Annual Report 2020–2021
HEAD OF SCHOOL
Dear Castilleja Community, We opened this year with our community together around the Circle once again! We welcomed new students, new faculty, new leaders—and even those who were new last year. It was a Tie Ceremony like no other, with many grades running, many ties being tied, and many feet pounding with anticipation as we gathered in the Chapel Theater. For a community like Castilleja, so rich with traditions, being together again has been both joyful and steadying, even as we recognize that many elements of daily life have changed. One thing that has remained the same is that we have a guiding theme again this year to frame our social and emotional learning. These themes usually rise from the moment and address the questions we find ourselves exploring inside and outside the classroom. Two years ago, our theme was Belonging, and we thought about how we, as individuals and as a community, could help everyone feel that they belong. Last year, through distance, hybrid, and in-person learning, we explored Justice in countless ways, often thinking about how compassionate leaders can effect change to bend the arc of justice. I think you will agree that this year’s theme—Dignity—is a natural extension of the work we have done over the past two years. As we become a community that nurtures a sense of belonging and we work toward creating a more just world, we realize the importance of honoring the inherent dignity in everyone we encounter, everywhere we go, every single day. This acknowledgement changes our lives on every level; we don’t just greet each other differently while crossing the Circle, we see each other differently. In addition, we are more able to be our true selves within our school community when we tend to and preserve our own dignity. In these pages, I hope you will come to appreciate how these three recent themes have aligned to shape and inform daily life around the Circle and our hopes for the future of Castilleja. As donors, you support us both by enriching our current programs and by investing in our plans for the next generation of women leaders. Thank you from all of us at Castilleja. Warmly,
Belonging
Nanci Z. KauffmanHA Castilleja Head of School
GUIDING THEMES Each year, Ms. KauffmanHA carefully selects a theme for the school year and distributes a sticker on opening day: Belonging 2019–20, Justice 2020–21, and Dignity 2021–22.
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dignity CASTILLEJA 2021-2022
CONTENTS
Celebrating the Circle 2
NEW LEADERSHIP INTRODUCING THREE AGILE LEADERS
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FAREWELL & WELCOME CELEBRATING THE CLASS OF 2021 AND 2028
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ALUMNA GIVING A GIFT FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE
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HEAD’S CIRCLE TRANSFORMATIVE GIVING
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VISIONARY IMPACT BILL KIND P’09 AND KAREN STROBEL
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS REVENUE AND EXPENSES 2020—2021
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DONOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RECOGNIZING OUR GENEROUS COMMUNITY
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PARENTS ANNUAL FUND ACKNOWLEDGING GIFTS FROM PARENTS
17 VIEW360 VIRTUAL GATHERING FOR JUSTICE 20
BEYOND THE CIRCLE GIFTS FROM ALUMNAE AND OUR COMMUNITY
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SENIOR GIFT THE CLASS OF 2021—A LEGACY OF JUSTICE
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PORTRAITS STUDENT ART
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LEGACY DONORS DECADES OF GIVING
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WELCOME TO CASTILLEJA
Leaders in Agility Castilleja welcomes new Leadership Team members Dr. Nadia Johnson, Laura Zappas, and Anne Rubin
Agility calls for perspective, which we gain by learning from others and listening to new stories. These tales teach us how to take risks and dream big. “Independent schools must embody the values we are teaching,” Dr. Johnson stated matterof-factly at a faculty meeting late this summer. New leaders Dr. Johnson, Assistant Head for Curriculum and Community, Ms. Zappas, Head of Middle School, and Ms. Rubin, Head of Upper School, all model Castilleja’s leadership competencies in different ways. All three of them moved across the country this summer to come to Castilleja, definitely demonstrating agility from the very moment they set foot on campus. As Dr. Johnson, Ms. Zappas, and Ms. Rubin reflected on agility, each one of them remembered a person who had faith in their capacity to take risks by pursuing paths they might not have considered on their own. This highlights another important element of the Castilleja experience, relationships. The connections that Castilleja students feel to their teachers is a critical step toward developing initiative, agility, and purpose—and becoming compassionate leaders.
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TAKING A ROAD UNKNOWN
Nadia Johnson Assistant Head for Curriculum and Community “Being agile helps you understand what really matters. It helps you develop strong mental health. It helps you consider: what do I do next and how can I adapt?” After college, Dr. Johnson faced some of these questions as she made choices about her career and her happiness. Soon after starting a job in banking, Dr. Johnson realized that this path was not meant for her, so she asked herself, “what’s the next best scenario?” When encountering obstacles, Dr. Johnson follows a three-step process: stop, regroup, and pivot. It is this very process that eventually led her to Castilleja. Deciding it was time to pursue her passion, Dr. Johnson left the banking job and enrolled in a PhD program for cultural studies. She then began her career in education. However, growing up, Dr. Johnson never imagined she would end up working in schools. Her goal was to become a lawyer. But sometimes opportunities arise that require us to deviate from our plans and exercise agility. Along the way, we may even uncover hidden talents that bring us strength and happiness. Dr. Johnson exemplifies the courage required to stray from a prescribed path and the delight that emerges from taking a new road.
CELEBRATING CONNECTIONS
BUILDING CONFIDENCE
Laura Zappas
Anne Rubin
Head of Middle School
Head of Upper School
“By moving here, I wanted to model to my children
“Agility is an accumulation of hard conversations and
how to step outside our comfort zone, so they could
difficult experiences and how you react to them.”
see that there are many ways to live a life.” An English teacher at heart, Laura Zappas knows the power of a great story. Her own story includes a chapter about her grandfather, a main character who modeled risk-taking and agility. He set off on his own as a teenager traveling by horse from Iowa to Wyoming to build his homestead, always learning new things, much like Ms. Zappas. While Ms. Zappas’ mode of transport differed— travelling from Ohio to California by car and with her family of seven (husband, three kids, and three pets), — her grandfather’s adventurous spirit certainly infused their journey. Imparting lessons to our children takes time, but we know that sometimes, the best lessons are taught by example. Ms. Zappas understands the relationship between trying new things, developing confidence, and becoming a changemaker. This very concept is embedded into Ms. Zappas’ philosophy about educating Middle School girls. She aims to build upon and deepen an interdisciplinary curriculum that engages students in identifying and celebrating those connections. As a former teacher, department chair, dean, and now Head of Middle School, Ms. Zappas herself models agility by embracing new roles and challenges. In turn, the students, and her children, will begin to tell themselves, “I can do it, too.”
To Anne Rubin, agility means balancing two opposing concepts at once. For example, balancing positionality and belonging is a paradox. We must understand our positionality—recognizing our identifiers—but also feel a sense of belonging in all situations. The flexibility this demands is difficult, and our reaction measures our adaptability. So how does one improve? We must continue to find ways to know ourselves. Growing up with parents from two different countries and cultures, Ms. Rubin constantly evaluated her own positionality and belonging; agility is embedded into who she is. Perhaps this is what contributed to her steadfast confidence. Understanding that confidence is built, Ms. Rubin is purposeful about creating experiences that give students room to grow and flourish. While these experiences may be challenging, they also provide a safe forum to have hard conversations and unravel reactions. Ultimately, she understands that the conversations that make for an agile student often depend on the strength of the relationship with the guiding adult.
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Farewell... TO THE AGILE AND BRAVE CLASS OF 2021 Last year, 64 seniors were admitted to 125 colleges and universities and enrolled at 33 across the United States, listed below. These seniors navigated an unusual process—adapting to online learning, researching colleges virtually, taking the SAT and ACT outside on the Circle, and committing to attend colleges they’d never even seen. They are ready for whatever the world brings them; in fact, ten percent of the class is taking a gap year. We can’t wait to witness the incredible good that the Class of 2021 will bring to their communities as they embark upon their next adventures. Amherst College
Occidental College
Barnard College
Ohlone College
Bates College
Pomona College
Boston College
Rice University
Brown University
Stanford University
Caltech
Tufts University
Cal State Monterey Bay
UC Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
UC Los Angeles
Duke University
UC Santa Barbara
Grinnell College
Univ of Chicago
Harvard University
Univ of Michigan
Johns Hopkins University
Univ of Pennsylvania
MIT
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
New York University
Vanderbilt University
Northeastern University
Whitman College
Northwestern University
Williams College
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Welcome... TO THE INSPIRATIONAL AND IMAGINATIVE CLASS OF 2028 These 59 girls said yes to Castilleja after going through an entirely virtual admissions process (at the age of 10–11!). We are in awe of their resilience, creativity, courage, and flexibility, which will undoubtedly grow during their years around the Circle. In their class, 11 languages are spoken at home, and there are 52 different first names! We are so excited they have joined the Castilleja family. FROM THEIR ADMISSION APPLICATIONS:
I dream of... ...having a whole week to make whatever art I want (without having to clean up!). ...starting my own dance company and teaching girls they can dance and code. ...becoming a professional soccer player, dog breeder, architect, and best mom ever! ...meeting and holding a sloth in real life. ...being a scientist because I like to figure out how things work. ...someday, everyone will live in harmony. ...studying law and working in the government or public service. Annual Report 2020 – 2021 | 5
A Gift with Purpose
Artwork by Thea Dai ’24
AN ANONYMOUS ALUMNA DONATION FOCUSES ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE
“A sense of purpose to effect change in the world” is a phrase from Castilleja’s mission statement that can be hard to bring into focus. Purpose doesn’t always come easy. It can take time, and often a significant amount of struggle to identify and define. And since the start of the pandemic, even the community members who had found their sense of purpose have been beginning to rethink the ways they wanted to make a difference in the world around them. In response to the enduring impacts of systemic racism that were made more clear by COVID-19, one alumna, who wants to remain anonymous, was moved to make a difference by giving $1 million to Castilleja to seed Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice initiatives (DEIJ) on campus. While we know that access to an outstanding education is something that every child deserves, we also realize that true access to an education isn’t just about where you go to school. It’s also about feeling like you belong. It’s also about seeing yourself reflected in the community. It’s about gaining confidence in the knowledge and skills you bring into the classroom conversations. It’s about finding a clear path toward new opportunities.
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This gift will begin to address all of these elements by focusing on three key initiatives: 1 TEACHING FELLOWSHIP A portion of the funds will be dedicated to creating a fellowship program that serves to increase representation of people of color in the field of education both as teaching faculty and as leaders. 2 EQUITABLE ACCESS TO ACADEMIC RESOURCES We want to assure that all students have access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive at Castilleja, regardless of economic needs or status. 3 PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR COMMUNITY We will seek intentional relationships to develop a broader scope for student recruitment and increase representation in STEM for graduates. With the first gift in the school’s history that is dedicated entirely to DEIJ efforts, the donor hopes this is just the beginning. She sees that by giving to Castilleja, she can support the process of creating compassionate and inclusive leaders whose sense of purpose will be guided, just as our recent students have been, by themes like belonging, justice, and dignity.
Transformative Giving CELEBRATING WOMEN LEADERS IN CASTILLEJA’S HEAD’S CIRCLE In September, our Head’s Circle gathering honored donors who give annually at a transformative level. Their support of all programs at Castilleja fundamentally changes the student experience. This year, three women leaders within our own community spoke about the role education and mentorship have played in their own lives while they reflected on why supporting Castilleja’s mission is important to them. Lori Goler P’21 ’25, Head of People at Facebook, shared that her own experience at a girls’ school similar to Castilleja helped her understand her full potential from an early age, which is why she sought out Castilleja for her own daughters when she moved to the Bay Area. From her foundation in a girls’ school setting, she understood the value of gaining confidence in her own ability to learn new skills and the importance of supportive relationships, especially with other strong women, throughout her life. One of those relationships began in high school at a summer program when Lori met Aileen Lee P’24, another member of our community who spoke that night. Aileen—the founder of venture capital firm Cowboy Ventures and All Raise, an organization that accelerates the success of female founders and funders—went to a coeducational public high school and remembered being impressed by Lori’s confidence. In her own life, she also recognizes the importance of having a teacher who really believes in you. Her grandfather arrived as an immigrant and did not speak English, but one teacher took him aside and helped him after school, which changed his life, allowing him to offer new opportunities for his children. As time passed, this opened more opportunities for Aileen, highlighting that the connections students make with faculty stretch far beyond the time they spend together in the classroom. Despite busy schedules, both Lori and Aileen have served on the Board at Castilleja, and they were joined at the Head’s Circle event by current Board Chair, Mary Speiser P’20 ’22, who through her work on the strategic planning process, the Master Plan, and the Capital Campaign, is helping to prepare the school for the next 200 years. Mary shared that one experience she had in high school, a youth ambassador trip to the Soviet Union, forever changed the trajectory of her life, leading her to study Russian and ultimately become an intelligence analyst for the CIA. Throughout her time on the Board, Mary has always worked to keep the mission at the center of all conversations about the present and the future of Castilleja, understanding that the world needs women leaders with ambition, imagination, and courage now more than ever.
WOMEN LEADING Lori Goler P’21 ’25, Aileen Lee P’24, and Mary Speiser P’20 ’22
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VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
Innovative Donors, Lasting Impacts We honor the visionary leadership of Bill Kind P’09 and Castilleja’s in-house educational researcher Karen Strobel, whose contributions enable Castilleja to measure the hallmarks of experiential learning and teaching in real-time.
Finding the Best Route Forward Bill Kind P’09, former Castilleja trustee and visionary donor for the Partnership for 21st Century Assessment Every Castilleja student’s experience is unique; it’s amazing how many different paths can be forged while walking around the same circle for a few formative years. Even so, all graduates share and continue to appreciate Castilleja’s Core Competencies— initiative, agility, and purpose—throughout their lives no matter where they go or what they choose to do after they graduate. These competencies have always been central to the work of educating girls to become compassionate leaders and effect change in the world. However, identifying a common language and tools for tracking how these competencies evolve to meet the challenges our students face today required an investment of time and resources. It also required vision, which as a member of the earliest wave of high-tech leaders in Silicon Valley and the Board of Trustees at Castilleja, Bill Kind P’09 could provide. When the school approached Kind in 2013 about attaining a matching grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation to support sharing best practices in 21st Century Assessment, he immediately understood the importance of the request. Kind, who is also an avid rock climber, likens innovating to climbing. “You need to be aware and alert at all times. That way you can make changes and adjustments to find the best route forward.” Similarly, Castilleja’s innovative teachers needed to be able to measure their impacts to continue to make adjustments to be able to do their best work with students. 8 | Castilleja School
INNOVATIVE INVESTMENTS Thus Bill and his wife, Jaynie Kind, became leadership donors for a new Innovation Investment Fund (IIF). Along with other donors, they provided the matching donations that allowed Castilleja to receive funding from the grant to establish the Partnership for 21st Century Assessment, which sought to find new ways for teachers to measure the hallmarks of experiential learning, such as curiosity, collaboration, global awareness, and problem-solving in their classrooms. There are always important turning points in the history of a school as old as Castilleja, and this moment is one—it gave Castilleja the capacity to be creative and responsive in real time, a luxury so few schools enjoy if they always need to wait until summer to reflect and adjust.
Discovering our Core Competencies Karen Strobel, Castilleja’s Director of Institutional Research In 2013, Karen Strobel, who had been an educational researcher at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford, became the Director of the Partnership for 21st Century Assessment at Castilleja. At the outset she worked with faculty to identify, define, and name Castilleja’s Core Competencies. Dr. Strobel explains, “I listened to the teachers describe the skills students were building in their classes. In the process of sharing back their words with the full faculty, a pattern became very clear: their words clustered around concepts like curiosity and self-directed learning (initiative), flexible problem solving (agility) and interpersonal skills such as empathy and collaboration (purpose).” LEARNING AND LEADING Since then, her title has evolved, and she has become Castilleja’s Director of Institutional Research. She has worked with faculty and administrators to reflect on questions they want to pursue and evidence they need to inform their decisions in the classroom or for the institution. Meanwhile, her work defining the core of the Castilleja program, has also guided the school
through developing more specific Learning and Leading Competencies and newly-defined Antiracism Competencies. Having an in-house educational researcher assures that as we innovate, we remain true to our mission. Dean of Faculty Christina GwinHA explains, “She helps teachers translate big ideas into pedagogy and works with teachers to make sense of data to inform and improve their teaching.”
Partners in Innovation FORGING PATHS Castilleja students are lucky that Bill Kind and Karen Strobel both share strength in one particular core competency—agility—as they zero in on a question to understand it fully, then quickly back away to see it in context. Within our program, we encourage students to develop agility by engaging “in creative problem-solving both independently and collaboratively.” Over the past decade, Bill and Jaynie Kind’s support of the Innovation Investment Fund was both a vote of confidence in the mission and a form of collaboration with Castilleja’s educators. It is also part of the reason our program is agile enough to accommodate all of those countless paths around the Circle.
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CASTILLEJA GIVING
Annual Fund Campaign
Financial Highlights 2020–2021
(UNAUDITED)
Revenue
Trustees
$499,369
Current Parents*
$1,915,670
Alumnae*
$210,908
Parents of Alumnae*
$96,358
Grandparents
$4,300
Employees
$10,335
Friends
$20,079
Corporations & Foundations
$228,249
Total:
$2,985,268
*Excludes Trustees
Fundraising Summary Annual Fund
$2,985,268
Tuition
View360
$1,256,753
Gifts
Innovation Investment Fund
$2,330
Endowment
Named Endowments
Summer Programs
Scholarships
$55,782
Other Income
Gilhuly Fine Arts Chair
$5,000
Katherine Hass ’14
$27,501
Peggy McKee History-
$820
Tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,348,184 Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,174,999 Endowment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,127,680 Summer Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$17,215
Other Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,073,477 Total Revenue Budget:
Social Sciences Chair Planned Gifts
$1,145,778
Class of 2021
$1,561
Other Gifts
$10,732
Total:
$5,491,525
$29,741,555
Expenses
Total Giving Trustees
$963,121
Compensation
Current Parents*
$2,617,808
Tuition Assistance
Alumnae*
$273,586
Program
Parents of Alumnae*
$212,898
Facilities
Grandparents
$4,600
Employees
$10,635
Friends
$25,339
Corporations & Foundations
$236,199
Estates
$1,145,778
Class of 2021
$1,561
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,414,834
Total:
$5,491,525
Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,427,461
*Excludes Trustees
General and Admin
Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$20,132,187
Tuition Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,746,633
General and Admin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,460,843 Total Expenses Budget:
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$29,181,958
Leadership Giving Thank you to all of our donors for your generous contributions over the 2020–21 school year. Leadership gifts made to Castilleja play a special role in creating an unparalleled experience for today’s students and ensuring the school’s financial sustainability for generations to come. With a generous commitment to the Annual Fund, View360, and designated restricted funds, leadership giving has a powerful impact on our students’ experiences.
Head’s Circle $50,000 or more Anonymous (3)
Noriko Honda and Norman Chen
Sher Amos-Grosser and
Heidi Hopper and Jeffrey Dean
Adam Grosser Sybilla and Alexandre Balkanski
Nancy Kedzierski and Gordon Chaffee
Christine O’Sullivan and James Bean Anjali and Sundar Pichai Sarah and Greg Sands
Gerri and Laszlo Bock
Michele and Steve Kirsch
Kathryn Bojack and Ravi Mhatre
Jennifer and David Ko
B.J. Lockhart Cowie ’54 and
Aileen Lee and Jason Stinson
Lisa and Glenn Solomon
Yan Liu and JieFu Zhang
Mary Speiser
Sara and Brian Elkin
The Magic Beans
Michael Speiser
Preetha Basaviah and
The Estate of Diane Cory
The Estate of Helen Sturges*
William Cowie Jr.
Venky Ganesan
McNiel ’56*
Andrea Navarro Sobrato ’08 and John Sobrato
and Robert Sturges*
Carol and John Giannandrea
Julia and Yuri Milner
Polly Tam and Hsien-Chung Woo
Cindy and Evan Goldberg
The Estate of Adrienne Hiscox
Jessica and Chris Varelas
Lori and Brian Goler Theresia Gouw Shari and Andrew Guggenhime
Mitchell ’44* Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97 and Peter Munzig
Mahjabeen and Tarim Wasim Petra Wright and Steve Dowling Amanda and Zac Zeitlin
Becky Long and Ken Hirsch
1907 Circle
$20,000–$49,999 Anonymous (3) Alison and Edward Abbo
Hala Kurdi Cozadd ’92 and Bruce Cozadd
Gab and Thomas Layton Viola Mong Meehan ’82
Irene Au and Bradley Horowitz
Shirley Ely
Holly Baudler
Odette Harris and Edward Sharp
Mark Baudler
Tracy and Eric Hass
Sharon and Peter Nieh
Lian Bi and Budong You
Brooke Heckert and
Suzanne and Eric O’Brien
Michael Linse
Laurie and Duco Pasmooij
Carol Blacutt-Underwood and Brian Underwood
Jennifer Newstead and Alexander Mishkin
Elizabeth and Patrick Heron
The Plant Family
Ashley and John Chambers
Maya and Sanjay Kapoor
Alyssa Rieder and Eric Byunn
Patti and Edward Chan
Teresa and Brian Kelleher
Blair Walker Stratford ’56
Julie and Andrew Cheng
David Kim
Grace and David Yuan
Shelli Ching and Rowland Cheng
Yidrienne Lai and
Nazhin Zarghamee and
Carolyn Choi and Jeffrey Wong
Christopher Chang
Kourosh Gharachorloo
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Parents Annual Fund Every gift to the Castilleja Annual Fund—regardless of size—provides critical resources to augment the school’s programs and operations for the current year and beyond.
Learners and Leaders Circle $50,000 and above
Julia and Yuri Milner
Anjali and Sundar Pichai
Mary Speiser
Michael Speiser
Five Cs Circle $25,000 and above Anonymous (2)
Carol and John Giannandrea
Aileen Lee and Jason Stinson
Sher Amos-Grosser and
Lori and Brian Goler
Yan Liu and JieFu Zhang
Adam Grosser
Becky Long and Ken Hirsch
The Magic Beans
Gerri and Laszlo Bock
Noriko Honda and Norman Chen
Jennifer Newstead and
Julie and Andrew Cheng
Nancy Kedzierski and
Petra Wright and Steve Dowling Preetha Basaviah and Venky Ganesan
Gordon Chaffee Jennifer and David Ko
Alexander Mishkin Sarah and Greg Sands Lisa and Glenn Solomon
Gab and Thomas Layton
Founder’s Circle $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (3)
Theresia Gouw
Dana and Brian Ascher
Suman Gupta and Thomas Kemp
Irene Au and Bradley Horowitz
Carole Hayworth and
Sharon and Peter Nieh
Fernando Rock
Dana and Jason Nunn
Holly Baudler
Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97 and Peter Munzig
Mark Baudler
Vani and Irvin Henderson
Suzanne and Eric O’Brien
Christine O’Sullivan and
Elizabeth and Patrick Heron
Alyssa Rieder and Eric Byunn
Carole Ho and Rajat Rohatgi
Sabine and Oliver Schusser
Lian Bi and Budong You
Jane Hsiao and Amr Razzak
Renee and Craig Scott
Wendy and Gabriel Brenner
Caroline Hu Flexer and
Nipa and Beerud Sheth
James Bean
Ashley and John Chambers
Michael Flexer
Wei Si and Frank Yuan
Patti and Edward Chan
Maya and Sanjay Kapoor
Tiffany and Robert Silva
Priya Chandrasekar and
Teresa and Brian Kelleher
Varsha and Pradeep Tagare
David Kim
Celine Teoh and Tang Tan
Yidrienne Lai and
Rita and Hardeep Walia
Chandrasekar Gnanasambandam Rafia Chaudhry and Ayaz Haque Cheryl and Albert Cheng
Christopher Chang
Mahjabeen and Tarim Wasim
Carolyn Choi and Jeffrey Wong
Ning and Lexin Li
Corry and Bruce Watrous
Mahooya Dinda and
Nandini Jayaram
Huoy-Ming Yeh and Sherman Chu
Michel Del Buono Ellen and Ira Ehrenpreis
Madathipparambi and
Christine and Jason Yip
Abhishek Prasad
Grace and David Yuan
Tracy and Steve Eskenazi
Ranjini Malavalli and Ush Patel
Kristin and Rob Goldman
Yvette and Roy Maydan
Michele Harari Goldwasser ’91
Bridget McIver and
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Vaughan Smith
Nazhin Zarghamee and Kourosh Gharachorloo Amanda and Zac Zeitlin Caixia Zhang and Ye Meng
Junior–Senior Celebration
Patron’s Circle $5,000–$9,999
Anonymous (4)
Priyanki Gupta and Amit Agarwal
Lilyana Prasetya and Peter Gunadi
Alison and Edward Abbo
Suzan Halabi and Anas Osman
Lin Qiao and Songting Chen
Kelli and Michael Agnich
Jennifer and Jorg Heinemann
Nirmala Ramarathnam and
Archana Appanna and
Jane and James Hopkins
Vijay Srinivasan
Didi Huang and Leon Yao
Kavitha and Asish Ramchandran
Katie Bell and Thomas Brehme
Tasmia and Mohsin Hussain
Susan and Joseph Raymond
Faina and Mark Birman
Christine and Robert Hutchinson
Amy and Michael Redell
Stephanie and Peter Bisgaard
Sukaina and Sajjad Jaffer
Anita and Zia Rehman
Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and
Jill and Paul Jene
Lama Rimawi and Bilal Zuberi
Sujata and Jayant Kadambi
Amanda and Michael Ross
Seyonne Kang and
The Rothbaum Family
Zack Bodner Sonal and Navin Budhiraja Claire and Tim Burks Patricia Chang and Warren Packard
Scott Johnston Nayna and Gambhir Kaushek
Jay Venkataramani
Monique Schareck and Michael Tenta
Lesley and William King
Amelia Schultz and Jason Werlin
Tina Chen and Anthony Lin
Jeffie and Kevin Kopczynski
Kimball and Andrew Scott
Cindy Chen and Bob Kocher
Anna and Andrew Leaver
Monisha and Anup Singh
Stephanie and Sherwin Chen
Adrienne Lee and Jeffrey Chang
Angela Song and Ammar Maraqa
Stacie Cheng and Tom Cole
Seunghee Lee and Stephen Ryu
Tenley Stephenson and
Nandini and Mathews Cherian
Anuja and Avinash Lele
Sohi and Chi-Hua Chien
Emily Leonard and David Masci
Suzanne and Joseph Sullivan
Shelli Ching and Rowland Cheng
Susan and David Lewis
Diana Sunshine and
Victoria Chiongbian and
Victoria Lindsley O’Hara and
Ramon Khu
Ryan O’Hara
John Pimentel
William Onderdonk Vivian Tsai and Walter Park
Sook Hee Cho and Andrew Oh
Vince Logan
Julie and Jarlon Tsang
Tricia and Gavin Christensen
Ming Mao and Yefei Peng
Melanie Vinson
Victoria and Jason Clague
Emily and Doff McElhinney
Lin Wang and Yong Sheng
Christine Costigan and
Linda and Jim McGeever
Lihua Wang and Glenn Carroll
Susan Mensinger and
Emily and Mingson Wang
Michael Snyder Patricia and Angelos Dassios
Richard Foreman
Yuko Watanabe and
Stephanie and Robert Day
Kim and Sergio Monsalve
Kristina and Roger Detter
Mary O’Flanagan and Tom Newby
Tracy and Mark Watt
Diana Dorobek and Anthony Lye
Mora Oommen and Parag Patel
Min Wei and Lusong Luo
Sara and Brian Elkin
Mely Pacheco and Danny Kwok
Quian Weng and Haobo Xu
Vania Fang and Mike Chen
Ambika Pajjuri and
Mariko and Phillip Yang
Marcie and Gregg Farano Jennifer Fine and Rob Schmeltzer Shari and Andrew Guggenhime Liya Guo and Shan Huang
Vijayanand Vusirikala Jessica Pan-Beesley and Michael Beesley
Ashmeet Sidana
Yanting Zhang and Olivier Redon Yunfang Zheng and Guangming Zhen
Laurie and Duco Pasmooij
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Parents Annual Fund continued
HEAD’S CIRCLE EVENT Laszlo and Gerri Bock P’27 ’23 ’21 and Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97 and Peter Munzig P’27
Friend’s Circle $1,000–$4,999
Anonymous (11)
Anne Holmes
Jennifer and Charles Rohrbach
Meredith Ackley
Erin and Floyd Holsinger
Carin Mueller Rollins ’90 and
Maya and Yair Blumenfeld Kristin Bosetti and
In honor of Anne Cameron
John Rollins
Christina Hua and Edward Sun
Iris Roth and David Nudell
Neeraja and Obul Kambham
Wendy and Chang Row
Cati and Adam Boulanger
Tara and Alex Kaplinsky
Taraka and Nagmohan Satti
Catherine Buan
Stacey and Robert Kertsman
Ayazhan Seitkazina and
Ramani Chaganti and
Esther and Brendon Kim
Joseph Hupcey
Sesh Mudumbai Jeannette Cheng and David Spencer
Berik Rakhimbayev
Charlie Krenz
John Sellers
Ruchika Kumar and
Pratima Sethi ’94 and
Abhiroop Gandhi
Amaury Bellemans
Natalie Choo and James Cham
Gloria Leong and Derrick Lin
Carrie and Thomas Siegel
Zoe Crowder
Sut Ian Leong and Pen Li
Priya and Raj Singh
Kimberly and Anupam Dalal
Tali and Robert Levy
Alexandra Sonnenberg Slavet ’90
Judy and Ronnie Dang
Yun Li and Baosheng Wang
Christina and Ryan Dang
Ann and Miles Libbey
Lindsay and John Sterling
Gretchen Debenham Hug and
Shien-Wen Lin and Steven Lin
Anne Sweeney and Jonathan Hoy
Yajun Liu and Ming Dai
Katherine Haase Taylor ’88 and
Steve Debenham Nina Dimitreli
Farah and Samar Lotia
Rachelle and Scott Doorley
Tulika Majumdar and
Brittany and Daniel Feitelberg
Anshuman Bapna
and Jonathan Slavet
Stewart Taylor Olivia and Guillermo Viveros Huisheng Wang and Yinqing Zhao
Myra and Patrick Finn
Misty and Philip Mazzara
Jing Wang and Gang Liu
Lori and Randy Friedman
Marcela Millan and Jochen Profit
Jennifer Wang and
Lisa and Mitch Gevelber
Stacy and Michael Molano
Sipong Prakalapakorn
Ekta and Pankaj Gunsagar
Jennifer and Robert Morrill
Nancy Wang and Joseph Yu
Kyuwon Han and Hyeun-Su Kim
Stacie and Dan Morris
Michele Wong and Paul Maloney
Odette Harris and Edward Sharp
Rajashree and Biren Parikh
Mayling Wu and Randy Sefcik
Liza and Jeffrey Hausman
Megan and Michael Parker
Jenny Zhao and
Brooke Heymach Friedman and
Margaret and Justin Pettit
William Friedman Virginia Ho and Edmund Chen
Limin Qian and Yang Guo Deepika Rayala and Sankar Tadinada
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Shaun Kunnavatana
CLASS OF 2021 GRADUATION Speakers Ariana Kertsman ’21 and Divya Ganesan ’21 address family, staff, and friends gathered to mark the commencement of the Class of 2021.
Dress Whites Club $250–$999
Anonymous (7)
Cheri Leonard and Nabil Rabbani
Rajul and Ketan Shah
Zita Agazzi and Alfredo Correa
Demetrio Mendoza
Judy and Marco Smit
Maria Cortez and Jaime Caballero
Sabah Mirza and
Serra Tau-Vaka and Semesa Vaka
Danica Den
Kenneth Chestnut
Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza and
Betsy Hung
Ruth Oku-Ampofo
Yvonne Karanas and
Victoria Onyenwe
April and George Triantis
William Fearon
Shanti Perkins ’90
Latonya and Jeffrey Williams
Mayma and Stewart Raphael
The Woollen Family
Navneet Kaur and Jatinder Panesar So Young and James Kim
James Carranza
Mia and Jose Rocha Kathleen and Hal Rucker
Class Ties Up to $249
Anonymous (5)
Zucely Guzman Roque
Martha Andrade and
Jennifer Hom ’83 and Titus Lai
Alejandro Toscano Andrade Rebecca Barker ’91 and Jeremy Neuner Sheri Brooks and David de Heer
April House Susie Hwang and Matt Glickman Alma Jimenez and Arturo Arguello
Denise Campos
Heekyoung Kim and Tae Ju Ha
Marjorie Casison and Carlo Laurel
Bernice and Christopher Kwong
Alba Castro Quirarte and
Yeshi Lama and
Juan Granados Pulido
Tenzin Dingpontsawa
Jeanette Ramirez and Israel Crespo Lourdes Razon and Carmelo Cordero Danni Redding Lapuz and Ray Lapuz Ursula Kinney Ringham ’90 and Jim Ringham Erik Rothbaum Sangita Shah and Keven Kennedy Amelia Soto Nava and
Heidi Chang and Joe Budman
Christine and Mike Lenz
Elsa Choque and Jesus Cortes
Veronica Lopez
Lisa Cooper Carlson and
Jeanne Lowell and David LowellHA
Tiana Thompson
Ricardo Reyes
Mariyam Mansur and Asim Memon
Malia and Sione Tofavaha
Sara Espinoza and Frederic Salles
Shana and David Middler
Delmy and Edwin Trabanino
Laura Garcia and Adrian Avila
Julieta and Hector Munguia
Leslie and Jeffrey Green
Maria Munoz Aguirre and
Erik Carlson
David Fernandez Vinuales Annual Report 2020 – 2021 | 15
Lexie Stinson ’24 16 | Castilleja School
The Pursuit of Justice “Justice is a story that is never fully completed.” — MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR, — JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
The first virtual View360 began with a video of students answering the question, “What does Justice mean to you?” “Empathy. Inclusion. Fairness. Action and solution-oriented. Rights for all. Work together” are just some of the words Castilleja students shared. This year, our community gathered on couches or around the dinner table to hear inspiring speakers reflect on the meaning of Justice, the school’s 2020–2021 theme. Typically, View360 is an annual event that brings the Castilleja community together in support of the Tuition Assistance program. Over the last 14 years, View360 has raised more than $11M, helping ensure that finances never impede a student from accessing a Castilleja education. View360 speakers Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and Kimberlé Crenshaw, Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum and originator of the term “Intersectionality,” are scholars whose thought leadership has deeply impacted the pursuit of justice. Both shared how their origin story propelled them to pursue careers that would enable them to help others lead better and more just lives. More than 250 viewers joined the livestream, helping raise over $1.2M for tuition assistance this year.
Alecia DeCoudreaux, President Emerita, Mills College, interviews Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California
ON IMPROVING JUSTICE:
“It takes effort, ambition. It takes being hungry for more justice. It especially takes the ability to build bridges with people who don’t agree with you on everything.” — MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR
“It’s a really simple metaphor: if we’re all protected against racism and if we’re all protected against sexism, then we have to be protected against it in all of its forms, including its intersecting forms.” — KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW
Malika Saada Saar, Global Head of Human Rights, YouTube, interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw, Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum
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Thank You to our View360 Donors TRAILBLAZER
INNOVATOR
INVENTOR
$100,000 +
$10,001—$24,999
$6,500—$9,999
Julia and Yuri Milner
Nancy Kedzierski and
Anonymous (2)
Gordon Chaffee VISIONARY
Teresa and Brian Kelleher
$50,000—$99,999
David Kim
Cindy and Evan Goldberg
Amanda and Zac Zeitlin
Heidi Hopper and Jeffrey Dean
Irene Au and Bradley Horowitz Christine O’Sullivan and James Bean Lian Bi and Budong You Stephanie and Sherwin Chen
Anjali and Sundar Pichai
1907
Nandini and Mathews Cherian
Mary Speiser
$10,000
Sohi and Chi-Hua Chien
Michael Speiser
Anonymous (2)
Carolyn Choi and Jeffrey Wong
Holly Baudler
Kristina and Roger Detter
PIONEER
Mark Baudler
Christine and Robert Hutchinson
$25,000—$49,999
Ashley and John Chambers
Maya and Sanjay Kapoor
Anonymous
Patti and Edward Chan
Elizabeth King ’87
Sher Amos-Grosser and
Theresia Gouw
Yidrienne Lai and
Adam Grosser
Elizabeth and Patrick Heron
Christopher Chang
Gerri and Laszlo Bock
Jane and James Hopkins
Petra Wright and Steve Dowling
The Magic Beans
Preetha Basaviah and
Robin and Karl May
Ning and Lexin Li
Sharon and Peter Nieh
Linda and Jim McGeever
Carol and John Giannandrea
Suzanne and Eric O’Brien
Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97
Lori and Brian Goler
Nazhin Zarghamee and
Venky Ganesan
Becky Long and Ken Hirsch
Kourosh Gharachorloo
Michèle Lamarre and Brent Townshend
and Peter Munzig Mary O’Flanagan and Tom Newby
Noriko Honda and Norman Chen
Paula and Michael Rantz
Jennifer and David Ko
Alyssa Rieder and Eric Byunn
Aileen Lee and Jason Stinson
Barb and Gregory Rosston
Yan Liu and JieFu Zhang
Leyla and David Scott
Sarah and Greg Sands
Eva Xu and Roy Wang
Lisa and Glenn Solomon
Grace and David Yuan
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DESIGNER
BUILDER
SUPPORTER
$3,500—$6,499
$1,000—$3,499
UP TO $999
Alison and Edward Abbo
Anonymous (1)
Anonymous (2)
Nahid Aliniazee and
Dana and Brian Ascher
Julia Choos
Arunashree Bhamidpati and
Zoe Crowder
Kamal Ahmed Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and Zack Bodner Wendy and Gabriel Brenner Tina Chen and Anthony Lin Kimberly and Anupam Dalal Stephanie and Robert Day Sara and Brian Elkin Michele Harari Goldwasser ’91 and Isy Goldwasser
GD Ramkumar Brittany and Daniel Feitelberg
Karina Gunadi ’15
Claire Fischer Fluhr ’95 and
Conrad Herrmann
Jeff Fluhr Sharjeel Hasan Fernando Rock Jennifer and Jorg Heinemann Ann and Miles Libbey Dana and Jason Nunn
Odette Harris and Edward Sharp
Eugenie Van Wynen and
Brian Jacobs and William McClure
Chris Markesky Rita and Hardeep Walia Yuko Watanabe and Ashmeet Sidana
Laurie and Duco Pasmooij
John Yau
Patricia and James Plummer
Elizabeth Yin ’00 and
Amy Rao and Harry Plant
Cindy and Jeffrey Traum
Carole Hayworth and
Suzan Halabi and Anas Osman
Christina Hansen McClure ’71
Mora Oommen and Parag Patel
Saima Hasan ’04 and
Suman Gupta and Thomas Kemp
Allison Lewis Jacobs ’76 and
Marcie and Gregg Farano
Curt Fischer
Iris Roth and David Nudell Amelia Schultz and Jason Werlin Lynn Seely and Tim Ditzler Beth and Bob Shuman Andrea Navarro Sobrato ’08 and John Sobrato Varsha and Pradeep Tagare Mahjabeen and Tarim Wasim Huoy-Ming Yeh and Sherman Chu
View360 Committee
Save the Date
Ashley Chambers
Please mark your calendars for our
Cindy Chen Claire Fischer Fluhr ’95 Kim Monsalve
upcoming View360 event: Saturday, March 26, 2022. For more information, visit castilleja.org/view360.
Andrea Navarro Sobrato ’08
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OPENING DAY 2021 Newly-minted 6th graders and seniors meet up with a unicorn, because why not?
Gifts from Alumnae The commitment of alumnae to sustaining the school’s mission for future generations speaks to the impact and lasting value of a Castilleja education. The following alumnae made restricted and unrestricted gifts between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.
Paintbrush Society $25,000 and above Anonymous (2) B.J. Lockhart Cowie ’54 and William Cowie Jr. Hala Kurdi Cozadd ’92 and Bruce Cozadd
The Estate of Diane Cory McNiel ’56* Viola Mong Meehan ’82 The Estate of Adrienne Hiscox
Margaret Osborn Munzig ’97 and Peter Munzig Andrea Navarro Sobrato ’08 and John Sobrato
Mitchell ’44*
Crimson Hues $10,000–$24,999
Ronit Alcheck Bodner ’91 and Zack Bodner
Michele Harari Goldwasser ’91 and Isy Goldwasser
Penny Pritzker ’77 and Bryan Traubert Blair Walker Stratford ’56
Friends of Mary Lockey $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous
Libby Swindells Hulsey ’80
Diane Trombetta ’63
Jeanne Floyd Downs ’80
Elizabeth King ’87
Elizabeth Yin ’00 and
and Benjamin T. Downs Karen Hoffman Gilhuly ’78 and Ned Gilhuly
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Alexandra Myers ’15 Helen Floyd Sullivan ’82
Curt Fischer
BUILDING COMMUNITY Middle School woodworking project and annual ACE club fair
1907 Association $1,000–$4,999
Anonymous (4) Nancy Allen ’86
Allison Lewis Jacobs ’76 and Brian Jacobs
Elizabeth Babb ’82
Katrina Fu Jhun ’99
Katherine Bishop ’90
Emily White Kelly ’96
Joyce Bogner Bohn ’72
Allison Koo ’98
In honor of the Class of 1972 Laura Bushnell ’84 In memory of Sandrine Stedman ’84 Courtney Charney ’97 and Michael Charney Brittany Brown Chavez ’06
Anne Biaggini Krattebol ’64 Brooke Quistgard Larkins ’80 and Robert Larkins
Emily Mosbacher ’12 Colleen O’Malley ’14 In honor of Katherine, Tracy, and Eric Hass Katharine Wallace O’Reilly ’66 In honor of Revett Wallace Kathryn Papadopoulos ’06 Shana Parkes ’97
Shira Lipton ’97
Lynn Anderson Poole ’78
Joan Aubineau Livingston ’49
Carin Mueller Rollins ’90 and
Lindsay Austin Louie ’98 Cary Golub Lurie ’64
Kelly Conway ’90
To honor the Class of ’64,
Diane Brooks Dixon ’69 and
the beginning of the women’s
John Rollins Nancy Schumacher Rosenthal ’72 Anne Sconberg ’80 In memory of Debra Smith ’80
Patrick Dixon
liberation movement, and
Anita Seipp ’71
In memory of Sue Pickford
the 74th birthdays of the
Pratima Sethi ’94 and
Elizabeth Wallace Dixon ’71 In honor of Revett Wallace The Duane Family Michelle Forgy Ellis ’94 Jeffie Welsh Feakins ’64 and Nick Feakins Cynthia Kaiser Floyd ’51 and William Floyd Jr. Claire Fischer Fluhr ’95 and Jeff Fluhr
school’s sisters Derith Wallace MacBride ’69 In honor of Revett Wallace Anne Flatland Macdonald ’80 and John C. Macdonald
Amaury Bellemans Diane Singleton Shannon ’83 Barbara Moths Sheffels ’76 Alexandra Sonnenberg Slavet ’90 and Jonathan Slavet
Laura Dennis MacLean ’90
Nancy Tate ’66
Colleen Yeates Marsh ’67
Andrea Amdahl Taylor ’86
Christina Hansen McClure ’71
Lindsay Taylor ’08
and William McClure Paula McGuinness ’88
Katherine Haase Taylor ’88 and Stewart Taylor
Georgie Gleim ’69
Kelly McKenna ’05
Alissa Flesher Wagoner ’06
Saima Hasan ’04 and
Ellen Stewart Moore ’80
Sarah Wallace ’73
Sharjeel Hasan
Nancy Ditz Mosbacher ’72 and Bruce Mosbacher
In honor of Revett Wallace Kathleen Yeates ’66 Annual Report 2020 – 2021 | 21
STUDENT EXPRESSIONS Kelly Yu ’21, and Mariel Gunadi ’21
Gifts from Alumnae continued Dress Whites Club $250–$999
Anonymous (2)
Karen Bowers Hill ’78
Molleigh Preefer ’10
Kris Auyeung ’15
Debra Drake Hiraki ’72
Yasmin Radjy ’04
Kelsey Auyeung ’15
In honor of Virginia Valentine
Sue Dyrud Rimkeit ’61
Ayesha Bajwa ’14
Emily Hobbs ’09
Patricia Rosenberg ’82
Rebecca Barham ’60
Heidi Katter ’15
Debra Ziegler Rosenberg ’73
Katrien Neukermans
Deborah Bowers Kenealy ’79
Burlinson ’85
Jean Titus Kiene ’60
Susan Moths Carpenter ’72 Karen Chapman ’80
In honor of the Class of 1960 Felicia Paik Kim ’84
In honor of Peggy McKee
HA
In memory of Hisuh Paik
and Stuart Rosenberg Sarah Rosston ’12 Margaret Sandman ’03 Joan Ackermann Satt ’50 Karen Smith Shaw ’72 and
Christina Crone ’07
Mari Koba ’10
Sally Kuechler Debenham ’52
Harrie Cheim Kordelos ’50
Debbie Widrow Sklarin ’81
Candice Kwan ’92
Wendy Dunne Smith ’72
and Warren Debenham Barbara Deméré ’77
Douglas Shaw
Jill Brakovec Laorr ’81
Laura Smith ’08
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman ’00
Sydney Larson ’03
Joy Fulton Stiefel ’73
Tara Desautels ’89
Ellen Layendecker ’77
Hilary Simpson Strain ’89
HA
Ann Brookman Dey ’63
In honor of the Class of 1977
Kei Nishimura Drake ’05
Barbara Leep ’61
Alicia Fang ’92
Nancy Walker Low ’71
Erica Wong Gibbons ’89 In memory of Stephanie Meier Patricia Hunter Gregory ’64
In memory of Casper Offutt
Linda Sue Little Strand ’76 and Don Strand Elke Teichmann ’09 Eileen Tse ’90
Marcy Mamiya ’90
Karen Phipps Anderson ’90
Megan Ruder Martinelli ’80
Nancy Hood Watt ’74
and Tod Gregory
Jane McConnell ’81HA
Sarah Hinman Whittle ’86
In memory of
Bridget Meaney ’10
Lilla Hunter Bell ’56
Cynthia Swanson Miller ’64
Megan Parmer Whyte ’97
Karina Gunadi ’15
Katherine Morris ’86
Nicole Wilcox ’88
Caitlin Kelly Hannon ’02
Neelam Noorani ’91
Marian Washington Williams ’94
and John Whittle
Christina Wray Olmsted ’89
Margaret York ’06
Laura Hansen ’08
Ravenna Patel ’12
Theo Kate Scott Zaninovich ’60
Elizabeth Harris ’77 and
Reena Patton ’92
and Timm Hannon
William Booher Leilani Herzog ’09
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Shanti Perkins ’90 In memory of Karin Simon ’95
and Marko Zaninovich
Class Ties Up to $249
Anonymous (21)
Andrea Coen ’99
Tevah Gevelber ’20
Rebecca Abramowitz ’14
In honor of Bear Capron
Sarah Abramowitz ’16
and Bill SmootHA
HA
Betsy Gilliland ’91 Arushi Goel ’10
Emily Ach ’00
Polly Cusumano Cole ’94
Yael Goldstein ’15
Lauren Friedman Albert ’98
Emily Colvin ’10
Michal Goldstein ’20
Megan Conn ’10
Kayanne Golub-Smith ’68
and Eric Albert Sara Alexander ’96
Virginia Eversole Contento ’79
Taisa Goodnature ’10
Sehba Zhumkhawala Ali ’94
Christina Courtney ’02
Shelly Graham ’83
Amna Ali ’19
Izzy Coxe ’20
Temitayo Amos ’10 Brooke Anderson ’15 Cynthia Harrison Arballo ’95
HA
In honor of the Class of 2020 Daphne Crane ’06 In honor of Holly ThompsonHA
In memory of Madame Jarman (Hildy JarmanHA) Maggie Grauer ’71HA and Fred Grauer
Grace Arnold ’13
Alexa Crowder ’20
Riley Guggenhime ’20
Catherine Audage ’00
Chela Davila ’15
Elizabeth Guice ’91
Kaitlin Bagby ’08
Victoria Dean ’13
In memory of the members of
Julia Bard ’09
Amanda Dillon DeLuca ’10
the Class of 1991 who are no
Leslie Widrow Derbin ’78
longer with us
In honor of Bear CapronHA Rachel Mandell Basile ’92
Emily Dennis Diamond ’04
Dayna Gutleben ’70
Jasmine Basrai ’95
Anne Spaulding Draeger ’71
Jeanne Fisichella Hahne ’71
Sone-Serae Harper Batten ’96
Courtney Yin Duke ’03
Elizabeth Harris ’88
Katharina Wiesmann
Anne Whelan Englert ’70
Mary Wilbur Ives Harrison ’46
Behrenbeck ’00
Sarah Espinosa ’06
Margaret Kennelly Hazelrig ’00
Kristin Bell ’95
Maximina Fagan ’84
Michelle Riches Helvey ’84
Kathryn Beyer ’88
Katie Fearon ’19
Camille Gibbs Herrick ’62
Elizabeth Shvetzoff Blake ’52
Liza Shiff Feigenbaum ’86
In memory of Joan
In honor of my Father,
Terbell Knowles ’52
Dr. Shiff Sr.
In honor of Diane Pickering Gibbs Christine Herrmann ’12
Virginia Hoyt Bliss ’70
Campbell Field ’14
Cameron Hill ’15
Belkis Boyacigiller ’01
Ella Finley ’14
Sarah Hinstorff ’14
Naima Bridges ’02
Kelly Fitzgerald ’07
Katherine Hobbs ’13
Audre Brokes ’81
Jamie Flaxman ’81
Jennifer Hom ’83 and Titus Lai
Pauline Bromberg ’18
Sara Hutchison Fleischer ’72
Louise Tait Honner ’95
Mandy Brown ’08 Madison Brown-Moffitt ’10
In honor of Louis Walter Fleischer
In honor of the Class of 1995 Diana Gregory Horner ’91
Surya Brown-Moffitt ’13
Nancy Fletcher ’62
Jordan Fowler Bull ’13
Ginna Freehling ’11
Sharon Huntsman ’89
Joanna Busza ’90
Erika Tiegel Freitas ’80
Lisa Maslak Ide ’86
Marilyn Katz Caine ’80
Olivia French ’20
MaryAnne Davis Ifft ’60
Orelia Merchant Camara ’88
Grace Frome ’17
Sanah Imran ’14
Wendy Carrel ’65
Ariel Baxterbeck Fruendt ’06
Alice Meier Jennings ’65
Courtney Chang ’07
Kara Furlong ’03
Eliza Jewett-Hall ’92
Christine Cho ’17
Pamela Pabst Garcia ’73
Julia Morgan Jones ’09
Anne-Marie Chun Witt ’07
Juliet Messimer Gede ’68
Charlotte Jones ’13
Samantha Gerber ’17
Katherine Jordan ’07
In memory of Lilla Hunter Bell ’56
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Gifts from Alumnae continued Class Ties continued
Up to $249
Karen Juarez ’80
Sara Lowell ’20
Jennifer Breakstone
Emily Mace ’96
Kabatchnik ’87
Heather Allen Pang ’84HA and Alex Pang
Tiffany Madruga ’16
Elizabeth Pang ’17
Saloni Kalkat ’13
Michele Yaffee Maia ’85
Elizabeth Parker ’17
Navreet Raju Kamdar ’00
Fiona Maloney-McCrystle ’13
Claire Patterson ’12
Jessica Hazlett Kaplow ’04
Janet Tennyson Manzano ’89
Lisa Pfefferkorn ’04
Denise Kaufman ’64
Laura Martinez ’09
Ingrid vanCleemput Kelly ’90
Kyra McCarty ’10
Laurie Davidson Phillips ’96
Kathleen Kenealy ’15
Kate Vander Ploeg McCracken ’04
Laura Pliska ’90
Talia Kertsman ’18
Pat Whelan Whelan McDonnell ’71
Simone Polanen ’10
Shea Ketsdever ’15
Charise Hale McHugh ’70
Pamela Johnson Pollack ’91
Reese Ketsdever ’19
Karen Lee McKee ’67
Clara Poon ’91
Michele Wray Khateri ’87
Alanna McNaughton ’14
Allison Pope ’17
Shelley Kind ’09
Kristin Meier ’87 and
Catherine Powell ’06
Claire Kirch ’80
Malcolm Fleschner
In honor of the Class of 2004
Anna Powell ’09
Christine Klukkert ’72
Anne Kelly Mellenthin ’80
Tara Ramachandra ’00
Meredith Dunton Kokos ’95
Stephanie Merenbach ’11
Betsy Sellman Redman ’63
Ronak Kordestani ’92
Wendy Pohlman Mickle ’63
Hayley Korman ’14 In memory of Katherine Hass
and Michael Mickle
and Michael Redman Tracy Sinclair Reizner ’63
Eliza Migdal ’20
Barbara Davis Reynolds ’72
Laura Kelly Kroger ’82
Susan Ruddy Mikkelsen ’59
Alexandra Rhodes ’88
Michelle Kwong ’10
Riya Modi ’12
Sarah Richardson ’17
Jane Larkins ’12
Sydney Molano ’13
Emily Richardson ’14
Molly Ledwith ’16
Tania Montoya ’06
Ursula Kinney Ringham ’90
Elizabeth Ledwith ’20
Natalie Morin ’10
and Jim Ringham
Jennifer Lee ’95
Adriana Mujal Mouli ’07
Eleanor Ritchie ’10
Ashley Lee ’16
Gabriela Mujal ’10
Kim Roberts ’83
Julia Lee ’07
Sidney Ofsthun Mygatt ’60
Sylvia Rodriguez ’08
Elizabeth Leep ’81
Laurel Nelson ’16
Stephanie Rogan ’02
Kristen Leep ’99
Sophia Nesamoney ’19
Therese Roos ’66
Sophia Levin ’13
Keri Yen Ng ’98
Harriet Rothschild ’12
Lily Levin ’19
Chloe Nicolaou ’19
Stephanie Rowen ’90
Samantha Levison ’10
Nancy Niland ’86
Kimberly Bowen Rust ’94
Rachel Lew ’08
Stefanie Honeker Nixdorf ’91
Alyssa Sales ’19
Melinda Liggett ’04
Hannah Hsieh O’Neel ’13
Nuritzi Sanchez ’04
Katie Given Ligtenberg ’05
Heather Beckett Oakes ’93
Simone Seiver ’13
Mary Chandler Lippitt ’53
Natalie Occhipinti ’14
Lauren Buchanan Sercu ’08
Karen Mah Lockwood ’85
In honor of the Class of 2014
Toni Loew ’20
Seana McNamara Oliver ’06
Jennifer Cady Logan ’94
Lynn Oncel ’05
Amber Lombard ’10
Patricia Paik ’87
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FUN AND GAMES Middle Schoolers enjoy games on the Circle during Spirit Week
Class Ties continued
Up to $249
Amanda Sharp ’97
Clare Tandy ’15
Anne Warner ’08
Cathleen Sheehan ’86
Monica Taneja ’14
Celia Herron Waters ’70
Hosna Sheikholeslami ’03
Madelyn Tarr ’15
Barbara Most Weissman ’72
Orlena Fong Shek ’95
Lily Taylor ’20
Meagan Kenny Wenstrand ’06
Sue Loveland Shepherd ’61
Elijah Thornburg ’16
Mattie Wheeler ’09
Sandra Pearson Shlapak ’64
Michelle Evans Tin ’84
Taylor Wilkerson ’13
Katharine Shuman ’17
Nora Connell Titone ’90
Emily Williams ’03
Lauren Sibley ’20
Carey Tompkins ’80
Susan Duncan Williams ’65
Virginia Smedberg ’63
Mimi Tran Zambetti ’16
Helene Chandler Williams ’64
Sue Beton Smith ’54
Claire Traum ’17
Karen Docter Woo ’84
Niki Srivastava ’19
Selina Troesch Munster ’04
Elizabeth Wright ’03
Leslie Cardozo Stafford ’93
Merita Tse ’89
Jordan Yau ’18
Kathleen Latimer Stalder ’70
Hannah Tsui ’05
Kritika Yegnashankaran ’94
Precious Stargell ’81
Emily Glenn Tucker ’99
Wings Yeung ’15
Sarah Rakonitz Stein ’87
Gloria Tzuang ’90
Riona Yoshida ’19
Kelly Schryver Steinhardt ’07
Adriana Valdivias ’10
Cordelia Yu ’20
Kirsten Van Tuyl ’88
Camille Zelinger ’14
Melinda Tisch Stier ’91
Christina Koo Van Zandt ’90
Eve Zelinger ’10
Lucy Strand ’08
Anne Vander Ploeg ’06
Gail Wilson Zetter ’64
Jacqueline Summers
Tara Higbie Verner ’88
Holly Varian Zuklie ’86
In memory of Sara LaBoskey ’98
Stromberg ’11
Anna Verwillow ’15
In honor of Patricia PietrzykHA
Sarah Sussman ’90
Ericka von Kaeppler ’09
Olga Zundel ’92
Rachel Sussman ’93
Giuliana Danon Vural ’75
Suzanne Wu Zurinaga ’67
Laura Swenson ’10
Meg Walker ’74
Bernice Szeto ’95
Katherine Wang ’16
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Gifts from Alumnae by Class
1940s
Class of ’44 The Estate of Adrienne Hiscox Mitchell* Class of ’46 Mary Wilbur Ives Harrison Class of ’49 Joan Aubineau Livingston
1950s
Class of ’50 Harrie Cheim Kordelos Joan Ackermann Satt Class of ’51 Cynthia Kaiser Floyd and William Floyd Jr. Class of ’52 Sally Kuechler Debenham and Warren Debenham Class of ’53 Anonymous Mary Chandler Lippitt Class of ’54 B.J. Lockhart Cowie and William Cowie Jr. Sue Beton Smith Class of ’56 The Estate of Diane Cory McNiel* Blair Walker Stratford Class of ’59 Susan Ruddy Mikkelsen
1960s
Class of ’60 Rebecca Barham MaryAnne Davis Ifft Jean Titus Kiene Sidney Ofsthun Mygatt Theo Kate Scott Zaninovich and Marko Zaninovich Class of ’61 Barbara Leep Sue Dyrud Rimkeit Sue Loveland Shepherd
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Class of ’62 Anonymous Nancy Fletcher Camille Gibbs Herrick Class of ’63 Ann Brookman Dey Wendy Pohlman Mickle and Michael Mickle Betsy Sellman Redman and Michael Redman Tracy Sinclair Reizner Virginia Smedberg Diane Trombetta Class of ’64 Jeffie Welsh Feakins and Nick Feakins Patricia Hunter Gregory and Tod Gregory Denise Kaufman Anne Biaggini Krattebol Cary Golub Lurie Cynthia Swanson Miller Sandra Pearson Shlapak Helene Chandler Williams Gail Wilson Zetter Class of ’65 Wendy Carrel Alice Meier Jennings Susan Duncan Williams Class of ’66 Anonymous Katharine Wallace O’Reilly Therese Roos Nancy Tate Kathleen Yeates Class of ’67 Colleen Yeates Marsh Karen Lee McKee Suzanne Wu Zurinaga Class of ’68 Juliet Messimer Gede Kayanne Golub-Smith Class of ’69 Diane Brooks Dixon and Patrick Dixon Georgie Gleim Derith Wallace MacBride
1970s
Class of ’70 Virginia Hoyt Bliss Anne Whelan Englert Dayna Gutleben Charise Hale McHugh Kathleen Latimer Stalder + Celia Herron Waters Class of ’71 Elizabeth Wallace Dixon Anne Spaulding Draeger Maggie GrauerHA and Fred Grauer Jeanne Fisichella Hahne Nancy Walker Low Christina Hansen McClure and William McClure Pat Whelan Whelan McDonnell Anita Seipp Class of ’72 Anonymous Joyce Bogner Bohn Susan Moths Carpenter Sara Hutchison Fleischer Debra Drake Hiraki Christine Klukkert Nancy Ditz Mosbacher and Bruce Mosbacher Barbara Davis Reynolds Nancy Schumacher Rosenthal Karen Smith Shaw and Douglas Shaw Wendy Dunne Smith Barbara Most Weissman Class of ’73 Anonymous Joy Fulton Stiefel Pamela Pabst Garcia Sarah Wallace Debra Ziegler Rosenberg and Stuart Rosenberg Class of ’74 Meg Walker Nancy Hood Watt Class of ’75 Anonymous Giuliana Danon Vural
Class of ’76 Allison Lewis Jacobs and Brian Jacobs Barbara Moths Sheffels Linda Sue Little Strand and Don Strand Class of ’77 Anonymous Barbara DeméréHA Elizabeth Harris and William Booher Ellen Layendecker Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Class of ’78 Leslie Widrow Derbin and Robert Derbin The Duane Family Karen Hoffman Gilhuly and Ned Gilhuly Karen Bowers Hill Lynn Anderson Poole Class of ’79 Ginny Eversole Contento Deborah Bowers Kenealy
1980s
Class of ’80 Marilyn Katz Caine Karen Chapman Jeanne Floyd Downs and Benjamin T. Downs Erika Tiegel Freitas Libby Swindells Hulsey Karen Juarez Claire Kirch Brooke Quistgard Larkins and Robert Larkins Anne Flatland Macdonald and John C. Macdonald Megan Ruder Martinelli Anne Kelly Mellenthin Ellen Stewart Moore Anne Sconberg Carey Tompkins Class of ’81 Audre Brokes Jamie Flaxman Jill Brakovec Laorr Elizabeth Leep Jane McConnellHA Debbie Widrow Sklarin Precious Stargell
Class of ’82 Anonymous Elizabeth Babb Laura Kelly Kroger Viola Mong Meehan Patricia Rosenberg Helen Floyd Sullivan
Paula McGuinness Alexandra Rhodes Katherine Haase Taylor and Stewart Taylor Kirsten Van Tuyl Tara Higbie Verner Nicole Wilcox
Class of ’83 Shelly Graham Jennifer Hom and Titus Lai Kim Roberts Diane Singleton Shannon
Class of ’89 Anonymous (2) Tara Desautels Erica Wong Gibbons Sharon Huntsman Hilary Simpson Strain Janet Tennyson Manzano Merita Tse Christina Wray Olmsted
Class of ’84 Laura Bushnell Maximina Fagan Michelle Riches Helvey Felicia Paik Kim Heather Allen PangHA and Alex Pang Michelle Evans Tin Karen Docter Woo Class of ’85 Anonymous Karen Mah Lockwood Katrien Neukermans Burlinson ’85 Michele Yaffee Maia Class of ’86 Nancy Allen Liza Shiff Feigenbaum Lisa Maslak Ide Katherine Morris Nancy Niland Cathleen Sheehan Andrea Amdahl Taylor Sarah Hinman Whittle and John Whittle Holly Varian Zuklie Class of ’87 Jennifer Breakstone Kabatchnik Michele Wray Khateri Elizabeth King Kristin Meier and Malcolm Fleschner Patricia Paik Sarah Rakonitz Stein Class of ’88 Kathryn Beyer Orelia Merchant Camara Elizabeth Harris
1990s
Class of ’90 Karen Phipps Anderson Katherine Bishop Joanna Busza Kelly Conway Ingrid vanCleemput Kelly Laura Dennis MacLean Marcy Mamiya Shanti Perkins Laura Pliska Ursula Kinney Ringham and Jim Ringham Carin Mueller Rollins and John Rollins Stephanie Rowen Alexandra Sonnenberg Slavet and Jonathan Slavet Sarah Sussman Nora Connell Titone Eileen Tse Gloria Tzuang Christina Koo Van Zandt Class of ’91 Rebecca Barker and Jeremy Neuner Ronit Alcheck Bodner and Zack Bodner Betsy Gilliland Michele Harari Goldwasser and Isy Goldwasser Elizabeth Guice Diana Gregory Horner Stefanie Honeker Nixdorf Neelam Noorani Pamela Johnson Pollack + Clara Poon Melinda Tisch Stier
Class of ’98 Anonymous Lauren Friedman Albert and Eric Albert Allison Koo Lindsay Austin Louie Keri Yen Ng
Class of ’92 Anonymous Rachel Mandell Basile Hala Kurdi Cozadd and Bruce Cozadd Alicia Fang Eliza Jewett-Hall Ronak Kordestani Candice Kwan Reena Patton Olga Zundel
Class of ’99 Andrea Coen Katrina Fu Jhun Kristen Leep Emily Glenn Tucker
Class of ’93 Heather Beckett Oakes Leslie Cardozo Stafford Rachel Sussman
2000s
Class of ’94 Anonymous Sehba Zhumkhawala Ali Polly Cusumano Cole Michelle Forgy Ellis Jennifer Cady Logan Kimberly Bowen Rust Pratima Sethi and Amaury Bellemans Marian Washington Williams Kritika Yegnashankaran Class of ’95 Cynthia Harrison Arballo Jasmine Basrai + Kristin Bell Claire Fischer Fluhr and Jeff Fluhr Louise Tait Honner + Meredith Dunton Kokos Jennifer Lee Orlena Fong Shek Bernice Szeto
Class of ’01 Belkis Boyacigiller + Class of ’02 Naima Bridges Christina CourtneyHA Caitlin Kelly Hannon and Timm Hannon Stephanie Rogan
Class of ’96 Sara Alexander Sone-Serae Harper Batten + Emily White Kelly Emily Mace Laurie Davidson Phillips Class of ’97 Courtney Charney and Michael Charney Shira Lipton Margaret Osborn Munzig and Peter Munzig Shana Parkes Amanda Sharp Megan Parmer Whyte
Class of ’00 Emily Ach Catherine Audage Katharina Wiesmann Behrenbeck Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman Margaret Kennelly Hazelrig Navreet Raju Kamdar Tara Ramachandra Elizabeth Yin and Curt Fischer
Class of ’03 Anonymous Courtney Yin Duke Kara Furlong Sydney Larson Margaret Sandman Hosna Sheikholeslami Emily Williams Elizabeth Wright
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Gifts from Alumnae by Class continued
2000s continued
Class of ’04 Anonymous (3) Emily Dennis Diamond Saima Hasan and Sharjeel Hasan Jessica Hazlett Kaplow Melinda Liggett Kate Vander Ploeg McCracken Lisa Pfefferkorn Yasmin Radjy Nuritzi Sanchez Selina Troesch Munster Class of ’05 Anonymous (3) Kei Nishimura Drake Katie Given Ligtenberg Kelly McKenna Lynn Oncel Hannah Tsui Class of ’06 Brittany Brown Chavez Daphne Crane Sarah Espinosa Ariel Baxterbeck Fruendt Tania Montoya Seana McNamara Oliver Kathryn Papadopoulos Catherine Powell Anne Vander Ploeg Alissa Flesher Wagoner Meagan Kenny Wenstrand Margaret York Class of ’07 Courtney Chang Anne-Marie Chun Witt Christina Crone Kelly Fitzgerald Katherine Jordan Julia Lee Adriana Mujal Mouli + Kelly Schryver Steinhardt Class of ’08 Anonymous (2) Kaitlin Bagby Mandy Brown Laura Hansen Rachel Lew Sylvia Rodriguez Lauren Buchanan Sercu Laura Smith
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Andrea Navarro Sobrato and John Sobrato Lucy Strand Lindsay Taylor Anne Warner Class of ’09 Julia Bard Leilani Herzog Emily Hobbs Julia Morgan Jones Shelley Kind Laura Martinez Anna Powell Elke Teichmann Ericka von Kaeppler Mattie Wheeler
2010s
Class of ’10 Temitayo Amos + Madison Brown-Moffitt Emily Colvin Megan Conn + Amanda Dillon DeLuca + Arushi Goel + Taisa Goodnature Mari Koba Michelle Kwong + Samantha Levison Amber Lombard + Kyra McCarty + Bridget Meaney Natalie Morin Gabriela Mujal Simone Polanen Molleigh Preefer Eleanor Ritchie Laura Swenson Adriana Valdivias Eve Zelinger Class of ’11 Anonymous Ginna Freehling Stephanie Merenbach Jacqueline Summers Stromberg Class of ’12 Christine Herrmann Jane Larkins Riya Modi + Emily Mosbacher Ravenna Patel Claire Patterson
Sarah Rosston Harriet Rothschild Class of ’13 Anonymous Grace Arnold Surya Brown-Moffitt Jordan Fowler Bull Victoria Dean Katherine Hobbs Charlotte Jones Saloni Kalkat + Sophia Levin Fiona Maloney-McCrystle Sydney Molano Hannah Hsieh O’Neel Simone Seiver + Taylor Wilkerson + Class of ’14 Rebecca Abramowitz Ayesha Bajwa Campbell Field Ella Finley Sarah Hinstorff Sanah Imran Hayley Korman Alanna McNaughton Colleen O’Malley Natalie Occhipinti Emily Richardson Monica Taneja Camille Zelinger Class of ’15 Anonymous Brooke Anderson + Kris Auyeung Kelsey Auyeung Chela Davila + Yael Goldstein Karina Gunadi Cameron Hill Heidi Katter Kathleen Kenealy Shea Ketsdever Alexandra Myers Clare Tandy + Madelyn Tarr + Anna Verwillow Wings Yeung Class of ’16 Anonymous Sarah Abramowitz Molly Ledwith Ashley Lee
Tiffany Madruga Laurel Nelson Elijah Thornburg Mimi Tran Zambetti Katherine Wang Class of ’17 Anonymous Christine Cho Grace Frome Samantha Gerber Elizabeth Pang Elizabeth Parker Allison Pope Sarah Richardson Katharine Shuman Claire Traum Class of ’18 Anonymous Pauline Bromberg Talia Kertsman Jordan Yau Class of ’19 Amna Ali Katie Fearon Reese Ketsdever Lily Levin Sophia Nesamoney Chloe Nicolaou Alyssa Sales Niki Srivastava Riona Yoshida
2020s
Class of ’20 Izzy Coxe + Alexa Crowder Olivia French Tevah Gevelber Michal Goldstein Riley Guggenhime Elizabeth Ledwith Toni Loew Sara Lowell + Eliza Migdal Lauren Sibley Lily Taylor + Cordelia Yu
+ Designates alumnae who are first-time donors * Designates donors who are deceased
TOGETHER AGAIN 2021 Senior athlete celebration, a quiet trip to the library, and affinity group showcase
Gifts from Parents of Alumnae Gifts from Alumnae Parents attest to the lasting value of a Castilleja education and are instrumental in the success of our fundraising initiatives. Castilleja is grateful to these parents who continue to believe in and support our mission by investing in today’s students.
Paintbrush Society $25,000 and above Anonymous
Cindy and Evan Goldberg
Alyssa Rieder and Eric Byunn
Alison and Edward Abbo
Shari and Andrew Guggenhime
Sarah and Greg Sands
Irene Au and Bradley Horowitz
Becky Long and Ken Hirsch
Mary Speiser
Sybilla and Alexandre Balkanski
Heidi Hopper and Jeffrey Dean
Michael Speiser
Carol Blacutt-Underwood and
Michele and Steve Kirsch
The Estate of Helen Sturges* and
Brian Underwood
Gab and Thomas Layton
Kathryn Bojack and Ravi Mhatre
Yan Liu and JieFu Zhang
Shirley Ely
Laurie and Duco Pasmooij
Robert Sturges* Polly Tam and Hsien-Chung Woo
Crimson Hues $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (3)
Tracy and Eric Hass
Sharon and Peter Nieh
Olabisi and Tolulope Akinola
Brooke Heckert and
Paula and Michael Rantz
Wendy and Gabriel Brenner
Michael Linse
Sheridan and David Foster
Jane Hsiao and Amr Razzak
Suman Gupta and Thomas Kemp
Robin and Karl May
Barb and Gregory Rosston Blair Walker Stratford ’56
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Gifts from Parents of Alumnae continued Friends of Mary Lockey $5,000–$9,999
Anita Chan and Sai Ho Yeung
Vicki and Peter LaBoskey
Lynn Seely and Tim Ditzler
Victoria Chiongbian and
Michèle Lamarre and
Beth and Bob Shuman
Ramon Khu
Brent Townshend
Christine Costigan and Michael Snyder Karen Hoffman Gilhuly ’78 and Ned Gilhuly
Tiffany and Robert Silva
Susan and David Lewis
Suzanne Sullivan
Denise and Mike Pope
Diana Sunshine and
Lilyana Prasetya and Peter Gunadi
William Onderdonk Mark Vander Ploeg
Britt and Eli Harari
Miriam Rivera and Clint Korver
Eva Xu and Roy Wang
Jennifer and Jorg Heinemann
Iris Roth and David Nudell
Mariko and Phillip Yang
Didi Huang and Leon Yao
Leyla and David Scott
1907 Association $1,000–$4,999
Anonymous (3)
Kim and Doug Given
Meredith Ackley
Elizabeth Grover
Nahid Aliniazee and
Barbara and John Hanna
Stacy and Michael Molano
Merrilee Harris
Nancy Ditz Mosbacher ’72 and
Kamal Ahmed Marianne and Alan Austin
Conrad Herrmann
Helena and Richard Babb
Kingsley Jack
Arunashree Bhamidpati and
Allison Lewis Jacobs ’76 and
GD Ramkumar
Brian Jacobs
Anne Flatland Macdonald ’80 and John C. Macdonald
Bruce Mosbacher Beth and Martin O’Malley In honor of Katherine, Tracy, and Eric Hass
Maya and Yair Blumenfeld
Tara and Alex Kaplinsky
Patricia and James Plummer
Adria and Beau Brown
Nanci KauffmanHA and
Barbara and George Roupe
Anne Cameron
HA
and
Matt Cameron Jeannette Cheng and David Spencer Rachel Cleary and Hayes Raffle
Scott Kauffman Heather and Deglin Kenealy
Wendy and Chang Row
Stacey and Robert Kertsman
Lee Ann and Martin Shell
Marta Kosarchyn and Rob Lingley
Priya and Raj Singh
In memory of Maria Kosarchyn
Zoe Crowder
Anne Biaggini Krattebol ’64
Jeanie and George Cusing
Brooke Quistgard Larkins ’80
The Duane Family Cynthia Kaiser Floyd ’51 and
In honor of Julie Exley ’80
and Robert Larkins Jill LeeHA and Malcolm Hobbs
Alexandra Sonnenberg Slavet ’90 and Jonathan Slavet Kathleen and Scott Tandy Katherine Haase Taylor ’88 and Stewart Taylor
In honor of Emily Hobbs ’09
Cindy and Jeffrey Traum
Fortune Home Foundation
and Katherine Hobbs ’13
Nancy Wang and Joseph Yu
Lori and Randy Friedman
Jeeyoon Lim and Jung Lee
Lisa and Mitch Gevelber
Kristen and Christopher Loew
William Floyd Jr.
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John Yau
Dress Whites Club $250–$999
Anonymous (7)
Karen Hohner and Randall Keith
Beverly and Roy Shenfield
Carolina and Paul Abbassi
Yvonne Karanas and
Kim Sommer
Kim and Laurence Akin
Linda Sue Little Strand ’76
William Fearon
Joyce and Thomas Anthony
Leslie Kramer
Nancy Brown
Jennifer and Philip Kuhn
April and George Triantis
Susan Coons and Thomas Sisson
Sabah Mirza and Kenneth
Jenifer and Steve Turnbull
Carolyn and Gordon Davidson
and Don Strand
Lisa Voge-Levin and Peter Levin
Chestnut
In honor of Laurie Curtis
Doris MouradHA and Henry Mourad
Davidson Phillips
Eliane Neukermans and
Sally Kuechler Debenham ’52 and Warren Debenham Constance and Adrian Dillon
Armand Neukermans In honor of Ravenna Patel ’12 Constance RichardsonHA
Mary and Clinton Gilliland
Debra Ziegler Rosenberg ’73
and Tod Gregory
and Stuart Rosenberg Lauren SchryverHA and
Marcia and Russ Hansen
Brian Schryver
Elizabeth Harris ’77 and
In honor of all my former
William Booher
and John Whittle The Woollen Family
Mrunalini and Sanjay Patel
Bill Friedman Patricia Hunter Gregory ’64
Sarah Hinman Whittle ’86
HA
Casti students
designates over 10 years employment at Castilleja * Designates donors who are deceased HA
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SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS 9th Grade Retreat
Gifts from Parents of Alumnae continued Class Ties Up to $249
Anonymous (4)
Denise Kaufman ’64
Eleanor Rakonitz
Kathy BurchHA and Bill Burch
Maxine Kennedy
Candy Ramirez and Israel SotoHA
Gloria and David Chang
Esther and David Kletter
Mimi Richart and Matt Leary
Lisa Cooper Carlson and
Elizabeth Korman
Koon-Ling and David Ring
Erik Carlson
In honor of Katherine Hass ’14
Valerie Rynne
Emily and Carlos DeVitis
Leslie Kramer
Sue Beton Smith ’54
Bev and Steve Docter
Yeshi Lama and
Ann Sonnenberg
Happy Dumas
Tenzin Dingpontsawa
Jamie SullivanHA and Mark Bernstein
Barbara and Matthew Frome
Shonna and Doug Larson
Maggie Grauer ’71HA and
Claire and Matthew Ledwith
Dr. Howard Sussman
Jeanne Lowell and David LowellHA
Holly ThompsonHA and
Fred Grauer Sherie GraysmarkHA and Robin Graysmark Leslie and Jeffrey Green Terry Guice Xenia and Gary Hammer Dianna Herrmann In honor of Christine Herrmann ’12
Lolanda and Albert Mamiya Jeannine Marston
HA
and
Ted Marston Tesha McCord Poe In honor of Joseph A. McCord Kristin Meier ’87 and Malcolm Fleschner
Elaine Hill
Shana and David Middler
Margaret and Harvey Hinman
Sidney Ofsthun Mygatt ’60
Susan and Herb Hinstorff
Usha and Diaz Nesamoney
April House
Heather Allen Pang ’84HA
Amy Hsiao and Albert Liu
and Alex Pang
Susie Hwang and Matt Glickman
Sandra and John Parkes
Alma Jimenez and
Judy and Jeff Preefer
Arturo Arguello Kathryn Jurosky and Kurt Finley
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Yesenia Larios and Paulo PugaHA Teri RaffelHA
Buzz Thompson Karen TobeyHA and Tom Tobey Alicia Arzate and Antonio ValdiviasHA The Verwillow Family Mary Ann Zetes and Peter Mazonson
Gifts from Employees Anonymous (20)
Saloni Kalkat ’13
Cassie Peters
Christina Appleberry
Maya and Sanjay Kapoor
Mary Jo Pruitt
Kimberly Bagnola
Nanci Kauffman
HA
Josée BandHA and Stephen Band
HA
and
Daniel Puga
Scott Kauffman
Yesenia Larios and Paulo PugaHA
Kyle BarrigerHA
Lee Kerk
Colin Quinton
Bethany Blackwell
Stacey KertsmanHA and
Candy Ramirez and Israel SotoHA
Jenna Borrelli
Jennifer Raterman
Robert Kertsman
Lorraine BrownHA
Sue KimHA
Margaret Reges
Debbie Camarena
Clothilde Labrousse
Christiane RepellinHA
Emily Landes
Jonathan RockmanHA
Kathy and Glenn Layendecker
Valerie RossHA
Tanya Campbell
Claire and Matthew Ledwith
Lauren SchryverHA and
Lisa Cooper Carlson and
Jill LeeHA and Malcolm Hobbs
Anne Cameron
HA
and
Matt Cameron
Brian Schryver
Billy Lei
Jole SeroffHA
Brandon Chapman
Andy Lichtblau
Georgianna SheaHA
The Chapman Family
Hwai Lin
Rebecca SherouseHA
Aurora ChavezHA
Christine Loui
Kathleen Smith
Celia K. Cho
Jeanne Lowell and David LowellHA
Christy StoryHA
Emily Clark
Laura Martinez
Karen Strobel
Christina Courtney ’02HA
Teresa Martinez
Jamie SullivanHA and
Wendy Cruz
Aya Matsutomo
Ahmed Elgasseir
Jeff Mayfield
Elke Teichmann ’09
Carly Fox
Evan McClain
Maria Tejeda
Mid FullerHA
Gabrielle McColgan
Josh Thurston-Milgrom
Heidi Gallegos
Jane McConnell ’81
Graham Toben
Emma Garcia
Kate Vander Ploeg McCracken ’04
Alyson Tom and Richard Chiburis
Emily and Doff McElhinney
Deborah TrillingHA
Mace McGinn
Jenifer and Steve Turnbull
Andrea Milius
Adriana Valdivias ’10
Erik Carlson
HA
HA
Megan and Kley Gilbuena Forrest Gingold
HA
Mark Bernstein
and
Mari Gingold Sherie GraysmarkHA and Robin Graysmark Ann Greyson and
HA
Joelle Mourad Mitchell ’93
Alicia Arzate and
and Joseph Mitchell
Antonio ValdiviasHA
HA
Ellen Stewart Moore ’80
Bertha ValdiviasHA
Jennifer and Robert Morrill
Teodora Valdivias Soto
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman ’00
Deepika Nabar
Ian Van Wert
Anne Guionnet
Marlyn Negron
Brenda Villa
Christina GwinHA
Laurent Nguyen
Kristin WalterHA
Xenia and Gary Hammer
Shana NistlerHA
Paul Woodruff
Laura Hansen ’08
Jen O’Sullivan
Tannis Hanson
Rigi Ortega
Jacqueline Heler
Eugenie PaickHA
Lauren Heysse
Heather Allen Pang ’84
Michael Cummings
Jeanne Honig Nicholas Jerrold
HA
designates over 10 years employment at Castilleja HA
HA
and Alex Pang Lea Pence
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Gifts from Friends Anonymous (5)
Diane Feldman
Patricia PietrzykHA
Otelima Abraham
Laurie Grand
Constance RichardsonHA
Elizabeth Smegal Andersen
Michele GrundmannHA
In memory of Marsha Miller Susan BarkanHA In honor of Barbara Towner
Nicholas Hass
In honor of Alexandra Michalko Judy RinoHA
In memory of Katherine Hass ’14
Stephen Robins
Sean Kirmani
Geraldine Shen
Penelope Black
Kim Kleiven
Deborah Smith
Joan and Nick Boodrookas
Annee Kolar
Bear Capron
Dana Kovach
Stephen Carey
Arlene Krieger
Julia Choos
David Kurfess
HA
HA
Linda and Craig Corey In memory of Adrienne Mitchell ’44 Gloria Corey
In memory of Sara LaBoskey ’98 Holly ThompsonHA and Buzz Thompson Nancy Tronson
In memory of Joan Terbell
Mitchell ’44
Knowles ’52 Shoshana Levy
Annie and Cameron Turner
Joan LonerganHA
Hope Wagstaff
In memory of Adrienne
Lisa Hazard and Tim Lynch
Mitchell ’44
Jeannine Marston
Ann CriswellHA and Floyd Criswell
In memory of Adrienne
HA
and
Ted Marston
Grace Williams In memory of Adrienne Mitchell ’44
Kathleene Donahoo
Peggy McKeeHA and Ted McKee
Margaret Duflock
Patrice Metcalf
In memory of Adrienne
Harvey Edelman
Breanne Metcalf
Mitchell ’44
Reid Edelman
Allison Metcalf
Renee Williams
Gifts from Grandparents Grandparents play a special role in our students’ lives—and so do their gifts to the school. Castilleja is grateful for their generous support.
Debbie and Alex Cheng Sally Kuechler Debenham ’52 and Warren Debenham
Joyce Keil and Bill Halderman In honor of Alexa Crowder ’20 and Claire Crowder ’22
Marie and Len Farano
Carol and Ken Kocher
Jeffie Welsh Feakins ’64 and
Carol Long
Nick Feakins Susan and John Fleming
In honor of Jesse Gross ’23 Ann Sonnenberg Judith Stephenson and Scott Harshbarger
Jeannine Marston
HA
and
Ted Marston
Britt and Eli Harari
Doris Mourad and Henry Mourad
Margaret and Harvey Hinman
Arlen O’Hara
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Nancy and Robert Smith
HA
Tom Stephenson Beatrice and Benjamin Wong Ruth Yuan
SHOWING SPIRIT From Disney classics to the Minions, students dressed up as animated characters during Spirit Week 2021
Gifts from Corporations and Foundations Anonymous (4)
Johnson Controls
Amazon.com Services LLC
Kauffman Foundation Matching
Anderson Stewart Family
Gifts Program
Saw Island Foundation, Inc.
LinkedIn Matching Gifts Program
Seattle Foundation
McKinsey & Company
Spencer Foundation
Foundation Asurion CDVSJ Foundation
Matching Gifts Program
Salesforce Foundation Matching Grants
Stephenson Foundation
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Microsoft
T.B. Walker Foundation
CyberGrants LLC
National Institute for Health
Taube Family Foundation
eScrip
Care Management, LLC
The Capital Group Companies
G5 Partners, LLC
Netflix Matching Gifts Program
Genentech
NVIDIA Corporation
The Johnson and Johnson
General Atlantic Foundation
Oracle Corporation
Matching Gifts Program
GGV Capital
Matching Gifts Program
Charitable Foundation
The Stanley S. Langendorf
Gilead Sciences
PayPal Matching Gifts Program
Gilhuly Family Foundation
PG&E Employee Giving Campaign
Thrivent
Hopper-Dean Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Family
Ventana Medical Systems
IBM Corporation Matching Grants Program Intel Matching Gifts Program Intuit Foundation Donation Matching Gift Program
Foundation Qualcomm Matching Gift Program Richard J and Victoria T Agnich Foundation Roisman Henel + Adams LLP
Foundation
Matching Gifts Program VISA Givingstation Matching Gifts Program VMware Foundation Matching Gifts Program
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Endowments, Scholarships, Restricted Funds, and Other Gifts Over the years, generous donors have established restricted funds at Castilleja to support specific programs or named scholarships. In 2020—21, their contributions supported ongoing projects like the Innovation Investment Fund, Senior Class Gift, The Katherine Hass Fellowship for Exploration, Empathy and Inclusion, and the Sara LaBoskey Scholar-Athlete Scholarship. Gifts to the following funds were made between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
ARTS
Kelly Conway ’90
Anonymous
Amanda Dillon DeLuca ’10
Anita Seipp ’71
Riley Guggenhime ’20 Libby Swindells Hulsey ’80
ATHLETICS
Talia Kertsman ’18
Jeanne Floyd Downs ’80
Samantha Levison ’10 Amber Lombard ’10
ROBOTICS
Fiona Maloney-McCrystle ’13
Anonymous
Jeannine MarstonHA and Ted Marston
Amazon.com Services LLC
Charise Hale McHugh ’70
GGV Capital
Alanna McNaughton ’14
Sean Kirmani
Anne Kelly Mellenthin ’80
Kim Kleiven
Tania Montoya ’06
Lisa and Glenn Solomon
Seana McNamara Oliver ’06 Claire Patterson ’12
SCIENCE
Pamela Johnson Pollack ’91
Gloria Corey
Molleigh Preefer ’10
Jeanne Floyd Downs ’80
Lauren Sibley ’20 Leslie Cardozo Stafford ’93
SPANISH
Rachel Sussman ’93
Helen Floyd Sullivan ’82
Sarah Sussman ’90
INNOVATION INVESTMENT FUND Anonymous Esther and David Kletter Renee Williams Colleen Yeates Marsh ’67 Kathleen Yeates ’66 FINE ARTS CHAIR ENDOWMENT Karen Hoffman Gilhuly ’78 and Ned Gilhuly HALFORD SCHOLARHIP Anonymous (2) Audre Brokes ’81 Marilyn Katz Caine ’80 Wendy Carrel ’65
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Eileen Tse ’90 Giuliana Danon Vural ’75 Susan Duncan Williams ’65 KATHERINE HASS ’14 FELLOWSHIP Anonymous (1) Jordan Fowler Bull ’13 Marilyn Katz Caine ’80 Margaret Duflock Liza Shiff Feigenbaum ’86 Ella Finley ’14 Grace Frome ’17 Nicholas Hass Tracy and Eric Hass Cameron Hill ’15 Susan and Herb Hinstorff
ALL THAT SPARKLES Opening Day 2021 Sarah Hinstorff ’14
DITZ AND MOSBACHER FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP
Kathryn Jurosky and Kurt Finley
Emily Mosbacher ’12
Dana Kovach
Nancy Ditz Mosbacher ’72 and Bruce Mosbacher
Patrice Metcalf Allison Metcalf Breanne Metcalf Ellen Stewart Moore ’80 Alexandra Myers ’15 Colleen O’Malley ’14 Elizabeth and Martin O’Malley Natalie Occhipinti ’14 Constance RichardsonHA Niki Srivastava ’19 Monica Taneja ’14 Kathryn and Eric Verwillow Katherine Wang ’16 Taylor Wilkerson ’13 Margaret York ’06 Camille Zelinger ’14 Mary Ann Zetes and Peter Mazonson PEGGY MCKEEHA HISTORY - SOCIAL SCIENCE CHAIR ENDOWMENT Katherine Jordan ’07 Mrunalini and Sanjay Patel Anna Powell ’09 Precious Stargell ’81 Laura Swenson ’10 Holly ThompsonHA and Buzz Thompson BLAIR WALKER STRATFORD SCHOLARSHIP
ELY FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Shirley Ely JENNIFER AYRES SCHOLARSHIP Amy Rao and Harry Plant MEAGAN GUERIN MACDONALD SCHOLARSHIP Anne Flatland Macdonald ’80 and John C. Macdonald PEGGY BOOTH SCHOLARSHIP Susan BarkanHA SARA LABOSKEY ’98 SCHOLAR-ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP Elizabeth and Robert Andersen Vicki and Peter LaBoskey Lindsay Austin Louie ’98 Deborah Smith Roisman Henel + Adams LLP STEPHANIE MEIER SCHOLARSHIP Tara Desautels ’89 Janet Tennyson Manzano ’89 Kristin Meier ’87 and Malcolm Fleschner Christina Wray Olmsted ’89 Hilary Simpson Strain ’89
Blair Walker Stratford ’56 and Gerry Stratford
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SENIOR GIFT
MAKING A DIFFERENCE The Class of 2021
A Legacy of Justice COMMUNITY GIVING In recent years, during the spring of their last semester at Castilleja, seniors form a gift committee to determine what their legacy at the school will be. A group of passionate social justice advocates, the Class of 2021 wanted to focus their gift on something that would most impact students. The events that transpired in the summer of 2020 deeply affected the Class of 2021 and galvanized them into action, leading them to dedicate their gift to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) initiatives.
CONNECTING ACROSS GENERATIONS Castilleja students and alumnae are drawn to make a difference. Maybe it’s intrinsic, and maybe it’s learned. For Viola Meehan ’82, it’s both. A boarder from Hong Kong, Viola was grateful for her teachers who made Castilleja feel like home, and for creating an environment where she felt she belonged. Reflecting on the deep impact of her teachers—like Mrs. Sheehan, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Hsu, and Madame AndreopoulosHA—Viola realized, “Maybe I can make a difference for someone else, too.”
The Senior Gift Committee members, Lishan Carroll, Alana Stull, Mariel Gunadi, Sela Dingpontsawa, Aramis Mendoza, Diana Viveros, Georgia Wluka, and Saayili Budhiraja, felt it was important that their class’ gift build upon programs important to them. Lishan shared, “Castilleja has been our second home for the last 7 or 4 years and our teachers have given us so much. But we wanted to leave campus with something that we didn’t have when we got here.”
Viola spoke to the Class of 2021 Gift Committee about the importance of giving back, and her generous gift to the school inspired the Class of 2021 to also invest in Castilleja’s future. Effecting change does not always equate to financial giving; sometimes, modeling what we wish to see is crucial too. Castilleja alums understand the impact of demonstrating leadership. After their conversation, Lishan expressed, “Viola helped us understand the purpose of giving back early.”
Over the last several years, an increasing number of both students and employees have attended the Student Diversity and Leadership Conference (SDLC). For many, participating in this conference has been life changing, and the new ideas students bring back for diversity and antiracism initiatives have benefitted the entire school community. Knowing the far-reaching impact of these conferences, the senior class wanted their gift to support similar initiatives and opportunities.
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It’s a full circle moment when each graduating class begins to reflect on the ways in which they’ve benefited from the gifts of past donors, and thereby express their own gratitude by giving back. In addition to leaving behind a legacy of social justice advocacy, the Class of 2021 has also become part of a legacy of Castilleja graduates who are making a difference in their communities.
PORTRAITS (clockwise from top left) Imanay Lotia ’21, Grace Kim ’21, Stacy Abonce ’21, and Sela Dingpontsawa ’21
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A FOUNDATION OF GIVING
Decade Club The Decade Club was founded in July 2012 to recognize members of the Castilleja community who have demonstrated a lasting commitment to the school by making gifts for 10 to 19 consecutive years. Their annual gifts provide the critical foundation for the excellence in academics, programs, and teaching that is the hallmark of a Castilleja education.
New Decade Club Members for 2020-21 Anonymous (1)
Kara Furlong ’03
Mace McGinn
Victoria Chiongbian and
Stacey and Robert Kertsman
Lynn Seely and Tim Ditzler
Jennifer and Philip Kuhn
Anne Warner ’08
Ramon Khu Christina Courtney ’02 HA
Lori and Randy Friedman
Yeshi Lama and Tenzin Dingpontsawa
Decade Club Anonymous (20)
B.J. Lockhart Cowie ’54
Meredith Gillespie Alcock ’76 Nahid Aliniazee and Kamal Ahmed
and William Cowie Jr.
Sherie GraysmarkHA and Robin Graysmark
Nancy Cox and Kevin Harris
Leslie and Jeffrey Green
Julie and Ken Crawford
Elizabeth Grover
Coralie AllenHA
Vivian and Douglas Crisman
Katherine Gunderson ’02
Elizabeth and Robert Andersen
Shannon De La Cruz
Suman Gupta and Thomas Kemp
Joyce and Thomas Anthony
Barbara Deméré ’77HA
Xenia and Gary Hammer
Jeanne Appelget
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman ’00
Marcia and Russ Hansen
Julie and Buddy Arnheim
Constance and Adrian Dillon
Britt and Eli Harari
Kimberly Bagnola
Laura Docter ’81
Elizabeth Harris ’77 and
Josée BandHA and Stephen Band
Karen and Michael Dreyfus
Sarah Barnum
Michele and Harry Elam
Merrilee Harris
Katherine Bishop ’90
Alicia Fang ’92
Mary Wilbur Ives Harrison ’46
Elizabeth Gerrard
Rhonda and Nigel Farrar
Melanie Hatchell
Dana and Anthony Fenwick
Dianna Herrmann
Linda and Don Bogue
Karen and Andrew Fisher
Elaine Hill
Joyce Bogner Bohn ’72
Barbara and Matthew Frome
Susan and Herb Hinstorff
Susan and Kirk Bostrom
Mid Fuller
Debra Drake Hiraki ’72
Bill Broach
Ericka Fur and Selwyn Goldberg
Bryan HoardHA
Nancy Brown
Jacqueline and Olivier Garreau
Heidi Hopper and Jeffrey Dean
Adria and Beau Brown
Dianne and Charles Giancarlo
Jane Hsiao and Amr Razzak
Laura Bushnell ’84
Jean Gillon ’69
Susie Hwang and
Carla Cassani
Forrest GingoldHA and
HA
HA
HA
Blackwelder ’37*
HA
HA
HA
William Booher
Matthew Glickman
Jean Dinkelspiel Chaitin ’50*
Mari Gingold
Christine Phan and Mir Imran
Anita Chan and Sai Ho Yeung
Lata and Vab Goel
Carol Karp and Victor Glushko
Jennifer Dinsmore Clegg ’98
Cindy and Evan Goldberg
Susanna and Gordon Kass
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Heather and Deglin Kenealy Jaynie and William Kind
Shames Panahi and
Jamie SullivanHA and Mark Bernstein
Gus Malekmadani
Michele and Steve Kirsch
Mrunalini and Sanjay Patel
Helen Floyd Sullivan ’82
Elizabeth and Martin Korman
Ismenia PereiraHA
Lani Takano and Jim Kotcher
Anne Biaggini Krattebol ’64
Laurie Davidson Phillips ’96
Kathleen and Scott Tandy
Alicia La Fetra and
Amy Rao and Harry Plant
Holly ThompsonHA and
Frank La Fetra Jr.
Buzz Thompson
Mary and Benjamin Pless
Vicki and Peter LaBoskey
Patricia and James Plummer
Cindy and Jeffrey Traum
Michèle Lamarre and
Denise and Mike Pope
Kristin and Paul Vais
Catherine Zerboni Popovici ’84
Bertha ValdiviasHA
Lilyana Prasetya and
Mark Vander Ploeg
Brent Townshend Lynne Lampros ’85 Jill Brakovec Laorr ’81 Sydney Larson ’03 Claire and Matthew Ledwith
Peter Gunadi Susan Purdy Pelosi and Louis Pelosi
Kathryn and Eric Verwillow Dareld Vestal Diana Villegas ’66
Kristen Leep ’99
Teri Raffel
Lisa Voge-Levin and Peter Levin
Michelle and Jiayi Li
Candy Ramirez and Israel SotoHA
Ann WagenhalsHA and Peter Chen
Hsiaoling Liao and Eric Huang
Paula and Michael Rantz
Judith WagnerHA
Erika Lim ’77
Amy Rao and Harry Plant
Kristin WalterHA
Maria and Keng Lim
Christiane RepellinHA
Clare and Timothy Warner
Mary Chandler Lippitt ’53
Barbara Davis Reynolds ’72
Lynn Westphal and
Karen Mah Lockwood ’85
Mimi Richart and Matt Leary
Joan LonerganHA
Kim Roberts ’83
Becky A. Long and Ken Hirsch
Jonathan RockmanHA
Lisa Hazard and Tim Lynch
Mary Rose and Chris Rose
Gina and Bob Wulff
Laura Dennis MacLean ’90
Debra Ziegler Rosenberg ’73
Eva Xu and Roy Wang
HA
Anne Maloney and Patrick McCrystle
and Stuart Rosenberg Valerie Ross
HA
Michael Gropper Sarah Hinman Whittle ’86 and John Whittle
Mariko and Phillip Yang Virginia and Johnny Yau
Colleen Yeates Marsh ’67
Barb and Gregory Rosston
Kathleen Yeates ’66
Sandra and Joseph Martignetti
Marieke and Jeffrey Rothschild
Kritika Yegnashankaran ’94
Robin and Karl May
Valerie Rynne
Jane McConnell ’81HA
Martha Seaver and Scott Walecka
Kristin Meier ’87 and
Jole SeroffHA
Malcolm Fleschner
Lisa Shapiro
Lisa and David Merenbach
Karen Smith Shaw ’72
Joelle Mourad Mitchell ’93 and
Georgianna SheaHA
Joseph Mitchell
HA
Sonia Moroder and David Teichmann Mariam Nayiny Radjy and Nader Radjy
Lee Ann and Martin Shell Rebecca SherouseHA Quintilla Shott Curran ’81 Beth and Bob Shuman Deborah Smith
Marlyn Negron
Heather and Ian Smith
Doreen and Nels Nelsen
Bill SmootHA
Shana NistlerHA
Kim Sommer
Peggy Fitzgerald Nute ’55
Lillian Soohoo and Anthony Debs
Grace and John O’Malley
Sarah Rakonitz Stein ’87
Michele Ono and George Choi
Christy StoryHA
HA
designates over 10 years employment at Castilleja * Designates donors who are deceased HA
Shirley and Mike Orsak
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Margarita Espinosa Society The Margarita Espinosa Society was founded in October 2010 to honor members of the Castilleja community who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the school by making gifts for 20 or more consecutive years. The consistent support of these donors has enabled Castilleja to remain at the forefront of women’s education, and their generosity and continued support of the school is deeply appreciated.
New Members of the Margarita Espinosa Society Nancy Wang and Joseph Yu
Kyle BarrigerHA Nancy Fletcher ’62
Margarita Espinosa Society Anonymous (4)
Madeline Ehrman ’60*
Joan AdamsHA
Shirley Ely
Nancy Allen ’86
Molly Farmin*
Maureen McPartland Hardy ’78
Florence Cooley Armstrong ’39*
Jeffie Welsh Feakins ’64
Sally Stewart Harris ’76
Constance Atterbury ’66
Arlayne Overfelt Fifer ’49
Belle Clegg Hays ’42
Marianne and Alan Austin
Caroline Chickering Fish ’50
Michelle Riches Helvey ’84
Helena and Richard Babb
Jamie Flaxman ’81
Margaret and Harvey Hinman
Rebecca Barham ’60
Sara Hutchison Fleischer ’72
Diana Gregory Horner ’91
Ellen Berger*
Cynthia Kaiser Floyd ’51 and
Penny HowellHA
Jacqueline Glynn Brandin ’85 Kathy Burch
HA
and Bill Burch
Joyce Adams Hanna ’52 and Gerald Smith
Libby Swindells Hulsey ’80
William Floyd Jr. Cathy Friedman ’78 and
Anne CameronHA and
Jon Duane
Matt Cameron
Susan Friedman
Sharon Huntsman ’89 Allison Lewis Jacobs ’76 and Brian Jacobs Nanci KauffmanHA and
Susan Moths Carpenter ’72
Bill Friedman
Dan ChapmanHA
Barbara Kahn Gardner ’34*
Isobel Christensen
Erika Luhr Gates ’54*
Denise Kaufman ’64
Maren Christensen ’79
Juliet Messimer Gede ’68
Maxine Kennedy
Elizabeth and Nicholas Clinch
Diane Gibbs*
Michele Wray Khateri ’87
Alison Beach Cooper ’61
Karen Hoffman Gilhuly ’78
Valerie Kieser ’55*
and Tom Cooper Ann Criswell
and Floyd Criswell
Scott Kauffman
Felicia Paik Kim ’84
and Ned Gilhuly Mary and Clinton Gilliland
Esther and David Kletter
Janet Mauel Cronk ’64
Barbara and John Glynn
Laura Kelly Kroger ’82
Carolyn and Gordon Davidson
Maggie Grauer ’71
Sally Kuechler Debenham ’52
Fred Grauer
HA
and Warren Debenham Leslie Widrow Derbin ’78
HA
and
Diane Saunders Lake ’50 Lorraine Potter Lasell ’50*
Patricia Hunter Gregory ’64 and Tod Gregory
Jill LeeHA and Malcolm Hobbs Elizabeth Leep ’81
Ann Brookman Dey ’63
Terry Guice
Barbara Leep ’61
Bev and Steve Docter
Elizabeth Guice ’91
Joan Davies Loughlin ’50
Jeanne Floyd Downs ’80
Lottie Gutterman*
Jeanne Lowell and David LowellHA
Anne Spaulding Draeger ’71
Christina Gwin
Cary Golub Lurie ’64
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HA
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Anne Flatland Macdonald ’80 and John C. Macdonald
Annie Roberts Peterson ’85 and Stephen Peterson
Lolanda and Albert Mamiya
Margot Heersema Phillips ’52
Marcy Mamiya ’90
Alissa Riper Picker ’80*
Jeanne and Peter Mandell
Lynn Anderson Poole ’78
Jeannine MarstonHA and
Arturo PugaHA
Ted Marston
Marilyn Salsman Stockfleth ’53* Hilary Simpson Strain ’89 Linda Sue Little Strand ’76 and Don Strand Blair Walker Stratford ’56 and Gerry Stratford
Yesenia Larios and Paulo PugaHA
The Estate of Robert Sturges*
Megan Ruder Martinelli ’80
Eleanor Rakonitz
Karen Lee McKee ’67
Elizabeth Sellman Redman ’63
Andrea Amdahl Taylor ’86
Peggy McKeeHA and Ted McKee
Constance RichardsonHA
Michelle Evans Tin ’84
Donna Lee McMaster ’83
Judy RinoHA
Karen TobeyHA and Tom Tobey
Nancy Schumacher Rosenthal ’72
Deborah TrillingHA
Audrey Hill McQuay ’45*
Barbara and George Roupe
Susan and George Varian*
Penny Meier and
Lauren Schryver
and Mark McMaster
Dr. James R. Meier
HA
and Helen Sturges*
and
Brian Schryver
Barbara Walker* Barbara Most Weissman ’72
Wendy Pohlman Mickle ’63
Anita Seipp ’71
Lynn Armstrong Winkel ’52
Cynthia Swanson Miller ’64
Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Jr.
Linda Yates ’80 and Paul Holland
Marilyn Senn Moll ’47
Barbara Moths Sheffels ’76
Ramona Walker Yeates ’43*
Katherine Morris ’86
Judy SleethHA and Walter Sleeth
Theo Kate Scott Zaninovich ’60
Nancy Ditz Mosbacher ’72
Sue Beton Smith ’54
and Marko Zaninovich
Jo Glasson Smith ’43*
Gail Wilson Zetter ’64
Doris MouradHA and Henry Mourad
Helia SousaHA and Joao SousaHA
Holly Varian Zuklie ’86
Sidney Ofsthun Mygatt ’60
Honor Berger Spitz ’62
Eugenie PaickHA
Dr. Laura Stemmle and
and Bruce Mosbacher
Heather Allen Pang ’84HA and Alex Pang
Dr. Donald Stemmle Joy Fulton Stiefel ’73
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Circle Society Planned gifts provide Castilleja with the ability to think strategically about the school’s future. The Circle Society is a group of individuals and families who have included Castilleja in their estate plans via a planned gift or bequest intention. Anonymous (5)
Jean Gillon, MD ’69
Martha Robbins Macdonald ’39
The Estate of James E. Harrold, Jr.
The Glynn Family Charitable Trust
Christina Hansen McClure ’71
Marianne and Alan Austin
Maggie Grauer ’71HA and
Rhodelia Smith Bailey ’57
and William McClure
Fred Grauer
Cynthia McGeoch
Susan BarkanHA
Elizabeth Grover
Penny and Jim Meier
Kyle Barriger
Diane Guinta and Paul Goldstein
Sally Mein ’33*
Jhumki Basu ’94*
Cynthia and John Gunn
Sharon and Stan Meresman
Elizabeth Milne Baum ’81
Lottie Gutterman*
Sally Millard Trust*
Jean Halford
Patricia Timby Moore ’41*
Joyce Adams Hanna ’52
Cheryl and John Nelson
HA
and Brandon Baum Ellen Berger* Randall Bolten
and Gerald Smith
Sharon Nelson-Barber
Susan and Kirk Bostrom
Sue Holzman Hanna ’57
Deborah Behl Boucher ’99
Barbara and John Hanna
Ruth Bradford*
Augusta Harrold*
Nancy Brown
Virginia Harroun*
Evelyn Carey Niebel*
Kathy BurchHA and Bill Burch
Talat and Kamil Hasan
Genevieve Wickstrom Noone ’23*
Margaret Carver*
Betsy HawleyHA and
Sally Offutt and Casper Y. OffuttHA
Eleanor Williston Caughlan ’56
and Wayne Barber Eliane NeukermansHA and Armand Neukermans
Brian Pennix
Stephen Hawley
Adaline Dinsmore Chapman ’17*
Pamela Hawley ’87
Mrs. Roberta Plummer*
Allen Chickering*
Barbara and William Hazlett
Myrtle Potter
Isobel Christensen
Jeanne Heise
Margaret Raffin*
Tate Cohn
Penny Howell
Robert Cohn
Libby Swindells Hulsey ’80
Julie Satake Ryu and Edwin Ryu
Elizabeth Corneliussen ’45*
Mrs. Frances Jackson*
Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Jr.
Colette and Kim Cranston
Hildy JarmanHA*
Teruko Smith
Rudy DeCaminada*
Darcie Johnson ’88
Muriel McKevitt Sonne ’31*
Barbara Deméré ’77HA
Jon Johnson*
Susanne SparksHA
Bev and Steve Docter
Nanci KauffmanHA and
Denise Manuck
Madeline Ehrman ’60*
Scott Kauffman
Nancy Schumacher Rosenthal ’72
HA
St. Angelo-Stiles ’69 Linda Sue Little Strand ’76
Shirley Ely
Garner and Larry Kelly
Bill Epperley
Jaynie and William Kind
Molly Farmin*
Betty Place Kirby ’31*
Karen and Andy Fisher
Victoria and Paul Kojola
Susan Smith Flesher ’76
Susan and Roger Kokores
Rosemary and Tom Tisch
Veronica and Kenneth Kornberg
Caroline Trotter ’69
Edith Fullerton Lally ’16*
Mark Vander Ploeg
Martha Faull Lane ’20*
Sarah King Wilmer ’58
Steven Franklin
Elizabeth Leep ’81
Gail Wilson
Bill Friedman
Joan LonerganHA
Susan Friedman
Constance Fout Lynch ’37 *
Onyet Geer*
Anne Flatland Macdonald ’80*
and Jack Flesher Cynthia Kaiser Floyd ’51 and William Floyd Jr.
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and Don Strand The Estate of Robert Sturges* and Helen Sturges*
Nancy and Philip Young HA
and John C. Macdonald
Disclaimer The 2020-2021 Annual Report includes all gifts received between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inadvertent omissions, and contact us with corrections: Advancement Department, (650) 470-7744 or cch0@castilleja.org.
Make a gift at castilleja.org/give.
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TEAM PLAYERS
Volunteers of Castilleja (2020–21) Thank you to all our generous and thoughful parent volunteers. The impact of your work benefits each and every one of our students, faculty, and programs. ANNUAL FUND VOLUNTEERS CO-CHAIRS Suman Gupta Sarah Sands
CLASS OF 2027 Sohi Chien Teresa Kelleher Margaret Munzig Amelia Schultz Jay Venkat CLASS OF 2026 Stephanie Chen Marcie Farano Yidrienne Lai Amy Redell Jason Yip CLASS OF 2025 Cindy Chen Suman Gupta Rita Walia Tracy Watt
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CSA EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CLASS OF 2024 Kristina Detter Ayaz Haque Sarah Sands Ming Yeh Amanda Zeitlin CLASS OF 2023 Mark Birman Gerri Bock Nandini Cherian Victoria O’Hara Alyssa Rieder Melanie Vinson
President Nayna Kaushek VP/President Elect Tiffany Silva US Parent Resource Chair Carolyn Slinger
MS Parent Resource Chair Trisha Suvari Communications Chair Megan Parker
CLASS OF 2022 Gabe Brenner Ed Chan Sher Amos Grosser Mia Rocha
Volunteer Recruitment Chair Stacy Molano
CLASS OF 2021 Noriko Honda Suzanne O’Brien Indira Sahiwal Glenn Solomon
Treasurer Danny Kwok
Recording Secretary Stephanie Day
Parent Education, Inclusion, and Engagement Mora Oommen
CASTILLEJA LEADERSHIP
The Advancement Team DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT Sue KimHA DIRECTOR OF EVENTS AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT Ellen Stewart Moore ’80 DIRECTOR OF ALUMNAE ENGAGEMENT AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Lauren Heysse DATABASE AND CAMPAIGN SERVICES MANAGER Celia Cho ALUMNAE OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Saloni Kalkat ’13
The Communications Team DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS Emily McElhinney ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS Elke Teichmann ’09 SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS MANGER Tanya Campbell
Special Thanks: We appreciate the many contributors to this report, including Nanci KauffmanHA, Sue KimHA, Nadia Johnson, Laura Zappas, Anne Rubin, Kim Roberts ’83, Bill and Jaynie Kind P’09, Karen Strobel, Christina GwinHA, Lishan Carroll ’21, Viola Meehan ’82, and Deepika Nabar. We also thank the Castilleja students, faculty, and staff who shared their work, smiles, and support.
Board of Trustees 2020-21
Administration Leadership Team 2020-21
Mary Speiser, Chair
David Ko
Nanci KauffmanHA Head of School
Jim Bean
Hala Kurdi Cozadd ’92
Josée BandHA Dean of Curriculum and Innovation
Steve Dowling
Aileen Lee
Venky Ganesan
Shanti Perkins ’90
Lorraine BrownHA Director of Communications and Community Relations
Jon Giannandrea
Anjali Pichai
Anne CameronHA Head of Middle School
Cindy Goldberg
Amy Rao
Erik Carlson Interim Head of Upper School
Lori Goler
Alyssa Rieder
Teresia Gouw
Mia Rocha
Odette Harris
Sarah Sands
Saima Hasan ’04
David Scott
Ken Hirsch
Eric Temple
Heidi Hopper
Eugenie Van Wynen
Nanci KauffmanHA
Elizabeth Yin ’00
Nayna Kaushek
Zac Zeitlin
Christina GwinHA Dean of Faculty Stacey KertsmanHA Dean of Equity Education and Social Impact Sue KimHA Director of Advancement Kathy Layendecker Associate Head for Finance and Operations Jill LeeHA Director of Admission, Tuition Assistance, and Summer Programming
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