REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2015-2016
1748 Society: Leaving a Friends Legacy
Sue Merrick ’39 — A Transformational Donor
Founded in 2001, the 1748 Society is composed of donors who have included Friends in their estate plans through a bequest or a life income gift, as well as those who have made other planned gifts to the school. These generous gifts ensure a lasting legacy for the donor and benefit Friends School into perpetuity.
1890-1899
Alfred D. Warner, Jr. ’96*
1900-1919
Miriam Hawkins Bryant ’16 *
1920-1929
G. Burton Pearson ’23* Anne Philips Blake ’24* Marjorie Johnson Tilghman ’24* Carroll Griffith ’29* Sarah Downs Lull ’29*
1930-1939
Elizabeth Stephenson* and Thomas W. Stephenson ’31* Dorothy Aspin Baugher ’32 * Elizabeth Davidson Storke ’32* Nancy Cantwell Winslow ’32 Sewell Biggs ’33* Alicia Fritz Maharty ’35* Winifred Nixon Ellis ’36* Catherine Burke Flickinger ’36* William Lynch ’38* Suzanne Merrick ’39* John Mullin, Jr. ’39* Carolyn Myers ’39*
1940-1949
Anonymous Ruth Ann Lauritsen Marston ’40* William F. Metten, Jr. ’40* Elizabeth Valentine Daudt ’41* and Louis Daudt* Ruth Marshall and Thomas C. Marshall, Jr. ’41 Joann Brosius Shoemaker ’44* and Charles G. Shoemaker ’41 Carolyn West Medill ’42* Elizabeth Lahr McCulloch ’44* Howard W. Starkweather, Jr. ’44 Imogene Geoghegan and Joseph Geoghegan ’45* Margaret Steinbring McMillan ’45 and David McMillan Diane Teeple and Rodman Teeple ’45
Dorothy Kay Cox ’46* Carol Jo Heald and Richard T. Heald ’46 Thomas Hollingsworth ’47* Lydia Boyer and David Boyer ’48 Howard Seebach ’48 Miriam Stausebach Gedling ’49 Cornelius V. Robbins ’49*
Jeannette Smith and Walter Smith ’62 Sara Miller ’63 Penny Kolloff and John Urice ’64 Michael Wise ’64 Janet Martin Yabroff ’64 Grayson Smith, Jr. ’68* Phyllis Shomo Beidler ’69 Phyllis A. Pownall ’69
1950-1959
1970-1979
Eleanor Marsh Hillers ’50* and Robert Hillers James Shuster ’50* W. Alan Smith ’50 Caroline Penniman Wohlforth ’50* and Eric Wohlforth Dorothy Pierson Eaton ’51 Cricket Ball and Mark Ball ’52 Ira Ellis, Jr. ’52 W. Rufus Jones ’52 Herschel Loomis ’52 Laura Pardee and Fred Pardee ’52 J. Eric May ’53* Donald Welles ’53* Walter Manss, Jr. ’54* Toshiko Salzberg and John Salzberg ’54 Matilda Beasley Bixby ’55* Devereaux Rose Eyler ’55 Sara Hodge Geuder ’55 Mary Jane Hogan Green ’55* Yancey Hillegas and David Hillegas ’55 Madge M. Ellis ’56 Cynthia Pyle Woolley ’56 Abigail Greene Fassnacht ’57 and John Fassnacht Ann Harper Heaton ’57 and Robert Heaton Carl Frederick Shrawder ’57 Bruce S. Cutler ’58 Elizabeth Moore Johnston ’58
1960-1969
Heather Fleming ’60 Phoebe B. Baker ’62 Mona Bayard and Thomas Bayard ’62 Rosanne Cox and Irving John Cox III ’62 Deborah Hitt Lane ’62 and Gordon Lane Maureen and Terry Lawrence ’62
Elizabeth Lord Scott ’70 and Thomas Scott ’70 Roy H. Wilkinson ’70 Amy Taylor Davis ’72 Marshall K. McKusick ’72 Christobel Shedd Selecky ’72 Robert P. Hukill, Jr. ’75* Lisa Fitzpatrick and Thomas Marston ’75 Reed Masten ’75 Tim Gibbs ’76 Robert Keating ’77* Bonnie Wilson Crosby ’79 and Sumner Crosby Steven J. Johnson ’79
1980-1989
Julie Tattersall McGinnis ’82 Pamela Appleby Waxlax ’83 Martha Poorman Tschantz ’85 and Jay Tschantz Emily Geuder ’87
1990-1999
Anh Dam ’90 Karen Gordon Bastow ’98
Current Parents
Sherry and Jon Brilliant Annie and Chris Coons
Parents of Alumni
Anonymous Christine Beadle* Anne Bonnyman Kate and John Cowperthwait Janet S. Cox* Lisa and Bernard David Juliana Smith Forbes Mary N. Gardner* Barbara Jones Haskins* Mary Lawshe Henderer Karin and Joseph Kirkland Mary and Daniel Klein
During the latter years of her life at Stonegates, Sue Merrick ’39, or “Sis” as she was known by those close to her, would often be found with her favorite WFS blanket. She loved that blanket, and she loved her school. Upon her passing, Friends School learned that Sis had left a sizeable bequest to the School, a transformative gift that has had both immediate and enduring impacts at Friends. The estate gift afforded the School the ability to break ground during the summer of 2014 on the Global Learning Center, which was officially dedicated at the start of the 2015/16 school year. It also provided a seven-figure addition to the School’s endowment, a gift which will support our students and our faculty in perpetuity. Classmates remember Sis as a very quiet person, so it’s not surprising that she supported Friends in a very quiet way, never wanting much in the way of recognition. Through the years, in her unassuming manner, Sis ultimately gave over $2 million to WFS. We are so grateful for the lasting impact of Sis’s generosity. Like all members of our 1748 Planned Giving Society, she is forever a part of the soul of Friends School. Deborah and Richard Layton* Alice D. Reilly Isabella K. Tarumianz* Chaplin Tyler* Anna and Luke Wales Julie Jenks Zorach and Peter Zorach
Grandparents
Davis G. Durham* Genevieve Gore* Josephine Clapp Osbun* Margaret and Robert B. Scott*
Current Trustees Darcy and Ronald Rademaker Melody and Harry Hammond
Past Trustees
Anonymous Evelyn Brownlee Judith Childs Butler and Hays Butler Stephen Clark* Eleanor and Alan Craig W. Ervin Gloor*
Jay Pownall Elaine and David Singleton Charlotte Taylor Adelaide Tinker*
Past Heads, Faculty, and Staff
Judy and James Aliquo Edith Broad* Lisa A.H. Darling Landis P. Green Cynthia and Don Kuespert Sally Longstreth* Martha Crane Lyon* Edward Savery* Jane Rittenhouse Smiley* Anne and Wilbert B. Smith*
Friends
Valentina Colpitts* Joan M. Dietze* Louise and James Gilliam* Brian M. Sagrestano Joanna Savery Eleanor Betts Warner* Franklyn C. von Wiskow* Horace T. Woodward* *deceased
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