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Asignificant new gift from Board of Trustees President Amy Falls ’82, P’19, ’21, makes her the most prominent woman donor in Andover’s fundraising history. Falls and her husband, Hartley Rogers, have donated more than $20 million to the Knowledge & Goodness campaign, of which Falls is co-chair.

Every aspect of the school is impacted by this gift—student scholarships, wellness programming, faculty support, the Tang Institute, the Addison Gallery, equity and inclusion, capital projects including the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, the new music building, and more.

“This moment reflects the passion that Amy and Hartley have for educational endeavors and their desire to increase opportunities for students and faculty today and in the future,” says Head of School Raynard S. Kington, MD, PhD, P’24. With more than 30 years of investment and management experience, Falls is vice president and chief investment officer at Northwestern University. A former managing director at Morgan Stanley and CIO at The Rockefeller University, Falls has been one of Andover’s most engaged and impactful alumnae. She was the Academy’s inaugural CIO, establishing the New York–based investment office “I am personally grateful to Amy for her in 2005, and managing the school’s endowment through leadership and generosity. She has been both prosperous and challenging times. Falls has served an invaluable thought partner to me, as a charter trustee since 2011 and is the first woman to both early in my tenure, and now, as we serve as board president in the histories of any Andover envision an even more promising future.” Board of Trustees (Andover Theological Seminary, Phillips —HEAD OF SCHOOL RAYNARD KINGTON Academy, Abbot Academy).

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Congratulations to Fredericka Lucas ’18 for being elected director of the prestigious Harvard College Consulting Group (HCCG), a student-run nonprofit that solves strategic problems for businesses and nonprofits while fostering personal and leadership development for its members. Lucas is the first African American director of HCCG. At age 77, Bill Gardner ’62 was one of the oldest competitors in the 2021 U.S. Canoe Association national championships in Warren, Pennsylvania.