THE MAGAZINE OF GREENHILL SCHOOL WINTER 2008

The Community Garden:

Space to learn
how things grow

In Memoriam
Helen Fulton (1914–2007)
Reunions
Grandparents and
Special Friends Day
Grill on The Hill
Alumni Profile:
Michael Davis ’84
trustees
board of trustees

2007 – 2008 Board of Trustees

LIFETIME TRUSTEES Ann Frances Jury
Milton P. Levy, Jr. Courtney Slatten Katzenstein
Daniel T. Phillips Harold F. Kleinman
Brenda Joyce Lauderback
OFFICERS Laurence H. Lebowitz
Rusty Jaggers Chair Carol Levy
Terrell W. Oxford Assistant Chair/ Veronica S. Lewis
Secretary Zachary Luterman ’90
William E. Rose, ’85 Finance Chair/ E. Pierce Marshall, Jr. ’86
Treasurer Sandra Kim Moon
Cynthia Nunn
TRUSTEES Guillermo Perales
Richard G. Andrew Alan Jay Perkins
Ellenore Baker Pam Beck Pluss ’81
Karla R. Barber Patricia A. Smith
Barry Barnett Wendy H. Stanley
Gilian Lempel Baron Arlene Switzer Steinfield
James Baron, Ph.D. Moyez S. Thanawalla
Sandra J. Beckert Vicki Lee Truitt
John Baxter Brinkmann Kathleen J. Wu
Peter S. Brodsky
Ron Calhoun, M.D. FORMER BOARD CHAIRS
Christopher Inslee Clark ’89 ELECTING TO SERVE EX OFFICIO
Michael L. Davis ’84 Sally R. Estes
Michael S. Glazer Irwin Grossman
Scott A. Griggs David L. Johnson ’67
Michael J. Halloran H. Ronald Nash
Donald H. Henley
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Contents
2 Letter From the Head of School
Helen Fulton 3 Greenhill Fund Update
1914–2007 4 Remembering Helen Fulton
5 Founders’ Day, Grandparents Day, 2008 PA Gala
6 Community Garden
8 Homecoming
9 Greenhill Legend Dan Kasten
10 School News Briefs
15 Fall Sports Wrap-up
16 New Lower School Head Michael Simpson
18 New Hornet Faculty & Staff
22 Phil Foote Campaign
23 Online Alumni Directory
24 From the Director of Alumni Relations
25 Alumni Board FAQ

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Alumni Profile: Michael Davis ’84
Senior Breakfast, Alumni Boys Volleyball
Class Reunions 30 Alumni Homecoming
32 Class of 1967 Reunion

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Class of 1972 Reunion, Class of 1982 Reunion
Class of 1987 Reunion
Phil Foote
36 Class of 1992 Reunion, Class of 1997 Reunion
Campaign
38 Class of 2002 Reunion
39 Houston On-the-Road Reunion
40 Class Notes: 1961–2007
57 Staying Connected
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Greenhill After Dark Spring Courses
Births, Weddings
Alumni
Homecoming 60 In Memoriam
61 Looking Back, Halloween on the Hill

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written by Mike Terry, Elaine Velvin and Katie Young, with articles by Janis Dworkis. Editorial assistance was provided by Janis Dworkis and the
Greenhill staff. Photos were taken by Mike Terry, Elaine Velvin, Katie Young, and contributing alumni and students. The magazine was designed
by Soleil Design—Sheri Capen Hall ’87. It was printed by Mix Printing of Carrollton, Texas.
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from the head of school

Greetings
The start of a new year is a good time for reflection. We’re now through the initial activity of the
Fall trimester; we’ve grown accustomed to new faces, new classes and new places. In thinking
about the calendar year just past, we can stop to appreciate where we’ve been and remember
those who have had an impact on our lives.
Scott Griggs

On October 23, the Greenhill community lost one of its founders, Helen Fulton. She served this
community for 50 years in just about every capacity imaginable. From mother of four alumni to dedicated
carpool coordinator to wife and partner of Bernard for 73 years, Mrs. Fulton lived and breathed Greenhill.
Without her spirit and tenacity, we would not have the school that we all are so proud of today.
Though she was unable to attend, we honored Mrs. Fulton on Founders’ Day in September, and now
we dedicate this issue of the Hill to her memory.
I think Mrs. Fulton would be pleased with the breadth of activity we’ve experienced this year and how
we remain firmly committed to our mission. Admission season is in full swing and interest in Greenhill
remains exceptionally strong. We have hosted over 700 visitors at our campus previews and morning
coffees. We receive interest from families throughout the Metroplex, which explains the fact that currently
we have students enrolled from 97 different zip codes in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
We introduced the Partnership Project to several Boys and Girls Club parents and students at the West
Dallas Club on October 18. The project is designed to revive a valuable but waning program (formerly
the Independent School Project), which at one time directed a number of excellent students to Greenhill.
Alumni Eric Johnson ’94, Elisa Cantu ’94, Eric Kazee ’94, Rhonda Tankerson ’93, and Stan Lemons ’84,
and current senior Shana Pouncy gave powerful testimonies regarding their experiences at Greenhill.
Greenhill continues to be recognized as a leader nationally among independent schools in providing an
equitable environment for all students. Our effort with the Boys and Girls Club is one example of the
outreach which helps to create an inclusive culture.
Honors from the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test were announced in September.
Ten students from the class of 2008 were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. Twenty-one
additional students were recognized as Commended Scholars. The National Merit Corporation also
recognized four Latino/Hispanic students and three African American students as high scorers. In sum,
a total of thirty-five students (33%) from the Class of 2008 were recognized through the National Merit
program.
The fall sports season saw several exceptional individual and team accomplishments, but
unfortunately none resulted in SPC Championships. Freshman Chelsey Sveinsson won the individual
girls cross country championship and qualified for the Foot Locker National Cross Country meet held in
San Diego in early December. Chelsey won the SPC meet by a forty-five second margin and was recently

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greenhill fund update
3rd and 5th, respectively, out of 17 teams at the SPC meet. Girls’
volleyball came up short in their quest for a fourth consecutive
SPC championship, but finished third with a strong win over rival
Hockaday. Boys volleyball finished runner-up as they lost a tough
finals match before a full house in the Phillips Family Athletic
Center. Field hockey finished in 3rd place in Division II, but saw
several highlights during their thirteen win season, including
wins over Hockaday and Casady, the first in over a decade.
Our football team suffered a difficult 1–9 season, but displayed
excellent character and determination throughout. With several
key starters returning, the hopes are high for the 2008 season.
Finally, I am often asked now that the Great Expectations
campaign is complete, “What’s next?” We’ve accomplished much
from our 2002 strategic plan, including meeting a benchmark for
faculty salaries, constructing a new Lower School building and an
addition to our Upper School. The success of our campaign also
provided an important addition of $5 million to our endowment.
The administrative team is now reviewing the 2002 plan to
ensure we’ve satisfied our goals while looking for areas that still
need attention. We will begin to have similar conversations with
the Board of Trustees as we work to develop new action items and
formulate the direction for Greenhill over the next few years.
The 2007–2008 school year is off to a strong start. As we
reflect upon the accomplished life of Helen Fulton, I believe we
can take heart that she would be proud of the work all are doing
to continue to grow and sustain Greenhill School.
Mr. Griggs
with Sandra
and Gary J.
Fernandes,
Greenhill Fund
Grandparent
Co-Chairs
Greenhill Fund
update
T
he 2007–2008 Greenhill Fund drive has begun
with the confidence that Greenhill will have
another extraordinary year. The theme for
this year is Educate, Engage, Ensure—educate our
children, engage the whole community, and ensure a
tradition of excellence.
As of December 31, 2007, we have raised
$1,336,026 of the $1,500,000 goal under the leader-
ship of Trustees, Sandy Beckert and Moyez Thanawal-
la, Co-chairs, assisted by Holland Gary ’93, Kyle
Rovinsky ’86, Alumni Co-chairs; Sandra and Gary J.
Fernandes, Grandparent Chairs; Sally Levy Rosen ’74
and Robert Rosen, M.D, Parents of Alumni Chairs and
our dedicated group of grade captains. Their extraor-
dinary voluntary support and leadership ensures the
success of the Greenhill Fund’s goals in participation
and dollars raised.
Annual contributions to the Greenhill Fund
provide support that is used for many operating ex-
penses including faculty salaries, financial aid, arts and
academics, to name only a few. These funds go directly
to the operating budget and are not used for capital
improvements or endowment. Every gift is very much
appreciated, regardless of the amount.
Pledges made for the 2007–2008 school year are
not due until May 2008. Gifts and pledge payments
can be made online using Visa or MasterCard. Dona-
tions of stock are also accepted. For the up-to-date
progress and online giving please check the Greenhill
School website—www.greenhill.org.
Questions? Please contact Anne Hudson,
Director of Annual Giving, hudsona@greenhill.org or
(972) 628-5512.
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 A lifetime of dedication:
Greenhill School’s co-founder
passes on legacy of
commitment and courage
1914–2007
Helen Fulton
This issue of the Hill is dedicated to
Helen Smith Fulton, Greenhill School’s
co-founder. Mrs. Fulton passed away
On October 23, 2007, at the age of 93.
Mr. & Mrs. Fulton’s Greenhill legacy
includes four children, four grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren and a son-in-law
who graduated from, attended, or are
currently enrolled at the school.
Mrs. Fulton was honored
at Founders’ Day on
September 11, 2007 for
50 years of contributions
to Greenhill School.
Legacy Group White 3 was
renamed in her honor.
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H
elen Fulton and her husband,
Bernard Fulton, Greenhill’s first
headmaster, worked tirelessly for 26
years to make Greenhill School a reality.
Emerging from a late 1940’s conversation
at a cocktail party or while making
chicken salad (depending on which of
the two recounted the story), the idea
to create a non-sectarian, coeducational
school in North Dallas was a tall order.
But after assembling a cast of master
teachers willing to buy into the idea,
Mr. and Mrs. Fulton moved rapidly to
establish the school.
In 1950, Mrs. Fulton drew the
original plans for the first building, a
semi-permanent structure located at
Walnut Hill and Hillcrest. She planned
it right down to the square foot. Using
prefabricated buildings similar to the
ones the school occupied during the
construction of the new Lower School,
her design included eight classrooms,
a science room, a large assembly area
and a kitchen.
The demands of starting a school
were never bigger than her commitment
to the project. She spoke boldly about
it to Tom Perryman while he and his
brother, David, were writing the history
of Greenhill. “I was born loving school.
I was born wanting to go to school.
I never had a day of school I didn’t love
being there, and so this was really
second nature to me,” she said.
At her funeral, Dr. Robert Hunt of
the Perkins School of Theology recounted
Mrs. Fulton’s great courage in the face
of enormous risk. To start Greenhill in
1950, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton gave up a
stable income, working for two years
without drawing a salary. There were no
guarantees. But she had the courage to
do whatever was needed, whether it was
cooking, administering school business,
recruiting faculty or driving the bus
when necessary.
In addition to creating a city-wide
carpool system that helped many students
get to school, she also stood firmly be-
hind the integration of Greenhill in 1967.
George Birdsong was the first African
American student to attend the school.
For her, there were no considerations of
opposition or difficulties. For Mrs. Ful-
ton, the decision was clear. The mission
of the school demanded that Greenhill
consider any admission candidate
equally. She did not see integration as a
reason to boast or grandstand. To her, it
was simply something that must be done.
By the time Mr. Fulton retired in
1976, the school had grown to 1,002
students. The Upper School moved into
the new Fulton Building, and Mr. and
Mrs. Fulton stepped into a behind-the-
scenes role. With her husband, Mrs.
Fulton continued to serve the school
for the next 25 years, visiting campus,
encouraging headmasters, and meeting
students. Mr. Perryman noted at her
memorial that though she is no longer
with us, her imprint on the school is
unmistakable, and it is everywhere.

Founder’s Day:
Sally Dunning, Helen
Fulton Honored
O
n September 11, 2007 the Greenhill
community celebrated the school’s
57th birthday. Joined by Bernard
Fulton, Greenhill’s founder and first Head-
master, students, faculty and staff gathered
in the gym to celebrate.
Rebecca Eshelbrenner, a student
representative from the senior class,
encouraged participation in this year’s
Estelle Dickens’ 4th Annual Founder’s
Day Drive. In honor of the 57th birthday,
families were asked to bring 57 cents to
donate towards purchasing milk vouchers
for North Dallas Shared Ministries. The
donations were collected in milk jugs
throughout the campus.
During the program, two Heart of
the Hill groups were renamed in honor of
former faculty member Helen Fulton and
Sally Dunning, former chair of Greenhill’s
Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Dunning, focused on fundraising
during her time at Greenhill because
she strongly believed that it could solve
campus issues with athletics, parent
participation and building problems.
Dunning proposed that the old
Middle school building be transformed
into a fine arts building and created the
Reach for the Stars campaign to raise
funds for a new middle school.
With her passion and commitment
to Greenhill, she also served on multiple
school-related committees.
Students and staff ended the assembly
with the Greenhill school song accompa-
nied by the Greenhill band. At lunchtime,
the birthday celebration continued with
an ice cream social.
Scott Griggs, Sally Dunning and Tom
Perryman ’81 after Founder’s Day
greenhill news
Greenhill hosts grandparents
and special friends
G
reenhill welcomed more than 700 word problems, playing chess, and reading
grandparents and special friends aloud. Second grade students collected
to campus on Tuesday, November photos of their grandparents and special
20. The event began with performances friends to create decorative collages. Third
by the Greenhill Singers and orchestra graders took visitors on a world tour with
members. Guests enjoyed breakfast and presentations from their recent cultural
heard welcoming remarks from Gary J. day event. Pre-kindergarten students
Fernandes and his wife, Sandra, Greenhill showed their guests a new dance and
Fund Grandparent co-chairs. They have introduced them to classroom pets.
three grandchildren at Greenhill in third, The event was coordinated by co-
fourth, and sixth grade. chairs Janette Clair, Wendy Goldschmid,
Middle school student hosts led visitors and Helene Raphael with the help of the
to classrooms where they were greeted by Parents’ Association.
their grandchildren and special friends.
Each grade level in Lower School had a
special musical presentation in the Library,
while Middle School and Upper School stu-
dents performed in the Fine Arts building.
Grandparents and friends participated
in classroom activities such as solving
Event co-
chairs Wendy
Goldschmid,
Helene
More than 700 grandparents and
Raphael, and special friends gathered for the opening
Janette Clair. performances.
Photo galleries available at
www.greenhill.org/photos
gala
Join us on Saturday, March 29, 2008, as we bring
G r e e nhi l l ’s G a l a 2 0 0 8
back to campus with featured guest artist American Idol winner Taylor Hicks.
This “Heart & Soul” event promises to be the party of the year!
Visit Greenhill’s Gala website for more information.
http://www.greenhill.org/departments/parents%20association/gala.htm
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Community
Garden
S pread over 2,500 square feet of ground
Greenhill Green Team members have spent
the last year planning and building the
garden. Pictured: (front row) Jim Baron,
Cathleen Garcia, Ann Drumm, Rusty Jaggers
(back row) David Lowen, Nancy Kasten, Karla
Barber, Scott Griggs, and Stacy Olesky.
2008
Garden WORK DAYS
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takes root on campus
between the east athletic fields and the
Lower School playground, a new garden
has taken shape.
Clusters of basil, corn and beans now
sprout out of beds Cathleen Garcia, Lower
School science teacher, and a small group
of volunteers have been installing since the
summer.
“This garden is about a lot of things,”
Ms. Garcia said, “It is first a place where
students can learn about how food gets
to their table, but it also gives us a chance
to study a range of principles from plant
structure to natural adaptations.”
Karla Barber, a Greenhill parent and
trustee, and Jim Baron, a Greenhill trustee
and former parent, brought the idea of a
community garden to the Green Team last
year after doing independent reading on
the concept.
Mr. Baron, owner of the Blue Mesa
restaurants, was impressed with Alice Wa-
ters’ Edible Schoolyard project. A chef and
owner of her own restaurant, she helped
Martin Luther King Middle School in
Berkeley, California, convert part of their
playground into a comprehensive
gardening program.
“I know nothing about gardens, but
this seemed like a great idea,” Mr. Baron
March 1 April 19
March 8
March 29
April 5
May 3
May 17
said, “Here was a chance to develop a proj-
ect the whole school could invest in, that
the kids could be a part of and really learn
something about food production.”
Greenhill’s environmental committee
members bought into the idea right away,
eventually investing more than $20,000
of their own money into the project. With
the help of Don Lambert, a local commu-
nity garden expert, the garden began to
take shape.
“We envisioned a large garden with
two main components,” Mrs. Barber said.
“First, we wanted to create classroom
bed space where the students could put
in their own projects. Then we wanted a
large area dedicated to growing food for
donation to area food banks.”
The early phases have taken shape
during the fall. Since September, the
garden has produced more than three
pounds of basil a week, most of which is
being used in the Greenhill cafeteria. On
September 19 alone, Mrs. Barber and a
small crew harvested and packaged 18
pounds of basil, much of which Mr. Baron
purchased for his restaurants.
While still modest in scope, the project
has grown and changed from its inception.
First located in small beds next to the
Korenvaes Family Upper School Building,
the team asked parent Tricia Quaid to
For more information about Garden
work days, contact Cathleen Garcia
(garciac@greenhill.org) or Karla
Barber (karla-barber@sbcglobal.net)
 Paula Hall, third grade
teacher, shows some
of the beans grown
in the garden. Third
graders will be using
produce to make soup
mix, which will be
donated to area food
pantries.
design a permanent space. Ms. Quaid is
a landscape architect accustomed to large
residential and commercial projects.
“The garden was interesting. I had lots
of questions about bed size and what was
appropriate for different-aged children. I
also wanted to create a focal point for the
garden and an area where lectures could
take place. But like my more traditional
projects, this was about space utilization.
In the end we wanted to create an area
where the kids could get into the dirt and
grow things,” she said.
The garden is still under development.
With 20–25 planned beds, including the
600 square foot food pantry bed that al-
ready exists, manpower is the key challenge.
“We need people. There’s no question.
We need people who can construct beds,
people with gardening experience, people
to work on integrating the garden into
Greenhill’s curriculum,” Ms. Garcia said.
Garden
Design
Upper School students built beds
during the community service day on
November 29, and Lower School students
have been out throughout the fall to help.
“It’s not just about a science project,”
Mrs. Barber said. “It’s about creating
excitement about growing food. We’re
getting it built, now hopefully people will
come out to help keep it growing.”
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Campus festiveduring
Homecoming Week
Photo galleries available at
www.greenhill.org/photos
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M
ore than 1,000 people came to campus during the week of October 22–
26 to celebrate homecoming. In addition to a busy reunion year, alumni
and families enjoyed two separate tailgate parties, as well as volleyball,
field hockey and football games.
Student Council theme for this year’s celebration and dance was “My Big Fat
Greek Homecoming.” Students brought out their best outfits for Olympians and
Athletes Day, Pajama Day, and Decade Day. Upper School students held lunchtime
competitions including a chariot race and a pie-eating contest. Junior and senior
girls played the annual powderpuff football game, while the senior boys began a
new tradition facing off against the faculty in a game of dodgeball.
During halftime at the football game, Scott Griggs, Head of School, crowned
seniors Tony Aguebor and Molly Mack as homecoming king and queen. Other
homecoming court nominees included seniors Jack McKool, Noah Comisar, Billy
Chapman, Greg Lyons, Tonya Lee, Meredith Jeanes, Roxane Modares, and Isabelle
Pan. After the court was crowned, Greenhill seniors and their parents were
presented, marking the seniors’ first step towards becoming alumni.
In homecoming sports news, the boys’ varsity volleyball team defeated
St. Mark’s, 3–2, and the girls’ varsity volleyball team defeated Hockaday, 2–3.
The football team fell to St. Mark’s, 56–7.
Please see pages 30–32 for Alumni homecoming activity coverage.
 greenhill legends
Faculty members who teach
at Greenhill for a quarter of a
century are named Greenhill
Legends. In the fifty-eight-
year history of Greenhill, 43
of the school’s employees have
achieved this status.

Dan Kasten
G
reenhill legend Dan Kasten has
taught in the Greenhill English
department for twenty-five years.
He has an interest in world religions and
spirituality that arises in part from ten
years of living abroad in Turkey, Japan,
and England. He teaches a history elective
called “Inner Light,” which explores medi-
tative traditions around the world. For the
last 20 years, he has taught a successful
senior elective course in world religions. He
has a master’s degree in English literature
from St. Cloud University in Minnesota.
According to Mr. Kasten, though
the Greenhill facilities have improved,
the things that matter the most haven’t
changed.
“I work with people I respect,” he
said, “I am in a stimulating and motivating
environment.”
Much has changed since the 1980s.
Students have traded Walkmans for iPods
and pagers for Blackberries. What hasn’t
changed is Mr. Kasten’s dedication to his
students.
“Almost every day, I leave feeling
worthwhile. I am a part of a caring com-
munity that strives for excellence,” he said.
His two essentials for teaching English:
love the material and love what you do.
“Greenhill has been such a good
match for me, because I have the freedom
to teach what I love,” he said.
Most know Mr. Kasten for teaching
the classics: Hamlet, MacBeth, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. He has also been
involved with several campus
organizations since his arrival.
Mr. Kasten assisted in the creation of
the Upper School Honor Council. He was
also involved in a faculty study group that
eventually grew into the Advancing Core
Principals committee. The ACP committee
is currently a group of faculty, student and
parent volunteers who work to promote
the Greenhill principles of honor, respect
and compassion.
“Those [principles] are just pretty
words unless you strive to make them
real,” said Mr. Kasten. “The most impor-
tant part of the ACP group is that both the
students and adults are necessary to make
it work—and they do make it work.”
Mr. Kasten said he appreciates the
various aspects of a Greenhill education.
“Educationally rigorous and socially
laid back,” he said, “The combination
works well.”
In college, a professor passed along
advice for being a successful educator.
“He told me ‘Teachers must love kids, Dan Kasten reads A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and love what they teach,” said Mr. with his sophomore literature class.
Kasten, “You have to be passionate and
engaged every day.”
Mr. Kasten said he recognizes that “The teachers I learned the most from
when students see that their ideas mat- are the teachers I liked,” he said, “It’s not
ter to an adult role model, they are much just about great material, but more about
more likely to express themselves in the making it happen for these bright, young
classroom setting. He said some teachers students—that is the reward that never
stress that learning in the classroom is gets old.”
strictly about the material—but he never
felt that way.
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 school news
fall news briefs

lower school
Friday on the Hill provides play break

O n October 5, the Greenhill Parents’

Association held its annual Friday on
the Hill event for Lower School students
and Middle School 5th and 6th grade
students.
The on-campus carnival featured
a bounce house, dunk tank and face
painting.
Volunteers served pizza, hot dogs,
popsicles and other after school snacks
to students as they played games to win
prizes.
There were new booths at the event
this year. Children’s Medical Center
volunteers applied “play” casts to students’
arms, and a carnival striker game tested
strength as participants tried to hit the
target to make the bell ring.
One of the most popular events
was karaoke where students sang along
to popular Disney movie tunes. The
Greenhill Green Team also made an
appearance, handing out seedlings for Pre-k/k students and parents get active
students to plant at home.
O n October 9 and 10, parents of Pre-
kindergarten and kindergarten students
attended Parent PE in the Cox Gym.
Lisa Burton, Lower School physical
education teacher, arranged the play
all school dates to introduce families to the motor
experiences that students are involved
Halloween Horribles: Band leads in during physical education classes.
students on October parade Family members and students were

G reenhill students celebrated Halloween

with the annual Horribles Parade.
The parade, led by Mr. Griggs in a hornet
divided into small groups to circuit
through a series of physical activities.
Students used skills such as risk taking,
costume, wound through the halls of every motor planning, balance, and rhythm to
building on campus. walk along balance beams, throw balls,
The Greenhill band, dressed as and jump on trampolines.
princes and princesses, played familiar
tunes as students showed off their
costumes for Upper School students and
parent spectators.
The parade concluded in the Meadow,
where Michael Manes, Kathy Holmes, and
Kathi Williams of the Lower School music
department led students in a “scary sing-
a-long.”
After the morning events, Lower
School students met around the
playground to enjoy Halloween treats with
their families.
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Primer pie contest shows off
baking best
P rimer students held the 4th Annual
Pie Contest on October 5.
This year, 22 various student groups
and faculty members across campus
entered their pies.
Primer teachers incorporated the
pie contest into several aspects of the
curriculum.
In math lessons, the pie was used
to teach fractions. The students learned
about ingredients in the pie in science, and
they used language arts lessons to read the
recipes. The students also made pies out
of construction paper while working on
motors skills.
This year, a new faculty member
won the contest. Michael Simpson,
Head of Lower School, won with his
marshmalloreo pie, made with the help
of several Primer students.
First graders create rice babies
G reenhill first graders made rice babies
the week of September 17 as part of a
family study project. The unit teaches the
students about family relationships and
helps them understand what it was like
when they were babies.
Each student brought in a picture
and description of themselves at birth.
To make the rice baby, students filled a leg
of panty hose with rice, and then formed
a body and head.
Once the rice baby was made, the
students decorated their baby with hair,
eyes, nose and a mouth. After taking a
family photo with their new baby, the first
graders wrote letters and read books to
their rice baby.
fall news briefs news
Fourth grade launches into space study
F ourth graders participated in the ninth
annual Rocket Day on October 24
and 25.
Tony Brigham, fourth grade science
teacher, began the activity when he came
to Greenhill in 1998.
Students prepared for Rocket Day by
studying gravitational pull, solid rocket
fuels, air resistance, force, and Newton’s
laws of motion. Students brought a rocket
kit to class, and Mr. Brigham helped them
build their rockets.
Parent volunteers helped students
prepare to launch their rockets in the
practice football field. Students in the
Upper School rocket club also assisted
at the launch.
Second grade gets pet-friendly
G reenhill second graders celebrated
furry friends on September 20 when
they held the annual pet parade.
The parade promoted the value of
animals in the students’ lives and the
responsibilities members of a family
community have to one another.
Each student presented their pet and
gave the crowd some information about
the animal. Visiting pets included guinea
pigs, ducklings, dogs, cats, turtles, fish,
birds, lizards, and gerbils.
Students included their pet’s likes
and dislikes, and also spoke about
responsibility in caring for the animal
in their presentation.
Photo galleries available at
www.greenhill.org/photos
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middle school
Destination Imagination team brings
home gold
A Destination Imagination team from
Greenhill won first place in the
international Destination Imagination
competition in Knoxville, Tennessee,
this summer.
Nearly 10,000 students from 12
countries gathered to participate in the
competition. Destination Imagination
focuses on creative problem-solving with
technical and theatrical aspects.
The team was challenged to create a
skit about a hero overcoming an obstacle.
They developed a storyline about a
dyslexic girl who was trying to learn how
to read.
The students are now preparing for a
chance to compete in Globals 2007.
Team members are seventh graders
Stephanie Seale, Mackenzie Merriam,
Fallyn Sheff, Weston Shosid, Nicky
Maryan and Hirsh Elhence. The team
is coached by Greg Seale and the team
manager is Nancy Merriam.
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news
fall news briefs
Junior classical league returns to
national convention
E ight members of the middle school
Junior Classical League attended the
National JCL convention for the second
year in a row. Students competed in
several academic, athletic, and social
contests during the weeklong convention.
In addition to competing, the group
also attended the Roman costume parade
and banquet, along with participating
in the election of national officers. The
participants won in the following events:
Jeremy Chiang: 8th place, Greek History,
level II
Molly Horn: 3rd place, Latin Oratory, level
II; 14th place, Greek Life and Lit, level II
John Lo: 1st place, Impromptu Art; 4th
place Mosaics
Christina Rees: 3rd place, Acrylics; 5th
place, Impromptu Art
Christian Spangenberg: 3rd place, Greek
History; 5th place, Greek Derivatives;
12th place, Roman History
Jacob Rosenbloom: 14th place, Reading
Comprehension, level I
Kirby Richards: 6th place, Impromptu Art
Andrew Austin, Jeremy Chiang, Molly
Horn: Volleyball Championship, 1st
place
Photo galleries available at
www.greenhill.org/photos
Students celebrate African culture
and art
E ighth grade students participated in the
fifth annual Africa Day during the third
week in October.
Students visited the African gallery
of the Dallas Museum of Art and then
returned to campus for the remainder of
the day. An introduction from Moussa
Diabete, a well-known African musician,
kicked off a day full of drumming,
dancing, and African crafts.
Students made jewelry with special
beads brought by Jelcy Romberg. Claudia
Loewenstein, eighth grade language
teacher, led a session incorporating African
and Latin movements. Band instructor
Brian Donnell and Mr. Diabete led
students in a drumming session.
The afternoon concluded with all
students gathering in the quad for an
impromptu celebration of music and
dance.
The Fine Arts building and eighth
grade halls were decorated with African
inspired art made by middle school art
students.
Novelist Sascha Issenberg visits
composition class
S asha Issenberg, author of The Sushi
Economy, visited campus on October
23 to speak with seventh grade students
about his career as novelist and reporter.
He told them how he researched and
wrote his first novel over a 15-month
period. Composition students asked him
questions about how he writes, what
motivated him to write this book, and, of
course, sushi!
During his visit, Mr. Issenberg gave
students a rare glimpse into the mind and

writing of a published non-fiction author.
His appearance was facilitated by Terry
Kurz, his cousin, parent of Aaron Kurz ’13.
Mr. Issenberg is currently a political
writer for Philadelphia magazine.
Math club scores big at
MathCounts competition
T he Middle School Math Club
novice team took third place at the
MathCounts competition in Georgetown,
Texas, on November 10.
The team, sponsored by Grant
Mindle, seventh grade math teacher,
consists of eighth graders Sankalpa
Banerjee and Dawson Ray, seventh grader
Borren Moe, and 6th grader Kinaan Patel.
Middle school Math Club members
won individual and team awards at
the San Antonio Spurs Invitational
MathCounts Competition on October 21.
The top ten individual competitors
were honored at half-time of a recent
Spurs game.
The following students placed in the
top 100 among 388 competitors.
8th Place - Russell Houston (eighth grade)
53rd Place - Russell Grindstaff (eighth
grade) and Borren Moe (seventh grade)
75th place - Michael Partlo (eighth grade)
88th place - Kinaan Patel (sixth grade)
The team of Russell Grindstaff, Russell
Houston, Boren Moe, and Michael Partlo
finished eighth out of 105 teams.
MathCounts is a national competition
that motivates middle school children to
achieve in the area of math and enriches
math skills development.
Guest speakers teach about
weather, innovation
T XA 21 chief meteorologist Garry Seith
spoke to fifth and sixth grade students
on November 1. His visit was part of the
Visions of the Future speaker series. The
mission of the series is for specialists to
share innovative trends in science and
technology fields.
Mr. Seith has been with KTVT
Channel 11 and TXA 21 since 2006. He
spoke to the students about the ways that
meteorologists use technology to predict
weather changes and the new ways that
weather information is communicated to
the public.
fall news briefs
On November 15, seventh and eighth
grade students attended a lecture by Phil
Ritter, senior vice president and manager
of public affairs at Texas Instruments. He
spoke about the many ways that engineers
work in our daily lives and encouraged
students to engage in challenging math
and science classes.
upper school
Student business owner wins national
award
Z achary Galant ’08 won the 2007
Entrepreneur of the Year Award from
the Young Entrepreneurs of America.
He was chosen from a group of young
people ages 16–19. To be considered,
Zachary submitted financial information as
well as an essay about his business, called
TeraByte Games (www.terabytegames.
com). Tera Byte is a summer camp
focusing on video game creation and video
production for students ages 8 to 13.
Zachary started his business in
2004 for students at Greenhill and the
surrounding area after attending a similar
camp in California.
news
Math teacher honored at statewide
conference
O n October 13, Upper School math
teacher Barbara Currier was honored
along with 34 teachers from Texas at a
conference hosted by The Academy of
Medicine, Engineering and Science of
Texas (TAMEST) and the Baker Institute.
The conference was held at Rice University
and focused on improving science and
math education. The closing dinner
featured remarks by U.S. Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchinson.
Dr. Currier has taught Upper School
mathematics for 23 years. She served as
the chair of the math department for 16
years. She serves as a consultant for AP
Calculus for the College Board and was
honored in 1996 with the AP Special
Recognition award for the Southwest
Region. In 2004, the Mathematics
Association of America awarded her the
Edyth May Slythe Award for distinguished
high school mathematics teaching.
National Merit semifinalists announced
O n September 12, 10 Greenhill
students were named National Merit
Scholarship semifinalists by the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation.
They are: Yoon Cha, Zachary Galant,
Bryant Huang, Michael Kandalaft,
Christina Marmol, Travis McElroy, Rohan
Menon, Nicholas Rogan, Cynthia Wei,
Jay Yoon.
Conor Biller was named a semifinalist
in the National Achievement Scholarship
Program. This academic competition
awards recognition for outstanding Black
American high school students.
William Davis and Dominic Jones
were named participants in the National
Achievement Scholarship Program and
will have their information referred to
colleges through this program.
Miryana Gongora, Christina Marmol,
and Judith Vasquez were named Scholars
in the National Hispanic Recognition
Program.
Stephanie Anderson was awarded
honorable mention in the National
Hispanic Recognition Program.
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fall news briefs

Student earns perfect SAT score

S enior Nicholas Rogan has earned a

perfect score (2400) on the SAT test.
Nicholas took the SAT for the first time in
March and has also earned National Merit
Semifinalist status.
Last year, just 269 of 1.5 million test
takers earned a perfect score on the college
entrance exam.
Nicholas is active on the debate Theater students are right on time with fall
team with his sister, Olivia, and currently production
applying to colleges with strong debate
programs. M embers of Greenhill’s theater
company performed David Ives’ All
in the Timing on November 3 and 4. The
play was composed of eight one-act plays,
fine arts all having to do with the theme of timing.
Each play was short and comedic, with The first grade students who attended
frequent wordplay. were able to talk with the dancers after
their performance and ask questions. The
Greenhill hosts annual debate tournament second trimester dance classes began in

T he 21st annual Greenhill Fall

Classic debate tournament was held
September 14–16 on campus. Greenhill
November and the students are already at
work on the next informance.

hosted more than 350 debaters from 24

states over the weekend.
The three-day tournament included
three divisions: an open invitational
tournament, a 16-person round robin for
Lincoln Douglas, and a 16-person round
robin for Policy debate.
More information about the Greenhill
Debate team can be found at http://www.
greenhill.org/finearts.
Guest choreographer visits
dance classes Middle School dance students end

G uest choreographer C. Nicholas Morris

worked with Middle School and
trimester with informance

M iddle school dance students performed

Upper School dance classes on October 8.
Mr. Morris, a professional
choreographer and performer, is
a company member of the Dallas
Metropolitan Ballet.
The students learned how to pick
up movement quickly, a skill helpful in
an audition situation. The steps that Mr.
Morris taught came from the original
Michael Bennett choreography featured in
the Broadway production of A Chorus Line.
Photo galleries available at
www.greenhill.org/photos
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work from the first trimester during
an “informance” for first grade students.
The students choreographed many
of the small group dances and set them
to popular music tracks. Dance instructor
Kelly McCain said the experience of
creating the dances and performing for
an audience benefits the dancers in many
ways.
Students and faculty use summer
to perform
T his summer, two Greenhill students
performed on stage with local productions.
Junior Brittany Rasansky was recently
in a production of the classic Broadway
musical, A Chorus Line. The production
was performed by the Repertory Company
Theatre in association with the School of
Music Theatre in Richardson. The musical
was performed by children ages 11–17,
and Brittany played the part of Diana
Moralez.
Junior Carly Rosemore and dance/
drama faculty member Kelly McCain
finished a run of the Rodgers &
Hammerstein musical Carousel! Kelly
and Carly both had major roles in the
ensemble, featured as dancers and singers.
The production was produced by Lyric
Stage at the Irving Arts Center.
 fall 2007 sports sports
Fall 2007 – SPC Review
Cross country

T he fall sports season concluded on Nov.

2 with Greenhill freshman Chelsey
Sveinsson finishing in first place in the
Southwest Preparatory Conference (SPC)
Championship cross country meet at
Norbuck Park in Dallas. Junior Andres
Ramirez finished in third place for the
Hornets, leading the boys’ squad to a fifth
place finish, while the girls’ cross country Field hockey
team finished in third place overall. In
addition to Sveinsson and Ramirez, senior
Stephanie Rogan and junior Austin Miller
T he Greenhill field hockey team de-
feated Episcopal of Houston 4–0 in the
first round of the Division II tournament,
earned all-conference honors. but lost to Trinity Valley 2–1 in double
overtime in the semi-finals. The Hornets
Boys’ volleyball finished the tournament in third place

G reenhill School hosted the SPC

Division I girls’ and boys’ volleyball
tournaments in the Phillips Family Athlet-
ics Center on November 1–2, offering the
Greenhill community the opportunity to
see first-class volleyball action. The Green-
hill boys’ volleyball team finished as SPC
runners-up in the tournament, defeating
its first two opponents by the score of 3–0,
before falling to undefeated Trinity Valley
in the championship game. The Hornets’
only loss in SPC counter action during
the 2007 campaign was to the Trojans,
as Greenhill finished with a 27–9 record
overall. Juniors Ryan Bates and Nate Reid-
Griggs earned all-conference honors for
Greenhill.
Girls’ volleyball
with a 1–0 victory over Saint Mary’s Hall
on Friday, and senior, Courtney Webb,
earned All-Conference honors. The North
Zone continued to be competitive this
season with five teams competing for a
Division I berth until the last counter
game was played. Greenhill posted victo-
ries throughout the season and defeated
Hockaday, Kinkaid and Casady to finish
with an overall record of 15–9–2.  
Football
T he Greenhill football team defeated
Casady by the score of 21–7 in SPC
Division I football play. The Hornets
placed three underclassman selections on
the Division I all-conference football team,
including junior quarterback/defensive
back Will Musselman who has thrown for

T he girls’ volleyball team entered the

SPC Division I tournament as defend-
ing two-time champions, and defeated
3,321 total yards in his two-year varsity
career at Greenhill. Junior linebacker/run-
ning back Phillip Hiner-Leamon earned
Saint Mary’s Hall in the first round before all-conference honors by leading the team
suffering a loss in the semi-finals. The with 56 tackles, while sophomore wide
Hornets bounced back on Friday to defeat receiver/defensive back David Zale was
Hockaday 3–0 for third place in the selected to the all-conference team with
Division I bracket. Senior setter Michelle more than 800 total yards receiving during
Quina and sophomore Molly Horn earned the season.
Division I all-conference honors for Green-
hill. Earlier in the season, the girls’ volley-
ball team traveled with the boy’ volleyball
team to Canada to compete in the Western
Canadian Challenge, where the girls re-
turned with the championship trophy, and
MVP honors for Michelle Quina. Photo galleries available at
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profile
faculty focus
Leading and Learning:
New Head of Lower School
Michael Simpson makes building
relationships top priority
I
t is 12:45 pm outside the Lower School.
Ten-year-old voices echo across the
east side of campus during recess as
a hundred students play. But away from
their classmates, two fourth graders head
towards the walkway outside Michael
Simpson’s office. Greenhill’s new Head of
Lower School finishes an email, swivels
around in his chair and waves them in.
They grin as they come through the
glass door. It is time for their afternoon
chess match.
Mr. Simpson’s office is decorated with
artifacts from earlier teaching assignments.
A hand-drawn map of the country hangs
on the wall next to his desk. Created by a
former student, it is a memento to days in
his St. Louis classroom. By the time recess
is over, the first two boys have been joined
Faculty by four more students. Two of the girls
have brought a hamster with them.
Profile
The chess games have been a popular
way to build connections. “The kids love
it. There has been so much demand for
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matches that we made a sign-up sheet.
And so far, there’s only one student I can’t
beat,” Mr. Simpson said.
This is Mr. Simpson’s first year outside
a classroom. In the past, getting to know
his students was a regular part of his
teaching activities. Now he has to use
different strategies.
“These kids warmed up to me quickly.
But to get to know them, I spend time at
carpool. I visit their classrooms; and I greet
them as they move from place to place.
In return, they bang on my windows; they
wave as they pass, and they stop in to give
hugs. They seem to understand that my
door is always open to them,”
Mr. Simpson said.
Greenhill is Mr. Simpson’s fourth
educational position. Most recently
he served as a fourth grade teacher
and director of summer programs at
the Forsyth School located near the
Washington University campus in St.
Louis. Mr. Simpson has also taught lower
school grades at the Landon School in
Bethesda, Maryland, and at Metairie Park
Country Day School in New Orleans.
Last year, as Scott Griggs, Head of
School, began the search for a new Head
of Lower School, he sought candidates
with strong leadership abilities, experience
as an excellent teacher and a passion for
the development of young children. He
found those qualities in Mr. Simpson.
“I’ve been pleased with how quickly
he has assimilated into the Greenhill
community. He’s a great listener and wants
to learn as much as he can. I’ve also been
impressed by his instincts—so much of
our work requires us to react and to think
quickly in the spur of the moment—he’s
displayed excellent judgment when facing
these situations,” Mr. Griggs said.
One of Mr. Griggs’ first priorities is
for Mr. Simpson to help integrate the Early
Childhood program (pre-kindergarten and
Kindergarten) into the rest of the Lower
School grades.
“When the new lower school building
was built, the administration was hoping
to physically join the two programs,
putting them together under one umbrella.
Just having the administrative offices
together has improved communication
between the programs,” Mr. Simpson said.
The administration wants to
see smoother transitions between
kindergarten, primer and first grade.
Mr. Simpson and Kim Barnes, Head
of Early Childhood, are starting with
communication between the teachers. By
bringing them together for common staff
meetings, professional development and
social events, the heads hope to engender
a greater sense of camaraderie and
exchange of information.
Mrs. Barnes believes there is real
opportunity to make this change work.
“Mr. Simpson and I have strong
experiences in separate levels—his in the
older elementary grades and mine in early
childhood—so there is a good bridge of
information,” she said, “We both enjoy
observing and being involved in the
classrooms across each of the seven grade
levels. A new variety of communication is
being provided to faculty in the form of
the weekly letters as well as the substance
of our monthly faculty professional
development meetings and faculty Michael Simpson was born and raised in
meetings.”
New England. He is a graduate of Williams
Mr. Simpson has also been meeting
with Mark Crotty, director of curriculum College and began his teaching career in
programs, to examine the curricular
Maryland. His wife, Jocelynn, is a St. Louis
sequence throughout the Lower School.
“We’ve started by looking at continuity native, so both are a long way from home.
within the program. From a curricular
He says his experience in the South (New
standpoint, we should be building
from grade to grade, starting in pre- Orleans) and Midwest (St. Louis) has pre-
kindergarten. The connections should be
pared him well for his move to Texas.
clear, and we need to make sure that what
the students need for the higher grades is He has ties to Dallas (his father has
covered appropriately in the lower grades,”
lived here for 30 years), and he has spent
he said.
From the meetings, observations, and time in Texas during those years. He says
comments from parents he is collecting,
he appreciates the open-mindedness of
Mr. Simpson is assembling a short list of
priorities for next year. Texans. Despite conventional wisdom, he
“I am not here to change everything,
finds kids from Texas are less inhibited;
but there are clearly things we need to
get done,” he said, “Some of them are they value diversity; and they believe they
already in progress, such as getting the
can make their dreams happens.
primer class and the kindergarten classes
together more. Most of them will be His three children, Michael (8),
classmates next year. Other things, like the
Caroline (6) and Elizabeth (4) are adjust-
curriculum integration are more involved
and will take more work. But I think if ing well to Dallas, having been included in
we are able to establish an atmosphere of
sleepovers, parties and other social activi-
open dialog with faculty and parents, we
will accomplish my goals and come up ties. Their transition has been sealed with
with some great new ones.”
their latest addition to the family: a golden
While Mr. Simpson misses working
directly with a small group of students, retriever named Dixie.
he hopes to have a broader impact. That
is the clear opportunity he now has as
Greenhill’s Head of Lower School.
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 New Hornet faculty & staff add
ideas, experience, enthusiasm
Chastity Christian Valerie Gillespie
Kindergarten Teaching Fellow Middle School 2-D Art Teacher
Faculty Profiles
Chastity Christian is from Dallas. She has Valerie Bennett Gillespie ’98 is a Forever
a B.S. in political science with a minor in Club member. She received her B.A. in art
Lower School journalism. She is currently completing and Spanish at Randolph-Macon Woman’s
Kristen Gross her teaching certification at LeTourneau College in 2002. During the 2002-2003
Kathy Holmes University. Before working at Greenhill, school year, she returned to Greenhill as
Mendy Newman Ms. Christian was a substitute teacher with a pre-kindergarten teaching fellow and
Lisa Sealy Dallas ISD. Her interests include dance track and field assistant coach. After her
Yun Tansil (ballet, jazz and hip-hop) and physical fellowship, Mrs. Gillespie worked at St.
Kathi Williams fitness. Philip’s School in Dallas teaching art and
Spanish. Mrs. Gillespie’s newest art series
Lower School Teaching Fellows is scheduled to be displayed this year at
Chastity Christian Katherine Frei the Arthello Beck Gallery at the South
Lindsey James Sixth Grade Composition Teacher Dallas Cultural Center.
Greg Krauss
Betsy Heffernan Katherine Frei grew up in Dallas. She com-
Aditya Malhotra pleted a B.A. in literary studies with an Kristen Gross
Doris Ramirez emphasis in African American women’s lit- Third Grade Math Teacher
Matt Ridewood erature at the University of Texas at Dallas
Natalie Sabin in 2004. Before coming to Greenhill, Ms. Kristen Gross was a fourth grade teaching
Abby Smith Frei taught seventh grade language arts fellow during the 2004–2005 school year.
Tina Swartzendruber at The North Hills School. She plans to After her fellowship year, Mrs. Gross spent
complete her M.Ed. in secondary educa- the next two years teaching third and
Middle School tion with an emphasis in literacy this May fourth grades at The Winston School.
Katherine Frei at the University of North Texas. Ms. Frei She moved to Texas a year after graduating
Valerie Gillespie also serves as a teaching consultant for the from Western Washington University
Cheryl Hopkins National Writing Project. with a B.S. in fitness and exercise science.
Ginna Johnson Her interests aside from teaching include
Andrejs Krumins playing ultimate Frisbee, painting, and
Donna Woody Joel Garza running.
Upper School English Teacher
Upper School
Joel Garza Joel Garza comes to Greenhill from the Kathy Holmes
David Lui University of Houston’s Honors College Lower School Music Teacher
Mary Mathis-Sadler where he taught literature and composi-
Nadya Scheiner tion. He credits William Faulkner’s Light Kathy Holmes comes to Greenhill from
in August as the book that made him love St. Alcuin Montessori School where she
Admin/Staff reading. Born in Irving, Mr. Garza is a taught lower elementary and upper
Theresa Jones graduate the University of Texas Plan II elementary music for nine years. She
Elizabeth Racheva program. He earned a Master of English teaches primer, second, third and fourth
John Simpson Literature from University of Dallas and is a grade students and also directs the Lower
Ryan Tainter Ph.D. candidate at the University of Dallas. School choir. Ms. Holmes was born in
His research interests include the epic Waco, grew up in Tennessee, and moved
tradition, post-colonial literature, classical to Dallas when she was a teenager. She
rhetoric, cinema, and graphic novels.
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 new faculty & staff 2007–2008
received her B.A. in music from Dallas
Baptist University and her graduate
degree in music from Southern Methodist
University (SMU). Ms. Holmes also holds
certificates from the International Piano
Teaching Foundation, the American
Orff Schulwerk Association, All Kinds
of Minds and Level I MYP International
Baccalaureate Program.
Cheryl Hopkins
Middle School Assistant
Band Director
Cheryl Hopkins earned a B.A. in music
education at Louisiana Tech University.
Mrs. Hopkins has been a middle school
band director for 29 years, teaching in
four Texas school districts: Aldine ISD,
Dripping Springs ISD, Lubbock ISD, and
Garland ISD. Her bands have received first
division ratings at UIL Concert and sight
reading contests, and her Hutchinson
Middle School Jazz Band has won the
Texas Tech Jazz Festival even while
competing against high school bands.
Mrs. Hopkins’ husband, Don, is the SMU
Mustang Band director. She loves reading,
swimming and music.
Lindsey James
Second Grade Teaching Fellow
Lindsey James is an Episcopal School of
Dallas alumnus. In 1999, she graduated
from the University of Texas at Austin with
a B.A. in English. She is pursuing a teach-
ing certificate in elementary education at
Texas A&M University at Commerce. Prior
to Greenhill, she worked as an account
supervisor at TracyLocke, a local advertising
agency. After working in advertising for
seven years, she decided to make a career
change and followed her passion into
education. Ms. James enjoys working with
young children and plans to pursue a
master’s degree in elementary education.
Outside of the classroom, she enjoys
playing tennis, skiing, walking, reading
and sketching.
Ginna Johnson
Middle School Counselor
Ginna Johnson ’84 is a Forever Club
member. She earned a B.S. in psychology
at the University of Texas at Austin and
then a master’s degree in counseling at the
University of North Texas. Ms. Johnson is
also a licensed professional counselor and
a certified personal fitness trainer. She has
been a program director and clinical direc-
tor for treatment facilities and has worked
with children in foster care through Child
Protective Services. She is also in private
practice working with children, ages
3-18. Ms. Johnson enjoys being with her
two daughters, working out, cycling, and
kickboxing.
Theresa Jones
Stewardship Manager and
Parents’ Association Liaison
Theresa Jones is from Longview, Texas,
but has spent the last 17 years in Southern
California.  She attended the University of
California at Irvine and majored in psy-
chology and social behavior.  Prior to com-
ing to Greenhill, she worked at SMU and
also worked at UC-Irvine for 16 years. She
enjoys baking desserts and spending time
with her family.
Greg Krauss
Kindergarten Teaching Fellow
Greg Krauss was born in Mayfield Heights,
Ohio, (outside of Cleveland) but grew up
in Clearwater, Florida. He graduated from
the University of South Florida with a B.A.
in history and a B.S. in biomedical science.
He worked for three years in the Dallas
area in a finance/operations management
position. His personal interests include en-
joying time with his family, playing sports,
and coaching soccer.
faculty
Andrejs Krumins
Seventh Grade Science Teacher
Andrejs Krumins was born in Red Bank,
New Jersey, and was raised outside of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned
a B.S. in biochemistry at Pennsylvania
State University and a Ph.D. in biomedi-
cal sciences at the University of Texas at
Houston. He spent 10 years working for
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alfred Gilman in
the Department of Pharmacology at UT
Southwestern. More recently, Dr. Krumins
taught clinical chemistry in the Depart-
ment of Clinical Laboratory Services at
Tarleton State University in Fort Worth.
His interests include coaching sports,
listening to an eclectic mix of music, and
occasionally playing the piano.
Irma Lechuga
Extended Day Assistant Teacher
Irma Lechuga is from Chihuahua, Mexico
but has lived in Dallas for 14 years. She
works with the pre-kindergarten and kin-
dergarten students during carpool. In the
afternoon, she works with primer through
second grade students in Extended Day.
Irma is a mother of four and she has
two grandsons. She loves working with
children, and her hobbies are reading and
cooking.
Betsy Heffernan
Pre-Kindergarten Teaching Fellow
Betsy Heffernan is from Shreveport,
Louisiana, and attended college at The
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
She graduated with a B.S. in health care
management in 1998 and moved to Dallas
following graduation. Ms. Heffernan is
currently working on her teacher
certification in early childhood—fourth
grade and an M.E. at Texas A&M Universi-
ty at Commerce. For the past seven years,
she was part of the development office
at Children’s Medical Center Dallas
fund-raising for Children’s
Miracle Network.
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David Lui
Upper School Chinese Teacher
David Lui is from Taiwan and received
a B.S. in computer science at SooChow
University in Taipei. Mr. Lui earned his
master’s in computer science at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Dallas in 1981. Prior
to Greenhill, Mr. Lui worked as a systems
engineer in the IT departments of several
insurance companies; and he has taught
math and Chinese language for the past
10 years. He likes various kinds of music,
including classical, oldies, folksongs and
bluegrass.
Aditya Malhotra
Third Grade Teaching Fellow
Aditya Malhotra is from Sugar Land,
Texas. Before he moved to Texas, he and
his family spent five years the United Arab
Emirates and Abu Dhabi. He attended
Baylor University earning a B.A. in business
specializing in sports, sponsorship and
sales. Following college, Mr. Malhotra
moved to San Francisco. He worked for
the San Francisco 49ers for a season and
then returned to Waco to work for the
Baylor athletic department. He will be
coaching football, basketball and lacrosse
this year at Greenhill.
Mary Mathis-Sadler
Middle/Upper School
Choral Music Teacher
Having lived in seven states, Mary Mathis-
Sadler is a Texan by education, graduating
from Sam Houston State University with
a B.A. in music education (vocal empha-
sis).  Mrs. Mathis-Sadler studied with Inez
Silberg and Florence Birdwell at Oklahoma
City University, where she completed her
Master of Music in vocal performance and
pedagogy.  She has taught music most
recently in Conroe ISD. Choirs under her
direction have won national competi-
tions and have been featured on NPR
broadcasts.  In addition to teaching, Mrs.
Mathis-Sadler has an extensive perfor-
mance background in opera and musical
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theatre, singing with numerous companies
throughout the United States.  She also
performed with the Robert Shaw Festival
Singers several times between 1978 and
1990. Mrs. Mathis-Sadler enjoys read-
ing, running, and spending time with her
husband, Ric, and Belle, their Labrador
retriever.
Mendy Newman
Lower School Specials Teacher
Mendy Newman ’97 holds a B.F.A. from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She is certified in T.E.F.L. and is currently
training to become a Texas-certified bi-
lingual teacher. Ms. Newman is currently
teaching pre-k, kindergarten, primer, and
first grade Spanish and first grade art. She
is the junior varsity field hockey coach
and the assistant junior varsity soccer
coach. A teaching fellow and coach for the
2004–2005 school year, she returned in
2006 to help coach varsity field hockey
and to substitute teach in Fine Arts and
the Lower School.
Elizabeth Racheva
Director of Research &
Campaign planning
A native of Raleigh, North Carolina,
Elizabeth Racheva moved to Dallas two
years ago with her husband, Danail
Rachev, assistant conductor of the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Racheva earned
her B.A. in music at Emory University
and her Master of Music and Graduate
Performance Diploma in music/opera from
Peabody Conservatory. Previously, Ms. Ra-
cheva handled special projects in develop-
ment at SMU and served as a member of
the real estate team at Columbia Univer-
sity. There she assisted in the acquisition
and leasing of 17 acres in Manhattan
for development of a future campus
for the university.
Doris Ramirez
First Grade Teaching Fellow
Doris Ramirez is from Houston. She
attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick,
Maine, where she earned a B.A. in
anthropology and Spanish in May.
Throughout college, Ms. Ramirez had
a variety of opportunities to work with
children of all ages through various
community and academic projects. She
enjoys reading and speaking Spanish,
which is her native language.
Matt Ridewood
Kindergarten Teaching Fellow
Matt Ridewood is from San Antonio. Mr.
Ridewood recently completed his under-
graduate work at the University of Texas
at Austin, majoring in government with a
minor in business administration. Mr.
Ridewood enjoys swimming and basketball
and is an avid reader with many leather-
bound books. He will be coaching
basketball this year.
Natalie Sabin
Kindergarten Teaching Fellow
Natalie Sabin is from Dallas. She earned
her bachelor’s degree in economics from
the University of Texas. She is currently
working on her teaching certificate at
Texas A&M University at Commerce. Prior
to working at Greenhill, Ms. Sabin was a
recruiting coordinator for Hunton &
Williams. She loves to spend time with
family and friends, run, water and snow
ski, and read.
Nadya Scheiner
Upper School History Teacher
Nadya Scheiner was born in Washington,
D.C., and was a “Ten Year Girl” at the
Holton-Arms School. She earned an A.B.,
summa cum laude, from Duke University,
where she majored in both women’s
studies and religion. She earned a J.D.
at Stanford University Law School. Her
 new faculty & staff 2007–2008
published work includes “Islamic Legal
Reform: The Case of Pakistan and Family
Law” in the Yale Journal of Law and
Feminism, and “Sarah Austin: Biography”
for the Stanford Women’s Legal History
Project. Ms. Scheiner practiced corporate
litigation for one year in Manhattan. She
has taught at the Riverdale Country School
(in New York City) and the Episcopal
School of Dallas.
Lisa Sealy
Fourth Grade Humanities
Lisa Sealy is from Shreveport, Louisiana.
She has taught in the Highland Park ISD
and at The Hockaday School. Her teach-
ing experience comes from the fourth and
sixth grade classrooms where gifted and
talented was her focus. She received a
B.S. in education from Brenau University
in Gainesville, Georgia and a M.E. with a
gifted and talented emphasis from SMU.
She enjoys playing most sports, time with
friends, travel, art and reading.
John Simpson
Data Analysis Project Manager
John Simpson is responsible for the main-
taining the software that Greenhill uses to
manage its data. From New Orleans, he
graduated from the University of North
Texas with a B.A. in radio/TV/film. He has
worked behind the cameras as a newscast
producer and in front of the microphone
in radio. Prior to Greenhill, he was a
business systems analyst at SMU. Mr.
Simpson enjoys spending time with his
wife, Elizabeth, and their four children. He
also enjoys playing indoor soccer on the
weekends.
Abby Smith
Pre-Kindergarten Teaching Fellow
Abby Smith is originally from Chicago,
Illinois. At Centre College, in Danville,
Kentucky, she earned a B.A. in English.
She worked in her college admission office
prior to moving to Dallas. Ms. Smith is
the assistant varsity field hockey coach
this year. She enjoys playing and coaching
field hockey, traveling, and reading.
Tina Swartzendruber
Fourth Grade Teaching Fellow
Tina Swartzendruber earned a B.A. in
Spanish and sociology at the College
of Wooster in Ohio. Born and raised in
Indianapolis, she has lived in Cincinnati,
Cleveland, San Francisco, and Salamanca,
Spain. She has taught English as a Second
Language (ESL) for three years, and teach-
ing ESL is her professional goal.
Ms. Swartzendruber is also the Fine Arts
assistant to dance and theatre.
Ryan Tainter
Electronic Resources Librarian
Ryan Tainter has lived in several parts
of the country but claims Chicago as
his hometown. He received a B.A. from
Georgia State in philosophy and art and a
M.S. from the University of North Texas in
information science. He is also currently
working in humanities at the central
library within the Dallas Public Library
system. He previously worked for the
University of Arizona as a lecturing teaching
assistant and as a math homework grader.
His areas of interest include: philosophy
(pragmatism, logic and language),
contemporary art, architectural history,
Southwestern Native American literature/
philosophy, graphic novels, film, and
information literacy (especially visual).
faculty
Yun Tansil
Second Grade Teacher
Yun Tansil was born in Seoul,
South Korea. Her hometowns are Seoul
and Shreveport, Louisiana. She received
a B.A. from The University of Texas at
Arlington and a M.Ed. from SMU. She has
taught both in public and independent
schools. Her teaching experience began
at Lakewood Elementary School. Mrs.
Tansil’s recent teaching experience was at
The Lamplighter School. Her hobbies are
reading, knitting, gardening, travelling to
foreign countries, and scuba diving.
Kathi Williams
Early Childhood Music Teacher
Kathi Williams teaches pre-kindergarten
and kindergarten music. A native Texan,
she is from Houston and graduated from
Texas Tech University with a B.S. in
elementary education and a specialization
in music education. She spent 30 years
in Longview, Texas, teaching music in
private and public schools. She moved to
the Mississippi gulf coast just in time to
evacuate for Hurricane Katrina. After two
years teaching elementary music in Pass
Christian, Mississippi, she moved home
to Texas.
Donna Woody
Middle School Librarian
Donna Woody was raised
in Wichita Falls, Texas. She graduated
from West Texas State University with a
B.S. in elementary education and a minor
in music. She earned a M.Ed. in school
administration from Midwestern State
University. She also holds a M.L.S. from
Texas Woman’s University. Mrs. Woody
spent the last 19 years with Irving ISD as a
teacher, assistant principal, and librarian.
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 Professional Biography:
Phil Foote graduated from the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s
degree in education in 1957. During his
graduate studies, Phil began his teach-
ing career. He returned to his home, Port
Arthur, Texas, to teach at Thomas Edison
High School. In 1961 he was awarded a
Fulbright teaching grant at the American
Farm School in Thessalonica, Greece. He
took a year’s sabbatical to complete his
master’s degree in linguistics at UT Austin.
There he met and married Mary Alice
Swift. They returned to Greece where Phil
became head of the English department at
the American Farm School. During their
four years in Greece, Phil and Mary had
two sons, David ’85 and Andrew ’86.
Phil met Bernard Fulton in the summer
of 1968 and in July 1969 the Footes came
Phil Foote to Dallas where Phil was appointed head
of the Lower School. The following year
their daughter Amy ’89, was born. That
same year he added head of Middle School
to his responsibilities. In 1976, Phil was
named the school’s second headmaster.
Phillip G. Foote Endowment Campaign
Co-chairs: Peter and Lael Iozzo Brodsky ’86
Phil
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During his sixteen years as headmaster:
• Increased student enrollment from
984 to 1,210 while growing minority
enrollment from two percent to nineteen
percent.
• Increased faculty from 95 to 135
teachers—of whom seventy percent
held advanced degrees with an average
tenure of fourteen years by 1992
• Promoted active faculty involvement
in state, regional, national, and interna-
tional education conferences.
• Directed the development of a sequential
curriculum in all disciplines from
Preschool through twelfth grade and a
departmental/grade level matrix for all
faculty.
• Designed a communication system
for ongoing parental involvement
through regular teacher/parent/student
conferences.
• Created an extended-day program for
children of working parents.
• Developed an alumni network
throughout the United States.
• On October 1, 1985, President Ronald
Reagan and U. S. Secretary of Education
William Bennett presented an Exemplary
flag to Greenhill School. The National
Commission on Excellence in Education
sought to identify schools that
exemplified the wide range of strengths
found among private schools nationally.
Greenhill was one of the first schools in
Texas to be so honored.
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In recognition of his impact, the
alumni of Greenhill School are joining to-
gether to honor Phil Foote by establishing
an endowment in his name. Funds in this
endowment will support Lower School
programs. Greenhill Alumni Online Directory
Time to Update
To celebrate this effort, the Lower
School, completed in 2006, will be named
The Phillip G. Foote Lower School.
Gifts to the Foote Endowment serve
as enduring tributes to the expertise, lead-
ership, and nurturing spirit of an excep-
Facts:
Greenhill Alumni Directory – online
tional educator, administrator, and friend.
All information is available for your approval.
Greenhill School will use your donation to
Search for other alumni by name, class year, geographic
continue the work Phil Foote began.
area, occupation and more.
In his twenty-two years on the Hill,
Phil gave freely of himself, his knowledge,
All information is located on a secured server and
and his extraordinary compassion for
accessible to Greenhill alumni only.
others. Help us honor Phil Foote and his
legacy by contributing to the endowment
Help your friends and Greenhill stay in touch with you by
in his name.
updating your contact information.

Make your gifts to: Remember you can add class notes and donate to Greenhill
Phillip G. Foote Endowment, online.
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 greenhill
from the director of alumni relations
Alumni,
Dear
I never cease to be amazed at the difference
our alumni are making in one another’s lives,
in our immediate area, and worldwide.
At the alumni boys’ volleyball game, Shawn
Dawson ’93 joined the alumni team. He played
football at Greenhill, but took up volleyball in college
and has played ever since. After Alumni Career Day
in March, Shawn connected with Matt Udomphol ’07.
After a summer internship with Shawn, Matt
convinced him to join the alumni team. An
important relationship was established.
A fall wedding of alumni took place in the
home an alumni’s parents. The bride and groom met
at Grill on the Hill two years ago. Coincidently, an-
other bride and groom who were married that same
day reconnected as a result of an article in The Hill.
The groom read about the bride’s work in the Peace
Corps and contacted her. They had been friends in
high school. Lives are forever changed.
And speaking of the Peace Corps, Justin
Kosoris ’01 returned home after two years in Senegal
on the Atlantic coast of western Africa where he
directed an agricultural program. During his stay, he
corresponded with Greenhill’s Middle School French
classes. Sara Anderson ’03 left recently
for Burkina Faso in Africa where she
will spend two years and also cor-
respond with our middle school
French classes. Betsy Beckert ’03
Elaine Velvin and Joey Music Daniel ’92
Elaine Velvin with Ron Judkins ’71
leaves for El Salvador in March 2008, where she also
will serve in the Peace Corps. These young people
are impacting worlds most of us only read about or
hear about in the news.
Greenhill has graduates all over the United
States working in educational programs including
Teach for America and New York City Teaching
Fellow Program. They have certainly developed
a newfound respect for their Greenhill teachers.
Across the board, they have emulated the teaching
skills they saw when they were students. They are
all in low-income areas with minimal supplies and
limited administrative support. Despite the fact that
students are constantly moving in and out of their
classes, they are working to educate and improve the
lives of all their students.
Many alumni in the Dallas area are serving as
mentors for Greenhill seniors as they finalize the
college application process. Our alumni also com-
municate with young alumni who are relocating and
settling into new careers.
It is vital that we have up-to-date contact
information for each one of our alumni. Very soon,
we will be sending you a new password to access
the new online alumni directory. You can go online
or contact the alumni office directly, to update your
record. We want to continue to help you connect
with one another. We want you to continue to make
a difference.
Stay in touch with me and each other,
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alumni board faq

Alumni Board FAQ

Who is on the Alumni Board? What does the Alumni Board do?
Executive Committee: Hold Board meetings approximately 5 times a year
President Chris Clark ’89
Vice President, Greenhill Fund Holland Gary ’93 Fundraising:
Vice President, Greenhill Fund Kyle Rovinsky ’86 • Assist the Advancement Office with fundrasing aimed at alumni
Vice President, Events Amy Henika ’96 • Write and sign letters to all alumni for the Greenhill Fund
Secretary Diana DeGrasse Adamson ’87 • Coordinate, recruit for and participate in phonathons directed
At-large/Events Angela Adkins Downes ’87 toward alumni
At-large/Events Sheri Capen Hall ’87
President-elect Waverly Ware Wilson ’86 Events:
Past President Zach Luterman ’90 • Manage and coordinate numerous annual events and other
Alumni Director Elaine Velvin special projects
• Recruit greeter help, help set up for and attend three annual
Board Members: alumni gatherings: Homecoming Dinner, Head of School
Sheli Barnett ’82 Ashley Harris Johnston ’98 Holiday Reception, Grill on the Hill
Michael Baum ’89 Diane Tobias Laner ’81 • Senior Breakfast: Event planning; recruit alumni to attend;
Adam Blumenfeld ’89 Larry Ley ’68 initiate a letter-writing campaign to the senior class; attend the
Lynn Switzer Bozalis ’82 Saul Meyer ’89 breakfast and network with students, talking to them about
Lael Iozzo Brodsky ’86 Shannon Harris Ming ’94 college and beyond, offering to be a long-term resource for their
Brian Calhoun’92 Monica Moffitt ’00 post-Greenhill careers.
Chad Coben ’85 Jason Sandler ’97 • Greenhill After Dark: Assist Christine Eastus with program
Barbi Kreisler Cohen ’91 Sharon Shuster ’99 planning and marketing; design, implement and maintain
David Crooks ’87 Stacy Siegel Simon ’85 greenhillafterdark.com; design, print and mail course offer-
Joey Music Daniel ’92 Rhonda Tankerson ’93 ings post card; design and produce emails sent to the Greenhill
Clay Deniger ’86 Amar Vallurupalli ’99 community; coordinate other Alumni Board members to spread
Chad Dunston ’86 Michael Waldman ’98 the word about the program.
Stefani Silverberg Eisenstat ’85 Burney Washington ’89 • Career Day: Develop a project plan for the program; survey
Malika Burman Englert ’94 Mike Weinberg ’82 students to see what careers they are interested in and what
Jeff Fiedelman ’87 Rick Weisberg ’95 kind of sessions they want; recruit alumni presenters based on
Julie Ray Fields ’83 student requests; coordinate with Upper School to schedule all
Amy Kreisler Harberg ’87 sessions, assign presenters to rooms and students to sessions;
create and spread marketing materials—online and in print;
What is the purpose of the Alumni Association? coordinate with alumni presenters about what students are
The purposes of the Association are (a) to encourage the interest intersted in, what to expect, topics to cover; event planning for
and loyalty of alumni of Greenhill School and foster connec- the Career Day reception held the evening before Career Day;
tions between alumni and the faculty, administration, students create and mail invitations, arrange for the venue and food; be
and Trustees of Greenhill School, (b) to further the well being on hand the day of Career Day to trouble shoot, help alumni
and interests of Greenhill School through activities intended and get to where they need to be, network with students; write
designed to accomplish such purposes, and (c) to support and thank you notes to speakers after the event.
help further the purposes of the Mission Statement and Statement • Special projects (like the Coach Hall celebration): Event
of Philosophy as adopted by the Board of Trustees of Greenhill planning, create and produce invitations, coordinate food and
School in The Strategic Plan for Greenhill School, June, 2002 decoration, create digital slide show and photo album; recruit
(as same may be amended from time to time). The Association’s other alumni to attend and host the event.
activities shall be consistent with and conducted pursuant to
the standards of education and conduct under which Greenhill Can I get involved?
School was established and currently operates. All alumni are welcome to participate in these activites. Please
email velvine@greenhill.org to find out how you can help.

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 “where
It’s not just about
you finish that
counts; It’s about
where you started. ”
Michael Davis ’84
“While the present century was in its teens, and on one
sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron
gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on
Chiswick Mall a large family coach, with two fat horses …”
T
his is the beginning of W. M. Thack-
eray’s Vanity Fair, first published
in 1848. Fast forward 133 years,
when Vanity Fair was the official Greenhill
School summer reading book, and the
beginning of Michael L. Davis’ life on The
Hill.
“The events talked about in that book
could not have been further from my life
at the time. In fact, that’s a good metaphor
for the whole Greenhill experience I was
getting ready to have—so much of it just
couldn’t have been more different than
my life up to then,” said Michael, who
transferred into the School as a sophomore
living in South Oak Cliff. “My mom was
a librarian, so I had always been a big
reader. That wasn’t the issue. The issue
was the visualization of white powdery
wigs, cotillions, and debutantes.”
While transferring into any high school
as a sophomore would be a challenge
socially, Michael describes his move to
Greenhill as both the challenge of a lifetime
and the foundation upon which much of
his subsequent success has been built.
“What I learned from that time—living
in two completely different worlds—is
something I take with me into every room
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I walk into, every single day,” said Michael,
now Managing Director, JPMorgan Institu-
tional Asset Management. “I learned that
people are not really all that different at the
core. Folks at Greenhill had more resources
than where I lived, but their challenges
were the same. People are generally more
similar than they ever realize. So for me,
my Greenhill experience taught me that I
can be my true self, no matter where I am.”
Michael’s parents had chosen Green-
hill based on an ad they’d seen. Until his
freshman year of high school, Michael
had attended a mix of private and public
schools and always had been a straight-A
student. But in his freshman year, Michael
said his grades started dropping and he
began hanging out with “the wrong guys.”
His concerned parents thought Greenhill
could provide a better path.
Initially, Michael wasn’t so sure. “Every-
one talked about their summer vacations,
about resources, networks, and travel
opportunities I had hardly even heard of.
Plus, I had a three-hour round-trip commute.
I would get home too late to play football
in the neighborhood—to be with my
friends. So I lived in two completely
different worlds at that point,” he said.
More than once during that first year,
Michael told his parents he didn’t think
he could make it. He was confident aca-
demically. But the social challenges were
enormous. Luckily, he says, he had very
strong support at home. And he developed
new friendships that gave structure and
meaning to his social life.
“Michael and I just bonded right
away,” said Randy Lieberman ’84, “We
were both doubling up on math classes
and were the youngest ones in the class,
so we spent a lot of time together. And
more than twenty years later, we’re still
spending a lot of time together. In fact,
now our children play together, as well.”
After graduating from Greenhill in
1984, Michael attended The University of
Texas at Austin, planning to major in en-
gineering and architecture. But when the
bottom fell out of the housing market in
1986, he switched to finance to make sure
he would have a job after college.
“When I changed my focus to finance,
that’s when I started becoming politi-
cally active. I became involved with UT
investment policies, issues related to South
Africa and apartheid. I came to believe
that political issues were fundamental to
finance and economics, and I started to
view so many things through that lens,”
Michael said, “I was following the career of
Magic Johnson and saw the good he was
doing, investing in urban neighborhoods
in a commercially sound way. I wanted to
do something like that, but I wasn’t sure
exactly what route to take.”
That’s when he met a recruiter from
Harvard University at the UT Minority
Information Center. She encouraged him
to apply to Harvard for graduate school,
but Michael thought it was a long shot and
Michael, Maya, Bliss
and Carol Davis
alumni focus: michael davis ’84
didn’t follow through. A while later, he
received a phone call from the recruiter. “I
never received your application,” she said.
“I think you need to send it to me.”
Immediately after graduation from
UT, Davis had a nine-month internship
in Illinois with Coro, a leadership training
organization. He then earned his master’s
degree from Harvard in public policy.
“Pound for pound, though, Greenhill
was the best academic experience I ever
had, and that includes college and grad
school,” Michael said, “The class size, the
breadth of the subjects, the depth to which
your instructors knew you, the extent to
which they cared about your progress—
all those aspects of a Greenhill educa-
tion make it just a stellar experience. Sue
Roman, Drew Parham, Skip Kilmer, and
Ray Buchanan are teachers I just can’t say
enough about. I remember the time ‘Dr. B’
called me at home to see how I was doing.
I couldn’t believe a teacher cared enough
about me to check on me at home. It was
an academic experience I’ll never forget.”
In fact, twenty-three years after gradu-
ation, Michael is now re-reading several
of the books he first read at Greenhill:
The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the poetry of
Robert Frost, among others.
“I am learning so much by re-reading
those works. They were great the first time
around, but I’m getting even more out of
them now,” Michael said, “I’m also reading
the biographies of our great presidents. I’m
fascinated by how great people make great
decisions under pressure.”
Michael has been making decisions
under pressure as a daily diet for the past
fifteen years, since joining JPMorgan in
New York in investment banking after
graduate school.
“My first two years in investment
banking were honestly a blur. I worked
constantly. It’s really the most Machiavellian
environment you can imagine: lots of ego,
lots of directness, no personal life, all on
top of a robust quantitative environment,”
Michael said, “But I wanted to be the best.
I wanted to be the exception. After every-
thing I had been through, I certainly wasn’t
going to let the work ethic defeat me.”
And he didn’t. Michael worked in
investment banking for six years, dur-
ing which time he was promoted to vice
president. In 1998, he transferred within
the company to asset management and
opened the Dallas office of JPMorgan in
2000. He has served as head of institu-
tional asset management for the Western
U.S. since 2004.
“I was thrilled to move into asset
management from investment banking. It
gave me an opportunity to build longer-
term relationships with people, and that’s
something I really enjoy,” Michael said,
“But I was initially against the idea of
moving back to Dallas. The environment
in the city had just been too punishing
racially. I saw too many business people
making racially based decisions.”
What changed Michael’s mind about
Dallas? His Greenhill friend Randy.
“When JPMorgan offered me the
position in Dallas, Randy thought it was a
good time to become a part of the change
here, and I realized he was right,” Michael
said, “We have an epidemic of challenges
in the African-American community in
Dallas. But we also have a critical mass of
African-American leadership now itching
to come forward, to create sustainable
systems that help people become indepen-
dent. We can do something significant in
this city.”
I can’t achieve perfection.
But if I am humble
enough to leverage
the insights of all the
great people who came
before me, then I am
doing the best I can.
At the moment, Michael functions as a
one-man outreach program. He previously
served as a Big Brother through the DISD
Youth Mentoring Program in conjunction
with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, knowing that
students need to be able to envision
a future in order to be work toward it; a
member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
board, working to diversify the lay
alumni
leadership of the orchestra; a member of
the Harvard Schools Committee which
interviews applicants to Harvard College;
as a member of board of Greenhill School;
and mentors a number of people both
within JPMorgan Chase and across the
country.
In 2006, Michael was named one of
the “75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall
Street” by Black Enterprise magazine. In
describing his work, the magazine report-
ed that Michael oversees a team of twenty
professionals, 350 client relationships (in-
cluding many of the largest multinational
corporations and some of the largest
public funds in the U.S.) and $42 billion in
institutional client assets. The profile also
describes Michael as having been “actively
involved in diversity efforts within the firm
and across the broader community.”
“Whenever I’m reaching out and
introducing myself to a new group of
people, I always identify myself as being
from South Oak Cliff,” he said, “I want
them to know that it’s not just about where
you end up that counts—it’s where you
start out.”
As for the future, Michael said he
would eventually like his work to include
a global component. But for now, he’s focused
on maintaining a good work/life balance,
spending time with Carol, his wife of eight
years, and their two daughters, Bliss, age
5, and Maya, 2.
“I’m open to possibilities for the
future, but right now I’m really enjoying
my family, my work, and living in Dallas,”
he said.
“Michael is a really unique guy,”
Randy said, “He’s definitely someone who
has had to bridge many borders. But he’s
never lost site of where he’s come from—
and he’s still out there building bridges.
It will be interesting to watch him in the
years to come.”
Favorite book:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies
Make the Leap … and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins. “When you empower people,
great things happen,” Davis says.
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Breakfast Alumni-Senior Breakfast
Hosted by the Greenhill Alumni Board
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Fine Arts Gallery

SE N I O R S ’ 0 8
E very August, Greenhill boys
volleyball coach Keith Nannie
invites his former players to
compete against the current
varsity team. The event draws not
only the alumni players, but alumni
spectators as well. The stands
were filled with alumni, parents
of alumni, current parents, and
faculty members.

ALUMNI BOYS VOLLEYBALL

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Homecoming 2007
Alumni Homecoming 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007

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Paul ’66 and Mich ’67, David Johnso

Class of 1967
n ’67

Forty-year Reunion
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The Ginger Man
David Johnson orchestrated a great reunion
for members of the Class of 1967
and “surrounding classes.”

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David McDonou Dave Har Fulton ’68
’69, Larry Ley ’68, Will
Thomas Goodell ’66, Bill Sch
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 Class of 1972
Thirty-five-year Reunion
with guests from the classes
of 1971, 1973, 1974, and 1975
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Go Fish
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Lisa Conwell, Da t Meier Cashen ’71, Paul Greedy
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Sarita Uh

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Paul Greedy, Janet Meier Cas
hen ’71, Sarita Uhr ’74 Lisa and John
Janss ’73
David Cleaver ’73, John Conwell ’73, Ray
3,
Clint David ’7
Cooper
’73,
Darrell Hurmis ’73, Blankenship
Lydia Clements David
Tucker ’74, Debbie Cleaver ’73,
Zale Schwartz, Darrell
Meri-Kay Star ’73, Hurmis ’73
Kim Hurmis

Class of 1982
Twenty-five-year Reunion
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Home of Julie and Mike Weinberg

Zweig ’82
Robin and Louis
ica Susman, Jeff Susman ’82
Mike Weinberg ’82, Julie Weinberg, Mon

Sheli Barnett ’82,

Scott Miller ’82,
Dinah Miller
Jeff Hoppenstein
’8
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Kassanoff ’82

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Julie Black Spurr es ’87, Nicole Payseur ’87,
’87, ’87, Amy Sigman
el Berman Lerman Schussle ’87, Helene
Marnie Stiff Blonkvist ’87 r ’87
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Twenty-year Reunion M ark Platt ’8

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Home of Angie and Kirk Dunk

gan ’87, Judy Sayah Sa

Elise Alhadef Mor ge ’87, Kathry
n Hamm ’87, McCarty ’87
l Fr en ch Stefani Darda
ganian ’87 Greg Homan ’87, Colin
Michae Philippa Strelitz ’88,

Alice Platt, Sue Roman,

Christine Eastus,
Mark Platt ’87,
Kat Samson,
Stephen Gindling ’87

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Vanessa yseur ’87
and Robb Nicole Pa n Hall ’87
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Steinberg ’87 Sheri Cap

Angie Dunk,
Kirk Dunk ’87, Helen Velvin
Jeff Goodman ’87, Tre 7,
y Johnson ’87, Chris Velvin ’8
’87, Kathryn Hamm ’87
Lisa and Kevin Epstein ’87, Brad Blonkvist
Julie Hoffman Fishman ’87

Kathryn
Hamm ’87,
Julie Hoffman
Fishman ’87,
Amy Walker,
Nicole
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Stefani Dardaganian ’87, Kathryn Hamm
Carson Clement Stanford ’87

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Jennifer Lipshy Karpeles ’87, Scottie Pearson ’87, Grossman Moo erine
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 Class of 1992
Fifteen-year Reunion
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Mattito’s Mexican Café

’92 Reunion

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Joey Music Daniel, Jo
Amy Tannen Warren

Brian Calhou
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Class of 1997 Ten-year Reunion

John Lande, Cynthia Cooper

David Nash,
Brooke Oster
land

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Garza, Meredith Small, Aimee Boon
Corey Brenner, Kristina
Chris Bancroft
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 Class of 1997
Ten-year Reunion
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Home of Cecilia and Garrett Boone,
parents of Aimee Boone ’97

ooke Os terland,
Evangeline Sonnier, Br
Anthony Smallwood,
Jay Turner
Jenny Kasten Turner,

Claire Boetticher, Julie

Kern Wilkofsky, Andy
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Ann Reid, Scott Grigg
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Meagan Baumoel Jake Thomas
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Jason Sand
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 Class of 2002
Five-year Reunion
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Blue Goose Cantina
The reunion committee included Joanna Fulton,
Andrew Ganz, and Ashley London.

Cressita Bowman, Lindsey Wa

shington, Ashley London

Paul Thibodea
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bs, Ashley Lond
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ltzclaw, Zach Thomas

David Klein, Austin Ho

Carla Kinney, Lauren drew Ganz

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Derek Chen, Ja Holtsclaw, Jack Oros

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Geisler
Cressita Bowm Zach Thomas, Lindsey Washington, Mich Chris Farrok
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 Houston On-the-Road Reunion
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Home of Melinda and Steve Gordon ’83
Melinda and Steven Gordon welcomed Houston area alumni
to their home on November 8, 2007. Guests enjoyed a video
showing the new buildings and current students. Scott Griggs
gave a state-of-school talk informing the guests about the
latest Greenhill updates. Lael Iozzo Brodsky ’86 told the
on ’83
Steven Gord alumni about the Phil Foote Endowment Fund and the impact
Melinda and that he had on the growth of Greenhill School.

’97,
Liz Goldman McIlravy
Lisa Buckner ’80 ,
Tiffany Reyes ’97,
’01
McKenzie Followwill

Matthew and Katherin McKenzie Follo

e Hurst Kardesch ’86 wwill ’01, Tom
, Melissa Orth Perryman ’81

rodsky ’86,
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Julie Diaz

Laurel and Scott

Grossman ’00,
Michael Manes

Cheryl Leeds Da
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1961
Jay Crisford writes: “After I graduated
from Greenhill in 1961, I attended the
University of Texas in Austin for a couple
years and came back and graduated from
North Texas State University in Denton
with a BBA in business. After years in the
corporate world with Westinghouse, I
started an office furniture company, and
since 1993 I have been doing business
with companies in North Texas selling and
installing used and new office furniture.”
Jay and his wife, Eileen, live in Dallas.
45-YR
1963 REUNION
1965
Susan Bevan Durr writes “Thankfully,
I’m still cancer free after two years. My
husband took me to Europe for my 60th
birthday this year, and it was wonderful. 
Our son, Kenyon, is getting married
in January 2008 to the love of his life. 
They’ve known each other since junior
high school. Our daughter, Rebecca, has
been working as an interior designer for
two years now.” 
Leslie Dale Roodhouse and Ron
Peskin Reynolds writes: “Our daughter,
Stephanie D. Reynolds, received her
Ph.D. from the School of Library
and Information Sciences of the University
of North Texas on August 10, 2007. She
is now a professor at the University of
Kentucky in Lexington. ” 
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1966
Paul Osborne’s new book, The Mystery
of Sausage, published by Andrews McMee,
is due out 2008. He has just finished
producing “The Magic of Antonio
Casanova” in Italy for Euro Disney.
Paul and his wife, Melina, live in Dallas.
1967
Craig Unger, Greenhill ’67 valedictorian,
wrote the bestselling book, House of
Bush,House of Saud. He has a brand new
book out called The Fall of the House of
Bush. Craig lives in New York City.
40-YR
1968 REUNION
1972
Mark Race has recently completed several
medical mission trips over the past few
years, including one to Pakistan after the
earthquake and more recently to China.
Mark and his wife, Deborah, live in Tyler,
Texas.
35-YR
1973 REUNION
1974
Robert Hoffman writes: “In addition to
my work at Gardere as a trial attorney,
I co-author a biweekly column in The
Dallas Morning News Sunday Business
section, entitled “Business Minds.” My
writing partner and I interview a business
leader regarding some challenge he/she
faced and the management techniques
used to resolve same, and then we add
our commentary. As you can see, my work
as editor in chief of the Evergreen in ’74
is coming in handy.” Robert and his wife,
Ellen, live in Dallas. Their son, Will, is a
junior at Greenhill.
1975
Cindy Alexander writes: “I ride with the
Patriot Guard Riders. I am a Ride Captain
for the North Texas area. If you are not
aware of the PGR, we are motorcycles
riders from all walks of life who honor
heroes at military funerals. Our priority
is KIAs which unfortunately keeps us
busy. We also ride for Veterans. Today I
read a thread which involved planning the
mission of Brig. General Felix Sparks who,
on April 29, 1945, was in charge of the
liberation of Dachau. My father was in the
45th and assisted in this liberation. It was
an experience which moved his heart for
the rest of his life. Brig.Gen. Sparks will be
honored in Lakewood, Colorado.”
1976
Lee Sebel writes: “I have taken over
responsibilities for sales and market
development for KeyToSound, the audio
software company I have been involved
with since August of 2006. We completed
a three-week promotional tour leading
into and out of the Audio Engineering
Society convention at the Javits Center
in New York. We will do a similar tour
of the West Coast leading into January’s
National Association of Music Merchants
convention in Anaheim.”
30-YR
1978
REUNION
1979
Randy Pearlman has been busy
performing in several shows including
Social Security and Right Ho, Jeeves at
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. After last
year’s successful run the CTD is reprising
The Last Night of Ballyhoo with Randy
in the role of Adolph and Ginger
Goldman ’96 in the role of Lala.
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1981
Tom Perryman had the honor of walking
Evan Ritz ’08 and Sally Perryman onto
the football field at Homecoming.  Sally,
Tom, Evan and Ryan live in Dallas where
Tom is Assistant Head of Greenhill School.

1982
Progressive IT was named “Enterprise
of the Year” during the Celebration of
Enterprise 2007 Awards luncheon on
September 26, 2007 in Plano, Texas. 
Progressive IT won in the category of
annual company revenue $5 to $10
million. Progressive IT, founded by Scott
A. Miller in 1999, is headquartered
in North Dallas and is a leader in
supplemental and direct-hire staffing. The
Celebration of Enterprise Award program
began in 1997 to recognize successful
private businesses that identified a need in
the marketplace, took risks to satisfy that
need, and were ultimately profitable. Scott
earned his BBA and MSBA from Texas
Tech University.  He and his wife, Dinah,
have two children and reside in Dallas.
Peggy Silven and Chris Wilson were
married September 15, 2007, at the
Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. Her mother,
Sylvia Silven, walked her down the
aisle. Peggy’s best friend and former
Greenhill student Paula (Darver) Miller
was the maid of honor. Her cousin,
Marcie Pollman Brown ’79, attended.
Peggy and Chris live in Austin, Texas.
Louis Zweig, senior vice president
of corporate strategy and business
intelligence for Glazer’s Family of
Companies, announced that Greenhill
parents Scott Cohen, Brian Zweig, and
Sheila Chapman are members of the
Glazer’s board.
25-YR
1983 REUNION
Dawei and Corey Parsons
welcomed a son, Mason, on July 9, 2007.
They have a 6-year-old son, Michael. The
Parsons live in Richardson, Texas.
1985
Daniel Elkin writes: “I am no longer
an English teacher at Bear River High
School in Grass Valley, California. I have
become executive director of Sierra
Montessori Academy in Grass Valley (www.
sierramontessori.org). We are a small public
charter school in the Sierra Foothills that
delivers state standard curriculum using
Montessori methods. I am really enjoying
the job with its diversity and challenges.
I am also especially fond of the fact that
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I get to see my 10-year-old son, Jack, go
through the motions of being a fourth-
grader every day. Talk about parent
involvement!”
Graeme Gordon has started a new
company, DoorPal. It is the first product
that effectively protects cars from dents,
scratches and dings that happen where
most damage occurs—in a garage. Graeme
and his wife, Ronit, live in Dallas and are
expecting their first child.
1986
Lisa Fechtel Brown writes: “My husband,
Greg, continues to do well at UNC
Kenan Flagler School of Business. He’s
been promoted to area chair of finance,
is designing and fundraising for a Capital
Markets Lab (trading room), and is active
with our 7-year-old Cameron’s Y-Guides
group. Greg and Zach, our 4-year-old,
enjoy woodworking together. I am
now president of the Montessori Parent
Association, which is the volunteer-
oriented, friend-and-fundraising
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organization at our boys’ Montessori
Community School in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.”
John Perryman was one of only 22
teachers nationally selected to take part in
an institute on “The Idea That is America”
at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential
Library in Staunton, Virginia. Each teacher
received a scholarship for full expenses
and a stipend. John teaches English at
Greenhill.
Suzanne and Marc Rubin were in
town recently for Marc to compete in the
U.S. Open Triathlon Championship. Kyle
and Karen Massman Rovinsky ’92
hosted Anna and Chad Dunston and
family, Clay Deniger, Alyssa and Jeff
Fiedelman ’87, McCord and Waverly
Ware Wilson, John Perryman, and Kim
and John Warren and their daughter,
Catherine, for dinner and some serious
reminiscing about Greenhill Upper School.  1988
Marc and Suzanne live in Scottsdale,
Arizona, where Marc is an attorney.  and Katie ’19 are enjoying their new
They have three sons. For more about
Marc’s motivating and amazing health visit
his website, www.10-hours.com.
1987
Dave Chung writes: “It’s all happening
in my life. After twelve years living in
Australia, I finally just moved back to
the United States. I took a great job at a
company called Herbalife in Los Angeles,
where I’m in charge of global financial
systems. I live in Santa Monica.”
A Lela Rose wedding gown was one
of the finalists in The Today Show wedding
series in the fall. Michelle Pfiefer wore a
Lela Rose dress to receive her star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. When Becky
Hornbach ’97 married Irwin Sentilles ’98,
she wore a Lela Rose dress from Warren
Barron Bridal Shop owned by Elle Warren
’94. Lela, her husband, Brandon Jones,
and children, Grey and Rosie, live in New
York City.
20-YR
REUNION
Susan Bendalin writes: “Molly ’17
brother, Jack. Ken is a vice president in
Staubach Capital Markets specializing in
retail properties.”

Indhu Subramanian and Taft Bhuket
welcomed a daughter, Nina Valli, on
August 28, 2007. Nina has a 3-year-old
brother, Rohan. They live in San Francisco,
where both Indhu and Taft are physicians.
Susan Brice Esteve and Jo Ann De
Martini caught up at Melissa Zahn’s ’91
wedding in Chicago. Susan is a partner at
Mayer Brown doing environmental, toxic
tort and product-liability litigation and
counseling. Susan and her husband, Jordi,
live in Chicago with their children, 4-year-
old Georgie and 2-year-old Gabriela.
Shepherd and Chris Homan have
moved to Dallas from Houston. They
have two children, 5-year-old Connor and
3-year-old Grayson.
Rob and Amy Chen Nisbet welcomed
their third daughter, Ashlynne Desirée, on
August 16, 2007. Ashlynne’s two sisters are
3-year-old Nicole Ashley and 2-year-old
Alexis Danielle. The Nisbets live in Plano.
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After more than thirteen years, Debra
Goldstein Phares has left her position
with the Dallas Museum of Art. She is
now the director of donor relations at
Communities Foundation of Texas. She
raises money to help philanthropists give
it back to the community. Her husband,
Mark, has opened a new business,
Potomac Garage Solutions. Kevin Pailet
’90 and David Pailet ’91 are investors
with him. They provide custom garage
organization as you can see on their
website www.potomacgaragesolutions.
com. Debra writes: “We also moved in
March, and Kyle Rovinsky ’86 was our
realtor (more Greenhill connections).”
Trevor Anders Rich was born June 26,
2007, to proud parents Charles and Kelle
Wood Rich. Taylor Rich is a proud 6-year-
old brother. They live in Austin, where
Kelle is with Central Texas Autism Center
and Charles is with Adobe Systems, Inc.
Carolyn Siegel writes: “We are
doing great. We love Boston—it is such
an exciting city! Elina was a year old
December 15. We had a family wedding in
January 2008, so our entire family (David
and Cindy Siegal Hizami ’85 and their
children and Jeff Siegel ’92) celebrated
New Year’s Eve in Argentina.”
Kira and Larry Zahn moved to from
San Francisco to Austin in June 2007.
They have two sons, 6-year-old Gavin and
4-year-old Kuper. Larry works with Silicon
Valley Bank Capital.
1989
Chris Clark, Marc Marrocco, and David
Crooks ’87 caught up with Hunter Lord ’93
on their annual Labor Day trip to Los
Angeles. Hunter is operations manager
for Skybar at the Mondrian Hotel in West
Hollywood.
Evan Fitzmaurice and Brandon
Camp’s festival hit movie, A Lawyer Walks
Into a Bar, is now available on DVD. Ebert
and Roeper named it their “Video Pick of
the Week.”
Sue Hong Rodzynek has left Citigroup
after seven years. She has joined Apollo
Management International in London to
head their fundraising activities in Europe.
Sue and Marco Rodzynek have a
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daughter, Sophia Nabi, who is a year old.
Braden Hosch writes: “This
summer my wife, Leslie, and I moved to
Connecticut, where I have a new position
as director of institutional research and
assessment at Central Connecticut State
University in New Britain, Connecticut.
I will also be teaching in the English
Department on an occasional basis. After
four years in South Carolina, we’re very
pleased to be back in the Northeast.”
Stacy and Mark McKay are the proud
parents of a son, Lawton Duff, born
August 1, 2007. They live in Dallas, where
Mark is with Warner Brothers.
Colin Rule is still in Silicon Valley
working as director of online dispute
resolution at eBay and PayPal. He was
recently named co-chair of the Board of
the National Center for Technology and
Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst
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and he’s a fellow at the Center for Internet
and Society at Stanford Law School—see
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/colin-rule.
He is delivering a keynote address at the
United Nations Forum on Online Dispute
Resolution in Hong Kong this winter,
following his prior keynotes at the UN
Forums in Liverpool, Cairo, Melbourne,
and Geneva. His wife, Cheryl, is a food
writer and restaurant reviewer in the Bay
area (www.cherylsternmanrule.com). Their
son, Andrew, is 8 years old and an avid
soccer player. His brother, 6-year-old Alex,
played on a soccer team coached by his
dad. Both boys play the piano.
Chris and Heather Hunter Stobaugh
are both attorneys in Dallas. Heather
is with Carrington Coleman Sloman &
Blumenthal, doing business litigation
as well as contract drafting and
negotiation. Chris is with Snell Wylie
& Tibbals, P.C., doing mostly business
litigation and corporate bankruptcy work.
They are the parents of 3-year-old twins,
Haylie and Aiden. 
This season Ikoyi Winn was featured
on three episodes of the television show
Prison Break as a prison guard. His music is
now available on iTunes. Just check under
the hip-hop section for IKO periodically. 
1990
Mahra Fox and Kevin Pailet were married
November 17, 2007, at Congregation
Shearith Israel with a reception at the
Dallas Museum of Art. Kevin’s brother,
David Pailet ’91, was best man, and
Melinda Segal Kollinger ’88 was maid
of honor. Kevin’s brother and nephew,
Jeff Pailet ’86 and Brennan Pailet ’14

were groomsmen. Michael Barnett, Zach
Luterman, Jeff Skibell, and Andres
Viroslav attended. Mahra and Kevin live
in Dallas, where Mahra is with the Jewish
Federation, and Kevin is founder and
owner of Pailet Financial Services, Inc.
Donald and Leah Feizy Murphy are
expecting a little girl in early December.  Todd and Lisa Sigman Paquette
Leah writes: “I plan to go back to work in
late January. We bought a new house in
Bent Tree almost a year ago and have been
remodeling it. It is nearing completion, and
I just found out that Dana Wiesenfeld
and her husband are moving in across the
street and a few doors down.”
Jennylee Powers and Neal Wright
were married at Lake Tahoe on June
16, 2007. Jennylee is an attorney from
California. Neal just sold his yoga studio
in San Francisco, and they moved to
Austin, Texas.
1991
Meredith Ellis writes: I’m still in Los
Angeles writing for TV. Currently, I’m
working on a Travel Channel show called
Taste of America hosted by comedian Mark
Decarlo. It’s in its fourth season and is a
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class notes 1989 – 1992
blast to work on. I am also writing for a
wedding show called Platinum Weddings
that is going into its third season. So, I’ve
just been jumping back and forth between
those two shows for a while now, picking
up a few other gigs in-between. I can’t
complain—life is good.”
welcomed their third child, Charlie
Dean, on June 18, 2007. Charlie has a
big sister, 2-year-old Lily and a 5 year old
brother, Sam. Lisa is an attorney with the
Southwest Area Law Department. The
Paquettes live in Dallas.
Karen Schwartz writes from Boston:
“I just got back from volunteering for a
second time in New Orleans this year.
I led a group of 28 people down there
from my office. Our advertising agency,
Mullen, actually sponsored the whole trip.
We worked with a group called ‘Hands
On New Orleans,’ doing everything
from rebuilding homes to working at the
local animal shelter. It was an amazing
experience.”
Melissa Zahn and Andy Bitner were
married October 27, 2007, at the West
Loop Studio in Chicago. Her brother,
Larry Zahn ’88, was in the wedding party.
Susan Brice Esteve ’88, Delu Jackson ’90,
and former Greenhill teacher Jo Ann
De Martini attended. Melissa and Andy
honeymooned in the Galapagos Islands.
They have moved to Austin, where
Melissa has taken a job with Advanced
Micro Devices in the Human Resources
department.
1992
Amanda and Scott Beck are the proud
parents of a daughter, Sadie Madalyn, born
October 25, 2007. They live in Dallas,
where Scott is with Beck Ventures.
Sonnet Blanton and Alex Wettreich ’93
welcomed a son, Linus Jackson, on May
15, 2007. They live in Austin, Texas.
James and Tina Scheufele Cleary
welcomed Lukas Brendan on November
14, 2007. They live in Somerville,
Massachusetts, where Tina is a retinal
surgeon and James is an oncologist.
Lynn Paget and Ian Dees welcomed
a daughter, Robin Reed, on November 4,
2007. Robin has a 6 year old sister, Avalon.
They live on the outskirts of Portland,
Oregon, where Ian writes software
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for a test-equipment manufacturer and
Lynn is an artist.
Christina and Cole Dunnick live in
Chicago, where he is an attorney with
Bullaro & Carton, P.C. Christina does
business development for Keane, Inc.
Cole writes: “I play golf regularly with
Philip Kelton ’90 and occasionally get
Trey McAdams ’90 out to watch Dallas
Cowboys games. We saw Molly Erdman
’92 perform on the Main Stage at Second
City, and she used Eric Natinsky ’92 and
Andy Gilbert ’92 as character names
during a skit. It was a great show. Her
Hillary Clinton impersonation is spot on.”
Wendy Felton and Jason Ginsburg
were married September 30, 2007,
at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Jason’s
sister, Caryn, who attended Greenhill
from first to eighth grade, was matron of
honor. Jeff Siegal was best man and Jeff
Mimura attended. Jason writes: “After
several days in Vegas, we flew to Paris for
our honeymoon.  I had a chance to use all
the French that I learned from Dr. Hines,
Madame Tapia, and Madame White.”
Melissa McCurley released a movie in
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December called Fright Flick. It stars Chad
Allen from Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Melissa was the line producer for the
film and acted in it, too. The Lycanthrope,
a film she cast and had a supporting
role in, screened at the AFI film festival
in the spring. In addition to acting in
independent films, Melissa is an interior
designer.
Eric Schaefer moved back to Dallas
in August. He is with Blackdot, an
organization that delivers compelling
design, value-driven web development
and unique new ways of doing business
on the Internet.
Carl and Mia Scheufele Schreiner
welcomed a daughter, Sophia Lara, on
November 1, 2007. The Schreiners live in
Winchester, Oregon, where Mia practices
neurology and Carl is an otolaryngologist
(ENT).
Ann-Moree Tannen and Charles O.
Warren III were married on April 14, 2007,
at the Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas.
Amy is director of merchandising systems
support with Home Interiors & Gifts.
Kenya Wilson writes: “I recently had
a pleasant surprise. I teach chemistry at
A. Maceo Smith in Dallas and our guest
“Principal of the Day” was Thomas
Joyner, Jr. So there was our mini-reunion. 
We had a few minutes to catch up and it
was really good to see a Greenhill face.” 
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Jonathan and Darcie DuBois
Crystal welcomed a daughter, Hannah
Locke, on May 14, 2007. Hannah’s big
brother, Eli, is 3 years old. The Crystals live
in New York City where Darcie is a rabbi.
Tommy and Sarah DeBerry
Caperton are the proud parents of a son,
Charles Lee, born October 23, 2007. The
Capertons live in Austin, Texas.
Todd and Kristin Briscoe Marinko
welcomed a son, Thomas Edward, on
October 18, 2007. The Marinkos recently
moved to Dallas. Kristin will continue
modeling in New York, but home base will
be Dallas.
On August 1, 2007, Molly and Ben
Setnick celebrated the birth their first
child, Edith Cynthia. Welcoming Edie into
the world, first visitors included Shaun
Dawson, Leila and Holland Gary, and

Eric ’94 and Nakita Garraway Johnson
’02. Earlier in the summer, Ben enjoyed
clerking at Hughes & Luce with Greenhill
parents Bill Finkelstein, Gary Null, and
Thomas Paxton. It really is a small world!
Ben will graduate from Dedman School of
Law at Southern Methodist University in
December and is looking forward to taking
the bar exam.
Tugba Colpan and Reid Skibell were
married in Istanbul, Turkey, on September
2, 2007. Tugba is from Sivas, Turkey.
Whitney Skibell ’97, Doug Moore ’94,
Keith Woodfin ’92, and Leslie and
Stephen Ballas ’94 attended. Stephen and
Whitney served as witnesses for the civil
ceremony, which was held at a boutique
hotel overlooking the Bosphorus. Tugba
and Reid live in Manhattan.
Sam and Kristin Martin Wright
welcomed James Henry Wright on
October 31, 2007. Kristin writes:
“Parenthood has been an exhausting
experience, but no more so than trying
to teach 125 teenagers French! On other
fronts, I attended a training session over
the summer for teaching AP French that
was taught by none other than Greenhill’s
own Renee White. It was very intimidating
to face my own French teacher as a
professional colleague, but it was a great
experience.”
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1994
Dimitri and Malika Burman Englert
are the proud parents of a daughter,
Philomena, born May 18, 2007. Malika is
a psychologist in Dallas and a member of
the Greenhill Alumni Board.
Eric Johnson – see Nakita
Garraway ’02.
Mike Magers recently moved from
San Francisco to New York City. He left
Barclays Global Investors and accepted a
position as managing director/portfolio
manager at Gresham Investment
Management.
Jwyanza and Dawn Finley Nuriddin
welcomed their third son, Bryson Cole
on May 30, 2007. Bryson’s brothers are
3-year-old Jaden and 2-year-old Dillon
Avery. The Nuriddins live in Mableton,
Georgia.
Molly Williams Pugh had a visit
from Joe and Kari Lyons Yeh when they
came through Hong Kong recently. On
their trip, Kari and Joe traveled through
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo,
and Kyoto. Tasha Curry-Corcoran put
Kari and Molly in touch. Molly and her
husband, Bill, live in Hong Kong. Molly
writes: “We took Kari and Joe to watch the
famous Hong Kong symphony of lights,
a cheesy, wonderful laser light show over
the harbor, and then wandered around
Hong Kong. It was so good to see Kari
and to meet her husband. Bill and I are
still enjoying Hong Kong. One of the great
things about the city is that it’s a gateway
to China and to Southeast Asia, so we’ve
been doing a lot of traveling. I recently led
a group of 26 of my high school students
to Vietnam for a week of service work
with the Christina Noble Foundation, an
organization that helps get kids off the
street and into medical care. One of the
highlights of this whirlwind week was
getting to take 45 street children to a water
park for a whole day of water slides, wave
pools, ice cream, and shrieks of laughter. 
The other highlight was hearing my
students begin to speak with compassion
and understanding about the causes of
poverty and the ways in which they can be
involved in solutions. Our group stayed in
Ho Chi Minh City, where the foundation
is located, and then caught a few days of
sightseeing in Hanoi.” 
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1995
Brendan and Lisa Hankinson Maher
welcomed William James Maher on
February 28, 2007. Lisa writes: “I have
taken an indefinite leave of absence from
practicing law to be a full-time stay-at-
home mom to Will, and I am loving it.  adventure continues. One thing is sure,
After my mom died, I spent about six
months having her historic home on Swiss
Avenue renovated. Now, Brendan and I are
raising our son in my childhood home,
which is fun and rewarding for me.”
Maribeth Lawson and Jason Schaefer
were married September 8, 2007, in
Atlanta, Georgia. Jason’s brother, Eric
Schaefer ’92, Derek Sandler and Doran
Weber were in the wedding party. The
Schaefers live in Atlanta, where Jason
completed his MBA from Georgia State
and is now working at inComm, Inc.
Rea Oberwetter Mackay has just
finished her Scottish law degree and
has recently started a two-year legal
traineeship at a firm in Aberdeen,
Scotland. Rea and her husband, Gerry,
recently bought a home in Aberdeen.
Thomas and Shanti Majefski
Martinez welcomed a daughter, Marley
Jordan, born on May 29, 2007. They live
in Allen, Texas.
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Jenny Phillips teaches French at SMU
and is currently writing her dissertation
for a Ph.D. in comparative literature
from UT Austin. Jenny writes: “I’ll be at
SMU through May 2008, and then the
from time to time you’ll be able to find me
snacking, sipping, and perhaps working
at Justin’s (Justin Philips ’97) restaurant,
beer table! Voilà!” See page 50.
Josh and Hilary Kreisler Stern are
the proud parents of a son, Noah Michael,
born June 21, 2007. Hilary has left her
position as a Greenhill third-grade teacher
to stay home with Noah. Josh is the co-
owner of Current Energy with his brother-
in-law, Joe Harberg, husband of Amy
Kreisler Harberg ’87.
Rick Weisberg writes: “After settling
down in Frisco in 2006, I finished
residency at UT Southwestern and opened
my own dermatology office in Frisco in
December 2007. Carter Weisberg is now
5 months old and just got back from
a family trip to the beach near Stuart,
Florida. Although he didn’t get a chance
to get out on the water due to the high
winds, he has already been sailing with
Eleise and me on Lake Texoma (while
wearing his infant life jacket of course).”
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Katie Bandy has joined the law firm of
Baker Botts L.L.P. She lives with her two
children, 4-year-old Alex and 2-year-old
Lauren, in Dallas.
Steve Clark is engaged to Sharon
Phillips. Sharon is an electrical engineer at
TI, and the wedding is set for March 15,
2008, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Steve was
in a serious car accident in May 2007 but
is back at work after rehabilitation. He
is a physician in his third year of general
surgery at Methodist Hospital in Dallas. 
Clint Conditt has left Dallas to earn an
MBA at the University of Chicago. 
Ginger Goldman was recently named
artistic associate producer and director
of Development at Risk Theater Initiative
in Dallas. Ginger helped find the theater
company its 20,000 square-foot home in
downtown Dallas on Ross Avenue. Risk
opened its Main Stage Theater, which
Ginger helped build, on October 25,
2007, with the first show of the company’s
fifth season, The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot. The production has received
rave reviews from critics and patrons
alike. Ginger will appear in The Last Night
of Ballyhoo at Contemporary Theatre of
Dallas and in Risk’s adaptation of Kirk
Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 in February. 

She will then perform her one-woman
show, Francine’s Mitzvahs, in March on
Risk’s Main Stage.
Amy Henika is now working in
development strategy and operations for
Children’s Medical Center’s Dallas and
Legacy campuses. She is a member of the
Greenhill Alumni Board.
Denise and Dustin Marshall are the
proud parents of a daughter, Lilianne
Hazel, born August, 26, 2007. The
Marshalls live in Chicago where Dustin
is a consultant with Bain & Company.
Ryan and Robyn Sribhen White
welcomed a son, Miles Sribhen White, on
July 8, 2007. They live in San Francisco,
where Robyn is with bebe, inc.
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Casey and Jennifer Cohen Becker
welcomed a son, Hayden Mathew, on July
31, 2007. The Beckers live in Dallas.
Margaret Boren writes: “I just began
my fourth year of practice in the Dallas
office of Vinson & Elkins, LLP. I handled
a wonderful pro bono case this past year,
representing an Iranian woman who was
seeking asylum in the United States on
religious grounds. She came to the United
States to visit her son, who was studying
in Dallas on a student visa, in 2004.
While here, she began attending her son’s
church. After months of soul-searching
and attending classes designed by a
Baptist minister specifically for Muslim
Iranians considering conversion, she was
baptized. Apostasy is punishable by death
in Iran. This meant that she could not
return to her home country. After a serious
uphill battle, the judge granted my client
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asylum. It was by far the most wonderful
experience of my career to date.”
Jordan Carlos is featured in the
December 2007 edition of D Magazine.
The interview discusses his rise in the New
York comedy scene. He is now filming a
movie, Ghost Town, with Greg Kinnear.
Jordan played a recurring character on
The Colbert Report and is a co-host on the
Nickelodeon kids’ show Me TV. Jordan
lives in New York City with his wife, Alina.
Sharon Charlebois married John
Weddigen on September 22, 2007, in
Detroit, Michigan. They live in Detroit,
where Sharon teaches fourth grade in
a charter school and her husband is a
manager with Sears.
Allison Grossman is engaged to marry
Matt Baldassano. They are planning a
2008 wedding. She graduated from Texas
Tech University School of Law and now
lives in Dallas, where she practices with
Anderson Jones.
Marisa Harford and Russ Agdern
were married on September 2, 2007, in
Smithtown, Long Island. Russ is a
“born-and-bred” New Yorker. He is a labor
and political organizer. He is returning
to graduate school to pursue his master’s
degree in history education. Greenhill
representatives at the wedding included
David Harford ’01, Sharon Ross,
Margaret Boren, Ted Bowie, and Noble
Hetherington ’96.
Rebecca Hornbach and Irwin
Sentilles ’98 were married September
8, 2007, on Cuttyhunk Island in
Massachusetts. Irwin’s sister, Sarah
Sentilles ’91, officiated. Their siblings
Matt Hornbach ’94, Nate Hornbach ’96,
Laura Schoellkopf Hornbach ’94,
Sarah Hornbach, Jeffrey Goodman ’05,
Stacey Goodman ’06, Emily Sentilles ’94,
and Della Sentilles ’02 preceded
Rebecca down the aisle. Guests included
Julie Kern Wilkofsky, Kristina Garza,
Meredith Small, Claire Boetticher,
Bj Gary ’96, Ian Wilkofsky ’98, Eric
Dobbie ’98 and faculty member Barbara
Gelsomino.
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Carolyn Ley and Jake Thomas became
engaged during the Thanksgiving holiday
before a beautiful dinner at the Mansion in
Dallas. Carolyn is in the second year of her
general surgery residency at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston. Jake works in
banking and is from Tulsa.
Jason Sandler and Amy Rovinsky
are engaged. They are planning a spring
wedding. Jason is a member of the
Greenhill Alumni Board.
Barbara Jones Lundberg graduated
from the University of Texas in Austin in
2000. She married her college sweetheart,
Ted Lundberg from Minnesota, in
November 2003. They welcomed their
first child, a son named Milo, November
14, 2007, on their fourth wedding
anniversary. The Lundbergs live in Plano,
Texas.
Jenny Kasten and Jay Turner were
married October 6, 2007 in a garden
wedding at The Maple Manor in Dallas.
Amy Kasten Bresie ’96 was matron of
honor and Evangeline Sonnier was in the
wedding party. After a honeymoon in the
Portugal, they live in Dallas, where Jenny
is an attorney with Jones Day, and Jay is a
realtor with RE/MAX Realty Associates.
Patricia Riddle and Justin Philips
were married in Brooklyn, New York, on
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July 30, 2006. In November, they opened
beer table on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn.
Justin writes: “We’ve been planning to
open beer table for a couple of years as
a tiny restaurant with a daily food menu
paired with a focused menu of handcrafted
artisanal beers. We are mostly using cold-
kitchen techniques, so that we have an
inventory of flavors to go with the beers
(pickles, preserves, fresh sausages, rillettes,
dried fruits, etc.). I’ve been working for a
beverage importer for the last few years
and have developed beer table as an
extension of my work, though now it will
be my full-time job.”  be doing a radio show on Saturdays from
Kylen Roberts Dau writes: “Since
graduation from the United Stated Naval
Academy, I have lived in Annapolis,
Pensacola, Jacksonville, and now back to
Pensacola. I am a Navy pilot. In the fleet,
I flew SH-60B helicopters (they look like
Blackhawks except that they are grey).
I am now back in Pensacola teaching
future Navy pilots. My husband is Darrin
Dau; we were married in April 2006. He
is also a Navy pilot and is instructing in
Pensacola as well.”
Alissa Sherling and David Kaufman
were married August 5, 2007, in Boston.
Patty Virasin writes: “I am finishing
my graduate degree in museum studies
at New York University and currently
working as the assistant registrar
at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea. In
December, I will be in Marfa, Texas, for
a few weeks doing research for my thesis
and interning in their archives. After
that, I will move back to Dallas where I
will be starting my new job in January as
the assistant registrar at the Kimbell Art
Museum in Fort Worth. Also, Ryan and
I will be getting married sometime in the
future, and it’s exciting to be living in the
same city as my fiancé again and resuming
my life back in Dallas.” (Ryan Tainter is a
librarian at Greenhill School.)
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Andrew Bradt lives in New York where
he is working for the federal government,
doing a judicial clerkship for Judge Robert
Katzmann of the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Ryan Fuchs has moved back to Dallas
from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ryan writes: “I’ll
be working as general counsel for an
insurance marketing company called
Executive Agent Group. The CEO will
7 to 8 pm and I will be on most weeks to
answer any federal tax questions. Tune to
570 AM (KLIF) or listen online at www.klif.
com.”
Amy Gelender is an account
supervisor with The Kaplan Thaler Group,
an advertising company, in NYC.  Amy
and her sister, Rachel Gelender ’99, live
just a few blocks from each other and get
together often. 
Valerie Bennett Gillespie has an
upcoming show at the South Dallas
Cultural Center in the Arthello Beck
Gallery, where she will display her
new series “Awakening.” Her husband,
Emmanuel, had his mural unveiled at

the South Dallas Cultural Center on
November 1, 2007.
Shaun and Kelly Hodgson Beaman
just recently bought their first home
in Plano and just celebrated their son
Michael’s first birthday.
Ashley Harris and Coyt Johnston were
married August 11, 2007, at the Dallas
World Aquarium. Shannon Harris Ming ’94
was matron of honor. The wedding party
included Lindsay Rubin, Katherine
Hearty, Meghan Casey, Emily Luxen,
and Jennifer Kinney. They live in Dallas,
where Ashley is an attorney with Looper
Reed & McGraw and Coyt is a third-year
law student at SMU Dedman School
of Law.
Emily Luxen writes: “I am excited to
report that I have moved to Birmingham,
Alabama. After four years of anchoring the
highest rated evening newscasts at KFDX-
TV in Wichita Falls, Texas, I have accepted
a job as a reporter/fill-in anchor at WBRC-
TV, the Fox affiliate in Birmingham. While
I’m sad to leave Texas, I am excited for
the chance to take on a new challenge
and make the next step in my career.”  graduating from Texas A&M with a
Olivia Mata and Ryan Williams were
married October 6, 2007, at St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton Catholic Church in Dallas.
Debbie Rodriguez ’97 was a bridesmaid
and Ana Mendoza was in the house party.
Guests included Nicole Jones, Jack Oros,
and Elaine Velvin. After a honeymoon in
Hawaii, the Williams live in Keller, Texas,
where Olivia is with JPMorgan Chase and
Ryan is with Lockheed Martin.
Maya Wodnicka writes: “Greetings
from Geneva! I recently visited Isabel
de Nocker (Greenhill exchange student
1996–1997 from Germany). I have kept
in touch with her over the years and
was a guest at her wedding last year to
Heiko Huth. It was a lovely occasion: the
wedding took place in Alzenau, Bavaria! I
left Switzerland after a year at the Faculty
of Law here and will move back to
Germany to finish my studies in European
and Comparative Law.”
Natalie and Michael Waldman are
the proud new parents of Charles Erwin
born July 29, 2007. The Waldmans live
in Dallas where Michael is with Waldman
Bros., L.L.P. He is a member of the
Greenhill Alumni Board.
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1999
Alvaro Cantu is teaching English at
Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas.
He writes: “I didn’t really know what to
expect going into my first year (06–07),
especially teaching seniors, but I don’t
think there is anything else out there that
I would rather be doing. This year is off
to an even better start, and I am now
responsible for our yearbook, newspaper,
and teaching journalism.”
Christina Croxell writes: “After
master’s degree in urban planning, I am
the historic preservation urban designer
for the city of Fort Pierce, Florida.”
Jeff Guyer writes: “I just got a
promotion and am now designing an
innovative approach to Lumbar Interbody
Fusion. I avoided the fires in San Diego by
taking refuge in Austin, Texas, where I was
attending a spine orthopedic conference
along with old Greenhill friend and now
industry competitor, Cory Brenner ’97.
Last month I rode in the MS150, a two-day
150-mile bike ride along the coast from
Orange County to San Diego, and raised
over $1100 to benefit multiple sclerosis
research.”
Braden Howell, an agent for New
York Life Insurance Company, has been
certified in long-term care (CLTC) by
the Corporation for Long-Term Care
Certification, Inc. (CLTCC) in Newton,
Massachusetts. He has been in the
insurance industry for two years and
has served on the boards of several civic
groups, including the Dallas Chapter of the
TCU Young Alumni Association. He is also
a member of the Rotary Club of Dallas,
where he participates in the Dream Team
Mentoring program and serves on several
of the Club’s committees. Braden and his
wife, Rebecca, live in Dallas.
Trent MacNamara married Annmarie
Crampton in August 4, 2007. Danny
Solon ’00 and Sophie de la Barra attended.
Annmarie and Trent live in New York City.  
Holly Thompson writes: “I am
engaged to Dustin Gutshall, whom I have
been dating for nearly six years, and we
will be moving to Germany together in
February. I have been working for W.L.
Gore & Associates, or Gore-Tex Company,
as we are more commonly known, for
the last three years and just accepted an
offer to continue my work in new product
development from our Munich office.
While Dustin and I will not have time
to take a honeymoon after our January
wedding, I expect we will make up for it
with regular excursions into the Alps over
the next two to three years.”
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Justo Blanco lives in the Bay Area in
California where he is a chef for Hyatt
Hotels.
Katherine Boone is engaged to 1st
Lt. Jacob Paul Jones, U.S. Marine Corps.
A March 2008 wedding is planned.
Katherine lives in Austin, Texas.
Rachel Gelender is an assistant
fashion designer with MINT jodi arnold
in New York City.
Laurel Kaesler and Scott Grossman
were married in Houston on August 18,
2007, at the Hilton Houston Post Oaks
and then honeymooned in Hawaii. Scott’s
sisters, Allison Grossman ’97 and Anna
Grossman ’04 were attendants. Neil
Cohen was best man. Nick Schanbaum
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and Greg Sharry were in the wedding
party. Scott graduated number one in his
class from the University of Houston Law
School. He practices with Bracewell &
Giuliani, LLP in Houston. Laurel is also an
attorney in Houston.
Amy Jain writes: “I’m working for
Centerview Partners in New York City, a
boutique M&A and private equity firm
that my old boss started with four other
colleagues. We’re having a blast.”
Laila Kiblawi Kharrat is teaching
French to grades six, and eight through
twelve at the Episcopal School of Dallas
(ESD). She is also a sixth grade advisor,
and coached eighth grade field hockey
during the fall. Thanks to her teaching
fellowship experience at Greenhill, she
has actualized her calling to be a teacher.
She has enjoyed this school year and looks
forward to continuing to teach foreign
language in the years to come.
Will MacNamara is a reporter for
the Financial Times in London. After
graduating from Princeton in 2005, Will
moved to Hong Kong, where he wrote for
the Far Eastern Economic Review. After a
year, he moved to London to take up the
Financial Time’s graduate traineeship. This
fall he moved to South Africa to work in
the paper’s Johannesburg bureau.  coastal town known as the banana capital
 Gita Ram lives in Houston where she
is finishing Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston this year.
Nora Edwards Renthal writes: “I’m
still at UT Southwestern, now in the
second year of my Ph.D. My dissertation
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work focuses on the inflammatory
triggers of childbirth. We hope that by
understanding the cellular mechanisms
that prompt normal parturition, we
may be able to better treat and prevent
preterm labor and birth, the primary cause
of neonatal morbidity and mortality in
developed countries. In non-science news,
Will and I are doing well, and Amber is 8
months and crawling around the house!”
Katie Walsh is in her second year
of law school at The University of
Memphis. Katie is an assistant field hockey
coach for the varsity Rhodes field hockey
team, her college alma mater. She has
just been hired to clerk at the Attorney
General’s office in Nashville in the
summer 2008.
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Lydia Albury is a video editor and
photographer for Credit Solutions in
Addison. Her work is shown once a
month at the corporate rallies. She does
freelance photography for weddings,
family portraits, etc.  facilitator at a summer camp for middle-
John Evans writes: “My time in
Ecuador is just about up. I have been
teaching English in Machala, a hot, dirty
of the world. I have been very lucky to
have had a whole range of experiences
from getting hit by a car to playing guitar
live on international radio. In August, I
will be going back to Dallas to earn my
Ph.D. in English at SMU.”
Jennifer Hanson was married on July
14, 2007, to Lieutenant Russell Isaacs,
US Army.  Jennifer writes: “We had a
lovely wedding in Summit, New Jersey,
and enjoyed a beautiful honeymoon in
Antigua. We look forward to moving to
Tacoma, Washington, where Rusty will
be stationed at Fort Lewis. I was formerly
with Goldman Sachs in New York and
look forward to getting back into finance
once we reach Washington.
Lauren Hradecky and Mark Blitzer
were married at the Dallas Museum of Art
on June 30, 2007. Elyse Hradecky ’03
and Rivka Linksman were in the wedding
party. Lauren is the assistant director of
the JCC Association’s Research Center,
and Mark is the web strategist for the UN
Development Programme.
Justin Kosoris has been decommissioned
from the Peace Corps. He was in Senegal
for two years. Justin writes: “It’s been a
very interesting, frustrating, exhilarating,
stimulating, informative two years. This
work season has been productive and I
can genuinely say that I am proud of what
I have accomplished here, no matter how
small it may seem in the grand scheme
of things. I just completed a week as a
school students, which was one of the
most rewarding things I have done here.
I am going out on somewhat of a high
note.” Justin plans to attend graduate
school.
Amanda Mitchell is working for
Electric Power Research Institute in Dallas
and coaching figure skating at the Euless
rink for the Dallas Stars. Amanda is a
Dallas Mavericks dancer for the ’07–’08
season.

Jordan Pietzsch wrote and produced
a democratic debate spot on CNN/
YouTube for John Edwards’ campaign.
Upon graduation from Harvard, Jordan
accepted a position with Joe Trippi as a
media consultant for the John Edwards
presidential campaign. Jordan served
as Trippi’s liaison at Harvard when Trippi
was named fellow at the Institute
of Politics at the Kennedy School of
Government. Jordan’s spot features
the theme song from the musical Hair
with images of the Iraq war, Katrina,
and American street scenes. The idea
is to ask “what really matters?” Jordan’s
parents write: “We are extremely grateful
to Greenhill and particularly the debate
program for giving Jordan the skills,
inspiration, and opportunity to make a
difference.”  because I have a one-year fellowship at
Nikhil Pole lives in South Pasadena,
California, where he is a student at
Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount
University.
Iliza Shlesinger continues to succeed
in Hollywood as a comedian and writer.
She has appeared on Comics Unleashed,
Americas Next Top Producer, Current TV
and is now a full time comedian and a
regular at the Los Angeles Comedy Store
and Improvs around California. She was
recently asked to open for John Pinette
and Bill Bellamy and will be traveling
overseas to entertain our troops for the
second time. In addition to traveling
around the country, she is the head
writer for a popular Internet show, just
completed taping on a pilot as the host
of a new game show, and hosts/writes her
own weekly news show, The Weakly News,
on www.thestream.tv. You can find out
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more about Iliza and her shows on www.
myspace.com/ilizawithani.
2002
Angel Croxell was the big winner on
Wheel of Fortune on September 28, 2007.
She won $27,000 in the competition and
went on to win the bonus round for an
additional $30,000. She is a student at the
University of Texas in Austin.
Jared Feiger lives in New York where
he is a student at New York University
Law School.
Melissa Fellman writes: “I’m currently
living in Maryland (100 feet from D.C.)
the National Institutes of Health, called
the Intramural Research Training Award.
I translate Spanish at an NIH satellite
free clinic in an underserved area of
D.C. Monday through Wednesday and
then research all sorts of rheumatologic
diseases Thursday and Friday. I first
started translating when Sally Rosenberg
told me about a new clinic opening called
North Dallas Shared Ministries. I’m busy
working and applying to combined degree
programs in M.D./Master in Public Health.
Nakita Garraway and Eric Johnson ’94
were married September 8, 2007, at the
home of Sally and Tom Dunning. Kelly
Berkemeier and Cressita Bowman were
bridesmaids. Robert Agnich ’94 and Ben
Setnick ’93 were groomsmen. Nakita
and Eric live in Dallas, where she is with
Neiman Marcus and he is the founding
partner of The Law Office of Eric Johnson.
Russell Howard sang two solo-
acoustic sets at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas
on November 15, 2007. He lives in
Davidson, North Carolina. Check
www.russellhowardmusic.com to see where
he is performing.
Jeremy Jacobs lives in New York
City, where he is a student at Columbia’s
Journalism School. Jeremy was the only
Columbia journalism student with press
credentials when he wrote an article for
The Hill (D.C. version), known among those
who influence policy as a “must read” in
print and online. Jeremy’s article was about
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
who spoke at Columbia University.
Leslie Owen lives in South Pasadena,
California, where she is applying for Ph.D.
programs in quantitative and clinical
psychology and doing research for Kaiser
Permanente in Pasadena. She also teaches
both children and adult yoga at the Devi
Yoga Studio in Claremont.
Radha Ram just started medical
school at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas.
Charles Smith spent the summer
in Chicago working in United Airlines’
Department of International and
Regulatory Affairs. That department
handles United’s legal issues with the U.S.
and foreign governments, coordinates its
response to legal problems in foreign
countries, and handles its relationships
with other airlines. He enjoyed the job
and the amazing travel benefits. He is
now back in Washington, D.C., in his
second year of the JD/MSFS Program at
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Georgetown University and continuing to
work for United part-time.
Eric Wolfish graduated from
American University and is a student at
the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
He has accepted a summer associateship at
Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York and
plans to work there after graduation. He
worked for that firm’s Dallas office last
summer and ran into Michael Seeligson
and Alex More ’01 at a Dallas Bar event.
5-YR
2003 REUNION
Sara Anderson graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania with a B.A.
in comparative literature, and then spent
the summer traveling and visiting family
and friends. Sara left October 4, 2007, for
Burkina Faso in Africa where she will serve
with the Peace Corps for two years. She
will correspond with Greenhill sixth- and
seventh-grade French students during her
stay.
Emily Comisar has moved to
Florence, Italy, for a year to finish her
M.A. in Italian. She graduated from
Northwestern University in June.
Josh Feldman graduated from the
University of Southern California and
now lives in Dallas where he works for
Metro Networks. They are responsible for
traffic reports for numerous Metroplex
radio stations, including Sirius Satellite
Radio. He also does shifts as a traffic
reporter weekly on Newsradio 1080
KRLD. He spent a week in September in
Anaheim, California. as the public address
announcer for the NORCECA Men’s
Continental Championship Volleyball
Tournament, where he met the USA
National Team.
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Jordan Johnson graduated from
Pomona College in May 2007 with a
degree in environmental analysis. While at
Pomona, Jordan was a leader for “On the
Loose” and freshman orientation.
John Lesikar graduated from Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tennessee, and lives
in Houston where he is with Comerica
Bank.
Brennan Meier is teaching 5th grade
in Las Vegas as a Teach for America corps
member. He writes: “I never imagined how
challenging teaching would be on so many
different levels. But the best part about it is
that I am doing something important and
socially significant straight out of college.  honeymooned on Maui. Laura and
I definitely have more respect for my
teachers at Greenhill after trying my best
to manage a rowdy bunch of fifth-graders.”
Brennan graduated from Duke University
in June.
Cortland Rankin graduated from
Northwestern University in June and
spent the summer in Chicago working at
the Chicago History Museum. He is now
studying in a master’s degree program at
the University of Cambridge in England.
Jessica Pryor graduated from the
University of Notre Dame in June. She is
a member of the largest entering class of
the University of Texas Medical School
at Houston. The “White Coat” ceremony,
when students put on their white lab coats
for the first time, was held August 15,
2007.
Gita Srivastava graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in June with degrees in mechanical
engineering and management science.
Gita and Andrew Greenhut were
married August 11, 2007, at the Adams
Mark Hotel in Dallas. Gita’s sister, Tina
Srivastava ’05, was maid of honor and
Caroline Dickey and Rachel Lubka were
in the wedding party. Andrew is also an
MIT alum. He is a mechanical engineer
working for Accenture based in Boston.
They live in Boston where Gita works for
IBM. Guests included Sylvia Suh ’03,
Mark Henderson ’05, Synthia Rogers, and
Elaine Velvin.
Ray Thomas and Laura Daigneau
were married June 16, 2007, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then
Ray met at Washington University in
St. Louis. Chris Berg, Jon Aisner,
and Jordan Johnson were groomsmen
and Alan Norris was an usher. Esther
Kolni, Jessica Pryor, Sara Anderson,
and Gregor Brodsky attended the
wedding. Laura graduated in May 2007,
but they will spend another year in St.
Louis for Ray to complete the final year of
a five-year degree program. He is earning a
B.S. in computer science and an M.B.A.
2004
Mallory Cooper is currently applying to
graduate programs in clinical psychology
for marital and family counseling. She is
a senior at the University of Michigan.
Mallory is engaged to Matthew Rose and
they are planning a June wedding at the
Ritz-Carlton in Dallas.
Brian Dorber, a senior at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas,
completed an internship at Morgan-
Stanley in New York City this past
summer. He has accepted a full-time
position upon graduation in May.

Grove Gymnasium was the athletic
center of the Hendrix College campus
in Arkansas for decades before the
construction of the new Wellness and
Athletic Center. Before Grove was
demolished, tiles were collected from
the pool. Artist Ingrid Geisler will use
these tiles to create a sculpture for the
new building that memorializes the old
gymnasium. “The greatest challenge of
the project will be to create a sculpture
that is both creative and interesting from
an artistic standpoint, but also suitable
and professional enough to do homage to
Grove,” Ingrid said.
Evan Hathaway spent the summer as
an intern at Lockheed Martin in Houston
working on a NASA contract. He wrote
safety procedures for the next shuttle
mission, and made presentations of
these procedures to NASA engineers.
He said he felt really comfortable
because of all Greenhill taught him
about public speaking. Evan writes: “We
were responsible for every piece of cargo
that goes up on the space shuttle and all
of the pieces that are being built onto
the Space Station. I worked in the Safety
& Mission Assurance Department. We
routinely build quarter- and half-scale
houses and burn them to the ground,
analyzing the fire burn patterns and the
time it takes for the entire structure to
“flash over,” or create an enormous fireball.
I was also in a hazardous-materials class
where we wore full protective suits, self
contained breathing apparatus and had to
clean up dangerous and potentially deadly
chemical spills for a grade. One of my
many tasks was to create a contingency
action plan for space flight operations
for our entire business area, in case there
was a disaster during ascent, on orbit, or
descent of the space shuttle. I was offered
another intern position next summer and a
full-time position with the company when
I graduate. They have offices all over the
world and my dream would be to work
in Europe after graduation. I am currently
studying Fire Protection and Safety
Technology Engineering at Oklahoma
State University. I will graduate in May
of 2009.”
Lauren Pritchard is a senior year
at Boston University graduating in
May 2008, with a degree in business
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class notes 2002 – 2005
administration concentrating in finance.
Lauren writes: “After coming home from
Semester at Sea in spring 2007, I have
continued to travel the world with trips
planned to Canada, London to see Kate
Baron, and Mexico. My plans for after
graduation are to work with a real estate
finance company in Atlanta, Georgia. I still
keep in touch with my Greenhill friends
(they call me the main person who keeps
everyone in touch).”
Daniel Upchurch finished his senior
soccer season at the University of South
Carolina and received two awards. He
was named to the 2007 Conference USA
All-Academic Team and was honored
with selection to the College Sports
Information Directors of America ESPN
The Magazine Academic All-District (III)
Second Team. The ESPN award marks the
second of Upchurch’s Gamecock career, as
he earned the same honor last season. To
be eligible for the award, student-athletes
must be a starter or important reserve, be
of sophomore academic standing at their
current institution and hold a cumulative
GPA of 3.2 or higher.
Chart Westcott graduated from
Vanderbilt and returned to Dallas to attend
Dedman School of Law at SMU.
Hailey Woldt is an honors student
at American University in Washington,
D.C. She recently traveled with the chair
of Islamic Studies to Delhi, India, were
she visited an orthodox Islamic school. An
article in the March/April 2007 edition of
the AARP magazine chronicles her trip.
2005
Katie Cowling writes: “Monsie Munoz
and I are both studying abroad this
semester; Monsie’s in Siena, Italy, and I’m
studying in Seville, Spain. We traveled to
Barcelona, Spain, recently and had such a
blast! We saw Gaudi’s genius in his Casa
Batllo, La Pedrera, Sagrada Familia and
Parc Guell—the whole city was absolutely
gorgeous! It was great to see her and
compare abroad stories.” Katie is a junior
at the University of Pennsylvania and
Monsie is a junior at Williams College in
Massachusetts.
Jillian Larsen is in Washington,
D.C., for the semester doing an internship
and taking classes. Claremont McKenna
College, where she is a junior, has a
semester program in D.C. The program is
designed so students can intern full-time
but still take a full-course load. Jillian is
interning with the American Academy of
Pediatrics Department of Federal Affairs,
which primarily does lobbying on behalf
of pediatrics across the country for child-
related health-care legislation.
Toney Walsh is a junior at Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has
been involved with the music department
since he was a freshman. He is now a
member of a professional Memphis a
cappella group called DeltaCappella.
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2006
Alex Marshall, a sophomore at Occidental
College, has one of the lead roles for the
college’s mainstage production of Fever/
Dream based upon Caldron’s Life is a
Dream. Alex writes: “The process has been
exhausting and thrilling. Doing the show
has also made me miss Greenhill theater
and all the love and antics that came along
with it.”
J.R. Sterling is a communication
major at the University of Southern
California, with plans to become a media
executive. He is on the diversity committee
of student government, taking singing
class, and still involved with debate. J.R.
transferred from George Washington
University to USC. He writes: “Last year
I was a part of a multiracial group on
campus and I reached the octofinals of
the National College Debate Tournament,
a very competitive collegiate debate
tournament. I miss all the wonderful
teachers and support from Greenhill, but
at least I feel well prepared to overcome
the obstacles of college. I can’t believe that
two years has passed, but I’ll never forget
the place I came from. Per Aspera
Ad Astra!”
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2007
Garrett Dobbs has been named to the
FAB 50 list selected by Volleyball Magazine.  a freshman to get this chance. I am very
The list recognizes the top 50 players in
the nation. Garrett is the third Greenhill
player to make this list, along with Jeremy
Jacobs ’02, and Alex Gutor ‘03.
Maggie Fulton is a graphic-design
major at Texas Christian University. She
pledged Chi Omega.
Melissa Fulton also joined Chi
Omega and is an education major at Texas
Christian University. Melissa, Maggie,
and Liane Michnoff enjoy living on the
same hallway. Liane is pre-med and joined
Sigma Kappa.
Jonathan Gary is treasurer of the
freshman class at Princeton.
Nathaniel Horadam, a freshman at
Vanderbilt University, covered Vanderbilt’s
huge upset win at South Carolina for
the school newspaper, Vanderbilt Hustler.
He was the lone staff member to cover
Vanderbilt’s biggest win in 70 years against
the then-sixth-ranked Gamecocks.  Baylor.”
Jared Sandler, a freshman at the
University of Southern California, writes:
“I produce a sports show on Mondays and
I made my radio debut as the color guy
for women’s volleyball. I am doing the
play-by-play for the USC football game.
It’s likely the only game I’ll do play-by-
play for this year as it is incredibly rare for
excited/nervous for this as, hopefully, it
will be a big step in my pursuit to become
a broadcaster. I work for the newspaper
and the TV network. I am pledging ZBT. I
miss Greenhill where so many people had
a special impact on my life.”
Keith Williams is a freshman at
the University of Pennsylvania and he is
president of the freshman class.
TianEn (Joi) Windham is a freshman
at the University of Colorado, Boulder,
majoring in business management and
public relations with a minor in Chinese.
Te’Qin (Toi) Windham is also a
freshman at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. She writes: “Track is amazing.
I love my team and the coaches. I’m
working hard at practice and trying to stay
healthy. My first meet is in January. We
will travel to Texas twice for Texas Relays
and the Michael Johnson Invitational at
Emily Zale is a freshman at the
University of Michigan. In October
she went to visit fellow ’07 alum, Blair
Golman, at the University of Georgia.
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Engage the Mind. Feed the Soul.
Discover Greenhill After Dark.
Greenhill School’s popular
program for adult learners
is back for 2007–08, with
a full slate of courses to
challenge and captivate,
enlighten and inspire.
For dates, times & registration info, visit greenhillafterdark.com
Taijiquan as Qigong:
Developing the Subtle Core
8 sessions with Warren Frerichs
Mondays, January 21–March 10
Spanish Conversation
8 sessions with Edith Dulles-Lawlis
Thursdays, January 17–March 6
Melville’s Moby Dick: Imperialism,
Capitalism, and the Ship of State
4 sessions with Christine Eastus
Thursdays, February 14–March 27
Be Quiet! Meditation as a Life Skill
5 sessions with Dan Kasten
Wednesdays, January 23 –February 20
Beads, Silver and Jewelry, Oh My!
4 sessions with Jelcy Romberg
Wednesdays, February 6–27
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What Am I Looking At, Anyway?
An Introduction to Art History
6 sessions with Courtney Elliott Itson
Tuesdays, January 29–March 4
Writing Well: A Creative Writing
Workshop
4 sessions with Peggy Norvell Turlington ’75
Wednesdays, January 16–February 27
What’s Behind the Numbers—
Viewing Statistics with a Critical Eye
5 sessions with Michael Legacy
Tuesdays, March 11–April 15
Cooking with Jack
4 sessions with Jack Oros
Thursdays, March 6–April 3
Protecting Your Kids (and Yourself)
from the One-Eyed Media Monsters
3 sessions with Barbara Graves
Tuesdays, January 29–February 12
The Age of Teddy Roosevelt
and Woodrow Wilson
2 sessions with John Perryman ’86
Thursdays, January 17 & 24
Designing Garden Spaces that
Reflect the Soul
3 sessions with Carole & Ray Buchanan,
Mary Rogers Rhoades ’81
April 16–19
Demystifying the 35mm Camera
5 sessions with Frank Lopez
Tuesdays, February 26–April 1
Winning the Presidency—What Counts?
4 sessions with Sue Roman
Tuesdays, January 15–February 19
 Weddings Patricia Riddle and Justin Philips ’97 – July 30, 2006
Ann-Moree Tannen ’92 and Charles O. Warren III – April 14, 2007
Laura Daigneau and Ray Thomas ’03 – June 16, 2007
Jennylee Powers and Neal Wright ’90 – June 16, 2007
Ashley Babendure ’99 and Stephen Hedemann – June 23, 2007
Lauren Hradecky ’01 and Mark Blitzer – June 30, 2007
Jennifer Hanson ’01 and Russell Isaacs – July 14, 2007
Alissa Sherling ’97 and David Kaufman – August 5, 2007
Ashley Harris ’98 and Coyt Johnston – August 11, 2007
Gita Srivastava ’03 and Andrew Greenhut – August 11, 2007
Laurel Kaesler and Scott Grossman ’00 – August 18, 2007
Annmarie Crampton and Trent MacNamara ’99 – August 4, 2007
Marisa Harford ’97 and Russ Agdern – September 2, 2007
Tugba Colpan and Reid Skibell ’93 – September 2, 2007
Rebecca Hornbach ’97 and Irwin Sentilles ’98 – September 8, 2007
Nakita Garraway ’02 and Eric Johnson ’94 – September 8, 2007

Births
Maribeth Lawson and Jason Schaefer ’95 – September 8, 2007
Peggy Silven ’82 and Chris Wilson – September 15, 2007
Sharon Charlebois ’97 and John Weddigen – September 22, 2007
Wendy Felton and Jason Ginsburg ’92 – September 30, 2007
Jenny Kasten ’97 and Jay Turner – October 6, 2007
Olivia Mata ’98 and Ryan Williams – October 6, 2007
Melissa Zahn ’91 and Andy Bitner – October 27, 2007
Mahra Fox and Kevin Pailet ’90 – November 17, 2007

Brendan and Lisa Hankinson Maher ’95 –
son, William James, February 28, 2007
Jonathan and Darcie DuBois Crystal ’93 –
daughter, Hannah Locke, May 14, 2007
Sonnet Blanton ’92 and Alex Wettreich ’93 –
son, Linus Jackson, May 15, 2007
Dimitri and Malika Burman Englert ’94 –
daughter, Philomena, May 18, 2007
Thomas and Shanti Majefski Martinez ’95 –
daughter, Marley Jordan, May 29, 2007
Jwyanza and Dawn Finley Nuriddin ’94 –
son, Bryson Cole, May 30, 2007
Todd and Lisa Sigman Paquette ’91 –
son, Charlie Dean, June 18, 2007
Josh and Hilary Kreisler Stern ’95 –
son, Noah Michael, June 21, 2007
Charles and Kelle Wood Rich ’88 –
son, Trevor Anders, June 26, 2007
Ryan and Robyn Sribhen White ’96 –
son, Miles Sribhen White, July 8, 2007
Dawei and Corey Parsons ’83 –
son, Mason, July 9, 2007
Natalie and Michael Waldman ’98 –
son, Charles Erwin, July 29, 2007
Casey and Jennifer Cohen Becker ’97 –
son, Hayden Mathew, July 31, 2007
Molly and Ben Setnick ’93 –
daughter, Edith “Edie” Cynthia, August 1, 2007
Stacy and Mark McKay ’89 –
son, Lawton Duff, August 1, 2007
Rob and Amy Chen Nisbet ’88 –
daughter, Ashlynne Desirée, August 16, 2007
Denise and Dustin Marshall ’96 –
daughter, Lilianne Hazel, August, 26, 2007
Taft Bhuket ’88 and Indhu Subramanian –
daughter, Nina, August 28, 2007
Todd and Kristin Briscoe Marinko ’93 –
son, Thomas Edward, October 18, 2007
Tommy and Sarah DeBerry Caperton ’93 –
son, Charles Lee, October 23, 2007
Amanda and Scott Beck ’92 –
daughter, Sadie Madalyn, October 25, 2007
Sam and Kristin Martin Wright ’93 –
son, James Henry, October 31, 2007
Carl and Mia Scheufele Schreiner ’92 –
daughter, Sophia Lara, November 1, 2007
Lynn Paget and Ian Dees ’92 –
daughter, Robin Reed, November 4, 2007
Ted and Barbara Jones Lundberg ’97 –
son, Milo, November 14, 2007
James and Tina Scheufele Cleary ’92 –
son, Lukas, November 18, 2007

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In Memoriam
K. Mark Pistorius – father of Luke Pistorius ’90 – June 28, 2007
Julie Goldfarb Stoeger ’87 – July 10, 2007
Wilma Gary – grandmother of Holland Gary ’93, Bj Gary ’96, and Jonathan Gary ’07 –
July 2007
Connie Armstrong – father of Connie Armstrong, Jr. ’73, Wyn Armstrong ’74,
and Robert Armstrong ’78 – August 11, 2007
Kalman Lifson – father of Valerie Lifson Leftwich ’78, Ione Lifson Spear ’78,
and step-father of Stacy Dorfman Kivowitz ’80 – August 31, 2007
Fern Box-Carr – mother of Tom Box ’74 and Doug Box ’76 – September 4, 2007
Terry Brennan – wife of former faculty member Tom Brennan – September 6, 2007
Marie Louise Simpson – grandmother of Troy Thompson ’91 and Todd Thompson ’95 –
September 4, 2007
Marilyn Nicolaou – mother of Kelly Farber ’96 and Chris Nicolaou ’05 –
September 13, 2007
Dorothy Luterman – grandmother of Zachary Luterman ’90, Sara Kahn Johnson ’90,
and great grandmother of Ariana Luterman ’18 and Gabrielle Luterman ’21
David Giller – father of Vicki Giller Gottlieb’74 and Greg Giller ‘75 –
September 25, 2007
Roy Powell ’63 – Fall 2007
Fred Andrae, grandfather of Stephanie Briscoe Doyle ’90, Kristin Briscoe Marinko ’93,
Jeff Hearty ’97, and Katherine Hearty ’98 – October 12, 2007
Hercules L. Joyner– grandfather of Thomas Joyner ’92 and Oscar Joyner ’93 –
October 21, 2007
Helen Fulton – founder of Greenhill School, mother of Georgie Fulton Green ’53, Molly
Fulton Seeligson ’60, William L. Fulton ’68, and John L. Fulton ’71, grandmother of
Michael Bernard Seeligson ’02, Joanna Helen Fulton ’02, Maggie Fulton ’07 and
Melissa Fulton ’07 and great-grandmother of Mattie Willard ’14 – October 23, 2007
Jane Mathes Kelton – mother of Clay Kelton ’74, Paul Kelton ’77, Andrew Kelton ’78,
and Matt Kelton ’83 – October 26, 2007
James. B Boyer – father of Robin Warren Stone ’89 – October 28, 2007
Harriet Kirschner Stein – grandmother of Joe Ray ’80 and Julie Ray Fields ’83 and
great-grandmother of Elizabeth Fields ’09, Andrew Fields ’13, Katie Ray ’11,
Becca Ray ’13, and Lexi Ray ’15 – October 30, 2007
Kyle Senzer ’90 (former student) – November 11, 2007

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May 31, 2008
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May 31, 2008

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