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Navigating a Pandemic World Building a Community of Belonging In this Issue: FEATURE Navigating a Pandemic FEATURE World Building a Community of Belonging Buzz at Burke’s: Events and Happenings on Campus SPRING 2021 Burke’s mission is to educate, encourage, and empower girls. Our school combines academic excellence with an appreciation for childhood so that students thrive as learners, develop a strong sense of self, contribute to community, and fulfill their potential, now and throughout life. BURKE’S MAGAZINE ON THE COVER The global Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down last year, impacting the lives of millions. In the midst of shifting health and safety guidelines, rising case counts, and political upheaval, Burke’s worked to keep educating, encouraging, and empowering our students. A year-long journey has allowed us to bring back nearly all students to in-person learning. Table of CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE Opening Shots..............................................2 Snapshots from Burke’s Greetings from the Head of School............10 A Message from Michele Williams Buzz at Burke’s............................................12 Events and Happenings on Campus Traditions.................................................... 20 Family Festival Burke’s Magazine is produced by Features.......................................................22 Burke’s Advancement Office Navigating a Pandemic World Building a Community of Belonging Pansy Day....................................................32 SELENA SHADLE DIANA SCHNEIDER Director of Advancement Director of Communications Commencement.......................................... 33 [email protected] [email protected] Greetings from the Alumnae Association....35 JEWEL DEVORA DIANA KAW A Message from Lisa Harada ’03 Communications Assistant Associate Director of Advancement [email protected] [email protected] Alumnae Q&A.............................................37 Mary Ann Jones ’75e, Sabrina Kivitz MONICA HERNANDEZ Braham ’87, and Kathleen Robbins ’09 Advancement and Database Associate [email protected] Designed by Alumnae Events ......................................... 40 Bacio Design & Marketing Virtual Games, Holiday Celebrations, ALI JONES-BEY Cocktails, and more! Communications Assistant [email protected] Distinctions.................................................44 Blair Rosenblatt Shane ’85 Alumnae Updates....................................... 46 Class Notes and In Memoriam From the Archives.......................................52 Burke’s Voices from the 1918 Flu Pandemic Tracing Burke’s Roots................................. 54 The Kendrick Family SPRING 2021 01 OPENING SHOTS International Women’s Day 2020 02 BURKE’S MAGAZINE ust before the pandemic forced students off campus for remote learning, Burke’s celebrated its 13th annual International Women’s Day Celebration on March 6, 2020. The guest of honor was Kim Chambers, the only woman in J the world to swim the 30 miles from the Farallon Islands to the mainland, through the most heavily populated shark-inhabited stretch of water in the world. She also had the chance to visit several classrooms, fielding questions such as “Have you ever seen a shark up close?” (Answer: she has not.) SPRING 2021 03 04 BURKE’S MAGAZINE Book Share & Pajama Families Event hat could be better than curling up with a good book in your pajamas? Doing it at school! Just a few days before our campus closure, the entire school had the chance to gather for a Burke’s Families Pajama Day. It’s a memory made all W the more sweet since a few days later the campus closed and we entered a world of social distancing. SPRING 2021 05 Campus Reopening ur Head of School was smiling behind her mask! A return to campus finally came to fruition on October 5, 2020, as kindergarten and first-grade students came back to Burke’s. Reopening went in stages, with hybrid learning models O available for the youngest cohorts of students first. 06 BURKE’S MAGAZINE SPRING 2021 07 08 BURKE’S MAGAZINE Celebrating Lunar New Year urke’s celebrated Lunar New Year with a lively Lower School Assembly and a reimagined 2021 third-grade Lion Dance. The event is a longtime Burke’s tradition, but health and safety Brestrictions required a different approach this year, and Distance and Hybrid Learners alike joined in the virtual dances and a socially distanced parade. SPRING 2021 09 Greetings from the Head of School A MESSAGE FROM MICHELE WILLIAMS Unprecedented. More than one hundred years ago, our school community held tight to “Burke Spirit” in the face of the many challenges, word that has appeared countless times in the disappointments and fears of their world. This year I have been news, school communications, and conversations inspired and found strength in all we have done to keep with friends and family. I am sure we are all ready Burke’s Burke’s. to retire that word for the next hundred years! Maximizing health and safety, maximizing learning, and OfA course, while we haven’t experienced a pandemic of this maximizing community — these are the three things that have breadth and impact in modern times, this moment in Burke’s driven all my decision-making. And, although much has changed history does in fact have precedent. Over one hundred years regarding teaching and learning, our commitment to the whole ago, our school navigated the emergence of a novel influenza child has been — and continues to be — our North Star. virus. Students were sent to the country or went into quarantine and people took to wearing masks. Businesses were shuttered, I am proud to share glimpses of our past year in this issue as well hospitals were strained, and the world was held in the dark grip as the story of building our hybrid- and distance- learning programs. of the pandemic — as well as World War I. This issue also includes a feature on our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work and our continued investment in a critical, Our Burke’s world was turned upside down once before and the top-down focus on ensuring a culture of belonging and creating historian in me decided to see what our Burke’s alumnae had classrooms that are reflective of the community around us. to say about it. I was rewarded with a 1918-19 yearbook editorial that could easily have been written about this past school year Thank you for supporting Burke’s as we navigated this challenging (without all the Zooming): year. Alumnae from around the world have reached out to check on our students and see how their alma mater was weathering the Altogether, the last year has been one of many trials. It was pandemic storm. Despite this year of distance and sorrow, you filled with excitement and distraction, and then, to aggravate it found ways to connect whether it was a virtual reunion or alumnae all, we were quarantined. Our school work was broken into and event, making a gift to the Annual Fund, or supporting families disarranged, and to work, already hard, was added the further impacted by the pandemic. burden of “catching up.” We are so grateful to remain part of your lives and thank you for But consider what Miss Burke and the teachers have done for us your support as we continue our work to educate, encourage and during these months of hard work. They have helped us to make empower our students. up lost work; they have thought and planned and begged and demanded that we make good — and we have made good….This Warmly, personal interest taken in each girl by the teachers is something that has always characterized Miss Burke’s. It is the result and interpretation of that wonderful spirit of mutual affection that is best known under the name of the “Burke Spirit.” MICHELE WILLIAMS Head of School 10 BURKE’S MAGAZINE SPRING 2021 11 Keep up with all the happenings at Burke’s in real time on our social media accounts! facebook.com/katherine.delmar.burke.school twitter.com/burkesschool instagram.com/burkesschool youtube.com/user/burkeschool Sixth-grade students created full-blown medieval villages MEDIEVAL MUSEUM using building materials such as wood and clay, complete One more special event before last year’s campus closure! with castle, church, and cottages. Visitors could tour the The classroom space in our beautiful Campus Center displays and hear more from class “docents” to learn became home to a special one-off exhibition in March 2020: about medicinal herbs and spices, buildings, and day-to- The Medieval Museum. day life in a medieval village. 12 BURKE’S MAGAZINE AN EXTRAORDINARY 2020 ALL SCHOOL OPENING ASSEMBLY The All School Opening Assembly means that school is in full swing at Burke’s. After the flurry of device pickups and supply distributions in the first days prior to school, we launched into distance learning and haven’t stopped for a minute! The school year kicked off officially on September 9 with the traditional All School Opening Assembly, where students, parents, faculty, and staff virtually celebrated the school’s 100+ year history and gratitude for being part of this special place. The Zoom room was filled with Burke’s students’ silent cheers for each other, our teachers’ smiles as they raised and honored the Class of 2021 to kick off a year destined their arms to form a virtual tunnel for the Class of 2021, and for top billing in the Burke’s history books! This was the the wonderful ways a Bundt pan and pot lid were used to year when we put our growth mindset and resilience to ring in the new year! the test as we worked together to educate, encourage and empower our students. The morning was dark, smoky, and orange...but none of that mattered as we welcomed our newest community members LOWER SCHOOL TREE HOUSE VIRTUAL LUNCHTIME One of the strange things about this pandemic world is that while we have been unable to be close to those who are local — it has opened up a world where Zooming across the globe becomes possible during lunch! Tree House, the Burke’s aftercare program, has been working all year to design virtual activities during lunch and after school.
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