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these areas, please see the following pages.
Successes and Opportunities
SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS Governance Plan Improvements: • Have board become more strategic • Streamline board meetings • Change terms of service
Financial and Fundraising Plan Improvements: • Created a new and more flexible financial model The Portman Family Middle School,
• Established a permanent fund for major plant repair and replacement
which opened at the start of the
• Raised more than $58 million in facilities and endowment funds
Certified.
• Raised $2 million/year in Annual Fund and almost $1.5 million in
2009–10 school year, is LEED Gold
(28 new funds)
restricted annual gifts
• Increased emphasis on legacy giving (planned giving) • Expanded holiday and summer camp offerings
• Expanded after-school offerings for Lower School and Middle School students
• Increased financial aid budget Master Campus Plan Improvements: • Portman Family Middle School “The Portman Family
• Woodward Theater (Black Box)
Middle School has
• Bill Railey Field
both the physical and
• Rogers-Westmoreland Activity Center (new facility for scouting
provided us with
aesthetic space to do our part in
• Softball/Baseball Complex and other school activities)
accomplishing the mission of the
• Dining Hall: renovation and outside dining patio
us to foster thinking and creativity;
• Learning Studio
by being able to work at desks, at the
• Campus Lighting
the green roof; and to provide space
• Dance Studio
school. The Middle School enables
• Recording Studio
to vary our students’ environments
• Alston Memorial Chapel: new lighting and acoustics
lab tables in the science rooms, or on
• Photography Laboratory
and time for community building.”
• Fine Arts Offices
— M I C H E L L E M U R P H Y Middle School Science Department Head
• Applied Lessons Spaces
• Academic Resource Center: new facilities • Technical Theater: construction room • Noonan Technology Center
• Breakthrough Atlanta Offices • Administrative Offices (7)
• Lovett Parent Association and Friends of the Arts Offices Technology Plan Improvements: • Creation of 1:1 Student Laptop Program (grades 4–10) • Expansion of information technology staff • Piloting of iPad program
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Honoring or Memorializing Someone Special with a Gift to Lovett Many factors contribute to the excellence found at an independent school, but perhaps what most sets Lovett apart from others is the excellence found in its faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni—who are all dedicated to making Lovett the best school it can be. One way to pay tribute to this excellence is by honoring or memorializing someone special with a gift to Excellence in Learning, Character & Community. T he A nne B rAndAu
of alumni relations in 1985; she
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as well as a teacher, for Debbie,
generosity of Debbie and Tom
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made possible through the
me, and our three children, as
Avery, both members of Lovett’s
grads,” said Tom. “We want to
class of 1971. Debbie and Tom’s
honor her while making sure that
graduates — Maggie ’96, Tommy
option for all socioeconomic
three children are also Lovett ’97, and Rachel ’04.
The first purpose of
The Anne Brandau Fuentes
Financial Aid Fund is to help stimulate socioeconomic
diversity at Lovett by helping students, whose families
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Lovett remains a viable financial
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levels of Atlanta families.”
Another Lovett legend,
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in 1969 as a teacher, but now serves
was head coach for 22 of those
Fuentes started working at Lovett
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Lovett for 30 years (1986–2006), years, and had a career record of 200 wins and 73 losses. Lovett
Lovett experience, to attend
school. Secondly, this gift and endowment fund is designed to honor a Lovett legend.
Since 1969, Fuentes has taught religion, Latin, German,
and history. She served as a
cheerleading sponsor and tennis coach, and became the director Alumni Scott Taylor ’84 and
John O. Knox ’88, shown here with Coach Railey, during the Bill Railey Field dedication ceremony in October 2011
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Capital Fundraising Committees The Lovett School Legacy Society Committee
Your gift to the Lovett Legacy Society will be used to embrace Mrs. Eva Edwards Lovett’s founding vision of a progressive education, one grounded in lifelong learning, moral character, and community involvement.
Become a Charter Member of The Lovett School Legacy Society Join prior to December 31, 2012
T
he Lovett School Legacy Society is a group of donors who
have included Lovett in their wills or other estate plans. Their
gifts provide essential financial support for the school’s future.
As is the case at many independent schools, tuition only covers
approximately 80 percent of Lovett’s total annual operating costs. Annual giving and funds from the endowment (which often include planned gifts) help to make up the difference.
Legacy giving, or planned giving, allows donors to “leave a
legacy.” It allows donors to have an impact on a favorite cause, such as Lovett, beyond their lifetime. It allows donors to make larger gifts than might otherwise be possible. And it may also
allow donors to increase their retirement incomes and receive tax advantages.
Common types of planned gifts include:
• Bequests (gifts made through your will or living trust); • Charitable gift annuities; • Insurance policies;
• Gifts of retirement plan assets after your lifetime; • Charitable lead trusts;
• Charitable remainder trusts; and • Certain real estate gifts.
Please join today as a Charter Member of the Lovett Legacy
Society and help Lovett reach its goal of 200 new Legacy members by the end of 2012! Visit www.lovett.org/legacygiving for more information or contact:
Andy Spencer, (404) 262-3032, ext. 1255, aspencer@lovett.org Brian Scales, (404) 262-3032, ext. 1249, bscales@lovett.org
Taylor Butkus, (404) 262-3032, ext. 1354, tbutkus@lovett.org. n
Bailey Izard ’81, Chair Tom Reynolds, Vice Chair Duncan Beard Nancy Sterne Bowden ’74 David Fosgate ’92 Geoff Friedman ’87 Jackson Hill Rob Jordan ’87 Philip Millians ’79 Bet Pope ’79 John Pope ’86 Ruth Russ ’84 John Stephenson ’93 Woody Vaughan ’86 Thad Warren ’82 Campaign Executive Committee
Clay Jackson ’77, Co-chair Hampton Morris ’69, Co-chair Charlie Arp ’62 Kimberly Blass Freddy Goldenberg Gregg Goldenberg John Holder ’73 Bailey Izard ’81 David Kahn ’81 Amy Kreisler ’88 Knox Massey Ed McCrady Billy Peebles Art Rollins ’77 Brian Scales Andy Spencer Major Gifts Committee
Freddy and Gregg Goldenberg, Chairs Laura and Billy Cohen Nan and Ed Easterlin Sarah and Reid ’89 French Jaci and Owen Hardy Meg Heyer Felicia and Billy Huger Andrea and Gordon ’88 Jones Gina and David Marshall Kacey ’91 and Whit ’91 Marshall Ed McCrady John McIntyre Emily and Mike ’83 McIntyre Chris and Jeff Montgomery Kim and Clay ’90 Nalley Bet Pope ’79 7 Anna and Craig Savage
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Address Service Requested
What does Lovett Excellence mean to you? Wright Mitchell ’88
Ruth Russ ’84
Bill Fox
Class representative and
Parent; class representative; past president,
Trustee emeritus;
member, Lovett Alumni
Lovett Alumni Executive Board; and
university educator
Executive Board
member, Lovett Legacy Society Committee
and administrator, Emory University
“I had an outstanding experience at
“As a Lovett parent
“The Lovett School pays more attention
and Dick Hall instilled in me a love of
the benefit of watching
student than any school I have ever
Lovett. Educators such as Anne Fuentes history that persists to this day. I also had an excellent experience on the athletic
and alumna, I’ve had
the school evolve over
20 years. Mrs. Lovett’s
field under the tutelage of coaches like
goal of educating the ‘whole child’
Charles Oakley. So while excellence can
civilization still holds true today, but in
Bill Conley, Bill Railey, Jim Glaser, and
mean many things to many people, when I think of ‘excellence’ at Lovett, I think
of all of the people who influenced me
during my 14 years there. I continue to rely on their lessons on a daily basis,
which is why I make it a point to support the school in whatever manner I can. It is
simply a way I can give a little back to the institution that taught me so much about excelling in life.”
to meet the challenges of a changing
ways she never imagined. Technology, single-gender classes, student and
faculty research, service learning, and the global breadth of the students’
studies are fully integrated into today’s
curriculum. Lovett continues to improve itself as it prepares and encourages its
students to meet not just college, but the world, head-on.”
to the development of all facets of a
seen. Character development, expansion of the imagination, introduction to
various athletic or recreational interests, proficiency in analytical thinking and reasoning skills, and global interest
and compassion are all covered. The faculty are accessible and willing to
help students find that which will give their lives meaning and fulfillment.
The administration sets the tone with
compassionate and caring leadership,
but, at the same time, establishes clear expectations. The Lovett School is
never satisfied with the excellence it has attained, however, and continuously strives to reach even higher levels of goodness and greatness.”