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Art from the heart Middle Schoolers expressed themselves in creating “Postcards to the Congo,” a unique component of the City as Our Campus initiative. (See story on page 13.)

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Winchester Thurston School Autumn 2007 TALK A magnifi cent showing Thistle WT's own art gallery played host in November to LUMINOUS, MAGAZINE a glittering display of 14 local and nationally recognized glass

Volume 35 • Number 1 Autumn 2007 artists, including faculty members Carl Jones, Mary Martin ’88, and Tina Plaks, along with eighth-grader Red Otto. Thistletalk is published two times per year by Winchester Thurston School for alumnae/i, parents, students, and friends of the school. Letters and suggestions are welcome. Please contact the Director of Communications, Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood

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School Mission Winchester Thurston School actively engages each student in a challenging and inspiring learning process that develops the mind, motivates the passion to achieve, and cultivates the character to serve.

Core Values We activate our Mission by creating a learning environment that promotes and instills appreciation for these fi ve Core Values: Critical Winchester Thurston School proudly acknowledges Thinking, Integrity, Empathy, Community, and Diversity. our 2007 – 2008 Malone Scholars, Winchester Thurston School Hannah Strong ’09 and Yin Yin Ou ’08. 555 Morewood Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 These outstanding students received this distinction as the result of a Telephone: (412) 578-7500 $2 million grant from the Malone Family Foundation in recognition of www.winchesterthurston.org WT’s rigorous academic program that serves the needs of gifted and Content published in Thistletalk represents talented students. This national foundation selected Winchester Thurston opinions, ideas, and perspectives of the authors that are not necessarily those of the Trustees or as one of three top independent schools in the country to be awarded Administration of Winchester Thurston School. The editors reserve the right to accept, reject, a grant in 2007. or edit any content submitted for publication in Thistletalk.

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COVER STORY honoring yesterday, inspiring tomorrow 4 The evolution of WT in academics, arts, and athletics “... we are the luckiest” 14 Commencement 2007

city as our campus 12 Expanding minds in expanding ways

generous spirit inspires a community 16 a tradition of achievement inspires our vision 2 the art of teaching LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Gary J. Niels and the teaching of art 18

proudly serving: reunion 2007 35 new board president 3

wt today 22 STUDENT PROFILES Summer Experiences SCHOOL NEWS Student Honors...Athletics Triumphs... Performing Arts Awards...and more. development news 34 class notes 36 Special Section 2006-2007 annual giving report page 45

About the Cover: The past meets the present The Thurston School’s 1901 basketball team plays host to members of contemporary WT lacrosse, cross country, and fi eld hockey teams thanks to the wonders of digital compositing.

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school A tradition of achievement of inspires our vision head

with the Academic Enrichment and the Women and Girls Foundation of Challenge (AEC) program. Southwestern Pennsylvania at “Women A plethora of new academic in Sports: Leveling the Playing Field,” electives has been added to our which recognizes women and teenage Middle School curriculum, including girls who are making an impact on

letter from the Robotics, Ethics, Asian Studies, and athletics throughout our region. MathCounts. Artistically, we remain vital and Faculty members continue to strong. Last June, Winchester Thurston t is always my joy at the start develop off-campus educational oppor- was awarded “Best Musical” for the sixth of each school year to relay the tunities that enhance the classroom year in a row at the region-wide Gene history of Winchester Thurston and laboratory experience through Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School to our new faculty, to City as Our Campus. Students have School Musicals. This fall, Dan Roth ’07 help them understand how their documented hate crimes in areas where and Rachel Dougherty ’10 were honored workI in the classroom connects to the racially motivated shootings occurred; in the third annual C.A.U.S.E. Challenge traditions and essence of the institution cut their own CDs in the state-of-the- High School Film Festival for their docu- and the vision of its founders. art recording studios at Manchester mentary films on the theme “Mutual Of course, I highlight the innova- Craftsmen’s Guild; and interacted with Impact: The Environment and You.” tive thinking and tenacity of Miss scientists at PPG Industries, Chevron, The growth of our enrollment is a Thurston and Miss Mitchell. I talk Rangos Research Center, and UPMC’s testament to our forward direction. We about the merger of their two schools Eye and Ear Clinic. This year, our are seeing high levels of retention among in 1935 and the reconstitution of the focus widens beyond our immediate current WT families, and increased school as a non-profit under a Board community to the larger world, as numbers of new families entering the in 1952. Finally, I describe how our six tenth-graders travel to Muscat, school. There is no doubt that our current campuses came to be, and the Oman to participate in the National expanded and improved facilities have transition to coeducation. I love to hear Association of Independent Schools’ contributed to our evolution. However, at the responses of our new faculty as they 20/20 Global Challenge, focused on the core of our 120-year success are our most often identify with the durability peace and confl ict resolution. people: the faculty and administrators of the school, its heroes, and its evolu- Our Upper School program was who devote their intellect, their energy, tion. For, like all schools that have stood r e c o g n i z e d f o r i t s b r e a d t h , d e p t h , and their time to our Mission. Our Board the test of time, Winchester Thurston and rigor in May, when we were one of Trustees, fueled by its belief in our has evolved and continues to do so. of only three schools nationwide to Mission and our future, models commit- Over the last two years our evolu- receive a Malone Family Foundation ment, engagement, and generosity that tion has manifested itself in many ways. grant to fund fi nancial aid for gifted and inspire me each day in my work. You’ll read about some of these expres- talented students. Today WT boasts exceptional sions in this issue of Thistletalk. Athletically, we’ve seen a rise in academic programs and standards, Academically, we have maintained competitiveness. Last year, the Upper an athletics program with rising our commitment to creating a chal- School Boys and Girls Basketball and achievements, and a highly celebrated lenging learning environment for each Boys Lacrosse teams all competed for arts program. In independent school student, through the introduction of championships—and the latter two vernacular, this is referred to as a “triple new programs and the expansion of teams were victorious! Remarkably, 130 threat” school! Our history, and our existing offerings. Upper School students and 63 Middle community’s commitment to continuous In the Lower and Middle Schools, School students are participating in fall evolution grounded in a tradition of high we are serving the unique needs of sports this year. We are proud that two standards and achievement, inspires us high ability learners, and enriching the alumnae, Sonya Narla ’07 and Leslie to keep moving forward. learning environment for all students, J. Bonci ’74, were recently honored by

2 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 Henry Posner III Winchester Thurston School BOARD OF Proudly Serving: New Board President TRUSTEES 2007-2008

Henry Posner III was elected to serve as Board President for a two-year term, beginning Henry Posner III in July 2007. The father of Hannah ’06 (now a sophomore at Kenyon College), Ida ’08, and Gus, President who spent his K-5 years at WT, Posner is married to Anne Molloy who currently serves as both Librarian and President of Rodef Shalom Congregation. They chose WT for their children, Ralph L. Bangs Posner says, “because of its urban location (we live in Oakland) and its culture of respect for Vice President each child’s individuality. Our three kids are very different from one another. And yet, for each Simin Yazdgerdi Curtis of them, WT was the best choice.” Another reason was his long-standing admiration for the Vice President WT Class of 1974, a number of whom he maintains contact with. “WT graduated some of the most accomplished, interesting people I’ve known,” says Posner Vincent O. Johnson Posner was a leader in ensuring the success of WT’s recent capital campaign, which was Vice President completed on time and on budget. In addition to business responsibilities which include Ellen Perlow Kessler serving as Chairman of Railroad Development Corporation, Iowa Interstate Railroad, and Vice President Ferrovias Guatemala, Posner put a great deal of time, energy and focus into his nine years as a WT trustee. His involvement, Douglas A. Campbell which has ranged from Enrollment Treasurer

and Marketing to the Committee on Russell J. Boehner Trustees, culminated in the fall of Secretary 2005 when he assumed leadership of the capital campaign’s Development Gary J. Niels Committee. “Having spent my life in Head of School the rail industry, serving WT has been Ronald J. Bartlett a completely different type of experi- Michael Bernstein ence and a source of great personal Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 pride. I am most proud of the capital Kathleen Buechel campaign because it demonstrated Annie Hanna Cestra WT’s ability to accomplish a major goal through teamwork, involving every one of our John B. Christie-Searles constituencies--students, alums, parents, faculty, administration and trustees. It also involved Dan Cohen foundations: this is especially signifi cant because it represents a validation of WT in the face Roy G. Dorrance of intense competition for funding. ” Robert I. Glimcher Posner graduated from Shady Side Academy in 1973 and entered railway service with Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56* Conrail in 1977 upon graduation from Princeton with a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Diane Holder He also holds an M.B.A. in fi nance from the Wharton School; is a member of the Advisory Elizabeth S. Hurtt ‘74 Council of Princeton University’s Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS); is Ian James a member of the Association of American Railroads’ Rail Security Working Group; and has Deepak Kotwal Steve Loevner lectured and published extensively on railway matters, with a particular emphasis on devel- A. D. Lupariello oping countries. In conjunction with his family, he is active in welfare projects for the Jewish Warner N. Macklin III community in the former Soviet Union. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Russian. Carole Oswald Markus ’57* Posner sees this as a time of both opportunities and challenges for WT. “We have a strong, Linnea Pearson McQuiston ‘69 dedicated board that is focused on a number of initiatives. The completion of the Strategic Plan Douglas H. Ostrow will provide WT with objectives for the next 3 to 5 years. Board committees are also working Anita Prizio ‘81 on Diversity, Enrollment, Development, Finance, and Facilities initiatives, while at the same Stephen G. Robinson time supporting Gary Niels and his team as they take a comprehensive look at the school’s Victor A. Roque curriculum and programs. I am proud to serve this unique institution; we have a rich history, Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ‘60 have made great strides, and stand as an important alternative in an increasingly competitive Nancy T. Scott educational landscape.” Stephen B. Thomas Jane Arensberg Thompson ‘57*

*Emeritus Trustee

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HONORING YESTERDAY, INSPIRING TOMORROW The evolution of WT in academics, arts, and athletics

If Alice Maud Thurston walked through the WT campus today, what would surprise her most? Boys? Computers? The color purple? Maybe. But in all likelihood, Miss Thurston would be most amazed at how strongly the initial tenets that created The Thurston School in 1887, and then the combined Winchester Thurston School in 1935, are still not only alive and well, but flourishing in a completely different era. Consider, too, when Mary A. Graham Mitchell, founder of the Winchester School in 1902, coined the motto, “Think also of the comfort and the rights of others.” Could she have envisioned a day that these beloved words would be uttered throughout the halls of a stunning new Upper School facility? Or inspire thousands of hours of service to our community? Or even more importantly, how this fundamental belief has guided generations of eager learners? In all facets of our community, we can hear the footsteps of the teachers, students and administrators who paved the way. And today’s WT students proudly carry that tradition of excellence forward in academics, athletics, and the arts.

4 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 WT’s has long had a reputation for rigorous academics. But in 2007, our renown reached new heights when the Malone Family Foundation awarded WT a prestigious $2 million endowment grant to fund financial aid for gifted and talented students.

While students toured the Carnegie Institute in the early 1970s, a movement was afoot to merge and relocate independent schools in the area. WT, however, had compelling reasons to stay independent and within the city. The recommendation, based on input from trustees, parents, When the alumnae, and administration Soviets launched stated, “it seems imperative Sputnik in 1957, that we remain in our urban schools across the location where we have country, including boundless opportunities for WT, responded expanded educational with expanded possibilities in the universities math and science and cultural centers of the city.” programs. Today, This unique aspect of WT’s our curriculum culture still informs today’s continues to grow, growing City as Our Campus with more Advanced initiative. (See story on page 12.) Placement courses than schools twice our size and an internship program that pairs students with world- class institutions, including the Hillman Cancer Center and the NASA Mars Rover Writing has Landing project. long been at the heart of WT’s strong academic Today's educational landscape has program. In been transformed by technology. fact, a 1904 news WT faculty and students tap into article highlighted a wireless world of learning, from the school’s digital music composition and exceptional teaching robotics to blogging and Internet of writing. That research libraries. legacy continues, and each year student work is published both inside and outside the school, from a fifth-grader’s poetry to a junior's thesis in a history journal. (See story on page 25.)

A Tradition of Excellence ACADEMICS More than 100 years ago, The Thurston School and The Winchester School were founded for very similar reasons: Preparation for college and preparation for a life of self-motivated learning and independent action. Sound familiar? In the decades since, WT students have attended America’s most prestigious colleges and universities and established themselves as leaders in the arts and sciences, business, education, and public service. It’s a tradition that proudly continues.

www.winchesterthurston.org 5 While the sport of field hockey dates back to well before the ancient Olympic Games, it wasn’t until the late 1880s that it earned the dubious title as “the only team sport considered proper for women.” In the twenty-first century, WT’s teams remain competitive throughout the region, and players are happy the uniform no longer requires bloomers.

The WT athletics program expanded in 1991 with the admission When WT’s Girls Varsity of boys, but times were Basketball team won League tough nonetheless. With a Champion honors last season, it spirit of perseverance and a was a tribute to a long tradition lot of hard work, recent WT of basketball at the school. teams have grown strong and Many alumnae/i recall the fierce found winning ways, including rivalry between The Ellis School last season’s championship Boys and WT—the enthusiastic Lacrosse squad. (See story on crowds that jammed the page 26.) gymnasium and the girls who made themselves sick yelling. Today's fans are just as excited. Go Bears!

Competing Traditions ATHLETICS Ahead of her time, Alice Thurston was a fi rm believer in the physical aspects of education. Her goal was to have extensive outdoor facilities for recreation, physical education and team sports, where “competitive spirit and bodies would develop.” Today’s athletics program lives up to that dream, with opportunities for students that include fencing, crew, golf, and tennis, in addition to fi eld hockey, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and cross country.

6 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 From an early age, WT students discover the transformative power of choral performance. During World War II, Lower School students were eager to perform their War Stamp song, “The Way We Win.” With a repertoire more likely to include folk, jazz, multicultural, classical, sacred, and pop selections, today’s choruses still light up a room with their sound.

Instrumental music has always echoed through WT’s hallways, although students’ favorite instrument choices have changed with the times. Today you’ ll find an Upper School Orchestra whose ranks have swelled and whose quality is unrivaled; a jazz band and a guitar ensemble that make guest appearances in local venues; and a music technology class that challenges students to compose, notate, analyze, and improvise music using state-of- the-art software programs.

Pathways for artistic expression continue to multiply with access to advanced forms of tools and technology. Traditional Garnering applause from drawing and painting classes increasingly broader audiences, have always been popular, but WT's musical theater keeps students can now choose to study shining. Building on an metalsmithing, copper enameling, impressive tradition, WT's photography, digital art, film, Urinetown won "Best Musical" video, and even glassblowing. in its budget category at the 17th Annual Gene Kelly Awards this year, an award we've proudly accepted for six years in a row. (See story on page 27.)

Continually Outperforming ARTS Over the years, beloved teachers such as Zelda Wilmurt and Ann Peterson have inspired many students to pursue careers in the performing and visual arts. WT alums can often be found at the top of their fi elds as museum curators, Broadway producers, nationally known photographers, Shakespearean actors, professional dancers, and highly regarded arts educators at the early childhood through graduate levels. Today, teachers such as Sally Allan and Barbara Holmes, with more than 60 years of combined service to WT, continue to motivate exceptional work in the arts.

www.winchesterthurston.org 7 Ten Seniors Inducted into Cum Laude Society Ten members of the Class of 2007 were inducted into the Cum Laude Society, an organization dedicated to recognizing academic achievement in secondary schools. Founded in 1906, Cum Laude was modeled after Phi Beta Kappa, and has grown to 350 chapters, most in independent schools. The ten outstanding members of the class of 2007 selected for induction were:

Julia Biwojno Colleen McDonough Michael D’Emilio Sonya Narla Margaret Kross Charlotte Stone Lindsay Machen Logan Uretsky Siobhàn Mahorter Ellen Valentine

Dr. David Seward, Director of College Counseling, said, “Induction into the Cum Laude Society is a very selective award limited to the top 20% of a given class. At the end of the year we recognize many other student achievements, such as athletic excellence, environmental stewardship, or community service. The Cum Laude award is a purely academic honor.” The students selected a faculty member to speak at their induction, Jill Kazmierczak, Chair of the English Department, who delivered an eloquent tribute to the Upper School students. “All of our students bring their own gifts and talents to the life of our school and our community of scholars. But when we look at these ten scholars we are recognizing their special dedication to academic excellence. Their achievements are something that we can all aspire to,” said Kazmierczak.

8 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 CLASS OF 2007 learned, from Winchester and from the ideals set forth, COMMENCEMENT 2007 that true equality and excellence exists in the recognition of differences.” “... we are the luckiest.” Katy summarized, “ ... Decades from now…maybe we will see our infl uences more clearly: our favorite writers, poets, philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. On Sunday afternoon, June 3, 2007, the 47 members And I think we will see how Winchester has shaped of the Class of 2007 stood before parents, faculty, trustees, our character, and it will be comforting to know that, no friends, and Upper School underclassmen as graduates of matter what, we were part of a great institution. The 47 Winchester Thurston School. Framed by a white tent of us will always be a unique group—a family of sorts.” under a hazy summer sky, the students processed forth Senior Class Vice President Siobhàn Mahorter intro- to receive their diplomas amid hundreds of traditional duced the graduation speaker, Nanci Maguire. Maguire, yellow roses. Upper School mathematics teacher and 2006 recipient Senior Class President Katie Conway welcomed of the Jane L. Scarborough Award, won the approval guests, and class speakers Louis Finley, Lindsay Machen, of both students and adults alike with an inspired and Michael D’Emilio, and Katy Gespass evoked smiles, tears, entertaining speech laced with her unique brand of self- and occasional laughter as they refl ected on their unique deprecating humor. WT experiences. Maintaining the upbeat tempo, Head of School Gary “We are mathematicians and historians ... We are J. Niels expressed his profound pride in the graduating athletes and musicians, performers and artists, and class before him, citing in particular the many glorious above all, we are ... the luckiest. Today celebrates the achievements of the past year: “Our school has achieved a success of individuals who have come together as one,” new level of greatness in academics, arts, and athletics…. said Lindsay. Noting that while Winchester Thurston You have contributed to this success in many ways, and ideals had unified the members of the class, “... I have I am humbled by your exceptional efforts.”

www.winchesterthurston.org 9 Students Honored on Class Day 2007 Mimi Burke Book Prize Alexandra Dixon-Ernst Students Honored with Winchester Thurston Awards 2007 Williams College Student Diversity Virginia Ann Sheppard National School Choral Award Alumni Book Prize Leadership Recognition History Prize Connor Mrozowski Peter Curtis Louis Finley Michael D’Emilio Senior English Award Ellen Valentine Margaret Kross Award for Independent Thinking Michael D’Emilio Nef Umeh The Pursuit of Science Alec Silberblatt Connor Mrozowski Thistledown Recognition Logan Uretsky Siobhàn Mahorter Zelda Wilmurt Hillary Ramsey Ashley Jones Westinghouse Science Honors Drama Prize Visual Arts Achievement Award Institute Award Daniel Roth Alec Silberblatt Female Athlete Ben Charley of the Year Award Hillary Ramsey Excellence in Spanish Award Wadhwa Community Sonya Narla Service Award Sophia Ward-Vetrano Barbara Johnson Eliza Hens-Greco Male Athlete Dance Award Excellence in Latin Award of the Year Award Lindsay Machen Katherine Vidt Phillip McGuire Drama Award National Latin Exam Cassie Richards Athlete Robert Allan Michael D’Emilio of the Year Award Connor Mrozowski Connor Mrozowski A.J. Smith Ashwin Chandra Tom Charley Technical Theater Award Andrew Persky Julia Fields Haley Surti Award Taylor Culbertson Phil McGuire Performing Arts Service Award Katherine Vidt Sonya Narla John Kanter Andrew Snyderman AJ Smith Jane Scarborough Arts Award Alaina Ferry Lauren Burroughs Dylan Travers Simon Cladders Colleen McDonough Michael D’Emilio Rachel Dougherty Miranda Santucci Patricia Schuerger Louis Armstrong Jazz Award Hazel Boehner Mathematics Award Sam Boehner Colleen McDonough Sam Loevner Excellence in French Award Scarlett Austin Mathematics League Award National Guitar Ensemble Award Bennett Washburn Hazel Boehner Genevieve Yagodkin Emily Pantalone Foreign Language Award National School Orchestra Award Emily Pantalone Yin Yin Ou Katie Conway

College Choices for the Class of 2007 Alyse Alexander Spelman College Lindsay Machen Bucknell University Michael Babatunde Wake Forest University Siobhàn Mahorter Oberlin College Michael Barnett The George Washington University Richard Markel Case Western Reserve University Katharine Bartlett Saint Louis University Colleen McDonough Pennsylvania State University, Matthew Belenky Carnegie Mellon University University Park Julia Biwojno Thomas Aquinas College Philip McGuire Washington and Jefferson College Peter Buongiorno Wheaton College Emily Mycoff Ursinus College Lauren Burroughs Northeastern University Sonya Narla Case Western Reserve University Owen Campbell Oberlin College David Peitzman Tulane University Olivia Carb Hobart and William Smith Colleges Tyler Raborn Coastal Carolina University Thomas Charley Trinity College Joseph Rosenbloom Lynn University Katie Conway Allegheny College Daniel Roth Allegheny College G. Michael D’Emilio Oberlin College Lydia Schroeder Hobart and William Smith Colleges Natasha Davis University of Chicago Jonathan Seppi Carnegie Mellon University Moira Egler Loyola University Chicago Alfred Smith Trinity College Louis Finley Drexel University Charlotte Stone Brown University Katherine Gespass Smith College Mychael Thompson Lynn University Keenan Hallas Hiram College Quinton Thorne Washington and Jefferson College Mohammed Ibrahim Wake Forest University Dylan Travers The College of Wooster Tristan Jackson Rollins College Logan Uretsky Brandeis University Kyung Moon Jin Lynn University Ellen Valentine Johns Hopkins University John Kanter University of Pittsburgh Jordan Valinsky Ohio University Margaret Kross University of Pennsylvania Amanda Zytnick Boston University Pete Lambrou University of Delaware 10 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 A focus of the twelfth-grade academic year, Senior Seminar is an Upper School curriculum initiative developed by Director of Upper School and E. E. Ford/NAIS Fellow, Class of 2007 Mr. Mick Gee. Senior Seminar requires students to immerse themselves in the college Explores Diverse selection process during the fi rst trimester and create a dynamic Senior Project in the fi nal two trimesters, often in cooperation with a mentor from outside the school. Topics in A culmination of the Senior Project is a formal presentation by each class member Senior Project to student peers and faculty on a chosen topic. The slate of projects is as diverse and interesting as the individual passions of the class itself! What follows is a list of the Presentations fascinating Senior Project titles:

Effects of Soundtrack on an Audience's Experience of a Film Dylan Travers The Acquisition of Language Lindsay Machen African American Spirituals Alyse Alexander Amusing Ourselves to Death Julia Biwojno The Psyche of the Rescuer John Kanter The Demise of Enron Lauren Burroughs Origin of the AIDS Virus Amanda Zytnick The History of the Hill District Moira Egler Organ Transplants in Children Mychael Thompson Boris Pasternak Siobhàn Mahorter Heart Transplants Katie Conway Atrioventricular Valve Prosthesis, Artifi cial Heart Replacement and Heart Transplantation Peter Lambrou American School Systems Lydia Schroeder The Oldest Profession Olivia Carb The Rape of Nanjing David Peitzman Poetry of Seamus Heaney Sonya Narla Screenplays: The Beginning of a Movie Keenan Hallas The Economics of Marketing: The Pet Industry Logan Uretsky Housecalls for the Homeless Phil McGuire The Unamerican Roots of American Art Margaret Kross A Study of Rowing A.J. Smith Women of French New Wave Cinema Charlotte Stone It's Easy Being Green Colleen McDonough Pittsburgh's 250th Anniversary Jordan Valinsky The Collapse of the Hill District Louis Finley An American Supernatural Heritage Natasha Davis Poverty Across Seas Quinton Thorne Eye on Africa: Current Events and Issues Arif Ibrahim A Sense of Self: Middle School Diversity Programs Connor Mrozowski Investment Strategies Joe Rosenbloom Life After Death: Human Cryogenics Kate Bartlett Reggae Music and Rastafarian Religion Kyung Moon Jin The Water Quality of Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Tyler Raborn Risk-Taking in Poker and Business Matthew Belenky Military Coups Affecting Society Michael Babatunde Agrigulture and Hunger in the Third World Ellen Valentine U.S. Government Intervention in Latin America during the Cold War Michael D'Emilio Record Collectibility Michael Barnett Modern Public Housing Projects and Urban Life Owen Campbell Illegal Immigration Peter Buongiorno Chasing the Water Molecule: Waterways, Pollution, Wetlands, and Modern Sustainability Dan Roth Andrea Yates, Culpability, and Psychological Diagnosis Emily Mycoff The Hetch Hetchy Dam Jonathan Seppi Boat! Tom Charley Transportation and Industrial Growth in Western PA Tristan Jackson Media Piracy: The Theft of Digital Intellectual Property Richard Markel

www.winchesterthurston.org 11 Photojournalist Lynn Johnson ’71 shares her vision with students. Johnson’s exhibit was featured in WT’s new art gallery.

HATE CRIMES, MONUMENTAL UNDERSTANDING, EMPTY BOWLS, AND ALL THAT JAZZ City as Our Campus Expands and Enriches in Extraordinary Ways

Beyond the classroom walls, WT students are learning in ways they never thought possible. Eleventh-grade students gain a new understanding of history by studying memorials. Middle Schoolers learn empathy following a recent trail of hate crimes. And music students jam with jazz greats. It’s all part of the expanding, popular City as Our Campus educational initiative. Initially funded by a generous grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation in 2005, the initiative continues to grow, offering students unprecedented access to the cultural, educational, and historic resources of Pittsburgh.

RESPECTING TOLERANCE BEGINS “These students come from different fast food restaurant’s breakfast crowd WITH UNDERSTANDING HATE demographic backgrounds and have and included a tour through Wilkinsburg, very different perspectives. Some felt this retracing the steps of Ronald Taylor, subject was something they didn’t really whose hate-filled shooting spree still On a brilliant Technicolor day last need to deal with. I wanted to get them evoked passion and, not surprisingly, spring, a school bus pulled into the to be open and talk about it.” more questions than answers. McDonald’s parking lot on Penn Avenue Throughout the course of the day, “Why is race so important?” a WT in Wilkinsburg. As students climbed off the 17 eighth-graders certainly did talk student wondered aloud, “And why do the bus, they had no idea that this site, about it. Their excursion began with the people care so much?” where patrons were gunned down seven years earlier, would be the beginning of a day-long journey into understanding the power of hatred. And ultimately, discovering how they can positively affect it in their community. The non-traditional field trip was part of a City as Our Campus project created by WT art teacher Mary Martin ’88 and renowned photojournalist Lynn Johnson ’71 to help WT students gain an appreciation for differences and develop a respect for tolerance. “I tried to hit home the need to be sensitive to others,” Martin explained. Trying to understand hate on the scene of a crime spree.

12 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 as our Campus The bus then wound its way to an upscale neighborhood in Mt. Lebanon, dubbed “Postcards to the Congo.” incorporated digital pictures of them- where a different sort of hate crime took Martin explains, “‘From Intolerance to selves in their work.” place just months after the fi rst. On these Understanding’ provided a context in Johnson was to carry the postcards to tree-lined streets, Richard Baumhammers which Pittsburgh’s residents, educators, the Congo later in the spring, a trip that executed a racially motivated rampage and children could learn and respond to was delayed and later cancelled altogether that targeted his next-door neighbor, two our society’s continuing aspirations for due to political unrest in the country. She synagogues, an Indian grocery store, a tolerance. Our ‘Postcards to the Congo’ would have visited the school and talked Chinese restaurant, and a karate studio. project originated because of Lynn’s to the children. The unfortunate turn of It became painfully clear to these friendship with a researcher in the Congo events was nevertheless another real and students that day that hate is prevalent. who was looking for an American school poignant lesson on intolerance. “And it’s not only the big instances to exchange letters with.” “The point of the project was to of hate we see,” one eighth-grader remarked, “it’s the little ones that are Middle Schoolers created “Empty Bowls” to raise funds and awareness about hunger. around us every day.” This is why Johnson is so passionate about this project. Hate, she emphasized, “touches virtually every community.” And this is why the award-winning photojournalist has made it her personal mission to educate young people about effecting change. Throughout her career on assign- ment with National Geographic, Johnson encountered bias-driven crimes around the world. This inspired a book and eventually the large-scale exhibition, “From Intolerance to Understanding,” which has appeared in museums and Instead of just letters, Martin expose students to people from a different galleries throughout the city since 2006. incorporated art into the project. The culture,” says Martin. “The theme was one It was after Martin took a group of seventh-grade students were assigned of Finding Common Ground—a theme of eighth graders to experience the instal- to answer five, open-ended sentences: respecting people’s differences.” lation that she began collaborating with “My name is…; I am…; I want…; I need…; This theme was tied to yet Johnson and this program was born. and I believe…” Upper School students another Middle School project called translated these sentences into French, “ E m p t y B o w l s ” i n w h i c h m o r e t h a n 3 0 an offi cial language of the Congo, and the students and their parents participated. REACHING OUT WITH seventh-graders then wrote their French The basic idea for “Empty Bowls,” a WORDS AND ART sentences on extra-large postcards and local hunger-relief project begun in 1990, decorated the face of the cards. is simple. Participants create ceramic In January 2007 Martin began working “I challenged them to come up bowls, then, at a dinner open to all, with seventh-grade students on another with a visual narrative that went with serve a simple meal of soup and bread. aspect of the year-long Middle School their sentences,” says Martin. “Many did Guests choose a bowl to use that day collaboration with Johnson. This time, collage work, while others worked with and to keep as a reminder that there the seventh-graders were linked with letters and layers of color to represent are always empty bowls in the world. students in the Democratic Republic their statements or themselves. Some In exchange for a meal and the bowl, of Congo, Africa, through an effort

www.winchesterthurston.org 13 C Bill Frisell, Earl Klugh, and Russell MaloneSOU visit WT before the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild “Night C of Guitars” concert M in May 2007. USC

the guest gives a suggested minimum in studio recording sessions; live Maione, adding that the feedback has donation of ten dollars, which goes to recording experiences with MCG Jazz been terrific. “A parent told me that his a hunger-fighting organization, either visiting artists; and performances and daughter went home afterward all fired locally, nationally, or internationally. p r e - c o n c e r t d i s c u s s i o n s w i t h w o r l d - up, and immediately started composing.” “We started off with pre-made class musicians.” Reflecting on the relationship as a pots and painted them with different MCG’s offerings have added a new “really wonderful ride,” Maione recalled techniques like solid colors with depth and dimension to Winchester an Upper School workshop on May 4, scratched-in designs or colored glazes,” Thurston’s Performing Arts Program— when internationally acclaimed, Grammy said Lisa Fierstein ’12, who prepared the a n e x p e r i e n c e t h a t N i e l s d e s c r i b e d Award-winning guitarist and composer bowls with Martin and later attended as invaluable. Earl Klugh, along with fellow musicians the dinner event with her father and her In January 2007, students were sister, Sara ’17. treated to a Jazz Legacy Big Band “I liked how unique each bowl was,” concert at the school’s Falk Auditorium. commented Lisa. “It reminds me how In February 2007, Upper School student different people are from one another, ensembles cut their own CDs at MCG’s and that’s good.” state-of-the-art recording facility. Later that month, more than 40 Upper School STUDENTS JAZZED ABOUT students participated as studio audience CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP members at a live recording of the Bob Mintzer Big Band. Begun in fall 2006, the ongoing partner- Guitarist John Maione, Winchester ship between Winchester Thurston and Thurston’s music teacher and ensemble Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (MCG) director, said the opportunities for Jazz continues to blossom. students to interact with jazz masters According to Gary J. Niels, Head of within their own classroom—such as the School, the partnership “is an exemplary visit from renowned artist and conductor model of our City as Our Campus initia- John Clayton in March 2007—have been tive. It has provided myriad exciting particularly inspiring. opportunities for our students to learn “The students really responded about jazz at the feet of the masters: during John Clayton’s workshop,” said

14 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 Bob Mintzer and band. SC The Field of Stars at the National WorldSOU War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. C M US

Bill Frisell and Russell Malone, shared “We’re thinking about commemora- surrounding the Flight 93 memorial in their experiences in the world of jazz, tion and memorial of public losses, in Somerset, where the designer originally played a number of compositions, and particular the memorials for World had suggested trees planted in a cres- answered students’ questions in an up- War II and the Vietnam War,” Naragon cent-shape that some people thought close-and-personal manner. explains. “The idea is to get the students represented Islam. After debate, the Maione can’t help thinking about to realize that history is happening designer revised the plans to have the the students’ energy as a result of these all around them—that it is alive and trees fully encircle the site.” encounters. “The students saw the negotiated, not stuck in dusty books. To get firsthand insight, students making of music in a way they’d never For example, we discuss the controversy visited and photographed public thought about before,” he said. “One war monuments in Pittsburgh—for experience like that for these young example, the Vietnam War Memorial people can change their lives forever.” on the North Side—and then traveled to Washington, D.C. to view the monu- ments there. “We’re looking at what the MONUMENTAL PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING physical monument is conveying,” says HISTORY THROUGH THE Naragon. “For example, the World War II COMMEMORATION OF LOSS Memorial in Washington commemorates an entire generation of people, whereas Like the sweeping curvilinear the Vietnam Memorial says something wall of the National World War II quite different. By visiting the Holocaust Memorial's Field of Stars, history Museum, we experience another way of surrounds us. The past stands before expressing loss and commemoration.” us, alive in the present. Naragon challenged his students Passionate about bringing this to think about what types of history we concept to life both in the classroom and memorialize and commemorate. “The beyond, Dr. Michael Naragon charged his goal was for the students to go into the eleventh-grade American history class to project with eyes wide open and figure examine war monuments and memorials things out on their own. I wanted to give to gain not only a better understanding them time to see, and try not to shape of historical events, but a new apprecia- their answers too much.” tion of how history is written.

www.winchesterthurston.org 15 feature story Generous Spirit Inspires a Community Friends Remember Emily E. Dorrance ’93 with Commencement Award

hen she passed away at age 23 on October 5, 1998, Emily Elizabeth W Dorrance ’93 was poised to make her mark on the world as an educator who had a kind and generous spirit. She also had a deep faith, and was imbued with a strong sense of community and global awareness. Emily is remembered with admiration by WT faculty members, administrators, trustees, and alumnae/i, as a vibrant leader who was the force behind the establishment of the WT crew team, who had a passion for learning, and who possessed a rare rapport with children. Emily fully embraced the Winchester Thurston credo, “Think also of the comfort and the rights of others.” In her day to day life, she demonstrated compassion, inner strength, and focus. While in college, she lived with a group of fellow volunteers in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, running a day camp—an experience that solidified her desire to teach in urban schools. After graduating from Bates College in 1996, and before enrolling in graduate studies at Harvard’s School of Education, Emily visited a village in Malawi, Africa, where her family had established a health center for the impoverished citizens; the experience furthered her desire to serve. Emily was a Habitat for Humanity and Breachmenders volunteer, a Christian Children’s Fund sponsor, and an active member of Shadyside Presbyterian Church. In 2006, friends of the Dorrance family came forward at the request of Nancy Scott, retired WT history teacher and now a trustee, to make donations to Winchester Thurston’s capital campaign in memory of Emily and in honor of her family—parents Roy and Susie Dorrance and sisters Abby (Class of 2000) and Molly (Class of 2001).

16 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 “WT helped form Emily’s understanding that a successful life involves being an active part of the community and giving to others,” recalls Mrs. Dorrance. So when the Dorrances Winchester Thurston School is grateful to the learned of their friends’ generosity, they were families and individuals below whose generosity eager to ensure that these donations would made possible the establishment of the Emily E. continue to promote the “think also” ethos Dorrance Award. The first award will be given at that Emily embraced. Commencement 2008. Working with Head of School Gary Niels, the Dorrances decided to use the funds to Anonymous endow the Emily E. Dorrance Award, which Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Beckwith III will be presented each year at Commencement Mr. Thomas Bedger and Mr. Jeffrey Pierce to a graduating senior whose conduct, interac- Mrs. Eileen Mauclair D'Appolonia ’61 tion, and leadership best demonstrate the school credo – community service, empathy, Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation consideration of others, kindness, and aware- Matthew Hillman Fisher Foundation ness. The recipient will be selected by the Dr. Howard Foster Upper School faculty. Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot The award will include a monetary prize, Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty III half of which the recipient will be invited to donate to a charity of his or her choice. Mr. & Mrs. Torrence Hunt, Jr. The first Emily E. Dorrance Award will be Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jamison, Jr. presented at the 2008 Commencement in June. Dr. & Mrs. Jon C. Lloyd A plaque will be installed at the school, bearing Mr. & Mrs. Mihai Marcu the name of each recipient. The establishment Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. McChesney of this award will be announced officially at Mr. & Mrs. L. Colvin McCrady the dedication of Dorrance Library, which has been named by the Dorrance family in Mr. & Mrs. Martin McGuinn memory of Emily. Mr. Gary J. Niels “Emily’s life, so tragically shortened, was a Mr. & Mrs. Bill Pietragallo busy and purposeful one of concern and care Dr. & Mrs. Ian G. Rawson for others,” says Niels. “Her life stands as a Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ’60 model to those WT students who will continue to come after her. The Emily Dorrance Award Mrs. Margaret Scaife is a very special way to remember Emily and Mrs. Nancy Scott to ensure that her purpose lives on. We join Phyllis Keister Semple ’38 the Dorrances in being most grateful to the Cathleen McSorley Stanton Æ61 and friends of their family who have made this Thomas Stanton award possible.” Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Mr. & Mrs. James M. Walton Mr. Francis X. Wymard

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In my eight years as Director of Alumnae/i Relations, no single teacher’s name is mentioned more often, nor with greater appreciation and respect, than that of Ann Peterson. Ann taught art history and studio art at WT for 20 years, beginning in 1965. Last June, Gaylen Westfall, Sally Allan, and I traveled to Chapel Hill, NC, to visit with Ann, now living with her former student and great friend Mary Pardo ’67, a professor of art history at the University of North Carolina. Before our trip, I asked alumnae/i for their memories and refl ections on Ann. Many of those tributes are excerpted here. To read all of the submissions, visit www.winchesterthurston.org.

t 90 years old, Ann is largely confi ned to a wheelchair, with failing eyesight A and some loss of short-term and occasional long-term memory. She is still a natural, dark brunette and wears large glasses that magnify her eyes, especially when she peers up from a slouched perch in her wheelchair to ask, “Did you really come all the way from Pittsburgh just to see me?” Her fi ery personality, mischievous sense of humor, and wide-ranging passion were very much in The art evidence throughout our visit as we talked about Ann’s WT years. of teaching What follows are Ann’s and Mary’s refl ections on a variety of subjects. ON TEACHING ART AND HER INNOVATIVE APPROACHES

and the “Art is totally teachable. I don’t believe in talent. Anyone can do art.” Ann taught after school art classes that combined Kindergarteners teaching of art with high school students. “I believed in putting babies with grownups because that’s how they learn! After you’re grown up you get ideas that WT’s beloved Ann Peterson you think are true and they are not. The children saw things as they were. leaves a lasting impression Kindergarteners can teach twelfth-graders because they are not afraid of getting it wrong.” by Alison Wolfson “I had students draw with toothpicks because a toothpick is not a flexible tool so it forces you to pay attention. Your mark must be more purposeful. Abstract assignments come later.” Ann’s dedication was legendary. She never slept, but rather stayed up all night preparing for classes and just cat-napped. She was in such demand as a teacher that she did not take her free periods. She taught every period — and occasionally was caught napping by students who very respectfully waited until she woke up. She developed an extraordinary slide library that rivaled any college level art history collection.

18 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 ON TEDDY BEARS AND CATS alum refl ection Rebecca Wilkins ’86 Many alums remembered Ann’s enthusiastic fondness for teddy bears. “I always included teddy bears in the setups Sometimes I wonder if Ann Peterson saved my life. In her to be drawn because they behaved better than people, they class, I found my place in high school. Through her teaching, I stand up straight, and they have great shapes,” she recalled. discovered a subject I was passionate about. “When I retired, they made me a teddy bear picnic.” Without Mrs. Peterson’s high expectations, without Ann loves animals, espe- her caring and encourage- cially cats. Throughout our ment, I’m not sure conversation her two cats where I would be today. drifted on and off her lap I probably would have and the adjacent furniture. continued to flounder, She described her oversized making minimum effort, white cat, Emerson, as a for the rest of high school. ‘Wal-Mart greeter’ for his I probably wouldn’t have friendly personality. When majored in art history and Sally reminded Ann how minored in studio art in she used to hiss at people, college. Who knows what Ann gladly demonstrated career I would have chosen, several powerful hisses and or where I would be living snarls and laughed at the today; my life would likely effect her hissing had on have taken a completely her students. different trajectory. Mrs. Peterson is still my ON APPRECIATING ART teacher. While we don’t see each other as often as we used Mary Pardo and to, I think about what she Sally Allan remembered (foreground) Ann Peterson; (left to right) Gaylen taught me every time I go to a that Ann never talked Westfall, Alison Wolfson, Mary Pardo ’67, Sally Allan. museum, every time I look at when taking students on a painting, every time I paint with my daughter (yes, I remind fi eld trips to museums. “I did not want to infl uence people. Sofi a to “paint what you see, not what you think you see.”) My philosophy was, ‘Just shut up and look at the art. There must be something there to see. Keep looking.’ And if they alum refl ection still could not tell me what they saw, I’d tell them to look Kathy Curtis Jaehnig ’67 some more.” Mary remembered, “She coaxed great writing from us. If Ann Peterson! Absolutely the fi nest teacher I had at WT! I we’d say, ‘the picture is blue,’ she’d ask, ‘What kind of blue? Is was in the history of art class my senior year along with Mary it all blue?’ She did not give us the answers. She forced us to Pardo, who was Mrs. Peterson’s best student and who became come up with answers.” her dear friend in later years … I would love to turn back the clock to my fi rst paper on the Lascaux Cave Paintings that I ON HER LIFE TODAY wrote in the art library, where Mrs. Peterson often appeared during her free periods in order to help us. She really loved her Confi ned to her wheelchair, Ann likes watching golf on subject and her students. television because she enjoys the soothing commentary of the I still refer to my old textbook. I took my love of art announcers. “I’m disgustingly healthy. I’ve learned that you history with me. I exposed nursery, Kindergarten, and fi rst- can’t die. You can’t make it happen. You have to just wait grade students to paintings and sculptures and architecture and let it happen. It’s been a good life. I learned a lot from my when I taught. I also continue to visit art museums wherever students — much more than they ever learned from me.” I fi nd myself and now work in the fi eld of photography as a Judging from the number of Ann’s former students who restoration artist. Thank you, Ann Peterson, for all that you became art historians, art educators, curators, and artists, and gave us in knowledge, friendship, and memories. We will never those who pursued studies in art history and are enthusiastic forget you! art appreciators, there can be no doubt that Ann’s legacy spreads far and wide.

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alum refl ection I got from Ann Peterson. Just as in analyzing a work of art Heather Gaines ’88 such as a painting where we describe color, brushstroke, composition, etc. we do the same thing in dermatology by When I think of Ms. Peterson, I always remember how she using the palette of colors, the distribution, the shapes, and absolutely loved teddy bears. I don’t think there is one single the confi guration to describe skin lesions and arrive at the individual — student or staff — that could forget that. Teddy correct diagnosis. bears were always a part of the still life no matter what the other content was. I wasn’t sure if it was for the basic shapes alum refl ection teddy bears avail themselves to (for those not so artistically Elizabeth Samet ’86 inclined) or if she just couldn’t get enough of them, but I have more memories of cutting construction paper, painting Mrs. Peterson used to call our backpacks “baby brothers” with oils, water colours, drawing with coal, conte crayon, as in “can everyone get their baby sculpting volcanic rock brother off the table.” I still call and sculpting clay them that. images of teddy bears. At Rhode Island School of In fact, I think I still Design, no one could opt out of have one made from freshman art history so I had sculpting clay from her to take it again even though we class, and I graduated had done the AP. I just want it in 1988. I remember she known that I got one of only fi ve told me it was wonderful perfect scores in that class and and would last forever. everyone fought to have me in She loved it because it had their study group. Believe me it just the right amount of wasn’t because I was a genius. “chubbiness.” I loved her It was totally because Mrs. in art class and adored her Peterson’s class was more in art history class, because thorough and thoughtful than she was very no-nonsense any college survey. (unless it was her nonsense I have such great memo- she wanted to talk about) ries of the bomb shelter, the and she had such a way of teddy bear still lifes and the describing art and how it Matisse line drawing assignments. affected her. She was in fact one of the primary reasons I pursued and received a Master’s degree in art history. alum refl ection Cynnie Pearson Turich ’65 alum refl ection Audrey Geer Masalehdan ’67 Ann Peterson would lug giant books onto an overhead projector and then speak in the most basic and accessible way I can’t say that I have specifi c memories of Ann Peterson. I about what there was to see, which was, in the end, absolutely would call it more of an impression. It wasn’t that SHE was the everything — not only color, light, form, space, dimension, and issue at all —it was that she was quietly showing us how to love perspective, but also history, philosophy, physics, and poetry. I what she loved. To spend quiet time in the art history library was too young to get just how much she was offering us there was such a joy. My deep love of art history was nurtured and in the dark, but the older I get, the more I appreciate it! is a passion to this day. I doubt that she would even remember me specifi cally but yet she made my life so much richer. alum refl ection Meg McKean Taylor ’74 alum refl ection Dana Sachs ’86 Ann Peterson was one of the wonderful teachers at WT for me. I discovered her as my studio art teacher when our I will never forget the infl uence that she’s had over my life classroom was the bomb shelter — no natural light and the far and even in my choice of career. Though I pursued medical corners of the room faded into the gloom. training, I believe that I chose the specialty of dermatology Somehow Mrs. Peterson kept a red geranium alive all year because it reminded me so much of the training in art history for us to draw from. There was the ornate chair with all the

20 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 curly-cues to use as the model for discovering the power of her. Her cats were the meanest, fattest things you’d ever seen. negative space. And Mrs. Peterson herself was often our living She claimed she’d die if someone told her she could never model — twirling in her swoopy tent dress for our ten second see art again. I always believed her and admired her passion. gesture portraits. There is no person more influential in my life than Ann In art history, Mrs. Peterson was patient even though Peterson. She inspired me to be an artist, a risk taker and to see I never could really understand what “plastic” meant in the the world as a ready canvas. Petey set the bar very high for me context of sculpture. She helped us understand the vocabulary and I always try to live up to it. of analyzing art. She helped us write a “perfect” paper by demanding re-write after re-write until it was really great. I can still recall my paper about Matisse’s cut-out of The Snail and how proud I was of it. She accepted me and celebrated me. She pushed me to see the world in new ways. She invited us to her wonderful carriage house in Highland Park. Mrs. Peterson was just the best.

alum reflection Anne Parkin Pierpont ’66

The arts program at WT was always important and I feel that the K-12 emphasis was, and is, really crucial to learning and developing as an educated person. I was able to take an elective in art history as a senior. Mrs. Peterson encouraged each of us to look, to see and to listen. In fact that’s what she wrote in my yearbook in ’66. When I was in college, I had the opportunity to travel in Europe with my sister Helen Mar Parkin, who actually was an art history major. We traveled hundreds of miles, over mountains and up narrow roads to see works of art that I had seen in Mrs. Peterson’s class. The mosaics in Ravenna, the Giotto panels in Padua, and others. I still have my books: Jansen and Gombrich. Ann Peterson helped us to get a glimpse of history. Thank you so much.

alum reflection Jennifer Solow ’82

When I think of Ann (Petey, to those of us who dared to call her something cute), I picture her room in the library filled from floor to ceiling with books. She sat at the back corner of the table, wearing something terribly chic, scrawling one of her entirely illegible notes and hissing at someone to get their “paws” off of something or another. You could say that Petey took me in. I never felt particularly smart or comfortable with myself at that time, but she taught me how to see with my own eyes, unencum- bered by peer pressure and the expectations of others. In her dark little room, with slides flickering on the wall in front of me, I learned that I was extraordinary. Ann went to Laurie Anderson concerts. Her favorite movie Alison Wolfson is WT's Director of Alumnae/I Relations. To was Pennies From Heaven. Her car was a beat-up stick shift read more about the fond remembrances of Ann Peterson, visit not much bigger than she was (she drove the rumbling thing www.WinchesterThurston.org. To contact Alison, email wolfsona@ with grand aplomb!). Her glasses were the largest thing about winchesterthurston.org.

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profi Summer Experiences Students Expand Their Horizons, Travel, and Engage in Unique Experiences student ach summer, many WT students Students hiked the hills south of EMERGING POET use their vacations as a chance to the school’s Kelly Campus, located E expand their horizons, to travel, within the boundaries of the Grand Rosalie Daniels ’13 won First Prize or to engage in unique new experiences. Teton National Park and frequented in the Youth Division of the Writers by roaming buffalo. Becoming research Center at Chautauqua Poetry Contest GRAND TETON EXPLORERS scientists themselves, they joined local for the second year in a row this researchers in collecting data on local past summer. The annual contest is In June 2007, ten Middle School bird populations by setting up nets sponsored by Chautauqua Readers and students embarked on a weeklong trip to catch birds in flight. They assisted Writers, and awards prizes, named in to the Teton Science School in Jackson in capturing, observing, and releasing honor of the Writers’ Center founder Hole, Wyoming. The group was led the birds. A field excursion included Mary Jean Irion, to one adult poet and by Science Department Chair Peter a several-mile hike to observe how one poet age 18 or younger. Frischmann, Middle School science wildfires affect areas at the base of The judge, noted writer Diane teacher Tracy Valenty, and Tracy’s the Teton Range, part of the Rocky Hume-George, commented, “A real husband, Mark, a geologist. Mountains. The students also partici- writer is blooming in Daniels’ ‘Black pated in a nature observation Monday.’ This is someone to watch program at the Murie Ranch, closely, because she is watching a National Historic Landmark everyone within the reach of her gaze.” center dedicated to the study, Marty Merkley, Vice President conservation, and apprecia- for Program at the Chautauqua Insti- tion of wild nature. tution, read her poem at the awards While canoeing on String presentation. Lake at the bottom of the Black Monday Tetons, the students observed by Rosalie Daniels the waterfowl, wildlife, and the geology of the area. School is cancelled for me The Teton Science School’s but it’s not a snow day graduate assistants led the I don my clothes—pen ink with WT students in creating and a hint of roses executing a field research joining my family in a mixture project which was then of Great Lash presented to the entire faculty mascara and outer space of the Teton Science School. our car defi es us (Bright Gold) A trip to Yellowstone National Park walking through parlor doors gave the students a great opportunity we’re enveloped in Aunt Jemimas to witness the geothermal activity and that is active in that area, including polluted smog geysers, hot springs, and fumaroles. At hugs and tears spill charcoal night, stargazing through the school’s on the carpet telescope inspired discussion among the only one not clothed students of solar systems, deep space, in burnt wood and space exploration. has an excuse the box enclosing her is darker

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Rosalie Daniels ’13 Lucy Ainsman ’08 Hermine Harrison ’08 Lilian Edelsack ’09

WWII HISTORIANS moment they were walking through Dr. Naragon deemed the trip a unique In June 2007, three WT students Auschwitz and reflecting on the horrors opportunity for experiential learning. He and three WT faculty members trav- perpetrated at the Nazi death camps; emphasized the importance of “standing eled to Poland for a ten-day tour of the next, they were enjoying the lively Jewish history and culture thanks to entertainment at a Klezmer music the generosity of the Glimcher Fellows festival, where the students started Foundation. Lucy Ainsman ’08, Hermine dancing an impromptu hora in the rain. Harrison ’08, and Lillian Edelsack ’09 Seward praised the trip’s organizers at the were accompanied by Dr. David Seward, Association for Jewish Learning for a well- Director of College Counseling; Dr. planned trip that provided both structure Michael Naragon, Upper School history and flexibility. One of the most memorable teacher; and Kathryn Gaertner, Middle components of the trip was the presence School English teacher. They visited of Sarah (Luel) Brett, a Holocaust survivor several Polish cities (including Warsaw, living in the U.S., who was returning to Lodz, Pabianice, Lublin, Galicia, and Poland for the first time since the War. where history is made.” It was a chance to Krakow), visited Nazi concentration The group was able to travel with Sarah as “re-understand the old, and learn the new” camps, and toured Jewish cemeteries she visited her childhood schools, strolled Poland, he stated. Naragon, Seward, and and synagogues. through her old neighborhood, and walked Gaertner each remarked on the jarring Dr. Seward described the trip as through the Pabianice and Lodz ghettos juxtaposition of historical sites and new, an “emotional roller coaster ride.” One where her family was forcibly resettled. post-war development. Both Naragon and Gaertner plan to integrate their experiences on the tour into their classroom instruction. Naragon wants to use his photographs in particular to enrich the units he teaches on immigration and on World War II and the Holocaust; he also teaches a social psychology class and intends to use this experience to inspire and focus discussions on altruism and social giving. Although each traveler took away a different experience from his or her trip to Poland, all brought home a deeper understanding of the historical and social experience of Polish Jews during World War II.

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Narla was an athletics star at of Athletics, Pittsburgh Steelers, Winchester who excelled both on and news Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Pirates, off the field. She played basketball, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Cincinnati lacrosse, and soccer, was a 12-time Reds, Toronto Blue Jays, and is the varsity letter winner, and company nutritionist

sachool was captain of all three for the Pittsburgh Ballet sports. Her athletic talent Theatre, among others. was recognized by the Bonci lectures regu- WT ALUMNAE HONORED BY WOMEN Western Pennsylvania larly at coaches’ clinics as AND GIRLS FOUNDATION OF Interscholastic Athletic well as at national meetings SOUTHWESTERN PA League (WPIAL); she for the National Strength competed in All-WPIAL Professionals Association; Sonya Narla ’07 and Leslie Bonci lacrosse and soccer, and National Strength and ’74 were honored by the Women and was a WPIAL Scholar Conditioning Association; Girls Foundation of Southwestern Athlete Nominee. Narla Leslie Bonci ’74 American Alliance for Pennsylvania at an October 2007 event also played with the all- Health, Physical Education, titled “Women in Sports: Leveling the GPIBL (Greater Pittsburgh Independent Recreation and Dance; and National Playing Field.” The event recognized Basketball League) team. Association of Sports and Physical women and teenage girls who are making In 2006, she participated in the Education. She is also a consultant to an impact on athletics throughout Student Athlete Leadership Academy the NCAA Division III programs and our region. Among the honorees were (SALA), a program endorsed by nutrition expert for the NCAA Nutrition coaches, athletes, sports agents, attor- WPIAL, the Pittsburgh Schools, and and Performance Web site. A popular neys, sports medicine practitioners, and the Pittsburgh Steelers and designed former national media spokesperson team owners who are working to “level to motivate participating students to for the American Dietetic Association, the playing fi eld” for women every day. become strong leaders in sports and life. she has been a frequent guest on the Narla received the WT Female Athlete of NBC-TV “Today” program. Her expertise the Year Award, the Haley Surti Award, in the areas of sports nutrition, weight and is a member of the Cum Laude management, eating disorders, and Society. She now attends Case Western digestive health resulted in two book Reserve University. publications: Total Fitness for Women, Bonci is the director of sports which she co-authored, and the medicine nutrition for the Department American Dietetic Association Guide to of Orthopedic Surgery and the Center Better Digestion, of which she was sole for Sports Medicine at the University author. of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). She is an adjunct assistant professor of STUDENT ESSAY PUBLISHED nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, School of Health and Rehabilitation THE CONCORD REVIEW Sciences and an adjunct assistant instructor in pediatric dentistry at the As a junior, Michael D’Emilio ’07 university’s School of Dental Medicine. authored an essay that has been published She also serves on the faculty of the in the Fall 2007 issue of The Concord University of Pittsburgh’s sports medi- Review, a publication whose purpose is to cine fellowship training program. recognize and publish exemplary history Bonci holds a B.S. in biopsychology essays by high school students in the from Vassar College and a Master’s English-speaking world. Sonya Narla ’07 on the basketball court. degree in public health from the According to Will Fitzhugh, founder Mary Lou Retton, gymnast, Olympic gold University of Pittsburgh. She serves of The Concord Review, “Mr. D’Emilio’s medalist, and “Fitness Ambassador,” was as a nutrition consultant for the analysis of the failure of the Communist the keynote speaker. University of Pittsburgh’s Department campaign to organize blacks will be of great interest to our readers in 42 states

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in the U.S. and in 32 other countries.” D’Emilio wrote his piece in Dr. Michael Naragon’s AP American History class. Explains Naragon, “Michael took this essay way beyond what most Michael D’Emilio ’07 students would, independently networking and pursuing leads to deepen his research. He contacted the country’s foremost expert on the subject, Robin D. G. Kelley, a professor at New York University and author of Hammer and Hoe, who suggested potential scholarly resources. Michael was subsequently able to obtain Daniel Roth ’07 Rachel Dougherty ’10 Microfilm documents through inter- Eric Schuman ’08 library loan from the Alabama Historical Society.” Although he completed the Recycling. She received a $300 cash paper during the school year, Michael WINCHESTER THURSTON STUDENTS prize and a trophy. Eric was selected spent hours on his own during the TAKE TOP HONORS AT C.A.U.S.E. as a finalist for his film, The Everything summer fi ne-tuning the document for FILM FESTIVAL is Everyone. its publication. Both Roth and Dougherty also Daniel Roth ’07, Eric Schuman ’08, Now in its 72nd issue, The Concord won director’s chairs, passes to the and Rachel Dougherty ’10 were honored Review has published more than 781 Carnegie Science Center, and tickets to in the third annual C.A.U.S.E. Challenge research paper from student authors the Three Rivers Film Festival. In addi- High School Film Festival, a project of in 44 states and 34 other countries. It tion, the C.A.U.S.E. Festival awarded the SciTech Initiative at the Carnegie remains the only quarterly journal in Winchester Thurston $1,500 for each Science Center. the world to publish the academic work of the top five honors. A total of $3,000 All three students were selected as of secondary school students. will go to support the school’s science finalists and two were among the top Schools in Bangkok, California, and media programs. fi ve award recipients. Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, The C.A.U.S.E. Festival (which Daniel took home the grand prize New Hampshire, New York, Singapore, stands for Creating Awareness and for his film, More than a Cupful, which Vermont, and Virginia currently Understanding of our Surrounding he created while a senior at Winchester subscribe to the publication, and Environment) is sponsored by Bayer Thurston. He used a Styrofoam cup history teachers in these and other Corp., SciTech, and Pittsburgh Film- that survives the seasons and becomes schools around the world use the makers, and invites high school students, a pollutant, to deliver his message. published essays as examples of good individually or in groups of up to four, Another WT student, Dylan Travers ’07, historical writing. to write, produce, and edit a short fi lm created the original music soundtrack or video on the theme “Mutual Impact: for the fi lm. Daniel won $1,000, a digital The Environment and You.” Out of 28 video camera and case, and a Pittsburgh entries, 13 were selected as finalists to Filmmakers’ class. He currently attends be considered for one of fi ve awards and Allegheny College. had their fi lms screened at the festival in Rachel won the festival’s Docu- September 2007. mentary Prize for her fi lm, Landfi lls vs.

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Lacrosse team defeated The Kiski School by a score of 8 - 7, earning its fi rst trophy sachool as the WPSLA Division Champions in June 2007. After playing a fl at fi rst two quarters, WT entered halftime trailing, 6-4, but coach Darrell Schmitt didn’t lecture his players. “I just told the kids to sit t h e r e , r e l a x , a n d b e q u i e t , ” S c h m i t t s a i d . “They were mentally and physically Peter Curtis ’08Hillary Ramsey ’08 Yin Yin Ou ’08 drained from the semifinals and finals. THREE STUDENTS ATTEND adds that the process of applying to the They just needed to regroup and get in the PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR’S school is as rigorous as that of applying right frame of mind.” SCHOOLS IN SUMMER 2007 to college: transcripts, essays, and recom- WT came out in the second half and mendations are required. Students must played at a more upbeat tempo to outscore Three members of the Class of 2008 also demonstrate commitment to their The Kiski School, 4-1, the rest of the way. earned places in the highly competitive, field of interest in terms of volunteer Attacker Peter Buongiorno ’07 came from full-scholarship Pennsylvania Governor’s work or research papers, as well as quali- behind the net and scored the eventual Schools for Excellence this past summer. ties of leadership. game-winner on a leaping, one-handed Peter Curtis attended the Information, goal with 2:57 remaining. Society, and Technology program; UPPER SCHOOL BOYS LACROSSE TEAM “Winning the championship means Hillary Ramsey attended the Health Care WINS WPSLA DII CHAMPIONSHIP so much to me and these kids,” Schmitt program; and Yin Yin Ou was accepted said. “But more importantly, it means a lot to both the Arts program and the Global In an exciting, come-from-behind to this school because it further validates Entrepreneurship program and attended victory the Winchester Thurston Boys the strength of our athletics program.” the former. Governor’s Schools are five-week residential programs held on college campuses. Peter traveled to Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he explored ways in which computer technology, networking, and telecommu- nications can further human endeavors. Hilary participated at the University of Pittsburgh, where The Governor’s School for Health Care introduced her to the health care field, emphasizing delivery systems, primary care, preven- tion, and public health. Yin Yin attended Mercyhurst College in Erie, where The Governor’s School for the Arts provided sustained, intensive, sophisticated, experiential learning opportunities. Dr. David Seward, Director Peter Buongiorno ’07 scores the winning goal. of College Counseling, notes The Governor’s School program is an intense educational experience, as well as an enlightening social experience. He

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STUDENT ORATOR WINS TOP PRIZE IN SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUE AND SCENE CONTEST

Alec Silberblatt ’08 took the top prize MUSICAL THEATER SHINES AGAIN: from $2,000 to $20,000 to study perfor- in the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 13th WT WINS BIG AT KELLY AWARDS mance or stagecraft. D’Emilio now attends annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Oberlin College and studies political Contest, delivering Brutus’ funeral oration Winchester Thurston took home science and vocal performance. from Julius Caesar. He competed against 45 four awards at the 17th annual Gene WT had received seven nomina- other students in the fi nal Kelly Awards for Excellence in High tions: Best Musical in Budget Level round of the competition. School Musicals in May 2007, capturing Two; Best Ensemble; Best Direction; More than 1,025 students Best Musical in its budget category for Best Choreography; Best Actor Connor from the Pittsburgh area the sixth year in a row! Other awards Mrozowski ’07 (Bobby Strong); Best had entered the week- included Best Supporting Actor, Michael Supporting Actor Michael D’Emilio ’07 long competition. D’Emilio ’07 (Officer Lockstock); Best (Offi cer Lockstock); and Best Supporting A veteran participant Ensemble; and Best Direction for its Actress Jennifer Machen ’09 (Little Sally). in the contest, Alec also production of Urinetown. As a nominee for Best Musical, WT served as coach to four In addition, D’Emilio was awarded a delivered a rollicking performance of the WT Middle Schoolers who $4,000 scholarship as one of four students Act 1 finale of Urinetown. WT won Best entered the competition: Alec Silberblatt ’08 chosen from the 30 participating schools Musical in Budget Level One in 2002, Ramsey Daniels ’11, Hallie to receive college scholarships ranging 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Goldstein ’11, Grace Hamilton-Vargo ’12, and Zoe Silberblatt ’11. Alec met with the students weekly after school beginning in early December 2006 and even arranged to have them tutored by drama students from Carnegie Mellon University. “They've worked very hard and have learned a lot about Shakespeare, acting, and literature. They’ve come a long way since our fi rst meeting,” said Alec.

The Winchester Thurston Varsity Girls Basketball team captured the Greater Pittsburgh Independent Basketball League (GPIBL) championship 2007, defeating section rival Neighborhood Academy. Jimyse Brown ’10 was named to the All League GPIBL Team in a ceremony preceding the championship game. Led by coaches Monica Williams and Brandi Harris, the team fi nished the season with an overall record of 16 wins and 3 losses.

www.winchesterthurston.org 27 Members of the Class of 2012 with General Colin Powell in Washington, D.C.

SENIOR’S REFLECTION ON RACISM EIGHTH-GRADERS VISIT WITH wonderful opportunities for experiential EARNS HER LITERARY HONOR GENERAL COLIN POWELL IN learning, but that also helped students WASHINGTON, D.C. develop relationships with each other In her senior year at WT, Lauren and with the faculty that “make the Burroughs ’07 won the Frank E. Bolden This fall, WT’s 49 eighth-graders classroom experience more meaningful Literary Contest for an essay she traveled to the nation’s capital and throughout the year.” wrote about her experience placing garnered a personal meeting with former The students were accompanied a wreath at the Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, by eight faculty members who used Tomb of the who is a cousin of WT trustee and Washington, D.C. as a “road classroom” Unknown Soldier. parent, Victor Roque. — guiding the students through the city This city- General Powell spent about 30 and continuously making ties between wide contest, minutes with the group, speaking with what they were witnessing and what sponsored by the them about life skills and his own they learn in the classroom. The group Commission on personal journey, which has included visited a number of different museums Racism of the public service under four presidents. and national attractions, including Episcopal Diocese Students eagerly asked questions that the National Aquarium, the Holocaust of Pittsburgh, was ranged from what his biggest achieve- Museum, the Smithsonian Museums, the Lauren Burroughs ’07 open to all high ment was (driving in the Indy 500 race) Old Post Office, and the National Zoo. school students. to who was his favorite president (he They also toured the national monu- Writers were asked to “describe an tactfully declined to choose). ments on bikes and on foot. example of where the ‘Walls of racism “I thought it was really interesting Each day, faculty members provided have come a-tumblin’ down.’” As Lauren that when he was asked what he was journal “prompts” to help shape the placed a wreath at the tomb honoring most proud of, General Powell was quick students’ thought processes as they our fallen soldiers, she reflected that to reply,” Lauren Nakamura commented, visited the exhibits, monuments, the reverence paid to those who died in “his children.” and museums; and students were service of our country was not contingent Peter Frischmann, WT science given extensive journaling time in the on race; she anticipates a day when we teacher and eighth-grade trip coordi- evenings to refl ect on their experiences are as respectful of the living. nator, remarked that the trip was a “truly throughout the day. Lauren was awarded a $100 U.S. great experience” that not only provided Savings Bond at the annual Absalom Jones Day Celebration.

28 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 wt today MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICIAN hour exam. Junu qualified based on PLACES THIRD IN NATIONAL HIGH an “index” score, calculated by adding SCHOOL CALCULUS CONTEST AND the American Mathematics Contest QUALIFIES FOR MATHEMATICAL (AMC) score to ten times the American OLYMPIAD Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) score. On the AMC exam, Junu Junu Bae ’12 placed third out tied for ninth place out of more than of 199 students on the national 24,000 students in the country who “I really think our participants are A c a d e m i c L e a g u e s ’ O n l i n e M a t h L e a g u e took the exam. motivated to do even better in 2008,” Calculus contest last spring. A Middle commented WT Middle School math- Schooler when he took the test, Junu WT TEAM FINISHES FIFTH IN ematics teacher David Hallas. “I think excelled in a competition designed for ITS FIRST SHOWING AT STATE everyone realizes how close we are to high school students. MATHCOUNTS® COMPETITION being a state championship team.” “The vast majority of participants MATHCOUNTS® is a national in the Calculus subject area contest The team comprised of Junu Bae math enrichment, coaching, and were ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, and ’12, Hallie Goldstein ’11, Andrew Linzer competition program that promotes t w e l f t h - g r a d e r s ,” s a y s D a n i e l R o s e n b e r g , ’13, and Sam Schreiber ’13 fi nished fi fth middle school mathematics achieve- WT’s Academic Enrichment and overall in the MATHCOUNTS® state ment in every U.S. state and territory. Challenge Program teacher. competition in March “The fact that Junu placed 2007, sponsored by the STUDENTS MAKE PERSONAL third as a seventh-grader is Pennsylvania Society of CONNECTIONS WITH REFUGEES quite remarkable.” Professional Engineers To compete, students (PSPE). This was the first Flower pots, Bingo word games, must complete three chal- year that a WT team has and lively chatter were the order of the lenging multiple-choice qualifi ed for competition at day as refugees from Iraq living in the exams in a particular the state level. A total of 25 Prospect Park Apartments in Whitehall grade level or subject schools were represented. and WT eighth-graders met as part area. Students in grades Junu, who won first of the Middle School’s Community two through twelve from place in the Allegheny Service Days. anywhere in the world Junu Bae ’12 County MATHCOUNTS® Eight women interacted with are eligible. competition in February small groups of students while their The Online Math League was 2007, fi nished sixth overall in the state preschool-age children played and created to develop students’ problem- competition and received an award for decorated flower pots along with solving abilities through the use of being the top scoring seventh-grader on other students. high-level and multi-step questions. Its the written round. Refugee families who come from three-part format encourages students Burma, Turkey, Iraq and Vietnam are to stay motivated and competitive throughout the school year. An equally impressive accomplish- ment is Junu’s qualifying to participate in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), one of the nation’s most prestigious math contests. This “Math Olympiad” contest “provides a means of identifying and encouraging the most creative secondary mathematics students in the country. It serves to indicate the talent of those who may become leaders in the mathematical sciences of the next generation,” states the contest’s Web site. Only about 500 students nationwide advance to the USAMO, a two-day, nine-

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news Andre Curtis ’16 and Danny Balter The team of ten fi fth-graders placed ’14 won first place in the 2007 PA fi rst in the state in the Knowledge Master State Scholastic Chess Championships

school placed at Prospect Park by Catholic Open (KMO) and third in the national K-9 U100 and K-6 Open Divisions Charities but are supported by a number KMO contest for their division. A total respectively in March 2007. Ruben of agencies, including the Greater of 330 schools nationwide participated Ramanathan ’14 took fourth place in Pittsburgh Literacy Council, which at the fi fth- and sixth-grade level contests the K-6 U800. provides English as a Second Language in March 2007. No stranger to winning state chess classes, and South Hills Interfaith Proud team members were Sonu championships, Balter earned the PA Ministries, which operates a preschool Bae ’14, Danny Balter ’14, Nat Brodsky State Scholastic Primary Champion at the Prospect Park complex. ’14, Arif Caner ’14, Quinn Charney ’14, title in 2006, playing in the K-3 Open Winchester Thurston worked Rachel Dubner ’14, Tristan Hull ’14, Ben Division. This year, by winning the K-6 with Pittsburgh Cares, which operates March ’14, Bruce Morrison ’14, and Zoe Open division he earned the PA State a clearinghouse for volunteer oppor- Schoen ’14. Scholastic Elementary Champion title. tunities in the area, to introduce the The KMO contest is held twice each The Winchester Thurston team of students to the refugees. for both secondary and fi fth- and sixth- Danny Balter ’14, Tristan Hull ’14, and The students learned first-hand grade teams. The curriculum-based tests Noah Goldstein ’16 placed second in the about the refugee experience, including consist of 100 to 200 multiple-choice K-6 Open. The team of Andre Curtis ’16 the lives the families left behind and the questions in a variety of academic and Nathaniel Hull ’17 placed fourth in ones they are trying to build in the U.S. subject areas: math, science, language the K-9 U1000 Division, and the team of They practiced language skills with the arts, social studies, and the arts. Ruben Ramanathan ’14, Nathaniel Hull refugees, giving the women and children A challenging academic competi- ’17, and Kabir Khan ’16 placed fourth in an opportunity to learn English in way tion in which teams of students the K-6 U800 Division. Also competing that differs from formal lessons. At compete—nationally and internation- were Samuel Boehner ’08 in the K-12 lunchtime, the students were treated to ally—without leaving their own schools, Open, Hazel Boehner ’10 in the 7-12 traditional dishes the refugee mothers the KMO program annually attracts U1300 Divisions, and Andre Curtis ’16 prepared from their homelands. more than 3,000 schools and 45,000 in the K-3 Open. Josh Kivuva, a Literacy Council participants from the U.S. and several Under the direction of Coach John English as a Second Language teacher foreign countries. Young, the chess team has consistently on hand to facilitate discussions among the students and refugees, challenged the Middle Schoolers to “…imagine how your life would be if at home, there is not enough food and no money and there is fi ghting outside and you are not allowed to work.” The students were silent. Kivuva then encouraged the students to act as groups or individuals to make a difference to those in need. The presentation inspired Madalyn Levy ’11 to organize a paper products drive as soon as she got back to school. Upon receiving diapers and other essentials collected as a result of Levy’s Upper School students collaborate on Knowledge Master Open questions efforts, the refugee women responded in the secondary school competition. by writing heartfelt messages of thanks, carefully penning postcards to each participating student.

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among nearly 100 competitors nation- wide, to receive a 2007 AIA Educational Facility Design Award. “I am not surprised that BCJ was honored in this way,” says Nancy Rogers, Director of the North Hills Campus. “The architects took into consideration that this is a building for young children, creating small spaces within a larger space, and making children feel very comfortable right away, giving them a sense of ownership.” The campus design took place in phases over 17 years, culminating in 2005 Chess team members (left to right) Kabir Khan, Noah Goldstein, Tristan Hall, with the construction of the 5,650 square Danny Balter, Andre Curtis, and Ruben Ramanathan. foot Campus Center. Campus buildings, designed with rustic simplicity and fared very well against the best players NORTH HILLS CAMPUS CENTER economy of space, are adorned with red in both state and national competitions. RECEIVES ARCHITECTURAL AWARD gabled roofs and blue clapboard siding. During the last three years, WT has White-trimmed windows, often placed garnered six fi rst- place fi nishes in the The architects of Winchester directly at child eye level, offer a view of PA State Scholastic Championships. Thurston’s North Hills Campus Center the campus pond and flood the rooms have received a nationally competitive with natural light. “... because of the school’s Citation from the American Institute of “It’s really about the kids,” says rigorous academic program, Architects (AIA), honoring innovation Sherbeck, who is also a parent of Annie and excellence in architectural design. Jackson ’05 and Tristan Jackson ’07. “We even the youngest students Designed by architects Roxanne created an environment that fits the are able to grasp the abstract Sherbeck and Sara Snyder of Bohlin school's child-centered approach.” concepts of the game very Cywinski Jackson (BCJ), the building Sherbeck says that this is BCJ's fi rst quickly.” is one of only 14 educational facilities, award for an educational project.

“Chess at Winchester Thurston began as a way of teaching the game, and because of the school’s rigorous academic program, even the youngest students are able to grasp the abstract concepts of the game very quickly. Many of them started playing the game when they were fi ve or six years old and have continued to refi ne their skills and strategies,” Young said. “Chess is not only a game of skill, b u t i t a l s o h e l p s c h i l d r e n d e v e l o p higher order thinking skills, increase memorization and pattern recognition, develop concentration and increased The award-winning Campus Center at WT North. attention span, and develop logical thinking,” he added.

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news Was it Miss Scarlet with the candlestick in library? Or Colonel Mustard with the knife in the conservatory? school crowd of more than 250 parents, alumnae/i, A employees, and friends of WT gathered for Don’t Miss the CLUE at WT, the school’s annual spring benefit hosted by the Parents Association, on April 14, 2007. Guests gathered clues to solve a “mysterious murder,” bid on more than 200 auction items, and feasted on delectable treats in this life-sized game of “CLUE.” Faculty members and administrators disguised as “suspects” from the classic board game mingled among Adding drama to this life-sized game of CLUE were WT’s costumed suspects: Mick Gee “detective” guests in the setting of a (Mr. Green), Nancy Rogers (Mrs. Peacock), Kevin Miller (Colonel Mustard), Jill Machen beautiful Victorian mansion (a.k.a. the (Miss Scarlet), Gary Niels (Professor Plum), and Tina Plaks (Mrs. White). new Upper School.) A resounding success, the benefi t grossed $108,000, more than double that of previous events. The WT Fund was the recipient of an $80,000 benefi t donation, thanks to the hard work of more than 100 volunteers, including benefit chair Carole King and key Parents Association volunteers Betsy Thompson, Anne Scheuermann, Carole King and Gaylen Westfall Bill and Sheila Colombo Lynn Beckstrom Tracey Reading, Lynn Schraf, Adam and Brian Schreiber and Audrey Leong, Leslie Borsett- Kanter, and Kate Stainton.

Amy Kerber-Brancati Mary Jean Rusak Megan and Rob Glimcher and Joe Brancati and A.D. Lupareillo

Janice Faller Schermer, Kasy Kennedy Simon Yazdgerdi Curtis Leland Schermer, and and Greg Curtis Ellen Perlow Kessler 32 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 wt today

JOHN MAIONE: 2006 JANE L. SCARBOROUGH AWARD RECIPIENT At the 2007 commencement, The Scarborough Award is given and excitement of learning and the Middle and Upper School performing by the Board of Trustees to a returning exhilaration of discovery, and viewing the arts teacher and Private member of the faculty experience of teaching as the opportunity Music Lesson Coor- who “is making an exem- to remain a life-long learner.” dinator John Maione plary contribution to “I never expected to receive this received the 2006-2007 teaching by demon- award in a million years,” says Maione. Jane L. Scarborough strating a strong profes- “It is a very strange, though wonderful, Teaching Award, the sional commitment to feeling that I was recognized for doing highest award given to the WT community, something I absolutely love … I consider a faculty member. The respecting the uniqueness it a privilege to go to work every day with award was established of the individual, valuing exceptional teachers [who are] incredibly in honor of the former intellectual inquiry intelligent, talented, and caring beyond Head of School, who and mastery as well as measure….and [dedicated students] who served at WT from 1978 intellectual honesty and have pushed me to be a better teacher, to 1982. humility, modeling for certainly a better conductor, and an others the frustration overall better musician.”

KELLY VIGNALE: 2007 JUDY APT NATHENSON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN’S EDUCATION RECIPIENT

City Campus Lower School science a valuable and meaningful experience and computer teacher Kelly Vignale for students,” says Vignale. received the 2007 Judy Apt Nathenson During her tenure as a faculty ’69 Memorial Chair for Excellence in member at WT, Nathenson champi- Children’s Education. The award is oned the importance of developmen- given to a Lower School teacher who tally appropriate teaching practices demonstrates excellence and innova- in early childhood education. As a tion in teaching. creative, talented, and caring teacher “Being acknowledged for my efforts she devoted her professional career to at WT gives me confi dence and motiva- exploring new teaching methodologies tion to want to do even more to make and enhancing the curriculum in the the science and technology curriculum lower elementary grades.

MARC FOGEL: 2007 MARY HOUSTON GRIFFIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING RECIPIENT Upper School social studies learning opportunity,” says Fogel. This teacher Marc Fogel was the recipient December six Upper School students of the 2007 Mary Houston Griffin will travel to Oman to participate with Teaching Excellence Award. This Fogel and Mick Gee, Director of Upper award, given annually, provides School, in the National Association funds to support the development of of Independent Schools’ 20/20 Global programs to enhance the students’ Challenge. This symposium on experience at WT. Peacekeeping, Confl ict Resolution, and “Having previously worked for the Combating Terrorism is co-hosted by American British Academy in Muscat, Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania Oman, I am lucky to be able to build and the American British Academy. upon that experience and lead a group of WT students in an exciting global

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Miss Mitchell Society MEMBERS OF THE MISS MITCHELL SOCIETY

Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 Carole Oswald Markus ’57 Molly Cannon Stevenson ’72 Marion Weis Cohen ’44 Jocelyn Hulme MacConnell ’43 Allyson Baird Sveda ’84 Nancy Steigerwalt Dwyer ’37 Anne Forncrook McCloskey ’45 F. Irene Thomas, Honorary Alumna Virginia A. Elliott ’T26* Frances Alter Mitchell ’30* Ruth Weimer Tillar ’41 Harriet Adler Feldman ’57 Jane Dunn Prejean ’36* Gaylen Westfall Eugene S. Kerber Eleanor M. Reilly, Honorary Alumna Carol Spear Williams ’57 Loretta Lobes ’88 Dorothy Dodworth Scullin ’47 Norma Weis Wilner ’40*

Louise Baldridge Lytle ’51 Bonnie Solomon ’48* *Deceased

If you have included WT in your plans, please let us know so that you can be properly thanked and welcomed into

the Miss Mitchell Society. For more information, contact Alison Wolfson, Director of Alumnae/i Relations, at (412) 578-7529

or [email protected].

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ore than 120 alums returned to WT to visit classes, tour M WT’s new and old build- ings, attend parties and programs, and re-connect with former teachers and classmates at Reunion Weekend. So many commented on how surprised they were that their connections felt so strong – even after many, many years. Thank you to those who organized class parties and who motivated classmates to participate. Class of ’57: l-r back row: Carole Oswald Markus, Betsy Smelzer Winslow, Check out the WT Web site for Judy Rohrer Davis, Janie Arensberg Thompson, Nancy Seip Krot, more photos from Reunion 2007! Anne Succop Dickson, Nann Hegmann Cooke, Sally Guy Stone-Worsing. Front: Harriet Adler Feldman, Ginny Willey Birmingham, Phyllis Chinlund, Elaine Dupertuis Seibert y Class of ’87: l-r: Lauren Raphael, Members of ’72: clockwise from top left: Jill DeBroff, Kimberly Farinet Sailer, Connie Wolff, Jean Silvestri, Gina Hofer Janet Harrison Kuzmishin Loesch, Molly Cannon Stevenson, Janet Ornitz, Members of ’97: l-r top: Lisa Davis, Stacey Stanczak Patti Peters Austin, Louise Gillespie Cannon Smith, Jill Davis: Middle: Melanie King, Jaye Greenfi eld, Dan Michelmore: Bottom: Natalie Wallace, Josh Hefferen, Payal Gandhi, Anne Caliguiri Save the Date REUNION October 17-18, 2008 Especially for the Classes of 1933 1938 1943 Members of ’52: from back left: 1948 1953 1958 Janie Lou McCaslin Bergmark, Nita Dressler 1963 1968 1973 Argyres, Jean MacIntyre, Marion Montgomery 1978 1983 1988 Members of ’77, clockwise from back left: Colbourne, Suzanne LeClere Barley, Barbara Abney Bolger 1993 1998 2003 Adrienne Statti, Marsia Gibel Seydoux, Stacey Thalimer Hrabar, Lindsay McKean Scott, Lorraine Pickering Bansavage

www.winchesterthurston.org 35 class notes 2001 2000 Angela Ambroz is moving Claire Blaustein is living in to Suva, Fiji in October 2007 Washington, DC and loving where she’ll be working for the everything except the humidity. 2006 2003 next two years with the Pacific She is the managing editor Don Mike Mendoza interned Gordon Lubimir graduated Islands Applied Geoscience for a new cooking Web site, for Duquesne University’s from Tulane University in May Commission as a natural Cookthink, launched this past NPR affiliated station 90.5 2007 with a B.S. in Ecology resource economist. She summer. The Web site offers WDUQ by directing a show and Evolutionary Biology. worked at the International recipes and reference, as well called Rhythm: Sweet & He entered his first year of Food Policy Research Institute as an e-mail newsletter called Hot. He is now working for medical school at Lincoln in Washington, DC as a Root Source, which talks about American University’s NPR Memorial University - DeBusk summer intern (again). a different in-season food every affiliated radio station 88.5 College of Osteopathic [email protected] week. It has been a challenge WAMU FM. He is a cast Medicine, in Harrogate, TN. being part of a startup and member of Urinetown, which [email protected] Emily Flechtner is teaching the only employee, but really runs the last two weekends of in a bilingual kindergarten in wonderful as well. She is doing October in Washington, DC. Katie McGraw graduated Munich, Germany following a music freelance writing on the [email protected] from Penn State in May year as a Congress-Bundestag side, including work for NPR.org, 2007 with B.A. degrees in Scholar. She and her mother, and since she was runner-up for both Public Relations and Joan Flechtner, WT North the Michael Oliver Young Writer Psychology. She works as a Hills Campus teacher, have of the Year competition at BBC public relations specialist for established an exchange Music Magazine this year, she Tri Rivers Surgical Associates between their Pre-K classes. should have a piece published and is a member of the Public As international buddies with them in the November Relations Society of America. they have sent each other issue. To keep her violin chops [email protected] photos of their schools and up, Claire joined a band, Society holiday celebrations and of Strangers, and is happily 2002 created classroom books with exploring the new worlds of drawings, photos, and mini bluegrass, folk, and punk. Brea Heidelberg celebrated bios of all their students. This [email protected] her graduation from Drexel year they hope to expand the University's LeBow College of Business with Dr. David 1999 Seward, WT's Director of Ben Sota took his Zany College Counseling. Brea's Umbrella Circus around the Hannah Posner ’06 and award-winning essay in the Andrew Wickerham ’06 world from Amsterdam to Kabul "Behind Every Graduate" to New Orleans, bringing joy competition credited Seward and laughter to children in all 2004 with teaching her to love other sorts of environments. He was Ian Sullivan spent the cultures and languages, as featured in the March issue of summer studying at the well as instilling in her the Pittsburgh Magazine. Arabic Language Institute at importance of diversity. Dr. www.zanyumbrellacircus.com Hunter College in NYC. He is Seward received an expense- relationship with monthly a senior at Sarah Lawrence letters filled with songs, and will continue his study recipes, and stories to read in of energy and economics as both English and German. a research assistant to the economics department chair, Ryan Schulz is the director who is working on carbon of a gymnastics program economies and environmental in Morgantown, WV. Her discount rates. He also plans husband started a new job to take an applied fieldwork with Westinghouse. Ryan course and internship. Ian paid trip to Philadelphia, is considering pursuing a is continuing the campus attended pre-commencement doctorate in psychology. newspaper that he started last activities, and was honored at [email protected] year and preparing for, well, the commencement ceremony. the real world. He received a $2,000 prize, and [email protected] a $2,000 donation was made to Winchester Thurston School.

36 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 class notes Seth Borland was married Kristin Trabucco is in her on July 21 to Laura Noel. They second year as production Rachael Lange is in her had been dating since October coordinator for the Celebrate 2003 and tied the knot in seventh year teaching fourth Brooklyn! performing arts grade at a fabulous school in Houston. They’re both festival in New York. She also Williams College graduates, Las Vegas. does some freelance directing [email protected] and are living in Austin, TX. for podcast videos and will The service was in the church be making a short Alice In Kate Masley graduated where Laura grew up and the Wonderland-themed film reception was at the Museum from Case Western Reserve this fall. University with her Ph.D. of Fine Arts in Houston. [email protected] [email protected] in Medical Anthropology in August 2007. She works 1997 Jodie Vanderman is going as an assistant professor in 1998 into the second year of the Department of Health Sarah Zeitler married David her M.B.A. at Penn State Sciences at Cleveland State Alex Feigel and her boyfriend Gallo on July 28, 2007, in University and just finished an University. She is teaching are living in the East Hills. NYC. They had a small party internship with the Marketing courses focusing women’s Alex works for McKesson as including Zach Miller. David Leadership Development health, culture and health a pharmaceutical rep, and she and Sarah honeymooned in Program at DuPont. She spent care, and health disparities. East Africa. They live in NYC, the summer evaluating the [email protected] where they both work in U.S. Federal Government theater; David as a designer, market and the company’s Stacey Stanczak Smith ’97 and Sarah in management. sales opportunities within the and Justin Smith’s family has [email protected] space. She would look forward expanded even more as they to hearing from classmates. welcomed a little boy, Bailey 1995 [email protected] Donald, on November 29, 2006. Rebecca Rothfus’s work His big sisters adore him, and was in an art exhibit called 1994 the couple is having so much fun watching their children “New American Talent,” Ian Gould appeared in WT’s curated by Anne Ellegood, grow. They had a blast visiting had a baby, Christian John on first production of Amadeus of the Hirshhorn Museum February 28, 2007. Mom, dad in 1992, and fifteen years and in Washington, DC. In fall and baby are all doing great! two drama degrees later he 2007 her artwork will appear Alexandra.Feigel@McKesson. did it again in May 2007 for a in the Western edition of com regional theatre in Evansville. New American Paintings, an Ian teaches Shakespeare exhibition in print. The issue Azadeh Geer Masalehdan performance in NYC and (No. 72) will be available in wed Ethan Robert Block of shared his talents with Barb bookstores across the country Shadyside on September 29, Holmes’s students in a drama with Mark Boleky ’96 and in October/November. 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA. Azadeh class at WT last spring. his family while vacationing Rebecca continues to teach is currently in the dissertation [email protected] in South Carolina. A fun art at an elementary school in phase of her Ph.D. at the Austin, TX. University of Pittsburgh’s [email protected] School of Social Work. [email protected] Mattie McLaughlin Schloetzer has been working Toby McChesney moved at the Heinz Architectural from Washington, DC to Center at the Carnegie Atlanta in April 2007 with his Museum of Art for three years. partner Jonathan. Toby is an She organized the exhibition, assistant director of Executive On a Grand Scale: The Hall M.B.A. Admissions for Emory of Architecture at 100, which University’s Goizueta Business opened in September 2007 and School. He is currently in runs through January 27, 2008. his second year of his Ed.D. [email protected] program in Higher Education Michelle Washington ’84, Elsie Heard McAdoo ’69, and Tina Leadership. Englert ’59 joined Alison Wolfson and Gaylen Westfall for dinner [email protected]. in Philadelphia in February 2007. edu

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addition to being a mom, Erin continues to teach second grade in the Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. [email protected]

1992 visit with Meredith Deluzio Diana Hellman is an engineer Pettigrew ’97 and her family at IBM in Tucson and hikes, and Lauren Phillipi Jones ’97 skis, bikes, and travels during took place at Station Square her free time. Diana visits K-12 this summer. schools encouraging students, [email protected]

Erin Herward Thurston Mara McFalls moved to Kathleen Metinko and continues to enjoy mother-hood, NYC in 2006 and scored a Jan Rogers Kniffen were especially during summers modeling gig as the face of married on February 24, which she spends at home with vanilla NUGO bars while 2007, at the One and Only Patrick. Erin was very excited working as a producer for Ocean Club on Paradise to see the new Upper School the MTV show, MADE. She Island, Bahamas. She was had some articles published attended by matron of honor, in magazines (thanks to WT Alunda Grzybek Edmonds, especially girls, to get involved writing courses) and got her and flower girl, Veronica with science by demonstrating big break when cast to be on Noel Edmonds. Dorothy a repertoire of simple a show called Stormchasers McLaughlin Sachs also experiments to spark student on the Discovery Channel, joined in the weekend’s interest. Diana is committed airing in October 2007. She festivities. Kathleen and Jan to reaching out to students, basically plays herself, a writer enjoyed a May honeymoon delivering the message that embedded with a group of in Paris and on the Amalfi math and science are very nutball stormchasers and Coast. The couple resides in much a part of their lives, scientists. They spent eight NYC. Kathleen was admitted and that they can indeed do weeks chasing tornadoes in to the partnership of Deloitte math and science. She is also tornado alley throughout the Tax LLP as of August 26, 2007. passionate about explaining Midwest. Mara married a [email protected] and catch up with some of her what engineers do, which writer, John Falk, this fall. “He former teachers and colleagues she believes is a mystery to has written magazine pieces, on a visit to WT. Patrick would 1989 many people. She has her own books, movies; he’s a stud, and blog, www.thinkinglogically. I dig him mucho,” writes Mara. Katherine Brentzel has been com, that strives to improve [email protected] in the Washington, DC area the world through logical for almost seven years. She thinking. Diana credits her works for the U.S. Government 1991 ability to communicate well Accountability Office, the as a scientist and engineer Esther Long is an assistant investigatory arm of the U.S. to her WT education. The professor of Geography at Congress. Kate works in the skills and confidence that she Morehead State University international affairs and trade developed at WT give her an in Morehead, Kentucky. She group at the GAO, mostly unusual edge in the scientific travels a lot internationally assessing the Department of community. and just returned from a State and other agencies with [email protected] have been impressed, but he month in Ukraine. an international mission. slept through much of it. In [email protected] [email protected]

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Wendy Marks Pine ’90, and Anna Avery lives in Chicago her husband, Bobby, welcomed now after 15 years in New York. their first child, Brian Alex, on She and her partner have two January 18, 2007. [email protected]

1985 Jodi Greenwald Golomb lives in White Oak, PA with her husband Zeb and their two children, Jonah, 11, and Sophie, 8. Jonah and Sophie attend Community Day in Squirrel Hill. Jodi Annette Ruzicka ’88 and Family is the associate director of development at the Children’s girls, Grace, 6, and Lily, 1. Anna works part-time as a therapist 1988 Museum of Pittsburgh where she has spent the last four and takes care of the girls the Rachel Egler completed her years. She and Amy Goldstein rest of the time. She’d love to first marathon as part of the Jaffe remain great friends. hear from people. Leukemia and Lymphoma [email protected] [email protected] Society’s Team in Training 1982 1981 Jennifer Solow writes, “Life Lillian Goldstein Schapiro, is as a fulltime novelist has been in Atlanta, practicing OB/GYN a wild ride. Now a national and enjoying her three children, Ruth, 11, Rebecca, 11, and Sarah, Rachel on, and they spent a bestseller, The Booster is finally 5. In her spare time, she is week on the Kenai Peninsula. out in paperback. The French promoting her novel, Tick Tock. [email protected] and Italian translations have hit the stands. My second She was most recently quoted in STAR magazine as the doctor Jacqueline Marks Ledo book, I’ll Have What She’s not taking care of Nicole Richie. and her husband, George, Having, will be out next year [email protected] welcomed their second child, and Finding Max Ernst (my nod to Mrs. Peterson!) is almost done. My kids, Tallulah in Anchorage, Alaska. and Griffin, originally thought REMEMBER TO She writes, “Race day was it might be really cool to have UPDATE YOUR fabulous—cool and cloudy, a mom who’s an author but PROFILE! now they’re just pretty much perfect for running. The Visit the Alum page of the Web scenery was amazing—I saw sick of me. I don’t blame them. site and update your profile: a moose and a bald eagle, and I’d love to hear from anyone. www.winchesterthurston.org. there were reports of a bear I give great advice for later-in- Get your new password by sighting. The crowd was so life writer-wannabes. It can high energy. I think at least be done!” contacting Alison Wolfson at 75% of the participants were [email protected] wolfsona@winchesterthurston. Team in Training folks. They org. raised $5.2 million with this Jenna, on September 24, event!!! My final tally was over 2007. She joins big sister Julia $11,700!” Diana Thompson Brooke who turned one in traveled to Alaska to cheer August. Jacqueline’s sister,

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1977 two standard poodles, and a wonderful husband, Lew Lorraine Bansavage Hyman, who is an investment Pickering has lived in the advisor in Shadyside. She has country in Eighty-Four, PA worked as an attorney for for the past 15 years with her Debra Todd of the Pennsylvania husband, Dave, and two kids, Superior Court for the past Tess, 15, and Kyle, 12. She is seven years. Judge Todd is a gardening fanatic loving all running for the Supreme Court trees, shrubs, and flowers! She in the coming election, and landscapes yards all summer Lynn is keeping her fingers and sews quilts all winter. crossed for a victory, which She recently reconnected with would provide a great new WT. Her husband gave her the Virginia Sheppard ’41 and Alice May Succop Burger ’69 met Gary J. career challenge. high school senior yearbook Niels while touring the new Upper School and visiting favorite spaces [email protected] as a gift because she never in the main building. bought one back in 1977. Paging through it brought back many 1975 Julie Felman Wagner reports Wendy Werner Leiti writes, fond memories. Kathleen Hannan Ebli was that all is well in the Rocky “To the Class of ’78, next year [email protected] Mountains. She has been in is our 30th reunion. Let’s try elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November touch with a few friends from and plan a big turnout to Adrienne Statti lives in 2006 and represents the 56th WT. She writes, “last class all catch up! Scott and I are Burbank, CA and is vice- District in Southeastern reunion was really interesting now living outside of Hilton president at Graphic Orb, Inc., Michigan - Monroe County. and fun. It was great to see past Head. SC. Scott Jr. graduated located in North Hollywood. Her Web site is http://056. teachers and friends. Hope all from University of Florida in [email protected] is well with you all. My children 2006 and works with us here, housedems.com. Kate is a three- are now 13 and 10. It is hard to building custom homes in the year breast cancer survivor and believe how time really does fly low country. He is engaged 1976 lives in Frenchtown, Michigan with her husband, Nick, and by!” [email protected] to be married in May 2008. Lynn Snyderman is living daughter, Tori, who is in college. Ashley, 21, is a senior at happily ever after in the house [email protected] 1978 Clemson, studying marketing where she grew up in Squirrel and real estate. Courtney, Hill with three teenagers, Jennifer Hetzel Gear enjoyed 19, is a sophomore at U.S.C. a wonderful reunion recently in Columbia SC, studying with Caprice Pierucci and hospitality management. Matt, Karen Haabestad in Boston. 12, is an aspiring golfer. We live Her company, Cogent Public in an extremely kid friendly Relations, is about to celebrate community on a golf course. its ten-year anniversary with Scott and I celebrated our offices just outside of Boston 26th anniversary in July. It’s so and in Manhattan. Jennifer hard to believe where time has lives in Stoneham, MA, with gone! This leads me to my first her husband and three kids, statement: We need to have a Audrey, 15; Jeff, 14; and Colin, great turnout for our 30th. How 12. [email protected] much fun would it be to see all and reminisce.” [email protected] WT Class of ’70 Rocks the Outer Banks! Back row: Hilary Tyson-Porter, Class Notes Andrea Hurtt, Kim Zillweger Beck, Patti Pyle, and Linda Thiessen Please send us your news and photos! Send information to Bankson. Front row: Megan Hall, Anne Peters, Sharon Simon Dunlap, Alison Wolfson, Director of Alumnae/i Relations, and Liz Brinker Noble. Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or [email protected].

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fabulous women from the Class 1968 of ’70 will join us there! You Margie Balter proudly won’t regret it for a moment!” announces the release of her [email protected] solo piano CD entitled Music from my Heart. She appeared Kim Zillweger Beck writes that after their amazing 35th reunion in 2005, they reconnected for a fabulous trip to Corolla, SC and have decided to do the beach every other year, and during the alternate years visit each others’ cities. Next summer’s plans are made! They welcome every one from Eleanor Schatz Magyar, Alice Merrill, and Audrey Greer Masalehdan, the Class of ’70 to join together Class of ’67 reconnect at reunion. at Patti Pyle’s mountain home in Ashville, NC the first week in Pittsburgh for a release 1974 1970 in August. party and has received rave [email protected] Wendy Hoechstetter finally Linda Thiessen Bankson is reviews for her work. The moved back into her house so happy that she attended the CD is available for purchase Deborah Wilde Nelson won following a fire, mold damage, reunion at the Outer Banks on cdbaby.com and iTunes. tickets to the Toyota Tundra a year living in hotels and in June with her Class of ’70 [email protected] Prove It Tour at Infineon temporary housing, and a sisters! She had fun driving Raceway. Besides driving fortune in renovation expenses. down with Kim Zillweger Jan Coco Groft and Marilyn both the Tundras and the It has been a difficult couple Beck and did nothing but chat Griffin Solomon have of years between the fire, a and laugh the whole way! She re-connected and enjoyed broken hand that took her writes, “What a neat bunch of spending time together last out of commission for quite unique and special women! It winter at Hidden Valley. Do any a while, and some other is a very eclectic group, with other old classmates frequent issues including other health everyone having had such the Laurel Highlands? If so, problems, aging family, and different life experiences, please contact Marilyn at dying pets, but somehow she interests, careers, etc. but we [email protected] or Jan at still manages to keep on going. all got along so well! There [email protected]. She is working hard on getting is definitely a bond between her interior design practice us because of our WT days. 1967 up and running, with a goal of Maybe the bond is there also Suzie Gurzenda Black having offices in both California because we are all 55 year wrote from French Polynesia on board and Pittsburgh within a couple old women who are looking competitors on the Acceleration their sailboat, Priscilla. She and of years. If anyone is looking again for those ‘girlfriends’ to and Braking Station, driving on Tom had a great time crossing for a great designer anywhere, share with. Whatever it was, an Off-Road Test Track, she and the Pacific, but still have a long please keep her in mind. She it sure was great to watch the Butch drove both a Tundra and way to go before reaching New sees Carolyn Lebeau Hughes sunrises, share good food and a Dodge on a quarter mile drag Zealand. Check out their Web regularly when in Pittsburgh drink, bask in the sun and strip. Then, as if they were not site, www.tomandsuzie.com. and stays in touch with several salt air while talking away flying high enough, Butch and Unfortunately, Suzie will be at other classmates. She would with these wonderful women! Deb drove two hot laps around sea and cannot make it back in love to see anyone who finds Thanks, Kim, for being our the NASCAR track in Busch time for her reunion. their way out to the west coast! planner again. Thanks to type cars from the Richard [email protected] [email protected] Megan for the beautiful Petty Driving Experience. pictures. And thanks to Kim, deborahanelson@comcast.net Megan, Patti, Sharon, Annie, Hilary, Liz, and Andie for great memories and a great time! Look forward to next summer and Ashville! Hope more

www.winchesterthurston.org 41 Yoko Okayama was an 1964 Nan has fond memories of her the Rachel Carson Bridge last exchange student at WT. She is years at WT and would love to year. What an achievement Jane Michaels was chosen now a teacher at a university in hear from former classmates. that was, and what a thrill to as one of the Lawdragon 500 Japan. She is sorry she cannot [email protected] be there for the dedication. In Leading Lawyers in America. make the reunion but sends best February 2007, I published my regards to her classmates from 1959 new biography, Beatrix Potter: 1967. [email protected] A Life in Nature. It is in its 8th Lynn Clark Pegg writes, printing and the trade paper “Social Security and 1966 will be out this coming April. Medicare have paved the way I’ve been very pleased with it, Chris Haberstick Biedenbach to full-time volunteer work! and though it too took a long and her husband have become My days are full with local time, eight years, I’m not sure Florida residents although they (Duluth, MN) anti-racism there isn’t one more book in still split their time between initiatives, fundraising events, me. Clara Miller, our history there and Pittsburgh. Chris and organizing Witness for teacher, would be very surprised retired ten years ago for health Peace delegations to Colombia and pleased, I am sure. Our reasons and enjoys her three and Nicaragua in 2008. son, Ian, married a year ago grandchildren, boating, fishing, Interested in such travel? and is still pursuing success in and good friends. This recognition is awarded Contact me at carolynpegg@ the rock music world with his [email protected] to less than one-half of one yahoo.com.” band, Vaeda. We are beginning percent of America’s 1.1 million a warm weather residency in Dale Spear Garson is a new attorneys. Jane is a partner in Donna Gow Taylor writes, Charleston, SC in a restored grandma! Rachel and Scott Holland and Hart’s Denver “During the past year my historic house, circa 1753, had a baby boy, Max Benjamin office and has had more than 20 husband, Hugh, has found but I’m not planning to leave Feldman, on December 21, 2006. years of experience as a trial his niche in retirement with Bethesda any time soon. Best In July the family moved a mile lawyer in intellectual property occasional preaching, singing, wishes to all.” from Dale’s home which is a and complex commercial cases. and ministering to shut ins, [email protected] dream come true. They have She has represented clients while I continue to teach glorious times hanging out throughout the country in Head Start during the school Judith Tynberg Solomon and walking in the park. Dale’s business cases involving trade year. We both enjoyed our writes, “This year will be therapy practice keeps her very secrets, trademarks, patents, three week trip to Scotland, the 50 year marker for my busy. It is growing so much, copyrights and computer Ireland and the Lake District of graduating class. Can’t be! I and she can hardly believe how software disputes. She is also England this summer, and we have been in the Boston area enthralled she is with what a certified arbitrator and always enjoy visiting with our for the past 44 years with my she is doing. Connie Staisey mediator. Recognizing her 12 grandchildren in New York husband, Stuart. We have three Woodhead and her daughter powerful gifts, Jane was named state and Virginia.” married children, Michael, stayed with them on their WT Alumna of the Year in [email protected] Benjamin, and Elizabeth, and college tour. 1992 for her legal prowess. four grandchildren. We await [email protected] [email protected] 1958 our fifth due at the end of this month. Since finishing a four- Mimi Keck still lives in Linda Lear writes, “2007 year program at the Museum 1961 Bethesda, MD with her husband, is the centennial of Rachel School in 1996, I have been Larry Wright, and daughters Nan Sachs Solow and Don Carson’s birth. Since I wrote Melissa and Laura, both now are still happily living in her biography in 1997, and in high school. She teaches at Pittsburgh and working at jobs have been steadily writing Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. they both love. Don continues and speaking about her ever Her new book, Greening to enjoy being an architect, since, I have been especially Brazil: Environmental Activism and Nan’s job teaching fifth busy on the lecture circuit. in State and Society, co-authored grade at Fox Chapel Country The nicest honor, however, with Kathryn Hochstetler, Day School brings her a great came from Chatham College, was published this summer deal of pleasure, satisfaction, Carson’s alma mater, which from Duke University. “I loved and homework! Their two conferred on me an honorary attending our 40th class reunion daughters, Jennifer Solow ’82 doctorate of humane letters at last year—we were all such their commencement in May. and Jordan Solow Sweeting painting in Boston’s South End awesome women! I hope we President Esther Barrazone ’86, and their families meet and invite you to visit my work can do it again on our 45th. and I have worked together on every summer in Chatham, at www.judithsolomon.com. [email protected] several Carson issues in the MA for a two-week vacation. [email protected] Nan and Don treasure their past, including the designation four wonderful grandchildren. of the old 9th Street Bridge as

42 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 1957 those wonderful memories of 1952 40 orphanages throughout the that summer and facing the world. One of her five children Becca Ashe Koransky had Patsy Singer Talotta moved extraordinary beauty of that lives in Paris and the others a nice e-mail from Nann to an apartment to be able part of the world, I succumbed seem to be connected globally Hegman Cooke and has to go away every three weeks to moments of happy tears. So, by electronics and planes. She almost decided to fly to and visit her family, living in thank you WT for the memories still summers in the Pocono Pittsburgh and rent a car in DC, NY, and NJ. Life is good! and making this trip come to Mountains on a preserve of October to attend her 50th. [email protected] fruition…a dream George and wildlife that Quakers founded for She still works a 40-hour week I have often had but never simplicity, sincerity and service. and gets really tired by the executed. It was just the nudge 1951 “Let’s get together with Jane end of the week. She spends we needed!” Askin Parson-Fein whenever most of her vacation time Carol Crookston Close [email protected] WT buddies come to New York!” with her children and nine and Wade visited with Patty [email protected] grandchildren. McClay Boggs and Lois [email protected] 1955 Graham Tingler. Carol and Wade welcomed their 1941 Beverlee Simboli McFadden seventh grandchild, Ellie Close 1956 and her husband, Dan, visited Ruth Weimer Tillar attended Whitaker, in May 2007, in Ann Mary Minor Evans and her a conference for the DAR in Jane Gault Greer was a Arbor, MI. She is named for DC in June and many meetings successful bidder on WT’s Carol’s mother, a Thurston and events in Williamsburg, online auction and won a four- graduate. [email protected] Jamestown, and Blacksburg day stay at The Fairmont Lake during the spring months. She Louise Hotel in the Canadian 1947 looks forward to football games Rockies, including roundtrip Gerda Rice Whitman is at William and Mary and Virginia disappointed to miss her 60th Tech during the fall and also a Reunion but is scheduled for W&M trip to Spain in October. hip surgery in October. She [email protected] can’t believe it’s been 60 years and sends greetings and best 1937 husband, Bob, in Duluth, MN. wishes to her classmates. While visiting, they toured Nancy Steigerwalt Dwyer is She hopes to make the 65th!! the Marine Museum on Lake sorry to miss her 70th reunion, [email protected] Superior. but is busy with plans to [email protected] celebrate her 65th wedding [email protected] 1946 anniversary in October with a Jean Ayars Pohli enjoyed huge party. She is recovering dramatically from a stroke she 1953 a busy summer with a barge trip to France in June, her suffered in June 2007. But nothing Betsy Riddle Ruderfer granddaughter’s wedding in keeps her down. Nancy still serves completed her years as First airfare from Pittsburgh to Kentucky, and a celebration as chair of the library committee VP for the D.C. Society of Vancouver and return from of her birthday in July. She is where she lives and is involved The National Society of The Calgary. To complement the excited about the possibility in ordering books on CD and Colonial Dames of America and prize they booked a train trip of a Falk School reunion next DVD, helping to introduce newer as Chairman of the Patriotic on the Rocky Mountaineer from year in Pittsburgh. “My life technology to her peers. She still Service Committee, so she now Vancouver with a stopover continues to be stimulating, orders books, though, because has more time to devote to in Kamloops and ending in fun, and challenging—not too nothing compares to reading a her music. She released a new Banff with an overnight in shabby for 79!” good book under the shade of a CD this fall featuring all Cole the Fairmont Banff Springs [email protected] great tree! Hotel. She and George then Porter songs. Betsy continues to perform every Friday night at a rented a car with a “gypsy Honorary Alumna guide” that led them through little restaurant in Alexandria, 1943 the spectacular sights of Banff VA, singing with piano Marguerite Tabor Yates still Ruth Donnelly Egler received and Jasper National Parks. accompaniment, and every enjoys the Central Park view the Association of Fundraising Jane writes, “Lake Louise was other Saturday night at North from her penthouse of 50 years. Professionals 2006 Lifetime unbelievably beautiful and were Beach, MD, on the western NYC is clean, exciting, and Achievement Award, recognizing superbly cared for. Our trip shore of the Chesapeake Bay, friendly if not a bit too crowded her exceptional leadership that was particularly meaningful singing with the Not So Modern in the popular streets. She is a has contributed to the success of because I vacationed in this Jazz Quartet. Betsy is having the member of the United Nations many campaigns and non-profit very spot with my family the time of her life! Women’s Guild which seeks organizations and has energized summer before I started WT. [email protected] the poorest children to help in philanthropy throughout Emotionally filled with all of southwestern Pennsylvania.

www.winchesterthurston.org 43 Condolences To Teresina Cardamone-Rayner ‘99, on the death of her mother, To Peggy Thomas McKnight ’69, on the death of her father, Gina Cardamone-Rayner, April 13, 2007. Robert J. Thomas, April 18, 2007. To Eric Brown ’94, on the death of his father, William E. Brown, To Karen Wolk Feinstein ’63, on the death of her father, Leonard July 15, 2007. Wolk, June 18, 2007. To Catherine Specter ’91, Bee Jee Epstine Morrison ’56, Lesa To Eileen Mauclair D’Appolonia ’61, Caroline D’Appolonia Morrison ’80, and Abby Morrison ’82, on the death of their Barmen ’88, Christine D’Appolonia Sprague ’84, and Anne mother, sister, and aunt, Marianna “Mimi” Epstine Specter ‘58, D’Appolonia Dickson ’99, on the death of their husband and June 28, 2007 father, David D’Appolonia, November 19, 2006. To Andrea Kann Gassner ’86, on the death of her mother, Anna To Frances Blasdell Hubbell ’55, on the death of her husband, Watzman Kann, May 28, 2007 Richard Barsley Hubbell, June 10, 2006 To Dona Sorce ’79 and Lisa Sorce Aiba ’76, on the death of To Janine Louise McCaslin Bergmark ’52, on the death of her their mother, Lorena Nolden Sorce, March 20, 2007. husband, Robert Bergmark, January 14, 2007. To Susan Labriola Livingston ’78, Lisa Labriola ’75, Cynthia Mary “Polly” McNaugher Marsh ’51, on the death of her Labriola Tumolo ’75, and Mary Labriola ’71, on the death of husband, William Timblin Marsh, April 1, 2007. their father, William H. Labriola, March 10, 2007. To Elizabeth Wright Anderson ’45 and Patricia Wright To Amy Nixon Mindlin ’73, Lisa Nixon Bishop ’70, and Sam Caldwell ’58 on the death of their sister, Ann Wright Curran ’45, Mindlin ’03 on the death of their father and grandfather, Clarence on December 29, 2007. B. Nixon, Jr., December 11, 2006.

In Memoriam The following members of the WT community will be missed by their classmates, friends, students, and colleagues. We offer sincere condolences to their families.

Vida Hurst Kerr ’31, November 11, 2006 Carol Bostwick McConnon ’38 Sarah Elizabeth Urling Clark ’32, Barbara Cartwright Fleming ’42, September 11, 2006 July 22, 2007 Rosann Shuck Mercer ’43, June 16, 2007 Frances Frampton Wigglesworth ’32, Anne Christler von Sothen ’49, April 17, 2007 November 6, 2006 Ann Wright Curran ’55, December 29, 2006 Eleanor Clarkson Sharp ’35, January 7, 2007 Marianna “Mimi” Epstine Specter ‘58, June 28, 2007 Dorothy Oliver Mahaffey ’37, Ann Watson ’58, January 17, 2007 February 22, 2007 Bonnie Cook Ross ’61, February 12, 2007 Barbara Yohe Williams ’37, March 18, 2007

44 Thistletalk Autumn 2007 WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ANNUAL GIVING REPORT 06-07

2006 - 2007 45 Thanks to extraordinary generosity, WT Fund meets goal

On June 30, 2007, Winchester Thurston achieved another milestone in an already incredible year. The WT Fund, which supports the day-to-day operations at the school, reached its goal of $670,000! Over 1,100 donors from within the greater WT community responded with extraordinary generosity to this year’s appeals of “615 Important Reasons to Give” and “WT Pride.” Highlights of the 2006-07 WT Fund include: • We exceeded the goal by over $20,000! • We raised more money than ever to support the people and programs that make WT so special! • A record number of WT Grandparents made gifts to The WT Fund! • The average gift size per donor increased by 15 percent! • Don’t Miss The Clue at WT, our benefit and auction, was a spectacular event, breaking school records for money raised. We owe our success to the passion and dedication of our volunteers who generously gave their time and energy to make personal visits and phone calls to donors on behalf of the WT Fund. Our thanks go out to the 2006-2007 Development Committee members and WT Fund Ambassadors responsible for our success:

LEADERSHIP: Henry Posner III, Development Committee Chair Rosanne Harrison, Alumnae/i and Past Parent Marty Powell, Trustee Committee Co-Chair Committee Co-Chair Rob Glimcher, Trustee Committee Co-Chair Anne Scheuermann, Alumnae/i and Past Parent Dan Cohen, Parent Ambassador Committee Committee Co-Chair Co-Chair Nancy Hetzel, Grandparent Chair Douglas Ostrow, Parent Ambassador Committee Co-Chair

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Nancy Bernstein Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 Marty Powell Dionne Brelsford Betsy Hurtt ’74 Victor Roque Kathy Buechel Ellen Kessler Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ’60 Annie Cestra Gary Niels Janice Faller Schermer Dan Cohen Woody Ostrow Anne Scheuermann ’75 Simin Curtis Henry Posner III Janie Thompson Rob Glimcher

WT FUND PARENT AMBASSADORS: Ralph Bangs Steven & India Loevner Michelle Ultmann-Fierstein Mary Jean Rusak Edward & Mary Lou Harrison Kathleen McCauley Gerald & Diane Holder Todd & Tamar Rosenfeld John & Kasey Kennedy Brian Schreiber Christine LeVasseur Allyson Baird Sveda ’84 & John Sveda Elsa Limbach Joy Troetschel

46 Annual Giving Report The Parents Association, led by the capable and charismatic President, Betsy Thompson, provided exceptional financial support to the WT Fund. Contri- butions of $100,000 to the WT Fund were made possible through the work of the Parents Association’s many volunteers. True to their mission of building community, camaraderie, and commitment, the Parents Association hosted numerous events that resulted in great exposure for WT and community engage- ment. In addition to the traditional and well-attended yearly events of Applefest and Spring Fling, the all-school benefit and auction, Don’t Miss The Clue at WT, attracted more than 300 people to our new Upper School.

PARENTS ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP: Betsy Thompson Mary Jean Rusak Leslie Kanter Cynthia Volpe Mary Kay Narla Susan Uretsky Diane Minard Anne Scheuermann Alice Thompson Deesha Philyaw

The newly introduced “Powered by the WT Fund” logo is more than just a catchy graphic; it is a symbol of the importance of unrestricted gifts to the school and a reminder of the force behind what makes WT so special!

The WT Community can take great pride in the many accomplishments achieved this year. The stage has been set for continued success in academics, the arts, and athletics — a stage that would not be possible without the generous and consistent support of WT Fund Donors!

2006 - 2007 47 WT FUND GIFTS: 06 – 07 SCHOOL YEAR

Leadership Society Kathy Zillweger Putnam ’71 & PORTAL CLUB Maura Farrell George Putnam Gifts of $1,500+ Federated Department Stores FOUNDERS CLUB Stephen G. Robinson Mr. G. Gray Garland Victor & Marcia Roque Jean Forncrook Armstrong ’44 Lauren & Philip Goldblum Gifts of $10,000+ Jane Arensberg Thompson ’57 & Bartlett Products, LLC Marjorie B. Haller ’69 Anonymous (2) Harry Thompson Sally & Russell Boehner Stacey Dowden & Scott Hare Susan Sharp Dorrance A’63 & Robert S. Waters Charitable Trust Eileen Mauclair D’Appolonia ’61 & Mr. & Mrs. Neil Harrison Roy Dorrance WesBanco David D’Appolonia* Robert Hoffman & Howard Hanna Real Estate The Arnold D. Wilner & Kathleen W. Buechel & Frederick Christine Tyndall Services Norma W. Wilner Fund N. Egler, Jr. James E. Huckestein, Inc. Highmark Casualty Insurance Mark & Jenifer Evans Carol Stewart James & Ian James Company First Capital Corporation Jennifer Kaplan ’86 Ellen & Jack Kessler 1887 CLUB Jane Gault Greer ’56 & George Sally Duff Kennedy ’50 Greer India & Steve Loevner Carole King Gifts of $2,500+ Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Dr. The McFeely-Rogers Foundation Deepak & Nirmal Kotwal Anthony M. Harrison Anne M. Molloy & Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bernstein Ms. Sue Friedberg & Brea Heidelberg ’02 Henry Posner III The H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Dr. Dean Kross Elsa Limbach & Plamen Trau & Loevner Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 Christine & Alfred LeVasseur Karagyozov UPMC Health Plan Bridges & Company, Inc. Jacqueline A. MacDonald & Leed’s Winchester Thurston Parents Annie & Dennis Cestra Bruce M. Maggs Association Cindy & Terry Lerman Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Alice McKnight Mackroth W’34 Love, Scherle & Bauer, P.C. Constance Smith Franklin ’51 The Mars Family Charitable MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Foundation Dee Dee & Herb Glimcher Inc., Architects ND Barbara Foster Mars ’41 2 CENTURY CLUB Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Glimcher Mr. Robert C. McCarthy Mellon Financial Corporation Gifts of $5,000+ Jon Jackson & Roxanne Sherbeck Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Fund Laura B. Jordan & McCloskey ’45 Anonymous Gary J. Niels Charles M. Humphrey Kathleen L. Metinko ’91 Allegheny Technologies Carolyn Behrhorst Parker ’56 Emme Parker Kozloff ’80 Milton G. Hulme Charitable Seema Pollack Renee & Ron Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Kuhn Foundation Sandra Quinn & Stephen Thomas Jennifer & Martin Calihan Linnea Pearson McQuiston ’69 Elinor Cowdrey Rust W’33 Drs. Jothi Nadarajah & Douglas & Shelley Bould Campbell Mellon Financial Corporation Schneider Downs Ramesh Ramanathan Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Chait Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ostrow Bonny & Paul Weiner Red Square Systems Dr. Ramesh Chandra & Pittsburgh Crankshaft Dr. Sita Chandra Services, Inc. James C. & Lori Cardille Rogal Drs. Margaret & John Charley Pittsburgh Gynecologic Oncology, Janice Greenberg Rosenberg ’53 Gregory & Simin Curtis Inc., Frederic V. Price FIFTH AVENUE CLUB Martha Baron & Rob Rutenbar The Design Alliance Anita Prizio ’81 & John Betzler Gifts of $1,000+ Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick N. Egler, Sr. Dr. Dan & Mrs. Simone Rubin Richard & Nancy Santucci Anonymous (7) Dr. Gerald & Ms. Diane Holder Ms. Nancy Bernstein & Carolyn B. Levine & Holger W. Sieg Mr. Harry Alexander A.D. Lupariello, M.D. & Dr. Robert Schoen Betty Cohen Sikov W’35 Mary Jean Rusak Maureen L. Sullivan, M.D. ’73 Mr. & Mrs. George W. Baehr Lynne Crookston Stull ’56 Jocelyn Hulme MacConnell ’43 Andrew Washburn & Janice & Lee Belitsky Ms. Carol L. Tabas Carole Oswald Markus ’57 Kathy McCauley Jean Bottcher ’58 Ms. Evelyn Tabas Mellon Bank, N.A. Dionne & Jonathan Brelsford Hilary Tyson ’70 & Charles Porter Henry Posner, Jr. & Sally Mars Carey ’66 Unionvale Coal Company Helen M. Posner Ms. Robin Ziegler & Barb & Chuck Weinstock Deborah & Martin Powell Dr. Clifford Chen Gaylen & Larry Westfall Shirley Seubert Chewning ’43 Dr. D. Lawrence Wickerham & Dick Corporation Dr. Mary Lou Kundrat Anna-Stina Ericson ’44 * denotes deceased W denotes Winchester A denotes Associate Alum • Lists are current as of June 30, 2007

48 Annual Giving Report Jean Ballard George ’44 Dorothy Dodworth Scullin ’47 Virginia Wicks Douglas ’44 Rita J. Gould ’46 Virginia Ann Sheppard ’41 Mr. & Mrs. James Eaborn Amy Smith Gunn ’89 Holiday Hulme Shoup ’61 Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Eller Elaine Kauffman Haid ’52 Ms. Seda Tamrazova Gail Kuller Enda ’79 Mr. Timothy & Dr. Elizabeth Hazel Ruth Weimer Tillar ’41 Jan Alpert Engelberg ’67 Ms. Judith Gregg Holden & Tomson’s Scrap Metal Express Shuttle/Pittsburgh Mr. Kevin Holden Dr. Alfred Tuttle Transportation Group Sheila & David Holzer Jon & Janet Waters Constance King Faasse ’81 Membership Lindsey & Jonathan Isaacson Nancy Cohen Werner ’44 Harriet Adler Feldman ’57 Giving Clubs Lynn Johnson ’71 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Wood Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ferree Jack & Kasey Kennedy Tacie H. Yoon ’78 Fidelity Foundation Matching MOREWOOD CLUB Kristi A. Kerins ’67 Gifts to Education Program Elizabeth & Penn Krause Jacqueline Swansinger & Gifts of $500+ KILTIE CLUB Debra Durr Ladley ’81 Del Findley Anonymous (2) Allison Levy ’75 Gifts of $250+ Lois Kaplan Finkel ’39 & #1 Cochran Pontiac Elliott Finkel* Mr. Don Linzer & Anonymous (5) David & Sandi Andrews Dr. Helane Linzer Susan Gromis Flynn Barbara Berkman Ackerman ’58 & Francine Gitnick Franke ’64 Mr. & Mrs. John Apostolides Louise Baldridge Lytle ’51 Alan L. Ackerman Craig & Susan Frischman Allison Thompson & Ralph Bangs Janet Rothman Markel ’54 Lisa Sorce Aiba ’76 Mrs. Charles M. Gaines, Jr. Jim & Bea Bradley Susan Hopkins Martin ’60 Mr. & Mrs. David Ainsman Dolores Kaufman Gluck ’44 Mary Jane & Jack Brillman Thomas B. McChesney, Jr. ’98 Bob & Sally Allan Annekathryn Goodman ’74 Louise Gillespie Cannon ’72 Eleanor Donehoo McIntire ’56 The Allswede Family Dr. Harold E. Gordon Dusty E. Kirk & William Caroselli Menasha Corporation Foundation Joan Frank Apt ’44 & Jerome Apt Rachel Graves ’90 Winifred Schultz Carr ’43 Leslie Ann Meredith ’74 Mary Arcuri Debbie Levy Green H. Perry Chapman ’71 Brenda Wise Moffi tt ’54 Dr. Kyongtae Bae & Mary Lou & Edward Harrison ChevronTexaco Bee Jee Epstine Morrison ’56 & Ms. Hyonyoung Moon Mr. Thomas Heinricher John Christie-Searles Perry Morrison Mary Cunningham Bailey ’44 Jacquelyn Freeborn Herst ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Rob Cochran Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Morrison Katharine Bartlett ’07 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Herward Lynda Stern Coslov ’64 Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Murphey Loretta Lobes Benec ’88 Ann Marie & Jeff Hoban Mrs. Richard Cyert Mary A. Navarro ’70 Katherine MacDonald Blenko ’46 Julie Tarasevich Dever ’85 June & Forozan Navid & Don B. Blenko Mason McKean Hoeller ’79 Kathryn Roeder & Bernie Devlin Susan & Thomas Netzer Eileen Friedlander Bondy Georgia McKee Holmberg ’64 Joan Borden Drury ’43 & Dr. & Dr. John Newman Marilyn Wilson Bonner ’58 Jane Hooton Ince ’56 Francis Drury Barbara Weinberg Rackoff ’43 Elizabeth R. Bradley W’33 Linda Johnson & David McLaughlin Jenifer Lee & Howard Dubner Dr. & Mrs. Makum Ramesh Elizabeth Brittain ’65 Dr. Rhonda M. Johnson & Mr. Annie Hanna Engel ’89 & Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Reichelderfer Mr. & Mrs. David Brienza Vincent O. Johnson F. August Engel Daniel A. Sadowski, Jr. Roberta & David Brody Dean M. Julian Sue & Jim Ferland Mark Scheatzle & Dr. & Mrs. Klaus M. Bron Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Kalanish Mrs. Susanne Fox Kimberly Harrigal Dr. Kerry A. Bron ’84 Suzanne Dressler Kellar ’55 Amy & Mick Gee Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Scott Alice Buchdahl Sally Doerschuk Ketchum ’43 & Gayle Shaw Camden ’64 David S. Ketchum THE WT FUND: SIX-YEAR GIVING HISTORY Dr. Jerry & Elna Campbell-Wade Rebecca King & Seth Rosenberg Joan Dibert Caryl ’52 $726,248 raised Peter Kross ($125,876 designated Cauley Detective Agency Mrs. Diane J. Lambrou for capital Dr. Annie S. Menzel & campaign) Dr. Asma Syeda & Dr. M. B. Lateef $691,991 Mr. John Charney $700,000 $667,432 Claudia Rossi Latona ’69 Dr. Laura Childress-Hazen $610,219 $609,781 $600,372 Dr. Leslie Bondy Latterman ’79 $600,000 Carol Crookston Close ’51 & $528,560 Sharon Lauer & Jerome Joseph E. Wade Close, Jr. $500,000 Drs. Judith & Lester Lave Marion Weis Cohen ’44 $400,000 Mary Beth McLaughlin Leech ’82 L. Virginia Crawford ’64 & Chris Leech $300,000 Joan Clark Davis ’65 Thelma Levin Levine ’46 Cynthia Costa Davis ’68 $200,000 Mr. & Mrs. Malcom Levy Judy Rohrer Davis ’57 $100,000 Mr. Walter Limbach Ms. Hannah Krause & Ms. Amy Fields & Mr. James Lynch Mr. Jose de San Martin 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Beverlee Simboli McFadden ’55 Cheryl & Bill DeMarchi Susan McGowan ’66 Paul & Maureen Dishart Karen Meyers Photography

2006 - 2007 49 Nancy Clever Middleton ’65 By Constituency 1939 Patricia Conner Schulte Abby & Mark Miller Lois Kaplan Finkel Margaret Edgar Sellers Michele & Michael Morris ALUMNAE/I Mary Louise Kountz Groover Nancy Cohen Werner Dr. Wendy C. Newstetter ’67 Sally Smith Williams by class year Nancy Crook Tishler Michelle Kane O’Donnell ’75 Heather Palonder ’87 Honorary Alumnae/i 1940 1945 Nancy Patton Ruth Donnelly Egler Ida Ann Stevens Sullivan Anonymous Stella & Scott Pipitone Mr. J. Sherman McLaughlin Mary M. Voigt Elizabeth Wright Anderson Geri Anderson Potter ’77 Betty M. Price Suzanne Robbins Barnes Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Przyborski Susan Scarborough 1941 Elizabeth Ann Leggett Black Frances Hoffman Puntereri ’68 Pamela Shaw Britta Ericson Chambers Frances Lyne Heiner Bill & Nancy Rackoff Betty Girts Dell Esther Speidel Jack Dr. & Dr. D Raja 1931 Barbara Foster Mars Betty Jean (B.J.) King Kane Lynne Raphael Virginia Koch Daugherty Dorothy Willison Reed Shirley Kerr Kennard Mary Jayne Whipkey (Winchester)* Electra Anthon Manfred Redenbaugh ’37 Virginia Ann Sheppard Betty Thompson Reif Ruth Weimer Tillar Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Nancy & Craig Rogers (Winchester)* McCloskey Mrs. Ellen S. Ansell & 1942 Mr. Richard D. Rogow 1932 1946 Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Ruth Speidel Dalzell-McMillan Anonymous Enola Sargent Almany Betsy Riddle Ruderfer ’53 Marion Thompson Kerwin Jean H. Davis (Winchester) Jane Callomon Arkus Eleanor Hewitt Rushworth ’47 Gertrude M. Kneil Nancy L. Davis (Winchester) Katherine MacDonald Blenko Ms. Loretta A. Stanish & Eleanor Jackson Migdal Antoinette Vilsack Seifert Caroline Abraham Delavan Mr. Richard A. Russell Jane Bortman Porter (Winchester) Jean Curran Donley Kimberly Farinet Sailer ’87 Rita J. Gould Kathryn Cable Sandell ’56 1943 1933 Lenore Corey Hanson Leland & Janice Faller Schermer Anonymous (2) Elizabeth R. Bradley (Winchester) Mary Meyer Johns Anne M. Scheuermann ’75 & Winifred Schultz Carr Elinor Cowdrey Rust (Winchester) Patricia Marlin Laird Timothy Mullins Shirley Seubert Chewning Jay Silberblatt & Lori Sisson Thelma Levin Levine 1934 Joan Borden Drury Rita Gottlieb Levis Elisa Lynch Simmons ’60 Janet Donaldson Gilmore Alice McKnight Mackroth Amy Comins Lowenstein Heidi Hageman Smith ’81 Jessie Butler Herdic (Winchester) Elizabeth Schultz Moore Mr. & Mrs. Edward Solomon Janet Eisenbeis Johnson Mrs. Anne Steidle Jean Ayars Pohli 1935 Sally Doerschuk Ketchum Jane Marcy Pritchard Ms. Patricia Mooney & Jocelyn Hulme MacConnell Mr. Alan Steinberg Anonymous Marcia Miller Weiss Barbara Weinberg Rackoff Dr. Guy M. Stofman Marjorie Vilsack Propst Suzanne Fink Scott Elizabeth & Michael Thompson (Winchester) 1947 Rachel V. Heppenstall Shingler Lois Graham Tingler ’51 Betty Cohen Sikov (Winchester) Katharine B. Bancroft Adrienne Pigossi Shryock Dr. & Dr. Rafael Velez Barbara Bennett Blum Joyce Runk Wenston Dr. Howard D. & Dr. Mary Wactlar 1936 Anne Franklin Hazlett Marguerite Tabor Yates Deborah & Mark Weis Helen McNair Sinnett Norma Sue Glinn Madden Marcia & Paul Whitehead 1944 Eleanor Hewitt Rushworth Mr. & Mrs. William H. Winslow 1937 Dorothy Dodworth Scullin Joan Frank Apt John L. Wise III Nancy Steigerwalt Dwyer Gwen Chenoweth Swaney Jean Forncrook Armstrong Alison Wolfson Jane Brooke Farnsworth Gerda Rice Whitman Mary Cunningham Bailey Yarns By Design Mary George Gast Marion Weis Cohen Mary Jayne Whipkey Redenbaugh 1948 Marcia Phillips Cornell Ruth A. Succop Anonymous THISTLE CLUB Virginia Wicks Douglas Suzanne Birmingham Anna-Stina Ericson Gifts of $100 - $250, for alumnae/i who 1938 Virginia Jack Claxon have graduated in the last ten years Jean Ballard George Mary M. Cosgrove Anonymous Dolores Kaufman Gluck Gloria Palmer Fuller Lee Moses ’98 Charlotte Rush Brown, M.D. Ann Meckel Hendry Elizabeth T. Jackman Andrew Santelli ’00 Mary Jane Harter Forker Murray Armstrong James Nancy Queer McSorley Stacey Stanczak Smith ’97 Mary Lou Armstrong Mele Elizabeth Ricketts Knott Jane Dressler Page Andrew Wickerham ’06 Valerie Roemer Lynn Joan Heppenstall Sieber Nancy Succop Schroeder

50 Annual Giving Report 1949 Margaret Reed Smith Constance Blum Marstine Linda Crandall Smith Myrna Kline Hackney Cynthia Hill Smith Beverlee Simboli McFadden Marsha Swiss Margaret Smith Wenzel, M.D. Barbara Feldman Rogal 1953 Faith Wertz Eastwood Shore 1959 1950 Anne Ballard Dunlap Jeannie Murdoch Smith Linda Kramer Berk Nancy Ray Copp Graves Jane Blough French Marcia Wilder Carolyn Marzke Braun Rev. Carol Straub Guilbert Ann Ross Heymann Helen Crozier-Breed 1956 Caryl Amshel Halpern Susanna Biddle Kecskemethy Justine Diebold Englert Adlyn Hollearn Hickey Margaret Jackman Metzger Charlotte Crozier Cole Mary Lowenthal Felstiner Sally Duff Kennedy Janice Greenberg Rosenberg Lois Silverblatt Crone Alexandra Brittain Knox Marilyn Sugerman Latterman Barbara Silver Rosenthal Jane Gault Greer Lyn Clark Pegg Patricia Booth Linehan Betsy Riddle Ruderfer Sally Barker Hanan Nancy Warren Schroeder Margaret Anne Ewart Riter Paula Lynn Templeton Rosanne Isay Harrison Donna Gow Taylor Mary Jane Langham Walling Jane Hooton Ince Judith Getty Treadwell 1954 Jane Marshall Lohman 1951 Sarah Buchanan Braun Eleanor Donehoo McIntire 1960 Anonymous Betsy Gott Byerly Bee Jee Epstine Morrison Joy Duquette Engroff Patricia McClay Boggs Roberta Moritz Friedlander Carolyn Behrhorst Parker Elizabeth Booth Ezerman Carol Crookston Close Nancy Berryman Latimer Barbara Probst Roth Christiana Hoffman Hirshberg Sally Bloom Cohen Judith Marshall Lauer Kathryn Cable Sandell Donne Erving Holden, M.D. Ruth O’Brien Collura Susan Parker Livingston Barbara Safi er Shoag Elizabeth Hackett Huffi ne Audrey Whitcomb Fetter Janet Rothman Markel Lynne Crookston Stull Bebe Dorrance Marchal Constance Smith Franklin Sue White Marshall Robin McKinney Weiss Barbara Gott Martha Sallie Gottlieb Korman Anne (Kiki) Bahr McConnel Susan Hopkins Martin 1957 Louise Baldridge Lytle Brenda Wise Moffi tt Judi Mosenson McCord Marjorie Reed Olson Bobbie Blackburn Muenzmay Phyllis Chinlund Susan Criep Santa-Cruz Nancy Bair Peacock Mary Christner Mullins Judith Bond Clarke Alison Pedicord Schleifer Lois Graham Tingler Sally Helsel Price Nann Hegmann Cooke Elisa Lynch Simmons Sandra Metz Qureshi Judy Rohrer Davis 1952 Elisabeth Mirsky Ruchkin Harriet Adler Feldman 1961 Suzanne LeClere Barley Barbara Messer Steinfi rst Marilyn King Jones Barbara Nickel Beisel Janine Louise McCaslin Bergmark Susan Williams Workman Nancy Seip Krot Martha Goorin Bolte-Peterson Barbara Abney Bolger Carole Oswald Markus Eileen Mauclair D’Appolonia 1955 Joan Dibert Caryl Jane Sachs Radoff Sally Colbaugh Marks Marion Montgomery Colbourne Anonymous Victoria Brittain Seckel Barbara Taylor McKelvey Alice Stotz Diehl Nancy Riester Allen Elaine Dupertuis Seibert Sandra Hawkins Miller Elaine Kauffman Haid Melinda Brown Beard Cordelia Westervelt Swinton Dorothy Hart Murray Jacquelyn Wilson Hill Mary Minor Evans Jane Arensberg Thompson Holiday Hulme Shoup Barbara Givan Missimer Nancy Stimmel Herpin Elizabeth Smelzer Winslow Nan Sachs Solow Caroline O’Nan Frances Blasdell Hubbell 1958 Audrey Rosenthal Reichblum Elizabeth Forstall Keen 1962 Suzanne Dressler Kellar Barbara Berkman Ackerman Francie Johnston Brentzel Linda Ruttenberg Ackerman Aline J. Massey Katherine Horner Anderson Elizabeth Bell Middleton THE WT FUND: ONE OF FOUR SOURCES Marilyn Wilson Bonner OF YEARLY REVENUE Jean Bottcher 1963 Joanne Johnston Bowser WT Fund 6% Susan Sharp Dorrance (A) Investment Income 4% Tuition and Fees 83% Linda Isaly Coughlin Ann Zehner Edwards Auxiliary Revenue 7% Susan Pekruhn Glotfelty Susan Wainwright Friesell Johnston Williams Harris Annette Moser Hodess Kathryn W. Kruse Carolyn Riviere Worrall Claire Evans Martin Mildred Stewart McGough Mary Lee Friday Rafferty Josette Neubauer Rolley

2006 - 2007 51 1964 1967 Polly Haight Frawley Allison Levy Judy Ruben Alpert Jan Alpert Engelberg Sally Weigler Golden Randy Lyon Mayes Gayle Shaw Camden Patricia Kinney Gross Helen Berkman Habbert Ann Beldecos Natale Lynda Stern Coslov Suzanne Gurzenda Black Susan Crump Hammond Michelle Kane O’Donnell L. Virginia Crawford Kathy Curtis Jaehnig Jane Nash Holland Sally Barley Pietsch A Carol Martin Crook Susan Chamovitz Kapp Lynn Wechsler Kramer Anne M. Scheuermann Jennifer Davies Kristi A. Kerins A Mary A. Navarro Carole Haskell Epstein Dr. Diana K. Lemley Elva Merry Pawle 1976 Francine Gitnick Franke Eleanor Schatz Magyar Anne Peters Anonymous (2) Julie Willey Haase Audrey Geer Masalehdan Jane Appleyard Roel Lisa Sorce Aiba Georgia McKee Holmberg Karen McKinley Sarah Scott Schuyler Susan Davis Claus Marga Matheny Dr. Wendy C. Newstetter Hilary Tyson Dr. Susan M. Dunmire Becky-Lee Sweet O’Connor Maggi Musico Reiss Karen L. Hughes Jeanne Horner Pote Judith Sutton 1971 Carol Hydovitz Christine Raisig Leslie Thomas Kimmel Henninger Blackmar Mary Vann Odom Nancy Herron Ruben Virginia (Jiji) Reed Weidner H. Perry Chapman Stacy Jannis Tamerlani Susan Finkel Wechsler Joan A. Chapman Nancy Hickox Wright 1968 Mary G. Gregg 1977 Carolyn Sharp Yates (A) Jennie W. Berg Lynn Johnson Andrea C. Beldecos Linda Hildebrand Case Kathy Zillweger Putnam Cindy Deskins Brickley 1965 Carol Byrom Conrad Ellen (Charney) Regenstein Spyra Jean A. Hetzel Anonymous L. Melissa Crump Cook Paula Becker Vito Eleanore Meredith Mary Sturm Albright Cynthia Costa Davis Janet Marstine Polishook Emily Amerman Sally Feinman Garson 1972 Geri Anderson Potter R. Victoria Berg Carolyn Hockensmith Gerber Dana Levy Baldwin Lindsay McKean Scott Darryl Massey Bladen Janice Coco Groft Louise Gillespie Cannon Gretchen Bohna Weissner Elizabeth Brittain Jacquelyn Freeborn Herst Joan Clarkson Crowell Mary Helen Hamilton Burroughs Patricia Watson Kammerer Jane Goldstein Haas 1978 Julie Hibbard Crittenden Barbara L. Krause Virginia Hofer Loesch Randi Coffey Joan Clark Davis E. Patricia Constantin Orringer Leslie M. McKinley Jennifer Hetzel Gear Cheri Rose Feinman Frances Hoffman Puntereri Mary Pivirotto Murley Laura Jean Ketchum Nancy Clever Middleton Sara Viviano Rolley Susan A. Reel-Panish Melissa Oliphant Lynn Gerrick Miller Marilyn Griffi n Solomon Heidi Pearlman Helen Mar H. Parkin Nancy Walton Succop 1973 Tacie H. Yoon Marny Riehl Peabody Anonymous Myrna Klee Robinson 1969 Barbara Lichtenstul Lippman 1979 Joyce Kloss Teese Jacquelyn Gentile Capretto Peggy E. Lowenstein Gail Kuller Enda Cynthia Pearson Turich Marjorie B. Haller Amy Nixon Mindlin Ellen Silverman Garvin Beth Wright Christine McGowan Hess Pamela Price Pryor Kate Taylor Golightly Claudia Rossi Latona Joanne Ross Simon Mason McKean Hoeller 1966 Juliet H. Landon Lescynski Maureen L. Sullivan, M.D. Ellen Krause Johnson Martha Lynn Berg Patricia L. Maykuth Jodi Cohen Klein Chris Haberstick Biedenbach Elsie Heard McAdoo 1974 Dr. Leslie Bondy Latterman Sally Mars Carey Linnea Pearson McQuiston Anonymous Mary McKenna Susan Whitmer Craft Linda Zerbe Pitner Carolyn Fine Friedman Helene Stone Prince Christine Crawford Nancy Lora Staisey Eleanor Agnew Giriyappa Helenbeth Reiss Reynolds Martha L. Elmer-Hunter Ann Sutton Annekathryn Goodman Carol Levy Wilson Margaret Keck Joan Musgrave Wickham Judith Hoover Lenore Mardis-McClintock Leisel Locke Lengyel 1980 Susan McGowan 1970 Leslie Ann Meredith Anonymous (2) Susan Cohen Myrick Anonymous Christina Kalaris Sfanos Jennifer Smith Cochran Nancy Taylor Parrish Joanne Thomas Asbill Meg McKean Taylor Emme Parker Kozloff Anne Parkin Pierpont Linda Thiessen Bankson Amy Gurtin Winokur Lesa B. Morrison Ann Haber Schelbe Cynthia E. Hodgson Clampitt Anne M. O’Dair-Holovacs, D.O. Dr. Jane A. Soxman Joeta K. Klimoski D’Este 1975 Dr. Judith Uptegraff Spaeth Sharon Simon Dunlap Laura Wechsler Broff 1981 Lindsay C. Yates Susan Nill Flynn Cynthia Cramer Lackey Lori Adelson Derman

52 Annual Giving Report Constance King Faasse 1988 2007 Ms. Robin Ziegler & Carolyn Ferguson Loretta Lobes Benec Katharine Bartlett Dr. Clifford Chen Marti Kavaler Fischer Gail Unger Fryncko Dr. Laura Childress-Hazen Iris Angerman Friedman Monika Kassyk & Emile Chreky Eva Kolodner PARENTS Cindy Rom Glickert Jacqueline Marks John Christie-Searles Marcie Slotsky Katzen Mary Martin Anonymous (20) Eva Maria Holler-Cladders & Barbara Kraemer-Cook Mr. & Mrs. David Ainsman Johannes Cladders Debra Durr Ladley 1989 Mr. Harry Alexander Helene Weinraub & Geoff Clauss Muriel Alim & Francis T. Alim Mr. & Mrs. Rob Cochran Anita Prizio Elizabeth Miller Buchanan Bob & Sally Allan Dr. Claire Cohen Lillian Goldstein Schapiro Annie Hanna Engel Roberta & William Allen Stacy & Dan Cohen Heidi Hageman Smith Amy Smith Gunn Alaine Allen Sheila & Bill Colombo Julie Felman Wagner Dina Kaplan (A) The Allswede Family Ms. Pia Colucci Sheen Sehgal 1982 Ms. Katherine M. Ambrose Marie Cooper Constance Paras Wong Anonymous David & Sandi Andrews Elizabeth & Richard Costa Gregory & Simin Curtis Beth Beebe Blackwood 1990 Mr. & Mrs. John Apostolides Ms. Victoria Austin Jim Daniels & Kristin Kovacic Mary Beth McLaughlin Leech Rachel Graves Lynn Friedman Warren Dr. Kyongtae Bae & Selene & Arnold Davis Ms. Hyonyoung Moon Ms. Hannah Krause & 1991 1983 Lisa Baldwin-Youngblood ’84 & Mr. Jose de San Martin Kathleen L. Metinko Marlon Youngblood Jane & Jon Delano Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Bryon Balint Cheryl & Bill DeMarchi Edith Raphael Brotman 1993 Mor Harchol-Balter & Kathryn Roeder & Bernie Devlin Melissa Reynolds Rizer Ann Stanton Adams Robert Balter Mr. & Mrs. J. Philip DiPietro Lori Sobol Jennifer Taylor Ames Ralph Bangs Jill Dishart Jeannette Locke Wellman Mr. & Mrs. Leonce Bargeron Mr. & Mrs. James Dougherty, Jr. Lisa Altman Young 1994 Renee & Ron Bartlett Jenifer Lee & Howard Dubner Kate Masley Karen & Christopher Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. 1984 Dunkerley Justin K. Smith Janice & Lee Belitsky Lisa Baldwin-Youngblood Hela & Leon Edelsack Erin Herward Thurston Dr. George G. Bellios Dr. Kerry A. Bron Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Ben-David Kathleen W. Buechel & Frederick N. Egler, Jr. Mary Elko Comfort 1995 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bernstein Lori Feinman Randi Coffey ’78 Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Eller Lauren Randolph Ames Cynthia Joy Scully Sally & Russell Boehner L. Ernst & C. Dixon-Ernst Jennifer C. Brady Allyson Baird Sveda Charmaine & Michael Booker Susan & Brian Ernstoff Caytie Hunt Anne King Unger Lisa & Ronald Bopp Mark & Jenifer Evans Michelle L. Washington Maura Farrell 1996 Jim & Bea Bradley Mrs. Amy Kerber-Brancati & Sue & Jim Ferland 1985 Anonymous Mr. Joseph J. Brancati Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ferree Tracey Cohen Dionne & Jonathan Brelsford Jill & John Ferreira 1997 Julie Tarasevich Dever Mr. & Mrs. David Brienza Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ferry Deborah Tenenouser Hochman Stacey Stanczak Smith Mary Jane & Jack Brillman The Fierstein Family Amy Rose Goldstein Jaffe Alice Buchdahl Jacqueline Swansinger & Laura Kruper, M.D. 1998 Carlotta & Mark Burkowski Del Findley Laura Cantor Kate & Peter Burroughs Susan Gromis Flynn 1986 Thomas B. McChesney, Jr. Dr. Sharna Olfman & Suzy & Ed Flynn Dr. Daniel R. Burston Holly Hatcher-Frazier & Jennifer Alexander Honig Lee Moses (A) Jennifer & Martin Calihan Evan Frazier Jennifer Kaplan Douglas & Shelley Bould Campbell Craig & Susan Frischman Elizabeth Samet 2000 Heather & David Capezzuti Ms. Lynn A. Schraf & Jordan Solow Sweeting Andrew Santelli Annie & Dennis Cestra Mr. David R. Gilbreath Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Glimcher 1987 2001 Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Chait Dr. Ramesh Chandra & Lauren & Philip Goldblum Barry Rabkin Janet Harrison Kuzmishin Dr. Sita Chandra Monica & Bradley Graham Dr. Melinda Scully Noah Drs. Margaret & John Charley Ms. Joan Gray 2006 Heather Palonder Dr. Annie S. Menzel & Debbie Levy Green Lauren B. Raphael Andrew Wickerham Mr. John Charney Dr. & Ms. Todd Green Kimberly Farinet Sailer

2006 - 2007 53 Mr. Richard Green Mr. Don Linzer & Richard & Nancy Santucci Leonoor & Lisle Zehner Mr. & Mrs. Adam Grodin Dr. Helane Linzer Ms. Linda Turner & Dr. Nuria M. Pastor-Soler & Stacey Dowden & Scott Hare Karen & David Littman Mr. Eric Schatzman Mr. Stephen A. Zerby Mary Lou & Edward Harrison Mr. Bin Liu & Ms. Song Xiang Mark Scheatzle & Kimberly Harrigal Mahnaz & Ross Harrison India & Steve Loevner ALUMNAE/I PARENTS Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan A. Hayes A.D. Lupariello, MD & Leland & Janice Faller Schermer Anonymous (9) Mr. Timothy & Dr. Elizabeth Hazel Mary Jean Rusak Anne M. Scheuermann ’75 & Barbara Berkman Ackerman ’58 & Freeman B. Hazen Ms. Amy Fields & Mr. James Lynch Timothy Mullins Alan L. Ackerman Mr. Thomas Heinricher Jacqueline A. MacDonald & Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Schiff Mr. & Mrs. David Ainsman Laurie Heinricher Bruce M. Maggs Peg Schmidt & Wilma Palombo Bob & Sally Allan Kathryn & Sam Hens-Greco Mr. & Mrs. Michael Machen Ms. Nancy Bernstein & Dr. Robert Schoen Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ames David Herndon & Cindy Kirsch Janine Frazier Macklin & Warner Macklin III Marian Dietrich & Shane & Charlie Appel Ann Marie & Jeff Hoban Mary Martin ’88 & Charles Schwartz Joan Frank Apt ’44 & Jerome Apt David F. Hoechstetter Luqman Abdul-Salaam Turner Beth & Chris Scott Jean Forncrook Armstrong ’44 Ms. Judith Gregg Holden & Mr. & Mrs. Tim McDonough Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Scott Mr. & Mrs. George W. Baehr Mr. Kevin Holden Dr. Patty Metosky & Christine & Duane Seppi Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Baird Dr. Gerald & Ms. Diane Holder Ms. Gail Amshel Dr. & Mrs. Prabhat Seth Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Baker Sheila & David Holzer Abby & Mark Miller Ms. Lynn Shiner Annette & Bishop Baldwin Judith Hoover ’74 & Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Minard Timothy Grant Carolyn B. Levine & Holger W. Sieg Suzanne LeClere Barley ’52 Dr. & Mrs. Buba Misawa Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Huckstein Jay Silberblatt & Lori Sisson Florian Bechtold Rose & David Molder Natalie Glance & David Hull Mr. & Mrs. Robert Simpson Audrey S. Bensy Cheryl Moore & Stan Levenson Lindsey & Jonathan Isaacson Dr. & Ms. Daniel D. Sleator Martha Lynn Berg ’66 Michele & Michael Morris Jon Jackson & Roxanne Sherbeck Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Snyder Mrs. R. C. Biesecker Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Morrison Dr. Cindy Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. Edward Solomon Eileen Friedlander Bondy Steven & Lisa Nakamura Carol Stewart James & Ian James Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Spagnolo Charmaine & Michael Booker Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Naragon Dr. Rhonda M. Johnson & Ms. Patricia Mooney & David L. Bostick Mr. Vincent O. Johnson Mary Kay & Sudhir Narla Mr. Alan Steinberg Mary Jane & Jack Brillman Janice L. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Mohammad Navadeh Ann & Greg Steiner Roberta & David Brody Laura B. Jordan & June & Forozan Navid Rosemary & Clarence Steiner Dr. & Mrs. Klaus M. Bron Charles M. Humphrey Susan & Thomas Netzer Dr. Guy M. Stofman Alice Buchdahl Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Kalanish Mr. & Mrs. Thong T. Nguyen Mrs. Baohong Sun & The Buchser Family Leslie Borsett-Kanter & Shelly & Dan Onorato Mr. Henry H. Cao Dusty E. Kirk & William Caroselli Steven Kanter Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ostrow Allyson Baird Sveda ’84 & Jan Chalfant John Sveda Elsa Limbach & Lynn Epstein & Craig Otto Mr. & Mrs. James C. Chaplin Ms. Seda Tamrazova Plamen Karagyozov Mr. Junhai Ou & Mrs. Liping Qian In Chul & Il Young Chay Stacey & Matthew Tegtmeier Lonna Wilkinson & Bill Keller Ms. Yanbing Ye & Tina & Michael Chutz Allison Thompson Jack & Kasey Kennedy Dr. Hairong Peng Mrs. William R. Clarkson Elizabeth & Michael Thompson Ellen & Jack Kessler Kathryn & Jeff Pepper Lynda Stern Coslov ’64 Mr. & Mrs. Trevor T. Tompkins Dr. & Mrs. Mohammed Khan Ronda & John Pindzola Maudleen & William Cottrell Deborah & John M. Tomson Carole King Stella & Scott Pipitone Mary Jo & Charles Cwenar Dr. & Mrs. Steven Uretsky Ms. Dusty E. Kirk & Seema Pollack Mrs. Richard Cyert Jeanne & Axel VanBriesen Mr. William Caroselli Jaime Porter Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Danaher Ms. Beverly Varnay Jennifer Kraar & Mark Possanza Anne M. Molloy & Eileen Mauclair D’Appolonia ’61 Henry Posner III Mary Louise Vetrano & Elizabeth & Penn Krause Mr. & Mrs. James Deklewa Deborah & Martin Powell Timothy Ward Alexandra Kreps Debra & Frank Dermody Mr. & Mrs. M.K. Premkumar Andrew Washburn & Ms. Sue Friedberg & Barbara & Mark DeWitt Dr. Dean Kross Ellen S. Wilson & Fredric V. Price Kathy McCauley Jon & Janet Waters Susan Sharp Dorrance A’63 & Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Kuhn Anita Prizio ’81 & John Betzler Roy Dorrance Bonny & Paul Weiner Mrs. Diane J. Lambrou Drs. Jothi Nadarajah & Mr. & Mrs. James Eaborn Ramesh Ramanathan Barb & Chuck Weinstock James Lampl Ann Zehner Edwards ’63 & Deborah & Mark Weis Dr. Asma Syeda & Dr. M. B. Lateef Dr. & Mrs. Makum Ramesh William Zehner Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wickert Ken & Sharon Lee Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Reading Mr. & Mrs. Frederick N. Egler, Sr. Kate Stainton & Chuck Winschel Jill & Philip Lehman Nancy & Craig Rogers Linda & Sanford Ehrenreich Mr. & Mrs. William H. Winslow Ann Lehman Victor & Marcia Roque Jan Alpert Engelberg ’67 John L. Wise III Cindy & Terry Lerman Lori & Michael Rostek L. Ernst & C. Dixon-Ernst Deborah Witte & John O’Brion Christine & Alfred LeVasseur Dr. Dan & Mrs. Simone Rubin Linet & Edward Feigel Debbi & Tommy Samakow Mr. & Mrs. Edward Wojnaroski, Jr.

54 Annual Giving Report THE WT FUND: SUPPORT BY CONSTITUENCY Ruth & William Peterman Karen & Thomas Bernstein Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Pett-Ridge Mr. & Mrs. Walter Borsett Foundations 13% Other Individuals 15% Ellyn S. Roth & Harold A. Pincus Mr. Ronald Brelsford Other Organizations 16% Alumnae/i 19% Anne M. Molloy & Carol & David Capezzuti Henry Posner III Mr. & Mrs. John Chan Betty M. Price Mr. & Mrs. William M. Charley Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Przyborski Robert Clark Sandra Quinn & Stephen Thomas Ms. Ruby Costa Bill & Nancy Rackoff Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiPietro Trustees 22% Parents 15% Barbara & Francis Raco Paul & Maureen Dishart Dr. & Mrs. Makum Ramesh Jean Curran Donley ‘46 Lynne Raphael Mr. & Mrs. Rex Dowden Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ferree Ms. Sue Friedberg & Dorothy Willison Reed ’41 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick N. Egler, Sr. Lois Kaplan Finkel ’39 & Dr. Dean Kross Karla & Randy Rhoades Dr. & Mrs. E. Ralph Erickson Elliott Finkel* Mrs. Diane J. Lambrou Stephen G. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Fox Bernice & Ross Firestone James Lampl James C. & Lori Cardille Rogal Mrs. Susanne Fox The Flechtner Family Carol Larson Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Mrs. Michael Friedberg Suzy & Ed Flynn Sharon Lauer & Jerome Joseph Martha Baron & Rob Rutenbar Joan & Stuart Gaul Ellen Freise-March & Lewis March Drs. Judith & Lester Lave Dr. & Mrs. Raif K. Sabeh Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Glance Mrs. Charles M. Gaines, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Leo Margaret & Joseph Santelli Dee Dee & Herb Glimcher Drs. Mary & Rohan Ganguli Betty & Morton Levine Mrs.Virginia W. Schatz Alan Goff G. Gray Garland, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Malcom Levy Emily Medine & Michael Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gordon Mrs. Joseph Gellman Mr. & Mrs. Duane D. Lindemer Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Scott Ms. Mary Graham Karen W. Gist Dr. & Mrs. Louis A. Lobes, Jr. Lisa & Jim Seguin Mr. Walter Guziewicz Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Greenfi eld Nancy & Keith Loughrey Holiday Hulme Shoup ’61 David Handler Louis & Janice Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. James C. Malone Dr. & Mrs. Datar Singh Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Carol, Evan, & Rayna Gross Annette & Ronald Marks Nan Sachs Solow ’61 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Guzman Barbara Foster Mars ’41 Donald Solow Mr. & Mrs. Marvin S. Jacobson Martha Hamilton Constance Blum Marstine ’55 & Cecilia F. Sommers Maria & Peter Kellner Mr. & Mrs. Neil Harrison Sheldon Marstine Nancy & Michael Soso Rita Perlow Langue Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Audrey Geer Masalehdan ’67 & Ellen (Charney) Regenstein Spyra Myriam & Merle Levine Dr. Ali Masalehdan Dr. Anthony M. Harrison ’71 & Dennis Spyra Mr. Walter Limbach Dr. & Mrs. Donald R. Mattison Susan & Michael Harter Mr. & Mrs. Donald Stanczak Priscilla & Robert Macy Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Shirley & David Hercules Dr. & Mrs. Victor Stiebel Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Menzel McCloskey ’45 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Herward Matthew Teplitz & Sue Challinor Mr. Dana R. Myers Jami-Rae McGovern Al & Laurie Hirschman Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Thomas Teresa & Louis Piotrowski Mr. J. Sherman McLaughlin, Mrs. Wilbur D. Hockensmith Jane Arensberg Thompson ’57 & Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Pollack Robert Hoffman & Hon Alum & Mrs. Suzanne Harry Thompson II McLaughlin Henry Posner, Jr. & Christine Tyndall Judith Getty Treadwell ’59 Mr. & Mrs. Francis McMichael Helen M. Posner Mr. & Mrs. James Holland John L. Tunney Linnea Pearson McQuiston ’69 Vito & Florence Re Barbara Holmes Mary T. Tymeson Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Meredith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Ridgway Mary & David Hunter Andrew Washburn & Kathy Jerry & Barbara Rosenberg Jon Jackson & Roxanne Sherbeck Dr. Diana M. Metes & McCauley Mr. Peter Metes Dr. & Mrs. Lester Rosenbloom Linda Johnson & Marcia & Paul Whitehead Mr. & Mrs. George Schellenberger David McLaughlin Amy Nixon Mindlin ’73 Dr. D. Lawrence Wickerham & Esther Schreiber Bev Jones & Buzz Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Murphey Dr. Mary Lou Kundrat Mr. & Mrs. A. Reed Schroeder Laura B. Jordan & Mary Kay & Sudhir Narla Barbara & Michael Wollman Mildred & Michel Sidorow Charles M. Humphrey Carol & Richard Nathenson Mr. & Mrs. Edward Wood Dotti & Alan Silberman Ms. Barbara Blackmond & Margo Naus Dr. Costas Karakatsanis Susan & Thomas Netzer Mr. Noyes Spelman GRANDPARENTS Dr. Denise & Raymond Karasic Mr. Gary J. Niels Ms. Evelyn Tabas Victoria & Joseph Katrencik Dr. Teresa Nolan Anonymous (2) Jane Arensberg Thompson ‘57 & Harry Thompson Sally Doerschuk Ketchum ’43 & Dr. & Mrs. Domingo G. Ottonello Mrs. Judy Andrews David S. Ketchum Mr. & Mrs. David Paine Mary Armbruster Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tompkins Dr. & Mrs. Mohammed Khan Libby & Dwaine Parker Robert D. Austin Dr. Alfred Tuttle Deepak & Nirmal Kotwal Carlene A. Parkinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Baird Tina & Art Velisaris Jennifer Kraar & Mark Possanza Anne & Neil Paylor Annette & Bishop Baldwin Ms. Marianne Wallach Dr. Seymoure & Kathryn & Jeff Pepper Nely & Eugene Barad Mr. & Mrs. David Wiles Dr. Corinne Krause

2006 - 2007 55 FACULTY & STAFF Jill K. Kazmierczak Susan Finkel Wechsler ’64 BIRTHDAY BOOKS Anonymous (1) Roblyn Kelly Gaylen & Larry Westfall Anonymous (8) Muriel Alim M. Veronica Kennedy Kitti Whordley Mr. & Mrs. John Apostolides Bob & Sally Allan Anne Jacob Kerr Deborah Witte & John O’Brion Mr. & Mrs. Leonce Bargeron The Allswede Family Rebecca King & Seth Rosenberg Alison Wolfson Janice & Lee Belitsky Mary Arcuri Jennifer Kraar & Mark Possanza David Wollam Dr. George G. Bellios Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Atkinson Kristin McClintock-LeBeau & Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Ben-David Shane LeBeau Diane J. Barbarino Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bernstein Pat Leddy FRIENDS Laura Berkowitz Mrs. Amy Kerber-Brancati & Shannon & Scot Lorenzi Randi Coffey ’78 Marcia G. Arnold Mr. Joseph J. Brancati Kathy & Ken Lovasik Rebecca Bosco Tingle & Richard Barnes Dionne & Jonathan Brelsford Mr. & Mrs. Michael Machen Susan Brand Dr. Harold E. Gordon Carlotta & Mark Burkowski Nanci Maguire Dionne & Jonathan Brelsford Mr. Robert C. McCarthy Jennifer & Martin Calihan Judy & John Maione Adam Brownold Anne Seltzer Dusty E. Kirk & William Caroselli Ellen March & Lewis March Shelly Burr The Rev. Dr. Richard E. Sigler Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Chait Connie Martin Heather & David Capezzuti John Voigt Dr. Annie S. Menzel & Mary Martin ’88 Brenda L. Carnahan Colette Jousse Wilkins Mr. John Charney Melissa Mathis Jan Chalfant Winchester Thurston Ms. Robin Ziegler & Dr. Clifford Amy & Kevin Miller Parents Association Dr. Annie S. Menzel & Chen Mr. John Charney Lee Moses (A) ’98 Sheila & Bill Colombo Marie Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Naragon Elizabeth & Richard Costa Jeff Cronauer Gary J. Niels Jim Daniels & Kristin Kovacic Michael B. Davidson Nancy Patton Ms. Hannah Krause & Katherine Dunlop Brock Perkins Mr. Jose de San Martin Hela & Leon Edelsack David Piemme Cheryl & Bill DeMarchi Susan & Brian Ernstoff Tina Bell Plaks Jill Dishart Kirsten Faas Denise Pollack Mr. & Mrs. James Dougherty, Jr. Aimee Fantazier Patricia A. Prince Jenifer Lee & Howard Dubner Maura Farrell Robert Probst Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Dunkerley Michele Ciara Farrell Lynne Raphael Hela & Leon Edelsack Linet & Edward Feigel Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Reichelderfer L. Ernst & C. Dixon-Ernst Aida Filippini Karla & Randy Rhoades Susan & Brian Ernstoff William & Rhonda Fitch & Family Nancy & Craig Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ferry Anne Flanagan Kimberly Rovnan Kathy & Howard Russell Jacqueline Swansinger & The Flechtner Family Del Findley Suzy & Ed Flynn Jennifer Russo Daniel A. Sadowski, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Glimcher Marc Fogel Monica & Bradley Graham Marie Forst Ms. Linda Turner & Mr. Eric Schatzman Dr. & Ms. Todd Green Holly Hatcher-Frazier & Mr. & Mrs. Adam Grodin Evan Frazier Darrell C. Schmitt Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan A. Hayes Peter Frischmann John Erik Schreiber Freeman B. Hazen Cheryl & Gary Gaal Kylie Schweitzer Laurie Heinricher Kathryn Gaertner Chris Scott Ms. Chia Feng Hsieh Karen & Chris Gaul David Seward Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Huckstein Amy & Mick Gee Sally Sherman Lindsey & Jonathan Isaacson Monica & Bradley Graham Kay H. Simon Amy L. Skelly Leslie Borsett-Kanter & Amanda & Jason Greenwald Steven Kanter Cheri Hanczar Renee Skiba Brian T. Swauger Elsa Limbach & Laurie Heinricher Plamen Karagyozov Kathleen Henkel Lori Swensson Stacey & Matthew Tegtmeier Lonna Wilkinson & Bill Keller Barbara Holmes Jack & Kasey Kennedy Mrs. Amy Hunt Heidi Thomas Tracy & Mark Valenty Ms. Dusty E. Kirk & Bev Jones & Buzz Taylor Mr. William Caroselli Taryn VanderWeele Sandy Joyce Elizabeth & Penn Krause Kelly Vignale Dean M. Julian Mr. Don Linzer & Victoria & Joseph Katrencik Rebecca Vitko Dr. Helane Linzer Dr. Howard D. & Dr. Mary Wactlar Karen & David Littman Mr. Andy Webster Mr. Bin Liu & Ms. Song Xiang

56 Annual Giving Report A.D. Lupariello, M.D. & GIFTS-IN-KIND Nathan Appel ’99 Patrick Costa’s Birthday Mary Jean Rusak Renee & Ron Bartlett Shane & Charlie Appel Ms. Ruby Costa Ms. Amy Fields & Mr. James Jim Daniels & Kristin Kovacic Priscilla & Robert Macy Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Lemmon Mary Arcuri Dr. Patty Metosky & Mr. & Mrs. John Apostolides Andrew DiPietro’s Birthday Ms. Gail Amshel Mercury Printing, Inc. Louis & Sheila Fineberg Miller Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiPietro Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Minard Scarlett Austin’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Mizera Allyson Baird Sveda ’84 & John Sveda Robert D. Austin Shannon Edgar’s Birthday Rose & David Molder Mr. Walter Guziewicz Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Morrison Katharine Bartlett’s Graduation DONORS THROUGH THE Steven & Lisa Nakamura Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Moira Egler’s Graduation PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TAX Mary Kay & Sudhir Narla Dr. Anthony M. Harrison CREDIT ACT (EITC) Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Mr. & Mrs. Mohammad Navadeh Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Mr. Junhai Ou & Mrs. Liping Qian Allegheny Technologies Max Bernstein’s Birthday Ms. Yanbing Ye & Bartlett Products, LLC Karen & Thomas Bernstein Ruth Donnelly Egler’s AFP Dr. Hairong Peng Bridges & Company, Inc. Lifetime Achievement Award Stella & Scott Pipitone Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Samantha Bernstein’s Birthday Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Seema Pollack The Design Alliance Karen & Thomas Bernstein Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Anne M. Molloy & First Capital Corporation Henry Posner III Howard Hanna Real Estate The 2007 Benefi t Committee Daniel Eller’s Birthday Deborah & Martin Powell Services Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Nely & Eugene Barad Mr. & Mrs. M.K. Premkumar Leed’s Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Anita Prizio ’81 & John Betzler MacLachlan, Cornelius & Jeremy Ernstoff ’s Birthday Nancy & Craig Rogers Filoni, Inc., Architects Eric Bianco’s Birthday Ms. Marianne Wallach Mrs. Ellen S. Ansell & Mr. Robert C. McCarthy Dr. & Mrs. E. Ralph Erickson Mr. Richard D. Rogow Mellon Bank, N.A. Layne Glimcher’s Birthday Richard & Nancy Santucci Pittsburgh Crankshaft Hazel Boehner’s Birthday Dee Dee & Herb Glimcher Mark Scheatzle & Kimberly Services, Inc. Harrigal Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Ridgway Pittsburgh Gynecologic Noah Goldstein ’17 Ms. Nancy Bernstein & Oncology, Inc. Sam Boehner’s Birthday Amy Rose Goldstein Jaffe ’85 Dr. Robert Schoen RDC Domestic Holdings Marian Dietrich & Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Ridgway Kate Gloninger’s Birthday Charles Schwartz Trau & Loevner Esther Schreiber Beth & Chris Scott Unionvale Coal Company Owen Brelsford’s Birthday Ms. Lynn Shiner UPMC Health Plan Mr. Dana R. Myers Mr. & Mrs. Robert Simpson Hallie Goldstein ’11 Dolores R. Solomon Lauren Burroughs’s Birthday Amy Rose Goldstein Jaffe ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Spagnolo Mr. Noyes Spelman IN HONOR Ann & Greg Steiner Kayla Goldstein ’14 Mrs. Baohong Sun & David Allen’s Birthday Owen Campbell’s Graduation Amy Rose Goldstein Jaffe ’85 Mr. Henry H. Cao Mary Armbruster Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Allyson Baird Sveda ’84 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Hallie Goldstein’s Bat Mitzvah John Sveda Alyssa Alim’s Birthday Zoe Silberblatt Jeanne & Axel VanBriesen Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Fox Isaac Capezzuti’s Birthday Dr. & Dr. Rafael Velez Carol & David Capezzuti McKanna Graham’s Birthday Bonny & Paul Weiner Jada Alim’s Birthday Ms. Mary Graham Barb & Chuck Weinstock Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Fox Benjamin Charley’s Birthday Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wickert Mr. & Mrs. William M. Charley Micayla Handler’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Edward Connor Andrews’s Birthday David Handler Wojnaroski, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George Schellenberger Thomas Charley’s Birthday Leonoor & Lisle Zehner Mr. & Mrs. William M. Charley Elliot P. Hare’s Birthday Bryan Appel ’97 Mr. & Mrs. Rex Dowden Shane & Charlie Appel Connor Charney’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Menzel Laila Hayes’s Birthday Geoff Appel ’02 Robert Clark Shane & Charlie Appel Grant Charney’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Menzel Eileen Holzer’s Birthday Myriam & Merle Levine

2006 - 2007 57 Mary Annette Hughes Sam Pollack’s Birthday IN MEMORY William C. Hurtt, Jr. Karen L. Hughes ’76 Jerry & Barbara Rosenberg Robert Anderson Annie & Dennis Cestra Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Gregory & Simin Curtis Nathaniel Hull’s Birthday Spencer Reading’s Birthday Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Glance Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gordon Gertrude Caplan Ellen & Jack Kessler Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Tristan Hull’s Birthday Audrey Re’s Birthday Carole Oswald Markus ‘57 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Glance Vito & Florence Re Anne M. Molloy & Sam Casey Henry Posner III Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Indy B Bridget Re’s Birthday Jane Arensberg Thompson ‘57 & Heather & David Capezzuti Vito & Florence Re Harry Thompson David D’Appolonia Gaylen & Larry Westfall Barbara Berkman Ackerman ‘58 & Gabriel Isaacson’s Birthday Max Rogow’s Birthday Diana Janetta’s Mother Alan L. Ackerman Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Dotti & Alan Silberman Anonymous Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Gali Isaacson’s Birthday Harry Rosenberg’s Birthday Sandy Joyce’s Mother Gaylen & Larry Westfall Dotti & Alan Silberman David Handler Jeffrey Davis Alison Wolfson Ms. Betty J. Hill John Kanter’s Birthday Max Rosenbloom’s Birthday J. Edward “Bud” Juenemann Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter Borsett Mr. & Mrs. Marvin S. Jacobson Hela Edelsack’s Mother Gaylen & Larry Westfall Dr. & Mrs. Lester Rosenbloom Gaylen & Larry Westfall Victoria Katrencik Alison Wolfson Mr. & Mrs. William H. Winslow Jamie Rubin’s Birthday Aimee Fantazier’s Grandfather Tom and Suzanne Kapner Mildred & Michel Sidorow Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Katie Keim’s Birthday Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Alison Wolfson Tina & Art Velisaris Jennifer Appel Schoyer ’89 Carole Oswald Markus ‘57 Shane & Charlie Appel Irving “Kit” Kittredge Erica Kessler’s Birthday Elliott W. Finkel Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Rita Perlow Langue Christie Schroth ’95 Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Renee & Ron Bartlett Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Milton Kreimer Margaret Kross’s Graduation Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Lydia Schroeder’s Birthday Gaylen & Larry Westfall Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. A. Reed Schroeder Morris Kross Margaret McCann Garland ‘44 Barbara & Bruce Booken Lower School Teachers Ari Schuman’s Bar Mitzvah Anne and Bruce Browne Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kross Anonymous Zoe Silberblatt Anne M. Grigg Peter Kross Mrs. Anne Steidle Dolores R. Solomon Siobhan Mahorter’s Graduation Eli Charles Siegel’s Birthday Jefferson Cardiology Assoc. Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Steve Garner Drs. Bramowitz, Lemis, Mr. & Mrs. David Wiles Nathanson and Geskin Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Alfred Smith’s Birthday Ruth Kross Michael L. McCarthy’s Birthday Frances Hodge Gordon ‘35 Dr. Alfred Tuttle Norma Sue Glinn Madden ‘47 Teresa & Louis Piotrowski Dr. Harold E. Gordon Maxwell H. Stofman’s Birthday Edward Lewis Sonya Narla’s Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Milton G. Hulme Ms. Evelyn Tabas Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Anonymous Holiday Hulme Shoup ‘61 Cherisse Tompkins’s Birthday The Birth of Jessi Levi Fae G. MacCamy Mr. & Mrs. John Chan Amy Nixon Mindlin ‘73 Nathenson Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tompkins Carol & Richard Nathenson Susan Wechsler Max Pollack’s Birthday Jennifer Hetzel Gear ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Pollack Kate Stainton & Chuck Winschel Jerry & Barbara Rosenberg Marriage of June Whitehill ’40 & Leslie Dukehart Joan Frank Apt ’44 & Jerome Apt

58 Annual Giving Report The WT Fund: Average Gift Size

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Dorothy Oliver Mahaffey ‘37 Mrs. Emma O. Sharp Judy Apt Nathenson ’69 Mr. & Mrs. James C. Chaplin Maura Farrell Early Childhood Anne M. Molloy & Endowment Fund Donors Judy Apt Nathenson ‘69 Henry Posner III Mr. & Mrs. Max Nathenson Gaylen & Larry Westfall Joan Frank Apt ’44 & Jerome Apt Mr. & Mrs. Max Nathenson Clarence B. Nixon, Jr. William A. Sherman Carol & Richard Nathenson Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Carol & Richard Nathenson Kitti Whordley Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Judith Kirkpatrick Sigler ‘51 Phyllis Thompson O’Keefe Reverend Dr. Richard E. Sigler Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Ed Slagle Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt McCloskey ‘45 Ralph Taussig James McLeod Perry, M.D Joan Frank Apt ‘44 & Jerome Apt Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Betsy Thompson’s Gaylen & Larry Westfall Grandmother Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Joseph Proietti Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Maura Farrell Natalie and Herbert Maxwell Susan Bancroft Voigt ‘50 Roni and Don Richardson John Voigt Gaylen & Larry Westfall Jane Ratner Werrin Lynne Raphael’s Mother Carol & Richard Nathenson Rosanne Isay Harrison ‘56 & Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Norma Weis Wilner ‘40 Marion Weis Cohen ‘44 A. Lynn Voelp Reed ‘59 Judith Getty Treadwell ‘59

2006 - 2007 59 The Parents Association

PRESIDENT: Carol Marmo Betsy Thompson Connie Mitro Marianne Mizera TREASURER: Jaymi Myers-Newman ’81 Mimi Passarello Leslie Borsett-Kanter Stacey Pressman Shalini Puri UPPER SCHOOL COORDINATORS: Zo Re Mary Kay Narla Bari Roman Leslie Borsett-Kanter Tamar Rosenfeld Anne Scheuermann Kate Stainton UPPER SCHOOL GRADE LEVEL Alissa Seth REPRESENTATIVES: Carol Stewart Rosemary Bunker Simone Tarlinton Elsa Limbach Laurie Winslow Eleanor Ong Lori Sisson LOWER SCHOOL COORDINATORS Carole Schuman NORTH HILLS CAMPUS: Shelley Campbell Joni Zytnick Diane Minard Alice Thompson

MIDDLE SCHOOL COORDINATORS: LOWER SCHOOL ROOM PARENTS Susan Uretsky NORTH HILLS CAMPUS: Cindy Surace-Volpe Sandi Andrews Mary Jean Rusak Amy Bozzone Carlotta Bukowski LOWER SCHOOL COORDINATOR Sheila Colombo CITY CAMPUS: Kathy Dougherty Deesha Philyaw Janice Dunkerley Anne Scheuermann ’75 Judy Ferree Patti Hollingshead LOWER SCHOOL ROOM PARENTS Karen Littmann CITY CAMPUS: MaryDiane Mulvihill Beth Muschar Jodi Cohen Jill Myer Stacy Cohen Raylene Napora Megan Glimcher Cynthia Navadeh Julie Goff Mary Jean Rusak Monica Graham Debbie Weis Allison Grodin Sabrina Wojnaroski Tamara Hayes Lindsey Isaacson Nancy Knowles

60 Annual Giving Report MANY VOICES, ONE VISION: The Campaign for Winchester Thurston School

We are grateful to the following Annie & Dennis Cestra George Greer Lonna Wilkinson & Bill Keller donors who made pledges or John & Maggie Charley Ms. Ruth B. Grossman Roblyn Kelly gifts to the capital campaign Drs. Aliya & Mehboob Chaudhry Mr. & Mrs. Barney Guttman Ellen & Jack Kessler from January 1, 2007 through Katherine Staley Clarkson ’59 Joan Haley Rebecca King & Seth Rosenberg June 30, 2007. Jacqueline P. Clement Deborah & David Hallas Johanna Kitman ’94 Christina & Rob Cochran Howard Hanna Real Estate Mr. Peter Koros Anonymous (18) Stacy & Dan Cohen Services Nirmal & Deepak Kotwal Nancy Adelsheim ’77 Sheila & Bill Colombo Judy Casteel Harrison ’58 & Ms. Sue Friedberg & The Allswede Family Debbie & Michael Conway Eric Harrison Dr. Dean Kross Katherine M. Ambrose Amy Gottlieb Cook ’84 Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Nicole & Jonathan Kuhn Elizabeth Wright Anderson ’45 L. Melissa Crump Cook ’68 Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Janet Harrison Kuzmishin ’87 David & Sandi Andrews The Charles L Cost Foundation Mahnaz & Ross Harrison Michelle H. Lally ’75 Joan Frank Apt ’44 & Jerome Apt Peter Counihan & Mary Lou & Edward Harrison Christine & Alfred LeVasseur Drs. Sharon & Robert Arffa Mary Sheehan-Counihan Dr. Elizabeth W. & Ilene & Michael Levy Jean Forncrook Armstrong ’44 Susan & Currie Crookston Mr. Timothy M. Hazel Louise Lippincott Saralu Baehr ’70 Natalie Hulme Curry & David Helen Lee Henderson ’57 Mr. & Mrs. David Littmann Ralph Bangs & Allison Thompson Curry Mr. & Mrs. Lester Herrup Dr. & Mrs. Jon C. Lloyd Roxana F. Barad, M.D. Mrs. Richard Cyert Sue, Dale, Lauren, & India & Steve Loevner Alex Hershey Donald J. Barley Eileen Mauclair D’Appolonia ’61 & Jane Marshall Lohman ’56 Dr. Alan & Patty Barnett David D’Appolonia* The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation A.D. Lupariello, M.D. & Renee M. & Ronald J. Bartlett Jean H. Davis W’32 Mary Jean Rusak Bartlett Foundation Nancy L. Davis W’32 The Matthew Hillman Fisher Foundation Jocelyn Hulme MacConnell ’43 Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Beckwith III Julie Tarasevich Dever ’85 & Eleanor Schatz Magyar ’67 Barbara Nickel Beisel ’61 Michael Dever C. Talbott Hiteshew, Jr. Ann Marie & Jeff Hoban Judy & John Maione Janice & Lee Belitsky Sharon Kiely & Michael DeVita Mr. & Mrs. Mihai Marcu Louis & Sandra Berkman Kathryn Roeder & Bernie Devlin The Holder Family Natalie Glance & David Hull Janet Rothman Markel ’54 Foundation Sun Ye & Rodney Dobish Carole Oswald Markus ’57 & Marci Lynn Bernstein Foundation Jean Curran Donley ’46 Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Bill Markus The H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Anne Ballard Dunlap ’53 Tod & Mary Caroline Hunt Kate Masley ’94 Christine Saalbach & Kathleen W. Buechel & Elizabeth Hurtt ’74 Massaro Family Chris Biwojno Frederick N. Egler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. Maxwell Darryl Massey Bladen ’65 The Fierstein Family Mrs. Stephanie Hurtt & Mr. William C. Hurtt, Jr.* Elsie Heard McAdoo ’69 Claire Blaustein ’00 Susan Finkelpearl ’92 Mrs. William C. Hurtt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. McChesney Katherine MacDonald Blenko ’46 Caroline C. Fisher Jane Hooton Ince ’56 Thomas B. McChesney, Jr. ’98 & Don B. Blenko The Foster Family Husni Family Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Sally & Russell Boehner Constance Smith Franklin ’51 Andi & Steven Irwin McCloskey ’45 Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 Jane & Keith Franz Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. L. Colvin McCrady Elizabeth R. Bradley W’33 Mrs. Natalie Friedberg Robert S. Jamison, Jr. Lorraine & Tim McDonough Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Brancati The Gailliot Family Carolyn Jefferson The McDowell Family Roberta & David Brody Mrs. Deborah J. Gespass & Katlyn McGraw ’03 Elizabeth Jane McCafferty Mr. Andrew L. Gespass Jendoco Construction Corporation Ann & Martin McGuinn Brown ’45 Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty III Dr. Rhonda M. Johnson & Peggy Thomas McKnight ’69 & Cynthia Bulik ’78 Thomas J. Gillespie & Family Stephen McKnight Mr. & Mrs. Charles Burke Mr. Vincent O. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Glimcher Skip & Sallie Kahler Mr. J. Sherman McLaughlin, Kate & Peter Burroughs Lauren & Philip Goldblum Hon Alum & Mrs. Suzanne Gordon Hammond Butz A’56 The Hannah & Marvin Kamin Cristy C. Gookin ’67 Family Foundation McLaughlin Shelley & Douglas Campbell The Gookin Family Foundation Dr. Steven Kanter & Linnea Pearson McQuiston ’69 Dr. Jerry & Elna Campbell-Wade Rita J. Gould ’46 Dr. Leslie Borsett-Kanter Mary McSorley ’66 Shalini Puri & Debbie Levy Green Dina Kaplan A’89 Richard King Mellon Foundation Carlos Canuelas-Pereira Mr. Richard Green Elsa Limbach & Meg Gezon Meltz ’66 Dusty E. Kirk & William Caroselli Jane Gault Greer ’56 & Plamen Karagyozov Diane & Jeffrey Minard

2006 - 2007 61 Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Minno Janice Greenberg Rosenberg ’53 Jane Arensberg Thompson ’57 & Michele & Michael Morris Betsy Riddle Ruderfer ’53 Harry A. Thompson II Bee Jee Epstine Morrison ’56 & Loretta Stanish & Rick Russell Elizabeth & Michael Thompson Perry Morrison Dr. & Mrs. Raif K. Sabeh Mr. & Mrs. William C. Thompson Dr. & Mrs. Ross H. Musgrave Daniel A. Sadowski, Jr. Harry A. Thompson II Jacqueline Musto Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ’60 Ruth Weimer Tillar ’41 Mary Kay & Sudhir Narla Richard & Nancy Santucci Thomas Bedger & Jeffrey Pierce Drs. Sandra & John Newman Margaret R. Scaife Anna Harbin & James Turner Gary J. Niels Dr. Jane Scarborough Marnie & Jim Tynen Anne M. O’Dair-Holovacs Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Hilary Tyson ’70 & Charles Porter Nancy & Woody Ostrow Linda Turner & Eric Schatzman Dr. & Mrs. Steven Uretsky Lynn Epstein & Craig Otto Kimberly Harrigal & Sandra & Thomas Usher Jane Dressler Page ’48 Mark Scheatzle Diane Starr Voll & Jeffry Voll Helen Mar H. Parkin ’65 Leland & Janice Faller Schermer Mr. & Mrs. James M. Walton Debbie & Andy Peitzman Alison Pedicord Schleifer ’60 Gina & Scott Watson Ronee Penoi ’03 & Family Peg Schmidt & Wilma Palombo Deborah & Mark Weis Michelle Browne & Joel Persky Nancy Bernstein & Rocky Schoen Marcia Miller Weiss ’46 Alexandra Petilla Greer Schott A’05 Judith Blough Wentz ’53 Anne Parkin Pierpont ’66 & Lynn Beckstrom Schreiber & Gaylen & Larry Westfall John Pierpont Brian C. Schreiber Gerda Rice Whitman ’47 Helena & Bill Pietragallo Mr. & Mrs. Dean Schron Susan & James Williams Stella & Scott Pipitone Carole & Joel Schuman Carol Spear Williams ’57 Anne M. Molloy & Margaret Edgar Sellers ’44 Hilda M. Willis Foundation Henry Posner III Phyllis Keister Semple ’38 Winchester Thurston Lower Mildred M. Posvar Christine & Duane Seppi School 2006-2007 Deborah & Martin Powell Holiday Hulme Shoup ’61 The John L. Wise, Jr. Family Betty M. Price The Rev. Dr. Richard E. Sigler Janet & Edward Wood Kathy Zillweger Putnam ’71 & Lori Sisson & Jay Silberblatt Francis X. Wymard George Putnam Renee Skiba Leonoor M. & Lisle A. Zehner Sandra Quinn & Stephen Thomas Smart People, Inc. Nuria M. Pastor-Soler & Barbara & Rocky Raco Heidi Hageman Smith ’81 Stephen A. Zerby Emma Raizman ’89 Lisa, Bernie, & Josie Sobek Noah Raizman ’95 Cecile & Eric Springer Dorothy & Richard Raizman Cathleen McSorley Stanton ’61 & Lucy & Ian Rawson Thomas Stanton RDC Domestic Holdings Molly Cannon Stevenson ’72 Corporation Dr. M. Katherine Stewart Letitia E. Rieck ’43 Laura & Harlan Stone Stephen G. Robinson Drs. Emily Burns & Abigail Robinson ’03 Brian Suddaby Nancy & Craig Rogers Cordelia Westervelt Swinton ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Sanford D.K. Roman Meg McKean Taylor ’74 Marcia & Victor Roque Stacey & Matthew Tegtmeier Dr. & Mrs. Barry Tenenouser Chitra & Pradip Teredesai

62 Annual Giving Report BUY A BRICK Donors We are grateful to the following supporters of the 2006 WT Buy A Brick Program for the Many Voices, One Vision Capital Campaign:

Meryl & David Ainsman Hannah Krause & Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Kuhn Lynne Raphael Sally & Bob Allan Jose de San Martin Cynthia Cramer Lackey ’75 Letitia E. Rieck ’43 The Allswede Family Mr. & Mrs. Michael Della Vecchia Michelle H. Lally ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Donald Robinson Elizabeth Wright Anderson ’45 & Cheryl & Bill DeMarchi Christine Larson ’71 The Rogal Family James M. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Dermody Jill & Philip Lehman Nancy & Craig Rogers Mr. & Mrs. John Apostolides Barbara & Mark DeWitt Mr. & Mrs. David Littmann Marcia & Victor Roque Dr. & Mrs. Timothy D. Averch Katherine Dunlop India & Steve Loevner Joseph Rosenbloom ’07 Ralph Bangs & Rachel Anne Egler ’88 A.D. Lupariello, MD & Carolyn Cramer Sanford A’72 Allison M. Thompson Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Eller Mary Jean Rusak Susan Criep Santa-Cruz ’60 Roxana F. Barad, M.D. Justine Diebold Englert ’59 Amy Fields & James Lynch Nancy & Richard Santucci Diane J. Barbarino Dr. Kathleen D. Etzel Louise Baldridge Lytle ’51 Leland & Janice Faller Schermer Mr. & Mrs. John E. Bares Maura Farrell Carlos Macasaet ’01 Anne M. Scheuermann ’75 & Suzanne LeClere Barley ’52 Erin Farrell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Machen Timothy Mullins Dr. Alan & Patty Barnett Edward W. Farrell, Jr. Judy & John Maione Nancy Bernstein & Rocky Schoen Renee M. & Ronald J. Bartlett Lawrence Feick Suzanne Baker Mangin ’59 Carole & Joel Schuman Lynn Bechtold ’90 Mary Lowenthal Felstiner ’59 Bebe Dorrance Marchal ’60 Emily Medine & Janice & Lee Belitsky Sue & Jim Ferland Linda Goorin Marcus ’55 Michael Schwartz Dr. George G. Bellios Mr. Christopher L. Fetter Carole Oswald Markus ’57 & Kylie Schweitzer Noga & Bruce Ben-David Cynthia Rosenburg Field ’59 Bill Markus Victoria Brittain Seckel ’57 Martha Lynn Berg ’66 Beth Fisher ’69, M.D. The Mars Family Charitable Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shields Katherine MacDonald Blenko ’46 Joan & Harry Flechtner Foundation The Rev. Dr. Richard E. Sigler & Don B. Blenko Andrea Kann Gassner ’86 Barbara Gott Martha ’60 Lori Sisson & Jay Silberblatt Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Glimcher Thomas B. McChesney, Jr. ’98 Jean M. Silvestri ’72 Bea & Jim Bradley Mr. Mark & Dr. Amy Goldstein Anne (Rooney) Forncrook Dr. & Mrs. Gregory N. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Brancati Barbara Graves ’93 McCloskey ’45 Carl Snyderman & Michelina Fato Susan Brand Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Grzeczka Anne (Kiki) Bahr McConnel ’54 Lynn Snyderman ’76 & Elizabeth Brittain ’65 Lissa Brett Guttman ’90 Dana Spicer McCown ’54 Lewis Hyman Dionne & Jonathan Brelsford Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 & Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Meredith, Jr. Lori Sobol ’83 Ron Brelsford Dr. Anthony M. Harrison Kathleen L. Metinko ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Barry B. Sokolow Karen & David Brienza Mr. & Mrs. Neil Harrison Jane Michaels ’64 Mr. Douglas Solomon Nancy Knowles & Jeff Brodsky Susan Kunz Heritage ’62 Dr. Mark Miller & Dr. Joan Devine Nancy & Michael Soso Dr. & Mrs. Klaus M. Bron Jacquelyn Freeborn Herst ’68 Barbara Whalen Miller ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Spagnolo Alice Buchdahl Emily Hetzel ’83 & John Schulman Connie & Robert Mitro Sarah & David Springer Heather & David Capezzuti Wendy Hoechstetter ’74 Rose & David Molder Ann & Greg Steiner Jan Chalfant David F. Hoechstetter Cheryl Moore & Stan Levenson Susan & Phil Sweeney John & Maggie Charley Dena Hofkosh Lee Moses (A) ’98 Carol L. Tabas Dr. Annie S. Menzel & The Holder Family MaryDiane & Dennis Mulvihill Donna Gow Taylor ’59 Mr. John Charney Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Horbal Beth & Jeffrey Muschar Meg McKean Taylor ’74 Dr. Laura Childress-Hazen Sally Lewis Horner ’54 Raylene & David Napora Harry A. Thompson II Jennifer Chinlund ’59 Elizabeth Hurtt ’74 Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Naragon Jane Arensberg Thompson ’57 & Monika Kassyk & Emile Chreky Husni Family Mary Kay & Sudhir Narla Harry A. Thompson II Eva Maria Hoeller-Cladders & Matthew Jacob ’06 Carol & Richard Nathenson Anissa & Derek C. Tillman Johannes Cladders Dr. Cindy Jacobson June & Forozan Navid Kathleen & Reinaldo Toro Helene Weinraub & Geoff Clauss Dr. Lisa A. Jamnbeck Susan & Tom Netzer Judith Getty Treadwell ’59 Stacy & Dan Cohen Sandy Joyce Anne M. O’Dair-Holovacs Dr. & Mrs. Steven Uretsky Pamela Levy Cohn ’80 Nanci Shapiro Kane ’85 Michelle Kane O’Donnell ’75 Drs. Marcela & Rafael Velez Marion Montgomery Elsa Limbach & Molly Ostrow ’11 Drs. Mary & Howard D. Wactlar Colbourne ’52 Plamen Karagyozov Nancy & Woody Ostrow Gina & Scott Watson Sheila & Bill Colombo Suzanne Dressler Kellar ’55 Nancy Patton Deborah & Mark Weis Robert J. Colonna Anne Jacob Kerr Lyn Clark Pegg ’59 Shelby & Michael Wherry Margaret Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Mohammed Khan Debbie & Andy Peitzman Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wickert Lynda Stern Coslov ’64 & Kris Knieriem Zissu Seema Pollack Glenda Williams R. Joel Coslov Alexandra Brittain Knox ’59 Deborah & Martin Powell Nikki N. Wise Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Ellen Wilson & Fredric V. Price Alison Wolfson Culbertson III Jennifer Kraar & Mark Possanza Sarah Rackoff ’99 Janet & Edward Wood Gregory & Simin Curtis Lynn Kronzek ’73 Kristin Kovacic & Jim Daniels Kathryn W. Kruse ’58

2006 - 2007 63 Class of 2007

64 Annual Giving Report TALK A magnifi cent showing Thistle WT's own art gallery played host in November to LUMINOUS, MAGAZINE a glittering display of 14 local and nationally recognized glass

Volume 35 • Number 1 Autumn 2007 artists, including faculty members Carl Jones, Mary Martin ’88, and Tina Plaks, along with eighth-grader Red Otto. Thistletalk is published two times per year by Winchester Thurston School for alumnae/i, parents, students, and friends of the school. Letters and suggestions are welcome. Please contact the Director of Communications, Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood

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Art from the heart Middle Schoolers expressed themselves in creating “Postcards to the Congo,” a unique component of the City as Our Campus initiative. (See story on page 13.)

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