Hockaday Spring 2018 Magazine

Spring 2018

ED LONG

Beloved Teacher.

Extraordinary Talent. Influential Leader.

Inspirational and Devoted Educator.

Upper School Spanish Teacher Alejandra Suárez and her daughter Fernanda Treviño Suárez (Class of 2018) volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.

H o c k a d ay ’ s M i s s i o n

limitless POTENTIAL OF GIRLS, HOCKADAY DEVELOPS resilient, confident WOMEN WHO ARE educated AND inspired TO LEAD LIVES OF purpose AND impact.

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Ed Long: Beloved Teacher.

Extraordinary Talent. Influential Leader.

Inspirational and Devoted Educator.

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The Priddy Legacy

The Junior Research Paper – A Rite of Passage at Hockaday

Contributed by Steve Kramer, Distinguished Teacher; History – Department Chair Lucio Benedetto, Upper School History Teacher Elizabeth Bennett, PhD, Upper School History Teacher Tracy Walder, Upper School History Teacher

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Service through Science: Transforming an Anatomy Class Project into a Community Movement

By Brandi Finazzo, Upper School Science Teacher

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Shaping Service Learning

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Speakers Bring their World Experiences to Hockaday

Allman Fellow, Hartman Fellow, and Founder’s Day Speakers

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A Conversation with Grace Lowry, Class of 2018

By Neha Dronamraju, Emily Fuller, and Shreya Gunukula,

all Class of 2018

Hockaday’s Rhodes Scholars – Where Are They Now?

By Libby Longino Cohen ’06, Laura Roberts ’12, and Mary Clare Beytagh ’14

D E P A R T M E N T S

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Perspectives On Campus Scoop Residence

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Zoom Class Notes Milestones Spotlight

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Editor Susan Earhart Brower ’92 Director of Communications Design Elizabeth Enloe Malakoff ’86 Creative Director Cover Ed Long The Nancy Penn Penson ’41 and John G. Penson Distinguished Teacher in Fine Arts; Fine Arts Department – Lead Chair; Dean of Upper School Hockaday Magazine A Publication of The Hockaday School More than a century of individuals involved with the Hockaday community – students, faculty, staff, alumnae, parents, grandparents, and friends – have a positive impact on one another and the world in which we live. Hockaday Magazine, published biannually by the School’s Communications Office, strives to articulate that impact – in the past, in the present, and in planning for the future. The magazine also seeks to highlight the activities of the School and its alumnae, as well as to help define and analyze topics facing our entire community.

Believing in the inherent worth and dignity of all people, The Hockaday School is committed, within the context of its educational mission, to build and maintain an inclusive community that respects the diversity of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, family composition, socioeconomic status, and talents of its members. This commitment to diversity and inclusion is vital to educating and inspiring Hockaday students to lead lives of purpose and impact as resilient, confident women.

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PERSPECTIVES Dear Hockaday Community: As I reflect on my first year as the Head of this magnificent School, I am thankful and humbled by the magnanimity of the Hockaday community. It has truly been a whirlwind, and in this short time, I have learned so much about Hockaday through the wonderful people I have met including students, parents, grandparents, Trustees, alumnae, faculty, staff, and friends of the School. To those of you who have spent time with me and with my husband Andy, thank you for your warm and generous welcome. We could not be happier here in Dallas.

At Hockaday, I have been working closely with the faculty and staff to ensure Hockaday continues to be one of the leading all-girls schools in the nation, setting standards for a rigorous curriculum in the humanities, STEAM, fine arts, and athletics.

Similarly, I am working closely with the Board of Trustees and the Leadership Team to further implement the goals outlined in the Strategic Plan so that we can continue to develop the Hockaday experience. The School is implementing strategies to achieve the Plan’s goals, which call us to look beyond what we’re doing currently and challenges us to ensure that we are providing a transformative experience for our students. The Strategic Plan reminds us of what is important, essential, and forward-thinking so we will graduate young women who are confident and prepared for their futures.

One exceptional initiative that we have launched this year as part of our Lower School Character Education Program is our Mindfulness Program, which focuses on Social-Emotional Learning. This program is being implemented in collaboration with community partners and medical professionals who specialize in this industry and are focused on providing effective tools for building resilience. We have developed a multi-year plan to integrate this program in both Middle and Upper School.

Giving back to the community continues to be an eye-opening part of every student’s experience, and every student is charged with making a commitment to serve the community through service projects, to which the girls committed more than 30,000 hours this year.

Additionally, we are building on the continued success of our Diversity and Inclusion curriculum. Students, faculty, and advisors are having critical dialogue about how inclusivity enhances and expands their understanding of the world around them. Teachers and students across all divisions are coming together and engaging in tough and important conversations to better understand each other, their backgrounds, and how we work together. In support of this initiative this year, we held our second annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, and it brought together the entire school community for a mesmerizing educational experience. Not only were our special

guests some of the best orators and performers we’ve ever seen, but the performances by our Hockaday students were received with standing ovations! The entire event was captured on video and is on our website for everyone to enjoy.

Outside of the classroom, our athletes have had strong showings at the SPC competitions held throughout the year. Their determination, commitment, and teamwork are awe-inspiring.

Several of our student athletes confirmed their intention to play their chosen sports in college on National Signing Day this year, and they will be playing lacrosse, running track, and playing tennis and soccer at colleges and universities including UNC, Bowdoin, Endicott, Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth.

During early April, the School’s focus was on the 51st Annual ISAS Fine Arts Festival held at Hockaday this year. From your time at Hockaday, you may recall the enormous planning process involved with the Festival. My thanks to Ed Long, Emily Gray, and the entire Fine Arts faculty for putting together an exciting and inspirational Festival. Over 4,000 students and teachers from more than 40 ISAS schools had an extraordinary experience. This particular ISAS Fine Arts Festival was especially memorable as it was our beloved Ed Long’s final Festival as he will be retiring at the end of this year after 47 years, and he will be dearly missed by all.

Finally, we are looking forward to our next stage of growth with plans for a new Child Development Center. For 20 years, the Child Development Center has been the heart of the School for the children of our faculty and staff. During these two decades, the Center has grown dramatically and outgrown its original two, temporary portable buildings in which our incredibly capable CDC faculty have lovingly taught and cared for hundreds of girls and boys. As a result, I’m pleased to confirm that the Board of Trustees announced the School will undertake to raise money to build a new permanent facility for the Hockaday Child Development Center to better accommodate the needs of our faculty and staff. This is a meaningful recruitment and retention tool for our faculty, and we trust that our community will join together to make the new permanent facility a reality.

As you can see, Hockaday continues to provide the unparalleled educational experience Miss Hockaday envisioned in 1913, five years before women were granted the constitutional right to vote. Hockaday remains fresh and invigorating because of its community and its commitment to excellence. Our girls are courageous and curious, generous and kind. Miss Hockaday founded her School with the intention of preparing girls to grow, thrive, and lead in an ever-changing world, and everything we do at Hockaday continues to be guided by that bold vision.

With tremendous gratitude, Dr. Karen Warren Coleman Eugene McDermott Head of School

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On Campus F=ma Math Competition Congratulations to Hope Fu (Class of 2020) and Elizabeth Guo (Class of 2018) who qualified for the next level of the F=ma competition. Only the top 400 physics students in the country qualify for this level, and the top six are chosen to be a part of the national Physics Olympics team.

Junior Adoette Vaughan Breaks Personal Cross Country Records 2018 Founder’s Day Award Recipients pictured left to right: Kaleigh Beacham, Olivia Naidu, Quinn Brodsky, Rory Finn, and Samantha Watson

2018 Founder’s Day Award Recipients Honored Congratulations to the 2018 Founder’s Day Award Recipients Kaleigh Beacham, Olivia Naidu, Quinn Brodsky, Rory Finn, and Samantha Watson. For 59 years the Founder’s Day Award has been Hockaday’s highest honor. The recipients are seniors that Hockaday teachers and peers believe most strongly exemplify the Four Cornerstones of Courtesy, Character, Scholarship, and Athletics as originally envisioned by Miss Ela Hockaday in 1913.

Students Lead Awareness Campaign about School Violence Upper School students and faculty gathered this spring to hold discussions about the ongoing issue of school violence across campuses in the United States. Plans were discussed about how our community can be engaged, support those affected by school violence, and how students could take action. During several “Changemakers” information sessions, students learned about specific ways to get involved in civic organizations and the processes behind government operations, so they could affect change in the community through political participation, community service, and community engagement.

Additionally, security discussions were planned for Form Meetings, and student-led initiatives were held

throughout the spring. In March, Upper School students were invited to a gathering on Commencement Terrace to honor the victims of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The names and ages of the Parkland victims were read and followed by 17 minutes of silence, and Form IV students distributed orange ribbons, which was part of a national movement to support the lives lost on February 14.

Students continue to be mindful of the impact school violence is having across the U.S. and are showing their solidarity in support of raising awareness about these tragic events.

Form III student Adoette Vaughan competed at the Lovejoy Spring Distance Festival in March. She ran the nation’s top time in the 2K Steeplechase while also breaking her own School record with a time of 6:56.77. Her hard work continues to show as she makes a mark on the national Track and Field scene. She also competed in The North Texas 1600, an elite girls 1,600m race, at the Texas Distance Festival hosted

by Southlake High School. She finished strong in second place with a personal record time of 4:55.61, which breaks her own School record. With this time Adoette ranks second in Texas and twelfth in the United States.

Adoette Vaughan (Class of 2019)

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Camille McElroy (Class of 2018)

Senior Camille McElroy Recognized as Community Playmaker Sarah Kate Ashton (Class of 2021)

Freshman Sarah Kate Ashton wins First Place at USA Climbing: Bouldering Youth National Championship Sarah Kate Ashton (Class of 2021) won first place in her age category at the USA Climbing: Bouldering Youth National Championship held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

During the competition, Sarah Kate competed against the top rock climbers in her age category from all around the country. In order to qualify to climb at Nationals, each of these outstanding climbers must compete successfully in bouldering competitions at the local, regional, and divisional levels. Sarah Kate’s win makes her the 2018 USA Climbing: Bouldering Youth National Champion for her age category, and earns her a spot on the USA Youth Climbing Team. In 2020, competitive rock climbing will be included in the Japan Summer Olympics as a brand new Olympic sport.

Camille McElroy (Class of 2018) was recognized at a Dallas Mavericks game as a Community Playmaker for her dedication to improving the lives of others and being a force for good. She was selected by Walmart and the Dallas Mavericks after being nominated for her work as President of the Genesis STAR (Students Tackle Abusive Relationships) Auxiliary. Camille has been involved with STAR since her freshman year and is currently president of the eight-member board, representing 100 students from 14 different schools that work together to support the Genesis mission.

Vibrato and The Fourcast Receive Gold Crown Awards The Vibrato and The Fourcast received Gold Crown awards at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Spring Conference in New York in March. The Crown Awards are CSPA’s highest recognition for overall excellence given to a student print or digital medium. The following Form III students attended the CSPA conference: Penelope Piccagli, Courtney Katz, Paige Halverson, Ellen Schindel, Ileana Kesselman, Charlotte Dross, Ponette Kim, Michelle Chen, Maddie McBride, and Emily Wu. Form III journalism students receive top awards at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Spring Conference.

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Members of the Varsity Field Hockey Team Named to the NFHCA High School National Academic Squad

Seniors celebrate Signing Day 2018. Back row, left to right: Sophie Isom; Trinity Thomas; Dr. Karen Warren Coleman, Eugene McDermott Head of School; Ana Glasgow; front row, left to right: Lizzie Benedict and Emily Fuller. Not pictured: Fernanda Treviño Suárez

2018 Signing Day for College Athletics Six seniors have committed to play their chosen sport at the college or university they will attend this fall. Lizzie Benedict will play lacrosse at the University of North Carolina; Emily Fuller will play lacrosse at Bowdoin College; Anna Glasgow will row for Dartmouth Crew; Sophie Isom will run for Yale track and field, Trinity Thomas will play soccer at Harvard University; and Fernanda Treviño Suárez will play tennis at Endicott University. Through their diligence and commitment to Hockaday Athletics, these girls are well-prepared for the intensity of college-level athletics, and the Hockaday community wishes them well.

Middle and Upper School Orchestra Members Honored at TPSMEA Eight Middle and Upper School Orchestra members were awarded playing positions with the Texas Private Schools Music Educators Association’s (TPSMEA) 2018 Middle and High School Honor Orchestras. Their journey began in the fall as they prepared for their auditions, where each of them stood out among the top players from across Texas.

On February 24, they played alongside top musicians from all over Texas to present an excellent concert at John Paul II High School in Plano under the baton of acclaimed guest conductors.

These young musicians’ love for music and commitment to hard work is to be praised. Congratulations to Zoe Lelevich (Class of 2025), Julia Luo (Class of 2022), Danica Ly (Class of 2024), Tukwa Ahsan

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(Class of 2022), Anoushka Singhania (Class of 2020), Charlene Brzesowsky (Class of 2020), Antonia Dinulescu (Class of 2020), and Jenny Choi (Class of 2020). Additionally, Upper School Concert Choir singers were chosen for TPSMEA Region and All-State Choirs.

Seven members of our Hockaday Concert Choir were selected for All-State by the Texas Private School Music Educators Association (TPSMEA). These students are: Kate Short, Anna Taglioli, Cindy Lu, Sophie Pearson, Angela Shi, Sarah Beth Kelton, and Kirsten Kirk. Additionally, five girls were selected for the Region Treble Choir: Isabella Page, Ameya Chavda, Gina Miele, Emma Unglaub, and Rhett Anderson.

Rory Finn (Class of 2018), Emily Fuller (Class of 2018), Audrey Magnuson (Class of 2018), JoJo Gum (Class of 2019), Natalie Jones (Class of 2019), Courtney Katz (Class of 2019), and Penelope Piccagli (Class of 2019) were named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) High School National Academic Squad. The High School National Academic Squad program recognizes those high school seniors and juniors who have achieved a minimum cumulative, unweighted GPA of 3.50 out of 4.0 (or the equivalent) through the first quarter of the 2017–2018 school year. Seniors and juniors who have achieved a minimum cumulative, unweighted GPA of 3.9 out of 4.0 (or the equivalent) through the first quarter of the 2017–2018 school year have been recognized as Scholars of Distinction.

Alumna Skypes from Parliament to Share Foreign Policy Insight Catherine Kirby ’15, a current Rice University student majoring in Political Science and Asian Studies, Skyped with Hockaday Seniors in Tracy Walder’s AP Comparative Government classes. Kirby is currently interning with the British Parliament in London while also taking classes and working on a dissertation as part of a Scholars Program. With a true passion for foreign policy, she engaged the students with her experience and the importance of learning about policy making at different levels in order to better understand the field. As part of the Transportation Committee, a select committee of the House of Commons, she has gained great insight into the impact of transportation and how it affects the daily lives of constituents.

Mary Orsak Addresses Dallas City Council This spring, senior Mary Orsak addressed the Dallas City Council about Confederate Monuments in Dallas. She is a member of the mayor’s Confederate monuments task force and requested “the removal of the monuments,” which was highlighted in full detail in The Dallas Morning News article, “Meet the 18-year-old I’m pretty sure will run Dallas sooner than later.” Mary has also served as Council Member Jennifer Staubach Gates’ Youth Commission appointee. The Youth Commission is made up of students from every council district, and aims to inspire Dallas youth to become lifelong leaders actively engaged in civic affairs, public policy, and advocacy. Earlier this year, Mary also gave a TEDx talk – “Take Your Seat at the Table,” encouraging youth to demand a seat at the grown-ups’ table. She raised issues about women’s inequality, and the lack of female representation in leadership.

Hockaday and St. Mark’s students at the Habitat for Humanity dedication

11th Habitat for Humanity House Dedicated Hockaday students in all divisions worked together this spring in many ways to support the Dallas Habitat for Humanity House. The ninth graders from Hockaday and St. Mark’s built over 20 benches to be provided to existing Habitat homes. The advisory groups from the Middle School spent several weeks building a playhouse for the backyard, and Lower School students provided snacks and supplies for the building group. The house was dedicated in late March, making one family’s dream of owning a home come true.

Changemakers: Women in Politics

Dallas City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates pictured with Hockaday Upper School students who attended the Changemakers: Women in Politics event

This winter, Dallas City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates and Former State Senator Wendy Davis visited campus to share their insights about the inner workings of government today. Both Gates and Davis have made a significant impact on their constituencies, their communities, and helped shape the political climate. These events were followed by a meeting on how students can get involved in civic organizations and learn more about the process of government, and the opportunities that exist for them both now and in the future.

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TEAMS Competition Twenty-one students (Angela Shi, Jennifer Wang, Lin Lin Lee, Emily Baschab, Christine Ji, Kaleigh Beacham, Emma Shore, Hannah Marlene Sipes, Lily Zhou, Hope Fu, Katrina Liang, Joy Gao, Kathryn Bowers, Emily Stevenson, Kelsey Chen, Annie Zhao, Ananya Phadke, Sophia Bahad, Riya Malhotra, Sriya Chebrolu, Suzanne Baxter) competed in a TEAMS (Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science) competition focused on Engineering, Math, and Science.

In the essay portion, they explored a building in their community and determined ways to make that building more efficient and answered questions regarding engineering better buildings for the environment. Hockaday had one team in the 11/12 grade division that won second place, and the two teams in the 9/10 division, and our A team won first place!

Junior Sophie Dawson Named Texas Poetry Out Loud Finalist Sophie Dawson (Class of 2019) was one of five finalists in the 2018 Texas Poetry Out Loud competition, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Sophie competed against 24 other students at the Bullock Texas State History Museum reciting “Propositions” by Stephen Dunn, “On Monsieur’s Departure” by Queen Elizabeth I, and “Undivided Attention” by Taylor Mali.

Math students compete at the TEAMS competition.

Team Hockaday Ties for First Place at the 15th Annual Metroplex Mathematics Contest Math Club members participated in the 15th Annual Metroplex Mathematics Contest.

This year’s contest took place at the Oakridge School in Arlington. Members competed in two individual contests and one six-member team contest. Team Hockaday tied for first place with Hirschi High School, the School of Science and Engineering, St. Mark’s, and Trinity Valley School. Hockaday team members included: Kelsey Chen, Hope Fu, Effie Guo, Lin Lin Lee, Clara Shi, and Angelina Wu.

Hockaday Publications Shine at NSPA! Thirty Hockaday journalism students attended the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association (JEA/NSPA) Convention in November. This year’s national convention was held in Dallas and drew over 5,000 attendees, and Hockaday publications were recognized with several top awards.

• The Fourcast: Pacemaker winner • The Fourcast: Third Place, Best of Show • The Fourcast: Fourth Place Design of the Year Award – News Magazine Cover [Mary Orsak (Class of 2018) and Tasneen Bashir ’17)]

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• The Fourcast: Fifth Place Design of the Year Award – Illustration (Brenda Lee ’17 “Uprooted” illustration) • Vibrato: First Place Best of Show • Vibrato: Fourth Place Design of the Year Award – Literary Magazine Spread [Hailey Sipes (Class of 2020)] • Vibrato: Fifth Place Design of the Year Award – Literary Magazine Cover (Teal Cohen ’17 and Ellea Lamb ’17) • Cornerstones: Seventh Place, Best of Show

Middle School Winning Robotics Teams

Hockaday Film Students Excel at Festivals Sophie Gilmour’s (Class of 2019) short film, “Ukiyo” was accepted to the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in the category, Filmmakers of Tomorrow.

Additionally, “ONE,” Emily Ma’s (Class of 2019) and Grace Zhang’s (Class of 2018) short film, was screened in Houston at the Bechdel Film Festival in late February. The festival, named after “The Bechdel Test,” is dedicated to supporting and promoting female filmmakers. In addition, Emily and Grace were invited to participate in a panel discussion focused on “Producing Your Independent Film” during the festival.

Students Attend Society for Neuroscience Conference Seven students including Clarissa Fuentes (Class of 2019), Chaucer Langbert (Class of 2019), Christine Ji (Class of 2018), Claire Marucci (Class of 2018), Neha Dronamraju (Class of 2018), Grace Olson (Class of 2018), and Anden Suarez (Class of 2018) attended Neuroscience 2017, the 47th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. The annual meeting brought together 30,021 attendees from 80 countries, 13,552 abstract presentations, and 902 sessions.

Upper School science teacher Dr. Katie Croft presented scientific work in an abstract entitled, “Choosing Spouses and Houses: Impaired Congruence Between Preference and Choice Following Damage to the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex.” By attending the conference, the students were able to hear from neuroscience experts, explore the newest tools and technologies, and learn about various career paths in neuroscience.

Middle School Robotics Wins First Place at the First Lego League Congratulations to the Middle School Robotics teams for their big wins at the First Lego League (FLL) North Texas Championship. Hocka ’scuse me? (Jayna Dave, Grace Dorward, Tarini Gupta, Juliana Lu, and Ashna Tambe) won a major award, Core Values: Teamwork, and The Hockabots (Nina Dave, Riya Guttigoli, Anisha Sharma, Stella Wrubel, and Sophia Yung) won the First Place Championship Award for achieving excellence and innovation in both the Robot Game and Project.

The Hockabots went to the World Championship in Houston in April where they were nominated for five different awards and accomplished their goal of finishing the Robot Game in the top 50 teams.

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Alumna Lisa Loeb ’86 is Hockaday’s First Grammy Award-winning Alumna!

Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb ’86 took home her first Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album at the 60th Grammy Awards. Lisa won for her album Feel What U Feel, establishing her as one of the best artists in the world of children’s music. After her win, Hockaday students across all divisions celebrated this exciting event during lunch.

Middle School Geography Bee Finalists

Mary Clare Beytagh ’14 Named Rhodes Scholar

Middle School Students Compete in National Geographic Geography Bee

Alumna Mary Clare Beytagh ’14 was named one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars for 2018. Beytagh will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and she is the third Hockaday alumna to receive the Rhodes Scholarship. Libby Longino Cohen ’06 received the scholarship in 2010 and Laura Roberts ’12 received it in 2016.

Middle School students competed in the School Bee of the National Geographic Geography Bee on Friday, January 5. Grade Level Finalists were: fourth graders Lekshmy Anoop and Emily McLeroy; fifth graders Anna Bolden and Caroline Polosky; sixth graders Charlotte Lauten and Lily McKenna; seventh graders Jayne Dave and Zoya Haq; and eighth graders Hannah Philip and Naz Soysal. Lily McKenna (Class of 2024) won the final round and Zoya Haq (Class of 2023) was the first runner-up.

Beth Wortley Studio In January The Hockaday Parents’ Association named the Penson Athletic Center Dance Studio in honor of Beth Wortley, Performing Arts Chair and Middle and Upper School Dance Teacher. For 29 years, Beth has inspired hundreds of Hockaday students in the Performing Arts by encouraging each girl to share her creative expression through dance, stage performance, and choreography. One of Hockaday’s most beloved teachers, she has encouraged both top performers as well as neophytes to develop their skills. Now, for future generations of Hockaday dance students, The Beth Wortley Dance Studio will serve as the place where they will discover their inspiration for performance.

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Beth Wortley with Upper School dance students

Class of 2018 National Merit Finalists

Sixteen Hockaday Seniors Advance as National Merit Finalists Sixteen seniors advanced as finalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program, a national academic competition for recognition and scholarship that began in 1955. Hockaday finalists include Emily Baschab, Kaleigh Beacham, Ritika Dendi, Kate Fundis, Effie Guo, Elizabeth Guo, Aurelia Han, Christine Ji, Lin Lin Lee, Maye McPhail, Mira Mehta, Eleanor Newman, Mary Elizabeth Orsak, Zasca-Aisha Ristianto, Jennifer Wang, and Kelly Westkaemper.

Sabrina Kessee Recognized as a “Next Generation Music Professional” Lower School Music and Performing Arts Teacher and Voices in Harmony Gospel Choir Director Sabrina Kessee was recognized by the Dallas Metroplex Musicians Association and the National Association of Negro Musicians as a “Next Generation Music Professional” at the Serita Doyle Lattimore Scholarship Luncheon. Sabrina has dedicated many years to teaching Hockaday students and has made extraordinary contributions to the community in the field of music.

Head of Lower School Randal Rauscher Rhodus ’97 and Sabrina Kessee, Lower School Music and Performing Arts Teacher and Voices of Harmony Gospel Choir Director

Thirty-two Hockaday Seniors Named Commended Students in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program Thirty-two seniors received Letters of Commendation in the National Merit Scholarship Program. This honor signifies that these students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2017 competition. Students who received this honor will become candidates for scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses. This year’s honorees are Shivanii Batra, Mackenzie Brabham, Bailey Brand, Quinn Brodsky, Ameya Chavda, Sarah Kate Feferman, Rory Finn, Shreya Gunukula, Payton Hart, Sarah Hodgson, Bailey Hollingsworth, Alison Hurst, Chloe Irwin, Sophie Isom, Tanvi Jakkampudi, Youngeun Lee, Audrey Magnuson, Julia Mitterer-Claudet, Katherine O’Meara, Lilly Okada, Sloane Parker, Allison Pluemer, Virginia Ryan, Shelby Schultz, Angela Shi, Emma Rose Shore, Radhika Singh, Anden Suarez, Kaitlin Vanesko, Samantha Watson, Genevieve Wood, and Sharon Zhang.

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Hockaday Hosts ISAS Fine Arts Festival

Dr. Steven L. Schandler is the father of Upper School History Teacher Tracy Walder and the grandfather of Sarah Grace who is in the Hockaday Child Development Center.

Hockaday Given Equipment for Neurocognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory Steven L. Schandler, PhD, a renowned California psychologist, donated equipment and supplies for a complete and fully-functioning neurocognitive psychophysiology laboratory in honor of his granddaughter Sarah Grace Walder, the daughter of Upper School History Teacher Tracy Walder. Sarah Grace is in Hockaday’s Child Development Center.

Dr. Schandler visited Hockaday in the fall of 2017 and gave a “Hungry Scientist” lecture to Upper School students. Subsequently, he donated his equipment to the School, which will be used in several Hockaday classes including Neuroscience and Spycraft. The equipment consists of instrumentation and supplies for a complete and fully functioning neurocognitive psychophysiology laboratory. An eight-channel hospital/research-grade polygraph is the core of the laboratory, allowing ink-onpaper and digitized storage of all forms of electrophysiological activity including electroencephalogram (EEG brain), electrocardiogram (ECG heart), electromyogram (EMG muscle), and activity reflecting emotions and body regulation controlled by the autonomic nervous system (e.g., skin conductance, temperature, respiration, blood volume). A computer-based data acquisition and laboratory control system provides real-time storage and analysis of physiological signals, and presentation and timing of research events.

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Hockaday held the 51st Annual ISAS Fine Arts Festival in April 2018, and approximately 4,000 students and teachers from five states gathered to celebrate the visual and performing arts at this time-honored event. Since the founding of Hockaday, the fine arts have been part of our culture, and the community-wide efforts and support of so many individuals was unmistakable throughout the Festival.

Everyone worked collaboratively to transform our School so that students could come together to experience and celebrate their peers’ talents in the fine arts. Hockaday’s team of faculty, staff, volunteers, and students worked for months leading up to the Festival to make this extraordinary event possible.

The Fine Arts faculty led by Ed Long, Emily Gray, Beth Wortley, and Susan Sanders-Rosenberg meticulously planned the intricate program to ensure our guests would enjoy their time at Hockaday. They led the entire Hockaday faculty and staff who readily supported venue coordinators, adjudicators, and workshop leaders to ensure visiting students and teachers would have a fulfilling experience. Due to the dedication and careful attention to detail from Hockaday’s facilities, maintenance, security, and dining staffs, the logistical needs were perfectly executed. Finally, HPA volunteers, led by parents Randi Hofmann and Judi Stewart, greeted and guided attendees throughout Hockaday so they could experience the performances and creative sessions that were planned. This was an outstanding community-wide effort that showcased the exceptional talents of fine arts students at independent schools today.

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SCOOP The following are excerpts from articles written by Hockaday students. They appeared in various issues of The Fourcast, Hockaday’s student newspaper. Our student journalists invite you to read the entirety of these articles and others online.

Senior Shines Offstage

By Elizabeth Guo (Class of 2018) When she’s not on the stage, senior Cate Ginsberg teaches and directs children for the JPAS’ upcoming show.

The curtains open. The spotlight beams. The orchestra strikes up a hearty rendition of “Tradition.”

But senior Cate Ginsberg is nowhere to be seen on stage. A theater veteran who has performed in the Hockaday Upper School musical every year since her freshman year, Ginsberg now stands backstage on the other side of the curtain, helping direct young actors to their places.

“As the director of the program, I trust her,” Robinson said.

“She’s so reliable and always ready to roll up her sleeves. She’s the kind of person you want on your team.”

Ginsberg is currently working as an assistant stage manager for the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center Performing Arts Space’s spring production of “Fiddler on the Roof, Jr.”

Indeed, throughout her time working on “Fiddler,” Ginsberg has delved into every task she has been presented with, which includes not only the enjoyable ones—assisting with blocking scenes and working on music with kids one-on-one—but also the less pleasant ones.

The cast of JPAS’ show consists of children and teens with ages ranging from six to 16, and Ginsberg’s job is to help teach and direct them as well as help the show’s director and cochoreographer, Linda Leonard, in any way that she can.

“I love kids, and these kids are really great, but things are not as fun when you have to discipline them,” Ginsberg said. “It can be a challenge to step in and say, ‘Hey, take this seriously,’ because you want them to have fun and have a good time.”

“I usually help the kids learn music, make sure they’re staying on task, write down blocking notes, or say, ‘Hey, this is a difficult part, let’s go over it again,’” Ginsberg said.

Leonard, though, affirms Ginsberg’s ability to act as a leader and teacher for these young performers.

The directors of JPAS, including Leonard and producer Alise Robinson, decided at the end of last summer to put on “Fiddler on the Roof, Jr.” for the center’s spring show. Auditions were then held before holiday break, and afterwards, the cast and crew have been meeting for rehearsals every Sunday from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

“She has a positive attitude and a maturity about her that is uncommon in young artists,” Leonard said. “Cate is kind, but strong. The students love her, and she is able to assist in teaching and be effective in everything she does.”

Because Ginsberg will be heading to college next fall, she believes that this spring show at the JCC will likely be her last.

“Once we get a little closer to the show in March—and there are multiple shows and two casts since so many kids sign up—we’ll have a week of tech week where the kids will come in every day after school until about 8 or 9,” Ginsberg said.

Prior to beginning work at the JCC two summers ago, Ginsberg had not had any technical experience. Thus, Ginsberg, whose majority of time in theater was spent on stage, has enjoyed gaining a more well-rounded sense of what it takes to put on a show.

And this isn’t Ginsberg’s first experience working on the more technical side of theater. For the past two summers, Ginsberg has worked as an intern and a teaching assistant at the JCC’s summer camp, where young performers come to take classes and be a part of the summer musical.

“I’m a little sad about [leaving], but I’ve learned so much from the JCC. Before, I’d been strictly on stage and performing, and now I get to see the other side of it,” Ginsberg said. “This has helped me see as a performer that tech is working really hard backstage, and I think that not enough people realize that tech needs to be appreciated.”

“Watching the kids grow has been my favorite part about working at the JCC these past few years,” Ginsberg said. “I saw it every day at the summer camps, where I was able to look back at what the kids accomplished in a few weeks and say, ‘I’m so proud of you!’”

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Both Leonard and Robinson agree on Ginsberg’s affinity for connecting with these young actors. When Robinson asked Ginsberg last year to work on JPAS’ 2018 spring show, she immediately thought of Ginsberg’s responsibility and love of musical theater.

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Students Share the Stories of Heart House Refugees

By Amelia Brown (Class of 2018) Some jumping up and down with excitement and others shying away in fear, the third to fifth grade kids at Heart House watched a big group of high school girls in plaid skirts and saddle oxford shoes walk into their classroom. After a series of icebreakers, the high schoolers asked the kids to tell them about their journeys to America.

On November 6 the senior Contemporary American Literature classes hopped on a bus to Heart House to complete their most recent assignment. After many class discussions about immigration and refugees inspired by texts such as Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” and Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America," English Department Chair Janet Bilhartz tasked her class with interviewing refugee children and writing about their journeys to America.

Senior Katie O’Meara enjoyed the opportunity to integrate service into one of her every day classes.

“We have learned about the idea of ‘service learning’ and Ms. Day emphasized how [going to Heart House] was true service learning because the service we were doing was integrated into our English class,” O’Meara said.

After getting off the bus and entering the wrong apartment building, the class lost more of their already limited time with the kids. Without the time to build trust, Bilhartz realized it was unrealistic for the children to open up and share their life story after thirty minutes with a stranger.

“The girls got the sense that a lot of them didn’t particularly want to talk about [their journey to America] and many said they didn’t remember coming,” Bilhartz said. “They also had no idea why they’d come, which is reasonable considering their age.”

However, not all was lost. O’Meara still learned many things about her eight-year-old buddy named Dot. O’Meara was shocked to learn that Dot traveled from Malaysia to America when she was only two months old.

“In my paper I mention that most two month old’s parents are concerned about their child getting neck strength and doing tummy time but [Dot’s] parents are moving her across the world,” O’Meara said.

Katherine Pollock (Class of 2018) visiting Heart House.

Senior Katherine Pollock also had luck when talking to Samuel, a nine-year-old from Malaysia. Hiding behind his Spiderman book, Samuel was shy at first but after growing more comfortable around Pollock he told her a little bit about himself and his journey. He remembers it taking one year for him to get to America as his journey was a combination of traveling by car and by boat. After several mentions of water, Samuel told Pollock that he missed Malaysia because he used to swim on the backs of swans in the water and he can’t do that in the US. “I am writing a third person narrative focused on Samuel and the symbol of water by contrasting the calm and quiet atmosphere underwater and the loud and busy atmosphere of Dallas,” Pollock said. “Clearly his favorite place to be is underwater, which shows his fear of coming to the surface and living in a loud and busy country like the US.” Although not all the kids opened up about their journey to America, Bilhartz was impressed with how the girls used the information they had to build a story. “[The experience was] not what we expected and in some ways it was disappointing but in other ways a lot of it was very interesting,” Bilhartz said.

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RESIDENCE From Daunting to Halcyon, Reflecting on a Five-Year Boarding Experience

By Cheryl Hao (Class of 2018) My decision to come to Hockaday was not a complicated one.

I knew I wanted a better education than the one provided to me in the public school across from my house, and I knew I wanted that education to be all-girls. Hockaday fit these criteria, and despite the fact that it was 200 miles away from my home in Houston, I could apply because of the Hockaday Residence Department.

I first arrived to be a resident at Hockaday in August of 2013, and I still remember the chaotic rumble inside the dorms.

I was welcomed by a multitude of smiling faces, and although at first I forgot each name as quickly as they had told it to me, their curiosity resonated with me. They saw me as more than a test score or quantifiable value; at Hockaday, people genuinely wanted to know who I was. Admittedly, that first night sleeping in the dorms was terrifying, as I felt like I was sleeping somewhere alien, in between four foreign walls.

But now, these walls have seen everything. In between these four walls – one painted tan, two ivory, and one camouflaged with shutters – I have felt happiness, sadness, failure, and success, but most importantly, I’ve felt at home.

In these past five years, Hockaday has become my home; not only is it a safe place to fail and cry, but it’s also a place that fosters halcyon days.

Addie Walker ’17 and Cheryl Hao (Class of 2018) at the Senior Ornament Ceremony in 2016 Given, when I first came to Hockaday, this idyllic image that I have now was not fully formed. I was homesick for the first few weeks, missing everything from the smell of my mother’s cooking to the view of the sunset I would see from my room. However, I gradually came to realize that I could find everything I missed about home in different parts of Dallas: my host family welcomed me to dinner by purchasing a rice cooker machine, and I even found solace in the fact that I was looking at the same sun as I did when I was back home.

I’m the person I am today because of the support systems that I built and that were provided for me as a boarder at Hockaday.

My best friends, Addie Walker ’17 and Vyanka Sotelo ’17, were my role models and guidance counselors in the four most formative years of my life. The dorm moms, Mrs. Angie and Mrs. Matthews, also had my back every day, whether it be with encouraging words or the best banana bread ever (thank you, Ms. Palmer).

The Amazing Race 2015 in Fort Worth

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Hall Wars 2017 I believe that I have received the best experience I could have gotten in the most important years of my life. I learned to live independently, making my own schedules, which included doing my own dishes and folding my laundry – chores that once seemed so daunting and time-consuming became painless tasks. I learned to manage my money when buying groceries.

Most importantly, I learned time management, found a love in making “To Do” lists, and realized that living at school really isn’t so bad.

Above all, I formed my own views and beliefs: guided by the exposure to the different cultures in boarding, I learned about various ways of life first-hand. It was the little things that opened my mind to vast ideas, like learning that a boarder from Saudi Arabia was more similar to me than a boarder from Vermont.

When I walk across graduation terrace with my diploma in my hand in May, I won’t be thinking about trying not to trip, or where to look to get my picture taken. What will cross my mind first are memories from five years ago: in the eighth grade, Addie, Vyanka, and I would sit on those steps and do our homework, chasing after our papers that would get swept up by the breeze, swatting away mosquitoes that landed on our legs.

A million sentimental moments like these overflow my Rolodex of memories made in the Hockaday Boarding Department.

Five years ago, graduating seemed like it would never come, but now, it’s only a few months away. This fall, I will attend college in Chicago, and I do not think I’m ready to go. Hockaday has completed its mission in preparing me to academically thrive there, so the fault lies with me – I don’t know if I’m ready to let Hockaday go yet. Plus, I doubt my college dorm bathrooms will be as nice as those of Hockaday Boarding’s.

Exchange student Mary Muñoz (Class of 2018) and Cheryl Hao (Class of 2018) when they were in the eighth grade

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ZOOM ISAS Fine Arts Festival 2018

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Ed Long

Beloved Teacher.

Extraordinary Talent. Influential Leader.

Inspirational and Devoted Educator.

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or nearly 50 years, Ed Long has dedicated his career to educating Hockaday students in all facets of the Fine Arts. Mr. Long began his tenure in 1971 and has taught every Hockaday graduate since 1974. Coming to Hockaday as the Composer-in-Residence, he has also served as the Director of Humanities, Curriculum Director, and for 44 years, the Chair of the Fine Arts Department. In addition to his iconic History of Art and Music class, Mr. Long has taught courses as diverse as Video, Anthropology of the American Indian, Philosophy, and Monuments of Contemporary Culture.

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Ed Long and Hockaday boarders enjoy Holiday Sing-a-Long in 1980

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is impact on generations of students, many of whom have vivid memories of Mr. Long’s signature History of Art and Music (HAM) class, has been profound. He inspires each girl to discover new perspectives with a fervent energy that each student fondly remembers well after she graduates. His unique vision and his passion for teaching make him a driving and constant force for which students, parents, faculty, and alumnae have a deep-seated respect and admiration.

Today Mr. Long conducts the Hockaday Orchestra, which he founded in 1978 and has grown to 70 students. During his tenure as department chair, Hockaday added programs in ceramics, photography, film and video, orchestra, theater, dance, and debate. His continued commitment to alumnae is reinforced by his participation and leadership in alumnae events, such as his creation of a 10-Year Reunion Class Panel Discussion and his collaborative work with the Alumnae Association to create the annual Hockaday Alumnae in the Arts (HAARTS) program each year.

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He has written and directed eight feature-length films and videos featuring Hockaday actors, written five concertos for Hockaday soloists, and wrote a musical for the opening of the Horchow Fine Arts Wing in 1987.

“When I think back on my time at Hockaday, memories of Mr. Long are always at the forefront of my thoughts. The one thing I always remember about Ed was how giving he was of his time.

If ever I needed advice, he was always there. I never felt rushed and I always felt heard. On our graduation night, I happened to catch Ed alone, which was rare.

His eyes were misty and I could feel how emotional this time was for him.

He said to me, “It happens every year. I get to know you seniors and spend time with you and before I know it, you’re gone.”

He had to say goodbye to us so many times. This time, we must say goodbye to him. Enjoy your retirement, my friend.

Hockaday will miss you.”

DEBBIE PEREZ VOHS ’95

Ed Long with Tony Award winning actress and Hockaday alumna Vicki Clark ’78

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r. Long started several programs that continue to be important parts of the Hockaday experience, including Senior Interviews and the Junior Patrons’ Guild to encourage students to participate in the Dallas arts community and cultural events from opera and museums to symphony, as well as plays throughout the school year.

Mr. Long has received many accolades during his tenure. He was honored by the Dallas Historical Society with the Award for Excellence in Community Service – Education; the Meadows Award for Teaching; the John Killion Award for Teaching; the Ellen Higginbotham Rogers Finalist for Faculty Excellence; and currently serves as The Nancy Penn Penson ’41 and John G. Penson Distinguished Teacher in Fine Arts. In 2016 with the opening of The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Center for the Arts, Mr. Long was honored by the Eugene McDermott Foundation, which named the performance stage in his honor.

“If I examine my interest in the arts, there are three factors that are crucial to the growth of that interest. Going to college in England for one term and a college requirement that I take an art history course are the first two. The third is Mr. Long.

His unparalleled knowledge and his willingness to explain that passion always impressed me. His suggestions for visiting exhibits or museums only increased my interest.

Also, as the AP Modern European history teacher, I never had to teach art to my students because they’d had HAM. Usually taking it in their sophomore year, they remembered even in their senior year all the understanding that was important for AP Euro.”

STEVE KRAMER Distinguished Teacher; History – Department Chair

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Ed Long with his wife Janet Bucher-Long

“As I write this tribute, I find myself at a loss for words to adequately express my gratitude to Mr. Long for his mentorship not only during my time at Hockaday, but throughout my professional career as an educator. Through his example, I learned the art of educating is not in the subject matter but rather in creating an atmosphere where students feel challenged, engaged, and valued. I find the greatest way to honor his legacy is in my classroom emulating these ideals.

Mr. Long, thank you for your unwavering belief in our abilities, your dedication to our community, and for sharing your talents and passion for the arts. You have inspired hundreds of Hockaday alumnae and students, and your legacy will continue to influence generations of future Daisies.”

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efore coming to Hockaday, he taught at both Towering Pines and Brownell-Talbot School. He was appointed by the College Board to the National Steering Committee of the National Art Awards, and is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Long has written 29 musical works, and he has served on the Steering Committee for the ISAS Arts Festival, organizing and hosting the festival five times in his 47 years at Hockaday.

Mr. Long holds a Bachelor of Music Composition from Indiana University.

Mr. Long has worked tirelessly to capture Miss Hockaday’s vision for Fine Arts at Hockaday, and with this guiding principle, he has built and shaped Hockaday’s Fine Arts curriculum, creating an unparalleled experience for Hockaday students today and in the future.

The entire Hockaday community extends its heartfelt gratitude to Ed Long for his commitment to Hockaday for 47 years, and for teaching all of us the beauty of the Fine Arts.

CHARLSIE GRIFFITHS ’98

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So much depends on Ed Long teaching HAM to students raised in white shirts and saddle oxfords (With apologies to William Carlos Williams) “I heard raves up and down the hallway about Mr. Long’s History of Art and Music (HAM) before I ever set foot in the classroom.

I don’t remember why others loved the class – perhaps it was his ability to explain complex ideas clearly or because the class was engaging and fun. I do remember that HAM redefined my understanding of what art was and could be. John Cage’s 4’33”, for example, challenged my ideas about music.

I still don’t know that I’d pay money to go ‘hear’ a performance of it (well, yes, yes I probably would), but I love how it makes me think about what music was.

“A teacher’s syllabus is a holy thing; it defines what we believe is important enough to pass down. In HAM, I learned not just about art and music but also about work that challenged assumptions and provided new perspectives on familiar objects and ideas.

That didn’t just teach me about art; it taught me to be a better thinker, and, I suspect, a better person.”

MOIRA MULDOON ’91

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“I have a memory of HAM that is associated with a friend of mine during her junior year. She was in a serious car accident. And a few weeks later had a terrible case of mono. Academically, this was a pretty devastating combination – especially junior year. But Mr. Long had a policy about difficult seasons. If he gave a test and you didn’t do well on it, he gave you a make-up test. And if you didn’t do well on that test he gave you another one.

And if you didn’t do well on that test, he gave you another one. His goal was that you LEARN THE MATERIAL, not that you be stuck with a bad grade just because the rest of your life was in shambles. Mr. Long had not just a commitment to our learning, but to our adolescence. To the reality that we were going to have difficult seasons, but that didn’t make us poor students.

We were teenagers, and he treated us like … regular people. In the book Good Influence, Daniel Heischman talks about what he calls ‘Pivotal Figures’ from our youth in a way that sums this up. He says that almost always, the people we admired in our youth had ‘a combination of high standards and some type of soft spot for the struggles of growing up that touched our souls and inspired us to do better.’

Can you think of a better description of Ed Long?”

KATHERINE BURCH CANALES ’96

“For 47 years, Ed Long has been ‘Mr. Hockaday’ – art and music scholar, teacher, innovator, historian, leader, gentleman, visionary, writer, punster, composer, conductor, colleague, and cherished friend who has more neckties than anyone I have ever known. Ed’s Fine Arts Department was built on his philosophy of Yes, we can! Over the years when students would come to him and ask such questions as, ‘Can I direct a one-act play? Can I learn to conduct? Can I do a play in Spanish and can you help me project translations in Clements? Can I play a concerto? Can I make a film?’ Ed would always answer, ‘Yes you can and I will help you or if I can’t do it, I will find a colleague who can!’ I keep asking myself what life at Hockaday will be like without Ed Long.

I now know that it will continue to get better because of the incredible and longlasting impact Ed has had on this School – and on each of us who have been blessed to have known and learned from him.”

“Beyond his incredible skill as a teacher, astonishing capacity to endure 47 years of volatile adolescents messily snacking and talking boys in his office, and remarkable talent as a musician in his own right, Mr. Long has proved himself a lifelong mentor and friend. He enabled me as a teenager to take audacious chances with my art, championing my independent productions, and always making himself available for after-school music composition tutorials.

He has empowered me as an adult by lending an ear in my weaker moments and maintaining that all challenges are surmountable. I’m grateful beyond measure that our paths crossed two decades ago at Hockaday; Mr. Long’s lessons have shaped and enriched my life.”

JENNIFER CLARY ’01

BETH WORTLEY Performing Arts Department Chair, Dance Teacher – Middle and Upper School Ed Long with the Fine Arts Department faculty

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Life Trustee Kathryn Amsler Priddy with Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt, former Eugene McDermott Headmistress, on the occasion of the announcement of The Kathryn Amsler Priddy Teacher Endowment in Mathematics in 2010

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THE PRIDDY FAMILY: Ashley H. Priddy (not pictured) and Kathryn Amsler Priddy’s children include Hervey Amsler Priddy and his spouse Dianne; Betty Priddy Walker ’69; and Ann Priddy Bentley ’73 and her spouse Rhett. They had nine grandchildren: Kathryn Walker Francis ’94 and her husband Jim, Caroline Horne Walker ’98, Willard “Elliott” Walker III, Ashley Priddy Walker ’05, Amsler Priddy Bell and her husband Don, Ashley Warren Priddy and his wife Ashley, Elizabeth Ann Bentley ’10, Virginia D. Bentley ’12, and David Bentley. Kathryn also had seven great-grandchildren: Jackson Priddy Bell, Eleanor Amsler Bell (Class of 2026), Ashley Carter Francis (Class of 2024), James Byrne Francis IV, Robert Priddy Francis, Leighton Charles Priddy, and Isla Rose Priddy. Mr. and Mrs. Priddy’s sister-in-law, the wife of Robert Priddy was Ruby Norwood Priddy ’42.

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ften described as one of Hockaday’s unofficial founding families, the Priddy family is synonymous with leadership at Hockaday. Both Ashley H. Priddy and Kathryn Amsler Priddy unequivocally supported the School throughout their lives, investing in programs and facilities that would benefit students, faculty, and staff for generations to come.

The Priddy family’s relationship with Hockaday began in 1956 when Ashley and Kathryn Priddy’s oldest daughter Betty Priddy Walker ’69 entered the First Grade, and since then, there has been a Priddy family member continuously attending the School.

The Priddys’ second daughter, Ann Priddy Bentley, followed her sister and graduated in 1973. Since then, Kathryn Walker Francis ’94, Caroline Horne Walker ’98, Ashley Priddy Walker ’05, Elizabeth Ann Bentley ’10, Virginia D. Bentley ’12, Eleanor Amsler Bell (Class of 2026), and Ashley Carter Francis (Class of 2024) have been students at Hockaday.

Four members of the Priddy family have served the School on the Hockaday Board of Trustees including Ashley H. Priddy, Kathryn Amsler Priddy, Betty Priddy Walker ’69, and Kathryn Walker Francis ’94. Ashley H. Priddy served as Board Chair from 1974–1977, and Kathryn Walker Francis ’94 is currently Vice Chair and Chair-Elect and will serve as Board Chair from 2019–2021. In addition to serving on the Board, Betty Priddy Walker ’69 taught seventh and eighth grade mathematics in 1973–1974. Kathryn Amsler Priddy was named a Hockaday Life Trustee in 1989, and she was also named an Honorary Alum of the School, a designation she was most proud of. Ashley H. Priddy was named the first Honorary Alum and also served as a Life Trustee from 1979–1984.

In addition to the long legacy of family members, many major milestones of the School – new buildings, increased endowment, long range plans, and enhanced curriculum – have been made possible through the generous support of the Priddy family.

They are committed to ensuring future generations of Hockaday students experience extraordinary teachers who engage them not only in the classroom, but also make an impact on the character and quality of their lives as young women and adults.

The Priddy family has taken a leadership role in every Capital Campaign undertaken by the School during the last 40 years. Ashley H. Priddy helped establish the original Hockaday Endowment Fund and worked tirelessly to raise support for the $15 million campaign for the 1970s. His daughter Betty Priddy Walker ’69 served the School's campaign in the 1980s. As a result, Hockaday’s Development Office was created. Kathryn Amsler Priddy served on the Honorary Campaign Committee for the $50 million Hockaday Tomorrow Campaign. And Kathryn Walker Francis ’94 served as Chair of the recently completed $100 million Centennial Campaign, in addition to serving as the Centennial Executive Chair.

Ashley H. Priddy and fellow Trustees dressed as students in 1974.

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Ashley H. Priddy Commencement Terrace

BUILDING AND BEAUTIFYING THE HOCKADAY CAMPUS

The pergola on Ashley H. Priddy Commencement Terrace is adorned with blooming hanging plants for the commencement ceremony.

The Ashley H. Priddy Lower School greets our youngest Hockadaisies each day and provides them with bright, spacious classrooms specifically designed for the best learning environment for young students. The Ashley H. Priddy Commencement Terrace is cherished by students, parents, alumnae, and faculty alike. The columns that grace the terrace and provide the backdrop for Commencement each year are remarkable, sixteenth-century Spanish columns—acquired by way of William Randolph Hearst’s unused purchases for San Simeon. These columns support a pergola, continuing Hockaday’s tradition of graduating beneath a pergola that originated with the first graduating class in 1916 at the Haskell and Live Oak home.

Mrs. Priddy felt immense joy in seeing the beautification of the School’s grounds and indoor spaces. She approached the School about changing the chain link fence that surrounded the campus to the beautiful perimeter wall that exists today. This wall, made possible through her generosity, was one of her favorite gifts to the School. Each December, poinsettias line the halls during the holidays thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Priddy.

Their anonymous gift to the School is still a proud tradition, and serves as a reminder of the spirit of the season. Above the fireplace in Whittenburg Terrace is a Julian Onderdonk painting of bluebonnets given to Hockaday by Mrs. Priddy.

Each December poinsettias line the halls during the holiday season thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Priddy.

Field of Bluebonnets Under a Cloudy Sky, an oil on canvas by Julian Onderdonk, an American painter from 1882–1922, was a gift to Hockaday from Life Trustee Kathryn Amsler Priddy.

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The Ashley H. Priddy Lower School

COMMITMENT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS Both Mr. and Mrs. Priddy understood that a strong and healthy endowment is crucial to the financial well-being of Hockaday, to the plans for the future, and to the daily lives of Hockaday students. As a result, they provided support for five endowment funds to ensure future generations of students and faculty would benefit from a robust Hockaday experience: THE ASHLEY H. PRIDDY ENDOWMENT FUND This Fund was established in 1981 by Ashley H. Priddy to help maintain Hockaday’s excellence for future generations. The Fund honors Mr. Priddy by creating a permanent legacy at the School and continues to provide critical ongoing support.

THE ASHLEY H. PRIDDY ENDOWED FINANCIAL AID FUND Established in 1982 by Mr. Priddy’s children, Hervey Priddy, Betty Priddy Walker ’69, and Ann Priddy Bentley ’73, and by other members of the Priddy family, this Fund honors Ashley H. Priddy’s love for Hockaday and his many contributions to the School. The Fund supports student financial aid.

THE ASHLEY H. PRIDDY ENDOWED LOWER SCHOOL FUND Established in 1985 as a memorial to Life Trustee Ashley H. Priddy by the Eugene McDermott Foundation, Sabine Corporation, and an anonymous donor, the Fund provides support for the operation and maintenance of the Ashley H. Priddy Lower School.

Mr. and Mrs. Priddy perfectly embodied Hockaday’s Cornerstones of Character and Courtesy. Their commitment to the School will endure through the continued support of their family members in the Hockaday community, and they will be remembered with admiration and affection by all.

Ashley H. Priddy 1922 – 1984 Ashley Horne Priddy earned a BBA from Rice University in 1941 and a BS in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1949. Mr. Priddy served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve in the early 1940s and spent his career with Sabine Royalty Corporation from 1949–1984. Additionally, Mr. Priddy served the community in many capacities, which included the Board of Directors for First National Bank of Dallas, the mayor of the Town of Highland Park, Texas from 1970–1976, president of the Dallas Wildcat Committee, trustee of the Engineering School Foundation for The University of Texas at Austin, and president of the Friends of the Governor’s Mansion. He was a member of theTexas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and the Dallas Petroleum Club.

Kathryn Amsler Priddy 1927 – 2017

THE ASHLEY HORNE AND KATHRYN AMSLER PRIDDY ENDOWED FACULTY FUND FOR THE LOWER AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS This Fund was established in 1988 by Betty Priddy Walker ’69, a Trustee of the School from 1985 to 1991, and Ann Priddy Bentley ’73 to thank their parents for the Hockaday educations they received. The Fund provides support for faculty salaries in the Lower and Middle Schools and honors Mr. and Mrs. Priddy’s belief in the importance of these divisions to a Hockaday education.

Kathryn Amsler Priddy attended The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her many activities at Hockaday, she served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Friends of the Governor’s Mansion, Gaston Episcopal Hospital Foundation, St. Michael’s Church Foundation Board, Children’s Medical Center Nurses Aid Volunteer, Junior League of Dallas, Southwestern Medical Foundation Board, and the Dallas Women’s Club.

THE KATHRYN AMSLER PRIDDY TEACHER ENDOWMENT IN MATHEMATICS Honoring Mrs. Priddy’s service to the School and her lifelong love of mathematics, the Priddy family, representing four generations of Hockaday women, established The Kathryn Amsler Priddy Teacher Endowment in Mathematics in 2010. The Fund provides support for Hockaday’s Mathematics department, specifically to be used for faculty support in Middle and Upper School.

Hockaday extends its profound appreciation to the Priddy family for their loyalty, generosity, leadership, and for their steadfast support of the School.

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The Junior Research Paper – A Rite of Passage at Hockaday Contributed by Steve Kramer, Distinguished Teacher; History – Department Chair Lucio Benedetto, Upper School History Teacher Elizabeth Bennett, PhD, Upper School History Teacher Tracy Walder, Upper School History Teacher

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hether it is with intense trepidation or dogged determination, for more than 25 years, every Form III student has written her Junior Research Paper – or JRP – that has become a rite of passage during her Upper School career. After countless hours of preparation and review with their history teachers, many students reflect on the process and confirm that it was a great preparatory experience for college.

Hockaday’s Upper School History Department faculty share their collective thoughts on the significance of the JRP and why it is such an important part of the Hockaday experience.

History Department Chair and Distinguished Teacher Steve Kramer notes that, “The current iteration of the Junior Research Paper started in the mid-1990s. At the time the paper was longer than the current 10 pages, but the process was similar. We worked on the project for two or three months. However, there were earlier research papers. In the 1980s, junior English did a research paper, and the American History classes also did one. At some point, a decision was made, probably in the mid-1990s, to have one paper on which the English and History departments would work together.

The English and History teachers for each student would grade the paper and then meet to agree on a grade. Some years, students were required to have a piece of literature incorporated into the paper, but eventually students were allowed to select their own topic as long as it connected with American History in some way.

This allowed students to often pursue topics that are not seen as traditional American History research paper topics.”

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Mr. Kramer recalls, “When I came to Hockaday in 1980, I believe that the English department was doing a research paper in the junior year. Also, for American History, all juniors take the course so it made it easier to do a paper when everyone could do it. That is still true today. With one or two exceptions a year, all Hockaday juniors take APUSH (AP US History) or RUSH (Regular US History). This means every student in her junior year writes a JRP.” The range of topics students selected in the early 2000s included: comparing Arab-Americans and Japanese-Americans and xenophobia; Norman Rockwell; the military and environmental destruction; Lincoln, Bush, and preemptive foreign policy in the Middle East; and the over-prescription of Prozac – to name a few.

Fifteen years later, topics now range from the US-orchestrated 1953 coup in Iran to the failure of US covert intervention at the Bay of Pigs, to the Military/Hollywood movie complex to the connections between the American eugenics program and Germany, and to the marketing of the Volkswagen Bug and Van during the 1960s. The range of topics and creativity with which they were created represents the thoughtful approach each junior takes when developing her research paper.

Each year, the process starts in late September when the project is introduced, and within the week, students will have a general topic idea that will be reviewed by their teacher. Upper School History Teacher Dr. Elizabeth Bennett notes, “The girls have the freedom to choose what interests them as long as it pertains to the United States in some way. This is important because it creates greater engagement with the project for the girls as they want to know something about what they choose to research. The girls must do some preliminary research to complete a series of notecards and bibliography so that they may formulate a working thesis statement.”

The JRP is an argumentative rather than a narrative paper, but the first part of the process is identifying a general topic.

Upper School History Teacher Tracy Walder confirms, “We provide a great deal of scaffolding for the girls with the assignment. All topics must be approved by their teacher, a great deal of feedback is given to the girls on their thesis statements, outlines, and rough drafts, and weeks are set aside for students to work on these mini-JRP assignments in class and/or meet with their respective teachers.”

Throughout the process, students submit components of their papers including an annotated bibliography, introduction, argumentative thesis, outline, and examples of their papers so the faculty can see that they understand the methodology.

“We review these to ensure that the girls have an argumentative thesis and an effective but preliminary roadmap of where they intend to go with the paper,” says Lucio Benedetto, Upper School History Teacher. “During the week prior to Thanksgiving break, we postpone our classes and provide the girls with time to conference with us while they complete a draft including both a preliminary bibliography and endnotes. We review these to ensure that the papers are developing an argument, that evidence is being used effectively, and that their citations are in proper Chicago format. After we return the drafts with our extensive comments and recommendations, we postpone classes again for the last two weeks of school before the break, allowing the girls to use that time for conferences with us and to complete the final paper.”

Throughout the springtime, faculty will read the papers and finalize their assessments. For decades, alumnae have emailed their teachers or returned to campus to confirm that the JRP was one of the essential experiences they had that prepared them for their college careers.

Examples of JRP Topics from 2016–2017: Patients and Pariahs: How the Medical Industry Dissected, Abused, and Excluded African Americans

by Kaleigh Beacham The Disease of the ‘Lazy’ South: How Hookworm Represented an Enemy of Progress

by Effie Guo Hamilton’s Take on Hamilton: How the Musical that Intended to Renew His Legacy Actually Rewrote It

by Sophie Isom On Thin Ice: The Evolution of the United States’ Antarctic Policy During the Cold War

by Ellie Newman

“Allowing the girls to choose their own topics, with teacher approval, encourages them to think for themselves and to trust their personal interests,” agrees Mr. Benedetto. “During the research process, the girls learn how to recognize and use a wide range of legitimate scholarly resources that include books, journals, and other forms of media that may be relevant to their paper, and how to properly cite the information that they use in the paper. The research process also teaches the girls that they need to be intellectually flexible and be willing to amend their arguments if the information they find does not fully support their original thesis. Because the JRP is required to be an argumentative paper, the girls also learn how to properly and effectively marshal factual, historical evidence to effectively support their thesis. These skills will be valuable to their future academic and professional careers. In fact, during their visits with us, many alumnae tell us that the JRP was one of the most beneficial parts of their Hockaday education.”

Dr. Bennett has observed, “While a difficult and lengthy project, it is also very rewarding for the girls. They come away from the project proud of what they have accomplished and more confident in their ability to tackle a major research paper. Many girls become engrossed in their topic and find it leads them to ideas they had never considered. The lessons learned in this project are applicable to every area of academic endeavor: learning systematic research methods as well as deepening skills of analysis, organization, and written communication.”

“By doing the JRP, girls feel that assessments such as these in college are far less daunting, and they are much more prepared than their classmates,” notes Ms. Walder. “So much more prepared, that many girls have told me that they teach their fellow classmates how to organize their information and how to start their papers. Additionally, learning to support one’s argument with facts derived from primary and secondary sources is a critical tool and life skill. At Hockaday, we want our students to engage in discussions in a constructive, thoughtful, and respectful manner, and I believe that the skills they acquire in the JRP help them do this.”

Mr. Kramer notes that there are two ways of knowing the benefits of the JRP: “The first is anecdotal. The girls come back from college and relate to us that if they had a research paper in a course, they knew how to organize, research, and write, whereas many of their peers had difficulties. One of my students from last year related to me that she had written two 15-page research papers in the same course, and she was so pleased that she had learned how to approach them in her Hockaday APUSH course. The second acknowledgement of the utility of the JRP comes from college syllabi that students have sent to me. Almost every college humanities/history course has some form of a research paper. The department thinks the JRP is one of the most important assignments we do. We have added different kinds of research papers in the world history and US government courses because of the value we place on the JRP.” Hockaday alumnae who have (fond) memories of their own JRP are encouraged to share these with Hockaday by emailing communications@hockaday.org.

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SERVICE THROUGH SCIENCE: Transforming an Anatomy Class Project into a Community Movement

By Brandi Finazzo, Upper School Science Teacher illuminate an interactive monitor alongside a television screen displaying original student-produced public service announcements (PSAs) playing on a continuous loop. The most striking visual, however, may be the oversized shadowbox surrounding a life-sized human skeleton possessing incredible 3D printed components.

Life-sized Human Body Showcase displaying student-designed 3D models of organ systems

It’s 7:20 am on a Tuesday, and a flurry of green plaid skirts fills the Ownby Family Lobby on the north side of the Hockaday campus. Some student volunteers help coordinate the finishing touches to the displays that will beckon guests to stop as they walk through the door from the Forest Lane parking lot, while others are receiving a crash course in donor registration protocols from the bone marrow registry affiliate or the registered nurses from Carter BloodCare.

In addition, this special event provides an immediate on-site opportunity for individuals to become part of a positive change by registering to become an organ donor, donating blood with the Carter BloodCare mobile unit, or registering with Be The Match as a potential bone marrow donor.

The work for this culminating event began back in August as the school year opened, when Upper School students enrolled in the Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy course were introduced to the concept of this year-long project.

After being touched by a radio ad encouraging listeners to join the Be The Match national bone marrow registry, I began doing some independent research on global donor deficits and found it was a much larger problem in the United States than I had realized. I felt this was exactly the topic that could connect my students’ understanding of homeostasis in the body with real-world impact and application – a way to make their understanding of anatomy and physiology more meaningful. To this end I quickly enlisted the expertise of Hockaday’s Technology Integration Specialist, Candace Townsley, to help brainstorm the right platform to display the student research, and to train the students on the various forms of technology they hoped to employ.

Townsley, attracted by the purpose of the student project and recognizing the great potential for community impact, immediately volunteered to help me plan and coordinate the Give Life event details.

It is now 7:30 am, and each girl assumes her assigned post, eagerly awaiting her first visitor. The excitement is palpable and justified. Today, April 27, 2017, marks the first-ever Hockaday Give Life event, a community-wide education campaign hosted by the students of Hockaday.

The campaign focuses on creating awareness among the various members of our community about the current deficit of organ and tissue donors in the United States. Student-designed webpages highlighting every currently transplantable human organ and tissue

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Upper School students encourage community members to participate in the Give Life event.

the United States. Our goal was to inspire more schools to pursue partnerships with local, regional, and national organizations interested in creating positive change through the buy-in of their students, the community leaders of tomorrow.

The response from conference-goers was excellent, and many wanted additional details so that they might attempt to implement a similar event at their local schools.

Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy students share what they have learned with their peers through their interactive webpages covering transplant research.

Once the basic components of the project were announced in class, students organized themselves into teams and selected their project focus from a list of currently transplantable organs and tissues. Through completing a series of project checkpoints, students experienced the value of STEAM learning as they explored the science behind organ and tissue transplantation, employed various technologies (including studentdesigned webpages and public service announcement videos) to deliver their findings to a broad audience, engineered 3D replicas of their topics using 3D printers, and partnered with art students to create a unique public display which showcased all of their hard work.

The community response to the students’ presentation and the rest of the Give Life event was incredibly positive.

Parents, alumnae, faculty, staff, and students alike felt connected to the cause, educated on the topic, and inspired to join the movement.

One Hockaday family, the Schultzes, was particularly invested in this project because both of their daughters (Shelby Schultz, Class of 2018 and Sarah Schultz, Class of 2019) had enrolled in the Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy course and participated in the project. Betty and Brian Schultz remarked, “[Our family] is truly enriched by the decades of faculty, administrators, parents, and students in our local community dedicated to creating programs that open the hearts and minds of our community. We are grateful that our girls are being taught how to communicate stories and events in amazingly compelling ways. Our

family is so proud of Shelby and Sarah for taking on this cause and embracing social responsibility.”

Overall, the course project met all of the goals that Townsley and I had aimed for. Students were given a task that asked them to explore the intricate details of body systems in an authentic context that extended well beyond the walls of the classroom. They were challenged with learning and employing various technologies to convey their understanding and inspire change. Rory Finn (Class of 2018) saw the project and culminating event as a departure from typical PowerPoints and in-class presentations. “It just makes the stuff you learn all so real,” she said. “I think such a big event effectively attracted the attention of the student body.”

The campus was abuzz for weeks following the Give Life event. The Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy students were very proud of their work and the message it delivered. “Many people’s lives depend on the donations of others. I found that if my efforts convinced one person to become an organ donor, then it was worth it. It was that practical application of my knowledge from the classroom that truly made me feel that what I learned would better the world around me,” said Shelby Schultz.

Although the Give Life event is not scheduled to occur again until the 2018–19 school year, I have been brainstorming ideas for ways to make the experience for my students and community members even better. This past fall, the student project research teams were given the opportunity to explore some alternative visual display options, such as building a Rube Goldberg machine highlighting the physiology of their topic, or crafting an original three-dimensional art piece out of recyclable materials that conveys the anatomical and physiological details of their topic organ or tissue. In addition, I expanded options for the media influence component and prompted students to watch blockbuster films centered on the topic of organ donation with the goal of identifying and correcting misconceptions presented in these movies.

Because the project is so relevant to everyday life, there are many directions in which I could choose to take it, and that’s very exciting to me as an educator.

No matter the many possible versions of both this project and the Give Life events yet to come, the students of Hockaday’s Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy class will continue to explore, learn, and teach others about the incredible machine that is the human body, and the power of organ and tissue donation.

In the summer immediately following the Give Life event, Townsley and I represented Hockaday at the STEM Think Tank and Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. There, we presented the components of the project and discussed the many facets of the event coordination to conference participants from all over

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Shaping Service Learning

By Neha Dronamraju, Emily Fuller, and Shreya Gunukula, members of the Class of 2018

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Giving Students a Voice through Tutoring at Cabell Elementary

By Neha Dronamraju (Class of 2018)

Neha Dronamraju (Class of 2018)

As part of the culture of the School, all Hockaday girls – from prekindergarten through their senior year – continue to serve others and improve the community in which they live. From designing educational camps to weekly tutoring at DISD schools and building Habitat for Humanity homes, every girl finds their education does not stop within the walls of their classrooms.

At Hockaday, The Dr. William B. Dean Service Learning Program is focused on community service and learning from these experiences outside of the classroom. Students are encouraged to build meaningful relationships with organizations, understand the issues like hunger, homelessness, and domestic violence that they encounter in their volunteer work, and to reflect on the service they’re involved in and the impact they have on their community.

Three seniors share their service learning experiences, how it has impacted their lives, and how they will continue to serve the community after they graduate.

My community service engagement at Hockaday has been predominantly focused in the education space. I have tutored at Cabell Elementary for about three years, and have nurtured a desire to pursue educational reform on a larger canvas. I found my avenue in a junior year service opportunity with Leadership ISD (LISD), whose tagline, “to advance educational excellence and equity,” resonated with me.

The Leadership ISD organization sponsors a student-led effort called the Student Voices Program, which empowers area high school students with diverse racial identities, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status to identify challenges in the community and take the initiative to address them. Students are organized into cohorts, where each cohort focuses on finding solutions, large or small, to current issues in low-income Dallas ISD schools.

My cohort spent one semester getting acquainted with the educational inequity rampant in high schools less than five miles from mine. An example of this inequity was when we learned that the DISD operating budget is equally distributed between a campus with $150,000 in median household income and one with $23,000 as its median income. In another example, we learned that of the 500,000 students in the DISD, 63% are not collegeready, as compared to Hockaday’s 100% college acceptance rate.

In my role as an intern for the Student Voices Program, I am working towards that larger goal of increasing equity in resource distribution. I liaise with the Dallas ISD board and advocate for the students’ most immediate problems, to ensure that any investment is proportional to the need. In addition to liaising with DISD’s board, I have also worked with students in Thomas Jefferson and Conrad High Schools to discover their most critical needs. The fall term in my senior year was spent in the discovery phase. Through a series of empathy interviews, I uncovered that the schools did not have enough resources to cater to the nonEnglish-speaking populations. I then worked with community leaders to set up an ESL tutoring program to serve not just the Spanish-speaking students, but also those from refugee populations who speak languages as diverse as Burmese, Arabic, and Hindi.

My association with the Student Voices Program has given me a platform to channel my energy and ideas and has empowered me to create change in the community. I am especially grateful to Hockaday’s Director of Service Learning, Ms. Laura Day, who supported each of my (sometimes) ambitious proposals and made every opportunity available to me, so I could progress to next steps.

I will continue my outreach even after I leave Hockaday, knowing I can rely on the many generous individuals who have opened their hearts and minds to support me in my cause thus far.

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Meg Wilson (Class of 2020), Isabelle Shadle (Class of 2019), Bailey Brand (Class of 2018), Emily Fuller (Class of 2018), and Rory Finn (Class of 2018)

Building a Future with Habitat for Humanity

By Emily Fuller, Class of 2018 Last year when I was browsing through x2VOL, I came across Habitat for Humanity. It immediately sounded like something I would love, so I tried to sign up. I would have been the 26th student on the waiting list vying for 10 spots, so I knew I would need to find another way to come that weekend. So I thought to myself – press clearance! When it came to framing day – with my camera and journal ready to write a story about the new opportunity for a family and the experiences of volunteers – I didn’t realize that I’d soon become a part of it!

On my first day at Habitat, I was forced to reconcile with the fact that I had the privilege of spending my childhood marking my height on doorways, inviting friends over for sleepovers, and playing soccer in the front yard, while people who lived only miles away from me would not be able to provide that for their kids.

I realized I could not just stand by and observe this. Habitat gave me the means to take action against that, so I jumped in with both feet.

PEOPLE ARE CALLED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK WE DO AT HABITAT BECAUSE IT IS UNDENIABLY A SPECIAL PLACE.

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To get my Core Volunteer certification I completed the Habitat University program, which requires “students” to participate on each of the eight stages of building. And no matter their experience levels, of all the people I worked with in the past 13 months, I have not met one person who did not approach this collaboratively. Not only have I found community in a way that I didn’t foresee even a year ago, but my involvement at Habitat has made me a better student and a better leader. I have developed an ability to assess a situation and figure out what needs to be done without having to ask, and when I face difficulty I have honed my ability to fight through it. Habitat has showed me that it’s OK to admit your faults, it is OK to make mistakes, and it is OK to take risks. So for me, as I plan to start college in the fall, I wanted to make sure I would continue to be involved with Habitat. Thanks to the School, I already understand how I will be involved in the next chapter of my own life. I am lucky enough that my home for the next four years, Bowdoin College, already has a campus chapter and a Habitat office is just half an hour away – because people need homes in Maine too!

I truly believe that no construction site will compare to the Hockaday-St. Mark’s one, though. Whether it’s 35 degrees and cloudy and windy, or 75 and sunny, the outpouring of support is there at Habitat. No matter the weather, at the Hockaday-St. Mark’s sponsored build there are always volunteers ready to bear the cold, families ready to bring food and coffee to the worksite, and Freshmen eager to build benches in the warehouse. People are called to contribute to the work we do at Habitat because it is undeniably a special place. For the last 12 years, Hockaday and St. Mark’s have brought relief to individuals and families stuck in Dallas’ housing crisis. On paper this may seem like a small number, but when we get to spend each week with the family that will live in the home, the effect of our service is right before our eyes. We see them cutting out the threshold to their new home, lifting up their walls, and planting the sod grass their kids will play on.

Designing & Developing a Summer Camp with T.R. Hoover Community Development Center

By Shreya Gunukula, Class of 2018 The first time I came to T.R. Hoover Community Development Center, I was so determined to “make a difference,” the quintessential cliché of community service. I had spent months curating a curriculum modeled off of my own early education experience at Hockaday, that I thought the kids of South Dallas deserved. It was all laid out in my head. In the nine weeks I would be directing a summer camp for 50 kids, they would exceed academic objectives to be ready for school, open up to me about their lives to share their wildest dreams and darkest secrets, and in general, have the best time of their lives with adventures and resources they had never seen before. I ran around Target like a madwoman, knocking toys and books and games off the shelves and into my cart, expecting that their faces would light up at the sight of light-up water guns, new paint sets, Legos, and any of the latest crazes of the junior section.

Aurelia Han and Shreya Gunukula, both Class of 2018

I subscribed to teaching websites, watched parenting videos, met with business owners, and created the summer camp of my childhood dreams. I was so excited to teach them to read, dream, and prosper, I naively ignored that they needed to teach me some lessons as well. As we started to work together, they shed their reputations and instead shared their truth. During Week 3 of my first year, one of my kids threw a tantrum because another cheated during Knock Out. As he slowly drew his hand back to throw his first punch, I noticed his unadulterated rage and it scared me. When I took him inside, his anger rolled down in hot tears and I just held him as he hit my shoulder. He told me how unfair it is that cheaters can get away with their actions, and even though I taught him how to take a deep breath and count backwards from 10 to calm down, he showed me that sometimes it’s OK to cry about the way life works out, instead of just letting it happen. During Week 7, I marveled at wisdom well beyond his 12 years as he shared thoughts on gun laws and a dream to leave his home behind to pursue an NFL career.

This student has since decided to change career plans after listening to a guest speaker from a small tech start-up and being fascinated with “cool light-up computers” and “lots of multiplication,” because that’s his favorite. Words cannot explain how much the kids and staff at T.R. Hoover have changed my outlook on life, how much their hugs have calmed my anxiety, how much their presence has given me a purpose for the rest of my life. Even though I will come back to see them no matter where life takes me, there’s a chance that my graduation marks our separation, but the ways this center changed my life will never fade. Through T.R. Hoover, I have discovered the true meaning of service learning to be a lifestyle rather than an action.

I showed him how to have conversations about social justice, and even though his sports career may be unlikely, he showed me that dreams make you work for a future, so they don’t have to be practical, they just have to be there. Two years later, he still controls his anger by counting backwards from 10 or just talking to me, and every now and then, I cry about all the things wrong with this world to clear my head.

I HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRUE MEANING OF SERVICE LEARNING TO BE A LIFESTYLE RATHER THAN AN ACTION.

My initial goals for the camp were simply an imposition of my own materialistic childhood; I thought abundant resources and an elaborate syllabus made my Hockaday experience special.

But while I am grateful for that privilege, it was the relationships forged over 14 years that truly shaped who I am today. The kids didn’t all exceed academic objectives, but I hope I provided a learning environment in which they felt comfortable to make mistakes and learn from them. They did open up to me about their lives, but not before I let myself be vulnerable as well. I don’t know if they had the best time of their lives, but I know that I did with them. I will always be waiting to see them defy expectations, and I can’t wait to see how other people change their lives because of them.

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SPEAKERS BRING THEIR WORLD EXPERIENCES TO HOCKADAY AG Ford works with fifth grader Kate Davidson to illustrate her story.

Through named endowments, the Hartman and Allman Fellowships allow Hockaday to bring world-renowned speakers to campus. The following speakers were featured during the 2017–2018 Speaker Series and shared their inspirational stories with parents, teachers, and students alike.

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ALLMAN FELLOW Jennifer Pharr Davis In January, Jennifer Pharr Davis, hiker, author, speaker, and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year who has covered over 13,000 miles of long distance trails on six different continents, visited Hockaday as an Allman Fellow to share her adventures with students. In 2011, Jennifer covered the 2,185mile Appalachian Trail in 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes, maintaining a remarkable average of 47 miles per day. By doing this, she claimed the overall (male or female) fastest known time on the “A.T.” and became the first woman to set the mark. Jennifer has written five books, including three North Carolina guidebooks and two hiking memoirs called Becoming Odyssa and Called Again. She has also written articles for the New York Times, Outside magazine, Backpacker, Trail Runner, and has been featured in The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Daily Beast, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and the CBS Early Show.

HARTMAN FELLOW Lisa Damour

ALLMAN FELLOW AG Ford AG Ford returned to Hockaday again this year as an Allman Fellow to work with Lower and Middle School students in developing their own stories. He is a New York Times Bestselling Children’s Book Illustrator and recipient of two NAACP Image Awards.

He grew up in Dallas, Texas, and quickly understood his ability to recreate what he saw with a pencil and paper. Ford attended The Columbus College of Art and Design majoring in illustration. He has illustrated picture books for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sharon Robinson, Ilyasah Shabazz, Martin Luther King III, Nick Cannon, Jonah Winter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and many others. His work graces 15 (at this date) published children’s books from houses such as HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Scholastics, and Candlewick Press.

In the fall, both parents and students enjoyed listening to Hartman Fellow Dr. Lisa Damour, a psychologist, best-selling author, monthly New York Times columnist, and regular contributor to CBS News. She provided insight about the latest research developments to provide sound, practical guidance to children and adolescents as well as to their parents, teachers, and advocates.

In addition to her column for the Well Family section of the New York Times and CBS News contributions, she maintains a private psychotherapy practice, consults and speaks internationally, is a Senior Advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University, and serves as the Executive Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls. Dr. Damour is the author of numerous academic papers, chapters, and books related to education and child development, including Abnormal Psychology, a widely-used college textbook co-authored with Dr. James Hansell. Dr. Damour’s recent New York Times Best Seller is Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood.

Dr. Damour graduated with honors from Yale University and worked for the Yale Child Study Center before earning her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. She has been a fellow at Yale’s Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and the University of Michigan’s Power Foundation.

FOUNDER’S DAY SPEAKER Kristin Tucker ’99 After graduating from Hockaday, Kristin Tucker ’99 attended Georgetown University as an International Business major. It didn’t take her long to realize that field did not match her true interests, and she transferred to the University of Southern California to study Communication with a focus in entertainment. It was there that Kristin took her first screenwriting class and fell in love with the art form.

She subsequently interned at several prominent media entities including FOX, Miramax Films, and Dateline NBC. After college, Kristin enrolled in graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, where she received a master’s in Screenwriting. After graduate school, she worked as an assistant to a television literary agent at William Morris Agency while delving into her own writing pursuits. With the television scripts she wrote, Kristin won the sitcom division of Scriptapalooza, was one of seven comedy semi-finalists in the Austin Film Festival, one of six comedy finalists for the Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop, and was one of eight writers accepted into the NBC Writers on the Verge program. Her small screen debut came as a writer for the Disney Channel series “Dog With A Blog.”

Most recently, Kristin has been working on a new Showtime series, “Ball Street,” which is scheduled to air in 2018. While at Hockaday, Ms. Tucker was selected by her classmates to be their Commencement Speaker. She was very active in Hockaday’s Fine Arts program, served the community through our tutoring program, was honored with the Sudie Duncan Award, and elected Senior Class President. Today, Kristin remains active with Hockaday by serving on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors. She lives her life according to Miss Hockaday’s Four Cornerstones and continues to be influenced and guided by them.

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A CONVERSATION WITH GRACE LOWRY, CLASS OF 2018 Hockaday senior Grace Lowry finds the theater as a place to tell her stories and finds her voice as a remarkable young playwright and director.

WHAT IS YOUR PLANNING PROCESS FOR WRITING AND DIRECTING THESE PRODUCTIONS? I’m one of those people that English teachers hate because I never make a written outline. I know the general form of the story in my head, but I typically let it evolve as I’m writing it. When I’m both writing and brainstorming I listen to music a lot, and it helps me imagine all of the different details and outcomes in my mind.

Typically I write and write and write, and spend about triple the time editing. Directing is more systematic, as I get the play approved, then get into pre-show mode with printings, design meetings, auditions, and scheduling. From there, I jump into rehearsals and typically divide attention between my technical heads in order to give final approval on choices.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM MRS. GRAY? HOW WERE YOU INSPIRED TO WRITE AND DIRECT PRODUCTIONS? It’s funny, because it just sort of happened. I’d always been a writer, but it had always been things like short stories or poetry, and I hadn’t really written theatrically. At the beginning of sophomore year, it occurred to me that theatre, something I was already deeply passionate about, could be a place for my stories, too. I’d read enough plays to know the formatting, so one day I opened up a Word document and just started writing.

In terms of directing, I actually have very distinct memories of bringing my favorite book, a hefty blue volume of old plays, to recess with me, and telling my friends where to stand and how to say lines. Besides that early portent of dictatorship, I learned pretty much everything I know from Mrs. Gray. When working in one of her shows, I could observe not only her techniques with staging, but also the way she handles actors and the team around her. I’ve worked as technical crew or stage manager on other shows with other directors, and I can heartily say that Mrs. Gray has a special effect on the people around her. She inspired me to take that first piece of work I made and direct it myself, and she continues to inspire me as I grow as a writer and director.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE PRODUCTION? I’m always so terrible with this question! I have a bad tendency to love my youngest child the most, meaning that the newest piece I’ve written usually becomes my favorite. Starving Artists will always hold a special place in my heart though, because it was such a step-up in terms of production quality and audience turn-out from Flooded! I remember on the first night we were standing room only, and on the second, we actually had to turn people away.

I’ve really learned everything I know from Mrs. Gray, but on a deeper level than just directing, as she’s taught me how to deal with people and become a better person. Being a leader is difficult, and as an introvert it’s very hard for me, but Mrs. Gray has shown me how to overcome that. The lessons and skills she’s shared translate into real life as well: not every person is easy to work with, not every problem can be solved, and sometimes you need to be creative and get your hands dirty in order to achieve what you want to achieve.

WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE TO YOUNGER STUDENTS WITH AN INTEREST IN WRITING AND DIRECTING? Start small. My first play was a one-act that took place in one room with 10 actors. Our set was a couple chairs, and our costumes were pulled from everyone’s closets. The great thing about theatre is that at the core of everything, the only things that matter are the characters on stage and the emotions they are experiencing in that moment. So start simply – create a story that you would want to see that has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

You could make it funny, make it sad, make it happy, it doesn’t matter. In the end, you’ll have had that first experience, and if you have the passion to continue with it and grow, people will always flock to that passion and want to see what you do next.

DO YOU PLAN TO CONTINUE WRITING AND DIRECTING AFTER YOU GRADUATE? IF SO, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO DO THIS? I do hope to pursue a career in theatre, but I know that even if I end up deviating from that path, it will always be a part of my life.

I’ve developed sort of an addiction for writing shows, and I can’t really imagine a world without that!

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Hockaday’s Rhodes Scholars – Where Are They Now? In the last decade, three Hockaday alumnae have received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

Libby Longino Cohen ’06, Laura Roberts ’12, and Mary Clare Beytagh ’14 were selected from

hundreds of college students to study at the University of Oxford in England before continuing their careers in their chosen fields.

The Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by the Will of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes Scholars are chosen in a two-stage process.

First, applicants must be endorsed by their college or university, and then Committees of Selection in each of 16 U.S. districts invite the strongest applicants to appear before them for an interview. Applicants are chosen based on the criteria of intellect, character, leadership, and commitment to service in hopes that the men and women selected will make an important and positive contribution throughout the world. For more than 115 years, Rhodes Scholarships have provided all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, and allow funding for four years if needed.

Libby, Laura, and Mary Clare maintain close ties with Hockaday and have shared the following stories.

Libby Longino Cohen ’06 I went to Oxford in 2010, immediately after completing my undergraduate degree at UNC Chapel Hill with a double major in public policy and English. I had spent a lot of time as an undergrad researching and doing advocacy work on human trafficking, and while at Carolina I had amazing opportunities to pursue this passion on four different continents. By the time I got to Oxford, I was grappling with the need to engage directly in politics in order to address injustices like human trafficking. I decided to use my time as a Rhodes scholar to pursue a DPhil (the British equivalent of a PhD) in Economic and Social History. After spending my undergraduate years working in lots of different countries, I was ready to spend more time understanding how people came together to tackle problems in the United States, but Great Britain’s political and religious institutions also fascinated me. I ended up writing my doctoral thesis on church-based grassroots organizing in Liverpool and Baltimore in the 1980s. I spent months pouring through archives and interviewing people in each

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city, which meant that in addition to learning about their economies and politics I also learned a lot about the Beatles and crab cakes.

Much to my own surprise, what was supposed to be nine months in Baltimore to finish my thesis has turned into four and a half years in the city. Inspired by the people I met while working on my thesis, I decided to become a community organizer with BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development), the Baltimore affiliate of a large national network of community organizing groups called the Industrial Areas Foundation.

Organizing has given me an opportunity to pursue my passion for justice and my curiosity about why things in cities and communities are the way they are in concrete, practical ways.

As a community organizer, I work with BUILD’s member institutions—congregations, schools, and neighborhood groups from every socioeconomic group in Baltimore—on issues in their own backyards that are important to them, as well as on issues of critical importance to the entire city.

With BUILD, I’ve been able to work in a variety of areas—which is perfect for me! Over the last several years, I’ve worked with BUILD members on neighborhood campaigns to repair recreation centers and shut down drug dealing corners. I’ve also worked on citywide campaigns to address massive education funding deficits in Baltimore City Public Schools and create good job opportunities for people coming home from prison.

My favorite campaign has been around the development of what will be the largest urban renewal project in the United States: a 250-acre waterfront development that will include a new world headquarters for Under Armour, along with thousands of offices and apartments as well as new retail and entertainment offerings.

BUILD worked to secure a community benefits agreement that will make sure the development also addresses city needs like affordable housing, education funding, and job opportunities.

Nevertheless, I never came to like seafood quite as much as I love barbecue, and in August my husband and I will be moving to Austin. I’ll be joining the team at Raise Your Hand Texas,

an advocacy group dedicated to building a world-class public education system in Texas, as their director of advocacy and outreach. I could not have imagined what I would end up doing in my 20s when I was in high school, but I’m grateful to Hockaday for teaching me to be ambitious, think critically, and pursue my passions—skills and instincts that I know will serve me well in Austin and beyond!

Laura Roberts ’12 After I graduated from Hockaday in 2012 I went on to Duke University, where I received my B.A. in History with double minors in Political Science and Religion. I loved my time at Duke and got so much out of my experience there. In addition to taking some really excellent courses, I was able to spend my summers working for independent human rights organizations, travel to Florence for a semester abroad, and involve myself in the life of the city and the university. Some of my most treasured memories from Duke are the opportunities I had to volunteer with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and with Church World Service’s refugee assistance programs; exploring my favorite Durham haunts and the beautiful state of North Carolina; and making lifelong friends.

I am currently in the second year of the scholarship and working towards submitting my thesis for a master’s in British and European History. My work focuses on the experience of an English convent, Syon Abbey, and its change in self-perception from the late medieval to the early modern periods. Before the English Reformation, the sisters presented themselves as an elite house, perfecters of an intense and strict spiritual practice, and recipients of aristocratic patronage. After they were forced into exile under both Henry VIII and Elizabeth, the nuns maintained their own self-understanding of practicing perfect monastic discipline but came to emphasize their English identity as the primary component of that perfection. I am very excited about this strand in my research, and what it might say about the ways political ideology, religious conviction, and gender identity intersected in the early modern world.

Outside of my studies, I’ve loved meeting and getting to know better my Rhodes and Oxford classmates. Some of the most passionate and brilliant people in the world live and work here, and it’s been wonderful to learn from them and forge lifelong friendships together. When I’m not working, I also love volunteering with a domestic abuse helpline and tutoring newlyarrived refugees in the Oxford area. The historical landscape of Oxford and the UK has provided another hobby; I’ve compiled a sort of “pilgrimage” list of all the famous or notorious historic places I’d like to visit, and I’m steadily working my way through!

One of my favorite parts of my Oxford experience has been the ease with which I’m able to travel to so many amazing destinations. Places as diverse as Cyprus and Denmark, Malta, and the Czech Republic are all three hours away or less. I’ve been so grateful for the chance to visit some beautiful places, and for the opportunity to explore the United Kingdom, too. London is my favorite city in the world, and I’ve loved being in such proximity to an abundance of history and to so many interesting people from all over the world.

After completing my master’s, I hope to obtain my JD. I’ve not yet decided on a school, but I’m interested in practicing human rights law, so I have my sights set on programs that offer the most intensive instruction and experience in that field.

More immediately, I’m looking forward to spending some time at home in Dallas this summer and reuniting with some of my Hockaday teachers and classmates. Most days, I still feel like I could wake up, put on a plaid skirt, and pull into 11600 Welch Road for another day of class (and I continue to have periodic nightmares about the JRP). I’m so proud to be a Hockaday grad, and so excited to welcome fellow Daisy Mary Clare to Oxford next year!

Mary Clare Beytagh ’14 I’m currently a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying biology and literature. Right now, I’m spending most of my time focused on my research. I’ve been working in the laboratory of Dr. Tyler Jacks at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research since the spring semester of my freshman year.

Currently, I’m creating a mouse model of colon cancer to study the interaction between tumor cells and the native immune system. Immunology is a rapidly advancing field within cancer biology, as many new immunotherapies have shown great clinical promise. It’s a very exciting time to be working at this interface, and I hope to continue to conduct research in this field when I head to Oxford in October. In the future, I plan to pursue an MD-PhD back in the U.S. in order to become a physician-scientist.

As for my literary ambitions, those are alive and well, too. I never thought I would be able to pursue literature at MIT (it is a STEM school after all), but I found the department to be warm and welcoming, rigorous, and intellectually stimulating.

It was like being back at Hockaday; the professors really cared about supporting my development as a reader and a writer. My experience at MIT as a Literature major has allowed for immense personal growth, which I believe is a crucial component of any college education. Post-college, post-Oxford, post-MD-PhD, I hope to be a writer of popular science and medicine books, to translate the things that I love for the public, and to inspire the next generation.

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Ed Long teaches the History of Art and Music in the 1970s.

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CLASS NOTES THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL ALUMNAE OFFICE Amy Spence ’87 Director of Alumnae Relations aspence@hockaday.org 214.360.6531 To submit information for Class Notes, please contact the Class Agent listed with your class. If your Class Agent is not listed, please send information to The Hockaday School Alumnae Office, classnotes@hockaday.org.

1944 Class Agent – Communications: Martha McDaniel Ellsberry marthaellsberry@sbcglobal.net

1948 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Margot Holt Gill margotgill@aol.com APRIL 27, 2018 – PREP ’48-WE’RE-JUST-GREAT! WILL CELEBRATE THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF OUR HOCKADAY GRADUATION! Please make every effort to join M (as usual, M=me=Margot Holt Gill) at Alumnae Day for this momentous occasion! You will have received various mailings with all the pertinent details, options, etc., by the time you read this. If you are unable to attend, PLEASE do take a moment to send me an email, letter, or even a postcard just to check in and let your buddies from 70 years ago know that you are alive, well, vertical, functioning, living “home alone” or in a retirement community, and especially to brag about any great-grandchildren, grandchildren or children. Just communicate – briefly

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or at length! And, while at your desk, do not forget to send a contribution to our alma mater to commemorate our years together. We have lost another classmate, Missy Potts Rosson, one of our “Real Sixth Formers.” (I wonder if anyone much younger than we are would have any idea what that means?) Missy passed away peacefully August 31, 2017, at home in Lawrence, Kansas, while having dinner with her husband, Harold.

She had a stroke some years back and had not been very well since that time.

Remember her wry sense of humor? She was so reserved most of the time and then would utter something so clever, insightful, and funny that we would all be in hysterics! Her sister, Posie, was a year behind us and they were such opposites that it was hard to believe that they were even related. Many of you will be interested to know that Henry Coke, brother of our deceased classmate, Nancy Coke, passed away recently here in Dallas. He was always a “favorite older brother,” especially among the day students. Henry was married to Ann Schoellkopf Coke ’50. I am sure that most of you know that Rita Crocker Bass Clements ’49 died in December 2017, ending a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Those of us who were boarders were especially fond of Rita during our Hockaday years. She was always such a friendly, kind, super-intelligent member of the close-knit boarding community.

As for me, I am the proud greatgrandmother of a third girl, Grace Skillman Mills, in Kansas City. She is beautiful, of course, and absolutely ruled the roost at the age of seven weeks during Christmas at my house here in Dallas. Her dad is my oldest grandson, son of my daughter Emily, who joined us from Virginia Beach. Grace’s two older cousins in Plano, Wren (4) and Neve (2½) Alderson, were smitten with the tiny one! Their mom is the daughter of my Dallas daughter Ginger. Supposedly, Idownsized 10 years ago, but that does not seem to matter to my offspring, so seven of us were crammed into my

casita, including Emily’s daughter and her boyfriend who were here from Oxford, England. Stay well, stay in touch!

M(argot)

1949 Class Agents – Communications: Darleene White DeLee darleenedelee@gmail.com Mary Ann Hyde mahyde415@gmail.com Guyanne Tittle Booth has published her third book.

This one’s a mystery called Ann Brown (Not Alone). Her first two books were Robbers’ Roost and The Green Canoe. Since she no longer drives, she devotes a lot of her time to writing in the home she shares with a devoted dachshund named Pretzel, her daughter, Elizabeth, and husband Don Turner. Her other daughters, Katharine Booth Goodson ’75 and Caroline Booth Norris ’84 live close by.

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1949JC Class Agent – Communications: Mildred Alexander Greenstreet mgstreet@aol.com Hello, classmates. I hope this finds you well. I live in a house at the OK Methodist Manor here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I love it. I belong to the Oklahoma Society of Mayflower Descendants and actually have an ancestor who was tried and convicted of being a witch at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. She was put in jail, but later released and actually outlived her husband. (She was not my Mayflower ancestor – Edward Fuller was.) I have corresponded with Barbara Erwin Fix and she is teaching and painting. I know she would love to hear from you. Her email address is bafix1@aol.com.

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retirement center in Oklahoma City.

I tried to call her a couple of weeks ago, and they were no longer living there. If anyone knows where they have moved to, please let me know. I believe Rose Marie Bentsen Benton still lives in Dallas. The last time I tried to call her, the line was busy. Haven’t talked to Ruthie Silvergold Levy in quite a while, so if you know what she is doing, please let me know. Evelyn Wemple Allen lives in Austin in a house she has lived in for a long time. Her email is allen.ew@sbcglobal.net. Please tell me about classmates I have not mentioned.

My phone is 918-743-7529 and my email is mgstreet@aol.com. I’m wishing the best to all of you, and I really do hope you will contact me.

1952 Class Agent – Communications: Drane Kendall Haw dkhwaco@grandecom.net I am sad to report on the passing of our classmate Nancy Neill Law on November 8, 2017.

We all enjoyed seeing her last April at our reunion gathering.

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1952JC Class Agent – Communications: Betty Taylor Cox bjtwhcsb@aol.com The very good news for us, after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, was that classmate Martha Ann Knapp Linden and her daughters and family in Houston were untouched by the storm’s catastrophic flooding. Her news is happier – it’s the birth of another great-grandchild! She skipped a planned trip to the DallasFort Worth area for one of our lunch get-togethers November 12 to be there for the baby’s baptism. But it has been a traveling few months for so many of us.

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1952JC classmates (from left) Eva Jane Potter Morgan, Betty Taylor Cox, Peggy Davis Greenstreet of Dallas, and Alice (Bert) McCart Walters of Fort Worth all attended the “Venice” exhibit in November at the Kimbell Museum.

Dallas, probably in January. A Dallas native, she has been living in East Texas at Holly Lake for a number of years. The Dallas group is looking forward to welcoming her back! Wimberley classmate Lila Luckie McCall and a friend joined Sonia Wolf Wilson (Austin) and her husband, Sam, for a November weekend at the University of Oklahoma, timed for a big football game (OU won), and for Sam’s board meetings there. Then Lila and a friend stopped by Fort Worth on the way home for lunch with us at the Kimbell Art Museum’s café – and their wonderful “Casanova” exhibition on Sunday, November 12, 2017. Ann Ferguson Williams came from Decatur, Texas, and Peggy Davis Greenstreet, Eva Jane Potter Morgan, and Betty Taylor Cox came from Dallas for a quick visit with Lila and Alice (Bert) McCart Walters of Fort Worth.

Sonia Wolf Wilson was honored with a full-page story in the West Austin News with her life story in pictures – which includes pictures of Sonia and her brother when they were children, her husband, Sam, during World War II, and when her family took in Army officers, sharing the top bedrooms in their historic home in Temple, near Fort Hood, with three officers and their wives! The story described just how busy Sonia has been – serving on the Austin Symphony’s executive committee since 1974, chairing the

Symphony’s Jewel Ball, heading the Austin Symphony League and their instructional program for elementary schools, serving on the Scott & White board (her father was a doctor), Junior League, chairing The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences Advisory Council, and serving boards of Austin’s Helping Hand Home for Children. We’re very proud of her!

Lila has been working to bring a retirement care facility to the growing small Hill Country town of Wimberley, Texas, an increasingly popular place to retire. A realtor, she finished putting together the land parcels for the facility recently. And my (Betty Taylor Cox) orchestra, the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving – for which I’m a cellist and board member in charge of fundraising – was honored in May 2017 when The Dallas Symphony invited us to participate in their annual SOLUNA international arts festival as the featured concert on Memorial Day Sunday in a concert of Latino music called The Rhythms of Dance. The Dallas Foundation and others provided the needed grant for rental of Moody Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. We hope your summer and fall were happy and full of friends and travel and projects of all kinds, and that the storms of this season have passed you by. Keep in touch!

1953 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Cynthia Lavender Weichsel bobweichsel@gmail.com Ginger Freedman Gomprecht from Jupiter, Florida sent news to the Alumnae Office. “I was in New York City after a glorious winter in Jupiter, Florida. I saw several shows: Oslo; Dear Evan Hansen; Hello, Dolly!; Come from Away; and Present Laughter. There is never a shortage of theatre, art, music, ballet, and the new great Highline Extension. I spent time in the Berkshires in Lenox, Massachusetts, for a while. It is so full of music, ballet, theatre, and art. What a wonderful place to spend a month or two during the summer months. Tanglewood has a concert practically every night, Jacobs Pillow has dance many nights a week, Shakespeare nightly, theatre in Lenox, Pittsfield, and Williamstown nightly, great art at the Clark in Williamstown, and Mass Boca – just name it!”

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1954 Class Agent – Communications: Anita Armstrong Adkins nika10@suddenlink.net Hello, Ladies. I hope you had a lovely Christmas and are now enjoying the spring with the trees and flowers in bloom. Our condolences go out to Judy Walker Renick whose husband, Coleman, passed away in December 2017. Nancy Showers Slaughter spoke to Judy recently and reported that Judy is in the process of looking for a smaller place to live, and seemed to be doing well. Lisa Meadows di Leo had a good visit via the telephone with Edna Brown Hibbits. Edna told Lisa that she and her family rented a place in South Carolina for the holidays. She said they had a wonderful time! Margo Robertson Templeton was Lisa’s house

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guest in January. It is always so good to see Margo. She seems to be doing well and still lives in California. Nancy Showers Slaughter and her family spent Christmas and New Year’s at their place in Taos, New Mexico. This has been a lovely tradition for many years. Gayle Glass Roche and husband Mike were at their ranch for Thanksgiving with all the family gathered from near and far.

They are really enjoying living at The Westminster in Austin. Our Gayle plays the piano for Vespers each week, which I know everyone enjoys. She led our class when we won first place in the song contest our senior year, so she is also a great director! I want to thank Lisa for faithfully filing me in with the news from our classmates. I could not do the notes without her. I would love to hear from everyone anytime.

Peace, Joy, and Love, Nita

1955 Class Agents – Communications: Schatzie Henderson Lee natalee7@aol.com Jo Tuck dennistuck@sbcglobal.net There’s plenty of travel news from the Class of 1955. Our Norwegian classmate, Manny Bergen Tollefsen, sent word of a fascinating, musical visit to her son Tore, who lives in Italy. Tore whisked her away to an “unknown location” which turned out to be Cremona, the home of great violin makers Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri. In the violin museum in Cremona they attended a concert for solo violin, played on a Stradivarius called the “Vesuvio.” Manny’s next trip was to Croatia, Monte Negro, and Bosnia with a guide who had been a war correspondent during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Another trip she enjoyed not long ago was to Punta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago in Portugal, with its lush vegetation and interesting

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history, dating back to the 15th century.

Manny is occasionally invited to play golf with her son Tom, who is a professional golfer, and his children. Her grandson, Thomas, now in high school, has a handicap of 4. In late July 2017, Betty Simmons Regard and Jo Fisher Tuck went to Oakland, California, for a conference on science and connectedness (Quantum Mechanics). “Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut who walked on the moon, founded this group to study science and consciousness,” Jo explained. “Betty and I saw a couple of wonderful exhibits at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, including a huge exhibit of the work of Edvard Munch. We had tea with Carroll Estes and Grace Hill Gentry and her husband, Richard, at the Samovar Tea Room. Carroll had another engagement for dinner, but the rest of us had a delightful evening dining at Luce. We rode the BART System and met up with Grace and Richard, who drove us on a tour of Napa Valley. Betty has three paintings by Hung Liu, an artist who lives in Oakland. We spent an afternoon at Hung Liu’s studio, and it was really a remarkable experience. She has created a work with railroad tracks on top of thousands of Chinese fortune cookies commemorating the Chinese who built railroads in California.” Jo also reports that her grandson, Ramsay, is engaged to his girlfriend of five years, Carey. “Carey’s grandparents are good friends of Betsy Slater Dudley in San Antonio” says Jo. “In fact Betsy stitched a portrait of Carey’s mother and it hangs in Carey’s room at the family home. It really is a small world.” We were all very much concerned for classmates who might have been in the path of Harvey or the other hurricanes, wildfires, and mudslides of 2017 and early 2018. On the subject of those challenges presented by Mother Nature, Gracie wrote in early September: “We have just had an unprecedented high of 106 degrees in Berkeley on Saturday.

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Betty Simmons Regard ’55, Janet Kleinman Kutner ’55, Jo Fisher Tuck ’55, and Schatzie Henderson Lee ’55 at the 2017 Fall Alumnae Dinner

restaurants were mobbed – and we were among the mobbers! Everyone rushed to any place with air conditioning. Barnes & Noble was packed with visitors and their dogs. Apparently, B&N agreed to let people bring their pets in with them.

Hope they bought a lot of books!” Grace continued, “The October wildfires in Napa/Sonoma – 5,900 structures burned, almost 300,000 acres, and caused at least 44 deaths. The good news is that Carroll Estes was evacuated but returned to her undamaged home! All of our other friends – and our daughter’s family – also escaped harm or property damage! So now the challenge is how the area, which is so dependent on tourism for its economy, will survive economically.”

Carroll sent Gracie first-hand news of her experience during the Napa fires: “We are all OK, but evacuated (me for a week), and Duskie and John (Duskie Estes is Carroll’s daughter; she and her husband, John Stewart, are both chefs and restaurant owners) and the girls (Carroll’s granddaughters Brydie and Mackenzie) were evacuated for a couple of days. They have worked cooking up a storm at the evacuation centers and fairgrounds. How lucky we all made it!”

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years on Hockaday’s faculty. Lynne Bailey Carl is doing well. Her detached retina healed nicely after she spent three weeks with her head down. Until recently Lynne and her husband, Hardy, had a stable of 50 horses (beautiful foxtrotters) – now sold. The Carls’ daughter, Maria, and her family came to Missouri from Hawaii and their son, Dan, and his family all came from Colorado Springs to help them celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in July. They all went to Branson and had a terrific time. In September, to honor Lynne’s birthday, the entire family gathered once again, this time at San Diego, California. They visited Sea World and went on a Disney Halloween cruise to Ensenada and back.

“Everybody had great costumes and great fun,” says Lynne. Lynda Yost Lindh celebrated her birthday in Palm Beach, Florida, where she spends the winters and where her daughter, Beverly Little, and Beverly’s husband, David, have recently bought a house. Lynda’s grandson Morgan Little is now attending Southern Methodist University. Janet Kleinman Kutner, Art Critic of The Dallas Morning News for over 40 years, sent news of an important and exciting project: “I’m currently writing a mini-version of a much more extensive book I hope to write in the foreseeable future. It’s a self-published book focusing on 20 artists whose careers I’ve covered from as far back as 1971, with one page of

text and one image of each. I’m doing this as a Christmas gift to our children, so they understand what I was doing all those years when they had less of my time than desired. The idea has been in my mind since I received the Hockaday Medal and [daughter] Julie’s beautiful introduction mentioned my being unavailable even when I was working at home, and even more so when I officed at the paper or was traveling. I showed them a few pages of research when they were here for my birthday and they’re really happy I’m doing this.” By the first of January 2018, Janet was able to say, “My book is published, and the kids got their copies. Totally without my knowing or even asking my permission, Jon (Janet’s husband) contacted a number of artists and others (in the Art Museum world) including Steve Nash (former Chief Curator and Acting Director of The Dallas Museum of Art and founding Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center), Harry Parker (former DMA Director), Bill Jordan (former Meadows Museum Director), and Robert Decherd (former CEO of the A.H. Belo Corp., owners of The Dallas Morning News), so there are some touching remarks in the back of the book.” Sese Campbell and her husband Jim McElwain planned a Cunard Christmas cruise to the Caribbean in late 2017. In early January 2018, Schatzie Henderson and George Lee attended a classical music festival in Cartagena, Colombia, a charming and colorful walled city on the Caribbean, dating to 1533.

Schatzie and George’s granddaughter, Scarlett Lee, graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine last March. Now she is back at Cornell pursuing a PhD in Comparative Biological Sciences. Grace Hill and Richard Gentry will miss their annual trip to Paris. Gracie writes, “We are especially sorry that we aren’t there right now because Kat (our granddaughter attending Colorado College) is there for five weeks. She is taking a class in the French Café Philosophers (Sartre and others). We would have loved to show Kat

our Paris. Tyler Rose, our oldest granddaughter who married an Alaskan fisherman last January, and her husband, Nic, are still in Alaska but heading home before her birthday in November. He had an amazing fishing season! Caught 300,000 pounds of salmon.” Wow! It’s hard to envision 300,000 pounds of salmon!

1956 Class Agents – Communications: Madeline Utay Podorzer mpodorzer@earthlink.net Nancy Philen Thompson nancypthom@gmail.com

Madeline Utay Podorzer ’56, Martha Kyger Guyton ’56, Nancy Philen Thompson ’56, Jean Erwin Schuller ’56, and Adelaide Biggs ’56 had lunch together in Houston.

It was with the greatest of pleasure that we were able to share with our classmates the recent marriage of Nancy Watzek Nix to Clyde Wilcox. The wedding occurred at the Tremont Retirement Community where they met.

Nancy’s sister Joan Watzek Strickland ’58 was present as her witness. Our very best wishes to Nancy and Clyde. As some of us are contemplating the pros and cons of moving to a retirement center, should we add marriage as a possible benefit?

Recently your Houston classmates met for a long overdue lunch. It was such fun getting together and catching up on news of our families. Jean Erwin Schuller has

not been able to join us at our recent reunions in Dallas because of chronic back problems, but that has not kept her from staying involved. She enjoys taking classes at the Women’s Institute, an organization which offers a wide variety of adult continuing education courses.

She feels fortunate to live close to her daughter which means they can see each other on a daily basis. We missed Nancy Beaird Gott who, at the last minute, was unable to join our Houston gathering.

Madeline Utay Podorzer and husband, Bill, just returned from California where they visited his children. They attended the Bat Mitzvah of Bill’s granddaughter in October. In February, Madeline’s granddaughter Tabitha had her Bat Mitzvah in Tyler, Texas. We are lucky to be able to share these happy times with family. Adelaide Biggs continues to find great satisfaction in the work she does in prison ministry. She specializes in reconnecting prisoners with lost relatives, some who have not been in contact for 20 years. She has successfully reconnected 665! We always enjoy hearing about Adelaide’s children. You may have seen the reporting on PBS by daughter Marcia Biggs on Iraq and the refugees in Syria. Marcia’s expertise lies in the Arab world, so I am certain we will be hearing more from her in the future.

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Nancy Watzek Nix ’56 married Clyde Wilcox.

horseback riding several times a week as well as spending time with a more recent hobby of watercolor painting. Martha reported her children recently honored her with a grand birthday party for a significant birthday which most of us have celebrated or will be celebrating this year! She was pleased that Sandy Cooper Woodson was able to come from California for the festivities. Speaking of Sandy, she is incredibly involved with her community and was recently recognized at the National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon in Palm Springs, California as the Outstanding Fundraiser Volunteer.

Our congratulations! On a sad note, I received notice that Annamaria Cavallari passed away on August 9, 2017.

As many of you know, I (Nancy Philen Thompson) was one of the many victims hit by Hurricane Harvey in Houston. The water level was eight vertical feet higher than we had ever seen at any previous flood, and most of our downstairs rooms had two feet of water. The house has been mitigated and is now for sale “as-is.” My closets have never looked so good! Peter and I had been talking about scaling down and have rented a high-rise apartment while we decide where we want to spend our remaining years. With a daughter in California and a son in Massachusetts, our options are many.

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We apologize for focusing on your Houston classmates, but we thought we would take advantage of information gleaned from our luncheon. We would love to hear from the rest of you.

1957 Class Agent – Communications: Barkley Adams Rice barkleyrice@gmail.com We start with sad news. Our sweet Phyllis Bywaters Singer died in January 2018. Phyllis was an early member of our class, but she transferred from Hockaday before high school. She loved our class and always attended our reunions. Phyllis was a gentle soul with a lovely smile. Effie Ladopoulou Constantinides, our Greek exchange student our Fourth Form year, lost her husband Ray in December 2017.

Caro Alexander Stalcup reports that years ago, she and her husband, Ed, visited Ray and Effie and were treated to a wonderful dinner at their Athens restaurant. Judith Wilson has kept up with Effie and was the one who shared this news. Judith has moved back to Vernon, Texas from the Texas Valley and reports that it is wonderful to return home. For many years our class almost

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always came in first or second in the percentage of members participating in the annual fundraising campaign. Our victory belongs to Judith, who faithfully would urge us to contribute. She trained us well as we continue to lead. Loretta Dennard DeWitt is keeping busy in Estes Park, volunteering everywhere (well, four places). Years ago, Linda Ashby Crites moved to Granbury, Texas and designed two homes. Linda had been collecting ideas for her dream home, and she had a wonderful chance to have her “perfect” home. She really did think of everything and the two homes are beautiful. Not every class has a mascot, but we do, and we checked with Oteka Little and Jerry Ball to get an update on our namesake, Daisy 57. They report that she is a very affectionate, beautiful bay filly with three white “socks,” and they hope to enter her in some races in a year or two. The way to find Nancy Malone Symms is to travel down Chicken Dinner Road to reach her Idaho farm. Her family competes well in the street naming department with our Graduation Day speaker, Stanley Marcus, who lived on Nonesuch Road. Reporting from Denver, Colorado, Carolyn Connell Georgeson lost her husband Bob several years ago. She now actively supports, with other church members, an El Salvadoran

Daisy 57, named by Jerry and Oteka Little Ball ’57 in honor of the Hockaday Class of 1957, turned one year old in April 2018.

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lady who has retreated to the sanctuary of Carolyn’s church. The lady is in danger from individuals in her home country, fears deportation, and never leaves this church. In addition, Carolyn volunteers with the League of Women Voters and enjoys playing a weekly bridge game.

1958 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Nancy E. Greene Hockaday58@gmail.com Earth, water, air, and fire: the classical elements referring to the concepts in ancient Greece and other ancient civilizations too. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and fires seem to define 2017. I am happy to say that as far as I could find, none of our Class of ’58 suffered from major damages due to these disasters. Jane Ritter Clawson from Shreveport, Louisiana had no damage from the hurricane. Jane missed the previous reunions but will be coming to our reunion in Spring 2018.

She is in good health. She walks regularly and does Pilates. Jane was close to Deborah Beard Tullis, who died of diabetes in Spring 2015. Jane thinks of Deborah’s children as her own. Jane sees Deborah’s daughters in New Orleans often. The oldest daughter just turned 50.

The younger sister is 48 and has three children. Jane refers to Deborah’s three granddaughters as her own stepgrandchildren. Jane does needlepoint and made stockings for Deborah’s grandchildren this year. The oldest girl is a sophomore at University of Georgia.

The boy, Tullis, is a sweet 12-year-old.

The youngest, Jane, is 11. Linda Stewart Douglass is planning on coming to our reunion this year. She and Jack live in a high-rise apartment building in Houston.

Jack isn’t very active anymore, but they both are very involved with church ministry. Linda and Jack have a soft spot for people coming from out of town going to MD Anderson Cancer Center. Most are

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stressed out, scared, and lost. They both want to be supportive of them. While all families start out as strangers, they get to know them and sometimes they bond and become lifelong friends. Many different churches in Houston offer apartments at about $45 for families of MD Anderson patients. Linda and Jack met a couple from Brazil. The woman was an endocrinologist, and her husband was in the Foreign Service. They befriended this couple for a year, and he passed away in September 2017. The woman went back to Brazil, but she has a 20-year-old son in the United States learning English now.

Linda and Jack had no damage from Hurricane Harvey, but a mile up the road it was flooded. Stores were closed. She helped lots of flooded friends from their church. She packed lots of boxes from many kitchens. Chairs and other furniture was in their front yards. She describes it as one of the worst things that has ever happened in the USA. Linda has two grandchildren. Sara, 15, loves drama and theatre productions, and Matthew, 11, plays lacrosse. Linda has a son who is a VP with Merrill Lynch and another who lives in Fort Worth. She says she keeps busy going to doctors. Linda took Spanish classes in the fall because so many people in Houston speak Spanish.

Linda and Jack planned to hang out with Laura Sue Holland Patton in Breckenridge, Colorado, on New Year’s.

Laura Sue has a son in Albany, Texas, and another in Ft. Worth who has a ranch in Graham. Her daughter-in-law raises Belgian sheepdogs, shows them and trains them. She has also just started raising a new breed, Havanese. It is a small dog with long hair hanging down.

You can’t tell front from back, but it is 14 to 16 pounds of cute and very smart dog.

In December, Linda hosted a dinner party, a salmon dinner with green beans and new potatoes and other veggies.

Nancy (Peppy) Wright Fisher is doing well. She hopes she will be coming to the reunion in the spring and if she does, she will be staying with Barrie Neihuss Gravel during her Dallas visit. Nelson,

Back row: Alison Taylor ’59, Anne McCord Miller ’59, Sydney Reid-Hedge ’59, Ellen Higginbotham Rogers ’59, Susie McCrum Marshall ’59, Allie Stemmons Simon ’59. Front row: Nancy Fix Anderson ’59, Janet Spencer Shaw ’59, Sallie Jackson Loop ’59

her husband, is having chemotherapy right now, so that is her primary concern.

Her house was not flooded; but similar to Linda Stewart, many members of her church had major flooding. Joan Watzek Strickland was lucky with Hurricane Irma, which was a Category 5. They lost eight trees from their yard. Her husband, Joel, missed a trip to the Galapagos Islands last summer. Joel was a rocket scientist and is now retired. Joan and Joel went to a reunion at MIT in Boston in June, and an MIT side trip to Newport with two granddaughters rounded out the summer. Melissa Josey Gribble from Sanibel, Florida went to Georgia during the hurricane but nothing was damaged at their house. She still is very much involved in rescuing dogs. She was in Dallas on business in January, but Dallas has changed so much since she lived here that she didn’t want to drive in Dallas.

In West Palm Beach, Florida, Helene F. Neild avoided any home damage during Hurricane Irma. She had missile-proof folding shutters installed. She could see out her windows. Also with this type of shutter, she avoided both the darkness and the shutters banging against the house. She said that it was the best investment she ever made. She recommends these to everyone in the path of any storm. All she lost was cable.

Even I, Nancy Greene, was lucky in 2017.

On April 29, 2017, several tornados invaded East Texas. A very large one skirted Emory where I live. I got in the bathtub and covered up. The tornado did sound like a very loud freight train. And then it suddenly stopped and was silent.

It was a mile wide at certain points. We have a large ranch and a smaller one. In both cases, the tornado damage came to the road on the east and no further. There was no damage to either ranch. Blessed.

1959 Class Agent – Communications: Allie Stemmons Simon asimontc@verizon.net Most responses to my request for news started with “not much from here” or “all I could come up with” – are we slowing down, ladies, or just hesitant to share our adventures? I trust it is the latter. Shelby Schafer continues to love retirement but is staying active in the Fort Worth community, volunteering at the Tarrant Area Food Bank. They have initiated a new fundraising event featuring local chefs preparing food for participants and made enough money to feed 200,000 hungry folks! Of course, Shelby knows all

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the chefs and enjoys working with them.

Her other current passion is the Fort Worth Garden Club. Betty Reagor Murray writes that Tillar Murray, her granddaughter, competed in World Championship barrel racing last fall, one of only 15 riders in the finals. Her family spent Thanksgiving in West Lake Village outside Los Angeles, California, at the home of their youngest daughter. Alison Taylor continues tutoring and coaching students including a diplomat at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. “who needs help interpreting baffling American idioms.” Alison spent Thanksgiving in Napa, California helping to celebrate an elderly cousin’s birthday, then joined us in Dallas – more on that below. Ellen Higginbotham Rogers and Dick have downsized and moved to a retirement community in Dallas where according to Ellen they are slowly adjusting to the new lifestyle. Their grandson is a freshman at Texas A&M in the engineering school and their granddaughter is a sophomore at Hockaday. Also downsizing is Julie Boren Patrick, who has sold her house and is moving to an apartment in North Dallas closer to Walnut Place where her husband, Allyn, has spent the last several years after suffering a debilitating stroke.

Sallie Jackson Loop sent a wonderful Christmas card with picture of her family, two children with spouses and seven grands – one represented by a stein indicating that he is currently an exchange student in Germany. Sallie reports that our classmate, Joan Hornberger Peurifoy, is now living in the memory care unit of a lovely assisted living facility, but is happy and well cared for. In 1995 Ellen Kleinman Banner and her children launched the Stephen E. Banner Fund for Lung Cancer Research in memory of Ellen’s husband. The Banner Fund reached its initial target of $2.5 million in 2014 and has grown even more quickly in successive years. The fund is administered through NYU Langone Health. To contribute visit nyulangone.org/give/banner. Constance

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Hill writes from Australia that she loves her home and her life, she and her husband have a good church family, and she stays busy making cards with all sorts of new artistic techniques. After years of travel and living in many parts of the world, she finds travel more difficult now with security checks and terrorist threats: “When we did most of our traveling the world was a kinder place.”

Sad, but true. In anticipation of our 60th!!! Reunion in 2019 a number of us staged a “mini-reunion” in Dallas in late January. Sallie Jackson Loop organized all sorts of activities for us – visits to the Meadows Museum at SMU and to the Dallas Museum of Art, as well as delightful lunches and dinners around town. Participating were Alison Taylor, Anne McCord Miller and Nancy Fix Anderson from out of town, and locals Sydney Reid-Hedge, Ellen Higginbotham Rogers, Susie McCrum Marshall, Janet Spencer Shaw, Nancy Kaplan Lubar, and of course Sallie and me (Allie Stemmons Simon). The high point was a visit to Sydney’s home where Sydney played for us on her mother’s beautiful, newlyrestored 1924 Steinway – a delightful concert, followed by a sing-along led by Sydney and Anne with the rest of us chiming in. Hopefully there is a picture of this occasion in this magazine.

Unfortunately missing from the picture is Nancy Lubar, who was involved that evening volunteering to help count the homeless in Dallas. Nancy also works tirelessly with refugees, arranging furnishings for apartments and assisting in the logistics of relocating. We are all very proud that the League of Women Voters has chosen her as recipient of their Champion Volunteer Award “exemplifying leadership in the grassroots community.” Nancy was honored at the 2018 Susan B. Anthony Luncheon on February 8. Ladies, I am getting more and more rejections from your email addresses. If you have changed your address, please advise me at asimontc@verizon.net. We will begin planning for our big 60th Reunion

shortly and we don’t want to lose you or have you left out! If you have not been getting my emails, please get back in touch!

All the best – Allie

1960 Class Agent – Communications: Marilyn Mason Jensen mjensen602@comcast.net Jane Rose Sallis, who lives in San Miguel de Allende, stayed with Carol Harrison Holden on a recent trip to Dallas. While in Dallas, Jane visited with many friends from her days at Hockaday and loved every minute of her trip! Jane Wilson Carnes writes, “Every time I receive one of the beautiful Hockaday Magazines, I wonder why I don’t take the time to write a paragraph or two and send it in. So now, here it is, and I want to challenge my fellow 1960 graduates to follow suit. I love hearing your news! After being single for seven years, I met and married Peyton Carnes on May 26, 2012. He is a retired oil consultant but still quite active in the oil business. We have enjoyed five-andone-half years of wedded bliss, and our children have embraced each other as well as their newlywed parents. I have 10 grandchildren, but between us we have 18 grandchildren, plus Peyton’s one

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1961 Class Agents – Communications: Becky Beasley bbeasley333@gmail.com Ann Addyman Lawrence annlawrence@live.com From the news we have received, it is evident that members of our class love to travel! Linda Brack McFarland and John celebrated their 50th anniversary by visiting the Middle East, India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. In February they joined Rue Howell Henry and Tuck to see the Northern Lights.

Other Hockadaisies on the trip were Lyda Hill ’60 and Mary McDonough Jalonick ’62. Jane Stamper Godlove and Ernest enjoyed two lovely weeks in England in late September and early October. They spent a week in Foye in Cornwall and another week in Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. Using these places as a base they visited beautiful houses and gardens in both areas. After many previous trips to England they made their first visit to Blenheim. Jane praised Ernest for, once again, successfully driving on the wrong side of the road.

Judy Kadane Nix and Mary Ellen Degnan returned in mid-November from a fabulous cruise down the pristine, unspoiled Douro Valley in Portugal. This is the region where the grapes for port wine are grown. Both sides of the river are blanketed with vineyards which present the most glorious fall color. They also spent time in Lisbon, Porto, and Salamanca and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This was a most welcomed vacation since they had spent the prior month moving into a new home, settling in, and all that requires. They now have spectacular views and vistas of sunrises and sunsets which are especially dramatic in Santa Fe. In August, Ann Addyman Lawrence and Sam cruised closer to home on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. The trip focused on the path of the Lewis & Clark Expedition of

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Jane Rose Sallis ’60 and Carol Harrison Holden ’60 are sitting in a tow truck and having a great time even though they’ve just had two flat tires and AAA is towing their car away. Good friends make for good times!

great-grandchild, now one-and-one-half years old. We try to get as many together as possible for a family reunion each summer at my lake house at Possum Kingdom Lake. I owned a gift store called Canterbury’s for six years, an art gallery for about five years, and I have been an art teacher for about 17 years. I spent way too many decades involved in civic and charitable work, the last being a six-year stint on the Board of Regents at Midwestern State University. Now I am happy to say that I am trying to become a writer of historical fantasy and produce the next Harry Potter adventure series.

My book’s working title is Small Upon the Earth, and after three siblings time-travel to Paris in 1789, their adventures span the arduous and dramatic years of the French Revolution in and around Notre Dame Cathedral; my target audience is the ’tweens to young adults. But I believe writing is the hardest thing I have ever tackled, but definitely the most fun and the most challenging. Being wet-behindthe-ears, I don’t have a clue about how to get an editor or an agent or a publisher.

I have just completed Book 1 and have some readers making suggestions as to how to revise and edit the 373 pages I have written while I optimistically begin Book 2. If anyone has any suggestions about how to get published, I would love to hear from you, or even if it’s not related to finding a publisher.”

1803 which was seeking an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. The historical nature of the trip, and the beautiful scenery, made for a most memorable time. Mary K Pederson Grum noted that she was glad to see the passing of a traumatic 2017. Her husband, Clifford, passed away in December and Mary K suffered numerous neurological issues.

Thankfully she has improved and is able to travel and resume an active life. She sold the majority of her race horses, but kept twelve of her most competitive horses. There was great joy when her younger son and his wife blessed the family with daughter, Gwenyth. Her other four grandchildren are all doing well. Jack, the eldest, is a junior and looking at colleges. The age range gives Mary K lots to keep her busy. We also offer our sympathy to Vicki Pernell Williams on the death of her husband, Jimmy, on November 29, 2017. I’m sure she would agree with Mary K that she is hopeful for brighter beginnings in 2018.

In January, Liz Stewart Wally and her family saw the passing of the patriarch of their family, Peter Pauls Stewart, at the age of 97. His active and inspired life will be long remembered in Dallas. One of his many outstanding achievements was being the force behind the ThanksGiving Foundation and Thanks-Giving Square in Downtown Dallas. We have all been inspired through the years by Carol Funk Beveridge’s mom, Babs Owen ’35.

She celebrated her birthday in February and we offer our congratulations on this amazing milestone! We fondly remember Babs joining our class for many special occasions and we look forward to sharing many more. More congratulations are in order for Gail Barzune Loeb on the success of her daughter Lisa Loeb ’86. At the January Grammy Awards, Lisa was honored with a Grammy for Best Children’s Album, Feel What U Feel.

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1962 Class Agent – Communications: Nan Ellen Dickinson East sporteast@aol.com In 2017, Jack and I (Nan Ellen Dickinson East) spent time with our growing family, many activities with great friends, and traveling. Our nine-year-old grandson has been so much fun. And now we have 2 great-grandsons, too. My interest in children with hearing loss learning to talk still keeps me busy. Arts and architecture are favorites too. Have a great 2018! Good health and happiness.

Holley Galland Haymaker of Baton Rouge writes: “Spent most of the summer in Massachusetts with daughter, Elizabeth, and family. My snarky grandson Emil (8) said I was very slow on the high ropes course. My brother Dick Galland and I went fishing in Slovenia, and I caught some big ones!” Carmen Lawrence Tucker of Santa Fe, New Mexico wrote: “Daniel and I had a marvelous trip to Northern Patagonia, Easter Island, and Antarctica. It’s impossible to be grumpy around penguins and we never got tired of seeing them. Our grandchildren and frequent visitors keep us happily quite occupied.

And I started my path to become a Life Master in Bridge!” Peggy Donaldson Bishop of Dallas called to say, “Nothing much has changed except my son Ray (Dito) McNutt married his girlfriend and is living happily with her and her two children in Aspen, Colorado. We all are delighted.”

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Carmen Lawrence Tucker ’62 and her husband Daniel traveled to Northern Patagonia, Easter Island, and Antarctica.

Nan Ellen Dickinson East ’62 with her grandson Tyndall Jackson

The family of Nan Ellen Dickinson East ’62 at Christmas

1963 Reunion Class Class Agents – Communications: Penny Yates Lary pattycakeranch@att.net Nan Ellen Dickinson East ’62 with husband Jack dressed up for the UAMS Cancer Center Gala that was chaired by Nan’s brother, Rem.

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Holley Galland Haymaker ’62 went fishing with her brother, Dick Galland, in Slovenia and she caught some big ones!

Anne Jordan Logan anajlog@aol.com

Liz Jaquet O’Brien ’63 (far right) is pictured with Hockaday senior Sophie Isom (Class of 2018), her mother Amy Isom, her sister Lola Isom (Class of 2023), and David O’Brien, Jr. Sophie was a finalist for the Davey O’Brien High School Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding student athletes from a ten-county area in North Texas.

1965 Class Agent – Communications: Susan Pierce Wilson spwilson95@gmail.com Cherlyne Short Majors writes: “All is well up here in Portland, Oregon. I am now consulting with Constellation Behavioral Health on a part-time basis. In my spare time, I am developing a leadership program for emerging women in behavioral health. My son Langston’s girls are now 14, 11, and 9 (Michelle, Maddie, and Molly), and I love being with them. He is a cop, and he’s happy in his

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Sharon Lawrence Drakeford ’65 and her husband Brenton

job as a Peace Officer in these turbulent times. My daughter Monique has a personal concierge business which continues to grow, and she spends tons of time with the girls.” Charlotte (Chotsie) Collier Sanderson writes that she and her husband David Sanderson are living in retirement on their farm in Nacogdoches and are traveling a lot. Recently they have been to the Galapagos Islands, Cuba, and Spain where their son and his family live.

Their other two children live in Peoria, Illinois, and in San Antonio. They have eight grandchildren in all. This fall they traveled to Yellowstone National Park and stopped by Salt Lake City, Utah to visit Stephanie Brown Lucas, who is also retired. Chotsie extends an invitation to anyone who gets over to the Piney Woods of East Texas to please come by to see her.

Sharon Lawrence Drakeford, “Brenton and I live in North Dallas. Believe it or not, we met on Match.com and have been married for nine years, plus we dated for two years before that. We are a perfect match! We are both retired and love movies, cooking, wine, and travel. These past nine years have been filled with exciting travel all over the world. Our preference is to be able to drive ourselves, which we have done through France, Spain, New Zealand, and Australia a couple times. When we are less comfortable with the language or the

Sharon Lawrence Drakeford ’65 with her grandson Ashton

countries, we will cruise on Regent. In 2016, we went on safari and then cruised up the east coast of Africa from Cape Town to Singapore, and then went to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat. In 2017, we spent a month in South America in the spring going from Lima to Buenos Aires.

Then, in August/September, we spent a few days in Reykjavik, Iceland before leaving for the Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands, Scandinavia, Russia, and ending in Stockholm. The highlight of that trip for me was the Fabergé Collection. It was good to be Czar!! This year we plan to spend a month in Eastern Europe, and then in the fall, we have rented a house for a month in one of our favorite places, Beaune, France. In 2019, we are doing a round-trip cruise of Japan during cherry blossom time (bucket list for me), and then from Tokyo to Vancouver. It sounds like a lot, but – at age 70 – we realize that travel will get harder, and we love making these memories! Both of my daughters, Ashley and Samantha, live here in Dallas, so we see them often. Our eight-year-old grandson, Ashton, is the love of our lives.

He spends the night frequently, so Nerf bullets are a part of our lives. Having raised two girls, I didn’t know what to expect with a boy, but what a joy he is! I didn’t dream little boys could be so sweet and affectionate – he’s all about kisses, hugs, and snuggles. We are both active in

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1966 Class Agent – Communications: Mary Lynn Bogle mlbogle@yahoo.com

1967 Class Agent – Communications: Janie Castleman McNairy jjmcnairy@juno.com Becky Garner Dodson ’65 with her daughter Banna Dodson Duncan ’89

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your passport and go. Mandy Mayhew Dealey is the new chair of the Harry Ransom Center Advisory Board. Look for improved everything there with Mandy on the case. Cathy Orr Luccock reports that Tom received the 2017 Distinguished Honorary Alumnus Award from Michigan State University for his exceptional service to MSU and for mentoring over 20 student interns while serving as Director of Internal Audit and Special Advisor to the President at MSU. Tom and Cathy both received the Heusner Service Award for outstanding service to MSU Swimming and Diving. Tom and Cathy set up a scholarship in swimming and diving to honor two MSU students he mentored.

Cathy is also a docent at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art in Tulsa. Jackie Miller Stewart has sold off all of her real estate holdings and is enjoying life as a retiree, spending as much time as possible in Paris and still teaching as an adjunct professor of film directing at the AFI and SMU, and collecting modern art. Future Hockadaisy and granddaughter Serena Rue Schlesinger, daughter of Nicole Stewart Schlesinger ’97, keeps her grounded in Dallas and enjoys extreme doting from her grandmother. Frances Aronson recently spent two fabulous weeks in China, touring all the usual sights – Beijing, the Great Wall, and Shanghai – and touring and volunteering at several of the giant

our Anglican Church, Church of the Holy Communion. I am completing my second term on the Vestry and will go off this month. For fun, I play bridge once a week in a foursome that had never played previously. I am the youngest in the group, and no one can remember what is trump. We have a tile that says ‘dealer’ but rarely remember to move it to the next person! It is our second year to play, and we still use cheat sheets– absolutely hysterical! I wouldn’t dare try to play outside this group. I’ve lost both parents and my youngest brother. This year, our family cafeteria in Texarkana, Bryce’s, which was founded by my father in 1931, closed when my brother retired. So, there have been lots of transitions. I hope you all are in good health and send warmest wishes!

Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Angier Peavy angierpeavy@gmail.com

Charlotte “Chotsie” Collier Sanderson ’65 and Stephanie Brown Lucas ’65 recently got together in Salt Lake City, Utah

Linda Julian Richie ’68, Vicki Michaelis Bartholow ’68, Marianne Wells ’68, and Laurel Ornish ’68 attended the Hockaday Sweetheart Tea on February 13, 2018.

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I have, of course, been on the road. I went to Sri Lanka where I learned about Buddhism, saw lots of elephants, and enjoyed watching other people climb 1,200 steps straight up to a fortress. A month after the stifling heat of Sri Lanka, I went to Antarctica where I got up close and personal with penguins, explored glaciers, and took a dip in the Antarctic Ocean.

Mary Jo Waits has been blogging about her latest adventures in Rome, Italy. She enjoys the food, wine, culture, and history of her chosen spot, and describes everything so well that you want to grab

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Tom and Cathy Orr Luccock ’68 receiving the 2017 Distinguished Honorary Alumnus Award from Michigan State University

Angier Peavy ’68 going with the floes in Antarctica

panda conservation bases in Chengdu, Bifengxia, and Gengda. A special treat was visiting the original base at Old Wolong (Hetaoping), which was partially destroyed in the 2008 earthquake and is now dedicated to returning pandas to the wild. Frances was not able to send any photos of her panda adventures as they refused to sign a privacy waiver. Marianne Wells is on the county Historical Commission and is the new chair of its State Marker Committee. She has to review papers submitted for marker applications and is so grateful for her Hockaday education and the writing skills we were taught. Lainy Luckadoo Abbott’s mother Barbara Howell Luckadoo ’44JC died in July. She has been encouraging her

95-year-old father to keep on the move.

She wanted him to go to Australia to visit the children and grandchildren, and he agreed, although he noted that if they were going to Australia they should spend some time in New Zealand too. Seeing family is always the best. By the time you read this, we will have celebrated our 50th Reunion.

I was in Dallas in October 2017 to sign some letters and managed to lure Marianne Wells away to spend time at the State Fair and get our annual ration of Fletcher’s corny dogs. While we work on the reunion, we think of those we have lost. Susan Lively died in October almost exactly a year after our mini-reunion in Santa Fe. We will miss her greatly.

Dorry Kee ’70 is pictured with her son Nate at a board meeting for the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations in Ponte Vedra, Florida in February 2018.

1969 Class Agents – Communications: Susan Skeeters Barnett susan.barnett@swbell.net Carole Bond Jordan xin2cu10@gmail.com

1970 Class Agent – Communications: Dorry D. Kee dorrykee@aol.com We were sad to learn of the passing of Dale Streeter Jackson in August 2017. She will be missed dearly. Our thoughts go out to Carol Dawson for the passing of her father, Decker Dawson, and Susan Casey Williams for the passing of her father, Dr. Watt Matthews Casey.

Our thoughts are also with Reagin Forman Hults for the passing of her father, Howell Forman, on March 3, 2018.

My (Dorry Kee) son is finishing his pre-med requirements at my alma mater, Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and he plans to attend medical school in the fall of 2019. I am on the Board of Trustees at the College.

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Angier Peavy ’68 going bananas in Sri Lanka

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1971 Class Agent – Communications: Christy King Sarosdy bcnul8r@att.net Robin Singleton Cloyd and I recently represented our class in Houston at an alumnae reception at the Houstonian Hotel honoring Hockaday’s new Eugene McDermott Head of School Dr. Karen Warren Coleman. What a delightful person! The current Hockadaisies are in great hands. It was so much fun, Robin and I decided to begin hosting monthly events for any and all Hockaday graduates that would like to participate.

Our next get-together was Thursday evening, March 29. Please email me at bcnul8r@att.net if you would like further information about future events. My husband, Ted, and I moved to Houston five years ago, soon after the birth of our first grandchild. Madison is a delight, and we also have an awesome two-year-old grandson, Bennett. We, and they with their parents, have homes in the Kingwood area. Our younger daughter, Sarah, lives in the Katy area. It is so wonderful to have all of us in the same metropolitan area once again. As the world knows, Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey this past August. Our three homes did not flood, but we have so many friends that lost homes, vehicles, businesses, basically everything material thing they owned. We were scheduled to enjoy a South Florida vacation just days after Harvey hit Houston. Planes were not flying, roads were not drivable, but we finally departed flooded Houston via car.

We gave our home to friends from our Sunday school class that had lost so much, telling them we would find a way to all live under the same roof for as long as needed upon our return from vacation.

After one week, Hurricane Irma was threatening South Florida. So we evacuated our beautiful Palm Beach oceanfront early because Irma was coming. On the long and very slow drive

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home (because most of Florida was evacuating), we stopped at a convenience store in North Florida where I noticed a case of water marked $75. I went to the store manager and asked if this was a mistake. He said, “No, people are happy to pay, they need water.” I told him it was difficult to believe that some people enjoy profiting off of others’ hardships. I bought the water and told him I would stand out front and give them away to those in need. He said if I was stupid enough to do that he would gladly take my money.

Thank heavens, I thoroughly enjoyed giving a bottle to whomever wanted one.

Miss Ela would not have believed it was stupid, and I’m confident each of you enjoy helping others just as much.

We are blessed.

1972 Class Agents – Communications: Missy Gunn Falchi falchifalchi@aol.com Christie Kelton Leach christiekl@msn.com Vicki Vandeveer Moore vmoore8582@aol.com We had a fun class dinner at The Front Room Tavern in January. All four Class Agents were present including our newest agent Penny Tower Cook, who will be our “boots on the ground” in Dallas as we march toward our big 50th Reunion in 2022. We are already planning this milestone reunion, so mark your calendars now! Penny served as our Class Agent for many years in the past, and we are so excited that she is joining us. Penny’s son, Tower, is a Naval Intelligence Officer attached to a squadron of radar planes based at Point Mugu, California. He has been on deployment on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, and they made a historic port call in Vietnam in March, marking the first time a US carrier has made port there since the war. Asher Frankfurt, one of the pilots who is also deployed on the

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Penny Tower Cook ’72 and husband Dr. David Cook with son Tower after his Navy commission ceremony

USS Carl Vinson is the brother of two Hockaday grads, Stephanie Frankfurt Weinberg ’01 and Sara Frankfurt Gail ’99.

Lots of Hockaday and St. Mark’s connections! Pam Hudnall Quarterman has had a very busy year as President of the Hockaday Alumnae Association and Executive Director at Oak Hill School, where she will soon be leaving to start a new venture. Pam is starting a new program called Segue Center, which will provide academic, career, and social support for young adults with learning differences, anxiety, or social challenges.

Connie Melrose writes that she is retiring from her company in New York City and is heading to New Zealand and Australia for a well-deserved month-long break.

She plans to take a year to decide “what to do when I grow up.” Markeeta McNatt Brown is loving her new hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is chairing a committee for the International Folk Art Market, which is the largest of its kind in the world. Our West Coast classmates have been busy. Liz Callihan and her new wife recently moved from Pacifica, California, to Eugene, Oregon. Liz writes that it is beautiful and the cost of living is much less than California. Val Glitsch now lives in Eugene also. Delrie Hobbs moved to Seal Beach, California last year, and she is continuing to amaze us with her athletic feats. The white sharks finally migrated to Mexico, so she has been able

Delrie Hobbs ’72 participated in the Alcatraz Swim.

to enjoy training for open water swim events. She swam a 1.25-mile at Lake Tahoe, but her most challenging event was the Alcatraz Swim in San Francisco.

It was “very cold, choppy water and strong currents” but a beautiful, clear day with interesting views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.

1973 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Kathryn Eichenwald Duncan kduncan1023@gmail.com

1974 Class Agent – Communications: Sabrina Sabin Triplett sabrina.triplett@gmail.com Greetings Ladies, I hope this finds you healthy and well. Thank you to those who responded to my request for class notes. Here is the news from those that responded. From Libby Edwards: “Well my year was busy working as an attorney, spending time with my precious grandson and sons, and taking a few trips. I am still living on the Island in Corpus Christi and just recently got a little place in Gruene to be closer to my 20-month-old grandson. I have three

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sons. My oldest son and daughter-in-law live in New Braunfels. He is a singer/ songwriter with his own band. He plays at Gruene Hall, and all over Texas and the United States. He’s had two tours in Europe and was on the second season of The Voice! My middle son works in marketing for a global translations company. My youngest son is a security software engineer who lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. We try to take an annual spring break family trip and this year went to the Hyatt Hill Country Resort because it was easy to get to while traveling with my grandson. I had a couple of trips to Belize, San Pedro, and Ambergris Caye, where we did some diving and had a blast! This is one of my favorite places. I go there at least once a year. Besides work, children and grandchildren time, and traveling, I serve on a couple of committees. One of the new ones is for a non-profit 75-yearold theatre and that’s proving to be very interesting.” From Carol Williams Arnold: “I am still living in Kerrville, Texas, with my husband, Bill. I am an artist these days and will be in the March issue of Southwest Art Magazine. I sell my artwork online and in Slate Gray Gallery in Kerrville and Telluride, Colorado. If you are curious, you can follow me on Instagram to see my artwork (@ carol523), or find me on Facebook at Carol Arnold Art. If you come to Kerrville, give me a call! I would love to see you!” Ellen Shuey Grasso writes, “I have a new grandchild, Charlotte Montgomery Grasso, born August 7, 2017.

My older grandchild, Brooks Grasso, is four years old and expecting a baby brother this spring. I continue to be partners with my two sons, Clay and Rob, and feel very blessed to be in business with them both. My daughter, Laura, is an art advisor in Manhattan (in case anyone needs a contact point to find some new art) and has totally become a New Yorker!” Leslie Maclay Washburne writes, “Well, to say we are busy in Fredericksburg, Texas, would be an understatement. With five grandchildren

and five businesses, life is full and good.

Just a few weeks before Christmas, Sarah Washburne MacMillan ’01 and John managed to open two businesses, a gourmet burger joint and a wine store, within three days of each other, one in Mason and one in Fred. Whew! That was something. I am getting ready to launch a grandmother blog, Love & Lore. Guess that’s it from the Washburne front in the Hill Country.” From Janet Balleisen Dray: “I had wanted to send you all happy catch-up news but sadly it has been overshadowed by the loss of my husband of 23 years yesterday (January 16, 2018).

He had been having health issues related to RA for many years, but we had not expected his passing after being in the hospital since before New Year’s. I have lots of support from my friends here in Rochester, and so many Seneca Park Zookeepers that I swear they have made me part of their collection. Love to all my classmates.” Jeanne Malmgren Melvin writes, “I am loving life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and now have a private practice in psychotherapy, which was my ultimate goal when I went back to college at the age of 52 to earn a Master’s degree. It has been a looong road, but definitely worth it! My website, for anyone who’s interested, is www. upstatecounselor.com. One of the things I do that I love the most is leading meditative (silent) hikes on forest trails near our home. In December 2017, I traveled to Cambodia with my youngest daughter, Lia. We joined a group of other adoptive families to do service work at several NGOs that operate schools and orphanages there. We also visited Lia’s birthplace in a rural village, where we have established a small school that serves about 30–40 students. I enjoy keeping in touch with Hockaday friends, including Nancy Wilhelm, Lisa Sinsheimer, Cornelia Groat, Andrea McClain Howell, and Selene Lehmann, and look forward to reading everyone else’s news!” Ann Hubbard McIntyre writes, “I was thrilled to have my work chosen as Best in Show in the legendary

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Ann Hubbard McIntyre ’74, Jennifer Eppler Long ’74, and former classmate Tara Tooke ’74

The Class of 1974 attended the Fall Alumnae Dinner in October 2017.

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regional art competition, Art in the Metroplex. The 2017 Show was judged by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator of the Grace Museum in Abilene. As the show winner, I was given a one-woman show opportunity at the ART7 Gallery in Fort Worth. The show ran for three weeks in January 2018, with a great turnout from the Hockaday community at the opening. Hockadaisies who attended: Betty Barr Whitham ’75, Carroll Swenson Roberts, Karen Lastelick Higginbotham ’82, Tee Attwood ’75, Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt ’75, Jennifer Eppler Long, and Tara Tooke. I so appreciated everyone who came.” From Linda Sheldon: “I am thrilled to report that I am the new Manager of Foundations at Lumin Education, which was founded in 1978 for the specific purpose of proving that all children, regardless of race or income, can succeed in school when we start young and involve parents. Currently, Lumin has four campuses, each providing a mix of the following programs: Public Charter Montessori education for children ages 3 through 3rd grade, and a Montessoriinspired home visiting program from pregnancy to 3 years of age.” Sally Wagner Rosenberg writes, “Our daughter, Robyn, married in October 2016 to a wonderful guy, Michael Burch.

They met as counselors at Camp Champions and the rest as they say is history! We love getting to Austin to see them. Our son Buddy and his wife Amanda keep us on our toes with our granddaughter, Reagan (3) who thoroughly delights us every day. We are so thrilled to have her and her parents living nearby. I retired in June after 23 years at Greenhill as the Director of Service-Learning & Community Service.

It was a great run and I left ready to take on all kinds of fun activities and hobbies.

Among them I play Pickleball as much as possible followed by mahjong! I am also into woodworking, currently making unique pens and bottle stoppers whenever the weather cooperates and I can get out in my garage. I am so glad I

attended the Fall Dinner at Hockaday honoring Ed Long. I laughed and cried myself silly reminiscing and visiting with classmates and faculty. I went to Boston with Rick in the fall and had a great time getting to visit with old friend Selene Tompsett Lehmann. It seems like we were hanging in Tarry House yesterday ... well maybe the day before, but definitely not too long ago! I spend a lot of time with my sister, Susan Wagner Gillette ’67, as we only live a mile apart, getting into all kinds of trouble and fun travels. I’m volunteering a great deal and according to those who know me well, doing way more than I did when I was working.

Living the good life and enjoying every minute of it!” From Holly Williams Harris: “What a year for our family. We sold our ranch in October 2015 quickly and had to buy a home in Abbott, Texas (pickings are few in Hill County) while we are building a new home in Whitney.

We moved into our new home in March 2016 (since our Abbott house sold in just a few weeks) basically with the contractor, subs, and interior designer!!

On family side, my oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married in May 2017 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and now is expecting our first grandson in April. My brother and sister-in-law’s (Terri Willis Williams ’80) daughter married in June 2016 in Dallas, and then my sister Carol’s daughter married in September in California. We have been on the wedding circuit! Our new home has a large swimming pool where I was actually able to teach swim lessons last summer and already booking up for Summer 2017! My husband did not have an opponent for this next term as District Judge of Hill County so that was a ‘breather.’ The exciting news is my youngest daughter, Sarah Sampson, who is a theatre teacher in Keller, Texas, will be teaching classes this summer at Hockaday. Her class is Mindfulness and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Immersion for Lower and Middle School Students. As she stated, ‘as the modern day childhood becomes faced with more stress than ever

before, mindfulness provides the answer to responding to the challenges of life with greater resiliency.’ Sarah’s passion is children and their development of a healthy self-esteem. If anyone is heading down I35, please let me know when you make it to Hillsboro. I would love to see you!” I (Brie Sabin Triplett) am staying busy volunteering and traveling. My partners and I closed our store last August and I haven’t regretted it one day.

I definitely miss interacting with our customers, but I occasionally see them around town. I was able to visit with Rebecca Dean Dewey, Jill Roberts McClung, Lou Anne Levering Monroe, Linda Sheldon, Peggy Darrah Adams, Leslie Melnick Diers, Mary Morgan Peltier, Ann Hubbard McIntyre, and Sally Wagner Rosenberg at the Fall Alumnae Dinner, where we celebrated Ed Long. It was great seeing lots of friends and meeting the new Head of School. I am Board President of Pathways ALC and work with the students there two days a week. I also am a reading partner at one of the elementary schools here in Tulsa and serve as an elder at my church.

REMINDER: Our 45th Reunion is in April 2019! Put it on your calendar!! If you haven’t received an email from me, then I don’t have your current email address. Please send it to me at sabrina. triplett@gmail.com.

1975 Class Agents – Communications: Leslie Ann Crozier leslie@hotonhomes.com Betty Barr Whitham bbarrwhitham@gmail.com In addition to being the Greatest Class Alive ... Class of 1975 is also the Class of World-Class Over-60 Athletes!

On the Thursday afternoon of her February 22 birthday, golf enthusiast Kathleen Smith Lauinger celebrated with an impressive “hole in one” at the Westin Golf Resort in Playa Conchal,

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Costa Rica! What a way to remember your birthday! Meanwhile also in February, Bonnie Bass Smith was swimming in the BIG Swim 2.5-kilometer race from Palm Beach to Whale Beach, just north of Sydney, Australia. With helicopters circling overhead watching for sharks, Bonnie battled lots of big waves to place 11th in the 60+ division.

Nancy Hunter Beck qualified for the United States Golf Association Senior Women’s Amateur. She will soon be taking her show on the road this year to compete in the Scandinavian, then the Irish, then the British Senior Women’s Amateur. What an impressive trio of classmates. Makes me think that the rest of us might need to step up our two-mile walk, or 20 minutes of cardio each day!

Lastly, Nancy Hunter Beck also shared that her daughter Spindrift Beck ’09 is in Los Angeles, California working her way up the ladder to be a television writer, and her son, John Henry, is taking a leave of absence from the Beck Group to get his MBA. Daisy hugs to all!

Leslie and Betty

1976 Class Agent – Communications: Amanda Miers McDowell amandamcdowell@me.com

1977 Class Agents – Communications: Angela Hedge Callaway acallaway@aol.com Cynthia Nix Savelli cnixsave@sbcglobal.net The Class of 1977 is thinking of Helen Graeber Overstreet, whose husband Michael passed away suddenly at their home on March 1, 2018. Helen, you are in our thoughts and concerns.

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1978 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Karen E. Helms kehunlimited7@gmail.com

1979 Class Agent – Communications: Gina L. Woods gina@tropicalsbygina.com Priss Benbow was named as a 2017 Fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University. Emily Stevenson Thomas has been married for 35 years. She has two children, five grandchildren, and is in nursing administration at Baylor Waxahachie!

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1980 Class Agent – Communications: Heather Purcell Leja hpurcell@stanfordalumni.org

Wedding of Beth Moorehead Wilson’s ’79 daughter Laura on October 14, 2017, at Arlington Hall in Dallas

1981 Class Agents – Communications: Ellen Haynes e_haynes@sbcglobal.net Kama Boswell Koudelka kamakoudelka@sbcglobal.net We are saddened to share the following news from Jessica Landisman, whose husband, Tom Williams, passed away on November 4, 2017. He took his own life after struggling with depression for many years. He is survived by his mother, sister, brother, and Jessica and Tom’s two children, Hannah (23), who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and Elliott (19), who is a sophomore at University of Georgia. Jessica and the kids are surrounded by an army of support from friends, family, and clergy. All of us at

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Mary McCarthy Moore ’79, Ginny Wright Currey ’79, Emily Stevenson Thomas ’79, Julie Melnick Dearien ’79

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Hockaday send our sincere condolences and will keep Jessica and her family in our thoughts and prayers.

1982 Class Agent – Communications: Sarah A. Woodberry saw_hockaday@yahoo.com Our ’82 classmates have continued the reunion spirit.

Cuqui Chiriboga has welcomed a bunch of Daisies to the wild tropics of Ecuador. Sara Mosle and her daughter Johanna visited in November on their way back from the Galapagos Islands. Soon after, Lilian Berindoague Bruce and her mother came through with a stop in Manta before spending a few days in Cuqui’s hometown of Guayaquil.

Rachel Cobb, her husband Morgan, and son Allen were also heading off to spend time with Cuqui and her family before taking in Quito and the Galapagos. This marks a change for Rachel, who has somewhat gone native in Provence, France, where they have a house and always seem to be. Rachel’s photography book, Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence, comes out next fall from the Italian art house publisher, Damiani.

Stateside, Karen Lastelick Higginbotham and Julie Philipson Boren took a moms’ weekend trip to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where both their sons are freshmen. Knox Higginbotham and Philip Boren also ended up in the same dorm and pledged the same fraternity. Kismet! Finally, a shout-out to my wonderful sister-in-law Jenna Woodberry who is now President-Elect of The Hockaday Parents’ Association (2018–2019) and next year will serve as President (2019–2020). Jenna is also joining The Hockaday Board of Trustees this July for a three-year term.

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Barbara Currey ’81, Michele Behrendt Allman ’81, and Lori Seeberger Marchant ’81 together in the Hamptons

Micky Kuttig (Hockaday parent), Kama Boswell Koudelka ’81, Connor Thomas ’11, and Kathy Gudmundsson (Hockaday parent of Kristy Gudmundsson ’11 and Tori Gudmundsson ’18) at a flower making workshop at Floral Provisions

Karen Lastelick Higginbotham ’82 (left) and Julie Philipson Boren ’82 (right) took a moms’ weekend trip together, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville to see their sons Knox Higginbotham (left) and Philip Boren (right) who are both freshmen, both ended up in the same dorm, and both pledged the same fraternity.

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Campbell Swango and Katherine Pollock are the daughters of Candace Campbell Swango ’84 and Karen Sheinberg Pollock ’84. They are seniors at Hockaday.

William is the 13-year-old son of Leslie Stoneman Cornog ’84. He plays competitive soccer for Solar’s Development Academy in Dallas.

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Class Agents – Communications: Elise Black Parteli tiaparteli@aol.com

1984 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Elizabeth Cleaveland Howard jechoward@yahoo.com Sophie Sartain directed and produced the film Seeing Allred, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Sophie spent three years following civil rights attorney and feminist icon Gloria Allred, and the feature documentary was picked up by Netflix and launched in February 2018.

Quinn (15) and William (13) are the children of Leslie Stoneman Cornog.

They both play competitive soccer for Solar’s Development Academy in Dallas.

Karen Sheinberg Pollock’s daughter Katherine (Class of 2018) is enjoying her senior year at Hockaday with many of the old traditions still in place.

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Margaret Flanagan Solomon mfs@simbolcommercial.com Kathy Berry married David Templin. They live 30 miles outside of Chicago, Illinois in Lake Forest with their four-year-old Havanese dog, Benji, and her husband’s 27-year-old African grey parrot, Bella. Kathy continues to work at Northern Trust and is on the commercial side of the business, lending to private

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Quinn is the 15-year-old daughter of Leslie Stoneman Cornog ’84. She plays competitive soccer for Solar’s Development Academy in Dallas.

equity funds. Her sister Joan Berry ’87 lives 20 minutes away in Wilmette.

1986 Class Agents – Communications: Laura Kay Walker Berry lkwberry@bellsouth.net Adrienne S. Gruben agtortillas@gmail.com In January 2017, classmate Julia Kovisars was hired as Director of Production at Turner Entertainment’s TruTV network. She is now New York-based, though her shoots take her to Los

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Elisabeth Robillard Salvadore ’86 is pictured with her family, including her sister, Jennifer Robillard Brock-Utne ’93 and her mom, Jeane Camp McIntosh ’65.

Julia Kovisars ’86 traveled to Iceland in 2017.

Grace and Walker Berry are the children of Laura Kay Walker Berry ’86.

Amy Sanders Kerber ’86 with her husband Kevin Kerber (St. Mark’s ’87) and their twins Jeremy (St. Mark’s ’17) and Melanie ’17

Farrah Forke ’86 with her twin sons Chuck and Wit (12 years old)

Lisa Loeb’s ’86 album Feel What U Feel won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album.

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Elizabeth Enloe Malakoff ’86 traveled to London with her family during the holidays. Pictured are Cameron ’15, Mercer ’16, and Isabel (Class of 2021) with the children of Hockaday parents Beth and Paul Savoldelli, whose daughter Mia (Class of 2021) is in the same class as Isabel. Their son Christian is also a student at the University of Southern California with Cameron ’15.

Angeles, New Orleans, the Eastern seaboard and beyond. She and her Yorkie Brontë are happily ensconced in their new home in Hudson Yards, with a great view of the Empire State Building, and close to the beauty of Iceland, which she visited this summer. She is looking forward to catching up with fellow Hockadaisies when they come to the Big Apple! All is well with Lisa Loeb and her family. She and her husband, Roey, her son Emet, age 5, and her second-grader Lyla, age 8, live nine blocks away from classmate Adrienne Gruben. She also loves taking dance classes taught by neighbor and fellow alumna Jeanne Simpson ’87 when she is not on tour. She is on tour a good deal, so check out LisaLoeb.com to see if she’s coming to a city near you. Let her know if you’d like tickets to a show or to hang out, as she loves catching up with Hockadaisies, as she did with a group of classmates last summer at Café Carlyle in NYC. She is also excited to share that she won a

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Grammy for best Children’s Album at the 2018 ceremony at Madison Square Garden. She wanted to personally thank so many at The Hockaday School for celebrating her Grammy win by showing videos from the album Feel What U Feel and doing a lunchtime sing-along with the girls to the song Fried Ham. The album is exclusively available on Amazon and you can watch videos on the Lisa Loeb Official Channel on YouTube. Amy Sanders Kerber and her family have had a busy year. Twins Melanie ’17 and Jeremy graduated from Hockaday and St. Mark’s respectively in May 2017. Jeremy is now in the business school at Indiana University and Melanie ’17 is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. They love it! Kevin (St. Mark’s ’87) and Amy are doing great, too. The house is quieter, but this has allowed her to throw all of her energy into her baking business. After baking as a hobby for 17 years, it is now her full-time job. She jokes that this calling is an unusual use of

her law degree but feels lucky that she gets so much support from Hockaday alumnae, and that orders now come in from all corners of the country. One of her most talked about creations, which was ordered by Cary Elisa Rubarts ’83 for her Hockadaisy daughter Sophie, was a cake designed to look like a stack of pancakes. It’s clear that she has found her true passion. You can find her creations here: www.facebook.com/ amykerbercookies. Also, Amy just visited with classmate Kristin Kessler Schell when she was in Dallas on one of her book tours – what a superstar! Talk about finding a passion and running with it!

Adrienne Gruben is still working at Paramount, where she is a VP in international marketing. Her most recent campaign was Mission Impossible: Fallout, the sixth installment in the series. She lives in Valley Village with her husband David Goldstein and two-yearold daughter, Mary Frances. They live nine blocks from classmate Lisa Loeb and her family. Adrienne doesn’t have a lot of free time, but she is close to completing a short film she directed about the first female comic book artist who emerged during the golden age of comics. She visits at least once a week with her Los Angeles-based sister Anna Gruben ’93, Anna’s husband, Charlie Olivier

Anna Gruben ’93 (left) and Adrienne Gruben ’86 are pictured with their children at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Henry is the son of Patti Delaney ’86. Her family is spending the 2017–2018 academic year in Jeju, South Korea.

(St. Mark’s ’87), and their two-year-old son, Manel. On Christmas Eve morning, they attempted to take some family portraits at The Beverly Hills Hotel, but posing toddlers is not unlike herding cats, so the results were mixed. Since she last checked in, Elizabeth Enloe Malakoff left her position at YPO and began working at Hockaday as Creative Director in the Development and External Affairs Office.

She loves being on campus every day and getting the chance to see her daughter Isabel (Class of 2021), who is a freshman in Upper School. Outside of Hockaday, she enjoys traveling to Los Angeles, California, and New York, New York, to visit her two older daughters, Cameron ’15

Valerie Branyan ’86 with Erin Brockovich

and Mercer ’16, who are in school at USC and NYU. She really lucked out on parent weekend locations! Her youngest, Isabel, is happy to finally be in Upper School. She played Varsity Soccer this winter and is serving as the Form I Rep to the Athletic Board. In May, the Malakoffs welcomed a Beagle puppy named George to the family, and this past Christmas, Team Malakoff traveled to London for a family trip across the pond. Patti Delaney and her family are located in Jeju, South Korea, for the 2017–2018 school year while Patti is on sabbatical from her position as a Professor of Anthropology at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. They are enjoying traveling throughout Asia.

Patti’s husband, Dean Menke, is teaching at an international boarding school in Jeju and their son, Henry, is enrolled in second grade at the school. Class Agent Laura Kay Walker Berry spends most of her time at Wrightsville Beach on the North Carolina coast, and has extended an open invitation to any fellow Daisies who wish to visit. Speaking of visitors to North Carolina, her daughter Grace recently played Cordelia in Dram Tree Shakespeare’s production of King Lear.

The award-winning theatre company, which is based in Wilmington, North Carolina, was honored to have guest director Jamie Rocha-Allan on loan from the Royal Shakespeare Company in London to direct this interpretation of the play. Valerie Branyan and her

husband Clint Fisher live in Cushing, Oklahoma with their two boys, Jackson (9) and Alexander (6), where they own a custom car shop, Dangerous Motor Sports. Valerie created the Native Fest in 2013, celebrating Native American culture through the arts. This past year, the festival, which has awarded over $16,000 to native dancers and artists, showcased 80 dancers featuring 19 different tribes and 23 different cities.

The festival has led the local public school to develop an arts workshop for Native American school children and as a result, led locals to discuss a regional Native American art institute. Valerie is also a founding board member of Constructive Communities Corporation, whose mission is to create better rural communities by promoting livability in Central Oklahoma. She is also active in an ongoing case against local fracking.

Valerie states, “My father was an oilman and I have known generations of oilmen and prospectors who believed in extracting oil responsibly and with trust.

It is important for the reputation of this vital industry that we demand excellence, and that if damage is done, that it is made whole. Hockaday fortitude.”

Amy Sanders Kerber ’86 designed a cake to look like a stack of pancakes for the daughter of Cary Elisa Briggle Rubarts ’83.

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1987 Class Agent – Communications: Kathy McLane Gersch kmmgersch@aol.com I am sad to report that Vicky McElhaney Benedict lost her dad on January 28, 2017. John McElhaney was 83. He was a devoted father and a wonderful husband to Vicky and Scott’s mom, Jackie. He was a brilliant and hard-working lawyer for more than 50 years, and a devoted fan of SMU sports from his time on the swim team in the 1950s through his regular attendance at football and basketball games. He will be sorely missed. Beth Brand Stromberg is enjoying life as an empty nester. Son Benjamin is a freshman at Texas A&M University and daughter Ariella ’15 is a junior at The University of Texas at Austin. Beth is still teaching Spanish at Greenhill School.

Michelle Morgan Lockhart’s daughter Eleanor is in the eighth grade at Hockaday. She recently played Daddy Warbucks in the eighth grade musical, Annie Jr.! Caroline Dunne Schupbach’s daughter Margaret is now a freshman at The University of Texas at Austin.

Katherine Lubar co-curated an exhibition of works relating to shadows for Arthouse1 gallery in London last April. Images from the show can be found at www.facebook.com/shadowexhibition.

In October she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Painting Prize, which had a showcase of the shortlisted works at the National Gallery. Katy Cottingham Green has just started a new and exciting job! Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.

She is working from home reviewing medical records of maternal mortality cases in Texas to help discover what we can improve in Texas to stop this worrying trend. Paula Bosler Miltenberger joined the Family Gateway board in January, which provides supportive services to children and families affected by homelessness.

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Laura Custard Hurt ’87 and Michelle Morgan Lockhart ’87 are pictured with former Head of Upper School (and father of classmate Jenny Gaillard ’87) Lee Gaillard at the Fall Alumnae Dinner in October 2017.

Former classmate Laura Romero founded a non-profit focused on helping high level professionals with “employment gaps” re-enter the workforce. They are seeking advisors, facilitating organizations, and eventual board members to shape a model of consultancy to rival the prestige and exceed the relevance of Big 6 consulting firms, establishing flexible, wellintegrated practical implementations for a humane workplace. Check out the UK’s Eden McCallum to better understand the model. Former classmate Anne Hudgins

Williams wrote to tell us she has taken over as executive director of The Catherine H. Tuck Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that provides financial aid to women with breast cancer. Anne’s sister is Catherine Hudgins Tuck ’80, who battled breast cancer and passed away at the age of 39 in 2001. Anne’s brother, David Hudgins, founded the foundation in 2012 in honor of Catherine. The “Catherine Fund” grant program helps women nationwide who are struggling to pay their bills during breast cancer treatment. They help

Melinda Hartnett’s ’90 daughter Sienna Ellis and Michelle Morgan Lockhart’s ’87 daughter Eleanor were Annie and Daddy Warbucks in the eighth grade presentation of Annie Jr.

Ben (16) and Gabby (13) Barnett are the children of Kelly McClennahan Barnett ’87. She says she is now the shortest person in her house with children over six feet tall!

Caroline Dunne Schupbach ’87 is pictured with her husband Robert and her two children James and Margaret.

provide short-term aid by making payments for non-medical expenses such as rent, utilities, food, or transportation.

Catherine’s mission was to help people who are ill, and Anne is thrilled to be able to help carry on that pursuit in her sister’s name. For more information, classmates may visit www.catherinefund. org. Amy Spence is thrilled that Sally Darden Hudspeth joined the Development and External Affairs office at Hockaday as Communications Manager. Also working alongside Amy in the Communications Office are Elizabeth Enloe Malakoff ’86 (Creative Director), Susan Earhart Brower ’92 (Director of Communications), Mary Crain Roman ’01 (Director of Annual and Planned Giving), and Christina Crews Goldberg ’02 (Annual Fund Manager). Additionally, Amy enjoyed welcoming her childhood best friend and former 1987 classmate Holly Glomb Beard back to Texas for a short stay during the holiday season.

They spent time shopping at NorthPark and The Galleria, eating lots of good food, and walking through the Hockaday campus. They also met up with Caroline Woodbury for a quick visit.

1988 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Kimberly Haley-Coleman kimberly_haleycoleman@yahoo.com Our 30th Reunion of the Original Killer Daisies is upon us. Seems much easier to swallow this than the slew of 50th birthdays looming a year or two away! By the time you read this, I hope you will have the opportunity to purchase a redo of the original shirt that Katey Martus and Denise Paul Shavandy designed. Thanks to Darcy for her help on this! Our Killer Daisies, as usual, have been busy, flung far and wide. Amy Talkington writes, “My screenplay for Valley Girl, a musical re-imagining of the ’80s cult classic, shot this summer in Los Angeles for MGM. The movie stars up-and-comers Jessica Rothe and Joshua Whitehouse. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti visited the “prom” set and makes a brief cameo in the movie. Valley Girl is set to be released June 2018.” Denise Paul Shavandy is the executive chef at Café Modern in Fort Worth. Jennifer Bryan is living in Plattsburgh, New York,

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attending classes at SUNY there. Lyn Montgomery was elected a delegate for the TWU 25th International Constitutional Convention. Alatia Bradley shares that last summer “several of us Hockadaisies living in NYC went to the Café Carlyle to see none other than our own Lisa Loeb ’86 perform.” Meg Allen Temple sent in a photo of her, Julie McArthur, Mandy Ginsberg, and Jessica and Megan Kramer ’89 at Hudson House in Dallas, having graduated to reading glasses, save for Megan, whom they assume will be needing them soon too!

Shana Intille Wilcox, who quoted Emerson on her Hockaday senior yearbook page by saying, “All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe,” has dreamed of moving there ever since her Hockaday Spanish class spent the summer in Spain. Finally, after 30 years of researching her ancestry and obtaining documents that were 150 years old, she and her entire family became Italian citizens. She celebrated with numerous European and Europhile friends, including polyglot alumna friend Stephanie Dammert Hoefkin. Erika Bruce sent us a photo from her trip with her two kids, Sarah and Zachary, to San Francisco, California to see her sister, Katherine Bruce Tarnoff ’03, her new baby, Jonah, and her husband Dylan.

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The original “Killer Daisy” logo designed by members of the Class of 1988

Jenni Cockrell was nice enough to respond to my question about her butoh practice, which she explains, “is often called a slippery fish as it is difficult to define. Basically it is an avant-garde dance form that originated in Japan after WWII, but is now a global dance form.

Artists all have a unique style, but often dancers wear white makeup or mud or such to erase their identity and have a blank canvas. Themes of metamorphosis and transformation are key, as well as the taboo and grotesque, recognizing the darkness is just as important as the light.

I wrote my master’s thesis on three different women in butoh when I went to grad school for dance and gender studies at UNC Greensboro. I have been performing, choreographing, and teaching both modern dance and butoh since, and my solo project is called ‘strange daughters butoh.’” And from Nicki Allen: “As for me, I’m boring. Just spending my days trying to raise money for animals at the shelter and volunteering with spay/neuter surgeries.

I did have a lovely visit with Jill Mathis and her family over the Christmas holidays. I cringe every time I see kids and say, ‘Oh my God, you’re getting so big!’ I feel like I sound old and like my parents’ friends!! Ha!” Alison Henrion Kaplinksy has been chauffeuring her three kids to three different Dallas

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Alatia Bradley Bach ’88, Marla Café ’89, Lisa Loeb ’86, Abbie Mullen Tomlin (friend), Katherine Fowler Ernest ’89, and Elizabeth McGarr McCue ’00 attended Lisa’s performance at Café Carlyle in New York City.

Clockwise from top are Meg Allen Temple ’88, Julie McCarthy ’88, Megan Kramer ’89, Jessica Kramer ’88, and Mandy Ginsberg ’88 at Hudson House.

Left to right: Stephanie Dammert Hoefkin ’88, a friend, Shana Intille Wilcox ’88, and Pam Intille

Erika Bruce ’88 is pictured with her children, Sarah and Zachary, her sister Katherine Bruce Tarnoff ’03, her new baby, Jonah, and husband Dylan.

schools. She, Rebecca, and I met up for dinner this winter. Shana Intille Wilcox’s family and my family joined together on a Grand Canyon serious hiking adventure and Sedona excursion over spring break.

This past summer I traveled with my girls Haley (Hockaday Class of 2022) and Maggie (Hockaday Class of 2024) to a number of countries, but by far the most impactful was our visit to Auschwitz. By the time this prints, my eldest, Haley, and Tiffany Borlaug Rubi’s daughter Anne (Class of 2022) will have experienced Hockaday eighth grade graduation. With my work at Globe Aware, I am so grateful to all those who have come forward to help us put a new roof on so many houses in Yauco, Puerto Rico. There is still so much to be done, but it certainly has left me with a glow of solidarity and unity following all the natural (and manmade) disasters of 2017. Let me know if you have any Puerto Rico connections or know of anyone there needing help. Several of us

attended the Fall Dinner at Hockaday in October 2017 celebrating our beloved Ed Long, in his last year of service at the School. Lastly, we all send condolences to Gabi Jasin, whose father, Dr. Hugo E. Jasin, passed away from cancer on August 26, 2017, and also to Katy Mitchell, who lost her mother this year.

for work. Leslie is still working from home for both title companies and running kids. They were certainly looking forward to March when their oldest turned 16 years old. Last summer/fall, they took a family trip to New Mexico and Colorado with friends. Both Harrell kids spent all of July 2017 at camps. Virginia is in her eighth year at Camp Mystic, and Marshall is in his fifth year at Stewart.

Marshall and Leslie spent some time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, enjoying the cooler weather in July 2017. Her daughter Virginia is now a sophomore, playing soccer and enjoying school. Her son Marshall is playing basketball at school and tennis outside of school. He loves the theatre program and looked forward to performing in the musical this spring.

Kristal A. Snelson, who practices with the firm of Elms Harmon Macchia PLLC, was named by San Antonio Scene magazine as one of 2017’s Best San Antonio Lawyers.

Kathryn Gunby Cline proudly shared an article with me about her father Dr. Robert T. Gunby, Jr., who delivered the first U.S. baby born after a uterus transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

1989 Class Agent – Communications: Allison Campfield Taten actaten@gmail.com Beth Bankhead continues to work on her vacation club, World Ventures, her travel blog, and her photography. She has fun upcoming trips in the works. Leslie Henderson Harrell and her family always stay busy. Both of her kids are attending St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin.

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Jennifer Holdbrooks Hodge ’89 and Michelle Rauch ’89 got together for dinner in Kentucky.

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1990 Class Agents – Communications: Jennifer Hazlewood Cronin jhc@cheerleading.com Dana Lawrence dana.a.lawrence@sbcglobal.net Greetings Class of 1990 Friends! We enjoyed hearing from many of you. Can’t wait for our 30-Year Reunion in 2020! Christian Anderson Love is still working at NorthPark Presbyterian Day School teaching two-year-olds as well as doing the accounting and bookkeeping for the school. She loves spending time with little kids since her own kids are teenagers now. John, 16, is a junior at Dallas Lutheran School and Anne Elise, 13, is in seventh grade at Highland Park Middle School. They keep her busy with volleyball, cross country, soccer, and baseball. This upcoming summer, Christian and her husband Matt will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary! Over the winter break, her family traveled to Cozumel and tried out their new Scuba Certifications from the past summer. It was their first big dive.

Courtney Comer vacationed in Cabo San Lucas this past June in honor of her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary! Her entire family was in attendance for this special milestone celebration. It was a fun time for all! When at home in Dallas, Courtney also likes to snuggle with her sweet doggie, Marshall. Jennifer Childs Kugler writes that she is still living in Southern California with husband Andrew and three children, Ellie (13), Nate (11), and Chelsea (9). Her daughter Ellie celebrated her bat mitzvah in September 2017. Jennifer periodically gets to hang out with Emily Loeb Love ’92 as their sons battle it out against each other on the baseball field. She also had the good fortune to grab breakfast and catch up with Channing Henry, and coincidentally bumped into her sister Carlyn Henry ’89 at a family fundraiser.

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Christian Anderson Love ’90 is pictured with her family.

Courtney Comer Wunderlick ’90 with her family

Allyson Childs Hale ’87, Sharon Childs (former Upper School English teacher), and Jennifer Childs Kugler ’90 with their families

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Left to right: Sue Allbritton Whiting, Leigh Allbritton ’90, and Michelle Harvey-Mahlo ’90

EXACTLY the same – it’s like time stood still for them – and both seem very happy!

I (Jennifer Hazlewood Cronin) enjoyed catching up with many of our classmates at the Hockaday Fall Alumnae Friendship Dinner this past October. It was fun to see Christi Thompson Dean, Jessica Setnick Schon, Melinda Hartnett, Michelle Harvey-Mahlo, Channing Henry, and Emily Herndon there! This dinner is a Hockaday tradition that started in 2006, and I encourage you to join us in future years for laughter, fun, and friendship.

Please let us know if you are not receiving our Class Notes solicitation emails. We are still missing a few email addresses and we don’t want you to miss out on any Class of 1990 scoop! We also have our Class of 1990 Facebook group, so please be sure to join.

Senior Educator, Gallery and Studio Learning, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Making time for her own art, last year she studied at Haystack Mountain School and Penland School of Craft, and will do a residency in Taos, New Mexico this summer. Her favorite weekend activity is spending time with her three nieces in nearby Richmond, where her sisters Cynthia Ryan Robertson ’93 and Kerry Ryan ’99 live.

Real estate and volunteering at Hockaday keep Tricia Drum Davidson busy. She and her sister Lynn Drum Lanyon ’93 are

in their fourth year working as The Drum Team with Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate in Dallas. Her daughter, Kate, is in Middle School at Hockaday. Middle School parents aren’t involved as much as Lower School parents, but she still runs into fellow classmates who are also parents: Courtney Newman Flanagan, Carrie Johnson Phaneuf, Shiela Haffar Lannen, Tori Webb Pendergrass, Eryn Lugger Sporl, and Samantha Ackerman Asche.

She was also lucky to catch up with Sarah Lowe Nathan and Stacey Michaelson LaCorte in Dallas over the holidays in 2017! Eryn Lugger Sporl reports that life continues to move at full speed in the Sporl household. Eryn and Pat continue to juggle life and kids at four schools.

Lulu continues to thrive as a Daisy in the Class of 2028, where she is classmates with Daisy daughters of Jill Rosellini Ombrello ’00, Sara Briggs Pauley ’93, Courtney Jones Johnson ’97, and Bonner Mead Allen ’94, and from our class, of Shiela Haffar Lannen. Patrick Sporl continues to enjoy soccer and basketball and is in the 4th grade at OC Taylor. Ryan Sporl is in his second year at Cistercian and active in all sports, and even tried swimming this year. Lastly, Maddy Grace underwent spinal fusion in Summer 2017 due to her scoliosis. She has amazed everyone with her quick recovery and ability to try all things sports after being a

1991 Class Agent – Communications: Sarah Lowe Nathan sarah.nathan@yahoo.com Shiela Haffar Lannen’s oldest, Aidan, is in the 5th grade at St. Mark’s, and her daughters, Avery, 2nd grade, and Jordan, 1st grade, attend Hockaday. Nathalie Ryan is celebrating her 15th year as

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Patrick (10), Ryan Sporl (12), Lulu Sporl (Hockaday Class of 2028), and Maddy Grace (14) are the children of Eryn Lugger Sporl ’91.

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Eryn Lugger Sporl’s ’91 daughters Lulu (Hockaday Class of 2028) and Maddy Grace had the opportunity to dance with Karla Garcia, currently a swing in Hamilton in Broadway, this past November in New York.

dancer for the past 12 years. The Sporl family is humbled and thankful for her healthy recovery and positive outlook on life. Lastly, the Sporl family visited New York over Thanksgiving 2017 where the girls danced, and they all experienced the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Eryn extends a special thank you to all of her Hockaday classmates and current Daisy parents for their support, meals, and prayers. She says it was truly one of the hardest life experiences, and they were blessed with the Daisy village that helped navigate through Maddy Grace’s recovery. Tori Webb Pendergrass is so happy to have acquired Kid Art in Snider Plaza, where creative energy is always in the air. Her daughter is now in sixth grade at Hockaday and loving her dance adventures. She has become a dance mom ... “Yikes!” Her husband, Clay, has recently released an album named Meditations ... find it on your favorite streaming platform. Lyette Johnson Reback reports, “I’m enjoying that I now have two daughters at university and one daughter in full-time employment after her year’s work of helping to get our congressman elected. Life is never dull with 16 children, and in the last two years I have founded a non-profit organization.

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(BelieveWithMe.com) dedicated to bringing hope and help to America’s Gold Star families, those that have lost a loved one in the service of our nation’s military.

This past year, we surpassed my wildest expectations with an appearance on The Today Show, and Fox and Friends, purchasing and renovating a new home for the parents of a fallen Navy SEAL, as well as getting Christmas gifts for 600 children of fallen soldiers. I was so thankful to have my fellow Hockadaisies including Carrie Johnson Phaneuf, several current Hockaday students who volunteered, and Elspeth Nelson, Lisel Matheny Simmons ’92, Laurie Jones, and Merry Munson Wyatt ’93 participate with me in Dallas this year with an event at Build-A-Bear for getting bears into the hands of children whose fathers paid the ultimate sacrifice for our nation!

1992 Class Agent – Communications: Julie Flamant Hamilton juliefhamilton@gmail.com Congratulations to Qainta Harris. On September 30, 2017, she married Eric Whetsel on a riverboat on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, just before sunset. Chantal

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McKenzie was her Best Lady, Sarah Fry Close was in attendance, and her son, Zander, walked her down the aisle. Karen Soltero is really happy for 2018 and happy to report that she is cancer-free. She was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer last June and underwent a double mastectomy in July with a reconstruction in December.

Thankfully she is able to take the preventative oral medication so they determined that she did not need chemo.

It was found on a routine mammogram so get your mammograms! She is supergrateful to a number of Hockaday women from multiple classes for support last year – Lisel Matheny Simmons, for setting up a care calendar for her after the big surgery and for coming by to visit often, Heather Lawrence Hopper, Elizabeth Duffy ’96, and Rebecca Eldredge ’90 for bringing home-cooked meals and sending other goodies, and Jessica Setnick ’90 for spending so much time keeping her company and crocheting a beautiful blanket to keep her cozy while she was healing. She traveled to a writer’s conference in Tuscany in November in between procedures and spent time with some great authors, including her writing mentor, Ann Hood. Margaret Robert Parsons was unable to attend our reunion as she was on her way to the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego to oversee a

Dory Hawn Sjogren ’92, Lynde Jones Schoellkopf ’92, Paige Prentiss Coulman ’92, Cathy Carty Clutterbuck ’92, and Ashley Fick Sheetz ’92

Leigh Dealey DeMarco ’92 with her husband Jim, daughter Celia, and son Benjamin in Hawaii

Lynde Jones Schoellkopf ’92 with husband Wilson and daughter Willow (Hockaday Class of 2028)

Margaret Roberts ’92 at the Class of 1992 Reunion in 2017

Members of the Class of 1992 at their 25th Reunion in April 2017

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Caroline Briggle Hattemer ’92 and her family

Susie Weber Wyatt, Brady Wyatt IV and Whitley Merryman Wyatt are the children of Merry Munson Wyatt ’93 and Brady Wyatt (St. Mark’s ’91). They are the grandchildren of Susie Weber Munson ’63 and nieces and nephew of Kathryn Munson Beach ’94 and Meg Munson McGonigle ’96.

$4-million guest room corridor renovation project for Blackstone. A year later the corridors are complete, but she is still making the weekly commute from Tucson to San Diego to oversee pre-construction planning for a room renovation. She and Sahler are looking forward to celebrating their 3rd wedding anniversary in May! Lynde Jones Schoellkopf reports that 2017 was a year of adventure for the Schoellkopfs. They moved into a new home in old Lakewood, East Dallas, and have been slowly renovating ever since.

Last summer, they embarked on a trip to Iceland and did the “loop” where they went glacier hiking, iceberg watching, boating, geyser watching, snowmobile racing, and whale watching. It was an incredible experience – so much so that they’re booked for Summer 2018 to the northern region of Finland. Willow is enjoying her first grade year at Hockaday and loves her science and Spanish classes the most. Willow has regular play dates with Ashley Hollweg’s children. Lynde went to the Alumnae Fall Dinner to honor Mr. Long and other retired teachers, and caught up with Mr. and Mrs. Doerge, Dr. Saxon, Mrs. Keever, Mrs. Roe, and Mr. Brady! Hope everyone is well, and we love hearing from you all!

1993 Reunion Class Class Agents – Communications: Cindy Casey Brown cbrown@caseybrownlaw.com Mary Clare Jalonick Cahlink jalonick@gmail.com Rani Khamesra ranikhamesra@yahoo.com Merry Munson Wyatt merrymunson@yahoo.com The Class of 1993 celebrated their 25th Reunion this year.

We hope to gather more updates for the next post, so please submit any updates to the Class Agents listed above. Jennifer Brock-Utne

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Robin Gelinas Berkley ’93 is pictured with her family. Left to right are her godson Amonte (13), twins James Warren and Lauren Tipton, Robin, and her husband.

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for several years.

1995 Class Agent – Communications: Adrienne Wilson Wagner adriennewagner99@gmail.com Congratulations to Merrie Nell Spence who married Ray McLeod on October 23, 2017.

Congratulations to Sarah Stockton who became a mother to Georgia Cole Stockton on December 28, 2017.

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Leslie Pena ’02, Vanessa Pena-Allert ’96, Liz Taylor ’96, and Nicole Price ’96 celebrated Nikky Phinyawatana’s ’96 event at the James Beard House in New York City.

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’93, Rani Khamesra Patel ’93, Elisabeth Robillard Salvadore ’86, and Jean Camp McIntosh ’65 had a lovely visit at the Dallas Market Center. Jen and family will be moving to London this April. This will be her eighth international move since 2004. Robin Gelinas Berkley writes, “There have been a few changes in the Berkley house ... in November 2016, my husband and I took legal custody of our godson, Amonte, who is 13. In July 2017, I gave birth to twins, James Warren and Lauren Tipton. We’ve relocated to McLean, Virginia, ( just around the corner from the CIA – I see James Comey in the grocery store all the time, and he is VERY tall), and I continue to serve as Executive Director/CEO of a D.C.- based children’s charity called Horton’s Kids.”

Class Agent – Communications: Catherine Cody catherinecody78@gmail.com

1994 Class Agent – Communications: Amanda Keen Basler amanda.basler@outlook.com Happy spring, Class of 1994! I hope it is filled with sunshine, health, and happiness. Before I share the latest news from our classmates, I want to extend sincere condolences to Yvette Pabilona Bhutani, whose father passed away in December

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2017. Yvette, I hope that many cherished memories will bring you comfort in this difficult time. On a much happier note, Kathryn Munson Beach shared that she and her sisters Merry Munson Wyatt ’93 and Meg Munson McGonigle ’96 have been working together for the past year on Upland Bespoke, a clothing business selling custom sporting vests. They have partnered with Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind to manufacture the vests, and were recently picked up by Bass Pro Shops. She says, “There’s no doubt in my mind that all three of us have pulled from our Hockaday education to start and grow this business. Gratitude all around!” Our class is also experiencing a baby boom.

Amanda Bradley Cohn and her husband, Robert, welcomed their son, Rémy Jude Hugo Cohn, on November 9. Cate Veatch Ford and her husband, Jeremy, welcomed their daughter Chloe Fairfax Ford on December 14. Cate says, “We are so happy! Big brother Jerry and big sister Curran are over the moon! Curran is loving her first grade year at Hockaday, too!” And Jan Phillips Green and her husband, Larry, are expecting a little girl in February. As for me, I was thrilled to visit with Kathryn Balink Fernandez and Jeannie Shu at brunch this fall. Jeannie, a world traveler and foodie, relocated to Denver last year after living in New York

Cynthia Spalding and Dave Lyons welcomed a new baby boy, Cooper Michael Lyons on February 26, 2018. He is 15 months younger than his sister Jeri – let the adventures begin! Also, a few months ago, Cynthia was so happy to go to Kathryn Spitzberg Johnson’s wedding and see both Jessica Werner Epperson and Jeanne Conner. Elise Selinger writes, “I have practiced as an attorney specializing in intellectual property since

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January 18, 2018. She was so lucky to share the day with her family, her classmates Kristin Pittman Ortega, Margaret Johansen Hirsch, and Liz Cullum Helfrich ’98, as well as many other Hockadaisies in attendance. Shiza Shahid, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Malala Fund, inspired us all to be bold!

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Courtney Jones Johnson ’97 co-chaired the 105th Annual Birthday Luncheon for the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) on January 18, 2018. Pictured with her are her daughters Peyton Johnson, Maddie Johnson, and Emma Johnson, her husband Bryan, her parents Ellen and Jerry Jones, Margaret Johansen Hirsch ’97, Elizabeth Cullum Helfrich ’98, and Kristin Pittman Ortega ’97. Also pictured is Shiza Shahid, Co-Founder and CEO of the Malala Fund.

2011, and I am very excited about my recent move to the Dallas office of Patterson and Sheridan, a full-service IP law firm. In my new role, I will continue working on patent application preparation and prosecution, trademark matters, licensing, and IP counseling for clients across various industries including consumer products, semiconductors, medical devices, and oilfield services.” Maha Armush recently moved back to Washington, D.C., from her Foreign Service assignment in Jordan, and married Dave Levin on March 17, 2018. Olivia Ellis Randolph co-founded a community radio station in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post recently named Takoma Radio/ WOWD-LP 94.3FM “The Best Radio Station in DC.” She is the development director and also hosts a children’s show called Rise Up on Saturday mornings (streaming at takomaradio.org). Olivia lives in Washington with her husband Isham and children Hugo (4) and Jane (2). Kathryn Spitzberg married Brian L. Johnson in November 2017 in San Diego, California, and became a step-mom to two wonderful kids. Fellow Daisies Jessica Werner Epperson, Cynthia Spalding Lyons, Jeanne Conner, and Emily Hunter ’97 along with Marksman John Charles Scott attended the

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festivities. Kathryn and Brian now live in Encinitas, California and recently ran into Laura Adams Young who was in town visiting family.

1997 Class Agent – Communications: Courtney Jones Johnson cljohnson928@gmail.com Kate Hooper recently went back to work as the Foundation and Grant Coordinator for The Mentoring Alliance in Tyler, Texas, which is a local non-profit organization reaching children from challenging circumstances. Lauren Shawn Stafford and her husband welcomed another little boy, Dylan Reid Stafford, who was born July 9, 2017. She says he’s a love and they are adjusting fairly well to being a family of four!

Masami Ida Overstreet is still in Austin with her family working as a freelance creative director. Her kids are now 13, 8, and 5 years old. Katherine Mathes Bullock and her husband welcomed their daughter, Mary Mathes Bullock, on November 28, 2017. Courtney Jones Johnson chaired the 105th Annual Birthday Luncheon for the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) on

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Reunion Class Class Agents – Communications: Elizabeth Cullum Helfrich elizabeth.helfrich@gmail.com Trude Goodman Tiesi trude.goodman@gmail.com Hello classmates, it has been such a treat to get to see many of you at alumnae events over the past year! I (Liz Cullum Helfrich) was fortunate to get to see Kyllan Cody Brown and Kelly Oby at a senior class reception in Spring 2017.

Trude Goodman Tiesi and husband John just made the big move across the East River from Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn. They are enjoying exploring the great neighborhoods and parks nearby. Trude can hardly believe she started her 10th year at Chapin School – the same number of years she was a student at Hockaday – last fall!

Congratulations to Jenna Zouzelka Osborn, husband Will, and daughter Emmy (4), on the arrival of baby Jewel Noelle Osborn, who was born on December 21, 2016. Congratulations also to Athena Wickham, whose new baby girl Riley Stuart arrived on March 27, 2017. Athena is just about to start production on the second season of HBO’s Westworld as these notes are being written. Thank you to Bethany Elliott Holloway, who along with her sisters Landy Elliott Fox ’92 and Courtney Elliott ’94, put together a lovely Hockaday Alumnae Day luncheon on April 21, 2017.

Mark your calendars for our Big 20, ladies: April 27–28, 2018!

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Kim Kircher James ’98 with baby Thomas, daughter Nora, and husband Heb

Adelaide Lucille, James, and Eleanor Albritton are the children of Lilly Albritton Briant ’99.

Emmy and Jewel are the daughters of Jenna Zouzelka Osborn ’98.

Samuel and Silas Henry are the sons of Sarah Wilson Fenton ’99.

Hunter and Eloise are the children of Kate Jeffrey Williamson ’99.

Anne-Marie Corley ’99 and Melissa Corley Carter ’99 with Gina Jabbour Park ’99 and her son Samuel

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1999 Class Agents – Communications: Charlotte Hudson Carter CharlotteHCarter@yahoo.com Sara Frankfurt Gail sara.f.gail@gmail.com Meredith L. Stites meredithstites@gmail.com Kate Jeffrey Williamson kate@hookssolutions.com There have been a lot of life changes in our class, and we hope this update finds you all well. We will start with the new additions! Robyn Schwartz Siegel and her husband welcomed a daughter, Phoebe Tiger Siegel, born in September 2017. Phoebe’s middle name pays tribute to Robyn’s brother Armond Schwartz (nicknamed Tiger) who passed away in March 2017. Robyn appreciates the support of her Hockaday friends during that time. Jenny Stewart Manuel and her husband Colin welcomed Margaret Ann Manuel “Margo” on October 4, 2017.

They are still in Austin, where Jenny is the legal counsel for a biotechnology company, Asuragen. Sarah Wilson Fenton and her husband Tom welcomed their second little boy, Silas Henry, on August 9, 2017. Big brother Samuel is happy and helpful and counting down the

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Phoebe Tiger is the daughter of Robyn Schwartz Siegel ’99.

days until they can play superheroes together in the backyard. Gina Jabbour Park and her husband Jonathan are thrilled to announce the arrival of their second son, Samuel Brady, on June 21, 2017. Gina continues to work at Texas Instruments here in Dallas managing the DLP® Industrial business. She often meets up with Anne-Marie and Melissa Corley when they are in town. Most recently they hung out during the Christmas holiday to spend time with Sam and Gina’s older son Jackson, who’s about to turn three. Lydia Sands McCutchen shared that Palmer Rose McCutchen joined their family on January 29, 2017. Lilly Albritton Briant

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wrote to announce Adelaide Lucille Albritton Briant was born on February 22, 2017. She joins big brother and sister, James and Eleanor, and is a “little ball of joy.” Charlotte Hudson Carter finished a seven-month renovation on a “new” old home. She recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary at ad agency Slingshot, where she continues to lead media strategy, planning, buying, and analytics, with a focus on digital ad tech.

Kate Jeffrey Williamson chaired the 2017 Crystal Ball charity ball benefiting High Sky Children’s Ranch in Midland.

She sought the wise counsel of Hockaday Alum and longtime Midland philanthropist Rosalind Redfern Grover ’59, as she planned the event that set a live-auction record for the charity. In October, Kate completed her second Marine Corps Marathon in DC, beating her time from 2004 by 18 minutes. Seeing all the baby pics makes her a bit jealous, as her children Hunter and Eloise are now 10 and 8! Anne-Marie Corley is the Director of Community Experience for Samarasa, a new yoga center in the Echo Park neighborhood of LA. It’s her first full-time gig since she left the Air Force in 2007. She teaches yoga as well and also is writing and dancing for life. She met up with Sruti Sreerama several times in 2017, in Montana and in her home in Moses Lake, Washington, where she owns and runs her own veterinary practice. Next April (2019) we will celebrate our 20-Year Class Reunion!

Reunions typically take place near the end of April and are held on a weekend in Dallas coinciding with Alumnae Day at Hockaday. If you are not receiving updates from our class, please contact us using information listed above so we can make sure you are included in all the reunion fun! Veronika Karasek also sent news to the Alumnae Office: Sebastian Bennett is the first baby born to Jennifer Tsai and her husband Shi Mei. He was born on June 26, 2017. They live in Boston where work is underway to open Shi’s new restaurant (her husband is a fabulous chef ). Veronika Karasek visited

Boston, Massachusetts to spend some time with Jennifer, and we met up with Nicole “Nika” Badie. Nika is a family practice physician in Boston. As for me, I continue to enjoy my practice of gastroenterology, teaching new GI fellows at the University in Tucson, and I make sure to take time out for travel. Most exciting was my five-day Inca Trail Trek up to 14,800 feet ending in Machu Picchu.

2000 Class Agents – Communications: Sonya Mirbagheri Cheney sonya.mirbagheri@gmail.com

The family of Anar Rathod Patel ’00

Cassie Evans marycassevans@gmail.com IB Stanley-Ikhilioju istaikh@hotmail.com As always, it was wonderful hearing from our classmates this year. Jill Rosellini Ombrello wrote, “We welcomed Eloise Grace Ombrello on October 24, 2017. Big sister Franny Ombrello (Class of 2028) and big brothers Vinny and Gino are proud and excited! I am currently on maternity leave, but I’m so grateful that my sister Beth Rosellini ’04 has stepped in as lead dentist to take great care of my patients at Central Dentist. She had recently evacuated her home in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria; but the silver lining to such a terrible situation is that we are loving having Beth, the dentist and the aunt, here to help during the holidays!” Congratulations to Anar Rathod Patel who welcomed her third child, Shay Patel, on October 10, 2017, weighing 7 lbs, 3 oz. Shay was also welcomed by big sister, Lyla (4) and big brother Zane (2). And finally, Karen Sawyer Grabow wrote, “Robby and I and our three kids, Rachel (7), Heidi (5), and David (2) moved from Kansas City, Kansas to Orlando, Florida in 2016 and are enjoying all that the city has to offer – the parks, beaches, and nature. I am a stay-at-home mom and have taken on a new leadership role with BSF

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The children of Jill Rosellini Ombrello ’00

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International, and remain involved in the Florida Hospital Foundation, helping plan and raise funds for a new project each year. Robby is SVP with US Anesthesia Partners. We enjoy making it back to Texas to visit family and friends.”

Please keep the updates coming!

2001 Class Agents – Communications: Amy Meyer Stoneham amy.m.stoneham@gmail.com Kristin Thumlert kristinthumlert@gmail.com Stephanie Frankfurt Weinberg steph.f.weinberg@gmail.com Always great to hear from so many classmates! Jennifer Muncy Thomas is working as an Assistant Professor in the Child Neurology Department at UTSW. With a focus on neonatal neurology, Jen is working to build a neonatal neurology department at UTSW. Another doctor, Susan Mathai, is moving to Dallas with her husband Chris Sigakis and toddler son Dimitrios to be closer to her family.

Speaking of doctors, Wendy Bradley successfully defended her PhD in Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris,

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Retired Hockaday faculty members Richard Bradley and Peggy Bradley, Kristen Bradley Jankowski ’99 with Wendy Bradley ’01 at American Ninja Warrior in Denver, Colorado

and is currently working as a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School in Oxford, England.

Alongside academia, Wendy remains committed to rock climbing and was invited to compete in UK Ninja Warrior and American Ninja Warrior in Denver, Colorado, where she was able to visit fellow classmate Maggie Allen Wolfgram. In August 2018, Wendy will join the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University as an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Business Economics. Also in academia, Kate

Kate Holbrook ’01, Stephanie Frankfurt Weinberg ’01, and Jennifer Muncy Thomas ’01 enjoyed a weekend away in Austin last summer.

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Holbrook started as a Clinical Instructor in Community Health Nursing at California State University East Bay, and will be returning to clinical practice at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Class artist Caris Reid has had an exciting year! She painted “Grace and Grit,” a 40-foot mural in downtown Los Angeles that will be up until Spring 2018.

In the past year she has had two solo shows, “Subrosa” at Denny Gallery in New York, and “Healer Feeler Seer Seen” in Los Angeles, as well as multiple group shows. Merritt Denton Russ shares that, while she continues to run the sales team for a luxury champagne company, she doesn’t keep still! Merritt and her husband have two young kids, and she’ll soon complete her yoga teacher training to become a certified yoga instructor. Of course, we’re lucky enough to announce a few additions to our families as well!

Claire Jordan and her husband Philip Austin (St. Mark’s Class of 2005) welcomed their first child, Christopher Bowen Austin, on August 16, 2017. They are living in Austin and enjoying being new parents. Also a new parent in Austin is Ashley Moore Hood, who welcomed her second son, William Emerson Hood on November 21, 2017. William is named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose writing Ashley fell in love with at Hockaday! Ashley continues to work at

McGraw-Hill, working with professors designing assessments and student performance analytics. And I (Stephanie Frankfurt Weinberg) continue to live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my husband and two kids. I still work in computer software and recently joined the team at salesforce.org to empower Higher-Ed, K–12, and non-profit organizations to achieve their missions.

2002 Class Agents – Communications: Heather White Linburg hlinburg@gmail.com Margaret Elizabeth Perry McKissack mepmck@me.com The Class of 2002 has been busy! Hannah Song married Mark Chang in Brooklyn, New York in August. Hannah and Mark have known each other since their undergrad years at Cornell and were able to celebrate their special day with several Class of 2002 friends. Hannah and Mark honeymooned in Greece and are currently living in New York City.

Meghan Titzer continues to work for Plymouth Rock, a home insurance “startup with money” in Boston that is trying to expand nationally. While her Bengal kitties Minnie and Daisy tear around her apartment, Meghan plays violin in musicals, operas, and orchestras in the Boston area. Meghan is most looking forward to her upcoming performance in a Star Trek-themed production of HMS Pinafore. Hannah Simpson married this summer and both she and her husband, Carlo, graduated from NYU with PhDs in political science.

In September, they moved to Toulouse, France, where they are both postdoctoral fellows at an institute within the Toulouse School of Economics. In 2019, Hannah and her husband will both be starting as assistant professors in the politics department at Texas A&M University. On July 6, 2017, Stephanie Tsang welcomed son Jack Wilson

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Members of the Class of 2002 and their children

Callaghan. Callan Blount Fleming founded and leads a leadership development firm called Spark Collective, based in Brooklyn and working nationwide. Spark provides executive coaching, customized leadership trainings, and community building support. Callan and her husband welcomed Bernadette “Birdie” Jeanne Fleming to the world in May 2017. Sandy Barnett Haviland and her husband, Zak, welcomed their son, Hank, on June 30, 2017. Hank and Callan’s daughter, Birdie, are already best friends and neighbors in Brooklyn! Sandy enjoyed six magical months of maternity leave and is now back at Prophet Brand Strategy in NYC, where she consults with companies on

their brand and growth strategies. After 15 years away, Meg Bartos moved back to Dallas in January and relocated her business HQ here. Meg’s company, Kanju Interiors, an African luxury interiors and design brand, has opened its first permanent showroom in the Dallas Design District and is the largest contemporary, pan-African interiors and lifestyle collection in the US. She is excited to call Dallas their “new” home and looks forward to growing the business and reconnecting with Hockaday friends in the area. Meg recently married Blair Halkett, who is originally from Cape Town, and is very excited to be living somewhere again that also embraces barbeque as central to the

Hannah Simpson ’02 was married, and many Hockaday Class of 2002 friends were in attendance.

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Hyatt and William Hood, the sons of Ashley Moore Hood ’01

Sandy Barnett Haviland ’02 and Callan Blount Fleming ’02

Hannah Song ’02 married Mark Chang and the wedding was attended by several members of the Class of 2002.

Hockaday dance teacher Beth Wortley is pictured with several members of the Class of 2002 including Callan Blount Fleming ’02 and her daughter Bernadette Jeanne “Birdie.”

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Jones Henry, born September 5, 2017, is the son of Jennifer Henry ’02.

Priscilla Spencer ’03 and Melissa Spencer ’00

culture. Kristina Kiik has opened her own law firm, practicing commercial litigation and counseling small business owners. Elizabeth Norris Beacom lives in Dallas with her two sons and husband who keep her very busy. Elizabeth continues to be the director of Camp Longhorn, where she and her family will spend their summer. Margaret Elizabeth Perry McKissack and her husband Michael welcomed their baby girl “Margaret Ann” on August 10, 2017. Her big sister “Hayden Elizabeth” (June 10, 2016) was also excited for this new addition to the family. Olivia Jennings Adendorff and her husband, Justin, welcomed twins Elizabeth Arend and James Edward Adendorff on August 19, 2017. Big sister Sophia, now two years old, is enjoying her new role. While out on maternity leave, Olivia also was elevated to partner at her law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Anne Miller Morris and her husband, Michael, welcomed their daughter, Catherine “Cate” measuring 8 lbs 11 oz and 21 inches on October 28, 2017. Big brother, Jack, absolutely adores Cate! It was so wonderful to hear from some of our 2002 classmates. Please send your pictures and any updates you would like to share for the next issue!

2003 Reunion Class Class Agent – Communications: Casey Potter caseyjaypotter@gmail.com Priscilla Spencer earned her MFA in Film and TV Production from USC and now works as Production Coordinator at LA Hangar Studios. She gave lectures on fantasy mapmaking to standing-room-only crowds at Texas A&M’s Cushing Library and Phoenix Comicon, and her map illustrations appeared in Jim Butcher’s “The Aeronaut’s Windlass” and Seanan McGuire’s “Once Broken Faith.”

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Priscilla Spencer ’03 at sister Melissa Spencer’s ’00 wedding

McGuire’s “Tricks for Free” and LA’s “Candytopia” exhibit, which she helped create. In March 2017, she celebrated the wedding of her sister Melissa Spencer ’00 to Robert Gessner, and in August, she explored the Canadian Rockies on a road trip with Sarah Chung ’03. Tina Lalangas Minnis welcomed baby number 2, Anastasia Minnis on September 5, 2017.

Katherine Bruce Tarnoff welcomed son Jonah in August 2017. Jaime Crowley English welcomed baby girl Violet Buchanan English on October 30, 2017.

Violet joins big sister, Bennet. Sarah Chung is graduating from Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine and starting a PhD program in neuropharmacology in the fall. Jennifer Camillo married Dmitriy Chernyy at the Surf Lodge in Montauk, New York on September 16, 2017. Elizabeth Dreyfuss Quiat was her matron of honor. Jen works as a prosecutor for the felony division of the Domestic Violence Bureau of the Queens District Attorney’s Office in New York. Tess Garton O’Connor graduated from University of Virginia’s Master’s of Nursing program in May 2017, passed the RN licensure exam in July, and 10 days later, on July 17, 2017, welcomed daughter Maeve Marie O’Connor. She is appreciating the experience of motherhood and looking forward to starting work in labor and delivery in March. Molly Frost married Clay

Laughter on September 16, 2017. Emily McDowell Cameron welcomed daughter Alice Frances Cameron on November 15, 2017.

2004 Class Agent – Communications: Marissa Lau Garrison marissaann@gmail.com Elaine Weatherall Martzen is expecting her third baby in late March, joining big brothers Max and J.D. (ages 4 and 2). Her husband is now starting his own law firm after years of federal practice. After 4 years of living in Southlake, they are moving to a little town south of Canton, to enjoy the outdoors and do a little farming! Elaine continues to work part-time for an artist, as well as doing her own artwork. Julianna LaFerney Smith owns four Nekter juice bars in Dallas and had her fourth child this past September. She is a stay-at-home mom of three boys and a girl. Katy Reddin Wiest married June 24, 2017, at the Hay-Adams Hotel in D.C. with Nikki Bruce by her side as one of her bridesmaids. Katy currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Matt Wiest. Sagari Bette and Anuj Jayakar married on October 15, 2016, in Frisco, Texas. They were so

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L to R: Pilar Macdonald Oppedisano ’03, Austin Dennard, Mallory Owen Muse ’03, Blake Lown Beers ’03, Amy Brundage Kinkade ’03, Katherine Brooks Wood ’03, Kathryn McGarr ’03, Ryan Squires ’03, Anneka Anand Kamel ’03, Lauren Gillespie Nabi ’03, Jaime Crowley English ’03 in Carmel, California, for the wedding of Katherine Brooks Woods ’03

Maeve Marie is the daughter of Tess Garton O’Connor ’03.

Jaime Crowley English, Nick English, and Violet English

Katherine Bruce Tarnoff ’03 with her son Jonah and husband Dylan

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Violet is the daughter of Jaime Crowley English ’03.

Jennifer Camillo ’03 married Dmitriy Chernyy at the Surf Lodge in Montauk, New York on September 16, 2017.

In December 2017, Lindsey Galbraith Obenhaus hosted a Class of 2004 holiday happy hour. In attendance, top (L to R): Kristen Martin, Megan McClain, Anna Lassiter, Ali Rutherford Ogburn, Megan Coleman. Bottom (L to R): Lindsey Galbraith Obenhaus, Tess Reeder Hales, Leila Thompson Stefan, Gillian Barjon

Grace Bell Gallivan is the daughter of Abby Tice Gallivan ’04.

happy to be surrounded by family and friends, including Emily Campbell, Katy Crow Craig, and Megan Foley Jepson.

They spent their honeymoon in Thailand and Bali, enjoying the beach, elephants, and amazing temples. They moved to Miami in June 2017, when Sagari started a two-year movement disorders fellowship at the University of Miami, and Anuj started as a neurologist in neurocritical care and epilepsy at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Outside of work, they go on runs by the water and happy hours with Anuj’s parents. Miami is likely to be their home from now on, so let them know if you’re in town! Abby Tice Gallivan and her husband, Jimmy, welcomed their beautiful daughter, Grace Bell Gallivan, into the world on July 16, 2017. They are totally in love with her! After a wonderful maternity leave, Abby returned back to work at a Dallas-based hedge fund, where she is head of marketing, investor relations, and business development. In July 2018, Rachel Conrad will be moving to Boston, Massachusetts for a fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is looking forward to living a few blocks from Nabihah Kara! Marissa Lau Garrison is still trying to learn German (it’s a tough one!) and has also been working towards a certification to become a teacher. This

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spring she spent her time fostering a Labrador puppy, Belle, in hopes for her to become a seeing-eye dog in the next year. It’ll be sad to return Belle to the training program, but it has been a great experience working with such an amazing organization. A puppy is a lot of work, but so much fun, and has been great practice for the first Baby Garrison due in August 2018! Special thanks to Lindsey Galbraith Obenhaus for hosting a wonderful Class of 2004 happy hour and mini-reunion last December in Dallas. It was great to see so many girls together, and many of their babies!

Class Agent – Communications: Molly Bierman mollybierman@gmail.com Tori See is still in Washington D.C., working as a curatorial assistant with the State Department. One of her recent projects was for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s ambassadorial residence. “I got to meet her and she totally remembers us!”

(Editor’s note: Hutchison was our Hockaday Class of 2005 commencement speaker). Jen Morris Wilson works at

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The wedding party of Katy Reddin Wiest ’04, including Nikki Bruce (far right)

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Automattic, where she manages and analyzes data for blogging site WordPress. com. The company is 100 percent distributed (all 600 employees work asynchronously from home anywhere in the world!); she’s living with her husband Scott and dog Darcy in Denver, Colorado, where they are currently in the process of building a new home. Sarah Lorenzen Vitullo still lives in Chicago with her husband Lou and cat Zucchini, and her sister Kassie Lorenzen ’08 also moved to Chicago last May. She works as a science liaison for Valeant Pharma. Abby Hoak-Morton and her husband Cody welcomed their first son Teddy in June 2017. Kathleen Campbell Parker gave birth to her third child, son Romie Cole Parker, on November 19, 2017.

2006 Class Agents – Communications: Shuchi Lakhanpal shuchi88@gmail.com Christy Yip christyharmonyyip@gmail.com With many of us hitting our 30th milestone this year, here’s a peek inside Class of 2006.

Lauren Hoffman completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Ohio State University and is currently working as a hospitalist in Columbus, Ohio. She married fellow physician (and Texas Longhorn) Kyle Oholendt in October, and they plan to move back to Dallas after he completes his Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency. Along with Jo Anna Elmquist, Erin Harris, Rachel Spradley, Eliana Baker, Kit Garton, Flo Monier, Meagan Moroney, Claire Albert, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Anna Nearburg, and Elizabeth Bruyere, Brooks Dennard Miller attended Lauren’s wedding. Brooks also enjoyed the wedding of her sister Dr. Austin Dennard ’03. Monica Hughes married Charlie Smith on September 16, 2017, at Northwood Club in Dallas. In attendance were Tess English, Flo Monier, Lindsey

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Brooks Dennard Miller ’06 at the wedding of her sister Dr. Austin Dennard ’03

Adams Williams, Kristen Cataldo, Claire Albert, and Helen Jury. Anna Nearburg is living in San Francisco and running an art gallery out of her apartment called Some Time Salon. Anna is working on her first collection of jewelry for her new brand, Stone Everett. She works in gold and silver to create custom rings, necklaces, and bolo ties, merging an architectural sensibility with southwestern influences. Anna handmakes each piece in her studio in San Francisco and especially loves commissions from fellow Daisies (anna@stoneeverett.com)! Sarah Nouri

also moved to San Francisco in July to start a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at UCSF. Pierina Otiniano Martynenko is completing her second year of law school at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She loves it and the company of her study buddy and son, Oliver Otiniano Martynenko. Lucy Reid Murchison and family are busy renovating a 1920s home in Dallas. Her daughter Eleanor attends Hockaday, and Lucy had the pleasure of helping with the Fourth Grade Musical, living vicariously through her! Lucy has a paper company called Love Lucy, which she runs with her sister Claire Reid Wilson ’04. They design invitations, notepads, and stationery, while also helping other small businesses with branding. They’ve had a great year and are excited to see what’s in store for 2018! Jennifer Zavaleta married Christopher Cheek in Austin, Texas, on November 4, 2017. Kyle Vaughn, former Hockaday high school English teacher and advisor, officiated the ceremony! He was tactful enough not to mention any embarrassing memories like how we stuffed our faces with Doritos, and other awkward moments that arise during high school advisory. It was a blast! Fellow Vaughn advisees Rachel Spradley, Andrea Autrey, Elizabeth Bruyere, Abby McCartney, and Jane Beaird attended.

Monica Hughes ’06 married Charlie Smith on September 16, 2017 at Northwood Club in Dallas.

Attending her wedding were Tess English ’06, Flo Monier ’06, Lindsey Adams Williams ’06, Kristen Cataldo ’06, Claire Albert ’06, and Helen Jury ’06.

still evolving; please reach out if you’re interested in participating. Kavitha Surana is back in New York and reporting on immigration and labor at ProPublica – send her tips at kavitha.surana@ propublica.org! Alyssa Pazandak married Bryan Casey (St. Mark’s ’03) on September 30, 2017, in Santa Barbara, California. Daisies attending her wedding included Meredith Casey Jarrett ’99, Whitney Wallace ’07, Emily Rowan ’07, Lindsey Casey ’98, Patty Murphree Lauinger ’03, and Lucia Sorensen Fusch ’03.

Pierina Otiniano Martynenko ’06 is pictured with her family.

2007 Class Agent – Communications: Anna Simon anna.simon@gmail.com Sarah Jonson writes, “In the past year and a half, I have moved back to the US after living in Namibia for two years while serving in the Peace Corps, I have gotten married, finished my master’s in Public and International Affairs, relocated to D.C., and I am now working for the International Youth Foundation,

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an NGO that provides leadership, technical, and life-skills training to young people around the world.” Allison Klion spent the past three years living in a log cabin outside of Flagstaff, Arizona (where she relocated after a more predictable four-ish years in New York City). While in Arizona, she ran a gallery and artist residency program and worked in membership and development at the Museum of Northern Arizona. This past spring Allison traveled around the country in a van researching intentional communities and visiting artists for a documentary film about the idea of making or finding home. The project is

2008 Reunion Class Class Agents – Communications: Shaye Martin shaye.martin@gmail.com Adrien May adriencemay@gmail.com Channy Ronchetti chandler@ronchetti.net Heather Wolf heathercwolf@gmail.com

2009 Class Agents – Communications: Betty Lai bettykitlai@gmail.com Katie Satinsky KNS34@cornell.edu

Alyssa Pazandak ’07 married Bryan Casey (St. Mark’s ’03) in Santa Barbara, California, on September 30, 2017. Hockadaisies attending were Meredith Casey Jarrett ’99, Whitney Wallace ’07, Emily Rowan ’07, Lindsey Casey ’98, Patty Murphree Lauinger ’03, and Lucia Sorensen Fusch ’03.

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2014 Class Agents – Communications: Dominique Cooper ddcooper17@yahoo.com Alexis Jones alexis.jones104@gmail.com Emily Marucci emarucci124@gmail.com

Sam Toomey ’15 and Charlotte Toomey ’17 watched Lisa Loeb ’86 perform at the Carlyle Club in New York in June 2017.

2010 Class Agents – Communications: Luyi Adesanya adesanya1@uchicago.edu Elizabeth Cowle ecowle@tulane.edu

Maggie Phillips maggiee2011@yahoo.com

Ariella Stromberg ariella.stromberg@gmail.com

2012

Stephanie Gobran stephaniegobran@me.com Margot Konig konigm@sas.upenn.edu

Katie Oliver kno0394@gmail.com

Grace Song gehsong123@gmail.com

Jane Song ssong48@emory.edu

Manning Jordan has recently written a play that was part of the FRIGID Festival. It is set in the 1960s, and is about four friends who explore their deep desires and fears through a psychological board game called Dooley. She acted in it as well. The play had five performances in February and March. Her previous play titled Mr. Long was featured in an article in The Fourcast.

Sarah Stites sstites@uga.edu

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Megan Porter meganporter17@gmail.com

Class Agents – Communications: Sarah Alexander sarahluau47@aol.com

Natalie Sampson nsampson@usc.edu

Katelyn Hall kataubhall@gmail.com Erica Hsu ericaxhsu@gmail.com

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Michelle Marley michellewmarley@hotmail.com

Class Agents – Communications: Avita Anand avita.anand@bc.edu

Class Agents – Communications: Kay Dannenmaier kdannenmaier@gmail.com

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2015

2013 Reunion Class Class Agents – Communications: Michaela Cortes mcortes2013@yahoo.com Catherine Gobran cgobran@verizon.net

Cassie Yuan henryyuanjz@hotmail.com

Snow Zhou zhounu@bc.edu Sam Toomey and Charlotte Toomey ’17 saw Lisa Loeb ’86 perform at The Carlyle Club in Manhattan last June. The girls spoke to Lisa and her husband for about 10 minutes about Hockaday, and of course, their class rings!

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2016 Class Agents – Communications: Frances Burton frances.l.burton@vanderbilt.edu Ellie Bush ellie.bush@richmond.edu

2017 Class Agents – Communications: Mary Claire Wilson mary.wilson@tcu.edu mcl.wilson@att.net Jenny Zhu jenny.zhu@columbia.edu mail.jenny.z@gmail.com

Hockaday 2012 classmates attended Kay Dannenmeier’s ’12 wedding in July 2017. Left to right are Mollie Cowger, Emily Bao, Michelle Li, Kay Dannenmaier, Annie Zhu, Caroline Sydney, Kaavya Balan, Rupsha Basu, and Leila Safavi

Caroline Greenblatt ’16 and her sister Grace after running a half/full marathon together

Megan Porter ’13 with her former Middle School advisor Darin Jeans

Cameron Malakoff ’15 and her sisters Mercer Malakoff ’16 and Isabel Malakoff (Class of 2021) in front of the Palace Theater in London where they saw Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Hockaday 2016 classmates attended Claire Fletcher’s ’16 debutante presentation in February.

Left to right are Megan Philips ’16, Rainey Sachs ’16, Christina Archer ’16, Frances Burton ’16, and Caroline Greenblatt ’16.

Claire Fletcher ’16, with her father Barron, was presented at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presentation Ball in February 2018.

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MILESTONES Marriages 1992

Qainta Harris to Eric Whetsel September 30, 2017

1995

Merrie Nell Spence to Ray McLeod October 23, 2017

1996

Kathryn Spitzberg to Brian L. Johnson November 4, 2017

Maa Armush to Dave Levin March 17, 2018

2002

Hannah Simpson to Carlo Horz April 29, 2017

Hannah Song to Mark Chang August 2017

2003

Melissa Spencer to Robert Gessner March 18, 2017

Jennifer Camillo to Dmitriy Chernyy September 16, 2017

Molly Frost to Clay Laughter September 16, 2017

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Sagari Bette to Anuj Jayakar October 15, 2016

Katy Reddin to Matt Wiest June 24, 2017

2006

Monica Hughes to Charlie Smith September 16, 2017

2007

Allyson Pazandak to Bryan Casey September 30, 2017

2012

Hunter Folsom to Grant Lacey October 7, 2017

Births 1994

Amanda Bradley Cohn RĂŠmy Jude Hugo Cohn November 9, 2017

Cate Veatch Ford Chloe Fairfax Ford December 14, 2017

1995

Sarah Stockton Georgia Cole Stockton December 28, 2017

1996

Virginia Alverson Mimmack Jack Edward Mimmack April 13, 2017

Cynthia Spalding Lyons Cooper Michael Lyons February 26, 2018

1997

Lauren Shawn Stafford Dylan Reid Stafford July 9, 2017

Katherine Mathes Bullock Mary Mathes Bullock November 28, 2017

1998

Jenna Zouzelka Osborn Jewel Noelle Osborn December 21, 2016

Athena Wickham Riley Stuart March 27, 2017

1999

Lydia Sands McCutchen Palmer Rose McCutchen January 29, 2017

Lilly Albritton Briant Lucille Albritton Briant February 22, 2017

Gina Park Jabbour Samuel Brady June 21, 2017

Jennifer Tsai Sebastian Bennett June 26, 2017

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Sarah Wilson Fenton Silas Henry August 9, 2017

2003 Katherine Bruce Tarnoff Jonah

August 2017

Robyn Schwartz Siegel Phoebe Tiger Siegel September 2017

Tess Garton O’Connor Maeve Marie O’Connor July 17, 2017

Jenny Stewart Manuel Margaret Ann “Margo” Manuel October 4, 2017

Tina Lalangas Minnis Anastasia Minnis September 5, 2017

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Anar Rathod Patel Shay Patel October 10, 2017

Jaime Crowley English Violet Buchanan English October 30, 2017

Jill Rosellini Ombrello Eloise Grace Ombrello October 24, 2017

Emily McDowell Cameron Alice Frances Cameron November 15, 2017

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Claire Jordan Christopher Bowen Austin August 16, 2017

2004

Abby Tice Gallivan Grace Bell Gallivan July 16, 2017

Ashley Moore Hood William Emerson Hood November 21, 2017

2005

Katy Lake David Lewis Lake July 9, 2017

2002

Callan Blount Fleming Bernadette “Birdie” Jeanne Fleming May 2017

Kathleen Campbell Parker Romie Cole Parker November 19, 2017

Sandy Barnett Haviland Hank

June 30, 2017

Stephanie Tsang Jack Wilson Callaghan July 6, 2017

Margaret Elizabeth Perry McKissack Margaret Ann August 10, 2017

Olivia Jennings Adendorff Elizabeth Arend and James Edward Adendorff August 19, 2017

Jennifer Henry Jones Henry September 5, 2017

Anne Miller Morris Catherine “Cate” October 28, 2017

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Nancy Neill Law November 8, 2017

1956

Annamaria Cavallari August 9, 2017

1940

Norma Katz Oppenheimer August 10, 2017

Carolyn Hammon Lee mother of Shelley Lee Kimmel ’69 December 23, 2017

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Phyllis Bywaters Singer January 17, 2018

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Virginia Turner Brooks January 28, 2018

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Caroline O’Donohoe Bolger August 14, 2017

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Marjorie Freeland Knott December 2017

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Susan Lively October 23, 2017

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Margaret Anne Paternostro Kinnan December 17, 2017

In Memoriam – Friends & Family

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Anne Giles Kimbrough October 11, 2017

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Georgie Jones Kahl December 2017

Dr. Mark Armstrong

father of Meredith Armstrong Niles ’93 and

Melissa Armstrong ’98

March 25, 2018

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Olive Falvey Davis March 9, 2016

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Ann DeBack McGloin April 8, 2017

Barbara Howell Luckadoo mother of Lainy Luckadoo Abbott ’68 July 2017

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Cherrie Perkins Wells sister of Nancy Perkins Shutt ’50; mother of Elizabeth Watson Bailey ’71; aunt of Harriett Shutt Burrow ’78 January 22, 2018

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Lucille Sneed Sparks November 15, 2017

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Kathryn Elizabeth Rosamond December 10, 2017

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Barbara Spalti Rawson March 12, 2018

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Missy Potts Rosson August 31, 2017

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Clare Claiborne Easley October 20, 2017

Jean Oliver Watson January 8, 2018

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Alicia Avila de Burford June 21, 2017

H O C K A D AY M A G A Z I N E

Robert Brousseau

father of Alexandra Brousseau Halbardier ’04

March 30, 2018 Barbara Bush Former First Lady of the United States

grandmother of Barbara Bush ’00 and Jenna Bush Hager ’00

April 17, 2018 Barbara Dan Butt

mother of Stephen Butt (Board of Trustees, 2003–2009);

grandmother of Sarah Butt ’08 and Shelby Butt ’15

December 14, 2017 Dr. Watt Matthews Casey

father of Susan Casey Williams ’70

February 24, 2018 Nancy Ann Smith Wynne Chandler

mother of Fay Anne Wynne ’77 (deceased) and

Nancy Wynne Saustad ’83

December 15, 2017 Ray Constantinides

husband of Effie Ladopoulou Constantinides ’57

December 2017 Henry Coke III Board of Trustees (1978–1984)

husband of Anne Schoellkopf Coke ’50;

father of Anne Coke Long ’76 and Sarah Coke King ’79

November 15, 2017 Tom Cox

husband of Betty Taylor Cox ’52JC

January 31, 2018 Dwight Cramer

father of Megan Cramer ’98

September 1, 2017

L. Decker Dawson

father of Mary Dawson ’70

February 6, 2018 Martha “Marti” Doran

mother of Taylor Doran ’04

October 9, 2017 Richard Dray

husband of Janet Balleison Dray ’74

January 16, 2018 Dr. B. Henry Estess

father of Elizabeth Estess Hughes ’82;

grandfather of Payton Hughes ’11,

Katherine Grace Estess (Class of 2022), and

Mary Elise Estess (Class of 2027)

January 23, 2018 Howell Forman

father of Reagin Forman Hults ’70

March 3, 2018 Clifford Grum

husband of Mary K Pederson Grum ’61

December 19, 2016 Carol Ann Graham Hairston

mother of Elizabeth Hairston Keogh ’90

January 27, 2018 Iva Hochstim

mother of Nancy Hochstim Goldberg ’83;

grandmother of Allison Margaret Fijolek ’10 and Emily Rose Goldberg ’13

October 19, 2017 Dr. Hugo Jasin

father of Claudia Jasin ’86 and Gaby Jasin ’88

August 16, 2017 Dr. Robert Kramer Board of Trustees (1993–1999), Hockaday Medical Director and Pediatrician (1977–1997), and Honorary Alum

father of Lisa Kramer Morgan ’82, Robin Kramer ’83,

Jessica Kramer ’88, and Megan Kramer ’89;

grandfather of Bebe Sullivan (Class of 2018) and

Logan Sullivan (Class of 2020)

March 5, 2018 Pi-Chen Li

mother of Yung Fang Ludford (Middle School

Orchestra teacher); grandmother of Vivian Ludford ’11 and Lillian Ludford ’13

January 27, 2018 John McElhaney

father of Vicky McElhaney Benedict ’87

January 28, 2017

Toula Mihalopoulos

mother of Frank Mihalopoulos and mother–in–law of

Maryann Sarris Mihalopoulos ’78; grandmother of

Alexandra Brousseau Halbardier ’04 and

Meredith Mihalopoulos ’14

January 5, 2018 John Ndungu Mwaura

grandfather of Nguhi Muturi ’13

December 13, 2017 Michael Overstreet

husband of Helen Graeber Overstreet ’77

March 1, 2018 Dr. Jose Pabilona

father of Yvette Pabilona Bhutani ’94

December 25, 2017 Kathryn Priddy Life Trustee and Honorary Alumna

mother of Betty Priddy Walker ’69 and

Ann Priddy Bentley ’73; grandmother of

Kathryn Walker Francis ’94, Caroline Horne Walker ’98,

Ashley Priddy Walker ’05, Elizabeth Ann Bentley ’10, and

Virginia D. Bentley ’12; great-grandmother of

Ashley Francis (Class of 2024) and Ellie Bell (Class of 2026);

sister-in-law of Ruby Norwood Priddy ’42 (deceased)

June 2, 2017 Coleman Renick

husband of Judy Walker Renick ’54

December 6, 2017 Matthew Slay

father of Sydney Adele Slay (Class of 2023)

April 8, 2018 Peter Pauls Stewart Board of Trustees (1958–1968)

father of Elizabeth Stewart Wally ’61 and

Cathy Stewart Moore ’72; father-in-law of

Jackie Miller Stewart ’68; grandfather of

Nicole Stewart Schlesinger ’97, Sasha Stewart ’05, and Sarah Stewart ’11

January 10, 2018 Kimberly Thompson

mother of Channing Tucker ’14

January 24, 2018 Andrew Unterberg

brother of Jennifer Unterberg ’89;

brother-in-law of Jessie Dayton Unterberg ’04

March 11, 2018 Jimmy Williams

husband of Vicki Pernell Williams ’61

November 29, 2017 Tom Williams

husband of Jessica Landisman Williams ’81

November 4, 2017

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Hunter Folsom ’12 married Grant Lacey October 7, 2017.

Merrie Nell Spence ’95 married Ray McLeod on October 23, 2017.

Katy Reddin ’04 and Matt Wiest on their wedding day.

Kathryn Spitzberg ’96 married Brian L. Johnson in November 2017 in San Diego, California.

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Georgia Cole Stockon is the daughter of Sarah Stockton ’95.

Cooper Lyons is the son of Cynthia Spalding Lyons ’96.

Jack Edward Mimmack is the son of Virginia Alverson Mimmack ’96.

The son of Pierina Otiniano Martynenko ’06

Margaret Ann “Margo” is the daughter of Jenny Stewart Manuel ’99 .

Dylan Reid Stafford is the son of Lauren Shawn Stafford ’97 .

Shay Patel is the son of Anar Rathod Patel ’00.

Palmer Rose and Jack are the children of Lydia Sands McCutchen ’99.

Jeanne is the daughter of Trude Goodman Tiesi ’98 .

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Alumnae Weekend 2018 April 27 – 28 The Hockaday School was pleased to honor these individuals at the Alumnae Day Luncheon.

Hockaday Medal Award Recipient

Honorary Alum Award Recipients

The Hockaday Medal honors former students who have shown

An Honorary Alum consistently exemplifies the Hockaday

excellence in their chosen fields, demonstrated their loyalty

Cornerstones: Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics,

and support of the School, and exemplified Hockaday’s Four

and she – or he – serves as a role model for Hockaday’s

Cornerstones. The Hockaday Medal is the highest honor the

students and alumnae.

Alumnae Association can bestow upon an alumna.

Nancy Nasher ’72

Kevin Brady

Vickey Thumlert

Upper School Ceramics Teacher

Director of Activities

Outstanding Alumna Volunteer This award is presented to those members of the Alumnae Association who support the school community with their time and energy, graciously, unselfishly, and never seeking the spotlight.

Vicki Michaelis Bartholow ’68

Retirements Six beloved members of the Hockaday faculty and staff will retire in 2018. The community expresses its sincerest gratitude for their dedication to the School.

Pictured in front of Christie’s in New York, Kate Smith ’10 and Aline Bass ’10, granddaughters of Life Trustee Rita Crocker Clements ’49, attended the auction of their grandmother’s ring.

LESLIE BOX

LISA ANASTASI CAMP

Middle School Spanish Teacher

World Languages Department Chair; Middle School Coordinator; Middle School French and Spanish Teacher

DOROTHY DICKMAN

ED LONG

Fourth Grade Teacher

The Nancy Penn Penson ‘41 & John G. Penson Distinguished Teacher in Fine Arts; Fine Arts Department Lead Chair; Dean of Upper School

RODRIGO PARRA

RICHARD TAYLOR

Maintenance

Upper School Science Teacher

Rita Crocker Clements ’49 Makes Special Bequest to Hockaday For more than 70 years, Life Trustee Rita Crocker Clements ’49 was an enthusiastic supporter of Hockaday. Prior to her death in January 2018, Mrs. Clements made a special bequest to Hockaday in her estate plans. This bequest specified that her engagement ring should be given to The Hockaday School and proceeds from the sale of the ring should be invested with Hockaday’s endowment. On April 17, 2018, the 17-carat diamond ring was sold during a Christie’s auction for $560,000. All of the proceeds will go to The Rita Crocker Clements and Family Endowed Fund for Faculty Development at Hockaday. This endowed fund was established in 1999 by Mrs. Clements and her husband, Governor William P. Clements, Jr., with her daughters and their spouses, Barbara Bass ’75 and Jim Moroney, Bonnie Bass ’75 and Peter Smith, and her son and his spouse, Jim and Hong Bass, and her son Dan Bass.

The fund provides faculty members at Hockaday the opportunity to further their professional growth through seminars, workshops, lectures, and reading materials, which assist in expanding upon their knowledge of the subject matter which they teach.

When the fund was established Mrs. Clements said, “Our family has meaningful relationships with inspiring and highly educated faculty members, an experience which we wish to be continued for generations of Hockaday students to come.” Mrs. Clements has many family connections at Hockaday: two daughters – Bonnie Bass Smith ’75 and Barbara Bass Moroney ’75, son James Bass (former Hockaday Trustee), and eight granddaughters – Meagan Moroney ’06, Caroline Smith ’08, Julie Smith ’07, Aline Bass ’10, Kate Smith ’10, Laura Bass ’11, Callie Moroney ’13, and Jenny Moroney ’13.

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SPOTLIGHT An Interview with Nancy Perot ’78 As she makes her dream of opening a new kind of bookstore a reality, Nancy Perot ’78 shares her experience and the impact Hockaday has had on her life. Located in Dallas, Interabang Books is a new full-service, independent bookstore. The spacious store carries more than 12,000 titles in multiple categories including fiction, children’s books, and creative nonfiction. Interabang Books was named from an old printmaker’s term in that the interabang is a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and an exclamation point in a single symbol. Now, through her love of learning, Nancy introduces a new kind of bookstore and shares her love of books with the community.

What are your favorite memories of being a student at Hockaday?

I attended Hockaday for six years (7th through 12th Grades), and I am grateful for the serious and broad education I received there. I have memories of many great teachers, but my English teachers were among my very favorites. Lee Gaillard and Mr. Merritt are the ones that really stand out in my mind. They taught me to really appreciate fine literature and gave me the skills to analyze it. I also spent a lot of time on the athletic fields and have so many happy memories of playing on the field hockey, basketball, golf, and softball teams.

What is Interabang Books and how did you get the idea?

First, I need to explain the quirky name of the store: An “interabang” is a printmaker’s term for a combined exclamation point and question mark. We thought it captured the curiosity and discovery that one can experience in a bookstore in a fresh and unusual way. Plus, it is just a great word and readers always love to discover new and unusual words. As far as how I got the idea, my mother taught all of us a love of books from a very early age. She read to us all the time and took us to the Preston Royal Library. So, I have always loved bookstores and libraries and enjoy exploring them wherever I travel.

But the dream of opening my own store I owe to Nancy O’Connor, mother of Hockaday alumna Amy Rush’05 , who owned a fabulous children’s bookstore in Snider Plaza called Rutabaga. I passed many happy hours with my four sons there.

When Nancy decided to sell the store in the early 1990s, I seriously considered buying it, but the time was not really right in my life with four young children. But I always carried the dream with me of one day opening a store. Fast forward 30 years and I met my co-founders, Jeremy Ellis and Lori Feathers. We became business partners and this past July, we opened our doors.

Tell us about your experiences that are reflected in your work today.

After Hockaday, I went to Vanderbilt where I majored in English Literature and, of course, that deepened my love of literature and writing all the more. After graduation, I moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in the White House offices during the Reagan administration. Living in Washington gave me a life-long interest in politics, plus Washington has fabulous bookstores. I loved exploring them and little did I know that this would shape my future vocation. I have also been a freelance writer for over 12 years, primarily for Veranda magazine where I also served as a Contributing Editor. I take such pleasure in the written word and the power of words to shape and influence our views, attitudes, and spirits. I have also been in a book club for many, many years with a large number of Hockaday alumnae. Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt ’75, currently the Chair of the Hockaday Board of Trustees, designs our custom bookmarks each season and is a close friend.

Nancy Perot ’78 with her husband Rod and son Clayton

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Customers at Interbang Books

What is the most challenging part of your job?

Independent bookstores are making a comeback because people realize how much our communities need them. Naturally, there are the day-to-day challenges of choosing and ordering the books, holding the many author events, and finding passionate and talented booksellers. But the biggest challenge by far is trying to re-capture the market that orders online from Amazon. We are open online 24 hours a day, seven days a week (interabangbooks.com) and when a customer orders from us, not only do they help assure that our doors stay open, they keep a vibrant local business alive that adds to the uniqueness of the city, provides jobs, and generates taxes that stay in the community to support vital services such as firemen and policemen. I have become a real advocate for shopping local.

What do you enjoy most about your work?

I honestly love everything about this work, and no two days are ever the same. In any given week, we can have authors ranging from an astronaut to a Holocaust survivor to a famous cookbook author. We have events almost every day (and evening) of the week – author visits, story hours, events supporting literacy organizations, etc. We want to enrich the community in any way that we can, and it is joyful work to creatively brainstorm ways to achieve that. Our staff of 10 is comprised of remarkably talented and passionate booksellers, and I hope everyone will come to the store and meet them.

What advice do you have for Hockaday students today?

That is such an important question, and my advice would be to experience life as broadly as you can. Pay attention very closely to that inner voice that speaks to what you most enjoy doing. And if you have a dream, don’t be afraid to speak up about it, explore it, and share your passion with people. You never know what door might open that allows you to pursue your dream. Oh, and don’t forget to read!

Bookmarks designed specifically for Interabang Books by Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt ’75

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Leadership Team Dr. Karen Warren Coleman Eugene McDermott Head of School Susan Earhart Brower ’ 92 Director of Communications J.T. Coats Chief Financial Officer Jason Curtis Director of Technology and Information Resources Laura Day Director of the Dr. William B. Dean Service Learning Program Dr. Barbara Fishel Dean of Studies Linda Kramer Head of Middle School Ed Long The Nancy Penn Penson ’41 and John G. Penson Distinguished Teacher in Fine Arts; Fine Arts Department – Lead Chair; Dean of Upper School Blair Lowry Assistant Head of School Meshea Matthews Director of Residence Life and Global Outreach Terry Murray Head of Upper School Maryanna Phipps Director of Admission and Enrollment Management Randal Rauscher Rhodus ’97 Head of Lower School Debby Hay Spradley Director of Development and External Affairs Tresa Wilson Director of Inclusion and Community

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Board of Trustees OFFICERS

TRUSTEES

Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt ’75 Chair Kathryn Walker Francis ’94 Vice Chair and Chair-Elect Kathy Crow Chair, Executive Committee Rick J. O’Brien Treasurer Miguel Quinones Secretary David J. Haemisegger Immediate Past Chair

Mary Ann Alhadeff Samantha Ackerman Asch ’91 Carrie Moore Becker ’89 Keith Benedict Herbert W. Buford, Jr. Courtney Newman Flanagan ’91 Kelli Ford Katharine Friguletto Amanda Ginsberg ’88 Rosalind Redfern Grover ’59 Elizabeth Cullum Helfrich ’98 Arnold Holtberg Rajani Kapu ’90 George Lamb William Casey McManemin Anna McPhail Neelesh Mehendale Peggy Black Meyer ’81 Monty Montgomery Jennifer Mosle Shawna Nesbitt Pam Hudnall Quarterman ’72 Carolyn Perot Rathjen ’86 Jennifer Sampson Sandy Schmitz Betty Schultz Jacquelin Louise Sewell ’99 Nicole Ginsburg Small ’91 Juan Suarez III Candace Campbell Swango ’84 Shannon Saalfield Thompson ’89 Mary Ellen Wilensky

LIFE TRUSTEES Linda Custard Lyda Hill ’60 James M. Hoak, Jr. Natalie “Schatzie” Henderson Lee ’55 Margaret McDermott Janie Strauss McGarr ’72 Paula Mosle Edith Jones O’Donnell ’44 Margot Perot Ellen Higginbotham Rogers ’59 Richard S. Rogoff Barney T. Young

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SAVE THE DATE Saturday, May 19, 2018 104th Commencement

Dr. Karen Warren Coleman enjoys a lighthearted moment with several seniors during lunch.

Monday, May 21, 2018 Lower School Recognition Day

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Ring Day

Thursday, May 24, 2018 Eighth Grade Graduation and Reception