Forte et Gratum Spring 2012

Spring 2012

STEM: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

ENGINEERING & MATH

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PYC 4/5 Self-Portraits in Photoshop:

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Program for Young Children 4/5 students began working in Photoshop as part of their building and sculpture project. PYC teachers, Mr. Neer and Ms. Hiller, introduced Photoshop to see if it would help the students as they learned to conceptualize their building designs. The students practiced combining multiple designs and learned to visualize those designs in a variety of spaces.

The images above are the student self portraits, first sketched with pencil on paper and then digitally manipulated using Photoshop.

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National Alumnae Council Women in Science STEM on Campus Archie Griffin Visits Campus Class News

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COVER: Program for Young Children 3/4 student, Ellen, examines the class Amaryllis flower through her magnifying

glass. Students charted the growth rate and sketched the plant as they observed it's transformation from bulb to bloom.

THIS PAGE: Upper School FIRST Robotics team member, Allyson Coble, Form X, constructing part of the CSG robot that will compete in the FIRST Robotics competition. All Upper School Robotics photos were taken by FIRST Robotics team members Kevin Sweeney and Bill Springer. www.columbusschoolforgirls.org 3

Forte et Gratum is produced by Columbus School for Girls Development and Communications Offices. We retain the right to determine editorial content and manner of presentation. Class news: classnews@columbusschoolforgirls.org DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Christy Rosenthal, ’87, Director of Development and External Affairs Lucy L. Ackley, '83 Tiffany Burton Duncan, '92 Christine L. Coyan-Neubauer COMMUNICATIONS Stephanie Greene & Mary Lorenz BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bernie Ostrowski, Chair Sarah Kay, ’87 Lavea Brachman, ‘80, Vice Chair Beth Crane, ’69, Secretary Timothy J. Faber, Treasurer Cecily Chester Alexander, ’88 Milton Baughman Tom Brigdon, Facilities Chair Lisa Courtice, Ph.D., E. Gordon Gee, Ed.D. Kate Carlin Giller, ’87 Michael Glimcher Glenda Pierce Harrison Sarah Benson Heinrichs, ‘97 Jeff Henderson Stephanie A. Hightower Lisa A. Hinson Nancy K. Jeffrey (Lifetime Member) John P. Kennedy Dawn Tyler Lee, ‘90 Robert H. Milbourne Tim Miller, Development Chair Tom O’Hara Pam Phillips, M.D. Rocky Robins Lynne Smith Brian X. Tierney Susan Tomasky, Education Advisory Chair Webb I. Vorys Kimberly Rice Wilson, ‘80 Leigh Ann Wobst EX OFFICIO Elizabeth (Liza) M. Lee, Head of School Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, Ph.D., Associate Head of School Christy Rosenthal, ’87, Director of Development and External Affairs Jane Gibson, Director of Business and Finance Andrea Zid Salmi, ’83, National Alumnae Council Cathy Jones Williard, ’83, Alumnae Board Penny Masters Boes & Jamie Crane, Parents’ Association

CSGAlumnaeWeekend2012 It’s a great opportunity to renew friendships, meet the Class of 2012 and get caught up on what’s happening at CSG.

Friday, April 27 9am – 4pm

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National Alumnae Council Biennial Meeting – All alumnae are welcome Wendy Lazarus, ’67, 2012 Alumna Award Winner Presentation to Upper School students and alumnae Lunch in the newly renovated Ruch Dining Room

Join us for school tours, including hard-hat construction tours and engage in sessions with faculty and students, including our new Director of Upper School, Jemma Giddings, who will share her vision for the Upper School. We will share our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and Health & Wellness initiatives; and enjoy a student musical performance. Specific details on the CSG Alumnae Weekend web page.

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Alumnae Cocktail Party and Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association Celebrate Wendy Lazarus, ’67, 2012 Alumna Award Winner; Meet the Class of 2012; Red & Gold and Champagne Cup winners and the generous giving of all reunion classes.

Socializing and class photos in the newly renovated Ruch Dining Room.

Spouses or significant others are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Paige Shalter Bruening, ’89 • Alumnae Weekend Chair Kacey Chappelear, ’98 • Reunion Giving Chair Yoci Vorys, ‘98 • Reunion Social Chair Cathy Jones Williard, ’83 • Alumnae Association President Andrea Zid Salmi, ’83 • National Alumnae Council President

CSGReunionGIVING Please consider making a gift in honor of your reunion. Reunion gifts account for a large percentage of Annual Giving donations from alumnae and your gift has an immediate, positive impact. Please make your check payable to Columbus School for Girls, and mail with the attached card in the enclosed envelope. If making your gift with a credit card, please provide all card information on the attached registration and giving card.

A pledge, payable by June 30, 2012, or gift to Annual Giving in honor of your Reunion may also be made online at: www.columbusschoolforgirls.org Click on Giving, then Donate Online.

Thank you for your gift in honor of your Reunion!

Liza Lee

Head Of School When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, I wandered off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer By Walt Whitman The focus of this issue is the STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering, Math) curriculum at CSG and it tells of exciting activities for our students and exciting careers for our alumnae. In fact, the magazine suggests that life in the 21st century is about the interconnection of all disciplines, both in science and the humanities. Those of us currently working on the curriculum have begun to speak of the STEAM curriculum, adding arts to the acronym. Clearly there has been a revolution in learning and in teaching; 50 years ago, when I graduated, I did not know that women could even study engineering or technology -- the only scientific careers open to women seemed to be in medicine.

In fact, when I first studied this poem at my all-girls school, I felt that Whitman confirmed my belief that science was a dreary marshalling of facts, and that “real” truth was to be found in poetry. The thought that the study of astronomy and the observation of stars was an incomplete dichotomy did not cross my mind.

School only reinforced my thinking: the only science requirement was a year of ninth grade biology and a year of science in twelfth grade. Math was finished with precalculus, and I don’t remember any physics offerings. By contrast, in the humanities, there was a three-year Latin requirement, a four-year French requirement, and of course we had English and History all four high school years. Our electives were Greek (ancient), Italian, German and Chemistry. When I got to my women’s college, which prided itself on its science curriculum, I breathed a huge sigh of relief that there was no math requirement whatsoever; one year of physiology and one of geology satisfied the science requirement.

Half a century later, I can see that the revolution has brought wonders to both teaching and learning. As we move further into the 21st century, I have felt a new hope, that we will have a future, created by our students who will be steeped in science, technology, engineering, the arts, that is more wonderful than anything we can imagine.

Certainly technological and scientific change have created great challenges for the coming generations. As my friend Bill Polk once wrote, “What the world needs is people who know how to think imaginatively, how to speak and write clearly, and how to compute and reason quantitatively and spatially. They will have to comprehend scientific and technological approaches to problem solving, and . . . crucially, they will need to have the skill of estimating. They will face many situations in which there is no fixed solution.”

Just glancing through this magazine, though, reinforces my feeling that a CSG education, with its emphasis on the integration of the humanities, the arts, and the STEM subjects, will produce the women who will lead the way in finding solutions to the world’s most complicated problems of morality and justice as well as sustainability, health, and well-being.

I hope that this issue of the magazine will excite you about the expansion of the CSG curriculum in science, math, engineering and technology for our youngest children as well as our high school students. I hope that it will make you proud of the alumnae who are at the forefront of their chosen STEM fields and who credit CSG with giving them the belief that they could become whatever they wanted and achieve whatever their goals were as long as they were willing to work hard.

The curriculum at Columbus School for Girls has changed as the world has changed, but the School’s values and aspirations are bedrock and immovable: to encourage girls and young women to discover their distinctive potential, to strive for excellence, and to uphold the highest ethical and moral standards amid the challenges and opportunities of a global and dynamic world.

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Galleria Raises Over $25,000 for Classroom Technology The Alumnae Association and the National Alumnae Council, led by a fantastic and hard-working committee, raised more than $25,000 to benefit technology in the CSG classrooms.

Thank You to those who participated by donating and bidding!

Special Thanks to our 2012 Galleria Committee: Lisa Gitz, ’79, Galleria Co-Chair Claire Murnane, ’01, Galleria Co-Chair Emily Kasler, ’04, Galleria Co-Chair-Elect Andrea Krupman Powell, ’84, Galleria Co-Chair-Elect Katie Logan, ’01 Melissa Seidel Bedolla, ’96 Georgia Ruch, ’05, Galleria Party Host Cathy Jones Williard, ’83, Alumnae Association President

Then & Now, In the Classroom: 1. Class of 1957 Upper School student working on her research project 2. CSG classroom in 1969 3. Class of 2006 students in their Middle School science class, holding the bridges they designed and constructed in the class bridge building project 4. 2002: Class of 2004 students at work in the Upper School Computer Lab 5. 2011: Program for Young Children 4/5 student completing her self-portrait in Photoshop 6. Upper School FIRST Robotics team members preparing for their national competition 7. 2010: PYC students studying leaves under their magnifying glasses 8. & 9. Lower School students in math class solving problems on classroom SmartBoards

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The National Alumnae Council sponsored a delightful evening for San Francisco area alumnae in February. Soraya Rofagha, ’96, graciously hosted our group in the beautiful community room of her downtown condominium building. Christy Schoedinger Rosenthal, ’87, Director of Development, and Lucy Ackley, ’83, Assistant Director of Development, were in San Francisco for a CASE/NAIS conference, and enjoyed seeing the many alumnae in attendance. The National Alumnae Council plans events for alumnae all over the country. We hope you’ll be able to attend to reconnect with old friends and make some new connections. Please keep the Development Office up to date on your whereabouts so we will be sure to include you in these events. To update your record, contact Lucy Ackley at lackley@columbusschoolforgirls.org or 614-252-0781, ext. 136.

1. Tenning Maa, ’96, Allie Robbins, ’96, Sally Edler Scott, ’49, and Soraya Rofagha, ‘96 2. Olivia Nathan, ’05, Alex Glowaski, ’05, Matt Mayers, Taylor Pospichel, ’05, and Allison Ansari, ‘96 3. Nancy Sirak Hudson, ’69, and Andrea Zid Salmi, ‘83 4. Susan Brownell, ’02 and Meghan Reidy, ‘99 5. Mina Song, ’88, Amy Davidson, ’88, and Blair Boardman Price, ‘90 6. Allison Ansari, ’05, Lucy Ackley, ’83, and Olivia Nathan, ‘05 7. Lucy Ackley, ’83, and Louisa Wood Shields, ‘89 8. Sally Edler Scott, ’49, and Christy Schoedinger Rosenthal, ‘87 9. Brooke Hally Perkins, ’83, Andrea Zid Salmi, ’83, and Lucy Ackley, ‘83 10. Alex Glowaski, ‘05 and Matt Mayers 11. Soraya Rofahga, ’96, and her daughter Ava columbus school for girls Forte et Gratum Spring 2012 8

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Alumnae Board The Nominating Committee of the Alumnae Association Board met in January to create this proposed slate for the 2012-2013 Alumnae Board. The slate will be officially voted on at the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association during Alumnae Weekend, Saturday, April 28th.

President*

Alumnae Weekend Chair

Colleen Duffy, ’84

Paige Shalter Bruening, ’89

President-Elect*

Alumnae Weekend Chair-Elect

Lolly Marks, ’84

Kacey Chappelear, ’98

Treasurer*

Young Alumnae Council

Claire Murnane, ’01 Diana Durley Welling, ’91

Ashley Love, ’01 Katy Murnane Reis, ’00 Joanne Strasser, ’96 Carolyn Thurman, ’04

Nominating Chair*

Class Representative Chair

Recording Secretary*

Cathy Jones Williard, ’83

Karma Hayes Payne, ’88

School Liaisons*

Corresponding Secretary

Lucy Ackley, ’83 Christy Schoedinger Rosenthal, ’87

Susan Millard Dutton, ’79

Historian/Archiving Chair

Volunteer Chair

Susy Culter Meiling, ’61

Lisa Lowder Darke, ’85

Historian Emerita

Galleria Co-Chairs

Jane Farrar Seymour, ’34

Emily Kasler, ’04 Andrea Krupman Powell, ’84

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Galleria Co-Chairs-Elect Melissa Seidel Bedolla, ’96 Katie Logan, ’01

CSG Community Network, Stay Connected Keep up with the CSG community by becoming a part of the CSG social network.

And don’t forget about our website: www.columbusschoolforgirls.org

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WOMEN IN Victoria Davis, Class of 2000

I enjoyed all my subjects at CSG, but I built many of my most lasting relationships with my Science and Math teachers, starting in the Lower School. I decided to pursue engineering as I headed into my senior year, but didn’t have any more focus than that. That year, I took Miss Leonard’s Astronomy class, and that is what directed me to Aerospace Engineering. I’ve been incredibly happy in this field and owe a great debt to my teachers at CSG for supporting my dreams and helping me realize them.

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An engineering degree is the place to start to get into the aerospace industry. Aerospace, electrical, mechanical, and software degrees are all common and desired. Prior to college, a focus on math and sciences will provide a good foundation for engineering’s challenging curriculum.

CSG’s excellent liberal arts education also prepared me, as engineers with writing skills are valued commodities in the workplace.

I studied Aerospace Engineering because I wanted to build satellites; specifically, the next generation of orbiting observatories, like the Hubble Space Telescope. That’s not exactly what I ended up doing, but the desire to build things that go into space has remained. I worked as a Systems Engineer for much of my career and received my Masters in Systems Engineering. Systems Engineering can mean a lot of different things in various industries, but within Aerospace, I like to think of Systems as the glue that holds everything together. We make sure that once a spacecraft is assembled all the components will fit and will be able to “talk” to each other to perform their functions.

I love what I do and am passionate about it. I always enjoyed Science Fiction and hope that, through my work, I can make some of the dreams for the future a reality. I love manufacturing devices that will make a difference in lives. I chose the Aerospace industry because I am passionate about its far-reaching impact. By delivering TV and phone signals, collecting scientific data, or supporting our nation’s military, each and every satellite has an impact on daily life.

I am currently an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. Previously, I worked for seven years at Orbital Sciences Corporation, a market leader in small space systems and rockets, in Dulles, VA. When I left Orbital, I was the Lead Systems Engineer for a small satellite development program. Prior to that, I’d done a variety of work including software engineering, integration and testing, satellite operations, and new business development. An eight hour day was not standard, especially since my customer was in another time zone. I was the youngest Lead Systems Engineer my company had ever had just three years after graduating from college. My management encouraged me and supported my move into this role and it was a fantastic growth opportunity.

One of the best days of my career and life was the launch of the first satellite I worked on. We launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. I sat at the console during launch, listening to the countdown, monitoring telemetry, and giving the appropriate “go/no go” answers. It wasn’t quite as you see in the movies though, as the satellite team was in a small, windowless room well removed from the hustle and bustle of the launch vehicle team. As soon as the rocket lifted off, we threw off our headsets and ran outside as quickly as we could to watch our “baby” rocket into the sunny Florida sky. There were cheers, hugs, and even some tears as the rocket quickly flew out of sight. I will never forget that day. It was a huge relief to make contact with our satellite after it achieved orbit, but that joy was nothing compared with the euphoria of watching the successful launch.

Women are still a considerable minority in science and engineering in general, and also in the aerospace industry. While most of the time my gender has not been an issue, it has occasionally hampered relationships or program progress. Women’s advancement in the industry and the workplace is a priority for me, and something that will be a focus point for me throughout my career. The aerospace industry is not huge, and it’s a privilege to work with the people I do on the projects we execute. We all take great pride in our work and feel lucky to do what we do each and every day.

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N SCIENCE Jennifer Majernik Huffstetler, Class of 1992

Most businesses do not span the spectrum of customers that mine does: from small mom-and-pop technology providers who may sell one server a year, to a dentist’s office, to the world’s largest internet-portal-data-centers deploying 100,000+ servers a year. Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices. Founded in 1968, Intel is a dynamic and diverse global place to work with over 80,000 people worldwide. I have been at Intel for 16 years, and I am currently the Director of Strategic Business Operations, Platform Engineering Group, Datacenter and Connected Systems Division.

While at CSG, several teachers inspired me to achieve my full leadership potential in STEM including, Mrs. Booth (6th grade math teacher), Mrs. Shauni Nix (8th grade science), Ms. R (Upper School math) and Doc Hall (Upper School science). Specifically, Mrs. Nix’s introduction of the NEED (National Energy Education Day) program, which I participated in significantly during my time at CSG. Sharing energy education with other elementary and middle-school students,helped me to connect the world of science to our everyday lives and cemented a life-long passion for me to drive STEM education in K-12.

I went into engineering because of my love of math and science and understanding that practically everything in the world you see has been touched by a design or manufacturing engineer – from books (yes, the paper kind) and running shoes, to buildings, cars, and even sailboat design. Engineers innovate to design new products and help to make products safer, faster, and more efficient. Some of these new products will change the very way we experience the world and engage in our communities, such as the software innovations at Facebook or the combined software and hardware design of smartphones and tablets. I studied Chemical Engineering at MIT to pursue my desire to change the world through medicine via drug design and delivery. While I worked on lab projects with companies in this field sponsored by the founder of the field of new drug delivery methods including the transdermal patch, I found myself drawn to the unique challenges and integration problems presented by a another application of chemical engineering through a lab class in microelectronics. It was because of this lab that I sought my first internship with Intel, which led to my first role as a chemical engineer in Process Equipment Development, engaging third-party suppliers with our internal research labs to develop the equipment needed for our next generation processes for fabricating new microprocessors and chipsets. From this role, I moved into product marketing roles which led to my current position today.

Everyday in my job we are working to define the datacenter of the future and the innovative architectures required to efficiently deliver the computing performance needed to help us answer questions about the universe, our genome, or better understand our climate. The division I support includes three core functions: Silicon Execution, Silicon Enabling, and a Commercial Business selling white-box servers to local OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) around the world. Morning to night, I collaborate with the teams around the globe designing, validating, building, selling and using our products that will enable us to create the future. I engage with our planning team to evaluate the new technologies and trends that Intel will be delivering in several years. I work with the engineering teams who have perhaps run into a roadblock in their development to collaborate on solutions to get the best product to market in a timely fashion. I meet with customers, large and small, to understand the trends in their business. I evaluate the financials for the commercial business for leading indicators on product success and pricing strategy in the marketplace. The role of technology is vital in my job. All day and night I am connected to the internet via smartphone, online meetings sharing presentations/documents, and instant-messaging with colleagues in London or Shanghai to quickly move the business ahead. It is rewarding to work with brilliant scientists and engineers who are creating the future technologies upon which the rest of the world will rely.

I was an integral part of the team that launched Intel(R) Centrino technology 10 years ago, the mobile platform that standardized wireless technology pervasiveness in laptops and drove global wireless hotspot deployment. However, while that was maybe my most notable achievement the world could recognize, I consider my greatest career success to be my ability to repeatedly build, motivate, and lead high-performing teams. Coaching individuals to their full potential is what makes the outstanding achievements possible. Every challenge is really an opportunity to better understand what is going on in your business and motivate the team to find more efficient paths to achieve the goals.

I am an Inspire Volunteer with the Oregon MIT Alumi Association, where I am connecting MIT Alumni with local K-12 STEM opportunities like FIRST Robotics. I volunteer to support SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) reading with elementary students, one on one, to help build their confidence in their reading skills. I am also a board member at my daughters’ school, The French American International School.

Engineering can provide a fantastic foundation of problem-solving skills and ability to enable all sorts of careers in both engineering and business. I highly recommend all students pursue a STEM education to help provide the foundation for the source of innovation to build a strong economy and create the future world in which we will all live. Ask questions! Only by asking more questions of more people, can we arrive at the best decision.

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E N G I N E Deborah M. Sawyer, Class of 1974

Founder, President & CEO Chicago-Based Environmental Design International inc. (EDI) EDI is a progressive firm with a focus on projects with goals that consider near and long-term impacts on our communities. Innovation and the open-mindedness to tackle 21st-century design issues has earned us significant roles on projects with some of the world's leading engineering and architectural firms, in addition to our portfolio of complex and high profile work for our public and private sector clients.

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We were the Engineer of Record for the nation’s largest urban solar power plant, Exelon City Solar. Our work on this high-profile, demanding project (that even the White House took an interest in) garnered my firm the Eminent Conceptor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies – Illinois Chapter, for Engineering Excellence. It is the highest engineering award in the state, and it was the first time the award was made to a small, minority and woman-owned business.

I think I always had the soul of the entrepreneur. I was always the kid with the lemonade stand, and quickly became a “science chick,” a geek even! If you’re a geeky woman in math and science, being taken seriously can be challenging. For decades, women have been taught that we just aren’t good at math and science—the hard stuff. Well excuse me, but that’s all I’ve ever been good at. I was just lucky to be able to blaze my own path in this field while running my own company. Up until launching EDI, I was used to getting and producing the work. It wasn’t such a huge leap for me to own my own business. Although I have to admit, I was terrified.

There were a lot of factors that prompted me to start my own business. I never made as much money as my male counterparts.

When I asked my boss why, he said “it was because they had families to support.” There are laws against a lot of this stuff now, but not when I came along.

I worked my way up through the ranks, learning every aspect of environmental engineering. I did marketing and learned how to write proposals, budget time for projects, and bring in work. I learned how to handle client meetings, hire and fire personnel, and in general, make my division profitable.

As I look back on all of my life experiences, besides my Mom and my professional influences, CSG had the greatest impact. I know it sounds crazy, but I loved going to an all-girls school. As a kid interested in Math and Science, I was always encouraged to follow my dreams and choices. Forty plus years ago that probably would not have been true at a public school. I had so many favorite teachers that I hate to start naming them. They were favorites for different reasons. Mrs. Clark taught me it was ok to love art and math. Mr. Wong fostered my love of math with letters that I still have today. I am totally addicted to Sudoku and Kakuro - they are all numbers. Mrs. Smith taught me to love history, which I did not think was possible. There were many more, but these were the teachers I spent a lot of time with in and out of class.

CSG enabled me to travel the world before I graduated, I was even able to apprentice under a famous potter during the May Program my senior year. Like many kids before the advent of the internet, I was exposed to a huge world beyond Columbus at a very early age. I think that is part of what has made me the fearless, chameleon I am today. For that I will be always be grateful to CSG! When I went to college, however, I became keenly aware of the challenges ahead of me in the world of science and engineering. I remember so vividly looking around the classroom in Calculus 4, the class where you learn to mathematically describe objects spinning in space, thinking Hmmm… Why am I the only Black person? Actually what I said was “Why am I the only Black woman in this room?” In fact, I was only one of three Black women in a classroom theatre of 200 or more. That was an “ah-ha light bulb” kind of experience. After that there were many.

In graduate school, I took Biochemistry. It was supposed to be one of the hardest classes at the school, even harder than Organic Chemistry, which was called the “weeder” class. You know, the class that’s supposed to make everybody flunk or at least choose

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E E R I N G a new major. I will never forget that on the last day of class, (mind you I am the top student in the class and am tutoring three or four students in class), my professor, Dr. Newell Jorgensen, said to me as he handed me my A, “For a woman who is somewhat intelligent, reasonably attractive, and has a basically good personality, why haven’t you found a man to marry you yet?” I can remember his face like it was yesterday. I am often tempted to write him to let him know I am still not married, but I have survived quite nicely.

I have had many “a-ha moments.” Moments that feels like I have finally arrived. Winning the Eminent Conceptor Award was one of them because EDI was judged by a jury of our engineering and science peers. My company and I have won over 100 awards through the years; however they were mainly for being a successful small, minority, and/or woman-owned business. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it is even nicer to win for our technical performance.

It seems like yesterday, but 21 years ago, I started my own professional design firm in a suburb of Chicago called Glen Ellyn. With just four employees, my life-long love of science and engineering, and the experience of developing profitable business models for other people, I was ready to become my own boss. Over two decades later, here we are with $10 million in annual revenue, and over 70 employees who specialize in civil and environmental engineering. Our “bread and butter work” is environmental investigation and remediation, site civil design, transportation design and construction oversight, and land surveying.

In 1995, I was recognized as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Minority Business Person of the Year. First you have to be nominated, and then win at the State level, then the Regional level. When it was announced that I won the National level, my mom was teary-eyed and so proud. Imagine this tiny woman, all of five feet tall and 100 pounds soaking wet, next to a comparatively hulking President Bill Clinton. She was so fun and everyone was so gracious. I will never forget that day, and neither will she.

Life as a Black female engineer has not been all rosy. It is still very much a white, male-dominated field. Minority-owned businesses, especially those owned by women, will probably always struggle with two key ingredients to a successful business—money and access. It is not time for us to be discouraged. In my field, engineering schools are graduating more minorities and females each and every year.

And, they’re showing up at my door and I’m hiring them.

CSG was so much more than a classroom. My life of service began with Service Club tutoring kids in the Olde Town East neighborhood. Under Mr. Wong’s leadership, Katie LeVeque and I, Co-Chairs of Service Club, started the Scholarship Walk to raise money for students who would not otherwise be able to afford CSG. This year, the Scholarship Walk celebrated its 40th anniversary.

From the very beginning, I have given back to the community by serving on boards such as Children’s Hospital in Chicago. I am also Board President of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School (YWLCS). It is the only all-girl, public school in Chicago which serves 350 urban girls, 7th through 12th grade. I am proud to say that we graduate 100% of our girls and they go to college!

I had the chance to deliver the commencement address at YWLCS a couple of years ago, and I wondered aloud to them what I would have wanted someone to say to a 17 or 18-year-old me, sitting there with my high school diploma in my hand. I guessed that I would have reminded myself to be courageous. I’d say to be strong, because there will be lots of times when you will get knocked on your backside in college, at work, and even in love - especially in love. You have to just pick yourself right back up and move on. I’d also say: never back down. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Never blow a chance to learn something new, help a neighbor or a friend. Never be afraid to the do the right thing or give back to your community.

Visit us at www.envdesigni.com

TOP: Old pavement is recycled with the help of a concrete crusher on the North Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294) BOTTOM: Solar power panels

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T E C H N Wende Gates Isaacs, Class of 1982

I was fortunate to attend CSG from Form VII through Form XII. When it was time to apply to college, I filled out an application to MIT only after it was suggested to me by then Headmaster Chapman. I was unfamiliar with the school and never believed that I would be selected to attend. CSG truly provided a college preparatory curriculum, even back in 1982 – I imagine that the young ladies who graduate now are truly stellar.

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When I was accepted, I took a challenge from Mr. Wong to prove that I could do it – succeed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was young (only 17), from the Midwest, a woman, and I was going to enter into the predominately male field of Mechanical Engineering at the best engineering school in the country, in Boston, far away from my family. Needless to say, I was nervous. But being a graduate of CSG, I had been taught to believe that I could do anything if I was willing to work for it.

I had always loved and excelled in math and science-how could I not with teachers like Mr. Wong and Doc Hall- so naturally I was drawn to engineering. I really did not know in which area to focus – electrical, chemical, or aeronautical– so I decided to study the most general engineering curriculum. Mechanical Engineers are introduced to electronic circuits, fluidics, and dynamics, so they have a broad background in many areas.

After 4 years on the East Coast I was missing my family, so when it was time to interview for a job, I selected companies that were located in the Midwest. Back in the 80s, the automotive industry was very strong, so I accepted a position with what was then Delco Products, a General Motors component supplier located in Dayton, OH. I began my employment as a production and skilled trades supervisor on the plant floor. I learned about the manufacturing processes used to produce shocks and struts, while also learning how to deal effectively with people. They did not teach interpersonal communication skills at MIT, so this was quite an experience for a 22 year old college graduate. After a year, I moved into the engineering department as a test engineer in the laboratory. I knew how dampers were manufactured, now I was going to learn how they were designed and validated for use on vehicles. Eventually I became a component engineer responsible for specific components within the suspension system, and later an application engineer dealing directly with the customer. The task was to provide a suspension system that met the customer’s requirements, provided a satisfactory driving experience, and had exceptional quality and reliability.

My assignments have led me full circle in the life-cycle of our product – I started in manufacturing and now I am responsible for the warranty performance of our suspension system and components. We receive parts back from the field and test and tear them down to identify ways to improve their quality and durability. Evaluating actual customer returns allows us to make decisions about future designs, material selections, and cost saving initiatives.

Unbelievably, 25 years later I am still working on suspension products in the automotive industry. Only the name on the door has changed. Currently I work for BWI Group, a premier chassis supplier that designs and manufactures brake and suspension systems for global markets. You can find out more about our mission at bwigroup.com.

I studied engineering because I liked to solve problems and today I still do. I have been able to work in a challenging and rewarding field while raising a family. I was fortunate to work for a progressive company that allowed me to work part-time and even telecommute while my children were young. I would encourage any young person who likes to solve puzzles and to wants to learn something new every day to explore studies in engineering. columbus school for girls Forte et Gratum Spring 2012 14

O L O G Y Kristin Cuilwik McLane, Class of 1985

I entered the Senior Commons and went to the far wall. I painted K-r-i-s-t-i-n down and intersected Smith across the S. The room went quiet. You could hear a pin drop.

No other 85’er selected a women’s college. At that moment, in that age, it wasn’t a big seller. We didn’t know why. Yet if I knew then what I know now, more of us could have considered it.

My favorite class at CSG was freshman chemistry with Doc Hall. I remember loving physics and a special project I did with Doc Hall’s telescope at home. My mind worked on the left.

I got to Smith and chose biochem/computer science. I entered freshman honors chemistry with 35 others. We were told on the first day that half of us would flunk. Dreamy. That class was my favorite all 4 years, history repeating itself. Left-brained yet again.

I graduated, thirsty for the sciences, yet not to sit in a lab or in front of a computer screen. I was born to share stories. At Smith, I was a problem-solver – everyone came to my room to chat up problems. (Could be because I snuck a second bed into my room from maintenance and had a great space to sit.) I never even thought about the forward path that my life would take. What would I do? I had no idea.

An education at CSG and then Smith taught me that I could do absolutely anything I put my heart into.

I took my first job at the Huntington in Columbus. It was the early 90’s. Our team delivered high-tech products to the financial services industry, before the regular transfer of money electronically, the internet, cell phones, smart phones or laptops for all but early adopters.

We developed peel and stick stamps with the US Postal service and a touch sensitive computer screen to make bill paying, travel arrangements and banking services electronic, where there were still checkbooks and stamps, travel agents and tellers.

I loved the group I was in, but as our group expanded (just 8 of us at the start and I was the only one below the level of SVP or EVP), I found myself working at a job that required no strategy, little science, and meetings to plan meetings. The exact moment I found entrepreneurship was around a table with a dozen execs, Franklin Planners at the ready, picking the date that they could have a meeting.

My right brain was kicking in and I learned a valuable lesson. There is an amazing space for women in the sciences who have a business mind, strategic ideas, and want to build something, including a business.

In 1996, my dad and I started CIMx Software. I was restless. I signed up mostly out of not knowing what else I was going to do, but didn’t plan to be talking about it, let alone still in it 16 years later.

If you have boarded a plane with GE engines, you’ve experienced our software. If you’ve seen the shuttle launch or a Delta 4 rocket, you’ve watched us in action. It’s been a wild, wonderful and amazing ride. And I’ve learned a few things along the way, the foundation of which was planted at CSG. This article finds me in the middle of Start with Why by Simon Sinek and I think that finding your personal why is critical to enjoying life. But learning as a lifetime endeavor includes everything from peer group roundtables to personal experience from friends and family.

It’s never too late to read, to grow, to change. Don’t ever say “if I had only.”

CSG gave great opportunity to me and my classmates. We had computers early, multiple language choices, and a great arts program. But seeking opportunity is about pushing doors open, not waiting for someone else to lead the way. Add your mark to the world not for the effect, not for the recognition, but because it fills you. This could be through your work, your community, your family, your time.

We spend more time at work than anywhere other than bed, and some of us don’t even get much of that these days. When you get up tomorrow and go to work, would you fight vigorously to keep your position? Feel it to your bones. Risk for it.

There is science in business, every business, but there is also a business in the sciences, if that’s the path you choose. Right- or left-brained, science can be strategic, passionate and fun.

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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY EN Mikell Taylor, Class of 2002

I’m writing this from a boat in Singapore. For the last week I’ve spent 12 hours each day running underwater robots. It’s a nice break from my office in Boston, where as a system engineer at Bluefin Robotics I can do most of my work at a computer in a skirt and heels; for this week, I’m on the other side of the world in steel toe boots and shorts and the small boat we’re working on is decidedly not office-like.

Alumnae in Science

I started at Bluefin one week after graduating from Olin College of Engineering in 2006. With the exception of a 1-year hiatus to work at a startup company in Boston, I’ve been there ever since. I chose Bluefin out of a few offers, all in robotics. It was thanks to the creation of the CSG FIRST Robotics Team in 2001 that I discovered my passion for robots.

Robots are a fascinating technology. They’re straight out of science fiction and with them come all the good and bad associations. According to the movies, they’ll care for us in our old age, clean our houses, and play with our children. Also according to the movies, they will rise up and destroy us. As a robotics engineer the question I get most frequently is “So when can we expect the robot apocalypse?” The cultural connotations of robots -- the jobs they can do, the human-like forms they can take, the power they can produce – open up many questions about ethics and humanity. For a geek who still loved her liberal arts classes, this is a challenging and exciting social context in which to develop new technology.

Life as a woman in engineering is interesting, to say the least. I went from the all-women environment of CSG, to a 50/50 engineering college, to the heavily male-dominated technology industry. Bluefin is a great company to work for since many of my male colleagues are married to career women, often specifically to women in technology fields, so they see nothing odd about me doing my job. Outside of the office, however, nothing is guaranteed. Though we’ve come a long way, a female engineer is frequently still a curiosity and some of the questions I get are on the offensive side of curious. Having a name that looks and sounds quite a bit like a common name for men doesn’t help. I’ve gotten through the myriad networking events full of “I thought you were a guy!” comments by remembering Trinity’s line in The Matrix: “Most guys do.”

With that said, the community of women in technology is an incredible one. CSG taught me the value of a social network of strong, smart women and I’ve tried to keep that network growing as I’ve started my career. One of my colleagues in the Boston technology community has a wonderful name for it – the Tech Lady Mafia. Though we are few, we are awesome. There are also many new efforts to recognize and publicize the contributions women engineers and entrepreneurs are making in the tech industry; last year I was recognized as one of 22 Women to Watch in the greater Boston area by Mass High Tech.

I know that since the start of the Upper School FIRST team and the later genesis of the Middle and Lower School LEGO programs the number of CSG alumnae going in to science, technology, engineering, and math fields has grown rapidly, a fact that makes me incredibly proud.

The impact FIRST and similar programs can have on women, minorities, and other underrepresented groups in STEM fields is huge. Since graduating from CSG I’ve remained active in the FIRST program as a mentor and, for the last seven years, as the president of the planning committee for the Boston Regional competition. Each year there are more female students, more female judges, and more female mentors, but it’s still not enough and we need to keep growing. Commitment to programs such as FIRST is critically important to getting more young women interested in and passionate about these traditionally male-dominated industries.

My advice to any current CSG students reading this is to consider what you could do in a technology or science field. Not everyone in these fields is an engineer designing widgets and circuits, or a scientist titrating solutions, or a mathematician inventing theorems. Many have backgrounds in marketing, entrepreneurship, management, technical writing, industrial design, art, ethics, psychology, and other fields. The team that designed and popularized the iPhone consisted of just as many liberal arts majors as engineers. Half the job openings at the Boston company that created the Rock Band and Dance Central video games are for artists and designers.

There are ways to make waves in the technology industry without having an engineering degree; what is important is literacy in and appreciation for the role technology plays in our world. I argue this is important for everyone in our society – many of the world’s biggest problems will be solved with technology that doesn’t even exist yet and we need diverse teams of people to develop those technologies. Many of our greatest political and cultural issues are rooted in science and technology and a good citizen needs to be literate in those subjects just as much as in civics they need to be able to vote and engage the political process responsibly.

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NGINEERING MATHEMATICS Alice Wang-Chesebro, M.D., Class of 1994

I’m at a Tumor Board conference four days a week by 7 a.m. Starting at 8 a.m., I start to see patients. Some may be meeting me for the first time to discuss their diagnosis and treatment options, and we may meet for over an hour. Others are undergoing treatment and seeing me for their weekly visits. Still others have completed therapy and see me for follow-up. In between patients I work with our physicists and dosimetrists on radiation treatment plans. Other times I may be performing an internal radiation implant in our brachytherapy suite or in the operating room, or working with a neurosurgeon to deliver gamma knife radiosurgery. It’s never dull. I treat many kinds of cancer patients, for whom radiation might be curative or palliative. One of my greatest interests is breast cancer, which has touched so many people’s lives. I’m interested in improving the outcomes for my patients, both in cancer control and in their quality of life during treatment and beyond treatment. I’m actively involved in enrolling my patients in ongoing clinical trials of everything from targeted biologic agents to complementary therapies to help women better tolerate breast radiation.

In medical school, I was very interested in cancer research and clinical care, and thought about pursuing a career in medical oncology. However, a chance rotation through my institution’s radiation oncology department changed my path. I found supporting mentors who were critical in my career decision; they encouraged me to pursue my interests, including a project on the late effects of radiation treatments on children. I was impressed by both the curative ability of radiation, as well as the long-term impact the side effects of treatment could have in someone’s life. I was also fascinated by how physics and technology, which can seem so theoretical, were impacting people’s lives every day.

I’m constantly looking up the latest outcomes from completed and ongoing trials to guide my decisions. I try to attend at least two oncology conferences a year to stay fresh. I contribute to research trials or protocols as I am able. Our field changes so fast and there are so many exciting developments. That’s the fun of it. The key is to keep asking questions. Technology is central to my work. Everything I do, from entering medication orders into our electronic medical record, to planning a complex head and neck radiation plan, uses technology. My daily life is a combination of applied physics, biology, and computer science.

We are on the front lines and make deep connections with people for an intense amount of time during their two to eight weeks of treatment. Most rewarding about my career with science is being able to be there with my patients to share both their happiest and saddest moments in life. I feel humbled every time I get to look my patients in the eye and tell them they are cancer free. I feel blessed to share their tears of joy and tears of sadness during some of their most challenging moments. My greatest career success would be directly impacting the lives of my patients every day. My biggest challenge is dealing with negativity and anger.

There’s no point in it. I don’t like being bored. I like a challenge, a mystery, and I get antsy when things start to seem too rote.

I’ll always appreciate my chemistry and physics classes with Doc Hall, biology classes with Mrs. McGlocklin, and calculus with Ms. “R” Rzodkiewicz (still can’t spell it). These classes laid the groundwork for my choices to pursue lifelong learning. I’ll also always remember our trip to Stone Lab and dissecting fish. For young people pursuing a career in science: aim high and go for it. If you work hard and keep your eyes on your goals, you’ll get there.

Alice Wang-Chesebro is a Radiation Oncologist at Providence Portland Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Portland, Oregon; and Clackamas Radiation Oncology Center, Clackamas, Oregon. There are 9 radiation oncologists and part of a much larger multispecialty group, The Oregon Clinic. As a group they have over 200 employees. They strive to deliver the best quality care with compassion. They have two websites: www.orclinic.com, and Alice’s satellite radiation office site: clackamas-radonc.com.

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"Graphicacy: the capacity drawing has to enable visual cognitive abilities and creative problem solving, and to facilitate abstract conceptual thought through enriched visual knowledge of the world."

- Seymour Simmons III, at the National Art Education Association conference in NYC. Program for Young Children Art Studio teacher, Jillian Davis, recorded this message in her sketchbook at the NAEA conference, she felt inspired by how accurately the statement represented the intent of the teachers and project work in the Program for Young Children. PYC 5/6 students have just completed their project, The Bird Study, led

by PYC teachers, Mrs. La Vielle, Mrs. Mahler, Mrs. Scranton and PYC Studio teacher, Mrs. Davis. The students recently held their first official art opening with reception: The Bird Study is currently on display in the Ross Gallery at CSG.

Five and six year old students have been busy exploring what birds eat, how and where they live, the differences in their structures, and how those differences may serve them in their given habitats. The class first reviewed how humans eat and what we use to eat: hands, spoons, forks, knives, they then shared photos of birds along with kitchen utensils, mimicking the beaks of birds to help visualize how birds eat.

To get to know the birds better the students studied both live birds and photos of birds, noting the differences in their beaks, bodies, feathers, legs, and claws. Ms. Davis then led the students through a series of sketches, and the students examined these differences more clearly, paying extra attention to the shapes and colors belonging to each type of bird. The bird study marked great improvement in the students' sketch techniques, their proportion, scale, use of line and shading.

To take the project further, they added color, switching from pencil to paint, they taped their sketches to their easels and even used their mini outdoor studio so that they could be closer to the environment of their subjects.

Teacher Notes from Guided Sketch Exercises Mrs. D: I am going to first demonstrate a sketch using this gold finch because this is a bird that we see here at school. Sketching is what artists do to practice their drawing. I am going to start with a basic shape. What basic shape do you see on the body of this golden finch?

Bella: It’s tail. It has a vertical line and it goes around.

Mia: The back. It’s shaped like a heart.

Mrs. D: It is okay to make sketch marks that aren’t part of the drawing.

I might start to sketch lines here and make lines and I might figure out that I want the line to come up this way. It doesn’t need to be perfect.

Don’t worry about it being perfect. I can go over the line that I want darker and it means that this is the line I want. Artists do that all the time when they are drawing. Here is the body, and here is the beak and then the eye. If you don’t get the shape exactly right the first time, it’s alright. Oh, here I’m noticing that I need more room for the black shape on his head, so I will make the head bigger.

Justice: Are you going to color the inside?

Mrs. D: Not today. I am just sketching today. Ok, here is the leg, and the twig, and the other leg.

Madeline: You’re the best artist I’ve ever seen!

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Mrs. D: One thing you have to realize is that it’s not perfect. I am noticing that I need to add more on the tail now that I look at it. Maybe I can leave it that way. Or Maybe I could try it again.

The girls then got clipboards and paper and sketching pens to follow along while Mrs. Davis sketched a cardinal: Mrs. D: The first thing I want you to think about is…what mistake did I do last time?

Naomi: You ran out of room for the tail!

Mrs. D: Yes, now I’m going to use my finger to measure how much body and how much tail and how much head. I can hold my fingers up to see how long each of them are and then I can see how long each of these are.

Mrs. Davis: We can draw a diagonal line here for the body. Then I can draw another line here for the tail.

Mrs. M: We practiced slant lines today in handwriting!

Mrs. D: Ok, the tail and the head are about the same length, so we can sketch a circle here touching this line.

Justice: It doesn’t have to be perfect.

Mrs. D: You’re drawing should not look just like the person next to you.

They will all look a little different. The more practice you get the better you’ll be at this.

Mrs. D: Here is one way to practice. We started with basis shapes, right?

So, first I want you to sketch a circle. It is many lines, that is not perfect.

Its not like drawing a circle. Here is drawing a circle….here is sketching.

Now I want you to sketch an oval like this. It’s different than a circle. That oval shape can help you make a bird wing. Now let’s sketch a triangle.

You can overlap the shapes. Lets sketch circle that overlaps.

Mrs. M: That’s a new word….overlap.

Mrs. D: Yes, they go over top of each other….they overlap. Now try….and this can be any way you want it to be…it doesn’t have to look like mine. A wavy line. This is something that you can do before you sketch birds. Artists do gesture drawings like this before they draw. It helps warm up your hands. Gesture is another word for sketching. This is called an “abstract drawing”. It doesn’t have to look like anything. Just many shapes and lines.

Mrs. M: You could make an abstract drawing tomorrow for someone.

Mrs. D: Abstract means it doesn’t symbolize something else, like a heart symbolizes love.

Mrs. M: Tomorrow we can have that as a choice to make an abstract drawing for a friends as a message.

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National statistics show that 5.9% percent of women from single-sex schools plan to major in engineering, compared to only 2% among women from coeducational schools. At CSG, 18% of the Class of 2011 left CSG to pursue a career in engineering, 44% of the class intended to pursue a major or academic program in the STEM field.

With each graduating class, these percentages increase.

LEGO® Robotics, Lower School

By Felicity Steele, Lower School Technology Integration Specialist & Robotics Advisor Robotics is an essential part of the Technology curriculum in Lower School. Forms I and II begin using the software program, Golly Gee Blocks, an innovative program that allows for design, manipulation, rotation, and viewing of objects from all angles. Students construct buildings or forms using 3D objects and shapes.

LEGO® Robotics is a powerful tool for learning. LEGOS® encourage children to think in three dimensions. Combining creativity, design, logic, and problem-solving skills, students utilize LEGOS® to develop their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They work in teams and build their models.

Teamwork is an important part of the process.

Forms II and III construct with mechanical, non-programmable LEGOS®. Form IV participates in the LEGO® Robotics program with WeDo robotics. Student teams build a variety of models including chomping alligators, drumming monkeys, whirring airplanes, spinning tops, and roaring lions.

Serious fun continues by using the icon driven LEGO® software to program the models to move, spin, and make sounds. This year’s class took it one step further.

They organized a class team effort, creating their very own first ever LEGO® Soccer tournament, complete with goalie, soccer kicker, and cheering fans all built out of the WeDo LEGO® systems and individually programmed to perform.

In Form V, each team builds a LEGO® model that has the state-of-the art programmable NXT unit, the brain of the LEGO® system. After the models are complete, students learn how to program them on the computer. Students use higher level thinking and logic skills to use icon driven LEGO® firmware to program a series of events or commands for the NXT to perform. The students may program their models to move forwards, backwards, turn, spin, turn on lights, motors and light sensors, say simple phrases and play tunes.

The program is transferred via USB from the computer to the NXT unit. Once complete, students discover that something they build can start, move, stop, talk, make turns, race down the hallways, run obstacle courses of their own design and find its way through a maze they made out of recycled Styrofoam.

The LEGO® Robotics program in the Lower School allows students to construct, design, and program with technology.

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Form I, II & III Science

By Jan Hall, Lower School Science Teacher

Science investigations in the primary grades, Forms I, II, and III, are active and energy-filled. They are designed to introduce basic science concepts to lay a solid foundation for our students’ further science study. Major discipline areas of Life Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Science Technology and Thinking are studied at each grade level with ageappropriate information and laboratory activities. While following the Ohio State Standards for Science, units are planned to incorporate homeroom theme-study strands whenever possible. This cooperative planning encourages richer, full dimensional learning where students experience all aspects of topics instead of developing “cubby-hole” ideas of what belongs in Science, Math, or Social Studies.

As the Form I homeroom classes study Creepy Critters, Science classes focus on Life Sciences and first investigate the differences between living and nonliving things, a very basic, but integral part of understanding all Life Sciences. Using observation skills and classification activities, girls develop a matrix of what it means to be alive, or not. From this foundation, girls develop classification models for identifying plants from animals, vertebrates from invertebrates; always observing and working with specimens, finding answers to questions, and organizing their information into workable plans.

Using the questions they formulate from observing and manipulating various live and preserved “critters,” girls classify animals into various invertebrate groups such as insects, spiders, mollusks, worms, crustaceans, or echinoderms. Critter life cycles, behaviors, and interactions are investigated stressing the ways they affect us and our environment. Guest speakers who are experts in the field are invited to share their work with students. Dr. Richard Hall, an OSU entomologist, visited Form I Science, sharing live South American tarantulas, scorpions, Australian millipedes, Madagascar cockroaches, and several local insects that the girls could thoroughly experience first-hand. Girls rear, observe, and test mealworms (Darkling Beetles) to formulate more first-hand knowledge about the insect’s life cycle, feeding, and general behavior.

Form II girls investigate Earth and Space Sciences by examining how Earth relates to the solar system. Observing the normal day and night skies, checking books, and solar system technology, girls contribute to a list of system components. Once the idea of the solar system is agreed upon, girls begin to ask and find the answers to other solar system questions, such as why is the equator hotter year round than other places on the earth, and why does the moon look different from night to night? Demonstrations and laboratory exercises explain the real reasons for day and night, the seasons, moon phases, and eclipses, while girls begin to design experiments to help answer their questions.

What’s the matter? was the question posed to Form III girls as they began their investigation in Physical Sciences with a study of matter. Handling, manipulating, and working with ordinary classroom objects, girls formulate a workable definition of matter. Observing, categorizing, and classifying common objects by their physical properties enable girls to connect science to their every-day world and to ask deeper questions, like “If matter makes all the ‘stuff ’ in the world, what makes matter?”

Finding an answer to that question takes them into an investigation of atoms and the periodic table of elements. Girls build atom model mobiles to help them visualize “unseeable” things and to concretely understand the why and why not of atoms combining to form molecules and compounds. Through the use of technology, video, and model making, girls develop a basic, working understanding of the atomic concept which lays the foundation for learning about changing matter and the positive and negative aspects of those changes.

Form III Studies Scientists and Inventors

By Peg Herrmann, Lower School Teacher

How does a person become famous? Before the Form III students began their biography study, they brainstormed ideas to answer this question. Making an important discovery, being the first to do something, being related to someone famous, challenging people to think differently, taking risks, and being courageous were among their insightful responses. Of the people studied, several were scientists or inventors. Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Gutenberg, Benjamin Banneker, Alexander Graham Bell, Katherine Wright (sister of Orville and Wilbur), and Neil Armstrong “visited” with the Form III students in December. The students appreciated how different their world would be without the powers of observation, imagination, skill, and determination these people brought to bear in achieving what they did.

In each case saper vedere - knowing how to see - was essential. Form III learned how Leonardo da Vinci’s famous paintings were created by an individual with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and keen powers of observation. Believing that the ability to “pictorialize” the world was essential, he studied and wrote copious notes on everything from anatomy, to cartography, to architecture. Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press required him to observe

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new ways of using molds, metal alloys, presses, and ink. Benjamin Banneker used his knowledge of math and observation of stars to make astronomical calculations that appeared in almanacs world-wide, and was a member of the surveying team that designed Washington, D.C. at a time when having that opportunity was extremely unlikely for a black American [had little education or few sponsors to promote their work]. Learning how to visualize speech for the deaf led to Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. Katherine Wright’s financial support of her brothers’ airplane development required faith in their ability to use their knowledge of machines for a higher purpose. As a trained aeronautical engineer, Neil Armstrong applied his skills to escape several near disasters as a test pilot way before he, or anyone else, ever dreamed of travel to the moon.

As a culminating activity, Form III students were asked to imagine really having an opportunity to meet the person they studied. What message might that person share with students of 2012? Julia Gumina thought Leonardo da Vinci might declare, “Great ideas lead to great things.”

Jenna Julian thought Johannes Gutenberg might say, “Simplify for other people.” Sydney Horner imagined Benjamin Banneker might utter, “Don’t get discouraged by what people call you.” Ally Werstler could hear Alexander Graham Bell encourage young people to “Be scientific.” Lauren Dittrick could picture Katherine Wright offering, “Encourage people to believe in themselves.” Gabriella Anthony envisioned Neil Armstrong exciting aspiring engineers to “Keep moving forward because you can make a big difference in this world.” Those are wise words from eight- and nine-year-old girls learning how ordinary people could achieve the unimaginable.

Climate, Classrooms & Trees:

Form IV Technology/Science Tree Banding Project with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

By Felicity Steele

Form IV students are contributing to ongoing scientific work as “citizen scientists” in an international Tree Banding study with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. As part of a joint Science and Technology class project with Mrs. Linda Resch and Ms. Felicity Steele, they are excited to be among over 350 classrooms in 37 countries in the world collecting data on trees and climate change. The Smithsonian researchers will incorporate their information into a data base of student findings from all over the world to create the first global observatory of how trees respond to climate.

To launch the program, the students and teachers participated in a Shout Learning Webinar with other students and teachers from many countries. The students scouted for ten trees which would meet the project criteria. Each tree had to be straight, in good shape, with a single trunk and relatively smooth bark, without vines. They chose ten trees on the CSG campus to observe.

Our citizen scientists installed measurement devices called dendrometers, metal bands used to measure the diameter and growth of the trees, as well as special numbered tags. Four weeks after they installed the dendrometers, they used a digital caliper to measure the gap in the bands. Accurate and specific notes were taken about the location and description of each tree, as well as each tree’s access to light, and weather conditions and time of day when the data was collected. The students learned that trees swell and decline in growth throughout each day, so the time of day the measurements are gathered is important. Photos are taken throughout the year to document how the trees change with each season.

The girls used Google Earth to calculate the longitude and latitude of their trees. They researched the identification of their trees and learned how to calculate their diameters after measuring the circumferences. More measurements will be taken throughout the year.

The Form IV students were thrilled about the project and spontaneously wrote stories, poetry, songs, and dances about their trees. One team even met over a weekend to collaborate on a song and dance dedicated to their tree. Carefully choreographed and sung to their tree, Blair, Reese, and Alice performed these words: One day, I was walking down the street And I saw this beautiful tree.

So I walked toward the beautiful trunk And this is what I said.

Unique in its own way Extremely fun to play Expectations very high Tall, wide We love our tree. Yippee!

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Students around the globe will monitor the rate at which their local trees grow and learn how that rate corresponds to Smithsonian research, as well as comparing their work to other students worldwide. They are contributing to research about tree biomass and will track how trees respond to climate. Data collection over a period of several years is important because factors that involve climate change are slow and long term.

The students will gain additional technological experience uploading the data to the Shout Learning website and will learn how to manipulate the data in Excel. This is an authentic ecological study and the results will assist scientists to better understand climate change. If you are interested in learning more about this project, please go to www.shoutlearning.org/treebanding.html.

CSG LEGO® Robotics Program

By Ann Marie McDonnell, Form VII Science Teacher & Robotics Advisor Robotics is an integral part of STEM initiatives at the CSG Middle School level. The Robotics Program in the Middle School is offered as an extracurricular activity available to students in Form VII and Form VIII. Over the past ten years the CSG Middle School LEGO® League teams have competed in the international FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition as part of the FLL (FIRST® LEGO® League) Program. The annual international kick off for this event is traditionally in early September. Each year FIRST proposes a new challenge which is at the forefront of science, technology and engineering. Nano technology, energy conservation, oceanography, climate connections, body forward, and smart transportation are among some of the themes that have been investigated in past years. This year’s focus was “Food Factor” which looked at food safety at all levels of the distribution chain.

There are four major components to the competition and typically at CSG the team meets after school at least four days per week for two hours from September through January. Over the course of five months the girls work collaboratively and cooperatively throughout the season in preparation for regional competition. During the meetings using LEGO® pieces they construct the challenge course for that year’s theme, design and build an autonomous robot using Mindstorms NXT, and program the robot using the Mindstorms software Inventions 2.0. The NXT is the intelligent microcomputer LEGO® brick that can be programmed to take inputs from sensors and activate the servo motors. In order to carry out specific missions as outlined by FLL, the girls design and build attachments for the LEGO® robot. Each year there is a research component which mirrors the challenge course. At competition the robot will have 2.5 minutes to complete as many missions as possible.

The research requirements include investigating that year’s broad theme, finding out how it impacts humans, looking at any challenges it presents, and coming up with an innovative solution for that challenge. Findings must then be outlined on a project board and shared with members of the community prior to the competition. Typically the girls consult with scientists, engineers, and technology experts to assist them with their research and to get practical first-hand knowledge as to what these professionals see as challenges in their fields. In recent years this has involved field trips to university labs, hospitals, and museums, in addition to having professionals attend LEGO® League team meetings at CSG. On the technical front, the team members present a display outlining their rationale for building and programming the robot. This includes the design and building of attachments, choice of wheels, types of sensors used, and the complexity of the mathematics used in calculating angles of rotation, distances travelled by the robot, levels of light intensity, and multiple additional variables that pertain to programming.

The fourth component, teamwork, provides an opportunity for team members to learn how to work together to accomplish multiple goals in a limited period of time and display, and practice cooperertition™ and Gracious Professionalism™, two of the key core values of FIRST Gracious professionalism™ is stressed above all else and team members are expected to practice it at all times, within their own team and especially when in competitive situations with their opposing teams.

"In this year’s challenge Food Factor teams were asked to: 1. Research a food that contained fewer than 7 ingredients and explore that food’s journey from ground to table to identify places when the food could spoil or become contaminated. 2. Create an innovative solution to solve the contamination or spoiling problem. 3. Share their findings with the community and explain exactly how their solution could help!”

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The CSG LEGO® team chose to focus on foodborne botulism, specifically botulism toxins transmitted through eating fish. The girls’ innovative solution to reduce the incidence of botulism in fish was a proposal to inject an infusion called H-BAT (Hepavalent Botulinum Antioxidant), developed by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) into water in fish farms. They concluded that the H-BAT water injection is practical, inexpensive, and can be easily administered.

The Middle School LEGO® League Team competed with 12 other teams in the 2011 FLL (FIRST® LEGO® League) Competition. This year’s Regional Competition was held at The John Gilbert Reese Center on the OSU Newark Campus. The team won first place for their research presentation and also qualified for the District LEGO® League Competition which took take place at Jerome High School in Dublin, Ohio on Saturday, January 07, 2012. This year’s team coach, Michael Vernier, who is a doctoral student in the engineering program at The Ohio State University, won Coach of the Year.

The Dublin Robotics District hosted 22 teams. The CSG Middle School LEGO® League team took home the Inspiration Award for the manner in which they enthusiastically embraced this year’s challenge and the thoroughness with which they communicate their research findings and innovative solution to the judges. In addition to solidifying the STEM principles that naturally comes from participating in a robotics program, this year’s challenge helped the team members learn valuable life and employment skills which will benefit them no matter what career path they choose.

CSG LEGO® teams have been extremely successful, winning multiple awards at regional competitions and qualifying for the FLL Ohio State competition 8 out of the past 10 years. In addition to learning how to work as a team, research, and communicate findings in a public forum, the girls have also perfected key components of STEM (experience with construction, design, and programming using technology.) Typically, a high percentage of the Middles School LEGO® League team members move up to join the CSG Upper School FIRST® Robotics team when they enter Form IX. This year’s LEGO® League team members are Hannah Fetters, Kelly Privet and Alyssa Colombo from Form VIII; Hannah Block, CC D’Arms, Natalie Keyes, Kayla Rodriguez-Perez, and Megan Wong from Form VII. Jessie Greer, Form IX, who is a member of the Upper School FIRST® Robotics team, is the team’s mentor. The Middle School LEGO® League Program is coordinated by the Form VII science teacher, Ann Marie McDonnell.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE CSG SCHOLARS FUND! The need for scholarship dollars

is ever increasing and remains a critical part of retaining and recruiting a diverse and well-rounded student population. Currently, 29 percent of the student body receives financial assistance. To help meet these needs, last year we initiated an aggressive fundraising effort to raise awareness and increase support of the CSG Scholars Fund. Thanks to the leadership support from AEP, Cardinal Health, Huntington Bank, and Limited Brands, we were able to provide $90,000 of additional financial aid to students.

Jubilee Sponsorships, support of the Jubilee Marketplace and Silent Auction are all an integral part of the fundraising effort for the Scholars Fund. Thanks to all of these combined efforts, we are pleased to have raised a grand total of $207,000 for scholarships!

In addition, under the leadership of the Upper School Service Club, the walkers of this year’s Scholarship Walk successfully raised $33,960 thanks to support from parents, grandparents, faculty/staff, alumnae, and friends along with a generous matching gift from Lisa DeLong Cahill, ’82, and the Class of 1987.

We greatly appreciate the commitment and support from all who help make the CSG experience possible for young women in central Ohio, regardless of financial circumstances. It truly makes a difference. A CSG Alumna who received a full scholarship summed it up best when she said, “Every day of my life is better because CSG invested in me…thanks to the people who came before me who believed that education can change the world one child at a time and backed up that belief with their donations to the CSG Scholarship Program.”

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!

We hope you will join us for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Jubilee!—October 11-13, 2012. If you would like to get involved with this worthwhile project while making new connections and having fun with a dynamic group of volunteers, please contact Tiffany Duncan in the Development Office at 614-252-0781, ext. 131, or by email at tduncan@columbusschoolforgirls.org. All are welcome!

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Annual Ecology Trip to Stone Laboratory, Gibraltar Island, Lake Erie

By Ann Marie McDonnell, Form VII Science Teacher & Robotics Advisor Annually, Form VII travels to Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie. The focus of this annual trip is the ecology of the Great Lakes region. The first stop is at Back to the Wild. This is a volunteer, non-profit wildlife rehabilitation and nature education center located near Castalia, Ohio. Its primary mission is to rehabilitate and ultimately release into their natural habitat, injured, orphaned and displaced wildlife. More than 2,000 animals arrive at the center each year and 60 percent of the 2,000 injured animals each year return to the wild. The mission of the educational component of the center is, “to show children and adults how important it is to appreciate, respect, preserve, and protect the natural world.” At the center, the girls learn about a number of birds that are in the process of being rehabilitated and some that will never be able to return to the wild because of injury. Following an outdoor presentation by the center’s director, Mona Rutger, the girls tour the facilities to see how the animals are being rehabilitated. Monarch butterflies are also bred at the center and the girls have an opportunity to release tagged monarchs who will journey to Mexico for the winter.

Following a ferry ride to South Bass Island, the girls tour Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial and Museum. There they watch a short presentation on The Battle of Lake Erie. After the film, the girls witness a reenactment on the loading and firing of a musket similar to those used in the War of 1812. This is usually conducted on the lawn with Perry’s Victory and International Peace Monument as a back drop.

The OSU research vessel transports the girls from Middle Bass Island to the shores of Gibraltar Island. Over the course of their three days on the island the girls engage in a variety of activities, ranging from conducting limnology studies on a bio-cruise of Lake Erie, to identifying microscopic aquatic organisms, to fish dissection. The girls also attend an ornithology class, go birding on the island, and take part in a bird count. In addition, the students participate in an edible plant walk, learning how indigenous people used the plants for nutritional and medicinal purposes. Water analysis involves seining on Alligator Bar to collect macro-invertebrates and using these biological indicators to determine the water quality of Lake Erie. The girls learn about many of Ohio’s exotic and invasive species by exploring preserved samples and listening to a presentation from OSU research students. The Ichthyology experience consists of using a dichotomous key to identify some common fish of Lake Erie, followed by fish dissection. While dissecting, the girls have an opportunity to place a fish heart on their wrist and watch it beat!

During “island–time” the students investigate the glacial grooves left on the island’s rocks as the glaciers moved through Ohio during the last ice age.

Throughout the entire trip the girls take field notes in their Stone Laboratory notebook. The girls also take multiple pictures of their science experiences and when they return to their science classes at CSG they create a photo story detailing what they learned in a specific class they attended at Stone Lab. This is an integrated unit with ecology acting as the hub of the wheel and each of the other disciplines comprising of one of the spokes. For math class, students measure the island and each of the buildings by pacing and using their data to calculate the area of each building on the island, and the perimeter and area of the island. In language arts, students complete an eerie story based on a reading prompt. The art component of the field trip involves the students using techniques they acquire in art class to create a two-point perspective drawing of one of the buildings on Gibraltar Island. For history class, the girls create their own “memorial” or “memorabilia” for Perry. Usually there is even time for a bingo game by the bonfire and an opportunity to create your own anatomically correct bead-fish!

This is a tremendous trip which offers the girls first hand experience with hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In addition, the interdisciplinary approach to this unit offers multiple opportunities to approach, focus, and strengthen STEM activities across core areas of the Middle School curriculum.

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Open to the World of Engineering: CSG's Team 677 & the FIRST® Robotics Program By Dr. Kevin

Sweeney, Upper School Science Teacher and FIRST Robotics Advisor For the past ten years, high school students from the Columbus School for Girls (CSG) have teamed up with engineering students from The Ohio State University (OSU) to design and build a competition robot. They spend their winter evenings and weekends working towards the final goal of competing in the FIRST® Robotics competition, one that includes 49 regional events and one national event, involving over 2,000 other high-school teams. The FIRST® program brings together the nation’s leading companies and universities in a united effort to introduce young minds to the wonders of science, technology and engineering.

During the six-week, action-packed, “Build Season” in January and February, the high school girls and their engineering student mentors work together to completely design, build, test, and ship the robot. The team then travels to one or two competitions where the autonomous and remote controlled robot, weighing as much as 120 pounds, competes against other teams from around the world.

About the CSG Team 677

CSG Team 677 is one of very few all-girls teams from across the country. In most cases, other FIRST® teams are dominated, or even entirely made up of, boys. CSG FIRST® Robotics team members work with engineering student mentors from The Ohio State University, who become significant role models for the girls. The team even has access to engineering and manufacturing facilities at OSU’s Center for Automotive Research, where the girls are able to work with real, professional-grade tools. In addition, the team is set up so that each girl is vital to the team and forms a close connection with FIRST®. Given the fact that the team is comprised entirely of students (from both CSG and OSU), Team 677 has a unique sense of community and camaraderie. Many of the girls started their robotics career as part of CSG’s Middle School FIRST® LEGO® League, which also helps prepare the students for a science and technology future. FIRST® robotics is fun and challenging, and allows students to have first-hand engineering and technology experiences. In February, March, and April, international regional robotic events take place where teams bring their robots to compete against each other. The competitions are complete with referees, cheerleaders, and time clocks.

CSG's Robotics Team Vision

Our vision is to encourage and excite young women about the STEM disciplines - science, technology, engineering, and math, and to further their involvement in robotics.

CSG's Robotics Team Mission

Our mission is to provide education in real world skills that are not commonly accessible to women in areas such as industrial design, systems integration, assembly, programming, and engineering, and engage hands-on experiences that further leadership and problem solving in a student based community that supports teamwork.

About the FIRST Program

FIRST®, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology was founded in 1980 by Dean Kamen. Dean Kamen who also invented the Segway® created FIRST® to inspire young people to become involved in the science and technology fields through competition and mentor-based leadership.

The vision of FIRST®: “To create a world where science and technology are celebrated…

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Physics: the Annual Egg Drop Once again, Upper School Physics students took aim at their teacher with raw eggs in a fun yet challenging lab performed in the Upper School Physics courses. In this lab, the girls, armed with calculators, computers, stop watches and a detailed knowledge of kinematics, are challenged to drop an egg from 9.1 meters (30 ft.) onto their target’s head, which is moving below at a constant velocity. The only thing they know in advance is the drop location (an ‘X’ on the sidewalk) and the line along which their target will be walking.

In addition to Physics teacher Dr. Sweeney, Mrs. Jemma Giddings, Director of Upper School, also volunteered to be one of the “moving targets”. As always, the girls are extremely motivated for this lab and many of them were able to hit their targets with at least one of their three eggs. In fact, there were a number “direct hits” to the head and shoulders. This lab tests not only their physics abilities but also their planning and communication skills.

In Biology: By Mary McGlocklin, Upper School Science Teacher Biology/Honors Biology Students have ended a semester of cellular processes and are embarking on the study of the larger view of life. Recently, they extracted DNA from strawberries, worked out gene frequencies from the naked bunny lab, and established who among them has the broadest hand span….all for the study of natural selection. In February, the Form IX students studied invertebrates and the many facets of global impact on the coral reef by producing an informative magazine about reef life and limiting factors. The semester ends with the tour of human body systems, fulfilling the objectives of diversity and interdependence of life.

AP Biology The AP Biology students continue to search for structure to function relationships. New to the course this year is the “flipped classroom” where the lecture/content is delivered via videos from many sources and class time is spent working on labs and addressing the business of study and understanding. The benefits of the videos include multiple viewings for greater understanding and it frees up the school day for laboratory sessions. The College Board has placed a greater emphasis on inquiry in its revised curriculum, so having more time to complete the laboratories is essential. Students have been working with the Wisconsin Fast Plants to prepare for the genetics unit on inheritance patterns, tending to plants for two months to collect seeds. It has provided them with a new appreciation of the tedious work of Gregor Mendel! Additionally, they will complete the year of preparing for the AP Biology exam studying energy through an inquiry version of cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and protein synthesis. www.columbusschoolforgirls.org 27

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PYC Studies Construction & Design

The Program for Young Children classes took trips to the Landmark Project site, where they learned about the construction process, and recorded the progress they observed in their sketch books. The students then returned to the classroom to develop their own construction project: conceptualize a design and build it with large wooden blocks.

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LANDMARK PROJECT IMAGES BELOW, L to R: Aquatic Center structure, this is the view from the large window in the fitness center that overlooks the natatorium. The window can be seen in the next photo of the Crane Fitness Center - it is the large opening in the concrete wall. Students and Faculty/Staff returned from Winter Break to a new and improved Ruch Dining Room.

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"It’s the Construction Site with Lots of Details!"

By Lydia, PYC 4/5, Class of 2025

“We’re building a new swimming pool because we are getting bigger. The 3/4 can’t swim in the pool. They have to wait till 4/5/6. The construction workers they are building and hammering, they are making it taller. They’re making a new dining room… that means we get to eat in a new place which is a dining room! We would love to have a new dining room so we don’t get crowded because if more people (like new kids that want to go to CSG) come into CSG we don’t want to get crowded.

There’s lots of dirt and lots of rocks. Like 100 dirt and 100 rocks! To make the floor, they have to pat out the dirt to make a floor and the rocks make it really like cement. There’s a ladder and trucks… a little one and one that goes beep-beep and a construction worker’s car.”

ABOVE: Construction site journal sketches by Lydia, Program for Young Children 4/5 student and Class of 2025.

Lydia is pictured at right detailing one of her images in a PYC classroom.

CONSTRUCTION TOURS: Since construction on the Landmark Project began, it’s been exciting to watch the progress from the other side of the fence as steel beams are erected and dirt gets moved around. It is also thrilling to see construction progress that isn’t as visible, so we have planned a series of behind-the-scenes Hard Hat Construction Tours. These tours will be offered on a regular basis at various times to accommodate different schedules. There is no need to RSVP in advance. Check the CSG website for the latest dates and times.

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2013 Athletic Hall Of Fame: Now Accepting Nominations The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to pay tribute and extend recognition to those individuals who through the years have contributed to Columbus School for Girls in the field of Athletics, and who have continued to demonstrate, in their daily lives, the values learned in athletics.

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No athlete shall be considered for recognition until at least ten (10) years after the graduation of her class.

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Qualifications and criteria shall be based upon the candidate’s participation in athletics while attending Columbus School for Girls and college, but shall be largely based upon accomplishments after leaving college. The selection shall be on merit only and never of a political nature.

The record of the individual considered shall be so outstanding that there is no question as to the qualifications necessary for induction. Such record may include, but is not limited to: 1) national or state recognition of athletic ability, 2) recognition received at the collegiate level or beyond for athletic ability, and 3) significant post graduate contributions to athletics at Columbus School for Girls and women’s athletics generally.

Consideration shall be given for personal conduct in life and personal contributions to the high ideals of women’s athletics.

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Special awards and induction may be considered and made because of unusual contributions and performances.

NOMINATION Each nomination must include in written form, biographical information regarding the nominee’s athletic accomplishments or contributions to women’s athletics.

Time, place, and manner in which the new Inductees will enter the Hall of Fame will be at the discretion of the Director of Athletics and the Columbus School for Girls Alumnae Board.

PLEASE SUBMIT NOMINATIONS TO: Lucy Ackley, '83 Assistant Director of Development Columbus School for Girls 56 S. Columbia Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43209 Or by email to: lackley@columbusschoolforgirls.org

Martin Luther King Day Program

Honoring Compassion and Conviction Ohio State University football legend Archie Griffin was the keynote speaker for the Columbus School for Girls’ Martin Luther King Day Program. Griffin, President and CEO of Ohio State University Alumni Association and Senior Vice President for Alumni Relations, is the only two-time winner of the prestigious Heisman Trophy, symbolic of the outstanding college football player in America.

Griffin encouraged the students to discover their distinctive potential, and to strive for excellence:

“Each of you is living the dream that you will not be judged by the color of your skin, or your eyes, or your hair, or by the place of birth of your parents... you will not be judged by the amount of money in your family or by your ability to shoot a basketball or swing a golf club. You will be judged by your character. You will be judged by your commitment. You will be judged by your compassion and your convictions.”

The celebration included gospel music from conductor and composer Dr. Raymond Wise, and the CSG Gospel Choir. Dr. Wise is the Founder and President of Raise Productions in Columbus and is an international performer who has recorded 20 albums.

Dr. Wise first came to CSG in 1999 and has been part of the MLK program each year.

Martin Luther King Day Program was originated in 1997 by students and faculty. Details are planned by girls in the Beauty of African American Culture Club, under the guidance of adviser Pamela Garrett, Assistant to the Head of School, along with Pat Stephens, Director of Lower School Music.

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Class News

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Libby Gill Kurtz, Class Representative

Susie Kibler Morris, Class Representative Susiemorris1@aol.com Two Waverly Court Houston, TX 77005 713.521.0970

1932 80th Reunion!

Virginia Kurtz Ebinger, Class Representative Mary Walden Bell Jeffers continues to enjoy her retirement home in Bloomfield, CT, where she is ideally located to provide both a destination and a rest stop to family members traveling north and south on the east coast.

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Class Representative Position Available

Reunion Chair & Class Representative, Marylou Zimmerman Corotis

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Mary Ruth Essex Patterson, Class Representative

Jane Mitcheltree Werum, Class Representative

1935 Class Representative Position Available

Class Representative Position Available

1937 75th Reunion!

Carolyn Barton Davis, Class Representative

1938 Caroline Peters Rockwood, Class Representative

1939 Lainie McCune Altmaier, Class Representative

1944 Marilyn Kent Hall, Class Representative mhall6@columbus.rr.com 6000 Riverside Drive, B-452 Friendship Village of Dublin Dublin, OH 43017 614.764.3914

1945 Class Representative Position Available

1946 Class Representative Position Available

1947 65th Reunion!

Jane Maize Stone, Class Representative I am the daughter of the class representative for 1947; my name is Victoria Campbell and my mother’s name is Jane Maize Stone. She misses Tibbi greatly since her death and always appreciated the love and commitment to the classmates of CSG. My mother is unable to see well enough to correspond or hear well enough to communicate, but is strong in spirit and proudly looking forward to the 65th reunion. My parents' health limitations the last few years have been a test of patience every day as mentally they wish they could be active as when they were in their seventies. They have a cat named Oreo who brings them much joy and amusement.

As for Barb Van Meter Carey and her husband, Don, they spent the holidays quietly. They did see their daughter and her twins before Thanksgiving who all looked very happy to be together. In March, they were lucky to fly to Ghana to visit with son Ted who is involved with helping with the lack of Vitamin C in the average African diet by being involved in an orange sweet potato project. Husband Don’s 60th reunion from Princeton was this year so the two of them set out on bicycles [www.greenway.org/] 540 miles down the coast in May to engage, after 18 days, in the annual Princeton Parade.

Barb’s 55th reunion was attended this year

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The only news I have is a wonderful Christmas card from Marty Downing Johnson with four pictures of her family, including one of her newest great granddaughter, to go with her six great grandsons. Wow, way to go Marty. Let me hear from the rest of you please. Happy 2012 to all!

Mary Bell Jeffers, Class of 1932, with two of her granddaughters - Penelope and Natalie Jeffers (daughters of Dectora Coe Jeffers, Class of 1965)

Class News

Class of 1953: Sandra Yenkin Levine, Sally Lane Crabtree, and Suzanne Brubaker Allen belting out the chorus of “La Marseilles” in tribute to Yvonne Yaw after her memorial service. in Baltimore for the John Hopkins medical reunion. While traveling through New York City her Aunt Florence died at 101 years old. The Van Meter Careys may be contacted at 198 Gunstock Rd,. Gilford, NH 03249-7560 [603] 524-7698. Barb’s email is sitamini@myfairpoint.net and Don’s email is Baraka@myfairpoint.net.

They have been inundated in the state of NH with the twisted political posturing of the “tea partiers” and the like. Barb said “we follow Henry James advice.” Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to.

On our daily treks in the woods across the street, we savor those special moments of being, intense sensations that stand apart from the cotton wool of daily Iife...[Virginia Wolfe].

We also heard from Sally Wise Kopplow.

She can be contacted at 14511 Grande Cay Circle, Unit 2804, Fort Myers, Florida 33908. Sally was busy during December holidays with her son Fred in Traverse City, Michigan. Sally finally got to see some snowfall after being in Florida for the last 27 years. She stays busy with friends, but is always interested in what her classmates are doing.

Here’s to love and peace for 2012 for all the students and alumnae fortunate enough to experience an education at CSG.

1948 Class Representative Position Available

Marianne Vorys Minister has moved to Kendal Retirement Community in Granville. Her new address is 610 Founders Lane, Granville, OH 43023.

1949 Class Representative Position Available Molly Richardson Morris died peacefully on January 15th, surrounded by her loving family. A beautiful service celebrating her life was held at Trinity Episcopal Church downtown, followed by a reception at CSG with the many friends whose lives were touched by Molly.

1950 Judith Gibson Stone, Class Representative judygstone@yahoo.com 509 East University Bloomington, IL 61701 309.827.8395

1951 Nancy Cottingham Johnson, Class Representative Papa7nanio@aol.com 1929 Hillside Drive Columbus, OH 43221 614.486.3084 George and Brenda Mykrantz Milum spent their 50th Anniversary with their children on

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the north shore of the Dominican Republic.

Later, they went on a cruise from Copenhagen seeing “The Little Mermaid” and then on to Warnemunde, Germany and the Fairytale Castle Schwerin, Gdansk, Poland and anchoring off the island of Visby, Sweden.

Then they were ferried to various castles and gardens and on to St. Petersburg! Russia allowed them 3 days seeing The Catherine’s Palace, to Peterhoffor a canal cruise and then on to Hermitage! It was fabulous to see all the Master’s art, jewels, icons, etc., but Brenda’s favorites were the Impressionist paintings. They returned state side to attend the 125th Anniversary of the founding of Columbus Beach Club, founded by Brenda’s grandparents, in Northern Michigan. After a week of fun they spent the summer in Reno, Nevada where they had been in attendance the day before the tragic accident at the Reno Air Races. Then they were off to Sydney, Australia to visit the Opera House and enjoy friends before back tracking to Fiji, Malolo, Tavenui, snorkeling all the way, Kadavu snorkeling Astrolabe Reef, and Vasi Reef. They saw coral so beautiful with all colored fish. Then they were back to Cairns, Australia to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, living on the dive/snorkel boat where they encountered six foot or so bump head parrot fish. On an adventure of a train trip to the mountain town of Kuranda, and then a car trip to Port Douglas where they explored Daintree Rain Forest, Cape Tribulation, and hiked in Mossman Gorge, and a snorkelonly boat, Wavelength. Here were dense masses of coral. Their next stop was Hobart with a week tour ending in Bicheno where they encountered their most serendipitous experience. Going down to the sea after dining, they stood very still while the fairy penguins returned to their nests waddling through the group of people just inches near their feet. Then they made a visit to Phillip Island, south of Melbourne, to check out the famous Penguin Parade again. They hiked in Cradle Mt. Ntl. Park in Tasmania and back to Adelaide and south to Jervis Station and took a ferry to Kangaroo Island: “Remarkable Rocks” which really were remarkable and Admirals Arch with lots of seals. From there, they went back to Melbourne and took side trips as well as doing most of Melbourne and its neighborhoods, like Federation Square, Fitzroy, and the many gardens. The one item not seen were koalas so they went to Koala Park where in the parking lot they saw them sleeping, so on to wineries and a ski area. Then it was time to head to Squaw, USA and pray for snow.

Brenda’s email is yachtavatar@yahoo.com.

Her address is P.O. Box 3052, Olympic Valley, CA 96146 in winter and if they are home in summer: 1905 Morning Grove, Reno, NV 89523.

1952 60th Reunion!

Barbara Swisher Kelly. Class Representative barbsloghome@gmail.com Post Office Box 298

1953 Sue Brubaker Allen, Class Representative sballen385@gmail.com 385 Quaker Street, Lincoln, VT 05443 802.453.4485

Doug and Sally Lane Crabtree, having recovered from some health issues, enjoyed a trip to the galleries and museums of NYC. Herb and Sandra Yenkin Levine also visited NY recently to attend a Bar Mitzvah.

Travel is no longer easy for many of our classmates so phone calls and cards are welcome. Penny Packard enjoyed a call from Barbara Ratner. Barbara writes that she was having hip replacement surgery in January. As a "political junkie" she enjoys living in the Washington D.C. area.

She is president of the Clearinghouse on

Class of 1955 mini-reunion, FRONT: Jane Peters Ward, June Loving, Bobbie Isaac Weiler, Marcia Willcox McHam, Dorothy Sugar Ziegler, Connie Crabbe Dehlendorf, Esther Webster Summers, Sylvia English Haller BACK: Ann Blake Parsons, Carole Kennon-Eaton, Roberta Yenkin Krakoff Women's Issues that sponsors monthly lunchtime programs featuring two speakers on one subject of interest to women.

friends in common. Plans are under way to get together again and become better acquainted.

Sharon Henry Zaharee is receiving inhome therapy for her Parkinson's Disease.

She finds Skype helpful for keeping in touch with family. She welcomes emails at: bzaharee@earthlink.net.

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Jo Bruny Griswold and Sally Lou Kirkendall McDonald both enjoy good health and the peace and pleasures of living in the country. Barbara Wagstaff Lowry's peace is questionable as she has taken on two more stray kittens, bringing her total to ten. She claims she "really is not trying for Cheaper By the Dozen."

Sue Brubaker Allen and Andrew managed to get out of flooded Vermont and spent two weeks in September driving over 3,000 miles through the Canadian Maritimes. The coastal scenery (rocky shores, cliffs and red beaches) was beautiful, though Newfoundland was a bit bleak due to hurricane weather. The mix of French, British and Celtic cultures experienced through language, music, and wonderful seafood made it a very interesting trip.

They will head for Calke Abbey, UK, again in late May. Life in Vermont is good. In late January, Sue received a surprise phone call from Tana Sterrett Scott introducing herself as a CSG Class of '61 graduate now living in Middlebury, VT. She had noticed in the Forte et Gratum class notes that Sue lived in nearby Lincoln, VT. Soon thereafter they met for lunch in Middlebury and had a pleasant time discovering that they had many interests and CSG

Bette (Abel) Roth Young, Class Representative Sad news from Nancy Lurie Salzman…

First, her husband of 57 years, Edwin, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, has lived with Parkinson’s Disease for 35 years, and has been bedridden for the past five years, but they've communicated somehow. Then, their son David, fought a rare biliary cancer for not 2-6 months, but miraculously for five years to survive for his wife and children. David was a computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, and had 400 Facebook friends!

1955 Carole Kennon-Eaton, Class Representative VirtualCarole@aol.com 14805 Pennfield Circle, #207 Silver Spring, MD 20906 301-598-0727 Marcia Willcox McHam's son, Jeffrey, married Jennifer Neal in October. They live in Silicon Valley with Jennifer's eightyear-old son; the wedding took place at Lake Tahoe with Marcia's granddaughters, Natalie and Sylvie, as bridesmaids.

The newlyweds visited Brooklyn over the holidays, and Larry and Roberta Yenkin Krakoff co-hosted a brunch in their

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Yvonne Yaw died peacefully on January 31, 2012, at Mount Auburn Hospital. Her daughter, Anneke Tucker, planned a memorial service at Yvonne's church.

Just before Christmas, Yvonne collapsed and was hospitalized with pneumonia.

Doctors then discovered she was in need of heart surgery to correct a weak heart valve. That, plus her long battle with MS, greatly complicated her condition. Sally Lane Crabtree and Sandra Yenkin Levine were a part of the vigil to ensure that Yvonne was never alone. In lieu of flowers donations can be made in Yvonne's memory to The Multiple Sclerosis Society: nationalmssociety.org/ donate/index.aspx or any other charity that is meaningful to your memories of Yvonne. Suzanne Brubaker Allen, Sally Lane Crabtree, Sandra Yenkin Levine, and their husbands attended the memorial service for Yvonne Yaw. After the service, where Sally spoke a few words on behalf of our CSG and continuing connection with Yvonne, they returned to Sandra's house for a delicious dinner and sang a rousing version of "La Marseilles" in tribute to Yvonne. It brought back memories of French classes with Madam Cardon, and later Miss Rowe.

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for more than twenty years. Dick was a graduate of the Columbus Academy and Middlebury College, and he worked for many years in Columbus as a professional photographer.

The late Susan Faye Bash’s husband sent in some news. Frank Bash married Jessie Otto Hite on December 27 and is extremely happy. His email address is fnbash@gmail.com. Their address is 311 Ridgewood Rd., Austin, TX 78746.

1956 Andy Smith Lorig, Class Representative alorig@comcast.net 12 Evergreen Lane Mercer Island, WA 98040 206.232.4118 Annual photo of the Wyker sisters, this one from their trip to Yuma, Arizona. L to R: Becky, '59, Sue, '60, Debby, '61, and Martha, '63 honor. Marcia says that Jennifer is "just right" for Jeffrey, and she hopes they will return full-time to Brooklyn one day.

Myla Shisler Collier is working on a large tapestry commission, a 14 foot palm tree that will hang between two windows in an elegant house in Edna Valley, California.

Myla says it will keep her busy for six months. If you have not yet done so, go to Myla's web site http://www.mylastapestry.com to see some of her beautiful and creative pieces, including "Urban Forest" which garnered her the above mentioned commission.

Tom and Ann Blake Parsons celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in late December. The entire family, from the youngest grandchild (8 months) to the oldest, Tom (age omitted), gathered for two wonderful days in downtown Chicago. Many of us know from our reunion in September what a fabulous city it is, and Ann says it was especially lovely with all the holiday decorations.

Esther Webster Summers spent the holidays with her daughter, Sarah, and grandchildren in Boise, Idaho. She is back and reports that there is still no snow there, and the ski resort opening is already later than it has been in 36 years.

Sylvia English Haller's brother, Richard I. English, died at 75 on December 4, 2011, after living with Parkinson's Disease

You may have noticed that there is now a “Milestones” page at the end of Forte & Gratum. Sadly, our class has added to it with the sudden loss of Lisa Weissenback Perrin this past December.

While Lisa transferred to and graduated Valedictorian from Bexley High School, she always remained a part of our class.

With a degree from OSU (Summa Cum Laude), she retired as Deputy Director of the U.S Small Business Administration several years ago. She did us proud! There is only one accomplishment she didn’t achieve. I spent an entire weekend trying to teach her how to whistle when we were 12. On the other hand, she had the dubious distinction of being the first classmate to fall in my family’s fish pond. We will miss her so.

On a happier note, Barbara Babcock Claypool has acquired a great grandchild.

Considering her youth, this is remarkable and the first in our class as far as we know.

She has a new address as well. Box 352, Kauneonga, N.Y. 12749, telephone 845583-3092. Where is that?

From Judy Hartle Lieberman, we learn that she is still busy acquiring and selling antiques and “elderly things” in Chadds Ford, Pa. Hmmmm. Does that mean us? She travels with grandchildren (ages 18-23) and friends, keeps a close watch on husband Irv and plans a Florida trip in March. Her parting shot: "No matter how bad your eyes are, avoid magnifying mirrors at all costs.”

Sally Cunningham Blackstad has been all over the map while she and Bill celebrated their 50th Anniversary. She continues to

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serve as an EFM (Education for Ministry) member at St John’s Cathedral in Albuquerque.

At last, word from Barbara Boothby Thun! She and David returned from a trip to Patagonia recently. The theme was geology with a Williams College group.

Of course, Barbara continues her professional career as an artist with an installation, “Elegy”, at the Reading Museum in July. You can see the scope of her work on her website, barbarathun.com or her photographer’s website, soulimagery.zenfolio.com (click on artists page). “I am still loving the “making” of art so, I guess it will be up to my kids to figure out what to do with it.”

Joanna Walz Foster has been all over the place as well. Husband, Jerry, lavished a pedicure on her for Christmas. That would sound minimal if he hadn’t scheduled it for a Caribbean Cruise. She has visited her sister Mimi Walz McCall, ’66, in Phoenix and now, heads for Ashland, Oregon where her daughter, Sheila Foster Carder, ’84, and family live. In August Jerry and Joanna will spend a month there.

Some people will do anything to avoid the “sizzle” of Texas in summer! Geography suggests the place is not far from Seattle, Washington and if the Fosters do not visit the Lorigs during that time, the latter will get even with the former.

We cornered Molly McCloud Parry in Edina, MN. She may have a lead in the grandchild department. Son Stephen has 4 and lives in New Canaan, Conn. Son, Bruce, is in San Jose, CA. Daughter, Kate, has 6, thus increasing the population of Florida. Daughter, Malette, is a nanny in Stillwater, MN. Molly remains busy with needlepoint and talk radio but claims she no longer walks the dog. Volunteers?

As for me, it’s been several years of patch work without the benefit of Maco; new knee, new eyes, sordid broken bones and other delights. Not that it hasn’t been fun. Just don’t let a 1,200 lb. horse fall on you. We’ve kept close to home while the development business enjoyed (?) misery in this economy. Ah, but, each summer we trek to Northern Michigan for the Annual Lorig Mosquito Feed and Poison Ivy Fest where we stage reunions with classmates, Sue Andreae Brown and Rosanne Campbell Guy. Our son, Gray, lives in Dover, MA. with daughter-in-law, Yolanda (a thoracic surgeon) and our two grandchildren. Very inconvenient geographically! Our daughters, Reilly and Alison, live in this neck of the woods. The

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Susan Abel Maxman, '56, and her family in the Galapagos in December 2011 former has a masters in nursing specializing in Forensics. The latter is a project manager with Lorig Associates. None have a prison record….yet!

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Suzanne Schiff Gallant writes that when she graduated from CSG at 17, she thought that 71 was ancient. What do we think now? Since moving to California in 2003, she has begun writing poetry, has explored her Jewish Heritage, is on the Women’s Board of the Jewish Federation, serves on the Cultural Recreation Committee of Westlake Village, where she lives, and is committed to regular exercise – water aerobics and treadmill or elliptical. Her life is full, and now in addition to her two children and three grands, she has two step-children and four step-grands, and they are anticipating two weddings in short order. Oh yes, and having learned to knit at 8, she is still doing it.

Susan Hoover is now in her re-retirement phase. She retired from college teaching in

2000 in Montreal and moved to a small town in Nova Scotia - Shelburne. In two years she was building a new arts centre there in Shelburne. The Osprey Arts Centre became a full time job, and finally it ate her personal life. Now she has to restart that life. She is not sure what she is going to do. She is trying not to do anything for a bit, so that she doesn’t just jump into anything. And she will be held up by a hip replacement in the coming weeks. After the hip replacement, she will be directing a play. Other than being on several boards, she is waiting until she sees her way clear for future activity.

Mary Rose Webster is finally finding her own voice at the age of 73. She has spent the past 22 years making up for the deprivations engendered by her Pre-Feminist, 1950’s views. She has continued, but scaled down, her antique picture frame business. She has become more and more involved in the demanding challenges that her deteriorating neighborhood presents. Safe Streets, her neighborhood group, meets every two weeks to deal with the crime and the drugs and the gangs that want to rule their streets. She is meeting shortly with a man who wants to do a documentary on her neighborhood work.

Last year, Margie Barton Williams was busy planning their middle daughter Peggy’s wedding. It was such fun. Tom still works part time at OSU and is busy doing research and teaching. Margie is still playing golf and is chair of the women’s golf organization this year, which will keep her fairly busy. Last year she saw Linda Gerstenfeld Cheren and Carole Ratner Cushing when she went to Boston for her 50th Wellesley reunion, and in September she and Tom went to Nova Scotia and had dinner with Sue Hoover and Terry. Life is good and they are still in fairly good health. They hope this will continue for many years to come.

Linda Gerstenfeld Cheren needs to figure out what will come next – something meaningful and satisfying. She has retired from her career in graphic design. Her children are devoted to lovely children of their own, who are now old enough to have other activities they prefer to playing with grandma – previously their absolute favorite. Happily, she and Stanley are still devoted travelers. This year they visited Russia and went on a safari to Tanzania. Fabulous! Here at home she has recently hooked up with a program at Brandeis – the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. And she is on the lookout for a significant volunteer commitment.

Lanah McNamara Miller reports that two years ago John closed his last remaining files and retired from the practice of law. They now spend lots of time together and he is very good company. Children, Megan and Jamie, live here in Columbus, and son, John, is in Chicago, a great weekend destination. They love their house in Columbus. They also love their little apartment in Key Biscayne and will spend about 5 months there this year. Depending on the tide and the wind, Lanah plans to take a beach walk and a swim every day. And the possibilities for entertainment in Miami – only 7 miles away – are endless. These are the blessings and the life she treasures.

Judy Pass Redd writes “What am I doing for this decade?” Typically, staying healthy and strong. She tries to eat right and exercise. She has a flower and vegetable garden, lots of bushes to trim, and of course grass to cut. She travels to California to see her daughter and family. Her son Joe lives in Lexington, KY. Daughter Tina moved to Philadelphia last year, but moved back here – in with Judy – temporarily, because her son wants to go to OSU. Nothing else exciting to report.

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Reunion Chair: Margie Barton Williams Mary Rose Webster, Class Representative mwebster@lightlink.com 12 Edwards Street Binghamton, NY 13905 607.722.1483

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Carol Scheaf Tangeman has two wonderful children and a great husband of 50 years. They have lived in Pennsylvania for 48 years. After about 20 years they moved to Troy, PA – 18 miles from the New York border in the mountains. The town has one traffic light and life is slow. There she worked for 23 years at the Martha Lloyd School for the mentally handicapped. She retired 10 years ago. She and her husband are great boaters, and they finally got a boat big enough they could live on and travel on. She gets to spend six days a week on the water. Life is great.

Linda Johnson Ziegler and her husband John are now down in Florida – in Key Largo, south of Miami. They are fortunate to be able to go down there for 3 to 4 months in the winter. Back in Columbus they have moved from their house on Fair Avenue after 48 years. They moved to Trouville East – out east of Columbus – in a free-standing condo. It’s all on one floor, which means easy access for John, who is in a wheelchair. Linda does some volunteer work, plays bridge and golf, and spends time with John. And as often as they can, they see their 4 children and 7 grandchildren. One granddaughter is currently at CSG. That’s it.

1958 Malinda Kilbourne Boyd, Class Representative biglin@insightbb.com 6528 Balcomie Court Florence, KY 41042 859.525.1986

1959 Monin Lopez Dreebin, Class Representative monind@earthlink.net 310.390.1364 Sally Ross Soter was honored as a Palm Beach Atlantic University Woman of Distinction at a luncheon on February 22, 2012 for her involvement with the arts and women’s healthcare initiatives in both Columbus and Palm Beach. She serves on the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital Board and the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Advisory Council at The Ohio State University Medical Center. She is an honorary trustee at the Columbus Museum of Art. In Palm Beach, Sally is actively involved with the Norton Museum of Art and serves on the board of trustees for The Society of the Four Arts. For the full ar-

Betsy Kurtz Argo, '63, Libby Gill Kurtz, '31, Pam Pryor '63, Marilyn Parker, and Virginia Kurtz Ebinger, '32, at lunecheon at The Forum in January ticle, please visit the following link: http:// www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/ sally-soter-joyce-sang-earn-women-ofdistinction-1997614.html

1960 Carolyn Thomas Christy, Class Representative carolyn@kira.net 212 Ashbourne Road Columbus, OH 43209 614.258.0512

1961 Anne Kirsten Wilder, Class Representative

1962 50th Reunion!

Reunion Social Chair: Kittey Morton Elper Patty Tice Offenberg, Class Representative poffenb63@yahoo.com 33 N. Remington Road Columbus, OH 43209 614.237.6116 Vicky Smith Tornes is still working at the Marion Area Counseling Center and was nominated for the Athena Award last spring.

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1963 Betsy Kurtz Argo, Class Representative argo1betsy@aol.com Coille Loch Cottage 11250 Barnes Road Kewadin, MI 49648 231-599-2149 Cynthia Yenkin Levinson had lunch with Doodie Gorrell Frank in the fall and they agreed to hold each others’ hands when they take the scary step of going to their Wellesley reunion in June.

Cynthia's book was released in February, and it has already received two starred reviews. It was sited in the Columbus Dispatch on February 1, 2012. You can find the article by following this link: http:// www.dispatch.com/content/stories/ life_and_entertainment/2012/02/01/acelebration-of-culture.html. Husband, Sandy, and daughter, Meira, both have books coming out in April. Meira and Cynthia spoke together on a panel at the National Council for the Social Studies in December, and then Meira and Sandy taught together at a law school in Israel.

Daughter, Rachel took a new job, as counsel for the Brennan Center, to work on national security and civil liberties issues.

And, she had a baby; Sarah was born last summer. Grandma time!!!!!

Carol Andreae and her husband Jim Garland explored the Dalmatian coast on a 44-passenger ship last May, it was a wonderful trip visiting Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece. In Athens,

Save the Date!

Cynthia Yenkin Levinson, ’63, will be speaking at CSG on Friday, May 25, about her newly published book, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March. Watch for more details online and on CSG’s alumnae Facebook page.

We hope you will join us!

Doodie Gorrell Frank writes that Ted turned 70 in April and opted for a backroads bike trip in lieu of party celebrations. In June, they left with some close friends and their backroads buddies to ride from Prague to Vienna. The scenery was gorgeous, food and wines most satisfying, and part of the trip included riding on the Donauradweg, a FLAT bike path across Europe - "whew!" Time spent in Vienna, Paris, and a visit to the Normandy beaches concluded their adventure. The rest of the summer, they spent enjoying friends and grandchildren at the beach on Long Island. Doodie continues to be delighted by her grandchildren, Paul, Page, Peter, and Gabe.

Louis and Nancy Kauffman Sanford continue to travel to visit grandchildren and to open their home to entertain myriad family and friends. They had 15 for Christmas, including all three children

and spouses, 5 grandchildren, and sister Jean Kauffman Yost, '65, and her husband David.

Pam Pryor has been up to Michigan to visit Nancy and Betsy Kurtz Argo more than once this year. They all love getting together in the great north woods. Pam had her annual Doodie visit in July in Hampton Bays.

Bob and Marty Wyker Anderton have moved back to Arizona to be closer to their children and grandchildren. They live in the foothills of the mountains east of Phoenix and enjoy seeing coyotes, quail, javelina, and an occasional bobcat.

They'll return to San Diego for the summer. You can reach Marty at mwa46@ sbcglobal.net.

This past summer Wil and Aase MollerHansen worked as dentists for 3 months in Maniitsoq, Greenland. Greenland has 30 jobs for dentists but only 14 are filled, which makes it easy to get a short term employment from Greenland's health service. On the weekends, Aase and Wil had time for sightseeing and also had one week off which was used for a trip further north to see whales and icebergs. Icebergs are just amazing. Then, mid-November the two took off to Byron Bay, Australia, for a week's visit with the exchange student who had lived with them in Denmark in 1991-92. From there they flew to New Zealand and took the grand tour of the south and north island, ending in Auckland.

Then, they flew to LA and spent Christmas and New Year with their daughters and maybe most important right now, their little 10 month old grandson Troy. "He is the cutest thing, but I guess that counts for all grandchildren," says Aase.

Thanks everyone for your news. If I've missed someone, you can reach me at argo1betsy@aol.com. My own news is that I had rotator cuff surgery in December and am lugging around a heavy, ugly sling/cast thing that I can only take off for minutes at a time and can't lift anything

1964 Class Representative Position Available

1965 Nancy Schirm Wright, Class Representative nancw814@aol.com 12 North High Street Canal Winchester, OH 43110-1109 614.920.3835

1966 Kay Jeffrey, Class Representative khjeffrey@aol.com 2975 Plymouth Ave. Columbus, OH 43209

1967 45th Reunion!

Carol Benua Major, Class Representative mmcmajor@bellsouth.net 2110 Moscow Avenue Hickman, KY 42050 270.236.3752 Our 45th class reunion is fast approaching. Please start making plans to come to the festivities the weekend of April 27. Wendy Lazarus will be honored as CSG’s Alumna of the Year! It will be a grand time!

Nancy Benua, AKA Benny Alba writes, “What a delight it was to spend time with classmate Caroline Johnson Voderberg during my March ‘American Storms’ exhibition at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. Amazing that anyone would want to see anything relating to cold weather. I drove through the tail end of the February blizzard to deliver this solo. And what an adventure that was, including the power steering failure at 30 degrees below in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cowboy heroes do exist -- I was rescued by a man with a three legged dog!”

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they saw the beginnings of the protests, enough to mess up traffic, but no violence at that time. Carol has had quite a few adventures this year. She accompanied Jim again for meetings in Geneva and London, but without a snow storm this time to sidetrack them to Paris. Instead, they had a lovely weekend in the Cotswolds. Thanksgiving found them in Sofia, Bulgaria (no turkey dinner there), where Carol was invited to speak at a conference on women and philanthropy. In June, she finished her term on the board of the Women's Fund of Central Ohio - after 10 years. She's now considering "what's next."

Son, Jeff, has moved to Boston to start his new position as a public defender. Carol and Jim drove east to help him move as Hurricane Irene approached. She says they get gold stars for good parents, but black marks for lack of common sense.

It did work out well, although they suffered torrential rain carrying boxes and mattresses up to his third floor walkup in East Cambridge. News flash - Jim has decided to retire this coming year at the end of August - looks like more time for travel and their place in Maine.

or even tie my shoes. Jimmy is so helpful.

I've become a princess. Hmmm. I might keep this thing on for a long time. ~ Betsy Kurtz Argo

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Houghton checked up on her at times, as he visited other friends along the way, and Ann said it was a very beautiful and peaceful experience. Her son and daughter are both doing great as young adults. Ann’s email address is anni7@sbcglobal.net.

Christine Wittmann Snyder and Joel are enjoying the success and happiness of both their sons, one in Columbus and one in Washington, D.C. Joel is an architect, and Christine continues in business with her brothers in real estate. She celebrated her 60th birthday as she and her family ventured on a wonderful trip together to Florence, Italy! Christine’s email address is cs@wittmann.com.

Margaret 'Peggy' Burt Haire, '71, and her 'Christmas Bunny Child' Judy Davidson Hoye reports that after weathering last winter in Connecticut when she and her husband Dick had to shovel three feet of snow off of their roof because roofs were collapsing around them, they upped and sold their house and moved to Fort Myers, Florida. They now live in a golfing community called Heritage Palms and are really enjoying making new friends and are looking forward to playing golf year-round. Judy ran into Karen Coen Knoebel , ’65, there. She adds, “Perhaps we'll see other folks from Columbus since Fort Myers seems to be very popular with snowbirds from Ohio. We expect to travel some during the hotter months, including going back to Connecticut to see the kids and grandkids, and to Columbus, where my father is still living in his house on Preston Road.”

Mike and Carol Benua Major are the proud grandparents of their second grandchild. Adlai Major Seales was born to their daughter, Emily, and husband, Chad Seales (of Austin, TX), on October 31, 2011, weighing seven pounds and four ounces, measuring 20 ¼” long. The little guy tricked them by coming three weeks early and arriving on Halloween. What a treat he is!

1968 Class Representative Position Available Rosalind Mercier has had a big coup with her art recently. Rosalind has always been active with a British charity, The Brooke Hospital for Animals, which has clinics throughout the Middle East to help work horses and donkeys. Having visited the clinics in Egypt, Rosalind was moved to

do a little painting of a suffering brick kiln donkey so laden down with bricks that it couldn't get up. Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall (Prince Charles' wife, Camilla) is President of The Brooke and has graciously accepted the painting for her offices at Clarence House.

1969 Candace Corson, Class Representative drcorson@aol.com 16641 Brick Road Granger, IN 46530-8518 574.273.1763 Chris Aronson writes from Russell, New Zealand at advenmom@mac.com: “It is so much fun to read about our CSG classmates, that I have decided to share a bit of news from our end of the world here in Russell, New Zealand. It's hard to believe that our art gallery, Just Imagine, is in its tenth season and that we are still having fun! When not at work or traveling to see our kids in the States and Israel, my husband and I can be found on board our boat. Although Terry has completed three trans-Pacific crossings, I maintain my role as ballast here in the Bay! In December we joined sisters, Janie Aronson Baskin, ’70, Lynne Aronson, ’70, and Laurie Aronson Starr, ’74, along with their families in Florida to celebrate our dad's 90th birthday. While on holiday, I met a woman who, when she learned I came from Columbus, knew immediately that I had attended CSG! As we began to talk, we discovered that both of us knew Prudence Schofield....small world!”

Ann Joyce celebrated her 60th birthday in a very special way by hiking solo on the Appalachian Trail. Husband Michael

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Helen Drennen Nycz enjoyed finding Patty Larrick Lane on Facebook. Helen continues to work on her scoring project for school testing. She and Bob welcomed another grandchild this past October in Augusta, GA, Cormac Eoin O'Neill, Jr., and they are enjoying many family visits and time with their grandchildren. Helen’s email address is helennycz@bellsouth.net.

Beth Crane’s daughter, Annie Westwater, '01, is living in San Francisco and working on her dissertation for a doctorate in Psychology (Psy.D.) Her son, Brian Westwater, and his wife Leah are here in Columbus and have a son who celebrated his first birthday on Friday, January 13. Blake Westwater is now in the PACT (Parents and Children Together) Program at CSG, the 5th generation Crane family member to attend the school. Beth’s email address is bethcrane@aol.com.

Susan Clatworthy writes that she always loves seeing what is happening in friends' lives. She wanted to let everyone know of the death of her dear mother, Rovena Conn Jordan, who passed away on January 13, 2011 in Columbus. Many classmates knew her, and she was quite a ground breaking woman in her day, graduating Valedictorian in 1935 from her high school in Boone, Iowa , then off to Stanford and then to New York City to work for Vogue.

Susan guesses that move should have been her hint that she might end up in the Fashion business. Life between NYC and Old Saybrook CT, keeps Susan and her husband, Jim, busy and balanced!

Jim's daughter, Merricka, and her little boy Clinton keep them on their toes and "connected." It is sweet for her to think about all of us that grew up together at CSG. She looks back often and smiles, and is so confident that it was just the “right" place for her to start off her life.

Susan’s email address is susan.clatworthy@ chanelusa.com.

Candace Corson and George (Knowles) are enjoying their four grown-up sons, and welcoming a grandbaby (cousin of baby Zoe), whose parents are both in medical school. Both dads (her sons) are in Indianapolis, where she'll be spending a lot of time, helping out with both babies - truly the most joyous phase of her life. Two other sons live in the Bay Area, California. George loves teaching the medical students at the Notre Dame campus of Indiana University's School of Medicine. Candace is truly loving building a team of like-minded friends across the nation in wellness, nutrition (online university research at www.CorsonWellness.com), and health education for all ages, including athletes, children, and pregnant women.

To our Class, please keep those news updates coming! As you can see from Chris' note from New Zealand, people really do love seeing what their old friends are up to, and I know for sure we are wishing each other the very best in these challenging times.

1970 Jill Levy, Class Representative levyprice@insight.rr.com

1971 Teri Gockenbach, Class Representative anuragartstudio@gmail.com 14680 May Avenue North Stillwater, MN 55082 651.430.2531

Cathy Stephenson has been working in the commercial real estate industry for the past 26 years. She just returned from New Hampshire where she spent the holidays with her mom, sister, Janet Stephenson Carlock, ’74, and her two girls 28 and 25.

Janet is a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Cathy’s free time is spent traveling and enjoying the many cultural resources in Chicago.

1972 40th Reunion!

Reunion Giving Committee: Caroline Farrar Orrick, Paula Penn-Nabrit, Sally Jeffrey O’Neil Reunion Social Committee: Paula Penn-Nabrit, Susan Albers Zelasko, Kathy Krueger Barrows, Jenifer Sehring Alexander, Amy Greentree Taylor, Molly Lambright Sills, Class Representative, mollysills@triad.rr.com 705 Lankashire Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 On January 2, Kathy Krueger Barrows wrote that snow is swirling outside after a very wet fall/winter. She watched the OSU bowl game and enjoyed a final day before "life as usual" ramped up. She and her husband, Jeff, enjoyed having their three kids home for the first time together in over a year. They have been inclined to live far from home. For instance, their daughter, Kari, has spent the last 2½ years in Calcutta, India working with exploited kids.

She is back in the states with the plan to pursue being a nurse practitioner. Colleen, their oldest, is starting a private practice in counseling in Seattle (once again the theme of living far away from parents continues). Their son, Caleb, is working on a seminary degree in Chicago to use probably overseas, maybe in non-profit work. Jeff (50+ hrs/wk) and Kathy are still busy with Gracehaven (www.Gracehavenhouse.org) which will be a home for girls who have been sexually exploited (trafficked). Helping oversee painting crews, decorating, etc. at Gracehaven has kept

Kathy busy. The home is now remodeled, furnished, decorated, and ready to open after final license hoops are passed and staff is trained. If anyone wants to partner with them, please contact Kathy directly at her email or go to the Gracehaven website noted above. Kathy is working as the Nutrition Director of a private clinic where patients are medically monitored during weight loss. She enjoys helping people rediscover good self-care. She is also an outpatient dietitian at a local hospital one day a week. Thankfully she is able to volunteer at a local minimum security prison one morning a week.

Lisa Morrett Reid and husband Chuck have had, on balance, a very good year.

In early April they took a momentous trip to Shanghai, China to visit son Mark’s family. Mark and his family have lived in Shanghai for three years and are preparing for a move to Zurich. Lisa and Chuck maintain residences in Houston and the Napa Valley. In Texas, they stay busy with most of the rest of their large family which includes adult children and spouses, grandchildren, and even a great grandchild. In Napa, they have a vineyard.

Lisa reports that the vineyard has never looked better and they had their largest harvest ever. In addition to chasing family, Lisa continues to survive as an artiste as much as physically possible. Sadly, Lisa lost her 95 year old father, John, in October. The funeral took place in Jacksonville, and there was a memorial service January 28, 2012, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

1973 Marla Lumbert-Smith Cole, Class Representative Marjorie Wright’s daughter, Alexandra, graduated from Smith College at 19, this past May. Martha Gallagher Michael's last child, Georgia Garvin Michael, was married on May 7, 2011, to Jordan David Rauch, in Columbus. Martha is still an associate professor at Capital University, in Education. She just received a second grant for $100,000 from the State Department of Education for preparing highly effective teachers. Her husband, Kevin, is still teaching Philosophy at Ohio Dominican where their daughter, Chelsea Shaaf, is working in financial aid. Martha and Kevin's first child, Guthrie, just received a promotion and is the youngest regional operations manager in the country for US Bank, and is living in Kansas City, Kansas.

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Janie Aronson Baskin along with her sisters Chris Aronson, ’69, Lynne Aronson, ’70, and Laurie Aronson Starr, ’74, and their families and her brother Andy and his family, and their parents met in Port St. Lucie, Florida, at a Club Med to celebrate their dad's 90th birthday! It was a remarkable gathering since people came from Israel, New Zealand, and four different states in the U.S. Chris' daughter and her boyfriend announced their engagement while they were there. The wedding is next year in Israel. Janie’s website is being updated and she invites everyone to take a look in the next couple of weeks. Go to janiebaskin.com or unframedheart.com to be directed to her site. A happy and bright new year to all.

Margaret “Peggy” Burt Haire won the highest award as a traditional holiday artisan in the Directory of Traditional American Crafts – Holiday. Her work was showcased in the 2011 Christmas issue of Early American Life.

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Joy McGaw Gilmore writes that all is well, and she has a temporary bank job until May, when she may be promoted to full time.

Kathy Korda left her beautiful Charleston, SC, to visit Columbus during Thanksgiving week. She had two mini-reunions with Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Karen Albers Larson, Martha Gallagher Michael, Ellen Havens Hardymon, and Marla LumbertSmith Cole, one at Elizabeth's home and one at Easton. It was great catching up.

When the Class of '73 gets together, we can pick up right where we left off, almost as though we saw each other yesterday. This is a wonderful closeness.

1974 Muffy Hamilton Parsons, Class Representative

1975 Class Representative Position Available Sarah Marsh Schweitzer’s son, Christopher, is studying Chemical Engineering at Purdue. Lindsay is a senior in high school, still doing gymnastics, but tried diving for the school last fall. Sarah and Mark are still working at Abbott; Sarah in clinical medical writing and Mark in analytical chemistry. On a sad note, Sarah lost her father, Henry N. Marsh, on September 11, 2011. Sarah’s address is 1460 Margate Lane, Green Oaks, IL 60048.

1976 Michelle Gockenbach Lewis, Class Representative

What a privilege and honor it now is to serve as your class representative. I have remained in the Columbus area since our high school days and I continue to be amazed at the success of our wonderful alma mater. I am, indeed, very proud.

Several of you have made contact through this newsletter and told of your experiences with family and friends. I want to personally thank each of you for sharing and reaching out to tell of your successes and love for CSG.

As we approach our 35th class reunion, it is very important that we reach out to find all of our fellow classmates and get them back here to Columbus for a magnificent celebration and group festivities at CSG. What a marvelous party that will be! Margaret Cunningham Basiliadis, Class Representative Throughout my years since high school, I have done many things. I have worked in corporate America, shared in a family owned business, and was deeply involved in an entrepreneurial business venture.

All of these wonderful opportunities were Martha Herrman McCarthy, Class Representative great, but pale in comparison with my cur- Herrm196@yahoo.com rent job that God has led me to.

1979

1980

My mother entered a local hospital in April of 2008 for routine knee surgery. For whatever reason, the surgery caused her to enter a mental state of dementia.

This turn of events in my mother’s life is seen as a tragedy by many. Indeed, it is not pleasant for family and loved ones to see her in this way; dependent upon others for her every day sustenance. But of me, I only can remember her motherhood and the way that she gave unconditional and unselfish love to each of us. I am indeed blessed to be able to serve her in this manner. I am not angry with God; I thank him for allowing me to be in a position to care and minister to her needs. Not easy each day, but a joy and a responsibility that she taught to each of her children.

1977

1978

35th Reunion!

Kate Estabrook Schoedinger, Class Representative

Constance Staber, Reunion Social Chair and Class Representative

Kate Estabrook Schoedinger is still enjoying her work as a reading specialist in the same school since 1984, bringing authors to the 7th and 8th grade students to celebrate a community of literacy. Greg Tang spent the day with them this fall sharing his picture books (The Grapes of Math, Math-Terpieces) and instructed students on improving math skills to be more efficient and effective. See Gregtangmath. com for more information there. As a Whole School Read, they shared the geo-

Constance Staber writes: It is very difficult for me to believe that all these years have passed since our graduation in 1977!

Time has a way of getting away from each of us. I know that I have treasured memories of the great opportunities that were afforded each of us at CSG. Columbus School for Girls has a rich tradition and was a marvelous place for each of us as we blossomed into young ladies.

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caching mystery Hide and Seek by Katy Grant. Katy resides in Arizona, where in addition to writing fiction, teaches at the college level. Katy spent 3 days at the school for a Writer's Workshop immersion involving every student and teacher. When Kate isn’t stalking authors, she is cheering daughter Liza, 18, on her early decision admission to High Point University, son Ferd IV, 15, academic accolades as a freshman and his Junior Maine Guide accomplishment this summer at Camp Kawanhee for Boys, and family life on Lake Horace in Weare, NH.

1981 Jenny Corotis Barnes, Class Representative jenny.barnes@osumc.edu 1925 Concord Road Columbus, OH 43212 614.488.8481

1982 30th Reunion!

Reunion Giving Chair Lisa DeLong Cahill, the5cahills@verizon.net Leslie Rogovin Fox, Class Representative leslierfox@yahoo.com 4386 Tarrytown Court New Albany, OH 43054 614.855.5075 Lisa DeLong Cahill reports that all of her children are now in school full time. She is back in the classroom as a substitute, working in the local elementary school and trying out a new age group. Lisa is also volunteering at the local library in the children’s room. Shelving is easy thanks to all the work with Mrs. Altan! Lisa says it’s fun to discover new books and kids love placing their orders with her!

1983

1984

Bridget Hart, Class Representative info@bridget-hart.com 9653 W. 89th Circle Westminster, CO 80021 303.420.7884

Ngina Chiteji, Class Representative

From Bridget Hart, your class rep: So glad to hear from so many of you! It was a busy holiday season for our household, as my husband and I went on a week-long cruise with his parents to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 19 of us, all friends and family of the happy couple, it was like herding cats. Cats who ate every hour, on the hour, and drank a lot of blue-green drinks with tiny paper umbrellas. I'm still here in Denver, cooking away, and hoping the new year will bring new business opportunities, as I’m partnering with a local physician to branch out into more work involving nutrition and health, expanding on my personal chef business!

Also got to spend a little time reminiscing with Diane Spelleri Foster, ’84, who was in town on business. Diane looks great, lives with her husband in Oklahoma City, OK, and is enjoying traveling with her job with Le Creuset cookware.

Robin Ives Canowitz, Class Representative robin.canowitz@nationwidechildrens.org 7355 Tumblebrook Drive New Albany, OH 43054 614.855.9556

Upi Singh wrote to say life is busy, but great, and her wonderful kids are keeping her busy. She says son Karan is almost 10, as tall as his mother already, and is “the sweetest boy on the planet,” and her beautiful daughter, Leena, is 7, and “a true spitfire that keeps her on her toes!”

Michelle Kozak, '85, at her graduation from Le Cordon Bleu Paris I was so thrilled and proud to hear great news from Lori Maier Wishne! In November, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis honored her with the Fred A. Goldstein Memorial Service Award for outstanding professional leadership and service to the St. Louis Jewish Community. She has worked at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis for over 22 years now and currently oversees the area of Major Gifts.

Congratulations to Lori and her family on such a distinctive honor!

I’ve been lucky to be in touch with Joy Brady Beer quite a bit over the last couple of months, being an ‘accessory’ to her conversion to a low-carb “paleo” nutrition lifestyle. She confides that she and daughter Savannah are “crazy in love” with their newfound program for healthy living. She’s even blogging about it to help share her progress and passion for being a “21st century paleolithic mother!”

She says she attended a MovNat meeting recently, and is having fun exploring all kinds of new ways to get fun, natural movement and exercise into their lives.

Joy says they’re also looking forward to a one-day, round-trip trip to Washington, D.C. this spring for the Reason Rally - a quick but busy trip, for sure!

Lisa Meuller Greene and her family survived the power outage from storm Alfred on Halloween weekend. After a week of stacking firewood and eating dinner by candlelight, her daughters Alison (13) and Jackie (11) are permanently cured of any desire to live during pioneer times.

Michelle Kozak works at Chase in Columbus in Business Banking Marketing. She has used her vacation time for each of the past three years to go to Paris and complete intensive 4-5 week long classes in pastry. In December, she graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Paris with her pastry chef diploma. In addition to working full-time at Chase, Michelle has also started a small pastry business called Pâtisserie Lallier, www.PatisserieLallier.com. She and her husband, Terry Eisele, live in Grandview with their dogs Katya and Daphne.

Jamie Traeger-Muney and her family moved to Israel two years ago and they are really enjoying it there. They live in the same town as Lisa Katz Shimoni, ’82, and are good friends. If anyone visits Israel, Jamie would love to see them.

Shari McCaskill Lamar spent a week in Dallas, TX, in December teaching a class for her employer and then she helped Melanie Battle Kinchen, ’86, unpack her new home in the area. Other than that, Shari is swamped at work, as she was named Examiner in Charge for a local financial institution here in Columbus. She has a team of eight examiners and they are responsible for all areas of supervision of the institution. She is trying to stay busy, so this definitely helps.

1986 Louise Davidson-Schmich, Class Representative Davidson@miami.edu 6840 SW 64 Ct. South Miami, FL 33143 305.284.2143 Ruth Milligan writes that in addition to loving her Executive Speech and Coaching practice that she's been focusing on the last two years, she just finished curating the third annual TEDx Columbus event,

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Allison Bloch Gold is happy to report that her eldest daughter, Alex, just celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. She says that it was a beautiful event and that they created a mural for an all-girls school for underprivileged students. Allison reports that the project was incredibly inspiring and it was full circle to see the girls have such an unbelievable educational opportunity.

Brooke Hally Perkins checked in to say that all is very good for her and her family in San Francisco! She has two sons: Charlie, 11, and Johnny, 9. She shared that both are very active and love sailing, lacrosse, tennis, and any type of game. Brooke says she’s busy trying to keep up with them, although reporting that “it’s impossible,” and working for a San Francisco-based textile company, Luna Textiles. Her husband, Chris, is the CFO for the Swedish America's Cup team, Artemis Racing, so naturally they are very excited to have the upcoming America's Cup in their hometown in 2013!

1985

Class News

Alumnae Directory: The Development Office recently converted to a new database system. Thank you for your patience during this transition, the Alumnae Directory will be back online soon.

In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us with any address updates or inquiries. For assistance, please call 614.252.0781, ext. 131, 1.800.486.0781, ext. 131, or email: tduncan@columbusschoolforgirls.org. Thank you! the local affiliate of TED. (If you don't know about TED, check out ted.com).

She'd love to know if there are other Ted organizers or volunteers around the country who are CSG alums! If so, email her at ruth@articulationinc.com.

1987 25th Reunion!

Reunion Chairs: Kate Carlin Giller, Karen Lurie Jones, Wendolyn Holland Paula Davis, Class Representative

1988 Sarah Hamilton Shook, Class Representative

1989 Tammy Cheek Kessel, Class Representative

1990 Paige Conrad McIntosh, Class Representative Elizabeth Emens reports that it's been an eventful past few years. She received tenure at Columbia, had a baby, and got married, all in what feels like a very short time. She and her wife Noa (also a writer and teacher) first married on a little lake in Michigan with family—plus Jen Georgia Lee as a sensational on-site wedding coordinator! – and then made it legal in New York on their anniversary this August. Their daughter, Ariel Emens-Asher, will turn two this March, and is loving her first music class. When Liz was pregnant with Ariel, she had the pleasure of meeting Head of School, Liza Lee, and seeing

former Head of School, Pat Hayot, and classmates Danielle Berger and Meredith Moss, at a lovely event for CSG alumnae at the home of Lara Schmidt Trafelet, ’88, in New York City in January 2009. On a more somber note, Liz reports that there has also been much sadness for her family during this time, with the passing of her beloved step-dad, Tom Moyer, in April 2010. Liz can be reached at eemens@law. columbia.edu.

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1991

Monica Welt and her husband, Babak, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Leah Maxine, on October 17, 2011. They are having too much fun with her and couldn’t feel more blessed.

Monica writes that her arrival alone made 2011 one of the best years ever. Also, if any CSGers are in D.C., she would love to get in touch, so please email her at mwelt@ crowell.com.

Amy Cherup Curley, Class Representative acurley612@yahoo.com 8069 Woodgrove Road Jacksonville, FL 32256 904-403-7316

1992 20th Reunion!

Reunion Committee: Tiffany Burton Duncan, Katy Carpenter Gibson, Tensing Maa Liz Zimmerman Donaldson, Class Representative ezdonaldson@gmail.com 116 Preston Road, Columbus, OH 43209 614.824.1010 Tensing Maa, Marya Goldberg Cassandra, Tiffany Burton Duncan, Katy Carpenter Gibson, Megan Sullivan, and Emily Jones got together for a minireunion when Emily was home celebrating her mother’s birthday in January. It was fun to get everyone’s kids together too. We hope everyone will join us for the reunion in April!

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Class Representative Position Available

1994 Brooke Brown Helmstetter, Class Representative

Katie Taub recorded her 1st audio book, Incarnate by Jodi Meadows, which came out January 31, 2012. She is also pleased to announce that her sister, Emily AlonsoTaub, ’89, had a baby boy, Oliver Peter on December 8, 2011.

1995 Class Representative Position Available

1996 Sarah Sofia Knepp, Class Representative sofia_sarah@hotmail.com 5801 Wedgewood Drive Charlotte, NC 28210 Renay Ricart married Aaron Andrews on November 5, 2011 in Coral Cables, FL. They have recently moved to Columbus.

LEFT: Members of the Class of 1992 got-together for a mini-reunion when Emily Jones was home for her mom’s birthday in January.

Left to right: Tensing Maa, Marya Goldberg Cassandra, Tiffany Burton Duncan, Katy Carpenter Gibson, and Emily Jones.

RIGHT: Monica Welt, '94, with her husband, Babak and their daughter Leah Maxine, born October 17, 2011

1997 15th Reunion!

Julie Ferber Zuckerman, Class Representative juliezuckerman@gmail.com

1998 Class Representative Position Available Bri Bogumill is looking forward to another ski season in Steamboat Springs, CO as a pro skier. She is a ski and snowboard instructor and will be competing in park and pipe again this year defending the titles she won last season. DNA clothing line just added her as one of their sponsored athletes!

Lindsay Baker, '97, (right) with husband Ben Felton, and classmate Courtney Druen, '97.

Note the yellow ribbon around Lindsay's dress—GO GOLD TEAM! Erin Shea is now in her fourth year of her geology PhD program at MIT. She has just published her first paper, in Science, on the strength and longevity of the lunar magnetic field,(Scientific American has a good summary). Her husband will graduate this year and they will continue living in one of the undergraduate dorms as Graduate Resident Tutors until Erin finishes her degree. They have been saving most of their free time to go backpacking this summer before Erin begins her final summer of field work in the North Cascades (also backpacking, except with rocks!).

1999 Amy Westwater Sullivan, Class Representative afw.sullivan@gmail.com Congratulations go to Amy Rosen on her engagement to Revan MacQueen.

Becki Cooperman Kay and her husband, Eric, happily welcomed their son, Eliot "Eli" Robert Kay, on November 7, 2011.

Becki is enjoying a couple months at home with Eli before returning to her position as a medical malpractice defense attorney in Miami. Becki, Eric, and Eli live in Boca Raton, Florida and would love to hear from anyone who is in the area.

Lisa Benson Meuse and husband, Peter, welcomed their third daughter to the world on October 29, 2011. Charlotte Elizabeth Meuse joins big sisters Emmy and Madelyn, Class of 2025.

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On August 27th, 2011, Lindsay Baker married Ben Felton in Austerlitz, NY, during the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene. It was a splendid event, despite the extreme weather. The bride and groom danced the night away and barely noticed the rain coming down outside the tent. Courtney Druen was in attendance, as were former faculty members Lila Leck and of course, Lindsay's Mom, Nancy Baker. Ben is a graduate student at Bank Street College of Education, and Lindsay teaches third grade at Trinity School in Manhattan. Ben and Lindsay first met in New York City during her CSG Senior May Program in 1997.

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LEFT: Rebecca Cooperman Kay, '99, and family RIGHT: Lisa Benson Meuse '99, and husband Peter welcomed their third daughter to the world on October 29, 2011

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2001

2004

Annette Enlow, Class Representative

Ashley Love, Class Representative ashleylatrice@gmail.com

Emily Kasler, Class Representative

ajerx07@gmail.com

Jarrett and Jennifer Good Skrobarcek welcomed their son, William, on May 1, 2011, at 6 lbs. 13 oz. Will is such a sweet little baby, and it has been a joy to experience all his "firsts." He has already made friends with many CSG girls including Jessica Germain, Elizabeth Seidler, Francesca Russo, Laine Richardson O'Donnell, Sarah Resch Flower, Jacquilyn Stavroff, Katy Murnane Reis, Katherine Fiorile Burgess, and Elizabeth Exline Sinclair, and most recently had brunch with many of them during Thanksgiving.

Paige Kohn started working as an associate attorney at Robert Gray Palmer Co., LPA in Columbus. She is currently a trial attorney on the plaintiff 's side and really enjoying her position.

Jason and Mandy Berlin Duff welcomed their daughter, Harper Anne Duff, into the world on January 5, 2012. She was 5 lbs, 14 oz and 19 inches long. They love being parents and are excited about their new adventures in parenthood.

2002 10th Reunion!

Reunion Giving Chair: Lauren Yen Leahy Reunion Social Chairs: Ashley Klein Messick, Jordan Sugarman Lauren Yen Leahy, Class Representative lyen@spenceschool.org or lauren.yen@gmail.com

2003 Jackie Massie Jaroncyk, Class Representative jackiejaroncyk@yahoo.com Laura Ward is happy to report that over the Thanksgiving holiday she became engaged to her now fiancé, Tim McDonley.

They are planning on tying the knot at the end of next year. Laura is currently working at the municipal court and residing in Columbus. She would love to hear from any classmates! Her email is Creyo2003@ yahoo.com.

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Mandy Mengel was married to Jordan Goetzke in Indianapolis on October 15, 2011. Mandy and Jordan met as freshman while attending Butler University. They held their outdoor wedding ceremony at Holcomb Gardens on the Butler campus. A reception followed at the beautiful Laurel Hall mansion in Indianapolis. Collette Jones served as Mandy's maid of honor. Mandy and Jordan honeymooned in Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora. They now make their home just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where Jordan is a pharmacist and Mandy works as a marketing director and salon manager for a family of Aveda salons.

Simi Botic, who recently moved to Columbus, is now a member of the Litigation Department at the law firm of Dinsmore and Shohl.

Elizabeth Fiorile welcomed a brand new addition to her family, a cat named Taco.

Elizabeth's previous cat, Murray, now resides with former classmate, Ali Lehman.

Emily Wightman is still looking for babysitting jobs. Please contact her if you are interested: (614) 570-3995.

LEFT: Jason and Mandy Berlin Duff, '00, welcomed their daughter, Harper Anne Duff MIDDLE: Jarrett and Jennifer Good Skrobarcek, '00, and their son, William RIGHT: Class of 2000 graduates, Jennifer Good Skrobarcek, '00, Sarah Resch Flower, Katy Murnane Reis, Jacquilyn Stavroff, Elizabeth Seidler, and baby

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2005

2006

Allison Ansari, Class Representative allison.ansari@gmail.com 839 Post Street, Apt. 302 San Francisco, CA 94109 614.439.5513

Meera Mani, Class Representative mani.15@osu.edu 4619 Beecher Court New Albany, OH 43054

Maria Dixon reports that her job at Harvard is beyond fabulous. Everyone has been friendly and welcoming, anxious to help her settle into her new position.

She has mostly just been training, though they're starting to give her tasks for the two officers she'll be supporting. This office is massive, about 200 employees; it feels like the mecca of fund raising. So much to learn...she is anxious to soak it all up! Guess who's office is just down the hall from her cube? Another unicorn, of course—Anne Melvin, ’81! She's been traveling so they haven't had a chance to have a conversation about their beloved alma mater, but they had an "a-ha!" moment at the all staff meeting when they introduced Maria and mentioned she is from Columbus, Ohio.

Allison Ansari is currently living in San Francisco and working for the KIPP Foundation. She is planning an east coast trip in March to visit CSG friends in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and DC! Katy “Uli” Shanahan finished her job as a Field Organizer for Delaware and Union counties with the We Are Ohio campaign with a glorious win to defeat Issue 2 and protect workers' rights and is very honored to have had a part in ensuring her brothers' rights as a firefighter serving Washington Township. She is now enjoying a bit of down time during the holiday season and is figuring out her next steps with politics in Ohio. She hopes you are all doing well and that you are enjoying your ever impressive endeavors around the country and world!!

Christine Skobrak is a senior in Technical Theater at OSU. She is currently doing an internship at Walt Disney World.

Katie Pickworth, ’09

2007 5th Reunion!

Reunion Giving Chair: Kasey Ording Reunion Social Chair: Katherine Gitz Sara Winters, Class Representative winterssa@gmail.com 614.397.5862 Peyton Onda is living in Dallas, TX and working as a PR Specialist at Moroch.

2008 Caitlin Allen, Class Representative caallen@davidson.edu Davidson College P. O. Box 5487 Davidson, NC 28035-5487 614.554.5298 Alyssa Ashbaugh passed both of her Praxis I tests that she took on November 12th! She scored in the top 10 percent on both. She is now officially qualified to get her K-3 teaching license once she graduates.

Caroline Hohl is a junior at Xavier University majoring in Montessori and Elementary Education. She is a resident advisor in the university’s apartments, and also serves on the Residence Life Board.

She is a volunteer every week at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in the Joshua Cares program.

Karmell Brown is in her junior year at Earlham College. She is on the women’s basketball team and is a Residents’ Assistant.

Taylor Onda is a junior at Villanova University in Philadelphia. She is a chemical engineering major. She is a member of Delta Gamma sorority and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

2010

2009

Class Representative Position Available

Katie Pickworth, Class Representative

Kathryn Skobrak is a sophomore in Engineering at Ohio Northern University.

Kerbie Minor is currently spending a year abroad in Tours, France.

2011

Katie Pickworth was one of 13 recipients of the National Institutes of Health Award, receiving a scholarship and an internship.

She will work with a mentor for two-10 week periods over the next two summers.

Her studies will focus on the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report “that about one-third of American adults are obese.” Katie’s

Imani Caldwell, Class Representative ic692510@ohio.edu

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research will try to “determine if there are psychological and neurological triggers that can be linked to the condition.” For the full article, please visit: http://www. albion.edu/news/archives/2011-12-archives/albion-view/1485-nih-scholarpickworth-13-hopes-to-find-neurological-clues-to-obesity

CLASS OF 2011: A group from the Class of 2011 got together for a brunch with their moms over winter break. Front row from left to right: Taylor Lint, Anna Vutech, Leah Hornyak, Julia Kelley, Francie Taylor. Back Row left to right: Laura Hadley, Veronica Vargo, Samantha Wobst, Megan Murray, and Megan Young

Faculty/Staff Amy Penrod, Physical Education teacher and coach, was the recipient of a Jump Rope for Heart Grant while at her previous school, Licking Heights Elementary. As a department, the Health & Physical Education Department attended the annual HPE conference, where Amy's grant was highlighted in the Jump Rope for Heart session.

We are pleased to welcome a new member to the Physical Education faculty, Lindsey Smith. Strength and conditioning coach, Lindsey Smith, is a world class athlete, most recently finishing 5thin the Reebok World Championship CrossFit Games. You can check out some of her CrossFit videos on YouTube: athttp://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Pk8vA0a0OmI and http://youtu. be/Pf9kJ1PJwD4. Her daughter Alexis is a member of the Class of 2027.

The Upper School Swim & Dive Teams were the District Runners-Up at the Central District Meet and several CSG swimmers proudly went on to represent Columbus School for Girls at the State Championships in Canton, Ohio. To add to the excitement of the day, Chris Chenault and Kelly Standley, were recognized as District Coaches of the Year! New school records were set in several events and the swimmers ended their successful season with a strong OHSAA showing.

Several Washington DC area alumnae joined Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, PhD., Associate Head of School, at the Opening Keynote and Reception for the National Conference on Girls’ Education, co-sponsored by the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools and The Young Women’s Leadership Network on February 10, 2012.

Attendees were given the opportunity to hear Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACULTY: Amy Penrod and Lindsey Smith

speak; network with Washington D.C. area alumnae from CSG as well as other girls’ schools across the country; and connect with program leaders and practitioners, academics, researchers and others committed to the healthy intellectual, social, and emotional development of girls and young women.

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FRONT: Lauren Smiley, ’05, Hannah Scheckelhoff, ‘07 BACK: Molly Porter, ’05, Monica Welt, ’94, Isabelle Zsoldos, ’74, Caroline Farrar Orrick, ’72, Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, Associate Head of School

CSG Swim Coaches, Kelly Standley and Chris Chenault, were named District Coaches of the Year. Kelly was a member of the swim team at The Ohio State University and is the granddaughter of OSU Football legend Woody Hayes. Coach Standley works with the Middle and Upper school swimmers and has been teaching the youngest students at CSG to swim for over 20 years. ABOVE: Coach Standley with Archie Griffin, who played for her grandfather and was the speaker at this year's Martin Luther King program.

Coach Standley and Senior, Ranndi Grubbs, study the heat sheets.

M I L E S T O N E S WITH CONGRATULATIONS

WITH SYMPATHY

We celebrate the joyous occasions of Columbus School for Girls Alumnae.

We acknowledge the loss of members and friends of the Columbus School for Girls family and extend our deepest sympathy. Condolences may be sent to the relatives listed.

Births Orlay and Emily Alonso-Taub, ’89 On the birth of their son, Oliver Peter Alonso-Taub, December 8, 2011

In Memoriam Alumnae

Morgan and Anne Yost Carroll, ’94 On the birth of their son Charles Morgan Carroll, August 18, 2011

Mary Poston Burke, ’29 October 20, 2011 Daughter, Mary Burke Partridge: 5 W. Main Street Mendham, NJ 07945

Monica Welt, ’94 and Babak Djourabchi On the birth of their daughter Leah Maxine, October 17, 2011

Betty Ross Arnott, ’38 October 6, 2011

Eric and Becki Cooperman Kay, ’99 On the birth of their son Eliot “Eli” Rober Kay, November 7, 2011

Mary Jo Smith Gockenbach, ’42 January 3, 2012 Daughters, Teri Gockenbach, ’71, and Michelle Gockenbach Lewis, ’76 Granddaughters, Elizabeth Lewis, ’06, and Haley Lewis, ’08 Teri: 14680 May Ave. North Stillwater, MN 55082 Michelle and Elizabeth: 4474 Summit Ridge Dr. Columbus, OH 43220 Haley: Miami University 250 Richard Hall, 501 S. Oak St. Oxford, OH 45056

Peter and Lisa Benson Meuse, ’99 On the birth of their daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Meuse, October 29, 2011 Jarrett and Jennifer Good Skrobarcek, ’00 On the birth of their son William Skrobarcek, May 1, 2011 Jason and Mandy Berlin Duff, ’00 On the birth of their daughter Harper Anne Duff, January 5, 2012

Marriages RenayRicart, ’96 On her marriage to Aaron Andrews, November 5, 2011 Lindsay Snyder, ’96 On her marriage to Diego Rojas September 4, 2011 Lindsay Baker, ’97 On her marriage to Ben Felton August 27, 2011 Britta Wiesner, ’97 On her marriage to Rusty D’Anna October 29, 2011 Mandy Mengel, ’04 On her marriage to Jordan Goetzke October 15, 2011

Ruth Sams Wilison, ’45 December 1, 2010 Husband, Edward Wilson 2535 Laguna Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 Molly Richardson Morris, ’49 January 15, 2012 Daughters, Betsy Morris, ’72, Marian Morris Burns, ’75, and Lucy Morris Crotty, ’83 Granddaughters, Emily Burns, ’04, and Bizz Burns, ’07 Marian, Emily and Bizz: 353 N. Cassingham Rd., Columbus, OH 43209 Betsy: 42 Rumson Way NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 Lucy: 31 Carriage House Lane, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Donna Schwenker Cavallaro, ’50 December 16, 2011 Iris Haegele Petroff, ’52 April 9, 2011 Companion, Ernest Diamond: 4213 NW 33rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73112 Yvonne Yaw, ’53 January 31, 2012 Daughter, Anneke Tucker 4820 Harbord Drive, Oakland, CA 94618 Lisa Weissenbach Perrin, ’56 December 6, 2011 Daughter, Betsy Perrin Mattimoe: 1234 Newark Granville Road Granville, OH 43023 Daughter, Laura Perrin Karagory 290 Abbot Ave., Worthington, OH 43085

Condolences To Betty Reynolds Halliday, ’49, Lisa Halliday, ’75 Tracy Halliday, ’78 and Stephanie Halliday Giroux, ’81 On the death of their husband and father Stephen M. Halliday, February 26, 2012 Betty: 290 Ashbourne Place, Columbus, OH 43209 Lisa: 15989 Via De Las Palmas Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92091 Tracy: 160 Beaver Run, Coppell, TX 75019 Stephanie: 50 Fairway Avenue, Rye, NY 10580 Polly Woodbury Manning, ’45 On the death of her husband George Charles Manning, Sr., December 1, 2011 Polly: 465 N. Granger Street, Granville, OH 43023 Joan Lisle Morrett, ’54 and Lisa Morrett Reid, ’72 On the death of their husband and father John Morrett, October 14th, 2011 Joan: 2970 St. John's Ave., #1-C, Jacksonville, FL 32205 Lisa: 1420 Nantucket Drive, Houston, TX 77057 Susannah Slade Pierce, ’54 On the death of her husband Raymond Kenneth Pierce, October 21, 2011 Susannah: 264 Noah Drive, Franklin, TN 37064 Sylvia English Haller, ’55 On the death of her brother Richard I. English, December 4, 2011 Sylvia: Box 176, Golf, IL 60029 Joy Jelliffe Endo, ’67 and Janell Jelliffe, ’73 On the death of their father C. Gordon Jelliffe, October 24, 2011 Joy: 12 Notting Hill Way, Montclair, NJ 07042 Janell: 30 Lane de Chantal, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Cathy Zacks Gildenhorn, ’74, and Kim Zacks, ’79 On the death of their mother Caron Sue Zacks, January 1, 2012 Cathy: 00 Baltan Road, Bethesda, MD 20816 Kim: P.O. Box 687, Pickerington, OH 43147 Edie Milligan Driskill, ’76 and Ruth Milligan, ’86 On the death of their father William Milligan, March 3, 2012 Edie: Post Office Box 741, Worthington, OH 43085 Ruth: 265 Oakland Park Ave., Columbus, OH 43214 Kathleen Larrimer Beckmann, ’81 and Karen Larrimer Scherbaum, ’94 On the death of their mother Sara Ann Larrimer, February 6, 2012 Kathleen: 8956 Moydalgan Rd, St. Louis, MO 63124 Karen: 110 East End Ave., #1D, New York, NY 10028 Pam Prouty, ’86 On the death of her father Richard R. Prouty, December 24, 2011 Pam: 2133 Hankinson Road, Granville, OH 43023 Michaele Cook Bishop, ’88 On the death of her husband Jason Bishop, January 17, 2012 Michaele: 6599 Park Mill Drive, Dublin, OH 43016 Elizabeth Emens, ’90 On the death of her stepfather Thomas J. Moyer, April 2, 2010 Elizabeth: 455 Central Park West, #6B New York, NY 10025-3850 Alana Furman, ’05 On the death of her father Franklin Furman, February 14, 2012 Alana: P. O. Box 9562, Columbus, OH 43209

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