Thank You
Designing Our Future Together
Dear Foxcroft School Community,
The beginning of a new school year brings an energy and excitement that cannot be matched. As our Foxcroft girls return to campus, they begin to design their future year in their minds: the courses they’ll take, the sports and activities they’ll choose, the things they want to achieve, upcoming changes and challenges they’ll have to navigate. I know as an alumna, as the Chair of the Board of Trustees, and as an educator, that Foxcroft helps each girl to design her future, and that it will only get bigger and better.
Foxcroft is building for our future. This year, we broke ground on the Mars STEAM Wing, and the Board of Trustees has been working to forecast and design the upcoming projects and budgets as part of the Building for Our Future campaign. We have also begun the search for our next Head of School, utilizing members of our community and Carney Sandoe & Associates to ensure we conduct an inclusive process and find an outstanding replacement for Cathy McGehee to continue her immeasurable work in service of Foxcroft.
Foxcroft School sits on 500 acres, but we are truly a nationwide, even global community. As we look forward, we want to expand our international presence and students, and ensure girls who want to attend Foxcroft can enroll and design their path forward. We also want to ensure that construction and expansion goes smoothly on our new additions and renovations, and that we continue to maintain and support our talented faculty and staff, who demonstrate daily compassion and vision for our students. Our girls deserve nothing less.
None of this would be possible without our community, and your support of The Foxcroft Circle, our endowment, the Building for Our Future campaign, Reunion, and Forever Foxcroft.
To our students, families, faculty, staff, alumnae, and community members, thank you. You continue to help us design our future and the future of our students, and this support is critical for ensuring Miss Charlotte’s work and vision continues to advance. We are grateful for your time, talents, and trust, and we celebrate each and every one of the wonderful moments with you here at Foxcroft School.
With gratitude,
Natalie James Wiltshire ’95 Chair, Board of Trustees
Dear Friends of Foxcroft,
2023–24 was a groundbreaking year, both literally and figuratively. In April, we held a ceremony for the new Mars STEAM Wing during Reunion and put a shovel in the ground to kick off Phase 2 of the Building for Our Future campaign. As I write to you, the construction fence is going up and the site work is underway with an anticipated building completion date of fall 2025.
Our annual theme, “Design yOUR Future,” not only celebrated Foxcroft’s Project STEAM-Build seminar, which follows the design phase of the Mars STEAM Wing and offers students the opportunity to learn about the first stages of the building process from the architects, engineers, and construction managers working with the School, it also helped our students think about planning for their own unique futures. Throughout the year, our girls met alumnae and outside speakers in design professions. They learned how to solve real-world problems in innovative courses such as 3D Design, Video Production, and Explorations in Engineering, and they planned a design for their own future education in our student-centered collegecounseling program. Outside of class, student leaders ratified a constitution for our Student Council, rode in our new outdoor riding ring designed by one of our own alumna, competed in conference and state athletic competitions, and started new clubs, all while enjoying beloved traditions such as Fox/Hound that bind us together across generations.
As alumnae, parents, employees, volunteers, and friends of Foxcroft, you helped make these opportunities possible for our students. I want to express my gratitude to each one of you, who gave to the School in so many ways.
Your gifts to The Foxcroft Circle, to the endowment, and to the Building for Our Future campaign keep us strong and help us to meet our goals. Throughout the school year, your generosity touches the lives of every person on campus as we work together to ensure outstanding teaching, engaging programs, the upkeep and renewal of our buildings and grounds, and most importantly, the success of our students in and outside of the classroom. Foxcroft could not do what we do without you.
I hope you will feel the pride and optimism I have each day I work with Foxcroft students and meet alumnae who are designers and architects of a strong community and a better world.
Catherine S. McGehee Head of School
$1 million $1,000,691
100% 12.8% 16.9% 54.3% 90.8% 616 GOAL RAISED PARTICIPATION DONORS
From Foxcroft’s Founding Day in October, to Family Giving in November, to Reunion Weekend in April and more, this community showed its love of our School, its students, families, faculty, and staff. Your support and connection to our School helped our students continue to unlock their potential and design their futures.
THE FOXCROFT CIRCLE GIVING AWARD: Class of 1984 with 38.3% SUPPORTS: 6-8% of our operating budget
The Class of 2024 designated their Senior Class gift to The Foxcroft Circle 1984
TRUSTEES ALUMNAE REUNION ALUMNAE CURRENT FAMILIES EMPLOYEES
Thank you, thank you for making Foxcroft a philanthropic priority each year! We are so grateful for you.
Celebrating Reunion Gifts
Reunion gifts bring alumnae together to honor their class and their unique Foxcroft experience.
Once again, our alumnae have shown their School spirit by challenging each other to reach ever-higher participation and giving goals!
We were thrilled to welcome all alumnae home to campus this spring, especially the milestone Classes of 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019. Together, these alumnae made gifts totaling $140,225 to The Foxcroft Circle!
Thank you so much to all of the Class Representatives and Reunion Co-Chairs for their leadership and for encouraging philanthropic support of Foxcroft in honor of their Reunion. Their efforts helped us reach our 2023–24 goal for The Foxcroft Circle, and encouraged a wonderful turnout from our Foxcroft alumnae community! Let’s keep the momentum going together! In honor of their 50th Reunion, the Class of 1974 raised $183,739 for the Mars STEAM Wing.
Reunion Giving Awards recognize classes with the highest participation in The Foxcroft Circle or special class projects, and celebrate our alumnae’s dedication to Foxcroft. Congratulations and thank you to this year’s winners!
25th–60th Reunion Giving Award
5th–20th Reunion Giving Award
52.3%
CLASS OF 1974 PARTICIPATION WITH 28.6% CLASS OF 2004 PARTICIPATION WITH
In Foxcroft’s 1946 Campus Master Plan, Miss Charlotte articulated her vision for the School, including the construction of Schoolhouse, an auditorium, laboratory, and individual music and art buildings, stating, “The buildings would supply adequate space and equipment to maintain Foxcroft’s high standard of scholarship.”
More than 75 years later, we are carrying on Miss Charlotte’s vision with our $65 million Building for Our Future campaign, which launched in April 2022. Divided into four phases, the campaign prioritizes renovating Schoolhouse and Music Building, as well as the construction of a STEAM Wing and Performing Arts Center.
Our new Mars STEAM Wing is underway, and the anticipation is building! With construction beginning, our efforts will now center around The Ruth T. Bedford 1932 Performing Arts Center. This space will provide a larger, highly flexible space for FoxHound Auditorium, and support our performing arts with a costume and scene shop and a new gallery space for visual art exhibits.
This fiscal year, we raised toward the campaign, bringing our total to
$801,258 $31,211,965.
Restricted Gifts
Restricted gifts to the School can be designated to fund special projects or supplement operating and capital budgets. This year, gifts were received for academic programming, faculty professional development, student support, and capital improvement projects.
SOME NOTEWORTHY INITIATIVES INCLUDE:
THE PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION’S annual Silent Auction and Raffle grossed more than $18,000, which was allocated to The Foxcroft Circle, Wintermission, student enrichment, faculty and staff appreciation, and family engagement.
BRETT AND LESTER LEVY generously provided funding for faculty professional learning centered on wellness initiatives. This funding provided day-long training to combat burnout, as well as one-onone coaching with the facilitator for some of our faculty.
A generous, budget-relieving grant from THE HARRISON FOUNDATION for deferred maintenance has helped support the necessary upkeep of Foxcroft’s 500 acres and 51 buildings.
Gifts in support of FINANCIAL AID and INCIDENTALS FOR STUDENTS IN NEED enabled the School to provide muchneeded support to deserving students who might not otherwise be able to afford a Foxcroft education.
The STEPHEN AND MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION generously provided funding to support additional 3D printing and STEM programs at Foxcroft.
Gifts from several current families supported the rebuilding of the outdoor riding ring on Big Track. The new OUTDOOR RIDING RING incorporates eco-friendly arena footing developed by Alex Carr ’12, and is an updated space for our Foxcroft girls and their horses to enjoy every day.
Endowment Gifts
Gifts to Foxcroft’s endowment are an essential part of the School’s financial foundation. Each gift is invested and the earnings are used to support all aspects of the School, including academic programs, faculty development, financial aid, and plant maintenance. Endowment earnings account for 36% of our annual operating budget.
NEWLY ESTABLISHED FUNDS
Bartlett Family STEM Math Scholarship
Established by the family of Margaret Wilmer Bartlett ’62, The Bartlett Family STEM Scholarship for Math provides the opportunity of a Foxcroft education to a deserving student who shows an interest in mathematics, regardless of financial need.
Class of 1973 Scholarship Fund
In honor of their 50th Foxcroft Reunion, the Class of 1973 created an endowment fund to support need-based scholarships for Foxcroft students who are willing and eager to embrace the qualities of community spirit and an understanding heart. Recognizing the value of the Foxcroft School experience, the Class of 1973 wishes to perpetuate the opportunity for young women to explore, discover, and develop their own unique voices.
FUNDS THAT RECEIVED GIFTS THIS YEAR
Bartlett Family STEM Environmental Science Scholarship
Bartlett Family STEM Math Scholarship
Celeste and Paul Bergan Financial Aid Fund
Class of 1964 - Briggs Biology Lab
Class of 1973 Scholarship Fund
Dede Pickering ’71 Fund
Elizabeth Dillingham Wick Scholarship
Extracurricular Experience Fund
Ferrell Page McClean ’64 Faculty Chair
General Endowment
Hemmenway Scholarship Fund
Honor/Memorial Endowment for Annual Giving*
Josephine Kimberly Peterson Scholarship
Keith M. McBride Fund for Innovative Teaching
Mary Custis Lee deButts ’18 Scholarship
Professional Development Endowment
Robert Emmett Leisher Scholarship
Scholarship/Financial Aid Endowment
Second Step Initiative
Stephen L. Matthews Library Endowment
*The income from the Honor/Memorial Endowment for Annual Giving is applied each year to The Foxcroft Circle and recognizes those honored in perpetuity. In 2023–24, the interest draw from this fund contributed $21,704 to the operating budget, and four names were added to the list of honorees: Louisa Cooper Dubin ‘55, Theodora Winthrop Hooton ‘47, Suzanne Townsend Purrington ‘56, and Barbara Iselin Sears ‘39. For more information and a complete list of honorees, please visit foxcroft.org/honormemorial.
Forever Foxcroft
Established in 1999 by the Board of Trustees, Forever Foxcroft is the giving society that recognizes individuals who have included Foxcroft in their estate plans. Whether a bequest, trust, annuity, pooled income, or property interests, planned gifts provide for the future needs of the School.
Through these legacy gifts, members of Forever Foxcroft balance their financial goals and charitable interests while ensuring that Foxcroft continues to attract and retain inspiring teachers, financial aid will be available to prospective students, and the buildings and grounds will be cared for and upgraded as needed into the future.
We are exceedingly grateful to the alumnae, parents, and friends of Foxcroft who have taken the lead to ensure that Foxcroft continues to thrive.
We have published the names of individuals who have permitted us to do so. If you have included Foxcroft in your long-term financial planning, please share that information with us by contacting the Office of Institutional Advancement at advancement@foxcroft.org or 540.687.4510.
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Mimi Mills Abel-Smith ’54
Stacey Morse Ahner ’73
Peggy Wickes Alexander ’64
+ Elizabeth Stewart Baldwin ’23
+ Elizabeth Kemp Beach ’20
+ Ruth Bedford ’32
+ Harriet Aldrich Bering ’40
Pamela Biddle ’81
Dorothy Pickering Bossidy ’71
Elizabeth Boyd ’92
+ J. Bruce Bredin
Dorothy Reynolds Brotherton ’70
+ Mr. and Mrs. Leland Brown
+ Amanda Cadwalader Burton ’44
Tonya M. Butler-Truesdale ’82
Caroline Rinehart Cardais ’01
Moira M. Carroll ’83
+ Cecile Parker Carver ’42
+ Ann Gambrill Casey ’39
Susan Knott Childs ’58
Candida Streeter Clark ’73
+ Mariana Gowen Coleman ’15
Barbara Tragakis Conner
+ Eleanor Chalfant Cooper ’20
Dolph(+) and Beatty Cramer ’66
+ Ailsa Moseley Crawford ’53
Joy Crompton ’78
Victoria Bartlett Donaldson ’70
Sally Bartholomay Downey ’78
Molly West Ellsworth ’50
Nancy Jones Emrich
Lisa McGrath Evans ’67
+ Katherine Crowninshield Ferguson ’53
+ Elizabeth Cheston Forster ’52
+ Lucy Sprague Foster ’46
+ Anna Lauder Garner ’39
Edmee E. Geis ’82
+ Betsy N. Getz
Sandra Norris Ghosh ’75
Brooke Meyer Gray ’59
Chip and Jill Gruver
+ Joy Sheaffer Hall ’57
+ Dorrance Hill Hamilton ’46
Waddell Hancock ‘71
+ Elizabeth Millard Hanes ’46
Pamela Hartley ’79
Katherine Cooper Hastings ’78
Sarah Stokes Hatch ’63
+ Rosalind Everdell Havemeyer ’35
Trevania Dudley Henderson ’76
Melanie Lozier Henke ’89
+ Theodora Winthrop Hooton ’47
Richard and Kimberly Hurst
+ May Field Jackson ’29
Patricia Toy Bryant Johnson ’78
Hope Jones ’82
Hope Haskell Jones ’52
+ Amanda Bryan Kane ’22
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kaplan
Nancy S. Krewson ’73
Anne Michele Kuhns ’87
+ Suzanne Kuser ’49
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Lane
Amelia Baker Lauderdale ‘04
+ James F. Lawrence
Louisa Whitridge Leavitt ’60
Mary Louise Leipheimer
+ Mary Ann Lippitt ’36
+ Elizabeth Livingston
+ Elizabeth Mackubin Lyman ’22
+ Jane Lawrence Mali ’55
+ Nancy R. Manierre ’41
+ Nancy Iselin Marburg ’37
+ Forrest E. Mars, Jr.
+ Virginia Cretella Mars
Dorothy Alexander Matz ’81
Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas May, Jr.
Mary Cheston McAdoo ’46
Susan McConnell ’68
Amanda McGuire ’84
+ Anne Kane McGuire ’52
Susan Schoelkopf Mele ’80
Jordan Moore ’01
Melissa Slingluff Morley ’81
Valerie Michel Nelson ’77
Wendy Nelson ‘83
+ Florence B. Newman
+ Joan Lyman Niles ’51
+ Abby M. O’Neill ’46
Jennifer Sgro Orfield ’91
+ Linda Moore Post ’46
+ Heidi Schmid Powers ’59
+ Suzanne Townsend Purrington ’56
+ Jean Rainey, mother of Ruth Rainey ’82
Pickett D. Randolph ’56
+ Charles and Nancy
Thomas Rees ’45
+ Hope Montgomery Scott ’21
Alexandra Flickinger
Secor ’80
+ Katherine Snyder Shands ’22
Patricia Sifton-Munro ’76
+ Helen Putnam Sokopp ’49
Nell Cherry Stager ’81
+ Seymour St. John
+ Anne Kinsolving Talbott ’60
Alix Tower Thorne ’67
+ Eleanor Schley Todd ’29
Frances Cheston Train ’44
Carol Exnicios Tucker ’49
Linda Reading Uihlein ’72
+ Grace Sloane Vance ’36
+ Julia Armour Walker ’59
+ Polly Ordway Wallace ’34
+ Wilma Warburg
+ Constance V.R. White ’42
Kendra A. Wilcox-Dillon ’82
+ Mary Hotchkiss Williams ’30
Eva Louise Willim
+ Alice Perkins Winn ’19
+ Lunsford and Curgie
Winchester Yandell ’24
Summary of Gifts
We are grateful to the 671 donors who supported the Foxcroft experience this year!
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Thank you, thank you for continuing the Foxcroft School legacy and helping our girls design their own futures. You are a central part of our community, and we appreciate you!
