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1959 A big thanks to Jim Hall who entertained us with a performance of the peccary song on his clarinet during the virtual Peccary Dinner on October 16. 1

The annual Rogers Scholar dinner was held virtually this year. John Rogers and his wife June enjoyed meeting the 2020-21 Rogers Scholars and Rogers Peccary Scholars during the online event held on Saturday, December 5.

1960 Michael Moore

spoke with Alison Hansen from the Advancement Office about his artwork and shared some Webb memories. "When Lachlan MacDonald, my sophomore English teacher, started the literary magazine called Sage as an extracurricular project, I became art editor for a time and contributed drawings all three years I was there. Hod Gray,

Jon Carroll, Chip Porter,

Terry White and others were involved in that and were definitely aiders and abettors of our little unironic beatnik scene." See some of Michael’s artwork and read the full article at webb.org/alumni. 1965 Eleven members of the Class of ’65 celebrated their 55th reunion in November with a fun afternoon on Zoom remembering favorite faculty and sharing Webb stories. Several admitted that they cannot open a book, it must be done carefully, without thinking about Larry McMillin. Deceased classmates were also honored, and during a specially made PowerPoint, the class shared personal memories and recent family updates. The successful event concluded with a call to create a Class of ’65 Facebook group and to gather virtually again soon. Thanks to Dwight

Morgan, David Wright, Patrick Stroop, Greg Dyer, Bill Vestal, Mark Smith, John Hawkins, Kenneth Elliott, Ken Gregg, Bob

Wallace and Rick Smith for attending. See photo on page 71.

1967 Peter Huisking was named the 2019 Volunteer of the Year for Service to the Armed Forces by the American Red Cross, Southern Arizona Chapter. The award recognizes his work as a Medical Support Assistant at the Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Center, Fort Huachuca. For the past five years, he has assisted at the clinic with soldiers, family members, and retirees and facilitates care with military and civilian medical staff.

1969 Miles Rosedale and Randall Lewis enjoyed a terrific performance by Richard Hastings at Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar, under the stars. 2 1970 By late spring, the Class of 1970 agreed to postpone their 50th reunion gathering on campus and switched gears. Knowing they could not let the 50th pass without doing something, Jim Hawkins,

Joe Thomas, Larry Ashton, Randy Davies, Mickey

Novak, Nat Forbes, and Gene Gregg met on Zoom and came up with a few ideas. They scheduled a two-hour October Zoom reunion. It lasted five hours! (Reputation secure —Larry Ashton signed off last!) In all, 28 classmates connected. Many of them proposed follow-up Zooms for next year. The school helped with a special commemorative t-shirt and, of course, a face mask. See zoom reunion photo on page 71. 3

1972 In 1980, Karl Brown cofounded Automatic Pilot with Matthew McQueen who he met through the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Over four years they performed with acoustic instrumentation in a confrontational language they dubbed "Erotic Jazz Wave." With the AIDS deaths of five members, Automatic Pilot folded, but through interviews, recordings and ephemera, their place in the queer pop music narrative can be acknowledged. The band was the subject of a paper by University of Nevada, Reno music professor Louis Niebur and presented at the July 2020 Society for American Music virtual conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on YouTube.

1974 John Baer is a new Webb parent. His daughter Victoria is a VWS junior. Here’s a photo of them during their November 2019 visit. 4

1977 Raj Ratan has been inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. His election was based on his training at Johns Hopkins leading to his current position as executive director of the Burke Neurological Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. In 1991-92, Raj was a resident and then Chief Resident in Neurology at Johns Hopkins. He received the Jay Slotkin Award for excellence in research while a resident, and the Passano Foundation Clinician Scientist Award while completing a fellowship in Neurorehabilitation and a post-doc in the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins. In 1994, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Neurology and Rehab Medicine at Hopkins and started his own lab with the help of his post-doc mentor, Jay Baraban. At the Burke Neurological Institute, Raj’s scientific efforts have focused on understanding how neurons respond to physiological stresses, particularly oxidative stress, adaptively and maladaptively at a transcriptional level, and how the balance of these activities leads to neuronal death and impairment, or cell survival and recovery or resistance. 5

1980 Cameron Troxell

served as President of the Claremont Rotary Club this past year. Highlights of his term include a new family membership program which increased club membership, social activities, and a donation to Inland Valley Hope Partners, a non-profit serving San Bernadino County. He also arranged for special guest speakers such as the President of the University of La Verne and the President of Claremont Graduate University.

1982 Members of the Class of ’82 went on their annual ski trip in February. This year, they went to Steamboat Springs. L-R:

Sam Gregory, Jason Yee, Mike Stoler, Dilip DaSilva, John Wirum, Robbie

Warner, Alexandra Keyes (Jason Keye’s daughter), Mark Waldrop ’78 and Jason Keyes. 6

1985 A big thanks to Michael Diamond who organized several Webbie Wednesday happy hours and Jeff Cannon ’84 for organizing Weekend Webbie Zooms last year as a way to connect classmates during the early weeks of quarantine. Classes of 1982 through 1989 joined in the fun logging in from multiple time zones. See photo on page 71.

1985 Evangeline Fisher

Grossman is proud to be a new Webb parent. Her son Harry is a WSC freshman. Welcome to Webb! 7 Rob Tsuyuki is the cofounder of INKnBURN, an athletic clothing company based in Santa Ana, Calif. Last March, Rob and his wife Meghan began producing 3-layer face masks with new limited edition styles available each week. Their company is best known for their colorful athletic wear designs for runners. Visit their website at inknburn.com. 8

1986 Christine Helmbrecht

Jones shared this fun photo of Tom Monroe’s daughter Nichola ’22 looking amused as she watches “a befuddled Simon Jones attempt to provide assistance with calculus homework.” Christine wrote, “Simon and I are so fortunate that the Monroes (Tom and his other daughter Elena ’18) landed in Dana Point during the pandemic and, now that we are 25 minutes apart, we see each other on a weekly basis. Truly a silver lining in the midst of a very strange 2020.” 9

Kevin O’Hearn’s daughter is a VWS freshman this year. “We’re doing fine in Hong Kong. Looking on the bright side, we’re very happy that our daughter Katharine seems to have settled into life at VWS and she has made some good friends, some of whom she has seen in person here. It’s also allowed us to have her at home just a little bit longer, while still having the benefit of a Webb education.” 10

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1987 Katy Carr White

continues her work as Chief Medical Officer for Los Angeles Christian Health Centers. During the pandemic, her clinic located on Skid Row has been "doing a lot of testing and care coordination to help patients experiencing homelessness find safe places to stay. We’re also caring for patients who are COVID positive and in isolation or in quarantine." 12

1988 Corey Calaycay won re-election for a fifth term on the Claremont City Council. “I appreciated having the support of fellow alumni, Bob Connolly ’89 and Janel Henriksen Hastings ’87, and my former Spanish teacher, Clara Soto Ivey.” 13

She did it again! Sandra Lee Rebish won the 2020 Critics Choice Award for Female Star of the Year! This is the second consecutive year that she’s earned the most fan votes. Sandra’s YouTube channel, Dr. Pimple Popper, boasts over 6.6 million subscribers and she’s now enjoying her fifth season with the TLC network. She’s also the proud mom of two WSC students: Stratton ’24 is a freshman and Chance ’23 is a sophomore. Joseph Poon shared this photo with Chapman Lam ’89 and Mason Ma ’88. They run together every week to “deal with midlife crisis,” Joseph says! 14

A big thanks to Kathy Winant Osborne and her daughter, Kylie ’23, for participating in our summer WebbStories program for newly admitted families. They spoke about their experiences and offered advice to students preparing to embark on their Webb journey.

1989 Many thanks to Yosh Han for leading an online meditation for the Webb community last April. If you missed the Facebook live event, you can watch a recording of it at webb.org/ alumni.

Michele Raphael is a proud Webb parent. Her daughter Mirabel ’24 is a VWS freshman day student. 15

During the early days of quarantine, members of the Class of ’89 gathered for a Zoom happy hour. See photo on page 71. Clockwise:

Laurel Scherer Meister, Christine French ’90, Jason Dauderman, Adriana LaCorte Maher, Rebecca Nelson Murman, Sari

Gruber, Carlos Paiz and

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1990 Maren Berg is now a proud Webb parent. Her daughter Emily is a freshman. Even though it’s an unprecedented year with virtual classes, Maren is excited about all of the opportunities Webb will give Emily to learn and grow. 16

It was great to see Tanya Shome and Brookie Best at our San Diego event last March. Tanya is an attorney and Brookie is the Associate Dean for Pharmacy Education at UC San Diego. 17

1991 Jennifer Ishiguro

joined StepStone Group, a global private markets investment firm, as Chief Legal Officer & Secretary last year, and saw the company through its IPO and trading on Nasdaq in September. "I am more than fortunate to have found a home with a truly inspiring team of professionals, and was delighted to contribute to StepStone’s continued journey as a public company. Even more amazing was that I was able to share the experience with fellow Webbie Jenny Choi ’07, who worked on corporate governance aspects of the transaction as an attorney at Gibson Dunn, StepStone’s counsel." Jennifer and Jenny met several years ago upon Laura Wensley’s introduction, when Jenny was about to start at Harvard Law School. They maintained a mentoring relationship, and after law school, Jenny ended up starting her law firm career at the same firm (Davis Polk) Jennifer had started off at as well! But Webb connections didn’t stop there, and they were amazed to find themselves working with one another on the StepStone IPO. Jennifer also joined Webb’s Alumni Council in July as a new Member-at-Large.

1992 In May, Edmond Ng and fellow Webbies met for an alumni dinner in Taipei. L-R: Eric Wang ’96,

Edmond, Jenny Wang ’93, Jeff Wang, James Huang ’90,

Alex Hsu ’89, Helen Liu and Jiun Fan. They were at a restaurant called Salt and Stone, which is owned by Eric. 18

The Alf Museum welcomes Liz Smith to its board of trustees. A regular attendee of museum events, Liz is well-known for her breakfasts on the alumni peccary trips. "The Alf Museum is a wonderful opportunity to inspire young minds to science. I know, I was one of those kids who was inspired by the Alf Museum at age 8 and later while I attended Webb." Liz lives in the Bay Area with her family. Andrew Wass and his family are still living in Berlin, Germany. His paper, "Artistotle and Husserl go dancing: Solo improvised dance-making and the noetic cycle" was published in the July issue of "Choreographic Practices." A link to the article can be found on his Instagram @wasscubed.

1994 Tara Lazar, founder of f10 Creative, was a guest on an episode of the weekly podcast FULL COMP hosted by Michelinrated restaurateur Josh Kopel. Tara, who owns six hospitality concepts in Palm Springs, talked about her efforts to reopen and what’s worked and what hasn’t. "We’re all just trying to hold on and then once the storm’s over, we’ve all been doing pushups in the closet and we’re going to come out with beach bods." If you’re interested in listening, go to fullcomp.media and look for the July 30th episode "The Struggle to Reopen." 1995 A big thanks to Zamia Cohen for appearing on an Instagram Live event for the Webb community last May. She also spoke to students during Sophomore Career Evening. Zamia, the founder and owner of Good Human Fitness, shared several healthy living and nutrition tips. You can watch a recording at #webb.org/alumni. Jenna Gambaro was a poll worker at Arlington Heights Elementary School for several days during the national election in November. Jenna volunteered as part of the CAA Foundation’s partnership with Democracy Works and Civic Alliance to fulfill the urgent need for poll workers to ensure a safe and accessible election. 19

Blake Johnson is the Chairman and Founder of Byte (byteme.com), the fastest growing privately held company in the U.S.A. in 2020 and is currently expanding into Australia, Canada, Europe and Mexico. Earlier this year, the company announced that they will do their part in the fight against COVID-19 by converting their 3D specialty labs to make masks, face shields and ventilator parts for frontline healthcare providers. Their labs in Oklahoma and California have over 150 Juell3D printers that will now be used to make much needed supplies and equipment that currently face critical shortage. 1996 In the early days of quarantine, Douglas Lee organized a Zoom happy hour for the Class of ’96. See photo on page 71. Top to bottom L-R: Stephanie

Baron, Doug Lee, Saleh Kuba, Will Marshall, Brian Zipser, Peter Chen, Jimmy

Lin, Eric Choi and Adam

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1997 After serving nine years on the Alf Museum’s board of trustees, Lance Williams is now a trustee on The Webb Schools’ board. "It has been a great honor to serve on the board of the Alf Museum, and I look forward to joining the dynamic team that will help shape the future of Webb for the next 100 years. My personal goal will be to focus on how Webb will be a leader in the areas of diversity and sustainability."

1998 Mary Flannery, PhD

is a Professor of Medieval English Studies at Bern University in Switzerland. She recently appeared on the BBC podcast The Forum discussing the 14th century poet Chaucer: “One of the reasons Chaucer’s been called the father of English poetry is because of what he did for English, or what he was perceived to have done for English. That is, he elevated it to the level of other literary languages like French or Italian. He did for English what Homer did for ancient Greek or what Virgil and Ovid did for Latin.” Mary has authored two books and was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Visit the alumni website for a link to the BBC podcast. 20

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28 During a visit to Montana this summer, Museum Director Don Lofgren enjoyed seeing John King, Laura Anderson King and their two sons. 21

The Alliance of Women Directors featured Jenee LaMarque on #FemaleFilmmakerFriday in October. She has recently directed episodes of Room 104 for HBO and Run the World for Starz, among other television projects. Jenee says, "I don’t think it’s as hard as people portray to find talented women. There’s a ton of us! I try to take an empowered vision view of it and figure out what I can do. I can get really down sometimes about male peers that aren’t as experienced as me moving more quickly through their careers. But I just try to put myself forth, and believe in myself more, so I can move forward through the systems that are in place that aren’t necessarily meant to be pushing me forward." 1999 Ragni Agarwal was one of six artists chosen by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture to celebrate the 19th amendment centennial. Ragni (aka RAGIMATE, a blend of her nickname Rag and the word animate) has always liked graphic design and technology. At Webb she worked on the student newspaper creating layouts and getting a first taste of graphic design. She also remembers teaching herself HTML in her dorm room. Today Ragni is VP of Design at a tech startup and a freelance graphic design and branding contributor for various fashion and lifestyle companies. She has fond memories of teachers Diane Wilsdon and John Ball. Ragni is based in Santa Monica and welcomes Webbies to visit her website ragniagarwal.com and follow her on Instagram @richesforrags. 22

2001 Bobby Bedi is an anesthesiologist whose work has been drastically impacted by COVID-19. Everything from his daily routine to the amount of PPE they are using to stay safe is a factor and we thank him for all he is doing to keep our community healthy in these trying times. 23

2002 A big thank you to Amanda David Ho for hosting our alumni gathering at Great Maple UTC in La Jolla last March. She was also one of our speakers at Sophomore Career Evening and treated students to boxes of her signature donuts! 24

Thanks to Marisa Meehan for this adorable photo of future Webbies Koda, age 3, and Jeff, age 1. 25 Nkonye Okuh was named one of Crain’s New York Business 2020 Rising Stars in Banking and Finance. As a Managing Director of JPMorgan’s Investment Bank, she is in charge of structured-investments distributor marketing for financial institutions in the U.S. and Latin America. She is the youngest black managing director in the firm’s investment banking unit. She markets highly structured deals for highnet-worth individuals, and helps facilitate the issuance of more than $5 billion of JPMorgan’s debt into the market annually. She also won the 2020 Network Journal’s Influential Black Women in Business Award.

2003 Here’s baby Roddy, WSC Class of 2038! Photo credit: Raina Dunkleberger. 26

Richard Yao, Jayson Sohi, Chris Forney, Daniel Suhr ’02,

and Alex Gordon ’02 met up on Zoom in their Webb gear! See photo on page 71.

2004 Last February Stephanie Ho hosted a charity ride at Equinox in downtown Los Angeles. Several alumni showed their support: John Sang ’00,

Christina Kon ’03, Tiffany Lee ’04, Jenn Liu ’05,

Alyssa Hackett ’07 and Anthony Shin ’99 joined in person for her #HoCycle class and others donated online helping Stephanie reach her goal of $5,000 in support of @cycleforsurvival and rare cancer research. This is Stephanie’s 10th year as a spin instructor. She also shared this fun photo of a socially distanced gathering with Emily Boyce, Lorraine Sun, and Bassil Madanat. 27 28

Los Angeles Dodgers

October 27, 2020 marked the day that Los Angeles baseball fans have waited 32 years for — a World Series title for the Dodgers. There is no shortage of Dodger fans among Webb alumni, faculty, staff, students, and families. Many shared their celebrations on social media and Zoom.

A B Julia Villasenor ’03 traveled to Texas for Games 5 and 6 – and was in the stadium as the Dodgers won the pennant. A

Director of Studies, Michael Hoe ’04 showed his Dodger pride with his family on the Webb campus. B

Skyler Rivera ’18 and her dad traveled to Dodger Stadium the day after the historic win to film fan reactions for submission to her broadcast journalism program at Syracuse University. C

Max Nelson ‘95 and Damian Nelson ’97 shared this photo of them enjoying a 2019 Dodgers game wearing their Hood Hats designed by Max. D

Webb’s Advancement Team showed their Dodger spirit in their weekly Zoom staff meeting. E

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Pilar Mitchell-Campbell

and her husband Chris welcomed son Christian in September 2019. Pilar is a Managing Attorney at Michael Sullivan and Associates, with offices in the Central Valley and Ventura County under her management. 29

Nihar Shah and his wife Vivian welcomed son Samuel in February 2020. Nihar has also joined the Alumni Council this year as a Member at Large and looks forward to continuing to connect alumni to each other and to The Webb Schools. 30

2005 Thank you to Connie

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and Rita Forte ’99 for being part of our VWS alumnae panel at the October 13th Affiliates meeting, hosted by Jenn Liu, director of parent relations. They shared advice about personal health and wellness. To hear a recording of their talk, go to webb.org/alumni.

2006 Kelly Boyce and Rishi Desai ’05 were married on May 16, 2020 in a Hindu ceremony in his parent’s backyard. 31 Brian Gans is an attending physician in hospice and palliative care medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network. Brian has been treating patients with COVID since the early days of the pandemic. 32

Sarah Lewis and John Stewart welcomed baby Jane Emily Stewart in June 2020. 33

2007 Alyssa (Sittig)

Leppla and her husband Nick welcomed their son Lincoln Robert on June 14, 2020. Born in Palo Alto, he weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz., measured 21 inches long, and is already looking forward to his first Webb visit! 34

Thank you to Summer Swee-Singh who gave a live solo performance at the Unwind with Webb October 30th virtual concert. She also answered questions about her career path and the challenges that musicians face during COVID-19. It was great to see lots of Webb friends online, including Sarah Kingstone and her parents from Vancouver Island, Zakiya Sharpe from Brooklyn, Zach Calucchia ’06 from Texas, and former faculty Mark Nelson from New Hampshire. If you missed the concert, you can watch a recording of it on webb.org/ alumni. 35 2008 Jeffrey Cripe has joined the board of trustees for the Alf Museum. “The museum is responsible for some of my happiest memories while at Webb and since I matriculated. It also created an incredible opportunity for me to contribute to the scientific community through our research on GSENM. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to give back to the museum and ensure that the next generations of Webb students benefit from all it has to offer.” Jeff is also newly married. In July he married Eleanor Walper in Las Vegas. Sarah Gray Pepe has moved on from Director of Admissions at Montana’s Law School and is now working as a public defender in Hamilton, MT. “My caseload is exclusively felony defense, and I also represent clients in involuntary commitment hearings.” Jarel Hill was the featured artist at the December 18 Unwind with Webb virtual concert. His duo, Tropic, includes R&B singer/songwriter Jo-B Sebastian. If you missed his performance, you can find a recording at webb.org/alumni.

2010 Ariel Fan joined the Alumni Council in July as a new Member-at-Large. See her interview on page 25 as she talks about her work.

2011 Cameron Lutz was recognized as one of Billboard’s 2020 Country Music Power Players. Since starting at Facebook in 2015, Cameron has worked with Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Luke Combs, Midland and countless other artists. He also leads the company’s efforts for country music’s biggest events, including Stagecoach Country Music Festival, CMA Festival, and the CMA Awards. Read more at webb.org/alumni. 36

Danielle (Shultz) Foley

married Braden Foley on July 25, 2020. She lives in Seattle and is a recruiter at Starbucks for the finance organization. 37

Kane Willis is the new Upper School Dean at Poly Prep Country Day, an independent school in Brooklyn, NY. Read an interview with Kane on page 21.

2012 Ryan Au and a group of alumni went hiking through West Dog Teeth in Lantau Island. L-R: Marissa Pang ’13, Mason Lin ’13, Ryan and Sidney Leung (kneeling). 38

Angie Harold is having quite the year! She passed the California Bar Exam in November of 2019 and got married to Andrew Irwin this past June. She’s now working at Ernst & Young’s Irvine office in tax law. 39

Henry Xu has joined the Alumni Council as the new Regional Representative in the Shenzhen/Beijing area. He’s been helping the Admission Office by interviewing prospective students in the area. 2015 Justin Parker first heard of PBS Engineers back in 2018 through a Webb@Work summer internship hosted by the firm’s President and CEO Kunal Shah ’97. Now Justin is a Mechanical Design Engineer with PBS. “I’m the main engineer working on a San Diego residential sound insulation program. The FAA funds the renovations of houses around the San Diego airport for new windows, doors and AC systems to help mitigate the loud noises of planes flying overhead. I design those AC systems and work with architects, general contractors, etc. to install them.”

Rachel Utomo is a first-year dental student attending Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine. Inspired by her time as Senior Class President at Webb, she recently ran for and was elected the FirstYear Class President of the Dental Class of 2024. 40

2017 Lachlan Ashenmiller

shared this photo from Amsterdam prior to quarantine. Like many who were studying abroad, he returned home in March. 41

Dylan Wensley created a portrait in memory of Occidental College classmate Jaden Burris, who sadly passed away in early 2020. “The piece was supposed to be a community-based collage created by his Oxy friends and classmates, but because of COVID, we weren’t able to do it this way. So over the summer, I completed the project and presented it to his mom in September.” 42 2018 Skyler Rivera is a third-year broadcast journalism student at Syracuse University. "I’m studying remotely this semester but our classes still require us to produce quality content. We’re assigned a story in the morning and must produce a TV news story at the end of the day. The day after the Dodgers won the World Series, my dad and I went to Dodger Stadium to film fan reaction." See photo on page 67. Payton Williams interned with Sandeep Madhavan ’99 this past summer. During the internship, she worked on script writing for a series of videos that Sandeep’s firm is using across social media to strengthen their brand and market. 43

2019 After two years of recording, producing, and mixing, Drew Hersch has released his debut album Sad Boy Summer. In an interview with the Webb Canyon Chronicle, Drew said, "It pretty much all started at Webb, those were where the ideas came from. I wrote ‘May’ there; I wrote ‘Cellophane’ there. It took me two years because I was just getting better at producing. There were a lot of songs that I tried to make, and I had drafts of, but I was like, ’No, they’re not ready yet.’" Sad Boy Summer has 12 tracks and can be found on Spotify.

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48 2020 Amelie Cook has deferred a year from Carleton College to serve with AmeriCorps NCCC and help people in need around the country. “Due to the COVID pandemic, there has been a serious shortage of volunteers, and many organizations still need lots of help. Currently, I’m doing disaster relief work in southwest Louisiana. I’ve been removing fallen trees and debris from people’s homes and helping homeowners muck and gut their houses that have suffered extreme water damage from Hurricane Laura. It’s very challenging work, both emotionally and physically, but I’ve gained so many new experiences and perspectives and I’m grateful for that!” If anyone is interested in getting involved, Amelie is happy to answer questions. 44

FORMER FACULTY

Juli James and Arran Shea ’95 enjoyed a Webb reunion in November. “Arran and I were two loud peccary buddies and have kept in touch on and off over the years. We both love our Hawaiian shirts! Sean (WSC ’11) is still at Apple and finishing up his private pilot license training. I am back to Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy as the Director of Residential Life and Service Initiatives. I work with Sherrie Staveley!” 45

Logging in from Canada,

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Sarah ’07 Kingstone joined our Zoom concert with

Summer Swee-Singh ’07.

“It was such a blast to be a part of the conversation, to hear Summer’s stories and listen to her beautiful music! Jim and I have both ‘retired’ which means we are pursuing our own paths! It’s been a great shift. Sarah and I are actually partnering to build a consultancy that offers strategic planning and design services, organizational and executive coaching, and research and program development. Our business is Elarton Point Strategies (website in process!). Part of our work includes designing and delivering programs for students that focus on health and wellness. Ideally, we train adults (teachers, leaders) to deliver our model and then they work with their students. It is a program based in positive psychology and energy management. It’s all great work! Jim is coaching students through their final years of high school so they are well-positioned for the post-secondary application process and able to manage the challenges of this important transition. He spent the final years of his work in schools in University Counselling. We are also running all the trails on Vancouver Island and drinking coffee together every day after a very busy 40 years working in schools! Couldn’t be happier.” 46 We enjoyed seeing Brian Ogden and Ilya Shoniya ’12 at our San Diego event last March. Brian is in his fifth year as Head of Upper School at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla. Ilya is a Lead Global Print Ambassador at HP. 47

Coach Dan Pride was an integral part of Webb’s Athletics Department for 20 years, coaching football, basketball, and softball. When he retired from Webb in 2008, he returned to his hometown of Ironton, Ohio. He is now featured in the film “Hometown Hero” by fellow Ironton High School teacher Travis Kleinman. 48

Virtual Alumni Gatherings

Connecting with classmates and friends looks a lot different these last several months, but there has been no shortage of virtual reunions among Webbies. Alumni all over the world have been using technology to stay connected while we are not able to gather in person. Thank you to all of the alumni who have shared their events with the Alumni Office!

The Class of 1965 celebrated their 55th reunion on Zoom in November. eleven members of the class attended and made future plans to keep in touch online. A

The Class of 1970 celebrated their 50th reunion on Zoom in November with 28 classmates logging in from 13 states. B

Michael Diamond ‘85 and Jeff Cannon ’84 hosted several virtual gatherings for alumni from the 1980s. C

A few members of the Classes of 1989 and 1990 caught up in April. D

The Class of 1996 came together from as far away as Dubai! E

Richard Yao ’03 (not pictured) brought together Chris Forney ’03, Jayson Sohi ’03, Alex Gordon ‘02 and Daniel Suhr ’02. F

The Class of 2004 shifted their spring reunion plans to Zoom with some special “Future Webbie” guests. G

Members of the Class of 2006 enjoyed a game night hosted by Chad Pharnichyakul and Michael Sun. H

VWS ’06 alumnae welcomed Sarah Lewis new baby on Zoom. Top to bottom L-R: Katie Dahl, Maggie McMillan, Sarah, Leslie Greening ’04, Heidi Marti, Gauri Gadgil, Jordi Baron and Esther Kim. I

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Volunteer Thank You

ALUMNI ADMISSION INTERVIEWS, JANUARY 2020 Angela Alexander ’07 Emily Hammett ’05 Abigail Hess ’12 Johnson Lightfoote ’08 Bassil Madanat ’04 Nihar Shah ’04 Henry Xu ’12 AFFILIATES MEETING, YOUNG ALUMNI PANEL, JANUARY 14, 2020 Laurel Benjamin ’17 Lawrence Mao ’19 Michael Paik ’14 Shannon Torrance ’15 � SOPHOMORE CAREER EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 2020 Angela Alexander ’07 Emily Boyce ’04 Zamia Cohen ’95 Amanda David Ho ’02 Stanley Eosakul ’04 Sarah Lewis ’06 Matthew Lim ’99 Maggie McMillan ’06 Kunal Shah ’97 Jeff Taylor ’06 James Wu ’97 2 3 UNBOUNDED DAYS, FEBRUARY 2020 James Chang ’04 Jeffrey Cripe ’08 Stephanie Ho ’04 Sandeep Madhavan ’99 David Myles ’80 Edmond Ng ’92 Rose Roll ’99 4

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WEBBSTORIES ADMISSION EVENTS, MAY-JUNE 2020 Lily Chen P ’22 Celia Chu P ’11, ’14, ’17 Dakota Santana-Grace ’11 Ruth Santana-Grace P ’11 Elisa Kong ’15 Jenny Kong P ’15, ’18, ’22 Kylie Osborne ’23 Karen Rosenthal P ’91, ’93 Kathy Winant Osborne ’88 ORIENTATION WEEKEND “ALUMNI & STUDENT STORIES VIDEO” FOR NEW FAMILIES, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 Dakota Santana-Grace ’11 Siri Dominguez ’15 DISCOVER WEBB DAYS, NOVEMBER 13-14, 2020 Angela Alexander ’07 Ziyad Duron ’15 Adriana Fung ’17 Daniel Hernandez ’13 Meredith Hess ’14 Emma Ng ’17 Wilson Parnell ’13 Jordan Taylor ’02 5 Catherine Cordes P ’21 Francisco & Devanie Donez P ’21, ’24 Jimmy Feng ’21 Angelica Gutierrez P ’20, ’24 Hazel Hu P ’20, ’23 Chris Jin P ’23 Jenny Kong P ’15, ’18, ’22 Barry & Jennifer Oglesby P ’23 Patrice Ratinoff P ’23 Sonia Seara P ’23 6 7 AFFILIATES MEETING, VWS ALUMNAE “WEBB FIT” PANEL, OCTOBER 13, 2020 Connie Cheng ’05 Rita Forte ’99 Emily Hammett ’05 8

THE MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD Dr. Carlos A. Baez, MD Stephanie Baron, PA-C ’96 Dr. Daniel Gluckstein, MD P ’05, ’08 Dr. Sandra S. Lee, MD ’88, P ’23, ’24 Dr. Rahmi Mowjood, DO ’90

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