Santa Catalina School Bulletin Fall 2019

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2019 FALL BULLETIN

Alums in food, from farm to fork

Commencement

2019 in Photos

Cheers for the Board Chair

Crystal Boyd ’89

Director of Communications

Jeannie Evers

Writer

Jen Rocha

Graphic Designer

Liesel Kuehl

Project Manager

Robin Kelly

Copy Editor

Shannon Gaughf ’08

Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement

Contributors

Debra Burke, Paul Elliott, Sister Christine Price, Laurie Severs, Katey Verweij, Erin White, Susanna Wilcox

Contributing Photographers

Marc Howard ’93 LS; Nick Lovejoy; Dawn May Photography; David Royal; Santa Catalina School parents, faculty, and students

On the cover: Seniors Vanessa Colin, Julia Airada, and Grace Lostak-Baker walk Sullivan Court with their Nerf-themed cake during the 41st annual Senior Cake Auction in May.

Above: Second-grader Tony Cutino enjoys a bounce on a hippity hop ball during Eighth Grade Graduation Surprise (EGGS).

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Santa Catalina School, located on the Monterey Peninsula, is an independent, Catholic school. The Upper School is a college-preparatory high school for young women, with boarding and day students in grades 9–12. The Lower and Middle School is coeducational, with day students in PreK–grade 8. A summer camp for girls 8–14 years serves resident and day campers. Santa Catalina School is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools and Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Santa Catalina School admits students

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Inside back cover: Harriet Laveau ’21 takes part in a smoke bomb photo shoot in Jaime Ball’s digital media class.

Back Cover: Lower School boys hang out after school. From left: Justin Russo, Colton Sheets, Tony Brence, Hunter Tope, Cole Maroon, and Brody Bolger.

36 A Life Among the Vines

Gay Callan ’67 looks back on 40 years of growing grapes and producing wine.

38 No Wheat, No Worries

Heather Hardcastle-Perko ’94, ’90 LS finds her niche with gluten-free bakeries.

40 The Draw of the Land

Family history is always present for rice farmer Robin Koda ’80.

42 Party of Five

Marissa Anshutz Hermer ’99 keeps expanding her restaurant portfolio.

44 The Sweet Spot

With vine-dried grapes, Courtney Gillespie ’12 redefines the raisin.

A Symmetry of Success

Dear Friends,

As I write, a truly inspired production of Fiddler on the Roof is delighting audiences. The acting, singing, dancing, musicianship, set, lighting, and sound design are once again far beyond any expectations of a high school production. Like the ever thoughtful Tevye in Fiddler, Santa Catalina students also treasure traditions. The cover of this issue of the Bulletin depicts one such classic tradition: the cake auction. Our seniors design and create wonderful edible art, then auction their treasures to the highest bidder, with proceeds donated to the school as a gift. Treasured experiences like this connect the Santa Catalina community past and present.

Similarly, there is a symmetry to the stories found within these pages, which are bursting with newsworthy achievements exhibited by talented Santa Catalina students and alumnae. Herein are stories about students in every

grade experiencing learning through challenge, adventure, and travel. There are spotlights on academic achievement, student service, award-winning student artists and musicians, and Santa Catalina’s athletic prowess. Our featured alumnae recount challenges and adventures as they create and sustain farm-to-fork businesses. We delight in our students’ and graduates’ many successes as they grow in their knowledge, skills, and confidence.

We also share news of the remarkable Veritas Challenge, which will help us to successfully conclude the Legacy Campaign, and express gratitude for the endowment funds and the beautifully constructed facilities that emerged as a result of the generosity of many caring donors. On behalf of our faculty and students, I wish to share our collective thanks to each of you listed in the Annual Report. Your gifts make it possible for our talented students to be taught by devoted professionals with the necessary resources to fulfill our school’s mission.

In April, after a year spent in meetings, discussions, and writing, Santa Catalina board members, faculty, and staff welcomed a visiting team of skilled teachers and administrators from similar schools on behalf of the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), our accrediting association. The purpose of their visit was to evaluate our school against a comprehensive set of CAIS standards and to observe our school in action. Based on their visit and

from reading our self-study, the team made a report to the Board of Standards at CAIS. Along with the Accrediting Commission for Schools at the Westerns Association of Schools and Colleges, the CAIS Board of Standards granted Santa Catalina a seven-year term of accreditation. I am delighted to report that this is the longest achievable term, through July 30, 2026.

The visiting team found Santa Catalina programs to be highly effective (top rating) in the areas of Mission, Educational Program, Preschool, the Student Learning Experience, Residential Life, Advancement, Facilities, Health/ Safety/Wellness, and Governance. Their recommendations focused on strategic and long-term financial planning, on educational initiatives around diversity and inclusion, the creation of a new schedule for the high school, and about our efforts to implement a comprehensive enrollment management plan. In order to maximize this yearlong endeavor, we have engaged in a collaborative process with our community to develop Santa Catalina’s 2020 Strategic Plan.

These are exciting times for Santa Catalina and a perfect moment to thank you for your part in sustaining the remarkable education provided to our students now and in the future.

Sincerely,

Meg Bradley

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Kindergartners are all smiles as they drive their “bike train” during recess.

A Spirit of Service

Outgoing board chair Nonie B. Ramsay ’71 honored for lasting impact on the school

by Sister Christine Price

Nonie B. Ramsay’s connection and her service to Santa Catalina School have been long and devoted: student in the Class of ’71, among the earliest of alumnae members to the Board of Trustees in 1987, then some 32 years of service, the last 12 as Chair of the Board. In common Santa Catalina parlance, Nonie is what is affectionately known as a “lifer.” While managing her widespread responsibilities to the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and to Bay Area schools, hospitals, and opera, Nonie Ramsay has left a legacy of love and loyalty to Santa Catalina.

Many have been Nonie’s contributions to life on the campus. The school’s first Merit Scholarship Program, created with her leadership, enabled students of varying backgrounds and financial means to attend Santa Catalina. Equally influential, Nonie’s eye to the future, under Sister Claire’s leadership, resulted in the school’s 2012 Strategic Plan, a bridge to a new era in the life of School.

As was the case with Nonie’s passion for financial assistance, so too was her desire to see her Alma Mater stand as a leader in mathematics and science education for women. Partnering again with Sister Claire, Nonie secured funding for the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center, a facility that stands as a magnificent result. Very closely thereafter, Nonie offered a leadership challenge to spark giving to the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Health and Wellness Endowment. This crucial initiative now supports students and faculty in their daily pursuit of purposeful lives. It provides education, simulates motivation, and teaches essential life skills.

Nonie’s final and perhaps most challenging undertaking involved leading the management of Santa Catalina’s transition to its fourth Head and first lay-Head of School. Complicated and time-consuming, the process required both a broad view and attention to detail, professional judgment and personal support to the new Head. Focused and thorough, Nonie accomplished this once again in her quiet, thoughtful way. After working closely with Meg Bradley for three years, Nonie concluded her own 37 years of service to the Board at the end of June.

While it is clear that Nonie’s accomplishments over many years with Santa Catalina are myriad, it is the spirit in which she served that is truly the heart of the matter. Generous, gracious, untiring in her continual efforts to better the school and its community, Nonie leaves a legacy of unselfish, heartfelt service to the school she loves and that loves her in return.

At dinner, honoring Nonie on her retirement, former Board Chair Peter Folger reminded gathered trustees, friends, and family of the words she had chosen for her senior page in the 1971 Catalinan. “Sit down with yourself once in a while and take count.” To Nonie, Peter said, “This is one of those ‘once in a whiles’ and all of us hope that you will sit down with yourself and take count of all you have accomplished on behalf of Santa Catalina. And if you do a good job of counting, then, perhaps, you will begin to have an idea of why we hold you so close in our hearts, why you are so admired by all of us, and why it is impossible to adequately thank you for everything you have done for Santa Catalina.”

Indeed, all share these sentiments, Nonie, as together we wish you every happiness in the days ahead. Know that you take with you our prayers and our

Incoming

board chair Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 looks to continue commitment to Catalina

For Laura Lyon Gaon ’81, the path to institutional service and trusteeship began shortly after college when she became involved in the Sacramento Junior League and the Sacramento Association of Realtors. For Lyon Real Estate, Laura held the positions of Director of Human Resources, Director of Marketing, Director of Relocation, Property Manager, and Vice-President for Special Events and Community Relations. Founding board member of California Musical Theater and Board Chair of B Street Theater, she further served on the governing boards of the Sacramento Symphony, the University of California Davis School of Medicine Community Outreach, and Sacramento’s Child Abuse and Prevention Council. Currently, Laura sits on the Board of Trustees for St. Michael’s Episcopal School as Chair of the Advancement Committee. Over time, in addition to pursuing her own career, Laura realized that she had become involved in boards that pulled at her heartstrings. Serving as a devoted volunteer on behalf of Santa Catalina was a natural. In 1987, just six years after her own graduation, Laura joined the alumnae board. Immediately, she offered insights and perspectives to expand alumnae involvement and to further the board’s effectiveness on behalf of the school. During the last three years of her 16-year tenure, Laura served as president.

Asked to join the Santa Catalina School Board of Trustees in 2005, Laura once again poured her energies into bettering the school and its community. During these last 14 years, she has served on the development, trustee, and compensation committees. Giving thought to Laura’s talents and effectiveness, Board of Trustees Chair Nonie Ramsay ’71 commented, “Laura’s dedication to the school is a lightning bolt of clarity for all to feel.

She understands the role of fact-finding and team building as preconditions for producing sound results. While in the mix, she makes it fun for all; her humor and her ability to rally a group is infectious.”

Santa Catalina looks forward to the leadership of Laura Lyon Gaon. Her experience, her ease and talent working with a team, and her energetic love of her alma mater will serve Santa Catalina well in the years ahead. In a recent conversation, Laura herself commented, “I am honored and humbled to be stepping in as Santa Catalina’s next board chair and I am aware that I have big shoes to fill. This position has been beautifully stewarded by Nonie, who has worked tirelessly to ensure that the proverbial gavel is passed with style and ease. Mission accomplished.” Yes, Laura. Mission accomplished, indeed!

board of trustees

TRUSTEE OFFICERS

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 Chair

Paul J. Felton Vice-Chair

Carolyn Hartwell O'Brien ’74 Vice-Chair

Kit Y. Wai Vice-Chair

Michelle Blake Treasurer

Tracy Miller Hass ’75 Secretary

Margaret K. Bradley Head of School

BOARD MEMBERS

Sister Claire Barone

Gerardo A. Borromeo

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Herm Edwards

James Farley, Jr.

W. Taylor Fithian III

Matthew T. Gibbs II

Jon Giffen

Tracy A. Huebner

Edward King

Charles I. Kosmont

Kate Brinks Lathen ’96

Judith McDonald Moses ’86

Ricky Nguyen

Kenneth Peyton

Victor Ramirez

Michael Roffler

Jeannette K. Witten

Kathleen M. Trafton ’74 President, Alumnae Association

HONORARY TRUSTEE

Brooks Walker Jr.

LARA WHEELER DEVLIN ’02 THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT CHAIR

The Sister Carlotta Distinguished Service Award

The Sister Carlotta Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to a faculty or staff member whose work, either inside or outside the classroom, has epitomized the school’s mission and has enriched the hearts and minds of students at Santa Catalina School. The recipient is recognized for upholding the school’s commitment to educating the whole person, consistent with the values manifested in Sister Carlotta’s vocation of teaching young people.

The nominating committee and Board of Trustees Chair Nonie B. Ramsay ’71 accept nominations from faculty and staff and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees, who then select the recipient. The Sister Carlotta Endowment for Educational Excellence provides a $10,000 honorarium that accompanies the award.

At Santa Catalina, the seasons follow the theatre calendar. Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02, who started teaching at Santa Catalina in 2013, has helped turn the school’s productions—the fall and spring musicals, and the mid-winter play—into professional-caliber, can’tmiss events.

In addition to her role as director, drama teacher, and department chair, Devlin is the faculty advisor for Safe Space and the performing arts clubs, is a member of Catalina’s Health and Wellness Committee, and previously served as senior class dean. She also organizes an annual trip to New York City, where students are exposed to the best of theatre, dance, music, and art.

In this interview, she shares her philosophy of the stage and how theatre helps students build character.

HOW DID IT FEEL TO WIN THE SISTER CARLOTTA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD? Very rarely am I at a loss for words. I still feel completely overwhelmed and humbled by being recognized in such a meaningful way.

WHEN AND HOW WERE YOU FIRST DRAWN TO THE THEATRE? I performed for the first time when I was four. I was about 10 when I decided to become an actress. After four years in

the Upper School, being a part of every production, I applied for college, moved to New York, and started acting and dancing. There I discovered being on stage was not fulfilling for me. Performing was exhilarating, and I loved booking work and even enjoyed auditions, but what I had been drawn to as a child and what kept me motivated while in college and as a young adult was the process. It was building and creating a character. I loved stepping into another person’s shoes. Finding the good in a villain, feeling the pain of a loss that wasn’t mine, and the joy of resolution. What I was really discovering was that acting is the ultimate expression of empathy.

YOU HAVE A CATCHPHRASE: “THE GREATEST CHARACTER YOU WILL EVER DEVELOP IS YOUR OWN.” WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS? I realized as an actress that I had been changing with every new production. Playing characters onstage had altered my character off stage. Taking on the role of another person had forced me to take note of my own shortcomings, and I felt compelled to explore this. It seems obvious to me now that clearly there was a bigger picture. I was being called off the stage.

My life took what I thought was a permanent detour, but I now appreciate that I was being armed with more tools for my vocation: helping others build character. Teaching theatre is the tool of my

vocation. I happen to know theatre, so I use my skills there to connect with my students. I’m a director because I want to offer my casts and crews the same place to grow, fail, and succeed that I found in theatre. A place to find themselves. When I looked beyond myself and realized that I could use my talents in service to others, I felt an immense sense of peace. I’m not a director because I think all the students I work with will go on to theatrical professions, or because I strive to create great productions. That’s secondary; the strongest shows are a happy byproduct. The stage is just a safe space where I sneakily push actors and crews outside their comfort zones, working together as a team to build something. Ownership, leadership, disappointment, disagreement, excitement, even boredom pushes us to react, to make choices, good and bad, to evaluate, and try again.

Theatre asks you to take note of each character’s strengths and flaws, and in so doing you must take note of your own. What kind of person do you want to be? One that is honest, like Grandpa in You Can’t Take It with You; one that demonstrates integrity, like Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird; one that keeps promises and follows her passion, like Jo in Little Women; one that is loyal, as Smee is to Captain Hook in Peter Pan; one that pursues excellence, like Mary Poppins; one that is responsible, like the Stage Manager in Our Town?

WHAT ARE THE MOST REWARDING ASPECTS OF YOUR JOB? Watching the girls grow from freshman to senior year. I encourage students to find the place where they feel passionate but also challenged, because that is where they will develop character. In those moments, they grow. Maybe that place is in the theatre; maybe it’s in the classroom studying history or politics; maybe it’s on the beach tackling conservation and environmental issues; maybe it’s on the field as a part of the soccer team; maybe it’s as a member of the spiritual life committee or student council; maybe it’s in direct service to others as a part of the Salinas school trips or Smile Fund. I believe that we are each called by God to be our best selves in different ways, but we must face obstacles in order to grow.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THE THEATRE PROGRAM? WHY ARE THESE GOALS IMPORTANT TO YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS? Learning, growing, and serving. Theatre is a microcosm of life: ever-evolving, never perfect, slightly scary, but so rewarding in those moments that come together perfectly. Theatre echoes the human experience. No show is perfect, just as no person is perfect. We are always changing, struggling to better ourselves.

Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02 with the selection committee.

MEET ANGE ATKINSON, THE NEW DIRECTOR OF SUMMER AT SANTA CATALINA

Ange Atkinson just wrapped up her first summer as director of Summer at Santa Catalina, taking over after the retirement of Julie Yurkovich Forrest ’78. This marked Atkinson’s 14th year empowering girls in a summer camp setting. Most recently, she was the founding director of Camp Lantern Creek, an all-girls sleepaway camp in her home state of Texas.

Atkinson is also a registered yoga teacher and reiki practitioner, and is a facilitator and trainer for the Embody Love Movement, which empowers girls and women to celebrate their inner beauty through experiential learning around body image and self-love. “My wish for every girl is to know she is loved and worthy just the way she is,” Atkinson explains.

We caught up with Atkinson to find out how she’s settling in at Catalina.

HOW WAS YOUR FIRST SUMMER? It went really well. The counselors have all grown, and the campers have had transformational experiences. They really enjoyed growing in their classes but also in their friendships.

HOW HAVE YOU ADJUSTED TO THE CATALINA CULTURE? Monterey feels like home, and everyone at Catalina has been really welcoming. This is my 14th summer in an

all-girls environment, so there’s a lot of similarities. I really enjoy the Catalina culture in general because it matches a lot of my values: empowerment, kindness, spiritual life, integrity, passion, supporting girls to become whatever they want to be.

WHAT WAS YOUR GOAL FOR THIS SUMMER, AND WHAT IS YOUR GOAL GOING FORWARD? My goal for this summer was twofold. One was to create a more cohesive staff culture, as this was our second summer having day and resident counselors. I feel like we’ve done that really well from the start, with day and resident counselors training together. My other goal was to have both parents and campers feel steady and safe in the transition between Julie and me, that the traditions of Summer at Santa Catalina would continue.

Going forward I’d like to see the summer program grow in some different ways. I’m open to what that looks like. I’d like to include a bigger leadership component for the high schoolers and different traveling opportunities for the campers. And I think there’s room to grow some of the programming without making a lot of big changes, like with the evening activities. I’m also interested in finding systems to make everything run smoother. With my knowledge of the camping industry and the American Camp Association standards, I want to make sure that we are keeping up with trends in the camping industry.

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE VALUE OF AN ALL-GIRLS CAMP? Girls get to see other girls and young women in leadership roles, and they get to see people like them doing things that are creative and out of the box and empowering. They also create unique bonds. It’s an environment where, instead of girls competing with each other, they are supporting each other. You see that with the older girls and the younger girls. We sit all mixed together at meals, they take classes together, but they also have time with their own age groups at the dorms. When they’re all together, once we have set the expectations and they co-create their rules for living together, they tend to relax and aren’t worried about having to impress each other; they just settle into being themselves.

Ange Atkinson with her pooch, Dottie, during Summer Camp’s visit to Carmel Beach.

SUMMER AT SANTA CATALINA VISION STATEMENT

Summer at Santa Catalina is dedicated to the mental, emotional, and spiritual growth of girls through experiential education. Our summer camp program strives to nurture girls as they begin to build their independence and self-reliance. We aim to help campers develop the virtues of honesty, kindness, and respect for others. Our goal is that campers receive and contribute to the support of a caring community and leave camp with greater self-confidence, eager to be contributing members of their own communities

FIRST-GRADERS DIVE INTO THE SCIENCE OF AIR

First-graders visited Skydive Monterey Bay on March 26 to see how a parachute works. They participated in a “skydive training class,” where they learned about air resistance and took turns on the “creeper,” which simulates how it feels to dive before the parachute opens. Students also walked through an airplane and tried on helmets and goggles that a parachutist wears during a jump.

The field trip was part of a science lesson on the properties of air. Students had been exploring how we know that air exists even though we cannot see it. They conducted experiments in the science lab, including demonstrating air resistance using models of parachutes made from napkins, with a paper clip serving as a parachutist.

ALUMNA TALKS TECH

Lottie Dowson ’09, ’05 LS returned to campus in early May to speak with eighth-graders about her experience in the field of computer science and what it means to work in tech. Dowson is a software developer at Oracle who helps provide support for backup and recovery of the database in case of user error or hardware failure. She started at the company five years ago after earning her master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University, which she also attended as an undergraduate.

Addressing Susan Kendall’s technology class, Dowson encouraged students to take charge of their own learning, to research, write, collaborate, create, and build on the skills they learn at Catalina. She emphasized that there are many opportunities in tech, from analytical, “traditional” jobs to creative design. Skills that students develop now, such as curiosity and independent thought, will help them thrive in whatever area they choose.

Dowson explained: “One of the best skills I have developed is seeking out answers on my own and pursuing avenues of interest, regardless of whether I feel ‘qualified.’ In Sue’s technology course, she really fosters this, and it should be celebrated and cherished.”

In her presentation, Dowson also told students to relish different perspectives. She said that she values the peer review process in software development. “We all approach problems in unique ways, and hearing others’ processes can make us better and more efficient in the future.”

Finally, she discussed the need for more women to study computer science. A reluctant public speaker, she said it was important for her to overcome her fears to talk about her journey in tech, especially if it encourages girls to follow in her footsteps. “One girl came up afterwards and thanked me for speaking about a traditionally male field, and it brought me so much joy.”

Top: First-graders learn about parachutes from an instructor at Skydive Monterey Bay.

Bottom: Harrison Schipper and Maxwell Tope approve of their helmets.

Claire Blatt, Sean Oliver, and Owen Pritchard collaborate in Susan Kendall’s technology class.

Lottie Dowson ’09, ’05 LS

SCIENCE AND SNORKELING AT CATALINA ISLAND

> Seventh-graders took their annual trip to the Catalina Island Marine Institute to experience science in a real-world setting. New this year: an overnight adventure aboard the USS Iowa, where students slept in “racks” like sailors. They spent their mornings on Catalina Island in labs, learning about marine mammals, invertebrates, and plankton (but also holding plankton races and getting sea cucumber kisses for luck). Afternoons included snorkeling to view native marine life in its natural habitat, climbing a rock wall, and playing beach games.

TREETOP TEAM-BUILDING AT MOUNT HERMON

> Sixth-graders went on an outdoor adventure to Mount Hermon in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Their time away included adjusting to cabin life in the mountains, trying out the climbing wall, and taking afternoon hikes. Mornings were spent team-building and problem-solving, which prepared the students for the high ropes course and the leap of faith activity. Tree climbing, zip-lining through the redwood forest, playing all-camp laser tag, and going on an all-day adventure hike were just a few of the memorable activities they participated in.

EIGHTH-GRADERS EXPLORE THE NATION’S CAPITAL

The Washington, DC, trip is a staple of the eighth-grade experience. Every year, students look forward to visiting the nation’s capital to witness how our history and present entwine. This year’s trip, held April 28–May 3, contained many of the usual stops: Arlington National Cemetery, memorials and museums, a moonlight cruise. But it also featured several firsts:

• R ather than change hotels after a stay in Virginia, the group made Washington, DC, its base of operations for the week. Christy Pollacci, head of Lower and Middle School, explains: “We had the honor of staying in the same hotel as a group of World War II veterans. We encouraged the students to say ‘Thank you for your service’ when they saw them.”

• Students watched a debate on the House floor about a climate change bill.

• T he group experienced a Washington Nationals baseball game … and had to wait out a storm.

• Students toured the White House. “The children were darling as they came in to check if their outfits were dressy enough,” Pollacci says.

All of this makes us wonder: What firsts will happen next year?

Eighth-graders at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C.

GRADE 4 MISSIONS GET 3D PRINTER TREATMENT

Fourth-graders took their models of California missions to a new level this year: 3D-printed models. Working with technology teacher Susan Kendall, the students designed the models in an online program called Tinkercad. They manipulated geometric shapes and paid attention to dimensions, angles, and perspective to make their models printer-ready.

The printed models stood alongside traditional but always impressive hand-built models displayed in the Lower School library. For these models, students made use of Styrofoam, tongue depressors, cardboard paper, wood dust, paint, figurines, rocks, beads, felt, clay, and other materials. Details included animals, fountains, and, for one mission, a roof still under construction.

The mission project is part of grade 4’s yearlong study of California history, which also included a trip to Gold Country in April and culminated with Little Red Schoolhouse Day on May 17.

OCEAN ART INSPIRES VIEWERS

Photographs by eighth-graders Charlie Conner and Ian Partlow were displayed at a dance performance at Carmel’s Sunset Center on April 25. Charlie and Ian, along with classmate Gabriella

Herrera and seventh-grader Emma Sondergaard, submitted their work to SpectorDance for its first Monterey Ocean Arts Festival on April 14. The dance company launched the festival with the goal of “using the power of creativity to heighten awareness of ocean issues and inspire ocean stewardship.”

SpectorDance hosted a competition for artists to submit their work. Selected pieces, including Charlie’s Pipeline and Dawn Patrol and Ian’s Depth, were displayed in the Sunset Center lobby during the dance company’s performance of Ocean Trilogy

MATHLETES CLEAN UP AT COUNTY COMPETITION

All four of Santa Catalina Lower and Middle School’s participating teams earned top-three finishes at the 51st annual Monterey County Mathletics Competition on May 11 at Monterey Peninsula College. The contest drew 430 elite math students from 42 schools. Students could win as an individual or as a team. Here are the results:

GRADE 5 TEAM—THIRD PLACE

Members: Wyatt Anderson, Tono Borgomini, and Quinn Connolly Tono earned honorable mention.

GRADE 6 TEAM—SECOND PLACE

Members: Heidi Green, Savannah Hardy, and Nicole Iniakov

GRADE 7 TEAM—FIRST PLACE

Members: Domenic Borgomini, Eugene Kim, and Taiga Minami

Taiga took first place, Domenic placed third, and Eugene earned honorable mention.

GRADE 8 TEAM—FIRST PLACE

Members: Reena Dail, Annie Lin, and Jack Ratcliff

All three earned honorable mention.

The seventh- and eighth-grade teams also earned the CSUMB Mathletics Professors Collaborative Team Award. Congratulations to these students and their teachers, Lorna Monroe and Jessica Bangham!

One of grade 4's 3D-printed mission models.

Teacher Lorna Monroe celebrates a win by Mathletics team Jack Ratcliff, Annie Lin, and Reena Dail.

Dawn Patrol by eighth-grader Charlie Conner.

SANTA CATALINA BECOMES AN OCEAN GUARDIAN SCHOOL AGAIN

The Ocean Guardian program, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, empowers schools to develop projects that make a difference in the health and protection of their local watershed and ocean—in Catalina’s case, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Science teachers Kelly Miller in the Lower and Middle School and Lisa Marrack in the Upper School applied for and received a $4,000 grant at the beginning of the school year. The funds supported students’ efforts to reduce plastic use, restore local dunes, and research plastic pollution in the marine ecosystem. Led mostly by sixth-graders, activities in the Lower and Middle School included:

• C onducting three beach cleanups.

• Picking up trash on campus.

• Adding a recycling bin to the lunch line.

• R estoring local dunes. Students pulled 15 cubic feet of ice plant and replaced them with native species they grew in the greenhouse on campus. Students grew nearly 300 seedlings: 130 beach sagewort, 150 dune buckwheat, 10 beach primrose,

GRADE 2 ENTREPRENEURS GET CREATIVE

> After learning about different jobs in the community, second-graders came up with their own business ideas based on their interests. The process helped them develop writing, design, and speaking skills as they wrote about their products and services, created brochures and business cards, and talked to customers. There were flower shops, Lego shops, and pet stores, along with businesses devoted to toys and video games.

and seven mock heather. They planted about 200 seedlings themselves, and gave the rest to other groups to plant.

• Distributing 100 reusable water bottles, 38 coffee mugs, 40 metal straws, and 65 cloth sandwich/snack bags made by students.

• Visiting PreK–grade 5 classrooms to teach students how to reduce their use of plastics.

• C onducting a plastics audit at lunch. On three days in November, sixth-graders surveyed the number of plastic bags, beverage bottles, straws, individually wrapped snacks, plastic utensils, plastic cups, and drinks in students’ lunches. After their education campaign, they conducted another survey in February and found a dramatic drop in the number of individually wrapped snacks and straws.

Catalina was last named an Ocean Guardian School in the 2013–14 school year. That year, the school was able to install its first water filtration system to support students’ use of reusable water bottles. Santa Catalina is proud to continue efforts that make the campus and the community more green.

BOOMING BUSINESSES AT GRADE 5'S MINI CITY

> At this year’s Grade 5 Mini City, students sold their wares after deciding on a business name, a product or service, and prices. They sold waffles, frozen yogurt, bookmarks, jewelry, stress balls, hand-knitting lessons, and paper airplane tosses. Each student also created a 3D rendering of the business’s storefront.

GRADE 7 BUILDS PIECES OF HISTORY

> Seventh-graders may not have built empires, but they did build structures from empires for their Architecture Fair. Representing the time periods they cover in history class, 500–1600 CE, their structures included the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Machu Picchu, a Chinese pagoda, the oldest windmill in the Netherlands, and the moai (giant stone heads) of Easter Island.

COUGAR KINDNESS REACHES BUTTE COUNTY

Students learned about the devastating effects of the Camp Fire in Butte County through an assembly hosted by grade 2 and a chapel service led by PreK teacher Vanessa Krabacher, who grew up in the area. Newton connected Catalina with a school, Ponderosa Elementary School, where 275 students were displaced and 90 percent of families and teachers had lost their homes to the fire.

The students at Ponderosa were in need of something the Cougars could offer: letters to lift their spirits. Students in the Lower and Middle School got to work, with the help of their homeroom teachers and English teachers. In the days leading up to Winter Break, grade 8 students assisted the youngest Cougars in creating cards for their new friends. Third-graders wrote notes of support that doubled as pen-pal letters.

The cards and letters were bundled up and mailed to Ponderosa and were distributed to students there. The response to the initial package was one of much gratitude.

Santa Catalina students also collected nonperishable snacks from a suggested list. The collection was hand-delivered by Ms. Newton in April.

SPOTLIGHT FINDS TALENTED STUDENT-ARTISTS

Twelve Middle School students received awards in the regional 2019 Scholastic Art Awards. Their submitted works included digital art, photography, fashion, and video game design.

The California Central Coast Art Region is the largest and most competitive in the country, with 25 counties stretching from Monterey to Napa and across the width of the state. Out of more than 4,600 submissions, only about a third earned awards.

The students won in three categories: Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. Gold Key works automatically advanced to national judging. This year, eighth-grader Miriam Riley was awarded a National Gold Medal. Miriam was honored for her black-and-white photograph The Parlor and was invited to attend the national awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in June.

Silver and Gold Key–winning artwork was on display in the Pacific Grove Art Center March 1–30.

NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL

Miriam Riley (Grade 8)—Photography, The Parlor

GOLD KEY

Simon Henrard (Grade 8)—Photography, Darkest Night

Riley Yates (Grade 8)—Photography, Spotlight

Anna Yeh (Grade 8)—Photography, Sewer Dreams

SILVER KEY

Alex Carroll (Grade 8)—Photography, Window Room

Sophia Gargiulo (Grade 7)—Photography, Illuminated

Riley Yates (Grade 8)—Photography, Bright Side

HONORABLE MENTION

Charles Conner (Grade 8)—Photography, No Worries

Blake Butler (Grade 8)—Digital Art, Contrast

Ethan Leamey (Grade 8)—Video Game Design, Xtreme Sports

Elle Leatherberry (Grade 8)—Photography, Bright Lights

Jack Ratcliff (Grade 8)—Photography, Fly on the Water

Emma Sondergaard (Grade 7)—Photography, Geometric Mirror

Students load boxes of snacks for wildfire victims into kindergarten teacher Vanessa Krabacher's car.

The Parlor, a National Gold Medal-winning photo by eighth-grader Miriam Riley.

WATER POLO PLAYER MAKES BIG SPLASH

Eighth-grader Wyley Dale was chosen to participate in USA Water Polo’s 2019 National Team Selection Camp, marking him as one of the top athletes in the United States for his age group. The camp, held in April in Los Angeles, is part of USA Water Polo’s Olympic Development Program (ODP), which trains young athletes and provides opportunities for highperformance competition.

Wyley started playing water polo when he was about five years old. His parents signed him up for the Splashball program at Legacy Water Polo Club, which has used Santa Catalina’s pool since 2011. The convenience was a selling point for the family, given that both Wyley and his older brother, Jasper, were students at Catalina. “It was nice for them to be in their own backyard,” remarks their mother, Tricia Markusen.

About three years ago, Wyley shifted to the Santa Cruz Water Polo Club, where a coach nominated him for a spot in a camp at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs. Since then, Wyley has steadily advanced through a series of camps and competitions. In April, he attended the prestigious ODP National Team Selection Camp. Subsequently, he was selected to play on the 2019 Men’s Development National Team, serving as center defender. Water polo players at this elite level compete in events worldwide and train with world-class coaches.

“It feels really good accomplishing something that you have been working so hard to achieve,” declares Wyley, who was also part of Catalina’s championship volleyball team. Wyley says he has been supported along the way by his family (including Jasper, whom he has joined at Stevenson School, and little sister Arielle, a Middle School student at Catalina), Cougar Coach Jim Morton, and his good friend, classmate Charlie Conner. “Charlie and I played together at my first big water polo tournament, and since then he has always pushed me to do better,” says Wyley.

Wyley also spent time fundraising for USA Water Polo’s ODP, giving back to a sport that he loves. Wyley adds: “What I like best about water polo is all the friends and people I meet playing the game. You meet people at camps or at games, and you will most likely see them again. It’s also really fun to have that strong competitive feeling in the water, wanting to get better all the time.”

SPRING WRAP-UP

The 22 students competing on the tennis team represented an even group from grades 6, 7, and 8 and a blend of skill levels. Playing for the second year under Coach Gordon Davis, the team had solid leadership from eighth-grader Grady Garzo as the No. 1 singles player. Grady joined classmate Jack Ratcliff on the court as the No. 1 doubles players. Seventh-graders Emma Kim and Ally Yoshiyama alternated as the No. 1 singles player in the girls’ division during the season.

The golf squad played nine dual matches and finished with a 7–2 league record. The squad played the 18-hole Mission Trail Junior Athletic League championship match at Pasadera and finished with excellent results: Nicole Iniakov (grade 6) finished in first place in the girls’ division, followed by Samantha Lejtik (grade 6) in fourth place and Reena Dail (grade 8) in fifth. Coach Paul Elliott reflects: “The joy of Middle School golf is the wide range of experience and ability within the team. It is equally fun to work with the experienced golfers as it is to work with the novice players.”

The Cougar track and field team had a great season, with strong representation from all Middle School grade levels. Coached by Athletic Director Debra Burke, the team earned a total of 15 ribbons for placing first through third at the championship meet. Juliette Kosmont won second place in the eighth-grade girls’ high jump and first place in the eighth-grade girls’ 100 meter dash, in which she broke her own school record (12.8 seconds). Adrianna Kosmont finished in first place in the sixth-grade girls’ 100 meter dash; tied with classmate Lark Hansen for first in the sixth-grade girls’ high jump; and was part of the second-place sixth-grade girls’ 4×100 team with Lark Hansen, Chloe Shute, and Ava Ghio. Sloan Damnavits finished in first place in the eighth-grade girls’ high jump and placed second in the eighth-grade girls’ 4×100 race with teammates Juliette Kosmont, Tessa Rava (grade 7), and Sofia Enea. Owen Alderson placed third in the seventh-grade boys’ high jump.

Sixth-grader Samantha Lejtik placed second in the Mission Trail Junior Athletic League championship. Classmate Nicole Iniakov, background, took first.

Meeting the Challenge for Language Students

Middle School Spanish teacher Maria Canteli flew to her native city of Madrid in October 2018 to participate in the highly selective Google for Education Certified Innovator Academy. Educators come to these intense three-day academies with a specific goal: identify a challenge they want to overcome in their classroom or school, and design a project that will help them, and others, break through.

Canteli has been on a mission to give her students more opportunities to speak Spanish. Thanks to one-on-one technology coaching that she received through Santa Catalina’s professional development program, she has a full arsenal of digital tools that have engaged students in the classroom and allowed them to exercise their Spanish language skills at home. Wanting to go even further, she hunted for ways to connect her students with kids from Spanish-speaking countries. She found a few meaningful opportunities for high schoolers but not for younger students. “We can be pen pals or talk over Skype, but I wanted something more substantial, something that’s not ‘fun-fun-fun’ and then ‘bye-bye.’ I wanted to build a yearlong relationship with another school,” she said. Among her network of middle school Spanish teachers, she knows she’s not alone. She also knows that students want to make a connection, too.

Canteli had an idea: to create a website where teachers can access a series of projects and activities designed to help them build ongoing relationships with schools in other countries. The topics would be student-centered, focused on “what they want to know about another kid and not about what I think they should know,” she explains. It will take some time, but Canteli is motivated. The fast-paced, generous, no-holdsbarred environment of the Google academy helped her refine her plan, and she now has a network of innovators around the world that she can tap into for support and inspiration.

The spark that lighted this fire was the year she spent with Jim Puccetti of Knowing Technologies, the company that Catalina partners with to train educators on ways to enhance their teaching and the student experience. A small group of teachers participates in the coaching program each year; 18 have taken part since the 2015–16 school year.

For Canteli, the individual attention and tailor-made suggestions are what make the program stand out. She said that she has always used technology in the classroom but often had to adapt what others were doing outside of her subject area. She notes: “The challenge is always, how can this help me make my curriculum more interesting and relevant to my students? That’s what this program did for me.”

Canteli participated in the 2017–18 school year and discovered tools that helped her students more fully explore the language, places, and culture. “I revamped all of my projects,” she says. In one project, for example, students plan a vacation to a Spanish-speaking country. In the past, they would create slideshows with pictures and text, then give presentations in class. Now they build a virtual tour using Google Tour Builder. They develop an itinerary for a trip that includes important landmarks or points of interest in three different cities, adding photos or videos and written descriptions at each stop. Then they record a screencast of themselves taking the tour while speaking in Spanish. The real joy comes in the creation, as students use Google Street View to explore the cities—taking random right turns, studying the people on the street, even pointing out gas stations. “You can actually take a walk around the town, and that was really engaging,” Canteli says.

With this project and others, students upload their work to a website called Flipgrid, where they can watch videos of their peers speaking Spanish and reply in kind. By recording themselves, students who may be hesitant to speak in class can practice the language in the comfort of their home. As they improve, their confidence lifts. Canteli notes: “I have seen that the really quiet ones, the shy ones who don’t raise their hand or feel comfortable speaking, have a platform where they feel

The challenge is always, how can this [technology] help me make my curriculum more interesting and relevant to my students?

Top: Maria Canteli teaches a Spanish class.

Bottom: Canteli at the Google for Education Certified Innovator Academy in Madrid, Spain.

safe. For students who are more reluctant to put themselves out there and speak, it’s a good first step.”

Canteli is careful to ensure that whatever technology she incorporates in the classroom has purpose. Before the Google academy, she was able to connect with a school in Spain for a short exchange of videos. Her students introduced themselves in Spanish, sharing their likes and hobbies, and the Spanish students replied in English. “One of the most interesting things was seeing how our kids loved hearing them speak English. There was this realization that learning a language is hard for everybody.” Because students drove the conversation, they were also able to find common ground on interests such as dancing, sports, and video games. The more they learn about kids like them, the more they want to learn the language to be able to connect. That’s the ultimate goal, after all.

And that’s why Canteli is so grateful to Santa Catalina for its investment in professional development, especially the technology coaching program. “There’s nothing like this, like someone coming to your classroom and saying, ‘I’m going to help you with what you have.’ I can go to the best conference out there, but when I come back to the real world I’m busy and I forget about the things I just heard because I have no time to implement them. So to have this incredible opportunity to have a mentor for me—for Maria, for what I need—it’s invaluable.”

Graduation

Every morning when you wake up, commit to showing kindness to others.

—Pamela Ham Butler ’88, ’84 LS, Middle School Graduation Address

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(1) Jack Ratcliff during the procession of graduates.

(2) Miriam Riley delivers her graduation speech, reflecting on the support she received during her time in the Lower and Middle School.

(3) Miki Miller processes to the Lower Terrace.

(4) Sydney Kotei shakes hands with Board Chair Nonie B. Ramsay ’71 as Head of School Meg Bradley looks on.

(5) Aspen Wood with her parents, Tony and Donna, following graduation.

(6) Members of the Class of 2019 share a laugh as they gather together for one final photo.

(7) Congratulations to Santa Catalina Lower and Middle School’s Class of 2019!

(8) Kate Romans, Allyson Shortes, and Savannah Nicholas line up for the graduation procession.

(9) Graduation speaker and parent Pamela Ham Butler ’88, ’84 LS offers the graduates advice for living a life of character.

(10) Joseph Lu celebrates with his brother, Ocean, and a family friend.

(11) Boys from the Class of 2019 pose for a photo at the conclusion of the graduation ceremony.

WRITER IN RESIDENCE SHARES LOVE OF RIDDLES AND RHYME

Poet Catherine Tufariello came to Santa Catalina as the 2019 Writer in Residence March 11–15. It was Tufariello’s third visit to campus as Writer in Residence. She met with English classes throughout the week, held informal chats with students, and sat on a panel of judges for the school’s first Pi Day poetry contest.

In several English classes, she talked to students about riddles, one of the oldest forms of poetry. Tufariello explains: “Riddles go right to the heart of what poetry is. They make the ordinary seem strange and unfamiliar. They make you see things in a new way.” After challenging students to solve some riddles, she had them work in groups to craft riddles of their own. She also taught lessons on metaphor, meter, and paradox, and talked to students about the process of writing poetry.

Tufariello won the 2006 Poets’ Prize for her first collection

of poems, Keeping My Name, and her work has been featured in numerous anthologies. After a first career in college teaching and administration, she pursued a second career in the medical field. She now works as a community mental health nurse and is doing graduate coursework in clinical mental health counseling, with the goal of working with adolescents and young adults.

Tufariello notes that there’s a place for poetry in mental health practices: “Poetry is a creative outlet for expressing feelings and making sense of personal experiences, which can be therapeutic in itself.” Writing poetry can also help the writer stay in the present. “The poem preserves what was extraordinary about that sliver of time so it can be experienced again and again, both by the poet and others,” Tufariello adds.

ARTISTS SURPRISE SALINAS GIRLS WITH PORTRAITS

Santa Catalina enjoys a close community service relationship with the Family Resource Center in Salinas, which serves homeless children and their families. For the past three years, Catalina students have engaged with the elementary school–aged girls for various monthly activities, such as science experiments, seasonal crafts, book clubs, beach cleanups, and games.

At one event this year, a Santa Catalina student took photos of 11 young girls from the center. The photos were delivered to Claire Lerner’s sophomore Art 2 class, and Lerner’s students spent the next five months painting portraits based on the photos. The artists surprised the girls with the finished portraits during a “reveal” event on May 24 as the girls’ families looked on.

Cheryl Camany, a liaison at the Family Resource Center, remarks: “Our students look forward to the monthly events with their Santa Catalina buddies. These events build camaraderie, mentorship, and trusting relationships. . . . It was amazing to watch how proud our girls were to receive portraits of themselves.”

As the girls unwrapped their portraits, their facial expressions ranged from glee to awe. Lerner declares: “Our Catalina students’ work went way beyond my expectations for this project. These portraits were painted with love, compassion, and skill.”

The idea for the portraits came from the Memory Project, which art students participated in last year; students painted portraits of children from Haiti whose homes had been destroyed by a hurricane.

Both Lerner and service coordinator Jennifer Duncan were excited to adapt the Memory Project for the Family Resource Center.

Duncan, who received a surprise portrait of her own, comments: “Claire came up with such a meaningful project to connect our students to our community. The final reveal was so special. Just the fact that all of the families came to the event made our students understand the impact they were making through their artwork. It was a day I will remember for a long time to come.”

Family Resource Center students show off their portraits.

STUDENTS WIN REGIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS

Ten Santa Catalina students claimed 25 awards in the California Central Coast regional 2019 Scholastic Art Awards competition. Their submitted works included painting, photography, film, design, and mixed media. Students won in three categories: Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. Gold Key works automatically advanced to national judging. The Pacific Grove Art Center, which coordinates the regional awards, displayed Silver and Gold Key–winning works March 1–30. Congratulations to the winners!

GOLD KEY

Emalia Partlow ’19—Photography, Traces 1 and 2

Dana Zeng ’19—Design, OCHA Tea

Sofie Wang ’19—Film & Animation, Alive

Mariana Fernández ’19—Art Portfolio, Julia

Sarah Scheetz ’21—Photography, Free Flying

SILVER KEY

Amira Chou ’19—Painting, Weary Fatigue

Sum Yue Guan ’19—Photography, Dorm Friday

Emalia Partlow ’19—Photography, Traces 5 and 7

Dana Zeng ’19—Photography, Aperture

Grayce Nichols ’20—Photography, Julia

HONORABLE MENTION

Emma Bucholtz ’19—Art Portfolio, The Hangar

Lauren Dean ’20—Photography, Whirlpool

Sum Yue Guan ’19—Digital Art, Miss Toad; Mixed Media, Crepe; Mixed Media, Breaking Bread

Emalia Partlow ’19—Art Portfolio, Traces; Photography, Traces 3, 4, 6, and 8

Dana Zeng ’19—Design, Infinite Happiness; Design, Heart Helps Mind; Photography, In Motion

ROBOTICS TEAM COMPETES IN ‘DEEP SPACE’

Santa Catalina’s robotics team, Nuns-N-Bolts, competed at two events this year: the Monterey Bay Regional, held March 21–24 at Seaside High School, and the Silicon Valley Regional, held March 28–31 at San Jose State University.

The premise of this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition, “Destination: Deep Space,” which kicked off in January, involved two alliances using robots to collect as many samples as they could from a distant planet before the arrival of a sandstorm. Robots placed balls in baskets, attached gears to hooks, and returned to their starting blocks within a time limit. Each alliance consisted of three teams, so Nuns-N-Bolts worked with numerous students to devise strategies and troubleshoot technical difficulties. The alliances won four rounds at each event.

Although team members couldn’t start building their robot until January, they began preparing for the season in the fall by learning how to code and honing skills such as woodworking and soldering. The team’s faculty advisors were physics teacher Paulette Struckman and computer science teacher Amy Azevedo Mulgrew ’02, with help from maintenance supervisor Bobby McLaughlin and Brandon Naylor of the Naval Postgraduate School.

Free Flying , a Gold Key-winning photograph by Sarah Scheetz '21.

Seniors Annie Luo, Eleanor Scheetz, and Audrey Nixon with the Nuns-N-Bolts robot.

PRAISES SUNG FOR CATALINA MUSICIANS

Santa Catalina’s choir earned first place with a superior rating in the High School Women’s Choir Division at the Festivals of Music / Music in the Parks competition in Santa Clara on May 18. Lavender Zhou ’20 was named Best Instrumentalist in the Choral Division for her flute performance in Reginald Wright’s “Where’er You Go.” The choir also sang “Harriet Tubman” by Walter Robinson. Judges praised the choir in recorded comments; one judge deemed it the best women’s choir he had heard in a long time. Catalina has won best women’s choir in this event every year since 2008.

FIVE SENIORS NAMED NATIONAL HISTORY SCHOLARS

On May 20, five seniors were presented with National History Scholar awards. The awards were established by the National History Society to honor outstanding students of history at the secondary-school level. Catalina became the society’s first Charter Member school in 2009.

National History Scholars must have at least a 3.5 grade point average in a minimum of two years of high school history, as well as the recommendation of their school’s history faculty. Congratulations to Catalina’s newest History Scholars, who were presented with honorific burgundy cords: Mia Bennett, Amelia Downs, Victoria Gorum, Kacey Konya, and Erika Schwerdfeger.

STUDENTS TRIUMPH AT MONTEREY COUNTY SCIENCE FAIR

Eleven students won awards at the Monterey County Science and Engineering Fair held March 15–17 at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). Presenting in teams or individually, the students won in four categories.

After their first-place win at the fair, one team that built a mechanical hand applied for a spot at the Bay Area Maker Faire, held May 17–19 in San Mateo. Maker Faires give tech enthusiasts and tinkerers the chance to showcase their inventions and share their creative approaches to problem solving. Here are the winners of the science fair:

APPLIED MECHANICS & STRUCTURES

Seniors Grace Lostak-Baker, Audrey Nixon, Angela Hu, and Emma Bucholtz took first place for “Phil Angies: The Mechanical and Interactive Hand.” They used 3D design, Processing programming language, and Arduino hardware and software to create a functional and interactive hand, which they cleverly dubbed Phil Angies (like “phalanges,” or finger bones). The team also received a special award from the Biophysical Society, honoring the best biophysicsrelated project by a high school student.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Seniors Mia Bennett and Maya Pruthi took first place for their entry, “Low-Cost pH Control and Record System Using Arduino.” They also received a financial award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, given to a team for a first-place project on a subject of interest to the institute’s Industry Application Society.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Seniors Amira Chou, Emalia Partlow, and Victoria Gorum took first place for their entry, “The Effects of Upwelling, Chlorophyll-a, and SST on the Abundance and Community Structure of Zooplankton in Monterey Bay.”

Juniors Grayce Nichols and Truth Ortiz took third place for their entry, “Plankton Diversity in the Monterey Bay.”

ZOOLOGY

Senior Audrey Nixon took second place for her entry, “The Relationship Between Territorial and NonTerritorial Grazing Fish on Hawaiian Coral Reefs.” She also received the NASA Earth System Science Award, given to the best high school project with an Earth system science perspective.

The choir celebrates their 12th consecutive win at Music in the Parks.

JUNIORS RAKE IN AWARDS AT WESTON COMPETITION

Eleven juniors won awards in the 2019 Weston Scholarship portfolio competition. Santa Catalina students submitted 21 portfolios to the contest, which aims to preserve the legacy of black and white film photography on the Monterey Peninsula. The contest, hosted by The Weston Collective, drew 100 entries from four high schools and Monterey Peninsula College.

Two Catalina juniors, Taylor Ford and Abby Gunter, earned secondplace awards, which came with $500 scholarships. Taylor’s portfolio, Submerged , featured images of the body in water; Abby focused on first responders in Greenfield, California, for her portfolio, What’s Your Emergency? Catalina’s remaining winners earned honorable mention and $200 prizes. In total, Catalina students earned $2,800 in scholarship awards.

The students’ photographs represent a range of subjects, including portraits, abstracts, cityscapes, and landscapes. They also represent a variety of techniques; students used wax paper, experimented with exposure and contrast, worked with studio lighting, and created images using the photogram process.

An awards ceremony was held May 10 at the Monterey Museum of Art. Photographs remained on exhibit through July 7.

HONORABLE MENTION

Brooke Borgia

Ellie Butler

Jessica Clements

Damiera Cruz

Rosemary Lee

Gabriella Nagy

Grayce Nichols

Truth Ortiz

Chanel Sun

SECOND PLACE

IN THE JULIAN P. GRAHAM

HIGH SCHOOL CATEGORY

Taylor Ford

SECOND PLACE

IN THE WITHERILL-MORRISON

SOCIAL COMMENTARY CATEGORY

Abby Gunter

ART HISTORY STUDENTS TAKE KNOWLEDGE ON THE ROAD

Art history students toured private and public collections during a weekend field trip to the Bay Area, thanks to a special endowment created by the Class of ’71 in honor of a Santa Catalina alumna. The Art Beyond the Campus Endowment in Memory of Martha Williams ’71 was established to develop students’ interest in art by funding trips to museums and galleries. Williams spent her career in art, first at museums and later as chief advisor for art acquisition at Capital Group. In retirement, she joined the board of an arts organization in Pasadena where she could share her passion for art with children.

Thirteen students embarked on their trip at the end of March. Their first stop was the Napa home of Kit Nelson Bedford ’56, who has a vast, eclectic collection of paintings, textiles, glass art, and sculptures. Bedford shared how she and her husband became art collectors through travel. From there, students visited the Hess Collection and stayed overnight in a classmate’s home.

The next day they enjoyed a private tour of Carolands, a restored Gilded Age mansion, where they learned about architecture and interior design. They wrapped up their trip at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, where they viewed works by some of the same artists they had seen at the Bedford home.

Students said that when they viewed the artwork at each stop, they got to use the language and analytical skills they’ve been learning in class. One student said they even surprised one of the tour guides, who thought they were in college. Added another: “We got to see how far we’ve come.”

Art history students check out a piece by Andy Goldsworthy at the Hess Collection.

SPRING MUSICAL ROCKS THE HOUSE

Santa Catalina’s spring musical, We Will Rock You, was very rock ’n’ roll—which is as expected for a story about the salvation of rock music built around the songs of Queen. From the sets to the costumes to the all-out performances, the production delivered a bold, distinctive theatre experience.

We Will Rock You takes place in the distant future, when music is forbidden and free thought is discouraged. The protagonist, Galileo Figaro (Mackenzie Roth ’19), hears song lyrics in his head and yearns to know their significance. Trying to escape the clutches of a tyrannical ruler (Sofia Whitley ’19) and her henchman (Molly Gilbert ’19), Galileo meets another outcast (Samantha Scattini ’21), who joins him on a quest to uncover his destiny. Along the way, they

encounter fellow revolutionaries (Maddie Elkin ’21 and Kayla Ginette ’19), who take them to a hideout for rock-star-named bohemians in an abandoned Hard Rock Café. Together, they set out to save rock ’n’ roll and restore individuality and creative expression.

The show was a visual feast from beginning to end. The set was stark and industrial, backlit by a metallic color palette of mainly blue and pink. A rusty motorcycle, a stripped VW bug, and a life-size statue of Queen front man Freddie Mercury added visual flourishes. The heroes wore leather jackets, combat boots, and fishnet stockings, contrasting with the white or gray clothing of other residents of future Earth.

The actors belted out songs with

earnestness. Mackenzie and Molly squeezed every ounce of humor out of the use of song lyrics as dialogue. Samantha nailed the no-nonsense demeanor of an independent, headstrong woman. Maddie perfectly expressed the masculinity of the character she portrayed. Ariana Trueba ’19 adroitly played the Hard Rock’s laid-back hippie sage. Finally, the show made great use of Sofia’s commanding stage presence, including in a floor-to-ceiling video clip at the story’s climax.

The show concluded with the anthems “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” and an encore of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” By then, the verdict was already in: With We Will Rock You, the cast and crew rocked it.

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(1) Kayla Ginette '19, Maddie Elkin '21, and other bohemians

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CATALINA MATH CHAMPS SCORE

Some of Santa Catalina’s strongest math students earned team and individual awards at the 51st annual Monterey County Mathletics Competition on May 11 at Monterey Peninsula College. The contest drew more than 430 elite math students in grades 5–12 from 42 schools. Here are the results for Catalina:

MATH 1 TEAM—1ST PLACE

Members: Freshmen Anna Bella Hrepich, Claire Nowak, and Amalie Hansch.

Anna Bella took first place, Claire placed second, and Amalie earned honorable mention.

MATH 3 TEAM—3RD PLACE

Members: Heidi Hansch ’21, Taylor Ford ’20, and Grace Deakyne ’20. Heidi earned honorable mention.

AP CALCULUS AB TEAM—1ST PLACE

Members: Emma Bucholtz ’19, Ashley Liu ’21, and Linda Mao ’19.

Ashley placed first and Linda placed third.

Ashley also earned the $500 CSUMB Mathletics Professors Scholarship Award.

AP CALCULUS BC TEAM

Members: Juniors Joanna Lin, Rosemary Lee, and Chanel Sun.

Joanna earned honorable mention.

On April 29, Math and Science Department Chair Ned Stork announced the results of this year’s California Math League contests, including recipients of the Balles Award. Six contests were held throughout the year, requiring students to bring a creative mix of intuition, acquired mathematical knowledge, logic, and common sense. Sixty-four students participated in at least one contest. The students in each grade who got the most answers correct were Amalie Hansch ’22, Heidi Hansch ’21, Lavender Zhou ’20, and Annie Luo ’19.

The Balles Award recognizes students who participated in all six contests and earned an average of four correct answers. Thanks to the continued generosity of mathematician Robert P. Balles, the award comes with cash prizes. Linda Mao ’19 earned third place and $250, Annie Luo took second place ($500), and Lavender Zhou placed first ($750).

TUTORING BENEFITS ADD UP

The Math Tutoring Center began two years ago as a way to provide support for students outside of class and office hours. Algebra teacher Jennifer Duncan and calculus teacher Noova Ongley proposed the idea after seeing similar programs succeed at other schools. The center is staffed by about 20 peer tutors (most of whom are in honors courses) and a math faculty member. It is open at various times throughout the week to correspond with as many common free periods as possible. Students can come in with specific questions, or simply work on homework with the comfort of knowing help is at hand.

The center encourages students to take action in their learning. “We want them to develop the independence and resourcefulness to identify when they need help and to take initiative,” explains Ned Stork, chair of the Math Department and coordinator of math instruction for grades 6–12. Another byproduct of the center is that it provides a chance to build relationships between teachers and students. After all, as Stork points out, “we’re a school that’s about relationships.”

For the tutors, working in the center is a valuable service experience. “Peer tutoring allows me to use my math skills to help others and teaches me how to cater to all needs, while also giving me a sense of accomplishment when a student understands their topic fully,” says tutor Trixie Stork ’21. The experience has taught her patience and understanding, and has even improved her math skills. She adds that tutoring “has helped me better understand what I am learning because I go over the logic and try to simplify it for others.”

As the Math Tutoring Center continues to grow and evolve, one thing will remain constant: It will be a place of support that students can count on.

Trixie Stork '21 helps other students in the Math Tutoring Center.

SPRING SPORTS WRAP-UP

The lacrosse team continues to be a rising star in the Pacific Coast Athletic League (PCAL), Gabilan Division. Under the guidance of third-year coach Susanna Wilcox, the team finished with a 7–5 league record this year. Players hit their stride in the second half of the season, scoring more goals, giving up fewer points, and improving on-field communication. They finished the season by winning four of their last five contests. Coach Wilcox reflects: “Each year the lacrosse team continues in the direction of an elite team. We are going to get there, and we believe it will be next year.”

The softball team faced highly competitive teams in the Gabilan Division of PCAL; five of the seven teams that the Cougars played continued deep into their respective Central Coast Section (CCS) Division playoffs. Numerous injuries left the team challenged to compete against teams with three strong pitchers and position subs. The Cougars played to a strong finish and demonstrated their grit in two-run losses to Hollister, Watsonville, and Gilroy—all CCS Division I powerhouses. Assistant Coach Paul Elliott comments: “Coming off a league and CCS title in 2018 prepared us to handle the adversity that came with this season. We were able to demonstrate our true character, and show our ability to improve throughout the 2019 season.”

Facing the unique challenge of swimming without a pool for part of the season, the swim team was resilient in its efforts to improve and compete, finishing 2–5 in the Gabilan Division. Additional travel time and lack of practice impacted the conditioning that the swimmers needed to be successful. The team peaked at the end of the season, finishing sixth in the division. Catalina swimming is, historically, a strong program, and the team looks to be back to form in 2020.

With six straight league championships, track and field found themselves in a new place—rebuilding the team. In 2019, the squad was larger but less experienced than in previous years. Competing in the 12-team Mission Division of PCAL, success was unexpected, with a fourth-place finish in league. The positive attitudes and determination exhibited by the girls are expected to carry this team to bigger things in the years to come. Head Coach Barry Panes exclaims, “They have so much potential. It is exciting to look forward to 2020!”

TRACK AND FIELD COACH WINS CCS HONOR COACH AWARD

Santa Catalina track and field coach Barry Panes received the Central Coast Section’s 2018–19 Spring Sports Honor Coach Award. The award recognizes coaches for their professional standards, service to the sport, coaching accomplishments, and contributions to their school and community.

Panes has coached track and field at Santa Catalina for the past six years. In that time, the Cougars have won five straight league titles and set school records in the hurdles, sprints, relays, and triple jump (his favorite event). He is described as “totally unselfish with his extra time,” taking athletes to compete at invitationals almost every Saturday during track season and working with them after practice on technical events or weight training.

The CCS announcement notes: “He is well-respected and admired, both at Santa Catalina and throughout the [Pacific Coast Athletic League], for his dedication and drive to help his student athletes achieve their goals.”

Amelia Downs ’19 competes in the breast stroke during a meet at Catalina.

Clare Watson ’21 and Julia Bledsoe ’20 bolt from the blocks at a track and field meet.

SPORTS HONORS

Basketball - Elgie Bellizio Sportsmanship Team, Santa Lucia Division

Abby Gunter ’20 - All-League Santa Lucia Division Second Team

Kia Shoemaker ’19 - All-League Santa Lucia Division First Team

Emma Ubertino ’20 - Santa Lucia Division Sportsmanship Team

Field Hockey

Issy Brooker ’20 - All-League Mission Division First Team

Emma Bucholtz ’19 - All-League Mission Division First Team

Niamh Burke ’21 - All-League Mission Division Second Team

Grace Gaon ’21 - All-League Mission Division Second Team

Angie Leissner ’22 - All-League Mission Division Second Team

Candace Wong ’20 - All-League Mission Division First Team; Mission Division Sportsmanship Team

Laurel Wong ’19 - All-League Mission Division First Team; Mission Division MVP

Golf

Sophia Chun ’22 - Gabilan Division Sportsmanship Team

Grace Deakyne ’20 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team

Lacrosse

Issy Brooker ’20 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team

Grace Deakyne ’20 - Gabilan Division Sportsmanship Team

Ginny McNamara ’22 - All-League Gabilan Division Second Team

Sarah Scheetz ’21 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team; Gabilan Division Defensive Player of the Year

Cailin Templeman ’22 - All-League Gabilan Division Second Team

Emma Underdown ’21 - All-League Gabilan Division Second Team

Soccer

Emma Bucholtz ’19 - All-League Santa Lucia Division Second Team

Niamh Burke ’21 - All-League Santa Lucia Division First Team

Angie Leissner ’22 - Santa Lucia Division Sportsmanship Team

Leona Lind-Aunan ’21 - All-League Santa Lucia Division First Team

Sarah Scheetz ’21 - All-League Santa Lucia Division Second Team

Softball

Brooke Borgia ’20 - Gabilan Division Sportsmanship Team

Jessica Clements ’20 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team; The Monterey Herald All-County Softball Team

Abby Gunter ’20 - All-League Gabilan Division Second Team

Tennis

Annabel Stork ’19 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team

Foletta

Track and Field

Laurel Wong ’19 - All-League Mission Division First Team (pole vault, long jump); Pacific Coast Athletic League Pole Vault Champion; Pacific Coast Athletic League Long Jump Champion; California Interscholastic Federation State Championship competitor (pole vault)

Volleyball

Angela Hu ’19 - Gabilan Division Sportsmanship Team

Alicia Rector ’19 - All-League Gabilan Division First Team; The Monterey Herald All-County Volleyball Team

Water Polo - Elgie Bellizio Sportsmanship Team, Mission Division

Whitney Allen ’22 - All-League Mission Division First Team; Mission Division Newcomer of the Year

Georgina Burton ’20 - All-League Mission Division Second Team

Abbie Fisher ’19 - All-League Mission Division First Team; Mission Division Senior of the Year

Emalia Partlow ’19 - Mission Division Sportsmanship Team

Emma Underdown ’21 - All-League Mission Division First Team

Maddy

’22 has her eyes on the ball.

Issy Brooker ’20 contributes to the growing success of the lacrosse team.

Commencement

Take the torch and remember that your journey started here.

—Leslie Redlich Cockburn ’70 Commencement Address

(1) Emily Poole and Olivia Gebreamlak during postceremony celebrations on the front lawn.

(2) Mia Bennett, Annabel Stork, and Maya Pruthi with their classmates Emma Leamey and Kacey Konya

(3) True to tradition, graduates toss red rose petals to celebrate the conclusion of their time at Santa Catalina.

(4) Erika Schwerdfeger and Emily Radner pose for photos following Commencement.

(5) In her commencement address, “Serendipity,” Leslie Redlich Cockburn ’70 encouraged the Class of 2019 to be open to chance and changes of direction.

(6) All smiles following Commencement! From left: Angela Hu, Emalia Partlow, Anna Camara, Victoria Gorum, and Amira Chou.

(7) George Murphy ’22 LS with new graduates Julia Airada, Emilly Hayes, and Sofia Whitley.

(8) Ariana Trueba shares a hug with Chaaya Patel after the recessional.

(9) Mackenzie Roth makes her way in the traditional procession from Study Hall to Sullivan Court.

(10) Yvett Cárdenas Kastis with her aunt, Ivonne Kastis, and cousin, Ivonne, share a photo with classmate Yanula Avila Kyriakis and her aunt, Eleni Kyriakis ’98, and cousin, Eleni.

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CLASS OF 2019 College Matriculation

Bates College

Boston College

Boston University

Bucknell University

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California State University, Sacramento

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Santa Barbara

Carnegie Mellon University

Chapman University

Colby College

Colorado College

University of Denver

Emory University

Georgetown University

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (2)

Ithaca College

James Madison University

Lafayette College

Loyola Marymount University

Pennsylvania State University

Rhode Island School of Design

Saint Mary’s College of California (2)

University of San Diego (2)

Scripps College (2)

University of Southern California (4)

Stanford University (3)

Texas Christian University

University of St Andrews

University of Utah

Washington and Lee University

Western Washington University

Westminster College

Whittier College

DISTINCTIONS AT COMMENCEMENT

WITH HIGHEST HONOR

Angela Hu

Kacey Konya

Yunmin Sophia Lee

WITH HIGH HONOR

Mia Bennett

Shuxuan Annie Luo

Erika Schwerdfeger

Lingyu Sofie Wang

WITH HONOR

Emma Bucholtz

Amira Chou

Victoria Gorum

Emily Hayes

Jiayue Linda Mao

Emily Radner

Annabel Stork

Ariana Trueba

SANTA CATALINA AWARDS

MERIWETHER AND CROOM BEATTY AWARDS

honor a freshman and a sophomore who exemplify compassion, integrity, faith, and friendship.

Freshman—Cailin Templeman

Sophomore—Sarah Sallee

SISTER MARY KIERAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

is given to two juniors who embody generosity and sensitivity as modeled by Sister Kieran.

First place—Candace Wong

Second place—Taylor Ford

ROBERT P. BALLES AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

honors the students graduating first and second in the senior class for their outstanding academic performance.

First place—Kacey Konya

Second place (tie)—Angela Hu, Yunmin Sophia Lee

STUDENT SUPPORT AWARD

honors students who have exhibited consistent support of their classmates and demonstrated leadership in their respective areas of influence while at school.

Simone Brown

Erika Schwerdfeger

ADMIRAL ROBERT S. HATCHER AWARD

honors students who engage in the academic curriculum to the limit of possibility for the joy and sake of learning.

Angela Hu

THE ACADEMY AWARD

honors two students for their outstanding contribution to the performing arts during the last four years, both onstage and backstage.

Molly Gilbert

SUNZAH PARK SOLI DEO GLORIA AWARD

honors a student for her contribution to the liturgical life of the school through music.

Kayla Ginette

OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL SUPPORT AWARD

honors those students who called upon their own resources and enlisted the talents of others in pursuit of a common goal.

Emily Hayes

Mackenzie Roth

Vanessa Colin

Eleanor Scheetz

THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD

honors a student who exemplifies Christian concern for others with leadership and dedication to the spiritual welfare of the school.

SeoYoung Iris Kang

MUNRAS COURTESY AWARD

honors a student who exemplifies courage, graciousness, integrity, and openness to all.

Victoria Gorum

Emalia Partlow

THE ALUMNAE AWARD

honors students who have offered intellectual integrity, quiet leadership, and a mature individual perspective.

Kacey Konya

THE VERITAS AWARD

honors a senior who exemplifies the school’s motto, Truth; who is true to herself and to others, acts with joy and single-mindedness, and who through her clear judgment and daily living leaves the school a better place.

Molly Gilbert

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Explore, my friends. Accept the unexpected invitation. Take the chance and be ready to fail. Out of failure, comes success.

—Leslie Redlich Cockburn ’70 Commencement Address

(6) Tradition holds that each graduate is given a bouquet with 18 red roses. Laurel Wong, Kiana Shoemaker, Alicia Rector, Kaki Huebner, Simone Brown, and Abbie Fisher with their bouquets awaiting the procession to Sullivan Court.

You know that a woman can lead. So trust yourselves, that you will find your path, and don’t let it be too straight or too narrow.

—Leslie Redlich Cockburn ’70 Commencement Address

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(1) Dr. Christian Reilly (far left) and Dr. Lisa Marrack (far right) with a group of their Marine Ecology Research Program students: Amira Chou, Olivia Gorum, Mia Bennett, Maya Pruthi, Eleanor Scheetz, Molly Gilbert, Sofia Whitley, Sum Yue Guan, Emalia Partlow, and Audrey Nixon.

(2) Amelia Downs prepares to receive her diploma at Commencement.

(3) Vanessa Colin is followed by Audrey Nixon in the procession to Sullivan Court.

(4) The Class of 2019 jumps for joy following Commencement!

(5) Jessie Crump with her parents, Lavinia and John, at the conclusion of Commencement.

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Whether growing grapes or rice, operating bakeries or restaurants— these are stories of Catalina alumnae, farm to fork.

Heart Harvest &

A Life Among the Vines

GAY CALLAN ’67

Chatom Vineyards is nestled in its own little valley in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Neat rows of vines spread out on either side of a loose collection of buildings, a quintessential red barn standing out as a focal point among the greens and golds of the surrounding slopes. The property is located at the center of Calaveras County, home to Mark Twain’s jumping frog and a burgeoning wine scene. Some 35 wineries and 50 vineyards, most small and familyowned, dot the region, which lies a straight shot east from Napa.

The number of wineries and vineyards in Calaveras County has grown exponentially since Gay Callan ’67 planted her first vines here in 1981. Now, after 40 years of growing grapes and producing wine, she’s preparing to plant her last. It’s a bittersweet moment for Callan, who was born and raised in San Francisco but adapted beautifully to the farming life. “I never thought I’d be kicking dirt,” she said, “but I have loved absolutely every part of it.”

Callan admits to being “very green” when she bought the 750-acre cattle ranch that would become Chatom Vineyards in 1980. She had earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in sociology and criminology and a master’s degree from Sacramento State in marketing and finance, and had spent several years working for a company that leased computers and large equipment to other businesses. The money was good, but she was miserable.

Although she was a city girl, Callan was somewhat familiar with country life. Her family has owned farmland in California since her Italian ancestors immigrated to the Central Valley in the 1800s. When the opportunity came to purchase the cattle ranch, Callan was determined to give it a try, intent on planting grapevines on the property. “My dad looked at me and said, ‘I don’t think you’re doing the right thing.’ I said, ‘Give me a chance. I’ll figure out which end of the grape to put in the ground.’” Farmers from the neighboring county expressed their doubts, too. “This was a man’s world,” Callan said. She held her ground and used the best tool available to her: education. She took classes at UC Davis, reached out to people who knew the business, and began converting a portion of the ranch into a vineyard.

Callan said there were many lessons from Santa Catalina that helped her through these early years. Chief among them was the ability to work with and learn from people with different experiences. “One of the things I was able to take away from Santa Catalina was the art of dealing with different personalities. You lived with different personalities, you were taught by different personalities, and there

was respect,” she said. “I totally respected what I was learning.” She also knew she could count on the network of close friends she made at Catalina. “The challenge of what I wanted to do, I was scared, but I also had people I could rely on,” she said.

In an area best known for zinfandel, Callan planted her first 21 acres with chardonnay and chenin blanc vines. For the next few years, she was solely a grower and seller of grapes—and she intended to keep it that way. But when the winery she supplied could no longer take one of the varietals she produced, she crushed those grapes to make her own wine, and the Chatom Vineyards label was born. Five years later, in 1990, she opened a winery and tasting room just outside the town of Murphys. At the time, hers was one of only a handful of wineries in the area. “We made wine in an old-world way,” she said. “I took a tremendous amount of pride in crafting wines that weren’t just about throwing out on the market. Our full-bodied reds would be in the barrel for 24 to 36 months.”

Chatom’s lineup included French, Italian, and Portuguese wines, from merlot and syrah to sangiovese and touriga. Then, as now, most of the local wine business was driven by tourists and wine club members, but Callan traveled ceaselessly to get her wines into stores across the United States. At its height, the winery produced 15,000 cases a year, and Chatom wines could be found in 11 states. Still, Callan maintained a focus on the community. For a few years in the early 2000s, with a female winemaker on board, Chatom made small batches of blends from excess grapes, with proceeds going to local chapters of heart disease and cancer organizations. The wines, dubbed “She Wines,” always sold out.

Callan, considered a pioneer of the Calaveras County wine industry, sold the winery in 2015. Wanting to slow down the “fast and furious” pace of the past 25 years, she is focused only on grape growing once more, tending a 65-acre vineyard with 13 varietals. “I’m back on a tractor,” she said. “I feel like Barbara Stanwyck.” But even from this, she’s ready to step away. The vineyard is up for sale.

Callan has few regrets about her life as a viticulturist and winery owner. She should have learned how to be the actual winemaker, she says. And she should have stopped more often to enjoy the fruits of her labor. Asked what advice she has for young alumnae in the wine industry, she offered only one thing: patience. Take time not only to craft the best wine, but to drink in your accomplishments— something she is only now doing for herself. Says Callan, “Reap the benefit of looking out at the beauty you’ve been able to create.”

No Wheat, No Worries

HEATHER HARDCASTLE-PERKO ’94

Heather Hardcastle-Perko ’94, ’90 LS was diagnosed as glutenintolerant at both the wrong time and the right time. It was 2000, just a few years before a landmark study on celiac disease would thrust wheat proteins into the national spotlight and spark a boom of gluten-free foods about a decade later. The timing of her diagnosis meant two things: that the availability of delicious gluten-free baked goods was lacking, and that the market would be ready for her when she came up with something better.

In 2007, Hardcastle enrolled at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Napa Valley. Her goal was personal, not professional; she and her husband had their own landscape design company in San Francisco, and she had no desire for the restaurant life. “I just wanted to learn technique and make my own thing,” she asserts.

Her own thing would eventually morph into a business, however: Flour Craft Bakery & Café, Marin County’s first gluten-free bakery, with locations in San Anselmo and Mill Valley. Depending on the season, you might find blueberry-lemon scones, sourdough waffles, pumpkin crumble muffins, hazelnut brown butter brownies, flourless mudslide cookies, chocolate cupcakes, blackberry cheesecake galette, vegetable quiches, “fancy” toasts, fresh salads, open-faced sandwiches, and much more. “We always say that our products are simply good, and the fact that they’re gluten-free is just a bonus,” says Hardcastle.

It began with granola. Two years after graduating from CIA, she rented a commercial kitchen in the evenings and made gluten-free granola to sell at farmers markets. The feedback was positive and she began selling the product in local stores. Today, she sells three flavors of granola—maple pecan, cranberry almond, and raisin walnut cacao nib—in Whole Foods and other grocery stores from Monterey to Reno, as well as online.

Hardcastle also used the farmers markets as an opportunity to test and refine recipes for other gluten-free baked goods. Buoyed by the response, she and her husband, Rick Perko, closed the landscape business and opened Flour Craft’s first storefront in downtown San Anselmo in 2013. “Opening a restaurant is not for the faint of heart. It’s a super long process. It takes twice as long as you think it will and costs twice as much. And then once the doors open, that’s when the real work starts.”

The year the bakery opened, gluten-free foods and beverages were

a $10.5 billion industry. The Food and Drug Administration set rules for defining “gluten-free” on food labels, yet another indication of the diet’s growing presence in American life. Flour Craft developed a following and earned positive reviews in regional publications. In the spring of 2018, five years after opening in San Anselmo, Hardcastle and Perko added a location in the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, a historic collection of rustic red buildings that had been newly restored as a quaint shopping village and community gathering space. This Flour Craft, which resides in a converted carriage house, offers more madeto-order, savory breakfast and lunch items; Hardcastle describes it as more of a “plant-based café.” For a while, Flour Craft was the only eatery in the Lumber Yard. Business is popping. “It’s busier than we thought it would be, which has a different set of challenges,” says Hardcastle, who also makes a lot of special occasion cakes. She adds: “I am very much a working chef. I like to be doing production, working in the kitchen. For me, the struggle of being an owner is how to have enough time to grow the business.”

If the kitchen is where she prefers to be, it shows. “I have no shortage of ideas,” she says. Scouring blogs, magazines, and cookbooks, and drawing from her own travels, she finds a recipe that grabs her and sets to work on figuring out how to make it gluten-free. “I get inspired by what other people are doing and find a way to make it my own,” she notes. Instead of using wheat flour, Hardcastle bakes with flours made from almonds, rice, millet, sorghum, and tapioca. The challenge of baking with alternative flours is that they don’t behave the same way as traditional flour, and it’s easy to lose the texture and lightness of the original. A lot of recipes call for a generic gluten-free flour mix, she said, but what you end up with is a brownie that has the same consistency as a scone. “It’s not one size fits all,” she explains. Her solution: She creates her own flour blends that are unique to each item. It takes a fair amount of experimentation, but by now she can usually nail a recipe on the second try—although bread is a different story. Hardcastle confesses, “Bread is the most difficult to make gluten-free, and those recipes are sometimes a months-long process.”

Of course, persistence is nothing new to a Santa Catalina alumna. “I really feel like Catalina gave me a lot of confidence to pursue what it was that I enjoyed, and to figure out a way to make that work for me and the life I want to make for myself,” Hardcastle says.

The Draw of the Land

ROBIN KODA ’80

For Robin Koda ’80, growing up on the family rice farm was almost cliché. Leaving the house after supper most evenings, Koda and her siblings would bike around the farm among grazing livestock, or roam the levees in search of minnows, crayfish, and birds’ nests. Trucks pulled up in her front yard to be loaded with bags of table rice, sweet rice, and rice flour. She chopped weeds and learned how rice was grown, harvested, processed, and packaged, all on site on about 5,000 acres in California’s northern San Joaquin Valley.

But this pastoral scene belies a tumultuous history that defines the story of the family farm. Robin, who now runs the farm with her brother Ross, explains: “Part of our strong ties to this place, this land, is due to the traumatic experience of our ancestors. It surrounds us on a daily basis.”

Koda Farms is the oldest family-owned and operated rice farm and mill in California. It was founded in the 1920s by Robin’s grandfather, Keisaburo, a Japanese immigrant whose farming acumen and pioneering growing techniques—including sowing seeds by air— earned him the moniker of “Rice King.” When the bombing of Pearl Harbor led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, Keisaburo and his family were sent to a camp in Colorado and were forced to relinquish management of the farm to strangers. When the Kodas returned in 1945, everything had been sold off.

Undeterred, Keisaburo’s sons slowly began buying up land and rebuilding the business just a quarter-mile from the original homestead. They became the first commercial growers of sweet rice in California—a sticky rice best known for its use in the Japanese rice cakes called mochi—and cultivated a new breed of medium-grain rice, Kokuho Rose, uniquely suited to their corner of the world.

Koda’s father helped run the farm; her mother was a teacher. The family valued education, but opportunities were slim in the Central Valley. One summer, Koda attended camp at Santa Catalina and “realized how much I was missing an education.” She asked if she could enroll at Catalina during the school year and came on board as a junior. Knowing it was a financial stress on her parents to send her to Catalina, Koda focused on her studies. “I was committed to making honor roll; that would be a way for me to acknowledge how

grateful I was,” she says. Catalina was a challenging but eye-opening experience. “I learned that women didn’t always have to compete with men on the superficial values present and reinforced in everyday culture. You had the freedom to be yourself, and all you had to do was apply yourself academically. It was an extremely supportive environment that let you explore your true values.”

Koda graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, then earned an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She had a fellowship to make sculptures and other 3D artwork, spent time in Los Angeles and France, and considered trying to make a living as an artist, but she couldn’t stay away from the family farm. “I felt the draw of the land,” she says. Koda and her brother took over the business in the late 1990s. Living once again on the farm, she is the face of the business, sharing its story in countless interviews and making the trek to Santa Monica once a month to sell their rice at farmers markets.

Koda said the farmers markets allow her to demonstrate how their rice differs from the majority of rice grown in California. “Unfortunately, a lot of rice has turned into a bland carbohydrate used as a vehicle for other ingredients. That’s not the focus of Japanese rice, which has so much significance in the culture and is appreciated on its own individual merit.” The heirloom variety of rice from Koda Farms, Kokuho Rose, is emblematic of this emphasis on quality. Growing this variety is truly a labor of love: It takes three years just to produce the seed, and the slow-maturing crop yields about a third less than contemporary grains. The result is rice that Koda describes as having a “slightly more floral bouquet.” Sold mainly in specialty stores, the rice is especially popular among Japanese Americans and is coveted by celebrity chefs and sushi aficionados.

Although Koda and her brother have made changes to the farm, including converting several hundred acres to organic production, the business continues to follow the model established by their grandfather almost a century ago. Koda sums it up: “As a small farm, we definitely feel the competition. But we’re trying to maintain our identity, our unique character. . . . This is about heritage and history.”

Photo by Katsu Naito

Party of Five

MARISSA ANSHUTZ HERMER ’99

“Full speed ahead.” That’s how Marissa Anshutz Hermer ’99 characterizes the next phase of her and her husband’s restaurant business. Last year, the couple, newly arrived in Southern California from London, opened a British-inspired restaurant in the Pacific Palisades called The Draycott; plans are now in the works to expand to three other cities in the greater Los Angeles area. The Hermers are also set to launch an entirely new restaurant, Olivetta, in West Hollywood this fall.

In this partnership with her husband, Matt, Hermer handles the “front of the house”—everything the customer sees, from the design of the dining room to marketing and promotions. Hermer began her career in public relations, first in London and then in New York. One of her first jobs was to help renowned hotelier Ian Schrager revamp the Gramercy Park Hotel, famous for its Rose Bar and rooftop restaurant. The opportunity provided an education in hospitality, but Hermer was especially drawn to the workings of the bar and restaurant—and the power that food has to bring people together. “I like creating moments—whether an afternoon tea, a lunch, or an anniversary dinner—where people can come together and celebrate their lives,” she says.

While in New York, Hermer reconnected with Matt, an established nightclub owner and restaurateur whom she had met in London. The couple moved back to London in 2008 and married soon after. Together, they grew the family business, which included the glamorous Eclipse Bars in London, Istanbul, and Barcelona, and a chain of British farm-to-table restaurants called Bumpkin. (Hermer was a cast member of the Bravo reality TV show Ladies of London, which often filmed at one of the Bumpkin locations.)

Feeling inspired—and desperately missing American food— Hermer opened her own restaurant in 2015, Top Dog, which served gourmet hot dogs, burgers, and shakes. “At the time, I didn’t feel like U.S. comfort food was represented in London,” she says. Although the restaurant was successful, she sold it when her family moved to Los Angeles in 2017.

The blending of two food cultures is a theme in the Hermers’ ventures, and it’s reflected in Marissa’s cookbook, An American Girl

in London: 120 Nourishing Recipes for Your Family from a California Expat. Drawing on her upbringing in Newport Beach, Hermer delivers recipes that promise “homey British favorites with a brighter twist.”

For Hermer, writing the cookbook was an intensely personal experience. While pregnant with her third child (daughter Sadie), she was placed on bed rest and worried that it might affect her relationship with her other children, sons Max and Jake. Hermer explains: “The cookbook saved me. It was a way to keep my mind occupied, while also being able to satisfy my own maternal urges. I was never a big cook before, but I learned how. Cooking helped me feel like a good mom and wife.”

Her kitchen continues to be the heart of her home, now that she’s back in California. But managing a growing restaurant portfolio means spending more time in restaurants, whether her own or other hotspots around town. At the time of this writing, the opening of Olivetta is fast approaching, and the Hermers have just found their chef: Michael Fiorelli, who is tasked with bringing the restaurant’s Mediterranean menu to life. Some foodies have already gotten their first taste, as Fiorelli, under the banner of Olivetta, participated in the culinary charity event L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade, a fundraiser dedicated to fighting childhood cancer. “It’s an honor to be invited, and it means that we’ve made it,” declares Hermer.

Even with the fast and furious pace of expansion, Hermer maintains a friendly and supportive environment for her staff, a lesson she took with her from Santa Catalina. She notes: “At Catalina, we were always supporting one another and cheering on our classmates. Whether it was celebrating our friends’ birthdays and putting their desks up on stage or applauding athletes in Assembly, we always delighted in our friends’ successes. At work, I continue to do this. Building a positive, engaged workplace means supporting each other and acknowledging everyone’s wins. That makes for a strong team.”

The successes are piling up for Hermer. If you find yourself in Los Angeles, stop by one of her restaurants and celebrate together.

The Sweet Spot

COURTNEY GILLESPIE ’12

About five years ago at a trade show in Las Vegas, Courtney Gillespie ’12 got a lesson in the power of semantics. She was trying to provide samples from her family’s raisin business. “Would you like to try some raisins?” she called out to a stream of passersby, who either gave her the sorry wave or ignored her entirely. Then she tried something a little more descriptive: “Would you like to try a vine-dried grape?” People stopped, turned to look, shrugged, and replied, “Sure.”

So much promise in that short word. In Gillespie’s experience, once people get a taste of the plump, juicy, sweet dried grape, they know they’re not eating an ordinary raisin.

Gillespie is the president and chief operating officer of Life’s Grape, a retail offshoot of her family’s wholesale business, River Ranch Raisins. She runs the venture out of Reno with her mom, who serves as chief executive officer. In true startup fashion, the motherdaughter duo is involved in all aspects of the business, from product development to packaging to sales and marketing.

Launched in October 2018, Life’s Grape began selling its products on Amazon and through its website. In July of this year, Life’s Grape products were picked up by Raley’s, a chain of grocery stores in Northern California and Nevada. To Gillespie’s surprise, Life’s Grape is being shelved in the healthy snacks section, far from the iconic red boxes of Sun-Maid raisins, the industry leader. “We don’t want to compete with them, so that’s a huge win for us,” Gillespie remarks.

What makes vine-dried grapes so special? For generations, the most popular variety grown for raisins has been the Thompson Seedless. Typically, the harvested grapes are placed on trays and left to dry in the sun on the ground. Because the crop is harvested by hand, the process is labor intensive. Consequently, the variety has become harder to farm amid rising labor costs. In 2001, UC Davis introduced a new kind of grape called the Selma Pete, labeled as “dry on the vine,” or DOV in industry lingo. These grapes ripen earlier, giving them more time to accumulate the desired amount of sugar while they dry in place, hanging from the vine. They are then machine-harvested directly into bins. The process not only reduces labor costs but also keeps the grapes off the ground.

The big promise of Selma Petes, besides the sweeter flavor, was sustainability: farmers would be able to grow twice as many grapes for the same amount of water. That promise is what initially led Gillespie’s parents to plant their first Selma Petes on their Madera County, California, farm in 2007. Gillespie explains: “The Selma Pete turned out to be exactly what it was supposed to be. It was a game-changer for the industry.” The family started bringing their vine-dried grapes home to friends, who were impressed by the flavor. Their purchase of a processing facility in 2015 gave them the opportunity they needed to start selling directly to consumers.

Gillespie—who graduated from Cal Poly with a bachelor of science degree in wine and viticulture and soon after earned an MBA in general management—said they identified a gap in the market: millennials. Life’s Grape ticks a lot of the boxes that matter to this generation: authenticity, sustainability, and an all-natural, healthy product (raisins are a good source of fiber, iron, and antioxidants). It’s just a matter of removing the stigma of raisins as a shriveled piece of fruit. The Life’s Grape slogan is “Raisins Revamped.”

As she continues to nurture the business from her home office, Gillespie finds herself thinking of Santa Catalina’s Study Hall. A favorite gathering place during free periods, Study Hall can get a little raucous at times, and Gillespie learned how to stay focused amid all the revelry. Working alone carries its own set of distractions, and being able to concentrate and avoid procrastinating has served her well, she says. Another lasting effect of Santa Catalina was something she wasn’t aware of until friends started pointing it out to her. Gillespie, who came to Santa Catalina as a boarding student from Incline Valley, Nevada, explains: “Friends I grew up with as a kid started telling me they admired my independence. They told me, ‘You aren’t afraid to take a chance and do what you want to do.’ It’s something I’m grateful for. That’s not common at our age. Usually it takes us longer to find our way.”

Gillespie’s father calls the family “accidental farmers”; her grandparents bought the first vineyard about 35 years ago as a hobby. But it’s no accident that Gillespie is right where she wants to be. She sums it up: “I feel like I’m the crazy grape lady. I love feeling so passionate about something.”

Reunion Weekend 2020

Friday, March 13-Sunday, March 15

’55, ’60, ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, ’05, ’10, and ’15

For more information, contact Shannon Gaughf ’08, Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement, at shannon.gaughf@santacatalina.org or 831.655.9391

ALUMNAE CLASS NOTES

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Fleana Giglio Snapp brorat1955@comcast.net

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Gloria Felice gloriafelice@cox.net

Pat Bondesen-Smith: Thank you for demonstrating leadership by example. Due to our contributions, the Class of 1954 achieved both the participation and monetary goals set for us for the Annual Fund. I also wish to encourage all of the classes of the 1950s to join enthusiastically in giving to the newly established Sister Kieran Endowment Fund. What a privilege to celebrate the life and dedication of our mentor and leader. It is a wonderful opportunity to ensure the future of Santa Catalina. Noreen Lewis Raney: I enjoyed a great week with some dear friends at my favorite place of “Homewood” in Lake Tahoe. I love having my son, John, close and am thrilled to have some of my college friends move nearby. Jeanne Nielsen Marshall: I am having some health issues and am so grateful that my son, Matt, is living with me and taking such good care of me. I live in the “boondocks” in Pacific City, OR, which is very rural. I am able to get along great with my trusty cane, plus a walker, and am able to drive when necessary. Abigail McCann: I live in my family home in Concord, CA. My brother, Bill, lives next door, which is also on the family grounds along with my niece, who lives in the guesthouse. I love having my family all around me! I am living and loving life after many years of work. I attended Sister Lois’ funeral in San Rafael with my sister, Debby McCann ’59, and enjoyed seeing Sue Crane (Sister Matthew) along with Pat Bondesen-Smith Gloria Felice: It is sad that we have lost so many of our loved ones. We send our love and sympathy to the families of Lois Silva, Elinor Howard Franchetti, Ardis Dickerson Brookins, Rosemary Rochex, Marilyn Ryan Dugger, Sarah Coleman Cecconi, and our dear friend, Laurie Angel McGuinness ’53. Randy and I are still living in Scottsdale, AZ. I had a wonderful visit in Florence, Italy, with my sister, Mary Oliverio, and her daughter, Joyia Oliverio Felice ’67. I was thrilled to celebrate our 65th Santa Catalina reunion with Sister Claire, Abigail McCann, Fleana Giglio Snapp ’53, Gray Burnham Hynes ’53, and my three nieces (Joyia Oliverio Felice ’67, Diona Devincenzi Douglas ’77, and Dawn Devincenzi ’79). Our beloved school is still as beautiful and wonderful as ever!

Abby McCann ’54 and Gloria Felice ’54 with Diona Devincenzi Douglas ’77 and Dawn Devincenzi Boyajian ’79 at Reunion in March 2019

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Mary Nevin Henderson

Pat Kelly Phillips

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The Class of 1956 is without a class correspondent. Please contact Shannon Gaughf ’08, Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement, to volunteer to serve your class in this meaningful way.

Nitze Erro Caswell: I still hold a treasury of cherished memories of our years at school in the ’50s with dearest Sister Kieran leading us. Bob and I are well. I greet my Parkinson's each day with a set routine. All is good! I wish my dear classmates plentiful blessings. Jane Howard Goodfellow: I am blessed with good health, which allows me to continue with all my activities. I still serve on the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Council (19 years) and the Foundation Board. I also serve on the Visiting Nurses Board and the Mount San Antonio Gardens Board. It keeps me quite busy, which I thrive on! My daughter, Joan Goodfellow Knetemann ’80, and I are taking a cruise to Australia and New Zealand next January. We will be gone for about three weeks and I can hardly wait! All my children and grandchildren are doing well and are healthy. I am blessed in so many ways.

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

Executive Committee

Kathy Trafton ’74

President

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72

Priya Kumar Raju ’00

Katie Carnazzo Larsen ’02

Vice Presidents

Zach VanHarn

Director of Annual Giving and School Engagement

Members

Carol Speegle Lannon ’55

Sandy Hollenbeck Schnieder ’62

Pat Allen Sparacino ’65

Terry Whitney Baganz ’69

Marie Cantin ’70

Sally Fay ’74

Helene de Baubigny ’85

Annie Coppel ’90

Lindsay Heller ’95

Brogiin Keeton ’01

Kai Romero ’01

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06

Kristina Flathers ’11

Chapter Chairs

Boston Position vacant

Chicago Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese ’74

K ristina Flathers ’11*

Dallas Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Hope Morgan ’90

Denver Laura Stenovec ’99

Houston Diana Kendrick Untermeyer ’80

Los Angeles Leslie Hunt Johnson ’92

Paige Finster Greenspan ’96

Mzilikazi Kone ’01

Monterey Liz Holt Protell ’64

New York Priya Kumar Raju ’00*

Phoenix G loria Felice ’54

Becky Hays-Rovey ’92

Portland, OR Virginia Sewell ’69

Ann Carter ’71

B rigid Flanigan ’73

Sacramento Position vacant

San Diego Taylor Griffon ’11

San Francisco Yvette Merchant Nichols ’96

Natalie Burke ’99

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06

Seattle Madeleine Lynch Greathouse ’85

Washington, D.C. Position vacant

International Chapters

Asia Rene Leung ’99

Angelina Yao ’99

Diana Mak ’01

Europe Lara Brehmer ’98

Latin America Annie Coppel ’90*

Tere Gonzalez ’94

*Designates Alumnae Association Board member

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Carole Lusignan Buttner wmbclb@aol.com

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Karin King Rucker: It's hard to believe that the years have passed so quickly but here we are today. I do hope all in our class are doing well and are living very active lives. For myself, I'm taking care of a number of gardens. It's great therapy since I can do all the talking I want and the bushes and weeds don't talk back. I do talk with Lilly Harman Huppert and she is doing very well. Warren loves to take charge of our grandchildren, or it might be the other way around. He also keeps busy as a volunteer for the Chamber of Commerce here in Rio Vista and is VP for the Dog Club. We have a basset hound named Chloe. We adopted her from Golden Gate Basset Rescue about four years ago. This is our fifth basset. I’m taking a trip to see our daughter and her family in Laguna Beach for a week. In the fall, we are heading to Virginia to see our son, Chris, and his family. Hard to believe that next year most of us will be going out of our 70s.

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Bobbie O’Connell Munson bobbiemunson@sbcglobal.net

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Marilyn Ramos Ospina

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Karen Swanson Crummey kcrum1@sbcglobal.net

Our biggest news this year was gathering in April to meet our 1960 scholarship student.

Joan Stafford Haynes very nicely organized a weekend so we could get to know her. It was a delight to meet her. Daphne Craige Bertero hosted a casual luncheon at her house in Carmel, where she and Dick are spending a lot of time. Sally Blanchard Murphy, Judy Botelho Cain, Jinx Hack Ring, Joan Stafford Haynes, Julie Thomas Obering, Nan Griffin Winter, Daphne Craige Bertero, and Kay O’Connell Vernor were some who attended this exciting event. Jinx Hack Ring: I was able to spend some private time with Ethel Kennedy, her family, and friends on the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination. Life is short and we must make each day count. Karen Swanson Crummey: Fred and I are in good health and continue to be busy with local groups. I am still involved with International Professional Educators, Homeless Women, the Carmel Foundation for Seniors, Teddy Bears with Heart, and the Begonia Society. My grandchildren will soon graduate from high school. Susie Gray Christoffersen: My husband is off to Spain and London with Lauren (11), our granddaughter, and our grandson will be in college next year. Wendy Miller Lambeth: My granddaughter graduated summa cum laude from Marist College this year, so we are very proud of her and on our way to a cruise of the Baltic. Daphne Craige Bertero: I have a granddaughter at Catalina (Lila ’23 LS) and a grandson at Choate. Toni Lemos Maddox: I have settled in Brentwood, CA, and am spending a lot of time with my four children and six grandchildren. We have moved 22 times, but are now finally settled back in California. Julie Perkins Layne: I just renovated my kitchen and am excited about having my first grandchild start at UC Berkeley, following in her parents’ footsteps. Judy Botelho Cain: I am back in my home after 13 months of complete renovation. The whole family joined Larry and me for a wonderful Christmas celebration. My grandchildren and children are busy with sports and other activities; so hard to keep up with all of them. Suzie Townsend Finney: I had a wonderful trip to Tanzania with my family of 11 to celebrate Jack’s 80th birthday. I visited Lani LeBlanc in May; Candy Hazard Ducato in Belmont; and Judy Botelho Cain in San Juan Bautista. I continue to enjoy life in Southern California but spend time in Idaho twice a year, a couple of weeks in Hawaii, as well as visit grandchildren in the Bay Area. Julie Thomas Obering: I have been between Carmel Valley Manor and in Jacksonville, FL, this year. I spent the summer in Wilson, WY. Annette Stoesser: I continue to practice medicine and play tennis (doubles only, as I had a knee replacement). I am not thinking of retirement, but love to you all. Lani LeBlanc: I continue to travel a lot visiting family and friends and my sister, Shelley LeBlanc Duke ’59. I have been able to visit Suzie Townsend Finney, Kay O’Connell Vernor, and Cathy deBack . I am planning a yachting trip to the Croatian Islands along the Dalmatian Coast in September. Birding is my passion and I am very involved in the local Nest Box program, as well as spending a lot of time with grandchildren. Pam Fairbanks de Villaine and Cathy deBack have faced some serious health challenges but both are

doing much better. Cathy has retired. She is now living in St. Rose Convent but still spending time at Rose Court to assist the new manager. Pam says she is stronger every day and pretty much back to her normal life. She is very thankful for our love, prayers, and letters. Marilyn Ramos Ospina: Eduardo and I moved to Phoenix, AZ, last year to be closer to the children. We are now in a house after 28 years in a condo, so this is quite an adjustment. I was lucky to find work right away, so that has kept me busy, as making new friends at this age is not easy. I am taking some classes and little by little we are becoming part of the community.

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Penelope Corey Arango pcarango@bellsouth.net

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Mary Foley Bitterman

Thanks to Margi Stewart , we have a photo of her with Patty Dougherty, O.P., Professor Emerita of History at Dominican University of California, who is in France this summer with the Fanjeaux Conference, a program for faculty, students, and administrators of Dominican colleges and universities in the U.S. The 17-day program, focused on the life and spirit of St. Dominic, is conducted principally in Carcassonne with a few days in Paris at the end. Patty retired from full-time work three years ago after 32 years teaching history. She still occasionally teaches a class or works with students on their senior

Pat Dougherty, O.P. ’62 visiting with classmate Margi Stewart

projects. In the fall, she is presenting a course on women suffrage in Britain at Dominican’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Margi and Patty have a November reunion planned with Judy Laurence Zahn and Alex Robison when Alex returns to Monterey from Madrid with her husband, Emilio. While still using a walker, Margi Stewart reports: I’m strong and fit from doing aqua aerobics three times a week with my boyfriend, Yutaka, and I stay busy tutoring my youngest two “honorary” grandchildren, and taking the 16-year-old to all the plays at Hartnell College in Salinas Thanksgiving will be a special celebration with my daughter, Christina, and her husband, along with Alex and her family, including Thomas, Christina’s godson and Alex’s adorable 4-year-old grandson. Lander Reeves Hynes: Bill and I have been traveling, including a visit to the Grand Canyon for the first time, and returning to France and the Loire Valley. Our son, John, lives in Walnut Creek and frequent family visits take place. I remain a sustainer in the FAMSF Auxiliary and participate in the work of ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists), play mah-jongg, and am a member of a “lively” book group. I often see Mary Sutro Callender and Talie Bigelow Cutler as well as Polly Hills Van Horne ’64, the younger sister of Mary Hills Miles who lives in Santa Barbara where my sister Beth Reeves ’71 resides. Sandra Hollenbeck Schnieder: I am still sorting out life in the wake of Will’s death two years ago. I am focused on my great granddaughter—a real joy in my life as is the rest of my family. I travel to my timeshares in Aruba and Mazatlán and to N.Y.C. for a week of theater and museums, and explore “the world of alternative health and consciousness.” I have returned to serve on the Board of Building Futures, trying to help get homeless people housed and stable. Invited to join the Santa Catalina Alumnae Council, I want to represent all of us and our ideas, so send me a message if you have suggestions. I am focused on keeping my mind open and am amazed at what is out there. It is difficult to understand how disconnected from the outside world I had become since I retired 22 years ago! Susie Blair Riley: Pat and I finally moved last summer from the family cabin in Tahoe to our new downsized house. Downsizing is not for the faint of heart and boxes are still being unpacked and landscaping needs to be done. The bonus is living around the corner from my son and having my grandchildren stop by after school for cookies. We will be in Innsbruck this summer and will travel on to the Dalmatian Coast and Italy. My sister, Katherine Blair Rible ’71, and I attended a most interesting lecture by Jane Sweetland ’70 on her most recent book, Boxcar Diplomacy, at the State Museum in Carson City. Lynnea Larson Payne: I am recovering from total knee replacement surgery, causing me to become something of a “stay-athome kind of person,” a great contrast to my exciting adventures in Australia and New Zealand last year. My daughter, Sarah, and son-in-law, Alex, bought a house in San Francisco last year, so I travel to the city several times a year, especially during the holidays. I continue to work as the

office manager at my church and assist the pastor as needed. I have, until my surgery, been keeping up with my clients, taking them to shop and to doctor's appointments. This last year I volunteered to help in the mornings as a crossing guard with our kindergarten arrivals. It was so rewarding to see the children’s faces each morning and to encourage them to have a good day. Lorrie Boldrick : I visited a friend in New Zealand this past year and, while the flight was way too long, I celebrated the fact that I was able to ride my friend’s gorgeous Friesian stallion as well as bond with a wild young hedgehog. I'm still working two days a week. My vet practice is in my barn so it is a short commute! My daughter and her husband and my two granddaughters live about an hour away so we visit frequently. My son is a hermit in Idaho but I do see him each year at Christmas. Gail Dowling Goettelmann: I ride my horse, Huey, several times a week. My husband Gary’s horse, Chief, succumbed last February at the ripe age of 31. We are in fine health and enjoy our time together and with family members. No immediate travel plans. As an Irish immigrant who arrived in the USA one month before I met you all in our freshman year, I feel thankful for the good life I've had in the USA. Do you remember that I had a brogue? Sister Isabel couldn't understand me at all! Kathy O’Donnell: After 39 years of teaching and school administration in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas, I am back in Hollister. I am active doing volunteer work at an elementary school library as well as serving as president of the Sacred Heart School Foundation and treasurer of my homeowners association. It is also a blessing to be closer to my brother and sister-in-law, as well as their children and grandchildren who live in Clovis and Brentwood. The extended family still enjoys frequent visits to our Capitola bungalow and I love sharing the beach with my great-nephew, Liam. Mary Foley Bitterman: We just received the sad notice of the untimely passing of Patricia Poole in February 2015. Pat was a computer expert who wrote the code for the original system of mobile phones; she knew more than 15 computer languages; and she could write more than 100 lines of code a day. Pat was very knowledgeable of Native American religious practices and, like Lorrie and Gail, an expert

equestrian. She and her husband of 35 years, Dr. Joseph Gouthro, lived in New Jersey for many years and then moved to Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Gouthro described his beloved Pat as a beautiful and exceptionally talented woman whose auburn hair remained her personal “signature” for a lifetime. I (Mary) greatly enjoy my work heading the Osher Foundation and find being able to expand opportunity for people is very rewarding. I remain engaged with public broadcasting and continue to chair the PBS Foundation Board. This is my final year as lead independent director for Bank of Hawaii, a connection that I will miss very much after the shareholders’ meeting in April 2020. Daughter Sarah ’88 still resides in Rome, and Italy has become a second home for us. I thank all of you who responded to my request for news, and Barbara thanks you.

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DiDi Ditz Stauffer dditzs45@gmail.com

Sally Rorick-Orlando rolando@cox.net

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Antoinette Ziegler Hubbard joyfuleclectic@icloud.com

The Class of 1964 had its “Renegade Reunion” in Santa Barbara in late November. We were a small group this year and had a glorious time sitting around the gorgeous home of Louise La Mothe in Hope Ranch. These are the times we share our lives and our stories. Over the past years we have supported each other through so much. We are amazing. Liz Holt Protell: I’m still hanging out in Carmel Valley these days, no exciting news here. My new greater Swiss mountain dog keeps me busy—long walks to keep her out of trouble are getting me back in shape after knee replacement. Carol Covington Thomson: I’m going to be a grandma! Scott and Jenna are due Nov. 24. Tom had brain surgery last year and finally is doing better—whew! We have been traveling as much as possible just to keep busy. Barbara Carpenter McDonald: I finally bit the bullet and moved from Santa Barbara to Asheville, NC, to be near my daughter, Lindsay McDonald Stalowy ’99, to help out and be near her in my old age, whenever that will be. The townhouse was supposed to be completed by January but as I write this in July, it’s still not finished. I hope to move in in August— eight months late. Meanwhile, I’m playing tennis, singing in a choir, taking classes at the university, doing newcomer outings, and enjoying family.

Pat Poole ’62 riding in the sunshine

Asheville is a great place but I look forward to having my own place. Jill Shoemake Vogel: We are still spending time in both Pebble Beach and Sun Valley. Our son, Hunter, and family are still living in Sun Valley. We spend lots of time with the three “Vogelettes.” Carson (15) just finished her first year at Santa Catalina. She managed straight As and was freshman class president. The two others, Chloe and Sawyer, still enjoy life in Idaho. I have been co-chairing the capital campaign for a state-of-the-art animal shelter including a wonderful hospital and education center. It just opened! Fred is still farming and loves it. All is well with the Vogels. I see a lot of the Protells when in California. Liz’s wild and wooly puppy, Poppy, keeps her happy and healthy. Julie Bisceglia: I am still working at the Court of Appeals, but now retirement is coming closer. Probably next year. I am a new mother-in-law as of June (Aly got married again in Las Vegas). Hayley (Hobie) is in N.Y.C. and looks to be there for the foreseeable future. She loves her job at the nonprofit, especially the twice-yearly trips to East Africa. In May, I went on a river cruise through Germany and Austria, and I am scheduled to go biking in England and Scotland in September. Still dancing! Jane Bronner Hummert: My news would be that I made it to the reunion in Santa Barbara and loved seeing everyone! I’ll come again to more. Also looking forward to my trip to Kenya and Dubai in September—trip of a lifetime! Flo Nixon: Life is good! I have been playing golf—trying to improve but it's a forever challenge. It's great just to be outside in beautiful locations and generally good weather. My travels have included an 18-day trip with Road Scholar following the Lewis and Clark Trail from St. Charles, MO, to Astoria, OR. I learned more than I ever thought possible with great guides! I annually go to Phoenix for golf and plan to visit Sun River, OR, in fall 2019. I volunteer for a program called HICAP in California and SHIP in the rest of the U.S. It’s a great free,

objective program available to all who have or are transitioning into the world of Medicare—very rewarding. Kathy Hoffman Enright: Mike and I did the enormous, exhausting job of down-sizing this year. We moved from his lovely large home to a very small one. The sorting, giving, donating, tossing was a monumental effort and it took months of hard work. At the same time, I was working on re-doing our “new” home, which was built in the ’60s and needed updating. I found that the process was a constant reminder that somehow we are at the end of our lives, not the beginning. Now that we are happily settled, I just feel very thankful that we are where we are. I continue to work for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, trying to promote the inclusion of our laity in leadership roles in our parishes, especially women. Mixed success on that score, but some slow progress has happened. I hated to miss our mini-reunion but it fell, literally, on the week we were moving! I am so grateful for any time I get with any of you! Claudia Reynolds Knous: Marianne Hidas Trotter and I have been taking an online acrylic painting class together and FaceTime each other to discuss our work. We are having a great time and are learning a lot. We are also sharing photos of our work with 64+ other artists who are taking the same online class. Marianne has done quite well and has exhibited and sold quite a few of her pieces in galleries this summer. We also signed up for a five-day workshop with another acrylic teacher in September at the Gualala Arts Center in the little town of Gualala on the northern coast of California. Are looking forward to taking a “live” class with others in real time and place. Marianne Hidas Trotter: Caregiving for my mother (100) has limited our traveling opportunities but how fortunate to still have my dear mom at this stage of my life. We do two- to three-day trips from time to time, but have to wait to do the global stuff. In the meantime, I’ve dedicated my time to my art. I’m busy with expanding my collection and preparing for shows scattered throughout the

year here in Fresno. No stress really and doing what I love. We visit with the grandkids often and enjoy spending time with my mom, too. Claudia Reynolds Knous and I are still doing our online art together. We have a workshop coming up in September in Gualala (near Mendocino). The husbands are coming too. They get to explore the coast while we’re painting with a favorite abstract artist from Vermont, Jane Davies. A relaxing week spent together at Sea Ranch. Ginny von Hasseln: Liz Holt Protell, Donna Hart Reid, and I attended Reunion in March—it was wonderful! The students put on a fabulous show—what talent! I highly encourage a strong participation five years ahead for all who can attend! Our school has never been lovelier! My news is that I really enjoy being at the Carmel Valley Manor and my daughter, Katie, is happy I am here. The residents and staff are terrific! I still have my two garden groups and my sister is nearby and many friends as well. Antoinette Ziegler Hubbard: After my quiet six months in New Zealand (which has its own list of activities), one of the joys of this year has been to see classmates in different parts of the world. Anne Perlitz Giles and I shared a long weekend in late June, which included waiting for the bats to come out (not their day) and being able to attend a reading by one of my favorite poets, David Whyte. He was inspiring and remarkable. It was a lovely morning to share with each other. I am hoping to see Marlo Mugnaini in November. I have managed a trip to Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, and Portugal to catch up with family and friends. More adventures ahead while I am blessed with good health and the desire to sit in airports. I keep hoping that I will eventually see everyone in the class and we will work on a reunion in 2020. Meanwhile, please share important news during the year. 65

Pat Allen Sparacino

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Members of the Class of 1964 enjoying time together in Santa Barbara

Antoinette Ziegler Hubbard ’64 and Anne Perlitz Giles ’64 in Austin, TX

Lorri Ditz McCarthy lorditz@yahoo.com

Suze Pringle Cohan: I am still blissfully living in west Sonoma County with my husband of 43 years, a long time local builder. My two children, Sonja (46) and Olin (42), are happily married with kids of their own. Sonja lives in Truckee with her oral-surgeon husband and has two very athletic kids, a ski jumper (12) and an award-winning gymnast (11). Olin joined the Peace Corps 18 years ago and went to Nicaragua, where he fell in love and stayed. He and his wife and children moved back to Sebastopol last year. He has two daughters (12, 3) and they are both bilingual and thriving in their new culture. I am active with the Occidental Center for the Arts and chair the book launch series, which supports and promotes local authors and poets. I still teach TriYoga and am a lifetime student. Having recovered from shoulder surgery, I am back gardening, hiking, taking trips, and often see Chloe O'Gara, who lives nine minutes away. We went up to Sierra City in May and enjoyed hiking around the snow! By the way, Chloe oversees the maintenance of my family's Hayes house. Anian Pettit Tunney: My daughter, Adrienne Tunney Krumins ’94, and I are now partners in residential real estate, mainly in Piedmont. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for 36 years and have been the top producing broker in Piedmont since 2009! Adrienne has two children, Peter (13) and Esme (11). Peter is a baseball star and played in Cooperstown this summer. My other daughter, Catherine Tunney McDowell ’01, also has two active little children, Eloise and Pierce. Our other daughters, Courtney and Shannon, live in the Los Angeles area and our grandson, Patrick, is attending the Naval Academy this fall; we are super proud. I recently went on a tour with my garden club to the U.K. to see the English gardens in the Cotswolds and they are unlike anything we have here! In the fall, I am going to France for a wedding, which I am very much looking forward to. Other than that, life is full and I am grateful for every day! Sue Waligora Williams: Greetings from Oakland, CA! Last December, we welcomed our first grandchild, Elliot Williams. His father, Geoffrey, lives in Sacramento where he sells real estate for Coldwell Banker. Our daughter, Jennifer, is still riding and training jumper horses. As of June, she was in first place for top jumper rider in Northern California. I still go to Texas once a month to manage a 246-unit apartment complex. I had a health scare earlier this year with a growth on my neck that turned out to be lymphoma. It was removed and so far has not spread. I continue to travel and just returned from a trip to Holland and Belgium, and Vietnam is on my list. Terry Ferrari Votruba: I am spending most of my time in Santa Rosa. I am contributing to the Santa Catalina tuition assistance fund and encourage others in our class to do the same. I also finally have two granddaughters—born 31 days apart! I had a nice

lunch with Lyn Belcher Wilson last fall. Lorri Ditz McCarthy: I redid my apartment here in S.F. last year. It took six months so I spent a lot of time in Palm Desert at my condo there. I'm happily back in and enjoying my new bathrooms and kitchen! I'm going on a Rocky Mountaineer trip next week to see Canada, where I've never been. My children and grandchildren are all well and happy. The two oldest are starting high school. I sometimes reflect on how many of our classmates have already passed away. It makes me sad to think that they are gone, but then I'm sure we all think of the many happy times we shared together. Stay in good health and keep in touch. B.J. Burton Szemborski: Our most exciting news is the arrival of our 24th grandchild in February 2019. Cecilia was born to our son, Michael, and his wife, Brittany. Our youngest, Matthew, was married last December to Maureen. As my husband, with his Navy background, loves to say, “We have growth potential!” Stan’s Aunt Eleanor (93) still lives with us here in Purcellville but we travel a bit to visit our children. We are renovating our home in Carmel, and as Stan still teaches a class at the Naval Postgraduate School; we get out there several times a year. It will always be home in my heart, although we have lived here in Virginia for almost 30 years. I am still cancer free three years after my last chemo infusion, so God is good. Get your colonoscopies! Lyn Belcher Wilson: We have a new dingo pup from Sydney, Australia. He tears my thin skin arms to shreds every day. I bandage up, saddle up, and ride into the hills as many days a week as I can. I’m happy, still a vegetarian, married, living somewhat outside the mainstream and grateful for everything. Our granddaughter finished her freshman year at Santa Catalina and is grateful for everything as well. Mary O’Hara Ryan: I was just reminded by my daughter-in-law, Airlie Anderson ’96 (we are on vacation in the Adirondack Mountains) that class notes are due! Just celebrated 10 years being cancer-free—an ordeal that prompted Cyr and me to downsize from an old farmhouse (with too much property to maintain) to a smaller, even older farmhouse that

we have been gradually fixing up. We are currently working on the kitchen. Our daughter, Catie ’95, was married in a civil ceremony last September in NJ to a wonderful man from the Philippines. In May my son, grandson (10), and I made the trek to the Philippines for the church wedding, which was 30 hours door to door. I was feeling my age by the time we arrived. Other than the traveling and the two weeks of stifling heat and humidity, the trip was wonderful with beautiful scenery, lots of history, and the people were so nice and welcoming. We are now in the Adirondacks where we have been spending three weeks each July for the last 38 years! The trip includes all 15 of us for seven to ten days and then thins out for a quieter time.

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Anne Neill

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Eugenie Schlueter emschl@sbcglobal.net

Daphne Macneil

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Anne Gray got in touch with Biette Fell, and Biette would like to share her phone number: (775) 203-1720. Biette texts but does not spend time on emails, so this is her best contact info. She is speedy with her response. Dianne Rossi Andrews: I had a fabulous visit with Nina Nickel Gladish down in Punta Mita, Mexico, where Nina has a house and spends winter months. I traveled to La Paz from there and sailed the Sea of Cortez on a client’s new boat. Next trip is sailing in Canada through the inside passage with my daughter, Jessica, and her husband, visiting Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle to connect with the shops of Engel & Voelker, which she recently joined at the Bridgeway, in Sausalito. I will be seeing family along the way. Daphne Macneil: I am still working part-time as compliance officer for Frey Vineyards. I still devote many hours a week to a local nonprofit, which has been instrumental in starting a family medicine residency program at our local hospital to address the need for more primary care physicians because the ones we have are ready to retire. I spend as much time as possible with my grandchildren, Emma (7) and Leo (4). Periodically for fun, I teach 60 high schoolers how to knit; it is a

Liz Moffitt ’68 with her classmates Daphne Macneil and Gerry Robertson Working

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sickness! Gerry Robertson Working: Things are humming along in the country. I had a nice lunch with Liz Moffitt and Daphne Macneil I continue to work for two nonprofits in town. Peter and I have been as proactive as possible in the wake of the fires of 2017-18. PG&E has cleared hundreds of trees under and near a major transmission line that runs through our property. I have a huge respect for our volunteer firefighters and Cal Fire, who came in the middle of the night to deal with a fire near our barn. Hope all is well with everyone. Eugenie Schlueter: I get together with Kim Royce Dougherty as often as we can. I hope to have a late summer lunch with Alison Rand Taylor, Maria Vessey Bushong, and Kim Royce Dougherty like we did last summer. (Kim has moved inland, off the ocean, for a change of pace.) I am still working with design projects being planned further and further apart so I have more down time to enjoy my garden and some beach time. Daphne Macneil drops in when she is in town. We manage to have our mini-reunions and it is so fun to reconnect. Anyone wanting to be on our email list where we share more news and photos, just drop Daphne or me an email.

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Marie Cantin

rapideye1@aol.com

Bridget Baker Ashton: Just got home from Alaska. I’m still working around the globe teaching young men and women (and adults) in France about D-Day. I am also still a cruise director on Riverboats in France, on ships in the ocean around the British Isles and now, the Alaska Inside Passage. Keep trying to retire, but just not happening yet. Still so proud of our class—we are all awesome! I hope to make it to the reunion next year to see everyone. My son, Michael, is still in L.A. and has a beautiful girlfriend from the Philippines. I am about to go back to Alaska to start three cruises. I got to go kayaking and it was breathtaking, but getting out of the kayak was hilarious! Maryedith Smith Burrell: Been a busy year with teaching in the stage and screen department at Western Carolina University and

hitting the film festival circuit with my documentary, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. We got rave reviews at Sundance; the Audience Award at South-By-Southwest; Full Frame in Durham, NC; San Francisco; AFI in Washington, D.C., with Tina Brown in N.Y.C., etc. Best news: We were picked up by Magnolia for feature distribution, so look for Raise Hell at a theatre near you in the fall. Meanwhile life goes on in Asheville. Marie Cantin: Three days ago, we were in shallow water at the end of a dive when we heard loud, stereophonic squeaks. The unmistakable language of dolphins. Yet another “Oh, wow!” moment on the Big Island! I’m having fun working on personal projects, one of which was a massive photo memory book (three volumes) that I created for my mother’s 90th birthday. I sorted through 150,000 photographs and received testimonials from almost 100 people around the world. To honor my mother in this way was an amazing experience—uniting her community of family and friends to tell her remarkable life story. Her birthday party was equally stellar, with delicious food prepared by Cara Coniglio. Among the 30 guests, there were seven women over the age of 90, plus Suzanne Saunders Shaw, Diana Whitesides, and Maryedith Smith Burrell, who came all the way from Asheville! Michael and I celebrated our “official” 10th wedding anniversary the next day, so it was a champagne-filled week, with more to come later in the year when Michael turns 70. Spending a lot of time with my mother confirms that one secret to longevity is the power of friendship. And I’m pretty sure that vacations in Hawaii are good, too. Leslie Redlich Cockburn: I’m writing from Ireland where there is a low mist over the Irish Sea. Just had a visit with two of my grandchildren, Artemis and Declan (named for our local Irish saint) who split their time between riding ponies and eating “99s,” soft vanilla ice cream. I’m finishing my second novel, set in Afghanistan, and gardening. In June, I gave the Catalina Commencement address which Suzanne Saunders Shaw bravely attended. I was impressed with the class and look forward to great things from them. On the political front, I’ve been

helping several candidates for the Virginia state office elections this year. We need our Virginia legislature to ratify the ERA so we can all move forward! Joan Pettley Govedare from Whidbey Island: For three years now, I have been enjoying weekly five rhythms dancing. I continue with focus on my love for throwing pottery, hiking, meditating, and still working part-time for a local naturopath. Our daughter has us busy going to concerts to watch her band, i///u. They won the Soundoff Competition at the MoPop venue in downtown Seattle. They are now featured on iTunes and Spotify. She is thriving at the University of Washington, and is off backpacking with her boyfriend this weekend. My husband, Peter, is busy framing paintings for an August show. I stay on top of current affairs with a heavy heart indeed. I wish that I was in a position to make more of a difference. I happen to know that Marion Toms was at Wimbledon and is now heading off on a walking trip in Scotland with her daughter. Grateful for good health, a happy family, and lots of dear friends. Tina Hansen McEnroe: Off on my second trip to Africa with Stanford soon! I’ll be exploring South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia via train, safari, and cruise. Life is full with teaching, publishing my second children’s book, ranching, fox hunting, and four grandchildren! So looking forward to our 50th reunion and seeing everyone again! Piper McNulty: Ed and I are very much enjoying our grandson, Nikolaki (2). His new favorite word is, of course, “No” and he’s currently mixing bits of Greek, English, Cantonese, and sign language. I will be very happy if I never hear Elmo ever again! Getting older sure ain’t for sissies! My high school knee injury finally necessitated a new knee, and the recovery is a bear. Fifteen minutes of aggressive stretching 5 to 6 times a day for the foreseeable future. I retired from teaching last fall (not by choice, but due to falling enrollment at my college), and that, combined with being relatively housebound for several months (while I focus on restoring knee range of motion) has made me very grateful for local friends who have kept me distracted with food and conversation. Looking forward to seeing Gabrielle Bemis Batzer this October when we go to Hawaii for a nephew’s wedding. We have been talking by phone, and she’s doing remarkably well. I have also enjoyed seeing more of Rosy Henze in recent years and hanging out with Jane Sweetland and Ellie Hubbard online, and Jane Dyer Cook ’71 via early morning texting. Molly Asche Smith: We are just back from a few days of camping at Mount Fernie Provincial Park. We were joined by family members to enjoy a few days at a wonderful campsite. For the past year a lot of my time and energy has been focused on health issues. I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer in September. I have been supported by an amazing care team, family, and friends. Chemo, surgery, radiation, and ongoing targeted treatment for a few more months, but the prognosis looks favorable. I am getting my energy back—and my hair is coming in quite curly! I am still doing a bit of work in the adoption community and the families I meet are amazing. We are thrilled that

Tina Hansen McEnroe ’70 riding with her husband and granddaughter in the Santa Ynez Valley

our son is moving back to Nelson and our two youngest grandkids will be living down the road. So much fun to be had. Suzanne Saunders Shaw: I find myself more capable of enjoying moments and, of course, being ever more grateful by the day that I still have good health and a boatload of projects and ambitions.

Serendipitously, all of my kids are living in Northern California with interesting jobs, so I get to visit with them much more often now. I'm in my second year of living out in Carmel Valley, above the village, just a stone's throw from my brother John's Boëté Winery, where, in addition to premier cabs, he grows the most delicious valencias, so running over for fresh-squeezed morning OJ is a special treat. Marie Cantin gave a fabulous luncheon in Monterey to celebrate the 90th birthday of her mom, and Cara Coniglio and Diana Whitesides helped make it delicious and memorable. Please come to our 50th—even, or perhaps especially, if your life is not quite what you thought it would be. Lena Sedletzky Stevens from Mexico: Despite a challenging year of injuries, too much work (not complaining), and the loss of close friends, I continue to be grateful for our life here in Santa Fe, NM. I wake up every morning counting my blessings of good health, great friends and community, fulfilling work, and so much beauty around me all the time. I am looking forward to hopefully slowing down the pace a bit next year to enjoy time in a house we are building in a little Mexican beach town. I had a blast with our small but super fun mini-reunion last October in Santa Fe and looking forward to doing it again. And really looking forward to seeing everyone at our 50th! Neville Penney Susich: As we approach our 50th reunion and I journey back to 1970, the strength and spirit of our indomitable class is what first jumps out; the fight to keep us together until graduation. It was a tumultuous time in the world and on our campus. It was a time to stand up. I learned so much, that year in particular, from all my bright, outraged, and heartbroken classmates. And, as we have come together since for reunions, official and unofficial, it is truly wonderful to rekindle those special friendships forged decades ago by our unique, shared Catalina history. All is good on the home front in Moraga and in retirement with yoga, hiking, gardening, cooking with Ina Garten, and with great friends nearby. It’s a good base for travels and to visit our kids and their partners. We have had fun exploring farther afield with Andy and his wife, Victoria, in Manchester, England. Road trips and podcasts take us to see Will and his partner, Laura, on their farm in Yachats, OR, where they are raising pigs on pasture, and then on to Portland to visit Maggie and her husband, Eric, where she’s in med school and he’s doing research. We are blessed to have had another good year and am looking forward to gathering with such amazing classmates to celebrate this milestone! Jane Sweetland: This has been a banner year as my daughter, Haley, gave birth to a son in May and my son, Nick, and his wife are expecting a daughter in late summer. I finished my third book, Boxcar Diplomacy: Two Trains that Crossed the Ocean , in advance of these delightful happenings.

It's a true story about a little-known historical moment about a time when America came together to send a "friendship train" to France, where war, drought, and winter floods were devastating. France reciprocated with a merci train, filled with thousands of gifts, each carrying a story worth telling. While researching the book, I traveled to France, and met up with Suzanne Saunders Shaw for dinner in Paris; then crossed the Channel to spend several days with Lindsay Wills Hutton in London. High points of a satisfying trip! Lee and I continue to split our time between Tahoe and Ventura County as well as the Bay Area where our son, Nick, lives and New York where our daughter, Haley, lives. So looking forward to seeing you all next spring! Marion Toms: I am presently with my daughter Lexi on a train from London to Glasgow. We just spent three days watching tennis at Wimbledon and are headed off to hike the West Highland Way for a week. This adventure is possible for me now because my mom died in February and I no longer need to take care of her. Instead, we are traveling to her ancestral home. I feel that I am in a new phase of life. Best wishes to all. Diana Whitesides: I am still teaching P.E. and being fetched up by PreK through grade 5 students at Tularcitos in Carmel Valley. I live where I work and work out at a club close by. Still swimming, lifting weights, and walking Carmel beach with a few Body Pump, yoga, and ab classes thrown in. Cara Coniglio is my walking buddy, and Suzanne Saunders Shaw meets me in the weight room and we all enjoy a good meal together. I am a great auntie now to nine! Susan Woods: I have been deliriously married for 31 years to the man of my dreams. I have two wonderful, productive adult children. I created the perfect job, the East Lansing Film Festival that is entering its 22nd year! I also program independent films for a multiplex theater that is greatly appreciated by our community and provides income for the film festival. I play tennis eight to ten hours a week and am on two teams that keep my competitive spirit up and my weight down. As a fourth generation Californian, it is incredulous to everyone including myself that I have lived in Michigan/the Midwest for almost 30 years. I love it except the winters, so if anyone wants to invite me in January or February to a warmer clime, my bags are packed. I have a funny, smart, active English springer spaniel, Pippa, who provides love, entertainment, and sometimes destruction in our lives. I am so grateful for my brilliant education at Catalina, the incredible friendships formed there, and the memories that keep me amused every day! Can't wait for the reunion! Pamela Zucker: My fall trip was to Japan, where I visited Tokyo, Hakone, Kanazawa, Kyoto, and a couple of UNESCO sites. I just came back from a biking and barge trip, which started in Amsterdam. We cycled through Belgium, visiting Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges. Total mileage was around 145 miles over the week. I’m still doing the race committee at St. Francis, still walking and hiking, getting to the gym, biking, and picking up my dance again. Ashland is coming up in August. Besides a couple of Shakespeare plays, we’ll be seeing Alice in

Wonderland and Hairspra y, and some brand new plays. Italy is scheduled for the fall. Reunion dates are on my calendar!

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DeDe Rogers

dede.rogers@comcast.net

Patty Lee Schminke

patricia.schminke@gmail.com

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Suzanne Scoville Sederholt

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Charlotte Perry White: Jane Bennett Monroe and I are going to be celebrating our 65th birthdays in Las Vegas in August! My granddaughter, Katalina Villarreal ’20, is a senior at Santa Catalina this fall. Karen List Letendre: My husband, Lorin, and I are busy with our six grandkids (8-16). Their families live in Santa Barbara and Bellevue, WA. I am still very active with the local Stanford Alumni Club. I'll be doing my 25th trip with Stanford Travel/Study this year, leading a group to Prague and Berlin, which helps feed my passion for travel! I also volunteer with a variety of organizations: a homeless women's day center called Gathering for Women, Robinson Jeffers' Tor House, and the Casa Abrego Club in Monterey, along with serving as a Santa Catalina School co-class agent. I have developed an addiction to mah-jongg and am now teaching it to

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72 caught up with Karen List Letendre ’72 and Kimberly List Caneer ’72

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Jalynne Tobias Redman, Julie Hobbs Bryan, and my twin sister Kimberly List Caneer. I see Marian Donovan Corrigan and Julie Brandlin Sigourney regularly and it was fun reconnecting with Joan Maze Miles earlier this year. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing my classmates at our 50th reunion! Louise Harris: I have the same job as a social work supervisor in a nonprofit mental health clinic, where I have been for 32 years. Going to Alaska for the first time later this summer. I try to occasionally practice the guitar, banjo, fiddle, and electric keyboard. Love yoga at our local athletic club, and hiking in the hills outside our house. Jalynne Tobias Redman: I recently retired from the world of work and am loving my newfound freedom. I feel very blessed to be able to spend most of the winters in Carmel, where my German shepherd and I spend every morning taking long walks around the beach. Summers are spent mostly in Arnold where I'm having a great time teaching water aerobics to a wonderful group of stalwart attendees. I am in touch with Karen List Letendre, Julie Hobbs Bryan, and Kim List Caneer and often see them at the Casa Abrego Club in Monterey. Dacia Burz Djirbandee also stays in touch; she continues to practice appellate law in the San Diego area. I am having great fun doing technology and digital communications activities for Casa members, and enjoy being a volunteer on the Santa Catalina Alumnae Council. My husband, Ward, continues to manage homeowners' associations, but finds time to be a volunteer in fire prevention and a board member for our local Veterans' Memorial district. We are, like so many, busier than ever. Patricia Hearst Shaw reports that she will be spending the summer in the Adirondacks. Dianne Klech Saugier: I am living in Olympia, WA. I spend my days with quilting friends; many of my quilts are for women’s shelters and foster kids. I probably give away about 15 a year. Here in Olympia, I have two of my grandchildren and they come to play at least twice a week. My two sons still live in Kansas City and I spend time there every year with their families. I did go to the Santa Catalina Seattle get-together and had a great visit with others at the home of Teresa Rothe Graham ’74. Catherine Johnson: Meeting up with Sheila Steiner Asher for our annual fly fishing trip at the end of July! I believe this is our eighth annual trip and we are going to be in Sun Valley. Laura Knoop Pfaff: Rick and I are spending the summer in Watch Hill, RI and are looking forward to having his kids and grandchildren visit us from Amsterdam and Texas in a few weeks. I am still a consultant with Bonhams Auctioneers in S.F. and still love it! I see Trish Tobin Kubal, Juana Schurman, Mary Pickering, Kit Henderson, Jennifer Godward Trainor, Bridget McInerney Harris, Ginger de Lorimier Howard, and Claire McGinnis Haldan occasionally and hope to see everyone at our 50th Reunion in 2022! Perla Armanasco Gray: I have been enjoying travel to Spain and Provence to attend a wedding and visit friends. I look forward to fleeing Manhattan in the summertime to visit Suzanne Scoville Sederholt in the cooler climes of CT. While visiting my daughter in L.A., I had

a nice reunion with Marie Cantin ’70 and am still happily enjoying life and making jewelry in New York City. Suzanne Scoville Sederholt: I am still living in Ridgefield, CT, where I enjoy helping with special events for various charitable organizations, including my husband's “Leather Apron” discussion group, based on Benjamin Franklin’s junto. I stay physically active by swimming, playing with our two dogs, and have a newfound love for gardening!

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Barbara Smith O’Brien beob2110@gmail.com

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Sally Fay calgal75@aol.com

In March of this year, our class commemorated the 45th anniversary of our graduation from Santa Catalina. A good number of us showed up to appreciate the luxury of each other’s company and to acknowledge the fruits that our alma mater gave to us. On Sunday, August 4, our dear classmate and friend, Kirby Walker, passed away after a three-year battle with stage four melanoma, with her husband, Paul, her sons, Myles and Clayton, and her sister, Leslie Walker Burlock ’81, beside her. Two days after her death, I (Sally) boarded a plane for Maine for the wedding of my youngest son, and Kirby’s godson, Charlie. Life asks us to hold so much in our hearts at the same time. With Kirby leaving us, it gives more poignancy to our reunion in the spring, as we recognize how precious those moments we had together were; little did we know just how precious. I want to share what classmates wrote when I let them know about Kirby. Cindy Bondesen Grier: I reflect, and not for the first time, just how grateful I am to have you all as my classmates. Extraordinary women, extraordinary bond, extraordinary friends, extraordinary accomplishments. I am particularly grateful for our most recent reunion, and for the opportunity to be with you all there, and to see and spend time with Kirby. She was courageous and radiant, however ill, and I respected her for coming to the reunion and choosing to be there with us, in the struggles of her illness. I was struck, too, by how her presence seemed to steer our gathering to feelings of gratitude and deep friendship. Perrin Weston Coman: I have such fond memories of Kirby at Catalina, especially her impish humor and radiant smile. We once jumped in a three-legged sack race that traversed the entire campus, laughing and falling down all the way. We weren’t racing anyone. It was just us.

Somehow the spirit moved Kirby and she talked me into it and away we went, hopping off from Long Dorm in our pink striped summer uniforms, passing gawking nuns and students along the way. Kirby’s red hair bounced high with each awkward leap forward. All these years I’ve carried that moment with me like a Polaroid snapshot when I think back to my time at Catalina. I can see it all so clearly. Kirby and I and a sack. It’s all that was needed for a good time. She had that way about her. Katie Dennis Wheeler: How lucky we were to have her at the reunion! I was deeply moved and impressed with Kirby as a model of strength and grace. She is our hero and she will be greatly missed and remembered. Teresa Rothe Graham: Kirby was always so upbeat. I remember her great smile and laughter. Sallie Starker Melton: I remember Kirby well. Her red hair reflected her vibrance and light. Cherie Pettit Arkley: She was so much fun—red-haired energy. I will always remember our dear Kirb with such deep affection and admiration. Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien: Indeed, I feel so grateful to have spent some special time with her at Reunion (and how brilliant that she hosted many of us at that remarkable home). I have a wonderful mental image of her from that evening; she is vibrant, laughing with us, the beach and waves around her. Olava Menczkowska: Truly a classic, she embodied the best aspects of our class with her grace and fantastic insight and sense of humor. I, Sally Fay, know we each have our own special memories of Kirby, and all her gifts she gave to us are many. She was a magnet to my heart, as to so many. There was something about her passion for life, insatiable curiosity, drive to do what she could to make the world a better place, devotion to family and friends, being a seeker of solitude and a gatherer of people, a generator of fun with a generous, loving heart, and an irresistible, red-headed charisma and sense of humor. How wonderful to have shared Catalina, and so much of life, alongside her as a friend. Yes, indeed, we will miss her. I asked classmates back in July, in honor our 45th reunion, to share three ways their Catalina years have influenced or touched their lives. Randi Stroud Fisher: Lifelong friendships that have indelibly impacted my life and a vast network of amazing women that I run across often. When we find that we have the Catalina connection, we hug and realize how strong the bond is even though we may not know each other. Catalina has given me the confidence to be out in the world pursuing dreams and giving back to others and the planet. Cherie Petit Arkley: Catalina set me on firm footing for female friendships. The early teen years can be tricky, and I think establishing great and lasting female connections is invaluable to a growing woman. I loved the art history education and the focus on the intellectual and spiritual aspect of life. For a teen girl, you have to learn that life is more than boys. Catalina did that. Liz Nomellini Musbach: Lifetime friends! As the saying goes, “It takes a long time to make old friends!” Women make powerful, capable, and empathetic leaders. Learning is a lifetime journey. Stay curious and engaged! Anne de Lorimier Eggleton: Reconnecting with old friends and re-discovering

each other. Mrs. Carter’s humanities class, which was probably the best, and most influential, useful class I have ever taken. The school instilled excellent academic discipline and habits, high expectations in personal goals, and a sense that I could achieve whatever I wanted. Arden Bucklin-Sporer: Friends. Friends. Friends. Susan Gates Suman: What I am most grateful for is the lifelong friendships—each and every one.

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Deanna (Dede) Duoos Davis deanna.davis@yahoo.com

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Megan Bittner-Lastinger: I retired this year to spend more time with my new grandson. I have been spending lots of time in Nevada City with my daughter, Emily ’06, and baby, Emmett. Otherwise I have been enjoying weaving and gardening at my Tahoe home. Tessa Wilcox: My company ArtSource is busy as ever. My daughter, Maya, just finished her freshman year at the Urban School of San Francisco. Andrea Csaszar: I officially retired in May. I have been living in Scottsdale, AZ, and now along with my brothers, Norbert and Albert, I am starting a doggy daycare, boarding, training, and grooming business called Camp Bow Wow. Tutuy Escamez de Guerra: This year, Mauricio and I celebrated our 40th anniversary with a family trip to celebrate life. Pam Anderson-Brulé: Daughter Isabel graduated in June from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is headed to Paris to live and work. Pierre and I celebrated our 35th anniversary with a trip to the south of France. Janie Goodrich Snowden: For my 60th birthday, last October I walked the French equivalent of the “Camino” from Le Puy to Conques, France—about 15 miles a day for two weeks. A solo walk through gorgeous country was the best gift I could have given myself. On a sad note, I lost my father (99) the day after Christmas. Linda Abston Larsen: My oldest son, Preston, got married last August in Tomales, which was a beautiful outside wedding and reception in the most incredible barn with tons of little lights and chandeliers—magical. Lorie Dillingham Rosenwald: All is well in Southborough, MA. As always, sending hugs to all. Sue Pyles Lopez: Last year, I competed in two bodybuilding competitions, one the day before my 60th birthday, the other a month later. I came in fourth in both, beating out a few ladies, and most proud to say I was the oldest competitor. It was

truly the greatest experience of my life. In June, Mickel and I celebrated our 40th anniversary. Becky Hampton Schuler: I’ve been doing lots of traveling: last November to Dubai and the Maldives, in December a Christmas Market cruise down the Danube River, and in April of this year, Bali, where I fell in love, both with the people and the place. My youngest son, Brock (29), and wife moved to Tennessee in March. My middle son, Dustin (31), still lives in Pleasant Hill and works at Berkeley managing the bookstore. My daughter, Mallory (33), is crazy busy with her three kids. Ann Taylor: I took a trip to Japan to visit my mother (91) and sister and spend time with relatives. It has been nearly 20 years since I have visited and it still holds a special place in my heart. Marge Ganz: Living in and loving Coronado, CA.

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Elizabeth Stelow DiNunzio: I live in Davis with my husband, Joe, and twins, Rowan and Ainsley (13). I’m delighted to say that Ainsley enjoys Summer at Santa Catalina camp every year! I am a veterinarian with board certification in behavior, which I teach at UC Davis Vet School. In my free time, I coach a women’s running group, co-lead my daughter’s Girl Scout Troop, and am editing a textbook on feline behavior for veterinary professionals. Maddie Homan Blanchard: I live in Poway, CA, with my husband and three labs. I am on the Council of and run the coaching business for The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leadership development company. All four kids are doing well, and my daughter, Hannah, will be getting married at our summer home on Lake Skaneateles, NY, in July 2020. Nora McNeely Hurley: Aside from my interior design skills and film festival support, I have worked tirelessly to preserve our beloved Pacific Ocean and local beaches. And after the

tragic fire and mudslides, Michael and I assisted in supplying the first responders with state-of-theart equipment. Lucy Kuchins Pantoskey: I am newly settled in Hope Ranch! Kate Bacon: I go to Santa Barbara to visit my mom regularly. I work for my own production company in Los Angeles called The Traveling Picture Show. I read a lot of scripts! Hilary Holmes Gustafsson: I am back on the Monterey Peninsula and am the managing director at Summit Furniture, doing amazing work! Cindy Dow Wenzlau: I am still working for our family vineyard (Wenzlau Vineyard), based in Santa Barbara, and enjoying the farming and winemaking aspects of the business. Our four kids are grown, on their own and spread among N.Y.C., S.F., and L.A.! We were all together over the 4th of July holiday in Santa Barbara. Andrea Duoos Radomski: I live in Clearwater Beach, FL, with my husband, Rob. We are currently restoring 1920s cottages into vacation beach rentals. Despite the hard work, I find the process very rewarding; my favorite part is choosing the paint, tile, flooring, and other finishes that come together to create memorable places for travelers to stay. Our daughter, Jennifer (28), lives in New York City and works in the fashion industry. Our son, Justin (26), is in Atlanta, with a business in web design and digital marketing. My sisters and I recently gathered in Spokane, WA, to celebrate our mother’s 83rd birthday.

Deirdre Smith

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Leslie Duoos Muzzio ’80, Mary Kay Duoos Craig ’76, Deanna Duoos Davis ’75, and Andrea Duoos Radomski ’78 with their mother

Dana DePuy Morgan

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It is with great sadness that this collection of news is dedicated to Mary Furgusson Lugg who passed away in July 2019. A celebration of Mary’s life took place in August. In attendance were Ellen McGuire Gaucher, Patrice D'Amico, Debbie DePaoli Vollstedt , Cathy Lockwood Wimberg, Julie Lambert , Eleanor ZuckermanGallmeister, Amy Kajikuri Martinetto, Lisa Davis Bradley, Leslie Duoos Muzzio, Laure Woods, Kitty Yurich, Robin Gagos

Denga, Betsy Burton Firebaugh, and Mary Diepenbrock Dana DePuy Morgan: Emily (21) graduated from the University of Kent with a First in film studies and is joining Royal Holloway’s Script Writing Masters Programme in September. Lilley (19) completed an apprenticeship in early years development and has been working with her Uncle Simon’s companies, Wildwind and Health Options, this summer in Greece and plans to move to the U.S. in October. Tim’s cyber security consultancy is going well and I am pursuing a new career in philanthropy, focusing on environmental and social issues affecting the world. Ellen McGuire Gaucher: Life has been full of late! Our youngest, Fletcher, is now a senior at York School, where I serve as the chair of the Board of Trustees. Our oldest, Riley, is spending the year in Copenhagen as he finishes his degree in architecture. This summer, close to 100 McGuires from across the country gathered in Bend for a family reunion. Julie Lambert: I am saddened to report that my sweet mother passed away in August. Many of you may remember her from the Mothers' Service League (as it was called then) as

she volunteered at the cottage making costumes for our PAC productions, assisted during uniform sales, and helped wrangle students backstage during the benefit fashion show. Mignon Stapleton: I am living in Sacramento, CA, and teaching STEM. I enjoy biking along the levee and working out at the gym. I am involved in my church as a prayer intercessor. I started to do acrylic pour paintings and am really enjoying it. Pietra Leo Gaebel: I’m interning with a local city administration as a legislative analyst to update my skill set now that I’m returning to the workforce. My assignment is to research potential model city ordinances and approaches regarding affordable housing and homelessness, and make recommendations. What’s most rewarding is that I still have my brain cells and can re-enter a career again. Age is not a barrier. RoseAnne Ruccello Fischer: My daughter, Cristina, married and had her first child, Cole. In total, with my husband's kids, we have six grandchildren, with one more on the way and two step-grandchildren; I'm loving them all! Also, I started a new job with the University of California Health Center in October 2018. I work with the clinical laboratories of the five medical centers; it's quite a change from what I was doing and it is keeping me busy and challenged. All is well. Margot Leonard: After 15 years as wholesale director for a local artisan bakery, I made the scary but necessary decision to quit my job. New jobs and a health reboot have given me the purpose, satisfaction, and pure joy I had been missing! I am now the personal assistant to the chef at Nostrana, an Italian restaurant that is as relevant and delicious as it was when it opened 14 years ago. I am a consultant and occasional bartender up at a magical, quirky bar in the woods, The Skyline Tavern, where pouring beer and slinging charcuterie boards might coincide with an elk sighting, an amazing sunset, or tending to the house garden, where we grow all of our own produce. And lastly, since quitting my job, I have lost over 75 lbs and have become an independent health coach—helping people find their best self through nutrition, education, and positive reinforcement. My son, Nick, was recently featured in a New York Times Magazine article, detailing his “brother’s” journey through story and photography, finding his 32 half siblings. Mary Diepenbrock : I am amicably divorced after 25 years of marriage. I am beyond proud of my three daughters. Katie is finishing her Ph.D. and lives in Stockholm. Annie is a second year law student in Washington, D.C., and Grace is a sophomore at Loyola Chicago. They are all smart, funny, beautiful women. I am still practicing law and have returned to my passion, riding horses. I have great memories of riding while at Santa Catalina with Laure Woods. I have enjoyed seeing Jennifer Fuhr, Laura O’Kane, Julie Lambert , Betsy Burton Firebaugh, Robin Gagos Dengá, Ellen McGuire Gaucher, and others

when possible. Julie and I are taking a cruise along the Dutch waterways next spring and would love for others to join. Robin Gagos Dengá: I’ve been living in Pacific Grove for five years now. My predominately homeschooled daughter graduated from high school at 16, went on to MPC to earn her A.S. in 2018, and then transferred to Wellesley College. The Monterey area has always felt like a home to me since my Catalina days. It’s easy to live here and nice to see various people. And I get to see the many excellent shows Santa Catalina does throughout the year. I have been in such sadness and shock at the sudden death of our dear classmate, Mary Fergusson Lugg. Mary was a life lover through even the hardships, always an exuberant bright side and strength and loyal loving friend highlighted by her infectious laugh and smile that resonated the heart. It was a privilege any time I was with her and a greater privilege to also enjoy times of playfulness when invited to join her and Lisa Davis Bradley together! I am so glad she found great love and joy in her new marriage and her son’s new family, highlighted by the recent birth of her grandchild. Even as I know she will be a radiating angel and maybe even a bit of a prankster in the ethereal bliss, it is truly heartbreaking to lose her so young. She is a great example of the gifts of our Catalina classmates and sisterhood and, for me, truly integral friendship from my years at Catalina and forever gift in life. Lisa Davis Bradley: It was with a very heavy heart I uttered “Godspeed” on July 28 to Mary Fergusson Lugg, my dearest classmate and friend of 40 years. How does one say farewell to a soulmate? I am blessed by years of fun and laughter with my best bud. I’ve shared so many life milestones with this lovely lady. She was witty, funny, practical, knowledgeable, traditional, a wee bit mischievous, and so fun loving. We giggled like we were 16 to the very end. She took with her a huge chunk of my heart, and I am so grateful she has it.

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Monica Stewart Baker

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Mindy Malisoff Baggett mbaggett@cox.net

Mindy Malisoff Baggett: By the time this is published, I will have finished building my last home. After moving four times in the last five years, this is it. Loving life in Arizona and living

Members of the Class of 1980 at the memorial service for Mary Fergusson Lugg ’80

the dream. On weekends, I escape the Phoenix Valley and head south to my boyfriend’s ranch where I get to relax, have fun, and tune out the world. I have finally figured out work-life balance. The only thing missing is my daughter. Jessica lives in Washington and I miss giving her hugs—thank goodness for FaceTime! Mary O’Hollaren Fitzgerald: My husband and I swore off the suburbs in March 2018 and moved back into Manhattan. Never say you can never go back because we did! Stacey Pruett Taddeucci: This has been a busy year for the Taddeuccis. My daughter, Alexandra Taddeucci Baynes ’07, was married in the Chapel on campus in July. In May, I had the opportunity to see Edith Keville, while she was in town for her husband’s art show. Also saw Carlita Miraco on Mother’s Day in Carmel Valley. Elizabeth Lowden Herreid: Peter and I have been traveling a lot—we are on national park No. 51 and love being in the outdoors. Our daughter, Maddie, lives in Nashville, TN, and our son, Alex, lives in Manchester, NH, so while they have done well in leaving the nest, the mama bird misses them! I have started a home organizing business and am enjoying doing family history research. Deborah Etienne: We have just moved to San Francisco and are loving living in the city! An added plus is being near our daughter, Amanda ’14! Tala Ibabao: By day, I'm a Spanish bilingual fourth grade teacher working in a Title 1 school in Concord, CA. By night, a salsa singer with the Josh Jones Latin Jazz Orchestra. I meet up occasionally with Karen Welmas to dance salsa. I have wanderlust with 12 countries under my belt just this last year! I am also the proud mama bear of Fenua UCB '19 and Malaya UCB '17. Deborah Petteway: It’s my fifth year in Alaska living the rural village life. I enjoy the flexibility to travel a lot; just took cruise to Ireland, Scotland, London, and France with my mother. My son, Justin, is a police officer in Nome, AK. With 23 hours of sunlight, it’s rough this time of year. Suzanne Linton Ver Schure: Coming up on 23 years in Summit County, CO, and owning Abbey's Coffee Shop—not at all sure where the time went! Had a lovely dinner in April with my fellow mountain girls Betsy Black and Marka McLaughlin Brenner and then a very nice visit from Cathy Dee. Otherwise, I love that Facebook keeps so many of us in touch.

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In memory: Let's begin by honoring loved ones lost. Our sweet, sassy classmate, Heidi Buchman Hayes, passed away in April. A few classmates were able to join her celebration of life in June (Heidi Hauserman Wilmott , Colleen Roscoe Graham, and Yvette Chamlian Richmond), among others. Heidi Hauserman Wilmott also coordinated an angel sculpture for the family, sympathy card, and a small donation. You may have received an email letting you know that Edward Howell, Mrs. Howell's husband and father of Naomi Howell de Balderas, passed away in June. Please remember Mrs. Howell and Naomi in your prayers. Rest in peace, Bucky and Mr. Howell. Many of you were able to attend our 35th Reunion in March. The campus looks gorgeous, especially the new math and science building. Special thank you to Mary Looram Moslander, who hosted a party on Friday night. We attended classes and saw Mr. Oder! It was super fun to see Kerianne Davey Beatty and Beth Crawford Crosby after so much time. Mihan Kwon flew in from Korea! Simone Heymann and wife, Ceci Galban, Grace Carlson Yoo, Cyndy Wilson, and Heidi Hauserman Wilmott flew

in from out of state. The honored alumnae were so accomplished and inspirational. Elizabeth Kirk Sondern: Still live in San Francisco with my husband, Greg, and daughter, Katrina. We just celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. Our daughter is a junior in high school, a great student, on the school debate team, four volunteer clubs, and a tri-varsity athlete (golf [received the MVP award], soccer, and softball). This past summer, she was accepted to the Stanford Medicine Anesthesia Program and truly enjoyed herself. She wants to pursue the medical field and hopefully become an anesthesiologist. I have met up with Isabel Haley Filiz a couple of times, and it's been fun catching up with her. Louise Hunt Sandy: Our family took the plunge and finally became American citizens this year! Jack is starting his third year of a communications degree at ASU and Charlie is starting her second year for a political science degree at Barrett. Both kids had internships back in the U.K. over the summer, so I, of course, tagged along for some family time and a quick visit to Kalkan, Turkey, to celebrate the 50th birthday of my sister, Katie Hunt Smith ’87. I continue to run my cake business from home, and my husband, Julian, is also now working from home, which has helped relieve the dreaded empty nest syndrome. Simone Heymann: In 2018, I moved back to Portland with my wife, Ceci Galban. I currently work as a nurse at the Knight Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at OHSU Hospital in Portland. I’m also a certified health coach helping people reach optimal weight and health in my spare time and assisting Ceci and her new tech startup. We recently started remodeling our 70-year-old house with views of the Reed College campus, and in our free time we hike, do stand-up paddling, and generally enjoy Portland with side trips to South Africa to visit with my extended family. Perry Ruyan Hosseini: All is well here. My daughter (25) is on her second round of college, attending Loma Linda University for a 15-month accelerated physical therapy program. My son (22) will complete his last season of football and graduate from the University of Texas in December. Most importantly, they are healthy and happy, and we love each other! Life is good—happy to have breath in my body, dear friendships, and good health. Jennifer Merriman Cazares sent her update while visiting Georgetown: In June, the Cazares family traveled to South America! We went to Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. Our favorite areas were Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu—now we know why Machu Picchu is a wonder of the world! Words cannot begin to explain its beauty. We also loved Urubamba, Ollantaytambo, Cusco, and the 10-hour train to Puno! Lake Titicaca was also amazing with trips to Oros Floating Island, then a homestay with our Amantani Island host family. From there, we spent three days in La Paz, Bolivia, a city 13,000 feet above sea level. We learned first-hand that altitude sickness is a real thing. Our last stop was Chile, where we visited two wine regions and stayed in Valparaiso, a city north of the country's capital, Santiago. Now back on American soil, my daughter, Sophie, and I are exploring East Coast colleges and our

Mary O’Hollaren Fitzgerald ’82 with Stacey Pruett Taddeucci ’82

Robin Koda ’80 hosted classmate Margot Leonard and colleague at a recent Koda Farms event in Portland

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first stop is Georgetown University! While at home, my son, Cooper, is conditioning four days a week for freshman football at De La Salle High School. Julie Moore Delany checks in from Australia: We went to the Way Out West Festival in May in the middle of the real outback in Queensland. Bazillion flies and many dead kangaroos from road kill, unfortunately. But amazing thunderstorms and wildlife, including emu, running around. Otherwise, we're in the middle of winter and loving it—about 55-65 degrees daily. Off to the Florida Keys in the fall. Emily Ibabao-Marley: This summer, Aaron and Julien are traveling in Italy, Montenegro, and Georgia (in the Caucasus region of Eurasia) for a month. Sienna is doing research at UCLA on a Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) Scholarship for health care delivery and policy in underserved communities at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Chiara is doing research on a Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Scholarship at the Dr. Kieran Clarke’s Lab at the University of Oxford, England, for the Zika virus. She and her sister will also travel to London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Italy. I really enjoyed catching up with everyone at our 35th reunion and am currently working as an RN/Director of Staff Development/Infection Preventionist. Judy Kleppe: I made it through the past year and a half with the love of my sister, Johanna Kleppe ’82, and so many of my Catalina sisters, near and far—with special love to Grace Carlson Yoo, Kari Riley ’83, Kim Harris Hayes, and Naomi Howell de Balderas. I have come out the other side healthier and deeply grateful for everyone in my life. Also, our own Grace Carlson Yoo has asked that I share the following: A few years ago she asked that I help her identify and search for her birth parents. The search ended successfully and this past May, I accompanied Grace to Florida to meet her birth mother, who is a lovely, sweet woman, and she and Grace are now enjoying getting to know each other!

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Danae Aplas Hansen: I am living in Montana and working at the local hospital as an anesthesiologist. I also have some administrative duties at the hospital. When not at work, I am busy with my children: Christian (16) and MacKenzie (13), who are active in sports. I enjoy

watching their games and meets. Our family went to the beautiful Turks and Caicos for spring break. Marissa Fung Shaw: Greetings from Hong Kong! I enjoyed recent visits from Cristina Ospina and Melissa Aboitiz Elizalde and hope more of you visit me now that so many people are traveling to Asia. I have reconnected with Ming Lie Chan in Hong Kong and caught up with Arlene Lee Ho Schlobohm and Brenda Trousdell state-side. I currently work with a digital art technology company and volunteer on various arts-related nonprofit boards. I am very excited about one project in particular: the establishment of a world-class museum, M+, opening in 2020. It will be Hong Kong’s museum of 21st century art, design, and moving image. Life is not slowing down here, it is just getting more interesting! Frances Domingo Reilly: This year, I published a poetry chapbook, She and Me, and formed a social enterprise organization, Earth Connect LLC. I am busy trying to figure out how to get funding and get the programs up and running—all new things and lots of learning for me. Last fall, I visited with Bonny Trousdell Reid and her husband, Gary, when they came to San Diego. I hope to see everyone at the next reunion. Ulrike Devoto: My daughter (12) is attending Santa Catalina for camp this summer. I am excited to introduce her to Catalina and visit the school myself. The best part is Sarah Dee Longaker and I have planned an escape to Big Sur before I pick her up. Pamela Bartlett: I have started a new chapter in my life as a financial analyst at Clovis Unified School District, which I love. My oldest son is recently engaged and my youngest just graduated high school. Maru Garza de Jaime: I have has been celebrating my 50th all year and it feels like I am still Catalina age again (but with a little more knowledge!). My children are all adults now so I am spending more time by myself and traveling. My children are spread around San Francisco; Austin, TX; and Monterrey, MX, so I try to make the most of my time with them. Although I have always been busy helping my daughter when in San Francisco, I hope to see those of you in the Bay Area and visit Monterey and Carmel when I visit again! Brenda Trousdell: I am still living

in San Francisco with my husband and running our catering business, 49 Square Catering. Our son, Jackson, just finished his first year at UMass Amherst where he runs Division I track. Our son, Nicholas, is starting his senior year at Lincoln High School and, last year, his football team was undefeated and won the state championship. I returned to Saudi Arabia through an Aramco reunion and it was fascinating to go back to the Kingdom after 30 years. A lot of changes, yet there was so much that flooded my memory when I experienced the familiarity of my camp, Ras Tanura, where I spent some of my childhood. I reconnected with old classmates and friends and had an amazing time! I remain great friends with Jenny Hills Asher, Judy Oh, and Cristina Ospina and I’ve traveled and visited them over the years. I also had the chance to reconnect with Kristin Ring and Sarah Dee Longaker Amy Hall McNamara: I celebrated my 50th birthday with Margi Bogart Power and Meg Gibbons Bertero. My daughter, Ginny, just finished her freshman year at Santa Catalina. Mr. Oder was her history teacher! Ginny loved all the fun traditions we enjoyed, such as the Cake Auction, Ring Week, Prize Day, Community Dinner, Spirit Day, and Candlelight Mass. It is so wonderful that these traditions are still part of Catalina life. Bittersweet, but after much consideration, Ginny is transferring to Tabor Academy next year as she wants to spread her wings to the East Coast. She will miss Catalina, but made lifelong friends. My younger daughter, Margaret (12), just finished her fourth year at Summer at Santa Catalina where she tried and loved the surfing program. Margaret’s twin, Jack, is a sports nut and just wrapped up soccer, golf, and tennis camps. Michael and I get to spend three weeks this summer at our home in Key Largo with the kids. Ginny and I have completed our PADI scuba diving certification so lots of adventures ahead. Katharine Folger Yeager: I am thrilled so many of you have children in schools in the greater Boston area. Please give me a call when you are in town as I’d love to catch up and not wait until Reunion to do so. I spent a great day (and night) celebrating the 50th birthday of Kristin Ring with her family in Connecticut last summer. It is amazing how time seems to have not passed when we are together again and I love how we all know each other so well despite the passage of time and distance—it really is very special.

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Bonny Trousdell Reid ’86 is all smiles with Frances Domingo Reilly ’86

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Jennifer Pratt: I was so happy to hear I’m not the only one who seems somewhat shocked to be turning 50! Other than seriously contemplating Botox (and then canceling said Botox appointments because I’m a giant wuss), I cannot complain. Gabriella and I are healthy and happy, as are the animals. I get to see Serena Bennett Padian and Jackie Sharpe Guy often, which is fab, and after me constantly nagging her, I now meet Fiona Dabney Grandi at the gym on Saturday mornings, which has been so fun. Thanks to all who sent me info and pictures; love hearing from you all and hope that life is treating everyone beautifully! Jennifer Eppler: I am starting year 27 of teaching fourth-graders and am still somewhat sane! I am still beaming from seeing everyone at Reunion and have since been able to spend time with both Kate Myers Brizius and Deborah Smith Spicer. I also got a bonus visit in Dallas from Kate when she brought her daughter, Alex, to the SMU orientation. Missing and thinking of every one of my Catalina sisters— much love to you all. Kate Myers Brizius: I spent some vacation time with my children: Alex (18), Caroline (16), Charlie (14), and Thomas (13). It was nice to have this time together before Alex goes off to start college at SMU in Texas. It’s hard to believe my daughter is headed to college!

Tara Howley Hudson: I am officially back to work! I did a feminist comedy play in Santa Rosa this spring (The Revolutionists by S.F. playwright Lauren Gunderson). I am also co-facilitating at retreats that our company creates for businesses

Kate Myers Brizius ’88, Deborah Smith Spicer ’88, and Jennifer Eppler ’88

and the public. We just did a two day “company culture” retreat for an alphabet company, and I’m pretty sure the entire team was under 40—I did feel old! My girls are now 10 and 13. Parenting a teenage girl is challenging—and also super sweet! I’m definitely struggling with being the present mom I want to be and balancing work and life. I send tons of love to everyone. I’m still bummed I missed Reunion! Tiana Pardini-Pier: I had to laugh as 2019 is basically the last year of our 40s! Where did the time go? I am happy to report that I do have a permanent prom date as Dave and I are celebrating 10 years from the day we met on July 19. Life is good. Madhavi Vemireddy: My husband, Jeff, and I are moving to Menlo Park, CA, with our two boys, Xavi (8) and Milan (4). I am excited to be closer to family! Jeff and I also started a company called CareTribe to help support family caregivers based on our own personal experience taking care of Xavi over the years. I look forward to reconnecting with the Catalina clan in the Bay Area! Steffanie Chain: I’m still living in Crested Butte, CO. I’m renovating a historic house here in our historic town. It’s a new challenge for me and I am enjoying the construction world! My daughter, Annalise, has spent her junior year of high school in Umea, Sweden. She has been gone an entire year and I can’t wait to see her! She had a great time with the Swedes and loved every minute of it. Kimberly Bedwell Smith: We are living the best life we can on our farm in NE Indiana. Tobyn starts college this fall at Purdue Fort Wayne after achieving Eagle rank with Boy Scouts of America, and Top Achiever in our county 4H. Shelby is a junior at Kansas State in animal science and agronomy, working at the Beef Research Unit on campus. Johnathan is starting fourth grade and loves his guinea pigs, bunnies, and fishing.

Ellen Stein Watson ’88 with husband Mark

I am an associate veterinarian at a large hospital specializing in small animals and exotics and still enjoy my work very much. Jim wears two hats as both a senior swine nutritionist and a farmer who keeps the crops growing and equipment going. Life is good. Linda Chang Ting: I don’t have anything exciting to report except that we’re not getting old and I am super bummed to miss the reunion last year. Wendy Fuller: Although I was unable to attend the reunion last year, I did meet up with Leslie Hulse and Michelle Oberle Odle this year. It was great to mix business with pleasure and meet Leslie in Nashville and Michelle in Santa Clara! As always it was as if we were roommates again! Ellen Stein Watson: My life revolves around my two dogs and their silliness! Aside from that, August marks my 25th year working as a nurse at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. How is it possible that I’ve worked there practically half my life? I enjoy providing community health education and programs that help the underserved. In April, I had the pleasure of seeing Veronika Oven Riley and her family. Her kids are absolutely delightful and quite entertaining! I’m also grateful that Sarah Beesley lives close by and we get together regularly for dinner and laughter. Meg Mayer: I have taken a job at a hospital in San Luis Obispo. It’s the same one where I was a candystriper when I was a kid so it’s great to see the growth and updates, including my own as I have been an ultrasound technologist for 10 years now. I live at the beach in Avila so my life is good. The only downside is that my kids are all still in the northeast. It’s hard but we go back and forth whenever possible. My oldest, Mat, is a senior at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is in the first varsity boat for men's crew and I try to catch as many regattas as I can. My daughter, Eleanor (19), is also at Temple; she is a junior and hopes to graduate early (clearly does not take after me in that department) as an advertising major. My youngest, Austin (17), also rows up in Saratoga Springs, NY. He’s got his eye on a few colleges so we’ll be starting to do campus visits later this summer. It is so fantastic to be back in this gorgeous place with such a spectacular, runner-friendly climate after 31 years in the cold winters and oppressive summers of the northeast. I am always happy to have visitors!

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Augustina Stevens

augustinastevens@icloud.com

Augustina Stevens: Well, it’s hard to believe that in a few months we will celebrate our 30 year reunion. I am so looking forward to seeing everyone in person and catching up. I still reside in Central California as the HR director for a Spanish company with multiple heavy civil construction projects nationwide. My daughter, Georgia, is a freshman in high school. Meanwhile, I’ve only heard from a small number of you on latest news and report in that there are many of you we all hope to hear from soon. Gigi Lin O’Hara: I am busy with two teenagers in the house—one driving and giving me gray hair. They are both in high school working hard during the school year. I am looking forward to being an empty-nester in a few years and not chauffeuring kids. Tim and I are celebrating 25 years of marriage in June 2020 and I am looking forward to Reunion. Hope Morgan: I am now working at JCPenney as their board administrative staff assistant. I manage all the meetings, materials, and expenses for an 11-member Council as well as C-level executives. I am active in community theatre. Sunny Tucker: I have recently become engaged and am still residing in Oregon, near Salem. Renee Bitter Nelson: I am a doctor of behavioral health in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Lake Havasu City, AZ. My husband, Clint, and I just celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary and we are looking forward to traveling somewhere exotic for our 20th. I continue to lead my daughters, Allie (12) and Kassie (9), and their Girl Scout troops on regular adventures throughout the year, recently returning from a hard-earned trip to Disneyland, California Adventures, and Balboa Island. In between Allie’s mountain bike team practices and races, Allie and Kassie’s softball practices and games, Girl Scout events, and work travel, Clint and I try to sneak in a craft beer fest or a Coyotes or Diamondbacks game. Our next big adventure will be in March 2020 to see everyone at Reunion. Yana Collins Lehman: I recently opened an office in London, so now I’m tri-coastal between L.A., N.Y., and the U.K. Not to mention keeping busy with my two boys, Beckett (16) and Francis (12).

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Amy Paulsen

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Sarah Mitchell Hansen: We’re busy living in Napa, running The Model Bakery. We've been featured on Oprah's Favorite Things List the last couple years for our famous English muffins. Oprah's a huge fan and we ship them to her every month! We've also been on The Rachael Ray Show a few times—she loves them as well! So, I'm busy growing the business. My husband is the GM for a French barrel cooperage and travels a lot for wine sales. My son (14) is going into high school this year. We just put in a pool and are enjoying our summer swimming! Daniela Bell: We spent a year living in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, and are now back in Minnesota. It’s hard getting used to living in the U.S. again! In many but not all ways life is easier in Oaxaca. The food is utterly amazing and almost completely different than what you think and know about Mexican food. Oaxaca has deep and diverse cultures and we managed to experience a fraction of it and adored every second! If you love food, dance, art, fashion, embroidery, and textiles, you gotta go! Annabel Pratt Sims: I've been living back in England for one year now. I'm working full time for a short let accommodation company. My oldest, Eliza, has completed her first year of university in London. She is now doing a semester abroad in Wellington, New Zealand. My youngest, Hayley, has adjusted well to life in England and has a busier social life than me! Ryan Riegel Abrash: Myself, Andy Riegel Smith ’93, our entire family (including our brother, parents, spouses, and kids) spent two weeks on safari in Africa this summer. Everyone is doing well! After 22 years with American Airlines, I still love being a flight attendant. My kids are doing great, as is my husband. Thalma Thais: This year has definitely had its highs and lows: I got married! John is a wonderful man, and an executive with Disney, producing the music for the parks all over the world. Our house is full of music and we are very happy. Beth Luttrell Brookhouser was my matron of honor and her sweet boys were our ring bearers. We were married in Carmel Valley. Alex Solomone was there as was Suzanne Vantran Huddle, who definitely won the long distance travel award for coming from Hong Kong. One of the lows was my mother died unexpectedly at Christmas. She was a lovely woman and I am sorry we didn’t have more time with her. My boys are big and beautiful and just nice human beings. School is going great for them and we are super happy in Southern California. Beth Luttrell Brookhouser: It's been a very busy year! We celebrated the wedding of Thalma Thais in October, where I had the chance to stand by her side and celebrate. My sons, Sam and Wally, were ring bearers. While Sam (5) took his job very seriously, Wally (2) thought it would be best to scare everyone by opening, closing, and almost throwing the box he was carrying (which thankfully, we had the foresight to empty out

before his big job). Over the holidays, our entire family enjoyed a Panama Canal cruise with my parents and we just returned from the first of likely many trips to Legoland with the boys. Sam starts kindergarten in the fall, and we celebrate my dad's 90th birthday soon after. I have been at the SPCA for Monterey County for 16 years now as the director of community outreach. Last year, we released a rehabilitated hawk at Santa Catalina, with Sister Claire getting the honor of opening the box to let him fly free. It was so wonderful to see everyone and involve the students in the spectacular release. Tamsin Foster Cope: Banks Staples Pecht and her family came to England on a European vacation in June and we all caught up. It was amazing to spend time with her and my beautiful goddaughter as well as getting to know her boisterous boys better. Damian and I have now been living in the U.K. for five years and in August we'll celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. We are currently extending our home, which is exciting but super dusty. Next February, we are going to Vietnam for two weeks. Plans are to hit Northern and Southern California in summer 2021! Elizabeth Ospina Kortenkamp: I’ve been busy raising my twins, Odin and Shiloh (2). It’s been quite the journey. It gives me hope that Courtney Eaton Turner and Banks Staples Pecht have survived the toddler years with twin boys. I’ve been working for Stanford’s outpatient psychiatry clinic as a clinic coordinator. I process intra-clinic referrals, deal with insurance, and support about 30 doctors. I’ve been there almost 13 years. Meaghan Looram Mulcahy: I’ve been living in N.Y.C. for 21 years and am now in Brooklyn with my husband, Conrad, and our daughter, Maeve (2), and our son, Ronan (5 months). Last year (when I was 7 weeks pregnant), I became the director of photography at The New York Times ; it was a huge honor and an awfully big job that I was still adjusting to when I took maternity leave. I’ll head back to work in a month or so. Suzanne Vantran Huddle: After two years being posted in Hong Kong, we are headed back to D.C. The boys are thriving in school, albeit they complain about the constant move. Hopefully, they will look back with appreciation when they get older. Nathan is starting high school in the fall. Matthew is my prankster and he keeps me on my toes. I’m looking forward to being stateside again. Katherine Smith Hughes: I just finished my psych mental health nurse practitioner degree this spring. I currently work in geriatric psych and will be starting an inpatient unit for two days a week—can’t wait! My husband and I are training for our ninth triathlon together at Lake Placid in early September. This has been a life changer for us both and can’t imagine not training for a race. Our oldest daughter, Jackie, will be starting college in the fall at Christopher Newport University. Our two other daughters, Liv and Audrey, are in high school and keep overly busy. I can’t believe I’ve got to start college tours again this year! Britta Beduhn-Haverkamp: Hello from Germany! My oldest son, Frederic, is turning 12 and the younger one, Emilian, is 9. We now have an eight-week holiday. After one week in Bavaria, they will go to summer school to learn

English for two weeks and then we’re going together to Spain. In between, I am going to New York for five days and can’t wait to go again to the U.S. I hope to do a U.S. trip with the kids in future. If anybody is coming to Germany, let us know. Alyce Jillson McKenna: I have been in Dallas for 15 years and have three kids: Evelyn (13), John (11), and Maeve (10). They keep me busy. In addition to driving kids everywhere, I have my own healthcare consulting firm focused on operations and compliance. Like everyone else, if you are coming through Dallas, let me know! Jen Petersen: My food truck and catering business is going great, super busy and I can’t even say how much I love cooking for others. Life in SW Montana is pretty sweet right now. I purchased a new drift boat and am having a bit of fun with that, when I have the time. Also, decided that learning how to renovate vintage campers would be a good new project. Was able to visit the lovely Shannon Lambremont in Austin this March for a long weekend, and will be seeing the equally lovely Tamsin Foster Cope in London this October. Fun plans for the near future include a solo trip to Jordan in late October. I’m really looking forward to visiting the Middle East. And, if anyone is traveling through Bozeman, please get in touch with me! Banks Staples Pecht: Life continues apace for the Staples-Pecht family as we rock the flip-flops and fish tacos lifestyle that is Ventura, CA. Ben and I have three kids: Martie (15), and twins Kyle and Evan (13). We just got back from a bucket list trip to England and France, where we ate everything and explored practically every castle and medieval village to our hearts’ content, and where Martie decided she is going to university in Bath. We went to the American Cemetery in Normandy, and had the most amazing conversations with our kids about war and history and people and the coexistence of good and evil and all the things we can't even understand as grownups. A highlight of the trip was visiting Tamsin Foster Cope and her beautiful family, and getting to squeeze my godson, Simon, who gives the best hugs. Ben and I have been together since we were 19 and he is a partner in a local pediatric practice. I am a recovering lawyer in private practice as a leadership/executive coach, with a national practice working with individual and corporate clients (bankscoaching.com). I have a special spot in my heart for nonprofit work, and serve on the boards of several organizations with focuses on access to health care, arts advocacy/education, and women's rights/empowerment. Shashi Anand: I've now been in N.Y.C. for over 20 years and am coming up on my 10-year anniversary with my husband, Paul. He's a rock star and I'm very fortunate to have him in my life. We're still living in Brooklyn (Greenpoint, specifically) and love it but also hate the winters. We are constantly having conversations about where we would live next. California is always on the list but there's the housing and the cars and the fires and lack of water that hold us back. Plus you can't beat Brooklyn water! I've been at Icahn School of Medicine for over 10 years and just got promoted to associate dean. Love hearing all your life

updates—I think I'll try to make it to the next reunion. Hope Upchurch Flamm: I am still living in N.Y.C. (27 years!). My husband, Peter, and I have two girls (12, 17). This means we are currently going through the college process with one daughter and the N.Y.C. high school process with the other. For about five years now, I have had my own shop on Etsy, selling antique and vintage kitchen items (Hope's Vintage Kitchen). In addition, I've been spending time visiting my mom in Yuma, AZ. I do get to see Djahariah Katz from time to time and recently got to see Shashi Anand in Brooklyn and Amy Paulsen when her family was visiting N.Y.C. If anyone else is visiting the city, please let me know. I would love to get a coffee/drink and catch up. Shannon Lambremont: I still live in Austin. Please come visit, just not in the summer—it’s hot as Hades right now! After working for a huge anesthesia group for 10 years, I took a leap of faith to go out on my own. The first six months were a crap shoot/hustle. Then after about six months, a beautiful opportunity fell into my lap at one of the surgery centers where I was moonlighting. The contract they had with another group was up, so a colleague of mine from anesthesia school called and asked if I would like to join her and now the two of us run the practice. My mom moved in with me three years ago after my father passed, and it is great having her around. The dogs (two wonderful Rhodesian Ridgebacks) love her; she spoils and watches them while I am at work and it allows me to travel a lot. I see Banks Staples Pecht in St. Helena for an annual birthday celebration with mutual friends, and this year Jen Petersen made my heart so very full when she came to visit me in Austin! Megan Rowley Thomas: My husband and I are raising four kids (16, 16, 12, 10) in the gorgeous city of Long Beach, CA. I have been a school counselor with LAUSD for over 20 years and am currently working exclusively with foster and homeless youth. My husband is a football coach so we have said goodbye to him until the end of football season, which means I have a lot on my hands with all these kids! To top it off, we added a new puppy just for some excitement. For sanity, I run and listen to NPR, and visit Carmel Valley at least once every other month. Ewa Pietraszak : I am still a high school English, history, and fine arts teacher in East Los Angeles and have been for the past 14 years. I also live in my art studio near downtown L.A. and had a show three weeks ago. I’ve been trying to hone my craft as an artist and break into the upper echelons of the fine art scene here for the past seven years. I finally hit an epiphany using resin about a month ago.

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Galen Johnson

galen.a.johnson@gmail.com

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Heather Wasser Tabacco heatherwasser@hotmail.com

Heather Wasser Tabacco: I am still living in Boise with my son and hubs. We adopted a new rescue dog, and Trace is going into second grade this year. Audra Henry and I spent a week in Las Vegas at our company’s convention this last June. Hilary Escher Foster: We are really enjoying being back in the USA! Carelle Woerz: I still live in Manhattan and work for Campari America, a premium spirits company whose brands include Aperol, Campari, Skyy Vodka, Wild Turkey Bourbon, Grand Marnier, Espolon Tequila, Cabo Wabo, Appleton Rum, Glen Grant Scotch, Bulldog Gin, and many others. I just purchased an investment property in Nashville, which I am over the moon about as I’ve been spending some time there this summer and love it! Sara O’Neil Miller: We just moved to Hawaii. We have a house here and we’re about to embark on a renovation, which is crazy since we’ll only be here for two years. Samantha, our oldest, starts first grade this year, and Isabel, our youngest, started preschool this summer. We are really busy but after a year with my husband deployed, we’re just happy to settle into a routine with the four of us. If anyone comes to Hawaii let me know! We live in Kaneohe, Oahu, and it’s magical. Natalie McCaskill Crockett: This seems to be a bit of a Disney year for me. In March, I went to Disney World with my sister and we had so much fun! We have plans to take my best friend’s kids to Disneyland for their first time at Halloween. DJ Luna Banks was here in Seattle and I caught up with her over dinner. It was so great to see her! Cecily Hemphill: I am now

Natalie McCaskill Crockett ’94 with DJ Luna Banks ’94

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Natalia Woodhall Chappelow

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Megan MacDonald married Gavin Hastings last October and loved having fellow ’98 grads Catherine Hawley, Adrienne Harris, and Molly Ewen by her side, as well as her cousin Madeline Daniels ’93. Megan is based in Seattle, working with the Asheshi University Foundation, supporting leadership development through higher education in Africa. She’s grateful to still come home to the Peninsula a few times a year to see family. Catherine Hawley and her husband are celebrating their twins’ first birthday this year. It’s “adorable mayhem” at their house. Marisa Schwertfeger Merkle: We continue to live near Naples, Italy, and welcomed our sixth child, Ignatius Andreas, in February.

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Laura Stenovec

laurastenovec@gmail.com

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doing tech support for AT&T, which I love. I am still in Houston, TX. Trying to get stuff to grow in the garden, chasing after the kids, and managing the dogs and cat.

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Catie Ryan Balagtas

catieryan@gmail.com

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Jenny Noble

jnoble78@hotmail.com

Katie Foy Harvard: My husband, Banks, and daughter, Kate (5), welcomed Emma Bankston to our family in April. We continue to live in Charleston, SC, and welcome visitors at any time. I have been teaching kindergarten at Ashley Hall School since 2001. Marisa Adams Adair: My husband and I just had our fourth boy, Henry, in June. He joins brothers Will (9), Tyler (8), and Wells (5). I am outnumbered for sure! Nancy Kennedy Major: My oldest, Cate, went to summer camp at Catalina for the first time this summer. Before drop-off, we had a fun girls'

weekend in Monterey with Joanna Rose and her daughter, Pippa (Cate and Pippa were born a day apart in 2010). Cate loved being camp roommates with Laurel, the oldest daughter of Lindsay Heller '95, and her favorite class was Petite Chefs taught by Natalie Burke '99. Our fifth child, Tart Bakery, continues to be our most temperamental toddler but business is good and we are expanding to a new, larger production facility in fall 2019. If you are ever in Dallas, come by for a treat on me! Paige Finster Greenspan: I am living in Los Angeles and my children are now 12, 10, and 7. I have spent the last year working on building a new home and we can’t wait to move in soon. We recently got a new Bernedoodle puppy named Bear and he is exactly what we needed to complete our family. My health is great and I continue with my infusions every three weeks. I am so blessed that it continues to work and that I am still cancer free. I am grateful for every moment that I have with my family and friends. Thank you for your continued support and I would love to get together whenever any of you are in L.A.!

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Jasmin Reate

jlreate@gmail.com

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Kelly Jones Barrett: My family moved from San Diego, CA, to Annapolis, MD, last year for yet another military move! We have enjoyed being close to the nation's capital and getting to see so much history. My full-time job is homeschooling and raising our three children, and my part-time job is travel planning to Disney destinations.

Elizabeth Belanger McGarvey: My husband, David, and I have been loving living in Germany for the past year and have done a bit of traveling. In February, we visited London where I saw Natalie Hall ’01 and Megan MacDonald Hastings ’98. In June, I was able to go back home briefly for a family wedding, and met up with Summer Star and Autumn Quinn. I am currently doing freelance journalism/editorial production from here, and was able to work on CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute again last December. If you are planning any trips to this part of the world, please let me know—would love to meet up! Susie Bokermann: I’m still living in San Diego, CA,

Adrienne Harris ’98, Madeline Davis ’93, Catherine Hawley ’98, and friends pose with Megan MacDonald Hastings ’98 on her wedding day

and love it! My husband and I adopted a dog in January, and he’s been the center of most of our adventures this year! I still work for a company based in Washington, D.C., so I get to travel back there quarterly. Herbie Brown: Hope everyone is doing super. I'm still living in Venice working toward my Ph.D. in psychology and skiing much of the winter. Come visit! Alexandra Mendez

Clark : Chris and I welcomed our fourth baby in October. Her name is Chloe, and she joins brothers Hudson (8) and Paxton (6), and sister Harper (4). Future Catalina girls? One could only hope! Katy Congdon Williams: We welcomed our daughter, Paige Parker, in July 2019 in San Francisco. She can’t wait to play with her new buddy, Lola, the daughter of Carrie Coffee Ziemer, who was born in February 2019 in New York. Laura Del Santo Harter: My husband, Colin, and I live in Orinda with our three girls (8, 6, 2). We recently finished renovating our home in which we plan to raise our girls. We started a whiskey distillery about seven years ago called Lost Republic Distilling Company. I work there part-time, focusing on investor relations, marketing, and social media. We have been traveling and enjoying our three daughters.

Chelsea McNabb: I left Kenya in 2016, and I am currently living in the southwest of England with my fiancée, Mark Ogilvie-Scornea, and our dog, Brody. Mark is a fireman and special constable with the police force and grew up in Kenya, where we met. We will be married in Bath, U.K., in October. I am elated to have Brigitte Kouba Neves stand by my side, and also to have Dena Kolb ’99 and Leah Kolb ’02 at the wedding along with their parents! I am just finishing my master’s degree in occupational therapy and hope to be working in mental health. No kids yet.

Alexandria Della Sala Neff: My husband, Brian, and I live in Toro Park with our three children, Graham (9), Hudson (7), and Sloane (5). We will be celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary this October! I’ve been working in real estate for over a year as a Realtor for Coldwell Banker in Salinas. Life is good. Brigitte Kouba Neves:

My husband, Antonio, and I are now living in the Pacific Palisades with our boy/girl twins, August and Harper (3). I'm teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga at YogaWorks, and hosting lots of mindful community building events for women (particularly new moms). I had so much fun at the bachelorette party for Chelsea McNabb earlier this year and I'm looking forward to standing beside her at her wedding this October in the U.K. I'm looking forward to our 20-year reunion!

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Kai Romero

kai.romero@gmail.com

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Sasha Irving sasha.irving@gmail.com

Olivia Nilsson

olivianilsson@gmail.com

Ilse Riebe Colby: Eli and I welcomed our daughter, Oona, in December 2018 and feel lucky to be close to family and friends in the area. In March, we met up with Mariana Lopez Portillo Fernandez and her family in Mexico City, and later that month, I celebrated my birthday with Jennifer Lee, Sarah Kennifer Garrigues, Amy Azevedo Mulgrew, Elizabeth Markham and Cat Hawley ’98. I designed the logo and all collateral for Elizabeth's Pacific Grove skincare studio, Lilac & Dahlia, and it has been fun seeing her regularly as both a client and friend! Greer Murphy: I recently relocated to work as director of academic honesty at the University of Rochester. I teach composition, conduct research, and help faculty across the institution incorporate more student-centered, source-based writing practices into their pedagogy. I've been able to find time to teach and train at the national headquarters of my karate organization (which also happens to be located in Rochester), and my husband and I just bought our first house. I can't imagine many Catalina girls will travel through western New York any time soon but if you do, you're more than welcome to visit! Sheryl Stillman: After living in San Francisco for seven years, I decided to take a year off and live in Greece, as well as spend a month and a half in Bali to complete a yoga teacher training program. After my time away, I moved to Denver and I love life in the mountains, as well as being closer to my sister and brother. Olivia Nilsson: Tristan and I welcomed our second son, Arthur, in July 2019. He arrived just before the fireworks! Owen loves being a big brother. Laura Nicola: I am enjoying my

fifth year as an instructor and event planner for the Rancho Cielo Youth Campus Drummond Culinary Academy in Salinas, CA. Rancho Cielo is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of low-income at-risk youth, ages 16-24. I am also embracing my passion for travel, with plans to visit Mexico, Ireland, Bali, and Costa Rica over the next year. Outside of work and travel, I spend my Sundays volunteering as a mentor for Little Bellas, a program founded by two Middlebury alums that teaches young girls how to ride mountain bikes! Katherine Carnazzo Larsen: I am still living in Santa Barbara with my husband and now our daughter, Sadie Elizabeth, who was born in early March. We are adjusting to life with an infant and enjoying the adventure so far! I will return to my work as a school psychologist in August. We've had a chance to introduce Sadie to lots of Catalina friends already!

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Katie Fruzynski

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Madeline Callander

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Lyndsay Pedan McAmis mcamislc@gmail.com

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Lauren Kristich lekristich@gmail.com

As part of her pro bono practice, Anna Lopez Mourlam submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in their favor in a 7-2 decision published on June 21, 2019.

Ilse Riebe Colby ’02 with her husband and daughter

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Natalie Kocekian nkocek@gmail.com

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Shannon Gaughf slgaughf@gmail.com

Haley Johnson Dzundza: Jim and I are proud to announce the arrival of our son, Owen, who surprised us two weeks early in June. We now have a household full of three Geminis! Lucy Pippin: I graduated from Seattle University School of Law in December 2018 and subsequently passed the bar to become a member of the Washington State Bar Association. I currently practice criminal law as a deputy prosecuting attorney at the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Seattle, WA. Hayley Berra: I started a new position at El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, WA, as a ParentChild+ coordinator. I coordinate a free home-visiting program to promote early literacy and school readiness. I have received my Initial Certificate in early childhood education and am thrilled to finally be working in the child development field. Maria DiGiovanni: I married Jordan Couch in Port Gamble, WA, in April 2019. It was a joyous day filled with family and friends, including Catalina alums Meg Malm Vaughn and Jamie (Ila) Foley. We traveled to Iceland for our honeymoon and continue to love living in Seattle.

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Mary Bolt mar.e.bolt@gmail.com

Megan McCaffrey mccaffrey.mf@gmail.com

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Maeko Bradshaw maeko.bradshaw@gmail.com

Cathleen Bettiga: I married Nolan Simons in July 2018 at Holman Ranch in Carmel Valley. We were so fortunate to be surrounded by our loving family and friends while we said "I do." I felt especially blessed to have my lifelong friends that I made while attending Santa Catalina as bridesmaids. My maid of honor was Alexa John and my other bridesmaids were Genevieve Richards, Cristina Bowery, Catherine Armanasco, Emma Gould, and Allison Fithian ’11. Nolan and I currently live in the Bay Area. Christine Torrise: My husband and I were engaged in December 2018 in New York City! We got married at the Rosary Chapel at Catalina in August 2019. We were very excited in the days leading up to our big day! Aside from this exciting news, I am working in the executive office at Pebble Beach Company as an executive assistant to the president. Wendy Hopper: I recently graduated with my master’s degree in integrative health studies from

the California Institute of Integral Studies, and now, I am doing mental health coaching with a digital health company based in San Francisco. I also teach yoga and meditation, and I am helping develop a nutritional program for an organic food company. I am currently planning an eco-coaching workshop to promote our connection with nature and the importance of intention and purpose in our lives.

Cyn Haueter: I wrapped up my second year of law school at UC Hastings, and am working at Andersen Tax this summer. I never thought I would end up in tax law as it seemed incredibly tedious, but it turns out that I love that area of law and I'm very excited to start a career in it. I just have to get through one more year of school and pass the bar exam first. In addition to law school, I got engaged in late 2018. Chris and I are planning to get married next fall. Katie Buxton Harper: Ian and I celebrated our one-year anniversary in July.

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Kelsey Player

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Kelsey Riordan

kelseyriordan11@aol.com

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Katharine Garcia

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Chloe Dlott

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Megan Bomar: What I have learned over these past few years after college is that things don’t always go the way you planned. After being disappointed during this past dental application cycle, I was offered an unexpected, alternate option. One of the dental schools gave me admission into their accelerated Master of Arts in biomedical sciences program. After completion of the program, I will be able to attend their dental school. In addition to this, I was given the chance to accept a full-ride scholarship through the United States Army. I plan on serving as a dental surgeon after I complete school. For those that feel like they have been traveling in circles and that there is no way out, I want to tell you that

Members of the Class of 2010 and friends getting ready for the wedding of Katie Buxton Harper: Wendy Hopper, MC Vatinel, Nicole Dovolis Kasper, Blair Evans

Jocelyn La Chance, Lexi Davi, Rhianna La Chance, and Emma Russell celebrating the engagement of their classmate Gabriella Sardina ’14 to Nishant Rangrej

whatever happens is for a reason. It may not be obvious at first, but all the pieces will fit together once you’re through it. Katharine Garcia: I just finished my first year teaching after completing 18 years of school. I look forward starting a new job as a school counselor at Chalone Peaks Middle School in King City in August!

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Caitlin Dullanty

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Annie Haueter

anniehaueter@gmail.com

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Kylie Moses

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Emma Russell

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Gabriella Sardina: I am very happy to have made San Diego my home! I became engaged this past January and we are looking forward to getting married in the summer of 2020. I just started my master’s in higher education leadership at the University of San Diego. I look forward to getting together with my Santa Catalina classmates any chance I can get!

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Julia Clark

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Mackenzie Fisher

kenzieayn7@gmail.com

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The Class of 2016 is without a class correspondent. Please contact Shannon Gaughf ’08, Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement to volunteer to serve your class in this meaningful way.

Lucy Stowe: I am conducting research in an autism lab at Boston University this summer. In spring, I plan on completing my senior thesis on trends in distributive and procedural fairness in children, which will be the capstone of my psychology degree. Collette White: I am pursuing art and management this summer by working at an art gallery called Martin Lawrence Galleries in San Francisco. In spring, I plan on finishing my English degree with an art history concentration at Providence College. Isabelle Wilbur: I am taking strides in my business career by interning at Ernst & Young this summer in San Francisco. In spring, I will graduate from Boston University and hope to move back to the Bay Area to pursue a career in business. Sarah Blake: I am a nanny for a family in Denver while I work to finish my education degree in the spring. After

graduation, I plan to move to Spain and utilize my fluency in Spanish as well as my education degree to teach children. Daniela Diaz: I am working toward completing my associate’s degree while working full-time in Phoenix and taking care of my adorable dog, Stevie. I plan to complete my bachelor’s at Arizona State in the following years. Emily Szasz: I recently returned to California after studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia, during my spring semester. I am preparing to graduate from USC in the spring and enjoy my time in Southern California.

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Annarose Hunt annarosyrosy@gmail.com

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Sylvan Free sylvanfree@gmail.com

Laura Colosky ’15 and Emma Roffler ’18 at the University of Wisconsin

Cheryl Mendoza ’21 celebrating the 4th of July with Claire Cardona ’16 and Cayleigh Capaldi ’18

Emma Roffler: I started at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. I survived my first winter with the lowest temperature being -50! I had a great time and joined many organizations including HRMO (Human Resources Management Organization) and became a member of Pi Beta Phi. I officially declared as a double major in human resources and marketing. Rowan Azhderian: This past year, I decided to double major in biology and geology. I was a volunteer in my school’s greenhouse, was involved in a service club called Greater City, and had fun exploring Virginia. This summer, I have an internship with the Grassland Water District in the San Joaquin Valley and will be at Monterey Peninsula College in the fall. Jenna Mann: Well, my first year of college seemed to pass by way too fast, and I did a fair amount! I joined a club called Students United for Sustainability. I participated in an internship where I practiced land management strategies on various preserves and parks, and I declared a major of geography, environment, and planning. It has been tiring but very fun, and this past year has made it clear to me that I want to help better our environment. I’ve made some good friends at school but I have fun with my old friends while home on breaks as well. Tara Mann: This past year at Chapman University was really fun as a creative writing major. I got to perform in the annual Happy Chappy Tappy Show with my tap class and I met a few famous tap dancers. I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time, and I operated the soundboard for performances of Dogfight and American Idiot. Next year, I'm looking forward to serving as an orientation leader, working in the Student Union, being an editor for the literary magazine, Calliope, and starting a minor in computer science. Cayleigh Capaldi: At Columbia University, I joined Nonsequitur and have made some of my best friends. We're appearing in a new HBO TV

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show to air this fall, so keep an eye out for us! I'm also working professionally in New York City theater and pursuing degrees in East Asian studies and linguistics. Some of my summer experiences so far have been assisting director/choreographer Susan Stroman and the production of the new Kung Fu Panda musical spectacular for China in N.Y.C., and developing a new TV pilot for China and the U.S. I've also been visiting family and having some good snuggle time with my puppy, Buddha! Jessica Almos: Just like last summer, I am working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium! So come and visit me while I work. In terms of school, I have declared my areas of study to be a bachelor of science in environmental science and policy and a bachelor of art in theatre studies. I hopped onto the leadership board as vice president for Chapman on Broadway, and hope to start a sustainability initiative next year at Chapman. Coco Chai: My first year at college was incredibly memorable because of the friends I made and the amazing classes I took. My favorite things to do over this past year were playing on the golf team, doing foreign policy research in the Yale Roosevelt Institute, and keeping myself busy with events and traditions that take place around campus every week. I am currently spending my summer in Paris, studying French and taking art history classes. I had an enriching experience this past year, and I can’t wait to learn and grow more as a student, a golfer, and most importantly, as a

young adult during my sophomore year. Sylvan Free: I finished up my first year at Allegheny College with so many amazing experiences and memories! I missed being surrounded by strong powerful women like at Catalina, so I joined the sorority Tri Delta, where I have met passionate and wonderful sisters. I am currently pursuing a major in global health studies with a double minor in Chinese studies and psychology. This summer, I was incredibly lucky to join the staff of Congresswoman Kathleen Rice (NY-4) as a legislative intern where, in between running amendments to the House floor, giving tours of the Capitol, attending briefings, and writing memos to the Congresswoman, I was able to get in some time visiting the amazing monuments and museums all around Washington, D.C.! I'm so excited for my sophomore year and making new memories. 19

Kacey Konya

kaceykonya8@comcast.net

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THANK YOU!

Thank you to the following class correspondents for their service to Santa Catalina:

Victoria Manassero Maat ’84

Susie Bokermann '00 and Elizabeth Belanger McGarvey ’00

Lucy Stowe ’16

These positions are now open.

If you are interested in serving as class correspondent, please contact Shannon Gaughf ’08 at shannon.gaughf@santacatalina.org.

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Jenna Mann ’18, Saige Madden ’18 and Tara Mann ’18 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

COMMUNITY TRANSITIONS

Alumnae

Marriages

Megan MacDonald ’98 to Gavin Hastings

Alex Taddeucci ’07 to Ronan Baynes

Christine Torrise ’10 to Michael Marotta

Katie Buxton ’10 to Ian Harper

Births and Adoptions

Meaghan Looram Mulcahy ’92, son Ronan

Katie Foy Harvard ’96, daughter Emma

Marisa Adams Adair ’96, son Henry

Marisa Schwertfeger Merkle ’98, son Ignatius

Alexandra Mendez Clark ’00, daughter Chloe

Carrie Coffee Ziemer ’00, daughter Lola

Ilse Riebe Colby ’02, daughter Oona

Olivia Nilsson ’02, son Arthur

Haley Johnson Dzundza ’08, son Owen

Lisa Enny ’09, daughter Estella

In Memory

Our love and prayers to:

Bobbie O’Connell Munson ’59 on the death of her son

The family of Pat Poole ’62

The family of Melody Rodriguez Stewart ’63

Chris Di Giorgio Timmerman ’64

a nd Dorothy Di Giorgio Moore ’76 on the death of their mother

Marion Toms ’70 on the death of her mother

Ginger de Lorimier Howard ’72

a nd Anne de Lorimier Eggleton ’74 on the death of their mother

Mary Biaggi McEachern ’73, Cynthia Biaggi Gonzalez ’75, K athleen Biaggi ’76, a nd Patrice Biaggi Keeler ’77 on the death of their mother

Jessica Andrus Lindstrom ’73 on the death of her mother

Arden Bucklin-Sporer ’74 on the death of her mother

Olava Menczkowska ’74 on the death of her mother

The family of Kirby Walker ’74

Janie Goodrich Snowden ’76 on the death of her father

Audrey Dormer Foraker ’78 on the death of her mother

Elvira Leo DeLotto ’78, Pietra Leo Gaebel ’80, a nd Tertia Leo ’80 on the death of their father

Kellene Kellogg Simon ’79 a nd Christina Kellogg ’85 on the death of their father

The family of Mary Ferugsson Lugg ’80

Julie Lambert ’80 on the death of her mother

Christel Laine Kelley ’81 on the death of her mother

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83 a nd Ingrid Mueller Angier ’87 on the death of their father

The family of Heidi Buchman Hayes ’84

Naomi Howell de Balderas ’84 on the death of her father

Thalma Thais ’92 on the death of her mother

Nicole Granat ’17 on the death of her father

Faculty & Staff

Births

Chris Avedissian, daughter Elsie Ann

Former Faculty

Monika Howell on the death of her husband

Items in Transitions reflect communications received between April 2, 2019 and October 15, 2019.

Christine Torrise Marotta '10 with husband Michael.

Estella Rose, daughter of Lisa Enny '09

The Legacy Campaign

Dear Alumnae/i, Parents, and Friends of School,

We are excited to announce the final phase of Santa Catalina’s historic Legacy Campaign, the culmination of many years of dedication, generosity, and commitment from our school community.

The Legacy Campaign commenced in 2011 as Sister Claire, who was concluding her tenure as Head of School, looked toward Santa Catalina’s future and the potential for new leadership. She, her leadership team, and the Board of Trustees wrote the Strategic Plan 2012 to prepare Santa Catalina for the next chapter in its life, one that would include the appointment of Meg Bradley, Santa Catalina’s first lay head, in 2015. The plan included strategic investments in the campus and the endowment to ensure Santa Catalina’s position as a leader in education now and in the future.

The Board set an ambitious goal for the school: $50 million, the largest campaign in Santa Catalina’s history. Today, we are proud to say that the school has reached 89% of its goal with just over $5 million to raise by June 30, 2020.

Herein you will learn about the history of the Legacy Campaign and its impact on the lives of our students and faculty. We now invite the entire school community to help us celebrate our accomplishments to date and help us finish the Campaign by way of the Veritas Challenge. We look forward to connecting with many of you in the upcoming year and to personally thanking you for your support.

Warm regards,

Hartwell

Carolyn

O’Brien '74 Legacy Campaign Co-Chair

Kenny Peyton Legacy Campaign Co-Chair

Tracy Miller Hass '75

Santa Catalina Fund Chair

Lower and Middle School THE LEGACY CAMPAIGN

Create a campus as dynamic as our students and teachers and as impressive as their work.

For more than 40 years, the Lower and Middle School program has grown exponentially, both in size and scope, but the facilities had not been updated. In September 2013, we dedicated the first Legacy Campaign project, the Multipurpose Building and E.L. Wiegand Amphitheatre. Both additions have become the heart of the Lower and Middle School campus community.

Investments

• Multipurpose Building

• Middle School classrooms

• Faculty room

• Expansion of Grades 1-3 classrooms

Completed

September 2013

February 2014

February 2014

September 2017

Outcomes

• A home for Lower and Middle School community gatherings and the Compass program

• Increased hands-on learning and experimentation, particularly in math and science

• A library, music room, and art room for students to explore more opportunities in arts and literature

• A middle school experience that appeals to young people and readies them for high school

• Faculty and staff who have the tools, technology, and space to do their best work

Sister Claire cuts the ribbon at the dedication of the multipurpose building in 2013.

Upper School THE LEGACY CAMPAIGN

Create an intellectual and social hub at the center of campus, with math and science as its cornerstone.

In 2013, the school launched its marine science program, which included a specialized track for students interested in technical research in one world’s most biodiverse natural resources, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center provided a home for the marine science program, while creating multiple opportunities at the intersection of the school’s mathematics and science programs.

Investments

• Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center

Completed January 2016

Outcomes

• A home for the marine science program

• Increased learning opportunities at the intersection of math, science, and technology

• A social and academic hub for the Santa Catalina community

Students walk to their class in the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center.

Top: Students in the Marine Ecology Research Program explore Hawaii. Bottom: Robotics team members adjust the wiring on their robot.

THE LEGACY CAMPAIGN

Community

Continue to attract the most talented students and faculty and ensure a stable financial foundation for the future of the school.

A primary goal for the Legacy Campaign is to place Santa Catalina in the strongest possible position for the future. The final years of the Campaign have been focused on building the school’s endowment, including the establishment of the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Endowment for Health and Wellness and The Veritas Challenge, a $5 million gift to tuition assistance endowment. At the conclusion of the Legacy Campaign, the school will have raised $15 million for the endowment, which is currently valued at $42,800,000.

Investments

• The Carol Ann Read Head of School House

• The Santa Catalina Endowment

Completed July 2016

Outcomes

• A larger endowment to serve as the financial backbone for Santa Catalina and meet the school’s highest aspirations now and in the future

• Competitive salaries and benefits for teachers

• Flexibility to enroll the most talented, mission-appropriate students

• Resources to attract top candidates for school leadership

• Sister Claire and Sister Christine Endowment for Health and Wellness

Following Candlelight Mass, students gathered at the Carol Ann Read Head of School House to sing Christmas carols.

The Endowment for the Director of Summer Camp

Established in Honor of Julie Yurkovich Forrest ’78

by Laurie Severs

When Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger’s twin daughters, Erika ’19 and Anna, were 8-years-old, they arrived on campus for the first of many summers to attend Santa Catalina’s summer camp for girls, Summer at Santa Catalina. The Schwerdfegers, who reside in the Bay Area, heard about the summer camp from friends whose daughter was enjoying her experience. They checked out the program for themselves and enrolled the girls for the summer of 2010. Thus began what the family considers a life-changing voyage of joy and discovery.

“The girls were day campers in the two-week program their first year,” says Stephen. “Under the leadership of Julie Yurkovich Forrest ’78, the summer camp director, the girls had loads of fun—‘serious fun’ as Summer at Santa Catalina is described. At the end of their first camp experience, we were not out of the parking lot before the girls declared, ‘We’re coming back next year, and we’re boarding!’”

The following summer, Erika and Anna attended the three-week program as boarders, enrolling in the five-week boarding program in subsequent years. “As overnight campers, the girls embraced their independence, learning time management, how to connect with roommates, and self-care. And that’s just for starters.”

Susan and Stephen were impressed with the program from the getgo. “Julie did an amazing job of training and inspiring outstanding counselors,” observes Stephen. “She has a deep understanding and appreciation for what girls need. Together with her team, Julie encouraged campers of all ages to try new things, to meet girls from other locales, to venture outside their comfort zone, and to understand that it is okay to fail at times. She created a very strong sense of community and encouraged independence within that community, a philosophy that resonated with Erika and Anna.” The two returned to summer camp year after year, and both girls remain close to many of their camper friends to this day.

One of the guiding principles of summer camp is leadership and the philosophy that kids are natural leaders. It is key to the program and something all counselors are taught to model for their campers. “Julie and the counselors,” says Stephen, “understood that, culturally, if camp was to help girls develop leadership skills, they would need opportunities to lead in a variety of circumstances, even if the results were messy and the outcomes not always perfect. I believe that many adults with leadership skills acquired such abilities because, as kids, they were empowered to lead. I wanted that for my daughters.”

When the time came for high school, Santa Catalina felt like the family’s second home. The Schwerdfegers were delighted to have Erika enroll as a resident student at Santa Catalina, with her twin sister not far away at school in the Bay Area. Erika flourished in the Upper School. As Stephen describes it, summer camp empowered her to put herself out there and try new things. “Erika truly embraced the joy of approaching new opportunities,” he says. “The entire Santa Catalina experience was phenomenal. Erika and Anna are the young women they are thanks to Julie, Summer at Santa Catalina, and the core values that are instilled in campers and students. That is why Susan and I want to help ensure that Julie’s legacy as an outstanding summer camp director continues.”

In 2017, the Schwerdfegers established an endowed fund in Julie’s honor to support the Director of Summer Camp. “It’s about the legacy,” says Stephen. “Julie and the camp philosophy she stewarded have been a huge influence on my girls over the years, as was true for so many campers. Our goal is to help ensure that the program continues under the leadership of top-level directors so that future summer campers have the kind of transformative experience that our daughters enjoyed. The fact is, our family would not be who we are if not for the Summer at Santa Catalina experience. That truth is at the heart of our decision to invest in the school’s summer camp and to give back to the program that has given us all so much.”

Erika and her sister, Anna, with Julie Forrest at Erika's graduation in 2019.

THE

$5 Million Challenge Gift to Conclude the Legacy Campaign

In June 2019, a group of anonymous donors pledged $5 million to rally the Santa Catalina community to finish the Legacy Campaign by June 30, 2020. The pledge, known as The Veritas Challenge, is for the school’s tuition assistance endowment. It also aims to increase annual giving through new and increased gifts to the Santa Catalina Fund. Here’s how the challenge works:

First-time donors to the Santa Catalina Fund will be matched 1:1 with Veritas funds going directly to tuition assistance endowment.

Returning donors to the Santa Catalina Fund who increase their previous year’s gift will be matched 1:1 on the increase with Veritas funds going directly to tuition assistance endowment.

Legacy Campaign donors who pledge $25,000 or more to the tuition assistance endowment will be matched 1:1 with Veritas funds going directly to tuition assistance endowment. Donors will be acknowledged for their gift amount, plus the matching gift amount.

Your 2019-20 Gift Towards the

Your 2018-19 Gift

Your 2019-20 Gift Towards

Your 2019-20 Gift

$25,000 $25,000 $50,000 Towards

All donors who meet the Veritas Challenge will be recognized in the final report of donors for the Legacy Campaign.

The Legacy Campaign

$5,000,000+

Anonymous (7)

$1,000,000 to $4,999,999

Anonymous

Angela Nomellini ’71

$500,000 to $999,999

Anonymous (3)

Nancy and Philip Greer

Nancy Eccles & Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation

J. Peter Read, Jr.

Stefanie and Robert Skinner

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Wendy Hayward Wendling ’82 LS

E.L. Wiegand Foundation

$250,000 to $499,999

Anonymous (3)

The Estate of Harold H. Audet

Julie and Curt Breitfuss (Julie Jones ’79)

The Marie C. de Dampierre Memorial Foundation

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock ’59

Pamela Fairbanks de Villaine ’60

D.D. and Paul Felton

Margie and W. Taylor Fithian

Jay & Barbara Fritz Family Foundation

The Grover Hermann Foundation

Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judith Musto ’61)

Alita and Michael Kavalauskas

Monterey Peninsula Foundation

The Estate of Sister Carlotta O’Donnell

Michaela and Reuben Richards

Santa Catalina School

Kelly and Brian Swette

Thalma Thais ’92

$100,000 to $249,999

Anonymous (6)

Frederick Bates

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson ’56)

Bedford Family Foundation

Daphne and Richard Bertero (Daphne Craige ’60)

Michelle and Garrett Blake

Barclay Braden ’59 and Richard Henry Blair

Kate Myers Brizius ’88

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Kate and Bob Ernst

Pam and Russ Fadel

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Barbara Fritz

Barbara and Arthur Fritz, Jr.

Nini Richardson Hart ’61

Ben and Walter Hussman

Angela Park and Henry Kwon

John Luce

Laurie Angel McGuinness ’53

Eileen and Gary Morgenthaler

Mary and Frank Moslander (Mary Looram ’84, ’80 LS)

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

The Reveas Foundation

Elizabeth and Reuben Richards

Charles and Marie Robertson Foundation

Corinne and Michael Roffler

Mary Pat and Jerry Sweetman (Mary Pat Reardon ’60)

Kelly and Wes von Schack

$50,000 to $99,999

Annenberg Foundation

Anonymous

France de Sugny Bark ’59 and Dennis L. Bark

Sister Claire Barone

Mary Bell

Kathleen Brown ’63

Jenny Budge ’71

Jeff Burke

Jo Ann and Julien Collins

Cindy and Joe Connolly

Cornelia and James Farley, Jr.

Patricia and Alfred Friedrich

Eliza Gaines ’05 and Alec Gaines

Jim Harbaugh

Hazel Foundation

Laural Foundation

Terry and John Levin (Terryl Albert ’70, ’66 LS)

Gini and Jim Luttrell

Tina Hansen McEnroe ’70, ’66 LS

The Estate of Norman W. Miller

The Moley Family Foundation

Jenner and Andrew Morrison (Jenner Fritz ’94)

Mildred E. and Harvey S. Mudd Foundation

The Northern Trust Company

Deborah and Kenny Peyton

The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation

Wendy and Victor Ramirez

Olivia Hussman Ramsey ’05

Deborah Tanous Scofield ’65

Cristin and Michael Shute

Helen and Michael Spanos

Marta Szemes

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett ’82)

Judith and Jackson Yen

$25,000 to $49,999

Pamela Anderson-Brulé ’76

Anonymous (3)

Arizona Community Foundation

Courtney Benoist ’77 and Jason Fish

Deborah Kneedler Berggren ’53

Justine and Robert Bloomingdale (Justine Schmidt ’73)

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis ’93)

Hakela Felton ’14

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund

Tracy and Eric Hass (Tracy Miller ’75)

Peggy and Glen Heffington

Caroline Harris Henderson ’61

Anne Hilby ’01

Paula and Bruce Hilby

Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS

Jeannik Littlefield

Littlefield 2000 Trust

Elizabeth Lloyd Rovetta ’95 and Francesco Rovetta

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon

The Estate of Ginny Fiske Marshall ’68

Deborah McCann ’59

McMahan Family Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Moulton-Post ’82, ’78 LS

Laura Knoop Pfaff ’72

Victoria and Wayne Prim

Rorick Trust

Sally Rorick-Orlando ’63

Audrey Keebler Scott ’91

Catherine and James Sims

Karine Snyder Lyon

Spencer’s Stationery Valley Fabrication, Inc.

Wendy and Bart Walker

Wayne L. Prim Foundation

Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham

Stacie and Stephen Worsham

$10,000 to $24,999

Rita Alves

Anonymous

Cass and Mike Antle (Catherine Slaughter ’79, ’75 LS)

Maureen and Michael Bernal (Maureen Duflock ’89)

Barbara and Peter Blackstock

Rob Bolt

The Boswell Family Foundation

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

Megan and Michael Bruno ’82 LS

Ann Bryant

The Burnham Foundation of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP

Cara and Peter Butler

Elizabeth and Clark Callander

The Callison Foundation

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly

Estate of Alexandra Eversole

Ceseli and Hugh Foster

Mary and Howard Fuchs

Lynn and Frank Garcia

Bernadette and Mark Gersh

Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales

Karen Greer Goss ’85

The Estate of Jane and Lawrence Harris, Jr.

Louise Harris ’72

Herbst Foundation

The Estate of Maggie Jagels

Abigail and Albert Janko

Johnna and Wally Jansma

Rene and Gaylord Johnson III (Rene McCurry ’86)

Roxana Earley-Keland and Harold Keland

Nancy and Richard Kingsley

Deborah and Charles Kosmont

Lynn LaMar

Bill Leatherberry

Shelley and James Lipe

Nancy Mannon ’85

L. Douglas McKenzie and Susan Carlisle

The Estate of Robert Folger Miller

Judith and James Moses (Judith McDonald ’86, ’82 LS)

Edna and Peter O’Hara

Old Bofie Foundation

John Pataye

Lisa and Henry Plain

Jinx Hack Ring ’60 and Peter Smith Ring

The Estate of Rosemarie Rochex ’54

The Norman C. Schultz Foundation

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving

Roselyne Chroman Swig

Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

Vaquero Foundation

Jean Jagels Vaughn ’75

Teresa Ferrari Votruba ’66

Kit Wai

Monika Pataye Watkins ’97

Jeannette Witten

Julia and Brad Wong (Julia Janko ’82, ’78 LS)

Angelina Yao ’99

$5,000 to $9,999

John Aimé

Anonymous (3)

Diane and Charles Bates

Sandra Stolich Brown ’55

Caitlin Bryant ’07, ’03 LS

Miera Cacciola and Geoff Couch

Bella and Bert Cutino

The Justin Dart Family Foundation

Jennifer and Dragan Dimitrov

Deborah and Dirk Etienne (Deborah ’82, ’78 LS)

Marilyn and Joseph Franzia

Pamela Gamble ’61, ’57 LS

William Heyler

Susan and Herbert Hinstorff (Susan Haber ’76)

SC Johnson Fund, Inc. Educational Matching Gift Program

Martha and Rick Kennifer

Beverly and Thomas Klinger

Wendy Burnham Kuhn ’59

Julianne Perkins Layne ’60

Lindsay Lerable

Joan and Matthew Little (Joan Shymanski ’64, ’59 LS)

Lydia and Bryan Mansour

Kathryn and Ray Miller

Randi Palmieri

Sunzah Park

Ann and Richard Patterson

The Mark Pollacci Family

Sister Christine Price

Maureen and Benjamin Richards

Veronika Oven Riley ’88

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation

Ann Frasse Stowe ’82

Carol Swig

Swig Foundation

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis ’94, ’90 LS

Karene O’Connell Vernor ’60

Julie and Joe Villarreal

Brooksley and Darren Williams

Melissa and William Williams

Laure Woods ’80

Patricia and George Yellich

$2,500 to $4,999

Anonymous

Basia Belza ’73 and Martin Bickeboeller

Lani and Donald Bethe

Anne Bryan ’77

Hilary and Richard Clark (Hilary Wickersham ’71)

Iris and Stephen Dart

Tracy Taylor Everett ’89

Rita and Frank Flores

Kathy and Matthew Gibbs

Joan Eaton and Paul Gibson

Heather and Mike Givens

Stacey and Ted Golding

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Linda and Arno Hanel

Elizabeth and Robert Helfrich

Hilby Family Foundation

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson ’77)

Raimie and George Kriste

Katie Martin and David Laurits

Jenny and James Leamey

Amy and Joseph Martinetto (Amy Kajikuri ’80, ’76 LS)

Nicki and Michael McMahan

Willa and Ned Mundell

Nita and Samir Patel

Naomi and Seth Pollack

Dawn Mudge and Allen Radner

Kathleen Mailliard Rende ’59

Marilyn and Byron Riegel

Santa Catalina Parent Association

Santa Catalina School

Nancy Williams Shea ’75

Janie and Keith Shoemaker

Constance Stevens

Jane Tucker

Andrea Watson-Bross ’85

Catherine O’Hara Willmott ’60

Joan and Warren Yu

$1,000 to $2,499

Anonymous (4)

Maria Avelino

Richard Avelino

Velma and Ted Balestreri

Mary Franich Bignell ’71

Boeing Company

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Amy and Michael Brandt

Kassandra and François Brenot (Kassandra Thompson ’87)

Tiffany and Richard Bufkin

Kathey Burcar

Carole Lusignan Buttner ’57

Margaret Campodonico ’78 and Reynolds Lave

Carroll Family Charitable Foundation

Julie Carson

Chia-Yu and Jung-Hua Cheng

Donna Coletti

Julien H. and Bertha M. Collins Fund

Chris and Anthony Cunha

Anthony Della Sala

Stephen Devoto

Frances Dillingham

Ninive and Bruce Dohrmann

Paula and Dennis Donohue

Joan and Richard Doust

The Dowson Family

Laura and Rich Everett (Laura May ’85)

Amy Little Figge ’84 LS

Suzanne Townsend Finney ’60

Juelle and Fred Fisher

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich ’78)

Gianna Franzia ’95

Marge Ganz ’76

Julie Garcia ’71

Louise Grant Garland ’59

The Estate of Sister Jean Gilhuly

Timothy Hall

Laurie Hammonds Schultz ’67, ’63 LS

Clarrie and Ralph Hanley

Joanna Grant Hartigan ’60

Robin Hatcher ’63

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hemphill

Gayle Holmes

Alicia Steinhardt and Nevin Hougardy

Tracy and Christian Huebner

Ruth Johnson

Sheila Johnson ’65

Yuki and Isao Kato

Deborah and Mark Kimes

Wendy and Harvey Lambeth, Jr. (Wendy Miller ’60)

Yvonne Bernadicou Lyon ’55

Mary-Allen Macneil ’61

Lil McDonald ’81

Bobbie Erro Marsella ’57

Victoria Street Medeiros ’61

Mary Morris Miller ’72

Sheilaja and Vikram Mittal

Ashley Moranda

Cynthia Nadai ’73

Mary and David Nikssarian

Susanne and K.C. Nowak

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74

E.B. O’Neill ’85, ’81 LS

Linda and Samuel Persall

Emma Hinsdale Pickering ’99

Josephine Pope

Maria Pope ’83

Josephine and Peter Pope

Janet and Michael Pratt

Denise and Chris Pryor

Shawn Quinn

Carmella Lagomarsino Renton ’71

Sally and Richard Rhodes (Sally Smith ’57)

Melissa Ault Ricci and Robert Ricci

Connie and Blake Riley

Melanie and Anthony Rosa

Elizabeth Walker Rudinica ’75

James Russell

Suzanne Saunders Shaw ’70

Dorothy Dwyer Schreiber ’59

Susan and Steven Selbst

Rosalind Boswell Seysses ’67

Sally Sibley ’58

Richard Sippel

Zoë Sippel

Susan Solinsky ’82

Robin Kohler Stieber ’73

Paula and Neville Udwadia

Craig Varjian

Fatima Sabanova and Dominick Veliko-Shapko

Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Daphne Gray Walsh ’61

Joan Weakley ’75

Domie Garat Werdel ’60

Erin and Fred White IV

John Williams

Nan Griffin Winter ’60

Monique Chamlian Wright ’87

Ashley Yeates

Margaret Chen and Clinton Young

$1 to $999

Sarah Adams ’83 and Robert Fletterick

Donna Adams

Nicole Lazarus Adan ’93

The Aeschliman Family

Lili and Alejandro Airada

Lisa and David Alderson

Margaret and Sergio Alvarez

Anonymous (8)

Penelope Corey Arango ’61

Dana Armstrong ’06

Roe Brown-Arn ’75, ’71 LS

Mary Ellen Smith Ash ’57

Julie and Shawn Atkins

Victoria and Andrew Ausonio

AYI & Associates

Valerie Barnes

Domine and Michael Barringer

Kathy and Steve Bath

Sara Liu and James Bennett

Lindsey Berkowitz ’06 and Benjamin Berkowitz

Cameron Butts Bianchi ’64

Susan Bigelow Fisher ’60

Angelica and Marshal Blatt

Jenifer and Jeffrey Bolger (Jenifer Jacobs ’92 LS)

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen ’58

Sarah Bouchier

M. Kennon and P. Roger Bowen

Georgene and John Bowker

Julia Brandt

Mary-Ellen Bowlin Briel ’63

Elisabeth Brinks Day ’99, ’95 LS

Karen and Henry Brown

Karen and David Brown

Janet Bruno

Majorie and Jeffrey Bryant

Susan and Dennis Bunting

Pamela and Corey Butler (Pamela Ham ’88, ’84 LS)

Lucy Butler ’73

Cynthia and Paul Cahalan

Judith Botelho Cain ’60

Mary Callagy

Serena Carroll

Lisa and Jeff Carter

Nitze Erro Caswell ’56

Patricia Cerisola-Mansi ’83

Catherine and Tony Christian (Catherine MacDonald ’93)

Susan Gray Christoffersen ’60

Yibing Ma and Weilun Chu

Cisco Foundation

Elizabeth Clement-Doughty ’68

Ilse Riebe Colby ’02

Catherine Compagno

Nancy Comstock

Kathy and Jeff Congdon

Sabrina Taylor and Albert Conner

Frances Verga-Lagier Cook ’99, ’95 LS

Sheila Cooley ’71

JJ and JZ Cordano Family

Lola Steinbaum-Cornell and Trent Cornell

Marian and Daniel Corrigan (Marian Donovan ’72)

Judy Nagel Cox ’61, ’57 LS

Kahlil Thompson Coyle ’93

Karen Swanson Crummey ’60

Margaret Brackenridge Dalis ’61

Laura and Christopher D’Amelio

Madeline Daniels-Rienecker ’93

Heidi and Philip Daunt

Sister Cathryn deBack ’60

Elinor and Anthony Descristoforo

Susan Woodbury and Charles Dehner

Mr. and Mrs. William Demas

M. J. Demetras ’71

Jill Demmel

Mimi Doud Detels ’60

Elizabeth and Daniel Diaz

Maria DiGiovanni ’08

Jennifer Dohrmann-Alpert ’93

John Dotson

Gloria and Jim Dougherty

Alyssa Dougherty ’10

Courtney and Liam Doust

Antonia Driver

Sara Duryea and Dick Damm

Tina and Max Ebrahimian

Elena Ebrahimian ’04

Ariana Ebrahimian ’99

Lucille Eggerman

Lindsay O’Hara England ’95

Sara Fargo ’61, ’57 LS

Jansie Stephens Farris ’63

Sally Fay ’74

Gloria Felice ’54

Carroll Fergusson

Sue Finegan

Kellen Flanigan ’83

Sharon Frangipane

Serena Fritz-Cope ’85

Sally and Dennis Froehler

Aleksandra and Heath Frye

Christina Cotton Gannon ’64

Kathryn Garber

Franca Gargiulo ’80, ’76 LS

Cindy Brodsky and Terrence Gargiulo ’82 LS

Gargiulo Vineyards

Sarah Kennifer Garrigues ’02

Barbara and Calvin Gatch

Ellen McGuire Gaucher ’80, ’76 LS

Valerie and David Ghio

Cedra Ginsburg Goldman ’93

Jane Howard Goodfellow ’56

Google Matching Gifts Program

Vivian Graue-Allen Toto

Sally Hansen Green ’72, ’68 LS

Tina Greene ’73

Bambi and Robert Griffin

Kim Whitney and Jim Griffith

Mardi Hack ’58

Theresa Lowe Hall ’61

T. R. Hall Land & Cattle Company

Anna and Douglas Harris

Jennifer Harty

Catherine Hawley ’98 and Christian Mendelsohn

Shirley & Barnett Helzberg Jr.

Donor Advisory Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City

Anne Hibbitt

Marianne Hidas-Trotter ’64

Maddie Homan Blanchard ’78

Courtney Tunney Hotchkis ’82

Niaomi and Jeff Hrepich

Heather and Darren Huber

Jane Hunter ’88, ’84 LS

Julie Hutcheson ’59

Charlotte Hwang ’04 and Ian Ngai

Suzanne Dragge Icaza ’74

María Iglesias and Craig Bishop

Annee and Chris Jacobs

Mary and Mike James

Karen and David Janssen

Thomas Jay

Lynne and Edward Johnson

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

Bijina Bajracharya and Niraj Joshi

Miya Kajikuri ’88, ’84 LS

Diane and Hisashi Kajikuri

Alexandra Kautz ’06

Susan Kendall

Katherine Kennifer ’05

Jeanette and Gary Kihs

Sarah Folger Kilmain ’93

Gloria and Richard Kim

Meg Campbell Kingsland ’87

Joyanne and Aram Kinosian

Maxine and Henry Klaput

Megan Knetemann ’11

Joan and Knetemann (Joan Goodfellow ’80)

Penny Pringle Knowles ’60

Gail Koewler

Lesley and Ken Konya

Shannon and Zach Koontz

Joan and Dennis Kuchta

Bridgette Lacerte ’82

Adrienne Morphy Ladd ’75

Betty Ann Bernadicou Lambert ’57

Brooke Larsen Garlock

Sharon Larson

Meredith Burke Lawler ’89

Irene May Lawler ’59

Lan-Anh Le ’06

Nina and Scott Leavenworth and Family

Lani LeBlanc ’60

Miranda Maison LeKander ’93

Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS

Samuel Leung

Sherry and Robert Lindsay

Kelly Maney-Liner and Steve Liner

Rebecca Lohse ’97

Margie and John Lotz

Holly and Joseph Loussaert

Frances Lozano

Mr. and Mrs. David Lucchetti

Janet and Daniel Luksik

Caroline Lord Mackenzie ’65

Marisa Maclennan

Tonia Macneil ’64

Lisa and George Malim (Lisa Campodonico ’76)

Elizabeth Marrack and Dean Partlow

Gael Loris and Daniel Marrah

Jeanne Nielsen Marshall ’54

Kathryn Maurer ’99 and Jeremy Wilke

Joy Franich Maze ’77

Sharon McBride

Kristine and Kevin McCaffrey

Abigail McCann ’54

Ellen McGlynn ’93 and Steve Wilbur

Sheila McGuire

Kristi and Bobby McLaughlin

Maria Hart McNichol ’61

Cristy and Jason Mehringer

Fatima and Joe Melo

Linda Mendoza

The Merchants National Bank of Sacramento

Merritt Minnemeyer ’94

Carol Mizgorski

Brenda and Marc Mizgorski

Daniel Molyneaux

Courtney Moore ’02

Beatrice Leyden Moore ’53

Penny Morris

Michele Morton

Elena Gates Motlow ’71

Eric Mueller ’97 LS

Laura Mulloy Ault ’94

Cindy and Gerry Munday

Bernadette Murphy

Ibi and John Murphy (Ibi Janko ’83, ’79 LS)

Sarah Blanchard Murphy ’60

Peter Musto

Katrina Muttera

Shirley Glod Myers ’61

Josie and Sandor Nagy

Napa Valley Community Foundation

John Nardone

Kelly Neary ’93 and Milos Djokovic

Betsy Bourret Neu ’58

Jo Le and Danny Ngo

Dana and Wallace Nichols

Susan Smith Nixon ’87

Jana Novak ’90

Karl Nygren

Karen Demski O’Brien ’93

Kathleen and Laurence O’Connor

Marie and John Odello

Yoojin and Christopher Oh

Anne O’Leary ’71

Kristan Jacobson O’Neill ’59

Noova Ongley

Patricia Orquisa

Marilyn Ramos Ospina ’60

Lucinda and Walter Owen

Catherine and Frank Paaske

Serena and John Padian (Serena Bennett ’88)

Elizabeth and Stuart Paul

Sheila Godwin Peavey ’56

Rita and Kenneth Petersen

Kathryn and Michael Peterson

Margaret and Thomas Pfalzer

Amanda Berman Pires ’87, ’83 LS

Mary Ellen and Dan Place

Monica and Doug Pope

Portland General Electric Company

Heidi and Jonathon Pratt

Kathy and Victor Quinn

Corinne Quinn ’93

Autumn Quinn ’00

Alexandria Walton Radford ’98

Michelle and Michael Raggett

Astri Rahardja ’01

Noreen Lewis Raney ’54

Mary Baumgartner Reid ’58

Marjorie Reid

Mary Eileen Reilley ’72

Cherie and Samuel Reynolds

Amy and Joseph Rheim

Hansi and Robert Rigney (Hansi de Petra ’59)

Kristin Ring ’86

Poulami and Avishek Roy

Jennifer and Joshua Rudisill

Marna Salazar

Kindergartners enjoy computer time in the Lower School Library, affectionately referred to as “The Treehouse.”

Mayola Rodriguez and Juan Sanchez

Chris and Mark Sanchez

Margaret and Jim Scattini

Gail and William Scearce

I.V. Lacaillade Schmid ’93

Laurie Vibert Schofield ’72

Georgia Sedlack ’13

Casey Sedlack ’05

Virginia Sewell ’69

Courtney Shove

Sister Lois Silva ’54

Jena Davis Simon ’92

Vicki and John Sinnhuber

Rebecca Sinnhuber ’02

Dorothy Sinnhuber ’96, ’92 LS

Laura and Charles Smith

Sharon Sparkman

Robin Stallard ’04, ’00 LS

Starbucks Foundation Grants

Diane Ditz Stauffer ’63

Camille Annotti Stevens ’57

Sigrid and Philip Stillman

Carol and Donald Stoker

Alexandria Sutty ’03

Beth Russo Tarallo ’89

Larry Tartaglino

Satu Terian

Allene and Dwight Thompson

Joe Lewis Thurman

Rebecca Park and Laurence Tobey

Jaclyn and Jason Togneri

Cherie and Glenn Topper

Virginia Sanseau

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tuttle, Jr.

Carrie and James Ushiba

Deanna Inlow Venema and Jeff Venema

Susan White Veninga ’59

Sharon Duffy Verhoef ’66

Susan and Richard Von Maur, Jr.

Frances and James Vorhes

Susan and Eugene Walgenbach

Eugenie Madden Watson ’56

Kress Harris Whalen ’56

Leslie Svetich and Dean Whitehead

Graciela and Tyne Whitmore

Susan and Thomas Williams

Lyn Belcher Wilson ’66

Linda Wilson

Karen and Martin Wiskoff

Judy Wong and Family

Kay Wood

Robyn Woodward ’72

Sarah Clark Woolf ’89

Marilyn Brown Wykoff ’59

Pamela and Anthony Yates

Pamela and Kurt Yeager

Katharine Folger Yeager ’86

Lilia Yepiz

Margaret Yu

Kay Wood

Robyn Woodward ’72

Sarah Clark Woolf ’89

Marilyn Brown Wykoff ’59

Pamela and Kurt Yeager

Katharine Folger Yeager ’86

Lilia Yepiz

Margaret Yu

Stephanie Steele and Mark Zalin

The E.L. Wiegand Amphitheatre is home to the Lower and Middle School's annual Flag Raising Ceremony.

Overwhelmed with Gratitude

Dear Alumnae/i, Parents, and Friends of School,

When I think about the people acknowledged within the pages of our 2018-2019 Annual Report, I am in awe of how far our school has come since the publication of one of our earliest annual reports in 1979. At the time, Sister Carlotta and the Board of Trustees were focused on a few key projects: completing Hills Dormitory, adding classrooms for co-education in Lower and Middle School, and bolstering Santa Catalina’s fledgling annual giving program. That year, the school completed all three goals, raising just over $425,000 from alumnae, parents, and foundations.

Since then, later decades of alumnae, parents, grandparents, faculty, and staff have come together to build Santa Catalina’s endowment, many of whom established named funds that now serve as a financial backbone for the school. Significant campus projects such as the Sister Carlotta Performing Arts Center, the Bedford Family Athletic Complex, the Mary L. Johnson Recital Hall, the Greer Family Dormitory, and the Aquatics Center were also made possible through the generosity of Santa Catalina families who envisioned what our children might gain from their investment in the future.

More recently as part of The Legacy Campaign, our school has deepened its competitive edge with the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center, the Lower School multipurpose building and Middle School renovations, and the Carol Ann Read Head of School House. As we conclude the campaign this year, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the people who have come forward as stewards for tomorrow’s generations by supporting campus projects and the endowment.

Equally important are those of you who have continued your contributions to the Santa Catalina Fund, which now raises close to $1 million for the school’s annual operating budget. Thanks to your support of the Santa Catalina Fund, 41% of our students receive tuition assistance; faculty have access to a breadth of professional development opportunities; and the curriculum continues to grow and stretch to meet the needs of students today.

We are also celebrating—once again—100% participation from our Lower and Middle School faculty and staff and, as always, 100% leadership power from the Board of Trustees. This year, for the first time ever, our Lower and Middle School parents joined us in achieving the 100% participation mark. Meanwhile, alumnae/i, Upper School parents, parents of alumnae/i, grandparents, and foundations continue their stalwart support to help us reach the annual goal, year after year.

We could not fulfill the important work of Santa Catalina without the support of so many, including those of you who have dedicated your time, talent, and effort as volunteers and committee members. Thank you for making Santa Catalina a priority in your giving and for partnering with us to change the lives of our students, one moment at a time.

Sincerely,

Nonie B. Ramsay ’71 Board Chair

2018–2019 Financial Summary

Annual Giving

Alumnae $366,682 20% Participation

Upper School Parents $169,245 81% Participation

Lower School Parents $99,420 100% Participation

Parents of Alumnae/i $559,532

Grandparents $28,500

Friends $71,657

Foundations $355,004

Organizations & Corporations $93,849

Total $1,743,889

Santa Catalina Fund $985,626

Restricted Gifts $758,263

Endowment & Capital

Alumnae $1,054,775

Upper School Parents $574,008

Lower School Parents $12,275

Parents of Alumnae/i $272,668

Grandparents $5,500

Friends $25,194

Foundations $6,140,550

Organizations & Corporations $201,058

Total $8,286,028

$15,454,000 Endowment Harvest $1,310,000

Summer Programs/

Santa Catalina Fund Giving

T he Santa Catalini a n s Soci ety 1950

The Santa Catalinians 1950 Society recognizes the school’s most loyal and generous supporters whose gifts provide the foundation of annual support to the Santa Catalina Fund.

*

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE

($20,000 or more)

Anonymous (2)

Jeffrey Cappo

The William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

Margie and W. Taylor Fithian*

Jean Perkins Foundation*

The Laurel STEM Fund

Angela Nomellini '71*

Nonie B. Ramsay '71*

Ramsay Family Foundation*

Corinne and Michael Roffler

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving*

Sheehy Auto Stores

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Kelly and Wes von Schack

Laure Woods '80

VERITAS CIRCLE

($10,000 - $19,999)

Anonymous (3)

S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation*

Michelle and Garrett Blake*

Barbara Bundy*

Ruth and Jeremy Burton

Mary Deakyne

D.D. and Paul Felton*

Randi and Bob Fisher (Randi Stroud '74)*

Julia Anderson Frankel '65

Hazel Foundation

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson '77)*

Willa and Ned Mundell*

Sister Christine Price*

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Mieke Fuchs Smith '99

Betty Van Wagenen

HACIENDA CIRCLE

($5,000 - $9,999)

Pamela Anderson-Brulé '76

Anonymous (2)

Sister Claire Barone*

Courtney Benoist '77 and Jason Fish

Maryann and Edwin Berkowitz

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Candace Callan '65

Gay Callan '67 and George Stone*

Patricia Chapman

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis '93)

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock '59*

Lia and Herm Edwards

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund*

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich '78)*

Wendy and Ronald Gong

Nancy and Philip Greer*

Caroline Farrar Grey '69

Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judith Musto '61)*

Tracy and Eric Hass (Tracy Miller '75)*

Nancy Eccles & Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation

Bridget and Edward King

Katie Martin and David Laurits

The Lostak-Baker Family

Nicki and Michael McMahan*

Amy and Michael McNamara (Amy Hall '86)

Nora McNeely Hurley '78

Julie Thomas Obering '60*

Lisa and Rafael Ortiz

Pebble Beach Company Foundation

Deborah and Kenny Peyton*

Lisa and Henry Plain

San Francisco Foundation*

Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger

LEGACY CIRCLE

($2,500 - $4,999)

Anonymous (2)

Cass and Mike Antle (Catherine Slaughter '79, '75 LS)*

Robert Balles*

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson '56)*

Patricia Bondesen-Smith '54*

Marcia Mondavi Borger '65*

Anne Munzer Bourne '70*

Amy and Michael Brandt

Anne Bryan '77*

Honor Bulkley

Sharon and Edward Bullard (Sharon Smith '68)*

Allison and Joseph Campos

Patricia and Pedro Cerisola

Hyori Lee and Jong-Ha Choi

Robin and Alan Cole

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly

Cindy and Joe Connolly

Joanne Fontanilla and Bix Cruz

The Justin Dart Family Foundation

Holly Pease and Eugene Davis

The Denver Foundation

Frances McDonald DeSouza '77

Ellen and Tom Dunnion

Laura and Rich Everett (Laura May '85)*

Ceseli and Hugh Foster*

Marilyn and Joseph Franzia

Carter Hachman Jackson '87*

Audrey Nolten and Ernst Hansch

Betsy Helm Hansen '60

Lucy and Charles Hanson

Joan Stafford Haynes '60*

Suzanne Dragge Icaza '74

Liz and Dennis Jebbia*

Andrea Lowe and Robert Keys

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Katharina Brinks Lathen '96*

Ju Yeun and Sang Bong Lee

Lisa Russell Leeb '75

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer '97*

Laura Lyon Gaon '81 and Rob Gaon*

John Maguire

Mary Allison McGrath '84

Judith and James Moses (Judith McDonald '86, '82 LS)*

R. J. and D. A. Munzer Foundation*

Nantz Family Foundation

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Judy Chan and Christian Pillsbury

Wendy and Victor Ramirez

Maureen and Benjamin Richards*

Karine Snyder Lyon

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation

Thalma Thais '92

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis '94, '90 LS*

Kathleen Trafton '74 and Peter Radin Jr.

Jane Tucker

Kit Wai*

Frederick Weakley*

Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham*

Stacie and Stephen Worsham*

Alice and Warren Yenson

PATRONS’ CIRCLE

($1,500 - $2,499)

Arizona Community Foundation

France de Sugny Bark '59

Diane and William Belanger, Jr.*

Daphne and Richard Bertero (Daphne Craige '60)*

Rose and Quintin Boe

Helen Bowen Blair

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

Bringing Art History to Schools, Inc.

Margaret Miller Brown '74

Megan and Michael Bruno '82 LS*

Jenny Budge '71*

The Florence V. Burden Foundation

Lucy Butler '73

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Chia-Yu and Jung-Hua Cheng

Brian Church

Yumi and William Deakyne

Adrianna and Thomas Dean

Stephen Devoto

eBay Foundation

Georgia and Breck Eisner (Georgia Irwin '88)*

Eisner Foundation

Tracy Taylor Everett '89

Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

Anne and Donald Franson, Jr. (Anne Woolf '69)

Gianna Franzia '95

Erica Sullivan Fuller '71

Julie Garcia '71*

Alison Morey Garrett '91

Patricia and Jonathon Giffen

Rebecca and Gregory Green

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Clarrie and Ralph Hanley*

Anne Hilby '01*

Paula and Bruce Hilby*

Joan and John Hillenbrand

Christina Hu Ho '91

Tracy and Christian Huebner

Johnna and Wally Jansma

Sheila Johnson '65

Rene and Gaylord Johnson III (Rene McCurry '86)*

Mary Myers Kauppila '72*

Brogiin Keeton '01 and Ben Nagin

Shirley Childs Kelly '79

Charlotte Kresl '72

Wendy Burnham Kuhn '59

Angela Park and Henry Kwon

Ladera Foundation

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS*

Carolyn and Dean Larsen, Jr. (Carolyn Kimble '85)

Bill Leatherberry

Mrs. Luz C. Balderrama and Mr. Julio C. Licona

Li Jiang and Heng Liu

Ling Zhu and Yingmin Liu

Julie and Mark Ludviksen

Janet and Daniel Luksik*

Lydia and Bryan Mansour*

Bobbie Erro Marsella '57*

Deborah McCann '59

Cynthia Nadai '73

Yvette Merchant Nichols '96

Mary and David Nikssarian

Florence Nixon '64*

Carolyn Hartwell O'Brien '74

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Maryn Sutton Pinkus '83

Stefanie and Korey Pollard (Stefanie Post '85, '81 LS)

Maya Pruthi '19

Rita and Tony Pruthi

Autumn Quinn '00*

Karen and George Rathman*

Helena and Matthew Romans

Laurie Severs*

Sally Sibley '58

Monica and Jeremy Silk

Kathleen Deviaene and Jan Sondergaard

Patricia Allen Sparacino '65*

Natalie Stewart '63*

The Louise and Walter Sullivan Foundation

G.P. and M.P. Sweetman Charitable Fund of the SFACF

Mary Pat and Jerry Sweetman (Mary Pat Reardon '60)

Linda and David Ting (Linda Chang '88)

Nancy and Russell Trull

UniversalGiving

Jean Jagels Vaughn '75

Wendy and Bart Walker

Yu Zhang and Xiaowei Wang

Leslie Svetich and Dean Whitehead

Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese '74*

Caroline Barkan Wilkinson '95

Brooksley and Darren Williams*

Jeannette Witten

Kimberly Wright-Violich '75

Constance and Graham Yost

Yonghong and Jian Zhou

Alumnae Association Council

Executive Committee

Kathy Trafton ’74

President

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72

Priya Kumar Raju ’00

Katie Carnazzo Larsen ’02

Vice Presidents

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS Director of Alumnae Relations and Major Gifts

Members

Pat Allen Sparacino ’65

Marie Cantin ’70

Sally Fay ’74

Jennifer Moulton-Post ’82

Helene de Baubigny ’85

Stefanie Post Pollard ’85

Christina Nalchajian Whitley ’85

Annie Coppel ’90

Lindsay Heller ’95

Brogiin Keeton ’01

Kai Romero ’01

Kristina Flathers ’11

CHAPTER CHAIRS

Chicago

Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese ’74

Kristina Flathers ’11

Dallas

Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Hope Morgan ’90

Denver

Laura Stenovec ’99

Houston

Diana Kendrick Untermeyer ’80

Los Angeles

Leslie Hunt Johnson ’92

Paige Finster Greenspan ’96

Mzilikazi Kone ’01

Monterey

Liz Holt Protell ’64

New York

Priya Kumar Raju ’00

Phoenix

Gloria Felice ’54

Becky Hays-Rovey ’92

Portland, Oregon

Virginia Sewell ’69

Ann Carter ’71

Brigid Flanigan ’73

San Diego

Taylor Griffon ’11

San Francisco

Yvette Merchant Nichols ’96

Natalie Burke ’99

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06

Seattle

Madeleine Lynch Greathouse ’85

Washington, DC

Kerry Robinson Johnson ’92

International Chapters

Asia

Rene Leung ’99

Angelina Yao ’99

Diana Mak ’01

Europe

Lara Brehmer ’98

Latin America

Leslie Hulse ’88

Annie Coppel ’90

Tere Gonzalez ’94

Reunion Class Agents 2018-19

Patricia Bondesen-Smith ’54

Kathleen Mailliard Rende ’59

Hansi dePetra Rigney ’59

Florence Nixon ’64

Theresa May Duggan ’69

Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese ’74

Diane Ryan Adams ’79

Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Elizabeth Maher Purdum ’89

Jenner Fritz Morrison ’94

Natalie Burke ’99

Katherine Fruzynski ’04

Katherine Adams ’09

Andrea Arias ’14

Karli McIntyre ’14

Class Agents 2018-19

Beatrice Leyden Moore ’53

Carol Speegle Lannon ’55

Jane Howard Goodfellow ’56

Linda Smith Fox ’58

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen ’58

Jinx Hack Ring ’60

Betsy Helm Hansen ’60

Julie Thomas Obering ’60

Mary Pat Reardon Sweetman ’60

Judith Botelho Cain ’60

Joan Stafford Haynes ’60

Penelope Corey Arango ’61

Sara Fargo ’61

Margaret Stewart ’62

Roxanne Spieker Morse ’63

Patricia Allen Sparacino ’65

Susan Grupe dePolo ’66

Mary Alice Cerrito Fettis ’66

Mary Whitney Kenney ’67

Julie Garcia ’71

Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS

Donna Kolb ’72

Lucy Butler ’73

Christine Blom Gomez ’75

Frances McDonald DeSouza ’77

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Erin Eggerman Romer ’81

Elizabeth Skinner Harney ’82

Trina Rowe Audley ’85

Stefanie Post Pollard 85, ’81 LS

Margaret Gibbons Bertero ’86

Marian McCall ’87

Upper School Alumnae

Leslie Palmer Meyer ’88

Hope Morgan ’90

Marita Quint Bruni ’91

Courtney Eaton Turner ’92

Sarah Brown Goforth ’93

Yvette Merchant Nichols ’96

Kate Lynch Jerkens ’97

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer ’97

Eloise Harper Connolly ’98

Abigail Bowen James ’00

Kaija-Leena Romero ’01, ’97 LS

Olivia Nilsson ’02

Priscilla McCarthy Barolo ’03

Clare Benzian ’04

Cristina Carnazzo ’05

Caitlin Fitzpatrick ’06

Kaycie Gillette-Mallard ’07

Martha Gustavson ’08

Cecelia Stewart ’08

Christina Quisno ’11, ’07 LS

Kristina Flathers ’11, ’07 LS

Sarah Morris ’12

Madeline Clark ’13

Georgia Sedlack ’13

Laura Colosky ’15

Jennifer Hernandez ’15

Courtnie Breitfuss ’16, ’12 LS

Veronica Zelles ’16, ’12 LS

Lolei Brenot ’17, ’13 LS

Madigan Webb ’17

Lauren Morgenthaler ’17

Emma Roffler ’18

Sophia Leonard ’18

Alumnae

= Reunion Class

CLASS OF 1953 33% †

Beatrice Leyden Moore

CLASS OF 1954 71% †

Patricia Bondesen-Smith*

Gloria Felice*

Jeanne Nielsen Marshall

Abigail McCann

Noreen Lewis Raney

Sandra Stolich Brown

Mary Nevin Henderson

Carol Speegle Lannon

CLASS OF 1955 16% † CLASS OF 1956 46% †

Kit Nelson Bedford*

Nitze Erro Caswell*

Jane Howard Goodfellow*

Anne Hicks Kimball

Eugenie Madden Watson*

Kress Harris Whalen*

CLASS OF 1957 52% †

Mary Ellen Smith Ash*

Carole Lusignan Buttner

Mary Cano

Sue Clowes Mayhugh*

Margaret McCann Grant*

Nancy Gregg Hatch

Bobbie Erro Marsella*

Mimi Desmond Mathews

Jane de Benedetti McInnis '57

Sally Smith Rhodes

Maribeth Conway Steiner

Camille Annotti Stevens*

CLASS OF 1958 28% †

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen*

Mardi Hack*

Katherine Howard Loparco

Mary Baumgartner Reid

Sally Sibley

Donna Work Silverberg

Linda Kuenzli Theiring

CLASS OF 1959 63% †

Blake Anderson

France de Sugny Bark

Barclay Braden*

Lynne Wildman Chapman

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock*

Shelley LeBlanc Duke

Julie Hutcheson

Wendy Burnham Kuhn

Irene May Lawler*

Deborah McCann

Kristan Jacobson O'Neill*

Bernadette Requiro Peavey

Kathleen Mailliard Rende

Hansi de Petra Rigney*

Teresa Annotti Rogers*

Dorothy Dwyer Schreiber*

Marilyn Brown Wykoff

CLASS OF 1960 38% †

Daphne Craige Bertero*

Judith Botelho Cain*

Karen Swanson Crummey

Suzanne Townsend Finney

Betsy Helm Hansen

Joanna Grant Hartigan*

Joan Stafford Haynes*

Wendy Miller Lambeth*

Julianne Perkins Layne

Joanne L. Nix

Julie Thomas Obering*

Marilyn Ramos Ospina

Jinx Hack Ring

Mary Pat Reardon Sweetman

Karene O'Connell Vernor*

Domie Garat Werdel*

Nan Griffin Winter

CLASS OF 1961 40% †

Judy Nagel Cox*

Leigh Curran (Curry) Griggs

Sara Fargo*

Susan Munhall Frey

Judith Musto Hachman*

Theresa Lowe Hall*

Nini Richardson Hart

Caroline Harris Henderson*

Victoria Street Medeiros

Lissa Gahagan Nicolaus

CLASS OF 1962 48%

Elizabeth Gillett Berry

Mary Foley Bitterman*

Diana Vhay Ford*

Peggy Dailey Gatto

Gail Dowling Goettelmann

Nina Davis Gray

Linda Chace Griffiths

Lander Reeves Hynes

Mary Hills Miles

Kathleen O'Donnell

Lynnea Larson Payne

Susanne Blair Riley

Sandra Hollenbeck Schnieder*

Margaret Stewart*

J'Amy Maroney Brown*

Ghislaine de Give

Victoria Dillon

Patricia Farish Downing

Jansie Stephens Farris*

Robin Hatcher

Susan Janss Ferguson

Roxanne Spieker Morse*

Donna Hollenbeck Ramos

Sally Rorick-Orlando*

Patricia Daugherty Shallenberger

Diane Ditz Stauffer*

Natalie Stewart*

Danielle Varlay Heilala

Trish Scott Williams*

CLASS

OF 1964 25%

Cameron Butts Bianchi

Carole Blackwell*

Christina Cotton Gannon*

Priscilla Gillett Hoecker*

Louise La Mothe

Florence Nixon*

Elizabeth Holt Protell*

Donna Hart Reid

Suzanne Talbot

Christine Di Giorgio Timmerman*

Polly Hills Van Horne

Marcia Mondavi Borger*

Carolyn Cain*

Candace Callan

Michele Clark*

Susan Corey

Tammy Dougherty

Julia Anderson Frankel

Leticia Gascoin-Ruffie

Sally Leonard Harris

Lola Hogan

Sheila Johnson

Elizabeth Hudson Kenyon

Evie Lindemann

Maisie de Sugny MacDonald*

Caroline Lord Mackenzie

Mary Randall Peterson

Anne Kernwein Schafer

Kathleen Ramos Sharp

Patricia Allen Sparacino*

Ann Hodges Strickland

Ann Lewis Vlcek*

Kathleen Durkin Webster

Mallory Vail Weymann*

OF 1966 43%

Susan Van Sicklen Calfee*

Susan Pringle Cohan

Ann Craig Hanson

Susan Grupe dePolo

Katherine Fay

Mary Alice Cerrito Fettis

Cece Cotton Fowler*

Perry Walker Freeman

Carol Imwalle

Madeleine Lord

Victoria deBack Lugo

Glovie Reiter Lynn*

Kathleen Kelsey Macker

Lucy Macneil

Ellen Mahoney

Lorraine Ditz McCarthy

Pamela Odello Noto

Molly Reardon Poole

Marilyn Crowe Potter

Therese Roos

Mary O'Hara Ryan

Barbara Burton Szemborski

Anian Pettit Tunney

Sharon Duffy Verhoef

25%

Gay Callan*

Renata Engler

Celia Morken Gadda

Carolyn Layton Garner-Reagan

Laurie Hammonds Schultz

Mary Whitney Kenney*

Melissa King

Katy Bates Kreitler

Ann Kuchins

Melinda Bowman Manlin

Rosalind Boswell Seysses

Mary Sweetland Laver*

Anonymous Elizabeth Black Black

Sharon Smith Bullard*

Jane Gillett

Nina Nickel Gladish

Jane Turner Hart*

Marcia Middaugh Maloney

Lisa van der Sluis

Mary Wynne

Betian Webb

Dana Turner Witmer

Terry Whitney Baganz*

Ann Munhall Bailey

Darlinda Dovolis Ball

Elisabeth Bloomingdale Bell*

Pamela Walsh Coakley

Teresa Covington

Sandra Donnell*

Theresa May Duggan

Sugar Franich Filice

Anne Woolf Franson

Gail Frick

Caroline Farrar Grey

Karen Johnson Hixon

Vickie Eidell Johnston

Lorna MacKay Smith

Sara Callander Stephens

Anonymous

Basia Belza

Belinda Beckett

Anne Munzer Bourne*

Josephine Bunn

Marie Cantin*

Julie Henshaw

Terryl Albert Levin*

Shannon Gregory Mandel

Tina Hansen McEnroe

Suzanne Saunders Shaw

Melinda Montgomery Thomas*

OF 1971 25%

Janet Miller Abbott

Jenny Budge*

Ann Carter

Debra Rosenberg Compton

Sheila Cooley

M. J. Demetras

Erica Sullivan Fuller

Julie Garcia*

Angela Nomellini*

Anne O'Leary

Nonie B. Ramsay*

Justine Schmidt Bloomingdale

Suzanne Bryan*

Lucy Butler

Katherine Grant Carver

Virginia Croswhite

Mary Golden

Dana Hees

Debbie Humm-Bremser

Mary Biaggi McEachern

Susan Weyerhaeuser Messina

Cynthia Nadai

Shelby Dulin Perley

Ann Politzer

Marian Stilz

CLASS OF 1974 37%

Cherie Pettit Arkley

Margaret Miller Brown

Kelly Burke

Mouse Callery Endicott

Sally Fay

Randi Stroud Fisher*

Barbara Gault

Teresa Rothe Graham

Cynthia Bondesen Grier

Suzanne Dragge Icaza

Elizabeth Nomellini Musbach

Carolyn Hartwell O'Brien

Catherine Greene Ono

Christine Onorato-McKevitt

Susan Bowen Osen

Jeanne Vibert Sloane

Lisa Sutton

Elizabeth Gaver Thedens

Kathleen Trafton

Peggy McDonnell Vance

Kirby Walker

Katherine Dennis Wheeler

Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese*

CLASS OF 1969 23% CLASS OF 1975 43%

Katherine Blair Rible

CLASS OF 1970 18% CLASS

Carmella Lagomarsino Renton*

OF 1972 26%

Sally Hansen Green

Juliana Hobbs Bryan

Katie Finnegan Darnell

Victoria Johnson Foley

Madeline Hart Harris

Mary Myers Kauppila*

Charlotte Kresl

Karen List Letendre*

Susan Rasmussen McKeever

Cynthia Fulstone Nugent

Clare O'Leary

Laura Knoop Pfaff

Jalynne Tobias Redman

Mary Eileen Reilley

Laurie Vibert Schofield*

Jennifer Godward Trainor

Annette Leach Alcocer

Anonymous (2)

Roe Brown-Arn*

Joan Artz

Diana Oliver Bartley

Cynthia Biaggi-Gonzalez

Dryden Branson Bordin

Elizabeth Patton Boyens

Amanda Bryan*

Adelaide Tietje Crosby

Deanna Duoos Davis

Mollie Drake

Christine Blom Gomez*

Frances Hartwell

Tracy Miller Hass*

Cecily Marble Hintzen

Allison Willoughby Hosbein

Cheryl Jeffcoat-Wilhelm

Adrienne Morphy Ladd

Elizabeth Leach

Lisa Russell Leeb

Michele Bozzo Mahi

Katy Moore-Kozachik

Sarah Colmery Preston

Elizabeth Walker Rudinica

Nancy Williams Shea*

Jean Jagels Vaughn

Joan Weakley*

Yolanda Mitchell West

Loring Wou

Kimberly Wright-Violich

CLASS OF

1976

Pamela Anderson-Brulé

Coral Armstrong

Andrea Csaszar

Julie Heywood Edwards*

Marge Ganz

Phyllis Weyerhaeuser Griggs

Eileen Hemphill-Haley

Mia Homan*

Jill Lee

Kate Dentoni Mitchell*

Leslie Miller Schemel

Kimberly Wilson Smith

Anna Vagin

Kelly Poundstone Wheeler

Tessa Wilcox*

Robin Gagos Dengá

Franca Gargiulo*

Ellen McGuire Gaucher*

Suzanne Renault Hollingsworth*

Julie Lambert*

Amy Kajikuri Martinetto*

Dana DePuy Morgan

Diana Kendrick Untermeyer

Laure Woods

Louise Diepenbrock Baker

Angelyn Bass*

Lea Carano Carroll

Karen Gladstone Dawson

Erin Eggerman Romer

Laura Farrior

Nancy Nomellini Koulouris

Laura Lyon Gaon*

Carlynn Pace Sawyer

Kathleen McGrath Schumacher*

Molly Hogan Vatinel

Courtney Benoist

Anne Bryan*

Frances McDonald DeSouza

Annette Fulstone*

Jameen Wesson Jacoby*

Joy Franich Maze *

Lisa Bozzo Orlandini

Sandi Fleishhacker Randall*

Lynn Gawthrop Bouck

Deborah Etienne*

Elizabeth Skinner Harney*

Susan Lockwood

Adrienne Marsh

Ann Frasse Stowe*

Stacey Pruett Taddeucci*

Karen Condon Patton

Stefanie Post Pollard

Krisi Raymond

Celia Shelton Rogers

Hilary Wardle Schlossman

Christina Nalchajian Whitler

Francesca Cerisola

Tracy Taylor Everett

Beth Tyler Foley

Meredith Burke Lawler

Erica Bailey Luoma

Carolyn Ma Chan

Ceci Marihart

Kimberly Meek*

Stacey Adams Montoya

Rebecca Khamneipur Morrison

Jennifer Davis Morrissey

Gretchen Zug Boyle*

Maria Eugenia Garza de Jaime

Ulrike Devoto*

Rene McCurry Johnson*

Barbra McFarland McCabe

Amy Hall McNamara

Judith McDonald Moses*

Sandra Barrett Perkin

Margi Bogart Power*

Kristin Ring

Lyndy Chang Stewart

Anonymous Susan Dalessio Batterton*

Kassandra Thompson Brenot*

Cristina Manuguerra Gage

Carter Hachman Jackson*

Sarah Wagner Johnson

Anna Lee

Marian McCall*

Shannon McClennahan*

Ala Milani*

Susan Smith Nixon*

Kimberly Quinlan Bakker

Patricia Ham Salinero

Susan Eliason Scott

Michelle Degnan Ackert*

Sarah Adams

Patricia Cerisola-Mansi*

Margaret Campodonico*

Audrey Dormer Foraker*

Julie Yurkovich Forrest*

Nora McNeely Hurley

Sally O'Neill Tich*

Kellen Flanigan

Molly Johnson Grimmett

Jennifer Brooks Lee

Gretchen Mueller Burke*

Ibi Janko Murphy*

Maryn Sutton Pinkus

Diane Ryan Adams

Catherine Slaughter Antle*

Moira Hoyne Conlon

Marianne Croonquist

Louise Farrier Crosby

Shirley Childs Kelly

Katherine McGregor

Melina Eversole Montoya

Diana Busby Orr

Dianne Peebles Roach

Cece Rosendin Robinson

Heidi Grundstedt Robison

Lorraine Wick Saulovich

Suzanne Bozzo Schlegel

Adrianna Pope Sullivan

Kerianne Davey Beatty

Marti Ham Fuller

Mary Allison McGrath

Mary Looram Moslander

Joanne Van der Plas Viola*

Anonymous (3)

Sarah Beesley

Pamela Ham Butler*

Steffanie Chain

Lisa Charles

Elizabeth Duke-Molinski

Julie Lenherr Edson

Georgia Irwin Eisner*

Amy Little Figge*

Wendy Fuller

Fiona Dabney Grandi

Jackie Sharpe Guy

Jane Hunter

Miya Kajikuri

Nicole Carelli Kwak

Leslie Palmer Meyer

Michelle Oberle Odle

Jennifer Pratt

Linda Chang Ting

Madhavi Vemireddy

Anonymous

Laura Bedford

Jamie Buffington Browne*

Laura May Everett*

Kimberly Fay

Carolyn Kimble Larsen

Shannon McCracken Milne

Adrienne Nordstrom

Paulina Ospina

Amy Rees Nelson

Abbi Smith

Beth Russo Tarallo*

Ana Coppel

Katherine Hall MacDonnell

Hope Morgan

Jana Novak

Alicia Read Hoggan

Marita Quint Bruni

Lynn Chan Cheong*

Alison Morey Garrett

Christina Hu Ho

Carrie Elise Rodella

Kirsten Silvey

Shashi Anand

Hope Upchurch Flamm

Leslie Hunt Johnson*

Meaghan Looram Mulcahy

Banks Staples Pecht

Jena Davis Simon

Thalma Thais

Courtney Eaton Turner

Nicole Lazarus Adan

Catherine MacDonald Christian

Brett Davis Collins

Alison Cantor Corkery

Hannah Eade

Sarah Brown Goforth

Cedra Ginsburg Goldman

Sarah Folger Kilmain

Miranda Maison LeKander

Marisa Frank McArthur

Ellen McGlynn*

Karen Demski O'Brien

Corinne Quinn

I.V. Lacaillade Schmid

Janene Ashford Ward*

Virginia Reeves Apple

Mary Fleischer Baum

Jakie Kangas Beard

Crystal Boyd*

Emily Palmer Browne

Ninive Clements Calegari

Amy Smith Ainscough

Anonymous

Angela Becker

Sylvia Chao

Mariana Chapa Tirado

Khadija Coley-Mason

Lucia Coppel

Megan D. Escher

Alexa Flores-Hull

Hilary Escher Foster

Natalia Valpredo Fritz

Emily Gatch*

Maria Teresa Gonzalez

Sarah Bryant Hague

Audra Henry

Lauren Meek Jarrett

Abiah Folger Karthauser*

Dana Leidig

Sara O'Neil Miller

Cherie Moon

Melanie O'Donnell Morgan

Jenner Fritz Morrison

Layne Swanson Moss

Laura Mulloy Ault

Karen Eckman Primavera

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis*

Zakia Young

Anonymous

Marissa Anshutz Hermer

Elisabeth Brinks Day*

Natalie Burke

Damaris Colhoun

Frances Verga-Lagier Cook

Claudia De La Fuente

Ariana Ebrahimian*

Melissa Garren

Kelly Robbins Huddleston

Dena Kolb

Trish Nugent Lingamfelter

Kathryn Maurer

Delia Fuerst McCraley

Ashley Ensign Merlo

Ani Silversprings Okun

Adrienne Partridge

Mieke Fuchs Smith

Lindsay McDonald Stalowy

Alaina McDonald Sylvester

Cristina Allen

Anonymous

Priscilla McCarthy Barolo

Tedra Bates

Sabine Korting Carl

Jeanette Kreuze

Katherine Tugend Lehner

Thu-Anh Nguyen

Gabriella Raila

Elizabeth Hylle Schaal

Monica Johnson Steiner

Justine Sterling

Alexandria Sutty*

Coral Taylor

Lesley Vittetoe Tepper

Ashley Hightower Tower

Stephanie Wai

Jasmine Wibbens

Alexandra Mendez Clark

Jessica deWilde Gale

Lauren McCreery

Elizabeth Belanger McGarvey

Cameron Phleger

Autumn Quinn*

Priya Kumar Raju

Lloyd Dollar

Gianna Franzia

Courtney Golding Jones

Kelly Ewen Schindler

Caroline Barkan Wilkinson

Sonia Sparolini Johnson

Katharina Brinks Lathen*

Nancy Kennedy Major

Yvette Merchant Nichols

Valerie O'Halloran

Caroline Collins Goldberg*

Anne Hilby*

Brogiin Keeton*

Mzilikazi Kone

Margaret O'Donnell MacMinn

Diana Mak

Allison McFaddan Mesina

Liza Wood Nebel

Gina Moro Nebesar

Kaija-Leena Romero

Patricia Weber

Rosella Coppel Bernal

Julie Sunoo Flanders

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer*

Gabriela Zaied Corella

Kathleen Bryan

Ilse Riebe Colby

Lara Wheeler Devlin

Sarah Kennifer Garrigues

Alexandra Irving

Katherine Carnazzo Larsen

Whitney Lynn-Erickson

Courtney Moore

Helen Allrich McClenahan

Natalia Woodhall Chappelow

Eloise Harper Connolly

Eileen Corrigan

Langley Kreuze*

Megan MacDonald

Norma Marquez Martinez

Kimberly Lewis Mundhenk

Martha Noel

Alexandria Walton Radford

Melissa Babitzke Wolfe

Katherine Adams

Anonymous

Angela Balestreri

Shelby Carroll

Lani May Centeno

Sarah Griffith

Maeko Bradshaw

Margaret Evans

Ji Young Park

Reisa Soedarsono

Christine Torrise

M.C. Vatinel

Colleen Zellitti

Marina Barcelo*

Clare Benzian

Julia Mackey Day

Elena Ebrahimian

Ashby deWilde Jackson

Stacy Jordan Quinkert

Robin Stallard

Alana Young

Daniela Aiello

Kathryn Avila

Cynthia Baricevic

Olivia DiChiara

Jasmyn Domingues Corley

Allison Fithian

Kristina Flathers

Rae Gregory

Taylor Griffon

Emily Grunwald

Lizbeth McPherson

Hana Mohsin

Lotanna Obodozie

Anonymous

Cristina Carnazzo*

Hadley Clark Childs

Miyabi Yu Leu

Shannon McKenna

Cece Fourchy Quinn

Kelsey Player

Christina Quisno

Courtney Sitzman

Devon Walter

Isabelle Williams

Clementine Yost

Candace Brekka Bennett*

Anna Lopez

Sophie Raskin

Katharine Garcia

Yoojin Kim

Sarah Morris

Michaela Scanlon

Vanessa Woodard

Kaycie Gillette-Mallard

Courtney Mazzei

Brianne Slama

Kelley Trapp

Jessica Wong

Amy Azevedo Mulgrew

Olivia Nilsson

Marietta Rubio

Jessica Shia

Wessie Smith

Catherine Ankenbauer Steinmetz

Sheryl Stillman

Kaitlin Avalos-Feehan

Shannon Gaughf

Martha Gustavson

Mallory Jebbia*

Devan Kennifer

Georgina Cleveland McQuary

Cecelia Stewart

Abigail Urban

Kristina Wasserman

Abigail Austin

Sydni Bellucci

Alora Daunt

Tierney Hightower

Georgia Sedlack

Ana Inés Beatriz Borromeo

Dylan Browne

Madeline Fithian

Kiley Gibbs

Ellen Gustavson

Katherine Hsu

Chloe Reimann

Gabriella Sardina

Kayla Sharp

Lauren Staples

Sophia McMahon Trevino

CLASS OF 2015 5%

Eleanore Browne

Laura Colosky

Giovanna Mitchell

CLASS OF 2016 12%

Claire Cardona

Lauren Garcia

Hannah Grogin

Alison Mody

Emily Szasz

Emma Williams

CLASS OF 2017 4%

Emma Laurits

Juliana Tarallo

CLASS OF 2018 13%

Cayleigh Capaldi

Madison Gong

Kari Jonsson

Sophia Leonard

Alison Peyton

Emmi Rivera

Emma Roffler

Olivia Satow

STUDENT GIFTS

Yanula Avila Kyriakis '19

Simone Brown '19, '15 LS

AG Camara '19, '15 LS

Amira Chou '19, '15 LS

Vanessa Colin '19

Jessica Crump '19

Abigail Fisher '19, '15 LS

Molly Gilbert '19

Kayla Ginette '19

Sum Yue Guan '19

Emily Hayes '19

Angela Hu '19

Katharine Huebner '19

Kacey Konya '19

Grace Lostak-Baker '19

Yuan Lu '19 LS

Audrey Louise Nixon '19

Nicole Pavlovich Johnson '21

Emily Poole '19

Maya Pruthi '19

Emily Radner '19, '15 LS

Mackenzie Roth '19, '15 LS

Sofie Wang '19

Sofia Whitley '19

Evelyn Williams '19 LS

Yuyao Xia '21

Top: Seniors from the Class of 2019 perform the traditional skit as part of Ring Week.

Bottom: Dr. Lisa Marrack and her firstyear Marine Ecology Research Program students conduct a sand crab sampling at Del Monte Beach in Monterey.

Alumnae Reunion Awards

THE TOP CLASS AWARD

Awarded to the reunion classes that reach or exceed their participation goal for the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1954

Class of 1959

Class of 1989 Class of 1994

THE CATALINA AWARD

Awarded to the reunion classes that reach or exceed their fundraising goal for the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1954

Class of 1969

Class of 1984

Class of 1994

Class of 1999

Class of 2009

SISTER KIERAN PARTICIPATION AWARD

Recognizes two non-reunion classes that achieve the highest rate of participation and the highest number of donors in support of the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1957 • 52% participation

Class of 1975 • 31 donors

THE TOP NOTCH AWARD

Awarded to the class that, within five years of graduation, achieves the highest participation in The Santa Catalina Fund. A tie!

Class of 2014 • 13% Participation

Class of 2018 • 13% Participation

Lower and Middle School Alumni

Annette Leach Alcocer '75, '71 LS

Anonymous (2)

Catherine Slaughter Antle '79, '75 LS*

Roe Brown-Arn '75, '71 LS*

Kaitlin Avalos-Feehan '08, '04 LS

Angela Balestreri '09, '05 LS

Tedra Bates '03, '99 LS

Christine Belleci '81 LS*

Sally Hansen Green '72, '68 LS

Jenifer Jacobs Bolger '92 LS

Dryden Branson Bordin '75, '71 LS

Gretchen Zug Boyle '86, '82 LS*

Elisabeth Brinks Day '99, '95 LS*

Simone Brown '19, '15 LS

Dylan Browne '14, '10 LS

Jamie Buffington Browne '85, '81 LS*

Megan and Michael Bruno '82 LS*

Juliana Hobbs Bryan '72, '68 LS

Kathleen Bryan '02, '98 LS

Lindsay Buck '93 LS

Josephine Bunn '70, '66 LS

Maximlian Burke ’15 LS

Oliver Burke '12 LS

Pamela Ham Butler '88, '84 LS*

AG Camara '19, '15 LS

Natalia Woodhall Chappelow '98, '94 LS

Amira Chou '19, '15 LS

John Compagno '82 LS

Frances Verga-Lagier Cook '99, '95 LS

Judy Nagel Cox '61, '57 LS*

Lara Wheeler Devlin '02, '98 LS

Mollie Drake '75, '71 LS

Deborah Etienne '82, '78 LS*

Margaret Evans '10, '06 LS

Sara Fargo '61, '57 LS*

Amy Little Figge '84 LS*

Abigail Fisher '19, '15 LS

Allison Fithian '11, '07 LS

Madeline Fithian '14, '10 LS

Julie Sunoo Flanders '97, '93 LS

Kristina Flathers '11, '07 LS

Susan Munhall Frey '61, '57 LS

Marti Ham Fuller '84, '80 LS

Katharine Garcia '12, '08 LS

Lauren Garcia '16, '12 LS

Franca Gargiulo '80, '76 LS*

Terrence Gargiulo '82 LS*

Ellen McGuire Gaucher '80, '76 LS*

Kiley Gibbs '14, '10 LS

Ellen Gustavson '14, '10 LS

Laurie Hammonds Schultz '67, '63 LS

Elizabeth Skinner Harney '82, '78 LS*

Shan He '15 LS

Jane Hunter '88, '84 LS

Upper School Parents

Santa Catalina Fund Parent Committee Members

Class of 2022 - Freshmen

Maria M. Avelino

Richard A. Avelino

Georgiana Foletta

Roseanne Pierre

Lili and Alejandro Airada

Anonymous

Sara Liu and James Bennett

Karen and Henry Brown

Annette Walker and Anthony Bucholtz

Lisa and Jeff Carter*

Lavinia and John Crump

Christine and Andrew Downs

Ada and Todd Fisher

Lisa Gebreamlak

Lissa and Keith Gilbert

Debbie and George Ginette*

Carla Gorum

Yumi and Jim Hayes

Wei Liu and Hongde Hu

Tracy and Christian Huebner

Lesley and Ken Konya

Ju Yeun and Sang Bong Lee

Elizabeth Lopez

The Lostak-Baker Family

Jue Ye and Jiming Luo

Elizabeth Marrack and Dean Partlow

Michel McMahan '84 LS and Jason Camara*

Susan Smith Nixon '87*

Trupti and Harnish Patel

Rita and Tony Pruthi

Dawn Mudge and Allen Radner

Roger Rector

Jamie and Stewart Roth

Class of 2021 - Sophomores Robin Cole

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger

Joanna and Ned Stork*

Kimberly and Humberto Trueba

Christina and Marshall Whitley (Christina Nalchajian '85)

Lori Eitoku-Wong and Willard Wong*

Anonymous

Christine Belleci '81 LS*

Rose and Quintin Boe

Heidi and Brian Borgia

Honor Bulkley

Ruth and Jeremy Burton

Catherine and Tony Christian (Catherine MacDonald '93)

Richard Clements

Darra and Stanley Clements

Joanne Fontanilla and Bix Cruz

Shannon and Jan Damnavits

Yumi and William Deakyne

Adrianna and Thomas Dean

Maria Hinojos and Carlos Estrada

Cindy and Sean Ford

Natalie and Seth Gibson

Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales

Christina Gunter

Tonya and Gavin Halvorson

Clifford Jack

Andrea Lowe and Robert Keys

Sarah Wagner Johnson '87, '83 LS

Sonia Sparolini Johnson '96, '92 LS

Courtney Golding Jones '95, '91 LS

Miya Kajikuri '88, '84 LS

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS*

Elizabeth Leach '75, '71 LS

Karen List Letendre '72, '68 LS*

Terryl Albert Levin '70, '66 LS*

Susan Lockwood '82, '78 LS

Melinda Bowman Manlin '67, '63 LS

Amy Kajikuri Martinetto '80, '76 LS*

Courtney Mazzei '07, '03 LS

Tina Hansen McEnroe '70, '66 LS

Elizabeth Belanger McGarvey '00, '96 LS

Michel McMahan '84 LS*

Nicki McMahan*

Ala Milani '87, '83 LS*

Hana Mohsin '11, '07 LS

Cherie Moon '94, '90 LS

Judith McDonald Moses '86, '82 LS*

Mary Looram Moslander '84, '80 LS

Anna Lopez '06, '02 LS

Eric Mueller '97 LS

Gretchen Mueller Burke '83, '79 LS*

Kristina Fernandez Munoz '85 LS

Ibi Janko Murphy '83, '79 LS*

Gina Moro Nebesar '01, '97 LS

Class of 2020 - Juniors Honor Bulkley

Shannon Damnavits

Beth and Paul Kostka

Yen and Phuc Le

Rebecca and Jeff Lorentz

Julie and Mark Ludviksen

Lydia and Bryan Mansour*

Genevieve and Hector Marquez

Jenner and Andrew Morrison (Jenner Fritz '94)

Josie and Sandor Nagy*

Dana and Wallace Nichols

Susanne and K.C. Nowak*

Lisa and Rafael Ortiz

Susan and Bill Ragsdale-Cronin

Manisha Nalwaya and Uday Sinha

Michelle and John Ubertino

Ruth Ashlie and Gabriel Villarreal

Lori Eitoku-Wong and Willard Wong*

Araceli Valenzuela de Yanez and Daniel Yanez Cardenas

Yonghong and Jian Zhou

Joanne and Clemens Adeyemi

Anonymous

Julie and Shawn Atkins

Patricia and Paul Barlow

Kim Schoen and Nichole Barry

Maryann and Edwin Berkowitz

Michelle and Eric Borgomini*

Amy and Tim Brinkman

Karen and Henry Brown

Karen Condon Patton '85, '81 LS

Alison Peyton '18, '14 LS

Ann Politzer '73, '69 LS

Stefanie Post Pollard '85, '81 LS

Christina Quisno '11, '07 LS

Emily Radner '19, '15 LS

Priya Kumar Raju '00, '96 LS

Kaija-Leena Romero '01, '97 LS

Mackenzie Roth '19, '15 LS

Gabriella Sardina '14, '10 LS

Kelly Ewen Schindler '95, '91 LS

Abbi Smith '89, '85 LS

Robin Stallard '04, '00 LS

Lauren Staples '14, '10 LS

Margaret Stewart '62, '58 LS*

Emily Szasz '16, '12 LS

Juliana Tarallo '17, '13 LS

Coral Taylor '03, '99 LS

Lesley Vittetoe Tepper '03, '99 LS

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis '94, '90 LS*

Christine Torrise '10, '06 LS

Kelley Trapp '07, '03 LS

Anna Vagin '76, '72 LS

Eugenie Madden Watson '56, '52 LS*

Jasmine Wibbens '03, '97 LS

Hayden Williams '18 LS*

Clementine Yost '11, '07 LS

Class of 2019 - Seniors

Susan Smith Nixon ’87

Stephen Schwerdfeger

Fleur and Denis Burke

Francesca Cerisola '89 and Hans Dreifaldt

Robin and Alan Cole

Holly Pease and Eugene Davis

Belen Gòmez and Fernando Escalante

Bridget and Joseph Eyraud

Rita and Frank Flores

Jacque and Craig Fourchy

Annette Fulstone '77*

Lisa Gebreamlak

Heather and Mike Givens

Audrey Nolten and Ernst Hansch

Sharon and Tyler Hoffman

Chunyang Zhang and Liping Hou

Mary and Mike James

Miriam Bernardi Gallo and Javier Jiménez Gutiérrez

Cecile and J. Trent Jones

Karen and John Korinetz

Angela Park and Henry Kwon

DeAnna and Matthew Lamarque

Carolyn and Dean Larsen, Jr. (Carolyn Kimble '85)

Bill Leatherberry

Mariel Levi

Mrs. Luz C. Balderrama and Mr. Julio C. Licona

Leslie Lind

Chen Guo and Chunzhao Liu

Laura Lyon Gaon '81 and Rob Gaon*

Linda Mendoza*

Youngjoon and John Miki

Brenda and Marc Mizgorski*

Liese and James Murphree

Yoojin and Christopher Oh

Nora and Michael Oliver

Veronica Johnson and Fausto Pavlovich

Judy Chan and Christian Pillsbury

Greg Sallee

Julia and Mike Scattini

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Elda and Eric Scott

Ningning Wang and Lei Shi

Joanna and Ned Stork*

Erin and Jack Watson

OF

Heather and Reynaldo Acosta

Jennifer Allen

Jenifer and Thomas Atkinson

Maria Avelino

Richard Avelino*

Cathleen and Frank Borges

Helen Bowen Blair

Junhua Zhou and Liang Cao

Hyori Lee and Jong-Ha Choi

Lily and Ryan Chun

Jill and Tim Coltrell

Melissa Corrigan

Stefania and Guillaume Detrait

Class of 2028 - Prekindergarten

Roseanne Pierre

Kim Tope

Class of 2027 - Kindergarten

Poulami Roy

Class of 2026 - Grade 1

Courtney Golding Jones '95, '91 LS

Class of 2025 - Grade 2

Poulami Roy

Class of 2024 - Grade 3

Jeannette K. Witten

Class of 2023 - Grade 4

Deborah Kosmont

Ying and Pradyumna Amatya

Anonymous (5)

Pamela and Corey Butler (Pamela Ham '88, '84 LS)*

Allison and Joseph Campos

Sabrina Taylor and Albert Conner

Rajneesh and Sunderpal Dail

Tricia Markusen and Denver Dale

Shannon and Jan Damnavits

Jennifer Duncan and Kenneth Garzo

Whitney and Mario Enea

Julie and Kevin Flanders (Julie Sunoo '97, '93 LS)

Lindsey and Lawrence Henrard*

Ahalia and Andres Herrera

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Christina and Daniel Kotei

Bill Leatherberry

Elizabeth Marrack and Dean Partlow

Ala Milani '87, '83 LS*

Kelly and Carl Miller

Kit Nicholas

Dana and Wallace Nichols

Kimiko Kato and Christian Reilly*

Connie and Blake Riley*

Helena and Matthew Romans

Mayola Rodriguez and Juan Sanchez

Joanna and Ned Stork*

Satu Terian*

Brooksley and Darren Williams*

Donna and Tony Wood

Pamela and Anthony Yates

Ashley Yeates

Lynn O'Neil Yeh and Cary Yeh

Katy and Jerry Dunlap

Georgiana and Wes Foletta

Cristina and Bryan Gage (Cristina Manuguerra '87)

Carla Gorum

Audrey Nolten and Ernst Hansch

Lucy and Charles Hanson

Linda and Ken Harris

Niaomi and Jeff Hrepich*

Lindsay Lerable

Li Jiang and Heng Liu

Ling Zhu and Yingmin Liu

Amy and Michael McNamara (Amy Hall '86)

Cristy and Jason Mehringer

Leslie and Joe Meyer (Leslie Palmer '88)

Jennifer Murphy and Rudy Munoz

Josie and Sandor Nagy*

Susanne and K.C. Nowak*

Natalie and David Palshaw

Trupti and Harnish Patel

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Judy Chan and Christian Pillsbury

Iris and Rolando Postigo

Chris and Mark Sanchez

Lorraine and Michael Schimpf

Susan and Steven Selbst

Leah and Chris Steinbruner

Shannon Sullivan and Julie Skilton

Beth Russo Tarallo '89*

Kristin and Todd Templeman

Laura and Hunter Vogel

Yu Zhang and Xiaowei Wang

Alice and Warren Yenson

Lower and Middle School Parents

Santa Catalina Fund Parent Committee Members

Class of 2021 - Grade 6

Deborah Kosmont

Class of 2020 - Grade 7

Angelica Blatt

François R. Brenot

Class of 2019 - Grade 8

Shannon Damnavits

Deborah Kosmont

Satu Terian

Brooksley Williams

Pamela Yates

Lili and Alejandro Airada

Lisa and David Alderson*

Sheila and Rob Anderson

Anonymous (3)

Domine and Michael Barringer

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

Michelle and Eric Borgomini*

Kassandra and François Brenot (Kassandra Thompson '87)*

Elizabeth and Daniel Diaz*

Gina and Ryan Edwards*

Bridget and Joseph Eyraud

Cindy Brodsky and Terrence Gargiulo '82 LS*

Kate and Dan Green*

Lindsey and Lawrence Henrard*

Gloria and Richard Kim*

Sang Young Jeong and Hyun Suk Kim

Ikuko and Mike Minami

Nora and Michael Oliver

Lena and Greg Palmer

Nita and Samir Patel*

Viola and Christian Periani

Stephanie and Aaron Pritchard

Natalie and Jerry Rava

Kathleen Deviaene and Jan Sondergaard

Marisa and Chris Tonini

Carol de Leon and Jon Yoshiyama

Gina and Ryan Edwards*

Valerie and David Ghio

Rebecca and Gregory Green

Lucy and Charles Hanson

Rumyana and Alexander Iniakov*

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Vanessa and Vincent Maiorana

Deborah and Kenny Peyton*

Jennifer and Joshua Rudisill

Ani and Sarkis Sakiz

Nicole Shute

Kathleen Deviaene and Jan Sondergaard

Kelly and Wes von Schack

Marisa and Chris Tonini

Marie and Anthony Vasquez

Anonymous (2)

Pamela and Corey Butler (Pamela Ham '88, '84 LS)*

Allison and Joseph Campos

Brian Church

Tricia Markusen and Denver Dale

Lisa and David Alderson*

Anonymous

Maria and Richard Avelino*

Michelle and Eric Borgomini*

Brian Church

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly

Rajneesh and Sunderpal Dail

Julie and Kevin Flanders (Julie Sunoo '97, '93 LS)

Heather and Mike Givens

Kate and Dan Green*

Adriana and William Hayward

Lindsey and Lawrence Henrard*

Ahalia and Andres Herrera

Kristen and Joseph Huston

Carrie and Bryan Jaynes

Maricel and Alexander Johns

Karen and Jin Jung

Bill Leatherberry

Lori and Raymond Lugo

Ibi and John Murphy (Ibi Janko '83, '79 LS)*

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Jamie and Stewart Roth

Greg Sallee

Anonymous

Allison and Joseph Campos

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Kim and Bart Cutino

Courtney and Liam Doust

Amy Little Figge '84 LS*

Jennifer Harty

Courtney and Josh Jones (Courtney Golding '95, '91 LS)

Preeti and Tanvir Khera

Gloria and Richard Kim*

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Jennifer and Matthew Kremer

Cindy and Gerry Munday

Stephanie and Aaron Pritchard

Kimiko Kato and Christian Reilly*

Cristiane Gomes and Alexandre Ribeiro

Michelle Rizzolo

Tara Ryan

Katie and Anthony Schipper*

Stefanie and Robert Skinner

Deanna Inlow Venema and Jeff Venema

Leslie Svetich and Dean Whitehead

Carol de Leon and Jon Yoshiyama

Anonymous (3)

Jenifer and Jeffrey Bolger (Jenifer Jacobs '92 LS)

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly

Bridget and Joseph Eyraud

Valerie and David Ghio

Nicolette Daly-Guichet and Michael Guichet

Kristen and Joseph Huston

Johnna and Wally Jansma

Maricel and Alexander Johns

Sarah and Matt Kline

Vanessa and Vincent Maiorana

Elida Marquez

Caitlin and Joseph Martis

Ikuko and Mike Minami

Heidi and Jonathon Pratt*

Connie and Blake Riley*

Gena and Richard Sagin

Sandra Sampson

Monica Small

Wendy and Bart Walker

Jeannette Witten

Rong Yuan and Jun Yao

Alexis Lauderdale

Shelly Do and Luc Nguyen

Melanie and Anthony Rosa

Poulami and Avishek Roy

Marie and Anthony Vasquez

Erin and Fred White IV*

Kyung Oh and Thomas Ahn

Anonymous

Amy and Michael Brandt

Kim and Bart Cutino

Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales

Alfiya Salavatullina and Eldar Hudiyev

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

Shannon and Zach Koontz

Jennifer and Matthew Kremer

Anonymous

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Esther and Gregory Brun

Lindsay Buck '93 LS

Sabrina Taylor and Albert Conner

Heather and John Dotto

Adriana and William Hayward

Courtney and Josh Jones (Courtney Golding '95, '91 LS)

Julie Kenner

Jennifer and Guru Khalsa

Preeti and Tanvir Khera

Aisha and Kenneth Maroon

Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo '02)

Sonda Frudden and Justin Pauly

Jane and Justin Russo

Sandra Sampson

Katie and Anthony Schipper*

Zoya and Radoslav Sertov

Donna and Robert Sherer

Friends of Santa Catalina

Alumnae/i Parents and Grandparents

Donna Adams

Karen and Robert Adler

Mirna and Custodio Aguilar

Margaret and Sergio Alvarez*

Rita Alves*

Anonymous (4)

Cass and Mike Antle (Catherine Slaughter '79, '75 LS)*

Kathleen and Stephen Azevedo*

Merry Nelson and Ara Azhderian

Debra Baker and Dennis Evans

Darlinda and Jeffrey Ball (Darlinda Dovolis '69)

Sharon Bates*

Diane and William Belanger, Jr.*

Joan and Jan Belza

Christine and Stephen Benson

Mary and Richard Berry

Brenda and Philip Bhaskar*

Katherine Bridges and Kenneth Blacklock

Michelle and Garrett Blake*

Melanie and Steven Block

Justine and Robert Bloomingdale (Justine Schmidt '73)

Heather and Matthew Boensel

Pat and Bill Bokermann*

Camille and Heinrich Brinks

Patricia Bristow

Emily and Christopher Browne (Emily Palmer '89)

Jamie Buffington Browne '85, '81 LS and Christopher Browne*

Janet Bruno

Juliana and Tom Bryan (Juliana Hobbs '72, '68 LS)

Jane and John Buffington

Barbara Bundy*

Theodore Burke

Hope and Bruce Burnam

Gay Callan '67 and George Stone*

Margaret Campodonico '78 and Reynolds Lave*

Pauline Cantin

Leigh and Domenick Capaldi

Jeffrey Cappo

Denise and Kevin Cardona

Julie Carson

Andrew Carter

Diane and Jeff Cerf

Patricia and Pedro Cerisola

Patricia Chapman

Chia-Yu and Jung-Hua Cheng

Tublai and Harry Christensen

Jo Ann and Julien Collins

Maria and Edward Colosky

Bob Colter*

Catherine Compagno*

Charles Crane*

Laura and Christopher D'Amelio*

Katie and Gary Darnell (Katie Finnegan '72)

Deirdre Darst

Heidi and Philip Daunt*

Linda Davey

Susan and Lawrence dePolo (Susan Grupe '66)

Stephen Devoto

Anna Lee and Matthew Do*

Ninive Dohrmann

Ellen and Tom Dunnion

Rose Marie Dunsford

Tina and Max Ebrahimian

Lia and Herm Edwards

Deborah and Dirk Etienne (Deborah '82, '78 LS)

D.D. and Paul Felton*

Mary Alice and Nick Fettis (Mary Alice Cerrito '66)

Margie and W. Taylor Fithian*

Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich '78)*

Brooke Steven and Juan Tejada

Kim and Charles Tope

Nancy and Russell Trull

Leslie Svetich and Dean Whitehead

Nikki and Jacob Ahrenstorff

Brian Allen

Jenifer and Jeffrey Bolger (Jenifer Jacobs '92 LS)

Cassia and Garrett Bowlus

Mary Jane and Nicholas Brence

Heather and John Dotto

Maria Fernandez-Canteli and Anthony Gannon*

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo '02)

Kristina and Jose Munoz (Kristina Fernandez '85 LS)

Anna and Patrick Paquin

Poulami and Avishek Roy

Jennifer and Joshua Rudisill

Tara Ryan

Angela Savage

Melissa and Randy Sheets*

Brooke Steven and Juan Tejada

Erin and Fred White IV*

Ceseli and Hugh Foster*

Anne and Donald Franson, Jr. (Anne Woolf '69)

Marilyn and Joseph Franzia

Robin Gagos Dengá '80 and Tracie Dengá

Lynn and Frank Garcia*

Judy and Patterson Gaughf

Bernadette and Mark Gersh

Kathy and Matthew Gibbs*

Joan Eaton and Paul Gibson

Patricia and Jonathon Giffen

Wendy and Ronald Gong

Crispina and Sol Gonzalvo

Linda and Robert Gould*

Vivian Graue-Allen Toto*

Donna and Robert Greenfield*

Nancy and Philip Greer*

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Kim Whitney and Jim Griffith

Clarrie and Ralph Hanley*

Lori and Dan Hightower

Paula and Bruce Hilby*

Dede and Steven Huish*

Liz and Scott Hulme*

Nancy and Simon Hunt*

Ben and Walter Hussman

Susan and Larry Imwalle

Gaely and David Jablonski

Annee and Chris Jacobs

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson '77)*

Liz and Dennis Jebbia*

Anna and Jackie Johnson

Lee and Theodore Jonsson

Daphne and Gerry Kapolka*

Rosemarie and Joseph Keebler

Roxana Earley-Keland and Harold Keland

Bridget and Edward King

Patti and Stephen Kolb

Nancy and Mitchell Koulouris (Nancy Nomellini '81)

Allison and Kyle Chance

Lara and Robert Devlin (Lara Wheeler '02, '98 LS)

Natalie and Seth Gibson

Merritt and Rogers Hawley

Jennifer and Guru Khalsa

Jennifer and Matthew Kremer

Aisha and Kenneth Maroon

Nantz Family Foundation

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Heidi and Jonathon Pratt*

Lissette and Mickey Roohbakhsh

Monica and Jeremy Silk

Brooke Steven and Juan Tejada

Kim and Charles Tope

Laraine Kvitek*

Wendy and Harvey Lambeth, Jr. (Wendy Miller '60)*

Katie Martin and David Laurits

Samuel Leung*

Mary and Leon Lomax*

Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.

Janet and Daniel Luksik*

Jackie Lynch

Maisie and Christopher MacDonald (Maisie de Sugny '65)*

John Maguire

Ellen Mahoney '66 and Luther Cobb

Margaret Mallon

Melinda and Michael Manlin (Melinda Bowman '67, '63 LS)

Amy and Joseph Martinetto (Amy Kajikuri '80, '76 LS)*

Mimi and Edward Mathews (Mimi Desmond '57)

Martha May

Sharon McBride

Joanne and Bill McCreery

Carol and Thomas McGurk

L. Douglas McKenzie and Susan Carlisle*

Nancy and Robert McLeod

Kimberly Merrick-Hlasny and Thomas Hlasny

Francine Hilaire-Miller and Arvid Miller

Maria Dulay and Tarak Mody

Lorna and Kenneth Monroe*

Vicki and Hicks Morgan

Penny Morris*

Judith and James Moses (Judith McDonald '86, '82 LS)*

Gretchen Mueller Burke '83, '79 LS and Justin Burke*

Willa and Ned Mundell*

Michele Neuhaus

Mary and David Nikssarian

Nancy and Robert Nolan

Mary Olsen

Janice Pine*

The Mark Pollacci Family*

Wendy and Victor Ramirez

Karen and George Rathman*

Caroline Read

Marlene and Ronald Read

Charles Reese

Nancy Reilly

Maureen and Benjamin Richards*

Hansi and Robert Rigney (Hansi de Petra '59)

Susanne and Patrick Riley (Susanne Blair '62)

Jinx Hack Ring '60 and Peter Smith Ring

Joanne and William Robbins*

Heidi and Robert Robison (Heidi Grundstedt '79)

Corinne and Michael Roffler

Judith and Tom Romans

Susan Cluff and Neil Rudolph*

Kate Rueter

Elizabeth and Fumihiko Sato

Carolyn and David Schanzer

Leslie and David Schemel (Leslie Miller '76)

Kathleen and Rick Schumacher (Kathleen McGrath '81)*

Miriam Schwertfeger*

Laurie Severs*

Sylvia Sharp*

Vicki and John Sinnhuber

Richard Sippel

Susan and Bradley Smith*

Karine Snyder Lyon

Kathy Sparolini*

Ann Wright and Robert Stallard

Sandra and Jim Staples

Kimberly and Robert Stewart

Jodi and George Sutty

Nancy Sweetland*

Susan Szasz

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett '82)*

Dianne and William Takahashi

Louise and George Tarleton

Debra Stakes and Thomas Tengdin*

Melinda and Kurt Thomas (Melinda Montgomery '70)*

Linda and Roger Thompson*

Rebecca Park and Laurence Tobey

Stephanie Torney

Virginia Sanseau

Francesca and Robert Torrise*

Carol Towne

Wendy and Richard Tugend*

Kathy and Jim Tuttle*

Ruth Tyler

Kit Wai*

Charlotte Noyes and Clark Watkins

Frederick Weakley*

Sylvie and William Whipple

Susan and Thomas Williams*

Dana and Theodore Witmer (Dana Turner '72)

Judy Wong and Family

Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham*

Stacie and Stephen Worsham*

Pamela and Kurt Yeager

Constance and Graham Yost

Friends of Santa

Catalina

School

Anonymous (2)

Robert Balles*

Sister Claire Barone*

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

Kathey Burcar*

Rosemarie Capodicci

Heather and Brendan Daly

John Daniel

Tina and John Faia

Francesca Eastman and Edward Goodstein

Joseph Gouthro

Sheila Humphreys

Karen Kinsel

May and Walter Kitagawa

Lindsay Longe

Kristi and Bobby McLaughlin*

Ashley Moranda*

Lisa and Henry Plain

Sister Christine Price*

Gynny Reyes

Nora and Salvador Ruiz

Susan Russo

Kathleen Ryan

Jeremy Sandler

Meg Schultz

Courtney Shove

Jane Stile

Jane Tucker

Kathryn Wright

Faculty and Staff

Santa Catalina Fund Volunteers

Paul Elliott

Susan Kendall

Connie Riley

Zoë Sippel

John Aimé*

Annette Leach Alcocer '75, '71 LS

Amy Aldrich-McAfee*

Julie Atkins

Christopher Avedissian

Jaime Ball

Jessica Bangham

Crystal Boyd '89*

Meg Bradley

Kassandra Thompson Brenot '87*

Jamie Buffington Browne '85, '81 LS*

Debra Burke

Natalie Burke '99

Katherine Burkhuch Busch

Mary Callagy*

Stacey Chaney

Theresa Clarkson

Frances Verga-Lagier Cook '99, '95 LS

Bo Covington

Alan De Villiers

Lara Wheeler Devlin '02, '98 LS

Ross Dillon

Susan Dodd*

Charles Dorf

Julia Dubiel

Jennifer Duncan

Julie Lenherr Edson '88

Paul Elliott*

Jeannie Evers

Maria Fernandez-Canteli*

Christine Ford

Julie Yurkovich Forrest '78*

Heather Frost

Katherine Gaggini

Shannon Gaughf '08

Jacqueline Gibbs

Margot Hanis

Chris Haupt*

John Hazdovac

Liz Hulme*

Valerie Humenik

Nancy Hunt*

Beth Jones

Ronald Kellermann

Susan Kendall*

Sarah Kline

Liesel Kuehl

Kristen Lansdale

Claire Lerner*

Layne Littlepage*

Janet Luksik*

Lydia Mansour*

Michael Marcotti

Elizabeth Marrack

Louis Maschio

Claudia McHenry*

Bobby McLaughlin

Heather Medina*

Cristy Mehringer

Kimberly Merrick-Hlasny

Ala Milani '87, '83 LS*

Kelly Miller

Lorna Monroe*

Debbie Montes*

Jim Morton

Michele Morton*

Gretchen Mueller Burke '83, '79 LS*

Amy Azevedo Mulgrew '02

Ibi and John Murphy (Ibi Janko '83)

Susanna Wilcox and Peter Myers

John Nardone

Vanessa Newton

Sandy Nunnally*

Broeck Oder

Noova Ongley*

Sarah Paff

Dan Place

Kelsey Player '11

Christy Pollacci*

Heidi Pratt*

Mark Purcell

Bill Ragsdale-Cronin

Christian Reilly*

Janessa Rhoades

Connie and Blake Riley*

Jennifer Rocha

Katie and Anthony Schipper*

Laurie Severs*

Melissa Sheets*

Brianne Slama '07

Susan Smith*

Sharon Sparkman*

Gabrielle Snowden

Kathy Sparolini*

Ned Stork*

Paulette Struckman*

Marisa Tonini

Dalton Trotter

Kathy and Jim Tuttle*

Alison Valentine

Betty Van Wagenen

Heather Wilson

Katey Verweij

Randy Whitchurch

Erin and Fred White IV*

Susan Williams*

Larisa Young

Colleen Zellitti '10

Corporations, Businesses, and Organizations

Acme Awning Company

Adobe*

Apple Matching Gift Program*

The Bishop Harry A. Clinch Endowment

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program*

California International Airshow Salinas

Costco Wholesale Corporation

E Scrip Rebate

eBay Foundation*

The FOR Project LLC

Goldman, Sachs & Co.*

Google Matching Gifts Program*

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America*

Kobe Seijoh High School

Merrill Lynch

Monterey Bay Stanford Club

Music Teachers' Association of California

PG & E Corporation Foundation

Sephora

Traversal

UniversalGiving

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Visa, Inc.

Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gifts Workday

Gifts in Kind

Lisa and David Alderson

Ivy and Husodo Angkosubroto

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson '56)

Brenda and Philip Bhaskar

Barbara Bundy

Andrea Cerisola '85

Pedro and Patsy Cerisola

Patricia Cerisola-Mansi '83

Ana Coppel '90

Anne D'Avenas '72

Maria Juarez de Letamendi '91

Lia and Herm Edwards

Gloria Felice '54

D.D. and Paul Felton

Cathy Collins Geier '78

Maria Teresa Gonzalez '94

The David B. and Edward C. Goodstein Foundation

Teresa Rothe Graham '74

Robin Hwang '00

Vanessa and Tony Hwang

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson '77)

Devie Kusumaputri '97

Bridgette Lacerte '82

Nancy Kennedy Major '96

Laura Evans Manatos '87

John Mathes and Whitney Adams Mathes '93, '89 LS

Amy Hall McNamara '86

Nantz Family Foundation

Brandon Naylor

Pacific Cookie Company

Maria Pope '83

Elizabeth Holt Protell '64

Cece Fourchy Quinn '05

Nonie B. Ramsay '71

Sally and Richard Rhodes (Sally Smith '57)

Audrey Keebler Scott '91

Diana Kendrick Untermeyer '80

Joanne Van der Plas Viola '84

Yu Zhang and Xiaowei Wang

Sarah Clark Woolf '89

Lynn O'Neil Yeh and Cary Yeh

Restricted Gifts

Angel Fund

Margie and W. Taylor Fithian*

Chapel

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson '56)*

The Bishop Harry A. Clinch Endowment

Patricia Bondesen-Smith '54*

Facilities

Kathy and Matthew Gibbs*

Faculty

Anonymous

Fine Arts

Bringing Art History to Schools, Inc.

Carmel Ideas Foundation

Maya Pruthi '19

General Restriction

Betty Van Wagenen

Head of School’s Discretionary Fund

Anonymous (2)

Landscaping for Chapel and The Carol Ann Read Head of School House

Sister Christine Price*

Library

Clementine Yost ’11, ’07 LS

Lower and Middle School

Nantz Family Foundation

Lower School Tuition Assistance Support

Pebble Beach Company Foundation

Ocean Guardian Fund

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Matching Gift Donors

Diana and Giuseppe Aiello

Maryann and Edwin Berkowitz

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Maria and Edward Colosky

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly

Andrea Csaszar ’76

Angelika and Art Diaz*

Sharon and Tyler Hoffman

Kelly Robbins Huddleston ’99

Matching Gift Companies

Adobe Apple Matching Gift Program

BHP Billiton*

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program

C. H. Robinson Worldwide

Cisco Foundation

Freeport McMoRan Foundation

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Google Matching Gifts Program*

Trusts and Foundations

AmazonSmile Foundation

Anonymous

Arizona Community Foundation

S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation*

Bringing Art History to Schools, Inc.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program

The John M. Bryan Family Fund*

The Florence V. Burden Foundation

Carmel Ideas Foundation

The William McCaskey and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

Tribute Gifts

In honor of the Class of 1964

Louise La Mothe '64

In honor of deceased members of the Class of 1966

Madeleine Lord '66

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

Community Foundation for Monterey County

The Justin Dart Family Foundation

The Denver Foundation

Eisner Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund*

Frankel Family Foundation

Nancy Eccles & Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation

Hazel Foundation

Jean Perkins Foundation*

JPMorgan Chase Foundation*

Ladera Foundation

In honor of the Class of 1966

Lucy Macneil '66

In honor of the Class of 1970

Suzanne Saunders Shaw '70

In honor of the Class of 1975

Dryden Branson Bordin '75, '71 LS

PreK and Kindergarten Renovation

Anonymous

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich '78)*

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett '82)*

Constance and Graham Yost

Prize Day Awards

Robert Balles*

Robotics

Anonymous

Wendy and Ronald Gong

The Laurel STEM Fund

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Laure Woods '80

Security

Jeffrey Cappo

Sheehy Auto Stores

Katharina Brinks Lathen ’96

Yvette Merchant Nichols ’96

Susan Smith Nixon ’87

Autumn Quinn ’00

Priya Kumar Raju ’00, ’96 LS

PG & E Corporation Foundation

Sempra Energy Foundation

Sephora

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation

Sherwood Program

Corinne and Michael Roffler

Technology

The Lostak-Baker Family

Tuition Assistance

Judith Botelho Cain '60*

The William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

Joan Stafford Haynes '60*

Jean Perkins Foundation*

Julie Thomas Obering '60*

Upper School Marine Science Program

Margie and W. Taylor Fithian*

Debra Stakes and Thomas Tengdin

Julie and Joe Villarreal Alice and Warren Yenson

Starbucks Foundation Grants*

Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gifts* Workday

The Laurel STEM Fund

R. J. and D. A. Munzer Foundation*

Napa Valley Community Foundation

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Pebble Beach Company Foundation

PG & E Corporation Foundation*

The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation

Ramsay Family Foundation*

San Francisco Foundation*

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving*

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation

Starbucks Foundation Grants*

The Louise and Walter Sullivan Foundation

G.P. and M.P. Sweetman Charitable Fund of the SFACF Wilkinson Foundation

In honor of the Class of 1985

Adrienne Nordstrom '85

In honor of the Class of 1989's 30th Reunion

Emily and Christopher Browne (Emily Palmer '89)

Amy Rees Nelson '89

In honor of the Class of 1994

Megan Deming Escher ’94

Alexa Flores-Hull '94 and John Hull

In honor of the Class of 1997

Gabriela Zaied Corella '97

In honor of the Class of 1999

Marissa Anshutz Hermer '99

In honor of the Class of 2010

Colleen Zellitti '10

In honor of the Class of 2019

Erin and Fred White IV

In honor of the students in the PreK and Kindergarten classes 2018/19

Lydia and Bryan Mansour

In honor of all the teachers who helped me through the 4 years of high school

Mackenzie Roth '19, '15 LS

In honor of Amanda Audet-Griffin '09

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

In honor of Annabelle Audet-Griffin '08

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

In honor of Thomas Audet-Griffin '08 LS

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

In honor of Rowan Azhderian '18

Merry Nelson and Ara Azhderian

In honor of Debra Baker

Monica Johnson Steiner '03

In honor of Sister Claire Barone

The Aeschliman Family

Anonymous (2)

Jessica Crump '19

Stacey and Ted Golding

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Tamara and Reuben Harris

Susan and Herbert Hinstorff (Susan Haber '76)

Susan Kendall*

Lindsay Longe

Tina Hansen McEnroe '70, '66 LS

Laurie Angel McGuinness '53

Ashley Moranda

Mary Olsen

Connie and Blake Riley*

Laurie Severs*

Diane Ditz Stauffer '63

In honor of Claire Blatt '20 LS

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

In honor of Shayna Blatt '20 LS

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

In honor of Diane Bozzo

Michele Bozzo Mahi '75

In honor of Meg Bradley

Sarah Colmery Preston '75

In honor of Jamie Buffington

Browne '85, ’81 LS

Jane and John Buffington

In honor of Blake Butler '19 LS

Barbara Kinney and Albert Ham*

In honor of Piper Butler '21 LS

Barbara Kinney and Albert Ham*

In honor of my ring sis, Suzett Cardenas Kastis '20

Yanula Avila Kyriakis '19

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

In honor of Emily Adler Coté '97

Karen and Robert Adler

In honor of Lauren Bechtel Dachs '67

Mary Sweetland Laver '67

In honor of Brooke Damnavits '20

Shannon and Jan Damnavits

In honor of Sloan Damnavits '19 LS

Shannon and Jan Damnavits

In honor of Alora Juliana Daunt '13

Heidi and Philip Daunt

In honor of Simonne De Wolf

Kathleen Deviaene and Jan Sondergaard

In honor of Jennifer Duncan

Kacey Konya '19

In honor of Lauren Dunlap '22

Katy and Jerry Dunlap

Audrey Keebler Scott '91

In honor of the wedding of Ariana Ebrahimian '99 to Connor Keese at the Rosary Chapel on 9/29/18

Ariana Ebrahimian '99

In honor of Dr. Max & Tina Ebrahimian's 38th wedding anniversary on May 24

Tina and Max Ebrahimian

In honor of Julie Yurkovich Forrest '78

Simone Brown '19, '15 LS

Robin Gagos Dengá '80 and Tracie Dengá

In honor of Tamsen Forrest '13, '09 LS

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich '78)*

In honor of Jordan Gersh '17

Bernadette and Mark Gersh

In honor of Emma Gould '10

Linda and Robert Gould*

In honor of Owen Green '20 LS

Doris and John Callaghan

In honor of Tucker Green '22 LS

Doris and John Callaghan

In honor of Judith Musto Hachman '61

Peter Musto

In honor of Savannah Hardy '21 LS

Lynn Rombi

In honor of Karen Johnson Hixon '69

Kathleen Durkin Webster '65

In honor of Monika Howell

Jana Novak '90

In honor of Connor Jacobs' '15 LS high school graduation from Stevenson School

Annee and Chris Jacobs

In honor of Eric Johnston '25 LS

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

In honor of Kai Johnston '27 LS

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

In honor of Natalie Kocekian '07

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

In honor of Greta Leung '12

Margaret Mallon

In honor of Cole Maroon '28 LS

Aisha and Kenneth Maroon

In honor of Sophia Maroon '26 LS

Aisha and Kenneth Maroon

In honor of Caroline Marriott '21

Georgia Fulstone

In honor of Andinn Martens '25 LS

Alexis Lauderdale

In honor of Joshua Martinez

Diane and Jeff Cerf

In honor of Ana Maximoff

Grace Lostak-Baker '19

In honor of Tylor Mehringer '22

Cristy and Jason Mehringer

In honor of Jim Morton

Niaomi and Jeff Hrepich*

In honor of Dr. John Murphy

Katharine Huebner '19

In honor of the Music and Arts Department

Molly Gilbert '19

In honor of Savannah Marie Nicholas '19 LS

Gloria Logan

In honor of Alexander Nikssarian '02 LS

Mary and David Nikssarian

In honor of Benjamin Nikssarian '12 LS

Mary and David Nikssarian

In honor of Isaac Nikssarian '06 LS

Mary and David Nikssarian

In honor of Broeck Oder

Jana Novak '90

Elise Rodella '91

In honor of Mr. Oh

Angela Hu '19

In honor of my dog, Oreo

Amira Chou '19, '15 LS

In honor of Ava Owens '20

Laurel Joakimides

In honor of Kenny Peyton

Susan and Larry Imwalle

In honor of Sister Christine Price

The Aeschliman Family

Anonymous (2)

Stacey and Ted Golding

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Susan and Herbert Hinstorff (Susan Haber '76)

Susan Kendall*

Tina Hansen McEnroe '70, '66 LS

Ashley Moranda

Connie and Blake Riley*

Diane Ditz Stauffer '63

In honor of Owen Pritchard '20 LS

Joy and Mel Pritchard

In honor of Paige Pritchard '23 LS

Joy and Mel Pritchard

In honor of Mark Purcell

Kayla Ginette '19

In honor of Nonie Bechtel Ramsay '71

Ann Carter '71

In honor of Jinx Hack Ring '60 and Peter Smith Ring

Mardi Hack '58*

In honor of Cori and Mike Roffler

Emma Roffler '18

In honor of Grace Rudisill '27 LS

Lynn Rombi

In honor of Reyna Sanchez '22, '18 LS

Chris and Mark Sanchez

In honor of Eleanor Scheetz '19

Joan and John Hillenbrand

In honor of Sarah Scheetz '21

Joan and John Hillenbrand

In honor of Laurie Severs

Sister Claire Barone*

Diane and William Belanger, Jr.*

Sister Christine Price*

In honor of Kayla Sharp '14

Penny Morris*

In honor of Dorothy Sinnhuber '96

Vicki and John Sinnhuber

In honor of Rebecca Sinnhuber '02

Vicki and John Sinnhuber

In honor of Mieke Fuchs Smith '99

Mary and Howard Fuchs*

In honor of Sarah Stillman '00

Sheryl Stillman '02

In honor of Caitlin Sullivan '22

Ms. Shannon M. Sullivan and Ms. Julie M. Skilton

In honor of the Steering Committee Friends

Dede and Steven Huish*

In honor of Catherine G. Tobey '16

Rebecca Park and Laurence Tobey

In honor of Abby Trotter

Abigail Fisher '19, '15 LS

In honor of Jim and Kathy Tuttle

Angela Becker '94

2018-2019 annual report

Melanie and Steven Block

Shannon Gaughf '08

Alexandra Irving '02

Yoojin Kim '12

Courtney Mazzei '07, '03 LS

Ji Young Park '10

Adrienne Partridge '99

Georgia Sedlack '13

In honor of Sofie Wang '19

Sofia Whitley '19

Memorial Gifts

In memory of members of the Class of 1961 who have passed away

Sara Fargo '61, '57 LS*

In memory of Judy Alioto

Joan and Matthew Little (Joan Shymanski '64, '59 LS)

In memory of Ruth Jordan Allan

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS*

In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Annotti

Camille Annotti Stevens '57*

In memory of

Barbara Grant Armor '62

Elizabeth Gillett Berry '62

In memory of Norma Bhaskar

Tina and John Faia

May and Walter Kitagawa

John Nardone

Elizabeth Star

In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jay Bondesen

Cynthia Bondesen Grier '74

In memory of Merle and Lucille Bowman

Melinda and Michael Manlin (Melinda Bowman '67, '63 LS)

In memory of Carl Bozzo

Michele Bozzo Mahi '75

Lisa Bozzo Orlandini '77

In memory of Blanche S. Brown

Roe Brown-Arn '75, '71 LS

In memory of Judith Ann Burke

Meredith Burke Lawler '89

Brooksley and Darren Williams*

Evelyn Williams '19 LS*

Hayden Williams '18 LS*

In memory of Ann Hart Butler '62

Margaret Stewart '62, '58 LS*

In memory of

Sister Jeremy Carmody, O.P.

Joanna Grant Hartigan '60*

Mary Nevin Henderson '55

In memory of John J. Carnazzo

Cristina Carnazzo '05*

In memory of Daniel A. Casey

Michele Morton*

In honor of the White Family

Sofie Wang '19

In honor of Erin and Fred White

Katharine Huebner '19

In honor of Sofia Whitley '19

Sofie Wang '19

In honor of Henry Wojtowicz '23 LS

Margaret Rizzolo

In memory of Kate Clark '94

Laura Mulloy Ault '94

In memory of Nanette Clark

Evie Lindemann '65

In memory of Sister Victoria Commins, O.P.

Mary Nevin Henderson '55

In memory of Dorothea Veeder Condon

Karen Condon Patton '85

In memory of Glory Anne Hayes Condon

Karen Condon Patton '85

In memory of Camila de la Llata '08

Marina Barcelo '04 and Thomas Bruketta*

Candace Brekka Bennett '06*

Shannon Gaughf '08

Martha Gustavson '08

Jim Morton

Abigail Urban '08

Kristina Wasserman '08

In memory of William Deakyne, Sr. Yumi and William Deakyne

In memory of Maree A. Demetras

M. J. Demetras '71

In memory of Steven Deviaene

Kathleen Deviaene and Jan Sondergaard

In memory of Bruce Dohrmann

Sheila Humphreys

Rebecca Khamneipur Morrison '89

Kathryn Wright

In memory of Debra Dollar

Katy Bates Kreitler '67

In memory of Kaysie Lindemann Duval '86

Sandra and Greg Perkin (Sandra Barrett '86)

In memory of Carlos Estrada Ruibal

Maria Hinojos and Carlos Estrada

In memory of Anne James Ferrari '93

Nicole Lazarus Adan '93

In memory of Noel Ferris '66

Ann Craig Hanson '66

In memory of Peter Figge

Meg Schultz

In honor of Candace Wong '16 LS

Chieko and Isao Eitoku

In honor of Laurel Wong '19

Chieko and Isao Eitoku

In honor of Alexandria Yoshiyama '20 LS

Carol de Leon and Jon Yoshiyama

In memory of Abigail Folger '61

Caroline Harris Henderson '61*

In memory of Mrs. Ines Mejia Folger

Anonymous

In memory of Rudy and Ellie Francario

Tina and Max Ebrahimian

In memory of Linda Frick '66

Gail Frick '69

In memory of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Garat, Jr.

Domie Garat Werdel '60*

In memory of Tulita Kuchins Gibson '68

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Ann Kuchins '67

In memory of Sister Jean Gilhuly

Mary Olsen

Maureen and Benjamin Richards*

In memory of Bianca P. Greenough '93

Anonymous

I.V. Lacaillade Schmid '93

In memory of Lynn Riches and Robert Gregg

Betty Van Wagenen

In memory of Cordelia Gutierrez Jeffcoat

Cheryl Jeffcoat-Wilhelm '75

In memory of Capt. and Mrs. John Adrian Hack

Jinx Hack Ring '60 and Peter Smith Ring

In memory of Jason Hall '88 LS

Laurie Hammonds Schultz '67, '63 LS

In memory of Stephanie Smith Hardin '55

Mary Nevin Henderson '55

Sally and Richard Rhodes (Sally Smith '57)

In memory of Carol Hatton

Kayla Sharp '14

Sylvia Sharp*

In memory of Barney Hulse

Shannon Gaughf '08

Patti and Stephen Kolb

In memory of Dr. Ken Jackman

Anonymous

In honor of Larisa Young AG Camara '19, '15 LS

In honor of LaNette Zimmerman

Cayleigh Capaldi '18

Leigh and Domenick Capaldi

In memory of Gretchen Johansing '84

Marti Ham Fuller '84

In memory of Sister Mary Kieran, O.P.

Anne Hicks Kimball '56

Laurie Angel McGuinness '53

In memory of Coralia Kuchins

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

In memory of Betty Ann Bernadicou Lambert '57

Jacque and Craig Fourchy

Margaret McCann Grant '57*

Bobbie Erro Marsella '57*

Sally and Richard Rhodes (Sally Smith '57)

In memory of Nancy Leach

Elizabeth Leach '75, '71 LS

In memory of Joseph Leo

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS*

In memory of Sarah N. Lewis '90

Read Hoggan '90

In memory of Leon Lomax

Laraine Kvitek*

In memory of Marta N. Lozano

Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.

In memory of Michael Lynch

Jackie Lynch

In memory of Hazel Mantelli

Patricia Bristow

In memory of Ginny Fiske Marshall '68

Mary Wynne '68

In memory of Sandra Domich McCauley '61

Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judith Musto '61)

In memory of Lila Sage McDaniel

Kathey Burcar*

In memory of Laurie Angel McGuinness '53

Sue Finegan

Beatrice Leyden Moore '53

Susan Russo

In memory of Daphne "Tink" Dollar Melanson '71

Sheila Cooley '71

In memory of Mrs. R.S. Miller

Ann Frasse Stowe '82*

In memory of Connie Bentley Mitchell

Yolanda Mitchell West '75

In memory of John Monfredini

Patricia Bondesen-Smith '54*

In memory of Jean Morken

Celia Morken Gadda '67

In memory of Joanne Nix

Joanne L. Nix '60

In memory of Sister Carlotta O'Donnell

Franca Gargiulo '80, '76 LS*

Suzanne Dragge Icaza '74

Mary Olsen

Maureen and Benjamin Richards*

Laurie Vibert Schofield '72*

In memory of Charlotte Perry

Susan Pringle Cohan '66

In memory of Cherie Pettit

Anian Pettit Tunney '66

In memory of Mark Pollacci

Donna Adams

Anonymous

The Mark Pollacci Family

Jean and Ron Pollacci

Judith and Tom Romans

Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

In memory of Patricia Poole '62

Joseph Gouthro

In memory of Jacklyn Poundstone

Kelly Poundstone Wheeler '76

In memory of Mildred Quinn

Corinne Quinn '93

In memory of Raymond Shreeve

Elizabeth Skinner Harney '82, '78 LS*

In memory of Thomas and Katherine Sibley

Sally Sibley '58

In memory of Leonor Sinner

Franca Gargiulo '80, '76 LS*

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS*

The Sisters’ Legacy Circle

Anonymous (4)

Anonymous, Class of '64

Anonymous, Class of '89

Cass and Mike Antle (Catherine Slaughter '79, '75 LS)

Robert Balles

France de Sugny Bark '59

Sister Claire Barone

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson '56)

The Estate of Deborah Kneedler Berggren '53

The Estate of Joy and Alexander Blackhall

Patricia Bondesen-Smith '54

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen '58

Barclay Braden '59

Barbara Bundy

Marie Cantin '70

The Robert M. Cea Family

The Estate of Norman P. Clement, Jr.

Leigh Curran (Curry Griggs '61)

Ms. Debra Jean Deverell

Ulrike Devoto '86

Ellen and Tom Dunnion

The Estate of Paul Eckman

Renata Engler '67

M.F. Flynn '65

The Estate of Ines Mejia Folger

Marie and Jeff Gibb

The Estate of Sister Jean Gilhuly

The Estate of Barbara Goldie

Edward B. Goldie

Nancy and Philip Greer

Henry Grundstedt

Judith Musto Hachman '61

Mardi Hack '58

The Estate of Jane and Lawrence Harris, Jr.

Nini Richardson Hart '61

Robin Hatcher '63

Megan Heister '95

Caroline Harris Henderson '61

Charlotte Kresl '72

Ann Kuchins '67

What is the Sisters’ Legacy Circle?

The Sisters’ Legacy Circle recognizes and honors friends who have remembered Santa Catalina in their estate plans. We invite you to join us as a member and look forward to working with you to ensure that the Sisters’ legacy, from the founding of Santa Catalina in 1950, is one that endures.

In memory of Pat Sippel

Richard Sippel

Zoë Sippel*

In memory of Susan Nevin Sjordal '56

Mary Nevin Henderson '55

In memory of Cedric C. Smith

Susan Smith Nixon '87*

In memory of Nathan B. Smith

Abbi Smith '89, '85 LS

In memory of Ann Spadafore-Mills '59

Teresa Annotti Rogers '59*

In memory of Mrs. Melody Rodriguez Stewart '63

Trish Scott Williams '63*

In memory of my dad, Ted Talbot

Suzanne Talbot '64

In memory of Kim Thoa Vu

Thu-Anh Nguyen '03 and Bryan Nguyen

In memory of Edith Andrews Tobin '72

Karen List Letendre '72, '68 LS*

Mary Morris Miller '72

Laura Knoop Pfaff '72

Mary Eileen Reilley '72

In memory of Jane Tschannel

Sally Hansen Green '72, '68 LS

Mary Eileen Reilley '72

In memory of Martcia Wade '72

Mary Eileen Reilley '72

In memory of Martha Williams '71

Melissa and William Williams

Nancy Williams Shea '75

In memory of Jessica Yen '92

Courtney Eaton Turner '92

In memory of Harvey Hsing Min Yu

Margaret Yu*

In memory of Barbara Goldie Zwick '66

Lorraine Ditz McCarthy '66

Julie Lambert '80, '76 LS

Catherine Lambetecchio '76

Shanda and Derek LeBoeuf

Susan Lee '92

Karen List Letendre '72, '68 LS

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer '97

Gini and Jim Luttrell

The Estate of Ginny Fiske Marshall '68

Karin McDermott '85

Tina Hansen McEnroe '70, '66 LS

Laurie Angel McGuinness '53

Susan Durney Mickelson '65

The Estate of Robert Folger Miller

The Estate of Norman W. Miller

The Estate of Robert M. Moore

Jennifer and Leslie Moulton-Post (Jennifer Post '82, '78 LS)

Willa and Ned Mundell

Joanne L. Nix '60

Angela Nomellini '71

The Estate of Sister Carlotta O'Donnell

The Estate of Cherie and Walter Pettit

Laura Knoop Pfaff '72

The Estate of Sally Post

Sister Christine Price

Nonie B. Ramsay '71

Alicia Read Hoggan '90

Jalynne Tobias Redman '72

Jinx Hack Ring '60 and Peter Smith Ring

The Estate of Rosemarie Rochex '54

The Estate of David and Maureen Rorick

Deborah Tanous Scofield '65

Laurie Severs

Jeanne Vibert Sloane '74

The Estate of Edward J. Stachowiak

Laura Stenovec '99

Constance Stevens

Natalie Stewart '63

Diana Blackhall Talcott '60

Louise and George Tarleton

Larry Tartaglino

Member Benefits

• Special recognition each year in the Annual Report

• An invitation to an annual leadership donor event

• Invitations to other distinctive events

• Fulfillment of your philanthropic goals through a legacy

annual report

Endowment Giving

At the end of Santa Catalina's fiscal year on June 30, 2019, the value of our endowment was $42,800,000.

The Santa Catalina School Endowment for Unrestricted Support

Income from these unrestricted funds is used to support the school's greatest needs.

The Santa Catalina School Endowment for General Purposes

Established in 1987

Anonymous

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

Angela Park and Henry Kwon

Laura Lyon Gaon '81 and Rob Gaon

Audrey Keebler Scott '91

Karine Snyder Lyon

The Braun Endowment Fund

Established in 1982

The de Baubigny Endowment Fund

Established in 1985

The Jagels Family Endowment in Support of Santa Catalina School

Established in 1986

The Greer Family Foundation Fund for Unrestricted Endowment

Established in 1987

The George A. Pope, Jr. Endowment Fund

Established in 1987

Maria Pope ’83

I.N. and S. H. Van Nuys Foundation Fund

Established in 1989

The Quaglieri Family Endowment in Support of Santa Catalina School

Established in 1992

The Lester M. Grainger

Endowment Fund

Established in 1993

The Carol and Peter Read Family Fund

Established in 1993

The Fuchs Family Endowment Fund

Established in 1999

Mary and Howard Fuchs

The Pataye and Priess Family Fund

Established in 2007

The Eckman Family Endowment Fund

Established in 2009

The Hussman Family Endowment

Established in 2011

The Collins Family Endowment Fund

Established in 2015

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis '93)

Jo Ann and Julien Collins

Endowment for Tuition Assistance and Scholarship

Income from these funds provides need-based tuition aid and merit scholarship awards to qualified and deserving students.

The Santa Catalina School Endowment for General Scholarship

Established in 1985

Arizona Community Foundation

Kate Myers Brizius '88

Ann Bryant

Caitlin Bryant ’07, ’03 LS

Kate and Bob Ernst

D.D. and Paul Felton

Anne Hilby '01

Paula and Bruce Hilby

Diana Ernst McKibben '01, '97 LS

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving In support of self-defense classes in honor of Caitlin Bryant ’07

Teresa Ferrari Votruba '66

The Brackenridge Family Scholarship Fund

Established in 1985

The Ward Davis Scholarship Fund Established in 1985

The Tink Dollar Melanson '71 Endowed Scholar

Established 1986

The Nancy Farr '66 Memorial Scholarship Fund Established in 1987

The Santa Catalina Merit Scholarship Fund

Established in 1988

The Debii Dollar Conant '67 Endowment Scholar

Established 1989

The Grover Hermann Foundation Scholarship Fund

Established in 1989

Amanda Kirkpatrick MacDonald '93 Endowment Fund

Established in 1997

Bambi and Robert Griffin

The Hugh L. Macneil Scholarship Fund

Established in 1989

The William G. Gilmore Foundation Endowment for Scholarship Assistance Established in 1990

The Virginia Reeves Apple '89 Scholarship Endowment Established in 1990

The Gordon & Clare Johnson Endowment for Scholarship Established in 1991

The LLWW Scholarship Endowment Fund

Established in 1992

The Scholarship Endowment Fund in Honor of Ry Riegel '92 and Andy Riegel '93

Established in 1992

The Berenice P. Andrews Scholarship Fund for Upper School Students

Established in 1993

Ceseli and Hugh Foster

The Lucy Bush '67 Memorial Endowment for Scholarship Established in 1993

Lauren Bechtel Dachs '67

The Bianca Patterson Greenough '93 Memorial Endowment Fund

Established in 1993

The Santa Margarita Scholarship Fund for Lower School Students

Established in 1993

The Munzer Family Fund in Support of Endowment

Established in 1994

The Scholarship Endowment for Alumnae Daughters

Established in 1994

The William McCaskey Chapman & Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation Scholarship Endowment Fund

Established in 1995

Funded by a challenge grant from The William McCaskey Chapman & Adaline Dinsmore Chapman foundation and matching gifts from: The E.L. Cord Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John Flanigan, Mrs. Genemarie Gawthrop, The Florence M. Heafey Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. J. James Hill III, Mrs. Laura Knoop Pfaff '72, The Robert Stewart and Helen Pfeiffer Odell Fund

Pooh Bear Schmidt Family Endowment for Scholarship Assistance

Established in 1995

Justine and Robert Bloomingdale (Justine Schmidt '73) Randi Palmieri

The Alumnae Envision Fund for Scholarship Endowment

Established in 1996

Martcia E. Wade '72 Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund

Established in 1996

The Nan Goldie '66 Memorial Scholarship Fund

Established in 1997

The Catherine L. & Robert O. McMahan Scholarship Fund

Established in 1997

The Talbott Family Endowment Fund for Monterey County Students

Established in 1997

The Whelden Family Endowment in Support of Scholarship

Established in 1998

The Brooks Walker, Jr. Family Fund in Support of Upper School Scholarship

Established in 1999

The Pamela Fairbanks de Villaine '60 Scholarship Fund (Envision Campaign)

Established in 2000

The Lise Jensen Endowment for Scholarship

Established in 2000

The Olga Osborne Memorial Scholarship Fund

Established in 2001

The Amon G. Carter Foundation Endowment in Support of Scholarship

Established in 2002

The Marie C. de Dampierre Memorial Scholarship Fund

Established in 2005

Clement/Doughty Family Scholarship Fund

Established in 2004

The Anne Cunha Ferrari '93 Memorial Fund for Financial Aid

Established in 2009

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis '93)

The Kathryn E. O'Neill Memorial Endowment Fund for Financial Aid

Established 2009

The Robert and Alberta Tanous Memorial Endowment Fund

Established in 2010

Deborah Tanous Scofield '65

The Marta and George Szemes Endowment for Summer Study

Established in 2012

The Dorothea S. Audet Scholarship Fund

Established in 2015

The Angela Nomellini ’71 Scholars Fund

Established 2015

Angela Nomellini ’71

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

The Jessica Yen '92 Memorial Endowment Fund for Tuition Assistance

Established in 2016

The Roffler Family Endowment for Scholarship

Established in 2016

Corinne and Michael Roffler

The Vaquero Foundation Endowment for Tuition Assistance

Established in 2016

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett '82)

James F.X. Looram Fund for Tuition Assistance

Established in 2017

The Monterey Peninsula Foundation Fund for Lower and Middle School Tuition Assistance

Established in 2017

The Veritas Fund

Established in 2019

Anonymous (2)

Class Scholarship Endowments

Class of ’60 Scholarship Endowment

60%

Established in 2017

Daphne and Richard Bertero (Daphne Craige '60)

Susan Bigelow Fisher ’60

Judith Botelho Cain '60

Susan Gray Christoffersen ’60

Karen Swanson Crummey ’60

Sister Cathryn deBack ’60

Pamela Fairbanks de Villaine ’60

Mimi Doud Detels '60

Suzanne Townsend Finney ’60

Mardi Hack ’58

In honor of Jinx Hack Ring ’60 and Peter Ring

Betsy Helm Hansen ’60

Joanna Grant Hartigan ’60

Joan Stafford Haynes ’60

Penny Pringle Knowles ’60

Wendy and Harvey Lambeth, Jr. (Wendy Miller ’60)

Julianne Perkins Layne '60

Lani LeBlanc '60

Sarah Blanchard Murphy ’60

Julie Thomas Obering ’60

Marilyn Ramos Ospina ’60

Jinx Hack Ring ’60 and Peter Smith Ring

Mary Pat and Jerry Sweetman (Mary Pat Reardon ’60)

Karene O’Connell Vernor ’60

Domie Garat Werdel ’60

Catherine O’Hara Willmott ’60

Nan Griffin Winter ’60

Class of ’61 Scholarship Endowment

60%

Established in 2017

Anonymous

Penelope Corey Arango ’61

Judy Nagel Cox ’61, ’57 LS

Sara Fargo ’61, ’57 LS

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judith Musto ’61) In memory of Renzo Mugnaini

Theresa Lowe Hall ’61

Caroline Harris Henderson ’61

Mary-Allen Macneil ’61

Maria Hart McNichol ’61

Victoria Street Medeiros ’61

Peter Musto

In honor of Judith Musto Hachman ’61

Shirley Glod Myers '61

The Sister Mary Kieran Scholarship Endowment

Established by the 1950s Graduates

32%

Established 2018

Anonymous

Mary Ellen Smith Ash '57

France de Sugny Bark '59

Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson '56)

Patricia Bondesen-Smith '54

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen '58

Barclay Braden '59

Sandra Stolich Brown '55

Carole Lusignan Buttner '57

Nitze Erro Caswell '56

Gloria Felice '54

Louise Grant Garland '59

Jane Howard Goodfellow '56

Mardi Hack '58

Julie Hutcheson '59

Wendy Burnham Kuhn '59

Irene May Lawler '59

Yvonne Bernadicou Lyon '55

Bobbie Erro Marsella '57

Deborah McCann '59

Abigail McCann '54

Laurie Angel McGuinness '53

Betsy Bourret Neu '58

Kristan Jacobson O'Neill '59

Sheila Godwin Peavey '56

Noreen Lewis Raney '54

Mary Baumgartner Reid '58

Kathleen Mailliard Rende '59

Sally and Richard Rhodes (Sally Smith '57)

Hansi and Robert Rigney (Hansi de Petra '59)

Dorothy Dwyer Schreiber '59

Sally Sibley '58

Camille Annotti Stevens '57

Susan White Veninga '59

Eugenie Madden Watson '56

Kress Harris Whalen '56

Marilyn Brown Wykoff '59

Endowment for Faculty Salary Support and Enrichment

Income from these funds provides general faculty salary support, professional development, and endows faculty merit awards and teaching positions in designated disciplines.

The Santa Catalina Endowment for General Faculty Support

Established in 1983

Mary Pat and Jerry Sweetman (Mary Pat Reardon '60)

The Edward E. Ford Foundation Fund for Faculty Education

Established in 1983

The Santa Catalina Endowment for the Master Fellow Program

Established in 1983

The de Guigne-de Dampierre Endowment in Support of French Studies

Established in 1986

The Edward T. Foley Foundation Fund

Established in 1988

The Riley Engl Mott '92 Endowment in Support of Faculty

Established in 1990

The Keck Foundation Fund for Science Enrichment

Established in 1991

Jennifer W. Budge '71 Endowment in Support of Faculty

Established in 1992

The May Family Endowment in Support of Faculty

Established in 1992

The Burden/Childs Family Endowment Fund in support of a Learning Specialist

Established in 1994

The de Guigne-de Dampierre Chair for Religious Studies

Established in 1999

The Lamson Endowment in Support of the Teaching of Philosophy

Established in 1999

The Sister Carlotta Endowment for Educational Excellence

Established in 2002

Karen and Martin Wiskoff

The Ruth Carter Stevenson and Karen Johnson Hixon '69 Chair for Mathematics

Established in 2015

The Angela Nomellini '71 Fund for Faculty Enrichment

Established in 2015

Angela Nomellini ’71

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

The Coffman Family Endowment Fund for Faculty Support

Established in 2016

The Endowment for the Director of Summer Camp - Established in Honor of Julie Yurkovich Forrest '78

Established in 2017

Anonymous

Morgenthaler Science and Technology Fund

Established in 2017

Eileen and Gary Morgenthaler

Endowment in Support of Religious Life

Income from these funds provides support for religious programs and related purposes.

The Janko Family Fund for Arts and Liturgical Purposes

Established in 1988

Abigail and Albert Janko

The Jenner Lee Fritz '94 Endowment Fund for Religious Programs

Established in 1995

The Soli Deo Gloria Endowment by Sunzah Park

Established in 2001

Sunzah Park

The Justine Bloomingdale '73 Lecture in Religion

Established in 2003

The Fritz Family Roman Catholic Chaplain Fund

Established in 2012

Endowment for Language Instruction

Income is directed in support of selected students of foreign language

The Louise Beland Memorial Endowment Fund

Established in 1999

Endowment for Fine Arts and Performances

Income from these funds supports dance, drama, music performances, and the fine arts program.

The Santa Catalina School General Endowment in Support of Fine Arts and Performances

Established in 1994

The Merritt Minnemeyer '94 Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts

Established in 1994

The Sylvia Chao '94 Endowment for the Upper School Art Department

Established in 1995

2018-2019 annual report

Kajikuri Endowment for the Performing Arts in Honor of Miya Kajikuri '88

Established in 1995

Kajikuri Endowment for Art in Honor of Amy Kajikuri '80

Established in 1995

Amy and Joseph Martinetto (Amy Kajikuri '80, '76 LS)

The Turley Endowment in honor of Chris Turley '97 in Support of Father/Daughter Productions

Established in 1995

The Turley Endowment in Honor of Regan Turley '95 in Support of Upper School Music Students

Established in 1995

Endowment in Support of Music Scholarship

Established in 1995

Music Endowment in Memory of Caroline Schulte Beasley '88

Established in 2000

The Art Beyond the Campus Fund in Memory of Martha Williams '71

Established in 2011

Nancy Williams Shea '75

Melissa and William Williams

Endowment for Campus and Facilities

Income from these funds supports enhancements to and maintenance of the school's buildings and grounds.

The Santa Catalina School General Endowment for Campus & Facilities

Established in 1991

The Mary Johnson '85 Music Center Endowment

Established in 1991

Emily B. Taylor and Lindsay O'Hara England Endowment in Support of Gardens and Grounds

Established in 1995

The George H. Rathman Family Endowment in Support of Athletic Facilities

Established 1999

Endowment for the Greer Family Dormitory

Established in 2002

Endowment for Technology and Research

Income from these funds provides for research opportunities and technology enhancements and upgrades.

The Santa Catalina School General Endowment for Technology

Established in 1994

The Maura B. and Robert W. Morey, Jr. Endowment Fund

Established in 1994

The Carol and Peter Read Family Fund

Established in 1994

The Julie and Finis F. Conner Endowment Fund

Established in 1994

Endowment for The Sister Kieran Library

Income from this endowment provides for book and materials acquisitions for the library.

The Santa Catalina School General Endowment for the Sister Kieran Library

Established in 1992

Abigail Folger '61 Book Collection Endowment Fund

Established in 1992

Anonymous

In memory of Mrs. Ines M. Folger

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Terry and John Levin (Terryl Albert '70, '66 LS)

Endowment for Special Purposes

Income from these funds is used to support various programs and people as designated by the donors.

The Sister Kieran Achievement Award Endowment Fund

Established in 1991

Sue Finegan

In memory of Laurie McGuinness

Beatrice Leyden Moore '53

In memory of Laurie McGuinness

The Maura B. and Robert W. Morey, Jr. Endowment Fund

Established in 1991

The Bernice Brown Memorial Fund Established in 2003

Kathleen Brown ’63

The Mark Pollacci Memorial Endowment for Lower and Middle School Athletics

Established in 2016

Anonymous

The Mark Pollacci Family

Jean and Ron Pollacci

Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

Julie and Joe Villarreal

Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gifts

Sister Claire and Sister Christine Endowment for Health and Wellness

Established 2016

The Aeschliman Family

Anonymous (2)

Sister Claire Barone

In honor of Laurie Severs

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Marge Ganz '76

Louise Audet and Paul Griffin

Susan and Herbert Hinstorff (Susan Haber '76)

Abigail and Albert Janko

Lynn LaMar

Joan and Matthew Little (Joan Shymanski '64, '59 LS)

In memory of Judy Alioto

Tina Hansen McEnroe '70, '66 LS

Mary Morris Miller '72

In memory of Edith Andrews Tobin ’72

Sister Christine Price

In honor of Laurie Severs

Connie and Blake Riley

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Diane Ditz Stauffer '63

Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

Angelina Yao '99

Endowment for Student Enrichment and Support

Income from this endowment provides funds to deserving students for student activities and personal growth.

The Woolf Family Endowment in Support of Student Activities Established in 2005

Auction time at the 2019 Annual Benefit Celebration!

Preeti Khera, Lupita Cepeda, Cindy Munday, and Adele Harty lend a hand at the Lower and Middle School Carnival.

Co-Chairs

Aisha Maroon

Heather Wilson

Advertising

Heather Dotto

Alumnae Representatives

Shannon Gaughf ’08

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS

Communications

Holly Pease, Chair

Rebecca Lorentz

Count-Me-In Offerings

Sonda Frudden

Database Management

Shannon Koontz, Chair

Courtney Doust

Val Ghio

Trina Nguyen

Kim Tope

Chairperson

Kim Cutino

Financials

Deborah Peyton

Shannon Koontz

Lower and Middle School

Christy Pollacci, Chair

John Aimé, School Representative

Chris Haupt, School Representative

Janet Luksik, School Representative

Lydia Mansour, School Representative

Amy McAfee, School Representative

John Murphy, School Representative

Anthony Shipper, School Representative

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

37th Annual Benefit Celebration COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Décor & Display

Heather Wilson, Chair

Lindsay Buck ’93 LS

Kim Cutino

Merritt Hawley

Kristen Huston

Donna Sherer

Dessert Auction

Michelle Rizzolo

Faculty & Operations Support

Shannon Gaughf ’08

Jacqueline Gibbs

Christy Pollacci

Melissa Sheets

Katey Verweij

Live Auction & Drawing

Deborah Peyton

Parent’s Association Representative

Heather Givens, Chair

Registration

Janet Luksik, Chair

Dan Luksik

Christy Pollacci

Kathy Sparolini

Colleen Zellitti ’10

Silent & Online Auction

Lisa Bradford, Co-Chair

Courtney Jones ’95, ’91 LS, Co-Chair

Amy Brandt

Jennifer Connolly

Heather Givens

Adriana Hayward

Jennifer Khalsa

Roseanne Pierre

Tara Ryan

Stefanie Skinner

Leslie Svetich

Sabrina Taylor

Sponsorship

Heather Dotto

Laurie Severs

Heather Wilson

Technology Support

Alex Demushkane

Upper School Student Volunteers

Yanula Avila Kyriakis ’19

Yvett Cardenas Kastis ’19

Abby Davis ’21

Hannah Davis ’21

Amelia Downs ’19

Abbie Fisher ’19, ’15 LS

Molly Gilbert ’19

Emily Poole ’19

Erika Schwerdfeger ’19

Volunteer Coordinator

Jamie Roth

Wine Tasting, Fine Wine Auction & Wine Pull

Esther Brun, Co-Chair

Sabrina Taylor, Co-Chair

Kristen McIntyre

2019 Lower and Middle School Carnival COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Benefit Drawing Chair

Deborah Peyton

Food Coordinators

Michelle Rizzolo

Gena Sagin

Marielena Carriglio

Sabu Shake

David Berkowitz

Tracy Huebner

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Kenny Peyton

Heather Givens, Parent Association President

Lisa Alderson, Parent Representative

Jenifer Jacobs Bolger ’92 LS, Parent Representative

Joseph Eyraud, Parent Representative

Josh Jones, Parent Representative

Volunteer Coordinator

Jennifer Harty

Photography

Vanessa Krabacher

Carnival Master of Ceremony

Lydia Mansour

Carnival DJ

Charlie Dorf

2018–19 Education Committees

Upper School

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88, Chair

John Aimé, School Representative

Katherine Burkhuch Busch, School Representative

Liz Hulme, School Representative

John Murphy, School Representative

Peter Myers, School Representative

Connie Riley, School Representative

Brett Davis Collins ’93

W. Taylor Fithian

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Kenny Peyton

Victor Ramirez

Heather Givens (non-trustee)

2017–18 Admission Parent Welcome Committee COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Editor’s Note: A complete list of Parent Welcome Committee members was not included in the 2017-2018 annual report. Below is a complete list along with our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for their service to the school.

Lili and Alejandro Airada

Merry and Ara Azhderian

Maryann and Ed Berkowitz

Karen and Henry Brown

Ting Zhang and Yongguang Chai

Catherine Christian

Shannon and Jan Damnavits

Yumi and Bill Deakyne

Maryann and Craig Fox

John and Christie Garofono

Heather Coffman Givens

Yumi and Jim Hayes

Tracey and Christian Huebner

Andy Lowe and Robert Keys

Lesley and Ken Konya, Co-chair

Ted and Lee Jonsson

Jenny and James Leamey

Ana Maria Nuñez and Inocente Leon

Nikki and Sean Madden

Christian and Susan Mani

Andrew and Jenner Fritz Morrison '94, Co-chair

Henry Kwon and Angela Park

Tony and Rita Pruthi

Priya and Warren Rangan

Corinne and Michael Roffler

Jamie and Stewart Roth

Alejandra and Jose Sainz

Fumihiko and Elizabeth Sato

Edwin and Holly Scheetz

Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger

Humberto and Kimberly Trueba

Ruth Ashlie and Gabriel Villarreal

Gladys Chan and Dennis Yip

2018–19 Admission Parent Welcome Committee COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Joanne and Clemens Adeyemi

Lili and Alex Airada

Maryann and Ed Berkowitz

Heidi and Brian Borgia

Karen and Henry Brown

Fleur and Tony Burke

Joanne Fontanilla and Bix Cruz

Adrianna and Tom Dean

Mariana and Rodrigo Fernandez-Trevino

Jacque and Craig Fourchy

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon

Lissa and Keith Gilbert

Heather and Mike Givens

Yumi and Jim Hayes

Tracy and Christian Huebner

Mary and Mike James

Lesley and Ken Konya

Angela Park and Henry Kwon

Jennifer and James Leamey

Ju Yeun Park and Sang Bong Lee

Andy Lowe and Robert Keys

Julie and Mark Ludviksen

Jenner and Andrew Morrison

Lauren and Randy Nickle

The Board of Trustees DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Tracy Miller Hass ’75, Development Committee Chair

Laurie Severs, School Representative

Erin White, School Representative

Annual Giving Support

Tracy Miller Hass ’75, Chair

Herm L. Edwards

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Victor Ramirez

Campaign Giving Support

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74, Legacy Campaign Co-Chair

Kenny S. Peyton, Legacy Campaign Co-Chair

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Paul J. Felton

Taylor Fithian

Jamie and Stewart Roth

Holly and Ned Scheetz

Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger

Manisha and Uday Sinha

Kimberly and Humberto Trueba

Ashlie and Gabriel Villarreal

Jiaoe Zhang and Xiangrong Wang

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Tracy Huebner

Edward K. King

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Mary Looram Moslander ’84, ’80 LS

Curt Breitfuss (former trustee)

Richard D. Patterson (former trustee)

We have made every effort to compile a complete list of donors for the year July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019. We offer apologies for any omissions or errors, and would appreciate your bringing them to our attention at development@santacatalina.org.

The Class of 2019 poses for the annual college sweatshirt photo. Students get creative carving pumpkins in Greer patio.

Board of Trustees

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

Chair

Paul J. Felton

Vice-Chair

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74

Vice-Chair

Kit Y. Wai

Vice-Chair

Michelle Blake

Treasurer

Tracy Miller Haas ’75

Secretary

Margaret K. Bradley

Head of School

Sister Claire Barone

Gerardo A. Borromeo

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Herm Edwards

James Farley, Jr.

W. Taylor Fithian III

Matthew T. Gibbs II

Jon Giffen

Tracy A. Huebner

Edward King

Charles I. Kosmont

Kate Brinks Lathen ’96

Judith McDonald Moses ’86

Ricky Nguyen

Kenneth Peyton

Victor Ramirez

Michael Roffler

Jeannette K. Witten

Kathleen M. Trafton ’74

President, Alumnae Association

Honorary Trustee Brooks Walker, Jr.

School Administration

Margaret K. Bradley

Head of School

John Aimé

Assistant Head of School

John Murphy, Ph.D.

Assistant Head of School for Mission and Identity

Ron Kellermann

Business Manager

Lower & Middle School

Christy Pollacci

Head of Lower & Middle School

Janet Luksik

Director of Tuition Assistance, PreK-12

Director of Admission

Maria Canteli

Interim Director of Middle School

Amy McAfee

Director of Curriculum & Learning Learning Specialist, PreK–Grade 4

Chris Haupt

Director of Student Life

Lydia Mansour

Director of PreKindergarten & Kindergarten

Upper School

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88

Head of Upper School

Peter Myers

Assistant Head of Upper School

Katherine Burkhuch

Dean of Students

Liz Hulme

Director of Health and Wellness

Jamie Buffington Browne ’85

Director of Admission