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Fall 2017 | The Lamplighter School | Dallas, Texas

LAMPLIGHTER CELEBRATES THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF NEW INNOVATION LAB

On the cover: The Lamplighter School celebrated the official opening of its new Innovation Lab on September 1. Members of the Lamplighter community, including students, parents, faculty, staff, and Trustees, gathered there to celebrate the latest addition to the campus.

Fall 2017

Managing EditorAna Bohanan, Director of Communications & Marketing

Art/DesignAna Bohanan

ContributorsSandy Diamond, Landy Fox, Vicki Raney

Contributing PhotographerLarry Sengbush Photography

Contact UsSend story ideas to Ana Bohanan abohanan@thelamplighterschool.orgDeadline for articles, photographs, and news for the next issue (Spring 2018) is February 1, 2018.

Our MissionDedicated to igniting the potential of

each child, Lamplighter engages children

in the joy of learning through intellectual

discovery in a creative, inclusive, and

collaborative environment.

Statement of InclusionA community of varied voices will strengthen the education of Lamplighter students and enrich the lives of all of its members. Lamplighter will, therefore, strive for the lamps that we light to reflect the ever-changing community in which we reside. We value individuality and encourage all children to reach their potential, while respecting their similarities and differences. We are united in purpose and committed to working together to accomplish the mission of The Lamplighter School.

Non-Discrimination StatementIn compliance with federal and state laws, The Lamplighter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, financial aid program, athletic and other school-administered programs, or the employment of staff.

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Alumni Now 30

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Dear Members of the Lamplighter Community:

We did it! Under the leadership of the Board of Trustees and for the first time in two decades, The Lamplighter School opened two new buildings. A special thank you to each member of the community for your incredible support of this project. The opportunities for student discovery have grown exponentially. In May, we celebrated the opening of the new barn. The farm animals have returned to campus and our students will have plenty of new stories to tell about the pig, cow, goats, and chickens.

In September, Lamplighter Layers, Inc., celebrated 47 years since the chicken and egg business started. Every year since its founding, students select the type of chickens to purchase, add allowance money to buy feed, tend the chickens, sell the eggs in the carpool line, and work as a team to determine how best to use the profits. The founders of The Lamplighter School, Ms. Swain and Ms. Murray, were truly women ahead of their time. They realized that teaching children at the youngest ages

to start and run a business was no small matter. Indeed, Layers is one of the many things that distinguishes the school that offers a “serious education wrapped in the wonder of childhood.”

The Innovation Lab has quickly become the hub of STEM activity for all classes. The entire faculty is using the space in the most creative and best ways for our students. In a brief visit to the Innovation Lab, you will see eager Early Childhood students exploring ways to mix primary colors to arrive at a secondary color. Fourth graders are bustling in the Robotics Lab – building, creating, and strategizing – while the Wood Shop and Environmental Science classrooms always have great projects underway.

When students are working in the Innovation Lab, it is evident that the buildings were not designed and constructed in a vacuum, but rather the architect, Marlon Blackwell, approached the project with a deep understanding of and appreciation for the history of Lamplighter. The open spaces are visual representations of our belief in the importance of collaboration, critical thinking, and problem

solving. The timeless values upon which the School was founded and that the buildings represent honor the past and look ahead with promise to the future.

In closing, the students are the centerpiece of our work. Enjoy this poem, which aptly captures our collective feelings about The Lamplighter School:

On Lighting a Lamp

Fuel the lamp with a world of informationFind the spark of curiosity and feed it wellSet the wick high and let the flame burn freein a happy, open placeEnough lamps and we can light the earth. – Anonymous

Sincerely,

Joan Buchanan Hill, Ed. D.Head of School

“Find the spark of curiosity and feed it wellSet the wick high and let the flame burn free in a happy, open place”

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Dear Lamplighter Community:

We have so much to celebrate! The Innovation Lab, new barn, and expanded Ring Road are the most visible improvements that were a result of the 2012 “Lighting Our Path” Strategic Plan and the corresponding incredibly successful Igniting Young Minds capital campaign. In addition to our fantastic new facilities, our community is enjoying expanded curriculum through new woodworking classes and myriad fresh learning opportunities in the teaching kitchen and projects spaces. Our campaign also provided funds to help Lamplighter grow its endowment to over $10 million, providing sustaining support for Lamplighter’s bright future.

As a newly minted alumni parent of three Lamplighter graduates, I am thrilled to see the School continue growing and blooming in its effort to embrace excellence

in the education of our young children in social and emotional development and academic skills. The faculty and staff ’s continued commitment to broad and deep professional development models the behavior of joyful, lifelong learning we hope to instill in our children in their time at Lamplighter.

Looking forward, we are embarking on a new chapter in Lamplighter’s story. Our leadership has partnered with a consultant, Ian Symmonds & Associates, to guide our School through a strategic planning process which will outline and articulate our path forward. With these planning efforts deeply rooted in the Lamplighter mission, “Dedicated to igniting the potential of each child, Lamplighter engages students in the joy of learning through intellectual discovery in a creative, inclusive, and collaborative environment,” Jenney Gillikin is leading our committee of 14 volunteers,

which represents all constituencies including alumni, current parents, alumni parents, trustees, faculty, and staff. Through this committee’s work with the consultant, which will include many more people in our amazing community, we will identify and prioritize opportunities and resources to help Lamplighter continue to pioneer and lead in early childhood and elementary education. It will be exciting to see what the future holds for our children and grandchildren.

With Lamplighter spirit,

Sarah WeinbergBoard Chair

“Looking forward, we are embarking on a new chapter in Lamplighter’s story.”

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Allison Bovard Allison and her husband, Chris, were involved members of the Lamplighter community during the 14 years that their three sons were students here. Charlie ’07, graduated from Parish Episcopal School and is a junior at Washington and Lee University; Sam ’11 is a junior at Greenhill School; and Jack ’16 is a sixth grader, also at Greenhill. Allison was an active parent volunteer with the LPA, serving in various capacities on the LPA Board with responsibility for volunteers, coordinating staff and faculty recognition, coordinating LPA fundraising events, serving on the nominating committee, and serving as grade level and class coordinator. Allison grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and received a B.A in Religion from Middlebury College. She worked in planned and major gifts advancement at universities in Philadelphia and Boston and also at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Allison is currently involved in the Greenhill Parents’ Association and the school’s cultural arts committee, and she is an active volunteer at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. She is also a longtime annual fund and alumni admissions volunteer for Middlebury College.

Mandy DakeMandy graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English. She received a J.D., with honors, from SMU School of Law where she was the first female president of the SMU Law Review Association and was selected by her peers as a member of the honorary Order of the Barristers. Mandy practiced law at Jones Day from 1998 through 2007, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. She then worked for two years as the director of the legal department for a private equity firm based in New York. Mandy has been an active volunteer at Lamplighter since her son began school here in 2009. She has served on the LPA Board as Secretary (twice) and as a member of the Cultural Affairs Committee. Additionally, she worked on the Auction as Underwriting Chair, Socials Co-Chair, and on several Auction Committees over the years. Most recently, Mandy has worked on the Annual Fund Committee and as a member of 2016-2017 Campaign Committee. Mandy completed the North Texas Business Community for the Arts Leadership Training in 2005 and remains passionate about the arts. Mandy and her husband, Chris Rowley, are parents of Thomas Rowley, a 2016 Lamplighter graduate and sixth grader at Greenhill School.

Bob KrakowBob Krakow was a partner at the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced business litigation for more than 30 years prior to retiring a few years ago. While in private practice and since his retirement, he has counseled a number of independent schools, including Lamplighter, on sensitive legal matters. Bob currently serves on a number of boards, including Temple Emanu-El, where he is Treasurer, and he is a member of the Executive Committee, and the Dallas regional board of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), where he is also a member of the Executive Committee. Bob’s wife, Leslie, is a Lamplighter graduate and recent board member. Their two sons, Ben and Eli, graduated from Lamplighter in 2008 and 2010, respectively.

Hamilton LeeHamilton is a Managing Director at Cambridge Associates where he serves as the external chief investment officer for several colleges, universities, foundations and other endowed non-profits. He received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas in Austin. Hamilton currently serves as the chair of Lamplighter’s Investment Subcommittee. One of four children, Hamilton was the only one in his family not to attend Lamplighter, but he and his wife Traci intend to make up for that fact by sending all three of their girls there: Isabel, Class of 2020; Blythe, Class of 2021; and Laurel, Class of 2026.

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Bobby SussmanBobby is a Dallas native and the father of two sons who graduated from Lamplighter, Evan, Class of 2013, and Reed, Class of 2016. After graduating from St. Mark’s School of Texas, Bobby received an A.B. in 1989 from Harvard University and an M.B.A. in 1994 from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In 2008, he joined Highlander Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, where he currently serves as Chief Financial Officer, as well as director of a number of private companies. Prior to Highlander, Bobby was a partner with Hunt Private Equity Group and Hoak Capital. He previously served on the Board of Management of the Town North YMCA and the Alumni Board of St. Mark’s.

Pamela Wills-WardPamela Wills-Ward is Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Freeman in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of Texas State University, Pamela holds both a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s degree in business administration. In addition, she is a 2012 graduate of the Stanford Executive Program, a flagship executive program offered by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Pam and her husband Mitchell (a prior member of the Lamplighter Board) are the parents of three Lamplighter children: MJ, Class of 2013; Samantha, Class of 2015; and Preston, Class of 2017. She has served as one of the Fourth Grade Parent Coordinators for the classes of 2015 and 2017. Contributors to the community, Pam and her family have established endowments in support of diversity at Texas State University through The Mitchell Ward and Pamela Wills-Ward Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship, and at The Lamplighter School with The Ward-Purdy Faculty Diversity Endowment. In addition, they are avid supporters of the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart For Children and Hoops For Heart fundraising programs.

Sunny Knocke, LPA PresidentSunny Knocke joins the Board of Trustees as the Lamplighter Parents’ Association President for 2017-18. Sunny and her husband, Craig, are the proud parents of Davis ’18 and Lamplighter alum Connor ’19. She has been involved in the LPA for the past seven years including VP of Carnival, Friday Lunch Coordinator, PALS tour guide, and the Auction Committee. Sunny has also served as President of the Preston Hollow Early Childhood Association and on various underwriting committees for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, North Texas Food Bank, Family Gateway, and The Great Create. Sunny co-founded MarketQuiz, an innovator of next-generation automotive service marketing, and served as President of Operations and Sales. Before founding MarketQuiz, Sunny served as Director of Business Development for Online Solutions with Big Picture Technologies. Sunny’s management experience also includes serving as Outside Sales Director of Coollink Partners. Prior to moving into the high-tech space, Sunny worked at IFCO, a worldwide provider of logistic services. Sunny holds a B.B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in Finance.

Finley Harbaugh Konrade ’93, Alumni Council PresidentFinley Harbaugh Konrade ’93 joins the Lamplighter Board of Trustees as the Alumni Council President for 2017-18. Finley attended The Lamplighter School from Pre-K through fourth grade and graduated in 1993. Following Lamplighter, she went on to graduate from the Episcopal School of Dallas and Southern Methodist University. Finley is currently a Director for the executive search firm Stanton Chase International where she identifies and places top talent across the functions, with particular expertise in operations, engineering, sales, and marketing search assignments. Her clients include both Fortune 500 corporations and venture capital-backed enterprises in North America, APAC, and EMEA. In addition to volunteering at Lamplighter, Finley is an active volunteer for Carry the Load, CASA, and Equest Therapeutic Horsemanship. She and her husband, Eric, reside in Dallas.

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The farm animals are a visitor’s first clue that The Lamplighter School in Dallas is unique. At recess, the private Pre-K to fourth-grade school’s students stray from the playground and over to the chicken coop, where a plumed, burgundy-feathered rooster struts around and calls out. A pig trots around her pen while a cow rests in the shade. The goats can’t seem to stop climbing up to the top of their barn.

The animals are essential to Lamplighter’s holistic approach to education. Fourth-graders care for the hens and collect, package, and sell their eggs. Potatoes from the school’s garden and hydroponic plants used in a study for science class go into the students’ soups and salads. Fourth-grade literacy teacher Jody Stout says the school is always looking to innovate. “Lamplighter has always encouraged teachers to think outside the box in support of strategies to advance the mission,” she says.

In the last two years, that has meant expanding maker education in the school’s curriculum. In maker education, students learn skills and content by designing and creating tangible, sharable objects. Head of School Dr. Joan Hill says, “The reason maker education is so important to us is that it fits with Lamplighter’s longstanding approach to learning. Maker education allows students to have agency over their own learning. And at the end of the day, what we really want at Lamplighter is for students to become independent, to think critically, to ask questions, and to be able to answer those questions.”

Lamplighter also added a new 10,000- square-foot building: The Lamplighter Innovation Lab has become the hub of maker, experiential, and project-based learning. Vicki Raney, Assistant Head for Academics, says that the school wanted to ensure that its new space would be neither overutilized nor underutilized, and with the focus always on learning. While the Innovation Lab was still under construction, she says, “our question was, what is the experience going to be like for teachers? What were the anticipated outcomes and challenges here?”

These questions led the school to forge a multi-year partnership with the SMU Maker Education Project team that Hill describes as “transformative” for the school.

Raney and Lamplighter faculty met the team at a design thinking workshop in summer 2015. Design thinking is a process that uses a human-centered approach to solving problems in the world. From that first meeting, the school sought to build a relationship between the institutions to help incorporate more maker education into the school’s curriculum and use design thinking to plan how to make the best use of the Innovation Lab. Raney

found that that SMU Maker Education Project team members “would be the perfect partners because they understood the tenets of progressive education. They talk like we do, and their approach is similar to our school’s.”

“We knew that SMU had the expertise and the interest in working with a school like Lamplighter to advance our mission, which is really about innovative thinking, hands-on learning and allowing children to develop a sense of independence around learning,” Hill says.

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A TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIP

TEACHERS DIG INTO DESIGN THINKING AND MAKER EDUCATIONLamplighter and SMU agreed to collaborate on two related professional development projects: one in maker education, and one in design thinking. As Hill sees it, the two approaches go hand in hand. “Design thinking is a philosophy. It’s a way of thinking about the world. It’s a way of approaching problems and materials. And maker education is the vehicle for solving. It’s having access to the tools that will allow the child to solve the problems.” The SMU Maker Education Project team developed and carried out training workshops, coaching sessions, and

debriefing sessions for each project over the 2016-2017 academic year.

In August of that year, the Maker Education Project team came to Lamplighter and introduced faculty and staff to maker education by asking them to redesign the morning commute in the congested Dallas-Fort Worth region. During this activity, participants built low-resolution prototypes of their solutions out of materials.

A few days later, Lamplighter faculty spent a day at SMU learning about maker education and design thinking at the

Deason Innovation Gym (DIG), SMU’s collegiate makerspace, and at Harold Clark Simmons Hall, where teachers learned how to use computer-aided design software to create digital models of prototypes they made previously. Second-grade teacher Ana Owens said the training got her out of her comfort zone and that the Maker Education Project team “made people feel like they mattered because of the focus on empathy.”

Librarian Patricia Vermillion says she was not sure what to expect going into the daylong workshop, but “all the teachers were so excited and engaged,

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and at the end we learned so much. We all came away ready to start the process.” Teachers say that the maker education workshops with the SMU Maker Education Project team offered them a structure for implementing SMU’s model for Maker-Based Instruction, which centers on “maker sprints,” and a deeper understanding of design thinking.

Hill says that once she learned about the kind of training the Maker Education Project team members could offer at the DIG, she saw the value it would have for Lamplighter’s faculty and students. “The partnership was set up for teachers to meet in grade-level groups to understand how to bring the core principles of design thinking to students, so that would become part of how they approach the world,” she says.

SECOND-GRADERS WITHSERIOUS SKILLSThe second-grade teachers applied what they learned at the DIG by leading their students through several maker-based projects. One was to design a landmark for one of the 50 states. “We knew what we wanted to do through using Maker-Based Instruction, Lakeshia Peters, a second-grade teacher, says. But until the professional development with the SMU Maker Education Project team, “we didn’t know which steps to take first.”

The teachers used the SMU Maker Education Project’s planning pages resource to guide them through their pedagogical design. The landmark construction project started with learning how to make shapes. The students looked at pictures of well-known Dallas structures to learn “what shapes buildings are made of and how you can make shapes to create one,” says Anne Yarbrough, another member of the second-grade teaching team. For students to build the landmarks, teachers taught them to use hot glue guns. That may seem ambitious for seven-year-olds, but Maker-Based Instruction embraces the idea students should have opportunities to develop skills with a variety of tools and materials from an early age. By developing skills in a structured way, “you’re inspired to see your own worth and what you can do,” Peters says.

Designing and building the landmarks, which were filled with artifacts from the states, “added meaning to the state project,” Owens says. For example, one of the landmarks, the Maine Museum, was shaped like a lobster, and another landmark, the Alaska Museum, featured a 3D Iditarod sled race. Owens reported that in addition to creating meaningful landmarks, the students became more confident risk takers as “they took a lot of ownership of the project.”

The second-graders’ skill-building didn’t stop with hand tools. For a later project, they learned to use the computer-aided design software TinkerCAD. The students quickly immersed themselves in learning the software, which “sets the stage for them as third-graders to be ready to 3D print,” Yarbrough explains.

THE MAKER MINDSETOver the course of the year, periodic coaching sessions with the SMU Maker Education Project team helped to integrate maker education and design thinking into the Lamplighter curriculum.

Kindergarten teacher Bianca Reyna found that with maker education, beginning with a plan ensures that she could effectively coach her students. “Anytime we gave our kids materials, they became so excited that they lost focus” on their projects, she says.

So Reyna “learned to introduce tools and materials slowly,” she says. She learned to talk about the new materials first, “then step back, give the kids some time to explore, and then create.” That way, the students developed confidence with a variety of tools and materials. She says they realized that “it’s a process. It won’t always work. They’re becoming more reflective, thinking about that as they’re building. They’re learning to become problem solvers and to help each other.”

The maker mindset is spreading throughout the grades at Lamplighter. First-grade teacher Jessica Varela led her students through a project focused on small, battery-powered objects. The students followed a sequence in which they wondered about how the object works, took it apart to figure out how it works, and then reconfigured it to

demonstrate the principles of its design. One pair of students successfully turned an electric votive candle into a pocket flashlight with an on/off switch. “I was blown away that they were determined enough to keep going,” Varela says.

Varela also took her students to the DIG, where they learned about two-dimensional design. She says the students were “inspired by the vinyl cutter, and designed logos to print on the vinyl cutter.” In Maker-Based Instruction, she says, “students get to make something of their own” that they can show and share with others.

Science teacher Bill Burton asks his students to design and 3D-print rocket capsules meant to carry organic supplies to a hypothetical Mars colony. Their payload design needed to stay within size and mass constraints. The students’ first task was to think about the balance of products they would want to send: water, plants, and livestock. These units were represented by small pellets of varying mass. “What they put inside their rocket payloads is theirs to design – good or bad, flawed or not,” Burton says. He emphasizes the authenticity of the project. “It put kids into the role of what scientists have to do, solving a problem, but on a kid’s scale,” he says.

The highlight of Burton’s project is Rocket Launch Day, when the students head out to a field to see if their payload can go up and return in one piece. It’s a fun moment, but the launch isn’t the end of the project. Burton says, “One of the best things you can do after a project is debrief and reflect on it.” His students, like all designers, learn from their product tests to improve the next iteration of the design.

Lamplighter’s teachers report that their students make big gains not just in their skills with tools and materials, but in social-emotional areas like empathy, too. Many speak of the confidence their students gain by seeing concretely what they could make. Varela doesn’t hesitate to name the main benefit of maker education for her students. “Engagement. They cannot wait until their weekly design classes.”

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THE BODY LANGUAGE OF A SCHOOLBeginning in the fall of 2017, maker education at Lamplighter has a new home. Next to Lamplighter’s barn is a gently angled, copper-clad building, the Lamplighter Innovation Lab. Inside, it’s filled with natural light. It houses dedicated rooms, separated by glass walls, for environmental science, physical science, woodworking, making projects, and cooking.

While the Innovation Lab was still under construction, the SMU Maker

Education Project team and a core group of Lamplighter faculty worked together using Human-Centered Design principles to coordinate how the building would be used and to establish a culture that would promote students adopting maker mindsets.

Members of the SMU team often echo a tenet from Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design: “Space is the body language of an organization.” Inspired by this idea, art teacher Pam O’Krent, who was part of the core team

working to design the Innovation Lab’s use, says she came to the building asking, “What is the space telling me to do? How am I being directed by the materials and the layout? What kind of feeling do we want our learners to have in the Innovation Lab space?”

Liz Curlin, a Pre-K teacher who served on the core team, learned about how to do a space analysis to understand how a space feels. As part of the SMU Maker Education Project team’s training, Curlin went to a familiar space, her church. Entering it with the eyes of a designer, she began to see

that design elements shaped “how you were to behave in the space.”

After a training workshop, the core team and the SMU Maker Education Project team worked together for several months in Spring 2017 to develop design principles. Burton, another member of the core team, called the principles “mini vision statements” for the Innovation Lab. Among them were, “The Innovation Lab at Lamplighter will inspire the development of authentic learning experiences that

are student-centered and collaborative” and the Innovation Lab will “be utilized by faculty and staff trained and supported in current and emerging teaching practices.”

Those principles then led the team to come up with twelve “how might we?” questions for the rest of the teachers to brainstorm answers to. The questions included, “How might we accommodate multiple long-term projects running concurrently?” and “How might we support teachers to create authentic learning experiences in the Innovation Lab?”

One afternoon in April 2017, faculty and staff got their first look inside the building. They looked up and around as O’Krent, Curlin, Burton, and the rest of the core team asked them to imagine how they might use the space. The kitchen, hallways, and classrooms echoed with excited chatter as teachers filled big pieces of chart paper with their answers to the “how might we?” questions. Their answers exhibited the boundless, divergent thinking designers need at this stage. “Trial + error,” “networking,” and “guest chef appearances” all showed up as answers.

Top Row L-R: Maker Education Project at Lamplighter ; Lamplighter faculty at Deason Innovation Gym (DIG); Lamplighter faculty at Harold Clark Simmons Hall. Bottom Row L-R: Katie Krummeck, Director of the Maker Education Project, SMU Lyle School of Engineering and Dr. Rob Rouse, Clinical Assistant Professor with the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development; Lamplighter faculty with computer-aided design; and Lamplighter faculty working on Human-Centered Design in the Innovation Lab

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“There are no bad ideas!” one teacher assured her colleagues. Another said she was trying to let go of her preconceptions and “let my mind be open.” “What if? What if?” was one refrain heard throughout the afternoon. “That’ll work. That’ll work,” was another.

A BUILDING ALIVE WITH LEARNINGOn an early September morning, the Innovation Lab is in full use. Hill says that going through the design process, with coaching from the SMU Maker Education Project team, “has made the second week of school feel like we’ve been in the building for a long time.” Fourth-graders stand with their teacher, Brian McCool, around a workbench learning about measuring wood in the wood shop. A row of saws hangs from hooks high on the wall, out of reach.

Down the hall, Pre-K students clap with delight as they learn firsthand about the properties of light, as red and yellow liquids in a plastic cylinder mix together and turn orange. And in the physics lab, Burton’s fourth-graders are designing a machine that will move along a cord stretched across the room to a certain distance and then drop a ball into a basket, all choreographed by the computer code they use on their laptops.

The students are excited, too. “There’s a real buzz among the children on the playground as well as at carpool,” says Judith Mullens, Director of Early Childhood. “Today I overheard groups of children talking about woodworking in just an awed tone.”

The partnership between Lamplighter and the SMU Maker Education Project continues during the 2017-18 academic year. The SMU team “will be invited into the classroom with the children, basically guiding and mentoring the teachers as they continue to develop and refine the academic program,” Mullens says. The team is also meeting regularly with third-and fourth-grade teachers in a design cohort to coach them through making and designing with their students.

Lamplighter’s leaders say they’re glad to continue working with the SMU Maker

Education Project team. Vicki Raney, the Assistant Head for Academics, who has been at Lamplighter for 14 years, calls the partnership “one of my favorite things that has happened over the years.”

Hill sees the collaboration in terms of the school’s entire history. “With a school of 65 years, Lamplighter has always been a leader in progressive education. It is woven into the DNA of this institution to stretch and question, and find new ways for children to experience teaching and learning.” she says. Working with the SMU Maker Education Project team has kept Lamplighter leading innovative best practices in early childhood and elementary education.

To Hill, shared goals are what make the partnership between Lamplighter and SMU succeed. “The Maker Education Project team’s goal is to advance understanding of design thinking and maker education,” she says. “Ours is to ensure that our students understand what design thinking and maker education are and how they can be used in their daily lives. Having the shared goal with SMU has made our partnership I think one of the most special things that we do at the school.”

The Lamplighter School celebrated the official opening of its new Innovation Lab on Friday, September 1, as members of the Lamplighter community, including students, parents, faculty, staff, and Trustees gathered to celebrate the latest addition to the campus.

The event began with opening remarks by Head of School Dr. Joan Buchanan Hill, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and singing of “America.” Dr. Hill shared a “peak inside” in the Innovation Lab by telling students of all the amazing workspaces inside the building including a woodworking studio, a robotics and maker-space, environmental science and early childhood science classrooms, a project room, and a teaching kitchen.

Representatives from fourth grade and Kindergarten joined faculty, alumni, and Trustee representatives to cut the yellow ribbon in unison and officially open the Innovation Lab.

The Innovation Lab is the second of two new buildings at Lamplighter to open at the school during 2017. On May 17, Lamplighter celebrated the opening of its new 1,625-square-foot barn with a ribbon cutting ceremony for the students, faculty, staff, and Trustees. The new barn is adjacent to the Innovation Lab and represents a tangible expression of Lamplighter’s identity. The barn serves as the hub for the Lamplighter Layer’s entrepreneurial program, a 47-year-old chicken-raising and egg-selling corporation run by the School’s fourth-grade students.

Innovation has always been at the core of the Lamplighter experience. The School’s founders, Natalie Murray and Sandy Swain, first used the term “innovation” in the 1960s as they traveled through Scandinavia seeking a learning style and philosophy that conveyed a close relationship with nature, open classrooms, and a “village composition” predicated on community, hands-on learning, and fostering an abiding sense of wonder. Every facet of the Lamplighter story and evolution has been consistent with this approach, including the existing campus and now the new Innovation Lab. In this way, what’s old is new again: Lamplighter is true to tradition but continues to take risks and adapt for the future.

New Lamplighter Barn ribbon cutting ceremony May 17

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The Lamplighter School: In your design philosophy, you strive to express the ideals of the people and institutions you serve. How do you feel that philosophy has been expressed at Lamplighter through the voice of the Innovation Lab? Marlon Blackwell Architects: Through a resonance of what was here before. This building is not a formulaic response to the specificities of what was here. As a school, a faculty, as a student body, a campus, as a culture, this is a very place-specific response and it is responsive. It doesn’t rely on formula. You have to take risks. We took risks here. We couldn’t just put out a beautiful minimalist box. What do you do that becomes resonant? Not to quote what was here before.

Can you reflect on the collaborative design process with Lamplighter? The team, (design team including architects, landscape architects, engineers, and other consultants in addition to our core design team) worked together with the building committee and the design committee, as well as the teachers and staff from the very beginning. We met at various junctures of the project phase to make sure that what we are proposing met their expectations. We revised our drawings appropriately with every feedback we received. This has been a successful collaborative process.

What is your favorite design element of the Innovation Lab? The light quality of the space and the visual connectivity one gets between rooms throughout and to the outside.

The “seating wells” in the classrooms are an iconic feature of the teaching approach at Lamplighter. Can you tell us about the design process of reimagining the well concept for the present and into the future? The seating wells are what’s so unique about the original building, and so well loved by all. In light of this, we certainly wanted to bring the well into the new facility; however, we could not do this in its original format (sunken in the ground) due to the accessibility code today. What we did was bring the shape (circle) and make them more universally accessible, and also make the location flexible. The wells can be moved, rearranged, and because they are upholstered, provide some pattern, color, and softness. The children can sit on the seat or lean against it while sitting on the floor. Children and adults with mobility issues are not excluded from using this well. We love the wells in their original form. We hope the new seating wells will do the job just as well.

How do you hope the Innovation Lab and new Barn will inspire the students and faculty at Lamplighter? We hope that the Innovation Lab and Barn buildings will provide not only space to learn and teach, but to do so in a space that transcends the everyday.

Do you have any advice for young students with an interest in architecture? Draw. Just draw. Find ways to connect what you are thinking to your hand so you can visualize it. Because it’s all about visualizing ideas. The other thing that is important is to travel, observe the world

outside your own comfort zone, but also to be more attentive to the things closest to you. Look at the world as it’s given to you, and ask the questions, “How could it be otherwise? How might it be like I want it to be? So how would I use these things to inspire me?”

I remember as a kid I was a cartoonist; I would create stories. Learn how to tell stories. Learn the importance of creating narrative in stories. Learn how to visualize ideas. And then, maybe ideas can become stories, and then they can become visual. I think that is what is missing in a lot of students today is that they have difficulty visualizing and asking the tough questions. I think getting them to ask questions, getting them to dream a little bit, wonder, that’s what makes a really good architect. Somebody who won’t accept the status quo and isn’t interested in a formulaic response to everything.

LampPost first interviewed Marlon Blackwell of Marlon Blackwell Architects in Fall of 2015 during the design phase of Lamplighter’s Barn and Innovation Lab. In this follow-up interview, Marlon and members of his team share their impressions now that the buidlings are complete.

REFLECTIONS WITH MARLON BLACKWELL ARCHITECTS

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“Seating Well” in the Lamplighter Innovation Lab

In early May 2017, Lamplighter Pre-K students were excited to open their Farmers Market! Tables were set, draped in checkered tablecloths, and topped with toy cash registers set out all in a row. Baskets were full of fresh vegetables that were washed and ready to sell to eager customers. Many handmade items were also available for guests to purchase: bird feeders, garden markers, popsicles, pinch pots, and tiny herb gardens. The smell of fresh-popped popcorn filled the air along with the excitement of so many young learners. With sunny blue skies, aprons tied, and huge smiles on their faces, the opening day had finally come. Lamplighter’s youngest tended the registers, bagged items and handed out lemonade as a thank you to paying customers. Sounds of joy echoed on the playground as students sold their crops and shared with the Lamplighter community their experiences.

The Pre-K Farmers Market is a project-based learning experience that gives students a chance to practice skills from the science, math, literacy, and social-emotional curriculum they have been exploring throughout the year. Our market is also designed to fully immerse the children in learning across the curriculum. Pinch pots are made in art class with Mrs. O’Krent, maracas are made in Spanish with Mrs. Krage, and marigolds are planted in science with Ms. Pollom.

Children at this age are just beginning to practice simple addition. Items sold at the market cost between one and four cents, giving students the opportunity to exercise their adding skills while calculating items of a sale together. Phonetically spelled signs are made by the children to advertise the items being sold, allowing students opportunities to write using the letters and sounds they have learned. You may also see garden markers with some “inventive spelling” used. Whether broccoli or “brokle,” we encourage our young spellers to practice the letter sounds and encourage their first attempts at writing. Our social-emotional curriculum also shines brightly as the children are encouraged to enhance their social-emotional skills and practice good customer service as the guests arrive and shop the market.

Due to last year’s construction and with a little ingenuity and creative thinking, a portion of our garden beds were relocated to the Early Childhood playground area along with a few other container gardens where the children dutifully planted, watered, and tended their plants. Gretchen Pollom, Lamplighter’s Early Childhood science teacher, also planted with the students in one of our indoor Tower Gardens. Pre-K students worked all school year tending to their gardens. From preparing the soil to planting seeds and seeing

the first sprouts pop up all the way to harvest, the children were engrossed and fully immersed in learning! Some students enjoyed watering, while others wanted to get their hands dirty and dig in the soil. Students had hands-on, experiential learning at their fingertips and a chance to make learning connections in very personal and real ways. Potatoes, onions, leeks, greens, and lettuce were all nurtured and grown by our young gardeners and entrepreneurs.

When the market was over, their “profits” were donated to the North Texas Food Bank. We spend time talking with the students about how fortunate we are to have plenty of food and that all of their basic needs and wants are met. The children felt such a great sense of pride knowing their work and profits went to help our community.

We are looking forward to Lamplighter’s Fifth Annual Farmers Market in 2018. Our youngest students will start working in the gardens and planting seeds this fall for a spring harvest. As you travel the Ring Road during carpool, be sure to check out our raised beds behind our new barn and see our progress. You might even see an eager child engrossed in hands-on learning and making lifelong memories!

Cornering the MarketPre-K Farmers Market provides project-based learning experience by Judith Mullens

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Entrepreneurial SpiritEntrepreneurial spirit is a mindset. It’s an attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change rather than waiting to adapt to change. It’s a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service, and continuous improvement. At Lamplighter, this mindset begins with our youngest learners in Pre-K, culminates with our four th-grade Seniors, and empowers our young alumni to continue the path of entrepreneurial spirit into the future.

Fourth-grade teachers Kathey Beddow and Jody Stout to receive Leavey Award by Jody Stout

“We are so proud to be facilitators of Lamplighter Layers – a program that does so much to encourage partnership, creative problem-solving, and great responsibility in our young students.”

Since 1977, Freedoms Foundation and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation have honored outstanding teachers for bringing passion and creativity to their classrooms as they teach students about entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system. This year, two of Lamplighter’s very own fourth-grade teachers, Kathey Beddow and Jody Stout, will be recognized for their achievements in guiding the Lamplighter Layers program during the 2015-16 school year. Along with five other educators from around the nation, Ms. Beddow and Ms. Stout are members of the 40th annual class to be presented with the Leavey Award.

The Leavey Awards program recognizes educators at the elementary, junior high school, high school, and college levels for innovative and effective techniques in teaching entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system. “Lamplighter Layers was founded in 1970 with the goals of providing young students

with the opportunity to practice cooperation, communication, respect, and responsibility in an entrepreneurial format,” explained Ms. Stout, “based very much on the same values espoused by the Freedoms Foundation and the Leavey Foundation. In its 47-year history, the Layers program has expanded and evolved. Each Lamplighter Senior class has had the opportunity to run the business after their own model.” In addition to the influence of growing technology on record keeping and communication, one adaptation to the business in recent years is the establishment of distinct committees: finance, production, communications, and dividend. Another change initiated by the students is the newer tradition of choosing charities with which to share their profits. “But core beliefs in the benefit of engaging in and investing in the free enterprise system,” continued Ms. Stout, “has always been the centerpiece of the program.”

“We are so proud to be facilitators of Lamplighter Layers – a program that does so much to encourage partnership, creative problem solving, and great responsibility in our young students,” stated Ms. Beddow. “In accepting the award, we are acknowledging contributions, effort, and passion given by many teachers and students who have come before. And we so appreciate that a national spotlight on our little chicken and egg business will ensure opportunities for leadership, community building, and real-world business experience for our fourth-graders for many years to come.”

Mrs. Beddow and Ms. Stout will be presented with the Leavey Award during the National Council for Social Studies Conference in San Francisco, California, November 17 and 18, 2017.

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L-R: Lamplighter Fourth-Grade Teachers Jody Stout, Kathey Beddow, Caroline Finnegan, and Freedoms Foundation representatives Kay Poyner, Wes Poyner, and Shirley Smith

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At Lamplighter, the Pre-K Farmer’s Market and Lamplighter Layers experiences introduce Early Childhood and Lower School students, respectively, to the concept of running a business. These project-based learning opportunities help instill an entrepreneurial spirit in our students.

In 2011, young alumnus Kate Mosle ’04, created an event that helped continue this entrepreneurial spirit to recent Lamplighter graduates when she established the Young Alumni Car Wash. Over the past seven years, the Young Alumni Car Wash has evolved into “a tradition that is enjoyed by all,” noted Dr. Joan Hill, Head of School.

Mosle launched the inaugural Young Alumni Car Wash with a committee of 10 Lamplighter alums and current middle and high school students. The committee met monthly prior to the event date and planned every detail; appropriating sponsors; creating posters and banners; and collecting towels, sponges, and other supplies. The 2011 event took place on a Saturday in May with the help of 50 young Lamplighter alums and raised over $7,000 for the Land Fund, a campaign that launched in 2010 to help Lamplighter purchase its 12-acre property from The Hockaday School.

In order to create a successful fundraising event for the School, Mosle was able to tap into the nostalgia alums have for Lamplighter. Mosle explained, “We have such fond memories of Lamplighter. Alums share a unique bond and know we were given the best possible foundation for success – it’s only natural to try to give back.”

Mosle credits the Lamplighter Layers experience run by fourth-grade students at the School as a driver of the event’s success, stating, “Lamplighter produces enthusiastic and hard-working alumni who are more than willing to come back and help out. Because of activities such as Lamplighter Layers, alumni are good at organizing and putting things together.”

Over the years, the Car Wash has continued to provide opportunities for young Lamplighter alums to show their entrepreneurial spirit and give back to the School. Proceeds from the 2011 – 2015 Young Alumni Car Wash events benefited the Lamplighter Land Fund, while proceeds from the 2016 and 2017 Car Wash events benefited the Igniting Young Minds for a Lifetime of Learning campaign,

which helped Lamplighter enhance its people, place, and programs, including the two most recent additions of the new Barn and Innovation Lab.

Young Alumni Clean UpAnnual Young Alumni Car Wash provides opportunities for young Lamplighter alums to show their entrepreneurial spirit and give back to the School

Save the date for this year’s Young Alumni Car Wash!

Saturday, May 12, 201811:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m

Lamplighter is grateful to the many volunteers over the years who have helped make the Young Alumni Car Wash a successful fundraising and community-building event for the School. A special thank you to our Car Wash Chairs since its inception:

2011: Kate Mosle ’042012: Katie Payne ’06 and Maya Sawla ’062013: Katherine Dau ’072014: Katherine Dau ’072015: George Dau ’092016: Jared Steinhart ’092017: Emma Siegel ’092018: Sarah Hodgson ’10 and Katherine Pollock ’10

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Institute for Early Childhood Teachers at The Lamplighter School

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Institute for Early Childhood Teachers at The Lamplighter School

Forever Learners

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In this continuing section, LampPost illustrates the ways our accomplished faculty members teach, engage, inspire, and mentor as they deliver serious education wrapped in the wonder of childhood.

FACULTY FOCUSFIELD STUDY: TEACHERS EXPLORE GEOLOGICAL AUSTIN CHALK ROCK QUARRY AT MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Institute for Early Childhood Teachers at The Lamplighter School

This past summer, The Lamplighter School hosted the first Faculty Forward, a professional development program for Pre-K through second-grade teachers. Cara Hicks, Anita Orozco, and Gretchen Pollom created and designed the one-week program which taught area teachers how to engage their students through hands-on, outdoor, experiential lessons focused on life and Earth science and integrated literacy, math, art, and social-emotional curriculum. Eight participants attended from local schools: Alcuin, da Vinci, Hockaday, and Temple Emanu-El, and two teachers from Tyler, Texas. It was an amazing cohort of educators, learning and sharing with one another.

The professional development focused on gardening and farmers’ markets on Monday and Tuesday, Blackland Prairies on Thursday and Friday, and Wednesday was a field study to Mountain View Community College (MVCC), one of the Dallas County Community College Districts schools. MVCC has a sustainability program with a native Blackland Prairie, a community garden, a geological Austin rock quarry, aquaponics, and more. Each day was four hours long, and guest speakers were invited to discuss topics ranging from school gardens to the local ecosystem. Speakers attended

from Real School Gardens, the Dallas Arboretum, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, North Haven Gardens, and Mountain View Community College in addition to master gardeners, master naturalists, and Matt White, author of the book Prairie Time.

Each participant of the program was provided with a curriculum binder filled with lesson plans, handouts, and recipes. Speaking of recipes, the culmination of each day was an hour long cooking lesson with a local chef, who taught the teachers how to use and cook local foods grown in our community garden. The daily recipes were boiled potatoes with lemon and herbs, succotash, blackberry compote and pancakes, and a delicious garden salad. When a child grows her own food, she develops a greater understanding of her impact on the Earth through topics such as growing locally, composting, reducing waste, water and soil conservation, and plant and animal life cycles.

In the coming years, our hope is to have involvement by faculty from both public and independent schools. Appreciating “home” and understanding the local flora and fauna of our ecosystem, the Blackland Prairie, offers endless teaching opportunities.

One Space Forward!

Dice! Cards! Move one space forward.Bingo! Another winner!

Lamplighter students created their own board games and shared them with classmates as a culmination of their third-grade math experience. What better way to “show what they know” than to build a game that required players to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

The project began two years ago with a conversation in the classroom well. Students worked in groups with two or three friends to design an original board game. After choosing which math concept they wanted to incorporate into their game, they took two days for design, additional time to build the game, and a couple of days to test it. They used classroom resources for building.

This leadership opportunity allowed students to explain the games to friends as teachers assessed their understanding of math concepts. Third-grade math teacher Lauren Hardage remarked, “The project was a good way for students to demonstrate what they learned in math class this year.”

Winners indeed!

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Lamplighter School hosts Faculty Forward, professional development program for Pre-K through second-grade teachers by Gretchen Pollom

Students Create Math-Themed Board Games

L-R: Lamplighter Teachers Gretchen Pollom, Anita Orozco and Cara Hicks

Cooking lessons in the Barn with Chef Toby Archibald Presentation by Luisa Aviles of Real School Gardens

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The Lamplighter School faculty systematically examines curriculum and instructional practices to ensure that their work is fully aligned with the mission of our school and national standards. Over the last three years, the math curriculum team, which includes teachers from Pre-K through fourth grade, met monthly to review content and issues related to mathematics and young children.

As part of that examination of curriculum, the math curriculum committee chose to use the latest edition of Every Day Math. Math faculty reviewed the latest research and uncovered how colleagues teach math at local ISAS schools. The group met with company representatives and trainers who made presentations to Lamplighter faculty, and they debated the advantages of multiple programs. The work of this committee was intentional, comprehensive, and thorough. With various teacher editions and student materials in their hands, and after checking online for feedback, trying out online resources for students, and plenty of collegial conversations, Lamplighter endorsed Every Day Math.

Every Day Math is a wonderful match for Lamplighter students with a program that:

+ Provides hands-on learning

+ Engages children in the joy of learning by teaching them to be problem solvers

+ Encourages curiosity and promotes a deeper mathematical understanding while building confidence

+ Stresses not only procedural skill but also conceptual understanding to make sure students are learning and absorbing the critical information they need to succeed at higher levels

Lamplighter faculty noted the many advantages of the new edition of Every Day Math. Third-grade math teacher Leslie Bledsoe says that it “helps students become problem solvers and good thinkers, and provides more practice with concepts and a broad variety of ways to learn concepts.” Teachers appreciate the additional hands-on manipulatives and new games that are included with the program. Faculty members had extensive training and have professional development available online. Students also have online access to games when they are at home. Parents have online access as well. Every Day Math includes online tutorials for students and parents.

A writing component was added to this version of Every Day Math, which requires students to write sentences about

how they solved a particular program. Articulating the strategy they used reinforces how students can find answers. Lamplighter’s math program balances how-to skills with concepts children need to understand, and teachers are careful about praising students for their mathematical thinking rather than being first to get the answer before everyone else. Teachers are patient with students to ensure that every child has enough time to think about the problem and determine the best answer.

Lamplighter continues to nurture our students and to prepare them to be lifelong learners. They leave us as true mathematicians!

Math Every Day

Lamplighter Students Excel in New Every Day Math Programby Vicki Raney

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T A K E A D E E P B R E A T H. . .

A a a a h h…

When I walked through Lamplighter classes this morning, I noticed that faculty members are taking a 60-second moment to take a deep breath and refocus their students. Doing so is but one of many ways to teach and practice mindfulness with young learners.

Mindfulness is being aware of our thoughts, emotions, and the environment surrounding us. It is the intentional nurturing of kindness and compassion. Lamplighter teachers believe the research that indicates a mindfulness practice will improve students’ attention levels, their self-control, and memory. All of those skills allow students to be better classmates and to be more successful when learning new concepts.

Jill Wiedman, Lamplighter’s school counselor, has extensive training in mindfulness. She, along with Pre-K

teacher Liz Curlin and second-grade teacher Anne Yarbrough, developed a curriculum and training program for faculty. The team shared resources and led colleagues through activities over the last eight weeks, The team also invited Erin Brandao to provide another half-hour faculty session next month so they have additional activities they can integrate into their classes.

Lamplighter students currently have at least two 60-second mindful moments throughout the school day.

The school has several mindfulness goals for students that include:

• Observing and naming emotions as they occur• Awareness of behavior patterns

• Breathing that helps relax the body and calm the mind• More compassion for others• Navigating ups and downs by seeing events objectively

Anne Yarbrough says, “Since adding mindfulness as a daily practice, my life has become more balanced. I have loved sharing the practice of being mindful with my students. Together, we have learned to take a ‘pause’ and experience the world around us and inside us.”

Parents may want to ask children about mindful moments in class this year. The following books may be useful, too. The Lemonade Hurricane by Licia Morelli, Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee Mac Lean, and What Does It Mean to be Present by Rana DiOrio.

Students Take a Mindful Moment

Jill Wiedman | Liz Curlin | Anne Yarbrough

“Mindfulness is a way of life that fills us with purposeful moments.” – Liz Curlin

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“Dreams really do come true!” As long as I can remember I have dreamed of going to Heidelberg, Germany, my birthplace. Pat Mattingly and the Mattingly Fund allowed me to experience this lifelong dream.

What made this trip even more meaningful was having my daughter, Meredith, with me. It was my first trip out of the United States, and our first place to visit was the hospital where I was born, the 130th Station Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. The hospital, which had been converted to the United States Army Health Center, closed in 2015. Even though I did not get to go in, my daughter told me the smile on my face when I saw where I was born was priceless. While in Heidelberg, we visited the Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg’s Old Bridge, and the Church of the Holy Spirit, where they were celebrating the 500th year of the Reformation.

After spending two days in Heidelberg, we were off to Salzburg, Austria, for three days. Of course, we went on a tour and sang, “The Hills Are Alive (With the Sound of Music),” and they truly were. We visited Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in the Bavarian Alps. The weather was perfect, and being eye level with the Alps, we could see an incredible panoramic view of both Germany and Austria. On our way back, we stopped at the Hallein Salt Mines, and suited up to slide down into the underground Salt Mine under Hallein, Austria.

Our last three days were spent in Munich. We visited the English Garden, where we watched river surfing in the Eisbach, an artificial stream that runs through the garden, and we had to visit Koniglicher Hirschgarten, the largest beer garden in Bavaria. Our final place to see was Dachau Concentration Camp. There are no words

to describe the feelings I had. To read about Dachau is devastating, but to see and walk where 206,200 humans were murdered was overwhelming. It made me realize again how very lucky I am. What impressed me as an educator is that every German student is required to tour a concentration camp.

On the last day, we rose early and were zipped to the airport by way of the Autobahn, listening to a nice German gentlemen sing his rendition of “Sweet Caroline.”

Dreams do come true! This was the best experience of my life, besides having my children. Thank you, Pat Mattingly!

“Dreams Really Do Come True”Mattingly Award Recipient Debbie Cox Travels to Birthplace

by Debbie Cox

Photos L-R: Debbie Cox and daughter Meredith in Salzburg; Debbie’s first passport from when she was a baby; United States Army Health Center, Heidelberg Germany; and view of the Rhine River (above).

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Nafisa Rahman | Alternate Teacher Nafisa Rahman recently relocated to Dallas from Pennsylvania. She has taught early childhood for over nine years and received two mastery-level degrees in elementary education as well as reading, writing, and literacy focusing on Pre-K to 12th grade. When Nafisa is not working with children, she is an undercover foodie or traveling between the East Coast and the Midwest to visit her family. She is loving her Lamplighter experience thus far and is excited to see what is in store for her!

Jordan Palefsky | Kindergarten Assistant Jordan Palefsky received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in Psychology and Early Childhood Education. She was a Kindergarten Greenhill Fellow last year and is excited to join the Lamplighter community. In her free time, she loves dancing, journaling and reading, attending museums, practicing her American Sign Language, and working at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Jordan loves to learn continuously and hopes to instill this excitement and passion in her students.

Megan Dini | Second Grade Teacher Megan Dini is a Dallas native and graduated from Ursuline Academy. She spent several years in Missouri earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Missouri and later teaching third grade in St. Louis. Megan was eager to return to Texas, which is home to many of her family and friends. When not at school, she enjoys reading, baking, and cheering for our Dallas sports teams, especially the Mavericks.

Shayna Starr | First Grade TeacherShayna Starr is thrilled to be part of the first grade team at Lamplighter and is excited to be back in her home state of Texas. She is originally from Houston, but has moved around the country a bit since graduating from Northwestern University. Before coming to Dallas, Shayna received her Master’s in Elementary Education from Vanderbilt University and taught third grade in Nashville. While she is an avid Houston sports fan, she has a growing appreciation for the big Dallas teams. She hates to admit it, but the Cowboys are so fun to watch these days!

Lamplighter new faculty from L-R: Nafisa Rahman, Jordan Palefsky, Megan Dini, and Shayna Starr

Welcome New Faculty

Where in the world are the Mattinglys?Former Mattingly Fund recipients have traveled the globe in pursuit of lifelong learning:

Former Head of School Pat Mattingly visited Lamplighter to attend a presentation by teacher Debbie Cox, who was last year’s Mattingly Award recipient. Established in 2000, the award honors Mattingly, an advocate for lifelong learning. The annual award is a “Fund for Excellence in Education.” The purpose of the professional development program is to assist members of the faculty and staff to grow personally and professionally, enabling them to enhance the contributions they make to Lamplighter.

Jody Stout ItalyCheryl Shulman Marathon on Easter IslandPam O’Krent Art study in Amsterdam and Florence, ItalyKathy Ritz Horseback riding in the AlpsLiz Curlin Cooking class in ItalyKate Ogden Bicycling in EcuadorDebbie Herskovitz Habitat for Humanity in FijiPatricia Vermillion Writing in ItalyJezabel Guadalupe Photography trip in RomaniaBill Burton Writing workshop with Highlights in PennsylvaniaDebbie Cox Visit birthplace in Heidelberg, Germany

Former recipients are pictured here with Pat Mattingly (bottom row L-R): Patricia Vermillion, Jody Stout, Mattingly, Liz Curlin, Debbie Herskovitz; and; (top row L-R): Pam O’Krent, Kathy Ritz, Kate Ogden, Bill Burton, Jezabel Guadalupe, Cheryl Shulman, and Debbie Cox.

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Cindy Zhao | Assistant Head for Finance and AdministrationAs the Assistant Head for Finance and Administration, Cindy Zhao oversees all accounting, finance, and business operations for The Lamplighter School. Cindy is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Prior to joining Lamplighter, she worked for Ernst & Young in Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services. Most recently, she served as the Financial Officer for Athletics at Southern Methodist University. She earned a B.A. in International Studies and a B.B.A. in Accounting from Southern Methodist University, and an M.S. in Accounting from University of Virginia. She lives in Dallas with her husband and their three children.

Taylor Good | Parent Relations CoordinatorTaylor Good’s first school was Lamplighter, and she is thrilled to be back on campus as a member of the Advancement Team. After graduating from The Hockaday School, she attended Sewanee: The University of the South where she graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Theater Arts. Good also studied in New York at the Michael Howard Studios. Last year she relocated from Los Angeles to Dallas, where she was born and raised. During her time in Los Angeles, she primarily worked in the film industry, most recently as the Costume Coordinator and Costume Department Accountant for the Hunger Games films Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2. She has a young daughter, Dixie, and they enjoy spending time with family and their pets (a dog, a cat, and chickens), exploring the outdoors, working in their garden, taking photographs, cooking, swimming, and knitting. Taylor is also a singer-songwriter, and loves to sing and play guitar.

Margaret Oden | Admission and Placement Coordinator Margaret Oden was born and raised in Dallas and attended the Episcopal School of Dallas. She graduated from Texas Christian University where she pursued a degree in Child Development. After graduating, she became an early childhood teacher at Vogel Alcove where she worked for two years before joining the Lamplighter Admission team. In her free time, Margaret loves to exercise, travel, and spend time with her family and friends.

Bill Wetsel | ControllerBill Wetsel has over eight years of experience working in nonprofits, previously with Big Thought and The SPCA of Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. In his free time, Bill enjoys cooking, spending time with family and friends, playing with his four dogs, and volunteer ushering with Uptown Players. He has also been active with Susan G. Komen 3 Day for the Cure since 2006.

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Lamplighter new staff members from L-R: Cindy Zhao, Taylor Good, Margaret Oden, and Bill Wetsel

Ana Bohanan | Director of Communications and MarketingAna Bohanan was named Director of Communications in June. She has worked in photo production, marketing, advertising, and design for more that 20 years, six of those at Lamplighter. This semester she is also teaching a knitting class in the NightLight after-school program. Outside of Lamplighter, Ana serves on the Visual Art Guild Board at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where her daughter is a junior in the Visual Art Conservatory.

Staff Meeting Lamplighter Welcomes New Staff Members

Dianne Johnson | School NurseDianne Johnson was born and raised in New York and has called Dallas her home since 2010. Her past experience includes working in an adult medical ICU/PCU, a pediatric ICU, and as a pediatric liver transplant coordinator. She earned a B.S.N. from New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and a B.A. from Barnard College at Columbia University. She and her husband have a son named Everett and an English bulldog named Lilly. She has fond memories of her own school nurse growing up and is honored to care for the children and staff at Lamplighter.

Well VisitWelcome Nurse Dianne

Last April, the Lamplighter community, together with over 250 friends, colleagues, former colleagues, and family, gathered at Lamplighter to celebrate Elise Murphy and her extraordinary service to the School. Following an impressive career, including just under 20 years of service to The Lamplighter School, Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Elise Murphy celebrated her retirement.

After earning a B.A. in French and History, as well as an M.L.A. and M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, Elise was employed at the school for six years as the University’s Financial Officer in the graduate research center, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, with the title of Controller. Following SMU, Elise and her sister, Marynell Murphy, (Lamplighter’s current Director of Operations), owned and operated a retail store, The Four Leaf Clover, for seven years before she came to Lamplighter in 1997. This began a 20-year commitment to the School’s business office, overseeing all accounting, finance, and operations, and managing the business office team.

During the Sunday afternoon retirement celebration, the crowd gathered in the Klyde Warren Auditorium, which was decorated in shades of blue, Elise’s favorite color, and with bluebonnets, Elise’s favorite flower. To commemorate the occasion, Lamplighter Drama Teacher Jeff Peck posed as “Ralph Edwards, Jr.” and hosted a “trip down memory lane,” presenting Elise with a “This Is Your Lamplighter Life” program. The guests listened carefully as “Mr. Edwards” introduced a series of visitors who have been influential in Elise’s “Lamplighter Life,” following the format of the original television series of the 1950s and 1960s.

The first mystery guest in the program featured Pat Mattingly, former Lamplighter Head of School, who declared, “I have always said Elise was the best hire I ever made.” Ms. Mattingly hired

Elise in 1997 and worked closely with her until Mattingly retired from the School in 2000. Today, they remain close friends as well as mentors for many Lamplighter employees. Ms. Mattingly joined Elise on the stage’s couch as “Mr. Edwards” continued by introducing the next guest, Mary Brinegar, the President and CEO of the Dallas Arboretum. Ms. Brinegar has known Elise for nearly 50 years, dating back to their days at SMU, and has become a lifelong friend, ally, and business partner through the Lamplighter-Dallas Arboretum educational partnership.

More special guests followed in the program, highlighting the many aspects of Elise’s service to the School including her mentorship of the Lamplighter Layers organization, partnership with the Lamplighter Parents’ Association (LPA), representation on the Leadership Team, and management of the Business Office. Three Class of 2017 students, who served as Treasurers of the Lamplighter Layers organization, noted, “Ms. Murphy taught us how to use an Excel spreadsheet and what it means to be true treasurers of Lamplighter Layers,” while a Lamplighter Parents’ Association (LPA) representative joked, “You have always told us that you weren’t going to jail alone for any laws we innocently broke!”

The largest group joined Elise on stage when “Ralph Edwards” introduced 20 years of Elise’s colleagues from the Lamplighter Leadership Team and Business Office. These individuals worked closely with Elise over many years and will miss her dearly for her “wise and thoughtful advice,” noted Sandy Diamond, Director of Advancement and fellow member of the Leadership Team. Assistant Head for Academics, Vicki Raney, went on to explain, “Elise Murphy is the epitome of a great colleague. She is serious and funny, all at the same time. Elise is accomplished, knowledgeable, creative, and thoughtful.”

“A select group of individuals have left their mark on this great school. Elise Murphy left footprints on the heart of Lamplighter and touched the lives of countless students, parents, faculty, staff, and Board members. Her dedication and love of Lamplighter will stand as a benchmark for excellence in all that follow in her footsteps. We all miss her presence at school each and every day. “– Marynell Murphy

Lamplighter Honors Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Elise Murphy on Her Retirement

UNSUNG HERO

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Within her department, Elise demonstrated leadership and knowledge that inspired her team to achieve outstanding results year after year. One of the most telling statistics of this leadership and outstanding performance is made evident by her “perfect record” of yearly reports from the auditors. Under her leadership, Lamplighter successfully achieved a clean audit during all 20 years of her service to the School. In addition to her strong business performance, Elise also inspired many team members to achieve great success through her knowledge and guidance. Finance and Human Resources Coordinator Johanna Nystrom noted, “It was my privilege to work with Elise for 18 years. We were almost like an old married couple where we knew each other’s thoughts, finished each other’s sentences, and learned so much from each other. To be able to work for and with someone so incredibly knowledgeable about the independent school business office was invaluable.”

The program of “This Is Your Lamplighter Life” concluded with two special guests who traveled a long way to celebrate with Elise. Elise’s grandchildren, Colin and Waverly Brown, of San Francisco sweetly asked, “Does this mean you will get to spend more time with us?” As the children presented Elise with flowers, a special video presentation was displayed, highlighting photos of Elise over the past 20 years at Lamplighter.

The celebration concluded with a very special announcement by Head of School Dr. Joan Hill. Hill informed the guests that Elise had recently been awarded the Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award presented by the National Business Officers Association (NBOA). The award is given to business officers “who have made extraordinary contributions to their schools and exemplify exceptional integrity, knowledge, and motivation.”Elise has been an active member and leader within the NBOA community over the years and was recognized this spring with

this honor. Her accomplishments noted by the NBOA, which qualified her for the award included:

• “Goldmine” presentation on the chart of accounts at the NBOA Annual Meeting has been packed each of the three years she has offered it

• Willing mentor – three neighboring schools recently hired new business officers within a short period of time, and she reached out to each as a colleague and friend

• Selected by a well-regarded audit firm to present on the independent school sector at the Texas Society of CPAs conference

• Teaching business principles and entrepreneurship to fourth- graders involved in Lamplighter Layers, a student-run, Texas-incorporated business

• Service outside of Lamplighter – has worked for 38 years with the Junior League of Dallas, a women’s organization devoted to community service, serving as a treasurer and board member and still assists with endowment activities

Elise supported four Heads of School and our regional association – ISAS, amongst others. Hill described Elise as a consummate professional, “Elise led every initiative with the highest level of integrity and a deep and unwavering commitment to the School. Never shy about expressing gratitude, nor making a correction to an error, her ‘get it done’ attitude will be remembered always.”

Enjoy a well-deserved retirement Elise!

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OCTOBER 13

On Friday, October 13, Lamplighter celebrated its 64th Carnival with “Superhero Success”! Students, alumni, parents, faculty, and staff joined together for some cape-wearing, crime-fighting, tall-building-leaping adventures to celebrate this year’s “Calling All Superheroes” event, hosted by the Lamplighter Parents’ Association.

This time-honored Lamplighter tradition kicked off with the “Parade of Grades,” as all Pre-K through fourth-grade students donned superhero t-shirts and masks and marched to the outdoor, on-campus event. Once the event officially began, students joined in midway games, pony rides, a petting zoo, face painting, and train rides around the Ring Road. This year’s special superhero attractions included “Superman’s Flying Zipline,” “Spiderman’s Web Slinger Euro Bungee” trampolines, “Avenger’s Climbing Tower,” “Wonder Woman’s Power Zorb Ball,” “Captain America Training Soccer Darts,” and “Batman’s Amazing Slide.” Other returning Carnival favorites rounded out the activities including the photo booth, salon, and Mock ER (Emergency Room). To keep the superheroes energized, Central Market sponsored a free “SNACK SHACK,” where children could grab free healthy snacks throughout the event. Also new this year was the Souvenir Booth, which offered a chance to enhance crime-fighting abilities with extra capes, masks, extra muscles, spider web silly string, kryptonite slime, and glow-in-the-dark accessories.

As in the past, the Carnival culminated with the traditional Senior Jacket Ceremony on the hill. The fourth-grade students were awarded red and black letter jackets, a memorable keepsake to celebrate their Senior year at the School. Each student was called to the hill, one by one, to receive the Lamplighter jacket, which they wear proudly all year long, to show their Lamplighter spirit.

A special thank you to Carnival Co-Chairs Margaret Morse and Amy Puig and the entire Carnival Committee for making the event a "Superhero Success”!

Co-Chairs: Margaret Morse and Amy Puig Alumni Volunteer Coordinator: Erin HillmanParent Volunteer Coordinator: Neelima KurjiAttractions: Morgan Kennedy, Scott Kennedy, and Neha NayyarBake Sale: Brittany Lober and Lindsey MartinsonEvent Services: Michael SternFirst Aid: Eleise WeisbergFood: Katie Oudt, Natalie Oudt, and Traci LeeMock ER: Kate Barden and Christine HoSalon: Billie Jean Langham and Karin TribunaSigns: Carolyn Johnson and Tinka YunusSouvenirs: Caroline Belanger and Shelby StanleyStaffing: Elizabeth McNeilT-Shirts & Tickets: Lilly Albritton, Kristin Fay, and Natalie JohnsonVirtual Reality: Steve Nix

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What’s Happening Around the SchoolBarnyardBuzz

Lamplighter Celebrates Annual Carnival with “Calling All Superheroes” Theme

SUPERHERO SUCCESS

...THE amazing lamplighter superheroesgathered on the hill ready to take on the 64th Lamplighter carnival...

Calling all superheroes!

Carnival rocks!

senior jackets!

Kindergarten Square Dancing

Soles4Souls

Grandest Friends’ Day

International Night

What’s Happening Around the SchoolBarnyardBuzz2017

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On Sunday, April 30, the Lamplighter Class of 2009 celebrated the class reunion of their first alma mater. The afternoon gathering in the Klyde Warren Auditorium offered a chance to reconnect and reminisce before the students graduated from high school (just weeks later) and headed off to college in the fall. In attendance were 27 alumni high school seniors, many of the past students’ parents, and several beloved teachers including Kathey Beddow, Sue McCullough, Marty Melton, Pam O’Krent, Kathy Ritz, and Jody Stout.

CLASS OF 2009 REUNION

CLASS OF 2009 COLLEGESNoble Alden Syracuse UniversityVictoria Alder TCULaura Arroyo-Shoultz Fordham UniversityBo Baker Wake Forest UniversityRose Bassel University of TexasPeyton Bell-Hunter Howard UniversityAdam Bergman Universtiy of TexasSophie Bernstein Carnegie MellonParis Bland University of TexasCarolina Campbell University of North CarolinaDonny Carty Dartmouth UniversityChandler Crates University of TexasJoel Danilewitz University of MichiganGeorge Dau Texas A&M UniversityJason Davis SMUHolmes Davis University of North CarolinaZachary Drazner Gap year in WyomingHudson Fernandes Cornell UniversityMorgan Flood Gap yearAlex Gilmour NYUJeff Grimes University of GeogiaNatalie Groves TCUTate Hakert SMUSophie Hart Emory UniversityEdward Heidarian Brookhaven CollegeTommy Hessel Duke UniversityMelanie Kerber Carnegie Mellon UniversityJack Kraus Wesleyan UniversityAustin Krohn St. Louis UnviersityLauren McDaniel University of MississippiKailey McNeal Pitzer College - 295Lea Meyers Washington UniversityJohanna Mondragon UnknownEvan O’Brien University of Southern CaliforniaSydney Palis Furman UniversityWhit Payne Vanderbilt UniversityAbi Price Auburn UniversityJohann Schwarz Purdue UniversityAlex Shaw Fordham UniversityEmma Siegel SMUAli Simenc Tulane UniversityMatthew Sims Tufts UniversityClaire Spigel Rutgers UniversityJared Steinhart Unviersity of MichiganBenjamin Stromberg Texas A & M UniversityZayna Syed University of MichiganFrank Thomas Duke UniversityHyer Thomas Washington and Lee UniversityAlden Vose University of TexasDanielle Weiss University of TexasEmma Wooding Savannah College of Art and Design

Graduates on the goAlumniNow

Focus on 2009

Email Advancement at advancement@thelamplighterschool.org by February 1, 2018, to submit entries for the “Alumni Now” section of the upcoming Spring 2018 LampPost.Contact us any time to schedule a visit.

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’74 Kyle Ford’75 Eugenia King ’76 Max Swango ’77 Bradley B. Miller ’77 Margaret Flanagan Solomon ’78 Adam Leventhal’80 Brian Cheek’80 Shannon Morse ’81 Giggy Loeb Jacobson’82 Royce Poinsett ’83 Elizabeth Dodge’83 Amanda Oneacre Rockow ’84 Ashley Geller Greene ’85 Aimee Marquess Whitaker ’86 Jeffrey Kitner ’87 Sarah Stockton

’88 Matt Miller ’89 Courtney Jones Johnson ’90 Flauren Fagadau Bender ’91 Lilly Albritton ’93 Ashley Carter’93 Craig Smith’94 Alexandra Krippner ’95 Hunter Lewis ’96 Emily Hess’98 Katherine Rochelle Wyker’99 Meredith Klein’01 Laura Rose Brylowski ’02 Laura Frazee ’03 Margaret Rote ’12 Kirsten Kirk

LAMPLIGHTER CLASS AGENTS 2017–2018

It’s a wash 2017 YOUNG ALUMNI CAR WASH

Finley Harbaugh Konrade ’93, PresidentSarah Schoelkopf Bloom ’77Elizabeth Brown ’93Elizabeth Dodge ’83T.J. Frank ’93Chris Gannett ’83Laura Christensen Godkin ’86Liz Cullum Helfrich ’90Scurry Johnson ’73Emily Jourdan ’75Finley Harbaugh Konrade ’93Matt Miller ’88Sarah Pearson Reidy ’90Shannon Schaul ’89Margaret Solomon ’77Joseph Unis ’96Katherine Rochelle Wyker ’98

ALUMNI COUNCIL

Over 60 middle and high school students gathered on May 13 last spring to host Lamplighter’s seventh annual Young Alumni Car Wash. Led and run by Lamplighter’s youngest alums (5th through 12th graders), the Car Wash is one of the highlights of the school year. The 2017 Car Wash Chair was Emma Siegel ’09, a senior at The Hockaday School.

Emma gathered alums representing nine different schools in the metroplex. By meeting at Lamplighter monthly during the spring semester, alums had the opportunity to reconnect with each other, the School, and meet new alums. “We realized that even though many of us attended Lamplighter years apart from each other, we still have many of the same memories and definitely know the same hootenanny songs!,” Emma exclaimed.

Parents of the young alums also joined the fun that beautiful afternoon in May to see old Lamplighter friends and to support their children’s first alma mater. “All in all, it was a perfect day,” said current and alumni parent Jennifer Brylowski.

Mark your calendar for this year’s Young Alumni Car Wash – Saturday, May 12 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.!

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Ways to Make Your Donation

Mail: Send your pledge/gift to the school by completing and returning the enclosed envelope with your Annual Fund letterOnline: Click on “Make a Gift” at www.thelamplighterschool.orgPhone: Contact Sandy Diamond at 214-369-9201 ext. 354

All gifts to the 2017-2018 Annual Fund must be made before May 31, 2018

The Annual Fund is the highest fundraising priority at The Lamplighter School each year. This essential fund supports Lamplighter’s mission and provides direct funding for educational initiatives and operational enhancements that tuition alone does not cover such as:

· Continuing implementation of the most current curriculum designed for the youngest learners, with a focus on literacy, Spanish, technology, science, math, and engineering

· Keeping technology in the forefront using three-dimensional Tinkercad virtual environments, Bee-Bots, WeDo Robots, and iPads in all classrooms for coding and as research tools in support of hands-on learning

· Providing professional development opportunities for faculty members to lead and learn at national conferences and universities, then incorporating the latest teaching techniques and concepts into the curriculum

· Hosting a wide variety of guest speakers, artists, musicians, dancers, authors, and illustrators, thereby enriching the school by providing students unique learning experiences

· Continuing our work with educational and strategic partnerships with Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Dallas, the Dallas Arboretum, and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science

A successful Annual Fund depends on participation from every member of our school community. 100% of trustees, alumni council, faculty, and staffsupported last year’s Annual Fund. 100% parent participation is always the goal of the Annual Fund, as well as increased participation from grandparents, alumni parents, alumni, and friends.

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LAMPLIGHTER STUDENTS

report of annual giving 2016 - 2017

Fall 2017 | The Lamplighter School | Dallas, Texas

Dear Lamplighter Community,

Each year, May brings the end of the school year, the end of the fiscal year, and all the wonderful achievements of our Lamplighter community. The closing of the 2016-2017 year was especially significant with the completion of the Lighting Our Paths strategic plan and the very successful Igniting Young Minds Campaign that provided the opportunity for the construction of two new buildings for our students.

We are pleased to present the 2016-2017 Annual Report and want to express our appreciation to you, our Trustees, parents, grandparents, alumni, and alumni parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends for giving generously of your time, your energy, and your financial resources. Your support advances the School’s mission and the outstanding work of our faculty members and students.

2016 – 2017 was a year of so many accomplishments with just a few listed below:

• Under the leadership of Flauren and Jason Bender, the Annual Fund Committee succeeded in raising over $610,000, achieving 96 percent parent participation, and contributing to five percent of the operating budget.

• The Lamplighter Parents’ Association, led by Brenna Lambert, provided opportunities throughout the year for community building and engagement. The Barnyard Blastoff Carnival, chaired by Dana Rumbauskas and Tiffany Wilmer, celebrated record attendance while the Havana Nights

Auction, co-chaired by Lori Bennett, Emily Clarke, Ksenia Gonchar, Natalie Johnson, Elizabeth McNeil, Meredith Wrighton, offered a memorable evening at Fair Park’s Hall of State.

• Campaign Chair, Jennifer Karol, along with the Steering Committee and Parents’ Committee, successfully completed the four-year Igniting Young Minds Campaign, raising just under $17,000,000, the largest Campaign in the School’s history.

• Young Alumni Car Wash Chair, Emma Siegel ’09, and her Committee planned and executed a record-breaking car wash bringing over 60 alums back to campus and raising over $14,000.

• On May 17, students and teachers gathered in front of the new barn to watch the fourth graders cut a big yellow ribbon just before the third graders delivered their newly hatched chicks to the new coop.

Your continued commitment strengthens Lamplighter and makes an important difference in the lives of every Lamplighter student. We are deeply grateful for your support.

Sincerely,

Sandy DiamondDirector of Advancement

Your support advances the School’s mission and the outstanding work of our faculty members and students.

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The following is a list of individuals whose gifts of time and talent served the advancement efforts of Lamplighter during the period June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017. The school’s continued advancement depends on such committed, energetic, and generous individuals.

Board of TrusteesSarah Weinberg, ChairKelvin BaggettFlauren Fagadau Bender ’90Shonn BrownDavid ChardSteven Clark ’88Joe EastinCatie EnricoJenney GillikinMeg GravesMargaret Johansen Hirsch ’89Linda HodgsonJane Rose HurstAnurag JainJennifer KarolBrenna LambertLiza LeeDouglas MacMahonJon Morgan ’82Jed Morse ’82Bill PayneKristin ReesCatherine RoseJustin Small ’83George TangJean-Louis TrochuKelcy WarrenKatherine Rochelle Wyker ’98Andy Yung

Life TrusteesStuart BumpasDan CookMary McDermott CookDavid Corrigan ’68Mike DodgeNeil FooteJudy GassCharles GinsburgRolf HaberechtMarietta Scurry JohnsonJack KleinCarol LevyDavid MillerJennifer MosleBarbara NicholsMargaret Jonsson RogersBarney Young

Advancement CommitteeJoe Eastin, ChairLilly Albritton ’91Flauren Fagadau Bender ’90Allison BovardKristy BowenCatie EnricoKatie JohnsonJennifer Karol

Brenna LambertJill MagnusonCandace MartinJon Morgan ’82 (ex-officio)Chris TrowbridgeSarah Weinberg (ex-officio)Katherine Rochelle Wyker ’98

Alumni CouncilKatherine Rochelle Wyker ’98, PresidentLilly Albritton ’91Sarah Schoellkopf Bloom ’77Elizabeth Brown ’83Elizabeth Dodge ’83T.J. Frank ’93Chris Gannett ’83Laura Christensen Godkin ’86Liz Cullum Helfrich ’90Scurry Johnson ’73Finley Harbaugh Konrade ’93Sam Leake ’79Peggy Black Meyer ’73Matt Miller ’88Kristin Pittman Ortega ’89Margaret Flanagan Solomon ’77

Annual Fund LeadershipFlauren ’90 and Jason Bender, Co-ChairsKatie and David AisnerLisa AntesLindsey and Dave BeranKristy and Taylor BowenChuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91Mia and Tyler BrousLisa BrownBill BurtonDenise ByrdCourtney and Dan CaseAshley and Robert CatheyAlice ChouMandy DakeLynn DoanCathy and Mark CohenTania and Pat ConroyAngie ConstantinidesHeather and Casey DeskinsMeghana DhallCatie EnricoElayna and Casey ErickEvey FagadauJamie and Greg GauntLinda HodgsonKate HoedebeckGunjan JainScott KennedyAnil Koganti and Christine HoFinley Harbaugh Konrade ’93

Erica and Trey KuppinTraci and Ham LeeNick LeggattBronwyn and Dan LevitanNisha LuniaCatherine and Douglas MacMahonLucy and Thomas MortonRich Moses and Selwyn RazorVickie NguyenMary and Steve NixJohanna NystromKristin Pittman Ortega ’89Katie and Kyle OudtKelley and Scott ParelLakeshia PetersAli and Ben RobinsTracy and Michael RoybalCheryl ShulmanBryce SizemoreGlen Solomon and Margaret Flanagan Solomon ’77Paul Staveteig and Gretchen ChampionDenise StewartCasey StoltzGwendolyn and Richard TurcotteJorie and Brian WagesJaime and Steve WalkowiakMarti WeilandMcKinley and Brandon WierMeredith and Rand WrightonAnne Yarbrough ’81

Campaign CommitteeJennifer Karol, ChairMandy DakeErin HillmanGunjan JainCraig KnockeShannon MorseKristin ReesBobby SussmanCarmen Yung

Campaign Steering CommitteeJennifer Karol, ChairJoe EastinJenney GillikinKirsten KerriganLeslie Philipson Krakow ’69Laura LearJon Morgan ’82Catherin RoseSarah Weinberg

Construction CommitteeCatherine Rose, ChairSarah Weinberg, Board ChairJon Morgan ’82, Vice Chair

Jenney GillikinVelpeau HawesJennifer KarolLeslie Philipson Krakow ’69Karen Sheinberg Pollock ’76Kristin ReesAlex SharmaJustin Small ’83Vaughn Vennerber

Lamplighter Parents’ Association BoardBrenna Lambert, PresidentAbbey AhearnKatie AisnerLori BennettLindsey BeranHeather BonfieldAshley CarterCourtney CaseGretchen ChampionEmily ClarkeJennifer CroninElayna ErickKristin FayDan FineJen FominKsenia GoncharJulie HarrisNatalie JohnsonNicki JohnsonLisa KirbySunny KnockePam KuchlerKaren LobdellEric LoehrCinthia LopezElizabeth McNeilAmy MittsMargaret MorseShannon Morse ’80Mary NixEllen OeschgerKristen PhillipsJanelle PinnellJustine PokorskiAlison PowellAmy PuigMegan RatcliffAli RobinsTracy RoybalDana RumbauskasElisha ScottKelly SmoyerMeredith SteinhartMichael SternJaime WalkowiakPam Wills-WardTiffany WilmerMeredith Wrighton

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2016-17 OPERATING REVENUE & EXPENSES

Revenue Expenses

Tuition88%

Other incl. Endow. Draws

7%

Annual Fund5% Academic

7%

Salaries & Benefits

69%

Administrative9%

Facilities10%

Financial Aid 4%

Fundraising1%

Annual Fund Gifts by Source for 2016–2017 Trustees, Life Trustees, and Former Trustees $108,520.00Faculty/Staff $18,089.31Parents $303,748.88Grandparents $34,290.00Alumni $2,000.00Alumni Parents and Former Grandparents $14,815.00 Friends and Former Faculty/Staff $750.00 Foundations and Corporations $128,375.33Total Annual Fund Giving $610,588.52

All Gifts by Designation for 2016–2017Annual Fund $610,588.52Designated Operating $21,395.35Capital Gifts $3,012,890.70Endowment Gifts $1,118,524.84 Total Gifts to Lamplighter 2016–2017 $4,763,399.41

Gift Summary

($1,000,000 and above)Lamplighter Parents’ AssociationVaughn Vennerberg

($100,000 and above)MARK Foundation/Bessemer TrustMary McDermott Cook Eugene McDermott FoundationMonica and Joe Eastin The ISN Charitable Giving FundJenney and David GillikinMark Henry and Marylene Leogier Vicki and Brian MillerCatherine and Will ’77 RoseKatherine ’98 and Austin Wyker MARK Foundation

($50,000 – $99,999)Katie and David Aisner The Marion W. Minton & Walter J. Minton Foundation Inc.Catie and Aaron Enrico The Enrico FoundationEstate of Cecil Kent KunkelMark GiambroneEllen and John GrimesMargaret ’89 and Brad Hirsch The Hirsch Family FoundationLisa and Peter KrausLaura and Rick Lear Laura and Peter Grauer FoundationMargaret ’77 and Glenn Solomon Coyote Theaters Management, LLC

($25,000 – $49,999)AnonymousHeather and Ray BalestriFlauren ’90 and Jason BenderLindsey and David BeranAllison and Chris Bovard Filgo Oil CompanyAlice and Michael Brown M&A Brown Family FoundationTamara and David Campbell Communities Foundation of TexasHeather and Casey Deskins ORIX USA CorporationGunjan and Anurag Jain Fidelity Charitable Gift FundSally Junkins The Jerry R. Junkins Family FoundationKirsten and Mike Kerrigan The Jerry R. Junkins Family FoundationSarah and Jonathan Lamensdorf Highland Capital Management, L.P.Karen and Bruce Lobdell The Jerry R. Junkins Family Foundation

Sheryl and Eric Maas Classic BMWCatherine and Douglas MacMahonPam and Carter MeyerRich Moses and Selwyn RayzorKatie and Kyle OudtWendy and Bill PayneJanelle and Alden Pinnell The Pinnell FoundationKaren ’76 and Richard PollockChris Rowley and Mandy DakeGowri and Alex SharmaNicole ’83 and Justin ’83 Small Communities Foundation of TexasDaphna and Amir Yoffe

($10,000 – $24,999)Anonymous (2)Chuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91Kalita ’69 and Ed Blessing Blessing Family Foundation Raymond James CharitableCourtney and Dan CaseAshley and Robert CatheyWendy and Paul GenenderSherese and Rex GlendenningRobert Gross and Maya LeibmanStephanie and Travis HollmanJennifer and Tom KarolLisa and Matt KirbyMirjam and Chris Kirk The Chris and Mirjam Kirk Donor Advised Fund of The Dallas FoundationAnil Koganti and Christine HoLeslie ’69 and Robert Krakow Krakow Family Charitable FundCarol and John Levy Carol and John Levy Family Fund of The Dallas FoundationKatherine Levy ’02 Carol and John Levy Family Fund of The Dallas FoundationLillian and Chris MeyerNatalie and Dirik OudtKelley and Scott ParelDan PattersonAlison and Cullen Powell The Powell Foundation Wells Fargo Matching Gifts ProgramWendy and Henley QuadlingCynthia and Jean-Louis Trochu Texas Instruments FoundationRachel and Chris TrowbridgeJoe UrsoAmy and Kelcy WarrenCarmen and Andy Yung Fidelity Charitable

($5,000 – $9,999)Alyssa and Patrick Adams Schwab Charitable FundDia and Kelvin BaggettShonn and Clarence BrownChristy and Trey BrownDan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80Ricki and Randy EbnerJenifer and Peter FlynnMeg and Dave GravesErin and Andrew HillmanMarian and Ward HueyJane and Michael ’75 HurstMelanie and Eugene JabbourKatie and Jed JohnsonSunny and Craig KnockeErica and Trey KuppinLiza and Will Lee Elizabeth and Will Lee Family Fund within the Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundJon Morgan ’82 and Liz SeaburyRicki and Andy RabinBarbara and Stan RabinKristin and Ricky ReesMeredith and Barry ’79 Steinhart Steinhart Family Advised Fund of The Dallas FoundationPhyllis and Ron Steinhart Steinhart Family Advised Fund of The Dallas FoundationSarah and Russell WeinbergMcKinley and Brandon Wier

($1,000 – $4,999)Albertsons SafewayStacy and Tucker AndersonCindy and John AnsbachSusie and Scott BenderLori and Bob BennettBincy and Brock Bizzell The Humana Foundation, Inc.Susan and Brett ’71 BlakeyLauryn and Jason Bloom ORIX USA CorporationShelby and Woody BluntKristy and Taylor BowenLisa and Chuck BrownLora and Steve BrownJenny and Pete Bulban Schwab Charitable FundErin and Scott CalawayMatao Cao and Sarah Lu Danielle and Jeff CateLinda CauleyDavid ChardDok Chon and Seunglim Kang Alice and Kevin ChouRaymond Chow and Lynn Doan

Sharon and Steven ’88 Clark Texas Instruments FoundationShane Clayton and Julie Hoang ClaytonCatherine and Mark Cohen Texas Instruments FoundationAshley and John CokerLindsey and Patrick CollinsTania and Pat ConroyKevin Courtney and Elizabeth Brown ’83Betsy and Bennett CullumSandy and Barry DiamondLaura and Bill DickasonVivian and Billy DimasBetsy and Richard Eiseman R.D. Eiseman, Inc.Evey and Chip ’61 Fagadau Fidelity CharitableRegen ’72 and Jeff FearonStephanie and Dan FineNeil Fisher and Janelle Alcantara Ksenia and Sergei GoncharCarolyn and Bob GoodrichClaire and Jeff GordonGreenbriar Preston Hollow Restaurant, LLCMichelle and John GrimesLeah and Jon ’69 GrossDavid Guedry and Susie HartmanRaguet HallCindy and Brian Hanson Correctional Food Services, Inc.Jasmine and John HarrisChafen and Eric HartAmanda and Richard HartmanTjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83Liz ’90 and Jeff Helfrich Helfrich Family Charitable FundTreasure and Andy HickmanJoan and Zachary HillLinda and Phil Hodgson The Hodgson Family Charitable FundCorinne and Clay Hufft Bank of America Charitable Foundation DonateWellCathey and Don HumphreysKelle and Joe JacksonGayle JohansenGerry and Leon JohnsonNatalie and Mark JohnsonLeslie and Nathan JohnsonPratima and Ravi JoshiSonia and Jatin KakkarRoni and Shawn KellyMorgan and Scott Kennedy

The following is a comprehensive list reflecting cumulative giving receipts from donors for the period of June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017. It includes all cash and pledges to annual, restricted, and endowment funds.

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Cumulative Giving

Eugenia ’75 and Frank-Paul KingRita and Jack KleinCharles KnellColin KoonJoyce and Larry LacerteHallie and Max LamontLeslie and Michael LanahanJune and Jason LandryAmy and Philip LangBillie Jean and Jay LanghamColin Leatherbury ’97Sean Leatherbury ’94Tom Leatherbury and Pat VillarealSchatzie and George LeeJanice and Hunter LeeBronwyn and Dan LevitanLisa and Rick LevyRayna and Michael LoebGeorge Lombardi ’68Caroline and Mario LopezOan-Yu and Keh-Shew LuNisha and Vikas LuniaSelena LyonsShawn LyonsJill and Brent MagnusonRon Mancini and Gena KonopkaLouise and Charles ’87 MarshSue McCulloughSu-Su and Jerry MeyerRory and Howard MeyersPatty and David MillerAmy and Matt ’88 MillerAloke Mishra and Shaheen KhanThomas Mitchell and Lisa Alexander Kim and Dakon MontgomeryMargaret and Jed ’82 MorseJennifer and Jon Mosle Communities Foundation of TexasAli Moustapha and Vickie NguyenJudith and David MullensRobyn and John MullerElise MurphyNeelam and Tariq MussaniStephanie and Omar NawazMeg and Kevin NicholsonMary and Steve NixEllen and Marc OeschgerJackie OLearyLesa and John OudtCurt PabstClifton PhillipsKristen PhillipsTim Phu and Kristine DoanLisa PompVicki RaneyUpendar Reddy and Tulika JainSusan ReeseEdna and Dante RenzulliBrooke and Rod RobersonLaurie and Len Roberts National Philanthropic Trust

Ali and Ben RobinsChristine and Dick Rogoff Rogoff Family Charitable TrustTracy and Michael RoybalAna and Paul RudnickiAshley and Tony ’92 RuggeriDana and Frank RumbauskasJenny and Mitch SalzbergTerri and Larry Sengbush Sengbush Studio, Inc.Mary and Ahmad ShafaamriAmy Sheinberg ’74Courtney and Jeff SinelliKate and Eric SmithKelly and Scott SmoyerAlexandra and Clayton SnodgrassCinco and Chris Sorrow Probity Advisors, Inc.Steve Spare National Philanthropic TrustPaul Staveteig and Gretchen ChampionBobby SussmanCampbell Swango ’10Jackson Swango ’12Katherine Swango ’14Candace and Max ’76 SwangoMargaret and David SykesCharmaine and George TangCarolyn and Jake Thomas Bank of America Charitable FoundationMichelle ’75 and Stewart ThomasJanet and Michael TierneyTom Tong and Lan PengAris Tsiakos and Helen KaporisGwendolyn and Richard TurcotteSuzanne and Chris Turner YourCause, LLCJeff Valeri and Nicki JohnsonWilco van Hoogstraeten and Louise VigeantLauren and David Van WagenenAngelique and Ray WaddellMitchell Ward and Pam Wills-WardMi Jung and Jim WarnerAmy and Greg WeselkaAnn and James WhiteTiffany and Clayton ’83 WilmerGoldman, Sachs & CompanyMeredith and Rand WrightonBarney YoungTinka and Mohammad Yunus Texas Instruments FoundationAngela and Luis ZambranoYong Zheng and Sue ChuAmy and Mike Zicarelli

($1 – $999)Walter Edward AdamsHongvien and Daniel Adashek

LaDeitra AdkinsAbbey and Fallon AhearnPatti and Bob AisnerAnne and Steve AlexanderKim and Antonio AllenJason AndersonGiovanna and Michael AndersonLouis Andres ’04Debbie and Marc AndresMiles Andres ’06C.C. and Stewart ArmstrongSandra and Darren AvreaDavid Awad and Tamara BarsikVictoria and Mark BackofenSue and Dan BaileyQuentin Balestri ’16Alyson and Clyde Barnard Barnard-Kuppin Family Foundation of The Greater Cincinnati FoundationAlice and Bill BarnettRaguet Bass ’74Carrie and Josh BaysKathey ’63 and Bruce BeddowCaroline and Rob BelangerLeslie and David BennersGriffin Benners ’12Dorothy BennettDiana and Dave BeranDanielle Berg ’06Fran and Mark BergBarbara BeutlerDanny Beutler ’93Elliot Beutler ’94Jonathan Beutler ’97Raj Bhanot and Tina MahalHani Bishara and Yasmien Michael The Benevity Community Impact FundNatalie and Travis BittnerDorothy BjorckShannon Blakey ’00Traci and Travis BlalockElaine and Bill BlaylockLeslie and Steve BledsoeBetsy Block ’83Naomi BloomAna BohananHeather and Kevin BonfieldCharlie Bovard ’07John Bovard ’16Sam Bovard ’11Kevin BowdenStephanie BowdenJoan BowmanTracy and Kevin ’76 BrandKirby Brand ’05Shelby Brand ’08Brenda and Stuart BrandTrey Branham and Renee Skinner Robert Brewer ’71Eleanor Briant ’23

Granville Briant ’21Pauline BriantMargaret and David BriggsMary BrinegarKristy and James BrittSpencer Bromberg and Aneta KucharskaJanis and Sam BrousAmanda and Aaron BrownAmelia Brown ’10Amy Brown ’78Hannah BrownSusan and Bill BrowningJoe Bumpas ’97Diane and Stuart BumpasSarah and Zack BurdickBill BurtonSally and Allen Butler~Florence and John ButlerStephanie and Michael ByrdDenise and Rodell ByrdLisa and Steve ByrdMatt Campbell and Sarah Braley DenburyPeggy CarrAshley Carter ’93Marcia and Michael CassidyTracy ’76 and Ballard ’76 CastlemanBlakely Castleman ’07Jean and John CateLinda and Michael ChampionCharity Through Art FoundationChristian Charnaux ’87Francia and Jerry ChicaMandy and Rich ChildsJeanie and Alex ChuangMary Cynthia and Bill ChurchEmily Church ’06Lauren ChurchWill Church ’06Olivia and Cole ClaibornGeorgia ClarkeEmily and Walter ClarkeDonna and Geoff ClementEsther CochranSharon and Murray CohenFinn Collins ’14Melissa and William CollinsRyan and Doug ConnerCindy and Bob ConnollyAngie and Father Chris ConstantinidesGrace Cook ’98Susan and Chris CooperWilliam Cooper ’10Jennifer and John CorriganMarilyn R. CorriganSharon and Dale CourtneyAnn and Fred CovertDebbie Cox

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Anna Cramm ’10 Amusements Worldwide, LLCClaire Cramm ’07 Amusements Worldwide, LLCHope and Gene Cramm Amusements Worldwide, LLCPam and Jason CreelMichaela Creel ’14Jennifer ’82 and Mike CroninNancy CroninKitty and Tom CrossVictoria and B.A. CullumLiz Curlin and Danielle DupuisLindsey and Nate CurtisDebbie and Chris CuzalinaBrandy and Henry DaltonElla Darlak ’16Jake M. Darlak ’13Paul DavisClaudia and Scott DavisSarah and Jason DennisKaren DevoyPeter Dewar and Yvette OstolazaMeghana and Harpreet DhallKate and Nathan ’88 DickerMeredith Diers ’97Katie and Dean DillardMary and David DolanLindsay Dolan ’00Abhilash Donepudi and Chaitanya TatineniMelisa and Jeff DorrillBrooke and Andrew DowdyMike Dozier and Kristine Price DozierBonnie and Tom DraperTara and Tom DraperHomero Duarte and Lupe Mora Mora & Associates, Inc.Catherine Duffy ’05Ellen and Mike DuffyTom Duffy ’02Paula and Dave DuncanJaimey DunnDoug Ehring and Ann SaucerAngel and Eric EichhornBrenda and Matt EliasCarol and Alan ErickElayna and Casey ErickDolores EvansJacqueline Ewens ’05Carrie and Andres FabrisAnnie and Tad FallowsKristin and Nathan FayJenni FinlayCaroline and Tim FinneganBrooke and Bryan FletcherJen and Greg FominSoume and Paul FosheeLandy and Alex FoxSusan and Warren Foxworth

Paulette and Lewis FrazeeSharon FriedbergMaggie FultonShyama and Darshan GandhiLisa and Chris ’83 GannettElisa GansellRekha and Uday GaradiJamie ’77 and Bryan GarrettJudy and Bob GassJamie and Greg GauntHolly GauntDavid Gerber and Lara JohnsonBasheer Ghorayeb and Jacquelyn WilcoxHeather and Chris Gilker Gilker Family Giving FundKate Gillikin ’14Mandy Ginsberg ’80Beverly and Chuck GinsburgLeeLee GioiaShannon GlowackiLawrence Godfrey and Rachel Ferdinando Laura ’86 and Brad GodkinEd Goff and Laura ChapuisChandler ’02 and Jason GoltzMayela GonzalezAshley Greene ’84Louise and Guy GriffethJezabel GuadalupeRachel and Jose GutierrezYolonda and Eric HabimanaHadleigh’sSarah and Mark HaidarJim Hakert and Jayne ColemanTanner Hakert ’06Tate Hakert ’09Tristan Hakert ’16Charles HansfordTania and Kevin HardageMargaret Hardage ’05Lauren and Ross HardageSara and Stephen HarderKatrina and Onaje HarperLyndsey and Scott HarperCindy and Michael HarringtonFran and Charles HarrisJulie HarrisLisa ’89 and Richard HartmanBrian Murawski and Michelle HartmannNorine HaynesNancy and Asa HeidarianEdward Heidarian ’09Jennifer HeissKim and Hudson HenleyKim and Thomas HenleyRue and Tuck HenryJac and Preston HeroldTommy HeroldDebbie and Jonathan Herskovitz

Carolyn HessSteve HessLillian and Greg HesselMeredith Hessel ’08Tommy Hessel ’09Linda and Dan HickmanCara and Richard HicksLyda HillElissa and Stan HirschmanKate and Jeff Hoedebeck Trilogy, LLCThomas HoitsmaAlex Holmes ’16Hunter Holmes ’13Kacy and Steve HolmesJerry Holzsweig and Marian SacklerPaul HoodAngela HorowitzGary Horowitz ’71Samuel Horowitz ’10Anne and George HowardAlison and Mark ’85 HudspethSandra and Rick IllesCollins Illich and Katie ReeseFran and Don JacksonLisa and Jud ’71 JacobsJulianne Jacobs ’05Giggy ’81 and Peter JacobsonKeith Jafari and Melody Ayeli DonateWellHilary Jenkins ’78Brandon JohnsonMelissa and Fred JohnsonMarietta Scurry JohnsonPatti JohnsonChristine and R.J. JohnsonCarolyn and Victor JohnsonRonald JonesEmily Jourdan ’75Sara ’93 and Jeff JunkinAndrew Jury ’02Cliff Jury and Ann FrancesHelen Jury ’98Amanda Kadesky ’06Andrew Kadesky ’03Ann and Keith KadeskyKathryn Kallison ’86Jeffrey Kaplan and Lisa Newman Jeffrey Kaplan and Lisa Newman Charitable Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community FoundationLynne and Ron KaufmanPriscilla and David KelloggSusan and Bill KennedyGeraldine and Terry KeplerYoon Tak and Brian KimBridget and Ken KippelsStephanie and Scott KirkhamAndrew Kleiman ’04Dana and David KleimanZach Kleiman ’02

Cynthia ’68 and Benjamin KleinAngela and Marc KleinCyndi and Dan KnudsenKaren and Bob KnudsonGrace Knudson ’13Barbara ’71 and Nick KoeijmansVani and Matt KondaFinley ’93 and Eric KonradeDane Kozelsky ’11Shari and Andy KrageJack Kraus ’09Nick Kraus ’06Will Kraus ’04Tricia and Jim KrohnPaige and Tom KuchlerLauren ’92 and Gregg KuporAnita KurialacherryNeelima and Rahim KurjiMelissa and Craig LackeyBrenna and Will LambertLiz and Jason LanierLochwood LarsonAshley and Sam ’79 LeakeTraci and Ham LeeLauren and Ty LeeJudy and YC LeeNick LeggattMarielle LeMasters ’03Coleta and Joe LewisZi and Gary LichliterBrittany and Neal LoberSarah Lochridge ’11Eric LoehrPat and Joe LolaGinny and Dick LombardiNatalie and Jason LuCandy MacMahonPat and Barry MacyMyra MalacaraChris MaloneLindsey and Jay MartinsonPat MattinglyKristen and Brian McCoolCathy McEachern ’79Linda and John McFarlandEva and Peter McKeeJohn McKenzie and Anna BenefielRashida and Chris McKnightGloria and Cleon McKnightJune McMasterElizabeth and Darin McNeilLin McNeilChris Melella and Elizabeth DuffyJosh Mendell and Kate O’Donnell-MendellKeith Menter and Jeny BaniaMary and Tommy ’89 MercerNancy and Rich Merriam Network For GoodJim MessersmithPeggy ’73 and Dan Meyer

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Craig Meyers ’86Arun Meyyappan and Uma AnnamalaiSteven Mickey ’00Rosemary Miller ’04Amy and Brian MittsAlison ’74 and David MonnichDian MooreSusan Moore ’81Jennifer and Jeff MorrisonKelly and David MoskovicErika MossJarod MossVijaya and Satya MovvaKate and Lance MurphyMarynell MurphyNational Business Officers AssociationNeha and Sam NayyarJean and David NeisiusJo NelsonKatie Nelson ’94Nathan NelsonBarbara and Bud NicholsMelissa and Norry NivenLibbie and Bill NylinJohanna and Greg NystromSusan and Steve O’Brien Hail MerryKate and Mark OgdenJonathan OhTaeri OhNathan Ohler and Heather RoseberryPam and Ken O’KrentJordan Olschwanger ’05Donna and Larry OlschwangerMegan Olschwanger ’08Henrik Olund and Maria ThenAna and Matt OwensMeaders and Robert Ozarow Empire Baking Co.Frank Packard-ReedAnne ’66 and Fernando PadillaJoni and Scott ’93 PalmerSusan and Scott PalmerMaureen and Steve ParelChad Park and Rita NeSasha PaschkeSara and Stuart PauleyJeff PeckSamuel Peña-Llopis and Silvia Vega-Rubin-de-CelisDavid Peña-Vega ’16Janel and Danny PerezJeanie and Claiborne PerrilliatLakeshia and Chris PetersSuzanne and Huy PhamTully and Dan PhillipsCherie and Jim PickettJustine and Chaz Pokorski

Katherine Pollock ’10Matthew Pollock ’11Rebecca and Will PostenAmy and Jason PuigLinda PullenJohn PutegnatKendall QuartermanJoan and Ken RaffShampa and Emran RahmanKristianne RamirezRitu and Venu RaoKalli Ratan ’14Jen and Ravi RatanSterling Ratan ’16Megan and Brian RatcliffMegan and Nicholas RawlingsKaren and Will ReardonGabriella Rees ’14Karen and Keller ReidSarah ’90 and Tim ReidyMason Reiter ’04Merrill Reiter ’01Bianca ReynaSheila RiceMarjorie RichardsonAlesia and Ed RitenourKathy RitzSam Roberts and Michelle TateKelly and Robby ’76 RobinsonRod Rohrich and Diane GibbyTaylor Rohrich ’08Damariz RojoAlex Rose ’10Charlie Rose ’12Jack Rose ’13Debbi ’74 and Barry RothschildCarol and Dave RowleyDonna and Byron RubinCarol and Tony RuggeriMichele and Larry RuttKimberly and Ryan SabelNina and Decker SachseJessie SacklerImad Salahuddin and Hira SaiyedEllen and Lee SalzbergerKippy and Dave SandsSarah SatinskyAvery Savage ’13Kim and Jim SavageHeather and Ryan SchamerlohMarcia and Steve SchaulBetty and Brian SchultzShelby Schultz ’10Rachel and Josh SchumannHillary and Mark SchwarzElisha and Jason ScottBarbara and Brett SeaburyBetsie ’78 and Jim SearsApril and David SeedsJonathan Seib and Elida DakoliSavannah Seifert ’03

Nils Senvalds and Margee Hocking ’78 Network For GoodAlexander Shadle ’16Christian Shadle ’13Isabella Shadle ’11Todd Shadle and Maria ReyesStaci and Nathan SheldonShelton SchoolRyota Shibagaki and Sawako MiyamaCheryl and Greg ShulmanLisel SimmonsShlynn and Wayne SimsRose and Jay SinghBridget and Steve SissonBryce Sizemore and Dustin BurkeNancy and Jim SkochdopoleJulia Small ’16Duncan Smart ’04Lil and Greg SmithKaren and Rick SmithCat and Gary SochaAmy and Steve SowellGonca and Metehan SoysalStacie and Byron SpearsYnetta and Dwayne SpencerKathy and Nate St. ClairShelby and Cliff StanleyAnthony StarfieldRachel and Marc StarrKaili and Ed StehelSheila and Larry SternMegan ’85 and Michael SternDenise and Chris ’83 StewartCormick Stockham ’11Kiersten and Michael StockhamCasey StoltzBill Stonaker and Tricia WilsonCallie Stone ’06Lisa and John StoneMarshall Stone ’04Jody StoutEtta StrattonBeth ’79 and Mark StrombergKathryn and John SzwejkowskiReagan TateKatie and Joe ’88 TauscherEllen Terrell ’78Mika and Nathan ThomasFidelma and Daniel TitusJennifer and Aaron TobinSon Tran and Jade LeKarin and Mark TribunaJack Trochu ’14Laura and Bryan TrubeyEnis Tuncer and Julia WignallJean Claire TurcotteCarolyn and Terry TurnerBeth ’68 and Joe UnisMary Catherine and Joe ’96 UnisJay Valentine

Ella Varel ’11Jessica and Jason VarelaPatricia and John VermillionStuart Vetterick ’88Patricia and Gary VickAlexandra Villareal ’06Bobbie and Andy VillarealNicholas Villareal ’10Mona and James VineyardJorie and Brian WagesCaroline and Jake WagnerBecky and Brandon WalkerJaime and Steve WalkowiakBrad Wallace ’93Leslie and Travis ’76 WallaceHarianne and David WallensteinMarc Wallenstein ’90George Warren ’14Lisa and George WarrenCourtney Weisbart ’06Kandi and Mark WeisbartEleise and Rick WeisbergHerb WeitzmanJoAnn and Babu WelchLyndsey and Jonathan WelchJessica Westberry ’05John Wetzel ’03Jamie and Trey WhatleyFay WheelerShannon WherryJackson Whitaker ’15Aimee ’85 and Josh WhitakerJames WhitfieldWendelin and James WhitfieldLeslie WhitfieldWholesome Food Services, LLCJill WiedmanDebbie and David WiggansPaul WignallKaren WilburAbigail WilliamsAllison and Mark WilliamsMisty WilsonEmily Wisner ’04Peggy and Rory WisnerBryant WolfCass and Austen WrightCarrie WrightLucy ’78 and Steve WrubelP.T. Yager ’06Chow Yanamadala and Lavanya InampudiAnne Yarbrough ’81Erin and Joe ’84 Zopolsky

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*** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for twenty or more years ** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for ten or more years * Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for five or more years

~Denotes Deceased

Luminary Beacon ($25,000 and above)Alice and Michael Brown M&A Brown Family Foundation

Luminary Illuminator ($15,000 - $24,999)*Monica and Joe Eastin The ISN Charitable Giving Fund**Catherine and Will ’77 Rose

Luminary Torchbearer ($8,000 - $14,999)**Jenney and David Gillikin*Mark Henry and Marylene Leogier*Gunjan and Anurag Jain Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMARK FoundationWendy and Henley Quadling*Nicole ’83 and Justin ’83 Small Communities Foundation of Texas*Vaughn Vennerberg**Amy and Kelcy Warren

Luminary Candle Lighter ($3,500 - $7,999)Katie and David Aisner The Marion W. Minton & Walter J. Minton Foundation, Inc.**Flauren ’90 and Jason BenderLindsey and Dave BeranChristy and Trey BrownErin and Scott Calaway*Tania and Pat Conroy*Ricki and Randy Ebner**Catie and Aaron Enrico *The Enrico FoundationSherese and Rex Glendenning*Robert Gross and Maya LeibmanTreasure and Andy Hickman*Erin and Andrew HillmanMargaret ’89 and Brad Hirsch*Stephanie and Travis HollmanMelanie and Eugene Jabbour**Sally Junkins *The Jerry R. Junkins Family Foundation**Jennifer and Tom KarolBillie Jean and Jay Langham*Catherine and Douglas MacMahon*Rich Moses and Selwyn Rayzor

*Katie and Kyle Oudt*Lesa and John Oudt*Natalie and Dirik Oudt*Kelley and Scott ParelWendy and Bill Payne**Karen ’76 and Richard Pollock*Ana and Paul Rudnicki**Cynthia and Jean-Louis Trochu *Texas Instruments FoundationJoe Urso*McKinley and Brandon Wier

Luminary Member ($1,500 - $3,499)*Alyssa and Patrick Adams*Stacy and Tucker AndersonAnonymous (2)Dia and Kelvin Baggett*Heather and Ray BalestriSusie and Scott BenderLori and Bob BennettBincy and Brock Bizzell The Humana Foundation, Inc.**Lauryn and Jason Bloom ORIX USA Corporation**Allison and Chris Bovard Filgo Oil Company*Kristy and Taylor Bowen*Chuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91**Lisa and Chuck Brown**Shonn and Clarence Brown**Jenny and Pete Bulban Schwab Charitable FundMatao Cao and Sarah Lu*Courtney and Dan Case*Danielle and Jeff Cate*Ashley and Robert CatheyDavid ChardDok Chon and Seunglim Kang Alice and Kevin ChouRaymond Chow and Lynn DoanSue Chu and Yong ZhengSharon and Steven ’88 Clark Texas Instruments Foundation*Catherine and Mark CohenTexas Instruments FoundationAshley and John CokerLindsey and Patrick CollinsKevin Courtney and Elizabeth Brown ’83Heather and Casey Deskins ORIX USA Corporation

Vivian and Billy Dimas*Betsy and Richard Eiseman R.D. Eiseman, Inc.Evey and Chip ’61 Fagadau Fidelity CharitablesStephanie and Dan FineNeil Fisher and Janelle Alcantara **Wendy and Paul GenenderMark GiambroneKsenia and Sergei Gonchar*Carolyn and Bob GoodrichClaire and Jeff Gordon**Meg and Dave Graves*Cindy and Brian Hanson Correctional Food Services, Inc.Jasmine and John Harris*Amanda and Richard Hartman*Tjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83*Joan and Zachary HillLinda and Phil Hodgson The Hodgson Family Charitable Fund*Corinne and Clay Hufft Bank of America Charitable Foundation DonateWellCathey and Don Humphreys**Jane and Michael ’75 Hurst*Katie and Jed Johnson*Natalie and Mark JohnsonLeslie and Nathan Johnson*Sonia and Jatin KakkarRoni and Shawn Kelly*Morgan and Scott Kennedy*Lisa and Matt Kirby**Mirjam and Chris Kirk The Chris and Mirjam Kirk Donor Advised Fund of The Dallas Foundation***Rita and Jack KleinCharles Knell*Sunny and Craig Knocke*Anil Koganti and Christine Ho*Colin Koon**Leslie ’69 and Bob Krakow Krakow Family Charitable FundErica and Trey KuppinSarah and Jonathan Lamensdorf Highland Capital Management, L.P.Hallie and Max Lamont**June and Jason Landry

**Amy and Philip Lang*Laura and Rick Lear Laura and Peter Grauer FoundationJanice and Hunter LeeLiza and Will LeeBronwyn and Dan Levitan***Carol and John Levy Carol and John Levy Family Fund of The Dallas FoundationKatherine Levy ’02 Carol and John Levy Family Fund of The Dallas Foundation**Lisa and Rick Levy*Karen and Bruce Lobdell*Caroline and Mario LopezOan-Yu and Keh-Shew Lu**Nisha and Vikas LuniaRon Mancini and Gena Konopka*Pam and Carter MeyerLillian and Chris Meyer**Patty and David Miller*Amy and Matt ’88 MillerThomas Mitchell and Lisa Alexander Kim and Dakon Montgomery**Jon Morgan ’82 and Liz SeaburyMargaret and Jed ’82 Morse***Jennifer and Jon Mosle Communities Foundation of Texas*Judith and David MullensNeelam and Tariq MussaniStephanie and Omar Nawaz*Mary and Steve Nix*Ellen and Marc Oeschger*Jackie OLeary*Curt PabstClifton PhillipsKristen Phillips*Tim Phu and Kristine Doan*Janelle and Alden Pinnell*Lisa PompAlison and Cullen Powell The Powell Foundation Wells Fargo Matching Gifts Program**Ricki and Andy Rabin**Kristin and Ricky ReesBrooke and Rod Roberson*Laurie and Len Roberts National Philanthropic TrustAli and Ben Robins*Chris Rowley and Mandy Dake

The following is a comprehensive list reflecting giving receipts from donors for the period of June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017. It includes all cash gifts to the Annual Fund and Alumni Giving program.

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*Tracy and Michael RoybalAshley and Tony ’92 RuggeriDana and Frank RumbauskasJenny and Mitch SalzbergMary and Ahmad Shafaamri**Gowri and Alex Sharma*Courtney and Jeff Sinelli*Kelly and Scott SmoyerAlexandra and Clayton Snodgrass**Margaret ’77 and Glenn Solomon Coyote Theaters Management, LLCCinco and Chris Sorrow Probity Advisors, Inc.*Paul Staveteig and Gretchen Champion*Meredith and Barry ’79 SteinhartSteinhart Family Advised Fund of The Dallas Foundation**Phyllis and Ron Steinhart Steinhart Family Advised Fund of The Dallas Foundation*Campbell Swango ’10Jackson Swango ’12Katherine Swango ’14**Candace and Max ’76 SwangoMargaret and David Sykes*Charmaine and George TangJanet and Michael TierneyTom Tong and Lan Peng*Rachel and Chris TrowbridgeAris Tsiakos and Helen KaporisGwendolyn and Richard Turcotte*Suzanne and Chris Turner YourCause, LLCJeff Valeri and Nicki JohnsonWilco van Hoogstraeten and Louise Vigeant Lauren and David Van WagenenAngelique and Ray Waddell**Mitchell Ward and Pam Wills-Ward*Mi Jung and Jim Warner**Sarah and Russell WeinbergAmy and Greg Weselka*Meredith and Rand Wrighton*Daphna and Amir YoffeBarney YoungCarmen and Andy YungTinka and Mohammad Yunus Texas Instruments Foundation

The 1953 Club ($500 - $1,499)Giovanna and Michael AndersonCindy and John AnsbachVictoria and Mark BackofenAlyson and Clyde Barnard

Barnard-Kuppin Family Foundation of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation**Leslie and David BennersDorothy BennettRaj Bhanot and Tina MahalHani Bishara and Yasmien Michael The Benevity Community Impact FundSusan and Brett ’71 Blakey*Traci and Travis BlalockKalita ’69 and Ed Blessing Raymond James CharitableShelby and Woody Blunt*Joan BowmanTrey Branham and Renee Skinner Lora and Steve Brown***Diane and Stuart Bumpas*Stephanie and Michael Byrd*Denise and Rodell Byrd*Matt Campbell and Sarah Braley Denbury***Linda CauleyEmily and Walter ClarkeShane Clayton and Julie Hoang Clayton *Dan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80*Esther CochranMary McDermott CookSusan and Chris Cooper*Anna Cramm ’10 Amusements Worldwide, LLC*Claire Cramm ’07 Amusements Worldwide, LLC**Hope and Gene Cramm Amusements Worldwide, LLCVictoria and B.A. Cullum*Betsy and Bennett Cullum*Laura and Bill DickasonAbhilash Donepudi and Chaitanya Tatineni Mike Dozier and Kristine Price Dozier*Homero Duarte and Lupe Mora Mora & Associates, Inc.Elayna and Casey Erick*David Gerber and Lara JohnsonBeverly and Chuck GinsburgShannon Glowacki**Laura ’86 and Brad GodkinGreenbriar Preston Hollow Restaurant, LLCMichelle and John Grimes*Leah and Jon ’69 GrossDavid Guedry and Susie HartmanRaguet HallSara and Stephen Harder

Lyndsey and Scott Harper*Cindy and Michael HarringtonChafen and Eric HartNorine Haynes*Liz ’90 and Jeff Helfrich Helfrich Family Charitable FundKim and Hudson Henley*Kate and Jeff Hoedebeck Trilogy, LLC*Jerry Holzsweig and Marian Sackler*Paul HoodCollins Illich and Katie ReeseFran and Don JacksonKelle and Joe JacksonPratima and Ravi JoshiPriscilla and David KelloggSusan and Bill Kennedy**Kirsten and Mike KerriganEugenia ’75 and Frank-Paul King**Lisa and Peter KrausJoyce and Larry LacerteMelissa and Craig LackeyColin Leatherbury ’97Sean Leatherbury ’94Tom Leatherbury and Pat VillarealSchatzie and George Lee*Traci and Ham LeeZi and Gary Lichliter*Brittany and Neal Lober*Selena Lyons*Shawn LyonsSheryl and Eric Maas Classic BMW**Jill and Brent MagnusonLouise and Charles ’87 Marsh***Sue McCulloughElizabeth and Darin McNeilJosh Mendell and Kate O’Donnell-Mendell**Peggy ’73 and Dan Meyer*Su-Su and Jerry MeyerCraig Meyers ’86Rory and Howard MeyersVicki and Brian MillerAloke Mishra and Shaheen Khan*Erika Moss*Jarod Moss*Ali Moustapha and Vickie NguyenVijaya and Satya Movva*Brian Murawski and Michelle Hartmann***Elise MurphyKate and Lance MurphyMeg and Kevin Nicholson*Henrik Olund and Maria Then*Chad Park and Rita Ne

Sara and Stuart PauleyJohn PutegnatShampa and Emran Rahman**Vicki Raney*Upendar Reddy and Tulika JainEdna and Dante RenzulliKelly and Robby ’76 RobinsonChristine and Dick Rogoff Rogoff Family Charitable TrustCarol and Tony RuggeriKimberly and Ryan SabelImad Salahuddin and Hira Saiyed*Heather and Ryan SchamerlohJonathan Seib and Elida Dakoli**Terri and Larry Sengbush **Sengbush Studio, Inc.Rose and Jay SinghBridget and Steve SissonKate and Eric SmithCat and Gary SochaStacie and Byron Spears*Megan ’85 and Michael Stern**Bobby SussmanCarolyn and Jake Thomas Bank of America Charitable Foundation***Michelle ’75 and Stewart Thomas*Son Tran and Jade LeBeth ’68 and Joe UnisMary Catherine and Joe ’96 UnisJaime and Steve Walkowiak*Harianne and David WallensteinLisa and George WarrenJoAnn and Babu Welch**Aimee ’85 and Josh WhitakerAnn and James WhiteLeslie WhitfieldAllison and Mark Williams*Tiffany and Clayton ’83 Wilmer Goldman, Sachs & CompanyCass and Austen WrightLucy ’78 and Steve Wrubel*Chow Yanamadala and Lavanya Inampudi*Angela and Luis Zambrano*Amy and Mike Zicarelli

The Lantern Club ($25 - $499)*Walter Edward AdamsHongvien and Daniel AdashekLaDeitra Adkins*Abbey and Fallon AhearnPatti and Bob AisnerAnne and Steve Alexander

*** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for twenty or more years ** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for ten or more years * Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for five or more years

~Denotes Deceased

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Annual Giving Donors by Recognition Level

Kim and Antonio AllenLouis Andres ’04Debbie and Marc AndresMiles Andres ’06C.C. and Stewart ArmstrongSandra and Darren AvreaDavid Awad and Tamara BarsikQuentin Balestri ’16**Carrie and Josh Bays***Kathey ’63 and Bruce BeddowCaroline and Rob BelangerGriffin Benners ’12Diana and Dave BeranDanielle Berg ’06Fran and Mark BergNatalie and Travis Bittner*Dorothy BjorckShannon Blakey ’00*Leslie and Steve BledsoeBetsy Block ’83**Naomi Bloom*Ana BohananHeather and Kevin BonfieldRobert Brewer ’71Pauline BriantMargaret and David BriggsKristy and James BrittSpencer Bromberg and Aneta KucharskaJanis and Sam BrousAmanda and Aaron BrownAmelia Brown ’10**Amy Brown ’78Hannah BrownSusan and Bill BrowningJoe Bumpas ’97**Sarah and Zack Burdick*Bill BurtonSally and Allen Butler~*Florence and John ButlerLisa and Steve ByrdAshley Carter ’93Tracy ’76 and Ballard ’76 CastlemanBlakely Castleman ’07*Jean and John Cate*Linda and Michael ChampionCharity Through Art FoundationChristian Charnaux ’87Francia and Jerry ChicaMandy and Rich Childs*Jeanie and Alex Chuang**Mary Cynthia and Bill Church*Emily Church ’06Lauren Church*Will Church ’06Olivia and Cole Claiborn

Donna and Geoff Clement*Sharon and Murray CohenFinn Collins ’14**Melissa and William CollinsRyan and Doug ConnerCindy and Bob Connolly**Angie and Father Chris ConstantinidesWilliam Cooper ’10Jennifer and John CorriganMarilyn R. CorriganSharon and Dale CourtneyAnn and Fred Covert*Debbie Cox*Pam and Jason CreelMichaela Creel ’14*Jennifer ’82 and Mike Cronin*Nancy Cronin**Kitty and Tom Cross***Liz Curlin and Danielle Dupuis*Lindsey and Nate CurtisPaul Davis*Sarah and Jason Dennis*Sandy and Barry DiamondKate and Nathan ’88 Dicker***Mary and David Dolan*Lindsay Dolan ’00*Melisa and Jeff DorrillBrooke and Andrew DowdyBonnie and Tom DraperTara and Tom DraperCatherine Duffy ’05Ellen and Mike DuffyTom Duffy ’02*Jaimey DunnDoug Ehring and Ann SaucerAngel and Eric EichhornBrenda and Matt EliasJacqueline Ewens ’05Carrie and Andres FabrisAnnie and Tad FallowsKristin and Nathan FayRegen ’72 and Jeff FearonJenni FinlayCaroline and Tim FinneganBrooke and Bryan FletcherJen and Greg Fomin**Soume and Paul FosheeLandy and Alex FoxSharon FriedbergMaggie FultonShyama and Darshan GandhiLisa and Chris ’83 GannettElisa Gansell*Rekha and Uday GaradiJamie ’77 and Bryan Garrett

Judy and Bob Gass*Jamie and Greg GauntHolly Gaunt*Basheer Ghorayeb and Jacquelyn WilcoxHeather and Chris Gilker Gilker Family Giving FundKate Gillikin ’14Mandy Ginsberg ’80LeeLee GioiaLawrence Godfrey and Rachel Ferdinando Chandler ’02 and Jason GoltzMayela Gonzalez*Ashley Greene ’84**Ellen and John Grimes**Jezabel GuadalupeRachel and Jose GutierrezYolonda and Eric Habimana YourCause, LLCHadleigh’sSarah and Mark Haidar**Jim Hakert and Jayne ColemanTanner Hakert ’06Tate Hakert ’09Tristan Hakert ’16Margaret Hardage ’05**Tania and Kevin HardageLauren and Ross HardageKatrina and Onaje HarperFran and Charles HarrisLisa ’89 and Richard HartmanNancy and Asa HeidarianEdward Heidarian ’09Jennifer HeissJac and Preston HeroldTommy Herold**Debbie and Jonathan HerskovitzCarolyn HessSteve Hess**Lillian and Greg Hessel*Meredith Hessel ’08*Tommy Hessel ’09Linda and Dan HickmanCara and Richard HicksElissa and Stan Hirschman**Thomas Hoitsma*Kacy and Steve Holmes**Angela HorowitzSamuel Horowitz ’10Anne and George HowardAlison and Mark ’85 HudspethLisa and Jud ’71 JacobsJulianne Jacobs ’05**Giggy ’81 and Peter JacobsonKeith Jafari and Melody Ayeli

DonateWell*Hilary Jenkins ’78*Gayle JohansenBrandon Johnson*Melissa and Fred JohnsonMarietta Scurry Johnson*Christine and R.J. JohnsonCarolyn and Victor JohnsonRonald Jones Ronald Jones Charitable Gift Fund**Andrew Jury ’02*Cliff Jury and Ann FrancesHelen Jury ’98Amanda Kadesky ’06Andrew Kadesky ’03Ann and Keith Kadesky**Jeffrey Kaplan and Lisa Newman Jeffrey Kaplan and Lisa Newman Charitable Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community FoundationLynne and Ron Kaufman*Bridget and Ken Kippels*Stephanie and Scott KirkhamAndrew Kleiman ’04Dana and David KleimanZach Kleiman ’02Cynthia ’68 and Benjamin KleinCyndi and Dan KnudsenKaren and Bob KnudsonBarbara ’71 and Nick KoeijmansVani and Matt KondaFinley ’93 and Eric KonradeDane Kozelsky ’11**Shari and Andy KrageJack Kraus ’09Nick Kraus ’06Will Kraus ’04Tricia and Jim Krohn*Paige and Tom Kuchler**Lauren ’92 and Gregg KuporAnita Kurialacherry*Neelima and Rahim Kurji*Brenna and Will LambertLiz and Jason Lanier*Ashley and Sam ’79 LeakeLauren and Ty Lee**Nick LeggattColeta and Joe Lewis*Eric LoehrGinny and Dick LombardiNatalie and Jason LuCandy MacMahon*Pat and Barry MacyMyra Malacara*Chris Malone*Lindsey and Jay Martinson

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*** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for twenty or more years ** Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for ten or more years * Denotes donors who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund for five or more years

~Denotes Deceased

*Pat MattinglyCathy McEachern ’79*Eva and Peter McKeeJohn McKenzie and Anna BenefielRashida and Chris McKnightGloria and Cleon McKnightLin McNeilChris Melella and Elizabeth DuffyKeith Menter and Jeny Bania*Mary and Tommy ’89 MercerNancy and Rich Merriam Network For GoodJim MessersmithArun Meyyappan and Uma AnnamalaiRosemary Miller ’04**Amy and Brian MittsAlison ’74 and David MonnichSusan Moore ’81Jennifer and Jeff Morrison*Kelly and David Moskovic**Marynell MurphyNeha and Sam NayyarJean and David Neisius Schwab Charitable Fund*Katie Nelson ’94Nathan NelsonBarbara and Bud Nichols*Melissa and Norry NivenLibbie and Bill Nylin**Johanna and Greg NystromSusan and Steve O’Brien Hail Merry**Kate and Mark Ogden*Jonathan Oh*Taeri Oh*Nathan Ohler and Heather Roseberry***Pam and Ken O’KrentDonna and Larry Olschwanger*Ana and Matt OwensMeaders and Robert Ozarow Empire Baking CompayFrank Packard-ReedJoni and Scott ’93 PalmerMaureen and Steve ParelSasha Paschke*Jeff PeckSamuel Peña-Llopis and Silvia Vega-Rubin-de-CelisDavid Peña-Vega ’16Janel and Danny PerezJeanie and Claiborne Perrilliat**Lakeshia and Chris Peters*Suzanne and Huy PhamTully and Dan Phillips

*Cherie and Jim PickettJustine and Chaz PokorskiKatherine Pollock ’10Matthew Pollock ’11*Rebecca and Will PostenAmy and Jason PuigLinda PullenKendall Quarterman**Kristianne Ramirez*Ritu and Venu RaoKalli Ratan ’14**Jen and Ravi RatanSterling Ratan ’16*Megan and Brian RatcliffMegan and Nicholas Rawlings*Karen and Keller ReidSarah ’90 and Tim Reidy**Mason Reiter ’04Merrill Reiter ’01Bianca Reyna*Alesia and Ed Ritenour***Kathy RitzSam Roberts and Michelle Tate*Rod Rohrich and Diane GibbyTaylor Rohrich ’08Damariz RojoAlex Rose ’10Charlie Rose ’12Jack Rose ’13Debbi ’74 and Barry Rothschild*Michele and Larry RuttNina and Decker Sachse*Ellen and Lee SalzbergerKippy and Dave SandsAvery Savage ’13Kim and Jim SavageBetty and Brian SchultzShelby Schultz ’10*Rachel and Josh SchumannHillary and Mark SchwarzElisha and Jason ScottBarbara and Brett Seabury*Betsie ’78 and Jim Sears**April and David SeedsSavannah Seifert ’03*Nils Senvalds and Margee Hocking ’78 Network For GoodAlexander Shadle ’16Christian Shadle ’13Isabella Shadle ’11**Todd Shadle and Maria Reyes**Cheryl and Greg ShulmanLisel SimmonsShlynn and Wayne SimsBryce Sizemore and Dustin Burke

Nancy and Jim SkochdopoleJulia Small ’16Karen and Rick SmithGonca and Metehan Soysal**Ynetta and Dwayne SpencerKathy and Nate St. ClairShelby and Cliff StanleyAnthony Starfield*Rachel and Marc StarrKaili and Ed Stehel*Sheila and Larry Stern*Denise and Chris ’83 StewartCormick Stockham ’11Kiersten and Michael StockhamCallie Stone ’06 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund*Lisa and John StoneMarshall Stone ’04**Jody StoutBeth ’79 and Mark Stromberg**Reagan Tate*Katie and Joe ’88 TauscherEllen Terrell ’78*Mika and Nathan ThomasFidelma and Daniel TitusJennifer and Aaron TobinKarin and Mark TribunaJean Claire TurcotteJessica and Jason Varela**Patricia and John VermillionStuart Vetterick ’88Alexandra Villareal ’06Bobbie and Andy VillarealNicholas Villareal ’10*Mona and James VineyardJorie and Brian WagesCaroline and Jake Wagner*Becky and Brandon WalkerBrad Wallace ’93*Leslie and Travis ’76 Wallace*Marc Wallenstein ’90Courtney Weisbart ’06Kandi and Mark Weisbart*Eleise and Rick WeisbergHerb Weitzman**Lyndsey and Jonathan WelchJessica Westberry ’05John Wetzel ’03 Fidelity CharitableJamie and Trey WhatleyShannon WherryJackson Whitaker ’15**Jill Wiedman**Debbie and David Wiggans**Karen WilburAbigail Williams

Misty WilsonEmily Wisner ’04Peggy and Rory Wisner Goldman, Sachs & Company**Carrie Wright**Anne Yarbrough ’81Erin and Joe ’84 Zopolsky

$1-$24 GiftsJason AndersonCharlie Bovard ’07John Bovard ’16Sam Bovard ’11*Kevin Bowden*Stephanie Bowden**Tracy and Kevin ’76 BrandKirby Brand ’05*Shelby Brand ’08*Debbie and Chris Cuzalina*Brandy and Henry DaltonElla Darlak ’16Jake M. Darlak ’13Meredith Diers ’97Paula and Dave Duncan**Ed Goff and Laura ChapuisAlex Holmes ’16Hunter Holmes ’13Judy and YC LeeSarah Lochridge ’11**Kristen and Brian McCoolJo NelsonJordan Olschwanger ’05Megan Olschwanger ’08Gabriella Rees ’14Sarah SatinskyAmy and Steve Sowell*Casey Stoltz**Kathryn and John SzwejkowskiJack Trochu ’14Jay ValentineElla Varel ’11George Warren ’14James WhitfieldP.T. Yager ’06

Annual Giving Donors by Recognition Level

Board of Trustees(100% participation)Dia and Kelvin BaggettFlauren ’90 and Jason BenderShonn and Clarence BrownDavid ChardSharon and Steven ’88 ClarkMonica and Joe EastinCatie and Aaron EnricoJenney and David GillikinMeg and Dave GravesMargaret ’89 and Brad HirschLinda and Phil HodgsonJane and Michael ’75 HurstGunjan and Anurag JainJennifer and Tom KarolBrenna and Will LambertLiza and Will LeeCatherine and Douglas MacMahonJon Morgan ’82 and Liz SeaburyMargaret and Jed ’82 MorseWendy and Bill PayneKristin and Ricky ReesCatherine and Will ’77 RoseNicole ’83 and Justin ’83 SmallCharmaine and George TangCynthia and Jean-Louis TrochuAmy and Kelcy WarrenSarah and Russell WeinbergKatherine ’98 and Austin WykerCarmen and Andy Yung

Life TrusteesDiane and Stuart BumpasMary McDermott CookJudy and Bob GassBeverly and Chuck GinsburgMarietta Scurry JohnsonRita and Jack KleinCarol and John LevyPatty and David MillerJennifer and Jon MosleBarbara and Bud NicholsBarney Young

Faculty and Staff (100% participation)Carrie and Josh BaysJason AndersonCarrie and Josh BaysKathey ’63 and Bruce BeddowNatalie and Travis BittnerLeslie and Steve BledsoeAna BohananHannah Brown

Amy Brown ’78Sarah and Zack BurdickBill BurtonFlorence and John ButlerLinda CauleyLauren ChurchOlivia and Cole ClaibornCindy and Bob ConnollyAngie and Father Chris ConstantinidesDebbie CoxLiz Curlin and Danielle DupuisLindsey and Nate CurtisBrandy and Henry DaltonSandy and Barry DiamondCaroline and Tim FinneganLandy and Alex FoxMaggie FultonBasheer Ghorayeb and Jacquelyn WilcoxEd Goff and Laura ChapuisJezabel GuadalupeRachel and Jose GutierrezLauren and Ross HardageJasmine and John HarrisJennifer HeissDebbie and Jonathan HerskovitzCara and Richard HicksJoan and Zach HillHilary Jenkins ’78Cyndi and Dan KnudsenShari and Andy KrageAnita KurialacherryJune and Jason LandryNick LeggattKristen and Brian McCoolSue McCulloughEva and Peter McKeeJudith and David MullensElise MurphyMarynell MurphyJo NelsonKatie Nelson ’94Johanna and Greg NystromKate and Mark OgdenPam and Ken O’KrentAna and Matt OwensJeff PeckLakeshia and Chris PetersVicki RaneyBianca ReynaKathy RitzDamariz RojoRachel and Josh SchumannApril and David Seeds

Savannah Seifert ’03Cheryl and Greg ShulmanLisel SimmonsShlynn and Wayne SimsBryce Sizemore and Dustin BurkeAmy and Steve SowellYnetta and Dwayne SpencerKathy and Nate St. ClairCasey StoltzJody StoutKathryn and John SzwejkowskiReagan TateEllen Terrell ’78Fidelma and Daniel TitusJay ValentineJessica and Jason VarelaPatricia and John VermillionBecky and Brandon WalkerLyndsey and Jonathan WelchJill WiedmanMisty WilsonCarrie WrightAnne Yarbrough ’81

ParentsClass of 2017Heather and Ray BalestriSpencer Bromberg and Aneta KucharskaMichael BussNancy BussDan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80Catherine and Mark CohenJennifer ’82 and Mike CroninLaura and Bill DickasonRicki and Randy EbnerJen and Greg FominDavid Gerber and Lara JohnsonBasheer Ghorayeb and Jacquelyn WilcoxJenney and David GillikinCindy and Michael HarringtonTjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83Erin and Andrew HillmanJerry Holzsweig and Marian SacklerKatie and Jed JohnsonBrenna and Will LambertLisa and Rick LevyKaren and Bruce LobdellEric LoehrSelena LyonsShawn LyonsJennifer and Jeff MorrisonRich Moses and Selwyn Rayzor

Kelly and David MoskovicSuzanne and Huy PhamUpendar Reddy and Tulika JainKaren and Keller ReidEdna and Dante RenzulliSam Roberts and Michelle TateRose and Jay SinghPaul Staveteig and Gretchen ChampionMeredith and Barry ’79 SteinhartMegan ’85 and Michael SternLaura and Bryan TrubeyVaughn VennerbergMitchell Ward and Pam Wills-WardSarah and Russell Weinberg

Class of 2018Alyssa and Patrick AdamsAbbey and Fallon AhearnStacy and Tucker AndersonKevin BowdenStephanie BowdenKristy and Taylor BowenMatt Campbell and Sarah BraleyDanielle and Jeff CateAshley and Robert CatheyJeanie and Alex ChuangTania and Pat ConroyVivian and Billy DimasAbhilash Donepudi and Chaitanya TatineniJaimey DunnMonica and Joe EastinSoume and Paul FosheeDavid Gerber and Lara JohnsonLaura ’86 and Brad GodkinMeg and Dave GravesRobert Gross and Maya LeibmanCindy and Brian HansonLiz ’90 and Jeff HelfrichMark Henry and Marylene LeogierThomas HoitsmaCorinne and Clay HufftNatalie and Mark JohnsonMirjam and Chris KirkStephanie and Scott KirkhamSunny and Craig KnockeAnil Koganti and Christine HoVani and Matt KondaLisa and Rick LevyBrittany and Neal LoberAloke Mishra and Shaheen KhanJon Morgan ’82 and Liz SeaburyErika MossJarod Moss

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Donors by Constituency

The following is a comprehensive list reflecting cumulative giving from individual donors for the period June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017, sorted by constituency type. It includes cash contributions to annual, restricted, capital, and endowed funds.

Brian Murawski and Michelle HartmannKate and Lance MurphyMelissa and Norry NivenEllen and Marc OeschgerJonathan OhTaeri OhNathan Ohler and Heather RoseberryCurt PabstSamuel Peña-Llopis and Silvia Vega-Rubin-de-CelisClifton PhillipsKristen PhillipsLisa PompRebecca and Will PostenKristianne RamirezRitu and Venu RaoTracy and Michael RoybalHeather and Ryan SchamerlohNils Senvalds and Margee Hocking ’78Margaret ’77 and Glenn SolomonDenise and Chris ’83 StewartCharmaine and George TangSon Tran and Jade LeRachel and Chris TrowbridgeVaughn VennerbergMi Jung and Jim WarnerChow Yanamadala and Lavanya InampudiAmy and Mike Zicarelli

Class of 2019Traci and Travis BlalockHeather and Kevin BonfieldStephanie and Michael ByrdAshley Carter ’93Courtney and Dan CaseEmily and Walter ClarkeDebbie and Chris CuzalinaAngel and Eric EichhornJamie and Greg GauntKsenia and Sergei GoncharYolonda and Eric HabimanaCindy and Brian HansonJulie HarrisAmanda and Richard HartmanKim and Hudson HenleyErin and Andrew HillmanGunjan and Anurag JainBrandon JohnsonMelissa and Fred JohnsonChristine and R.J. JohnsonLisa and Matt KirbySunny and Craig Knocke

Colin KoonPaige and Tom KuchlerNeelima and Rahim KurjiAmy and Philip LangEric LoehrCaroline and Mario LopezNatalie and Jason LuCatherine and Douglas MacMahonChris MaloneLindsey and Jay MartinsonJosh Mendell and Kate O’Donnell-MendellPam and Carter MeyerLillian and Chris MeyerArun Meyyappan and Uma AnnamalaiAmy and Brian MittsMargaret and Jed ’82 MorseAli Moustapha and Vickie NguyenMary and Steve NixJackie OLearyNatalie and Dirik OudtKatie and Kyle OudtSasha PaschkeTim Phu and Kristine DoanKendall QuartermanShampa and Emran RahmanMegan and Brian RatcliffKristin and Ricky ReesAna and Paul RudnickiRachel and Josh SchumannCourtney and Jeff SinelliBridget and Steve SissonNicole ’83 and Justin ’83 SmallKate and Eric SmithKelly and Scott SmoyerMegan ’85 and Michael SternMika and Nathan ThomasSon Tran and Jade LeLaura and Bryan TrubeyAris Tsiakos and Helen KaporisSuzanne and Chris TurnerMona and James VineyardEleise and Rick WeisbergMcKinley and Brandon WierTiffany and Clayton ’83 WilmerDaphna and Amir YoffeCarmen and Andy Yung

Class of 2020Katie and David AisnerAnne and Steve AlexanderAnonymous David Awad and Tamara BarsikFlauren ’90 and Jason Bender

Lindsey and Dave BeranErin and Scott CalawayMatao Cao and Sarah LuDanielle and Jeff CateAshley and Robert CatheyDan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80Tania and Pat ConroyKevin Courtney and Elizabeth Brown ’83Melisa and Jeff DorrillMike Dozier and Kristine Price DozierTara and Tom DraperElayna and Casey ErickStephanie and Dan FineBrooke and Bryan FletcherTjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83Jac and Preston HeroldTreasure and Andy HickmanStephanie and Travis HollmanKelle and Joe JacksonCarolyn and Victor JohnsonPratima and Ravi JoshiMorgan and Scott KennedyMelissa and Craig LackeyBrenna and Will LambertSarah and Jonathan LamensdorfHallie and Max LamontAmy and Philip LangTraci and Ham LeeAmy and Matt ’88 MillerThomas Mitchell and Lisa AlexanderJennifer and Jeff MorrisonNeha and Sam NayyarHenrik Olund and Maria ThenNatalie and Dirik OudtFrank Packard-ReedKelley and Scott ParelChad Park and Rita NeJanelle and Alden PinnellJustine and Chaz PokorskiAlison and Cullen PowellAmy and Jason PuigWendy and Henley QuadlingRitu and Venu RaoBrooke and Rod RobersonSam Roberts and Michelle TateAli and Ben RobinsKimberly and Ryan SabelElisha and Jason ScottKaili and Ed StehelKarin and Mark TribunaGwendolyn and Richard Turcotte

Wilco van Hoogstraeten and Louise VigeantJorie and Brian WagesJaime and Steve WalkowiakJoAnn and Babu WelchShannon WherryMcKinley and Brandon WierTinka and Mohammad Yunus

Class of 2021Hongvien and Daniel AdashekGiovanna and Michael AndersonAnonymousVictoria and Mark BackofenLori and Bob BennettHeather and Kevin BonfieldKristy and Taylor BowenChuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91Christy and Trey BrownAlice and Kevin ChouSharon and Steven ’88 ClarkEsther CochranAshley and John CokerHeather and Casey DeskinsKate and Nathan ’88 DickerHomero Duarte and Lupe MoraMonica and Joe EastinAnnie and Tad FallowsKristin and Nathan FayCaroline and Tim FinneganNeil Fisher and Janelle AlcantaraLisa and Chris ’83 GannettMark GiambroneShannon GlowackiSara and Stephen HarderLyndsey and Scott HarperLiz ’90 and Jeff HelfrichPaul HoodNatalie and Mark JohnsonSonia and Jatin KakkarRoni and Shawn KellySusan and Bill KennedyMorgan and Scott KennedyLisa and Matt KirbyStephanie and Scott KirkhamAnil Koganti and Christine HoPaige and Tom KuchlerLiz and Jason LanierTraci and Ham LeeBronwyn and Dan LevitanRon Mancini and Gena KonopkaRashida and Chris McKnightElizabeth and Darin McNeilKeith Menter and Jeny BaniaKim and Dakon Montgomery

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Margaret and Jed ’82 MorseNeelam and Tariq MussaniMeg and Kevin NicholsonNatalie and Dirik OudtSara and Stuart PauleyJanel and Danny PerezJanelle and Alden PinnellMegan and Nicholas RawlingsAna and Paul RudnickiDana and Frank RumbauskasJenny and Mitch SalzbergMary and Ahmad ShafaamriRyota Shibagaki and Sawako MiyamaGonca and Metehan SoysalShelby and Cliff StanleyMika and Nathan ThomasJanet and Michael TierneyKarin and Mark TribunaRachel and Chris TrowbridgeJaime and Steve WalkowiakAmy and Greg WeselkaTiffany and Clayton ’83 WilmerMeredith and Rand WrightonDaphna and Amir YoffeAngela and Luis Zambrano

Class of 2022Kim and Antonio AllenAnonymous Dia and Kelvin BaggettCaroline and Rob BelangerFlauren ’90 and Jason BenderLindsey and Dave BeranBincy and Brock BizzellLauryn and Jason BloomCourtney and Dan CaseAshley and Robert CatheyMandy and Rich ChildsDok Chon and Seunglim KangRaymond Chow and Lynn DoanEmily and Walter ClarkeRyan and Doug ConnerVictoria and B.A. CullumSarah and Jason DennisShyama and Darshan GandhiJenney and David GillikinMayela GonzalezDavid Guedry and Susie HartmanSarah and Mark HaidarKatrina and Onaje HarperChafen and Eric HartMark Henry and Marylene LeogierTreasure and Andy HickmanCollins Illich and Katie ReeseMelanie and Eugene Jabbour

Keith Jafari and Melody AyeliChristine and R.J. JohnsonBrian Kim and Yoon TakBrenna and Will LambertBillie Jean and Jay LanghamLauren and Ty LeeJudy and YC LeeZi and Gary LichliterBrittany and Neal LoberCatherine and Douglas MacMahonJohn McKenzie and Anna BenefielAmy and Matt ’88 MillerAloke Mishra and Shaheen KhanVijaya and Satya MovvaStephanie and Omar NawazMary and Steve NixNathan Ohler and Heather RoseberryKatie and Kyle OudtAlison and Cullen PowellAmy and Jason PuigJohn PutegnatMegan and Brian RatcliffBrooke and Rod RobersonAli and Ben RobinsImad Salahuddin and Hira SaiyedRachel and Josh SchumannHillary and Mark SchwarzJonathan Seib and Elida DakoliCourtney and Jeff SinelliCat and Gary SochaMargaret ’77 and Glenn SolomonCarolyn and Jake ThomasJennifer and Aaron TobinSon Tran and Jade LeAris Tsiakos and Helen KaporisGwendolyn and Richard TurcotteJoe UrsoJeff Valeri and Nicki JohnsonAngelique and Ray WaddellAmy and Greg WeselkaAimee ’85 and Josh WhitakerTinka and Mohammad Yunus

Class of 2023Hongvien and Daniel AdashekLaDeitra AdkinsCindy and John AnsbachCarrie and Josh BaysRaj Bhanot and Tina MahalTrey Branham and Renee SkinnerChuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91Amanda and Aaron BrownSarah and Zack BurdickErin and Scott CalawayRaymond Chow and Lynn DoanSue Chu and Yong Zheng

Shane Clayton and Julie Hoang Clayton Lindsey and Patrick CollinsKatie and Dean DillardBrooke and Andrew DowdyMike Dozier and Kristine Price DozierTara and Tom DraperCarrie and Andres FabrisStephanie and Dan FineBrooke and Bryan FletcherLawrence Godfrey and Rachel FerdinandoClaire and Jeff GordonLyndsey and Scott HarperKelle and Joe JacksonMelissa and Fred JohnsonLeslie and Nathan JohnsonPratima and Ravi JoshiRoni and Shawn KellyErica and Trey KuppinJune and Jason LandryLiz and Jason LanierJanice and Hunter LeeChris Melella and Elizabeth DuffyKate and Lance MurphyKatie Nelson ’94Nathan NelsonKelley and Scott ParelTully and Dan PhillipsSarah ’90 and Tim ReidyAna and Paul RudnickiNina and Decker SachseAlexandra and Clayton SnodgrassCinco and Chris SorrowStacie and Byron SpearsTom Tong and Lan PengEnis Tuncer and Julia WignallLauren and David Van WagenenAngelique and Ray WaddellJorie and Brian WagesCaroline and Jake WagnerJaime and Steve WalkowiakJamie and Trey WhatleyAnn and James WhiteJames WhitfieldLeslie WhitfieldMcKinley and Brandon WierAllison and Mark WilliamsCass and Austen Wright

Donors by Constituency

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2016–2017 Annual Fund Parent Participation by Grade Level

Grade Level % Participation

Fourth Grade 93%Third Grade 97%Second Grade 92%First Grade 96%Kindergarten 96%T1 100%Pre-K AM 100%Pre-K PM 97%Pre-K All Day 96%

Total Parent Participation: 96%

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Grandparents Walter Edward Adams Kaitlyn B. Adams ’18 Patti and Bob Aisner Charlie Aisner ’20 Miles Aisner ’20 C.C. and Stewart Armstrong Wils Brous ’21 Sandra and Darren Avrea Margot A. Cathey ’18 Frances Cathey ’20 Nina Cathey ’22 Alyson and Clyde Barnard Henry Kuppin ’23 Susie and Scott Bender Jack Bender ’20 Leo Bender ’22 Dorothy Bennett Maxwell Bennett ’21 Diana and Dave Beran Blythe Beran ’20 Blair Beran ’22 Dorothy Bjorck Caroline B. Cohen ’17 Sophia G. Cohen ’17 Naomi Bloom Avery Bloom ’22 Shelby and Woody Blunt Charlie Aisner ’20 Miles Aisner ’20 Joan Bowman Pilar C. Hoitsma ’18 Pauline Briant Granville Briant ’21 Eleanor Briant ’23 Margaret and David Briggs Connor Pauley ’21 Janis and Sam Brous Wils Brous ’21 Alice and Michael Brown Benjamin Courtney ’20 Lora and Steve Brown Hollis Wrighton ’21 Susan and Bill Browning Caroline Elizabeth Lober ’18 Emma Lober ’22 Denise and Rodell Byrd Jazmin L. Dunn ’18 Lisa and Steve Byrd Ellex M. S. Byrd ’19 Jean and John Cate Thomas K. Cate ’18 Frances Cate ’20 Linda and Michael Champion Jacob Staveteig ’17 Francia and Jerry Chica Andie I. Yung ’19 Georgia Clarke Lincoln Clarke ’19 Mae Margaret Clarke ’22

Donna and Geoff Clement Benjamin Dillard ’23 Sharon and Murray Cohen Caroline B. Cohen ’17 Sophia G. Cohen ’17 Sharon and Dale Courtney Benjamin Courtney ’20 Ann and Fred Covert Austin Sabel ’20 Nancy Cronin John H. Cronin ’17 Betsy and Bennett Cullum Anne Marie Helfrich ’18 Katherine Helfrich ’21 Paul Davis Lala Fabris ’23 Karen Devoy Ella K. Stewart ’18 Bonnie and Tom Draper Abigail Draper ’20 Claire Draper ’23 Paula and Dave Duncan Kennedy Anne Kuchler ’19 Duncan Kuchler ’21 Brenda and Matt Elias Matthew Gordon ’23 Carol and Alan Erick Henry Erick ’20 Evey and Chip ’61 Fagadau Jack Bender ’20 Leo Bender ’22 Jenni Finlay Fleur Belanger ’22 Sharon Friedberg Katherine B. Bowden ’18 Elisa Gansell Nolan Brown ’23 Rekha and Uday Garadi Diya Kakkar ’21 Holly Gaunt Natalie M. Gaunt ’19 Beverly and Chuck Ginsburg Sadie J. Small ’19 LeeLee Gioia Henry Kuppin ’23 Sherese and Rex Glendenning Sutton Snodgrass ’23 Carolyn and Bob Goodrich Madeleine S. Nix ’19 Lauren Nix ’22 Raguet Hall Luca Anderson ’21 Fran and Charles Harris Kendall Harris ’19 Norine Haynes Lillie I. Lopez ’19 Tommy Herold Brock Herold ’20

Linda and Dan Hickman Chance Hickman ’20 Cooper Hickman ’22 Joan and Zachary Hill Lily A. Whitfield ’23 Elissa and Stan Hirschman Austin Sabel ’20 Anne and George Howard Paul Gannett ’21 William Gannett ’21 Cathey and Don Humphreys Palmer Nicholson ’21 Gayle Johansen Oliver D. Morgan ’18 Gerry and Leon Johnson Noel Valeri ’22 Patti Johnson Prideaux Johnson ’19 Archer Johnson ’22 Sally Junkins Jacob M. Lobdell ’17 Lynne and Ron Kaufman Jackson Fallows ’21 Priscilla and David Kellogg Brady Finnegan ’21 Bridget and Ken Kippels Jacob H. Parel ’20 Connor Parel ’23 Charles Knell Rose Sachse ’23 Schatzie and George Lee Nona I. Lee ’20 Blythe Lee ’21 Oan-Yu and Keh-Shew Lu Trenton Chou ’21 Candy MacMahon Andrew G. MacMahon ’19 Carter M. MacMahon ’19 Lollie MacMahon ’22 Pat and Barry Macy Julian D. Balestri ’17 Myra Malacara Jules Fine ’20 Ari Fine ’23 Gloria and Cleon McKnight London McKnight ’21 Lin McNeil Alexander McNeil ’21 Su-Su and Jerry Meyer Leo J. Meyer ’19 Patty and David Miller Hayden M. Miller ’20 Evelyn Miller ’22 Jean and David Neisius Nora M. Ahearn ’18 Trey B. Graves ’18 Libbie and Bill Nylin Alexander McNeil ’21

Lesa and John Oudt Sienna Grace Oudt ’19 Wesley A. Oudt ’19 Eloise Oudt ’20 Natalie Oudt ’21 Conrad Oudt ’22Maureen and Steve Parel Jacob H. Parel ’20 Connor Parel ’23 Jeanie and Claiborne Perrilliat Louis Turcotte ’20 Charles Turcotte ’22 Cherie and Jim Pickett Ella K. Stewart ’18 Linda Pullen Mia Alexander ’20 Susan Reese Susie Illich ’22 Laurie and Len Roberts Javier M. Johnson ’19 Mateo Johnson ’23 Carol and Tony Ruggeri Gabriella R. Nelson ’23 Michele and Larry Rutt Ava R. Schamerloh ’18 Jessie Sackler Celia B. Holzsweig ’17 Ellen and Lee Salzberger Noah H. Stern ’17 Mia A. Stern ’19 Kippy and Dave Sands Maxwell S. Johnson ’17 Barbara and Brett Seabury Oliver D. Morgan ’18 Steve Spare Alexander M. Gillikin ’17 Sally Gillikin ’22 Anthony Starfield Cat Quadling ’20 Phyllis and Ron Steinhart Luke Steinhart ’17 Sheila and Larry Stern Noah H. Stern ’17 Mia A. Stern ’19 Margaret and David Sykes Sykes Lamensdorf ’20 Jean Claire Turcotte Louis Turcotte ’20 Charles Turcotte ’22 Carolyn and Terry Turner Emory S. Turner ’19 Wendelin and James Whitfield Lily A. Whitfield ’23 Karen Wilbur Alexander M. Gillikin ’17 Sally Gillikin ’22

Donors by Constituency

Alumni Donors by Decade1960sKathey ’63 and Bruce BeddowRoss Bee ’63Jill Bee ’69Kalita ’69 and Ed BlessingEvey and Chip ’61 FagadauLeah and Jon ’69 GrossCynthia ’68 and Benjamin KleinLeslie ’69 and Bob KrakowGeorge Lombardi ’68Anne ’66 and Fernando PadillaBeth ’68 and Joe Unis

1970sRaguet Bass ’74Susan and Brett ’71 BlakeyTracy and Kevin ’76 BrandRobert Brewer ’71Amy Brown ’78Tracy ’76 and Ballard ’76 CastlemanRegen ’72 and Jeff FearonJamie ’77 and Bryan GarrettGary Horowitz ’71Jane and Michael ’75 HurstLisa and Jud ’71 JacobsHilary Jenkins ’78Emily Jourdan ’75Eugenia ’75 and Frank-Paul KingBarbara ’71 and Nick KoeijmansAshley and Sam ’79 LeakeCathy McEachern ’79Peggy ’73 and Dan MeyerAlison ’74 and David MonnichKaren ’76 and Richard PollockKelly and Robby ’76 RobinsonCatherine and Will ’77 RoseDebbi ’74 and Barry RothschildBetsie ’78 and Jim SearsNils Senvalds and Margee Hocking ’78Amy Sheinberg ’74Margaret ’77 and Glenn SolomonMeredith and Barry ’79 SteinhartBeth ’79 and Mark StrombergCandace and Max ’76 SwangoEllen Terrell ’78Michelle ’75 and Stewart ThomasLeslie and Travis ’76 WallaceLucy ’78 and Steve Wrubel

1980sBetsy Block ’83Christian Charnaux ’87Sharon and Steven ’88 ClarkDan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80Kevin Courtney and Elizabeth Brown ’83

Jennifer ’82 and Mike CroninKate and Nathan ’88 DickerLisa and Chris ’83 GannettMandy Ginsberg ’80Laura ’86 and Brad GodkinAshley Greene ’84Lisa ’89 and Richard HartmanTjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83Margaret ’89 and Brad HirschAlison and Mark ’85 HudspethGiggy ’81 and Peter JacobsonKathryn Kallison ’86Louise and Charles ’87 MarshMary and Tommy ’89 MercerCraig Meyers ’86Amy and Matt ’88 MillerSusan Moore ’81Jon Morgan ’82 and Liz SeaburyMargaret and Jed ’82 MorseNicole ’83 and Justin ’83 SmallMegan ’85 and Michael SternDenise and Chris ’83 StewartKatie and Joe ’88 TauscherStuart Vetterick ’88Aimee ’85 and Josh WhitakerTiffany and Clayton ’83 WilmerAnne Yarbrough ’81Erin and Joe ’84 Zopolsky

1990sFlauren ’90 and Jason BenderDanny Beutler ’93Elliot Beutler ’94Jonathan Beutler ’97Chuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91Joe Bumpas ’97Ashley Carter ’93Grace Cook ’98Meredith Diers ’97Liz ’90 and Jeff HelfrichHelen Jury ’98Finley ’93 and Eric KonradeLauren ’92 and Gregg KuporSean Leatherbury ’94Colin Leatherbury ’97Katie Nelson ’94Joni and Scott ’93 PalmerSarah ’90 and Tim ReidyAshley and Tony ’92 RuggeriMary Catherine and Joe ’96 UnisBrad Wallace ’93Marc Wallenstein ’90Katherine ’98 and Austin Wyker

2000sLouis Andres ’04Miles Andres ’06

Danielle Berg ’06Shannon Blakey ’00Charlie Bovard ’07Kirby Brand ’05Shelby Brand ’08Blakely Castleman ’07Emily Church ’06Will Church ’06Claire Cramm ’07Lindsay Dolan ’00Catherine Duffy ’05Tom Duffy ’02Jacqueline Ewens ’05Chandler ’02 and Jason GoltzTanner Hakert ’06Tate Hakert ’09Margaret Hardage ’05Edward Heidarian ’09Meredith Hessel ’08Tommy Hessel ’09Julianne Jacobs ’05Andrew Jury ’02Amanda Kadesky ’06Andrew Kadesky ’03Andrew Kleiman ’04Zach Kleiman ’02Jack Kraus ’09Nick Kraus ’06Will Kraus ’04Marielle LeMasters ’03Katherine Levy ’02Steven Mickey ’00Rosemary Miller ’04Jordan Olschwanger ’05Megan Olschwanger ’08Mason Reiter ’04Merrill Reiter ’01Taylor Rohrich ’08Savannah Seifert ’03Duncan Smart ’04Callie Stone ’06Marshall Stone ’04Alexandra Villareal ’06Courtney Weisbart ’06Jessica Westberry ’05John Wetzel ’03Emily Wisner ’04P.T. Yager ’06

2010sQuentin Balestri ’16Griffin Benners ’12John Bovard ’16Sam Bovard ’11Amelia Brown ’10Finn Collins ’14William Cooper ’10Anna Cramm ’10

Michaela Creel ’14Ella Darlak ’16Jake M. Darlak ’13Kate Gillikin ’14Tristan Hakert ’16Alex Holmes ’16Hunter Holmes ’13Samuel Horowitz ’10Grace Knudson ’13Dane Kozelsky ’11Sarah Lochridge ’11David Peña-Vega ’16Katherine Pollock ’10Matthew Pollock ’11Kalli Ratan ’14Sterling Ratan ’16Gabriella Rees ’14Alex Rose ’10Charlie Rose ’12Jack Rose ’13Avery Savage ’13Shelby Schultz ’10Alexander Shadle ’16Christian Shadle ’13Isabella Shadle ’11Julia Small ’16Cormick Stockham ’11Campbell Swango ’10Jackson Swango ’12Katherine Swango ’14Jack Trochu ’14Ella Varel ’11Nicholas Villareal ’10George Warren ’14Jackson Whitaker ’15

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Donors by Constituency

Parents of AlumniDebbie and Marc AndresAlice and Bill BarnettRaguet Bass ’74Leslie and David BennersFran and Mark BergBarbara BeutlerHani Bishara and Yasmien MichaelSusan and Brett ’71 BlakeyElaine and Bill BlaylockLauryn and Jason BloomAllison and Chris BovardBrenda and Stuart BrandTracy and Kevin ’76 BrandKristy and James BrittLisa and Chuck BrownAlice and Michael BrownShonn and Clarence BrownJenny and Pete BulbanDiane and Stuart BumpasSally and Allen Butler~Tamara and David CampbellTracy ’76 and Ballard ’76 CastlemanMary Cynthia and Bill ChurchMelissa and William CollinsMary McDermott CookSusan and Chris CooperJennifer and John CorriganMarilyn R. CorriganHope and Gene CrammPam and Jason CreelKitty and Tom CrossBetsy and Bennett CullumClaudia and Scott DavisPeter Dewar and Yvette OstolazaMeghana and Harpreet DhallSandy and Barry DiamondMary and David DolanEllen and Mike DuffyDoug Ehring and Ann SaucerBetsy and Richard EisemanCatie and Aaron EnricoEvey and Chip ’61 FagadauRegen ’72 and Jeff FearonJenifer and Peter FlynnPaulette and Lewis FrazeeWendy and Paul GenenderHeather and Chris GilkerBeverly and Chuck GinsburgEd Goff and Laura ChapuisMichelle and John GrimesJim Hakert and Jayne ColemanTania and Kevin HardageFran and Charles HarrisNancy and Asa HeidarianKim and Thomas HenleyCarolyn Hess

Steve HessLillian and Greg HesselLinda and Phil HodgsonKate and Jeff HoedebeckKacy and Steve HolmesAngela HorowitzGary Horowitz ’71Marian and Ward HueyJane and Michael ’75 HurstSandra and Rick IllesFran and Don JacksonLisa and Jud ’71 JacobsGayle JohansenMarietta Scurry JohnsonRonald JonesCliff Jury and Ann FrancesAnn and Keith KadeskyJeffrey Kaplan and Lisa NewmanJennifer and Tom KarolKirsten and Mike KerriganEugenia ’75 and Frank-Paul KingDana and David KleimanRita and Jack KleinAngela and Marc KleinKaren and Bob KnudsonBarbara and Nick KoeijmansLeslie ’69 and Bob KrakowLisa and Peter KrausTricia and Jim KrohnJoyce and Larry LacerteLeslie and Michael LanahanAshley and Sam ’79 LeakeLaura and Rick LearTom Leatherbury and Pat VillarealCarol and John LevyRayna and Michael LoebPat and Joe LolaGinny and Dick LombardiNisha and Vikas LuniaSheryl and Eric MaasJill and Brent MagnusonNancy and Rich MerriamPeggy ’73 and Dan MeyerRory and Howard MeyersVicki and Brian MillerPatty and David MillerJennifer and Jon MosleRobyn and John MullerBarbara and Bud NicholsSusan and Steve O’BrienKate and Mark OgdenDonna and Larry OlschwangerMeaders and Robert OzarowSusan and Scott PalmerDan PattersonWendy and Bill PayneLakeshia and Chris PetersKaren ’76 and Richard Pollock

Ricki and Andy RabinJoan and Ken RaffJen and Ravi RatanMarjorie RichardsonKathy RitzKelly and Robby ’76 RobinsonChristine and Dick RogoffRod Rohrich and Diane GibbyCatherine and Will ’77 RoseChris Rowley and Mandy DakeDonna and Byron RubinCarol and Tony RuggeriKim and Jim SavageMarcia and Steve SchaulBetty and Brian SchultzBetsie ’78 and Jim SearsTodd Shadle and Maria ReyesGowri and Alex SharmaNancy and Jim SkochdopoleCharla and John SmartLil and Greg SmithRachel and Marc StarrPhyllis and Ron SteinhartKiersten and Michael StockhamBill Stonaker and Tricia WilsonLisa and John StoneBeth ’79 and Mark StrombergBobby SussmanCandace and Max ’76 SwangoMichelle ’75 and Stewart ThomasCynthia and Jean-Louis TrochuBeth ’68 and Joe UnisBobbie and Andy VillarealHarianne and David WallensteinLisa and George WarrenAmy and Kelcy WarrenKandi and Mark WeisbartAimee ’85 and Josh WhitakerDebbie and David WiggansPeggy and Rory WisnerLucy ’78 and Steve WrubelBarney Young

Friends and Former Faculty/Staff AnonymousSue and Dan BaileyMary BrinegarLora and Steve BrownPeggy CarrMarcia and Michael CassidyMelisa and Jeff DorrillDolores EvansRegen ’72 and Jeff FearonSusan and Warren FoxworthJudy and Bob GassLouise and Guy GriffethEllen and John GrimesCharles HansfordRue and Tuck HenryKacy and Steve HolmesGeraldine and Terry KeplerLochwood LarsonAshley and Sam ’79 LeakeColeta and Joe LewisPat and Joe LolaPat MattinglyLinda and John McFarlandJune McMasterDian MooreSusan Moore ’81Barbara and Bud NicholsDonna and Larry OlschwangerKaren and Will ReardonAlesia and Ed RitenourSarah SatinskyTerri and Larry SengbushStaci and Nathan SheldonEtta StrattonFay WheelerPaul WignallAbigail WilliamsBryant WolfMeredith and Rand Wrighton

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Donors by Constituency

OrganizationsAlbertsons SafewayAmusements Worldwide, LLCAnonymousBank of America Charitable FoundationThe Benevity Community Impact FundBlessing Family FoundationM&A Brown Family FoundationCharity Through Art FoundationClassic BMWCommunities Foundation of TexasCorrectional Food Services, Inc.Coyote Theaters Management, LLCThe Dallas FoundationDallas Jewish Community FoundationDenburyDonateWellEmpire Baking CompanyThe Enrico FoundationFidelity CharitableFilgo Oil CompanyGoldman, Sachs & CompanyLaura and Peter Grauer FoundationThe Greater Cincinnati FoundationGreenbriar Preston Hollow Restaurant, LLCHadleigh’sHail MerryThe Hirsch Family FoundationThe Humana Foundation, Inc.

The ISN Charitable Giving FundThe Jerry R. Junkins Family FoundationMARK Foundation Bessemer Trust Eugene McDermott FoundationThe Marion W. Minton & Walter J. Minton Foundation Inc.Mora & Associates, Inc.National Business Officers AssociationNational Philanthropic TrustNetwork For GoodORIX USA CorporationThe Pinnell FoundationThe Powell FoundationProbity Advisors, Inc.R.D. Eiseman, Inc.Raymond James CharitableSchwab Charitable FundSengbush Studio, Inc.Texas Instruments FoundationTrilogy, LLCWells Fargo Matching Gifts ProgramWholesome Food Services, LLCYourCause, LLC

Tribute GiftsAisner Family Shelby and Woody BluntGordie Bailey ‘96 Leslie and Michael LanahanDiane and Stuart Bumpas Jenifer and Peter Flynn

Allen Butler Pat MattinglySally Butler Pat MattinglyBetsy and Bennett Cullum Jenifer and Peter FlynnArlene Dayton Pat MattinglySandy Diamond Abigail WilliamsLeo Fields Pat MattinglyJennifer Karol Michelle ‘75 and Stewart ThomasKirsten Kerrigan Michelle ‘75 and Stewart ThomasPat Mattingly Sandy and Barry Diamond Cathy McEachern ‘79Elise Murphy Sue and Dan Bailey Mary Brinegar Diane and Stuart Bumpas Sarah and Zack Burdick Peggy Carr Marcia and Michael Cassidy Liz Curlin Claudia and Scott Davis Dolores Evans Landy and Alex Fox Susan and Warren Foxworth Meg and Dave Graves Louise and Guy Griffeth

Charles Hansford Kim and Thomas Henley Rue and Tuck Henry Lyda Hill Geraldine and Terry Kepler Lochwood Larson Liza and Will Lee Linda and John McFarland June McMaster Dian Moore Jennifer and Jon Mosle National Business Officers Association Susan and Scott Palmer Karen and Will Reardon Staci and Nathan Sheldon Kathryn and John Szwejkowski Bobbie and Andy Villareal Fay Wheeler Misty WilsonMarynell Murphy Etta StrattonKaren Pollock Michelle ‘75 and Stewart ThomasSavannah Seifert Lisa Alexander and Thomas MitchellSarah Weinberg Michelle ‘75 and Stewart ThomasBob Wilson Pat Mattingly

The following list reflects giving from organizational donors and tribute gifts for the period June 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017. It includes cash contributions to annual, restricted, capital, and endowed funds.

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Organizational Donors and Tribute Gifts

20+ YEARSGoldman, Sachs & Company 27 Kathey ’63 and Bruce Beddow 26 Linda Cauley 26 Liz Curlin and Danielle Dupuis 26 Sue McCullough 26 Pam and Ken O’Krent 26 Kathy Ritz 26 Diane and Stuart Bumpas 25 Rita and Jack Klein 23 Mary and David Dolan 22 Carol and John Levy 22 Michelle ’75 and Stewart Thomas 21 Anne Yarbrough ’81 21 Lisa and Peter Kraus 20 Jennifer and Jon Mosle 20 Elise Murphy 20

15+ YEARS Tracy and Kevin ’76 Brand 19 Sally Junkins 19 Kirsten and Mike Kerrigan 19 Patty and David Miller 19 Jody Stout 19 Jennifer and Tom Karol 18 Jill and Brent Magnuson 18 Kathryn and John Szwejkowski 18 Hope and Gene Cramm 17 Marynell Murphy 17 Carrie Wright 17 Amy Brown ’78 16 Mary Cynthia and Bill Church 16 Kitty and Tom Cross 16 Ellen and John Grimes 16 Jim Hakert and Jayne Coleman 16 Johanna and Greg Nystrom 16 Cheryl and Greg Shulman 16 Reagan Tate 16 Sarah and Russell Weinberg 16 Allison and Chris Bovard 15 Lillian and Greg Hessel 15 Andrew Jury ’02 15 Leslie ’69 and Bob Krakow 15 Lisa and Rick Levy 15 Kate and Mark Ogden 15 Karen ’76 and Richard Pollock 15 Catherine and Will ’77 Rose 15 Terri and Larry Sengbush 15 Sengbush Studio, Inc. 15 Ynetta and Dwayne Spencer 15 Phyllis and Ron Steinhart 15 Candace and Max ’76 Swango 15 Patricia and John Vermillion 15

10+ YEARS Lisa and Chuck Brown 14 Lakeshia and Chris Peters 14 Ricki and Andy Rabin 14

Margaret ’77 and Glenn Solomon 14 Lyndsey and Jonathan Welch 14 Sally and Allen Butler~ 13 Jane and Michael ’75 Hurst 13 Giggy ’81 and Peter Jacobson 13 Shari and Andy Krage 13 Vicki Raney 13 Mason Reiter ’04 13 April and David Seeds 13 Leslie and David Benners 12 Jenny and Pete Bulban 12 Angela Horowitz 12 Mirjam and Chris Kirk 12 Lauren ’92 and Gregg Kupor 12 Kristen and Brian McCool 12 Cynthia and Jean-Louis Trochu 12 Lucy ’78 and Steve Wrubel 12 Shonn and Clarence Brown 11 Catie and Aaron Enrico 11 Wendy and Paul Genender 11 Ed Goff and Laura Chapuis 11 Meg and Dave Graves 11 Tanner Hakert ’06 11 Tania and Kevin Hardage 11 June and Jason Landry 11 Peggy ’73 and Dan Meyer 11 Gowri and Alex Sharma 11 Mitchell Ward and Pam Wills-Ward 11 Barney Young 11 Carrie and Josh Bays 10 Flauren ’90 and Jason Bender 10 Lauryn and Jason Bloom 10 Naomi Bloom 10 Sarah and Zack Burdick 10 Melissa and William Collins 10 Angie and Father Chris Constantinides 10 Soume and Paul Foshee 10 Jenney and David Gillikin 10 Laura ’86 and Brad Godkin 10 Jezabel Guadalupe 10 Debbie and Jonathan Herskovitz 10 Thomas Hoitsma 10 Jeffrey Kaplan and Lisa Newman 10 Nick Leggatt 10 Nisha and Vikas Lunia 10 Amy and Brian Mitts 10 Jon Morgan ’82 and Liz Seabury 10 Jen and Ravi Ratan 10 Kristin and Ricky Rees 10 Todd Shadle and Maria Reyes 10 Bobby Sussman 10 Amy and Kelcy Warren 10 Aimee ’85 and Josh Whitaker 10 Jill Wiedman 10 Debbie and David Wiggans 10 Karen Wilbur 10

5+ YEARSHeather and Ray Balestri 9 Dorothy Bjorck 9 Joan Bowman 9 Shelby Brand ’08 9 Emily Church ’06 9 Will Church ’06 9 Catherine and Mark Cohen 9 Brandy and Henry Dalton 9 Sandy and Barry Diamond 9 The Enrico Foundation 9 Jamie and Greg Gaunt 9 Ashley Greene ’84 9 Cindy and Michael Harrington 9 Meredith Hessel ’08 9 Kacy and Steve Holmes 9 Hilary Jenkins ’78 9 Katie and Jed Johnson 9 Cliff Jury and Ann Frances 9 Ashley and Sam ’79 Leake 9 Laura and Rick Lear 9 Karen and Bruce Lobdell 9 Pat and Barry Macy 9 Rich Moses and Selwyn Rayzor 9 Kelly and David Moskovic 9 Erika Moss 9 Jarod Moss 9 Melissa and Norry Niven 9 Meredith and Barry ’79 Steinhart 9 Denise and Chris ’83 Stewart 9 Texas Instruments Foundation 9 Mi Jung and Jim Warner 9 Traci and Travis Blalock 8 Kirby Brand ’05 8 Debbie Cox 8 Monica and Joe Eastin 8 Betsy and Richard Eiseman 8 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 8 Leah and Jon ’69 Gross 8 Tate Hakert ’09 8 Tommy Hessel ’09 8 Kate and Jeff Hoedebeck 8 Esther and Paul Hood 8 Gunjan and Anurag Jain 8 The Jerry R. Junkins Family Foundation 8 Mary and Tommy ’89 Mercer 8 Pam and Carter Meyer 8 Su-Su and Jerry Meyer 8 Clifton Phillips 8 Kristen Phillips 8 Tim Phu and Kristine Doan 8 Karen and Keller Reid 8 Chris Rowley and Mandy Dake 8 Ellen and Lee Salzberger 8 Nicole ’83 and Justin ’83 Small 8 Megan ’85 and Michael Stern 8 Sheila and Larry Stern 8 Casey Stoltz 8

Charmaine and George Tang 8 Katie and Joe ’88 Tauscher 8 Peggy and Rory Wisner 8 Amy and Mike Zicarelli 8 Chuck Briant and Lilly Albritton ’91 7 Bill Burton 7 Dan Clifford and Shannon Morse ’80 7 Sharon and Murray Cohen 7 Communities Foundation of Texas 7 Anna Cramm ’10 7 Claire Cramm ’07 7 Jennifer ’82 and Mike Cronin 7 Nancy Cronin 7 Laura and Bill Dickason 7 Jen and Greg Fomin 7 Rekha and Uday Garadi 7 David Gerber and Lara Johnson 7 Jerry Holzsweig and Marian Sackler 7 Sonia and Jatin Kakkar 7 Brenna and Will Lambert 7 Eva and Peter McKee 7 Brian Murawski and Michelle Hartmann 7 Katie Nelson ’94 7 Jonathan Oh 7 Taeri Oh 7 Jeff Peck 7 Upendar Reddy and Tulika Jain 7 Rachel and Josh Schumann 7 Paul Staveteig and Gretchen Champion 7 Campbell Swango ’10 7 Vaughn Vennerberg 7 Emily Wisner ’04 7 Abbey and Fallon Ahearn 6 Stacy and Tucker Anderson 6 Bank of America Charitable Foundation 6 Leslie and Steve Bledsoe 6 Ana Bohanan 6 Kevin Bowden 6 Stephanie Bowden 6 Kristy and Taylor Bowen 6 Matt Campbell and Sarah Braley 6 Danielle and Jeff Cate 6 Jean and John Cate 6 Ashley and Robert Cathey 6 Tania and Pat Conroy 6 Pam and Jason Creel 6 Lindsey and Nate Curtis 6 Debbie and Chris Cuzalina 6 Ricki and Randy Ebner 6 Robert Gross and Maya Leibman 6 Cindy and Brian Hanson 6 Tjepke Heeringa and Elizabeth Dodge ’83 6 Liz ’90 and Jeff Helfrich 6

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Keepers of the Flame

Mark Henry and Marylene Leogier 6 Joan and Zachary Hill 6 Erin and Andrew Hillman 6 Corinne and Clay Hufft 6 The ISN Charitable Giving Fund 6 Gayle Johansen 6 Sunny and Craig Knocke 6 Paige and Tom Kuchler 6 Amy and Philip Lang 6 Brittany and Neal Lober 6 Chris Malone 6 Lindsey and Jay Martinson 6 Jennifer and Jeff Morrison 6 Judith and David Mullens 6 Ellen and Marc Oeschger 6 Nathan Ohler and Heather Roseberry 6 Natalie and Dirik Oudt 6 Ana and Matt Owens 6 Suzanne and Huy Pham 6 Cherie and Jim Pickett 6 Rebecca and Will Posten 6 Ritu and Venu Rao 6 Alesia and Ed Ritenour 6 Tracy and Michael Roybal 6 Betsie ’78 and Jim Sears 6 Nils Senvalds and Margee Hocking ’78 6 Rachel and Marc Starr 6 Lisa and John Stone 6 Mika and Nathan Thomas 6 Rachel and Chris Trowbridge 6 Suzanne and Chris Turner 6 Harianne and David Wallenstein 6 Marc Wallenstein ’90 6 McKinley and Brandon Wier 6 Tiffany and Clayton ’83 Wilmer 6 Meredith and Rand Wrighton 6 Alyssa and Patrick Adams 5 Walter Edward Adams 5 Florence and John Butler 5 Stephanie and Michael Byrd 5 Denise and Rodell Byrd 5 Courtney and Dan Case 5 Linda and Michael Champion 5 Jeanie and Alex Chuang 5 Betsy and Bennett Cullum 5 Dallas Jewish Community Foundation 5 Sarah and Jason Dennis 5 Lindsay Dolan ’00 5 Melisa and Jeff Dorrill 5 Homero Duarte and Lupe Mora 5 Jaimey Dunn 5 Basheer Ghorayeb and Jacquelyn Wilcox 5 Carolyn and Bob Goodrich 5 Laura and Peter Grauer Foundation 5 Amanda and Richard Hartman 5 Stephanie and Travis Hollman 5

Melissa and Fred Johnson 5 Natalie and Mark Johnson 5 Christine and R.J. Johnson 5 Morgan and Scott Kennedy 5 Bridget and Ken Kippels 5 Lisa and Matt Kirby 5 Stephanie and Scott Kirkham 5 Andrew Kleiman ’04 5 Dana and David Kleiman 5 Zach Kleiman ’02 5 Anil Koganti and Christine Ho 5 Colin Koon 5 Neelima and Rahim Kurji 5 Traci and Ham Lee 5 Eric Loehr 5 Caroline and Mario Lopez 5 Selena Lyons 5 Shawn Lyons 5 Catherine and Douglas MacMahon 5 Pat Mattingly 5 Amy and Matt ’88 Miller 5 Ali Moustapha and Vickie Nguyen 5 National Philanthropic Trust 5 Mary and Steve Nix 5 Jackie OLeary 5 Henrik Olund and Maria Then 5 Lesa and John Oudt 5 Katie and Kyle Oudt 5 Curt Pabst 5 Kelley and Scott Parel 5 Chad Park and Rita Ne 5 Janelle and Alden Pinnell 5 Lisa Pomp 5 Megan and Brian Ratcliff 5 Laurie and Len Roberts 5 Rod Rohrich and Diane Gibby 5 Ana and Paul Rudnicki 5 Michele and Larry Rutt 5 Heather and Ryan Schamerloh 5 Courtney and Jeff Sinelli 5 Kelly and Scott Smoyer 5 Son Tran and Jade Le 5 Mona and James Vineyard 5 Becky and Brandon Walker 5 Leslie and Travis ’76 Wallace 5 Eleise and Rick Weisberg 5 Chow Yanamadala and Lavanya Inampudi 5 Daphna and Amir Yoffe 5 Angela and Luis Zambrano 5

We have made every effort to give proper credit to all who have so generously contributed to The Lamplighter School during the 2016 –2017 fiscal year. We regret any omissions or errors, and request that any such oversight be reported to the Advancement Office at 214-369-9201 ext. 365 or advancement@thelamplighterschool.org.

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Keepers of the Flame includes individuals and organizations who have given consecutively to Lamplighter’s Annual Fund or Alumni Giving program for five or more years.

The following reflects pledges and contributions received by May 31, 2017, to Lamplighter’s Endowed Funds.

General The Chandler ’09, Cameron ’10 and Campbell ’12 Crates Endowed Fund $68,178Margaret Jonsson Family Foundation Endowed Fund $154,529The Jerry R Junkins Family Foundation Endowed Fund $76,721The Kraus Family Endowed Fund $237,809Lamplighter Faculty/Staff Development Endowed Fund $1,137,031Lamplighter General Endowed Fund $1,492,727The Patty and David Miller Family Endowed Fund $182,482The Kate ’04 and Michael ’08 Mosle General Endowed Fund $234,629The Katie ’06 and Whit ’09 Payne General Endowed Fund $250,000Sharma Family General Endowed Fund $200,000Klyde Warren ’13 Endowed Fund $173,452 Faculty Support Alumni Faculty Salary Support Endowed Fund $344,181The Carty Faculty Professional Development Endowed Fund $83,912The Carty Faculty Salary Support Endowed Fund $274,609Erik Jonsson Endowment for Teacher Development $299,916Lamplighter Faculty Professional Development Endowment $28,185Lamplighter Faculty Salary Support Endowed Fund $396,317LPA Faculty Salary Support Endowed Fund $1,909,630LPA Faculty Professional Development Endowed Fund $554,865The Lear Family Professional Development Endowed Fund $113,702The Pollock Faculty Professional Development Endowed Fund $95,779The Tang Family Fund for Professional Development $25,000 Financial Aid Chang-Myers Family Financial Aid Endowed Fund $78,477Lamplighter Financial Aid Endowed Fund $143,205Eugene McDermott Foundation Financial Aid Endowed Fund $83,780The Jess Merkle Family Foundation Financial Aid Endowed Fund $81,946Katherine ’10 and Matthew ’11 Pollock Financial Aid Endowed Fund $74,727 Program Support Brown Family Pre-Kindergarten Endowed Fund $92,486Campbell Media Center Endowed Fund $88,197Maggie Corrigan Visiting Artist Endowed Fund $77,760Dooley Author Endowed Fund $68,396Endowed Fund for Music $7,500The Ford/Varel and Owen Families Technology Endowed Fund $57,483The Krakow Rushton Technology Endowed Fund $81,176The C. Kent Kunkel Chair in Science and Math Endowed Fund $1,000,000Lamplighter Technology Endowed Fund $49,943Lamplighter Media Center Endowed Fund $37,240Mattingly Fund for Excellence in Education $119,120Carrie ’00 and Cody ’08 Thoma Patterson Environmental Science Endowed Fund $89,251Suzanne & B.G. Porter Community Education Endowed Fund $121,478The Charles H. Rose Environmental Science Endowed Fund $75,621The Edward Alexander Rose Technology Endowed Fund $80,223The John W. Rose Media Center Endowed Fund $91,557Ward-Purdy Faculty Diversity Endowment Fund $75,444 Total $11,008,667

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Endowment Progress

Founders Legacy Society

Remembering Frank Welch, 1927-2017 “The Dean of Texas Architecture”

In early 2003, Lamplighter established The Founders Legacy Society, which recognizes all donors who have chosen to support Lamplighter through a bequest. The society honors the commitment of Lamplighter’s founders, Natalie Murray and Sandy Swain, whose vision, passion, love of children, and determination created a school where the spirit and joy of learning are ignited in young minds and hearts for a lifetime.

Opening discussions regarding bequests with a few targeted individuals who are prospective donors to the upcoming campaign is an area that we intend to focus on during the 2017-2018 school year.

Founders Legacy society MeMbersTo date, the following individuals have notified Lamplighter of their plans for the school:

Gail and Dan CookKaren and Kevin CrowderSamantha and Tim DurstEllen and John GrimesSheryl and Eric MaasPat MattinglyBarbara NicholsAngela and Joel PittmanMarjorie Waters

This summer, the Lamplighter community lost one of its icons in the School’s history. Dallas-based architect Frank Welch, a key contributor to the buildings on the Lamplighter campus, died peacefully in his home at the age of 90. Mr. Welch designed the School’s fine arts wing, Erik Jonsson Media Center, north and south carpool drop-offs, and several classrooms completed in 1988 and the Cook Gymnasium completed in 1995.

After serving in the Merchant Marine and the Army during World War II, Mr. Welch enrolled in architecture at Texas A&M University where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in 1951. He worked at a series of Houston architecture firms before meeting O’Neil Ford, who became his long-term mentor, and later connected him with The Lamplighter School. Ford designed Lamplighter’s original school building completed in 1969.

Welch established his own architecture firm in 1959, Frank Welch & Associates, when he opened his first office in West Texas. His

firm’s work includes a broad range of architecture – including schools, churches, commercial buildings, and homes – throughout the Southwest and has been recognized with more than 50 awards for design excellence. With Lamplighter’s additions during the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Welch’s goal was to “expand the vision of the school; a design that has never been duplicated.” His work, together with the original designs by O’Neil Ford, became a showcase for the innovative Lamplighter school program that strives for sharing and cooperative learning.

During the 2011-2012 school year, Mr. Welch was selected as a recipient of the Spirit Award, presented by the Lamplighter Alumni Association, honoring individuals or groups that embody the spirit of Lamplighter. Recipients must have the qualities of a lifelong learner, be willing to take risks, and display creativity in his or her work – characteristics which Mr. Welch most certainly possessed. By selecting Frank Welch for the award, the School brought a greater awareness of the amazing architecture of Lamplighter and made people aware of Frank Welch’s affection for the School.

This Lamplighter legend was recently honored by Preservation Dallas at the Fall 2017 Architecture Tour and symposium, which took place in the Cook Gym on October 28. Lamplighter students have the privilege of experiencing his designs, which help our innovative, cooperative program come to life.

Frank Dee Welch Photo by Thomas McConnell

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Dr. Thompson will draw on research to highlight the differences between friendship and popularity. He makes suggestions about the management of social problems in schools and makes the case that while all children yearn for popularity, it is friendship that helps children survive and thrive.

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