Buxton School Annual Report 2017-2018

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Buxton has only had 5 directors in 90 years. This leadership has provided continuity and a strong foundation.

letter from admissions

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Torie Smith shares the tremendous diversity of our student body.

astronomy Yes, you can see the stars here in Williamstown. Linda Burlak teaches her students how they got there.

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buxton turns 90

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Bill Bennett offers his perspective on Buxton celebrating our 90th school year.

a g r i c u lt u r e p r o g r a m

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The agriculture class lets some land rest this year but steps up production with new tools, equipment, and processes.

work program Work Program leadership structure has changed. It involves more students to mirror the expanded role Work Program is taking on.

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fa l l p l ay

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The fall play is “Love and Information� by Caryl Churchil. It is the perfect production to involve lots of kids playing lots of characters in lots of scenes!

russian language classes

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Being able to speak other languages makes the world a smaller place. Buxton is offering Russian this year.

m at h t e a m

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Having fun and meeting people while doing Math is what Math Team is all about.

architecture

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The students taking Architecture this fall learn how the space we spend our time influences our emotions.

remembering owen sweeney

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One of our dear students passed away on September 29, 2018. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the obituary written by Owen’s family.

soon we vote

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A Buxton-initiated project that is encouraging teenagers to think about voting and getting registered to vote as soon as they are able.

report on philanthropy

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It was an exciting year in the Development Office. We are reaching out in new ways to more people, and continue to be grateful for everyone who supports the school.

planned giving

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There are so many ways to make a planned gift to ensure the vitality and financial stability of the school.

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directorship at buxton school - Tom Rutledge, President of the Board of Trustees

As of the end of 2017, Franny Shuker-Haines is the sole director of Buxton School. The change took place upon Pete Smith’s decision to step down from the co-directorship he shared with Franny. Franny took on the job with characteristic energy, intellect, and good humor. I think I speak for the board of directors when I say that Buxton is not only in good hands, but downright lucky to have Franny as its leader.

I have seen Franny playing a rather remarkable range of roles. At first, it was as admissions director making the call on my son’s application to Buxton, then as his academic and college advisor, and then (when I joined the board) as a guide to understanding Buxton’s goals and challenges. I’ve also been fortunate to collaborate with her in reaching out to potential feeder schools, fundraising, and socializing with alumni. As a leader of the school, she has always been thoughtful, patient and generous. And if you’re thinking about competing with her in pub trivia, I advise you to think hard and long about that, my friend.

I hope that we’ll celebrate her ascension to the big job with not just congratulations, but support. Community is the essence of Buxton’s magic, so we encourage everyone connected with Buxton to think about how to help Franny help Buxton. Under Franny’s guidance, and with your help, Buxton is in for some great years ahead.

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Pete ’74 has been teaching at Buxton since 1984 and has worn many hats during those 33 years. In addition to teaching a wide range of classes including Spanish, Geometry, and Drama, he has served as associate director, co-director, and director for the last 12 years.

He has also directed over thirty play productions.

Currently, he is coordinating our summer programs.

Bill came to Buxton in 1969 for what was supposed to be a 1 year teaching job, which turned into 48 years! Bill taught English and several languages and served as director for 25 years and codirector for 5 years. He is currently living in New York City–writing a book about Buxton, meeting with the larger Buxton Family, and helping the school get on better financial footing.

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letter from the director It is a great privilege to be Buxton’s director. I am lucky to work in a place that is so deeply attuned to the tremendous strengths and energy of young people, and that also pays careful attention to the challenges and difficulties of this pivotal time in people’s lives. Buxton is a beacon: every day, in ways big and small, it shows the world what adolescents can do when people believe in them, support them, and guide them with humor and perspective.

I am also lucky to have learned what this school—and this job—is meant to be from a host of Buxton sages: the Davises and the Gales, longtime director Bill Bennett, and my lovely colleague, Peter Smith. I am also grateful to our board of directors, particularly our outgoing president, Graeme Fincke, and our incoming president, Tom Rutledge for their energetic efforts on behalf of the school.

Buxton is at an important moment in its history. As we celebrate 90 years of educating students compassionately and intelligently through their lived experience, we are more convinced than ever that our values matter, and that a Buxton education is as important, timely and valid now as it was in the 1920s. And as we look forward to the next 90, we are thrilled to see a new level of alumni engagement, a new sense of commitment to Buxton from all our constituents, and a shared vision for Buxton that will allow it to thrive well into the future.

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Ben was hired in 1955 and became co-director in January, 1956 along with Ellen Geer Sangster. He shared being director with Ellen until 1965, when she started traveling to Ghana. Ben retired as director in 1978 and was named Director Emeritus while he continued to teach at Buxton. He taught Shakespeare, English, and English History, a course on Milton’s Paradise Lost that combined art and literature, and was on the Buxton faculty until 2002.

Ellen Sangster founded Buxton in 1928. It began as a country day school in Short Hills, New Jersey. The high school became a boarding school when she moved it onto her family estate in Williamstown in 1947. Ellen wanted Buxton to educate students to be ethical and engaged citizens of the world. Buxton was designed to provide an experience that helps young people grow as thinkers, community members, creators and doers.

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- Franny Shuker-Haines

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letter from torie smith, director of admissions

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s Ellen Geer Sangster said in her “Buxton Believes” statement, “a school must provide challenges and outlets for all its potentialities. Human beings are intricate and many sided.” This could not be more true of this year’s group of students. They are historians, actors, chemists, travelers, computer programmers, farmers, activists, composers, writers, soccer players and trilinguists. They hail from China to Mexico, California to Connecticut, and from large New York City public schools to one room school houses in rural Vermont. I am often asked “who is a Buxton student?” This diversity makes the answer complicated but while our students come from all over the world they are united in the core belief of the value of community, creative expression, and academic achievement. They aspire to have a high school experience that is not run-of-the-mill or merely a shuttle to college but one that has value in itself.

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hey are historians, actors, chemists, travelers, computer programmers, farmers, activists, composers, writers, soccer players and trilinguists.

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his brings me back to Ellen, who said that, “the development of individual powers is rendered almost useless unless the individual can employ those powers effectively in a social situation.”

Buxton’s magic is in its diverse composition of individuals and its ability to create an authentic intellectual culture both in and out of the classroom. This group is uniquely poised to create and utilize this experience.

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fall 2018 courses Agriculture Algebra I, II American History Architecture Astronomy Biology Calculus Ceramics Chemistry Civil Rights

Data, Probability, and Statistics Drama Differential Equations English I, II, III, IV Feminism French I, II, III, IV, V Geometry History of Modern China Health Music I, II, III, IV

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Multivariable Calculus Photography Physics Pre-Calculus Psychology Russian I Spanish I, II, III, IV, V Studio Art Video Production Western Tradition

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e started our Astronomy class this year with historical astronomy: Stonehenge, the Mayan calendar, Chinese and Egyptian astronomy, Lakota stone medicine wheels, etc. – figuring out what people knew about the sky from just their own observations. We then moved on to focus on what we know about our own solar system and read Dava Sobel’s book “The Planets.” From there, we are expanding our gaze to what we know of the universe today, studying stars, other solar systems, and the universe, including Einstein’s theories of relativity. We will end with some of the current topics in astronomy: dark matter, extra-solar planets, wormholes and the like.

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- Linda Burlak, Science Faculty

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buxton turns 90!

- Bill Bennett, Director Emeritus Buxton at 90‌.Another decade, another significant birthday.

Many if not most private boarding schools in the United States came into being in service to a particular set of religious beliefs and were more often than not generously funded by their Episcopalian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, or Congregationalist founders.

Buxton came out of the fractious Progressive Movement, noted for its strenuous disagreements and more slender agreement on some powerful general principles. It also never had any firm financial backing. Ellen Warren Geer (later Sangster) ran Buxton out of her own checking account. Financial records for the first thirty years or so were handwritten and kept in a series of small notebooks. The entire yearly budget for the school did not exceed $40,000 until the middle 1950’s. Ellen never drew a salary for her work. She donated her property in New Jersey and later the land and buildings of her family home in Williamstown to build what has become two schools: Buxton and Far Brook School in Short Hills, NJ. If there was a budgetary shortfall, she personally made up the difference.

The school’s lasting power can be entirely attributed to the consistency and relevance of its original belief in young people and their capacity to come into an awareness of their potential powers while living in a small, passionately engaged, responsive group of adolescents and adults.

That this small resourceful community has been able to endure, and, in most of the ways that really matter, prosper for nine decades is remarkable.

It must live on.

celebrate 90 years with us on campus at our reunion in june!

My favorite class at Buxton has to be Gender and Identity. It was one of the first electives I took when I got here my sophomore year. It allowed me to think about intersectional issues and oppression that I faced on a daily basis in an academic setting. We covered topics like gender constructs, race politics and sexuality in an honest way that really stretched my mind and opinions. Though it has been two years since that class, I still carry a lot of the conversations we had in that class with me to this day. – Khanyisile Ndaba ’19

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ag riculture program - Matt Kramer, Agriculture Program Faculty

This has been an exciting year for the Buxton Farm in many ways. Much of this is due to a higher number of participants involved in garden work during Work Program and the Agriculture class.

Committed summer employees from within the student body also played a huge role in our current fall harvest. Some key focuses this growing season include efficiency, productivity, and soil health.

One third of our land in production was devoted to a cover crop of rye, clover, and other legumes in order to promote biodiversity and fertility, as well as erosion management and pest control. At the same time, the cover crop reduced our growing space, requiring us to make every square foot of the gardens as productive as possible. The adoption of new tools, equipment, and processes were necessary to produce similar yields compared to years before.

Around 30 cubic yards, about 20 tons, of compost was spread over all growing spaces to replenish nutrients.

The effects of this have been a game changer.

Our agriculture class has changed its format a bit to allow for more time each week devoted to farm work.

Students are now required to work independently outside of class on a project of their choice. Some examples include harvesting, chicken tending, routine garden maintenance, vermiculture, and composting.

The efforts of the combined work of everyone involved with the farm have produced impressive yields. We’ve grown over 1,100 lbs. of produce so far this year with more to come as the fall continues.

work program - Chiara Carrino ’06 and Henry Smith, Work Program Faculty

Work Program is off to a great start! The new leadership team has forged a close working relationship and is bringing loads of energy, actively thinking about how Work Program can expand and best serve the school. To make sure everyone is up to speed, there are now five leadership positions in work program; the old model, of two heads who create the list and oversee the program remains in place. In addition, there are now three “captains,” one for the wood crews, one for the indoor cleaning crews, and one for the grounds. Each of these serves to unify various crews within those realms and to keep a closer eye on what is needed and possible in each of those areas.

This year, we have once again assigned students to crews for the first three weeks, rotating them through wood, cleaning and grounds crews in the hopes that it will give everyone at the school a taste for each kind of crew while removing some of the anxiety associated with signing up before new students have a sense of what is available. It also creates the opportunity for people to meet people who might otherwise function outside of their immediate orbit.

We have updated our cleaning products, taking a turn toward less toxic and simpler products.

Simple Green has become a defacto multipurpose product for cleaning everything from floors to windows. It is environmentally safe, non-toxic, and biodegradable—to risk sounding like an ad campaign, we felt that the benefits were obvious!

Work Program is also helping in the effort to overhaul the dorm stores. A small crew has been testing prototypes for homemade convenience foods like frozen burritos and instant noodle cups that will be for sale in the dorms during Snacks, along with an assortment of healthier bites and beverages. The R&D phase just ended and now the stores are open for business! We’re looking forward to the work ahead. There is much to do!

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- Timothy Shuker-Haines P’16 and Allison Lerman-Gluck ’08, Fall Play Directors

This fall we will be presenting Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information at our Fall Arts Festival.

Caryl Churchill is a leading contemporary British playwright, probably best known for Top Girls, Cloud Nine, and Serious Money. Love and Information is made up of many (around 45) short scenes that explore different aspects of, not surprisingly, love and information. The love depicted ranges broadly, from familial to romantic to fan-worship, and the information ranges equally broadly, from science to faith to secrets to memories to trivia. What ties it all together is the sense of connection, how love and information can help us connect to others and to the world around us, and give us a foundation on which to build our lives.

While the play is thematically rich, it also is extremely flexible in terms of casting, accommodating any number of people of any type. This makes it perfect for Buxton, where we want to accommodate all who want to be involved. Plus the large number of parts allows each cast member to explore many different characters. So far, the students seem to be really embracing the play and enjoying rehearsals. We think the audience will find the work thought-provoking, funny, and moving.

Work Program through the lens of being a head has been great! It is a privilege to be entrusted with a leadership role that is integral to life here at Buxton. I look forward to getting some real work done over the course of this coming year.

- Brandon Asare ’19

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- Gabe Guadalupe, Spanish and Russian Faculty

his year at Buxton I have the opportunity to offer Russian in addition to Spanish III, IV, and V. Students in my class already speak Spanish and/or French, so they have experience with language learning. On the one hand, they are all starting from scratch, as they learn a new alphabet and sounds. On the other hand, students get to apply their well-developed languagelearning skills in the Russian classroom, as they explore a new language and culture. I’m eager to see what my students will achieve by the end of the year.

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math team - Micah Manary, Math Faculty

Buxton’s math team participates in inter-school competitions with schools from across the country. While most of these are written exams, we have also competed live with other schools, both online and in person. We had a winning record last year in “Math Madness”. “Math Madness” is an online team-based event that takes place in the fall in which elementary, middle, and high schools from across the country compete in leagues of weekly competitions followed by a single elimination bracket tournament. In 2017, well over 500 schools and 10,000 students from across the country competed in the online league, tournament, and championship.

Everyone on our team is really talented. Competitive math is an exciting way to experience a completely different side of high school mathematics and use our academic brains for fun!

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I started learning video production in my freshman winter study class. A couple of fellow students and I loved the class so much it was turned into a regular art class. At the beginning of my junior year Willie Binnie was hired to teach the class.

He changed my life and my work. He pushed me and encouraged me and was my junior year thesis advisor. He is a very important part of my life. Because of this opportunity Buxton has given me, I now know I want to study film in college and become a video and film artist.

– Ivy Dement ’19

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- David Donaldson ’80, Trustee

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The Architecture class has begun the year with a wide view of the field and is, slowly, beginning to focus on specific facets of the topic. Initially, the large junior/senior elective began by exploring their own environment. The first assignment was to sketch the room on campus that most impacts them on an emotional level; they were then asked to determine what about those spaces made them so impactful. From there, we had a long discussion of what kinds of structures or practices constitute “architecture”—a long disagreement emerged over a refurbished school bus in particular, leading to discussions of whether interior design counted within the field or not. Though few concrete answers were arrived at, the questions remain fundamental to our discourse.

We have now begun to explore specific pieces of architectural history, beginning with ancient Egyptians, Greeks and now Gothic cathedrals. Along the way various studio prompts have been given, including drawing a plan of one’s favorite space on campus, drawing a home that represents their personality and building a structure out of materials found in the woods. It’s been lively and I can’t wait to see what this group, tape measure in hand, produces next.

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- Henry Smith, Architecture and English Faculty

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Re m e mb er i ng O w en McGo ver n Sw eeney: 4/09/2002-9/29/2018 This beautiful tribute and obituary was written by Owen’s family. Owen was a beloved member of our community at Buxton. We hope you will join us in remembering his spirit and life.

Owen McGovern Sweeney was so eager to join the world that he was born two weeks early, on April 9, 2002 in Plattsburgh, NY. Every day for the next sixteen years was pursued with energy and enthusiasm as he sought to understand, engage with, and enjoy his life and the world around him. His tragic death by suicide has led to his also leaving the world much too soon. He died at the Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA on September 29, 2018, surrounded by his loving family and attended to by a wonderfully kind and caring medical staff.

Owen grew up and spent much of his life on his family’s 26 acre property on Hardy Road in Wilmington, where along with his older brother, Tys, he learned to explore, bike ride, run, play, and enjoy the world.

They invented games in the woods, learned the names of the rocks and trees, played with the many family dogs in the meadow, and together helped their father build a lean-to in a secluded spot with views of mountains and sky in all directions.

Owen was intellectually curious, took naturally to languages, excelled at math, and was a talented actor.

He was fluent in Spanish, studied Mandarin Chinese, and had just started French and Russian at the time of his death. He brought his analytical mind into all his classes, excelling in all academic areas. He loved math and science challenges, and wrote beautiful, descriptive and insightful essays. He often built Rube-Goldberg style creations throughout the house, provided magic tricks for friends and family, and would liven any gathering with his games, antics, and parody. He could imitate voices of famous people or make up his own witty characters to amuse both other people and himself. He would make fresh ice cream whenever he could, always attempting new flavors, and he almost always won at chess. He loved exploring and traveling to new places, always hoping for another family trip to a new part of the country. He was a very hard worker, and spent the last two summers waiting tables at the Wilmington A&W. A long standing desire had been to visit two of his closest friends who had moved to Montevideo, Uruguay. He planned for almost a year, and used his summer earnings to make this trip with his mother in December 2017.

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He attended Little Peaks pre-school in Keene, and Ausable Forks Elementary School in Ausable Forks until 3rd grade.

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He was a student at North Country School (NCS) in Lake Placid from 4th to 9th grade. NCS was and remained Owen’s primary community away from home, and it was there that his love of theater truly took root. He took advantage of every acting class and workshop and participated in a number of productions, playing everything from a flying monkey to Charlie in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

Owen was a skilled horseback rider and a member of the school’s equestrian drill team. Owen took full advantage of the arts and outdoor programs, designing exceptional weavings, running cross-country, and learning to downhill ski, telemark ski, and rock climb. He cheerfully undertook all the work of the community there, from scrubbing dishes in the kitchen to sitting with the sheep all night as the lambs were born.

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After NCS, Owen attended Buxton School in Williamstown, MA. While there, he performed in several theater productions, most notably Middletown and The Laramie Project, and was a member of the school’s African Drumming troupe, math team, and soccer and Ultimate Frisbee teams. Also, true to his entrepreneurial spirit, he operated a small soda and snacks business out of his dorm room.

Owen was a bold and beautiful boy who was loved deeply and will be thought of every day. We are all grateful to have shared sixteen years of life with him. Survivors include his parents, John C. Sweeney and Lauren E. McGovern, his brother Tys McGovern Sweeney, all of Wilmington; grandparents Eleanor Sweeney of Saranac Lake, Bill and Susan Sweeney of Menands, and Jerome and Barbara McGovern of Peru; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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He loved being around friends and groups of like-minded people. He truly cared for his friends, and would offer advice and support whenever he could. All who knew him praised him for his skill, generosity, and energy. We know that his donation of life will be received with gratitude by those unknown people whose lives have been touched by his organ donation.

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- Frank Jackson, SOONWEVOTE organizer and Art Faculty with input from Rose Shuker-Haines ’16

SOONWEVOTE is a youth voter registration initiative targeting high school students who are voting age, or close to it, and is an extension of the activism group that meets weekly at Buxton. Nearly 12,000 high school students turn 18 every day, and yet, almost half of those who could vote, don’t. This means that politicians disproportionately represent older populations, who also tend to be whiter, richer, and more conservative. We want to change that and create a government that represents us all. SOONWEVOTE also incorporates visual art, to reach young people and spread ideas in new and urgent ways. Our Instagram account showcases emerging artists whose artwork deals with questions of climate change, gun violence, police brutality, and other issues that affect everyone, including young people.

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The group is in its infancy but has been registering new voters at Buxton, working with alums on various content-related projects, and reaching out to other organizations and communities to create partnerships and educational opportunities. Rose Shuker-Haines (’16) worked for SOONWEVOTE last summer, gathering data and images, writing text related to the artists’ work, compiling direct action suggestions, reaching out to other voter registration organizations, and pushing the project ahead into the fall, where the activism group has continued the work. Going forward, our goals are to continue to register young people, educate them on the importance of having their voices heard, and foster a lifelong investment in political activism and social justice.

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The Buxton student – and the Buxton experience – is like no other. We welcome diversity in all facets and believe that people thrive when differences are honored. We encourage our students to engage not just with each other but also with the world beyond our doors. We believe that young people can be trusted to live lives that are balanced, ethical and productive. We maintain that academic pursuits are a valid and just asset of a vibrant life.

There is so much to share, we can’t do it all here.

Visit our website for updates throughout the year and follow us on social media!

ALUMNI: We want to hear from you.

We know you are doing amazing things out there in the world, so please contact our Alumni & Development office at 413-458-4970 or by email to suzy@buxtonschool.org and tell us about what you’re up to. We’ll share it with the wider Buxton community.

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REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY Fiscal Year 2017/2018

FY 2015-2016 510 Gifts $290,032 raised FY 2016-2017 670 Gifts $439,435 raised

FY 2017-2018 738 Gifts $511,441 raised

feb 1, 2019 nyc alumni gathering feb 24-march 2, 2019 Trip!

MAY 24-26, 2019 SPRING ARTS june 8, 2019 graduation june 14-16, 2019 reunion!

Dates TBD gatherings in boston & sf!

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NOV 16-18, 2018 FALL ARTS

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another record-breaking year on the books!

Buxton Community, You wowed us again. After the success of our last fiscal year (2016-17) I was sure that the 2017-18 year would be strong but that it would not be possible to match the previous year. When the year began, I set our goals and budget that reflected what we have seen over the past decade. As soon as the fiscal year began, several alumni and families made their largest gifts to date, including some tremendous contributions to our endowment. Then we celebrated our first “official” Giving Tuesday in November with a truly impressive “young alumni” match to all other donations. Over the course of the following few months everyone stepped up in a big way that brought us to the spring with the $500,000 mark on the horizon. Even though most of the significant contributions that we were expecting had already been given, Franny (in the true expression of her can-do perseverance) was determined to bring us to that milestone. We reached back out to our community with hopeful optimism about breaking this record for the first time at Buxton and, sure enough, many of you came through. The energy surrounding the school is palpable; it lifts and propels all of us here.

This year we have so much to reflect on as Buxton turns 90. That’s 90 years of thoughtful teaching, and 90 years of students learning in the tradition of living their education, as Ellen Sangster taught us. Take a moment to pause and think about what this means and how many lives have been touched by this place.

We will be celebrating the 90th birthday of our beloved school in earnest next June. We hope you will join us for our reunion June 14-16, 2019. See you then, if not before!

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Suzy Konecky, Director of Development

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First-Time Donors Anonymous Edward Allen ’67 Ann Davis Archambault ’69 Gloria Baird Jeffrey Barnes ’01 Gregory Benson and Laura Whitmire P’18 Joe and Liz Bianco P’18 David Bluestein ’08 Nick Brown ’02 Joseph Chernila and Alana Chernila P’21 Christina Collins ’17 Margaret Davis ’71 Jonah DeCola P’17 Sandra Feck G’21 Stephen and Alicia Fitch P’20 Warren Freyer and Cynthia Wu P’19

Valerie Friedlander ’70 Junior Gomez ’07 Jean Guillet G’96 Will Harris-Braun ’17 Daniel Janczewski and Amanda Maguire P’20 Yael Krinsky ’08 Simmone La Corte and Nicholas Heldfond P’20 Timothy Lant ’91 Matteo Lanzarotta ’13 Anne Lawson P’21 Allison Lerman-Gluck ’08 Ian Lloyd ’07 Peter and Heather McAvoy P’18 Lena Meginsky ’17 Brenda Moyd P’21 Rachel Nagler ’99

Randel Orzano and Gretchen Hachmeister P’20 Steve Patzman G’18 Jonathan Pousette-Dart ’69 John Ratnaswamy and Victoria Zimmerman Ratnaswamy P’20 Patrick Reyna ’69 Sonja Rieger ’71 Zelda Roland Benjamin Sapadin ’90 Nathan Spencer and Jennifer McLean Spencer P’21 Justina Trova Regina Ungewitter Rebecca van der Meulen ’16 Bev White Julian and Stephanie Wilkins P’18 Max Young

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The following people gave their first gift to Buxton this year, and these gifts totaled $14,534. Every gift matters.

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Anonymous ’50 * Arjun Achuthan ’86 Adams Community Bank * Adelson & Company PC Genna Lewis Anderson ’51 * Ralph and Elisabeth Arlyck P’94 Alex Azima ’67 * Bill Beardsley ’56 * Stephanie Goldstein Begen ’72 * C. William Bennett * Theresa Bensew P’08 Tom and Kathy Bishop ’98 * Lou Bluestein P’08 * Mark Boyer and Barbara Millen Boyer P’83 * Elizabeth Breeze P’91 * Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher ’P97 * Ann Brown ’85 * Grant Brown ’75 P’14 * Thelma Bullock P’85 * Crystal Campbell P’80 G’07,08 * Tobe and Margaret Carey P’02 * Lea and Pamela Carnevali P’13 Ann ’60 and W. Bradford Caswell P’94 Don and Susan Churchill P’79 * Laurance Clark ’79 * Marga Cooper Sproul ’63 Matthew Coughlin and Chrissie Hines P’11 Andrea Currier ’74 * Arianne Dar P’07 Andy and Roberta Denenberg P’08 * Art Desimine and Liz Weiss P’15 Estate of Richard Dieterly P’89 * David Donaldson ’80 Susan Draper Walker ’74 Kevin and Beth Ellingwood P’15 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich *

Adam Falk P’14 Karen Falk P’14 Sophie Fels ’92 * Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93 * Pauline Fleszar G’11 Robert Flynt ’74 Steven Forman and Constance Eeghen P’09 * Jeff Franzen P’12 Michael Freed P’99 Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01 Winfried and Silke Fuchshofen P’13 Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 * Owen Goldfarb and Priscilla Fairbank P’05 * Richard Green and Gina Qualliotine P’16,18 Henry and Elizabeth Harrison P’93 Mickey and Jackie Herbert P’13 Ms. Lillis C. Hines Bonnie Holden Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,11,14 * Robert and Cora May Howe P’77,79 * Dorianne Hutton Samuels ’71 Walter Kernan ’74 * Marlyn Klee P’87 Dayle Klitzner Kellner ’71 * Amrita Lash ’99 and Adrian St. John ’00 Judy and Philip Lescarbeau * Charlotte Levine G’00 * Robert A. Levy ’67 * Nan Lombardi P’87 Bill Low ’70 * Jean MacFadyen ’73 Ed Martin ’72 P’08 * Janet McGhee P’11 * Gary McKinstry ’62 * George and Carolyn McLellan P’91,98 *

Mark Meachem ’72 * Alice Mello P’14 Smokey Minot ’62 * Bernard and Jennifer Mirling P’91,98 G’10 * Peter Mitchell and Suzette Barclay P’00* Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 * Michael and Hannah Moore P’08 * William Morse Peter Neuman ’84 Nancy Newberger P’09 * Jonathan and Sigrin Newell P’93 David Oliver and Roberta Bonisson Machado P’11,17 * Bruce Pandolfini and Roselyn Abrahams P’04 * Paolo Pepe ’78 Katherine Perls P’91 Eric and Ellen Petersen P’88 * Elizabeth and James Pickman P’95 * Diana Hitt Potter ’51 P’82 * Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82 * Gregory Prestopino ’65 Quality Printing Company * r.k. Miles, Inc. * Josh Reisner ’95 * Philip Rickey ’78 * Bruce and Lori Rosenblum * Lisa Rosenthal P’16 Marjorie Rosenthal Julius Rosenwald and Margo Cardner * Amanda Ross ’84 P’17 Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47 * Tony Rousmaniere ’91 David Rubin ’70 * Patricia Ryan P’78,84 * Evan Sachs ’49 * Lawrence Sapadin and Marilyn Segel P’09

31 Franny and Timothy Shuker-Haines P’16 * Jeffrey Shumlin ’78 * Daniel Simons ’02 and Barbara Berska Alison Bidlack Smith ’76 * Randy Smith and Tina Cohoe P’12 Peter ’74 and Jane Smith P’09,14 * Ann Steadman ’55 Edward Stockman ’66 * James Stockman ’60 * Christopher and Mary Stone P’00 * Henry Stroke ’44 * Jonathan Sylbert ’76 * Joel Teenyanoff and Jill Glassmith P’14 Jim and Cindy Tuite P’04 * Bruce and Caron Ulmer P’07 * Viola van der Meulen and Jim Morrison Dirk van Loon ’57 Robert and Nancy Vaughn* P’01 * Peter and Barbara Waksman P’06 * Beatrice Weinberger ’76 * West Oil Company B. Harton Wolf ’62 * * Deceased

* Indicates a donor who has given for 10 or more consecutive years.

GIFTS TO PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED ENDOWMENT FUNDS made i n 201 7 -2018 Sister Grace (Eleanor Grace Allen) '48 Lou Bluestein P'08 Jane Greenberg '77 P'07 Nancy Newberger P'09 Jonathan and Sigrin Newell P'93 Marjorie Rosenthal Tony Rousmaniere '91 Lawrence Smith and Linda Burlak

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LIFETIME GIVING RECOGNITION WE HONOR THESE DONORS WHO HAVE GIVEN TO BUXTON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE HELPED COUNTLESS STUDENTS AND PROVIDED ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR PROGRAMMATIC AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES AT BUXTON. $2,000,000+

$100,000+

Wrinkle in Time Foundation Andrea Currier ’74, President

Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93

$1,000,000+ Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01

Henry and Mary Flynt* P’74,’77 Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,’11,’14 Christa Lancaster P’01

$500,000+ Diana Hitt Potter ’51, P’82

Nancy Newberger P’09 Tony Rousmaniere ’91 Ann Wiener* P’79,’80 Joanne Woodward P’73

$250,000+

Charlie ’72 and Shelly Yedlin P’03

Anonymous Cynthia Croatti P’02, ’05 Jane Greenberg ’77 P’07

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Horatio Potter and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82

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*Deceased

annual fund giving levels Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999

Dorm Supervisors take on the biggest leadership role in the dorms, handling the logistics of work jobs and room cleanup and also acting as “big brothers” and “big sisters” to the new students. Dorm Supervisors are de facto liaisons to the faculty and staff and represent the rest of the students.

On Saturdays, the students take over the kitchen! It’s a chance for people to share recipes, learn kitchen skills, and make their favorite foods. Yum!

Judy Denenberg G’08 Estate of Richard Dieterly P’89 Grae Fincke ’61 and Heidi Urich P’93 Jeff Franzen P’12 Gerald and Sheree Friedman P’01 Daniel and Patti Holland P’08,11,14 Tom and Mimi Rutledge P’16 Charles Schiff and Christine Califra Schiff P’19 Wrinkle In Time Foundation Andrea Currier ’74, President

the forge Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 A beloved campus building built by students many moons ago! Also the name of a student publication that solicits input from all students.

Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 Nick Brown ’02 Timothy Collins and Kirsten Dahl Collins P’17 Cynthia Croatti P’02,05 Andy and Roberta Denenberg P’08 Kevin and Beth Ellingwood P’15 Adam ’78 and Pamela Emmerich Jane Greenberg ’77 P’07 Nicholas ’82 and Cami Lenett P’19 Nancy Newberger P’09 Diana Hitt Potter ’51 P’82 Horatio Potter ’82 and Elizabeth O’Connell Potter ’82 Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47

Bill Beardsley ’56 C. William Bennett David Donaldson ’80 Kathryn Dean P’18 Walter Kernan ’74 Dorianne Hutton Samuels ’71 Robert and Nancy Vaughn* P’01

senior service Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Sunday nights are a special time on campus because a senior delivers remarks to the entire school community. Everyone dresses up for these occasions!

Anonymous Mark Alkiewicz ’86 Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. Grant Brown ’75 P’14 Tobe and Margaret Carey P’02 Ann ’60 and W. Bradford Caswell P’94 Arianne Dar P’07 Meg Ellingwood ’15 Catharine Fincke ’68 Robert Flynt ’74 Michael Freed P’99 Catherine Eddy Gallagher ’74 David Gardner and Phyllis Guerra P’18 Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 Dickson and Mary Glass P’01 Henry and Elizabeth Harrison P’93 Mary Holland ’08 Brenda Harris Jews ’82

ANNUAL GIVING LEVELS: GIFTS JULY 1, 2017 - JUNE 30, 2018

Gifts of $10,000+

Simmone La Corte and Nicholas Heldfond P’20 Jeffrey Ladd ’73 Jean MacFadyen ’73 Margaret Mandel P’00 Ed Martin ’72 P’08 Alexander Matisse ’03 Bruce Merrill P’11 Jessica Mezzacappa ’85 Michael and Hannah Moore P’08 Robert and Celia Morris P’90 Steve Patzman P’18 Temple Peterson and Siiri Lane ’86 P’20 Elizabeth and James Pickman P’95 Philip Rickey ’78 Thomas and Moira Ripley P’99 Bruce and Lori Rosenblum David Rubin ’70 Fred Savard ’79 Michael Schulder and Nancy Field P’16 Jeffrey Shumlin ’78 Daniel Simons ’02 and Barbara Berska James Stockman ’60 Rebecca Vitali-DeCola ’00

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stove stokers Gifts of $500 - $999 Keep the fire burning! There are fewer wood stoves on campus now, but several buildings still have wood -burning stoves, and stoking those stoves is as important as ever.

Anonymous ’56 Arjun Achuthan ’86 Robert and Deborah Andrus P’20 Peter and Lizzy Beck Lou Bluestein P’08 Lea and Pamela Carnevali P’13 Jan Chelminski ’86 Laurance Clark ’79 W. Bayard Cutting ’76 Christian Dauer ’83 Deanna Dement Myers P’16,19 Ruth Duell ’69 Adam Falk P’14 Josh Fincke ’93 Katherine Shorey Herold ’78 Robert and Cora May Howe P’77,79 Frank Jackson and Amy Podmore P’11 Daniel Janczewski and Amanda Maguire P’20 Dayle Klitzner Kellner ’71 Anne Lawson P’21 Robert Levine ’83 Robert A. Levy ’67 Harry Maurer ’70 P’07 Janet McGhee P’11 Jacob Mitchell ’00 Peter Mitchell and Suzette Barclay P’00 Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 Peter Morgan ’68 Randel Orzano and Gretchen Hachmeister P’20 John Parkinson ’80 Katherine Perls P’91 Eric and Ellen Petersen P’88 Josh Reisner ’95 David Skutch ’78 Peter ’74 and Jane Smith P’09,14 Randy Smith and Tina Cohoe P’12 Nathan Spencer and Jennifer McLean Spencer P’21

Edward Stockman ’66 Valerie Swarbrick G’16 Jim and Cindy Tuite P’04 Asher Woodworth ’05 Robert Yedlin ’03 Isaac Zaur

rec committee Gifts of $250 - $499 One of the most coveted leadership roles at Buxton is to be in charge of “Rec Committee.” This group of students takes charge of generating an all-school activity every Friday night. Whatever the activity, whether silly or serious, the value of these Friday nights is that we are making exciting things happen together.

Anonymous ’95 Sherif Ahmed ’08 Theresa Bensew P’08 Tom and Kathy Bishop P’98 Mark Boyer and Barbara Millen Boyer P’83 Bill and Sharon Cooke G’17,20 Joseph DeCola P’00 Owen Goldfarb and Priscilla Fairbank P’05 Jean Guillet G’96 Mickey and Jackie Herbert P’13 Reese Laughlin ’82 Patricia and Jay Lorsch P’90 Bill Low ’70 William Morse Peter Neuman ’84 Jinx Nolan ’60 David Oliver and Roberta Bonisson Machado P’11,17 John Ratnaswamy and Victoria Zimmerman Ratnaswamy P’20 Zelda Roland Julius Rosenwald and Margo Cardner Amanda Ross ’84 P’17 Pamela Skyrme P’08 Michael and Christine St. Pierre P’99 Rodney Sunada-Wong and Carol Yukie Sunada-Wong P’18 Jonathan Sylbert ’76 Viola van der Meulen and Jim Morrison

Julian and Stephanie Wilkins P’18 Marco Williams ’75 Max Young

the gate Gifts of $100 - $249 The Gate is not only a beloved dorm but also the very first building that visitors to campus come upon. It was the “Gate House” to the old Sangster Estate.

Anonymous ’50 Danny Adler ’69 John and Leslie Akula P’03 Ed and Mary Ambrose P’81,85 Breck and Lani Arnzen P’13 Jeff Von Arx ’87 Alex Azima ’67 Yoseff Ben-Yehuda ’06 Laura Bethea ’94 Jeff Black ’87 Michael Brandt P’03 Anthony Brown P’09 Kristin Brown ’68 Liam Brown ’14 Mike Browne ’03 Hetty Jo Brumbach ’60 Thelma Bullock P’85 Crystal Campbell P’80 G’08 Don and Susan Churchill P’79 Janet and David Corrigan P’13 Philio Wigglesworth Cushing ’74 Barbara Davis ’66 Margaret Davis ’71 Jonah DeCola P’17 Alexander deHavenon ’75 Art Desimine and Liz Weiss P’15 David Dickinson and Ann Morse P’02 Susan Draper Walker ’74 Tess Eastment ’92 Frances Ehrenberg-Hyman ’65 Sandra Feck G’21 Geoffrey Feldman ’71 Stephen and Alicia Fitch P’20 Pauline Fleszar G’11 Steven Freed ’99 Warren Freyer and Cynthia Wu P’19

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Gifts under $99 Anonymous ’99 Anonymous ’17 Jessica Fafnir Adamites ’95 Genna Lewis Anderson ’51 Ralph and Elisabeth Arlyck P’94 Gloria Baird Jeffrey Barnes ’01 Elizabeth McIntosh Bauman ’89 Stephanie Goldstein Begen ’72 John Benjamin ’86 Gregory Benson and Laura Whitmire P’18 Shriya Bhargava-Sears Joe and Liz Bianco P’18 Henry Birdsey ’13 David Bluestein ’08 Christopher Boyer ’83 Linda Bratton ’61 Elizabeth Breeze P’91 Lynnea Brinkerhoff and Michael Pergola P’16 Ann Brown ’85 Heather Brown P’07 Candace Brown P’96 Molly Campbell P’81,84,85,91 Joey Carey ’02 Alfred Carroll Jr. P’19 Joseph Chernila and Alana Chernila P’21 Cricket Coleman-Howard ’84 Christina Collins ’17 Sarah Cooke P’17,20 Matthew Coughlin and Chrissie Hines P’11 Edith Davidson P’81,85 Andrea DeMayo Mae Dement G’16,19 Charlie Elster ’76 and Myrna Zambrano Sophie Fels ’92 Steven Forman and Constance Eeghen P’09 Nyasha Franklin ’15 Sarah Freeman ’96 Junior Gomez ’07 Robert and Marta Gordon G’19 Susan Prentice Gould ’57

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Richard and Lorna Post P’11,14 Lindsay Potts ’73 Jonathan Pousette-Dart ’69 Ann Pratt ’76 Gregory Prestopino ’65 Lisa Rosenthal Phillip and Sylvia Rowlands P’05 Ali Rubinstein ’82 Patricia Ryan P’78,84 Stephen Saltonstall ’63 Lawrence Sapadin and Marilyn Segel P’09 Bonnie Schorske P’87 G’19 Ellen Shershow ’90 Franny and Timothy Shuker-Haines P’16 Lindsey Siegal ’75 Alex Smith ’99 Alison Bidlack Smith ’76 Jacob Sollins ’05 Marga Cooper Sproul ’63 Ann Steadman ’55 Christopher and Mary Stone P’00 Jefferson Strait and Robin Brickman Henry Stroke ’44 John Sweeney and Lauren McGovern P’20 Peter Tacy P’81,84 Joel Teenyanoff and Jill Glassmith P’14 Cynthia and Skip Thomayer Anne Undeland P’18 Dirk van Loon ’57 Erika Vesely Visnevskaia Peter and Barbara Waksman P’06 Beatrice Weinberger ’76 Hazel Reynolds White ’02 Melinda H. White-Bronson P’93,96 Timothy Wohlforth ’51 B. Harton Wolf ’62 Dina Wolkoff Dan and Annette Woodside P’17 Kevin Zeigler ’91 Nora Lisman Zimbler ’96 Tenley Zinke ’89 Steve and Doe Zottoli P’02

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Winfried and Silke Fuchshofen P’13 Nicholas Glass ’83 Nancy Glowa ’73 Prudence Grand ’61 P’89 Peter and Jean Green G’16,18 Andrew Gross and Linda Koenig P’15 John Guenther ’61 and Melody Tilton P’89 Kester Hodge ’85 Lucinda Hodgson ’90 Bradley and Marquita Howard P’06,11 Cynthia Jackson ’68 Lawrence Johnson ’59 Avie Kalker Joanie Kemsley ’71 Emelie Kenney P’08 Medarda Kerr Marlyn Klee P’87 Sarah Koshar ’05 and Rodolfo Velazquez Yael Krinsky ’08 Timothy Lant ’91 Matteo Lanzarotta ’13 Maggie Laurie ’94 James Lawless ’87 Charlotte Levine G’00 John and Natasha Lisman P’96 Nan Lombardi P’87 Kate Lundell ’99 Clove Lynch ’87 Maxwell Malvin ’08 Mardi Manary Katherine Drew Margolin ’70 Robert Martel ’55 Katharine Maunz and Peter Hawkins P’20 Gary McKinstry ’62 George and Carolyn McLellan P’91,98 Malcolm McPherson and Kelly Gross P’19 Kathryn Merriam P’86,88 Bernard and Jennifer Mirling P’91,98 G’10 John Moortgat ’51 Zhana Morris ’90 Rachel Nagler ’99 Richard and Carolyn Neely P’99,06 Eugene and Leslie Newman P’06 Christian Parenti ’87 Paolo Pepe ’78

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Richard Green and Gina Qualliotine P’16,18 Jessica Grindstaff ’96 Tammy Gwaltney P’09 Will Harris-Braun ’17 Henry Hasenbush ’64 Bonnie Holden Bradley Howard ’06 Tina Howard ’82 Michelle Jimenez ’05 Michael Kemsley ’70 Mera Kenney ’08 Suzanna Konecky and Matthew Ball Amrita Lash ’99 and Adrian St. John ’00 Allison Lerman-Gluck ’08 Judy and Philip Lescarbeau Efrat Levy P’09 Meirav Levy-Bernstein ’09 Ian Lloyd ’07 Francis Magai ’16 Margaret Marcy and Timothy Emerson P’17 Jonah Maurer ’07 Peter and Heather McAvoy P’18 Mark Meachem ’72 Lena Meginsky ’17 Alice Mello P’14 Smokey Minot ’62 Daniel Moses ’98 Melanie Mowinski Brenda Moyd P’21 Guadalupe Pacheco and Linda Hanten P’01 Linda Hoe Palmer ’63 P’97 Bruce Pandolfini and Roselyn Abrahams P’04 Kim Pawlick ’79 Neville Bryan Peltz ’69 Natasha Perlis ’92 Emma Post ’11 Winfred Proffitt Jr. and Beth Proffitt P’19 Joan Howard Ramos ’56 Michael Relihan ’79 Daria Walls Rice ’89 Benjamin Ripley ’99 Dirck Roosevelt ’73 and Nancy Glowa ’73 Zoe Rosenbloom ’10

Evan Sachs ’49 Michael Sand ’83 Benjamin Sapadin ’09 Emily Seaton ’96 Rose Shuker-Haines ’16 Epy Smith ’14 Jane Sobel P’81,83 Ingrid Strong ’77 Frederika Podnos Sumelius ’68 Isabel Tifft ’84 Justina Trova Bruce and Caron Ulmer P’07 Regina Ungewitter Rebecca van der Meulen ’16 Phoebe Walker ’86 Stefan Ward-Wheten ’07 Bev White Rand Wilson ’72 Paul and Stephanie Wright P’17 Rebecca Wu-Norman ’98 Sarah Wu-Norman Tschorn ’95 Lindsey Wyatt

* Deceased

special thanks to these businesses for their gifts to buxton Adams Community Bank Adelson & Company PC Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc. Overland Summer Camps, Inc. Quality Printing Company r.k. Miles, Inc West Oil Company

together we can do so much.

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alumni Class Giving alumni class giving 1944 Henry Stroke 1947 Nina Peek Rothchild 1948 Sister Grace (Eleanor Grace Allen) 1949 Evan Sachs 1950 Anonymous 1951 Genna Lewis Anderson John Moortgat Diana Hitt Potter Timothy Wohlforth 1955 Robert Martel Ann Steadman 1956 Anonymous Bill Beardsley Joan Howard Ramos

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1957 Susan Prentice Gould Dirk van Loon

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1959 Lawrence Johnson Frosty Puestow Montgomery 1960 Hetty Jo Brumbach Ann Caswell Jinx Nolan James Stockman

1961 Linda Bratton Grae Fincke Prudence Grand John Guenther 1962 Gary McKinstry Smokey Minot B. Harton Wolf 1963 Paul Brooke Marga Cooper Sproul Linda Hoe Palmer Stephen Saltonstall 1964 Henry Hasenbush 1965 Frances Ehrenberg-Hyman Gregory Prestopino 1966 Barbara Davis Edward Stockman 1967 Alex Azima Robert A. Levy 1968 Danny Adler Kristin Brown Catharine Fincke Cynthia Jackson Peter Morgan Frederika Podnos Sumelius 1969 Neville Bryan Peltz Ruth Duell Jonathan Pousette-Dart

1970 Michael Kemsley Bill Low Katherine Drew Margolin Harry Maurer David Rubin 1971 Margaret Davis Geoffrey Feldman Dorianne Hutton Samuels Joanie Kemsley Dayle Klitzner Kellner 1972 Stephanie Goldstein Begen Ed Martin Mark Meachem Rand Wilson 1973 Nancy Glowa Jeffrey Ladd Jean MacFadyen Lindsay Potts Dirck Roosevelt 1974 Andrea Currier Philio Wigglesworth Cushing Susan Draper Walker Robert Flynt Catherine Eddy Gallagher Walter Kernan Peter Smith

1975 Grant Brown Alexander deHavenon Marco Williams

1976 W. Bayard Cutting Charlie Elster Ann Pratt Alison Bidlack Smith Jonathan Sylbert Beatrice Weinberger 1977 Jane Greenberg Ingrid Strong 1978 Adam Emmerich Paolo Pepe Philip Rickey Katherine Shorey Herold Jeffrey Shumlin David Skutch 1979 Laurance Clark Kim Pawlick Michael Relihan Fred Savard 1980 David Donaldson John Parkinson 1982 Tina Howard Brenda Harris Jews Reese Laughlin Nicholas Lenett Elizabeth O’Connell Potter Horatio Potter Ali Rubinstein 1983 Christopher Boyer Christian Dauer Nicholas Glass Robert Levine Michael Sand

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these buxton alumni gave back to the school last year. Any gift, large or small, makes a big difference for the current students and the future of the school.

1985 Ann Brown Kester Hodge Jessica Mezzacappa 1986 Arjun Achuthan Mark Alkiewicz John Benjamin Jan Chelminski Siiri Lane Phoebe Walker 1987 Jeff Black James Lawless Clove Lynch Christian Parenti Jeff Von Arx 1989 Elizabeth McIntosh Bauman Daria Walls Rice Tenley Zinke 1990 Lucinda Hodgson Zhana Morris Ellen Shershow 1991 Timothy Lant Tony Rousmaniere Kevin Zeigler 1992 Tess Eastment Sophie Fels Natasha Perlis

1993 Josh Fincke 1994 Laura Bethea Maggie Laurie 1995 Anonymous Jessica Fafnir Adamites Josh Reisner Lindsey Siegal Sarah Wu-Norman Tschorn 1996 Sarah Freeman Jessica Grindstaff Nora Lisman Zimbler Emily Seaton 1998 Daniel Moses Rebecca Wu-Norman 1999 Steven Freed Amrita Lash Kate Lundell Rachel Nagler Benjamin Ripley Alex Smith 2000 Jacob Mitchell Adrian St. John Rebecca Vitali-DeCola

2003 Mike Browne Alexander Matisse Robert Yedlin 2005 Michelle Jimenez Sarah Koshar Jacob Sollins Asher Woodworth 2006 Yoseff Ben-Yehuda Bradley Howard 2007 Junior Gomez Ian Lloyd Jonah Maurer Stefan Ward-Wheten 2008 Sherif Ahmed David Bluestein Mary Holland Mera Kenney Yael Krinsky Allison Lerman-Gluck Maxwell Malvin 2009 Meirav Levy-Bernstein Benjamin Sapadin 2010 Zoe Rosenbloom

2001 Jeffrey Barnes

2011 Emma Post

2002 Nick Brown Joey Carey Hazel Reynolds White Daniel Simons

2013 Henry Birdsey Matteo Lanzarotta

2014 Liam Brown Epy Smith 2015 Meg Ellingwood Nyasha Franklin 2016 Francis Magai Rose Shuker-Haines Rebecca van der Meulen 2017 Anonymous Christina Collins Will Harris-Braun Lena Meginsky

We believe the information in this report is accurate.

Please accept our apology for any error.

If you have a question regarding your giving anywhere in this report, please contact the Development Office at 413-4584970 or email suzy@ buxtonschool.org and we will be happy to review your record and make any necessary changes.

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1984 Cricket Coleman-Howard Peter Neuman Amanda Ross Isabel Tifft

MEMORIAL gifts HONORARY GIFTS In Honor of C. William Bennett Andy and Roberta Denenberg P’08 Judy Denenberg G’08

In Memory of Mary Brandt P’03 Michael Brandt P’03 In memory of Oliver’s mother, Mary Brandt

In Honor of Imran Dar ’07 Arianne Dar P’07

In Honor of Grae Fincke ’61, P’93 Jeff Franzen P’12

In Honor of Sammy Chamino ’07 Zelda Roland Max Young

GIFTS IN-KIND The following people made gifts in-kind this past year. Though these are non-monetary gifts, they nevertheless had a huge impact on the life of the school.

In Honor of Lillian Tulloss ’19 Robert and Marta Gordon

Louis Casanave ’07 John Guenther ’61, and Melody Tilton P’89 Peter Morgan ’68 Kenneth Rivero ’99 and Beverly Acha Tom and Mimi Rutledge P’16

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giving by group: fiscal year 2017-2018 OTHER 1%

ALUMNI 29%

TRUSTEES 32%

ALUMNI FAMILIES 27%

CURRENT PARENTS 11%

Our Board of Trustees TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Arjun Achuthan ’86

Tom Rutledge P’16, President

Elizabeth Beck

Nancy E. Glowa, Esq. ’73, Vice President

Grant Brown ’75 P’14

Dan Simons ’02, Treasurer

Andrea Currier ’74

Diana Hitt Potter ’51 P’82, Clerk

Dwight Donaldson ’80 Grae Fincke, MD ’61 P’93 David Gardner P’18

FACULTY TRUSTEES C. William Bennett, Director Emeritus

Walter Kernan ’74

Linda Burlak

William Morse

Frank Jackson P’11

Nancy Newberger P’09

Franny Shuker-Haines P’16, Director

Horatio Potter ’82 Amanda Ross ’84 P’17

PARENT TRUSTEE *this reflects the current Trustee list, not the members during the 2017-2018 fiscal year

Cami Lenett P’19

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We are so grateful for our alumni and their families who together gave over half of our total donations last year. More of our current families are donating generously to the school to support and enhance their children’s experience.

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planned giving: gifts for the future Retirement Plan Gift Name Buxton as a beneficiary of your IRA, 401(k), or other retirement plan. Buxton will receive the balance of your plan, tax free.

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Gift in your will Include a gift to Buxton in your will or trust.

Indicate a specific amount or percentage of the balance remaining in your estate.

Will or Trust

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Retirement Plan

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Gift from your donor-advised fund

Gift of appreciated stock or other assets

Name Buxton as a beneficiary of the balance of your donor-advised fund.

Your appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual funds are transfered to Buxton. Buxton either keeps or sells your securities and uses the proceeds if sold.

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DonorAdvised Fund

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Income tax deduction

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Gifts of real estate or personal property You deed your home, vacation property, or any other valuble property (including antiques or artwork) to Buxton. Buxton will decide to keep or sell it.

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Stock Market

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Gift of Life Insurance Your life insurance policy is transfered to Buxton. Buxton can cash in the policy or hold it. You may also elect to transfer a life insurance policy now if you no longer need it and you will receive an income tax deduction.

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Life Insurance Policy

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Buxton’s Sangster Society recognizes the outstanding generosity of those who have made a planned gift to Buxton. This important commitment is a critical step to ensuring the vitality and financial stability of the school.

Anonymous C. William Bennett Louise See Bingham ’40 Lou Bluestein P’08 Paul Brooke ’63 and Kathleen McCarragher P’97 John Churchill ’79 David Dickinson and Ann Morse P’02 Lynne S. Gilson and Joel Schuman P’98 Susan Prentice Gould ’57 Medarda Kerr

Michael Kroxta ’75 Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59 Philip Rickey ’78 Matthew Sokolowski Roberts ’80 Ken and Nina Peek Rothchild ’47 Fred Savard ’79 Laura Doyle Stochholm ’49 Edward Stockman ’66 Helga Maurer Wagner ’64 and Paul Wagner

If you have included Buxton in your estate plans please make us aware of your intentions for our records.

We will only share your intention in our reports with your permission.

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Buxton’s founding principles are pure and simple but powerful. That is why I want to do what I can to help out now and after I am gone.

- Fred Savard ’79

Anyone can make a lasting contribution to future generations. By making a planned gift, you are invited to join the Sangster Society, named for Buxton’s founder and pioneering educator Ellen Geer Sangster. Please contact Suzy or Jeanne in the Development office to find out more about Planned Giving to Buxton.

Planned Giving is a way to make a charitable gift now or after your passing, while enjoying financial benefits for yourself and your heirs. Whether a donor uses cash, appreciated securities/stock, real estate, artwork, partnership interests, personal property, life insurance, a retirement plan, etc., this type of giving is valuable to both the donor and to Buxton.

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I graduated from Buxton in 1959. Many years have passed, but the Buxton I remember is alive and well. I am glad I am able to support it with a planned gift. ­­­ - Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59

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simple benefits of a planned gift 1

You can make a gift that does not impact your current cash flow.

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You can make a gift that doesn’t cost you anything during your lifetime.

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You can make a gift that requires no changes to your overall current financial planning.

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You don’t have to use cash to make your gift, you can make your gift with appreciated securities.

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You can give an asset you no longer need.

By making a gift of your life insurance, you can have a large impact without having a large estate.

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I realized that by putting Buxton in my will, I could make a significantly more substantial contribution to the school. I urge all of us who care about Buxton’s future to consider doing so as well. - Bill Bennett, Director Emeritus

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WAYS TO GIVE BACK TO BUXTON VISIT “SUPPORT BUXTON” ON OUR WEBSITE sign up for a monthly gift or a one-time gift

SEND A CHECK, PAYABLE TO BUXTON SCHOOL 291 South Street Williamstown, MA 01267

APPRECIATED SECURITIES AND PLANNED GIVING

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$5,595,872 OPERATING BUDGET

FUNDING SOURCES Tuition 78% Annual Fund 15% Other Income* 5% Endowment 2%

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USES OF FUNDS** Teaching & Student Support 68% Kitchen & Facility Operations 15% Administration 6% Admission 6% Development 5%

“Other Income” includes summer rental income and “Buxton Mall” “Teaching and Student Support” includes financial aid, teachers’ salaries & benefits, and the costs of the academic programs and resources “Kitchen and Facilities Operations” includes all food, maintenance, some insurances, utilities, and other occupancy expenses “Administration” includes business office expenses, some insurances, and other overhead

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Financial Review JULY 1, 2017-JUNE 30, 2018

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