Tatnall Today - Spring/Summer 2023

The Tatnall School

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EDITOR

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Erica Brown, Media & Communications Specialist | (302) 892-4075

Page McConnel, Director of Marketing & Communications | (302) 892-4338

DESIGN

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Gavin Bethel, Brandon Bolinski, Luigi Ciuffetelli, Sean Holmes, Don Paul, Molly Schlachter, and Tatnall Staff

2022–2023 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

President, Christopher W. Daniels ’05

Vice President, Abby Mrozinski ’98

Treasurer, Geordie Hayward ’04

Secretary, Bonnie Wu

Sarah Baylin

Krista Griffith

David Ley Hamilton

Caroline Tatnall Ketcham ’58

Stephen D. Marvin ’88

Keith Morton ’74

Pamela Politis, Ph.D.

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Jonathan Silver ’06

Loni Tabb, Ph.D.

Sally Veghte

Vincent Watchorn III ’87

Gregory W. Werkheiser

David T. Woods

Terri M. Young

2022–2023 ALUMNI COUNCIL

President, James A. Magee ’89

Vice President, Abigail Williams Schneider ’97

Secretary, Amanda A. Jacobs ’02

Mirthe F. Berends ’16

Christopher C. Debnam ’81

Emilie L. Hager ’16

Kiadii H. Harmon ’96

Rosemary K. Leader ’09

Kelsey P. Martin ’15

Stephen D. Marvin ’88

Alexander D. McCausland ’98

Lisa Bixby McGillivray ’81

FEATURES

14 Meet Our New Athletic Director: Katy Phillips!

Keith E. Morton ’74

Justin M. Perillo ’09

Amanda R. Ploener ’13

Jonathan B. Silver ’06

Linda Archangelo Sygowski ’71

Anne F. Turley ’71

Cindy Pettinaro Wilkinson ’88

Daynell M. Wright ’97

Peter L. Zurkow ’71

The Tatnall School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. (Tatnall retains the right to make admissions and retention decisions on the basis of the school’s ability to reasonably accommodate students with disabilities.) It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other schooladministered programs.

With a history in and passion for athletics, Tatnall’s newly appointed Athletic Director, Katy Phillips, sits down to discuss her plans to keep our successful athletic program growing.

16 Learning by Doing

The Tatnall School paves the way for engaging and hands-on learning experiences, allowing our students to understand and grasp key academic concepts by doing.

44 History is Made at Tatnall

This past Spring, the State of Delaware finally saw its first official sub-4:00-minute-mile, which happened at Tatnall by Tatnall alum Sam Parsons ’12.

The Head of School

As my third year at Tatnall comes to a close, I am so proud of the progress we have made over the last few years. As I reflect upon the school we have been, the school we are, and the school we want to be, I often think about a maxim of John Wooden, one of the great teachers in sport: “Earn the right to be proud and confident.” I am awed by the teachers, students, and parents in this community who consistently contribute their unique gifts to this school, and work tirelessly to build an education for our students of which we can be proud and confident. Together, we are building an educational landscape where wonder and curiosity take flight, where students are guided to succeed amidst challenging endeavors, and where opportunities are commensurate with our ambitions for the future.

The stories within these pages are but a glimpse of all the things that make us proud and confident. In addition to investments in facilities and programs, we have made some transformative hires, such as our new Director of Athletics, Katy Phillips. As you will read, Katy is a committed and dedicated individual with a passion for competition and perseverance (page 9). We’ve also fully immersed ourselves in the efficiency and efficacy of project-based learning (page 16) to deliver a more hands-on and collaborative approach to the educational process. By encouraging students to interact with the world around them, we are building skills and competencies that transcend traditional schooling and set our students up for success at Tatnall and beyond.

A highlight from my time here (and one of the most remarkable sporting events I have ever witnessed) was the Delaware Mile Challenge last April (page 44). Not only was it awe-inspiring to watch a group of professional athletes attempt a sub-4:00-minutemile, it was humbling to be a part of the history made that night. The incredible talent displayed by some of the nation’s top runners and the love embodied by the entire community was truly special to behold.

This is an exciting time to be at Tatnall. After several years of “playing defense,” I firmly believe that Tatnall is now playing offense. We are investing strategically in people, program, and place; we are building significant admissions momentum within a competitive Wilmington market; and we are doubling down on our inimitable school culture, which has been one of the hallmarks of a Tatnall experience since the time of Mrs. Tatnall.

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading this season’s publication of Tatnall Today, and I look forward to continuing our work to earn your trust, your pride, and your confidence.

Go Hornets!

Andrew D. Martire, Ed.D. Head of School

AroundCampus

CHILDHOOD | LOWER SCHOOL | MIDDLE SCHOOL | UPPER SCHOOL

Convocation

Tatnall students, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate the start of our school year. We welcomed gorgeous weather, mask-free faces, and a renewed appreciation of normalcy.

Student remarks are always the highlight of Tatnall events, and this year was no different. Our student speakers provided such enlightened and thoughtful reflections about our school-wide values: curiosity, perseverance, and citizenship.

Everyone across campus came together as we listened to (and sang) our school song, received a warm welcome from Head of School Dr. Martire, and celebrated a strong start to our wonderful school year.

Lower School Math Spirit Week

A mid-October week was filled with daily math-emphasized activities that totaled a greater-than-normal amount of fun. The week kicked off with a challenging round of “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader,” in which the Hornet tried to prove they were smarter than our smartypants students. Throughout the week, students and faculty answered some really tough questions like would you rather eat cake or ice cream? Or would you rather sleep in a haunted house or a graveyard? The answers they collected were then charted on a graph with stickers and used to calculate the data based on how many stickers were placed. Additionally, students participated in an unplugged coding activity that emphasized the importance of logical, ordered thinking and steps in coding. Our fifth-grade students could even teach this activity to their friends in first-grade. Math + Friends always = a good time!

EARLY

Peer Leaders

Tatnall offers a Peer Leadership program that allows our seniors to work with freshmen as mentors. Students work to help the incoming ninth-grade students transition to high school, introduce them to Upper School extracurricular and social opportunities, and discuss any issues they might experience along the way.

Our Peer Leadership program aims to provide a vehicle for our seniors to model and cultivate positive character traits while accepting a certain level of responsibility and accountability. Peer Leaders could also become representatives at different events throughout the school year.

This summer, ten Tatnall senior Peer Leaders immersed themselves in team bonding, leadership training, and freshman advisory planning during a one-day on-campus and one-day off-campus training at Echo Hill in Maryland. After their training and preparation period, our Peer Leaders welcomed and led the freshman class on September 6 during an off-campus retreat also at Echo Hill.

Tatnall Continues to Put the Pieces Together

Through our COVID era, means of entertainment outside electronics became popular! Jigsaw puzzles have made a major comeback, and their charm has continued to bewitch our Tatnall community. On any given day, if you come into the library in Beekley, you can find students, teachers, and staff gathered around any selection of our puzzles. Our local Tatnall dissectologists have completed a vast array of puzzles ranging in difficulty and subject. As of today, Tatnall has completed at least 25 puzzles. Why is it so popular? Some theorize that puzzling is both meditative and engrossing. It is a way to experience mental stimulation with friends in a purely positive environment. Much like life, a puzzle-related obstacle can feel insurmountable, but with fresh eyes and some time away, a solution eventually presents itself.

Around Campus

Tree Campus K–12 Award

DYK: Trees can help improve cognitive development, improve attentiveness, and reduce stress in children?

That’s why we are proud and excited to announce that The Tatnall School has been recognized by The Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus K–12 school!

Tatnall joins schools across the country by utilizing trees through Arbor Day’s Tree Campus K–12 program, launched in 2021 to encourage educators to create meaningful opportunities for students to interact with trees. The Tatnall School is one of 70 elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States to earn recognition through the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus K–12 program.

To earn this distinction, Tatnall met four goals:

Maintain a Tree Campus team dedicated to achieving recognition

Offer a hands-on experience that engages students in trees and the community

BMW Classic

Create an education plan connecting students to trees and their global benefits

Hold an Arbor Day observance to celebrate trees within the school or the community

The BMW Championship is the first PGA Tour event to come to the First State. Along with the top 70 pro golfers came a surge of Tatnall school representation. We had over 65 volunteers fill our 20 volunteer slots. Tatnall’s concession stand was staffed from 8 am to 6 pm by grandparents, parents, administrators, alumni, staff, faculty, trustees and students — all showing the true Hornet spirit of community and service. We got to see some familiar faces, meet new friends, and gush about everything Tatnall. Through our premium service and warm energy, the Tatnall tent raised around $9K. We are so fortunate to have, and are thankful for, all our community members who volunteered and spent their summer days with us.

Girls Indoor Reclaim the DIAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

With only nine girls competing, the Tatnall Girls Indoor Track team was not the largest girls team at the DIAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Tatnall utilized everyone on the roster, getting numerous key performances in multiple events, to end Padua’s 10-year run of supremacy and come home with the team’s first championship since 2012.

The Hornets mustered everything they had to secure a way to outscore the Pandas 131–107.

Additionally, we had two individual winners — freshman Arianna Montgomery in the 55-meter hurdles and sophomore Katie Payne in the 1,600 -meter run.

Way to go, girls!

Meet the Board

Tatnall’s Board of Trustees is a diverse group of professionals who embody the Mission of our school and are devoted to driving our growth and maximizing our impact. Each trustee has their own reason for dedicating their time to Tatnall, and each reason speaks to a deep respect and appreciation for our unique culture. Get to know the men and women who support our school.

Caroline Tatnall Ketcham ’58

When I am on the Tatnall campus I am almost always tumbled back in time to when I was a student here: all girls in the Upper School, of course, and very small classes taught by excellent teachers. It was said that if you were nabbed for chewing gum you could be expelled — happily that did not come to pass. We always wore skirts or dresses, stood when our teacher or any other adult entered the room and were docile and polite. We were always held to very high standards of scholarship, respect for others, honorable behavior and unselfishness.

Having been on the Tatnall Board for almost 10 years, I am aware that these same standards apply to members of the governing body of the school. Trustees are responsible for the financial health of Tatnall as well as being the watchdogs of our mission. As such, we work hard, and we cultivate and nurture respectful behavior among ourselves and with the administration, the faculty and with the students. We aspire to do our best and be our best.

So, in many ways, not much has changed though the challenges of educating young people are manifest. I feel privileged to support Tatnall and I am proud to still be a part of what has endured for almost 100 years.

Greg Werkheiser

Rachel and I are proud parents of three children, including two Tatnall “lifers.” Owen and Tylon joined the Tatnall family as preschoolers. Both are now thriving in Tatnall’s Upper School.

Why did our family come to Tatnall? Why do we stay? And why am I so invested in Tatnall, both as a parent and as a member of its Board of Trustees? Our area obviously has no shortage of quality schools, both public and private. However, it is hard to imagine another school duplicating Tatnall’s purpose-driven and supportive community, or delivering many of the other intangibles that make Tatnall dear to us.

For me especially, the sense of connection that Tatnall provides our children is vitally important. When I was a child, we moved frequently. If memory serves, I attended at least six different schools. I always felt a bit of the outsider and struggled at times to form close relationships with my teachers and classmates.

In this regard, Tatnall has delivered beyond what we ever could have fathomed. For example, Owen has close friendships with classmates that began in pre-school and remain solid today. Further, it feels to us as though Tatnall’s faculty and staff know our children and are invested in their happiness and development to a degree I certainly never experienced as a child in the 1970s and 80s.

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Importantly, Tatnall maintains this sense of community while also allowing our kids to be who they are. Owen has been supported beyond measure to pursue his passions for drawing and digital art. Tylon has been encouraged to pursue both theater and social causes that are deeply important to them. In critical ways, Tatnall has adapted to our children rather than force our children to conform to someone else’s ideal of the perfect student.

Tatnall has been, and remains, one of the best choices our family ever made.

Meet Katy Phillips

Athletics Director

Tell us a little bit about you and your background.

I’m from Pittsburgh, Pa., and bleed all things black and gold — so my transition to Tatnall seemed spot on! I’ve been an athlete since I could walk; I played collegiate-level lacrosse and got my coaching break at that level. My experiences instilled a tremendous passion for athletics and its significance in my and my athletes’ lives.

How has your move to Delaware been?

I appreciate the support I have received from everyone in the Tatnall community. My initial impression of Delaware is that everyone seems to know everyone else, but I’ve never felt like an outsider. Both my Tatnall community and the Delaware Athletic Director (AD) community have welcomed me with open arms, and I am grateful for their kindness.

How would you describe Tatnall Athletics?

Tatnall is committed to providing a superior experience at every level. The Board and School’s administration are dedicated to going above and beyond expectations. Like the school, the Tatnall Athletics program has a strong reputation. Our Hornets have benefited from the outstanding coaching and athletic support staff.

What do you find most rewarding about being an athletic director?

I love the interaction with the athletes and coaches. I’ve always been excited about supporting people who want to set and then achieve goals. Working within an athletic department allows me to do that.

What are some of your favorite athletic experiences as a player and coach?

Winning a 3rd WPIAL 3A championship against my high school on the field where I coached collegiately with my dad as my Assistant— even ANOTHER Steeler Super Bowl can’t touch that!

What is your belief on the role of athletics in PK-12 education?

The athletic realm is so much more than just skill-building at all levels. It is a unique atmosphere that teaches children to push themselves, work with others, and communicate with their peers differently than in the classroom or the playground.

How would you define a successful athletic program?

People always think successful teams win, but to win consistently, it takes work behind the scenes to build a program. In order to acheive success, all of our programs should be elevated through professional development, leadership opportunities for our athletes, and

departmental improvements such as new uniforms, improving training equipment, etc. All that aside, I mark true success by ensuring the experience our athletes have in our programs is excellent, and the peer and coach relationships are ones that our students carry with them.

Who are your role models, and why?

My uncle, my dad, Margie Smith (my college coach), and Heather Lyke, the University of Pittsburgh AD, have all tremendously impacted my life in very different ways. My college coach took a chance on me as an athlete from a non-traditional area. She created a family atmosphere that allowed us to respect but depend on her. My uncle has been by my side, helping every business I have started, and stepped in when my mom became ill. The Tatnall community will get to know my dad as he participates in everything I am a part of — he loves sports! As for Heather Lyke at Pitt, I have never met her, but I am impressed by her work with the Pitt Athletic Department and their move to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

What are your top 5 favorite things in life and why?

Ahh, Pittsburgh, anything Pittsburgh, the Steelers, my family, and sushi. Pittsburgh is such a special place for me. I grew up there and also became who I am today through opportunities there. Everyone from Pittsburgh has such a sense of community and pride. And anywhere you go, you can find someone who is from there. Sushi just happens to be my favorite food ever!

What’s this Pittsburgh Steelers tradition we’ve heard about from you?

Steeler Sunday starts when you wake up with your jersey — any jersey is considered business casual in Pittsburgh. Where you watch, if you’re going to the stadium, who gave you your first Terrible Towel, and hating the Ravens, are all part of the tradition. And, of course, critiquing every moment of the game. The Rooney family has been amazing to Pittsburgh, and Mike Tomlin continues to be a coach I believe in wholeheartedly!

The Ederic Library RENOVATION PROJECT

Tatnall is excited to announce the Ederic Library and Facade Renovation Project, designed to transform our Upper and Middle School library into a modern collaborative and flexible learning space with an emphasis on innovation and technology. This new Renovation Project will reimagine the existing floor plan to incorporate more intentionally designed flexible learning spaces, add significant technological resources for media and innovation, and create opportunities for design thinking, robotics, STEM activities, and student engagement. We envision a cutting-edge “Learning Commons” a symbol of our educational philosophy and emphasis on innovative learning practices, and a place that provides unprecedented access to media, technology, collaboration spaces, flexible classrooms, and resources for creative innovation.

Our plan is to open the library up by removing the stacks of books and building new flexible learning spaces within the existing floor plan, notably a robotics table, an innovation station, a media bar, a new glass conference room with Harkness table and interactive display technology, and flexible student collaboration spaces for individual or group studying, or for use as a classroom. Additionally, we will

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populate the edges of the new space with innovative technology such as 3D printers, a laser cutter, a CDC router, and interactive displays, as well as aesthetic technology to enhance student wellness.

The Renovation Project will also address the facade of the Beekley Building, known familiarly as “the front door of Tatnall.” We envision a beautifully designed exterior that will significantly improve aesthetics, while also incorporating green technology, environmental stewardship via stormwater management, and a new green community space to be used as an additional outdoor classroom. The design not only complements our ambitions for the interior, but will dovetail with Tatnall’s emerging reputation as a “best-in-class” institution for environmental studies.

The estimated cost of the project is $977,000. The interior will cost an estimated $477,000, while the exterior will cost an estimated $500,000. We plan to begin the renovation on June 1, 2023, with an estimated completion date of September 1, 2023. Tatnall currently has over $440,000 in-hand from generous donors and foundations, with $500,000 worth of grant requests under review. The Development Team is excited to complete the fundraising requirements before June 1, so we can hit the ground running this summer with this incredible renovation!

PROJECT INITIATION Spring 2023

LEARNING COMMONS ESTIMATE $477,000

STUDENTS IMPACTED YEAR 1 300-400

Eco-Courtyard Estimate $500,000

PROJECT COMPLETION Fall 2023

TOTAL ESTIMATED COST $977,000*

*includes contingencies

McKenna 9th, Kenley 6th, Weslyn 2nd, and Shannon Slutman

WhyTatnall?

In 2020, we chose Tatnall because my daughters needed a richer educational experience. In searching for a new school, we were looking for strong academics, small class sizes, and a variety of activities. What we found was so much more. At Tatnall, they were not limited; they could play a sport, act in a play, join the chorus, and be more well-rounded. My girls have been provided with a buffet of opportunities to explore. The nurturing environment at Tatnall has allowed them to discover their inner athlete, artist, and advocate. Year after year, we continue to choose this school because of the community that is Tatnall.

Tatnall is truly more than the sum of its parts. Another parent once said their child felt like Tatnall felt “homey,” and I couldn’t agree more. Transitioning from other schools, my girls quickly felt at home, allowing them to feel comfortable asking for help when needed. The teachers and staff care about my children, and they feel seen and loved every day. Teachers and staff in all divisions took the time to build relationships with each of them, thereby providing a more impactful education.

While at the Early Childhood (EC) for Kindergarten, my youngest daughter found a school where students learned through play. She was encouraged to explore her world in the outdoor classrooms, performed in Peter and the Wolf, went sledding on snowy days, and developed a genuine love of learning. Her time at the EC was so magical I wish she had started sooner at Tatnall.

At the Lower School, my daughters have loved teachers and staff who are passionate about teaching and meeting each child where they are. They have been challenged to think in imaginative and out-of-the-box ways. Their

creativity has been nurtured and encouraged through thoughtful and project-based learning. Their teachers were not just focused on their grades but on their understanding and ability to take what they were being taught to the next level. The relationships they developed lasted even when they moved to another division.

The Middle School prepared my daughters for the next steps to come. They were taught independence, time management, accountability, and perseverance. Teachers worked to encourage them to step outside their comfort zone. Art and athletic programs inspired them to try new things, take risks, and expand their talents in a nurturing environment. Student advisory provided a safety net to help them acquire the skills needed to be successful in high school and beyond.

Exploration and curiosity are taken to the next level as students move into the Upper School. My daughter has learned it isn’t too late to try a new sport. The Upper School provides considerable opportunities to develop leadership skills by mentoring younger students and taking action to improve the world around them. The sky is truly the limit. Sports, drama, art, and leadership, in addition to a robust academic schedule, have all been attainable.

For many of us, the pandemic shed light on what we were missing. For our family, it highlighted what my daughters were missing from their education in our home district. We were searching for a solution that would provide both strong academics and a sense of community. As part of the Tatnall family, our expectations were not only met but exceeded. There are hundreds of reasons to come to Tatnall and many more reasons to stay.

My girls have been provided with a buffet of opportunities to explore. The nurturing environment at Tatnall has allowed them to discover their inner athlete, artist, and advocate. Year after year, we continue to choose this school because of the community that is Tatnall.

—Shannon Slutman

Field Hockey

All-Conference Recognition:

1st Team

Rachael Whitehead ’23

Lydia Colasante ’23

Carolyn Walker ’25

Kate McConnel ’23

2nd Team:

Reese Dolinger ’24

Riley Greene ’24

Tessa Colasante ’25

Honorable Mention:

Charlotte Wilkinson ’25

Olivia Perrin ’23

Fall & Winter Accolades

All-State Honors

1st Team

Rachael Whitehead ’23

Lydia Colasante ’23

2nd Team:

Carolyn Walker ’25

DIAA Academic Athletic Awards:

Riley Greene ’24

Ella Fontanazza ’26

Tatnall Boys Cross Country

2nd Team All-State:

Ben Pizarro ’25 (3rd at State Championship)

All-County (top 25 in New Castle County Championship):

Luke Kain ’25

Gavin Leffler ’26

All-Conference (top 10 in DISC Conference):

Gavin Leffler ’26

Ewan Minihan ’24

Luke Kain ’25 Michael McGinley ’24

DISC Conference Champion:

Gavin Leffler ’26

Tatnall Girls Cross Country

1st Team All-State:

Carlita Kaliher ’24

Katie Payne ’25

Katrina Endres ’24

All-County (top 25 in New Castle County Championship):

Carlita Kaliher ’24

Katie Payne ’25

Katrina Endres ’24

All-Conference (top 10 in DISC Conference):

Carlita Kaliher ’24

Katie Payne ’25

Katrina Endres ’24

New Castle County Champion:

Carlita Kaliher ’24

DISC Conference Champion:

Carlita Kaliher ’24

Football

All-District Recognition

1st Team

Justin Smith ’24

Rahshan LaMons ’24

Micah Stamper ’24

2nd Team

Matt Homer ’23

Jack Homer ’25

Eli Halverson-Frazier ’25

Soccer

Honorable Mention:

Jeff Homer ’23

Quinn deViere ’26

Jayden Minor ’26

All-State Honors

1st Team:

Rahshan LaMons ’24

Justin Smith ’24

2nd Team:

Micah Stamper ’24

DIAA Academic Athletic Awards:

Spenser Neidig ’24

Jack Homer ’25

All-Conference Recognition

1st Team:

Fletcher Jones ’25

Simon Cox ’25

Gabe Stryker ’24

2nd Team

Bastian Micolucci ’24

Noah Conkey ’25

Honorable Mention:

Omar Belkadi ’25

MarQuel Fitzgerald ’23

Girls Basketball

Senior Captain Emma Kirby hit her 1,000th point this season.

Senior Captain Bri Gautier earned multiple Player of the Game accolades from sports media outlets and took home the Diamond State Classic’s Karen “KJ” Johnson award. This award is given to the best player that demonstrates the most heart.

All-Conference Recognition

1st Team:

Boys Basketball

The Tatnall Hornets Boys Varsity Basketball team finished with a flourish in the championship game of the Ernest Troiano Sr. Memorial Bracket of the Boardwalk Basketball Classic in Wildwood, Nj., defeating Conwell-Egan HS 42-29.

All-Conference Recognition

1st Team:

Isaiah Sales ’23

2nd Team:

MarQuel Fitzgerald ’23

Volleyball

All-Conference

Recognition

1st Team:

Emma Kirby ’23

Nancy Evans ’23

2nd Team:

Caitlyn McGonigal ’25

Carly Kennedy ’26

Honorable Mention: Caleb Starks ’25

Bri Gautier ’23

Emma Kirby ’23

Cherish Bryant ’25

2nd Team: Claire Watson ’24 Kali Clayton ’25

Honorable Mention: Charlotte Wilkinson ’25

Winter Track

The following members of The Tatnall School Class of 2023 have committed to playing sports at the collegiate level.

DIVISION I

KALI CLAYTON

Hofstra University

Women’s Lacrosse

LYDIA COLASANTE

Boston College

Women’s Lacrosse

JEFF HOMER

University of Delaware

Men’s Golf

MATT HOMER

University of Delaware

Men’s Golf

RACHAEL WHITEHEAD

University of Delaware

Women’s Field Hockey

DIVISION Il

EMMA KIRBY

Millersville University

Women’s Basketball

DIVISION lll

BRIANNA GAUTIER

Cabrini University

Women’s Volleyball and Basketball

Honorable Mention:

Niyah Kellman ’23

Bri Gautier ’23

All-State 3rd Team:

Nancy Evans ’23

DIAA Academic Athletic Awards: Rachel Hilferty ’23

For the first time since 2012, the girls team has taken the DIAA Indoor State Title. With only nine girls competing, they scored an impressive 131 points, 24 points ahead of the second place team. See page 7 for the photo.

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Learning by Doing

Across The Tatnall School campus, a fluid style of instruction is encouraging students of all ages to work collaboratively and think about themselves and the world around them in more nuanced ways.

It’s called project-based learning, and it centers, as the name implies, on a project assigned to a class, multiple classes, or even multiple grades. The nature of the projects can vary, but they all share some important characteristics. First, they require students to use a medley of skills, often some combination of reading, writing, math, science, research, and sometimes technology and engineering.

“Disciplines are traditionally taught in silos,” says Heather Brooks, the Early Childhood/Lower School Innovation and STEM Coordinator and Lower School Media Specialist and Computer Science teacher. “This is an opportunity to teach them together and have the students apply what they learn so that they can see how the different disciplines are connected, which more closely mirrors real-life problem-solving.”

Second, the projects tend to be relatively open-ended. Students are given a task or a question. How they interpret or approach it is up to them. Not even the teachers overseeing these projects necessarily know where they’re going to end up. Making them even more unpredictable, students are often asked to work together. It’s natural to assume that in such an arrangement, students would lean on their strengths. And in many instances, they do. But the four teachers interviewed for this article also shared numerous examples of students coming out of their shell when they discovered a new ability or talent while simply trying something out of their comfort zone.

“I am always surprised at who turns out to be an excellent coder or robot builder,” Brooks says. “I see a lot of kids who maybe don’t excel at

Students of every age at The Tatnall School are engaging with the world around them in new ways thanks to a style of instruction that encourages them to use a medley of skills while exposing them to new ones.

the conventional subjects, but they’re great at spatial relations. And they end up building robots like it’s second nature to them.”

Rick Neidig, who teaches a class in the Upper School called Foundations of Technical Theater and is the technical director of the Laird Performing Arts Center, says a tool rack serves as a happy reminder of the student who crafted it. He came into his own working on a set for a Tatnall production.

“He was a quiet kid. He was there, people knew of him, but you didn’t really see people interact with him,” Neidig says. “But then he took off [on this project] and, suddenly, by the end of the term, everybody was like, “Man, Jason’s great.”

“Whenever students have agency, I find my engagement in class rises because they’re able to make a choice and decide what they’re interested in,” says Adam Gross, the World Language Department Chair and a Middle and Upper School Latin teacher. “With project-based learning, they’re still going to learn all the key concepts I want them to learn, but they’re going to do it in a way that allows them to explore their own interest.”

They also experience the three core Tatnall School values curiosity, perseverance, and citizenship –which are built into every project-based lesson.

“Asking questions, especially if they’re openended, it engages the students in a way that makes them want to explore and be more curious about the project or the world around them, in general,” says Linda Champagne, who was a member of the committee that established the values last summer.

Within this article, Brooks, Neidig, Gross, and Champagne share their

recent experiences with project-based learning and discuss how their students have benefitted from it.

Constructing a whole other world in a term Neidig, half-jokingly, says that project-based learning was on display in his workshop well before it was formally introduced to the Tatnall School curricula. His students construct the sets for the school’s productions in the first two terms. In the third, they design and build all sorts of things around the school that have been requested by other teachers. In recent years, they erected a bird blind, a compost shed, and a greenhouse.

“I start them off as if they’d never seen a tool,” Neidig says. “It’s literally ‘this is a hammer’ and ‘this is a screwdriver.’ We progress through all the tools and saws in the first week. At the end of the week, there’s a test on tool use and safety. And then we start building.”

For this year’s first term, that meant crafting six different facades and a 16-foot turntable for the musical “Little Shop of Horrors.” In all, about 60 Upper School students had a hand in the effort.

“These kids, they built all of it,” Neidig says. “I’m there showing them how to do it, but the students build everything.”

Along the way, they also learn that the show must go on, no matter what.

“When they get into a situation where they’re saying, ‘There’s too much to do. We’re not going to be able to make it,’ I say, ‘Well, let’s figure out how we can make it.’

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1. Sara Kane ’23 works the sounds and light board.

2. Tatnall Performing Arts teacher, Wes Morton, shows Middle School students the set of Little Shop of Horrors.

I push them to come up with their own solutions. I tell them, ‘Look, you know the tools. How would you build this?’” Neidig says. “That’s how perseverance happens in our class, just making sure you complete things by a timetable and push through the few times that we have to push through.”

In addition to the real-life deadline, Neidig says another distinguishing quality of his class is the way students support other students. On the eve of “Little Shop of Horrors,” he walked his set designers out to centerstage and asked them to admire their work. Then he told them to consider who they made it for.

From the craftspeople behind the sets to the technical people offstage to the performers in the spotlight, everyone in a Tatnall production is a student and, Neidig says, they’re all in it together.

Reimagining Halloween from different perspectives

When, last year, organizers of the FIRST LEGO League announced they wouldn’t be holding an in-person competition, Brooks pivoted to another interactive learning opportunity, The Haunted Funhouse. It was embraced so enthusiastically by students, she kept it going this year, even with the LEGO League’s return.

For Halloween, Lower School students converted the Family Room into a multimedia haunted house, of sorts.

“Every grade had a hand in creating some part of it, but they didn’t see the whole thing until it was completed,” Brooks says. “Some classes wrote poetry and some made creepy feel boxes.”

The fifth graders were responsible for the bulk of the work. They began brainstorming shortly after the start of school in September. They decorated the space with art, designed motorized haunted toys with LEGO bricks and gears, and programmed spooky games on the computers.

Once it was all done, the Lower School students were invited to experience the funhouse with their families. A space where they gather every weekday morning had been transformed into an unrecognizable maze of (slightly) scary rooms and even tunnels, all of it evidence of lessons learned.

Meanwhile, the fifth graders were also beginning to work on their LEGO League projects. The league is a global robotics program that helps students “grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.” For Tatnall’s fifth graders, it culminates in a friendly regional competition where student teams build and program a LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a game.

“One of the things we do here at Tatnall that I think is different from any other school in Delaware is that LEGO League is a class,” says Brooks, who oversees the program at Tatnall. “It’s built into our STEM block. It’s not an afterschool club. Nor is it something that only kids who think they’re into robots do. So, you’ll see kids who wouldn’t typically sign up for this lots of kids.”

Unearthing new dimensions of a lost language

Breathing new life into Latin for young students is a daunting task. But Gross came up with an idea last year that had the potential to do just that for Tatnall’s Middle School students. He dug trenches on campus then filled them with donated odds and ends leftover materials from the Operations Department, ceramic sculptures (some broken, some whole) from the Art Department. He even built his own features, such as partial walls. Then he buried it all and waited for this year’s sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade Latin classes to start their new archaeology unit.

That day came with the arrival of October. Every day that month, the Middle School Latin students headed outside and carefully excavated Gross’s trenches. When someone discovered an edge or an entire fragment,

Asking questions, especially if they’re openended, it engages the students in a way that makes them want to explore and be more curious about the project or the world around them.

Linda Champagne, Early Childhood Developmental Gym and Music Teacher

1. Tatnall Middle School students excavate in our own Tatnall Trenches to get handson experience in their Archaeology unit.

2. Tatnall fifth graders collaborate on a Lego League Task.

3. Krissa Woods ’28 learns how to test water quality at the Stroud Research Center.

Gross says everyone eagerly volunteered ideas as to what it may be.

“They were all in, wondering about what they had found and what they were going to find as they kept digging,” he says.

At the start, few of the students knew how to use the tools they were provided, and none had any experience with excavating an archaeology site, a meticulous process that requires patience and precision.

“We had a whole class in each trench, and they had to work together to figure out, ‘OK, how do we want to excavate this?’ ‘Where do we want to target today?’” Gross says. “They couldn’t just dig a pit on one side. They had to dig tiers. And they had to talk to each other constantly about how they were going to work together to do that.

“So, there were a lot of great moments where students would say, ‘We need to move areas and try something new.’ Or, ‘Use this tool. It’s going to work well for what you’re excavating,” he says. “There was a lot of give and take. And everybody did their part for the group to achieve success.”

The students finished excavating during the first week of November. During the second term, each student will have the chance to analyze a recovered “artifact” and develop a theory as to what it may be. Gross has created a Google site that will ultimately become a kind of virtual museum, where images of the artifacts will be displayed alongside their analyses.

In creating, learning comes to life

Each April, the Early Childhood students participate in the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Week of the Young Child. The overarching theme varies a little from year to year, but the concept essentially remains the same: to engage students in “handson, collaborative activities encouraging movement and healthy lifestyles through music, food, and art.”

Instructors are free to come up with their own activities that fall within those parameters. At The Tatnall School, each day of the week is given a different sub-theme: Musical Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Work-Together Wednesday, Artsy Thursday, and Family Friday.

On a recent Musical Monday, Linda Champagne, the Assistant Early Childhood Head and Developmental Gym and Music teacher, invited children to form a percussion ensemble and play a piece of music. They’ve also selected different instruments and told a story through music.

“So they’re involved in creating and making the project come to life,” Champagne says.

For Tasty Tuesday, the students have learned where the ingredients of a taco originate from and what the contents of a taco are. They’ve also made their own fruit kabobs.

On Work-Together Wednesday, students were paired up and instructed to collaborate on a massive drawing. Large sheets of white paper were laid out on the floor. Then one student laid on a skateboard on their belly, clutching crayons or markers, while their partner held their ankles and steered them around the room.

On Artsy Thursday, they’ve created their own little museum, crafting the pieces that comprise it and arranging the displays.

Parents are invited to help their child share a favorite story on Family Friday. Champagne and her fellow teachers also use the opportunity to highlight the diversity of families, asking them to share their different traditions.

Champagne says the satisfaction and joy she derives from project-based learning and, specifically, the Week of the Young Child comes from never knowing, exactly, where an activity is going to lead. “You put something out there,” she says, “but they create it, they own it.”

For that reason, each lesson concludes with a period of reflection, so that both teachers and students can better understand how they arrived where they did and discuss what they learned in the process.

4. Students plan, design, and bring to life their sets for every performing arts production.

5. Caleb Starks ’25 and Jude Maycole ’25 work together on their robotics structure.

6. Tatnall Lower School students collaborate on a science lab exploring magnets and motors.

7. Early Childhood students create largescale structures in their Wonderlab space.

GIVING IN NUMBERS

OPERATING EXPENSES

PARENT GIVING PARTICIPATION BY STUDENT

CLASS YEAR

TOP ALUMNI PARTICIPATION

33% CLASS OF 1953

50% CLASS OF 1956

25% CLASS OF 1952

100% CLASS OF 1941

100% CLASS OF 1944

40% CLASS OF 1945

37% CLASS OF 1962

33% CLASS OF 1951

30% CLASS OF 2003

45% CLASS OF 1971

ANNUAL FUND INITIATIVES

GivingTuesday 2021 Giving Back Challenge

GivingTuesday was a special day. Your generous gifts and matching funds from our Board of Trustees helped us raise $66,909 for Tatnall — a whopping 133% of the goal and our single-day giving record! Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, we saw the number of participants rise by an incredible 58%, from 119 last year to an awe-inspiring 188 in 2021. This humbling display of enthusiasm and generosity will help us build stronger programs and maintain our status as one of the top independent schools in Delaware. Thank you!

Words cannot express how grateful we are. Your support shows the strength of our community and the strong desire to invest in a prosperous future for Tatnall. We are extremely appreciative and will use GivingTuesday dollars to support our students, faculty, programs, and campus via The Fund for Tatnall.

Roots to Grow & Wings to Fly

Each week, the Spring Fundraising Campaign highlighted a Tatnall story of growth and achievement, as well as infographics, spotlights, and more.

Our Spring Campaign was not just a fundraiser; it was a celebration of spring and how special it is to grow up at Tatnall. Each week featured a compelling human interest story from the Tatnall community, as well as infographics, featurettes, spotlights, and more. Gifts toward our $125,000 goal benefitted The Fund for Tatnall, which is a critical component of our beloved school model.

“Roots to Grow & Wings to Fly” is an homage to Tatnall’s two most enduring symbols: the Red Oak outside Sedgely and our timeless mascot the Tatnall Hornet. But as metaphors, roots and wings encapsulate what makes this place so special — our collective roots in this special place in the world, the relationships and shared experiences that knit us together, and the gifts of knowledge, confidence, and encouragement that enable us to fly.

Sword vs. Shields Giving Day

On June 7, 2022, Tatnall’s annual Swords vs. Shields Field Day competition and festivities in Lower and Middle Schools took center stage! The captains were selected, the school spirit was at an all-time high, and everyone was watching with great anticipation as the rivalry between Swords and Shields unfolded.

Swords vs. Shields has been a Tatnall tradition for over 60 years, pitting the classes against each other in friendly rivalry, spirited competition, and a fun-filled Field Day of activities. One of the seminal moments of Field Day is the selection of fifth-grade captains, who are chosen to lead the entire Lower School into the fray — an honor which many of our esteemed alumni have also enjoyed. The Fifth-Grade captaincy is a highly coveted title, as it is both an honor and an opportunity to stand before all their teammates in Grades 1–5 as a leader and role model during the event. It represents the pinnacle of Lower School growth and maturity, as Swords and Shields in the Lower School rally around these leaders in the pursuit of victory.

We Did More, March 3–4

Thank you so much for helping us “Do More!” for our students, families, and community over these 24 hours. Thanks to your generosity, we WON FOUR PRIZES (valued at $1,200), and raised $19,272 from 105 donors.

ANNUAL GIFTS

The Founder’s Society ($1,930 and above)

FRANCES D.S. TATNALL SOCIETY ($25,000 +)

Anonymous

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Mrs. Robert R. Carpenter III

Ms. Barbara L. Hausman

Mr. Vance V. Kershner

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schell

The Tatnall School Alumni Council

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Dorr Foundation

Ernest E. Stempel Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Grant

Ms. Paula Grant

Rob and Caroline Ketcham

Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Lee

Ms. Virginia D. Maxwell

Dr. and Mrs. Christian Pizarro

Mrs. Kathy S. Walker

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Christine and Louis J. Capano III

Mrs. Nancy Herndon Clapp

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew F. Lintner

Mr. Edward D. Main

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Marvin

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. McKelvey III

Dr. and Mrs. Eric G. Ruoss

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1916 Foundation

The Carpenter Foundation, Inc.

Mrs. Margaretta Barton Colt

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Daniels

Chris and Emily Daniels

Mr. George S. M. Hayward

Mrs. Elizabeth Webster Hodge

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan W. Keen

Dr. Margaret L. Laird and Mr. Philip J. Taylor III

Ms. Rebecca Loomis

Marvin Family Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. McDonnell

Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibson McIlvain III

Mr. and Michael S. Purzycki

Rencourt Foundation, Inc.

John and Caroline McIlvain Sensing

Mrs. W. Laird Stabler, Jr.

Mr. McCoy duPont Weymouth

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Anthony Penna Charitable Fund

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Bank of America

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Ciconte

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Ciconte, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Cook, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Crowley

Delaware Community Foundation

Mr. Michael A. Echols

John and Maureen Echternach

Mr. Parker B. Field III

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Griffith

David and Ann Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. Helmick, Jr.

Dr. Jason Howard and Ms. Rhonda Normore

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Mr. James Kelly and Ms. Michele Cross

Mrs. Valerie Wier Lee

Mrs. Victoria Pettinaro Martelli

Mr. and Mrs. David F. Marvin

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Matlusky

The Matlusky Firm, LLC

Mr. and Mrs. William C. McGinley

Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Minihan, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Mrozinski

Mr. and Ms. Toby Paterson

Mr. and Ms. Jeffrey Politis

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Mrs. Suzanne D. Smiley

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The Werkheiser Family

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Dr. Ari Abel and Mrs. Valerie Wolslayer Abel

Anonymous

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Ms. Joanne Capano

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Delaware Running Company

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Mr. and Ms. Tetsuya Hamasaki

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Mr. Jason Homer and Ms. Kimberly Ciconte

Mr. Thomas G. Hughes

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Ms. Annie Jones

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Ms. Heather A. Lane

Mr. and Mrs. M. Theo Lassiter

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Lincoln

Mr. Philip T. Mackey

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Magee

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Manahan

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Martire

Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Neidig

Jonathan and Margaret Shea Ohliger

Omega Project

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Paul

Jonathan Payne and Jo Ellen Cockley

Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Perry Pepper

Drs. Stephen and Lauren Petersen

Mrs. Carol Raiber Powell

Rev. Cecily Sawyer-Harmon

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Schwieger II

Mr. and Mrs. William M. W. Sharp

Shrieking Meadow Foundation

Dr. Shannon D. Slutman

Mrs. W. Latimer Snowdon, Jr.

Mr. Jonathan E. Suber

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Thomas, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Gregory Tigani

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Varacchi

The Hon. and Mrs. E. Norman Veasey

Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Veghte

Mr. Vince Watchorn

Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun W. Wick

Ms. Cindy Pettinaro Wilkinson

Ms. Evelyn L. Williams

Mr. Aaron Winchell and Ms. Bonnie Wu

Ms. Terri M. Young

BEEKLEY FOUNDATION ($500 +)

Mrs. Joan R. Adams

Ms. Alexandra Agapitides

American International Group (AIG)

Asset Strategy Consultants, L.L.C

Mr. Roger M. Austin

Mr. and Mrs. Hamid Belkadi

Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Birk

Ms. Sheriden T. Black

Dr. Drew A. Brady

Mr. and Ms. John C. Brennan

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Brice

Dr. and Mrs. Carmen D. Campanelli, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Zachary L. Chipman

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cooke

Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cox

Dr. Susan Carmody Culman

Mr. and Mrs. T. Jordan Daniels

Mrs. Leslie Ann Riley Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Dowling

Mrs. Judith C. Dowling

Maureen M. Echternach

Mr. and Ms. Booth Farwell

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Ms. Tama Greenberg

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Mr. Douglas D. Herrmann

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Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Holloway

Ms. Sinéad Horan

Mr. Joshua L. Hsu

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kelly III

Mr. Jamie Jenney

Mr. and Ms. Bill A. Keller

Mr. Christopher T. Kelly

Jane du Pont and Barron U. Kidd Family Fund at The Dallas Foundation

Mrs. Barbara Clayton Lammiman

Mrs. Elizabeth Swartz Lawrence

Mr. Michael J. Leeds

Mr. Jason P. Lisi, Esq.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Lyons

Mr. Patrick W. Manahan

Ms. Anita Marcial

Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Marvin

Ms. Christine W. Matlusky

Mr. and Mrs. James S. McConnel

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. McGrisken

Ms. Mary Curtis Meacham

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Mitchell, Jr.

Mr. Alexander S. Moeckel

Peggy and Thorpe Moeckel

Morgan Stanley

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgenstern

Mr. Keith E. Morton

The Morton Family

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Neutz IV

Fred and Tammy Palfrey

Ms. Helen C. Peemoeller

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Prosser

Mr. Christopher Pupek and Dr. Marta Diaz-Pupek

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer J. Qualls

Dr. Howard C. Read

Red Hat, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Riley

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Saatman

Mr. and Ms. Michael Sama

Mr. Owen N. Sellar

Mrs. Deborah MacIntyre Sheldon

John and Carol Hitchens Starzmann

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan

Mrs. Susan Schell Symons

Mr. Xavier A. Teixido

Tri-State Roofing

Mr. John W. Ward

Drs. Geoff Weyer and Regina Barry

Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Weymouth III

Ms. Sara E. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. David T. Woods

Mr. J. Cameron Yorkston

Mr. Paul A. Zintl

BARLEY MILL CLUB ($250 +)

Mr. and Mrs. Samir Ahmad

AmazonSmile

Dr. H. Leon Aussprung III

Mr. J. Winsor Baker III

Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Balick

Mrs. Jennifer Kane Bardo

Dr. Susan Shoaf Barton

Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan F. Baylin

Mr. Zachary J. Baylin

Mrs. Margaret Ashton Biggs

James Booge IV and Amy K. Porter

Heather and Thomas Brooks

Mrs. Sarah Shoaf Cabot

Mr. Brian J. Carney

Mr. Tyler J. Carney

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Clayton

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Corkran

The Dallaire Family

Dr. and Mrs. George A. Datto III

Mr. George W. Davis

Mrs. Janet Larson Derck

Mr. Seth W. Digel

Mr. Kenneth Dillon and Mrs. Mary Walter-Dillon

Mr. Samuel Dorsey and Ms. Lakesia Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Drexler

Susan Bacon Dynerman

Mr. and Ms. Robert Endres

Mike and Laurie Flanagan

Mr. and Ms. Jeffrey Gautier

Mr. Alexander F. Giacco III

Mr. D. J. Gluck, Jr.

Ms. Elizabeth C. Grant

Dr. Matthew A. Handling

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Handling

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hangacsi

Dr. and Willard E. Henderer III

Ms. Sylvia Bushong Hesson

Mr. and Mrs. Frankie R. Hill

Mr. and Ms. David Hoffman

Mrs. M. Jane Holloway

Mrs. Ann Huffman and Mr. Pete Moran, Jr.

Mr. David M. Huffman

Incyte Pharmaceutical

Mr. Alexander S. Kane

Mrs. Susan Stone Kelley

Mr. Galen P. Kelly

Mr. Spencer F. Kelly

Mr. William B. Kelly IV

Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Kirtley

Mr. Stephen N. Kramer

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Kreutzer

Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Lambe

Mrs. Marka Truesdale Larrabee

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Martin

Mrs. Kathryn Benzel McConnell

Mrs. Lisa Bixby McGillivray

Ms. Margaret L. Meharg

Merck Company

Mitchell Associates

Mr. Nicholas N. Mohamed

Mr. Princely T. M. Muro, Jr.

Jonathan and Margaret Shea Ohliger

Ms. Sara B. Ohrel

Mr. and Mrs. Liam M. O’Keefe

Eric and Christina Osberg

Mr. Ryan C. Pala

Mr. and Mrs. Mikal L. Payne, Sr.

PG&E Corporation Foundation, The

Mr. Joshua D. Ploener

James Booge IV and Ms. Amy Porter

Mrs. Tijen Pyle

Mr. and Mrs. D. David Qualls

William and Karen Rose

Mrs. Patti Allen Salmonson

Mrs. Bill Schluter, Sr. Scooter-Boxie Foundation, The

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Sensing

Tom and Mary Shea

Mr. and Mrs. Amit Sikdar

Mr. Jonathan B. Silver

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sklodowski

Mr. and Mrs. W. Laird Stabler III

Mr. Robert A. Stalzer

Mrs. Linda A. Archangelo Sygowski

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Travers

Mrs. Avery S. Travis

Mrs. Ivana Turner

U.S. Bank

Mr. James P. Ursomarso

Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Vandiver

Visa

Mr. Allen J. Wentz

Mr. and Richard H. S. Werbe

Mr. and Mrs. W. Neill Werkheiser

Mrs. Rosalee F. Wermus

Mr. and Mrs. Colin J. Wetherill

Mr. and Ms. Brendan J. Zeigon

Mr. Peter L. Zurkow

SWORDS AND SHIELDS CIRCLE

($100 +)

Abbott Laboratories

Mrs. Dennika Wilson Acker

Mrs. Mary Chichester Ahlgren

Mr. William D. Alfano

Mr. and Ms. Hiten Amin

Ms. Katherine S. Baker

BBC Tavern and Grill

Dr. and Mrs. Kyle J. Bottorff

Tyson and Carli Brumfield

Frank and Emma Wier Cacia

Ms. Margaret B. Carroll

Mr. John R. Charles

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Chipman

CIGNA

Converse, Inc.

Mrs. Susan C. Corkran

Ms. Shannon E. Curtis

Mr. Jacob T. Czerwin

Mr. and Ms. Mariaz Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin DeLucia

Ms. Donna DeVaughn

Mr. Zachary C. Drexler

Mr. Joseph J. Duffy

Ms. Margarita Egan

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ellis

Mrs. Geraldine H. Eskey

Mr. Scott J. Falin

Mrs. Julia Penniman Fermoile

Henry and Lessly Field

Mrs. Marta Ficke Fleming

Mrs. Nancy Tatnall Fuller

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Garrett, Jr.

Mr. Jack Godshall

Mr. Malcolm T. B. Godshall

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Green III

Brian and Renée Greene

Ms. Lee C. Gregory

Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Handling

Michele and Rob Harra

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Mrs. Ann B. Hughes

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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kennedy

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Mr. and Mrs. Kris E. Kuhner

The Lambe Family

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Ms. Sharon M. McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyer

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New York Life Insurance Company

Mr. and Mrs. John V. Noel II

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Ms. Kocheena Roberts

William, Jr. and Nancy Schluter

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Mr. Marc A. Scott

Ms. Elizabeth S. Sensing

Mr. Kevin A. Shaw

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Mr. and Dr. Thomas E. Tabb, Jr.

Ms. Margot Teetor

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Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Wermus

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Mr. John P. Winther

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Dr. and Mrs. Robert Abel, Jr.

Mrs. Megan Acevedo

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Alexis, Sr.

Mrs. Anne Landon Allen

Mrs. Grace Anderson

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2022 (22%, $11,070)

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2023 (39%, $18,621)

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2024 (34%, $12,144)

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2025 (50%, $32,692)

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2026 (48%, $35,175)

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Robert and Mary Margaret Wilson

2027 (50%, $10,471)

Mr. and Ms. Hiten Amin

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Ms. Donna DeVaughn

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2028 (74%, $33,672)

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2029 (52%, $9,478)

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2030 (54%, $9,265)

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2031 (50%, $9,085)

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2032 (60%, $4,500)

Mr. and Mrs. Cesidio Colasante

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Drs. Daniel and Mary Katherine Matthews

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Mr. Ian A. Sikdar

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Smith

2033 (77%, $12,525)

Frank and Emma Wier Cacia

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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Higgins

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Kreutzer

John and Caroline McIlvain Sensing

Mr. Jerel W. Morton, Sr.

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Veghte

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Nathan and Lori Will

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Williams

2034 (50%, $565)

Ms. Lauren A. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. John D. Fiss

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Graves

Mr. and Mrs. Justin M. Greenberg

Mr. and Ms. Dave Manning

Mr. and Mrs. Mikal L. Payne, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tigani

Mr. and Mrs. Casey Wagner

2035 (33%, $975)

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Handling

Mrs. Rosemary Kingery Leader

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. McGrisken

Mr. and Ms. Oleksiy Miroshnyk

2036 (36%, $430)

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Higgins

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Paul and Alicia Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Williams

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1941 (100%, $300)

Mrs. Anne Landon Allen

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1944 (100%)

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1945 (40%, $325)

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1950 (17%)

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1951 (33%)

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1952 (25%)

Mrs. Nancy Herndon Clapp

1953 (33%, $6,250)

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1955 (13%)

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1956 (50%, $6,300)

Mrs. Margaretta Barton Colt

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Ms. Helen C. Peemoeller

Mrs. Eleanor Smith Peterson

1957 (17%)

Mrs. Linda Brenner Kirkland

1958 (20%, $24,398.58)

Caroline Tatnall Ketcham

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1959 (17%, $159)

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1960 (15%, $325)

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1961 (24%, $750)

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Mrs. Susan Schell Symons

1962 (37%, $1,175)

Mrs. Virginia Mendinhall Barden

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Mrs. Marka Truesdale Larrabee

Ms. Mary Curtis Meacham

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Mitchell

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Newlin III

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1963 (15%, $1,300)

Mrs. Susan Bakalar Lubin

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Mrs. Nancy Lynch Steele

1964 (19%, $57,010)

Mrs. Tracy Shane Kramer

Mrs. Valerie Wier Lee

Dr. Lawrence J. Lincoln

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schell

Mr. and Mrs. John Starzmann

Mr. and Mrs. F. Gregory Tigani

1965 (21%, $800)

Mr. George Spiron Caldes III

Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Handling

Mrs. M. Jane Holloway

Ms. Lenore C. Penniman

Mrs. M. B. A. Salmonson

Ms. J. Blake Turnbull

1966 (39%, $11,000)

Ms. Margarita Egan

Dr. Webster N. Jones III

Mrs. Barbara Clayton Lammiman

Mrs. S. Hether Clash Macfarlane

Mr. Edward D. Main

1967 (15%, $850)

Dr. and Willard E. Henderer III

Mr. David C. Shaffer

Mr. J. Cameron Yorkston

1968 (20%, $2,007)

Ms. Alice F. Deese

Mrs. Niki Disabatino Hawkins

Mrs. Barbara Hite Heck

Mr. David H. Kinsey

Mr. Kevin A. Shaw

Mrs. Deborah MacIntyre Sheldon

Mr. Richard S. Wilson

Mr. Paul A. Zintl

1969 (13%, $5,255)

Mr. and Mrs. Basil R. Battaglia

Mr. Hunter H. Ficke

C. Daniel Holloway and Cynthia Hewitt

Mr. George B. Lewis, Jr.

Mr. Philip L. Taylor

1970 (25%, $3,076)

Mr. Harry J. Conaway

Mr. George W. Davis

Mrs. Susan Bacon Dynerman

Ms. Tama Greenberg

Mr. Marc R. Halley

Mr. Ian S. Mair

Ms. Sharon M. McCarthy

Ms. Morgan Faulds Pike

Mr. David L. Schutzman

Mr. Robert A. Stalzer

Mrs. Emily Gawthrop Walls

1971 (45%, $5,750)

Mr. C. Scott Birney

Ms. Gael N. Bissell

Mr. William F. Brooks, Jr.

Mr. William Casadevall

Mrs. Amy Bishop Dewey

Mr. Ray B. Duggins, Jr.

Ms. Louise R. Eliason

Mr. Larry Gillespie

Mrs. Nicola Aidos Gorce

Mr. Charles A. Habich

Mr. John Strange and Dr. Caroline Hughes

Mr. Kenneth B. McCune

Mr. Michael Mendelowitz

Mr. and Mrs. R. Thorpe Moeckel

Mrs. Adria Mortellito Peterson

Ms. A. Beth Reid

Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes Reisch

Mrs. Laurie Ettinger Sherman

Mrs. Kandi Brenner Sherrier

Ms. Sarah G. Sullivan

Mrs. Linda A. Archangelo Sygowski

Mr. Xavier A. Teixido

Mr. James B. Thomas, Jr.

Ms. Faith Tomases

Ms. Anne Fitzhugh Turley

Mr. Peter L. Zurkow

1972 (7%, $3,750)

Mrs. Julia Johnson Blanchard

Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Cook, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kelly III

Ms. Evelyn L. Williams

1973 (9%, $555)

Mrs. Janet Larson Derck

James M. Gill and Anne R. Kelley

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Hughes

Mrs. Susan Coonin Kogon

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Sanger

1974 (7%, $750)

Mr. Keith E. Morton

Mr. William K. Stat

Priscilla Luce Trumbull

Mr. James Van Sciver

1975 (5%, $1,500)

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Drexler

Mr. Philip T. Mackey

Mrs. Kathryn Benzel McConnell

1976 (9%, $17,713)

Ms. Catherine L. Andriadis

Ms. Sheriden T. Black

Mr. A. Bennett Buckworth

Mrs. Julia Penniman Fermoile

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Grant

Mrs. Carol Raiber Powell

1977 (6%, $750)

Mr. J. Winsor Baker III

Dr. Susan Shoaf Barton

Mr. Robert S. Brams

1978 (12%, $15,775)

Mr. William D. Alfano

Mrs. Sarah Shoaf Cabot

Mrs. Molly Sanger Carpenter

Ms. Paula Grant

Mr. Richard W. Hall

Mr. Kenneth G. Reynolds

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Wickes

1979 (13%, $3,679)

Dr. Kenneth D. Chavin

Mr. D. J. Gluck, Jr.

Ms. Lee C. Gregory

Ms. Tara-Ellen Keefe

Mr. Christopher T. Kelly

Mrs. Michele Mudrick Konner

Mrs. Pamela Pennington Pacanowsky

Mrs. Rebecca King Rogers

1980 (4%, $100)

Ms. Robin T. Dettre

Mrs. Anne Dettre Ruta

1981 (7%, $1,125)

Mr. George F. Baumeister

James Booge IV and Amy K. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Corkran

Mrs. Lisa Bixby McGillivray

Ms. Margaret L. Meharg

1982 (11%, $1,110)

Mr. Christopher S. Bergmann

Mr. Ashley A. Brooks, Jr.

Ms. Robin A. Heimann

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Marine

James Booge IV and Amy K. Porter

Mr. Philip B. Weymouth III

Ms. Anne R. Williams

1983 (9%, $19,378)

Dr. H. Leon Aussprung III

Mr. Seth W. Digel

Mr. Michael A. Echols

Mr. Michael J. Leeds

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew F. Lintner

Mr. Jonathan E. Suber

1984 (4%, $1,500)

Dr. Susan Carmody Culman

Mr. Jason P. Lisi, Esq.

Dr. Howard C. Read

1985 (8%, $1,250)

Mrs. Julia Snowdon Drake

Mr. Kevin R. Hall

Ms. Audrey L. Hillyard

Mr. and Mrs. Steven T. Margolin

Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Marvin

Mr. Ronald L. Russell

1986 (4%, $7,705)

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Crowley

Dr. Margaret Laird and Mr. Philip Taylor

Mr. Wayne B. Stoltenberg

1987 (9%, $2,525)

Mr. Peter H. Flint, Jr.

Prof. William C. Kenyon

Mr. Marc A. Paul

Mrs. Alexis Altschuler Spikes

Mr. Vince Watchorn

Mr. John P. Winther

1988 (8%, $12,040)

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Marvin

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Nerlinger

Mr. S. Chapin Spencer

Mr. Anthony M. Undorf

Mr. James P. Ursomarso

Ms. Cindy Pettinaro Wilkinson

1989 (7%, $20,950)

Dr. Ari Abel and Mrs. Valerie Wolslayer Abel

Mr. Shannon C. Carney

Drs. Christopher and Heather Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Lee

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Magee

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Matlusky

1990 (3%, $125)

Mrs. Anne Beale Manetas

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tigani

1991 (11%, $1,547)

Mrs. Dennika Wilson Acker

Dr. and Mrs. Carmen D. Campanelli, Jr.

Mr. Jason J. Danner

Ms. Cam L. Monroe Pagel

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Morgan, Jr.

Mrs. Sara Hauck Pineo

Mr. Eric J. Steffe

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Weymouth

1992 (8%, $700)

Mrs. Sara Qualls Blaha

Dr. Drew A. Brady

Mr. and Mrs. Tyson S. Brumfield

Mrs. Ann Reed Lowell

1993 (9%, $1,315)

Mr. and Mrs. Samir Ahmad

Dr. Matthew A. Handling

Mr. Nicholas N. Mohamed

Mr. and Mrs. John V. Noel II

Mr. Eric C. Osberg

Mrs. Margaret Tulloch Rhodes

1994 (15%, $12,025)

Mr. Louis J. Capano III

Mr. Tyler J. Carney

Dr. and Mrs. Zachary L. Chipman

Ms. Beth C. Feldpush

Mr. Douglas D. Herrmann

Mr. and Mrs. Kris E. Kuhner

Mr. Michael J. Papay III

Mr. and Mrs. D. David Qualls

Mrs. Lajuan Wright Tucker

1995 (8%, $5,475)

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Ciconte

Mr. David S. Lewis

Mrs. Victoria Pettinaro Martelli

Mr. Aaron Winchell and Ms. Bonnie Wu

Mrs. Carli Snyder Younce

1996 (13%, $6,870)

William and Melissa Gray Applegate

Kiadii Harmon and M. Kathryn Hodges-Harmon

Mr. Thomas B. Krapf, Jr.

Mr. Brel F. McCoy

Jonathan and Margaret Shea Ohliger

Mr. Marc A. Scott

John and Caroline McIlvain Sensing

1997 (13%, $1,709)

Ms. Eleanor D. Brown

Mr. Brian J. Carney

Ms. Lauren A. Carney

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Handling

Mrs. Michele Centrella Harra

Mrs. Elizabeth Swartz Lawrence

Mrs. Abigail Williams Schneider

Ms. Daynell M. Wright

1998 (14%, $3,505)

Mr. Zachary J. Baylin

Kiadii Harmon and M. Kathryn Hodges-Harmon

Mr. Alexander D. McCausland

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Mrozinski

Mr. and Mrs. Alex P. Rohr

Ms. Elizabeth S. Sensing

Mrs. Avery S. Travis

1999 (10%, $1,650)

Mr. Roger M. Austin

Mr. and Mrs. Hamid Belkadi

Mrs. Marta Ficke Fleming

Mrs. Susan Stone Kelley

Mr. and Mrs. Colin J. Wetherill

2000 (6%, $200)

Dr. Amanda Swank Castro

Mr. Jacob T. Czerwin

Mr. R. Carter Wellford

2001 (2%)

Mr. Adam C. Warner

2002 (4%, $130)

Ms. Amanda A. Jacobs

Mr. H. Ensign Simmons IV

2003 (30%, $2,780)

Mrs. Jennifer Kane Bardo

Frank and Emma Wier Cacia

Mr. John R. Charles

Ms. Kristel J. Cosio

Ms. Natalie L. Dougherty

Mr. Luke B. Hamilton

Mr. Patrick W. Manahan

Mr. Nicholas E. Matarese

Mr. David W. McNamee

Mr. Jarred B. Phillips

Mr. Matthew E. Pincus

Mrs. Anna Kao Rounds

Mr. Kyle J. Russell

Mr. Stephen R. Selsor

Mrs. Rebecca Reznick Steinmetz

Mr. J. Hayden Stewart

Mr. Evan Wang

2004 (10%, $5,775)

Mr. Scott H. Champagne

Mr. George S. M. Hayward

Mr. Alexander S. Moeckel

Mr. Edward T. Shea

Mr. Curtis L. Simmons

Ms. Rachel K. Venuti

2005 (14%, $11,175)

Mrs. Dorothy Charles Cates

Mr. Christopher W. Daniels

Mr. Arthur P. Helmick III

Mr. Kristopher S. Kondrad

Mr. Henry S. Meldrum

Mrs. Lisa Klein Parente

Mr. and Michael S. Purzycki

Mr. Casey Silver

Mr. Vincent J. Stancato, Jr.

Mrs. Katherine Ball Swartz

2006 (5%, $800)

Mr. T. Jordan Daniels

Mr. R. Christopher Pamm, Jr.

Mr. Jonathan B. Silver

2007 (8%, $800)

Mr. Zachary C. Drexler

Ms. Elizabeth C. Grant

Mr. William B. Kelly IV

Mr. Brian J. Sklodowski

Mr. Clinton J. Walker

2008 (9%, $345)

Mr. Scott J. Falin

Mr. Rick D. Goldstein

Mrs. Margaret Selsor Ingram

Ms. Anna C. E. R. A. Morgan

Mrs. Sarah Huffman Schmidt

Mrs. Laura Saad Voelker

2009 (6%, $290)

Ms. Katherine S. Baker

Mrs. Rosemary Kingery Leader

Mr. David C. Sanford

Ms. Devon H. Taylor

2010 (6%, $410)

Ms. Haley M. Davis

Mr. Philip E. Drexler

Mr. Garrett P. Flasinski

Mr. Princely T. M. Muro Jr.

2011 (6%, $165)

Mr. Zachary R. Nerwinski

Mr. Taylor J. Swarter

Ms. C. Baylor Wickes

Ms. Sarah S. Wolcott

2012 (8%, $900)

Mr. David M. Huffman

Mr. Alexander S. Kane

Ms. Haley O. Pierce

Mr. Steven M. Sklodowski

Mr. and Richard H. S. Werbe

2013 (4%, $300)

Mr. Alexander F. Giacco III

Mr. Nicholas J. Rattenni

2014 (2%)

Ms. Meredith A. Huffman

2015 (7%, $410)

Mr. Stephen N. Kramer

Ms. Talia M. Kramer

Mr. Michael R. Mariner

Ms. Kelsey P. Martin

2016 (3%, $305)

Ms. Emilie L. Hager

Mr. Ryan C. Pala

2017 (4%, $250)

Mr. Cameron C. Easton

Mr. Malcolm T. B. Godshall

Mr. Sulaiman Saunders

2018 (4%, $68)

Mr. S. Carl Marvin

Ms. Yujie M. Slinkard

Ms. Samantha R. Steblai

2020 (1%)

Mr. Galen P. Kelly

2021 (1%)

Mr. Michael J. Walter-Dillon

2021 HOMECOMING

Revitalizing Homecoming was a memorable celebration of the Tatnall Community. Many revelers attended and appreciated the weekend on campus. As always, the Kick-off Party Friday night was a smash, catching up with friends and singing along with Kristen and The Noise. Saturday’s Tailgate was well attended, and many reunions were celebrated as well as a football win. The Class of 1970 and 1971 celebrated their 50th reunions. A special thank you to Chris Tigani ’00 of Standard Distributing Co. for donating beverages, Caffe Gelato for catering, and Excel Tent for accommodating our needs.

Alumni gather at the Kick-off Party under the tent! Class of 1970 and 1971 celebrate their 50th Reunion at Homecoming.

RESTRICTED GIFTS

Anthony Penna Charitable Fund

The Carpenter Foundation, Inc.

Delaware Community Foundation

Delaware Running Company

Dorr Foundation

Marvin Family Foundation, Inc.

Ms. Alexandra Agapitides

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Anshen

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Balthis

Ms. Rebecca Loomis and Mr. Tom Bayliss

Mr. C. Scott Birney

Ms. Gael N. Bissell

Mr. William F. Brooks, Jr.

Mrs. Robert R. Carpenter III

Mr. William Casadevall

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Ciconte, Jr.

Mr. Harry J. Conaway

Mrs. Susan C. Corkran

Mr. George W. Davis

Mrs. Amy Bishop Dewey

Mr. Ray B. Duggins, Jr.

Susan Bacon Dynerman

Mr. Michael A. Echols

Ms. Louise R. Eliason

Mr. and Ms. Robert Endres

Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Finnegan

GIFTS IN KIND

Brew HaHa!

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Chipman

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Matlusky

The Matlusky Firm, LLC

Omega Project

Dr. and Mrs. Eric G. Ruoss

Ms. Daynell M. Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Finnegan

Mike and Laurie Flanagan

Mr. Alexander F. Giacco III

Mr. Larry Gillespie

Mrs. Nicola Aidos Gorce

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Grant

Ms. Paula Grant

Ms. Tama Greenberg

Mr. Charles A. Habich

Mr. John Strange and Dr. Caroline Hughes

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan W. Keen

Mr. Galen P. Kelly

Mr. James Kelly and Ms. Michele Cross

Mr. Spencer F. Kelly

Mr. William B. Kelly IV

Mr. Vance V. Kershner

Mr. and Mrs. Owen P. Lefkon

Ms. Rebecca Loomis

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Lyons

Mr. Ian S. Mair

Ms. Virginia D. Maxwell

Mr. Kenneth B. McCune

Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. McDonnell

Mr. Michael Mendelowitz

Peggy and Thorpe Moeckel

Mr. Princely T. M. Muro, Jr.

Mr. Ryan C. Pala

Mr. and Ms. Toby Paterson

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Paul

Mrs. Adria Mortellito Peterson

Ms. Morgan Faulds Pike

Dr. and Mrs. Christian Pizarro

Mrs. Tijen Pyle

Ms. A. Beth Reid

Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes Reisch

Mr. David L. Schutzman

Mrs. Laurie Ettinger Sherman

Mrs. Kandi Brenner Sherrier

Mr. Robert A. Stalzer

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan

Ms. Sarah G. Sullivan

Mrs. Linda A. Archangelo Sygowski

Mr. Xavier A. Teixido

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Thomas, Jr.

Ms. Faith Tomases

Ms. Anne Fitzhugh Turley

Mrs. Emily Gawthrop Walls

Mr. John W. Ward

Mr. McCoy duPont Weymouth

Mr. Aaron Winchell and Ms. Bonnie Wu

Mr. Peter L. Zurkow

HONORS AND MEMORIALS

In honor of Isaiah A. Bailey ’29

Ms. Diana Walker

In honor of Tobias L. Ball ’28

Mr. Kristian Ball and Ms. Elizabeth Rich-Ball

In honor of Katherine A. and Philip L. Birk ’29

Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Birk

In honor of Abigail Z. Brennan ’30

Mr. and Ms. John C. Brennan

In honor of Caitlyn N. Brooks ’17

Heather and Thomas Brooks

In memory of Donald C. Cantera ’79

Mrs. Pamela Pennington Pacanowsky ’79

In honor of Aidan L. Caplan ’30

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Fleming

In honor of Lydia J. ’22, Daphne F. ’24, Wilhelmina “Edith” E. ’29, and Hollis C. ’31 Chandler

Ms. Joanne Capano

In honor of Joseph N. Cotter

Mrs. Linda A. Archangelo Sygowski ’71

In honor of Charles P. Crawford

Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Wermus

In memory of Peter T. Dalleo

Mr. Tyler J. Carney ’94

In honor of Vivian M. ’28 and Griffin J. ’30 Downes

Ms. Joanne Capano

In honor of Cameron C. Easton ’17

Ms. Dariel M. Janerette-Easton, JD, Ph.D.

In honor of Blake G. Ellis ’30

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ellis

In memory of Andrea M. Field ’54

Mr. Parker B. Field III

In honor of Michael P. Flanagan ’16

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Flanagan

In honor of Brianna F. Gautier ’23

Mr. and Ms. Jeffrey Gautier

In honor of Alexander F. Giacco III ’13

Mr. Alexander F. Giacco, Jr.

In honor of Dr. Joseph J. Gilligan

Mr. Kenneth G. Reynolds ’78

In honor of Emilie E. ’16, Samuel R. ’29, and William W. ’22 Ginn

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grieb

In memory of Peter T. Godshall ’11

Ms. Sheridan T. Black ’76

Mr. Jack Godshall

Mr. Malcolm T. B. Godshall ’17

In honor of Coach Gooch

Mr. Michael J. Walter-Dillon ’21

In honor of Mira V. Graves ’34

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Graves

In honor of Ronan E. ’26 and Torin G. ’30

Mr. and Ms. Tetsuya Hamasaki

In honor of William E. ’30, Henry J. ’33, and Jett A. ’35

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Handling ’97

In honor of Micah G. Jacobson ’21

Mr. Kristian Ball and Ms. Elizabeth Rich-Ball

In honor of Matthew J. Keller ’29

Mr. and Ms. Bill A. Keller

In memory of George B. Lewis

Mr. George B. Lewis, Jr. ’69

In memory of Jack Main

Mr. Edward D. Main ’66

In honor of Patrick W. Manahan ’03

Mr. and Mrs. Julian Casey

In memory of Anne T. Marcial

Ms. Anita Marcial

In honor of Jerel Morton ’33

Mr. Jerel W. Morton, Sr.

In honor of Owen M. ’27 and Ameilia R. ’31 Mrozinski

Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Riley

In honor of Princely T. Muro ’10

Mr. Princely T. M. Muro, Jr.

In memory of Josephine G. Myers

Ms. Doris M. LeStourgeon

In honor of Logan R. ’28 and Spenser E.’24 Neidig

Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Neidig

In memory of Marshall T. Page ’72

Ms. Evelyn L. Williams ’72

In honor of Raymond Pennington

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Zytkowicz

In honor of Dr. Christian Pizarro

Mr. and Ms. Toby Paterson

In honor of Annette C. Reed

Mrs. Linda A. Archangelo Sygowski ’71

In memory of Daphne C. Reese

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dugdale

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Phippen

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Herrmann

In memory of Mary S. Ricketson

The Hon. and Mrs. E. Norman Veasey

In honor of Julian M. Rosetta ’25

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Rosetta

In honor of Elizabeth K. Saatman ’28

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Saatman

In honor of Vincent A. Sawyer ’31

Ms. Samy Verdekal

In honor of Natalee F. Schwieger ’29

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Schwieger II

In honor of Cecilia E. ’32 and Ian A. Sikdar

Mr. and Mrs. Amit Sikdar

In honor of Charles C. ’89, Charles H. ’22, and Ava M. ’26 Simpers

Mr. R. W. Buck Simpers

In honor of Paul A. Smith

Ms. Emilie L. Hager

In memory of Sue E. Stenborg

Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Vandiver

In memory of Peter A. Van Sciver ’65

Dr. Webster N. Jones III ’66

Mr. Philip L. Taylor ’69

Mr. Clayton Jones

Mr. Eric R. Jones

Mr. George Spiron Caldes III ’65

Mrs. M. B. A. Salmonson ’65

In honor of Michael J. Walter-Dillon ’21

Mr. Kenneth Dillon and Mrs. Mary Walter-Dillon

In honor of R. M. Ward ’04

Mr. John W. Ward

In honor of Grace S. ’28 and William F. ’30 Wermus

Mrs. Rosalee F. Wermus

In honor of Timothy B. Wickes ’78

Ms. Brittany Turner

In honor of Jack R. ’25 and Kate E. ’29 Winchell

Mr. Aaron Winchell and Ms. Bonnie Wu

The Tatnall School

Rev. Cecily Sawyer-Harmon

In honor of Class of 1987

Prof. William C. Kenyon ’87

In honor of Class of 2003

Mr. Kyle J. Russell ’03

Mr. John R. Charles ’03

Mr. David W. McNamee ’03

In honor of Class of 2005

Michael “Mick” S. Purzycki ’05

In honor of Class of 2017

Heather and Thomas Brooks

In honor of Class of 2021

Mr. Michael J. Walter-Dillon ’21

In honor of Class of 2022

Ms. Amy L. Talley

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jarrell

In honor of Class of 2028

Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Neidig

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgenstern

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Saatman

In honor of Class of 2030

Mr. and Mrs. Kris E. Kuhner ’94

Mr. and Ms. John C. Brennan

In honor of Class of 2031

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgenstern

TATNALL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

2021–2022 GOLF CLASSIC

The 2022 Tatnall Golf Classic was a fun and prosperous event. For the second year, it was held at Bidderman Golf Course, and we were blessed with a beautiful day. With our foursomes filled, the golfers enjoyed their box lunch and then the shotgun began the round. As the golfers rolled in from their last hole, they enjoyed cocktails followed by dinner. With the auction open, guests paused to watch the helicopter ball drop, followed by the announcement of the winners. We are very grateful for the support of our sponsors and hope that you will patronize their business.

LOW GROSS WINNERS

DOUBLE EAGLE DINNER

Capano Residential

LEADERBOARD

Goober’s Diner

19TH HOLE COCKTAILS

Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella

BOX LUNCH BIRDIE

Lyons Companies

HAPPY HORNET

The Perillo Group

FRIENDS OF TATNALL

Daniels + Tansey, LLP

RiversEdge Advisors

Roots Landscape, Inc.

Wayman Fire Protection, Inc.

PAR FOR THE COURSE

Modern Controls, Inc.

HELICOPTER BALL DROP

RAM-T Corporation

BEVERAGE COOLER

PNC Financial Services Group

HOLE IN ONE AUTO SUPPORT

Porter Automotive Group

TEE IT UP FOR TATNALL

1916 Foundation

Allied Lock and Safe Co.

AlphaGraphics

Asset Strategy Consultants, L.L.C

Buck Simpers Architect & Associates, Inc. (BSA&A)

Caffe Gelato, Inc.

Canon

CODi

DOS – Regional Orthopaedic Associates, P.A.

ERCO Blinds and Lighting

Excel Tent Rentals & Services, LLC

Jostens

KHMWhite Designs

Lenape Investments LLC

McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC

To the ladies who started it all Lucille S. Meharg ’50 and Family

The Moeckel Families

PNC Financial Services Group

AUCTION DONATIONS

Alpine and Rafetto Orthodontics

BBC Tavern and Grill

Bidermann Golf Club

Big Fish Restaurant Group

Bridgewater Jewelers

Dogfish Head Brewery

Flamingo Lady Cookies

Geiger Bros. – Promotional Products

Goober’s Diner

Greenville Cigar & Tobacco

Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa

Houppette

Limestone Nutrition

LOKA Beauty Studio

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Magee

Mr. Brandon J. Bolinski

Mr. Jonathan B. Silver

Ms. Corinne B. Valentine

KHMWhite Designs

Parlour

Shorebreak

Sleeping Bird Coffee

SoDel Concepts

The Wine and Spirit Co. of Greenville

Tulip’s Nail Salon

Zyng Nails & Spa

AUCTION WINNERS

Mr. Robert M. Bell ’79

Mr. Zachary P. Busby ’95

Mr. Atul Chugh

Brian Bryson, Jeff Ciconte ’95, Trippe Wayman ’95, and Jon Wolfe ’94

Mr. Christopher W. Daniels ’05

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Daniels

Mrs Elizabeth DeNapoli

Mr. and Mrs. David Glazier

Mr. James S. Grant ’11

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Green III

Mrs. Deborah R.Guenther

Ms. Sinead Horan

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hugh

Mr. William C. Lounsbury ’10

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Neutz IV

Ms. Cindy Pettinaro Wilkinson

Mr. Kristian Ball and Ms. Elizabeth Rich-Ball

Mrs. Patti Allen Salmonson ’65

Mr. Alex G. Schwendeman ’10

Mr. Daniel Shockley

Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Simpers ’89

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Werkheiser

VOLUNTEERS

Brandon Bolinski

Erica Brown

Adam Doherty ’86

Emilie Hager ’16

Erica Hager ’19

Paula Hager

Sinéad Horan

Amanda Jacobs ’02

Denise Jarrell

L. Caroll Ivy Laurence, ’84

Jamie Magee ’89

Patrick Manahan ’03

Kelsey Martin

Andy Martire

Alex McCausland ’98

Page McConnel

Keith Morton ’74

Aimee Neff

Cindy Pettinero ’88

Brett Wilkinson ’20

RED OAK LEGACY SOCIETY

The northern red oak tree located on the Sedgely Lawn is one of the largest in the region, and it represents many of the qualities that make Tatnall special. The tree has endured the test of time. Its longevity, strength, and beauty remain constant. While it may change in appearance with each passing season, children continue to play and learn at the base of its stately trunk. Many of Tatnall’s longest-standing traditions take place under the tree’s protective branches.

The Red Oak Legacy Society was established to recognize those who secure The Tatnall School’s future by creating a planned gift or including Tatnall as a charitable recipient in their will.

Bequests and planned gifts are the seeds that will enable Tatnall to grow and flourish in the future. The Red Oak Legacy Society allows donors to be honored in their lifetime and inspires others to make similar plans. Gifts are invested in The Tatnall School’s endowment fund and help supplement the school’s annual budget. Funds may also be directed to perpetuate a specific aspect of the Tatnall experience.

Anonymous

Ms. Feffie P. Barnhill ’71

Mrs. Wendy A. (Owen) Butterworth

Mr. Brian J. Carney ’97

Ms. Lauren A. Carney ’97

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Chipman

Ms. Phoebe Craven

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dugdale

Mrs. Henry E. I. duPont

Mr. Rick Dwyer

Mrs. Patricia Bumsted Fetherolf ’75

Mr. and Mrs. C. Scott Forbes

Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Holloway

Mrs. Barbara Friel Holme

Drs. Victor and Denise Kalman

Mr. Lawrence D. Karas

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Keenan

Rob C. and Caroline Tatnall Ketcham ’58

Dale and Linda (’57) Brenner Kirkland

Mrs. Valerie Wier Lee (’64)

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew F. Lintner (Caroline Brown ’83)

Mrs. Jane E. McCuen-Conway

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Messikomer

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Mockbee

Ms. Helen C. Peemoeller

Mr. and Mrs. Brooks H. Pierce

Dr. and Mrs. Carlos E. Reyes

Mr. Charles (’65) and Dr. Peggy Rouh

Reverend Cecily Sawyer-Harmon

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. (’64) Schell

Tom and Mary Shea

The Hon. Christopher Sontchi ’85 and Dr. Siobhan Irwin

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sparks IV

Mr. and Mrs. W. Laird Stabler, Jr.

Mrs. Daphne Thurlow Stevens

Ms. Linda Archangelo Sygowski ’71

Mrs. Susan Schell Symons ’61

Mr. Vince Watchorn ’87

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Werbe

Mr. Philip B. Weymouth III ’82

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. (’91) Weymouth

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wigton

Ms. Evelyn L. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Williams

Mr. Paul A. Zintl ’68

– Nelson Henderson

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS:

Mrs. Robert R. Carpenter III

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Daniels

Mr. James Kelly and Ms. Michele Cross

Dr. Lawrence J. Lincoln

Ms. Cindy Pettinaro Wilkinson

Mr. and Mrs. Eli R. Sharp

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin B. Stempel

Mrs. N. Margaret Riegel Weymouth

LOCKER RENOVATIONS COMPLETE

During the summer of 2021, Tatnall initiated and completed a long-anticipated $650,000 renovation to the Boys’ and Girls’ Locker Room spaces. Over the decades, there have been many attempts to update these popular spaces and redesign the interior to better accommodate the needs of Tatnall athletes. Nearly all of these previous plans were discarded due to challenges with fundraising, budgeting, construction logistics, infrastructure hurdles, or timing, so we are ecstatic to announce that the new locker rooms have far exceeded our expectations in addition to being completed on-time and under budget!

Tatnall’s own Director of Operations, Angelo Fontanazza, served as Project Manager for the renovation, and we cannot thank Angelo and his team enough for expediting this quality work. Angelo focused the redesign on one key element — to build a spacious new hallway through the old Boys’ Locker Room that would not only improve the access points to both the Boys’ and Girls’ spaces but would also create a much needed corridor to connect the History Hallway of Beekley with the Middle School stairwell. This hallway increases traffic options through Beekley and better connects the Upper and Middle School spaces on the first floor. The hallway also boasts seating spaces, water fountains, and walls adorned with Tatnall logos and images of our athletes.

In the Boys’ Locker Room, we reclaimed the unused shower room and coaches’ room and transformed them into sportsspecific spaces for Varsity and JV that will change ownership each season. We also cleaned up the HVAC and installed new drywall and ceiling panels throughout. We tore out all the old metal lockers and replaced them with brand new black wire lockers with built in seats, storage areas, and ventilation. All bathroom appliances were updated accordingly, and a new, smaller shower room with individual showers was constructed out of the old coaches’ shower room.

In the Girls’ Locker Room, we added key-card entry doors to improve traffic flow and removed all the old metal lockers from the space. We updated the bathroom spaces and reclaimed an old shower room for equipment and storage. We created specific spaces for MS and US athletes, and the same black wire lockers with seats and storage were added throughout. We also updated the windows and walls facing the courtyard between the Locker Room and Art Rooms in Beekley.

On behalf of Tatnall Athletics and Tatnall athletes for generations to come, we want to thank the generous donors who made this Locker Room renovation possible! We encourage you to come and see it the next time you are on campus.

HISTORY IS MADE AT TATNALL!

On April 9, 2022, the State of Delaware finally saw its first official sub-4:00-minutemile — a feat that has eluded our state for decades! An electric crowd of Tatnall families, generous donors, and running enthusiasts from all over the Tri-State area surrounded the new Tatnall Track to roar in unison as that feat was accomplished by our very own Sam Parsons '12 during the Delaware Mile Challenge.

"There was no denying me of making history today; heart pulled me through the race," said Sam, after breaking the state record at the Delaware Mile Challenge on his home track at Tatnall.

To say the Delaware Mile Challenge was a huge success would be an understatement. With a crowd of about 750 people, this event was a once-in-alifetime spectacle of athleticism and community. The event featured a series of mile races with divisions ranging from children to adults. It was impressive to see multiple heats for each age range and it reminded most in attendance that running a sub-4:00-minute-mile is insanely difficult. However, despite the threat of bad weather and a blistering wind that seemingly prevented anyone from getting comfortable, the warmth and energy of the Tatnall community was apparent.

This occasion allowed Tatnall to highlight our elite facilities, athletes, and coach Patrick Castagno. As many of us know, Pat is a big name in the running community, and we were able to surprise him by dedicating our newly renovated track facilities in his honor, “Castagno Track and Field!” During the dedication, we extended our gratitude to our loyal donors, families, and community who supported Coach Castagno's vision to transform the Tatnall Track into one of the finest outdoor facilities in Delaware.

After a day of successful races from middle school, high school, community, and masters races, the track’s lights slowly lit as the crowd was invited to the track to cheer the elite runners up close. The atmosphere was electric as Molly Sughroue of Colorado Springs Track Club destroyed the women’s state record by 10 seconds with a time of 4:34:56. Then Sam finished the night with a new Delaware record, 3:58.17!

Tatnall is incredibly proud and thankful for our Track and Field Coaches, Athletic Department, Operations Department, Development Office, Marketing and Communications team, and parent volunteers for all their hard work that truly has put Tatnall at the forefront of everyone's minds! We also want to thank the generous donors in this community who made this track renovation possible and for whom "running at Tatnall" will always be a defining experience.

Coach Patrick Castango cuts the ribbon during the Naming Ceremony for Castagno Track and Field at the Delaware Mile Challenge.

Sam Parsons ’12 crosses the finish line to become the first male elite runner to run a sub-4:00-minute-mile in the state.

DAVID HUFFMAN ’12 AND ALEXANDER KANE ’12

Founder and CMO of Sporttrade

For Class of 2012 alums Alex Kane and David Huffman, what started as a Tatnall friendship evolved into an entrepreneurial partnership in the sports wagering space. This past spring, they launched their new company, Sporttrade, the only regulated sports betting, and trading exchange where one can trade sports bets like stocks.

Alex, Sporttrade’s Founder, first thought of the idea in 2017 while trading stocks for fun on Robinhood.

“As I learned more about stock trading,” Alex says, “I thought, ‘why can’t you trade the Phillies to beat the Mets the way you can trade Apple stock?’ That question was the beginning of Sporttrade.”

When the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act and legalized online sportsbook wagering in approved states, Alex saw the potential and set out to create a trading platform for sports wagers to compete with giants like DraftKings and FanDuel.

David invested early in this venture, which helped Alex secure an investment of $100,000 from the TechStars Program. This investment snowballed several other opportunities from venture capitalists.

“At TechStars, if you do well on Demo Day,” said Alex, “You can raise $3MM to $5MM on a $10MM valuation, which is a huge opportunity for a small company. But we knew we had to buy a casino license in New Jersey to launch the platform. That’s when things got difficult.”

To launch, Sporttrade needed to purchase a license to comply with state regulations. Alex’s original co-founders predicted the end and left the company, suggesting they refund investors’ money. Undeterred, Alex forged ahead without them and returned to David, his biggest supporter, to ask for his advice.

“I told Alex I did this because we’re close, and I support him,” David remembers. “It was an opportunity to do something great.”

Alex began to rebuild from the ground up. Sporttrade raised over $36MM from venture capital investors, and in March of 2021, David officially left his job to join Alex and Sporttrade as the Chief Operating Officer.

Sporttrade secured the market access agreement with Bally’s in New Jersey, which spawned another round of investments. They’ve raised around $50 MM to date. In the Fall of 2022, Sporttrade officially launched — the culmination of vision, hard work, and friendship turned partnership.

“We built a product that we’re proud of,” says David. “We’re the first product in this industry that is completely FOR the customer.”

Price-sensitive bettors avoid the vigorish taken by traditional casinos and online sportsbooks. Sporttrade doesn’t push thinly veiled attempts to lure casual gamblers into low-probability wagers to separate them from their bankroll, such as huge parlays or an online casino.

“We are only interested in progressive and responsible gaming,” says Alex. “It’s not in our ethos to pursue squeeze options. We use NASDAQ’s Market Surveillance technology to analyze customer trading patterns and flag customers who may be flying off the handle. The fundamentals make it a great product.”

The following year will be exciting for Sporttrade as these two Tatnall friends look to gain a more significant foothold in a space dominated by giants. Even as students, the journey toward a bold vision for the future always brought Alex and David together, and why they bet big on one another. Together, they are working hard to make sure those wagers pay off.

Alexander Kane ’12

David Huffman ’12

JON-MICHAEL REESE ’05

A Strange, Yet Familiar, Loop

“What I find heartening about this theater is that it’s the same kind of theater I’ve performed in,” muses JonMichael Reese ’05. “You show up and put on a show. That simplicity is beautiful to me.”

For Jon-Michael, putting on a show has always brought him joy, but “simplicity” may be an understatement. The theater in question is the Lyceum Theater on Broadway, one of the oldest surviving Broadway venues. And the show is not just any show, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning hit, A Strange Loop, winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical, of which Jon-Michael is an original cast member.

A Strange Loop follows the story of Usher, a queer, Black man writing a musical about a queer, Black man writing a musical. The term “strange loop” is a cognitive science term coined by Douglas Hofstadter. In his book “I Am a Strange Loop,” Hofstadter described it as, “Despite one’s sense of departing ever further from one’s origin, one winds up, to one’s shock, exactly where one had started.”

The success of A Strange Loop has been a dream come true for Jon-Michael, and the culmination of more than two decades of hard work in musical theater — a journey that began at Tatnall.

“What is so special about Tatnall and Dr. Chipman, Mrs. Crawford, Mr. Neidig, and so many others,” he remembers, “is that they made us feel like their peers, never like students or children. I’ve always carried that with me.”

After graduation, Jon-Michael continued his pursuit of musical theater at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama before moving to New York City. His early beginnings included notable roles such as a “villainous, diva-fied Thomas Edison” in Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat and artist/ activist James Baldwin in Jimmy and Lorraine. He also joined the second national tour of Book of Mormon, which was a first taste of the kind of juggernaut show that A Strange Loop would later become.

“It’s weird to say that I started small, but that’s exactly what happened!” Jon-Michael continues. “In hindsight, I had a total lack of awareness about how much confidence I had as a 22-year-old, but that sort of naive ambition got me pretty far. But theater is such an unstable business — it taught me to cherish my time with the people in the show.”

Despite the uncertain nature of the industry, JonMichael cherishes the variety and the opportunity to try many things at once. He credits Tatnall for helping him develop such a valuable perspective.

“I cherish those shows we put on,” he reflects. “The fact that I did A Doll’s House as a high school student blows people’s minds. The variety of shows was astounding, and it made me want to do everything. I still want to do everything!”

The path to A Strange Loop began when Jon-Michael did a workshop for the show’s writer, Michael Jackson, who had been developing the story into a musical. It helped Jon-Michael realize that who he worked with was more important than what he was working on. When the show came to Broadway, he jumped at the chance to audition for an understudy role. Not long after, A Strange Loop took off.

“The scary thing about an actor’s life is that it’s not linear,” he says. “It’s all about making connections. It’s about finding the artist that you enjoy making art with. I loved my time in Michael’s workshop, so it was a dream to be a part of his vision for the show.”

A Strange Loop closed in 2023, and Jon-Michael will head back to search for his next mountain to climb. This time, the uncertainty may be less daunting, for within the rise of A Strange Loop, Jon-Michael rekindled something elemental about his life as an actor — strong relationships with teachers and mentors who want to see HIM.

To me, what is so special about Tatnall and Dr. Chipman, Mrs. Crawford, Mr. Neidig and so many others, is that we never went to acting class we put on shows.

—Jon-Michael Reese ’05

Around Campus

Class Notes

1950–1959

Carolyn “Lyn” H. Vernon ’58 was forced to learn how to retire but still continues to navigate working from home with her new schedule. Carolyn remains active as she lunches with her friends, ballroom dances at the Stardust Ballroom in Bellmawr, Nj., and works out with a personal trainer. Carolyn has plans for two cruises, including a World Cruise on the Queen Mary 2 in 2023.

1960–1969

Susan W. (Webster) Suplee ’60 enjoyed a mini-reunion lunch with members of the Class of 1960 in Chestertown, Md., last October (2021). Attendees included Terry (Caffrey) Arney, Linda (Crass) Greenwood, Kris (Collins) Herold, Margaret (Harmon) Baldridge, Ellen (Massaglia) McKinney, and Sylvia “Sibby” (Bushong) Hesson. A few hours of catching up and sharing memories with friends was the perfect blend to celebrate life returning to some normalcy.

Page (Williams) Gentleman ’63 has spent the last year writing a memoir for her children and grandchildren. Through a program called StoryWorth.com, every week, she has been able to document the story of her life little by little, including where she lived, her favorite toys, the daily routine, and the world she grew up in.

1970–1979

Faith Tomases ’71 has kept her parents’ house in Surrey Park as a country home after their passing. She reflects on using the home as a safe refuge from New York City. After over a year of living in Wilmington full-

time, she began to split her time between the house and her apartment in Manhattan. Additionally, her daughter Julia graduated high school virtually and is attending Syracuse University.

Anne Turley ’71 embraces age with grace and humor as she notes her comments should appear “in the old geezer section.” She successfully had a hip transplant this year and continues to swim and practice yoga to keep her sane.

Patricia R. Neff ’74 is currently enjoying retirement spent between Winter Springs, Fl., and Media, Pa., after a 35year career in Regulatory Accounting, Tax Compliance and Treasury positions. She spends her time working in her two vastly different gardens, tracking down DNA connections to expand on her genealogy work, finishing the many, many embroidery projects she has started over the years, and improving her baking and cooking skills. Pat hopes to plan some international travel with her husband in the near future.

Carol (Raiber) Powell ’76 moved to Wawaset, De. from Seattle, Wa. last fall and has been looking forward to the change of scenery.

Dr. Margaretta S. Frederick ’77 is the Curator Emerita of the Delaware Art Museum and the longtime Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art. Dr. Frederick also serves as the President of the Historians of British Art and completed a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art. Margaretta was inducted into Tatnall’s Arts Hall of Fame at Homecoming in October.

Richard Hall ’78 recently moved from Sudbury, Ma. to Elkins, Nh., and is enjoying every minute of it. Recently he had the chance to catch up with classmate Will Ramsdell ’78 over lunch in Boston while Will was attending a parent’s weekend for his daughter.

Douglas K. Drummond ’79 became one of the original members of The Grey Fox Band, formed in 2017. The band tours the Delmarva and regularly plays two or three gigs monthly. Having started as a traditional blues group, The Grey Fox Band has recently ventured into R&B and funk. Doug was inducted into the Delaware Blues Hall of Fame in 2013.

1980–1989

Amy Porter ’82 has continued her versatile and distinguished career as a concert flutist. She has been heard in recital on National Public Radio, highlighted on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, and featured on the covers and as a writer for the magazines “Flute Talk” in the USA and “The Flute” in Japan. Ms. Porter is Principal Flute of North Carolina’s Brevard Music Center, where she performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. She also has been a Professor of Flute at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre and Dance since 1999 and is the host of the podcast PorterFlute Pod. Amy was inducted into Tatnall’s Arts Hall of Fame at Homecoming in October.

Lance G. Fargo ’84 has been a Clydesdale athlete since 2001, competing for Team USA in the USA Triathlon National Championships. He won his first USAT National Championship in Milwaukee in 2013 and has won eight national titles since.

Krista Pilot ’88 has, after five years of expat life in Dubai and Geneva, come back to the US. Through this transition, she’s hunted for a new place to call home and explored new schools for Jasper (age 10) and Willa (age 9). Krista recently became the CCO at AT&T. She’s been looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family now that she is back stateside.

Tracy K. FriswellJacobs ’89 was selected as one of Delaware Today magazine’s Top 40 Women in Business. For 15 years and counting, Tracy has run DelArts in Bear, De., and is a full-time theatre and dance teacher at MOT Charter High School in Middletown, De., and the Chapter Director for Delaware Thespians.

Chapin Spencer ’88 is still in Burlington, Vt., 26 years later. He calls it the West Coast of New England as he sees the sun set beyond Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Chapin has been a Public Works Director for eight years now, and while he loves Vermont, he misses seeing everyone.

1990–1999

Leigh (Owens) Morgan ’91 received the Lucille Sala Meharg Alumni Service Award this year at our Homecoming celebrations.

Renee Taylor Garnick ’94 earned her Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and accepted a position as Director of Development for Tech Impact, a national nonprofit whose mission is to use technology to serve our world better.

Hon. Melissa DeCastro, Esq. ’95, and her husband welcomed their second child, James DeCastro Sommer. He joins their son Charles who loves having a new little brother. Additionally, she was honored as a Woman of Excellence in New Jersey at the end of 2022.

Hilary Tulloch Ambroziak ’97 just started her 21st year of teaching at a small Montessori school in Boulder, Co. Hilary works with children who are 3–6 years old, and she leads the Spanish program. Hilary was instrumental in having her school become the first “Bee Safe” certified school in Boulder County.

Hilary and her chocolate labrador, Bella, participated in a human/canine chemical exposure study in coordination with the University of Colorado Boulder and Yale University. The results should be published soon.

Hilary currently has a photograph printed on metal in the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks art exhibition. The show “Art Inspired by the Land” displays works of art that celebrate the Boulder community’s connection with the shared public land and honor the healing provided by nature.

Christina Yorkston ’97, an interior designer in Philadelphia, shared news of her Society Hill home being featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Zachary J. Baylin ’98 earned his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay category for the film “King Richard.” Zach also received the Distinguished Alumni Award at our Homecoming this year.

Lauren Psimaris ’98 just joined the Wagner Team at Compass as a Real Estate Salesperson licensed in Pennsylvania. She would love to help anyone buying or selling in Pa.

Ti West ’99 has been writing and directing two popular, cult-classic horror films that were released in 2022 titled “X” and its prequel story, “Pearl.” Additionally, Graham Reznick ’99 supplied his sound expertise on “X” serving as the film’s re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and sound designer.

2000–2009

Patrick W. Manahan ’03 and his wife Kirby welcomed their first child, Campbell, on July 8, 2022.

Carly Jornlin ’05 moved from NYC to Bucks County, Pa., after accepting a job as a Nurse Practitioner at The Lawrenceville School. In this role, she’s responsible for the medical care of 800+ boarding students. She also married Dan Blaemire at an intimate ceremony at Greenville Country Club with a total of 13 guests in attendance (down from their 200-person guest list) and had a baby boy.

Maddie Jolles ’06 and her husband, Tatnall Fourth Grade teacher Rick Willard, welcomed their first child, Amelia Marin Willard. Amelia joins furry siblings Milo, Luna, Pippa, and Bodie. Their big, happy family currently resides in Wilmington, De.

Hilary Tulloch Ambroziak ’97

Class Notes

Mick Purzycki ’05 created an aesthetically pleasing and equally delicious competitor in the Orange Crush alcoholic beverage department. Mike’s “Uncle Biff’s Orange Crush” generated lots of buzz (no pun intended), and is currently working on dropping a new creation of a watermelon-flavored crush drink.

Laura (Saad) Voelker ’08 and her husband welcomed their first child in October 2022.

Juliet Bottorff ’09 was inducted into the Delaware Track and Field Hall of Fame Her enshrinement raised the number of inductees to 150 individuals and three teams since the hall of fame’s formation in 1994.

Rosemary Leader ’09 and her husband Dan welcomed their third child, Marlow Hope Leader, on April 25. Marlow joins big siblings Greyson and Macie, who are in Kindergarten and PK3 at Tatnall.

Matthew & Rachael (Polnerow)

Nabhan ’09 welcomed the birth of their son, Everett. They’re living in Kennett Square, and Matt works in Greenville. They’re eager to reconnect with old friends/classmates!

Alex Saad ’09 has had an extremely successful music career as she grows increasingly popular over the music app Spotify. She was recently featured with her picture on a Times Square billboard promoting her music and Spotify. Additionally, Alex was named as one of Spotify’s “Noteable” EQUAL songwriting ambassadors for her work encouraging women songwriters and producers to trust their gut in a predominantly maledominated industry.

2010-2019

Sam Parsons ’12 has continued his successful running career and released eight collaborative Adidas shoe designs. Sam co-founded the Tinman Elite Running Group and became the first athlete to run a sub-4:00-mile in the state of Delaware during Tatnall’s Delaware Mile Challenge in front of his home crowd. Sam was inducted into Tatnall’s Athletic Hall of Fame at Homecoming in October.

Monte V. Taylor ’13 was a runner-up on season 24 of CBS’ “Big Brother.” In addition to resuming his online fitness coaching business, Taylor plans to start a new podcast focused on mindset and helping people live their happiest lives.

Benjamin von Duyke ’16 commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force, completed Special Warfare training to earn a black beret and serve as a TACP officer.

Shelby Bailey-Smiley ’18 was named the Assistant Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at Temple University after working as a team manager for Towson University’s Women’s Basketball program.

2020-2022

Haley Pierce ’12 married Mike Lederhouse, where her former and Tatnall’s current XC and Track coach Pat Castagno officiated the wedding in what she called a full circle moment for her. Haley was inducted into Tatnall’s Athletic Hall of Fame at Homecoming in October.

Nina Sacre ’13 got married this past summer in Belgium to my partner of six years.

Emma M. Donovan ’21 and her sister Darien operate a bakery specializing in cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and cake pops named Sprinkles, Italian Bakery & Market. They currently operate out of their storefront on Naamans Road in Wilmington, De.

Evan C. Cox ’22, a current freshman at Syracuse University and former Hornet soccer star, participated in a halftime field-goal show during his first ’Cuse football game. He kicked a 25-yard field goal and won $1,000.

Haley Pierce ’12

Monte V. Taylor ’13

Tatnall’s Athletic Hall of Fame

In Memoriam:

Margaret (Marvel) Sanger ’49

Ann (Morris) Aydelotte ’53

David B. Canby ’64

Vicki C. (Cooper) Barrett ’65

Richard E. Githens, III ’69

Marshall T. Page ’72

James M. Gill ’73

CLASS OF 2022

Elizabeth (Sisson) Dolphin ’77

Rebecca S. Clement ’86

Jeffrey B. Bove ’97

Tatnall Faculty

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Battle Hamilton

Janet Hayes

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Mary-beth Howard, a beloved faculty member who retired from teaching Middle School in 2016, appeared at our Homecoming celebrations this year to receive the Alumni Faculty Award.

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