Events

Golden Jubilee & Reunion Weekend

More than 500 people came to campus over the Golden Jubilee weekend to remember our past, enjoy the present, and invent the future.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this day special, especially event Chair Pat Quinn '84 and keynote speaker Jackie Thomas '82. 

September 11, 2015

Alumni Visit Day

September 12, 2015

Golden Jubilee & Reunion Weekend

Oral History

with Eleanor Dase, Steven Davenport, & Munzer Afifi



Equity & Inclusion Panel



Main Hall Celebration



Dinner Program

The hOWLers, Jackie Thomas '82, Dick Bradford, and Eric Niles


Golden Jubilee Attendees

as of 8/25/15

Current Faculty & Staff
Chris Beeson
Elisabeth Bertschi
Dick Bradford
Abbie Cielbala
Ka Shing Chan
Darek Cliff
Judyth Collin
Phoebe Dameron
Gabe Del Real
Laura Ellis
Jenelle Espino
Meg Freedman
Sarah Freedman ‘05
Mark Friedman
Beverly Gomer
Molly Gowen
Lydia Guzman
Jason Ham
Bruce Hamren
Lisa Haney
Lori Harsch
Stephen Herrick
Emily Howland
Kathleen Huntington
Elise Jan
Jamie Julin-Seeber
Megan Leich '94
Leslie Lucas
Esteban Marotti
Mark Mendelson
Eugene Mizusawa
Jeannine Morales
Nancy Nagramada
Christina Nemanich
Elizabeth Newey ‘11
Eric Niles
Michelle Park
Lauren Railey
Charles Raymond
Allie Rowe
Debbie Schafgans
Micole Schwantes
Marci Scott
Mary Shaver
Emily Shinkle
Andy Shinkle
April Smock
Jim Sternberg
Peter Tamaribuchi
Mark Van Warmerdam
Matt Zahner
Susan Zic
 
Former Faculty/Staff
Munzer Afifi
Lynne Carberry
Eleanor Dase
Steve Davenport
Christian Donovan
George Eckel
Debbie Evans
Debbie Foust
Michael Harbin
Don Lindenau
Virginia Mack
Wes Morgan
Marilyn Nachtman
Robin Oliver
Mike Pavitt
Ken Ross
Jan Russell
Julianne Ryan
Karen Sanford
Claire Sheridan
Tom Swope
Arlene Ustin
Jo Wayles
 
Alumni
Bia Lowe '68
Kip Smith '69
Gregory Cohelan '69
Stewart Johnston '69
Carl Joplin '69
Gloria Skurski '69
Dan Valens '69
Douglas Booth '70
Michael Connolly '71
James Riley '71
Deirdre Samuelsson '71
Daniel Schreck '71
Deirdre Samuelsson '71
David Buchanan '72
Larry Friedman '72
George Prince '72
Jill Young '72
Mark Zemelman '72
Claudia Finkle '73
Roger Hooson '74
Joan Haratani '75
Daniel Burke '75
Mark Feuer '75
Deborah Lieberman Louria '75
Douglas Perednia '75
Gail Peterson '75
Bea Winslow '75
Robert Steller '75
Rachel Frankel Meek '76
Nicola Place '76
Sarah Carnochan '77
Margaret Grimsley '77
Jonathan Winslow '77
Phil Bennett '77
Katina Houston '79
Casandra Beam '80
Nancy Freire '80
Claudia Kleefeld '81
Catherine Decker '82
Jackie Thomas '82
Karen Chambers '83
Raju Mann '83
Sangita Shah '83
Sally Swarts '83
Patrick Toohey Quinn '84
Bryna Ross '84
Melissa Barry-Hansen '85
Joy Soll '85
Casey (Catherine) Cummings '85
Joel Herr '85
Joel Herr '85
Kathy Zelazny '85
Traci Suyeyasu '85
Ferdinand (Ferdie) Thieriot '85
Tracy Thieriot 
Kimberley Foster Rogers '86
John Goddard '86
Garrett Lowe '86
Kerry Marsh '86
Paula Smith '86
Sara Denman '86
William Chen '86
Andrea Hackett Quinn '86
Kerry Marsh '86
Craig Fraser '87
Eric Boulet '87
Shawn Brice '87
Kimmerie Jones '87
Thor Klippert '87
James Mcpherson '87
John Kohler  '88
Ariel Weintraub '88
Ruth Winchell-Moyes '89
Jennifer Branchini '89
Veena Jayaram Chou '89
Sushma Shah '89
Jennifer Bill '89
Robert Chou
Melina Bersamin '90
Mary Costantino '90
Josh Thieriot '90
Julius Tjakralaksana '90
Will Horng '90
Nikolett Fouassier '90
Adam Duran '90
Sara Raymond '91
Wendell C. Arnold '92
Angel Lewis '92
Elisabeth Hruska '92
Amy Webber '92
Shoshana Ziblatt '92
Ashley Nicolaus '93
Kristin Price-Wilson '93
Corey May '93
Lisa Erickson '93
Brian Wheeler '93
Bridgette Raynolds-Perry '94
Jocelyn Bale-Glickman '94
Erica Starkey '94
Jamahn Lee '94
Alison Mckleroy '94
Dominique Burton '94
Andrea Bersamin '94
Shareef Salaam '94
Jessica Salaam '94
Todd Snyder '94
David Leonard '94
Jason Levis '94
Amanda Malachesky '94
Michael Dillon '94
Christina Lee '95
Darin Woolpert '95
Sam Edwards '95
Allison Wysocki '95
Lindsay Firth '95
Alison Davies '95
Rupa Datta '96
Allison Fletcher '96
Melissa Williams '96
Rebecca Walker '97
Justin Masonek '99
Katy Killoran '99
Duncan Carroll '99
Michelle Guzman '99
Courtney Keefe '00
Lauren Brown '00
Colleen Yasonia '00
Jeff Wilson '00
Asha Sundararaman '00
Becky Potter '02
Lauren Johnson '02
Norah Alyami '02
Bob Moon '02
Emma Sasson '04
Christopher Jordan '04
Emily (Hansen) McDonnell '04
Monica Streifer '05
Sarah Day '05
Beth Heinen '05
Lauren Wirkkala '05
Rachel Bernhard '05
Chelsea Loveall '05
Alex Cerjan '05
Rachel Santora '05
Jeremy Sasson '07
Emily Knell '07
Annie Potter '07
Meaghan Gates '09
Sarah Azari '10
Tiana Fulton '10
Brandon James '10
Michaela Lee '10
Christina Littlejohn '10
Elizabeth Miskovetz '10
Bennett Rand '10
Margaret Rowland '10
Meg Sumner-Moore '10
Caroline Jung '10
Ryan Sasson '10
Daniella Smith '10
Elizabeth Newey '11
Alison Burklund '11
David Kerns '13
David Costantino '85

Attendees
Rodney Adams
Eileen Alden
Kaykay Amamgbo
Roger Arlen
Sandy Arlen
Don Arnold
Elizabeth Arnold
David Ball
Maxine Ball
Deane Barker
Sean Bill
Andy Blick
Marilyn Blick
Beth Borchers
Bob Borchers
Tristan Brenner
Patrick Burklund
Caitlin Burrows
Lee Burrows
Preston Canzius
Suma Canzius
Steve Capelli
Vanessa Capelli
Judy Carter
Mark Carter
Charles Cerjan
Jan Chabala
James Chadam
Jennifer Chadam
Jason Compton
Shimyun Cotter
Amy Cottrill
Lance Cottrill
DeeAnn McCoy
Matthew Daly
Alejandro Danylyszyn
Joana Davenport
Bryan Denman
Cindy Dominguez
Tony Dominguez
Farid Dowla
Valerie Dowla
Ann Fletcher
Bob Fletcher
Mary Francis
Heidi Fraser
Bob Frazer
Patty Frazer
Chelsea Freeman
Josh Freeman
Margaret Freeman
Marshall Freeman
Robin Galguera
Ginna Girzadas
Jason Girzadas
Christina Goddard
Ashish Goel
Geetika Goel
Nish Gokli
Payal Gokli
Debby Grauman
Kevin Grauman
Lisa  Gross
Randy Gross
Anju Gupta
Karen Hata
Holly Herr
Joel Herr
Debra Highsmith
Douglas Highsmith
Paul Hohlt
Nicole Holthuis
Jen Hope
Christin Hoult
Robert Hoult
Doug Inamine
David Inchausti
Sylvia Inchausti
Sammy Jiang
Sheila Jiang
Christie Batterman-Jordan
Christie Jordan
Chris Keller
Dawn Keller
Keven Kennedy
Bruce Kerns
Judith Kerns
Jim Klippert
Zoë Klippert
Megan Koehler
Dmitri Korablev
Irina Korablev
Nadia Krym
Nick Krym
James Leibson
Carol Leister
Chris Leister
David Leonard '94
Gahl Levy
Josh Liberman
Laura Liberman
Corey Limbach
David Lu
Herminia Lu
Austin Lund
Manish Malhotra
Manisha Malhotra
Mary Ann Mccoy
Mike Mccoy
Phillip Mcknight
Rachel Frankel Meek
Sarah Mei
Sivan Mendel
Douglas Moffet
Jennifer Moffet
Scott Sumner-Moore
Sue Sumner-Moore
Jody Mortensen
Chris Moyes
Kara Murray
Michael Myers
Charlie Nebesar
Susan Nebesar
Eric Nelson
Maribelle Nelson
Justin McNichols
Katie McNichols
Joseph Norskog
Emily Olman
Michael Onagbesan
Neil Passero
Greg Pavlik
Ruth Pavlik
Mary Jean Place
Jerry Potter
Judy Potter
Bryan Pressnall
Jim Price
Dee Prince
Xavier Theo Quinn '16
Ellen Raber
Elizabeth Rider
Mike Rider
Andrew Rogers
Max Rogers
Tadmor Russell
Fariba Sasson
Sharam Sasson
Teresa Schreck
Ben Shaw '20
Arquelle Shaw
Sandy Sherriffs
Li Shi
Kim Smith
Candace Snyder
Shaffer Spaeth
Becky Springmeyer
Clara Stanford '16
Jasper Stanford '20
Spencer Stanford
Amanda Stark '19
Edda Stark
Fiona Stewart
John Streetz
Maria Streifer
Jennifer Suh
Peters Suh
Graham Sullivan
Vera Sus
Cooper Suyeyasu
Aaron Thomas
Lisa Thompson
Tom Thompson
Ted Urban
Miguel Velazquez
Alex Virgilio
Susan Virgilio
Irena Volkov '16
Natalya Volkov '21
Victoria Volkov
Vladimir Volkov
Alice Waddington
Henry Wagner
Jai Wang
Dick Warmington
Reba Webber
David Welsh
Stacy Welsh
Jean Wheeler
Rock Williams '17
Jason Williams
Zen Williams
Greg Wilson
Robin Winokur
Monika Witte
Tina Wong
Tabitha Woolpert
Justin Yasonia
Gouya Zamani
Payam Zamani
Greg Zelazny
Karen Zemelman
Emily True

September 11-13, 2015

Friday, September 11

7-8:10am – Breakfast and registration, Founder's Oak
8:10-2:45 – Alumni class visits
10am – 9/11 Commemorative Reflection, East Lawn
11:35am – Lunch, East Lawn 
2:45-3:25pm – Pep rally, Gym
3pm – Tailgate party, House 1
4pm – Soccer game, Estakhri Sports Field
5:30 – Volleyball game, Gym

Saturday, September 12

Daytime Program

10:30am-4:00pm - Registration, Founder's Oak
10:30am - Morning refreshments, Continental breakfast, Urban Conference Room
11:00am - Oral History with Steve Davenport, Munzer Afifi, and Eleanor Dase, Gym
11:45-4:00pm - 50th Marketplace, Outside Middlefield 1
12:00pm - Picnic Luncheon, East Lawn
12:30pm - Lunch Program, Athenian's A-Train will perform, East Lawn
1:00pm - Equity and Inclusion Panel @Athenian, CFTA 
2:00pm - Tom Swope Art Gallery Opening, The Commons
2:30pm - Alumni History Tours, Main Hall
3:30pm -  Boarder Munchies, Come grab a bite to eat with current boarding students and share memories of your days as a boarder, Creekside Dorm
4:00pm - Celebrating the Main Hall Ceremony, Main Hall  

Explore Athenian: 1-4pm

Video Storytelling Booth
Share your Athenian stories, Library Study Room
Archives Exhibit @Athenian
Explore all our yearbooks and artifacts from the Archives, Library Resource Room
Innovation @Athenian
Come try our laser printer and play with our robot with Makers Eugene Mizusawa and Lori Harsch, Makers Studio
Community Service @Athenian
Plant bulbs around the Dase Center
Science @Athenian
Do a chemistry experiment with one of our chemistry teachers, Molly Gowen, Science Building
Owlville @Athenian
Bring your owlets for games, crafts, and other activities (young children should be supervised by parents), Middle School
Community Art Project @Athenian
Help create a giant mosaic mural installation with Middle School art teacher Jaci Kildaire, Middle School Classroom K

Golden Jubilee Reunion Dinner

6:00pm - Cocktails 
6:45pm - Dinner begins 
8:15pm - Dinner Program featuring alumna Jackie Thomas '82 and a short film by Peter Tamaribuchi
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