Garrison Forest School Magazine 2016 by Garrison Forest School

G arrison F orest 2016 MAGAZINE

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AS I WRAP UP my second year as Head of School, I am so proud to share this issue of our magazine, a true showcase of the work of the school, our students and our alumnae. As I go about my daily work, it remains a deep privilege to connect with Garrison girls and women of all ages, to hear about their passions and dreams and to understand just what bonds them together and to the school. Our motto Esse Quam Videri, “To Be Rather Than To Seem,” is one aspect of our “glue.” It is a call to stay true to oneself, and it is a powerful concept for us, especially as a girls’ school. At the same time, it is not a community-oriented sentiment. Last year, because we wanted to capture fully how we want to treat each other in a daily way, we created the Core Values. We wanted deeper clarity about what exactly we want every Garrison Forest student to fully embody by the time she graduates. Our Core Values—Be Authentic, Be Brave, Be Compassionate, Be Curious and Be Spirited—invoke how we truly want to be and not to seem with each other. As a community, we spent time and thought defining what we hold dear and creating these values. Last September, a faculty-led task force rolled out the program in age-appropriate, division-specific ways. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the year that capture a particular value. May the Core Values inspire you, as they are inspiring our students.

BE COMPASSIONATE. BE AUTHENTIC: This selfie from the 2016 IAAM C Conference basketball championship game captures the authenticity of GFS. (We beat Glenelg, 35-34.) BE BRAVE: For many Middle School students in Disney’s The Lion King, Jr. it was their first performance in front of an audience. A blizzard curtailed a week of practice, but the cast and crew embraced the challenge and gave memorable performances.

BE COMPASSIONATE: Four Elsie “Muffie” Foster Jenkins ’53 Community Service Fellows spent summer 2015 in service around the world. Brooke Fruman ’16 and Qiuhan “Emma” Zhang ’16 (pictured) did research at Tongji Research Hospital in Wuhan, China and taught at the Bashu Primary School. BE CURIOUS: The former literature professor in me cheered when AP English used Edith Wharton’s novel

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14 Supporting Women: Garrison Forest Advocates for Change 24 Connections@Work: Mentoring to Make a Difference

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30 Meet the Alumnae Legacy Scholars 130 From the Archives: The Garrison Forest Uniform, 1910 to Today

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2 Lives of Purpose: Alumna, student

Class News

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Words We Live By: Esse Quam Videri

and faculty accomplishments

Farewell to the Forest

Faculty at the Forest

Guest columnist, the Rev. Caroline “Stuart” Rinehart Stewart ’66, School Chaplain, reflects on 51 years of wearing her Garrison Forest ring.

Spirit of Giving

>>> MORE ONLINE AT GFS.ORG/MAGAZINE ON THE COVER: “Fishers of Men” by Elizabeth Gallo ‘16

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Ethan Frome for an inspired and passionate debate on free will vs. the confines of early 20th-century rural life. “Judge” Natalie Froman presided. BE SPIRITED: Watching the Lower School girls enjoy our new playground for the first time at the early January ribbon-cutting ceremony embodied the joy that is GFS. Their exuberance —and that of Gail Hutton, Head of Lower School (pictured)—warmed many a heart that chilly morning.

Embracing abstract painting as a junior increased Elizabeth Gallo’s trust in her process and preferred materials—pen and watercolor—exponentially. “With abstract art, if you overthink it, it won’t work,” she says of her painting, which won the 2016 Baltimore County Youth Art Month Exhibit’s Special Recognition for Creativity Award. “I don’t use a pencil or an eraser. If my brain tells me to make a mark, I don’t question it.” Drawing inspiration from stained glass, B.J. McElderry’s AP Art History class and the Impressionists, Elizabeth manipulates vibrant color, a bold mark and graphic patterns. This fall at Dickinson, Elizabeth, who was Varsity Squash team co-captain and a member of GREEN club and Service League, plans to major in the Food Study program and French with a minor in art and art history.

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Sarah Achenbach, Director of Communications sarahachenbach@gfs.org

Mid-Atlantic Custom Media Jeni Mann, Director jmann@midatlanticmedia.com Cortney Geare, Art Director Lindsey Bridwell, Designer

Brooke Fruman ’16, Paul Galeone Photographers, F. Sadie Goetze ‘16, Will Kirk, Sakinah Rushdan ’16, David Stuck, Varsity Views

Aja Jackson, Associate Director of Communications and Class News Editor ajajackson@gfs.org

Garrison Forest Magazine is published annually. The opinions expressed in the annual magazine and Class News are those of the authors and/or interview subjects and not necessarily of Garrison Forest School. Garrison Forest makes every effort to include all submitted Class News, but reserves the right to edit for clarity, length and content. Alumnae Class News agents are responsible for accuracy in their Class News. SEND ADDRESS CORRECTIONS TO: Garrison Forest School Alumnae Office 300 Garrison Forest Road • Owings Mills, MD 21117 • gfsalum@gfs.org • 410-559-3136

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Katherine Meyers Bissett ’02,

21st-CENTURY SCHOOL NURSE The words “school nurse” evoke many images, but public health pioneer and comprehensive health care probably aren’t among them. For Katherine Meyers Bissett ’02, school nurse for the Ruth and Norman Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education, these roles are all in a day’s work. The Rales Health Center opened last August as part of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in partnership with KIPP Baltimore. She tends to skinned knees and other traditional school nurse duties and designs interventions for students with chronic illnesses such as asthma and Katherine Meyers Bissett ‘02 (right) with diabetes. She also runs groups for students Dr. Kate Connor (left), KIPP’s medical director and pediatrician, and Tresa Schumann, pediatric struggling with obesity or grief, works with nurse practitioner. a wellness team to teach classes on body awareness and healthy cooking, provides case management services for students with mental illness and educates students, families and staff on how to improve their health. Working with another nurse, a pediatric nurse practitioner and a pediatrician, her team offers a full pediatric clinic within school (strep tests, bloodwork, vaccinations, etc.). KIPP, a K-8 charter school of 1,500 students in West Baltimore, is dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for college. Only 2.5 percent of public schools in the United States provide some degree of comprehensive primary-care services to students, according to the School-Based Health Alliance. Baltimore is home to more than a dozen. “We understand how closely tied academic performance is to good health and that getting to the doctor is often a challenge for their working families,” says Katherine, who graduated magna cum laude from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Prior to nursing school, she worked for World Pediatric Project, a nonprofit providing pediatric surgical care throughout Latin America. “The impact we’re having is clear and immediate. In our first year, we’ve prevented over 80 trips to the emergency department, keeping kids in school and learning. I know and love my patients, and I see them every day. It’s such a unique and privileged way to work.”

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Poet and Upper School English teacher was nominated this year for a prestigious Pushcart Prize for “It’s Lovely to Watch Young Women,” a poem she wrote about the GFS 2015 IAAM C Basketball championship team, originally published in the Little Patuxent Review. We asked Rachel, who knows her way around a writing prompt, to fill us in on her passion for poetry and a few of her muses. When I heard that I had been nominated, I called my mom and dad, who are writers (biography and art history) and teachers. They have always encouraged me. I am drawn to poetry because its brevity and line breaks can break through our defenses. My favorite poems to teach are: “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” With Hayden, the girls are so hooked by his restraint and the apparent simplicity of his language. They slide into his regret about not loving and thanking his father enough and realizing too late that love gets expressed wordlessly in families. I love reading Whitman with students because his exuberance and emotional risk-taking are so infectious. What inspires me is being surprised or seized by some detail—words overheard, peeling birch bark, a paint chip at Home Depot, flotsam and jetsam. I write on my phone daily and revise by reading aloud and sharing my work with other writers who are brutal and loving in their critiques.

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IN JUNE, United States Lacrosse named Samantha Fiedler ’17 to its prestigious ranks of Academic All-American, recognizing her excellence on the field and in the classroom. Sam has a 4.0 GPA and balances an AP/Honors course load while playing lacrosse, basketball and field hockey. The Baltimore Sun also selected her as a Second Team All-Metro Player for the 2016 lacrosse season during which she scored 45 goals, including the game winner (in overtime) against Bryn Mawr to give the Grizzlies their first IAAM A Conference playoff win in over 13 years.

DOUG OPPENHEIMER Earns NSCAA Premier Diploma and Coaches for Professional Women’s Soccer Academy At Garrison Forest, Doug Oppenheimer— or Mr. O, as his legions of student fans know him—is known for his innovative 7th Grade history and math classes, his passion for his filmmaking elective and for coaching both the Varsity Indoor Soccer and the Middle School “A” teams. The latter may not be a big deal to his Grizzly athletes—lots of teachers coach at Garrison Forest—but his coaching and playing prowess is a big deal among the national soccer community. Mr. Oppenheimer recently earned a Premier Diploma, the highest certification from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and is looking to earn his national “C” license from the United States Soccer Federation, which governs all soccer bodies in the United States. Few coaches pursue both the certification and licensing tracks. This past summer, Mr. Oppenheimer was a head coach for one of the Washington Spirit Academy’s Super Y teams and also spent time with Anson Dorrance, head coach of the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team and the winningest women’s soccer coach in collegiate history (21 national championships). He toured the United Kingdom during Spring Break to research and study coaching techniques with professional soccer academies. “I am interested in how to develop professional players and the sort of environment needed to produce these types of players,” says Mr. Oppenheimer, who also coaches the Baltimore Celtic Pride Under-12 girls’ club

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team and is a hired technical trainer with the worldwide Coerver Soccer Program. During school breaks this winter and next summer, his Garrison Forest-funded sabbatical takes him to Spain and the U.K. to continue his coaching studies with youth academies such as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United. “These professional youth academies push their players to the edge every day,” says the former defender for the undefeated 1990 Colby College team and former player for Roehampton, an amateur U.K. team. “Even at the age of 8, if you don’t improve and make the cut every month, you are let go.

It develops a mindset in the kids to always play at their best no matter if it is a practice or a game.” Ever the teacher, he worries about the burnout rate. “I believe that there has to be a balance between sports and being a kid, and right now these youth academies are experiencing an increasing burnout rate much like in most U.S. sports.” He’s also learning what it takes to coach at a top level: “The coaches are incredibly humble, driven, competitive, tough, humorous and on point. That is what I am working towards as well, both in the classroom and on the soccer field.”

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WISE Students and Johns Hopkins Experts Collaborate on the University’s First-Ever Emergency Zika Design Challenge The Zika virus is a significant, global public health threat, given the connection between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in infants born to women infected during pregnancy and Guillain-Barre syndrome in Zika-infected individuals. Last spring, while U.S. lawmakers debated on how to best to handle this health crisis, five Garrison Forest juniors and seniors and veterans of the GFS Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) partnership with Johns Hopkins University rolled up their sleeves to be part of the solution. On April 7-10, 2016, 50-plus national experts spent four intense days tackling the design challenge of preventing mosquito bites and reducing the spread of the Zika virus at Hopkins’ first-ever Emergency Zika Design Challenge. GFS students were the only high school students in attendance for this “hackathon,” which was sponsored by the JHU Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) and Jhpiego, the Hopkins-affiliated international public health organization. Now-seniors Margaret Hyde and Hanwen Yang and recent graduates Rachel Gordon (Case Western), Jackie Magaha (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Sofia Maranto (University of Vermont) worked in teams with clinicians, residents, infectious disease specialists, epidemiology specialists, biomechanical engineers, materials scientists and mosquito vector specialists to brainstorm, research and develop ideas to help solve the Zika virus challenge. At the end of the hackathon, the teams developed innovations from repellant-infused jewelry and lotion to counting mosquito populations. “I came in without knowing what Zika is, but I learned a lot by Saturday, and I had many, many ideas,” Hanwen shared with a reporter from a Johns Hopkins online publication. “Everyone had different insights and different areas of expertise. Of course, [the Hopkins students and experts] have more knowledge and experience than we do, but I think the process of communication, the process of thinking, of inventing—it’s the same for everyone.” “This was an unparalleled, extraordinary experience for our students,” says Andrea Perry, director of GFS’s James Center, who accompanied the students throughout the challenge along with GFS science faculty.

“It was intense and exhausting, but our students were entirely engaged, excited and motivated throughout every step. Each student made meaningful contributions to her team, from Rachel Gordon ‘16 (left) and Margaret Hyde ‘17 presenting to the larger at the Zika Design Challenge. group and searching for supporting data to sharing global insights.” In addition to hands-on work in the research and design, each team received tutorials on the design process from CBID students and used mind-mapping software. Age wasn’t a factor in trying to find a solution to the Zika public health crisis. (A few of the Hopkins experts mistook the GFS students for university students.) “My team had a great idea but didn’t organize itself well, so I helped the team get organized,” Sofia reflected. “Speaking out is not something I am afraid to do.” Margaret adds that “having done WISE helped us, to understand all the information that was being given to us, and it helped us work in our groups.” For Rachel, Margaret, Sofia and Jackie, the Zika Design Challenge was only the beginning. They spent the spring immersed in the research and development process with their team, developing proposals for outside funding and patents, some of which are ongoing. “This is such a pressing issue that if my ideas can help in any way to solve the spread of the Zika virus, I will work to make it happen,” says Jackie.

Cornelia Dorr ’16 won a team gold medal and individual bronze medal at the July 2016 United States Eventing Association (USEA) North American Junior & Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC) in Colorado. Recognized as the official Junior Olympics for the Equestrian world by the United States Olympic Committee, the NAJYRC includes the best young riders in the country competing against those from North and Central America in Eventing, Dressage and Show Jumping. With her horse, “Sir Patico MH” (or “Hugo”), Cornelia, who trained for four years at Garrison Forest and rode for the GFS Equitation Team, is spending the 2016-17 year on the Eventing circuit. A boarder from Massachusetts, Cornelia deferred Gettysburg College for a year to follow her dream of competing at this high level. 2016 GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL

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POLO ALUMNAE MAKE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

Left: Kylie Sheehan ‘09, Team USPA, at the Nigerian Pink Polo Breast Cancer Benefit. Right: Jenny Schwartz ’11 accepts the 2015 award as the Polo Training Foundation’s Women’s Intercollegiate Player of the Year.

In March, Garrison Forest Varsity Polo won raves at the United States Polo Association (USPA) National Girls’ Interscholastic Championship final in Indio, Calif., just as GFS polo alumnae made headlines throughout the international polo arena. The Grizzlies won the USPA 2016 Southeast Regional Girls Interscholastic Tournament. They lost the National Final to rival Maryland Polo Club but were lauded during Nationals for their level of play, sportsmanship and spirit. In October, Jenny Schwartz ’11 received the prestigious 2015 Polo Training Foundation’s Women’s Intercollegiate Player of the Year award—the sixth GFS alumna to receive this honor— and began an internship in club development

with the USPA. Jenny, who played on the 2009 and 2011 GFS National Championship teams, founded Virginia Tech’s student-led polo club. Cristina Fernandez ’05, featured in Garden & Gun magazine’s December/January 2016 article “Polo’s Game Changer,” mentored young players and competed in India as part of Team USPA’s first international women’s team. Team USPA is a highly selective program that identifies and trains the best young polo players in the U.S. Anna Winslow ’12 was a key part of Cornell’s National Women’s Intercollegiate Championship team in 2016 and 2015 and was the No. 1 All-Star for the 2016 tournament. In January, she was selected for

“The Sweetest Place on Earth” lived up to its nickname on May 13, 2016 when the Middle School Chorus earned a very sweet victory at the 2016 Music in the Parks competition at Hersheypark, Pa. The chorus of 6th-8th Grade vocalists, under the direction of Middle School music teacher Ginny Flynn (pictured with the cowboy hat), won First Place for Women’s Chorus and Top Overall Choir. This marks the sixth consecutive first-place win and the fifth consecutive overall choir win, for which they scored the highest among any ensemble, vocal or instrumental.

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Team USPA, spending this past summer training and playing with top professional polo players and trainers in Wyoming. Kylie Sheehan ’09 played in the Pink Polo Breast Cancer Benefit match last October in Nigeria as a member of Team USPA, raising awareness of breast cancer for women in the area. A former mentor for GFS’s Middle Grades Partnership through the James Center, Kylie also attended a series of educational lectures on breast cancer surrounding the polo matches. Given the number of accolades her former students earned this year, it’s fitting that Cindy Halle, GFS Polo coach, was featured in the May 2016 Polo Players’ Edition in an article aptly titled, “Role Model.”

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WHITE HOUSE FELLOW: SARA BLEICH ’96 Sara Bleich, Ph.D., professor of public health policy at Harvard University, recent associate professor of health and policy management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and former Garrison Forest trustee, just completed a year as one of 16 White House Fellows. Selected from among the country’s emerging leaders, the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships is one of the country’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. Each full-time White House Fellow spends the year working at the highest levels of the federal government. Sara, who is a widely published international expert on obesity and the Frank 2015 Prize winner in public interest communication, spent the year as Senior Policy Advisor in Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Sara (pictured in the East Wing of the White House) reflects on this transformational experience and what it means to her public health focus moving forward. Q: How have you leveraged your expertise about obesity in the White House Fellowship? A: USDA was a great fit for me since it, among other things, oversees the suite of federal nutrition assistance programs that helps eligible low-income families (including mine when I was a young child) put food on the table in times of need. It is a particularly exciting time to be at USDA since there has been tremendous progress in nutrition policy during the Obama Administration such as the 2010 Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act which has created healthier school meal environment for more than 30 million children. In an effort to leverage my substantive expertise about obesity and bring value to USDA, one project I worked on was a legacy report describing progress in feeding American families. To my surprise, there was no single source which documented these efforts. I talked to lots of people at USDA and patched together the story of progress. The end result is a report which summarizes efforts to improve the reach and impact of USDA nutrition programs during the Obama Administration, pinpoints important remaining gaps and challenges to strengthening the programs and highlights possible synergies that may help improve multiple nutrition assistance programs simultaneously. Working on the report helped me to realize two main goals I had for the fellowship experience: understand the role of science in policy making; and identify the soft skills of successful leaders. It’s been fun to leverage my existing skills and learn new ones (such a navigating the federal government), which will be invaluable in the future. Q: Has this year changed your research interests? A: I expect to return to academic research and continue working on the problem of obesity, particularly among disadvantaged populations. But, after this experience, my “wheel house” has expanded. I want to think beyond obesity to look at intractable problems like hunger and poverty. Access to a nutritious diet

is a key part of the equation, but so too are employment opportunities, affordable housing, child care assistance, as well as a myriad of other factors that form the basic architecture for even the most modest life. I would love to explore how to maximize the federal safety net along with other resources to promote good health, well-being and the changing needs of American families. Q: What are the key lessons learned? A: They are almost too numerous to count. Some that stand out are: listen hard to hear what is possible; work towards what is achievable even when it is not perfect; extract only the information that is meaningful; show people that you care; build trust and strong relationships; focus on the destination and not the path; and know your craft. Many of these lessons have come from [the White House Fellows’] weekly seminar series with people such as the President, First Lady, Supreme Court Justices, Cabinet Secretaries, senior White House officials, members of Congress, military leaders, journalists, historians, business executives, leaders from nongovernment organizations and foreign heads of state. But they also come from my observations of leadership behavior. If I had to pick the “stickiest” lesson from the year, it is that you often learn the most when you talk the least. I have no doubt that my personal observations of where people excel and are challenged will likely shave years of mistakes off my life.

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The annual Shadow Day—a school-year highlight—gives about 30 GFS and City Springs students a chance to experience a half school day on each campus, a workshop and friendship-building activities.

Mentors are able to give MGP students individual attention and tutoring during the daily academic portion of the summer program. Each week also includes a field trip.

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY,

MIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP! Garrison Forest School celebrates 10 years of summer and school-year learning with City Springs School, our collaborator in the Middle Grades Partnership (MGP) program. Initiated in 2006 by the Baltimore Community Foundation, MGP connects independent schools and Baltimore City public schools to prepare underserved students to succeed in the most competitive Baltimore City high schools and to attend college. For the past decade, GFS has hosted more than 35 rising 6th- through 9thgraders from City Springs on campus each summer for four weeks of intensive language arts and mathematics instruction, as well as for school-year activities. GFS also leads the way in the larger MGP program in using Upper

School students as mentors, providing almost-peer role models for middle schoolers and a significant leadership experience for the mentors. Since the program’s inception, several GFS mentor alumnae have joined the MGP/GFS teaching staff. “The bonds formed among program participants, mentors and teachers run strong and are enduring,” notes Andrea Perry, director of the GFS James Center, which sponsors MGP as a signature public purpose initiative. “Student participants return summer after summer, and MGP alumnae from City Springs now join GFS peers in mentoring.”

Left: We bid farewell to Whitney “Whitty” Ransome, founding director of the James Center. Since 2008 until her retirement in June, Ms. Ransome championed experiential learning and girls’ leadership at GFS and beyond through MGP, our Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) and Jenkins programs and much, much more. A co-founder of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools, Ms. Ransome brought her compelling vision and nationally noted expertise to establishing the James Center as a place where girls’ passions find purpose and power. Right: MGP students explore diverse experiences at GFS, many new to them, such as the polo and riding summer program elective created by GFS Polo coach Cindy Halle.

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Marty Moss-Coane ’67, 2016 Lucretia Mott Award Winner For more than three decades,

Philadelphia’s WHYY listeners have been listening to Marty Moss-Coane ’67’s voice. Whatever issue she’s covering on Radio Times, she brings expert preparation, joy, humility and sensitivity to each interview on her award-winning interview show, which has earned recognition from the Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists and Philadelphia Magazine, to name a few. On May 3, Women’s Way, a Philadelphia nonprofit advocating for women’s and girls’ health care, rights and self-sufficiency, honored her with the 2016 Lucretia Mott Award. Mott, an abolitionist and suffragette (and the new face on the back of the $10 bill), was known and often reviled by male abolitionists for her refusal to be silenced on social injustice issues. “I am honored and humbled to receive this award that bears her name,” Marty said in her

acceptance speech. “I’ve had a very different journey finding my voice. I come from a family of teachers so I figured I’d end up in the classroom.” Yes, she found her way to the classroom as a school counselor, but Marty’s path to the radio booth included waitressing, sales and owning a macrobiotic/ vegetarian restaurant before joining WHYY as a volunteer in the newsroom. She eventually moved from behind the scenes to on the air. “Radio [is] a visual medium. Listeners use their imagination to create an image of the person talking, so the voice is everything,” she says. “I have also learned that listening is not passive, that a conversation is shaped by the way a question is asked and what it can reveal.”

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SANA NAYLOR BROOKS ’85, 2016 AFP Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser From left: Sana Naylor Brooks ‘85, Andy Brooks and Tami Zavislan, president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Maryland Chapter at the AFP Day.

Giving back to the organizations she has called home and to those which others in Baltimore call home is something Sana Naylor Brooks ’85 loves to do. On May 9, 2016, she and husband Andy Brooks were recognized for their philanthropic passion with the 2016 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award, the

top honor bestowed annually by the Maryland Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The couple was nominated by several institutions, a testament to the couple’s shared devotion to volunteerism—GFS, Calvert School, Gilman (Andy’s alma mater and their sons’ school), the United Way of Central Maryland, the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, for which Sana was the inaugural chair of the newly established Parents Advisory Council and where she and Andy established a fund for patient safety initiatives. Additional volunteer experience includes the Hampden Family Center, Odyssey School and Boys’ Latin School in Maryland, the Society for the Protection and Care of Animals, the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust and Eager Street Park. Co-chair of Calvert’s most successful capital

campaign to date, Sana teaches first grade at Calvert, where several family members, including Sana, have attended. A Garrison Forest trustee and former Chair of the Fund for Garrison Forest, Sana has worked tirelessly for the school. “Garrison Forest [taught me] how to measure and relate the impact of a gift,” she said in her remarks at the packed AFP awards banquet. “With this recognition, I’ve been searching for that one word to explain what our community needs and why I give, and I came up with connectedness. If you feel truly connected then you share stories and really listen to one another. From that, people feel a sense of passion and purpose, and the circle is complete and keeps going.”

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Sister Robotics Experts

Engineer to VEX World Championship For three days in April, Alyssa ’19 and Jackie Magaha ’16 competed in the 2016 VEX Worlds Championships, an Olympic-level robotics event in Louisville, Ky. Jackie, who qualified for the VEX Worlds in 2015, Alyssa and teammate Ethan Warfield competed against other international teams. Their team is part of a 4-H robotics club in Westminster, Md., where they also they help mentor a noncompetitive robotics club and seek out companies such as NASA, Texas Instruments and Northrop Grumman as sponsors. A month earlier their team swept the 2016 Maryland State tournament at Stevenson University. They were undefeated, earned a first place state ranking and received the Robot Design award. The annual VEX competition begins each fall when teams start brainstorming, building and programming their robot from scratch. Each year, VEX chooses a different game-based challenge. This year’s competition required each robot to sink as many balls in a basket as possible. Jackie, Alyssa and Ethan programmed their robot to play offense, midfield and defense with two different range catapults that shot one ball per second. At VEX Worlds, they played against 500 of the best high schoolers in the world. Throughout the VEX competitions, “each three-person team also works with an alliance partner to score the most points against two other teams,” explains Jackie, who was chosen to walk with fellow U.S. teams in the Worlds’ opening ceremony. Communication is a big part of the competition, especially at the global level with language barriers among alliance partners. Jackie, who as a 2015 Jenkins Fellow worked as a translator for a medical team in Peru, translated for Spanish-speaking teams. Alyssa, who takes Mandarin, utilized her knowledge to speak with Chinese teams. Shortly after the VEX Worlds, Alyssa competed in the 2016 Johns Hopkins Robo-Challenge, taking home second place in the “Maze” and “Mad Scientist” categories for her translating application. She and Jackie, who served as a RoboChallenge judge, have several Robo-Challenge wins as individual competitors and as sisters. Jackie, who was the co-recipient of the inaugural STEAM award at GFS with Emily Oleisky ’16, is studying biomedical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and received a VEX scholarship to attend WPI.

Top: Alyssa ‘19 (left) and Jackie Magaha ‘16 with teammate Ethan Warfield in the winner’s circle at the 2016 Maryland State VEX Championships. Above: Presenting the state VEX trophies to Dr. Roberts.

Kristine Hilbert ’17 Wins 2016 Maryland State Gymnastic Championship Since age 2, Kristine Hilbert ’17 has been tumbling, twirling and tackling gymnastics moves—and over the years, setting gym records and winning championships. At the Maryland State Gymnastic Championship on April 24, 2016, she set a personal best with four medals (two gold, a silver and a bronze) and the championship trophy. For each event Kristine competed in—floor, beam, uneven bars and vault—she set gym and state records. Kristine, who plays field hockey for GFS and is among Maryland’s top youth fundraisers for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, takes gymnastics as a Physical Education Independent Study. Currently, P.E. Independent Study options include swimming, crew, inline ice skating, rhythmic gymnastics and ice hockey, as well as athletes participating in club level field hockey, lacrosse and tennis. Kristine, pictured with Kim Marlor, chair of the Physical Education department.

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IN A LEAGUE BY HERSELF: IAAM President Traci Davis TRACI DAVIS, Garrison Forest’s Athletic Director since 2005 and Varsity Field Hockey coach since 1999, is in her final year of a two-year, peer-elected tenure as President of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM), one of the country’s most competitive athletic leagues. She represents 31 independent and parochial schools and thousands of female student-athletes. Her many accolades underscore a deep understanding of competition: among them, an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse; a member of the U.S. Women’s National Lacrosse Team and U.S. World Cup Team; and an inductee into the Greater Baltimore Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, Montgomery Chapter (for Ursinis College) and the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. It’s the lessons each athlete learns before, during and long after the final whistle blows, though, that inspire her. Being IAAM President is like being team captain with Sue Thompson [IAAM Executive Director] as coach. I try to create an environment where everyone’s ideas are heard. It’s a collegial group, which shares similar successes and challenges. One of our new initiatives is a wellness program, where we gave each athletic director a Vivofit band last fall. We track our steps and do friendly competitions. It’s all part of modeling the wellness we want for our school communities. When I was playing in high school, TITLE IX was just getting started. Today, there are so many more opportunities for female athletes from the number of sports available to training programs. The IAAM is the largest all-girls’ league in the country, and we have several coed schools in our membership. The world embraces the female athlete today, but I am grateful to have played when I did. I played four sports in high school and enjoyed every minute of it. There is such external pressure today. By the time she reaches high school, many female athletes are told to choose one sport. The only pressure I had was self-imposed. Burnout with high school athletes is a concern. For many kids, sports have become a part-time job with high school, rec league, club and training. In the IAAM, we are seeing a decline in the number of studentathletes who participate in multiple sports and a decrease in the number of junior varsity and third teams. We address it school by school, but part of the issue is that the current culture of high school athletics is like college-level athletics, and college teams are like pro teams. Everything is amped up. Failure and growth are the cornerstones of high school athletics. Kids are afraid to fail, but it’s part of growth. It teaches them to dig deeper. Without immediate success [in a

sport], many beginner athletes will quit. At Garrison Forest, our coaches work hard to encourage students to try. The partnership between the coach and parents is key. It’s not an equal partnership — parents ultimately know what’s best—but we care deeply, too. We see the girl through a different lens. It’s a shared mission to help the female student-athlete be the best she can be. Not every student can play or even wants to play Division I sports, and that’s fine. There’s a push from among a group of female collegiate coaches to change the structure of recruiting in a good way. Some athletes are committing to play at a particular college or university when they are high school freshmen. It’s happening more for boys than girls, but many of us feel that it changes a dynamic and attitude for the athlete. A lot can happen in four years. The IAAM schools have different philosophies, but the hallmarks of the Garrison Forest program are what I hope every girl experiences. We want to encourage as many girls as possible to participate in team sports, to have fun, to improve individually and collectively over a season, to struggle and experience success. I haven’t said anything about a win-loss record. For me, my playing career was and is always about the relationships. In the context of connections you make with teammates, every season is a success regardless of a championship.

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12 FAREWELL TO THE FOREST

“WE SEE THE SCHOOL MOTTO RINGING TRUE IN ALL OF YOU— YOUNG WOMEN WHO WILL TAKE A VERSION OF THEIR BEST SELVES, MOLDED AND FOSTERED DURING THEIR TIME AT GARRISON FOREST, INTO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF YOUR LIVES.” —2016 Baccalaureate Speaker Megan K. Murphy, Executive Director, National Coalition of Girls’ Schools

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Garrison Forest women are not afraid to tackle the tough issues. We gathered alumnae, students, parents and administrators who are working as advocates, professional or volunteer, to share the challenges of—and insights learned— from their commitment to curbing relationship violence and human traﬃcking and championing gender equity.

A Conversation about Relationship Violence Q:

What does the shift in terminology from domestic violence to relationship violence and intimate partner violence represent in terms of how we recognize and address this issue?

Gretta Gordy Gardner ’86: Domestic violence was the term du jour for the issue of violence against women when the public movement began in the ’70s. It was the term used in the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, the landmark bipartisan federal law that provides billions of dollars for services, training, prosecution, law enforcement and courts to keep victims safe and hold offenders accountable. Domestic violence describes the violence occurring in homes between a husband and wife or a co-habitating couple and can include other family members who live in the same house. Relationship violence and dating violence are usually terms that address young adults. Intimate partner violence is used to be more inclusive of the

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LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning) community and to really address the power and control dynamics that occur between intimate partners. The language shift represents an evolution of the battered women’s movement and our allies in how we not only think of violence, but also how we respond to it. Domestic violence does not discriminate. It impacts every race, ethnicity, socioeconomic strata, gender identity, age, sexual orientation and religion. If we limit our definition of it and our strategies to respond to it, it will continue to be pervasive.

Gillian Amrhein Chadwick ’00: I rebel against

attachment to any one term, so I end up using them all interchangeably. The most important thing we can do to make our language more inclusive is to actually listen to survivors and honor their self-identity rather than strive for the perfect universal terminology.

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change has led to more programs that focus on young people and dating, in particular. Unhealthy relationships can start early, and if there is no intervention, if the cycle is not broken, they can last a lifetime.

Relationship violence aﬀects individuals in every community. Is there one constant component aﬀecting all victims?

Lisa Hopkins Wheeler ’76: We are all dealing

in whatever culture and walk of life we come from with wanting to be accepted by our social network. Because women and girls have been second- and third-class citizens for most of history, and the consequences of breaking taboos are greater for them, they are more often than not the most fervent proponents of social norms. Mine is a West African perspective via Tostan, a human rights education group, which may seem

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at the Washburn University School of Law Family Law Clinic in Topeka, Kan. and recently completed a clinical teaching fellowship in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. She has served as director of survivor services at Ayuda, which supports low-income immigrant victims of gender-based violence in Washington, D.C., and was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE). Gillian has represented hundreds of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in court and administrative cases in D.C., and testified before the D.C. legislature numerous times regarding issues affecting survivors. The American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence recently invited Gillian to join its national training faculty.

■ As policy director for the Washington, D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Gretta Gordy Gardner ’86 is involved in international, national and local policy on domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and dating violence. Gretta serves on several national advisory boards and nonprofits, including the Battered Women’s Justice Project in Minneapolis. Her 20-plus years in the field include directing the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the Travis County Justice and Public Safety office in Austin, Texas. A member of the Garrison Forest Hall of Excellence, she received the Unsung Hero award by the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women and the Mary Kay Foundation in 2014. ■ Kim Gordon, mother of Cammie ’16 and Mia ’18, is legal counsel for Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority and has practiced corporate law since 1994. While Kim’s professional legal focus is in areas outside of relationship violence, she uses her legal skills to help victims of

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abusers. She served on the board of directors for the House of Ruth Maryland for three years—a comprehensive support program and shelter for victims of relationship violence—and remains an at-large member. Kim is a member of the GFS Board of Trustees.

■ Andrea Perry, director of the GFS James Center and Dean of Special Programs, has spent 20 years as an emergency room advocate for sexual assault/domestic violence patients, first for Turnaround, Inc., and now for Sinai Hospital’s Family Violence Program. She was honored in 2003 with the Maryland Domestic Violence Network Volunteer of the Year award. In her advocate role, she offers crisis counseling and assists patients with safety assessment and planning, police response and reporting and obtaining services related to shelter, protection orders, children, employment and legal needs. Prior to joining GFS, she spent a decade directing judicial affairs at Johns Hopkins University, including writing policies regarding dating/relationship violence/sexual harassment. At GFS, she directs the James Center programs including Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), Service League and the Elsie Foster Jenkins ’53 Community Service Program. ■ Lisa Hopkins Wheeler ’76 advocates for Tostan, a Senegal-based nonprofit centered on issues facing women, girls and communities in six West African countries. Tostan’s mission is to educate communities about human rights and to end violence toward women. She is executive producer of BYKids.org, a PBS documentary of life in Senegal.

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until my sophomore year when I first visited the Samaritan Women shelter in Baltimore as part of a Garrison Forest Service League volunteer trip. The shelter offers young women who have just escaped trafficking a place to get back on their feet. I felt more curious about human trafficking than other causes, simply because it seemed so impossible that people could be enslaved in today’s society. After my volunteer experience, I pulled myself deeper into the issue by researching more about human trafficking, watching videos and reading survivors’ stories. I have always dreamed of being a Jenkins Fellow [GFS-funded summer service fellowships], and during my research of various opportunities, I learned of a family farm in Biancavilla in rural Sicily that helps refugees and victims of abuse. In July 2015, I worked on the farm and lived with several children who were abused or neglected, refugees and five girls from Nigeria who had escaped human trafficking a month earlier. I knew that it was not a coincidence. That was when everything sort of clicked for me, and I knew that I was supposed to be fighting for this cause. I never spoke to the girls about their experience being trafficked. I wanted to, but I knew that it wouldn’t be right. My host mother told me that the girls were still in danger because their traffickers were looking for them. Although I didn’t learn much about their lives before they got to the farm, I did learn that the girls were really just like me. It sounds clichéd, but it is true. One time, I was bundling scrap wood that had been dropped off and would be used for firewood in the winter. I was unraveling an old rug to use as string to hold the bundles together. It was at least 90 degrees, and I was feeling exhausted from the heat when one of the Nigerian girls came up behind me and stuck something in my hair. Confused, I pulled it out gently and saw that it was a flower. That moment of silent connection is one of my favorite moments of my trip, and it really solidified my view that these girls, although they had endured unimaginable horrors, weren’t very different than me. Last year, I was chosen as co-head of the Samaritan Women program at GFS, which provides a platform to speak about human trafficking. Audrey Zheng ’18, my co-head, and I encourage others to volunteer at Samaritan Women. On Jan. 11, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, we shared a presentation with the Upper School, including the fact that there are more slaves in the world today than there ever have

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Amanda working on the Sicilian farm for refugees and victims of abuse during July 2015 as a Garrison Forest Elsie Foster Jenkins ’53 Community Service Fellow.

been, despite the fact that slavery was not always illegal. Some people associate modern-day slavery with children in India working in factories, for example. However, human trafficking happens here in Baltimore more than you would think. In addition, the average age of somebody when they are trafficked is 12 to 14, which is typically the age of a middle school student. It was horrifying to imagine a middle school student being trafficked, whether it is for sexual or labor exploitation. The greatest misunderstanding about human trafficking is the belief that it could never happen to you. Unfortunately, human trafficking affects everybody. It can be as simple as a man approaching you in the mall, feigning to be a talent scout and talking about auditions that you would be perfect for. Victims of human trafficking come from a variety of ethnicities, backgrounds and socioeconomic classes. Awareness is a big part of combatting human trafficking. The more that people learn about trafficking in their community, the more that they can help be a part of ending it. In addition to her passionate leadership of Samaritan Women program at Garrison Forest, Amanda Rein ’17 was inducted into the Cum Laude Society last spring, runs Cross Country, was Junior Class Day President and is head of the Model United Nations Club. A Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) participant, she loves science, math and Chinese and hopes to be a biomedical engineer—while continuing to combat human trafﬁcking as a college student and beyond.

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Gretta: The greatest risk factor is being

female. One in three women has been a victim of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime (Center for Disease Control). The one constant component is that the abuser/ offender is intentional about exercising power and control over his victim.

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Andrea Perry, Director of GFS James Center: The defining component is that one person is seeking unhealthy and damaging control of the other, whether physical, emotional, economic and/or sexual. It may stop at intimidation or move to hitting objects and then into physical/sexual assault and isolation.

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Kim: Victims never think they would be

the victim of abuse. The phrase, “I never thought it would happen to me” is a common denominator.

Gillian: Over time, intimate partner abuse can essentially erode a person’s sense of self. Physical violence is incredibly harmful, but emotional abuse—degradation, humiliation, subordination and isolation—take a bigger toll than you could ever imagine. That’s something that almost all of my clients have in common.

What are the myths surrounding violence against women?

Kim: Many people think that it’s a private

matter. This kind of thinking is part of the reason for the worldwide epidemic. We would never stand by and do nothing if we saw a child being abused. We must not stand by and do nothing when we know a woman is being abused. We must bring the issue out of the shadows and from behind closed doors. How can something that affects so many be private?

Andrea: The most dangerous myth I see play out is an assumption that the abusive person can’t control him/herself, that they are somehow not fully responsible, not choosing to be abusive. Abusers almost always are strategically abusive. They decide when, where and how to abuse to avoid detection and intervention, to mask what is happening and to reduce the victimized person’s capacity to find allies. They excel at exploiting their partner’s nature and needs and at triggering self-blame in their partner. There are cultural messages that dull victims’ recognition of what is happening, that obsession, possessiveness and jealous control are signs of love or that violence is an expression of passion. Then there’s the unrealistic expectation that we all should be able to manage our most personal relationships on our own. It can be especially difficult for young people, who lack experience and who are seeking to establish a sense of adult competency, to recognize when they need to enlist others in dealing with someone who is abusive. Gillian: One thing that really bothers me is

the idea that survivors are always targeted for abuse because they have low self-esteem. Not all survivors have low self-esteem, and as far

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West African social norm, the taboos around talking about it are so strong that even when a girl has terrible issues with bleeding or maybe even dies as a result, it is all chalked up to a curse or a magic spirit. The myths keep people from questioning something that is so entrenched that it would be unimaginable to challenge, and though our issues are different, it all comes back to the same place.

We must not stand by and do Q: nothing when we know a woman is being abused. We must bring the issue out of the shadows and from behind closed doors.” —kim gordon, gfs parent and trustee GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL 2016

What is most rewarding about your work?

Kim: Helping someone to find a way out of the darkness and to move forward to build a life free from violence is most rewarding. I once helped a woman obtain a restraining order against her abusive husband. He would call her constantly and show up at her place of employment. I encouraged her to talk to her boss and told her there was no shame in seeking help. He arranged for security to be on alert for the husband, and with her consent, he informed the entire office. Everyone rallied around her, and someone always escorted her to and from her car. No one judged her. When she was ready, I helped her obtain a divorce. Later, she told me that she now understood that the abuse was not her fault and that the shame was not her burden but his.

Gretta: The help may not look like how you initially intended, but if you listen to the

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Gillian: I’ve gotten to know some amazing

women (and men who have also experienced abuse) through this work. My co-workers always joke that every client is my “favorite” client, but it’s kind of true. I’ll always remember my first client. She had experienced emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her ex-husband. She’d actually

Myth #2 Relationship violence is only physical violence. Violence can be psychological, sexual or ﬁnancial.

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In Their Words Xinyang “Cindy” Lu ’16

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is not triggered by one incident. I decided to do something about gender stereotypes after watching Iron-Jawed Angels, a film about the women’s suffrage movement in Mr. Burns’ United States History class in 11th Grade. I also was moved by Emma Watson’s speech to the United Nations in September 2014 as the U.N. Women Goodwill ambassador when she began the HeForShe campaign. I did not start out to be interested in feminism and the issue of gender equity for Chinese women specifically. Since it is where I grew up and people there are becoming more and more interested and aware of such issues, I wanted to be part of the revolution and bring some changes. My experience in an all-girls’ school definitely changed my thoughts on feminism. At Garrison Forest, I was encouraged to speak my mind freely, and my understanding of gender roles has matured. I think there’s not much difference between women’s roles in the United States and China, but Chinese traditional culture and history have led women to become more docile and submissive in order to receive recognition. When I started the WeForAll project as a junior, I had no intention to change the world. I simply wanted to get to know more about this topic and to discuss and explore gender inequality in China. After a year of research and activities, I now want more teenagers and college students to be aware of gender discrimination and not to ignore it. We get used to it and can think it does not exist. But it does exist, and it will not be easily removed. I want to grow with the WeForAll organization and to be a part of the change, as gender roles become more equal in China. My mentor for the research project, entitled “Reframing Gender Roles,” advised me to submit WeForAll to the China Thinks Big competition, sponsored by Harvard at the university’s center in Shanghai. I recruited several of my friends at GFS who are also boarders from China to help. WeForAll’s research and surveying in China (interviews with 30 people and surveys to over 400 people) did reveal a few surprises. In China, sometimes mothers are the ones who force their daughters into marriage. I discovered that many males experience gender discrimination too. We learned that many more people than I thought care about the gender discrimination issue in China and are supportive of our activities, especially college students. WeForAll’s social media efforts in

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The WeForAll group (first row, from left): Yijun “Kitty” Guo ‘18, Xinyang “Cindy” Lu ‘16, Yueran “Sharon” Wang ‘18; (back row, from left): Ruoyu “Tina” Tian ‘18, Qingyuan “Sarah” Peng ‘18, Jixin “Audrey” Zheng ‘18.

China, through WeChat, are a tool to spread our ideas to more people. We translate a lot of material from the West into Chinese and host offline and interactive activities to create group discussions around gender roles. In summer 2015, we hosted three gender-exchanging workshops in Beijing to help people better understand roles and combat stereotypes. This spring, we launched online seminars and speeches, and we will launch intercollege debates and interview extremists and sex workers in China. We will create connections with girls who are living in poverty to encourage them to continue to be educated, and we’re producing funny videos to offer advice to people on how to cope with discrimination in daily life. It is really hard to launch a gender equality project in China, so it requires clever solutions and patience. Change won’t be made in a day. We hope to change the minds of youth today and bring benefits to the next generation. Xinyang “Cindy” Lu is spending the 2016-17 year in two language immersion programs in France and Spain before studying at Carnegie Mellon University in fall 2017. She participated in GFS theater productions, was a Peer Education mentor, served meals at My Sister’s Place, played Junior Varsity Badminton and was a Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) student. Cindy’s WeForAll team (above) will continue the work through a new student organization supported by The James Center.

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of our jaws would drop if we knew that every minute almost 20 people are physically abused by their romantic partner. Or if we knew that one in 10 high school students report being hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend. Or if we knew that an estimated 40 percent of young women and 30 percent of young men report having hit, slapped or punched their teenage partner. Wait… what? Girls and guys are perpetrators of teen dating violence? YES… you’ve read correctly. About 50 percent of men AND 50 percent of women report inflicting violence on their partners. So why is it that today’s media coverage almost exclusively shows men as the perpetrators in relationship violence? We get it. Girls are more likely than boys to be injured by relationship violence. Still, the double standard in exposure has led to embarrassment and feelings of weakness among men who are in abusive relationships. It also sends a dangerous message that it’s OK or not as big of a deal if a young lady hits her partner. Where’s the support and outcry for young men and women who are being victimized by their female partners? Here’s the bottom line: Teen dating violence can happen to anyone, by anyone, and within all kinds of relationships. Men to men, women to women, men to women or women to men. Anyone around you can be a victim of domestic violence. But you can help change that! Stand up for those victims and help bring an end to teen dating violence. Report inconsistencies

failed out of college because he would harass her and keep her from studying. She was dealing with intense shame and feelings of helplessness when I met her. I worked on her case for several years and watched as she began to shed those negative feelings. Recently, she emailed me to tell me that she not only finished school, but became a licensed occupational therapist.

Andrea: Being with a victim in the ER and helping her sort out her options, being a compassionate witness to the harm she’s suffered, that’s a responsibility and a privilege. I’m with people in moments of great need, at times when hard truth and GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL 2016

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Mary Davlin ‘17 (left) and Augusta Worthington ‘17 at the May WISE poster session.

you may see in yours and other people’s relationships to a trusted friend, family member or the police. Let’s end this! This is an excerpt from the blog postings by Mary and Augusta as part of their spring semester 2015 Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) research project with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published on Feb. 22, 2016, the post—“Teen Dating Violence: Who are the Perpetrators?”— was written as part of National Teen Dating Awareness and Prevention Month.

high stakes are on the table. I’ve met many amazing women and some men too, people who inspire me with their courage and resilience. There’s a particular point in our dialogue when I’m almost always saying “This is not your fault.” That message, the burden it lifts, the access it gives to a determination to leave can be life-changing words for a victim who has been made to believe otherwise.

Tostan works, over 3.5 million people in more than 7,600 communities have publicly declared an end to female genital cutting and child forced marriage. Over 19,000 women have been selected into community leadership positions and local elected offices, and more than 1,000 local conflicts have been resolved through women-led negotiations via Tostan’s peace and security modules. The list goes on and on.

Lisa: I have visited Senegal, and it is

extraordinary to see how communities change their attitudes completely when they come together and discuss their human rights. In the West African countries where

Most challenging?

Gillian: This work is not for the faint of heart.

There is a lot of worry about clients’ safety and a lot of disappointment at case outcomes

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Lisa: Probably the most challenging aspect

is to get Americans to focus on the importance of ending these long-held traditions in West Africa and how this could possibly relate to their lives. We need to work globally to end these disparities.

Andrea: Every time there’s a headline about

an abuser taking the life of his partner, it’s a gut check on how much more we need to do. On the we-can-do-this-now list: We need more shelters. There’s nothing quite so terrible as being bruised and exhausted, without money or options, about to be discharged in the middle of the night with nowhere to go. Personally, I struggle sometimes with anger. It is a wildly unjust world, especially for women, especially for those without advantages.

Myth #3 The victim provoked the violence. Abusers often try to deﬂect their responsibility by blaming the victim: “You made me do it!” There is nothing that anyone can say or do that justiﬁes abuse.

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Recent high-proﬁle cases from the Ray Rice incident and Yeardley Love’s tragic death have kept the issue in the headlines. Has this helped on the advocacy, legal and support fronts for families suﬀering from relationship violence?

Gillian: Yes and no. I think the visibility

around the issue is a good thing. These cases have brought domestic violence back into the social discourse in a way it hasn’t been for quite a while. But look at how the media responded to Janay Rice and ask yourself what message that sends to survivors. The media and the public don’t know her life, yet some find it so easy to judge. Survivors need love and support, not shame and judgment.

Gretta: High-profile cases get great press in the media and then they wane. Unfortunately, the media coverage is usually once someone is hurt or killed. We’ve seen this all before, especially during the O.J. Simpson trial. The trial brought a lot of attention to domestic violence, and yet here we are, in the same place. It’d be great to partner with the media on a consistent basis on prevention campaigns. Imagine if relationship violence was a constant conversation instead of a sensationalized piece that fits the current news cycle. Kim: The Yeardley Love case really impacted young people because they realized that they too can be victims of abuse, and the outcome can be tragic. She was a strong, smart, athletic young woman who had a loving family, lived in a

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the victim was criticized as being a “golddigger,” and many claimed that she only stayed with him for the money. This type of criminalization of the victim makes it harder for other victims to come forward.

Andrea: High-profile cases always provide an opportunity to capture interest and educate. Yeardley’s family, through the One Love Foundation, is doing so much good work in her name. And as with Ray Rice, an incident can capture numerous flaws in response systems and create pressure for change.

Is there a stigma surrounding

relationship violence?

Gretta: Absolutely. There is great power in the fact that abusers count on their victim to be embarrassed and ashamed to speak out about their abuse. Gillian: You’ll hear things like, “she should

have seen it coming” or “I would have left before things got so bad.” It’s subtle, but those sentiments reflect a desire to assign blame and create some illusion that we can avoid bad things happening to us if we’re just vigilant and savvy enough. As human beings we just want an explanation, but it’s just not that simple.

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Relationship violence may be happening between two partners, but it’s on all of us to call out abusers, to ask those we see being abused if we can help, and to persist in offering support in a respectful, non-judgmental way.

Gretta: The more we educate people, the more we talk about it, the less stigma there is. We break down the stigmas with each story we share.

Lisa: We, in the West, really don’t live

Lisa: I talk with those from the developed

Kim: We are working to change the conversation around violence by placing the focus on the abuser. The question should not be “Why doesn’t she leave?” but “Why does he hit her?” Also, as a mother of two teenage daughters, I communicate openly with them and their friends. I make sure they

in communities anymore as they do in so many other cultures. Even though relationship violence is illegal here, I think that there’s less support for the victim because there’s no accountability to the community surrounding us. In fact, people stay out of the way and act like it’s not their business. In Senegal, when a community has come together and declared an end to violence and they hear about a man who is beating his wife, the women will come and find him and often will march against him publically and the community management committee will hold him accountable.

How are you working to break down the stigmas?

Gillian: First, I listen and learn from my

clients. Second, I try to speak openly about domestic violence every chance I get; I reject the blaming and shaming of survivors. I

world about sensitive subjects like female genital cutting and child forced marriage and how prevalent they are in so much of the world. People wonder why it should be our concern, but actually it’s just part and parcel of keeping women in “their place” and so, as that is eradicated (like foot binding was in China), the position of women is automatically elevated. Tostan educates with respect for other’s traditions. Genital cutting is not done to “mutilate” as many refer to it, but out of love for their daughters, so that they will have a place in society. Once they learn about health risks and realize that the harm is real, with community backing, they stop the practice.

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understand what a healthy relationship looks like. I try to empower them so they are aware of the red flags. I reinforce that they are not responsible for the bad behavior of anyone else.

Are there trends aﬀecting relationship violence?

Andrea: Many abusive people want to

monitor their partner’s movements, contact and communication with others. Phone technology and social media make it possible to do this 24/7. It’s a powerful tool for abuse.

Gretta: The law is woefully behind in keeping up with the panoply of crimes and gateways that technology allows an abuser to continue his control over the victim and keep her in fear. The use of drones to follow and stalk victims has become a real problem, particularly if there is a protective order in place. Victims should notify law enforcement

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Gillian: Social media creates new platforms

for stalking, harassment and abuse, but I don’t know if it really changes the fundamental dynamics of domestic violence. What social media has done is bring to light the latent (and often violent) misogyny in our culture.

What can we do to help prevent relationship violence and support those aﬀected by it?

Andrea: Strong, healthy connections can be

a help in recognizing unhealthy behavior and provide early warnings and support. We have age-appropriate education in place. This past spring, we screened “Escalation,” the film produced by the One Love Foundation to GFS juniors and seniors. After the film, we led a discussion about dating violence. In an election year, we all can pay attention to what candidates have to say about this issue, locally and nationally, including related

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still such a focus on women’s reproductive organs and not the pleasure part. In that sense we are keeping up long-held taboos about women and men without realizing it.

Gillian: Support your local domestic violence organization. If you learn that someone you know is experiencing relationship abuse, the best thing you can give her is your unwavering caring presence. Resist the urge to tell her what to do. Instead, tell her that you love her. Isolation is one of the most powerful tools available to an abuser.

Gretta: Familiarize yourself with your local resources that address domestic violence, advocacy and counseling services, legal representation and shelter and housing. A victim may not be ready to leave her abuser. Keep open communication with her always and let her know you will always be there for her whether she stays or whether she leaves. Volunteer. Educate. Advocate. We need everyone on the team so that we can one day celebrate the end to intimate partner violence and we no longer fear being hurt by someone who says, “I love you.” Kim: If you see something, say something, do

something. When our community no longer tolerates abusive behavior that is when we will make real change.

PANELISTS’ RECOMMENDED RESOURCES: ■ hruth.org, House of Ruth, Maryland

■ ncdsv.org, National Center of Domestic and Sexual Violence

■ joinonelove.org, One Love Foundation

■ Tostan.org

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Connections Work

Mentoring to Make a Difference

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YES, millennials are changing

the United States workplace, but

the first Gen Zs—the iGeneration or people born in the mid-1990s—entered the workplace this past year. While it’s too early to tell how today’s students will shape how we work, current trends will shape how Gen Z thinks about work and careers. Millennials have made job-switching the norm, boomerang employees (who return to work for a previous employer) are increasingly frequent, and greater technology ensures that the war for talent is fierce. There’s also a huge shift in generational leadership. This year, an estimated 3.6 million baby boomers will retire, with over 25 percent of millennials moving into managerial positions, “ﬂattening corporate hierarchies, empowering others to succeed and forcing companies to make an impact on society, rather than just focusing on money,” writes

Dan Schwabel, Forbes trend spotter and research director at Future Workplace. How Garrison Forest prepares its students to lead in the workplace and world they will inherit is critical. Previous generations of alumnae are proving to be a key factor in ensuring that GFS Gen Zs find meaning in their professional choices and endeavors. Strengthening the connections between alumnae and students—and between the school and the larger regional and global community—is one of the initiatives of the school’s Strategic Plan. “Our alumnae are highly accomplished in just about every field imaginable,” notes Dr. Kim Roberts, Head of School. “And they are eager to mentor and empower one another in their careers. We see it as our responsibility—and privilege—to develop programs and opportunities that enable them to make these connections.”

ROBY N E M c C U LLO UG H ’ 0 7

on the Power of Internships

Internships have long been one of the keys to exploring career fields, gaining experience, honing skills and even finding a calling. Paid or unpaid, internships are much more than resume filler. Robyne McCullough ’07, a producer with Baltimore’s WBAL-TV, has taken full advantage of the internship. As an on-air intern with WMAR-ABC2 during her junior and senior years at Garrison Forest, she reported and produced for Teen Perspective 2 News. Her Independent Senior Project was spent in promotions for the same station. “Internships have made all the difference in advancing in my field and discovering the path I wanted to take in journalism,” says Robyne, who had three TV internships in college and summer internships in corporate communications, human resources and recruiting. “You learn and discover what you love by experiencing it. Internships gave me experience writing and researching on deadline, covering breaking news, working on investigative stories and taught me tools that I was able to utilize in my journalism coursework and in

my career.” And, yes, she got coffee, but she also met mentors and developed skills that made all the difference on her way to the producer’s chair. A few tips that she’s learned along the way: • THINK OF YOUR INTERNSHIP AS A JOB INTERVIEW. Working hard and making a good first impression can hold the key to your first, second or third job and recommendations that can help you break into your chosen field. • DRESS PROFESSIONALLY WITH YOUR INDUSTRY IN MIND. If you’re not sure, ask!

• IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN A FIELD, ask your network (friends, family, and alumnae) if you may shadow for a day. If you want to learn more, ask about an internship. • DON’T ACCEPT SOMEONE SAYING YOU’RE TOO YOUNG. Jump in as early as possible to give yourself time to figure out what you enjoy. Apply for internships that interest you when you feel you can fit them into your schedule. “Real world” experience gives you a leg up in college and on your competition when landing the next internship or job.

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A Connecting Tradition: CAREER DAY AT GARRISON FOREST

It’s OK to be afraid. If you find something you feel like you can do, stick with it. Be afraid, but don’t let that stop you.

—DEV IN F ITZ PATRI CK ’97

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Career Day panelists, from left: Sophie Daly ‘07, Brittni Downs ‘07, Devin Fitzpatrick ‘97 and Daphne Hu ‘92.

Career Day, held every other year, routinely brings dozens of alumnae

across a breadth of career fields to campus to speak to students. On April 8, 39 alumnae (see below) shared their career and life paths with the Upper School at the 2016 Career Day. The entire Upper School attended two panels, which were moderated by faculty and administrators. Many students and alumnae made personal connections, and every student had the opportunity to see how numerous graduates have shaped their journeys with purpose and passion.

THE YEAR WOMEN’S PAY will equal men’s at the current rate of progression of $.78 to every DOLLAR EARNED. Institute for Women’s Policy Research

2016 CAREER DAY PANELISTS QIMMAH NAJEEULLAH ABDUR RAHIM ’97, International Affairs Program Manager, Morgan State University

ALICIA WELLS BERLIN ’94, PH.D., Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

BISRAT ABRAHAM ’96, Director of Clinical Operations and Provider Communications, Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention

L. AUGUSTA “TA” BOYCE ’01, CPA/Tax Manager, The Lichter Group

TIFF BARBOUR ’91, Actor in independent ﬁlms and TV, Human Resources Administrator SARAH BARRETT ’00, Architectural Designer, Vectorworks SHIRA BLATT ’03, Allocations Specialist, Google

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MARY BROOKS ’78, Research Associate/Director Creativity Lab, Whitehead Institute GILLIAN AMRHEIN CHADWICK ’00, Professor, Washburn University School of Law Family Law Clinic HANNAH COHEN ’00, Capital Projects Manager, Second Stage Theatre

MOLLY BREEDEN CONNORS ’81, Vice President/Client Development, Blue North Strategies

BRITTNI DOWNS ’07, Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Erik H. Nyce, Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland

CAITLIN CROWL ’08, Occupational Therapist, HomeCall of Westminster

EMMY FELDMAN ’05, Artist and Repertoire Manager, Canvasback Music/ Atlantic Records

SOPHIE DALY ’07, Psychiatric Registered Nurse, Johns Hopkins Hospital

DEVIN FITZPATRICK ’97, Founder and CEO, CDF Consulting

AMANDA HURTT DERINGER ’85, Associate Director of Admissions, Georgetown Day School

HOLLY FREISHTAT ’91, Food Policy Director, Baltimore City Health Department

MARIANNE LAU DIAMOND ’80, AIA, Technical Director/Senior Architect, AIA, Snøhetta

ANNA WATERS GAVIN ’00, President, Fireline Corporation

7.8 Million WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES U.S. Department of Labor

Garrison Forest gave me the skillset to make another place home, to create that environment anywhere I go. —CA ITLIN C ROWL ’0 8

Network Know-How

We asked the experts—our 2016 Career Day panelists “FEAR LESS AND SHARE MORE. When we let go of the fear of meeting people, we can show who we really are. When that happens, the world and opportunities reveal themselves.” — Marianne Lau Diamond ’80 “PERSISTENCE AND FOLLOWTHROUGH ARE EVERYTHING. Plan your next two or three steps before you make the first call, and keep records of steps and dates. If it sounds like too much organization, remember that if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” —Rachel Williams Zebrowski ’69

BETH WARFIELD ’73, Local Solutions Coordinator, USAID COLLEEN HODGETTS ’03, Manager of Campaign Communications, Care2 DAPHNE HU ’92, Wealth Manager, United Capital Financial Life Management

“NETWORKING IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS, NOT TRANSACTIONS. Find people you admire and bring them into your network for the long haul. If you don’t know how to break the ice, start by sharing what you admire about the person and what motivated you to introduce yourself; follow up periodically and always say hello when you see your contacts in person.” —Gillian Amrhein Chadwick ’00

“TELL EVERYONE YOU MEET WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. You never know who you might connect with or what you might learn.” —Hannah Cohen ’00 “PEOPLE ARE SO ACCESSIBLE THESE DAYS WHETHER IT BE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, LINKEDIN, EMAIL, ETC. Fancy job titles can make people sound intimidating, but most people will respond and be willing to help or at least give advice.” —Brittni Downs ’07

ABIGAIL MALIS ’06, Senior Associate for Community Partnerships, Jewish Volunteer Connection

NIKKIA ROWE ’93, Principal, Renaissance Academy High School, Baltimore

MARTY MOSS-COANE ’67, Host and Executive Producer, WHYY Radio Times

KIERSTIN RUPPERT ’07, Associate Account Executive, DeWitt Stern Group

ANNE POWELL ’99, Clinical Nurse, Johns Hopkins Hospital

MORGAN SCOTT ’04, Sustainability Technical Lead and Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

OYINADE KOYA ’02, Assistant General Counsel, OneMain Financial

ANNIE LEGG PRESTON ’99, Partner, Costello Law Group

JENNIFER LAWRENCE ’85, M.D., Valdosta Specialty Clinic; Medical Director, SGMC Diabetes Management Center

POO DANA PUTSCH ’56, Artist/Art Teacher HANNAH REDD ’92, Acupuncturist, Private Practice

DEVON SMITH ’05, D.V.M., Banﬁeld Pet Hospital

“SEND A SHORT FOLLOW-UP EMAIL EITHER LATER IN THE DAY OR THE NEXT DAY AFTER MEETING SOMEONE FOR COFFEE OR LUNCH. It’s a good way to distinguish yourself, and it’s proper etiquette.” —Molly Breeden Connors ’81 “TRY TO ENGAGE PEOPLE OUTSIDE YOUR AGE GROUP IN CONVERSATION ABOUT THEIR WORK AND THEIR LIFE. You will you gather a lot of useful information and come across as mature and interesting yourself. It is a skill that you will find useful your whole life.” —Annie Legg Preston ’99

HILLES HORNER WHEDBEE ’76, Nurse-Midwife, Carroll Health Group RACHEL WILLIAMS ZEBROWSKI ’69, AIA, President and Director of Design, Miles Associates, Incorporated ASHLEY KATZ ZUSMAN ’00, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, U.S. Green Building Council

VALERIE M. THOMAS ’77, Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Bringing Students up to Speed (INTERVIEWING) ASK MOST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS how to network and the conversation is likely to focus on Facebook or LinkedIn. Ask a member of the Class of 2018 and she’ll offer a different perspective, one based on face-to-face. In the 10th Grade Career Explorations curriculum, part of the Upper School Decision-Making program, students are learning the ins and out of networking. Last May, they got a one-night crash course from 24 alumnae experts for the first-ever Speed Interviewing Night. The event serves as “field work” to the 2-year-old Career Explorations curriculum, which includes taking the Career Interest Profiler online assessment, exploring careers of interest, resume writing and interviewing skills—all the tools students need to have a comprehensive understanding of what they might want to do in college and career and how to get there. “Today’s students have so many options when it comes to college and career,” says Ann Marie Strauss, Director of College Counseling at Garrison Forest. “We encourage students to take an inward look at themselves, identify areas of interest and aptitude and connect those with potential majors, colleges and careers. Pairing introspection with information and skill-building is the first step in an intentional decision-making process about college and beyond.” Each student interviewed with two different alumnae. Students had been prepped on networking goals and interview expectations and had prepared a resume (a first for most). Alumnae evaluations were

Amanda Fruman ’18 and Susan McCormick Scarborough ‘89 enjoy their speed-interviewing session.

shared in the subsequent Career Explorations class. The event had been a goal for the Alumnae Board for the past few years. “We have been focused for some time on finding meaningful ways to integrate alumnae with current Garrison Forest students,” explains attorney Emily Appelbaum Brennan ’96, who served as Alumnae Board President from 2014 to 2016. “The feedback on Speed Interviewing from alumnae and the sophomores was overwhelmingly positive.” Students have asked for more alumnae interviews earlier and more often. The Career Explorations team—Ms. Strauss, Director of Alumnae and Parent Relations Peggy Bittner and Director of the James Center Andrea Perry—and the Alumnae Board are determining the best way to build upon this initial success and deepen the connections between alumnae and students.

tips for making social media work for you:

LIZA HATHAWAY MATTHEWS ’83

on the Power of Social Media

Melanie Matthews ’13 had no idea the spark she ignited eight years ago when she asked her mother Liza Hathaway Matthews ’83, a development professional, to paint something for her bedroom. Though Liza has a B.F.A. in painting and interior design from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she hadn’t picked up a brush in years, but that one painting inspired a career change and created a savvy social media networker. Thanks to her website lizahathawaymatthews.com—her first digital marketing step as advised by social media consultant Leah Michaels—and carefully curated Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest posts, Liza’s work has been widely

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• HARNESS THE HASHTAG’S POWER. I use them to expand my art and brand to private collectors, interior designers, textile designers, art brokers and galleries and to link to existing conversations, such as #AbstractArt, #InteriorDesign and #Collaboration. • KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL. I don’t post about my personal life, only my finished pieces, a work in progress or a daily inspiration.

commissioned by designers and has appeared in gallery shows and publications across the country. And her love of art, which was nurtured by GFS teacher Rufus Davis, has come full circle with daughter Grace ’15 majoring in art history at Sewanee. Liza’s

• REGULARLY REVIEW WHO IS FOLLOWING YOU AND REACH OUT TO THOSE INDIVIDUALLY TO MAKE A REAL CONNECTION. Thanks to the connections I have made, my art work is now being made into textiles and wallpaper. This inspires me to think about my images that I paint and how they might be best utilized off of the canvas as well.

KIKI MARTIRE ’ 11

on the Power of the ISP Garrison Forest’s Independent Senior Project (ISP) has been a hallmark experience for seniors since the early 1970s. The ISP often propels students into their college majors and career, as was the case with Kiki Martire ’11 who did her ISP at Baltimore’s Immigration Outreach Service Center (IOSC) shadowing an immigration rights attorney and working with clients. “Early on in middle and high school I became very interested in human rights issues and social justice movements,” recalls Kiki. During ISP, she worked with refugees of war or other international crises, those trying to reunite their families across continents, women fleeing domestic and sexual abuse and a case of human trafficking. “My ISP definitely put me on a path that kept me tremendously interested in the eradication of these sorts of crimes.” Recently, she completed a yearlong Elrod Fellowship for public service from Washington & Lee University with a Houston child advocacy group focusing on education, parenting, health and sexual exploitation. Now enrolled in the Master’s in Equality Studies program at University College of Dublin’s School of Social Justice, she plans to use her graduate degree to continue a service-based career. Her ISP

also made her college major choice crystal clear. “The most difficult aspect of my ISP was seeing these painful human experiences met with such a cold bureaucratic system,” Kiki says. “Many did not receive the justice they deserved, and the stories of these individuals stayed with me. When I attended Washington & Lee, I immediately joined both the English department and the Gender Studies program.” She solidified her passion and gained experience through internships on Capitol Hill and with other nonprofit organizations, spoke out against sexual violence at college and led women’s mentorship groups. Kiki also spent six months in the South Pacific focused on service and field work and researching and writing a thesis on what societal aspects hold women in developing island nations back from achieving equitable political representation. Each step has led her deeper into a rewarding career in human rights issues, and it all began with a few weeks in South Baltimore, asking questions with difficult answers. “My ISP gave me a timely entrance into a field I was eager to explore, a field I continue to learn more and more about each day.”

226% EQUITY RETURNS OF FORTUNE 1000 COMPANIES HELMED BY WOMEN CEOs between 2002 and 2014 against the S&P 500’s performance during that same period. Fortune

You don’t have to be an expert at everything. You take your skills and transfer them to wherever you land.

—OYINA DE KOYA ’02

MAKING CONNECTIONS Alumnae may assist GFS in several ways with career-focused network connections between alumnae and students. Interested in helping with Speed Interviewing or Career Day 2018? Contact Peggy Bittner, Director of Alumnae Relations, at peggybittner@gfs.org or 410-559-3139. Are you able to host an ISP student for two weeks in May? Contact Ann Marie Strauss, Director of College Counseling, at annmariestrauss@gfs.org

Keep your profile updated in the online, secure GFS Alumnae Directory. Go to gfs.org, click on “My GFS” in the top right-hand corner and select Alumnae. Search by class, location and career field. Be part of the GFS LinkedIn page. For tips on making the most of your profile, visit gfs.org/magazine.

47%

FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS interested in starting another business in next three years vs. 18% of male entrepreneurs. The Psychology of Entrepreneurship

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Meet the Alumnae Legacy Scholars Garrison Forest offers two merit-based legacy scholarships for any new student or current day student (Grades 8-12) to board at Garrison Forest. Alumnae daughters, granddaughters and nieces are eligible. Scholarships are renewable each year with good academic standing and cover the difference in cost between a day and a boarding tuition. Contact Catie Gibbons, Assistant Director of Admission, at (410) 559-3137 or catiegibbons@gfs.org for details.

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Garrison Forest has helped me academically, socially, intellectually and anything else you can think of. Without GFS, I wouldn’t know myself as well as I do now.”

Pitcher for Varsity Softball. 318 strikeouts (so far).

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My friends are the reason I love boarding so much. I have an amazing support group to back me up.”

GFS-funded Jenkins Fellowship this past summer at the National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy in Woodside, Calif.

Builds houses for Habitat for Humanity, serves meals at Our Daily Bread and works with children with autism.

Goalie for Varsity Indoor and Outdoor Soccer teams.

Plays polo. Teaching herself American Sign Language.

Claire McMahon ’17

Madison Wilson ’18

HOMETOWN: Towson, Maryland

HOMETOWN: Abingdon, Maryland

LEGACIES: mother Alex von Kessler McMahon ’82,

LEGACIES: mother Jeanine Froehlich Wilson ‘81

sister Margaret McMahon ’19,

and sister MacKenzie Wilson ‘13

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Loves to travel for service projects. Went to China this past summer for a Confucius Institute global study program and to visit GFS friends.

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I love doing experiments, exploring and learning about the world. I can’t wait the for WISE program.”

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Boarding has helped me to appreciate Garrison Forest on a completely new level. I feel so fortunate every day that this is my home. The way in which you connect to all kinds of people through boarding is so magical.”

Plays Varsity Field Hockey and runs Indoor Track. Service League Co-Head.

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Boarding has broadened my understanding of different cultures, and I have met lifelong friends.”

Loves drawing portraits and doing hand lettering.

Climbs, bikes and hikes. Spends summers sailing skipjacks at Echo Hill Outdoor School on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Loves science.

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Researched traumatic brain injury for the GFS Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. And, yes, held a human brain.

Runs Varsity Cross Country. “Treads the boards” in GFS plays and musicals. Plays Polo, participates in Spectrum and skis in Montana.

Ali Baratta ’17

Margaret McMahon ’19

Kate Williams ’18

HOMETOWN: Reisterstown, Maryland

HOMETOWN: Towson, Maryland

HOMETOWN: Missoula, Montana

LEGACIES: mother Emily Gardner Baratta ’88,

LEGACIES: mother Alex von Kessler McMahon ’82,

LEGACIES: mother Martha Colhoun Williams ’85,

sister Lizzie Baratta ’19 and

sister Claire McMahon ’17, grandmother

grandmother Julie Fisher Colhoun ’51, aunt Julie Colhoun

aunt Julie Gardner ‘85

and aunts

Deford ’79 and many other GFS relatives 2016 GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL

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Faculty at the Forest FOR 106 YEARS, the Garrison Forest faculty has been the heart of the school, teaching,

guiding, listening, encouraging and sometimes nudging students to achieve the potential every GFS faculty member sees in each student. Garrison Forest School honors exceptional teaching and service to the community with several annual awards.

20-YEAR SERVICE PIN In 1992, Garrison Forest School established the tradition of honoring faculty and staff who have attained 20 years of service to the school, recognition of remarkable loyalty and commitment.

Kathleen Baughman,

Chair, Academic Resource Department Upper School Academic Resource Coordinator Upper School History

Kathleen “Katie” Baughman first joined the History department faculty in 1993, teaching several classes and coordinating the school’s community outreach as the GFS Service League Coordinator. In 2007, she and her family, including daughters Maggie ’17 and Alice ’20, moved to Tokyo. Three years in Asia provided rich opportunities for traveling, studying and learning more about the culture, language, arts and history of Japan and its neighboring countries. In 2010, the family returned to the United States and to GFS. In addition to teaching history classes, she coordinates the Academic Resources program in the Upper School and serves as chair of the school’s Academic Resource department. A graduate of Princeton (A.B., History) and Harvard (M.A., Medieval History), Mrs. Baughman received a 2005 Summer Fellowship at the Klingenstein Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University and was honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award at GFS in 2006 and as a peer-elected faculty representative to the Board of Trustees. Her infinite intellectual curiosity and upbeat spirit make her a perfect learning specialist. With a breadth and depth of knowledge from civilizations to chemistry, from GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL 2016

Katie Baughman and Dr. Kim Roberts at 2016 Commencement.

languages to linear algebra, she teaches students how to be producers of their learning and advocates of their needs. Her work beyond the classroom includes advising the Upper School Student Diversity Leadership Committee, and her sense of justice, humor and common sense have earned her a great deal of respect from every single member of our community.

Gordon Leese Physical Plant

The success of any school depends upon the people behind the scenes, tireless individuals who work day in and day out whether in the humidity of August or record amounts of

snow in January. Their endeavors are far from glamorous, but this important work is as essential to Garrison Forest School as teaching and coaching. Gordon Leese, a 20-year veteran of the Physical Plant department, is the unsung hero. His duties must be accomplished every day—rain, shine, sleet or snow. He picks up the campus’ mail and delivers it to the post office, returning with a vanful of mail for the school. He delivers dozens of packages with a smile, kind word or story involving his hobbies, which include bowling and membership in the Maryland Paranormal organization—yes, he has ghost stories about GFS. Every morning, Mr. Leese drives from building to building emptying trash—no small feat on a

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Gordon Leese and Dr. Roberts.

110-acre campus that serves nearly 1,000 students, faculty, staff and on-campus families and boarders. A quiet, constant presence among colleagues known for their devotion to GFS, Mr. Leese is the consummate employee and team player, often asking, “Do you want me to work through lunch?” when mounds of packages arrive midday. He has spent many a night in the maintenance shop to be available pre-dawn for snow removal. His tireless commitment is a family affair: Brother Keith, also a 20-year pin award recipient, works in Physical Plant.

deeply about his students. For Mr. O, very little matters other than students truly knowing that they are smart, capable and good human beings. As students embark on their journey to learn about American History, they must navigate a flood of readings, writings, debates, discussions, lectures, research, movies and presentations. With Mr. O pushing them to find their creative muse and interpret what they have learned, students create films, plays, children’s books, original ballads and much more.

Through creative expression, Mr. O helps his students stretch their understanding of history and the stories of our past to another level. As a soccer coach for Middle School and Upper School, he holds the same philosophies and beliefs for his athletes (see page 4 for more on his passion for the sport). Mr. O joined Garrison Forest in 2009, having worked with all levels of middle school students. A graduate of Colby College (B.A. in economics), he earned his master’s degree in historical studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and was selected for the prestigious Mount Vernon Teacher Institute, a residential immersion program to study George Washington and 18th-century life. His passion for teaching and love for history, math and his students is imbued with a daily dose of the absurd, whether speaking with an English accent for the day or freestyling verses as a commentary of the goings-on of the Middle School. His sense of humor and infectious sense of joy spring from the same place of caring as his teaching and coaching. His philosophy—that we can all be better at what we do if we think that we can and we are willing to try—makes for a better classroom, sideline and wherever Mr. O is on the GFS campus.

Doug Oppenheimer with his family at Commencement, from left: Staunton T. Oppenheimer, Doug Oppenheimer, Riley Hanson, Jessica Hanson and Jim Condron.

2016 DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD In 1980, Elinor Purves McLennan ’56 and Courtney McLennan Myhrum ’79 established the Distinguished Teacher Award to recognize excellence in teaching. Selected by a committee of parents, students and faculty, the recipient embodies the highest expression of a selfless life of service.

Douglas Oppenheimer

Middle School History and Math

There are multiple layers to Doug Oppenheimer’s mastery of teaching. On the surface, students are challenged with the highest of standards for every assignment. Scratch the surface of exacting expectations, though, and there’s a teacher who cares

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2014 IRVIN D. MCGREGOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Created in 2008 and named for GFS staff member Irvin McGregor, who spent 43 years in the Dining Hall, this award recognizes full-time staff members with exemplary service, tenure and dedication to Garrison Forest.

Dipika Vanodia

Faculty/Staff Daycare

Known to faculty and staff parents and children as “Dee,” Dipika Vanodia has been the foundation of the Garrison Forest faculty/daycare program for over 16 years. Daycare at GFS had an auspicious start 20 years ago, with a handful of children getting their diapers changed and taking naps in the front sitting room in Lochinvar. After renovating an adjacent cottage in accordance with state regulations, daycare moved and Ms. Vanodia joined the staff. Since then, she has “mothered” 94 faculty and staff children, caring for their every need from 7:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, when she ushers each out the door with a hug. Under her care, children— and their parents—know that they are loved. As any working parent knows, the mixed Madeleine Rivers with a few of her students.

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Dr. Roberts and Dee Vanodia

emotions of returning to work and turning over an infant to another adult only works if the parent knows their child is loved. Ms. Vanodia’s level of care is unmatched. A grandmother herself, she cares for each of these children as if they were her own. Her watchful eye extends to the mountain of paperwork and state regulations, but her true gifts lie in the love she shares with the faculty and staff families fortunate enough to have her in their lives and the lives of their children.

RETIREES

Madeleine Rivers

Upper School Spanish

Before joining the Garrison Forest Modern Languages faculty in 2003 and teaching Upper School Spanish, Señora Rivers taught at Loyola College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and at the University of Maryland Asian DivisionThailand. A native of Puerto Rico, Mrs. Rivers taught Spanish II, III, IV and

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Linda Rowe

Kathy Schaffer

AP Spanish at Garrison Forest and took students on an immersion trip to Barcelona. Señora Rivers earned her B.A. in Spanish from Loyola College and M.S. in Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University. A volunteer with Hands Across the Americas, she has traveled with this group on medical missions to Cuzco, Peru and volunteered with Julie Stellmann ’12 and Keegan Billick ’07 in August 2011. “My students have been constantly discovering our ethnic and cultural differences, and ultimately they have explored our similarities,” she reflects. “I hope I have instilled a love for learning Spanish and an insatiable curiosity for other cultures.”

was yes, making her the longest-running “temp” in the history of Garrison Forest. As Assistant to Mr. Hodgetts, Mrs. Rowe’s organizational skills, sense of humor, constant smile and reliability kept the behind-thescenes of GFS’s day-to-day operations running seamlessly. For this, her name is on a plaque. In 2014, she received the Irvin D. McGregor Distinguished Service Award, which honors extraordinary service and dedication by full-time staff members. A role model for her professionalism and personal integrity and compassion, Mrs. Rowe’s “temporary” employment made a permanent difference in many lives over the course of her long, muchappreciated Garrison Forest tenure.

Linda Rowe

Kathy Schaffer

It’s not an award acknowledged with a plaque, but it’s an impressive achievement nonetheless. In 1990, Linda Rowe joined the Business Office to fill a sixweek temporary position for someone on maternity leave. A year or so later, Bill Hodgetts, Assistant Head of School for Finance and Operations, called and asked Mrs. Rowe if she would return. The answer

A member of the Upper School English faculty since 2001, Kathy Schaffer’s teaching career has taken her across the Atlantic and throughout the United States. After earning her B.A. in Literature and Pedagogy from the University of Delaware, she taught Middle and Upper School English at the American International School of Mallorca, Spain. She returned to the States to earn her

Business Office

English

M.A. in English Literature at Delaware before teaching at Archmere Academy (Delaware), St. Georges’ School (Rhode Island) and Notre Dame Preparatory School (Baltimore). English department chair at GFS for four years, Mrs. Schaffer has served as 9th Grade advisor and 10th Grade advisor. She coached Middle School basketball and Varsity Cross Country and organized the popular day trip to New York City, as well as the annual, typically goal-breaking Red Cross Blood drive at the school. Her most significant impact outside of her formidable skills in the classroom is that of AP Coordinator for the past decade. It’s a responsibility rooted in another role: friend to the late Erin Raleigh, who was dying of cancer in 2009 and could not continue to oversee the numerous AP exams after taking over the duties when Mrs. Schaffer became department chair. True to Mrs. Schaffer’s character and endurance training—she runs, bikes and swims—she assumed the AP role when her friend became too ill. Ms. Schaffer taught all four Upper School grades and has loved teaching American literature: “It shows so much about who are as a country and as a people.”

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GIVING at GARRISON FOREST

BY THE NUMBERS

Garrison Forest was built and is sustained by the support and dedication of alumnae, parents, faculty, friends and trustees. Those who share their time, talent or treasure with GFS help the school remain a vibrant and thriving community and support students and faculty every day. THANK YOU!

$1,277,001

representing

raised for The Fund for Garrison Forest,

6% of the operating budget

112 DEDICATED

fundraising volunteers

53%

participation

from the Class of

$2,076

raised per student

1996 to win the

Reunion Giving Cup,

a 34-point increase in participation

267 hands shaken

by Parent Fund Chair Peter Korzenewski as he greeted parents in carpool line. 78% of current parents gave in 2015-16.

The Anita and Tad Montgomery Fund for Student Support TO CELEBRATE its 50th Reunion, the Class of 1966 chose to honor two individuals who made the Garrison Forest experience so special for the class: Headmaster Archibald “Tad” R. Montgomery, III and his wife, Anita. From 1960 through 1968, the Montgomerys embodied the spirit of Garrison Forest in their authenticity and caring

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compassion. With remarkably busy lives running the school and raising their own large family, Tad and Anita were always available to provide counsel and understanding to students. In addition to continued support of The Fund for Garrison Forest, members of the Class of 1966 directed their gifts to what is the first endowed fund established in the Montgomerys’ name. The

Anita and Tad Montgomery Fund for Student Support endows need-based support for students to participate in GFS activities and traditions, from travel for language immersion trips to purchasing school rings to the cost to attend a student leadership conference— activities that not covered by tuition or financial aid but are part of the fabric of Garrison Forest.

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Outdoor Education:

THE LOWER SCHOOL PLAYGROUND AND THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM

5,438 appeal letters signed by Overall Chair of The Fund Elizabeth Piper ’88

96%

of faculty supported

The Fund for Garrison Forest.

Each year, 58% of the school’s $20-plus million operating budget goes toward faculty salaries and benefits.

$22,210, including a

ON JAN., 5, 2016, Garrison Forest celebrated the opening of the new Lower School Playground—phase one of a two-phase outdoor play/learning project—in a ceremony with well-below-freezing At the Lower School Playground Ribbon-Cutting Cerem temperatures but very warm smiles and ony. shouts of joy. “The Lower School Playground offers challenging, open-ended play that helps our girls develop physically and push themselves to take appropriate, exhilarating physical risks,” says Dr. Kim Roberts, Head of School. “Every piece of equipment can be used in multiple ways, which asks the girls to think creatively about how to engage with their environment and with one another.” This fall, Garrison Forest will open the new Outdoor Classroom, designed by Nature Explore and Julie Higgins of Hord Coplan Macht and located on the former site of the Infantry, the school’s original building for Preschool and Lower School education. The location, adjacent to both the Preschool and Lower School, is fitting, given that the Infantry director, Rhoda Penrose, was an early proponent of outdoor education. Funded entirely through gifts, both the Lower School Playground and the Outdoor Classroom add tremendously to the experiential, multidisciplinary learning for Preschool through 5th Grade. The Outdoor Classroom has 11 different multidisciplinary play and learning areas, including a garden and a meadow, dedicated space for digging in sand and mud and areas for climbing, building, art, music and movement, water play and gathering. In summer 2015, a group of faculty received a Shafer Innovation grant to write a comprehensive, age-appropriate curriculum guide for the Outdoor Classroom to make vibrant use of these learning spaces.

$10,000 match,

raised on Love GFS Day on Feb. 13, 2016.

ALUMNAE GIVING BY SPIRIT TEAM

55% Darks 45% Lights

THE 2016-17 FISCAL YEAR BEGAN JULY 1. Please support Garrison Forest this year! Give or pledge online at gfs.org/give. Sign up for monthly installments. A Shriver Society gift of $1,000 over 12 months is about $84/month. ON SEPT. 1, GO TO GFS.ORG/REPORTONGIVING TO READ THE 2015-16 REPORT ON GIVING (PASSWORD: THANK YOU).

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Leadership at the Forest 2015 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA AWARD WINNER

Kingsley Black Moore ’54 The Distinguished Alumna Award was established in 1981 to honor alumnae whose leadership and service to Garrison Forest merits special recognition and appreciation. Kingsley Black Moore ’54’s “true blue” loyalty and devotion to her school span volunteer and administrative roles. Kingsley served as Head of the Middle School and as a math teacher, but her devotion stretches back to 1949 when she joined GFS. For her senior year, she was elected President of the School and field hockey captain, two positions her granddaughter Garland Mooney ’13 would hold almost 60 years later. She and husband Bo were longtime GFS field hockey and lacrosse fans for daughter Kingsley Moore Mooney ’79 and granddaughters Kingsley Mooney ’10 and Garland. Her leadership as Vice President of the Alumnae Association, Annual Giving chair and perennial Class of 1954 volunteer has raised the bar and plenty of funds. As a member of the 1954 reunion gift committee, she helped the class achieve 100 percent participation for the its 50th and 60th reunions and co-led the establishment of the Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund. Her behind-the-scenes leadership has left an equally indelible mark. Since her graduation, she has typed and edited classmate Carrington Dame Hooper’s novella-like Class News (see page 118), entries that tell the touching story of a very deep connection among Kingsley and her classmates. The story of Kingsley’s selfless service to GFS speaks to her deep connection as student, friend, teacher, administrator, parent, volunteer and alumna. From left: Tom Mooney, Kingsley Moore Mooney ‘79, Bo Moore, Kingsley Mooney ‘10, Kingsley Black Moore ‘54, Charlie Moore and Laura Moore at the 2015 Leadership Recognition Dinner.

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From left: Chris Shriver, Pat Deady, Anne Deady ‘01 and Wendy Deady.

2015 BRIAN H. DEADY VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP AWARD WINNER

Chris Shriver The 2015 H. Brian Deady Volunteer Award winner, Chris Shriver, is unique among her fellow recipients since the establishment of the Deady Award in 2001 by Pat and Anne ’01 Deady to recognize exemplary parent volunteer service. Ms. Shriver is the first Deady recipient to wear the faculty hat, as well as that of a parent and volunteer. Regardless of her role, she brings boundless enthusiasm, leadership and innovation. When daughter Kendall ’15 joined the Preschool, Ms. Shriver immediately volunteered with the Parent Association, serving every year since 2000 in various capacities. She joined the Parent Fund team in 2002, eventually chairing the Parent Fund and serving as a member of the Class of 2015 Senior Gift Committee. A longtime member of the GFS Faculty/ Staff Habitat for Humanity efforts, Ms. Shriver currently chairs the Faculty Fund. For this past year, she led her colleagues to an impressive 96 percent participation overall with 100 percent participation in the Preschool, Lower School and Middle School. Joining the faculty in 2003 as a Preschool Associate, she became the go-to person for technology in the Preschool. Possessed with an insatiable curiosity, passion for tackling challenges and a love for teaching others how to use technology, in 2011, she became the Lower School’s Digital Learning Specialist and Preschool and Lower School Imagineering (pre-engineering) teacher. Three years ago, she also co-founded Edcamp Baltimore, an annual “unconference” for tech-driven, innovative educators. Last year, she led a Shafer Innovation Grant task force to create the new GFS Creative Co-op, which comprises three “tinkering” and maker spaces on campus including her Lower School classroom. With her constant smile and consummate skills with high- and low-tech tools from robotics and 3-D printers to LEGOs and recyclables, Ms. Shriver transforms students’ dreams into realities.

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NEW TRUSTEES August “Augie” Chiasera (Gabby ’22 and Sophia ’25) first volunteered for Garrison Forest as a Parent Grade Fund Agent last year. He is President of the Greater Baltimore and Chesapeake regions of M&T Bank. Having been with M&T since 1993, Augie relocated from Buffalo, N.Y., to Baltimore in 2002. He holds a B.A. from Boston University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Augie is board chair for the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and serves on the boards of the Baltimore Development Corporation, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Center Stage, the Greater Baltimore Committee and the University of Maryland Medical System. Robyne McCullough ’07 is an experienced broadcast journalist and producer. As morning news producer for WBAL-TV, she balances news gathering with newscast production and creating content for website and media platforms. A University of Maryland College Park graduate (B.A. in broadcast journalism), she has vast experience from internships at news stations while a GFS student and throughout college, including the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Maryland Newsline/UMTV and the Emma Bowen Foundation,

which supports media career opportunities for youth of color. Prior to her current producer role, Robyne was a news producer for WBOC-TV, a CBS affiliate serving the Delmarva Peninsula. She also worked as an investigative reporter and Carnegie-Knight Fellow for the national News21 program. A member of the Alumnae Board, Robyne served on the 2015 Strategic Planning Committee and on the fall 2015 “Women in the Media” panel for the GFS Power of Women (POW!) speaker series sponsored by the James Center. Jianguang Zhao (Jenny ’20) has the distinction of being the first Chinese boarding parent to join the GFS Board. Hailing from Beijing, Mr. Zhao has 20 years of experience in the securities industry, currently serving as the Chairman of JYTH Investment Management (Beijing) Company, Ltd. He also serves as a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Anhui Conch Cement Company, Ltd. Other positions held include: Chief Executive Officer, Guodu Securities Company; Deputy General Manager, Guosen Securities Company; General Manager, Nanfang Securities Company (investment bank division); and Senior Manager, Huaxia Securities Company (issuance division). Jianguang and his wife Dahong will host a reception for Dr. Roberts in Beijing in the fall.

2016-17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Catherine Y. Jackson ’83, President Carroll Dawbarn ’64, Vice President Helen Zinreich Shafer ’93, Vice President Amabel Boyce James ’70, Treasurer Robert S. Brennen, Secretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Emily Gardner Baratta ’88 Cassandra Naylor Brooks ’85 Kimberly Hubbard Cashman ’85 August J. Chiasera Diana Warfield Daly ’74

David M. DiPietro Kimberly W. Gordon Molly Mundy Hathaway ’61 Timothy W. Hathaway Elisabeth Owen Hayes ’81 Sarah LeBrun Ingram ’84 Lila Boyce Lohr ’63 Peter D. Maller Robyne O. McCullough ’07 Jeffrey F. Musgrove C. Ashton Newhall William M. Parrish Karan H. Powell Frances Russell Rockwell ’68 Elizabeth B. Searle ’74 William B. Spire Amy Purcell Vorenberg William L. Yerman Jianguang Zhao

EX-OFFICIO Elizabeth Corbin Cole ’98 William S. Hodgetts Johanna C. Maranto Kellie A. McGowan Catherine Schroeder O’Neill ’93 Kimberley J. Roberts

TRUSTEES EMERITI Frank A. Bonsal, Jr. Matthias J. DeVito H. Grant Hathaway Henry H. Hopkins Douglas A. McGregor Elinor Purves McLennan ’56 Francis G. Riggs Clare H. Springs ’62 Frederick W. Whitridge Katherine R. Williams

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PLANNED GIFTS to Garrison Forest School—charitable bequests, trusts, real estate and other legacy gifts—benefit both the donor and the institution.

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Announcing the $3.5 Million Elizabeth Welsh Young ’40 Memorial Scholarship Charitable Trust Betty Young’s devotion to Garrison Forest was legendary. A member of the Class of 1940, she enrolled in 1930. Betty and sister Hyatt Young ’42 were considered “lifers” generations before the phrase became popular to describe students who enrolled in the earliest grades and continued to graduation. Betty played field hockey and wore her Light Blue team spirit with pride, but her true joy was in the classroom. After graduating, she attended Goucher College and returned to her beloved Garrison Forest in 1947 to teach English and history, following in the footsteps of her teachers who made such an indelible impression on her life and calling. For 14 years, she taught GFS students until her retirement in 1961. Following her impactful teaching career, she and Hyatt—ever inseparable—enjoyed an active volunteer life with the Roslyn Garden Club, the Maryland Colonial Dames and the Daughters of the Cincinnati. And, of course, they supported Garrison Forest, attending campus events and their own and each other’s reunion celebrations as well as those of classes Betty had taught. When Betty passed away on Dec. 17, 2014, she made provisions for Garrison

With her estate gift, Betty Young became a member of the Marshall-Offutt Circle, which recognizes alumnae, parents, faculty and staff, trustees and friends who have made a planned gift to Garrison Forest. Today, the Marshall-Offutt Circle has 221 members who have made charitable bequests, trusts, real estate and other legacy gifts to the school.

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Forest in her estate plans. True to her level of commitment during her lifetime, she established a $3.5 million charitable trust to ensure that the joy and benefits of the Garrison Forest education she had enjoyed would be available in perpetuity to Garrison Girls. Her gift is the secondlargest in school’s history behind that of her former Latin teacher then colleague, Miriam Vanderveer. In 2003, Mrs. Vanderveer gave $4.2 million through a bequest to endow faculty and staff salaries and benefits. Under the provisions of her will, the Elizabeth Welsh Young ’40 Memorial Scholarship Charitable Trust will provide tuition assistance annually to several Garrison Forest students and support them through their entire GFS careers. This fall, we welcome seven inaugural “Young Scholars”—the name a fitting play on words that the passionate student and English teacher in Betty would have enjoyed. The level of Betty’s gift and the impact it will have on the lives of these young women will be transformative for the students and the school. Most fitting of all are the ideals embodied in this gift— intellectual vigor and enduring devotion and spirit—that mark the life and legacy of Betty Young.

For a full list of members, visit gfs.org/plannedgiving. Please consult with your attorney, estate planner or other financial advisory before making a planned gift.

For more information, contact Deanna Gamber ’85, Assistant Head of School for Advancement, at deannagamber@gfs.org or 410-559-3135.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Uniforms Each Garrison Forest generation has its own uniform traditions, with the beloved/ loathed blue tunic a decade-crossing mainstay. For this issue, Dante Beretta, School Archivist, threads together GFS’s sartorial history.

There was no school uniform during the tenure of founder Mary Moncrieffe Livingston (1910-1929) and no records about any dress code. There was an athletic uniform of dark (black or navy blue) bloomers, black stockings and a sailor-shirt top. In 1929, when Jean Marshall and Nancy Offutt became co-heads, they introduced a significant change to the athletic uniform. The bloomer became a light blue tunic, and the black stockings were dropped forever in 1930, causing a few shocking ripples to spread among polite Baltimore society when the GFS teams played bare-legged.

Miss Marshall and Miss Offutt ushered in the school uniform with the introduction of a blue cotton dress as a day uniform. Boarders could choose from several other colors (pink, mint green or yellow) for the “evening” uniform. (Yes, a uniform was required afterschool.) Students topped off the dress with a navy blazer with

the school seal and various patches and pins representing school activities. Elizabeth Brown, Director of Athletics and Head Resident, measured hem lengths and doled out demerits for short skirts. Completing the ensemble were the required brown oxfords, or “sturdy browns,” which were as attractive as they sound. Today, the Preschool is the only division for which there is no required uniform. Sometime during the 1950s, the tunic, once only an athletic uniform, became an acceptable alternative to other uniform options. Matching bloomers were worn under the tunic, and it was belted with the student’s choice of belts, usually leather. Spotless white tennis shoes—the only acceptable alternative to brown shoes—were typically worn with the tunic.

In the late 1960s, blue pants were included as an option, thanks to a concerned mother of students who got very cold while waiting for the bus in a skirt. Since the 1980s, students have been allowed to wear leggings as well, with black leggings—once part of the original athletic uniform— rejoining the acceptable GFS uniform choices.

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With the dawn of the plaid kilt in the 1970s, the day dress became yesterday’s fashion. The current plaid won out over several patterns and was the standard by 1985, along with a light blue skirt for a fall/spring option. The kilt also marks a Garrison Girl’s “big girl moment,” as Kindergarten through 4th Grade students wear a plaid jumper, while 5th Grade students may wear the kilt. Shorts replaced the tunic’s bloomers, and the sweatshirt became an alternative to the blue sweater—the sweater was part of the uniform for decades—and the go-to choice ever since. The blazer, which was reintroduced during the school’s Centennial in 2010, stopped being a required item in the 1970s.

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Footwear has been a place where students tried to give uniform codes the boot, so to speak. In the early 1970s, one student pushed the boundaries of the required “brown shoes-only” rule by wearing lace-up brown boots. The explosion of styles and colors of tennis shoes/sneakers in the 1980s sorely tested the school’s white canvas tennis shoe policy. Eventually, students were allowed to wear any type of tennis shoe, provided it was worn with white or navy socks.

The tunic, the uniform constant for over seven decades, has been transformed into a GFS memento by recent graduating classes. For Commencement rehearsal, seniors emblazon their tunic with the name of their college and other decorations, a fitting finale for a much-worn and, by that point, sentimental piece of clothing.

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132 WORDS WE LIVE BY: ESSE QUAM VIDERI

Ringing True By the Rev. Caroline “Stuart” Rinehart Stewart ‘66 This past May, the Class of 1966 celebrated its 50th Reunion with

enthusiastic participation from many classmates. Our reunions, and particularly this milestone one, are times when I reflect on the power the Garrison Forest motto, Esse Quam Videri—“To Be Rather Than To Seem,” has held in my life. It has seemed ageless, always relevant, and throughout the various chapters of my life, has been a principle that points to incorporating the best personal character traits. At least that is what Esse Quam Videri has meant up until I received the invitation to write this essay for the Garrison Forest Magazine. Let me explain. In my world as an Episcopal priest, I have become accustomed to wrestling with scripture and ethics and theology and all kinds of life questions. In that process one of the exciting aspects is finding new meaning or interpretations within the context of the current reality. It is frankly quite stimulating when what we might have understood in the past transitions to a newer or deeper understanding in the now. That same process occurred with the invitation to reflect upon our motto. I unexpectedly found myself reacting to the idea that these words are the final ones in the magazine, as if the motto “To Be Rather Than To Seem” is an end: a declarative statement of the present that is rooted in something inert or passive. It made me wonder. What I am now beginning to interpret from our motto is something a bit different, a nuance that excites me. Rather than the

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statement “To Be” reflecting just the “now” in our lives, I hear “To Be” as a summons for the future as well—as in what are you going “to be,” who are going “to be,” why are you going “to be,” how are you going “to be?” Because if we don’t consider all those aspects, no matter if you are the Class of 2016 or the Class of 1966, indeed, we will continue “to seem.” Oprah would say we constantly need to be living into our authentic selves, always. And isn’t that how Garrison Forest prepares us “to be,” organically living into our changing world and life situations? I wear my school ring often. As you know, the seal is engraved with our motto. Sixteen years ago, when my call to priesthood began and I went back to both graduate school and then seminary, I wore it daily as a tangible reminder of the confidence that developed during my years at GFS. This ring was such a source of comfort and encouragement. Part of the tradition of wearing this ring is that the symbol is turned outward at graduation as a reminder to share and spread the sacred spirit with which we were infused during our time at school. However, as a result of my expanded understanding about our motto, I am now going to intentionally turn my ring around with the symbol and thus motto, facing towards me. This will be an outward and visible reminder that, as a result of the gift of my GFS experience, I have the responsibility and, yes, obligation to continue to ask, to discern, what, how, why, who I am to be. Perhaps this insight is even more significant at our 50th reunion when it would be really easy to coast lazily into our future with what has been. Esse Quam Videri. I want to choose “to be”… to become!

The Rev. Caroline “Stuart” Rinehart Stewart ’66 holds a very unique place in the history of Garrison Forest. She is the only person (so far) whose “roles” include student, dorm parent (with husband Bill in the early 1970s), administrator (Director of Admission), coach (Varsity Badminton; fitting for the 1965 Maryland. Interscholastic Badminton champion), parent (mother of Ann ’00), Alumnae Board President, Trustee for 20 years, stalwart reunion volunteer, “innkeeper” for the Class of 1966 and, since 2007, School Chaplain. In 1984, she was awarded the GFS Distinguished Alumna Award. That’s 50-and-counting years of the truest, bluest service around.

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ANNOUNCING THE MERIT SCHOLARS PROGRAM Congratulations to the inaugural GFS Merit Scholars: Celia Donner ’20 (Calvert School, daughter of Danielle Saba Donner ’86) and boarder Lexie Coldiron ’20 (St. James Academy). Awarded to two incoming 9th Grade students (one day and one boarding student), Merit Scholarships recognize students with an exceptionally high level of academic achievement in combination with positive contributions to their school and community. Gfs.org/admission for more.

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Lower School: October 10 Upper School: October 18

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Middle School: October 28

Welcome, Bella Grant ’20 (Easton, Md.; mother Melissa North Grant ’97) and Josie Tidmore ’20 (Valdosta, Ga.; mother Jennifer Lawrence ’85). See page 30 for more on the Alumnae Legacy Scholarship program.

Family Visiting Day: October 30 Garrison Getaway (boarding): November 3-4 Preschool: call 410-559-3221 for a personal tour

JOIN GFS ON THE ROAD School Fairs: • NJ SEEDS Fair: 9/10

• Episcopal School of Knoxville (TN): 10/4

• Norwood School Fair (DC): 10/6

• Far Hills Country Day School (NJ): 9/22

• Lexington School Boarding School Fair (KY): 10/5

• St. James Academy Fair (MD): 10/6

• Black Parents Forum & Admission Fair (Atlanta): 9/24

• Graland Country School Fair (CO): 10/6

• Dawson School Fair (Las Vegas): 11/5

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• Bucks County, PA/Jersey Shore: 9/20-23

• Oregon and Washington: 10/10-12

• Virginia and West Virginia: 9/26-29

• Chicago: 10/12-14

• Northern New Jersey/ Philadelphia: 9/12-14 • Washington, D.C.: 9/15-16

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