Mission: What we do Empower children to lead with courage, compassion, and purpose. Vision: Why we do it
Values: Ideas we live by Inspire the next generation to change the world.
Discovery — Curiosity, creativity, and joyful inquiry drive learning. We explore diverse paths to ask and answer questions, generate solutions, and better understand ourselves and our world.
Authenticity — Individuality, expression, and self-acceptance are essential to personal growth and development. True to ourselves, we develop our unique identities and capacity to navigate a complex world.
Community — We are a diverse, inclusive community where everyone belongs. We are leaders – prepared, connected, and responsible to each other and to our local and global communities.
Fall 2023 | Vol. 50 No. 2
The Foote School
50 Loomis Place, New Haven, CT 06511 203-777-3464• www.footeschool.org
Foote Prints is published twice a year for alumni, parents, grandparents, faculty, and friends.
Editor
Frances Moore
Class Notes
Editors
Mary Beth Claflin
Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89
Design
Frances Moore
Lindsay Russo
Photography
Stephanie Anestis, Frances Moore
Contributors
Jody Abzug, Rashana Graham, Christina MacLean, Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89, Michael Valente, Liz Warner
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Exemplify Courage, Compassion, Purpose
The following was Head of School Aléwa Cooper’s address to Foote’s 9th-Grade Class of 2023.
As you embark on your high school journeys, I want to remind you of Foote values that can and should serve as a compass (if you let them), guiding you through life and empowering you to make a positive impact on the world.
Foote’s mission is to “empower children to lead with courage, compassion, and purpose.” Those are the values I want you to remember.
While sometimes overlooked, compassion is a quality I urge you to cultivate. In a world that often feels divided and disconnected, compassion is the bridge that can unite us all. It is the capacity to understand and share the feelings of others, to lend a helping hand, and to offer support when it is needed most. Let compassion continue to be a guiding force behind your actions, whether in your personal relationships, your educational endeavors, or when engaging the broader community. The smallest act of kindness creates a ripple effect that touches lives far beyond what you can imagine.
Courage is the fuel that propels dreams into reality. It is the audacity to pursue your passions, even in the face of uncertainty and fear. Courage is not the absence of doubt; rather, it is the willingness to confront and overcome those doubts, embracing the challenges that lie before you. As you step into the unknown, remember that courage is not about being fearless but about taking action in the face of fear. Have the courage to be innovative, to question the status quo, and to stand up for what you believe is right, even when it's difficult.
Finally, purpose. Discovering your purpose is an ongoing journey, one that requires self-reflection, exploration, compassion for yourself, courage, and a willingness to listen to the whispers of your heart. Your purpose is not predetermined; it is a creation of your own making. It is the intersection of your passions, talents, and the needs of the world. Seek out what ignites a fire within you, what brings you joy, and where you can make a meaningful difference. Remember that purpose is not solely about personal fulfillment; it is about serving a higher cause and contributing to the well-being of humanity. Let your purpose guide your decisions, your actions, and your legacy.
You are part of a generation capable of transforming the world in ways we have yet to imagine. Embrace the challenges that come your way, for they are the stepping stones to growth and transformation. Surround yourself with diverse perspectives, engage in dialogue, and build bridges across divides. Embrace failure and never lose sight of the power of collaboration.
Always remember that true leaders lead not for personal gain but for the betterment of others. True compassion embraces the universal humanity that binds us all. True courage is not found in reckless bravado but in the quiet determination to do what is right. And true purpose is discovered when you listen to the calling of your heart and dedicate yourself to a cause greater than yourself.
“Listen to the whispers of your heart.”
Departing from the Board
Foote is tremendously grateful for the service and dedication of departing board members George Atwood, Anna McGaw-Mobarak, Jason Price, and Alexandra Shor.
GEORGE ATWOOD
A board member since 2015, George was chair of the Development Committee, and co-chair of the Investment Committee. George has worked at Yale for more than 20 years overseeing administration and investment of charitable trusts. George has three children: Caroline, Ted, and Roddy ’19. George and his family live in Killingworth and enjoy sailing at the family summer house in Blue Hill, ME, or wherever sailing races take them. George received a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University, an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management, and is a chartered financial analyst.
ANNA MCGAW-MOBARAK
Anna has been a board member since 2020. A native of the Cayman Islands, she came to the United States after studying at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, U.K. She has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Macalester College in Minnesota and a master of science in Physical Therapy from Marymount University in Virginia. She worked as a physical
therapist for several years in hospitals/acute-care settings and geriatric rehabilitation facilities in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Colorado. She is the mother of Coyan ’23 and Anya ’20. She currently helps manage Tennis Central in Woodbridge and is a board member of New HYTEs, which runs after-school tutoring, mentoring, and tennis lessons for children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in the New Haven area. Anna has supported Foote’s admissions outreach work and participated in Unite Through Understanding Day at Foote.
JASON PRICE
Jason has been a board member since 2015, and served as chair of the Audit Committee. He is a partner in Exaltare Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm, where he specializes in investments in lower middle market firms and family-owned businesses seeking growth capital to professionalize operations. Previously, he served as a senior vice president at Cigna Investment Management and as the head of private equity investment activity for the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, where he oversaw a $4 billion private equity investment program. Over his professional career, Jason has served on the advisory boards of more than 12 private equity partnerships. He has served on the board of directors of All Our Kin and the Promising Schol-
ars Fund. Jason received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and his B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College. A native of St. Louis, MO, Jason lives in New Haven with his wife, Christina, and two sons, Jason ’23 and Jacob ’24.
ALEXANDRA
SHOR
Board member since 2019, Alexandra graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Comparative Religion. She received an M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine and went on to an Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Boston Medical Center. While in the medical field, Alexandra was particularly interested in family planning and care delivery in under-served populations. After having children, Alexandra made the decision to be home with them full-time. She now lives in North Haven with her husband, John Bianchi, an engineer and builder, with her two children, Jack ’22 and Poppy ’25, and his daughters Camilla and Catherine. She is involved in many projects in greater New Haven that focus on education, health, and opportunity disparities. She currently serves on the boards of Village Health Works, a nonprofit organization working to bring health care, sustainable agriculture, and education to Burundi; and NXTHVN, a New Haven project at the intersection of social justice and creative arts.
Joining the Board
We are
proud to
welcome five new members of the Foote School Board of Trustees.
SHIRIN ADELMAN
Shirin has been an active member of the New Haven community for more than a decade. Shirin received her B.A. from Princeton University, her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a Certificate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. A seasoned attorney with 20 years of legal experience, Shirin has represented countless clients in the corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, employment, real estate, and investment areas. She is also experienced in cybersecurity and privacy-related issues, having worked with state government on cybersecurity-related strategies. Shirin lives in Hamden with her husband Ron, and their daughter, Sophia ’30.
MIKE CAPLAN
Mike has worked in the energy industry for more than 20 years and is currently the CEO of Olivewood Energy, a developer of large-scale solar and energy storage projects. His work experience is in identifying solutions that balance policy objectives with commercial and physical realities, while trying to address the interests of stakeholders. Mike has a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.S. in Finance from London Business School, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is also an advisor
to EarthSpark International, which seeks to eradicate energy poverty by creating business models that can spin off and scale to address specific aspects of energy poverty — with an initial focus on Haiti. Mike lives in North Haven with his wife Lauren, and has two children at Foote: Will ’27 and Ben ’30.
MARYAM CHOHAN
Maryam works at J.P. Morgan Asset Management where she designs and leads training programs for client-facing professionals. She has more than 10 years of experience in human resources, in addition to management consulting at PwC, and strategic management at UNICEF, where her focus area was early childhood development and education. Maryam has a M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in Human Capital Management from Columbia University. She is president of the Columbia University Human Capital Management Club and is a member of Columbia SPS DEIA Committee. She has also volunteered on the governance body for New York Women Social Entrepreneurs, is an alum interviewer for Harvard College, and teaches mindfulness meditation. Maryam lives in Woodbridge with her husband Kaiser Toosy, and their two children Sophia ’30 and Amelia ’31.
JESSIE ROYCE HILL
Jessie serves as the dean of Benjamin Franklin College at Yale, offering guidance on academic and personal matters of her students. She holds a B.A. in European History from Barnard College and a M.S. from Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism. She was associate director of Yale Undergraduate Admissions for eight years. Before coming to Yale,
Jessie worked as a journalist for NPR and wrote and edited for newspapers in Massachusetts. She is a lecturer in Yale's English Department and conceived the Student-Athlete Mentors (SAMs), a program to bolster student-athletes in their first year at Yale. She serves as Director of Advising for Athletics. Jessie lives in New Haven with her daughters Lily ’20 and Ada ’23.
TY SULLIVAN
Ty works in the office of the CAO in the Institutional Clients Group for Citi. With 25 years of experience in financial services, he is an experienced financial analyst, conversant in fixed income, equities, structured products, and the capital markets,
having held roles across sales and trading. Immediately prior to Citi, Ty was at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Supervision Group, focused on the governance and control frameworks of the world’s largest financial institutions. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Finance, both from Boston College. Ty lives in Fairfield with his wife Sarah and daughter Evelyn ’30.
Faculty Honors
This spring, 12 members of our faculty and staff were honored for their milestones at Foote. Celebrating their fiveyear milestone were: Jody Abzug (Director of Development), Eleanor Evins (Learning Support Program), and Rob Withers (then-Lower School Associate). Below are faculty and staff who celebrated 10 + years.
10 YEARS
15 YEARS 20 YEARS
YEARS
Özler Kayaarasi, Middle School Math
Tina Hansen, Latin
Colleen Murphy, P.E. Department
Laura Stanley, Middle School Math
Adam Solomon, Grade 5 Teacher
Cara Hames, Head of Lower School
Amy Sudmyer, Assoc. Dir. of Development Operations
Carrie Bergantino, Learning Support Program
Melissa McCormack, Grade 1 Teacher
Perspectives on Poverty in U.S.
“We need to be loud. We have to convince more people to get involved in the process. Our society can't continue the way it has if we continue to exclude people from the economy.”
— Colleen Shaddox, Author (left)
The Witness Stone Project
Each year, seventh graders participate in The Witness Stone Project, researching the life of a person who was enslaved in Connecticut. Students spend months researching the history of slavery while uncovering information about a person whose life was lived in slavery, but whose story was previously untold.
Visit footeschool.org/WS to read student reflections on the life of Nean, a former slave, and view original student photography and graphic design.
In April we welcomed Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, co-authors of the 2021 book Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty.
A former Foote parent, Joanne is the founder and chief executive officer of National Diaper Bank Network and CEO of the Alliance for Period Supplies. As a former social worker in New Haven, she has first-hand perspective on the devastating — and sometimes insurmountable — effects that poverty has on individuals. At the same time, she's also witnessed the common misconceptions that surround poverty — for example, the assumption that people are poor because they don't want to work.
"Most people who are poor work," she verified. The problem is that an outmoded minimum wage and welfare system does not provide sufficient support.
Solutions are not easy, but Joanne pointed out that the first step is an open dialogue.
"In this country, we don't talk about money. Having it is taboo, and not having it is taboo," she said. "We have to be willing to have the conversation."
Field Day ’23
What a Day for Maroon and Grey!
We couldn't have picked a nicer day for the annual Field Day competitions — nor could we have picked nicer people to share it with. Students sprinted, hopped, and helped each other across the finish line, culminating in an epic multi-grade relay race with an incredible demonstration of sportsmanship and camaraderie. (For those keeping score, this year's win went to Maroon!)
FESTIVAL OF THE WORLD
The Arts and Humanities departments collaborated on a months-long, 6th-grade research project: Festival of the World. The result was an unforgettable evening of history, customs, cultures, and performances from around the world.
Let’s go, Falcons!
SPRING SPORTS
Congratulations to the softball team on an undefeated season: 9–0!
Read about our spring season: footeschool.org/athletics
What an amazing night of camaraderie! We are so grateful for the support of our parents, faculty, and staff, who showed their school spirit at this year's auction fundraiser. We are also grateful to NXTHVN co-founders (and Foote parents) Jason Price and Titus Kaphar, who generously offered up their dynamic art space as the venue, and to the generous event sponsors!
Class of 2023 CONGRATULATIONS
The distinguished Class of 2023 sat together on the Foote stage one final time at their graduation June 13. This tight-knit group of 15 graduates supported and encouraged each other until the last person departed the gym that evening. It was an event filled with profound reflections — from Head of School Aléwa Cooper’s emphasis on the significance of our mission (see page 2), to Class President Jai Makam’s reminder about the ties that will always bind his class together. Graduation speaker Spencer Luckey ’85 peppered his poignant personal tale with humor and humanity, serving as a model of someone who has stumbled, picked himself up, and persevered.
(See more photos and videos from the day at footeschool.org/graduation.)
“Despite our diverse interests and talents, we will always have one thing in common: that incredible Foote spirit which has set us up for success as human beings, as members of our communities, as leaders, as students, as whatever we are, wherever we are, for the rest of our lives. That Foote spirit lends itself to kindness, social consciousness, intellectual curiosity, camaraderie, a lot of fun, hard work, a drive for healthy competition, and, above all, deep, meaningful friendships. These Foote tools will hold a permanent place in our life-skills toolbox as we go our separate ways and forge our unique paths.”
JAI MAKAM ’23 CLASS PRESIDENT
“Contemplate
your learning and the experiences that have made you who you are today. Look forward to the challenges and successes you will surely encounter. Look outward to the world that beckons you.”
BETH MELLO DIRECTOR OF ACCREDITATION
ACCOLADES & GIFTS
Foote School Prize — Levi York
Margaret Ballou Hitchcock Prize: Charlie Sudmyer
James B. Shepler Fine Arts Prize — Zahabiya Khokha
9th Grade Outstanding Scholarship Award — Emilia Adams
9th Grade Athletic Award — Molly Romero, Ally Pine Maher, Ignacio Granda
9th Grade Parents’ Farewell Gift — $3,525 for Financial Aid and Learning Support
Hannah Lee Diploma — Brad McGuire, former Foote Athletic Director
GRADUATES WILL ATTEND
Cheshire Academy
Choate Rosemary Hall
Hamden Hall Country Day School
Hopkins School
Sacred Heart Academy
“Come back to remark on the ways the campus may change, and reflect on the comforting ways it remains exactly the same. Come back to share fondest memories, reconnect with favorite teachers and laugh about nearly forgotten mischief. Most of all, though, come back to see one another and to check in with your teachers and even maybe come back to give back to this place that has given us so much. We will always be a home for you, no matter where your path leads.”
AMY STEPHENS SUDMYER ’89 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
“ ‘Something great is about to happen,’ Mr. Sandine said at the beginning of every class, and it has echoed in my head ever since. The absurdity of it always appealed to me for sure, but as I get older I have come to appreciate its truth: great things are happening, happening here, in fact. ... Foote is miraculous. Through their abundance of patience, the faculty here proved they believed in me, and in each and every one of you graduates, I am sure. And like a video game that always ends in a fantastic fiery explosion, they encouraged me to try again and again, until the outcome improved. This is the school of soft knocks and second, third, and fourth chances. ... Find your jam and rock it. Luck plays such an outsized role in life, it’s crazy. From womb to tomb, Fortune’s wheel can dictate whole stretches of life. So try to stay healthy, eat right, get plenty of exercise, and don’t let your watch tell you when to sleep.”
SPENCER LUCKEY ’85 GRADUATION SPEAKER
8TH GRADE
Celebration
The 8th grade class of 46 students joined in the Foote School gym to celebrate their time at Foote. Some students will stay until 9th grade, and some will move on, but together they are a reflection of their shared experiences, exemplified during the ceremony by original poetry from students Myles Carter Solomon ’24 and Tal Berkowitz ’24. Head of Middle School Barrington Fulton Jr. urged his students to continue to embrace the true meaning of “carpe diem,” and take pride in the rewards that sentiment can reap.
ACCOLADES AND GIFTS
8th Grade Outstanding Scholarship Award — Lukas Roberts (honorable mention: Anushka Gupta)
8th Grade Athletic Award — Lila Pisani, Lucian Halpern
8th Grade Parents’ Farewell Gift — $8,862 for Foote's Financial Aid Program and the Frank Perrine Library
DEPARTING 8TH GRADERS WILL ATTEND
Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall
Amity Regional High School/ECA
Branford High School
Cheshire Academy
Choate Rosemary Hall
Deerfield Academy
Guilford High School
Hamden Hall Country Day School
Hamden High School
Hopkins School
The Loomis Chaffee School
New Haven Academy
Phillips Academy Andover
Wilbur Cross High School
Wilbur Cross High School/ECA
“Embrace meaningful dialogues with those who hold different viewpoints, and always remember our shared humanity as you shape our future. Seize the day by seizing every opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of others. … Embrace the discomfort that comes with perseverance, for it is within those moments that growth truly occurs.”
BARRINGTON FULTON JR. HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL
Stepping Outside
LEARNING BY DOING
Many of us are intimately familiar with a traditional classroom education, sitting at a desk — or maybe a collaborative Harkness table — evenly spaced from your peers, four walls, and an instructional blackboard (or whiteboard) at the front of the classroom. No matter how elaborately the room was decorated, there were probably times when you just knew that a change of environment could help you re-focus and re-energize.
In the last issue of Foote Prints, we outlined our Strategic Plan (footeschool.org/strategicplan), which — among many other imperatives — prioritizes “learning by doing ... utilizing the outdoors and New Haven as our canvas.” We emphasize the importance of learning where we are — on our park-like campus, in our neighborhood and our city, and in communities near and far.
Our campus — with its gardens, Sacred Woods, ropes course, playgrounds, and fields — is the perfect supplement to the learning happening in the classroom. Field trips, too, are a hallmark of the Foote experience, as our teachers look for opportunities to partner with the vast network of global and local organizations. Venturing off campus, students can explore marshes in Milford, invent at the Eli Whitney Museum, get creative in nearby art galleries, practice their world language skills with native speakers, and much, much more.
ADAPTABILITY
Each year, 4th graders select a significant individual in history that they will research and ultimately “become” as part of their Wax Museum project presentations. Stationed throughout campus, the students teach passersby about their chosen individual. This year they added a new twist: with the outdoors as a resource center, the students were asked to find materials that they could use to create “artifacts” — props that elucidate their research project.
“There's a planning period, but the greatest lessons come when their plans don't come to fruition and they have to adjust. They have to work with others to make this creation — that exists only in their mind so far — come to life. It becomes a day of learning that they all really remember.”
DENISE QUINN, 4TH-GRADE TEACHER
ACCESSIBILITY
“The Great Outdoors” has always been a source of inspiration for artists, and it can also serve as the canvas itself. Ninth-grade art students use outdoor spaces around the school to create installations that serve as an homage to significant moments in art history, while providing an opportunity for anyone to enjoy artwork in a public space.
“We start with cave-painting using the cement foundation along the gym wall, and then tie that into a contemporary artist who makes art in the same way. This year we studied Keith Haring, who made art on subway walls so that people could see them outside of a gallery. The students utilized the retaining wall between the fields on Highland as a canvas for a Keith Haring-inspired mural.”
MEREDITH ANDREWS, ART TEACHER
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
Outdoor learning is an opportunity to raise awareness about nature and environmental issues, promoting a sense of environmental responsibility. Our first graders take this responsibility seriously, as they diligently maintain the campus gardens, and gain a first-hand appreciation for the surrounding flora and fauna. At the same time, students can take lessons from the classroom and directly apply them to their environment.
“We need math to measure a perimeter and we use estimation skills to figure out how many weeds we can pick in one minute; we can see firsthand the insect life cycles we learn about in science; we sketch our surroundings and write descriptions and reflections about what we see. We really take advantage of every opportunity we get to go outside.”
KAYLEIGH AXON, 1ST-GRADE TEACHER
CREATIVITY
Foote’s campus is the perfect spot to practice tree I.D., plant vegetables, care for our chickens, and make any number of scientific discoveries. In 7th grade, the Middle School recess field becomes the stage for a tug-of-war demonstration on force. The J.M. deck becomes a launchpad for trajectory tests. Across the curriculum, faculty use the campus to reframe the classroom experience.
“Heading out of the classroom, while providing a feeling of excitement, also invites new opportunities and new ways of thinking. When launching marbles for an engineering challenge, opening the door out to the deck immediately inspires students to aim farther. When we take them out to the fields for a tug-of-war physics challenge or to meet with
members of the New Haven community, we are expanding their understanding that there are an infinite number of learning resources available to them.”
ELLIOT DICKSON, MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER
“It's a really neat opportunity for kids to try new things while gaining independence by being away from home. It is an invaluable moment of maturity and learning for our students.”
ROSS HOLZSCHUH, 5TH-GRADE ASSOCIATE TEACHER
GROWTH
P.E. classes often find creative ways to use the outdoor spaces. In addition, our arboreal challenge course features ice-breakers and problem-solving challenges on ground-based elements alongside physical challenges of the high-ropes course. Simultaneously, students come to appreciate the struggles, the missteps, and the wrong turns — because those are opportunities for growth.
“Students discover more about each other and about themselves as they conquer new challenges — sometimes in teams and sometimes as individuals. The problemsolving, leadership, communication, and accountability skills that our students develop becomes transformative.”
CARRIE BOYCE, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
LEADERSHIP
Working in a different environment promotes teamwork, communication, and cooperation. With new opportunities for collaboration, students become more empathetic and eager to take on leadership roles. The Foote chicken coop offers opportunities for collaboration, but it also empowers students to demonstrate leadership skills. Our third graders have taken on the responsibility of overseeing the dayto-day coop care.
“The third graders collect the eggs and distribute them to members of our community. We absolutely love having the chickens on campus — that's a very special and unique aspect to our program. It’s important that we utilize our beautiful campus for as much outdoor learning as we can.”
EMILY PALEY, 3RD-GRADE TEACHER
RESILIENCE
Opportunities to navigate new environments gives students a chance to face unexpected challenges, and learn how to adapt. Before the 5th-grade field trip to Nature's Classroom, many have never spent a night away from home, or been immersed in a rural environment. After the trip, they have a new sense of self, emboldened and energized by the courage it took to try something new.
"It's a really neat opportunity for kids to try new things while gaining independence by being away from home. It is an invaluable moment of maturity and learning for our students."
ROSS HOLZSCHUH, 5TH-GRADE ASSOCIATE TEACHER
“I loved it.”
“This fall we started our school year under the new headmaster, Mr. Perrine. We all liked him from the beginning, but he really won us over when he appeared one recess to play football.”
— FOOTE YEARBOOK 1968
The following is an excerpt from a May 23, 2023, interview with former Head of School Frank Perrine (1967–1992), conducted by Associate Director of Development Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89, and Foote Archivist Cindy Leffell.
Q:How did you decide that education was going to be your career path?
Frank Perrine: That's a great question. My father and my grandfather were both bankers in a small-town bank [near Cranbury, NJ]. … But I didn't take to it. I majored in History and English, and I went through what everybody goes through: “What am I going to do with my life?” I went into the Army, and when I got out in 1957, a family friend who owned a factory over in Trenton, NJ, offered me a job as a salesman. … I went to work because it was a job and I didn't know what else I wanted to do.
After I did it for a while, I said, “No, no, no, no. This is not what you're gonna do for a lifetime.” So, I moved to New York, and I got a master's degree. I was drawn to teaching. I don't know why. It was an inner thing.
I wrote a letter to every public school district in the Manhattan area, and got no acceptances whatsoever because I didn't have a teaching degree. And so I gave it all up and went to Europe for the summer, went to bull fights all over Spain with a good friend,[and] had a wonderful time.
“I was in the classroom every day and that's how I got to know the kids.”
When I came back the day before Labor Day, I went to a teacher's agency — The Cooperative Bureau for Teachers. A woman told me about a job at The Harvey School (Katonah, NY). They needed a teacher for the school's opening in a few days. I got all dolled up and drove up there in my little car, and the guy offered me a job pretty quickly. I had no experience, obviously, but I liked him. He liked me. He said, “I could offer you a contract to teach. Can you teach math?” I said, “Oh, sure.” I didn't know anything about math. He said, “Can you coach?” I said, “Oh, yeah, I can do all that.”
It was a boarding school — 60 boys, 4th through 8th grade, old-fashioned English school, neckties, stand-up straight. Yes, sir. No, sir. Wonderful. … The second year, I got married and my wife Laura moved up there. We lived in a dormitory with 16 kids. The year Kennedy died, 1963, my headmaster died in an automobile crash. And for some dumb reason, they made me acting headmaster. I was only 29 or 30. I did my best and liked it. [After hiring a new headmaster], the school named me assistant headmaster.
Then in 1967, The Foote School was looking for a head and they invited me up to New Haven for an interview. For some reason they hired me. I started there July 1, 1967, when I was just 33. We moved across the street from the school, rented a house, and started working there.
I liked school life: I like kids, I like recess, I like games, I like being in the classrooms, I like the interaction, and I love to teach. For me, it just clicked. I knew I was very, very lucky, especially to go to Foote — to a place like that with a reputation like that. It was a wonderful school. I said to myself, “How did you ever get that job?” I still feel that way. I don't think I could have ever had a better job.
At the end of 25 years, I said, “You gotta let somebody else run the place. You're getting stale.” So, I don't know if it's right or wrong, but life went on and I still love the place. You guys are so, so nice to me.
Q: If you can remember back to your first year at Foote, who was the first person you hired or what were some of the first decisions you made?
FP: Well, you know, Bob Sandine was there. And, he was a very good friend of Mrs. Churchill [Foote’s previous headmistress]. So I made Bob assistant headmaster right off the bat. He was a rock beside me for the whole run. He's still one of my best friends. I started off with a good crowd. There were some really wonderful teachers there. I did all the hiring. I did all the placement. I did all the admissions. We didn't have any assistants. But I loved it.
Q: What was behind the decision to add the 9th grade?
FP: The theory was you go to grammar school until 8th grade, then you go to high school. But there was also a feeling that a lot of kids would do better with an extra year at the grammar school level before they jumped into the big high schools. So we debated that, and the trustees and committees thought that would be a good idea. We wanted to have a 9th grade. Bob Sandine and Virginia Wilkinson basically started it, ran it for several years, and added programs of travel here. We got a following.
Q: In your experience, what is a hallmark of a Foote education?
FP: We were always very strong on academics, and I thought writing was very important and wanted the kids to be good at that. Practice, practice, practice. What got me laughing was that the kids had been all over the world, but they didn't know where the Mississippi River was. They didn't know where Kansas was. So I taught them all the states, all the capitals, all the presidents, latitude, longitude, geography. We memorized the Gettysburg Address. We memorized poems.
They had to recite everything. They could draw a map of the United States. I wanted to fill in the basics. So I taught the whole 7th grade every year for 25 years. I was in the classroom every day and that's how I got to know the kids.
Q: Another thing you did was create ways for alumni to stay connected to the school, like reunions and the alumni magazine.
FP: There was nothing. I can't believe it — it was a clean slate. Isabelle Dewitt started Foote Prints. We started an alumni association. We started reunions.
There was very very little in the way of fundraising. We had a deficit every year. We didn't have any money. You know, the school wasn't broke, but it was just going day-to-day, practically. Every year they had a fundraising drive, and the treasurer would send out a letter at Christmas time, and they'd raise about $20,000–25,000. That was the only fundraiser, no development, no nothing. And then slowly but surely we started a little endowment. I'm very proud; $20 million is not a bad endowment at all for any school like ours.
Q: What were some other unique experiences students and faculty had?
FP: We had a house in Vermont, which Laura and I bought in 1971, and we took the 8th grade up there for an overnight and brought the 9th grade for three or four nights. We did it every year. We had wonderful, wonderful times doing that.
Q: Who are some of the teachers you still keep in touch with?
FP: Getting good teachers is always the fun and the trick. That's who runs the school, not me. The teachers do it. And so I was always looking out for somebody. Jay Cox came along — he was a shop teacher out of Madison Country School. I hired him to teach fifth grade when we had an opening. He seemed to me to be the perfect guy for boys and girls that age. And he had a great personality. Then the business manager left, and I hired him to be business manager. He did that until just a few years ago. I talk to him all the time. He's a great friend. Another guy, Bob Osborne, has always been a wonderful guy. He came along as sort of an intern in the lower grades way,
Frank Perrine Timeline (1967–1992)
1967
Frank becomes Head of School Rooted School on Loomis Place
1970
First issue of Foote Prints Magazine is issued
1971
Welcomes first 9th grade class (curricular theme: “Wilderness and the City”)
1970s
Adds Latin, Russian, and Spanish language courses
1973
Acquires 5-acre parcel of land for playing fields
1974
Begins Mixed Age Group (combining students from grades 1 and 2 in one classroom for two years with same teacher)
K–5 becomes Lower School and 6–9 becomes Upper School
1979
First official Alumni Reunion Foote’s first Apple II microcomputer
way back. He is still teaching high school in New Haven.
Oh, still a half a dozen teachers. Francie Irvine and Laura Altshul and Jerry Overly. I talk to them regularly and Patty Langdon. It's been a huge part of my life. And, I haven't got the right words to say how happy it's made me.
Q: Over the course of your 25 years at Foote, did it seem like the students changed? What seemed to change the most for you?
FP: When I grew up, we got home from school, played outside, and did everything all day. Now everybody runs the kids to games and plays and this and that and they never have any freedom, are never alone. The parents are all over them all the time. That's the only thing I see differently.
I think kids just need good handling, and places like Foote do it well. They still learn to read. They still learn to write. They still learn to play ball. They still learn to be good people. I've always been big on trying to get them to do something good with their lives, to make the world better.
Q: What other people defined Foote over the years?
FP: Lola Salowitz taught math forever, and Ann Gulliver was a great teacher. We had a lot of them. That was the trick. Annie Clark taught gym forever. A lot of other people stayed there for 20, 25 years. The place just worked. We had a nice camaraderie. We had very good trustees. Bart Giamatti, Eli Clark, John Smith, Milt DeVane, Everton Hosley, Jay Bovilski, Charlie Michael. The last 15–20 years, there have been a lot of terrific women who were on the board.
Q: How did athletics fit into the school philosophy?
FP: I loved our sports approach. We were never a killer of teams. We liked to play. The coaches were wonderful. They let the kids play. And we weren't trying to kill everybody and beat everybody. We had some good teams and we had some good spirit. But I liked the approach to athletics. It was not trying to be big-time.
Q: It seems like you led the way for your three children, who are all involved in education.
FP: I'm so proud they've all been teachers, and I think some of the next generation will be, too. They love teaching.
We loved living in New Haven. We had a wonderful, wonderful 25 years there. It was still home to us. Our kids all went to Foote and then two of them went to Wilbur Cross High School and one went to boarding school. So we were still very involved with, and still love New Haven. Great, great, great part of our lives. Lucky. Lucky, lucky us.
To make a donation in memory of Mr. Perrine, visit footeschool.org/give.
1980
Foote enrollment tops 400 Inaugural “Foote Race” for financial aid 1980s Creates of Community Caring Coalition, encouraging community service
1981
Foote Summer Theater begins 1984
New classroom building erected; expands endowment and scholarship funds. 1985
Ground broken for North Building (time capsule to be opened in 2035) 1986 Campaign raises $1.1 Million 1987
Fifth grade begins school-wide recycling program 1988
Foote School offers mini courses in After School Program 1989
Library expansion planned 1991
Foote celebrates its 75th anniversary Ribbon-cutting for new library (now called the Frank Perrine Library)
JASMINE (TOMPKINS) NIKOLE
Art is the connective tissue that binds all other facets of life. It is an educator, a healer, a diplomat, and an activist. It is at once deeply personal and universal. It is both an escape and a grounding force. Jasmine (Tompkins) Nikole ’06 knows this to be true.
An engineer, an educator, and entrepreneur — among many other roles — Jasmine determinedly keeps her creative side active. During the pandemic she took the leap to become a full-time artist. It’s meant hard work, and requires her to make tough choices, but the rewards far outweigh any reservations she might have had.
THE EARLY YEARS
From her earliest days, Jasmine knew in her heart that she was an artist. Instead of toys, she asked her parents for art supplies so she could hone her craft at home. A 5-year-old asking for paper and paint made sense to them, too — they come from a long line of distinguished artists.
“We are all creators,” Jasmine explained. “We’re writ-
ers, singers, photographers, graphic designers, painters, and musicians — on both sides of the family.”
Her grandmother and her great-grandfather were artists whose museum-quality paintings were displayed in prestigious institutions. Though Jasmine never had the opportunity to meet them — or even view their works, as they have been lost to time — she carries with her the inspiring stories that have been passed down: how her grandmother’s works were purportedly displayed at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, or how, when her great-grandfather became paralyzed, he used painting as a means of healing.
Jasmine, who is primarily a painter, can relate to that. She’s been able to use her craft to unite communities, provide a space for healing, and encourage others to embrace their authenticity.
When Jasmine came to Foote in second grade, she brought with her a talent for creating — not just works of art, but community. She immersed herself in all Foote had to offer, and stayed through 9th grade, so she could experience the China trip, and enjoy more time with her tight-knit classmates.
“We had really strong bonds,” she laughed. She also took advantage of the varied art classes, media, and techniques that are still endemic in the Foote curriculum.
“I think the art program [at Foote] really shaped me and exposed me to the tools and skills that I use today and every day,” she said. For example, when someone asks her if she’s ever worked with clay, or sculpted stones, she can nod confidently. “The different media that I was exposed to at Foote just opens my eyes and makes me want to explore it more as an artist now.”
APPLIED SCIENCE AND MATH
Jasmine left Foote for Sacred Heart Academy, bringing with her not just her artistic aptitude (and renowned dance skills) but a penchant for science and math that led her to Rochester Institute of Technology for an engineering degree. Like the student herself, this degree was about substance and style. RIT is one of just nine institutions that offers an undergraduate degree in Packaging Science. The degree addresses the practical: how are packages designed for sustainability, shipment, and cost-effectiveness? It also addresses the aesthetic: how do products look when they’re in the package and on the shelf?
While she worked toward this career, she also got heavily involved in all aspects of college life: mentoring, community health coaching, gospel choir, student clubs, government, and dozens of other activities. Yet Jasmine never lost touch with her artwork.
“It’s always a part of me,” she said. She would carve out time about once a year to do some form of art just
for herself. She was also frequently commissioned to create works for others, from portraits to wall murals (continuing the business she’d started in middle school).
After college she moved back to Connecticut, taking a job at Unilever, where she was a packaging engineer for Dove’s, St. Ives, Vaseline, Fisher Price, Conair, and more. She was also seeking out new ways to connect with her community. Again, art was the answer. She opened a paint-and-sip spot and found that while it was a way to connect people with each other, it was also a way to connect people to themselves.
“Not only was I instructing a painting session, I was also leading self-fulfillment workshops in the middle of the session. Guests were leaving with new connections to the other people around them, and a better understanding of themselves and what they want to do in the future. That’s where the healing in communities comes in as well,” she reflected.
Up until then, she hadn’t seriously considered art as a career — while it’s true her family are all talented artists, “art was never looked at as a means of living,” she explained. After the pandemic hit, she began to reconsider how she was spending her time and talent. Shortly after she gave birth to her son, she found herself working from home and wondering why she wasn’t putting more of her energy into her artwork. She began to split her professional time between engineering and her artwork. By the time her daughter arrived, there was no question about what she wanted to do. She left engineering behind and put all her energy into growing her art business.
While it isn’t always easy — she can’t always say yes to every project she’d like to take on, and finding childcare in the moment is always tough — she does not second-guess her decision.
“It absolutely was the right decision. I have no doubt,” she
said. “I’m able to spend those moments, every single day, with my kids. I’m grateful for that.”
SEEING PEOPLE
Today Jasmine’s business, Jasmine Nikole Art Studio, is flourishing. Her website (beautifully designed by her sister, graphic designer Tiara ((Tompkins)) McKnight ’09) abounds with stunning portraits and vibrant nature-inspired scenes. It’s alive with the same energy and passion that Jasmine exudes.
Portraits are her specialty, and “seeing people” is her priority. There were so many times in her own experience when she felt she wasn’t seen, and she never wants anyone else to feel that way.
“I think this is a world where everybody is a number or a statistic, and it’s been that way for a long time. … I always want to make people aware: ‘Hey, I see you. I see what you’re doing. I recognize you. I see your strength, but more importantly, I want you to see your own strength,’” she emphasized.
This summer Jasmine brought this mentality with her into the classroom as part of Horizons at Foote’s summer program. She taught art to grades K–8, and forged a special connection with the middle school students.
“They can get so lost in their friend groups, they feel like they’ve lost their individuality,” she said.
One day she asked 7th grade students to take a piece of paper and first write down what others think about who they are. Next, she asked them to write down who they think they are. “Who are you?” she pointedly asked. After making their two lists, she told the students to tear up their first list.
“Everything on that page, good or bad, none of it matters. The only thing that matters is what you say about yourself,” she told them.
She then asked them to write down what they want to be — who they want to be — not when they “grow up,” but now.
“What steps are you taking to be that person?” she asked them. “The future is now. It doesn’t happen magically one day.” The exercise was transformative, particularly for the
students who originally seemed closed off during her class. “After that they really started to open up.”
During the pandemic, Jasmine began to ask herself those same questions: “Who am I? What am I really doing?”
“I began to think, ‘Now is a good time.’ We were hit with a pandemic so you were faced with yourself. To be recognized and feel seen and be able to relate to others is very important in reconnecting after that solitude,” she said.
Yet in some ways, she said, that way of thinking really started during her time as a student at Foote.
“I think Foote exposed me to a world that I would not have been exposed to,” she explained. “[For example], respecting others is something that my family taught me, but at Foote I was able to practice it.”
Last spring, she invited the Foote kindergarten classes to her exhibit at Creative Arts Workshop: “Freedom Dreams.” It’s her favorite series, and cemented her decision to become a professional artist.
She explained, “Telling stories is very important and that particular series sent me on the path that I’m on right now, mentally, spiritually, and physically. The story behind it is that we have to strip away the technology and social norms now to achieve true freedom, which is living off of the earth and being close to nature.”
To view and/or purchase her work, visit jnikoleartcollection.com
SAVE THE DATE: NOV. 10
For one night only, Jasmine will host an exhibit at NXTHVN: “She’s Gotta Have It: An Icon Art Gallery Showcase”
Welcome back!
ALUMNI WEEKEND 2023
Friday, May 12
The tone was set for a joyous Alumni Weekend with an opening night reception at Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ.
Saturday, May 13
On Saturday we welcomed (more than just) the classes of ’3s and ’8s to more formal festivities, albeit in classic Foote style! After a tour of the campus, alumni were treated to lunch and presentation by Aléwa Cooper, Head of School. During the ceremony, Chad Curry ’99 was honored with the Alumni Achievement Award, presented by his former kindergarten teacher, Sue Shaw. Incoming Alumni Council co-chairs Dan Fleschner ’94 and Alex Kleiner ’00 presented departing co-chairs Elizabeth Draghi ’77 and Jen LaVin ’81 with the Foote School Service Award, followed by the presentation of another Foote School Service Award to Amy Caplan ’88 by fellow alumna (and former co-worker) Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89.
One of the most heart-warming moments of the afternoon came in the form of a special Community Award, presented to long-time Head of School Frank Perrine (in absentia) by former faculty Jay Cox, Bob Osborne, and Annie Clark.
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’68
’80s & ’90s
Alumni
Weekend 2023 May 3–4, 2024
Honoring the classes of 4s and 9s
Class Notes
“I remember Frank Perrine so fondly. He was kind, approachable, patient, and fair. He was willing to talk things out to help you understand an issue or a problem. ... He was present. I'm grateful that he was the Head of School during my time at Foote.
— Kate Loewald ’74 “
Please
note that we report
news about Foote alumni, as well as their passings, as we become aware of them.
1950
1935
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of John Goodenough We extend our sympathy to his sister Ursula Goodenough ’56 and brother Daniel Goodenough ’58.
1945
Michael Buchanan wrote that he continues to volunteer with the American Legion and for Meals on Wheels. He would love to hear from any of his class of 1945 classmates.
Anne Hunt Tritz sent a note that she leads a very quiet life now. She has not traveled since her husband passed away in 2018.
1946
Jennifer Griswold Hillhouse wrote she no longer travels but is still walking, doing jigsaw and crossword puzzles, as well as reading. Jennifer said she is “entertained by odd jobs with children and grandchildren, care of the cats, and some Senior Center activities.”
1948
From Berkeley, CA, we received a note from Dr� John Cooke that “despite advancing years and the loss of a leg I am still planning to spend three months in Europe this summer.”
Class Correspondent: Mary Pigott Johnsen jlmpjohnsen@west-point.org
1952
Class Correspondent: Harald Hille harald.hille@gmail.com
1953
Class Correspondent: Robert Wing wing.1@osu.edu
Eligio Petrelli shared: “I enjoyed very much reunioning with my classmates of ’53, Bob Wing, and Mary Lou Venter Briggs, at L’ Orcio in New Haven. Reunions are so valuable for friendship, renewals and piecing together events from the old days. 70 years! A long time!”
Bob Wing wrote to report that the Class of 1953 recognized the 70th anniversary of their graduation on Alumni Weekend on May 12–13, 2023. Bob and Mary Lou (Venter) Briggs, accompanied by Mary Lou's husband Jim, attended the event at the school, and Eligio Petrelli joined them for dinner the night before at a fine Italian restaurant on State Street. Mary Lou had spent a long winter skiing with her husband
in Sun Valley, ID, and returned to their home in Williamstown, MA, just in time for Alumni Weekend. Butch Butterworth participated in the weekend festivities by hosting Bob and his son James at the Butterworth farm in Mount Carmel, where polo is still played during the warmer months.
Although other members of the class were unable to attend Alumni Weekend, Bob reported that the occasion of their 70th reunion did bring them together through a flurry of emails — they shared memories of two classmates about whose deaths we had only recently learned, Brenda (Sweeney) Filley and Jordy Mott.
Brenda lived in Guilford until her death two years ago and, besides her long career working for McGraw Hill, she was an active member of Guilford's Racquet and Swim Club where she played tennis competitively until the age of 80!
The class learned that Jordy, who spent most of his adult life on the West Coast, moved at one point to Berkley, MI, close to one of his daughters, when he died in April 2023, following a stroke.
Sarah (Willard) Penegar continues to work (from home) as a psychologist in Knoxville, TN, and wrote that she had seen Jordy several times in recent years while he was living in Virginia.
Marilyn (Jordan) Schulz sent news that she is adjusting to living alone in Toronto, and that she survived the pandemic largely with the help of Zoom, which allowed her to take several courses, participate in a book club, and even to play bridge. She has also made visits to Tucson, where her son Andy works at the University of Arizona, and to Montreal, which "is like being in another country."
Speaking of Canada, Cathleen (Greaves) Rowlett wrote from Vancouver that she is getting excited by the prospect of becoming a great-grandparent.
Katherine (Tiernan) O'Connor continues her international travels and missed reunion due to being in Italy.
Celestine (LaFarge) Nicolas writes from the Netherlands that she has been battling with Long Covid symptoms, and that the medications only seem to make it worse.
Continuing with international news, Wil Aaron wrote from Wales
that he has nearly finished his book on the adventures and mishaps of 18th-century Welsh missionaries to Tahiti, a project that took him not only to the British Museum but also to Tahiti itself. Wil's book on Welsh Mormon pioneers, who struggled by oxcart from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, appeared (in Welsh) about three years ago. Wil and his wife Carys have been involved in the restoration of a local pub, which they are turning into a cultural hub where Welsh is spoken and Welsh traditions are cherished.
1954
Steve Mendillo, who lives in L.A. and is still acting, shared, “ The last Broadway show I did was Our Town with Paul Newman, it was my seventh Broadway show.”
1955
Class Correspondents: Nawrie Meigs-Brown grannyn13@gmail.com
Lee Dunham wlhdunham@gmail.com
1956
Class Correspondent: Will Amatruda willtam88@hotmail.com
Sally Jones Loeser wrote to tell us her grandchildren have been busy
at college. Two of them graduated from Northeastern University in Boston — Emily Culitan with a fine arts degree in 2022 and Alex Knueppel in 2023 with a degree in political science. Sally’s granddaughter Sara Knueppel will be a senior Interior Design major at The University of Wisconsin this fall. Emma Knueppel is a high school senior and will be studying nursing. Sally ended her note with, “Otherwise doing my best to stay busy and healthy and dealing with the reality of losing friends due to age and illness.”
Ursula Goodenough wrote to us that she retired to Martha’s Vineyard in 2017 and loves every aspect thereof. She added, “I have five children and nine grandchildren. I’ve published a book called The Sacred Depth of Nature.”
Ursula Goodenough ’56
Correspondents Needed!
We need your help collecting news from your classmates for publication in Class Notes and alumni profiles. To volunteer, please contact Mary Beth Claflin in the Alumni Programs Office: mclaflin@footeschool.org
1957
Class Correspondent: Kevin Geenty kevin@geentygroup.com
1958
Class Correspondent: Barry Stratton barrystratton@yahoo.com
Kerry Triffin reports he is very active with the Bethany Land Trust and thus his physical, mental, and spiritual health are all excellent!
1960
Class Correspondent: Happy Clement Spongberg happyspongberg@earthlink.net
Happy Clement sent the following message to her classmates: “MCMLXERS!!! Submitto nuntium iam/mox/nunc. Communicatio amet. Harmonia/beatus.” Happy translated as: “Send a message now/soon/now. Communicating is important. Harmony/happiness.” In late July and early August 2022 Happy and her sister, Muffie ’61 took a trip to visit Happy’s daughter Nia in Ann Arbor, MI. Happy and Muffie traveled for some time in the areas west and north of Traverse City, a great trip by all accounts. While in the Adirondacks this July, she met up with Foote alum Ellen Hooker ’62 and Ellen’s brother John Hooker ’65. Happy and Ellen were able to play tennis 3–4 times while in the Adirondacks.
Jerry Alford sent a note that he is retired and comfortable, living in Florida.
1962
Class Correspondent: Donald O. Ross doross48@gmail.com
Don Ross wrote, “I am still living in Newport, but Susan and I spent four months in Ocean Ridge, FL, this year and will do it again next winter. Tennis and golf are still on the required activity list. We spent two weeks in June with son Jamie, his wife Sarah, and our grandchildren, Annabel and Matson, in Scotland, particularly counties of Ross and Cromarty. Lots of haggis and malt whisky (except for the kids.)”
Susie Stevens wrote, “In April I joined my daughter, Ginger May ’96, to give a presentation to the Foote kindergarten class on what the school was like when we each were there. There were slides from the years when our class was there. It was fun! (Visit footeschool.org/ podcast to listen to their talk.)
Ellen Faller wrote, “The Yale Peabody Museum is now hosting me as a volunteer and will be opening to the public again next June or July, after undergoing a multi-million-dollar, four-year renovation. It will be bigger and better and twice the size. The brontosaurus, and a lot of other big pieces, will be back from three
At right: Happy Clement Spongberg ’60 and Ellen Hooker ’62. Below: Susie Stevens ’62, with her granddaughters Katie ’32 and Nina, and daughter Ginger May ’96.
years of ‘spa’ treatment in Canada, getting cleaned, remounted and reinstalled in modern terms. The 2nd floor, formerly offices, is now going to be all exhibit space. My mind is blown by all the changes, but I am really happy to see all the improvements.” In addition to volunteering in the Mineralogy & Meteoritics collection at The Yale Peabody Museum, Ellen continues to windsurf, is attempting to empty her basement of childhood junk, and enjoys traveling with her husband.
1963
Class Correspondent: Susan Stratton susanstratton4@gmail.com
1964
Class Correspondent: Verdi DiSesa verdi.disesa@gmail.com
We extend our condolences to Chase Twichell who lost her husband Russell Banks in January. Chase wrote a note to Foote sharing that her hus-
band managed to write three books in the last three years, “so in that sense is still with us.” On a happier note, Chase now has a great-grandchild, Esben Banks Leue, and continues to split her time between Saratoga Springs, New York City, and the Adirondacks.
Phillip Stevens shared the sad news that Liz Trotman Davis had passed on March 3. Phillip wrote, “I was reminded of Liz's induction into the Kent Athletic Hall of Fame a number of years ago, and I was able to find what fellow Hall of Famer, Jeanne Johnston Kent ’67, wrote about her: ‘Elizabeth was a graceful gazelle who made the most impossible moves look like she was born to it — a complete natural. It was comforting to know Trotman was on my team because you didn’t have to coach or cajole — she was so self-motivated, there was no need. She simply loved the game at hand and could be counted on to be where she needed to be to make the lay up, cut off the pass or sink the shot.’”
Pauline Lord shared, “Running White Gate Farm's various enterprises is all-consuming. Organic produce and poultry, farm-to-table dinners, classes in all manner of things, farm stand and online store, weddings, lodging, and gatherings for all occasions. Our daughter Megan's baby boy just turned 1. We dream of them leaving Colorado some day to take over the farm. Hope you'll check us out at www. whitegatefarm.net.”
1965
Class Correspondent: Eric Triffin
eric_triffin@aya.yale.edu
1966
Class Correspondent: John N. Deming Jr. jndjr@yahoo.com
We extend our sympathy to the family of Linda Houston, who passed away on July 28, 2023.
Grace Hammond Boss sent a note: “Recently I have toured three Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including the Price Tower in Bartlesville, OK, when I served for five days as a second time volunteer.” Grace also toured both Kalil House and the Zimmerman House, located in Manchester, NH.
1968
Class Correspondents: Leland Torrence lelandtorrence@optonline.net
Rob Clark rclark@perrigo-inc.com
We are sad to report that Wendy Brown's mother, Molly Houston, passed away on April 10, 2023. We also extend our condolences to her on the loss of her sister, Linda Goodrich Houston ’66 on July 28, 2023.
Art Howe sent a note from Portland, ME: “Just retired from a 50-year career in public safety.” Art loves living in Portland and sends greetings to all.
1969
Class Correspondent: Meg McDowell Smith megsmithvt@gmavt.net
1970
We are sad to report that Sandra Vlock’s father, Jay Vlock, died on April 22, 2023.
1972
Class Correspondents: Rob Gurwitt robg@valley.net
Greta Nettleton gretan@optonline.net
We are sad to report that Jonathan Foote passed away. We extend our sympathy to his family.
1973
Class Correspondents: Peter Hicks phicks@websterbank.com
John Persse johnpersse@bhhsne.com
We are sad to report that Scott Houston's mother, Molly Houston, passed away on April 10, 2023. We also extend our condolences to him on the loss of his sister, Linda Goodrich Houston ’66 on July 28, 2023.
1975
Class Correspondent: Jessica Drury sjsaz@optonline.net
We extend condolences to Julian Chang on the passing of his sister Nora Chang ’77.
1976
Class Correspondent: John Holder johnholder@comporium.net
“Having fun watching my mom, Ann Clark, run circles around us in her achievements, positivity and years!” wrote Annie Clark. She added that she is staying busy with a steady freelance client and working at a local food shelter.
Glenn Hendler reported, “The newest thing is that for the next academic year I am interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University — a position that is less grand than its lengthy title might imply. Slightly less new is that I fell off a cliff (really! literally!) in January and ruptured my Achilles tendon. Surgery repaired it, but I'm still recovering. Just as I started to be able to move on my own I was visited by two classmates I don't think I'd seen since we graduated: Andrew Kidde and James Hersey. It was great to get together with them!”
1977
Class Correspondent: Elizabeth Daley Draghi gdraghi@sbcglobal.net
Sam Stebbins wrote: “I became a grandfather a little over a year ago and little Menachem has recently learned to walk and then run. He is spectacularly cute and such a joy to hold.” Sam retired last year as Medical Director of the Peace Corps, and then spent a month driving around the country, visiting friends and family, and mountain biking nearly every day. Recently Sam finished training as an end-of-life Doula, sometimes called a Death Doula, and will be
Sam Stebbins ’77
opening a practice very shortly helping people in the last days and weeks of their life.
We received sad news that Nora Chang passed away in January of 2023.
We extend condolences to Marcus Giamatti on the passing of his sister Elena ’79.
1978
Class Correspondent: Stephen Fontana stevef1701@aol.com
We are sad to report Frank Perrine, former Foote Head of School, and father of Charlotte Perrine passed away on July 18, 2023. Frank was also the father of William Perrine ’80 and Katherine Perrine Austen ’84 and father-in-law to Anne Roch ’84.
1979
Class Correspondent: Bonnie Welch bonniewelch@taftschool.org
1980
Class Correspondent: Liz Geller Brennan gelbren@aol.com
Bill Perrine wrote: “Anne Roche ’84 and I live in Mill Valley, CA. I recently completed my 11th year as a Head of School (yes, I followed in my father’s footsteps!). I am currently in my sixth year at Marin Horizon School in Mill Valley and loving the experience. Anne continues to thrive as a life coach. We are enjoying the freedom of empty-nesting (one of our kids is in college and two have graduated). We also see my sisters, Katherine and Charlotte, often as they both live nearby. We were thrilled to see Bob Sandine a few months ago as he came
west to visit Frank. I hope to get to New Haven soon. Please look us up if you are in Northern California.”
The entire Foote Community extends condolences to Bill Perrine and Anne Roche on the passing of his father, former Head of School, Frank Perrine.
1981
Class Correspondents: Jennifer LaVin jen2766@gmail.com
Nicolas Crowley nyjcrowley@hotmail.com
1982
Class Correspondent: Bethany Schowalter Appleby bethany.appleby@gmail.com
We extend condolences to Paul Giamatti on the passing of his sister Elena ’79.
1983
Class Correspondent: Brinley Ford Ehlers brinleysf@aol.com
We extend condolences to Edward Sawyer and his brother Gregory Sawyer ’86 on the passing of their mother Peg Berthold.
1984
Class Correspondent: Ann Pschirrer Brand annie.brandt@rocketmail.com
We extend our sympathy to Jeffrey Brand, whose father, Donald Brand, passed away on May 5, 2023.
We also extend condolences to Katherine Perrine Austen on the passing of her father, former Head of School, Frank Perrine.
1985
Class Correspondent: Carter LaPrade Serxner lapserx@gmail.com
Eric Michael wrote: “I had 3–4 games of Words with Friends going with Mr. Perrine all the time!”
We extend condolences to Julia Getman on the passing of her father, Christopher Getman. Julia’s sister and Foote School second grade teacher, Hilary Pearson, shared that their father, Chris Getman, died unexpectedly. Mr. Getman's very rapid deterioration and subsequent death was a complete shock to the family. Hilary described her dad by saying, "He was a largerthan-life guy in so many ways, and the world will not be the same without him. He had a very full life with family, friends, Yale, and the greater New Haven community.” The family is planning a service for a later date.
1986
Class Correspondent: Jody Esselstyn jesselstyn@gmail.com
1987
Class Correspondent: Jonathan Levin jdlevin@stanford.edu
1988
Class Correspondent: Sara Mulligan Farina saramulligan13@gmail.com
We extend our sympathy to Tom Brand, whose father, Donald Brand, passed away on May 5, 2023.
1989
Class Correspondent: Toya Hill Clark trose7@hotmail.com
1990
Class Correspondent: Amy Cohn Crawford amycohncrawford@mac.com
1991
Class Correspondent: Bo Bradstreet ebradstr@gmail.com
1992
Class Correspondent: Katie Madden Kavanagh katieblee@hotmail.com
1993
Class Correspondent: Jenny Keul jennykeul@gmail.com
1995
Class Correspondent: Jack Hill seaburyhill@aol.com
“Greetings from New York City!” wrote Jeffrey Einhorn. “I continue to practice criminal defense as a partner in a Manhattan law firm, and create automotive inspired social events, such as The Bridge in Bridgehampton, NY, The Hangar in Amelia Island, FL, and CarPark, in NYC. Recently, I met up with JD Lichtman for dinner when he was in NYC. It is always good to catch up with old pals.”
1996
Class Correspondents: Brett Nowak nowak.brett@gmail.com
Katy Zandy Atlas katy91@gmail.com
Ana Dimas Rogers is busy with her nonprofit dance program which you can view on Bronxville Ballet.
1997
Class Correspondent: Eliza Sayward elizasayward@yahoo.com
1998
Class Correspondents: Andrew Lebov aklebov@gmail.com
Elisabeth Sacco Klock saccopotatoes@gmail.com
1999
Class Correspondent: Jeremy Zuidema jmzuidema@gmail.com
We are sad to report that Jonathan Winter's father, Gene Winter, passed away on May 14, 2023.
A note from Yaminette Diaz-Linhart updated us that she received her Ph.D. in Social Policy in August of 2022 from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Yaminette started a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT Sloan School of Management where her research focuses on worker voice and worker wellbeing.
2000
Class Correspondents: Alex Kleiner
alex.m.kleiner@gmail.com
Shannon Sweeney smsweeney07@gmail.com
Kevin Brownell and Ian Lebov attended a folk punk show in Berkley, CA, last month where the opener was from New Haven. (Ian confessed that his mom was visiting and suggested he write and update his class on the visit.)
Emily Zandy wrote, “After three
Children of Emily Zandy ’00: Eloise, 4, and Theo, 11 months.
years in Berlin, Germany, I will move to Basel, Switzerland, with my husband and two children (Eloise, 4; Theo, 11 months) this summer. I expect my sister, Katy Hall ’97, and best friend, Jessica (Bloomgarden) Muse ’00, will visit during ski season! If anyone finds themselves in the area, please look me up!”
2001
Class Correspondent: Cassie Pagnam cassie.pagnam@gmail.com
Lawrence Coassin shared, “I live in Fairfield with my wife Jen, and three girls (ages 5, 3, and almost 1). I own and operate American Total Protection, an electronic security and electrical company located in Hamden, and Melbourne, FL. I would love to connect with any classmates in the area!”
Foote School first grade teacher
Margy Lamere shared that her son, Hunter Lamere and his wife Sara, along with brothers Charlie (6) and Sully (3) welcomed Jack Campbell Lamere into the family on October 21, 2022.
2002
Class Correspondent: Hope Fleming hope.fleming@gmail.com
Class correspondent Hope Fleming
wrote that she got married on June 10, 2023, to Michael Steves, from Adelaide, Australia. Footies at the wedding included Bradley Fleming ’99, Michael Wiles ’02 and Ray Allen ’02, plus former Head of School, Jean Lamont. Hope is living in NYC and is a digital manager at L’Oreal.
2003
Class Correspondent: Adam Shapiro adamshapiro1488@gmail.com
We extend our sympathy to Matthew Winter, whose father, Gene Winter, passed away on May 14, 2023.
2004
Class Correspondents: Dillon Long know33@gmail.com
Dana Schwartz danaschwartz5@gmail.com
A note from Grace Moore reported she is going into her 10th year teaching. She will spend this year at ReNEW as a PreK special education teacher, working at three charter schools in New Orleans, LA.
2005
Class Correspondent: Gabriella Rhodeen gabriella.rhodeen@gmail.com
2006
Class Correspondents: Audrey Logan logan.audrey@gmail.com
Adam Gabbard adamdgabbard@yahoo.com
2007
Class Correspondents: Kenny Kregling kregke01@comcast.net
Symphony Spell symphony.spell@gmail.com
2008
Class Correspondents: Michael Milazzo michael.milazzo12@gmail.com
Kate Reilly Yurkovsky kate.yurkovsky@gmail.com
2009
Class Correspondents: Chris Blackwood christopher.blackwood@tufts.edu
Eva Kerman edk2123@barnard.edu
2010
Class Correspondents: Brandi Fullwood brandi.n.fullwood@gmail.com
Clay Pepe cpepe@guidepoint.com
2011
Class Correspondents: Nate Barton natebarton95@gmail.com
Britney Dumas bdumas13@gmail.com
2012
Class Correspondents: Harrison Lapides jharrisonlapides@gmail.com
Cassidy McCarns cassidy.mccarns@yale.edu
2013
Class Correspondents: Lawson Buhl lbuhl@umich.edu
Anika Zetterberg ahzetter@syr.edu
2014
Class Correspondents: Robinson Armour rarmour22@amherst.edu
Class Correspondents: Anli Raymond anliraymond15@gmail.com
Will Wildridge william@wildridge.org
2016
Class Correspondents: Omid Azodi oazodi1@gmail.com
Evelyn Pearson evie.pearson11@gmail.com
Andrew Gee graduated from Central Connecticut State University’s School of Business in May 2023 with a B.S. in Management. Andrew started with a position as assistant manager at Champlin’s Marina & Resort on Block Island, RI.
2017
Class Correspondents: Graley Turner graleyturner@gmail.com
Hilal Zoberi hzoberi20@choate.edu
2018
Class Correspondents: Alexandra Collins alexandrabcollins03@gmail.com
Pablo Rollán pabloo.rollan@gmail.com
2019
Class Correspondents: Josie Cancro josie.cancro@gmail.com
Malachai York
malachai@yorkfamily.net
Jillian Rinaldi graduated from Loomis Chafee this spring and will attend University of Colorado at Boulder this fall.
Amelia Rinaldi graduated cum laude from Loomis Chaffee this spring, and will be attending the Honors Program at Purdue University, where she plans to major in Mechanical Engineering.
Josh Allard graduated with honors from Notre Dame High School and was awarded an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma. Josh will attend Pomona College.
John “Mac” Cady graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and plans to attend Skidmore College this fall and will play baseball there.
Ayelet Kaminski wrote to us that she attends the University of Vermont and is majoring in Microbiology. Ayelet still keeps in touch with a number of her Foote classmates. She keeps busy with her glassblowing, artwork, and writing for the University of Vermont paper, the Vermont Cynic, as opinion editor.
2020
Class Correspondents: Zainab Khokha zmkhokha786@gmail.com
Tristan Ward tristan103417@gmail.com
Gabriel McCray wrote that he was an intern at Foote as part of his high school’s internship program. “I loved it! It was an invaluable experience that prepared me for my future in the educational field. Now I am one of the head counselors at a culinary
camp where we teach kids how to cook foods from all over the world!”
2021
Class Correspondents
Camilla Granda cgranda25@choate.edu
Henry Ferguson hankferguson2006@gmail.com
2022
Class Correspondents
Emile Kraus ekrauss26@choate.edu
Nora Brock norab7777777@gmail.com
Above, Alyssa Walker ’92, History and Social Sciences faculty member at The Pomfret School, shows her school spirit alongside fellow Footie and co-worker Jeremy Irzyk ’14, a Pomfret history teacher and varsity baseball coach.
Below, Gabriel McCray ’20.
Aydin Gasimov is a sophomore at Wilbur Cross High School where he recently participated in the third annual Arab Festival. Held each May, the festival is a cross-cultural exchange for Arabic language and history. Aydin was born and raised in New Haven to immigrant parents from Azerbaijan. Once part of the former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan is located between Eastern Europe and West Asia. The country is not considered to be part of the Arab world. In a recent article on the festival and its participants Aydin was quoted as saying, "Azerbaijan has
a lot of Arab culture, [including] flowing Arabic script, centuries-old Byzantine churches and preserved palaces.” Aydin noticed the Arab influences in Azerbaijan on summer trips to visit extended family. The Gasimov family speaks Russian and English at home. When it came time to pick a language in high school, Arabic seemed like the right choice. Aydin’s Arabic teacher folds history into the curriculum and Aydin has found learning this history to be helpful to counter misunderstandings that classmates may have about Islam. “I think people think that it’s
Faculty & Staff News
Photo Captions:
1 Joe and Kate Reiser welcomed a son, Bowen Robert Reiser, on November 20, 2022.
2 Middle School French teacher Marie Buenger and her partner Bob welcomed their baby Emma on January 1, 2023.
3 Lower School teacher, Jessica Lennon and her husband Rich welcomed a baby this past May: Ronin Slater Lennon. His parents are thrilled!
4 Charlie (6) and Sully (3) Lamere enjoy a ferry ride with recent addition to the family, Jack Campbell Lamere, born Oct. 21, 2022. All three boys are the sons of Hunter Lamere ’01 and grandsons of first grade teacher Margy.
5 Trevor Rosenthal is “over the moon” about becoming a grandmother to Anthony Michael Colarrusso who was born on July 27, 2023. Trevor’s daughter Mimi, her husband Anthony, and their new baby are all doing great!
6 Dana and James Queiros, along with “big sister” Josephine, welcomed Juliette Evelyn Queiros, who was born on May 20, 2023. The whole family is doing great and Juliette’s is thrilled to have a sister.
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a violent religion,” said Aydin. “But there’s this saying in the Quran, it says, if you kill one innocent soul, it is as if you have killed all of humankind.” (Gratitude to Sheila Lavey, ninth grade teacher for forwarding this update.)
2023
Jake Fasano fasjac08@icloud.com
Amalia Romero molly@0524@gmail.com
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Frank M. Perrine
July 22, 1933 – July 18, 2023
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Frank M. Perrine, our beloved and longest-serving Head of School, on July 18, 2023, at his home in Larkspur, CA.
In 1967, Frank succeeded Elizabeth Churchill as Foote’s fifth head of school, serving in this role for 25 years before passing the baton to Jean Lamont in 1992. During Frank’s tenure, Foote saw many changes in its program and in the world, but Frank kept our school focused on its mission of teaching and learning with joy, passion, vigor, and love.
Always behind his administrative tasks was a primary concern for nurturing and maintaining the spirit and tone of the school — one of joy, optimism, and possibility. Frank felt that his main responsibility as headmaster would always be to protect — and to pass on intact — that
very palpable “special spirit” that he felt so strongly when he first walked in the door of Foote School.
In a recent conversation, Frank was asked what advice he would give today’s Foote students. He replied: “My advice would always be the same: jump in the water and give it your all. Be the best person you possibly can be, make a better world. Love your life and pass it on!”
It is Frank’s love of life and his love for the Foote community that will most be remembered. His boisterous laugh and quick smile will continue to have a lasting impact on our school and all its constituents. Frank brought out the best in all those around him and taught others to do the same.
Please join us in expressing sympathy to Frank’s family: his wife Laura and their children Charlotte ’78, Bill ’80, and Katherine ’84.
In Memoriam
Nora Chang ’77
January 11, 2023
Liz Trotman Davis ’64
March 3, 2023
Brenda Sweeney Filley ’53
August 21,2021
Jonathan Foote ’72
May 31, 2021
Elena Giamatti ’79
June 29, 2023
John B. Goodenough ’35
June 25, 2023
Anne Rose Hilliard ’35
September 18, 2021
Edith Rose Hopkins ’35 March 31, 2022
Linda Goodrich Houston ’66
July 28, 2023
Jordan Mott ’53
April 10, 2023
The Foote School Report of Giving 2022–2023
Thank you for showing up
When I face a bit of writer’s block, I turn to others for inspiration. Below I included some wonderful quotes about giving, philanthropy, and volunteering that really resonate with me, and I hope with you, as well.
"When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity ... you do not slam it shut behind you ... you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed."
— Michelle Obama
Donations to academic institutions help secure educational opportunities for current students and for future generations. In 2022–2023, The Foote School was fortunate to have almost 1,000 community members support our day-to-day operations through The Foote Fund, with scores of others contributing to scholarship endowment funds to guarantee financial assistance for next year’s (next decade’s and perhaps even next century’s) Foote students.
"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."
— Nelson Mandela
What a perfect expression of what our community gifts to Foote students — by volunteering as Class Representatives or Class Captains, or helping out at the auction, the Book Swap, the Faculty Appreciation Breakfast, Foote on Ice, Parents’ Night, or the Pie Sale. Other community members volunteer by visiting classrooms to read stories, sharing family traditions, and supporting The Foote Fund through the paddle raise at our Parents’ Night Out Auction. Our Foote family — including alumni, parents of alumni, grandparents, faculty, and
friends — are always showing up for our students and for our school.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
From our dedicated board members, to our active and creative PTC, to our devoted Alumni Council members, so many are committed to The Foote School and to making each and every day special for our students.
I am humbled by and grateful for the unwavering assistance I receive daily from our Head of School, the board, the faculty, and my colleagues — especially those in the Development Office: Amy Sudmyer ’89, Mary Beth Claflin, and (formerly) Amy Caplan ’88, to whom I am forever appreciative of the 16 years she worked in this office.
We thank all of you for your contributions — in person and in pocket. With your support we had a banner year for The Foote Fund, raising 34% more than our goal and 56% more than last year. Much gratitude to the parents of departing 8th graders who donated to our Financial Aid Program and the Frank Perrine Library (even more meaningful with Mr. Perrine’s passing in July) and our Class of 2023 families who contributed to our Financial Aid Program and to Learning Support. The Development Office hosted alumni and parent events, which collectively gathered more than 1,000 members of the Foote community. We are grateful to all those who attended those events and our hugely successful auction that netted more than $40,000 — including $20,000 for Lower School playground renovations.
I look forward to another successful year ahead. Please remember Valentine’s Day 2024 will be a perfect time to show your love for Foote during our sixth annual Giving Day!
Jody Abzug Director of Development and Alumni & Parent Programs
Donors
FOOTE FUND DONORS
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Shyoko Honiden and Aryeh Abeles
Jody Abzug and Jim Irzyk
Rikki Abzug
Sheila Abzug
Tess and Frank Adae
Joellen Adae
Edna Travis and Barney Adams
Annie Ducmanis Adams and Jim Adams
Barbara Kinder and Joseph Adams
Alison Johnson and Justus Addiss ’73
Shirin and Ron Adelman
Marie Anne and Nicholas Afragola
Sarah Afragola ’01
Melinda Agsten
Qamar Al Tameemi ’22
Suzanne and Jason Alderman
Kathryn Alderman
Heba Abbas and Amaar Al-Hayder
Jennifer Gandhi and Ivan Alonso Solas
Lucy Ambach
Ruth Coffey and Sunil Amrith
Lara Anderson
Lisa Anderson
Marjo Anderson and Mark Dollhopf
Kyeen and Richard Andersson
Meredith Andrews and Fritz Horstman
Stephanie and Mark Anestis
Kate and Jeremy ’92 Angoff
Kristine Anthis
Bethany Schowalter Appleby ’82 and Nicholas Appleby
Anne and Gordon Armour
Katharine Arnstein ’63
Tywanna Johnson
Michal and Ran Assaf
Antony Astmann ’73
Nicki Dakis and George Atwood
Roderick Atwood ’19
Kayleigh Axon
Samuel Babbitt ’42
Michelle Baez
Joanne and Paul Bailey
Elizabeth Freedman Bannister ’74
Lynne Banta and Javier Garcia
The individuals listed have made a contribution to the annual Foote Fund between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. Please contact the Development Office if you notice errors or omissions.
Emily Barclay ’61 and John Hawes
Christine Wilmer Barkus ’69 and Paul Barkus
Margaret Wilmer Bartlett ’58
Lee Vorderer and Bob Bass
Emily and Walden Bass
Donna and William Batsford
Nancy and Joel Becker
Barbara Currier Bell ’55
Shana and Yassine Benzinane
Carrie and William Bergantino
Michael Bergin
Anne Watkins and David Berkowitz
Peggy McCarthy Berman and Barry Berman
Daniel Berman ’08
Chay and Richard Bershtein
Joan Bigwood Bigwood Osborn ’75
James Bigwood ’68 and Jay Cha
Kris Estes and Stephen Binder ’78
Kavitha Bindra
Pamela Westerfield Bingham ’78 and Arthur Bingham
Jason Black ’03
Morley and Fred Bland
Natalie Wilmer Blenk ’62 and Peter Blenk
Leslie Bogen
Kim Bohen and Douglas James
Abe and Gail Boms
Stephanie and Elon Boms
Sarah Netter Boone ’89 and Andrew Boone
John and Rebecca Booth
Kaitlyn and Tristan Botelho
Hania Deriche and Walid Bouchakour
Monique Rainford and Chester Bourne
Claire Bowern and William Hawkins
Michelle and Kossouth ’87 Bradford
Jennifer Jackson Breitling ’91 and Matthew Breitling
Emily and Dean Brenner
Keri Brenner
Mary Lou Venter Briggs ’53 and James Briggs
Grace and Jay Bright
Courtney Broadus ’84
Alison Moncrief Bromage and Andy Bromage
Ginny Bromage
Seeley and Preston ’79 Brooks
Anne Brownstein ’78
Jamie and Benjamin Bruce
Noah Messing
Lucas Butler ’03
Jeannette Byers ’65
Polly Byers ’74 and Mac McCoy
Anne and Terry Byron
Rachelle and Derek Byron
Alison and Adam Cady
John Cady ’19
Anne Tyler Calabresi ’48 and Guido Calabresi ’46
Mary Beth and Andrew Calderoni
Cecile Fromont and Grant Calderwood
Maria Casasnovas and Lorenzo Caliendo
Ann Calkins
Joseph Camilleri
Kenneth Canfield
Susan Canny ’96
Magdalena and Carmine Capasso
Amy Caplan ’88 and Spencer Grimes
Susan Carney and Lincoln Caplan
Lauren and Mike Caplan
Francine and Robert Caplan
Jessica Cardin and Michael Higley
Margaret Bluhm Carey ’59 and Tobe Carey
Caren and Thomas Carpenter
Linda Hamilton Carr ’42 and Don Carr
Rives Fowlkes Carroll ’57 and Richard Carroll
Linsley Craig Carruth ’85 and Bill Carruth
Anna and Robert Casey
Mary Ann Bickford Casey ’52
Marilyn and Victor Cassella
Larysa and Matthew Cassella
Carolyn and Richard Cavallaro
Carol Ann Bradburn Celella ’72 and Scott Celella
Lida and William Chaine
Sonali Chakravarti and Jac Mullen
Patricia and Val Chamberlain
Wick Chambers ’62
Sue and Dean Chang
Annette and Kerwin Charles
Honglei Chen and Xing Luo
Belinda Chen
Carol Cheney
Isabel Chenoweth
Rupert Chinatamani
Sowmya Mahalingam and Sankar Chinnugounder
Christine Won and Hyung Chun
Mary Beth Claflin
Annie Clark
Annie Clark ’76
June and Rob ’68 Clark
Sandra and Rodney Clark
Constance Clement ’62
Barbara and Samuel ’65 Clement
Richard and Virginia Close
Edward Coady ’05
Christopher Cobb
Elise Cobb ’14
Leslie Virostek and John Cobb
Rachel Cohen
Ronald Coleman ’04
Anna Collins
Emily Wang and Daniel Colón-Ramos
James Comer
Viviana and Michael Conner
Aléwa Cooper and Markell Parker
Maria Cooper
Erica Corbin
Sarah and Hugh Corley
Jennifer Rosenberg and Todd Cort
Catherine Cox
Dorothy Osborne and William Cox
Cristina Brunet and Joseph Craft
Amy Cohn Crawford ’90 and David Crawford
Rebecca and Frederick ’59 Crosby
Roseline and Douglas ’55 Crowley
Cindy Crusto
Tina Gray Cunningham and John Cunningham
JoAnn Hong-Curtis and Jeptha Curtis
Catherine Smith Cuthell ’68 and David Cuthell
Jessica Lee and Ferenc Czeyda-Pommersheim
Li Qin and Feng Dai
Calvin Hill Day Care Center
Leslie Carmin and Enrique De La Cruz
Katie and Jonathan De Vries
Ximena Benavides and Patrick Dean
Michele Deaver
Amanda and Stuart DeCew
Sarah DeCew
Annie Delgado
Tracy and Bob Demarest
Christine Janis and John Deming ’66
Zeynep and Engin Deniz
Jane and Bill Dennett
Hamita Sachar and Ohm Deshpande
Wendy Beetlestone and John Detre ’74
Shari Birnbaum and William DeVane ’84
Melanie and Michael DeVito
Sanford DeVoe
Cristina Rodriguez and Aaron Dhir
Deborah and Paul Di Capua
Yaminette Diaz Linhart ’99 and David Linhart
Karen Miller Dibblee ’68 and Thomas Dibblee
UNDERSTANDING THE TERMS
Annually, the Foote Fund supplements tuition income. Foote Fund dollars support academic and extracurricular programs, faculty salaries, financial assistance — virtually every part of the school’s operating budget. Without the Foote Fund, Foote’s budget would not balance, and we would have to reduce offerings to our students or raise tuition to make up the difference. The Foote Fund is an annual effort, beginning July 1 and ending June 30 every year. Parent and alumni volunteers reach out to encourage the Foote community to contribute. Foundation and corporate grant applications are strengthened when we can report high participation figures from our parent body.
Endowment is critical to a healthy school. Endowed funds are invested with the goal of providing a stable, sustainable source of annual income. Interest from endowed funds supports critical goals in perpetuity. The National Association of Independent Schools recommends that an independent school maintain an endowment equal to its operating budget.
Olivia Dickey ’08
Andrea Silber and Phil Dickey
Nancy and Elliot Dickson
Melissa and Rick Dickson
Amanda and Ray Diffley
Marta Janosi and Chris Dinescu
Verdi DiSesa ’64
Judy Ditner and Benjamin Tiven
Susan and Kenneth Dobuler
Doft Family
Diane and Kenneth Donohue
Chase Douglas ’14
Elizabeth Daley Draghi ’77 and Gary Draghi
Laura Ferry and Justin Driver
Evan Drutman ’79
Jeanne Dube
Laurie and C. Dary Dunham
Nancy and W. Lee ’55 Dunham
Anne Dunn
Frank Dziedzic
Eileen and Andy Eder
Julia Simon-Kerr and Florian Ederer
Elizabeth DeVane Edminster ’47 and David Edminster
Cathy Edwards and Michael Wishnie
Dana Eisenstat
Samia Naaim and Adnane Elarabi
Roseline and Douglas ’55 Crowley
Jennifer and Grant Elliott
Portia Elmer
Chris and Kenneth Ely
Paul Epply-Schmidt
Eliza Erlacher ’19
Sheiba Feizizadeh and Amir Esmailpour
Mary Estabrook
Nichole Mangiagli and Tomas Estevez
Eleanor Evins
John Ewell ’57
Frank Alberino and Brian Fagan Eleanor
Warren Faller ’62 and Jack Faller Novick Family
Dylan Farrell ’11
Susan Farricielli
Emily and Christopher Fasano Catharine
Barclay Fender ’64 Elizabeth and Niall
Ferguson
Ferraro Family
Nadia and Andrew Fisher
Ashley Fitton ’91 and Robert Vitari
Elizabeth Collins Fitton and Peter ’89 Fitton
Edith Flagg
Kathy and Mike Flanagan
Daniel Fleschner ’94
Tonikay Fletcher
Tyrrell and Thomas ’82 Fontana
Joy and Brin Ford
Ifeoma Nwokoye and James Forman
Pam Fortin
Candace and Burvée Franz
Alexandra Frederick ’76
Betsy Angeletti and John Freidah
Courtney Cupples and Rodrigo Frias
Barry Fulton
Suet Yin Fung
Timothy Gabbard ’05
Grace and Tristram ’57 Gaillard
Sophie Gangloff ’21
Jenette and Noah Ganter
Adelyn Garcia ’15
Noelia Garcia ’19
Anna and Bryan Garsten
Andrew Gee ’16
Silvia Pluecken Gee and Richard Gee
Kristin Geenty and N. Brice Shipley
Toddie and Christopher Getman*
Ângela and Fernando Giannella
Barbara Gibson
Danielle Ginnetti
Valentina Greco and Antonio Giraldez
Cara McNelly Given and Michael McNelly
Susan Baserga and Peter Glazer
Amira Gohara
Kyra Goldstein ’12
Caroline and Andrew Golschneider
Shelley Goodstine and Jose Gomez
Khadija Gurnah and Amin Gonzalez
Rebecca Good and Manuel Rivera
Tia and Matthew Goodwin
Victoria and Colin Gordon
Janet and A. Reynolds ’47 Gordon
Judy and Simon Gore-Grimes
Felicia Gotta
Paula Zimbrean and Adrian Gozar
Rashana and Darnell Graham
Maria and Charles Granquist
Elayah Grant
Stephanie Dillon Grate
Avery Grauer ’87 and Josh Watsky
Janie Merkel and Jonathan Grauer ’85
Linda Brenner and Tony Green
Annie Berman Greenstein ’96 and Seth Greenstein
Birke and James Gregg
Jennifer Griffiths
Terrell Grimes
Shaili and Kushal Gupta
Anne Brooks Gwaltney ’72 and Thomas Gwaltney
Lloyd Hall ’07
Kimiko Ishiguro and Bret Halpern
Kasia Lipska and Jake Halpern
Cara and Robert Hames
Pat Hames
Alayna Stone and Alva Hanson
Poppy Hanson ’18
Dorothea and Robert Harper-Mangels
Ryan Harrington and Vatche Simonian
Rebekah Sturges and Jack Harris
Myra and Andrew Harris
Timothy T. and Kathleen Harris
Alexander Harrison ’16
Deadra Hart and Frederick Kennedy
Sandra and Charles Hawkins
Jennifer and John Hay
Reina Maruyama and Karsten Heeger
Nancy Heitz
Emily Paley Henick
Lana and Juri ’93 Henley-Cohn
Sandra and William ’60 Henning
Heather Henry
Elise and David Hergan
Brook Hersey ’74 and Alexander DeLuca
Lee Anne and Peter ’73 Hicks
John Hill ’95
Jane Osgood and Frederick Hilles ’52
Alison and William Hinkle
John Holder ’76
HOMA Pump Technology
Sally Hopfner
Carla and Robert Horwitz
Arthur Howe ’68
Caitlin Simon and Gregory Huber
Judith Hull ’63 and Dennis McFadden
Angie Hurlbut and Andrew Nyhart
Maria Nagy and Albert Iaroi
Roger Ibbotson
Ngozi and Nkem Ikekpeazu
Alison and Christopher Illick
Avlin and Suguru Imaeda
Simina and Costin Ionescu
Frances Irvine and Andrew McLaren
Ben Irzyk
Jeremy Irzyk ’14
Jordana Irzyk ’14
Carol Isaacs
Chun-yi Sun and Paul Ivancic
Prachie Narain and Aaron Jackson
Elaine and Herrick ’54 Jackson
Astha Chichra and Abhishek Jaiswal
Louise Bluhm Jeanne ’54 and Robert Jeanne
Priscilla Jencks
Mary Barnett and David Jenkins
Robin Jenkins ’82
Rebecca Stern Johns ’96
Michael Johnson
Edward Johnson ’54
Holly Johnson ’81
Kathleen Johnson
Preethi Varghese-Joseph and George Joseph
Susana Smetana and Peter Kagan ’83
Nancy Ely Kales ’55 and William Kales
Michael Kane
Julianne and Titus Kaphar
Laura Karlen
Bahija Saadoun and Hamid Kassem
Katz Family
Susan and Jonathan Katz
Özler and Ege Kayaarasi
Susan and Chris Keegan
Britton Keeshan and Campbell Stewart
Lynn Keeshan
Suzanne Kelley
Hayley and Bryan Kelly
Michelle and Todd Kennedy
Pamela and Gyanprakash Ketwaroo
Linda Keul Henley
Shikha and Amit Khandelwal
June Rhee and Sang-Hyun Kim
Amy Justice and Joseph King
Robert King
Lynn Leong and Yiming King
Courtney and Tammron Jay Kleeman ’81
Alex Klein
Alexandra Daum and Alexander Kleiner ’00
Diana and Fred Kleiner
Kristin and Thomas Kligerman ’72
Elisabeth Sacco Klock ’98
Finnegan Knight ’21
Meghan and George Knight
Elinor and Matthew Kotchen
Lissa Sugeng and Michael Krauss
Kreitler Family
Allison and Charles Kreitler
Abigail Kruger ’20
Benjamin Kruger ’22
Christine Kim and Douglas Kysar
Jill Lacy
Deborah and David Laliberte
Margaret and Richard Lamere
Johana and Andres Lamprea
Kirsti and John Langbein
Chin-Chin Chen and Campbell Langdon ’76
Helen Lankenau
Jack Lapides ’12
Natalie Lapides ’08
Kathryn and Thomas Larsen
Elizabeth and Miles Lasater
Sheila Lavey
Anne LaVin ’78 and Jon Rochlis
Jennifer LaVin ’81
Peggy LaVin
Deborah Freedman and Ben Ledbetter
Emma Ledbetter ’03
Lucie Ledbetter ’08
Skye Lee
Erika Krick and Nicholas Lehmann ’90
Elizabeth Leighton ’80 and Benjamin Jones
Sonja Lengnick
Molly LeVan
Amy and Jonathan ’87 Levin
Elizabeth and Daniel Levy
Siddhartha Lewis-Hayre ’15
Naomi Libby
Georgia Crowley Lieber ’88 and Matt Lieber ’85
Cynthia Albert and Lawrence Link
Margah and Tom Lips
Bonnie and Kevin Liston
Samantha and Timothy Liston
Megan Craig and Nicholas Lloyd
Karen and William Longa
Judah and Francisco Lopez
Noni Lopez
Katharine Lorimer ’97 and Austin Mixsell
Linda Lorimer and Charles Ellis
Jennifer Lucarelli and Michael Apatow
Kathy Lufler
Tara and Francis Lyons
Tiffany MacKinnel ’08 and Odell McNair
Christina MacLean
Colin Maher
Mary Maher
Mona Gohara and Kiran Makam
Whitney Rogers Malkiel and Jonathan Malkiel ’87
Carole and Robert Mangels
Laura and Zachary Martinez
Lauren Martini and Matthew Mendelsohn
Samuel Mason ’18
Karla Matheny and Mark Landow
Michelle and Charles Matouk
Ming Thompson and Daniel Mattingly
Kristi and Kevin Mattingly
Ginger Stevens May ’96 and Stephen May
Linda Mayes
Donna Rehm-McCabe and Mike McCabe
Melissa and Timothy McCormack
Michele and Jesse McCray
Dalton Cox McCurdy ’96 and Brian McCurdy
Rita McDougald-Campbell
Patience McDowell ’75
Elizabeth Donius and Kenneth McGill
Katherine McKenzie and Craig Crews
Tara and James McPartland
Aurora Farewell and Santiago Mejia ’95
Elizabeth Mello and Jessica Leiser
Richard Menning
Madeleine Merkle-Ward ’20
Victoria Metaxas
Heidi Meyers
Matthew Meyers
Ying Luo and Mingchao Mi
Leilei Teng and Sheng Miao
Marquelle Middleton ’99
Karen and Morty Milberg
Michael Milburn
Jennifer Milikowsky ’02
Nicole Eldredge and Matthew Milikowsky ’95
Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky
Andrea Miller ’97 and Juan Rengifo-Miller
Deborah Miller
Kyle Miller
Sandra Frawley and Perry Miller ’58
Marsha and York ’64 Miller
Anna McGaw-Mobarak and Ahmed Mobarak
Sherry and Steve Moffitt
Eileen and Bill Moncrief
Julie Moore
Karen Orzack-Moore and Daniel Moore
Deborah and David Moore
Frances Moore
Carol Morelli
Sarah and Harvey Morse
Lucio Moscarini ’15
Marsha and Ira Moses
Samuel Mottley
Christopher Mudry ’19
Duffy and Eric Mudry
Melanie Crowley Mullan ’84 and Peter Mullan
Charlotte and Charles Murphy
Colleen and Michael Murphy
Kate Brubacher and Grayson Murphy ’95
John Murphy
Eliza and Minor Myers
Jennie Bailey Nally ’88 and Ryan Nally
Tina Newman and Adam Naples
Joan and Michael Nast
Mary Tomayko and Kumar Navaratnam
Zhiqi Qiu and Andrew Neitzke
Greta Nettleton ’72 and Rex Lalire
Marv Neuman
Peter Neuman ’80
Fransheska Rosado and Donell Newkirk
Elena and Nicholas Niejelow
Barbara and William Nordhaus
Jane Whittlesey North ’45 and A. Frederick North
Patricia Fiorito Oakes ’60
Jared O'Hare ’15
Judy and Kevin O'Hare
Emily and Jeremy Oldfield
Kiara Clemons and Landon Osborn ’04
Mary and Robert Outtrim
Mary Paglia
Christine and John Pakutka
Diane Palmeri and Albert Rossini
Catherine and Christophe Pamelard
Deborah Johnson and Joseph Paolillo
Julia Paolillo ’07
Patricia Peter and Henry Park
Kunyong Kim and Kyungseo Park
Myungsook Park
Julia Parker
Anoli Borad and Abhijit Patel
Zehra and Huned Patwa
Evelyn Pearson ’16
Hilary Getman Pearson and Erik Pearson
Melissa Castleman and Jordan Peccia
Elizabeth Welch ’79 and Gary Peck
Ann Baker Pepe and Gregory Pepe
Mary Pepe
Stephanie Aoife West and Keith Perez
Veronica Saurett and Pablo Perez
Sara and Nick Perkins
Laura and Frank Perrine*
Sonah and Edward Perry
John Persse ’73
Catherine Petraiuolo ’83
E. Anthony Petrelli ’53
Marion and Richard ’57 Petrelli
William Phillippe
Anna Blanding and Garfield Pilliner
Aaron Pine
Laurel and Keith Pisani
Judith Chevalier and Steven Podos
Aimee DeBarbieri Poirier ’92 and Noel Poirier
Stefanie Markovits and Ben Polak
Carol and Wesley Poling
Jane and Mauro Politi
Marla Geha and Matthew Polly
Jennifer and Jeffrey Possick ’89
Carroll and Stanley Possick
Christina and Jason Price
Kathy and George Priest
Donna and David Pruett
Caroline Woodman Quarrier ’62 and Hugh Quarrier
Josephine and Richard Queen
Ellen Shuman and Douglas Rae
Kendra Raguckas
Ayesha Ramachandran and Marta Figlerowicz
Carol Miller Rand ’57 and Laurance Rand
Meredith Mira and William Rankin
Jennifer and Andrew Rapkin
Betsy Ratner
Anli Raymond ’15
Dorleen and James Reidy
Karen and Brigg Reilley
Deborah Rhoads
Claire Richards ’76 and Mitchell Berkson
Sandy and James Righter
Mark Righter ’80
Barbara Riley
Marcus Rivera
Annette and Kurt Roberts
Alexis Willoughby-Robinson and Steven Robinson
Logan Milliken and Peter Rogers
Patricia Abbenante and Camilo Romero
Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’55
Trevor and Charles Rosenthal
Susan and Donald ’62
Ross
Heyden and Nicholas ’64 Rostow
Bernadette Huang and Geert Rouwenhorst
Diane and Harvey Ruben
Cindy Rumsey
Jeannie and Ian Rumsey
Brian Rutledge
Anne Sa'adah ’69 and William Baldwin
June Sachs
Naomi and Shin Sakurabayashi
Mary Garber-Saleh and Faisal Saleh
Robert Sandine
Gregory Santini
Kathleen Santomasso and Jason Gordon
Carolyn and Clarence Sasaki
John Sasaki ’87
Robert Saulsbury
Shoko and Mitsuaki Sawano
Gregory Sawyer ’86
McKinne Dunn and Todd Schlachter
Lily Schneider ’11
Amy Marx and Robert Schonberger
Elissa Schpero ’92 and David Garlick
Lynne and Mark Schpero
Sarah and Jamison Scott
Barbara and Peter ’57 Setlow
Mariah Sage Seymour and Bruce Seymour
Charlotte and Kameron Shahid
Hilary Shank-Kuhl ’68 and Andrzej Kuhl
Marion Sharp
Chloe and Matthew Shaw
Susan Clark Shaw
Amy and Colin Sheehan
Viraj and Hansal Sheth
Mary Sanders and Mark Shifman
Seunghee Ko and Jiwoong Shin
Alexandra Shor and John Bianchi
Claire Shubik-Richards ’88 and Seth Richards-Shubik
Wendy Silverman
Bradley Simon
David Sklar
Nicole and Charles Slabaugh
Arietta Slade
Kelly and Benjamin Small
Meghan Anderson and Charles Smart
Harriette Smith
Leah and Alexander Smith
Meg McDowell Smith ’69 and Whit Smith
Roger Smith ’75
Deanna and Mitchell Smooke
Sandra and Henry Snow
Brenda Carter and Adam Solomon
Jeffrey Solomon-Markam LLP
Laura Davis and David Soper
Shontel and Emmanuel Sorrells
Musa Speranza and Joseph Shin
Harmony Clement Spongberg ’60
Laura and James Stanley
Karen and M. Dennis Stephens
Summer Turner and Marcus Stern ’75
Joni and Jeffrey Stone
Katherine and Kenneth Stone
John Stratton ’54
Christi Straub
Rebecca and Gordon Streeter
R. Lee Stump
Jane and Jim Sturgeon
Marilynn and Thomas ’62 Sturgess
Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89 and Jeff Sudmyer
Sarah Slattery and Tyrone Sullivan
Heather Lipkind and Jason Sunshine
Nina Horowitz and Richard Sussman
Curtis Sutro ’73
Sutton Family
Erin Sweeney ’02
Shannon Sweeney ’00 and Tyson Seely
Whitney Sweeney
Laurie and Andrew Sweet
Liz and Leslie Swenson
Katharine Swibold ’75 and Jordan Becker
SongKeng Teoh and Yingjia Tan
Julia Wallace Taussig ’37
Karen Wang and Christopher Teng
Denise and Don Terry
Mary and Louis Theodore
Sumi and Sunil Thomas
Karin Ouchida and Jack Thompson
Phebe Thorne ’55
Jesenia Knipping and Che Tiernan
Maryam Chohan and Kaiser Toosy
Laura and Leland ’68 Torrence
Lisa Farrel Totman ’56 and David Totman
Elizabeth Orsini and Kerry Triffin ’58
Anne Hunt Tritz ’45
Christopher Tunnard ’63
Cary Twichell ’76 and David Parr
Anna Marie and Ralph Valente
Michael Valente
Alisa and Ronald Vanacore
Catherine and Michael Velez
Lauren Seltzer and Jared Verrillo
Stephen Victor
Sarah and Carlos Vidal
Erika Villa
Taryn Villano ’83 and Philip Corso
Wendy Walden
Robin Walker Sterling and David Sterling
Dawn and Scott Walsh
Annie Walton-Teter ’84
Annie Wareck ’85
Rachel Doft and John Wareck ’84
Elizabeth Warner
Sheila and Lawrence Wartel
Denie and Frank Weil
Marjorie Weinstein-Kowal
Melissa Barak Weiss and Brett Weiss
George Welch ’73
Caleb Wertenbaker ’88
Lynda West
Andria and Moshay West
Rebekah and Alexander Westphal
Elizabeth Peard Wettach ’05
Christine Ko and Peter Whang
Mary Amatruda Wheeler Owen ’48
Susan and Jeffrey White
Elizabeth and James Whitney
Edward Whittemore
Whyte Family
Barbara Rockenbach and Daniel Wilderman
Susan Page Wildridge and Trey Wildridge
Marisa Ferraro and Steffen Wilhelm
Virginia and John Wilkinson
Marie Wilkinson ’79 and Cyril Christo
Elizabeth and Steven Wilkinson
Portia Elmer MacDougall and Roderick
Williams MacDougall
Cindy Williams
Megan Williams
Phil Williams
Tiffany Williams
Pam and Buck Wilson
Robert Wing ’53
Jinx Wingard
Robert Withers
Wenyan and Derek Witkowsky
John Witt
Alyssa Greenwald and Edward Wittenstein
Vicki and Andy Wittenstein
Alexandra and Mark Wittner
Carol Wittner and Howard Weiner
Robin Woerner ’04
Carla Wheeler and John Wolfenden
Katherine Wolfgang ’75 and Jonathan Krant
Heydeh Payami and William Wolfgang ’68
Louisa Lombard and Graeme Wood
Yolanda Ezekiel Woods ’70
Harriet Calhoun Wrenn ’43 and James Wrenn
Iris and Barry Wu
Vivian Kuan and Pei-Tse Wu ’82
Louise Wu
Mai Wu ’84 and John Apicella
Brian Wysolmerski ’07
Caroline Hendel and John Wysolmerski
Rosamund Zander and Hansjoerg Wyss
Zhirong Jiang and Zhiqun Xi
Yue Suo and Yong Xiong
Yanbin Liu and Yang Yang
Kim Yap and Andrew Lewandowski
Iain York
Malachai York ’19
Sylvia Thayer and J. Philip Zaeder
Alexandra and Andre Zagmout
Pat and John Zandy
Heather and J E Fredrik Zetterberg
Ning Sun and Hongyu Zhao
Peihua Gu and Jiangbing Zhou
Li Lin and Jidong Zhou
Andrew Zielinski
Jennifer and Bernard Zielinski
Amanda and Richard Zubek
MATCHING COMPANIES
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Caterpillar Foundation
Cornerstone Research
Insurance Services Office, Inc
New York Life Foundation
T. Rowe Price
The Hartford
UBS
GIVING DAY DONORS
Anonymous
Shyoko Honiden and Aryeh Abeles
Jody Abzug and Jim Irzyk
Sheila Abzug
Annie Ducmanis Adams and Jim Adams
Barbara Kinder and Joseph Adams
Shirin and Ron Adelman
Qamar Al Tameemi ’22
Kathryn Alderman
Ruth Coffey and Sunil Amrith
Lara Anderson
Kyeen and Richard Andersson
Meredith Andrews and Fritz Horstman
Stephanie and Mark Anestis
Kristine Anthis
Anne and Gordon Armour
Tywanna Johnson
Michal and Ran Assaf
Antony Astmann ’73
Nicki Dakis and George Atwood
Roderick Atwood ’19
Kayleigh Axon
Michelle Baez
Lynne Banta and Javier Garcia
Christine Wilmer Barkus ’69 and Paul Barkus
Lee Vorderer and Bob Bass
Emily and Walden Bass
Barbara Currier Bell ’55
Anne Watkins and David Berkowitz
Chay and Richard Bershtein
Joan Bigwood ’75
James Bigwood ’68 and Jay Cha
Kavitha Bindra
Pamela Westerfield Bingham ’78 and Arthur Bingham
Morley and Fred Bland
Natalie Wilmer Blenk ’62 and Peter Blenk
Abe and Gail Boms
Kaitlyn and Tristan Botelho
Hania Deriche and Walid Bouchakour
Monique Rainford and Chester Bourne
Claire Bowern and William Hawkins
Michelle and Kossouth ’87 Bradford
Jennifer Jackson Breitling ’91 and Matthew Breitling
Emily and Dean Brenner
Keri Brenner
Alison Moncrief Bromage and Andy Bromage
Ginny Bromage
Anne Brownstein ’78
Jamie and Benjamin Bruce
Noah Messing
Rachelle and Derek Byron
Alison and Adam Cady
Mary Beth and Andrew Calderoni
Cecile Fromont and Grant Calderwood
Maria Casasnovas and Lorenzo Caliendo
Joseph Camilleri
Magdalena and Carmine Capasso
Amy Caplan ’88 and Spencer Grimes
Lauren and Mike Caplan
Francine and Robert Caplan
Margaret Bluhm Carey ’59 and Tobe Carey
Linda Hamilton Carr ’42 and Don Carr
Marilyn and Victor Cassella
Lida and William Chaine
Sonali Chakravarti and Jac Mullen
Annette and Kerwin Charles
Isabel Chenoweth
Rupert Chinatamani
Sowmya Mahalingam and Sankar Chinnugounder
Mary Beth Claflin
Annie Clark ’76
June and Rob ’68 Clark
Constance Clement ’62
Elise Cobb ’14
Anna Collins
Emily Wang and Daniel Colón-Ramos
Viviana and Michael Conner
Aléwa Cooper and Markell Parker
Maria Cooper
Sarah and Hugh Corley
Jennifer Rosenberg and Todd Cort
Dorothy Osborne and William Cox
Amy Cohn Crawford ’90 and David Crawford
Rebecca and Frederick ’59 Crosby
Roseline Crowley and Douglas Crowley ’55
Cindy Crusto
Tina Gray Cunningham and John Cunningham
Jessica Lee and Ferenc Czeyda-Pommersheim
Katie and Jonathan De Vries
Ximena Benavides and Patrick Dean
Annie Delgado
Christine Janis and John Deming ’66
Melanie and Michael DeVito
Yaminette Diaz Linhart ’99 and David Linhart
Karen Miller Dibblee ’68 and Thomas Dibblee
Olivia Dickey ’08
Nancy and Elliot Dickson
Amanda and Ray Diffley
Marta Janosi and Chris Dinescu
Verdi DiSesa ’64
Judy Ditner and Benjamin Tiven
Susan and Kenneth Dobuler
Elizabeth Daley Draghi ’77 and Gary Draghi
Laura Ferry and Justin Driver
Samia Naaim and Adnane Elarabi
Jennifer and Grant Elliott
Portia Elmer
Sheiba Feizizadeh and Amir Esmailpour
Nichole Mangiagli and Tomas Estevez
Eleanor Evins
Frank Alberino and Brian Fagan
Emily and Christopher Fasano
Nadia and Andrew Fisher
Ashley Fitton ’91 and Robert Vitari
Elizabeth Collins Fitton and Peter ’89 Fitton
Edith Flagg
Kathy and Mike Flanagan
Daniel Fleschner ’94
Tonikay Fletcher
Tyrrell and Thomas ’82 Fontana
Joy and Brin Ford
Pam Fortin
Betsy Angeletti and John Freidah
Courtney Cupples and Rodrigo Frias
Barry Fulton
Suet Yin Fung
Timothy Gabbard ’05
Sophie Gangloff ’21
Adelyn Garcia ’15
Noelia Garcia ’19
Andrew Gee ’16
Silvia Pluecken Gee and Richard Gee
Kristin Geenty and N. Brice Shipley
Danielle Ginnetti
Amira Gohara
Kyra Goldstein ’12
Caroline and Andrew Golschneider
Shelley Goodstine and Jose Gomez
Khadija Gurnah and Amin Gonzalez
Tia and Matthew Goodwin
Felicia Gotta
Paula Zimbrean and Adrian Gozar
Stephanie Dillon Grate
Avery Grauer ’87 and Josh Watsky
Linda Brenner and Tony Green
Annie Berman Greenstein ’96 and Seth Greenstein
Birke and James Gregg
Terrell Grimes
Shaili and Kushal Gupta
Anne Brooks Gwaltney ’72 and Thomas Gwaltney
Lloyd Hall ’07
Cara and Robert Hames
Pat Hames
Dorothea and Robert Harper-Mangels
Ryan Harrington and Vatche Simonian
Rebekah Sturges and Jack Harris
Myra and Andrew Harris
Deadra Hart and Frederick Kennedy
Sandra and Charles Hawkins
Jennifer and John Hay
Reina Maruyama and Karsten Heeger
Emily Paley Henick
Lana and Juri ’93 Henley-Cohn
Sandra and William ’60 Henning
Heather Henry
Alison and William Hinkle
Angie Hurlbut and Andrew Nyhart
Maria Nagy and Albert Iaroi
Ben Irzyk
Jeremy Irzyk ’14
Jordana Irzyk ’14
Chun-yi Sun and Paul Ivancic
Prachie Narain and Aaron Jackson
Astha Chichra and Abhishek Jaiswal
Priscilla Jencks
Mary Barnett and David Jenkins
Robin Jenkins ’82
Preethi Varghese-Joseph and George Joseph
Michael Kane
Julianne and Titus Kaphar
Laura Karlen
Bahija Saadoun and Hamid Kassem
Özler and Ege Kayaarasi
Susan and Chris Keegan
Britton Keeshan and Campbell Stewart
Suzanne Kelley
Hayley and Bryan Kelly
Pamela and Gyanprakash Ketwaroo
Shikha and Amit Khandelwal
Lynn Leong and Yiming King
Alexandra Daum and Alexander Kleiner ’00
Diana and Fred Kleiner
Kristin and Thomas ’72 Kligerman
Elisabeth Sacco Klock ’98
Lissa Sugeng and Michael Krauss
Abigail Kruger ’20
Benjamin Kruger ’22
Christine Kim and Douglas Kysar
Deborah and David Laliberte
Margaret and Richard Lamere
Johana and Andres Lamprea
Jack Lapides ’12
Elizabeth and Miles Lasater
Sheila Lavey
Jennifer LaVin ’81
Peggy LaVin
Lucie Ledbetter ’08
Skye Lee
Elizabeth Leighton ’80 and Benjamin Jones
Sonja Lengnick
Elizabeth and Daniel Levy
Naomi Libby
Judah and Francisco Lopez
Jennifer Lucarelli and Michael Apatow
Kathy Lufler
Tara and Francis Lyons
Tiffany MacKinnel ’08 and Odell McNair
Christina MacLean
Mona Gohara and Kiran Makam
Carole and Robert Mangels
Laura and Zachary Martinez
Lauren Martini and Matthew Mendelsohn
Samuel Mason ’18
Karla Matheny and Mark Landow
Michelle and Charles Matouk
Kristi and Kevin Mattingly
Ginger Stevens May ’96 and Stephen May
Donna Rehm-McCabe and Mike McCabe
Melissa and Timothy McCormack
Elizabeth Donius and Kenneth McGill
Tara and James McPartland
Aurora Farewell and Santiago Mejia ’95
Elizabeth Mello and Jessica Leiser
Madeleine Merkle-Ward ’20
Heidi Meyers
Matthew Meyers
Ying Luo and Mingchao Mi
Leilei Teng and Sheng Miao
Marquelle Middleton ’99
Deborah Miller
Sherry and Steve Moffitt
Eileen and Bill Moncrief
Frances Moore
Christopher Mudry ’19
Duffy and Eric Mudry
Colleen and Michael Murphy
Eliza and Minor Myers
Zhiqi Qiu and Andrew Neitzke
Greta Nettleton ’72 and Rex Lalire
Fransheska Rosado and Donell Newkirk
Jared O’Hare ’15
Judy and Kevin O’Hare
Emily and Jeremy Oldfield
Christine and John Pakutka
Diane Palmeri and Albert Rossini
Julia Paolillo ’07
Patricia Peter and Henry Park
Kunyong Kim and Kyungseo Park
Zehra and Huned Patwa
Evelyn Pearson ’16
Hilary Getman Pearson and Erik Pearson
Stephanie Aoife West and Keith Perez
Veronica Saurett and Pablo Perez
Sara and Nick Perkins
John Persse ’73
Laurel and Keith Pisani
Marla Geha and Matthew Polly
Caroline Woodman Quarrier ’62 and Hugh Quarrier
Kendra Raguckas
Ayesha Ramachandran and Marta Figlerowicz
Meredith Mira and William Rankin
Betsy Ratner
Anli Raymond ’15
Karen and Brigg Reilley
Deborah Rhoads
Annette and Kurt Roberts
Alexis Willoughby-Robinson and Steven Robinson
Logan Milliken and Peter Rogers
Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’55
Trevor and Charles Rosenthal
Bernadette Huang and Geert Rouwenhorst
Cindy Rumsey
Jeannie and Ian Rumsey
Brian Rutledge
Robert Sandine
Kathleen Santomasso and Jason Gordon
John Sasaki ’87
Lily Schneider ’11
Amy Marx and Robert Schonberger
Elissa Schpero ’92 and David Garlick
Sarah and Jamison Scott
Mariah Sage Seymour and Bruce Seymour
Charlotte and Kameron Shahid
Marion Sharp
Susan Clark Shaw
Amy and Colin Sheehan
Seunghee Ko and Jiwoong Shin
Bradley Simon
Kelly and Benjamin Small
Leah and Alexander Smith
Roger Smith ’75
Brenda Carter and Adam Solomon
Shontel and Emmanuel Sorrells
Laura and James Stanley
Karen and M. Dennis Stephens
Joni and Jeffrey Stone
Christi Straub
Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89 and Jeff Sudmyer
Sarah Slattery and Tyrone Sullivan
Heather Lipkind and Jason Sunshine
Sutton Family
Shannon Sweeney ’00 and Tyson Seely
Whitney Sweeney
Laurie and Andrew Sweet
SongKeng Teoh and Yingjia Tan
Karen Wang and Christopher Teng
Denise and Don Terry
Sumi and Sunil Thomas
Karin Ouchida and Jack Thompson
Jesenia Knipping and Che Tiernan ’89
Maryam Chohan and Kaiser Toosy
Laura and Leland ’68 Torrence
Christopher Tunnard ’63
Anna Marie and Ralph Valente
Michael Valente
Alisa and Ronald Vanacore
Catherine and Michael Velez
Lauren Seltzer and Jared Verrillo
Sarah and Carlos Vidal
Erika Villa
Taryn Villano ’83 and Philip Corso
Wendy Walden
Robin Walker Sterling and David Sterling
Dawn and Scott Walsh
Annie Walton-Teter ’84
Melissa Barak Weiss and Brett Weiss
George Welch ’73
Andria and Moshay West
Rebekah and Alexander Westphal
Elizabeth Peard Wettach ’05
Edward Whittemore
Barbara Rockenbach and Daniel Wilderman
Susan Page Wildridge and Trey Wildridge
Marisa Ferraro and Steffen Wilhelm
Virginia and John Wilkinson
Marie Wilkinson ’79 and Cyril Christo
Portia Elmer MacDougall and Roderick
Williams MacDougall
Cindy Williams
Megan Williams
Tiffany Williams
Robert Withers
Wenyan and Derek Witkowsky
Alexandra and Mark Wittner
Robin Woerner ’04
Heydeh Payami and William Wolfgang ’68
Louisa Lombard and Graeme Wood
Mai Wu ’84 and John Apicella
Rosamund Zander and Hansjoerg Wyss
Yue Suo and Yong Xiong
Malachai York ’19
Alexandra and Andre Zagmout
Heather and J E Fredrik Zetterberg
Jennifer and Bernard Zielinski
Amanda and Richard Zubek
8TH GRADE FAREWELL GIFT
Heba Abbas and Amaar Al-Hayder
Stephanie and Mark Anestis
Shana and Yassine Benzinane
Anne Watkins and David Berkowitz
Chay and Richard Bershtein
Sarah Netter Boone ’89 and Andrew Boone
Jamie and Benjamin Bruce
Cecile Fromont and Grant Calderwood
Magdalena and Carmine Capasso
Li Qin and Feng Dai
Zeynep and Engin Deniz
Ifeoma Nwokoye and James Forman
Jenette and Noah Ganter
Anna and Bryan Garsten
Judy and Simon Gore-Grimes
Shaili and Kushal Gupta
Kasia Lipska and Jake Halpern
Caitlin Simon and Gregory Huber
Ngozi and Nkem Ikekpeazu
Simina and Costin Ionescu
Julianne and Titus Kaphar
Allison and Charles Kreitler
Tara and James McPartland
Elena and Nicholas Niejelow
Christine and John Pakutka
Melissa Castleman and Jordan Peccia
Laurel and Keith Pisani
Judith Chevalier and Steven Podos
Christina and Jason Price
Karen and Brigg Reilley
Annette and Kurt Roberts
Viraj and Hansal Sheth
Rebecca and Gordon Streeter
Marisa Ferraro and Steffen Wilhelm
John Witt
9TH GRADE
FAREWELL GIFT
Annie Ducmanis Adams and Jim Adams
Leslie Carmin and Enrique De La Cruz
Ximena Benavides and Patrick Dean
Emily and Christopher Fasano
Mary Maher
Mona Gohara and Kiran Makam
Melissa and Timothy McCormack
Tina Newman and Adam Naples
Aaron Pine
Jennifer and Jeffrey Possick ’89
Patricia Abbenante and Camilo Romero
Amy and Colin Sheehan
Amy Stephens Sudmyer ’89 and Jeff Sudmyer
Annie Wareck ’85
Susan and Jeffrey White
Iain York
HONORARY GIFTS
In Honor of Jody Abzug
Brian Rutledge
Christina and Kenneth MacLean
In Honor of Lara Anderson, Karla
Matheny, Cindy Raymond,
Debra Riding, and Julian Schlusberg
Preethi Varghese-Joseph and George
Joseph
In Honor of Anne Baker Pepe
Lee Anne and Peter ’73 Hicks
In Honor of Amy Caplan ’88
Francine and Robert Caplan
Kavitha Bindra
In Honor of Aléwa Cooper
Noni Lopez
Erica Corbin
In Honor of The Deming Family
Heyden and Nicholas ’64 Rostow
In Honor of Johann Anderson-Dollhopf ’02 and Conrad Anderson-Dollhopf ’07
Marjo Anderson and Mark Dollhopf
In Honor of Jessie Drury
Joan Bigwood Bigwood Osborn ’75
In Honor of Dawn Farricielli
Mary Beth and Andrew Calderoni
In Honor of Jennifer Friedman
Deborah and Paul Di Capua
In Honor of Andrew Gee ’16
Silvia Pluecken Gee and Richard Gee
In Honor of Madame Ângela Giannella
Jack Lapides ’12
In Honor of Felicia Gotta and Donna Santomasso
Shirin and Ron Adelman
In Honor of Eleanor and Toli Gurewitsch
Annie Walton-Teter ’84
In Honor of Cara Hames
Pat Hames
In Honor of Jeremy Irzyk ’14 & Jordana Irzyk ’14
Rikki Abzug
In Honor of Linda Johnson
Adelyn Garcia ’15
In Honor of Kayla Kowal ’16
Marjorie Weinstein-Kowal
In Honor of Jen LaVin ’81 and Anne LaVin ’78
Peggy LaVin
In Honor of Roslyn Morrison ’87
Robert Saulsbury
In Honor of New Haven and Yale Police
Departments
Shaili and Kushal Gupta
In Honor of Hilary Pearson
Alison Moncrief Bromage and Andy Bromage
In Honor of Frank Perrine
Anne Brooks Gwaltney ’72 and Thomas Gwaltney
Laurie and C. Dary Dunham
In Honor of Laura Perrine
Laurie and C. Dary Dunham
In Honor of Andrew M. Rivera ’05
Marcus Rivera
In Honor of Jeannie Rumsey
Michael Bergin
In Honor of Bob Sandine
James Bigwood ’68 and Jay Cha
Summer Turner and Marcus
Stern ’75
In Honor of Julian Schlusberg
Lucie Ledbetter ’08
Priscilla Jencks
In Honor of Austin Small ’20 & Heidi
Small ’18
Kelly and Benjamin Small
In Honor of Adam Solomon
Alison Moncrief Bromage and Andy Bromage
Noelia Garcia ’19
In Honor of Alan & Margie Starensier
Carol Robbins
In Honor of Dawn Walsh
Rachel Cohen
Lynne Banta and Javier Garcia
In Honor of Megan Williams
Patricia Abbenante and Camilo Romero
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In Memory of Susan Bishop
Roseline Crowley and Douglas Crowley ’55
In Memory of Serena Totman Bechtel ’84
Peggy McCarthy Berman and Barry Berman
Daniel Berman ’08
Courtney Broadus ’84
Lisa Farrel Totman ’56 and David Totman
Susan Page Wildridge and Trey Wildridge
In Memory of Deborah Brewster ’64
Catharine Barclay Fender ’64
In Memory of Martha Brochin
Susan Canny ’96
In Memory of Margaret Brooks
Seeley and Preston ’79 Brooks
In Memory of Goga George and Nana
Clariss
Sutton Family
In Memory of Ron Cohen
Liz and Leslie Swenson
In Memory of Mary Mendenhall
Cooley ’57
Rives Fowlkes Carroll ’57 and Richard Carroll
In Memory of Deceased members of The Class of 1964
Heyden and Nicholas ’64 Rostow
In Memory of Anna Huntington
Deming ’35
Christine Janis and John Deming ’66
In Memory of Huntington Deming ’64
Liz and Leslie Swenson
In Memory of William Bert Friday
Timothy T. and Kathleen Harris
Samuel Mottley
In Memory of John Hare ’72
Greta Nettleton ’72 and Rex Lalire
In Memory of Margaret Ballou
Hitchcock
John Ewell ’57
Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt ’55
In Memory of Dr. Albert D Jenkins, Jr
Robin Jenkins ’82
In Memory of Stewart Krinick
Elizabeth and Daniel Levy
Lisa Farrel Totman ’56 and David Totman
In Memory of Christopher Langbein ’94
Kirsti and John Langbein
In Memory of Philomena LaViola
Phyllis Gwatkin
In Memory of Eva Pluecken
Silvia Pluecken Gee and Richard Gee
In Memory of Rick and Better Shambroom
Stephanie and Elon Boms
In Memory of Jean Shepler
Judith Hull ’63 and Dennis McFadden
In Memory of Edward William
de Langley Torrence ’08
Laura and Leland ’68 Torrence
In Memory of Tanvi and Umi
Anoli Borad and Abhijit Patel
In Memory of Rex P. Walden
Wendy Walden
In Memory of Betsy Welch
Elizabeth Welch ’79 and Gary Peck
G. Harold Welch ’42
In Memory of Caitlin Westerfield
Ifeoma Nwokoye and James Forman
In Memory of Gene S. Winter
Leslie Bogen
Grace & Jay Bright
Calvin Hill Day Care Center
Kenneth Canfield
Christopher Cobb
Richard and Virginia Close
James Comer
Catherine Cox
Jeanne Dube
Frank Dziedzic
Susan Farricielli
Nancy Heitz
HOMA Pump Technology
Carla and Robert Horwitz
Robert King
Molly LeVan
Linda Mayes
Katherine McKenzie and Craig Crews
Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky
Kyle Miller
Novick Family
Mary and Robert Outtrim
Mary Paglia
Mary Pepe
June Sachs
Ellen Shuman and Douglas Rae
Arietta Slade
Wendy Silverman
Laura Davis and David Soper
Nina Horowitz and Richard Sussman
Lisa Farrel Totman ’56 and David Totman
Stephen Victor
Phil Williams
CENTENNIAL SOCIETY
The Centennial Society recognizes the generosity of those who have chosen to remember The Foote School in their wills or through a charitable trust, gift annuity, or life insurance plan.
Anonymous
George Atwood
Carole Broadus
Caren and Tom Carpenter
Suzanne Jackson Cartier ’52
Bob and Mary Beth Congdon
Carol Gordon ’53
Betsy and Leonard Grauer
John Holder ’76
Frances Irvine and Andrew McLaren
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Curly and Sandy Lieber
Melissa Matthes
Victoria and Stephen Murphy
Robert Sandine
John Stratton ’54
Robert Wing ’53
GIFTS TO ENDOWED FUNDS
Benevento Family Scholarship Fund
John Benevento
Bershtein Family Endowed Fund
Chay and Richard Bershtein
Martha Brochin Endowed Fund
Joseph Camilleri
Susan Canny ’96
Penny Snow
Centennial Endowment Fund
Nicki Dakis and George Atwood
Karena Bullock Bailey and Peter Bailey ’91
Matthew Carpenter ’03
Anne Marie Boustani and Marcus Conti
Eileen and Andy Eder
Jennifer and Alan Friedman
Anna and Bryan Garsten
Emily and Ryan Oakes
Jennifer and Andrew Rapkin
Alexandra Shor and John Bianchi
Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund
Sarah Drury ’72 and Deborah Sherman
Class of 1981 Scholarship Fund
Danielle Flagg ’81
Fair-Oster Family Scholarship Fund
Ray Fair
Polly Fiddler Art Fund
John Sasaki ’87
Jean G. Lamont Scholarship Fund
Thomas Hall
LaViola Family Scholarship Fund
Jake Rosenthal
Phyllis Gwatkin
Carol and Michael Kim
Hannah Lee Memorial Fund
Jennifer and Alan Friedman
Amy Sherman and John McCarthy
Carol Robbins
Levin Endowed Fund for Library materials
Mary Murphy ’92
Jonathan Milikowsky Scholarship Fund
Janet Madigan and Robert Harrity
Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky
Solimar Santiago Warner and S. André Warner ’98
Jonathan Milikowsky Technology Fund
Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky
Joya Marks Endowment for Faculty
Professional Development
Thomas Hall
Catherine Petraiuolo ’83
Jean Shepler Miller Endowed Fund
Elizabeth Prelinger ’68 and Stephen Messner
Margaret Smith ’77
Ann Baker Pepe Endowed Fund for Financial Aid
Jay Angeletti
Donna and William Batsford
Milos Saccio Fund
Damijan Saccio ’85
Phyllis Brown Sandine Memorial Scholarship Fund
Anne Sa’adah ’69 and William Baldwin
Robert Sandine
Betsy Welch Scholarship Fund
Elizabeth Welch ’79 and Gary Peck
Kristen and Barclay ’74 Welch
G. Harold Welch ’42
Endowed Funds
In the early 1980s, the board’s Finance Committee recommended the purchase of zero coupon bonds as a strategy to create the school’s endowment. It was an important decision for the school: When the last of the zero coupon bonds matured in 2003, the initial investment of $310,000 had returned $1.6 million. Foote’s endowment now stands at $21 million. A distribution is made annually from interest earned on invested funds.
UNRESTRICTED ENDOWMENT
Bershtein Family Endowed Fund — established in 2016, and named in 2020, as part of Secure Foote Future: the Centennial Campaign by Foote parents Chay and Richard Bershtein in honor of their five children.
Bob and Mary Beth Congdon Centennial Endowment Fund — established in 2017 in honor of Foote’s Centennial. Proceeds are used at the discretion of the school’s Board of Directors.
Class of 1968 50th Reunion Endowed Fund — established in 2018 by the Class of 1968 in honor of their 50th reunion. Proceeds are used at the discretion of the school’s Board of Directors to support the school’s mission.
S. Prescott Bush Clement Endowed Fund — established in 2007 in honor of S. Prescott Bush Clement ’35. Proceeds are used at the discretion of the school’s Board of Directors.
ENDOWMENT FOR CAMPUS & FACILITIES
Jay Cox Endowment for PPRRSM — established in 2017 to recognize Jay Cox’s dedication to maintaining and developing The Foote School campus and facilities during his three decades as Business Manager.
ENDOWMENT FOR CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT
Friends of Foote Theater Endowment — established in 2002 by David and Deborah Moore to fund costs associated with the outstanding drama program.
Jean Shepler Miller Music Fund — established in 2009 by alumni who studied music with Mrs. Shepler during her long career at Foote (1953–1991), to provide support for the school’s Music Department.
Jonathan Milikowsky Memorial Technology Fund — created by classmates, family and friends in memory of Jonathan Milikowsky ’98 to provide annual support to the Technology Department, particularly for new technology and innovative uses of technology.
Kindergarten and Mixed Age Group Programs Fund — established by the parents of Foote students Aya and Hadi Abu-Alfa in 2010 to support and enrich the Kindergarten and Mixed Age Group programs.
Levin Fund — established by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levin to fund the purchase of books and materials to enrich and extend the collection of the Frank M. Perrine Library.
Library Endowment — gifts to endowment for support of the Frank M. Perrine Library.
Margaret Brooks Endowed Fund — established in 2010 in memory of Madame Brooks, French teacher at Foote and parent of Preston ’79, Kate ’82 and Nat ’87, to support the school’s Modern Language Department.
Marian W. Spiro Fund for Science Enrichment — established in honor of Marian Spiro, science teacher at Foote (1970–1989), to enrich and enhance the school’s science programs.
Marshall Bartlett and Margaret Wilmer Bartlett ’58 Family Foundation Endowed Technology Fund — established in 2017 with gifts to provide ongoing annual support for technology needs.
Martha Brochin Endowed Fund for Library Books — established in 2004 in memory of Martha Brochin, a Foote School parent and much-loved pediatrician.
Polly Fiddler Art Fund — established by parents and former students in recognition of Polly Fiddler’s outstanding work as an art teacher at Foote for more than three decades (1978–2009), to support the school’s studio art program.
ENDOWMENT FOR FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Joya Marks Endowment for Professional Development — created in 2001, and in 2007 named in honor of Joya Marks, Lower School Head (1993–2007), to provide support for professional development opportunities to enrich the lives and work of Foote School teachers.
Violet Talbot Endowed Fund — established by parents and faculty in honor of Kindergarten teacher Violet Talbot at the time of her retirement in 2001 to provide support for teacher training and for financial aid for children of color.
ENDOWMENT FOR FINANCIAL AID
Anne Schroeder Vroman Scholarship Fund — created in 2006 by Barent Vroman in memory of his wife, a member of the class of 1946.
Benevento Family Scholarship — established in 1987 by the Benevento Family.
Stephen Binder ’78 Scholarship Fund — established in 2017 with a specific focus on support for students from the city of New Haven.
Bohen-James Endowed Fund for Financial Aid — established by Foote parents Kim Bohen and Doug James, who served on the Foote Board for a decade.
Carol Maoz Endowed Fund for Financial Aid — established in 2020 in honor of Carol’s Maoz’s long commitment to increasing financial aid and diversity at Foote School over her 11-year tenure as Head of School.
Carolyn Foundation Endowment — established by generous gifts from The Carolyn Foundation in 1989 and 1998, this fund has grown to over a quarter-million dollars, providing significant annual funding for financial aid for children of color from New Haven.
Celentano Scholarship Fund — created in recognition of the many contributions of Freddie Celentano, who worked at Foote as a member of the maintenance staff (1963–1977).
Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund — established in 2015 in memory of John Hare ’72 (1958–2015).
Class of 1975 Scholarship Fund — established in 2016 by members of the Class of 1975 to mark Foote’s centennial year.
Fair-Oster Family Scholarship Fund — established in 2018 by Foote parents Ray Fair and Sharon Oster and their three children (Stephen Fair ’97, Emily Oster ’95 and John Oster ’00) in gratitude for their rewarding and meaningful experiences at the school.
Frank M. Perrine Scholarship Fund — established in 1991 in recognition of Frank Perrine’s many contributions to Foote as Headmaster (1967–1992).
Frederick L. Holborn Scholarship Fund — established in 2018 by Hanna Holborn Gray ’43 in memory of her brother, Frederick L. Holborn ’41, a professor of American foreign policy.
Gene J. Takahashi Scholarship Fund — created in 2010 by Dean Takahashi and Wendy Sharp, Kerry Takahashi ’07 and Kai Takahashi ’09 in honor of Dean’s father. Hannah Lee Memorial Endowed Fund — established in memory of Hannah Lee ’08 (1993–2004), this fund provides annual support for the school’s financial aid program.
Janis Cooley-Jacobs Scholarship Fund — established in 1999 after the death of Foote parent and pediatrician Janis Cooley-Jacobs.
Jay Cox Endowment for Financial Aid — established in 2017 in recognition of Jay Cox’s 35-year service to The Foote School as Business Manager and teacher and his dedication and leadership in building a strong financial aid program.
Jean and Edward Kirby Endowed Fund — established in 2013 by their son, John T. Kirby ’69, in recognition of their love of the school and the central role it played for three generations of the Kirby family.
Jean G. Lamont Endowed Scholarship Fund — established in 2004 in recognition of Jean Lamont’s commitment to diversity and a strong financial aid program during her tenure as Head of School (1992–2004).
Jonathan Milikowsky Scholarship Fund — established in 2007 in memory of Jonathan Milikowsky ’98 by his parents, Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky, brother Matthew ’95 and sister Jennifer ’02, the fund provides financial aid for a student in grades 6–9 who demonstrates intellectual curiosity, cheerful engagement with classmates and teachers, kindness, optimism and appreciation and respect for others.
LaViola Family Scholarship Fund — established by Philomena and John LaViola in honor of their grandchildren, Alexandra LaViola ’06 and John LaViola ’09.
Mandell Family Summer Sabbatical Program — established in 2017 in honor of Madison ’15 and Isabella ’18 to support summer sabbaticals for Foote’s outstanding teachers.
Margaret Hitchcock Fund — established in memory of Margaret Ballou Hitchcock, Foote English teacher and head of the Upper School (1931–1957).
Martha Babcock Foote Fund — established in memory of the founder and first Headmistress (1916–1935).
Orten L. Pengue Jr. Scholarship Fund — created in 2008 by parents and students in honor of Ort Pengue’s many contributions to Foote’s theater program.
REPORT OF GIVING
Pasi-Sachdev Family Fund — created in 2005 by the Pasi-Sachdev family to reflect their deep appreciation of the Foote School community.
Ann Baker Pepe Endowed Fund for Financial Aid — established in 2018 to honor Ann Baker Pepe’s dedication to the Foote School community over 20 years as Director of Development and Alumni Programs and her steadfast commitment to increasing diversity and strengthening the school’s financial aid program.
Phyllis Brown Sandine Memorial Scholarship Fund — established in 2002 by ISIS (Inner-City Scholarships for Independent Schools) in honor of Mrs. Sandine, a Foote parent and longtime friend of the school and an advocate for early childhood education. The fund provides financial aid specifically for New Haven children enrolled at Foote.
Simone Brown Fund — established in memory of Simone Brown, Class of 1981, following her death in 1983.
The Betsy Welch Endowed Scholarship Fund — established in 2015 to honor Betsy Welch’s commitment as Director of Admissions (1976–1993) to enrolling students from a broad range of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Timothy and Mary P. Doukas Fund — established in 1997 by Mr. and Mrs. John Zandy in memory of Mrs. Zandy’s parents.
Vlock Family Endowed Fund — established in 2018 by alum Ted Vlock ’13 in honor of his family.
ENDOWMENT FOR LEARNING SUPPORT
Milos Saccio Fund — established in memory of Milos Saccio ’83 (1967–1979), who was a 6th grader at Foote at the time of his death, to provide annual learning support with the intention of helping children reach their full potential.
RESTRICTED FUNDS
The school also appreciates and relies upon the support provided by Restricted Funds. These funds are not endowed — the principal is spent as needed over the years.
Classical Book Fund — established in 1996 to honor Latin teacher Carol Ross and used annually to provide library and classroom resources to enrich the study of classical Greece and Rome.
Falco School Spirit Fund — established in 2009 to fund campus activities and build a sense of community.
Friends of Foote Theater Fund — established in 2002, to provide support for expanded opportunities in educational theater made possible by the construction of the Robert D. Sandine black box theater.
Fund for Community Outreach — established in 2012 to provide funding for meaningful community outreach programs offered at Foote in support of the greater New Haven community.
A Horizons STRONG Summer!
By Rashana Graham, Executive Director
“I am Horizons STRONG. I am Self-confident, Thoughtful and Resilient! With an Open-mind, I will Nourish our community and continue to Grow. I am my best me!”
This is the Horizons at Foote mantra — the words we carried in our hearts throughout our six weeks of learning, swimming, reading, painting, experimenting, and community building.
In early June we received news that the Horizons at Albertus Magnus College program would not run this summer due to resource constraints beyond their control. They were forced to find an alternative to ensure families had a place for their children in summer 2023, and Horizons at Foote stepped up to provide that place.
This addition brought our enrollment from 144 to 170, doubling our classes in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Though this expansion hadn't been in our plans, and came with an increased budget and more than a few logistics puzzles, we stepped up in our commitment to the vision all Horizons programs share: a future in which every child thrives.
Above all, Horizons summer 2023 was joyful. We nourished students’ bodies, providing them with breakfast, lunch, and a snack every day in part-
nership with Yale Hospitality. Students swam two to three times a week at the Albertus pool, having fun while learning a life-saving skill. They attended weekly field trips to places like Silverman’s Farm, the Beardsley Zoo, the Discovery Museum, the Kellogg Environmental Center — and stayed cool at Lake Compounce!
In addition to experiential academics, our students participated in enrichment classes in yoga, golf, art, cooking, and more. Enrichment is student-driven; when students make choices about their education, they’re more likely to engage in learning and develop new skills and talents they carry with them into the school year. We expanded our middle school “clubs” with documentary filming, magazine design, activist poetry, cooking, steel pan drums, and even more STEAM! Guest educators helped us discover the history of the Amistad, dissect fish, learn to greet each other in Chinese, and code our own websites.
Our first Horizons STRONG Music Performance wowed students, families and friends — from kindergarten to middle school, everyone performed their best songs and dances, including our brand new all female rock band.
This summer also saw the return of our Mystery Reader program, where board members, community leaders, friends and family read books to our
younger students. Mayor Justin Elicker sang and danced to Pete the Cat’s “I Love My White Shoes” alongside our kindergarten class! (We're also grateful for the Mayor’s support of the New Haven Tutoring Initiative, a citywide initiative to get students extra help with math and reading, which I got to be part of the planning committee for!)
This was the biggest Horizons at Foote summer yet, full of new friendships, adventures, and so much more than can fit on one page. We’re grateful to every one of our 90 teachers, staff, interns, volunteers and more who made it possible, including four Horizons parents and five graduates of our summer program on staff!
Thank you to everyone, and our students, families, Board, and various friends and partners helping us provide even more students in New Haven with opportunities to build the skills, knowledge and confidence to achieve in school and succeed in life.
Horizons at Foote is an academic and enrichment program dedicated to creating opportunities for New Haven public school students from under-resourced communities. It provides a joyful, safe, inspiring learning environment and empowers students to thrive in school and engage in an ever-changing world. Follow @horizonsatfoote on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with exciting news and events!
“One strong family lends strength to more. One engaged community can ignite those around it. This is the power of the light we carry.”
— MICHELLE OBAMA
Horizons at Foote Report of Giving
Anonymous (36)
Robert Ackerman
Marc Ackers
Taher Adenwala
Alexander Family Fund
Mary Alsop
Victor & Laura Altshul
Paul & Joanne Bailey
William & Donna Batsford
Stephen Baumann
Richard & Alice Baxter
The Beasleys
Richard & Marilyn Beattie
Warren & Megan Belt
Willa Biewald
Kavitha Bindra
Elizabeth Blaney
Patricia Blaney
Geofrey & Mary Ann Bonenberger
Raahsahn Bowden
Alan Bowie
Kossouth & Michelle Bradford
Kevin & Susie Brandmeyer
Jay & Grace Bright
Melanie Brigockas
Jermaine Brookshire Jr., Esq.
Lynn & Jay Brotman
Sam & Libba Burke
Jeannette Byers
Carmen Canales
Maria Canales
Amy Caplan
Adam Solomon & Brenda Carter
Pat & Joe Casey
Sean Casey & Emelie Kihlstrom
David & Marilyn Cataldo
Helene Cejas
Wick Chambers
Jenny Chou
Peter & Holly Cimino
Annie Clark
David & Jean Clark
Paula Clark
Constance Clement
Kevin & Roxanne Coady
Ronald Coleman Jr.
Debra & David Cook
Edward Cooke & Carol Warner
Dale Coudert
Paige Schwarz Couture
Alice Cox
William & Dorothy Osborne Cox
Peter & Lucy Cox
Craig Crews & Katherine McKenzie
Douglas & Roseline Crowley
Shannon Crowley
Tina & John Cunningham
Hugh & Judy Cuthbertson
Deb Dale & Mike O'Keefe
Tarek Debira
Annie Delgado
Luke Demas
Bill & Jane Dennett
Tim Diemand
Ray & Amanda Diffley
Victoria DiSesa
Akbar Doctor
Susan Duffy
Paul Duncan
David Eaton
Susan Ehrenkranz
James England
Kathleen & Thom Ennen
Charles & Catherine Everett
Adam Farmerie
Christopher & Emily Fasano
Erika Faust
Julian & Deborah Ferholt
Andrew & Polly Fiddler
Loren Fields
Edith Flagg
Terry S. Flagg
Clare Flannery
The Foote School
The Foote School Class of 2023
Bruce Frankel
John Palmer Freeman
Lynn & Rich Gabbard
Lani Gallagher
Susan Gallo
Dan Galves & Lisa Collins
Colin Gardner
Ebun Garner
Willis & Zandra Gay
Frank & Mary Gerlach
David & Jessica Gillespie
Hillary Glass
Steven Glickman
Amira Gohara
Joseph Gonzalez
Katharine Goodbody
Lily Goren
Rashana Graham
William Graustein
Karen & Steuart Gray
Julien Greco
Cynthia Greenleaf
Mia Grossman
Joann Guay
The Hanna Family
Kristin Harder
Toni Harp
Thomas Hartmann-Boyce
Debra Hauser
Saylor Heidmann
Cheryl Henderson
Jeffrey Hickey
Harald & Jenny Hille
John Leventhal & Beverly Hodgson
Glenn Levin & Alexandra Hokin
Dana Hokin
Stephen & Briane Horner
Monica & Adam Horowitz
Sidney Horowitz & Gladys Deutsch
Molly Hoyle
Lauren Hsu
Klazinus Rouwenhorst & Bernadette
Huang
Roger Ibbotson
Jeremy Irzyk
Jody Abzug & Jim Irzyk
Kim Bohen & Doug James
Christine Janis
Georgia Jensen
Katie Jewett
Thomas Eisen & Elizabeth Jonas
Jolanda Jones
Kharim Jones
Matthew Kansler
Jonathan & Susan Katz
Lauren Kee
Zenobiya Khambati
Mustafa Khokha
Salma Khokha
Tasneem Khokha
Alex Kleiner '00 & Alexandra Daum
George & Meghan Knight
The Koff Family
Bill Kosturko
Alan Krauthammer
Andrew Kyriakatos
Yohannes Lake
Deb & David Laliberte
Shawn Laliberte
Edward Lamont
Nick & Jean Lamont
Maria Landers
Patty Langdon
Jack Lapides
James & Hannah Leckman
Kendall & Rick Leclerc
Andrew Leonard & Molleen Theodore
Karen Leonard
Philip Leonard
Molly LeVan
Richard & Jane Levin
Sara Levine
James & Kirsten Levinsohn
Lewis G. Schaeneman, III
Mary Lewis
Sylvia Lipnick
Arwa Lokhandwalla
Carolyn Lokis
Ted & Lisa Lovejoy
Christina & Kenneth MacLean
Trevor Madore
Kaye Maggart
Katie Magoon
Jen & Rob Maier
Owen Maier
Kiran Makam & Mona Gohara
Bruce Mandell
Hugh & Nancy Manke
Marc & Margaret Mann
Evan Marks
Scott Marshall
Carol Martin
Alyson Matthews
Kelonda Maull
Milda McClain
D. McCleary
Kristen McCleary
Dalton & Brian McCurdy
Michael McGarry & Tracy Stone
Nancy McGee
Kathleen McIntosh
John & Karen McKenna
Sean McKenna
Andrew McLaren & Francie Irvine
Julia Merkt
John & Carol Merriman
Andrew & Susie Metrick
Jerome & Roslyn Meyer
Ken Harvey & Bruce Meyers
Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky
David & Susan Millen
Gail Mirza
Nikhil & Pritha Mittal
Henry & Sally Mixsell
Alexandra Moellmann
William & Julie Moore
Frances Moore
James & Marcia Morley
Sabooh Mubbashar & Kiran Zaman
The Mudry Family
Charlie & Charlotte Murphy
Stephen & Victoria Murphy
Rachel Myers
Geoffrey & Cheryl Nadzam
Barry Nalebuff & Helen Kauder
The Nocera Family
Judith Normandin
Dave & Liz Nowak
Gary Nurenberg
Robert O'Connor
Jack & Karen O'Donnell
Colleen Olinski
Dave Osborne
Bob & Inge Osborne
Will Osborne
Emily Osterhout
Christophe & Catherine Pamelard
Aléwa Cooper & Markell Parker
Farzana Pashankar
Sarwat Patel
Trevor & Libby Peard
Gregory Pepe & Ann Baker Pepe
Leah Pepe
Frank & Laura Perrine
John Pescatore & Anne Martin
Judith Chevalier & Steven Podos
Carol & Wesley Poling
Jason & Christina Price
Jeremy Quinby
Douglas Rae & Ellen Shuman
Kevin Reish
Barry & Joan Richter
Bill Riley & Susan Forster
Nancy & Jim Riling
Warren Andiman & Marie Robert
Denise Robinson
Eamon Roche & Sarah Blanton
Jim Rogers & Jayne Geiger
Sarah Roman
Michael Rose
David Rosen
Margaret Rosenblatt
Carol Ross
Rebecca Royston
Anna Salmini
Robert Sandine
Michael & Barbara Schaffer
Ted & Debra Schaffer
Nina Scherago, George, Cara & Parker Jones
Schleifer Family
Bruce McDermott & Sally Schwartz McDermott
Rae Schwarz
Jimmy & Barbara Segaloff
John & Catherine Seibyl
Ed Shanahan
Jack Shaw
Susan Shaw
Thomas Shelford
Alexandra Shor
D. Ellen Shuman & Douglas Rae
Dylan Sielert
Kelly Sielert
Valerie & William Sielert
Muffazal Simba
Deepa Singamsetti
Cornelia Small
Alexis Smith
Morgan Smith
Dione Sneed
Joan & Mel Sokotch
Andrew Somosi
Harold Spitzer
Alan & Margie Starensier
J. Richard Lee & Amy Starensier
Barbara & Len Stern
Stephen & Ginger May
Donald Margulies & Lynn Street
Aleeza Strubel
Thomas & Phoebe Styron
Jeffrey & Amy Sudmyer
Tayyab & Maleka Suratwala
Alycia Sutor
Timothy & Amber Swensen
Erik Tesauro
Mary Theodore
Harold Thompson
Paul Thornell
Tayler Thorpe
Kristen & Wesley Thorpe III
Wesley & Anntonie Thorpe, Jr.
Allison Titgemeier
Mary Tomei
Peter Tomei
Stephanie & Joe Tomei
Eileen Tonry
Jennifer Torres
David & Lisa Totman
Sara Tyler
Peter Ulisse
Katie & Neema Vaheb
Michael Valente
Gretchen Vaughn
Erika Villa
Ralph Villanova & Mary-Kate Gill
Hong Vu
Charles & Dinny Wakerley
Trakia Walker
Margaret Walters
John Carlson & Zenta Walther
Anne Wareck
Talbot Welles
Lynda & Brian West
Sandy & Dick Whelan
Brian & Susan Osborne White
Tom White
Jim & Betty Whitney
John & Virginia Wilkinson
Andrew Wilson
John Witt
Stephen & Rachel Wizner
Annie Woodhull
Matthew Wyskiel
John & Pat Zandy
Robert Frank & Raffaella Zanuttini
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In Memory of Avery Silverman
Matthew Silverman
In Memory of Carol Virostek
The Virostek-Cobb Family
In Memory of Deborah Holston Selden
Edwin Selden
In Memory of Edward Torrence
John Wysolmerski & Caroline Hendel
HORIZONS REPORT OF GIVING
In Memory of Frances Levin
William & Deborah Friedman
In Memory of Giuseppina on the 7th Anniversary of Her Passing
M & W Atallah
In Memory of Kathleen Jenkins Ennis
Kathleen & Thom Ennen
In Memory of Lyn McNaught
Andrew McLaren & Francie Irvine
In Memory of Missy Gabbard
Joseph & Nancy Juliano
In Memory of Sharon Oster
Ray Fair
In Memory of Walter Ariker
Diane Ariker
HONORARY GIFTS
In Honor of Ali Hokin
Robin Sherman
In Honor of Ann Baker Pepe
Jaime Perri
In Honor of Christina MacLean
Anonymous
William & Dorothy Osborne Cox
Anne Mantia
Kelonda Maull
Gregory Pepe & Ann Baker Pepe
Valerie & William Sielert
In Honor of Dody Cox
William & Dorothy Osborne Cox
Joann Guay
William & Daisy Quayle
In Honor of Francie Irvine
Anonymous
Kara Cramsie
Deena & Bob Ferrara
Carol Grave
Duby McDowell
Eliza McLaren
Joan & Mel Sokotch
David & Lisa Totman
In Honor of Jaime Perri
Jack Lapides
In Honor of Jean Lamont
William & Dorothy Osborne Cox
In Honor of Jenny Byers
Barbara Kinder & Caitlin Cahow
In Honor of Jody Abzug
Jane Brody
Andrew & Mary Beth Claflin
Craig Crews & Katherine McKenzie
In Honor of Judith Chevalier
Richard & Beverly Chevalier
In Honor of Julien & Sophie Gangloff
Amy Caplan
Francine & Robert Caplan
In Honor of Kim Bohen
Sara Gottesman
Jody Abzug & Jim Irzyk
In Honor of Kiran Makam
Miriam Gohara
In Honor of Kiran Makam's Birthday
Kiran Makam & Mona Gohara
In Honor of Kossouth Bradford
Anonymous
Rinaldi Family
In Honor of Laura Alsthul
Sabooh Mubbashar & Kiran Zaman
Bill & Jane Dennett
Anna & Bryan Garsten
Nick & Jean Lamont
Warren Andiman & Marie Robert
Scott & Dawn Walsh
In Honor of Laura Altshul & Francie
Irvine
John & Virginia Wilkinson
In Honor of Laura Altshul & Jean Lamont
Marc & Margaret Mann
In Honor of Lynn Gabbard
Cori L. Gabbard
In Honor of Rich & Lynn Gabbard
Frank & Cathy Vellaccio
In Honor of Rashana Graham
Christina & Kenneth MacLean
In Honor of Rashana Graham, Francie
Irvine & Christina MacLean
Jody Abzug & Jim Irzyk
In Honor of Richard Hokin
Glenn Levin & Alexandra Hokin
In Honor of Saleena Holder
Michael Bergman & Deborah Teason
In Honor of Sean Casey
Ann & Ken Harrell
In Honor of Sue Shaw
Anonymous
In Honor of The Horizons STRONG
Community Anonymous
In Honor of The Junior Advisory Committee
William & Dorothy Osborne Cox
In Honor of Wick Chambers
Constance Clement
Christina & Kenneth MacLean
Caroline & Gerald Mulligan
In Honor of Zainab Khokha
Huned & Zehra Patwa
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Mark Your Calendars
Giving Day
February 14, 2024
Join us in spirit and support as we come together as a community to celebrate the Maroon and Gray! Your generous gifts help us not only sustain but enhance the academics, arts, athletics, and traditions that are hallmarks of The Foote School experience. Visit footeschool.org/giving to learn how your donation can inspire the next generation of Foote students to change the world.
Alumni Weekend
May 3_4, 2024
Join us Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, for this year’s Alumni Weekend! All alumni are welcome, and we will be honoring classes ending in 4 and 9 with a special reunion. Look for more information as it is available, and check in with us at www.footeschool.org/reunion.
