THE ARMAND HAMMER UWC OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Report of the President: 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

On the cover: Class of 2012 graduates celebrate

after the ceremony

Photo credits: Malak Abureehan ’12, Timothy J.

Dougherty, Hannah Freedman ’12, Valentin Herrgesell ’13, Austria,

Titus Kabega ’13, Uganda, Milton Riess, Kate Russell, Arjan Stockhausen ’11

DEAr FriENDS,As you read this, we will have just marked the

school’s 30th anniversary with a very special cel‑

ebration. Hundreds gathered for the festivities,

and I was especially honored to share the stage

with former President Phil Geier; Shelby Davis,

the extraordinary philanthropist whose gen‑

erosity has transformed so many lives; and a

group of very special alumni who are taking the

mantle of leadership in supporting UWC‑USA.

As we’ve observed our anniversary, we’ve taken

time to reflect on the good work that’s been

done by so many, as well as to look forward

to tasks and goals that lie ahead. The past year

was particularly poignant as we saw nine fac‑

ulty and staff “graduate” into retirement and

new projects. From the classes they led, the

relationships they formed, and the countless

initiatives in which they were involved, these

good friends made significant contributions to

the formation and growth of UWC‑USA.

Last year also saw many achievements. We ac‑

celerated our work as an integral partner in

restoring the Old Town Mission in Las Vegas,

N.M., a site that is now an invaluable resource

for local youth and community programs.

Our students continued to see individual suc‑

cess. One of them—Josh Leon ’12—received

the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholar‑

ship, which will support his studies all the way

through graduate school. And hiring new fac‑

ulty and staff was wonderfully successful: This

fall, we’ve welcomed an exciting group of tal‑

ented individuals who bring new perspectives

to campus. We’re already feeling their energy

and witnessing their commitment to the im‑

portant work of the UWC mission.

Beyond our campus, I’ve had opportunities to

meet alumni at points around the globe, from

London to New York, Seattle to Hong Kong. I

was very fortunate to participate in the first

“unReunion” organized entirely by our alumni

from the “early years,” 1984, 1985, and 1986.

This three‑day event attracted nearly 100 alum‑

ni from around the world, and it was simply a

joy to attend.

As we move toward 2013, I am invigorated by the

work ahead. We spent last year crafting a new

strategic direction, which was accepted by the

Board of Trustees in May. Implementation steps

recommit UWC‑USA to supporting the impact

of our mission through our students, staff,

alumni, and program participants; strengthen‑

ing the quality of our distinctive experiential

academic and co‑curricular programs; and mak‑

ing manifest our commitment to financial, en‑

vironmental, and social sustainability.

All these initiatives—not to mention the cru‑

cial work of day‑to‑day school—wouldn’t

be possible without your generous support.

Alumni, parents, trustees, distinguished trust‑

ees, friends, faculty, staff, and even current

students understand the absolute value of

UWC‑USA, and they have expressed that sup‑

port through financial gifts, volunteer efforts,

and countless other ways that help spread the

word out about this treasure of a school. I truly

thank you for all you have done and continue

to do.

With gratitude,

Lisa A. H. Darling

President, UWC‑USA

Letter from the President 1

Report from the Board of Trustees 2

Board of Trustees and Distinguished Trustees 3

Report of Financial Activities 4

Annual Fund Report 6

National Committees 7

Philanthropic Support by Giving Level 9

The Mountbatten Society (page 9)

The Castle Club (page 10)

Other Supporters (page 13)

Education Through Experience 19

Philanthropic Support by Class 21

A Laboratory in the Woods 23

Service Learning 26

Oh, the Places They Go! 29

In-Kind, in Honor of, in Memory of 30

Onward 32

Planned Gifts and Ways to Give 33

Letter from the President

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Board of Trustees and Distinguished Trustees

Report from the Board of Trustees

technological progress in advanced economies,

including the link between age and creativity

and the role of collaboration in innovation. A

Rhodes Scholar, Ben has served in the U.S.

Department of the Treasury and as the senior

economist for macroeconomics for the White

House Council of Economic Advisers.

Mark Alexander is from Santa Fe, N.M., where

he owns Peyote Bird Designs, a global com‑

pany that produces artisanal wholesale jew‑

elry. Mark started the company in 1973—his

website includes a photo of him and his trusty

Volkswagen Beetle which he once used to

travel the country selling Southwestern jew‑

elry. Since then, he’s grown the business to

include operations in Hong Kong, with addi‑

tional partnerships in Thailand, Bali, China,

and the Philippines.

As we’ve welcomed these three new board

members, we’ve also bid farewell to one. Ka‑

menna Lee ’89 left the board this year after

three years of service. We are very thankful for

her efforts on the school’s behalf.

Tom Dickerson AC ’68

Chairman

This past year, the Board of Trustees has been

involved in critical work through the strate‑

gic planning process, management of school

finances, and ongoing efforts to advance

UWC‑USA’s philanthropic goals. Our board

members—who serve as volunteers—bring a

depth of personal and professional experience

to each of these areas.

Three new trustees joined the board this year,

including two UWC alumni. Kuo‑Chuan (KC)

Kung ’87 is a partner and co‑founder of MBK

Partners, the first major local and independent

buyout fund dedicated to North Asia. KC heads

the Greater China operation. KC received a

bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College

and a master’s degree from Harvard Business

School. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife

and two children.

Ben Jones AC ’91 is a professor at the Kel‑

logg School of Management at Northwestern

University. His research considers obstacles

to growth in developing countries, including

subjects such as national leadership, higher

education, and climate change. He also studies

Mark Alexander

Amin Badr-El-Din

Rachel P. Belash

Marc P. Blum

Lisa A. H. Darling

Sebastien de Halleux ’96

Steven F. Dichter

Janet Smith Dickerson

Ray R. Irani

Ben Jones AC ’91

Kuo-Chuan (KC) Kung ’87

James Leonard

Charlotte Ilfeld Rubin

Peter Ruggiero

Jonathan L. Schneider

Monique B. Seefried

Michael C. Taylor ’91

Tyler C. Tingley

Rosemary Tomich

Nancy Anixter

William Anixter

Celeste Bartos

Alvin Chereskin

Kathryn Davis

Shelby M. C. Davis

Virginia Dwan

Phyllis Rothschild Farley

Amy Yeager Geier

Philip O. Geier III,

President Emeritus

Dorothy Goodman

Martha Ann Healy

William H. Moore III

Ronald W. Rubinow

Frederick Rudolph

Louisa Stude Sarofim

Michael Stern ’89

James B. Taylor,

Chairman Emeritus

Sarah W. Taylor

Litsa D. Tsitsera

rEpOrT FrOm ThE BOArD OF TruSTEES

BOArD OF TruSTEES

DiSTiNguiShED TruSTEES

ChAir

Thomas P. Dickerson AC ’68

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UWC‑USA ended its fiscal year with a modest

surplus. Careful cost containment as well as ap‑

propriate revenue forecasting from the Business

Office allowed the school administration to ac‑

curately plan educational programming for the

year, as well as to project years into the future.

Financial planning at UWC‑USA is unique

compared to other secondary schools, just as

our educational mission is unique.

Payments from the respective national commit‑

tees that select our international students only

account for 17 percent of the school’s annual

budgeted revenue. Voluntary contributions to

the Annual Fund—from friends who believe in

our mission, including community members,

parents, and alumni—make up the next 15

percent. Mission‑oriented summer programs,

such as International Baccalaureate teacher‑

training and short courses for global youth,

made up 4 percent of our revenue last year.

For the past decade, the biggest source of

annual school revenue has come from the

UWC‑USA endowment, which last year com‑

prised 43 percent of our annual budget. This

extraordinary achievement is a testament to

the commitment of a great number of people.

Philanthropist Shelby Davis contributed the

largest part of our endowment, but numer‑

ous other friends have contributed as well,

strengthening our mission for future genera‑

tions of students.

Alumni gifts to the Annual Fund are almost

five times what they were five years ago, and

participation rates have more than tripled. Not

only that, but in the past five years our gradu‑

ates have given extraordinary gifts, in several

cases as large as $250,000. We’re doing what

we can to continue to provide opportunities for

promising young people regardless of country

of origin or ability to pay.

Now, for the challenging news. We are in the

final year of full support from the Armand

Hammer Trust, which last year contributed 21

percent of our budget. We’ve known for nearly

a decade that the 2013‑2014 school year will

represent a financial watershed, when a big

portion of our budget will have to be made up

somewhere else.

The administration of UWC‑USA, in coop‑

eration with the school’s faculty and staff, has

worked diligently to contain costs in anticipa‑

tion of next year. They’ve renegotiated large

contractual costs such as insurance and food

service, seeking savings wherever possible.

One place the Board of Trustees does not want

to cut, however, is the quality of teaching.

When more than 50 percent of your school’s

expenses come from salaries, there are a lim‑

ited number of savings opportunities available

without hurting the quality of the school’s ed‑

ucational mission. We do not believe we can

“cost cut” our way to either financial or educa‑

tional excellence.

We plan to address the budget shortfall in the

2013‑2014 year and beyond through an “all of

the above” approach: We have redoubled our

fundraising efforts, we are increasing payments

from UWC national committees where pos‑

sible, we are initiating mission‑oriented ancil‑

lary programs, and we are engaging the entire

campus community in cost‑saving measures.

2011 2012Philanthropic Contributions to Annual Operations $1,548,039 $1,527,124Armand Hammer Trust * 2,250,000 2,250,000Endowment Income 4,913,508 4,488,928National Committee Contributions 1,434,700 1,818,200Summer Programs/Auxiliary Income 470,344 455,947

TOTAL rEVENuES $10,616,591 $10,540,199

*Income from the Armand Hammer Trust will cease in 2013.

As the chair of the Finance Committee and a

graduate of UWC‑USA, I am optimistic about

the school’s financial future, despite the ex‑

haustion of the Armand Hammer Trust.

UWC‑USA has been fortunate in its first 30

years to benefit from the extraordinary gen‑

erosity of two world‑class philanthropists, Ar‑

mand Hammer and Shelby Davis. In my mind,

Hammer and Davis are legendary philosopher

kings, really, of international educational phi‑

lanthropy. They built this place. Hammer locat‑

ed the campus around the stunningly beautiful

but neglected Montezuma Castle, halfway up

a hill. Davis built the school’s endowment and

enabled us to lovingly restore the Castle and

make it our school’s vital center.

Philosopher Kings also built the Angkor Wat

temple in Cambodia, the pyramids in Egypt,

Versailles in France, and Chichen Itza in Mexico.

But what’s different now from those times is

that we no longer live in an era that waits for

a single great man to build something beauti‑

ful for posterity. So we must ask: In the coming

decade, who is going to build the next Mont‑

ezuma Castle?

It’s going to be us. The friends, families, and

alumni who believe in the mission of UWC‑USA

will play a crucial role in ensuring the values we

believe in—of making education a force to unite

people, of giving students experiences and tools

to have real and lasting impact, of creating a

sustainable and peaceful future—will continue

on in perpetuity. And that’s the way it should be.

Michael C. Taylor, UWC‑USA ’91

Chair, Finance Committee

of the Board of Trustees

Report of Financial Activities

Summer Programs/Auxiliary Income

National Committee Contributions

Endowment Income

Armand Hammer Trust *

Philanthropic Contributions to

Annual Operations

SOURCES OF FUNDING FY12

Invested in Endowment

Endowed Scholarships for U.S. Davis

Scholars studying at other UWCs

Facilities

General Administration

Educational Programming**

USES OF FUNDING FY12

2011 2012Educational Programming** $6,942,689 $7,157,331General Administration 902,816 1,119,055Facilities 1,019,930 1,151,368Endowed Scholarships for U.S. Davis Scholars studying at other UWCs 1,026,424 1,016,987Invested in Endowment 724,732 95,458

TOTAL EXpENSES AND TrANSFErS $10,616,591 $10,540,199

** Includes funds used for carrying out academic and co-curricular programs, including compensation and support for employees who facilitate these programs.

rEpOrT OF FiNANCiAL ACTiViTiES

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National CommitteesAnnual Fund Report

Volunteer UWC national committees in 140

countries select more than 1,000 promising

candidates through national competitions.

They nominate those students for places and

scholarships to the 12 UWC schools and col‑

leges. This unique system enables students to

be selected from within their own communities

and cultures.

All U.S. citizens and permanent residents ap‑

ply to UWCs through the Davis Scholar com‑

petition, which is run by the U.S. selection

committee. Accepted students (about 50 each

year) are awarded full merit scholarships cov‑

ering school fees, room, and board to attend

one of the UWCs for the full two‑year program.

UWC‑USA helps to coordinate and support

the U.S. selection committee and its wider

group of volunteers, who read hundreds of ap‑

plications and travel throughout the nation in‑

terviewing prospective candidates to select the

newest cohort of Davis Scholars.

We are deeply grateful to the volunteers

throughout the world who enable UWC selec‑

tion to happen.

AC=UWC of the Atlantic, Wales; MC=Mahindra UWC, India; WK=Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa, Swaziland.

NATiONAL COmmiTTEES

u.S. SELECTiON COmmiTTEE

Mary Beth Byrne AC ’76, Co-Chair

Bill Kolb, Co-Chair

Amy Garrou

Martha Lyman

Shaun Mabry MC ’01

Andrew Mahlstedt

Xochitl Torres Small WK ’04

Tim Smith

ANNuAL FuND rEpOrT

ANNuAL FuND VOLuNTEErS 2012

CO-ChAirSSam Opitz ’91

Michael C. Taylor ’91

Melanie Weston ’86

ALumNi VOLuNTEErSDereck A.S. Alleyne ’11

Ruben E. Ayala ’92

Souleymane Ba ’99

Mustu Barma ’98

Brian A. Bava ’91

James Bowen ’96

Luke C.P. Brennan ’09

Edward Burns ’84

Inviolata S. Chami ’12

Natalie Chan ’11

Nelson F. Chiwara ’07

Jason Coady ’93

Michael D’Agostino ’01

Gert Danielsen ’96

Mauricio de Arruda ’88

Benjamin Dryden ’02

Shannon Duncan ’98

Ashley Dunlop ’02

Helen M. Durham ’85

Manolo Espinosa ’87

Andrés Franco-Vasco ’84

Lullit Getachew ’88

Stephan F. Grabner ’09

Zipporah Guerin ’10

Anna I. Harvey ’05

Kirsten Healey ’88

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00

Adani Illo ’01

Meghan Jennings ’05

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94

Lea J. Kliem ’10

Clio Knowles ’95

Lisa Krassner ’91

Mauri E. Lahti ’12

Joel Larson ’02

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr. ’09

Brian Lax ’92

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg ’86

Ariel Maddocks ’98

Ciara N. McCartney ’07

Dylan Elek McFarlane ’04

Cecile Menard ’91

Charlotte Meyer ’03

Lais Miachon Silva ’08

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros ’85

Adriana Nordin Manan ’03

Melkizedeck S. Okudo ’99

Rabin Patmanathan ’11

Morgante Orion Pell ’12

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz ’08

Zohar Perla ’07

Eugenio Ruggiero ’84

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas ’06

Clay Samford ’92

Bassirou Sarr ’05

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95

Kain Sebaztian Smith ’12

Jeremiah Stevens ’94

Elena Tonc ’09

Julie Trolle ’12

Mudit Tyagi ’88

Iris van der Heijden ’11

Raechel Waters ’90

Kristofer Wilson ’04 (E)

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung ’84

Pui Shen Yoong ’08

Risana Zitha ’95

Firend Zora ’99

For the past three years, it has been my pleasure

to co‑chair the Annual Fund. This year, I shared

the role with Sam Opitz ’91 and Michael Taylor

’91. Together, with a team of 68 other alumni

volunteers, we rallied classmates, parents, and

UWC‑USA friends to raise more than $1 mil‑

lion for the Annual Fund.

The Annual Fund runs from June 1 to May 31

every year. Contributions support UWC‑USA’s

operating budget and are directed to areas such

as student scholarships, community service

and the Wilderness Program, employee sala‑

ries, classroom and library materials, weekend

and after‑school activities, and the mainte‑

nance and operation of facilities. In short, the

Annual Fund has an impact on every person

and program on campus.

Michael, Sam and I would like to extend thanks

to everyone who helped sustain the Montezuma

magic and ensured that new generations of UW‑

Cers have the same life‑changing experience

that previous generations continue to cherish.

Melanie Weston ’86

Annual Fund Co‑Chair

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This list reflects gifts received between June 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012. Every effort is made to present a complete and

accurate list of donors. For any oversights or errors, we apologize and invite corrections to be sent to the Advancement Office.

In the list above, (P) identifies UWC parents. Asterisks denote donors who have given consecutively for the last five or more

years.

BY GIVING LEVEL

Philanthropic Support by Giving Level

ThE mOuNTBATTEN SOCiETy

Recognizing donors of $25,000 or more during the 2012 fiscal year, the Mountbatten Society is

named for Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the first president of UWC

International. Mountbatten was a British admiral and statesman and the uncle of Prince Philip,

Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire (1947) and the first

governor‑general of independent India (1947‑1948).

Lord Mountbatten supported UWC and encouraged heads of state, politicians, and prominent in‑

dividuals throughout the world to share his interest. Under Mountbatten’s presidency and personal

involvement, the UWC of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the

UWC of the Pacific (now known as Pearson College) in Victoria, Canada, in 1974. In 1978, Mount‑

batten passed the presidency of UWC to his great‑nephew, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

mOuNTBATTEN SOCiETy DONOrSgifts of $25,000 or more

The Abdul Madjid Zabuli Renaissance Foundation *

Bruce & Martha Atwater and the Prospect Creek Foundation *

Marc P. & Leonor T. Blum *

William Gardner & Solange Brown *

Shelby & Gale Davis *

Virginia Dwan

Judith McBean Foundation *

Paul & Yaffa Maritz (P)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moore III *

The Multinational Education Charitable Trust 1909 *

Jim & Sarah Taylor (P) *

phiLANThrOpiC SuppOrT OF uWC-uSA By giViNg LEVEL

BY GIVING LEVEL

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Timothy J. & Katharine M.

Dougherty (P) (E)

Renata Dwan ’88

Phyllis Farley

Miguel Fidalgo ’98 *

Edward Fischer & Mareike Sattler (P)

Sai Wai Fong & Regina Dalipe (P)

Izumi Fothergill AC ’76

Andrés Franco-Vasco ’84

Charles & Judith Friedlaender *

Jürgen Frietsch ’91 *

Xavier Furtado ’92

Susanne E. Geier

Jerry & Sharon Geist

Rashna Ginwalla ’95 *

Joseph & Trinidad Goldzieher *

Google Matching Gift Program

Jim & Mary Dale Gordon *

Frederick John & Juliann

Gunningham (P)

Raj K. Gupta ’89

The Harry Frank Guggenheim

Foundation

Irfan Hasan ’85

Jens & Britt Helligsoe (P)

Alan Hewat & Emily Joselson (P)

Julian Ho ’90

Susanne Holste ’84

Tim & Laurie Howland (P)

Hamilton M. Hoyler & Katherine

McMillan (P)

A. C. & Penny Hubbard *

Robert Huber & Christine Solso (P)

Michael Jenkins & Christi Hogin (P)

Larry Johns & Nina Marquez Johns (E)

Gregory & Jacquelyn Jones (P)

Yale & Barbara Jones

Aditya C. Joshi ’91 *

Basim Kahleifeh ’84 *

Alex Kalangis & Svenja Soldovieri (E)

James Kavanaugh & Selena

Sermeño (E)

David Kay AC ’72 & Mary Milne (P)

Nam & Wonsook Kim (P)

Clio Knowles ’95 *

Michihiro & Mizue Kotani (P)

Kuo-Chang Kung ’87

Charles & Naomi Lambert (P)

Richard Lamson & Joan Freedman (P)

Burt & Jennifer Lauderdale (P)

Charmaine Lee ’88 *

Day & Nancy Lee *

Kamenna (Rindova) Lee ’89 *

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg ’86

Anders & Inger Liland (P)

Ray & Joyce Litherland

Rebecca Lloyd ’86 *

Theodore & Lucille Lockwood *

John & Margaret Loehr *

LyondellBasell

Declan & Anne MacFadden (P)

Laura Machado de Wright AC ’94

Ariel Maddocks ’98

Edward Malley (P)

Vuk Mandic ’94 & Pinar Karaca ’94

Marcelo Marchesin ’86 *

Joan McDougall

Lance Meister ’90 & Gabriela

Motyckova AC ’93 *

Benjamin ’98 & Alexandra (Muñoz

Smith) Melkman ’99

Tracy Melton & Pamela Krulitz (P)

Danesch & Kathryn Missaghian (P)

Scott & Kelli Mitchell (P)

Alice Mok ’95

Carlos Montano & Claudia Mejia (P)

Chris Morejohn & Rachel Platt (P)

Andrea Morgante (P)

Matthew J. Morse ’93

Zafer Mudar ’84

Werner & Helen Muller *

Candice (Weaver) Murphy ’92

Ramaiah & Gowri Narla (P)

John & Beth Neidel (P)

Wai Hong Ng & Ling Lo (P)

Philip ’95 & Jasmina Nikolov *

John Ochterbeck

Brian & Jill O’Dwyer (P)

Christian ’91 & Camila

(Silva Leão d’Araujo) Olsen ’91

Sam Opitz ’91 *

Ravi Parashar (E) *

Rebecca Pearson ’90 *

S. Peter Poullada & Nancy A.

Sheppard

Abigail (Crampton) Pribbenow ’86

Mia S. Prieskorn *

Elad Rachevsky ’99

Sebastien Ramseyer ’87

Andres Resendez ’85 & Jaana

Remes ’84

David & Julie Rifkin (P)

Jennifer (Lovitt) Riggs ’90

Peter Ruggiero

CASTLE CLuB DONOrSgifts of $10,000 to $25,000

Eric & Sophie Archambeau (P)

The Bernard Lee Schwartz

Foundation *

Common Counsel Foundation,

the Kindle Project

Lisa A. H. Darling (E) *

Sebastien de Halleux ’96

Thomas Dickerson AC ’68 &

Claire Dickerson *

Frank & Dolores Hines Family

Fund of the Albuquerque

Community Foundation *

Philip O. Geier III & Amy Yeager

Geier (P) *

Astrid Nellemann ’93

Paul & Laura Ricks (P)

Ross Smith & Lynsey Newman (P)

Southwest Capital Bank

gifts of $5,000 to $10,000

Gregor Andrade ’88

Amin Badr-El-Din

Berger Briggs Real Estate &

Insurance Inc.

Michael & Elizabeth Foose (P)

Luigi Gentile ’98

Diane & Guilford Glazer

Goldman Sachs Matching

Gifts Program

Aziz & Farahnaz Hashim (P)

Ulrich Kratz ’92

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program

Amit Mital ’87

The New York Community Trust

HRH Prince Pavlos ’86

Charlotte Ilfeld Rubin *

Dorothy & Frederick Rudolph *

Jon & Claire Schneider (P)

Monique Seefried

Steele Family Foundation

Subitha Subramaniam ’88

Hans P. Utsch

Xiaofang Xia & Zhonghong Mao (P)

gifts of $1,000 to $5,000

Anonymous (2)

Rick & Kathy Abeles and

The Abeles Foundation *

Khamis Abu-Hasaballah ’86

David & Pamela Albin *

Zulfiqar Ali ’90 *

Andrew Allen Charitable

Foundation

Mijail Apkarian & Alicia

Ramos Valdenegro (P)

Ruben E. Ayala ’92

Souleymane Ba ’99

Balboa Peaks Software LLC

Adam Bartos & Mahnaz Ispahani

Bartos and the Pannonia

Foundation

The Baupost Group LLC

Yvette V. Baxter-Drayton ’87 *

Rachel Belash *

Ignatius & Laura Bezzam (P)

Charles Bibilos ’96

Chris Bickley ’86 *

Paolo Bigagli & Cristiana Vallini (P)

Paulo J. Bilezikjian ’87

Pamela (Parsa) Bond ’94 *

Oru & Patricia Bose (P)

The Boston Foundation Inc.

Ted & Shirley Boucher

William Brandenburg *

Amir Brown ’95

Stuart Brown & Sandra DeJong (P)

Michael Buckley ’89

Edward Burns ’84 *

Marcelo Calliari ’84

Paul Campbell & Carol Genetti (P)

Joan & Gary Capen *

Karl & Susan Case *

Amporn Chaimaitri ’92

Ali Chandani ’91

Cliff Chapman & Pattye

Henderson Chapman (P)

Mars Chapman ’08

Alvin Chereskin

Chi Wai Chow & Yui Chuen Cheung (P)

Matthew Christ & Sophia

Goodman AC ’82 (P)

Janine Chupa ’84 *

Sierra Burnett Clark AD ’98

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Gert Danielsen ’96

Rebecca (Cadwell) Day ’92

Mauricio de Arruda ’88

Josser Delgado ’96 *

Amadou Deme & Siga Diop (P)

Steven Dichter & Kate Buckley

Ed Doe ’96

Wojciech Domanski ’98

ThE CASTLE CLuB

Recognizing donors of $1,000 to $25,000 during the 2012 fiscal year, with special giving levels

for young alumni and current students, the Castle Club is named for the Montezuma Castle, the

most prominent building on the UWC‑USA campus. The castle was built in 1886 and lovingly

restored in 2000. It now houses dormitories, classrooms, the dining hall, the student center,

meeting rooms, and administrative offices.

BY GIVING LEVELBY GIVING LEVEL

| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees | | * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees |

The Castle Club (page 10)

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BY GIVING LEVEL

Clay Samford ’92

Robert Saulters (P)

Johannes J.C. Schiet

Kristian Segerstråle ’96

Mike Sennett & Jackie

Baker-Sennett (P)

Eyad Shabaneh & Intesar Shukhi (P) (E)

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95 *

Dawningstar W. Sikorski ’97 *

Caroline Sim ’85

Nok Siriphonlai ’95 *

Charles & Ann Smith *

Tim Smith & Molly Lanzarotta (P)

Tim Smith & Teodora Atanasova (E)

Stephan & Karen Spitzer *

Carl St. Remy ’88 *

Robert J. Stamm & Mary Herring

Stamm Designated Fund

of the Albuquerque

Community Foundation *

Michael Stern ’89 & Pamela Paul *

Lawrence Sutter & Patricia Lins (P)

Douglas & Selene Swanson (P)

Robert E. & Barbara J. Swanson

Zoltan Szilassi ’91

Taos Community Foundation

Michael C. Taylor ’91 *

Ajay Totlani ’92

Erik Trolle & Yenan Chen (P)

Amjad Tuffaha ’98

Tumbling River Ranch Partnership

United Way of Central New Mexico

Hendrik G. van Oss WK ’72 *

Rajesh Vedanthan ’91 & Sujatha

Srinivasan

James Waldroop & Valerie Zimber (P)

Kenneth & Paulanne Ward (P)

Zachary Weisfeld ’88

Martin ’86 & Anja Weiss AC ’87

Paul & Powel Welliver (P)

Melanie Weston ’86 *

Charles Chau-Chi Wong ’84

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung ’84

Samuel Zell

Ricardo J. Zemella ’84

young Alumni and Current Students($1,000 or more donors are listed above)

Seamus Abshere ’02 & Maria

Bettina Miguez De Mori ’02

Naa Aku Addo ’00

Sheila Agiti ’07

Michael A. Aleman ’10

Brandon Anderson ’00

Renu Badiani ’97 *

Arod Balissa ’07

Shanthakumar Bannirchelvam ’07

Murat Bilgel ’07

Dimitar A. Bounov ’05

Luke C. P. Brennan ’09

Ashton Brown ’07

Anna Carmon ’09

Benjamin Carlson ’03

Mei Fong Chan ’98

Natalie Chan ’11

Bradley D. Chisholm ’97

Nelson F. Chiwara ’07

Deidre Ciliento ’01

Michael D’Agostino ’01

Ishmail S. Daoh ’07

Emma D. Diouf ’07

Aida Dominguez Ortiz ’07

Ashley Dunlop ’02 *

Sara El-Bohy ’09

Pete H. Fitton ’09

Mathew R. Freimuth ’09

Sebastien T. Galperti ’07

Mark A. Garner ’09

Anand Gopalan ’02

Stephan F. Grabner ’09

Zipporah Guerin ’10

Josh Hall ’01

Emily Hogin ’06 *

Adani Illo ’01 & Jimena Vivas ’02

Arzika Illo ’03

Eileen Jackson Ugueto ’97

Jennifer S. Kim ’10

Tamas Kolos-Lakatos ’07

Harry William Lambert ’12

Joel Larson ’02

Jon Vegard Larssen ’97 & Beatriz

Diaz Acosta ’97 *

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr. ’09

Chike C. Leigh ’08

Chao Lu ’04

Thembumenzi Shisizwe Lukhele ’04

Lubomir Malo ’07 *

Elian Maritz ’02

Thema Modisi ’98

Jennifer Modrich ’00

Gilbert Mudenda ’12

Len E. Necefer ’07

Brendan O’Connor ’04

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09

James Pautz ’02

Robin Pedroza Weschle ’07

Morgante Orion Pell ’12

Zohar Perla ’07

Shaina M. Pomerantz Kasper ’09

Tara Kane Prendergast ’08

Maria A. Rodas ’97

Thea Rømmen ’09

Carlos G. Sabatino Gonzalez ’07 *

Emma Smith ’12

Annie Sorich ’01

Kathryn J. Steinweiss ’08

Tara (Watkins) Stevenson ’98

Anthony Szozda ’03

Daniel Tan Ooi Peng ’03

Jenny Thapa ’08

Elena Tonc ’09

BY GIVING LEVEL

© Ben Gillock

gifts of $500 to $1,000

Ronald & Teresa Airey (P)

Mauricio A. Albrizzio ’92

Ivan Alves ’87

David & Robyn Ball (P)

Bank of America, N.A.

Ian & Angela Bartlett (P)

Roberto F. Bel ’91 *

Ibrahim & Nazan Bilgel (P)

Bjorn Bjerke ’85

Boeing

BP Foundation Inc.

Andy & Audry Carter (P)

Michael Cope ’96 & Catherine Cronin ’96

Caitlin (Garland) Curtis ’91

Michael Dewson & Ann Atkey

Jason Dinger ’93 *

Keith & Kristen Dobyns (P)

Gerald Doyle & Christina Gomez (P)

Margaret I. Drent ’86 *

Roma J. Earles (P)

Winifred Edwards

Henry Everts ’90

Cindy Ewing

Haidar S. Farah & Maha N. Al Twal (P)

Matthew & Heide Felton

Tomas Fernandez & Victoria Mora (P)

Henry & Mary Flynt *

Norton Francis ’88

Franken Companies Inc.

Lullit Getachew ’88

Frederico Gil Sander ’94 *

Oscar & Sandra Gonzalez (P)

Saruhan Hatipoglu ’91

Julia Broehl Hesse ’91 *

Eva R. Hoffmann ’94

David ’87 & Hiroko (Morita) James ’90

Maria F. Jaramillo ’92

Trent M. Jones ’92

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94 *

Mike & Pat Koldyke

Gary Kowalski & Dori Jones (P)

Wing-Pin (Winnie) Kwan ’93

Jim & Story Leonard

Leng Leroy Lim ’84

Nadia Marinova ’93

Wally & Terry Melendres *

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros ’85

Sophie Joy Mosko ’90

W.H. Muir

Shiru Mwangi ’84

David Neidel ’87 *

Don & Evelyn Neil

Valerie Oke ’85 *

Karen O’Leary ’87

Matthew Hecht & Mary Olson (P)

Charlie PC ’77 & Faye O’Neil

Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup ’86

Karen Petroski ’86

Rebecca Pitman ’92

Christopher A. Price ’85

Neil Pyper ’93

Eugenio Ruggiero ’84

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco ’86

Hoda Salem ’84

Robert & Deborah Saylor (P)

Erin Scales ’91

Nour Scandar ’92

James L. & Carol A. Smith *

Didier Stainier AC ’81 & Megan Grether (P)

Bob & Carol Stegeman *

Daniel W. Stuckart ’84

Nina Mary Stupples ’85

Eckehard A. E. Stuth AC ’77 & Janellen L.

Becker-Stuth (P) *

Douglas Swartz & Karen Spencer (P)

David Tagge ’94 *

Sandra Thomas ’84

Lori Thorlakson ’92

Maria Jose Tort Canto ’85

Emma Tucker ’85

Mudit Tyagi ’88 *

Hirotsugu Uchida ’91 *

Henry Webb ’91 *

Mark & Amy Wiebke (P)

Alex Wisch ’91

OThEr SuppOrTErS

We are grateful to the many who supported UWC‑USA during our 2012 fiscal year. This support

has enabled us to offer extensive scholarships; engage an outstanding faculty and staff; conduct

programs on global issues, conflict resolution, and the arts; offer wilderness expeditions and

community services; and maintain and improve our facilities.

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James Wisener ’95

Emily Wylde ’94

gifts of $250 to $500

Anonymous (2)

Bob & Pat Amai *

Elizabeth Ashby & Tim DeMoss (E)

Craig C. & Kristine E. Axtell (P) *

Carmen Balber ’95 *

Jorida Banda ’96

Arlita Bascome-McCook ’94

Loes Becu ’94 *

Kimiyo Bonnie Bennett ’85

Teresa Bernheimer ’96

Matthew & Carmel Bowman (P)

Dana M. Brandon ’86

Charlotte Brenner Zeile ’85

Ron Brockman & Ellen Feldman (P)

Harold & Norma Brown *

Cameron C. Burch ’00

Flannery Burke ’91 *

Dietrich & Brigitte Busch

Odd-Even Bustnes ’89

Fiona Caldwell ’85

Mr. & Mrs. Francesco Caputo (P)

Bill & Georgia Carson *

Alan & Lavender Chan (P)

Yutthichai Chanikornpradit ’89

Angeline Chupa ’90 *

David S. Collison ’90 & Sandra

Gastañaduy-Collison ’90 *

Mikkel Conradi AD ’94

Frank & Louise Cordova (P)

Anthony DeGange & Emily

Davies (P) *

Bongani Dlamini ’94

Julia (Lee) Drouart ’95

David & Alice Elliott

John A. & Lena J. Elzufon *

Francisco H.G. Ferreira ’86 *

Andreas Fidjeland ’98 *

Janet M. (Roberts) Florez ’86

Alan & Kathy Franken (P)

Ivor Frischknecht ’86

Michael Fuchs ’92

Keith & Christine Garbutt (P)

John Geffroy & Margaret

Vazquez-Geffroy (E)

Cristina Gomez Jimenez ’01

Dorothy B. Goodman *

Elisabeth Grabner (P)

Trevor Z. Hallstein ’91

Kristine Hauge Storholt ’92

Koichi Hiramoto ’85

Hilde Hustoft (P)

Sandhya Jithoo ’98

Mike & Agnes Jones (P)

Jennifer Keith ’85

Susan Keppelman ’01

Torodd Kummen AC ’77 &

Linda Vahat (P) *

Mark Larrimore ’84

Eileen Lau ’92

Brian Lax ’92 & Tarra Hassin ’91 *

James & Patricia Leo

Nuno Limao ’92

Andrew & Rebecca Loehrer (P)

Timothy Long ’86 *

Javier López Arangüena ’00

Kaisu Luiro ’95

Nat & Dottie Mann *

Surbhi Sharma Martin ’96

Samir Mastaki ’01

James McNeil ’89

Rona J. McNeil ’85

Hideki & Keiko Miyazaki (P)

Gabrielle Moore ’95 *

Jason Patrick Morgan ’91 *

John Morris ’85

Harold Nevins & Andrea Shaw (P)

Soren Nielsen ’95 *

Carl & Saori Nishimura (P)

Hakon ’95 & Ana (Fonseca)

Nordang ’95

Melkizedeck S. Okudo ’99

Anna Francis Olsson ’91

Chiara Osbat ’89

Shelley Pasco-Verdi ’86

Maria Carolina Perez Alvarado ’85

Nicole Piche ’85

Annukka Piironen ’89 *

PPG Industries Foundation

Daniel Pringle ’93 *

Narisara Pungrasmi ’85

João Quinta da Fonseca ’94

Dorota I. Ratusinska ’84 *

James Redmon ’95 *

Sergio Ripamonti ’86

Miguel N. Rivera ’92

Rebecca Rogers ’92

Ronald W. Rubinow

Gian Paolo Ruggiero ’86

Preeta Samarasan ’94 *

Bill & Kris Sammons *

Charlene G. Sanders (P) *

Emiliano Schmidt Fiori ’91

Peter Richard Schuurman ’86

Robert J. & Monique Schweich

Fiona Siu ’86

Talal Soghaier ’85

Bernd & Birgit Stelzer (P)

Michael Sugar ’91

Peter M. Tart

Karen Ann Taylor de Caballero ’87 *

Sue A. Thompson (P)

Tyler C. Tingley

Andrea S. Tisi ’84 *

Enrique Torres ’96

Guillermo Trejo ’86 & Anne

Bax ’86

Harald Tuckermann ’92 &

Bertha R. Camacho ’93

Walter & Jantina Tuthill (P)

Akihiro & Kuniko Uchida (P) *

Kimberly A. Vickers ’84 *

Angela Vignoli ’01

Ding Wei ’96 *

Nadia Williams ’98 *

Victor Williams ’89

Kristofer Wilson ’04 (E) & Elgita

Eglite-Wilson ’05 (E)

Mark Yeager & Maia Fischler (P)

Laura J. Young ’98

Agnieszka Ziemba-Ahman ’88

Risana Zitha ’95

Firend Zora ’99

William & Georgia Zwartjes (P)

gifts of $100 to $250

Anonymous *

Inga Aalia ’98

Michael B. Aaron ’87*

Tamer Abdelgawad ’85 *

Ann Aceves *

Anthony Agadzi ’95 *

Kevin & Margi Ahearn (P)

Sanna Ahvenharju ’90

Lamiae Aidi ’96

Ursel Albers

Michael Alcock ’98 *

Carmen Alexander ’04

Jorge A. Alvarez Garcia-Tunon ’06

Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo ’04

Kirsten L. Ambach ’93 *

Mohan Ambikaipaker ’91

Mohamed A. Amer ’85

Ruben & Marjorie Andressen (P)

Diego Angemi ’94

Meher Antia ’90

Anjali Arondekar ’87

Eran ’91 & Daniela (Beran)

Bar-Am ’91

Mustu Barma ’98 *

Carla (Castellanos) Bass ’87 *

Brian A. Bava ’91 *

Yunus Emre Bayrak ’95

Jacqueline A. Bell ’85

Robert & Mary Benishek (P)

Adam & Sonya Berg *

Johann Bergholz Villafane ’02

Magnus & Karin Bergmar (P)

Karla Bjelanovic ’98

Yngvild N. Blaker ’00

Gita Bodner ’86

Richard & Virginia Bodner (P)

Lyle Boelens ’84

Elizabeth Bohlke

James Bowen ’96 *

Bill Boyd & Vicky Hemmes

Jonathan & Valerie Brelje (P)

James N. & Shirley Ann Brooke (P)

Carrie (Mollatt) Brooke-Sumner ’97

Dorrie Brooks ’85

Mahdi Bseiso ’00

Melanie Bush ’93

Cherie Butler ’92

James Byrne ’03

Derlis Caballero Ruiz & Carmen

Ciciolli Arce (P)

Cristina S. Campbell ’85

Eddy & Geraldette Campos (P)

Ana B. Campos Mora ’87

Michael Carlson & Holly

Mackenzie Carlson (P)

Gareth Carter ’01

Cesar Castillo ’89

Leonte Castillo ’94

Soumya Chakravarti & Katya

Fairbanks (P)

Sovanna Chhim & Kinneang

Chan (P)

Marie Juhola Chilman (P) *

John P. Christodouleas ’94

Clark Construction Group

Jason Coady ’93

Ashley Crossland ’91

Gisele Cuglievan ’94

Joep W.H. Damen ’99

Kisito & Adama Daoh (P)

Glen & Shirlee Davidson *

Tyler Blake Davis ’97

Ivan Davtchev ’98

Tala V. de los Santos ’93 *

Heather Deutsch ’92 *

Maria M. Diaz Fernandez ’94

Ovidio Diaz Marin ’03

Janet Smith Dickerson

Gavin Dock ’86

Martin Doe ’98

Heather Lee (Bruce) Douglas ’94

James & Julie Drennan *

Louise Drlik *

Nick Droege

Benjamin Dryden ’02

George A. & Arlaen J. DuBois

Katerina Klimsova Dvorakova ’92

Agneta Eikelenboom ’84 *

Tore ’92 & Riina (Kallio-Koski)

Eikenes ’92

Elderhostel Inc. *

Patricia Enzi ’02

Ryan Erickson ’02

Laro Escalada Navamuel ’04

Fausto Espinosa ’85

Manolo Espinosa ’87

Alicia Estrella Santos ’95

Akinsola Fafunso ’99 *

Alioune Fall ’86

Curt Fiedler (P)

Jeffrey & Beth Finney (P)

Philip C. Fisher

Thomas G. Fitton (P)

Niamh Fleming-Farrell ’02

Jennifer Foerster ’98

Emily Foraker ’05

Felix Forster ’05

Petra Fousková ’96

Steven R. Franken

Jackie Gakunga ’92

Felicity Gallagher ’85

Santiago Garcia-Verdu ’94

Elisa & Ted Geier

Rodney P. & Vallie C. Geier

Janet Gerard (E) *

Valerie J. Gerber ’99

Atang Gilika ’06

Dorothy Gillespie

Aleyda González McKiernan (P) (E)

Kathy Gould & Alexandra Walter

Mary Alice Grant ’97

C.B. & Eleanor Hall

Bashar Abdullah Hamdan ’96 *

Sandra Hamilton (P)

N. Mollar (Nkiwane) Hanselman ’94

Erika Harding ’85

William G. Harley &

Deborah F. Block (P)

Brett (Van Veldhuizen)

Hendrickson ’94

Nella Hengstler ’93 *

Mohammed Herzallah ’03

Dafna Herzberg ’02

Brittany Hesbrook ’06 *

Aashild (Erikkson) Hettervik ’86

John & Carolyn Hilden (P)

Peter Hiller & Celeste Williams

David Hite & Terra Louise ’96 *

Melville & Elizabeth Hodder

David H. Hogue ’03

Rasha S. Hosni ’05

Neil Hunter AC ’72 & Anita Carlson

Oskari Jaaskelainen ’85

Rebecca Jeffs (P)

Catherine Jheon ’90 *

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana ’94 *

Josée Johnston ’91

Emily Jones ’96 *

Jonathan Jones ’00

Max Jones ’91

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson ’98 *

JustGive

Valentina Kachanovskaya ’02 *

Sashe Kanapathi ’94

Khadidjatou Kane ’96

Robin Aura Kanegis ’92

Justin W. Karfo ’05

Keith J. Kasper & Francine S.

Pomerantz (P)

Yohei Kawabata ’92

Mary Keller

Daniel T. Kelly Jr. *

Michelle (Aitken) Kent ’98

Richard & Judith Keppelman (P)

Robert Killion

Eugene & Linda King *

Doreen Kirabo-Kasimbazi ’98

Adam Kirk ’90 *

Lisa Krassner ’91 *

Ilyanna Kreske ’91 *

The Kress-Miller Family (P)

Patricia Kuhlhoff

Brittany Ladd ’96

Smriti Lakhey ’99

Johan Lammers (E)

Richard & Jo-Ann Lanzillo (P)

Wing Wah Margaret Lau ’98

Tsvetelina Lazarova ’86

Michael Leach ’95

Shari Leach *

Chor Jye Lee ’88

Jason James Lees ’94

Homer & Mildred LeMar

Wing Chiu Erik Leung ’96 *

Steve & Peggy Leuzinger (P)

David Alexander Lindsay ’84

Anna Links ’96

Hedvig Ljungerud ’94 *

Olivia E. Llamas ’93

Liane Asta Lohde ’94

Diego Lopez ’89

Michal Lord-Blegen ’86

Nicola Mai ’97

Mara Malakoff (P)

Sanjay Manandhar ’85

James Mark & Jean Roseman (P)

Ashindi Maxton ’93

Tamar Mayer (P)

Stanley & Zelda Meer McCrossen *

Judi McDonald ’84

Eileen McKiernan González ’88

Ruth C. Mead

Mejia-Botero Family (P)

Winston Meyer ’91 *

Matthew Miller (E)

Pierre V. Monteux ’98

Sophie Moochhala ’86

Morgan Stanley Annual

Appeal Campaign

Arnold & Patricia Morse (P)

Simbai Mudzamba ’93

Ivan F. Mustain & Marisa Isabel

Leon ’87

Nicholas Mwai ’02

Emma Manda Mwanza ’86

Sanval Nasim ’04

Lana Nasser ’96

Edward J. Necefer (P)

Dejan Nenov ’86

William & Louisa Newlin

Corrine Ng ’96

Anju Nohria ’86

Jehanzeb Noor ’00

Adriana Nordin Manan ’03

Andrew V. Nowak

Occidental Petroleum

Charitable Foundation

Tom & Rebecca Oden (P) (E)

Teresa Ordorika ’86

| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees. || * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees. |

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© Kate Russell

Jorge I. Oria ’91

Tal Oron Cohen ’90

Ruth Padilla-Ruiz ’98

Theresa Page

Kevin Park ’96

Nuria Pastor-Soler ’86

Swati Patankar ’86

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Paulina Pineda Garza ’85

John F. & Rosaline C. Pintek

Michael Polenz ’88

Nicholas M. Poon ’05

Bruce Poster *

Erin Quintana (E)

Nabina Rajbhandari ’86

Aurelio Ramos ’91

Trudy Rebert ’02

Ryan Richards ’02

Helle Ringgaard ’85

Michael & Janet Rogers (P) *

Mario Roman ’86

Nicole P. Römer ’90

Katie Romich ’94

Jan Arild & Astrid Rømmen (P)

Ben Rose & Lori Fisher (P)

Tom & Carol Rose

Guillaume Rougale ’96

Rudolph Charitable Match Program

Samuel Rugunda ’05

Duncan RyanMann (P)

Pawel Rybacki ’93

Karl D. Sanchez (E)

Donald Schaeffer ’85

Andy M. Schatz AC ’69 &

Barbara F. Wolf *

Jay Schlechte ’91

Thomas Schwingeler ’86

Likeleli G. Seitlheko ’05

Ed & Dianne Shinholser *

Dinesh Lal Shrestha ’90

JoAnne Sickeri ’93

Leah Simmons-Davis ’97 *

Vera Siregar ’87

Saovanee Somchit ’05

Chris & Sally Sonne

Annelise Sprenger ’94 *

Vinay H. Srihari ’89

Janice Lee Stanfield (P)

Orit Stein-Reisner ’85

Jeremiah Stevens ’94 *

Daniel T. Stuber ’05

Kurt J. Stuermer ’90

Megan B. Sullivan ’97

William & Sandra Sullivan (P)

Filip Sulma ’99

Pawel Swieboda ’91

Anneke Swinehart ’91

Jody Taggart ’84

Yoshiko Tanabe ’86

Rafael Tarud ’90

Gunhan Tatman ’86

Havovi (Framji ) Tavadia ’90

Carolina P. Tello Alvarado ’97

Texas Instruments Foundation

Dana Thordarson ’87

Jacynth H. Tibbetts ’03

Dean & Bonita Tooley *

Thomas K. Trigg IV & Mary S.

Schipper *

Isabelle Trop ’87

Jacek & Kristine Troska (P)

Alan Tsang ’95

Joyceline (See) Tully ’93

Steve & Mary Turkus (P)

David Turner & Kirsten

Baumgart Turner AC ’79

Sven van den Hazel ’85

Ajla (Merdanovic) van Heel ’96

Cecelia Vandewart

Carlos Varela ’95 & Veronica

Trujillo LPC ’00

Fredalyn M. Vargas ’92

György Vereb ’85

Susanna Vervoordeldonk ’85

Daniele Vidoni ’97

Moritz Vogel ’90

Katherine D. Waite ’96

Don & Hilda Wales

Gary Walker & Nesha Kovalick (P)

Greg Walsh *

Stephanie Walton ’90

Amadou Wane ’84

Zhihe Wang & Mejun Fan (P)

Chanin Warakulnukroh ’86

Chuck Warpehoski ’97

Carolina Waters ’85

Raechel Waters ’90

Pilar Maria Weiss ’94 *

Marina Wes ’88

Allison West ’04

Alan Wicks & Elizabeth Morse (E)

Brendan Wild ’85

Gerald O. Wilson ’98

Jessica (Kosfiszer) Wilson ’92

Birgitte Wøhlk ’86

Kori Woodard ’92

Erin (Kennedy) Woods ’89 *

John & Linda Woods

Shea Writer ’91

Joseph Xavier Jr. ’91

Aya Yamoto ’97

Mei Yan (Rachel) Yeung ’98

Pinar Yurekli-Aycan ’02

Ray & Barbara Zimmer *

Renate Ziverte ’03

gifts up to $100

Anonymous (2)

Alfredo N. Achecar ’99

Kamil M. Adamczewski ’07

Murisa Ahmetasevic ’12

Rayah H.S. Al Farah ’10

Kareem Al Husaini ’10

Zahra’a Al-Janabi ’09

Audrey (Kollitz) Allen ’96

Victoria Alleyne ’06

Abuubakar R. Ally ’12

Brian J. Almadi ’07

Damian Almiron Bonnin ’05

Maria Almond ’96 *

Daniel Alpert

Kristin D. Alveng ’07

Iryna Ambroz ’09

Vikram Anand ’04

Yasmine (Benlamlih) Anaya ’97

Elizabeth Anderson ’01 *

Francesca Annicchiarico ’12

Leonor Añó ’06

Charlotte Antoine ’09

Anjali S. Appadurai ’09

Pekka Arikoski ’86

Joanne S. Armstrong (P)

Shona L. Armstrong ’88 *

Janice J. Arrott *

Paula Asbun ’90 *

Antinea Ascione ’08

Orit Ashkenazi ’86

Anastasia Asmoro ’11

Sarah Atwood

Erin Axtell ’03

Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete ’03

Mary Jean Baldridge Los ’91

Lorenzo Bartolucci ’07 *

Brown Bear *

Charlotte Benishek ’11

Nina M. Bergmar ‘07

Vishal Bharam ’10

Vladimir Bilcik ’93 *

Rasmus H. Bjorn ’08

C. River Black ’07

Kristina Blazanovic ’08

Hanna Bobyk ’07

Basiel Bogaerts ’08

Luis E. Bonilla Rivera ’07

Aaron Bos-Lun ’07

Simona Stanislavova

Boyadzhiyska ’12

Sara Breslow ’91 *

Kenneth & Hulda Bridgeman (P)

Stina S. Bridgeman ’91 *

Chinyere A.M. Brown ’12

Jerome Axle Brown ’05

Michael Brown ’90 *

Barbara (Barbie) Burger ’88

Alba O. Cabral ’96

Sofia Victoria Calderon Miller ’94

Gerylaine E. Campos ’12

Alessandro Carini Gutierrez ’03

Tracey L. Carter ’91

Carla Castañeda ’92

Andrea Cavina ’91 *

Inviolata S. Chami ’12

The Charitable Giving Card

Program of The Community

Foundation of Middle

Tennessee

Chevron Humankind Matching

Gift Program

Nicol D. Chinchilla Cordero ’12

Kimberley K. M. Chong ’09

Tsz Loi Gloria Chow ’11

PJ Christeleit ’03

Paul O. Cichocki ’12

Simone (Hickey) Clark ’98

Maria A. Coca Ramos ’07

Thomas Compier ’07

Curtis J. Cook ’12

John L. & Linda S. Cope (P)

Rodrigo P. Coronel Erazo ’12

Corrales Historical Society

George Costow ’00 *

Sela Cowger ’08

Andrea Cruz Quiroz ’10

Yassine Daoud ’95

Brien Darby ’04

Miles Davenport & Helen

Durham ‘85 (P) *

Hannah Davies ’91

Chimi Dema ’10

Diana Denham ’00

Åke Densert ’87 *

Morgan ’86 & April (Ethier-

O’Neill) Dewees ’87

Adriana Di Graziano ’12

Sidy M. Diakhate ’06

Carlos Diaz ’93

Gema Diaz Balboa Matthias ’91

Bethany J.R. Dixon ’10

Kripa Dongol ’12

Alvaro Donoso ’07

Christina Dragon ’05

Bard Drange ’11

Louise Drieghe ’12

Shannon Duncan ’98

Sara Dunleavy Berge ’09

Eric K. Eileraas ’85

Mohammed El-Mahdy ’03

Daniela Emmerich Lopez ’00

Ece Erdagoz ’10

Roger & Juanita Esquibel (E)

David K. Evans ’94

Artur Fass ’11

Amie Ferris-Rotman ’98

Ethan Fields ’12

Robert Finney ’11

Benjamin D. Fishman ’88

Kelsey L. Forbes ’10

Daniel Franz ’06

Hannah Rose Freedman ’12

Duane & Nancy Freeman

Jon Gajo ’12

Roman Gautam ’06

Sulav Giri ’94 *

Adrian Gonzales (E)

Ernie & Pat Gonzalez (P)

Kathleen Gonzales (E)

Adilson E. Gonzalez Morales ’12

Juan Camilo Gonzalez Pelaez ’01

Gayatri Gopinath ’86

Francisco Eduardo Granizo

Torres ’07

Sergey Grechukhin ’04

Ido Grosman ’08

Henriette Gulbrandsen ’85

Karianne Gundersen ’08

Paulo Gusmao ’03

Andres Guzman Garza ’06

Donald W. Hagen *

Ragnhild S. Halvag ’11

Cordell & Patricia Halverson *

Greta E. Hanson ’85

Nora Hanson ’03

Muhammad Hardiansyah ’08

Mariela Hardy AD ’02

Nono Harhoff ’02

Carol B. Hart Ttee *

Noor Titan Putri Hartono ’12

Lisa Hartrich ’88 *

Thayer Hastings ’07

Ingerid V. Hatlegjerde ’07

Carson Evan Hauck ’10

John & Ruth Hazelton

Kirsten Healey ’88

Arianna Heiderer ’07

Raustin Daine Hernandez ’10

Joana C. Hiew de Sousa

Magalhaes ’11

Minette Hillyer ’91

Robyn Hooper ’07

Nahoko Hoshino ’02

Alexis Howland ’04

Elizabeth Hoyler ’12

Jane E. Huber ’12

Ellen Jules Hubrecht ’91 *

Grace I. Humphries ’08

Carolyn Hunt ’96

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00 *

Lisa (Strassner) Hutchcraft ’98

To Nhu Huynh ’08

Jasmin Imran Alsous ’07

Anas Iqtait ’06

David T. C. Ishmael ’10

Kevin Francisco Jackson

Ugueto ’06

Yumna J. Jawa ’98

Meghan Jennings ’05

Anne Marie Jensen ’07

Anne (Jurkowski) Johnson ’01

Larry & Monelle Johnson (P)

Lea Johnson ’92

Vickie A. Johnson ’94

Kalene K. M. Jones ’12

Milos Jovanovic ’03

Agnieszka Kajrukszto ’94

Daniel Kampel ’85

Meriom Kastner

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena ’08

Jeremy Kazanjian-Amory ’08

Thomas & Berthe Keith (P) *

Natalie M. Kennelley ’09

Sarah (Stamp) Kenningham ’90

Emmanuel S. Kirunda ’00

Stephan J. Klasen ’85

Adam Kleinberger ’92

Bart Klem ’97

John C. Knox ’91 *

Sara B. Koplik ’89

Judit Koppány ’02

Travis S. Kotecco ’10

Sarah Krasny ’04

Saul & Ronni Krasny (P)

Martin S. Krastev ’08

Louis A. Lagoutte ’12

Martin Laird ’94

Laurie J. Laker ’07

Gnagna Lam ’08

Olivia Lau ’10

Yu Mei Lay He ’10

James Lazarus & Susan

Gershenhorn

Guojun Lee ’10

Jae-Min Lee ’12

Justin Lee ’95 *

Mihret B. Lemma ’08

Jonatan Eliu Lemus Avila ’08

Kasia Leon-Lubowicz ’95

Natacha M.D.C. Letort

Gonzalez ’08

Maggi Leung ’90

Trevor Leuzinger ’11

Yun-Yun Susan Li ’12

Daniel (Hamburger) Lidar ’86 &

Jennifer (Gould) Lidar ’84

Dustin J. Lipson ’95 *

Celene Lizzio ’02 *

Ninya Loeppky ’02

Andrew Louw ’06

Thomas Lu ’12

Rodrigo Luna Queirolo ’12

Michael & Beverly Lupa

Angela N. Lytton ’98 *

Kimberly Ma

Gadi Maayan ’02

Justine MacWilliam ’02

Riccardo Maggi ’85

Susan Malley (P)

John Manton ’91 *

Danielle D. Maoz ’12

Rachel Markowitz ’04

Jonathan Shields Mason ’01

Sarah (Sellers) Mayle ’95

Aminata N. Mbodj ’12

Ciara N. McCartney ’07

Holly McDonald ’10

Tom McDonald

Joe & Katie McDonough

| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees || * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees |

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EDuCATiON ThROuGh ExPERiENCE

Many students arrive at

UWC‑USA having never

slept in a tent. They’ve never

hiked up a mountain with a

backpack, used a camp stove,

or purified their own water.

All that changes six weeks after

school begins, when these same

students find themselves standing

on the rim of the Grand Canyon

in Arizona, ready to embark on a

wilderness adventure of a lifetime.

They don’t know it yet, but at the

end of the trip, they will have gained

self‑confidence, basic camp skills,

and friendships that last a lifetime.

“At the beginning I felt stressed

with every step I took, but later I

became confident, and even if the

obstacle was hard, I didn’t care

too much,” says second‑year stu‑

dent Ula Snigurska ’13, Poland.

Inspired by UWC founder Kurt

Hahn, the Wilderness Program is

a core component at UWC‑USA.

Every student must participate in

two expeditions a year, as well as

training in first aid, CPR, map and

compass skills, and camp skills.

Last year, students had 14 expedi‑

tions to choose from in places as

wide ranging as the Grand Can‑

yon, the Pecos Wilderness, Wheel‑

er Peak, and Ghost Ranch.

During the 2011‑12 school year,

an unprecedented 56 students

participated in the annual Grand

Canyon wilderness expedition,

hiking seven different trails with

the assistance of 16 professional

wilderness guides. Among the

multitude of experiences available

at UWC‑USA, the Grand Canyon

trips rank among the most gratify‑

ing and memorable. And as with

all school wilderness experiences,

these trips support the UWC mis‑

sion in uniting youth from vastly

different cultures through shared

experience and personal challenge.

Through hands‑on outdoor expe‑

rience and adventure, students

develop leadership, teamwork,

communication skills, interper‑

sonal awareness, and self‑reli‑

ance. At the same time, they gain

a deep appreciation for nature as

well as for their responsibility as

environmental stewards.

“My best moment is when I felt en‑

closed by the Grand Canyon,” says

Faten Al Mukhtar ’13, Bahrain. “It

was surrounding me in all direc‑

tions. I felt a part of it.”

—by Emily Withnall MC ’01

BY GIVING LEVEL

Dylan Elek McFarlane ’04

R. Charles & Linda McFate (P)

John McKiernan ’86

Hans O. Melberg ’90

Edward D. Melillo ’93

Cecile Menard ’91

Jay A. Merchant ’07

Charlotte Meyer ’03

Jason Meyer

Lais Miachon Silva ’08

Robert E. Mishler

Rose Alal Miyonga ’12

Evelyn Moats (E)

Ahtziri E. Molina Roldan ’91

Pedro M. Monque Lopez ’12

Harry & Christine Morris

Anne Ulstrup Mortensen ’06

Tseliso Mosiuoa ’89

Maysa Mourad ’07 *

Halimatou Hima Moussa

Dioula ’06

Jessica M. Mowles ’03 *

John J. & Roseanne T. Mucchetti (P)

Brighton Mudzingwa ’05

Merisa Muharemovic ’11

Carol Ann Mullaney

Anasol Munoz ’90

Pilar Murillo ’86

Colette H. Murphy ’03

Peter Musaeus ’90 *

Veera Mustonen ’91

Martha Nabukeera ’11

Claudia Nagel ’09

Emil Nagengast & Kati Csoman (P)

Mariko Nakayama ’07 *

Andrew Nalani ’12

Amrita Narayanan ’94

Ken Neal-Boyd ’85

Iris K. Nevins ’10

New York Life Foundation

Eng Han Ng ’06 *

Nghia Nguyen ’93

Lukasz W. Niparko ’09

Line N. Nyborg ’12

Terence ’98 & Sabrina (Das)

O’Dwyer ’99

Ukachi Okoronkwo ’02

Larry & Camille Owens (P)

Hüseyin Özhan ’99

Selen Ozturk ’12

Kayton B. Parekh ’06

Livingston & Joan Parsons

Rabin Patmanathan ’11

Alastair Paulin ’86

Tine N. Paulsen ’10

David & Nancy Paxton

Bob & Carrol Pearson (P)

Sonam Pelden ’07

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz ’08

Israel Perla & Marieke Furnee (P)

Antoine Picard ’93

Maria C. Pineda Zorilla ’86

Carlo Pizzinelli ’08

Toby Pocock (P)

Inna Poliakova ’00

Soracha Prathanrasnikorn

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez ’00

Rhys Prinzing ’97

Marlies Gabriele Prinzl ’98

Tony Purvis ’94 *

Anna Z. Qi ’06

Diana Quilarque ’85

Courtney Quinn ’11

Daniela P. Raga Legarraga ’12

Taavi Raidma ’04

Muriel L. Rambeloarison ’07

Rawiporn Rangponsumrit ’12

Emma-Sara M. Raunio ’08

Vanesh Reddy ’90

Hilde Eliassen Restad ’98

Mirjam (Mueller) Reuland ’92

Ashlee S. Reynolds ’11

Heidi Rhoderick ’91 *

Ryan M. Rifkin ’08

Hailee R. Robinson ’12

Anna Rogers ’03

Jamie Ronson ’04

Jennifer Rowland (E)

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas ’06

Maida Salkanovic ’09

Andrej Salner ’95

Andrea C. Sanchez Nanez ’12

Afua Sanders Kim ’97 *

Luis Fernando Sandoval

Jimenez ’10

Marie C. Sappez ’12

Patrick L. K. Saylor ’12

Trish (Schofield) Scott-

Cumming ’98

Niki Sebastian

Sara Sebti ’12

Sophia M. Sennett ’12

Samuel Y. Setsoafia ’12

Kalpa Shah ’93

Lalida Shank ’91

David M. Shelton ’91 *

Alison (Gilman) Shepherd ’98

Mzwakithi M. Shongwe ’12

Dristy Shrestha ’07 *

Hugo Silverio Correia ’12

Vipapat Sinpeng ’01

Fernando Skerl ’86

Kain Sebaztian Smith ’12

Nick Smith ’05

Peter Smith ’10

Hillel Soifer ’91 *

Giovanni Sorda ’02

Ana Spadijer ’88

Anthony Spearman-Leach ’86

Nils J. Sprenger ’12

Arjan F. I. Stockhausen ’11

Amy Sullivan ’86

Rita Suri ’10

Lena Sutter ’12

Matthew Svoboda ’88 *

Chandra W. Swanson ’11

Naomi Swinton ’89 (E)

Nicole Szlezak ’92

Hokchhay Tann ’10

Madiha Tariq ’00

Jill (Baty) Taura ’85

Ramon Taylor ’06

Carla Tennenbaum ’97

Mildred Terr

Emma Tilquin ’02

Shana Tinkle ’07

Tjizembua Tjikuzu ’12

Consuelo Tolosa ’90

K. Gretchen Trethewey

Julie Trolle ’12

Monica A. Trujillo ’91 *

Anais Tuepker ’92

Justin Turkus ’04 *

Iris van der Heijden ’11

Nanette van der Laan ’86

Alexander Van Wyhe ’11

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes ’86

Daysi Milagros Vargas Gonzalez ’07

Aneta Vargova ’12

Onno Veerman & Patricia

Vriens (P)

Taran J. A. Veerman ’11

Erline Vendredi ’07

Sonia Verjovsky ’90 *

Ardjan J. Vermue ’08

Del Walker *

Kolo Wamba ’93

Ngawang R. Wangchuk ’12

Cheyenne G. L. Ward ’12

Gina Webster ’86

Wells Fargo

Michael West ’86

Katherine Wiebke ’10

Amber Wiekamp ’02

Daniel & Jennifer Willms (E)

Althea Wilson ’00

Stephen Wilson ’85

Danielle Wollner (E)

Tom Woodside ’08

Helen Wright

Jin Yan ’07

Daniel K. Yeboah-Kordieh ’10

Pui Shen Yoong ’08

Long Cheung Yu ’08

Tomasz Zajaczkowski ’02

Isabelle Zaugg

Arianne Zwartjes ’97 (E) *

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Philanthropic Support by Class

This list reflects gifts received between June 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012. Every effort is made to present a complete and

accurate list of donors. For any oversights or errors, we apologize and invite corrections to be sent to the Advancement Office.

In the following lists, asterisks denote donors who have given consecutively for the last five or more years and

names in purple indicate Castle Club members.

BY CLASS

phiLANThrOpiC SuppOrT OF uWC-uSA By CLASSWe are enormously grateful to our graduates and current students who gave back to UWC‑USA

during our 2012 fiscal year. Their support allows us to continue to offer our transformational pro‑

grams. We also thank the many alumni who assist the school, especially our Annual Fund volun‑

teers, selection volunteers, wilderness volunteers, event organizers and hosts, campus speakers,

and many others who give of their time and expertise to enrich UWC‑USA.

CLASS OF 1984$22,199 raised; 29% participation

Anonymous

Lyle Boelens

Edward Burns *

Marcelo Calliari

Janine Chupa *

Agneta Eikelenboom *

Andrés Franco-Vasco

Susanne Holste

Basim Kahleifeh *

Mark Larrimore

Jennifer (Gould) Lidar

Leng Leroy Lim

David Alexander Lindsay

Judi McDonald

Zafer Mudar

Shiru Mwangi

Dorota I. Ratusinska *

Jaana Remes

Eugenio Ruggiero

Hoda Salem

Daniel W. Stuckart

Jody Taggart

Sandra Thomas

Andrea S. Tisi *

Kimberly A. Vickers *

Amadou Wane

Charles Chau-Chi Wong

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung

Ricardo J. Zemella

CLASS OF 1985$15,493 raised; 53% participation

Tamer Abdelgawad *

Mohamed A. Amer

Jacqueline A. Bell

Kimiyo Bonnie Bennett

Bjorn Bjerke

Charlotte Brenner Zeile

Dorrie Brooks

Fiona Caldwell

Cristina S. Campbell

Eric K. Eileraas

Fausto Espinosa

Felicity Gallagher

Henriette Gulbrandsen

Greta E. Hanson

Erika Harding

Irfan Hasan

Koichi Hiramoto

Oskari Jaaskelainen

Daniel Kampel

Jennifer Keith

Stephan J. Klasen

Riccardo Maggi

Sanjay Manandhar

Rona J. McNeil

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros

John Morris

Ken Neal-Boyd

Valerie Oke *

Maria Carolina Perez Alvarado

Nicole Piche

Paulina Pineda Garza

Christopher A. Price

Narisara Pungrasmi

Diana Quilarque

Andres Resendez

Helle Ringgaard

Donald Schaeffer

Caroline Sim

BY CLASS

20 2120

Talal Soghaier

Orit Stein-Reisner

Nina Mary Stupples

Jill (Baty) Taura

Maria Jose Tort Canto

Emma Tucker

Sven van den Hazel

György Vereb

Susanna Vervoordeldonk

Carolina Waters

Brendan Wild

Stephen Wilson

CLASS OF 1986$22,615 raised; 60% participation

Anonymous

Khamis Abu-Hasaballah

Audrey (Kollitz) Allen

Pekka Arikoski

Orit Ashkenazi

Anne Bax

Chris Bickley *

Gita Bodner

Dana M. Brandon

Morgan Dewees

Gavin Dock

Margaret I. Drent *

Alioune Fall

Francisco H. G. Ferreira *

Janet M. (Roberts) Florez

Ivor Frischknecht

Gayatri Gopinath

Aashild (Erikkson) Hettervik

Tsvetelina Lazarova

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg

Daniel (Hamburger) Lidar

Rebecca Lloyd *

Timothy Long *

Michal Lord-Blegen

Marcelo Marchesin *

John McKiernan

Sophie Moochhala

Pilar Murillo

Emma Manda Mwanza

Dejan Nenov

Anju Nohria

Teresa Ordorika

Shelley Pasco-Verdi

Nuria Pastor-Soler

Swati Patankar

Alastair Paulin

HRH Prince Pavlos

Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup

Karen Petroski

Maria C. Pineda Zorilla

Abigail (Crampton) Pribbenow

Nabina Rajbhandari

Sergio Ripamonti

Mario Roman

Gian Paolo Ruggiero

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco

Peter Richard Schuurman

Thomas Schwingeler

Fiona Siu

Fernando Skerl

Anthony Spearman-Leach

Amy Sullivan

Yoshiko Tanabe

Gunhan Tatman

Guillermo Trejo

Nanette van der Laan

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes

Chanin Warakulnukroh

Gina Webster

Martin Weiss

Michael West

Melanie Weston *

Birgitte Wøhlk

CLASS OF 1987$15,806 raised; 23% participation

Anonymous *

Michael B. Aaron *

Ivan Alves

Anjali Arondekar

Carla (Castellanos) Bass *

Yvette V. Baxter-Drayton *

Paulo J. Bilezikjian

Ana B. Campos Mora

Åke Densert *

April (Ethier-O’Neill) Dewees

Manolo Espinosa

David James

Kuo-Chang Kung

Maria I. Leon Gomez

Amit Mital

David Neidel *

Karen O’Leary

Sebastien Ramseyer

Vera Siregar

Karen Ann Taylor de Caballero *

Dana Thordarson

Isabelle Trop

CLASS OF 1988$18,744 raised; 21% participation

Anonymous

Gregor Andrade

Shona L. Armstrong *

Barbara (Barbie) Burger

Mauricio de Arruda

Renata Dwan

Benjamin D. Fishman

Norton Francis

Lullit Getachew

Lisa Hartrich *

Kirsten Healey

Charmaine Lee *

Chor Jye Lee

Eileen McKiernan González

Michael Polenz

Ana Spadijer

Carl St. Remy *

Subitha Subramaniam

Matthew Svoboda *

Mudit Tyagi *

Zachary Weisfeld

Marina Wes

Agnieszka Ziemba-Ahman

CLASS OF 1989$8,177 raised; 17% participation

Odd-Even Bustnes

Michael Buckley

Cesar Castillo

Yutthichai Chanikornpradit

Raj K. Gupta

Sara B. Koplik *

Kamenna (Rindova) Lee *

Diego Lopez

James McNeil

Tseliso Mosiuoa

Chiara Osbat

Annukka Piironen *

Vinay H. Srihari

Michael Stern *

Naomi Swinton (E)

Victor Williams

Erin (Kennedy) Woods *

CLASS OF 1990$13,030 raised; 31% participation

Sanna Ahvenharju

Zulfiqar Ali *

Meher Antia

Paula Asbun *

Michael Brown *

Angeline Chupa *

David S. Collison *

Henry Everts

Sandra Gisella

Gastañaduy-Collison *

Julian Ho

Hiroko (Morita) James

Catherine Jheon *

Sarah (Stamp) Kenningham

Adam Kirk *

Maggi Leung

Lance Meister *

Hans O. Melberg

Sophie Joy Mosko

Anasol Munoz

Peter Musaeus *

BY CLASS

| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees |

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A LABORATORy iN ThE WOODS

The slender Gallinas River

that threads its way past the

UWC‑USA campus pro‑

vides water to local farmers

and residents. It also serves

as the perfect laboratory for

science classes.

On warm days, students in wad‑

ers stand in the middle of the

river capturing samples to test

water quality and the effects of

hot springs drainage. When a

bird in the distance sings a minor

descending key, Environmental

Systems and Societies instructor

Ben Gillock asks students to lis‑

ten. “Do you hear that?” he says.

“It’s a Canyon Wren.”

Environmental Systems and Soci‑

eties, better known as E‑Systems

around campus, is one of five

International Baccalaureate (IB)

sciences offered at UWC‑USA.

Taking advantage of the beau‑

tiful and varied environments

of northern New Mexico, Ben’s

classes travel around the state

to apply what they’ve learned in

the classroom to real‑life observa‑

tions and data collection.

Among other projects, E‑Systems

students have analyzed soil mois‑

ture at the Montezuma Hot

Springs, observed reserve design

and management at the Las Vegas

National Wildlife Refuge, and cal‑

culated the impact of storm run‑

off and treated wastewater on the

water quality of the Gallinas Riv‑

er. In an effort to raise awareness

about conscientious stewardship

of the local land, E‑Systems stu‑

dents also helped organize the

first annual Watershed Olympics

on campus—a highly successful

educational event.

Typical of other IB courses, the

holistic Environmental Systems

syllabus teaches students to con‑

nect their personal relationships

with the environment to the sig‑

nificance of the choices they make

in their own lives.

“Environmental Systems has

deepened my relationship to the

natural wonder of New Mexico

during out‑of‑doors class time

while providing me with a base

of knowledge useful in analyzing

the various approaches to our cli‑

mate problem,” says Sam Kessler

’13, USA‑N.Y.

—by Emily Withnall MC ’01

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Martin Laird

Jason James Lees

Hedvig Ljungerud *

Liane Asta Lohde

Pinar (Karaca) Mandic

Vuk Mandic

Amrita Narayanan

Tony Purvis *

João Quinta da Fonseca

Katie Romich

Preeta Samarasan *

Annelise Sprenger *

Jeremiah Stevens *

David Tagge *

Pilar Maria Weiss *

Emily Wylde

CLASS OF 1995$12,863 raised; 29% participation

Anthony Agadzi *

Carmen Balber *

Yunus Emre Bayrak

Amir Brown

Yassine Daoud

Julia (Lee) Drouart

Alicia Estrella Santos

Rashna Ginwalla *

Clio Knowles *

Michael Leach

Justin Lee *

Kasia Leon-Lubowicz

Dustin J. Lipson *

Kaisu Luiro

Sarah (Sellers) Mayle

Alice Mok

Gabrielle Moore *

Soren Nielsen *

Philip Nikolov *

Ana (Fonseca) Nordang

Hakon Nordang

James Redmon *

Andrej Salner

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner *

Nok Siriphonlai *

Alan Tsang

Carlos Varela

James Wisener

Risana Zitha

CLASS OF 1996$26,584 raised; 31% participation

Lamiae Aidi

Maria Almond *

Jorida Banda

Teresa Bernheimer

Charles Bibilos

James Bowen *

Alba O. Cabral

Michael Cope

Catherine Cronin

Gert Danielsen

Sebastien de Halleux

Josser Delgado *

Ed Doe

Petra Fousková

Bashar Abdullah Hamdan *

Terra Louise Hite *

Carolyn Hunt

Emily Jones *

Khadidjatou Kane

Brittany Ladd

Wing Chiu Erik Leung *

Anna Links

Surbhi Sharma Martin

Lana Nasser

Corrine Ng

Kevin Park

Guillaume Rougale

Kristian Segerstråle

Enrique Torres

Ajla (Merdanovic) van Heel

Katherine D. Waite

Ding Wei *

CLASS OF 1997$6,003 raised; 23% participation

Yasmine (Benlamlih) Anaya

Renu Badiani *

Carrie (Mollatt) Brooke-Sumner

Bradley D. Chisholm

Tyler Blake Davis

Beatriz Diaz Acosta

Mary Alice Grant

Eileen Jackson Ugueto

Bart Klem

Jon Vegard Larssen

Nicola Mai

Rhys Prinzing

Maria A. Rodas

Afua Sanders Kim *

Dawningstar W. Sikorski *

Leah Simmons-Davis *

Megan B. Sullivan

Carolina P. Tello Alvarado

Carla Tennenbaum

Daniele Vidoni

Chuck Warpehoski

Aya Yamoto

Arianne Zwartjes (E) *

CLASS OF 1998$18,100 raised; 39% participation

Inga Aalia

Michael Alcock *

Mustu Barma *

Karla Bjelanovic

Mei Fong Chan

Simone (Hickey) Clark

Ivan Davtchev

Martin Doe

Wojciech Domanski

Shannon Duncan

Amie Ferris-Rotman

Miguel Fidalgo *

Andreas Fidjeland *

Jennifer Foerster

Luigi Gentile

Lisa (Strassner) Hutchcraft

Yumna J. Jawa

Sandhya Jithoo

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson *

Michelle (Aitken) Kent

Doreen Kirabo-Kasimbazi

Wing Wah Margaret Lau

Angela N. Lytton *

Ariel Maddocks

Benjamin Melkman

Thema Modisi

Pierre V. Monteux

Terence O’Dwyer

Ruth Padilla-Ruiz

Marlies Gabriele Prinzl

Hilde Eliassen Restad

Trish (Schofield)

Scott-Cumming

Alison (Gilman) Shepherd

Tara (Watkins) Stevenson

Amjad Tuffaha

Nadia Williams *

Gerald O. Wilson

Mei Yan (Rachel) Yeung

Laura J. Young

CLASS OF 1999$7,383 raised; 13% participation

Alfredo N. Achecar

Souleymane Ba

Joep W. H. Damen

Akinsola Fafunso *

Valerie J. Gerber

Smriti Lakhey

Alexandra (Muñoz Smith)

Melkman

Sabrina (Das) O’Dwyer

Melkizedeck S. Okudo

Hüseyin Özhan

Elad Rachevsky

Filip Sulma

Firend Zora

CLASS OF 2000$3,231 raised; 20% participation

Anonymous

Naa Aku Addo

Brandon Anderson

Yngvild N. Blaker

Mahdi Bseiso

Cameron C. Burch

BY CLASS

| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years | (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees |

Tal Oron Cohen

Rebecca Pearson *

Vanesh Reddy

Jennifer (Lovitt) Riggs

Nicole P. Römer

Dinesh Lal Shrestha

Kurt J. Stuermer

Rafael Tarud

Havovi (Framji) Tavadia

Consuelo Tolosa

Sonia Verjovsky *

Moritz Vogel

Stephanie Walton

Raechel Waters

CLASS OF 1991$20,239 raised; 61% participation

Mohan Ambikaipaker

Mary Jean Baldridge Los

Daniela (Beran) Bar-Am

Eran Bar-Am

Brian A. Bava *

Roberto F. Bel *

Sara Breslow *

Stina S. Bridgeman *

Flannery Burke *

Tracey L. Carter

Andrea Cavina *

Ali Chandani

Ashley Crossland

Caitlin (Garland) Curtis

Hannah Davies

Gema Diaz Balboa Matthias

Jürgen Frietsch *

Trevor Z. Hallstein

Tarra Hassin *

Saruhan Hatipoglu

Julia Broehl Hesse *

Minette Hillyer

Ellen Jules Hubrecht *

Josée Johnston

Max Jones

Aditya C. Joshi *

John C. Knox *

Lisa Krassner *

Ilyanna Kreske *

John Manton *

Cecile Menard

Winston Meyer *

Ahtziri E. Molina Roldan

Jason Patrick Morgan *

Veera Mustonen

Christian Olsen

Camila (Silva Leão

d’Araujo) Olsen

Anna Francis Olsson

Sam Opitz *

Jorge I. Oria

Aurelio Ramos

Heidi Rhoderick *

Erin Scales

Jay Schlechte

Emiliano Schmidt Fiori

Lalida Shank

David M. Shelton *

Hillel Soifer *

Michael Sugar

Pawel Swieboda

Anneke Swinehart

Zoltan Szilassi

Michael C. Taylor *

Monica A. Trujillo *

Hirotsugu Uchida *

Rajesh Vedanthan

Henry Webb *

Alex Wisch

Shea Writer

Joseph Xavier Jr.

CLASS OF 1992$21,307 raised; 37% participation

Mauricio A. Albrizzio

Ruben E. Ayala

Cherie Butler

Carla Castañeda

Amporn Chaimaitri

Rebecca (Cadwell) Day

Heather Deutsch *

Katerina (Klimsova) Dvorakova

Tore Eikenes

Riina (Kallio-Koski) Ikenes

Michael Fuchs

Xavier Furtado

Jackie Gakunga

Kristine Hauge Storholt

Maria F. Jaramillo

Lea Johnson

Trent M. Jones

Robin Aura Kanegis

Yohei Kawabata

Adam Kleinberger

Ulrich Kratz

Eileen Lau

Brian Lax *

Nuno Limao

Candice (Weaver) Murphy

Rebecca Pitman

Mirjam (Mueller) Reuland

Miguel N. Rivera

Rebecca Rogers

Clay Samford

Nour Scandar

Nicole Szlezak

Lori Thorlakson

Ajay Totlani

Harald Tuckermann

Anais Tuepker

Fredalyn M. Vargas

Jessica (Kosfiszer) Wilson

Kori Woodard

CLASS OF 1993$15,847 raised; 26% participation

Kirsten L. Ambach *

Vladimir Bilcik *

Melanie Bush

Bertha R. Camacho

Jason Coady

Tala V. de los Santos *

Carlos Diaz

Jason Dinger *

Nella Hengstler *

Wing-Pin (Winnie) Kwan

Olivia E. Llamas

Nadia Marinova

Ashindi Maxton

Edward D. Melillo

Matthew J. Morse

Simbai Mudzamba

Astrid Nellemann

Nghia Nguyen

Antoine Picard

Daniel Pringle *

Neil Pyper

Pawel Rybacki

Kalpa Shah

JoAnne Sickeri

Joyceline (See) Tully

Kolo Wamba

CLASS OF 1994$9,075 raised; 38% participation

Diego Angemi

Arlita Bascome-McCook

Loes Becu *

Pamela (Parsa) Bond *

Sofia Victoria Calderon Miller

Leonte Castillo

John P. Christodouleas

Gisele Cuglievan

Maria M. Diaz Fernandez

Bongani Dlamini

Heather Lee (Bruce) Douglas

David K. Evans

Santiago Garcia-Verdu

Frederico Gil Sander *

Sulav Giri *

N. Mollar (Nkiwane) Hanselman

Brett (Van Veldhuizen)

Hendrickson

Eva R. Hoffmann

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana *

Vickie A. Johnson

Agnieszka Kajrukszto

Sashe Kanapathi

Aly Kassam-Remtulla *

BY CLASS

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SERviCE LEARNiNG

On several Saturdays last

year, UWC‑USA students

could be found wearing or‑

ange hard hats and respira‑

tor masks while industri‑

ously smoothing the interior

walls of the Old Town Mis‑

sion Church. In May, they

joined teens from around

the area to celebrate its near

completion with a concert

and an art show.

Partnering with the First Unit‑

ed Presbyterian Church of Las

Vegas, N.M., UWC‑USA has

worked for 12 years to renovate

the church and transform it into

a community center. Hundreds of

students have cleaned, plastered,

and painted. They’ve made adobe

bricks and removed walls, ceil‑

ings, and floors. Truly, UWC‑USA

students have put hours of sweat

equity into this project.

Now with two rooms fully re‑

stored and two rooms near com‑

pletion, the Old Town Mission

Community Center opens this fall

to a host of community events and

programs. Citizens of all ages can

participate in Spanish‑language

groups, academic tutoring, and

peer mediation training—among

many other programs.

“It’s wonderful to see all this hard

work bearing fruit,” says Sharon

Seto, dean of co‑curricular pro‑

grams. “UWC‑USA is delighted to

have a base in town and to have a

more direct link to the community.”

The church renovation is just

one of more than 30 community

services students have been able

to participate in during their two

years at UWC‑USA. Last year, stu‑

dents put in 18,769 hours of com‑

munity service—a typical number

in any given year.

It is through service that the UWC

experience produces tangible and

gratifying results. “Community

service is an essential aspect of

the UWC mission,” says Marisol

Fernandez y Mora ’13, USA‑N.M.

“It teaches us more about our‑

selves and brings us to the under‑

standing that any type of ‘force’ is

fueled not by an individual but by

a community.”

—by Emily Withnall MC ’01

George Costow *

Diana Denham

Daniela Emmerich Lopez

Kate (Saldin) Hunter *

Jonathan Jones

Emmanuel S. Kirunda

Javier López Arangüena

Jennifer Modrich

Jehanzeb Noor

Inna Poliakova

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez

Madiha Tariq

Althea Wilson

CLASS OF 2001$4,115 raised; 15% participation

Elizabeth Anderson *

Gareth Carter

Deidre Ciliento

Michael D’Agostino

Cristina Gomez Jimenez

Juan Camilo Gonzalez Pelaez

Josh Hall

Adani Illo

Anne (Jurkowski) Johnson

Susan Keppelman

Jonathan Shields Mason

Samir Mastaki

Vipapat Sinpeng

Annie Sorich

Angela Vignoli

CLASS OF 2002$3,415 raised; 33% participation

Seamus Abshere

Johann Bergholz Villafane

Benjamin Dryden

Ashley Dunlop *

Patricia Enzi

Ryan Erickson

Niamh Fleming-Farrell

Anand Gopalan

Nono Harhoff

Dafna Herzberg

Nahoko Hoshino

Valentina Kachanovskaya *

Judit Koppány

Joel Larson

Celene Lizzio *

Ninya Loeppky

Gadi Maayan

Justine MacWilliam

Elian Maritz *

Maria Bettina Miguez De Mori

Nicholas Mwai

Ukachi Okoronkwo

James Pautz

Trudy Rebert

Ryan Richards

Giovanni Sorda

Emma Tilquin

Jimena Vivas

Amber Wiekamp

Pinar Yurekli-Aycan

Tomasz Zajaczkowski

CLASS OF 2003$2,303 raised; 27% participation

Erin Axtell

Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete

James Byrne

Alessandro Carini Gutierrez

Benjamin Carlson

PJ Christeleit

Ovidio Diaz Marin

Mohammed El-Mahdy

Paulo Gusmao

Nora Hanson

Mohammed Herzallah

David H. Hogue

Arzika Illo

Milos Jovanovic

Charlotte Meyer

Jessica M. Mowles *

Colette H. Murphy

Adriana Nordin Manan

Anna Rogers

Anthony Szozda

Daniel Tan Ooi Peng

Jacynth H. Tibbetts

Renate Ziverte

CLASS OF 2004$2,086 raised; 18% participation

Carmen Alexander

Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo

Vikram Anand

Brien Darby

Miles Davenport & Helen M.

Durham ’85 (P) *

Laro Escalada Navamuel

Sergey Grechukhin

Alexis Howland

Sarah Krasny

Chao Lu

Thembumenzi Shisizwe Lukhele

Rachel Markowitz

Dylan Elek McFarlane

Sanval Nasim

Brendan O’Connor

Taavi Raidma

Jamie Ronson

Justin Turkus *

Allison West

Kristofer Wilson (E)

CLASS OF 2005$2,072 raised; 18% participation

Damian Almiron Bonnin

Dimitar A. Bounov

Jerome Axle Brown

Christina Dragon

Elgita Eglite-Wilson (E)

Emily Foraker

Felix Forster

Rasha S. Hosni

Meghan Jennings

Justin W. Karfo

Brighton Mudzingwa

Nicholas M. Poon

Samuel Rugunda

Likeleli G. Seitlheko

Nick Smith

Saovanee Somchit

Daniel T. Stuber

CLASS OF 2006$1,350 raised; 20% participation

Victoria Alleyne

Jorge A. Alvarez Garcia-Tunon

Leonor Añó

Sidy M. Diakhate

Daniel Franz

Roman Gautam

Atang Gilika

Andres Guzman Garza

Brittany Hesbrook *

Emily Hogin *

Anas Iqtait

Kevin Francisco Jackson Ugueto

Andrew Louw

Anne Ulstrup Mortensen

Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula

Eng Han Ng *

Kayton B. Parekh

Anna Z. Qi

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas

Ramon Taylor

CLASS OF 2007$3,815 raised; 48% participation

Anonymous

Kamil M. Adamczewski

Sheila Agiti

Brian J. Almadi

Kristin D. Alveng

Arod Balissa

Shanthakumar Bannirchelvam

Lorenzo Bartolucci *

Nina M. Bergmar

Murat Bilgel

C. River Black *

Hanna Bobyk

BY CLASS

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Brown University

Bucknell University

College of Idaho

College of Notre Dame

Colorado College

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Earlham College

George Washington University

Harvard University

IE University

Imperial College

Jacobs University

Lehigh University

Lewis & Clark College

Macalester College

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

McGill University

Michigan Technological University

Middlebury College

Millsaps College

New York University

NYU Abu Dhabi

Princeton University

Reed College

Roosevelt Academy Utrecht

St. Lawrence University

St. Olaf College

Texas Tech University

Tufts University

University College London

University College Utrecht

University of British Columbia

University of California, San Diego

University of Chicago

University of Edinburgh

University of Florida

University of Michigan

University of Iowa

University of Oklahoma

University of Richmond

University of Wyoming

Vassar College

Wellesley University

Worcester Polytechnic University

Luis E. Bonilla Rivera

Aaron Bos-Lun

Ashton Brown

Nelson F. Chiwara

Maria A. Coca Ramos

Thomas Compier

Ishmail S. Daoh

Emma D. Diouf

Aida Dominguez Ortiz

Alvaro Donoso

Sebastien T. Galperti

Francisco Eduardo Granizo

Torres

Thayer Hastings

Ingerid V. Hatlegjerde

Arianna Heiderer

Robyn Hooper

Jasmin Imran Alsous

Anne Marie Jensen

Tamas Kolos-Lakatos

Laurie J. Laker

Lubomir Malo *

Ciara N. McCartney

Jay A. Merchant

Maysa Mourad *

Mariko Nakayama *

Len Necefer

Robin Pedroza Weschle

Sonam Pelden

Zohar Perla *

Muriel L. Rambeloarison

Carlos G. Sabatino Gonzalez *

Dristy Shrestha *

Shana Tinkle

Daysi Milagros Vargas Gonzalez

Erline Vendredi

Jin Yan

CLASS OF 2008$2,005 raised; 30% participation

Antinea Ascione

Rasmus H. Bjorn

Kristina Blazanovic

Basiel Bogaerts

Mars Chapman

Sela Cowger

Ido Grosman

Karianne Gundersen

Muhammad Hardiansyah

Grace I. Humphries

To Nhu Huynh

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena

Jeremy Kazanjian-Amory

Martin S. Krastev

Gnagna Lam

Chike C. Leigh

Mihret B. Lemma

Jonatan Eliu Lemus Avila

Natacha M. D. C. Letort

Gonzalez

Lais Miachon Silva

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz

Carlo Pizzinelli

Tara Kane Prendergast

Emma-Sara M. Raunio

Ryan M. Rifkin

Kathryn J. Steinweiss

Jenny Thapa

Ardjan J. Vermue

Tom Woodside

Pui Shen Yoong

Long Cheung Yu

CLASS OF 2009$1,970 raised; 22% participation

Zahra’a Al-Janabi

Iryna Ambroz

Charlotte Antoine

Anjali S. Appadurai

Luke C. P. Brennan

Anna Carmon

Kimberley K. M. Chong

Sara Dunleavy Berge

Sara El-Bohy

Pete H. Fitton

Mathew R. Freimuth

Mark A. Garner

Stephan F. Grabner

Natalie M. Kennelley

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr.

Claudia Nagel

Lukasz W. Niparko

Nicole Paulet Piedra

Shaina M. Pomerantz Kasper

Thea Rømmen

Maida Salkanovic

Elena Tonc

CLASS OF 2010$1,070 raised; 27% participation

Rayah H. S. Al Farah

Kareem Al Husaini

Michael A. Aleman

Mr. Vishal Bharam

Andrea Cruz Quiroz

Chimi Dema

Bethany J. R. Dixon

Ece Erdagoz

Kelsey L. Forbes

Zipporah Guerin

Carson Evan Hauck

Raustin Daine Hernandez

David T. C. Ishmael

Jennifer S. Kim

Travis S. Kotecco

Olivia Lau

Yu Mei Lay He

Guojun Lee

Holly McDonald

Iris K. Nevins

Tine N. Paulsen

Luis Fernando Sandoval Jimenez

Peter Smith

Rita Suri

Hokchhay Tann

Katherine Wiebke

Daniel K. Yeboah-Kordieh

CLASS OF 2011$445 raised; 19% participation

Anastasia Asmoro

Charlotte Benishek

Natalie Chan

Tsz Loi Gloria Chow

Bard Drange

Artur Fass

Robert Finney

Ragnhild S. Halvag

Joana C. Hiew de Sousa

Magalhaes

Trevor Leuzinger

Merisa Muharemovic

Martha Nabukeera

Rabin Patmanathan

Courtney Quinn

Ashlee S. Reynolds

Arjan F. I. Stockhausen

Chandra W. Swanson

Iris van der Heijden

Alexander Van Wyhe

Taran J. A. Veerman

CLASS OF 2012$1,878 raised; 54% participation

Murisa Ahmetasevic

Abuubakar R. Ally

Francesca Annicchiarico

Simona Stanislavova

Boyadzhiyska

Chinyere A. M. Brown

Gerylaine E. Campos

Inviolata S. Chami

Nicol D. Chinchilla Cordero

Paul O. Cichocki

Curtis J. Cook

Rodrigo P. Coronel Erazo

Adriana Di Graziano

Kripa Dongol

Louise Drieghe

Ethan Fields

Hannah Rose Freedman

Jon Gajo

Adilson E. Gonzalez Morales

Noor Titan Putri Hartono

Elizabeth Hoyler

Jane E. Huber

Kalene K. M. Jones

Louis A. Lagoutte

Harry William Lambert

Jae-Min Lee

Yun-Yun Susan Li

Thomas Lu

Rodrigo Luna Queirolo

Danielle D. Maoz

Aminata N. Mbodj

Rose Alal Miyonga

Pedro M. Monque Lopez

Gilbert Mudenda

Andrew Nalani

Line N. Nyborg

Selen Ozturk

Morgante Orion Pell

Daniela P. Raga Legarraga

Rawiporn Rangponsumrit

Hailee R. Robinson

Andrea C. Sanchez Nanez

Marie C. Sappez

Patrick L. K. Saylor

Sara Sebti

Sophia M. Sennett

Samuel Y. Setsoafia

Mzwakithi M. Shongwe

Hugo Silverio Correia

Emma Smith

Kain Sebaztian Smith

Nils J. Sprenger

Lena Sutter

Tjizembua Tjikuzu

Julie Trolle

Aneta Vargova

Ngawang R. Wangchuk

Cheyenne G. L. Ward

Oh, ThE PLACES ThEy GO!

Below is a list of colleges and universities that graduates from UWC‑USA’s Class of 2012 will attend. A few

students chose to take gap years before beginning their postsecondary education, and some are required to

do national service before attending university.

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in-Kind, in honor of, in Memory of

iN-KiND DONOrS

Anjali Arondekar ’87

JC’s New York Pizza Department

Dorothy Jefferson

James Kane & Nancy

O’Brien-Kane (P)

Robin Aura Kanegis ’92

Michael & Tami Lang

Colin & Shirleen Lanham (P) (E)

David M. Shelton ’91

Nancy Tucker

iN hONOr OF . . .

muSTu BArmA ’98 & SArAh BArmA

Kimberly Ma

BriAN BAVA ’91

Jason Patrick Morgan ’91

ChArLOTTE BENiShEK ’11 & mADELEiNE BENiShEK rCNuWC ’09

Robert & Mary Benishek (P)

BiLL BrANDENBurg

Harald Tuckermann ’92 &

Bertha R. Camacho ’93

STEphANiE BrOCKmAN AC ’04

Ron Brockman & Ellen

Feldman (P)

JOSE CABALLErO CiCiOLLi ’11

Derlis Caballero Ruiz & Carmen

Ciciolli Arce (P)

TOm CALLANAN

Leng Leroy Lim ’84

KiTTi ChAimAiTri

Amporn Chaimaitri ’92

WyATT CLOSS & rOShiN mAThEW ’00

Anonymous Donors to JustGive

TOm & LiNDA CurTiS

Tarra Hassin ’91

Cecile Menard ’91

gErT DANiELSEN ’96

Anna Links ’96

hizir CEm ErEz ’08

Martin S. Krastev ’08

miguEL FiDALgO ’98

Ariel Maddocks ’98

gLOriA FiEDLEr

Curt Fiedler (P)

JOhN gEFFrOy

Lukasz W. Niparko ’09

phiLip O. gEiEr iii & Amy yEAgEr gEiEr

Henry & Mary Flynt

Elisa and Ted Geier

BEN giLLOCK

Peter Smith ’10

SOFiA gOmEz-DOyLE WK ’12

Gerald Doyle & Christina

Gomez (P)

grEAT uWC TEAChErS

Daniela Emmerich Lopez ’00

ghuLAm hANiFF

Jehanzeb Noor ’00

miChAEL hATLEE

Chike C. Leigh ’08

KirSTEN hEALEy ’88

Theresa Page

DAViD hiLDEN ’03

John & Carolyn Hilden (P)

JESSiCA hOrN ’97

Mary Alice Grant ’97

JENNiFEr KEiTh ’85

Thomas & Berthe Keith (P)

KEruNNE KETLOgETSWE ’97

Mary Alice Grant ’97

iLyANNA KrESKE ’91

Eileen Lau ’92

KiLLiAN & KELSEy LADD

Brittany Ladd ’96

TOm LAmBErTh

Andrea Cruz Quiroz ’10

Michael Dewson & Ann Atkey

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana ’94

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09

JoAnne Sickeri ’93

Katherine D. Waite ’96

James Wisener ’95

JuDy LAND

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09

Luis Fernando Sandoval

Jimenez ’10

Erline Vendredi ’07

ShirLEEN LANhAm

Erline Vendredi ’07

COLiN E LAX

Brian Lax ’92

rON mALTAiS

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09

Daniel Tan Ooi Peng ’03

ALEyDA mCKiErNAN

Andrea Cruz Quiroz ’10

Erline Vendredi ’07

ChriSTiNE mOrriS

Harry Morris

phiLipp mOSimANN

Mikkel Conradi AD ’94

iVAN muSTAiN

Margaret I. Drent ’86

LANA NASSEr ’96

Mary Alice Grant ’97

NANDiThA Ni guSTi Ayu ’10

Michael A. Aleman ’10

LArA NOrgAArD ’13

Ron Brockman & Ellen Feldman (P)

rOBiN NOrriS

Cecile Menard ’91

Muriel L. Rambeloarison ’07

SAm OpiTz ’91

Shea Writer ’91

rAViNDrA pArAShAr

Basiel Bogaerts ’08

Julia (Lee) Drouart ’95

Akinsola Fafunso ’99

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena ’08

Chao Lu ’04

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz ’08

Jenny Thapa ’08

rETiriNg uWC-uSA FACuLTy & STAFF

Bob & Pat Amai

giANLuCA & CATEriNA ripAmONTi

Sergio Ripamonti ’86

mAiDA SALKANOViC ’09

Merisa Muharemovic ’11

SAmuEL

Teresa Bernheimer ’96

JOE SAViNO & JErry FrEEDmAN

Richard Lamson & Joan

Freedman (P)

KAThryN (hOLmgAArD) ShAFFNEr ’95

Janice Lee Stanfield (P)

NANCy SuLLiVAN

Erline Vendredi ’07

LENA LiNS SuTTEr ’12

Lawrence Sutter & Patricia Lins (P)

JAmES & SArAh TAyLOr

Donald W. Hagen

Peter Hiller & Celeste Williams

hANNAh TySON

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr. ’09

Lana Nasser ’96

JoAnne Sickeri ’93

Monica A. Trujillo ’91

uWC iNDiA NATiONAL COm-miTTEE

Ajay Totlani ’92

uWC-uSA CLASS OF 2011

Courtney Quinn ’11

Alexander Van Wyhe ’11

uWC-uSA CLASS OF 2012

Hannah Rose Freedman ’12

uWC-uSA LgBT STuDENTS

Meghan Jennings ’05

uWC-uSA SECuriTy DEpArTmENT

Ursel Albers

ELizABETh WELLiVEr pC ’12

Paul & Powel Welliver (P)

KAThEriNE WiEBKE ’10

Mark & Amy Wiebke (P)

EriN KENNEDy WOODS ’89

L. James & Gail Kennedy (P)

iN mEmOry OF . . .

AArON ANDErSON ’00

Anonymous

Brandon Anderson ’00

Yngvild N. Blaker ’00

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00

Emmanuel S. Kirunda ’00

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez ’00

FErDiNAND BiLCiK

Vladimir Bilcik ’93

AmADOu CiSSE ’97

Gert Danielsen ’96

Khadidjatou Kane ’96

Amjad Tuffaha ’98

imOgEN CurNEW ’04

Christina Dragon ’05

Emily Foraker ’05

EmEKA DiLLiBE ’93

Eva R. Hoffmann ’94

Simbai Mudzamba ’93

mAriJA DOKmANOViC- ChOuiNArD ’95

Anonymous

Eva R. Hoffmann ’94

Surbhi Sharma Martin ’96

KyLE FAAS ’95

Carmen Balber ’95

Brett (Van Veldhuizen)

Hendrickson ’94

Carolyn Hunt ’96

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94

Martin Laird ’94

Anna Links ’96

Sarah (Sellers) Mayle ’95

Hakon ’95 & Ana (Fonseca)

Nordang ’95

Preeta Samarasan ’94

Pilar Maria Weiss ’94

miLLE grANT

Mary Alice Grant ’97

JAmES griTTEr ’88

Benjamin D. Fishman ’88

FrANK hiNES

Kamil M. Adamczewski ’07

Tomasz Zajaczkowski ’02

rOgEr KENNA ’85

Bjorn Bjerke ’85

Dorrie Brooks ’85

Christopher A. Price ’85

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95

JOhN KruLiTz

Tracy Melton & Pamela Krulitz (P)

FAWAz LuKmAN ’11

Michael A. Aleman ’10

Tsz Loi Gloria Chow ’11

Joana C. Hiew de Sousa

Magalhaes ’11

Holly McDonald ’10

Iris van der Heijden ’11

pir mALEKi

Anonymous

Saruhan Hatipoglu ’91

LizA mALKOuN ’91

Tracey L. Carter ’91

Anneke Swinehart ’91

JErEmy mCgAFFEy ’01 (rAhuLA TODAy)

Milos Jovanovic ’03

Ukachi Okoronkwo ’02

pEDrO mEDiNA

Anne Marie Jensen ’07

Olivia E. Llamas ’93

Stephan & Karen Spitzer

Annelise Sprenger ’94

Sonia Verjovsky ’90

NOrmAN & DOrOThy mErEDiTh

Olivia E. Llamas ’93

Jorge I. Oria ’91

grANDpArENTS OF SArA miSSAghiAN-SChirAzi ’13

Danesch & Kathryn Missaghian (P)

ChriS pANCOAST ’95

Eva R. Hoffmann ’94

KAuShALyA “mummy” pArAShAr

Alfredo N. Achecar ’99

Naa Aku Addo ’00

Joanne S. Armstrong (P)

Jorida Banda ’96

Arlita Bascome-McCook ’94 &

Michael McCook

Kristina Blazanovic ’08

Elizabeth Bohlke

Dimitar A. Bounov ’05

Jerome Axle Brown ’05

James Byrne ’03

Gareth Carter ’01

Maria A. Coca Ramos ’07

Julia (Lee) Drouart ’95

David & Alice Elliott

Laro Escalada Navamuel ’04

Atang Gilika ’06

Kathy Gould & Alexandra Walter

Karianne Gundersen ’08

Paulo Gusmao ’03

Dafna Herzberg ’02

David H. Hogue ’03

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson ’98

Sarah Krasny ’04

Smriti Lakhey ’99

Javier López Arangüena ’00

Michael & Beverly Lupa

Ravi Parashar (E)

Robin Pedroza Weschle ’07

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95

Nick Smith ’05

Emma Tilquin ’02

K. Gretchen Trethewey

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes ’86

Pui Shen Yoong ’08

KriShAN pArAShAr

Ravi Parashar (E)

rEmEDiOS pErAL

Nuria Pastor-Soler ’86

Luigi pizziNELLi

Carlo Pizzinelli ’08

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Dorothy Gillespie

JOrgE riCCi ’84

Dorota I. Ratusinska ’84

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Robert & Deborah Saylor (P)

hELmuT SChmiDT

Ursel Albers

ANN SChrOEDEr-AryEh ’86

Mohamed A. Amer ’85

John McKiernan ’86

Teresa Ordorika ’86

Swati Patankar ’86

Sebastien Ramseyer ’87

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco ’86

Fernando Skerl ’86

Nanette van der Laan ’86

CArL D. ShEppArD

S. Peter Poullada & Nancy A.

Sheppard

CESAr SimOSA ’97

Simone (Hickey) Clark ’98

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Oscar & Sandra Gonzalez (P)

DAN TySON

Michael Cope ’96 & Catherine

Cronin ’96

Anthony Spearman-Leach ’86

JANiCE VOSS

Emily Foraker ’05

phiLLipE WAmBA ’89

Ivan F. Mustain & Marisa Isabel

Leon ’87

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Planned Gifts and Ways to

Give

WAyS TO giVEYour gifts to UWC‑USA help students from around the world obtain a unique education that prepares them to become leaders for positive change—in the world and in their own communities. UWC‑USA offers many opportunities to support the school:

CREDIT CARD: (including automatically recur‑ring monthly gifts): Use your American Express, Discover, MasterCard, or Visa to make an online gift at www.uwc‑usa.org/give or phone in your gift by calling (505) 454‑4265.

CHECK: Make your check payable to the United World College‑USA and mail it to the following address:

UWC‑USA Advancement Office Post Office Box 248 Montezuma, NM 87731‑0248 USA

GIFT OF STOCK: You can contribute the fair market value of appreciated securities and avoid cap‑ital gains tax on the appreciated value of the stock.

See www.uwc‑usa.org/waystogive for our broker information.

GRANT: You can designate UWC‑USA as a recipi‑ent of a grant from a family foundation, charitable gift, or donor‑advised gift fund.

MATCHING GIFT: Many organizations match chari‑table gifts of employees, spouses, directors, or retirees. Please request a matching gift form from your per‑sonnel office and send it with your gift to UWC‑USA. To see whether your employer has a matching gift program, use our search tool on the upper right of the online‑giving page, www.uwc‑usa.org/give.

FOR DONORS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPE: Gifts may be sent via bank transfer to the UWC International Office in London. See www.uwc‑usa.org/waystogive for details for the pound, euro, and U.S. dollar accounts, as well as in‑formation on how to register for Gift Aid (a scheme for U.K. taxpayers, allowing donations to be worth 28 percent more at no additional cost).

The conclusion of the 2012 school year saw the bit‑

tersweet departure of some of UWC‑USA’s most se‑

nior community members as they retired to follow

new paths. Many had been on campus almost since

the day the doors opened and had shared fond—and

often funny—memories of those early days when

the school had its own small stable of horses and the

Internet was just a gleam in an inventor’s eye.

Linda and Tom Curtis, dean of students and Span‑

ish teacher, respectively, raised their family at

UWC‑USA. They also brought up several genera‑

tions of extended family through their warm rela‑

tionships with students. In addition to teaching,

Tom touched the lives of hundreds of Las Vegas kids

through his leadership of the Children’s Chorus.

Tom and Linda spent 25 years at UWC‑USA.

Social and cultural anthropologist John Geffroy prid‑

ed himself on being a teacher and a learner. “My stu‑

dents, as much as any theory book, have given me

the understanding that cultures change,” he once

said. “I have learned the importance of understand‑

ing various cultural perspectives and how to listen

well.” John’s UWC‑USA career covered 24 years.

Tom Lamberth first taught basic first aid for the

UWC‑USA Wilderness Program; he retired serv‑

ing as the program director. During his 21 years on

campus, Tom changed his perspective from seeing

nature as a place of recreation and escape to being

a place of profound growth. He took special pride in

“seeing students wake up to the wilderness, by hav‑

ing students discover their homes.”

Aleyda McKiernan served as a Spanish teacher for

24 years. An avid reader, Aleyda found joy in guid‑

ing students toward a passion for language, reading,

and communication. She loved her students and the

school: “This is a paradise for teachers,” she once said.

Like all UWC‑USA faculty members, French teacher

Robin Norris wore many hats during his 24‑year

tenure. Being involved in so many activities allowed

him to “interact with students in a different set‑

ting”—something he truly relished. Originally from

Barbados, Robin provided a second home for Carib‑

bean students and French speakers.

Ted Reineke’s UWC‑USA career lasted nearly three

decades and included everything from lab technician

to audio‑visual go‑to guy. He booked flights, drove

buses, and taught a stagecraft class. It wasn’t exactly

what he expected when he first arrived on campus

with a science degree, but he quickly adapted and

took on whatever needed to be done.

Compared to their retiring colleagues, Nina Mar‑

quez‑Johns and Carl Sanchez were relative newcom‑

ers. Each had been at UWC‑USA for a little more

than a decade, but in those 10 years, they still made

a significant mark. Nina’s last role was as registrar,

and she became an expert at juggling demands of

200 students every year. Carl worked for the security

department, and his friendly greetings were always

welcomed and appreciated.

We wish our retirees much joy as they discover new

paths and tackle new projects!

ONWARDNine longtime faculty and staff head off for new adventures

pLANNED giFTS Planned gifts create opportunities for our support‑ers and UWC‑USA. There are many ways to make a planned gift. The best one will balance what you wish to accomplish for yourself, your family, and your charitable interests in your overall estate and financial plans.

BEQUESTS. The simplest way to make a planned gift is to name UWC‑USA in your will. You can make a bequest of a certain dollar amount, a par‑ticular piece of property, a percentage of your estate, or a “residual” (what is left after making specific provisions for loved ones).

GIFTS FROM RETIREMENT PLANS. Retirement funds are often taxable—whether to you or your heirs—when withdrawn. If you make a gift directly from your retirement fund to UWC‑USA, you can

often avoid these taxes by taking an offsetting deduction for your charitable gift.

GIFTS THAT RETURN FINANCIAL BENEFITS. Gifts that pay income are often favored by donors with appreciated assets such as a business, stocks, or real estate. These gifts can be structured to provide you and/or others with income, tax savings, and other benefits while leaving a lasting legacy for UWC‑USA.

To learn more about tax benefits related to planned giving, please speak to your financial advisor. If you would like to have a confidential dialogue about supporting UWC‑USA with a planned gift, please contact Vice President for Advancement Tim Dougherty at (505) 750‑1227 or tim.dougherty@UWC‑USA.org.

UWC‑USA is a 501(c)(3) organization. Our legal name is The Armand Hammer United World College of the American West.

For more information on how you can support UWC‑USA, please contact Vice President for Advancement Tim Dougherty at (505) 750‑1227 or tim.dougherty@uwc‑usa.org.

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UWC makes education a force to unite people,

nations, and cultures for peace and a

sustainable future.

rEpOrT OF ThE prESiDENT: 2012

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