Gow Life Winter 2020

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Gow Life

Winter 2020

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Family Ties at Gow!

Thanking Gow’s Donors The Magazine for the Gow Community

The Gow Life Magazine Winter 2020 THE GOW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM M. Bradley Rogers, Jr. Headmaster

Douglas B. Cotter ‘87, P ‘19, P ‘23 Director of Admissions Gayle E. Hutton Director of Development Robin Marshman Head of the Upper School

Marty O’Connor Director of Buildings and Grounds

Luke Salerno Head of the Middle School Katie Tierney Director of Business Operations, CFO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Featuring: 11

Gow Family Ties

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2018-19 Donor Appreciation Report

In Every Issue 4 7 24

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From the Headmaster Planned Giving Alumni News

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Around Campus Wishlist Fondly Remembered

Spotlights: 10

Giving Tuesday a Success!

Alumni and Families:

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Grandparents’ Day Fall Family and Alumni Weekend

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Buttercup Farm - a rememberance by alumnus Bill Hoke ‘58

Meet Gow Students: 10

Jack Gazzard ‘25 Eliza Letourneau ‘21

Faculty: 30

New Faculty and Staff Faces on Campus Rebecca Rausch Honored

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FROM

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HEADMASTER

Rethinking Learning. Reigniting Lives.

Dear Friends, We are grateful to those who, through generous gifts of money and time, inspire Gow’s programming, maintain a vibrant campus, and insure that students receive the enriching education and skills required to succeed in college and beyond. This edition of Gow Life Magazine recognizes the generosity and commitment of those who make Gow’s life-changing educational programs possible. We are forever grateful.

We live in a rapidly evolving world. Technology impacts every aspect of our lives from the moment our phone alarm rings in the morning. Our students were born in the midst of the digital revolution and can’t remember a world without Facebook, Instagram, likes, and 24hour news. One of my beliefs is that there is nothing better than face-to-face communication and that is best achieved when phones are put away. Gow students and faculty need and deserve a campus without the distractions of cell phones and social media. Although this idea can cause momentary shock for some new students and visiting guests, nearly everyone quickly embraces the idea and the novelty of being unplugged.

We are a school about communication and I am so proud of the work our faculty and staff do to encourage these skills in our students. Every morning at breakfast, the dining hall is buzzing with conversation. Faculty and students have assigned seats at breakfast and lunch which provides for in depth conversations and adult guidance about table manners, healthy eating habits, and the art of communication. What an opportunity for our faculty, staff and students to learn more about each other, our families, travel, hobbies and hopes for the future.

Our school continues to evolve to best prepare our students for tomorrow’s world. Although we can’t imagine the professions of the future, it’s safe to believe that mastery of language and communication will never be obsolete. Our mission continues: to modernize our campus and build needed teaching, athletic, artistic, and living spaces; to adding new programs that prepare our students to imagine and embrace their futures.

We couldn’t do this without your belief and financial support.

On behalf of Gow’s students, faculty and staff, I thank you for your continued belief in Gow’s life-changing mission.

Warm regards,

M. Bradley Rogers, Jr. Headmaster

The 5 years I spent at Gow shaped my future... and the future of my own son who attended 30 years after me. I am forever grateful for the quality education I received at Gow and continue to cherish the lifelong friends and mentors I met there.

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Grandparents Day 2019 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Grandparents Day was celebrated September 21 with nearly 100 special friends and grandparents on campus. This day offered guests a chance to attend classes, participate in an all-school assembly, learn more about Gow at a Q&A with Mr. Rogers, and cheer for Gow’s sports teams. A perfect day to welcome special guests to Gow, and to engage them firsthand in Gow’s positive and supportive learning community.

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We are so

THANKFUL

for you!

Dear friends, This magazine celebrates those who made gifts during Gow’s 2018–19 fiscal year. Donations enable Gow to provide innovative programming, maintain an impressive physical plant, and offer scholarship assistance to 41% of students. Our goal is to engage alumni, parents and others who recognize the importance of Gow’s programs and want to support them.

We are thankful for dynamic leadership in our Alumni and Parent Associations.

This valuable network offers advice, internships, and opportunities for alumni and current students. With thanks to those who have hosted Gow events around the country, these relationships are stronger than ever.

If you haven’t yet done so, please visit Gow’s website (gow.org), on Facebook (including Gow Connect for our alumni), and follow us on Instagram. Most importantly, please send us your current email and address, and forward updated news (work, family, travels etc.) so we can include it in the next Gow Life magazine. These are easy ways to connect with the school and each other.

Pictured: Gayle Hutton with Marcy Hinand (mom of Duncan Cady ‘19)

Your gift makes a difference! Easy ways to give to Gow: Donate to the Gow Annual Fund.

Visit https://www.gow.org/support-gow or call 716.687.2075 Include Gow in your will.

Creating a bequest provides tax benefits for you and your heirs.

Make a gift by donating appreciated stock.

Email the Development Office for stock transfer instructions.

Make a gift from your IRA. If you are age 70 1/2, avoid taxes on your required distribution.

Buy an item for Gow’s Wishlist!

For a list of items you can sponsor, please see page 12.

Thank you for your continued belief in the life-changing mission of our school. I hope our paths will cross sometime soon!

Most sincerely,

Gayle E. Hutton, Director of Development 716.687.2074 ghutton@gow.org

OUT AND ABOUT - What’s New at Gow? Firepit and Patio by Weston Dining Hall

Thanks to the generosity of the Class of 2019 and their families, a stamped concrete patio and firepit were installed in front the Weston Dining Hall. This is the perfect spot for watching sporting events and the sunset over campus!

Girls’ Volleyball Team

Having just completed their first season under the direction of Coaches Chafin and Bennett, the team learned more about the game, received new uniforms, and played some invigorating matches.

Trackman Golf Swing Analyzer

This state-of-the-art analytical tool helps members of the golf team to improve their shots and analyze their game. The Trackman is located on the squash courts in the Gow Center during the off-season.

Gow Cycling Kit

Designed specifically for men and women, the recently designed Gow cycling kit features long and short sleeved jerseys, bib shorts and a cycling hat.

For more information, see page 31. To order, visit https://shop.vergesport.com/us-en/account/login.

Spinning Studio

A new favorite for Gow athletes, students are enjoying the chance to spin together under the guidance of an instructor. The spinning studio is located on one of the squash courts during the Fall and Spring sports seasons.

Grand Piano

Thanks to several generous donors including Mrs. Anne Moot (the wife of Welles ‘39), Gow has purchased a beautiful piano and created a concert series for our community. Mrs. Moot and her duo piano partner gave a concert at Gow in October.

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Planned Giving at Gow

WHAT IS A PLANNED GIFT?

Regardless of your life circumstances or estate size, your Planned Gift may be the most important document you create. A Planned Gift is a charitable instrument designed (preferably with professional advice) to optimize your financial, tax, and estate wishes. Planned Gifts help donors to maximize their charitable giving and minimize taxes. You can stipulate this gift in your will as either a set amount or percentage of your estate (called a bequest), or make a gift of life insurance or retirement funds during your life.

WHY HAVE A PLANNED GIFT?

Estate planning offers tax benefits for you and your family, and ensures that your assets are distributed to the people and institutions that are most important to you. Your gift can be unrestricted (so that Gow can use it where needed most) or restricted to a program such as scholarship or endowment. You may create a fund in your name or in honor or memory of someone else.

WAYS TO MAKE A PLANNED GIFT TO GOW Designate a Gift to Gow in your Will

This is one of the easiest ways to make an estate gift. Simply ask your attorney to review the following wording and include it in your will: “I give and bequeath to The Gow School (Tax ID# 16-1034793), located in South Wales, New York, the sum of $______ OR ______% of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate.

Donate a Life Insurance Policy

Donate a policy that has been paid off or name Gow as your beneficiary. If you make the premium payments, they become deductions and the policy’s value is removed from your estate. You could also sell an unneeded insurance policy and donate the proceeds, earning an immediate taxdeduction.

Donate your IRA

If you are age 70½ and have to take a Required Minimum Distribution from your IRA distribution, you can donate that to Gow. This will reduce your adjusted gross income and tax burden.

Make Gow a Beneficiary of Your Retirement Plan

Leaving your retirement plan or IRA (or a portion of it) to Gow or naming Gow as the recipient of your retirement plan after your lifetime (or following the deaths of you and your spouse), avoids all estate and income taxes on the plan assets. If you name Gow as the beneficiary of the remainder of your retirement plan at your death, 100% goes to Gow.

Please consult your professional advisor to determine which Planned Giving option is most appropriate for you.

If you have already included Gow in your estate plan, please let us know so we can recognize your generosity. If you would like further information about Planned Giving, please contact Gayle Hutton, Director of Development at 716.687.2074 or ghutton@gow.org. Thank you!

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BUTTERCUP FARM Written by Bill Hoke ‘58 A note about this piece: About 1990, Bill Hoke wrote a poem about The Gow School using the name of the original land where the school was located, Buttercup Farm. He sent the poem to the school, and it was just recently rediscovered. In re-reading this remembrance, Bill says, “From my two years at Gow, now more than 60 years ago, I was stuck by how indelible these memories are. And how alive the people still feel. Norman Howard walking from his house to his study for Latin II. The morning song. That lonesome train whistle heading for Pennsylvania. Good times mostly, and for me, academic salvation. I hope these memories from an old boy resonate with some.”

Please note: those items highlighted in blue reference the Reconstructive Language cards - the conerstone of Gow’s remediation program.

I - BITTERSWEET It is Sunday after church before chicken and yellow gravy dinner. It is deep in snow or on a fall/spring afternoon. We are quiet, momentarily writing home, one-page letters awkwardly, in pencil, disguising our misspellings, erasing, writing big, our “I am fines” hiding the “Why am I heres”. a,ab,be,de,e,re,se,pre,di,dia,di,co, pro bi II – DAYS WITHOUT END Oatmeal, piles of dry white toast, metal pitchers of cocoa and milk. Someone, and eventually everyone, will drop a tray and we applaude wildly until a knife raps a glass and we are subdued. Fun comes stolen, at haphazard times, usually at someone else’s expense. Mail at 10:15, that wonderful stentorian voice: Mr. Brophy, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Brophy. He smells the envelope, smiles, and slides it across the round table by the front door. Mr. Brophy. He smiles. We laugh.

Dear Bill:

I’m going with a friend of my sister’s. He goes to college. You don’t know him. I don’t know what to say. I’m sorry.

Love, Michele We cry.

We had standard issued (parent purchased) blue bedspreads, but bed making perfection was not required. We had our own brooms and we used them daily. We did windows, floors, and anything else a master pointed at. Pay particular attention to the stairs, corners of rooms, food scraps under the kids’ tables. Do this room over again, then you can smoke.

Mornings after breakfast and after cleanup, he would walk from his house, walking ramrod straight, walking precisely at the same time, convene us, reach into his right inside right hand pocket, read from his daily notes, you praying, fervently, you have not come to his attention from last night’s study all. Nothing escaped him.

Then he would lead morning song and if – when – he got you not fully singing,

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he would look directly at you, quizzically, eyebrows raised, like, get with the program.

Singing was perfectly natural to him.

It made his eyes sparkle, a remarkable moment. You can see how warm it was in there.

We sang “Oh Susanna” as good as any senior class anywhere.

At one meal – we rotated tables every few weeks – the rule was you could not put anything beyond your wrist on the table.

Penalty was having the offending arm part raked by the masters usually dull serrated dinner knife. One night I caught the master reaching too far for the mashed potatoes and my ever-ready knife came out of my ribeye and chopped at his hand drawing a fine trail of blood. The table went silent.

The dining room went silent as we were locked in stare. My eyes dropped. Not a high point in my 17 years. He said I might be able to be a writer. He also had a great twinkle in his eye, and would admit I had read more Hemingway than he. Later I realized he was having serious conversations with God. He was a very good man, one of those teachers you realize made a difference. He gave me an A in English, my first A in anything.

Ann hates a small spa.. Jim likes machines.

Al always loyal.

III – STUDY HALL He patrols two main rooms, three side rooms alone; is tutor, proctor, father, sometimes older brother, sometimes mother, master, sir. He has heard every single excuse, knows your dad has not sent smoking permission, catches you sneaking a drag at break, knows his car will be Simonized on Saturday afternoon.

One hour and 50 minutes to go. He has study hall tonight and his gum shoes are silent as he purposely goes from room to room, looking for trouble spots, potential troublemakers. He always pays particular attention to me, centered where he can see me from the kitchen hallway, between the two rooms. I am prepared with a full complement of yes sirs, no sirs and nothing 8

sirs. I know all about his temper. He is waiting to really catch me.

Dear Dad: people have leopards for luncheon here.

The new basement haircut isn’t cool, but the townies can’t see me go from bus to theater on Saturday night; they don’t go to our church on Sunday. We hear they want to fight and we go armed with knives and clubs, Skip comes out of nowhere, shouts them into submission. There is no fight.

Where did Skip go so soon?

Nine weeks to go: 100 hours of study hall until Christmas, more than I have studied in the past ten years, including kindergarten.

Reading is no problem, reading comprehension is. The math is perfectly clear in my head, backwards on paper.

Train A leaves the station at the same time as Train B. Why? Because… ad, con, ed, in, ob, sub, syn, dis Two Masters allow some humor in study hall. The three new ones don’t know our well-defined tricks and when they first work alone, pencils and erasers fly; you can even lean back in your straight chair, might pass a note, whisper a conspiracy, heretically exchange a math question. Latin translation.

I kept asking my roommate for the Latin word for “the”. He falls for it every time, marveling at my perversity.

There is no escape tricks and we are at the are at the mercy of their moods. One is newlywed and the break stretches on and on, indulging everyone. We think he got caught and we are back on schedule: one cigarette at the fireplace then we sit for the final hour, fidgeting. My geometry theorem is an impossible 15 proofs. One of them must be right.

Out, pour, you, double VI - SIX VARSITY LETTERS Old building, new building, across the bridge to the ski tow, ski tow rope squeezing

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slowly, the thick manila hemp squeezing until the water comes out of your wrist no matter how carefully, even seniors jerked and were pulled, or dragged up through the ruts, past the jump to the new unmuffled Chevrolet V-8, pulling us up slowly carefully intervalled.

My glove frozen to the rope goes handless into the rope window, comes out at the bottom, flattened by the 16 inch wheel rim.

I spear it off the rope with my bamboo ski pole. It breaks. Dear dad.

The ski patrol gets to pack the slope, edging sideways from bottom to top. Someone, I think it is Kim Cowen, hits a tree coming down into the woods and we stand around looking at the crimson blood turn brown in the snow, I am not enough pre-med for this. I carry skis down, noticing he has metal edges, blood frozen. through the tough cough and hiccough plow through We walk single file from the worn rented yellow bus, wearing coats and ties, holding small bags of soccer gear and little hope of winning to big high schools. We usually had sense enough not to antagonize our less moneyed opponents. Those schools had more to choose from.

Did we ever play on a dry field with a dry ball? Unless you headed it perfectly, the wet leather thunked your head, giving you an unadmitted headache you would try to run off while their JV scored again, down the field in front of you.

Towards the end of senior year, the game trips were bitter returns: we would definitely leave open the back door of the bus, the only emergency our haste to be away from it and at dinner where we had each other to console. You only called home in an emergency. Another loss did not qualify.

Everyone could hear the conversation from the phone to Mr. Stockwell’s study.

Hi mom, yes everything is going fine. No we lost the game. It’s all right. Worms work all over the world. No I didn’t say anything. Well thanks for calling. See you at Christmas.

MORNING BREAK After morning break of milk (seniors later got coffee) and Phil’s rock hard gingersnaps, four of us would sit in a study waiting for Latin II. We would see him the moment he left his back door. No one moved. He came in the study door, rubbed his hands together, blew on them, hung up his coat, said good morning gentlemen. This was it.

No refuge.

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He was impeccably dressed, razor creases on pants, tie clip, Phi Beta Kappa fob - the closest I ever got one. He set an example.

You read to him in Latin, meaning you said the words out loud; sometimes understanding them and he would prompt, correct, prompt, correct, wince, inhale and we slowly, ever so slowly, helped us help Caesar conquer Gaul.

Gallia est omnis divisa in partis tres; quarum unam...

He never chided or derided: his impatience was manifest only at the blackboard as he jabbed the conjugations, symmetrically filling the board and then, inhaling deeply, not erasing, but attacking the chalk. It fell in front of him, gender in perfect agreement.

Amos, amas, amat Then mea patria est pulchra Deep down I honestly think he liked me. I think every boy ever met felt that the same sense of worth. If man has a greater gift than that, I have not yet to meet it.

very quiet and we cup our cigarettes in our hands in the event an errant master is out walking, or coming back from town, sometimes sober.

“You want to go down and make some toast?”

We have learned how to get into the Main Building kitchen downstairs and we put on the robe and slippers and so slowly, very, very slowly we go down the stairs, through the Headmaster’s study and outside, around the back of the building stand huddled, to jimmy the door and get into the kitchen. We each make about a dozen slices of Wonder Bread cinnamon toast, this time with butter.

This is expulsion land. Students who broke into the freezer downstairs for ice cream came very close to getting their fondest wish.

Dear dad: carry, car, seller

Guard your language.

The toast remained our secret all of our senior year. We never took anything else and we never left a trace. But neither of us ever had any desire for an institutional side can of stewed tomatoes. In 15 minutes we were back upstairs

EPILOGUE

“Bill, you awake?”

“Mitch, you awake?”

“ I’m awake.”

“I’m awake,”

“You want to smoke?”

“Want a smoke?”

We sit on Mitch’s bed at his window, hands cupped over the cigarettes, waiting for June.

I pull up my window, just feet above Norm’s study, Mitch comes in and we sit crosslegged on my blue spread, taking turns blowing ‘nothing beats the taste of Kent smoke’ out my window.

“Did you see Brocsche’s face when he caught Camplin and Wilson talking?”

“Their ass is grass.”

“He gets bright red and you think he’s going to explode.”

“Think we’ll beat Nichols?”

“No.” “Think I’ll get into Kenyon?”

“Sure, you passed all the math… You passed algebra and geometry.” I pretend you don’t need math to be a doctor. I pretend a lot these days.

“What do you want to do?”

“We can always hope.”

“I dunno, get some sleep I guess.”

I can see a light in the master’s room at the other side of the building. It’s not midnight and the train whistle sounds from the north and quickly go south toward Pennsylvania.

I always think about how free those trains are and how I am here, intermittently, inexplicably. Here.

“Night Mitch.”

It is as if someone closes a door in the night the train is gone down this alley with the waterfalls of slate and the places we explore in a rare afternoons off. It is

Sum quod eris.

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“Night roomie.”

On June 17, 1958, 11 of us graduate from The Gow School, the largest school class in the school’s history.

W. E Hoke, ‘58 Written November 1990

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Giving Tuesday Move-That-Bus Campaign A Success!

Thanks to the generosity of 194 donors, $62,745 was raised (125% of goal!) in 24 hours for a new Gow bus. This will help Gow to transport students to athletic events and social activities.

The month before the Giving Tuesday, weekly emails and fun videos were sent from key players including Gow’s Parent Association and Student Council presidents, and Mr. Rogers. This helped inspire donors and tell the bus campaign story.

FAST FACTS:

194 total donors 59 first time donors (31%) Donors include: 65 current parents, 48 alumni, & 50 alum parents!

Average gift = $330

Giving Tuesday is an international day of philanthropy that benefits nonprofit organizations around the world. Thank you to those who chose to make a difference for The Gow School and our students.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT:

Meet Jack ‘25 and Eliza ‘21

During Gow vacations, students generally catch up on their sleep, and enjoy friends and family. Some might visit their old schools to talk about Gow or return to their previous summer job to earn some cash, but most just take a welldeserved opportunity to relax and recharge. While many Govians were sleeping in, Jack Gazzard ’25 was working at a Bermuda grocery store to raise money for a special cause.

The South Wales Fire Company and Gow share a special relationship.

When the fire siren sounds, faculty and staff who serve as volunteers can be seen sprinting down Emery Road to the fire hall. Along with these Jack attended The Gow School Summer Program for three summers volunteers, each year four students are chosen to and joined The Gow School as a sixth grader in 2018. Last summer, Jack serve as Junior Firefighters. Selected by the fire wanted to earn some extra money so got a summer job at a local grocery company, these students attend meetings and assist store. In Bermuda, children ages 13-16 can pack groceries and earn tip the adult firefighters and rescuers on firecalls. Over money. the past twenty-five years, about forty Govians have

participated in this program.

For the past two holiday seasons, Jack and his family have supported the Toy for Tots campagin, and Jack had selected toys for the charity. This For the first time ever one of Gow’s female students, year, Jack decided to donate one day of earnings and tips from his job at Eliza Letourneau ‘21, a junior from Stillwater, MN, has the grocery store to Toys for Tots. To help encourage Jack and increase his been chosen as a Junior Firefighter and was inducted donation, Jacks parents, David, Jen and Dorothy agreed to match Jack’s on December 9. Eliza applied to become a junior earnings. firefighter after two of her friends, Thaddeus ’21 and Kieran ’21 told her about their experience. Both have After a seven-hour workday wearing a shirt that said, “I’m packing for been members of the fire company for the past year.

Toys for Tots” Jack earned $255. People started sharing Jack’s story on social media, and soon more were looking for ways to donate. When his We are so proud of Eliza and hope she is just the first tip money, online contributions, and parent’s matching gifts were totalled, of many female students to become South Wales Jack raised $920 for Toys for Tots.

Junior Firefighters!

Jack took his hard-earned money to the toy store and filled a giant cart with toys, soccer balls, dolls, and stuffed animals. His dad said “As you can imagine, we are very proud of Jack for all his hard work at Gow and for all his efforts in his native Bermuda.” We couldn’t agree more. Way to go Jack! Pictured: Jack and his dad David.

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Pictured: Eliza and her dad Todd at Parents Weekend.

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Brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, dads, twins...

FAMILY

TIES AT GOW!

Through the years, Gow has had legacies - lots of them! This year we have sons and daughters whose fathers have attended Gow, and siblings, including three sets of twins and several who are at Gow together now, and some who have older siblings who recently graduated. Legacies are an important part of our Gow tradition.

TWINS - three sets

Jared Bailey and Joel Bailey Jared - History Teacher, Joel - Spanish Teacher

Hunter & Harrison Hanley ‘23

John & James Murch ‘23

SIBLINGS CURRENTLY AT GOW - six sets

Marc ‘23 & Luc ‘20 Burris

James ‘23 & Caroline ‘25 Brooke Oscar ‘23 & Otto ‘20 Pleakis Josh ‘22 & Annika ‘25 Sivertsen

Katerina ‘24 & Matheos ‘20 Simantirakis

Trek ‘21 & Oksana ‘21 Wilday

ALUMNI WITH SIBLINGS ATTENDING GOW - seven sets

Zachary Brois ‘22 Max Carrier ‘20 Edward Cotter ‘23 Kieren Foggon ‘21 Gennie King ‘20 Oksana Wilday ‘21 Trek Wilday ‘21 Brandon Brois ‘16 Tristan Carrier ‘19 Andrew Cotter ‘19 Kyle Suriner ‘15 Katherine King ‘18 Courtney Wilday ‘17

CHILDREN OF ALUMNI - 6 sets

Riley Brereton ‘21 Mark Brereton ‘91

Max ‘20 & Tristan ‘19 Carrier Tristan Carrier ‘90

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Ian Chapman ‘25 Chris Chapman ‘91

Edward ‘23 & Andrew ‘19 Cotter John ‘23 & James ‘23 Murch Doug Cotter ‘87 Creighton Murch ‘63

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Charlie Peterson ‘21 Alan Peterson ‘87

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PURCHASE SOMETHING FUN for GOW’S WISHLIST

This list contains items which will benefit students and teachers in their classrooms and dorms. If you wish to make a donation to purchase items on the Wishlist, can help us buy items at a reduced price, or want to donate money to the general Wishlist fund, please contact the Development Office at development@gow.org or call 716.687.2075.

We will recognize your generosity with a plaque (when appropriate) and in our Annual Report. Thank you!

Item Description Department/Area # needed Cost

Rebel camera with lens, tripod, flash Applied Technology 1 $700 Light Table for drawing class Art Department 1 $4,200

Tennis Courts (price each) Athletics 3 $75,000 Crew Boat (four-person) Athletics 1 $25,000 Computer and Monitor for Trackman Golf Analyzer Athletics 1 $7,000 Smith machine (assisted squat rack and bench press) - Athletics 1 $3,000 Golf Analyzer computer Athletics 1 $2,000 Spinning bikes (price per bike) Athletics 8 $2,000 Board of Champions Plaque for Wrestling Team Athletics 1 $500 Stationary rollers for indoor cycling Athletics 1 $500 Garmin Forerunner 235 Watches (for Cross Country Team) Athletics 9 $250 Pop-up Tents for the scoring tables Athletics 1 $250 Weight room 45lb weight plates Athletics 10 $50 each 45lb bumper weight plates 6 $100 each Plate Tree Storage Rack 4 $75 each 6ft Olympic barbells 2 $230 each

Automated External Defibrillator (AED) for Green Dorm Health Office 1 $1,295

Map of Europe - large scale map with brackets and rollers History Department 1 $200 TI-84 Plus Plus CE EZ-Spot Graphing Calculators (Pack of 10)

Math Department

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$1,400 pack

Math class games (BreakoutEDU Kits)

Classroom Active Chairs (for students who fidget)

Math Department

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$150

Middle School Classroom

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$120 each

Multi-Touch Music Production Console

Music Department

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$1,000

Microscope with transmitted and reflected polarizer

Paleontology Club

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$2,000

Kindle E-Reader (high resolution display)

PASCO “Shoot The Target” demonstration

Reconstructive Language

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$120

Science Department

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$400

MarkForged 3D Printer to make carbon fiber infused parts Atlas NBK8 Chuck (CNC Machine part that holds round stock) Vex IQ Superkit (800 robotics components, motors, sensors etc.)

Robotics Technology Robotics Technology Robotics Technology

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$17,000 $2,000 $400

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An Update from

The Gow Alumni Association

The Gow Alumni Association wants to offer more networking and engagement opportunities for alumni, parents and current students. There is nothing better than getting Govians together!

An Alumni Association leadership team has been created and is meeting monthly by conference call. Comprised of alumni from different eras, they are working to create a more robust alumni program with several key focus areas.

KEY INITIATIVES:

Expanding regional alumni networking opportunities • Coordinate local events for alumni, current and past parents and families who might be interested in Gow. • Provide internship opportunities and networking with current students.

• Coordinate a local event for new students and their families before school starts so they get to know each other.

Promoting alumni giving to Gow’s Annual Fund • Encourage class agents to contact classmates to encourage them to give.

• Promote competition between classes to raise the percentage of giving.

Networking with current students • Coordinate Career Days on campus.

• Alumni attending sporting events with recent students (for example, the Buffalo Bills/Ravens game with a student tailgate beforehand).

• Alumni campus visits to talk about college and career.

Engaging young alumni • Plan local events just for young alumni (sporting events, networking opportunities).

• Let us know what you’d like to do!

Promoting the Dan Kelley Scholarship Fund This unique fund provides scholarships for the children of Gow alumni to attend Gow’s academic year or summer programs. We want to raise an additional $40,000 for this fund.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Volunteer to be a class representative for your class The Development Office will send you a list of your classmates so you can send email or call and connect. Share updated news and address and email changes so we can update the database and include classmate news in an upcoming edition of Gow Life.

Help coordinate an event in your home area Suggest a fun meeting spot or upcoming event. The Development Office will be happy to send invitations and to attend if possible.

Share your news!

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Jonathon Gutkind ‘01, Co-president - Jonathon.gutkind@fmglobal.com Eric Halls ‘82 - eric.c.halls@gmail.com Adam Kendrick ‘04 - kendrija@gmail.com Matt Kleinberg ‘07 - mattk@mkda.com Paul Kohan ‘07 - pwkohan@me.com Weston Lorenz ‘90 - wlorenz@gmail.com Izer Martinez ‘13 - izermartinez@gmail.com Elizabeth Raiff ‘17 - eraiff@ithaca.edu Chip Wilkinson ‘87, Co-president - chipw@yoshimotopower.com Pictured top to bottom: Gow Alumni and Parent events in Stamford, CT; Portland, OR; Philadelphia, PA; Cleveland, OH; students, alumni and former faculty at the Bills/Ravens game; and dinner in Frederick, MD.

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2018-19 Annual Report on Philantropy The Gow School is grateful for the gifts made by the following individuals, corporations and foundations that support the Annual Fund, scholarships, program enhancements, experiential learning opportunties, techology and other enhancements that benefit Gow’s students and faculty. The list of donors reflects gifts received and recorded between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. Should you notice any errors or omissions, please accept our apologies and notify the Development Office at 716.687.2075 so we can correct our records.

Key: @ = Gow Family 2018-19 Academic Year + = Gow School Trustee # = Gow faculty or staff member * = Donation made through The Friends of The Gow School Canadian Foundation

Thank you to these donors for their restricted and unrestricted gifts to Gow. Total Gifts over $50,000 +

The Estate of George McKay Reid ‘43 The Estate of Mrs. Katherine Vail

Total Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999

Anonymous Ed Co of WNY Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Englander @ Mr. Creighton B. Murch ‘63 & Ms. Janice Smith + @ The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation Mr. Christopher Wilk & Ms. Christine Standish +

Total Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999

Dyslexia Tutoring Program Inc Dr. Geoffrey W. Grant '60 & Mrs. Sue Grant Mr. & Mrs. Graeme C. Hepburn ‘84 + * Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Ibbotson ‘80 + * Mrs. Anne Moot Open Doors of Asheville NC Mrs. Dorothy H. Owen Mr. & Mrs. Ned Purtell Estate of J. Trumbull Rogers ‘57 Daniel & Lynne Scepkowski Dr. & Dr. Emmanuel Simantirakis @ * Mr. & Mrs. Jay S. Stevens IV ‘90 Mr. & Mrs. David Underdown Jr. ‘61 Mr. Roger W. Warren * Ms. Laura Zaepfel @

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999

Mr. & Mrs. Al R. Chircop + Mr. & Mrs. Tim Frawley @ Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gutkind Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Kopp @ Mr. & Mrs. Paul Loeffel @ M&T Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. A. Douglas McCallum * Mr. and Mrs. John McCallum ‘92 * The Murch Foundation Ms. Marianne Pfeil-Schneider

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Mr. Lowell G. Powers Jr. ‘59 + Small Boarding School Association Mr. and Mrs. Isaac C. Van Meter ‘69 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Van Meter ‘74 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weinewuth @

Total Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999

Mr. & Mrs. Thaddeus Alper @ Mr. Christopher Arzoomanian Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brusco @ Mr. & Mrs. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 + Mr. Martin Elias Mr. & Mrs. Alan Fisch @ Mr. & Mrs. James M. Grenauer ‘55 Grenauer Associates Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hepburn ‘82 * Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Hodder ‘82 Mr. Jay Mandarino '79 & Ms. Lorena Urrutia * The Mosey Family Foundation Mr. Oliver Murray * Mr. & Mrs. Paul I. Ragheb ‘89 Mr. & Mrs. Alton Schadt Mr. & Mrs. Dimitrios Vamvakitis @ Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Jr. ‘64 + The Simms Family Foundation

Total Gifts of $1,000 -$2,499

Anonymous Mr. Edward Abahoonie & Ms. Pamela Furth @ Mr. & Mrs. Samuel B. Adams ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Badders @ Mr. & Mrs. Frederick F. Bernard ‘60 Mr. Jacques Bernier & Ms. Lynn Bilodeau + * Mr. & Mrs. James M. Binger ‘57 Ms. Karen Bissonnette Mr. Michael M. Boeschenstein Ms. Lisa Domenico Brooke @ Mr. & Mrs. Art Brown @ Mr. Stephen M. Bryan ‘65 Mr. & Mrs. H. Glen Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 @ # Mr. & Mrs. David C. Coulson + Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Craig @ Mr. Jose Cuesta & Ms. Nora Garza @

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Mr. & Mrs. Lowell B. Dana Mr. & Mrs. Robert Denning @ Mr. Mark Diarbakerly & Ms. Regina Pusantian Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Eakin Mr. & Mrs. John D. Ellsworth Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Evans ‘62 Mr. & Mrs. Mark Farber Mr. & Mrs. Scott Follett @ Mr. Charles Fontana & Ms. Jennifer Johnson @ The William & Harriet Gould Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Eric Halet @ Ms. Carole Hall * Dr. & Mrs. Aubrey C. Hall Jr. The Henry family @ Ms. Marcelle Hinand @ Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Huffman @ Mr. & Mrs. David Hunter @ Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hutton # Mr. Robert W. Ittmann ‘62 & Ms. Lila Lohr + Mr. & Mrs. Masamune Izumi @ Mr. & Mrs. Dean H. Jewett ‘61 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin J. Jordan ‘88 Mr. Peter Kellner & Ms. Tamara C. Baker + Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Knight ‘70 + Mr. & Mrs. K. Peter Knudsen ‘59 Mrs. Stephanie Koven Mr. & Mrs. Edward Krause Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ladurini @ Mr. & Mrs. John W. Lainhart IV Mr. Donald W. Lewtas & Ms. Barbara Mitton * Mr. Yong Ming Li & Ms. Yi Lin Dr. Laurie Loevner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Luby ‘00 Ms. Kim Lusk @ Ms. Linda Lusk @ Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Maier Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Manice ‘71 Mr. & Mrs. Carl Montante @ Morgan Stanley Foundation Ms. Lynn Nesbitt Dr. Scott Nord & Dr. Phyllis Parcella Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Packham Mr. Arthur Partridge

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Donor Appreciation Report 2018-19 Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Payne @ Mr. Russell D. Pearlman ‘79 Mrs. Tina Peter Mr. John B. Pomeroy ‘71 Mrs. Jane Pursell Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rawe, Jr. @ Dan & Wendy Reininga + Mrs. Marianne Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sabol Jr. Mr. Robert E. Scanlon & Ms. Carol A. Neville Mr. & Mrs. Lowell E. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Chris Shea @ Mr. & Mrs. Walton A. Silver ‘67 Mr. and Mrs. Todd Smith ‘86 * Mr. Jeffrey D. Spoon '65 & Ms. Terri Ginsberg Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stoutenberg @ Mr. & Mrs. William Strong @ Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Tylock '79 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Uliana + Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Vail '68 + Mr. & Mrs. Everett D. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey M. White Mr. & Mrs. Ward Wilday @ + Mr. David R. Woodside ‘64 Mr. Po-Chun Chen & Yuyi Yang @ Mr. Tom Xie & Ms. Betty Yeung @

Total Gifts of $500 - $999

Anonymous @ Mr. & Mrs. Tom Acquaviva @ Alberta Properties Mr. & Mrs. T. William Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Bennett '84 Mr. Tyler D. Bischoff '11 Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel R. Bowditch ‘50 Buffalo Harley-Davidson, Inc. + Mr. Clive T. Caldwell * Mr. O'Neil Hamilton & Pamela Coke-Hamilton @ Mr. & Mrs. Walter Constantine III ‘94 Mr. James A. Corwin '57 & Ms. Ann Baumgartner Mr. & Mrs. Lowell L. Dexter ‘64 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Drechsler @ Mr. & Mrs. Randy Fach Mr. Chris D. Fontana ‘88 Dr. Michele Frech @ Mr. & Mrs. Alan S. Freemond, Jr. '82 The Giallanza Foundation Dr. & Mrs. David W. Gow Jr. + Mr. & Mrs. Masaaki Hara @ Mr. Zachary P. Harra ‘00 Hodgson Russ Attorneys Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Howe Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Huffman @ Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Junger Ms. Lynn Kenney Mr. & Mrs. Michael King Dr. William Klykylo & Dr. Dorothyann Feldis Mr. Paul W. Kohan ‘07 + Dr. & Mrs. William A. Kutner Jr. Mr. Scott & Ms. Julia M. McGuigan @ Mr. William McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Minis ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Mohney Moog, Inc. Mr. & Dr. Thomas Mulligan @ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Obletz Mr. & Mrs. Erik O'Neill @

Mr. & Mrs. Craig Polston Mr. & Mrs. John Pulvermann Jr. ‘64 Mr. & Mrs. John Reuter Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Richards III @ Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Ross +

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Mr. & Mrs. William M. Sharp ‘60 Mr. & Mrs. William Shea @ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Sippel ‘83 Mr. David B. Theobald Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Willey @ Mr. Brian Wood @ Mr. and Mrs. Mike Young @

Total Gifts of $250-$499

Mr. & Mrs. Laren Addabbo Amazon Smile Mr. & Mrs. Harold Armington @ Mr. & Mrs. George Arnett III Dr. Michael Bates & Ms. Lorrie Bowen Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Beardwood @ Mr. & Mrs. Ted Briggs Mrs. Elizabeth Brooke @ Mr. & Mrs. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 + Mr. Jonathan Cowles ‘87 & Dr. Josefa Apigo-Cowles Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Cridlebaugh III ‘88 Mr. Liam A. Devine ‘84 Mr. Samuel J. Diarbakerly ‘11 Mr. Timothy S. Doherty ‘85 & Ms. Leslie Eckel Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Doyle Ms. Lindsey Ford Mr. Thomas K. Hart Jr. ‘90 Mr. & Mrs. Greg Henzler Mr. & Mrs. Phil Hesley @ Mr. & Mrs. Carl H. Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Masamune Izumi @ Mr. & Mrs. Jim Kaufmann # Mr. & Mrs. Aaron M. Krause ‘00 Mr. Jack Kuhn & Mrs. Terry Smith @ Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas S. Kurten ‘56 Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Mahler Mr. & Mrs. Matt McCroary Mr. Vincent Merry @ Ms. Karan Merry @ Mr. Edward R. Morris ‘66 New York Life Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Parker Mr. & Mrs. James Perry Mrs. Alexandra Peters Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Price Ms. Halila Reisdorf # Mr. & Mrs. M. Bradley Rogers Jr. # Mr. & Mrs. Peter Scocchi Mr. & Mrs. David Strobel @ Dr. & Mrs. Bradley K. Vaughn Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Lambros Vlahos @ Wells Fargo Foundation

Total Gifts of $100-$249

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. L. Talbot Adamson Mr. Thomas Alcamo Mr. & Mrs. Dent Allison Mr. & Mrs. William Andrews @ Mr. Jared Bailey # Mr. Adam Balinsky & Ms. Tracey Aaron @ Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Bamann # Mrs. Zandy Barrett Mr. & Mrs. E. Daniel Bittle Jr. Mr. Carlos Boggio and Ms. Ana Matallana @ Mrs. Donna O. Border Mr. Adam C. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Lansing G. Brisbin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Brisbin '81 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Brown # Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brunner Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Bryant '66

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Mr. & Mrs. Marc Buckley @ Ms. Kathleen Campbell Davis Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Campbell Ms. Jacqueline Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Capaldi Dr. Patricia Ceperley Mr. Drew R. Ceperley '89 & Ms. Amy Morris Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay Clark '73 Rev. & Mrs. John W. Cole II '84 Mr. Kevin A. Cotter '85 & Ms. Susan Hanifin Mrs. Wendy Cowles Mr. Ken Boss & Betsey Dechert-Boss Mr. DaMar Dowell # Mr. & Mrs. John Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. David A. Eckrich # Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Erickson '62 Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Fenn Ms. Cynthia Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Fisher # # Mr. David N. Fletcher '75 Mrs. Rose Marie Fontana @ Mr. James Garvey & Ms. Allison Rath Garvey @ Mr. & Mrs. William Giardini Mr. Jeffery P. Gordon '73 Ms. Melissa Greeson # Ms. Madolyn Greve Mr. & Mrs. Roderick L. Griffis '45 Mrs. Amy J. Habib Mr. Joseph C. Hallowell '66 Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Harris '49 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur V. Hartwell '48 Mr. Raymond C. Hauschel '63 & Ms. Barbara J. Ahrens Mrs. Helen J. Heller Mr. Drew Hendley '91 Mr. & Ms. Steven Hesley @ Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Hiel Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Higgins Mr. David F. Howard '43 Kenneth Howe Funeral Home i-WorldFundraising Dr. & Mrs. George Janofsky Mr. & Mrs. K. Carson Jones '92 + Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Joyce ‘75 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Kearns Dr. Kathleen Keenan-Takagi Mr. John A. Kendrick ‘04 Dr. and Dr. Marc Klementowski Mr. Jeffrey B. Kling ‘09 Mr. Thomas A. Kolp Mr. Willard Korfhage and Ms. Haruko Shino Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kulla Mr. Gail P. Langenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Jon Langenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Brad LaRocca Mr. Henry C. Lee ‘56 Mrs. Hilkka Leone Mr. Gordon Lusk and Ms. Ginger Goodell @ Mrs. Irene Mackenroth Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Massey ‘01 Mr. and Mrs. Brooks F. McCabe, Jr. ‘66 Ms. Catharine S. Mehl Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Miller @ Mrs. Martha Moore Mr. Robert E. Morgan ‘71 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Napier Network For Good Niagara Custodial Supply Mr. Jonathan W. Oakleaf '67 Mr. & Mrs. Adam R. Oberkircher '83 Mr. & Mrs. Andy Olis Dr. Theodore Paisley

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Donor Appreciation Report 2018-19 Ms. Brenda Peeples Mr. & Mrs. James Podyma Mr. & Mrs. Bradley W. Rausch '95 # # Mr. & Mrs. Jack Regan @ Dr. Mari Jo Renick # Dr. Kirk Rhodes # Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Rosser Mr. &nMrs. Luke D. Salerno # Mr. & Mrs. Jason Schofield @ Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schutrum Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Seifert '65 Mr. & Mrs. J. Snowden Stanley, Jr. @ Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sweet Mr. & Mrs. Mark Szafnicki # Mr. & Mrs. Matthew C. Thompson '83 Mr. & Mrs. Rick Thompson '72 Ms. Katie Tierney # Mr. & Mrs. Walter C. Tyler United Healthcare Group Dr. Kathleen M. Wahler Mr. & Mrs. William S. Wallace '74 Mr. & Mrs. William Wangelin Mrs. Anne D. Whitelaw Mrs. Minette Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Wilkinson '87 Mr. & Mrs. Russ Williams @ Ms. Karen Wilson @ Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wysocki # Mr. & Mrs. David W. Yates '71 Mrs. Barbara Young @ Mr. Greg Zaepfel @

Mr. Stephen Maloney Mr. Robin Marshman & Ms. Jennifer Cannon # # Mr. Izer I. T. Martinez '13 Melaleuca, The Wellness Company Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Mohney Mr. James Murray '19 @ Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Paone Mr. & Mrs. William Parsons # Mr. & Mrs. William F. Patterson Ms. Kate Piazza # Mr. Jeff Poblocki # Judge & Mrs. John C. Reed Mrs. Amy Renaldo # Mr. Jonathan M. Siegel '79 Mr. & Mrs. John D. Simms, III '02 # Mr. Brian Smyth Mr. & Mrs. Bruce F. Spenner Mr. & Mrs. Brian Spink # Mr. David A. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Ashfaq Syed Mr. Brian Thompson # Mr. John C. Tompkins Jr. '02 United Educators Insurance Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zeis # Mr. & Mrs. Edward B. Ziff Mr. & Mrs. Brian Zolet # #

CLASS OF 2019 SENIOR GIFT

Funds provided for a wonderful new firepit and patio by the Weston Dining Hall.

Total Gifts of up to $99

Anonymous # # Mr. Adriano J. Asperti '10 Mr. Joel Bailey # Mr. William H. Beardwood '19 @ Mr. & Mrs. William J. Buckley Mr. Henry T. Cadwalader '05 Mr. Ronald M. Capone '14 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cendrowski # Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Chafin # # Mr. Kevin M. Challberg '07 Mr. & Mrs. Tom Corson Mr. Andrew Cotter '19 @ Mr. Gordon D. Diamond '17 Mr. Robert Diamond & Ms. Joanne Sleigh Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Diehl # Mr. Daniel Dietz # Mr. & Mrs. Meredyth H. Ewing Jr. '60 Ms. Kathy Faltyn # Dr. Joan Finucci Ms. Renata Ford Mr. & Mrs. Peter Frenzel, III '54 Ms. Janet Ganje Mr. Howard J. Glassman Mrs. Lori Gordon Mr. Rick Hausauer & Ms. Heidi Baust # # Mrs. Debbie Hinman # Mr. & Mrs. Neil D. Howe '91 # Mrs. Jane Howland Mrs. Karen Hudson Mr. Kenneth Hochman & Ms. Pamela Hutto Mr. Michael A. Johnson '07 Mr. Tom Jolls # Mr. & Mrs. Bern Kelly '82 Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Kern Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Klykylo '05 Mrs. Mary Kulpa # Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Lipp '65 Mr. David P. Maier '92 & Ms. Katherine Kolstee #

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Mr. Edward Abahoonie and Ms. Pamela Furth Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Alper Mr. and Mrs. Harold Armington Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Badders Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Beardwood Mr. William H. Beardwood ‘19 Mr. Andrew Cotter ‘19 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 Mr. Jose Cuesta and Ms. Nora Garza Mr. James Garvey and Ms. Allison Rath Garvey Mr. and Mrs. Eric Halet Mr. O’Neil Hamilton and Pamela Coke-Hamilton Ms. Marcelle Hinand Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huffman Mr. and Mrs. David Hunter Mr. Jack Kuhn and Mrs. Terry Smith Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ladurini Mr. and Mrs. Paul Loeffel Ms. Karan Merry Mr. Vincent Merry Mr. Yong Ming Li and Ms. Yi Lin Mr. and Mrs. Carl Montante Mr. James Murray ‘19 Mrs. Alexandra Peters Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Richards III Mr. and Mrs. Lambros Vlahos Ms. Karen Wilson Mr. Tom Xie and Ms. Betty Yeung Mr. Greg Zaepfel Ms. Laura Zaepfel

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GIFTS MADE IN HONOR OF Mr. Talbot Adamson ‘85 Mr. Jacob Balinsky ‘21 Mr. Arrington Brown ‘23 Mr. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 Mr. Ryan Doyle ‘01 Dr. Ronald McMahon Mr. Steven Lars Greve ‘08 Mr. Hunter Haslett ‘21 Mr. Marshall C. McDorman Ms. Jenna Rosser ‘18 Mr. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 Bobby and Howard Gardner Mr. David Charles White ‘10 Ms. Katherine Elizabeth King ‘18 Ms. Genevieve Michelle King ‘20

GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY OF

Mr. Eugene C. Coan ‘42 Mr. David W. Gow ‘41 Mr. David Boardman Owen ‘36 Mr. Fred Schadt ‘88 Mr. Paul Wahler

FACULTY and STAFF DONORS

Anonymous Mr. Jared Bailey Mr. Joel Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Bamann Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cendrowski Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Chafin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Diehl Mr. Daniel Dietz Mr. DaMar Dowell Ms. Kathy Faltyn Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fisher Ms. Melissa Greeson Mr. Rick Hausauer & Ms. Heidi Baust Mrs. Debbie Hinman Mr. & Mrs. Neil D. Howe ‘91 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hutton Mr. Tom Jolls Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kaufmann Mrs. Mary Kulpa Mr. David P. Maier ‘92 and Ms. Katherine Kolstee Mr. and Mrs. William Parsons Ms. Kate Piazza Mr. Jeff Poblocki Mr. and Mrs. Bradley W. Rausch ‘95 Ms. Halila Reisdorf Mrs. Amy Renaldo Dr. Mari Jo Renick Dr. Kirk Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Rogers Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Luke D. Salerno Mr. and Mrs. Brian Spink Mr. and Mrs. Mark Szafnicki Mr. Brian Thompson Ms. Katie Tierney Mr. and Mrs. Wysocki Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Zeis Mr. and Mrs. Brian Zolet

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These unrestricted gifts enable Gow to directly support student learning, faculty initiatives, and support opportunities and challenges that arise.

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Tom Acquaviva Mr. & Mrs. Samuel B. Adams ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. L. Talbot Adamson Mr. & Mrs. Laren Addabbo Alberta Properties Mr. Thomas Alcamo Mr. & Mrs. T. William Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Dent Allison Amazon Smile Mr. & Mrs. William Andrews Mr. & Mrs. Harold Armington Mr. & Mrs. George Arnett III Mr. Christopher Arzoomanian Mr. Adriano J. Asperti ‘10 Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Badders Mr. Jared Bailey Mr. Joel Bailey Mr. Adam Balinsky & Ms. Tracey Aaron Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Bamann Mrs. Zandy Barrett Dr. Michael Bates & Ms. Lorrie Bowen Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Bennett ‘84 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick F. Bernard ‘60 Mr. Jacques Bernier & Ms. Lynn Bilodeau Mr. & Mrs. James M. Binger ‘57 Mr. Tyler D. Bischoff ‘11 Ms. Karen Bissonnette Mr. & Mrs. E. Daniel Bittle Jr. Mr. Michael M. Boeschenstein Mrs. Donna O. Border Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel R. Bowditch ‘50 Mr. Adam C. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Ted Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Lansing G. Brisbin Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooke Mr. & Mrs. Art Brown Mr. & Mrs. Charles Brown Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brunner Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brusco Mr. Stephen M. Bryan ‘65 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Bryant ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Marc Buckley Buffalo Harley-Davidson, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 Mr. Henry T. Cadwalader ‘05 Mr. Clive T. Caldwell Ms. Kathleen Campbell Davis Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Capaldi Mr. Ronald M. Capone ‘14 Mrs. Barbara Casey Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cendrowski Dr. Patricia Ceperley Mr. Drew R. Ceperley ‘89 & Ms. Amy Morris

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Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Chafin Mr. Kevin M. Challberg ‘07 Mr. & Mrs. Al R. Chircop Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay Clark ‘73 Mr. & Mrs. H. Glen Clarke Mr. O’Neil Hamilton & Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Walter Constantine III, ‘94 Mr. & Mrs. Tom Corson Mr. James Corwin ‘57 & Ms. Ann Baumgartner Mr. Kevin A. Cotter ‘85 & Ms. Susan Hanifin Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 Mr. & Mrs. David C. Coulson Mrs. Wendy Cowles Mr. Jonathan Cowles ‘87 & Dr. Josefa Apigo-Cowles Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Craig Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Cridlebaugh III ‘88 Mr. & Mrs. Lowell B. Dana Mr. Ken Boss & Betsey Dechert-Boss Mr. & Mrs. Robert Denning Mr. Liam A. Devine ‘84 Mr. & Mrs. Lowell L. Dexter ‘64 Mr. Gordon D. Diamond ‘17 Mr. Mark Diarbakerly & Ms. Regina Pusantian Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Diehl Mr. Daniel Dietz Mr. Timothy S. Doherty ‘85 & Ms. Leslie Eckel Mr. DaMar Dowell Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Doyle Mr. & Mrs. Paul Drechsler Mr. & Mrs. John Driscoll Mr. William Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Eakin Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Easterly Mr. & Mrs. David A. Eckrich Mr. Martin Elias Mr. & Mrs. John D. Ellsworth Empire Building Diagnostics, Inc Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Englander Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Erickson ‘62 Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Evans ‘62 Mr. & Mrs. Meredyth H. Ewing Jr. ‘60 Mr. & Mrs. Randy Fach Mr. & Mrs. Mark Farber Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Fenn Dr. Joan Finucci Mr. & Mrs. Alan Fisch Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Fisher Mr. David N. Fletcher ‘75 Mr. & Mrs. Scott Follett Mr. Charles Fontana & Ms. Jennifer Johnson Mrs. Rose Marie Fontana Mr. Chris D. Fontana ‘88 Ms. Lindsey Ford Ms. Renata Ford Mr. & Mrs. Tim Frawley Dr. Michele Frech Mr. & Mrs. Alan S. Freemond, Jr. ‘82 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Frenzel, III ‘54 Mr. James Garvey & Ms. Allison Rath Garvey The Giallanza Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William Giardini Mr. Howard J. Glassman Mr. Jeffery P. Gordon ‘73 The William & Harriet Gould Foundation Dr. & Mrs. David W. Gow Jr. Ms. Melissa Greeson Mr. & Dr. David Greminger Mr. & Mrs. Roderick L. Griffis ‘45 Mrs. Amy J. Habib Ms. Carole Hall

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Dr. & Mrs. Aubrey C. Hall Jr. Mr. Joseph C. Hallowell ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Masaaki Hara Mr. Zachary P. Harra ‘00 Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Harris ‘49 Mr. Thomas K. Hart Jr. ‘90 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur V. Hartwell ‘48 Mr. Rick Hausauer & Ms. Heidi Baust Mr. Raymond Hauschel ‘63 & Mrs. Barbara Ahrens Mrs. Helen J. Heller Mr. Drew Hendley ‘91 Mr. & Dr. Robert Henry Mr. & Mrs. Greg Henzler Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Higgins Ms. Marcelle Hinand Mrs. Debbie Hinman Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Hodder ‘82 Hodgson Russ Attorneys Mr. David F. Howard ‘43 Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Howe Mr. & Mrs. Neil D. Howe ‘91 Mrs. Jane Howland Mrs. Karen Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Huffman Mr. & Mrs. David Hunter Hurwitz & Fine, P.C. Mr. Kenneth Hochman & Ms. Pamela Hutto Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hutton Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Ibbotson ‘80 Mr. Robert W. Ittmann ‘62 & Ms. Lila Lohr i-WorldFundraising Mr. & Mrs. Masamune Izumi Dr. & Mrs. George Janofsky Mr. & Mrs. Dean H. Jewett ‘61 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Johnson Mr. Michael A. Johnson ‘07 Mr. Tom Jolls Mr. & Mrs. K. Carson Jones ‘92 Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin J. Jordan ‘88 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Joyce ‘75 Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Junger Mr. & Mrs. Jim Kaufmann Mr. & Mrs. Jim Kaufmann Mr. & Mrs. John T. Kearns Dr. Kathleen Keenan-Takagi Mr. Kade R. Keesee ‘17 Mr. Peter Kellner & Ms. Tamara C. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Bern Kelly ‘82 Mr. John A. Kendrick ‘04 Ms. Lynn Kenney Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Kern Dr. & Dr. Marc Klementowski Mr. Jeffrey B. Kling ‘09 Dr. William Klykylo & Dr. Dorothyann Feldis Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Klykylo ‘05 Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Knight ‘70 Mr. & Mrs. K. Peter Knudsen ‘59 Mr. Paul W. Kohan ‘07 Mr. Thomas A. Kolp Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Kopp Mr. Willard Korfhage & Ms. Haruko Shino Mrs. Stephanie Koven Mr. & Mrs. Aaron M. Krause ‘00 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Krause Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Kulla Mrs. Mary Kulpa Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas S. Kurten ‘56 Dr. & Mrs. William A. Kutner Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ladurini Mr. & Mrs. John W. Lainhart IV Lands End Inc Mr. Gail P. Langenfeld

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Mr. & Mrs. Jon Langenfeld Dr. Max Miranda & Ms. Laurie Laqualia Dr. & Mrs. Brad LaRocca Mr. Henry C. Lee ‘56 Mrs. Hilkka Leone Mr. & Mrs. Todd Letourneau Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Lipp ‘65 Dr. Laurie Loevner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Luby ‘00 Ms. Kim Lusk Ms. Linda Lusk Mrs. Irene Mackenroth Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Maier Mr. David P. Maier ‘92 & Ms. Katherine Kolstee Mr. Robin Marshman & Ms. Jennifer Cannon Mr. Izer I. T. Martinez ‘13 Mr. Carlos Boggio & Ms. Ana Matallana May Avenue, Inc Mr. & Mrs. Brooks F. McCabe, Jr. ‘66 Mr. William McIntosh Ms. Catharine S. Mehl Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Miller Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Minis ‘66 Mrs. Martha Moore Mr. Robert E. Morgan ‘71 Morgan Stanley Foundation Mrs. Deebe Mosey Mr. & Dr. Thomas Mulligan Mr. Creighton B. Murch ‘63 & Ms. Janice A. Smith The Murch Foundation Niagara Custodial Supply Mr. & Mrs. Paul Napier Ms. Lynn Nesbitt Network For Good New York Life Dr. Scott Nord & Dr. Phyllis Parcella Mr. Jonathan W. Oakleaf ‘67 Mr. & Mrs. Adam R. Oberkircher ‘83 Mr. & Mrs. Marty O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. &y Olis Mr. & Mrs. Erik O’Neill Mrs. Dorothy H. Owen Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Packham Dr. Theodore Paisley Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Parker Mr. & Mrs. William Parsons Mr. Arthur Partridge Mr. & Mrs. William F. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Payne Mr. Russell D. Pearlman ‘79 Mr. & Mrs. James Perry Mrs. Tina Peter Ms. Kate Piazza Mr. & Mrs. Steve Pleakis Mr. Jeff Poblocki Mr. & Mrs. James Podyma

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Mr. John B. Pomeroy ‘71 Mr. Lowell G. Powers Jr. ‘59 Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Price Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pulvermann Jr. ‘64 Mr. & Mrs. Paul I. Ragheb ‘89 Mr. & Mrs. Bradley W. Rausch ‘95 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rawe, Jr. Judge & Mrs. John C. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Jack Regan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Reininga Ms. Halila Reisdorf Mrs. Amy Renaldo Dr. Mari Jo Renick Mr. & Mrs. John Reuter Dr. Kirk Rhodes Mrs. Marianne Rogers Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Rogers Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Ross Dr. Sheryl Russell & Ms. Julie Patino Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sabol Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Luke D. Salerno Mr. Robert E. Scanlon & Ms. Carol A. Neville Mr. & Mrs. Jason Schofield Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schutrum Mr. & Mrs. Peter Scocchi Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Seifert ‘65 Mr. & Mrs. William M. Sharp ‘60 Mr. & Mrs. Lowell E. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Chris Shea Mr. & Mrs. William Shea Mr. Jonathan M. Siegel ‘79 Mr. & Mrs. Walton A. Silver ‘67 Dr. & Dr. Emmanuel Simantirakis Mr. & Mrs. John D. Simms, III ‘02 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Sippel ‘83 Small Boarding School Association Mr. Brian Smyth Mr. & Mrs. Bruce F. Spenner Mr. & Mrs. Brian Spink Mr. & Mrs. James S. Spitzley ‘63 Mr. Jeffrey D. Spoon ‘65 & Ms. Terri Ginsberg Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Stebbins ‘56 Mr. Adam Steinberg ‘86 & Mrs. Tracy Beckett Mr. David A. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stoutenberg Mr. & Mrs. David Strobel Mr. & Mrs. William Strong Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sweet Mr. & Mrs. Ashfaq Syed Mr. & Mrs. Mark Szafnicki Mr. David B. Theobald Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Matthew C. Thompson ‘83 Mr. Brian Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Rick Thompson ‘72 Ms. Katie Tierney Mr. & Mrs. John C. Tompkins Jr. ‘02 Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Tylock ‘79

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Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Uliana United Educators Insurance UnitedHealthcare Group Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Vail ‘68 Mr. & Mrs. Dimitrios Vamvakitis Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Van Meter ‘69 Mr. and Mrs. John Van Meter ‘74 Dr. & Mrs. Bradley K. Vaughn Sr. Mr. Gabriel Viti Dr. Kathleen M. Wahler Mr. & Mrs. William S. Wallace ‘74 Mr. & Mrs. William Wangelin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Jr. ‘64 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weinewuth Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey M. White Mrs. Anne D. Whitelaw Mr. & Mrs. Ward Wilday Mr. Christopher Wilk & Ms. Christine Standish Mrs. Minette Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Wilkinson ‘87 Mr. & Mrs. Willis Willey Mr. & Mrs. Russ WIlliams Ms. Karen Wilson Mr. Brian Wood Mr. David R. Woodside ‘64 Dr. & Dr. Michael M. Wright ‘91 Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wysocki Mr. Po-Chun Chen & Ms. Yuyi Yang Mr. & Mrs. David W. Yates ‘71 Mrs. Barbara Young Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zeis Mr. & Mrs. Brian Zolet

CAPITAL PROJECT CONTRIBUTIONS

INTERFAITH SPIRITUAL CENTER Dr. and Mrs. David W. Gow Jr. Mr. Creighton B. Murch ‘63 and Ms. Janice Smith ROGERS-IVIE DORMITORY FUND Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mohney Dr. and Dr. Emmanuel Simantirakis WESTON DINING HALL Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Minis ‘66

70% HAVE ADVANCED DEGREES

4:1 STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO

Enthusiastic learners who teach what they love

Classrooms that are innovative and indivualized

17+ YEARS AVERAGE TENURE

Mentors who believe in Gow and helping our students succeed

82% OF FACULTY LIVE ON CAMPUS

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Donor Appreciation Report 2018-19 GIFTS IN KIND AND TIME

GOW SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS

The following people have generously served as volunteers, donateda product or service, or have hosted a Gow event in their community. Thank you!

Tom & Jan Acquaviva - Boston, MA event Ms. Tammy Baker - Trustee Stan Benecki & Melanie Turner - Atlanta, GA event Mr. & Mrs. Fred Bernard ‘60 - Denver, CO event Mr. John Brinkworth, Jr. - Trustee Mr. Richard King Brown - Denver, CO event Mr. John R. Bullock II ‘80 - Trustee Mr. Al Chircop - Trustee Mrs. Kelly Cotter - Parent Class Representative Mrs. Mary Ann Coulson - Trustee Mrs. Gayle Denning - Parent Class Representative Alan & Louise Fisch - Bethesda, MD event Dr. David W. Gow, Jr. - Trustee Dan and Julia Englander - Oyster Bay, NY event Tim and Anne Frawley - Grand Cayman event Ian Harris ‘82 - London, ON event Mr. Graeme Hepburn ‘84 - Trustee Mark & Laurie Gelman - Jacksonville, FL event Mr. Steven Ibbotson ‘80 - Trustee Mr. Robert Ittmann ‘62 & Ms. Lila Lohr Trustee, Tiburon, CA event Mr. Roy Jenks - Palm Springs, CA event Mr. K. Carson Jones ‘92 - Trustee Mr. Edward “Ted” Knight ‘70 - Trustee Matthew Kleinberg ‘07 - Miami, FL event Mr. Paul W. Kohan ‘07 - Alumni Association Mrs. Karen Kopp - Parent Association President Jean & Charlie Krogness ‘47 - Minneapolis event Missy & Adam Kutner ‘99 - Charlotte, NC event Daniel & Janet Ladurini - Chicago, IL event Mr. Creighton Murch ‘63 - Trustee Mr. and Mrs. Erik O’Neill - Buffalo, NY event Lewis & Paige Payne - Charleston, WV event Mr. Lowell G. Powers, Jr. ‘59 - Trustee Mr. Daniel Reininga - Trustee Amanda & Andy Rodgers ‘97 - Raleigh, NC event Mr. Michael Romano - Chicago, IL event Paul & Kathy Rose - donated a gator Mr. Lawrence Ross - Trustee Mrs. Kim Schofield - Parent Class Representative Chris & Amanda Shea - Fairfield, CT event Mrs. Nella Smolinski - Parent Class Representative Ms. Christine Standish - Trustee Ellee & Rick Thompson ‘72- Cockeysville, MD event Mrs. Daphne Uliana - Trustee Mr. Robert Vail ‘68- Trustee Mr. Robert Warner, Jr. ‘64 - Trustee Mr. Skip Wilday - Trustee Mrs. Michelle Young - Parent Class Representative

DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM GIFTS ART DEPARTMENT FUND Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rosser

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT

Ms. Karen Bissonnette Mr. and Ms. Steven Hesley Mr. and Mrs. Erik O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Massey ‘01 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne

COEDUCATION INITIATIVE

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Polston Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Stevens IV '90 Mr. Christopher Wilk and Ms. Christine Standish

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GEOFFREY & JEREMY GRANT SCHOLARSHIP

Dr. Geoffrey W. Grant ‘60 and Mrs. Sue Grant

JAMES GRENAUER ‘55 SCHOLARSHIP FUND Grenauer Associates Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Grenauer ‘55

THE DUBIN GUTKIND SCHOLARSHIP

MUSIC FUND

Mr. Edward Abahoonie and Ms. Pamela Furth Ms. Lisa Domenico Brooke Mr. Robert W. Ittmann ‘62 and Ms. Lila Lohr Mr. Donald W. Lewtas and Ms. Barbara Mitton Mrs. Anne Moot Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Manice ‘71 Mr. Lowell G. Powers Jr. ‘59 Mr. and Mrs. Everett D. Walker Mr. Tom Xie and Ms. Betty Yeung

WILLIAM RAYNARD CLASS OF 2011 FUND Mr. Samuel J. Diarbakerly ‘11

ROBOTICS FUND

Mr. and Mrs. George Arnett III Mr. and Mrs. William J. Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Al R. Chircop Mr. Mark Diarbakerly and Mrs. Regina Pusantian Mr. and Mrs. Randy Fach Ms. Janet Ganje Mrs. Lori Gordon Ms. Madolyn Greve Mr. and Mrs. Michael King Mr. and Mrs. Paul Loeffel Mr. and Mrs. Matt McCroary Ms. Lynn Nesbitt Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Paone Daniel and Lynne Scepkowski Ms. Marianne Pfeil-Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Peter Scocchi Mr. and Mrs. Everett D. Walker Dr. and Mrs. Bradley K. Vaughn Sr. Mr. Christopher Wilk and Ms. Christine Standish Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Ziff

FRED SCHADT ‘88 MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Campbell Ms. Jacqueline Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Alton Schadt

STUDENT ACTIVITIES FUND

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gutkind Melaleuca, The Wellness Company

THE FRIENDS OF THE GOW SCHOOL CANADIAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

The Friends of the Gow School Mr. and Mrs. J. Snowden Stanley, Jr.

THE GOW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Ms. Cynthia Fisher Mr. Gordon Lusk and Ms. Ginger Goodell Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Mahler Open Doors of Asheville NC Mrs. Jane Pursell

THE DAN KELLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Brisbin ‘81 Rev. and Mrs. John W. Cole II ‘84 Mr. Liam A. Devine ‘84 Mr. and Mrs. Greg Henzler Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Ibbotson '80 Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Minis ‘66 Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Pease ‘70 Mr. and Mrs. Todd Smith ‘86 Mr. Christopher Wilk and Ms. Christine Standish

GOW SUMMER PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP Dyslexia Tutoring Program Inc. Daniel and Lynne Scepkowski

THE JAY MANDARINO ‘79 SCHOLARSHIP Mr. Jay Mandarino ‘79 and Ms. Lorena Urrutia

MCCALLUM FAMILY BURSARY FUND Mr. and Mrs. A. Douglas McCallum Mr. and Mrs. John D. McCallum ‘93

THE MOSEY AWARD

The Mosey Family Foundation Ms. Deebe Mosey

Mr. Edward R. Morris ‘66

THE OISHEI SCHOLARSHIP FUND

THE DAVID UNDERDOWN JR. ‘61 FACULTY ENRICHMENT FUND

THE RATHLYN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Underdown Jr. ‘61

WISH LIST

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Buckley Mr. Drew Ceperley ‘89 & Ms. Amy Morris - Spinning Bikes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Denning - Spinning bikes Mr. and Mrs. Phil Hesley - Garmin Timing Watch Mr. and Mrs. Steven Ibbotson ‘80 - Spinning Bikes Mr. Scott McGuigan & Julia McGuigan Spinning Bikes Moog, Inc. - Rocketry Program Mr. and Mrs. Ned Purtell - Unrestricted Wishlist Mr. and Mrs. Jason Schofield - Outdooor Ed Mr. and Mrs. Mike Young - Spinning Bikes Ms. Laura Zaepfel - Golf Swing Analyzer

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Ed Co of WNY

Mr. Roger W. Warren

SIMMS FAMILY ROBOTICS SCHOLARSHIP The Simms Family Foundation

PAUL A. STEPHENSON ‘92 SCHOLARSHIP Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hiel Ms. Brenda Peeples Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Tyler

H. LANSING AND KATHERINE VAIL FUND The Estate of Mrs. Katherine Vail

TODD A. WESSELMANN ‘89 SCHOLARSHIP Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Hirsch

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GOW’S ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING 2018-19

Consecutive Years of Giving

Thank you to those donors who have given to The Gow School for consecutive years. We appreciate your dedication and continued belief in the mission of The Gow School!

40 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch '50 - Alumnus 39 YEARS Mr. Creighton B. Murch '63 & Ms. Janice A. Smith Trustee, Current Parent, Alumnus 34 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Evans ‘62 Alumnus, Emeritus Trustee Mr. & Mrs. J. Gibson McIlvain, III ‘66 Alumnus, Emeritus Trustee Mrs. Dorothy Owen (David ‘36) - Alumnus Spouse Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Jr. ‘64 - Trustee, Alumnus 31 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Knight ‘70 - Trustee, Alumnus 29 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Joyce ‘75 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Kelley - Former Faculty Mr. George M. Reid ‘43 - Alumnus, Emeritus Trustee 28 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Graeme Hepburn ‘84 Trustee, Alumnus, Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Carl H. Hirsch - Alumni Parent Mr. Russell D. Pearlman ‘79 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Van Meter, Jr. ‘70 - Alumnus 27 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. William M. Sharp ‘60 - Alumnus 26 YEARS Mr. John B. Van Meter ‘74 - Alumnus Mr. David R. Woodside '64 - Alumnus 25 YEARS The Murch Foundation - Foundation Mr. Lowell G. Powers, Jr. ‘59 - Trustee, Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Mark Szafnicki - Faculty/Staff 23 YEARS Mr. Rick Hausauer & Ms. Heidi Baust - Faculty Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hepburn ‘82 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas S. Kurten ‘56 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pulvermann, Jr. ‘64

Alumnus, Emeritus Trustee Mr. & Mrs. Alton Schadt - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Walton A. Silver ‘67 - Alumnus 21 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Kevin A. Cotter ‘85 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. John Ellsworth - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Hodder '82 - Alumnus Mr. Howard J. Glassman - Friend 19 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. T. William Alexander Alumni Parent, Former Staff Mr. & Mrs. Frederick F. Bernard ‘60 - Alumnus

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Mr. & Mrs. David Coulson - Trustee, Alumni Parent Mr. Chris D. Fontana '88 - Alumnus Mr. Howard J. Glassman - Friend Mr. & Mrs. Dean H. Jewett ‘61 Alumnus, Emeritus Trustee 18 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. John R. Bullock II ‘80 - Trustee, Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Al R. Chircop & Craig ‘06 Trustee, Alumni Parent 17 YEARS The Friends of The Gow School - Foundation Mr. & Mrs. K. Peter Knudsen ‘59 Alumnus, Alumnus Parent, Emeritus Trustee Mr. John B. Pomeroy ‘71 - Alumnus The Rathlyn Foundation - Foundation Mr. James S. Spitzley ‘63 & Susan Higbie - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Jay S. Stevens IV ‘90 - Alumnus 16 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Lansing G. Brisbin, Jr. - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. James M. Grenauer ‘55 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Jon H. Holt ‘58 - Alumnus, Former Faculty Dr. William Klykylo & Dr. Dorothyann Feldis Alumnus Parent Dr. & Mrs. William A. Kutner, Jr. - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. John W. Lainhart IV - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Maier - Alumnus Parent Mr. Michael D. McKenna - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Charles Nelson - Alumnus Parent Ms. Jane Pursell - Alumnus Parent Mr. Robert E. Scanlon & Ms. Carol A. Neville Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Vail ‘68 - Trustee, Alumnus 15 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Egan Bryant ‘66 - Alumnus Dr. Patricia Ceperley - Alumnus Parent Dr. & Mrs. J. Dale Howe - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. M. Bradley Rogers, Jr. - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Luke D. Salerno - Faculty/Staff 14 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Badders - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cotter ‘87 Alumnus, Current & Alumnus Parent, Faculty/Staff Mr. Mark Diarbakerly & Ms. Regina Pusantian Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Scott Evans - Alumnus Parent Dr. & Mrs. David W. Gow, Jr. - Trustee Mrs. Helen Heller - Alumnus Parent Mr. Adam Steinberg ‘86 & Ms. Tracy Beckett Alumnus 13 YEARS Mr. James A. Corwin, Jr. ‘57 & Ms. Anne Baumgartner - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Lowell L. Dexter ‘64 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Steven Ibbotson ‘80 - Trustee, Alumnus Dr. Kirk Rhodes - Faculty/Staff

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12 YEARS Dr. Ted Paisley - Former Faculty/Staff Dr. Mari Jo Renick - Faculty/Staff

11 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. L. Talbot Adamson - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Dietz - Faculty/Staff Mr. Timothy S. Doherty ‘85 & Ms. Leslie Eckel- Alumni Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Mohney - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Rausch ‘95 - Alumnus, Faculty Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zeis - Faculty/Staff 10 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Capone - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay Clark ‘73 - Alumnus Mrs. Stephanie Koven - Alumni Gr&parent Mr. Jeff Poblocki - Faculty/Staff 9 YEARS Ms. Karen Bissonette - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Higgins - Former Faculty Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Uliana - Trustee, Alumnus Parent 8 YEARS Ms. Catherine Mehl - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. John C. Reed - Alumnus Parent Daniel & Lynne Scepkowski - Alumnus Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey White - Alumnus Parent 7 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Charles Brown - Faculty/Staff Mr. Drew Ceperly ‘89 & Ms. Amy Morris - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Diehl - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Doyle - Alumnus Parent Mr. Eric C. Halls ‘82 - Alumnus Mr. Robert Ittman ‘62 & Ms. Lila Lohr Trustee, Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Johnson - Alumnus Parent The Wells Fargo Foundation - Foundation 6 YEARS Amazon Smile - Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Meredith H. Ewing, Jr. ‘60 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Fisher - Faculty/Staff The William & Harriet Gould Foundation Dr. Geoffrey W. Grant ‘60 & Mrs. Sue Grant - Alumnus, Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy W. Grant ‘90 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Harris ‘49 - Alumnus Mr. Raymond C. Hauschel ‘63 & Mrs. Barbara J. Ahrens - Alumnus 5 YEARS Dr. Michael Bates & Ms. Lorrie Bowen Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Bennett '84 - Alumnus Ms. Wendy Cowles - Alumnus Parent Mr. Joseph Hallowell ‘66 - Alumnus Ms. Rosalie Halls ‘16 - Alumnus Mr. Thomas K. Hart, Jr. ‘90 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Tom Heathcutt - Alumnus Parent

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4 YEARS Benevity Community Impact Fund - Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Ted Briggs - Alumnus Parent Ed Co of WNY - Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Randy Fach - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Mark Farber - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gutkind - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Greg Henzler - Alumnus Parent Mrs. Jane Howland - Alumnus Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin J. Jordan '88 - Alumnus The M&T Charitable Foundation - Corporation Mr. David P. Maier '92 & Ms. Katherine Kolstee Alumnus, Faculty/Staff Morgan Stanley Foundation - Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Packham - Alumni Parent Dr. Theodore Paisley - Former Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sabol Jr. - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sweet - Former Faculty/Staff Ms. Katie Tierney - Faculty/Staff Mr. Christopher Wilk & Ms. Christine Standish Trustee, Alumnus Parent

Mrs. Lori Gordon - Alumnus Parent Dr. & Mrs. Aubrey C. Hall, Jr. - Alumnus Parent Mr. O’Neil Hamilton & Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton Current Parent Mr. Thomas K. Hart Jr. '90 - Alumnus Mr. & Dr. Robert Henry - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Huffman - Current Parent Hurwitz & Fine, P.C. - Vendor Mr. & Mrs. K. Carson Jones '92 - Trustee, Alumnus Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Kopp Trustee, Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Kulla Mrs. Hilkka Leone Mr. & Mrs. Paul Loeffel - Current Parent Ms. Kim Lusk - Current Parent Mr. Robin Marshman & Ms. Jennifer Cannon Faculty/Staff Mr. William McIntosh - Alumnus Gr&parent Melaleuca, The Wellness Company Mr. Edward R. Morris '66 - Alumnus Dr. Scott Nord & Dr. Phyllis Parcella - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Adam R. Oberkircher '83 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Erik O'Neill - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. William Parsons - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. James Perry - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Price - Alumnus Parent Ms. Halila Reisdorf - Faculty/Staff Mrs. Amy Renaldo - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. John Reuter - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Ross - Trustee Mr. Jonathan M. Siegel '79 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. John D. Simms, III '02 Alumnus, Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Brian Spink - Faculty/Staff Mr. Jeffrey D. Spoon '65 & Ms. Terri Ginsberg Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Rick Thompson '72 - Alumnus Mr. Brian Thompson - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. David J. Underdown Jr. '61 - Alumnus Dr. Kathleen M. Wahler - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weinewuth - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wysocki - Faculty/Staff Mr. Tom Xie & Ms. Betty Yeung - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Brian Zolet - Faculty/Staff

3 YEARS Mr. Edward Abahoonie & Ms. Pamela Furth Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Laren Addabbo - Alumnus Parent Mr. Christopher Arzoomanian Summer Program Alumnus 2 YEARS Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Bamann - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Samuel B. Adams '66 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. James M. Binger '57 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Harold Armington - Current Parent Mrs. Donna O. Border - Friend Mr. Adriano Asperti ‘10 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brunner - Alumnus Grandparent Mr. Jared Bailey - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Marc Buckley - Current Parent Mr. Joel Bailey - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Campbell - Friend Mrs. Zandy Barrett - Faculty/Staff Spouse Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cendrowski- Faculty/Staff Mr. Tyler D. Bischoff '11 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Chafin- Faculty/Staff Ms. Lisa Domenico Brooke - Current Parent Mr. Jonathan Cowles '87 & Dr. Josefa Apigo-Cowles Mr. Henry T. Cadwalader '05 - Alumnus Alumnus Mr. Ronald M. Capone '14 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Robert Denning - Current Parent Rev. & Mrs. John W. Cole II '84 - Alumnus Mr. DaMar Dowell - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Tom Corson - Friend Mr. & Mrs. Paul Drechsler- Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Craig - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. John Driscoll - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Cridlebaugh III '88 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Richard Eakin - Alumnus Parent Mr. Gordon D. Diamond '17 - Alumnus Mr. Martin Elias - Gow Summer Program Parent Mr. Samuel J. Diarbakerly '11 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Englander- Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Scott Follett - Current Parent Ms. Kathy Faltyn - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Tim Frawley - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Alan S. Freemond, Jr. '82 - Alumnus Dr. Michele Frech - Current Parent

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Mr. & Mrs. Peter Frenzel, III '54 - Alumnus Ms. Janet Ganje - Alumni Parent The Giallanza Foundation - Family Foundation Ms. Melissa Greeson - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Roderick L. Griffis ‘45 - Alumnus Mrs. Amy J. Habib - Alumni Parent Mr. & Mrs. Eric Halet - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Arthur V. Hartwell '48 - Alumnus Mrs. Debbie Hinman - Faculty/Staff Mr. David F. Howard '43 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Neil D. Howe '91 - Alumnus, Faculty/Staff Mrs. Karen Hudson - Friend Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hutton - Faculty/Staff Mr. Tom Jolls - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Junger - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Jim Kaufmann - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. John T. Kearns - Alumni Parent Mr. Peter Kellner & Ms. Tamara C. Baker - Trustee Mr. John A. Kendrick '04 - Alumnus Dr. & Dr. Marc Klementowski - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Klykylo '05 - Alumnus Mr. Paul W. Kohan '07 - Trustee, Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Aaron M. Krause '00 - Alumnus Mrs. Mary Kulpa - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ladurini - Current Parent Dr. & Mrs. Brad LaRocca - Alumnus Parent Mr. Yong Ming & Ms Yi Lin - Current Parent Dr. Laurie Loevner - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Luby '00 - Alumnus Mrs. Irene Mackenroth - Current Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Christopher R. Massey ‘01 - Alumnus Mr. Scott Mcguigan & Ms. Julia McGuigan Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Henry Minis ‘66 Alumnus, Alumnus Parent Mr.s Martha Moore - Alumnus Parent Mrs. Anne Moot (Welles ‘39) - Alumnus Spouse Mr. Robert E. Morgan ‘71 - Alumnus Network for Good - Corporation New York Life - Matching Gift Company Mr. Jonathan W. Oakleaf '67 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Marty O'Connor - Faculty/Staff Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Payne - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. James Podyma - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. Craig Polston - Friend Mr. & Mrs. Francis Giles Puno - Current Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Giles G. Puno - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Rawe, Jr. - Current Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Rosser - Alumnus Parent Mr. Daniel M. Scher '11 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Jason Schofield - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schutrum - Friend Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Stebbins '56 - Alumnus Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stoutenberg - Current Parent Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Thompson '83 - Alumnus United Healthcare Group - Corporation Dr. & Mrs. Bradley K. Vaughn Sr. - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs. William Wangelin - Alumnus Parent Mr. & Mrs Willis Willey - Current Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Russ Williams - Current Grandparent Mr. Brian Wood - Current Parent Mrs. Barbara Young - Current Grandparent Mr. & Mrs. Mike Young - Current Parent

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CLASS OF 1943 Mr. David F. Howard ‘43 The Estate of George Reid ‘43 CLASS OF 1945 Mr. Roderick L. Griffis ‘45 CLASS OF 1948 Mr. Arthur V. Hartwell ‘48 CLASS OF 1949 Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Harris ‘49 CLASS OF 1950 Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch ‘50 CLASS OF 1954 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Frenzel, III ‘54 CLASS OF 1955 Mr. James M. Grenauer ‘55 CLASS OF 1956 Mr. Henry H. Stebbins ‘56 Mr Nicholas S. Kurten ‘56 Mr. Henry C. Lee ‘56 CLASS OF 1957 Mr. James M. Binger ‘57 Mr. James A. Corwin ‘57 The Estate of J. Trumbull Rogers ‘57 CLASS OF 1959 Mr. K. Peter Knudsen ‘59 Mr. Lowell G. Powers Jr. ‘59 CLASS OF 1960 Mr. Frederick F. Bernard ‘60 Mr. Meredyth H. Ewing Jr. ‘60 Dr. Geoffrey W. Grant ‘60 Mr William M. Sharp ‘60 CLASS OF 1961 Mr. . Dean H. Jewett ‘61 Mr. David Underdown Jr. ‘61 CLASS OF 1962 Mr Edward L. Erickson ‘62 Mr. Andrew W. Evans ‘62 Mr. Robert W. Ittmann ‘62 CLASS OF 1963 Mr. James S. Spitzley ‘63 Mr. Creighton B. Murch ‘63 Mr. Raymond C. Hauschel ‘63

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CLASS OF 1964 Mr. Lowell L. Dexter ‘64 Mr. John Pulvermann Jr. ‘64 Mr. Robert Warner, Jr. ‘64 Mr. David R. Woodside ‘64 CLASS OF 1965 Mr. Stephen M. Bryan ‘65 Mr. Stuart Lipp ‘65 Mr. Frederick Seifert ‘65 Mr. Jeffrey D. Spoon ‘65 CLASS OF 1966 Mr. Samuel B. Adams ‘66 Mr. Kenneth E. Bryant ‘66 Mr. Joseph C. Hallowell ‘66 Mr. Brooks F. McCabe, Jr. ‘66 Mr. Henry H. Minis ‘66 Mr. Edward R. Morris ‘66 CLASS OF 1967 Mr. Jonathan W. Oakleaf ‘67 Mr. Walton A. Silver ‘67 CLASS OF 1968 Mr. Robert L. Vail ‘68 CLASS OF 1969 Mr. Isaac Van Meter ‘69 CLASS OF 1970 Mr. Edward D. Knight ‘70 Dr. Robert J. Pease ‘70 CLASS OF 1971 Mr. Robert G. Manice ‘71 Mr. John B. Pomeroy ‘71 Mr. Robert E. Morgan ‘71 Mr. David W. Yates ‘71 CLASS OF 1972 Mr. Rick Thompson ‘72 CLASS OF 1973 Mr. . Lindsay Clark ‘73 Mr. Jeffery P. Gordon ‘73 CLASS OF 1974 Mr. John Van Meter ‘74 Mr. William S. Wallace ‘74 CLASS OF 1975 Mr. David N. Fletcher ‘75 Mr. Douglas H. Joyce ‘75 CLASS OF 1979 Mr. Jay Mandarino ‘79 Mr. Russell D. Pearlman ‘79 Mr. Jonathan M. Siegel ‘79 Mr. Bruce M. Tylock ‘79

CLASS OF 1980 Mr. John R. Bullock II, ‘80 Mr. Steven J. Ibbotson ‘80 CLASS OF 1981 Mr. Richard J. Brisbin ‘81 CLASS OF 1982 Mr. Alan Freemond, Jr. ‘82 Mr. Warren Hepburn ‘82 Mr. Mark A. Hodder ‘82 Mr. Bern Kelly ‘82 CLASS OF 1983 Mr. Adam R. Oberkircher ‘83 Mr. Stephen J. Sippel ‘83 Mr. Matthew Thompson ‘83 CLASS OF 1984 Mr. Scott E. Bennett ‘84 Rev. John W. Cole II ‘84 Mr. Liam A. Devine ‘84 Mr. Graeme C. Hepburn ‘84 CLASS OF 1985 Mr. Kevin A. Cotter ‘85 Mr. Timothy S. Doherty ‘85 CLASS OF 1986 Mr. & Mrs. Todd Smith ‘86 Mr. Adam Steinberg ‘86 CLASS OF 1987 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Cotter ‘87 Mr. Jonathan W. Cowles ‘87 Mr. Donald M. Wilkinson ‘87 CLASS OF 1988 Mr. E. C. Cridlebaugh III ‘88 Mr. Chris D. Fontana ‘88 Mr. Benjamin J. Jordan ‘88 CLASS OF 1989 Mr. Drew R. Ceperley ‘89 Mr. Paul I. Ragheb ‘89 CLASS OF 1990 Mr. Thomas K. Hart Jr. ‘90 Mr. Jay S. Stevens IV ‘90 CLASS OF 1991 Mr. Neil D. Howe ‘91 Mr. Drew Hendley ‘91 Dr. Michael M. Wright ‘91 CLASS OF 1992 Mr. K. Carson Jones ‘92 Mr. David P. Maier ‘92

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CLASS OF 1994 Mr. Walter Constantine III ‘94 CLASS OF 1995 Mr. Bradley W. Rausch ‘95 CLASS OF 2000 Mr. Zachary P. Harra ‘00 Mr. Aaron M. Krause ‘00 Mr. Stephen B. Luby ‘00 CLASS OF 2001 Mr. Christopher R. Massey ‘01 CLASS OF 2002 Mr. John D. Simms, III ‘02 Mr. John C. Tompkins Jr. ‘02 CLASS OF 2004 Mr. John A. Kendrick ‘04 CLASS OF 2005 Mr. Henry T. Cadwalader ‘05 Mr. Michael J. Klykylo ‘05 CLASS OF 2006 Mr. Lexington T. Bittle ‘06 CLASS OF 2007 Mr. Kevin M. Challberg ‘07 Mr. Michael A. Johnson ‘07 Mr. Paul W. Kohan ‘07 CLASS OF 2009 Mr. Jeffrey B. Kling ‘09 CLASS OF 2010 Mr. Adriano J. Asperti ‘10 CLASS OF 2011 Mr. Daniel M. Scher ‘11 Mr. Samuel J. Diarbakerly ‘11 Mr. Tyler D. Bischoff ‘11 CLASS OF 2013 Mr. Izer I. T. Martinez ‘13 CLASS OF 2014 Mr. Ronald M. Capone ‘14 CLASS OF 2017 Mr. Gordon D. Diamond ‘17 Mr. Kade R. Keesee ‘17 CLASS OF 2019 Mr. William H. Beardwood ‘19 Mr. Andrew Cotter ‘19 Mr. James Murray ‘19

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Living with dyslexia: Gow sixty years later

I have now lived with dyslexia for sixty years. More properly, I have lived for sixty years knowing I had some sort of learning difficulties and eventually a label was firmly applied, “Billy has dyslexia.” Whatever that means.

credits for a BA than I needed but spread over too many schools. And D’s don’t transfer.

I found work as a journalist where I did not have to sit still, there was no Algebra. I then went to work in the creative The real anniversary is more like departments of international 75 years ago, when I started advertising agencies where they school and The Troubles began. It welcomed my free thinking and was clear to me from day one in did not care if I jumped up and kindergarten that Billy and going quarter-backed a nerf football to school was not going to work game in the hallways. out – not like it did for my older brothers and sisters and most I worked as creative director, other kids. managing others – some like me – and enjoyed success working Even before I could read or on national brands. The value write, I was in immediate was on creative thinking and not trouble in school and there were the numbers of college degrees conferences with teachers and acquired (if any). the first of many many tests and referrals and summer tutoring As I began to read more about and military school to determine dyslexia, now a mainstream why this seemingly bright and learning disability, I read that inquisitive and voracious reader I had a great gift. Maybe. But was in such opposition to school. I have never met anyone with Bad grades, repeated notes a differing learning style who about bad deportment and called it a gift and was happy get-with-the-program, year after being different. The last thing a year. A perfect childhood, except teenager wants to be is different for school. and experience constant failure and there is zero consolation in When the diagnosis came – Billy having a label, a definition. has dyslexia and it is a reading and writing disorder –it was only When I returned to Gow years partially correct. Billy is also after graduation, an alumni highly distracted, cannot sit still, took 20 graduates and wives fidgets, acts up. What does that into the dining hall and we sat have to do with reading and in a circle alternately holding a writing? talking stick and each answering the question, “How has dyslexia Then came the lucky influenced your life?” intervention: I would attend Gow my junior and senior I was profoundly stunned to years where I found structure, listen to every single alumni encouragement, got an A, even define their dyslexia in different managed to get into college. terms. One could fly a twinGow changed my life and saved engine airplane, some were me. I suspect most graduates writers and some managed would say the same thing. complicated data, some ran businesses. I was – and still am – After five colleges and so confused. What do we ‘have’? universities and constant academic probation, I gave it Experts who study dyslexia (how up. My success would not be in a many of them have it?) tell us we classroom. I would not become get God and dog mixed up, don’t a doctor, an English or history like to read (wrong), and the MRI professor but I found I could has been employed to study the write and while failing most of polypeptides in Gene 15 and they my senior year college courses, still maintain this is a reading I was editor of the University and writing disorder. Maybe it is. newspaper, founded a literary But, you cannot ‘have’ dyslexia magazine and had way more and be psychologically, socially

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and academically like everyone else.

Please read that again. Gow recognizes that and provides a structure where academic success is more likely. You learn you are not dumb. And you are not alone. You taste maybe the first classroom success in your life. You are somebody.

By Bill Hoke, ‘58

mountain climbing class that ‘I have trouble with knots’ and asked for help. What’s the ‘gift’ in that? But this was life and death and no hiding or pretending you get it. This ‘dyslexia’ is forever.

You learn to sometimes step back and let the logical ones do it.

While I would love to rattle off favorite poems, It’s not People with dyslexia, whatever happening. I watch how others it is, think differently than process and approach problem other people. And we learn solving and see their logic, where differently, process facts, come I would have, like George, taken to conclusions, interact with the long way around. I can’t help others differently. When George’s it. wife took the talking stick, she said, simply and lovingly, “if there We do not overcome dyslexia is more difficult way to solve any more than we overcome a problem, George will find it”. red hair or right-handedness She’s not talking about dyslexia, and don’t believe a work book is she is alluding to the fact going to solve the real issue: it’s that George’s brain processes just as much a behavioral issue (academic) information as difficulty with ‘reading and differently. writing’. We learn to live with it and work around it and not No mention from her about whine about it. We positively do reading and writing, either. not overcome it.

George and I and I suspect most with dyslexia do have Somehow we must not allow our reading and writing issues (yes, children to be stigmatized and I transpose b’s and d’s) but, marginalized by their learning please, recognize we are not differences; they are frustrated going to learn in a straight line enough. Every person with and there is no way to undo the dyslexia is different. Building damage done in our early school self-esteem has never been years while we watched others more important. We need our master subjects that seem so successes and if that means easy and, inexplicably, beyond mountain climbing, so be it. our reach. No gift in that. That '’gift’' canard is a very hard sell.

I shudder to think what would have happened to me had not Better to uncover this early, I had two years of success at pour on the love and support, The Gow School. These past seek victories and positively sixty years are so much better find settings where those with because of those days in South ‘dyslexia” et al are permitted to Wales and my dyslexia, whatever find their own path to academic it is, can be better integrated success. into who I am and how I think differently.

So in my sixty years, I have learned my work-arounds. Use Bill Hoke is a 1958 graduate of a pencil to mark a tape measure Gow, has been a newspaper because the 16ths and the 32nds reporter, advertising agency dance and bob and weave. Avoid creative director, documentary Algebra and spatial relationship film producer, has self-published problems and defer to others three books of poetry and is still when things become too active hiking and climbing in the complex. I even learned to ask nearby Olympic Mountains, near for help. his home in Seattle.

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CLASS NOTES Longtime friends Peter Booth ‘61 and David Underdown ‘61 traveled to Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and China in October. In Nepal, they did a six day trek to the base camp of Annapurna, the tenth highest mountain in the world.

After the four day hike to base camp, Peter hiked back down, and David rode in a helicopter. Photo: At Everest base camp.

Creighton Murch ‘63 and his wife Janice hosted a Gow event at their home in Kirtland Hills, OH. Creighton and Janice have twin sons in eighth grade at Gow and a daughter attending Bates College.

Creighton serves as a Gow Trustee.

Brice Johnson ‘65 retired as a CPA and treasury agent. He lives in Lake Wales, FL. Stuart Lipp ‘65 and Bob Vail ‘68 attended a Gow event in Cleveland. Stuart lives in Chagrin Falls with his wife Julia and is retired from a career in sales. Bob and his wife Lynn live in Moreland Hills and he recently sold his company VN Services and is retired. He serves as a Gow Trustee.

John Pulvermann ‘66 & Andy Evans ‘62 both live in the Bay area. John and his wife Mary Lee relocated from New Hampshire to live near their daughters. Andy and his wife Stephanie live in Kentfield CA. Pictured next column: John and Andy with Gayle Hutton, Gow’s Director of Development.

Class of ‘79 classmates Scott Hanna, David Stock, Russell Pearlman and Robert McGowan celebrated their 40th Gow reunion. Scott lives in Richmond Hill, ON; David lives in Toronto; Russell is an architect in Raleigh NC; and Robert recently purchased a new home in VA.

Rick Thompson ‘72 recently toured Gow with his son-in-law Colin. From Baltimore, they were in Buffalo for the Bill/ Ravens game.

Ross Dingwall ‘74 and his wife Melinda have six children and live in British Columbia. Ross is retiring in 2020 from his forestry job to travel, sail, fish, hunt, and enjoy his family and nature.

John Sullivan ‘78 retired from teaching elementary school and is enjoying spending time with his wife Sylvie, four grown children, and new granddaughter.

John fondly remembers Gow and believes that his learning disability made him a better teacher. John would love to hear from his former Gow classmates.

Peter Hawkins ‘79 and his wife Debra live in Tucson, AZ and have a daughter Jeni and grandson Devon. Peter has been a professional photographer for 36 years.

See his work at www.phawkinsphoto.com.

Jay Mandarino ‘79 and his wife Lorena attended Fall Weekend to celebrate Jay’s 40th reunion. Jay served on an alumni panel and spoke about his businesses and how Gow helped him. Photo: former faculty member Mason Winfield with Jay.

Eugene Holman ‘79 lives in Austin, TX and owns a coffee plantation in Mexico. He and his daughter came back to Gow for his reunion.

Pictured with Jody Kelley.

Peter Rosenthal ‘79, his wife Patti and son Marty live in San Francisco where he is in real estate.

Steve Cox ‘84, JD Yull ‘82, Ian Harris ‘81, Rosalie Halls ‘16 and Eric Halls ‘82 attended a Gow event in London, Ontario.

Steve works in the insurance business in London; JD is retired, enjoys playing golf and traveling to Florida; Ian lives in Mexico and British Columbia where he works in asphalt paving; Rosalie attends Mount Allison University, and Eric owns a flooring company and serves on the Gow Alumni Association Executive Committee.

Dave Yates ‘71 and his wife Lois sold their business F.W. Behler, Inc. in York, PA. He is currently writing for three magazines.

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CLASS NOTES Liam Devine ‘84 & Graeme Hepburn ‘84, pictured in Toronto. Liam is renovating his new home (a former church) in Strathroy, ON and works in sales. Graeme, his wife Claudia, and their three children live in Toronto.

He serves as a Gow Trustee.

Patrick Sheehan ‘85 works as a food service manager in Hershey, PA. He and his wife have four children.

Andrew Thompson ‘85 owns an architectural firm in NYC called A2, and lives in Rye, NY with his daughter, Jada. Photo: Andrew with Gayle Hutton in NYC.

Peter White ‘85 works for Hyster-Yale, a forklift designer and manufacturer in Portland, OR. He and his wife Leigh have a daughter Alex who attends in college in Bellingham, WA. Peter recently attended a Gow event in Portland is pictured with Doug Cotter ‘87, P ‘19, P ‘23, Gow’s Director of Admissions.

Alan Peterson ‘86 is President and CEO at Pathologists’​Regional Laboratory in Lewiston, Idaho. He and his wife Angie have two sons and are pictured with their son Charlie, a junior at Gow since fall.

Dean Kennedy ‘87 lives in Branchport, NY and recently stopped at Gow for a visit.

Jeremy Piloff ‘87 and Paul Allen ‘89 reconnected after 30 years at a Gow event in Cleveland. Jeremy is married and lives in Beechwood, OH. He and his wife Julie have three children and he is a special education teacher.

Paul and his wife Jennifer have four children and live in Avon, OH where they run a heating and air conditioning business.

Eric Davis ‘89 and his wife Nancy came back to Gow for his 30th reunion.

They own a charter fishing business in Vero Beach, FL. Pictured Eric with Sam Cosmano ‘84. Sam, his wife Stacy and their two children live in East Aurora, NY where they own Sammy’s Car Wash.

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Claude Stuart ‘90, a professional comedian in Los Angeles, did a comedy show during Fall Weekend. Claude graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Radio and Television Production. He is a stand-up comedian, has appeared in feature films; on national commercials for products such as Honda, Heineken, Jeep, Grapenuts, and Midol; and on The Tonight Show and Last Comic Standing, That 70’s Show, Scrubs, Comics Unleashed, Will & Grace and more. Claude most recently cocreated and is starring in the sketch series High Land Parking on Amazon Prime, he is currently a regular on Weather Gone Viral! on The Weather Channel, and he is writing for the hit syndicated TV show, Funny You Should Ask, starring Howie Mandel, Louie Anderson and Jon Lovitz. He and his wife Heather have a son and live in LA. Mark Brereton ‘91 and his family were on campus when his daughter Riley started at Gow as a junior. We are thrilled that she is a Govian!

Peter Waldron ‘91 is Vice President of Real Estate at Mattress Warehouse, Inc. He, his wife Julie and three children live in Lutherville, MD. (See photo page 26) Ted Constantine ‘94, his wife Jennifer and three children live in Snyder, NY. Ted and his mom own Abino Mills Glassworks in Buffalo which etches glassware and crystal.

Ryan Henderson ‘94 recently started a new job at Vickar Nissan in Winnipeg, Canada as a Sales Specialist.

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CLASS NOTES David Emitt Adams ‘99 is a photographer who recenty strted teaching at the University of Kansas. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Art from Bowling Green and a Master of Fine Art from Arizona State University. David’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally including museum exhibitions at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Tucson Museum Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and most recently at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. His work is in the permanent collection of The Center for Creative Photography, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The George Eastman Museum, and The Worcester Art Museum.

Jimmy Pooler ‘00 is an enginner in Wooster, OH. He and his family spend weekends in Ellicottville, NY where he enjoys skiing and cycling.

Zach Harra ‘00 is an executive chef at the Mandarin Oriental in NYC. He has twin sons.

Photo: Zach with Gayle Hutton.

Jonathon Gutkind ‘01 married Lila on August 17. Jon is in sales for FM Global, serves as co-president of the Gow Alumni Association, and lives in Philadephia.

Chris Massey ‘01 lives in Windham, NH with his wife and two children.

Chris is Director of Privacy at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

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Nick Ritchie ‘01 and his wife Kim have two children and live in Toronto. He is an executive for the Shaw Corporation, an energy services company. Pictured Nick with his Top 35 Under 35 in Canada’s Energy Sector Plaque.

Quinn Bradlee ’02, working with the National Center for Learning Disabilities, is preparing to launch a National Get Out The Vote Initiative for the 2020 election.

He and his wife Fabiola and step daughter live in Washington, DC. Photo: Quinn with his mother Sally Quinn.

Hank Byron ‘03, Lex Bittle ‘06 and Peter Waldon ‘91 at a Gow event in MD. Hank is working at an architectural firm in Frederick, MD. (More about Lex page 28 and Peter previous page).

Richard Hottinger ‘04 writes that “After graduating from Manhattanville College, I moved to NYC, where I still live and I'm loving it. I started working as a real estate agent and found that it was the best career path for me. I work for the Corcoran Group and run a team of eight agents under The Hottinger Team (www. hottingerteam.com). We are focused between New York and Miami, specializing in residential rentals & sales. Last year we were ranked in the top 1% in the country!”

Brian Lee ‘04 is living and working in Hong Kong with his wife Helen. Pictured right.

Class of 2005 members Spencer Simms, Chaitu Cotha, Erik Seymour, Michael Klykylo and Court Phillips met in Vegas for a mini-reunion. Spencer and his wife Gabriela live in West Dundee, IL and he and his father are building a 75 foot boat; Chaitu, his wife and two children live in Bangelore, India where he runs several businesses; Erik and his wife Nicole live in Des Moines, WA where he is a Strategic Account Executive for HopSkipDrive; Michael and his wife Whitney live in Columbus, OH; and Court lives in Houston, TX where he is a Project Analyst at Crestwood Mainstream Partners.

Jeff Howard ‘03 graduated from the University of Denver and is currently living in San Francisco with his girlfriend and working as the Western Regional Sales Manager for NUUN, a sports drink.

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Jarad Kleinberg ‘05, his wife Stacey and son Harley attended a Gow event in CT. They purchased a home in Stamford, CT. Jarad and Stacey both work for MKDA, an architectural design firm in NYC. (above) Oliver Smith ‘05 and his wife Sarah were married on October 6, 2018 in Richmond, VA. Oliver works in insurance and splits his time between VA and Dallas, TX where he has an office.

Lex Bittle ‘06 and his wife Kristen were married on May 11.

Kristen is a horse trainer and Lex works as an air traffic controller at BWI.

Michael Johnson ‘07 and his wife live in Brooklyn and he is a free-lance website and product designer.

Matthew Kleinberg ‘07 works for MKDA, an architectural firm in Miami where he lives with his wife Pascale and son. He serves on the Leadership Committee of the Gow Alumni Association.

Matt came back to campus for Fall Weekend and recently hosted a Gow event in Miami.

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Paul Kohan ‘07 is an Associate Attorney at the Law Offices of Regina Skyer & Associates, LLP and recently hosted a program in NYC for attorneys, physicians and families interested in special education and the law. Pictured: Tim Madigan (former Gow faculty member and Headmaster at The Churchill School, Paul, Gayle Hutton and Daphne Uliana, mom of Nick ‘14 and Sam ‘16 and a Gow Trustee).

Chris Ceren ‘08 is living and working in San Francisco where he is the shop foreman for Voox, an autonomous car company.

He and his girlfriend MaryCruz came back to Gow a few months ago. Pictured, Chris with his Tesla; visiting Gow with MaryCruz.

Colin Krafft ‘09 is working in CT as a financial planner. He came back for his reunion and spoke on an Alumni panel.

Henry Minis ‘09 came to his reunion with his girlfriend Catherine, a massage therapist. They are living in Austin, TX where he is a graphic designer, and does endurance races Pictured: Henry and Catherine at reunion.

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Gabe Suarez ‘09 is working in NYC. Pictured with his girlfriend Jaizi.

Cole Perry ‘10 is going back to school to get a second degree in computer science. He got married last August.

Steven Stahl ‘10 graduated from Pace University and works for Frank Recruiting in Philadelphia where he manages a team of 15. He is looking forward to his 10th reunion and would love to connect with classmates!

Photo with Izer Martinez ‘13.

Tyler Bischoff ‘11 is a Manager at Silver Therapeutics and living in the Berkshires.

Thomas Cook ‘11 finished his masters at the University of Dayton in Aerospace Engineering in December and is working for the Airforce Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright Patterson AFB. Joe Shattuck ‘11 and his wife April were married on April 6. Pictured with Joe’s parents John and Toni and Trey ‘16. Joe and April live in Mesa, AZ.

Ian Hynes ‘12 graduated from SUNY Purchase, is in the Marines and was recently promoted.

Jacob Zirinsky ‘12 is working in New York City in commercial real estate.

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CLASS NOTES Izer Martinez ’13 is currently pursuing his master’s from the University of Pennsylvania in Educational Entrepreneurship. (Pictured previous page).

Chuck McCroary ‘13 is a firefighter and member of the Missouri task force which was fighting wildfires in CA. Chuck received his BS in Health Science from Lindenwood University in August and will sit for the National Advanced EMT certification.

Noah Fields ’14 graduated Cum Laude in May ’18 with a concentration in business administration from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

His mom writes “We are very proud of Noah and attribute the discipline and study skills he learned at The Gow School as a factor in his academic success.”

Riley Jones ’15 graduated from the Army’s Advanced Individual Training (AIT) and will be stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

Rugved Mavidapalli ‘15 is living in San Francisco and working for Insuradata in risk assessment.

Trey Shattuck ‘15 (pictured previous page) received his certification from the Conservatory for Recording Arts and Sciences.

with current Gow students and alumni.

(Pictured Anne and Brad Rogers with Dan and his son-in-law PJ Chmura ‘06).

Members of the class of 2017 met for a mini reunion in August. Pictured Elizabeth Raiff, Jared Wangelin, Simon Dietrich, Charlie Cross and Tyler Baiz. Elizabeth attends Ithaca Colege; Jarad is at Niagara University, Simon at VMI (Virginia Military Institute), Charlie at Carleton University and Tyler is working. Elizabeth and Jared worked as counselors at The Gow School Summer Program for the second time.

Max Openshaw ‘18 is attending Oxford Brookes and his mom writes that he is doing well.

Philippe Halet ‘19 is attending American University in Washington, DC and his mom writes that he went to a masked Venetian Ball at the Italian embassy.

She says “Phillippe is using all the skills he learned at Gow. He sits in the front of classes, goes to office hours, and meets his professors for coffee. I am grateful to Gow for letting this side of him bloom.”

FORMER FACULTY AND STAFF Steve Higgins (former faculty) lives in Vero Beach with his wife Char and their three children. He is President of Carter, a philanthropy consulting company.

(Pictured: Steve with faculty members Bill Parsons and David Maier ‘92 at Gow).

Ryan Hopkins ‘16 & Ian Lashley ‘15 at a Gow event in Bermuda. Ryan is an electrician and Ian is working in construction.

Dr. Kevin Miller (former faculty) is Director of Learning Support at Savannah Country Day School in Savannah, GA. Marykate Russo (former faculty) and her husband Nick welcomed their third child Molly Elizabeth Hoffman on November 17.

Jeff Sweet (former Head of the Lower School) and his friend Bill Wadsworth recently walked 210 miles along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. They hiked from Astorga Spain to Santiago, staying in hostels along the way. Jeff and his wife Cindy (former Gow librarian) live in Sunset Beach, NC and enjoy golf and spending time with their grandchildren.

Liz Vail (former staff) and her husband Paul moved back "home" to Cody, WY in June. Liz writes “If any alumni are passing through to Yellowstone National Park, give us a call!!

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Jay Wright (former faculty) says “Please tell anyone who asks that I am well, and I wish them all the best. I read the magazine and was duly impressed by the accomplishments of our students.”

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CURRENT FACULTY NEWS Rebecca Rausch Receives Prestigous IMSLEC Award In September, Reconstructive Language teacher Rebecca Rausch was honored with an Innovator Award as an Outstanding Teacher by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council. She was specifically recognized for her contributions to Gow’s Reconstructive Language program in the areas of phonological awareness and oral reading fluency.

Mrs. Rausch began teaching at Gow in 2016, and previously taught reading in the Salamanca and East Aurora, NY schools. She and her husband, Science Department Chair Bradley Rausch ‘95, live on campus with their three children. (Pictured Reconstructive Department Chairman Brian Thompson with Rebecca Rausch).

[ WELCOME NEW FACULTY AND STAFF! ] Kara Bennett - School Librarian, Whitcomb Dorm Parent A Western New York native, Kara graduated from Nardin, has a BA from The University at Buffalo and is pursuing a Master’s in English from Cleveland State. She previously worked at the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities and is a Bills fan.

Meg Dobinski - Executive Function Coach, Whitcomb Parent Meg grew up in South Wales and worked at Gow during her summer breaks. A graduate of SUNY Brockport with a degree in geology, her current goal is to climb all the peaks in the Adirondacks to become a “46-er”. She spent a summer working on a dinosaur dig site in Wyoming.

James Erwin - Building and Grounds Team James previously worked at Buffalo Alarm and lives in Marilla with his wife and three children. James is an avid Baltimore Orioles fan, and enjoys auto racing.

Brian Jimenez - English Teacher, Whitcomb Dorm Parent Brian grew up in Georgia and received an English degree from the University of North Georgia. He taught English in Spain, enjoys video games, the drums and guitar. He is an Atlanta Falcons fan who is currently finishing his master’s degree in English.

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Brenna Lenihan - Instructional Assistant, Cornwall Dorm Parent Originally from Tucson, AZ, Brenna has a degree in International Affairs with dual minors in Economics and Spanish from Northern Arizona University. While there, she served as a Residence Life Director, and as a substitute public school teacher. Her interests include travel, law, politics, and a variety of athletic endeavors.

Bill Scherer - Instructional Assistant, Templeton Dorm Parent Bill previously worked in his family’s 122 year old furniture business. He has a degree in History from Canisius College and is pursuing a degree in Museum Studies from Buffalo State. Bill is passionate about history and is a Harry Potter and Star Wars fan.

Welcome Lydia Sherrie Development Office Assistant Lydia Sherrie is a Western New York native who holds a Bachelor of Arts in both English and Vocal Performance from SUNY Geneseo as well as a Master of Science in Education from Niagara University. Lydia spent most of her career serving as a Center Director for Sylvan Learning Centers in both South Portland, ME and Williamsville, NY. She currently resides in Buffalo with her husband, Jon and their two puggles, Oskar and Penny. In her spare time, she loves to attend concerts and to travel. She is incredibly excited to be joining the team at The Gow School!

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Fondly Remembered William “Bill” Overman ‘51, passed away on June 4, 2019 in Fair Haven, NJ. He is survived by his wife Patty and three children. He was a Navy veteran who served on the Destroyer Escort Heiliger and then worked at the American Stock Exchange for George Bondbright and E. F. Hutton. Later he sold heavy construction equipment forJohn Deere, International, Fiat Allis, Bobcat, and Mack Trucks. Bill served as a volunteer firefighter for 52 years, was a founding member of the New Jersey Land Improvement Contractors Association, and served on the Board of Governors of the Seabright Beach Club.

Dr. Willis “Andy” Anderson ‘55 died October 30, 2019 at the age of 82 in Howell, MI. Bernard Crystal III ‘60 passed away on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 in Maplewood, NJ. He worked as a housing management representative for the New York State Division of Housing and City Renewal before retiring.

Richard S. “Tim” Seymour ‘60 passed away on July 31, 2018 at the age of 77 in Medina, Ohio. Tim was a retired food service technician.

John C. Wilson ‘60 died January 19, 2014 in West Bloomfield, MI. Timothy J. Reed ‘61 passed away on July 2, 2019 in East Aurora, NY at the age of 77. After graduating from Gow in 1961, Tim joined the Air Force reserve for three years. He was an electrician and then started his own company called Training Solutions Associates and worked as a crane safety instructor until his retirement last year. Tim is survived by his children Tim, Calvin, Thomas, Kimberly, and Scott ‘89, and several grandchildren.

Walter McIlvain ‘63 died May 4, 2018 at the age of 70 in Bryn Mawr, PA . He is survived by Ann and three children.

Tury Bailey ‘68 passed away February 7, 2010 in Fairbanks, AK. He was raised in Fairbanks and graduated from Gow in 1968. After high school, he served in the Army National Guard, then worked as a boiler fireman and heavy equipment operator. He and his wife Corrine had three sons.

David Kupferman ‘87 passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 5, 2019 in Delray Beach at the age of 50. He is survived by his wife Patti Ann, daughters Maddi, Abbi, and son Adam, and sister Celina. When remembering David please recall his zest for life and his motto “Big Fun”.

Robert McCraig ‘89 of Saint-Thomas, Ontario passed away on June 5, 2019.

He is survived by his wife Janet Taylor, two sons, and three siblings.

Aaron Zavitz ‘00 passed away on June 2, 2018 following an ATV accident. Aaron played several musical instruments by ear and was known for his unusual electric guitar technique. Aaron loved the outdoors, and was an avid fisherman.

Clark Johnson ‘09 was killed in a motorcycle accident January 12, 2018 at the age 28.

Thomas Bishop ‘68 passed away in Gainesville, FL on April 4, 2016.

Introducing Gow’s Custom Cycling Kit!

Gow has designed a new bike kit with men’s and women’s short and long jerseys (in racing and relaxed cuts), bib shorts, and a cycling cap. They are custom made to order by Verge and ship in approximately three weeks. (Cyclist Jeffrey Spoon ‘65 modeling his Gow kit in Ann Arbor, MI).

TO ORDER: 1. Visit https://shop.vergesport.com/us-en/account/login 2. Register for an account and log in 3. Enter the team store password gowschool 4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and available items are shown in blue 5. Click on your item. That will take you to the sizing chart and shopping cart PRICING (plus postage and handling) MEN’S or WOMEN’S RELAXED FIT SHORT SLEEVED JERSEY - $67.50 MEN’S or WOMEN’S FITTED SHORT SLEEVE JERSEY - $85.50 MEN´S or WOMEN’S JERSEY FITTED LONG SLEEVE JERSEY - $99.00 MEN’S CLUB LENGTH BIB SHORTS - $94.50 WOMEN’S CLUB LENGTH BIB SHORTS - $76.50

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