ALUMNI MAGAZINE
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI OF LICK-WILMERDING HIGH SCHOOL | WINTER 2018
COVER STORY:
Alumni in the Arts
Lick-WilmerdingLux Alumni Board Members 2017-2018 Alexander Hochman 1988, President Marjorie Zaharin Albarran 1954 Frances Kawalkowski Bertetta 1936 Sarah Cherny 1990 Jennifer Cronan Flinn 1991 Philip Galante 1987 Amy Esken Gershoni 1990 Anthony Grant 1987 Matthew Levy 2001 Angus MacDonald 1992 David Mitchell 1991 David Morgenstein 1979 Brandon Rosen 2007 David Salazar 1994 Matthew Tolve 1998
Lick-Wilmerding Board of Trustees 2017-2018 Wally MacDermid 1987, President Eric Temple, Head of School Charles Bullock Tom Chavez Jack Chin John Clawson Sandy Dean Catherine Ehr Barre Fong Steve Guttmann Parker Harris Christine Hoang Alexander Hochman 1988 Misha Hurd 2009 Lucinda Lee Katz Chris Lord William Madison 2001 Rafael Mandelman 1992 Sima Misra Anne Paxton Tori Peterson Staci Slaughter Tricia Stone Doug Tom Lara Witter
LWHS Mission Statement A private school with public purpose, Lick-Wilmerding High School develops the head, heart, and hands of highly motivated students from all walks of life, inspiring them to become lifelong learners who contribute to the world with confidence and compassion.
ALUMNI MAGAZINE published by
The Lick-Wilmerding Alumni and Development Office lick-wilmerding high school 755 Ocean Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 415-704-5593 E-mail: alumni@lwhs.org brian driscoll Associate Director of Development 415-704-5592 bdriscoll@lwhs.org nancy kehoe Director of Development 415-704-5590 nkehoe@lwhs.org miwa kozuki Alumni Director 415-704-5593 mkozuki@lwhs.org mila krush Database Manager 415-704-5594 mkrush@lwhs.org camille walker Annual Fund Manager 415-704-5591 cwalker@lwhs.org
Contents
Celebrating 30 Years: Eliot Smith
4 On the Arts Message from Head of School Eric Temple 6 Graduation 2017 11 Class of 2017 College Destinations 12 LWHS Alumni: Composing Artistic Lives 29 2016-2017 Faculty Milestones 30 Student Notables
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The Center at LWHS
42 New Board of Trustees and Alumni Board Members 56 Recently Published Alumni Authors
EDITOR: NANCY KEHOE
60 Swept Back in Time: Memories of the Main Building & Work Crew by Scott Buschman 1978
PRINCIPLE PHOTOGRAPHY IN THIS ISSUE
67 Annual Report
Rizal Adanza Ryan Fernando Barre Fong Christie Goshe Erika Jones 1999 Santiago Mejia Peter Merts Martino Mingione Robin von Breton Eleanor Sananman
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92 Class Notes with a profile on William Koenig 1953J
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Alumni Events
118 In Memoriam
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On the Arts
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n this edition of the Alumni Magazine, we celebrate the arts at Lick-Wilmerding High School. In many circles, the
arts are being starved of resources; a threat that attacks the very core of human expression. A world without the arts is a world where the human experience is truncated. Without the arts, we can’t understand alternative perspectives, or the full range of emotions, or even our very essence of what it is to be human—yes—the arts are that important.
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For adolescents, the arts are a vital conduit to developing a strong sense of self and identity. It is through art that young people can test their points of view, whether by trying on a different persona as a character on the stage, or by creating a dance that taps into a recent experience. The arts are central to developing our moral imagination as well. In studying rescuers during the Holocaust, an experience they shared was their participation in the arts, especially as younger children, and particularly in drama. These rescuers had a heightened empathetic imagination through rehearsing roles that asked them to project themselves into the shoes of another person. They could more readily feel the intricacies of emotion of other people, and thus they were more willing to intervene when seeing others oppressed.
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
At LWHS, the arts are a central part of our head, heart, and hands program. Every ninth grader takes a required course in Contemporary Media and Art, where they cycle through photography, drawing, filmmaking, and architecture. The students explore identity, learn about their classmates, and learn ways to see the world and then express what they see. An additional required course for all ninth graders is Design and Technology, where they cycle through the wood, metal, electronics, and computer shops. This course has similar themes of creating pieces of art, and it involves learning the design process as well as project management skills.
in the arts at LWHS and in the greater community. Every student at the school is enrolled in a performing arts, visual arts, or technical arts class this year, and 23 students are taking more than one art class. LWHS has 29 distinct courses that span these three art departments. These courses are developed and refined by an incredibly talented faculty who are passionate about their craft and who share the joys of working in the arts with our students.
No student can graduate from LWHS without appreciating what the arts mean for living a well-balanced life marked by purpose. As you can read about in the pages to follow, many of our graduates go on to create Beyond these requirements, lives deeply embedded many students are active in the arts. For this, I am
“No student can graduate from LWHS without appreciating what the arts mean for living a well-balanced life marked by purpose. As you can read about in the pages to follow, many of our graduates go on to create lives deeply embedded in the arts. For this, I am grateful.�
grateful. Their commitment makes our world a better place, a more diverse, interesting and intricate place. Finally, please know how much we appreciate all of the support you provide the school as noted in our Annual Report found in this edition of the Magazine. Your belief in the school benefits our students today and for years to come. Through such generosity we are able to sustain our commitment to a fully developed head, heart, and hands experience for all of our students. With Gratitude,
Eric Temple head of school
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Left: Class-elected speaker Amie Baumgartner 2017 Below: Students show off their decorated mortar boards.
CLASS-ELECTED SPEAKER: AMIE BAUMGARTNER, introduced by English Department faculty member Suzanne Shimek. AMIE BAUMGARTNER brought her
Graduation: Congratulations Class of 2017! BY ERIC GARCIA 2017
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n June 3rd, each member of the Class of 2017 enthusiastically walked down the Nourse Theater aisle
to accept their Lick-Wilmerding High School diploma in front of hundreds of family and friends. Smiles and excitement filled the room as students cheered each other on and celebrated the end of a wonderful chapter in their lives. Graduation marked the end of four years of laughs, love, and growth with classmates that felt like family, but the beginning of a bright future for these 115 talented individuals.
usual wit and clever personality to her speech as she reflected on her time at LWHS. Amie encouraged the Class of 2017 to lean into discomfort, make mistakes, and learn from them, which she translated perfectly into the following statement for millennials: “Selfie but self reflect, follow your friends on Instagram but learn to be a leader, Facebook accordingly, but also face your problems.”
CO-VALEDICTORIANS: DAVID LUDEKE & OLIVER YORK, introduced by Science Department Faculty Member Gillian Ashenfelter. This was the last year that LWHS awarded valedictorians, and the school’s final valedictorians, DAVID LUDEKE & OLIVER YORK ended this tradition on a very strong note. Both took bold stances in their speeches with profound political and emotional messages. Their courage in sharing this information with the class is a testament to how comfortable students often continued on page 9
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GRADUATION 2017
Left: Co-Valedictorian David Ludeke 2017 Below, left: Co-Valedictorian Oliver York 2017 Bottom, left; Left to Right: Nathan Craik, Zachary Baer, and Chris Leung show off their candy leis after the ceremony. Below, right; Left to Right: Gianni Martinez, Maia Shwarts, Dean of Adult Equity and Inclusion Tamisha Williams, Avi Leung, Iyanna Kelly, Maiyio Taylor-Jackson, and Maya Burris celebrate with a photo after the ceremony. Bottom, right; Left to Right: Faculty and staff members Maurine Poppers, Randy Barnett, Alayne Haggerty, and Goranka Poljak-Hoy
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Right; Left to Right: Annike Cummings, Ami Feng, Elyssa Nicolas, Alexa Adams, Isabel Welsh, Rebecca Cormack, and Chloe Lombardo are all smiles before entering the theatre. Middle: Science teacher Eric Friedman and his advising group meet one last time before Graduation. Bottom, left; Left to Right: Isabel Welsh, Lauren Chu, Kylee Hong, and Jane Liu Bottom, right; Left to Right: Aden Misra Siebel, Sam Watson, Ryan Kearns, and Kelby Kramer put on matching leis before the ceremony.
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GRADUATION 2017
Left; Left to Right: Bonnie Castleman, Bonnie Wong, Chloe David, Kiera Collins, and Shelby DeVolder gather for a quick picture before entering the theater. Below, left; Head of School Eric Temple addresses the Class of 2017 one last time before they become graduates of LWHS.
feel at LWHS—confident that they will be accepted and supported by peers no matter what.
OLIVER: Now that you are engaged, please don’t ever let yourself disengage. Never doubt that you have the capacity to make change, no matter how bad the news is.
Never doubt that your opinions matter. And never stop imagining a better world.
DAVID: In the next few years, we’ll have a lot of choices to make. We will choose what to major in, how to budget our time, how to treat other people.
But even in those things that we can’t change, those qualities or characteristics or circumstances we are born with, we have agency: we can choose how to respond. We can choose to reach out to and confide in the people who love us and want to help us. We can choose to search for the support system we need, even when we don’t believe one exists. We can choose to resist toxic societal messaging and fight the urge to sink into self-hate. We can choose to be there for each other. We can choose to speak up.
transformative change. Gusfield instilled her trust into the graduates, and expressed her confidence that the graduates would work endlessly to create a positive, meaningful impact on the world. “I can’t promise you an easy life or a perfect world, I can’t tell you exactly how to act moving forward, but I know that the moment is right for action and that in order to act in the name of justice, we must commit to examining our own fears and to distinguishing truth from fiction.”
LEILA KASHANI-SABET FACULTY SPEAKER: YESHI GUSFIELD, introduced by Keanu Velasquez 2017. Faculty speaker YESHI GUSFIELD emphasized the importance of small, seemingly insignificant steps towards
shares her take on the graduation ceremony: “The speeches that really struck me were the student ones, all of which I believed were not typical graduation speeches. Naively, I didn’t think our graduation
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Right: Faculty Speaker Yeshi Gusfield Below, right; Left to Right: Coco Sachs, Jill Reilly, Kelby Kramer, and Charlotte Quinn capture their selfie before the ceremony.
would be much different from past LWHS graduations I had attended, but it truly felt like a beginning, a ‘commencement,’ versus the end of a chapter. All the speeches were uplifting and inspiring—urging each one of us to reflect on our role in past conflicts and do what we can to avoid similar problems rising in other communities we become a part of. I left graduation feeling re-energized, invigorated, ready to work hard and fight for what I truly believe in.” The members of the Class of 2017 are all headed to excellent destinations in the years to come, and there’s no doubt that they will continue to develop their heads, hearts, and hands with the goal of making the world a better place. We wish them the best of luck as they embark on their next journey!
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Left: Maiyio Taylor-Jackson and Maya Burris celebrate outside of the theatre after their graduation.
Amherst College
Saint Mary’s College
Arizona State University Art Center College of Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
Bates College
Scripps College (3)
Berklee College of Music
Seattle University
Boston College (2)
Skidmore College
Boston University (2)
Sonoma State University
Bowdoin College
Stanford University (5)
Brown University (2)
Swarthmore College
Bucknell University
Syracuse University (3)
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona (4)
Tufts University (4)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (2)
University of Chicago
California State University Stanislaus
University of Michigan (2)
Tulane University (2)
University of Minnesota
Carnegie Mellon University City College of San Francisco Claremont McKenna College Columbia University (2)
College Destinations for the Class of 2017
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he Class of 2017 is a wonderfully diverse group of students that have been accepted to outstanding institutions across the country. We can’t wait to hear about the next chapter of adventures, new interests, and continued lifelong learning that these alumni will experience after graduating from LWHS. Class of 2017, we encourage you to keep in touch! Listed are the college choices from the Class of 2017 and the number in parenthesis indicates the number of graduates planning to attend the school when there are multiple.
University of Denver
University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania (2) University of Redlands
Cornell University (3)
University of Southern California (5)
Elon University
University of Virginia
George Washington University
University of Washington (2)
Georgetown University Hamilton College
University of California, Berkeley (4)
Harvard University
University of California, Irvine
Harvey Mudd College (2)
University of California, Los Angeles (2)
Indiana University at Bloomington
University of California, Merced
Johns Hopkins University
University of California, San Diego
Johnson & Wales University
University of California, Santa Barbara (2)
Lewis and Clark College Macalester College
University of California, Santa Cruz (2)
New York University (4) Northeastern University (2)
Union College
Northwestern University (3)
US Air Force Academy
Pitzer College Pomona College (2)
Washington University in St. Louis (2)
Reed College (3)
Wesleyan University
Rhode Island School of Design
Yale University
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Always enthusiastic about the arts and her students, Marty Stoddard has dedicated over 25 years to LWHS. And she’s often in sync with her students! Pictured here with Greg Kalman 2021.
LWHS Alumni: Composing Artistic Lives
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ong before we adopted the Habits of Mind as a centerpiece of our educational philosophy, Lick-Wilmerding High School artists of all
disciplines were embodying the school’s mission with imagination, passion, persistence, and amazing creativity. As we now trace their movement through university and into careers, it is stunning to find such an impressive range of dancers, actors, artists, and musicians who have composed richly artistic lives and found their way into dynamic professions in the arts. It is most heartening to hear some of their stories, to remember them on our doorstep discovering the passions that now are central to their lives, and to know that we are linked by formative lenses through which we shape our world views.
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Left: Members of the cast of the 2017 fall play, The Outsiders. Below: From left to right, Caitlin Cummings 2020, Sumitra Ananth 2019, Ellie Murphy-Weise 2019, and Josiane Alpert-Sandler 2019 are in perfect pitch together as they perform at the Fall Music Concert.
While we highlight here a few of those who have made careers in the arts, I want to also recognize the many passionate, accomplished artists of all stripes not mentioned and those who have chosen other career paths, all the while keeping their artistic expression central in their lives. The arts nourish our society through our personal engagement in them. LWHS can proudly celebrate the rich, diverse fabric of alumni composing artistic lives throughout the world! —MARTHA STODDARD, CHAIR, PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT
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Maya Fazio-Siu 2012 Marketing Coordinator, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Phil Gorman 1997 Music Teacher, Julia Morgan School for Girls In addition to his role as a teacher, Phil Gorman is an active musician, composing musicals for local theater companies and playing piano in a band. At LWHS, Phil was involved in both music and drama. He played the trumpet in the Jazz Band all four years, sang in the Chamber Singers for a year, and acted in both of the musicals and non-musical student productions. After graduating from Yale University as a music major, Phil was hired as a composer and musical director at the Young Actor’s Workshop, a company that produced original musicals. Since then, Phil has played in various bands, taught band and piano classes, done various musical theater work, and decided to piece this all together in 2010, when he became a full-time music teacher.
FAVORITE MEMORY So many musical memories—thanks to Marty Stoddard! One of my favorites was at the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival. She took the jazz band down for the competition, and I remember playing in a small combo and winning an “Outstanding Musicianship Award” by the judges. I have won so very few awards; that one stands out. It wouldn’t have happened without Marty’s guidance—she helped me with the arrangement and was very encouraging through the process.
THE IMPACT Other than giving me a solid arts and academic foundation, which set me up well for college and beyond, LWHS gave me a fun high school experience! I was happy there, learning and growing. I was connected, to peers and teachers. LWHS set me up perfectly to be a music teacher: I knew I wanted some day to offer students what my teachers had given me. Teaching music is incredibly gratifying and I thank LWHS for starting me off on the right path!
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Maya Fazio-Siu explored many of the different arts while at LWHS, including Chamber Singers and theater, and was an active participant in the dance program and also One Acts. She studied Communications and Theatre at Northwestern University, and then landed an apprenticeship at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in publicity and communications. Currently she works in marketing at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which is an internationally touring contemporary dance company.
THE IMPACT Being called an artist by your teacher at 14 years old is a tremendously powerful experience, and I think what it gave me more so than anything else was the ability to see myself that way. When I decided that I was switching my major from neuroscience to theatre in college, there was, of course, a little bit of hesitation and nervousness, but the confidence and support that my teachers at LWHS, like Zoe Fyfe, gave me allowed me to see through this vision I had for my professional career and was what allowed me to get to where I am today. Being at LWHS exposes you to so much, and I still carry with me the things I learned there. You not only are fostered as an artist, but you’re taught how to use your art to enact change, so never underestimate what you’re learning.
San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, London, and Vienna are just a few places where Kate’s work and choreography have been shown. Her recent performance piece Dark Lark was met with rave reviews at the 2013 Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and soon after, Kate was chosen to be an Artist-in-Residence at the Academy. Another of her recent works, Unstruck Sound, originated in the Evelyn Sharp CalArts Summer Residency in 2014, and premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2015. Kate has also enjoyed a place as a guest faculty member at Princeton University, and the company has taught at NYU’s summer residency program, The Juilliard School, Gibney Dance Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Keene State University, Marymount Manhattan, ODC’s dance program, and many others. Kate has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Princess Grace Fellowship in 2009, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award in 2014, and White Bird’s Barney Creative Prize in 2015.
B Kate Weare 1990 Artistic Director, Kate Weare Company BY AUDREY KALMAN 2018
orn and raised in Oakland,
Kate Weare 1990 has gone on to found and run a nationally successful dance company, Kate Weare Company. Kate attributes her understanding of and appreciation for multiple perspectives to growing up in the Bay Area, which was crucial preparation for her life in the arts. She was obsessed with dance coming into LWHS and after graduating, she had her heart set on choreography. Kate graduated from CalArts in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. This degree was put to good use, with Kate performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade, and Montreal before moving to New York in 2000. Shortly after her arrival in New York, Kate was asked to show her work in many NYC settings including Dance Theater Workshop (now a part of New York Live Arts), Joyce Soho, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Judson Church, and New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theater.
Kate’s work has been described as “lucid, layered, and visually sophisticated”, while Kate herself has been referred to by Dance Magazine as “the voice of the ‘it’s complicated’ generation.” Through her work, she aims to invigorate and “stir” the viewer and the larger audience through drawing attention to the intersection of body and mind. Her work is a reflection of interactions with the world. She also intensely values collaborating with other artists and thinkers, as this often brings new ways of seeing and thinking into her work. When asked about her time at LWHS, Kate responded, “LWHS supports this curiosity to explore the world with its curriculum and attitude about learning. I remember dipping into so many ideas and modes of thinking I may never have found otherwise: metalworking, drafting, throwing clay, chemistry, chess, and martial arts. It was all considered important in the wellrounded education of a person—and the arts, too, were considered essential. LWHS supported its students’ individuality with genuine commitment.”
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Aaron Lim 2002 Independent Architectural Designer/Jewelry Designer
In addition to running his own small jewelry business, Aaron Lim is an independent architectural designer on single-family residential additions and remodels in the Bay Area. After graduating from The Cooper Union in New York, Aaron wasn’t sure if he would pursue architecture and explored work as a modelmaker, editorial intern, and nonprofit researcher. During the recession, Aaron continued to pursue interests outside of architecture such as photography, illustration, jewelry, and web development in hopes of finding another career path. As the economy improved, he found more stable work in architecture and continued to develop his interest in jewelry with a desire to develop his own small business. Simultaneously, as Aaron gained more experience in architecture, he began to fall in love with the process and wanted to work more closely with clients. For the past two years, Aaron has operated his own independent practice in architecture and jewelry. In his spare time, Aaron is also an assistant cross country coach at LWHS.
FAVORITE MEMORY Looking back, one of my most memorable experiences was being able to create and define my independent study in painting during my senior year. For an hour or so each day between classes and after school,
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I was given space and time to paint and would meet with my faculty advisor to discuss my progress. This allowed me to create at my own speed and more importantly taught me how I learn as an individual. Having the opportunity to self-direct my own learning as a highschool student was empowering and a deeply invaluable learning experience.
THE IMPACT While I was focused on art and design throughout my time in high school, the rigor of the core curriculum made me into a more well-rounded individual. Being able to think critically, whether it be solving a math problem or writing an impromptu essay, has served me well in my professional career. So much of what I do now as an architectural designer is about being able to communicate clearly and effectively to different people and being able to analyze problems from different perspectives. In addition, my work is seldom, if ever, an individual effort and, without collaboration, could never be realized. LWHS’ emphasis on diversity and inclusiveness prepared me to interact and work with people of different backgrounds on tasks where we might not always agree, but with the goal of creating community through good communication.
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and playing basketball. Ms. Stoddard was supportive and created opportunities for Cory, such as serving as concertmaster for the LWHS Chamber Orchestra and playing a violin concerto with the Oakland Civic Orchestra (her orchestra), which he believed was instrumental to his acceptance to Juilliard. Cory attended Juilliard after LWHS, and then studied at Yale University, where he received his Master’s Degree in Music. Cory has performed on all types of stages from Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, to The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, to EDC in Las Vegas. His performances have been broadcast on Fox, CBS, and NBC News.
C Cory Lee 2007 Violinist, ETHEL String Quartet & Founder, Liberated Performer
ory Lee is an accomplished violinist
who performs all over the world. Currently he is a member of Ethel, which is an acclaimed New York City-based contemporary music quartet that is known for its rich multimedia concerts and collaborations. In addition to his music, Cory is the founder of Liberated Performer, a program that empowers performers to overcome stage fright. When not on stage, he can be found giving lectures and finding ways to use music to break cultural barriers. While at LWHS, Cory was involved in orchestra with Marty Stoddard for all four years. By his junior year, he knew he wanted to pursue a career as a violinist. Throughout high school Cory was able to maintain a rigorous practice schedule while successfully completing his studies
Cory believes, in order to be successful as an artist today, it takes more than just raw talent. One must be able to develop technical mastery, create a powerful artistic vision, teach, but also be an entrepreneur. And therefore, he credits the core skills that LWHS taught him—everything from math class to basketball drills and practice with Coach Smith have contributed to his success. He also recognizes the important teachers he’s had, such as Ms. Stoddard. “She is the definition of the teacher who nurtures each person to their best, while simultaneously making everyone aware of their contribution to the larger group. She goes above and beyond. Without her, I would not have felt as prepared for my auditions and professional career.” To learn more about Cory’s program, Liberated Performer, visit www. liberatedperformer.com. To see Cory perform with ETHEL, visit www.ethelcentral.org
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Left: Jon Anderson 2001 and musician, composer, and music educator Wynton Marsalis during a visit to LWHS while Jon was a student.
architecture with Goranka Poljak-Hoy, but I was always nervous about performing or showing work. The community always blew me away with their enthusiasm and supportive attitude.
Jon Anderson 2001 Producer/Sonic Strategist, Ralph Appelbaum Associates
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Jon Anderson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance and Composition from New York University. Jon was looking for a way to create audio experiences that tell stories, and he found this opportunity at Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) working in their media division. RAA is the world’s largest interpretive planning and exhibition design firm, with clients such as the Smithsonian African-American Museum, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The media division is responsible for designing and producing the
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interpretive media programs that are permanently installed in those facilities. Jon has two roles at this company; one is a production and project management role, the other is a music composition, sound design, and audio strategy role. While at LWHS, Jon was involved in both the performing and visual arts, and considered studying architecture, but decided on music instead. And now, Jon’s worlds have collided—he’s a music composer and producer at an architecture firm.
THE IMPACT I fondly remember what a supportive audience the LWHS community was. I loved being in Marty Stoddard’s music ensembles and studying
It’s one thing to study music or an instrument, it’s another thing to be involved in making art collectively. Strangely enough it was when I joined the choir that I started realizing how much I loved making music. Previously I had associated music with playing piano specifically, because that was my training, but when I started singing I had this epiphany that it was something larger. Additionally, all of my coursework outside the arts programs played an equally large role in getting me where I am today. I had this whole side of my personality, which was nurtured at LWHS, that was obsessed with history and culture and “nonfiction” interests, if that makes any sense. You would be shocked at all the strange jobs there are out there. If you pursue your interests with zeal and if you work hard you will find a place to do exactly what you want to be doing.
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Christian DuComb 1997 Assistant Professor of Theater, Colgate University
Sam Faustine 2009 Musician Sam Faustine is a musician who has launched a career in Opera Theatre, Musical Theatre, Sacred Music, and several other vocal performance styles. While at LWHS, Sam played in several bands, and was a member of The Waves a capella group, later leading the group. Fun fact: Sam was the first director to welcome women into the group! For more information on Sam, visit www.samfaustine.com
THE IMPACT OF THE ARTS My experience at LWHS played an integral role in my personal AND professional life. I think the most valuable aspect of my LWHS experience was being constantly surrounded by friends who were far more talented than I was. There is no better way to grow than to work/play with stronger and better people/musicians than yourself. LWHS did an extraordinary job finding amazing students—and I learned from them. The other arts curriculum highlight—Les Miserables. This was my first musical theater experience, and it was so overwhelmingly positive, that I ended up pursuing Music and Theater in college, and the rest is history.
Christian DuComb is a theater historian by training. After college, he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to spend a year traveling and studying theater internationally. When he returned, he worked as a the company manager of Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia, while also acting and directing. He realized that he wanted to connect his love of theater to his other academic interests and thus earned his Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies from Brown University in 2012. Since then, Christian has been teaching at Colgate University. He also just published his first book (See Alumni Authors).
A FAVORITE MEMORY When I was a junior, the acting teacher Cliff Mayotte cast me as the lead in a production of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock. I had a ton of lines, more than I had ever had to memorize before—and one night during a performance, I lost my place. Camilla Busnovetsky 1996 (who played my mother in the show) came to my rescue, and I’ve always remembered that moment as a lesson in what it truly means to be part of a team or an ensemble.
THE IMPACT I never thought I would pursue theater professionally, but LWHS encouraged me to see unexpected connections among my interests. It didn’t click until later, but eventually, I realized that I could connect my passion for writing, my passion for history, and my passion for travel to my passion for theater. I’ve been able to build a career which combines these things, which is a privilege, and my education from LWHS helped me get there.
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hristina Zanfagna 1998, has truly been making waves in her field of
ethnomusicology. After graduating from LWHS and attending New York University, Christina worked in public radio bringing together musicians from a multitude of nations and backgrounds. About working in radio, she emphasized the difficulty of funding, but also stressed the importance of radio: how it can expose people to more than just mainstream music. She then received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA, shortly before migrating to Santa Clara University, where she currently teaches a plethora of classes ranging from more traditional ethnography to more revolutionary classes on present day dynamics in music and race, such as The History of Hip Hop, Popular Music, Race & American Culture, and African Popular Music and Politics. Christina is a founding member of Santa Clara University’s Culture Power Difference Working Group and Speaker Series. She lives in Berkeley, dances Flamenco, and has just published her first book: Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels, which takes a closer look at how music and religion are intertwined in people’s everyday experiences. (See Alumni Authors section for more information.) Christina describes her LWHS experience as “incredible,” and especially loves how she wasn’t forced to specialize in one thing, but could be in Jazz Band, Jazz Combo, Architecture, basketball, soccer, and track all at once. It was at LWHS where she learned to compose her own music
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in a Computer Music class taught by Marty Stoddard. During college, Christina found herself incorporating art and music into her writing and her classes. It seemed as if everything kept funneling her towards the arts, primarily the sonic arts, and pursuing a career in this field. When asked about what kind of class she could see herself teaching at LWHS, she responded that she would enjoy teaching a US History Class through the lens of music, or maybe a global music and politics class, both of which would use music to analyze and discuss different race relations. Christina was vividly influenced by many of the things she was exposed to during high school, and uses many of the LWHS mindsets in her work today. To learn more about Christina and her work, visit www. christinazanfagna.com.
Christina Zanfagna 1998 Associate Professor, Department of Music, Santa Clara University BY AUDREY KALMAN 2018
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Left: Artwork by Emilie Clark 1987.
were valued and supported. This was essential in helping me understand that I could construct my own path, and bring together many different interests in pursuit of my own ideas. I always felt encouragement around pursuing a less-traditional field, and an acknowledgement that working in a creative field was as rigorous as any other.
THE BAY AREA INFLUENCE To this day,
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Emilie Clark is a well-rounded New York-based artist who works in drawing, painting, installation, and writing. Emilie received her BFA from Cornell University and later her MFA from Bard College. In addition to creating her art in New York or her floating research station/ studio in New Hampshire, she is an assistant professor at Ohio Wesleyan’s New York Arts Program and an adjunct professor at Parsons. Emilie’s work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. She is also the recipient of many awards, including the Pollock Krasner and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio fellowship.
I’m struck at how progressive our understanding of community was in the Bay Area as a child of the 70s and 80s. I think that being born in Emilie’s work is centered 1969, I got to benefit from the around ecology and the post-civil rights era that was thriving in San Francisco. Many environment, often exploring of the activities I did as a young the history of science and child were community oriented feminism in her art. She has and provided through public been working on a project services—in the parks, in old called “Meditations on Hunting” structures like Fleischhacker for the last two years, which Pool, and the Beach Chalet, exists against the backdrop of a and they combined the environment with the arts and much larger taxonomy project science. Probably one of the where she is attempting to most significant influences for catalog and preserve everything me was the way in which the from her natural environment incredible natural environment both in New York City and New in the Bay Area was so present Hampshire. To learn more about in daily life, even urban life. Emilie and her work, visit www. I know that the privilege of growing up in this emilieclark.com. unique environment has had a lasting influence THE IMPACT I think the main on how I see the world effect that the comprehensive and what structures my and extensive arts offerings artistic practice. that LWHS had on me then, and in my future life, had to do with creating a positive environment where the arts
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Left: Chelsea Eng 1992 and tango partner Count Glover perform in a Tanghetto show at the Teatro ND/Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Chelsea Eng 1992 Dancer
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Chelsea Eng has had a career in dance for over 20 years. No surprise that she danced all four years while at LWHS with Midge Kretchmer, the school’s first dance instructor. Chelsea is a professional dance artist in the world of Argentine Tango and she improvises, choreographs, performs, develops curricula, teaches, and writes about this art form. She regularly travels to Argentina to perform in tango clubs, and on stages like the Teatro ND in Buenos Aires. In 2000, Chelsea wrote the credit curricula for the Argentine Tango Program at City College of San Francisco and has been the head tango teacher since then. In 2004, she co-founded the women’s tango company Tango Con*Fusion and both
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choreographed and danced with this group for almost 11 years. Chelsea recently had the honor of making a short film, TANGO BODY: A LOVE STORY, together with renowned theater artist Philip Kan Gotanda, who mentored her through the process, and Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr./Samurai Surfer LLC, who provided generous support.
FAVORITE MEMORY I have this image of Midge walking 90 miles an hour through the lower hallway of the main classroom building—from the cafeteria to George Tyrogalas’ Drafting Studio-converted-into-aDance Studio. Once inside the dance studio, Midge tested our boundaries—the confines of our imagination, and our willingness—especially as teenagers, to look and feel
strange. “See that tree just outside this window?” she would say. “Anything can be an inspiration for movement! The trunk, the branches, the leaves…” I remember an early exercise that involved introducing ourselves to each other by dancing the syllables in our names. Nevada Lane Johnson 1992, one of my classmates, vigorously articulated “Ne-VA-da! Ne-VA-da!” while we watched. I thought Midge was a bit nutty! And then I grew to deeply appreciate her teaching us to be choreographers, to create dances.
THE IMPACT The training I received, and the time spent with faculty and fellow students at LWHS, propelled me towards my dual passions for Dance and the art of teaching. In 1999 I completed a M.A. in “Curriculum Studies & Teacher Education–Dance Specialization” at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. I am blessed to experience and to share the joy of dance, and the joy of teaching and learning, on a regular basis in my day-to-day life.
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Jamie Yuen-Shore 2009 5th Grade Teaching Fellow, SF Day School, Choreographer, Arts Volunteer Jamie Yuen-Shore was active in all of the arts at LWHS. From dance, to stagecraft, to chorus, she appreciated the collaborative spirit shared by the arts instructors, and the encouragement these faculty members gave students to take ownership of their arts experiences. Jamie received her Bachelor’s Degree (Urban Studies) and Master’s Degree (Sociology) from Stanford University. She is a 5th grade teaching fellow at San Francisco Day School, and continues to work in theater. Jamie is a choreographer for the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED), and is on the board of the San Francisco Recreation and Park
all of these K-pop stars, and for this dance had chosen a song “Rock Star” by N*E*R*D. Everything seemed out of my league. Within the first rehearsal, Aaron was such a FAVORITE MEMORY Dance concerts skilled choreographer that he were my favorite time of year. had us all feeling like we were LWHS was the first place where rockstar dancers. It is still one I choreographed dances for of my favorite pieces I have my friends and I got to dance ever performed. their choreography as well. I was in Aaron Hui’s (Class of THE IMPACT In addition to being 2008) hip hop dance routine, on the board of BATCO, I also which was a huge honor. I had direct and produce shows for never done hip hop before and them. A lot of the skills that since there were only six of us I have drawn on in putting in the routine, I was nervous. together theater productions, He was older, had this cool such as running light and sound sense of fashion, knew about boards, building and striking Department’s Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Company (YPTMTC) and The Bay Area Theatre Company (BATCO).
sets, choreographing, putting together posters and playbills, working collaboratively with a group of artists and friends, were all fostered at LWHS. I have so much gratitude for every arts educator in my life who gave me their wisdom and support both in school and beyond. Also the freedom to have an idea and run with it, while being supported by talented professionals and bountiful resources, is so special. I tried not to take it for granted while I was there, but it’s hard not to look back and think, “Man, I had no idea how lucky I was!”
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avid Duskin 1993 is an artist who focuses on
commissioned site-specific sculptures. He takes on both private and competitive public projects and his work can be seen all over the country. David double majored in Art and English LIterature and later received his M.F.A. in Sculpture. After working as an apprentice for a few years in blacksmithing and metal fabrication, he spent six years making mostly architectural ironwork. In 2004, David decided to focus primarily on sculpture. At LWHS, David spent most of his time in the Drama department, although he also took dance, wood, metal, painting, and drawing—all of these art forms have influenced his practice today. David shares, “LWHS provided a broad range of interdisciplinary study that has served as a backbone for my professional life. To make the kind of site-responsive work I do, I seem to need to know something about everything. Most importantly, I need to know how to figure things out, like how to reach new subjects, and get up to speed quickly.” Currently, David is working on several projects. On the East coast, he is working on a bronze and stone installation for a college, which will be installed in 2018. This piece will have several elements spread throughout a courtyard across the street from Boston Common and will help link the school to the public park. Locally, David is creating a half-mile long steel (both stainless steel and stone) installation in Oak Knoll Woodland near Lake Chabot Park. This will be a single continuous bar that follows the trail to the end and 13 other sculptures will be placed within sight of the trail to draw people through the landscape. This will open to the public in 2019. And even closer to campus, David has been
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working on and off with the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Association. Together they are attempting to unify Ocean Avenue by introducing a language of native plants, seating areas, granite boulders, and vertical bronze forms. The three “gardens” that have surfaced around the Ocean/Geneva intersection are a part of this project. David shared that they installed 26 tons of boulders in the area a few months ago and as a result, people are lingering in these places that are both simultaneously natural and urban.
David Duskin 1993 Artist
For more information about David’s work, visit www.davidduskin.com. Above: David Duskin 1993 on location for a project in upstate New York. Left: Sculpture made of 1x2 inch weatherproof steel by David Duskin 1993.
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Catharine Clark 1985 Owner, Catharine Clark Gallery Since 1991, Catharine Clark has owned and directed her contemporary art gallery in San Francisco, which moved in 2013 from South of Market to Portero Hill. Catharine has been instrumental in bringing awareness to the DoReMi (Dog Patch, Portero Hill, Mission) district, which has become home to numerous galleries and nonprofits who’ve moved from the downtown area. Catharine studied art history at the University of Pennsylvania, while simultaneously working in a contemporary art gallery in Philadelphia. She spent a year studying at the University of Bologna to further her art history education and to dance with Morphe Danza Teatro, a contemporary dance company. When she returned to San Francisco, Catharine continued to work in the arts and started to curate work for a gallery that specialized in historic works on paper. Realizing that she missed working with living artists, Catharine began writing art reviews for different publications, which connected her back to the local art scene and artists. When the opportunity surfaced to rent a small commercial space in Hayes Valley, Catharine began to fill it with work from the artists she had reviewed, which developed into her full-time passion and profession as a contemporary art gallerist and director. For more information on Catharine and her gallery, visit: www. cclarkgallery.com.
THE BAY AREA INFLUENCE I am a product of 1970s San Francisco, which was an incredibly creative time in this area. I often think of myself and my peers as the “Free to be You and Me” generation, because
we grew up with that album as part of our education and it shaped our values and ideas about who we could be and the way art was a pathway to being whomever we wanted to be. It was aspirational and it effectively used music and song as a way to convey its messaging. The basic concept was to encourage gender neutrality, and it championed values that shaped (I believe) who we became as individuals and frankly, as a community. The ideals it espoused included individuality, tolerance, and having an independent identity. There was a feminist aspect to the content too, as it emphasized becoming whomever and whatever we wanted to be irrespective of gender and perceived barriers therein.
Above: Catharine Clark 1985 and her sister Emilie Clark 1987 together at Emilie’s studio in New Hampshire.
THE IMPACT Since I transfered to LWHS as a junior, I will answer this by saying that it was more the spirit of art thinking at the school rather than a specific class that influenced me and steered me towards a career in the arts. The way education was imparted and the degree to which the teachers encouraged us to think expansively and creatively is what helped me be a better problem solver, writer, and student, and ultimately shaped my career choice and path.
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oach Eliot Smith joined the LWHS community on September 1, 1987. From this day on, Eliot Smith has been a
coach, teacher, advisor, athletic director, friend, colleague, spirit leader, and a vital member of the LWHS community. His enthusiasm, dedication, and passion for athletics, teamwork, and education are contagious. He asks the community to, “put their foot in the circle,� and they do. Coach Smith has a commitment to the school and students that is unwavering and he inspires all that cross his path. These are just a handful of memories of Coach Smith from alumni that demonstrate the incredible impact he has had on the community.
Thank you, Coach Smith. We will give you a hyphen any time you ask!
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I joined the Cross-Country team in my first year at LWHS (Fall 2002). Early in the Fall Semester of that year, the team was scheduled to go on an overnight team retreat to help encourage team bonding. I had made prior commitments for that weekend to attend another camping trip and was initially on the fence about attending the retreat, but I later decided to change my plans so that I could attend the retreat weekend with the team. However, I failed to communicate the change in my plans clearly to our team coaches and when the team loaded into cars on Friday afternoon to carpool to the retreat location, I found myself without a seat. Dejected, I started walking to catch the K-Ingleside to ride home. Just then, in walked Coach Smith, who upon learning about my predicament, asked to telephone my parents. I looked on in amazement as Coach Smith apologized to my parents on behalf of the team, and then proceeded to offer to drive me to the retreat himself. Fifteen minutes later, we left Ocean Avenue and were on our way over the Golden Gate Bridge. We met up with the team doing warm-up stretches on the road into the camp, and I was able to enjoy a great weekend of bonding with my team. This gesture helped me to settle into the LWHS campus and helped me to learn the true nature of the
Coach Smith is a class act. The best example of his character took place between my sophomore and junior years. As I was enjoying the first few days of summer vacation, my parents and I received a
tiger spirit that pervades the campus. For me, this incident is a prime example of the lengths that Coach Smith will go to in order to ensure that all members of the community, whether seasoned veterans or newcomers to the campus, feel welcomed and proud to call themselves Tigers. —PAUL BROOKS 2006
Coach Smith made it easy to work hard for him. And he always made
basketball fun. No matter the talent level, he made it easy “Jozsi, you’re going to for us to commit to playing summer school!”. Coach our hardest. That belief in self Smith had pulled a copy he instilled in us definitely of my report card. My helped us win games. Superior grades in two classes were teams fell to LWHS because less than competitive, to mentally we were tough and put it kindly. Coach Smith vastly supported by our coach took the time and effort to do what it took within the to not only review my rules of the game to win and succeed. Of course, there is grades, but to also enroll me in summer school. The the time I cracked his ribs on our San Diego basketball vastly improved marks that summer were critical tournament trip. Coach Smith to my college application was teaching us how to drive hard to the basket offensively, process. Thanks Coach and defensively how to take a Smith! charge. His participation in the —JOZSI POPPER 1992 drill led to him cracking a rib. Little did I know until years later. Coach Smith was a trooper like us! I’ll also remember, “burn the boats,” meaning leave it all on the court and play all out! Believe, BUY IN, trust, and commitment. Thank you, Coach call from Coach Smith—
Smith, for all the values you have instilled in me through athletics and life. Go Tigers!! —JASON GANT 2002
I had the privilege of playing for Coach Smith during his very first season coaching varsity basketball at Lick-Wilmerding in 1987-88. He was just as spirited, positive and fun then as he is now. As a 6’5 senior with limited skills, I came off the bench and averaged roughly ten minutes of playing time each game in which I’d typically grab a few rebounds, take a charge, and, on a good night, score five or six points. Cut to a few years ago when I was back visiting LWHS and of course stopped in to see Coach. We were catching up when, from the corner of his eye, Coach saw a few of his current players walk into the gym. He excitedly called them over to his office and introduced me as “a cornerstone of the program!” The fact that Coach Smith would refer to me, a middling player at best who didn’t even start as a senior, as a “cornerstone” tells you all that you need to know about him. He always paid as much attention to and praised us for our leadership skills, our effort, and, most importantly,
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our sportsmanship as he did our stats.
through JV basketball team tryouts and getting cut, I was upset and went to Coach Smith That first 1987-1988 team to explain (aka angrily vent) that wasn’t very good but many of I felt I deserved to be on the us still keep in touch and always team and was upset that Coach trade Coach Smith stories Mack (JV basketball coach) when we’re together. I love that didn’t see my best performance. Coach has gone on to build Coach Smith’s advice was to go “a program” that adheres to to the first day of practice and his core values while regularly tell Coach Mack how I felt and beating University and winning prove to him that I deserved to a few league titles along the be on the team. I wanted to be way. Congratulations Coach on the team so badly that the Smith on 30 years! hunger overcame my incredible fear of embarrassment of coming —ALEX HOCHMAN 1988 to the first day of practice after being cut and asking Coach Eliot Smith for another shot. Coach Mack should be no stranger did end up giving me a shot to you and was a major to prove myself and I’ll never influence on me. I’ll just forget his words,”you’ve shown share one example I’ll never tremendous heart, courage, and forget of his positivity and hustle in coming back that you wisdom. Right after going deserve to be on the team.”
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Above: Mural created by Daniel Pan 1996 of 1AM for Coach Smith.
When I reconnected with Coach Smith last year, he remarkably remembered me and I asked him if he could say anything to the world, what would it be? Thanks Coach for giving me hope to take action in the present. This mural from 1AM, aka First Amendment, is for you. —DANIEL PAN 1996
I met Eliot Smith during the summer of 1987. I was checking in for my summer job as a soda vendor at the Harry M Stevens union window at Candlestick Park. There is a hierarchy in the vendor world. The entry level in 1987 was sodas. After putting in my time selling sodas, I could graduate to peanuts, and then to hot dogs, and then to polish sausages and then to the top, souvenirs. At the time, not only was I climbing the vendor ladder, I was contemplating
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my future at Lick-Wilmerding. LWHS’ previous basketball coach had accepted a new position at San Ramon High. I was deciding between moving to Danville with Coach Raynor or switching to Saint Ignatius. As I was standing in line for my soda assignment, Coach Smith approached me and said, “I’m your new coach.” He didn’t have to wait in line. He was a souvenir vendor, the top of the food chain. And I thought, “why would Captain America ever talk to me?” He continued talking, going on and on about growing up in San
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Francisco, playing basketball at St. Brendan’s and SI and coaching under Ron Isola at Riordan. It was then I realized, “I know this guy.” He is the lefty shooter everyone talks about around the city. He’s a legend. Everyone knows Coach Smith’s enthusiasm is contagious. For me, I was impressed by his work ethic and determination. He quickly convinced me to stay at LWHS, and it was a great decision. Coach Smith led us to a championship
within three years of taking over the program. He was an inspiration as a coach and as a role model. I don’t know that my life would be different if I had changed schools, but I do know that Coach Smith has had a significant impact on my life and I am forever grateful. —KURT HOUTKOOPER 1990
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Student Notables COMPILED BY CAMERON DIXON 2017, ERIC GARCIA 2017, AND AUDREY KALMAN 2018
AMIE BAUMGARTNER 2017 first got into Girls Who Code (GWC) during the summer of her sophomore year. Amie both enjoys coding itself, and feels strongly about larger social issues in technology, including the gender gap. Along with classmate EVA DENMAN, Amie founded a GWC club at LWHS and has also participated on an all girls team that placed first at a recent hackathon. Recently, she conducted an independent study on gender equality in tech, and coded a website that serves as a resource for girls getting involved in tech. Amie plans to stay involved in the GWC community, and to help make both local and global changes to prevalent issues in the tech field.
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Since he was young, ELLIOT BUNYAVIROCH 2018 has been intensely interested in golf. Elliot has not let the absence of a LWHS golf team stand in his way, finishing 3rd overall in BCL league his sophomore spring, and winning the BCL championship the following year, missing NorCal’s championship by just one stroke. Elliot currently practices 6 days a week, and hopes to play at the Division 1 level in college, with the eventual goal of competing in a professional golf tour.
Since embarking on a year-long worldwide expedition with his family, GAVIN POLA 2020 has become quite the chef, even competing on Fox’s MasterChef Junior at the age of 10. Gavin is currently spearheading the movement to integrate cooking
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with the LWHS community and student body. He plans to start a cooking club at school, and is an avid chef at home. Eventually, Gavin hopes to work in and even run a restaurant someday.
Top: Amie Baumgartner 2017 (second on the right) poses in front of her Girls Who Code final coding project. Above: Elliot Bunyaviroch 2018 with Athletic Director Eliot Smith.
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Above: Gavin Pola 2020 carefully frosts a chocolate cake on Fox’s MasterChef Junior show. Top, right: Liza Folsom 2017 (bottom middle) with her teammates from the Pacific Rowing Club. Above, right: Action shot of Mud Bentley 2020 dueling another competitor at Burning Man’s “Thunderdome.” Above, far right: Raffa Gonzalez 2019 poses in front of the Newton Software office, where he interned this past summer.
LIZA FOLSOM 2017 knew little about crew when she began, but has fallen in love with rowing ever since she started. After her first year rowing for Pacific Rowing Club, Liza became a coxswain as a sophomore. Liza is member of the 2017-2018 women’s crew team at Bates College. Her boat finished in fifth place this year at the Head of Charles in Boston.
CHARLES “MUD” BENTLEY 2020 has been actively involved in the annual “Burning Man” festival since he was 11 years old.
Mud has helped construct the Temple of Promise building that houses surrounding art projects, and he’s helped build the annual Burning Man, a place where people put art or objects of significance to eventually burn to represent a means of spiritual release. He has also assisted in constructing the Thunderdome, a giant dome-like dueling arena with bungees hanging from the roof. With all of the work Mud has done for Burning Man, he feels like he has earned a place there and plans to continue participating for years to come.
RAPHAEL “RAFFA” GONZALEZ 2019 started coding in 7th grade. This past summer he was offered an internship at Newton Software, a company that designs and develops software for online applications for both applicants and employers. Raffa hopes to involve more and more people in tech as he continues in the field, and is currently working on a project that will solve Sudoku puzzles.
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ANDREW BOGHOSSIAN 2018 has always been interested in buildings and has taken advantage of the opportunity LWHS has presented to him to pursue this interest and has been a student in the architecture program for several years. Andrew spent this past summer working at Truebeck Construction, which is the company in charge or construction for the campus expansion project. Andrew was on-site at LWHS and was able to work alongside NICK PERA 1991, vice president of preconstruction at Truebeck.
Born and raised in the Merida, Yucatan of Mexico, ARTURO GOMEZ 2018 began formally dancing at the age of 9 when he was enrolled in dance school. Slowly but surely, Arturo’s life began to revolve around dance. For years, he practiced around 20 hours a week and traveled and performed several times throughout the year. Although Arturo simply loves movement and performing, he also loves to do Mexican folkloric dance
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because he takes pride in showcasing his culture to as many audiences as possible. One day, Arturo hopes to return to Mexico and give back to his local community that inspired him to dance when he was a kid, with the goal of eventually opening a dance studio in Mexico to organize free youth dance classes.
OMAR PATTERSON 2017 has recently began customizing shoes, after being interested in the idea for many years. Omar’s designs have been featured on many websites including Angelus Direct, where he gets his paints. Each pair takes 6 to 8 hours to finish, but Omar is a big fan of
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the process and how “it is unique to my own shoe and everything that goes into customizing my shoes is something I can take with me forever.” Moving forward, Omar hopes to do custom shoes for other people rather than just himself, and perhaps make a business out of it.
Historically avid biker RAPHAELA DONAHOE 2019 embarked upon and consummated a glorious bike ride through seven European countries, covering over 70 miles over this past summer. The trip was four weeks long, and began in Amsterdam before heading south into Belgium, along the border of
Top, left: Andrew Boghossian 2018 and Macy Amos 2018’s sophomore year architecture project, in which they were assigned to make a small pavilion as a hangout spot for students at the garden on the LWHS campus. Above, left: A lively performance by Arturo Gomez 2018. Top, right and above: Custom painted shoes by Omar Patterson 2017.
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the brutally prioritized groupmindset, and even came to enjoy the long days of difficult mountain climbs. Raphaela plans to continue biking as much as possible for as long as she can after two seasons of competitive mountain biking on the SF Composite Team.
Top: Leo Zaroff 2018 competes at a national tournament. Above: Ella Harris’ 2018 Oxbow final project.
Luxembourg and Germany, to Switzerland by way of France, then back into France before descending into Spain. Touring the continent with nine other cyclists, Raphaela described the trip as “the perfect speed at which to see Europe” and also adored the breathtaking views,
ELLA HARRIS 2018 has been interested in art from as far back as she can remember, and has always been drawn in most by the visual arts during her free time. Before arriving at LWHS, Ella took classes at Artworks Studio in West Portal, which allowed her to develop a strong technical foundation in art. When she started school at LWHS, she began taking a huge variety of art classes because of the diverse curriculum and inspiring faculty, most notably OLEG OSIPOFF. By the middle of her sophomore year, Ella was ready to pursue art at the next level, and then attended The Oxbow School in Napa,
along with classmate SIDNEY HIRSCHMAN. At Oxbow, half of the school day was dedicated to creating art, and Ella was able to use numerous new materials and techniques such as carving foam sculptures, completing six foot paintings, creating videos, and experimenting with film photography. Ella doesn’t currently plan on attending an art school after LWHS, but is confident that art will continue to play a significant role in her life.
LEO ZAROFF 2018 began fencing when he was 8, and quickly decided to get serious about the sport. Leo began to take weekly classes, and after about a year and a half, he began attending and competing in local and national tournaments. This past year, Leo attended six national tournaments and four international competitions in Europe on the U.S. national team. Leo has received several individual medals, team
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Senior Awards Male Scholar Athlete of the Year Jonah GerardGrossman Female Scholar Athlete of the Year Aubrey Egerter Male Athlete of the Year Chip Thompson Female Athlete of the Year Maya Burris Jeanette Gaehwiler Award Winner Jill Reilly Anne Murray Ladd Award Kelby Kramer Carrie Howland Award Winners Keanu Velasquez Gianni Martinez Signer Award David Ludeke Heads Award for Civic Engagement Alexandra Tien-Smith
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gold medals, and has placed consistently within the top 32 or 16 of many international tournaments. Leo hopes to continue fencing in college and beyond, and looks forward to seeing where else fencing takes him in the future.
science transcended cultural differences on a larger scale. Countries all across the globe that were stationed in Antarctica were helping each other for the common goal of scientific exploration. This international cooperation inspired her to become even more involved in science. One day, Annika hopes to go to space, where scientists ANNIKA SALMI 2017 was one must collaborate across cultures. of five US high school students According to Annika, her life who received a grant from the becomes meaningful when she National Science Foundation to contributes something to the participate in the Joint Antarctic world, whether that’s by directly School Expedition alongside helping her community or by seven Chilean students. While making scientific discoveries. on the expedition, Annika conducted scientific research regarding climate change, however her biggest takeaway ALEXANDER YEH 2018 from the expedition was the learned about TEDxYouth, cultural exchange that she an independently-organized hadn’t expected. On the trip TED event for students ages her passion for science and 12 to 18, from Sacred Heart “nerd” personality weren’t Cathedral student Emily things that she was stigmatized Fukuda. Alexander and Emily for but instead were qualities then applied as a team. Over that were embraced by the the course of several months, Chileans. Science wasn’t just a they wrote and practiced category that they all fell into, their talk along with attending but it was an aspect that united several workshops hosted by them. Additionally, she saw how the TEDxYouth team to further
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Above, left: Annika Salmi 2017 prepares to board a Chilean Air Force plane. Above: Annika Salmi 2017 (far right) with other students from the Joint Antarctic School Expedition arrive at the Chilean Base on Antarctica.
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develop their work. Alexander notes that, as he was often afraid of speaking in front of a large audience, much of his focus was on improving Above, right: Roma Edwards his presentation skills and his 2020 shows off her earrings confidence in being able to made from found objects. Right: Drawings from a fashion present his ideas in front of an audience. He also considers magazine created by Roma Edwards 2020. his fellow TEDxYouth speakers to be one of the greatest takeaways from the event, as he was able to learn greatly from the personal experiences they shared as well. Alexander hopes to continue developing his presentation skills to participate in more opportunities like TEDxYouth in the future. Above: Alexander Yeh 2018 poses in front of the TEDx Youth sign with a fellow presenter before giving his presentation
ROMA EDWARDS 2020’s desire to participate in the fashion world began through a quest for self-expression. At 14, Roma began interning at a clothing store by the name of Voyager in San Francisco’s Mission District, where she was able to experience the retail side of the industry. Roma has
also participated in a program called West Coast Craft Intro, which has allowed her to sell her work—zines, drawings and handwritten poems. Roma’s future goals are to keep experimenting with art forms of numerous dimensions, and to use these media to continue to express herself in new and unique ways.
has been filming and editing Quiet Lightning’s monthly reading series, The Write Stuff, a weekly profile of local authors that appears on the organization’s website.
SUTTER MORRIS 2018 has been working as an intern at Quiet Lightning, a Bay Area monthly reading series and literary organization. Since the beginning of his internship in the spring, Sutter
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Right: Shanie Roth 2020 (front row, middle) with some of the other Make-A-Wish volunteers. Opposite page: Shanie Roth 2020 (far right) alongside other LWHS students as a part of the school’s Make-A-Wish team.
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Make-A-Wish Foundation BY SHANIE ROTH 2020
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believe that in order for the world to be a better place we must love, educate, and inspire the people surrounding us, and this is what I have
strived to do through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as many other organizations; to make the future a better place. Through Make-A-Wish I have gained not only the drive to empower youth, but the leadership, the love, and the community to do so. Throughout my life, I have volunteered in many different organizations where I learned of the empowering act of giving back to others. My family and my heritage emphasize our responsibility as citizens of the world to give back. From celebrating my ninth birthday by volunteering at the food bank with all my friends, to working with Horses in California in fourth grade, an organization that empowers children with special needs through equestrian therapy, to making gift bags for children who spent their summer sitting in bomb shelters during Operation Protective Edge between Palestinians and Israelis (2015) and working in numerous soup kitchens, I have lived a life centered around “Tikkun Olam,” which in Hebrew means “fixing the world.”
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Since the age of three I knew that I wanted to become a pediatrician, and through my association with The Make-A-Wish Foundation, my dream has become more focused on pediatric oncology. In seventh grade, I did a school project on Make-AWish and interviewed the volunteer director of the Greater Bay Area Chapter. During our interview, I understood that, as a teenager, I have the power to make a difference through applying to be on their youth board and helping with behind the scenes fundraising, being part of wishes and publicizing the mission of this moving organization. I applied, and in eighth grade was one of two San Franciscans on the board. As a youth board, our job is to work behind the scenes—we plan fundraisers, participate in wishes, and get the word out about the organization. Over the past three years I have created teams for all of the 5k Walk For Wishes in Mountain View, have led numerous fundraisers at both my middle school and at LWHS,
and I have represented Make-A-Wish at different school events to emphasize the importance of what this organization does. As I am interested in medicine, Make-A-Wish has been an incredible place for me to learn about an alternate way of treatment, one without the drugs and hospital stays. By granting a child’s wish, they are significantly more likely to survive their illness, and the whole concept of mental strength to fight a disease is very interesting and powerful to me. In the future I plan to stay on this board until graduating from LWHS, hopefully becoming chair of the board in my senior year. Throughout these next few years, I would also love to not only volunteer at the Make-AWish Foundation, but to get an internship or a job learning about medicine and helping these children fight the hardest battle of their lives. If I am able to change even one person’s life, everything is worth it. My volunteer experience at Make-A-Wish has taught me that heroes don’t only
exist in fantasies, but that the doctors, volunteers, and “wish granters” have the power to truly make a significant difference in a child’s life. And you never know—maybe you just saved the life of the world’s next Albert Einstein or Nelson Mandela. By giving these children a second chance, we are giving the world a second chance, and an opportunity for a brighter and stronger future led by people who are strong by default. They have already battled and beat a life threatening disease. Nothing can stop them now! I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to attend an incredible school like LWHS, where I
am encouraged to chase my dreams alongside being pushed to always pay it forward. These two qualities are some that I wish to impart on the children that Make-AWish helps. My hope is that throughout their life they will remember how it felt to receive help in a time of hardship and push themselves and their peers to continue the chain of “Tikkun Olam.” I believe that each one of us has a responsibility to make a difference no matter how small, and hope that you will join me in making the world a brighter place one step at a time.
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Athletics Notables COMPILED BY ERIC GARCIA 2017
FALL HIGHLIGHTS 2016
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• Boys Cross Country placed 1st in the NCS for the first time in decades. The team went on to place 4th in the State Finals.
• Boys Varsity Basketball made history by winning the BCL and advancing to the NCS Championships game, which they lost to St. Joseph Notre Dame. The Basketball Team advanced to the Semifinals of the Nor Cal Finals for the highest finish in school history in Division 4. The team upset several outstanding basketball teams, including St. PatrickSt. Vincent (the eventual Division State 4 Champion).
• Girls Cross Country placed 4th at the State Championships this year and secured the BCL Championship for the 4th year in a row. • Girls Varsity Tennis won the BCL Championship and made it to the NCS semi-finals. • Varsity Boys Soccer made it to both the BCL and NCS championship games this year, but unfortunately lost. • Girls Varsity Volleyball placed 1st in the BCL and advanced to play in both NCS (Semifinals) and State tournaments (Round II).
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• CAL CROMPTON 2017 was the first LWHS wrestler to make it to the 2nd round of NCS.
SPRING HIGHLIGHTS • Varsity Boys Baseball team clinched the BCL Championship, with wins over Stuart Hall and Marin Academy.
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• Both Boys Track and Field and Girls Track and Field teams placed 2nd in the BCL. There were several outstanding individual performances. • SEAN LAIDLAW 2018 broke the school record in the 3200M. • VIVA DONOHOE 2020 broke the 400M freshman record.
Above: Captain Cal Crompton 2017 fiercely competes in a wrestling match in the LWHS gym. Top: Jill Reilly 2017 leads the pack as the girls cross country team takes off at the start of a race. Opposite page, top left: The LWHS Badminton team put their rackets together to celebrate a win.
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• MIRA TERDIMAN 2020 broke the 800M, 1600M, 3200M freshman record and was voted BCL West’s Outstanding Track Athlete. • AUBREY EGERTER 2017 broke her own 100M hurdle school record. • There are several highlights from the Badminton season. AMIE BAUMGARTNER 2017 and WARREN TSE 2017 placed 1st in Mixed Doubles in the BCL Championships, while PATRICK DARMAWIISKANDAR 2019 and TIFFANY TANG 2019 placed 3rd. MATT HAN 2017 and LUCAS UNIETIS 2017 placed 4th in Boys Doubles. The team was 12-2. • In Boys Lacrosse, LIAM MANISCALCO 2018 was selected as 1st Team All League and named as a 2017 US Lacrosse Academic All-American. MAURICE GREEN 2018 was named 2nd Team All League.
• Both Boys and Girls Swimming placed in the top three at the BCL Championships. Eleven LWHS swimmers competed at the NCS, one of the strongest showings in LWHS history. • The Sailing Team, now in its fourth year, was ranked one of the top high school sailing teams in the Bay Area and competed in the A Division, which includes the entire West Coast of the country. The team also won the San Francisco High School Sailing Championship.
Top: Tyler Davis 2018 and Phoebe Klebahn 2020 compete during the 2017 sailing season. Middle: Maurice Green 2018 dodges a defender in a game against Head-Royce. Above: Christopher Chen 2020
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Right: Ryan Kearns 2017 passes the baton to Omar Patterson 2017 in tight 4x400 race. Below: Raayan Mohtashemi 2017 goes for a forehand in a Boys Varsity Tennis match. Below, right: Walter Lum 2018 goes for a jump shot at a playoff game. Bottom: Senior award recipients, from left to right: Aubrey Egerter, Jill Reilly, Kelby Kramer, Chip Thompson, and Maya Burris.
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Left: The 2017 BCL Champion baseball team huddles before a game.
Top, left: Viva Donahoe 2020, Mira Terdiman 2020, and rising captain Maggie Drew 2018 pose for a photo before a varsity cross country run at Stanford University. Above: Captain Jamila Wilson 2017 goes for the goal during a varsity girls soccer game. Left: Samantha Foong 2019 drives to the basket in a game against Urban High School.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS
SPOTLIGHT:
Board of Trustees and Alumni Board Members Meet the new members of the Lick-Wilmerding High School Board of Trustees and the Lick-Wilmerding-Lux Alumni Board.
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Above: The 2017-2018 LWHS Board of Trustees, from left to right: Sandy Dean, Tricia Stone, Sima Misra, Anne Paxton, Lucinda Lee Katz, Doug Tom, Rafael Mandelman 1992, Charlie Bullock, Jack Chin, Head of School Eric Temple, Barre Fong, Wally MacDermid 1987, William Madison 2001, Staci Slaughter, Christine Hoang, John Clawson, Catherine Ehr, Chris Lord, Lara Witter, Misha Hurd 2009, Tori Peterson, Steve Guttman. Not pictured: Tom Chavez, Parker Harris, and Alex Hochman 1988.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS
Jack Chin Board of Trustees Member Jack and his wife, Hedy Chang, live in San Francisco with their son, NEVIN CHIN 2020, (their older son, Neil, is an undergrad at Northwestern University). Since 1991, Jack has worked for and with grantmaking foundations,
Sandy Dean Board of Trustees Member Sandy is with Sansome Partners LLC, which makes a variety of public and private investments. He also serves as chairman of Mendocino and
Catherine Ehr Board of Trustees Member Catherine is currently the Chief Operating Officer for PathologyExpert, Inc., a small medical-legal consulting and expert witness firm in San Francisco where she does everything except the actual consulting work. She was employed previously as an editor and manager for
initially as a multicultural fellow at The San Francisco Foundation. For the last four years, he has provided program strategy, implementation, and evaluation services as an independent consultant. Jack is a 1985 graduate of Stanford University, with a B.A. in Human Biology and an M.A. in Applied Communication Research. With
a belief in the importance of giving back, he has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including Pacific Primary, the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and the Student Conservation Association.
Humboldt Redwood Company. Sandy’s previous not-for-profit board experience includes San Francisco Day School, Leadership Public Schools and the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco Endowment. Sandy holds a B.S.E. from Duke
University and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Sandy and his wife, Cathy, have three children at LWHS: SARAH DEAN 2018, THOMAS DEAN 2020, and EMMA DEAN 2021.
publishing companies including Miller Freeman in San Francisco, the Taft Group in Rockville, MD, and Gale in her hometown of Detroit, MI.
and co-chair of the Admissions Hospitality Committee at LWHS for the past five years and was one of the co-chairs for the 2016 Grad Night party, and has served as President-Elect for the 2016-2017 school year. Her philanthropic and volunteer interests include literacy, education, immigration/civil rights, and hunger issues.
She and her husband, JosĂŠ Quinteiro, live in San Francisco with their children RAFAEL QUINTEIRO 2016, FELIX QUINTEIRO 2019, and
VERONICA QUINTEIRO 2021. Catherine has been a member
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Christine Hoang Board of Trustees Member Christine works as an immigration attorney, specializing in immigration relief for survivors of domestic violence and violent crime. She currently works at the Tahirih Justice Center and
Chris Lord Board of Trustees Member Chris Lord is co-founder and portfolio manager of Criterion Capital Management, LLC, an institutional investment management firm that specializes in technology, media and telecommunications companies.
Anne Paxton Board of Trustees Member Anne has been working in independent school finance and operations for 20 years. She is presently the Finance Director at the Sterne School. Prior to Sterne, she was the Director of Finance and Operations at The Hamlin School. She has expertise in budgeting, longterm planning, benchmarking
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previously worked with Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. Christine and her husband Paul Nakada live in San Francisco with their children MADELEINE NAKADA 2016 and YOSHI NAKADA 2019, and Frances who is at San Francisco Friends School. Christine served on the Board of Trustees of the San
Francisco Friends School for 6 years, where she focused on her efforts on helping to build the community engagement program. Christine earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Berkeley Law.
Prior to founding Criterion, Chris was director of research for Pivotal Asset Management, a technology fund focused on late-stage private and post-IPO investing. Previous to Pivotal, Chris was a senior analyst at Amerindo Investment Advisors and a portfolio manager at Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Chris received a B.A in Religious Studies from Dartmouth College
and a M.B.A from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
and statistical analysis, human resource management, and building maintenance and development. Prior to working in independent schools, Anne worked in publishing and public accounting as a CPA. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in Human Biology and Psychology and an M.B.A. from University of Colorado at Boulder.
Anne currently serves as the Audit Chair for the San Francisco Botanical Gardens Society.
Chris is a member of the Investment Committee for the Dartmouth College Endowment, and currently serves as a Trustee at The Glide Foundation, and The Posse Foundation. He is married to Coltrane and they have two boys, KAI LORD 2019 and ASHER LORD 2021.
Anne and her husband Craig live in San Francisco and have two daughters, MAIDA PAXTON 2011 and ROSE PAXTON 2013.
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Staci Slaughter
operations for the 2007 All-Star Game, the public relations Board of Trustees Member efforts surrounding the Staci is the executive vice development and opening of president of communications AT&T Park and the 2010, 2012 amd senior advisor to the CEO and 2014 World Series games for the San Francisco Giants. and parades. She is also In this role, she oversees media responsible for the Giants’ relations, public affairs, marketing charitable endeavors including communications programs, the 100% Player Participation crisis communications and program and the Giants community outreach activities Community Fund. Under her on behalf of the organization. leadership, the Giants were In addition to day-to-day named the 2016 Sports responsibilities overseeing Humanitarian Team of the the Club’s communications Year by ESPN. activities, Staci helps manage Prior to joining the Giants in the organization’s major public 1996, Staci was press secretary events, including the media
to former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, where she served as his primary spokesperson, media liaison and speechwriter. She serves on the boards of trustees of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.). She is a past trustee and clerk of the board of the San Francisco Friends School.
Sarah Cherny 1990
1997. After receiving her M.D. in 2002, she remained at Stanford for residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and subsequent fellowship in surgical pathology. Sarah has been a pathologist at Kaiser since 2007.
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an archaeological dig in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
After graduating from LWHS in 1990, Sarah Cherny attended Vassar College, where she majored in Anthropology and spent the summer of 1993 on
After graduating from Vassar in 1994, Sarah completed her required pre-med courses at Mills College and started medical school at Stanford in
Jennifer Cronan Flinn 1991
then went on to the University of San Francisco, where she received her Master of Arts in Education Technology. Jennifer has been working in Educational Technology since then for schools such as the Kent Denver School, and Marin Country Day
Alumni Board Member Jennifer Cronan Flinn received her Bachelor of Arts in International/Global Studies from Boston College. She
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Staci and her husband, Jamie, live in San Francisco with their two sons JAKE SLAUGHTER 2019 and BEN SLAUGHTER 2021.
School, where she spent the last two of her twelve years as the Director of Academic Technology. Jennifer has been at the Bay School in San Francisco since June 2015, and is the school’s Dean of Technology.
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Ninth graders participate in a Walk With a Purpose workshop in the Center.
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Looking Outwards Into the Community BY CAMERON DIXON 2017
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he Center for Civic Engagement, commonly known as “The Center,” operated by Director of Student Inclusion, Leadership and Civic Engagement CHRISTINE GODINEZ JACKSON, Public Purpose Program Director ALAN WESSON SUÁREZ, and Center for Civic Engagement Program Manager BENJAMIN COHN 2008, serves as a gold mine for volunteer opportunities, internships/jobs, and leadership positions both on and off campus.
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In keeping with Lick-Wilmerding’s tradition of being a private school with a public purpose, The Center is committed to finding meaningful ways to partner and serve the community by supporting local organizations and initiatives. Additionally, The Center oversees and runs the comprehensive Public Purpose Program, which enables the entire LWHS community to meaningfully engage with local organizations, issues around social justice and activism, and other causes. Throughout the years, The Center has been strengthening these ties to the community by developing partnerships with other nonprofits. Aim High founded their program at LWHS, and over the years, many LWHS students, alumni, and faculty have been involved as tutors, teachers, and site directors. In addition to Aim High, LWHS is proud to support and partner with the Bay Area Teaching Training Institute, Ocean Avenue Association, The Pact & RISE Mentor Program, the Community Tutoring Program, and Youth Art Exchange.
LWHS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Aim High: Founded in 1986 on the LWHS campus, the Aim High summer program provides middle school students with
academic preparation and enrichment opportunities. Since then, the program has expanded to 17 neighborhoods in Northern California offering their services to over underresourced 2,000 kids per year. Bay Area Teaching Training Institute (BATTI): This twoyear program, facilitated by University of the Pacific, enables highly qualified K-12 educators to transform their experience into a meaningful career in school leadership. LWHS serves as one of 25 independent schools that employ BATTI students as assistant teachers.
LWHS students with middle school students from public and parochial schools in the surrounding area. This year the program added an afterschool art program in conjunction with the current tutoring which occurs twice a week.
Above: Riley Soto 2018 and Elyssa Nicolas 2017 attend a presentation in the Center for the PPP class An Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex.
LWHS continues to support several community organizations by providing space for meetings, classes, offices, ... (while it) participates and volunteers in various organizations’ programming.
Community Tutoring Program: The Community Tutoring Program matches
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Ocean Avenue Association (OAA): LWHS is one of 148 properties that make up the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District, which is maintained by the OAA. OAA focuses on cleaning and maintenance; safety; marketing and streetscape improvements for 15 years.
Top: The Center for Civic Engagement will be located in the heart of the new renovated classroom building. Above: Students engage in a lively discussion with guests speakers who helped organize the Bay Area Black Lives Matter movement.
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Youth Art Exchange (YAX): Youth Art Exchange is a free program that provides visual, technical, and performing art opportunities to San Francisco public high school students year round. Not only is YAX stationed on campus, but YAX and LWHS have a close relationship which has led to the co-hosting of many events. The Pact & RISE: The Pact (boys) and RISE (girls) are programs designed to offer leadership opportunities for
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Ami Feng 2017 and Eujean Doo 2020 participate in the Valentine’s Day Peer Connect event.
students of color at LWHS. The Pact & RISE programs are a partnership with Live Oak and San Francisco Day School. Students from LWHS serve as mentors for students from San Francisco Day School and Live Oak School. Activities include sharing a meal, visiting a museum, or hanging out with their mentee. The Pact & Rise programs help build a supportive and enriching community at LWHS. LWHS continues to support several community organizations by providing space for meetings, classes, offices, etc. LWHS participates and volunteers in various organizations’ programming. Mrs. Godinez Jackson currently serves on the board of the OAA and is a voice for LWHS within this organization. This is a wonderful example of how LWHS can remain active and up to date on the local neighborhood and community initiatives. This past September,
The Center partnered with Supervisor Norman Yee and Ingleside United Presbyterian Church to host the 3rd Annual Movie Night on Ocean Avenue. Ten student volunteers helped run the programming for the evening from face painting to serving food. The Center will be intentionally located at the main entrance of the school once the remodel is complete. The Center staff hopes that the improved accessibility of the space will attract the entire student body, which in turn would promote more community engagement with our local community. Additionally, this new location in the front of the school will make it easier for outside organizations to navigate the campus as well as utilize the space.
is essential for private schools to not only think about how they are advocating for their students but also what they are doing for their communities. Mrs. Godinez Jackson wholeheartedly believes massive change can be made.
The Center will be intentionally located at the main entrance of the school once the remodel is complete. The Center staff hopes that the improved accessibility of the space will attract the entire student body which in turn would promote more community engagement with our local community.
In the distant future, Mrs. Godinez Jackson hopes The Center will serve as a model for other independent schools to follow. She believes that it
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Left: In partnership with LWHS, YAX students, staff, and faculty organized the 3rd annual Howth Street Block Party, which featured youth-led artmaking workshops, performances, and community-building activities. Below, left: YAX architecture interns designed and built the Mobile Art Cart, which encourages collective art making and community building.
LWHS COMMUNITY PARTNER SPOTLIGHT:
Youth Art Exchange
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outh Art Exchange (YAX) is nonprofit dedicated to arts education. Similar to the mission of Lick-Wilmerding
High School, YAX is also committed to access, and providing quality arts education programs to underserved public high school youth. The program is free and serves over 350 students every year. Students can participate in afterschool programs, internships during the summer, or in-school programming in San Francisco high schools like Leadership, June Jordan, and John O’Connell. YAX offers classes in Architecture,
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Dance, Fashion Design, Filmmaking, Photography, Printmaking, Music/ Sound Production, and Traditional Percussion. YAX is focused on developing a new model of arts education, connecting youth leadership development to arts education. All instructing faculty members are active artists in their fields. Together faculty and students create a collaborative and shared learning environment. The artists/ teachers are able to model what it’s like to have a practice and students are therefore exposed to all facets of the business and industry from sharing and accepting feedback, to communication skills and practices, and promotions and marketing.
Above: Printmaking interns worked on poster designs for local Brazilianinspired all-female band Gringa.
Classes are also focused on creating meaningful artwork and large-scale projects like parklets, murals, and sound installations that are displayed publicly, providing enhanced visibility and support for YAX and all of the involved artists. Over the years, the LWHS partnership with YAX has developed and grown. Not only is the main office of YAX located on campus at 27 Howth, but classes are conducted on the LWHS campus. In addition to providing office and classroom space, LWHS has also started to co-sponsor events with YAX, like the Youth Art Summit in December, which is now in its
seventh year. This past year, LWHS students participated by submitting artwork, but students also volunteered and attended the summit. YAX and LWHS have been partnering to organize a Block Party for the community, which takes place in the spring. LWHS students, including those who have been enrolled in the Philanthropy Initiative class, have helped plan, organize, secure talent, market, and promote this event. “We’ve really enjoyed watching this relationship develop into a true partnership,” commented Director of Student Inclusion, Leadership, and Civic Engagement Christine Godinez
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Left: Music Production students at work with faculty artist Alfie Macias in partnership with SFJAZZ to create their own original music. These students make beats, record samples, learn to perform live, and mix their final track.
Jackson. “Having our students participate and volunteer with YAX has been a meaningful experience, and confirms that our students believe in community and access to the arts for all.” LWHS is just one of YAX’s community partners. SFJAZZ has also been a committed partner, providing performance space, access to the Digital Lab program, the talented musicians, artists, and producers at SFJAZZ to support the music production and traditional percussion programs. Current parent and Director of Education at SFJAZZ REBECA MAULEÓN (ALEJANDRO SANTANA 2014, DANNY SANTANA 2020) says, “the extraordinary work that YAX continues to do in our community speaks volumes of why the arts are such a vital part of our City, in particular in fulfilling our commitment to cultivating a generation of
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artistically literate and confident self-advocates. Enabling and empowering youth to see themselves as artistic and creative individuals is a common goal shared by SFJAZZ and YAX, and I have no doubt that our collaboration will continue to flourish in the years to come.” To learn more about YAX, their events, and programming, visit www.youthartexchange.org. If you are interested in attending the upcoming Youth Art Exchange Block Party, it is scheduled for April 14, 2018.
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Youth Arts Exchange is focused on developing a new model of arts education, connecting youth leadership development to arts education. All instructing faculty members are active artists in their fields.
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Left: An early sketch, which explored the idea of having this hypothetical structure be completely collapsible.
SPOTLIGHT:
PPP Independent Study Project BY AUDREY KALMAN 2018
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ince it was presented to me as an option in early 2016, I knew I
wanted to fulfill my 2016-2017 PPP requirement through conducting an Independent Study. I have been an ardent participant in the LWHS Shops and architecture program for several years now and felt a strong leaning towards an Independent Study in one of those areas. I decided on a project that examined the intersection of the two. The goal of my study was to research and explore the role of designers and architects regarding the current housing crisis in the Bay Area. I aimed to gain a further understanding of what individuals working in specific fields can do to help this crisis, with the eventual goal of learning what skills I should hone and strive for in order to grow into a creative
individual who affects their community in a positive way.
With all these and countless other artists/buildings/projects in mind, I began my actual I drew specific inspiration from study. Over the course of the the work of Oakland Artist fall semester, I researched Gregory Kloehn, the now the history of homelessness “semi-permanent” community in the Bay Area, both social of mini houses outside Portland and political reactions and deemed “Dignity Village,” responses to this problem, and and the more well funded current issues and happenings and well-publicized work of regarding the topic, especially countless architecture firms responses in the art and including Poteet Architects, design worlds. I found out Maziar Behrooz Architecture, that homelessness is more and Walden Studio. Broader than anything an overlapping inspirations included the work of the respectively more and of artist Tom Sachs, filmmaker less tangible issues of physical Casey Neistat, fashion designer space and of social class. Virgil Abloh, artist Andrea Zittel, With these findings in mind, I and minimalist and sculptor eventually moved to designing Donald Judd. Architectural a hypothetical dwelling that locations such as Marfa, Texas, would both maximize the the apartment of Rick Owens, limited available space, and and the spaces Georgia make as many designed O’Keeffe inhabited in Abiquiu, interior features as possible New Mexico, all directly accessible to the hypothetical influenced the central thought inhabitant. processes of my study.
A large part of my study was exploration through sketching (the other large catalysts of exploration being building/ modeling and traditional forms of research). Through my sketches, I was able to work through and explore several routes by which I eventually arrived at the conclusion that a somewhat typical rectangular dwelling would be the most appropriate and space-efficient. I decided that the exciting element, the nuance to this structure would be the interior furnishings and interior design. So I set out to design the most effective, functional, yet minimal and not overcrowded interior that I could. Again, during this step of my study, I reverted to traditional research, sketching, and modeling. I focused on making the space serve as many purposes as possible. For example, I designed a bed that could also be used as a table and several alternative storage methods in order to maximize the number of things the individual could possess, as this would most likely be their only opportunity for storage. During this part of my project, I drew upon several
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Right, top: Isometric plans for one of Audrey’s more evolved potential structures. Right, middle: An initial sketch where the conceptual structure is based off of Piet Mondrian’s infamous Composition and Tableau paintings. Right, below: In this sketch, Audrey’s ideas were based on the hexagonal structures of a group of Belgian designers referred to as B-and-Bee.
mindsets including those typical of IKEA and of Swiss Designer Yves Béhar. After I finished the interior I concluded my project, drafting plans of the building, and also constructing several handmade and laser cut models both literal and conceptual. My primary motivation in conducting my study was that I wanted to learn how certain individuals used their specific skill sets to work for larger changes in their communities. My final project was not devoid of this understanding, but I did not see my project as having a firm end date or conclusion due to how I believe that I shall continue to gain a more and more thorough understanding of how individuals affect and solve problems in their respective environments as I dive deeper into the fields of architecture and design.
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My PPP Class— Film: Cinematic Storytelling BY LYDIA GREER, FILM TEACHER
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n 2015 under the leadership of the Center for Civic Engagement, faculty were encouraged to create courses that would enable students to obtain Public Purpose Program (PPP) credit and experience through the school’s curriculum as opposed to a more departmentalized system that the school had in the past. This integration of public purpose into the curriculum in a focused way has been rewarding and innovative for me as a teacher and particularly in my film course at LWHS. This is the third year that the course Film: Cinematic Storytelling has had a PPP component. Students at LWHS interested in media arts and filmmaking have the opportunity through this course to delve into the art of filmmaking while shining a focused spotlight on storytelling, narrative, and film as art. In this class, students develop their own original short films and learn specific techniques including the visual language of film, character development, and dramatic motivation. Students hone their shooting and cinematography skills with in-class exercises. They create original screenplays and storyboards, develop and manage their principal photography projects, and learn
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techniques to improve workflow during digital video editing with Final Cut Pro X. The art of sound design and lighting is also introduced in this class. Point of view, both of the filmmaker and the audience is examined. Point of view is something that I emphasize in my film classes and specifically in my PPP class curriculum. I challenge students to examine all of the perspectives—who is left out and who is included? Students also watch and analyze a diverse array of exemplary films and they also engage in daily class screenings, critical analysis exercises, and creative visual journal assignments. In addition to individual creative work, students work together on an exciting project that serve real world clients in our community by creating films that tell important stories and messages with a public purpose component. I act as producer and students create small video production teams and roles within that team to work with a client, which allows the class to take on 4–6 clients. Students are practicing and refining their communication skills when interacting directly with clients. They are essentially employed in an internship model but in the nurturing and critical space of a visual arts classroom where film is considered art. Documentary film has immense powers to go deeper than 140 characters or the scrolling memes of social media culture. Students study examples of documentary and nonfiction storytelling in tandem with
the creation of films they will create for their clients. Change and action are possible when awareness and empathy is expanded and the voices who create that media are outside of the mainstream. Visual Storytelling is extremely powerful and is shaping our world. It is important that in a 21st century education students not be passive consumers. I tell my students to not just consume media, but analyze it, be critical, and most important create your own media. Through media, analysis, and the tools and skills to create media, students from all walks of life at LWHS are empowered. Through the diversity of our community, the parent and student connections, and the student-led research, we have already partnered with a wide variety of organizations and causes such as the Middle Eastern theatre company Golden Threads Productions, Climate One (out of Stanford University), Skate Like a Girl, Edgewood Center for Children
Above: Tyler Davis 2018, Aiko Tomita-Fairchild 2017, and Ryan Yee 2018 produced a video for the organization Skate Like a Girl, whose mission is to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through the sport of skateboarding.
and Families (Edgewood), Mission Science at Excelsior Middle School in San Francisco, Youth Art Exchange, Run Like A Girl, LWHS’s GSA student club, and more. The process of selecting an organizations is holistic and based on student generated interest. The students and I host a reception and invite organizations to pitch
passionately for causes you care about. If you/your organization is in need of new media assets to help tell your story and expand your audience, please contact me if you would like to work with the Film: Cinematic Storytelling class. The students are energetic, engaged, enthusiastic, and would love to have the opportunity to work
“History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.” —DAVID WOJNAROWICZ their ideas through skype or in person. Student passion and empathy is the motivation for selecting the projects. I can’t wait to see what this year’s films will be, I am calling out to the LWHS alumni community working
with alumni and the causes for which you are passionate.
Lydia Greer can be contacted at lgreer@lwhs.org. To view some of last year’s projects, visit filmcinematicstorytellinglwhs. wordpress.com.
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Alumni Authors wants coming to her rescue is the paparazzo who got her into trouble in the first place.
Six Passengers Five Parachutes
She visits Harlem, she swims with mermaids, and even visits Queen Nefertiti in Egypt. When Niama time travels, she feels magical and free. Niama wants you to feel free, too.
by Ian Bull (Donald Bull 1979) Six Passengers Five Parachutes (sequel): Steven Quintana is tracking down the men who kidnapped Julia Travers, and uncovers their latest project: a “fight to the death” competition set on a crashing plane. When they realize Steven is tracking them, they shoot him and leave him for dead, but he survives and his “death” provides the perfect cover to continue his search. Steven will do anything to stop them, and Julia will do anything to keep him safe —until he himself becomes a passenger.
The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco by Cary Cordova 1988 In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the Mission District, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the “Mission School” by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Latino artists, writers, poets, playwrights, performers, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse.
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by Stephan Haggard 1969 & Marcus Noland
The Picture Kills by Ian Bull (Donald Bull 1979) Steven Quintana was once a top Army reconnaissance photographer until he made a mistake on a mission and a boy was killed. Now he works as a paparazzo in Hollywood where his photos can’t hurt anybody — but when movie star Julia Travers is kidnapped, Steven discovers the kidnappers used photos he took to hide their crime. Realizing that his photos can still do harm, he swears to fix his mistake. However, the last person Julia
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Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea
Niama’s Adventures by Renina Jarmon 1996 Join Niama, a curious little girl full of magic and wonder. When Niama goes to sleep at night with her magic wand she time travels to different places far and near in her dreams.
Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute “hard targets.” Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune— and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role of economic incentives in the bargaining around the country’s nuclear program.
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friends around the world. A unique bonus chapter, written by a dozen former cruising kids, looks at the long-term effects of breaking away from shoreside normalcy. A substantial appendix of resources provides valuable further information on the subjects covered in this book.
Voyaging with Kids by Behan Fravel Gifford 1988, Sara Dawn Johnson, and Michael Robertson Choosing a boat that is right for your family; handling the naysayers; keeping your children safe, healthy, and entertained afloat—this inspirational and comprehensive guide may be just what you need to turn your dream into a reality. The three authors, who have each voyaged thousands of miles with children on board, provide a factual and balanced look at the realities of family life on the sea. From their own experience and with information from interviews with dozens of other voyaging parents, they discuss caring for an infant on board, handling the changing needs of children as they grow, education options, ensuring parents find the private time to keep their relationships in tune, and helping children make the eventual transition back to shore life. Added to the authors’ voices are sidebars from other cruising parents with specialized information on subjects as diverse as handling special diets and how your children can keep in touch with
It is said that every parent inflicts their lifestyle choices on their children. Read this book to find why heading out to sea with your children may be the most rewarding infliction of all.
racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race.
ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches. Zanfagna’s fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and unique view of black LA, offering a muchneeded perspective on how music and religion intertwine in people’s everyday experiences.
Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels by Christina Zanfagna 1998
Haunted City by Christian DuComb 1997 Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of
In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-air churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland’s fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes, and bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations, prison
The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur by Jonathan Lewis 1967 The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur is a compendium of original essays and insights— part memoir, part handbook— about the challenges and provocative questions every social entrepreneur thinks about, and should think about. Each chapter bristles with tips and tools to transform your social justice career.
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Left: Justine Isola 2001 and Rachel Flynn 2000 share details about their career path during the Tigers Helping Tigers panel. Below, left: Alex Sahai 2016, Carolena León 2016, Wiley Wadsworth 2016, Kevin Hou 2016, Isabel Povey 2016, Brooke Peterson 2017, Elena Moore 2017, and Zoe Harris 2016 reconnect at the College-Age Lunch.
The first event of the new year was the COLLEGE-AGE LUNCH, held on campus in early January so that young alumni can visit with faculty and see old friends and classmates again. For many alumni from the Class of 2016, this was the first visit back to LWHS since graduation. It is always wonderful to see familiar faces, and it was a pleasure to have members of the classes of 2016, 2015, and 2014 return for this event. The College-Age Lunch will take place this year on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. College-age alumni, if you are in town, please be sure to join us!
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fter hosting Alumni Reunion activities and class dinners on campus last fall, the Alumni & Development Office began
to prepare for what has become one of the largest LWHS alumni events—the annual HOLIDAY PARTY. Held at Mr. Smith’s bar (owned by MAX YOUNG 1983) in SOMA the Thursday before the holidays, the turnout for this celebration was one of the largest yet. Over 180 alumni were there, representing classes from 1975–2013. It was lively, fun, and delightful to have so many LWHS alumni together in one place. The Holiday Party was catered by Boacados, owned by Laura Vail, sister of BEN VAIL 1999.
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TIGERS HELPING TIGERS, the networking event for current high schools students, took place in February. Now in its fifth year, this event is always spectacular, thanks to the diverse group of alumni panelists and the stories and advice they share. Panelists included SHOLA ADISA-FARRAR 2002, SARAH CHERNY 1990, RACHEL FLYNN 2000, JUSTINE ISOLA 2001, TANSY MAK 2007, EMILY MARSH 1988, and DAVID VESPREMI 1991. The panel was moderated by Alumni Board
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President ALEX HOCHMAN 1988. If you are interested in speaking about your career path to current LWHS students, contact alumni@ lwhs.org. In the spring, the Alumni & Development Office hosted the PALS POTLUCK, a casual evening event for parents of alumni at the Head of School’s Residence. Over 50 parents of alumni attended the event, enjoying the opportunity to catch up with each other while also meeting new PALs. Reminder, there is a PALs book club and if you are interested in learning more about the club, contact Alumni Director Miwa Kozuki at mkozuki@lwhs.org. With a limited amount of time left before construction on the new building was to begin, the Alumni & Development Office decided to organize one last event in the main classroom building, the GOODBYE CLASSROOM PARTY. This was the last opportunity for alumni to walk the halls, say goodbye to Classroom C, and all of their favorite spots. The Goodbye Classroom Party was also the one and only time alumni were also encouraged to write on the classroom walls—leaving their mark, sharing a memory, and
Above: English faculty member Suzanne Shimek visits with her former students Aiden Lisker 2016, Courtney Peterson 2016, Oliver York 2017, Nithya Sharma 2016, and Pauline Unietis 2016 at the College-Age Lunch. Right:The 2017 Tigers Helping Tigers alumni panel, from left to right: Alex Hochman 1988, Tansy Mak 2007, Sarah Cherny 1990, Shola Adisa-Farrar 2002, Rachel Flynn 2000, Justine Isola 2001, David Vespremi 1991, and Emily Marsh 1988.
saying goodbye. Additionally, several alumni who participated in the LWHS dance program also attended so they, too, could dance in the studio and autograph the studio walls. Over 120 alumni attended this event, and many helped create a special playlist for the party by submitting the songs that reminded them of their time at LWHS. Stay tuned—there will be an even bigger party to attend to celebrate the new building! In June, Head of School Eric Temple and Associate Director of Development Brian Driscoll traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet several alumni in the area. LWHS hosted a happy hour gathering at Mission Restaurant near Dupont Circle. This small gathering was a great opportunity to get to know some of our amazing alumni from DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
conversation with Head of School Eric Temple and a cocktail reception. Save the date! THE event is scheduled for Thursday, April 26, 2018. Every year the Alumni & Development Office hosts a variety of events—please make sure the office has your current contact information so you can receive notifications about these events, especially regional events outside of the Bay Area. To update your contact information, visit www.lwhs.org/page/alumni/ contact-update-form or email alumni@lwhs.org directly.
The Alumni & Development Office is pleased to announce the return of THE EVENT next year. THE event will include an exciting presentation and
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Scott Buschman 1978, with the keys to the school fastened to his belt loop, in his 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback, which he purchased from the money he earned from Work Crew.
Swept Back In Time: Memories of the Main Building and Work Crew BY SCOTT BUSCHMAN 1978
“All the years combine. They melt into a dream.” —GRATEFUL DEAD
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graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in 1978. Throughout the years, I have taken advantage of a few opportunities to return to the school. Most recently I visited to “say goodbye” to the main building at 755 Ocean Avenue, which is currently being torn down to be replaced with a new, expanded, and updated building for learning. This visit coincided with my wife and me attending the graduation from LWHS of my cousin’s daughter, AMY BUSCHMAN 2017. These two things have sent me back down memory lane with a kind of nostalgic sadness. This building—and the campus—was the setting for many great memories, experiences, and adventures for me. It’s sad that I will no longer be able to visit that actual structure again. Thinking about the demolition of this building and remembering my own graduation from this school— so many years ago—compelled me to write down some thoughts from this chapter of my life.
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I started at LWHS in September 1975 as a sophomore. I didn’t want to go to LWHS. I wanted to go to Lincoln High School on 24th Avenue, where most of my friends were going. My mother, however, wasn’t concerned with where my friends were going. I was the youngest of four boys and all three of my older brothers went to Lincoln. None got much of an education there; only one graduated.
though we had never gone to the same schools. He had started LWHS the previous year as a freshman. We were great friends but I was still a little anxious to not know anyone else. There were about 40 students in our graduating class—a total of about 180 in the whole school. Girls were readmitted several years before I started. The school housed the bulk of the classes in a low, two-story building on Ocean Avenue, the building that is now being renovated. To the south of this building was the infirmary, locker rooms, showers, and gym, and outside a basketball court, and a ball field. Along the outside breezeway sat four shops (Electric, Metal, Welding, and Wood) that ran along the field to Geneva Avenue. That was the entire campus.
Lincoln, like a lot of public schools at the time, suffered from societal problems such as strained race relations that often manifested themselves as school yard fights, as well as drug and alcohol use by teens. My mother wanted something better for me. LWHS wasn’t an island free of these problems, but its smaller size and low population scaled down the diversions I believe; it did not On the stage in the gym was seem to be a prevalent part of a music room, which was big school life. enough for a small class of kids and a piano. I started school knowing only one person, my cousin ERIC Our one and only computer at BUSCHMAN 1978, who was the time was a teletype-style the same age as I. Eric and monster that was so loud it I had grown up together, was housed in the equipment
This building— and the campus— was the setting for many great memories, experiences, and adventures for me...Thinking about the demolition of this building and remembering my own graduation from this school— so many years ago—compelled me to write down some thoughts from this chapter of my life.
room in the gym. It was connected by a phone modem to a mainframe at SF State. We used punch tape as the memory to store our programs. LWHS was considered sort of a vocational school turned collegeprep. Along with the standard high school requirements of math, science, foreign language, English, social studies, and PE, we had to take drafting and each of the shops. Another requirement for freshmen and sophomores was “mandatory work crew.” The school did not employ an adult cleaning, repair, or maintenance staff. This work was done largely by a paid student crew, supervised by a faculty member (in my days welding teacher ROBERT “WICK” PRATT.) Freshman and sophomores were each given four or six week assignments to a particular classroom or area of the school. Each day at 3pm when school was out, these students would have to report to their assigned rooms to perform minor cleaning tasks for about 15 minutes each day. Since I didn’t want to go to LWHS to start with, I was incensed that I would be forced
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As caretaker of the buildings to clean the school. When I was told I had a room to report to after school, I just didn’t show up. I was too cool to play janitor. After a week of not showing up, someone tracked me down and reminded me about my duties to which I said, “no thanks.” I was told it was not an option, but I continued to be stubborn and refused. I told them I wasn’t going to do any of the menial, dirty tasks for free, for a school which my parents had to pay to send me. My cousin’s friend, who was on paid crew, acted as a mediator and brokered a deal: if I completed my four or six week mandatory work crew “sentence”—satisfactorily—I could join the paid crew. I accepted the offer and was, in short time, part of the paid working force. At 3:15 in the afternoon everyday, the paid workers (usually a crew of about six or seven students) would take over for the mandatory worker crew and continue to clean the school and grounds—finishing sweeping, cleaning toilets and restrooms, mopping up any spills, sponging down the blackboards, washing off any graffiti from walls or
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at 755 Ocean, I had a special relationship with the actual structure. But I know the building itself was not as important as the people we encountered and interacted with, the things we did while we went there, and the ideas we formed about life and which we discussed and debated with our peers as we matured.
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desks, mopping and cleaning the cafeteria, dust mopping the hallways, and taking all the garbage to the dumpsters. They would work up until 5:30 in the evenings, 6:30 on Friday nights, cleaning and preparing the school for the next day. From 8:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon on Saturdays, the crew would take all the chairs and desks out of the classrooms and mop (strip and wax) all the rooms, and do a more thorough, complete cleaning of the campus, including taking care of the lawn, field, and landscaping. It was my first real job. I earned $2.20 an hour and worked about 20 hours a week sweeping floors, cleaning toilets, and emptying trash. It sounded like (and sometimes was) a gross and dirty job, but it was at the same time one of my best and most rewarding experiences at LWHS. I learned a lot about maintenance, cleaning, gardening, and painting, skills I still use today as a homeowner.
I bonded with a small group of friends while we worked together as a team. And I learned a lot about responsibility; if a sprinkler was clogged or broken, I had to fix it. On Saturday mornings, I would get on the riding mower and bounce across the field, mowing away. I felt like I was on cloud nine—happy and free— king of the outdoors. I would also have to maintain the small “lower field” section (east of the field). Some afternoons I would sit down there and pull weeds and pick the berries that grew there, eating them while I went along with my work. In my junior year, the “head” of work crew, a recent grad, chose to move on and at 16-years-old, I became the head of the crew. As supervisor, I was responsible for six or seven spirited teenagers and all of the cleaning, maintenance, and repairs for the entire campus. (During the summer months that number expanded to about 10–12 students to take on bigger projects.)
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As head of work crew, I had to be at school by 7:30 every weekday morning, and 8:30 on Saturdays. Each morning I had to turn off the school’s alarm, unlock all the doors in the school, and open the partition between the main school building and the gym. The teachers, and even the principal, did not have the keys to get into the school. After unlocking all the doors, I would go down the hallway near the gym and out the doors to Howth street to raise the flag. Each day, I would walk the campus with Mr. Pratt and would make a list of the things that he told me needed attention during the week. I worked for an hour every morning and then went off to classes. Occasionally, I was summoned in the middle of the day for maintenance or cleaning emergencies. As supervisor, I made about $2.80 an hour. If there was a school dance, sports meet, or any school activity, I had to stay until everyone was gone so I could lock up the school. I felt powerful but also realized the huge responsibility I had for the entire school. I think
the trust I was given at this time helped me develop my work ethic and led to me taking my responsibilities seriously ever since. I had my own “office,” the school’s Switch Room. This was a small 8x8 ft. room with a concrete floor, a file cabinet, and an old desk. This room housed all the electric panels and breaker, including the Main Power switch, to the entire school. It was here I kept my own supplies, tools, and an extra set of clothes if I got especially dirty during work. I also had my own parking space, one of the few coveted spaces in the driveway outside the cafeteria.
Above: Margot Seeto 2000, Robin von Breton, and Katherine “Kitty” McCarthy 2000 spent time together in the hallways one last time.
On crew, we worked in teams. We all shared chores and duties. And as head of work crew, I did not have the luxury of just supervising “my” workers. I stepped in and helped where needed, to keep us all on schedule each day. On Friday nights, after the director and all the teachers went home, I would turn on the radio in the office, which was part of the school’s PA system and therefore connected to speakers in each classroom. I would set the station to 94.9 KSAN, a hip rock ‘n roll station, and we would all listen to Pink Floyd, Steve Miller, and The Rolling Stones while we cleaned desks, walls, and floors.
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In the summer, we did major projects. The crew installed the letters that spelled out “LickWilmerding” on the east side of the building. One year we painted the entire outside of the school. Another summer we painted all the classrooms and hallways. Any and all work, repair, and maintenance that had to be done, whether it was carpentry, plumbing, or electrical, was done by the work crew. We did it all. Even today I have no problem doing those dirty tasks, and I still feel pride afterwards for a job well done.
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Above: Just a few of the messages written by alumni on the walls at the Goodbye Classroom Party.
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The lower level housed the drafting class, social studies and Famous Trials with MR. NELSON, art with MR. LERKE, and the faculty lounge, with the cafeteria at the end of the hall. Also downstairs was the boiler room, the Switch room (my office), the dark room supervised by MR. PENN (counselor and photography teacher), the typing room, a double-sized room used for English and art appreciation classes, the book store, and two bathrooms.
Upstairs across from the office was the library, with librarian ANN NOLAN later known as English teacher ANN MAISEL, chemistry with MR. REICH, biology with MR. BLUESTONE, and physics, calculus and computer science with MR. ORSER. Also upstairs were classrooms for Spanish with MISS CORTEZ, (later known as MRS. OSIPOVA or Profe,) German with MRS. VON DOYEN, French with MRS. DONALDS, English with MR. RADIN
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or DR. CHRISTY, math and algebra with newcomer MISS ARATA (later known as MRS. BOITANO,) and geometry with MISS STANLEY. Out in the shops were MR. WERTHEIMER for electronics, MR. CHUCHWAR for metal and jewelry, Mr. Pratt for welding and plumbing, and MR. KEN HIGH 1957 and then MR. SICHI for woodshop. For P.E. the boys had COACH TAYLOR while the girls had MISS DICKSON (who doubled as the typing teacher.)
and learned about cosines and tangents in trigonometry. Like many teenagers, some of us had a love/hate relationship with school— thinking we were smarter than our peers and feeling like school was a waste of time (referring to it dramatically as “prison,”) while appreciating the debates and discussions we had with some of our teachers and learning in spite of ourselves.
We worked and studied during the week, and enjoyed our For lunch, sometimes we Friday nights and weekends, would go to McDonalds on as much as we could, hanging Ocean Avenue, or nearby out and socializing with our Beep’s Burgers if we wanted friends—sometimes cruising a malt, a corn dog, or onion our cars along the “El” (El rings. If we had boyfriends Camino in San Mateo County,) or girlfriends we would walk skateboarding on Radio Road hand in hand or with our on San Bruno Mountain or arms around each other, the reservoir at City College, occasionally sneaking a kiss, and hanging out at the missile which was discouraged by the silos at Fort Funston. We adult staff. tried skateboards and even hang gliders. Sometimes we studied in the library. Sometimes we took We went to “Day on the our tests in the gym. We Green” concerts at the dissected frogs in biology, Oakland Coliseum where we learned how to conjugate saw Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood verbs in our language classes, Mac, Peter Frampton, Santana,
Lynrd Skynrd, and the Rolling Stones. We went to Winterland to see The Grateful Dead. We saw Eric Clapton at the Oakland Stadium.
The crew installed the letters that spelled out “LickWilmerding” on the east side of the building. One year we painted the entire outside of the school. ...Any and all work, repair, and maintenance that had to be done, whether it was carpentry, plumbing, or electrical, was done by the work crew. We did it all.
We waited in line for two hours to see Star Wars, the original movie, when it first came out. We saw it at the legendary Coronet Theater on Geary Boulevard, the public theater where George Lucas sometimes screened his own films. This theater had one single wide screen and great Dolby sound system. On TV, we got Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 20, 36, and 44. We watched Michael Douglas in The Streets of San Francisco, John Travolta in Welcome Back Kotter, and Ron Howard in Happy Days. On the weekends we stayed up late to watch a new comedy show called Saturday Night Live that pushed the limits and introduced us to John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, and Chevy Chase. We went to basketball games, baseball games, and swim meets. We had occasional dances in the gym. We went to our junior formals and senior proms. We took driver’s training on the weekends with MR. MASON, and
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Left: Elisabeth “Boo” Kirkwood 2014 and her father, John Kirkwood 1965, leave their mark on the wall in Classroom C.
visited a portable “classroom” with driving simulators up Ocean Avenue. In my senior year, I was ecstatic to get to and from school (and everywhere else) with my own car—a red 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback—that I bought with money I earned from work crew for $1,400. This definitely beat the 45-minute Muni ride that I was used to. That year our class got serious, trying to finalize choices for which college or university was best for us and would admit us, and trying to decide which career path we should take. A daunting task for a teen. Toward the end of the school year, I quit as head of crew so I could focus on finals and my future. We all knew we were about to graduate but we were not sure which direction we
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In my senior year, I was ecstatic to get to and from school with my own car—a red 1969 Ford Mustang Fastback— possibly the coolest car at the school, that I bought with money I earned from work crew for $1,400.
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would or should go. We had to focus on adult ideas and make decisions that could shape and direct the rest of our lives. On May 26, 1978, 45 of us walked across the stage in the gym to receive our high school diplomas. After I graduated, I got a job at Fisherman’s Wharf (for about $4 an hour) cracking crabs and selling sourdough bread and shrimp cocktails to tourists. I went to San Francisco State where I got a B.A. in Journalism and worked as a photographer for newspapers in the Bay Area for 15 years before going out on my own as a portrait and event photographer, a career that is still prosperous and I still enjoy today.
Upon graduating from SF State in 1983, I got married, and in 1986 bought a house in San Bruno. The next year my wife gave birth to our only child—a son. As caretaker of the buildings at 755 Ocean Avenue, I had a special relationship with the actual structure. But I know the building itself was not as important as the people we encountered and interacted with, the things we did while we went there, and the ideas we formed about life, and which we discussed and debated with our peers as we matured. I’m sure the new building will be the setting for a million new experiences and memories for the generations of students to come.
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The Annual Fund represents a critical part of Lick-Wilmerding’s operating budget, keeping our unique programs intact and sustaining our significant commitment to Flexible Tuition. The continuing generosity of this community energizes and inspires the Board of Trustees.
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Dear Friends of Lick-Wilmerding High School: The 2016-2017 school year was full of wonderful accomplishments in the Development Office. Nancy Kehoe, her development team, and more than 50 volunteers led the Annual Fund to a record-breaking plateau, exceeding our lofty $1.4M goal. If you haven’t been down Ocean Avenue lately, please stop by. You might be surprised to find that the main building has been removed and construction of our new, stateof-the-art building is well underway. In support of our construction project, The Make the Future Capital Campaign is in great shape with $18M pledged by June 1, 2017. Throughout its long history, LWHS has never
Many of you to choose to support the Annual Fund; I thank you for your continued commitment to LWHS and its mission. I firmly believe that LWHS remains at the leading edge of independent school education and, with your continued support, we can ensure that we are able to continue to fulfill the school’s challenging mission. The Annual Fund goal for the 2017-2018 school year is $1.5M and represents a critical part of LickWilmerding’s operating budget, keeping our unique programs intact and sustaining our significant commitment to Flexible Tuition. The continuing generosity of this community energizes and inspires the Board of Trustees. Gratefully,
raised more, but we still have more work to do. To ensure the long-term financial security of the school, we intend to raise $30M to support the
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financial results
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Operating Expenses 2016–2017 Reserves $717,200 Debt Service $1,131,824 Plant (including Annual Maintenance Fund) $2,698,562 Faculty Personnel Costs $9,396,636 Flexible Tuition $5,535,851 Instructional Costs $2,694,328 General & Administrative Expenses $3,429,300
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Miscellaneous Income $192,957 Restricted Gifts $263,995 The Annual Fund $1,437,183 Endowment Draw for Operations $2,221,839 Tuition & Fees $21,487,727
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12th Grade: Class of 2017
Linda Gerard and Daniel Grossman
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Shiwa Harris
Ann Lee and William Adams
Latara Harris
Louise Austin
Lori Schechter and William Hebert
Timothy Bach
J. Mira Kopell and Paul Holzman
Pamela and Larry Baer
Wilson Hong
Selma Chin and Charles Bang
Marti Baroody and Michael Joseph
Wendy Leung and Larry Baumgartner
Milan Mangeshkar and Nandan Joshi
Wendy Storch and Barbara Berkeley
Shekufeh Samii and Mohammed Kashani-Sabet
Claire and Jared Bobrow Lea Anne and Louis Borders Tracy and Damon Burris Steven Castleman Dina Cefalu Lisa Leung and Ken Chu Catharine Clark 1985 Teri Behm and John Clawson Alexandra and Scott Clifford Cassandra Coe and Paul Collins Anne Moon and Dan Conlan Sophie Breall and Brendan Cormack Nancy Sambol and Charles Craik Irene Otten and Craig Cummings Alice Linder and Kent David Hilda de Gonzalez Mariatte and Todd Denman Leslie and Charles Dicke
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Nick Driver
Mary Macpherson and Christopher O’Connell
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Natalie and Erwin Ocampo
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Victoria and John Peterson
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Mary Nakamura and Timothy Quinn
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Michelle Leitzke and Andrew Rich
Juliet Shohet Fleischmann 1983 and Samuel Fleischmann 1983
Susan Sachs
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Noelle and Mika Salmi Helene York and Suketu Sanghvi Suzanne Schmidt Diane Foug and Toni Schneider
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Jenn Fallon and John Coen
Elizabeth Bradley and Brian Kissel
Sandra Lee Sheffield
Natasha and Christopher Cook
Kendall and Stuart Laidlaw
Deborah Kamali and Kevan Shokat
Gilda Goudarzi and Jeremiah Cornelius
Esther Landau and Caroline Pincus
Sima Misra and Christian Siebel 1981
Kathryn and Marshall Crutcher
Wendy Leung and Mark Lau
Gina Fazio-Siu and Joaquin Siu
Alis Cummings
Sarah and Andrew Layton
Phyllis Tien and D. Scott Smith
Alita and Daniel Joel Cusi
Wendy Smith and Simon Lewis
Kate and Richard Stacy
Bridget and Cully Davis
Liza Pannozzo and Jeffrey Logan
Joyce Norcini and Susan Stevenson
Cathy and Sandy Dean
Susan Bailey and Toni Luckett
Sumati and William Stewart
Frances and Patrick Devlin
Janny and Edward Lukawski
Valerie Fahs Thatcher and Eric Thatcher
Anita Minot and Lynn Dolce
Bianca Lee and Charles Thompson
Kim and Chris Drew
Ellen MacDermid and Wally MacDermid 1987
Leslie and Stephen Ticktin
Teresa Villela and Alicia Fernandez
Mary Tesluk and John Maniscalco
Tamera Avery and Douglas Tom
Emily Ozer and Antony Fields 1978
Hilda and Francisco Martinez
Stephanie and Keith Tomao
Galileo Medrano
Winnie Kwong and Hin Tse
Juliet Shohet Fleischmann 1983 and Samuel Fleischmann 1983
Anita Vermeulen and David Unietis
Arina and Barre Fong
Pia Hinckle and Chris Mittelstaedt
Kali Zivitz and Garrett Vachal
Deborah Taylor and Donald Francis
Cheryl Ting and Cameron Moredock
Anna Marie and Oresti Velasquez
Shannon Kuhns Fuller 1991 and Glen Fuller 1991
Humaira Ghilzai and James Morris
Zoe Fyfe
Elisabeth and Jeffrey Ostrow
Robert Fyfe 1988
Arrie and John Park
Patricia Kim-Gable and Scott Gable
Rofelyn and John Peabody
Tina and Stephen Gillmor
Sally and Chris Peterson
Emily and Philip Ginsburg
Silvia Poloto
Malka Kopell and William Glenn
Yeva Johnson and Michael Potter
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Carol and Ronald Pragides
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Teron and Sidney Gorham
Jane Donahue and Drago Rajkovic
Teresa Ager
Cristiana Ceppas and Ian Green
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Lea Rubio
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Paull Hejinian
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Wendy Beckman
Michelle and Kenneth Hirschman
Frank Sanchez
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Anh Le and Matt Ho
Paul Saraceni
Eri and Richard Berge
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Angela and Samuel Schillace
Katherine Preston and Alexander Watson Robin Wolaner Vicky Chan and Patrick Wong Rie Yamazaki-Bach Wendy Yeung Christine and Clifford Yin
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Yunn-Yi Chen and Hung-Ming Chu
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Latara Harris
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Rosa and Ivan Corea
Susan and Douglas Hendrickson
Gorse Jeffries and Alex Craddock
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Saba Mahmood and Charles Hirschkind
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Will Fitzpatrick
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Sarah Kim-Lee
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Tina Ng and Albert Foong
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Jamie and Frederick Gaines
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Julie Silas and Isidro Gonzalez
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Sharma Hendel
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Melissa Hessekiel
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Elizabeth and David Obershaw
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Annyse Acevedo
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Alumni Donors
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1936
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Salvador Diaz
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1946
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1940
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1941
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1944
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1947
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1951
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1952
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1953
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1956
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Chevron Corporation
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1954
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1957
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1959
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1963
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1968
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1964
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1969
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1965
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1970
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1976
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1967
1971
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1977
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1979
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1984
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1980
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Lyla Max
Eric Young
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Michael Zwerin
John Hagopian
1981
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1982
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1988
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1986
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Susanna Khavul
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Benjamin Klau
Alexander Hochman
Paige Rausser
Laurel Thompson Paul
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Erich Stratmann
Michael Webb
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1993
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Marc Levin
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Jordan Miller
Alexandra Allen Klene
Rusmir Music
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1994
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1989
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1990
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Taylor Shaw
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1991
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1999
1995
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1992
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1996
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1997
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2016
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2010
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Anonymous
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2006
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2009
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2014
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Rosa Zapatero
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Michelle Ackerman
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Kari Dahlen 1992
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Hilda de Gonzalez
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Leslie and Stephen Arnold
Laura Di Piano
Timothy Bach
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Sofia Marchant and Joseph Banks
Lula and Joseph Dixon
Randy Barnett
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Diane Duran
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John Edwards
Jennifer Moses and Ron Beller
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Roy Ransdall 1932 Roy Ransdall was a rugged individualist whose life trajectory was defined by: his family’s personal history of their 1851 westward emigration to California by wagon train; his father’s belief in the pioneer spirit of self-sufficiency; and the education he received at LickWilmerding that reinforced the values his family held close. The early goal of Lick-Wilmerding to create an “educated craftsman specializing in building trades and architecture drafting” suited Roy perfectly. He was extraordinarily bright and quick, with a love of applying his bright mind to work with his hands, an affinity that stood him well through life, from the Boy Scouts to his WWII Army service, and through his lifelong career as an Electrical Engineer for Pacific Gas and Electric. And Lick’s philosophy particularly suited Roy’s father who believed the best way to learn was from the ground up. Upon Roy’s graduation from LickWilmerding, his father Ralph, a career executive with PG&E, hired him to work the “pole lines” for PG&E. He knew Roy’s aptitude for engineering could take him far, but since no electrical engineering knowledge was useful to PG&E without the poles on which to erect the technology in the first place, Ralph believed it the perfect place for Roy to start, and to earn the tuition money he needed to attend the University of California at Berkeley. Roy attended Cal for 3 years until the outbreak of WWII when being drafted into the Army ended his college years.
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One wonderful example of how Roy applied Lick-Wilmerding’s philosophy of “doing common things uncommonly well” occurred very shortly after he was drafted. A General’s staff car had broken down and Roy stepped in to fix the car. Impressed with both Roy’s assertiveness at stepping forward, and the mechanical skill and aptitude he demonstrated fixing the car, the General personally recommended Roy for the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School.
his 40-year career with them. But Roy’s knowledge remained an exceptional asset for PG&E, and up until his health failed in the early 2000’s, they frequently called on him to troubleshoot problems at power plants because of his vast working knowledge of their operating systems. Outside of work, Roy was an active
Upon his successful completion at OCS Signal Corps, 1st Lieutenant Roy Ransdall was assigned to Gibraltar for the purpose of learning the new, pioneering British radar system. Roy applied what he had learned from the British at his next station in North Africa, where he led the installation of the Air Defense Radar System on the North African coast. Following the defeat of Rommel’s forces in North Africa, Roy accompanied General Patton to Sicily and Italy where he was deployed until the end of the war.
participant in Lick-Wilmerding alumni association events. That is how he kept up his knowledge on the growth of the school, and he remained impressed that Lick never altered from its early educational philosophy. Roy was a highly disciplined investor in the stock market, a focus that helped him amass a sizable estate. And so, with no children, nieces or nephews of his own, Roy set up a trust in 2000 to bequeath a generous portion of his estate to Lick-Wilmerding, his way of ensuring that current and future generations would benefit from his life’s work in a way that stayed true to his rugged pioneering spirit and individualist approach to life.
Roy returned home from his army service in 1945 and resumed his career at PG&E, moving up from the “pole lines” to lead the electrical engineering teams of PG&E, being instrumental in the development of the Moss Landing and Diablo Canyon facilities among his many accomplishments. Roy “retired” from PG&E in the 1970’s following
Roy passed away in November 2002, at the age of 88; Roy’s wife, Dorothy, passed away in November of 2016. Roy and my father were lifelong friends, growing up together in San Francisco. Roy often joined us on our family camping trips when I was young, serving as an influence on me with his love of the outdoors and the survival
skills he happily shared. Roy and Dottie remained a part of my life in adulthood as well, sharing the holidays with me and my own family, always regaling us with his many stories of both WWII and his work for PG&E. I was honored to be named Trustee of Roy’s estate, and I am honored to see Roy’s final wish of his unrestricted bequest to LickWilmerding brought to fruition, because throughout the adventure that was Roy’s life, he always let his heart take the lead of his head and hands. I can think of no better demonstration of that than his gift to Lick-Wilmerding, where developing students’ Head, Heart, and Hands remains their driving principle, a principle Roy followed his entire life. —DONALD D. FRASER Trustee, Ransdall 2000 Trust
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Randi and Bob Fisher Juliet Shohet Fleischmann 1983 and Samuel Fleischmann 1983 Arina and Barre Fong Kate and Mark Frankel Jennifer Brokaw and M. Allen Fry Elena and Peter Fuentes-Afflick Zoe Fyfe Robert Fyfe 1988 Patricia Kim-Gable and Scott Gable Jamie and Frederick Gaines Philip Galante 1987 Anastacia Dominguez and Victor Garcia Adam Gasner 1988 Audrey Tom and Gary Gee Robert Gledhill 1951 Cathy Rabin and Sanford Goldstein
Kathryn Kendell and Cassandra Holmes
Rosemary and Charles Leach
Julie Silas and Isidro Gonzalez Linda and Jack Gougoutas
Pam Hommeyer
Megan Lehmer
Annie Stine and Phillip Greenberg
Ellen and Michael Hornstein
Judy Chun and JB Leibovitch
Gale and Raymond Grinsell
Beth Scanlan and Eric Jacobs
Susannah French and Sai Liang
Linda Gerard and Daniel Grossman
Meg Autry and Gavin Jacobson
Fred Lonsdale
Moses Grossman
Roberto Johansson
May and Chester Louie
Barbara Gullion
Marti Baroody and Michael Joseph
Evelyn Luck
Jennifer Selvin and Eric Guthertz
Christina and Andrew Kalman
Jerry Ludeke
Rhonda Kaufman and Steve Guttmann
Lucinda Lee Katz
Bonnie Michelle and Alexander MacKie
Krista and Gerry Keegan
Janet and Raymond Haddox
Janet Macks
Candis Cousins and Bruce Kerns
Susan Bailey and David Harnden
Debra and Maverick Madison
Sarah Kim-Lee
Holly Johnson and Parker Harris
Marge and John Maloney
Clara King
Jane and Kevin Hart
Heather and Michael Mancini
Tricia Stone and Chip Koch
Louella Cole-Hasbun and Oscar Hasbun
Beth Rubenstein and Evan Markiewicz
Inga Davis and Anton Krukowski
Catherine Wachtler and Jeffrey Martin
Jackie Haslam
Clementina and Ernest Kun
Hilda and Francisco Martinez
Esther and Sahn Lam
Sandra Yie and Tom Masotto
Jeanette Cool and Georges Lammam
Patricia and David Mastrandrea
Nathalie Larsen
Margaret and Tom McCarthy
Wendy Leung and Mark Lau
Helen McCullough
Sarah and Andrew Layton Elda and Jaime Lazo
Lisa Daniela Kirshenbaum 1979 and Andrew McDonald
Siew Lian and Alain Le Roy
Ellen and Harold McElhinny
Jill Goldring and Marc Haugen Greg Heumann Cathy Heumann Christine Hoang and Paul Nakada Deirdre and Christopher Hockett Ellen Lake and William Hoerger
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John McIntosh Nancy Lubich McKinney 1978 and Gregory William McKinney Galileo Medrano Therese Misra
Make the Future Capital Campaign
Rada and Mehdi Mohtashemi
Anonymous (2)
Kyra and Coco Montagu William Mooney
Kathleen Anderson and Edward Anderson 1971
Danice and Alan Morris
Pamela and Larry Baer
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC
Patrick Mulkeen
Edward Baker
Margo and Mark Green
Norma and Patrick Mulligan
Tierney and Jon Beizer
Barbara and Eugene Gregor
Shirley Murakami
Celeste Lee-Bobroff and Michael Bobroff
Paige Rausser 1986 and Brian Grey
Estate of Theodore Bofinger 1940
Alexandra and Jordan Hoffner
Jennifer and Chris Boyd
Melanie Johnson
Jennifer and Chris Brahm
Thomas Kamei 2008
Su-Moon Paik and Robert Brown
Douglas Kaye 1966
Eugene Calman 1945
Susanna Khavul 1986
Alexandra and Scott Clifford
Lucinda Lee Katz
Anne and Standish O’Grady
Sophie Breall and Brendan Cormack
Rafael Mandelman 1992
Lyn Hejinian and Larry Ochs
Bridget and Cully Davis
Lela Means
Patrice and Arnold Oji
Cathy and Sandy Dean
Stephanie and William Mellin
Deborah Oppenheim and Stuart Oppenheim 1965
Frances and Patrick Devlin
Elizabeth Karr and Michael Pola
Leslie and Charles Dicke
Jane Donahue and Drago Rajkovic
Georgiana Osipova and Oleg Osipoff
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Elisabeth and Jeffrey Ostrow
Nancy Sakamoto Disabato and Joseph DiSabato
June and Howard Park
Diana and Arjun Divecha
Laurie Isenberg and Joel Roos
Anne and Craig Paxton
Robin and Christopher Donohoe
Victoria and Terry Rosen
Rofelyn and John Peabody
Amory and Scott Donohue
Stefania Maria and Claude Ruibal
Victoria and John Peterson
Kim and Chris Drew
Pamela and Christopher Rupright
Janice and Stephen Pickering
Alison and Peter Engel
Susan Sachs
Dorte Lindhardt and Fred Pollack
Carol and Robert Feng
Diana Kapp and David Singer
Qi Re Ching and Jerry Polon
Jennifer Caldwell and John H.N. Fisher
Staci and Jamie Slaughter
Sarah and Michael Murphy Deana Logan and Joseph Najpaver Jeanne Nakahara Leach Evelyn and Ricardo Nicolas Susan and Warden Noble Mary Macpherson and Christopher O’Connell
Yeva Johnson and Michael Potter Mary Nakamura and Timothy Quinn Catherine Ehr and Jose Quinteiro Ramya Raghunathan and Ananth Raghavan Michelle Leitzke and Andrew Rich Lila and Neville Rich Joanna Callenbach and Edward Richkind
Caroline Grant and Anthony Grant 1987
Lori Schechter and William Hebert
Timothy Rodgers 1963
Arina and Barre Fong
Carey Lifschultz and David Stiepleman
Jennifer Brokaw and M. Allen Fry
Helena and William Wheeler
Shannon Kuhns Fuller 1991 and Glen Fuller 1991
Lara Witter and Curt Sigfstead
Marcia Goldman and John Goldman 1967
Kimberly and Bennett Yee
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Rupsa and Laurence Yee Ron Zeff
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Giving Back: Timothy Rodgers 1963 I was reared in the Mission District— Dolores Heights to be exact. Public school was never much of a challenge—good report cards with little effort. When I was in the eighth grade at James Lick Junior High, my father asked me why there was never any homework? I told him I did it all at recess—and still got all ‘A’s. I was bored, and started to hang out with ‘the wrong crowd’ of kids. Was I headed to be in a ‘gang?’ Who knows. My father himself went to Galileo before Berkeley and thought, “That kid needs to be challenged.” So, he looked into Lick-Wilmerding—where my grandfather George Leigh Rodgers graduated (before heading off to Berkeley as well.) Seemed like a good fit, so I took the test, was accepted, and started in the fall of 1959. To say Lick was a challenge was a vast understatement. I did as much homework there in a night as I did in an entire year at Junior High! But I loved it. The work. The teachers. The subjects. The classmates. And how much I learned.
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And Lick formed my way of life. I worked hard in college, medical school, residency. I am still interested in work, life, and education. I study medical literature daily, attend several conferences a year, and work full time after all these years. I love the work. I love the learning. I love life. All stuff propagated by those four formative years at Lick. So, I am now at a strange place. I have a retirement plan but I am still working full time so I don’t need it yet. Regardless, I am forced to take a large distribution each year. So, I have focused on giving back to my community. Why not to Lick—which got me started on my way of life?! It is a great joy to be able to give other children the same benefit I received! Go Tigers!
Sally Drach and John Rosenthal Katherine and William Rothrum Angela Rubin Gail and Lewis Rubman Pamela and Christopher Rupright Rosanne and Michael Saccone Josey and Brad Sadler Teresa Sampayan Remedios Sampayan Rebeca Mauleon-Santana and Manuel Santana Anne and Paul Scherer Laura Schlichtmann Adrienne Schlossberg Diane Foug and Toni Schneider Frances Schreiberg Margaret Cook Schulte and Stephen Schulte Mei Chen and Frank Schultz Big-Qu and Dewey Seeto Ned Segal 1992 Carola and Allen Shepard Christina Shih Sandra Yuen and Lawrence Shore Sima Misra and Christian Siebel 1981 Amber and Narinder Sirha Gina Fazio-Siu and Joaquin Siu Amrit Rai and Aaron Small
Timothy Leigh Rodgers, M.D. Lick-Wilmerding Class of 1963 UC Berkeley Class of 1967 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Class of 1971
Julie and Erik Smith Suzanne Reider and Brian Smith Abby Snay and Edward Yelin Julia and Eduardo Sobalvarro Lily Ann and Michael Soledad Younsun Shin and Maengseok Song Kate and Richard Stacy Drucilla Ramey and Marvin Stender
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Daria Iaconi and David Stewart
Heidi and Grant Young
Genentech, Inc.
Sumati and William Stewart
Jacqueline Young
Gilbane
Eileen Stoner
Vivian Truong and Terence Yu
Goldman Sachs Gives Fund
Christy and R. David Story
Cynthia and Keith Yu
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Deborah Stratmann and Erich Stratmann 1957
Carolyn Zaroff Christina and Phillip Zimbardo
John and Marcia Goldman Philanthropic Fund
Jane Swinerton
Lonnie Zwerin and Frank Mainzer
Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund
Suzie Tam
Google Matching Gifts Program
M.C. Taylor and James Haverkamp
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC
Amy Leff-Temple and Adam Temple Helen Texido Bianca Lee and Charles Thompson Joan Thompson Susan Lundquist and Douglas Thornley Tamera Avery and Douglas Tom Julia and Stanley Tom Mimi Downes and Granger Tripp Winnie Kwong and Hin Tse Anita Vermeulen and David Unietis Barbara VanderBorght Elizabeth and Victor Veal Anna Marie and Oresti Velasquez
Foundations and Corporate Donations Alchemy Foundation
Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation American Center for Philanthropy American Endowment Foundation Amgen Apple Inc. AT&T Edward D. Baker Foundation Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Judith Alex and Peter Vestal
Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Shannon Weber
Benevity Causes
Beth Mitchner and Doug Wertheimer
Boeing Company
Ellie and Tom Wertheimer
Boston Foundation
Kimberly Hauschild and George Westermark
Capital One
Judie and Howard Wexler Nancy and Bebo White
Chevron Corporation Cisco Systems
Carolyn and William Wick
City and County of San Francisco Combined Charities
Bonnie Willdorf
Construx
Catherine Witzling and Stephen Wilson
Dolby
Julie and Johnny Wong
Dolphin Philanthropic Fund
Vicky Chan and Patrick Wong
Elim Biopharm
Robert Wyler 1961
ExxonMobil Foundation
Rie Yamazaki-Bach
Fat Tire Foundation
Golnar Yazdi
Fidelity Charitable Fund
Jeannie and Ronald Yee
FMC Technologies
Marilyn and Charles Yeh
Thomas and Eva Fong Foundation
Wendy Yeung
Gannett Foundation
Kurt and Julie Hauser Foundation Highland Street Fund Intel Corporation Jewish Community Endowment Fund Jewish Community Federation Jewish Community Foundation JP Morgan Chase Justgive Keystone Wellspring Philanthropies Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. Local Independent Charities of America Macy’s Foundation Mayfield Fund McCarthy Moving and Storage, LLC Helen and Jack McCullough Family Foundation McKesson Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust NBCUniversal Nefeli Foundation NVIDIA Oracle PG & E Corporation Foundation Raytheon Clinton Reilly Foundation Sahai Family Fund Salesforce.com Foundation San Francisco Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Sivolella-Van Lang Family Fund
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Tableau Foundation The Bedford Robbins Fund
Thank you to the following members of the LWHS community who have made provisions for the school in their estate plans. To learn more about the impact of planned gifts, please read the story about Roy Ransdall 1932 on page 82. Susan and Albert Adams
The Caldwell-Fisher Foundation
Harry Meyer 1919 *
The Chess Family Charitable Fund
L. Parry Douglass Meyer *
The Edward E. Ford Foundation
Cynthia Jacobs Mikkelsen 1939J*
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
George Mitchel 1919 * Adolph Morbio * Robert Moulthrop 1957 Betty Trapletti O’Neill 1940 * Daniel O’Sullivan 1952 *
Robert Andresen 1934 *
Howard Pape 1941 *
Eric Ashley *
The Green Family Charitable Gift Fund The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation The Doug and Cessna Kaye Charitable Fund The Sports Basement, Inc. The Walt Disney Company Foundation
Robert Belli 1949 *
Yvonne Papenhausen * and Russell Papenhausen 1938 *
Joseph Bennett 1915 *
Helen Chicchi Pasquini 1933 *
UBS
Robert Bent 1955
Berniece Patterson and C. E. Pat Patterson 1959
United Way of the Bay Area
Dean Bernheim 1969
Kathleen Murray and Arthur Perkins
Carl Bettin 1924 * Theodore Bofinger 1940 *
Colin Perry 1970
Norman Bonner 1937
Marsha Irwin and Richard Pesqueira
David Breen 1953 * Jeffrey Brinck 1958
Joseph Potter 1973 *
C. David Brown 1987
Roy Ransdall 1932 *
Ira Coburn 1921 *
W. Blair Rixon 1927 *
Anastasia Collins
Larry Roth 1966
Fred Comendant 1938
Rhoda and Peter Samuels
Theodore Daniel 1927 *
Leland Sayre *
Clinton Day 1960
John Schagen 1930 *
Rudolph Dresel *
Frank Schlessinger 1928 *
Juanita Eggers Eckert 1941 George Fohlen 1935 Joseph Garrett 1966 Alice Greninger Gau 1917 * David Grambort 1959
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Wells Fargo Bank Westgate Foundation YourCause Zynga.org
Alys Luthi Smith 1929 *
Christy and R. David Story
Robert Wyler 1961
Grace Kern 1925 *
W. Gordon Yates 1939 *
Edmund Krimen 1987
Margaret Zechman 1939 *
Stanley Langendorf 1909 *
Robert Zlodi 1942 *
Walter Melion 1971 Barbara and Richard Mendelsohn
Truebeck Construction
Maurine Poppers
Aaron Wong 1960
Yumi and Yasunori Kaneko
Jeff Shaw
John Signer 1924 *
William Williams 1938 *
Jarlath Johnston 1967
Leslie and Charles Dicke
Liza Pannozzo, Architect, LEED AP
James Walsh 1967
Bertha M. Jew *
Jeffrey Blair 1999
Christina Shih
Richard Wagner 1939 *
Gustav Holtz 1910 *
Linda Bernstein
Clif Bar
Eric Temple and Garry Schermann
Elinor Hendrickson and Andrew Hendrickson 1926 *
Gifts In-Kind
Adrienne Schlossberg
Edward Steiger 1958
Donald Granicher 1938 *
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Ira Randall 1939 *
Ruth Carney Brown 1928 *
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Al Adams Endowment for Access
Anonymous Kayla Abe 2011 Brian Au 2001 Sarah Bindman 2009 Margaret Burchell and Michael Brownrigg Robyn Erman 1993 Google Matching Gifts Program Jarlath Johnston 1967 Joan Wong and Michael Kure Emmie Le Roy 2014 Caitlin Lovett 2001 Ian Ruder 1998 Mariel Triggs
BlendEd Initiative Anonymous Ellen MacDermid and Wally MacDermid 1987 Cathy and Sandy Dean
Class of 1960 Scholarship Fund John Strebel 1960
Institutional Researcher Initiative The Edward E. Ford Foundation
Caitlin Lovett 2001 Tal Oppenheimer 2008 Max Siegel 2003 Alice Tripp 2009 Katrina Zerga 1988
Patterson Ethics Initiative Berniece Patterson and C. E. Pat Patterson 1959
Restricted Endowment for Flexible Tuition Norman Bonner 1937 Karen and Jeff Jordan
Restricted for Operating Use Anonymous Leslie and Charles Dicke Genentech, Inc. Thomas Kamei 2008 Mary Ellen and Michael Rupright Alison Jones and Richard Southwick The Winston Foundation, Inc. Rachel Chin and Thomas Wu
ExxonMobil Foundation
Marino Sichi Woodshop Fund Allyson Alberto 2004 Thomas Black 1983 Alex Braman 2006 Kimberly Chew 2006 Susan Cox Christopher Hartley 1987 Google Matching Gifts Program Yennie Lee 2006 Matthew Levy 2001
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tribute gifts
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In honor of Sarah Ackerman 1996
In honor of the good work that LWHS does
Michelle Ackerman
Andrew Tolve 2001
In honor of Albert Adams
In honor of Celeste Haverkamp 2008 and Taylor Haverkamp 2003
Laura Jones 2000
In honor of Randy Barnett Anna Gonick 2005
In honor of Kathleen Bedford 1996 Daniel Bedford
M.C. Taylor and James Haverkamp
In honor of Andrew Heumann 2007 Greg Heumann
In honor of Marsha Irwin Samantha Yates Francois 1987
In honor of Max Beldner 2020 and Lilah Beldner 2017
In honor of Dr. Sangduk Kim
Catharine Clark 1985
A. Marisa Chun and Dean Paik
In honor of Black Lives Matter
In honor of Madeleine Leibovitch 2016
Nicole Raeburn
Judy Chun and JB Leibovitch
In honor of Eleanor Burke Rafael Mandelman 1992
In honor of the Class of 1975 Orrin Davis 1975
In honor of the Class 1971’s 45th Reunion Anonymous
In honor of John Craig 2017
In honor of LWHS Facilities Department Melanie Johnson
In honor of the amazing LWHS Faculty Alison Finnegan Etcheverry 1987
In honor of LWHS Gay-Straight Alliance Nicole Raeburn
Suzanne Schmidt
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In honor of Oscar Derryck 2020
In honor of extraordinary LWHS Staff and Faculty
Erica Terry Derryck and David Derryck
Natasha and Nathaniel BergsonMichelson
In honor of Alden Frankel 2013
In honor of Liam Murphy 2009
Kate and Mark Frankel
Mary Farr and William Murphy
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In honor of Elyssa Nicholas 2017
In memory of Katie Beaumont 1979
In memory of Ann Brady Mullen
Natalie and Erwin Ocampo
Betty Schwartz Marcon 1979 and Fabrice Marcon
Kate and Tobias Wiley
In honor of Jeanne Peabody 2018 and John Peabody 2020
In memory of Ralph Britton
John Peabody
David Rauch 1956
Rofelyn Peabody
In memory of Anne Murray Ladd 1994 Jennie Epstein Anderson 1997 and David Anderson 1997
In memory of Claire Cohen 2019 and Liam Cohen 2018
In memory of Bill Leet
Qi Re Ching and Jerry Polon
Ellen and Peter Fallon
Gary Shweid 1964
In honor of Maurine Poppers
In memory of John DeGroot
In memory of Janet Panzer
Mary Kane and David DeGroot
Jeffrey Panzer 1998
In memory of Robin Eickman
In memory of his grandfather, George Leigh Rodgers 1908
In honor of Goranka Poljak-Hoy
Joan Wong and Michael Kure Rada and Mehdi Mohtashemi
In honor of Eliot Smith
Martin Mulkeen 2001
Timothy Rodgers 1963
Elena and Peter Fuentes-Afflick
In memory of Jennifer Kent 1991 In honor of Carolyn Spitz
April Kent Filer 1987
Faye and Avanish Sahai
Elisabeth Spitz 2007
In memory of Amanda Kirkwood In honor of Mia Talkowsky 2018
Brian Driscoll
In memory of Jim Knox 1966 In honor of Aiko Tomita-Fairchild 2017
William Knox 1969
Paul Fairchild
In memory of Lidia Martinez
In memory of Marino Sichi Anonymous
In honor of Robin von Breton In memory of Ray Matz Anonynmous
In honor of Ilana Wong Lam 1993 In memory of Devra Miller Roberto Johansson
In memory of Lloyd Ackerman 1961 Michelle Ackerman
In memory of Carl Schlichtmann Laura Schlichtmann
Hilda and Francisco Martinez
Ilana Wong Lam 1993
In memory of Ed Sargent 1969 John Dunphy 1967
Michael Talkovsky
Sandra Lee Sheffield
In memory of Dr. Yogeshwar Sahai
Robert Broucaret 1983 Taylor Haverkamp 2003 Alice Tripp 2009
In memory of Noah Wolfson 1989 Adam Frankel 1987
In memory of Jaye Miller Peter Dickinson 1979
In memory of Virgil Anderson Margaret Blumberg and Thomas Blumberg 1971
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Class Notes 1951J JAY EDWARDS writes that it seems like forever since he graduated from LWHS in June of 1951. Unfortunately, he has not been back to see the Ocean Avenue campus, but hopes to visit soon. Jay was unable to attend his 50th reunion, and is curious to hear how his classmates are doing. Jay has been retired from AT&T for 34 years and from Verizon for 20 years. He spent nearly 44 years in the telecommunications business doing most everything from bill collector to toll testman to senior marketing manager. His years of education at LWHS and UC Berkeley prepared him well for the work he was assigned to
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do in telecommunications and engineering. AT&T sent him back to UC Berkeley for graduate school in Electrical Engineering in 1966. It has been great to have two pensions to support his family in these golden years. Now Jay is involved in managing rental properties (Jay E Edwards Property Management), and manages rentals for three homes in Tucson, AZ. Folks from the far north in the USA & Canada rent houses through Jay to escape the cold and snow. It has been a nice way for him to stay busy, plus he’s involved in other activities like golf, swimming, bike riding, hiking with his dogs, genealogy, and many other projects around their two homes—one in Reno, NV, and the other in Oro Valley, AZ. Both homes are in Del Webb retirement communities with lots of activities. Jay and his wife Dee Ann have four grown sons, all married to wonderful wives, 11 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren. Three of his sons live in California and the eldest in Oregon. His oldest son retired recently after 30 years with Northrop Grumman working primarily with drone aircraft technology. The second eldest is a lawyer in Palo Alto with a very active Silicon Valley practice. The third recently moved from Washington, D.C., to San Diego with his wife and is seeking a new job there. The youngest has been with IBM for almost 20 years and has been involved with managing outsourcing customer’s computer activities. They are so proud of
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Above: Jay Edwards 1951 with his family at a recent reunion
all their sons and their families. One granddaughter is an OBGYN doctor, and another just got her Master’s Degree in Divinity. Four of their grandchildren are married and raising families already. Jay recently completed a 175-page book consisting of his life and family history. Jay and his wife traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii this past spring, and they are currently considering a cruise through the Panama Canal next year with his friend from grammar school and his wife. They have been friends since they were both 10 years old.
1956 After 29 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), GEORGE OFFEN retired from full-time employment in June 2014 and transitioned to a Consulting Employee role—read part-time
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(< 20 hr/wk, on an as-needed basis) and no benefits. He still continues in this position to date and enjoys the lower stress level and schedule flexibility while still being engaged professionally with his colleagues—at least those who haven’t retired completely. This year, George was awarded one of EPRI’s highest awards, named in honor of the founder, for having led the design, construction, and initial operation of a national Water Research Center aimed at reducing the demand for fresh water by electricity generation plants and the clean-up of the dirty water they generate before it is discharged back into rivers or lakes. Ironically, his expertise and 40-year career is in air pollution control, not water. George remains active in his town’s (Woodside, CA) Environment Committee, a
Above: George Offen 1956 and his wife, Karen, at Yosemite Falls this past summer. Above, right: This photo inspired the short story “Block Island Ferry” written by Robert Moulthrop 1957 at the Advanced Writing Workshop at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, where one of the exercises was to write a story that had been prompted by a photograph. To read more about Robert’s work, visit www.robertmoulthrop. com. Photo credit: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Narrative Photography Class, July 2017.
citizen’s advisory committee to the Town Council. He is occasionally called to sit on the local school’s budget oversight committees for special funding sources. George enjoys traveling and trips are often built around conferences abroad on women’s history at which his historian/author wife of nearly 52 years, Karen Offen (www.karenoffen.com) is invited to speak. They also enjoy hiking and the opera, which remain their leisure activities. Not to be left out are the periodic visits that George and Karen make to see their daughters and their families in Southern California and the Colorado Rockies. Both daughters have two children each, ranging from 18-9 years in age, with the oldest recently starting college. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, George and Karen took their older daughter and her family to Europe (France, Switzerland, and Italy) for two weeks in 2015 and then took their younger daughter and her family to Costa Rica in April 2017.
1957 ROBERT MOULTHROP’s translation of Danish author Glenn Ringtved’s book for children Cry, Heart, But Never Break, won the American Library Association’s prestigious 2017 Batchelder Award for the best English translation of a children’s book. Also, Moulthrop’s ten-minute play “Doug & Ava Say I Love You” was given a full production as part of Brooklyn’s Gallery Players 15th Black Box Festival. In July, Moulthrop attended the Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
1959 Having been retired for almost 15 years from teaching science classes, ROBERT FERBER and his wife are spending their time working on various community service projects through the Lions Clubs. Robert is the past district
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Left: The graduating class of 1953J. Below: William Koenig on graduation day in 1953.
Class Notes Spotlight BY WILLIAM HOWARD KOENIG 1953J
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n the summer of 1948, my parents had a decision to make.
a student government class at Lowell High School from 1959-1987, the year he died of heart attack. My brother said Which high school would my that his experience at LWHS older brother CARL ROLAND allowed him to tell ‘budding’ KOENIG 1951, and myself, William Howard Koenig, attend? engineers how to communicate with machinists to tell them We lived 50 yards away from how to build the machines the Mission High Schoo. My father, engineers designed. who was a general contractor, and my mother, who later I started LWHS in the fall of became a public school teacher, 1950. I proceeded normally chose to send us to Lickthrough the curriculum until Wilmerding High School, which, the fall of 1952. My father at that time, was located near proposed that I graduate six 16th and Potrero Street. months early from LWHS so I could travel around the world My brother graduated from with my mother, who was LWHS in 1951. He was student graduating from San Francisco body president during his State at the end of January senior year and won a Bank 1953. I took extra classes of America scholarship. He besides working at a store after attended UC Berkeley and school and on Saturdays, and San Francisco State College. I finished on time. My mother He got a General Secondary Teaching Credential and taught and I traveled for six and a half months going across the physics, photography, and led
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Pacific to New Zealand and Australia. We then went to Ceylon and India, and then on to the Middle East, Europe, and then back home. On the day I was supposed to graduate from LWHS, my mother and I were in Cairo, Egypt, watching Adlai Stevenson, former governor of Illinois and presidential candidate, ride a camel next to the Great Pyramid. I never did get my graduation diploma. My life from then on has been “interesting.” I attended three colleges, seminary, and took other college courses for over 10 years of college and post-college education. I majored in five areas of study: psychology, physical science, biological science, theology, and business. I have worked at seven professions: soldier, public school teacher, pastor, real estate salesman, welfare
worker, social worker for Child Protective Services, and real estate investor. I have traveled to 47 countries and 48 of the 50 United States. I have been married for 54 years, have four children, 10 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. I was a member of the San Diego County (Civil) Grand Jury for a year. My education at LWHS provided a good basic education that included preparation for college and an appreciation of the industrial arts that are the foundation of the trades and an introduction to industry that is lacking in many public high schools. Thank you for what you are and what you do.
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KARL JACOBS has been
governor of his Lions District and also chaired the District Convention for two years. He is still active after 30 years in his Club and Lois after 11 years in hers. They are both in different clubs in the San Jose, CA area. Robert and his wife both enjoy traveling and cruising the world. Since mid 2015 they did a land tour of England including Stonehenge and cruised the British Isles. They have spent several weeks in both 2016 and 2017 in Puerto Vallarta vacationing with friends and family. They also spent time in Maui before taking a family cruise on a Princess ship to Alaska to celebrate their 50th anniversary. In the fall of 2016 they saw the fall colors on the Queen Mary 2 traveling from New York to Quebec and back. It was a fabulous experience for them. It was their first time to see the 9-11 Memorial and museum in New York. After a short break Robert and his wife were off for a Viking River Boat cruise on the “Portugal’s River of Gold” visiting Portuguese sites and sampling good wine with the addition of a couple of side trips to Spain. They
Above, left: Robert Ferber 1959 and his wife, Lois, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with their family on an Alaskan cruise. Their children surprised them with the matching t-shirts on the cruise. Back row, from left to right: Jack Bosso, Dan Bosso, Karen Boss, Ken Ferber, and Kris Ferber. Front row, from left to right: Lois Ferber, Robert Ferber, and Thomas Bosso. Above: Karl Jacobs 1959 performs with his quartet throughout Los Angeles County. From Left to right: Bruce Beyne (Tenor), Denny Lawrence (Lead), Rick Llewelyn (Bass), and Karl Jacobs (Baritone).
spent the New Year in 2015 and 2016 at sea visiting the Mexican Riviera. In the summer of 2017 they spent a couple of weeks at their son’s home in Wisconsin and split the time seeing friends at the 100 Years Celebration of Lions Clubs International at their Chicago Convention. They are grateful to continue and have the opportunity to associate with other Lions from around the world. Their son Ken’s daughter presented them with their 2nd great grandchild in December— that makes one great grandson and one great granddaughter. Ken’s son is completing high school and now talking about college plans. Their daughter Karen and her family live in Livermore. They have a son in middle school and another son who is a junior in high school. Time sure flies. Robert and his wife have had a chance to see a couple of the boys’ soccer games and watching them learn about teamwork!
continuing his singing and performing ever since leaving Lick-Wilmerding. Continuing through college and church choirs, he joined the SPEBSQSA in 1982. His quartet, “C Nile Sound”, has been performing throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area for many years. Organized 15 years ago as a “Senior Quartet” in the SPEBSQSA, “C Nile Sound” has sung to audiences ranging in size from 28,000 (Dodger Stadium) to a young couple, on the beach, twilight, on Valentine’s Day. Well life goes on in an exceedingly fast pace, according to BOB MANION. Hard to imagine their 50th reunion was already 8 years ago...Bob is considering another reunion in two years, their 60th, and he believes after that, they’ll be too old for another one! If anyone from the Class of 1959 is interested in a 60th reunion, probably in San Francisco, please contact Bob at sfstairwaywalker@ gmail.com. He hopes that enough people are in favor to hold it so he can start planning. Bob and his wife went to Cancun this spring to one of their timeshares and they went to Puerto Vallarta in October. Plus they have a few other adventures on the burner, culminating with a 25-day cruise next spring. Life has become very sacred to them, as health developments with his wife, i.e. cancer, have unfortunately cropped up again, but they are
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surviving and will celebrate their 47th anniversary this year. Best wishes to the Class of 1959!
John Day and said it was an amazing experience!
CHARLES “PAT” PATTERSON continues to work full-time with his wife, Berniece, and as of ten years ago, with sons GLEN FULLER 1991 and Chip Patterson. Pat has also continued to travel, including trips to the Baltics, China, India, and Columbia this year. Columbia will be the 125th country to which Pat has traveled. Pat is also looking forward to his 60th reunion coming up in just two years, especially since his third generation LWHS granddaughter EVAN FULLER 2018 earned her varsity letter last spring for her participation in the water polo program.
1960 PETER BECKH watched the eclipse in Oregon. He camped directly under the totality near
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Classmates PETER BECKH and CLINT DAY met up in August for dinner with their wives. Peter and Clint went to school together from grammar school until they graduated from Lick-Wilmerding. They live now on opposite coasts.
MARK O’SHEA and his wife, Sharon, celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on July 21st by taking a trip on the Columbia River Sternwheeler.
DON SCHLICHTMANN and his wife, Mary, began their seventh year as volunteer English as a Second Language teachers in Alexandria, VA. Recent classes have included large numbers of Afghan and African refugees, fewer Central Americans. Don and Mary were rewarded with a trip in May to Japan, where two former students hosted them for three weeks. They visited Osaka,
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Top, left: Peter Beckh 1960 took this picture of the solar eclipse in Oregon. Top: “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Mark O’Shea 1960 Above: Don Schlichtmann 1960 and his wife Mary at the Golden Temple in Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kanazawa, and Tokyo. They also continue to be active grandparents for their adopted Russian grandson, who started third grade. Don enjoyed visiting with Head of School Eric Temple in June at a LWHS alumni reception. Greetings to the Class of 1960! AARON WONG has just returned from a great 18 day US National Parks Tour that took he and his wife from Mt. Rushmore through Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Red
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Canyon UT, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Mesa Verde, and the Jemez Pueblo. Aaron retired from Adobe Systems in 2001 and has been a Board Member of the Alameda County Library Foundation since then. His wife also retired in 2001 from the Community College in Fremont. Aaron and his wife proudly have four granddaughters: two from their son, a finance director at Gallo Wine, and two from their daughter who is an oncology/ hematology-blood medicine specialist at Oregon Health Science University in Portland. Life is well, with thoughts going to their friends experiencing the Houston and Florida storms.
Above, left: Aaron Wong 1960 and his wife recently visited 18 National Parks, including Bryce Canyon. Above, right: Dan Allen 1962 and his wife, June, with their grandchildren Jasper (6 years) and Violetta (9 years) who live in Rome.
1962 DAN ALLEN and his wife June marked their 50th wedding anniversary in July. The month was busy with celebrations with family and friends. They are in the 50th year living in the same house, a short walk from the beach in La Jolla, where they raised two children. Their son, Edward, lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two German shepherds, and works as a production accountant in Hollywood. Their daughter, Heather, moved fourteen years ago to Rome, where she and
her husband (another U.S. expatriateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not Italian) have their two grandchildren. Of course the nonni are leaving a large carbon footprint, flying twice a year to Italy to visit and will spend this Christmas in Rome! They both have been retired for several years. Dan finished a career as a mechanical engineer specializing in energy conversion technology. June worked for the V.A. in neuropsychology research. Dan is active in community affairs. June sings with the local symphony chorus. At home they tend their garden and try to deal with all the stuff that accumulates over 50 years of living in the same house!
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C. DELL LINDSTROM and his wife, Connie, have been married for 47 years. Currently he is a docent at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, Nevada. He also displays his restored 1965 Ford San Francisco Fire Department Chiefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car at various fire department events and car shows. Chasing after the grandkids is a priority and he and Connie enjoy traveling!
STANLEY FERBER and his wife, Kathy, have resided in Moraga for 42 years, having retired from Anthem Blue Cross seven years ago. They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their three children, who live in Camas, Washington, Brooklyn, New York, and Croton-onHudson, New York, and their four
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grandchildren (two boys and two girls). Unfortunately they missed the Class of 1962 reunion but hope they can change the 25-year cycle to maybe five. Stanley writes that he and his family are well and they hope everyone else is, too!
1963 DAVID HOROWITZ and his wife, Linda, are celebrating their 50th anniversary on December 30th by taking their kids and grandchildren to Puerto Vallarta. David has two sons (both University of Washington graduates) and three superstar grandchildren (two are in high school). David retired as a CPA seven years ago, got his Real Estate license, and now works with his wife.
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Left: Stanley Ferber 1962 and his wife, Kathy, celebrate their 50th anniversary in Maui with their family. Pictured here are Stanley and his wife with their grandchildren (from left to right) Theo, Rylan, Hazel, and Elsie. Above: David Horowitz 1963 and his wife, Linda, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in December.
DAVID NATCHER recently retired from a consulting career, and is spending a lot of time travelling. He and his wife Pamela recently took a cruise along the Canadian Maritimes before heading to Bermuda and then back to Boston. David and Pamela also travel to visit their two married daughters: Allison and Gillian. Gillian lives outside of Dallas with her husband and their two daughters, while Allison resides in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband, a member of the coast guard. Also recently, Natcher has utilized some Lick-learned skills to completely restore his 1941 Packard, the same car Natcher drove to LWHS. Natcher enjoyed seeing some of his classmates at the recent Golden Tigers Luncheon.
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Above: David Natcher 1963 has restored his 1941 Packard, the same car he drove to LWHS. Left: Jesse Tepper 1965 at Tepper Field. Above, right: Tepper Field on Treasure Island.
1965 JESSE TEPPER serves on the Citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Board for Treasure Island (appointed by Supervisor Jane Kim) as a recreation facilities stakeholder. His main concerns at the moment are saving the two Little League fields (Tepper Field and Ketchum Field) and upgrading to a SFLL permanent home. Jesse encourages any students who are interested in working on this project and helping to solve the abundant issues and work in an
Right: Peter Shapiro 1966 reads from his book Song of the Stubborn One Thousand, at Laurel Books in Oakland. Classmates Michael Blumlein 1966 and Clyde Leland (who later transferred to Lowell High School) also attended the launch event to support Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book.
interesting nexus of moneyed developers, environmentalists, parents, and kids, to contact him at JesseTepLL@aol.com. All skills are needed and everyone, students, alumni, and parents, can help.
1967 JOHN DUNPHY is still working three days a week as a primary care pediatrician. Changes in medicine are abound, but it is still all the same in the exam room. John recently returned to white
water kayaking. When it rains in Oregon, the creeks are great for boating. John says he is fighting the losing battle against old age. After careers in business and government, JONATHAN LEWIS has devoted his third career to social justice, activism, and social entrepreneurship. Over the last decade, he founded three successful social ventures: MCE Social Capital, an innovative social venture that leverages $110 million of private capital to finance tiny business loans to deeply impoverished people, mostly women, in 33 countries in
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the developing world. He is also Founder and President of the Opportunity Collaboration, an annual strategic business retreat for 450 senior level anti-poverty leaders from around the globe. In addition, Jonathan is the Co-founder of Copia Global, an Amazon-like consumer catalog serving the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya. Jonathan is a trustee of the Swift Foundation and serves as a General Partner of Dev Equity, a social impact investment fund in Latin America. His recent book, The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur, is part a practical guide to young entrants in social change work and a memoir—including some of his experiences as a high school student in San Francisco. Notably, the book also quotes former LWHS History faculty member, Rebecca Hong.
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PHILIP VARDARA retired in July of 2016 after 27 years in the “fabulous profession” of nursing. He has also recently bought five acres of land upon which a straw bale house is being built, and he will be going on his second annual medical mission to Guatemala over Thanksgiving with Mission San Pedro (www.missionsanpedro. org). Philip also has a new love in his life and is helping guide his 26 year-old son in, “trying to figure life out,” all while seeking out new adventures, which inlcude learning to fly and going to Burning Man for the first time. Overall, Philip says he is having too much fun!
1969 In the fall of 2016, after a forty year stint in New York City, ROGER GRUNWALD moved
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Above, left: Jonathan Lewis 1967 Above: Roger Grunwald 1969 during one of his performances
back to San Francisco when his partner, Bonny, became the new Executive Director of the All Stars Project Bay Area. After graduating from UC Berkeley, he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) where he trained as an actor. Over the years, he has appeared in over 70 stage productions in the United States and Europe and is the co-author (with Annie McGreevey) of The Mitzvah Project, a one-person play and lecture (www.themitzvah. org) that he’s been touring nationally and internationally. Roger is also the creator and star of “The Obligation”, a full-length, Holocaust-themed one-person play that had its world premiere
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Above: Stephan Haggard 1969
at the Potrero Stage in San Francisco in October (www. theobligation.org) under the direction of Nancy Carlin. In 2016, he co-starred in the premiere episode of the HBO primetime series, VINYL, directed by Martin Scorsese and was one of two leads in the short film, One Good Pitch that premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. In addition to his acting resume, he is a founder of All Stars Project (www.allstars. org), a national non-profit that has pioneered an innovative approach to youth development using theatrical performance. All Stars programs currently impact the lives of thousands of underserved urban youth in six metropolitan
Aboe, right: Eric Anderson 1971 and his wife, Anita, say “Bon Voyage” to their daughter, Natasha, before her trip to Italy, Spain, and England.
areas around the country. He is also a founder of the experimental Castillo Theatre in NYC where he appeared in over 45 productions. To read more about Roger’s work, visit www.themitzvah.org and www.theobligation.org.
STEPHAN HAGGARD is currently in his 25th year of teaching at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Although he has had an interest in issues of democratization and reversion to authoritarian rule, it has primarily been North Korea that has kept Stephan busy. His last book, Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea, was published by Stanford (see Alumni Authors section) this spring. Stephan is looking forward to his 50th reunion in a few years.
1971 ERIC ANDERSON is still working and enjoying shooting independent films while living with his wife, Anita, in the mountains of Southern California, near Mount Pinos. Anderson’s son Noah, who has his MFT, is working in his field and getting hours for his license. Anderson’s daughter, Natasha, is preparing to graduate from UC Berkeley with a dual major in Sociology and Ecology. Anderson has two grandsons, Sebastian and Oliver.
LYNN WHITE was recently named a Board Leadership Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors. After retiring from management in 2012, he has been serving on public and private company boards, as well the Cal Poly College of Agriculture,
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Food and Environmental Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council. Lynn and his wife, Mary Bradford-White, who have been married for 44 years, enjoy life in Charleston’s old historic district, visits with their two married daughters and their families, including three grandchildren.
1975 ORRIN DAVIS and his wife traveled to Jerusalem in June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War and the unification of Jerusalem. In six incredible days, the combined forces of the entire Arab League tried to push the narrow and fledgling Israel and all Israelis into the Mediterranean Sea. With help from above, the forces of this tiny nation-state pushed back and won the day. Fifty years later, the country is a hub for invention, and has been nicknamed, “The
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Start-up Nation.” Truly, they have turned deserts and swamps into flourishing farms and cities. Orrin and his wife also had the chance to visit with their son-in-law, who migrated from Australia, and their daughter who moved there two years ago. Orrin remains a surgeon specializing in tumors of the throat, neck, thyroid, and parathyroid glands. His wife runs the Pediatric ER Pharmacy at Columbia Presbyterian St Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. They have three sons, one daughter, and two grandsons... so far. They have two lawyers, one CFO, an editor, a chef, a teacher, and a financial analyst in the family. Orrin and his wife live in Northern New Jersey, about 20 minutes from the George Washington Bridge, and they frequently travel go into the city for cultural events. And Orrin travels with his “Lick What” hat, purchased by his children for him as a birthday gift years ago, when he can!
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Top, left: Lynn White 1971 (in the middle with the orange shirt) with his wife, Mary, (to his right), and his two daughters, their husbands, and grandchildren. Top: Orrin Davis 1975 pictured with his wife at a nationwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War in Jerusalem in June. Above: Two LWHS Tigers find themselves celebrating together in Sakai, Japan. Gary Gibson 1976 (left) and Brad McCullough 1975 (right) both traveled to Japan for the 50th anniversary of the Berkeley-Sakai Sister City relationship.
1977 LISA JONDRO ISAACS has recently moved back to California after working as a defense contractor in the Washington, D.C. area, and is continuing working as a defense contractor in Southern California. In the past year, Isaacs has also taken several stand-up comedy classes and workshops culminating in a performance at the world famous DC Improv Club. Lisa is also active in a local improvisation troupe here in California. They have participated in a number of workshops at
Second City in Hollywood as well as the Joshua Tree Comedy and Improv Festival. Lisa looks forward to events like these, and also to transitioning out of their current role into a more creative field.
JAMES OSBORNE jokes that his life might be more easily summarized than recent LWHS alumni, since he’s had one single career as a park ranger since graduating in 1977. James was still an undergrad in Conservation at UC Berkeley when a summer job at the John Muir House in Martinez became a career with the National Park Service. After receiving his BS in 1983, James served at Fort Point, Alcatraz (where he met his wife of 26 years, Donna Strand), Fort Mason, and in 1994, the new park, the Presidio of San Francisco. James and Donna moved to Sonoma Valley and raised two boys, Ryland and Gage, and now as the nest empties, their lives feel fuller than ever. Since May, James is back at Fort Point as the supervisor, so stop by and visit him under the Golden Gate Bridge!
Above, left: James Osborne 1977 and Donna Strand with sons Ryland, 21 (left), and Gage, 19 (right). Above, right: Donald Bull 1979 with his daughter, Lily Berlin Bull, and his wife, Robin Berlin.
1979 DONALD BULL lives in Southern California with his amazing wife, Robin Berlin, and his wonderful daughter, Lily Faith Berlin Bull. This past year Donald was nominated for an Emmy for editing Project Runway, and he released his second thriller novel, Six Passengers, Five Parachutes. Donald visited his mother, Caro, on Maui, with his brother, DAVID BULL 1977, in Arizona. Life is good and they are grateful.
David intends to get to Alaska to visit ETHAN BERKOWITZ (Mayor of Anchorage)—although he’s been saying that for some time.
CINDY MONK WATTS has
been living in North Palm Beach, Florida, since 1991. She is a volunteer involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, JDRF. After she quit work in 2000, Cindy became a full-time volunteer and has worn every hat there is to wear. The one that meant most to her was being named Chairman of the JDRF Gala in 2010, which she also chaired in 2012 and 2014. Cindy LISA LD KIRSHENBAUM jokes was recognized for her efforts in that she is a news junkie on 2016, which meant the world to overload here! She is back in the her. She’s still involved with JDRF city, trying to do the right thing serving on the Advisory Board. as an employee deep inside the She and her husband, Bob, have a corporate grid. Her son, ETHAN home on Deer Isle, Maine, where MCDONALD 2014, an Army Ranger combat medic, was recently they have spent their summers for the past 14 years. Stopping deployed, so she is growing fresh in North Carolina on the way to mint for homemade cocktails! Maine, they were able to hook up DAVID MORGENSTEIN is still with JEANNE HECHT BELLEW living in San Francisco with his and her husband. Since Bob’s lovely wife Lida, and two amazing retirement in 2010, they have been daughters who continue to grow taking full advantage of traveling. and grow, with one who just Together they have been able to started high school. This year
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Above, left: Cindy Monk Watts 1979 (middle) and her husband, Bob (left), meet up with Jeanne Hecht Bellew 1979 and her husband in North Carolina. Left: Cindy Monk Watts 1979 and her husband, Bob, in Austria.
travel to so many wonderful places from the US and British Virgin Islands, New Zealand, Iceland, England, France, and Italy. They have been very lucky to be able to take a river cruise down the Danube and river cruised along the Rhone in October. On a trip through Arizona, Nevada, and California they stopped in San Francisco, and thanks to Facebook and keeping track with the Class of 1979, Cindy and Bob were able to get together with a few of her classmates for an impromptu class reunion. Passing through San Francisco on their way to New Zealand gave them
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another opportunity to see some LWHS classmates. Returning to San Francisco for their 35th Reunion was really special for Cindy. Three days of reminiscing wasn’t quite enough but they sure made the best of those three days. Also, on one of their trips to France, Cindy and her husband were able to meet and have dinner with French exchange student Laure Mygardon, in Brittany. If you’re ever up or down their way, please let Cindy know. She’d love to see you!
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Above: Catherine Glew Dining 1981
1981 CATHERINE GLEW DINING writes in with two great things! First, Catherine married Mark Dining on December 12, 2016—a match made in heaven. Second, she moved her custom goldsmithing business, CG Designs, from Walnut Creek to Lafayette last year. The new location is a charming adobe building on Mt. Diablo Boulevard, at the corner of Brown. Catherine encourages alumni to please stop in and say hello! Also, her son, Basil Glew-Galloway, now 33, continues to be an amazing individual. Basil is a professional freelance photographer and videographer, and does beautiful work. Basil lives in Oakland, just a few blocks away from Catherine and her husband. She is honored
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to be his mother. To see more of Catherine’s work, visit www. taylorandjacobson.com
DAVID LEVIN shares that he responded to the impending trauma of being an empty nester by placing his efforts into the purchase of a business. David owns a fiduciary firm, serving as a trustee and executor for individuals and their families. For more information on his business, visit www.mslfiduciary.com
STEVE WOZNIAK set 19 more IGFA fishing world records in the 2016–2017 season, taking first place for the most all-tackle records set for the year. He and his partner, Marta, live in Alamo, and he would love to hear from classmates at S_Wozniak10@ yahoo.com. His angling adventures are chronicled at 1000fish. wordpress.com.
1982 ROBIN HAUSER is in production on a new documentary film called Bias, about unconscious bias and
Above, left: David Levin 1981 Above: Steve Wozniak 1981 caught this world record Port Jackson shark in Port Hacking, Australia.
how it affects us socially and in the workplace. Robin’s last film, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, continues to screen around the world. For more information on her films visit biasfilm.com and codedoc.co.
1982 SAM HERZBERG is participating in a Management Talent Exchange Program with the Santa Clara Valley Water District in their Human Resources Department. He is helping them with their recruitment, benefits, and workforce development as the wave of baby boomer retirement is taking its toll and changing the organization quickly. His daughter, Aliza, has been studying at Chiang Mai University in Thailand this fall semester, and his other daughter, Talia, is a senior at Summit Prep High School in Redwood City.
Hello to all from CHRISTOPHER LUZZIO, who practices neurology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he specializes in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. When not in the clinic, Christopher is teaching a graduate class in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Design for Rehabilitation. He and his students design and fabricate assistive devices like a pneumatically powered baritone horn for an eighth-grader with muscular dystrophy or a mechatronic interface that plucks guitar strings for a person with hemiplegia. On August 21, 2017, Christopher enjoyed the total solar eclipse from Casper, Wyoming, with his family and long-time friend, Shakespearean actor Barry Kraft (former Town School teacher). DAVID EGERT 1981 recently visited and they had a great time eating Japanese food and walking on the lakefront in
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the rain. This autumn, Christopher broke ground for the construction of the astronomical observatory he designed while at LWHS. It will be 16 feet in diameter surrounded by a patio and will house his 12.5 inch reflector telescope. Not far and down the hill is Christopher’s pasture where he hopes to eventually raise some blackangus cattle. Yes, he farms now. He hopes you enjoy his eclipse pictures. Check out Roy at http:// www.nbc15.com/content/news/ UW-Madison-students-createdevice-to-help-teen-fulfill-musicaldreams-381222221.html. To contact Christopher, email Luzzio@ neurology.wisc.edu.
1984 LISA CRAIG GAUTIER writes that the nonprofit she founded, Matter of Trust, opened their new Eco-Industrial Hub, which is located at 1566 Howard Street in San Francisco. This space concentrates on clean
air, clean water, clean energy, ideal materials, and Ecologizingindustry. A manufacturing site, exhibit showcase, and visitor hub, this space provides roundtable discussion on incentives and perspectives, how to make the invisible visible, encouraging green job internships, and apprenticeships. Lisa founded Matter of Trust in 1998 and has been president and a board member ever since. Inspired by the environmental studies she got from Eleanor McBride and LWHS’s dedication to the Shops and hands-on skills, this hub has been a long-time dream.
Top, left: Photo of the diamond ring effect by Christopher Luzzio 1982. Top: Christopher Luzzio 1982 with his three sons Anthony, David, and Daniel. Above: Lisa Craig Gautier 1984 at the Matter of Trust Eco-Industrial Hub, which opened this fall.
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1985 PETER YOLLES reports that all is well in Marin. He and his wife, Jill, recently celebrated their daughter Amanda’s bat mitzvah. Their son,
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Sam, is a freshman at Branson. WaterSmart Software, a public benefit corporation Peter founded in 2009, provides data analytics and customer communications to water utilities in 16 states and the UK. They welcome summer interns every year.
1986 JACK LEPEDIS is pleased to announce the opening of his new law firm. Jack will be focusing on real estate pre-litigation and litigation matters, representing sellers, buyers, real estate agents and brokers, insurance agents and brokers, escrow agents and companies, home inspectors, homeowners, homeowners associations, and little leagues. He will also be representing parties in business pre-litigation and litigation matters. Additionally, Jack can assist attorneys with appearances and research and writing projects (â&#x20AC;&#x153;ghost writingâ&#x20AC;?).
Above, left: Eddie Baker 2016, Catharine Clark 1985, and Alexis Bullock 2016 pictured at the Catharine Clark Gallery in front of the screen by artist Masami Teraoka titled AIDS Series/Makiki Heights Disaster, 1988, watercolor mounted as a screen. Both Eddie and Alexis spent the summer as interns at the gallery. Above, right: Gary Chavez 1988, his wife, Robin, and daughters Annabelle (7) and Gabrielle (3) after his retirement ceremony from the US Air Force. Right: From left to right, classmates from 1989 Sandi Smith, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Vicky Morris Daniel.
1988 After 20 years of service, GARY CHAVEZ retired from the US Air Force as a Major. As an aerospace engineer, his assignments ranged from flying in the back seat of
an F4 fighter jet as a Flight Test Engineer to deploying to Iraq as a Combat Forensic Analyst investigating attacks on US aircraft. He still plans to continue to work in the Air Force as a civilian at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
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JUNKO OTSUKA GREEN shares
Aside from her usual dance life, this has newly been a year of attending contrasting conferences, exploring religion, and spending time with seniors and rabbits for CHELSEA ENG. In March, Chelsea attended (taught & performed at) the Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which she does annually. In April, she attended the California Federation of Teachers statewide conference in Sacramento as a first-time delegate from City College of San Francisco (CCSF). Chelsea was in a group of about 25 delegates from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local, which also
that three LWHS alumni were recently united! Junko and
CHRISTOPHER AYO SELIGMAN 1990 were serendipitously reconnected in their professional endeavors at Minerva, a top liberal arts/sciences school that has developed a completely reinvented higher education model. They are both really excited that TRENT HOMMEYER 2016 enrolled last fall and they are excited to stay abreast of his current studies and adventures in Seoul! If anyone is interested in a global residential university program, please feel free to reach out at junko@minervaproject.com.
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Left: Junko Otsuka Green 1991, director of marketing, and Christopher Ayo Seligman 1990, creative director, work closely together at Minerva, a nonprofit university founded in partnership between the Minerva Project and the Keck Graduate Institute. Above: Members of the Class of 1992, from left to right: Kari Dahlen, Jessica Kaplan, Chelsea Eng, Angus MacDonald, Elizabeth Faris, and Laralyn Bergstedt at the LWHS “Goodbye to the Classroom Building” party in May. Photo by Luke Alessandroni.
included JESSICA BUCHSBAUM 1990, who is an AFT powerhouse! Thanks to a faculty grant from CCSF, Chelsea also went to the USA Tango Championships. In June she volunteered for the second time at Best Friends animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. In July she attended Best Friends’ national conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Chelsea learned more about the movement to bring the nation to no-kill for cats and dogs in the shelter system by 2025. From April through August she completed the Landmark Forum, its adjoining seminar, and the Landmark Advanced Course, all of which she found powerful and worthwhile. On a separate, or perhaps related, note—Chelsea took a school yearlong course on Introduction to Judaism at (Reform) Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. In February she ran into SARAH FUTERNICK 2003 at a challah baking class. She has also been volunteering weekly at an assisted
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living facility in Daly City, as a caregiver for Mocha and Hobo, two rescue rabbits who live onsite. There Chelsea has happily made new friends, both senior and rabbit. Among her longtime (adult, human) friends is classmate SAMANTHA MERITT, with whom she said attended the Goodbye Classroom Building event at LWHS in May and (with permission) wrote on the the walls near their 9th grade lockers. It was fun to see fellow classmates LARALYN BERGSTEDT, KARI DAHLEN, ELIZABETH FARIS, JESSICA KAPLAN, ANGUS MACDONALD, and RAFAEL MANDELMAN. Chelsea is also in contact with star dancer-choreographer and alumna KATE WEARE 1990, who is ever rocking the dance world with her gifted work. Chelsea sends love to the LWHS community and especially to the Class of 1992!
Above: Classmates from 1992 Chelsea Eng and Samantha Meritt say goodbye to the classroom building together on May 23, 2017. Top, right: Francesca Gessner 1994 with her husband, Steve DeSipio, and their children Paloma (3 months) and Augustine (2 years). Right: Noe Goldhammer was born to parents Alex Goldhammer 1994 and Yael Gernez on September 6, 2017.
1994 On New Year’s Day,
FRANCESCA GESSNER 1994 had a baby named Paloma Eleanor DeSipio—who was coincidentally delivered by ANNA BUCHSBAUM, an OBGYN at CPMC in San Francisco. Gessner is still living in San Francisco and working as a deputy city attorney at City Hall.
DANA GOLDBERG GANES married Adam Ganes on July 9,
2017, at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. LWHS classmates BEVIN DANIELS and MELEAH MANNIX were in attendance. Dana is the Lower School Head at Marin Preparatory School, a K-8 Spanish Infusion elementary school in San Francisco.
ALEX GOLDHAMMER and Yael Gernez have a new son, Noe Goldhammer, born September 6, 2017. Alex is working for Google in New York City. Yael and Alex will be moving back to Palo Alto at the end of the year.
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Above, left: Frank Byrd 1995 in Paris.
human sexuality for students in 5th–12th grades at several private schools around the Bay Area (and is always looking for new schools if you know of anyone searching for a fabulous sex education teacher). Kate is also leading parent nights for moms and dads of kids starting puberty. If you have a kid about to hit (or maybe in the middle of hitting) puberty and want some help navigating that transition, take a look katebedfordmph.com and drop Kate a note. Kate and her husband Andrew live in San Francisco and have a son, George, who just entered kindergarten.
1995 JAMES FRANK BYRD and his wife, Jade, settled in Southern Germany this past June, at the edge of the Black Forest near Karlsruhe. They are enjoying the balanced lifestyle and the welcoming neighbors. They look forward to exploring Europe on the weekends while learning to speak German.
1996 It will surprise no one to learn that KATE BEDFORD teaches sex education. “Yep, nothing really changes,” she says! It all started many years ago, when Kate joined the Issues and Choices group at LWHS. While she has dabbled in other jobs over the years and got her MPH at Berkeley, Kate kept coming back to teaching sex education. She currently teaches
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RENINA JARMON published a children’s book Niama’s Adventures, which follows Niama, a curious little girl full of magic and wonder. When Niama goes to sleep at night with her magic wand, she time travels to different places far and near. Niama’s Adventures is available on Amazon. (See Alumni Authors section)
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Above: Friends from the Class of 1997 gather at Melissa Wong’s wedding BBQ. From left to right: Jennie Epstein Anderson, Melissa Wong, Shana Lopes, and Robin Fulmer.
1997 ANYA HOLLAND-BARRY has made a career switch away from academia and musicology and now teaches musical theater through Disney Musicals in Schools in Madison, Wisconsin. She also directs musical theater at the local community theater and works as a core reviewer for the Tommy Awards (a high school musical theater program throughout Wisconsin). Her two energetic children (ages five and eight) also keep her quite busy and on her toes!
SHANA LOPES recently completed her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University. After graduation, she moved back to San Francisco with her husband and son.
ANITA PEDERSEN-PENNOCK writes that she is happily married to Amy Pennock and together they live in Modesto, California. Anita works as an assistant professor at California State University, Stanislaus,
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in the Psychology and Child Development Department. Last year, they welcomed their baby girl, Maya Pennock, born November 11. The family enjoyed a great trip to Hawaii over the summer, and they also had a minireunion with MELISSA GRAHAM CHOY, ANDY CHOY, and ERICA FREDRIKSON.
SAMANTHA YARD, ANTOINE MCNAMARA, and their four-year old daughter, Sophie, welcomed baby girl Sydney to their family on February 8, 2017, in Seattle, WA.
1998 DAN HOYLE recently moved back from New York City to the Bay Area with his wife, Lyra, an art teacher and visual artist, and their son, Winston. But they continue to be on the move. His solo show “The Real Americans” will run at Washington D.C.’s Mosaic Theater November 10–December 22, 2017— details at www.mosaictheater.org.
Above, left: The artwork behind Calfornia Resistance, a project started by William Swinerton 1998 and Patrick Ward 1998. Above: Friends from the Class of 1997 get together with some of their children. From left to right: Melissa Graham Choy with her daughters, Evie Choy and Violet Choy (front), Anita PedersenPennock with daughter, Maya Pennock, and Erica Fredrikson with daughter, Sabrina Dafir.
In April 2018, they’ll be in Dublin, Above, right: Another great Ireland, where he’ll perform and photo of these classmates be an artist-in-residence at Trinity from 1997 Melissa Graham College, Dublin. Choy, Andy Choy, Erica Fredrikson, and Anita Pedersen-Pennock with their families. From left to right: Hassan Dafir, Andy Choy, Trevor Choy, Erica Fredrikson, Sabrina Dafir, Evie Choy, Melissa Graham Choy, Violet Choy, Anita Pedersen-Pennock, Amy Pennock, and Maya Pennock. Right: Diana Levin 2000 with her husband, Evan, and son, Ezra.
WILLIAM SWINERTON redesigned the California state flag and with Patrick Ward has been selling flags, t-shirts, stickers, and postcards featuring this design at calirestistance.com. All profits are being donated to organizations that will mitigate Trump-ism.
2000 DIANA LEVIN lives in San Francisco with her husband, Evan Ben-Artzi, and their two-year-old
son, Ezra. She works as a small animal veterinarian in Alameda at Park Centre Animal Hospital.
2002 JASON GANT completed his second Master’s degree from The University of San Francisco in August, and has been studying overseas in Spain and Taiwan, living in Barcelona and Taipei. After these first experiences living abroad, Jason is looking for work in gender, sports, and mental health. He was admitted into the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) Teacher Training Program which began in October.
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WHIT K. LEE is playing the Fiddler in A Christmas Carol at Actors Theatre of Louisville through December. He will also be playing Wen Xiaoping in Doppelgänger by Matthew Lee-Erlbach at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago this coming April and May. He just finished playing the lead role, Shen Li, in an 80 ½ hour episode sitcom for Pearson Education/ Wall Street English, which is helping hundreds of thousands of people learn English all over the world.
2004 SAMUEL ADAMS is currently at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy. Civitella is an artist residency that hosts visual artists, writers, poets, and composers. Sam is there working on a piece for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which will premiere in May 2018.
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For more information on the program, visit www.civitella.org.
TIFFANY NG is moving parttime to Zurich and continues to split the rest of her time between Copenhagen and London while working on her food tech company, RSVP (www.rsvp-popup.com). If you love food, follow RSVP to see what exciting events there are in London, Copenhagen, or Berlin. Tiffany would love to re-connect if you are in Europe, especially if there’s food involved. On December 17th, 2016, RIAZ ZAIDI married Amy Prescott at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. Amy is in her fourth year of medical school at Georgetown, and Riaz has been working at the State Department since 2014, spending several months this year in Niamey, Niger along with extended trips to Sydney and Manila.
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Above, left: Whit K. Lee 2002 in his role as the Fiddler in A Christmas Carol at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Top: Samuel Adams 2004 Above: Matt Spitz 2004, his son, Leonard (future class of 2035), and his mother and former Board of Trustee member, Carolyn Spitz, visit campus to see the construction in August.
2005 In a 40-day period, JESSICA SABOGAL put together two murals—one in Montreal and the other in Vienna. These murals were a part of a larger project “White Supremacy is Killing Me,” confronting communities across the world about the effects of xenophobia, racism, and misogyny.
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2006 A year after getting married, CHARLES WALTON and his wife are making another big change in their lives…After a combined 17+ years working in technology—in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco, across 12+ companies, from big giants like Google and Adobe to tiny start-up that failed fast—Charles and his wife decided to make a change. They quit their jobs, broke their lease, sold their stuff, and are traveling for 6+ months! Their first destination is the surf town of Canggu, Bali, where they will get to focus on health and relax a bit. They are excited for this amazing opportunity.
Top: Riaz Zaidi 2004 married Amy Prescott in December 2016. Above, right: The mural Jessica Sabogal 2005 recently created in Vienna. Above, left: Charles Walton 2006 and his wife in Bali on their honeymoon. Above: Kazimir Amanda Brown 2007 attends the Yale Divinity School graduation to support classmate Liesl Spitz.
2007 ELISABETH LIESL SPITZ recently graduated from Yale Divinity School. Classmate KAZIMIR AMANDA BROWN just finished her first year at the Yale Divinity School.
2008 JOCELYN CHAN has spent the last 2.5 years in New York City working as an architectural conservator for Integrated
Conservation Resources, Inc., an architectural conservation firm that analyzes building materials in their in-house laboratory, conducts conditions assessments on historic structures, carries out conservation treatments, and provides design-build services for construction. In March she was a poster presenter for the 6th International Architectural Paint Research Conference. Some of her major current projects include the testing and analysis of The Morgan Library & Museum’s historic McKim building, assessment of Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel,
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This summer EMILY ENGLISH married Sean Leake in San Francisco! She is currently working in the Assurance practice at Ernst & Young, and was recently promoted to manager. Emily and Sean live in Seattle, WA, and love it!
and the establishment of a materials conservation laboratory and training facility in St. Augustine, Florida. In June, ELIZABETH FLEMING TACKETT began working as the Admissions Manager for the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, California.
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MARISA HALL works in Learning
MIA DIVECHA married Nima Ahmadi this past April in San Francisco. There was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;small little LWHS reunionâ&#x20AC;? on the dance floor with fellow classmates MARISSA SETO, JUSTINE HONG, SARAH BINDMAN, LAURIE RUSSELL, and sister ZAI DIVECHA 2006. This reminded Mia of how some of her best friendships are from LWHS and how grateful she is for that!
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& Engagement at the Etsy HQ in Brooklyn. She is also a newly certified yoga teacher, offering donation-based classes to local queer communities of color. 100% of these donations are being used to benefit organizations such as the Trans Women of Color Collective in Washington, D.C., and The Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
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Top: Marissa Seto 2009 and her boyfriend Alex Quan, groom Nima Ahmadi, bride Mia Divecha 2009, Justine Hong 2009, Sarah Bindman 2009, Laurie Russell 2009, and Zai Divecha 2006 bring the hyphen to life on the dance floor at the wedding of Mia and Nima. Above: Emily English 2009 and Sean Leake married in San Francisco this past summer. Right: Marisa Hall 2010 (in the front) leads a rooftop yoga class.
2011 ARIELLA SIMKE 2011 is currently finishing her Masters degree in Marine Biology through the Northeastern University Three Seas program. Ariella recently spent nine months traveling and
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diving around the world, going from Nahant, MA, to Bocas Del Toro, Panama to the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington state. Now Ariella is completing an independent research project at a sustainable abalone farm in Monterey. Spending more time in and around water than on land, Ariella spends her free time working at the California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium, and also teaching scuba diving in Monterey.
WESLEY SPARAGON traveled to Kolumbangara Island of the Solomon Islands and spent four weeks there working as an ornithology research assistant this summer. Afterwards he headed to the University of Hawaii, Manoa, to pursue a Ph.D. in Marine Biology.
2012 KELSEY SCHLUETER recently
Above, left: Classmates from 2009 (left to right) Hallie Travis, Julia Tejeda, Emily English, and Lauren Kolm celebrate at Emilyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding. Above, right: Wesley Sparagon 2011 with a Kolombangara White Eye, the bird he was researching this past summer on the Solomon Islands. Right: Ariella Simke 2011 diving a wreck in Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Below, right: Coworkers of Ariella Simke 2011 at the Monterey Abalone Co. feed abalone kelp under the pier where they keep the abalone cages suspended.
completed her student teaching at El Dorado Elementary School. Kelsey is getting a Masters in Teaching from University of San Francisco. She started teaching first grade this year at Lakeshore Elementary. Kelsey shares that some of her LWHS teachers have already generously donated to her classroom, and she is grateful for all of her LWHS teachers for inspiring her.
completed the SF Teacher Residency program, where she
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their first real vacation together and they were able to hike up Lassen Peak, canoe on Manzanita Lake, and explore some really After graduating from college, awesome geothermal areas! The MARJORIE MORALES worked park also held its annual Dark Sky for Aim High East Palo Alto (EPA) Festival during their visit at which as an 8th grade science lead we were able to peer through teacher and led activities related several high-powered telescopes to biodiversity and tinkering. It to look for star clusters and was the first time Marjorie was planets. They highly recommend a lead teacher for Aim High and Lassen Volcanic National Park was therefore able to design and for its small crowds, educational implement her own curriculum, while also mentoring a college and experiences, hikes for all abilities, and exceptional beauty. Lastly, high school intern. As one of the few Aim High veterans at the EPA Marjorie has decided to attain her site, Marjorie really enjoyed sharing EMT certification at City College of San Francisco this year before the Aim High magic with the EPA she applies to medical school community and plans to return in the next few years. While at next summer! To celebrate their Occidental College, Marjorie had a graduation from college, Marjorie clinical internship opportunity at went to Lassen Volcanic National Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Park with SOPHIA TRIGONIS where she was able to shift in and MIRANDA NGUYEN. They their Emergency Department for met during the first week of high three months. She fell in love with school and have remained close friends throughout college despite Emergency Medicine and therefore going to different schools. Marjorie wanted to gain more valuable and relevant experience working as an graduated from Occidental EMT prior to applying to medical College, Sophia graduated from school. She’s been having a blast UC Santa Cruz, and Miranda and is really excited to finally start graduated from Carnegie Mellon working on her career! University. Going to Lassen was
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Left: After a five-hour hike, starting from an elevation of 8400’, here is Marjorie Morales almost at the summit of Lassen Peak at 10,400’. Notice all of the snow—in mid-August! Top: Class of 2013 friends Marjorie Morales, Sophia Trigonis, and Miranda Nguyen celebrate their graduations from college with a trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park. Right: Co-founders of Share to Wear at Middlebury College Linley Shaw and Charlotte Reider-Smith 2014.
2014 CHARLOTTE REIDER-SMITH founded and is running a peerto-peer dress rental service at Middlebury College, where she currently is studying. The service is called Share to Wear. Learn more at www.sharetowearmidd. com or www.instagram.com/ sharetowearmidd
JEWELL SPARKS has has an incredible year in her Division 3 track career, improving her 400 meter hurdles by more than 3 seconds. She placed 19th overall in the nation at Division 3 nationals.
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Jewell is in her senior year, studying biochemistry. Her goal is to either enter the police academy or the military after college to gain experience for the eventual goal of being a forensic analyst with the FBI.
2015 After completing her sophomore year at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, JOELLE PARK returned home to California for the year. She is taking a year off from Dartmouth in order to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, or BSSM, which is better understood as a church school that teaches its students what it means to be a Christian and how to apply it to everyday life. This is a very alternative path compared to most of her Dartmouth friends, who just completed corporate recruiting and will be spending the fall quarter on campus, the winter working for some fancy bank or private equity firm, and the spring back on campus before going back for another impressive summer internship. Though it feels a little strange to drop off the map in a sense, Joelle is very excited to take
Above: Jewell Sparks 2014 is a nationally ranked NCAA Division 3 hurdler. Right: Joelle Park 2015 Above, far right: Justin Bieber and backup dancers huddle up before going onstage. Isaiah Baluyot 2016 is second on the right. Right: Isaiah Baluyot 2016
a year to pursue something that is not academically acknowledged as significant, but is a personal interest and necessity of hers. She casually tells people that she’s taking a year to “learn how to be a better person,” but when she says this she is truly earnest in that she hopes to gain wisdom and a better understanding of what she values and the kind of person she wants to be. After this year, Joelle will return to Dartmouth to finish out her senior year and hopefully apply some of the wisdom or insight she gains to use her short time there more effectively and intentionally.
2016 ISAIAH BALUYOT is a phenomenal dancer and has trained in several styles and techniques throughout his entire life, and was a member of the LWHS dance program as well. After graduating in 2016, Isaiah auditioned for the Justin Bieber Purpose Tour and was offered the opportunity to travel the world
with some of the world’s best dancers, and Justin Bieber himself. Isaiah has already traveled to such places as Brazil, Germany, France, Australia, Mexico, and more. Isaiah emphasizes the importance of confidence in yourself, and advises everyone to “believe in yourself. You know your truth, and nobody can tell you what is right for you. All you gotta do is believe in yourself and take the necessary steps to do it.” Isaiah hopes to continue touring with the Purpose Tour for the next few years, but eventually moving on to focus on his music career. Ultimately, Isaiah wants to do his own world tour with his own dancers. He’s also interested in starring in movies in the future. Overall, Isaiah’s primary goal is to keep learning, growing, and making his family proud.
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Peter Bergmann
Bertram Brown
Robert Fertman
Patricia Newfield Pratt
Bjarne Holm
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