Laurel School's Highlights Magazine: Spring 2015

Highlights A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNAE, PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF LAUREL SCHOOL

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Commencement • Alumnae Weekend 2015 Recap • Class Notes

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IN THIS ISSUE Tell Me a Story, A message from Ann V. Klotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Alumnae Portraits: Connie Curtiss Manuel ‘36 & Nichelle McCall ’01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Learning at Laurel School: Collaboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2015 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Laurel School Alumnae Weekend ’15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Holiday Luncheon ’14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Class News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

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MISSION STATEMENT

To inspire each girl to fulfill her promise and to better the world.

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HEAD OF SCHOOL Ann V. Klotz DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Deborah Farquhar Jones EDITORS Venta Cantwell and Julie Donahue ’79 CLASS NEWS EDITOR Maegan Ruhlman ’03 DESIGN AND LAYOUT Laurel School PHOTOGRAPHY Kimberly Dailey, Downie Photography, Inc., Binnie Kurtzner ’87, Neal McDaniel, David Shoenfelt.

PRESIDENT, ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Martha Walter Royan ’71 CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Beth Embrescia ’88 Highlights is published by Laurel School for alumnae, parents and friends.

Submit address changes to the Development Office at 866.277.3182 or mRuhlman@LaurelSchool.org Laurel School is an independent day school for girls, Kindergarten through Grade 12, with coeducational programs for two-, three- and four-year-olds. We are proud to be an inclusive and equitable school community, and we actively seek a diverse student body and faculty without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, handicap or disability, or sexual orientation.

CORE VALUES In a community of learners, Laurel girls are courageous, ethical and compassionate.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL, ANN V. KLOTZ

TELL ME A STORY

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ell me a story,” I would implore my father, climbing into his lap to hear about Mary, Queen of Scots or the Little Princes in

the Tower. He read to me from a thick volume with few illustrations, Our Island Story, but even at six, I was mesmerized, spellbound by the drama of British history, captivated for life. I loved stories, from history, from literature or from my own imagination.

As an English and drama teacher, I have spent my life reading stories, teaching them, enjoying and analyzing them, returning often to the ones I love most: Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths, Hamlet, Beloved. It’s easy to slip into a book and lose myself in another era, absorbed by the lives of characters I come to know through plot and theme and symbol.

In the two religions of my family, the calendar is marked by stories, ones that we repeat over and over again. I look forward to the Seder we host each spring when we read the story of Passover in our haggadahs, and I love the moment when we unpack my mother’s crèche at Christmas time, and I share with my son the story of the birth of baby Jesus. Great stories anchor us, help us understand our faith or culture or family or school; they teach us who we are and what we value. As we grow, we learn that we can only tell a particular story the way we 4 LaurelSchool.org

remember it, which may differ from the way someone else remembers the same event. And, always, as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reminds us in her TED talk, there is The Danger of a Single Story.

We have an obligation to consider multiple points of view.

Each of us makes choices in how we tell our stories — what information do we include, what do we omit? The flavor of a story is shaped by the teller.

Personally, I don’t like it when endings are too easily resolved, wrapped up in a nice bow. I prefer unresolved bits, the hint of possibility, perhaps a sequel, a later development.

As is the case with every school, ours, too, is full of stories. There are narrative arcs implied in course titles: American History and American literature, KAP Euro, From Harlem to Hip Hop. In classes, girls investigate, learn, and question, thinking critically about events and people. We encourage girls to read carefully, to listen thoughtfully, to detect bias, to consider a source’s credibility or

an author’s point of view, to question and to reflect. What is missing? Whose stories are not represented in the pages they read? Why or why not?

But, these dear walls are also filled with stories about Laurel — about our own girls and adults. Legendary teachers: Miss Andrews, Miss Lake, Mrs. Schenk, Mrs. Chandler. Contemporary girls’ voices and personalities mark this moment in our school’s life: Sophie’s inspiring resilience, Katy’s incredible talent at improvisation, Tiffany and Jayne’s passion for filmmaking, Natalie’s prowess on the soccer field, Melissa’s expressive singing voice, Berthy’s power in speech and debate, Serena’s musicality, Danielle’s uncompromising tennis game, Eliza’s willingness to help with every aspect of the Primary Spring Celebration, Laura’s superb memory, Emily’s joy in drawing, Livi’s commitment to social justice, Zoe’s involvement with her youth group, Nicole’s ability to make 3-pointers on the basketball court look easy. In my Ninth Grade English class, I ask each girl to share the story of her name — what does she know about how her name was chosen? These mini-stories help us begin to weave the story of our class.

How can we know and support each other, move beyond the superficial to a deep appreciation for each other’s individuality? We begin with stories. Each of us is full of stories. Some of us long to share our stories; others prefer to bear witness to the stories which with others entrust us. And, some of us are reticent, reluctant to reveal too much.

Each spring, when alumnae return to Lyman Circle, I am conscious that

generations of women have come of age at Laurel. Portions of their own histories — colorful, textured, complex — played out during their time in these dear walls.

They loved the Senior Play or can recall the topic of the essay they wrote for the Essay Contest; they played on teams, forged life-long friendships, felt glad to be connected to a community. Occasionally, I learn, sitting with reunion classes, about a difficult moment in a girl’s life that her classmates discovered only decades later. That’s a function of culture, I think.

Self-revelation is a comparatively recent impulse. There are many women who credit their friends with buoying them up, who remember a teacher’s care or exacting standards as affirming. And, what I hear every year is the story of how certain rituals — receiving a Laurel ring, Song Contest, Green and White competitions — mattered. Those are the stories women tell and hold close, a sort of magic cloth of memory.

articulated vision of a progressive education that would offer opportunities to girls. They could not anticipate how the world would evolve in the decades that followed them, how the 1970s, for example, would challenge girls’ schools.

As the world changed, girls’ schools all over America struggled: Should girls be permitted to protest the Vietnam War or be required to continue to wear hats in public? It was a complicated time, nationally, and at Laurel, too.

Academics were top notch, but many girls from that era felt misunderstood, as if their education, while rigorous, lacked relevance. With time, we have come to read the story of that decade with more nuance. I am glad Laurel endured, and I regret that some girls felt distanced from the institution as they grappled with what was essential in their lives. I appreciate, so deeply, their willingness to share with me the story of that time, how it shaped the trajectory of their

the walls of the school she built in Shaker Heights would hold the echo of hundreds of girls reciting Browning’s “My Last Duchess” or that our a cappella group would compose their own funky version of the Alma Mater? Or that we would send girls around the world as part of MayTerm and to the Butler Campus to immerse themselves in experiential learning?

Could she have known how often I stop to admire the stained glass window that displays the Laurel tree she chose as the school’s emblem? The light streaming through the glass feels like a gift.

Just as we pass tales down from one generation to the next to teach and entertain, so we continue to tell Laurel’s story. At Alumnae Weekend this past May, we began our own unofficial “Story Corps,” in order to record memories and stories of those who return to celebrate.

The other night, I read to the incoming Ninth Grade an excerpt from Mrs. Lyman’s Commencement Address of

Alumnae and Upper School students realize once a Laurel girl, always a Laurel girl I spent several hours recently at the Western Reserve Historical Society, an amphora of Cleveland stories, including the story of Laurel’s founding. There, Jennie Prentiss, our founder, and Sarah Lyman, who led the School for over 25 years, felt very near; as I sat in the quiet reading room, their dream for a school for girls seemed like the beginning of a tremendous adventure tale that we continue to live today and will live into the future. I imagine them standing at the beginning of their chapters, before the turn of the last century, WWI or WWII, before technology! Theirs was a world of beautiful calligraphy and a carefully

lives. There are joyful stories, too, of course — how a particular teacher made a difference, how a friendship established at Laurel lasted well beyond the 50th reunion marker.

Jennie Prentiss and Sarah Lyman could not know how Carol Gilligan’s research, set at Laurel in the 1980s, would set the stage for today’s Center for Research on Girls or how Mrs. Lyman’s conviction that a healthy body was essential for a girl would give rise to our successful athletic teams, the Butler Center for Fitness and Wellness, and the long standing Green and White team competitions. Did Mrs. Lyman know that

1928: “Your generation calls for a new kind of understanding — an understanding that will give you self-confidence and independence . . . Life can be so vivid, so dramatic, so creative, if one has deep feeling, broad sympathy, and high ideals.”

Her words feel as crucial, as relevant today as they did in 1928, and I feel lucky to have an artifact, a published volume of her talks recently given to me by an alumna. In a way, it feels like a brand new storybook for me, written by someone who, perhaps without knowing she was doing so, charted a course that has allowed each of us to weave ourselves into Laurel’s history — Laurel’s own story. L Highlights

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PORTRAIT OF AN ALUMNA

Constance Curtiss Manuel ’36 M.D.

by Julie Donahue ’79

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o put Constance Curtiss Manuel’s trailblazing achievement as the first Laurel alumna to receive her medical degree in perspective, one need only note that in the 1940s, just 5% of medical students were women. In fact, the percentage of women in medical school or as practicing physicians remained in the single digits until 1970.

Born in 1918 in Cleveland Heights, Connie and her sisters, Harriet Curtiss Coughlin ’34 and Jane Curtiss Floyd ’41, were sixth generation Clevelanders.

A lifer at Laurel, Connie started at the Euclid Avenue campus in downtown Cleveland during the boom of the Roaring Twenties and graduated from the Lyman Campus in Shaker Heights during the midst of the Great Depression.

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for every Laurel girl. Nevertheless, while expectations were high for her to go to Smith College, Connie already had developed a keen interest in medical topics and had learned about a physical therapy course at a program affiliated with Simmons College in Boston. “At this time, there were no role models in my life. I had a keen desire to learn all I could about anatomy, physiology disease,” she once said. “There were no guidance counselors or faculty members in my day to steer me. . . I was headstrong and very determined.”

So, she headed to Boston, where she finally met a role model, a woman physician who encouraged Connie to become a doctor. Her clinical experience at Massachusetts General Hospital while getting her certificate in physical therapy convinced Connie that she

had the ability to study medicine. With war looming when she graduated from Simmons in 1940, she spent the next two years as a physical therapist at a hospital in South Dartmouth, MA, treating patients of the polio outbreak, and going to Boston University to take the chemistry classes she had missed at Simmons. Her tipping point came with the entrance of the US into World War II— she informed her father that what she really wanted to do was to study medicine.

Though her father, Henry Curtiss, head of an investment management company, was president of Lakeside Hospital when it moved from downtown to University Circle and became University Hospitals, he was not in favor of women doctors. Connie, however, persisted. She came home to Cleveland

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and in July 1942 enrolled in the School of Medicine at Western Reserve University. Three years later, she graduated, one of six women in a class of 88.

A member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, she interned at University Hospitals and assisted an endocrinologist in his research on toxemia of pregnancy in rats. In 1947, a pathologist at Western Reserve recommended her for an internal medicine residency at Joseph Pratt Diagnostic Hospital in Boston. Back to Boston she went, learning from fine clinicians and researchers and publishing a paper on lactation research. Yet, Connie found herself at a crossroads. Should she be a practicing physician or a clinical scientist? She opened a practice in the Back Bay, modified her lab work and ran the outpatient department at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. It was a daunting endeavor. “I had so many patients, I had to be on the staff of five hospitals to have enough beds for my patients,” she noted.

A return to Cleveland in 1954 precipitated a change to pulmonary medicine and infectious diseases, and she spent a year as staff physician at Sunny Acres, a hospital for tuberculosis patients. Soon after, she began working with Dr. John Dingle in his family-study program at University Hospitals and she accepted an appointment as a senior instructor of preventive medicine at Western

she never gave up her love for the medical profession. She joined the board of Hillcrest Hospital and, in preparation to become its Board President, took three years of accounting at Notre Dame College in order to be the best financial steward she could be. “Hospitals are big business,” she noted back in the 1980s. “There are mergers, innovative new ideas to cope with and government regulations and inflation and interesting developments in technology.” As the only woman trustee at one time of the former Meridia Health Care system (the first networked hospital system in Cleveland), she chaired a committee of physician leaders that advised the Board on medical matters, focused on optimal patient care and reviewed and approved plans and projects directly affecting medical practice within the fourhospital system.

She looks back on her medical career with just a trace of wistfulness but no regrets. “I loved being a doctor,” she notes. “I would still become a doctor. If I had stayed in medicine I would have stayed at Hillcrest.”

In a lifetime of firsts, Connie was the first medical professional to serve on the board of the Central School of Practical Nursing, where today she remains an honorary Life Trustee. Other boards and organizations that benefitted from Connie’s leadership include The Benjamin Rose Institute and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.

Connie doesn’t hesitate when asked what advice she would give girls today: “Get out and do things.

It makes one more interesting.”

Reserve’s Medical School, teaching clinical diagnosis and biostatistics while developing a strong interest in genetics.

Then in 1960, at the age of 42, Connie made a life choice that meant shifting her focus from medicine to marriage: “I fell in love with Richard Manuel,” an old friend she had known since her dancing school days in childhood. She resigned from the faculty of the medical school: “This is not what young women of today would do,” she points out.

Connie and Dick made their home in Hunting Valley in the house where she still resides and filled their life with books, gardening, music and travel. Both physically active, they played tennis and golf and skied. Actually, “Mr. Manuel skied and I skied badly,” she remembers, with a smile.

While she may have “retired” as a practicing physician,

Richard Manuel passed away in January 2014 and Connie, who does not get out as much since she broke her hip last winter, feels his loss. “We were very happy,” she says softly, while watching the birds flock to the feeders the Manuels installed on the patio outside the big picture window in their sunny living room.

Connie doesn’t hesitate when asked what advice she would give girls today: “Get out and do things. It makes one more interesting.” Sage advice from a most interesting woman. L Editor’s Note: Sadly, Connie Curtiss Manuel passed away on June 24 as this issue was going to print. Our condolences to her extended family, which includes seven alumnae nieces.

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ALUMNAE PORTRAITS PORTRAIT OF AN ALUMNA

Nichelle McCall ’01

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ichelle McCall, CEO of BOLD Guidance, has received accolades from numerous publications and organizations for her business prowess, but it is the addition of a strong sense of social justice that drives her and makes her a true Laurel Girl. Recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business, Inc., and SXSW as an entrepreneur to watch, Nichelle has broken barriers as a black woman working in the tech space, and done so with a product created to address the inequities in college accessibility.

BOLD Guidance is a software service for navigating, effectively, the world of college applications. As the first person in her family to graduate college, Nichelle never lost sight of the advantages given to her by a mother who worked three jobs to send her to Laurel, and the support and guidance she received while here. “We lived in a neighborhood with

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limited educational resources or access.

My parents vowed to give me the best education possible, but did a good job of exposing me to both worlds. I stayed in touch with many of my friends in the neighborhood.” Although Nichelle’s own path to college was assumed (when she started at Laurel that was just what everyone did), she didn’t even realize until she spoke to some of her neighbors that there might be other paths or choices in life, like joining the military or starting work. She knew she was blessed to be at Laurel.

When asked how faculty would have described her when she started in Eighth Grade, Nichelle’s first reaction was a burst of spontaneous laughter.

She then spoke thoughtfully, “They would have described someone who walked her own course, didn’t feel like she had to fit the norm, and did not want to be put in a box.”

“How did that jive with wearing a uniform?”

More laughter. “I received several Saturday detentions due to my uniform not being 100% up to code!”

That kind of independent thinking may have been challenging to manage at the time, but it is surely the first sign of an entrepreneurial spirit!

Nichelle began her college career as a physical therapy major, a very compassionate and in ways practical choice, but clearly her experiences and insight nagged at her. She saw ambition in her community, with no knowledge of the process or access to assistance. So she changed gears and started a career as a college guidance consultant, but quickly comprehended the overwhelming odds. “Public schools have, on average, a 1:450 ratio of students to college guidance counselors. I realized that while I couldn’t scale myself, I could

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scale technology to help more individuals.” While her intelligence and spirit were always there, at this point her path as an entrepreneur had officially begun.

Much of her information gathering has happened in focus groups with Laurel students, and her funding started with Flashstarts, a Cleveland-based startup accelerator and venture capital fund. Phase 1 of BOLD is a software package that helps manage, step-bystep, the admission process. Phase 2, in development now, is a values-based admissions package, leveraging input from current college students to better match applicants with a campus cultural fit. The number of college applications is rising, but students aren’t always making the best choices; the goals of Phase 2 would be to increase enrollment and retention, and have students happier with their choices.

With such a busy life, we asked Nichelle about a hypothetical fantasy: if she had an hour to kill in a bookstore, no messages or meetings, what section would she head to?

“The business section! There is so much there to learn, not just about business, but about my personal brand. Everything I do is part of who I am, and I am always striving to improve myself.” She continued with an anecdote that reiterates her independent spirit, “Early in my career I was speaking to two very successful businessmen who said that I had to choose: do good OR be rich. I just don’t accept that and I will prove them wrong! That’s probably another thing that faculty would have said about me, that if I didn’t like an answer, I just didn’t accept it!”

That determination showed itself when she quickly realized that top grades that used to come easily did not come so easily at Laurel. Nichelle particularly remembers her Ninth Grade English teacher, Mrs. Sullivan — it was the first time in her life she nearly got an F. They met numerous times each week after school and during free periods, and Nichelle worked very, very hard to get herself up to a B. She adds, bemused, “Now people tell me I’m a great writer.”

As she pursues her dreams of an ethical but epic success, Nichelle would have a simple message for students graduating today: “Be flexible. Have a plan, but know that life might take you on a different path. Wherever you go, you are qualified. You have a special gift within you that only you have, and it is your responsibility to share it with the world. Don’t ever give up.”

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Early in my career I was speaking to two very successful businessmen who said that I had to choose: do good OR be rich. I just don’t accept that and I will prove them wrong!

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LEARNING AT LAUREL

WELCOME TO THE COLLABORATORY (collaborate + laboratory)

by Karen Galloway

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n a Tuesday in February, a Seventh Grade girl rearranges the blue and yellow Post-Its stuck to a Collaboratory whiteboard under the heading “Newton’s Cradle.” Outside, the sky is gray and snow covers the hedges along the Middle School circle. Inside, perched atop blue fabric cubes, with sharpies and whiteboard markers firmly in hand, the Seventh Graders are all about color and joy as they imagine educational play areas in response to an invitation from the Cleveland Children’s Museum to collaborate on a potential exhibit for its new space in the Stager-Beckwith Mansion on Euclid Avenue. Their challenge requires the use of balls, and as they move through the design process, beginning with a deep dive into research, they’ve begun to teach themselves several basic concepts from physics, a subject they will not formally study until Eighth Grade.

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By the time the snow melts, the girls have moved through several iterations of their designs and are ready with threedimensional prototypes. They gather around the museum’s Director of Education and its Exhibits Designer for feedback on their work; Jane Thornton, Laurel’s Pre-Primary Director, joins them as well. She remarked, “The Collaboratory is a major component in encouraging these remarkable design— thinking experiences. In an almost magical way it offers a safe place for each girl, to come out of herself, to think in ways that stretch her mind, to learn how to listen carefully, to ask thoughtful questions and to be a part of designing something that could very well benefit someone else. I wish that I had been lucky enough to experience design thinking as a student, but am thrilled to be involved with it as an adult.”

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This Design Thinking process – so exciting to both adults and children – has become an integral part of the way Laurel does business, and the Collaboratory, as the home of DT, is rarely empty.

Before the school year opened, four faculty members moved into its adjoining offices: Karen Galloway, Director of Design Initiatives; Angela Fasick, Director of Interdisciplinary Learning; Regina Campbell-Malone, Director of STEAM Initiatives; and Jeremy Dobbins, Technical Director – Performing Arts. Members of this team are involved in many Collaboratory projects and activities, but the space is open to the entire school community. On a given day, you might find Upper School girls on a creativity break between classes; members of the IR department using DT tools to envision ways to better integrate technology into classrooms; Pre-Primary students making 3D penguin snow globes; and First and Eighth Grade Buddies working together to improve the lives of children undergoing long-term hospital stays.

As students and faculty have become more familiar with humancentered design, it has also jumped out of the Collaboratory and into the larger community, with teachers moving through design challenges – such as the Third Grade toy factory project or the Upper School MayTerm class called MAKE It Happen – in other campus spaces. Even the Board of Directors uses design thinking tools, most recently to lay a foundation for the upcoming strategic plan by participating in an activity about the skills and behaviors of successful women.

Post-It notes, ubiquitous tools of the Design Thinking process, were developed by accident and the origin stories of the Collaboratory and the sticky note contain similar themes: the creators of both originally imagined different locations for their products; when their original ideas couldn’t be made real, they saw new opportunities in what others might have termed failures. Small, temporary, and removable, the Post-it note rewards our attempts to make order. It allows us to try and then to try again, to regroup, reiterate, and re-envision. Now, with Laurel’s Collaboratory, that blue Post-It note in the hands of a Seventh Grader is a tool for Laurel girls intent on bettering the world. L

Design thinking is a method of problemsolving that aims to provide a systematic way to approach a challenge with cross-functional understanding. Different organizations have adopted different versions of the process, but essentially they share common steps, outlined below.

1. DEFINE

outline the issue you are trying to resolve

2. RESEARCH

review history, seek examples, gather information

3. IDEATE brainstorm!

4. PROTOTYPE

refine lead ideas, seek feedback, create working models

5. TEST

plan tasks, gather resources, execute

6. LEARN

measure against goals, discuss feedback, document

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Reflections on the Class of 2015

by Elizabeth Murphy ’15

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n June 9, a cloudy Tuesday morning that broke into bright sunlight, the 116th Commencement of Laurel School was held at Severance Hall. Elizabeth Murphy ‘15 spoke on behalf of her class, by their vote.

know the difference. Sure, we might not all be the closest of siblings, but we have proven time and time again that we know how to care for each other when it counts.

The Fam has, over the years, gained a reputation for being a bit less than responsive when dealing with authority figures.

From calling class meetings to discuss how our teachers could better serve our needs, to hosting a spontaneous Galentine’s Day party for which we had to make several formal apologies, I’m not quite sure how long it’s been going on, but a number we are strong believers in Frost’s “road not taken,” even if there of my peers have stopped referring to us collectively as “the are plenty of reasons why that road should never be taken. class of 2015” or even “the Seniors,” favoring instead the title of We have accepted our position as “that” class with a level of “the Fam,” short for “family.” It’s a millennial thing, as in “still can’t honor it was never meant to grant, which is why I was surprised believe the Fam is all going to college next year,” or “Fam hitting when, while discussing the Fam’s history of shenanigans with a up Char’s after prank day.” The name is cute (like us), lacks any teacher recently, she contradicted me on that point. The fact is, degree of formality (also like us), and holds all the reasons that we have grown up a lot since Middle School, our class has managed to stick it out these or even last spring. Sure, our proclivity for past four years. speaking out of turn hasn’t seemed to go I was thinking about this while away quite yet, but we have taken our blunt attending the Senior night basketball and determined voice and learned to focus game this winter. The Fam was crushing it on actions and resolutions that pull us it, as always, and the Laurel fans in the forward instead of holding us back. “You won’t bleachers were trying to figure out how the be lemmings,” the teacher concluded. girls could predict where the other would Apart from our loud tendencies, the Fam be without even turning their heads. Ms. To my Senior siblings, has left its mark on Laurel and each other in Klotz’s explanation for this wizardry rang never forget: you are other ways. All of the students graduating out a few rows behind me: “It’s because today have proven themselves to be brilliant. Your voices they love each other.” My first reaction courageous, ethical, and compassionate in a to this sentiment was something along matter. Your happiness myriad of ways and settings. The Laurel girls the lines of “suuuuure, Ms. Klotz. Love. comes first. are seldom allowed to rest on their laurels, Makes a lot of sense as an explanation for and as a result, we are left with the Breakfast our team’s behavior in a game in which Club cliché that “each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and Nicole elbowed one of our opponents in the face on purpose.” a basket case, and a princess, and a criminal.” But at the same However, even as cheesy and Albus Dumbledore as it might time, each one of us is an individual, capable in their own sound, she’s right, at least to a point. The Fam is all about love, even if that isn’t stated so plainly very often. It’s more likely you’ll right and an important piece of the class. Today, we each are wearing loom band bracelets made by Meredith, in the colors hear us firing shots at each other than expressing that kind of of the college we are going to attend next year. Every bracelet is sentiment, but that’s mostly because we’re usually too tired to 12 LaurelSchool.org

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designed with its own personalized quirks that speak to who we are, and I’m glad to have one piece of jewelry in addition to the ring on my finger to remind me that I’m not alone.

On several college tours this year, I was told by guides that the friends you make in high school are destined to pale in comparison to the friends you will find in college. Maybe they, with their one to four more years of life experience, knew exactly what they were talking about and it’s just something I haven’t had enough time to understand, but at the moment, I just can’t accept their words at face value. I don’t doubt that I will make great friends in college, I just don’t see why devaluing the Laurel Fam I have is necessary for me to do that. This isn’t a competition — and besides, if it was, college is going to have an awfully hard time meeting the standards set by these guys.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Laurel is not a normal high school. We are bound to the past by our traditions and bound to each other in turn. This became of paramount importance when one of our most anticipated traditions had to be cut short. Though we were more than upset, we came together to make the best of the situation and found other ways to savor the end of our time together in these dear walls.

It would be amiss to not take a moment to acknowledge the parents of the Class of 2015, without whom none of us would even be here. It’s bittersweet for them too, the happiness of seeing us in our white robes mixed with the knowledge that we’re not here for much longer, though none of us are more than a text or phone call away. Some of the parents might take comfort in the fact that Laurel tuition provides an excellent entry point for paying for college. I would also like to thank the teachers, who have somehow put up with us and most of the time done so without even raising their voice. Though we might not like to admit it, we owe a lot of our growth these past four years to you.

While writing this speech, I tried my hardest to think back on the speeches I had heard in previous years. What had other speakers felt necessary to impart to the audience? As it turns out, I really can’t remember a word of what any of them said, which was quite comforting. So I guess I’m trying to say that it’s okay if in a few years you have no idea quite what I said or just how all of the pieces today fit together. What counts is the feeling my classmates and I have when we get to share our time together and celebrate each other.

The night before my Senior speech, I was certain that the next day would be the worst day of my life. I was sure that my jokes wouldn’t read and that my words would get caught in my throat before I could even speak. So, I wrote about my situation on my class’s Facebook group. My post was met with an awe-inspiring amount of fire and passion and support — and cussing, lots of cussing, very creative cussing. They told me I was brilliant, that my voice mattered, and that my happiness

came first. And me, being the sap that I am, sat there and cried for a good half hour.

And now, I finally get to return the favor. To my senior siblings, never forget: you are brilliant. Your voices matter. Your happiness comes first. If any of you are worried about your future careers and success, don’t. It is predicted that robots will take more than a quarter of jobs over the next 20 years. Many of you budding engineers will be responsible for this, but I forgive you. And anyway, there is no one who I’d rather have making the automatons that will take over the job sector.

I love you all. Thank you.

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his year’s guest speaker was Marne Levine ’88, the COO of Instagram. This is an excerpt of her talk; for a video of the complete speech, please visit our website at www.LaurelSchool.org.

I still remember how excited I felt 27 years ago. . .and how proud I felt watching my friends walk across the stage to receive their diplomas. I also remember the butterflies. . .and the creeping concerns I had about life after Laurel. I worried about whether I was going to the right college. . .whether I would make good friends, what I was going to major in, and whether I would fit in. I also worried about what it would be like to study and live in dorms. . .with boys. And most of all, I worried about my closet! In the real world, every day was Civvies Day — a whole sea of options, not to mention colors, I hadn’t touched in years. What would I wear?

Except for the initial shock that I actually missed my uniform — big time — I quickly realized that my fears were misplaced when I got to college. Laurel had prepared me for more than I’d ever imagined. And it went so far beyond the math formulas and historical dates — like how the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. Still remember that. In the classroom, Laurel taught me to think critically.

My Senior year, I took an Ethics class. We tackled hard questions — euthanasia, the death penalty, among others — questions that don’t have obvious answers. And as our teacher, Mr. Huston, guided us through these minefields, we learned how to question our assumptions, debate effectively, take risks, listen with intentionality, and challenge each other to think more deeply.

These lessons have served me well. Because here is the thing, life is full of questions that don’t have obvious answers.

You have to open your mind in directions you didn’t even imagine.

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ALUMNAE WEEKEND ’15

Rediscover Laurel. Rediscover your roots.

Laurel School Alumnae Weekend • May 14 - 18, 2015

By Julie Donahue ’79, Director of Alumnae and Communications

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lumnae Weekend 2015, “Rediscover Laurel. Rediscover your roots,” kicked off Thursday night with the Distinguished Alumna Dinner honoring Shelley Osmun Baranowski ’64, author, retired Distinguished Professor at the University of Akron and one of the leading historians of modern Germany in the U.S. today.

Friday began and ended at the Lyman Campus, first with a Legacy breakfast and then with the popular Alumnae/Faculty/Faculty Emeriti Happy Hour. In between, intrepid alums donned their wet weather gear and spent the day with students experiencing the beauty and wonder of the Butler Campus. Two breakfasts, a photo booth and the Mimosa Reception and Alumnae Luncheon on Saturday provided the perfect backdrops to rediscover friendships and make new ones. At the Luncheon, alumnae welcomed Mrs. Lillie Goss into the Association as only the third Honorary Alumna.

Mrs. Goss retired in 2005 after 41 years of service to the School, ultimately as head of housekeeping. A presentation from Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls and the launch of Laurel’s StoryCorps oral history project made for a full day of programming capped off by a Leadership Giving cocktail party in the Courtyard.

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Thursday, May 14 – Distinguished Alumna Dinner

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5. Kathy Chilcote Pender ’55 and Carol Horesh David ’55 6. Honoree Shelley Osmun Baranowski ’64 receives her Distinguished Alumna pin from DA selection committee member Susan Bishop ’64 7. Shelley Osmun Baranowski ’64 (center) with her former University of Akron history department colleagues and University of Akron law professor and Alumnae Weekend co-chair Sarah Johnson Morath ’94 (second from right) 8. This year’s Distinguished Alumna’s name is added to the Alumnae Room tribute.

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10. Tish Linderme Easly ’56 with granddaughter Molly Easly ’17

13. Cheryl Jackson Johnson ’95, Chloe Johnson ’26 and Lynnette Jackson ’93

11. Allison Spivak ’18 and her mom, Wendy Shaw ’69

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12. 1995 classmates turn out!

Leslie Kinsey Segal and Hazel ’27 and Lulu ’29, Meredith Stewart Reimer and Quinn ’30 and Wyatt ’28, and Megan Embrescia Peckham with daughters

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18. Sarah MacCracken Donnelly ’55 and Carol Horesh David ’55 enjoy learning about Laurel’s Yurt and the Outdoor Preschool.

19. Elizabeth Bassett Welles ’55 and Kennedy Whitaker ’25 20. Caren Vignos Sturges ’65 listens intently at the student panel box lunch 21. Deborah Silver ’65 makes two new friends in Preschool.

22. Margo Schwarz Palmer ’65 and Nina Giunta Lewis-Williams ’65 23. Lynne Rossen Feighan ’55 24. Student Panelists Natalie Kosir ’16, Caitlin Cronin ’16, Joan Colleran ’16, Sophie Ruttenberg ’17, Caroline Tatsuoka ’17 and Aleena Brown ’16 25. Mhoire McGrath Cade ’83 high-fives a new friend in the Yurt

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Friday, May 15 – Alumnae/Faculty Happy Hour

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30. Assistant Head of School Kathryn Holzheimer Purcell ’91 and retiring Upper School co-Director Liz Harrison 31. Members of the Class of 1990: Kim Sharp Bishop, Colette Epple, Lisa Navratil Navracruz and Pam Provan Barragate 32. Alumnae Weekend co-chair Gausia Chowdhury ’02 and Sara Ismail-Beigi Bartlett ’03 33. From the Class of 1985—Emerald Mavridis Velotta, Lauren Burke Bennett, Liz Haas, Leisy Thornton Wyman and Carol Nahra 34. Back for their 40th reunion weekend—Front: Janice Aveni Kahn ’75, Marilyn Devand Parker ’75 and Katy Persky ’75. Back: Micki Crotser-Bosau ’75 and Anne Wilkinson ’75 35. Megan Embrescia ’95, Veronica Matthews Jow ’95, Leslie Kinsey Segal ’95 and Kate Bondi Floyd ’96

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Saturday, May 16 – Morning Programming

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37. The 50th reunion class in the Upper School classroom their reunion gift will transform into the renovated Class of 1965 Seminar Room

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41. Cathy Dwyer LoPresti ’65 and Anne Armington Rose ’65 at the 50th Reunion Breakfast 42. Alice AuWerter Leader ’65 and Kathy Perris Torgerson ’65

Mosaic Breakfast 43. Melissa Biltz ’15, Ajah Hale ’18 and Faith McCormack ’17 talk about their experiences as Laurel students at the Mosaic Breakfast

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49. Heather Chisholm Evans ’80, Sue Opatrny Althans ’80 and Sandra Thomas Trudo ’80 50. The “three Nancys”—Nancy Taylor Schreiner ’64, alumnae board member Nancy Wykoff Sharp ’43 and Trustee Nancy Phelps Seitz ’68 51. Sisters Marietta Giunta Gullia ’57 and Nina Giunta Lewis-Williams ’65

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Standing: Mary Dyer Wilkinson, Amy Burlingame Kritz, Insa Schulz Bell, Lauren Burke Bennett, Liz Haas, Wendy Spear Kinkopf, Emerald Mavridis Velotta, Ann Jones and Heather Woodcock.

Seated: Leslie Corcelli, Bronwyn Jones Monroe, Cari Richer Ross, Lari Anderson Jacobson, Maria Theresa Tejada and Leisy Thornton Wyman 62. The Class of 1990 at its 25th reunion!

Standing: Pam Provan Barragate, Rachel

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Sherman Farkas, Colette Epple, Crystal Gist and Heather Mathews. Seated: Nancy Fralic Burton, Susu Smith, Lauren Embrescia and Lisa Navratil Navracruz 63. Twenty years later! From the Class of 1995—Standing: Chaundra King Monday, Molly Dunlop Robinson, Leslie Kinsey Segal, Camille Johnson and Kerri-Simone Pryce Adedeji. Seated: Elizabeth Freer, Sarah Shoff and Veronica Matthews Jow 64. The Class of 2000 marks its 15th reunion—Standing: Heather Frutig and Susan Bebenroth Thomas. Seated: Alexis Hecker Kim and Marisa Green 65. The Class of 2005 celebrates its 10th reunion: Shanika Ranasinghe Esparaz, Katie Sinclair, Sarah Corrigan and Sarah Sanborn 66. At their first Alumnae Weekend and celebrating the Class of 2010’s 5th reunion are Christen Daddario, Morgan Curtiss and Chey Ranasinghe 67. The Class of 65 presents its 50th reunion class gift to the School.

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69. Robert Green (Marisa ’00, Rachel ’05 and Alex ’09) and Patrick and Evelyn LaFave McCarthy ’88 (Catherine ’18, Annie ’19 and Holly ’27)

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LAUREL ALUMNAE WEEKEND

May 19 - 21, 2016

Friday, December 19, 2014 Annual Holiday Luncheon and Class Song Contest

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4. Mary Jones Chilcote ’44, Tricia Guthrie ’85 and Jane Marshman Guthrie ‘44 5. The Seniors land in Oz and follow the Yellow Brick Road to first place.

6. Classmates from 2006 Emily Mervis, Amy Novak and Abbey Jones 7. The Sophomores go with Girl Power.

8. The Ninth Grade does Disney.

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In Memoriam 1931 Martha Case Knowles on September

29, 2014, in Chagrin Falls, OH. Martha graduated from Laurel at age 16 and, following graduation, she and her sister modelled furs and often were featured in the Cleveland Press. Martha attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and Wheaton College before marrying Robert Knowles in 1935. They had nine children and spent 62 of their 67 years together in the home they built in Solon.

1934 Mary Lee Bill Hardesty on February 25, 2012, in West Farmington, OH. She graduated from the School of Social Science at Case Western Reserve University on the same day she married her husband, Hiram, and that he graduated from the Medical School. In 1959, they bought a farm in West Farmington and over the years transformed the 200-acre parcel into a family sanctuary; a working tree farm; a successful sugar bush, where they made delicious maple syrup; and, a small vineyard.

Their estate-bottled “Hilltop Farm” wine won several blue ribbons. She is survived by two children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

1935 Mabel Brewer Meibuhr on January 26,

2015, in Richmond Heights, OH. A graduate of The Ohio State University, Mabel also attended Dennison University. During World War II, Mabel was a mechanical drafter at Thompson Aircraft Products, where she met her husband, George. Mabel worked as a secretary at Mentor Christian School for many years; she was an accomplished landscape watercolorist and portrait artist who enjoyed Bible study and water exercise.

Survivors include four daughters, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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19, 2014, in Toledo, OH. She graduated from The College of Wooster and devoted much of her adult life to teaching swimming, lifesaving, CPR and fitness classes for West Toledo YMCA and the Red Cross.

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the Naturalist Camera Club of Toledo; her interest in nature photography took her to all continents except Antarctica. She is survived by two children, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

1936 The Alumnae Office recently learned of the passing of Jean Striebinger Rengers on December 17, 1995, in Alexandria City, VA. Following Laurel, Jean attended Cornell University and the University of Geneva, where she met and then married the Baron D.W. van Welderen Rengers, who served as the Netherlands trade commissioner of Indonesia in the late 1940s. She and the Baron had five children.

1938 Mary Louise Wykoff Sangdahl on

December 19, 2014, in Aurora, OH. She attended Connecticut College and Cleveland School of Art before graduating from Dyke Business College. Following a successful career at Case Western Reserve University, she enjoyed traveling and gardening. Mary Lou is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, one greatgrandson, four step great-grandchildren, two brothers, her sister, Nancy Wykoff Sharp ’43, and her niece Susan Sharp ’73.

1939 Molly Mather Anderson on February 5,

2015, in Oberlin, OH. The Radiation Lab at MIT hired Molly after she graduated from Vassar College. She worked for two years in the lab’s drafting department. She met her husband, David, at the end of WWII, and they had resided in Oberlin since 1948. Molly was a very active community volunteer and served as a volunteer hospital chaplain until well into her 80s.

She is survived by three sons, a daughter and six grandchildren.

Frances Ann DuBois on January 23, 2015, in Gaithersburg, MD. An accomplished photographer and musician, Frances loved to travel and play bridge. She devoted much of her life to volunteering for the Hereditary Societies that were close to her heart. She spent her career working for doctors as a medical assistant.

Frances is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

Dorothy “Sis” Ismond MacNab on February 15, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Following graduation from Oberlin College in 1943, Sis married Bob MacNab, and they began their life together as cattle ranchers in southeastern Ohio. In 1953, they, along with their two sons, left ranching behind and moved to the Cleveland area, and in 1954, while pregnant with her third son, Sis contracted polio and was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of her life. She continued to be actively involved with music and arts organizations notably Dancing Wheels where she was an Emeritae Board Member. She is survived by three sons, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Nancy Hanks Marshall on May 2, 2015,

in Tucson, AZ. A graduate of Colby-Sawyer College, during WWII Nancy volunteered at University Hospital making bandages for the wounded. Nancy is survived by four of her five children and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her daughter, Mary Louise Marshall Lechner ’66; her mother, Mary Herrick Hanks ’15; and, her sister, Mary Lou Hanks Smith ’45.

The family directed gifts in her memory to Laurel School.

Elizabeth “Betty” Fisher Robnett on December 21, 2006, in Spokane, WA. Betty attended Antioch University after graduating from Laurel. She married Ausey Robnett in 1952, and they enjoyed more than 50 years of marriage, spending most of those years in the Spokane area with their four sons. Betty is survived by her sister, Jean B. Fisher ’44.

1940 Elizabeth Mooney Ansbro on January 12,

2001, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She is survived by five children and six grandchildren.

Liz was preceded in death by her sister,

Marilyn Mooney Zeleznik ’40

The Alumnae Office recently learned of the passing of Kathryn King Conners on October 12, 1993, in Los Angeles, CA. Josephine Kinney McAndrew on December 3, 2014, in Houston, TX. Josephine was a child prodigy; her lifetime

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violin career began with lessons at age four. Following graduation from Laurel, she won a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School in NYC, and during the war years, she was the first violinist sent out by the concert division of the USO Camp Shows.

She traveled to more than 25 countries and entertained thousands of soldiers while narrowly avoiding falling bombs on many occasions. Her stories and photos are featured in the Women’s War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Josephine retired from the Houston Symphony in 1993 and continued to offer private lessons until her death. She is survived by three children and eight grandchildren.

1941 Cynthia Gooding on February 10, 1988,

in Kingston, NJ. As a teenager, Cynthia went to live in Mexico, where she learned that she loved music. Following a move to New York City, she developed her musical career as a multilingual folksinger and made her name on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1950s. Cynthia was one of the first musicians recorded by Elektra records. In addition to folksinging, she also was known as a radio personality, hosting the radio shows Cynthia and Sensible and Folksingers Choice on WBAI-FM. She famously interviewed a 20-year-old Bob Dylan in 1962, just before the release of his debut album. She was survived by her two daughters.

Marian Coons Lacy on April 25, 2015, in

Longwood, FL. A graduate of Pine Manor Junior College, Marion had resided in Florida since 1952. Committed to giving back to her community, she devoted many hours to volunteer work for the USO, the Junior League and the Girl Scouts. Marian enjoyed travel, loved sports and read

each issue of Sports Illustrated cover to cover. She is survived by her sister, Ellen Coons Goble’48; her sister-in-law, Sally Martyn Lacy’46; four daughters; and five grandchildren.

Eleanor Prince Rosendale on November 6, 2013, in Scarborough, ME. After graduating from Laurel, Ellie studied at Bradford Junior College and Stanford University before receiving her B.A. and M.A. from Case Western Reserve. After college, she was a script and commercial

writer at several Cleveland radio stations.

She later taught in Shaker and Cleveland Heights-University Heights elementary schools for nearly 20 years, primarily at Northwood School. Ellie served on Laurel’s Alumnae Board in the 1950s and is survived by two daughters, four grandchildren and three great-grandsons.

1942 Patricia Collins Sayle on October 25, 2010, in Studio City, CA. She is survived by two daughters, including Pamela Sayle ’68.

1943 Beverly Boyd Ruhl on March 6, 2014, in Bucyrus, OH. Bev graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1947. She is survived by two children, two grandchildren and cousins Judith Boyd Batdorff ’49 and Kay Boyd Ness ’52. She was predeceased by her sister, Ann Boyd Michael ’45.

1944 Mary Edith “Molly” Morgan Burry on November 25, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Molly attended Finch College in NYC. Devoted to Laurel, Molly established the Morgan Award for Analytical Writing, in honor of her mother, Mary White Morgan ’19, which is presented annually at Last Chapel. Molly is survived by two daughters, Mary Burry Halloran ’66, and Betsy Burry Cunneen ’70; a granddaughter, Mary Halloran Culbertson ’87; an aunt, Shirley O’Brien Morgan ’46; and two cousins, Dorothy Warner Ealy ’46; and Kate Warner ’60.

Molly was preceded in death by her mother, her aunts, Mary Morgan Johnson’23 and Dorothy Morgan Boyd ’27 and her cousin Polly Warner White ’45.

D. Jane Merkens Coghlan ’44 on May 27,

2015, in Palm Harbor, FL. An animal lover, Jane liked to do crossword puzzles, and take walks to keep physically active. She was a retired bank teller. Jane is survived by her son, Spencer, and her daughter, Cynthia, and a niece, Meg Merkens-

Johnson ’71.

The Alumnae Office recently learned of the passing of Laurel Tolles Dee on March 26, 2002, in Guilford, CT.

Frances Wells Hughes on June 26, 2014, in Tavares, FL. Frances graduated from Wellesley College and pursued a Master’s degree at Rutgers University. She married Robert Hughes in September 1948 and then spent the 1948-49 academic year working in the Chemical Engineering Department Combustion Lab of MIT; among her responsibilities was calculating the fuel-air ratios for ramjets on a Navy contract. After returning to Cleveland in 1949, Frances worked for General Electric at Nela Park doing basic research on gaseous discharges in connection with fluorescent lamps. Time off for family followed as she and Robert had four children. In 1968, she returned to school for a Master’s in Computer Science and spent 20 years as a Systems Analyst/Programmer for Olivetti before retiring in 1992. In addition to her children, she is survived by three grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and one step-great-grandchild.

Nancy Kent Ricketts on November 17,

2005, in Kalamazoo, MI. Nancy received a B.A. degree from Wellesley College and a Master’s in Guidance and Counseling from Oakland University. She devoted her career to the Michigan Department of Education where she worked as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. She is survived by two sons, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her sister Joan Kent Warnke ’46 passed away in 2014.

Viola “Doree” Swift on December 19, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. A life-long resident of Cleveland Heights, OH, Doree was an avid gardener and world traveler. She worked in the Swift family business until she was 87-years-old. She is survived by her brother, niece and nephews.

1945 Manon Pettit Charbonneau on October 17, 2012, in Santa Fe, NM. After Laurel, Manon graduated from Bard College and received a Master’s and a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. Her career as an educator spanned five decades, including working as a consultant, a faculty member at the College of Santa Fe, a published author, a software developer and, for three years, as the curriculum director of the Hotevilla-Bacavi Community School on the Hopi Reservation in Hotevilla,

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AZ. Manon is survived by three children, including daughter Cherie Charbonneau MacGillivray ’72, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

and La Familia. Thanks to these amazing organizations, children were given a meal every day and had teachers to teach classes; once a month a doctor and a dentist would visit and care for them at the local community center. Kay described her life as “an adventure.” She is survived by her husband, eight daughters, 26 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Elisabeth “Betsy” King Holmes on May 31, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Betsy graduated with honors from Vassar College. Passionate about horticulture, she served as President of the Garden Club of Cleveland and as a representative to the Garden Club of Americas national board.

She is survived by three of her five children, four grandchildren, and her cousins: Peggy Taylor Jones ’46; Kate Bicknell Luzius ’58; Wendy Bicknell ’60; Frannie Meyer Donahue ’67; and Anne Meyer Lynch ’74;

Joan Kent Warnke on February 19, 2014, in Williamsburg, VA. Joan was a graduate of Middlebury College and the Yale School of Nursing. She is survived by two sons, two grandsons and a great-grandson. She was predeceased by her sister, Nancy Kent Ricketts ’44.

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Albuquerque, NM. Nancy attended Smith College and earned a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in English and drama. She did additional coursework in drama at Smith and Bates Colleges. After WWII, she worked in Paris for the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), known as the Marshall Plan. Passionate about theatre and music, Nancy performed and directed in three acting companies. She also taught drama and English and was a published writer, archivist and researcher.

Nancy is survived by her husband of 64 years, Day Lee; a daughter, daughter-inlaw, brother and granddaughter. She is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

Elizabeth “Betty” Boethelt Stockly

Cynthia Meredith Scott on December 7, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Cynthia graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received an MBA from George Washington University. She served as CFO of The Washington International School, Program Director of The Institute of International Education, Executive Director of the Cleveland Council of Independent Schools (CCIS) and Co-Director of the Chagrin River Land Conservancy. She leaves her three children, including her daughter, Elizabeth Scott Metcalf ’75, six grandchildren and her sister, Ann Meredith Wilson ’50.

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Betty is survived by her daughter and three grandchildren.

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Anna Marie “Bunny” Byham Ferer on March 15, 2012, in New Bern, NC. She and her husband, Harmon, passed away within days of each other. They left behind twin sons. Bunny was a very active member of Christ Church and a volunteer with Bank of The Arts and Hospice.

Catherine “Kay” Anderson Carr on

February 20, 2015, at her winter home in Mazatlan, Mexico. Kay’s lifelong commitment to volunteerism is evidenced through the not-for-profits she and her husband, Irv, founded in Mexico — Mazatlan Charities

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18, 2014, in West Palm Beach, FL. Anne graduated from the University of Wisconsin.

She worked for the Division of Family Services in West Palm Beach, FL, from 1972 until 1996 when she retired. A tireless volunteer, Anne’s other interests included art, classical music, travel and theatre. She leaves behind three children.

Diane “Dede” Rauschkolb Bogdonoff

on August 14, 2013, in Wheaton, IL. A graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, Dede had a career as a dermatologist in Wheaton for many years.

She is survived by two daughters, a son and four grandchildren; her sister, Elizabeth Rauschkolb Farrell ’49; her cousins, Ellen Robishaw Otis ’61, and Ruth Robishaw Wulfhoop ’63; and her nieces, Elizabeth Farrell ’86, Mary Farrell ’88, and Ruth Farrell ’89.

Mari Fritzsche-Poss on September 16, 2014, in Osterville, MA. Mari attended Barat College before marrying James Poss. She was an active member of her communities, where she served on several boards. While in Cleveland, Mari was president of the Catherine Horstmann Home and Dunham Tavern Museum boards. Mari is survived by four children, including daughter Ann Poss ’75, and one grandson.

Sollace Kissell Hotze on January 25, 2015,

in Nokomis, FL. Graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago before beginning her career as a young adult and juvenile author, Sollace was honored on many occasions by the American Library Association for excellence in writing. She enjoyed working with young writers and visited Laurel whenever the book tour brought her to Cleveland. In addition to her writing, Sollace devoted much of her career to the Barrington, IL, School District, teaching high school English and working in the district’s Gifted Program for grades 1 – 6. Sollace is survived by her husband, her children and her sisters, Sally Kissell Mitchell ’48, and Judith Kissell Brainerd ’56.

1951 Maralyn Rosenbush Keay on September

10, 2013, in Swampscott, MA. A graduate of Simmons College, Maralyn worked as a librarian for Salem State University and the Swampscott Public Library. She is survived by two sons and seven grandchildren.

1952 Lois Pringle Van Auken on December 5, 2013, in Phoenix, AZ. Lois graduated from Ohio University. She is survived by her two children, six stepchildren, eight step grandchildren, one step greatgranddaughter and her sister, Joan Pringle Parker’55.

1953 LaNore Linderme Kaplan on March 5, 2015, in Cleveland, OH. She attended Colorado College and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is survived by a son and three grandchildren; her niece Gwill York ’75, cousins Patricia Linderme Easly ’56, Sarah Easly Woodall ’79, and Molly Easly, Class of 2017. LaNore was predeceased by her sister, Gwill Linderme Newman ’50.

IN MEMORIAM

Mary McGinness Schubert on April 6,

2014, in Harbor Springs, MI. After Laurel, Mary graduated from Manhattanville College. She spent 41 years in Harbor Springs doing the things she loved – dog walking, playing tennis, skiing, golfing and sailing.

1955 Carole Ann Lewis on November 10, 2014,

in New York, NY. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, with a Master’s from Goddard College, Carole Ann’s career was devoted to acting. She appeared on several TV shows in the 1960s, including Dark Shadows, and on Broadway in Spofford, Melvyn Douglas’ last play. More recently, Carole taught modern dance at Valerie Bettis Dance Studio and Brunelle School of Dance, along with Acting Technique at North Carolina School of the Arts. Carole is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

1956 Dovre Hall Busch on November 18, 2013,

in Dogpatch, AR. Dovre graduated from Oberlin College and devoted her entire career to health services, working for the Northern Ohio Lung Association and the American Red Cross in California. Dovre’s mother, Irene Sanborn Hall, was head of the Science Department at Laurel for 15 years. Dovre is survived by two daughters, seven grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren.

1957 Jacqueline Jung on November 6, 2014,

in Saratoga Springs, NY. A graduate of Skidmore College, Jacki retired in 1990 after spending 29 years with New England Telephone in a variety of positions. In 2000, after living in Boston for 40 years, she relocated to Saratoga Springs where there were “no honking horns!” She is survived by her twin brother and his wife, Barbara Frick Jung’57. Jacki is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

Marilyn Free Scott on May 26, 2014,

in Largo, FL. Marilyn was a graduate of Denison University. She and her family spent many years traveling the world, as her husband’s business specialized in introducing tourism to areas of Southeast Asia. She is survived by her three children.

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Elisabeth Dougan Kelly on June 7, 2014, in Woodstock, IL. A graduate of Northwestern University, Lisa worked as a newspaper journalist and was a leader in her community, serving on many boards and as President of the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce. She is survived by her sons and her sister, Patricia Dougan Neilson ’57.

9, 2015, in Boston, MA. Sarah attended Chatham College before moving to Boston where she met and married her husband.

A loving volunteer for her children’s many schools, Sarah became the “Team Mother” for those students whose parents could not attend their sporting events. As artistic as she was athletic, she was known for her talent as a painter and as an extraordinary photographer. She and her daughters established a unique home décor store in Boston named Appletons’ of Newbury Street, from which Sarah retired. The recounting of her passing in The Boston Globe included the following mention of her time at Laurel: “Between classes she was noted for riding a unicycle through the streets of Shaker Heights, OH…” She is survived by her husband, three children and six grandchildren. Sarah was preceded in death by her mother, Sarah Hawley DuLaurence ’24, and her aunt, Lucia DuLaurence Houser ’30.

Susan Deasy on February 8, 2015, in Tallahassee, FL. Sue graduated from Rollins College and Florida State University. She began her career working for the Red Cross in Europe and Korea. Upon her return to Florida, Sue spent many years working for Florida State University. In 1986, she joined Archibald Enterprises as the director of training, and in 1994 founded Management Training Solutions. She is survived by a brother, a sister, nieces and nephews.

Roberta “Bobbie” Bruce Lennon on

September 14, 2014, in Palos Verdes, CA. A graduate of Northwestern University, Bobbie was passionate about travel, literature, history and politics. She worked as a travel consultant, and when she wasn’t traveling, she was a patron of and actively involved in the Point Vicente Interpretive Center near her home. Bobbie is survived by her son and two grandchildren.

1961 Lois Knutsen Powell on March 27, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. She was a 30-year resident of Louisville, KY, before returning to the Cleveland area. Lois is survived by her daughter and three grandchildren.

1964 Martha Beall Barend on March 13, 2015, in Berkeley, CA. Martha was a graduate of Lake Forest College with a degree in art history, which led to jobs with a New York art book publisher and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1974, she accomplished a longtime dream when she moved to Maine and started a fabric store called Alewives Fabrics. The store remains a success.

Martha is survived by her sisters Trish Beall ’66, and Alice Beall ’67. Her mother, Patricia Hickox Beall ’36, is deceased.

She is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

1965 Joyce Whidden on May 18, 2010, in Fort Collins, CO. Joyce had served as the director of New Bridges, a daytime homeless shelter in Fort Collins. Survivors include her husband, two daughters and two grandsons. She was preceded in death by her mother, Kathleen Firestone Whidden ’37.

1970 Anne R. Hoagland on December 14, 2014,

in New York, NY. Anne attended Wellesley College and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Her career was devoted to the investment banking side of real estate, and she was an officer at JPMorgan Asset Management at the time of her death.

Anne loved her 200-year-old farmhouse, purchased by her parents, on the coast of Maine and she owned an apartment in Cleveland. She was deeply attached to both communities and found those times when she escaped the city provided a comforting refuge. Anne is survived by her brother, a niece and a nephew. She is a member of Legacy for Laurel.

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1980 Tamara Kubek-Morgan on July 8, 2014, in Siesta Key, FL. Tammy attended Miami University and graduated from Ursuline College with a degree in nursing. She was a neo-natal intensive care nurse at UH’s Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland and enjoyed renovating and restoring houses. Tammy is survived by her husband and three children; siblings including Kimberly Kubek Kirkpatrick ’74, and Bonnie Kubek White ’76; nieces and nephews.

1982 Sally Brasfield Simmons on July 12, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Sally was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Duke University.

She began her professional career as a marketing intern for Nestle, S.A. in Vevey, Switzerland, and maintained a successful career in strategic planning and marketing, retiring from The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2008. Sally is survived by her significant other, Kevin Dale Wiese, her two sons, her mother, Emily Hodge Brasfield ’55, and her sister, Julie Brasfield ’89.

1989 Seema Gupta on November 27, 2014, in

Cleveland, OH. A graduate of Northwestern Medical School, she joined the staff of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York City, in 2004 after completing a Hematology-Oncology fellowship, thus fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a doctor specializing in blood cancer.

Seema loved reading, traveling and the arts. She is survived by her parents; her sister, Neera Gupta ’94; and a niece and a nephew.

1997 Mary Campbell Nir on December 15,

2014, in New York, NY. Mary graduated from Harvard and received a J.D. from Georgetown University. She was the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Gracie Asset Management and Senior Vice President of Moelis Asset Management. Mary had mastered Taekwondo, volunteered in elder care and loved reading, practicing archery, playing board games and learning how to trapeze.

She is survived by her mother, her father and David Nir.

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Faculty/Staff Emeriti Sue Wrolstad on August 19, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. A native of Missouri, she graduated from the University of Wyoming, where she met her future husband, Merald.

The Wrolstad family moved to Cleveland in 1959 and in 1965, after receiving her master’s degree in education from Case Western Reserve University the year before, she began her teaching career at Laurel.

For much of her tenure at Laurel she taught Fifth Grade where she was known, among other things, for having a bulletin board display at the beginning of the school year introducing ancient Sumer, and not the “summer” still fresh on her students’ minds.

In the 1980s, she served as the Director of the Middle School before returning to the classroom as a math and history teacher until she retired in 1988. A mentor to colleagues and two generations of Laurel girls, those she had in her classroom and those who simply sought her out, Mrs. Wrolstad provided unfailing support and kindness. At the news of her passing, many former students noted that she helped them grow, gain self-confidence and imagine themselves at their best. Outside of Laurel, she traveled around the country as a seasoned evaluator for the National Association of Independent Schools, was active in the Northfield Conference for Girls and volunteered for her church, an activity she continued long after retirement. She is survived by her son and two daughters, Amy Wrolstad Burger ’67 and Signe Wrolstad-Forbes ’71, five grandchildren including Julia Forbes’02, and two greatgrandchildren.

Sue Pollitz on October 12, 2014, in

Maryland. A graduate of Cleveland State University, Mrs. Pollitz taught English, primarily at the Upper School-level for 30 years, 16 of them at Laurel and then at the Andrews School in Willoughby. A longtime resident of Cleveland Heights, she loved singing in the choir at the First Baptist Church and recently had moved to Maryland where her oldest daughter lived.

There she enjoyed music and art through the Conversations program for Alzheimer’s patients. She is survived by three daughters, a son and four grandchildren.

Margaret London on February 7, 2015, in Hudson, OH. Born in Columbus and raised in Oklahoma City, she received her B.A. from Principia College. She taught

physical education in Akron before coming to Laurel in 1977. At Laurel, she taught P.E and coached swimming and basketball until 1991. Former students remember her attention-getting “Ladies!”—first a high pitch, then repeated at a lower pitch, her distinctive voice and, most especially, her warm smile, compassion and fun-loving spirit. She and her husband raised their two daughters in Hudson, OH, where Mrs. London was very active in numerous organizations. She also donated her time to the Women’s Crisis Center and the Food Bank. She is survived by her daughter Kathleen London, two granddaughters, and her son-in-law Todd Cain.

Annie Mae Jones on February 23, 2015, in

Cleveland, OH. Mrs. Jones was a member of the housekeeping staff, primarily in the Primary School, from 1981–1991. A petite woman with a vivacious personality, she was known for her friendliness to staff and students alike and for being a good baker.

Preceded in death by her husband, she is survived by four siblings.

V. Lillian Politella on April 12, 2015,

in Cleveland, OH. Miss Politella was a long-term sub in the foreign language department from 1986-88 and substituted on occasion in subsequent years. A member of Maison Francaise, she is survived by her cousin.

Kaye Ford on June 8, 2015, in Chagrin Falls, OH. A graduate of Ohio University, Mrs. Ford received her master’s degree from the University of Akron. A longtime member of the Middle School faculty, she taught social studies and science at Laurel for 24 years before retiring in 2011. After retirement she substituted in the Geauga County Schools.

A pet lover, Kaye and her therapy dog, Sadie, were well-known visitors to area hospitals and schools. In 2013 she was named the Rescue Village Volunteer of the Year for her work with rescue animals. Colleagues and students alike remember her warm smile and quick wit, which gave way to a hearty laugh. She is survived by her father, Tom Carr, her sister, Cindy, and numerous friends.

Tony Ferrell on June 11, 2015, in Cleveland

Heights, OH. A quiet man with a ready smile and always willing to lend a hand, Mr. Ferrell was a member of the facilities staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2011, at which time he and his wife, Betty, were able to travel more to visit family. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Lamar, Charles, Lisa and Perry. L

LEGACY FOR LAUREL CHAIR

MICHAEL ANNE JOHNSON ’64 Agreeing to chair Legacy for Laurel seemed a natural progression for Michael Anne Johnson ’64 after her work with classmates on their 50th Reunion Gift. “They voiced their gratitude to Laurel for its role in making them the women they are today and a desire to create a lasting class legacy that would impact Laurel beyond our individual lives,” she explains. Mrs. Hines’ European history class, which wove in lectures on art history, certainly had a profound impact on Michael Anne’s own life: “To this day, I have loved art. Mrs. Hines opened a new world to me. I entered The College of Wooster knowing I would major in history. “ After graduating from Case Western Reserve University’s Law School, she clerked for an Ohio Appeals Court judge before joining a law firm that did a lot of trial work for governmental entities.

That work paved the way for her 22-year career as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio. In 2008, she received the Department of Justice’s Human Rights Law Enforcement Award for her work on the denaturalization case against Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk. In retirement, Michael Anne is a photography enthusiast, embracing that love of art instilled long ago.

A former Alumnae Association President, she sees first-hand the impact the School has on its students. “Laurel girls not only receive the educational tools that help them become productive citizens in a rapidly changing world,” she asserts, “but there is an emphasis on developing resiliency and compassion, critical in life’s journey.”

Though a legacy herself—her three aunts attended Laurel as have cousins and a sister—the School would have been out of reach for her were it not for the generosity of other forward-thinking individuals. “I received a Laurel scholarship, which helped this oldest child in a large family receive a fine education,” she notes. “I am eternally grateful to Laurel. In order to help girls needing financial assistance, I have endowed a Laurel scholarship in my mother’s honor and will make periodic contributions to the endowment including with a bequest from my estate. In this way, my gift will have a lasting impact for the School and a few girls, into the future.”

Membership in Legacy for Laurel is extended to all alumnae, parents, faculty and friends who make a provision in their estate plans to benefit the School.

For more information about joining Legacy for Laurel or making a planned gift to Laurel School, contact Julie Donahue, Director of Alumnae and Communications, at 216.455.3028 or jDonahue@LaurelSchool.org

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