Summer 2021 // The Caller: The magazine for alumni, parents, employees, and friends of Catlin Gabel by Catlin Gabel School

BUILDING ON WHAT’S BEST Values of integrity, inclusion, and kindness define an evolving Catlin Gabel

Contents Catlin Gabel is an independent, non-sectarian, progressive coeducational day school serving 775 students from preschool through 12th grade. Its roots go back to the Portland Academy, founded in 1859. The school occupies 67 acres on Barnes Road, five miles west of downtown Portland, and a neighboring eightacre East Campus currently used for Adult Community Arts Programs.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Tim Bazemore

Embracing the Beauty of Life

Actively Cultivating Equity

Creating a Sense of Belonging

Finding the Music in Nature

How History Impacts Our Future

ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL Dr. Barbara Ostos

DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT

Head of School Tim Bazemore’s Commencement Address to the Class of 2021 How Catlin is helping educators use an equity lens in their instructional practices Notes on the collaborative effort to hire and retain faculty and staff of color

A study of ecosystems forms the basis for an interdisciplinary Lower School program

In the Holocaust Unit, students contemplate moral decision-making and social power

Nicole Rinetti-Clawson

DIRECTOR OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

Of Note in 2020-21

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Profile: Athletics Director Kate Williams ’01

Sara Nordhoff

Rachel Barry-Arquit

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS, EDITOR Ken DuBois duboisk@catlin.edu

DESIGNER & ART DIRECTOR Hannah Lee

Congratulations Class of 2021!

Alumni Interview: Marina Dimitrov ’13

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The 3rd Annual Rainbow Parade on the Catlin Gabel campus, June 5, 2021. The event is organized each year by the Lower School Identity Burrito (LGBTQIA+) affinity group as a celebration of identity and inclusion.

A profile of our graduates and their college choices

The former Catlin robotics champion on her pursuits in bio-inspired technology

CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL 8825 SW Barnes Road Portland, OR 97225 (503) 297-1894 catlin.edu

A collection of events, happenings, and recognitions that shaped our school

Why this alum sees her return to Catlin as a way to give back to the school she loves

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Linda A. Cicero, Carol M. Highsmith, Kenny Nguyen, John Oribello, Fred Woodcock

Board Update

A recognition of outgoing members, and an introduction to new trustees

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In Memoriam

Alumni Resources and Opportunities

Embracing the Beauty of Life Head of School Tim Bazemore’s commencement address to the class of 2021

ccording to the poet Billy Collins, Vladimir Nabokov always said he knew only two things: one, that life is beautiful, and two, that life is sad. This year confirmed that observation, as life served up both at once. It has been hard not to feel a sense of loss, opportunities missed, memories foregone. But today, we set aside sadness, and embrace the beauty of life. It’s a day to be together, to shout out and laugh, to sing and cry with joy. It’s a day to recognize your good fortune at being alive, together here on this field, in this forest; to recognize the privilege of having gone to this school, with these classmates, guided by these teachers, and loved by these parents and family members. We teach you many things at Catlin Gabel, from the language of geometry and the structure of an essay to how to blend colors on canvas and use a band saw. All of these have value. But above all else, we teach you how to find your voice, what Dr. Cornel West calls “your originality, like a fingerprint.” In every learning experience here, over the years, we have sought to draw you out, to ask what you

think, to challenge you to speak up in your own unique way. And you have responded, with fierce convictions and passionate beliefs. Your voices push, delight, surprise, and enlighten us. As the world tosses and turns, beset by inequity and division, we need your 81 voices, speaking out, for inclusion, integrity, and kindness. Your teachers and parents and classmates have helped you develop your unique voice, your fingerprint. Use it wisely and with humility. And as you wield your independent and proud Catlin Gabel graduate voice, I ask you to remember two things: one, use it to share your gratitude for life, love, and others; and two, know when not to use it, for we learn more by listening than by talking. Today, we celebrate your journey so far and what is yet to come, the boundless opportunities that lie ahead, and the choices you will get to make. Congratulations on all you have learned and all that you will come to understand.

Class of 2021 commencement on the Catlin Gabel campus

Actively Cultivating Equity Deepening the ability of educators to use an equity lens in their instructional practices JASMINE LOVE

Director of Inclusion and Outreach

It hasn’t been easy. This past year, we’ve found ourselves in some rabbit holes, and gotten stuck grappling with questions that came up around race and equity. But the Catlin Gabel community has pushed forward with action steps inspired by our antiracism vision. We continue to focus on how we can expand our community engagement efforts with an antiracism and equity lens. We are examining the climate and culture at Catlin Gabel after listening to many of our students, parents, and guardians whose voices have been marginalized; they’ve shared their experiences and let their needs be known.

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And we have created an oppressive language policy and protocol to ensure that teachers are more careful in how they present materials that contain oppressive language and depictions. Until this year, however, we have not done as much work institutionally in looking at our curriculum with an equity lens and ensuring culturally responsive instruction by creating goals and competencies for our teachers. To this end, Krystal Wu has worked with instructional coaches and school leadership this year to form an Equity Literacy Design Team.

KRYSTAL WU

Upper School English Teacher and Equity Literacy Professional Learning Coordinator Leader

Becoming more equity literate requires educators to deeply understand how equity and inequity operate in schools and society, to identify and eliminate inequities, and to actively cultivate equity. In the 2021-22 school year, divisional employees will attend eight all-school professional learning sessions focused on

building their equity literacy. Designed and facilitated by the Equity Literacy Design Team (comprised of Catlin Gabel teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators), the sessions will include ample time in facilitated small groups to build community, discuss case studies, engage in protocol-based conversations, share action steps to take in our work with students, and reflect on changes we make to our instructional and curriculum practices. To support this work, we are consulting with the Equity Literacy Institute, an organization that partners with schools as they make the necessary changes to prioritize historically marginalized students and families. As a teacher, I am excited to have these authentic learning experiences with my colleagues and to deepen my own equity literacy skills. My vision for Catlin Gabel is a place where all our students and colleagues are seen for who they are and are able to take action for racial and social justice. If we each learn to cultivate equity in our spheres of influence, we can begin to give shape to this vision.

Creating a Sense of Belonging leading a collaborative effort to hire and retain faculty and staff of color

Erica Babino, Assistant Director of Inclusion and Outreach, has devoted her career to helping families, individuals, and businesses on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). She has led in the hiring and retention of corporate employees of color and managed employee relations. She is also a professional mediator and conflict management coach. Erica spoke with The Caller about her additional role in collaboration with Catlin Gabel Human Resources. My role, in addition to responsibilities in the Inclusion Office, focuses on recruiting and retention of racially and culturally diverse faculty members. This begins with a collaboration between the Inclusion Office, Human Resources, and the Assistant Head of School. We are developing recruitment and retention strategies to increase the diversity in our candidate pools, thereby increasing the probability of hiring more racially and culturally diverse faculty members. Many people think that if you're a teacher, you're a teacher, yet it’s not always the same for everyone. There are different needs depending on one’s core identities as to how they survive and thrive in an area with the demographics of Portland. While Catlin Gabel wants to understand the needs of all faculty and staff, those who

are racially and culturally diverse may have different necessities related to retention. Some candidates, new hires, and long-term teachers are vocal about what it takes for them to retain their positions at CGS. Others are not and find employment in more diverse cities. Some do both: they are vocal but choose to leave. Part of my role is to be proactive in surveying and interacting with faculty members to learn about their specific needs and concerns and working together to help make their tenure a successful one. In terms of recruiting, we're looking at building stronger relationships with communities of color in Portland and the Pacific Northwest. We will continue speaking with our current recruiting sources about the goal to increase diversity, and begin establishing relationships with local colleges and universities that specialize in graduating teachers, building alliances within the Pacific Northwest Indigenous populations, and strengthening coalitions within Black, Latinx, and AAPI organizations. Partnering, sharing resources, and being strong community members increases our ability to recruit and retain more racially and culturally diverse faculty. Research has shown that if a student has at least one teacher of color, they show greater improvement in problem solving and critical

BIPOC students need to have adults they can look up to and say, “They belong here. So do I.” thinking. To feel like they truly belong, BIPOC students need to have adults they can look up to and say, “They belong here. So do I.” We also know that a more diverse teaching staff is important for all student learning. Support from the greater Catlin Gabel community is needed for success through sharing networks, providing leads, and financial support towards these goals. While there is a collaboration between the offices of Inclusion and Outreach, Human Resources, and the administration, support is essential from everyone as we all benefit from diversity. We are all responsible in helping Catlin Gabel continue to be a kind and inclusive community.

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CATLIN GABEL TODAY

lower school students discover a new way to study nature: by listening By Peter Musselman Lower School Music Teacher

Finding the Music in Nature 4

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he whole class was cheering. During one of our first days back on campus this spring, children in our music class had burst into the center of a “show-me-your-motion” circle game, and dove onto the ground to flail in the soil. This was the magic and spontaneity we had been missing. Our students needed to hear and respond to each other in community. And clearly they needed to get dirty. Second grade teachers Lori Buesking and Marcelle Valladares had made similar observations, and as we gathered to plan our interdisciplinary curriculum, we considered the benefits of the forest-as-classroom. We decided that the study of ecosystems would be the basis for teaching and learning across subject areas, including music education. The mindfulness approach became an essential part of our integrated workshops. Lori’s class practiced Mindful Snacking and Marcelle’s group learned Mindful Walking with fox feet, owl eyes, and deer ears. I wanted my students to develop their ability to notice details of the natural space, and to do this by sitting in the forest quietly, observing and listening to the sequence of sounds. I knew that when they began to listen to nature, they would discover something remarkable: music is everywhere. Marcelle reminded us that one element of Place Based Education is to return again and again to the same place over time, opening our awareness about what has changed and what has remained the same. It’s also what musicians do every time we pick up our instrument or practice a piece. So I asked students to begin by choosing a spot on a trail in a

wooded part of campus that they would return to regularly in the course of our study. From their chosen spot, students listened for bird calls and learned to identify birds by sight and sound. They created their own bird identification logs in which they drew graphic notations of bird songs they heard. Eventually we brought ukuleles and fingering charts for chords and scales, and students documented their work with iPads. Some worked alone along the trail writing odes to nature, using the names of the flora and fauna as musical material; others transcribed the syllabic rhythm of bird or plant names into eighth and quarter note notation. Students became increasingly curious about the ecosystem they were studying and sought answers from on-campus sources. They requested non-fiction books from Librarian Lisa Ellenberg, and invited Facilities Director Kitty Firth to visit our class to consult about forest rehabilitation projects. And because they had become interested in ukuleles, second grade teaching assistant Jazelle Trubiani presented a lesson about the history of ukulele in Hawaiian culture. The curricular intersections that took place by teaching and learning outdoors resulted in a meaningful and restorative experience for both the students and myself. By sitting still and being mindful, our senses were heightened, and we were open to details we hadn’t seen or heard before. In the process, we immersed ourselves in the tactile experience of coaxing new compositions from musical instruments. And in our quietness, we let the music of nature come to us.

One element of Place Based Education is to return again and again to the same place over time, opening our awareness about what has changed and what has remained the same. It’s also what musicians do every time we pick up our instrument or practice a piece.

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carol m. highsmith archive, library of congress, prints and photographs division

CATLIN GABEL TODAY

Tower of Faces (the Yaffa Eliach Shtetl Collection), U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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HOW HISTORY IMPACTS OUR FUTURE In the English/Social Studies Holocaust Unit, students contemplate moral decision-making and social power

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zale clay

Humans are interesting creatures. They can be beautiful in one moment and heinous in the next. As students enter their teen years, they become intrigued with this polarity of behavior and wonder where they sit on the morality scale of “good” and “bad.” It’s during this time that students question their social power and recognize they have a choice in serving the role of perpetrator, bystander, or ally.

By the time 8th graders approach our Holocaust Unit, they have spent a great deal of time learning and studying the social history of the United States through the perspective of the ongoing struggle for civil rights. From the Slave Codes of Colonial Virginia, to the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and the explicitly eugenicist language of the Johnson-Reed Act, our students are able to make sense, through thematic parallels, to events such as the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, or Nazi propaganda.

8th grade english teacher

I chose to teach about the Holocaust years ago while working at an international middle school in Palo Alto. It was then that I learned how the Holocaust is taught throughout Europe to students at very young ages. I realized while teaching Elie Weisel’s work to 8th graders that reading fiction based on the Holocaust (and hearing authentic stories from this time period) not only provided young people a glimpse into history but also promoted powerful conversations focused on moral decision-making in their lives. During a time when our nation has never felt more polarized and anti-Semitism is on the rise, teaching about the Holocaust is more important than ever. Incredible authors like Markus Zusak (The Book Thief ), Robert Sharenow (The Berlin Boxing Club), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity), Ruta Sepetys (Between Shades of Gray), and Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) provide excellent storylines for middle and high school students to connect past to present. These books promote taking a strong stance against hate and discriminatory behavior, and though the history is hard, students are inspired by the agency of this work.

middle school social studies teacher

However, as we move into the subject of the Holocaust directly, our focus shifts towards the choices of individuals who experienced this history as victims, witnesses, collaborators, bystanders, perpetrators, and resistance fighters. The intent here is to make connections between how individual decisions and agency regarding right and wrong, or good and evil, help shape our world. Our study is intended to help students see history, and indeed our future, not as the result of inevitable processes but determined by meaningful action. Education is never strictly an intellectual engagement, and our overarching goal in this unit is to help our students widen their circles of concern and develop empathy for the lived experiences of others. We use both fiction and historical resources as tools to guide students into the most inimitable experiences of others, and in doing so to develop their capacity to see other’s lives and subjectivity as every bit as deserving and valuable as our own. Teaching this painful history is not only necessary, but indeed vital, in helping to foster student’s commitments to one another and engagement in creating a more hopeful future.

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OF NOTE IN 2020-21 A collection of events, happenings, and recognitions that shaped our school throughout our fall and spring semesters

FALL SEMESTER

Teachers reconfigured their classes so that students could learn remotely throughout the fall. On-campus opportunities, including athletic and social activities, are designed to continue during the pandemic. Preschool remains on-campus, five days a week, in accordance with state guidelines. For the second year, Lower Schoolers and sisters FIONA and SABRINA HELVICK received top honors in their age groups in Beaverton’s Human Rights Advisory Commission’s Creative Expressions Contest. SETH KNIGHTS ’22 and NATE SALES ’22 developed a contact tracing app, “C-Trace,” for employees working on campus to support the school’s health and safety efforts related to COVID-19.

Seven students, ERIC WANG ’21, ISSA OKAMOTO ’22 , KIRA WANG ’22 , STEVEN NIU ’22 , ANNIE CHANG ’23, DEREK CHOI ’24, and KATE ANDREWS ’24, were accepted into the Oregon Music Educators Association All-State Music Conference for either choir, orchestra, or band. MEGHA ALLURI ’21 received Gold and Bronze President’s Volunteer Service Awards for the number of hours she dedicated to the nonprofit organization PERIOD over the last two years.

This year’s typical fall sports, which took place this spring (soccer, cross country, and volleyball) had 196 participants from the Middle and Upper Schools.

SPRING SEMESTER

In February, classrooms were reconfigured and outdoor spaces were developed so students could return to campus for in-person instruction. 3.

Three teams took first in this year’s final events: Girls and Boys Varsity Soccer were the 2021 Special District 1 Champions and Boys Track and Field took first at the 3A Track and Field Culmination Championship. Our Varsity Volleyball team was the league champion for the second consecutive year. Cross Country went to the culminating state event. Girls Tennis won the district championships and Boys Tennis took 2nd. Boys Golf took 2nd in districts, as well.

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1. The Boys Varsity Basketball team took the league championship.

2. Eva Carlson ’21 and Lizzy Cook ’21 at the U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials.

3. Marcus Ho ’22 excelled in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad.

4. Fiona and Sabrina Helvick received honors for art related to human rights. 5. Megha Alluri ’21 received two President’s Volunteer Service Awards.

Winter and spring sports (track and field, baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, and basketball) had 270 participants from the Middle and Upper Schools.

6. Berkeley Gadbaw and Andrew Merrill received Renjen Teaching Excellence Grants.

7. The “Zipbag” team took first place in the SourceAmerica Design Challenge.

Ten students competed at the Gresham-Barlow Science Expo and seven advanced to State. At State, all seven received awards and five won either outstanding achievement awards or scholarships: GRACE CHEN ’22 , NAYAN MURTHY ’22 , TIFFANY TOH ’21, ANNIE CHANG ’23, and PETER YE ’22 . Peter advanced to the International Science and Engineering Fair. Middle School science teacher BERKELEY GADBAW and Upper School computer science teacher ANDREW MERRILL were nominated by their peers to receive this year’s Renjen Teaching Excellence Grants. As part of Catlin Gabel’s ongoing commitment to safety, SOS ThreeSixty, a firm that specializes in safety policy, risk management, and training, completed an assessment of the school’s policies and trainings related to the prevention of sexual violence and support for victims. From this work, the school will present in our annual safety update, shared each fall, how the school is continuing to refine safety protocols. MARCUS HO ’22 finished in the top 200 in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad out of more than 16,000 students who competed. He received the highest score in Portland on the regional exam and earned an Honorable Mention on the national exam.

TIFFANY TOH ’21 was one of three FIRST participants nationally to

receive a Dr. Barden Kamen Memorial Scholarship, which is given to students majoring in biomedical engineering.

The “Zipbag” team with KEOLA EDELEN HARE ’23, LUCAS HOLLIDAY ’23, BEN ROSENFELD ’23, and ERIC WANG ’21 (team leader) took first place in SourceAmerica’s Design Challenge for assistive technology. The team also won the People’s Choice award. LIZZY COOK ’21 and EVA CARLSON ’21 both participated in the U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials.

Our Boys Varsity Basketball team took the league championship.

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Coming Full Circle BY KEN DUBOIS, EDITOR

Athletics Director Kate Williams ’01 values what Catlin Gabel gave to her as a student—and wants to give back

“When I was a student here, everyone hung out down at the gym,” recalls Catlin Gabel’s new Athletics Director, Kate Williams ’01. “That's where you went for your free periods. And after school, you went to the gym or the fields to watch the games. There was a lot of energy and excitement around athletics.”

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support, encouragement, and a sense of belonging

As she develops her long-range plans to build upon the excellence of the athletics program, those positive experiences now inform her approach. A multi-sport athlete in her Catlin student days—she played on four championship varsity girls soccer teams and spent four years on the basketball squad—Kate was serious about academics as well, and felt supported in all of her pursuits. “My emphasis on relationships was fostered at Catlin,” Kate says, “where coaches and teachers cared about me as a whole person, not just the results I had on the field or court.” For the same reason, she thrived in her undergraduate years at Wheaton College, a Division III school in Norton, Massachusetts, where she majored in sociology and played four years on the basketball team. A major influence at Wheaton was her coach, whose relationship-based approach to athletics inspired Kate to stay on for an additional three years as assistant coach.

a natural transition to the social work field

Kate’s interest in relationship-building and collaboration led her to the Master’s in Social Work program at Boston College. She spent the next eight years at therapeutic day schools in Massachusetts and Clackamas County, working with children along the autism spectrum and with other kinds of emotional dysregulation neurodevelopmental issues. “The social work field was a natural fit,” Kate says. “In those types of teaching environments, you really must trust one another. And that confirmed for me how important relationships are within the work setting. It was somewhat similar in coaching: You’re trying to support everyone and help them grow in different ways.”

the return to catlin gabel

While she was a social worker, Kate continued coaching basketball on the side, and she made the move back to athletics

full-time when she returned to Catlin as Head Coach for girls basketball in 2014. She became Assistant Athletics Director in 2018. Over the past school year, she served as Interim Athletics Director, sustaining athletics by implementing virtual curriculum, helping coaches coordinate complex on-campus practices, and navigating shifts in OSAA competition schedules. By any measure, the 2020-21 season was a success, providing a much-needed, healthy outlet for hundreds of Catlin students, including many who returned to campus for practices during inclement winter weather. Students and coaches embraced our school’s competitive spirit as well, winning titles in soccer, track and field, volleyball, cross country, tennis, and basketball (see details, pages 8-9). At the end of the school year, Kate was named permanent Athletics Director for Catlin Gabel. She’ll continue to coach the girls’ varsity basketball team, she says, because she enjoys working with students directly and sees value in maintaining an on-the-court perspective.

new programming for student-athletes

Kate’s experiences as a student-athlete, coach, social worker, and athletics administrator— and the parent of two Beginning and Lower Schoolers—all contribute to her vision for a renewed and expanded athletics program at Catlin Gabel. And with every change she advocates, her primary goal is preparing students for life beyond Catlin Gabel. “We do a good job of preparing our student-athletes with the tools and skills they need to be healthy for life,” she says, “but we can do more. I want to provide programming for student-athletes around nutrition, sports psychology, and performance anxiety. I hope to introduce strength and conditioning classes. When students leave here, they should know how to take care of their mind, body, and emotions. We say here at Catlin that we want lifelong learners, and athletics should be a part of that.”

and Lower School. I think it’s a natural fit and can provide our younger students with physical movement while also building a sense of community. And that can align with our mission and our values of kindness, integrity, and inclusion.”

making athletics more inclusive

Based on the positive experience she had as a student, she is committed to making the athletics program more inviting to students of all levels— including those who are not particularly interested in competition. “Participation on a team is really positive for students’ mental, physical, and emotional health,” Kate says. “I would like to see more students come down and engage in athletics in whatever way makes sense to them, whether they’re a high-level athlete, or more interested in the socialization piece, or just getting physically fit. Whatever your skill level, you can have a spot.” “It’s important to me that everyone who comes to athletics is greeted by their name and with a smile,” Kate says. “That’s essential in creating the athletic environment that we want for all students here. We're going to work on that. We’re going to make sure that everyone feels included and welcomed.”

incorporating lower grades into the program

About expanding the athletics program, Kate says, “I would love to see athletics in the Beginning

Kate continues to coach girls basketball as a way to stay connected with students and better understand the perspectives of her coaching staff.

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The athletics program thrived in 2020-21 under Kate’s leadership, as she helped to manage complex practice protocols and navigate shifting OSAA schedules.

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CONGRATULATIONS! CLASS OF 2021

college choice by size

33%

Small (up to 3k)

34%

Medium (3k-10k)

33%

Large (10k+)

by the numbers There are 81 students in the class of 2021. Class members will attend 61 different colleges. Twentytwo states are represented and three countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

college choice Babson College Barnard College Baylor University Bowdoin College Brandeis University California State University-Sacramento Carleton College (2) Case Western Reserve University Chapman University Colby College Colgate University Colorado College (2) Columbia University Concordia University-Saint Paul Elon University Fordham University Grinnell College Loyola Marymount University (2) Macalester College (3) Middlebury College Montana State University

Northeastern University (3) Northwestern University Oberlin College (2) Occidental College (2) Oregon State University (2) Pepperdine University Princeton University Purdue University (2) Santa Barbara City College Santa Clara University Scripps College (2) Skidmore College Stanford University Syracuse University The New School-Parsons Paris The New School-Parsons School of Design Tufts University (2) Tulane University United States Air Force Academy University of California-Berkeley University of California-Irvine

University of California-Los Angeles University of California-Santa Cruz (2) University of Chicago University of Colorado Boulder (2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Notre Dame University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of the Arts London University of Vermont (3) University of Washington Vassar College Villanova University Washington University in St Louis (2) Wellesley College Whitman College (2) Yale University

college choice by region

36%

East Coast

30%

West Coast

20%

Midwest

Rocky Mountain

South

International

college choice by public/private

28%

Public Colleges

72%

Private Colleges

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photo credit linda a. cicero, stanford news service

ALUMNI PROFILES

Marina Dimitrov at Stanford with an art project based on the spinal column of a tuna.

MARINA DIMITROV ’13 The mechanical engineer, animal enthusiast, and artist shares thoughts on tuna gliding, salamanders in Switzerland, and the joys of being an “interdisciplinary person”

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Many in the Catlin community are aware of your accomplishments in robotics, but may not know that you are also actively interested in animals. When did that interest begin?

Before I can even remember. Every summer when I was growing up, my parents and I would go back to Bulgaria to visit other family, and we’d spend a few weeks at the Black Sea. I would spend hours with my snorkel and a plastic bag, trying to catch things and putting them in buckets, looking after them, and then letting them go at the end of the day. And in Montana, where I grew up, we spent a fair amount of time outside and had a lot of pets: fish, lizards, frogs, a dog. I even had a pet cockroach at one point, leftover from a project of one of my dad’s graduate students. And we always

made sure to visit the local aquarium or zoo on family trips. So I’ve always had this interest in and excitement for animals and the natural world. As soon as I discovered engineering in Middle School through LEGO robotics, I was excited about making little LEGO animal robots. I think I’ve always been a very interdisciplinary person; I try to connect parts of things that I’m excited about or learning about. I’ll say, “Oh, that reminds me of this other thing,” and people sometimes look at me funny, but I still find making those seemingly odd connections very valuable.

Did you enter Stanford planning to integrate these interests?

Yes. I thought, I’m interested in animals; I also like to make robots; let’s learn how

“There are so many interesting solutions out there in nature to a variety of problems. There’s something about seeing an organism and its relationship to its environment that is inspiring and can teach us…”

this combination works. I wanted to spend time at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, because that was one of the reasons I came to Stanford. A research project on tuna biomechanics at the Tuna Research and Conservation Center there looked like a great opportunity to combine my interests. I ended up studying there on three occasions, including aboard a sailing research vessel during the Stanford@SEA program in 2015. For one project, I was originally looking at the glide path of tuna to find something called the glide ratio, which is basically how good something is at gliding, how far it can go based on how high up it is. The goal was to understand how much energy tuna use in their annual migrations. But while I was doing that, I noticed that while they were gliding, they weren’t moving their tail side to side, but sometimes they would twitch it up and down. And the back of their tail widens out. I thought, “Maybe that’s like the elevators on an airplane that help them pitch up and down.” So it was just an observation on the side, but then ended up being a focus of my research.

How does that field work compare to your research at BioRob in Lausanne, Switzerland, where you studied salamander locomotion in a robotics lab?

Over time, I’ve been exploring the different parts of that learning cycle. I like learning about how animals work and what they do, and using an engineering mindset to do that, like the projects I did with the tuna. Then, another side of that loop is applying that biology knowledge to designing robots.

And then continuing that loop: we can make a robot model of something where we can study and try things that we wouldn’t be able to with the real animal. So it’s an interesting cycle, working with animals directly and learning about them, then working with the robot models based on biology research. There are so many interesting solutions out there in nature to a variety of problems with a variety of different constraints. There’s something about seeing an organism and its relationship to its environment, how it reacts to it and works with it and influences it, that is inspiring and can teach us about making robots to interact with the environment, and also how we as individuals and society interact with the environment.

Many of your projects are collaborative in nature. Why is that dynamic important to you?

Something I’ve grown to appreciate more over time are my great conversations and activities with friends and peers that do completely different things than I do. And that is what Catlin offered as part of the liberal arts education—I was exposed to all sorts of different fields and topics and interests. I learned that interacting with a diverse group of people requires communication and empathy. At Catlin and through college, I learned that—in addition to aptitude and personal inspiration–most things happen best with a diverse group of people working well together.

Junior Mechanical Engineer, Seismic Powered Clothing, 2019-21 (Engineering Intern 2018-19) Volunteer, Seymour Marine Discovery Center, UC Santa Cruz, 2019-20 Graduated from Stanford University, B.S. in Biomechanical Engineering, 2017 Research Assistant, Stanford University School of Engineering, various projects 2014-2017 Research Assistant, BioRob École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), 2016 Research Assistant, Tuna Research and Conservation Center - Stanford Hopkins Marine Station, 2014-16 Stanford University Course Development Assistant (Intro to Animal Behavior), 2015 Volunteer, Stanford class project at the San Francisco Zoo, 2014 Co-captain, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1540 - The Flaming Chickens, 2011-2013 FIRST Dean’s List Winner, 2012 Nature-inspired artist

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Board Profiles

Whitney, D’Artagnan, Nitesh, Don, Jackson

2021-22

INCOMING TRUSTEES

We welcome our incoming 2021-22 Trustees, who selflessly offer their time and expertise to support the Catlin Gabel community and excellence in education.

WHITNEY E. BLACK

Whitney received her BA and MD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed her graduate medical training in Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She is now an Associate Professor and the Quality Medical Director for the OHSU Department of Psychiatry and a Life & Wellness Advisor for the OHSU School of Medicine. She is a parent of two current Catlin Gabel students.

D’ARTAGNAN CALIMAN ’91

D’Artagnan earned a Master’s in Social Work degree from Portland State University and has been a leader in community-based and philanthropic organizations across the juvenile justice, child welfare, and homelessness sectors for 25 years. He is currently the Director for the Justice Oregon for Black Lives initiative at Meyer Memorial Trust. He previously served as Executive Director of Building Changes, a non-profit working to end homelessness across Washington state.

NITESH SHARAN

Nitesh holds a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Nike’s Global Operations & Technology function, and previously served as Nike’s Global Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations.

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Nitesh is a Board Member of the Alzheimer’s Association Oregon and SW Washington chapter. He is a parent of two students at Catlin Gabel.

EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS DON VOLLUM ’84

Don is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Vista Ridge Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on management buy-outs, acquisitions, mergers, recapitalizations, restructuring, and other corporate situations. He is a Trustee of the Providence St. Vincent Medical Foundation and Columbia River Maritime Museum, and Past Chair of the Portland State University Foundation. His wife Marian is also a Catlin alum (’82), as are their children David ’16 and Lily ’19.

JACKSON GEORGE ’22, 2021-22 CGSA PRESIDENT

Jackson has attended Catlin since first grade, except for his fourth and fifth grade years when he and his family lived in Amsterdam. He is a member of the soccer, track & field, and mock trial teams. He is also active in the Investment Club, and a member of the Global Youth Entrepreneurs team, an organization that hosts start-up events to encourage youth entrepreneurship and cultural exchange across the world.

See the full roster of Catlin Gabel 2021-22 Trustees at catlin.edu/trustees.

“Serving on the Board of Trustees is an invaluable opportunity to support the school’s mission and to contribute to the ongoing design and development of this wonderful community—a means to shape our future through the cultivation of kindness, integrity, curiosity, and the spirit of democracy!” WHITNEY E. BLACK

“I’m looking forward to joining Catlin’s board because as an alumnus of color, I did not receive the support I needed to be successful at Catlin. I’m committed to ensuring Catlin is an inviting and supportive campus for all students, regardless of their socio-economic background.” D’ARTAGNAN CALIMAN ’91

“Catlin Gabel instills in its students a strong academic foundation, compassion for others, and a sense of community service. These characteristics are so important and will enable these future leaders to prosper, contribute meaningfully, and fundamentally make the world a better place.” NITESH SHARAN

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OUTGOING TRUSTEES

For their service to the school, generosity of spirit, and commitment to the mission of Catlin Gabel, we thank our outgoing 2020-21 trustees.

AZIN RADSAN

Azin is a multi-linguist and advocate for world studies who serves as a member of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Advisory Council and Stanford’s Parents’ Advisory Board. She served as Secretary of the Catlin Gabel Board. Azin has also served as a PFA Class Representative and a PFA Upper School Coordinator. She is the parent of three Catlin Gabel alumni.

ARAH ERICKSON ’87

Arah has been a management consultant in New York with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and a Senior Vice President in Wells Fargo’s Online & Mobile Banking division in San Francisco. In addition to her Board service, she has had multiple roles on the PFA Executive Council, and was involved with the Strategic Planning process. Arah has three girls enrolled at Catlin Gabel.

DAVID RECORDON ’04

David is Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of Technology at the White House. Formerly he served as First Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Information Technology during the Obama administration. He received Catlin Gabel’s Distinguished Younger Alumni Award in 2017.

GREG DUFAULT

Greg is managing director of Dufault, Smith and Meeuwsen wealth advisors. He is one of the founders of Raphael House of Portland, a women’s shelter, and co-founded the Wordstock book festival. Greg served as Endowment Committee Chair. His two children are Catlin Gabel graduates.

SHELBY CAMPION

Shelby’s career has included positions in Research & Information Technology for DLJ, Razorfish, and Western Asset Management. She has served on Lake Oswego’s Library Board and chaired the Our Lady of the Lake Endowment Board since 2016. Shelby is the parent of a current Catlin Gabel Upper School student.

EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS KELLY PARK ’21

A Catlin Gabel student since first grade, Kelly served as Catlin Gabel Student Association President in her senior year. She has worked for Lines for Life’s teen support line, served on the Wellbeing Trust Youth Advisory Council, and volunteered for the Oregon Historical Society. She recently began her first year at Princeton University.

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50 Class Year: Class Member 50: Joyanna Freeland 60: Stan and Hilda Rhodes 61: Herbert Swett 66: Sally (Sarah) Catto stages a “Rebellion of One” in London 66: Alexandra “Plip” KimberleyBryant with Mr. Percy 72: Retirement party for Gretchen Fulop Darnell 73: Stephen Swire and family in Colorado 75: Ann von Ofenheim celebrates her return to the water on an OC6n 76: David Seres 77: Mary Olson and Matthew Hecht 78: Bill Polits 85: Jessica Bucciarelli with Kate Jaramillo on their first camping trip since the pandemic began (Linn County, OR, May 2021) 87: Heike Leise takes a break on the beautiful German island of Sylt 87: Taiger Murphy and family: “We're coming to Portland!” 88: The front of the award-winning Vital Program infographic by Wendy Gable Collins 90: Artwork by Pippa Arend: “John Lewis,” pencil and ink, 9x12, 2020 92: Khaleel Isa in Wadi Rum (“Valley of the Moon”) in southern Jordan 93: Damin Spritzer 04: Arlo Carey, son of Zoe Pinfold 07: Children of Laura Hayes and Jing Tao Liu–“the little ones” 07: Matthew James Beman, husband of Maggie Faber, with their new dog 07: Ben Dair presents Persimmon aka Percy aka Perseverance the Mars Rover 11: Josh Langfus on Mt. Hood 11: McKensie Mickler with a graduating classmate 13: Tucker Gordon wading in the “other Portland” (Maine) 17: Gunnar Fairbairn: “The graduation walk” 17: Celadon cup with inlaid crane upon an inlaid platter by David Kwak 18/19: Classes of 2018 & 2019 alumni social: Keegan Kaas ’18, Tyler Hillison ’18, Louis Ye ’18, Stuart Ryan ’18 and Sid Pai ’18

Joyanna Freeland writes, “My book, Pilgrimage to Kah-Nee-Ta on Amazon.com, states, ‘In the movie Out of Africa, Isak Dineson often sighed, “I have a farm in Africa,” as if it were her lover.’ I generate the same love-feelings about the hot springs in Oregon, owned by my adoptive parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Freeland, where I spent memorable parts of my childhood and adult years. Because I still feel my spirit roaming those hills, valleys, and streams, I needed to reconnect with that part of myself and to rekindle the spirit of my youth. May this book help you rekindle your memories. A second book, Not My Day to Die, tells the true story of Jimmie, a trained con artist's struggle to wrench free from the chains of criminal addiction through his rise, his fall, his death and his resurrection with my support as a metaphysical minister. My latest book, Saying ‘Yes’ to Inner Freedom, shares the Freedomers (inmates seeking inner freedom) responses to a course that offers freedom from habits, patterns, addictions, poverty, illness, loneliness, limitations and even crime. It is being presented to the homeless in a program offered by Kirsten Beck.”

Cauleen Coleman Glass reports that she is now living in Issaquah, WA, on Lake Sammamish, enjoying its many lovely faces and varied wildlife, especially the birds, plus spectacular sunsets. “So happy to have my daughter, Tracey, and all her family nearby with my two horses at her farm. I ride three times a week but have retired from judging and other officiating. My husband, Mike, needs care but I'm hoping to be able to get away for a short visit now and then. Blessings to all.”

Irene Longaker writes that she is “So proud to see my granddaughter Mikayla Stout ’21 graduate from Catlin Gabel. It was a beautiful ceremony outside on the grass field. An eagle flew over for dramatic effect. When one of Mikayla's classmates recited Corinthians 13, it took me back to my sweet time at Hillside so many years ago.”

Hilda Wright Rhodes writes, “While our eight grandchildren and three children have risen to this year's challenges of being involved in college, or

college admissions, as educators as well as students, and hybrid learning in high school, we have been safely sheltered in our home in the beautiful town of Redding CT, where we have lived for 52 years. We are so grateful to our Mark Twain Library and all it has offered virtually, though it is right next door to us. Stan and I always reflect on our wonderful careers in teaching, and I have missed my volunteer work this year reading with children. I have had lots of time for my art which went from calligraphy with Mrs. Griffin at Catlin to charcoal drawing in my retirement. My two book groups are now meeting in person and we are seeing our family and friends all vaccinated. Suddenly CT is one of the safest states. I always thank Catlin Gabel for contributing to the creative resources I could, again, call upon endlessly during this year at home.”

Herbert Eugene Swett reports, “I'm a semi-retired journalist in Salem, also transcribing medical reports.” 1963 CLASS REP: Jennie Tucker, jtucker@oregonwireless.net

Gretchen Corbett, though having not worked during the pandemic, is raising a vegetable garden ready to eat and share. Laurie Gearin Senders and her husband Steve are partially escaping the Portland area to spend time in Seattle and Central Oregon to be with family and friends while packing up their belongings to move into a condo and sell their house of 50 years. Cricket Parmalee, having lived in the DC area for these many years, lost her calling during the pandemic but will spring back with alacrity to continue working with seniors as a storyteller. She reminds classmates that they are now all older than Mrs. Jo, who was one of their teachers. Duncan Murray and his wife Saundra are happily spending their 16th year of retirement in Eugene. Before Covid they enjoyed traveling to more than three dozen countries and six times to Scotland. In June they spent a weekend in Lincoln City with classmate Barry Treyve and his wife Sarah. James Tompkins is now teaching privately, having a student who was raised in Cuba. Jim was proud to say that his student got her MFA and went on for two years on SNL.

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He is feeling much younger than the rest of us by taking tap dance with one of his students who was a lead in many Broadway musicals and also a student of his at the University of Louisville. David Avshalomov and his wife are expecting their first grandchild; older son Jesse and wife Nicole are planning an October birth of a baby boy. David just secured a production agreement with a local opera company, Mission Opera in Santa Clarita, to produce a second opera, “The 13 Clocks,” based on James Thurber's popular dry fairy tale for grownups. He is also working on the book and songs for his third opera, “Trotzky in Mexico,” about his final days, the betrayal of the Revolution, and his affair with Frida Kahlo. His mother Doris Avshalomov, also known as Mrs A., died last November at age 100 from a stroke; clear-minded and healthy until her last month. She taught many students from the class of ’63 in sixth grade, and they can almost hear her voice reading The Hobbit. Jennie Tucker and her husband Charlie continue working in the woods, trimming limbs and cleaning up brush piles, and in the vegetable garden (producing enough lettuce, rhubarb, and spinach to sell at the farmer's market). She continues to paint houses, trim fruit trees, horseback ride in the Blue Mountains as well as the Wallowas. Covid cut her hospice volunteering but with the Oregon State Library Board and local libraries, she has maintained a presence in the library world that she has always loved.

Tim Dickel retired from Creighton University in December of 2019 after nearly 44 years of service as a faculty member and administrator. He continues to live in Omaha, Nebraska, and is enjoying his ten grandchildren and traveling with his wife, Gail.

Katherine Coe Kumler writes, “The Caller spring class note by Margot Voorhies Thompson ’66 prompted me to chime in, lauding Catlin Gabel. Starting Catlin Gabel in seventh grade, I felt very lonely and frankly embarrassed by how far behind I was. In those days, classes were levelled: low class, high class. I was in the low class; that was where I belonged! The small, leveled class, coupled with excellent teaching, brought me the key realization that effort determined success;

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plus, not much outstrips working hard and learning for pure fun. What mattered was that Catlin’s culture expected and respected work and learning. This applied to everyone. The teachers in 7th and 8th grade changed my life. By graduation from high school, we had learned how to recognize when there was a question, frame the question, pursue the answer, and then sit back and reflect critically, maybe try again. I still draw on the core knowledge in mathematics, science, English, French, and history offered to us at Catlin Gabel and cannot quantify how important this educational foundation has been throughout my wonderful, long life. There are teachers that I never properly thanked and whom some of you may remember as fondly as I do: MRS. MCFARLAND - 7th, 8th MATH: I studied with her spring of 7th grade, when she introduced us to what was truly New Math. She was the kind of teacher who actually spent time analyzing student errors. In a lunch period, she taught me a technique for adding columns of numbers, thereby eliminating more than 90% of my errors and convincing me that I could do arithmetic and thus enjoy mathematics. Her clear presentation of base 7, 12, and 2 revealed how number systems work. Mrs. McFarland was an extraordinarily considerate and lucid teacher. I still love math. STODDY MCLARKEY 7th ENGLISH: Besides making sentence diagramming reasonable, pounding on the wall common with Schauff’s classroom during the World Series, and every Friday, reading us great short stories (Poe, Twain, Faulkner), near the end of 7th grade. Stoddy experimented with what must have been a pilot curriculum titled General Language. I wonder if anyone else remembers it? We simultaneously read and listened to simple passages in German, French, and Spanish, and using everything we could, we plunged into translation. In hindsight, we were all being exposed to Proto Indo-European’s modern cognates and intuiting Grimm’s Law along the way. Heavy stuff for 7th graders and a terrific teaser for decades of etymology to come. SCHAUFF (MANVIL SCHAUFFLER) 7th, 8th HISTORY: By the end of 7th grade, we could all draw and label maps of Africa and South America, slightly outdated now 60+ years later, but 8th grade, he took us sentence by sentence through the U.S. Constitution and thank God that is still relevant. Overall,

Schauff was extraordinarily committed to us, his students, the G&S productions, camping trips, always singing on the bus–he must have had limits, but I never ever saw them. Lower School MUSIC PROGRAM: None of our four children, even in good private schools, had anything close to this. At Catlin we had our own version of Christmas Revels, chorus every week, singing at assemblies, G&S productions (7th/Pinafore and 8th/Patience). Wonderful! HIGH SCHOOL: More excellent teaching and small classes in even smaller spaces. MRS. THORSEN - HISTORY: Different approaches to historiography and text structure through nightly outlining, she introduced me to the idea of college and pointed me east. Must have been good advice; I’m still in the Boston area. MME. CATHREY - FRENCH: Demanding standards, nearly impossible, yet completely willing to give extra attention. In college I realized that I was well-prepared for upper-level courses. I’d learned how to write decent French and had read some classics (Moliere, Racine, Corneille, Voltaire). MR. DOWNS - MATH: Like Mrs. McFarland, with Mr. Downs math was mental play–fun! Euclidean Geometry a revelation. Junior year we covered some symbolic logic using a text by Quine that my dad had used at Princeton that finally earned me some points at home. I agree wholeheartedly with Margot Voorhies Thompson–my education at Catlin was an unsurpassed, lifetime gift. - Kally Coe Kumler (Hillside ’61, Catlin Gabel ’65), niece of Charlotte Coe Murray (Catlin ’46), Grand-daughter of Alice Smith Olmstead, friend and classmate of Alice Tucker Biddle (Miss Catlin's ’15). 1966 CLASS REP: Tom Tucker, tuckert6671@gmail.com

Sally (Sarah) Catto writes, “I was arrested on May 1 for participating in Rebellion of One, one of the current programmes of Extinction Rebellion, the international group which is fighting for Climate Justice through nonviolent action. All over Europe, and particularly in Britain, hundreds of people sat down at exactly 11 a.m. in the middle of roads and intersections to block traffic and draw attention to the Climate

Crisis. So I sat down in Commercial Street in central London, wearing my sandwich board which explained why I was there. It took the police only 25 minutes to turn up; they did indeed play Good Cop Bad Cop but were very polite and considerate. No handcuffs. Took me away in the police van and I spent seven hours in a police cell. Charged with “blocking the highway” (civil offense) and also “conspiracy to create a public nuisance” (criminal offense) so I was fingerprinted and photographed. Very exciting. No, I wasn't really scared. I think Schauff would have been proud.” Alexandra “Plip” Kimberley-Bryant writes, “Puppy tending, garden tending, and just plain tending seems to be where I am these days. Work and family were always labors of love with a lot of heavy lifting and great reward. Now that I am (I think) completely retired and our two boys are a flight across the country, my life with Slim takes on its own shape. It was quieter but then we got Mr. Percy last month. The flower and vegetable gardens always seem very needy, especially with the lack of rain. So, all in all, there is still much to do but much not to do if you choose. I practice yoga, throw unnecessary things out (or not), try to communicate in meaningful ways with friends and family, walk and read, weed and water, listen to live music and comedy and do what brings happiness.” Tom Tucker shares this story: “The year was 1962 and some thoughtful parents rented the Racquet Club for our major social event of the year. Oh, it was going to be so perfect. I had arranged to spend the night with my buddy Ned Look and his parents were going to take us to pick up our dates and convey us to a real Club, not just the usual venue of the huge gym at the Hillside campus. Freshly showered, and maybe even a little purloined aftershave for that final “cool” touch, and adorned in my only dark suit and one of my father’s ties, we set off to pick up our respective dates, being chauffeured by Ned’s dad, one of the chaperones. My date was Margot Voorhies, whose family had lived right next to us out in the country. Margot and I had been childhood pals for a long time and our families were similar in many ways. Once we arrived at the Racquet Club, all the dreams of this fabulous event began to unfold. I think there might have been a rented jukebox or maybe some parent working an amplified record player.

“Johnny Angel,” “The Watusi,” “Monster Mash,” and “Twist Again” were all popular radio hits. Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers, along with Mary Wells and Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife” were all the rage. There were chips and dip and a humongous bowl of sweet punch. The dancing started as the braver and more adept couples began to get into the groove. I think Margot and I were maybe in the second wave and so the first real bonafide Racquet Club Dance got underway. After a few songs and dances, and nervous consultations with friends, I hit the punchbowl again and I noticed my aftershave had begun to dissipate. Another dance out on the floor after that libation, and maybe some cookies, and I began to sense that unpleasant feeling of imminent internal distress. No! No! NO! my internal mind screamed but it was already too late. Tossing your cookies (literally) in the middle of your first chance to be “cool” is not what the average 8th grade boy aspires to. But there it was, the worst fate possible. Felt bad, looked bad, and smelled worse. So much for the aftershave. The adult chaperones were quick to respond and my classmates were pretty quick to head off the dance floor themselves. A couple of those adults were doctors and they escorted me downstairs to the locker room to get cleaned up. They asked me if I had ever had a similar event before. The internal aches I had were similar to an appendix attack I had a year or so before. “Umm,” they said, and they had me lie down on a bench while asking me my phone number in order to get ahold of my parents, who I assumed were at home. Wrong! Another number I had were some close neighbors and they knew that my parents were at Symphony, soon to be paged and informed of my condition. My last tremulous words to Ned were, “Please make sure that Margot gets home safely.” Ice bags were placed over my tummy to keep that old appendix under control and before long my father and mother appeared and drove me to St. Vincent Hospital on Westover, where we were met by our family physician and friend, Dr. Arch Diack, and a short time later I was on the operating table. Fortunately, I don’t remember any of that. The next morning, Dr. Diack came in and started me laughing, which on the one hand felt good but also tweaked at the stitches. Laughter is the best medicine goes the old bromide and I think it is true. And the scar was pretty cool,

also, as a reminder that you just never know how things are going to turn out. And best of all, Margot is still one of my closest friends.” 1969 CLASS REP: Steve Bachelder, steve.bachelder@gmail.com 1973 CLASS REPS: Debbie Kaye, djek53@aol.com; Ted Kaye, kandsons@aol.com; and Steve Swire, sswire@gmail.com

Anno Ballard reports, “Debby Schauffler and I have been on a bar trivia team for years. When Margaret Park Bridges ’75 moved back to Portland in 2018, she joined our team (she had been one of “my seventh-graders” on a school trip to Camp Hancock that I chaperoned as a senior). Last year, during Covid, we were doing trivia via Zoom, and Margaret recognized one of our competitors as her Catlin classmate, Heather Perkins ’75. Heather is now our favorite nemesis. I encourage alums to report their news, no matter how trivial.”

Gretchen Fulop Darnell recently retired after 23 years with the City of Seaside as Director of Sales at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center. She enjoys volunteering and spending time with family.

We are very sad to report that Darby Williams Dizard died last August from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Darby had a remarkable New York-based career in voice performance and recording in several genres including jazz and opera. Her second husband, musician Chris Cherney, died in November; her children, Philip Dizard and Alexandra Dizard Martin, survive her. Ted Kaye continues to advise cities and states as they pursue updates to their flags. He recently served on the committee that chose the new flag of Salt Lake City, his guidebook launched the work of the 2020 Mississippi Flag Commission, and he helped lay the groundwork for the upcoming Massachusetts flag revision. He gives frequent interviews to local, state, and national media. Roger Kaza presented a live and live-streamed solo recital titled “A World of Horns” at the Sheldon Concert Hall

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in St. Louis Missouri in June. In December he and the St. Louis Symphony will present the world premiere of a new composition for solo French horn and orchestra by Stefan Freund commemorating Missouri's Bicentennial and incorporating three centuries of regional music. Gwynne MacColl Campbell welcomed her fourth grandchild, Miller Dickie, in early 2021. While she and Doug are not allowed to visit Australia at the current time due to closed international borders, they were very fortunate to spend three weeks in Melbourne in January 2020, arriving back in Connecticut just before the onset of Covid restrictions. Over the past year and a half, the Campbells have logged many miles of daily walking, biking on New England rail trails, and rounds of golf. Having a weekend house on the Rhode Island coast was a major plus during extended periods of quarantine. Allen Schauffler says, “Hello all, from Rancho Vista Vista. Cyndy and I are alive and well and still loving life in ‘Sagebrushistan’ (Powell Butte, about 15 miles northeast of Bend). I am still working, still on the air, banging away at daily news. Almost by accident I landed in a good broadcast shop (Central Oregon Daily News) full of talented and dedicated people and with a management team committed to long-form storytelling. Yes, we still report car-wrecks and barn-fires but also go far beyond the news-norm in an effort to reflect our community back to itself. It must be having fun as I just signed up for another two years. Find me streaming live on FB weeknights and for the rest of eternity (or until some idiot crashes the Internet) at centraloregondaily.com. Fun stuff! Cheers and love.” Stephen Swire reports, “The Swire family is doing great, with Sam, 18, heading off to Washington University next year, and Aislinn, 23, working in San Francisco. Though still residing in Marin (SF), we’re spending a lot of time in Colorado, and maybe more in the future! I hope we can see everyone soon at a reunion...2023! David Weiss came out of an 18-month retirement to retake the helm of Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine, in 2016. The non-profit organization, which he helped found in 1993, collects and preserves the film and video record of northern New England. He is currently shepherding its Alamo Theater’s post-pandemic reopening. David Winter,

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clearly enjoying pandemic-enabled free time, reported, “I have discovered that I have a talent for composing palindromes,” and attached more than 20, including “Desserts see bees stressed!,” and “An aid (Emil)–Busy, my sublime Diana?” 1975 CLASS REP: Len Carr, carrl@catlin.edu

Margaret Park Bridges bought a home in Portland and adopted a rescue dog during the pandemic. Her home in Massachusetts sold last fall too. She is grateful to have been able to work from home and be busier than ever as a copy editor at Thesis, a digital ad agency, where she is twice the age of most of her colleagues! She missed seeing friends in person for so long and looks forward to connecting with more old schoolmates who are fully vaxxed! “Creating community and a wider circle of friends is one of the reasons I moved back west,” she says. Ann von Ofenheim writes, “After surviving cancer followed by an accident that left me with a broken neck and back (that on top of the Covid pandemic), I am so happy and relieved that I am healing well, still teaching math full time at OES, and back to racing outrigger canoes! Next goal, racing in England summer 2022!”

David Seres was promoted to Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University Medical Center, New York. This year, he and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. And he's proud to have recently topped 1,000 vaccinations administered–a vast improvement from caring for hundreds of those critically ill with Covid. 1977 CLASS REP: Kelley Brand, kelleybrand503@gmail.com

Dean Alterman reports, “This fall the American Bar Association will publish How to Draft Easements, my second how-to book for real estate lawyers.” Matthew Hecht writes, “The restrictions of the pandemic felt as though they began some months early. I shattered a femur in November of 2019 and was still healing when the world shut down in March. But I healed and made it through the following year in good health. My

wife Mary Olson retired from teaching a year ago, so we had more time together, hunkered down in Santa Fe, than we'd experienced since we were married in 1984. I had already retired from ocean and climate modeling, at Los Alamos, after turning 60, working now only as much as I wish to. I've immersed myself in music in recent years. Even while in-person performing has not been possible, two albums of mostly original songs have come together: No Place to Go (released last fall; see matthewhecht.bandcamp.com or Spotify, etc.), and Vignettes (released in July 2021). I have more reasons to visit Portland these days. Along with my mother and older son Malcolm (who's starting a non-profit called Elbow Room, working with disabled adults in the arts), my brother Rick ’75 has moved back and will have both daughters and grandchildren there as well. I'd love to use the opportunity to see some of my old school mates!”

Bill Polits was hired as Director, Sales & Strategy for Fire Protection, A-Gas US, in January 2021. He will continue working from Berkeley, CA. Peggy Schauffler writes, “I’m still teaching art at Catlin Gabel, and loving what I do! Come by to visit me if you’re in the area. I’d love to catch up! My youngest daughter, Jenna, got married in late May. Now I have two amazing married daughters as well as two wonderful sons-in- law!”

Tobias Hecht (Toby, in his Catlin days) is publishing his second book in Spanish, a language he began learning at Catlin Gabel. This one, a collection of short stories, is entitled Cangrejo con yogur (Crab and Yogurt). In the other language he studied at Catlin (English), he published an ethnography of homeless children in Brazil called At Home in the Street and the novel After Life. After a recent two-year stint of teaching anthropology at Pomona College, he began working with a start-up that is launching the nation’s first non-profit solar panel manufacturing company. Kathleen Duncan Lundquist writes, “Hello, everyone. Lots of changes to report in the last year, including a move from Mt. Tabor in SE Portland to Milwaukie last August. My husband Gary Lundquist took

early retirement from his job in production control at Boeing Portland due to the pandemic slowdown, and we have been getting used to our new surroundings in the midst of wildfires/smoke, ice storms/power outages, and the recent extreme heat wave. I continue to sing regularly for services at churches around the Portland area and to navigate the caregiving phase of life that envelops many of us at our age. I work with my sister Susan Duncan ’80 to care for our mother and older brother, and Gary was just diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma in March. He qualified for a Moderna clinical research trial involving immunotherapy and a personalized cancer vaccine developed with the same technique Moderna used for their Covid vaccine. We are hopeful–and we invite you to hope with us–that same success will be seen in our situation.” 1983 CLASS REPS: Traci Rossi, traci.j.rossi@gmail.com, and Adrienne Wannamaker, adrienne@wannamaker.com

Jessica Manly Bucciarelli shares, “In the 40 years since I left Catlin at the end of 8th grade, I've lived in Oberlin, OH; San Francisco; Berkeley; Richmond and Torrance, CA; Richmond and Bloomington, IN; and now–to this inner-NE Portland girl's surprise–in Central Beaverton, three miles west of campus. I've married Kate Jaramillo; joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); learned to camp, travel and bake; and developed a career in local government employee communications, with an emphasis on engagement and inclusion. I've published countless words on behalf of my employers while filling a tall cabinet with thus-far-unshared drafts of my own creative nonfiction (the powerful upside and downside of our Middle School “perfect paper” exercises perhaps!). “You Are Still Catlin Gabel” declared an alumni fundraising flier some years ago. Off and on I find myself unpacking what that means–in relation to aesthetics and nature violation and privilege through lenses of race, gender, class, religion, and generation.” Lisa Marshall-Freeman writes, “This March we celebrated our 10th anniversary of the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium, our oddities museum and art gallery in

Portland. Unfortunately, it was during the pandemic restrictions, so it was a quiet celebration. We're about to reopen and will see what the next ten years bring. It's been a fun experiment and one that allows my partner Mike and I to do our art and meet interesting and off beat characters. Those of you who knew me then knew I'd end up doing something like this, I'm sure. Come and say hi! (2234 NW Thurman St. Portland, OR 97210).”

Christy Conklin writes, “Hi everyone. Life is good here in Half Moon Bay, CA. I'm thrilled to let you know about the publication of my book, The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, by The New Press! It is 20 stories of places being impacted by climate change, from the Cook Islands to London, the Arctic to San Francisco Bay. I illustrated it with ink-on-dried seaweed maps of each place; it was especially fun and challenging to create an art-meets-science book for a general audience. (Available now wherever books are sold!) A huge thank you to all my Catlin teachers (especially Dave Corkran, Susan Sowles, and the science faculty), who taught me how to research, how to think, how to create, and how to write. My family is well. I just got to spend some time with my mom, dad (Bob, Gabel School ’55), sister (Anna ’90), and lifelong friend Dover (now Paloma, ’86) in Oregon after a looong year away, which was great fun. My husband, Richard, has retired from high tech, and our kids Gemma (age 19, at University of Bristol) and Will (14, about to start high school), came through Covid as well as I could possibly hope. I hope everyone has weathered this difficult year. I'd love to catch up with folks.”

After almost 20 years in the telco fiber industry, Heike Leise moved onto the IT side and is now CCO of a Munichbased German company providing software and services for the public sector. She still does voluntary work for more diversity in the tech industry as well as management roles. If the pandemic situation allows, she’d love to meet you at the class reunion in 2022! Taiger Murphy writes, “Dear Catlin Gabel Friends and Relations, We are moving back to

Portland! After 11 years away (four overseas, and seven in San Francisco), we have decided we need more space and want to be closer to family. We have just negotiated terms of a lease on a house in the Bethany neighborhood, and our move-in date is August 1, 2021. My wife, Summer Andreasen, will have her own art studio in our garage, and plans to attend art classes at PCC Rock Creek. My son Indigo, and my daughter Graycen will both start at Sunset High School in the fall (11th and 9th grade, respectively). I will continue my work with San Francisco-based technical architecture firm Topflight Specs, Inc., as well as my own consulting, mostly working remotely. I will also be continuing graduate studies, towards becoming a teacher, for my Master of Architecture from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan. You can connect with me on Facebook, or on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/taigermurphy. Looking forward to being back in the Catlin Gabel orbit!”

Wendy Gable Collins reports, “I just had my 30-year anniversary as a public servant with King County, Washington, doing Cartography and Visual Design. In May, I won an award from the National Association of Government Communicators for a recent infographic I designed. I really love that I’ve found a career that balances creativity and technology, while providing a benefit to my local community. I will probably go back to the office one day a week post-pandemic. I do love the increased work/life balance that comes from teleworking, but I miss my work friends and the community that we’ve created.” 1990 CLASS REP: Pippa Arend, pippaa@gmail.com

Pippa Arend says, “For this season's class notes, some of us from the 1990 Class are playing One Thing (One thing you don't know about me is...”). So here goes: One thing you don't know about me is... My grandparents came over on the Vulcana, a boat out of Trieste, Italy (they were Czech Jews emigrating from Prague) landing at Ellis Island in 1939. A narrow escape! In more current news: After 20 years, I've decided to

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leave p:ear, my nonprofit for homeless youth, this year. I feel great about this decision as we've hired well and we've successfully purchased our current building this year too (after a heroic Covid-era Capital Campaign). I'll be moving into consultancy work specifically with donors to help them craft personal philanthropic visions and to connect them to “Pippa-curated” nonprofits doing the good work in the world. I'll also be consulting with p:ear during the transition and helping other nonprofits in the development sphere as well. And, of course, more art.” 1991 CLASS REP: D'Artagnan Bernard Caliman, dbcaliman@gmail.com 1992 CLASS REP: Melanie Novack Piziali, melaniepiziali@yahoo.com

Khaleel Isa reports, “I am working in the Middle East North Africa Countries with UNICEF as regional staff counselor supporting staff in each country. My wife, two kids and I live in Amman, Jordan. Over the past years we lived in Istanbul, Turkey, then to Montpellier, France and now here in Jordan. Miss the 1992 class and maybe see some of you in Portland this summer as we will be on vacation!”

Damin Spritzer was named Area Chair and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Music (organ) at the University of Oklahoma this year after six years at the university. This summer she was one of four panelists for an American Guild of Organists 2021 National Convention Webinar on Diversity and Equity: Widening our Repertoire in Sacred Music, Teaching, and Performing, and looks forward to resuming travel for performances and recordings (England and France) in the coming year. Her husband continues to enjoy work with Deloitte and her three children are 16 (Soren, senior), 14 (Rowan, freshman), and 9 (Morgan, 4th grade).

Anton Hill writes, “My wife and I moved to Paris to live full-time. We're making it our base to travel Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. I'm now an

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indie author publishing horror books under a snazzy pen name. My best to all fellow ’95ers.” 1996 CLASS REPS: Daniel Karlin, danielkarlin7@gmail.com, and Trace Hancock, tjhancock@gmail.com 1997 CLASS REPS: Katey Flack, katey.flack@gmail.com, and Phoebe Wayne, phoebevwayne@gmail.com

Will Decherd reports, “I wrote a book! It’s called Kisses, Condoms, and Consent: What Middle Schoolers Want to Know About Sex and Sexuality. It’s a compilation of over 500 anonymous questions asked by my middle school students during the sex ed part of science class and my honest, informed, sex- and body-positive, gender inclusive, and consent-focused answers. There are some serious parts, some silly parts, a ton of important information, and a hefty dose of compassion. My website is willdecherd.com.”

Tiffany Watson says, “After a 10-year hiatus from professional dance, where I was fortunate to dance with companies in NYC, Ashland, and Vienna, Austria, and tour in the US, Europe, and Mexico, I've recently returned to the dance profession to teach online improv movement classes. This grew out of a desire to play with creative ideas expressed through movement to offer stress relief to the public.” 2001 CLASS REP: Tyler Francis, tyler.p.francis@gmail.com 2002 CLASS REP: Kelsey Schagemann, kelsey.schagemann@gmail.com

After a decade living in the Bay Area, Lyndsey Moore has returned to Portland with her husband, Francis, and 1.5-year-old daughter, Eleanor. She will be starting a new job as an Assistant Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice.

David Lippman is the host and producer of a new weekly politics/ interviews show called ETX Covered, which runs on the CBS station in Tyler, Texas.

2004 CLASS REP: Hannah Aultman, hannah.aultman@gmail.com

In January, Zoe Pinfold and husband Chris welcomed their son, Arlo Carey, to the world. He was born at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Next month the family moves back to Portland to be closer to grandparents...“who are thrilled.” 2005 CLASS REP: Donna Canada-Smith, donna.canadasmith@gmail.com 2007 CLASS REP: Rob Kaye, robert.e.kaye@gmail.com

Laura Hayes and Jing Tao Liu are now the proud parents of three boys: Henry (6), Bennett (3), and Thomas who was born in late February this year. Thomas is the happiest, smiliest baby ever and is an amazing addition to the family. Laura is taking some time off from work as a veterinarian to be a stay-at-home-mom while Thomas is little. Ali Tweedt recently graduated from Cornell with an MBA and will be moving back to NYC to work as a Digital Product Manager at American Express. Maggie Faber celebrated her wedding anniversary with Matthew James Beman in June and got a new dog. She is also celebrating tenure at University of Washington and helping found a union of her fellow employees at UW. Claire Stewart and her husband Matt started their own construction company, still love living in their tiny house, and just moved it to a farm down by the river where they can practically fish from the back door and swim multiple times a day. Dorothy Haruyama is celebrating almost a year since she and her partner were wed on the Oregon Coast. During Covid she has been providing therapy over Telehealth and with summer coming will be moving from Fort Collins to Denver to her next clinical placement (and will be living near Voodoo donuts). Joseph Kemper recently wrapped up his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan with a degree in choral conducting. He’s excited to be moving back to the Pacific Northwest with wife Abby and their 10-month-old daughter Cecilia this summer. This year he’ll be serving as a visiting assistant professor of music at

Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Glad to be near(er) to family as they settle into a new rhythm of life with a very mobile and incredibly curious little one. Jasper Weinrib and his wife are finally coming out of their hole of quarantine! They’ll travel to Spain to visit his sister (also a CG alum) and soon his parents will move as well. He is super excited to travel again! Andy Moerer is jazzed out of her mind about a hybrid, “work from wherever” lifestyle and already has a spreadsheet started with all Spanish and French speaking countries within a three-hour time zone change. Hello, creative casting from a palapa hut in Martinique. She still is working on her feedback, which is you don’t have to closetalk and scream into her laptop on Google Hangouts. No one wants to see up her nose. She and her boyfriend are excited about a much-needed return to Spain this September. She’s found a match who’s obsessively fond of the country like herself. And is no stranger to a good ol’ calçotada. Corey Moerer’s son Jonny is 16 months old and he's the best thing in the world, next to his mom anyway who is an amazing mom. They are logging right now, thinning out most of the stands and clearing a couple acres for expanded operations (livestock, microgreens, wine grapes, etc.). He’s looking forward to the summer! Ben Dair has adopted a wirehaired “Mexican street dog” Persimmon aka Percy aka Perseverance the Mars Rover from California and is moving to the suburbs near Southeast Johnson Creek Blvd., where he will have a guest bedroom for the first time in adulthood. “Come visit!”

Calley Edwards Robin received her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business in May 2021 where she specialized in marketing and tech product management. She plans to work in marketing in the fashion/ apparel industry. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband, Alex, who she married in June 2019, and her two cats, Franklin and Cooper.

Eli Coon graduated from Northwestern-Kellogg with an MBA. He is moving to Seattle to work at Microsoft, joined by his fiancee Gail and his dog Hobbes. He would love to connect with any Catlin alums in the Seattle area!

Josh Langfus writes, “I am working toward a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a therapist, I work with children, adolescents, and adults, and my research focuses on the role of reactive aggression in mood disorders. Over the last year I have acquired an alarming number of succulents, watched nearly all of the Star Trek franchise, and I get an extra little giggle whenever a TV show references Gilbert & Sullivan (which happens a lot more than you might expect!).” Stephen Lezak “dropped out” of his PhD program at Cambridge but his mom assures everyone he's going back in the fall, which is probably true. He moved to Boulder, CO, where he continues to write and research on climate change politics and policies. McKensie Mickler completed her masters degree in Communications and Cultural Encounters with top marks in Denmark, where she has lived the past three years. While she was encouraged by one thesis panelist to continue her research and obtain her PhD, she will take the month of July to head back to the Pacific Northwest to visit with family, reconnect with some of her Catlin alums, and decide her next steps.

Republic of Georgia is the gem of the Black Sea Coast. It has very progressive immigration policies and some say it's the future Singapore of Central Asia. Yes, but why Georgia? Georgia made a huge impression on me and I ended up traveling there twice while completing my undergrad, which convinced me I needed to move to Georgia. There really isn't anything special about Georgia though, right? No nothing at all! Well, nothing except the wine, the people, the history, the culture, the churches, the commerce, the banking, tech, the healthcare, the safety, the Soviet era, public transit, and the general friendliness from people. There is a Catlin connection to Georgia as well. Have fun, Gunnar! Have a blast! Thank you, but no! I'm working insanely hard to land my first job as a location independent worker. Feel free to connect with me on Linkedin for Work Anywhere inspiration and cool Slack Channels. I saved all of the walking for graduation! Now it's time to run!” David Kwak writes, “I have been spending the last two years in South Korea as an apprentice in Gangjin. I have been learning Celadon and I will now be returning to the States with a new portfolio of work to begin the next part of my ceramic journey.”

2013 CLASS REP: Alexandra van Alebeek, alexandra@vanalebeek.com

2019 CLASS REPS: Miles Asher Cohen, milesashercohen@gmail.com; Layton Rosenfeld, sparkyrosenfeld@gmail.com; Sydney Nagy, sydneycnagy@gmail.com; and Helene Stockton, hlfstockton@gmail.com

Tucker Gordon reports, “Still working at Booz Allen Hamilton as web developer focused on telling interactive data stories. After 3.5 years in DC though, decided to take advantage of working remotely and moved to Maine to live in the other Portland! Arrived in December and enjoyed a winter of snowy hikes, icy snowboarding, disc golf, and 4:30 p.m. sunsets. Currently thriving in a Maine summer of hikes, surfing, breweries, and pickleball. The way life should be.” Rachel Spiegel shares that she will be starting a MS degree in Geography and GIS at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, this fall.

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Classes of 2018 and 2019 held an alumni social at Washington Park on July 10. A great time was had by all, and they are hoping to do this more often! 2020 CLASS REPS: Annika Holliday, annika.holliday@icloud.com, and Eamon Walsh, eamonreedwalsh@gmail.com

2014 CLASS REP: Chris Park, parkcgs@gmail.com

Gunnar Fairbairn writes, “Why move to the Republic of Georgia? The

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Student since Kindergarten (Class of 2023); son of Bart Eberwein (Trustee, former Chair of the Board) and Jill Eberwein (auction and finance committees); twin brother of Hayden Eberwein (Catlin Gabel student from Kindergarten through Middle School)

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Doris Avshalomov

Former faculty and mother to David Avshalomov ’63 and Daniel Avshalomov ’66

Marcia Bilbao

James H. Gilbaugh, Jr., MD

Former husband of Linda Montgomery Gilbaugh ’56

Eric Howard Irwin Hoffman

Mother of Joe Sterling ’76, Laurie Bilbao ’77, and Jim Bilbao ’79

Son of Eric Hoffman ’40; brother of Joan Hoffman ’67, Susan Hoffman ’68, and Sally Hoffman Miller ’71

Nancy Salt Black ’50

Richard Holt Jester

Victoria “Tory” Thompson Brockman ’56

Daughter of Helen Malarkey Thompson ’30; sister of Kitty Thompson Ellis ’52 and George Thompson ’64 (also former faculty); aunt of Geordie Thompson ’92

Son of Gertrude Cookingham Jester ’37

Elizabeth Autzen Rossman ’34

Mother of Wendy Woodbury Ullman ’59, Robert “Bobby” Patton ’64, Phillip Patton ’70, and Betsy Patton McCormick (former faculty); sister of Annabelle Autzen Hauser ’37; grandmother of Elizabeth Ulrich ’93, Spencer McCormick ’96, Matt McCormick ’95, Kris Patton ’87, Matthew Patton ’00, and Zach Patton ’96

Thelma Steinberg Schnitzer

Father of Bill Kayser ’85

Mother of Gary Schnitzer ’60 and Deborah Schnitzer Novack ’66; grandmother of Melanie Novack Piziati ’92 and Kevin Novack ’94

Paula Latz Lewis

Rees Andrew Stevenson

Edward W. “Ted” Kahl ’81 Donald Robert Kayser

Mother of Deborah Frank Murray ’69 and Michael Frank ’74; grandmother of Richard Frank ’85 and Tessa Nicholson ’88

Father of Tom Stevenson ’67, Amy Stevenson ’69, and Martha Zimbelman ’71

Brother of Robert Deering ’75 and Paul Deering ’83

Drena McIntyre

Sister of Martha Ireland ’50

Patrick D. Dignan

Gretchen Chilton Mills ’70

Brian Richard Casey

Husband of Peggy Buckley Casey ’57

Thomas Deering ’71

Father of Laurie Dignan ’76

Steven Gary Eggiman

Father of Derek Eggiman ’04

Edward Leslie Fitzgibbon ’45

Husband of Molly Blair Fitzgibbon ’45; brother of John Fitzgibbon ’40, Mary Fitzgibbon Dimick ’42, and Elizabeth Fitzgibbon Dimon ’48

Mother of Lee McIntyre ’80

Molly Ireland Whittemore ’50 Frank Nourse Youngman, Jr. Father of Beth Youngman Baylin ’64

James Cairndale Milne

Father of Victoria Milne ’79; stepfather of Jordy Cornwall ’62 and Paige Lambert ’64

Sally Menefee Moore ’68

Mother of Sarah Moore ’91; sister of Caroline Menefee Sheahan ’70, Cornelia “Cookie” Menefee Lafferty ’71, and Betsy Menefee ’73

Michael Gazeley-Romney ’08

Brother of Patrick Gazeley-Romney ’10

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