Santa Catalina School Bulletin Fall 2021

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Alums find their niche in nature PreK and kindergarten learn in new spaces

Three longtime teachers say farewell Graduates celebrate in person

2021 FALL BULLETIN

Crystal Boyd ’89 Director of Marketing & Communications Jeannie Evers Writer Kathryn Goodnow Graphic Designer, Illustrator

Jen Rocha Graphic Designer Robin Kelly Copy Editor

Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08 Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement

Contributors

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, Joan Niesen, Katey Verweij, Kevin Wasbauer, Susanna Wilcox

Contributing Photographers

Glenn Fidler; Lisa Robinson; David Royal; Santa Catalina School archives; Santa Catalina School parents, faculty, and students; profile photos courtesy of the subject

On the cover: The Class of 2021 was socially distanced for this year’s annual college sweatshirt photo. The photo was taken on the athletic field rather than in the traditional location in front of the Hacienda. The following students are missing from the photo: Ally Berkowitz, Kaitlin Criswell, Ren Gebreamlak, Alice Hou, Hannah Levi, Amy Li, Ashley Liu, Sarah Scheetz, Fatemeh Shahroudi, Angelia Shi, Trixie Stork, Cecilia Xia, and Wendy Yu.

Above: Teacher Stephanie Pritchard and her grade 2 students jump for joy as they start their summer vacations!

Inside back cover: Sixth-graders Brendan Spencer and Peter Kremer get ready to test out their ROV in the Catalina pool.

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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 of any race, creed, color, and national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, and national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship programs, athletic, or other school-administered programs.

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Lasting Legacies

Catalina bids a fond farewell to Heather Medina, Jim Morton, and Susan Kendall as they retire after four decades of service.

For the Love of Nature

With a seat at the table of The Nature Conservancy, Angela Nomellini ’71 is dedicated to protecting and restoring habitats.

Farming with Purpose

Ecology meets agriculture as Corey Hamza ’03 LS embraces regenerative farming practices in rural Virginia.

Embracing the Landscape

Landscape designer Clare Riley Al-Witri ’09, ’05 LS taps into her horticulture background to bring nature into urban spaces.

Connecting to the Outdoors

Philanthropist Randi Stroud Fisher ’74 finds her passion in supporting environmental education programs.

Young Alum Q&A

Devoted to Progress

It is an inspiration to review all that has been accomplished and a reminder to acknowledge the creativity and focus of our teachers and staff, each of whom is deeply dedicated to the well-being of all of our students.

The dramatic changes in our daily lives afforded us another opportunity, which is to reflect and recommit to fulfilling the strategic goals outlined in Santa Catalina’s 2020 Strategic Plan. In October, members of the faculty and staff gathered with the Board of Trustees in a strategic planning workshop to focus on the goals we have outlined for 2021-2022.

Dear Friends,

Early in my tenure, I had an opportunity to speak with our faculty and staff regarding a book I was reading entitled The One Thing. I focused on the authors’ contention that success is built sequentially and comes “when we narrow our focus … and do a few things well.” Over this past year, with so many competing priorities, our teachers and staff did indeed narrow their focus and did several essential things very well. We prioritized the safety and well-being of our community and how best to deliver our academic and co-curricular programs to students.

At Santa Catalina, we believe that “we are (all) teachers in the broadest sense every minute of the day: in class, on the playground, athletic field, stage or wherever we engage with students and in whatever capacity we are present as we share with them the tone, the culture, and the values that are at the heart of Santa Catalina.” (Faculty Handbook) Thus, our focus remained on our students as we developed plan after plan to find ways to engage with them. I have a binder filled with communications about the thoughtful scheduling, screening and testing protocols, and alternative service, athletic, and performance options developed by Catalina faculty and staff.

For Lower and Middle School, these include providing support to:

• Articulate and deploy our Health and Wellness initiative across grades, curricular, and co-curricular areas.

• Emphasize activities and advising to build on our success in developing students’ character and drive for learning and service, fostering the success of boys and girls who are wellprepared for high school and beyond.

• Focus on innovation, exploration, collaboration, and hands-on learning in our newly designed Creativity Lab with an emphasis on these areas throughout the curriculum.

Upper School will continue to develop:

• Certificate programs in the visual and performing arts, which afford students the opportunity for concentrated work over a sustained period of time.

• The Global Education program to identify and provide opportunities for students’ social and emotional development, including equity, inclusion, and cross-cultural competencies across grades.

• The Girls Leadership program to empower students to act as ethical,

empathic leaders ready to impact the world around them.

• Health and well-being to educate and support students in prioritizing their wellness through this powerful initiative and to become a recognized leader in the arena.

Our vision is focused and ambitious. It is built upon the devotion of Santa Catalina’s professional teachers and staff who every day put forth the energy to continue to foster and develop each of these goals.

As we considered what content to include in this Bulletin, we elected to focus on something that brings several of our alumnae/i great joy and fulfillment. It is widely understood that nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, helps reduce stress. Nature provides a respite that can soothe one’s physical, emotional, and mental state. Very early on most mornings, George and I have the beautiful outdoor campus to ourselves. We walk it and find beauty everywhere. These mornings offer me time to reflect and consider not only the physical beauty of the campus, but the beauty of spirit of all the members of our community. It’s in these quiet times in nature that I am humbled and reinvigorated by the promise of Santa Catalina’s mission.

I hope you can find a quiet moment to read the stories included within, and like our profiled alumnae/i, I encourage you to spend time outdoors, taking in the beauty of the world around you. As Katrina Mayer said, “Time spent amongst the trees is never wasted time.”

Warmly, Meg Bradley Head of School

“There is something special that happens at an all-girls summer camp. A sense of wonder and creativity is developed that promotes positivity, inclusivity, and most importantly, summer fun.”

- Session 2 parent

CAMPER FEEDBACK:

“I can be a leader around the right people”

“It’s good to let your voice out”

“My opinion matters”

“Santa Catalina

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- Session 3 parent

“I am more confident than what I knew”

“I should be myself no matter what and be kind to everyone”

It was okay for me to try new things”

"I am an ARTIST!"

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, kindess, 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.

What did you learn about yourself?

[camp] is a magical experience designed to teach girls about friendship, respect, resiliency, teamwork, and empowerment.”

ALL GRADES RETURN TO CAMPUS

Eighth-graders returned to campus on March 10, just a few days shy of the one-year anniversary of the school closing due to the pandemic. Their arrival meant all grades were back on campus. Overtaking that one-year milestone was important to Head of Lower and Middle School Christy Pollacci. In a letter to parents, she wrote: “In August we began the herculean effort to bring back our students, beginning with our youngest children. . . . Our teachers rallied, and today we are complete—all 10 grades are back! To say I am proud is an understatement. . . . As we move forward and leave the darkest days behind, I realize that we showed our students that we don’t give up, and when we work together, we can do anything.”

To welcome them back, each eighth-grader was gifted with a Santa Catalina blanket and a favorite beverage from Starbucks. The real highlight was a special video made by teachers, past and present, set to the song “Seasons of Love” from the musical Rent. The song is known for the lyrics “525,600 minutes,” but the teachers customized it to reflect the time away from school: 522,700 minutes.

(1) Audrey Church holds up a Starbucks drink gifted to each eighth-grader on their first day back.

(2) Eighth-graders also got Catalina blankets, as shown by William Maiorana.

(3) Head of School Meg Bradley escorts first-grader Hunter Tope to class on his first day.

(4) Third-grade teacher Cris Ford welcomes her students to the classroom.

(5) Fifth-grader Berkeley Sampson-Lease can't contain her excitement to be back.

SPELLER ACHIEVES SUCCESS

Congratulations to eighth-grader Israa Saleh, who took second place in the 2021 Monterey County Spelling Bee. Israa advanced to the county contest after winning the Santa Catalina Middle School Spelling Bee, which was held using an online platform. Ten outstanding spellers participated in the school bee: Emily Zhang, Marina Hurtado, Diarmuid Murphy, and Samaria Shake represented grade 6. Suhana Dail, Brooke McCoy, and Tucker Green represented grade 7. Israa, Cadee Guzman, and Selin Sakiz represented grade 8.

lower and middle school

MATH COMPETITOR GOES FAR

Seventh-grader Wyatt Alderson competed at the state level in the Mathcounts Competition Series. Mathcounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problemsolving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person, spelling bee–style contests. This year saw more contests, which were held online.

In the school competition, Wyatt was one of Catalina’s eight qualifying students to advance to the chapter competition. As the top scorer in the group, he moved on to the invitational competition in February, where he competed among the best students from schools in the area. Wyatt’s problem-solving skills qualified him for the state competition at the end of March, where he competed with top students across California, many of whom were a grade level older.

CONTESTS CELEBRATE MATH TALENTS

Students in grades 3–5 were recognized in end-of-year assemblies for their achievements in Continental Mathematics League contests. Students participated in several meets in which they were challenged to solve six problems. Third-graders had three meets, and fourth- and fifth-graders had five meets.

In each contest, students applied mathematical, logical reasoning, higher-order thinking, and problem-solving skills to stretch their math minds to solve the problems. They put forth tremendous effort and showed perseverance in taking on these very challenging contests. The students were presented with certificates and medals during outdoor assemblies in May. Congratulations to the following students:

GRADE 3

1st place: William Mulgrew

2nd: Marcella Kenner and Maxwell Tope

3rd: Stacey Kim

GRADE 4

1st place: David Ahn and Khloe Koontz

2nd: Lynsey Nguyen and Eric Johnston

3rd: Hana Wong

GRADE 5

1st place: Ethan Yao

2nd: Erika Small

3rd: Celeste Comolli, Anika Minami, and Jamison Walker

Wyatt Alderson made it to the state level in Mathcounts.

Third-graders receive medals and certificates for competing in the Continental Mathematics League.

Students shared the breadth of their talents in an end-of-year virtual art show. With little more than pencil and paper, they showed that limited materials did not limit their imaginations as they created a wide variety of self-portraits. First-graders created 3D paper crowns. Third-graders depicted themselves as Lego people. Fifth-graders outlined their faces using words that describe themselves. Sixth-graders drew themselves on phone screens with app icons that reflect their interests. These examples only scratch the surface of the creativity on display.

Art teacher Frances Verga-Lagier Cook ’99 comments: “Whether it was online or in person, the students were able to find themselves and lose themselves in creativity and art making. With simple and accessible materials, we drew, colored, cut, pasted, and laughed. Art allowed us to grow together and communicate, regardless of our locations.”

PREK MARKS 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

> PreK celebrated 100 days of school on March 1 with cake and party hats. To commemorate this special milestone, the students demonstrated many ways they can count to 100.

GRADE 2 GETS INTO BEETLES

> Students in second grade observed darkling beetles move through the full life cycle from the larval, pupal, and adult stages. They enjoyed learning about and caring for their mealworms—and doing some hands-on science.

HANDS-ON LEARNING IN GRADE 7

> Seventh-graders designed a play structure in math class and assembled it during recess. In addition to designing the structure—which is 6 feet tall, 15 feet long, and 15 feet wide—they made a budget for manufacturing the product.

THIRD-GRADER SHARES A GREAT IDEA

The metaphor of a compass is woven into every aspect of school life. The four points of the compass are the core tenets of our mission: excellence, spirituality, responsibility, and service. Our school motto, Veritas (truth), is the needle of the compass.

Third-grader Naksh Khera came up with a way to incorporate the compass into Friday morning assemblies, where students from PreK through Grade 5 gather as a community. One day, Naksh approached Ibi Janko Murphy ’83, religion teacher and coordinator of Catalina’s Compass character education program, and declared that he had an idea: to create a

compass that users can spin like a wheel, and whichever point it lands on becomes the theme of that day’s assembly.

At the assembly on May 14, Naksh was able to share his idea with other students. Holding a compass pinwheel that Mrs. Murphy made, he spun the needle, which landed on “responsibility.” Head of Lower and Middle School Christy Pollacci started a conversation by asking what it means to be responsible. Then she read aloud the book What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada.

Naksh shows that at Catalina we share ideas—and celebrate them.

Naksh Khera shares his Compass pinwheel idea at assembly with an assist from Head of Lower and Middle School Christy Pollacci.

ASTRONAUTS ANSWER TOUGH QUESTIONS

During a special event on April 29, hosted by Monterey's Naval Postgraduate School, astronauts answered spacethemed questions posed by students. Ethan Yao, a fifth-grader, and Logan Ketterlinus, a first-grader, asked their questions in pre-recorded videos that were played during the “Ask an Astronaut” livestream event.

Ethan asked whether it’s possible to see the International Space Station (ISS) from Earth. James Newman, an astronaut who flew on four space shuttle missions, explained that the ISS appears bright and steady as it moves across the sky and that the public can check spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings to find out when the ISS will be overhead.

Logan asked how plants grow in space. Dan Bursch, who traveled on three space shuttle missions, talked about planting seeds in sponge-like material and using artificial light. He explained that growing plants is important because it can help scrub out CO2 and provide food during long voyages.

First-grader Logan Ketterlinus asks a question with his mom, Leila.

The “Ask an Astronaut” livestream.

GRADE 3 MEETS GEOMETRY

> Third-graders learned about properties of rectangles, triangles, and other polygons, including measuring angles and line segments. They enjoyed getting creative and building their own designs with rubber bands on Geoboards.

THE COMPASS TIES THAT BIND

> There are many things we love about Compass, but the cross-grade friendships will always be our favorite. At the end of the year, the eighth-grade Compass leaders made personalized notes for each of their circle members, starting with kindergarten, as a way to say goodbye. Eighth-graders also handed the light of leadership to next year’s Compass leaders during a special ceremony in the Rosary Chapel.

SPECIAL END TO A SPECIAL YEAR

> Students in the Lower and Middle School were happy to attend their Flag Lowering Ceremony in person to mark the end of the school year. Eighthgraders and their families gathered in the amphitheater as other grades watched together in their classrooms. The ceremony gave the school community a chance to reflect on the year, thank the Student Senate, and bid a fond farewell to retiring teachers.

CAMPUS NEWS lower and middle school

Lower and Middle School held its kindergarten graduation on May 31 to celebrate a major milestone for the littlest Cougars. Music has been a big part of their education, so the ceremony in Sullivan Court naturally included a couple of songs. In one, the students sang about how much they've learned and how excited they are for first grade. They also surprised their teacher, Heather Medina, with a special song in honor of her retirement after 42 years at Catalina. At the end, the students were called up one-by-one to receive their official diplomas.

(1) The Kindergarten class poses with their diplomas during their inperson graduation on May 31 in Sullivan Court.

(2) Massimo Paci with his dad, Camillo.

(3) Giselle Young, Amerie Cepeda, and Ariana Avila are proud graduates.

(4) Jackson Miske is surrounded by his happy family.

(5) Zofia Karpiel Herrera and Reese Adamski sing a song during the ceremony.

(6) Retiring kindergarten teacher Heather Medina blows a kiss goodbye to her students.

Graduation

Don’t be afraid to be nice ... Be tolerant and embrace the differences.

You will learn so much and make incredible friends.

—Kenneth Peyton, Middle School Graduation Address

(1) William Maiorana during the procession of graduates.

(2) Piper Butler delivers her graduation speech.

(3) Graduate Grace von Schack with her parents, Kelly and Wes.

(4) Alex Peyton, center, poses with his sister, Ali ’18, ’14 LS, and brother, Josh ’17 LS.

(5) Arielle Dale celebrates with her brothers, Jasper ’18 LS and Wyley ’19 LS.

(6) Hailee Hernandez with her parents, Justine and Antonio.

(7) Congratulations to Santa Catalina Lower and Middle School's Class of 2021!

(8) The Denton family are all smiles with their graduate, Raysa.

(9) Averie Nguyen receives her diploma from trustees and parents Brett Davis Collins ’93 and Charles Kosmont as Head of School Meg Bradley and Head of Lower and Middle School Christy Pollacci look on.

(10) Jett Jones with his parents, James and Brandi, and sister, Harmony, after the ceremony.

(11) Graduation speaker, trustee, and parent Kenneth Peyton offers the graduates advice for transitioning to high school.

(12) Parents Virginia and Robert proudly pose with their graduate, Natalie Powell.

to Learn and Play A Dynamic Place

Summer remodel reshapes PreK and kindergarten classrooms

It’s a Thursday morning, and kindergartners are gathered in small reading groups throughout their newly renovated classroom. On one side of the bright and spacious room, a teacher guides three students in a phonics lesson. At a collection of low tables, two more teachers help students cut and sort images of objects that have “i” and “o” sounds. Huddled up on different areas of the freshly carpeted floor, students read to themselves, wearing blue headphones to follow along with a narrator, or use iPads to work on literacy skills.

Meanwhile, it’s free-choice time in PreKindergarten next door. Excited children dart around wooden play furniture, visiting a dress-up station to put on princess and pilot costumes, exploring a mystery box at the science station, pretending to be shopkeepers at a little market stall, and playing tambourine and piano in a corner stocked with musical instruments.

Santa Catalina Lower and Middle School’s PreK and kindergarten programs have a long history of creating balanced and child-centered learning opportunities under the guidance of warm and engaged teachers. Since 1971, generations of children have benefited from a dynamic teaching and learning environment designed to instill a love of learning and to celebrate each child’s unique potential.

Santa Catalina’s ongoing commitment to providing resources that allow the PreK and kindergarten programs to remain at the forefront of education underscores the school’s abiding belief that the beginning is everything.

This summer, Santa Catalina renovated the PreK and kindergarten classrooms on a tight deadline and with funding made possible by generous donors, as well as with support from teachers, staff, and trustee volunteers. The $1.2 million remodel,

including a new roof, was a priority identified in Santa Catalina’s Strategic Plan. Classroom environments have a profound effect on teaching and learning, and the remodel has kept the children’s needs front and center, drawing on the latest research into the ways physical spaces support educational growth and development.

Head of Lower and Middle School Christy Pollacci says, “These renovations are a dream come true. Our extraordinary program is now fully supported by the environment in which our youngest children play and learn.”

Color Where It Counts

The renovations transformed the PreK and kindergarten classrooms from top to bottom. The rooms are more clearly their own unique spaces, yet remain unified by a neutral color palette, movable furniture, and tall windows that span the width of each room, letting in plenty of natural light. The kindergarten classroom further benefits from new restrooms and a back door that opens onto the playground.

Of all the changes to come from the remodel, the shift to neutral colors is, ironically, among the most striking. Research shows that a neutral color palette helps children focus by cutting down on visual distractions. With a mix of tans, white, and gray as the main palette, the only pops of color in the room come from teaching materials and the students’ own artwork, which helps the children take pride in their work and gives them a sense of ownership of the room.

Lydia Mansour, director of PreK and kindergarten, explains, “Whatever we want their attention on is the only thing that’s colorful, not the background. If their tables are neutral and they’ve got several items that they want to explore, they’re going

If we can follow the children’s lead and make the classroom fit what their needs are, then we’re supporting them in the best possible way.

—Lydia Mansour, Director of PreK and Kindergarten

to be focused on what they’re exploring, not the colors of the furniture or their surroundings.” Kindergarten teacher Vanessa Krabacher adds, “We’re actually giving their eyes a chance to rest, which the research finds is really beneficial when we’re asking them to concentrate.”

On the Move

The student-first design of the classroom extends to the furnishings and technology upgrades. Each classroom is outfitted with a new Promethean board, a large TV-like screen that functions as an interactive whiteboard. The screens are adjustable to either the teachers’ height or the children’s height, depending on who’s using the screen. “When we move them down to the children’s level, the children can use their hand-eye coordination [to interact with the screen], which we know helps with retention of knowledge and skills,” says Mrs. Mansour.

The rest of the furniture is at the students’ height as well—not just tables and chairs, but shelving and storage so they have easy access to the hands-on materials that enhance their learning. Perhaps more important, all of these pieces are movable. That means teachers can easily configure the classrooms based on students’ interests and needs at any given time, such as by creating more space for a high-energy class to move around or expanding the reading area for a class that can’t get enough of books. “If we can follow the children’s lead and make the classroom fit what their needs are, then we’re supporting them in the best possible way,” says Mrs. Mansour.

Building Independence

The construction elements of the remodel come with many benefits as well. Both classrooms have kitchens and food prep areas, beneficial not just for snack time but

for those times when food is used as a teaching tool. The rooms also boast a lot more storage space, allowing teachers to keep the learning areas clear of clutter. There are even dedicated cabinets for storing the children’s naptime cots.

Importantly, upgrades to the kindergarten classroom help promote independence. Having their own bathrooms means that kindergartners no longer have to cross into the PreK area to use the facilities. They also have their own door to the playground, which means no more walking around the building as a group to reach the play area.

Taken together, the colors, furniture, and child-first design help create classrooms that promote learning, invite curiosity, and encourage active participation. As Mrs. Krabacher sums up, “We’ve turned the classroom into an ally.”

LASTING legacies

Santa Catalina’s teachers are the heartbeat of our school. Caring, kind, creative, devoted, and expert in what they do, they influence and inspire their students in myriad ways, academically and personally. That’s especially true of three longtime teachers who retired at the end of the 2020–2021 school year. As we say a fond farewell to technology teacher Susan Kendall, coach Jim Morton, and kindergarten teacher Heather Medina, we invited them to reflect on their long and impactful careers.

Sue Kendall

Jim Morton with his wife Else

Heather Medina

heather medina

LOWER AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

In her 42 years at Catalina, Heather went from teaching in a “play” kindergarten to developing one of the most well-regarded programs in the community. Through a balanced literacy approach, she developed kindergartners’ reading and writing skills so the children would be more than prepared for first grade and beyond. A flute player with a beautiful voice, she also loved teaching music to the kindergartners, who surprised her with a special retirement song during their 2021 graduation.

What is your favorite memory from Santa Catalina? There are so many wonderful memories, I could never pick just one. . . . The most memorable graduation experience was in June 2020 when we hand-delivered graduation diplomas to each of our graduates at their homes. We drove in a caravan of cars with teacher Vanessa Krabacher in the lead. . . . We played music through the speakers in Lydia Mansour’s car as we arrived at each house. We sang to our kindergartners from a distance, and then Mrs. Pollacci ceremoniously handed them their diplomas. . . . We had not seen our students in person since March.

What made working at Catalina special? The beauty and tranquility of the campus, with the chapel at its center, and the loving and vibrant community that is all of you. It has been a privilege to be at this exceptional school where all of the teachers, coaches, administrators, and staff have immense pride in their school, great respect for each other, and care about the future of Santa Catalina. I was blessed to have known Sister Carlotta, Sister Jean, Sister Christine, Sister Claire, and Sister Mary Ellen, and to have lived out my career in such a life-giving place.

What was your favorite part of teaching kindergarten? My favorite part of teaching kindergarten was getting to know each child as an individual with unique contributions and needs. I loved discovering what the children’s interests and passions were and using that key to open the door to their learning. I also delighted in singing and dancing with my students. I looked forward to all of their special events where they worked as a group to perform for their parents and the school.

I was passionate about having a hands-on science program like FOSS, where the students could feed and handle the animals (fish, snails, worms, and isopods) to help them make observations and comparisons for their science journals. Because the five- and six-year-olds are also very attracted to live pets, I kept two guinea pigs in the classroom every year, and the children had the favorite job of classroom pet feeder.

What book should every kindergartner read? There is a set of books written by Mark Teague that I read to every class just for fun. The books are One Halloween Night, The Lost and Found , and The Secret Shortcut. I like these stories because they intrigue the children and spark their imaginations. . . . If there is a message in these stories, it probably is that life is an adventure, stick with your friends when times get tough or uncertain, and never give up hope.

What were some of the biggest changes you saw during your time here? When I first started here in the fall of 1979, there was no gymnasium or swimming pool, no Mary Johnson Center, no C2 science building. We did not have a computer in the preschool and kindergarten classrooms, but we had a typewriter. Now the children use iPads as part of their Lexia reading program. Back in the day, ours was a play-based program that developed over time to include the very best reading program around. The teachers and I were trained with IMSE, the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education, which uses an Orton-Gillingham-based approach for teaching literacy. With effective teaching, students now have direct, explicit, sequential, and systematic instruction.

What did the students teach you? Children have a sense of wonder and awe as they investigate their surroundings and learn with all of their senses. They have taught me that this is the most fun way to learn, even for adults.

This last class of kindergartners gave me hope for the future. With their kind hearts full of compassion, I believe they will change the world for the better.

What are your plans for retirement? I went on vacation on the North Shore in Kauai in June with my husband, Don. It is like a home away from home for us. I will play beach volleyball (doubles) one or two times a week, continue to play my flute at Resurrection church, go to daily Mass when I feel called, and do beach walks most every day. . . . A wise person told me not to make any major decisions for an entire year after retiring, and I may do just that.

jim morton

LOWER AND MIDDLE SCHOOL, UPPER SCHOOL

In his 41-year-long career at Santa Catalina, Jim—known as Coach Morton, Morty, or Mort—taught and coached thousands of students at every age, from pre-kindergartners to seniors. In the Lower and Middle School, he cultivated countless strong swimmers and taught kids the value of teamwork during P.E. In the Upper School, he coached six sports at the varsity level and led the Cougars to 19 championships in swimming, water polo, field hockey, and softball.

What is your favorite memory from Santa Catalina? There are way too many to nail down just one, but I always like the firsts: the first time a team wins a championship, the first time an athlete scores a goal or point in her career, the first time a Lower School student is able to swim the length of the pool without stopping.

What is the biggest takeaway from your time here? People care about each other here.

What made working at Catalina special? Great students and staff.

What is your favorite part of coaching? Seeing athletes do something they didn’t think they could do. Not every athlete learns in the same way, so I have had to use a lot of different methods. Chalk talk, video, have them draw out a play, and even use a magnet board and have them move the magnets around. That is the fun part

of coaching: coming up with ideas that help each athlete understand what we are trying to accomplish.

Is there a particular team you coached that stands out in your mind? There were so many great teams I had the privilege of coaching. One that comes to mind right away was a group of Middle School girls who went un-scored-upon in flag football for two straight years. They went on to play water polo in the Upper School and won a league title. The first time I saw them after they graduated from the Upper School, they didn’t ask how the water polo team was doing—they wanted to know if the Middle School football team was still rocking it.

What was your favorite part about teaching the little kids? The unexpected. They always kept me on my toes.

What were some of the biggest changes you saw during your time here? The biggest change was the attitude in this country toward girls participating in sports. More programs were added in the Upper School, including volleyball, basketball, water polo, and lacrosse. The Middle School also added sports, for boys and girls, with track and field, volleyball, basketball, and golf. Of course, the other big changes were the new gym, field, and pool.

What did the students teach you? Get over yourself.

What are your plans for retirement? Be a full-time grandpa to my grandson. Travel in the off-season instead of when everyone else is normally off. Mountain bike whenever I want. And I will still coach water polo [at Catalina].

susan kendall

LOWER AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

Susan began her 40-year career at Santa Catalina as an English teacher. When the computer teacher resigned one summer, Susan volunteered to take over—and never looked back. Completely self-taught, “Mrs. Kendi” found her calling as the technical arts teacher, developing meaningful curricula for grades 1–8, establishing maker spaces, and guiding students through the latest technology, from floppy disks to 3D printers. She also served as Student Senate advisor and eighth-grade advisor, and coordinated student submissions (with winners every year) to the Scholastic Art Awards. She received the Sister Carlotta Distinguished Service Award in 2008.

What is your favorite memory from Santa Catalina? Sister Carlotta’s warm, loving spirit is stamped in my memories. Even when I first interviewed with her for my job, I felt her vision, drive, and love for this school. Santa Catalina’s 50th anniversary party, where former and current members of the community gathered in a celebration, seemed to highlight her dream of our school as a “family.”

What is your biggest takeaway from your time here? I loved teaching Middle School English when I first started at Santa Catalina, and as computers entered our academic world, I would bring my students to the computer lab to make websites, slideshow presentations, and videos that incorporated their writing skills. Eventually I was blessed to be given the opportunity to become the Lower and Middle School technology teacher. Sister Claire was instrumental in advancing my knowledge in the growing field of computers in education. Her encouragement and support led me to a much deeper level of learning in the STEAM and maker world.

What did you like best about the Scholastic Art Awards? It was so wonderful to see my students’ work recognized by the Scholastic Art Awards in the areas of digital art, fashion,

photography, comic art, jewelry, architecture and industrial design, video game design, and film and animation. These awards honored and demonstrated the depth of Catalina students’ interests, their creative drive, and their hard work. Every student had incredible ideas that blossomed as they delved into projects—not only for the Scholastic competition, but also for any assignments given.

What did the students teach you? The students’ youthful energy brings so much to our world. They filled me with joy, laughter, and an appreciation for many things. They made suggestions on my wardrobe and just about everything else, and I loved it! Their honest and delightful comments were wonderful. I have watched my students achieve so much with their positive mindset and perseverance, and I hope to embrace that spirit in my own endeavors during retirement.

What are your plans for retirement? My husband and I have lots of travel plans. We look forward to spending time with our three sons and extended family and friends. I recently converted a small room in our home to an “art” studio where I would like to pursue artistic endeavors. My additional hopes are to exercise, read, study Mandarin as well as other subjects, practice golf and tennis, spend time at the beach . . . and do some closet cleaning.

ALUMNAE GIVE JOURNEY DAY A SPECIAL TOUCH

Although this year’s Journey Day, was held virtually, the inclusion of so many alumnae enhanced the experience for students—and gave the event that special Catalina touch. Several alumnae attending their virtual reunion led casual career-related discussions with juniors and seniors during a networking session hosted on the online platform Toucan. Students were able to visit virtual tables to learn about jobs in TV/film and animation, health care, science, business, law, nonprofits, and the performing and visual arts.

During a typical Journey Day, sophomores get a chance to tour college campuses. This year, sophomores and juniors heard from young alumnae from the Classes of 2017–20, who gave presentations about the colleges they are attending, including Cal Poly Pomona, Virginia Tech, Allegheny College, and Marquette University. Seniors also had the opportunity to learn about Greek life. Meanwhile, freshmen engaged in a collaborative team-building project.

SENIOR’S ARTWORK WILL HANG IN U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING

Sophia Lamarque ’21 won the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for California’s 20th Congressional District. Sophia was among six Santa Catalina School students who submitted artwork to the competition. Tylor Mehringer ’22 earned honorable mention for her piece, “Lost in Flowers.”

Rep. Jimmy Panetta called Sophia to personally congratulate her on the achievement. “I am honored that her piece of art will be displayed in our nation’s capitol so that people from across our country can see the amazing artwork from our community,” Panetta said in a news release.

Sophia’s winning piece, “Another Generation,” will be displayed in the capitol’s corridor tunnel for one year, where it will be seen by thousands of people. She and a family member were invited to attend a special Congressional Art Competition ceremony in Washington, D.C., with other young artists from around the country.

FOUR STUDENTS WIN WESTON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

One Santa Catalina student took second place and three others earned honorable mention in the 2021 Weston Scholarship black-and-white photography competition. The Weston Scholarship is a portfolio competition for high school and college students in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. Established to help preserve the legacy of black-and-white film photography, the contest allowed for digital images this year.

Brooke Kirker ’22 won second place in the Julian P. Graham Category for her series of photos of her grandmother’s garden. In her artist statement, Brooke says: “I always visualize this garden in color so it was quite a challenge to find the beauty of this place in black and white, but once I got started, I could not stop. I started looking out for objects or plants that had extreme contrast. It made me appreciate the garden in a new way.”

Earning honorable mention were Amalie Hansch ’22, who captured architectural beauty in "Buildings Against Gray Skies"; Fatima Licona ’21, who focused on cacti in her hometown in Sonora, Mexico, for her portfolio, “ Where I Am Supposed to Be”; and Cailin Templeman ’22, whose series, titled “An Echoing Introspection,” explored “the ambiguity of mirrors.”

“Another Generation” by Sophia Lamarque ’21.

Brooke Kirker ’22 took photos of her grandmother’s garden.

Jordan Gersh ’17 talks about her experience at Virginia Tech.

Santa Catalina School theatre students took their video production skills to the next level with Clue, presented virtually on March 19. The undertaking involved a 30-foot green-screen floor, professional cinematography, meticulous editing, animation, and merging of in-person and virtual performances.

Seniors in the Rehearsal and Performance class chose Clue as their year-end play, originally intending for it to be performed live while meeting physical distancing requirements. When it was clear that the play would be virtual, the show was expanded to include students outside of the class, and came to double as the spring production for Santa Catalina Theatre Arts.

Based on the iconic 1985 movie, inspired by the classic board game, Clue is a farcical murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests—Miss Scarlet (Samantha Scattini ’21), Professor Plum (Sophia Scott ’21), Mrs. White (Bella Borgomini ’21), Mr. Green (Meg Woolf ’21), Mrs. Peacock (Auggie Davis ’21), and Colonel Mustard (Maddie Mizgorski ’21)—assemble with Wadsworth the butler (MK Barlow ’21) for an unusual dinner party.

The final production reflects the creativity and hard work of everyone involved.

With a stable cohort of on-campus students, characters could be recorded individually, in person, against a green screen. The student editors, Bella and Cheryl Mendoza ’21 (who also played Yvette the maid), cleverly spliced together the characters—whether recorded in person or virtually—so they moved among one another as if they were all together. Throughout the process, the students also had the opportunity to learn from professional cinematographer and editor Barry Stone. “These girls learned in four months what people go to film school for years to study,” said Theatre Arts Department Chair Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02.

Other flourishes set Clue apart from the previous virtual show, such as the use of props and costumes. Among other special effects, tech members cut out each character and animated their movements across a Clue game board to mark the transition between rooms in the mansion.

Co-director Samantha Scattini describes her experience: “Working on Clue was not only fun but overall an amazing opportunity. Thanks to the amazing guidance of Mrs. Devlin, Mr. Barry Stone, [Technical Director] Ana Maximoff, and others, I learned skills from creative collaboration, scheduling, production management, navigating

the casting process, how to make scene breakdowns, and so much more. On day one, our class decided to really focus on the ‘spoofiness’ of the show, which I think Zoom and green screen allowed us to capitalize on. It was definitely a challenge to film individually and without a set, but Cheryl and Bella did a fantastic job of making our vision come to life. It is amazing to see the difference between live theatre and film, as it provided us more creative freedom.”

Samantha continues: “The most rewarding part of the entire process was being able to watch Clue with my castmates and other seniors together (socially distanced, of course) on campus with an outdoor viewing party! As we sat with anticipation for the seniors’ final high school production to begin, I was overwhelmed with emotion: excited to see our months of dedication come to fruition, proud to have taken on a new challenge as both an actress and co-director, and heartbroken knowing that this symbolized the beginning of the end. But most of all, I felt a sense of gratitude and contentment wash over me as I looked around to see something I used to take for granted—a supportive community of smiling faces experiencing the joy of theater together, the way it is meant to be shared.”

mansion guests, from left: Samantha Scattini ’21

Scarlet, Auggie Davis ’21 as Mrs. Peacock, Meg Woolf ’21 as Mr. Green, Bella Borgomini ’21 as Mrs. White, Sophia Scott ’21 as Professor Plum, and Maddie Mizgorski ’21 as Colonel Mustard.

EVENING OF THE ARTS HIGHLIGHTS CREATIVITY

Santa Catalina School shared highlights of visual and performing arts classes at Evening of the Arts on May 21. The program, presented virtually for the second consecutive year, included art, dance, and music created on camera and on campus in the 2020–21 school year.

The dance portion of the program featured performances from the ballet, lyrical, musical theatre, and hip-hop dance classes. It also included an introduction to a new elective, Dance Technique and Performance, which focuses on the history, origins, and development of different dance styles. One student shared her own choreography to the song “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman.

Theatre students sang songs from Kiss Me, Kate, and the audience was treated to bloopers from this year’s virtual production of Clue. Chamber Ensemble musicians provided the soundtrack for the annual visual arts slideshow highlighting student artwork.

Visual Arts Department Chair Claire Lerner expressed her admiration for students who continued to tap into their creativity while working at home for most of the year. She noted that the slideshow represented hundreds of hours of effort, concentration, and skill.

Theatre Arts Department Chair Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02 comments: “We all know what a challenging year it was, but for the performing arts—which are in essence collaborative and based on interpersonal relationships and connection—it felt almost insurmountable. And yet, we persisted.” That persistence was on full display at Evening of the Arts.

STUDENTS LEND A HAND WITH ALUMNA’S NEW COOKBOOK

Heather Hardcastle-Perko ’94, ’90 LS owns Flour Craft Bakery & Café, a glutenfree bakery with two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. In late 2019, when she started to write her first cookbook, she put out a call for recipe testers. Catalina students answered the call, using the small kitchen off the dining room to test some of Heather’s recipes.

The Flour Craft Bakery & Café Cookbook hit the shelves on April 6. From the description: “Heather Hardcastle combines alternative flours including rice, millet, nut flours, and starches to achieve a perfect crumb and oven-fresh texture. Flour Craft breaks down the process in an approachable way, teaching readers how to combine a few key flours in the correct proportions to yield excellent results every time.”

Jane Hoffman ’20 tests a recipe for a new cookbook by Heather Hardcastle-Perko ’94, ’90 LS.

Heather, who was diagnosed as gluten intolerant in 2000, opened Flour Craft’s first location in San Anselmo in 2013. The second location in Mill Valley opened five years later. Read more about Heather and her journey in the Fall 2019 issue of the Santa Catalina Bulletin

STUDENTS GO THE DISTANCE FOR SPECIAL CAR RACE

Santa Catalina held its second annual 3D Design Derby Race during Spirit Day. For the race, each student designed and created a 3D-printed car no more than 6 cm wide, 10 cm long, and 8 cm tall. Some students decorated the cars with googly eyes, feathers, and hand-drawn faces. Participants raced eight cars down a ramp, competing for 3D-printed trophies in four categories. Here are the winning cars, by category:

Farthest Car Batmobile by CC Shaw ’23

Best Design Classic Chevy by Maddy Foletta ’22

Most Innovative Futuristic Air Pod by Tarn Reilly ’23

Thomas Edison Award Lemon Chicken by Elisabeth Gage ’22

3D-printed cars race down a ramp.

The Musical Theatre Dance class performs “It’s Time to Dance” from The Prom .

MERP STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE FAIR

Nineteen Santa Catalina students entered projects in the 2021 Monterey County Science and Engineering Fair, with five advancing to the state fair. The group included 13 seniors and six juniors, all in the Marine Ecology Research Program.

Audrey Avelino ’22, Anna Cole ’21, Angelia Shi ’21, Holly Liu ’22, and Rain Hu ’22 won the following awards at the Monterey County fair:

• Audrey’s study* examined population changes of purple sea urchins, sunflower sea stars, purple sea stars, and giant kelp due to sea star wasting disease (SSWD). She won first place in the environmental division and received the American Meteorological Association Award.

• Anna and Angelia teamed up for their project, “Testing potential triggers of foraging behaviors in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.” They won first place in the plant and animal sciences division and earned the Association of Women Geoscientists Award.

• Holly’s study, “Heavy metal concentration in seafood from Chinese major industrial centers,” placed second in the environmental division. She received the California Association of Biomedical Research Award.

• Rain placed second in the math and computer science division for her project, “An AI disease diagnosing model using voice feature.” She received the Yale Science & Engineering Award.

These students advanced to the 2021 California Fair.

Emma Murphree ’21 presents her project during the MERP Symposium at the end of the year.

Monterey County science fair winners, participants, and projects:

• Maddie Elkin ’21 and Alex Nickle ’21, “Copper exposure reduces olfactory orientation efficiency on catfish Corydoras,” second place in the environmental division

• Nicole Korinetz ’21, “Improving a low-cost Arduino pH controller to measure, record, and control pH in a closed loop aquarium system,” second place in the engineering division

• Allison Berkowitz ’21 and Clare Watson ’21, “Detecting photosynethic rates in intertidal algae”

• Sarah Scheetz ’21 and Dylan Barry-Schoen ’21, “Fluctuations in abundance of harmful algal bloom species in the Monterey Bay assessed over time in relation to various factors”

• Auggie Davis ’21, “Testing an accessible method for aging rockfish using otoliths”

• Olivia Gorum ’22, Carson Vogel ’22, and Alix Detrait ’22, “The long-term impact of SSWD on mussel beds and changed visitation rates on the intertidal during COVID-19,” third place in the environmental division, NASA Earth Sciences Award

• Emma Murphree ’21, “Quantifying shifts in Monterey Peninsula marine protected area kelp coverage using GIS”

• Sofia Lamarque ’21 and Maddie Mizgorski ’21, “Changes in batstar metabolic rates in response to olfactory prey cues”

*Official title: “Population changes of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Pycnopodia helianthoides, Pisaster ochraceus, and Macrocystis pyrifera due to SSWD.”

Medals and certificates earned by students at the Monterey County Science and Engineering Fair.

ANNUAL CAKE AUCTION GOES ROGUE

Santa Catalina School’s traditional Cake Auction came with a twist this year. In keeping with tradition, seniors baked and decorated elaborate cakes for Spirit Day, and carried them to Sullivan Court for everyone to see. However, instead of bidding on cakes to take away and eat, the classes judged the cakes and then bid on unrelated special experiences.

Using the tried-and-true applause method, students judged the cakes in categories such as The Imagineer (for most creative), The Guppy (cutest), The Gordon Ramsay (looked the most appetizing), and The Jack of All Traits (best all around). Then the bidding started. Here’s what each class (and the adults) successfully bid on:

Artichokes

Freshmen and Head of School Meg Bradley

Ice cream with Mrs. Amy Azevedo Mulgrew ’02 and her family Seniors

Selecting the lunch menu for a week Faculty

Rugby party with Dr. Christian Reilly Freshmen

Pool party Juniors

Getting to cut in line at lunch Juniors

Getting to dress as they wish for the last week of school Sophomores

In the end, students still got to eat cake—cupcakes, handed out at the end of the auction.

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(1) Seniors Samantha Scattini and Nicole Oliver help carry one of two cow-themed cakes.

(2) Seniors take a photo with their creations.

(3) An impressively decorated cake based off of the Pixar film Ratatouille.

SANTA

Kathleen Founds ’00 is the author of When Mystical Creatures Attack!, a novel in short stories that was listed as one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2014. Santa Catalina invited her to speak to its English classes virtually on April 19–21.

B.U.R.R.I.T.O. performs virtual improv.

Writer-in-residence Kathleen Founds ’00

Kathleen talked about her “decidedly unglamorous” journey to becoming a writer. At Catalina, she had loved experimenting in her creative writing classes and crafting embellished stories for Lamplighter, the school paper. When she attended Stanford University, she struggled with self-doubt and blank pages, putting immense pressure on herself to write something “great.” That all changed when she became a writing tutor at Hope House, a residential drug and alcohol treatment center for women. The redemptive stories of the women there helped her realize that “even if I tried writing and failed, I would be OK.” Kathleen began a habit of writing an hour a day. “It is the only reason I ever saw a story through to the end,” she said.

In talking about her inner critic, Kathleen asked students to draw or describe their own. Their imagery included chattering teeth, a big bear blocking the path, an “evil” version of themselves, a burr in a shoe, and a mosquito buzzing in an ear. Then Kathleen had the students write a message that would help a friend overcome her inner critic; of course, the messages were actually for themselves. “Always be as kind to yourself as you would be to a friend,” Kathleen told them.

For English Department Chair Sarah Paff, it was a pleasure to host Kathleen as this year’s visiting writer. Ms. Paff remarks: “She offered engaging writing exercises, and her excellent insights and advice were delivered with warmth and humor. It was truly a pleasure to hear about her writer’s journey.”

Learn more about Kathleen, who is also an illustrator, at www.kathleenfounds.com.

Santa Catalina’s performance clubs added video to their list of skills after filming and editing their virtual B. R.E.A.L. Show, which was shared live on March 12. The annual event features the clubs B.U.R.R.I.T.O. (comedy and improv), Reverb (music), ecco! (a cappella), Accents (dance), and Lady Rhythmics (body percussion). Whether piecing together individual performances or recording as a group over Zoom, the students were able to showcase their creativity and talent.

B.U.R.R.I.T.O. added an alphabetical story and customer service nightmares to fan favorites “Dr. Phil” and “Poetry for the Soul.” Reverb’s offerings included a rendition of “Grenade” by Bruno Mars and a music video for their performance of “Devil Town” by Cavetown. Other highlights included ecco!’s Elton John medley, with corresponding Zoom backgrounds; an Accents dance to Becky G’s “Can’t Stop Dancing”; and split-screen Lady Rhythmics routines. The video ended with a special tribute to seniors, showing clips of them throughout their time at Catalina, as well as home footage and photos of them as young performers.

PERFORMANCE CLUBS BRING B. R.E.A.L. TO THE SCREEN SOPHOMORE

Juliette Kosmont ’23 earned the silver medal in the 100-meter dash at the Central Coast Section (CCS) track and field finals on June 19. Her time of 12.66 is the second fastest in Santa Catalina School history. She also finished ninth in the long jump, at 16 feet, 1 inch.

Catalina athletes first hit the track, field, and pool in April, after a year and a half of at-home conditioning.

Commencement

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Over this past year and a half, the instinct to turn outward, to care and hold one another from afar as you have navigated this [pandemic]— that is not a lesson you will unlearn.

Kai Romero ’01 Commencement Address

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(1) Grace Gaon, Meg Woolf, Spencer Leatherberry, and MK Barlow laughingly display the traditional white graduation pumps.

(2) Anna Cole makes her way in the traditional procession from Study Hall to Sullivan Court.

(3) Members of the Class of 2021 during Commencement.

(4) Ayo Adeyemi, Marina Butler, and Sarah Sallee are all smiles before the ceremony.

(5) In her Commencement address, “Return to Hallowed Ground,” Kai Romero ’01 shared life lessons with the Class of 2021.

(6) Fatima Licona Balderrama is followed by Sarah Sallee in the procession to Sullivan Court.

(7) Tradition holds that each graduate is given a bouquet with 18 red roses. Bella Borgomini, Hannah Levi, Nicole, Oliver, and Samantha Scattini with their bouquets awaiting the Commencement procession.

(8) Elizabeth Miki smiles as she prepares to receive her diploma.

(9) Maddie Elkin and Heidi Hansch pose with their graduation bouquets.

CLASS OF 2021 College Matriculation

American University Bates College

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Carnegie Mellon University

Chapman University

Colorado School of Mines

Colorado State University

Fordham University Grinnell College

Hamilton College Harvey Mudd College Hillsdale College (2)

Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de México Johns Hopkins University (2) Lipscomb University

Monterey Peninsula College (2) New York University

Northeastern University (2) Oberlin College

Point Loma Nazarene University San Diego State University (2)

Santa Clara University Southern Methodist University Syracuse University Tufts University

University of Alabama (3)

University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis (2) University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of Denver University of Edinburgh University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Mississippi (3)

University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Redlands University of San Diego (4) University of Southern California (2) University of Toronto University of Wisconsin (2) University of Washington (2)

DISTINCTIONS AT COMMENCEMENT

WITH HIGHEST HONOR

Elisabeth Hansch

Heidi Hansch

Yuanying Ashley Liu

WITH HIGH HONOR

Isabella Borgomini

Nicole Korinetz

Spencer Leatherberry

Elizabeth Miki

Yaxuan Angelia Shi

Beatrix Stork

WITH HONOR

Anna Cole

Abigail Davis

Maria Del Bosque Villarreal

Jane Hoffman

Emma James

Yoojung Christina Kwon

Kate Larsen

Amy Li

Fatima Licona Balderrama

Sarah Scheetz

Channing-Jaye Scott

SANTA CATALINA AWARDS

MERIWETHER AND CROOM BEATTY AWARDS

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

Freshman—Cora Derbin

Sophomore—Tarn Reilly

SISTER MARY KIERAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

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

First place—Kathryn Corrigan-Hoaglin

Second place—Cailin Templeman

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—Heidi Hansch

Second place—Yuanying Ashley Liu

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.

Spencer Leatherberry

Sarah Scheetz

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.

Heidi Hansch

SUNZAH PARK SOLI DEO GLORIA AWARD

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

Madeline Elkin

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.

Mary Kate Barlow

Isabella Borgomini

Sarah Sallee

Clare Watson

Marina Butler Cerisola

Yaxuan Angelia Shi

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

Nicole Korinetz

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

Hannah Ayo Adeyemi

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

Grace Gaon

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 singlemindedness, and who through her clear judgment and daily living leaves the school a better place.

Jane Hoffman

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

(2) At the conclusion of the ceremony, Elisabeth Hansch and Sofia Scott lead the Class of 2021 to join their families.

(3) Grace Atkins and Kaitlin Criswell pause for a photo with the graduation bouquets.

(4) Graduate Helena Avila Kyriakis, center, with her family, including sister Yanula ’19, far right.

(5) Niamh Burke, Channing-Jay Scott, Adrienne Wood, and Leona Lind-Aunan during post-ceremony photos.

(6) Jane Hoffman with her parents, Sharon and Tyler, at the conclusion of Commencement.

(7) All smiles following Commencement! Back row, from left: Dylan Barry-Schoen, Fatima Licona Balderrama, Airey Jones, Sophia Scott, Kate Larsen, Trixie Stork, Fernanda Artola Contreras; front row, from left: Samantha Scattini, Meg Woolf, Ana Leissner, Sarah Scheetz, Maria Del Bosque Villareal.

(8) Nicole Korinetz smiles after receiving her diploma.

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Alums find their niche in nature

Angela Nomellini ’71

Several years ago, when Angela Nomellini’s husband, Ken Olivier, was about to retire, one of his colleagues sought Angela’s advice regarding a retirement gift. Olivier was stepping down from his role as chairman and chief executive officer at Dodge & Cox, an investment management firm, and the company wanted to give him a fishing trip in thanks for his years of service. When the colleague asked Angela where her husband might want to go, one place she suggested was Mongolia.

When Olivier, an experienced fly fisherman, learned about the trip, he told Angela she’d have to practice fishing in waders before they journeyed to Mongolia together. So the couple headed to Alaska, and Angela discovered that she, too, enjoyed fly fishing. Now she jokes that she “took up fly fishing in self-defense,” as a means of spending more time with her now-retired husband. But one glance at her résumé of philanthropic work proves there’s more to her passion than just supporting her husband’s interests.

In 2020, Angela stepped down after nine years on the California board of trustees of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization that has protected more than 119 million acres of land and thousands of miles of rivers worldwide since its founding in 1951. She still serves on the conservancy’s North America Cabinet in an advisory role, giving feedback on conservation programs. After more than two decades of work in environmental philanthropy, she is well versed in the coordination and dedication it takes to protect and restore nature.

Working on such causes was never Angela’s career plan, though. After graduating from Santa Catalina in 1971, she earned an English degree at Stanford and a law degree at the University of California, Berkeley. She accepted a job at a financial planning firm, but after giving birth to her son, Andrew, in 1988, she left the business world and began a decades-long involvement in educational philanthropy, which came about almost by accident after Angela noticed how taxed her son’s teachers were in the classroom. “A lot of [their] time was spent directing airplanes, just classroom management,” she recalls. When Andrew’s class swelled from 19 students in kindergarten to 28 in first grade, the problem intensified, and Angela began to work with the school’s principal to find ways to institute smaller class sizes. Then, while on the Hillsborough City School District board, Angela helped streamline reading, science, and math curricula across the district’s

Angela Nomellini ’71 displays a trout caught on an annual trip to Alaska.

to help [students] persevere, because there’s a huge dropout rate for kids who are first-generation [college students],” she adds. “They don’t understand that everybody struggles their freshman year in college.”

Long established in the world of education, Angela turned her efforts to the environment after her husband returned from a fishing trip more than two decades ago. On the trip, Olivier learned about TNC, and the couple made a small donation. They wound up on the organization’s mailing list, and a minimal involvement ballooned. Eventually, Angela joined TNC’s board, and now, after years in the environmental sphere, she speaks as if she has a degree in policy or conservation science, not English and law. She is animated as she explains the challenges the United States faces as it combats global warming, adjusts to climate change, and strives to protect vulnerable species.

In addition, Angela often waxes poetic about fish. During her time on its board, TNC worked with ground fisheries in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo, and Monterey Bay. In Morro Bay, the population of groundfish—fish that live mainly on the ocean floor—had dropped precipitously in the 1990s, and TNC worked to rehabilitate populations by a variety of measures, including buying trawl fishing permits and eventually redistributing them to fishing professionals who would agree to embrace practices less harmful to the environment. In Monterey Bay, TNC worked to reduce bycatch—marine life that is caught and killed unintentionally in the process of fishing—of overfished species. “It's just been a wonderful, wonderful success story,” Angela says.

Many of the projects Angela had a hand in employed principles of business adapted to conservation work. In the bycatch reduction project, TNC convinced fishing professionals to enter into a kind of cooperative to share resources and information. In a project designed to support wetland habitats, TNC created a marketplace it likens to “Airbnb for birds,” where landowners can bid for contracts to flood specific land to create bird habitats. TNC relied on big data to create its marketplace, going so far as to determine how much water specific species of birds would need, and for how long, and directing landowners to meet those exact requirements.

Angela has lived in Arizona for the past five years, so she decided in 2020 that it was time to relinquish her role on the California board. In her continued role on the North America Cabinet at TNC, she has expanded her territory to evaluate and aid projects across the United States, and she and her fellow cabinet members are especially concerned with linking dollars with projects throughout the country. “One of the things we’re working on right now is that the matchup between environmental opportunity and dollars does not [line] up well,” she explains. “There's a huge, huge opportunity for a lot of environmental conservation in the Appalachians. And it's not like an innately wealthy

area. So it's not like trying to get a program launched in California, where we are blessed with a lot of wealth.”

Angela hopes to incentivize potential donors to look toward projects in greater need of funding, to connect the country at a time where connectivity is key to environmental work. Angela and her husband have invested in the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP), a program they find attractive due to the way it links resources. SNAPP personnel “accept requests for proposals from various groups who are working together on different projects, all sorts of different things,” Angela says. “A successful project usually involves not only environmentalists, but sociologists and economists and other groups of people. … You need more than one angle on it.”

With her background in law, business, and education, Angela herself brings several angles to the table. She has enjoyed her foray into environmentalism, which helps her appreciate and value the nature she visits each year. After that pre-Mongolia trip to Alaska, she and her husband have headed north each August to Enchanted Lake Lodge in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to fish for trout. This September, they flew to Iceland, spending a day at Deplar Farm on the island’s Troll Peninsula. She didn’t get many bites, and the highlight of the day was when she hooked a fish for about 45 seconds before it broke free. Still, she says, she couldn’t help but enjoy the day and the breathtaking country around her. She also had the opportunity to take a helicopter flight over an erupting volcano and lava field, called Fagradalshraun, which in English means “beautiful valley of lava.” Angela was struck by the sight of magma oozing and flowing out of the rocky landscape, the natural beauty she feels so strongly about preserving. She declares giddily: “Oh my god. That was so totally cool.”

At Rivenwood Gardens in Rocky Mount, Virginia, leafy vegetables grow in orderly rows, bordered on three sides by a forest that follows the path of a winding river. On the property’s pastures, sheep, rabbits, ducks, and geese are free to roam.

The farm is owned and operated by Corey Hamza ’03 LS and his wife, Christine Mann, and the couple are in the midst of their first full growing season. Both trained ecologists, they use regenerative farming practices to help maintain the health of the soil and surrounding habitat. “Our vision is to combine a more ecological way of farming with habitat management, to have natural areas supporting agriculture and vice versa,” Corey says.

Rivenwood sells its produce directly to consumers through a popular farm share program and at farmers markets; at one local market, it is the only certified organic vendor. The small farm boasts a wide variety of crops, including melons, squash, and eggplant in the summer, and beets, broccoli, and garlic in the spring and fall. The diversification of crops is key to Rivenwood’s farming goals, as the practice bolsters the soil’s nutrients and structure. One of the farm’s unique practices is the incorporation of livestock into the growing process. Corey explains: “After we grow a crop [for people], we grow a cover crop, usually a combination of nitrogen-fixing legumes and grasses, which are great forage products for livestock. Before we come back and plant, we’ll rotate the livestock through [and] … use them to mow down that cover crop and recycle that organic matter into the soil.” The livestock also provide a natural fertilizer.

Corey’s interest in agriculture

began with his grandfather, who had a dairy farm in Kansas. “When I would go visit him, I just had a real connection,” Corey remembers. At Santa Catalina, where Corey attended middle school, trips to the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Marin Headlands helped deepen his connection to nature. Santa Catalina benefited him in other ways. Corey served as an admission ambassador, meeting with prospective families and showing them around campus. “That was a nice opportunity to take on some responsibility and grow up a little bit,” he says. He also fondly recalls learning Latin, which helped him understand word origins—a skill that came in handy when he and his wife were trying to come up with a name for their farm. (“Riven” is distantly related to the word “river,” which stems from the Latin ripa.) More than anything, though, Corey says Catalina prepared him well for all subjects in high school: “I think that helps you all the way [through school] because you’re ahead of the curve.”

In his senior year at Palma School, Corey attended an ecological farming conference in Pacific Grove that brought growers from all over the world to talk about how to combine nature and farming. The opportunity inspired him to attend UC Davis, where he studied sustainable agriculture and ecological management. After graduating, he performed restoration work for the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, which leased agricultural land to organic farmers who almost exclusively grew strawberries. That was a bit of an eye-opener for Corey. “[The farmers] weren’t connected with the rest of the land and they weren’t necessarily regenerating the soil or being connected with the ecosystem that we were preserving around it,” he says.

Early on, Corey and Christine formed a vision of becoming ecologically aware farmers. Shortly after they got married, they went to New Zealand for a year and worked on various farms—what Corey describes as “an extended honeymoon-slash-farming training.” When they returned to

Corey Hamza ’03 LS

Rivenwood Gardens is a popular vendor at local farmers markets.

the United States, they worked on a large organic farm in Bend, Oregon, that incorporated livestock and boasted an on-site commercial kitchen for serving farm-to-table meals.

After briefly returning to California, they found land in Virginia that they could turn into their own farm, and in May 2020 they headed east and took the plunge. The farm is about 300 acres, with only about 3–5 acres devoted to vegetables and about 100 acres for livestock. They spent most of the first year setting up infrastructure—building in-ground beds, removing grass, adding compost and organic matter, installing the irrigation system, and gathering necessary equipment. They planted a few crops to get a feel for the place and to become acquainted with the diseases and pests particular to the area. Corey says, “How you grow things [in Virginia] is definitely different than in California, so learning from locals who have been growing here a long time has been invaluable.”

Looking ahead, Corey says he wants to grow the livestock side of the business while keeping the farm small and diversified, incorporating perennials such as fruit trees and berries. He would also like to expand the already popular farm share program to about 100 members, selling excess produce at farmers markets or to restaurants to avoid waste. Whatever they do, it will be with one goal in mind: supporting and honoring the land that surrounds them.

Regenerative Farming

“GOOD FARMING CAN RESTORE LIFE TO A LANDSCAPE.”

That simple statement is the ethos behind Rivenwood Gardens.

Here are some practices involved in the regenerative farming process:

• Keeping the soil covered with crops and having living roots in the ground all year long

• Using minimal tillage to protect microorganisms in the soil

• Growing a diversity of crops

• Creating designated spaces for wildlife

• Not spraying synthetic fertilizers or pesticides

• Composting waste to circulate back into the system

And here are some benefits:

• Crops are resilient and nutrient-dense.

• Carbon is stored in the soil, which can help draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

• Biodiverse farmland can provide habitat that is otherwise unavailable for wildlife.

• Nutrients are held in the soil rather than leaching out.

• Good farming practices help protect soil from floods and drought.

Source: Rivenwood Gardens

Clare Riley Al-Witri ’09, ’05 LS

Clare Riley Al-Witri ’09, ’05 LS has been a horticulturist for a decade, but it wasn’t until she recently moved to a new home that she got a garden of her own. “I was doing a lot of container gardening and odd patio situations,” she says, “but this is the first time that we've had earth that I could play with.”

For Clare, gardening can be a meditative experience. “I like the fact that you’re outside all day and there’s lots of physical labor involved,” she says. Her “gardening happy place” is a wild garden at Wave Hill, a 28-acre oasis in the Bronx, New York, where she interned after college. The garden is based on the writings of 19th-century Irish gardener William Robinson, who championed the idea of natural designs. Clare says, “I love creating gardens that feel like they could have just spontaneously existed, but actually there’s a lot of thought and care behind them.”

Now a newly minted landscape designer at EinwillerKuehl, a woman-owned firm in Oakland, California, Clare gets to apply these sensibilities to urban spaces. From parks and recreation areas to the green spaces of office parks and apartment complexes, urban landscaping is all about bringing nature into a city. Urban landscapes come with many benefits. They reduce pollution, protect us from extreme temperatures, provide habitat for animals, and improve general quality of life by encouraging social interaction and physical activity. Done right, they also have the benefit of connecting us to our surroundings. Clare is a proponent of using plants found in the local landscape. “It’s important to have our urban landscapes remind us that this is not some city that’s just floating outside of the land,” she says.

Gardening and landscape design weren’t always in

Clare’s plans as a profession. At Santa Catalina, where she started in sixth grade, she was drawn to classes and clubs that related to social justice and world affairs. (She helped start the Model U.N. club, which is still going strong today.) Clare enrolled at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to study sustainable development. After a year, she realized she wanted to pursue something less book-based, so she transferred to tiny Marlborough College in rural Vermont. “There were like 180 students; that’s not even Catalina sized,” she jokes. Clare studied ecology and sculpture, lived and worked on the college farm, and spent time with like-minded students who canned, made cider, and grew and processed their own food.

propagating plants at a local nursery. By the time she graduated from needed to actually figure out how [garden designs] work moved with her now-husband to New York City, where she began her transformative internship at thorough introduction to horticulture, it showed could be. Clare marveled at the skill involved in creating perennial gardens that show off something new each week. “It was an art practice that I wasn’t aware of that was totally rooted in working with the

Clare returned to the West garden in Washington state, then made her way back to California to

formal English-style garden in the Bay Area. From there she found a place at the University of California Botanical Garden, which boasts one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States. Assigned to the California and Australian collections, Clare assisted in conservation projects that took her from Point Arena in the north to the Mojave Desert in the south, documenting and collecting local plants.

In 2018, with a firm horticultural foundation, she entered the graduate program at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She graduated in the spring of 2020 with a degree in landscape architecture and started at EinwillerKuehl in June. “My goal with the projects I’m working on is to bring plant-specific, emotive, and place-rooted landscapes into the Bay Area,” she says.

In reflecting on her time at Santa Catalina, Clare appreciates the way teachers encouraged her curiosity, a practice she has maintained throughout her career. The interests she had at Catalina also fuel her free-time pursuits, especially writing. She loved English and creative writing, and was a part of Lamplighter, yearbook, and Mosaic. She continues to write these days, whether she’s writing gardener profiles, journal articles, or poetic Instagram posts.

As for work, Clare gets to contribute to projects that address the issues that are important to her. She explains thoughtfully: “I’m very concerned about the status of the things that [comprise] the landscape—water health and quality, bird life, and plant life, all these components that come together to create nature. Where we’re living, we have a lot of agency over what these landscapes look like. How water is moving through the landscape, what plants we’re planting, what chemicals we’re putting down, how much water we’re using, whether there is refuge for species other than ourselves—these are choices that we make every day in urban landscapes. We can do better. We can make better choices to help the environment.”

I LOVE CREATING GARDENS THAT FEEL LIKE THEY COULD HAVE JUST SPONTANEOUSLY EXISTED, BUT ACTUALLY THERE’S A LOT OF THOUGHT AND CARE BEHIND THEM.

Clare Riley Al-Witri ’09 tends to a display at the UC Botanical Garden.

Photo by Ryan Tuttle ’09

When Randi Stroud Fisher ’74 was brainstorming ways to take her philanthropy to the next level, she sought clarity in nature. Randi and her husband, Bob, hiked their beloved Mount Tamalpais, a commanding peak in Marin County, California, that offers sweeping views of the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The couple, both active on environmental-based boards, wanted to figure out how they could work together to make an impact. “We talked about what our passions were and what our motivations were and how to make the world a better place,” Randi recalls.

It was on this hike that they decided to form the Pisces Foundation. Now nearly 10 years old, the foundation is built on the belief that “people in nature thrive together,” and it awards grants in three key areas: climate and energy, water, and environmental education. This last area is where Randi’s passion lies, and where she has focused much of her philanthropic energy over the past two decades. “I’ve always held the belief that if we teach the next generation to fall in love with nature, they will take care of their planet and build stronger and more equitable communities,” she says. “Young people are going to face so many environmental challenges that we don’t even understand yet, and my dream is that they will be equipped with the know-how to tackle some of these issues.”

Randi grew up in California’s Sacramento Valley, spending most of her time outside plodding through creeks and building forts. After two years at a large public high school, she transferred to Santa Catalina as a junior and enjoyed the natural spoils of Monterey. “We took field trips to the tide pools and other natural settings that were very inspiring and really helped reinforce what we were learning on campus,” she says. She continued to feed her love of the outdoors at the University of Colorado at Boulder, nestled in the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Like many of her peers, Randi was also heavily influenced by art history at Catalina. She earned a B.A. in fine arts and psychology

from CU and an M.A. in arts administration from New York University, and worked at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Then around the time she and Bob started having kids, Randi embraced a small children’s museum called the Bay Area Discovery Museum, which is devoted to the arts and sciences. For 10 years, serving part of that time as the board chair, she helped lead renovations of the historic buildings that make up the museum, located on a former army base at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. Randi learned the ropes of a nonprofit and absorbed as much as she could from an array of mentors.

For the next decade, she served as a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, where she helped complete a major renovation project. Her proudest accomplishment, however, was the creation of an after-school program called the Science Action Club. The program provides hands-on STEM activities and nature challenges to hundreds of clubs across the country. “It was so amazing to be part of an expanding vision to drive impact outside the walls of the academy,” Randi says.

In a similar vein, Randi teamed up with classmate Arden Bucklin ’74 to start an organization called Education Outside, which was committed to advancing science and environmental literacy in public schools. The organization engaged AmeriCorps members to teach a

Randi Stroud Fisher ’74

standards-based curriculum during the school day, using school gardens as dynamic laboratories. And it reached thousands of students during its run. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and the most gratifying,” says Randi. “Arden and I were in the trenches together, and it taught us a lot.” The financial burdens became too much to maintain, however, and the organization folded.

Collaboration is a key component of Randi’s work as a philanthropist. The Pisces Foundation both builds and funds networks that support different segments of the environmental community. Soon after starting the foundation, Randi launched the Blue Sky Funders Forum, which has brought together nearly 40 funders committed to “supporting equitable access to meaningful outdoor experiences and connections to nature.” On the grantmaking side, the foundation looks for networks that support smaller grassroots organizations on the ground. “Part of our strength is that we collaborate, knowing that connection, joint priorities, and collective action accelerate progress and produce greater results,” Randi says.

As was the case for many organizations, the past year and a half caused Randi and her team to pause and reflect on the nature of the foundation’s work. “The pandemic brought up a whole host of different circumstances, and I think one of the biggest pivots at the Pisces Foundation has been looking at equity with a lot more emphasis and really engaging in some practices that we hadn’t done before,” she says. One of those practices is called trust-based philanthropy, which, as the name suggests, challenges funders to start from a place of trust with their grantees. That means providing unrestricted, multiyear funding, making it the funder’s responsibility to learn about grantees, streamlining the grant application process, and cultivating relationships that go beyond check-writing. As Randi explains, it’s about “treating grantees more as partners and giving them the benefit of the doubt.”

The human connection is one of the most rewarding aspects of philanthropy for Randi. “Philanthropy translates as the love of humankind, and with every grant I give, I keep this at the forefront of my thoughts,” she says. Santa Catalina helped foster that view. Beyond the intellectual and academic rigor, Randi says she benefited from being part of a community that gives back and from learning to look at the world through a humanistic lens. The friendships she formed have also been pivotal, and they reinforced the value of relationships. “I’m really lucky that I have Catalina alums in my life. They’ve been so instrumental to my own personal

In addition to her work with the Pisces Foundation, Randi serves on two boards, the National Park Foundation and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. She is currently helping to raise funds for the Presidio Tunnel Tops project, a new 14-acre waterfront park near the Golden Gate Bridge that includes a major educational component. The park is slated to open next spring.

Serving on these boards is yet another way Randi maintains a connection to the natural splendor around her—not that she needs much help. She describes the outdoors as part of her family’s religion. And so, just as she has helped usher in new generations of environmental stewards through grant making, she is looking forward to making a difference closer to home, spending time with her two young grandsons—and inspiring them to love nature as

PHILANTHROPY TRANSLATES AS THE LOVE OF HUMANKIND, AND WITH EVERY GRANT I GIVE, I KEEP THIS AT THE FOREFRONT OF MY THOUGHTS.

Randi Fisher ’74 co-founded the Pisces Foundation with her husband, Bob.

Journey

WHAT COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY ARE YOU CURRENTLY ATTENDING, AND WHAT YEAR ARE YOU?

I’m a senior at Northeastern University in Boston.

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR IN COLLEGE, AND WHAT MINOR WILL YOU GRADUATE WITH?

I’m a bioengineering major with a concentration in biomedical devices and a minor in behavioral neuroscience.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO STUDY AND PURSUE THESE AREAS OF INTEREST?

I have always been passionate about physics and science and always knew that I wanted to work in a STEM field. It was my experience on the robotics team at Santa Catalina that made me realize that I wanted to become an engineer, but I didn’t want to leave out my passion for biology. For this reason I decided to study bioengineering.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES (ACADEMIC OR OTHERWISE) YOU HAVE ENJOYED IN COLLEGE?

I’m currently the president of the Italian Club here at Northeastern. It has been important for me to be able to express my [Italian] culture and my identity on campus and to find people who either

share or want to learn more about our culture. I’m also part of a club called NUCALL, for which I’m an ambassador. My role is to teach Italian for all levels. Northeastern offers a cooperative education program (co-op) in which we take six months off from university to work. Thanks to this program, I had the opportunity to work full-time at Pfizer as a data scientist. I’m still working there as an intern.

WHAT DO YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING AFTER GRADUATION?

I’m part of a program at Northeastern called Plus One, so I’m going to get my master’s degree next school year—so, in May 2023. After graduating and getting my master’s degree, my goal is to work on biomedical devices—specifically, in the nerve or cardiac department.

WHAT DOES A “DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOU” LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW?

My day starts with my internship at Pfizer. In the morning, I process some data and complete all the tasks that have been assigned to me. From lunch till early afternoon, I’m usually in class. Later in the day I’m either involved in club activities or meeting on group projects for my classes. Since I’m the president of the Italian Club, I’m always involved with campus life, trying to

Teresa, second from right in the back row, with Chaarge, a national club that empowers women through fitness.

organize new events and meeting with other clubs, like the [event] that we are going to have soon with the Arab Club.

HOW DID YOUR COCURRICULAR INTERESTS AT CATALINA CARRY OVER TO YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE?

As I said before, robotics club was fundamental for me. It really helped me in understanding what I wanted to study. It also gave me a lot of experience and hands-on skills and made me realize that in the large field of bioengineering I want to work more on biomedical devices, and specifically on the mechanical side of [this field of study].

WHAT BROADER LIFE LESSONS DID YOU LEARN AT CATALINA THAT HAVE SERVED YOU WELL IN COLLEGE?

Living on campus helped me become independent and helped me a lot with the transition to college. Also, the responsibility of being a prefect helped me grow a

lot and helped me understand how important it is to be present in the moment and present for everyone. It made me learn the importance of getting to know the people around me, and it’s probably the reason why I’m so involved in student life on campus right now.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU OFFER TO NEW STUDENTS AT SANTA CATALINA?

To really take time to know your peers. You would be amazed by their stories and how much you can learn from any person you are going to meet. And to try new things—in particular, some of the things that scare you the most.

I didn’t have any experience in robotics or circuits, but joining that club was one of the best choices of my life.

IF YOU HAD TO DESCRIBE CATALINA IN THREE WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE?

Bold, community, and confidence.

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IT HAS BEEN IMPORTANT FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS MY [ITALIAN] CULTURE AND MY IDENTITY ON CAMPUS AND TO FIND PEOPLE WHO EITHER SHARE OR WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR CULTURE.

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72

PRESIDENT, ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72 has been active with the Alumnae Association for more than 20 years, serving as her class secretary and on the Alumnae Council. She was named president of the Alumnae Association in summer 2021.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR YOUR TENURE AS PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION?

Santa Catalina is a very special place. As president, I hope to expand the Alumnae Council’s role as a key participant in and supporter of the school’s 2020 Strategic Plan. Additionally, I would like to enhance the involvement of all alumnae, bringing new energy and opportunities of value to each and every Association member. Our Alumnae Association is global, with a network of nearly 5,000 amazing women worldwide. This network, by its very definition, allows each of us to reach out, connect, and support one other. I see the Council as having a pivotal role in this process, particularly through its efforts to augment community engagement and volunteerism. I look forward to working closely with our school community and my fellow Council members, in a collaborative manner, where we can truly endeavor to maintain our traditions while enhancing our future.

WHAT ORIGINALLY MOTIVATED YOU TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION? I thoroughly enjoyed my high school years at Santa Catalina. Upon graduation, I entered the University of California at Davis, a great school, but truthfully, a large and impersonal environment. That experience made me value the close friendships and sense of supportive community I had at Santa Catalina. I felt my Catalina experience was a wonderful gift, and my volunteer work has allowed me to not only express my gratitude, but enabled me to support the traditions and community that I cherish.

WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST INTERESTING OR REWARDING EXPERIENCE AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION? There have been so many that it is difficult to say one stands out. I served as secretary for the Class of 1972 for more than 20 years and that was a perfect way to stay in touch with my fellow classmates. I have been on the Alumnae Council since 2014 and find it a marvelous opportunity to be a

part of school life today. However, in looking back, it was my participation in Envision 2000 and my involvement with the creation of our Legacy book that remains particularly memorable.

WHAT DO YOU WANT ALUMNAE TO KNOW ABOUT THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION? We are a group of nearly 5,000 women who share a common bond through our Catalina experience. The Santa Catalina Alumnae Association in my mind is principally a service organization. We are there to support the school, its mission, our fellow alumnae, students, and staff. As one Council member stated, “We are there to help.” However, above all, the Association is a resource.

WHAT DO YOU WANT CURRENT STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT BEING AN ALUMNA OF SANTA CATALINA?

Santa Catalina is unique in that when you graduate, in many ways, you really do not leave. You take with you the exemplary education, the moral values, the traditions of veritas and all that Santa Catalina offers. This bond is lifelong and gifts you with a network of incredible women who epitomize the spirit of the school. Santa Catalina, in my mind, remains a bastion of all that is remarkable about an education in the Catholic intellectual tradition. As an alumna, you share in this tradition, as well as having unlimited opportunities to continue these traditions through service to school and each other.

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE CATALINA TRADITION, AND WHY? That is a difficult question for me to answer. I do not really look at it as memories of Ring Dinner, Father-Daughter Weekend, or the wonderful retreats that we experienced, although these are treasured experiences. I look at my most memorable Catalina tradition as the school’s approach to education. Santa Catalina gives students an exemplary education and creates a unique environment of learning. It encourages a work ethic, moral values, and gifts us with teachers who are both responsive and nurturing. When I began my second career as a teacher in 1998, I modeled my professional conduct on memories of my Santa Catalina educational experience, memories that I cherish.

ALUMNAE CLASS NOTES

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Gloria Felice gloriafelice@cox.net

Pat Bondesen-Smith: It’s absolutely startling to realize that we graduated in 1954. As we proceed on our path to antiquity, I remain optimistic that the positive esprit in all of us at Catalina powers us through to more productive endeavors in the future. And may we continue to enjoy our fellow alums of all ages. Noreen Lewis Raney has had some health issues and is so grateful to have her two sons living nearby. Jeanne Nielsen Marshall has had to deal with heart issues and now has a new pacemaker. She is doing well after a bout with breast surgery, chemo, and radiation. Both of her sons live with her and are a great help to her health needs and care. I (Gloria Felice) have just gone through some similar health issues as Jeanne but my tick-tock still seems ok! We hope that we can come together for our 70th reunion in 2024. It’ll be here before you know it! Abigail McCann: I am living in Concord and am still writing and very grateful for life. I was so happy to return to the school in March of 2019 to celebrate our 65th reunion! Much love to all of you in the classes of 1953 and 1954. I have carried the faces and voices—ever young—with me very happily for a long wonderful time. We send Abigail and her family our deepest sympathy for the loss of her beloved sister, Ann.

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Mary Nevin Henderson Pat Kelly Phillips plwa2@sbcglobal.net

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Jane Howard Goodfellow: I have just come back from traveling across the country from Colorado to Virginia with my daughter, Joan Goodfellow Knetemann ’80, where she has moved. We took ten days stopping to see family and friends along the way including my niece, Katie Mc Grath Schumacher ’81. I then flew to see my sister, Kathy Howard Loparco ’58, in Oregon, who is not in good health. It is so good to be out and about after a year and a half!! I am blessed with good health and enjoying life! Nitze Erro Caswell: I am thinking of you all. All my love. Kit Nelson Bedford: For those who were able to join in the Zoom (our own little mini-reunion), thanks for making the special effort to conquer the technology and try for a great visit! It worked! I think we really had a good time catching-up and erasing the years that have separated us, including the dreaded Covid "lost year." Everyone did such a good job of sharing intimately all that we have experienced—good and bad—in a manner that was just as if we were truly together. No reason we can’t try to do this again, and regularly. We are so geographically separated, it is easy to understand how difficult it is to try to gather in any other way, much less back at the school. It was devastating to learn that while we were valiantly trying to connect via Zoom, Nitze Erro Caswell was losing her partner, Bob. We all knew him from prom nights, from Christmas messages, and for the lucky few, actual visits with Nitze and family. When you read this, Nitze, please know we all continue to think of you, remember him, send love, and pray for your own well-being. Life continues here in Napa in the slow lane. We don’t cram everything imaginable into our schedules anymore but rather enjoy the days as they come and fill them more spontaneously. I send a warm hug to all! Please let’s keep in touch however and in whatever manner best works for us.

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

Executive Committee

Jalynne Tobias Redman ’72

President

Pat Allen Sparacino ’65

Kathy Trafton ’74

Priya Kumar Raju ’00

Kate Carnazzo Larsen ’02

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06 Vice Presidents

Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08

Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement

Members

Sandy Hollenbeck Schnieder ’62

Sally Fay ’74

Lindsay Heller ’95 Kai Romero ’01 Kristina Flathers Ferraro ’11

Student Representatives

Georgia Meyer ’22 Sutton Pinkus ’22

Chapter Chairs

Chicago & Midwest Rachel Davison ’14

Dallas Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Hope Morgan ’90

Denver Laura Stenovec ’99

Fresno Cece Fourchy Quinn ’05

Houston Diana Kendrick Untermeyer ’80

Los Angeles Position available

Monterey Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06*

New York Priya Kumar Raju ’00*

Paisley Piasecki ’13

Phoenix Gloria Felice ’54

Becky Hays-Rovey ’92

Portland, OR Virginia Sewell ’69

Ann Carter ’71

Brigid Flanigan ’73

Sacramento Position available

San Diego Taylor Griffon ’11

San Francisco Maddie Callander ’05

Seattle Position available

South Bay Marita Quint Bruni ’91

Washington, D.C. Devon Walter ’11

57Barbara Erro Marsella barbjerro@gmail.com

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International Chapters

Asia Angelina Yao ’99 Diana Mak ’01

Europe Lara Brehmer ’98

Latin America Annie Coppel ’90 Tere Gonzalez ’94

*Designates Alumnae Association Board member

Anne McCullough Griffin frankanneg@aol.com

Bobbie O’Connell Munson bobbiemunson@sbcglobal.net

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Marilyn

Ramos Ospina maospina305@hotmail.com Karen Swanson Crummey kcrum1@sbcglobal.net

The Class of 1960 has been using the pandemic year to stay close to family. Nan Griffin Winters has been happily playing lots of golf and is planning to take her children and grandchildren to Mexico for a family vacation during Christmas. Karen Swanson Crummey has been working in the garden and says working with nature raises her spirits. Her son, Brian, and family will be moving to Idaho. Karen has grandchildren at the University of Idaho and Oregon. Her daughter, Lisa, and her husband have a new puppy to keep them busy. Karen and Fred were down south and had a wonderful visit with Mimi Doud Detels and Roger. Pammy Fairbanks de Villaine says the 2020 harvest was excellent but they are not as hopeful for this year or last year due to the unusual weather events. In any case, Aubert will retire completely from the Domaine in December. They bought the house next door and are remodeling so it can be used for family. Pammy hopes we can all get together face-to-face for our 80th birthday.

Betsy Helm Hansen has been hunkered down for most of the year in the desert. Two of their grandsons graduated from high school this year and both will be in college in California. Betsy still enjoys golf and bridge. Daphne Craige Bertero has also been enjoying sports and just returned from Yellowstone. She says they spend about half the time in their Carmel house, which must be nice as the grandchildren are close by.

Julie Perkins Layne has spent most of the year at home, but made good use of her time cleaning out closets, drawers, and going through all the stuff

they have accumulated. Both are only children, so they also have post-marriage and pre-marriage lives to sort through. Suzie Townsend Finney spent some time in Sun Valley and is looking forward to a trip to Hawaii as soon as possible. Suzie has two grandchildren in college in California. Their son, Greg, will move to Santa Barbara, so it will be nice to have him closer. Wendy Miller Lambeth attended her grandchild’s high school graduation in San Diego and was thrilled to be traveling after hunkering down after what seemed like forever. She had a great talk with Sally Blanchard Murphy, who said everything was fine there. Domie Garat Werdel will have a grandchild going to UC Irvine, where Wendy also has a grandchild. Lani LeBlanc was able to do a few road trips and saw the Field of Lights show in Paso Robles. Lani also has a grandson who graduated from high school. She has been in contact with Judy Botelho Cain and Cathy deBack when she comes to Del Mar. Lani will be in Virginia in October for the 80th birthday of her sister, Shelly LeBlanc Duke ’59. Judy Botelho Cain has been keeping up with her large family who are near and far. I, Marilyn Ramos Ospina, am still adjusting to Phoenix. With the pandemic, I have been working via Zoom as well as taking a lot of classes on Zoom. Everything is open in Arizona, but the case load is still high, so Eduardo and I are still hesitant to leave the house. I haven’t been able to contact Annette Stoesser, so if anyone has any news of Annette, please let me know.

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Mary Foley Bitterman mbitterman@osherfoundation.org

The good news is that the members of the Class of 1962 weathered this past year of singular challenge and difficulty remarkably well. A certain quiet resilience was evident, along with acts of kindness helping others, new projects undertaken, and appreciation for the support and encouragement of family and friends. Travel postponed permuted into travel planned. Lander Reeves Hynes: My family and I have had a very quiet few months here in Marin County. We are vaccinated and doing well. In June, my husband and I visited my

sister, Beth Reeves ’71, in Santa Barbara. Shops and restaurants were bustling—so many eager to gather in person. I do hope all our classmates are fine and I also hope by next year this virus and any offshoots are contained or crushed. Susie Blair Riley: When our trip to Israel was canceled, my husband, Pat, and I acquired two Australian Shepherd/border collie mix puppies. If caring for two puppies wasn’t enough, I kept myself busy by sewing masks and recovering patio cushions for different family members, as well as baking bread and continuing a project of scanning nine boxes of ancestral pictures and documents from different sides of the family.

Members of the Class of 1962 gathered together to celebrate the life of their classmate Margi Stewart: Sandy Hollenbeck Schnieder, Alexandra Robison, Gail Dowling Goettelmann, Patty Dougherty, and Judy Laurence Zahn

Susie Blair Riley ’62 celebrating with her husband

Also on my work table are wreaths in the process of being decorated to sell at a Christmas auction for medical-related needs in our community.

Lynnea Larson Payne: During this past year, I was able to serve my elderly clients with trips to the store or to doctor appointments. I continued to serve in my church as secretary, office manager, and chair of trustees. I visited my daughter and son-in-law in San Francisco several times, and even celebrated my birthday with a short stay in Monterey. I am looking forward to our 60th class reunion next March. Sandy Hollenbeck

Schnieder: I had a one-year check-up of my brain aneurysm procedure and all is good! I recommend my newest activity—participation with Braver Angels (braverangels.org). They are promoting various means of civil civic discourse between people of differing political views. As a lonely conservative in the Bay Area, I find my regular discussions with Berkeley liberals stimulating and rewarding! It seems we share most of the same values. (For the future of the nation and the prospects for everyone’s children and grandchildren, I think Sandy is pointing us in a constructive and promising direction.)

Dagny Janss Grant Corcoran, renowned art bookseller, with her successful Los Angeles store, Art Catalogues, has been named the director of books and multiples at Librairie Marian Goodman in Paris. Dagny will continue to operate Art Catalogues, and we wish her every success both in California and France. Lorrie Boldrick : I describe myself as still partially retired and working only two days a week. But I have been busier this year than ever before. Every once in a while, I think I should open a third day, and then remind myself

that I have flunked retirement twice and don’t want to encourage another retirement by working too much. I still see a number of exotic animals (hedgehogs, various snakes, big tortoises, and lots of chickens). And I do still love my work. I have been to six of the seven continents and still have to take a trip to Asia. I am focusing on staying healthy and attending our 60th reunion. Jill

Gillett Berry: I retired in 2015 after 18 years at the Los Angeles Arboretum, and friends convinced me to start traveling! So, beginning in 2014, I was fortunate to visit Paris; Romania; a Viking cruise on the Danube from Bucharest to Budapest; South Africa; Guatemala; Mexico; and another cruise from Lucerne/Basel Switzerland to Amsterdam. I even expanded to a few trips in the U.S.: a trip to Portland, OR, with a Stanford group exploring the Lewis and Clark journey to the Pacific Ocean, and a Garden Club of America tour to Santa Fe, NM! Two trips had to be canceled because of COVID. I only wish I had done all this earlier! I am delighted that my daughter, Allison, and family live nearby and that we are able to be together. I also celebrate the closeness of the Gillett/Gregory sisterhood, all Santa Catalina graduates and all lovely women. Gail Dowling Goettelmann: The family sporting goods business is picking up steam now and I am still enjoying jogging, hiking, and horse riding. I remain in close touch with Caitlin, the daughter of Timi Berdge Campbell who is diligent about maintaining their lifelong family friendship, and we meet for lunch every few months. Caitlin’s daughter, Jackie, recently graduated from her French K-8 school. Jackie and her parents are fluent in French. Timi would have been so proud. Margi Stewart: (Editors note: Margi submitted

this class note shortly before her passing.)- I am one of the one percent of widows over age 65 who finds a new life partner. I met Yutaka Kanayama, a retired professor from the Naval Postgraduate School, in the therapy pool at the Monterey Sports Center in late 2015, a little more than two years after my husband’s death. To the great joy and relief of his three grown children and my daughter, Christina, he moved in with me this past March. We enjoy doing the “kitchen tango” to prepare our Japaneseinspired dishes, all of which are consistent with the pH Miracle program. He even taught me how to prepare sushi! Mary Foley Bitterman: My attention this past year has focused on the encouragement and support of our more than 500 Osher Foundation grantee institutions across the country. I am delighted that we have been able to increase the number of HBCU campuses receiving scholarship support and to provide continued funding for smaller arts organizations that tend not to have significant endowments or major donors on their boards. My hope is that as we press forward at this unprecedented moment, we might become kinder and more compassionate. No crisis should go unexploited!

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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

Mary Elizabeth Shea Callaghan: I have 11 grandchildren now with the arrival of William more than five months ago. We all survived the pandemic and escaped the virus. Lots of time for new creations and creativity, but my overall plan to clean out closets and drawers still hasn’t happened. I am the ultimate procrastinator, I guess. Jill Shoemake Vogel: Too much to report so just saying Fred, our dear Ruggles, and I are doing well in Sun Valley for the summer. Our young Vogel family are moving from here back to California. Carson (’22) and Sawyer (’25) will be attending Catalina and Chloe (sophomore) will be going to Stevenson. Anne Perlitz Giles: I am learning to live alone now and embrace independence. It helps that I have three grandchildren, all under three years, that all live close to me. It has been a very wild ride the past two years but I am doing surprisingly well.

Margi Stewart ’62 with Catalina classmate Sister Patricia "Patty" Dougherty, O.P.

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Trotter and I kept up our abstract painting classes and YouTube videos with an instructor we both tremendously enjoy. We continued meeting on FaceTime to challenge each other to complete designated assignments. We didn’t always discuss art but we did laugh a lot (mostly about ourselves and our current COVID lives and the brain fog we were experiencing). We later agreed that Zoom helped both of us get through this period. Chris Cotton Gannon: I keep my spirits up with daily walks, Zoom MELT classes (a form of gentle exercise), and weekly Zoom meetings with some of my church friends. We hope to get back to volunteering at two organizations that serve the homeless in the next few weeks. Susie Dwyer: The fire is about 40 miles away. We do have some smoke here. I am still very happy living in Pine Mountain Lake—great people, good golf, boating, swimming, and always gardening. I am the president of two volunteer groups. Ginny von Hasseln: I moved to Carmel Valley Manor about six years ago and it was a great move! I still have my small poodle, Annie, and she is very happy here also. We have wonderful, interesting residents and the gardens are lovely. I have a lovely patio and great view! We are all so relieved that they have relaxed the rules after COVID, though we mostly wear masks indoors. Christine Perry Hudson: As soon as the pandemic started to take hold last year, all of our family came from various parts of California and we met in Santa Barbara, staying at adjacent houses in Montecito. Fortunately, we all had a lot of fun together, as well as with the grandchildren, even though it was close quarters

and every bedroom was packed. We became the proud grandparents of Daisy Dove in August 2020. Lesley Andrus: Living in paradise during COVID. Other than putting on an occasional mask, my life didn’t change. So very lucky to live here in Idaho. Flo Nixon: Difficult on a normal year, way challenging in COVID times. My natural hair color was discovered to be gray/white and I like it. No COVID weight gain. Saved by Zoom meetings with friends and family—what a great service. Sadly, my brother, George, passed away unexpectedly. Lots of books and Netflix. Sheila McMahon Williams: Made it through the year of terrible-firsts-without-him. Still trying to figure out what now? Walks, dogs, transitioning to imperfect veganism (Monterey Bay king salmon and Dungeness crab will likely remain vegetables in my personal food taxonomy). Also, finding great comfort in weekday Mass at Old San Carlos. Laurie Carson Griff: In reflecting on this past year and a half, I realize I learned a lot. At first, relief at being safe in our little bubble; acceptance that I couldn’t do everything as my dear daughter marketed for us; realization that this test run having Gary working from home full time was a positive experience and good sign for his ultimate retirement; and constantly cooking our favorite comfort foods puts on weight—lots! Julie Bisceglia: I continue to think seriously about retiring; probably next year at the latest. Meantime, I still think I have the best job on the planet. Last year was a rough one, and it’s not over. The worst part was not seeing the kids for a year and a half, except on video. But I did a lot of COVID cleaning and am considerably lighter in possessions, although not in avoirdupois. And I was so fortunate to be able to work at home, without a lot of disruption. Tonia Macneil: In August 2019, I moved from my longtime home in San Francisco to St. Paul’s Towers, a CCRC in Oakland. The change from a hermit-like existence in my little nest to a bustling community overflowing with activities and rules and mores was overwhelming. Six months later, in March 2020, St. Paul’s was locked down tight. No one could leave their rooms. I happened to be in Santa Barbara with Steve at the time, so we flew back, grabbed some clothes and sundries, and hightailed it to Steve’s house in Woodland (near Sacramento), where I now live. Carol Covington Thomson: Tom has had lots of problems related recently to the brain tumor. He is doing better, so keep the prayers coming because God listens. Scott and Jenna had a baby girl and are now pregnant with their second child—a boy! Amazing how life goes on! Antoinette Ziegler Hubbard: Spent a quiet year reading and doing some letter writing. I actually took trips to see children (Denver and D.C.). I cried when I made the airline booking to Denver.

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Pat Allen Sparacino pat.sparacino@gmail.com Wendy Wilson Snell wendywsnell@gmail.com

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Lorri Ditz McCarthy lorditz@yahoo.com

Mary Alice Cerrito Fettis: The year was full of delightful adventures thanks to COVID. We had more time for spiritual growth, for walks and glorious hikes with family and friends, more time in the garden, for books, cards, board games, and movies, new recipes, more compositions by Nick, more time communicating with family and friends, and more time to express how much we appreciate each other. No fewer meetings but Zoom gave us more time to do all of the above. No drawer, closet, storage room, garage, earthquake kit, or tool shed was left untouched from the COVID organizing spree. The fires were an opportunity to help friends evacuate. The challenge this year was to transform the in-person, interactive Whalefest Monterey—which has drawn up to 20,000 people—to a virtual event. I’m looking forward to returning to a live interactive event in March 2022. As things open up, it is time to fine tune my bucket list, pack my bags, and visit everyone I haven’t seen in over a year. Lorri Ditz McCarthy: I spent nine months of COVID in Palm Desert and was given a puppy by my oldest daughter. I moved to Menlo Park last October to accommodate my dog and have been adjusting ever since!

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Ann Kuchins kuchinsa@yahoo.com Anne Neill anneneill@yahoo.com

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Claudia Reynolds Knous: Marianne Hidas

Jane Gillett ’68, Anne Gregory Knight ’69, Jilly Gillett Berry ’62, and Pris Gillett Hoecker ’64

There are common themes and uncommon themes in the interests and activities of the Class of 1968 through this pandemic year. Classic ’60’s music, good crop reports, out-of-state big moves, engagements, weddings, wonderful grandchildren, and alas, also some hard realities are in our current news thread. And through it all, gratitude!

Kathy Woodell Adams and Liz Moffitt are both spending as much time as possible riding their horses. For Liz, that means when she isn’t doctoring for pediatrics and people with eating disorders and prepping for her son’s wedding at her place. Ann Gray has moved to San Clemente to be close to her daughter and grandchildren, as has Leelee Clement-Doughty, only she has landed in Florida. Kate Barry Robinson and Susie Charles Collins are thrilled to share that they will both be grandmothers, with their second grandchildren arriving about the same

time. Dianne Rossi Andrews celebrated her mom’s 100th birthday in April, and in June the family celebrated Mrs. Rossi’s passing to join her husband of 72 years. The anniversary apricot tree produced 126 apricots as part of the celebration. Eugenie Schleuter Corey has spent this COVID year designing a drought-tolerant garden for a little house she and George are restoring. A good project all around. “My sister and niece, who have been on the front lines since the beginning of the pandemic, are safe and doing well. Having doctors in the family has informed us on all sides of the issue.” Gerry Robertson Working gives a grateful shout-out to Liz Moffitt for welcoming Peter and herself when they had to evacuate last fall during the Glass Fire, which burned 30 of their 32 acres, several outbuildings, and much equipment. Spending time with her grandchildren is a very welcome distraction from the work of recovery. Laurie Gregg counts recent cataract surgery as a total joyful bead on her life’s rosary, rejoicing “something fixable” in our senior years. She enjoys the bunnies, lizards, and other wildlife in her drought garden. Leslie Cooley has been enjoying some spectacular birding at Donner Lake. Osprey and Peregrine falcons meander in and out of thermal currents for 45 minutes. Mary Wynne started an email thread with memories of robust singing in the dorm senior year: “Just call Me Angel of the Morning,” which brought memories and several songs from Kim Royce Dougherty, Candy Harrington, Suzi Woodworth Johnston, Sarah Ashby, and Jaime Wallace Pagano. I, Daphne Macneil, had the pleasure of visiting with Mary Wynne twice in the last year, as one of my daughters has moved within a mile of Mary. My grandson (6) and I rode bikes over to have tea, and Mary insists that I tell you that Leo is an absolutely darling grandson, sweet and polite. The love of family and friends, basking in the beauty of nature, and staying safe and well as can be are our prayers for all.

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Anne Munzer Bourne: My daughter, Kirsten, her husband, and two children (under 5) are living with us for the summer and they have just gone to Idaho for 11 days and left me in charge of the 4-year-old. So, excluding nap time (that I am highly jealous of) no time is my own. In terms of news, no profound comments. Just a sigh of relief that life is beginning to return to normal. And as we do, I hope all of us will hold on to some of the positive aspects that COVID forced on us: slowing down, being thankful, and cherishing our many friends and family. We need to figure out a time to gather and enjoy our long-lived friendships. I look forward to seeing each and every one very soon.

Iris Brewster-Cusimano: Losing three of our beloved classmates in a short period of time has emphasized the importance of staying in touch and letting each other know how intricate and important our connection is to our life’s tapestry. Life is definitely challenging, but at the same time everything that comes into my being is sweeter and a heart expander. Tom and I just celebrated our 48th anniversary. In spite of his health challenges, he still makes me laugh. Our grandchildren, Sophia (12), Josselyn (7), and Dominic (6), are the inspiration and joys of our lives. I am so grateful for the friendships of more than 50 years. May we gather together soon and celebrate another year together! Maryedith Smith Burrell: Spent a wonderful week in Santa Fe, NM, recently that included a visit with Lena Sedletzky Stevens, who led the two of us in a labyrinth meditation and ceremony for our Jane Kuchins. Taking the summer to do some home repairs and to complete a few literary projects with an eye to teaching again come fall. Miss everyone and look forward to our next reunion sans scary pandemic! Marie Cantin: I’m grateful that time slowed down for a little while, but lately I’ve been wondering if it was just my imagination. What happened to all the quiet? Since our last reunion, Michael and I spent most of our time in Monterey living in my childhood home, where we experienced the calming influence of good memories. Plus, there was actual quiet in being away from big city living. When we came back to L.A. for a few months in late summer 2020, we were struck by the effects of the pandemic, in particular the exponential increase in homeless encampments. These are a shocking reflection of bad economics, lousy mental healthcare, and ineffective public policy. What to do about all of it is daunting. Given the bad juju at work on our fragile planet, I feel like the only thing under my control is to live, work, and play with complete mindfulness. Ask me how I’m doing when we have that delayed 50th/70th birthday reunion in 2022! But first, we’re off to our beach oasis in Puako on the Big Island of Hawaii where we will nap, read, snorkel, and scuba dive, pretty much in that order. Can’t wait to see all of you and look forward to

Liz Moffitt ’68 enjoying a ride in Point Reyes, CA

celebrating the wonderful women we have become. Leslie Redlich Cockburn: I’m writing from Ireland where I’ve been gardening, cooking, and swimming in the frigid sea. I went to dinner this week with my friend Darina Allen, Ireland’s greatest chef, who presides over the Ballymaloe Cookery School where all of you should come to take a course. Have a look online. I also went for a picnic at Lismore Castle Gardens, transformed over six years by a brilliant team of gardeners from the Eden Project and other organic establishments, which is now the most beautiful garden I have ever seen. All of the ingredients in the picnic come from the garden. On your next Irish excursion, don’t miss it. My son, Charlie, took his girlfriend to kiss the Blarney Stone and they had the castle to themselves. Ireland is about three months behind the U.S. in opening up. But the outdoor scene is very lively. All of the pubs have spilled onto the sidewalk. It’s a great time to come! Mary Firth: My dad’s passing (natural causes at 100 years, 6 months, and 11 days!) in March was pivotal, then helping my brother to remove all personal property from the house to prepare for its sale and complete estate matters. I did lots of traveling back and forth to California and Nevada to assist the co-executors of the estate, in addition to helping my sister, Barb, following her cancer diagnosis/ surgery/chemo. This September, a trip to Greece may be the last chance I get to see my sister, Jane Firth ’71, as her illness of 30 years has threatened to take her life, but hey, 30 years on and we are still able to plan this visit. Jane Kuchins had it right when she remarked in our brief email exchange: “It is great to trust in Jesus for everything and give thanks in every circumstance!” Her cheerful countenance will be a constant reminder of how best to live this life. All year I’ve continued to work at Portland International Airport, at first only part-time due to cutbacks and recently returning to full-time, in addition to working for our local school district as a substitute the last four months of the school year, so a sense of normalcy prevailed in spite of restrictions. Joan Pettley Govedare: I had a plane ticket for our 50th reunion and was so sad to have to renegotiate that trip. I’m feeling very sorry that some of our classmates will never be able to join us again. Life here on Whidbey Island is in a heat wave at the moment, but we hold hope that temperatures will return to normal soon. Living in a forest, we do worry about drought conditions in entirely new ways these days. Peter and I continue to make art, and our daughter (22) is entering her second senior year with a double major at the University of Washington. Candace Murtland Grant: Sobering that we have already lost five classmates from our very small class. In medicine, we say bad things happen to good people, and you cannot count on longevity. Therefore, while we still have our health, Gary and I have decided to retire. September 30 is the big day. We both had tears as we dropped the last notice to our patients in the mailbox, but retirement is feeling more appropriate all the time. No plans for 2021 beyond retirement and recovery from it. Hopefully COVID will be tamed and the world will await us. Rosemary Henze: From November through most

of June, I worked as a volunteer contact tracer for Santa Clara County’s COVID response team. It was an amazing, heartrending, and humbling experience. As the pandemic began to abate in March (at least here in the U.S.), we were re-purposed to do mostly vaccine support, making calls to help people get appointments. And finally in June, most of the volunteers were placed on reserve, so I had my Sundays and Mondays free again. Now, however, with the delta variant outbreaks, a few of us are already being asked to come back. Hopefully it won’t become a major surge here, but if needed I will go back. Take care, everybody! Ellie Hubbard: As I sit in the parking lot of the gym waiting to swim my next mile for the American Cancer Society 15-mile Swim Challenge this month, I ponder the many gifts the last 15 months have given us. I find that there are far more assets than liabilities from the process of living through the pandemic. Although we’ve lost Gabrielle Bemis Batzer, Jane Kuchins, and Sandi Royce during this time, I personally haven’t suffered from having lost a friend or loved one to COVID. Of course, I know of people who have perished, but I don’t think anybody has escaped that. On the very positive side, I’ve learned to really cherish the small things in life: the hugs, having lunch with friends, planting a garden, and being able to travel a hundred miles just to see a pal are just a few of the simple things I hope I will never take for granted. To top it all off, I’ve had the pleasure of being the proud owner of a magnificent raku pot made by Joan Pettley Govedare. I highly recommend inviting one into your home as a luscious treat. Again, treasure the simple things in life and relish the sacred! Tina Hansen McEnroe: Remembering those who have gone before us. Looking forward to sharing precious time with those still with us. Blessings of the past year include teaching my younger grandchildren how to read and my older ones how to jump fences on horseback; applauding my husband, who will soon complete his memoir, My Life Behind Bars ; growing the UCSB McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic to new realized dreams; and continuing to enjoy good health during a challenging time. I also serve on several Santa Ynez Valley boards, and was recently honored to be invited by the chancellor to join UCSB’s Board of Trustees. Looking forward to hopefully meeting again next year. In the meantime, come visit my Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse. Piper McNulty: Gabrielle Bemis Batzer died far away on an island in the middle of the ocean with some terrific folks surrounding and supporting her, but still, so far away! I’m still reeling and trying not to let myself wallow in guilt for not connecting with her more often these past two years because what good does that do now? Taking care of our grandson (3) for 20-30 hours a week helps. Caring for him has helped us both strive to be our best possible selves and we realize how lucky we are that we’ve lived long enough to get this second chance. Our marriage is as strong as it’s ever been, and we are learning to be more supportive and mature in responding to our grown daughters as well. Meanwhile, the fight to protect our planet from irreversible, catastrophic warming

continues. Support and participate in action against banks which continue to bankroll fossil fuel extraction and production! Work hard to re-elect politicians who have taken on corporate greed! Fight voter suppression! Suzanne Saunders Shaw: The most rewarding and soul-enriching experiences during the COVID clampdown were with family and friends, and since those get-togethers were so few and far between, they became super special—gourmet (separate tables) lunch with Marie Cantin and Jane Sweetland in Monterey, Carmel Beach, Asilomar exploration with my two granddaughters and Kate, and the serenely quiet and beautiful wedding of my nephew in Santa Barbara. With so much at-home time in Carmel Valley, I started terracing my rugged half-acre, planting citrus, fruit trees, and shade trees. Picked up my tennis racket after 30 years, started playing golf, and even learned how to use some power tools. It was a year of many resounding losses, from our own classmates to classmates’ parents and the millions who’ve suffered a COVID-19 death. I feel deep gratitude for surviving the past 15 months, and I’m eager to start a new reporting gig for the local NPR station based at CSUMB. First stories will be on the drought, water politics, and the homeless population. Miss you all and hope we come together soon. Molly Asche Smith: It has been quite the year. COVID restrictions are beginning to move to the next stage, with caution. My immune system is a bit compromised, so I am still taking it slow. It has been a year since we have seen our daughter and her family. FaceTime is great, but I sure do miss actual live contact. We have a get together planned mid-July near Waterton National Park in southern Alberta. We did a similar trip last year and the four grandkids had an amazing time. We will hike, canoe, and enjoy the water. Sadness and disbelief on the loss of three classmates. Reminds us of how precious our days are and what a gift that our paths crossed so many years ago. We have had a heat wave in BC recently. And it has set off a lot of wildfire activity. A reminder to all of us to take better care of this beautiful planet of ours. Lena Sedletzky Stevens: I think of you all so often, especially this past year with our recent losses and the challenges we have all been through. We are such a strong, unique, eccentric, powerful, and beautiful group of souls, and so creative in our own ways. My life has been humming along at a much faster pace than I would like, and I am diligently working on slowing it down to have more time with my family and my creative projects. The pandemic has definitely brought into focus what is important to me. So, as I contemplate the years I have left, I ask myself how and with whom do I want to spend them? A recent blessing was spending time with our new grandson during his first week of life. I wake up every day and make the choice to have the best day ever, no matter what! And I yearn for a reunion with you all of any kind. Come visit me in Santa Fe. Neville Penney Susich: My hope is that you all are breathing a bit easier these days as we gently emerge from life on hold, lockdowns, and so much time worrying about family, friends, COVID, the state of our country, and our

ever-warming planet. On the silver-linings side, the time spent alone, as a couple, and with our small pod was an unexpected gift. There was lots of quality time in the kitchen, in the garden, on the Bay Trail, taking the Virtual Tahoe to Malibu Challenge, and, being online for yoga, reading, Zooming, and binge watching. All in all, our family came through the pandemic well, with oldest Andy “across the pond,” making his home in Manchester, England; son Will, partner Laura, and a big white dog raising pigs, growing vegetables, and building a house on their farm near Yachats, OR; and med-student Maggie, chef Brad, baby Rhy, and the smooshed-face cat living in Portland, OR. Needless to say, after vaccines, there have been multiple road trips to Oregon for Bob and me and we are just beginning to think about a trip to England for next year. I am very much looking forward to gathering with you all in 2022 to celebrate 50+2 and our 70th birthdays. Jane Sweetland: It feels strange to be the only Jane in our class now, so my first notion is to remember Jane Kuchins, who taught me to laugh that first day even in—perhaps especially in—adversity. Certainly 2020 was an adverse year, but my family and I emerged in good health, ever thankful for each other. My daughter, Haley, had a baby girl in March 2021, giving Gene (2) the responsibility of being a big brother. Haley’s husband, Jamie, is in the final year of a pediatric surgery fellowship in Montreal, and border crossing has been challenging but not impossible, as Haley is a dual citizen (my husband, Lee, is Canadian). I was able to visit for several weeks at a time and was there for the birth. Closer to home (Petaluma), Nick and his wife, Allison, will be having a boy in September, making Mara (2) a small big sister. Lee and I continue to split our time between Ventura County and Lake Tahoe. While my 2020 book tour was curtailed by COVID, I continue to enjoy the writing life and am currently working on a series of adventure stories for children that are threaded with historical events. But just when I think I should throw in the towel, I think about Jane Kuchins, whom I had planned to see in Australia in 2017. I never made that trip, which puts me to mind of what my mother (still living in Oakland) keeps telling me: You don’t regret what you do, you only regret what you don’t. Marion Toms: I have been enjoying a few small social events now that I am vaccinated and the COVID restrictions have eased. Barry and I took a trip to Big Sur for his birthday and it was a delight to get out of town for a few days. I was also able to go to St. Helena to visit my aunt (91), my cousin, and her children and grandchildren. I stopped in S.F. to pick up my older daughter, Alana, so I got to spend time with her, too. I feel lucky to have family members I enjoy so much and who continue to teach me about life. I still spend lots of time in my ceramic studio and am pleased to have had successful sales at a recent event hosted by the potter’s guild I am part of. It was nice to have my work out on display and to get positive feedback. We are planning a family trip to Orcas Island next month. The other great excitement in my life is that we plan to pick up a golden retriever puppy from some family friends after we leave the island.

Our two Labradors both reached advanced ages and left us during COVID, so we have been dog-less for a while. The challenge now facing us is that Barry has been having some health issues and the treatments are not a lot of fun. All in all, I have a lot to be grateful for, and I think that gratitude is a good attitude to take toward life. I will get to see Joan Pettley Govedare on our way to Orcas Island. Diana Whitesides sent a text from Hawaii: The past year revealed continued gratitude for the sisterhood in Carmel Valley. With Cara Coniglio at the helm, we sequestered at the proper distance but with no isolation from friendship. We are so excited to host a 2022 reunion and collect hugs and love from all of our classmates. Until then I’ll be hiking and swimming and teaching P.E., and graying as gracefully as I can. Grace is my middle name after all. Susan Woods: Writing from the gorgeous island of Martha’s Vineyard, I am enjoying a family vacation on our beloved island. My daughter, Tatia, having earned a master’s degree in biology, found a position with the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission as a wildlife technician. What serendipity! My sister, Cynthia, and her husband are also here for their annual vacation. I decided to hold a film festival in June 2021 to honor the filmmakers whose films we had accepted and the grants we had received. We made the decision in March not knowing what the future held, but took the chance. We were the first event to take the plunge into a live event. The film festival went well. The opening night film, My Octopus Teacher, was a sellout and the remainder of the screenings over three days were better than anticipated. (If you haven’t seen it on Netflix, please make the effort. It is an incredible documentary!) Now that the restrictions have lifted in Michigan, we will return to holding the Indie Film Series and the 24th East Lansing Film Festival in the fall. A semblance of normalcy! I have stayed in touch with many of our classmates: Lindsay Wills Hutton, Maryedith Smith Burrell, Marie Cantin, Suzanne Saunders Shaw, Jane Sweetland, Leslie Redlich Cockburn, and our honorary classmate, Darlinda Dovolis Ball ’69. With the recent loss of our beloved classmates Jane Kuchins, Gabrielle Bemis Batzer, and Sandi Royce, I value even more the extraordinary friendships that we formed in high school. I cherish the memories of bonding with such a wide array of girls as we ventured through our formative teenage years. What a privilege! Pamela Zucker: This was certainly not the way I planned to spend this year. Fortunately, I kept my good health and appreciated all the phone calls with my friends. With the state shut down, the major activity for me was walking! I had a pod and we ended up walking at least three days a week. Total miles from mid-March 2020 through June 2021 was 1,156.6 miles. Most of all I missed all the interpersonal relationships through my activities. A definite downside of being single and living alone! I did sneak away for a week of hiking in August. I’d already arranged a time share in Jackson Hole, WY, and I spent much time looking at the infection rates for the county in Wyoming I would visit. It was trending quite low for a good

bit of time, so I quickly booked my flights. I did some spectacular hikes in the Grand Tetons, a bike ride, and a trip up to Yellowstone. I was able to meet up with some travel buddies and we had lots of picnics and outdoor activities. I’m already starting to plan my travels for later in the year.

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Louise Harris: Things are pretty similar for me as a year ago: 20 hours per week as a clinical supervisor at the nonprofit mental health and social services agency where I’ve been since 1987. My agency has admirably offered numerous trainings in diversity, equity and inclusion, so I have appreciated learning a lot in that area, given so many racial and diversity challenges nationally. We live bordering open space in the Bay Area, which made quarantining much easier but also makes climate shifts such as fire danger very real. I have the same interests: music (particularly fiddle),

Karen List Letendre ’72 with classmate Ginger de Lorimier Howard

holistic health, hiking, and trying to learn Spanish! Being at home more gave me more opportunities to learn via the internet. Looking forward to traveling again in a few weeks. We pretty much stayed home for 14 months. No vacations made it fun to have a proper vegetable garden. Lucinda Scales Chapman: I am now splitting my time between Atlanta and Chicago with many trips to S.F. to see family! Karen List Letendre: I’m looking forward to our 50th reunion the weekend of March 11-13, 2022. I’m hoping our class breaks records for attendance. Like all of you, we have hunkered down for the past year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic started. It’s been an experience sheltering at home for so long, and I have a renewed love of my hometown of Carmel. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with classmates now that restrictions have been lifted, visiting with Charlotte Perry White on her recent visit to Carmel in her cool new trailer, and Ginger de Lorimier Howard on her recent visit to Carmel too. It’s nice to have my twin, Kimberly List Caneer, along with Julie Brandlin Sigourney, Julie Hobbs Bryan, Tena Dunaway Farr, Marian Donovan Corrigan, and Jalynne Tobias Redman all living nearby on the Monterey Peninsula, so we get a chance to see each other frequently. I’ve also had the chance to go visit our six grandkids who live in Santa Barbara and Bellevue, WA, now that we can travel again. Laura King Pfaff: Rick and I moved to Watch Hill, RI. We were in RI for nine months last year hiding from COVID and made the difficult decision to leave California. I am still working for Bonhams Auctioneers and Appraisers as a consultant and will be in the S.F. and N.Y. offices occasionally. I am really excited for our class reunion in March 2022 and hope our class has a record turnout! Perla Armanasco Gray: New York is buzzing once more! The streets are

filled with people and tourists. I’ve been going to the museums. The restaurants are spilling out onto the sidewalks and streets—it is so much fun! I hope it stays this way. Suzanne Scoville Sederholt: I am enjoying life in Ridgefield, CT, and like so many of you, I have taken on a number of home improvement projects. Planting new fruit trees and creating space for a gazebo has been satisfying, especially as it inspires more outdoor socializing with neighbors. I am also planning some larger projects to help with the maintenance and upgrading of certain historical buildings in town. While this will take at least two years to complete, adding vibrancy to the town’s history will be well worth it! Dana Turner Witmer: Since we left Bunia two months ago, there has been increased insecurity in Eastern Congo, leading to a declaration of martial law in the provinces of Ituri (where Bunia is) and North Kivu. Bunia now has a military governor. The blessing so far is that Bunia has remained relatively safe and the university is operating normally. Four of our friends were visiting teachers in May; one from Canada and three from the U.S. As for COVID, vaccines are still rare in most of Africa as the supply, which was mostly coming from India, has been suspended. So far only 30,000 Congolese have been vaccinated (1 of 2 doses) out of 105 million people. Jalynne Tobias Redman: My husband, Ward, and I are both thoroughly enjoying retirement. I love having opportunities to do volunteer work for organizations that are near and dear to my heart. These include serving as the digital communications chair for the Casa Abrego Club’s governing board and as board secretary for the Carmel Mission Docents’ Association. I am truly looking forward to continuing to support Santa Catalina as the new Alumnae Council president and will be working closely with alumnae, staff, and the board of trustees in support of the 2020

Strategic Plan. Golf lessons and long walks with my beloved rescued German Shepherd also fill my very busy days.

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Lorraine Boswell Wilcox: I’m enjoying my seventh summer retired from horses and all the work that went with owning and operating a very busy barn. I’m a competitive sporting clay shooter, and I’m teaching women how to shoot shotguns at clay targets—very fun! I have four black Labs and we love to go out fall and winter upland bird hunting. I enjoy cooking. Carol Golden Björndahl: I’m slowly going through my library and rereading books I want to, and then tossing them. I figured now that I’m 65, I can stop gathering things and start getting rid of them: books I won’t read again, my mother-in-law’s knitting needles I won’t learn to use, a plastic dinosaur given by a co-worker years ago, VHS films. The family are doing well with no COVID; we’re all vaccinated. The kids are employed with careers on track. Life is good, and I am content. Margaret Miller Brown: I had a post-vaccination reunion with Liz Gaver Thedens at her home in Carmel Valley. It was Liz’s first trip back to the States since the pandemic and my first trip out of the Bay Area. It was wonderful to reminisce about our carpool days driving to school in her dad’s Mustang, and to remember the beauty of the light in the valley and the color of the hills. After a year in which the whole world seemed to change, it was wonderful to have a couple of days with a good friend and feel like nothing has changed. Arden Bucklin-Sporer: I am toggling between Sonoma and S.F., enjoying life, and staying busy. I have inherited our family farm in Sonoma and am working with my niece to keep it humming. We grow about 100 different field-grown flowers and 96 different vegetable varieties. We sell in farmers’ markets and the Red Barn, our on-farm store. It’s a lot of work but super fun and gratifying. I love seeing my old school chums. In fact, I’m late to meet Beth Barker for a walk with our dogs on Baker Beach! Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese: We have moved to Austin after 17 years in Chicago! I discovered the main library in Austin and escape to the wonderful terrace on the roof for reading. I

Dana Turner Witmer ’72 during a vaccine clinic

am still working for Christie’s as a consultant. Retirement is a hard transition when you have been lucky enough to have your vocation be your advocation. Our older son, Carter, is living in Long Beach, CA, getting a degree in education. Our younger son, Walker, is leaving Austin to get his MBA at Kellogg. We are exploring Colorado Springs as a possible summer escape. Anne de Lorimier Eggleton: We are first-time grandparents! Our oldest son, Christian, and his wife, Andrea, gave birth to a boy in March. He is on vacation with us in Oregon and it is an absolute joy to be able to spend so much time together. We were very fortunate during the pandemic and stayed healthy and safe at home in Cambria. We have seen Suzanne Turner and her husband several times on our monthly visits to Monterey to see my dad. Randi Stroud Fisher: A mixture of happy times and sad times over this last year. I can’t help but think about the loss and suffering juxtaposed with new life and a close family sheltering together, as well as connections via Zoom/text with dear old pals. We were blessed with another grandchild born in January and the engagement of our last kid. We also closed a big chapter by moving out of our house of 32 years, only to migrate across the street into a new and very different nest. I continue to receive fulfillment from work in the environmental field. Life is full, and we are lucky people! Liz Gaver

Thedens: The highlight of my summer was a three-week visit with my mother in Monterey. We met lots of friends and went for walks along Scenic Drive. I joined the exercise class she leads and played with her recorder group. Margaret Miller Brown came for a couple of days and we talked non-stop about our families and various projects. I visited Katie Clare Mazzeo several times and we played some of our favorite baroque pieces for violin, gamba, and harpsichord. Back in Norway, I got over jet lag by heading to a folk music festival with Hans-Hinrich and Mattias. It was great to hear so much music and to dance again! Barbara Gault: I’ll be 66 in December so can attest to 65 not being too bad. All is well here in the new Greenbrae home with Dad. He is a great roommate and we enjoy evenings in the garden looking at sunset over Mt. Tam. Teresa Rothe Graham: Kudos to Kathy Trafton for organizing some Zoom calls during the pandemic year. It was great to see and hear from some who have not made it to the reunions! Since losing my mom rather unexpectedly to heart failure last August, I have been bouncing between Reno, Palm Desert, Seattle, and Sunriver. My dad (92) is healthy, but misses Mom after 70 years of marriage. I have been visiting as often as I can and playing lots of gin rummy! Family is great otherwise. Olava Menczkowska: I am looking to rewire my life this year rather than retire. Receiving the

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Medicare card in the mail was certainly a watershed moment! Still dancing and teaching, so everything is good. I’m grateful to have good friends and a beautiful place to live. Enjoy seeing the seniors from time to time and having the occasional dinner with Boo Byers Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien: Obviously this past year has been an unusual one for all of us. My focus has been caring for my husband, who has a rare progressive neurological illness, and understanding deeply the gifts of simplicity. It’s been a journey, and I’m grateful for dear friends and family nearby. Separately, I was honored to chair Catalina’s Head of School search committee, which was a wonderful way to engage with a variety of people from Catalina’s constituencies and help advance the mission of our beloved school. Susan Bowen Osen: Happy to report we just returned from a wonderful wedding weekend in Santa Barbara for our daughter, Hayley! It was canceled twice because of COVID but we were able to celebrate and not need masks. Thrilled to count Jeanne Vibert Sloane, Alex Sloane, Jeannie Jagels Vaughn ’75, and Peter Vaughn among our guests. We are also enjoying our first grandchild, Sofia (18 months). These young parents have really had so many challenges this last year and a half. Tricia Lungren Partridge: All is well on the prairie (Indianapolis, IN). I now have five grandchildren aged four and under. In

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October my lovely daughter-in-law will give birth to my sixth grandchild. I continue with my integrative health coaching practice, which I am able to do remotely as well. This past spring semester I completed a certification course in faith community nursing (FCN) at Marian University Nursing School. As an FCN, our approach to health promotion and wholeness recognizes that the mind, body, and spirit are intertwined. I am passionate about integrating health and faith! Betsy Pollock Scimone: I celebrated my 65th in June in San Francisco taking a Hornblower dinner cruise, staying the night in the city, and indulging in more seafood on the Embarcadero the next day. Last year, I battled COVID (without hospitalization) only to come down with double pneumonia, which I triumphantly managed! After two months of home lockdown and bedrest, I got back to work and have never felt better or stronger. I am thankful for all of you who have remained friends from Catalina, especially Suzanne Turner, Anne de Lorimier Eggleton, Melynda Miller-Olson, and Vickie Tarantino Jeanne Vibert Sloane: During a long lockdown in Long Island, Alex and I bought a house in Montecito (sight unseen!) in February. We finally arrived in May and are enjoying golf and tennis and walking to the beach every day. It’s wonderful to be back in California, and my sister, Laurie Vibert Schofield ’72, a landscape designer, is helping me with our garden. Going forward, we will spend the winter months here and the rest of the year in New York City. Nancy Southam: May I say turning 65 was a real head turner? My husband gave me a senior’s bus pass, and the Canadian government seems to want to send me checks. I dashed out to start planting vegetables in the Qualicum Beach Garden in March, and immediately developed

“wheelbarrow elbow,” otherwise known as tennis elbow. I still can’t hold a golf club. The funniest part, these days, is meeting up with friends and family and trying to pretend one knows how to have an intelligent conversation. I don’t know how to put thoughts and sentences together, or concentrate on what a buddy is saying. Hence, the garden is the refuge of quiet and peace. Lisa Sutton: I completed two years of spiritual psychology at the University of Santa Monica, which was absolutely life changing. I’ve left L.A. after 26 years. I’m living in Littleton, CO! I golf, bike, paddle board, river raft, play pickleball, and just about anything else that requires a Sporty Spice approach to turning 65. After two years of a meticulous protocol treating patients with COVID, I find myself on day 19 of a breakthrough delta variant diagnosis. Fully vaccinated, I’m the cautionary tale. While I’m clearly on the other side of this virus, using all my tools as a practitioner, I want to caution people this is not nothing! Sadly, COVID isn’t over. Angela Tirrell: With great excitement I am re-establishing my base in San Francisco, where my work— abstract painting about a variety of topical concerns, particularly topics of eco and social challenges and breakthroughs—is thriving. My collectors are in Europe, New Zealand, and across the U.S., and many clients are now good friends whom I visit in wonderful locations. A trip to Tokyo is planned in 2022 for my winemaker New Zealand client, whose record-breaking libations feature my abstract paintings on the labels of all the wines she produces. Several years of intensive caregiving for my dad ended as he went peacefully on his journey. It has been wonderful to now have weekends and evenings free to catch up more with friends. Martha Winans Slaughter: Our youngest son, Ian, is finishing up his MBA in health care administration and is engaged to a Louisville native, whom we adore. They are making plans for next summer. Our daughter, Katie, has been living and working from our home over the summer and pursuing a Ph.D. in archaeology this fall at Oxford. Our yard is in chaos, torn apart and being redesigned and resurfaced, just in time for the newest member of our family to arrive—a cocker spaniel poodle mix! We are back and forth to Seaside, FL, to enjoy the beach, pickle ball, and tennis, and we have joined the Peloton revolution. Peggy McDonnell Vance: Got to go back into prison as they’ve reopened to volunteers. I was taking portraits of the inmate puppy raisers. Twin boys haven’t arrived yet but could be any day! My daughter, Clare, and husband are expecting their first child. Sally Fay: The highlight of my weeks during the pandemic were my family Zooms with my children: Walter and his girlfriend in Minneapolis, MN; Kerry and her husband in Berthoud, CO; and Charlie and his wife in Austin, TX. Of course, my in-person visits with them were heaven! I spend a lot of time down at our family house in Woodside, CA, with my mother (97). I added a shih tzu puppy to the family, too. I worked on my writing, published some articles, and hosted a lot of Zoom interviews for the California Tennis Club, where yes, I have been playing a lot of tennis. After a catch-up call

with Peggy McDonnell Vance, she told me I should interview her husband, Cyrus, for the Cal Club Zoom series, so of course I did. That was a treat! Arden Bucklin-Sporer and I play doubles together, and that couldn’t be more fun. I stay in close touch with Randi Stroud Fisher and Susan Gates Suman. I don’t know what I would do without my Catalina pals!

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Deanna (Dede) Duoos Davis

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Andrea Csaszar: All is well in Arizona. My doggy business struggled last year during COVID but it has picked up and is back on track for 2021. My family is doing well; two nieces were married and one niece had a baby. My mother came out in March to visit for two months. Life is good. Linda Abston Larsen: With my husband, Robbie, and son Trent, I went to Montana for Christmas to visit our son Preston, his wife, and new baby boy (three months at the time). It was a wonderful white Christmas together. In May, I flew back to Nashville to visit my mom (90). I also saw my brother and sister. Lorie Dillingham Rosenwald: Hugs to the Class of ’76. My husband, Stu, retired from Fay School in Southborough, MA, in June after 40 years. Janie Goodrich Snowden: I spent some time in Santa Cruz this last spring and saw Mary Ellen Johnson Golbek and Birdie Hunter I also caught up through WhatsApp with Patty Gorostiza de Felton and Lorie Dillingham Rosenwald. I will be going back to France to continue the walk of St. Jacques de Compostelle. Then a new chapter begins with a move to Aixen-Provence, France, for a year. Tessa Wilcox: Artsource is as busy as ever, and Maya is now a senior, so we are looking at colleges. Marge Ganz: I pretty much stayed to myself during COVID, but my biggest project was remodeling the garage and making it a gym with machines, free weights, and a treadmill. So awesome!

Andrea Csaszar ’76 with her dogs, Rio and Zsa Zsa

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Julie Lambert: I was fortunate to continue working during the pandemic with my regular consulting clients, and also worked part-time for 18 months at our local health clinic covering nonmedical compliance issues—no small task during COVID! I continue to be active on the boards of the Oregon State University Alumni Association and local Rotary club. Now that I am finished with the clinic and my travel fund has been replenished, I’ve begun planning some fun trips. My plan is to be in Spain this fall, then in Holland next spring to see the tulips. This time around I will do my best to not flunk retirement! Pia Leo Gaebel: I am still doing contract work as a policy analyst and serving with a nonprofit for illiterate Bengali tribal children, which brings me great joy. Work has slowed down with the pandemic and options are more limited with the political scene here in WA. So, I’m using the free time to explore my bucket list: serving as a local planning commissioner, taking a grant writing class, joining a bike club, doing gardening for disabled homeowners, and enjoying a slower-paced life, lunches, and walks with friends or family. I hope

this finds you all well and encouraged, as many of us are transitioning from work, raising a family, or other endeavors. Betsy Drake: Greetings from Portland, third hottest place on the planet a few weeks ago! My daughter, her boyfriend and cat, and my cousin all moved in with me for three days because they did not have AC. I have been an empty nester for five years now. My oldest, Alex (28), has been living in Tucson, AZ, for the past 11 years. He is a firefighter with the Tucson Fire Department, and he loves it! My daughter, Lily (24), lives in Portland after a move to Philly got thwarted by COVID-19. I think her time in Portland is temporary while she figures out her career path and where she wants to live (not Portland). As for me, I live a low-key life. After leaving the field of occupational therapy almost 20 years ago, I decided to become a hairstylist, which I absolutely love! It’s creative, and I like all my clients. I haven’t been in a relationship in about eight years. My ex-husband, Michael, and I have been divorced for about 20 years but remain good friends. I am in touch with Margot Leonard regularly. She walks about 12–15 miles a day on her mail route. She is strong and looks fabulous! I also saw Ann Dodge about two years ago when I was down in the Bay Area. We had dinner together with some mutual friends in Petaluma. It was really great to see her! That’s about it in a nutshell.

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Lil McDonald Manthoulis maria.manthoulis@gmail.com Monica Stewart Baker moniker1963@aol.com

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Mindy Malisoff Siegel Baggett mbaggett@cox.net

Mindy Malisoff Siegel Baggett: Our 40th reunion is just around the corner. Mark your calendar for March 11-13, 2022. It would be great to see the Class of ’82. Recent years have been a bit of a roller coaster. I lost my college best friend and my dad from COVID. That is the downside of the coaster, while the upside is my career selling technology to schools was not affected. It was on fire with students learning at home! I am not sure I want to see another Chromebook for a few more years. Catherine Croonquist Powers: I live in Pacific Grove and work at Community Hospital. Suzanne Linton Ver Schure: We were

Tala Ibabao ’82 during her visit with classmate Suzanne Linton Ver Schure ’82

very fortunate to escape relatively unscathed from the year that we will never speak of again. Our coffee shop was busier than ever, and for that we are incredibly grateful. Had the pleasure of a visit from Tala Ibabao in early June; it was so much fun. I hope you all know you are always welcome, but you do have to put up with three large dogs! Hope to see everyone at Reunion! Betsy Black : Aspen real estate has been off the hook since this time last summer with no real sign of slowing down. We’re just heading into our busiest time of year (July-September) and I’m dreading it! Took a week in Todos Santos in Baja California, which was great and about three weeks too short. The garden looks amazing this year in spite of drought conditions, and I’ve got a couple of fun trips coming up in the fall. Kelly Dwight Huega-Hamill: Things are good in Seattle. Husband Geoff has been on the medical front lines for the last 15 months, while I’m holding down the family fort caring for my mom, husband, and dogs. Life is quiet and nice. I miss travel but not crowds. Catherine Dee: I separated from my husband of 20 years in 2018 and got officially unhitched during COVID. A year after the split, while on a Southwest flight from Denver to Sacramento, I started chatting with my seatmate, who, it turned out, happened to also be my soulmate. We ended up talking nonstop for three hours, and, as of this writing, we’re still hanging out. I’ve also really enjoyed staying connected over the past few years with the Sacramento Catalina contingent of Beth Skinner Harney, Colleen Duffy, and Dina Nassar Guillen, plus Suzanne Linton Ver Schure, Adrienne Marsh, and Ann Frasse Stowe when

they’re in town! Cheryl “Tala” Ibabao: Moved to Berkeley last June and love it. Most days you’ll find me in my garden growing lettuce. Got rid of my car and now bike everywhere. I even started swimming in the bay! Unlike many of my fellow educators, I had one of the best years ever. I developed a language arts program based on a cartoon series called Avatar the Last Airbender, and my students loved it! I had the highest test scores I’ve ever had in my teaching career. I’ve hung out on Zoom with Karen Welmas and Suzanne Linton Ver Schure since we went on lockdown. Consequently, I’ve camped at Karen’s place and showed up on Suzie’s front door for a tour of the Rockies! Son Fenua (27) and daughter Malaya (29) are good imperfect people, just like their mother. She works in digital marketing, and my polyglot is exploring permaculture. I continue to work at a Title I Spanish bilingual school in Concord, CA. My new position is a fifth-grade math teacher. I hope to do Dr. Jay proud. As things open back up, I hope to do more salsa dancing, hopefully with Karen in tow, and more singing with a salsa band. Courtney Tunney Hotchkis: Our youngest daughter, Ellery, graduated from high school and headed to Texas Christian University in the fall. Our oldest daughter, Perry, lives in New York and works as a research coordinator for the NYU Transplant Institute. As an empty nester, I look forward to spending more time in North Carolina, where my husband moved his company two years ago. Kate Stockwell Hussey: I had a good year, and we are looking forward to a couple of weekend trips around Colorado this summer, and then we are heading to Jamaica for Thanksgiving week. I hope to make it out to the reunion in the spring. I can’t believe it is 40! Anne Frasse Stowe: I have

been working for a friend’s hardwood flooring business for the past two years as office manager and love it. It’s a small business and I wear many hats. It’s in the design district of Solana Beach, CA. I continue to sell my Peach clothing (designed for gym, work, and play) and love helping friends and clients find comfortable, functional, and stylish clothes.

I just moved again—my fifth move in seven years in the same area—but I was fortunate to buy a townhouse in Carlsbad. A week after I moved, I coordinated our showroom’s move three blocks down the street! My youngest, Xander, graduated from Cathedral Catholic High School in June and is going to go to Palomar College. My middle guy, Fox, just finished his junior year at Boulder and loves his life in Colorado. And my daughter, Lucy Stowe ’16, is living nearby and is a lab manager in the psychology department at UC Irvine. If you find yourself in Walla Walla, WA, go see the new store, Walla Walla General Store, owned by my sister, Peggy Frasse ’84. It’s one of a kind, and super cool! Life is fast and busy and I am grateful for friends and family.

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Julie Moore Delany julie@bushwire.net

Julie Moore Delany: It has been an epic year for all humans on our planet. I’m glad to see our class surviving and some even thriving. It is July and the middle of winter in Australia for us. My short career in nursing has come to an end and I’ve returned to my previous career in software development, part-time. But for the most part, I’m retired and loving it, spending my time training and competing in half-marathons around the state. I’ve been in touch with Audrey Klettke

and she is doing very well; they bought a second home in South Carolina. Louise Hunt Sandy: At the beginning of this year, my husband and I decided that, since our two kids were finishing up college, it was time for a new adventure. We recently relocated to Napa, CA, where we’ve bought a fixer-upper that will keep us busy for years! I plan to reopen my cake business later this year, and in the meantime, I’m looking forward to reconnecting with old Catalina friends in the Bay Area. Victoria Manassero: Gosh, what a strange and terrifying 2020-21. By January 2020, I’d dropped 230 pounds—goodbye Howard and 20 of my own. I moved out of my house and then back a year later. I continued to work for the Wells Fargo Innovation Group, started a happiness practice and therapy, tried not to kill myself (shout out to Perry Ruyan Hosseini and Molly McGrath !), and started to grok how destructive self-hatred is. The solitude of the pandemic was healing. I’ve also been thinking about our 60th birthdays and wonder where in the world we can have that party?! Heidi Hauserman Wilmott: My husband, Donn, and I are officially empty nesters and we just celebrated 25 years of marriage. I am keeping busy coaching high school girls’ tennis. I just finished up my fifth year as head coach. Also, working with people with Alzheimer’s in assisted living as a nursing assistant in honor of my mother, who currently is in late stage Alzheimer’s. My daughter, Megan, is at Boise State, and my other daughter, Halle, will be giving birth to my first granddaughter sometime between now and August. Most recently, I have seen Grace Carlson Yoo and Valerie Budinger Thayer and have been in touch with Colleen Roscoe Graham and Cyndy Wilson Emily IbabaoMarley: I enjoy working as an RN case manager with Suncrest Hospice, and Aaron continues to do research at UCSF regarding the trafficking and signaling of the dopamine receptor of the primary cilium. Julien graduated from high school in 2020 and is taking pre-requisites to pursue a career in healthcare. Sienna is a rising senior at UC Berkeley majoring in public health and currently is spending the summer at the UC School of Forestry in Quincy to pursue a forestry minor. Chiara graduated with a B.S. in molecular biology from UC Santa Cruz in 2020 and now works at UCSF doing research in developing gene therapies for ALS. She recently authored a paper, “Allelespecific gene editing rescues pathology in a human model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E.” Hope everyone is well, and I look forward to our next reunion!

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Krysia Belza

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Andrea Cerisola ’85, Patty Cerisola ’83, Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, Francesca Cerisola ’89, and Jamie Buffington Browne ’85 enjoy lunch in Carmel

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Dea Anderson Rouiller: I’m writing this update from a hotel room in San Diego, where I am running a small meeting for one of the pharma companies that I used to work with frequently in the pre-COVID era. This is my first program in almost 18 months, and it feels great to be back on the road again and working in my industry. Just my luck that my chosen career, which I love, involves two things that can’t happen during a pandemic: traveling and indoor gatherings of large groups of people. I did manage to pivot (I very much dislike that word now) and turned myself into a virtual meeting planner, coordinating webinars for a healthcare company, but my true passion is travel and working within the hotel and resort industry around the world, so I’m thrilled to be on-site again after a long hiatus. On the bright side, the hotel where my husband works (Cavallo Point, located in Sausalito, CA) was only closed for a couple of months last year and is now busier than ever. We are also really thankful none of our close friends or family members, including ourselves, have had COVID or any other health issues. We feel very lucky. I hope all of you and your families are safe and healthy and doing well. Amy Hall McNamara: This year our family has been in S.F. and FL doing a combination of in-person school and Zoom from both coasts. Ginny and I had COVID earlier this year and thankfully made it through. Our twins, Margaret and Jack, graduated from eighth grade in S.F. in June. Jack’s graduation party was at Beach Chalet, a restaurant owned by fellow Catalina sister Lara Graham Truppelli. Our family spent the summer in Key Largo, and Ginny and I have been on multiple college tours in New Orleans and around Florida, which has been a fun adventure. Maru Garza de Jaime: I am very sorry that we could not get together this year! Here in Monterrey, everything is well, and even though we have been enclosed in our home, we are very blessed to have the company of our kids (adults now), which makes lots of family time. We love going hiking to the mountains nearby and doing outdoor activities. My oldest son was married in May to a wonderful girl. He is now starting an MBA at the Darden School of Business (University of Virginia), and my older daughter is still in San Francisco, loving everything about it as most of you may know. My two youngest are back home working. I still see Diana Trevino de Pozas once in a while. She married off a daughter and a son last year but is still very busy with five more. She just took her youngest son to Disney! We also saw Julieta Cantu, who is doing fine working a lot from home with the company of her loving dog. Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. Danae Aplas Hansen: I am still living in Montana with my kids. My son, Christian, was a senior this year. We were able to do modified versions of sports, and he made all-state in track and football,

including winning the state championship in the 4x400 relay and the triple jump. He won defensive player of the year. My daughter, MacKenzie, was a freshman and played on the volleyball team. She was disappointed about not getting to do driver’s education due to the city not offering enough spots last year, but she was able to get her permit this year without the class. We just spent some time with my mother in Morro Bay, CA, where she lives. I hope to get a chance to visit Monterey in the next year and show my kids where I went to school. Margi Bogart Power: The Power family is doing well. Elizabeth (23) graduated from George Washington University virtually in 2020 and now will have a real in-person graduation in October 2021. We’re all excited for it since GW is the only school that has graduation on the National Mall. Elizabeth has moved to San Francisco, is living with a childhood friend, and works for a political campaign strategy firm. She is officially supporting herself, which is pretty great! Meredith (20) is a rising junior at Wake Forest University and loves it. She is hoping to go abroad for the spring semester. She was home for part of the summer, and we had a fun road trip from Montana home to S.F. together. Tom is doing great, and we’ve had some fun travels since April—basically saying "yes" to every opportunity after being somewhat locked down for a year. I left my job in August 2020 to start a new county-wide nonprofit called Leadership Council San Mateo County. We are in full start-up mode and plan to launch our inaugural Leadership CORPS Class this fall, which is for established leaders around the county. Our mission is to inspire, connect, and educate established and emerging leaders from the business, nonprofit, and government sectors to positively transform San Mateo County and find solutions for the biggest issues facing our communities. We are absolutely loving it and look forward to hiring more help! Fellow classmate Sarah Smith Lucas is on our founding board of directors and has been a tremendous help due to her extensive start-up experience and work in venture capital. Best of all is that I get to see Sarah now on a regular basis! I’m also fortunate to keep in touch with Melissa

I am very grateful that our family is doing well, despite a few very tough years. Working in the ER during the pandemic has been challenging, but I am happy to be healthy, vaccinated, and practice in a health system that rose to the occasion to care for our community. I missed having a reunion this year, but am looking forward to connecting with some Catalina friends this fall, and the rest of the group in 2026! Brenda Trousdell: Right now, I am going through a lot personally, but please add my cell (415-823-4862) and email (btrous415@ gmail.com). I would love to hear from sisters! Walking through divorce, rough time for catering business, and father’s cancer treatments. I am doing OK and taking my youngest son, Nicholas, to college in Los Angeles. My older son, Jackson, will be starting his senior year at UMass Amherst

and continuing to run track for them. I maintain loving contact with Catalina ladies, and it is always so wonderful to share our paths as women, moms, and friends. Sending love and blessings to everyone and their families. Kristin Ring: I am just winding up a trip to Colorado to see Jakie Kangas Beard ’89 and her family. I let her son plan my birthday, which consisted of feeding giraffes at the zoo, laser tag, go-kart racing, and bowling! Katharine Folger Yeager: We are doing well here in Concord, CA. Jackson just finished his first year at Concord Carlisle High School. Thankfully soccer was one of the few sports that was allowed to play last fall, so Nat and I enjoyed cheering on the freshman boys’ team. Jill, we are so thankful for you and our other healthcare workers—true heroes! Can’t wait for our next reunion to see you all and to raise a glass, in-person, to Judy McDonald Moses, our Distinguished Alumna of 2021.

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Susan Smith Nixon snixon@starbucks.com

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Jennifer Pratt curgie@gmail.com

Jennifer Pratt: Life here is good, slightly more normal as far as COVID goes thanks to the high number of vaccinated people in the Bay Area. Gabriella and the animals are all good. I have nothing to complain about! I get to see Jackie Sharpe Guy when she, husband Brian, and their sweet rescue dog Molly are in Phoenix. Jackie finally left government work after 22 years and went into private practice; she is loving the freedom! I was lucky enough to get to hang with Serena Bennett Padian this summer, and it was so great to have time together after lockdown. Her daughter, Maddie, is going into her junior year at University of Washington; Jack just graduated and will be attending Boulder in the fall; and her youngest, Will, is a junior at Chadwick. I talk to Julie Wilber often. She and Patrick are loving living in New York, even though I miss having them less than a mile away. If you are reading this and would like to be a part of the next Bulletin , shoot me an email as I might not have your current or best address on file. Meg Mayer: I just had a travel gig in Salinas and got to see Ellen Stein Watson ! What a fantastic reunion that was; we didn’t miss a beat and had a great time catching up. I also got to grab some lunch

Davis Olson, Laura McCormick , Meg Gibbons Bertero, Judy McDonald Moses, Elizabeth Barber Moynihan, Ann Osborne Hall, and Tracy Brown Goodsel Jill McFarland McCabe:

with Julie Lenherr Edson. It was so great to see her. I had a sketchy year, thanks to COVID, as I’m sure everyone else did. Even as a healthcare worker I was unemployed for a few months at the beginning of 2020. I was actually in Australia on holiday when COVID blew up, and I got back onto U.S. soil two days before the borders closed and Qantas shut down. A sliver of me wishes I’d gotten stuck down there; a month wasn’t nearly enough. The great things that happened this year, in addition to reconnecting with great people, are that two of my lovely children graduated from college. Matt and Eleanor both graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. My youngest, Austin, just finished his first year at Siena College in Albany, NY. Feels like it was just last summer we were camping on Lake Champlain when they were toddlers! I’m spending as much time outdoors as possible wherever I am, walking, hiking, or running. Have to keep these old bones in shape the best I can! Michelle Oberle Odle: My family just returned from our first post-pandemic vacation to Maui. It was great to get away and celebrate my oldest son, James, graduating from high school; he will be attending Loyola Marymount University in the fall. My middle son, Sean, will be a freshman in high school and my youngest son, Evan, will be in seventh grade. I am still working in education. Two years ago, I left the classroom to take a position as a teacher on special assignment (TOSA) for school support at Ponderosa Elementary School in Sunnyvale, CA. I assist the administration, teachers, and students in a variety of roles. I am enjoying the changes and challenges. My husband still works as a public safety officer for the city of Sunnyvale, and we will celebrate 21 years of marriage in a few months. I will end with a huge congratulations to Morty for retiring after 41 years at Catalina! He was a huge inspiration and mentor to me as both my swimming and field hockey coach all three years I attended Catalina. I remember having to swim five laps for each 100 yards he asked us to swim in practice because the pool was only 20 yards long and only had four

lanes. I also remember jogging to El Estero Park for field hockey practices with a hockey stick in one hand, ball in the other, and mouth guard in place because we were getting a new field/track on campus. The athletic program became what it was because of Mr. Morton. Love to all!

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Dawn Chan: I am applying for my UK passport and I will not be able to travel so much throughout these five years. With COVID travel restrictions, flights banned, hotel quarantines, etc., this summer my daughter and I will be apart for over two months as she’s back to Hong Kong to visit her grandparents and to do some summer jobs and activities. Hope our lives will be back to normal soon, with the jabs we’re having, etc. Fingers crossed! Wish you all well and take care. Stay safe and stay vigilant.

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Members of the Class of 1992 have been busy this year. Tamsin Foster Cope: The Cope family, like everyone else, has had an 18-month emotional

rollercoaster. While home learning almost broke me, the schools were great and the kids have ended the year having both excelled. A huge positive that came out of all the mess was getting our lockdown dog, Layla. We rescued her just over a year ago and she’s made our lives so much better. Here’s hoping things continue moving in the right direction so we can get to California next summer! Courtney Eaton Turner: We are still living in northern Virginia. Randy retired from the Marine Corps in June, but we will stay in the area until our boys (Sam and Alex) finish high school. They’ll be juniors this year. Pre-pandemic, I was able to connect with Sarah Mitchell Hansen, Kerri Robinson Johnson, and Sarah’s wonderful mom when Sarah and her mom were in D.C. for a few days. It was great seeing them, and I’d love to catch up with any classmates who pass through D.C. We are headed to Fresno, CA, for two weeks this summer for some R&R—boys and Randy will go backpacking in the Sierras with their uncle and then spend a week as junior counselors at River Camp in Fresno. I’d like to get over to Monterey to visit Regina Lomboy Garner. I still work for Semper Fi and America’s Fund and enjoy my job immensely. Hope all is well with you! Ewa Pietraszak : I am teaching summer school to help high school kids catch up; however, they are really struggling due to the pandemic. They are not motivated and some are depressed, so I’m doing my best to challenge and cheer them on! Please pray for these kids to graduate and heal since many have lost close family members. I am still living in my art studio in downtown L.A. at the Santa Fe Art Colony and painting. I also privately teach art, and my students are growing incredibly in their work. Due to COVID, I have had to postpone all my travel plans, but stay posted for next year as we get back to normal. Megan Rowley Thomas: My family and I made it through COVID and are still happily living in Long Beach, CA. I am in my sixth year of working with students in foster care and my 25th year with LAUSD, and still loving the job. Being virtual was very challenging, but I am looking forward to going back full time in person in August. My husband is still coaching football and working at Cerritos High School. Our two oldest children are now college students! Our daughter plans to attend University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio and our oldest son will be at UC San Diego. We also have one freshman in high school and a seventh grader still living at home. This summer with everyone vaccinated, we were finally able to rejoin the world and pick up some of our sports schedules with football, baseball, and junior guards. We still head to the Monterey area to visit my family every few months, and enjoy catching up with everyone on Facebook. Amy Paulsen: My family has been doing well despite COVID challenges. My work has been slow, so I’ve picked up shifts at a local food bank. I come back in such a good mood from volunteering that my youngest has suggested that I try to get a job at the food bank. My husband and the kids just left for a trip to Indiana and Chicago for 10 days—it’s just me and the animals at home! I haven’t had this much time to myself in a very long time!

Michelle Oberle Odle ’88 with her husband and sons

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Heather Wasser Tabacco heatherwasser@hotmail.com

Alexa Flores-Hull: Not much going on because, you know, COVID and all that jazz, but there have been some pretty exciting milestones. Vivian graduated high school this past May and is heading to Northern Arizona University in the fall. Blake is a senior and he is looking at some of the most random locations for college, but if it means he has a plan, I am all for it. But Eastern Kentucky, really? It also means I am less than a year out from being an empty-nester— craziness! The four of us were able to take a much welcome and long anticipated vacation to Los Cabos, Mexico, at the end of May. It was pure awesomeness, and when I run away from home never to return that is where I will be. As for me personally, I am still in the world of education (that alone caused my hair to turn gray) and while it is insane right now, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I am also preparing for some races because apparently I am a runner now. I am doing a 10k soon, and a half-marathon is the goal to be conquered in the next calendar year. I wish everyone well—health, happiness, and hope for a brighter future. Nicole Gilman

Morrison: I am happy and healthy, loving life in Franklin, TN. I’m blessed to spend my days working at home. Brian and I just celebrated our 14th anniversary. Our son, Brendon, will be starting seventh grade this year while our “son,” Genhonest (18), will be enrolling in a trade school program in Bristol, TN, this September. Yukiko Matsumura: Hello from Tokyo. It’s been too long. Hope everyone is well throughout the time of COVID, enjoying summer, watching the Olympic games of Tokyo 2020! I’m actually working for the sports presentation management team for the entire competition as the main contractor of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympics are almost ending, but please also stay tuned for the Paralympic games. Wishing all of you to stay safe and well. Jessica Ferber Bentley: We now call Austin, TX, home and have enjoyed our new locale for over two years. My family is taking every opportunity to experience all that Austin has to offer since quarantine has been lifted. Our two children have taken to the Southern lifestyle quite nicely with lots of barbecue and lake activities this summer. Tatum (17) is a junior and on the varsity football team. As you know, Texas takes its football very seriously, and now so do we! He also continues to play college league lacrosse during the off-season. Olivia (12) will be entering the sixth grade. She is going on her second year as a dance company member and is on two competition teams for hip-hop and contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and ballet, respectively. Aaron and I are just trying to keep up with our kids during this season of life! After a stint of being a stay-at-home mother for over a year, I quickly learned during quarantine that I’m a better mom when I’m working! I feel blessed to be able to spend part of my days shaping the minds of our youngest Texas students. Aaron and I continue to travel as much as possible during these unprecedented times and have always understood that tomorrow is never promised. We choose to live our lives now and do not take a

single day for granted. I hope everyone is happy and, most importantly, healthy. Francesca Preston: I am taking it day by day in this crazy time. I have a chapbook of poetry, If There Are Horns, coming out next year. Reach out if you are in the vicinity of Petaluma, CA, where I am grateful to live: francescapreston.com. Heather Wasser Tabacco: I live in Boise, ID, still. My husband became a Realtor and we moved to our dream neighborhood in March 2020. My mom also purchased land in the neighborhood, and is moving in with us next month until her house is built next summer. We have not lived in the same town since before I came to Catalina, so to say I am excited is an understatement.

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Catie Ryan Balagtas catieryan@gmail.com

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Jenny Noble jnoble78@hotmail.com

ALUM PROVIDES SPECIAL TREAT FOR RING WEEK

In April, seniors introduced the Ring Week 2021 theme through a video skit based off of The Great British Bake Off For their first day, juniors dressed up as sous chefs, making their own hats and painting cookies. Nancy Kennedy Major ’96 provided the cookies from her business, Color My Cookie. Ring Week cookie kits included edible paints and palette, paintbrushes, icing, sprinkles, edible décor, and six cookies (a ring, a cake, and a chef’s hat). Check out Nancy’s cookie decorating kits at colormycookie.com.

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Morgan Rogers McMillan morganrogersmcmillan@gmail. com

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Natalia Woodhall Chappelow nataliawoodhall@yahoo.com

Megan MacDonald Hastings: My husband and I welcomed our son, Roscoe, in February 2020 and are enjoying post-quarantine life with a curious toddler in Seattle. Cat Hawley and I are planning a getaway to Paris in September now that we can travel again! Marisa Schwertfeger Merkle: My family recently moved to Omaha, NE. Our eldest will be attending Marian High School. Let the allgirls tradition continue! Jennifer Schneiderman: I just started graduate school for licensed mental health counseling, and my husband, Matt, and I are getting ready to move to Boca Raton, FL. He’s in strategic public relations and setting up an office there, and I plan to transfer to Florida Atlantic University to finish my degree. I never thought I’d leave L.A., but would love to connect with anyone in south Florida! Langley Kreuze: I sold my law firm in January and am heading to the University of Edinburgh in September to study for an M.S. in comparative public policy. I’d love to meet up with any alums in Scotland!

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Laura Stenovec laurastenovec@gmail.com

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00Kate Fagan

katepfagan@gmail.com

Dana Gravem McQueen: I live in Chicago with my husband and two kids, James (1) and Claire (3). I am working as a fertility doctor at the University of Chicago. Kate Fagan: I live in Omaha, NE, with my husband and fur-babies. I am working as a remote clinical research developer and loving life in the Midwest with so much to explore and discover! Autumn Quinn: In June, we welcomed James, little brother to Anna (4)! It’s been an adjustment to be a family of four, but James is a sweetie, and we are having so much fun getting to know him. I am still working as a project manager for the Android team at Google and will return to work (and the office?!) after Thanksgiving when my leave is done. Brigitte Kouba Neves: I live in the Pacific Palisades with my husband, Antonio, and our twins, August and Harper (5). Last year was quite a year with homeschooling while working from home, but luckily, we are all healthy and happy to be going into kindergarten. It’s been a blessing to see and stay close to friends like Chelsea McNabb and Autumn Quinn Susie Bokermann: I moved to Washington (state, not D.C.!) in October with my husband, Chris, and our two rescue dogs. We are going to continue working remotely full-time and plan to spend weekends trail running, kayaking, and exploring all that the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Abby Bowen James: I am still in Nashville working as a nurse practitioner for a dermatology private practice. I did some COVID nurse relief work for Vanderbilt this past year while their clinic was limited in its capacity, which was a great way to be involved at my alma mater. During a family trip out west, I had the pleasure of bumping into

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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

Sarah Kennifer Garrigues: We moved back to the Monterey Peninsula last December, and in April we welcomed our third daughter, Anna. It’s been fun to reunite with local alumnae and their families, and we’re excited for our girls to grow up in Monterey! Whitney M. Lynn-Erickson: I was furloughed from my resort sales role in March 2020, not returning until April 2021. All clouds have silver linings, however, and my husband, Billy, and I welcomed our son, Miles, into the world in January 2021. While being pregnant and jobless wasn’t ideal, it allowed me to spend extra time with my parents that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. Hoping to see everyone at our

Laura Stenovec ’99, a reminder that it is a blessing to have Catalina connections everywhere!

Megan MacDonald Hastings ’98 and family

20-year reunion next year. Mary Catherine E. Macaluso: My husband and I welcomed our little boy, Theodore, into the world in May 2020. In addition to becoming a mom, I was recently promoted and am happily helping people of all backgrounds with financial planning. Robyn A. Taylor: My husband and I launched an electric boat rental company, BAE Boats, in January. It has been an exciting and very busy venture to tackle with our three children, Vivi (11), Max (9), and Beau (4). Both Vivi and Max attended Catalina summer camp as day campers and caught up with children of Lara Wheeler Devlin and Amy Azevedo Mulgrew. Vivi will also get to catch up with the daughter of Marietta Rubio at camp later this summer. Wishing you and your families lots of joy in the coming months! Olivia Nilsson: I’m currently getting my MBA from Pepperdine and raising my two boys, Owen and Arthur. During COVID, I had some lovely online meet-ups with Catalina friends, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at the next reunion!

Sasha Irving: While COVID-19 postponed my wedding plans, it didn’t postpone the baby! After celebrating virtually with Greer Murphy and Laura Balch Pakaluk , my precious baby boy arrived in June. I’m in heaven!

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Katie Fruzynski katie.fruzynski@gmail.com

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Madeline Callander madeline.callander@gmail.com Lyndsay Pedan McAmis mcamislc@gmail.com

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The Class of 2006 is without a class correspondent. Please contact Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08, Assistant Director of Alumnae/i Engagement, to volunteer to serve your class in this meaningful way.

03Kelsey Hodgins Diver hodginskelsey301@gmail.com

Alexandria Sutty alex.sutty@gmail.com

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Anna Lopez Mourlam and her husband, Nicholas, are delighted to welcome their daughter, Audrey, born in April 2021.

07Natalie Kocekian nkocek@gmail.com

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Shannon Gaughf Dillon slgaughf@gmail.com

Paige Whitmore Posladek : We welcomed Charlotte (Lottie) Carter to our crew. Haley Johnson Dzundza: We welcomed our second son, Dax, in March. Kaitlin Avalos-Feehan: I married Colin Reidy in an intimate Pebble Beach wedding in May 2021. In attendance was fellow Catalina alumna Lexie Hunt and my two sisters, Kelsy ’05 and Mikayla ’13. I have been living in New York City since graduating from Villanova University, and currently live in Brooklyn with my husband and our dog, Lily. Shannon Gaughf Dillon: I married Lower and Middle School history teacher Ross Dillon in July in Monterey. We were lucky enough to have taken our formal photos on the Catalina campus with a ceremony in my parents’ backyard. In attendance were Candace Brekka Bennett ’06, Bri Slama ’07, Martha Gustavson, Andrea Whipple-Samuel, Kristen Russo ’09, and Annarose Hunt ’17, as well as longtime staff member Erin White and Danielle DeMaria Chandler, who was the videographer!

Children of Autumn Quinn ’00

Members of the Class of 1998 enjoying some time together: Nora Nazeley Gorman, Jennifer Schneiderman, and Langley Kreuze

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Mary Bolt mar.e.bolt@gmail.com Megan McCaffrey mccaffrey.mf@gmail.com

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Katharine Garcia katharine.garcia8@yahoo.com Chloe Dlott ccdlott@gmail.com

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Maeko Bradshaw maeko.bradshaw@gmail.com

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Kelsey Player kelsey.player93@gmail.com Kelsey Riordan kelseyriordan11@aol.com

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Caitlin Dullanty caitlindullanty@gmail.com Annie Haueter anniehaueter@gmail.com

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Kylie Moses kyliemoses14@gmail.com Emma Russell emmarussellpg@yahoo.com

Amanda Etienne: I am finishing my doctorate in psychology (PsyD) after receiving my master’s degree last August. I am also living in San

Francisco with Rhianna La Chance ! Emma Russell: I have been working in Washington, D.C., for the Department of Defense for almost two years. Everything has been going well, and I plan on going back to school to get my master’s degree in international relations in the coming future. I saw Sophia White in May, and it was great reconnecting with her back in our old stomping grounds of Monterey!

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Julia Clark julicclark09@gmail.com Mackenzie Fisher kenzieayn7@gmail.com

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

Shannon Gaughf ’08 with new husband Ross

Kaitlin Avalos-Feehan ’08 with husband Colin on their wedding day

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Annarose Hunt annarosyrosy@gmail.com

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Sylvan Free sylvanfree@gmail.com

Rowan Azhderian: In 2020, I transferred to UC Santa Cruz as an earth sciences major with a concentration in environmental geology. I am currently on a leave of absence and live in Chico, CA, where I am working full-time. I am moving in June to a new house with my best friends and can’t wait to see where my time off from school takes me! Coco Chai: Due to COVID, I came back home to China in May 2020 and took a gap year. Since then, I have done two internships, played in numerous golf tournaments, and enrolled in a visiting student program at Peking University. My favorite during this time would be starting an ecofeminist nonprofit start-up, The Gaia Project, which advocates for environmental and gender issues in China. It has been nice to get a sneak peek of what life might be like after college, and I can’t wait to go back to school in fall 2021. Sylvan Free: Despite the challenges of COVID-19, I was able to return to on-campus

learning for my junior year at Allegheny College. I finished up preparations for my final graduation project, which will be a thesis on the effects of acculturation on the mental health of Chinese American students. In addition, I took on a new position in my sorority and am now the director of recruitment events for the Epsilon Iota chapter of Delta Delta Delta. This summer I am interning for Resurge International, a nonprofit that helps perform reconstructive surgeries and trains surgeons in low-income countries. I have been busy doing interviews with reconstructive surgeons across the globe about their experiences in the field. Katherine Kim: While finishing up my junior year of college, I started working as an analyst for a 3D printing building construction company. It’s taught me a lot about infrastructure and sustainable product development. Jenna Mann: This past year has seen me graduate summa cum laude from Sonoma State University. I enjoyed my time there, and while I was sad half of it was online, I still learned a lot. Now that I am done with school for the time being, I am beginning my career in the environmental education field, starting by working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium! After volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the past I have always wanted to work there, so now I am and I hope to stay there for a long time. Tara Mann: Over the past year, I’ve had an internship with SAP Ariba writing documentation, I became the lifestyle editor for the 60 Seconds Online Magazine, and I

opened an Etsy shop, MannMadeTwins, selling water/wine bottle slings, hats, scarves, boot cuffs, gloves, sea glass jewelry, and decorations! I’ve also had a few short stories published in Chapman’s art and literary magazines, Calliope and Ouroboros I am excited to be the editor-in-chief of Calliope during the fall 2021 semester. I am preparing to graduate from Chapman University in May 2022 with a BFA in creative writing and a minor in computer science.

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Kacey Konya konya@usc.edu

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Taylor Ford tnford@usc.edu

SHOW YOUR COUGAR PRIDE!

Want to show your school pride? Catalina & Co., Catalina's online bookstore, has you covered with a selection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers, and more!

To place an order, please visit santacatalina.org/onlinebookstore or contact Annette Leach Alcocer ’75, bookstore manager, at 831.655.376.

Sarah Luksik ’08 with husband Jake on their wedding day

COMMUNITY TRANSITIONS

Alumnae Marriages

Courtney Smith ’07 to Cameron Greene

Kaitlin Avalos-Feehan ’08 to Colin Reidy

Shannon Gaughf ’08 to Ross Dillon

Kelsey Hightower ’08 to Cameron Bouton

Sarah Luksik ’08 to Jake Masters

Lucy Pippin ’08 to Jeff Manson

Wendy Hopper ’10 to Shane Jarvie

Kelsey Pennington ’10 to Nikhil Bhatnagar

Kristina Flathers ’11 to Alex Ferraro

Emily Blake ’12 to Kyle Wireman

Sarah Morris ’12 to Liam O’Connor

Births and Adoptions

Autumn Quinn ’00, son James

Sarah Kennifer Garrigues ’02, daughter Anna Katie Carnazzo Larsen ’02, son John Whitney Lynn-Erickson ’02, son Miles Jenna Block ’02, daughter Margaux Whitney Tuttle Schultz ’05, daughter Willow Ariel Robertson Donnelly ’06, son Malcolm Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06, daughter Audrey Alex Taddeucci Baynes ’07, son Colin Kate Carrubba ’07, daughter Charlotte

Kathryn Balestreri Dolmans ’07, son Nikos Lexi Dauernheim Lynch ’07, daughter Louella Kelley Trapp ’07, son Koda Haley Johnson Dzundza ’08, son Dax

Stosh Calciano Thomas ’08, daughter Peyton Camille Massaro-Menz ’09, daughter Clara Alex Pingree ’12, daughter Taelynn

In Memory

Our love and prayers to:

Abby McCann ’54, Margaret McCann Grant ’57, Debby McCann ’59, and Kathy McCann ’65 on the death of their sister

The family of Sondra Sowell Clark ’55

Nitze Erro Caswell ’56 on the death of her husband

Sally Smith Rhodes ’57 on the death of her husband

The family of Kathy Howard Loparco ’58

The family of Margi Stewart ’62

The family of Penelope Williams ’64

Flo Nixon ’64 on the death of her brother

Donna Miller Casey ’66, Janet Miller Abbott ’71, Marian Miller ’73, and Leslie Miller Schemel ’76 on the death of their mother

Anian Pettit Tunney ’66 on the death of her husband

The family of Mimi Cleary ’67

The family of Katy Bates Kreitler ’67

The family of Gael Donovan ’67

Monica Herrera de Soler ’67 on the death of her mother

Dianne Rossi Andrews ’68 on the death of her mother

Trudie Behr Scott ’69 on the death of her son

The family of Jane Kuchins ’70

Shannon Gregory Mandel ’70 on the death of her stepfather

Mary Reilley ’72 on the death of her husband

Melynda Miller-Olson ’74 and Lesley Olson Anderson ’75 on the death of their father

Pamela Anderson-Brule ’76 on the death of her father

Shelly Slingsby Coughlan ’76 and Ellen Slingsby Skromme ’82 on the death of their father

Eileen Diepenbrock Cheever ’78 on the death of her son

Gigi MacLean ’81 on the death of her father

Mindy Malisoff Siegel Baggett ’82 on the death of her father

Debbie Etienne ’82, Freya Peters ’91, and Elizabeth Newell ’92 on the death of their brother

Deedee Moore Gollin ’82, Julie Moore Delany ’84, and Whitney Ciancio ’05 on the death of their grandmother

Tala Ibabao ’82 and Emily Ibabao-Marley ’84 on the death of their father

Courtney Tunney Hotchkis ’82, Adrienne Tunney Krumins ’94, and Catherine Tunney McDowell ’01 on the death of their father

Dianna Anton Lowell ’86 on the death of her father

Laura del Santo Harter ’00 on the death of her father

Heidi DeSouza ’08 on the death of her father

Jessica Michalek ’13 on the death of her stepfather

Lower and Middle School Alumni Travers Newell ’01 LS on the death of his brother

Faculty & Staff Marriages

Shannon Gaughf ’08 to Ross Dillon

Lauren Reineking to Colby Genasci

Births

Nicole Cofresi, daughter Twyla Vanessa Krabacher, daughter Finley

In Memory

Jim Morton on the death of his mother

Former Staff: In Memory

The family of Bob Colter

Items in Transitions reflect communications received between April 24, 2021 and October 22, 2021.

Annual Report of Giving

Thanks to You

Dear Santa Catalina community,

I am delighted to report that despite the trials and tribulations of the past year, the Santa Catalina family remains committed to supporting our remarkable school. On June 30, we met our goal for the Santa Catalina Fund for fiscal year 2021, raising more than $1 million for the people and programs that make our school so special. I am truly grateful to all of you who enabled us to continue to provide the Catalina experience to the world’s future leaders.

During the past year, we held our annual events such as Celebrate Santa Catalina, Alumnae Reunion, and alumnae chapter gatherings remotely for the first time in our history. Alumnae, parents, and friends were able to enjoy each other’s company no matter the miles between them. The popularity of these events demonstrated the commitment of our community to stand together through thick and thin.

Our theme for the Santa Catalina Fund this year is “You Make Great Things Happen,” which is both a reflection of our accomplishments emerging from a remote environment, and a prophecy for the success we will have in bringing our community together in person. Already we have seen the benefit of gathering safely and following protocols, as the school opened in the fall. The enthusiasm of our community is heartening and promises more great things to come this year.

Thank you again for your support of Santa Catalina.

Sincerely, Laura Lyon Gaon ’81

2020–2021 Financial Summary

Annual Giving

Alumnae/i $786,503 15% Participation

Upper School Parents $98,878 53% Participation

Lower School Parents $114,171 69% Participation

Parents of Alumnae/i $1,299,559

Grandparents $20,035 Friends $35,531

Foundations $430,216

Organizations & Corporations $176,660

Total $2,961,553

Santa Catalina Fund $1,003,649 Restricted Gifts $1,957,904

Endowment & Capital

Alumnae/i $267,848

Upper School Parents $137,010

Lower School Parents $52,000

Parents of Alumnae/i $168,178 Grandparents $14,336 Friends $52,789

Foundations $2,684,658 Organizations & Corporations $253,564

Total $3,630,383

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

($100,000 or more)

Anonymous (4) Jeffrey Cappo Jean Perkins Foundation*

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE ($50,000-$99,999)

The LaureL STEM Fund Manitou Fund

Nora McNeely Hurley ’78 Corinne and Michael Roffler Kimberley and Scott Sheffield Laure Woods ’80

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE ($20,000-$49,999)

Anonymous (2)

The William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

The Danielson Foundation

Adriana and William Hayward Hope Hayward ’79 LS

Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation

Liz and Scott Hulme*

Nantz Family Foundation Angela Nomellini ’71* and Kenneth Edward Olivier Deborah and Kenny Peyton* J. Peter Read, Jr.

The Reveas Foundation Andrea and Chris Shaw

VERITAS CIRCLE

($10,000 - $19,999)

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

Barbara Bundy*

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis ’93)

Lia and Herm Edwards*

Cornelia and James Farley, Jr. D.D. and Paul Felton*

Randi and Bob Fisher (Randi Stroud ’74)*

Hazel Foundation

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson ’77)*

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon*

Middleridge Charitable Fund

Pebble Beach Company Foundation

Pisces Foundation

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Karine Snyder Lyon*

HACIENDA CIRCLE

($5,000 - $9,999)

Anonymous Louise Diepenbrock Baker ’81

Robert Balles*

Michelle and Garrett Blake* Helen Bowen Blair

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program

Callan Family Fund*

Cindy and Joe Connolly

Debra and George Couch Mary Deakyne Barbara and Peter M. Folger* Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales Google Matching Gifts Program*

Caroline Farrar Grey ’69

The Grey Family Foundation

Tracy and Eric Hass (Tracy Miller ’75)*

Bridget and Edward King

Katharina Brinks Lathen ’96*

Nicki and Michael McMahan*

Florence Nixon ’64*

Cari and Chad Peets

Mary and Gary Pinkus (Mary Sutton ’83)

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation*

Linda and Bruce Taylor

Betty Van Wagenen

Alice and Warren Yenson Di Miao and Junde Yuan

LEGACY CIRCLE

($2,500 - $4,999)

Courtney Benoist ’77 and Jason Fish

Patricia Bondesen-Smith ’54*

Marcia Mondavi Borger ’65*

Anne Munzer Bourne ’70*

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

Amy and Michael Brandt

Anne Bryan ’77*

Sharon and Edward Bullard (Sharon Smith ’68)*

Lucy Butler ’73

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Patricia and Pedro Cerisola

Robin and Alan Cole

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly* Joanne Fontanilla and Bix Cruz Bella and Bert Cutino

Zhiwen Mao and Zhi Hua Dai

Frances McDonald DeSouza ’77

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock ’59*

Ellen and Tom Dunnion*

Sara and Brian Elkin

Ceseli and Hugh Foster*

Marilyn and Joseph Franzia

Julie Garcia ’71*

Kathy and Matthew Gibbs*

Kim Rudas Goerlitz ’89

Wendy and Ronald Gong

Nancy and Philip Greer

Joan Stafford Haynes ’60*

Karen Johnson Hixon ’69

Tracy and Christian Huebner

Patricia and Stephen Jensen Sheila Johnson ’65

Gloria and Richard Kim*

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer ’97*

Janet and Daniel Luksik*

Laura and Jago Macleod

Nancy Gallo and Liam Madden

Monday Morning Quarterback Club

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

The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation*

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Wendy and Victor Ramirez*

Maureen and Benjamin Richards* Xumei Zhu and Hua Shen

Patricia Allen Sparacino ’65*

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett ’82)*

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis ’94, ’90 LS*

Frederick Weakley*

Caroline Barkan Wilkinson ’95 Wilkinson Foundation A. Gordon Worsham* Stacie and Stephen Worsham*

PATRONS’ CIRCLE

($1,500 - $2,499)

Adobe

Allied World Assurance Company

Anonymous (3)

Velma and Ted Balestreri

Teresa Barger ’73 and Travis T. Brown

Priscilla McCarthy Barolo ’03

Tedra Bates ’03, ’99 LS

Rose and Quintin Boe

Samantha and Harlan Bradley

Kathryn and Russell Brewer

Margaret Miller Brown ’74

Megan and Michael Bruno ’82 LS*

The John M. Bryan Family Fund* Jenny Budge ’71*

The Florence V. Burden Foundation

Hyori Lee and Jong-Ha Choi Michele Clark ’65*

Rosella Coppel Bernal ’97

The Justin Dart Family Foundation*

Kirstin Keresey Ducommun ’96

Laura and Rich Everett (Laura May ’85)*

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich ’78)*

Gianna Franzia ’95*

Natalia and Clayton Fritz (Natalia Valpredo ’94)

Mary and Howard Fuchs* Genentech

Bernadette and Mark Gersh

Patricia and Jonathon Giffen Anne Hilby ’01*

Paula and Bruce Hilby*

Ellen and Richard Juge

Mary Myers Kauppila ’72*

Brogiin Keeton ’01 and Ben Nagin

Shirley Childs Kelly ’79

Karen and John Korinetz

Wendy Burnham Kuhn ’59*

Ladera Foundation

Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS*

Li Jiang and Heng Liu

Lydia and Bryan Mansour*

Tina Hansen McEnroe ’70, ’66 LS

Victoria Vazquez and Matthew Meyer

Willa and Ned Mundell*

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

Gina Moro Nebesar ’01, ’97 LS

Thu-Anh Nguyen ’03*

Mary and David Nikssarian

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74

Karen Condon Patton ’85

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

The Mark Pollacci Family*

Margi and Tom Power (Margi Bogart ’86)

Susan Cluff and Neil Rudolph*

Suzanne Saunders Shaw ’70

Rosalind Boswell Seysses ’67

Natalie Stewart ’63*

Larry Tartaglino

Nancy and Russell Trull

Jane Tucker*

Nicole and Christopher Ushakoff

Leslie Walker ’81

Yu Xin and Yaxuan Xie

Lynn O’Neil Yeh and Cary Yeh

Joella Szabo and Thomas Zewert

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

Sandy Hollenbeck Schnieder ’62

Patricia Allen Sparacino ’65

Terry Whitney Baganz ’69

Marie Cantin ’70

Sally Fay ’74

Lindsay Heller ’95

Brogiin Keeton ’01

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06

Kristina Flathers ’11

CHAPTER CHAIRS

Boston Position Vacant

Chicago

Kristina Flathers ’11

Dallas

Joanne Van der Plas Viola ’84

Hope Morgan ’90

Houston

Diana Kendrick Untermeyer ’80

Los Angeles

Leslie Hunt Johnson ’92

Paige Finster Greenspan ’96 Mzilikazi Kone ’01

Monterey

Elizabeth Holt Protell ’64

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06

New York

Priya Kumar Raju ’00

Paisley Piasecki ’13

Phoenix

Gloria Felice ’54

Becky Hays-Rovey ’92

Portland, Oregon

Virginia Sewell ’69

Ann Carter ’71

Brigid Flanigan ’73

Sacramento

Position Vacant

San Diego

Taylor Griffon ’11

San Francisco

Yvette Merchant Nichols ’96

Seattle

Madeleine Lynch Greathouse ’85

Washington, DC 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

Alumnae

Class Agent

Beatrice Leyden Moore

Beatrice Leyden Moore

Class Agent

Patricia Bondesen-Smith

Patricia Bondesen-Smith*

Shereen Houde Fase

Gloria Felice*

Abigail McCann

Other Gifts

Carol Speegle Lannon

Kit Nelson Bedford*

Nitze Erro Caswell*

Jane Howard Goodfellow*

Sheila Godwin Peavey

Eugenie Madden Watson*

Other Gifts

Anne Hicks Kimball

Upper School Alumnae

CLASS

Carole Lusignan Buttner

Mary Cano*

Margaret McCann Grant*

Jane de Benedetti McInnis

Camille Annotti Stevens*

Other Gifts

Bobbie Erro Marsella*

CLASS

Class Agents

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen

Linda Smith Fox

Susan Miller Ashla

Laurie Washburn Boone Hogen*

Marie Diridoni

Katherine Howard Loparco

Betsy Bourret Neu

Karin King Rucker

Dr. Sally Sibley

Donna Work Silverberg

Other Gifts Mardi Hack*

Mary Baumgartner Reid

Penelope Corey Arango*

Judy Nagel Cox*

Sara Fargo*

Judi Musto Hachman*

Theresa Lowe Hall*

Nini Richardson Hart

Caroline Harris Henderson*

Maria Hart McNichol*

Victoria Street Medeiros

Lissa Gahagan Nicolaus

Other Gifts

Leigh Curran (Curry Griggs)

Kathy Ryan Foy

Pamela Gamble

Mary-Allen Macneil

Edith Chase McDougal

CLASS

Class Agent

Margaret Stewart

Mary Foley Bitterman*

Diana Vhay Ford*

Gail Dowling Goettelmann Nina Davis Gray

Lander Reeves Hynes Mary Hills Miles

France de Sugny Bark

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock*

Shelley LeBlanc Duke

Julie Hutcheson

Wendy Burnham Kuhn*

Irene May Lawler

Deborah McCann

Kristan Jacobson O’Neill*

Hansi de Petra Rigney*

Dorothy Dwyer Schreiber

Other Gifts

Kathleen Mailliard Rende

Judith Botelho Cain*

Suzanne Townsend Finney*

Margaret Gregg Grossman

Joanna Grant Hartigan*

Joan Stafford Haynes*

Wendy Miller Lambeth*

Julianne Perkins Layne

Lani LeBlanc*

Julie Thomas Obering*

Jinx Hack Ring

Karene O’Connell Vernor*

Domie Garat Werdel*

Catherine O’Hara Willmott*

Nan Griffin Winter

Other Gifts

Daphne Craige Bertero*

Pamela Fairbanks de Villaine*

Penny Pringle Knowles*

Lynnea Larson Payne Susanne Blair Riley Margaret Stewart* Class Agent

Roxanne Spieker Morse

Anonymous

J’Amy Maroney Brown*

Ghislaine de Give

Victoria Dillon*

Jansie Stephens Farris

Judy Haig Hansen

Robin Hatcher

Susan Janss Ferguson

Roxanne Spieker Morse*

Donna Hollenbeck Ramos

Sally Rorick-Orlando*

Diane Ditz Stauffer*

Natalie Stewart*

Frances Frawley Swanson

Trish Scott Williams*

Other Gifts

Kathleen Brown*

Katherine Hoffman Enright

Christina Cotton Gannon*

Priscilla Gillett Hoecker*

Louise La Mothe

Shirleelynn Arnaudo Lee Florence Nixon*

Elizabeth Holt Protell*

Donna Hart Reid

Christine Di Giorgio Timmerman*

Polly Hills Van Horne

Other Gifts

Joan Shymanski Little

CLASS OF 1965 33%

Class Agent

Patricia Allen Sparacino

Marcia Mondavi Borger*

Bonnie Bray

Carol Carnazzo Brown

Carolyn Cain*

Candace Callan

Michele Clark*

Susan Corey

Tammy Dougherty

Sally Leonard Harris

Lola Hogan

Sheila Johnson

Elizabeth Hudson Kenyon

Maisie de Sugny MacDonald*

Caroline Lord Mackenzie*

Kathleen McCann

Anne Kernwein Schafer

Patricia Allen Sparacino*

Ann Hodges Strickland

Mallory Vail Weymann*

Other Gifts

Julia Anderson Frankel

CLASS OF 1966 20%

Susan Van Sicklen Calfee*

Ann Craig Hanson*

Susan Grupe dePolo

Paula Sullivan Escher

Mary Alice Cerrito Fettis

Cece Cotton Fowler*

Kathleen Kelsey Macker

Lucy Macneil

Ellen Mahoney

Therese Roos

Barbara Burton Szemborski

CLASS OF 1967 26%

Gay Callan*

Lauren Bechtel Dachs*

Carolyn Layton Garner-Reagan

Laurie Hammonds Schultz

Mary Whitney Kenney*

Melissa King

Katy Bates Kreitler

Ann Kuchins

Katharine Lewis

Melinda Bowman Manlin

Jeanette Caniglia Mazzarino

Rosalind Boswell Seysses

CLASS OF 1968 8%

Sharon Smith Bullard*

Nina Nickel Gladish

Terry Durkin Wilkinson

Mary Wynne

CLASS OF 1969 17%

Terry Whitney Baganz*

Elisabeth Bloomingdale Bell*

Pamela Walsh Coakley

Teresa Covington

Sandra Donnell*

Sugar Franich Filice

Anne Woolf Franson

Gail Frick

Caroline Farrar Grey

Karen Johnson Hixon

Lorna MacKay Smith

CLASS OF 1970 16%

Anne Munzer Bourne*

Marie Cantin*

Eleanor Hubbard

Shannon Gregory Mandel

Tina Hansen McEnroe

Suzanne Saunders Shaw

Melinda Montgomery Thomas*

Diana Whitesides

Other Gifts

Terryl Albert Levin*

CLASS OF 1971 34%

Anonymous (2)

Jenny Budge*

Marty-Jo Demetras

Candyce Keller Dormer

Erica Sullivan Fuller

Julie Garcia*

Lisa Coniglio Kaufmann

Kate McInerny

Carol Hamerly Moses

Elena Gates Motlow

Angela Nomellini*

Anne O’Leary

Nonie B. Ramsay*

Carmella Lagomarsino Renton*

Katherine Blair Rible

Christine Michel Spencer

Linda Perelli-Minetti Weber

CLASS OF 1972 23%

Class Agents

Donna Kolb

Karen List Letendre

Katie Finnegan Darnell

Victoria Johnson Foley

Sally Hansen Green

Madeline Hart Harris

Mary Myers Kauppila*

Karen List Letendre*

Connie Tirrell McEvoy

Susan Rasmussen McKeever*

Joan Maze Miles

Laura Knoop Pfaff

Jalynne Tobias Redman

Mary Eileen Reilley

Laurie Vibert Schofield*

Jennifer Godward Trainor

Betian Webb

Dana Turner Witmer

Other Gifts

Louise Harris

Mary Morris Miller

CLASS OF 1973 16%

Teresa Barger

Suzanne Bryan*

Lucy Butler

Virginia Croswhite

Anne Cochran Frischkorn

Mary Golden

Tina Greene

Sarah Haskell

Mary Biaggi McEachern

Cynthia Nadai

Other Gifts

Justine Schmidt Bloomingdale

CLASS OF 1974 15%

Margaret Miller Brown

Sally Fay

Randi Stroud Fisher*

Suzanne Dragge Icaza

Elizabeth Nomellini Musbach

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien

Elizabeth Pollock Scimone

Angela Tirrell

Lisa Cavanaugh Wiese*

CLASS OF 1975 17%

Roe Brown-Arn*

Christine Blom Gomez*

Frances Hartwell

Tracy Miller Hass*

Cecily Marble Hintzen

Elizabeth Leach

Caroline Owen

Sarah Colmery Preston

Nancy Williams Shea*

Joan Weakley*

Yolanda Mitchell West

Kimberly Wright-Violich

Other Gifts

Deanna Duoos Davis

Jean Jagels Vaughn

CLASS OF 1976 19%

Anonymous

Nancy MacGregor Bennetts

Gnarity Levin Burke

Marge Ganz

Gretchen Greenwood

Phyllis Weyerhaeuser Griggs

Cynthia Willoughby Haueter

Eileen Hemphill-Haley

Susan Haber Hinstorff

Mia Homan*

Kate Dentoni Mitchell*

Nicole Nedeff

Lorie Dillingham Rosenwald

Kelly Poundstone Small

Kimberly Wilson Smith

Other Gifts

Mary Kay Duoos Davis

CLASS OF 1977 19%

Courtney Benoist

Anne Bryan*

Amy Callery Davidson

Frances McDonald DeSouza

Annette Fulstone*

Jameen Wesson Jacoby*

Joy Franich Maze*

Lisa Bozzo Orlandini

Julie Power Pantiskas

Sandi Fleishhacker Randall*

Hope Waterbury

CLASS OF 1978 8%

Julie Yurkovich Forrest*

Maddie Homan Blanchard

Nora McNeely Hurley

Sally O’Neill Tich*

Other Gifts

Andrea Duoos Radomski

CLASS OF 1979 7%

Diane Ryan Adams

Cass Slaughter Antle*

Leeanne Chappell

Shirley Childs Kelly Class Agent

CLASS OF 1980 15%

Franca Gargiulo

Margaret Spraggins Drust

Robin Gagos Dengá

Franca Gargiulo*

Ellen McGuire Gaucher*

Julie Lambert*

Amy Kajikuri Martinetto* Dana DePuy Morgan

Laure Woods

Other Gifts

Leslie Duoos Muzzio

CLASS OF 1981 28%

Reunion Class Agent

Lil McDonald Manthoulis

Class Agent

Kathleen McGrath Schumacher

Anonymous

Louise Diepenbrock Baker

Monica Stewart Baker

Angelyn Bass

Teresa Booth

Michelle Bradley-Chittano

Jennifer Burns

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

Lea Carano Carroll

Kathleen Mahaney Daniel

Karen Gladstone Dawson

Laura Farrior

Brooke Meyers Hamilton

Sara Bingaman Leake

Deborah Thompson Lee

Janet Fergusson Leighton

Laura Lyon Gaon*

Lil McDonald Manthoulis

Melanie Mathews

Kathleen McGrath Schumacher*

Lillis Grove Stern

Molly Hogan Vatinel

Angela Evans Vaughan

Leslie Walker

CLASS OF 1982 10%

Lynn Gawthrop Bouck

Deborah Etienne*

Elizabeth Skinner Harney*

Kate Stockwell Hussey

Stacey Pruett Taddeucci*

Ulrike Devoto*

Danae Aplas Hansen

Pamela Hull Lewerenz

Sarah Smith Lucas

Barbra McFarland McCabe

Amy Hall McNamara

Judith McDonald Moses*

Sandra Barrett Perkin

Margi Bogart Power

Marissa Fung Shaw

Katharine Folger Yeager

CLASS OF 1987 19%

Susan Dalessio Batterton*

Kassandra Thompson Brenot*

Katherine Graham Devine

Cristina Manuguerra Gage

Carter Hachman Jackson*

Neera Monica Lal

Shannon McClennahan*

Ala Milani*

Kimberly Quinlan Bakker

Patricia Ham Salinero

CLASS OF 1990 7%

Class Agent

Hope Morgan

Caroline Guardino

Hillary Hudis Madge

Jana Novak

Kismet Thompson Roberts

CLASS OF 1991 16%

Reunion Class Agent

Marita Quint Bruni

Marita Quint Bruni

Lynn Chan Cheong*

Alison Morey Garrett

Molly Martin Hirschfield

Bernadette Lussier

Carrie Elise Rodella

Other Gifts

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis*

Branda Wang

CLASS OF 1995 14%

Catherine Balagtas

Lloyd Dollar

Gianna Franzia*

Lindsay Heller

Courtney Golding Jones

Christina-Mai Takahashi Just

Caroline Barkan Wilkinson

Other Gifts

Lindsay O’Hara England

CLASS OF 1996 24%

Marisa Adams Adair

Airlie Anderson

Rebecca Conley-Brown

CLASS OF 1983 12%

Shannon Ryan Weber Michelle Degnan Ackert*

Patricia Cerisola-Mansi*

Virginia Harris Gable

Gretchen Mueller Burke*

Ibi Janko Murphy*

Mary Sutton Pinkus

Mary Miller Schoenheider

Other Gifts

Sarah Adams

CLASS OF 1984 3%

Class Agent

Joanne Van de Plas Viola

Kelly Hanley Coburn

Mary Looram Moslander

CLASS OF 1985 18%

Jamie Buffington Browne*

Andrea Cerisola

Laura May Everett*

Serena Fritz-Cope

Carolyn Kimble Larsen

Diane Ettleson Lowenstein

Shannon McCracken Milne

Karen Condon Patton

Kimberly Roberson

Celia Shelton Rogers

Hilary Wardle Schlossman

Kristen McLaughlin Tarrin

CLASS OF 1986 21%

Gretchen Zug Boyle

Maria Eugenia Garza de Jaime

Susan Smith Nixon*

Maria Wigmore

CLASS OF 1988 18%

Class Agent

Leslie Palmer Meyer

Pamela Ham Butler*

Elizabeth Duke-Molinski

Julie Lenherr Edson

Georgia Irwin Eisner*

Wendy Fuller

Fiona Dabney Grandi*

Jennifer Hoke

Meghann Mayer

Leslie Palmer Meyer

Michelle Oberle Odle

Serena Bennett Padian

Jennifer Pratt

Other Gifts

Kate Myers Brizius*

CLASS OF 1989 23%

Anonymous

Crystal Boyd*

Emily Palmer Browne

Francesca Cerisola

Tracy Taylor Everett

Kim Rudas Goerlitz

Jana Enos Henderson

Meredith Burke Lawler*

Erica Bailey Luoma

Stacey Adams Montoya

Beth Russo Tarallo*

Barbara DiDonato Volkman

Sarah Clark Woolf

Audrey Keebler Scott

CLASS OF 1992 13%

Class Agent

Courtney Eaton Turner

Shashi Anand

Beth Luttrell Brookhouser

Leslie Hunt Johnson*

Shannon Lambremont Yvonne Simon Thalma Thais

Courtney Eaton Turner*

CLASS OF 1993 24%

Class Agent

Sarah Brown Goforth

Brett Davis Collins

Kahlil Thompson Coyle

Madeline Daniels-Rienecker

Sarah Brown Goforth

Galen Johnson

Sarah Folger Kilmain

Miranda Maison LeKander

Marisa Frank McArthur

Ellen McGlynn*

Corinne Quinn

I.V. Lacaillade Schmid

Shauna Cozad Willett

CLASS OF 1994 13%

Class Agent

Jennifer Fritz Morrison

Amy Smith Ainscough

Natalia Valpredo Fritz

Emily Gatch*

Audra Henry

Jenner Fritz Morrison

Kirstin Keresey Ducommun

Robin Roach Follett

Charity Haines

Sonia Sparolini Johnson

Katharina Brinks Lathen*

Kristen Carlson Maitland

Yvette Merchant Nichols

Jennifer Noble

Valerie O’Halloran

Joy Fischer Rorke

CLASS OF 1997 11%

Class Agents

Kate Lynch Jerkens

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer

Alexandra Baker

Rosella Coppel Bernal

Roberta Fernandez de Junco

Julie Sunoo Flanders

P. Samantha Lewis Rohwer*

Rebecca Lohse

Sarah McClendon

Gabriela Zaied Corella

CLASS OF 1998 5%

Langley Kreuze*

Kimberly Lewis Mundhenk

Melissa Babitzke Wolfe

CLASS OF 1999 14%

Anonymous (2)

Elisabeth Brinks Day*

Claudia De La Fuente

Whitney MacDonald Gough

Natalie Burke Hayes

Trish Nugent Lingamfelter

Alaina McDonald Sylvester

Lysbet Verlenden

2020-2021 annual report

CLASS OF 2000 12%

Class Agent

Abigail Bowen James

Kate Fagan

Lauren McCreery

Cameron Phleger

Autumn Quinn*

Sarah Allen Smay

Sarah Stillman

Dare Felchlin Sturges

CLASS OF 2001 14%

Caroline Collins Goldberg*

Anne Hilby*

Brogiin Keeton Diana Mak

Dorothy Najda Liza Wood Nebel

Gina Moro Nebesar

Patricia Weber Ortega

Astri Rahardja Kaija-Leena Romero

Other Gifts

Diana Ernst McKibben*

CLASS OF 2002 12%

Ilse Riebe Colby

Lara Wheeler Devlin

Sarah Kennifer Garrigues

Kate Gibson

Alexandra Irving Amy Azevedo Mulgrew

Jessica Shia

Catherine Ankenbauer Steinmetz

CLASS OF 2003 8%

Priscilla McCarthy Barolo Tedra Bates

Sara Mohsin

Thu-Anh Le Nguyen* Gabriella Raila

Alexandria Sutty*

CLASS OF 2004 8%

Marina Barcelo*

Julia Mackey Day

Elena Ebrahimian

Kendall Hoxsey-Onysko

Lauren Shia Madeline Callander

CLASS OF 2005 10%

Cristina Carnazzo*

Hadley Clark Childs

Shannon McKenna Megan Pollacci Cece Fourchy Quinn

CLASS OF 2006 7%

Anonymous Laura McKenzie Anna Lopez Mourlam

Lola Torney

CLASS OF 2007 3%

Brianne Slama

Jessica Wong Other Gifts

Caitlin Bryant Class Agent

CLASS OF 2008 10%

Martha Gustavson

Amy Campodonico-Burnett

Shannon Gaughf Dillon

Mallory Jebbia* Devan Kennifer

Sarah Luksik Masters

Cecelia Stewart

Other Gifts

Brita Sigourney

ALUMNAE REUNION AWARDS

THE TOP CLASS AWARD

Awarded to the reunion classes with the highest number of donors to the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1981

CLASS OF 2014 5%

Katherine Adams

Ana Inés Beatriz Borromeo

Kiley Gibbs

Katherine Hsu

Chloe Reimann

Other Gifts

CLASS OF 2010 9%

Brooklynn Moore Kathryn Callander

Christine Torrise Marotta* Caitlin McCann Genevieve Richards Colleen Zellitti

CLASS OF 2011 11%

Reunion Class Agents

Kristina Flathers Christina Quisno

Kathryn Avila

Cynthia Baricevic Kristina Flathers* Kelsey Player Anna Viviani Isabelle Williams*

CLASS OF 2012 4%

Class Agent Sarah Morris

Hakela Felton

CLASS OF 2015 7%

Katherine Kamel Giovanna Mitchell

CLASS OF 2016 14%

CLASS OF 2013 11%

Katharine Garcia* Glenna Pasinosky Class Agent Paisley Piasecki

Abigail Austin Madeline Clark Tamsen Forrest Kelsey Green Anne Haueter Tierney Hightower

THE CATALINA AWARD

Awarded to the reunion class that raises the most for the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1971

CLASS OF 2017 10%

Maya Pollack Livia Viviani Claire Cardona Lauren Garcia Rongshan Liu Alison Mody Emily Szasz Makenna Wallace Emma Williams Audrey Bennett Loleï Brenot

Sophia D’Amelio Emma Laurits Isabelle Redfield Cayleigh Capaldi Kari Jonsson Alison Peyton Emma Roffler Lillian Sato

CLASS OF 2018 8%

SISTER KIERAN PARTICIPATION AWARD

Awarded to the reunion class that has the highest participation in the Santa Catalina Fund.

Class of 1961

CLASS OF 2009 3% * denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

CLASS OF 2019 16%

Class Agent

Molly Gilbert

Molly

Gilbert

Katharine Huebner

Kacey Konya

Audrey Louise Nixon

Emalia Partlow

Alicia Rector

Erika Schwerdfeger

CLASS OF 2020 8%

Class Agents

Lauren Mansour Yushan (Chanel) Sun

Bailey Brewer

Damiera Cruz

Taylor Ford

Uma Sinha

CLASS OF 2021 32%

Anonymous

Hannah Adeyemi

Dylan Barry-Schoen

Allison Berkowitz

Marina Butler Cerisola

Anna Cole

Auggie Davis

Maria Del Bosque Villarreal

Grace Gaon

Ren Gebreamlak

Jane Hoffman

Airey Jones

Nicole Korinetz

Yoojung (Christina) Kwon

Elizabeth Miki

Madeline Mizgorski

Sarah Sallee Sarah Scheetz

Ingrid Yu

STUDENT GIFTS

Yue (Annika) Liu ’22

Marisa Adams Adair ’96, ’92 LS

Airlie Anderson ’96, ’92 LS

Anonymous (3)

Cass Slaughter Antle ’79, ’75 LS*

Roe Brown-Arn ’75, ’71 LS*

Tedra Bates ’03, ’99 LS

Christine Belleci ’81 LS*

Audrey Bennett ’17, 13 LS

Sally Hansen Green ’72, ’68 LS

Jenifer Jacobs Bolger ’92 LS

Teresa Booth ’81, ’77 LS

Gretchen Zug Boyle ’86, ’82 LS

Michelle Bradley-Chittano ’81, ’77 LS

Loleï Brenot ’17, 13 LS

Bailey Brewer ’20, ’16 LS

Elisabeth Brinks Day ’99, ’95 LS*

Beth Luttrell Brookhouser ’92, ’88 LS

Jamie Buffington Browne ’85, ’81 LS*

Michael Bruno ’82 LS*

Maximilian Burke ’15 LS

Oliver Burke ’12 LS*

Pamela Ham Butler ’88, ’84 LS*

John Compagno ’82 LS

Judy Nagel Cox ’61, ’57 LS*

Sophia D’Amelio ’17, ’13 LS

Kathleen Mahaney Daniel ’81, ’77 LS

Katherine Graham Devine ’87, ’83 LS

Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02, ’98 LS

Deborah Etienne ’82, ’78 LS*

Sara Fargo ’61, ’57 LS*

Julie Sunoo Flanders ’97, ’93 LS

Kristina Flathers ’11, ’07 LS*

Tamsen Forrest ’13, ’09 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*

Ren Gebreamlak ’21, ’17 LS

Kiley Gibbs ’14, ’10 LS

Kelsey Green ’13, ’09 LS

Laurie Hammonds Schultz ’67, ’63 LS

Elizabeth Skinner Harney ’82, ’78 LS*

Hope Hayward ’79 LS

Eleanor Hubbard ’70, ’66 LS

Sonia Sparolini Johnson ’96, ’92 LS

Lower and Middle School Alumni

Courtney Golding Jones ’95, ’91 LS

Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS*

Elizabeth Leach ’75, ’71 LS

Sara Bingaman Leake ’81, ’77 LS

Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS*

Melinda Bowman Manlin ’67, ’63 LS

Christine Torrise Marotta ’10, ’06 LS*

Amy Kajikuri Martinetto ’80, ’76 LS*

Sarah Luksik Masters ’08, ’04 LS

Tina Hansen McEnroe ’70, ’66 LS

Laura McKenzie ’06, ’02 LS

Michel McMahan ’84 LS Nicki McMahan*

Ala Milani ’87, ’83 LS*

Madeline Mizgorski ’21, ’17 LS

Judith McDonald Moses ’86, ’82 LS*

Mary Looram Moslander ’84, ’80 LS

Anna Lopez Mourlam ’06, ’02 LS

Eric Mueller ’97 LS

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS*

Ibi Janko Murphy ’83, ’79 LS*

Gina Moro Nebesar ’01, ’97 LS

Emalia Partlow ’19, ’15 LS

Karen Condon Patton ’85, ’81 LS

Sheila Godwin Peavey ’56, ’52 LS

Alison Peyton ’18, ’14 LS

Megan Pollacci ’05, ’01 LS

Ryan Pollacci ’98 LS

Maya Pollack ’15, ’11 LS

Alicia Rector ’19, ’15 LS

Genevieve Richards ’10, ’06 LS

Kaija-Leena Romero ’01, ’97 LS

Sarah Sallee ’21, ’17 LS

Sarah Allen Smay ’00, ’96 LS

Margaret Stewart ’62, ’58 LS*

Erin Sullivan ’96 LS

Emily Szasz ’16, ’12 LS

Patrick Taddeucci ’05 LS

Jennifer Ann Harr Tonnis ’94, ’90 LS*

Anna Viviani ’11, ’07 LS

Livia Viviani ’15, ’11 LS

Eugenie Madden Watson ’56, ’52 LS*

Shannon Ryan Weber ’82, ’78 LS

Evelyn Williams ’19 LS* Hayden Williams ’18 LS*

Upper School Parents

Santa Catalina Fund Parent Committee Members

Class of 2021

Joanne Adeyemi

Paul Barlow

Robin Cole

Sharon Hoffman

Jason Korinetz

Leslie Lind

Joanne and Clemens Adeyemi

Julie Atkins*

Patricia and Paul Barlow

Michelle and Eric Borgomini*

Francesca Cerisola ’89 and Hans Dreifaldt

Robin and Alan Cole

Holly Pease and Eugene Davis

Sara and Brian Elkin

Bridget and Joseph Eyraud

Heather and Mike Givens

Sharon and Tyler Hoffman

Chunyang Zhang and Liping Hou

Cecile and J. Trent Jones

Karen and John Korinetz

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

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon*

Lauren and Randal Nickle

Holly and Edwin Scheetz

Elda and Eric Scott

Joanna and Ned Stork*

Erin and Jack Watson

Sarah and Chris Woolf (Sarah Clark ’89)

Wai Han and Chun Bun Yu

Class of 2022

Katy Dunlap

Georgiana Foletta

Maria Perez

Mary Sutton Pinkus ’83

Class of 2023

Rose Boe Dawn Ehmann

Jules Neikirk

Pam Yates

Iris and Rolando Postigo

Chris and Mark Sanchez

Lorraine and Michael Schimpf

Leah and Chris Steinbruner

Shannon Sullivan and Julie Skilton

Beth Russo Tarallo ’89*

Eric Tarallo

Kristin and Todd Templeman Alice and Warren Yenson

CLASS

Ying and Pradyumna Amatya

Anonymous (5)

Pamela and Fidelis Atuegbu Rose and Quintin Boe

Francesca Cerisola ’89 and Hans Dreifaldt

Zhiwen Mao and Zhi Hua Dai Dawn Ehmann

Whitney and Mario Enea

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

Sarah and Damon Goforth (Sarah Brown ’93)

Ahalia and Andres Herrera

Miriam Bernardi Gallo and Javier Jiménez Gutiérrez Ellen and Richard Juge

Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Jennifer and James Lee

Heather and Reynaldo Acosta Anonymous

Helen Bowen Blair

Hyori Lee and Jong-Ha Choi

Lily and Ryan Chun

Stefania and Guillaume Detrait

Katy and Jerry Dunlap

Georgiana and Wes Foletta

Cristina and Bryan Gage (Cristina Manuguerra ’87)

Marie and W. Joseph Gorum

Linda and Ken Harris

Niaomi and Jeff Hrepich*

Lindsay Lerable

Li Jiang and Heng Liu

Sabrina and James Maguire

Cristy and Jason Mehringer

Leslie and Joe Meyer (Leslie Palmer ’88)

Susanne and K.C. Nowak*

Natalie and David Palshaw

Maria Perez*

Roseanne and Dan Pierre Mary and Gary Pinkus (Mary Sutton ’83)

Victoria Vazquez and Matthew Meyer

Ala Milani ’87, ’83 LS*

Jenner and Andrew Morrison (Jenner Fritz ’94)

Jules Neikirk

Kit Nicholas

Kimiko Kato and Christian Reilly*

Connie and Blake Riley*

Nora and Salvador Ruiz

Andrea and Chris Shaw

Yu Xin and Yaxuan Xie

Lynn O’Neil Yeh and Cary Yeh Di Miao and Junde Yuan

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

Kathryn and Russell Brewer

Andrea Cerisola ’85

Robin and Andrew Clarke Elizabeth and Daniel Diaz*

Natalia and Clayton Fritz (Natalia Valpredo ’94)

Cindy Brodsky and Terrence Gargiulo ’82 LS*

Debbie and George Ginette*

Gloria and Richard Kim*

Ariana Tuggle and Erik Kruger

Neera Monica Lal ’87 and James Derbin Janelle Lamb

Lucia Luna

Nancy Gallo and Liam Madden Niki and Ty Nguyen

Class of 2024

Angelica Blatt Nancy Gallo Neera Monica Lal ’87

April McMillan and Radomil Novak

Cari and Chad Peets

Susan and Bill Ragsdale-Cronin

Nora and Salvador Ruiz

Xumei Zhu and Hua Shen

Erin Sullivan ’96 LS

Nicole and Christopher Ushakoff Zhen Hu and Bing Zou

Anonymous (3)

Domine and Michael Barringer*

Suzanne Garrett and Heath Biddlecome

Class of 2021 - Grade 8 Rebecca Green Deborah Kosmont

Class of 2023 - Grade 6

Isabella De Ranieri Megan Hurtado

Lower and Middle School Parents

Class of 2025 - Grade 4 Shelly Do Poulami Roy

Class of 2026 - Grade 3 Leslie Svetich

Class of 2027 - Grade 2 Jacob Ahrenstorff Nikki Ahrenstorff

Isabella De Ranieri

Jennifer Harty

Ginger and J.D. Aguilar Anonymous (2)

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

Heather Church

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis ’93)

Tricia Markusen and Denver Dale Shanna and Brian Denton

Tracy Gillette

Rebecca and Gregory Green Michael and Juan Guzman

Justine and Antonio Hernandez Rumyana and Alexander Iniakov* Deborah and Charles Kosmont*

Deborah and Kenny Peyton*

Melissa Ault Ricci and Robert Ricci

Jennifer Rudisill

Joshua Rudisill

Guadalupe Trejo Diaz

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

Laura and Brent Jorgeson

Gloria and Richard Kim*

Deborah and Charles Kosmont* Neera Monica Lal ’87 and James Derbin

Laura and Jago Macleod

Jane and Heath McOrist

Janna Aldrete-Morgan and Sean Morgan

Cindy and Gerry Munday Alicia and Daniel Pedersen

Stephanie and Aaron Pritchard Kimiko Kato and Christian Reilly* Michelle Rizzolo

Stefanie and Robert Skinner

Carla and Kristoffer Spencer Minghua and Andre Wong

Yi Wang and Yu Zhang

Mary and Dean Sims Sharmila and Kern Singh Nicole and Christopher Ushakoff Marie and Anthony Vasquez Minghua and Andre Wong

Beth and Kevin Brookhouser (Beth Luttrell ’92, ’88 LS)

Alexandria and Nicholas Bryant

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

Natalie and Seth Gibson

Merritt and Rogers Hawley

Leila and Christopher Ketterlinus

Anonymous (2)

Lisa and Dan Bradford Samantha and Harlan Bradley Sabrina Taylor and Albert Conner*

Adriana and William Hayward Courtney and Josh Jones (Courtney Golding ’95, ’91 LS)

Andi and Jason McCoy Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo ’02)

Sonda Frudden and Justin Pauly Jane and Justin Russo Zoya and Radoslav Sertov Mary and Dean Sims Carla and Kristoffer Spencer Nancy and Russell Trull

Nantz Family Foundation

Priyanka and Manish Patel

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Heidi and Jonathon Pratt*

Lissette and Mickey Roohbakhsh Heather and Adam Serrano

Monica and Jeremy Silk Stephanie and Greg Zelei

Lisa and David Alderson* Anonymous (4)

Nicole and Roy Ballesteros

Michelle and Eric Borgomini*

Samantha and Harlan Bradley Heather Church

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly* Stefania and Guillaume Detrait

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

Andi and Jason McCoy

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

Roseanne and Dan Pierre Jamie and Stewart Roth*

Marie and Anthony Vasquez

Joella Szabo and Thomas Zewert

Anonymous (2)

Jenifer and Jeffrey Bolger (Jenifer Jacobs ’92 LS)

Lisa and Dan Bradford Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis ’93)

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly* Bridget and Joseph Eyraud Sarah and Matt Kline Jaason Lease

Ikuko and Mike Minami Heidi and Jonathon Pratt*

Connie and Blake Riley* Sharmila and Kern Singh Rong Yuan and Jun Yao

Courtney and Chris Adamski Anonymous (2)

Jenifer and Jeffrey Bolger (Jenifer Jacobs ’92 LS)

Shelley and Cristofer Cabanillas Maria Canteli and Anthony Gannon* Maria and Alejandro Centurion Ragnhild and Stian Goeransson

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

Laura and Brent Jorgeson Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo ’02)

Christine Rochon and Camillo Paci

Courtney and Chris Adamski

Clarisa and Alfred Avila

Nicole and Roy Ballesteros

Alexandria and Nicholas Bryant Debra and Jonathan Burke

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Laura and Justin Clark

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly*

Emily and Jon Greco

Marta Karpiel and Andre Herrera Shelly Do and Luc Nguyen

Michelle and Frederick Omidi Christine Rochon and Camillo Paci

Anna and Patrick Paquin

Melissa and Nicolas Villegas Kimberly and Wyatt Young

Courtney and Chris Adamski Anonymous

Samantha and Harlan Bradley Lupita and Micheal Cepeda Kim and Bart Cutino

Courtney and Chris Adamski Kyung Oh and Thomas Ahn

Anonymous

Amy and Michael Brandt

Kim and Bart Cutino

Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales

Emily and Jon Greco

Judy Zhu and Leif Johnston

Shannon and Zach Koontz

Alexis Lauderdale Jane and Heath McOrist Shelly Do and Luc Nguyen Poulami and Avishek Roy

Anna and Patrick Paquin Julee and Jeffrey Peterson Poulami and Avishek Roy Jennifer Rudsill

Joshua Rudisill

Tara Ryan

Melissa and Randy Sheets*

Anonymous

Beth and Kevin Brookhouser (Beth Luttrell ’92, ’88 LS)

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Nantz Family Foundation

Stella Asuquo and Jose Rodriquez Stephanie and Greg Zelei

Santa Catalina Fund Parent Committee Members

Friends of Santa Catalina

Jeffrey and Katherine Congdon

Charitable Trust, a Donor Advised Fund of The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust

Cindy and Joe Connolly Lenore and Dennis Cosgrove Debra and George Couch Joanne Fontanilla and Bix Cruz Bella and Bert Cutino

Katie and Gary Darnell (Katie Finnegan ’72)

Deirdre Darst

Heidi and Philip Daunt*

Linda Davey

Mary Deakyne

Susan and Lawrence dePolo (Susan Grupe ’66)

Guinevere and Joseph Domingues Joan and Richard Doust

Margaret Rosenberg Duflock ’59*

Ellen and Tom Dunnion* Lia and Herm Edwards* Deborah and Dirk Etienne (Deborah ’82, ’78 LS)*

Arlene and Hayden Evans Cornelia and James Farley, Jr. Mariana Avalos-Feehan and Patrick Feehan

Gloria Felice ’54*

D.D. and Paul Felton*

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

Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

Julie and Michael Forrest (Julie Yurkovich ’78)*

Ceseli and Hugh Foster* Anne and Donald Franson, Jr. (Anne Woolf ’69)

Marilyn and Joseph Franzia Serena Fritz-Cope ’85 Mary and Howard Fuchs* Annette Fulstone ’77*

Georgia Fulstone

Liz and Scott Hulme*

Nancy Hunt*

Ben and Walter Hussman

Jameen and Jon Jacoby (Jameen Wesson ’77)*

Patricia and Stephen Jensen Edward Johnson

Anna and Jackie Johnson

Sheila Johnson ’65

Lee and Theodore Jonsson

Yuki and Isao Kato*

Roxana Earley-Keland and Harold Keland

Bridget and Edward King

Faye and George Kitchens

Patti and Stephen Kolb

Lesley and Ken Konya

Raimie Kriste

Laraine Kvitek*

Lois Lagier

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

Katie Martin and David Laurits

Denese Sanders Leonard and William Leonard

Sybil Frances Levin

Pamela and John Lewerenz (Pamela Hull ’86)

Ling Zhu and Yingmin Liu

Bonnie Lockwood and Rick Rayle

Gloria Logan

Katherine Howard Loparco ’58

Rebecca and Jeff Lorentz

Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.

Julie and Mark Ludviksen

Janet and Daniel Luksik*

Jackie Lynch

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

Ellen Mahoney ’66 and Luther Cobb

Pat and Salvatore Maiorana

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

Parents of Alumnae/i and Grandparents

Robin and John Aimé*

Lili and Alejandro Airada

Lena Allen

Margaret and Sergio Alvarez*

Beatriz and Joseph Andrade

Ashley and William Andrews Anonymous (6)

Cass and Mike Antle

(Catherine Slaughter ’79, ’75 LS)*

Kathleen and Stephen Azevedo*

Velma and Ted Balestreri

Karen and Dave Basham

Angelyn Bass ’81

Sharon Bates*

Diane and William Belanger, Jr. Christine Belleci ’81 LS*

Sara Liu and James Bennett*

Mary and Richard Berry*

Brenda and Philip Bhaskar*

Michelle and Garrett Blake*

Pat and Bill Bokermann*

Leslie Bowlus

Kassandra and François Brenot (Kassandra Thompson ’87)*

Camille and Heinrich Brinks

Patricia Bristow

J’Amy Maroney Brown ’63*

Emily and Christopher Browne (Emily Palmer ’89)

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

Tina and Mike Bruno

Jane and John Buffington

Barbara Bundy*

Theodore Burke

Doris and John Callaghan

Gay Callan ’67 and George Stone*

Sally and Lewis Cantor

Leigh and Domenick Capaldi

Jeffrey Cappo

Denise and Kevin Cardona*

Julie Carson*

Diane and Jeff Cerf*

Patricia and Pedro Cerisola

Christa and Dikran Chamlian

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Catherine Compagno*

Robin Gagos Dengá ’80 and Tracie Dengá Lynn and Frank Garcia* Barbara and Calvin Gatch Bernadette and Mark Gersh Kathy and Matthew Gibbs* Patricia and Jonathon Giffen Lissa and Keith Gilbert Stacey and Ted Golding Margaret and Fred Goldsmith Wendy and Ronald Gong Crispina and Sol Gonzalvo Jane Howard Goodfellow ’56*

Linda and Robert Gould*

Robert Greenfield* Nancy and Philip Greer Louise Audet and Paul Griffin Kim Whitney and Jim Griffith Elizabeth and Harlan Grogin Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judi Musto Hachman ’61)*

Laurie Hammonds Schultz ’67, ’63 LS

Gavin Halvorson

Tonya Halvorson

Cheryl and Ron Hardy

Tamara and Reuben Harris

Bryan Harty

David Hatton

Cynthia and Eric Haueter (Cynthia Willoughby ’76)

Paula and Bruce Hilby*

Eugenia Hoyne

Tracy and Christian Huebner Dede and Steven Huish

Lydia and Bryan Mansour*

Elizabeth Marrack and Dean Partlow

Gael Loris and Daniel Marrah

Sarah and Robert Martin

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

Kirsten and Timothy McCarthy

L. Douglas McKenzie and Susan Carlisle

Nancy and Robert McLeod Michel McMahan ’84 LS and Jason Camara

Nicki and Michael McMahan*

Amy and Michael McNamara (Amy Hall ’86)

Kimberly Merrick-Hlasny and Thomas Hlasny*

Rita and Bud Mertens

Francine Hilaire-Miller and Arvid Miller

Kelly and Carl Miller

Molly Slete and Luen Miller

Maria Dulay and Tarak Mody*

Penny Morris*

Kelly Ann and David Morrow

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

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

Gay and Jim Mulgrew

Willa and Ned Mundell*

Josephine and Richard Nalchajian

Phyllis and Karl Nicholas

Milan Coleman ’22

THE SANTA CATALINA

FUND

is an integral part of our school’s operating budget. Apart from tuition, our key sources of revenue are generated by support for the Santa Catalina Fund (5% of the school’s budget) and through income from the endowment (7% of the school’s budget). When you support Santa Catalina, you are investing in our students so they can follow their ambitions, achieve their Full potential with purpose, and be unstoppable in their drive to serve others.

Mary and David Nikssarian

Nancy and Robert Nolan

Lucinda and Walter Owen

Jeannine Pacioni

Victoria and Carl Palminteri Ann and Richard Patterson*

Betsey and Stephen Pearson Michelle and Matt Pedroni Margaret and Thomas Pfalzer

Janice Pine*

The Mark Pollacci Family*

Joy and Mel Pritchard

Rita and Tony Pruthi Wendy and Victor Ramirez* Karen and George Rathman*

J. Peter Read, Jr.

Roger Rector

Dorothy Talbot and Marcus 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

Regina Angwin-Riordan and Thomas Riordan

Margaret Rizzolo

Joanne and William Robbins*

Corinne and Michael Roffler

Judith and Tom Romans

Melanie and Anthony Rosa

Susan Cluff and Neil Rudolph*

Maria and Anthony Salameh

Margaret and Jim Scattini

Carolyn and David Schanzer

Kathleen and Rick Schumacher (Kathleen McGrath ’81)*

Susan and Stephen Schwerdfeger

Miriam Schwertfeger*

Laurie Severs*

Kimberley and Scott Sheffield

Uday Sinha

Vicki and John Sinnhuber

Susan Smith Nixon ’87*

Karine Snyder Lyon*

Kathy Sparolini*

Ann Wright and Robert Stallard Camille Annotti Stevens ’57*

Nancy Sweetland

Carol Swig

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett ’82)*

Dianne and William Takahashi

Linda and Bruce Taylor

Melinda and Kurt Thomas (Melinda Montgomery ’70)*

Allene and Dwight Thompson

Linda and Roger Thompson*

Cherie and Glenn Topper

Stephanie Torney

Virginia Sanseau

Francesca and Robert Torrise*

Wendy and Richard Tugend*

Nancy and Roy Ulrich

Molly Hogan Vatinel ’81

Kathy Mares and Joseph Walter

Frederick Weakley*

Linda Perelli-Minetti Weber ’71

Sylvie and William Whipple

Erin and Fred White IV*

Brooksley and Darren Williams*

Susan and Thomas Williams*

Dana and Theodore Witmer (Dana Turner ’72)

Judy Wong and Family

A. Gordon Worsham*

Stacie and Stephen Worsham*

Kimberly Wright-Violich ’75

Pamela and Kurt Yeager*

Lynn O’Neil Yeh and Cary Yeh

Constance and Graham Yost*

Margaret Yu*

Stephanie Steele and Mark Zalin

Friends of Santa Catalina School

Katherine Albertini

Alexander Andrade Anonymous (3)

Robert Balles*

Sister Claire Barone*

Meg Bradley and George Choquette Kathey Burcar*

Adelle and Nassif Burkhuch

Rosemarie Capodicci

Heather and Brendan Daly Elena DeLeon

Francesca Eastman and Edward Goodstein

Lori Heinzen

Judy and Craig Hill

Eileen and Paul Klein

Barbara and Harry Last Lindsay Longe

Susan Merrill

Ashley Moranda

Vivian Morgan Hayworth

Melissa Pinheiro

Alexandra and Frederick Pollock

Sister Christine Price*

Paul Roehl

Kathleen Ryan* Mary Ellen Ryan

Jeremy Sandler*

Elizabeth Schetroma

Courtney Shove*

Jane Stile

Larry Tartaglino Jane Tucker*

Susan and Burt Yaszay

Faculty and Staff

Santa Catalina Fund Volunteers

Paul Elliott

Susan Kendall

Amy Azevedo Mulgrew ’02

Heidi Pratt

John Aimé*

Amy Aldrich-McAfee*

Anonymous (10) Julie Atkins* Ange Atkinson Jaime Ball

Jessica Bangham

Brenda Bhaskar*

Crystal Boyd ’89*

Meg Bradley Kassandra Thompson Brenot ’87*

Jamie Buffington Browne ’85, ’81 LS*

Debra Burke

Katherine Busch Maria Canteli*

Jon Christensen

Theresa Clarkson

Nicole Cofresi

Bo Covington*

Alan De Villiers*

Lara Wheeler Devlin ’02, ’98 LS

Shannon and Ross Dillon (Shannon Gaughf ’08)

Susan Dodd*

Julia Dubiel

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88

Paul Elliott*

Jeannie Evers Marisa Flores

Christine Ford

Maggie Frey

Katherine Gaggini

Lauren Genasci

Jacqueline Gibbs

Chris Haupt* John Hazdovac*

Stephanie Hill

Liz Hulme*

Nancy Hunt* Beth Jones

Ronald Kellermann

Susan Kendall*

Gloria Kim*

Sarah Kline

Vanessa Krabacher

Claire Lerner*

Susan Lin

Layne Littlepage* Janet Luksik*

Lucia Luna

Lydia Mansour*

Michael Marcotti*

Michael Marquez

Lisa Marrack

Louis Maschio* Ana Maximoff

Kimberly Merrick-Hlasny* Ala Milani ’87, ’83 LS*

Kelly Miller

Debbie Montes* Jim Morton*

Michele Morton*

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS*

Amy Azevedo Mulgrew ’02

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

Susanna Wilcox and Peter Myers

Sandy Nunnally*

Broeck Oder

Sarah Paff*

Dan Place*

Christy Pollacci*

Heidi Pratt*

Stephanie Pritchard

Mark Purcell

Bill Ragsdale-Cronin

Christian Reilly*

Connie and Blake Riley*

Melissa Sheets*

Brianne Slama ’07

Gabrielle Snowden

Kathy Sparolini*

Paulette Struckman*

Lauren Taddeucci

Marisa Tonini*

Fredy Tovar

Dalton Trotter

Alison Valentine

Betty Van Wagenen

Zach VanHarn

Katey Verweij

Randy Whitchurch*

Erin and Fred White IV*

Susan Williams*

Helen Young

Larisa Young Colleen Zellitti ’10

Aaron Ziegler

Corporations, Businesses, and Organizations

Adobe Allied World Assurance Company

The Bishop Harry A. Clinch

Endowment

Costco Wholesale Corporation

E Scrip Rebate

FIRST Genentech

Google Matching Gifts Program*

Monday Morning Quarterback Club

Neuberger Berman Group LLC

Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Program

SVB

TY Ink Promotions, Inc.

United Way California Capital Region

Gifts in Kind

Louise Diepenbrock Baker ’81

Mary Bell

Lynda Campbell

Hannah and Kevin Comolli

Mary Kay Duoos Craig ’76

Deanna Duoos Davis ’75

D.D. and Paul Felton

Monika Howell

Abigail and Albert Janko

Raimie Kriste

Tina Hansen McEnroe ’70, ’66 LS

Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo ’02)

Leslie Duoos Muzzio ’80

Brandon Naylor

Andrea Duoos Radomski ’78

Monica Small

Patricia Allen Sparacino ’65

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

Athletics

Santa Catalina School Golf Tournament Di Miao and Junde Yuan

Chapel

Patricia Bondesen-Smith ’54*

The Bishop Harry A. Clinch Endowment

COVID-19 Relief

Courtney and Chris Adamski

Robin and John Aimé*

Lisa and David Alderson*

Priscilla McCarthy Barolo ’03

Sister Claire Barone*

Brenda and Philip Bhaskar*

Angelica and Marshal Blatt*

Patricia Bondesen-Smith ’54*

Helen Bowen Blair

Samantha and Harlan Bradley

Kassandra and François Brenot (Kassandra Thompson ’87)*

Tina and Mike Bruno

Shelley and Cristofer Cabanillas

Laura and Justin Clark

Robin and Alan Cole

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly*

Elizabeth and Daniel Diaz*

Shannon and Ross Dillon (Shannon Gaughf ’08)

Margaret Spraggins Drust ’80

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88

Sara and Brian Elkin

Sara Fargo ’61, ’57 LS*

Laura Farrior ’81

Sally Fay ’74

D.D. and Paul Felton*

Franca Gargiulo ’80, ’76 LS*

Natalie and Seth Gibson

Ragnhild and Stian Goeransson

Sarah and Damon Goforth (Sarah Brown ’93)

Emily and Jon Greco

Tina Greene ’73

Danae Aplas Hansen ’86

Adriana and William Hayward Hope Hayward ’79 LS

Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation

Marta Karpiel and Andre Herrera

Molly Martin Hirschfield ’91

Liz and Scott Hulme*

Sonia Sparolini Johnson ’96, ’92 LS

Ellen and Richard Juge

Gloria and Richard Kim*

Shannon and Zach Koontz

Janet and Daniel Luksik*

Laura and Jago Macleod

Lydia and Bryan Mansour*

Kirsten and Timothy McCarthy

Shannon McClennahan ’87*

Leslie and Joe Meyer (Leslie Palmer ’88)

Janna Aldrete-Morgan and Sean Morgan

Carol Hamerly Moses ’71

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

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

Nantz Family Foundation

Anne O’Leary ’71

Jeannine Pacioni

Ann and Richard Patterson*

Sister Christine Price*

Elizabeth Holt Protell ’64* Corinne Quinn ’93

The Reveas Foundation

Melissa Ault Ricci and Robert Ricci

Connie and Blake Riley*

Corinne and Michael Roffler Lissette and Mickey Roohbakhsh Jamie and Stewart Roth*

Tara Ryan

Heather and Adam Serrano Monica and Jeremy Silk Stefanie and Robert Skinner Kathy Sparolini* Carol Swig

Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett ’82)*

Restricted and Capital Gifts

Linda and Roger Thompson* Marie and Anthony Vasquez Molly Hogan Vatinel ’81

Katey Verweij Leslie Walker ’81

Yolanda Mitchell West ’75 Laure Woods ’80

Faculty Anonymous

Brett and James Collins (Brett Davis ’93)

Kathy and Matthew Gibbs* Katharina Brinks Lathen ’96* Deborah and Kenny Peyton* Corinne and Michael Roffler

Head of School’s Discretionary Fund Anonymous (3)

Lower and Middle School

Classrooms for Grades 1-3

Cara and Peter Butler

Lindsay Lerable Ashley Moranda

The Mark Pollacci Family* Cristin and Michael Shute Stefanie and Robert Skinner

Lower School Tuition Assistance Support Pebble Beach Company Foundation

Ocean Guardian Fund

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

PreK and Kindergarten Renovation

Anonymous Jeffrey Cappo Nantz Family Foundation Deborah and Kenny Peyton* Kimberley and Scott Sheffield

Prize Day Awards

Robert Balles*

Robotics FIRST

Wendy and Ronald Gong

The LaureL STEM Fund Laure Woods ’80

The Sister Mary Kieran Library Renovation Project

Anonymous

Helen Bowen Blair

Phoebe Day ’22

Sara and Brian Elkin

The Frankel Family Foundation Julia Anderson Frankel ’65 and Russell Frankel

The David B. and Edward C. Goodstein Foundation

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

The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation

Mary and Gary Pinkus (Mary Sutton ’83)

E.L. Wiegand Foundation

Technology Ann Mather and Timothy Gonzales

Tuition Assistance

Judith Botelho Cain ’60* Jeffrey Cappo

The William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

Joan Stafford Haynes ’60* Jean Perkins Foundation*

Upper School Marine Science Program

Randi and Bob Fisher (Randi Stroud ’74)* Pisces Foundation

Matching Gift Donors

Anonymous

Lisa and Dan Bradford

Kathleen Brown ’63*

Lupita and Micheal Cepeda

Arlene and Vance Coffman

Jennifer and Brendan Connolly*

Tierney Hightower ’13

Katharina Brinks Lathen ’96*

Rebecca Lohse ’97

Laura and Jago Macleod Victoria Vazquez and Matthew Meyer

Thu-Anh Le Nguyen ’03* Autumn Quinn ’00* Kathleen and Rick Schumacher (Kathleen McGrath ’81)* Susan Smith Nixon ’87* Branda Wang ’94

Alice and Warren Yenson

Trusts and Foundations

AmazonSmile Foundation Anonymous (2)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program

The John M. Bryan Family Fund*

The Florence V. Burden Foundation

The William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

The Clorox Company Foundation

The Danielson Foundation

Memorial Gifts

In memory of Shay Adams Amy and Kirk Mulgrew (Amy Azevedo ’02)

In memory of Deborah Bates Tedra Bates ’03, ’99 LS

In memory of Cam Bedell Bartley ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

The Justin Dart Family Foundation*

eBay Foundation

The Robert F. Ford Charitable Foundation

The Grey Family Foundation

Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation Hazel Foundation

Jean Perkins Foundation*

Ladera Foundation

The LaureL STEM Fund

Manitou Fund

Monterey Peninsula Foundation

The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation*

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Pebble Beach Company Foundation

PG & E Corporation Foundation*

Pisces Foundation

The Reveas Foundation

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation*

Starbucks Foundation Grants*

The Sweetland of Freedom Foundation

In memory of Merle and Lucille Bowman Melinda and Michael Manlin (Melinda Bowman ’67, ’63 LS)

In memory of Dr. Carl Edward Bozzo Lisa Bozzo Orlandini ’77

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 Ola Butler ’92 Shannon Lambremont ’92

In memory of Timothea Berdge Campbell ’62 Gail Dowling Goettelmann ’62

In memory of Pauline and Gilles Cantin Marie Cantin ’70*

In memory of Tony Capodicci Rosemarie Capodicci

In memory of John J. Carnazzo Cristina Carnazzo ’05*

In memory of Sheila Cassin ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Bob Colter Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS*

In memory of Anthony S. Compagno Catherine Compagno*

In memory of Glory Anne Hayes Condon Karen Condon Patton ’85, ’81 LS

In memory of Anna Conley Rebecca Conley Brown ’96

In memory of Margaret Brackenridge Dalis ’61

Barbara and Peter M. Folger* Mary-Allen Macneil ’61

In memory of Camila de la Llata ’08

Robin and John Aimé* Marina Barcelo ’04* Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08 Jim Morton*

In memory of Gretchen DeWitt Patricia Bondesen Smith ’54*

In memory of Kaysie Lindemann Duval ’86 Sandra and Greg Perkin (Sandra Barrett ’86)

In memory of Babcia Ela Dorothy Najda ’01

In memory of Kathy Donahoe Farrar ’66 Mary Alice and Nick Fettis (Mary Alice Cerrito ’66)

In memory of Anne James Ferrari ’93 Madeline Daniels Rienecker ’93 I.V. Lacaillade Schmid ’93

In memory of Noel Ferris ’66 Ann Craig Hanson ’66*

In memory of Abigail Folger ’61 Ghislaine de Give ’63

Barbara and Peter M. Folger* Caroline Harris Henderson ’61* Katharine Folger Yeager ’86

In memory of Mrs. Ines Mejia Folger

Anonymous

In memory of Tulita Kuchins Gibson ’68 Ann Kuchins ’67

In memory of Sister Jean Gilhuly Lori Heinzen

Allen S. Taylor Foundation Wilkinson Foundation * denotes 10 or more years

In memory of Donna Frantz Greenfield Robert Greenfield*

Lorenza Marquard ’24

In memory of Bianca P. Greenough ’93 Amy Smith Ainscough ’94 Madeline Daniels Rienecker ’93

In memory of Dolores Guardino Caroline Guardino ’90

In memory of Capt. and Mrs. John Adrian Hack Jinx Hack Ring ’60 and Peter Smith Ring

In memory of Natona Pope Hamilton ’72 Louise Harris ’72

In memory of Carol Hatton David Hatton

In memory of Dennis Joseph Hodges Ann Hodges Strickland ’65

In memory of Kathryn Prindiville Islip ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Sister Mary Kieran, O.P. Kit and Peter Bedford (Kirsten Nelson ’56)* Anne Hicks Kimball ’56

Bobbie Erro Marsella ’57* Mary Hills Miles ’62 Domie Garat Werdel ’60*

In memory of Pamela Parker Krasney ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Dolores Lambert Franca Gargiulo ’80, ’76 LS*

In memory of Fatima Larios ’13 Abigail Austin ’13

In memory of Jill Leach Mary Morris Miller ’72

In memory of Loran A. List, Jr. Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS* Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS*

In memory of Leon J. Lomax Laraine Kvitek*

In memory of Margaret L. Lotspeich, grandmother of Dena ’99 and Leah ’02 Patti and Stephen Kolb

In memory of Marta N. Lozano Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.

In memory of Mary Fergusson Lugg ’80 Monica Stewart Baker ’81 Janet Fergusson Leighton ’81

In memory of Amanda MacDonald ’93 Bambi and Robert Griffin

In memory of Helene de Baubigny Madeira Maddie Homan Blanchard ’78

In memory of Dr. and Mrs. Adrian Mandel Shannon Gregory Mandel ’70

In memory of Hazel Mantelli Patricia Bristow

In memory of Sandra Domich McCauley ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Katie Miller ’79 John Aimé*

In memory of Ethlyn Miller Mary Miller Schoenheider ’83

In memory of Connie Bentley Mitchell Yolanda Mitchell West ’75

In memory of Lorna Monroe

Susan Kendall* Mary and David Nikssarian Margaret and Jim Scattini Courtney Shove* Pamela and Kurt Yeager*

In memory of Shirley Glod Myers ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Joanne Nix Lynnea Larson Payne ’62

In memory of Jason Nixon, father of Audrey Nixon ’19 Audrey Louise Nixon ’19 Susan Smith Nixon ’87*

In memory of Judith Oates ’63 Trish Scott Williams ’63*

In memory of Sister Carlotta O’Donnell Laurie Vibert Schofield ’72* Karen and Martin Wiskoff

In memory of Mary Jane Connolly O’Fiel Kelly Ann and David Morrow

In memory of Mary O’Leary Katherine Albertini Mary and David Nikssarian Elizabeth Schetroma

In memory of Mark Pollacci Lena Allen The Mark Pollacci Family* Jean and Ron Pollacci Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

In memory of Emery Poundstone

Kelly Poundstone Small ’76

In memory of Ann Mahoney Pullman ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Richard Rhodes

Anonymous Sally and Lewis Cantor Carol Speegle Lannon ’55 Susan Merrill Betsey and Stephen Pearson

In memory of Jack Russo, Sr. Karen and Dave Basham

In memory of Maria Sanders ’80

Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS*

In memory of Julie Cheesewright Stimson ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Gerock H. Swanson

Frances Frawley Swanson ’63 Mr. and Mrs. W. Clarke Swanson, Jr.

In memory of James Teagardin Alan De Villiers*

In memory of Jean and Mark Thomas Julie Thomas Obering ’60*

In memory of Edith Andrews Tobin ’72 Sally Hansen Green ’72, ’68 LS Louise Harris ’72 Karen List Letendre ’72, ’68 LS*

In memory of Jane Tschannel Mary Eileen Reilley ’72

In memory of Kim Thoa Vu Thu-Anh Le Nguyen ’03*

In memory of Martcia Wade ’72 Louise Harris ’72

In memory of Hermengild Schnitzenberger Whiteside ’61 Barbara and Peter M. Folger*

In memory of Nora LeBrou Whitesides Diana Whitesides ’70

In memory of Martha Williams ’71 Nancy Williams Shea ’75

In memory of Jessica Yen ’92

Shannon Lambremont ’92 Courtney Eaton Turner ’92*

In memory of Harvey Hsing Min Yu Margaret Yu*

Miriam Riley ’23

Endowment Giving

At the end of Santa Catalina’s fiscal year on June 30, 2021, the value of our endowment was $56,997,000.

The Santa Catalina School Endowment for Unrestricted Support

$5,910,000

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

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon Audrey Keebler Scott ’91

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

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

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

Caroline Collins Goldberg ’01

Endowment for Tuition Assistance and Scholarship

$26,606,000

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

Ann Bryant

Caitlin Bryant ’07, ’03 LS

Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation

Anne Hilby ’01

Paula and Bruce Hilby

Florence Nixon ’64

Joy and Mel Pritchard In honor of Paige Pritchard ’23 LS

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving

In support of self-defense classes in honor of Caitlin Bryant ’07

Kelly Poundstone Small ’76

Jean Jagels Vaughn ’75

Kit Wai

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 Marilyn and Byron Riegel

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

The Bianca Patterson Greenough ’93 Memorial Endowment Fund Established in 1993

The Santa Margarita Scholarship Fund for Lower School Students Established in 1993 Kate and Bob Ernst Diana Ernst McKibben ’01, ’97 LS Charles and Marie Robertson Foundation

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 Louise Harris ’72 In memory of Natona Pope Hamilton ’72, Edith Andrews Tobin ’72, and Martcia Wade ’72

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 Bernice Brown Memorial Fund Established in 2003 Annenberg Foundation Countrywide Director’s Charitable Award Program Kathleen Brown ’63 Sempra Energy Foundation

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

The Kathryn E. O’Neill Memorial Endowment Fund for Financial Aid Established in 2009

The Robert and Alberta Tanous Memorial Endowment Fund Established in 2010

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

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

The Jessica Yen ’92 Memorial Endowment Fund for Tuition Assistance Established in 2016 Judy and Jackson Yen

The Roffler Family Endowment for Scholarship Established in 2016

The Vaquero Foundation Endowment for Tuition Assistance

Established in 2016 Stacey and Dominic Taddeucci (Stacey Pruett ’82)

Vaquero Foundation

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 Myers-Brizius Family Scholarship Fund Established 2017 Kate Myers Brizius ’88

The Veritas Fund Established in 2019 Anonymous (2)

The Maree Angelus Demetras Scholar Fund Established in 2020 Marty-Jo Demetras ’71

The Audrey and Don Dormer Scholarship Endowment Established in Loving Gratitude by Audrey Dormer Foraker ’78 Established in 2020

The Cathy Collins Geier ’78 and Bradley A. Geier Scholarship Endowment Established in 2020

The Vivian Porter Endowment for Tuition Assistance

Established in 2020

D.D. and Paul Felton Hakela Felton ’14

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rosenberg Scholarship Endowment established by their daughter Margaret Rosenberg Duflock ’59 Established in 2020

The Jeanne Sloane ’74 Scholarship Endowment Established in 2020

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

Pamela Fairbanks de Villaine ’60

Sister Cathryn deBack ’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

In memory of Emil–Mildred Ramos

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

71%

Established in 2017

Anonymous

Penelope Corey Arango ’61

Judy Nagel Cox ’61, ’57 LS

Sara Fargo ’61, ’57 LS

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Kathy Ryan Foy ’61

Pamela Gamble ’61, ’57 LS

Judith and Timothy Hachman (Judi Musto Hachman ’61)

Theresa Lowe Hall ’61

Nini Richardson Hart ’61

Caroline Harris Henderson ’61

Mary-Allen Macneil ’61

Edith Chase McDougal ’61

Maria Hart McNichol ’61

Victoria Street Medeiros ’61

Peter Musto In honor of Judith Musto Hachman ’61

Shirley Glod Myers ’61

Lissa and Wendel Nicolaus (Lissa Gahagan Nicolaus ’61) Daphne Gray Walsh ’61

The Sister Mary Kieran Scholarship Endowment Established by the 1950s Graduates

36%

Established 2018

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

Margaret McCann Grant ’57

Mardi Hack ’58

Julie Hutcheson ’59

Anne Hicks Kimball ’56

Wendy Burnham Kuhn ’59

Carol Speegle Lannon ’55

Irene May Lawler ’59

Yvonne Bernadicou Lyon ’55

Bobbie Erro Marsella ’57

Jeanne Nielsen Marshall ’54

Abigail McCann ’54

Deborah McCann ’59

Laurie Angel McGuinness ’53

Christina McCormick Merrill ’59

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 Rigny (Hansi de Petra ’59)

Dorothy Dwyer Schreiber ’59

Dr. Sally Sibley ’58

Camille Annotti Stevens ’57

Linda and James Theiring (Linda Kuenzli ’58)

Susan White Veninga ’59

Eugenie Madden Watson ’56

Kress Harris Whalen ’56

Marilyn Brown Wykoff ’59

Endowment for Faculty Salary Support and Enrichment $12,036,000

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

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

The Dowson Family Karen and Martin Wiskoff

The Ruth Carter Stevenson and Karen Johnson Hixon ’69 Chair for Mathematics Established in 2015

* denotes 10 or more years of consecutive giving

The Angela Nomellini ’71 Fund for Faculty Enrichment

Established in 2015

The Coffman Family Endowment Fund for Faculty Support Established in 2016

The Schwerdfeger Family Endowment for the Director of Summer Camp Established in Honor of Julie Yurkovich Forrest ’78 Established in 2017

Morgenthaler Science and Technology Fund Established in 2017 Eileen and Gary Morgenthaler

Endowment in Support of Religious Life

$660,000

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

The Justine Bloomingdale ’73 Lecture in Religion Established in 2003

The Fritz Family Roman Catholic Chaplain Fund Established in 2012

Endowment for Language Instruction

$283,000

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

$185,000

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

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 $2,771,000

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 Lindsay O’Hara England ’95

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

$1,288,000

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 $479,000

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

Grace Atkins ’21

Grace Atkins

Endowment for Special Purposes

$74,000

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

The Maura B. and Robert W. Morey, Jr. Endowment Fund Established in 1991

The Mark Pollacci Memorial Endowment for Lower and Middle School Athletics

Established in 2016

Jean and Ron Pollacci Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

Sister Claire and Sister Christine Endowment for Health and Wellness

Established in 2016

Anonymous (3)

Sister Claire Barone

The Burnham Foundation of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP

Cindy and Joe Connolly

Barbara and Peter M. Folger

Abigail and Albert Janko

Lynn LaMar

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

Mary Morris Miller ’72

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS and Justin Burke

Sister Christine Price

Caryll M. and Norman F. Sprague Jr. Foundation Rosalyn and Terrence Trapp

The IDEA Endowment In Support of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness at Santa Catalina School

Established in 2020

The Danielson Foundation

Endowment for Student Enrichment and Support $2,212,000

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

The Class of 2021

Meg Bradley and George Choquette

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 Robert Folger Miller

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 M. and Timothy J. Hachman (Judi Musto ’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

Julie Lambert ’80, ’76 LS

The Sisters’ Legacy Circle

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

The Estate of Laurie Angel McGuinness ’53

Susan Durney Mickelson ’65

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

Patricia and Robert Sparacino (Patricia Allen ’65)

The Estate of Edward J. Stachowiak

Laura Stenovec ’99

Constance Stevens

Natalie Stewart ’63

Diana Blackhall Talcott ’60

Louise and George Tarleton Larry Tartaglino

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.

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

2021 Celebrate Santa Catalina Contributors

Sarah Adams ’83 and Robert Fletterick

John Aimé

Annette Leach Alcocer ’75, ’71 LS

Clarisa Avila

Sister Claire Barone

Jeffrey Blair

Crystal Boyd ’89

Meg Bradley

Alexandria Bryant

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS

Gillian Burns

Rochelle Campo

Maria Canteli

John Cardinalli

Pamela and Aubert de Villaine (Pamela Fairbanks ’60)

Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88

Dawn Ehmann

Paul Elliott

Jeannie Evers

Amy Fallavena

Sabrina and Ryan Fieber

Todd Fisher

Dory Ford

Kelli Foy

Tali Fritz

Katie Gaggini

Nancy Gallo

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon

Sarah Brown Goforth ’93

Cristiane Gomes

Kelsey Green ’13, ’09 LS Adrienne Harris ’98

Jennifer Harty John Hazdovac

Kirkor Kocek Shannon Koontz

Deborah Kosmont

Liesel Kuehl

Layers Bakery Rebeca Ley ’94

Leslie Lind

Lydia Mansour

Virginia Maxwell

Bobby McLaughlin

Porsche Meyer

Ibi Janko Murphy ’83, ’79 LS

Jim Nantz

Kimberly Ockerlund

Peter O’Keefe

Holly Pease

Cari Peets

Maria Perez

Deborah Peyton Roseanne Pierre

Christian Pillsbury Mary Sutton Pinkus ’83

2021 Golf Tournament Contributors

John Aimé

Annette Leach Alcocer ’75, ’71 LS

Crystal Boyd ’89

Meg Bradley

Alexandria Bryant

Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, ’79 LS

Micheal Cepeda

Lily and Ryan Chun Kim Cutino

Shannon Gaughf Dillon ’08

Paul Elliott

Jeannie Evers

Sabrina and Ryan Fieber

Julie Sunoo Flanders ’97, ’93 LS Kelli Foy

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon

John Hazdovac

Niaomi and Jeff Hrepich

Liesel Kuehl

Mariel Levi

Leslie Lind

Virginia Maxwell

Bobby McLaughlin

Jane McOrist

Cindy Munday

Jennifer Murphy

Kimberly Ockerlund

Cari and Chad Peets

Jeffrey Peterson

Krista Pettas

Deborah and Kenny Peyton Bill Ragsdale-Cronin Joanna Rees Jennifer Rocha Jane Russo

Bill Ragsdale-Cronin

Jennifer Rocha

Sal Ruiz

Dominic Scattini ’14 LS

Lorraine and Michael Schimpf Elda Scott

Brita Sigourney ’08

Kathleen Trafton ’74 Nicole Ushakoff

Zach VanHarn

Katey Verweij

Susanna Wilcox

Heather Wilson

Denise and Dan Wood

Sarah Clark Woolf ’89

Sally Yang

Helen Young Colleen Zellitti ’10

Sabrina Taylor

Nicole Ushakoff

Zach VanHarn

Katey Verweij

Kevin Wasbauer

Cheryl Wecker

Susanna Wilcox

Heather Wilson

Denise and Dan Wood

Helen Young Colleen Zellitti ’10

Milan Coleman ’22

Tylor Mehringer ’22

Lower and Middle School Education Committee

Christy Pollacci, Chair

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Katharina Brinks Lathen ’96

Mary Nikssarian

Kenny Peyton

Kevin Brookhauser, Parent Rep Gr 1, PK

Dan Bradford, Parent Rep Gr 5, 3

Lupita Cepeda, Parent Rep Gr 6, K, PK

Roseanne Pierre, Parent Rep Gr 11, 7, 1

John Aimé, School Rep

Maria Canteli, School Rep

Chris Haupt, School Rep

Janet Luksik, School Rep

Lydia Mansour, School Rep

Amy McAfee, School Rep

John Murphy, School Rep

2020-21 Board of Trustees Committees

Upper School Education Committee

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88, Chair

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Charles Kosmont

Kenny Peyton

Victor Ramirez

Michelle Blake (non-Trustee)

John Aimé, School Rep

Katherine Busch, School Rep

Liz Hulme, School Rep

John Murphy, School Rep

Peter Myers, School Rep

Advancement Committee

Tracy Huebner, Chair

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Herm Edwards

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Edward King

Charles Kosmont

Mary Nikssarian

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74

Kenny Peyton Victor Ramirez

John Aimé, School Rep

Crystal Boyd ’89, School Rep

Jamie Buffington Browne ’85, ‘81 LS, School Rep

Janet Luksik, School Rep

Lauren Taddeucci, School Rep

Erin White, School Rep

Joanne Adeyemi

PD Amatya

Tricia Barlow

Nikki Barry Miriam Bernardi Gallo

Angelica Blatt

Helen Bowen Blair

Karen and Henry Brown Fleur and Tony Burke

Judy Chan and Christian Pillsbury Jong-Ha Choi Lily and Ryan Chun

Marta Elena Corona-LoMonaco and Eric LoMonaco

Edna Del Bosque

Katy and Jerry Dunlap Sara and Brian Elkin

2020–21 Admission Parent Welcome Committee

Bridget Eyraud Kelli Foy

Cristina Manuguerra Gage ’87

Laura Lyon Gaon ’81 and Rob Gaon

George Ginette Heather Givens

Chen Guo

Linda Harris

Lindsey Henrard Sharon Hoffman

Mary James

Javier Jiménez Gutiérrez

Deborah Kosmont

Yanula Kyriakis Avila

Neera Monical Lal ’87

Carolyn Kimble Larsen ’85

Jennifer Lee

Rebeca Ley ’94

Zhiyang Lin Leslie Lind

Rose Maina

Cristy Mehringer

Leslie Palmer Meyer ’88

Jenner Fritz Morrison ’94

Lauren Nickle

Ronesha Norwood-Coleman

Natalie and David Palshaw

Holly Pease

Fausto Perez

Maria Perez

Roseanne and Dan Pierre

Mary Sutton Pinkus ’83 Iris and Rolando Postigo

Nora and Sal Ruiz

Holly and Ned Scheetz

Lori and Michael Schimpf Chynell Scott

Elda and Eric Scott Andrea Shaw Lei Shi

Kristin and Todd Templeman Ningning Wang

Erin Watson

Sarah Clark Woolf ’89 Sally Yang Pamela Yates Joan Yu Zhiying Zhu

Board of Trustees

Laura K. Lyon ’81

Chair

Paul J. Felton

Vice-Chair

Matthew T. Gibbs II Vice-Chair

Carolyn Hartwell O’Brien ’74

Vice-Chair

Michael Roffler

Treasurer

Tracy Miller Hass ’75

Secretary

Margaret K. Bradley

Head of School

Louise Diepenbrock Baker ’81

Sister Claire Barone

Gerardo A. Borromeo

Brett Davis Collins ’93

Herm Edwards

Jon Giffen

Tracy A. Huebner

Brogiin Keeton ’01

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

Kevin Wasbauer

Senior Director of Development

Crystal Boyd ’89

Jalynne Tobias Redman President, Alumnae Association

Honorary

Director of Marketing and Communications

Ron Kellermann

Business Manager

Lower & Middle School

Christy Pollacci

Head of Lower and Middle School

Janet Luksik

Director of External Affairs, PreK-8

Director of Tuition Assistance, PreK-12

Maria Canteli

Director of Middle School

Amy McAfee

Director of Curriculum and Learning

Chris Haupt

Director of Student Life

Lydia Mansour

Director of PreK and Kindergarten

Stephanie Hill

Director of Admission

Upper School

Julie Lenherr Edson ’88

Head of Upper School

Peter Myers

Assistant Head of Upper School

Katherine Busch

Dean of Students

Sofia Chandler

Director of Health and Wellness

Jamie Buffington Browne ’85

Director of Admission