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Alumni Portal How Can We Help? ALUMNI PORTAL Questions? Comments? Update your info! You can change your Address or email change? address, email, job title, add a brief bio… Reunion? Contact us! And, you can choose to make any of it ___________________________ public so your old classmates can see what Email you’re doing these days. Simply click on [email protected] what you’d like to share (for example, ___________________________ “email” or “biography”) and a box will Phone 860-379-1245, ext. 200 appear that gives you the option to make ___________________________ that information visible to everyone. Mail Office of Alumni Relations Go to www.gilbertschool.org and The Gilbert School click on “Your Alumni Portal” 200 Williams Ave. under the “Alumni” tab. Winsted, CT 06098 Need help? Email the Alumni Communications Director ___________________________ at [email protected]. The YellowJacket is published Be sure to follow The Gilbert School on Facebook! twice a year by The W.L. Gilbert We post good news about students, staff, and alumni Trust Corporation for the benefit there. Come see what everyone is talking about! of alumni and friends of The Gilbert School. Office of Alumni Relations 200 Williams Ave., Winsted, CT 06098 YellowJacket SPRING | SUMMER 2015 ALUMNI MaGAZINE OF THE GILBERT SCHOOL GILBER T’S NEWEST ALUMNI! Class of 2015! I n This issue: Music...page 4 Homecoming...page 7 Class Notes...page 14 YellowJacket Dear Alumni and Friends, SPRING | SUMMER 2015 I have often wondered what inspired our founder William ALUMNI MaGAZINE OF THE GILBERT SCHOOL Lewis Gilbert to leave, in his last will and testament, the funds to begin a school in Winsted, CT. Many are not aware that in addition to The Gilbert Home for Children and The Gilbert Mission School, he left the means to start a public library in Northfield, The Gilbert School was founded CT, and also a school in Louisiana for the children of freed black slaves who in 1895 by William L. Gilbert “for fought in the Civil War. Mr. Gilbert was a man who believed in education the improvement of mankind by affording such assistance and means and the betterment of humankind. In keeping with his sense of philanthropy of educating the young as will help and tradition, we have a new motto at The Gilbert School: Heritage. Innovation. them to become good citizens.” We Opportunity. To read more, please turn to page 5. are committed to assuring that each ~ Dr. Anthony Serio, Head of School student is prepared to be a thoughtful, productive citizen in a complex, global society. _______________________________ At The Gilbert School, I have found a student body that yearns Share Your Stories for the opportunity to grow and soar. Led by a tremendous We want to hear from you! Did you faculty and staff, last year was educationally remarkable. This get a new job? Earn a degree? Write a year will be even better! Associate Principal Sue Sojka and I book? Welcome a child or grandchild? Win an award? Retire? We’ll share are excited about the reorganization of administrative duties as the good news with 8000 readers. it means a closer collaboration with parents, students, and teachers. We are also proud to announce: 13 new courses in grades 9–12 (37 new courses total in three Interested in writing a full article for the YellowJacket? Send your first-person years!); a revamped reading, writing, science, and math focus in grades 7–8; the story for consideration. Let your fellow infusion of enhanced Robotics and STEM as extracurricular programs; and an alumni know where your path has led improved and tightened curriculum to meet the Common Core standards of you since graduation and how your time excellence. Above all, we are teaching lessons for life, rather than just lessons in at The Gilbert School has influenced your decisions. a subject. I applaud our parents, staff, community members, The W.L. Gilbert Trust, and The W.L. Gilbert School Corp. for making sure that every student This is your magazine. leaves Gilbert prepared for life’s adventures. Make your voices heard! Email ~ Alan Strauss, Principal [email protected] _______________________________ Staff I want to take the time to acknowledge and thank each of you Editor: Donna Merritt [email protected] for your generous support of your alma mater. Your donations enable us to offer, and continue to add, advanced programs of Designer: Eduardo Barrios study at The Gilbert School and to present college scholarships www.barriosadvertising.com to deserving seniors and alumni. However, it’s more than that. It’s your dedication, enthusiasm, and volunteer work that keep the spirit Photographers: Holly (Marchand) Cassaday, 1990 of our founding father alive. Whether you live close enough to visit TGS often Shelly Sindland, 1987 or are living far away, your achievements are inspiring. We brag about our Lifetouch School Studios students and alumni every chance we get. This year we will recognize four of your former classmates by presenting them with Distinguished Alumni Awards. Printed by Goulet Printery, Inc. www.gouletprinting.com To see this year’s choices, please turn to page 7. We understand that there are many more of you doing amazing things and we hope to hear about them in the _______________________________ future. Again, thank you. You make us proud. On the Cover ~ Thomas Botticelli, President, The W.L. Gilbert Trust Corporation The Class of 2015 celebrated commencement on June 24th. We wish them the best! In This Issue Spring Photos .........................................2 The Arts Are Alive at Gilbert! ..................3 Jessica Makowski, Art Teacher The Music Department Marches On ......4 Scott Minnerly, Director of Bands A New Motto ..........................................5 Dr. Anthony Serio, Head of School Spring Sports Wrap-Up ..........................6 Patrick Cooke, Class of 1989 Homecoming 2015 .................................7 Basketball Team Travels to China ..........7 Gerald Hicks, Class of 1969 Coming Home ........................................8 Connie (Church) Lizak, Class of 1960 Emphasis on Excellence ........................10 Patrick Kilpatrick, Class of 1968 Reunion Photos ......................................12 Upcoming Reunions ...............................13 Bookends ...............................................13 New Books by Alumni Where Are They Now? ............................14 Class Notes Distinguished Donors .............................16 In Memoriam ...........................................17 School Views Spring Photos Recipients of the 2015 W.L. Gilbert Trust Scholarships; Derek Fazioli CT Association of Boards of Education award winners with Dr. was awarded the Phyllis C. Locascio Scholarship: $10,000 a year for Serio, Head of School, and Mr. Sedlack, W.L. Gilbert School Corp. four years Chairman: Anna King, Augustus Pac, Derek Fazioli, Julie Vincent International students participate in the Beardsley & Memorial Library Founder’s Day: Julie Vincent, Rik Emery, and Dr. Serio at Cultural Fair William L. Gilbert’s grave Gilbert students attend the Broadway Connecticut State Latin Day production of Les Miserables Principal Alan Strauss, Parade Marshal of the 81st Annual Laurel Festival Middle School Health Fair Gilbert volunteers assist in the Friends of Marine Biology class conducting research Main Street Annual River Clean-Up 2 The Arts Are Alive at Gilbert! by Jessica Makowski, Gilbert Art Teacher First Annual Art & Design Show Amazing Vans entries by our students he Gilbert School’s Art Department had a annual Vans® Custom Culture Shoe Design Contest. Tmomentous year filled with change, challenges, They joined students from across the country as they and collaborations. I was thrilled to be hired as a new designed real shoes using a variety of media. They faculty member, especially since it made it possible to then competed for the most votes to have their shoe offer additional and varied creative opportunities to design manufactured for sale. They didn’t win, but they the student body. Ms. Steinway produced incredible work! and I teamed up to implement new Gilbert’s art department is also very courses and curriculum projects for proud to have participated in Winsted’s students in grades seven through town-wide Peace Poster Contest. twelve. They now have the choice of Congratulations to Honors Art student fourteen different visual arts courses! Alexis DeLacruz, who won first place! We have Drawing, Painting, Design, One of the highlights of this past Sculpture, Crafts, and Ceramics, and school year was Gilbert’s First Annual some of the newest art courses are Art and Design Show, held on May 14 Advanced Placement Art, Honors Art, Environmental in the school library. The Art, Digital, and Industrial Painting, and a full-year Drawing course for those who Arts departments displayed the work of our talented want to master the skill. students. All grades were represented and a wide Students also participated in various contests and assortment of work was shown, from photography interdisciplinary projects throughout the school. Ms. and functional pottery to painting and woodworking. Steinway’s Environmental Painting class created a mural Gilbert’s fine student musicians and singers provided outside the school library entrance titled “The Giving musical entertainment. This huge achievement could not Tree,” while my middle school classes learned how to have been realized without support from administrators apply the ancient art of Batik to hand-sewn pillows. and
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