Alumni News and Notes Carol Fleming Marks ’73 donated a beautiful Arch sculpture to the school and installed it outside of the Centennial Arts Center. The arch is made of stoneware with a hand-mixed glaze.
The varsity field hockey teams at MICDS and Villa Duchesne faced off at the Midwest field hockey tournament final on Saturday, October 30. Villa won the match 2-0. Congratulations to Community alumnae on each team: Villa players include Sydney Acker ’16, Caroline Solsvig ’18, and
Allison Schneithorst ’19, and MICDS players include Ellie Lochhead ’18, Kendall Curry ’17, Henley Danforth ’16, Caroline Cooper ’16, Brecken Calcari ’16, Anna Lochhead ’16, Greta Wolfsberger ’16, and Kate Oliver ’16.
The U-19 Gateway Field Hockey Team won the silver medal at the 2021 USA Field Hockey National Club Championship. The team beat five incredibly strong components before playing the top team in the country in the championship game on July 2 in Virginia Beach, VA. Players include Community School alumnae Reagan Calcari ’14, Makenna Webster ’14,
Sydney Acker ’16, Brecken Calcari ’16, Anna Lochhead ’16, Greta Wolfsberger ’16, and Kendall Curry ’17.
Evan Erb ’15, won the No. 1 singles flight in the Metro League boys tennis tournament in April 2021. Evan graduated from MICDS and plays tennis at Washington and Lee University.
Noah Kleinlehrer ’16 is one of four recipients of the Stuart I. Pessin Awards through the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. This merit-based award provides funding for high school students who travel to Israel. Congratulations to siblings Coumba Diallo ’16 and Mawdo Diallo ’19 on their recent achievements. Coumba's artwork, “Finding Justice,” is part of the St. Louis Art Museum's 20212022 Young Artists exhibition, “Metamorphosis: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.” Coumba’s work is on view through March 2022. Mawdo was on the St. Louis Kappa League’s national debate team. He and his partner (a 9th grader) competed this spring and won all three debates, including finals against 11th and 12th graders.
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James Karslake ’19 earned the Boy Scouts of America’s William T. Hornaday Award for distinguished service in natural resource conservation. This achievement marks two-and-a-half years of work across St. Louis. James partnered with Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center to remove invasive honeysuckle and replace it with native plants, established bat boxes at Beaumont Scout Reservation to help a displaced bat colony, planted willow tree stakes and native bushes along Deer Creek to prevent erosion, and planted natives and set up bee boxes in Southwest Park.
