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C O M M E N C E M E N T A N D R E U N I O N I S U M M E R 2 0 1 0
Sally M. Powell<br />
ECHOES<br />
Editor: Leslie Pfeil<br />
Photo credits: Pete Bannan, Charlie<br />
Biddle, JP Burke, David Graham, Leslie<br />
Pfeil, George Scarino, SportGraphics.<br />
All photographs are identified left to<br />
right unless otherwise noted.<br />
The Echoes is published for the alumnae,<br />
parents, students, friends and staff of<br />
The <strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong>. We welcome<br />
letters regarding the contents of the<br />
magazine and/or issues pertaining to<br />
the school. Letters must be signed.<br />
The editor retains the right to edit at<br />
discretion.<br />
Please send correspondence to:<br />
Leslie Pfeil, Editor, Echoes,<br />
The <strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
701 Montgomery Avenue<br />
Bryn Mawr PA 19010<br />
Or lpfeil@baldwinschool.org<br />
Echoes is printed on recycled paper.<br />
THE BALDWIN SCHOOL<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong>, Sally M. Powell<br />
Director of Upper <strong>School</strong>, Eric Benke<br />
Director of Middle <strong>School</strong>, Lois Pressman<br />
Director of Lower <strong>School</strong>, Baiba Vasys<br />
Chief Financial Officer,<br />
Joanne Brasberger<br />
Chief Development Officer,<br />
Jeffrey S. Appel<br />
Director of Admissions, Sarah J. Goebel<br />
Director of Athletics, Deb Surgi<br />
Director of Marketing,<br />
Anne Plutzer Burns ’96<br />
Director of Communications, Leslie Pfeil<br />
Director of Alumnae,<br />
Mary Pat Nolan Staats<br />
Director of Major Gifts, Diane Calder<br />
Director of Development Research,<br />
Emmeline Hunter VanderZwaag ’75<br />
Director of Annual Giving,<br />
Amanda Parlett ’95<br />
Ready to take on the world<br />
Each year I am impressed and<br />
amazed by the accomplishments of<br />
our senior class. As they end their<br />
tenure as “rulers of the school,” there is<br />
something very final about their departure.<br />
In truth, there is. No longer will we see<br />
them in the halls in their blue kilts, on<br />
stage as they explore the intricacies of a<br />
famous playwright, or on the playing fields,<br />
wielding a lacrosse stick as they score yet<br />
another goal. They have reached the end of<br />
one experience, but as you know, it is really<br />
only the beginning.<br />
I feel a strong attachment to<br />
our girls and a sense of protectiveness,<br />
wanting to make sure<br />
that they move forward<br />
with ease and success.<br />
Then I remember that<br />
they are <strong>Baldwin</strong> girls.<br />
These newest alumnae<br />
have been well prepared<br />
to take on the outside<br />
world, and perhaps it is<br />
the outside world that<br />
should be prepared for<br />
them. Charlotte Damico,<br />
this year’s student commencement speaker,<br />
likened her class, the class of green, to an<br />
“army of one.” Her speech, peppered with<br />
military terms, expressed what it is to be a<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> student with eloquence and quite<br />
a bit of humor. She said, “I remember<br />
one day when I was in [Ms. Lapinski’s]<br />
office arguing with a number of people<br />
over a sports team. Still hung up on the<br />
argument an hour later, I continued to<br />
voice my opinion and attempted to prove<br />
my points to Coach White, and she turned<br />
to me in the gym and said, ‘You’re going<br />
to be someone Charlotte Damico.’ I’m<br />
“These newest<br />
alumnae have been<br />
well prepared to<br />
take on the outside<br />
world, and perhaps<br />
it is the outside<br />
world that should be<br />
prepared for them.”<br />
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD<br />
not sure she knew right then and there<br />
how much those words meant to me; but<br />
it goes to show how <strong>Baldwin</strong>, with its<br />
education, and its unbelievable array of<br />
faculty members has built us into these<br />
passionate, opinionated, strong women.<br />
Strong women…who are not afraid share<br />
their voices with the world.”<br />
This memory stuck with me in<br />
particular, because it is a sentiment that I<br />
hear quite often from our alumnae. I do not<br />
have the space to share her entire speech<br />
here, but I would love for everyone to read<br />
her words because they are “so <strong>Baldwin</strong>.”<br />
Please go to the news section of<br />
www.baldwinschool.org<br />
to find the full transcript of<br />
her address.<br />
I hope something always<br />
will bring you back to <strong>Baldwin</strong>,<br />
whether it be our campus, our<br />
classrooms, a special event, or<br />
even our website. I encourage<br />
you to stay connected to this<br />
incredible institution, your<br />
former teachers and your<br />
classmates and other alumnae.<br />
The network of <strong>Baldwin</strong> women is a<br />
powerful resource. Not a week passes<br />
by without hearing of an alumnae<br />
accomplishment, an unofficial “reunion”<br />
of classmates or a tale from years gone by.<br />
The relationships you have formed and the<br />
experiences that resulted are unique to this<br />
school and are to be cherished forever. I<br />
look forward to sharing many experiences<br />
and commencements with you for years<br />
to come.<br />
- Sally M. Powell
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Contents<br />
Inside Front<br />
Message from the Head<br />
2 Lindsay Carroll Farrell ’75<br />
Alumnae Award Winner <strong>2010</strong><br />
Healthcare Advocate<br />
4 Alumnae Achievement Awards<br />
Online and On Stage<br />
5 A Long-awaited Honor<br />
A 1922 graduate finally gets her<br />
White Blazer<br />
6 <strong>Baldwin</strong> Newsmakers<br />
The Merry Month of May<br />
7 Commencement <strong>2010</strong><br />
Going Green<br />
10 Annual Class Day Awards<br />
Students are honored for academics<br />
and service<br />
S U M M E R 2 0 1 0 V O L 7 6 N O 3<br />
T H E BA L DW I N<br />
ECHOES<br />
Page 5<br />
11 Moving Up<br />
Eighth graders graduate to Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
12 Faculty Footnotes<br />
Gone but not forgotten<br />
13 A Memo from the Board<br />
Trustees are honored<br />
14 Good Sports<br />
Spring Champions<br />
15 Meet the New Alumnae Director<br />
A Message from Mary Pat Nolan Staats<br />
16 Alumnae Album<br />
Welcome New Alumnae<br />
17 Reunion <strong>2010</strong><br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> Greenery<br />
Inside Back<br />
In Support of <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
Page 6<br />
Page 7<br />
Page 2<br />
Lindsay Carroll Farrell ’75 accepts the <strong>2010</strong><br />
Alumnae Award at the April 30 ceremony.<br />
Page 5<br />
Ada Mutch ’22 poses with Director of<br />
Athletics Deb Surgi after receiving the<br />
coveted White Blazer.<br />
Page 6<br />
African dolls made by first graders.<br />
Page 7<br />
Senior Class Vice President Jennifer<br />
Newman, Service League Head Sarah<br />
June and Senate President Noelle Niu<br />
at <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s 122nd Commencement<br />
ceremony.<br />
On the front cover:<br />
The <strong>2010</strong> 14-Year Club gets ready to<br />
graduate! From left are Melissa Philips,<br />
Ellen Morris, Eileen Kenny, Morgan<br />
Dawkins, Monica Esposito, Elizabeth<br />
Schoenberg, Christina Maloomian and<br />
Alexandra Sawin.<br />
(Photo by George Scarino)
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BY L I S A A M E I S E N ‘ 7 6<br />
This year’s Alumnae Award winner, Lindsay<br />
Carroll Farrell, graduated from <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
in 1975, and four years later, completed<br />
her undergraduate degree in French<br />
and psychology at St. Lawrence University. She went<br />
on to earn a certificate from the New York <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Interior Design before receiving a master’s in business<br />
administration from Pace University. Lindsay’s varied<br />
educational accomplishments are matched only by the<br />
amazing array of skills that she brings to her current<br />
position as president and CEO of Open Door Family<br />
Medical Centers.<br />
Open Door Family Medical Centers began<br />
modestly, serving patients out of a church basement in<br />
1972. From its inception, its mission was to provide<br />
quality medical care to those individuals most in need.<br />
Thirty-eight years later, Open Door runs four community<br />
medical centers located throughout Westchester County,<br />
NY, as well as four school-based health centers at the<br />
Edison Elementary <strong>School</strong>,<br />
the Kennedy Magnet<br />
<strong>School</strong>, Port Chester<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> and<br />
Port Chester High<br />
<strong>School</strong>. In 2008, the<br />
centers treated over<br />
40,000 patients with<br />
more than 178,000 patient<br />
visits. In that same year,<br />
9,000 children were served in<br />
the school facilities, which provide<br />
A w a r d W i n n e r s<br />
<strong>2010</strong> ALUMNAE AwARD wINNER<br />
Lindsay Carroll Farrell ’75<br />
Providing an ‘Open Door’ to health care for<br />
the poor and uninsured<br />
routine pediatric care, dental care, and educational<br />
programs that promote health and wellness.<br />
Open Door’s mission is to “serve poor and<br />
uninsured families who would otherwise have no<br />
choice but to go to a hospital emergency room for care.<br />
“Hospitals love us!” Lindsay said, because “we will see<br />
anyone who walks through the door.” Open Door’s<br />
website states, “We believe that health care is a right<br />
and not a privilege. We believe in diversity and respect<br />
cultural and linguistic differences. We believe that<br />
healthy families are at the foundation of civil society.<br />
We believe that healthy individuals contribute to<br />
community success.”<br />
Lindsay has been the driving force<br />
behind Open Door’s growth and<br />
development since being appointed<br />
its president and CEO by its<br />
Board of Trustees in 1998.<br />
However, her commitment<br />
to this groundbreaking<br />
organization began in 1986<br />
when she started her affiliation<br />
as a volunteer, driving patients<br />
without transportation to and<br />
from their appointments with<br />
her infant daughter keeping her<br />
company. Over the next 12 years,<br />
she served as both the Center’s<br />
director of operations and director of<br />
development. Her work in development<br />
resulted in major facility expansions,
which subsequently meant access for more and more<br />
patients. As president, Lindsay oversees her staff of<br />
250 and manages the organization’s annual budget of<br />
$21 million. Her tireless efforts have resulted in her<br />
receiving the Betsey Cook Grassroots Advocacy Award<br />
from the National Association of Community Health<br />
Centers, the Paul Ramos Memorial Award from the<br />
Community Health Association of New York State,<br />
and the Sol Feinstone Humanitarian Award from St.<br />
Lawrence University.<br />
When she was asked to testify before the U.S.<br />
House’s Appropriations Committee on Labor, Health<br />
and Human Services, she thanked them for their support,<br />
explaining that their funds would make it possible for<br />
centers like hers to care for millions of new patients,<br />
keeping pace with the projections that say that as many as<br />
30 million people will need the care of facilities like Open<br />
Door by the year 2015.<br />
Lindsay is also an amateur runner, yogi, and<br />
triathlete. Two weeks after receiving this award, she<br />
competed in a half marathon in Chicago.<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong> Sally Powell<br />
presents Lindsay Carroll<br />
Farrell ’75 with the <strong>2010</strong><br />
Alumnae Award.<br />
“...healthy families are<br />
at the foundation of<br />
civil society.”<br />
A w a r d W i n n e r s<br />
<strong>2010</strong> LIFE<br />
ACHIEVEMENT wINNER<br />
Christina<br />
Giannini ’55<br />
Her creative energy is<br />
reflected on both stage<br />
and screen<br />
W H E N C H R I S T I N A G I A N N I N I, this year’s winner of the Life<br />
Achievement Award, was at <strong>Baldwin</strong>, her mother instructed her to focus on<br />
academics and “don’t go near that theater.” And she didn’t. After graduating<br />
from <strong>Baldwin</strong> in 1955, she went on to Douglas College of Rutgers University.<br />
Determined to do well in school, Christina enrolled as an education major, but<br />
that only lasted a year. She could no longer stay away from the theater, and it<br />
seems that her fate was sealed. Christina knew even then that once she became<br />
involved in theater it would be all consuming. And it was.<br />
Christina has designed costumes and sets for Broadway, Off-Broadway,<br />
opera, ballet, film and theater. Her costumes have graced the cover of Dance<br />
Magazine; she has worked in 12 countries and twice earned the Venezuelan<br />
Oscar for costume design. Her resume is pages and pages long<br />
and includes costume and scenery work with the Alvin<br />
Ailey Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, The<br />
Joffrey Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, New York<br />
Shakespeare Festival and Pennsylvania Ballet Company, to<br />
name just a very select few.<br />
In addition to this work, she also finds the time<br />
to teach design workshops and has been the resident<br />
designer for Chautauqua Dance since 1989. She was<br />
also the resident designer for Ohio Ballet for over a<br />
decade, where she designed and created costumes<br />
for more than 50 dances. Some of the highlights<br />
from her extensive book of work include scenery<br />
and/or costumes for A Rose for Miss Emily, Texas Fourth, Rococo Variations, Eight<br />
by Benny Goodman, Schubert Waltzes, <strong>Summer</strong> Night, Romeo and Juliet, The<br />
Nutcracker, Pas de Deux, Cinderella, Swan Lake, and Firebird.<br />
A world-renowned designer, Christina has truly dedicated her life to her<br />
craft. She pays close attention not just to the final product but also to the people<br />
involved - the actors, dancers, choreographers, and directors. This has earned<br />
her great respect and a reputation for excellence from the global performing<br />
arts community. Winning accolades and glowing commendations for her work,<br />
Christina has made a significant impact on the art world as a whole.<br />
Rodney Gustafson is the artistic director of the State Street Ballet in Santa<br />
Barbara. He has this to say about Christina “Her enthusiasm for the work is<br />
contagious and she has made a great contribution to everyone whose life she<br />
has touched….Her mind is overflowing with creative energy and she works at<br />
the art because she loves it.”<br />
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B Y M A R G A R E T TA W A LT O N ‘ 9 7
BY L I S A A M E I S E N ‘ 7 6<br />
After graduation in 1995, our Young Alumna<br />
Award winner, Amanda Birnbaum Steinberg,<br />
left <strong>Baldwin</strong> to complete a bachelor’s degree<br />
in urban planning at Columbia University.<br />
Since graduating in May of 1999, Amanda has worked<br />
for diverse institutions ranging from CitySoft, Inc., a<br />
web services firm that develops websites and web-based<br />
systems for non-profit and government organizations,<br />
to the American Civil Liberties Union. However, she is<br />
best known today as the founder and CEO of not one<br />
but two highly successful web-based companies. The<br />
first, Soapbxx, is a strategic website consulting firm with<br />
clients as varied as the Joseph Papp Public Theater,<br />
Harlem Children’s Zone, Society Hill Synagogue, and the<br />
City of Philadelphia. The second, DailyWorth.com, was<br />
launched in January 2009 and is a free personal finance<br />
site that seeks to “empower women to recognize their self<br />
worth, earn higher salaries and grow their net worth.”<br />
When discussing either of her companies or what<br />
their missions are, Amanda’s dedication is obvious.<br />
When asked why she founded Soapbxx she replied, “I<br />
am passionate about the web’s ability to create authentic<br />
connections free of physical<br />
boundaries and limits. I<br />
cannot think of anything<br />
more exciting than helping<br />
groups as diverse as wine<br />
lovers, teachers, activists,<br />
recyclers – you name<br />
it—create community<br />
online.” Her vision and<br />
determination are seen<br />
even more clearly when she<br />
discusses what drove her<br />
A w a r d W i n n e r s<br />
<strong>2010</strong> DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNA AwARD wINNER<br />
Amanda Birnbaum<br />
Steinberg ’95<br />
She knows you’re worth it!<br />
This year’s winners, Amanda<br />
Birnbaum Steinberg’95,<br />
Christina Giannini ’55 and<br />
Lindsay Carroll Farrell ’75<br />
visit before the Alumnae<br />
Awards ceremony on April<br />
30. Behind them is Lisa<br />
Ameisen’76, chair of the<br />
Alumnae Awards Committee.<br />
to create DailyWorth, which was launched within the<br />
same week she gave birth to her second child, daughter<br />
Maya. “No one is going to fix financial inequity for<br />
women. We have to recognize our own self-worth, ask for<br />
higher salaries, invest more aggressively and build our<br />
own wealth.” Even more than unfair compensation, the<br />
pet peeve that really gets Amanda going is the constant<br />
apologizing women do. “Women apologize for their<br />
questions and concerns, and discount their words before<br />
even articulating their thoughts and ideas. That has got to<br />
stop!” she insists.<br />
Amanda’s message is clearly working as the site<br />
gains 20 new members daily. Within the first six months,<br />
her membership had exceeds 1,000 users. Her long-term<br />
goal is to attract 100,000 members.<br />
Articles highlighting Amanda’s work have been<br />
written for magazines such as Forbes, Self, and Inc. to<br />
name a few. Her success was most recently described in<br />
a featured article on Entrepreneur.com. In addition,<br />
Oprah Winfrey just bought a sponsorship in one of her<br />
daily emails.
It may have taken a few years but on April 30, the<br />
Friday of Reunion Weekend, <strong>Baldwin</strong> honored<br />
its oldest known living alumna, 105-year-old Ada<br />
Mutch ’22 with the presentation of an honorary<br />
White Blazer.<br />
The White Blazer is presented annually to a<br />
graduating senior chosen by her peers as the school’s<br />
best all-around athlete. Ada had received the “Gym<br />
Award” during her years at <strong>Baldwin</strong> prior to the creation<br />
of the White Blazer. She also taught physical education at<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> for six years and always lamented that the White<br />
Blazer was an award not given during her student years.<br />
The White Blazer was one of several awards and<br />
honors Ada has received. These include <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s<br />
Alumnae Award in 1974, a Distinguished Daughter of<br />
Pennsylvania Award in 1975, the Villanova University<br />
College of Nursing Award for outstanding leadership<br />
and volunteer service and an award for dedicated<br />
service from Lankenau Hospital in 2005. There is a<br />
scholarship named after her at the Presbyterian Hospital<br />
<strong>School</strong> of Nursing in Yonkers, NY, and last fall the<br />
Ada Mutch Community Resource Center was opened<br />
in Bryn Mawr.<br />
Born in Scotland in 1905, Ada emigrated with<br />
her family to Bryn Mawr in 1912. After graduating from<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong>, she earned a degree from the Boston <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Physical Education. She worked as a physical education<br />
teacher for eight years before she decided to pursue a<br />
nursing career in 1933 after an appendix operation. She<br />
graduated from New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian<br />
Hospital <strong>School</strong> of Nursing in 1936 and was hired as a<br />
head nurse at the hospital. She then was appointed to the<br />
faculty of Columbia University’s Department of Nursing,<br />
where she taught nursing and also earned a bachelor’s<br />
degree in nursing supervision in 1941.<br />
W h i te B l a z e r W i n n e r<br />
Ada Mutch ’22<br />
is awarded a White Blazer<br />
From 1942 to<br />
1946, she served in<br />
World War II as a<br />
member of the U.S.<br />
Army Nurse Corps,<br />
directing nursing in<br />
Army hospitals in the<br />
European Theater of<br />
Operations. By the<br />
time of her discharge,<br />
she had attained the<br />
rank of lieutenant<br />
colonel.<br />
After her<br />
distinguished military<br />
career, Ada pursued<br />
a master’s degree at<br />
Columbia Teachers<br />
College in New<br />
York City, which she<br />
completed in 1948.<br />
Ada Mutch ‘22, who won the<br />
“Gym Award” during her days<br />
at <strong>Baldwin</strong>, was presented<br />
with an honorary White<br />
Blazer at the Alumnae Award<br />
ceremony April 30.<br />
She returned to Presbyterian Hospital, where she was<br />
appointed supervisor and eventually accepted a dual<br />
position as assistant director of nursing and assistant<br />
professor of nursing at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical<br />
Center. In 1955, she returned to the Philadelphia area to<br />
accept a position with Lankenau Hospital. She retired<br />
from Lankenau in 1970 after a distinguished 15-year<br />
tenure as director of nursing and nursing education.<br />
For more than 30 years, she drove people with<br />
cancer to their medical appointments and delivered Meals<br />
on Wheels until macular degeneration and cataracts<br />
forced her to stop driving at age 98. She also assisted<br />
clients of ElderNet in Bryn Mawr on Monday mornings<br />
and served on the Volunteer Committee and Personnel<br />
Committee of the ElderNet Board.<br />
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A<br />
B<br />
A Head of <strong>School</strong> Sally Powell is greeted<br />
by her waitress, Madison Sanders, at the<br />
Fifth Grade’s annual Café International.<br />
B Second graders gather for lunch at<br />
their Native American Day May 18.<br />
Spring in the Lower <strong>School</strong><br />
The Lower <strong>School</strong> is always a hive of activity, but the last six weeks of the<br />
school year were especially abuzz, beginning with the Fourth Grade’s “Wax<br />
Museum” tribute to famous figures in history on May 7 to the ultimate event<br />
of the Lower <strong>School</strong> year, the Fifth Grade Moving Up Ceremony on June 9.<br />
Special events included Grandparents’/Special Persons’ Day on May 10,<br />
Fifth Grade’s Café International on May 14, Second Grade Native American Day<br />
on May 18, First Grade’s African Feast on May 27, Third Grade Colonial Day on<br />
May 28, and the Fourth Grade Book Publishing Party on June 3. And don’t<br />
forget the Kindergarten Art Show, numerous field days and swim meets,<br />
musicals and concerts, and a variety of other grade-level events.<br />
These events are exciting for the students because they provide an<br />
opportunity to enjoy crafts and special activities, don fun costumes and<br />
D<br />
B A L D W I N N E W S M A K E R S<br />
C<br />
C Corina Damian portrayed Betsy Ross at<br />
the Fourth Grade’s annual Wax Museum<br />
this year.<br />
D They may not be mortarboards,<br />
but the baseball caps tossed in the air<br />
by jubilant fifth graders at the Lower<br />
<strong>School</strong> Moving Up Ceremony following a<br />
boisterous rendition of “<strong>School</strong> is Out”<br />
still represent a momentous occasion<br />
for these young girls about to become<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong>ers.<br />
display their talents and knowledge to friends and family. Most events also<br />
represent the culmination of hard work, study and practice in academic<br />
units such as social studies, language arts, foreign language, music and<br />
physical education. For example, at Café International, all servers greet their<br />
“customers” in French or Spanish and help translate the French and Spanish<br />
menus into English for them. These “customers” consist of family members<br />
and faculty who trade in American money for Euro currency and order<br />
pastries and other treats from French or Spanish menus. The money collected<br />
goes to a Lower <strong>School</strong> community service project.<br />
The flurry of events came to a conclusion on the last day of school, June<br />
9, when the entire Lower <strong>School</strong> body gathered in the Blue Gymnasium to<br />
celebrate the “moving up” of 34 fifth graders to Middle <strong>School</strong>.
Off to College for the Class of <strong>2010</strong><br />
Gabrielle J. Amundson<br />
Colgate University<br />
Raven Andrews<br />
Howard University<br />
Allison Ballinger<br />
Johns Hopkins University<br />
Janell Barnes<br />
University of Miami<br />
Rachel Brooks<br />
Lehigh University<br />
Alison Callegari<br />
Trinity College<br />
Ashley N. Catalano-Leckerman<br />
University of Pennsylvania<br />
Ruiyi Chen<br />
Ohio State University<br />
Kayla Cohen<br />
Duquesne University<br />
Leila S. Collins<br />
Johns Hopkins University<br />
Jessica G. Cook<br />
Muhlenberg College<br />
Nicole C. Cutuli<br />
American University<br />
Charlotte Damico<br />
Bucknell University<br />
Morgan Dawkins<br />
Wake Forest<br />
Caroline Durlacher<br />
Yale University<br />
Ladonna Edwards<br />
Penn State University<br />
Monica Esposito<br />
Southern Methodist University<br />
Alexandria Evans<br />
Dickinson College<br />
Adrienne Frank<br />
Temple University<br />
Rayma G. Garcia<br />
Hobart & William Smith<br />
Colleges<br />
Rebecca Guttentag<br />
Kenyon College<br />
Zaakirah R. Hamid<br />
Howard University<br />
Byeol Han<br />
Emory University<br />
Claire Henkel<br />
Washington University<br />
(St. Louis)<br />
Deionna Hill<br />
Southern Methodist University<br />
Allison M. Hoeltzel<br />
Hamilton College<br />
Maxine Jacobson<br />
Tufts University<br />
Sarah June<br />
Harvard College<br />
Eileen M. Kenny<br />
Loyola University Maryland<br />
Diane D. Ku<br />
University of Chicago<br />
Emily Lau<br />
Swarthmore College<br />
Christina M. Lisk<br />
Bryn Mawr College<br />
Sophia Lisowski<br />
Ithaca College<br />
Christina Maloomian<br />
Bucknell University<br />
Alice Matthai<br />
Washington & Lee University<br />
Christina E. Middleton<br />
Cornell University<br />
Ellen Morris<br />
Northwestern University<br />
Jennifer Newman<br />
Amherst College<br />
Noelle Niu<br />
Amherst College<br />
Erin K. O’Donnell<br />
New York University<br />
Ayana Peterson<br />
Haverford College<br />
C O M M E N C E M E N T 2 0 1 0<br />
Melissa Philips<br />
Trinity College<br />
Jenna M. Price<br />
George Washington University<br />
Alexandra Sawin<br />
Princeton University<br />
Elizabeth Schoenberg<br />
Vanderbilt University<br />
Ksenia Shepelev<br />
Richmond American<br />
International University,<br />
London<br />
Chelsea M. Stellmach<br />
University of Pennsylvania<br />
Elena Stephenson<br />
Stanford University<br />
Delia L. Sudler<br />
Howard University<br />
Samantha Swartz<br />
Boston College<br />
Catherine Welch<br />
Southern Methodist University<br />
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D<br />
C O M M E N C E M E N T 2 0 1 0<br />
F R I E N D S<br />
&<br />
F A M I L Y<br />
C<br />
A B<br />
E
A Graduates of the Class of <strong>2010</strong> and their<br />
alumnae sisters include: front row – Charlotte ’10<br />
and Dominique ’03 Damico; Rachel ’04, Leila ’10<br />
and Katie ’06 Collins; back row – Daniele ’08,<br />
Noelle ’10 and Gabrielle ’06 Niu; Claire ’10 and<br />
Anna ’07 Henkel; and Allison ’07 and Christina ’10<br />
Maloomian.<br />
B Members of <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s <strong>2010</strong> Thirteen Year Club<br />
include: front – Adrienne Frank; second row<br />
– Alice Matthai and Allison Ballinger; third<br />
row – Charlotte Damico and Jennifer Newman;<br />
top – Samantha Swartz.<br />
C All smiles and ready to receive their diplomas<br />
are <strong>2010</strong> classmates Nicole Cutuli, Allison Hoeltzel,<br />
Deionna Hill and Claire Henkel.<br />
G H<br />
D Juniors who served as marshals in their new<br />
red blazers at Commencement were Shayna Fader,<br />
Emily Rappoport, Stephanie Sheppard, Adrienne<br />
Scott, Akela Lacy, Brooke Simone, TraiAnne<br />
Peek, Callie Woods, Jennifer Pagano and<br />
Elizabeth Auritt.<br />
E Andrea Gilbert, president of Bryn Mawr Hospital<br />
and winner of the 2009 Helena Devereux Women<br />
in Leadership Award, served as the guest speaker<br />
at this year’s Commencement ceremony.<br />
F Lined up and ready to process at <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s<br />
122nd Commencement at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian<br />
Church are Samantha Swartz, Delia Sudler, Chelsea<br />
Stellmach and Ksenia Shepelev.<br />
G Grad Morgan Dawkins ’10 (right) and her<br />
mother, Dr. Susan Taylor, a long-time member of<br />
the Board of Trustees.<br />
H Christina Lisk ’10 and her alumna mother,<br />
Penny Tsaltas Lisk ’77.<br />
(For more photos of Commencement <strong>2010</strong>, visit the Multimedia Gallery<br />
at www.baldwinschool.org)<br />
F<br />
Elected by her classmates as student speaker<br />
this year was Charlotte Damico, who will<br />
attend Bucknell University in the fall. She used<br />
a military theme to address “my Class of Green,<br />
my Army of One.<br />
“<strong>Baldwin</strong> has given us the strength to stand<br />
up for what we believe in. It has prepared us<br />
to deport to our various other bases across the<br />
country come fall; some fighting on the fields,<br />
some fighting on the courts, some fighting<br />
for lead roles on the stage, as well as all of us<br />
fighting in the classroom. … <strong>Baldwin</strong>, with its<br />
education, and its unbelievable array of faculty<br />
members has built us into these passionate,<br />
opinionated, strong women. Strong women who<br />
not only share their voices during chemistry class<br />
while performing ‘Lean On Me’ in the middle<br />
of the lecture, but strong women who are not<br />
afraid to share their voices with the world. …<br />
As I leave you all, I just wanted to let you know<br />
that you will always be a part of me, from the<br />
gates to the cherry trees. I wish the best for<br />
each and every one of you, and that you all will<br />
continue to strive for greatness. Stay awesome;<br />
stay classy. Don’t be afraid to take chances in the<br />
days to come. The road is long, but in the end,<br />
the journey is the destination. At ease, cadets. I<br />
salute you.”<br />
Charlotte Damico ’10<br />
Student Address, Commencement, June 10, <strong>2010</strong><br />
S U M M E R E C H O E S 2 0 1 0
10<br />
A N N U A L C L A S S D AY<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> students are honored for academics<br />
and service at annual Class Day<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> students were honored for their<br />
academic achievements and their service to<br />
the school at annual Class Day ceremonies<br />
Tuesday, June 8.<br />
The following seniors received awards:<br />
The <strong>Baldwin</strong> Award for the student who most<br />
embodies the philosophy of the school, the Coughanowr<br />
Linguistics Prize and the Seventh Congressional District<br />
Scholar-Athlete Award to Noelle Niu; the Phi Beta<br />
Kappa Award to Caroline Durlacher; the Rachel Shao<br />
Sun Award for leadership and friendship to Gabrielle<br />
Amundson; the Eva<br />
Macklis Award in<br />
Performing Arts to<br />
Rebecca Guttentag; the<br />
Class of 1998 Award<br />
to Ayana Peterson for<br />
perseverance in the<br />
face of challenges; the<br />
Class of 2002 Award<br />
for character and<br />
personality to Sarah<br />
June; the Class of 2003<br />
Award for leadership<br />
National Merit Finalists for <strong>2010</strong> include<br />
Elena Stephenson, who will attend<br />
Stanford University; Allison Ballinger,<br />
who will attend Johns Hopkins<br />
University; Ellen Norris, who will attend<br />
Northwestern University; Sarah June, who<br />
will attend Harvard College; and Emily<br />
Lau, who will attend Swarthmore College.<br />
to Jennifer Newman;<br />
The <strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Academic Athlete<br />
College Scholarship to<br />
Alexandria Evans; and<br />
the Society of Women<br />
Engineers Award to<br />
Elizabeth Schoenberg (high honors); and a 149th District<br />
Community Hero Award to Alice Matthai.<br />
National Merit Finalists certificates went to Allison<br />
Ballinger, Emily Lau, Ellen Morris, Elena Stephenson<br />
and June. Lau also was recognized by the National Latin<br />
Exam Award Committee for achieving a Summa Cum<br />
Laude score on the exam for five consecutive years.<br />
In the arts, the Rhode Island <strong>School</strong> of Design<br />
Award went to Melissa Philips; the Jan Pethick Award<br />
for Three-Dimensional Media and the Music<br />
Department Award to Niu; the Carolyn Oscar Memorial<br />
Award to Schoenberg; the Art Department Award<br />
for Two-Dimensional Media to Alison Callegari; the<br />
Romelle Pethick Jewelry Award to Delia Sudler and<br />
Evans; the Fackenthal Award in Fine Arts to Nicole<br />
Cutuli; and the Cornelia Otis Skinner Award to<br />
Erin O’Donnell.<br />
In math and science, awards included the<br />
Rosamond Cross Science Prize to Newman and the<br />
Extraordinary Achievement in Mathematics Award to<br />
Christina Middleton.<br />
Other departments award included: the Marian<br />
Gamble Classics Award and the Marian E. Stearns<br />
English Prize to Lau; the Sarah Morris Lyric Poetry<br />
Prize, the Diane J. Hunter English Prize and the Pierrette<br />
H. David Award in French to Durlacher; the Merthe C.<br />
Melchior French Award to Stephenson; the Escritos Del<br />
Mundo Hispano Award to Stephenson and Schoenberg;<br />
the Mary Ellen Morris History Prize to June; the<br />
Katherine Bell Brown Spanish Award to Rayma Garcia;<br />
and the Suzanne Valutas Physical Education Award<br />
to Morris.<br />
Cited for their contribution to the life of the school<br />
this year were Janell Barnes, Charlotte Damico, Diane Ku,<br />
Claire Henkel, Guttentag, Newman and O’Donnell.<br />
Underclassmen who received awards include:<br />
Juniors who received college-sponsored book awards for<br />
academic achievement and extracurricular participation<br />
were Anjalie Field, the Bryn Mawr College President’s<br />
Prize; Hilary Gray, the Colby College Book Prize; Wendy<br />
Morrison, the Drexel University Book Award; Sarah<br />
Parmacek, the Dartmouth Book Prize; Hanna Elmongy,<br />
the Harvard Book Prize; Adrienne Scott, the Mt.<br />
Holyoke Book Award; Brooke Simone, the University<br />
of Virginia Jefferson Book Award; Nadia Tareen, the<br />
Princeton University Book Prize; Elizabeth Auritt, the<br />
Smith College Book Award; Alisha Maity, the University<br />
of Pennsylvania Book Award; Caroline Sawin, the<br />
Wellesley College Book Award; Alexandra Lucas, the<br />
Williams College Book Prize; and Gazelle Zerafati, the<br />
Yale Book Award.
Special awards for underclassmen included the<br />
Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony Award for<br />
humanities to Akela Lacy; the Bausch and Lomb Award<br />
for science to Jennifer Wigrizer; the Eastman Young<br />
Leaders Award to Traianne Peek; the Rensselaer Medal<br />
to Stephanie Sheppard; the Caroline Simon Award for<br />
an outstanding project to Zerafati; the Society of Women<br />
Engineers Awards to Elmongy (highest honors) and<br />
Maity (high honors); the Union League of Philadelphia<br />
Good Citizenship Award to Lucas; and First Place in the<br />
National Fleet Reserve Association Essay Contest<br />
to Parmacek.<br />
Department awards for underclassmen included the<br />
Lily Ross Taylor Cicero Award to Elena Saltzman; the<br />
Richmond Lattimore Vergil Prize to Field; the National<br />
Latin Exam Book Award to Auritt and Field; the Harriet<br />
Crane Term Paper Prize to Tareen; the Elizabeth Cobb<br />
Chemistry Prize to Laura Jarin-Lipschitz; the Kathy<br />
Graub Prize in biology to Parmacek; the Elizabeth<br />
Chesick Physics Prize to Sonali Singh; the MIT<br />
NEST Award and the Young Epidemiology Scholars<br />
Competition First Place Scholarship to Zerafati; National<br />
Association of Biology Teachers Certificates to Auritt,<br />
Elmongy and Simone; American Chemical Society<br />
Certificates to Randi Brown and Alexandra Dias-<br />
Lalcaca; American Association of Physics Teachers<br />
Certificates to Abigail Grosskopf, Charlotte<br />
Solmssen and Jarin-Lipschitz; the Louise M.<br />
Hutchinson Memorial Beta Pin to Remy Walk; the<br />
Calculus Prize and the Pierrette H. David Award<br />
in French to Victoria Larson; the Katherine Bell<br />
Brown Spanish Award to Adrienne Scott.<br />
Underclassmen recognized for their<br />
contribution to the life of the school this past year<br />
were juniors, Margit Johnson, Kathryn Harmon,<br />
Samantha Sisler, Auritt, Maity, Morrison and<br />
Parmacek; sophomores, Megan Handal, Kimberly<br />
Rouse and Natalie Webb; and freshmen, Charlotte<br />
Matthai, Taylor Nickens, Maya Patel, Jasmine<br />
Schlichting, Sydney Sisler, Savanna Stanton-<br />
Ameisen, Karissa Wenk and Solmssen.<br />
Moving Up<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong>ers ‘move up’<br />
to ninth grade<br />
Eighth graders received Lamp of Learning pins and were<br />
welcomed into the Upper <strong>School</strong> at the annual moving up<br />
ceremonies Thursday, June 10.<br />
Emily Clark was presented with the Ruth Fiesel ’38 Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> Award for contribution to the life of the school. Student<br />
speakers included Senate President Angela Pagano, Class President<br />
Eleanor Pressman, Athletic Associaiton Head Daria Harlamova and<br />
Head of the Middle <strong>School</strong> Service League Musu Taylor.<br />
In addition to Clark, Pagano, Pressman, Harlamova and<br />
Taylor, the graduates included: Katherine Ann Alexander, Grace<br />
Mimi Alford-Hamburg, Brittany Bernstein, Nailah Brogdon,<br />
Heather Brown, Laura Bunn, Zoe Cantor, Rachel Coler, Jean Collins,<br />
Aileen Curley, Alice Douglas, Simran Gupta, June Dongmyung Han,<br />
Claudia Hogg, Julia Hopkins, Kennedy Johnson, Logan Jones-<br />
Merrill, Katya Kouzine, Seungmin Kwak, Abigail Lemmon, Selena<br />
Maity, Olivia Matthews, Cashel McCarthy, Ryan Morgan, and<br />
Mary Morris.<br />
Also, Bianca Newton, Francesca Nicoletti, Kathleen Z Peng,<br />
Alexzandria Robbins, Jaime Schwartz, Charlotte Shields, Livia<br />
Somkuti, Rachel Stern, Tristen Thompson, Amanda Torres, Erica<br />
Wachs, Storey Lai Hing Wanglee, Haley Weiss, Nicole Winig, Carolyn<br />
Wong, and Wendy Hallie Woods.<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> Award<br />
Eighth grader Emily Clark (right)<br />
was presented with the Ruth<br />
Fiesel ’38 Middle <strong>School</strong> Award for<br />
contribution to the life of the school<br />
by Middle <strong>School</strong> Director Lois<br />
Pressman (left) at <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s annual<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> Moving Up ceremony.<br />
The award is named after the late<br />
Ruth Fiesel ’38, a former Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> head who was also a winner<br />
of the school’s Alumnae Award.<br />
S U M M E R E C H O E S 2 0 1 0 1 1
12<br />
FA C U LTY F O OT N OT E S<br />
Seven longtime faculty and staff<br />
members moved on this spring<br />
MARC EPSTEIN, who taught history in the Middle and Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong>s at <strong>Baldwin</strong> for 21 years, has moved to Bucks County<br />
where he will continue to teach history and advise<br />
the Model United Nations club at the nearby<br />
Pennington <strong>School</strong> in New Jersey. He served<br />
on many faculty committees at <strong>Baldwin</strong>, most<br />
recently the Faculty-Administrative Council and<br />
the Discipline Committee. Taking <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s Model<br />
UN club to Washington, D.C. annually was always<br />
a highlight for him. “<strong>Baldwin</strong> has been a great<br />
experience for 21 years. The girls have amazing<br />
energy and it’s been a pleasure being part of such a dynamic<br />
community,” he said.<br />
CHRISTIANE DEBOISSESON may be retiring after teaching<br />
French in every division at <strong>Baldwin</strong> for 20 years, but she will<br />
be busy teaching at Main Line <strong>School</strong> Night and the Alliance<br />
Française of Philadelphia, gardening, caring for<br />
her eight grandchildren and traveling. She served<br />
as a class advisor for 15 years, the Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
yearbook advisor, head of the Faculty Forum, a<br />
member of many committees including search<br />
committees for the head of school and Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> director, and a faculty mentor. She also<br />
organized the Middle <strong>School</strong> trip to Quebec and<br />
was awarded grants from both the Agnes and<br />
Sophie Dallas Irwin and a Rachel C. Shoemaker Funds. “I will<br />
miss my time in the classroom with my students, and I will<br />
miss being part of a unique and divine group of adults,” she<br />
said. “And I will miss the essence of <strong>Baldwin</strong> – its philosophy<br />
and what it represents.”<br />
JUDY THOMAS is retiring after teaching fifth grade social<br />
studies and English for 19 years. She served on the Lower<br />
<strong>School</strong> Admissions Committee for the last 10 years, the search<br />
committees for the Lower and Middle <strong>School</strong> directors and<br />
as co-chair-chair of the History Committee for the last PAPAS<br />
evaluation. She looks forward to<br />
reading, sailing and traveling,<br />
especially to visit her daughter,<br />
Ashley Thomas Lenihan ’96 in<br />
London. Of leaving <strong>Baldwin</strong>, she<br />
said, “I will miss the girls more<br />
than anything, they were all<br />
wonderful.”<br />
BETH CRISCUOLO taught acting directing, playwriting,<br />
theater history, speech and an independent study in theater<br />
production in the Upper <strong>School</strong> during her 14 years at<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong>. She also directed the fifth grade play, helped with<br />
the third and first grade plays and<br />
produced the all-school Martin<br />
Luther King, Jr. assembly for a<br />
number of consecutive years. Her<br />
playwriting students consistently<br />
garnered top awards, including<br />
cash prizes, annually in contests<br />
in Philadelphia, Ohio, Los Angeles<br />
and New York. Many of their<br />
plays were produced professionally, and one student’s won<br />
the National Young Playwrights award last year. She said she<br />
will “miss <strong>Baldwin</strong>’s faculty, a rare breed of experts who have<br />
been like a family to me all of these years.”<br />
SUE HOUSER WINANT ’78<br />
served on the Alumnae<br />
Association Executive Board for<br />
seven years and as its president<br />
and representative to the Board<br />
of Trustees for four years before<br />
joining the staff as director of<br />
alumnae relations 12 years ago.<br />
During her time at <strong>Baldwin</strong>, she served as director of major<br />
gifts, associate director and director of advancement and
While serving the school for over 10<br />
years each, together they have nearly<br />
120 years of experience at <strong>Baldwin</strong>.<br />
most recently, as director of stewardship. Financial aid was<br />
her priority as a fundraiser, and she was instrumental in<br />
organizing the annual Alex Wake’05 Memorial Run as well as<br />
working with the Alumnae Association, the National Board of<br />
Advisors, the Parents’ Association and Blue Gray. She initiated<br />
the 50 th class reunion fund drive, which raised over a $1<br />
million during her involvement. What she valued most during<br />
her time at <strong>Baldwin</strong> was “working with the most dedicated<br />
group of women I have known in my lifetime: the <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
alumnae, and with a group of parents so truly dedicated to<br />
the school and the education of their daughters.”<br />
MARY ELLEN MCGINNITY taught in the Lower <strong>School</strong> for 11<br />
years: five years in both first and third grades and one year in<br />
Pre-Kindergarten. She also taught at Camp Magar for a total<br />
of 10 years and started the Lower <strong>School</strong>’s <strong>Baldwin</strong> Explorers,<br />
a nature study program inspired<br />
by her admiration of the school’s<br />
beautiful campus. She served on<br />
many faculty committees and<br />
as head of both Faculty Forum<br />
and Council and as <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
coordinator for the annual Dream<br />
Flag Project at the Kimmel Center.<br />
“My professional journey was<br />
enriched by all of the interactions I had with colleagues,<br />
parents, and especially the girls at <strong>Baldwin</strong>! I’m a people<br />
person and I loved finding ways to make connections with<br />
everyone I met” she said.<br />
MARILYN ROSENBAUM served as the friendly face to anxious<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> students applying to college during her 21 years as<br />
registrar and administrative assistant in the college counseling<br />
office. Known simply as “Mrs. R,” she coordinated transcripts,<br />
recommendation letters and other application materials for<br />
hundreds of students during her years at <strong>Baldwin</strong>, always<br />
offering words of reassurance and encouragement.<br />
B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S<br />
Trustees are honored<br />
for their service<br />
Trustee Margaret Fritz Schneider ’50<br />
was presented with a print of The<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong> recently as a token of<br />
appreciation for her long service as chair<br />
of the Board of Trustees’ Major Gifts<br />
Committee. Schneider, who has served<br />
on the Board for eight years, stepped<br />
down from the chairmanship this past<br />
year but will remain on the Board.<br />
Just like the seniors who graduated this year, several trustees concluded<br />
their terms on the Board this spring. They include Dr. Susan Taylor,<br />
nine years of service; Patti Dietrich, one year as Parents’ Association<br />
representative; Anthony Ibarguen, six years of service; Suzanne Tiernan<br />
’67, two years as Alumnae Association representative; and Carolyn Jones<br />
’73, nine years of service. Not pictured but also departing the Board this<br />
year were Meg Glascott-Birch, two years as faculty representative, and<br />
Bhavna Shyamalan, four years of service.<br />
Kathy Taylor ’70 takes a seat in the <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
chair she was presented with at the Board<br />
meeting in May. Taylor received the chair in<br />
appreciation for her service as chair of the<br />
Board for the past two years. A five-year<br />
Board member, she will remain a trustee and<br />
serve on the Board’s Executive Committee.<br />
S U M M E R E C H O E S 2 0 1 0 1 3
1<br />
Good Sports<br />
‘ONE IS SILVER AND THE OTHER, GOLD’<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> Crew makes a splash on local, regional and<br />
national waters<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> Crew had another outstanding season, capturing a total of<br />
seven gold, one silver and two bronze medals in local, regional and<br />
national regattas.<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong>’s lightweight double of Madison Noteware ‘12 and<br />
Allison Hoeltzel ‘10 won a silver medal at the USRowing Youth National<br />
Championships in Cincinnati, OH on June 13 with a time of 8:00.509 on<br />
the 2,000-meter course. First place went to Lake Union from Seattle,<br />
WA and third was Pocock Rowing Center, also from Seattle. The field<br />
included 20 boats from schools and clubs across the nation, all of whom<br />
had to qualify for the USRowing Championship at regional regattas.<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong>’s double was one of only two Philadelphia area crews to medal<br />
at the national championships.<br />
The double’s silver medal capped<br />
off an exciting season for Hoeltzel<br />
and Noteware, who won gold in the<br />
event at the 84th annual Stotesbury<br />
Cup Regatta, the world’s largest high<br />
school regatta, on May 15 as well as at<br />
the Scholastic Rowing Association of<br />
America (SRAA) Championships May 29<br />
in Saratoga Springs, NY, the New Jersey<br />
Scholastic Championships May 22 and<br />
the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing<br />
Association (PSRA) Championships May 2.<br />
Adding to the gold medal count<br />
was the junior double of Tess Candell<br />
Kaylah Kleczka ’12 and Tess<br />
Candell ’11 display their awards<br />
after winning gold medals at<br />
the PSRA Championships May 2<br />
on the Schuylkill River. Behind<br />
them is their coach, Aaron<br />
Preetam.<br />
’11 and Kaylah Kleczka ’12, who were<br />
the victors at both the New Jersey<br />
Scholastic Championships and the PSRA<br />
Championships.<br />
Also winning gold this season was<br />
Denise Cirelli ’11 who won the ergometer<br />
race for singles in the annual Dr. Robert<br />
White Novice and Freshman Regatta<br />
sponsored by the PSRA May 9. Cirelli was entered in the singles event,<br />
which was canceled due to high winds. In lieu of the race,<br />
the singles rowers competed in an indoor 1,500 kilometer<br />
ergometer race. Cirelli won the girls division with a time<br />
of 6:05.<br />
The two bronze medals were captured at the New<br />
Jersey Scholastic Championships by the senior double of<br />
team captains, Gabrielle Amundson ’10 and Alison Callegari<br />
’10, and the junior quad composed of Elizabeth Asch ’12,<br />
Natalie Webb ’12, Ally Kontra ’11 and Charlotte Beever ’13.<br />
SPRING ALL-STARS<br />
The following athletes were named to spring all-star teams.<br />
Lacrosse<br />
All-American First Team: Sloan Warren ’11<br />
National Academic All-American: Sloan Warren ’11<br />
Inter-Ac First Team:<br />
Sloan Warren ’11 and Jennifer Wigrizer ’11<br />
Inter-Ac Second Team: Arden Simone ’13<br />
All-Main Line First Team: Sloan Warren ’11<br />
All-Main Line Second Team:<br />
Jennifer Wigrizer ’11 and Arden Simone ’13<br />
All-Main Line Honorable Mention: Hilary Gray ’11<br />
Softball<br />
Inter-Ac First Team: Claire Henkel ’10<br />
All-Main Line Second Team: Claire Henkel ’11<br />
All-Main Line Honorable Mention: Callie Woods ’11<br />
Golf<br />
Inter-Ac First Team: Caroline Sawin ’11<br />
Inter-Ac Honorable Mention: Alexandra Sawin ’10<br />
All-Main Line Second Team: Caroline Sawin ’11 and<br />
Alexandra Sawin ’10<br />
Track<br />
All-Main Line Honorable Mention:<br />
Sarah June ’10 and Akela Lacy ’11<br />
The lightweight double of Madison Noteware ’12 and Allison Hoeltzel ’10<br />
won four gold medals and one silver medal this spring at local, regional and<br />
national regattas.<br />
Alumna wins gold<br />
Alessandra Cardi ’09 takes a turn at rowing away<br />
from the awards dock at the Intercollegiate Rowing<br />
Association National Championships June 4 on the<br />
Cooper River in Camden, NJ after coxing Cornell’s men’s<br />
open four to a gold medal. Earlier in the season, Cardi<br />
coxed the Cornell men’s second freshman eight to a<br />
gold medal at the Eastern Sprints Championships May<br />
16 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, MA.
Meet the new Director<br />
of Alumnae Relations,<br />
Mary Pat Nolan Staats<br />
Dear Alumnae,<br />
Greetings from the Office of Alumnae Relations! My name is<br />
Mary Pat Staats and on July 1 I joined the <strong>Baldwin</strong> community<br />
as your director of alumnae relations. I bring to this position<br />
years of experience as an administrator in<br />
higher education, most recently serving as<br />
senior associate director of alumni affairs at<br />
Lafayette College in Easton.<br />
My childhood home is in Louisville,<br />
KY where I attended Sacred Heart<br />
Academy, a private girls’ academy and<br />
where I earned a B.S. and M.A. in<br />
education from Spalding University,<br />
a private women’s college at the time<br />
I attended. I taught in a traditional<br />
second grade classroom for three years before joining the<br />
admissions team at my alma mater. Eight years later I left my<br />
position as Spalding’s director of admissions and student<br />
support services for an administrative position at Saint<br />
Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. After 20 years at Saint<br />
Mary’s, I joined the Lafayette College admissions staff and<br />
soon became the senior associate director of alumni affairs.<br />
Now, five years later, I am proud to say that I am one of the<br />
newest members of the <strong>Baldwin</strong> community.<br />
I have been an active volunteer for my alma maters,<br />
serving as a class agent, planning class reunions, serving on<br />
the Sacred Heart’s alumnae association’s executive board<br />
and as the president of the alumnae association. I look<br />
forward to putting my educational and volunteer experience<br />
to good use as I support the <strong>Baldwin</strong> alumnae and parent<br />
programs and events.<br />
“She is excited about the challenge and has hit the ground running!<br />
I’m looking forward to forging this relationship and serving the<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> alumnae community.”<br />
-Shawn Lacy ’71, President, <strong>Baldwin</strong> Alumnae Association<br />
As your director of alumnae relations, I hope to serve<br />
as a helpful resource to strengthen your connection with<br />
the school and among your <strong>Baldwin</strong> classmates and friends.<br />
One of my priorities will be to enhance your networking<br />
opportunities, and I will look to you for your questions and<br />
“Mary Pat comes to us with over 30<br />
years of experience in the academic<br />
arena. Former colleagues have<br />
praised her strong work ethic,<br />
her professionalism and most<br />
importantly, her enthusiasm for<br />
alumnae relations. I, too, am<br />
enthusiastic about her arrival and<br />
look forward to seeing her impact<br />
at our school.”<br />
- Head of <strong>School</strong> Sally M. Powell<br />
ideas as we work together to plan future alumnae programs<br />
and events. If you are in the area and would like to stop<br />
by to say hello, or would like to discuss how you can become<br />
more involved with the school and other<br />
alumnae, please contact me at 610-525-<br />
2700, ext. 268 or by email at mstaats@<br />
baldwinschool.org.<br />
In my first weeks at <strong>Baldwin</strong>,<br />
members of the community have embraced<br />
me and made me feel very welcomed.<br />
My new colleagues have thoughtfully<br />
introduced me to the <strong>Baldwin</strong> history and<br />
many of its traditions. I also have begun to<br />
meet wonderful alumnae who were willing<br />
to share some of their stories with me and help me learn the<br />
campus culture. I look forward to hearing from you the next<br />
time you are on campus, perhaps at an upcoming event or<br />
your reunion!<br />
Best regards,<br />
Mary Pat Nolan Staats<br />
D I R E C T O R O F M A R K E T I N G<br />
Anne Burns ’96 named<br />
new marketing director<br />
Former Director of Alumnae Relations Anne<br />
Plutzer Burns ’96 has been appointed<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong>’s new director of marketing.<br />
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania,<br />
Anne has had previous experience in marketing<br />
and development at Philadelphia Magazine,<br />
a Philadelphia law firm, and the Pennsylvania Society for the<br />
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She returned to <strong>Baldwin</strong> in 2007 to<br />
become the director of alumnae relations, a position she held until<br />
this past May when she became the new marketing director. “It is<br />
imperative, in these economic times, that we position ourselves in<br />
the most effective manner, the development of this new position will<br />
concentrate on doing just that,” said Head of <strong>School</strong> Sally Powell.<br />
“Our alumnae know better than anyone, the benefits of a <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
education, and it will be crucial for us to share your experiences,<br />
among others, with prospective students and their parents.”<br />
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Visit <strong>Baldwin</strong> on Facebook!<br />
Join alumnae, students, faculty, former faculty,<br />
parents, grandparents and friends and become a<br />
Fan of our TWO <strong>Baldwin</strong> Pages!<br />
See photos and videos, hear music and post your<br />
comments about daily life at <strong>Baldwin</strong>.<br />
Simply type in your browser: http://www.facebook.<br />
com/baldwinschool. Once there, you also will have<br />
the opportunity to become a fan of our new <strong>Baldwin</strong><br />
Athletics Facebook Page.<br />
Calling All<br />
Alumnae!<br />
Join our Alumnae<br />
Group on Facebook!<br />
Reconnect with<br />
classmates and<br />
friends and your alma<br />
mater. Simply search<br />
for “<strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Alumnae”<br />
A L U M N A E A L B U M<br />
How to Provide a Photo for Echoes<br />
Welcome New Alumnae!<br />
Echoes often includes photos submitted by alumnae. We encourage alumnae to send in photos of themselves<br />
and their activities. Photos can be either black and white or color, but they must be prints or digital photos,<br />
in focus and of a quality suitable for reproduction (300 dpi for digital photos.) All people in the photo must<br />
be identified.<br />
We will run photos of alumnae children if the alumnae also appear in the photo or if the child is wearing a<br />
<strong>Baldwin</strong> logo. Currently, we do not run photos of alumnae grandchildren unless the alumnae also appear in the<br />
photo. Photos will be returned upon request. Please provide a current mailing address if you would like your<br />
photo returned.<br />
We want your photos to be “picture perfect” and to help us accomplish this, please follow the following<br />
requirements. If you are sending a digital photo, be sure your camera has been set to use the highest setting with<br />
a resolution of 300 dpi. Save the image as a JPEG at the highest quality. The preferred image size is seven inches<br />
on the longest side. Email your image as an attachment (not placed in the message or in a Word document) to<br />
LPfeil@<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org. Please do not send your photo in a “photo sharing” program that requires us to sign up.<br />
If you are scanning a photo, scan it as its actual size (100%) with the scanner set at 300 dpi. Save the image<br />
as a JPEG. Email your image as an attachment (not placed in the message or in a Word document) to<br />
LPfeil@<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org.<br />
We love to receive original prints. Glossy is preferred over matte. Please do not write on the back of the photo<br />
but do include caption information on a separate piece of paper with the photo. We cannot print negatives,<br />
slides, magazine pictures or photocopies.<br />
We regret that if photos are not submitted according to the above specifications, we cannot run them.<br />
Volunteering to serve as class agents and class secretaries for the Class of <strong>2010</strong> are<br />
new alumnae, Zaakirah Hamid, Kayla Cohen, Ashley Catalano-Leckerman, Sarah<br />
June and Alexandria Evans.<br />
Alumnae - How to<br />
Get in Touch with Us<br />
Email<br />
MStaats@<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org<br />
World Wide Web<br />
www.<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org<br />
For information on how to login to<br />
the alumnae section of the website,<br />
please contact Assistant to the<br />
Director of Alumnae Blake Forrest at<br />
BForrest@<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org.<br />
Phone<br />
1-610-525-2700<br />
1-800-326-5720 (toll free)<br />
FAX: 1-610-527-7419<br />
Mail<br />
701 Montgomery Ave.<br />
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010<br />
Facebook<br />
www.facebook.com/baldwinschool<br />
Twitter: baldwinschool<br />
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home and you would like your mail<br />
redirected during certain months,<br />
please let us know. This helps us to<br />
save money on postage.
RIGHT: Friday morning’s activities<br />
kicked off with an Eighth Grade<br />
Shakespearean Workshop<br />
Performance made possible by the<br />
Elisabeth Klebanoff ’80 Memorial<br />
Fund. Among those helping to make<br />
the event happen were English<br />
teachers Beth Cope and Jill Ferland,<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong> Sally Powell, English<br />
Department Chair Olive Ledlie and<br />
Emily Klebanoff ’85.<br />
R E U N I O N M O M E N T S<br />
LEFT: Members of the 50th reunion class<br />
met with their fourth grade pen pals Friday<br />
morning of reunion weekend. Upper left,<br />
Mary Oehrle French and her pen pal, Beatriz<br />
Vocero-Perez, and lower left, Gay Coffin<br />
Grissom and her pen pal, Rachel White,<br />
pose outside the Athletic Center before<br />
touring the school.<br />
April 30 – May 1, <strong>2010</strong><br />
ABOVE: Alumnae Association President<br />
Suzanne Tiernan ’67 congratulates the<br />
alumna who traveled the farthest to<br />
attend reunion this year, Cora Ann Dobbs<br />
De Fierro Manly ’60, who made the trip<br />
from Mexico.<br />
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April 30 – May 1, <strong>2010</strong><br />
A<br />
B<br />
C<br />
D E
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G<br />
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OPPOSITE PAGE:<br />
A The Residence Assembly Room was packed Saturday afternoon<br />
with former and current faculty, family and alumnae for a tribute<br />
to former Theater Department Chair Lois Goutman who died Jan. 16.<br />
Former Maskers and faculty friends shared their memories of Mrs.<br />
Goutman, and a highlight of the event was a rousing rendition of<br />
“That’s Entertainment,” led by music instructor, Elizabeth Keller.<br />
B The Class of 1945 enjoyed a lovely luncheon on Saturday at the<br />
Villanova home of classmate, Juliana Wright Stowe.<br />
C Members of reunion classes from a range of decades enjoyed<br />
refreshments and catching up with each other on the Residence<br />
porches during the Friday evening reception.<br />
D Members of the Class of 1960 celebrate their capture of both<br />
the Champagne Cup for highest participation and the Class of 1936<br />
Challenge Bowl for raising the most money in the 2009-<strong>2010</strong> Annual<br />
Fund Drive. The 50th reunion class raised $110,507 for the Fund.<br />
E A magician entertained children of alumnae, such as the one in<br />
the chicken hat on the left, at a Saturday afternoon picnic at the<br />
Athletic Center.<br />
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R E U N I O N M O M E N T S<br />
F Classmates of 1990 and their families were hosted at a reunion<br />
weekend picnic at the home of classmate, Jennifer Granite Matunis.<br />
Alumnae attending included: front row - Nikki Gross Mintz and<br />
Suzanne DiLenge Kraus; second row - Nicole Fumo Marrone,<br />
Maryellen Koenig-Riggio, Jen Granite Matunis and Stephanie Body<br />
Woodruff; third row - Dana MacNeal, Debbie Schein, Jen Viner Marks<br />
and Heather Annesley Hoyt; top row - Jen Goldsmith, Maisha Smart,<br />
Stacey Jacovini and Lauren DeBruicker.<br />
G Celebrating their 15th reunion are 1995 classmates, Amanda Parlett<br />
Pelagatti, Megan Cook Young and Jaclyn Mason.<br />
H Together for their first reunion are 2005 classmates, Brittany<br />
Goldberg, Sara Greenberg and Allison Lessin.<br />
For more photos of Reunion <strong>2010</strong>, visit the Media Gallery at<br />
www.<strong>Baldwin</strong>school.org.<br />
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R E U N I O N C L A S S E S O F G R E E N<br />
Class of 1945<br />
STANDING: Betsy Wilbur Hodges, Sue Evans Andrews, Jane<br />
Joralemon Beers, Polly Wallworth Riggs, Caroline Beard<br />
DeClerque<br />
SEATED: Juliana Wright Stowe<br />
Class of 1950<br />
FRONT ROW: Alice Schwartz Cooke, Nancy Gillen Williams, Margaret Fritz<br />
Schneider, Joan Grant Repetto, Josefina Carrion Miro<br />
ROW 2: Mary Lyman Schreiber, Suzanne Spatola Brose-Hemmerick, Nancy Seeley<br />
Gilliland, Margaret Patten Smith<br />
ROW 3: Helen Hewitt Heberton, Joan Cowen Bowman, Catharine Kidd Franklin,<br />
Ann Pearce Roberts<br />
Class of 1955<br />
FRONT ROW: Barbara Rucker Seaton, Margaret Dewey<br />
Hicks, Rachel Bok Goldman, Ann Burdick Hartman<br />
ROW 2: Florry Hubbard Lloyd, Petey Gilfillan, A.<br />
Christina Giannini, Gail Mann Denny<br />
ROW 3: May Geggis Holgren, Brett Harvey, Jane<br />
Krumrine
Class of 1965<br />
FRONT ROW: Kathy Vick, Jeanne Bell Hero, Bernadette<br />
Cutaiar Forster<br />
ROW 2: Gale Rawson, Ebby Yeats Pinson<br />
Class of 1960<br />
FRONT ROW: Rachel Funk Jenkins<br />
(faculty), Mary Oehrle French,<br />
Sandy Scott Drayer, Wendy<br />
Shamberg Rosen, Virginia<br />
Callender Hiland, Ellen Phillipps<br />
Wales<br />
ROW 2: Ruth Fackenthal (faculty),<br />
Margaret Connell, Jean Jones<br />
Lumpkin, Susan Haddad<br />
ROW 3: Cora Ann Dobbs De<br />
Fierro Manly, Lynn Maffett<br />
Lewicki, Jennifer Gummey<br />
Gajdalo, Nancy Corbit Lewars,<br />
Sheila Moran, Mary Jane Niness<br />
Littlepage<br />
ROW 4: Elizabeth Haakinson<br />
Breziner, Gay Coffin Grissom, Alice<br />
Farrar Shaw, Louise Ward,<br />
Margaret Cormeny O’Brien<br />
ROW 5: Helena Wijkman<br />
Devereux, Lisbeth Redfield Olton,<br />
Betsey Trotter Chalmers, Dorothy<br />
Whitmyer Farnath, Robin Powell<br />
Thomas, Carolyn Lazar, Kathy<br />
Taylor Hutchinson<br />
Class of 1970<br />
FRONT ROW: Sandra Walker, Susan Flood Thorkelson, Joan Quillman Palan, Kathryn<br />
Taylor, Ann McClenahan<br />
ROW 2: Andy Palan, Jon Sprogell (husbands)<br />
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R E U N I O N C L A S S E S O F G R E E N<br />
Class of 1975<br />
FRONT ROW: Lindsay Carroll<br />
Farrell, Eve Edelman Russ, Emily<br />
Nixon, Lisa Dautrich Black,<br />
Emmeline Hunter VanderZwaag<br />
ROW 2: Elizabeth McGowan,<br />
Robyn Bechdel Morgan, Judy<br />
Michel, Christine Meyer, Barbara<br />
Aspinall Smith<br />
ROW 3: Marguerite Bell Knysh,<br />
Lisa Senior, Mason Barnett, Lee<br />
Kennedy<br />
Class of 1980<br />
FRONT ROW: Deirdre Richards,<br />
Leah Leatherbee, Beth<br />
Rosenwasser, Elisabeth Torg<br />
Taranta, Lisa Leonard, Stefanie<br />
Porges, Sally Geier<br />
ROW 2: Lyn Rosenbleeth Lavin,<br />
Julia Grant Barol, Judy Michelle<br />
(faculty), Deborah Segal<br />
ROW 3: Elizabeth Forster<br />
Camerota, Susan Casper<br />
Brenman, Alexandra Aldridge
Class of 1985<br />
FRONT ROW: Elizabeth Chesick<br />
(faculty), Wendy Williams Smith,<br />
Amy Saler Ostroff, Kristin Bergen,<br />
Linda Kania Graupner, Emily<br />
Klebanoff, Rochelle Rudolph<br />
Weiss, Karen Zeitlin Grant<br />
ROW 2: Marion Fox Pearlman,<br />
Ellen Spampanato, Kathryn<br />
Budd, Virginia Parrotto Madeya,<br />
Blair Soffe, Lyn Agre<br />
ROW 3: Isha Agarwal, Karen<br />
Anewalt DeSimone, Brooke<br />
Madonna, Samantha Daniels,<br />
Anne Holmes, Rita Nagle<br />
ROW 4: Katayoun Copeland,<br />
Stephanie Cohn Schaeffer, Lori<br />
Johnson Clark, Elizabeth Sower<br />
Ziegler, Liza Ferrell Jones, Ann<br />
Cappalonga Bunn<br />
Class of 1990<br />
FRONT ROW: Lauren DeBruicker,<br />
Heather Annesley Hoyt, Jessica<br />
Dilsheimer Getson, Anne Cole<br />
Scuderi, Deborah Schein, Suzanne<br />
DiLenge Kraus<br />
ROW 2: Stacey Jacovini, Nicole<br />
Gross Mintz, Marion Coffey<br />
Brewington, Maryellen Koenig-<br />
Riggio, Jennifer Granite Matunis<br />
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R E U N I O N C L A S S E S O F G R E E N<br />
Class of 1995<br />
FRONT ROW: Carmen Lennon, Carrie Goldstein,<br />
Amanda Parlett Pelagatti<br />
ROW 2: Erica Shapiro Hart, Megan Cook Young, Amanda<br />
Birnbaum-Steinberg, Jaclyn Mason<br />
Class of 2000<br />
FRONT ROW (FROM LEFT): Emily Yates, Keira McFadden-Roan, Laura Nasuti,<br />
Emily Scott<br />
ROW 2: Morgan Check, Huntley Woolston<br />
Class of 2005<br />
FRONT ROW: Yasmine Koukaz,<br />
Anne Comitta, Anna Adams-<br />
Sarthou, Rachel Miller, Katye<br />
Meashy<br />
ROW 2: Samantha Gutteridge,<br />
Allison Lessin, Sarah Turner,<br />
Sara Greenberg, Brittany<br />
Goldberg
Thank<br />
You!<br />
Thanks to you, we<br />
exceeded our goal of<br />
$900,000 by raising a<br />
total of $901,802.<br />
Parent participation was<br />
at an astounding 92%!<br />
S U P P O R T I N G B A L D w I N<br />
Thanks to everyone who contributed to The <strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong> 2009-<strong>2010</strong> Annual Fund!<br />
Your support of the Annual Fund helps us to<br />
educate our students and provide them with the<br />
tools required to transform them from thinking<br />
girls to accomplished women.<br />
Gifts to the Annual Fund allow <strong>Baldwin</strong> to maintain<br />
our standard of academic excellence by furnishing our<br />
classrooms with the latest technology, supporting our<br />
passionate and creative faculty, enhancing our programs<br />
in the arts and athletics, and maintaining a campus that<br />
insures an optimal learning environment for our girls.<br />
Special thanks to all of our dedicated volunteers who made<br />
the 2009-<strong>2010</strong> Annual Fund Drive a huge success!<br />
For more information or to contribute to the <strong>2010</strong>-2011<br />
Annual Fund, visit www.baldwinschool.org/gift or contact<br />
Annual Giving Director Amanda Parlett ’95 at aparlett@<br />
baldwinschool.org or 610.525.2700, ext. 240.<br />
Thank you for your continued support!
BALDWIN ECHOES<br />
The <strong>Baldwin</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
701 Montgomery Avenue<br />
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010<br />
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S A V E T H E D AT E<br />
Reunion 2011<br />
Save the date<br />
and get REDy!<br />
April 29-30<br />
Saturday, October 2<br />
• Varsity Games in Soccer, Tennis and<br />
Field Hockey • Pancake Breakfast<br />
• Barbecue • Family Fun and Games<br />
Visit www.baldwinschool.org for more details.<br />
Nonprofit Organization<br />
U.S. Postage<br />
PAID<br />
Permit No. 13<br />
Conshohocken, PA<br />
Homecoming <strong>2010</strong>