A New Era Begins - Friends` Central School

Entrepreneur Incubator
Commencement and Reunion
Annual Report of Gifts
4:1 | Fall 2012
A New Era Begins
Friends’ Central Welcomes the Sellers Family
2012-2013
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Robert Gassel ’69, Clerk
Karen N. Horikawa ’77,
Vice-Clerk
Melissa Anderson
James B. Bradbeer, Jr.
Adrian Castelli
Carolyn Cohen
Kenneth Dunn
George Elser
Wilson Felter
Christine Gaspar ’70
Edward Grinspan
Deborah Hull
Kent Julye
Michael C. Kelly
Matthew S. Levitties ’85
Craig Lord
Suzanne Morrison
James Murdock ’73
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Phillip E. Scott ’73
Joy Takahashi
Helene van Beuren
Peter Arfaa, Emeritus
Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita
Hillard Madway, Emeritus
Joanna Schoff ’51, Emerita
2012-2013
Alumni/ae Board
Clio Mallin ‘96,
Co-President
Latifah McMullin ‘99,
Co-President
Bess Collier ‘96,
Secretary
Deborah Charamella ‘01
Lauren Collier ‘99
Alice Hess Crowell ‘46
Andrea Deutsch ‘85
David Ellis ‘51
Janice Decker Frohner ‘60
Ruba Habtemicael ‘96
Susan Kelsay ‘59
Peter Klein ‘87
Kimberly Kurtz Lent ’87
Patrick Lord ‘90
Jane Cubberley Luce ‘68
Lauren Albert Ravitz ‘93
Angelina Riley ‘00
Alex Rolfe ‘01
Rachel Newman Schwartz ‘89
Jessica Zeldin ‘88
Gail Carter Zuagar ‘97
Jesse Amoroso ‘04
Jeffrey Brody ‘98
Students in Josh Weisgrau’s Upper School photography classes last spring focused their
portraiture project on the style popularized by Richard Avedon. This style consists of a
basic studio setup with a plain white backdrop. Subjects are invited to “come as they are”
or bring with them a significant representative object. What developed was a true picture
of the FCS community—vibrant, original, diverse, and real!
Opening Comments
Letter from the Head of School
Dear Friends,
Craig N. Sellers
Great communicators have a way of capturing the biggest ideas with
simple, memorable images.
Jim Mack
Director of Publications
Head of School
Editor
Layout and Design
Proof Design Studios
I recently attended an educational conference
where the presenter started with the question,
“Your school has three choices: you can be on
a train to the future; you can be at the station
waiting for the train to stop; or you can be saddling
a horse, looking to the past with optimism. What
are you doing?”
Provocative? Yes. And certainly the point
gets made. We need to intentionally, boldly
construct the foundation and the framework for
great teachers to practice their craft. The best
independent schools leverage the advantages of
independence, where teachers can have a great
idea over the weekend and implement it on
Monday without fear of losing the ability to teach to an almighty test. I think you will see
evidence of this kind of energizing freedom all through this issue of Quaker Works.
Printing
Great Atlantic
Director of Institutional Advancement
Lydia A. Martin
Director of Communications
Lisa D’Orazio
Director of Alumni/ae Affairs
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75
Director of Annual Giving
Jody Mayer
Development Associate
Diana Bleakley ’01
Archivist and Alumni/ae Associate
Jim Davis
Outreach Coordinator
We also get to ask an even bigger question at Friends’ Central, regardless of the “age”
we are in—that is, how well are we balancing time and eternity? Our community
knows we have a huge advantage right from the beginning—we get to start with
Meeting for Worship.
Lindsey Elkin ’08
This September, I participated in Meeting for Worship with students for the first time
in more than five years, and I was reminded why our students have such a distinctive
combination of compassion and innovation in their collective DNA. Experiencing 45
minutes of silence with 400 sophisticated, plugged-in high school students begins to
explain the magic of a Friends’ Central education—our students listen well to themselves
and to others, and from there the roots of divergent, creative thinking take hold and
grow. Innovation, like compassion, begins in that small, still place inside. We tend to that
place in each of us every week at Friends’ Central.
We welcome any comments, letters,
photographs, and suggestions for future
issues. Please send all communications to:
Editor, Quaker Works: The Magazine
I have no doubt that this issue of Quaker Works will impress you with details and
destinations related to Friends’ Central’s train to the future. Even though my family
and I are the new kids at school, it is clear that these tracks of progress have delivered a
transforming education since 1845. We are, to be sure, just as certain that Meeting for
Worship is central to our progress, regardless of the era.
In this way, we continue to balance time and eternity—a perfect approach for a
school determined to move boldly into the future while remaining grounded in our
sustaining traditions. QW
Photography
Lisa D’Orazio, Jay Gorodetzer, Diane Heard,
Laura Keen, Jim Mack, Mike Tolbert
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Contents
Quaker Works • The Magazine of Friends’ Central School • 4:1 | Fall 2012
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F e at u r e s
Learn, and Lead: A New Era Begins
12Listen,
with the Sellers Family
A new era begins this year for Friends’ Central, and leading
the charge is new Head of School, Craig Normile Sellers.
Commencement 2012
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A Friends’ Central education is very much an intellectual
journey, as students are encouraged to forge their own path,
guided by the Quaker values that have infused their learning.
This June, the Class of 2012 embarked on a new journey.
Passion for Invention, A Bold Entrepreneur:
22AFCS
Alumnus Named Thiel Fellow
What if you never had to stand in a checkout line at a store
again? What if retailers could eliminate shoplifting? An
invention by Spencer Hewett ’10 could make it happen.
d e pa rt m e n ts
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O
pening Comments
Letter from the Head of School
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Campus Log
Alumni/ae
28Reunion 2012
A Beautiful Day for a
Beautiful Community
31 Notes from Friends
41 Annual Report of Gifts
2011-2012
On the Cover
ENTREPRENEUR INCUBATOR
COMMENCEMENT AND REUNION
ANNUAL REPORT OF GIFTS
4:1 | Fall 2012
A New Era Begins
FRIENDS’ CENTRAL WELCOMES THE SELLERS FAMILY
On the Cover: Craig Normile
Sellers, Head of School
Photo by Laura Keen
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Opening Comments
Letters to the Editor
Lower School faculty. Later these
developed into what we have today.
Charlotte presided over fall projects
for about 10 years, including the
most significant one, “Terra,” which
created what we do have today.
Michi taught 4th grade in those
days and worked on these themes
with the rest of us as a teacher and
then continued the tradition when
she became principal. Charlotte led
many innovations in the late ’60’s
and the ’70’s in Lower School.
Jack Briggs,
3rd Grade Teacher
A Tradition of
Innovation
Ron Diment ’67
Editor’s note: While football joined
What a thorough and interesting
article Beth Burrell wrote for
Quaker Works! I enjoyed reading
it and now more fully appreciate
Friends’ Central School’s
groundbreaking ideas and
subsequent evolution. It is inspiring
to learn how early FCS adopted
programs and other initiatives that
are commonplace today.
Beth Dahle,
Parent ’12, ’14
Remembering a Lower
School Pioneer
Please note that Charlotte DeCosta
created the Lower School Fall
Thematic Project, not Michi
Tashjian, as stated in the “Tradition
of Innovation Guides our Future”
article in Quaker Works. Charlotte
was the principal before Michi, and
she began the fall themes in 1968
with “Quakerism.” Its purpose was
to develop a sense of unity and
strengthen collegiality among the
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sports, we continued to play a full
Inter-Ac schedule until a couple of
years after I graduated. We were
still overmatched in basketball
(Germantown Academy, best team
in the city in 1967, beat us 98-26 on
our home court!), but we at least
held our own in soccer, baseball,
track, and most other sports. Along
with Germantown Friends, we were
the only co-ed school in the InterAc, had many fewer boys to play
on teams, and didn’t recruit. I can
only say I relished every victory we
had on the soccer field and baseball
diamond!
the Penn Jersey League in 1965, all other
sports did not join until 1969.
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Charlotte DeCosta (right) led many of the
innovations in the Lower School in the
1960’s and 1970’s.
Share your
thoughts
with us!
We welcome all readers to give us
Glory Days
In the most recent FCS magazine,
it is noted that in 1965 Friends’
Central left the Inter-Ac League
for the Penn Jersey League for
sports. In 1965 the football team,
which was getting hammered in
the Inter-Ac, did switch leagues,
which had immediate benefits as
they went 5-3, the first winning
season in several years. For all other
feedback on this issue or to share
story ideas for future issues. All
letters to the editor that we receive
will be considered for publishing
in the next issue of Quaker Works.
(Letters are edited for length.)
Letters to the editor can be emailed to
[email protected]
or mailed to Editor, Quaker Works:
The Magazine, 1101 City Avenue,
Wynnewood, PA 19096.
Campus Log
For more School news visit the FCS Pressroom
at www.friendscentral.org/pressroom.
Ringing of the
Friendship Bell
Marks Transition
to Middle School
On the last day of school, after a
special Meeting for Worship, each
4th grader, (including Hannah
Rossio, pictured here) gave the
Friendship Bell one final ring—a
symbolic signal that closes the
school year and has traditionally
set the 4th graders on their
journey to Middle School. In 1990
former Lower School art teacher
Marcia Slade gave Friends’ Central
the bell in honor of her late
husband, David Slade.
Upper School Celebrates
End-of-Year Student Awards
This past spring, 19 members of the Class of 2012 were inducted into the
Cum Laude Society, and more than 20 additional Upper School students
were recognized for their outstanding efforts in academics, arts, athletics,
service, and citizenship at Friends’ Central’s Upper School Academic Awards
Assembly. The following recent graduates were inducted into the Cum Laude
Society for the distinguished record each of them achieved during their
academic career at Friends’ Central School: Leah Adelson, Andie Belkoff,
Samuel Brodfuehrer, Paula Burkhardt, Jeremy Crimm, Rebecca Dahle, Emily
deLisle, William Fedullo, Alexander Flick, Rory Giszter, Jeffrey Horowitz,
Sarah Kim, Naomi Minkoff, Harrison Pharamond, Tiffany Phuong, Samantha
Resnik, Daniel Stern, James Ulrich, and Spencer Villars.
Our Ingenious
4th Grade Inventors
Our 4th Grade inventors showed off their clever and practical
creations at their Invention Fair this past March. From a
marble-race game, to a new kind of toothpaste, to an automatic
drink-mixer, to an electric toilet seat warmer, these amazing
inventions highlighted the creativity and practical thinking of
FCS’ young scientists.
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A Strong Spring Season for FCS Sports
Brings Home Coveted Felsen Cup
Every year, Friends’ Central and
Germantown Friends compete in
Varsity sports for the Felsen Cup.
With each victory, the winning
school earns a point. This year, the
Cup came down to the final two
diamond contests. The Baseball
team rallied for a 7-6 victory,
and the Phoenix Softball team
outlasted the Tigers by a score of
11-9. With these two victories, and
wins by the Girls’ Soccer, Boys’
Soccer, Girls’ Basketball, Boys’
Basketball, Wrestling, and Boys’
Tennis teams earlier in the year,
the overall score ended up at 8-7,
and the Felsen Cup will remain at
Friends’ Central for another year!
FCS athletes had
an outstanding
spring season.
Track sensation
and team MVP
Imani Shell won
Friends Schools
League (FSL)
and Pennsylvania
Independent School
State titles in both
the long jump and
triple jump. Her
Imani Shell ’12
triple jump of 36’1”
at the state meet
broke her own school record.
The Softball team won its first FSL
championship in 10 years behind the
outstanding contributions of MVP Isabel
Nardi and Suzy Bernstein, both of whom
were named First Team All-League and
All-Main Line. Brianna Folwell received
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The 2012 Friends Schools League Softball Champions.
All-League First Team and All-Main
Line Second Team honors.
Ally Wirshba ’12
The Girls’ Lacrosse team lost only
once in the league during the regular
season to Germantown Friends, but
won redemption with a victory over
GFS in the FSL championship game,
claiming their third-straight FSL
title. Becca Dahle was named MVP
and received Honorable Mention
All-American honors. Dahle and
Ally Wirshba also earned Academic
All-American honors. Receiving
All-League First Team Honors were
Becca Dahle, Emma Dahle, a Main
Line Times Athlete of the Week
selection, Aubrey Faggen, Maria
Pizzini, Ashley Tedesco, and Sophie
MacFarlane. The Dahle sisters were
both named First Team All-Main Line.
The Boys’ Tennis team capped off a
superb, undefeated season with a
perfect finish, going undefeated in
the league championship match and
bringing home their fourth consecutive
championship and 10th since 2001.
MVP Declan Hahn, Sam Silver, Raaj
Singh, and Max Ginsberg all received
All-League First Team honors.
Declan Hahn ’12
Campus Log
The Writer’s Path
This past summer,
Madi Archard ’13
and Carlos PriceSanchez ’14 attended
the University of
Iowa Young Writers’
Studio, a prominent
program for teenage
writers in which
they participated in
workshops, explored the works of well-known writers, and wrote
(and re-wrote!) their own material.
Jefferson
Chooses Duke
In front of a packed crowd in Friends’ Central
School’s Shimada Athletic Center on May 15,
All-American Amile Jefferson ’12 announced
that he would be attending Duke University,
signing his official letter of intent to play
basketball for the Blue Devils.
“I wanted to discover a writing style I can call my own,” says PriceSanchez, who attended the poetry workshop. “Poetry can do a lot
of good in the world. It gives well-deserved weight to topics that
sometimes get overlooked.”
Archard sought to continue her growth as a prose writer. “FCS has
taught me how to be more analytical and technically proficient in my
literature and history essays,” she says, “but I also found this to be
very helpful in my prose. I really want to learn how to simplify my
writing while maintaining a sense of honesty.”
“Duke has the best combination of
academics and athletics,” Jefferson said
during his press conference. “Duke is a
prestigious school, and it is an honor and
a privilege to play for Coach K [Duke head
men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski].”
In his four years at Friends’ Central,
Jefferson led his team to four consecutive
Pennsylvania Independent School State
championships and two Friends Schools
League championships, was a two-time
Pennsylvania AA Player of the Year selection,
a three-time Pennsylvania First Team
All-State selection, a two-time recipient of
the Philadelphia Inquirer Southeastern PA
Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year award,
a two-time recipient of the ESPN/Gatorade
Pennsylvania Boys’ Basketball Player of the
Year award, and a McDonald’s All-American
selection with over 1,500 career points and
800 career rebounds.
Notable People Convene at Lower School
This past March, grade 2C held its annual Notable People
Convention. Each of the children dressed up as the notable person
he or she had been studying since January. Parents and teachers
asked each student questions and tried to guess who they were,
and then the children went up on stage for a presentation. After
returning to their classroom, the group of students and parents
enjoyed a buffet of food representing something about each of the
Notable People, and they looked at portraits drawn by the students
and letters written to their respective Notable People.
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Campus Log
A Little Pizazz
for Middle School
Dressmakers
This year, students in Leslie Grace’s Middle School
service group embarked on a creative, fun, and fulfilling
project: making tie-dyed “pillow case dresses” for girls
in need. At the onset of the project, many pillow cases
were donated by the FCS community, but they were
mostly all white.
“We decided to tie-dye them to add a little pizazz and
color! We think this will be an annual tradition for us
now,” says Grace.
Once the fabric dried, the seamstresses in the group
sewed simple dresses, which will be donated to girls in
need. With their hard work and creativity, the students
in this service group began a project that promises to
help young children in need for years to come.
Marathon Prima Lingua
Spelling Contest
It took 14 grueling rounds, but with a successful spelling
of “sumptuary,” Galen Cassidy (pictured here with
runner-up Annie Roberts) took home the title in the Fifth
Annual Prima Lingua and the Bee Spelling Contest in
April. The 6th grade Prima Lingua class studied a unit
on Latin prepositions and how these words are used as
prefixes in other languages such as English, French,
Spanish, and Italian.
Says Middle School language teacher Margaret Roberts,
“Knowing the Latin prepositions enables us to break
down large words that have prefixes and know something
about the definition of those words. We watched the
movie Akeelah and the Bee in preparation, and one of the
messages in the movie is that large words are made from
smaller words. Understanding Latin prepositions and root
words builds our vocabulary exponentially — and not just
our English vocabulary.”
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Campus Log
Bio II Music Video Becomes YouTube Rage
As part of the Annenberg High School Science Symposium
at Lankeneau Hospital, Melinda Yin’s Biology II class created
an original music video to punctuate their presentation
about ADX, a new breast cancer vaccine that uses bacteria
as a Trojan horse to enter cells. The presentation wowed
the panel of doctors, and the video became a YouTube hit.
Myles Everett ’12 wrote the music for the song and co-wrote
the lyrics with the rest of his classmates.
Advaxis, a clinical stage biotech startup company near
Princeton, N.J., that developed the vaccine, was so
impressed with the video that they invited the class to tour
their facilities. Students got the opportunity to talk with
scientists, tour the facilities, and were presented a novelty
trophy for “Best Song Ever” by members of the Advaxis
team. Search YouTube for “The ADX Song,” and check out
the video!
A Social Media Milestone
This summer, Friends’ Central passed 5,000 Likes on Facebook!
Thank you for making us reach this social media milestone and for staying connected! Join our
fan page at www.facebook.com/friendscentral for even more exciting news and events this year.
The Wonderful Service-thru-Art Jonny
Scene-n-Heard Word-Roots Mural Project
This year the students in art teacher Caroline Maw-Deis’ Service-thru-Art
program put their creative energy and artistic skill to good use to transform the
Middle School basement walls. These Middle School students, and a few parents,
faculty, and alumnae/ae volunteers, worked to create a wonderfully complex
(it even incorporates root words from different languages) and colorful mural.
Through Meg Saligman (current parent and Philadelphia mural artist), Friends’
Central enjoyed working with Jonny Buss, a graffiti artist who now collaborates
with the Mural Arts Program. Buss helped the students bring their ideas to visual
representations.
“This experience was amazing on many different levels: introducing students to a
working artist, witnessing students taking pride and ownership in a piece they all
collaborated on, all of us painting together to beautify the campus, and in doing
so, delighting in a unified ‘family feeling’ as several students later reflected!”
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Campus Log
Brian Greene Stretches Minds at Friends’ Central
Like the vibrating filaments of string theory or our expanding universe, Brian Greene stretched
the minds of the Friends’ Central community during a series of intimate classroom discussions
in the afternoon and a packed-house public lecture in the evening as part of the School’s
Distinguished Visiting Scientist Lecture Series on April 11.
Greene, professor, physicist, string theorist, and author, is
described as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the
world today” by The Washington Post. A professor of physics and
mathematics at Columbia University, Greene has focused on unified
theories for more than 25 years. He has written several best-selling
and non-technical books on the subject including The Elegant
Universe, a Pulitzer finalist. Greene captivated the crowd of more
than 500 during his public lecture as he wove his tale of dark matter,
additional dimensions, and the multiverse—the idea that ours is but
one of many universes in the cosmos.
Said Upper School physics teacher Deb Maraziti, “Brian Greene
pressed the ideas of intellectual freedom and of getting students
to think outside of the box. He encouraged our students to not be
afraid to take risks. A lot of times, especially in the world of science,
students are too concerned with finding the right answer. Brian
stressed the idea of finding a solution, not just one right answer. The
Distinguished Lecture Series is a wonderful way to see the breadth of
scientific world.”
SPEAKER SERIES 2012 – 2013
INSIDE FCS:
A Night Out in
the Classroom
Dan Biddle ’71
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Shallcross Hall • 7:30 pm
City Avenue Campus • 7:00 pm
Dan Biddle ’71 highlights our
year-long celebration of the
sesquicentennial of the Emancipation
Proclamation. Biddle and Murray
Dubin are the authors of Tasting
Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle
for Equality in Civil War America. While working for
the Philadelphia Inquirer, Biddle and his investigative
reporting team won a Pulitzer Prize for their series
about injustice in the Philadelphia court system.
So many of us have left curriculum
nights wishing we could go back to
school - well, parents, here is your
chance! A Night Out in the Classroom,
sponsored by the Advancement Office,
is your opportunity to appreciate your
children’s teachers in a whole new
way. Choose a class from a variety of
possibilities, sit back and... learn.
Check your email for sign-up
information.
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Distinguished Humanities Lecture
Free Ticketed Event
Please go to friendscentral.org and watch your
email several weeks before the event to find out
how to reserve your ticket.
New Clerk and Vice-Clerk
of the Board Named
For more than 160 years,
Friends’ Central School
has benefitted from a
strong tradition of giving.
Robert Gassel ’69 and Karen Horikawa ’77 began their
tenures as Friends’ Central’s new Clerk and Vice-Clerk of the
Board of Trustees on July 1.
Gassel is president of Robert
Gassel Co., Inc., a commercial real
estate development and property
management company. As a Trustee,
Gassel has served as Clerk of the
Trustees and Property Committees
and helped oversee the development
of Friends’ Central’s Master Plan
and campus improvements. He
earned the School’s Distinguished
Alumnus Award in 2009 and was President of the Alumni/ae
Board. Most recently, Gassel has served on the Long Range
Planning Committee and was Clerk of the Space and Facilities
Task Force for Vision 2020, the School’s Long Range Plan.
“The Board feels that it is important for the Clerk to have
the ability to communicate with the School—to be visible,”
Gassel notes. “Since my son is in 9th grade, I am around
a lot. The teachers know me, other parents know me. It is
important for the School community—parents, faculty and
staff, and alumni/ae—to get to know the Board and what
we do.”
Horikawa is a member of the
Radnor Monthly Meeting and a
science teacher and Associate
Science Department Head at
Wilmington Friends School. As
Clerk of the School Life Committee,
Horikawa will ensure that the
School is guided by its Quaker
principles and that diversity
continues to be a priority at Friends’
Central. Horikawa also serves on the Engaged Community
Working Group for Vision 2020.
Giving is at the heart of
Annual Giving gifts stretch farther and affect
more of the Friends’ Central community
than any other fundraising effort.
The money is put to immediate use for
faculty salaries and retirement,
student programs, and financial aid.
Honor your FCS experience
with your own tradition of giving.
Make an Annual Giving gift this year
and support current students and
faculty at Friends’ Central.
Contact Director of Annual Giving Jody Mayer at
[email protected] or 610.645.4499
for more information or visit
www.friendscentral.org/support to give online.
“This is a momentous time for Friends’ Central,” says
Horikawa. “I am delighted and proud to be part of the
countless conversations and processes that strongly connect
Friends’ Central to the core values of Quaker education
and to the development of a vibrant 21st century learning
community.”
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Listen, Learn, and Lead
A New Era Begins
with
T h e S e l l e r s F a m i ly
A new era begins this year for Friends’ Central, and leading
the charge is new Head of School, Craig Normile Sellers.
Craig, his wife, Cary, and his children, Bridgman ’15 and
Clare ’18, joined the FCS community on July 1, 2012. The
Sellers family is Friends’ Central’s first “Head Family” since
Merrill Bush and family came to FCS in 1952.
By Lisa D’Orazio
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Listen, Learn, and Lead • A New Era Begins with The Sellers Family
With fresh
eyes and
the mantra
“Listen, Learn,
and Lead,”
Craig’s eagerness and
excitement to kick off
the 2012-2013 school
year, along with his
passion for education, was palpable and
contagious during the first weeks of school. I sat
down with Craig to find out a little more about
the Sellers family, as well as Craig the leader,
Craig the person, and his vision for the future of
Friends’ Central School.
Q: Welcome to FCS! What were
your reasons for taking this
job? Why Friends’ Central?
A: Friends’ Central for me has
always been one of those mythic
schools – you always knew about
it and had great respect for this
“rock solid” school—but it rarely
had openings. I couldn’t believe
the Head of School position was
open. For me, it was always one of
those jobs that was exceptional but
unattainable and not likely to cross
my path. I flashed back to our tour
with David Felsen, about 15 years
ago, when I was working at United
Friends School in Quakertown.
Friends’ Central for us was,
and still is, a school with values
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deeply in line with our values.
This position has now given me an
opportunity to go deeper to a place
where I can align my professional
values with my personal values.
When you find that, you have to
grab it.
Q: It must have been hard
moving your whole family,
including two teenage children,
from their town and their
school. What was Cary’s
reaction to your candidacy at
Friends’ Central, and to moving
to the Philadelphia area?
A: In the beginning, [the
opportunity to be the Head of
Friends’ Central] seemed so farfetched—an opportunity I was
almost never going to be able
to have. We were very happy in
New Hampshire, working at a
great school, one that fulfilled
my professional values. When
the search was narrowed down
to about eight candidates, we
went from investigating to truly
investing—Cary and I realized that
we really wanted this. Then, when
I saw Al Vernacchio’s article in The
New York Times Magazine, I remember
thinking that it was a sign—that
I not only needed apply for this
position, but to really investigate
and dig deeper into the opportunity
to lead at Friends’ Central.
Friends’ Central’s connection
to its Quakerism is a great fit
with our personal values. It is a
wonderful place for our family. That
combination worked and just made
sense. Cary said to me when I began
at Derryfield that, the next time
we moved, it had to be to “a place.”
I asked her what that meant. She
said, “like a city—a real, live place.”
Philadelphia is exactly where we
wanted to be, and Friends’ Central is
the exact school we wanted to join.
Q: What are your first
impressions of Friends’
Central after being here for
almost two months now?
Though I haven’t been here long,
my impressions are that there is
a sense of professionalism and
pride in the faculty that is truly
inspiring, a physical plant that
is exceptional—Doug Linton’s
passion for the external campus
is amazing—and I’m constantly
aware of a community that is always
welcoming of Cary and me and is
ready for my family. I wanted to be
at a place where my children could
thrive, and it is a blessing to have
my family here.
Q: What do you feel are
Friends’ Central’s greatest
strengths?
A: Some of my initial perceptions
and intuition of Friends’ Central’s
strengths are the School’s commitment
to its Quaker tradition and values, as
both its difference and differentiation,
and its driving force for excellence,
which is continually brought to my
attention. Teachers are both seeking
ways to create the curriculum around
Quaker values and pushing the
envelope in their respective subject
areas, which Quakers have been
known for in the realm of education.
The soul of the place is its awareness
of its Quaker roots.
Q: What is your vision for
Friends’ Central?
A: What I’m going to do in my first
year is “Listen, Learn, and Lead.”
I’m going to spend a lot of time
listening—I know there is a lot to
learn from a community of people
at the top of their game. Then, as a
community, we need to ask ourselves
“Where is the North Star? Where
do we go from here?” From that
point, I’ll know where to lead. My
instincts are to continue to look
at new markets while still serving
our present folks, think globally,
and continue to find ways to use
technology to bridge the divides.
How can adults use that technology
to keep going and keep learning?
Quaker educator Anthony
Benezet explained education well
when he said “The best education
balances a world that is and a world
“Friends’ Central for me
has always been one of those mythic
schools – you always knew about it and
had great respect for this
”
‘rock solid’ school
that ought to be.” I agree with this
statement wholeheartedly, and I
feel that Quaker schools succeed at
finding that balance.
Q: You are very active on
Twitter—what are your
thoughts on social media as a
whole, and how will that shape
your communication with the
community?
A: I’m a big believer in
ambidextrous communication. I’m
active on Twitter, blogging, and
emails, but I also communicate
through letters, and will eventually
offer “Coffees with Craig” for parents,
staff, students, and alumni/ae. People
will find the channel that works
best for them. Social Media is
fascinating—we’re still figuring out
its power. My instinct is that the
essence of it connects all of us in
incredible ways.
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: I was born and lived the first
years of my life in Levittown, Pa. I
attended William Penn Preschool,
of which I have no memory. Then,
my family moved to Cape Cod when
I was in third grade. I attended a
small public school, North Falmouth
elementary school, where many of
the teachers were members of the
Meeting. Though it was a public
school, it was influenced heavily
by Friends.
Q: What path took you to
Friends education, and then to
Friends’ Central?
A: After graduating from Franklin
& Marshall in 1984, I took a year
off to do photography around the
world. That year off was the most
amazing experience of my life.
When I came back home, I attended
law school in Manhattan. I met
Cary at a conference in New York.
She was one of the presenters, and
I was working on Wall Street at the
time. After Cary and I got married
and had been living together for a
while, Cary began teaching at The
Spence School. I couldn’t help but
notice that I was coming home to a
wife who was truly happy and was
making the world a better place, and
I wasn’t. I decided that I wanted
a piece of that happiness, too, but
wasn’t sure how to get it. Cary
suggested I meet with the Head
of Spence School, who suggested
I meet with Rich Eldridge, Head
of Friends Seminary. Rich assured
me this was just an informational
meeting, that I wasn’t going to get
a job out of it. I said that I would
take him out to lunch until I did.
During my visit, Rich encouraged
me to sit in on Meeting for Worship.
It was sitting in Meeting that I had
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an amazing moment of clarity. It
felt like I was coming home. I called
my mom later in the week to tell her
about my day and about how I felt at
Meeting for Worship. She said “Yes,
well, that’s because you went to a
Quaker Preschool.” Of course, I had
no recollection of that, so I said, “No,
I didn’t.” She said, “Yes, you did. I’ll
send you the diploma.” That diploma
is the only one hanging in my office.
Friends’
“Central
is a
great fit for
its Quakerness,
and ours. It is a
wonderful
place for
our family. That
combination
worked and just
made sense.
”
Back to Friends Seminary, it
took them 18 months, but Rich
finally did give me a job, running
the development office and teaching
constitutional law to juniors and
seniors. After a while, I felt like
I should really get a degree in
education, so, a subway ride away,
I enrolled and got my Master’s
at Klingenstein Center Teachers’
College at Columbia University. A
few years later, my wife and I joined
Morningside Meeting in New York.
Then, I started working at United
Friends School, a small Pre-K to 8
School in Quakertown, Pa., where
my kids attended from Pre-K
through grade 4. While at United
Friends, I went to Thailand on a
Fulbright Scholarship. I realized I was
missing the older children, and how
larger schools connect to one another.
When I returned, I knew I was ready
for the next step, which turned out
to be Head of Derryfield. After a few
years, I realized I was missing the
connection to my Quaker faith, as well
as the younger children. So, when I
reflect on being here, at a Nursery
through grade 12 Friends school with
the stature of Friends’ Central, I still
get tingles thinking about it.
Q: What are your passions?
A: I’m a big basketball fan,
particularly the Celtics, but I’m on
my way to converting to the Sixers!
I also really enjoy photography and
always find a place for photography
in my life.
Q: Can you share some of your
favorite books or authors?
What are you reading right
now?
A: Recently I discovered the New
Yorker on the iPad. Now I can’t put
it down. I also really enjoy Malcolm
Gladwell—a big thinker who captures
so much—Tom Friedman, Barbara
Kingsolver, and John McPhee.
Q: Who are your favorite
musicians?
A: I really enjoy classic 70s music,
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni
Mitchell, and Pete Seeger.
Q: What do you feel are your
greatest strengths?
A: I just went through four months
of a community saying goodbye.
Folks have thought of me in terms
of physical plant; that’s not what I
want to be known for. I’ve helped
schools with their vision and
mission. Children at Friends schools
learn best when they develop their
eye for the invisible and their ear for
the unspoken, and if I can be a part
of that, I will be thrilled. QW
Lisa D’Orazio is the Director of
Communications at Friends’ Central.
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C omm e nc e m e nt
2012
The Class of 2012 Embarks on a New Journey
A Friends’ Central education is very much an intellectual journey, as students
are encouraged to forge their own path, guided by the Quaker values that
have infused their learning. On June 9,the 96 members of the Class of 2012
embarked on a new journey, as they look toward a future of engagement
and leadership in college and throughout their lives.
By Jim Mack
As the sun peaked through what was an overcast
morning, the Class of 2012 and their families and friends
enjoyed a spirited day of reflection and anticipation, as
they shared stories of their time at Friends’ Central and
their hopes for the future.
Nicolas DeFina was one of two student speakers at
the ceremony. He talked about his struggles with regret,
calling it a “subversively powerful demoralizer,” but he
encouraged his classmates to use regret in a beneficial
way. He quoted playwright Fulton Oursler, who said that
“many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret
for the past and fear for the future.” He challenged his
classmates to accept their past experiences and use them
to take advantage of their greatest assets, “enthusiasm,
curiosity, fearlessness, and compassion.”
“What matters the most is what experiences,
friendships, and lessons you have behind you,” DeFina
said. “This, my classmates, is what will get us through
the mysteries of the future. All we must do is embrace
our beautifully erratic pasts; don’t regret them. Free
yourselves. You deserve it.”
Kirsten Easley was the second student speaker. She
noted the similarities between the now-famous “opposite
of loneliness” reflection by Yale graduate Marina Keegan.
Easley expected to be an outsider upon entering Friends’
Central as a freshman. What she discovered, though, was
that she was “surrounded by people who were willing and
eager to embrace me and my differences.”
“That’s what I love most about Friends’ Central and
the people here,” Easley said. “Everyone can come here
with different beliefs and world views and no one is
discouraged from sharing them … the embrace and love
of community and our differences are what make Friends’
Central so special.”
Easley came back to Keegan’s essay as she ended her
speech, noting that she realized that she and Keegan
were feeling a lot of the same emotions. “Though we
were in different places in our lives, the feelings brought
to the surface by getting ready to leave one community
and to take on the task of finding another were very
similar,” Easley said. “Her optimism about her future
and the futures of her fellow graduates was infectious,
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Commencement 2012
and I couldn’t help but believe in every word she spoke.
I feel the same way about our futures as we leave
Friends’ Central.”
This year’s faculty speaker was Carrie Brodsky,
Co-Director of College Counseling, whose son,
Joey Brodsky, graduated this year. Brodsky related
the difficulty in boiling down the complex sum of
a students’ life and aspirations to “the rigid format
of the Common Application.” A quote by Albert
Einstein hangs in her office to reassure her advisees:
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.”
Brodsky spoke eloquently of the many things that
Friends’ Central students do that matter, but cannot
be counted, things such as gratitude and engagement.
She the retold the story of golf balls in the jar—how
the golf balls are the important things, like family and
friends, and they can fill up the jar. But pebbles still
fit, these are jobs and houses and cars. Even these do
not fill the jar, completely, as sand can fill in the spaces.
Sand represents everything else in life. The lesson is
that if the sand goes in first, there is not room for the
important things. “The same goes for life,” Brodsky
said, “if you spend all your time and energy on the
small stuff, there is no room for the things that are
important to you.”
“As you leave Friends’ Central today,” Brodsky
concluded, “confident, talented young adults, ready to
make your mark in the world, I encourage you to live
an engaged life, express gratitude for the things that
matter most to you, and be sure to pay attention to the
things that can’t be counted.” QW
Jim Mack is the Director of Publications at Friends’ Central.
A Change in College Counseling
Faculty Commencenment Speaker Carrie
Brodsky is leaving her role as Co-Director of
College Counseling after 12 years of service to
the Friends’ Central community. Stepping in this
year as Associate Director of College Counseling
is Mike Keaton, who joins us from Haverford
College, where he served as Senior Associate
Director of Admission.
Carrie Brodsky
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Mike Keaton
The Class of 2012
“The 96 members of the Friends’ Central School Class of 2012 have accepted offers
of admission at 60 colleges and universities. The number and variety of institutions
represented speaks to the success of this group of students in finding schools that fit
their many and diverse interests and aspirations.”
- Grant Calder, Director of College Counseling
Munir Abdus Shakur
St. John’s University
Francesca Abramson
Emory University
Leah Adelson
Yale University
Hannah Albertine
Bates College
Katherine Andrews
American University
Jacob Apkon
Tufts University
Lindsay Auerbach
Muhlenberg College
Zachary Barron
Emory University
Chelsea Bedford
The George Washington
University
Robert Bedford
University of the Sciences
Andie Belkoff
Emory University
Liza Bergmann
Quinnipiac University
John Bowie
Temple University
Sean Bray
Haverford College
Samuel Brodfuehrer
Washington University
in St. Louis
Nicholas Clothier
University of California at
Berkeley
Jesse Cooperman
Indiana University
Bloomington
Jeremy Crimm
Wesleyan University
Rebecca Dahle
Brown University
Nicolas DeFina
University of
Pennsylvania
Emily deLisle
University of
Pennsylvania
Antonia DiLuca
Goucher College
Ilan Dreyfuss
Washington University
in St. Louis
Kirsten Easley
Northeastern University
C. Myles Everett
New York University
William Fedullo
Swarthmore College
Allison Feld
Boston University
Alexander Flick
Williams College
Aaron Freed
University of Pittsburgh
Lauren Harris
Occidental College
Jonathan Newman
University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Horowitz
University of
Pennsylvania
Shea Norcini
West Chester University
Franz Hueber
University of North
Carolina Wilmington
Nathaniel Hurwitz
The George Washington
University
Amile Jefferson
Duke University
Charlotte Pawley
Boston University
Lee Penzarella
Case Western Reserve
University
Harrison Pharamond
University of
Pennsylvania
Richard Jennings
St. John’s University
Elizabeth Phillips
Maryland Institute
College of Art
George Keith
University of Pittsburgh
Tiffany Phuong
Lafayette University
Sarah Kim
University of
Pennsylvania
Aleksandr Pickard
Pepperdine University
Lily Kronfeld
Emory University
Colin Lee
Digital Animation & Visual
Effects School
Asher LethbridgeSimon
Syracuse University
Jibreel Powell
University of
Pennsylvania
Spencer Reiter
Tulane University
Michael Michnowicz
Kenyon College
Shay Roddy
Arizona State University
Emily Roll
Drexel University
Naomi Minkoff
The George Washington
University
Meghan Cartafalsa
Florida Southern College
Brice Goldberg
Syracuse University
Kaitlin Mulholland
High Point University
Melanie Chalmus
West Chester University
Breanna Guindon
Earlham College
C. Miles Mundy
Pomona College
Amy Chapkovich
Penn State University
Declan Hahn
Emory University
Yorito Nakata
Oberlin College
Sahara Clement
Bryn Mawr College
Benjamin Harris
University of Maryland
Andrew Nemroff
University of Delaware
Jordan Taffet
College of William & Mary
Isabel Terres
Hobart and William Smith
Colleges
Sara Refaela Torres
University of Delaware
James Ulrich
Haverford College
Cynthia Valdez
Bryn Mawr College
Matthew Weinberg
Washington University
in St. Louis
Claudia Rizzo
Trinity College (Conn.)
Joshua Glen
Hamilton College
Keira Sultan
Bates College
Jacob Reichlin
Syracuse University
Katherine McElroy
Drexel University
Paula Burkhardt
Pomona College
Daniel Stern
Vanderbilt University
Spencer Villars
Yale University
Samantha Resnik
University of
Pennsylvania
Rory Giszter
Cornell University
Justine SingerKaufold
Drexel University
Pedro Rangel
West Chester University
Jordan Lucoff
University of Colorado at
Boulder
C. Joseph Brodsky
Ursinus College
Isabelle SingerKaufold
Drexel University
Noah Schoenberg
Macalester College
Giulietta Schoenfeld
Bryn Mawr College
Dennis Whitely
Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
Bengt Williams
Worcester Polytechnic
Institute
Allison Wirshba
Franklin & Marshall
College
David Yarnell
Oberlin College
Dylan Zaccaria
West Chester University
Emma Shaw
Gettysburg College
Imani Shell
California University of
Pennsylvania
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Alumni/ae News
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A Passion for
Invention,
A Bold
Entrepreneur
FCS Alumnus Named Thiel Fellow
What if you never had to stand in a checkout line at a store again?
What if retailers could eliminate shoplifting?
By Jim Mack
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Alumni/ae News
A Passion for Invention, A Bold Entrepreneur
An invention by Friends’ Central School alumnus
Spencer Hewett will allow shoppers to pay for their
goods with a tap of their smart phones, while ensuring
that merchandise will not leave the store without being
purchased. It is a system that has the young entrepreneur on
the verge of transforming the retail industry.
Hewett has wanted to be an
inventor since he was three years
old, and the pursuit of his ideas has
occupied his thoughts and actions
for as long as he can remember.
Hewett graduated from Friends’
Central in 2010 … barely, he admits.
“I was diagnosed with ADHD
in third grade,” Hewett easily
offers. “My teachers sometimes had
a hard time with me.” As he sits
comfortably on a bench in the shady
center of Friends’ Central’s campus,
you get the sense that his words ring
of understatement.
Hewett admits that he was a
challenging student and found it hard
to maintain focus on projects that he
did not find stimulating … especially
art projects. “I am a perfectionist,”
Hewett says. “It is hard for me to
turn in projects when they are not
good. So, I am late, or I don’t turn
them in at all. If it wasn’t for my
advisors, Keith Buckingham and
Laura Haimm, going to bat for me
and also urging me to finish my art
projects, I wouldn’t have graduated,”
he says in that same easy manner
of someone who has embraced his
eccentricities. “The thing is, I really
liked my classes! Friends’ Central
is an inspiring place, and I had
many teachers who were passionate
about what they did and encouraged
independent thinking.”
Buckingham is a popular Upper
School science teacher who saw
that Hewett’s perfectionism was
his greatest fault and also his
greatest asset. “Spencer wants free
and rapid flow of information and
ideas, and rapid decision-making,”
Buckingham says. “He is extremely
goal-oriented, but he is freewheeling
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Spencer Hewett ’10
and values autonomy. The downside
is that when he doesn’t see the value
in the work, he doesn’t do it.”
In third grade Hewett invented
a peer-to-peer cell phone network.
In high school Hewett and a
friend started a company that built
personal computers with advanced
cooling systems, one of the many
side endeavors to which he has
devoted his time.
“Mr. Buckingham supported my
computer business and realized that
my education did not consist solely
of my classes,” Hewett says. “He
recognized the importance of my
business to my learning.”
“Spencer values many of the
things that I find intellectually
stimulating,” Buckingham adds. “He
is willing to take chances, and he is
exceptionally tolerant of technical
failure if the potential payoff from
success will likely be high.”
Now, another mentor has
recognized Hewett’s brilliance and
has given him a $100,000 fellowship
to pursue his passion. PayPal
founder Peter Thiel, through his
Thiel Foundation “20 Under 20”
program, selected Hewett as one of
this year’s crop of Thiel Fellows—a
group of 20 creative and ambitious
thinkers aged 20 or younger who
are guided by scientists, engineers,
inventors, and entrepreneurs to
bring their visionary ideas to life—
with one catch: they skip college for
two years of self-directed research,
work, and education.
Hewett, a computer engineering
major who just finished his
sophomore year at Washington
University in St. Louis, first heard
about the Thiel Fellowship in a
magazine and then saw a special
on CNBC. But the fellowship
didn’t inspire Hewett’s remarkable
invention. Victoria’s Secret did.
Hewett had already been working
on the project that would earn him the
fellowship because of his impatience
with checkout lines. Last summer,
he was interning at GSI Commerce
in King of Prussia. After lunch one
day, three female coworkers dragged
him to Victoria’s Secret in the King of
Prussia Mall, where Hewett suffered
through a 30-minute wait at the
checkout. While they were in line, he
told his friend that he would invent
a way to get rid of lines. She bet him
he couldn’t. This challenge sparked
what would become “noQ,” a fusion
of radio-frequency identification
microchips (RFID) and mobile
payment technology.
Hewett’s invention works much
like an EZPass. As you leave the
store a sensor remotely scans your
items and charges the price directly
to your credit card via your phone.
An alarm goes off if the item has not
been purchased.
If consumers are excited about
the possibility of breezing through
a store in minutes, retailers are even
more excited about the security
benefits inherent in this system.
“I will eliminate shoplifting and
employee theft,” Hewett says with
such assurance that leaves no doubt
“Friends’ Central is an
inspiring place, and I had
many teachers who were
passionate about what
they did and encouraged
independent thinking.”
to his success. Well, almost. “I am 99
percent sure this is going to work,”
Hewett says.
As Hewett rolls through the
benefits of his innovation, that one
percent starts to get smaller.
“Retailers lose $4.5 to $6 billion
each year through shoplifting,”
Hewett explains, “and stores increase
prices to compensate for this loss.
There is also a 67 percent average
employee turnover rate per year
in retail. Instead of standing at the
register all day, employees can be
used for customer service. They can
spend more time helping people.”
Of course, as with any venture,
this project has not been a smooth
ride, and this idea has been tried
before, but Hewett thinks that his
plan is better. “Shopping carts with
RFID technology exist, but they are
expensive, and people steal them for
the parts, he says. “My idea places
sensors in the store instead of on the
cart, which is a far less expensive
solution.”
Hewett’s team has also had to design
ways to eliminate radio frequency
interference and take into account the
hacker factor. “Hackers try to ‘kill’ the
tag by scanning it a thousand times
to overload the memory, because
each time a tag is scanned it alters the
memory. They call in ‘tag spoofing,’”
Hewett explains. “I’ve invented
security to prevent this.”
Even the application for the Thiel
Fellowship was daunting. “Like
applying to Stanford, but longer,”
Hewett jokes. At each point, Hewett
S.T.E.A. M.
(It’s better than S.T.E.M.)
The students just couldn’t get
enough physics. That planted
the seed for what turned into a new
program at Friends’ Central, STEAM
(Science, Technology, Engineering,
Arts, and Math), FCS’ own take on the
STEM movement.
“We are using the MIT Media Lab as
our model and following their fourstep process: Invent, Build, Test, and
Demonstrate for all projects,” says
Upper School science teacher Keith
Keith Buckingham (left) and
Buckingham. “Our goal is to set up an
Colin Angevine ’05
incubator … to throw a bunch of smart
people in the same room, start playing
with things, and see where it goes. We seek to promote engineering and
problem solving skills, creativity, and cross-disciplinary thinking.”
The STEAM initiative is student driven—there were enough kids who hit
the end of the line in the physics curriculum, Physics II, and wanted more.
“Why not?” they asked. Buckingham agreed and teamed up with computer
science and Latin teacher Colin Angevine ’05 to form a program that helps
students learn to apply multi-disciplinary approaches to advance their
knowledge and create innovative technologies to tackle practical problems.
Projects may span the gamut across the fields of biology, medicine,
computer science, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, material
sciences, social sciences, neurosciences, and the arts. Initially the faculty
will serve as mentors, but Buckingham and Angevine expect students to
move into that role as they gain experience.
“We want to create the right kind of culture. We avoid hierarchy,” says
Angevine. “We are trying to set the students up and let them go … but
redirect them when needed.”
Art is an important feature of the initiative, Buckingham says. “Steve Jobs
talked of the intersection of technology and liberal arts being one of the keys to
Apple’s design and innovation. We want to bring technology and the creative/
intuitive together in synergy.” Art teacher Josh Weisgrau has joined the STEAM
team, and they expect more faculty to become involved as the project grows.
Buckingham tried this idea before—back when he was teaching physics
to AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas ’97. (See the story on page 27.) Thomas is
actually advising the FCS STEAM project, and the students attended a Maker
Education Initiative Maker Faire in New York City in September.
For now, they are calling STEAM a “non course,” and the group will meet
during a weekly free block, but it may be for credit in the future. Right now,
the faculty and students are excited just to get started.
“Our group of students have diverse backgrounds,” Buckingham says.
“Most everyone has some physics, all have some calculus. A good number
have programming background. All are interested and enthusiastic. That is
the single most important point.”
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A Passion for Invention, A Bold Entrepreneur
Even the other Thiel Fellows know Spencer is great.
has risen to the challenge. He went
through a series of thorough phone
interviews, then flew to San Francisco
for interviews with the mentoring
groups and past fellowship winners.
The experience has left him in awe
of the talent and ingenuity of his
generation of young entrepreneurs.
“I’ve never encountered kids
like this in all my life,” Hewett says
with a smile and a look, almost, of
disbelief. “One kid is the youngest
person ever to achieve nuclear
fusion … at age 14.”
Now Hewett is among these
phenoms whom Thiel has tapped as
our visionaries of tomorrow. Since
finding out he was selected on April
28, Hewett has indeed left college and
moved to the San Francisco Bay area.
Even though he is taking
some time off from pursuing his
college degree, Hewett credits
the engineering department at
Proof
Washington, especially Ron Laue,
assistant dean for engineering student
services, with being supportive of his
latest “side project.” He also credits
Friends’ Central with providing the
opportunity for his first summer
internship—after his sophomore year
in high school. At the School’s career
day, he met FCS alumna Shana
Fisher ’88, who worked with Internet
services and retailing company IAC,
a job that helped spark Hewett’s
interest in ecommerce.
“Spencer has an incredibly
positive attitude and natural
intellectual curiosity,” notes Fisher.
“He is extremely hard-working and
engaged, and I was happy to have
him with us during his internship.”
Hewett’s amazing journey was
featured on CNBC’s “20 Under 20:
Transforming Tomorrow,” a two-part
special, which aired in August. QW
Jim Mack is the Director of Publications at
Friends’ Central.
Positive
Creative and Compassionate,These Alumni/ae Entrepreneurs are Examples of How Quaker Works.
The Power of Sharing
When Dan Porter ’84 created the
insanely popular Draw Something
mobile app, cooperation was on his
mind, not competition. “We’re taking
game play and wrapping it in the
framework of communication, sharing
experiences and playing together,” he
said in an interview with gigaOM.com.
“I just wanted this to be something
hilarious with no winner or loser.”
Cooperation was also on his mind when, as CEO of
Omgpop, he rehired 40 staffers that had been let go so
they would be able to reap in the profits of the company’s
$210 million purchase by gaming giant Zynga. “Those folks
deserved to share in the success,” Porter says. “It wasn’t
something I thought a lot about. I grew up in a politically
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active and conscious family, and of course FCS was always
trying to engage as a school with the world around it. The
rehire seemed on a personal level the right thing to do, even if
that trumped traditional business logic of maximum profits.”
Porter is now vice president for mobile and general
manager of New York operations for Zynga, and he credits
Friends’ Central for showing him that anything is possible
with hard work, and for allowing him the flexibility to try new
things. He and his friends started a new jazz band at FCS,
and his senior project involved writing music with Jim Davis.
“FCS gave me room to really stretch myself,” he says.
Porter’s advice for current students? “Spend as much of
your time in college and in your 20’s figuring out what you like
to do, what you are good at, and what you aren’t,” he says.
“You can’t do that anywhere else but on the job. It’s OK not to
know what you want to do. It takes time and exposure. I sold
my first company when I was 34 and Omgpop when I was 45.
It takes a lot of time to get it right.”
Confidence to Embrace Change
Resilient, smart, patient, focused.
These are all words that fit Jonathan
Wegener ’03. He spent three
months riding the subways in New
York City to come up with the mobile
app hit ExitStrategyNYC.com, which
tells you exactly where to stand
on the subway platforms to make
your trip the most efficient. He is
now working on a new product called Timehop.com,
which brings together our personal digital history and
reminds us in a daily email. “So much of social media is
lost as soon as it is posted. We believe that content gains
value over time, and we want to help people reconnect
with their pasts.” Wegener’s day reads like a start-up
laundry list. Half his day is spent working on the product:
sketching new features, writing copy, working with
designers and developers. The other half is everything
else: recruiting, benefits, office space, fundraising.
After graduating from Columbia, Wegener was working
for tech start-ups, “a great way to get your feet wet,” he says.
While still consulting, he lost his full-time gig in 2009. But
then the idea for Exit Strategy was like a light bulb going on.
Wegener took a potential setback, what he calls a “forced
entrepreneurship,” and turned it into a revenue-producing
product that launched a new career. Even during his FCS
days he was into technology and building websites. His work
with start-ups helped him develop the business acumen to
envision the intersection of technology and the world. He
saw a need and had the vision and skill to fill it. Friends’
Central, he says, helped him learn the most important
lesson for success: the best way to learn is by doing. “Start
building things early,” he says to budding entrepreneurs,
“figure it out, make it happen, teach yourself!”
Optimistic, adaptive, creative. Three more words that
define Wegener, and three qualities that Friends’ Central
strives to instill in its students.
The Power of Making
For AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas ’97,
the belief in the power of making,
especially for young children, has led
her to leave her position as assistant
professor of engineering at the
University of St. Thomas in Minnesota
and director of the UST Design
Laboratory to become the executive
director of the Maker Education
Initiative (or Maker Ed for short). “As a mother, and as an
engineering professor, I’ve seen how much learning occurs
when people work on projects that they are passionate
about,” Thomas says. “People are truly excited about the
projects that they, and others, are working on. Collaboration,
creativity, learning new things, exploring various technology
and craft techniques—wouldn’t it be great if every child had a
chance to experience these things?”
Maker Ed was founded to create more opportunities for
young people to make, and, by making, build confidence,
foster creativity, and spark interest in science, technology,
engineering, math, the arts—and learning as a whole.
“Making something, be it an electrical circuit, a piece of
clothing, a sculpture, or whatever else they are interested in,
allows children to see that they can be creators rather than
just consumers,” says Thomas. “It’s incredibly empowering
to be able to point to something and say ‘I made that!’”
“I’ve spent my career trying to blend
art and science and engineering, and I
think this stems from how these topics
were equally important at FCS. I will
forever be grateful for that support
and encouragement I received at
Friends’ Central.”
Through Maker Ed, Thomas is working to connect parents
and educators with the resources and support they need
to develop and implement making activities and programs.
Maker Ed’s first program, Maker Corps, places young adult
“makers” with youth-serving organizations to help create
making opportunities for children in their communities.
Thomas points to Friends’ Central science teachers Pam
Nix and Keith Buckingham, art teacher Peter Seidel, and
music teacher Carl Bradley as important early influences
on her passion for making. “I’ve spent my career trying
to blend art and science and engineering, and I think this
stems from how these topics were equally important at
FCS,” she says. “I will forever be grateful for that support
and encouragement I received at Friends’ Central.”
Thomas says that Friends’ Central’s fine arts program
first attracted her to the school, but over time, she became
more and more interested in science and math and ended
up founding the Science Olympiad team. Friends’ Central
gave her the opportunity to explore and develop her
passions—a critical step, she feels, toward a successful
and satisfying life. Other steps? “Be curious about how
the world works,” she says. Find interesting people to be
around, and learn from them. Share what you do, and the
lessons you’ve learned, with others.”
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R eunion 2 0 1 2
A Beautiful Day for a Beautiful Community
By Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75
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Reunion
2012
On May 12, more than 500 alumni/ae, family
members, friends, and faculty came together for a
memorable Reunion celebration. Our remarkably
gorgeous day began with Archivist Jim Davis giving
his popular City Avenue campus tour as our guests
enjoyed relaxed conversation and breakfast treats
on their meanderings through Felsen Common. A
late-morning Meeting for Worship set the stage for
the Reunion Program, at which we honored our
Distinguished Alumnus/a Award winners Jonathan
Adler ’87 and Beth Davis Johnson ’77. After a flurry
of class photos, we regrouped for a delicious picnicthemed lunch on the Common and were serenaded by
a faculty-alumni/ae folk band. While some toured the
Archives display, others took in some Phoenix athletic
contests (and an alumna-student field hockey game!),
and a large contingent sat in on a lecture by our
nationally recognized sexuality educator Al Vernacchio.
As the setting sun cast a warming glow over the Wood
Building Terrace, we traded stories and memories over
cocktails before ending our night with our festive class
parties. Thank you to everyone who attended and made
Reunion 2012 a special event. It was a beautiful day for
a beautiful community. QW
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 is the Director of Alumni/ae Affairs
at Friends’ Central.
D i st i n g u sh e d A l u mn u s / a A wa r d W i nn e r s
In his acceptance
speech,
Distinguished
Alumnus
Award Winner
Jonathan Adler
’87, pictured
here with
daughters Ellie
and Madeline,
thanked Friends’
Central for “helping us learn the importance of asking
questions and thinking critically, something which
is obviously important for what I do today, [and] …
for supporting us as we sought to take control of our
own education, providing space for entrepreneurial
efforts, giving us the space to succeed or fail and
to learn from it.” Adler, a prolific legal scholar and
professor, received the award for his outstanding
accomplishments in the field of education and
environmental law. Frequently sought by fellow
scholars and the national media, Adler is a recipient of
both the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies,
Paul M. Bator Award for Excellence in Teaching and
the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni
Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award.
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Beth Davis Johnson ’77
was chosen as the 2012
Distinguished Alumna Award
Winner for her outstanding
accomplishments in the
field of education and her
commitment to the FCS
community. Johnson served
Friends’ Central for 25 years
as teacher, admission director,
and Upper School principal,
as well as a friend and trusted mentor. Her passion for
education, social justice, and the well-being of others
has enriched the lives of countless young people and
fellow educators. Johnson is now taking up a new
challenge as Director of Admissions at the William
Penn Charter School. “Friends’ Central is a place where
one builds relationships with teachers, coaches, staff
members, and of course, peers,” Johnson said in her
acceptance speech. “I know these relationships are built
in an institution that provides a challenging, vigorous,
and intriguing academic program, exciting arts and
athletics offerings, and it is a Quaker school, where truth,
peace, equality, and simplicity are paramount. Clearly,
these points must not be lost, but, … and I think many of
you will agree, Friends’ Central is about the people.”
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1948
Jack Banks is crossing things off
his bucket list and traveled to Chile,
Argentina, and Brazil this spring. He hopes
to be back at FCS for his 65th Reunion
this year and see many of his classmates.
Ted Reinke ’48
» Margaret “Peggy” Cooper Thompson
1951
1942
Robert Weir gave a paper at the “Maple
Leaf and Eagle” historical conference
sponsored by Canada and the University
of Helsinki this past May. “For the first
time in awhile,” he writes, “my wife,
Anne, and I took a bit more ambitious
trip. We followed the conference up
with a Baltic cruise and enjoyed both the
conference and the cruise thoroughly.
Helsinki is a lovely city.”
Alice Hunt Daily writes that she still
lives in Savannah, Ga., and has held a
number of offices in The National Society
of The Colonial Dames of America in the
State of Georgia. She is deeply involved in
the Society’s museum house, the Andrew
Low House, transcribing diaries and
documents of the Low family.
1947
J. Richard Relick has made several
visits with Diane Bault DeMille ’46 in
Boston. They spend a lot of time talking
about their FCS days.
Ted Reinke rode his Victory motorcycle
across the country by himself this
summer, and stopped by Friends’ Central
to show off his wheels and catch up
on FCS news. He visited a number of
friends on his trip to California. The
motorcycle enthusiast takes a long trip
on his bike each summer.
1952
Jack Banks ’48 danced the tango in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, this April.
Patricia Carroll Shuss and her husband,
Richard, moved from New Jersey to an
independent living community in Naples,
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granddaughter of Elizabeth M. Jones
Smith ’18.
of 1952
» (From left) Jack Balson, George Harris, Emanuel “Pat” Hudock, Jim Wilson, Jacquie Watkins
Slifka, Carol Jerjisian Churukian, and Jetta Sommers Bracken
Fla. “We were unable to attend the recent
60th Reunion, but I enjoyed seeing the
photo of the class members who made it!”
she writes. “Everyone looks great!”
1954
Elizabeth Smith Harper shares a
photo of her granddaughter, Margaret
Eowyn Harper-Mangels, also the great-
Class of 1955 Can’t Wait!
George Walters ’55 and Ann Dothard
Walters ’58
Mayer Schnyder ’55 and his wife, Roz
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George “Toby” Walters
organized a mini-reunion
in Florida at the Doubletree
Resort in North Reddington
Beach this May for those
classmates who did not
want to wait until their 60th
Reunion to see each other
again. Also attending were
Marcy Henry Ballis with
husband, George;
Ed Rummel and wife,
Georgia; Maryellen
Kirkpatrick McCormick
and husband, Bill; Ted
Clisby; Mayer Schnyder
and wife, Roz; Middy
Minster Larson; and Ann
Dothard Walters ’58.
Although stormy weather
kept the group inside at the
beachfront resort, they had
Margaret Eowyn Harper-Mangels,
granddaughter of Elizabeth Smith Harper’54
1956
Bill Flynn and his wife, Nancy, are both
retired and live in three communities.
They winter on St. Simons Island, Ga.,
fun sharing laughs, conversations, and good food. Middy Larson
won the Class of 1955 trivia contest, and the group relished
in a three-hour dinner at the nearby Wine Cellar restaurant.
Maryellen McCormick captured the essence of the weekend in
an email sent to George Walters, in which she wrote, “Weather
notwithstanding, the weekend was a spectacular success. It was
amazing to me how quickly the years faded, and within an hour,
we were all school friends again. By all means, let’s do it again
in two years.”
Ted Clisby ’55, George Walters ’55, and Ed Rummel ’55
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went above and beyond to start the
ball rolling. Bruce Yoskin with the
T-shirts. Dennis Linnehan with his
beautiful book. The entire experience
was fantastic. Hope we will have many
more!”
of 1957
» (From left) Richard Klein, Barbara Davis Widmayer, Hank Zoob, Jack Lilly, Roberta Sheen
David Wetterholt is in private practice
as a “somewhat renegade general
practitioner and founder/owner of the
Saratoga Walk-in Clinic in Saratoga,
California.” He splits his time between
living in Saratoga and Paris. He married
Annick Deschard Cristin in 2006.
Peterson, Bryan Pokras, and Jill Banks Barad
1967
summer in Maine on Moosehead Lake on
their island, and spend part of the spring
and fall in Hermitage, Pa. Formerly of
Bucks County, they moved to Hermitage
to be near children and grandchildren.
Inspired by the Friends’ Central
education, Bill and Nancy sent both of
their daughters to the George School.
Robert F. Sylk received a gubernatorial
appointment to be the Selective Service
director for Riverside County, Calif. He
is a candidate for mayor of the City of
La Quinta, Calif., home of the Bob Hope
PGA Golf Tournament.
1962
Sue Perilstein Herring had a great
time seeing everyone at George and
Lynne Tindle Schnyder’s home the
night before the Reunion. “They were
such gracious hosts,” she writes. “The
feeling of seeing all our classmates was
truly indescribable. Roz Miller Meyer
Russ Bleakley and his wife, Karen, both
retired this year and are excited to live
the good life as snowbirds in Ft. Myers,
Fla., and beach bums in Ocean City,
N.J., he writes. “I’ve enjoyed being back
on campus for many sporting events,
including watching my daughter, Diana
’01, coach the Girls’ Lacrosse team to
their third-straight FSL championship!”
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of 1962
1960
Bruce Woodruff reports that he’s
blessed to still be representing ING
Financial Partners after 45 years with
time out for good behavior to fish with
his grandson Joey.
» (Front, from left) Janet Weil Van Cleave, Lee Hillerson, Patricia Stanton Cooley, Betty Johnson
Bruce Woodruff ’60 takes time to fish with his
grandson Joey.
Pribula, Betsy Norcross Ingram, William Dean, Den Linnehan, Connie Harthum-Nitzke,
Chris Woerner, Todd Lieber, Kathleen Murray Allain, and Allan Kluber; (middle, from left)
Diana Khinoy Reed, Roslyn Miller Meyer, Lynne Tindle Schnyder, Charlotte Herrmann Brown,
Ann Hayward, Sara Clark Linder, Sally Price Honey, Margery DeArnold Maconachy, Patricia
“Penny” Laws Curran, Michael Cohen, Betsy Charr Bodurtha, and Kenneth Kirchhofer; (back,
from left) Peter Hickman, Jesse Wagner, Christopher “Kit” Clews, Henry Clews, David Boyd,
George Schnyder, Rob Klaus, Bob McClenahan, and Fran Bradley
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of 1967
1970
Sherry McVickar’s portraits of local
and historic barns will be part of the
Chester County Historical Association’s
exhibition of 150 years since the Civil
War in October.
» (From left) Stephen Richter, Brian Kunz, Ron Diment, and Russell Bleakley
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of 1972
1979
» (From left) Eileen Bilynsky, David Havgaard, G. Loie Grossmann, Craig Martin, Tim Ely, Jim
Strong, and Mitchell Rosenberg
Reunion 2012 » Class
of 1977
Michael Rothman writes that he has
enjoyed more that 26 years of marriage
to his wonderful wife, Lynn, who is the
president of their Allentown synagogue,
Temple Beth El. His daughter Jeannette
is a senior at Penn State majoring in
public relations and marketing with
minors in economics and recreation, park,
and tourism management. His daughter
Sarah is a sophomore at Franklin &
Marshall College, majoring in English
and environmental studies. Rothman
continues to work as a neuroradiologist.
1980
Jeffrey Miller will be back in
Philadelphia more often now that his
daughter Alison began her freshman year
at the University of Pennsylvania. He
lives in Boca Raton, Fla., with his wife,
Rachel, and two daughters, and practices
as a urologist there. Charlie King helped
Miller move his daughter in to the dorm
at the start of school.
» (Front, from left) Rodney Willis, Karen Horikawa, Karen Murphy Cain, David Frenze, Mark
Adams, David Shakespeare, Rick Moses, and Beth Clouser Hare; (back, from left) Alan
Redfern, Beth Davis Johnson, Rachel Fell McDermott, Ethyl Treatman, Lise Funderburg, and
Morris Kay
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1984
James Bucci was named to the 2012
Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list as
one of the top attorneys in the state.
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of 1982
A Celebration of
Teaching
» (From left) Chip Purcell, Ed Rehfeld, Heidi Pokras Sattalamacchia, David Niles, Jennifer
Balson, Paul Clough, Eric Larson, Martin Wachs, Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson, Jon Fiebach, and
Rachel Levov Hollingsworth
He is a partner in the Genova Burns
Giantomasi & Webster’s Philadelphia
and Camden offices, and is a member
of the firm’s Employment Law &
Litigation and Complex Commercial
Litigation Practice Groups. Outside
of work, Bucci has served on the
Haddonfield, N.J., Planning Board and
Environmental Commission for many
years. He currently serves on the Board
of Directors for the Haddonfield Little
League and as a General Member of
the Cooper’s Ferry Partnership. He
received his Juris Doctor in 1991 from
the Temple University School of Law,
where he served on the school’s Editorial
Board. He graduated in 1988 from
Dickinson College, cum laude, with a
Bachelor of Arts.
1987
Sara Shack serves on the Board of
Next Level Sports, a local sports
organization, and is actively involved
in its Next Level Achievers program,
which is designed to show urban
children the many roads to success, such
as business, academics, or athletics.
Daniel
Bernstein
Barnz ’88
wrote and
directed the
film Won’t
Back Down,
which stars
Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
and Holly Hunter and opened this
fall. “I hope all my terrific FCS
teachers will see themselves in
this great celebration of teaching,”
he writes. Barnz invited the FCS
faculty to a preview of the film in
Philadelphia in September. He
made his feature directorial debut
with the award-winning Phoebe in
Wonderland at the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival. He lives in Los
Angeles with his partner, Ben,
and two children, Zelda, 11, and
Dashiell, 9.
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of 1987
» (Front, from left) Beryl Brown, Elizabeth Toborwsky Pollard, Kimberly Kurtz Lent, Danielle
Paul Barson, Pam Phillips, Dawn Schakett, Sara Volkman Shack; (back, from left) Peter Klein,
Alex McDonnell, Jonathan Adler, Seth Lundy, Rebecca Abbott, Kennedy Robert Behrman,
Samantha Marks Gordon, Melanie Ficsher Rubenstein, Krissy Chimes Bresnan, and
Marcus Alston
James Bucci ’84
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live a couple of hours south of Lauren’s
brother, Ander Pindzola ’85, Sasha has a
playmate in Ander’s third child, Jude, who
is 3 years old.
of 1992
1995
Katie Heller Akyuz is currently residing
in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband,
Osman.
» (From left) Alisa Newman Hood, Rachel Pickard Rothman, Andres Colapinto, David White,
Rachel Volkman Kushel, Ruth First Goldstein, Jen Johnson Smith, Elena Karp Korngold, Fran
Lord, Elissa Levin, and Liz Sklaroff
1993
epidemiologist with the Research Triangle
Lauren Pindzola Courtney and her
Institute, where she has worked for
husband, Andrew, welcomed their
almost nine years, focusing on behavioral
daughter Hanna on March 13. She joins
epidemiology and HIV in Africa. Andrew
big sister Sasha. The family lives in
works at the Nature Conservancy and
Falls Church, Va. Lauren is a research
finished his MBA last year. Since they
FCS Grad Heads Lankenau Medical
Center’s Ambulatory Services
This past March, Chinwe Onyekere ’94 was appointed
Director of Ambulatory Services and Business
Development at Lankenau Medical Center.
Onyekere was previously executive
director of Health Leads in New
York, which implemented a new
level of healthcare delivery in which
patients’ unmet resource needs
were systematically addressed
as a standard element of patient
care. In her new role, Onyekere
will implement innovative models
for primary care medicine being
practiced at Lankenau’s Clinical
Care Center, as well as build relationships with communitybased organizations in the Philadelphia area.
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Jennifer Briggs has been running a parttime Son-Rise program for the past year
with her oldest daughter, Sarah, who has
special needs. “We call it Sarah-Rise,” she
writes. “It has been making a dramatic
difference, especially with her language.
If anyone has children with special needs,
especially on the autism spectrum, I
cannot recommend this enough. It has
improved our life in all ways.”
1996
Evie Bricklin Marsh and her husband,
Rob, welcomed their new son William
Bennett Marsh on April 17, 2012.
“Growing up in West Philadelphia, many of my neighbors had
a hard time accessing health care,” explained Onyekere. “My
desire to focus on public health and eliminate disparities
in care was greatly influenced by my childhood experience.
At Lankenau, I will utilize my experience in public health to
continue to improve the quality of care for our patients.”
Onyekere received a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia
University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a Bachelor
of Arts in Political Science from Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, as well as a Certificate in Business Essentials
from Wharton School of Business.
“Chinwe has a keen understanding of how to develop and
manage programs that have the potential for far-reaching
impact on people’s health, the quality of care they receive,
and the systems that provide that care,” said Phil Robinson,
President of Lankenau Medical Center. “Her knowledge and
expertise will help play a role in primary care at Lankenau and
how we deliver quality care to the population we serve.”
William, 6 lbs, 3 oz., and 19 in. at birth,
joins big sister, Addie.
long with temperatures reaching 117
degrees this year. The race is invitation
only and Murphy was one of six veteran
women competing.
1997
William Bennett Marsh, son of Evie
Bricklin Marsh ’96
Meredith
Bobroff Murphy
completed the
Badwater
Ultramarathon
Challenge of
Champions this
summer for the
second time. The
race is one of the toughest in the world,
starting at Badwater Basin in Death
Valley, Calif., and finishing 13 miles up
Mount Whitney. The race is 135 miles
Matt Murphy Garmur and his wife,
Kelly, welcomed baby Lucy Jean
Garmur on August 12. The family lives
in Oakland, Calif., where they get a
chance to see Anne Griffith Olow and
Ari Moskowitz on a regular basis.
Murphy Garmur is CTO of a small
startup and looks forward to life as a
new parent.
Lucy Jean Garmur, daughter of Matt
Murphy Garmur ’97
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of 1997
Zach Leibowitz
and his wife,
Lisa, welcomed
their baby
boy, Miles,
in January.
“Everyone’s
doing well, and
while certainly
life changing,
it’s just the biggest blessing,” he writes.
Leibowitz works at the financial public
relations firm of Dukas Public Relations
in New York City as the director of media
relations and broadcast operations.
David Wertime started an e-magazine
called Tea Leaf Nation, which, as
described on the website, “aspire[s] to be
a must-read source for China experts of all
stripes–journalists, diplomats, academics,
analysts–while remaining fun and
accessible to casual China watchers. Our
founding team, based in China and the
United States, scours Chinese social media
every day to spot trends, gauge sentiment,
and carry major news stories one level
deeper.” Wertime first visited China as a
Peace Corps Volunteer, and since then, he
has lived, worked, and studied in Beijing,
Chongqing, and Hong Kong. While at
Harvard Law School, he was co-president
of the Harvard Asia Law Society. He lives
in Washington, D.C.
1998
Mike Blum recently began a new job
as the director of teen engagement for
the Jewish Community High School
of Gratz College, in Melrose Park, Pa.
He recently moved to Ambler, Pa., from
Cherry Hill, N.J.
2001
» (From left) Nick Dent (with wife, Sarah, left), Matt Hagarty, Max Cooper, Emil Steiner,
and Ann Scharff Vernon
Casey Cipriani began the Master’s
program at the CUNY Graduate School of
Journalism. She will be specializing in the
Arts & Culture concentration, focusing on
entertainment reporting and film criticism.
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Jessica Phillips Wiedmann is changing
fields and is currently enrolled in nursing
school at Villanova University after many
years in the music industry. “I’m thankful
to Friends’ Central for teaching me that a
career in helping others is both personally
and professionally fulfilling,” she writes.
2002
READ DeSabato and Sara Kankowski
DeSabato welcomed their son, Robin
Eugene Anthony DeSabato, on July 12,
2012. He weighed 8 lbs., 15 oz. and was 22
in. long.
C. Jerome Mopsik ‘02 married Emily Carnevale this past June in Stone Harbor, N.J.
Jess English and her husband, Mike,
welcomed their first baby, Charlie, on
May 16.
READ DeSabato ’02 and Sara Kankowski
DeSabato ’02 with their son, Robin Eugene
Anthony DeSabato
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C. Jerome Mopsik married Emily
Carnevale on the beach in Stone Harbor,
N.J., on June 9. In attendance were his
sister Jennie Mopsik ’04 and many friends
and family. Jerome and Emily met while
attending Skidmore College together. They
celebrated their honeymoon in The Azores
and Lisbon, Portugal.
2003
of 2002
David Kleban graduated from Harvard
Law School this spring, and began work
as a Litigation Associate at the firm of
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in
Manhattan in September.
Benj Pasek has been named one of the
“Top 25 Under 35 Emerging Broadway
Players” by Artinfo.com. His musical,
Dogfight, for which he co-wrote the music
and lyrics, opened off Broadway at New
York’s Second Stage Theater this summer.
2005
Leah Franqui is the marketing director
for Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile.
» (From left) Jeff Meyerson, Edward Silver, Jon Grinspan, Todd Schneider, David Gershkoff
Slusky, Lauren Talemal, Gabriel Csanalosi, Mary Boardman, Tanya Johnson Muse, Mike
Anastasio, Jeffrey Pozzuolo, Dana Cohan, David Glasser, Sara Kankowski DeSabato, George
Heckert, Hanna Muenke Popick, and Adam Cohen
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Joey Guerin is now the programs
coordinator for Philadelphia’s Arts and
Business Council.
2006
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Dwight Dunston, Galen Guindon, and
Ryan Levan spent last year back on
the FCS campus working for their alma
mater. Dunston served as a Development
Associate, Guindon was the School’s
full-time substitute teacher, and Levan
was a part-time substitute teacher. This
year, Dunston is an Assistant Director
of Admission at FCS; Guindon serves as
the Phoenix Varsity Boys’ Soccer Head
Coach while pursing a Master’s in music
education from Temple University’s Boyer
College of Music; and Levan is in his first
year of Columbia Law School.
of 2007
» (From left) Jason Landau Goodman, Amber Sims, Jasmine Hill, Samuel Harrison, and
Samantha Eisenberg
(From left) Dwight Dunston ’06, Ryan Levan ’06,
and Galen Guindon ’06
Lawrence Murray is pursuing a Master
of Arts in Journalism at the University of
Southern California’s Annenberg School
for Communications and Journalism.
trip and promises to keep building our
School’s connection to the community
there through the CTC Ten Foundation.
2007
Noor Beckwith
and Eli Muhrer
’05 matriculated
into the Harvard
Medical School
Class of 2016 M.D.
program. “It was a
bit of a surprise to
Noor Beckwith ’07
discover each other
here in Boston after about 7 or 8 years!”
Beckwith writes.
Matt Bernstein is spending a year in
Khayelitsha Township, South Africa, as
an intern working at the Chris Campbell
Memorial Field. He is excited about his
Claire Glass wrote a heartfelt and
insightful story about the all-consuming
nature of her grandmother’s anorexia for
XOJane that was picked up by AlterNet
and Salon. She is the literary editor at
GapersBlock, works for Story Studio
Chicago, and is a freelance writer.
Jeremy Greenbaum made his
Broadway debut in July as The Mute
and Aaron Carter’s understudy for Matt
in The Fantasticks.
Natalie Kitroeff is working as an
editorial assistant for Nicholas Kristof at
The New York Times.
2008
Matt Bernstein ’07
Logan Brenner is attending Columbia
University working towards her Ph.D.
in Earth and Environmental Sciences,
focusing on past climate change.
fall 2012 magazine
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Notes from Friends
Adara Cohen is interning in New York
at Red Light PR, and was excited to help
prepare for Fashion Week. “I’m in love
with the city,” she writes.
Lindsey Elkin was awarded a Rotary
Ambassadorial Scholarship to study
toward a Master’s in International
Relations in Cape Town, South
Africa, beginning in January 2013.
She graduated from Vanderbilt
University in May with a Bachelor of
Science in Human and Organizational
Development. Elkin is back on the FCS
campus this fall, serving as an Outreach
Coordinator. She credits Friends
Central for instilling her foundation
in service and concern for others. “As
one of Rotary’s Ambassador Scholars,
I intend to support The Rotary
Foundation’s mission to advance world
understanding, goodwill, and peace as
a journalist pursuing justice and human
rights issues and conflict resolution in
my work,” Elkin says.
on the team and 29th overall at the
Centennial Conference Championships
last year, helping the women’s team
to a fourth-place finish that matched
the program’s best performance at the
conference meet.
Kelly Diamond spent her last three
summers working in the film industry in
Los Angeles and will soon be pitching
a television show to Nickelodeon. She
plans to move to California after she
graduates from Penn this May.
Eric O’Brien won first place in a
computer hackathon hosted by the
University of Pennsylvania in January.
At the hackathon, students had to create
a computer program from scratch in less
than 48 hours. He is a senior majoring
in computer science in the School
of Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Sean O’Brien was named to the Dean’s
List this past spring at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. He is a dual major
in computer science and music.
2010
Kaitlyn McCaffrey a sophomore on the
Muhlenberg College women’s lacrosse
team, was named to the All-Centennial
Conference second team. Despite
missing five games due to injury, she
still ranked third on the team in caused
turnovers (13), fourth in draw controls
(23) and fifth in ground balls (21).
Lindsey Elkin ’08
2009
Erica Bash was named a co-captain
of the 2012 Muhlenberg College
cross country team. A three-time
letterwinner, Bash finished second
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Rachel McVey was published in the
spring issue of University of Wisconsin’s
Undergraduate Journal of International
Studies. Her paper, “Altruism, Culture,
and Prejudice: Education and Roma
in the Decade of Roma Inclusion,”
critiques the disproportionate emphasis
on Roma education advocacy as a means
for ending the marginalization of Roma
(Gypsies) in Europe. The article can be
found on the journal’s website. McVey
credits FCS teacher Kelley Graham for
inspiring her to make getting published
a goal. McVey attends the University
of Pittsburgh, where she is pursuing
degrees in history and sociology, and a
minor in children’s literature.
In Memoriam
Faculty and Staff
Harry “Bud” Millinghausen
Frederick Osborne
Alumni/ae
Lucy Christman Statzall ’37
Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39
John McCoy, Jr. ’40
Mary Ann Cohee Freeman ’42
Katherine Whitenack ’48
Mary Galbraith Williams ’48
Jane Lines Manring ’51
Joseph Donald Reimenschneider ’52
Barbara “Bonnie” Bressen Gross Wood ’56
Gabrielle Schwarz Haab ’57
Rose Phillips ’57
Blair Stevens Newton ’59
Eric Levin ’00
ANNUAL REPORT of GIFTS
2011-2012
The Annual Report of Gifts acknowledges all those who
have made gifts to Friends’ Central School during the
fiscal year July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012.
The Development Office has worked carefully to ensure
the accuracy of the information contained within these
pages. If you come across an error or omission, please
accept our apologies and advise us of the error by calling
610.645.5039 or emailing [email protected].
Visit us at www.friendscentral.org/support.
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Dear Friends,
Thanks to your support, 2011-2012 was a success in many ways. We achieved record participation
rates for Annual Giving from both our parent (86%) and alumni/ae (34%) communities. In total,
1,941 generous donors gave $988,456 to fund faculty salaries, student programs and activities,
campus improvements, and more through Annual Giving. On behalf of our students and teachers,
I cannot thank you enough for this critical support of the School we love. I look forward to
another successful year in 2012-2013.
In addition, we received $57,900 for financial aid through the popular Educational Improvement
Tax Credit (EITC) program. Friends’ Central alumni/ae, faculty, students, parents, and friends
created two new endowed funds for financial aid one honoring the life of Upper School secretary
Laurie Fox and one in honor of David Felsen. Together with the completion of a planned gift by
Irene Reiser ’38, Friends’ Central added about $800,000 in gifts and pledges to our endowment for
financial aid.
Of course, none of these accomplishments would be possible without the hard work of our many
volunteers. Our dedicated phonathon callers, the Alumni/ae Board and class agents, and parent
and faculty reps led the charge to rally support for our Annual Giving campaign, and the Clerk
of our Development Committee, Trustee Edward Grinspan, provided immeasurable guidance
throughout the year. To our enthusiastic and generous volunteers, you have my heartfelt thanks.
One last but important note, the Friends Central community is tremendously excited to welcome
our new Head of School, Craig N. Sellers, his wife, Cary, and children, Bridgman ’15 and Clare
’18. We are looking forward to Craig’s leadership, as he brings his passion for education, deep
Quaker faith, and engaging personality to FCS. I know he will be as inspired as I am by the
following pages documenting the incredible support of the Friends’ Central community.
Best wishes for a successful 2012-2013 school year!.
Lydia A. Martin
Director of Institutional Advancement
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For Current Operations
(As of June 30, 2012)
Unrestricted Annual Giving
SourceDollarsDonors
Trustees
$
151,736 27
Former Trustees
Alumni/ae
$
25,696 19
$
342,445 1049
Current Parents
$
497,539 562
Parents of Alumni/ae
$
160,542 229
Faculty/Staff
$
53,838 166
Former Faculty/Staff
$
50,077 59
Grandparents
$
50,685 85
Grandparents of Alumni/ae
$
1,650 11
Friends
$
3,328 16
Matching Gifts
$
24,331 17
Foundations & Corporations
$
226,346 62
Minus Double Entries
$ (599,756)
(361)
Total
$
988,456
1941
Educational Improvement Tax Credit
$
57,900
Other Restricted Purposes
$
49,375
Total
$
107,275
Restricted Capital Gifts
$
72,833
Endowed Faculty Support
$
48,632
Endowed Financial Aid
$
472,102
Total $
593,567
GRAND TOTAL
$ 1,689,307
Restricted Gifts to Current Operations
Capital Programs and Endowment
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Revenues and Expenses
2011-2012
Summer Programs 4%
Endowment 5%
Annual Giving 5%
Tuition 86%
Revenues
Tuition
86%
Annual Giving
5%
Endowment
5%
Summer Programs
4%
100%
Non-academic programs & Support 5%
Facilities management 7%
Supplemental academic programs 7%
financial aid 14%
salaries and benefits 67%
Expenses
Salaries and Benefits
67%
Financial Aid
14%
Facilities Management
7%
Supplemental Academic Programs
7%
Non-academic Programs & Support
5%
100%
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
E n d ow m e n t F u n d s a n d C a p i ta l G i f t s
Class of 1957 Fund for Faculty and
Staff Retreats
Stephen A. Cozen ’57
Richard B. Klein ’57
Faculty Salary Endowment
Cameron Memorial Fund
Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell
The David M. Felsen Scholarship Fund
Clayton L. Farraday ’32
Mastership Fund
Anonymous
Marta R. and Robert S. Adelson
Michelle and Michael Apkon
Carolyn Cambor
Beth and David Dahle
Karen Davidson
Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss
Ruth and Richard Horowitz
Beverly and John Keith
Brendan Lee
Natalie Lee
Marcia and Sarah Martinez-Helfman
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Sara and Jay Minkoff
John Norcini
Norma and Lawrence Reichlin
Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and
Kenneth Resnik
Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon
Madge Rothenberg and
Peter Brodfuehrer
Helena and Eric Sultan
Sharon and David Taffet
Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter
Endowment for Financial Aid
The Estate of Charles D. Allen
Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Janet and Hillard Madway
Mirowski Family Foundation
Doris and Dana Greenblatt
Denise Koehler Morris
Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and
Dennis Wasserman
Anonymous
Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41
Anne and Peter Arfaa
Charlotte Eby Bartlett ’43
Jessica Melaragni Baugher ’89
Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi
Ellan and Leonard Bernstein
Trina and Keith Bradburd
Peggy Brumfield Bruton ’53
Debbie and Richard Buchwald ’81
Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54
Ellen Burr ’46
Barbara M. Cohen
Samuel D. Cozen Memorial Fund
Sandy and Stephen A. Cozen ’57
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55
Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic
Kathy and Jerry Drew
Alexa Dunnington ’98
Drew Faust and Charles Rosenberg
Linda A. Fischer ’61
Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50
Ivan H. Gabel ’49
Jacqueline V. Guynn ’89
Susanna and Warren Hauser
L. F. Howe, Jr. ’41
Elizabeth Shinn Hulford ’98
Deborah and T. Regan Hull
Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord
Francis M. James III ’53
Rosalind and Alan Kaufman
Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70
Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92
Betty T. Lam ’94
Emma Lapsansky-Werner ’68
Anne Lazarus and Mitchell Klevan
Rosemary and G. Craig Lord
Allan N. Mackey ’55
Lydia Martin and William Kennedy
Sara L. Matthews and
Raymond J. Fabius
Salli Mickelberg
Bruce J. Miller ’55
Sara and Jay Minkoff
Molly Mullahy ’98
Sarah De Vita Napoli ’50
Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61
Philip H. Osborne ’51
Anita and Anthony Parker
Evelyn P. Rader
Barbara C. and James E. Roddy
Jerilynn and Doug Ross
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Julia Fineman Sauter ’81
Seed the Dream Foundation
Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg
Colleen and Jay Shoemaker
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Jill Hajjar Sullivan ’64
Jeremy D. Treatman ’83
Louise and Thomas Tritton
Nina Weisbord ’78
Wyncote Foundation
Leonard Haas ’76
Donald Yorkman ’95
The William D. Fordyce ’52
Scholarship Fund
The Estate of William D. Fordyce ’52
The Laurie Fox Scholarship Fund
Anonymous
Barbara and Robert Behar
Karen and Russell Bleakley ’67
Cynthia and Bruce Boehmke
Susan Brandt
Ann Butchart
Matthew Carrafiello
Marie Cecchine
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Endowment Funds and Capital Gifts
Deanna S. Ciarrocchi
Nicholis Cipriani
Cantrill Clark & Davis
Susanne and Brian Clark
Lawrence Coburn
Elsa Cohen
Patricia and Peter Crippen
Susan and Albred Danenberg
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
Trudy and Howard Dolgin
Leticia Dorsa
Patricia Dubin
Anna Marie and Paul Eisele
Namoi Ellenberg-Dukas
Peggy Esposto
Liza Ewen
Allen P. Fisher
Suzanne Fluhr and Steven Albelda
Idee Fox
Phyllis Fox
Carole and Bernard Gottlieb
Linda and John Graham
Laura Bell Haimm
Paul Hannum
Kathryn Hayward and Tom MacFarlane
Susan Heinsen and Michael Gross
Susan Irving
Carol Jessup
John Kaffenberg
Rita Klein
Theresa and Peter Koway
Rosemary Kurtz
Patricia and David Laverty
Janice Leavy
Justine and Edward Lehmann, Jr.
Nicholas Maiale
Lydia Martin and William Kennedy
Randi Martin and Mary Duff
Holly and David McCloskey
Frances Menin
Jill and Alphonse Montagna
William Morehouse
Sandra Moriarity
Ruth Neifeld
Jane Nickel
Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga
Marie Pagano
Barbara Paul and Karyn Kernagis
Patricia and Bob Perrone
Monica A. Peterson
Patricia Potocny
Angela and Francis Quigley
Peter Rayner
Emily and Robert Rowley
Michael Russo
Drew Salaman
Arlene Schaller
Jacqueline and Nicholas Scharff
Lois and Lee Schwartz
Mary Scotti
Jutta Seibert and Koffi Anyinefa
Barbara Spitz and Cheryl Cook
Carol Spitz
Carol Straub
Shelby and Daniel Sulman
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75
and Dennis Wasserman
Jean Wolf
Proceeds from the Laurie Fox
Scholarship Fund Bake Sale
The Dorothy Kurtz Scholarship Fund
Dorothy J. Kurtz ‘19 Trust
The Joey Pozzuolo ’98 Memorial
Scholarship
Sharyn and Joseph Pozzuolo
Irene Elizabeth Rieger ‘38
Scholarship Fund
Estate of Irene Rieger ’38
The Merrill E. Bush Memorial Fund
M. Reid Bush ’59
The Zeldin Family Scholarship Fund
The Zeldin Family Foundation
Stefanie Zeldin Sigal ’79
Claudia Zeldin ’81
Jessica Zeldin ’88
Martin Zeldin
Sybille Zeldin
2011-2012 Trustee Donors
Melissa Anderson
Adrian Castelli
Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita
Carolyn Cohen
Kenneth Dunn
George Elser
Wilson Felter
Christine Gaspar ’70
Robert Gassel ’69
Edward Grinspan
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Walter Harris ’75
Karen N. Horikawa ’77
Deborah Hull
Kent Julye
Michael C. Kelly
Matthew S. Levitties ’85
Craig Lord
Edward Marshall ’68
Suzanne Morrison
James Murdock ’73
Jeffrey Purdy
Marsha Rothman
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Joanna Schoff ’51, Emerita
Philip E. Scott ’73
Jonathan Sprogell
Joy Takahashi
Helene van Beuren
James Wright
Unrestricted Annual Giving
Leadership Giving
Annual Giving Campaign
2011-2012
The Heart of Quaker Works
Leadership Giving
Campaign Co-Chairs
Fernanda Moore (’14, ’20)
Edward Grinspan, Trustee
Since 1676, our family has owned Magnolia Gardens, a former
plantation near Charleston, S.C., which my grandfather turned
into a year-round attraction for tourists. My grandfather prioritized
philanthropy, so a big part of our yearly board of directors meeting
involves charitable donations for the year. Our charitable foundation is
modest, so we tend to focus on smaller institutions and businesses,
where what we are able to give can really make a difference.
Leadership Co-Chairs
Susan Gay
Parent Co-Chairs
Donna Davin
Mary Ann Decusatis
When Zander ’14, had been at Friends’ Central for a couple of
years, our lives suddenly changed, and we needed financial aid if he
was going to continue. It really meant a lot to me that FCS was so
Fernanda Moore with
sons Thad ’20 (left) and generous, and willing to accommodate us, and I thought, “I may not
be able to pay full tuition, but perhaps I can acknowledge how much
Alexander ’14]
the School’s gift means to me by giving my own gift in return.” I wrote
a letter to the Trustees, saying that I’d like to make a donation. It struck me as a strange
position to be in, both a financial aid recipient and a donor, but I explained my situation, and
that year I gave my entire foundation allotment to FCS. I’ve continued to do so ever since.
Leadership Volunteers
David Arnold
Elizabeth Cohen ’83
Jessica Coss
Beth Dahle
Amy DiLuca
There is a real connection between my grandfather’s family and Philadelphia Quakers. John
Grimké Drayton, who designed Magnolia Gardens, was the nephew of Sarah and Angelina
Grimké, famous Quaker abolitionists and feminists in Philadelphia in the years before the
Civil War. (Zander’s middle name is Grimké!) I love that Magnolia, a former slave plantation,
can now help a Quaker school.
Kim Emmons-Benjet
David Felsen
Cynthia Harris
Ever since Zander started in 6th grade, I have had the amazing feeling that we found the
perfect school for our child, where he would be happy socially, challenged intellectually, and
guided morally and spiritually. I love the way community service is now an unremarkable
and constant part of Zander’s life. When you’re surrounded by kids and teachers who take
certain things for granted—that you will behave with kindness and respect toward your
community, that you will give back to that community and to the world in general, and that
you will find ways to promote peace and respect and love both in yourself and in the world—
you are changed for the better.
Marilyn Murray ’64
Jay Seid
Andy Stifler
William Weiner ’76
I feel fortunate that I can give something back to the school that has been such a great place
for my son (and will, I’m sure, be equally meaningful for his younger brother, Thad ’20).
Leadership Giving
(Gifts of $1,845 or more)
Leadership gifts set an expectation of success for the community. They
signal belief in the School’s mission and inspire generosity in others.
$700,000
$6
,0
77
26
08
,0
01
$6
08
,8
$500,000
$6
91
,3
20
$6
6
20
5,
79
7
$6
$600,000
$0
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Leadership Giving
Forum
$25,000 or more
Anonymous
Pacesetters
$15,000 - $24,999
Patricia Andrade and Beny Parnes
Elizabeth and Craig Owens
Wyncote Foundation
Circle
$10,000 - $14,999
The Abramson Family Foundation
Leonard and Madlyn Abramson
Carolyn and Scot Cohen
Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn
Karen Johansen and Gardner C. Hendrie ’50
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
MKM Foundation
Marie and Bruce Satalof
Catherine and James Murdock ’73
The Philadelphia Foundation
Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly
Sprague Foundation, Inc.
Evelyn and Marc Duvivier
van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Helene and Archbold van Beuren
Edwin S. Webster Foundation
Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris
Founders
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous
Anne and Andrew Abel
Barbara and Ted Aronson
Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57
Beth and David Dahle
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
The Catherine and
Jonathan Fiebach Fund
Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach ’82
Amy and James Goldman
Judith and Edward Grinspan
Japanese Language School
Curtis H. Jones ’46
* denotes deceased
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Fariha I. Khan and Michael D. Carey
Stephanie H. Koenig ’70
Jane Koppelman
The Levitties Foundation
Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and
Matthew Levitties ’85
John A. Levitties ’84
Marvin B. Levitties
Suzanne Levy
William Levy
Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62
Suzi Morrison and Grant Calder
Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62
Judy and Buddy Newman
Martin D. Phillips
Sharon and Harry Pollack
Rothman Family Foundation
Marsha and Richard Rothman
Meg and Peter Saligman
Gregory Segall
Jay Seid Family
Marcy and Robert Shoemaker
Amy and Randy Stein
Danielle and Jay Tapper
Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69
Hakim H. Warrick ’01
Council
$3,000 - $4,999
Marta R. and Robert S. Adelson
Laura and John Armstrong
Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan
Elizabeth Cohen and David Whellan ’83
Brigitte and Robert Cooperman
Deborah and Frank Correll
The Friedman/Taub
Charitable Foundation
Rebecca Taub and Paul Friedman
Mignon and Jim Groch
Catherine C. and Todd E. Henry
Ruth and Richard Horowitz
Aeolian Jackson
William W. Judson ’62
Magnolia Plantation &
Gardens Family Foundation
Fernanda Moore
Catherine Marshall and Michael Pedrick
Lydia Martin and William P. Kennedy
Sara and Jay Minkoff
Marilyn Murray ’64
Hisano and Yuji Nakata
Lisa and Anthony Palmieri
Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and
Kenneth Resnik ’81
Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and Jon Rubin ’83
Lynn Schuchter and John Broaddus
Meade B. Thayer
Frances Vilella-Velez and Jeffrey Golan
1845
$1,845 - $2,999
Anonymous
Alice Amsterdam
Barbara and Robert Behar
Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi
Tami Benton-Condiff and
Allessandro Condiff
Elyse and Max Berger
Christopher S. Bonovitz ’87
William A. Brown ’68
Cameron Memorial Fund
Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell
William G. Carson ’41
Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
Barbara M. Cohen
Alison and Scott Cook-Sather
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza
Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78
Anthony DiLuca
Kim Emmons-Benjet and Brian Benjet
Amy and John Estey
Anne Maddock Ewing ’39
Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50
Janice Decker Frohner ’60
Ivan H. Gabel ’49
Susan Gay and Jonathan Andrews
Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley and
Kevin Pawley
David S. Glasser ’02
Jeds Foundation
Laurie and Steven Katznelson
Louise Krasniewicz and
Richard M. Leventhal
Lopez-Lieberman Philanthropic Fund
DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez
Jordan Rubin ’98
Isobel J. Stockdale and Harry F. Yanowitz
Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Rosemary and G. Craig Lord
Debbie and Ronald Schiller
Joy Takahashi and John Gullace
MaryFran and David Schlessinger
Ronit and Howard Treatman ’79
Irene and Bruce Marks
Lynne Tindle Schnyder ’62 and
George H. Schnyder ’62
Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60
Jody Mayer
Kim and Koji Shimada
William McVail
Cindy and Mike Silver
United Way of Delaware
Susan and Lloyd M. Wirshba
Gladys Baker Monier ’32
Melisande J. Simmering and Ian B. Wilcox
Andrew Newcomb ’87
Thomas H. Patterson ’59
Arnold E. Smolens ’38 Memorial Fund
of the Princeton Area Community
Foundation
Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan
Beth and Craig Snider
William L. Weiner ’76
Calvin H. Rankin, Jr. ’43 Fund
Stacey Goldsborough Snider ’78
Dawn Witzel and Peter Lakin
Alexander M. Rolfe ’01
Jacqueline and Eric Stern
Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi
Miriam K. Rothenberg
Andrew T. Stifler ’57
The Zeldin Family Foundation
Julie Low and Gilbert Block
Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky
Elizabeth and Robert Nourian
Anne and Richard Umbrecht
Vanguard Charitable
Endowment Program
Albert C. Pottash ’66
Laurie and J. Scott Victor
Annual Giving Five-Year History
59
,4
88
$9
01
,2
02
,0
49
,2
31
83
,7
59
$9
31
,3
40
,0
,0
$1
$1
$1
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Gift Clubs
Meeting
$1,200 - $1,844
Anonymous (2)
Jessica and Eric Berger
Meg Boscov and Randy Brown
Janet and Jeffrey Bowker
Richard C. Burgess ’65
David M. Felsen
James H. Gallagher ’08
Elizabeth Goldmuntz and Frederic Barr
Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick
Maria and Mark Herman
L. Elizabeth Horning ’63
Noreen D. Howard and Daniel Diadul
Pamela Lethbridge and Theodore Simon
Pat and Jim Lobb
Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo
Christine McGinley and
Richard Gendelman
Elizabeth D. Morgan
Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer
Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga
Virginia Rauh and Rollin Gallagher
David Roberts ’83
Sidney Rosenblatt
Joanna Haab Schoff ’51
Mark H. Tashjian ’80
Cindy and Bill Torres
Sherri Apter Wexler and Lewis Wexler
Eve E. Wollman and James R. Sperans
Benefactors
$800 - $1,199
Anonymous
John Abramson
Cindy and Cary Anderson
Richard G. Angell ’54
Helene and Allen Apter
Bruce G. Babcock ’60
Jennifer E. Balson ’82
John E. Balson ’52
Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg
Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich
Donald M. Briskman ’60
Carrie and David Brodsky
Mari Ann and Christopher Campbell
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Andrea G. Cohen ’86
Ellen M. Cohen ’88
Marguerite and Matthew Cooper
Scott G. Davis ’62
Anthony C. DeCusatis ’09
Mary Ann and Anthony DeCusatis
Sarah and Andrew DeMichele
Neil Faggen
Jonathan H. Feinberg ’93
Sharlene Ferrin
Wendy Frame and Christopher Blackman
Winkie Ostroff Gaev ’50
Carolyn Ulmer Gorman ’66
The Green Foundation
Paula Yudenfriend Green and Arlin Green
Eli A. Gross ’86
Harweb Foundation
Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris
Mary Hediger George E. Weaver
Joanne P. Hoffman
Ralph H. Horning ’60
Susan and Douglas E. Hyman ’79
Linda and Ivan Inerfeld
Susan Johntz and David Velinsky
Penny and Ronald Joines
Kassabaum Family Charitable Trust
Karen and Philip Ivory
Beverly and John Keith
Cynthia J. Kendall ’76 and John W.
Lindquist ’76
Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92
Betty T. Lam ’94
Elena and Ken Levitan
Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62
Bonnie and Daniel Linn
LM Charitable Gift Trust
Charles C. King ’80
Sandra Slevin Lockhart ’60
Hao-Li and Evan Loh
Lois A. Maiman ’60
Jeanne A. Markey and Gary L. Azorsky
Adrienne and George Martin
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Lincoln Meyers ’80
Jodi K. and David H. Miller
Catherine and Steven Nierenberg
Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Margaret O’Sullivan and Ciaran Roche
Karyn and Aaron Polak
Sonya Pollack
Jenni Punt and Stephen Emerson
William D. Ravdin ’46
*J. Donald Reimenschneider ’52
Theodore Reinke ’48
Lori Cozen Rosenberg and
Peter Rosenberg ’82
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Alan Scharfstein
Mary Deming Scott ’60
Henry P. Shapiro ’82
Gary Smith
Jonas Stiklorius ’90
Winifred Jess Tierney ’53
Mary H. Trapnell
Christiana H. Tritton
Maggie and Alan Vickery
Andrew G. Weinstein ’65
Deborah and David Weiss
Bruce A. Yoskin ’62
Blue& Gray Associates
$300 - $799
Anonymous (5)
David M. Albert ’86
Susan Albertine
Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41
Tonia and Albert Alwyn
Elizabeth Anderson
Nancy Andrews and Robert Schall
Michelle and Michael Apkon
Douglas G. Baird ’71
Karen Kroiz Baris ’92
Nicole C. Barnum and Sophia Lee
Madeline and Richard Baron
Beth Berman
Ellan and Leonard Bernstein
Dana and Jeffrey Berstein
Roland S. Beverly ’73
Dan Biddle ’71
Georgeann Schellenger Blaha ’75
Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62
Richard P. Bowen ’76
Lee H. Bowie ’51
Francis E. Bradley ’62
Janet and Samuel Brill
Jeffrey M. Brody ’98
Caroline and Donald Brooks
Charlotte Hermann Brown ’62
Kelly and Daniel Brown
Peggy Brumfield Bruton ’53
Marlene Miller Buckley ’53
Robert R. Buckley ’53
Ellen Burr ’46
Barrett S. Caldwell ’80
Linda and David Callans
Bradley M. Campbell ’79
Diane Bierman Carson ’67
Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62
Kim and Bart Cassidy
Steven Chanin ’86
Silvia and Mark Chapkovich
Debbie J. and Young Rak Choi
Janice I. Chu ’85
Joy Clairmont ’91 and Max Kaufman ’91
Terry and Jim Clampffer
Christopher S. Clews ’62
Audrey and George Clothier
Charlotte Cook
Catherine Corson and
Charles McCammon
Henry R. Cowell ’50
Marjorie Hallahan Crawford ’67
Mary Ann Crawford and Brett Skolnick
Sara and Allan Crimm
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Tara L. Cuda and Pasquale A. Colavita
Julie Pontz Curson ’61
Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin
Nancy Davis
Catherine and Ronald P. Dawson
William W. Dean ’62
Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross
Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55
Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy
Patricia DeRusso and
Christopher Forrest
Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44
Thomas P. Donaldson ’59
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss
Dwight S. Dunston ’06
Shirley Smith Earle ’51
John C. Eissler ’42
R. Elaine C. Swartz Eissler ’46
Eve E. Ellis ’76
Anna D. Ensor ’63
Charles L. Epstein ’74
Abigail First Farber ’55
Eileen C. Farnon ’90
Maria M. Farnon ’88
Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and
Michael Fedder
Randi and Rick I. Feld
Jared N. Fertman ’99
Ginger and Mark Fifer
Frank Fisher
Robert Folwell ’80
Jean and Carl Fridy
Christina and David Fryman
Kathryn Furey
Mary and Michael Furey
Keiji and Narumi Furuuchi
Ed Gardiner
Jamie L. Garfield ’96
William S. Gartner ’55
Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford
Walker N. Gilmore ’91
Jill and Stephen Ginsberg
Virginia Arnold Gleason ’60
Robin Goldberg-Glen and Jeffrey Glen
Anita M. Gonzalez ’76
Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and Brian Gordon
Murray S. Gorson ’74
Gayle G. and George M. Gowen
Lawrence V. Graves ’63
Richard M. Grossman ’86
Nancy and Peter Grove
Meena and Anil Gupta
Margret MacGaffey Hagar ’82
Marjorie Miller Hallowell ’56
Mary Jane Dorey Handler ’53
George Hardman ’58
Beth Clouser Hare ’77
George C. Harkins ’52
Elizabeth Smith Harper ’54
Michele and Jeffrey Harris
Walter P. Harris ’75
Ann S. Hayward ’62
Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane
Raymond C. Heising ’92
John W. Herron ’62
Lee S. Hillerson ’62
Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt
Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy
Karen N. Horikawa ’77
Louise Goetzenberger Howard ’40
Eric L. Hoyle ’86
Grace Hsu and Edward Fox
Louise H. Huber
Emanuel Hudock ’52
Deborah Hull
William Humenuk
Betsy Norcross Ingram ’62
Lauri and Leigh Jacobs
Mercedes Jacobson and Eric Greenblatt
Francis M. James ’53
Jennifer Ornsteen James ’68
Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56
Shirley Tuska Jenks ’48
Macon Pickard Jessop ’88
Antoinette Leroux Jewell ’65
Juan Jewell ’68
Cynthia Jobe and Sean Goggins
Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and
Martin Johnson
Shirley Jones-Shakur
Franklyn N. Judson ’60
Andrew D. Katz ’86
Rosalind and Alan Kaufman
David N. Kendall ’75
Judy Kessel
Daniel J. Kessler ’08
Gail and Alan Kessler
Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim
Shami and Anand M. Kini
Kenneth A. Kirchhofer ’62
Marianthi Kiriakidou and
Zissimos Mourelatos
David R. Kirk ’69
Dorothy Dunne Kittrell ’45
Robert C. Klaus ’62
Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Gift Clubs
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Nancy Kleinberg
Marsha Neifield and Alan Folkman
Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer
Carolyn Klock and George McCook
Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum
Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson
Kerri Konik
Robert S. Noone ’53
Alice Saligman
Joyce Boardman Kurr ’47
John Norcini
Frederic Z. Samelian ’65
Marilyn and Eric Lager
Jana Norris and Steven Cole
Jane and Bentley M. Saul
Christine Laine and David Weinberg
Michelle and Andrew B. Olson
Sue Williams Saul ’44
Edwin Lakin
Carol Orenstein and Charles Nichol
Sandrine and Edward Schoenfeld
Alexandra Langendorfer and
Thomas Pickard
Karen D. Palcho ’78
Bonnie Boardman Schoennagel ’55
Marianne Colville Parkinson ’48
Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp
Brendan Lee
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Alvin Schwartz
Natalie Lee
Arthur J. Parsons ’58
Merrill Schwartz
Wai Lee
Carol Perloff
Rachel Newman Schwartz ’89
Jenifer and Michael Lehrer
Joel R. Perloff ’86
Blaine W. Scott ’46
Sarah Jackson Leonard ’78
Marian Petrarca
Nicholas Scull ’60
Diana and Gerry Lewis
J. E. Pew ’82
Angela Scully and George Elser
Karen Lewis and Howard Kruger
Sabitha Pillai and Michael Friedman
Sara Volkman Shack ’87
Albert J. Lilly ’57
Julie H. and Steven Plunkett
Amy and Carl Shaw
Ami and Jess Lonner
Julie G. and Brad F. Pogachefsky
Leslie K. and Donald L. Siegel
Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’69
Maria and Kenneth Pollack
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77
Deborah Maraziti
Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87
Jessamyne Simon and Gabriel Tatarian
Joni R. Marcus and Edward F. Greves
Jason M. Polykoff ’02
Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold
Fran and Robert Margulies
Richard S. Pompetti ’04
Ashu Diwan Singh ’89
Joan Henley Mattoon ’50
Sharon Popik and Kevin Fosnocht
Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85
Norman McAvoy ’48
Daniel B. Price ’94
Anita and Bob Somers
Amy and Matthew McDonald
Geraldine Hamilton Price ’90
Emma and Gregory Staton
McDonalds Corporation
Beth S. and Steven G. Prusky
Amy Steerman and Mary Ann Stover
Alexander McDonnell
David B. Pudlin
Wendy Steinberg
Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie
Bernard A. Purcell ’82
Helena and Eric Sultan
Felice G. and James J. McSwiggan
The Estate of Mary Ann Ramsey ’41
Jamie Goldsborough Swift ’84
Iris Melendez and Henry R. Adamczyk, Jr.
Clemence Ravacon-Mershon ’63
Susan Tabor-Kleiman and Robert Kleiman
Sarah Mendelson ’80
Christine Red
Sharon and David Taffet
Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh
Carl E. Reichert ’49
Robert Tamaccio ’95
Michael Mersky ’72
Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance
Nancy Warwick Tarlton ’48
Judith Kirk Meyer ’74
Barry J. Reimenschneider ’48
Alan D. Taylor ’71
Katherine Meyer ’74
Stephen J. Reynolds ’58
Ira Thal
Roslyn Miller Meyer ’62
Whitten W. Richman ’56
Niku Thomas and Eric Mitchell
Salli Mickelberg
Valeri S. and Mark H. Riesenfeld
Lauren Tierney
Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram
Sharon Ritt
Conrad W. Turner ’76
Susan and Jay Miller
Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83
Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson ’82
Tracy Mills and Kent Julye
Mary Roberts
Carol Perloff Capper Twain ’56
Jodi Mindell and Scott McRobert
Mary L. Robertson ’43
Laurel and Gael Ulrich
Katherine Mitchell
Ann and Paul Rogers
Sheila and Akhil Vaidya
Laura and Mark Mulholland
John Rogers
Laura and Ricardo Verges
Scott E. Myers ’72
Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer
Jennifer Vollmer and David Copas
Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51
Joan and Tim Roll
Tyrone G. von Gorski ’62
Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61
Jerilyn and Doug Ross
Susan and David Wadsworth
Friends’ Central School
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and
Dennis Wasserman
Harvey F. Weiner ’81
Daniel A. Weiser ’76
Sharon Weiss and David Arnold
Barbara Davis Widmayer ’57
Debra Will and David Thomas
Matthew P. Williams ’91
Paula Williams and Robert Williamson
Wendy Wolf
Pam and Don Yih
Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds
Ye Zhang and Xiaohong Xu
Henry A. Zoob ’57
Blue & Gray Patrons
$150 - $299
Anonymous (2)
Marc L. Ackerman ’81
Mark S. Adams ’77
Jonathan H. Adler ’87
Jeannette Lapsansky Aldous ’90
Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47
Joan Shapiro Alexander ’71
Richard Allman ’61
Ashley Altman
Rebecca and Iain Anderson
Colin S. Angevine ’05
Jennifer J. and Noel C. Archard
Jane Davis Atkinson ’61
Sandy Axelrod
Holly and Percy Ayres
Bruce C. Baird ’73
Stephen A. Baldi ’94
Jill Banks Barad ’57
Danielle Paul Barson ’87
Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore
Mary and Marshall Bassett
Steffi Zitin Becker ’82
Frances R. and Frederic A. Beckley
Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford
Jeannine and William Bedford
Wendy Beetlestone and John Detre
Sherri and Laurence Belkoff
Kathleen K. and H. Jay Bellwoar
Cari Feiler Bender and Rodd William Bender
Gifts to Annual Giving help Friends’ Central students learn from interactive community-building projects
such as the Lower School Harvest Show.
Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80 and
Larry Bendesky ’80
Steven C. Benjamin ’82
Denise and Lout Benrahou
Barbara Bentley
Mary Beth Griffith Berggren ’48
Liza Jane and Thomas Bernard
Jordan S. Bernstein ’86
Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle ’60
Madge L. Bird ’49
Jeannine Thomson Bishop ’91
Anne McAvoy Blackburn ’50
Diana W. Bleakley ’01
Karen and Russell M. Bleakley ’67
Peter Bloomfield
Perri Shaw Borish ’92
Joseph I. Borneman ’55
Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor
Janet and Jeffrey Bowker
Katherine Bowker ’08
David M. Boyd ’62
Dillon H. Boyer ’79
Carl Bradley
Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis
Nancy and Paul Bray
Annabelle C. Brett ’65
Holly and David R. Brigham
Wendie and Joshua Broker ’86
Michele V. and Jeffrey F. Brotman
Chris and Andrew Bruckner
Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54
Beth Burrell and David Sorensen
Barbara Burtness and Israel Mushi
Robert R. Buswell ’61
Muge and Kivanc Caglar
Jed Z. Callen ’67
Carolyn Cambor
Vincent Cappelli
John S. Carson ’44
David N. Cherner ’82
Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52
Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani
Rebecca Klein Clark ’81
Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay
Henry M. Clews ’62
Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Gift Clubs
Benjamin Cohen ’93 and Ruthi Cohen
Denis Cohen
Michael A. Cohen ’62
Kathy Coleman-Martin
Bess M. Collier ’96
Patricia Stanton Cooley ’62
Carol A. Cooper ’70
Charles H. Cooper ’74
Linda Hawkins Costigan ’86
Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs
Elaine and Michael Crauderueff
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Patricia Laws Curran ’62
Deana Kelly Czaban ’86
Jeanine and Joel Dankoff
Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis
Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr
Lisa and Keith deLeon
Donald Denton
Sara Kankowski Desabato ’02 and
READ DeSabato ’02
Lisa and Don Dissinger
Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic
Stephanie Dolores
Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43
Lisa D’Orazio and James Lowther
Lis and Jag Dosanjh
Susan Dreher and Mark Wheeler ’87
Kathy and Jerry Drew
Sarah Arnold Du Bosq ’62
Ginny Duerr
Pamela Duke and Laurent Guy
Julie Miller Edgerton ’47
Lynn Volckhausen Edinoff ’60
Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88
Barbara Acomb Elliott ’47
David M. Ellis ’51
Charles W. Ensor ’59
Mika and Allen Epps
June Singley Evans ’66
Rochelle M. Fedullo and William P. Fedullo
H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and
Leigh Bergmann
James M. Fell
J. Wilson R. Felter
David E. Fenkel ’93
Claudia Ferran and James Banko
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Friends’ Central School
Alexander L. Fetter ’54
Christopher Guides
Richard W. Fetter ’64
Ruba Habtemicael ’96
Betsy and Bob Fiebach
Laura B. Haimm
Mark O. Fifer ’96
Robert B. Hall ’59
Megan E. Fifer ’96
Robert W. Hallett
Linda A. Fischer ’61
Andrew Hamilton ’84
Shana Fisher ’88
David H. Hardin ’55
Deborah Fleisher and Stephen Starr
Kendell Hardy
Keith Warrick Fletcher
Cornelia E. Harthun-Nitzke ’62
Rani and Mark Fogel
Valorie Haves
Sari and Ethan Fogel
Mary Hannah Hawkins ’61
Aqueelah Folwell
Sumner H. Hayward ’61
Daniel B. Forman ’92
Susan Herzberg Henry ’65
Laura J. Forman ’91
Spencer T. Hewett ’10
Princess and Earl Foster, Sr.
Peter D. Hickman ’62
Ashley M. and Adam W. Fox
Cinda Buswell Hill ’59
Bethanne Fox and Brendon Shank
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Jeffrey Pasek
Amalia and Tony Franklin
Rachel Levov Hollingsworth ’82
Liselotte Freed
Susan and Richard Holt
Mary Ann Cohee Freemann ’42
Alisa Newman Hood ’92
David W. Frenze ’77
Joyce Horikawa and Nicholas Torno ’80
Amy and Ronald Fuchs
Amy and Franz Hueber
Howard B. Fussell ’44
Elizabeth Shinn Hulford ’98
R. and K. Ganesan
Jonathan A. Hunter ’90
Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur
Susanne Phillips Isaacs ’45
Sophie and Tom Gibson
Grant L. Jacks ’75
Elaine and Everett Gillison
Brenda Jackson
Jeanette S. Gillison
Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord
Zachary C. Glaser ’92
Peter S. Javian ’96
Lynne and Steven Glasser
Gwendolyn and Steven F. Jess ’59
Janet Goldwater ’68
Diane and Rick Graboyes
Jewish Endowment Foundation
Julian Good
Sarah B. Grafman ’96
John R. Jones ’47
Adam H. Granite ’92
Franklyn S. Judson
Michaela McCormick Gravel ’94
Kimberly and Clayton Justice
S. Denham Laverty Grearson ’63
Kristina and Michael Kallam
Jason T. Green ’94
Janet E. Kang ’99
Angela and Gary Greene
Douglas A. Kaplan ’84
Leslie Greenfield
Farah and Rahul Kapoor
Mary H. Gregg
Amy and Michael Karliner
Anne K. Griffith ’97
Diane Karp
Dean E. Griffith ’91
Mauri C. and Andrew C. Kassner
Kathryn J. Griffo and Jeffrey L. Schlegel
Stephen L. Kay ’87
Jonathan C. Grinspan ’02
Richard R. Keller
Michele and Paul Grossman ’87
Judith Kiesel and Michael Bolotsky
Laura and George Groves
Kristin and Todd Kimmell
Robert Kirschner
Stephanie W. and
William R. B. McCullough
Nicholas A. Pulos ’02
Stephanie McCurry and Steven Hahn
Julia G. Raphaely
Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein
Rachel Fell McDermott ’77
Alan B. Redfern ’77
Peter G. Klein ’87
Laura R. McKelligott ’97
Margery and Raymond Reed
Richard B. Klein ’57
James H. McKeogh ’00
Penny and Maury Reiter
David E. Kline ’06
Barbara Pauser McLean ’54
Edward F. Rice ’34
Molly Jones Kline ’51
Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris
Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon
Linda Kloss and Marcelo Sanchez
Nicholas D. Meyer
Eric Rieder ’71
Lori M. Koch and Samuel H. Israel
Jeffrey L. Meyerson ’02
Rita L. Ritsema and Karl G. Schwabe
Debra and David Kornblatt
Barbara A. Miller ’90
Donald J. Ritt ’52
Elena Karp Korngold ’92
Jeffrey I. Miller ’80
Anne Robbins and Craig Lichtman
Eric F. Kramer ’89
Rosina S. Miller and James P. Gilroy
Susan and Harvey Robbins
Sandra Kuby
Sharon Moolten
Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr
Anne Ballen Ladenson ’83
Mary Drayer Moran ’86
Norman P. Robinson ’46
Connie Burgess Lanzl ’68
Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92
Sondra E. Rosenberg ’97
Bill Larson ’80
Michelle Morrison
Penny and Fred Rosenblum
Mildred Minster Larson ’55
Sally Reynolds Motley ’59
Anne R. Ross ’94
Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman
Bridget Murnaghan and Hugh Gordon
Laura and Leonard Rossio
Dorothy and Kevin Lee
James P. Murray
Michael Rothman ’79
Deborah Leibel and Fred Goodman
Kathleen A. and Robert V. Nardi
Robin H. Rothman ’84
Kimberly Kurtz Lent ’87
Susanne Price Neal ’58
Hyman Sall
Mrs. Robert Leventhal
Cristina Neilson
Nancy A. Sanders ’83
Murray S. Levin
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Wynn S. Sanders ’92
Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis
Sara Nerken and Robert Karpinski
Julia Fineman Sauter ’81
Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber
Alison and Yaron Netz
Peter V. Savage ’57
Dennis Linnehan ’62
Bruce C. Newton ’61
Alexander G. Schall ’86
David J. Linton ’59
Nancy Nghiem and Edward Nguyen
John M. Schalow ’69
Linn and Douglas Linton ’68
David A. Niles ’82
Kurt Schilling ’51
Kenneth A. Litwin ’88
Diane Nissen and Jerry Gollub
Patricia and Claude Schoenberg
Mireia Lizandra and Eric Smith
Rachel Pickard Rothman O’Connell ’92
Philip E. Scott ’73
Barbara and Morris Longstreth
Alexander V. Otey ’78
Judith R. Seltzer ’65
Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao
Kirk J. Paul ’75
Barry Sharpless ’59
Seth H. Lundy ’87
Alice Legge Penza ’36
John Shaw ’74
Andrew MacGaffey ’79
Karen and Felix Penzarella
Kathy Shaw
M. Robin Maddox and Ralph Luongo
Ryan M. Pesin ’96
Robin Sheldon and Gerard Lewis
Melissa Richter Marchand ’71
Amy B. and Jeffrey D. Petersohn
Susan Shilcrat and Harry Mazurek
Marcie and Jeffrey Marcus
Pamela Reif Phillips ’87
Rachel H. Shore ’02
Ronnie and Lawrence Margel
Sherri Pillet
Mark I. Silberberg ’84
Betsey K. Margolies ’06
Regina Pinotti and John Shields
Michael G. Silver ’86
Anne Martin
Barbara Porter and Stephen Yarnell
Sara L. Matthews and Raymond J. Fabius
Kathleen and David Porter
The Simkiss Family Foundation
Kathleen and John A. Simkiss
Ilene and Joseph McCaffrey
Erika Halloran Posner ’97
Eve Slap ’73
Robert W. McClenahan ’62
Charles C. Price ’66
Bunny Slepin
Linda Kent McConnell
Marianne Price
Jacqueline Watkins Slifka ’52
Susan and James McCoy
Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell
Donald B. Small ’53
Momoko A. Kishimoto and
Frank R. Borchert
Joan Raina
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Gift Clubs
Janet Weiss Smith ’42
Linda Kidder Yarlott ’84
Sarah J. Brodsky ’07
Lara N. and Evan J. Smith
Kris and Christopher Yoo
Emily M. Brodsky ’10
William W. Sniffen ’77
Donald Yorkman ’95
Sarah R. Brown ’07
Marjorie Somers and Frank Silvestry
Neil Yoskin ’68
Gabriella S. Capone ’10
Richard R. Spillman ’55
Colleen and John Zaccaria
Anthony C. DeCusatis ’09
Susan and Edward Stadtmauer
Josephine Zaccaria
Michael W. Dohrmann ’08
Karen Strickland
Theoklis E. Zaoutis
Lindsey S. Elkin ’08
Maria Sturm and Elliott Shore
Barry L. Zubrow ’71
Daniel A. Fedder ’08
Kimberly and Dominic R. Tarquinio
Michele and David Zuckman
Caroline A. Fenkel ’07
Michi Tashjian
Harold E. Tiffany ’63
Kathleen and Peter Tozer
Nancy Trachtenberg
Jean and Frank Tracy
Amanda Trask ’80
Adrian and Naomi Tschoegl
Christopher S. Vaden ’74
Betsey and Gregg VanGundy
Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter
Ann Scharff Vernon ’97
William W. von Uffel ’53
Martin L. Wachs ’82
Erika Waginger-Goldberg and
Barry I. Goldberg
George M. Walters ’55
Ann L. and Ed Ward
Stephanie H. and Lawrence D. Ward
Anita Grumbling Warner ’67
Ronald Waxman
Matthew E. Weaver ’98
Lyn Weinberg and Mark Moskowitz
Margie and Bryan Weingarten
Libby Fifer ’09
Blue and Gray Clubs,
Alumni/ae Classes of
2002-2006
Henry A. Friedman ’08
Jesse T. Amoroso ’04
Natalie J. Aronson ’05
Benjamin H. Daniels ’03
Andrea L. DeSabato ’05
READ DeSabato ’02 and
Sara Koukowski DeSabato ’02
Dwight S. Dunston ’06
David S. Glasser ’02
Jonathan C. Grinspan ’02
Galen R. Guindon ’06
David E. Kline ’06
Amy E. Ludwig ’04
Betsey K. Margolies ’06
Jeffrey L. Meyerson ’02
Richard S. Pompetti ’04
Nicholas A. Pulos ’02
Rachel H. Shore ’02
Andrew F. White ’03
Jackson M. Greenberg ’08
$100 or more
Zachary T. Goldman ’09
Jason A. Goodman ’07
Hallie R. Greitzer ’10
Julian B. Guindon ’08
Spencer T. Hewett ’10
Grace B. Honik ’07
Christina M. Hurley ’09
Molly K. Johnston ’06
Matthew R. Karliner ’11
Daniel J. Kessler ’08
David E. Kline ’06
Taylor K. Lee ’08
Laura A. Matey ’07
Alexander E. Mazurek ’08
Richard A. Moses ’09
Eric J. Nisenbaum ’07
Michael H. Pasek ’08
Luke C. Pryor ’07
Emily M. Rosenblum ’09
James D. Weinstein ’56
Blue and Gray Clubs,
Alumni/ae Classes of
2007-2011
Phillip R. Rosenblum ’08
Mary Ellen and Drew Weissman
$25 or more
Nan Baker Wertman ’34
Anonymous (3)
Maxwell C. Skolnick ’07
David G. Wetterholt ’62
John R. Armstrong ’09
Jacob S. Snider ’09
Marian Siter Willey ’51
Samuel H. Aronson ’07
Jeremy A. Stursberg ’09
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
Max Bernard ’08
Samuel B. Summers ’08
James R. Wilson ’52
Matthew E. Biron ’08
Laura K. Umbrecht ’07
Lisa D. and Richard D. Winward
Gabriel Z. Bloomfield ’07
Natalie A. Willis ’09
Ann Hort Wolfe ’63
Katherine Bowker ’08
Natasha P. Willis ’10
Deborah and Tony Woodbury
Sarah L. Bradburd ’08
Alexander F. Yih ’10
D. Alan Wrigley ’68
Logan D. Brenner ’08
Amanda L. Zeiger ’08
Nina Weisbord ’78
Abby Huberman Weiss ’57
Cathy Weiss
58
James H. Gallagher ’08
Friends’ Central School
Robin H. Segal ’08
David M. Siegel ’07
Amber G. Sims ’07
Ensuring Success
We are grateful to the donors listed
below who increased their gifts to the
School in recognition of the rising
costs associated with providing a
Friends’ Central education.
Anonymous (2)
Sophia Abdullah ’99
John Abramson
Mark Adams ’77
Jonathan Adler ’87
Meeran Ahn ’04
David Aichenbaum ’05
Susan Albertine
Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47
Ashley Altman
Jesse Amoroso ’04
Cindy and Cary Anderson
Elizabeth Anderson
Rebecca and Iain Anderson
Patricia Andrade and Beny Parnes
Richard G. Angell, Jr. ’54
Colin Angevine ’05
Michelle and Michael Apkon
John R. Armstrong ’09
Laura and John Armstrong
Samuel Aronson ’07
Adam Axler ’04
Bruce Babcock ’60
John Balson ’52
Jill Banks Barad ’57
Nicole C. Barnum and Sophia Lee
Danielle Paul Barson ’87
Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore
Kyle Beatty
Joan and Eric Beckwith
Gretchen B. and Robert D. Bedford
Jeannine and William Bedford
Barbara and Robert Behar
Sherri and Laurence Belkoff
David Beltran del Rio ’90
Cari Feiler Bender and Rodd Bender
Steven Benjamin ’82
Denise and Lout Benrahou
Tami Benton-Condiff and
Allessandro Condiff
Beth Berman
Shirley Bernstein
Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle ’60
Teresa G. and Chhinder Binning
Jeannine Thomson Bishop ’91
Diana Bleakley ’01
Karen and Russell Bleakley ’67
Valerie and Fred Block
Susan Bodley and Brad Morris
Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62
Christopher Bonovitz ’87
Perri Shaw Borish ’92
Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor
William W. Bower
Gerald Bowers
Lee H. Bowie ’51
Janet and Jeffrey Bowker
Rachel Bradburd ’05
Trina and Keith Bradburd
Carl Bradley
Francis E. Bradley ’62
Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis
Leah Brecher-Cohn and Andrew Cohn
Logan Brenner ’08
Jennifer Briggs ’95
Holly and David R. Brigham
Betty Brizill
Emily M. Brodsky ’10
Sarah Brodsky ’07
Jeffrey Brody ’98
Charlotte Herrmann Brown ’62
Sarah Brown ’07
Chris and Andrew Bruckner
Marlene Miller Buckley ’53 and
Robert Buckley ’53
Richard C. Burgess ’65
Ellen Burr ’46
Beth Burrell and David Sorensen
Barbara Burtness and Israel Mushi
Josephine S. and Peter H. Callahan
Linda and David Callans
Carolyn Cambor
Debbie and Alan Casnoff ’62
Silvia and Mark Chapkovich
Deborah Charamella ’01
David Cherner ’82
Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52
Anna Marie Ciglinsky
Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay
Christopher Clews ’62
Susan and Paul Clough ’82
Christine E. Coburn and Anne E. Kazak
Andrea Cohen ’86
Benjamin Cohen ’93
Carolyn and Scot Cohen
Elizabeth J. Cohen ’83 and David Whellan
Ellen M. Cohen ’88
Shannon Coleman
Kathy Coleman-Martin
Lauren Collier ’99
A. R. Condiff
Robert Conn ’43
Charlotte Cook
Patricia Stanton Cooley ’62
Brigitte and Robert Cooperman
Catherine Corson and
Charles McCammon
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Henry Cowell ’50
Elaine and Michael Crauderueff
Sara and Allan Crimm
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Tara L. Cuda and Pasquale A. Colavita
Julie Pontz Curson ’61
Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Jeanine and Joel Dankoff
Donna Davin and Uriel Kusiatin
Cheryl Davis
Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis
Scott G. Davis ’62
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
William W. Dean ’62
Diane B. De Mille
Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy
Rachael Goddard Desmond ’58
Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza
Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 and
Anthony DiLuca
Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44
Steven J. Dolores
Mary and Thomas Donovan
Susan Dreher ’87 and Mark Wheeler
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss
Alexa Dunnington ’98
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Ensuring Success
Dwight Dunston ’06
Angela and Gary Greene
Sheryl B. and Karl A. Johnson
Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88
Mary H. Gregg
Susan Johntz and David Velinsky
Charles Epstein ’74
Anne Griffith ’97
Deborah M. Jones
Amy and John Estey
Kathryn J. Griffo and Jeffrey L. Schlegel
John R. Jones ’47
Valarie and Major Everett
Benjamin Grinspan ’05
Joyce J. Jones
Anne Maddock Ewing ’39
Jonathan Grinspan ’02
Shirley Jones-Shakur
Heather Hudgins Exley and Eric Exley
Judith and Edward Grinspan
Eileen Farnon ’90
Nancy and Peter Grove
Barbara Harrison Judson ’68 and
Kenneth Judson ’68
Maria Farnon ’88
Rebecca and Eric Guenther
William W. Judson ’62
Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and
Michael Fedder
Christopher Guides
Kimberly and Clayton Justice
Galen Guindon ’06
Kristina and Michael Kallam
H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and
Leigh Bergmann
Meena and Anil Gupta
Andrew Katz ’86
Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick
Daniel Kaufman ’05
Ruba Habtemicael ’96
Rosalind and Alan Kaufman
Margret MacGaffey Hagar ’82
Nancy Keller-Coffey ’79
Carol Christian Hallgren ’49
Rina and C.J. Keller
Phyllis Hanson
Susan M. Kelsay ’59
Beth Clouser Hare ’77
Cynthia Kendall ’76 and John Lindquist ’76
George Harkins, Jr. ’52
Judy Kessel
Elizabeth Smith Harper ’54
Kenneth Kirchhofer ’62
Michele and Jeffrey Harris
Robert Kirschner
Phoebe Harris ’09
Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83
Walter Harris ’75
Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein
Susanna R. and Warren J. Hauser
Nancy Kleinberg
Valerie and Leon Hawes
Margery Trescott Kniffen ’52
Kathryn Hayward and Tom MacFarlane
Lori M. Koch and Samuel H. Israel
Raymond Heising ’92
Eric F. Kramer ’89
Spencer T. Hewett ’10
Sandra Kuby
Melissa Hewson ’07
Rachel Volkman Kushel ’92
Lee Hillerson ’62
Madeline Church Lai ’64
William Gartner, Jr.
Julie Nathanson Holcomb ’91
Edwin Lakin
Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley and
Kevin Pawley
Rachel Levov Hollingsworth ’82
Janet Kendall Lankin ’79
Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy
L. Eric Larson ’82
Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford
Karen Horikawa ’77
Henry W. Lavine ’53
Olivia N. Gillison ’10
Noreen D. Howard and Daniel Diadul
Janice M. Leavy
Andrew Gilman ’00
Jonathan Hunter ’90
Wai Lee
Jonathan Ginsberg ’90
Christina Hurley ’09
Joseph W. Lenski III ’83
Laila Goldberg ’00
Susan and Douglas Hyman ’79
Gerry Lewis
Eli Goldstein ’03
Linda and Ivan Inerfeld
Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis
Gayle G. and George M. Gowen
Betsy Norcross Ingram ’62
Todd M. Lieber ’62
Diane and Rick Graboyes
Susanne Phillips Isaacs ’45
Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber
Leslie M. Grace
Grant Jacks III ’75
Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62
Kelley Graham
Brenda Jackson
Linn and Douglas Linton ’68
Lawrence V. Graves ’63
Lauri and Leigh Jacobs
Ami and Jess Lonner
Richard D. Graves ’59
Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and
Martin Johnson
Elizabeth and David Lorry
David E. Fenkel
Betsy and Bob Fiebach
Catherine and Jonathan Fiebach ’82
Ginger and Mark Fifer
Mark Fifer ’96
Frank Fisher
Mallory Floyd ’96
Robert A. Folwell ’80
Daniel Forman ’92
Edward Day Frank ’04
Benjamin Freeman II ’55
David Frenze ’77
Isabel Friedman ’08
Janice Decker Frohner ’60
Amy and Ronald Fuchs
Kathryn Furey
Richard Fussell ’47
Ed Gardiner
S. Denham Laverty Grearson ’63
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Friends’ Central School
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
Sarah Deming Love ’55
Catherine and James D. Murdock ’73
Jenni Punt and Stephen Emerson
Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao
Bridget Murnaghan and Hugh Gordon
Bernard A. Purcell III ’82
Peter Luborsky ’68
Michael K. Murray ’09
Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan
Mary and Joseph R. Ludwig ’69
Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62
Diana Khinoy Reed ’62
Priscilla M. and John N. Lukens
Malcolm J. Musgrove
Kathleen Reilly and Michael Nance
Seth Lundy ’87
Hisano and Yuji Nakata
Clare and Diego Luzuriaga
Michelle Narin and Maurice Schweitzer
Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and
Kenneth Resnik
Jessica and Thomas Lynn
Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51
Lucile Lynn
Susanne Price Neal ’58
Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Karen Klein Mannes ’53
Sara Nerken and Robert Karpinski
Jerry Mapp
Alison and Yaron Netz
Deborah Maraziti
Andrew Newcomb ’87
Fran and Robert Margulies
Aaron Nissen ’04
Gayle Waldhauser Martin ’42
Robert S. Noone, Jr. ’53
Lydia Martin and William Kennedy
John Norcini
Laura Matey ’07
Jana Norris and Steven Cole
Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo
Elizabeth and Robert Nourian
Susan Wright Matthiessen ’69
Carol Orenstein and Charles Nichol
Caroline Maw-Deis
Elizabeth Osborne ’54
Josephine E. Mayer
Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane
Christopher McCann
Holly and David McCloskey
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg and
Robert Weinberg
Rachel Fell McDermott ’77
Elizabeth and Craig Owens
Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87
Karen Palcho ’78
Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie
Marc S. Parker ’10
James McKeogh ’00
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Barbara Pausser McLean ’54
Carol Perloff
Maureen McVail
George Peterson
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Monica A. and David T. Peterson
Diane Merry and Steve Fakharzadeh
Marian Petrarca
Judith Kirk Meyer ’74
J. Edgar Pew ’82
Jeffrey Meyerson ’02
Jessica Phillips ’01
Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp
Salli Mickelberg
Martin D. Phillips
Lynn Schuchter and John Broaddus
Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram
Julie H. and Steven Plunkett
Barbara A. Miller ’90
Julie G. and Brad F. Pogachefsky
Megan Schumacher
Blaine Scott ’46
Jeffrey Miller ’80
Maria and Kenneth Pollack
Philip Scott ’73
Rosina S. Miller and James P. Gilroy
Sharon and Harry Pollack
Sara and Jay Minkoff
Jason Polykoff ’02
Jonathon R. Moore ’65
Richard Pompetti ’04
Judith Seltzer ’65
Kathryn and James J. Sheward
Susan Shilcrat and Harry Mazurek
Jerome Mopsik ’02
Barbara Porter and Stephen Yarnell
Marcy and Robert Shoemaker
Mary Drayer Moran ’86
Gail Coleman Powell ’64
David Siegel ’07
Elizabeth D. Morgan
Benjamin Present ’07
Ellen Siegel and Richard Wallace
Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92
Montez Price-Shell and Brandon Shell
Cindy and Mike Silver
Janine Morton
Luke Pryor ’07
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77
Molly Mullahy ’98
Nicholas Pulos ’02
Melisande J. Simmering and Ian B. Wilcox
Stephen J. Reynolds ’58
Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon
Jonathan Rieder ’65
David Roberts ’83
Iliana Robinson and Gordon Barr
John Rogers
Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer
Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82 and
Peter Rosenberg
Sidney Rosenblatt
Anne Ross ’94
Doug Ross
Laura and Leonard Rossio
Madge Rothenberg and Peter Brodfuehrer
Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson
Jordan Rubin ’98
Jennette E. Ruckdeschel
Julia Rudolph and Matthew Adler
Angelina Riley Ruffin ’00
Maria C. Sabaj Perez
Denise Sabatino and Padraig Barry
Marie and Bruce Satalof
Andrew Scharff ’95
Lynne Tindle Schnyder ’62 and
George Schnyder ’62
Patricia and Claude Schoenberg
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Ensuring Success
Jessamyne Simon and Gabriel Tatarian
Ann Scharff Vernon ’97
Bruce C. Baird ’73
Susan Schultz Simon ’57
Laurie and J. Scott Victor
Mary Beth Griffith Berggren ’48
Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold
Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69
Janice and Seymour Berrian
Lizabeth Sklaroff ’92
Erika Waginger-Goldberg and
Barry I. Goldberg
Richard H. Beyer
Ann Dothard Walters ’58 and
George Walters, Jr. ’55
Anne McAvoy Blackburn ’50
Jacqueline Watkins Slifka ’52
Donald B. Small ’53
Lara N. and Evan J. Smith
Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas
Beth and Craig Snider
Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85
Maria A. Socorro
Bob Somers
Richard Spillman ’55
Susan and Edward Stadtmauer
Jacqueline and Eric Stern
Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57
Jonas Stiklorius ’90
Isobel J. Stockdale and Harry F. Yanowitz
Mary Worley Stone ’45
Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Karen Strickland
Ann L. and Ed Ward
Joshua Wasserman ’02
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and
Dennis Wasserman
Priscilla Patch Weber ’43
Jonathan Wegener ’03
Nina Weisbord ’78
Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96
Abby Huberman Weiss ’57
Anne and Steve Weiss
Deborah and David Weiss
Barbara Davis Widmayer ’57
Matthew Williams ’91
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
James R. Wilson, Jr. ’52
Wendy Wolf
Allison and Philippe Szapary
Ann Hort Wolfe ’63
Susan Tabor-Kleiman and
Robert B. Kleiman
Leslie and Michael Wollock
Sharon and David Taffet
Jean and Italo Taranta
Alan D. Taylor ’71
Priscilla Taylor-Williams and
David Williams ’69
Deborah and Tony Woodbury
Melinda Yin and Scott Reynolds
Donald Yorkman ’95
Melanie Yulman
Henry A. Zoob ’57
Ira Thal
Meade B. Thayer
Margaret Cooper Thompson ’42
Harold Tiffany III ’63
Rachel Tilney ’85
Cindy and Bill Torres
Nancy Trachtenberg
Carol Trask
Noel Trask ’78
John Y. Trumper ’50
Anne and Richard Umbrecht
Jonathan Vaden ’85
Betsey and Gregg VanGundy
Beth Varcoe and Roderick Wolfson
Emily Vener-Giszter and Simon Giszter
Laura and Ricardo Verges
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Madge Littlefield Bird ’49
Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha ’62
Francis E. Bradley ’62
Charlotte Herrmann Brown ’62
Constance Forster Brown ’52
Victoria Fineman Brown ’79
Richard C. Burgess ’65
Ellen Burr ’46
Jed Z. Callen ’67
Diane Bierman Carson ’67
William G. Carson ’41
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
Carol Jerjisian Churukian ’52
Lawrason Anne Clement ’66
Anne Dufour Clouser ’50
Barbara M. Cohen
Elizabeth Cohen ’83 and David Whellan
Ellen M. Cohen ’88
Nelly and Jorge Colapinto
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. ’41
William W. Dean ’62
Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55
Pat and Raymond DeSabato
Rachael Goddard Desmond ’58
Ronald C. Diment ’67
Loyal Friends
This category honors alumni/ae,
parents, and friends who have
supported Annual Giving for ten
consecutive years or more. We
are privileged to list the following
members of the Friends’ Central
community.
Dorothy Gotwald Dixon ’44
Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43
Judith Martin Dorsett ’50
Martha Shmidheiser DuBarry ’44
Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn
Elizabeth Daldy Dyson ’57
Shirley Smith Earle ’51
Julie Miller Edgerton ’47
Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88
Consecutive giving for
20 or more years
Brigitte Solmitz Alexander ’47
Joan Shapiro Alexander ’71
Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41
Richard G. Angell, Jr. ’54
David M. Ellis ’51
Charles W. Ensor ’59
June Singley Evans ’66
Jean Farquhar ’70
Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and
Michael Fedder
David M. Felsen
Cynthia Linton Fleming ’50
Janice Decker Frohner ’60
Marylou and Timothy Golding
Janet Goldwater ’68
Richard D. Graves ’59
Judy and Ed Grinspan
Robert B. Hall ’59
Nancy and Robert W. Hallett
David H. S. Hardin ’55
Elizabeth S. Harper ’54
Gwen J. Hauser
Grace and Charles Heising
Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie ’50
Patricia Hibbs ’60
L. Elizabeth Horning ’63
Deborah and T. Regan Hull
Francis M. James III ’53
Charis Gilbert Julian ’51
Rosalind and Alan Kaufman
Joan Kabakjian Keith ’61
Susan M. Kelsay ’59
David N. Kendall ’75
Shahnaz and Mehdi Keykhah
David R. Kirk ’69
Donald H. Kirkland ’43
Richard B. Klein ’57
Karen Kramer ’86
Brian S. Kunz ’67
Joyce Boardman Kurr ’47
Carol Weinrott Leebron ’50
Joseph W. Lenski III ’83
Suzanne Murphy Lewis ’59
David J. Linton ’59
Kenneth A. Litwin ’88
Rosemary and G. Craig Lord
Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’62
Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62
Melissa Richter Marchand ’71
Francis Markland ’53
Gertrude P. Marshall
Leslie Statzell Marshall ’63
Barbara and Nicholas Meyer
Judith Kirk Meyer ’74
Amy Anne Miller ’88
Norma and Bruce Miller ’55
Gladys Baker Monier ’32
Morgan F. Moore ’45
Andrea Cantor Moses
Rosemary and James Murphy
Kathleen Murray-Allain ’62
Scott E. Myers ’72
Sarah De Vita Napoli ’50
Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51
Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61
Andrew Newcomb ’87
Marianne Colville Parkinson ’48
Virginia and Stuart Peltz
Alice Legge Penza ’36
Sallie Whitesell Phillips ’55
Stacey Polan ’71 and Richard Kaufman
Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87
Curtis M. Pontz ’57
Charles C. Price IV ’66
Marianne Price
Helen and David B. Pudlin
William D. Ravdin ’46
Carl E. Reichert, Jr. ’49
Joan Hunter Reilly ’54
Theodore Reinke II ’48
Frank Richards ’57
Michael C. Ritter ’61
Susan and Harvey Robbins
Sue Williams Saul ’44
Julia Fineman Sauter ’81
Peter V. Savage ’57
Kurt Schilling ’51
Judith Seltzer ’65
Linda and Gerry Senker
Barbara Kratz Shaw ’50
Mark I. Silberberg ’84
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein ’77
Howard D. Sipler ’53
Bunny Slepin
David H. Smile ’69
Joan Fleischhauer Smith ’61
Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell
Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57
Flavia Vogrig and Robert Gassel ’69
Nancy Schranz Wall ’38
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 and
Dennis Wasserman
Andrew G. Weinstein ’65
James D. Weinstein ’56
Norma Weiser
Nan Baker Wertman ’34
Patricia Myers Westine ’ 57
Elizabeth Hall Williams ’44
Wetherill Cresson Winder ’58
Bruce Woodruff ’60
Martin Zeldin
Sybille Zeldin
Henry A. Zoob ’57
Consecutive giving for
15 to 19 years
Jane Davis Atkinson ’61
Bruce Babcock ’60
William W. Bower
Annabelle Brett ’65
William A. Brown ’68
M. Reid Bush ’59
Caroline Kirk Cheatle ’53
Sue Saunders Clark ’54
Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs
Nancy Davis
Anthony C. P. DeCusatis IV
Diane Bault DeMille ’46
Thomas P. Donaldson ’59
Donna Hayes Edwards ’55
Eve Ellis ’76
Anne Maddock Ewing ’39
Eileen Flanagan ’80
Lynn Fowles ’63
Jean and Carl Fridy
Howard Fussell ’44
Ivan H. Gabel ’49
Kay and James Gentile
William Georges ’88
Walker Gilmore ’91
Carolyn Ulmer Gorman ’66
Jacqueline Gowen-Tolcott
Richard Grossman ’86
Laura and Neil Haimm
Kendell Hardy
Joyce Horikawa ’80
Karen Horikawa ’77
Karen and Philip Ivory
Antoinette Leroux Jewell ’65
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Loyal Friends
Charles King ’80
Donald Kirkland ’43
Elizabeth Kolb ’86
Eric F. Kramer ’89
Todd M. Lieber ’62
Linn and Douglas Linton ’68
Ann Tolson Lippe ’57
Sarah Deming Love ’55
Karen Klein Mannes ’53
Anne C. Markland ’56
Lydia Martin and William Kennedy
Jonathon R. Moore ’65
Jessica Christie Morowitz ’92
Marilyn Murray ’64
Edwin Nicholson ’43
Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga
Chris Ozbun and William Darling
Karen Palcho ’78
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Evelyn P. Rader
Stephen J. Reynolds ’58
David Roberts ’83
Marsha and Richard Rothman
Michael Rothman ’79
Cindy and Stephen Ruzansky
Ann V. Satterthwaite
John Schalow ’69
Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 and
James Schoff, Jr.
Mary Deming Scott ’60
Kimiko and Koji Shimada
Cindy and Mike Silver
Donald B. Small ’53
Raquel and Alphonso Smith
Michi Tashjian
Priscilla Taylor-Williams and
David Williams ’69
Winifred Jess Tierney ’53
Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60
Anita Grumbling Warner ’67
Mary Hediger and George Weaver
Joy Milhous Whiteley ’53
Elizabeth Hall Williams ’44
Matthew Williams ’91
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
Wendy Wolf
Pam and Don Yih
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At every level, such as in this Middle School science class, Friends’ Central challenges its students to think
critically and problem solve creatively.
Claudia Zeldin ’81
Carrie and David Brodsky
Jessica Zeldin ’88
Jeffrey Brody ’98
Wendie and Joshua Broker ’86
Consecutive giving for
10 to 14 years
David Albert ’86
Susan Albertine
Barbara and Ted Aronson
Eleanora Baird
John R. Banks ’48
Madeline and Richard Baron
Padraig Barry
Barbara and Robert Behar
Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80 and
Larry Bendesky
Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich
Nancy BreMiller Black ’59
Dorothy Everitt Bond ’35
Joseph I. Borneman ’55
Richard Bowen ’76
Lee H. Bowie ’51
Keith Buckingham
Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54
Muge and Kivanc Caglar
Linda and David Callans
John Carson ’44
David Cherner ’82
Louise Christopher
Deanna S. Ciarrocchi
Anna Marie Ciglinsky
Terry and Jim Clampffer
Andrea Cohen ’86
Bess Collier ’96
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield ’43 and
Benjamin Dangerfield
James Dannenberg ’43
Catherine and Ronald Dawson
Sarah and Andrew DeMichele
David L. Branning ’59
Sara Kankowski DeSabato ’02 and
READ DeSabato ’02
Jennifer Briggs ’95
Dorothy Jones Dick ’44
Kathy and Jerry Drew
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss
Alexa Dunnington ’98
Frederick Eissler ’39
Barbara Acomb Elliott ’47
Robert Emory
Anna D. Ensor ’63
Liza Ewen
Maria Farnon ’88
Stuart Fenkel ’90
Alexander L. Fetter ’54
Jane and Matthew Frankel
Winkie Ostroff Gaev ’50
Frances Berger Garfield ’60 and
Joseph Garfield ’56
David Jason Gershkoff Slusky ’02
Helen Lawley Gibb ’40
Susan and Peter Gilman
Walker Gilmore ’91
Mac F. Given
Virginia Arnold Gleason ’60
Douglas Greenfield ’46
Mary H. Gregg
Leonard Haas ’76
Barbara Haber and Jonathan Flick
Marjorie Miller Hallowell ’56
Erika Harnett
Cynthia Bidart Harris and Jon Harris
Cinda Buswell Hill ’59
Louise Goetzenberger Howard ’40
Susan and Douglas Hyman ’79
Grant Jacks III ’75
Leigh Jackson and Robert McCord
Brenda Jackson
Sibylle and Raymond P. Jefferis III ’56
Cathleen Judge and David Unkovic
Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson
Beth and Gary Kaminsky
Beverly and John Keith
Judy and Jerry Kessel
Marianthi Kiriakidou and
Zissimos Mourelatos
Nancy Kleinberg
Jane Koppelman
Sandra Hull Laber ’88
Marilyn and Eric Lager
Janet Kendall Lankin ’79
Janice Leavy
Susan and Joel Rubin
Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and
Matthew Levitties ’85
Edward B. Rummel ’55
John Levitties ’84
Michele Scanlon and Gary Nicolai
Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber
Hao-Li and Evan Loh
Patrick Lord ’90
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
Julie Low and Gilbert Block
Jane Cubberley Luce ’68 and Eric Luce
Lois A. Maiman ’60
Catherine and Michael Malloy
Deborah Maraziti
Barbara Matteucci and John Rizzo
Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87
Linda Kent McConnell
Denise and Robert McIvor
Gwen McVickar McMahon ’66
Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris
William McVail
Martha Green Mead ’53
Michael Mersky ’72
Katherine Meyer ’74
Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn
Jodi Mindell and Scott McRobert
Sara and Jay Minkoff
Catherine and James D. Murdock ’73
Carole and James Murray
Hisano and Yuji Nakata
Marsha Neifield and Alan Folkman
Marie and Bruce Satalof
Andrew Scharff ’95
Rachel Newman Schwartz ’89
Ann and Aaron Selkow ’88
Marcy and Robert Shoemaker
Stefanie Zeldin Sigal ’79
Paula Singer and Howard Kaufold
Eve Slap ’73
Arlette Smith ’76
Raegen Smith ’97
Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas
Beth and Craig Snider
Lisa Kay Solomon ’89
Susan and Edward Stadtmauer
Karen Strickland
Helena and Eric Sultan
Nancy Warwick Tarlton ’48
Ira Thal
Meade B. Thayer
Cindy and Bill Torres
Kathleen and Peter Tozer
Mary Herbert Trapnell
John Y. Trumper ’50
Carol Perloff Capper Twain ’56
Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr.
Frances Vilella-Velez and Jeffrey Golan
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Ann Dothard Walters ’58 and
George Walters, Jr. ’55
Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum
Joshua Wasserman ’02
Robert S. Noone, Jr. ’53
Sara Wasserman ’99
Estelle and Gerald Palevsky
Ronald Waxman
Jack Parsons ’58
Lyn Weinberg and Mark Moskowitz
Kirk Paul ’75
Margie and Bryan Weingarten
Allison Pincus-Jacobs ’00
Robert M. Weir ’51
Jane Pompetti
Nina Weisbord ’78
Nicholas Pulos ’02
Dorothy Schwab Weitthoff ’46
Christine Ramsey and Andrew Fussner
David G.Wetterholt ’62
Margery and Raymond Reed
T. David Williams, Jr. ’64
Barry J. Reimenschneider ’48
Ann Hort Wolfe ’63
J. Richard Relick ’47
Deborah and Anthony Woodbury
Mary Roberts
Colleen A. and John J. Zaccaria
Joan and Tim Roll
Katherine Rowe and Bruce Jacobson
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green club
The members of this club
gave early in the fall, online,
or in person to ensure that
they would receive no paper
solicitations from the Office
of Annual Giving. If you are
interested in “giving green” this
year, please email Jody Mayer
at [email protected].
Anonymous (5)
Sophia Abdullah ’99
Robin and Barry Abelson
Catherine Adler-Josem ’07
Meeran Ahn ’04
Rebecca and Iain Anderson
Jane Davis Atkinson ’61
Holly and Percy Ayres
Bruce Babcock
Amanda Ball
Danielle Paul Barson ’87
Jeannine and William Bedford
The Quaker testimony of stewardship is embraced throughout the School and in service projects such as the
Middle School’s Streamwatch.
Barbara and Robert Behar
Sherri and Laurence Belkoff
Max Bernard ’08
David P. Biddle ’69
Tiffany R. Blakeney ’87
Gabriel Z. Bloomfield ’07
Susan Bodley and Brad Morris
Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor
Luisa Bovernini and Jeffrey Heit
William W. Bower
Janet and Jeffrey Bowker
Keeya Branson-Davis and Douglas Davis
Nancy and Paul Bray
Betty Brizill
Carrie and David Brodsky
Caroline and Donald Brooks
Kelly and Daniel Brown
Richard Case
Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani
Anna Marie Ciglinsky
Terry and Jim Clampffer
Sue Saunders Clark ’54
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Carolyn Cohen and Richard Lynn
Susan and Gary S. Cohen
Bess M. Collier ’96
Lauren Collier ’99
Elaine and Michael Crauderueff
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Jeanine and Joel Dankoff
Cheryl Davis
Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr
Catherine and Ronald P. Dawson
Mary Ann and Anthony DeCusatis
Angela DeMichele and Robert Gross
Sarah and Andrew DeMichele
Phyllis Dennery and Gregory Mundy
Esra Diker-Yilmaz and Bilge Yilmaz
Marjorie Schwartz Dilsheimer ’58
Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78 and
Anthony DiLuca
Stephanie Dolores
Steven J. Dolores
Lisa D’Orazio and James Lowther
Valarie and Major Everett
Liza Ewen
Heather Hudgins Exley and Eric Exley
Maria M. Farnon ’88
H. Marcia Feigenbaum-Bergmann and
Leigh Bergmann
Caroline A. Fenkel ’07
Ginger and Mark Fifer
Frank Fisher
Robert Folwell ’80
Gloria Forster
Kathleen E. Fox ’07
David W. Frenze ’77
Janice Decker Frohner ’60
Amy and Ronald Fuchs
Daniel Gale
Matthew Murphy Garmur ’97
Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur
Patricia R. and Sidney W. Gilford
Olivia Gillison ’10
James H. McKeogh ’00
Kathy Shaw and Benjamin Green
Andrew C. Gilman ’00
Latifah La’Nae McMullin ’99
Sharon and Joseph Shelanski
Jeffrey Goldader
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Michaela McCormick Gravel ’94
Amy Anne Miller ’88
Wendy Singer-Lowry and
Christopher J. Lowry
Patricia Green and Gary Horowitz
Lynda J. and Russell B. Mischel
Gary Smith
Angela M. and Gary A. Greene
Nina Morton
Jacob Snider ’09
Laura and George Groves
Catherine and James Murdock ’73
Terry and Paul Guerin
Michael K. Murray ’09
Thomas S. Spencer ’77
Christopher Guides
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Galen Guindon ’06
Hue and Hoang Nguyen
Joy Halpern
Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum
David H. S. Hardin ’55
John Norcini
Elizabeth S. Harper ’54
Laura Novo and Stephen Chawaga
Walter P. Harris ’75
Andrea C. Nuneviller and Jess H. Lord
Kathryn S. Hayward and Tom MacFarlane
Heather Osborne and Vincent Duane
Catherine C. and Todd E. Henry
Karen D. Palcho ’78
Ira Thal
Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Yvette and Darrell Thomas
Susan and Richard Holt
Steve Patterson
Lauren Tierney
Joyce Horikawa ’80 and Nicholas Torno
Cristina Sabaj Perez
Rachel G. Tilney ’85
Mercedes Jacobson and Eric Greenblatt
Marian Petrarca
Carol and Noel Trask ’78
Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and
Martin Johnson
Martin D. Phillips
Ethyl P. Treatman ’77
Julie H. and Steven Plunkett
Kristina and Michael Kallam
Jason Polykoff ’02
Laurel and Gael Ulrich
Laura Keen and Trevor Smith
Steven W. Portman ’73
Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly
Joel F. W. Price
Robert Kirschner
Luke Christopher Pryor ’07
Linda Kloss and Marcelo Sanchez
Beth Randall and Donald Ringe
Elizabeth Kolb ’86
Ken Reynolds
Sandra Kuby
Robyn Richmond and Lloyd Guindon
Janice Leavy
Daniel Rink
Jenifer and Michael Lehrer
Rita L. Ritsema and Karl G. Schwabe
Suzanne Murphy Lewis ’59
Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83
Sonja Beth Lindgren and John W. Gruber
John Rogers
Linn and Douglas Linton ’68
Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer
Mireia Lizandra and Eric Smith
Alexander Rolfe ’01
Laurie S. Lubking
Laura Rolfe ’04
Peter D. Luborsky ’68
Jerilynn and Doug Ross
Jim Mack
Alan Scharfstein
Karen Manker
Debbie and Ronald Schiller
Jerry Mapp
Patricia and Claude Schoenberg
Deborah Maraziti
Jane and Schoenborn
Edward Marshall ’68
Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp
Marcia and Sarah Martinez-Helfman
Joanna Haab Schoff ’51
Dawn and Alexander McDonnell ’87
Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and
Mark-Alan D. Pizzini
Yvonne M. and Ryan A. McKenzie
Robert L. Stark ’52
Harry Stead
Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Joy Takahashi and John Gullace
Danielle and Jay Tapper
Kathy Taylor and Jonathan Sprogell
Laura Umbrecht ’07
Jonathan S. Vaden ’85
Mary-Chilton Van Hees
Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr.
Stephanie H. and Lawrence D. Ward
Joshua Wasserman ’02
Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96
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Alumni/ae Giving
Class of 1932 (33%)
William G. Carson
Gladys Baker Monier
Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr.
Alumni/ae
G i v ing
Estate of Mary Ann Ramsey
Class of 1933 (50%)
Elizabeth Crofoot Bowers
William N. Stecher
Dickson Werner
Total Alumni/ae Donors:
Louise S. Colwell
Class of 1942 (37%)
Class of 1934 (60%)
Edward Rice
Sarah Wallis Stevens
Nan Baker Wertman
Alice Hunt Daily
John C. Eissler
1,049
Mary Ann Cohee Freemann
Barbara Miller Gustafson
Gayle Waldhauser Martin
Janet Weiss Smith
Class of 1935 (17%)
Margaret Cooper Thompson
Dorothy Everitt Bond
Class of 1943 (35%)
Class of 1936 (14%)
Alice Legge Penza
Class of 1937 (25%)
Diana Foote Lawrence
Charlotte Eby Bartlett
Robert A. Conn
Dorothy Schock Horne
Mary Boileau Ramsey
James L. Dannenberg
Nancy Fitts Donaldson,
Class Agent
Edwin G. Nicholson
Mary L. Robertson
Priscilla Patch Weber
Arnold E. Smolens
Nancy Schranz Wall,
Class Agent
Class of1939 (18%)
Frederick Eissler II
Anne Maddock Ewing
John S. Carson,
Class Agent
Dorothy Gotwald Dixon
Martha Shmidheiser DuBarry
Howard B. Fussell
Sue Williams Saul
Class of 1940 (33%)
Louise Goetzenberger
Howard
Harry H. Schmidt
Kay Staman Swenson
Class of 1945 (41%)
Marion Beatty Borden
Susanne Phillips Isaacs
Dorothy Dunne Kittrell
Ellen Fitts Millick
Morgan F. Moore
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Class of 1941 (38%)
Barbara Homer Pearson
Priscilla Okie Alexander
Mary E. Stone
Friends’ Central School
Overall Alumni/ae
Participation:
34%
Class of 1944 (40%)
Elizabeth Hall Williams
Helen Lawley Gibb
$342,445
Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield
Donald H. Kirkland
Class of 1938 (21%)
Total Raised by Alumni/ae:
Honor Roll
Top 10
Participation:
1962..................... 74%
1957..................... 68%
1934..................... 60%
1952..................... 58%
1982..................... 55%
1959..................... 55%
1953..................... 53%
1933..................... 50%
1955..................... 49%
1961..................... 44%
Class of 1946 (37%)
Julie Miller Edgerton
Barry J. Reimenschneider
Ellen Burr
Barbara Acomb Elliott
Theodore Reinke II
Alice Hess Crowell,
Class Agent
Robert H. Fereshetian
Nancy Warwick Tarlton
Diane Bault DeMille
John R. Jones,
Class Agent
Class of 1949 (30%)
Joyce Boardman Kurr
Anonymous
Frederick L. Goodman
J. Richard Relick
Frances Fitts Ambler
Gardner Hendrie
Joan Lavine Bank
Carol Weinrott Leebron
Madge Littlefield Bird,
Class Agent
Joan Henley Mattoon
Ivan H. Gabel
Barbara Kratz Shaw
R. Elaine Swartz Eissler
Douglas A. Greenfield
Curtis H. Jones
Norman P. Robinson
Class of 1948 (33%)
Blaine W. Scott II
John R. Banks
Mary Beth Griffith Berggren
Louise Todd Cope
Shirley Tuska Jenks
Norman McAvoy
Marianne Colville Parkinson
Marguerite Ridge Perrone
Class of 1947 (31%)
Brigitte Solmitz Alexander
Mary Louise Craig
Henry R. Cowell
Judith Martin Dorsett
Richard L. Fussell
William D. Ravdin
Dorothy Schwab Weitthoff
Anne Dufour Clouser,
Class Agent
Cynthia Linton Fleming
Winkie Ostroff Gaev
Sarah De Vita Napoli
Carol Christian Hallgren
John Y. Trumper
Carl E. Reichert, Jr.
Class of 1951 (36%)
Class of 1950 (39%)
Lee H. Bowie,
Class Agent
Anne McAvoy Blackburn
The Heart of Quaker Works
Alumni/ae Giving and Volunteering
Max Kaufman ’91 and Joy Clairmont ’91 (’24, ’26)
Friends’ Central has played and continues to play such an important role in enriching
our lives that it only makes sense for us to want to give back to the school. A number of
our friends from our days at FCS remain dear friends today. We have a special trust and
closeness that comes from a lifetime of shared experiences. Our families met for the
first time at our graduation, and the photo of us with our diplomas is in a frame in our
house. Enrolling our boys at FCS was an easy decision. Friends’ Central feels like home.
We have found Friends’ Central parents to be tremendously warm and friendly. They
have invited us into their homes and out to dinner. Although we’ve been involved with
Friends’ Central for decades, we’re relatively new to the parent community, and we’ve
felt very welcome. We try to go to all of the parent events. We donate every year. We
volunteer as much as we can. Joy was the class representative for Leo’s kindergarten class last year. Max participated in
Career Day for the Upper School. We’ve attended all of our Reunions including our 20th in May of 2011.
Leo and Jonah have really enjoyed the Lower School so far. They have had fantastic teachers and wonderful classmates.
The cliché is true. More than anything else, what sets Friends’ Central apart is the people: the students, the faculty, the
administration, the staff, and the parents. We have gotten a great kick out of reconnecting with folks who worked at the
school when we were students and are still there today, including Jack Briggs, Beth Tedesco, Joe Ludwig, and Bob Folwell.
There are warm, caring, and fun people throughout the FCS community, and it is a true joy and privilege to be a part of it.
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Alumni/ae Giving
Helen Starling Burke
Shirley Smith Earle
David M. Ellis
Cyril H. Harvey, Jr.
Charis Gilbert Julian
Molly Jones Kline
Deborah Hazzard Nash
David T. Roy
Kurt Schilling
Joanna Haab Schoff
Robert M. Weir
Marian Siter Willey
William H. Perloff, Jr.
Class of 1956 (23%)
Ann Dothard Walters
Joan Branen Rawles-Davis
Joseph M. Garfield
Marjorie Miller Hallowell,
Class Agent
Raymond Jefferis
Anne C. Markland
Whitten W. Richman
Carol Perloff Capper Twain
James D. Weinstein
Wetherill Cresson Winder
Howard D. Sipler
Donald B. Small
Winifred Jess Tierney
W. Warren von Uffel,
Class Agent
Joy Milhous Whiteley
John E. Balson
Constance Forster Brown
Carol Jerjisian Churukian
Anthony P. Fowkes
George C. Harkins, Jr.
Joan Hoover Hellwege
Emanuel Hudock
Margery Trescott Kniffen
Carolyn Brown Leiby
*J. Donald Reimenschneider,
Class Agent
Donald J. Ritt
Barbara Stein Sickles
Jacqueline Watkins Slifka
Joan Lallou Smith
Robert L. Stark
James R. Wilson, Jr.
Class of 1954 (41%)
Richard G. Angell, Jr.
Virginia Lundgren Bortin
Diana Stambul Burgwyn
Sue Saunders Clark,
Class Agent
Roberta Cannon Crouse
Alexander Fetter
Elizabeth S. Harper
Barbara Pausser McLean
Elizabeth Osborne
Joan Hunter Reilly
Class of 1955 (49%)
Anonymous
Susan Souder Black
Joseph I. Borneman
Edward V. Clisby
Ruth Stubbs Denlinger
Colin C. Dickson
Donna Hayes Edwards
Class of 1953 (53%)
Peggy Brumfield Bruton
Marlene Miller Buckley
Robert R. Buckley
Carolyn Cannon Eagan
Dorothy Lieberman Grant
Mary Jane Dorey Handler
Francis M. James III
Henry W. Lavine
Karen Klein Mannes
Francis Markland
Martha Green Mead
Deborah R. Miller
Robert S. Noone, Jr.
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Perry Anthony
Nancy BreMiller Black
David L. Branning
M. Reid Bush
Prudence Sprogell Churchill
Doris Werner Bartlett
Class of 1952 (58%)
Class of 1959 (55%)
Abigail First Farber
Class of 1957 (68%)
Jill Banks Barad
Richard C. Bookbinder
Stephen Cozen
Elizabeth Daldy Dyson
Gary A. Fields
Elizabeth Leiby Hiller
Richard B. Klein
Albert J. Lilly, Jr.
Ann Tolson Lippe
Roberta Sheen Peterson
Bryan B. Pokras
Curtis M. Pontz
Frank Richards
Peter V. Savage
Susan Schultz Simon
Sarah Staats
Andrew T. C. Stifler
Abby Huberman Weiss
Mary Lundgren Wentzel
Patricia Myers Westine
Barbara Davis Widmayer
Henry A. Zoob, Class Agent
Benjamin H. Freeman II
William S. Gartner, Jr.
David H. S. Hardin
Middy Minster Larson
Sarah Deming Love
Allan N. Mackey
Bruce Miller
Sallie Whitesell Phillips
Edward B. Rummel
Bonnie Boardman Schoennagel
Richard R. Spillman
Miriam Repp Staloff
George M. Walters, Jr.
Class of 1958 (29%)
Rachael Goddard Desmond
Marjorie Schwartz Dilsheimer
George Hardman
John R. Miele
Susanne Price Neal
Jack Parsons,
Class Agent
Stephen J. Reynolds
Rodman M. Rosenberger
Charles W. Schiffer III
Jutta Buehne Sterling
Osborn Cresson
Thomas P. Donaldson
Charles W. Ensor
Jean Berg Eselgroth
Anne Hall Flaccus
Richard D. Graves
Robert B. Hall
Cinda Buswell Hill,
Class Agent
Susan Lobb Hoag
Carolyn Duthie Houghton
Steven F. Jess
Susan M. Kelsay
Suzanne Murphy Lewis
David J. Linton
R. Sandra Latshaw McCarthy
Sally Reynolds Motley
Tim Patterson
Dick Richards
Bonnie Forster Richards
Betsy Markland Schwartz
K. Barry Sharpless
Joan Shore Steinhouse
Maude Southwell Wahlman
Robert Ward
Class of 1960 (41%)
Bruce G. Babcock
Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle
Donald M. Briskman
Lynn Volckhausen Edinoff
John B. Ferguson
Janice Decker Frohner
Frances Berger Garfield
Virginia Arnold Gleason,
Class Agent
Susan Phillips Henning
Lynn Grein Brown
Peggy Johnson Hewitt
Alan E. Casnoff
Patricia Hibbs
Christopher S. Clews
Ralph H. Horning
Henry M. Clews
Franklyn N. Judson
Michael A. Cohen
Sandra Slevin Lockhart
Patricia Stanton Cooley
William S. Lundgren
Patricia Laws Curran
Lois A. Maiman
Scott G. Davis
Dena Obus Rakoff
William W. Dean
Judith Deemer Roseland
Sarah Arnold Du Bosq
Mary Deming Scott
Judith Horton Ermilio
Nicholas Scull
Cornelia Harthun-Nitzke
Rich Ulmer
Ann S. Hayward
Peter Kurt Woerner
John W. Herron
Bruce Woodruff
Peter D. Hickman
Lee S. Hillerson
Class of 1961 (44%)
Richard Allman
Jane Davis Atkinson
Raymond S. Battey
Robert R. Buswell
Sally Craig
Julie Pontz Curson
Deborah Richards Deschamps
Jacqueline Fields
Linda A. Fischer
Mary Hannah Hawkins
Sumner H. Hayward
Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin
Betsy Norcross Ingram
William W. Judson
Kenneth A. Kirchhofer
Robert C. Klaus, Jr.
Allan Kluber
Todd M. Lieber
Sara Clark Linder
Sarah Price Lindsay Honey
Class of 1965 (40%)
Joan Decker Battey
John Battey
Robert Boyer
Annabelle C. Brett
Richard C. Burgess
Kathleen Lane Enscoe
Susan Schwartz Goodrich
Susan Herzberg Henry
Laura Jackson
Antoinette Leroux Jewell,
Class Agent
Jonathon R. Moore
Ann Judson Ratcliffe
Jonathan Rieder
Frederic Z. Samelian
Judith Seltzer
Philip N. Taylor
Andrew G. Weinstein
Diane Viguers McClary
Robert W. McClenahan
Roslyn Miller Meyer
Pamela J. Melcher
Diana Khinoy Reed
Richard A. Mills
George H. Schnyder
Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe,
Class Agent
Lynne Tindle Schnyder
Bruce C. Newton
David G. Wetterholt
Noel Sharpless Wittenberg
Class of 1962 (74%)
Stephanie Weber Bell
Elisabeth Charr Bodurtha
David M. Boyd
John A. Boyd
Richard W. Fetter
Charles A. Hunter, Jr.
Kristina Roth Kling
Madeline Church Lai
Marilyn Murray,
Class Agent
Jill Hajjar Sullivan
T. David Williams, Jr.
John M. Witherspoon, Jr.
William M. Young III
Margery DeArmond Maconachy
Joan Kabakjian Keith
Joan Fleischhauer Smith
Class of 1964 (28%)
Dennis Linnehan
Kathleen Murray-Allain,
Class Agent
Michael C. Ritter
S. Denham Laverty Grearson
L. Elizabeth Horning
John R. Levy
Leslie Statzell Marshall
Judith Herron Mosconi
Clemence Ravacon-Mershon
Anne Malamud Scholder
Harold E. Tiffany III
Ann Hort Wolfe
Tyrone G. von Gorski
Christopher R. Woerner
Bruce A. Yoskin
Class of 1963 (33%)
Vivian M. Appel
Martha J. DeWindt
Anna D. Ensor
Gerd Dasch
June Singley Evans,
Class Agent
Carolyn Ulmer Gorman
Gwen McVickar McMahon
Albert Carter Pottash
Charles C. Price IV
Class of 1967 (33%)
John J. Berg
Russell M. Bleakley
Jed Z. Callen
Diane Bierman Carson
Marjorie Hallahan Crawford
Ronald C. Diment
Geoffrey M. Kerr
Brian S. Kunz
Wayne Michaud
Stephen B. Richter
Jack W. Schwartz,
Class Agent
Rob Wadleigh
Anita Grumbling Warner
Jean Murdock Warrington
Thomas P. Woodbury
Class of 1968 (41%)
William A. Brown
Janet Goldwater
Jennifer Ornsteen James
Juan Jewell,
Class Agent
Barbara Harrison Judson
Kenneth Judson
Connie Burgess Lanzl
Douglas Linton
Peter D. Luborsky
Jane Cubberley Luce
Edward Marshall
Helen L. Miehle
D. Alan Wrigley, Jr.
Neil Yoskin
Francis E. Bradley
Lynn Fowles,
Class Agent
Class of 1966 (18%)
Class of 1969 (23%)
Charlotte Herrmann Brown
Lawrence V. Graves
Lawrason Anne Clement
David P. Biddle
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Alumni/ae Giving
Robert Gassel
Jill and Glenn Bronson
David R. Kirk
Samuel F. Howe
Joseph Ludwig
Melissa Richter Marchand
Susan Wright Matthiessen
Stacey Polan
Carl J. Parris
Eric Rieder
John M. T. Schalow,
Class Agent
Alan D. Taylor
Barry L. Zubrow
David H. Smile
David Williams
Class of 1970 (18%)
Class of 1974 (19%)
Class of 1972 (28%)
Kevin D. Brady
Carol Clemenko
Carry Cooper
Timothy S. Ely
Linda Lerch DeLisio
Michael Mersky
Jean Farquhar
Charles H. Milligan
Christine Young Gaspar
Scott E. Myers
Stephanie Helen Koenig
Lisa Reischer Payton,
Class Agent
Sherry McVickar
Blair Roberts
Bruce R. Schober
Class of 1971 (23%)
Eliza Schwab Petersen
Steven W. Portman
Lisa and John Rooney
Philip E. Scott
Eve Slap
Emma George Terndrup
Charles H. Cooper
Charles L. Epstein
Murray S. Gorson
Judith Kirk Meyer
Katherine Meyer
Stuart L. Sanders
John Shaw, Class Agent
Christopher S. Vaden
Bruce C. Baird,
Class Agent
Joan Shapiro Alexander
Roland S. Beverly III
Douglas G. Baird,
Class Agent
Louise Schalow Del Vecchio
Dan Biddle
James Murdock
Ross Donolow
Kirk J. Paul, Class Agent
Susan Michael Rogers
Daniel S. Temeles
Linda Waxman Wasserman
Class of 1976 (28%)
Susan Meyer Bach
Richard P. Bowen
Jane Brooks
Sarah Frank Connor
Eve Ellis,
Class Agent
Anita Gonzalez
Robin Rosenfeld Gordon
Leonard Haas
Cynthia Kendall
Class of 1975 (24%)
Class of 1973 (28%)
Robert M. Moore III
Georgeann Schellenger Blaha
Lee E. Bludman
Walter P. Harris
Jeffrey R. Higgins
Grant L. Jacks III
David N. Kendall
Abraham Mintz
William H. Lehr
John W. Lindquist
Elena Gonzalez Shaffer
Arlette T. Smith
Emilie Richardson Temeles
Conrad W. Turner, Jr.
William L. Weiner
Daniel A. Weiser
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Class of 1977 (33%)
Mark S. Adams
David W. Frenze
Beth Clouser Hare
Karen N. Horikawa
Beth Johnson
Morris M. Kay
Janet Kendall Lankin
Andrew MacGaffey
Michael Rothman
Stefanie Zeldin Sigal
Howard Treatman
Barbara R. Weinberg
Cheryl Nelson Young
Rachel Fell McDermott
Richard A. Moses
Karen Murphy-Cain
Alan B. Redfern
David A. Shakespeare
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein
William W. Sniffen
Thomas S. Spencer
Ethyl P. Treatman
Denise C. Willis
Rodney Willis, Class Agent
Class of 1978 (37%)
Michael Andrews
Creighton H. Boyer
Amy and Anthony DiLuca
Sylvia M. Hamerman-Brown
Class of 1980 (31%)
Lori Epstein Bendesky
Barrett Caldwell
Eileen Flanagan
Robert Folwell
Joyce Horikawa,
Class Agent
Charles King
Joshua Klein
Bill Larson
Sarah Mendelson
Lincoln Meyers
Jeffrey Miller
Michael J. Sernyak
Mark H. Tashjian
Amanda Trask
Karen D. Palcho
Stacey Goldsborough Snider
Carol and Noel Trask
Nina Weisbord
Edward B. Whereat
Class of 1979 (38%)
Anonymous
Joy Edelman Boonin
Class of 1981 (20%)
Marc L. Ackerman
Lauren J. Benjamin
Rebecca Klein Clark
Julie Gordon,
Class Agent
Sheri Cozen Resnik
Sandra E. Rothman
Julia Fineman Sauter
Harvey F. Weiner
Claudia Zeldin
Dillon H. Boyer
Victoria Fineman Brown
Class of 1982 (55%)
Bradley M. Campbell
Jennifer E. Balson
Steffi Zitin Becker
Steven C. Benjamin
Shiphra A. Berman
David N. Cherner
Paul Clough
Daniel E. Copeland
Catherine E. Cutler
Marion Crowell Entwisle
Deborah Peltz Fedder
Carol Rubin Fishman
Douglas E. Hyman
Nancy M. Keller-Coffey
Joanna Gentile Gantz
Andrea M. Deutsch,
Class Agent
Margret MacGaffey Hagar
Derick Dreher
Rachel Levov Hollingsworth
Heather Schwartz Hebert
L. Eric Larson,
Class Agent
Curtis S. Krouse
David A. Niles
Matthew Levitties
J. Edgar Pew
Corrie Mitchell
Bernard A. Purcell III
Cathi Snyder
Edward B. Rehfeld
Rachel G. Tilney
Katherine Cole Robb
Jonathan S. Vaden
Lori Cozen Rosenberg
Erica Zimmerman
Jennifer Corsan LeBow
Lauren Saler Gerstel
Henry P. Shapiro
Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson
Martin L. Wachs
Class of 1983 (26%)
Elizabeth Cohen,
Class Agent
Noelie Christy Hillebrecht
Alexander Klein
Anne Ballen Ladenson
Joseph W. Lenski III
David Roberts
Sarah Jackson Leonard
Alexander V. Otey,
Class Agent
Jon Fiebach
Margaret S. Roberts
Jon Rubin
Lauren Becker Rubin
Nancy A. Sanders
Barrett Tilney
Class of 1986 (41%)
David M. Albert
Jordan S. Bernstein
Joshua Broker
Andrea Chait
Steven Chanin
Andrea G. Cohen
Linda Hawkins Costigan
Deana Kelly Czaban,
Class Agent
Eli A. Gross
Richard M. Grossman
Eric L. Hoyle
Andrew D. Katz
Elizabeth Kolb
Karen Kramer
Anja Jefferis Levitties
Rebecca Porter Madsen
Class of 1984 (18%)
Andrew Hamilton
Douglas A. Kaplan
John A. Levitties
Mary Drayer Moran
Joel R. Perloff
Alexander G. Schall
Michael G. Silver
Robin Rothman
Mark I. Silberberg,
Class Agent
Jamie Goldsborough Swift
Jennifer Trachtenberg
Linda Kidder Yarlott
Class of 1987 (34%)
Jonathan H. Adler
Gwendolyn Angert
Danielle Paul Barson
Matthew Bernstein
Tiffany R. Blakeney
Class of 1985 (26%)
Christopher S. Bonovitz
Theresa Hamilton Callicott
Jessica Coplon
Janice I. Chu
Susan Dreher
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Alumni/ae Giving
Samantha Marks Gordon
Paul Grossman
Stephen L. Kay
Peter G. Klein
Kimberly Kurtz Lent
Seth H. Lundy
Alexander McDonnell
Andrew Newcomb,
Class Agent
Pamela Reif Phillips
Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard
Sara Volkman Shack
Class of 1988 (31%)
Ellen M. Cohen,
Class Agent
Samantha Hauser Ekert
Maria M. Farnon
Shana Fisher
William D. Georges
Elizabeth Gerst Ivanov
Macon Pickard Jessop
Sandra Hull Laber
Jordan J. Lapsansky
Kenneth A. Litwin
Amy Anne Miller
Justin C. Pearlman
Aaron Selkow
Sonya Sklaroff
Jessica Zeldin
Class of 1989 (19%)
Leslie Morris Bari
Jessica Melaragni Baugher
James Christy, Jr.
Brooke L. Gelber
Eric F. Kramer
Gregory Liss
Rachel Newman Schwartz
Ashu Diwan Singh
Lisa Kay Solomon
Class of 1990 (26%)
Jeannette Lapsansky Aldous
David N. Beltran del Rio
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Eileen Farnon
Stuart J. Fenkel,
Class Agent
Jonathan S. Ginsberg
Jonathan A. Hunter
Geoffrey G. Klein
Patrick C. Lord
Barbara Miller
Geraldine Hamilton Price
Jonas Stiklorius
Class of 1991 (35%)
Anonymous
Sabina and Atif Ahmad
Jeannine Thomson Bishop
Joy Clairmont
Hassan R. Edge
Laura J. Forman
Walker N. Gilmore
Dean E. Griffith,
Class Agent
Julie Nathanson Holcomb
Nitya Jacob
Max Kaufman
Elga Jefferis Killinger
Matthew McHale
Alexander N. Miller
Matthew P. Williams
Class of 1992 (32%)
Karen Baris
Perri Shaw Borish
Courtney Papada Daly
Daniel B. Forman
Zachary C. Glaser
Ruth First Goldstein
Adam H. Granite
Raymond C. Heising
Alisa Newman Hood
Elena Karp Korngold
Rachel Volkman Kushel
Adrianne Levin Cantor
Frances C. Lord
Jessica Christie Morowitz
Rachel Pickard Rothman
O’Connell
Wynn S. Sanders
Lizabeth L. Sklaroff
Class of 1993 (30%)
Robyn Needleman Berman
Rebecca Carr Calvani,
Class Agent
Benjamin Cohen
Lauren Pindzola Courtney
Jonathan H. Feinberg
David E. Fenkel
Andrea Ellman Mirin
Lauren Albert Ravitz
Lauren Schneider Shapiro
Ruba Habtemicael
Lori B. Holden
Peter S. Javian
Rachael Lerner LeMasters
Clio Alexandra Mallin
Evelyn Bricklin Marsh,
Class Agent
Scott E. Newman
Ryan M. Pesin
Rebecca S. Smyrl
Beth S. Truzansky
Hilary Takiff Weiss
Vanessa Zaragocin
Class of 1997 (29%)
Class of 1994 (24%)
Stephen A. Baldi
Joseph Dubb
Michaela McCormick Gravel
Jason T. Green
Betty T. Lam
Julie H. Levison
Daniel B. Price
Anne R. Ross,
Class Agent
Class of 1995 (20%)
Jennifer Briggs,
Class Agent
Jared Grove
Ellen Rink
Andrew Scharff
Rob Tamaccio
Donald Yorkman
Class of 1996 (33%)
Mallory Barg Bulman
Bess M. Collier
Vanessa Duno
Mark Owen Fifer
Megan E. Fifer
Mallory S. E. Floyd
Allison Jacobs Friedmann
Jamie Lynn Garfield
Sarah B. Grafman
Anonymous
Nicholas Dent
Brett R. Dunn
Brian Ellman
Matthew Murphy Garmur
Anne K. Griffith
Laura McKelligott
Ari Moskowitz
Erika Posner
Sondra Rosenberg
Ethan Scherer
Raegen Smith,
Class Agent
Ann Scharff Vernon
Rachael Landis Weatherly
Gail Carter Zuagar
Class of 1998 (25%)
Jeffrey Brody,
Class Agent
Alexa Dunnington
Elizabeth Shinn Hulford
Julia Kang
Molly Mullahy
Elizabeth Wells Oppenheim
Jordan Rubin
Chip Schofield
Daniel Silver
Brendan Tozer
Ross A. Trachtenberg
Matthew Weaver
Class of 1999 (24%)
Sophia Abdullah
Defne Amado
Rimi Chakraborty
Lauren Collier
Margot Conrad
Amy Dunn
Jared Fertman
Benjamin Nussbaum Fogel
Brooke Gassel
Elizabeth Grinspan
Janet Kang
Callie Lytton Carroll
Reza Madani
Latifah McMullin,
Class Agent
Monet Trent
Sara Wasserman
Class of 2000 (17%)
Sallie Garfield
Andrew C. Gilman
Laila Goldberg
Erica Jones
Douglas Mand
James H. McKeogh
Allison Pincus-Jacobs,
Class Agent
Tara Ramchandani
Jessica Rosenberg
Jeremy Ross
Angelina R. Ruffin
Teresa Ryan
Katherine Yulman
Class of 2001 (18%)
Anonymous (3)
Diana Bleakley
Deborah Charamella,
Class Agent
Elizabeth Chernett
Megan Leigh Hutchin
Jessica Phillips
Alexander Rolfe
Carly Robyn Segal
Elizabeth Spector
Ryan Tozer
The Heart of Quaker Works
Young Alumni/ae Giving
Dan Fedder ’08
The emphasis that Friends’ Central placed on community service
from the Lower School to Upper School instilled in me an obligation
to give back to people. The Christopher Campbell Soccer Clinic in
2008 in honor of Chris Campbell ’04 is one event that stands out for
me. It never would have succeeded without the support and resources
of the Friends’ Central community. I learned that it truly takes a
community of dedicated people to make something work, whether
that applies to running a fundraiser, a club in college, or a business.
I think it is very important to give back to a School and community that provided me
with the stability and encouragement necessary to pursue my goals. Because Friends’
Central is extremely diverse both academically and socially, I had the opportunity to
experience programs in music, sports, academics, and community service in equally
meaningful and impactful ways. I try to give to the programs that had significance for
me during my time there, which makes me feel better knowing the direct impact my
donation will have on the school.
I hope our alumni/ae understand that we wouldn’t have had the experiences we had at
Friends’ Central without the generosity of those who came before us. Even though I can’t give
a lot to the school right now, I know that every dollar counts. I am proud of the places from
which I came, and Friends’ Central’s continued and renewed sense of progress makes me
want to support the School in every way that I can. The Vision 2020 plan indicates the School’s
dedication to be the best, and I’m so excited to see where the School will go.
Christiana Tritton
Hakim Warrick
Jill D. Wimmer
Class of 2002 (28%)
Anonymous
William Day Frank
READ DeSabato
Sara Kankowski DeSabato
Daniel DeSouza
Michael Fox
David Samuel Glasser
Jonathan Charles Grinspan
Jeffrey Meyerson
C. Jerome Mopsik
Tanya Johnson Muse
Jason Polykoff
Hanna Muenke Popick
Nicholas Pulos
Stephen Rubin
Rachel Shore
David Gershkoff Slusky,
Class Agent
Alex Sokolov
Peter Viola
Joshua Wasserman
Geoffrey Wertime
Class of 2003 (14%)
Anonymous
Patricia G. Baker
Benjamin Daniels
Blake Emerson
Maya K. Francis
Eli Goldstein
Kristen J. Hart
Larissa Klevan
Joshua Ellis Lindenbaum
Leah Sandals
Jonathan Wegener
Andrew F. White
Keenan Willis
Class of 2004 (21%)
Anonymous
Meeran Ahn,
Class Agent
Jesse Todd Amoroso,
Class Agent
Adam Wolf Axler
Christopher Bleakley
Morgan Day Frank
Clara Elser
Benjamin Hy Friedman
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Alumni/ae Giving
Carly D. Haines
Sarah E. Jacobs
Amy Ludwig
Katherine B. Morris
Richard Pompetti
Laura Rolfe
Lauren Kristen Taylor
Sara Viola
Class of 2005 (17%)
David Aichenbaum
Colin S. Angevine
Natalie Aronson,
Class Agent
Rachel Bradburd
Sarah Brown
Andrea DeSabato
Samuel A. Eisner,
Class Agent
Leah Franqui
Katharine R. Fussner
Shaina Graboyes
Jennifer Greenberg
Benjamin Grinspan
Michael Grinspan
Kylie Hardin
Daniel Kaufman
Lawrence Murray
Class of 2006 (18%)
Jennica Bocchino
Sarah Drew
Dwight Dunston
Galen R. Guindon,
Class Agent
Molly Johnston
David Kline
Karen Lavi,
Class Agent
Ryan J. Levan
Elizabeth Lundy
Zachary Malet
Betsey K. Margolies,
Class Agent
Noelle Nacov
Lise Rahdert
Robert Ricketts
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Benjamin Schutzman
Jaleesa Scott
Class of 2007 (36%)
Anonymous
Catherine Adler-Josem
Joshua Seth Aichenbaum
Samuel Henry Aronson
Sarah Allison Bach
Lindsay Bedford
Dana Pevaroff Berschler
Gabriel Z. Bloomfield
Jordane Blum
Sarah J. Brodsky
Sarah Renae Brown
Samantha Hope Eisenberg
Matthew H. S. Elser
Caroline A. Fenkel
Kathleen E. Fox
Julie Gilbert
Claire Sarah Glass, Class Agent
Jason Goodman
Isiah Lee Hammond
Melissa Ashley Hewson,
Class Agent
Grace B. Honik
Laura Ann Matey,
Class Agent
Eric Jeffrey Nisenbaum
Benjamin Oscar Present
Luke Christopher Pryor
Julie Roberts
David Siegel
Amber Geordei Sims
Maxwell Skolnick
Laura Umbrecht
Class of 2008 (40%)
Thomas M. Bernard
Matthew E. Biron
Katherine Bowker
Sarah Lynne Bradburd
Logan D. Brenner
Matthew Buchwald
Michael William Dohrmann
Lindsey Elkin
Bryan H. Farrar
Daniel Alford Fedder,
Class Agent
Henry A. Friedman
Isabel R. Friedman
James H. Gallagher
Jackson Mayer Greenberg
Julian Guindon
Candice Louise Hardie,
Class Agent
Daniel Joseph Horowitz
Daniel Kessler
Taylor Lee
Thomas Lefevre
Alfonse Mandese
Alexander Eli Mazurek
Hannah Minkoff
Michael Harrison Pasek
Alexy Scanlon Posner
Samuel Propper
Phillip Rosenblum
Anne Kathryn Taylor Sprogell
Samuel Summers
Megan M. Taylor
Alison Turka
Alexander Judge Unkovic
Amber R. Williams
Colin Yarnell
Amanda Zeiger
Class of 2009 (20%)
Anonymous
Daniel S. Abelson
John Russell Armstrong
Anthony C. P. DeCusatis IV
Elisabeth Grace Fifer,
Class Agent
Zachary T. Goldman
Samuel Green
Phoebe Webster Harris,
Class Agent
Christina Hurley
Maxwell Joseph Kaplan
Elizabeth Mitnick
Richard Alan Moses
Michael K. Murray
Eric O’Brien
Emily Rosenblum
Jacob R. Schutzman
Jacob Snider
Jeremy Arthur Stursberg
Natalie Adele Willis
Class of 2010 (24%)
Anonymous
Rebekah Ahn
Molly Alexandra Boschan
Emily M. Brodsky,
Class Agent
Gabriella Capone
Jacquelynne Conyers-Jordan
DeBreea S. Dunston
Benjamin Albertine Filreis
Olivia Gillison
Samantha Lynn Greenberg
Hallie R. Greitzer
Spencer Hewett
Megan Holt,
Class Agent
Susannah Leigh Ivory
Sara R. Matey
Kaitlyn McCaffrey,
Class Agent
Marc Parker
Grace Nicole Pearlman,
Class Agent
Claire Pompetti
Emma Richman
Natasha Sultan
Natasha Peniel Willis
Alexander Franklin Yih
Class of 2011 (15%)
Anonymous
Matthew Block
Jonathan Brandin
David deLeon
Katherine Drebin
Michael W. Fires
Jaime Hyman
Matthew Karliner
Nora Elizabeth Koppelman
Deborah Lee
Ryan McConnell
Daniel H. Segall
Benjamin Yahalomi
Blackburn Society
The Board of Trustees established the Blackburn Society to honor
individuals who have made provisions in their wills or estate plans to
benefit Friends’ Central School. These donors, who have informed
the School of their intentions, have helped provide for the School’s
future through a variety of gift planning vehicles including bequest
intentions, testamentary trusts, life income vehicles such as pooled
income investments, charitable gift annuities, gifts of real estate,
and other deferred gifts. Their vision and wisdom extend beyond
the immediate needs of the School, and their generosity provides a
source of income which the School can depend upon and use to plan
for generations ahead.
Alumni/ae
Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41***
Eric Ash ’89
Annabelle C. Brett ’65
Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54
Helen Starling Burke ’51
Ellen Burr ’46
Diane Bierman Carson ’67
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
Ellen M. Cohen ’88
Andrea G. Cohen ’86
Sally Craig ’61
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Charlotte Pugh Ellithorp ’42
June Singley Evans ’66
Alexander Fetter ’54
*The Estate of Jean-Pierre
Guggenheim
Elizabeth S. Harper ’54
Margaret H. Harper ’36
Karen Johansen and Gardner
Hendrie ’50
Patricia Hibbs ’60
Cinda Buswell Hill ’59***
Francis M. James III ’53
*Susan L. Kaufmann ’56
Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70
Henry W. Lavine ’53
Sarah Price Lindsay Honey ’62
*Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39
Pamela J. Melcher ’61
Margaret G. Mitchell ’35
Gladys Baker Monier ’32***
Jonathon R. Moore ’65
* Deceased
Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51
Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61
Andrew Newcomb ’87
Albert Carter Pottash ’66
William D. Ravdin ’46**
Abby Moyerman Renfroe ’77
Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73
Sue Williams Saul ’44
Joanna Haab Schoff ’51
Nicholas Scull ’60
Joan Lallou Smith ’52
Lucy Christman Statzell ’37*
and Benjamin L. Statzell ’37*
Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57
Leonard Sylk ’59
Winifred Jess Tierney ’53
Bev and Rich Ulmer ’60
Patricia Myers Westine ’57
David G. Wetterholt ’62
Ann Hort Wolfe ’63
Bruce Woodruff ’60
Trustees and
Former Trustees
Peter Arfaa
Adrian Castelli
Stan Cherim ’59
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
Barbara M. Cohen
Deborah Hull
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
*Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39
Hillard Madway
** Pooled Income Fund Participants
The Blackburn Society was named
in honor of Eliza E. Blackburn
‘22 and her family. Their estate
gift helped make possible the
purchase of the Lower School
campus and establish the Blackburn
Enhancement, a salary supplement
given to teachers each December.
If you would like to inform us of your intention to include Friends’
Central School in your estate plans, or would like information about
ways in which you can make planned gifts to Friends’ Central,
please call Lydia Martin, Director of Development, at 610.645.5043
or email her at [email protected]
Buddy Newman
George L. Pew
William D. Ravdin ’46**
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Joanna Haab Schoff ’51
Koji Shimada
Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 and
John Rooney
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Lynne and Donald V. Selkow
Barbara A. Willis
Vera and Murray Wilson
Friends
Faculty and
Former Faculty
Marla Hamilton Peele
Kim Shimada
Ruth Tanur
Beverly Ulmer
Current Parents and
Parents of Alumni/ae
Anne and Peter Arfaa
Grant Calder
Barbara M. Cohen
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Colette and Michel
Guggenheim
Deborah and T. Regan Hull
Carolyn Klock and George
McCook
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
Janet and Hillard Madway
Sara L. Matthews and
Raymond J. Fabius
Judith and Bernard Newman
Marla Hamilton Peele
Sally and George L. Pew
William D. Ravdin ’46**
William W. Bower
Grant Calder
Solveig and Stan Cherim
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
Sara L. Matthews and
Raymond J. Fabius
David M. Felsen
Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70
Julia Beyer Houpt and
John Kralovec
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57
*** Charitable Gift Annuitants
Annual Report of Gifts 2010-2011
2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Parent Giving
Class of 2012 (99%)
Anonymous (4)
John Abramson
Marta and Robert Adelson
Susan Albertine
Michelle and Michael Apkon
Mary Ellen Balchunis
Gretchen B. and
Robert D. Bedford
Sherri and Laurence Belkoff,
Class Agent
Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich
Susan and John Bowie
Nancy and Paul Bray
Carrie and David Brodsky
Carolyn Cambor
Patricia and
Benedict Cartafalsa
Silvia and Mark Chapkovich
Audrey and George Clothier
Brigitte and Robert Cooperman
Sara and Allan Crimm
Louise Culver and
Jeffrey Hurwitz
Beth and David Dahle
Barbara Haber and
Jonathan Flick
Joy Halpern
Randi and John Harris
Ruth and Richard Horowitz
Amy and Franz Hueber
Chloette and Richard Jennings
Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim
Andrew Kronfeld
Christine Laine and
David Weinberg
Cindy Landis
Alexandra Langendorfer and
Thomas Pickard
Maria and Don Lucoff
Stephanie McCurry and
Steven Hahn
Regina Mickie-Chalmus and
Eric Chalmus
Sara and Jay Minkoff
Laura and Mark Mulholland
Valarie and Major Everett,
Class Agent
Malcolm J. Musgrove
Heather Hudgins Exley and
Eric Exley
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Susan Gay and
Jonathan Andrews
Friends’ Central School
Overall Parent
Participation:
86%
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Gloria Easley
Alan Filreis
$497,538
Pamela Lethbridge and
Theodore Simon
Melinda and Jacques deLisle
Randi and Rick I. Feld
Total Raised by
Current Parents:
Dorothy and Kevin Lee
Barbara Matteucci and
John Rizzo
H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and
Leigh Bergmann
562
Beverly and John Keith
Phyllis Dennery and
Gregory Mundy
Rochelle M. Fedullo and
William P. Fedullo
Total Donors:
Shirley Jones-Shakur,
Class Agent
Marcia and
Sarah Martinez-Helfman
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss,
Class Agent
G i v ing
Robin Goldberg-Glen and
Jeffrey Glen
Doris Davis-Whitely
Amy Cooperberg DiLuca ’78
and Anthony DiLuca,
Class Agent
78
Mary Jean Gazzara-Pawley
and Kevin Pawley
Current Parents
Hisano and Yuji Nakata
Jonathan Newman
John Norcini
Karen and Felix Penzarella
Carmen Peraita and
Robert DeFina
Camilla Pharamond and
Michael Gehring
Martin D. Phillips
Mae and Minh Phuong
Honor Roll
Top 5
Participation:
2012............................. 99%
2021............................. 92%
2014 and 2025............. 91%
2013 and 2019............. 89%
2018............................. 87%
Phoenix athletics is an important component of the FCS community, in which hard work is rewarded with opportunity.
Barbara Porter and
Stephen Yarnell
Jacqueline and Eric Stern
Montez Price-Shell and
Brandon Shell
Helena and Eric Sultan
Jennifer J. and
Noel C. Archard
Sharon and David Taffet
Laura and John Armstrong
Claudia Ferran and
James Banko
Lynn E. Teller and
Frances R. and
Frederic A. Beckley
Rani and Mark Fogel
Jeannine and
William Bedford
Robert Folwell ’80
Pedro Rangel
Penny and Maury Reiter
Sheri Cozen Resnik ’81 and
Kenneth Resnik
Robyn Richmond and
Lloyd Guindon,
Class Agent
Barbara C. and
James E. Roddy
Frederick Villars
Cindy and Bill Torres,
Class Agent
Maria Valdez
Emily Vener-Giszter and
Simon Giszter
Erika Waginger-Goldberg and
Barry I. Goldberg
Joan and Tim Roll
Nina Weisbord ’78
Madge Rothenberg and
Peter Brodfuehrer
Lucy and Erik Williams
Patricia and
Claude Schoenberg
Colleen and John Zaccaria
Susan and Lloyd M. Wirshba
Sandrine and Edward
Schoenfeld
Class of 2013 (89%)
Amy and Carl Shaw
Anonymous
Judy Shea
Patricia Andrade and
Beny Parnes
Paula Singer and
Howard Kaufold
Jessica and David Solomon
Susanne and
Michael Andrews ’78
Neil Faggen
Aqueelah Folwell
Ellan and Leonard Bernstein
Ellen and David Frank
Karen Black and
Peter Bessen
Mary and Michael Furey
Michele V. and
Jeffrey F. Brotman
Rebecca A. Butterfield and
Guy A. Laren
Kim and Bart Cassidy
Nancy and William Cassidy
Yvette P. and Walter A. Clay
Elaine and Everett Gillison,
Class Agent
Tamara Goldman and
Marc Epstein
Michele and Jeffrey Harris
Dianne and John Heard
Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt
Susan and Paul Clough ’82
Susan and Richard Holt
Marguerite and
Matthew Cooper
Noreen D. Howard and
Daniel Diadul
Maryann Cormier
Leigh Jackson and
Mary Ann and
Robert McCord
Anthony DeCusatis
Mercedes Jacobson and
Eric Greenblatt
Amy and John Estey
Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012
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80
Friends’ Central School
Cynthia Jobe and Sean Goggins
Judith Kiesel and
Michael Bolotsky
Momoko A. Kishimoto and
Frank R. Borchert
Debra and David Kornblatt
Amy and Samuel Kratchman
Andrew Kronfeld
Sun Hee Lee and
Sarto Schickel
Deborah Leibel and
Fred Goodman
Louise Krasniewicz and
Richard M. Leventhal
Elena and Ken Levitan
Lisa and Anthony LoGiurato IV
DeeDee B. and
Marcos R. Lopez
Julie Low and Gilbert Block
Charlene Lu and Michael Zhao
Paula Luckring
Lorna Lynn and
Harold Palevsky,
Class Agent
Catherine Marshall and
Michael Pedrick
Ilene and Joseph McCaffrey
Theresa M. McLaughlinZerbe and John A. Zerbe
Maureen McVail
William McVail
Diane Merry and
Steve Fakharzadeh
Nancy Nghiem and
Edward Nguyen
Memory and Samson Njanike
Laura Novo and
Stephen Chawaga
Elizabeth and Craig Owens
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Amy B. and Jeffrey D.
Petersohn
Maryam and Robert Phillips
Zea G. and David E. Piver
Jenni Punt and
Stephen Emerson
Michelle and
Frederick Purnell
Patricia and
Thomas B. K. Ringe III
Anne Robbins and
Craig Lichtman
Beth and David Dahle
Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn
Charlotte B. Roberson
Sarah and Andrew DeMichele
Ann and Paul Rogers
Patricia DeRusso and
Christopher Forrest
Rosina S. Miller and
James P. Gilroy
Brahmani Ross
Lisa and Don Dissinger
Norman Ross
Mary and Thomas Donovan
Katherine Rowe and
Bruce Jacobson
H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and Leigh
Bergmann
Kathleen A. and Robert V. Nardi
Sharlene Ferrin
Hue and Hoang Nguyen
Brian E. Fischer
Catherine and
Steven Nierenberg
Julia Rudolph and
Matthew Adler
Jay D. Seid
Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and
Mark-Alan D. Pizzini
Cindy and Mike Silver
Soma G. Simon
Jill and Stephen Ginsberg
Savita and Vijay Singh
Barbara Haber and
Jonathan Flick
Jessica and David Solomon
Susan and Edward Stadtmauer
Amy and Randy Stein
Beth and Frank Tedesco
Theresa and Daniel Vickery
Cristina Neilson
Harry Neilson III
Paola Nogueras
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Maureen and Frank Phillips
Mae and Minh Phuong
Sabitha Pillai and
Michael Friedman
Cynthia Bidart Harris and
Jon Harris
Sherri Pillet
Julie G. and
Brad F. Pogachefsky
Joyce Horikawa ’80 and
Nicholas Torno
Frances Vilella-Velez and
Jeffrey Golan
Amy and Franz Hueber
Rachael H. and Wesley Wei
Amy and Michael Karliner
Anne and Steve Weiss
Mauri C. and
Andrew C. Kassner
Deborah and David Weiss
Catherine and
James Murdock ’73
Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur
Patricia R. and
Sidney W. Gilford,
Class Agent
Marcy and Robert Shoemaker
Fernanda Moore
Christine Red
David Roberts ’83
Brenda Jackson
Sheila D. and Henry D. Rohrer
Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82
and Peter Rosenberg
Paula Williams and
Robert Williamson
Laurie and Steven Katznelson
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
Rina and C.J. Keller,
Class Agent
Dawn Witzel and Peter Lakin
Deborah and Tony Woodbury
Class of 2014 (91%)
Holly and Percy Ayres
Beverly and John Keith
Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and
Jon Rubin ’83
Jennette E. Ruckdeschel
Meg and Peter Saligman
Karen Samuel
Kristin and Todd Kimmell,
Class Agent
Debbie and Ronald Schiller
MaryFran and
David Schlessinger
Robert Kirschner
Susan and Robert Kleiman
Gregory Segall
Erica Bartlett and Richard Shore
Christine Laine and
David Weinberg
Gregory Bashaw
Elena and Ken Levitan
Dana and Jeffrey Berstein
Bonnie and Daniel Linn
Leslie Book
Janet and Samuel Brill
Sonja Beth Lindgren and
John W. Gruber
Meg Boscov and Randy Brown
Lisa and Anthony LoGiurato IV
Linda and David Callans
Clare and Diego Luzuriaga
Terry and Jim Clampffer
Audrey and George Clothier
Jeanne A. Markey and
Gary L. Azorsky
Carolyn Cohen and
Richard Lynn
Lydia Martin and
William P. Kennedy
Robert Cruiess
Erica McCann
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Karen Strickland
Kimberly and
Dominic R. Tarquinio
Ira Thal
Ann L. and Ed Ward
Lucy and Erik Williams
Tracy and Alan Winig
Ruth Worthington and
Edward Johnson
Linda Bell and Lior Yahalomi
Ye Zhang and Xiaohong Xu
Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Parent Giving
Class of 2015 (77%)
Anonyous (3)
Karen Araiza
Peggy Backal and Irwin Balik
Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg
Bernadette and
Robert Bartholomew
Nancy Bentley and Karl Ulrich
Ellan and Leonard Bernstein
Carl Bradley
Beth Burrell and
David Sorensen
Shannon Coleman
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis
Kristin Davitt and Richard Barr
Angela DeMichele and
Robert Gross
Debbie R. and Stephen Dolic,
Class Agent
Christine Dubois-Buxbaum
and Laurence Buxbaum
Lorraine Dugoff and
William Schlaff
Carol Rubin Fishman ’79 and
Charles Fishman,
Class Agent
Amelia Floresta and
Bahman Negahban
Amalia and Tony Franklin
Dwaraka Ganesan
Susan Gay and
Jonathan Andrews
Roberta Geddis and
John Hannon
Elizabeth Goldmuntz and
Frederic Barr
Phyllis Hanson
Kathryn S. Hayward and
Tom MacFarlane
Leigh Jackson and
Robert McCord
Penny and Ronald Joines
Jonathan Kahn
Michelle and
Jonathan Kalman
Young Ok and Doo Hyun Kim
Marianthi Kiriakidou and
Zissimos Mourelatos
82
Friends’ Central School
Helen Levin and
Daniel Stevenson
Suzanne Levy
William Levy
Karen Lewis and Howard Kruger
Elizabeth and David Lorry,
Class Agent
Jessica and Thomas Lynn
Marcie and Jeffrey Marcus
Stephanie McCurry and
Steven Hahn
Dawn and Alexander
McDonnell ’87
Christine McGinley and
Richard Gendelman
Jodi Mindell and
Scott McRobert
Lisa D. and Robert S. Miller
Sharon and David Moolten
Andrea Mosko and
Benjamin Fryer
Samuel and Jennifer Nemroff
Marsha Neifield and
Alan Folkman
Carol Orenstein and
Charles Nichol
Lisa and Anthony Palmieri
Sharon and Harry Pollack
Beth S. and Steven G. Prusky
Sharon Ritt
Suzanne and Matthew Sall
Robin Sheldon and
Gerard Lewis
Douglas Shimell
Leslie K. and Donald L. Siegel
Marjorie Somers and
Frank Silvestry
Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85
Howard Snyder
Jacqueline and Eric Stern
Helena and Eric Sultan
Beth and Frank Tedesco
Carol and Noel Trask ’78,
Class Agent
Cheryl Guzzardo Tuverson ’82
Beth Varcoe and
Roderick Wolfson
Anne and Steve Weiss
Deborah and David Weiss
Mary Ellen and
Drew Weissman
Kris and Christopher Yoo
Class of 2016 (86%)
Anonymous
Alice Amsterdam
Melissa and Paul Anderson
Rebecca and Iain Anderson
Jessica M. Aronfreed and
Roger C. Sealy
Caitlin Bechtel and
David Kalanik
Frances R. and
Frederic A. Beckley
Gretchen B. and
Robert D. Bedford
Wendy Beetlestone and
John Detre
Teresa G. and Chhinder Binning
Leslie Book
Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor
Muge and Kivanc Caglar
Audrey and George Clothier
Susan and Gary S. Cohen
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Louise Culver and
Jeffrey Hurwitz
Catherine and
Ronald P. Dawson
Lisa and Keith deLeon
Lorna and Arnon Dreyfuss
Pamela Duke and Laurent Guy
Kim Emmons-Benjet and
Brian Benjet
Cathy and Jon Fiebach ’82
Aqueelah Folwell
Robert Folwell ’80
Princess and Earl Foster, Sr.,
Class Agent
Mona Ghude and Rajeev Alur
Rebecca and Eric Guenther
Michele and Jeffrey Harris
Catherine C. and
Todd E. Henry
Maria and Mark Herman
Jennifer C. and Lorin M. Hitt
Susan and Richard Holt
Lauri and Leigh Jacobs
Penny and Ronald Joines
Kristin and Todd Kimmell
Brendan Lee
Natalie Lee
Wai Lee
Deborah Leibel and
Fred Goodman
DeeDee B. and
Marcos R. Lopez
Clare and Diego Luzuriaga
Fran and Robert Margulies,
Class Agent
Lydia Martin and
William P. Kennedy
Howard McCabe
Theresa M. McLaughlinZerbe and John A. Zerbe
Felice G. and
James J. McSwiggan,
Class Agent
Maureen McVail
William McVail
Diane Merry and
Steve Fakharzadeh
Marla R. and
Richard P. Milgram
Lynda J. and
Russell B. Mischel
Michelle Narin and
Maurice Schweitzer
John Norcini
Julie H. and Steven Plunkett
Maria and Kenneth Pollack
Michelle and
Frederick Purnell
Beth Randall and
Donald Ringe
Julia G. Raphaely
Russell C. Raphaely
Rita L. Ritsema and
Karl G. Schwabe
Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and
Jon Rubin ’83
Kathleen Reilly and
Michael Nance
Sandrine and
Edward Schoenfeld
Deborah A. Sesok-Pizzini and
Mark-Alan D. Pizzini
Judy Shea
Sherri J. Shields
Traci M Smith
Beth and Craig Snider
Ira Thal
Theresa and Daniel Vickery
Flavia Vogrig and
Robert Gassel ’69
Nancy Andrews and
Robert Schall
Sarah and Andrew DeMichele
Deborah Maraziti
Susanne and
Michael Andrews ’78
Amy and John Estey
Wendy Frame and
Christopher Blackman
Stephanie W. and
William R. B. McCullough
Nicole C. Barnum and
Sophia Lee
Bernadette and
Robert Bartholomew
Christine Baysmore
Fatima and Roger Williams
Jessica and Eric Berger
Eve E. Wollman and
James R. Sperans
Karen Black and
Peter Bessen
Pamela and Marc Zisselman
Class of 2017 (86%)
Meg Boscov and Randy Brown
Sandra Bowman,
Class Agent
Michele V. and
Jeffrey F. Brotman
Sarah Millar and Mark Kahn
Jill and Stephen Ginsberg
Jodi K. and David H. Miller
Jeffrey Goldader
Catherine and
James Murdock ’73
Elizabeth Goldmuntz and
Frederic Barr
Regina Pinotti and
John Shields
Leslie Greenfield
Sharon and Harry Pollack
Kathryn S. Hayward and
Tom MacFarlane
Lori Cozen Rosenberg ’82
and Peter Rosenberg
Barbara and Mark Helpin
Meg and Peter Saligman
Peggy and Dedrick Hervas
Fariha I. Khan and
Michael D. Carey
Debbie and Ronald Schiller,
Class Agent
Wendy Smith and Phillip Annas
Clare L. and Darryle D. Schoepp
Cindy and Cary Anderson,
Class Agent
Andrea and Mark Chesen
Momoko A. Kishimoto and
Frank R. Borchert
Deborah and Frank Correll
Kerri Konik
Cathi Cozen Snyder ’85
LiRon Anderson-Bell and
Glenn Bell
Tara L. Cuda and
Pasquale A. Colavita
Anja Jeferris Levitties ’86 and
Matthew Levitties ’85
Howard Snyder
Anonymous (2)
Maria Sturm and Elliott Shore
The Heart of Quaker Works
Parent Giving
Patrícia Carlos de Andrade (’13)
My son Fernando’s experience at Friends’ Central has been amazing. It is difficult to explain the
transformation that he has been going through during these two years. One of my motivations to
move from Brazil was Fernando’s lack of enthusiasm about his school life in our country, where he
never found a good environment for his interests. The educational system in Brazil is different. The
students sit and listen passively, and as a result, Fernando felt like he was forced to go to a place
he found boring, oppressive, and lonely. This feeling changed completely at FCS, where he felt
welcomed by teachers and peers and flourished as a student and a young man. I will always keep
in my memory his surprise with himself when he discovered that he was missing school for the
first time in his life after last year’s summer vacation.
Friends’ Central gave so much to me and my family that as soon as our financial situation allowed, Fernando’s father, Beny
Parnes, and I felt we should give back. FCS gave me my first lesson about the incredible values that built a country that I love
and admire. It was a lesson of welcoming and generosity.
I moved back to the United States two years ago, but I also lived in the U.S. for five years before Fernando was born. My older
daughter, Helena Bokel was accepted and got a scholarship from FCS in 1988, when I was new to the country as a graduate
student at Penn. The same happened to my second daughter, Luisa Parnes, one year later. They both had the time of their
lives at Friends’ Central. We intend to give back to FCS for as long as we can and are sure that Fernando will do the same.
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84
Friends’ Central School
Kimberly and
Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky
Carolyn and Scot Cohen
Tahira and Tokunbo Adelekan
Dominic R. Tarquinio
Lydia Martin and
William P. Kennedy
Lisa G. and Robert H. Davis
Sabina and Atif Ahmad ’91
Kim Emmons-Benjet and
Brian Benjet
Rebecca and Iain Anderson
H. Marcia FeigenbaumBergmann and
Leslie Book
Terri and Martin Vaughn
Laura and Ricardo Verges
Laurie and J. Scott Victor
Sharon Weiss and David Arnold
Lisa D. and Richard D. Winward
Kris and Christopher Yoo
Lisa Zaoutis
Theoklis E. Zaoutis
Dawn and Alexander
McDonnell ’87
Michelle Narin and
Maurice Schweitzer
Anonymous
Melissa and Paul Anderson
Cari Feiler Bender and
Rodd Bender
Elyse and Max Berger
Betty Brizill
Caroline and Donald Brooks
Floyd Butler
Kim and Bart Cassidy
Harry Neilson III
Michele and Paul Grossman ’87
Heather Osborne and
Vincent Duane
Rebecca and Eric Guenther
Idrees Jones
Russell C. Raphaely
Kelli Jones
Jennifer and Brendan Ratigan
Laura Keen and Trevor Smith
David Roberts ’83
Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and
Brian Gordon
Fariha I. Khan and
Margaret Somerville Roberts ’83
Mignon and Jim Groch
Michael D. Carey
Iliana Robinson and
Gordon Barr
Laura and George Groves
Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83
Kathryn S. Hayward and
Anja Jefferis Levitties ’86 and
Matthew Levitties ’85
Tom MacFarlane
Clare L. and
Darryle D. Schoepp
Maryann Cormier
Jamie Sheller and
Mark Greisiger
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Savita and Vijay Singh
Ellen and Richard Cutshall,
Class Agent
Eve Smith
Howard Smith
Denise and Leroy Cypress
Joy Takahashi and
John Gullace
Paula and Larry Durlofsky
Cathy and Jon Fiebach ’82
Keith Warrick Fletcher
Angela and Gary Greene
Michele and Paul Grossman ’87
Meena and Anil Gupta
Farah and Rahul Kapoor
Karen Lewis and
Howard Kruger
Sonja Beth Lindgren and
John W. Gruber
Elizabeth and David Lorry
Esra Diker-Yilmaz and
Julia G. Raphaely
Sara Volkman Shack ’87 and
Evan Shack
Angela DeMichele and
Robert Gross
Elizabeth Cohen ’83 and
David Whellan
Maria and Kenneth Pollack
Carolyn and Scot Cohen,
Class Agent
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
Sheryl B. and Karl A. Johnson
Denis Cohen
Susan Johntz and David Velinsky,
Class Agent
Renata Cobbs-Fletcher
Donna Davin and
Uriel Kusiatin
Deborah and Anthony Cianfrani
Amy and Ronald Fuchs
Lynn Schuchter and
John Broaddus
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Holly and David R. Brigham
Leigh Bergmann
Cristina Neilson
Karyn and Aaron Polak
Class of 2018 (87%)
Gregory Bashaw
Ami and Jess Lonner
Bilge Yilmaz
Wendy Frame and
Christopher Blackman
Jenifer and Michael Lehrer
Mireia Lizandra and
Eric Smith,
Class Agent
Andrea Mosko and
Benjamin Fryer
Alison and Yaron Netz
Minh T. and Khai Nguyen
Monique Mooney and
Christopher Menen
Catherine and
Steven Nierenberg
Suzi Morrison and
Grant Calder
Elizabeth and Robert Nourian
Michelle Narin and
Maurice Schweitzer
Julie H. and Steven Plunkett
Carol Perloff
Julia Rudolph and
Matthew Adler
Laura and Leonard Rossio,
Class Agent
Meg and Peter Saligman
Lisa and Bradford Sandler
Suzanne and Matthew Sall
Anonymous
Sandrine and
Edward Schoenfeld
Gregory Segall
Tonia and Albert Alwyn
Kathryn and James J. Sheward
Betty Bard and Jay Adelsberg
Marcy and Robert Shoemaker
Robin Sheldon and
Gerard Lewis
Tami Benton-Condiff and
Allessandro Condiff
Helena and Eric Sultan
Class of 2019 (89%)
Jessica and Eric Berger
Leah Brecher-Cohn and
Andrew Cohn,
Class Agent
Chris and Andrew Bruckner
Barbara Burtness and
Israel Mushi
Josephine S. and
Peter H. Callahan
Niku Thomas and
Eric Mitchell
Susan and David Wadsworth
Kate and Michael Wallace
Sherri Apter Wexler and
Lewis Wexler
Jane Schoenborn
Melisande J. Simmering and
Ian B. Wilcox
Beth and Craig Snider
Eve E. Wollman and
James R. Sperans
Leslie and Michael Wollock
Class of 2021 (92%)
Class of 2020 (83%)
Anonymous
Anonymous
Melissa and Paul Anderson
Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Parent Giving
Cari Feiler Bender and
Lara N. and Evan J. Smith
Regina Pinotti and John Shields
Lisa and Bradford Sandler
Rodd Bender
Howard Smith
Lara N. and Evan J. Smith
Keeya Branson-Davis and
Douglas Davis,
Class Agent
Eve Smith
Valeri S. and
Mark H. Riesenfeld
Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall
Meg and Peter Saligman
Joy Takahashi and
Suzanne and Matthew Sall
Class of 2024 (76%)
John Gullace
Jane Schoenborn
Tahira and Tokunbo Adelekan
Nancy Trachtenberg
Patty and Jeffrey Seltzer
Luisa Bovernini and
Emily Vener-Giszter and
Simon Giszter
Wendy Singer-Lowry and
Christopher J. Lowry
Jeffrey Heit
Kate and Michael Wallace
Beth and Craig Snider
Joy Clairmont ’91 and
Max Kaufman ’91
Stephanie H. and
Emma and Gregory Staton
Jeanine and Joel Dankoff
Lawrence D. Ward
Isobel J. Stockdale and
Harry F. Yanowitz
Christina and Joseph Dubb ’94
Jason Warley
Evelyn and Marc Duvivier
Kyle Yates
Danielle and Jay Tapper
Jeffrey Goldader
Stacy L. Thomas
Kathryn J. Griffo and
Sherri Apter Wexler and
Lewis Wexler
Jeffrey L. Schlegel
Eve E. Wollman and
James R. Sperans
Carrie L. Harcus and
Ray S. Jaffe
Debbie J. and Young Rak Choi
Christine E. Coburn and
Anne E. Kazak
Alison and Scott Cook-Sather
Catherine Corson and
Charles McCammon
Donna Davin and
Uriel Kusiatin
Mika and Allen Epps
Eve and Michael Galvin
Gayle G. and
George M. Gowen
Kathryn J. Griffo and
Jeffrey L. Schlegel
Naomi Haas and Peter O’Dwyer
Heather Schwartz Hebert ’85
and John Hebert
Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy
Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis
Ami and Jess Lonner
Joni R. Marcus and
Edward F. Greves
Dawn and
Alexander McDonnell ’87
Tracy Mills and Kent Julye
Alison and Yaron Netz
Andrea C. Nuneviller and
Jess H. Lord
Heather Osborne and
Vincent Duane
Chris Ozbun and
William Darling
Nancy Peterson and
Michael Gross
Sharon Popik and
Kevin Fosnocht
Montez Price-Shell and
Brandon Shell
Lauren Becker Rubin ’83 and
Jon Rubin ’83
86
Class of 2022 (77%)
Tonia and Albert Alwyn
Jessica and Eric Berger
Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza
Valerie and Leon Hawes
Christina and Joseph Dubb ’94
Evelyn and Marc Duvivier,
Class Agent
Class of 2023 (76%)
Michelle K. and
Elizabeth Cohen ’87 and
David Whellan
Jeffrey L. Eichen
Ashley M. and Adam W. Fox
A. Christine GiorganoSchoenwandt and Tobias
Schoenwandt
Jeffrey Goldader
Nora Jones and Pedro Sanoja
Kimberly and Clayton Justice
Shami and Anand M. Kini
Rebecca and Eric Guenther
Anonymous
Catherine Corson and
Charles McCammon
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Michelle and Daniel Crowley
Donna Davin and
Uriel Kusiatin,
Class Agent
Grace Hsu and Edward Fox
Kristina and Michael Kallam
Laedoan Y. and Terrence Lewis
Priscilla M. and John N. Lukens
Deborah Maraziti
Michelle Morrison
Sharon Palmieri Morsa and
Louis Morsa,
Class Agent
Margaret O’Sullivan and
Ciaran Roche
Dawn and Julian Ovalle
Lori M. Koch and
Susan Dreher ’87 and
Mark Wheeler
Samuel H. Israel
Keiji and Narumi Furuuchi
Patty and Jeffrey Seltzer
Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman
A. Christine GiorganoSchoenwandt and
Wendy Singer-Lowry and
Christopher J. Lowry
Tobias Schoenwandt
Emma and Gregory Staton
Paige W. Macfarlan and
Jonathan M. Kopcsik
Deborah Maraziti
Julie and Rohan Gopalani
Iris Melendez and Henry R
Adamczyk, Jr.
Kimberly Gross
Monique Mooney and
Christopher Menen
Idrees Jones
Michele and Paul Grossman ’87
Kathleen and David Porter
Amy Steerman and
Mary Ann Stover
Joyce D. and Idris S. Stovall,
Class Agent
Kelli Jones
Jennifer Vollmer and
David Copas
Susan and James McCoy
Kate and Michael Wallace
Ann and Aaron Selkow ’88
Marianthi Kiriakidou and
Zissimos Mourelatos
Jamie Sheller and
Mark Greisiger
Elizabeth and Robert Nourian
Shemaiah Murphy
Michelle and Andrew B. Olson
Jana Norris and Steven Cole
Stephanie H. and
Lawrence D. Ward
Kathryn and
James J. Sheward
Margaret O’Sullivan and
Ciaran Roche
Mary Claire O’Mara and
Corrie Mitchell ’85
Melinda Yin and
Scott Reynolds
Friends’ Central School
Eleanora Baird
The Heart of Quaker Works
Parent Giving and Volunteering
John E. Balson ’52
Madeline and Richard Baron
Mary and Marshall Bassett
Debbie Dolic (’15)
Joan and Eric Beckwith
One reason that Annual Giving is so important to the School is
that it helps fulfill Friends’ Central’s commitment to economic
diversity. The School opens its doors and generously accepts
students with natural aptitude and skills who need financial
resources to make their academic experience achievable. That
is why I volunteer to be a Phonathon caller and why I joined the
Auction Committee. The Phonathon is an awesome way to meet
and greet families, create friends, and help the FCS community.
It’s the gift that keeps giving. You give today and your return on
Debbie and Steven Dolic (’15)
investment will be tenfold. Acts of kindness and generosity are
like a boomerang … they always come back. I work the Phonathon
with my sister Shirley Jones-Shakur [’09, ’12]. All the members of the Phonathon team bring
an abundance of high energy when we are together. I hope the parents that I call can hear
the smile on my face when I talk to them about Friends’ Central!
Lori Epstein Bendesky ’80
and Larry Bendesky
Barbara and Robert Behar
My daughter’s [Ivana-Ajee Dolic ’15] experience at Friends’ Central has been phenomenal.
What stands out for me are the critical thinking methodology that is taught and the
nourishing environment she feels in all aspects of the school. Knowing that Friends’
Central has our daughter’s best interest at heart, as well as keeping her safe, mean the
world to us. Friends’ Central is a great fit for our daughter. She absolutely loves it!
Denise and Lout Benrahou
Beth Berman
Liza Jane and Thomas Bernard
Janice and Seymour Berrian
Karen and
Russell M. Bleakley ’67
Valerie and Fred Block
Peter Bloomfield
Susan Bodley and Brad Morris
Janet and Jeffrey Bowker
Trina and Keith Bradburd
Carrie and David Brodsky
Jill Eiseman Bronson ’71 and
Glenn Bronson
Mari Ann and
Christopher Campbell
Janice and Vincent Cappelli
Salvatore Carfagno
Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62
Wei-Chen and Chang Chen
Class of 2025 (91%)
Kelly and Daniel Brown
Kathryn and Edwin Davison
Willa G. and Marc P. DeSouza
Brooke Devenney-Cakir and
Saffet Cakir
Mignon and Jim Groch
Valorie Haves
Heather Schwartz Hebert ’85
and John Hebert
Deborah E. and Brian K. Hoppy
Farah and Rahul Kapoor
Linda Kloss and
Marcelo Sanchez
Julie B. and Erik T. Lederman
Yvonne M. and
Ryan A. McKenzie
Iris Melendez and
Henry R Adamczyk, Jr.
Tanya Johnson Muse ’02 and
Omar Muse
Andrea C. Nuneviller and
Jess H. Lord
Nancy Peterson and
Michael Gross
Kathleen Richards and
Michael Romanosky
Denise Sabatino and
Padraig Barry
Jane and Bentley M. Saul
Kathryn and James J. Sheward
Jessamyne Simon and
Gabriel Tatarian
Lisa D’Orazio and
James Lowther
Barbara M. Cohen
Nelly and Jorge Colapinto
Bethanne Fox and
Brendon Shank
Kathy Coleman-Martin
Amy and Matthew McDonald
Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57
Jane and Bentley M. Saul
Mary Louise Craig ’47
Emma and Gregory Staton
Cinda Crane and Jack Briggs
Julie and Daniel Van Duzer
Elaine and Michael Crauderueff
Melinda Yin and
Scott Reynolds
Mary Ann Crawford and
Brett Skolnick
Michele and David Zuckman
Alice Hess Crowell ’46
Legacy Parents
Dorothy Coleman Dangerfield ’43
Anne and Andrew Abel
and Benjamin Dangerfield
Class of 2026 (67%)
Robin and Barry Abelson
Nancy Davis
Joy Clairmont ’91 and
Max Kaufman ’91
Jennifer and Caleb Cross
Jorge Arauz
Louis DelSoldo
Barbara and Ted Aronson
Donald Denton
Sandy and David Axelrod
Pat and Raymond DeSabato
Vida and Burton Cooperberg
Mary K. Dabney and
James C. Wright
June and Fred Dohrmann
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Legacy Parent & Grandparent Giving
Ross Donolow ’73
Kathy and Jerry Drew
Ginny Duerr
Pamela R. and
Kenneth B. Dunn
Melissa Eastman
Brenda and David Elkin
Meryweather and Clinton Ely
Abigail First Farber ’55
Christa and William Farnon
Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79 and
Michael Fedder
Daphne and James Fell
Betsy and Bob Fiebach
Jacqueline Fields ’61
Ginger and Mark Fifer
Deborah Fleisher and
Stephen Starr
Sari and Ethan Fogel
Elizabeth W. Fox
Michael Fox
Anne Francois and
Marc Lazard
Jane and Matthew Frankel
Jean and Carl Fridy
Christina and David Fryman
Christine Young Gaspar ’70
and Alfred Gaspar
Kay and James Gentile
Susan and Peter Gilman
Lynne and Steven Glasser
Amy and James Goldman
Susan Schwartz Goodrich ’65
Diane and Rick Graboyes
Patricia Green and
Gary Horowitz
Paula Yudenfriend Green and
Arlin Green
Helaine and Jack Greenberg
Judy and Ed Grinspan
Nancy and Peter Grove
Terry and Paul Guerin
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Hamerman
Kendell Hardy
Erika and Gerald Harnett
Gwen J. Hauser
Susanna R. and
Warren J. Hauser
88
Friends’ Central School
Mary Hediger and
George Weaver
Mary and Joseph Ludwig ’69
Grace and Charles Heising
M. Robin Maddox and
Ralph Luongo
Paulina and Byron Hewett
Catherine and Michael Malloy
Patty and Ted Hewson
Flo and Alan W. Margolis
Miiko and Herbert Horikawa
Irene and Bruce Marks
Emanuel Hudock ’52
Claire C. Marsh and
Stephen Freed
Deborah and T. Regan Hull
Susan and Douglas E. Hyman ’79
Karen and Philip Ivory
Sonia Jaipaul and
Charles Wardlaw
Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56
Anabel Johns
Beth Davis Johnson ’77 and
Martin Johnson
Cathleen Judge and
David Unkovic
Gertrude P. Marshall
Sara L. Matthews and
Raymond J. Fabius
R. Sandra Latshaw McCarthy ’59
Holly and David McCloskey
Marian and
Alexander McDonnell
Denise and Robert McIvor
Joanna and F. Arthur McMorris
Emilie and Edward McVey
Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson
Richard A. Melaragni
Diane Karp
Barbara and Nicholas Meyer
Rosalind and Alan Kaufman
Salli Mickelberg
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Keller
Norma and Bruce Miller ’55
Joan Mazzotti and Michael Kelly
Gail and Alan Kessler
Shelly Kessler and John Farrar
Shahnaz and Mehdi Keykhah
Kathleen M. and Albert W. Klein
Richard B. Klein ’57
Nancy Kleinberg
Carolyn Klock and
George McCook
Jane Koppelman
Brian S. Kunz ’67
Marilyn and Eric Lager
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Middy Minster Larson ’55
Mary and Lance Laver
Susan Lea and Edward Frank
Susan and Jay Miller
Andrea Cantor Moses
Bridget Murnaghan and
Hugh Gordon
Rosemary and James Murphy
Sara Nerken and
Robert Karpinski
Judy and Buddy Newman
Sylvia and Harvey Nisenbaum
Diane Nissen and Jerry Gollub
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
and Robert Weinberg
Marian and Larry Pearlman
Alice Legge Penza ’36
Judith and Bryan B. Pokras ’57
Doris and Harold Polan
Lonnie and Murray S. Levin
Stacey Polan ’71 and
Richard Kaufman
Marvin B. Levitties
Jane Pompetti
Linn and Douglas Linton ’68
Gerald and Judy Porter
Pat and Jim Lobb
Marianne Price
Hao-Li and Evan Loh
Helen and David B. Pudlin
Rosemary and G. Craig Lord
Evelyn P. Rader
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
Joan and Brad Rainer
Jane Cubberly Luce ’68 and
Eric Luce
Christine Ramsey and
Andrew Fussner
Virginia Rauh and
Rollin Gallagher
William D. Ravdin ’46
Margery and Raymond Reed
Daniel Rink
Susan and Harvey Robbins
Mary Roberts
Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 and
John Rooney
Sidney Rosenblatt
Penny and Fred Rosenblum
Jerilynn and Doug Ross
Marsha and Richard Rothman
Sheila Royal-Moses and
Richard A. Moses ’77
Susan and Joel Rubin
Cindy and Stephen Ruzansky
Marie and Bruce Satalof
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Michele Scanlon and
Gary Nicolai
Deena and Thomas Schneider
Charlotte and
Daniel Schutzman
Hannah and Merrill Schwartz
Angela Scully and
George Elser
Joseph Seitchik
Linda and Gerry Senker
Edward O. Shakespeare
Kathy Shaw and
Benjamin Green
Sharon and Joseph Shelanski
Susan Shilcrat and
Harry Mazurek
Ellen Siegel and
Richard Wallace
Kathleen and
John A. Simkiss, Jr.
Bunny Slepin
Raquel and Alphonso Smith
Wendy and Larry Steinberg
Patricia and Jeffrey Swigart
Jean and Italo Taranta
Michi Tashjian
Rebecca Taub and
Paul Friedman
Kathy Taylor and
Jonathan Sprogell
Yvette and Darrell Thomas
Barbara M. Cohen
Kathleen and Peter Tozer
Gloria and A. R. Condiff
Jean and Frank Tracy
Charlotte and Bud Cook
Naomi and Adrian Tschoegl
Vida and Burton Cooperberg
Sally and Adelbert Tweedie
Jeannie and Timothy Coss
Anne and Richard Umbrecht
Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57
Sheila and Akhil Vaidya
Rosane Dahle
Thomas Murphy
Betsey and Gregg VanGundy
Cynthia Dayton and
William Humenuk
Miriam and Ezat Negahban
Bernice and Martin Neifield
Linda Waxman Wasserman
’75 and Dennis Wasserman
Anne DeLay
Judy and Buddy Newman
Marianne and John Devenney
Estelle and Gerald Palevsky
Ronald Waxman
Bunni and Jeff Feingold
Santi Pizzini
Lyn Weinberg and
Mark Moskowitz
Betsy and Bob Fiebach
Sandra and Bruce Vermeychuk
Margie and Bryan Weingarten
Norma Weiser
Cathy Weiss
Richard Wertime
Debra Will and David Thomas
Priscilla and David Williams ’69
Barbara A. Willis
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
Wendy Wolf
Patricia Wood
Pam and Don Yih
Mary Lee and John T. Young
Melanie and James A. Yulman
Martin Zeldin
Sybille Zeldin
Regina and Robert Ziffer
Joan Fowler
Elizabeth W. Fox
Liselotte Freed
R. and K. Ganesan
Ed Gardiner
Sophie and Tom Gibson
Carole and John Gilbert
Jeanette S. Gillison
Ricki and Mel Greenblatt
Abby and Ed Grinberg
Stanley Hahn
Fonda Hartman
Linda and Ivan Inerfeld
Aeolian Jackson
Sibylle and Raymond Jefferis ’56
Joyce J. Jones
Lois and Ivan Kauffman
Judy and Jerry Kessel
Marian and
Alexander McDonnell
William W. Bower
Carol Millinghausen
Janet Bowker
John Bowie
Katherine and Robert Mitchell
Roberta Mitchell
Keith Bradburd
Carl Bradley
Elizabeth Morgan
Jack Briggs
Carrie Brodsky
Keith Buckingham
Grant Calder
Maura Caldwell
Kathleen Canaris
Richard Case
Sonya Pollack
Jebb Chagan
Marianne and
Russell C. Raphaely
Deanna S. Ciarrocchi
Arnie Riisen
Anna Marie Ciglinsky
Mary Roberts
Susan Clough
Miriam Rothenberg
Nelly Colapinto
Alice Saligman
Frank E. Cooney
Joan and Hyman Sall
Michael Crauderueff
Selma and Samuel Savitz
Daniel Crowley
Eleanor and James Shaw
Michelle Crowley
Stelle Sheller
Joel Dankoff
Patty and Frederick Smith
William Darling
Toby and Morton Soffer
Cheryl Davis
Ronnie and Bob Somers
James F. Davis
Doris and Seymour Stadtmauer
Kathryn Davison
Penelope and Gerald Stiebel
Catherine Dawson
Laurel and Gael Ulrich
Donald Denton
Maggie and Alan Vickery
Patricia DeSabato
Tana and Michael Wall
Sally and Leonard Weiss
Raymond DeSabato
READ DeSabato ’02
Grandparents
Sandra Kuby
Anonymous
Alma and Edwin Lakin
Madlyn and Leonard
Abramson
Eleanor M. and
Robert Leventhal
Nina Allen
Marvin B. Levitties
Faculty and Staff
Ashley Altman
Janet Levy
Anonymous (4)
Elizabeth Anderson
Diana and Gerry Lewis
Iain Anderson
Judy Andrews
Barbara and Morris Longstreth
Colin S. Angevine ’05
Liza Ewen
Pat and Phillip Annas
Lucile Lynn
Phillip Annas
Heather Hudgins Exley
Helene and Allen Apter
Pat and Charles Maraziti
Amanda Ball
Cathy Fiebach
Sandy and David Axelrod
Ronnie and Lawrence Margel
Padraig Barry
Ginger Fifer
Barbara and Joe Bentley
Anne Martin
Kyle Beatty
Mark Fifer
Rosemary Matthews
Barbara Behar
Frank Fisher
Joan Henley Mattoon ’50 and
Peter Mattoon
Diana Bleakley ’01
Cristina Fitzpatrick
Karen Bleakley
Robert Folwell ’80
Shirley and
Seymour Bernstein
Debbie and Alan E. Casnoff ’62
Elaine and Frank Wright
Jo and John Zaccaria
Stephanie Dolores
Steven J. Dolores
Thomas Donovan
Lisa D’Orazio
Joseph Dubb ’94
Alexa Dunnington ’98
Annual Report of Gifts 2011-2012
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
90
Daniel Gale
Brad Morris
Ross A. Trachtenberg ’98
Anne Dufour Clouser ’50
Glenn A. Gale
Sharon Palmieri Morsa
Kaz Uyehara
Elaine Crauderueff
Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81
Nina Morton
Mary-Chilton Van Hees
Louis DelSoldo
Jacqueline Gowen-Tolcott
Tanya Johnson Muse ’02
Alfred T. Vernacchio, Jr.
Christopher Dorrance
Leslie Grace
Cristina Neilson
Jason Warley
Clinton Ely
Mary H. Gregg
Jennifer Nemroff
Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75
Robert Emory
Peter Grove
Latonya P. Nesmith-Carter
Joshua Weisgrau
Louise Evans
John W. Gruber
Gary Nicolai
Hilary Takiff Weiss ’96
Sara L. Matthews
Rebecca Guenther
Laura Novo
Dwayne A. Wilkerson
Deborah Peltz Fedder ’79
Terry Guerin
Steve Oster
Debra Will
Michael Fedder
Christopher Guides
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Erik Williams
David M. Felsen
Galen R. Guindon ’06
Dawn Ovalle
Sammie Wilson
Mark Owen Fifer ’96
Laura Bell Haimm
Julian Ovalle
Pam Yih
Laura J. Forman ’91
Phyllis Hanson
Kim Parris
Melinda Yin
Wendy Frame
Erika Harnett
Steve Patterson
Melanie Yulman
Matthew Murphy Garmur ’97
Cynthia Bidart Harris
Monica A. Peterson
Regina Ziffer
Kay and James Gentile
Joanne P. Hoffman
Marian Petrarca
Michele Zuckman
Mac F. Given
Mary Lynne Jeschke
Julie H. Plunkett
Beth Davis Johnson ’77
Jason Polykoff ’02
Deborah M. Jones
Jane Pompetti
Kristina Kallam
Joan Raina
William P. Kennedy
Brian Ramsey
Marilyn Lager
Christine Ramsey
Janice Leavy
Ken Reynolds
Douglas Linton ’68
Robyn Richmond
Linn Linton
Margaret S. Roberts ’83
Laurie S. Lubking
John Rogers
Joseph Ludwig ’69
Sheila D. Rohrer
Priscilla M. Lukens
Chris Rosenbaum
Diego Luzuriaga
Penny Rosenblum
Tom MacFarlane
Doug Ross
Jim Mack
Michael Russo
Karen Manker
Cristina Sabaj Perez
Lisa McInally Mansure
Katharine Pidot
Jerry Mapp
Megan Schumacher
Deborah Maraziti
Peter Seidel
Lydia Martin
Antonia R. Sharp
Caroline Maw-Deis
Gary Smith
Jody Mayer
Maria Alejandra Socorro
Dottie Mazullo
Harry Stead
Christopher McCann
Stephanie Storm
Former Faculty and Staff
Evelyn P. Rader
Holly McCloskey
Beth Tedesco
Richard H. Beyer
Stephen Ruzansky
Alexander McDonnell ’87
Keino Terrell
Rachel Bradburd ’05
Ann V. Satterthwaite
Linda Kent McConnell
Darrell Thomas
Sara Callaghan
Aaron Selkow ’88
James H. McKeogh ’00
David Thomas
Louise Christopher
Edward O. Shakespeare
Alex Miller
Mary Fran Torpey
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
John Shaw ’74
Friends’ Central School
Timothy Golding
Former Trustees
Anonymous
Marta and Robert Adelson
Barbara and Ted Aronson
Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59
Sandy and Stephen Cozen ’57
Ruth Stubbs Denlinger ’55
Nancy Fitts Donaldson ’43
Jean Farquhar ’70
Sally R. Harrison
Samuel F. Howe ’71
Laura Jackson ’65
Nancy and Franklyn S. Judson
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Lonnie and Murray S. Levin
Lincoln Meyers ’80
Judy and Buddy Newman
William D. Ravdin ’46
Kimiko and Koji Shimada
Dickson Werner ’41
Leonard Haas ’76
Robert W. Hallett
Kendell Hardy
Miiko Horikawa
Samuel F. Howe ’71
Juan Jewell ’68
Carolyn O. Kendall
Casper J. Knight III
Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70
Elizabeth Kolb ’86
Connie Burgess Lanzl ’68
John P. Louchheim
Michael Mersky ’72
Suzi Morrison
Richard A. Moses ’77
James Murray
David A. Niles ’82
Elizabeth Osborne ’54
George Peterson III
Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard ’87
Joel F. W. Price
Nicholas Pulos ’02
The arts is celebrated at Friends’ Central, as the School believes that creativity gives children a unique advantage. Friends’ Central cultivates creativity in every aspect
of the curriculum.
Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57
Jean Taranta
Michi Tashjian
Meade B. Thayer
Mary Herbert Trapnell
Naomi Tschoegl
Betsey VanGundy
Joshua Wasserman ’02
Carolyne and Rodney Willis ’77
Mary Lee Young
Erica Zimmerman ’85
Friends
Kathleen K. and H. Jay Bellwoar
Diane De Mille
Sandra Derr
Louis and Gloria F. La Noce
Kathryn Furey
Viola Geiger
Louise and Joseph Huber
Jean Kornfeld
Adrienne and George Martin
James Mellor, Jr.
Gregg Miller
Carol Millinghausen
Eleanor Rankin
Alan Scharfstein
Amy and Robert Silverman
Carol and Fred Tompkins
Foundations and
Matching Gift Companies
Anonymous (3)
The Abramson Family
Foundation
Advantage Industrial Supply
Ally Bank
Arader Tree Service
Archway Press, Inc.
Armstrong, Doyle, Carroll
BlackRock Matching Gift
Program
Calvin H. Rankin, Jr. ’43 Fund
Cameron Memorial Fund
Campbell Soup Company
Central Philadelphia
Monthly Meeting
Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn
Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation
Doyle & McDonnell, PC
E. & M. Construction Company
Edison International
Education Facility
Management, LLCLLC
Edwin S. Webster Foundation
Fidelity Investment
Charitable Gift Fund
The Friedman/Taub
Charitable Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
The Glenmede Trust Company
Google, Inc.
The Green Foundation
Haines Landscaping
Service, Inc.
Harweb Foundation
HEITS Building Service
Houghton Mifflin Company
Japanese Language School
Jeds Foundation
Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia
Just Give
Kassabaum Family
Charitable Trust
Lankenau Hospital
The Levitties Foundation
LM Charitable Gift Trust
Lopez-Lieberman
Philanthropic Fund
Magnolia Plantation &
Gardens Family Foundation
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Unrestricted Annual Giving
Gifts in Memory & Gifts in Honor
Thematic learning, like last year’s Lower School focus on Water, provides a wonderful way to teach critical 21st century
skills through a rich cross-curricular course of study.
McDonalds Corporation
Mechanical Solutions
Associates, LLCLLC
Merck Partnership for Giving
MKM Foundation
Morgan Stanley Matching
Gifts Program
Natural Gardens & Lawns, Inc.
Network For Good
New York Painters’ Supply Co.
Newman & Company
Oracle Matching Gifts Program
PepsiCo Foundation
Pfizer Foundation
The Philadelphia Foundation
PJM Interconnection
PNC
Bank Foundation
Prime Buchholz & Associates
Princeton Area Community
Foundation
Qyst
Rothman Family Foundation
Schweitzer Engineering
Laboratories, Inc.
The Simkiss Family
Foundation
Site Engineering Concepts
Sodexo, Inc.
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Sprague Foundation, Inc.
Subaru of America
Foundation, Inc.
Time Warner Matching
Gifts Program
Top-A-Court Tennis Company
12th Street Catering
United Way of Delaware
Valley Press, Inc.
van Beuren Charitable
Foundation
Vanguard Charitable
Endowment Program
Vanguard Group, Inc.
Wells Fargo Community
Support Campaign
Wells Fargo Educational
Matching Gift Program
Wyncote Foundation
The Zeldin Family Foundation
Thank-you Gifts in Honor
of Teachers
Anonymous
Jessica and Eric Berger
Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor
Kelly and Daniel Brown
Keith Buckingham
Josephine S. and
Peter H. Callahan
Joy P. Clairmont ’91 and
Max Kaufman
Christine E. Coburn and
Anne E. Kazak
Benjamin ’93 and Ruthi Cohen
Carolyn and Scot Cohen
Jessica and Christopher Coss
Jeanine and Joel Dankoff
Randi and Rick I. Feld
Catherine and
Jonathan Fiebach ’82
Bethanne Fox and
Brendon Shank
Susan Gay and
Jonathan Andrews
Julie Cowitz Gordon ’81 and
Brian Gordon
Mignon and Jim Groch
Rebecca and Eric Guenther
Maria and Mark Herman
Joanne and Alexander Klein ’83
DeeDee B. and Marcos R. Lopez
Fran and Robert Margulies
Lydia Martin and
William Kennedy
Ellen Meier and Michael Freed
Marla R. and Richard P. Milgram
Kim Parris and Peter Seidel
Julie and Steven Plunkett
Julia G. Raphaely
Kathleen Reilly and
Michael Nance
Valeri S. and Mark H. Riesenfeld
Iliana Robinson and
Gordon Barr
Lisa and Bradford Sandler
Stelle Sheller
Kathryn and James J. Sheward
Amy and Robert Silverman
Susan and Edward Stadtmauer
Marie A. and William J. Strahan
Susan Tabor-Kleiman and
Robert B. Kleiman
Emily Vener-Giszter and
Simon Giszter
Laura and Ricardo Verges
Theresa and Daniel Vickery
Gifts in Memory
Gifts were made in memory
of the following community
members in 2011-2012.
Mr. And Mrs. Alexander
Thomas Alwyn
Salvatore Anicito
Patricia Bowie ’51
Geneva Strong Bradley
Elizabeth Brett ’62
Mary Butler
Stanley Cherim
Christopher Campbell ’04
Elaine Cohen
Jeanine Colville
Charles J. Cooper
Rhonda Uthe Deleguardia ’65
R. Scott Drayer
Wayne Evans
Clayton Farraday ’32
Hans Fickenscher
Ruth Fiesel
Laurie Fox
Robert Gartner ’56
Patricia Gibbon ’48
Julie Goldstein
Anita Griffey
Frank Groff
Gabrielle Haab ’57
Frances Hancock ’62
Linda Hansen ’65
Gerald Harnett
Mary Jane Harvey
Linda Hensel
Kimberly Lai Jackson
Mildred Jackson
Grace Johns
Sam Kahn
Susan Kaufmann ’56
Barbara Kidder
Fred Klaus ’63
Loretta Korostoff
Holly Lorah ’64
Jane Manring ’51
Murray Marsh ’40
Richard Martin ’63
John McCollum
Harry Millinghausen
Carole Motter ’57
Rosemary Mundy
Doris Murphy
A. Stewart Murray
Irv Orenstein
Joanne Pearson ’60
Rose Phillips ’57
Hobson Pittman
Mary Ramsey
J. Donald Reimenschneider
Richard Reish
Hermann Rosenberger ’57
Frances Rothman
Irwin Rothman
Emily Sander ’49
Morgan Saunders
Irene Schoenfeld
John Singer
John Siter
Danny Slade
Alvah and Julia Small
Arlette M. Smith
John P. Smith, Jr.
Leola Smith
Nan Somerville
Lucy Christman Statzell ’37
and Benjamin Statzell ’37
Arlene Thal
Ann Whitcraft
Mark Whitlock
Berenice Woerner
Thomas Wood
Gifts in Honor
Gifts were made in honor
of the following community
members in 2011-2012.
Francesca Abramson ’12
Hannah Albertine ’12
Christopher Annas ’17
Asa Bell ’17
Angelique Benrahou ’10
Lisa Bernstein ’15
Suzanne Bernstein ’13
Jackie Bitensky ’86
John Bowie ’12
Samara Bradley ’15
Carl Bradley
Samuel Brodfuehrer ’12
Grant Calder
Galen Cassidy ’18
Ryan Cassidy ’13
Joy Clairmont ’91
Class of 1962
Class of 1967
Class of 1982
Class of 1987
Class of 1992
Class of 2012
Class of 2020
Coaches at FCFCS
Barbara Cohen
Stephen Cozen ’57
Abigael Crowley ’15
Colleen Crowley ’23
Morgan Crowley ’18
Becca Dahle ’12
Emma Dahle ’14
Catherine Dawson
James Davis
Jack Demetris
Raymond DeSabato
Diane DeVan
Benjamin Donolow
Faculty and Staff at
Friends’ Central School
William Farnon
David Felsen
Joshua Fiebach ’16
Matthew Fiebach ’18
Ginger Fifer
Mark Fifer
The 5th Grade Team
Irving Fogel
Ephraim Frankel ’10
Michael Furey ’13
Liam Giszter ’21
Rory Giszter ’12
Jerry Gollub
Patricia Gorman
Kelley Graham
Jeffrey Greenberg ’84
Marielle Greenblatt ’13
Declan Hahn ’12
Saorirse Hahn ’15
George Halterman
Sarah Hassold
Joanne Hoffman
Amile Jefferson ’12
Beth Johnson ’77
Krishna Kahn ’15
Daniel Kaufman ’05
Jonah Kaufman ’26
Leo Kaufman ’24
Max Kaufman ’91
William Kennedy
Daniel Kessler
Jason Kramer
Carolyn Lazard ’05
Matthew Levison
Joseph Ludwig ’69
Gregory Lynn ’14
Julia Lynn ’14
Anna Lynn-Palevsky ’13
Jacob Lynn-Palevsky ’18
Brent McIvor ’95
Greg McIvor ’99
Caelie McRobert ’15
Lauren Milgram ’16
Dylan Mitchell ’19
Madeleine Murdock ’17
Nicholas Murdock ’14
Andrew Nemroff ’12
Daniel Nemroff ’15
Alison Netz
Nir Netz ’19
Tal Netz ’21
Jonathan Newman ’12
Laura Novo
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Aryanna Pollack ’15
Nicole Pollack ’17
Christine Ramsey
Pedro Rangel ’12
D. Reynolds
Bryan Roberts ’81
David Roberts ’83
Justin Robson ’14
Doug Ross
Aliza Sall ’20
Max Sall ’15
Melanie Sall ’22
Ann Satterthwaite
Sophie Schall ’17
Craig Sellers
Emma Shaw ’12
Bettina Greenberg
Shenkman ’82
Andrew Shoemaker ’13
Zoe Shoemaker ’19
Samuel Silver ’13
Noah Silvestry ’15
Isabelle Singer-Kaufold
Daniel Stadtmauer ’13
Noah Tischler ’08
Kazuo Uyehara
Al Vernacchio
Andrew Vickery ’13
Hannah Vickery ’16
Maude Wahlman ’59
Elsie Walker
Charles Wallace ’24
Sophie Wallace ’21
William Wallace ’19
Bengt Williams ’12
Phyllis Williamson ’13
Andrew Winig ’14
Reid Wollock ’20
James Wright
Hanella Zuckman ’26
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restricted Annual Giving
Gifts to Current Operations
Arboretum Fund
Kate Di Pietro
The Digital Media Lab Fund
Carolyn and Scot Cohen
Brendan Lee
Natalie Lee
Molly Love and Adrian Castelli
Jay D. Seid
Helene and Archbold van Beuren
Anne and Steve Weiss
Night Out in Classroom Sponsors Financial Aid
Advantage Industrial Supply
Arader Tree Service
Archway Press, Inc.
Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn
Doyle & McDonnell, PC
E. & M. Construction Company
Education Facility Management, LLC
Haines Landscaping Service, Inc.
HEITS Building Service
Mechanical Solutions Associates, LLC
Natural Gardens & Lawns, Inc.
New York Painters’ Supply Co.
Prime Buchholz & Associates
Qyst
Site Engineering Concepts
Sodexo, Inc.
Top-A-Court Tennis Company
12th Street Catering
Valley Press, Inc.
Other Restricted Gifts
Robert Davis
The Fannie Cox Foundation
The George W. Rentschler Fund
Elizabeth S. Harper
Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie
Nancy Klaus and Jeffrey Cooper
Donna Koenig
Memton Fund
MKM Foundation
Catherine and James Murdock
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Todd Phillips
Pennsylvania Educational
Improvement Tax Credit (EITC)
Bayada Nurses
Bryn Mawr Trust Company
Endless Pools, Inc.
The Mutual Fire Foundation
Osage Investments
Philip Rosenau Co., Inc.
Stein Realty Capital, LP
Zuckerman Honickman, Inc.
The John Singer ’01 FCC
Greenhouse Memorial Fund
Edward Singer
Ruth Tanur
Naomi and Adrian Tschoegl
Students in this Upper School chemistry class experience the rigorous curriculum that helps shape our future leaders.
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Do You
L VE
Friends’ Central
&
Pay Any of These Taxes
Corporate Net Income Tax • Capital Stock Franchise Tax
Bank And Trust Company Shares Tax
Title Insurance Company Shares Tax
Insurance Premiums Tax • Mutual Thrift Institutions Tax
If the answer is
YES
then you should know . . .
A gift to Friends’ Central can cost your company just a dime for every dollar you
give when you make a contribution to Friends’ Central’s scholarship fund through
the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program.
For more information,
please contact Lydia Martin,
Director of Development,
at 610.645.5034 or
[email protected].
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restricted Annual Giving
Home & School Association
(HSA) 2011-2012
The Home and School Association is the organized body
of all Friends’ Central parents. The personal investment
of mothers and fathers in their children’s education is an
integral part of the School’s philosophy and, by encouraging
parental involvement, Friends’ Central accomplishes its
goal of establishing a partnership between the School,
the student, and the family. Thank you to the following
parents who held leadership positions and to all those who
volunteered at HAS events throughout the year.
Executive Committee
Co-Presidents
Heather Osborne
Kimberly Tarquinio
Parent
Representatives
12th Grade
Jodi Mindell
Amy DiLuca
Ihnsouk Guim
Penny Reiter
Treasurer
11th Grade
Secretary
Betty Bard
Immediate Past
President
Maggie Cooper
Dianne Heard
Carolyne Willlis
5th Grade
Doug Davis (LS)
Joyce Stovall (LS)
Sherri Wexler (LS)
Chris Bruckner
Anja Levitties
Kathy Sheward
DVD Program
4th Grade
Cristina Neilson
Rebecca Anderson
Leslie Wollock
Friends in the Garden
3rd Grade
Christine Coburn
Gayle Gowen
Lauren Rubin
2nd Grade
Michelle Eichen
Valerie Riesenfeld
Elizabeth Nourian
1st Grade
Elizabeth Cohen
Lara Smith
Cristina Neilson
eScrip
Barb Helpin
Gift Wrap
Cristina Neilson
Holiday Shop
Gretchen Bedford
Lorna Dreyfuss
Cathy Fiebach
LS Book Fair
Michelle Eichen
Beth Snider
LS Winter Blast
Amy Estey
10th Grade
Upper School Co-Chairs
Kindergarten
Terri Jones
Elena Levitan
Kristin Kimmell
Julie Pogachefsky
Lucy Williams
Middle School Co-Chairs
9th Grade
Pre-Kindergarten
Sharon Pollack
Sharon Ritt
Kris Yoo
Nancy Peterson
Andrea Nuneviller
Parents of Students
of Color
Nursery
8th Grade
Jane Saul
Betty Brizill
Jodi West-Booker
Deborah F. Correll
Jessica Coss
Lower School Co-Chairs
Ami Lonner
Kate Wallace
COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE VOLUNTEERS
Beth Burrell
Dana Greenblatt
Diane Heard
Friends’ Central School
Sharlee Casnoff
Joy Clairmont
Committee Chairs
7th Grade
Box Tops for Education
Bernadette Bartholomew
Amy Estey
Wendy Frame
6th Grade
Dani Tapper
MS Book Fair
Momoko Kishimoto
Anja Levitties
Pumpkin Fair
Carol Bradbeer
Susan Holt
Penny Joines
Betty Brizill
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Cathy Fiebach
Lynn Schuchter
Cristina Neilson
Community Service
Elena Levitan (US)
Peggy Hervas (MS)
Eric Mitchell (MS)
Debbie Hoppy
Lara Smith
Quaker Life Group
Kristin Kimmell
Todd Kimmell
Robert Williamson
Welcoming Committee
Heather Osborne,
Coordinator
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