2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIFTS 2016-2017 Total Funds Raised Unrestricted Annual Fund $1,039,540 Restricted Gifts $88,346 Capital and Endowment Gifts $1,332,753 Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center $63,100 Parents Association $10,000 St. Mary’s Community Fund $30,086 Total $2,596,710 THANK YOU FOR HELPING US ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION The mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is to provide a superior educational experience for girls which will encourage and enable each student to reach her individual potential. Operating Revenue 2016-17 85% Net Tuition 6% Annual Fund 3% Endowment 6% Pursuits, Buckman, & Other Operating Expenses 2016-17 74% Salaries & Benefits 5% Instructional 1% Pursuits, Buckman, & Others 9% Administration 8% Plant Operations 3% Capital Improvements 1 Annual Fund Sources of Gifts 2016-17 Grandparents 10% Alumnae 30% Parents of Alumnae 21% Matching Gifts & Foundations 2% Faculty & Staff 2% Friends 5% Parents 30% 2 Dear friends, St. Mary’s mission – to provide a superior educational experience for girls that encourages and enables each student to achieve her individual potential – is the starting point for every endeavor we undertake. It guides each decision, purchase, and policy; it is our foundation, guiding principle, and inspiration. We do not waver from it. We saw that mission accomplished in myriad ways last year from academic success and athletic prowess, to artistic expression and community empowerment. We celebrated the countless victories and Albert Throckmorton triumphs together. Likewise, we challenged each other to work through the inevitable difficulties and disappointments with kindness, respect, and civility. Those who know St. Mary’s often say that the school “feels like family,” that it is like no other community they know. We hear time and again that parents choose St. Mary’s because of an interaction or acquaintance with a St. Mary’s student or alumna whose character defines her as a St. Mary’s girl. For me, these stories are living examples of our mission at work in the world. It is an honor to lead a school respected nationwide for its academic excellence and commitment to the development of intellect and curiosity. I am equally grateful for the opportunity to lead a school that values and fosters faith, respect, responsibility, and courage. St. Mary’s thrived last year because you and 2,100 others invested in the mission, propelling the Annual Fund beyond the $1 million mark for the third consecutive year. Your personal philanthropy helped provide the resources that enabled us to nurture, teach, counsel, mentor, nurse, coach, protect, direct, and encourage 817 girls and young women. I hope you enjoy the following stories of those who believe in St. Mary’s and whose gifts bring it to life for every girl, every day. Sincerely, Albert L. Throckmorton Head of School 3 ST. MARY’S COMMUNITY FUND The St. Mary’s Community Fund is a student-run organization founded in 1998 for the purpose of educating young women about the importance of philanthropy through hands-on fundraising, community service, and grant-making. Since 1998, the group has raised more than $430,000 and funded more than 40 local non-profit agencies that benefit Mid-South children. DONORS Bob & Mary Green Danny & Leigh Mansberg Walter & Cassie Rook Micah & Sheril Greenstein Shawn & Price Phillips Massey ’93 Gayle Rose Doug & Suzanne Abbott Paul & Jennifer Grosswald Mike & Julie Matthews Joe & Martha Saab Ben & Larisa Baer Curt & Catherine Gunsbury Angus McEachran Richard & Maureen Saab Matthew & Susan Bakke Sanjeev & Asha Gupta Ann McEachran Elkan & Laurie Scheidt Bill & Catherine Bateman Douglas Halijan Senter Crook & Joseph McFadden Mary Scheuner Leigh & Lynne Marie Becker Ronald & Iris Harkavy Wayne & Mary Nell McMaster Robert Shankman & Amy Hertz David & Sarah Bourland Tom & Jean Marie Harrison Carlos Gomez & Melissa McStay ’86 Al & Marlene Shaw Gail Brewer Bill & Leigh Harwell Betsy McStay Leonard & Marianne Shutzberg Mike & Gwen Bruno Marie Haymon Jeanne Miller Bryan & Katy Smith Camilla Burbank Kendall Hennessy ’10 Nancy Miller Dina Smith Cristen Garrett Cain ’08 Andrew & Michelle Hunt Robert & Catherine Morehead Loretta Smith MacKenzie Campbell ’16 Hyde Family Foundations Bill & Valerie Needle Tom & Donna Southard Phil & Karen Campbell Pitt & Barbara Hyde McKee & Laura Halle Nunnally ’87 Anne Stephens Horace & Missy Huettel Carter ’87 Lowest Jefferson Billy & Robin Orgel Sara Anne Stephens Diane & Walter Chambliss Gary & Janice Jenks Huan Ouyang Elmer & Mary Katherine Stout George & Laura Couloubaritsis Vijay & Nicole Joshi Tommy & Allison Wellford Parker ’83 Fred & Mary Stukenborg J.P. & Virginia Culpepper Mohan & Shaila Karkera George & Molly Peeler Arie & Anneliese Szatkowski John Curran & Kathleen Laakso Paul & Janet Katz Michael & Melissa Thrasher Peeler ’85 Bruce & Melody Taylor David & Anneliese Daskal Satish & Margaret Kedia Edward & Zoe Perez Brian & Tricia Hood Thomas ’90 Bob & Liz Davis Lawrence & Angie King Keesee ’72 Periodontal Associates of Memphis Joseph & Becky Thornton Ted & Lyle Davis Dorothy Kirsch Beverly Peterson Corey & Mary Trotz Frank Smith & Charlotte Day ’72 Michael & Amanda LaMountain Richard & Nancy Prillaman Charles & Jean Tuggle Dan Daniel & Mary Kavanagh Day ’82 Pierre & Gay Landaiche Pushpanshu and Mukta Nidhi Sinha UBS PAC Charity Match Program Diane Evans Ted & Mollie Landaiche Randy & Minje Ramey Brian Vanderheyden & Blair Taylor Ken & Lisa Fields Bruce & Susanne Landau Saima Rashid Ghany & Susan Zafer Mark & Cindy Finestone Adele Landers Mary Jo Reilly Lowell & Cathy Flatford Kim Lasko John & Ashley Moore Remmers ’72 Robert & Bradley Fogelman Stinson & Patty Liles Maddie Rhodes ’14 The Great Oaks Foundation John F. Lindeman Bill & Amy Rhodes Charles & Meg Gerber Bill & Melissa Lofton Bill & Amy Richards Rosemary Gibbons Andy & Kim MacQueen Peter & Lauren Wiygul Riley ’05 Edward Goldstein & Rachel Krantz Myron & Dianne Mall Ken & Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85 Rachel Gray Roy & Barbara Mansberg Lloyd & Marilyn Robinson 4 St. Mary’s Community Fund ”All in the Family” for Three Waggoner Sisters ll three Waggoner sisters, Kathryn ’09, Susan A’11, and Elizabeth ’16, were members of the St. Mary’s Community Fund (SMCF). Kathryn and Elizabeth led the way in grant making, while Susan was liaison to the Lower School. Although they led and worked in different ways, they agree that the SMCF changed their lives. Community service taught Kathryn to understand the challenges many Mid-South children face and that she had as much to learn from those she served as they did from her. Susan’s Pictured above, left to right: Kathryn Waggoner Edwards ’09, Elizabeth Waggoner ’16, and Susan Waggoner ’11 eyes opened to parts of her city that were broken, and she embraced the opportunity to make a difference. Medtronic. Susan, who graduated are so many ways, big and small, to give Elizabeth, who saw the SMCF through from Auburn University in 2015, back, and everyone has something to the lens of having two older sisters agrees her involvement in the SMCF give. Susan’s take-away is the up-close participate before her, learned that taught her valuable leadership and view of the effect philanthropy and seeing problems in the community can communication skills, while also volunteering have on people. “Seeing be overwhelming, but she discovered showing her the importance of serving the joy in the children’s eyes when we that the inspiration she received her community. Memphis is now her played with them or read to them is from working alongside people who home, and she works at FedEx Freight as what inspired me to continue giving passionately serve others outweighed a communications specialist. She enjoys back.” Elizabeth learned the importance the challenges. volunteering with the youth group at of each individual member’s efforts When asked if the SMCF experience St. Louis Catholic Church. Elizabeth, a and contributions to the whole, and plays a role in their adult lives or careers, sophomore at Washington University, the importance of their collaboration they agree wholeheartedly. Kathryn, values the leadership, collaboration, and in the process of reaching solutions to who graduated from Texas Christian communication skills she developed big problems. “More than anything,” University in 2013, shared, “SMCF in the SMCF. She said that, “Just in my she recalls, “the SMCF instilled in me a helped me become a more confident first few months of college, I saw how life-long passion for philanthropy in any leader, effective communicator, and my time spent on the SMCF afforded capacity.” passionate volunteer. Being involved me the unusual opportunity to assume in SMCF gave me opportunities to responsibilities that few high school ask community leaders for donations students are offered.” and manage complex grant review Each sister recalled the most processes — experiences to which important thing she learned from few high school students have access.” the SMCF. For Kathryn, who believes Kathryn now works in the healthcare that everyone can and should be a sector as a marketing specialist with philanthropist, it is the fact that there 5 L . E R V I E G R Y Endowment Giving Provides New Y R D E A Programs and Secures the Future V Y The funds invested through St. Mary’s endowment generate annual E . operating revenue today while helping ensure the school’s financial future. A healthy endowment strengthens St. Mary’s in every regard, from managing tuition growth and providing financial assistance, to attracting and retaining