ALUMNI UPDATES

KIT Alumni UPDATES

The ROEPER ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, established in 2018, is now in its second year! The Council’s mission is to develop, encourage, and grow alumni support for the School’s mission and to maintain and promote lasting and meaningful connections between the School and its alumni. Members of the council, consisting of a diverse group of 14 alumni, are working on fun and creative ways to keep our alumni community engaged. Join The Roeper School Alumni Facebook group and follow roeperalumni on Instagram to stay connected. Exciting things are in the works for 2020! www.facebook.com/groups/roeperalumni www.instagram.com/roeperalumni

This year’s Roeper Alumni Leadership Council annual meeting was held on September 23, 2019. Members include: ARTHUR ENSROTH ’68, DAVID SHAPERO ’71, LORI LUTZ ’75, CHERYL BLAU ’80, MIRANDA BEEBE ’84, ANIKA MURPHY-WELLERE ’93, ERIC PETERSON ’95, ALANA GLASS ’97, TEGAN JONES ’01, ALEX DICKINSON ’04, CHARLAÉ WASHINGTON ’04, CHARLIE WHITE ’05, ALEX SIMS ’06, SHANI YAPAKIMPSON ‘08

^ Above: L to R — Alumni Council members Arthur Ensroth ’68, Miranda Beebe ’87, Shani Yapa-Kimpson ’08, and Eric Peterson ’95 take a tour of the new Jimmy & Vi’s Kitchen at the Birmingham campus with Allison Mitchell, Resident District Manager/Chartwells.

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) unanimously selected University High School history instructor CHRIS BRADLEY ’86 ^ as the winner of the 2020 NSDAR Outstanding Teacher of American History award! Chris now advances on to the state competition, and, if selected as Indiana’s nominee in January, will be up for the national award.

From PHILIP HAGUE ’87 : Our family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, last year for me to take a role at 3M, leading the design teams for Post-it® and Scotch® brands. 3M is a remarkable company, and the opportunities are exciting. It was a big move for us after a few decades in Chicago, but Minnesota is beautiful and we’re slowly finding our place. Susan and I celebrated 26 years of marriage this summer. The adventure continues! Our kids are Jackson (20) and Sophia (15). ^

Congratulations to ANN MARSH-SENIC ’89, > three-time Olympic foil fencer, for winning a national championship title in fencing on July 2!

Longtime friends and Class of 1994 alumni, SAM HIRSCHMAN ’94 and JOHN McCOY ’94 visited the Detroit Zoo with their daughters on July 2, 2019. From L to R: Sam’s daughter Madeline, John’s daughters Laurel and Lucy. Sam also has a 15-month-old son, Isaac, who was sick at home with mom, Stephanie Sheffield. Jamie (John’s wife) had the morning off. ^

<SAM KOHLENBERG ‘99 recently earned his PhD in Applied Psychophysiology with a Clinical Concentration. He is teaching, conducting research, and doing clinical work, and is an entering MEHP fellow at Johns Hopkins.

ALANA GLASS ’97, EDWARD GLASS ’95 and ERIC PETERSON ’95 represented Roeper at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France!

PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK HAGEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

^ KIKI BOKUNGU LOUYA ‘01* was featured in a New York Times article titled “16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America.” Kiki left Detroit to become a chef but returned to pursue a greater goal: At Folk and Farmer’s Hand in Corktown, social justice, local agriculture and food justice are priorities. Kiki noted:

We want to be your neighborhood bodega, but we also have this weird educational component, so we do a lot of explaining.

We are sourcing your food from local farms and purveyors, but we can still feed a family of four for $10. We pay a living wage, not just a tipped minimum wage. We have a hospitality charge, because this is what it actually costs to put the food on your plate.

Roeper alumna JESSICA KAHN ’18 is President of Team Aquador at the University of Michigan. She has been working hard to develop and deliver clean, sustainable, and responsible water solutions to rural communities in Ecuador. This year, she is joined by three other Roeperians: AMANDA MARGOLIS ’19, MADDY HARNER ’18, and BEN FISHER ’17. The team is currently working to design gray water recycling systems and water pumps that communities in La Bolivarense and Olmedo can build and maintain themselves. Team Aquador focuses on creating solutions that foster independence and empowerment in target communities. F ^

Roeper Alumna SADE BENJAMIN ’04 ^ , stopped by to say hello to Lori Zinser (left), Director of Admissions, and Denita Banks-Sims, Director of Development. Sade works as an Associate Educator for the Detroit Institute of Arts where she creates educator resources, leads professional development for teachers, and oversees the teen arts council.

Alumna KATE ABBEY-LAMBERTZ ’05 < delivered inspirational remarks to students on the first day of school. As keynote speaker of the morning assembly for Middle and Upper School students, Kate shared stories about how attending Roeper has shaped her life. HANNAH (SCHOTTENFELS) REGALADO ’07 came in support of Kate, and they both had a chance to visit with teachers and check out the new renovations!

L to R — University of Michigan’s 2019/20 Team Aquador, Maddy Harner ’18, Amanda Margolis ’19, Jessica Kahn ’18 and Ben Fisher ’17.