie Sisman Decker: On a personal note, I lost my husband Paul in late August. We are very proud of our grandson who is graduating from the US Naval Academy. It is always good to hear from classmates.

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Liggett Class Representative: Lois D. Hutchison hutchlov1@earthlink.net Lois Hutchison: Denis and I are still living and working in Sedona, Ariz.

Last year, we added a travel trailer to our list of toys. We have mostly been traveling as far west as California and as far north as Oregon. If we ever retire, will have the time to go further east. In the meantime we fly to family events in the Chicago area.

Martha Robins: Martha continues to live and work in New York City. She has connected with the University Liggett School alumna group and enjoyed attending the gatherings.

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that flooding is not a problem. They like to visit family in Wisconsin and Minnesota. At home they are busy with the Elks and other activities.

They had a plan to visit the Detroit area and all places they used to go to.

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Mary Eick: Mary and David celebrated their new great-grandson earlier this year. They still spend their summers in at their home in Canada.

At home the are busy with family and church activities.

Linda Roth: Linda and Ellis have been through a lot of medical procedures and are now concentrating on getting back to good health. The driving force behind the regime is their fifth grandchild.

Martha Sanford: Martha has neuropathy but remains in good spirits. She is active on Facebook and enjoys Allison’s postings there about positive happenings in and around the Detroit area. She is proud of her three grandsons.

Diane Hubert: Diane and Richard saw “Hamilton” in Chicago last year.

They traveled to London for a week with the U of M alumni group. After

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In February, 14 alumni came back to campus for our annual Alumni/ARP Career Forum, which was attended by our 11th grade students, who are in the beginning stages of forming their Academic Research Projects.

Each alumni guest spoke about their college experience and career paths after graduation from Liggett. They then met with the students in small groups to discuss the students’ ARP topics and offer advice or assistance.

London, they went north for three days of hiking.

Sandy Roney-Hays: Sam and Sandy are still teaching and learning.

Sandy has to deal with low oxygen levels which have caused her to be less active. She saw Marilyn Wood Holleran at a Celebration of Life for Aunt Renee last year. Most of us will remember Renee McDuffie. Marilyn has retired from teaching.

Donna Carl: Donna and Bob continue to travel to distant places.

They have downsized to a smaller house. Donna had a scare with breast cancer last year. It was caught early and she is fine now.

Their large family continues to grow and change. They stay busy with graduations and weddings.

Allison Friedman: Allison is in the same house in Birmingham. Her daughter has been helping her

with sorting and cleaning. Allison volunteers at Birmingham’s 50 plus activity center. She has meet ups with Sandy Roney-Hays. Her travels include Phoenix, Scottsdale, Charlevoix, Saugatuck and New York City.

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Liggett Class Representative: Anne Wrigley Molesky 6649 Hawaiian Ave. Boynton Beach, FL 33437 tomjmolesky@gmail.com Mary Alice Clarke Ferguson: She and John have been in the real estate business for 12 years and 2017 was the best year yet. The celebrated their 50th anniversary and Mary Alice’s birthday in February in California with their children and six grandchildren. Cheers to Northwestern for the big football win - Mary Alice’s alma mater.

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Gwenny Bennett Gugino: Gwenny is blond again - everyone says she looks so good! Their son and daughter-in-law were with them for Christmas. She said it was the best Christmas present you could have.

Their granddaughter got married in September in Connecticut.

Natalie DeLoe Riewe: Natalie said Gordie is feeling fine. Natalie and Gordie were at the cottage for Christmas and their cousins joined them for New Year’s Eve. Their daugher, Nikki, and her husband and children were in Key West for a week and enjoyed it very much Natalie and Gordie have a young couple as new renters on their property. They do a great job of keeping everything on the property up to date.

Karin Ryding: Karin is still going to several doctors on a regular basis.

Victor retired in February. Karin is in the process of editing another book.

It is always fun to talk to Karin and reminisce about the good old days at the Liggett School.

Ingrid Sandecki: Ingrid saw Mary Alice in October, it was a fun time and they caught up on many things of long ago. Ingrid has been living in Rochester for 19 years and really enjoys being there. Tom and I used to go to Rochester for dinner. Ingrid said she is still doing the European history of women lectures. Ingrid said she did not to the European Viking Christmas cruise.

Bonnie Wilson Skoryanc: Jim’s adult kids and their children, plus their boxer were with them for 10 days. They had come from Port Huron where they live. Fortunately, Bonnie and Jim have a hide-a-bed sofa and bunk beds. Bonnie still has her piano, which had been her grandmother’s. Bonnie said she has been a little under the weather.

Dell Litsky Smithern: I flew out to Las Vegas in March to meet my sister Sharon Litsky ‘63 LIG and three first cousins for a family reunion. We stayed at Mandalay Bay. I spent my 75th birthday walking the treadmill for the cardiologist, followed by a nuclear blood test, followed by a catherization of the heart, which led to a four-way bypass heart surgery.

Four of my large arteries were each 90 percent blocked. My recovery

went very well. ‘I kept a very positive attitude. I feel God kept me around longer to take care of Earl. I’m a lucky lady. Please, pay attention to your body. I didn’t have any typical symptoms - only slight pressure in my chest when I lay down at night. I had perfect blood pressure, 114/64 and perfect cholesterol. I did feel tired a lot. I’m glad I told my doctor about the pressure I felt at night, or I wouldn’t be alive now.’

This past summer we did not go to our cottage in Port Clinton, Ohio, per my cardiologists recommendation. It was our first summer, here in Florida.

We managed just fine. We have since decided to sell our cottage in Ohio and be permanent residents of Florida.

Last August, we flew up to Lansing for a Smithern family reunion. Natalie (DeLoe) Riewe and her husband, Gordie, considered part of our family, were able to join us there. We always have a great time together.

In September, Earl and I evacuated to a suburb just north of Atlanta due to Hurricane Irma. We don’t fool around with hurricane’s so we left several days before Irma arrived in Miami. We live on the Intercoastal Waterway, called Lemon Bay, in Englewood, Florida. Evacuation is mandatory where we live. Several friends also evacuated to the same hotel as we did in Atlanta. We actually had a fun week of golfing, walking and hanging around with friends. We were very lucky that Hurricane Irma shifted a few miles west, going up the West Coast of Florida, thereby missing Englewood.

Except for the high winds, we had no water damage to our area. Tons of trees and power lines were down though.

In October, Earl and I drove down to Miami to celebrate our friend, Amado’s 84th birthday and to meet his new lady friend. Unfortunately, I spent four days in the hospital Thanksgiving week. I had severe left jaw pain. My cardiologist ran all kinds of tests. Thank God they all came back negative. I wish each of you a happy, healthy 2018!

Anne Wrigley Molesky: Two months after we moved to Florida we had an in-ground propane generator installed. Our home came with hurricane shutters, that Tom closes when appropriate. When the hurricane came, the only things we lost were the computer, which I do not use, the house phone and the

television. We have a transistor radio with batteries, so we could get the news and weather. Thank goodness the hurricane lasted only three days.

In February, friends came to visit us from Maryland.

In March, friends from Michigan came to visit us for Easter. We went to Bethesda-By-The-Sea in Palm Beach for Easter service. It is easy for me to record important things - birthdays, anniversaries, special events, taxes, etc. - due to the fact that I still order the Franklin Planner.

I had first gotten it when I worked many years ago at AAA headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. Before the end of January, we will be having the following installed: impact windows in the three bay windows which face

50th Reunion Pen Pals

Look! I found my mom in the yearbook! These 5th graders were so excited to receive letters from their alumni pen pals, they immediately headed over to the alumni office and pulled out yearbooks to see if they could find photos of their pen pals, including one 5th grader who found her mom who graduated in 1984.

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the street, impact door and window which also face the street, and impact windows on the door from the living room to the porch. Tom and I were so sorry to hear of Denne Osgood passing away. Please, submit your articles to me by June 15, 2018. The deadline is July 1 for Liggett.

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Cindy Osgood O’Hare: I called Cindy and expressed our sincere sympathy to her regarding Denne passing away. Cindy explained that on a cruise last spring Denne did not feel good. He went to the doctor and found out he had liver cancer. He had many different chemo treatments. He had gone to “the Players” and could hardly walk. Just before Thanksgiving, he went on hospice. Cindy was fortunately able to book a flight from California to Michigan the day after Thanksgiving.

Cindy went to Harsen’s Island to be with Denne and Peggy. Denne could not even get out of his chair. There was a memorial service for Denne in April. Cindy said that her younger brother, Milton, and his wife, sold their home up in Traverse City and moved back to Grosse Pointe.

- Submitted by Anne Wrigley Molesky

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55th Reunion!

Liggett Class Representatives: Sharon Litsky 2000 California Street #402 San Francisco, CA 94109-4302 sharonlitsky@sbcglobal.net Gail Sake Niskar 30030 High Valley Road Farmington Hills, MI 48331-2143 galeml@aol.com Marianne (Anne) Moran Eddy is “embarrassed to admit that after many years of juggling as fast as I could, I have discovered the joys of loafing. It does not do me credit… but it sure is fun. The new minimalist in me is content with doing assorted weekly walks by the ocean with my walking group, meeting a friend on Fridays for more walking, followed by coffee and hysterical conversations about life, volunteering once a week at the local Humane Society, and doing absolutely as few errands as possible. Come the New Year, I must 50

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mend my ways—buy a condo, adopt an old dog or two, and stop letting everything slide before I’m hit with an avalanche. In the meantime, it’s joyous to be so naughty! Wish all of you the best in the year ahead.”

Carla Hoffman Levin has “spent a happy 50 years in Chicago working as a psychotherapist (currently, part time). Michael and I have two married children and four grandchildren between the ages of eight and three months.

All live close by in Chicago. Long time hobbies include tennis, hiking, reading and going to theater and restaurants with friends. In past years, travel to exotic places (India, Vietnam, Thailand, Africa, etc.) was something we looked forward to and enjoyed planning. However, recently, our priorities have changed. We are very involved with our grandchildren.

We try to spend time with each of them alone as well as hosting all the family at our beach house in Michigan City. We also have a close extended family. Michael’s mother is 97. I feel very grateful for my close friends and family.”

Joan Willens Abraham has “moved back to Detroit to live with my 95-year-old Mother in her beautiful Franklin house. She is about to be 96, as beautiful as always, and still very entertaining company. It took some adjustment at best, but it is fascinating and very comforting to have developed this relationship so late in our lives. “Working hard at getting readjusted in Detroit, making some wonderful new very creative friends. I’m still teaching at Parsons in New York (I teach online): Fashion Branding and Social Commerce, putting me squarely in the millennial’s world, but I do love it and get a lot of satisfaction from my students.

“I have developed a new form of content for selling products online that I am trying to sell to the fashion/ retail marketplace mostly in New York. I call my content vidbits as they are very short (:15) video stories to be delivered regularly through email and social media, which also keeps me very involved with the millennial generation. And I’m still trying to revive the online P.R. campaign that I developed for Detroit: Detroit Pockets of Cool. It is very interesting to be back in Detroit at this moment in time and watch the city start to get its mojo back.

“Mostly I am enjoying my son and

his family at the “thickest” point of their lives right now. It is remarkable how they juggle the myriad of responsibilities they have currently in this complex world. I am thrilled to say that he seems very successful with his family life and job and loves living in Portland, Oregon. As you can see I’m still trying to develop my last hurrah before I throw in the towel. The creative juices keep flowing.”

Ellen Kuschinski Castleman is “madly getting ready for my trip to Southeast Asia. I have been there many times but this time with my husband and friends from Detroit, and in a ship, so less intense but more fun, food and laughter. I just had a lovely visit with Gloria Shenkman Cohen and can’t believe it had been over a year since I saw Sharon Litsky in San Francisco.

Happy and healthy New Year to all.”

Renate Schmidt Latimer last spring “met friends from Vienna in Rome: a wonderful week. Is Laura Giammanco still around? She was my favorite teacher at Liggett by far. In the summer: hiking in Austria with my daughter Christina and three-year old grandson, who is my constant joy. Stay healthy and adventurous!”

Tess Friedenberg Tessler feels “blessed and realize it more and more as I get older. I was blessed to attend Liggett School and although it was short (8th and half of 9th grade) it was exactly what I needed to grow into who I am today. All my classmates, teachers, the school itself, old and stately to me. The lovely events they put on, like the May Pole celebration and how we got to order our pink, blue or purple shirtwaist dresses.

All the singing we did, standing up when a teacher entered the room.

These are memories I have inside me. Field hockey. The politeness of the teachers. I loved it all. The quality of the school, the respect, the kindness, these are all the things that

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penetrated my young soul and even today I am still grateful being able to have attended Liggett.

So, thank you all. Those early days have meant so much to me, and soon we will have the opportunity to reconnect with one another at our 55th reunion.”

Jeffie Hughes Parker says “Doug and I moved from Beaufort to Osprey, Florida in May 2016 and are enjoying being here in the Sarasota area. We still go to Nova Scotia in the summer. We’re off to Israel on February 1st for two weeks. I am excited to be returning to Israel.

Our granddaughter has picked the reunion weekend to have her family wedding so unfortunately, I will not be able to join you.”

Joan Caplan Simon “is sorry to miss the reunion. All is well personally.

California has had a hard time with wildfires. We loved three weeks in Scotland last summer and are looking forward to revisiting Japan in April and hiking in Death Valley this winter. I’m officially retired from interior decorating. It was time. Still practicing Vinyasa yoga and working on balancing in handstands. My best to everyone.”

Gloria Shenkman Cohen was “on the way to Los Angeles to watch my 11-year-old granddaughter dance on her toes in Nutcracker. My daughter, Stacey, and I have been renovating my condo in Boca Raton where I hope to spend a lot of time. “I go to Los Angeles often to see my son, his wife and three children, ages 11, 5 and 3. I spend time with Ellen Kuschinski Castleman whenever I am there, and we always have fun.

I also keep busy with my artwork, lots of lectures, symphony, and volunteering teaching art to children with special needs.

“My daughter and I drove to Florida from Michigan taking eight days touring all highlights of the South‘s best cities – Charleston, Savannah, Asheville, and St. Augustine. We also had trips to Mexico, which is one of my favorites, and to Nashville, which is an interesting destination. I love to travel and am trying to decide where to travel next that I have not been to and where it is safe.”

Sharon Litsky “has been doing lots of travel. To Washington DC

and Chicago to visit family and friends. To Detroit for a cousin’s wedding coming away with a new appreciation of the amazing revival of downtown Detroit. To Bodega Bay and environs as well as a delightful week in the Berkshires. And most recently a week in New York enjoying theater and museums when we were there to celebrate the publication of step-daughter Jenny Sampson’s new photography book, “Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast Skateboarders,” for which I proudly give a plug.

“I continue to take great joy in my five step-grandchildren, ages 10-15. A favorite memory from a few years ago from my then 8-year-old granddaughter when she said to me, ‘I know you’re a step-Nana, but to me you’re just a regular Nana!’”

“When we’re not traveling, we enjoy welcoming friends and family to spend time with us at our home in San Francisco, especially to celebrate Shabbat, Passover, Chanukah and Rosh Hashanah, and at our weekend home in Sonoma. The recent fires came within a mile of our home, but thanks to the valiant first responders doing a back-burn at the top of our road and thanks to the winds changing direction, our home and neighborhood were spared.

“As he turns 83, and with a new pacemaker, John is still enjoying appraisal work and property management. I continue community volunteer work for Jewish Family & Children’s Services, the Arthritis Foundation, City College of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Symphony. And we always make time to attend any event that gives us a chance to do ballroom dancing.

“I do regret that I will miss our class’s 55th reunion in May, but John and I will be on a cruise to Southeast Asia, from Bangkok to Dubai. I send all of you my best.” - Submitted by Sharon L. Litsky

David Hughes ‘63 GPUS in northern Japan, where he sang a local folk song while leading a horse on live TV.

John Golanty: I have finally joined the ranks of the retired and have been engaging in some pro bono consulting, playing with old cars and continually working on blues guitar skills. Jaye and I recently enjoyed a driving trip through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico - hitting all the national parks. Although I’m also retired from vintage sports car racing, I made up for that loss by successfully challenging the spirited driving routes through central Colorado mountains with Jaye as a willing navigator.

David Hughes: To my slight embarrassment, the Japanese government has conferred a “decoration” on me: The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. This is, they wrote, to honor my “significant role in promoting understanding of traditional Japanese music, particularly folk music, in the UK. He has organised

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GPUS Class Representatives: Sandy Georgeson Moisides 17 Colonial Road Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236 sanmoi@comcast.net Bill Randall 503 Devonshire Lane Aurora, OH 44202-8594 wrrandall@windstream.net

Our 5th grade students sent special notes to our 50th reunion alumni. They can’t wait to meet you at our Pen Pal “Meet and Greet” during Alumni Weekend.

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over 200 performances featuring visiting practitioners from Japan and has set up three groups in the UK that are at the forefront of teaching and performing Japanese music, alongside his significant academic achievements relating to increasing understanding of traditional Japanese music.”

Truly, I do feel honored. Japan has been the main focus of my career, and that of my archaeologist wife Gina Barnes. And I’ve enjoyed teaching about Japanese music for 22 years at SOAS University of London and lecturing and performing in thirteen countries, including Mexico, Nepal and Indonesia (the latter in a forced one-hour improvised lecture-demo in Indonesian language, requested as payback after I’d received a three-hour intro to local music at a Sumatran conservatory).

Meg Van De Graff Shannon: Meg and Rob have been taking ballroom dancing classes and they both are enjoying them very much. They also have parties and a gala holiday celebration. Fortunately, they both have winter clothing, which they wore a lot due to the freezing winter weather in Palm Beach County.

Meg said she keeps in touch with Marilyn Magreta ‘63 GPUS. Submitted by Anne Wrigley Molesky

David Hughes ‘63 GPUS in formal dress, on the cover of an LP recorded in 1980 for Japan Columbia Records.

David sang and played three instruments on the recording.

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JJ L’Heureux ‘64 LIG at the 2017 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China.

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Liggett Class Representative: Karolyn A. Krieghoff Sewell 2046 Camino de los Robles Menlo Park, CA 94025-5917 ksewell7@comcast.net Alice Wrigley Baetz: In April, Alice, Andy and Chris drove their new Subaru van down to Florida to visit us. We attended Easter service at Bethesda-By-The-Sea. Alice, Andy and Chris all shook hands with President Trump. They went to the Woodward Dream Cruise and met many of the Clawson Rotary members - it was a beautiful day, enjoyed by all. In November, they joined the Clawson Rotary Club for a lovely dinner in their private dining room at the Clawson Steak House.

They went up north to see their grandson, Michael, play football and his team won. The next week they went to Ford Field to see Michael’s team win again. Cheryl and Mark Pennings, their older daughter and son-in-law, joined them for Thanksgiving dinner. In early December, they attended the Lucia Christmas celebration at the Village Club in Bloomfield Hills. It was a very festive occasion with cocktails, dinner and the Lucia pageant, where all the former Lucia’s were introduced.

Alice met former classmates Betty Irwin Schreiber and Rory Nelson for lunch and had a fantastic time talking about “the good old days way back when.” - Submitted by Anne Wrigley Molesky JJ L’Heureux: I am thankful for another year of good health and art.

I continue to work on my projects inspired by the polar regions. This year has been full of events and exhibitions, both in the USA and China. I had a one-person exhibit at the 2017 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China.

The card that JJ L’Heureux ‘64 LIG photographed and sent out during the 2017 holiday season.

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Liggett Class Representative: Susan Stuckey Thoms 1038 Essex Circle Kalamazoo, MI 49008 sthoms@umich.edu Chris King Sale: I’m fully retired in Wash, DC. Both my boys are nearby - as are two granddaughters! We sew, bake, dance and garden. I’m very fortunate. Two weeks in Italy this spring were lovely, Venice and Rome bookending an Italian cooking school.

1967 GPUS reunion in Leland, Mich.: Chrissie Johnson Zoufal, Debby Humphreys Henn, Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus and Wendy Vaughan Brickman.

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emotions about returning home after hearing about the wine country and resultant smoky smog in the bay area. When we landed at San Francisco airport, you could see the smog and smell the burnt wood from 50 miles north. For Robin’s birthday in November they celebrated by hiking with 20 friends in the hills overlooking the ocean followed by a nice dinner. Thanksgiving was spent in San Diego with their best friends. For Christmas Eve dinner, they enjoyed being home and had lobster tails. A couple of days later they led a group of friends for a walk through San Francisco to see all of the holiday decorations. On January 4th, we woke up to a 4.5 earthquake in the middle of the night. Les sends his thoughts and prayers to the Osgood family. - Submitted by Anne Wrigley Molesky

Class of ‘72 members: Sigrid Christiansen, Nene Brennan, Barbara Greenwood and Russell (surrounded by his fans!)

Susan Stuckey Thoms: I am now living in Kalamazoo and love it. I am doing some teaching at the medical school. My other job is acting - I am a standardized patient for the students, which means learning a script and playing the part of a patient. I only work about two days a week, so I still have lots of leisure time. As class agent, I love hearing from all my classmates.

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Liggett Class Representative: Renee McDuffee rrmkpke@earthlink.com Renee McDuffee: The Liggett Ladies of the class of 1970 are gathering for our 48th year reunion in April, 2018!

Martha Klingbeil Coates has invited everyone to Charlottesville, VA which she and Ted now call home.

Most of us have already made our reservations at the Boars Head Inn and booked our flights and it’s still months away.

When we were together in 2015 at Kathi Carroll Wicklund’s home in Naples, we agreed that we would not wait until 2020 to see one another. Many thanks to Martha for her effort to reunite us. Time will tell how many of us board the predawn hot air balloon, and whether we shall hold our 50th in Detroit in 2020!

Kathy (Curry) and Howie Robinson: After four years of long-distance marriage (Howie on Long Island, continuing his work at Brookhaven National Lab, and Kathy in Champaign, Illinois, seriously studying poetry and philosophy at a University of Illinois adjunct, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), they were reunited in February, when Howie retired from the lab and returned to Illinois. His plans for post-employment activities are still in development, but spending time with the two Illinois grandchildren and the two Oklahoma grandchildren is definitely on the schedule.

Gardening and travel are two other givens, as he is likely to add a vegetable garden to the extensive floral gardens Kathy has already created on the grounds of their 1920’s co-op apartment building in Champaign. Visitors are welcome!

Leslie Wrigley: In May, Leslie and Robin celebrated their 38th anniversary in Collioure, France. The weather was perfect, the seafood is fresh, the wines are superb and the hiking was great. In August, they were in Park City, Utah where they hiked and foraged for prized Porcini mushrooms. In October, they went to NYC and the Catskills. We cried seeing Hello Dolly, with Bette Midler, and it was a treat to see the beautiful fall colors upstate. We had mixed

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Class Representatives: Janeen Tingley Beebe 4206 Piney Park Rd, Perry Hall, MD, 21128-9523 janper9999@gmail.com

Russell and Carol Poole, Woody Boydell, Steve Wieczorek and his fiancee, Linda, at Russell’s in the UP.

Russell Poole, Sigrid Christiansen and Barbara Greenwood at Russell’s in the Upper Peninsula.

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Kevin Granger 943 Hidden Ln Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236 mikevric@gmail.com Russell Poole: Carol and I are retired and splitting our time between our lake-house during the summer, located on Lake Michigan near Manistique in the Upper Peninsula, and our home during the winter near Fort Worth, Texas. We keep busy travelling, kayaking, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, paddleboarding, bicycling, hiking, driving our Rangers in the woods and riding our motorcycle. Most of all, we enjoy spending time with our children and friends. After reconnecting last May

The class of 1977 celebrated its 40th Reunion! Several classmates were able to meet for breakfast in December, left side, front to back: Faye Higbie, Julie Johnson Granger and Allison Kuhnlein. Right side, front to back: Karol Hopkes Swenson, Judy Hodges and Kathy Danaher Rybicki.

with many of my classmates at our 45th reunion, classmates Barb, Nene, and Sigrid visited me in the UP for a four day “mini class reunion”.

We had so much fun, we plan to do it again this summer in early August and hope other classmates can join us! Woody, Steve and his fiancée Linda, also visited me in the UP and they plan to join us for the “2nd Annual UP Mini Reunion” this August. I hope more of you and your significant others make for the UP mini reunion this summer!”

Barbara Greenwood: I was excited and pleased to see everyone at the reunion and am looking forward to the next get-together. Nene, Sigrid and I spent a few days up at Russell’s wonderful home in the UP on Lake Michigan. It was extra special since the area is my old stomping ground and the UP I hold dear to my heart. I continue to do a great 54

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From left: Nancy Dodge’75, Gail Higginbottom, Mark Elias ‘73, Lindsey Higginbottom ‘75 and Carrie Smith ‘75 at Carrie’s book signing, in Ann Arbor, of her latest novel “Unholy City: A Claire Codella Mystery”.

deal of sea kayaking with friends but unfortunately had to cancel the big trip to Georgian Bay I usually take.

Instead, I did a great deal of biking to stay closer to home. Newsflash: I had my first large art show and the support was tremendous! It was fun and wonderful to have 30 pieces of my work hanging in one place. It was called “A Scribble a day Keeps the Dr. Away.” That title comes from all these years of working as an art therapist. I have been traveling to Traverse City quite a bit. A good friend bought a house there. We were there for Thanksgiving and even enjoyed the Traverse City Turkey Trot!!! Fun way to prepare for the Thanksgiving meal and see Traverse City by foot.

It has been great to be “playing” back in Michigan and I am looking forward to connecting with others. It has been fun to hear and see what people are up to… it had been many years since I have been connected with anyone from Liggett.

Henry Gage: Linda and I celebrated 42 years of marriage in August. We moved to Eau Claire, WI in ‘97 and have been here ever since. We have three grown daughters, Andrea (an attorney in Green Bay), Stephanie (a teacher in Eau Claire) and MaryBeth (a soon-to-be counselor and social worker) in Minneapolis, and three sons-in-law, Kelly, Paul, and Justin.

And one terrific granddaughter, Leah in Minnesota! I am a director of business development with New Haven Moving Equipment. No intentions of retiring... Having way too much fun!!

Nene Henkel Brennan: Nene was unable to attend our reunion this year, with good reason! Her oldest daughter, Tracy Johnson, was married to Weston Quasha on May

20, 2017 at the Jupiter Island Club in Hobe Sound, Fl. The two of them are living in New York City, NY. Joellyn Kuhnlein Gray: Kevin and I attended an amazing wedding in Kathmandu, Nepal -- a week-long celebration of the marriage of one of his students. It was an extraordinary trip, including a two-day visit to Bhutan: remarkable temples and palaces (though many damaged by the 2015 earthquake); brilliant colors everywhere...many worn as everyday clothing by women and monks; delicious new foods; chaotic travel as drivers navigated giant potholes, cows, and (in Bhutan) state-owned dogs; and some of the most gracious people we have ever met. Life continues to present exciting, new opportunities!

The other highlight was our first Christmas with girls to help!

Malcolm’s wife and Harry’s girlfriend joined us and I had NO IDEA how much more helpful girls are than boys! Every year, decorating the tree is a process with telling the boys they have to put on a number of ornaments equal to their age, and then cajoling them for hours to get it done. This year, Christine took on the job herself, was done in four hours, said she loved it, and then asked, “what’s next?” And when I asked

Mark Elias ‘73 joined the class of ‘75 in Ann Arbor for Carrie Smith’s ‘75 panel discussion and book signing.

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A relic from the Liggett father-son picnic in 1980. Sadly, it includes the deceased Rick McBrien, David Barlow and Joey Impistato. See who else you can recognize! Especially the brutally handsome child in center with the blue Izod - aka Burt T. Weyhing.

Alisha if she could help with the cookies, she said “I was hoping you would ask!” #bestChristmasever!

Onward to 2018! Diet, exercise, work...fighting the battles of aging! We have two trips planned - believe it or not, a college girlfriend is getting married for the very first time at age 63! K and I are going to Mexico in April for the wedding. Then a garden tour in England, just in time for Harry’s wedding! We were actually in London when Diana and Charles were married, so there is some odd symmetry to it.

Mary Wetzel Ware: After a 37-year career at my alma mater Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida (where I earned a BA in business administration and economics and an MBA), I retired in 2015! I had spent 33 years as editor of Rollins Magazine and then my final three years were as creative director in the strategic marketing department, charged with building a creative team and overseeing institutional branding.

I am now “living the good life” in Florida with my husband, Doug.

Amy Ottaway Zambetti ‘85, center in hot pink, is surrounded by her business partners at Rodan + Fields, as part of the Rodan + Fields Lexus Celebration.

Rodan + Fields is the #1 Premium Skincare brand in North America across all distribution channels and price points.

Amy recently earned a free Lexus from the company in recognition for the accomplishments of her team and the level to which they are contributing as they take this brand around the globe.

We have learned retired life is never dull as our children, and eight grandchildren live nearby (and we have the pool)! We have been travelling extensively and volunteer our time consulting with small-business entrepreneurs through the Orlando chapter of the national non-profit SCORE organization.

Diahnne Payne: Terri and I are well.

Work keeps me hoping, thinking and problem solving! The fires in California missed us but I have friends who lost homes, animals etc.

We both just plow ahead making life grand and are looking forward to our club med vacation in May and maybe a European river boat cruise this summer. I’m so looking forward to seeing classmates again. Can we plan on a ULS ‘72 cruise somewhere?

I think it would be great.

Steve Wieczorek: Linda and I are in Ft. Myers, escaping the harsh Michigan winter (for the time being).

It was awesome to attend our 45th class reunion last May, and reconnect with our classmates who made the trip. It was great to see everyone!

Hope to attend our 50th in four more years!

Janeen Tingley Beebe: Perry and I spent eleven days in July in Jackson, Wyoming and Big Sky Montana...visiting Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons - what breathtaking vistas! Since then we have been staying close to home as Perry’s cancer battle continues.

Thanksgiving was a joyful whirlwind - with my family in from Michigan, Ohio and Virginia and five dogs running amuck - one is blind but like a champ, made his way around like a Rumba vacuum!

Perry for the last many years has been preparing Thanksgiving dinner using his self-developed intricate spreadsheet which ALWAYS guaranteed dinner on time. Well,

Susan Walker ‘85 is the operations director for Hope in Home, Senior Counseling in Denver.

that changed this year as I was given the job back. All the dishes were delicious, if I do say so myself, even though two hours late! Our Christmas blessing - Perry got a break from chemo and we are heartened to see his strength slowly returning - praying for a better 2018!

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Susan Edwards Walker: I would love to hear from other alumni or classmates who are in the Denver area or traveling here. I have a new position. I am operations director for Hope in Home, Senior Counseling in Denver. My email is skimama67@ gmail.com - send me an email!

1987

Class Representative: Elizabeth Hader Weiner tifundraiser@gmail.com Lydia Alexander: Yes! It’s me! And this is the best email to use and

Lydia Alexander ‘87 with her husband Raj Kapoor ‘87 and their four children - Jaya, Ari, Deven and Luca.

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Elizabeth Weiner’s ‘87 daughter, Anna, came in 12th in the nation last year in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Elizabeth says, “Anna’s got a long road yet to nationals this year, but she’s doing well so far.”

really the best way to reach me too.

Thanks so much for your annual holiday cards. And also, thank you for taking on this ULS advancement role and helping us all reconnect with each other! Really enjoyed catching up with Michael Isip a few months back over lunch after we both realized we both live in the Bay Area!

Other quick-like updates from me - considering I’ve never submitted one so this is really covering a LOOOOONG stretch of time. My husband, Raj Kapoor and I, just celebrated our 20th year anniversary this past summer. Where does the time go? We are the proud, sleepy and occasionally overwhelmed parents of four wonderful kids - Jaya,

Elizabeth Weiner’s ‘87 oldest son becoming a Bar Mitzvah this past November. Elizabeth says,” He did an excellent job and we are so proud!”

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16, Ari, 14, Deven, 9, and Luca, 7 and have been loving life in the San Francisco area since we moved here in 1996.

After dropping my pre-med program freshman year and double majoring in international relations and Spanish with a minor in Latin American studies at Tufts, I still ended up going to medical school and received my MD from UC Davis in 2005. I became certified in Obesity Medicine in 2015, which is what I’m currently practicing. It’s the perfect field for me since I get to use nutrition, physical activity, behavior medicine and medication to treat my patient’s metabolic issues to improve their diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and many other chronic conditions. I was elected to the board of trustees of the Obesity Medicine Association and am planning to finish up certification as a medical chef. Raj is the CSO at Lyft, Inc. We both love to travel. Recent trips have included Australia, Spain, Iceland, Sweden and, of course, Greece. We rang in the New Year in the Galapagos!

Liz Gilbert ‘87 in her hometown beautiful Taos, New Mexico.

as executive director of the US Sailing Center while working on the leadership team to achieve US Olympic designation as a training facility. A transition to Naples, FL had an option for me to transition into the aerospace industry, and my husband, Peter to work for a small start up named Arthrex, now a leader, and he contributing, in the orthopaedic and arthroscopic sports medicine device and manufacturing field.

While taking a hiatus from “work” to have kids, I became our local Little League president for six years, coached soccer, sailing, lacrosse and baseball to various ages and levels, boys and girls, and continue my civic contributions in the schools, on the fields, and on the District Advisory Council, even working for a few summers at the ULS Jr. Day Camp.

I currently guest teach in the Collier County Schools and enjoy my part time photography gigs.

Cindy Dreyfuss: I had a chance to catch up with some fellow classmates at the Muriel Brock field dedication.

Happiest to catch up with Eva Dodds, who’s humor, and that tad bit of sarcasm, made me laugh!

Since I haven’t updated in a while, figured I’d give you the long story short . . . after graduating from ULS, I attended Kings Point (USMMA) in NY. After graduating, I fulfilled my federal academy military obligation in the USNR with some limited active duty time preparing vessels for activation for the conflicts in the Middle East.

As an officer aboard ocean going oil tankers (and eventually cruise ships - not as much fun), my “social” time was limited, especially in the days before cell phones and email.

Eventually, I ended up shoreside in Miami, FL supporting my eventual husband to the Olympic Trials, teaching Navigation and Marine Safety for the US Coast Lydia Alexander ‘87 and Raj Kapoor ‘87 with family.

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Elizabeth Weiner’s ‘87 oldest daughter Rachel in her Ugly Hanukkah Sweater.

She is 19 and going to Missouri State University and is participating in a Spanish immersion program in Argentina.

She is an international business major, as well as a Spanish major.

We were lucky enough a few years ago, with my entire family in the greater Detroit area, to buy a small vacation place on Mount Vernon, in Grosse Pointe, and my rehab of the 1949 bungalow is nearly complete.

Now with the three kids, Andrew 16, Sam 15 and Kate 13, we keep up with Beth (Birgbauer) Jackson and her crew and with visits in Naples FL from our past coaches, friends and teachers Romilly Stackpoole, Fowlers, Erica (Tiege) Combs, and Muriel Brock as my GP neighbor.

Still enjoying lots of cousins, my sisters and fellow ULS grads Monica (Paul) Dennis as we prepare our kids for college, and Beth (Paul) Pickard, as she adds two more little ones to our massive family. Hoping to see any travelers at our home in Naples, or summers in GP, although we travel a bit and tend to visit people with a little bit of notice, hopefully - ha!

Looking forward to your humorous updates and class happenings.

Wendy Krag O’Neil: is a silversmith living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts with her husband Tom and two kids, Lilah,13, and Charlie, 18. Silversmithing is a craft that she learned by working with her grandfather, Frederick Colby, in Michigan many years ago. She handcrafts sterling silver belt buckles, key chains, bracelets, cufflinks and charms. The best way to see Wendy’s work is on her website: www.kragsilversmith.com.

Blasko C. Ristic: All is well here in Chicago with my wife of twenty years, Lisa, and daughters Ella, 15, and Anna,13. One event that might be interesting – I was recently Invested into The Order of St John

by HRM Queen Elizabeth II. The

following announcement of HRM Queen Elizabeth II’s Honors and Awards was placed in the London Gazette on September 21, 2017 – concerning Blasko C. Ristic ’87.

The QUEEN, as Sovereign Head of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, has directed the appointment of Blasko Cedomir Ristic to be a serving Brother of said order.

The Investiture was held in October 2017 at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Nomination requires demonstration of a life of contribution that ‘strengthen the spirit of mankind, encourage and promote humanitarian and charitable works and service to others.’ Candidates are selected confidentially and submitted to Buckingham Palace for final vetting and selection. The Order of St. John is perhaps best known through its service organizations, including St. John Ambulance and St. John Eye Hospital Group, the memberships and work of which are not constricted by denomination or religion. It is a constituent member of the Alliance of the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1991

Class Representatives: Natasha Moulton-Levy 13595 Julia Manor Way Westfriendship, MD 21794-9220 teklaml@aol.com Katy Campbell 3257 Cummings Berkley, MI 48072-1154 mkpodolan@gmail.com Kristen Feemster Kim MD, MPH, MSHP: Recently authored the book “Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know.” Kristen is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and health policy researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Her research focuses on the implementation of immunization recommendations, the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases, and vaccine policy. She is Director of Research for the Vaccine Education Center and medical director of the Immunization Program at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.

Katherine Van Slyke: I live on Bainbridge Island, a ferry ride away from Seattle with my husband, Tarquin, who grew up here. I am a tennis pro and fitness instructor at our local tennis club. Our daughter, Ellie, is a freshman at CU Boulder and our son, Asher, is an aspiring photographer in his junior year at the high school. Bainbridge is a great place to visit for a day trip if anyone is ever in Seattle! Wishing everyone a fantastic 2018!

Burt T. Weyhing: I am finishing up almost 25 year career in immigration enforcement. I’m due to retire in 2018. I Manage deportation flights and air operations, spend a lot of time at DTW airport and still travel internationally about six times a year.

My wife Gerley is currently attending school to become a physician’s assistant after I retire. We have boygirl twins seven years old now in second grade at Richard Elementary.

We moved back to Grosse Pointe Farms eight years ago and have made it to most reunions and still fraternize with the local 1987 crowd at times.

Congratulations to Kristen Feemster Kim ‘91 who recently published “Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know.”

1995

Class Representative: Julie E. Jahn 399 W Fullerton Pkwy. # 14E, Chicago, IL 60614 Jahnjulie@gmail.com W W W.UL S.ORG

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Greg McPartlin is the CEO of Parjana Distribution, LLC, of Detroit, a global technology company that used a high-tech water diversion system to turn wetland into a useable employee micro-park. Parjana’s proprietary and environmentally friendly system mitigates the need for extensive drainage tunneling and infrastructure. The system allows for rain water to flow through a series of EGRP devices buried below surface that are designed to redistribute the water throughout the ground soils in an expedient manner.

2000

Class Representative: Celeste Y. Hubbard 513 Alden Dr., Decatur, GA. 30030 celesteyhubbard@yahoo.com Andrew Watkins is president and COO of Marketplace.city, which recently launched an online platform that will speed urban technology innovation by connecting cities directly to providers of smart city solutions. Four global cities — New York City, Atlanta, Barcelona and Dublin — have partnered and signed up as the platform’s inaugural city users. Marketplace.city is the first platform to provide city officials who oversee innovation, technology and procurement with a one-stop-shop to explore solutions to vexing city problems — from smart sensors and lighting systems to improved emergency response tools.

2005

Class Secretaries: Caitlin Costello 800 Cadieux Road Grosse Pointe, MI 48230-1232 caitlinbcostello@gmail.com Kimberly M. Dickinson 2809 Boston Street, Apt. 337

Dr. Kimberly M. Dickinson ‘05 was married on August 26, 2017 to Dr. Ross Beckman at the Evergreen Museum and Library in Baltimore, MD.

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Latia Youngfountain ‘03 visited campus in December she’s pictured here with Shernaz Minwalla, Elizabeth Jamett and Dr. Phill Moss.

Baltimore, MD 21224-4849 kmdickinson87@gmail.com Kimberly M. Dickinson, MD/MPH: Dr. Kimberly M. Dickinson ‘05 was married on August 26, 2017, to Dr. Ross Beckman at the Evergreen Museum and Library in Baltimore, MD where both reside and work as physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Kimmy is a Pediatric Pulmonary Fellow and Ross is completing his residency in General Surgery. They met in 2009 while attending the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where they both completed the eight-year Program in Liberal Medical Education. The wedding party included maid-ofhonor Caitlin Costello ‘05 and in attendance were Annie Doletzky ‘05, Leeza Kossak Thompson, Katie Boccaccio Tansey ‘05 and Chris Andrecovich ‘05.

2006

Class Representative: Alyssa Bronikowski 425 Vine St. Apt. 318 Seattle, WA 98121 Alyssa.bronikowski@gmail.com Marcia McDade: Marcia McDade and Jared Collins married April 30, 2016 and currently reside in Mebane, North Carolina.

Ankur Verma graduated from medical school at Michigan State in 2014 and is about to complete his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Chicago. In July, he plans to move to Baton Rouge for a sports medicine fellowship and will be one of the team doctors for LSU football, basketball, and baseball!

Lindsay Brownell left the freelancing life in April 2017 and joined the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University

From left: Laura Hicks Barone ’08, Lauren Giorgio Hicks ‘10, Michelle Hicks, athletic director, Juli Grant ‘95 and Peggy Dettlinger, head of the Lower School

as a science writer. In her roles, she writes press releases, longer articles, announcements, and manages outreach efforts to journalists, so the Institute can spread the word about new advances in science and engineering in language that non-scientists can understand.

Lindsay still lives in Boston, and in September 2017, she and her brother Chris Brownell ‘09 and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

She also went to Chile with her family in March and swam with whale sharks in May!

2013

5th Reunion!

Class Secretary: Armaity Minwalla arminwal@umich.edu Amber Baldwin: Amber completed her first semester in the University of Michigan-Flint Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. In September of 2017 she was notified that her undergraduate research/ honors college thesis, “Best Practices for Public Policies for Palliative Care Physical Therapy: A Critical Review of the Literature” was selected for publication in the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Rehabilitation Oncology Journal. She presented this thesis at the Michigan Physical Therapy Association (MPTA) Fall Conference in Frankenmuth in October 2017. She is hoping to complete more research at the graduate level. Amber is continuing to work at Beaumont Health System in Troy as a rehabilitation aide while in graduate school. She is excited to be in the DPT program and to graduate in August 2020. Go Blue!

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empowering coalition of progressive organizations and individuals that have come together across differences in efforts against racism and intolerance including a week of action to educate about and resist white supremacy and to support and amplify marginalized voices.

Armaity is honored to be doing work centered on the empowerment of others and will continue putting energy in and getting energy out of working towards social justice.

Armaity Minwalla ‘13 with the rest of the Southeast Michigan Doula Project executive board.

Victoria Chochla: Victoria is in her final semester of the Masters of Management Program at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Last semester, she took courses in strategy, management and organizations, business statistics and economics. This semester, she will supplement her business acumen with classes like Operations Management, World Economy, Legal and Ethical Environment and Cost Measurement and Control.

After graduating with her master’s degree in April, Victoria will be applying to medical school for 2019. This month, her foundation, VICTORIA, celebrated it’s seventh year anniversary and Victoria looks forward to continue educating Polish youth about athletics and wellness in the coming years.

Elizabeth Stallings ‘13 and Christopher McDonald on their wedding day.

Armaity Minwalla: Armaity is thoroughly enjoying her first year of graduate school at the University of Michigan School of Social Work where she is specializing in interpersonal practice and health in the hopes of focusing a future career in women’s health education and advocacy. She is currently the Master’s of Social Work intern for Ross Halpern and Associates, a psychotherapy clinic for chronic pain patients. Here she works directly under Heidi Sproull, LMSW, providing counseling for patients who have endured trauma. In addition, Armaity assists Sproull in teaching sexual health, preteen and teen issues, bystander intervention and self-defense for fifth through twelfth graders. Armaity auditioned for and was accepted into to the Grammy award-winning University Musical Society Choral Union. This past fall the Choral Union had the opportunity to perform Leonard Bernstein’s 3rd Symphony “Kaddish” with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and narration by Tony and Oscar winner, Jeremy Irons. Armaity was honored to share the stage with such a legend! Armaity’s work on a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder study during her Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) was published in Environmental Disease this past fall. Armaity owes her research skills and ability to find opportunities like SURE to her experience in Liggett’s ARP program.

Armaity also uses the skills like proposal writing, literature reviews, and professional outreach in her work on the executive team of the Southeast Michigan Doula Project, where she is working on expanding their services to include full-spectrum doula care. On campus, Armaity has been part of an exciting and

Elizabeth (Libby) Stallings: Libby began full-time employment with Brown and Caldwell (BC) in June 2017. BC is the largest engineering consulting firm in the world that focuses solely on the environmental sector. Libby spends the majority of her time working in BC’s Detroit, Michigan office on the City of Detroit’s water based utilities; however, she has also been traveling quite frequently to Cleveland, Ohio and has been working there on similar projects for the City of Cleveland. Additionally, Libby married U.S. Army Second Lieutenant Christopher (Chris) McDonald of Bloomfield Hills on January 6, 2018. Chris is currently stationed at Elgin Air Force Base near Destin, Florida where he is completing his training to become an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer. Libby will remain working in the Metro Detroit area until after Chris completes his training in August 2018.

2016

Class Representative: Megan P. Desmadryl jdesy1987@gmail.com Nick Rivera nrivera99@comcast.net

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Hicks-Giorgio wedding: Tony Giorgio ‘14, Lauren Giorgio Hicks ‘10, Zac Hicks and Laura Hicks Barone ’08.

Kendall McConico: Kendall is a second year basketball player at Case Western Reserve University.

She is averaging 10 points per game while making 43.4 percent of her shots.

2017 Class Representative: Sarah Galbenski sgalbens@nd.edu

Sarah Galbenski is currently in her second semester at the University of Notre Dame where she is pursuing a major in the program of liberal studies with a supplementary major in Spanish and a minor in linguistics.

On campus, Sarah enjoys performing with the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir and the Pasquerilla East Musical Company (PEMCo).

She is enthusiastic about educational equity and serves as a mentor to a local second-grader through the program College Mentors for Kids and works as a language tutor at a bilingual school in downtown South Bend. This summer, she will spend eight weeks in San José de Chimbo, Ecuador teaching English to fourth through ninth grade students at La Fundación Natividad de Los Andes.

In her free time, Sarah can be found running around the lakes, practicing yoga, and constantly monitoring her dorm’s share table for snacks.

Please feel free to contact her at sgalbens@nd.edu!

Maddie Wu is attending Princeton

University where she is pursuing a major in either economics or psychology with a minor in teacher preparation and East Asian studies.

At Princeton, she is a member of the club soccer team, music manager for the Princeton University Players, writes for The Daily Princetonian with Nicholas Wu ’14, and mentors Trenton youth through the GetSET program. She enjoys being able to see fellow Liggett classmates on campus! She can often be found making too many trips to the Wa. Sasha Jovanovski attends Georgetown University and is enjoying participating in music, theatre, and the campus literary magazine. She also has a job teaching SAT/ACT prep classes.

Hollie Kien just started her second semester of freshman year at Adrian College. She has joined a few clubs on campus as well as a sorority, Alpha Phi. She is majoring in communications and is currently a member of the Detroit Sports Media Broadcasters Association.

Tarik Commons Dedication: September 2017

The Tarik Ibrahim ‘99 Commons was dedicated in September. More than 30 friends and family, including Tarik’s parents, Drs. Fikry and Mona Ibrahim, gathered for the dedication ceremony which renames the Upper School Commons to the Tarik Commons.

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In Memoriam We have received word of the recent passing of the following alumni and extend our condolences to their families and friends. Memorial notices for those for whom we receive a published obituary will appear in the In Memoriam section of Perspective magazine. Upon request, we will also post memorial notices on our alumni Facebook page. If you would like to report the recent death of a classmate or friend, please email a copy of the obituary or a link to the obituary to Katie Durno at kdurno@uls.org.

Mary Louise Drennen ‘39 LIG Grosse Pointe resident Mary Louise Drennen, 95, died in September 2017.

Born Feb. 9, 1922, to Louise and Fred Goodson, Mary Louise was a resident of Grosse Pointe since 1937. She was a member of the Liggett School Class of 1939. Elected class secretary for life, she reported her class news to the alumni magazine.

She graduated from Vassar College in 1943 with a bachelor of arts degree in music, followed by graduate credits at University of Michigan. In 1959, Mary Louise married Col. William Drennen and enjoyed being an army wife living near Orleans, France, and Ludwigsburg, Germany for three years.

Golf was among her many passions, playing frequently at Selfridge AFB, and the Country Club of Detroit. She was predeceased by her husband and parents.

Shirley Jerome McKee ‘47 CDS Shirley Jerome McKee, of Holly, died in October 2017. She was born in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe Shores.

Shirley remained a lifelong member of Tau Beta and served as her class secretary for University Liggett School.

After a stint as a legal secretary and stenographer, Shirley married, moved to Bloomfield Hills and had two sons, Billy Underdown (David Geen) of Douglas and Gibby Underdown (Lesley Wood) of Boyne City. Shirley was an avid volunteer, including Junior League, Pilgrim’s Project, Nurses Aid, and United Way. She married her true love, Brent P. McKee, and the two enjoyed a full life together in suburban Chicago. After Brent’s death, Shirley moved back to Michigan to be closer to family, including three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren on four acres in Holly. A donation in her name to University Liggett School would be appreciated.

Marianne Shapero Schwartz ‘48 LIG Marianne Shapero Schwartz, 86, of Birmingham, Mich., died in September 2017. She was the beloved wife of 67 years of Alan E. Schwartz. Cherished mother of Marc A. (Emily Camiener) Schwartz, Kurt N. (Susan) Schwartz, and Ruthanne (Joe) Fuller. Loving grandmother of Alana Schwartz, Derek Schwartz, Mark Fuller, Chris Fuller and David (Roey) Fuller. Also survived

by Emily’s children, Hugh Camiener and Miles Camiener.

Devoted daughter of the late Nate Shapero and the late Ruth Shapero. Sister of the late Ray A. (the late Jean) Shapero. Sister-in-law of the late Marilyn Schwartz Giles, the

late Cyril and the late Hella Schwartz. Also survived by many loving nieces, nephews and a world of friends.

Dianne Rentschler ‘54 CDS Dianne K. Rentschler, 82, died in December 2017. Dianne was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, David Rentschler. Loving mother of Douglas (Leslie) Rentschler, Amy Hyde and Brian Rentschler. She also leaves five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Marilyn Sue Krieghoff Fuller ‘68 LIG Marilyn Sue Krieghoff Fuller died in December 2017. She was a devoted wife, mom, hostess, church treasurer, web editor, event logistician and association secretary. Sue was a selfless neighbor to all. She and Tom Fuller, her husband of 45 years, often reminded each other that they have been each other’s best friend since even before they were college sweethearts.

Sue loved libraries and schools and volunteered in them for years before she took a full-time job in the Principia College library. She earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. She is cherished in the hearts of her husband Tom Fuller; her daughters Abby Innes and Liz Fuller-Wright; their spouses John Innes and Alexis Fuller-Wright; her grandchildren Joshua, Nora, and Gracie; and her siblings Karolyn Sewell, Dave Waters, Tim Waters, Sarah Waters, and their families.

Doug Glancy ’96 Doug Glancy died in October 2017.

Doug attended University Liggett School beginning in kindergarten and stayed here through 8th grade, at which point he went east for boarding school.

According to his brother Rob, “Doug was an exceedingly complex individual, with a passion for the environment, his dog Moby, everything Michigan and U of M, cooking and his family. Doug also had a very adept skill at making you furiously mad at him, but he always kept you coming back for more, because it was so apparent that although his exterior could often be so overwhelming, he was fragile, thoughtful and sad on the inside.” Doug will be fondly remembered by family, friends, classmates and co-workers.

His family has graciously requested that gifts in Doug’s memory be donated to University Liggett School, 1045 Cook Road, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, a school that generations of the Glancy’s call their alma mater.

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CURRENT CLASS REPRESENTATIVES

Send your updates to your class representative listed below. Don’t see a class rep? Send updates or contact Katie Durno at kdurno@uls.org to become a class representative today.

1961 GPUS Marion Shanle mjshanle@gmail.com 1962 GPUS Susan E. White suwhite11@aol.com 1963 Liggett - 55th Reunion Sharon L. Litsky

1938 Liggett Jean Hodges trhjdh@sbcglobal.net 1941 Liggett Jane K. Denny 125 E Gilman St. Madison, WI 53703

1954 CDS / GPUS - New Class Rep! Margaret Garbarino 23320 Liberty St. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 1954 Liggett Valerie Hart Calicat36@comcast.net

1942 DUS Robert M. Tonge m1tonge@gmail.com

1955 GPUS Jane W. Reuther jnb7@comcast.net

1943 DUS - 75th Reunion William W. Wilson wwwilson2@aol.com

1955 Liggett Gael Webster-McFarland gaelstan@gmail.com

1944 CDS Lydia J. Lee jbilllee@aol.com 1944 Liggett Roberta Rigger rmrigger@aol.com 1946 Liggett Betsy Stanton bstanton@rochester.rr.com 1948 Liggett - 70th Reunion Norah M. Williams jackandnorah219@gmail.com 1949 Liggett Ann T. Opperthauser oranopp2@yahoo.com 1950 Liggett Ann M. Burton amb6@nyu.edu 1950 DUS William J. Cudlip 284 McKinley Ave. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 1951 CDS Jane A. Dow janeodow@gmail.com 1951 Liggett Barbara H. Esler barbara@autumnwinds.com 1952 Liggett Kay Phillips 14421 N Ibsen Dr. Apt A Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 62

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1956 GPUS George G. Jerome ggjsr@aol.com 1956 Liggett Joanne Stewart danaws@sc.rr.com

sharonlitsky@sbcglobal.net Gail Niskar galem1@aol.com 1963 GPUS - 55th Reunion Alexandra Moisides sanmoi@comcast.net William R. Randall wrrandall@windstream.net 1964 GPUS William B. Canfield canfieldwilliam@gmail.com 1964 Liggett Karolyn A. Sewell ksewell7@comcast.net 1965 Liggett Lana Litwin lanar45@gmail.com Mary W. Schrope schropem@gmail.com

1957 GPUS Wendy C. Krag gigipab@comcast.net

1966 Liggett Susan S. Thoms sthoms@umich.edu

1957 Liggett - New Class Rep! Dana Riley rileybunnyfla@aol.com

1967 Liggett Michael Brown mikkee.brown@verizon.net

1958 GPUS - 60th Reunion Suzanne S. Decker ssdeck@gmail.com

1967 GPUS Janice D. Gunsaulus janniguns2@gmail.com

1958 Liggett - 60th Reunion Lois D. Hutchison hutchlov1@earthlink.net

1968 Liggett - 50th Reunion

1959 GPUS Robin D. Russell rdhr@fivewindsworkshop.com

1969 GPUS Meredith B. Jackson jaypbsig@sprintmail.com

1960 GPUS Martha M. Cox marthacox64@gmail.com

1970 Liggett Renee R. McDuffee rrmkpk@earthlink.net

Suzy Lincoln amadeus303@gmail.com

1970 GPUS Priscilla M. Mead pmead1130@yahoo.com

1960 Liggett Anne C. Molesky tomjmolesky@gmail.com

1971 Shanda S. Rumble shanshome@yahoo.com

Joni W. Holinger

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1972 Janeen K. Beebe janper9999@gmail.com

1990 Brooke M. Kemler brookemler@hotmail.com

2005 Caitlin B. Costello caitlinbcostello@gmail.com

Kevin B. Granger mikevric@comcast.net

Sreedhar Samudrala drsam@afdclinics.com

Kimberly M. Dickinson kmdickinson87@gmail.com

1973 - 45th Reunion Stephen Rosati srosati54@hotmail.com

1991 Mona K. Campbell-Podolan mkpodolan@gmail.com

1974 Sara H. Sessions saraeastside@gmail.com

Natasha Moulton-Levy teklaml@aol.com

1975 Claudia K. Eaton eaton.claudia@gmail.com 1976 Carol M. Stratton greggandstratton@gmail.com 1977 Victoria E. Kling Vekcreative@yahoo.com 1978 - 40th Reunion Thomas G. Graves tggravesmd@gmail.com 1979 Catherine S. Shell jwshell@me.com 1980 Roxane M. Lie rml2vizsla2002@yahoo.com 1982 Michael F. Ottaway michael_ottaway@ml.com 1983 - 35th Reunion Thomas A. Dow tomasdow@gmail.com 1984 Lawrence J. Paolucci Ljpaolucci@gmail.com 1987 Elizabeth M. Weiner eweiner@bop.gov 1988 - 30th Reunion Joy L. Nichols umpilots@aol.com 1989 Dike H. Ajiri dajiri@yahoo.com 1989 Elizabeth J. Garant ejgarant@yahoo.com

1992 Lila M. LaHood lilalahood@yahoo.com Anne R. Tranchida arh1214@aol.com 1993 - 25th Reunion Amy R. Shanle amy.shanle@gmail.com 1994 Peter A. Brown pbrown@gpjco.com 1995 Julie E. Jahn Jahnjulie@gmail.com 1996 Rachel U. Young rachel_calderon@hotmail.com 1997 Peter Birgbauer pbirgbauer@gmail.com 1998 - 20th Reunion Naeha Dixit cusailgurl@yahoo.com 2000 Celeste Y. Hubbard celesteyhubbard@yahoo.com

2006 Alyssa C. Bronikowski alyssa.bronikowski@gmail.com 2007 William Y. Campbell yates.campbell@gmail.com 2008 - 10th Reunion Laura E. Barone laura.hicks10@gmail.com Maria G. Russo mariarusso90@comcast.net 2009 Bianca M. Avolio bianca@thesecondguess.com 2010 - New Class Rep! Joseph J. Shannon joseph.j.shannon@ml.com 2011 - New Class Rep! Drew Dettlinger

dettlingerdrew@gmail.com 2012 Katherine E. Parthum pardo769@sbcglobal.net 2013 - 5th Reunion Armaity Minwalla aminwalla@gmail.com 2014 Margot E. Alpert mealpert@gmail.com

2001 Jessica L. Hall hall2343@gmail.com

2015 - New Class Rep! Margaret M. Shannon mshanno4@nd.edu

2003 - 15th Reunion Brandon C. Celestin brandon.celestin@gmail.com

2016 Megan P. Desmadryl jdesy1987@gmail.com

2004 Caroline A. Cassleman cacroskey@gmail.com

2017 Sarah G. Galbenski sgalbens@nd.edu

Rachel N. Costello 1841 Columbia Rd NW Washington, D.C. 20009

Nicholas A. Rivera nrivera99@comcast.net

Meghan T. Jornlin mdole@udel.edu

*Addresses provided where class representatives do not have an email address.

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OLDEST LIVING ALUMNA

University Liggett School’s Oldest Living Alumna Leaves Behind a Legacy Eleanor “Sandy” Ford Torrey West graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School in 1928 Alumna Eleanor “Sandy” Ford Torrey West, who celebrated her 105th birthday in January, is leaving behind a legacy more than 1,000 miles from Grosse Pointe that will endure in perpetuity.

Born in 1913, West grew up in Grosse Pointe in the early 1900s, and graduated from University Liggett School, then known as Grosse Pointe Country Day School, in 1928. As a child, West’s family often wintered in the warmth of Savannah, Georgia, and in 1924, bought their own island there. That island has become West’s legacy.

Ossabaw Island, just 10 miles south of Savannah, is one of the largest in the chain of Georgia’s Sea Islands. It is not linked to the mainland by bridge or causeway, and there is no direct ferry.

West grew up captivated by coastal Georgia’s charms, riding horses down Ossabaw’s beaches, bird watching among the plentiful marshes and swimming in the freshwater ponds. Ossabaw opened West’s heart to the natural world.

West became a full-time island resident in 1959 after the death of her parents, and in 1961, she created The Ossabaw Island Foundation to share her love of the place.

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Sandy engaged Jimmy Carter to broker her sale of Ossabaw Island to the state of Georgia in 1978.

intellectuals to study their craft surrounded by beauty and solitude.

In 1970, West created the Genesis Project for students to study and experience a quieter way of life. The students lived on the island and participated in milking cows, growing vegetables, and studying sea turtles, pigs, Native American archeology and plantation life.

The foundation strives to inspire and promote educational, cultural and scientific programs while minimizing the impact on the island’s resources.

Over the years, many investors tried to buy the island, but West refused to turn it into a resort, no matter the price. Facing bankruptcy in 1978, she struck a deal with the state, agreeing to let them take over the management of the island, creating Georgia’s first Heritage Preserve.

Now there is a protective executive order for natural, scientific and cultural study, research and education; and for environmentally sound preservation, conservation and management of the island’s ecosystem.

As part of the foundation, an artists’ colony was formed for painters, scientists, writers, historians, linguists, sculptors and

West rests easy knowing the island will remain in its natural splendor long after she is gone. Two of her family members went on to attend Liggett or a predecessor school - Annette Torrey Peck ’51 CDS and her grand niece Torrey Peck Kingry ’78.

PAVING

the FUTURE

Make Your Mark.

Buy a Paver.

UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL

As University Liggett School prepares

Pavers are offered in two sizes!

4” x 8” Rectangular Paver

to celebrate the opening of the John

$5,000 Contains space for up to 42 characters

and Marlene Boll Campus Center in fall 2018, we are pleased to invite all members of the Liggett family to consider making their own mark on

8” x 8” Square Paver

the new facility.

Just outside the new building,

$10,000 Contains space for up to 70 characters

Liggett will install a courtyard filled with engraved brick pavers featuring messages from our alumni, families and friends.

This is a great way to leave your personalized mark on our new campus, where your message can greet past, present and future Liggett students as they make their way into the new building. It’s an important way to support the school and the new building. Purchasing a brick paver is also an excellent way to show your support for the Sure Foundations campaign. The campaign’s goal is to raise $50 million over several years to transform Liggett’s campus and the education that our students receive.

SURE FOUNDATIONS

www.uls.org/PaverLegacy

Please reserve your paver by June 30, 2018 to be installed for the opening of the Boll Campus Center.

For more information about purchasing a brick paver, contact Trisha Shapiro at tshapiro@uls.org or 313-884-4444, ext. 411 or visit www.uls.org/PaverLegacy

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