CLASS NEWS

Stay connected with your alma mater and with each other by submitting Class News information for us to include in Prep magazine. To share your details about what you’ve been up to since you left Prep, please visit sfprep.org/alumni and follow the link to complete the Class News form.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED TO SANTA FE PREP’S ALUMNI OFFICE THIS FALL.

1987

Noel Harvey is an artist and a jeweler who also is involved in producing films, and she focuses on the design side of theater. After Prep, she attended Willamette University and Semester at Sea, and she earned a BFA from CCAC in Painting, Printmaking, and Jewelry/ Metal Arts. Noel has two children: Holden, a new Prep student, and Simone, who is in the fifth grade at Rio Grande School. They have three dogs: Ruby (a Labradoodle), Max (Jack Russell Terrier), and Enzo (a Labrador). “My son just started seventh grade at Prep and he LOVES it,” Noel says. “I am very impressed with the school and I am excited to be back in the Prep community.”

Would you like to be a class ambassador who gathers news and notes for Prep magazine? We’d love your help. Email alumni@sfprep.org to volunteer. Thank you!

1990

Erik Litzenberg is the owner of Liderazgo, LLC, where he serves as a Public Safety/Leadership Consultant. He also is a PhD candidate in Sports Administration at the University of New Mexico. He holds a BA in Kinesiology from the University of Colorado, an MPA from the University of New Mexico, and an MA in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School. His spouse is Melissa Gonzales, and his children are Marissa ’12, DJ ’14, Bianca ’16, Cole ’25, and Mazen (Rio Grande School 2022).

1994

Santa Fe Prep’s Head of Middle School Chris Chakeres holds a BS from the University of New Mexico and an MAT from Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, Sheena, and their 5-yearold son, Aris, welcomed River Luan George Chakeres to their family on September 14, 2021.

1993

Ambrose Ferber attended Kenyon College and Colorado State University, where he received a BFA after his graduation from Prep. He has been a graphic designer, art director, web developer, user experience designer and developer, actor, and stuntman, and he is currently a member of the Prep faculty, where he is the Associate Director of Technology, teaches Technology and Engineering, and is the Head Speech and Debate Coach. He is married to Rebecca (Polan) Ferber ’96, and his children Fiona ’23 and Sam ’26 are Prep students. The family has three dogs: Ta-Molly, Alys, and Perry; two cats: Purrdita and Jezebel; and seven chickens.

2005

Lucy Gent Foma lives in Santa Fe with her husband, Okwen, and their two daughters, Elise Edang (born 2014) and Frances Sonkway (born 2017). Lucy works in the Planning Division of Santa Fe County. She also has worked as a Microfinance Fellow (2008), Rotary Scholar (2010-2011), Fulbright Fellow (2010-2011), Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholar (2012-2013), and National Park Foundation Scholar (2013-2016). Her grandmother, her parents, and her brother and his wife (and their three kids) all live in Santa Fe just around the corner from Lucy and her family.

2006

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz is an Upper School Math teacher at Santa Fe Prep. She holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College, an MA from the University of Texas Austin, and a BFA from the University of Colorado. Her partner, Todd Volz, teaches Ceramics at Prep.

Send us your Class Notes! We’d love to hear from you! Email alumni@sfprep.org with your news and photos or go online to sfprep. org/alumni.

2009

Alicia Bertram graduated from Colorado College and UNM after she left Prep. She reports: “I majored in Art History with a minor in Italian and fell in love with the Italian culture, art, and architecture after having studied abroad my junior year in Viterbo, Italy. After college I returned to Europe and received my TEFL Teaching Certificate in Florence, Italy. After some time there the Land of Enchantment called me home and I have been working for my family business ever since (almost eight years now). We work primarily in commercial real estate in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas focusing on brokerage, development, multifamily housing, historic renovations and have most recently branched out into hospitality with Hotel Parq Central and AdobeStar Properties. Having my two sisters join my mother and my father over time has been amazing and we are lucky enough to work together and hang out every day with our father and fellow prep alum Marc Bertram. I continue to remain involved in my community and also serve on the Commission on the Status of Women for New Mexico, the Board of Growing Up New Mexico, Commercial Council and Women's Council of Realtors.” Jackson Buckley earned a BA in English with a minor in Philosophy from Colorado College, along with an MS in Curriculum and Instruction from UW-Madison. He has returned to Prep as a teacher of junior-year English.

Still at Home at Prep

Ten members of the Santa Fe Prep faculty and administration are alumni of the school. We're so grateful to have these outstanding representatives of our institution on our team!

Pictured above, from left to right: Front Row: Director of Athletics and Facilities Todd Kurth ’81, Associate Director of Admissions Summar Aubrey ’00, Upper School Math Teacher Camila Friedman-Gerlicz ’06; Back Row: Director of Middle School Chris Chakeres ’94, Upper School English Teacher Jackson Buckley ’09, Upper School Science Teacher Ellee Cook ’09, Middle School Foreign Languages Teacher Carla Westen ’94, Upper School History Teacher Jebb Norton ’09. Not Pictured: Associate Director of Technology and Speech and Debate Coach Ambrose Ferber ’93, Language Department Chair Anna Westen ’97.

Blue Griffin Bundles of Joy

Do you have a new baby Griffin in the family? If so, we'd love to welcome your little one to the Prep community and outfit your bundle of joy in style. Please let us know about your new arrival and we'll send an SFP onesie your way. Email Prep's Alumni Office at alumni@sfprep.org with your address, child's name, and date of birth and we'll have our Griffin courier fly a welcome gift to your door with our congratulations.